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The Washington times., 1905-05-28
SHE WAS SURPRISED.

4 well-known young man Of hitherto
excellent reputation caused a stirring
scene on a southbound Central avenue
car the other day by aruusing the in-
dignation Of very pretty young wo-
man. He boarded the car at Tenth
street and occupied a seat IN the rear or
the car AT St. Clair street the young
woman appeared on the scene and oc-
cupied seat In the front part OF the
car.
The conductor, iii collecting the fares.
approached the young man and looked
biz surprised tp see him hold out two
fares. saying tila{ the extra one was
for the Young woman sitting in front
When the conductor eanyassed the
ffoat part of the car the young woman
held eut her ticket
Your fares paid" said the conductor.
'sAShe paid my fare? demanded tls
Young lady as her cheeks We're oecotsiIiiS
flushed with anger, The car haa ll! stoppSS% pS.,
and the conversation was eStsily aaoiule. i
Well the iRpertinenee OF some pSo
pis' You had no business accepli.iS ~ ~.
fare from any person other 'ii9h my
self, she protested
II know. but -, -
stop this car immediately-.ld,, Ill, II "a
off, she said, rising as IL 70 pun pi, 'sho =,
hell string The conductor suecesu.e13 ueF.s3,,.r "a
disSuaiing her from pulling the 80 81 iti5. ~
rs the car had by this time neafeo Ing
downtown streets. a.,,,s.,I
When the ear had reached FeIils. 81 =
yania and Washington streets tLle tHo
persons alighted, the youia5 ii's'ii az
costing the young woman ,,l,s Pr,
drawied the young man: ::,.;e,I,tanefis's
''Oh, Frank, / was so Itlslitsshga rxs..
They were sister and brother-Iildi-
ar.apolIs News.
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
College Announcements.

at tne pupils recital of the Washing
Ton teiige OF Music at the loIurf1tsia
lIeater on Friday afternoon. Sydney
s-ioyd w tson. director. made the fol-
loving announcements: The chair oz
eiocuuon and dramatic art next yeaz
WIZ De occupied by Ch..rlemagne Koch
Ter Wiiborfoss g. Owst viii have
eharge OF the operatie department. a.ss
>. Frederick Smith will add the Virgil
oIavier method TO his teaching. s. Is.
e aplan VIII go abroad this summer ia
tue interests of the college, and Mf
Sinftn VIII also spend his summer
abroad William Bruce King, Henry
saiyer, and D. G. Pfeffer will be adde's
to the board of advisers OF the college.
The college viii open for it's secoua
season on Monday. September Is. II viii
not close this year until june 10 The
college offers nine free scholarships nexs
year, three IN the vocal department.
three in the piano department. ona Ia
the violin department, one in the eIoess.
ton department. and one in the bassto
mandolin. and guitar department.
a branch Of the Washington CoIIee.
OF Music will be opened for this st,rurr.sz
term of July and August at the yenics
of America Assembly, Los Angeles, Cal
The director further announced ths
magnificent gift OF an s1.s00 scholarship
FOR the education OF q young man for
three years, II. the college, who Is gift
ed with an exceptionally wonderful
voice. The donor OF this handsome gift
does not wish his name made public.
The director further announced. that the
| enrolment OF the college for the arzs
year was SS2 students.
The Washington times., 1905-05-28


ton of some of the most capable law
yers in the State Men do not submit
to being robbed, even IN Philadeipnia,
without protest Usually, in this
country, they carry their protest in
to court. And the court, instead OF
protecting them from the wrong. too
often sits as al umpire to decide
between the citizens counsel and the
brilliant attorneys invariably retain
ed by the thieves.
Manifestly, all this is true OF the
Philadelphia bar OF today. Many
members OF tie citizens reform COM
mittee Of seventy are lawyers. Yet
not one Of them could be found with
out clients which precluded the posi-
bility of his appearance in court
against the ring. In other words,
there was not a single lawyer among
a score or more-chosen a committee
of reformers for their prominence.
ability. and apparent probity-who
had not knowingly identified himself
with interests allied with thieves.
The defense offered by lawyers for
these conditions is that the bar serves
such clients only to obtain for them
every benefit TO which they are en-
| titled under the law. There is vast
gulf between a lawful defense and
an unlawful agency. Is it feature
Of a defense that the general counsel
for an unlawful railroad merger
should draw contract TO violate the
/ law in substance while observing it
! in appearance? Is it a feature OF a
defense that attorneys should shuttle
witnesses from the country pending
an inquiry into the methods OF a
great corporation by which they are
employed? Yet, both of these things
have happened within the past six
months and not a word Of protest
has been heard from any bar associa-
tion in the whole country.
Every reader Of the papers knows
that this argument of defense is mere
| ly pretense. The defense" of rich
wrongdoers everywhere passes all the
bounds Of the law. In every State in
the Union it has reached the height
Of an open tender of brilliant legal
minds for the sake of fat fees. No
amount of fine words will hide the
distinct disgrace TO tne American bar
that lies in the alignment OF reput-
able lawyers as aggressive agents in
the courts for notorious lawbreakers.
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
Another Idol Shattered.

This is too much!
The American public has sustained
numerous rude shocks. in the past;
has felt the withering blight upon its
enthusiasm perpetrated by soulless
statisticians and ruthless iconoclasts.
It has accepted with reverent awe
and open-mouthed admiration such
beautiful and touching stories as, for
instance, the tale Of the handful OF
| wheat held tightly in the clammy
clasp Of an Egyptian mummy during
a bewildeTing number of centuries
and which, when planted, yielded a
bountiful harvest
We repeat-we have heard this
story and accepted 1t with childlike
confidence, only to be Jared through
! and through by statement in the
next days papers that grain OF
wheat under the most favorable pro-
lection from the oxygen of the ali
could not retain its vitality more than
limited number of years.
Thousands Of such instances might
| be cited-but why refer to them in
view Of the latest calamity?
From Munich, Bavaria, has come al
announcement that skaters the firm
est tradition Of American history
The blow has fallen, and thin twas
no foeman's hand that dealt it
Hear what Col. Henry Wattersor
says over his own unmistakable sig
nature:
MY tipple having always been
mainly lager beer, find myself very
much at home in Munich
Shades OF the Bourbons! can this
thing be? Is it really .Marse Henry
Of Louisville who says this?
There is no qualifying clause at
tached to the cold bare statement; nc
possible avenue of escape from the
grim logical conclusion: The wording
is unmistakable: having always been
mainly lager beer.
Where now are the pert para
graphers who have ever flown tc
arms when it was suggested that the
mouthpiece Of the Star-Eyed Goddess
even took water on the side.
The subject is too painful for pro-
traeted consideration. The American
people can only bow their heads in
meek resignation But the wound is
deep and will be slow in healing.
1 And thou, Colonel?
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
Ladies' Committee.
WASHINGTON COUNCIL
OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY

Washington Council, No. /, Fraternal
Sons of Jonadab. celebrated with appro-
pirate ceremonies the first month of Its
existence at its hall, 902 Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, last Friday night.
Worthy Chief Robert Emmet OBrien
presided a report was read by the
recording secretary William a. Hickey.
which showed that since the formation
OF the organization on Easter Sunday
last, over forty-four members were ac-
cepted and initiated.
The meeting was marked Cy a sur
prise to the council in the presentation
of a handsome Bible by Mrs Laura Y.
Phipps. through ]. T. Pearson, and IN
a letter accompanying the gift Mrs
Phipps expressed her hearty sympathy
with the efforts shown by the organ
ization to uplift humanity.
\ handsome American flag was also
presented to the FrateFnal Sons by Col.
Theodore Roosevelt Garrison, No. "a
Spanish War Veterans. of the Army ano
Navy Union. Senior Vice Commander
William A Hickey making the presen'
tation address. and q responsive speech
Of thanks by Pist Chief L. j. LeBarnes
on behalf of Washington Council
Among those present who contributed
TO the evenings program were John j.
O'Brien. Thomas ]. Clarke, j. r. Davis
S. X. McNernany. ]. H. Wright. IL. c
Wright o, w Brodt. Howard Fear
son. Thomas J. Maloney, Samuel Cis
sell, Gerold Martin. o. w. Bell. JOSEPH
Hodsson. J. P. <iefer. r, f. o'Brien
j. f. Pearson. f. J. LIE Barnes. ane
William A Hickey
The rext meeting OF the grand council
Of the Fratornal Sons of Jonadab viii
be held next Tuesday at the residence
of J. f. Pearson. 1919 Eighth street
mort Inv est
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
The Old Town.

In the long summer evenings, while
you sit through the twilight listening
to the happy voices of the children
at play in the street, does your mind
ever go back to the days of your
childhood in the old town?
Those were wonderful days, when
the young mind within you was reach
ing out with impatient questioning
for all the world OF knowledge and
sensation, building for itself the ex-
perience that has guided you ever
since. What a wonderful world 1t
was that you slowly got in touch
with How full Of beauty and
strength and grandeur! And that
dear old town! Surely the children
of today are to be pitied that they
cannot all grow up in its quaint and
gentle atmosphere.
True, the children Of today seem
to preserve many of the old games,
and as their voices come to you
through the dusk they are musical
with the joy Of youth; but from your
seat on the porch you miss the per-
sonaI sense Of wonder and enthusiasm
that converts all child-life every
where into fairyland That you have
lost; that 1t is you seek TO revive
when you recall the days of long ago;
but the children have it, and with it's
help they are building now as you
built then.
That dear old town, the town where
your boyhooG was passed. No changes
that have since been made can efface
it from your mind as it was, nor
could its complete physical restcra-
! ton to the condition In which you
| knew 1t satisfy you as memory does,
for by memory you see it now with
the eager. wondering eyes of child
| hood.
There was the town clock, high up
in its tower; of course, it told the
| but in your memory 1t Is Illuminated
on night like this, and the hands
are creeping up to o'clock, and
when the bell strikes mother will be
calling you TO go TO bed. Do you re-
call the first time you ever saw that
clock at night, when you looked up
| and saw two of it's Illuminated faces
shining like two big moons? Did you
tone as that clock had during the long
watches of the night when you were
i'll and restless?
There was the carpenter shop,
where you rolled in the shayings and
got blocks of wood to whttle, and
| where the men would help you build
kites and boats and mend your wagon
all free of charge, and just for the
love of having you around. There
are no such shops now. All! you'll
never forget the day Billy Brown, the
/ head tourneyman, turned a bit oi
lignum vitae into pegging top fol
you and put a plug in it, made from
the end of broken rat-tail file, Ane
that top. Well, well! The boys o
today have to buy their tops, ant
they are poor machinemade thing.
and full Of knots; they don't ever
know what lignum vitae Isl
At school, during the long recess
the game was town-ball, or prison
base, or duck-on-Davy, accord
ing to the season of the year; and
! after school and on Saturdays there
, was fishing and swimming. All,
those were great days!
: But the town had terror and gloon
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
First Public Concert.

Mrs Hope Hopkins Burroughs gave
her first public pupils recital on last
Friday evening in TfTfty II. E. Church.
Fifth and C streets southeast. The class
was assisted by Miss g. Isabel Dickinson
and Charles F. Roberts.
Mrs Burroughs is one OF tl,e youngest
and best knowa music .oachers in
Washington. and has parIf ipated IN
musical affairs here for several years.
Heretofore she has given fsr recitais
privately, but this season she deterrninad
TO have a public concert, and the resui.
fully justified ner Judgment.
The entire program was interesting.
and was given IN an excellent manner.
The pupils demonstrated the result Of
careful and conscientious training, and
several Of them furnished distinct sur
prises in the character and execution OF
their work.
Miss Elizabeth TrouGn1an, who opened
she program, is an unusually talented
girl. and played group of Heilerts
compositions with remarkable skill. The
| requirements of this cemposer are great,
and not a little intricate. but Miss
/ Troutman read The Characteristic trip
number beautifully. Her selections were
HelIer's Watt. Spirits, .Impatience''
and Determine. ton"
Mendelssohns Spinning Song" was
artistically read by Miss Emma Bender,
who added a clear touch TO her interpre-
tation. One OF the most pleasing num-
bers in the entire group was the Mosz-
| kowski waltz, op. 81. by Miss Elsie
/ Weaver. Miss Weaver has n1anifestIy
been A faithful and conscientious worker
for she demonstrated her excellent teche
nique and imbued her paying with much
life.
Miss Ethel Jewel Dony is another OF
Mrs. Burroughs promising pupils. Her
number was Ldeblings ''Valse Brilliant
| Miss Dony's playing is full of fire aud
force, and she read the JiebIing eompo-
sition In a graceful and brilliant manner
Miss Jewel Crooks, in Mendelssohnt S
| 'Rondo Capriec iosa" gave promise OF q
| brilliant career as q pianist, and Miss
Miriam Kramer was another to whom
continued work will bring gratifying re-
suits. Both of these young women are
aptly fitted fog musical career. Liszt'
"Tarantella" proved Miss Josephine
Tomlia's temperament. TO which she
adds a fine. firm, musical tone.
Miss Dickson was especially effective
in Lang's An Irish Love Song and
Mr.. Roberts, who Is always a favorits
sang Dudley Bucks Sunset" in fine
voice. Mrs. Burroughs closed the pro.
gram with Ch5pfn's ''Scherzo,'' and was
cordially received.
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
Pupils Close Year.

a very enjoyable musical recital was
given by the pupils OF Misc Wombie
Tuesday evening. May q. at her resi-
dence, 1i21 Tenth street.
The program cons,stetz OF the follow
ing selections:
Duet, Military Ga1op.' uabistsky1,
BY Misses Carrie and Ray Seigei; solo.
Contemplation" lFieldhouse,, by Miss
Eva Everette: solo, Alabama March
and Two Step" (Ott), by Master Willie
Walsh; solo, Crescent Revsris' fFfeId-
hoasel, by Miss Bessie LocIhead: solo.
Moonlight on the Hudson lWiison),
by Miss May Jones; solo, Little Sun
beam Waltz. lLenzbeEg1, Miss Katie
Leonard; solo, Crimson Bushes" des-
teri by Miss Lizzie Ritz: solo. "Wllis-
pered Thought Novelette, (Johnson)
by. Miss Ruth Piagsr: duet, Fairy
queen GaIop7 fSInith), VIII and Carne
Walsh; solo, Dance OF the Frowss
Head" Story, by Miss Ray seigei
solo, Love and Kisses" caprice 1Har
ris), by Miss Bessie Brenerman; solo
Gypsy Dance (sVichner). by Miss Car
mel Walsh; solo, 1.-The Robins Depart
ure" (Fisher), by Miss Ray Server
solo. tJagoniea.' (StanfordD, by Miss
Alice PLACER; solo, t.Rfpples OF the Ala
bama' (Anderson3, Miss Csrrie Seigel
duet, III Traratore" (Beyer Verdi, b.
Misses Alice and Ruth PLACER.
The Washington times., 1905-05-28

also to draw out the tender tentaeles
OF your soul.
There was the haunted house, with
the shutters always closed. What an
air Of mystery, what an awful sug-
gestion of hidden crime in its very
appearance! AS the children hurried
by on the other side of the street,
tales of dreadful butchery and OF
sudden and cruel treachery were
whispered What delicious shivers
used to run down your little spine at
those tales of horror; what furtiye
giances you cast at its spooky sur
roundingsi How you avoided the
overgrown paths and the riotous pro-
fusion of its neglected garden!
On Sunday afternoons, father, who
had been too busy during the week to
pay much attention to your pleasures,
and who was too pious TO take any
recreation on Sunday not relating to
the future life, took you for long
walk about the outskirts of the town,
invariably visiting the cemetery. There
among the weeping willows, the yew
tree, the box. and the cypress were
| the moss-eovorca ssonuments and the
mounds covered by the trailing myr-
tie. The birds sang sweeter in the
old church yard than anywhere else,
and you often wondered how there
could be SO much beauty aud sadness
In such a quiet place. But the chief
attraction of the cemetery was the
grave of the unknown lady who had
formerly Inhabited the great square
house in the center Of the town. She
had been great beauty; it was whis-
pered that she had belonged to the
! English nobility-or even TO the
royal family itself-she hs.d always
been lonely and grand aud mysterious
And this was her resti-sg place, De.
meath an unmarked monument
Do you ever think of the old town
as you sit in the dusk and the cheer
full voices of the children s.osae across
the street to you?
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
sEwED ON ONE QUILT so YEARS

A visitor to Whitehall from Hanover.
Pa, tells the story of a task. begun
fifty years ago and just completed by
Susan Ston2sifer of that town. in 1855
she began a patchwork quilt which has
become a model OF neatness and beauty.
1t is a nine-square quilt, by Z feet
IN size. Miss Stonesifer. who Is sixty
two years old. worked on the quilt dur
inga her leisure hours. and often was
obliged to relinquish the task for long
PERIODS.
She did all the sewing with the same
needle and in the same house. a one
and a half story structure built by her
tather.-Baltimore Sun.
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
School Concerts.

A concert Is being arranged for next
Friday evening and Saturday matinee.
when nearly a thousand school children
CT Washington viii sing in Convention
Hall under the direction OF Miss AIys
Bentley, musical instructor OF the school
Miss Bentley has been working indus
tFiously IN the training Of the school
children for five years. and is anxious
that the public should see just what they
have accomplished. She has been hold
ing several rehearsaIs a week for some
time, and at the rehearsal yesterday
morning the girls and boys gave every
evidence Of just how hard their instruc-
tor has worked.
/ An orchestra OF fifty pieces, selected
for the most part from musical students
who are attending the public schools.
will be under the direction OF Herman
RakeTnann. and Will play q series Of
orchestral numbers.
The entire program includes the fol-
lowing numbers for the children: kei-
ier's American Hymn, The Archer
the Soldiers Song. from Faust and
Monks Abide With Me- ali OF which
viii be chiefly participated IN by the
hoys: My Hearts IN the Highlands
Courtney: Hey BiIoo," Sehuznann; the
Neapolitan boat song. Santa Luciafs
Spring Song, YogeI; HandeI's Lar
GO: Through Love TO Light Mae
| kenzle; Come Ever Smiling Liberty
Handel. 1.-The Lark. House; ''Sere-
uade.'' Brahms. and a group OF war
songs, @Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground Dixie and The Suwanee
River
Much interest attaches TO the con-
cert, for the children have been selected
from the seventh and eighth grades os
the schools. SO far as II was possible
and every school which could do SO has
| been represented in the makeup OF the
chorus. TIE children themselves are
interested in the reeitais. and have and
still are working earnestly for its sue
cess. If they sing with the snap and
spirit which characterized their work
at yesterdays rehearsal the two con-
certs will be brilliant successes and =
| fine tribute to Miss Bentley.s training.
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
Nordiea Clubs.

The Nordiea Mandolin, Banjo, and
Guitar Club. under directorshiD OF
Walter T. Holt, of the Washington Col
iege of Music, will give a recital at Car
roll Institute Hall, On Thursday even
ing. June l. They will be assisted by
the weli-knewn Columbia Quartet. uIa.
der the direction OF DR.. j. ". Bischon.
and by George II. O'Cennor, who sings
.buffo songs" in an inimitabIe man
ner- Mrs. Elsie Bond ,Bisehofr will do
solo work, accompanied by DR.. Bischoa,
and VIII sing "a Pickaninny Lullaby
composed by Mr. Holt and Miss Ger
srude III. Walsh. with the accompani-
ment OF the entire mandolin and guitar
orchestra. a special feature will be the
'.Tannhauser Overture, "Traumerie. !,
and The Wedding Of the Winds
Waltz by the orchestra, which has.
done such excellent work the last sea-
son. The Ladies' Rondo Club. the Nor
dica Banjo Club. and the Serenaders.
ali under the Mr. Holt's direction. VIII
contribute attractive numbers
The Washington times., 1905-05-28
A Disaster in Disguise.

For the protection OF the machine
and for no other purpose. Boss Dur
ham and Senator Penrose have per-
suaded the United Gas Improvement
Company 10 withdraw the proposed
gas lease from the Philadelphia city
councils. The fight against this
measure is for the present won by
the people. Philadelphia will now
settle down, accordingly. to its his
toric and traditional quiet.
This is no victory for good govern
ment. 1t is merely a clever strategic
move to keep the organization" in
control and circumvent the only
serious uprising which the present
machine has ever had to face. The
gas steal may be dead-aIthough that
Is by no means certain-but there are
other plums. and the machine is in
the plum-picking business The
abandonment of the lease withdraws
from the arena the only issue on
which the grafters were likely TO be
beaten. They are as supreme in
Philadelphia politics today as ever
they were.
Mayor Weaver and the converts to
good government among the city
councilmen are now outside the
hreastworls. unless they are ready
70 desert the people openly and
shamelessly. Assuming that they will
not desert and thus outrage their of
fees with the eyes of the whole coun-
try upon them. they must either
march on against the machine or
crawl into political graves. Choosing
the former course, the mayor has
somewhat less than two years in
which to deprive the ring of its plum
der. He has already cleared out the
two bureaus whier control the great
majority Of offiees-the departments
OF public safety and public works
His authority TO go further may save
him and the cause of good govern
ment; and it is, for the present, I'M
questioned
But this authority may not last
long. In addition to all the other
elements which the mayor must fight
and which were enumerated in these
columns last Friday, the mayor must
face the possibility OF immediate in
reference from the State Legislature
which is quite as corrupt and as
easily managed as the Philadelphia
city councils. Governor Pennypackei
could call a special session of the
Legislature tomorrow, if he chose, or
almost any pretext. The politician:
have already figured out a pretext II
the pretended need TO fill a vacancy
On the State supreme bench. If tha
extra session is called. 1t Is practically
certain that Messrs. Penross and Dur
ham can pass bill in two days de
priving Mayor Weaver Of ali hi
power and yesting it IN the city eoun
cfls. This is no chimera It Is al
eYer-present danger. The Legislator
has already passed such bill TO TAX
effect in 1907, and men who have al
ready set day for a harvest will no
hesitate to advance that day if th
weather threatens.
But the mayors greatest diflcult
intensified a thousand times by tn
withdrawal of this especially often
sive job-lies in the Indifference O
the people of Philadelphia. He ca