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ionary of an uncommon and successful
kind. The manner in which his ardent,
imaginative and mercurial Nature was con-
trolled by powerful Judgment and oil
rected by an acute sagacity, Is the most
extraordinary feature in his character.
Thus governed, his imagination, instead of
exhausting itself In idle flights. lent aid to
his Judgment and enabled him to form con-
clusons at which common minds could
never have arrived-nay, which they could
not perceive when pointed out.
With all the visionary fervor of his i'm
agination, it's fondest dreams fell short OF
the reality. He died In ignorance OF the
real grandeur OF his discovery Until his
last breath he entertained the idea that he
had merely opened a new way to the old
resorts OF the opulent commerce. and had
discovered some of the Wild regions of the
east He supposed Hispaniola to be the
ancient Ophir which had been visited by
the ships OF Solomon. and that Cuba and
Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia
What visions of glory would have broken
upon his mind could he have known that
equal to the whole OF the old world in
MAGNITUDE. and separated by two vast
oceans from all the earth hitherto known
by civilized man! And how would his
rilagnanimous spirit have been consoled.
amidst the Affections of age and the cares
and the injustice OF an ungrateful king,
could he have anticipated the splendid en-
pires which were to spread over the beauti-
full world he had discovered; and the ma
lions. the tongues and languages which
were to I'LL its lands with renown, and
revere and bless his name to the latest pos
terityt
For the purpose OF carrying out its pro-
visions the bill creates q commission. con-
sisting OF the chairman of the Senate COM
mitfee on the library, the chairman OF the
committee ON the library OF the House. the
Secretary Of State, the Secretary of War
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Improved Order Of Heptasophs.

Columbia Conclave. No. IL, held memorial
services at its last meeting. The principal
address was delivered by J. s. Tominson.
Speeches were also made by p. ]. Meehan.
William Champion. B. +. Atherton and s.
C. Mills.
Capital Conclave, No. T. of Georgetown
since it's first meeting in the new hall, Sd
and streets. has initiated ten new candi-
dates.
Howard Perry Conclave, No SIG. VIII mold
memorial services in honor of deceased
members Monday May ~, In Topographic
cal Temple. Walter Perry of Panama.
brother of the late Howard Perry. will at
tend.
services last Thursday night at 910 PENN
sylvania avenue. Addresses were delivered
by Messrs. Coleman. Cox. jr., Green, Jem-
mison. Cox, ST.. and Hoover and n. II,
Perry.
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Anacostia and Vicinity.

The Ladies' Home Missionary Society or
the Anacostia Methodist Episcopal Church
conducted lawn fete last Friday evening
on the parsonage grounds, Jackson street.
The lawns were prettily decorated with
colored lanterns The program included a
solo by Mr.. Daniel G. Sllithson, the Choir
lister of the church; solo by Miss Edith
Tew. another by Miss Mary Mclean and a
piano solo by Miss Ethel Dony.
Mrs. Julia A. Dony, who has been absent
In Boston as delegate to the Florence
Crittenton Home convention. has returned
to her home on Franklin street
The Mems Club of the Anacoslia Meth
odist Episcopal Church met recently and
elected officers for the ensuing year as for
lows: Arthur B. Suit. president. reelected;
Charles F. Linger. first vice president, re-
elected; John Fort. second vice president.
reelected; Daniel G. Smithson, third vice
president. reelected: Samuel r. Campbell,
secretary. reelected, and Frank Barse,
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OBSERVANCE OF FLAG DAY.
Reminder in General Orders of Com
mander-in-Chief Tanner.

The proper observance of Flag day" by
all the members Of the Grand Army of the
Republic generally is urged by Comman-
der-in-Chief Tanner In general orders made
public yesterday, and in which he calls at
tention to the action of the last encamp-
ment, recognizing June IA for that purpose
He appeals to every member Of the organ
izatfon to on that day display the flag at
his residence, to see that it floats from
his place of business and to urge his neigh
bors and friends and those In authority in
his particular community to do likewise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
Young Peoples Union.

The Young Peoples Union of the Peoples
Church held Its last indoor meeting for the
season at the home of Miss Estelle z.
Wild last evening A summer outing pro-
gram was adopted. providing for frequent
enjoyable short trips and several Of a more
extended character. Miss Lillian E. Heller
was elected TO membership. The literary
and musical features OF the evening were
highly appreciated. Refreshments were
served
Those present were Rev. and Mrs. Alex
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Death Due to Natural Causes.

Coroner hewitt was summoned to house
900 Freeman's alley northwest yesterday
afternoon, about $50 O'clock to investigate
the death OF Mary Palmer. colored. thirty
six years of age. The woman had become
suddenly Ill and died before a physician
could be summoned. The coroner found
that death had resulted from natural causes
and he gave a certificate accordingly.
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ander Kent, Mrs F. E. Upperman, Mrs. A.
r. Wild, Mrs. Cora d. Tompson, Miss Annie
p Goebel. Miss Estelle P. Wild, Miss Alma
E. Bischoff, Miss Lillian b. Selby, Miss
Pearl r. Smith,. Miss Lucy NJ Lightbown.
Miss Lillian E. Heller, Miss Elsie Heiden-
reich, Miss Ethel Hollidge Miss Hazel Da-
kin, Miss Leila Green. Mr.. C. G. Farweil,
Mr.. Gustav Pauls. Mr.. A E. Wild jr.. Mr.
II. 8. Naylor. Mr.. H. Goater. Mr. Stephen
v. Brubans and Dr. Charles Holmes.
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Held for Mental Examination.

Believing that he is the victim Of con-
spiracy to take his life. Otto Melcher came
to this city few days ago. Recently he
fell into the hands of Policemen Holz and
Leach of the fourth precinct who noticed
him acting in suspicious manner on Az
street southwest. He was before Judge
Mullowny in the Police Court yesterday.
The court directed that the prisoner be
committed to the Washington Asylum Hos
pitai for mental examination.
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Lighted Match Caused Fire.

A lighted MATCH dropped into a waste
paper basket. was the origin of a fire last
evening in the home of Julius Forrest, lib
Rhode Island avenue No. engine com
pany responded to an alarm and extinguish-
ed the blaze before 1t had attained serious
Roadway The loss was estimated at $40.
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and the supreme knight of the Order Of
the Knights OF Columbus with full author
ity to select q site and suitable design,
and to contract for and superintend the
construction OF the memorial
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COLUMBUS MEMORIAL
Congress will Honor the Great
Admiral.
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH
Appropriation of 100000 is Favor
ably Reported.
IRvING'S TRIBUTE IS QUOTED
Form Which the Memorial Will Take
Has Not Yet Been De-
termiaed.
TRIBUTE IS QUOTED

Today is the 4GOth anniversary of the
death of Christopher Columbus Yesterday
afternoon the House committee on the
library favorably reported the bill intro
duced by Representative Goulden of New
York appropriating s1O0ooo for the erection
In this city of memorial to the great
discoverer In its report the committee
SAYS:
1T Will be 400 years tomorrow since the
great spirit of Columbus departed from its
tenement of clay. and this seems an oppor-
tune time for the Congress of the United
States to take the action contemplated in
the bill. Ii seems none too early for the
greatest of the nations made possible by his
life and works 10 erect a monument to his
memory.
IN the following language Columbus has
been fittingly characterized by Washington
Irving;
Irving's Tribute
." IN Columbus were singularly combined
the practical and the poetical. His mind
had grasped all kinds of knowledge,
whether procured by study or observation.
which bore upon his theories; impatient OF
the scanty aliment OF The day, his i'm
petuous ardor," as has well been observed,
''threw him into the study of the ia Tiers of
the church; the Arabian Jews and the
ancient geographeTS; while his daring but
irregular genius, bursting from the limits
of imperfect science. bore him TO conclu-
sions far beyond the intellectual vision of
his contemporaries. If some of his conclu-
siOns We're erroneous. they were at least
ingenious and splendid; and their error re-
suited from the clouds which still hung
over his peculiar path of enterprise. His
own discoveries enlightened the Ignorance
OF the age: guided conjecture to certainty
and dispelled that very darkness with which
he had been obliged to struggle.
&" In the progress of his discoveries he has
been remarked for the extreme sasacity
and the admirable business with which he
seized upon the phenomena Of the exterior
world The variations. for instance, of ter
restrial magnetism, the direction of cur
rents the groupings of marine plants. fix
ing one of the grand climacteric divisions
of the ocean. the temperatures changing
not solely with the distance TO the equa-
tor. but also with the difference of meri-
dians; these and similar phenomena, as
they broke upon him, were discerned with
wonderful quickness and perception, and
made to contribute important principles to
the stock of general knowledge. This lucid
fly Of spirit. this quicl. convertibility of
facts to principles. distinguish him from
the dawn To the close of his sublime enter
prise insomuch that. with all the sallying
ardor of his Imagination. his ultimate sue
cess has been admirably characterized as
conquest of reflection
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received. He lay in wait for her one evening when she went to draw water at the well, snatched her veil from her head and disappeared in the twilight.
 Now the tables were turned All the relations of Stavrula began paying their addresses to Michas. But now it was his turn to be coy. He would not marry Stavrula; he would not even re- turn the stolen Veil and so make minor 'reparation for the injury he had done her.
 He began, however, to force his at- tentions on her at such times as he could find her unprotected, and at last he made a forcibfe attempt to carry her off to the mountain. A village gendarme arrived in time to save the girl, but was himself shot down by Mi ehas. Michas was arrested and con- demned to a short term of imprison- ment.
 Returning to Menidi about two months ago Michas found Stavrula. be- trothed to another man. He lav in wait for her. When she appeared She was accompanied by three women and two men.
 He opened fire from his place of con eealment and did not stop until he had
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MADE @,Ooo,OoO IN SEVER COUP.
w. B. Thompson's Tremendous Profit
 in Nipissing Mines.

w. B. Thompsons Tremendous Profit
 in Nipissing Mines.
 New York, November2.--Frie of w. B. Thompson of Hayden, Stone & Co.,, brokers, are congratulating him on his wonderful coup in Nipissing Mines, which, it is stated has netted him near ly $5,000,00O. The profits of his invest ments in Nipissing Mines, the curb sil- yer property which has had a remark able value in the last three months, have placed Mir. Thompson in the lime- light of Wall street. It was mainly through his negotiations that the Gug- genheiins obtained control of the silver property.
 Mir. Thompson is a mining engineer and a graduate of the Columbia School of Mines. He is a native of the Mon- tana mining district and is said b have been the first white child born in the Butte camp.
 When he was asked to make mark ct on the curb for Nlpissing stock he sent his engineers to examine the property and he personally made an investigation. The result was that he bought very heavily into the property. Incidentally he told the capitalists con- trolling the mine that it was much richer than they had realized. Im- mediately previous to his taking up the Nipissing market he had reaped a handsome profit in the sale of Nevada copper his attention to Nipissing. The stock has risen from $4 a share to $3S.S711-2. His stock market operations in the last year have netted him for tune of $5OOO,OeO practically all of which was made in Nipisslng.
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mortally wounded every one of the six Then dashing out into the road. he im- printed a kiss on the lips of Stayrula. who was already in thte throes of death, and at the same instant drove his dagger through her heart. Then he disappeared.
 The government promptly offered a reward of five thousand drachunas (about one thousand dollars) for the arrest of the murderer. All the police and gendarmerie in the kingdom were busy searching for him for a month, but not a trace of him was found. The crime was drifting into oblivion when suddenly cousin of Michas went to the authorities and offered to betray him.
 In order to reach the guilty man a stratagem had to be used. Two sol- diers dressed themselves as tramps. and, steered by the cousin, scraped up an acquaintance with him as if by ac- cident
 After a while they proposed to him that all three should go to America to- gether In this way they got him to a. place near Athens, and there, under pretenee of celebrating their departure, they made him drunk.
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39c Aprons, 23c.

Aprons for maids and wait resses these are made of a good quality white lawn; some are slightly soiIed-formerly sold at 39cs Thursday, 23c.
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A MODERN GIRBEK TRAGEDY.
Albanian Villager Whose Suit Was paiao+ad Tolas Revenge on Girl.

Albanian villager Whose Suit was
 Rejected Takes Revenge on Girl
 A drama which illustrates the wilder aspects of life in modern Greece has just reached it's last chapter. The scene of it is the village of Menidi, which lies about ten miles north Of Athens at the foot of the Parnes moun- tains, and the people are of the Alba nian race and preserve number of old traditions and customs which even to-day have an almost religious force
 One of the most remarkable supersti- tions is that of the relation between a young girls veil and her honor. The peasant girls all wear a veil, not the yashmak of the Turk, but head cov- ering something like that which Italian peasant women wear, and popular opinion holds a girl as dishonored if a man steals this headdress away from her. The only efficient way to re-es- tablish her reputation is to have the veil robber marry her.
 Three years ago @ young man of the village named Michas began paying at tentions to a young girl named Stavru- la His approaches were not fayorably
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Quick changes from hot to cold and back again try strong constitutions and cause, among other evils, nasal catarrh, a troublesome and offensive disease. Sneezing and snuffling, coughing and difficult breathing, and the drip, drip of the foul discharge into the Jhroat-all are ended by Ely's Cream Balm. This honest and positive remedy contains no cocaine, mercury nor other harmful ingredient The worst cases are cured in a short time. All druggists, soc, or mailed by Ely Bros, 56 Warren street, New York.
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Ihe two then fell upon him. Michas Iousht Ike a wild beast and inflicted SvrIous T,, Injury on both his assailants. I tiLey succeeded, however, in holding mn nun and In doing him up in a neat pachase With rope so that he could be trouble.
 He is there now awaiting his trial ana sentence It is expected that the soFeLHnent will exact full value for its uIachmas and that the career of Mi e,las et VIII soon be brought to a close.- New York Sun.
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Mems heavy fleece lined under wear; double or single breaste shirts; drawers to match; an extro good garment. Thursday at 50c. a
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Applying for work at Northampton, a man was told by the foreman, We've got a man here who hasn't come, and if he doesn't turn up tomorrow we shall send him home.
 It looks as if the applicant had a good sporting chance of getting that job London Globe,
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Made of fine, sheer nain- sock. with deep 12 inch founc- es, formed of dainty German Val. lace and lace edges these were $1.50. Thursday, at 85c.
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New York is to have a new automo- bile speedway"
 Just for automobiles?" Yes"
 And nothing to get in the way?" Nothing"
 Say wouldn't that be the limit of deadly dullness ?'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-29
Bavaria's Ducal Surgeon.

In these DAYS when the bad In tho world
nnds so much publicity that tho people AL
most forget that good exists and that the sun
shines. II is refreshing 10 read about Duke
Carl Theodore OF Bavaria. says the Louisville
Herald.
Ho isn't much TO look at.
No medals cover his breast. He has not led
an army on 10 victory. And for scandal
witch which every court In Europe reeks-Duke
Carl Theodore is gentleman.
He has been famous for many years and
has just performed his fye thousandth success-
ful operation
In Munich ne has expended 81 80 900 in build
Ing and maintaining hospitals He aska no
fce from patients OF any class, and tho p-oor
arc his special care. His wife. who was tho
Princess hnria OF Portugal aids him In his
work
You cannot estimate what such n man means
TO tho world There is no standard by which
to He could pursue pleasure He
can 1.-Two in atmosphere OF luxury. speed in
hying automobiles. rdo in special trains
travel In floating palaces.
But. because OF tho wonderful impulse FOR
good that abldcs In his breast; because Of
the divine desire 20 be of 10 his kind h,
hns worked and mado his efforts count
Think of restoring TO 5000 human beings tho
flowers tho blue sky. the faces OF loved ones
pictures. scenery ambition. courage. hope. life
itself
That Is tho story OF Duke Carl Theodore Of
Bavaria,
Twenty-Five years of patient. skillful labor
oil for others.
II is record nj for the pages OF tho Great
Book OF Life. 1t is enough 10 mako enc forgot
that wrong exists in the world.
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least-have seen and shot the deceased at

least-have seen and shot the deceased at
the point where he fell.
The evidence was purely cirCumstan-
tial, but the well-known and often openly
and bitterly expressed enmity OF the men
and the utter want OF any other possible
theory than that MCTraVls had done the
deed made out n strong case against him.
which he fought with desperate energy
and against which the seeming impossi-
bility that any one could have even seen
and much less shot another at the dis
tance of two hundred feet in the storm
and darkness of that night seemed per
feet defense. The battle was waged with
varying fortunes on the contendlng sides
as to the impression the evidence APP
poared TO make on tbs general public for
several days, and was about to be given
TO the jury when an old Irish fisherman,
living In Ireland, about seventy-fiVe miles
across St PatriCks channel from Kirk
cudbright, on the shores or Strangford
lake, near Downpatrick. in county Down.
having read or the case In The papers,
came Into court with piece or evidence
ants favor
1T was a small balloon, which driven
by tho prevailing northeast wind, had
been blown over the channel on the night
of the death of Knowles. and, weakened
by the escape of Its gas. had fallen near
the old hshcrman's hut and found by him
there on the following day. Fastened TO
the balloon, and carried by 1t across the
seyenty-nve miles of water, were a small
heavy piece of felt with bullet hole
through the center to keep the powder
burns away from the flesh when he fired
the pistol Tho weapon was proven to
have belonged to Knowles and n merchant
came forward and testified that he had
sCld the deceased the piece of felt n short
time before his death 1t clearly ap-
pearcd that he could have carried the bal
loon unobscryed in the storm and dark
ness beneath Il large umbrella that was
found by his body and no one here doubts
for moment but that he killed himself In
this strange manner so that his heirs
might realize on his insurance.
aTw, ,4l. .1.-p Nf..rN S.E O.. l.
might hold that the deceased was Insane
WHOM he took his life the insurance com
pancs have compromised with the heirs
for so per cent OF the amount of tho pol
ICicS. LIE SUEUR IYRE.
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His First Money Earned

Jacob Schnelloocher IS years old million.
aire browor shoe manufacturer and real ..toto
owner OF Peoria, III, has just collected piS
cent6-the nrst money no ever owned-uh,ch
with compound interest, amounted 10 ~
cents. ~ ~,
forty-one years ago. Isaac INNS Of wersau
GermanS. agreed to pay Schnellbaoh.r IN
Heutzers. about "a cents. for leading n oo,,,
a milo and a halr. Haas failed 10 6av bm,
schnelboeher never forgot 1t. 10 found
Joseph Woii, grandson of Haas I'm tho
R0okery building recently. An accountant ng
ured up tho debt, and said with coInrnnpd
interest II was az cents. This Wolf noia
scnding out and cutting one penny In 49, gu'
1t Is not the amount Involved that ca,sns
mo to search for member Of the family 60
could get the money" said Mr Scbnen
bochcr, but ] want what is comIn, 70 80
II was the nTst money / ever earned ~ ~
never forgot that II still due 10 me g
Sohncllhachcr Will give Is pennies T.,
framo TO cach OF his threo cons and kscn q.
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