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The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1907-04-04
Furniture Department.

We carry everything in this line.
Suits, Bureaus, Beds, Iron beds, So
fas, Tables, Chairs, Mattresses,
Springs, Sewing Machines and Stoves.
Our special machines at fifteen dollars.
When needing furniture call on us.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1907-04-04
Clothing and Hat Department

This department is full of the most
up-to-date and nObby assortment of
suits that it has ever been our pleas
ure to show. Nobby crash weaves in
double and single breasted Blue Ser
ges that are ALL WOOL and won't
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1907-04-04
paper, at $1.75.

paper, at $l.75.
Full Assortment of Mems Brogans from
$160 to $3.50.
Save money by wearing our SOLID
LEATHER shoes.
The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1907-04-04
Dry Goods Department.

THIS Department is overlooking
with the new things for spring and
summer, such as Lawn, Calicos,
Checks, Ginghams, Organdies, Mo-
hair and ready-made skirts. Below
we quote few prices:
5000 yards Checks and Plaids, at sc
20O0 yards Lawn. at DC
1000 yards Bleaching, at SC
2000 yards wide Brown Sheeting, at &c
1000 yards Fast Color Pecal, at &c
5000 yds, assorted lengths EN-
broidery, at ). 10 and 15c
We would like for you to especially
inspect our skirts. They are very
stylish and up-to-date.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
LOCKED UP PULLET
IN ROLL-TOP DESK

UTICA, N. Y, March 27.-One white
LeghoTn pullet was taken into custody
in Herkimer by Police Justice f. A.
Gray.
Frank Casseu, claiming to have lost
several fowls within a few days, swore
out a warrant for Anthony Bard, a
neighbor. charging him with purloining
the birds. Bard's chickens were
brought into court and Casseu picked
out a white Leghorn puIlet as his.
Thereupon Justice Gray adjourned the
case.
The question of where the pullet
should be kept last night was a per-
picking one. Neither Cassell nor Bard
was willing that either should take 1t
home. So the court locked it up in
his rOI-top deck for the night.
When Justice Gray opened his desk
in the morning he found the hen had
laid an egg. Subsequently he found
Bard guilty Of appropriating the chicken
from CasselIs dOOT-yard and fined him
$40, and gave the pUllet back to Cas-
sell with the egg.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
Foraker.

Senator Foraker manages not to
agree with much OF anything that
is in the public mind nowadays, and
yet he compeIs the admiration OF
every man who loves a real fighter.
He is prompt to accept the chal-
1enge which the Taft forces in Ohio
have addressed to him, and an
nounces his willingness to take his
chances in a State primary.
It is just possible that the Sena-
tors proposal looks rather more
frank and confident than it really is.
He has the organization and the
support of the traditional political
powers. But none the less, this fine
old gladiator of politics, who thinks
to please himself and nobody else,
and who acts just as he thinks, chal-
longing his every enemy to combat
in the open arena, is entitled to the
admiration that no man can deny to
bravery and self-cOnfdence.
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tionate. little American tousle-head.
The dog is evidently his, and when a
boy is old enough to have a dog
he may be said to have fairly gradu-
ated from his babyhood.
Americans wish King Haakon and
Queen Maud every good fortune.
They have particular and intimate
interest in the people over whom the
royal pair are nominaily rulers. But
from this time onward they win
have a kind of fellowship with
Crown Prince Olaf. His short-tailed
dog will be the bond. Every Ameri-
can mother who has swept up after
her own toddler's canine bodyguard
and every American father who has
tripped over him will remember this
picture, and regard the little scion
Of royalty as a boy like theirs.
If Haal1on and Maud, their Nor
wegian highnesses, shall ever send
their son and heir TO the country
where every child is a crown prince,
they will 10 well to send the dog
along.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
BOMBS BROTHER WILL
BECOME AN AMERICAN

NEW YORK, March 27-Boni de
Castellene's brother, Count Stanislas,
says lie will become an American citi-
zen. With his wife, he is stopping in
the city for a few days. The countess
is daughter of Francis Terry, the Gu
ban sugar planter, and her husband Is
helping TO manage the estate.
He said that the matrimonial troubles
Of Boni did not bother him much, and
added:
LAS for me. think America IS, what
you call it-great. l intend to become
an American citizen soon, in one or two
years. l will become naturaliEed and go
through all the necessary requirements.
my father-in-law is an American.
He was naturalized about twelve years
ago. We (my wife and u expect to
make our home In Cuba, but we will
often come TO Now York.
Count Stanislas is thirty-ona years
old. and resembles his elder brother.
Boni, in many ways. There IS another
de CssteIlane brother, Jean, who is now
in Paris.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
A Fine Set of DOgbeTryS.

The board Of registrars of voters
of the town of Great Darlington, in
Massachusetts, must be a fine and
encrusted set of Dogberrys, if the
reported facts as to their treatment
of Prof. Charles Robair are true.
Prof. Robair, who is blind, ap-
piled for registration, and the board
refused to grant his request on the
ground that he was an illiterate
under the law, which says that a
voter must be able to read the Con-
stitution of the United States. The
professor, who is a graduate of the
Perkins Institution for the Blind,
was not allowed to demonstrate his
ability to read from books printed
for the blind, and as he has been af-
ficted since infancy could not make
oath that he could read before he
became blind.
Subsequently, Prof. Robair was
permitted to register, on presenta-
ton of his Perkins institution di-
ploma, but the remarkable thing
about the matter is that he was
ever objected to at all.
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A Boy and a Dog.

The divinity that doth. hedge
about a king has become little a
matter of Pomp and much q matter
Of performance. We have grown
accustomed to think of royalty as
humans. So the photograph which
is now being widely reproduced Of
King HaakOn, Queen Maud, Crown
Prince Olaf, and the royal dog all
a-skeeing is taken by Americans
quite as matter Of course. They
are a happy family. including the
dog, and there is a million-weight of
such happiness in America: that is
the secret OF the sympathy the pic
ture exeites.
But one feature of this photo
graph viii arouse special interest.
The little Crown Prince is shown as
a sturdy little lad of about five
years. The latest previous view of
him was OF child in arms, carried
dutifully by his father as though
the sire were no king and the child
only a much-loved, natural, afec-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
DEATH AND PROPERTY LOSS
IN STORM SWEEPING CHICAGO
St StanisauS Roman Catholic Church Struck by Light
ming and Destroyed by Fire Which Followed.
Thrilling Rescues by Police.

CHICAGO. March "a man killed, a
haif dozen stunned, a church destroyed,
nine buildings fired, chimneys blown
down, live wires torn from their fasten-
ings and left hopping over the pave
ments, telephone and telegraph service
hampered, Easements flooded, traffic
matted, and teamsters, cabbies, venders
shoppers, and pedestrians driven from
streets by hail and sand-Jhat was me
serious side Of a squat, which lasted
just thirty-twO minutes.
keseues by the Police.
Then came the other side, a pic
turesque aftermath. Prisoners in the
basement cells OF the Warren avenue
police station were rescued from drown
ing and taken TO dry places OF abode
IN the West Thirteenth street station;
a crossing policeman became The hero IN
the thrilling rescue of a tangled Taa IS
or lingerie and hosiery from a State
street rivulet; the fire department re-
sponded 90 call sent ia from a falling
elevator; every patient telephone sub
scflDer who tried to use the telephone
at once became connected with the
earth.
During the thirty-two minutes the
storm lasted the fall Of rain was % Of
an inch.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27

Of America with China. Finally, he
concludes that the fruition of Japa-
nese designs OF Manchuria can hard
" result in less than the partition
of that country.
For answer to Mr.. Alillard's
gloomy expression, and for his APP
peal to prejudice against Japan, per-
haps a friend of Japan might well
quote Senator Newlands' Indictment
of American policy in the Philip
pines, which has surrounded these
islands with a tariff wall, and
brought them within the shipping
laws of the United States. The
most that Japan's bitterest critic
charges against her in Manchuria is
temporarily advantaging herself of
conditions brought about by war.
The United States, on the other
hand, has set up a fixed policy of
monopoly and exclusion in the Phil
ippines that shuts Japan out OF com
mercial opportunity in a country at
her very door. While Mr.. Willard is
engaging himself with the mote in
the Japanese eye, he might do well
TO contemplate the timber in the
American eye.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
GIRL DONS GARB
OF MAN FOR LOVE
Seeks Gold, Makes Fortune
to-Save Consumptive
Sweetheart

CROOK CITY, S. D., March o.
Miss Ethel MCNEIL met Wilson Nc
Whorter at a Canadian teachers con-
vention and their engagement followed.
It scarcely had been announced when
the white plague laid such hold on Nc
Whorter that he no longer could work.
1t seemed inevitable that he would die.
unaided and IN poverty.
His loyal young sweetheart disap-
peared one day. When she reappeared
successfully on the mining camps OF
Idaho, Montana and South Dakota she
was so completely disguised that none
suspected she was other than Kingsley
MalcOmb, a prOspector. She went about
fearlessly among the rough characters
and was unmolested.
Her long search ended here with a
strike"
She is now on her way to Winnipeg
and, despite the contagious nature OF
his disease, viii marry McWhOrter and
take him 10 New Mexico IN the hope
the climate there viii restore his health.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
EVIDENCE Of EGGS
IS NOW CHICKENS
Too Near the Radiator and
Prisoner May Get
Liberty.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 27.-Had
the case Of Ralph Fury, arrested sew
eraI weeks ago on a charge of burglary
and larceny, been given another con-
tinuance he probably would not have
been held to the grand jury. The police
would have had no evidence against
him.
Patrolman Bramer arrested Fury near
the restaurant of Harris & Patch, Eagle
avenue southeast. He was carrying a
basket containing several dozen eggs
and two pies, alleged TO have been stolen
from the eating house.
court OFFICER Vlack, who has charge
Of the property room at headquarters,
slowed the eggs away on radiator.
When Prosecutor Baer asked for II
Vlack went down after the basket In
two minutes he was back, his eyes
bu,ging in his astonishmnet.
There amt no eggs down there" he
gasped. They're chickens. They've
Fatched." The heat Of the radiator had
done IL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
What's the Matter
With Washington?

To the Editor Of The Washington Times:
This subject has been somewhat wide
" discussed in the columns Of your ex-
tensively circulated paper for some time.
AS view 1t the question is yet an open
one.
Washington is a peculiar city in many
respects. The great property holdings
Of the General Government preclude the
possibility Of the bona fide citizens In
shutting municipal regulations. The
class OF our population would also rem
der popular government prejudicial to
our own interests. A large portion of
the residents would necessarily be ex-
cluded from suffrage because OF their
being residents of other communities.
A Delegate IN Congress would do US no
good. This has been tried and was
found wanting In every particular for
which IL was supposed to be beneficial.
We come back to the question still,
What is the matter with Washington ?
AND also what is to be done TO remedy
the defective condition ofEits popula-
ton, VIZ, taxation without representa-
uon. the positive OF which is the car
dlnal principle upon which hinges all
the doors Of exit or ingress 10 our re-
publican institutional
The population Of Washington IS
probably as cosmopolitan as any city
in the world Of its size. Not only have
we those who are at home in any part
OF the world, but we have what no other
city has in the same proportion, citi-
zens OF the various States Of the Union
residing in the District OF Columbia.
These could have no voice in local suf-
frage, but they are represented in Con-
gress and have access TO their Repre-
sentauves, as their constituents, which
the bona fde citizens Of the District
have not. Why not place all the resi-
dents of the District on the same foot
ing-that is, make them all citizens OF
the United States residing in the Dis
tTiCt OF Columbian
There IS no doubt this could be done.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
Motor Cars in Warfare.

Juggernaut is a Chinese kite COM
pared with the military automobiles
which have been constructed for
European armies. We seem to have
gone back, at a jump, to the days
of Freissart. Engines that look
strangely like the battering rams
described in the chronicles of the
old French monk are now actually
in service abroad; and if the several
general stats can devise a means OF
keeping them out of artillery, range
they bid fair to make the chauffeur
and not the coIor-bearer the inspira-
ton of the engagement.
Austria has what she calls a
motor "milrailleuse," or rapid-fire
engine, which looks like the Naval
Observatory on wheels. England
has picked up an embanllment from
Fort Monroe. dropped a ladder on
the outside, mounted two new
Maxim guns front and back, and set
the whole thing in motion-as much
as to say Here's a car that looks
the part" France and Germany
have what they call motor forts,
armored like battleships, and equip
ped like arsenals.
The theory of all this is that the
motor car can be made the sub
marine of the land battle. Appear
ing where least expected, fairly in
vulnerable to rifle shot, strong in
offensive strength, and marvelously
feet, it is expected to derange the
most carefully arranged plans of
battle
It may succeed. Already it is used
to transport supplies with a CELEBRITY
undreamt of in the familiar mill
tary schools; already It is a means
of dispatehing information to and
from the front with the least posi-
bic loss Of time. But so far it must
be regarded as very much Of an ex-
pertinent, perhaps even as a gamble.
Because if it is difficult to operate
car confidently over fair roads
with a moderate burden, it viii
prove harder still to shoot ole oyer
rough country and laden with heavy
ordnance. In other words, these
military types merely emphasize the
present problem of all automobile
construction, which is not to evolve
a type capable Of running smoothly
on the cardboard roads of Europe,
but to build cars equal to the strain
of rough-and-ready travel over the
half-kept roads of America.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27

The storm was fatal to John Moeuer,
thirt-five years old, a labo-er en-
plOyed in the lumber yards Of the Rit-
tenhouse & Embree Lumber Company,
Thirty-hfth street and Center avenue.
MOeller was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
Wenzel Hebner, Of North Ashland
avenue, suffered probably fatal in
Juries when he was shocked and fell
from rear porch.
A man and woman whose names the
police did not learn, were slightly
stunned when lightning struck the side
walk In front Of them at Indiana and
Wells streets.
Catholic Church Destroyed.
st. Stanislaus' Roman Catholic
Church, North Fifty-third court and
Belden avenue, Irving Park, was struck
by lightning. and the fire which fol-
lowed destroyed the edl6ce. The church
was struck just after the sisters
school, which holds its session in the
basement, had been dismissed.
Many Of the children, driven back TO
shelter by the storm, were huddled in
the entrance 10 the church and In the
doorway OF the adjoining parsonage.
When the building was struck. The loss
IS placed at $4,000.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
LIKE ALL THE REST.

MY only mistake" said Darius Green,
Lay right in constructing my flying
machine
In the place Of old rope, wooden franz
ings, and things
Just covered with cotton and fastened
with strings,
I'll build one Of steel in her frame, with
the wings
Overload with sheet copper, and furnish
ed with springs
NOnbreakable. stanch, scientific clear
through,
Ny airship Of metal will now reach the
blue"
To test his machine, bright with polish
and gliding,
He went to the top Of a very tall build
ing.
How did he come out? Well, how did
you feel
After taking your flyer in copper and
steel2
Freeman Putney. Jr., New York
Times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
Japan In Manchuria.

Thomas F. MIllard, whose intense
bitterness against Japan and every
thing japanese necessitates a liberal
discountins of all his statements
bearing on Oc,-ntaI conditions, pre-
sents his views of the career of
Japan in Manchuria to date, to-
gether with some vague intimations
of what the future may be, in an
article in the current Scribner's. Mr..
Willard makes the case rather a bad
one for Japan, but it must be con-
fessed that he makes the most of all
evidence against that country, and
even at that comedies that condi-
tions are steadily improving.
1t is the hypothesis OF Mr.. Willard
that Japan is determined, during the
period of military occupation, to
annex the trade Of Manchuria, so
that when her arms shall have been
withdrawn her merchants will be
intrenched beyond possibility of dis
Judgment. To this end Japan has
furnished free transportation of
Japanese goods both by sea and rail,
has furnished money and credit to
japanese commercial houses that
would enter the country, has manip-
ulated exchange to the advantage of
Japanese and the disadvantage of
other merchants, has prevented col
lection of local taxes and license
fees from Japanese traders while
having them enforced against all
others, and in many ways has, under
the plea Of military necessity, I'M
dertaken to drive out all other com
MERGE and substitute that Of Japan.
Mi. Nlillard's is the extremely I'M
friendly view. Even he admits that
the japanese army has been prae-
tically all withdrawn, and that COM
mercial conditions are being re-
stored TO their normal, though not
rapidly. This is hardly remarkable,
considering how short a time has
elapsed since war without precedent
rayaged the country. He points out
that American trade in Manehuria
has been almost destroyed-ab-
sOrbed by the Japanese-and that in
Manchuria was most of the trade
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
An Unintended Tip.

Some men dig for parsnips and
find gold. just now it is the Legis-
lature Of Indiana. The parsnip
aimed at was a system of petty
blackmail levied on shippers by
freight conductors. The gold found
was a general prevention Of tips on
any railroad operated in the State.
The bag is fiued-not with freight
conductors only, but with Pullman
porters and dining car walters as
well.
All this is about an enactment
which makes 1t bribery for any rail
road employe to accept anything Of
value from any person having bust
ness with the company, and also
makes it bribery for any person to
give anything of value for services
rendered or to be rendered by such
agent or employee. The penalty is
a fine of not less than S25 or more
than 500.
This blow at the tipping evil may
not prove the less effective for hav-
ing been unattended. The passenger
who eats his dinner without being
neglected for a neighbor who gives
5O-cent fees to the waiter win not
bother whether the Legislature was
shooting in the dark or the day
light. He win note only the i'm
provement. And when he crosses
the border into Illinois or Ohio and
the tipping evil slaps him in the
face again like a wet towel, he will
make another note of Indiana's law.
1t may be literally that in this
case the Hoosier State has builded
better than she knew.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27
CAN TELL COLORS
ALTHOUGH BLIND

WOXALL. Pa. March Z7.-Henry J.
Smith. who was blinded twenty-five
years ago IN a premature explosion in a
large quarry, has become an expert
carpet weaver
Ills annual average is nearly 100
yards, and since he lost his eyes he has
woven q 900 yards for neighboring farm
ers.
1t Is a wonderful spectacle TO see him
separate the different colors of carpet
chain. This he does with his fingers,
Tor he has the art Of feeling the COlOrs.
After he has them separated they are put
In different boxes, and here he can in
stantly tell by the size of the box with
out feeling so deliberately what color he
IS dealing with.
He is getting so accustomed 10 his
work that he is able 10 weave finer
articles, such as towels and table cloths.
and his ingenuity has been shown in a
beautiful specimen Of table cloth, which
he wove from fax spun by a Worcester
township woman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-27

The Constitution Of the United States
guarantees to male citizens the right or
representation. And this right no mat
ter how long II has been denied 10 the
bona fide citizens of Washington could
not be objected to by the several states
because OF the constitutional guarantee.
How is this? Let every citizen or
Washington born in any OF the states
be registered as a citizen of that State
with al the rights and privileges per-
tanning thereto, and let every citizen
born In the District of Columbia select
some State as his residence until b. due
process Of law he feels disposed 70 make
a change All persons residing IN the
District of Columbia would then be
citizens Of the United States residing
IN the District OF Columbia. In this
way we should never see such state
ments in civil service examinations as
Citizens OF the District Of Columbia
need not apply" All would De repre-
scented in Congress, instead Of the whole
mass having one Delegate Municipal
affairs might be largely controlled by
citizens associations, formed east west.
north, south. and these suDdlV!ded, II
need be Such associations could SEND
delegates to an annual meeting instruct
ed TO submit measures beneficial 10 me
various sections, TO be submitted DJ
committee to the District Commission
ers for their recommendation TO Con-
gress, said annual meeting 70 be neld
sufficient time before the assembling Of
Congress fer the Commissioners 20 make
their recommendation.
Such, in brief, is an outline Of what
Washington needs TO give IL an I'm
pulse for greatness as il has never
had-such q settlement Of affairs would
operate as a fixed principle Of munich
nal conditions beneficial to all fn1u-
riOus 70 none. Capital and manUfaC-
turers would find an outlet here where
all the residents wOulG be alike pOliti-
cally. Our boys growing up would hail
with {Oy the time when they too could
cast a vote and be represented IN the
Congress Of the United States
There would be a fixedness Of things
such as never before, a new era, sta
bility for business never dreamed or.
Men and measures would go hand IN
hand and prosperity come 20 stay Ihens
and not until then, can we count much
on Greater washington.
w. II. PRITCHETT.
lib New Hampshire avenue northwest
Washington, D. c. Marcn % 15J'-