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The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
NOT A HORsELEss AGE.
Facts Seem to Indicate That Il Is
Farther Away Than Ever.

The hOrseless age that has been so
persistently predicted is not merely
slow in coming; the facts seem to in
dicate that it is farther away than
ever and perhaps may never come.
People must be riding a great deal
more than they ever rode before
The automobile industry in this
country has quadrupled in value ia
the last three years and has devel-
oped at even a greater rate in the
number of machines manufactured.
But the statistics of horsefesh keep
on expanding. There were more
than fourteen million horses in this
country in 1897, but according to
the figures for the year Just closed
there are 19.746.OOO horses in the
United States at the present time.
This is a gain of nearly 40 percent.
In a decade, a much larger one than
the human element can show in spite
of our large and continuous impOrta-
tiOns. AS mechanical rivals multi
ply he rises in the scale of Gignified
personality. The last horse will
probably take his leave at about the
same time as the last man.-Boston
Transcript.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Inventor of Envelopes.

It is somewhat curious that such
a simple cOntrivance as the envelope
should be a comparatively modern
invention. AS matter of fact, it is
just a hundred years since a paper
manufacturer of Brighton named
Brewes invented envelopes for letters
in their present form. Even then it
was some considerable time before
their use became at all general, not,
in fact, until somwheTe in the year
1850. Before this date, (as many
who are living now will remember)
a letter, written only on one side,
was folded in two, then in three,
sealed with a wafer or sealing wax,
and addressed on one of the blank
sides.-The Gaulois.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Petroleum Butter.

One of the very late by-products
of petroleum is butter. It is far
superior to most of the cheap social
ed butter that is sold in corner groc-
cries, and a good deal better than
oleOmargarine. I had the experience
of eating some the other day with
cut knowing what it was and thought
1t was excellent. l assume it is
vaseline prepared in a buttery way.
Nothing simpler or easier. What
next? Will wonders never
cease? If olive oil were made into
solid cakes and served as butter it
would be in great demand as food.
People in general believe it is made
only for salads. A few cook With it.
IN. Y. Press.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
A Fireless House.

To demonstrate his faith in the
Practicability of electricity for all
domesti, purposes, an officiil of an
Illinois electrical company has re-
Gently built a house at Carrollton,
Ill, without a chimney or any other
means of making use of fire. The
house is heated by steam and the
cooking done by electricity, both
supplied by the heat, light and pow
er company with which the gentle
man is connected. This construc-
ton marks the beginning of an eff
fort to obtain customers for current
to be used in the kitchen, and a
special rate has been fixed for that
kind of service.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Market for Old Horse Shoes.

Old hOrseshoes find a ready mar
ket in China. One steamer alone
brought 800 tons of this iron from
Hamburg. Chinese iron dealers buy
the horseshoes and sell them to knife
and tool manufacturers all over the
province of Shantung. It is claim
ed by the Chinese that the temper of
this class of iron makes it the best
Obtainable for knives and cutlery and
also good for other tools. The rea-
son ascribed for this is that the con-
stant beating the shoes have received
under the feet of horses has given
them a peculiar temper absolutely
unobtainable in any other way, and
that tools made from them are su-
perior to all others.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
squeaky Shoes in Demand.

Small automatic pumps, very in
geniously contrived. spirited air in
between the layers of the soles Of
each finished pair of shoes.
THAT beats me- said the visitor.
al never saw air put in shoe soles
before. Pneumatic like that, are
they very springy?"
NO, they're noisy" answered the
foreman of the Lynn factory,
''These shoes are for the export
trade. They go to Africa. A native
African judges the white mans shoes
by their squeak. The louder the
squeak, the finer the article. In
fact, the native won't wear a nom
sQueaking, silent shoe. 1t is wind
between the sOles that make shoes
squeak. Put in enough and your
fOotgear will be as noisy as two
pigs under a fence"
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
THE FIsHERsIAN's PARADISE.
30 Such Angling Sport can be Found
Elsewhere in the World.

The fisherman's paradise in the
United States is found at Miami. Fla
There are other tarpon grounds than
Biscayne bay, but anglers who have
found their way TO the sOUthernmost
point Of Florida year after year with
hattering regularity. and some Of
whom have landed from five TO ten
huge $50 or 200 Founders in one day.
contend that no such angling sport
can be found elsewhere in the world,
nor so many fish, as in the waters
which lap the shores of the various
keys which dot the bay and the Gulf
Stream. There are over six hundred
kinds of fish between Miami and Key
West. and $50 Of these are known
Is game fish. One of the fascina-
tiOns of the gamy tarpon is that he
is mysterious. He comes in schools,
whence no one seems to know. He
is sighted sometimes as early as
January, but, although he jumps and
mockingly lashes his six feet or so
of shining. silvery body in the eyes
Of the eager sportsman, he refuses
&c notice the most tempting bait In
February he begins TO take the hook,
and in this month anglers begin to
arrive on the scene and to engage
their boats and guides for the sea-
SOn.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
The EYeball and Vision.

DR.. Alexander Schaefer has been
Investigating the vision of many an
imal species and has found that the
size of the eyeball is the principal
factor oS the acuteness of vision. The
bovine species has the sharpest sight.
The second place is occupied by man
and the horse, which have nearly
equal visual powers; the third by the
sheep. Small, ana especially small
eyed animals, whether mammals,
birds amphibia or reptiles, have
very poor sight. Owls and birds are
the only birds that possess great
acuUeness of vision. It has long been
known that dogs have such indistinct
vision that as a rule 4 dog is not able
to recognize his master by sight
alone.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
An Animal Census.

According TO an official of the
Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton, the latest enumeration of the
animals known to science includes
no less than three hundred and nine
ty species. The real number is be-
lieved to be much larger.
1t has been estimated that Of in
sects alone the earth harboTs two
million species; but the late Pro-
fessoT Riley, a recognized authority
on the subject, held even that esti-
mate as far too low. According to
his opinion, ten million would be a
moderate estimate of the number OF
insect species. The number of indi-
viduals is, of course, incalculable.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
-Tuppence" the Dominating Amount.

Tuppence-meaning, of course,
two-pence, and equal to the sum of
four cents in United States currency
is the dominating sum in London.
II is much an institution as the war
debt, beer, or the game of cricket.
Wherever you go, whatever you do,
what ever you sell or whenever you
open your mouth, it is tuppence or a
series Of that sum, that is extracted
from you. Tuppence is as much as
4 fairly well-tO-dO worker can afford
for his meal at midday. In the poor
eT restaurants that sum pets him two
slices and a big mug, or three slices
and little mug, or portion of cake
and drink. or a fried egg, slice and
small mug or a rasher of bacon.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
A Diving Sponge Boat.

A submarine Aas been built by a
company at BizeT=a, France, for
sponge fishing. When sunk it can
travel on a short of wheel along the
bottom of the sea, being worked by
two submarine oars from the inside.
It collects sponges by means Of a NE
chanical gripper, AID has electrical
searchIights, a telephone, AMI
speaking tube by which It can COM
municate with a boI1 On the surface
The submarine has already been
down to a depth of $50 feet.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Why Toast is Popular.

The increasing popularity of toast.
says the London Lancet, is a some
what interesting fact in that it possi-
bly, indicates that after all the pub
lie resents the insipidty of modern
bread. Roller millins as now prac-
ticed, is altogether different from the
old method grinding wheat between
stones, leads to the elimination of
ihe germ of the wheat. The pecu-
liar nutty flavor o. the old-fashioned
loaf was due perhaps TO the retention
Of this germ.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Why Go to Bed?

It seems to me We make a mistake
in prescribing special hours for 60
ing 20 bed and getting up. Why
should we thus gorge ourselves with
slumber? Why should we not fol-
low the example of the dog and take
an occasional nap when we have moth
ing better to do? Why should We
go to bed when we don't feel sleepy?
Why should we not take forty winks
when inclined thereto? 1t strikes
me there is too much method and
regularity about our sOmniIerous ar
gements.-LOnuon Graphic.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Every Bird a Neathercock.

where's the wind?" scoffed the
sailor. why, look at the birds
they'll tell you. Don't you know
that every birds a weathercock?
Stop moistenin' your finger and
hoIdin' it up" he went on, in a tone
OF disgust. THE practice amt hardly
cIeanly. Look at the birds is all
you got to do, for every bird sets
with it's head always straight at the
wind. Every live bird in a tree is
as reliable a weatheTcOck as them
dead birds on the spires what is so
much considered in this here Lenten
season.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
WOrkman's Foe.

Alcohol is the foe of the working
man, inasmuch as it lessons his pro-
suctiye powers, thus lowering his ef-
AGENCY as workman. 1t renders
aim careless and Indifferent as to
the welfare of his family, and re-
suits in the children drifting into
the workshop and factory at a time
Of life when they o. ght to be gaining
the knowledge necessary to fit them
for the circumstances of the future.
-CO-operative News.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
BURNT SUGAR AN ANTIsEPTIC.
Destroys Microbes of Disease-Ef-
feet Upon Disagreeable Odors.

The custom of burning sugar in a
sickroom is very current among all
classes in France, but up to the
present has been regarded by scien-
fists as one of those harmless and
useless practices which are rather
tolerated than insisted upon by the
medical profession. But NJ. Trillat
OF the Pasteur Institute now assures
Us that fOrmic aldehyde is given off
by burning sugar and is one of the
most antiseptic gases known. Five
grains of sugar having been burned
under a ten liter bell glass, the vap-
or was allowed to cool Vials con-
tanning the bacCilh of typhoid, tuber-
culOsis, carbon, &c, were then in
troduced. Within half an hour
every microbe had succumhed. Again.
if sugar be burned in a closed yes
sci containing rotten eggs or putrid
meat, the disagTeeable smell disap-
pears. NJ. TTillat affirms that the
formic aldehyde combines with the
gases given off by the putrid animal
matter and renders them inodorous.
Practical Druggist.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Statues to Ministers.

Considering how great a part the
ministers of all our denominations
have played in the national life for
at least ten centuries, it is simply
astounding 10 find how few are the
statues that have been raised to them
in public places during the past five
hundred years or sO.-Sunday
Strand.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
CAST UP BY THE SEA.
Strange Return of the Lost Cap
tain's Picture After Many Years.

tam > AOANtS AAAtE HAaAf Il EoASs
They that go down to the sea in
ships learn much of the mysteries
of life From the coast of Africa,
there travelled to Scarboro. Ne. the
painting of an old-time sea captain
Of that town, who long years ago
was lost with all on board his ship
in the China seas The ship sailed
from the home port with every pros
peet of a successful voyage, but she
never returned to the home land.
Years went by and she was given up
as lost; Her name was taken from
the shipping list, and no news came
back TO the waiting ones at home.
Long afterwards a passing vessel
picked up off the African coast the
portrait of an American sea captain
such as the Chinese artists paint,
and on the back of the picture was
the captains name and that of the
port from which he sailed. The
painting was forwarded to the little
American town, and it was found to
be a picture of the Scarboro sea cap
tain, master of the lost vessel that
had left the harbor so many years
ago.-Kennebec Journal
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Doctored Tea.

The tea importers are asking that
the inspection of tea be transferred
from the Treasury to the Agricultur-
al Departmental the gro nd, ap-
parently, that the scientific experts
of the latter will be better able to de-
tect and stop fraudulent purposes.
Cheap teas, they say, are frequently
aduIterated with indigo and tale to
make them resemble better grades,
and these adulterants are said to be
unwholesome.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Novel Farm,

One of the most curious farms"
in the country is conducted by Miss
Abby Lathrop of CRANKY, Mass. She
has a little place up among the hills
where she raises mice, Weasels, fer
sets, rabbits, guinea pigs. and water
rats. She has in her charge all
told about $500 animals, and her
enterprise has been a success.-Les-
lies Weekly.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
At the Dry Inn.

"No use to ask me, Colonel" said
the landlord. I'D like to Oblige you,
but you know as well as I do that
Georgia is dry. Howsomever, if you
step upstairs while I put cut the
light you may stumble over some
thin'-but even if you fall down
stairs and break your leg-mind now
i don't know what done iti"-At-
lanta Constitution.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
A Town without Taxes.

Orson, in Sweden, has no taxes.
During the last thirty years the au-
thorities of this place have sold over
one million pounds worth of trees,
and by means of judicious replanting
have provided for a similar income
every thirty or forty years. In con-
sequence OF this source of CONNER
cial wealth there are no taxes, and
local railways and telephones 'are
free, as are education and many
other things.-Tit-Bits
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Indian Babies Don't Cry

Affection for children is an In
dian character" says Dr.. Charles S.
Moody of Idaho. Il have never
seen an Indian mother or father pun
sh a child, nor have ever seen an
Indian child cry. An Indian child
never sObs when hurt. Just an extra
snap of the bright black eyes and a
slight frown is all to indicate to the
observer that the little fellow is
suffering. l have never heard even
An Indian baby cry"
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
NOiseIeSS Europe.

Railway whistles infict torture on
so many people hat the efforts
abroad to check tn plague have won
approval from the people. Austria
has introduced a system of dumb sig
mailing to start and stop the trains
Belgium is trying compressed air
whistles instead of steam, and Ger
many experiments with horns.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
They Had the Habit,

You reporters make me tired, "
said the cartoonist, who had strolled
in to borrow tobacco. why for in
stance, do you always say subject
is to be probed' when you mean in
vestigated?"
perhaps for the same reason that
you fellows always represent a work
ing man as wearing a square paper
cap, replied one of the traduced-
PhiladeIphia Ledger.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
A Mild RemOnstrance.

He was a kindly old clergyman,
and he hated TO have to suspect the
honesty of any one. But at last it
was impossible to ignore the quality
of the milk, and he approached the
milkman very nervousIy.
81 merely wish to remark" said
the good man in his kindliest, mild
est manner. that l require milk for
dietary purposes, and not for use at
christenings. Detroit News-Trib-
une.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Solitude in Chunks.

Here is an extract from the pros
pectus of a hotel in Switzerland:
''Welssbach is the favorite place of
resort for those who are fond Of
solitude. Persons IN search of soIi-
tude are, In fact, constantly iocking
here from the four quarters of the
globe"
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Johnson Grass.

If Prejudice could b. overcome,
this is one of the most valuable hay
grasses we have. 1t is at home in
cur climate and can be depended on
10 make a crop. It is akin to sor-
ghum and partakes to some extent
OF sOrghum's hardness. Cut the
grass early, just as the first heads
appear. If too old it is of but little
value
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Save the SCOT.

A cheap way to keep house plants
free from disease is to put bag OF
SCOT into a pail of water, let the con-
tents settle and use very weak So
luton fer watering plants. SCOT is
a valuable fungicide.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
That Saving Motion.

Some people do dislike WORK"
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things; "and yet it takes about the
same number of motions to play one
OF SchubeTt's sonatas on the fiddle
as It does to saw a cord of wood. ''"
Yonkers Statesman.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03

Life's best school is living with
people. 1t is there we learn our best
lessons. Someone says: ''It is bet
ter to live with others even at the
cost Of considerable jaTring and fTic-
ton, than to live in undisturbed
quiet alone"
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Mhat He Had Missed

"Gracious!h exclaimed Mrs. Good
ley, Just listen to that clergymani
I'm positive he's swearing. Evident
) he's missed his vocation"
No, " replied her husband, Il
ihink it was his train. Philadel-
phia Press.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
4 Reasonable Arecaution.

I'm order to be a regular optim-
ist," said Uncle Eben, ''it's a good
idea to staht out VIII you arrange
ments all made fob, three square
meals a day an de payment of de
rent. ."-WashingtOn Star.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Her Little Affair.

Mr.. Flatdwell-Look here sir!
You must have made mistake;
that's my fat and I didn't buy a
piano.
Delivery Man-Piano nothin'!
That's yer wife's new hat!-PuCk
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
West Grows Independent.

The matter Of securing funds 70
remove the crop no longer disturbs
western bankers. To use an ex-
preston OF one Of the number, The
West no longer sneezes when Wall
Street Lakes snuff."
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Soldier Live on Nuts.

The small soldier keeps himself
in perfect fighting condition on =
diet OF nuts. He eats only twenty a
Gay, but they are Of a very nour-
iEhing kind.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Hardesf 70 Eight

Gossips are almost invariably
great liars, but" asks the Howard
Courant with unexpected candor.
did you ever hear a story about
yourself that wasn't partly true?"
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Military SCHOOLS in L. s.

OF strictly military schools there
are 175 throughout the land. New
York has 80, New Jersey 9, Pennsyl-
vania II, North Carolina 7, Texas 8.
Wisconsin 4, California and Illinois
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The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
The PAVING TeIIer Admonished.

The Farmer-See here, young
man, none O. your monkey business.
Them amt the same bills 1 deposited
here last month.-Brooklyn Life.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Sticky Xarnish.

Sticky varnish put on furniture
by cheap workmen may be remedied
by first placing on shallac Varntsh
and then follow with a coat Of copal
Yarnish
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
An Undiscovered Genius,

The world has never learned the
name OF the genius who conceived
the idea OF spreading butter upon his
bread a.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
The OptiHnist.

II you were TO treat your friends
as you do your stomach you wouldn't
have a friend on earth in sixty days,
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
WOMEN'S GUIDE.

WOMENS GUIDE.
A NEW PAMPHLET BY MRS.
MARY !. BOLTON - ITS
CONTENTS.
Birth and early life of the au-
thoress.
4 word to the young girIs and
mothers.
The man who is little protection
to his family.
Color line among Negroes.
A word to the better class preach
er.
Why married people don't stay
together.
A talk to the mother of good
character.
Price, IS cents.
Address, 5I2 You. street north
west.
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The Washington bee., 1908-10-03

Ill. III eliM 81 9
The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
Pest Afro-American Accommoda
ton in the District.
Live With Others.

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The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-16
AT THE GRAND,

Lev Welch drew full house last evening at the Grand opera house. tt was his return engagement and he appeared Tn "The Shoemaker" From the rise of the curtain in the first act. till the eud of the last act, Lew kept the audience laughing continually. Ills unfailng humor was at times re- placed by seriousness which display cd al great advantage the varied skill of MT. Welch as an actor. Mir, Welchs many admirers saw him at his best last evening and gave him a hearty welcome which he deserves as one of the leading Hebrew imper- senator's on the stage,
 The play consists of three acts the scenes of which are in the boWerV of New York city. Dead Mans Gulch" in Wyoming and mining scene in attempts of John Fierson, 9 westerner, to defraud his brother-ip-la of q gold mine, After desertine his wife and all only son he goes to New York where he becomes entangled with Mauriel Hamilton. schemer. His deserted wife followed him and, driV- en 70 despair by his vilsinv. becomes g. confirmed drunkard She runs across Morris Goldberg, a shoemaker, who moved by her story sends her back to her western home to start lifo anew, John Pierson, in the mean time, became infatuated with Morris Goldberg daughter kidnsps her and takes her away with him. We next
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-16
OBITUARY NOTES.
Mrs, Anna l., nuuhsr,.

After sn Illness extending over slg weeks, Mrs Anna L, Dunham died at her residence yesterday afternoon She was the wife ot eA-Sheriff Albert R Dunhan and was in the sd year Of her age, Deceased was born in old Lyme Conn She married ex Sheriff Albert E, Dunhan1 something over thirty wears ago and is survived by three daugh ters, Mrs A, w. Adams, who lives with her parents on Whalley avenue, Mrs George Lawson wife of nr George Lawson and Mrs, c. Senton of sey- n1oUr
 The funeral will take place Saturday at 230 o'clock from her late residence in Seymour, Prayers will be said at 54s Whslley avenue at 10 clock tho same morning and Rev, F C. TNllsr of tho East Pearl Street M E, church WI, officiated. Interment will be in Trinity cemetery, Seymour
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-16

meet hlu fin tho west trying to got ha brother-in Jaws mlne, He IS followed there by tho old shoemaker and everything nnally comes ont right
 lu lhe play Lew Welsh. as tho lead Ing man, ls without criticism, and be- youd B doubt, tho star of the evening" He is nobly assisted by Harry Knapp, as John rlerson, aud by George Phelps us @Loney Sam Tho rest of the cast fig very strong and all de- servo great praise, During tho play several spccinltIes are Introduced by Lew Wclcll and his cowboy trlo'" which sung some very catchy songs in most pleasing manner.
 If you want good laugh and would like to have somo good singing Skill" fully introduced Into an interesting melodramatiG comedy, don't Tall to seo Low Welch" in "The Shoemaker at the Grand on Friday or Saturday nights Special matinee saturday ar tcrnoon,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-16
AT LOCAL THEATERS
AT THE HYPERION
n1lhe fay White May :"

The Gay White Way" with its three stars It's troops of pretty girls It's huptle and hustle of Broadway and It's life, Comes tp the Hyperion, Fri day and Saturday with Saturday mat. inee, September l6 and r
 Although "The Gay White Way" has no plot pf It's own f. touches light lv the plots of some 30 successes of both musical and dramatic nature, To witness the big review, which Is said to be quite the best of the many Shu- bert productions ia like dropping In for gllmpees of tho performances at tho famous theaters along Broadway and It's side streets. and ending an evening of delight In ono of those sor- geous restaurants that are famous the world over.