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The Washington times., 1906-01-26
GEN. BRAGG, CONSUL,
REACHES SEYENTY-NINE
Veteran of Iron Brigade and Oldest
Man in Service to Celebrate
Birthday at Hongkong,

FOND DU LAC. Wis, Jan. 26-The
oldest man ia the consular service OF
the United States is Gen. Edward :
Bragg. of Fond du Lac He Is seventy
nine years of age yet active in his
duties and looking sharply after the
interests Of his country.
Letters Just received here from Mrs.
Bragg say that the general viii cele-
brate his seventy ninth birthday Feb-
ruary 90 when he will entertain the
Government attaches at HonEong. al
which point ne is stationed.
General Bragg Is said 10 be in excel
lent health and never misses day At
desk Members of the old 'irOn
brigade. which he commanded. VIII
send the old warrior a congratulatorv
teleFram on the anniversary.
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APPEAL FOR CHARITIES
BRINGS PROMPT RESPONSE

fn response TO recent urgent appeals
~. Associated Charities has received the
i"-ie Tag contributions sent TO John JOY
E--oa. treasurer: Dr William C. Wood
ward -; Mrs. A. Ii. Tyson. s.: NJ II.
-; S-aoot. Golfer & McCalley. $40; Mrs
y T. Mimmack, s.; II. r W. 50; the
Rey. Paul Griffith, s.. In memory OF
judge ID. 5. Wade, so: Frank J.. Camp
DELI 50: Frederick G. Lee. SO; Law Re
porter Printing Company. $40: J 4. n.
s.; Mrs. K. c. Pilling s.: Mrs. Sarah
Brycn Leet. 50; Miss Mabel L. Taylor,
$40
Fer the purchase of food. fuel and
clothin' for distressed families. and milk
and eggs for indigent cOnsumptives. the
Citizens Relief Association has received
ih5 following contributions through
John r. Wilkins. treasurer: John J
Rothcrmel, So j. "A. Hartsock $3.50; \.
NJ. W. 81
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CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
WITH AN EL0PEMEkT

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26.-"Tu be
twenty years old tomorrow, and l in
tend TO settle down said Frank Lean
10 pretty Anna HauOwen Tuesday af-
ternoon. "Will you help me celebrate
my birthday by marrying me?"
The sudden proposal rather staggered
Anna at FIRST, but she soon regained
her self-compOsure and bluShiuglV nod
ded an affirmative. The harry Young
man could not seal the bargain with
the usual kiss, for the proposal vas
made on the street as Anna was going
TO her work IN a hosiery mill
tuesday afternoon the pair went To
Wilmington. Yesterday Annals parents
received postal card containing the
Dflef announcement of a wedding and
Information 70 the effect that the han
py pair were on their way West to
grow up with the country.
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Seaboard Florida Limited.

Handsomest train in the South. ex-
clusively Pullman; electric lighted. dou-
Bile drawing room, compartment, library.
observation and dining cars. Leaves
Augustine. 2i0 p. m. next day.
Once 1927 Pa ave NV.
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In Addition to Drawing Interest

Deposits are subject 10 check at will IN
banking dept. OF Union Trust Co, 1914 +
81 Savings accounts invited 1t
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Native of Alexandria.

MI Bryan was born in Alexandria.
Va, December -. ISIS, graduated from
Harvard College. and praCticed law In
Cincinnati until 1852. when he removed 10
Chicago. making that city his home with
the exception OF his term of service in
Washington
As president of the Chicago Sanitary
Fair. which netted The Union soldiers
during the war over 100000, Dir. Bryan
did an important work in relieving
much suffering at that time. lie was a
member of the Union Defense COmmis-
sion. and president OF the Chicago
Soldiers Home from 1850 until his death.
Through his interest in banking the
Fidelity Safe Depository, in which mil
lions were saved IN the Chicago fire IN
ISL, was founded. He was one of the
active promoters and vice president or
the Chicago ENpOSitiou
The Washington times., 1906-01-26
DECLINES PARLIAMENT IoB.

NEW YORK. jan &.-Rlchard Croker
has refused the honor of becoming a
member OF the British parliament. and
announces his intention Of remaining an
American citizen.
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REDUCED FROM $1,000
and up to $500

a short Goats of CheViot and
Covert. satin lined throughout.
S handsome Golf Capes OF fine
quality double faced plaids.
i5 Tourist Coats of fine Scotch
Mixtures, in heat patterns.
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The Grearer Washington

Illustrated Edition Of The Washington
Times VIII be published Sunday. Janu-
airy .. Advertisers are requested TO
make reservation for space at the earliest
possible tine.
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THOMAS B. BRYAN
PASSES AWAY HERE
Former Commissioner Vic
tim of Heart Disease.
APPOINTED BY HAYES
Served Until Legislated out of Office
by Present Form of Gov
eminent.
APPOINTED BY HAYES

Thomas Barbour Bryan, of Chicago.
formerly District Commissioner, died
suddenly of heart disease last night at
the heNe of his daughteT-in-law, Mrs.
Whitehead, 1901 / street northwest. He
served as a member of the board from
Decent @r 3. 1871 to July I. 1873. lie was
appointed by President Hayes under the
act OF Congress Of June %, 1874 creating
a temporary Board of Commissioners.
Mr.. Bryan was legislated out of office
By the passage of Ihe law creating the
present permanent form of government
for District affairs. after which he re-
turned to Chicago.
During Mr.. Bryan's term as District
Commissioner important labor troubles
arose. accompanied by demonstra tious of
violence lie took a prominent part In
their settlement, ana by his frmness and
tact helped 10 bring about their speedy
termination.
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Last Week-Halls of the Ancients.
Only such reconstructions in the world
Admittance z5c. Guide book gratis.
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RICH MINER STARVES
HIMSELF TO DEATH

ALBUQUERQUE. y. NJ Jan. 26-D.
r. Waugh, millionaire mine owner of
DeadwOod, 5. D., who is Teputed 70 have
had an income Of s.. 800 a month, is
dead In this city as the result OF de-
liberately starving himself to death.
He Was seyenty-three years old. and
since coming here a few weeks ago
had lived on coffee and doughnuts.
1t is believed he was Of a miseFIv dis
position and begrudged money to buy
enough to eat. The doctors pronounced
his death due to lack of punishment.
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Times Want Ad Branch.

The O'DonueH Drug Company. Eighth
and 9 Streets southeast, viii take your
Times Want Ads for you, and charge
regular Office rates.
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To pinehurst, N. c.. Golf Tournament.

Via Southern RWy n parior cars; leave
Washington week days 1851 a. m South
eTu Rwy. Dining car service.
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II Knocking PAID.

If knocking paid, how easily
We might win freedom from our
cares!
The problems that are hard for me
Would soon be trivial affairs;
I'd live in luxury and own
An auto Of the highest grade;
With all my troubles overthrown,
I'd shout for joy, If knocking paid.
Of all the things that people do
| trow the easiest, by far,
Is finding that the worlds askew,
And knocking at the things that are,
The lazy man who turns his gaze
A thousand times upon the clock
And dawdles meanly through the days
Is never too inert to knock.
The one who labors all day long
With brawny arms and all his might
Finds that SO very much is wrong,
And, oh! SO little that Is right
If knocking paid, his wife could wear
Fine gems upon her soft white hands
And there would be a palace where
His poor unpainted cottage stands.
Alas! that what is must be so,
That all things are not otherwise!
This world is but a vale of woe,
Where man must languish till he
dies
The easy things are not the kind
That cause the cares we bear to fade
do not doubt that we should find
It hard to knock if knocking paid.
Chicago Record Herald.
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CoNGREG ATTONALTSrS

It is generally known that the Con-
gregationalists are pretty good people,
but it is not generally known that they
have done as much for this country
and the world as they have done. The
Advance thus sets forth some of the
things they can point to with pious
pride: They started the first foreign
missionary society in the country. They
started the first home missionary soci-
ETY. In the country. They started the
most effective city missionary society
in the country-the society from which
the other big denominations have been
copying. They started the greatest
Christian young peoples movement of
this country, or any other country, of
this generation, or any other genera
ton. They started the first college in
the country. They started the first the
illogical seminary in the country They
started the first religious newspaper in
the country. They published the first
hymn book in the country. They start
ed the public school system of the coun-
try. They started the town meeting
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workd their good and evil wills upon
those who touched them. The old
rhyme says
Trefoil vervain, Johns wort dill
flinders witches of their will,
and these four plants had extraordinary
regulations in the Middle Ages for
natural and supernatural powers. The
trefoil is common in the United States
to-day, especially in the South and has
certain legitimate medical properties
The vervain is allied to our native YER
bena and was anciently believed to be
effective against all poisons and the
venom of serpents, as well as against
bewitched drinks and the like. 1t was
also efflcacious for witchcraft. Anne
Bohemian, the celebrated witch Of
Salisbury, used to send her pupils into
the fields to gather vervain and dill.
The sun worshippers of Persia always
carried vervain when they approached
their affairs. They gathered 1t when
there was neither gun nor moon, and
poured libation ST honey upon the
earth in reparation for their robbery.
st. Johns wort was called "Fuga de-
monium" in the old days, because it
routed evil spirits, 1t was common
ingredient of magical concoctions, and
is still gathered with much ceremony
by the peasantry of France and Ger
many when st. Johns Day (June "a
comes around.
Solomon's seal was another of the
woodworking plants, said to be the
herb which Solomon used to cure epile-
psy by placing it in a ring applied to
the nostrils of the patient from which
circumstances arose the popularity Of
the magical ring or seal that figures in
so many Eastern tales.
Curious stories are told of the mand-
rake, scion of the potato family, the
fruit of which used to be called the
: love apple" "a name later applied to
the tomato,) no doubt because to eat
Of it generously produced temporary
insanity. 1t was much used in love
philters to awaken the tender passion,
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the initiative and referendum. They
started the first temperance society in
the country. They gave to America the
greatest theological thinker that 1t has
ever had. They gave to America the
most eloquent preacher it has ever had.
They have given to America the three
greatest evangelists it has ever had.
They have given more money per mem
Der to good causes than any other de-
nomination. They were the only large
denomination which went through the
slavery crisis without a break. They
have done more than any other denom-
ination to help the colored races UP to
manhood
Quite list. Perhaps the Congrega-
tionalists are now little too rich and
comfortable, but If they are they will
in time get chastened, and be good and
efficient Congregationalists again.
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coon ADTroE. ron GIRLS.

Good girls seem to like drunkards and
often marry them with the intention or
reforming them. Usually they find they
can't reform them, but perhaps their
failure is due to the fact that they
don't tackle them in the right way.
Some good advice to girls who feel that
they must marry drunkards, and also
to girls who are not so particular, has
just been given by DR.. ]. ]. McLaugh-
lin, in an address to a Catholic Total
Abstinence Society. He said: There
Iare many remedies named for the liquor
cure, but my experience is that good
food and good cooking is the one reme-
dy. All your girls should learn all the
cooking they can at home and then at
tend cooking school. Poor cooking
has sent many man to the saloon be-
cause he feels that he needs stimu-
liant. He would not need it If his food
was proper and properly cooked"
Good food and good cooking wont
hurt any man, and if the girls can see
straight they will see that DR.. Nc
Laughlin's advice is good for them
Sometimes it seems as If the girls were
too smart to take good advice, but per-
haps they will take this
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COETIN U0US.

Boarding house keeper-'Will you have
soup to-nlght?" Lodger-''No, thanks,
I'm off the water-wagon. July Smart
Set.
Knicker-secretary Taft is now con-
sidering two places.
) Mrs. Knicker-So is our cook.-New
York Sun.
Mrs. Muggins-" Since Mrs. Newrich's
husband made all his money she has
the doctor continually"
Mrs. Buggins-"Yes, 7 hear she is
suffering from nervous prosperity. -
Philadelphia Record.
Jack-So the pretty girls are going to
sell kisses at the church fair to help
along the proceeds, Ell? What will the
kisses be worth?
Katherine-Oh, guess they'll be sold
at their face value.-Chicago News.
"The village isn't what it used to
be-many of the old landmarks are
gone"
"Frinstance?"
well, the town pump is one"
IldL ALI ITO udl . q
watermark, cleveland Leader.
Toni heard May Sweets mother tell
ing her that she mustn't encourage any
young man.
Dick-Yes, l got her brother Jack to
put the old lady up to that.
Tom-Why. | thought you were in
love with May.
Dick-Of course. You see, I'm not the
sort of fellow that needs encourage
ment Philadelphia Press.
An Irishman was describing his ef-
forts at golf. THE first time | missed
the ball." he said, land the second
time l hit it In the same place. IT'S a
poor game.
'iSee here" grumbled the inmate of
murderers' row, "ain't there a law
again crool and unusual punishment?
Yes" answered the Warden. "An'
amt 1 ter be hanged next week?' I'm
afraid you are "Then what dyer
mean by sendin me a bunch of story
papers to read that amt got nothin'
but continued stories in 'em?'-Cleve-
land Leader.
Just now he doesn't care,
Though nations rage;
He has no thought to spare
For history's page.
| Diplonacy's shrewd art
Moves not his soul
One passion has his heart
In Its control.
Though thrones meet dire mischance,
He would not turn
His head and give a glance
Their fate to learn;
| For vain ambitions he
Cares not pin.
lie only wants to see
The home team win,
Washington Star.
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and the most eff1cacious specimens
were obtained from the vicinity of glib
bets, where evildoers swung by the
neck. There was but one way to
gather the mandrake, under pain of
death for mistake, since the BELIZE was
that 1t groaned aloud when pulled from
! the ground, and that whoever heard
the sound fel dead on the spot. The
custom was to fasten a dog by the
tail to the plant and beat him until
In his struggle he tore up the mand-
rake by the roots. The person superin-
tending the operation had his ears
stopped with pitch and so escaped,
but the dog, for which the same pre-
caution was not taken. heard the groan
and died.
Extraordinary cures were accompa-
MED by some familiar flowers in the
lolden times. The anemone was thought
by the ancients to be an emblem of dis
ease; and Pliny says that physicians re-
commended that the first anemone seen
in the spring should be picked and con-
cealed in a scarlet cloth until sickness
came. requiring that it should be hung
around the neck. The juice Of the for
get-ne-not was credited with the pow
er of hardening steel until no metal
could resist it. The peony was used by
Paeon, the famous physician of ancient
Greece, from whom it takes its name,
to cure wounds. Demons were sun
posed always to flee from the spot
where it grew.
The elder tree also had some remark
able properties An old writer declares
that IF one travel with two little sticks
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THE PURSUIT OF THE FRESHJTAN,
There will, it appears, soon be no
more Freshman row." and perhaps
there will soon be no more such Fresh
man rows as there have been during
this college year. Notice has been Civ
en- by the managers of the Sheffield Sci
entifie school that after July /, 1907, not
more than three students belonging to
the Freshman class of the Sheffield Sci
entific school will be allowed to room
in any one house in Temple street be-
tween Grove and Trumbul streets, and,
further, that if at any time during the
next college year-September 1906
June, 19O7-any well-founded complaint
is made against any individual house or
houses in Temple street, all Sheffield
Scientific school students rooming in
such houses will be compelled to imme-
diately withdraw and room elsewhere
for the balance of the year.
This will look drastic to Freshmen
and to those who have been getting a
meagre living by renting rooms to them.
But it seems to strike at one of the
roots of the evil that has been so dis
turbing. Now, If the city authorities
will do their part perhaps the next
Freshmen wont get firm hold on such
notions as some of the Freshmen who
are being promoted seem to have had.
BY the way, considering what has
been going on around here during the
past year. aren't those prison clothes a
little too appropriate?
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FIFTY LUCKY MURDERERS

There are about fifty murderers in
Kansas who are now in prison under
sentence of death, but they don't ex-
pect to die by law right away. And
they feel that this is pretty kind old
world, in spite of what they have done
to make it seem otherwise. 1t appears
that while these murderers have for
some time been due to die the governors
of Kansas are too tender-hearted to
sign death warrants. Governor Hoeh
the present governor, says: THE pres
ent governor never will approve the
hanging of any man. Do you suppose
that If 1 had a man on the gallows with
my hand on the lever ready to spring
the trap I'd do it? Suppose I should
say to that poor creature, DO you be-
lieve in the immortality of the soul?
and he should answer, Yes. DO you
believe in Heaven and hell and that you
will go to one or the other OF these
places% and he should say, I do-dc
you suppose I would spring that traI
and say, Go to hell, then?' Indeed, ]
would not. What a beautiful spectacle
it would be to see fifty men all in a row
hanged at the same time!"
This is kind and sentimental enough
1t doesn't take much account of the
victims Of the murderers, but as they
are dead perhaps no account Of then
should be taken. Anyhow, Governor
Hoch will not bulge from his firm
base, and his argument will be heartily
approved by many who have been con.
victed of murder and also by same who
don't quite know what should be done
with convicted murderers.
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of elder in his pocket. he shall not fret
nor pant, let the horse go never so
hard" A piece of an elder branch cut
out between two knots used to be- worm
around the neck to cure erysipelas; and
in the Tyrol to-day elder bushes are
planted on new graves in the form off,
cross, 1t being believed that they Will
blossom in due time, if the sout former
ly inhabiting the body lying underneath
has been received into Paradise.
York Tribune.
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The Navy department is preparing
for the installation Of six or seven wire
less telegraph stations in the Philip
pines. The navy has one there now, at
Cavite, and shortly another station will
be established at San Fernando Point,
in northern Luzon. For the present
these stations will be of ordinary pow
er, capable of ntercommunication and
of getting into touch with vessels rea-
sonably distant from the shore. Pro-
vision will be made, however, for so in
creasing the radius of communication
that it will be possible to exchange
messages with the naval wireless sta
ton at Guam. The army has one or
two wireless stations in the Jolo coun-
try, and these will probably be used
in connection with the naval stations
elsewhere, supplanting the land tele-
graph and cable systems of the army
signal corps. The navy has had in the
Philippines an officer who is wireless
telegraph expert and who will make his
recommendations regarding the location
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Of new stations. He is said to have ac-
quired much valuable information con-
corning the mysteries of wireless opera
lions in the tropics.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other
small advertisements, One Cent Word
each insertion. Five Cents Word for
a full week.
Display advertisements, per inch, one
insertion, $1.20; each subsequent inser-
ton 40 cents; one week, $500; one
month, $40; one year, $40.
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The German patent office comes in
for much censure. One would suppose
such an institution to exact no more OF
inventors than is needed to pay cur
rent expenses, but in reality the charges
are so high that the state pockets half
the income as profit. 1t is pointed out
that for poor inventors matters are al
most as bad as they were when Gutten-
berg, after inventing the art of print
ing, lived in poverty, and finally had to
pawn his apparatus.
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A prize of $4,000 is offered by the
best sugar manufacturers Of France to
anyone who shall first discover and
apply In France a new method of util-
izing sugar In the arts. 1t is required
that the method shall increase the con-
sumption OF French sugar 100000
pounds per annum.
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MEDICAL DELUsroNs.

Many Still Survive from Dark Ages of
Credulous Faith.
An East Slider suffering from acute
rheumatism was taken to the Post
Graduate Medical School and Hospital
wearing a pair Of cells, long defunct
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The British consul-general at Han
kow, Mr.. Fraser. reports to his govern
ment that the ancient Chinese dislike
for the Japanese has been transform
ed into keen admiration Simultan-
eously the people of China are mani
Testing a new unfriendliness to men of
the white races. The japanese trader,
Mr.. Fraser suggests, is now reaping
"the advantage not only of his geo.
graphical position but Of his kinship
and similarity IN thought and custom,
which particularly fits him for pene-
trating into the interior and pushing
his wares In the shops and towns and
villages Of China whence no one ever
visits treaty port"
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Belgium Is small country, but It Is
UP to date. 1t has some three hundred
training schools for girls, the first
school dating from 1889. The girls stay
In the schools about two years. The
'branches'' usually taught are cooking,
washing and ironing, the cutting out,
making and mending Of clothes, house
scrubbing, sweeping and busting, and
Gin country places truck gardening and
poultry raising. The theoretical teach
ing includes the study of hygiene, do
mestic economy, care Of children and
nursing the sick. The domestic educa-
ton is for the use of the daughters of
the working classes and aims to irnpart
q knowledge of how to manage house.
hold, order and economy being the prin-
cipal elements. With the domestic teach
ing Is added common school educa-
ton. Besides the ordinary housekeeping
knowledge, some schools teach Dress
making, millinery, artificial flower MAX
ing, embroidery, china painting, book
keeping, typewriting, etc.
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