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~ l tatcity has the use
|. 81 lie large steamer Latrobe, for All
exeIfsfdnn fo s'1BS Brown tss 1 gfove an sSs
f,cursion: grove conducted entirely .by
Negroes On Negro capital), on the
afternoon Of August 81. +. J.. r.. 5
The reception In honor Of the
memoirs OF the National Negro Bus
mess League by the local ! Negro
Business League Of Baltimore, as
sisted by the fraternal organizations
Eof Baltimore, will be held in the
Richmond Market armory, (througb
Ethe courtesy of Commander Wagner,
tof the aMryland Naval Reserves, and
Mayor j. Barry MahooD :, corner 5th
avenue and Howard street, Friday
evening, August FL, beginning at 8
O'Clock. " ..
Numerous special social functions
| also be given in honor or the
National Negro Business League deli
egates by individual citizens OF Bal
t1more during convention week. Z
Local Negro Business leagues are
urged to begin eIecting their deleA
gates, at once. !. The names of all del
egates thus selected. should be for3
warded to the corresponding secre-
tary, Emmett ]. Scott, Tuskegee IN
stftute, Alabama. 4.
Co f. Adams, 1884 8 street, N. w
Washington, D. c., will be pleased til
cooperate In any way possible with
city or state delegations in making
transportation arrangements. ~ Il
Delegates intending to be present
are urged to send Immediate notice
to- DR.. l.. Fl. Henderson, chairman
committee on Accommodations 141Y
Druid HI III avenue, Baltimore, Nd. =.
The manager OF the Baltimore Bar
gain House, the largest iobbfg
house in the south, has offered 10
furnish guides to show visiting BUST
ness men through the establishments,
and explain its various departments
and manner Of conducting the bust
ness, on Thursday afternoon, August
20
On. Monday, August "a, succeed
Ing the meeting Of the Negro Bust
ness League, the Frederick, Doug
lass Memorial Home Association =. Of
Washington, d. c., is planning to en-
terrain the delegates with an Sont.
ing down the Potomac river at the
new Washington Park. An elaborate
program has been arranged the re.
ceipts from the outing" through
the generosity Of l.. e. jefferson,
who owns the two finely appointed
steamers that will carry the delegates
and others to the park, which he al
so owns, will go toward the Douglass
Memorial Home Fund.
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: Notice to Take Dispositions.

To Mary q. Henderson: ..
-. Take Notice: That ON the fist day
of August, A. D., 1908, between the
hours of 9 O'Clock q. m: and 4 O'Clock
p: m: at the law ONCE Of T. G. Nut
ter; Esq, 604-- 2 kaHawha street,
Charleston, w. Va, l. will take the
deposition of myself and others, to
be read in evidence In my behalf In
q certain suit In -chancery now pend
Ing IN the Circuit Court of the Coun-
ty Of Kanawha, and State of West
Virginia, in which Alexander Hender-
son Is Plaintiff andfMary E. Hender-
son is Defendant. +: -. -.
If from any cause the taking OF
said deposition shall not be com
menced or completed on the day
aforesaid, the same shall be. continu-
ed from day to, day, DIR from time to
time, at the same place, and between
the, same hours, until the, same shall
be, completed. : ~. = .,...v,. , -.
(, ~. ALEXANDER HENDERSON, :.
I 4 ' XXI. IT = =. BY Counsel.
r. c.. NUTeTER. SoI.. J%,.xSlSv3 r,,a.s.E
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This day came; Plaintiff BY his At.
torney;, and ON his motion, and it ap-
:pearing by affidavit filed. that the De,
PENDANT is a NONRESIDENT of this
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pear, within one month after the ,date
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m Z. II. Allen spent few days at his
home in st. Adams last week. Il
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& Kanawha County, S.: ..,,,..
!. AT Rules held In the Clerks office
Of the Circuit Court of Kanawha
coupty, Din the, first Monday In the
month or July, 1908. .,- IN.
Alexander Hendarson, Plaintifr,
In 1hancery. NJ =. :3.&5
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NThe object Of this suit Is; to OBJ
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The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

r. HE recent dramatic discovery of a
marvellous tenor in Paris, where he
was presiding over BARRIERS chair,
in blissful ignorance Of the possibilities
of his voice. is but one of many Incl
dents of precisely the same character.
states the Philadelphia Inquirer. There
has probably never been a time so rich
as the present In the dramatic dis
coveries of musical genius-of those
who in coming years will take the
places of Patti, Melba and Caruso In
fact. pages might be filled with the ro-
mantle stories of singers and musicians
who have recently made their first
bows to the public or who are ex-
pected shortly to startle the world
with revelation OF their new found
gifts.
Among the latter q leading place
must be assigned to Mr.. Horace Potts,
the Wakefield tram driver and the pos
SCISSOR of a voice such as is the ddwer
of very few men in a century And
vet a few months ago Mr.. Potts never
dreamed of the fame and fortune that
were awaiting him. It chanced one
day that the daughter of Lady Gather
inc MiInes-Gaskell attended a small
concert in Wakefield at which the tram
driver sang His very first rich. mel
low notes struck Miss Milnes-Gaskell
with wonder. She had never heard q
voice of such marvellous purity and
sweetness; it was a gold mine of in
calculable richness.
She induced the young singer 60 come
= o London; the opinion of the leading
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

ing voice, but begged her to give 1t
a complete rest for year IN order 10
avoid iniuring it. This rather disin-
genuous advice the maid followed,
much to the composers satisfaction
Conceive his surprise when. about two
years later. he found that the young
woman whose dftties had annoyed him
had blossomed into an operatic star
of the first magnitude. who was earn
ing more money in one evening than
she had earned in a year of household
drudgery.
More recently a potential Sims Reeves
was discovered in young Bangor cab
man, the owner Of a superb tenor voice
which will one day electrify the yorld,
and who today is one of the most
promising pupils at the Royal Academy
of Music. One of the principal singers
of well known opera company was,
a few years ago, Welsh collier who
was delighted to win a prize OF a
trihing nature at a small vocal con-
test, and who first set his foot on the
ladder of fame when he took the chief
prize for solo singing at the Welsh
eisteddfod seven years ago.
Equally romantic stories are told of
several of the violin prodigies who have
recently come into public favor. Herr
Heinrich Fielder was discovered by
wealthy Welsh lady who was travelling
in the Tyrol. and who heard his mar
velous playing in a cafe chantant- So
struck and charmed was she by his
skill that she brought him to London,
and started him on the high road to
fame.
A still more singular story is told
OF the discovery OF Miss Kathleen Par
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

vocal expert confirmed her that Potts
voice was one In million; and now
the tram driver has commenced the
course of training which will one day
make him veritable king of song
Mile. Marie Gay, the new Carmen,
whose exquisite voice created such a
sensation recently at Covent garden,
was quite ignorant of it's charm and
possibilities until one day when NJ.
Engel, the French tenor, heard her
singing over her work in her studio at
Barcelona, where she was training to
become sculptor. Her voice en-
thralled the great singer, who strongly
urged the young artist to leave her
marble and chisels for the glories of
the operatic stage-advice which she
was wise enough to follow. with re-
suits which the world knows.
Four years ago two ladies who were
holiday making at Pwlheli England.
were passing a bakers shop, when
their steps were arrested by q voice
of singular richness. They entered the
shop and interviewed the unconscious
singer, in whom they discovered a
budding Clara Butt. With the assist
ance of wealthy friends sufficient money
was raised to provide a thorough train
ing in London and Paris for the Welsh
nightingale, and only few. months
ago Miss Ezra Gwyn made a brilliant
debut at Bechstein hall.
A few years ago Herr Zichrer, the
famous Austrian composer, was dis
turbed in his work by the constant
singing of the maid of all work next
door. In order to stop the annoyance
he interviewed the young woman. as
sured her that she possessed charm
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
TIE TWO IEAR OLD GRAY CoLJ
'QREG

r HE exhibition Of these Arab horses
at the worlds fair was interrupted
by fire. and the gray stallion Obey
ran. besides several others, was bought
by Peter B. Bradley OF bingham.
Mass. Later he became the property OF
Homer Davenport of Morris Plains,
N. j., from whom he was bought by
Eleanor Gates. 1t would ordinarily
seem reckless disregard OF conserva-
tism to buy so old horse as this for so
long a journey. And If he were an or
binary horse it would have been a haz-
ardous purchase. But Obeyran has en-
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
OnIv Accident It Seems. Can Discover Musical Genius

low, a young Canadian girl, who is
said to rival Kubelik himself in the
brilIiancy and artistic feeling OF her
violin playing, and who is expected to
astonish London soon. A short time
ago DIR. Grosz. a Berlin concert agent.
was told by an English friend that
while passing house in a London
street. the name of which he could
not recall. he had heard violinist
playing with extraordinary skill.
The player was, he said, genius
OF very rare order. Dr. Grosz en-
ployed a detective to discover the home
OF this gifted musician. and within
three days he succeeded. Miss Parlow
by her remarkable gift that he offered
to bring her out as a solo vioiini=t.
and today the girl. thus rescued from
obscurity and poverty, Is under an en-
gagement to play at 120 concerts in
North and South America at $1,000 q
night.
Still another violinist OF whom the
world will no doubt hear much In com
ing years is Leopold Lustig. very
young boy. who is now the pupil OF
Prof. August Wilhelmj. One day the
famous musician was walking through
an East end slum when he heard the
boy improvising most marvelously on
his fiddle. With his parents permis-
sion the professor took the child TO
his home. where he is now ideally
happy. training for the undoubtedly
great career which lies before him.
One day this boy. so strangely rescued
from obscurity. will electrify the world
with the magic OF his bow. So says
his friend and patron-and he knows.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
THE MLANAGHI SLAGl
BT2OOD MARE
SHEB<

menr to do so. They were not fast
had been bred for speed alone and
were therefore regarded by most peo-
pie in Kentucky as failures. Before
the original intention could be carried
out the civil war intervened and the
Richards experiments came to an end.
ing the merits of Arab blood point to
this Richards venture as conclusive
proof that the desert blood has no
merit. Mr< Richards never concluded
his experiments or even tested any In
territorial results. so that the episode
that neither the Arab nor the half Arab
is faster than the English thorough
bred, a something that everybody
ought to have known before.
1t is by using collateral strains of
the various types that the Arab can
breeders. For $500 years the Arab
horses have been in the same environ
ment, and during all that time have
been injured to hard usage and scanty
feeding. so that as they exist now they
represent a singular example of that
hard rule of nature, the survival of the
flttest. During all their long history
they have been half starved during
eight months of each year and not
abundantly fed or watered the other
four. This in great measure accounts
for the fact that they have not In
creased in height or weight; but, not
withstanding their lack of size, they
are very great weight carriers and
can go Journeys day in and day out to
which no other horses are equal AS
individual horses under the saddle, and
even in the hunting field. they are most
excellent. Evidence of this does not
come from the desert alone but has
been proved In India. in England and
to smaller extent in America Lord
Roberts rode the same Arab for %
years in all his campaigns, covering
an estimated distance of $4,000 miles,
reporting himself that his charger
never had a sick day or took lame
step In ali ms lie.
This longevity of service is one of
the Arabs chief characteristics and is
in striking contrast to the short endur-
ance OF work Of the English thorough
bred, which more frequently than not
finishes its career when three years
old and II 1t survives through its
fourth year IL looked upon as a hardy
veteran. Why one of the stailions
taken to El Rancho de las Rosas is 2s
years old and as free from biemishes
and as full of vitality as first class
colt This horse. obeyran of the Seq
lawi family. was brought to this
country for exhibition at the Chicago
worlds fair in 1893. There he attracted
much attention and was ridden on one
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

hanesd his value immensely by reason
Of the fact that he has carried youthful
vitality into extreme old age. He has
been tested by the years and has proved
himself abundsntly worthy. He II sx-
traordinsry from whatever point OF
view.
Another stallion that the mistress Of
III Rsnohe de las Rosas secured from
the Homer Davenport collection In the
chestnut horse Mahruss OF the 6eglawi
JedrAm family and Ibn ed Derri strain.
This II q very remarkable horse IN ap-
peArance and conformation and is the
show horse par excellence. Mrs. Tully
did not select him. however. for his
beauty. which is remarkable. but for his
breeding, which Is remarkable also. He
was sired by Lady Anne Blunt's I'M
ported Mahruss, a Kehilan Jslib. pur-
chased from Abbas Pacha. his dam be-
ing Bushra, Seglawi Jedram OF the
Ibn Ell Derri strain. 1t will be observed
that the younger Mahruss takes his
lineage from his dam rather than the
sire. This is the Bedouin custom. the
.
mares being counted in breeding OF more
Importance than the horses. Though
this IL entirely proper. I think the Arab
exaggeration OF the importance OF the
mares over the horses is a defect In
their system OF breeding. as IL too fre-
quently results in the using Of In
ferior individuals as sires merely be-
cause their blood is of approved fami
lies and strains.
The blind stallion taken to the Cali
fornia ranch is gray 2 year old by
Obeyran, dam Ultra, a Hamdani Simiri
which makes this youngster. Obey by
name, a Hamdanl Simiri instead OF a
Seglawi Obeyran, as his sire is. I hap
pened to be present when this young
ster was first saddled. He marched
off soberly like an old horse. cutting
not a single prank. and 10 days later
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

occasion by that good sportsman" the
Spanish royal Princess Eulalia. Every
one admired Obeyran Is years ago
except one gentleman. who pronounced
him "a tramway horse from Damascus"
AS there never have been any tram
ways in Damascus, this classification
is curious, to say the least. At %
years I have heard him pronounced the
best horse that ever came from the
desert. have, of course, not seen all
the horses that have come from the
desert, but 1 say without hesitation
that he is the best horse I ever be-
held, bar none.
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

. LEANOR GATES, the California
author OF the charming romance
Cupid, the Cow Punch" and 9TH
er realistic magazine stories of
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
SJCr1LuNG FLLH FOA1
% SHEBA'

deeply into the subject as she has. She
will breed Arabs because they have
the longest pure and uncorrupted
lineage in the world; because they are
the most beautiful. the most docile,
the most hardy of any of the equine
race But they are not large enough
for carriage horses fleet enough for
race horses. heavy enough for draft
horses, it may be objected True, all
true, Nevertheless, as has before been
mentioned, they are at the base of all
the reproducing and valuable types, in
cluding the English thoroughbred, the
Russian Orloff, the French Percheron
and the. American trotting horse. Each
Of these types got the prepotency Of
blood which made and keeps 1t fixed
type from the Arab ancestors to which
all of them invariably trace
As we have these fixed types. these
improved types. why revert to the
Arabs? Is it not like setting the clock
back some hundreds of years? These
are questions have often heard con-
tributed to Arab discussion by those
who advocate more or less haphaz-
ara method of horse breeding. II 1t
were a reversion, If it were meant to
make over again these various inter
esting types, should agree that in the
economy of horse breeding the Arab
had a place interesting rather than
important. But the great fact must
not be lost sight of that all these
types owe the propotency of their blood
TO the Arabs. And why? Because
there Is no fixed type in existence that
did not originate and become fixed
through the admixture of Arab blood
To put into each OF these types more
Of this basic blood from time to time
keeps viriIe and fresh this commanding
prepotency. It is not suggested that
the union of a thoroughbred and an
Arab would produce a colt faster than
the usual racehorse, or that either OF
the other types mentioned would havo
its peculiar and special excellence en-
hanced by such unions. That is not
the way in which Arabs are useful. 1t
is the way, however, that Arabs have
come into disrepute In the minds of
those who generaIize from scant facts
and come to quick conclusions from
small knowledge.
The French, the Germans. the Rus
SLAMS all use the Arabs In the way that
they should be used. and that is by
breeding from them collateral strains
of their fixed types and then mixing
them for the purpose of securing the
fresh infusion of the basic blood. These
people do this officially through their
several governments. And that was
what A. Keene Richards Of Kentucky
meant to do some so years ago. when
he took Arabs from the desert to his
breeding farms in Kentucky and Louis
lana He crossed his Arab stations
with thoroughbred mares, and the re-
sulting colts had such substance and
symmetry of conformation that as
yearlings at the Kentucky fairs they
won blue ribbons from all comers. It
was not Mr.. Richards intention to race
these colts, but he was persuaded by
h1n frieudn against his avn heffer 1udR-
The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30

A still more singular story is told
the discovery OF Miss Kathleen Par
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-13
Plans in the Morse Fight
Forthcoming Tomorrow
In Findings of Grand jury

NEW YORK. Feb. I3.-The Federal
grand jury viii formally present its
findings tomorrow and the public will
Their learn in what light the Govern
ment intends 10 view the case of
Charles W Morse Oliver c. Pagan.
the indictment expert sent here from
the Office OF the Attorney General at
Washington, is hard at work today in
an upper room Of the Federal building.
He has the reputation of never having
drawn up an indictment that was later
Cua5hed on account O. technical errors.
Receiver Hanna has not vet com
pleted mis- examination Of the books
1ud records Of the defuuCt National
Bank OF North America, but he has
proceeded far enough 70 give iuf0rma-
ton 10 Mr. Pagan, which places other
names than that II Morse before the
grand jury. The next week or month
will probably brins forth facts that Will
again occupy the attention OF the
grand jury and further Official action
viii result
II the Federal grand jury returns one
CT more Indictments against Morse
and IL is regarded as certain that this
viii be dOne-it is possible they will
have to do with transactions with sew
eral banks beside the National Bank OF
North America.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-13
WASHINGTON STOCKS
ON ALOHHER BASIS
Traction Shares, Gas Stock,
and Bonds All Sold at Ma
terial ReCeSSiOnS-Con-
ceSSionS Necessary.

1t developed that even modest Hquida-
ton on the local Stock Exchange must
be accompanied with concessions in
prices That capital demands bargains
before it will be induced TO come over
and take securities in this day and
Presidential year.
There is no question as 10 the merit
Of the securities, the returns. nor the
actual value-it is purely a case Of bar
gain hunting Everybody that checks
out a dollar wants n little more than a
dollar in return. You can call il by
any old name, but the odoT of the bar
yaln-hunter viii cling 10 IL still
Perhaps the feature of the market to
day was the break in Washington Gas
The insiders who paid higher prices
for their purchases last fall, are not
selling but the failure of the imitation
scheme and the chance that the agi-
tatiOn may cause a lowering Of price
and, incidentally of quality also, has
caused some public liquidation Thus
sales were made at 62Q62iz and at the
close the best bid offered was 81.
Washington Railway common made
q new low record at 20 The preferred
was held firmly around d, but there
We're no sales.
Capital Traction dropped down TO 1135
and I'VE shares at us. The bonds drop
ped 20 1895 TO 1872. II is but an ad-
jUsJment Of prices to conditions moth
ing wrong with anything.
Greene Cananea sold at "a, just be
cause IL happens 10 be worth the same
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-13
RELIGIOUS JUBILEE
TO BE HELD TOMORROW

The climax of what promises to be a
religious awakening in Washington is
expected to be reached tomorrow night
when a jubilee meeting is held in Ham
line Methodist Episcopal Church, to
bring to a close the ffth week Of a
successful revival.
The Rev. Thomas Harrison, the evan
gelist, who has conducted the meetings
and converted hundreds of persons dur
ing his stay in Washington, says the
audiences he has met here are the most
intelligent and recipient ne has ever ad-
dressed and nowhere has he witnessed
such unbounded enthusias n.
The Rev John W. r. Sumwalt, pre-
siding elder, at last nights meeting
spoke in the highest terms of apprecfa-
ton OF the Rev. Harrison and his work
in washington throughout the past
several weeks. The undated enthu-
siasm IS due TO TIE Rev. Harrison's
plain heart-to-heart talks, persuasive
utteranccs. and tender appeals for q
"Detter and higher life"
The revival has been termed che ten
der meeting revival
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-13
hEINEE NOT LIKELY
TO DELIVER GOODS

CHICAGO. Feb. 13-Bob AIeinke, the
young inhelder just picked up by Can
tillon, is nineteen years of age. about
five feet seven inches tail, ana Of light
build.
lie comes from a family of prairie
pail players, a couple of his brothers
having been noted in the old CicS
League, which furnished Herman Long,
Charlie Getzein, and sundry other old
time stars to the big circuits.
Melnke blossomed on the prairies
about three years ago, and has been
coming along finely ever since. He was
With the Gunthers last season. the team
from which CantillOn lifted Pitcher
Kelley, but Jimmy Callahan mad just
cOaXed him over 10 his Logan Square
club when CantillOn seized him.
AS Cal and Joe are the thiCkest Of
friends, il is surTnised that Cal simpl y
lends the boy to CantlllOn 10 help along
on the training tour Meinke, even in
the semi pro company, seldom hits over
.220 and hence IS hardly likely 10 stick
with washington.