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The Washington bee., 1908-04-04
A BIRTHDAY SUPPER AT
HOWARD.

Last Friday evening Miner Hall,
for the first time in its history, wit
messed a formal affair. The occasion
was a supper given by some of the
young ladies in honor of Miss Ar
della Smiths eighteenth birthday an
niversary. Young men in evening
dress presented themselves at the
door and were ushered into the two
parlors in the annex.
There they, sweetly welcomed by
Miss Smith, were passed down a line
of young ladies dressed in the deli
cate and dazzling gowns which fash
ion demands on such occasions.
After most of the young men haC
arrived partners were selected and
many sat down to games, Dancing
was not allowed
The Washington bee., 1908-04-04
THE HER-TRU-LINE
Is on sale at the following Drug
Stores:

Is on sale at the following Drug
Stores:
Board & Mcclure, 1912 I-2 Four
teenth street northwest.
William H. Davis, 2ooI Eleventh
street northwest
w. s. Gray, Twelfth and U streets,
northwest.
Julius Mayer, Fourth and N streets,
northwest.
c. G. Smith, Tenth and r streets,
northwest.
L. H. Harris, Third and F streets,
southwest
William E. Gales, 5o2 Nichols ave
nue., Anacostia.
w. S. Smith, Seventh and POmeroy
streets northwest.
Nappers Pharmacy, I86 Seventh
street northwest.
Singleton Pharmacy, Twentieth and
E streets northwest.
A. F. Pride, Twenty-eighth and p
streets, Georgetown.
w. d. Brace, Thirtieth and NJ streets
northwest.
Charles w. Wagner, Fifth and New
York avenue northwest.
Sparks Pharmacy, Third and d sts.,
northwest.
Richardson Pharmacy, $40 FOur-and
a-half street southwest.
FRANK X. WOOG,
Eastern Agent,
III4 G St. n. W., Washington, DC
The Washington bee., 1908-04-04
ITS THIRTIETH ANNINER-
SARY.

~ IN
Surging masses of humanity were
vending their way to the SecondBap-
fist Church, Sunday, March ,, at
$50 pm, until the seating capacity
OF the Sunday School room was al
most at premium, the occasion be
ing the thirtieth anniversary OF the
Baptist Sunday School Union.
The president, Peril w. Frisby,
rendered the invocation, after songs
by the Second Baptist Sunday School
Choir DR.. w. Bishop Johnson, D.
D., LID, made the address of wei
come, in which he portrayed the his
tory OF the Union, and enumerated
many of its viSissitudes, and admOn-
ished the delegates and friends TO
stick to the old ship and success
would continue. The president then
introduced Mr.. w, Calvin Chase, who
responded to the address of welcome.
The speakers familiarity with the
workings and doings of the Union
since its organization astOunded the
delegates, in that he possessed in
formation that many of the regular
attendants did not have. He knew
personally those who aided and abet-
ted to disrupt the Union in the past
and present, and the devices resorted
to to bankrupt and destroy the con-
tinuity of the institution, and could
have called the names of the pas
tors and others who have failed to
do their duty, and promises in the
near future to publish in the organ
of the Union the demagogues.
Mrs. NJ. E. Wanzer, of the n. E.
Baptist Sunday School, read a paper
subject, False Pretenders in Church
eS, which evidenced much care in the
preparation Music was then render
ed by the choir of the n. E. Baptist
Sunday School.
The president then introduced Mr.
Almond w. Scott, who said in part
that he was impressed with the insti-
tuition because of its tenetS as set
forth in its constitution, and that this
thing of certain people wanting tc
either rule or ruin is as common in
! the Church as out of it, and certain
grafters and would-be ministers, i'll
stead of encouraging union in Chris
tian work-are impediments to sinners
and are hyPocrites in the Christian
Church. That the ministry, above
all, should aid in maintaining peace
! and harmony in the Sunday Schools
and in the Sunday School Union, and
if then you disagree they, as Older
and with experience as Christian IA
theirs, should agree with neither side
but act the part of Christians and
bring their children together, that
peace and harmony might abide.
The assemblage was then given {
treat that will long be remembered
by the musical lovers of this city
Madame E. P. Prioleau, soprano so
loist, sang the Heavenly Song" anC
The Endless Day." accompanied OF
the piano by Prof ]. Cleveland Lo
max. Madame Prioleau's voice wa
in excellent condition, and after he
rendition she was the recipient o
: many congratulations.
Visiting delegates were introduced
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cal selections by the Woodmen's
Quartette, etc. The elegant and un-
rivaled Monumental Orchestra, Prof.
Charles Hamilton, furnished the dance
music. The officers of this most
worthy organization are: s. H. Viii
kins, president; Arthur De Vaughn,
vice president; George Randall, re
cording secretary; Richard Bailey, f.
nancia1 secretary ;Chauncey LeBrant,
treasurer; DR.. Philip Boone Brooks,
medical examiner: James Minor, ser
geant-at-arms; and an Executive
Committee consisting of FIVE mem
bers. The proceeds of this entertain
ment were devoted to the charity
fund.
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III4 G St. n. W., Washington, DC.
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DR.. Daniel II. Williams, of Chi
cago. H.. was in the city Monday,
the guest of DR.. Charles West Dr.
Williams left in the evrning for
Philadelphia, Pa. From there he will
go to Chicago thence to Denver. Col,
where he will perform a most seri-
Gus operation.
DR.. Williams is one OF the great
est and best-known physicians in the
United States.
Mr.. Charles Lewis, of Pennsyl-
vania. arrived in the city last week
and was the guest of his cousin, Mrs.
Henderson Johnson. He returned on
Sunday evening.
DR.. J. T. Sheppard arrived in the
city Wednesday Ell route ior the
East.
Mr.. Nick Chiles, of the Topeka
(Kansas) Plaindealer. lett the city
this week.
The orchestra of the Virginia I'm
ion University, assisted by the Uni
versity Quartette, gave a grand con
cert at the Fifth Street Baptist Oh.
last Wednesday week.
Mrs Minnie Minor, who attended
the Methodist Episcopal Conference
in Baltimore, which adjourned last
Monday. has returned to Washing
ton.
Nlessrs. p. B. S. Pinchback and
hudson W. Lyons were the guests
OF honor at an entertainment given
by Col. Henry l.. Johnson and wife
last week at Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. H.NorWood passed through
the city last Tuesday en- route from
Baltimore to Fredeick, Md, where
he is pastor of Asbury Methodist
Episcopal Church.
4 reception will be given Rev. w.
H. Barnes, pastor of Haven Method
ist Episcopal Church, Fourteenth and
B streets Southeast, Monday evening,
Nav 4. by the Sons of Toll. Admis-
sion, ten cents.
A farce will be given by the young
women of the Sophomore College
Glass OF Howard University in the
Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel,
next Wednesday at eight o'clock. Ad-
mission, fifteen cents.
Miss Bertha Saunders, OF 1924 ED
street northwest, Worthy Matron OF
Prince Hall Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star. is confined to her resi-
dence with la grippe.
Henry Coleman, president OF the
Masonic Hall Building Association,
IS confined to his residence with Sc
we're cold.
The well-known printer and sue
cessful business man, H. d, Pendle.
ton, has been sick at his residence
the past two weeks.
Miss Mamie Lindsay, formerly con
nected with thet rained nurse depart
ment of Tuskegee Institute, is spend
ing the season with Mr.. and Mrs. II
P. Slaughter.
Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce ha
taken possession of his new resi-
dence, 1927 Columbia Road
Mr.. w. A. Blackwell, of Baltimore
Md. arrived in the city yesterday.
Bishop Thomas Lomax, OF Char
lotte, n. c., died at his home in Char
lotte. n. c., Tuesday, March 81, ii
his seventy-third year.
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7sz5 1saEs-.-1.7 4
MEMS CLUB

The Mems Club of st. Luke's Par
ish have chosen the following named
offcers to serve the ensuing year: 7.
a. Johnson, president; c. A. Thomas
wee president; D. D. Moore. record
ing secretary; J. c. Burlls. financial
secretary; Eugene Brooks, treasurer.
John L. Hickman, marshal; w, A
Clark, librarian; Henry Dixon, stew
ard; Board of Managers. John
son, }. W. Mays. w w. Grymes, C.
}. Pickett, and R. K. Morris
The State of Virginia has substi-
tuted the chair for the gallows.
-@I@ES,.aszE - : -
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SP ,IAL SONG SERVICE

SF 'INL SUM SEKNIOE
At Metropolitan A. NJ. T. Church on
Sunday night was excellent. Some
of the attractions we're: Lyric Or
chestra, Metropolitan A. NJ. E.Choir
soloists: Misses Pearl g. Lampton
Lottie Wallace, Virgie Williams, OF
Howard University; Miss NJ. An
nette Johnson, Mr.Ralph Amos, Mas
ter Turner Layton, Madame Prio
leau, Madame Nellie Buchanan.
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HELIaE1I7 & J..
SAMPLE SALE OF SUITS.
Worth from $I6.5o to $35.oo for
$8.95, $o.o8, $I3.zz.

Lot No. Very latest All Wool
Chiffon Panama Suits, made in the
SWEETEST novelty effect with elaborate
silk braid trimmings and Persian silk
braid vest OF the severely martial
Ored single or double breasted coat
either tight or semi-ftting. Choice
spring shades of gray, tan, Copen-
hagen or navy blue, brown or black
not a suit worth less than $40. 80
some $22; al Ito go for 1898.
-
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Lot No. 3-Chiffon Panama and
Invisible Self-striped or Checked
Voile Suits, in the richest Vested
pony coat conceivable, all taffeta silk
lined, or the tight-htting longer round
cutaway suit so popular this season,
elaborately trimmed in silk braids,
buttons, emblems, etc. Rich shades
OF brown, blue, or black. These Suits
positively can't be bought for less
than S35 elsewhere Special for this
sale, $I3.77.
The Washington bee., 1908-04-04

October 18th, 1907.
Southern Medicine Co.
Atlanta, Ga.
Gentlemen:
l wish to say that my hair was only
about three inches long and so kinky,
stiff and harsh l could not manage it at
all. But since | took two jars of your
HER-TRU-LINE l have as pretty sui
of hair as any lady in Atlanta. I wish
everyone with curly or kinky hair knew
of this wonderful HER-TRU-LINE.
Yours respectfully
Miss LOWE Mayes,
Marietta Street. Atlanta, Ga
SOUTHERN MEDICINE co.
We will send anyone a large
size jar Of Her-Tru-Line, postage
paid, on the receipt of so cents.
We want agents in every town and
community. Liberal commission,
and a wonderful seller, and the
most wonderful preparation known
to science. Address Southern Med
icine Company, Box 754, Atlanta,
Georgia.
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death of Past D. G. NJ. A. H. Ste
vens were read by P. n. F. w. B.
Harris.
Short euIogistic remarks were made
by Past D. G. NJ. D. B. Webster,
Past d. G. NJ. Charles H. Brown, NJ.
V. p. ]. Z. Ennis, p n. F. w o.
Davis. Past D. @. NJ. T. w West,
P. n. F. J. T Tucker, Past D. G. I.
George A. Cartier, NJ. V. P. T. H.
Wright, Past Deputy D. G.. NJ. J. L.
Turner, Past D. G. S. s. w. Wat
son.
The addresses were appropriately
punctuated by music by the Junior
Choir.
The adoption of the resolutions
concluded the impressive exercises.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Rose, of
1920 Twenty-hrst street northwest,
will give a cambria wedding anniver-
sary Friday evening, April 10th.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-24
The Song writer's Reward

NeW ork WOrl0
 It Is rather a striking fact that topi- cal jingles are frequent instruments of financial success while ballads that live long yield scant returns to their authors
 "Afer the Ball"-who ever sings it now? Yet 1t paid $3e,00o in royalties to Charles K. Harris, and the same composer reaped richly from his TWO Little Girls in Blue" Paul Dresser got at least S30.o00 from "On the Banks of the Wabash" and almost as much from Just Tell Them that You Saw Me" "Goodby, Dolly Cray" brought S15,000 to Paul Barens; The Good Old Summer Time" was worth $I0,O0O to Evans and Shields. and so the list goes on.
 On the other hand. Septimus Winner got but $35 for Listen to the Mock ing Bird which still lives, and Stephen c Foster, with his "old Folks at Home" "Old Kentucky Home,' Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" and other ballads undyfng was at his topmost noch of prosperity at $l5,00O a year. Benjamin Russell Hanby never got a cent for Nellie Cray" and did not know his song had been published till he heard 1t in a Cleveland concert hall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-24
THOSE SUDDEN TWINGEs

Pais e natures signal of distress. e warning that must not be ignored Those sharp twinKes in the back. those stabilize pains that follow any sudden twist or turn. are simple sigma of hid den danger in the kidneys.
 No trouble starts more easily, gains ground more rapidly. nor proves more often fatal than any disorder of the kidneys. All the outward appea AAnoea of health may remain until . terrible disease has taken root.
 It is best to learn the duties of the kidneys, to watch for early signs of trouble. and to correct any irregular ity before it's serious stage begins.
 The blood goes to the kidneys in an incessant stream. to be cleared of poi- son and relieved of surplus water. This Is passed of by the kidneys in the urine. It is the retention of poi son in kidney trouble that breeds ia tai disease
 Don't wait. The moment you feel any uneasiness, lameness or pain in the back the moment the urine shows irregularity. either in it's appearance. or in the quantity or number of the passages begin with Doan's Kidney Pills. This remedy has been curing kidney troubles for seventy-six years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-24

New York, May 23.--(Special. )--AI- though the skscraper is the distinctive feature of New York architecture and this city possesses the tallest build ings In the world, with the new ESQ., foot Metropolitan tower at the head of the list. vigorous warfare on this class of structure has been begun here.
 According to its opponents the sky scraper's list of sins is a long one. It adds to the congestion of the streets. already a very serious prob lem in the downtown district. It shuts or light and air from other buildings while creating tremendous drafts through the canyon like depths that are formed by It's walls. The fif- ty-story building is uneconomic, 1t is said. because of the increased cost of construction to provide against tre- mendous strains and wind pressure.
 Fire department officials declare that conflagration five hundred feet above the street level cannot be fought successfully with any appa nctus yet devised. To the claim that these buildings are proof against fire, they point to the recent destruction of the Parker building which was supposed to be an excellent example of fire- proof construction. A number of civic organizations have adopted resolutions against the erection of any more build- tngs of enormous height.
 Cautiously enough one of the most active opponents of the skyscrapers is the architect of the Singer building, who is responsible for several of the structures against which he protests.
 Now the novelists have taken a hand in the agitation and in a story printed in the June number of Appleton's A convincing picture is given of a dar- ing band of criminals who hold up the whole city by taking possession of the top floors of a skscraper and arm ing themselves with high explosives. While this possibility may be disre garded as a practical danger, 1t has been pointed out often by military experts that New York's soaring build fngs would afford fine target for the long range guns of a hostile fleet and that the whole lower city could ,AE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-24
EARLY ELECTRICAL RESEARCH.
Document Written by Professor Henry in IRa2

| | Princeton, ". J.. May 2S-In one of
 the locked archives of the library of Princeton University Is a manuscript
 volume of some seventy-six pages | written by Prof. Joseph Henry, the famous electrical scientist, giving an
 account of his researches while a pro. lessor at Princeton.
 He was called from Albany to the
 chair of Natural Philosophy. or Phys. tcs. as it is now called, at Princeton. ! in 1882. and remained there until 1s4s,
 during which period he made some of his most remarkable anticipations of
 modern electrical science, such as for
 example wireless telegraphy. In is4e he went to Washington to organize tha Smithsonian Institution of which he had
 been appointed the first secretary.
 In 1878. two years before his death, he was asked to write an account of his work at Princeton. This is the document now in the University H. brary.
 It was across the Princeton campus that he strung the first telegraph wire ever operated in America. A year or two before he left Albany he had been working at his invention of the electro magnetic telegraph for Transmitting signals at distance whereby dots might be made on paper and bells struck. indicating letters of the alpha bet. He refused to patent this inven. ton on the ground that it was incom- patible with the dignity of science to confne the probable benefits to the use of any one individual
 In his statement he says: q think the first actual line of telegraph using the earth as a conductor was made In the beginning of 1S36. A wire was extended across the front campus from the upper story of the college library building to the philosophical hall on the other. Through this wire signals were sent from time to time from my house to my laboratory"
 The operator at the other end of the line was usually his wife. and the ready exchange of messages between the two seemed to undergraduates of those days little short of miraculous and were watched with something akin to awe.
 Portions of Professor Henry's cleo trical apparatus are still fin the uni- versity museum, among them being his giant electro magnet nicknamed 'pig Ben" by the students for whom he con. structed 1t. By electrical communica- | ton controlled from his house across the campus this magnet lifted or re- | leased weight of 9.o0o pounds in his |
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ing. She wanted to wound: and she succeeded.
 But Harold. though the pain of death was upon him. did not finch. He stood before her like a rock. in all his great manhood; but a rock on whose summit the waves had cast the wealth Of their foam. for his face was as white as snow. She saw and under stood; but Tn the madness upon her she went on trying new places and new ways to wound:
 You thought. I suppose, that this poor. neglected, despised, rejected wo- man, who wanted so much to marry that she couldn't wait for a man to ask her. would hand herself over to handkerchief to her: would hand over herself-and her fortuneF
 "Oh, Stepheni How can you say such things-think such thingsr" The protest broke from him with a groan. His pain seemed to iniame her still further; to gratify her hate. and to stimulate her mad passion:
 Why did I ever see you at ail7 Why did my father treat you as a son; that when you had grown and got strong on his kindness you could thus insult his daughter in the darkest hour of her pain and shamem She almost choked with passion. All the trust and belief of her life had been on a rotten base! There was now nothing in the whole world that she could trust. Tn the pause he spoke:
 stephen, I never meant you harm. Oh, don't speak such wild words. They will come back to you with sorrow afterwards! I only meant to do you good. wanted ." Her anger broke out afresh:
 There; you speak 1t yourseIfl You only wanted to do me good. l was so bad that any kind of a husband Oh. get out of my sight! I wish to God had never seen you! hope to God may never see you again! Col Col Coz
 This was the endl To HaroId's hon. est mind such words would have been impossible had not thoughts of truth lain behind them. That Stephen-his Stephen. whose image in his mind shut out every other woman in the world. past present, and future--should say think such things. was to him a deadly blow. But that she should say them to him, Utterance. even the utter anee which speaks in the inmost soul. failed him. He had in some way that he knew not hurt-wounded-kille Stephen: for the finer part was gone from Stephen that he had known and worshipped so long. She wished him gone; she wished she had never seen him; she hoped to God never to see him again. Life for him was oyer and done! There could be no more hap piness In the world; no more wish to work, to live!
 (COntinued TomoFr0vv.)
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WAR NOW BEING WACED
 ON SOARING SKYSCRAPERS

be easily reduced to ruins in case of
 war. If this is true the idea of the Appleton writer may not be so fanci- ful as it seems.
 At any rate there is a rising slogan which declares that while the sky scraper need not so no more of the extreme kind shall come.
 New York has had a bridge scare this week. caused by the report that the new Blackwelrs Island bridge across the East River was overloaded and likely to collapse in the same manner as the great Quebec bridge which fell last year and which was the same type of structure.
 The Brooklyn and williamsburg bridges are both of the suspension variety but this new structure is cantilever. It is not yet completed but so far has cost the city about six and quarter million dollars and 1t Is es- timated that million and half more will be needed to finish 1t.
 The prospect of seeing all this wealth fall into the East River nat urally does not appeal to the over burdened metropolitan taxpayer, to say nothing of the loss of life that would result. The charges that the bridge Is in a dangerous condition are made by engineers and other engi- neers, employel by the city, are now making an investigation.
 Periodically there is alarm over the safety of the older bridges. These contain at certain hours of the day from ten to twenty thousand persons at one time and If one of them were to fall 1t would be one of the great est catastrophes in the history of the country.
 European hotels are becoming Amer icanized and are approaching more and more closely to the New York model in size and luxurious equipment. That of Berlin, who Is described as the who enjoys the friendship and patron age of the Kaiser.
 Herr Adlon has just given his name to the largest and most fashionable hotel In Germany and is visiting the principal cities of the United States to obtain new ideas for his establish ment
 One feature in which he points out that the influence of American travel CTS Is shown Is that the most up-to- date European hotels devote much more space to the lobby and to public loung- Ing places than formerly.
 Other American improvements. such IS teleph ones in every room, have been while every big hotel of recent construction has its American par presided over by a mixologist im- ported from New York. In one respect, owever, Herr Adlon insists that con- .inental hotels are still ahead of the |
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)ContinuedD Don't ask me, Stephen, Won't you understand that want to do what is pest TOT you? Won't you trust me7'
 Ter answer came harshly. A more experienced man than Harold, one who knew women better. would have seen how overwrought she was. and would have made pity the pivot of his fu- ture bearing and acts and words while the interview lasted; pity and pity only. But to Harold the high ideal was ever the same. The Stephen whom he loved was no subject for pity. but for devotion only. He knew the mo- bility of her nature and must trust 1t to the end. When her silence and her blazing eyes denied his request, he an- swered her query in a low voice:
 T didv" Even whilst he spoke he was thankful for one thing, he had not been pledged in any way to con- ndence. Leonard had forced the knowl- edge on him; and though he would have preferred a million times over to be silent. he was still free to speak. stephens next question came more coldly still:
 Did he tell you of his meeting with meY'
 'Hs did"
 Did he tell you all7" It was torture to him to answer: but he was ct the stake and must bear 1t.
 T think so! If 1t was true."
 What did he tell you? stayl shall ask you the facts myself; the broad facts. We need not go into details. ."
 ''Oh. Stephen" She silenced his pleading with an imperious hand.
 If I can go into this matter. surely you can. If can bear the shame of telling. you can at least bear that of listening" This she said with cold. cutting sarcasm which sounded like the rasping of roughly -sharpened knife through raw flesh. Harold groaned in spirit: he felt a weakness which, be- gan at his heart to steal through him. It took all his manhood to bear him. self erect. He dreaded what was com ing. as of old the once-tortured victim dreaded the coming torment of the rack.