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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-18
REPORTS ARE READ
AT BAPTIST MEETING
Evenings Service Will Be Con-
Quoted by the Rev. ]. w.
Mcclure.

Following a song and prayer service
at the West Washington Baptist
Church this evening, the thirty second
annual meeting of the Columbia As
ISOLATION OF Baptist Churches viii
come to an end.
The fourth and final day OF the
meeting was occupied with the pres
entatiOn of standing committee re
ports and addresses by the Rev. G. ".
Mccullough and the Rev. s. H. Greene,
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church.
The report of the committee on
digest OF letters was presented by the
Rev. J. w. Many; the committee on
obituaries by the Rev. II. ". .. Mill
ingtOn, committee on benehCence and
Christian stewardship by the Rev.
George r. Truett, and the committee
on young peoples work by the Rev.
R A. Bagley. If.
This evenings service viii be con-
Quoted by J. ". Mcclure.
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SLIGHT INCREASE
IN TYPHOID FEVER

A slight increase in typhoid fever is
shown by the report Of the Health De
partment for the week ending NOvem-
Der 1S.
There were two deaths from the dis
ease, fourteen new cases reported, and
nine discharged as recovered, leaving
153 cases on hand. The disease is much
less prevalent than at this time last
year. however. there being during the
same week Of 1903, 212 cases on record.
The record of other contagious diseases
IS as follows. Diphtheria, 66; scarlet
fever, Is, WhOOping cough, IS; measles,
z. and chicixenpOx, %.
There were 1O2 deaths during the week
60 among the white, and A. among tie
cOlored population.
The births numbered 143: Of which
100 we're white, and 43 cOlOred.
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MARTIN EXPLAINS
NEW REGULATIONS
Favors Licensing Great Cor
porationS-Says House
H. Rules Are Good.

Representative Martin OF South Da
kota called on President Taft today
to arrange for an extended interview
at which they viii take up Mr.. Martins
plans for the control of corporations en-
gagged IN interstate commerce.
Briefly, the plan, represented by two
bills which MI. Martin has pending il
Congress, is that of licensing great cor
porations In interstate commerce, re-
quiring them, as condition precedent &c
securing the license, to submit to Ger
tain conditions governing their business
organization. and capitalization.
THE two bills" said Mr.. Martin to-
day. are substantially alike, except
that one is aimed particularly at cor
poratiOns engaged in purveying food and
fuel supplies TO the country; the other
has 10 do with great corporations ia
general, which do Interstate business.
am hardly decided which Of the two
the restricted or the general measure
ought 10 be pushed at this time. ]
want to go over the entire matter with
the President"
Mr.. Martin came to Washington early
by express invitation of the President
70 take up this matter, and make posi-
bic determination whether the Admin
1StraTlOn shall commit itself 10 support
Of the Martin plan of regulation.
Mr.. Martin, who has been regular
IN the House, with occasional NANTES
Tations of somewhat independent tend
encleS. and whose State Is decidedly OF
the insurgent cast expressed the Opin-
ion that the House would find that the
notifications made in the rules last
session VIII be very useful IN eXpediting
business.
He gravely doubted whether there
would be need of further mOdificat ton.
About the only thing left" he SAID.
which seems TO require attention, is
tho matter Of having committees named
by the Speaker. I doubt whether the
proposed plan Of having them named by
an elective committee would work bet
ferment.
THE Senate has such a plan. and its
results are quite As much criticised by
the insurgents there as are the work
ings of the present method in the
House"
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THE STOMACH IS DEAD
THE MAN STILL LIVES

But every sensible person will deny
that whiskey or morphine ever proved
Of permanent benefit to mankind.
People who suffer from sour stoma CHI,
fermentation Of food, distress after eat
ing and Indigestion, and seek relief in
large chunks Of artificial digesters, are
killing their stOmachs by inaction just
as surely as the yfctim Of morphine is
deadening and iniuring beyond repair
every nerve in his body.
What the stomach Of every sufferer
from indigestion needs is a good pre-
scription that will build up the stomach,
put strength, energy and elasticity into
it, and make ii sturdy enough TO digest
a hearty meal without artificial aid,
The best prescription for indigestion
ever written is sold by druggists every
where, and by Henry Evans, and Is
rigidIv guaranteed TO build up the
stomach and cure Indigestion, or money
back
This prescription Is naaed Mona,
and is sold in small tablet form In large
boxes. for only 80 cents Remember the
name, Mi-o-na stomach tablets. They
never fail. They contain ingredients
that give quick relief (oJher than
strong digesteTsj. but they are com
pounded for the purpose Of making the
stomach strong and energetic enough
TO do it's work without the aid of harm
full drugs.
If YOU cannot get Mona in your
town. Booths Mi-O-ua. Buffalo, n Y,
will FIJI mail orders and prepay charges
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OUNCE OF OPIUM
BUYS GIRL SLAVE

MANILA, Nov. 1S.-Young girls are
oHered in barter for an ounce Of opium
BY the natives Of Sarangani, according
10 w ; Lyon, horticuiturist, who has
Just returned from "a trip through the
SCUM coast of MindaDao Mr. Lyon is
5etIIng specimens of tropical fruit for
iIe department of Agriculture at Wash
lngton- lie reports a coDsiderable ira f.
nc IN opium In South Mindanao carried
on BY way Of Palm Island.
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BRAVE COWBOY TRIO
AWAIT PAPA'S CHECK
Call of the Wild and Picture of Careree Life on Plain
of DetentiOn-Expecting Transportation Home.

The call of the wild sounds a bit
weak and husky as it comes through
the slender steel bars in room of the
House of Detention today to Harold
Duffy. hineteen years old, his brother
Arnold and William Henry, both six
teen years old. who left their homes
in Bristol. Conn. to roam the Texas
plains, kill buffalo and Indians and live
the eare-free life of the cowboy,
A few words from Papa accompanied
by a check TO cover transportation
would drown out all the sounds of ma
tuTe and the open country that have
been singing in the ears Of these youths
these many months And they spent
the most of the morning watching and
waiting for the summons TO come
home, and 10 partalIe of the prodigal' ;
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feast. But father has not burned the
earth In getting to a telegraph office
to give the glad call. A dispatch was
sent to him in care of the chief Of
police of Bristol last night Just after
the youths had been arrested after ap-
plying for a nights lodging at the Y.
NJ c. A
Their money had given out and they
were ready to go home. II they had
reached Texas. however. there would
Indian mortality as the trio was al
ready for the hOstiles. a pistol that
was eligible for election to the Society
of Colonial Wars as well as the Sons
OF the Revolution a box Of cartridges
that did not fit the pistol ana a razor
that showed evidence of a previous con-
ditiOn of seTvitude in the lzindling wood
business, constituted the armament of
the band. This has been confscated by
the police.
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NEW YORK OFFICE
FOR GEN. BINGHAM

NEW YORK, Nov. 1s.-Gen. Theodore
A. Bingham, former police commission
er. viii be made superintendent of pub
lie works in the borough presidents
office of Manhattan. Borough President
George Mc,Aneny and General Bingham
are old friends
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DEER HUNTING GOOD
NEAR HAGERSTOWN

JAMESTOWN. Nd, Nov. 1S.-Deer
are more plentiful in the region about
South mountain this season than in
several years. Since the opening of the
season last Monday more than two
score have been killed
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MERCHANT IN IOWA
MAY REFUSE NEGRO
State Supreme Court Decides
Law Rules Out
Race.

DIES MONIES. Iowa. Nov. 1s.-A
private business concern, under the
law of Iowa, may refuse to give serv-
ice of any kind whatsoever to a negro.
This UGH is decided in a decision of
the Iowa supreme court. The decree
is the outcome of a suit by Susie
Brown. a cOIored woman, against the
J H. Bell Coffee Company for $1,000
because she was refused cup of
coffee at the Des MOines pure food
show q year ago.
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DESERTlONS ALARM
OFFICIALS OF ARMY
Report of Adjutant General Aims
worth Says 1898 Soldiers Took
French Leave Last Year.

Desertions from the army are alarm
ing the officials.
According to the annual report OF
Adjt. Gen. Frederick Ainsworth' s95 de-
listed men took French leave during the
fiscal year ended June so, 1903 Ihe
only way to prevent sucI desertlohs'
he says. is to institute strict enforce
ment Of severe penalties
He attributes the big-l st of desertions
10 the abolition of the C ..-een, the mo-
notony Of garrison life, the increasing
amount Of work and study demanded o.
a soldier, and the ease with Wnlch re-
munerative employment caH De oDJdlhed
in civil life
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CATHOLICS BAR SCHOOL

PARIS. Nov. 1S.-The Catholic clergy
has placed under the ban a school at
GrenOble, where the teacher had disre-
gaTded the warning against the use of
interdicted text books. The Combes ad-
heUents advocate retaliation by an Of
Scial inspection of Catholic text books,
which. they say, teach opposition to the
republic and hatred Of liberty.
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HEAVY RAIN IN HAYTI.

CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, Nov. IS
The rainfall here in the two weeks
ended November Il is officially recorded
Al tweuty-nine inches, at their interior
points thirty-nine inches. CommuI lea
ton with the irSeriOT Is still difficult, the
oaIv means Of S~9vel being by foot.
Considerable stock was lost in the
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TO INVITE BALLINGER.

HONOLULU. Nov. 18.-When Gov
ernOr Walter who is on his way to the
United states. reaches washington ne
will invite Secretary Bailinger to Visit
the Hawaiian Islands He expects also
to have Andrew Carnegie as his guest
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CONVICT A Suicide.

MONTREAL, Nov. 1s.-Benjamin La
mont. of New York, sentenced 10 four
years In the penitentiary here for rob
hanging himself 10 the cell door
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KWONG WAH HING COMPANY
1909 G. Street n. w.
Ready for the Christmas Shoppers.
Chinese and Japanese Goods.

THE YEARS. importation OF new and novel
designs handsome and attractive goods for
wedding presents. Christmas presents IN
new and attractive forms
I3es11t5f,I embroidered silks and linens for
gowns and ladies' shirt waists; also the most
EXQUISITE designs in ladies' opera bags
Richly embroidered Mandarin Coats Tor the
Gents.
Lovely China Dinner and Tea Sets for the
housewife.
Useful presents and toys for the children.
SIX ans Gold embroidered screens for all
kinds OF use.
KtTnonos that are almost too lovely 90 wear
Brass and bronze are work OF exquisite
patterns.
Hundreds Of small articles for use and or
narneutatfon. al direct from China ana japan
Now on Sale at Our Palace Sales Rooms,
1909 G. st. n. w.
Come early and get your choice before the
nolS-th, SD. tu-tf
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But every sensible person will deny
that whisxey or morphine ever proved
of permanent benefit to mankind.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
One Life Story

Dear Household: VIII you all tell me why
widOwers can marry easy? II they have
lot Of children some nice lady will marry them.
IL they poor makes no difference. Most
most OF the time. Often the fathers 10
blame. for they ought TO make their children
mind their stenmothers their own mothers.
hear some one saying 81 know that she is a
stepmother.' | ! married a widower. He
is a nice man and is good to me. He has two
boys. He wants his boys to treat me right, but
boys don't care anything for a stepmother All
they care for is to be waited on. / have no
children, but IL God had given me a child
sure would raise IL better than / see some
parents raising theirs. You see some fathers
giving their little boys drink, using profane Ian
gusge before them. Boys think II papa did that
l can. Parents ought to take their children 10
Sunday school and church. and teach them the
Bible. 1t is surprising to know how little some
people know about the Bible. | hear some one
saying, What made you marry a widower7'
had no parents ] wanted a home, a widowel
came along. He a nice man and we mar
ried. would not advise girls to- marry a man
with children. ! have heard a lot Of people say
that widowers make the best husbands; my hus
band is good to me.
What has become Of ]. c. P? sure would
like to know IL he is not a widower. | enjoy
reading all the letters. / would not care any
thing for The Journal if II were not for Miss
Thomas and Mrs. Felton's pages.
This year VIII soon be out Let us all try Il
do more good next year than we ever did. What
a sad thing it is to die unprepared! God bless
Mrs. FELTON,, Miss Thomas and all the members
or the Household May all meet in heaven
Eula Lees and Busy Bees letters were fine
Home is the dearest place on earth to me. Busy
Bee, when I send by my husband for lot OF
little things l give him the money that | gel
with my produce. When l 60 shopping l have
my own money.
May God bless you all. MRS. APRIL.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Who KnoWs2

Dear Household: I take the Semi-Weekly
Journal. and enjoy our Household and Mrs. Eel
tons page best of all. love to read the let
ters and think them all very helpful and In
terestinC. ! feel sorry for Mrs. Hard Work,
Mrs. Holly Leaf and Mrs Desolate; hope they
are feeling much better than they did when
last we heard from them. Come again. and let
hear how IL is now
I think Louella gave Sylvanus Stub the right
answer
Florida Cracker. come again and tell us more
about Florida. I love TO read all that is written
by flower sisters. l have some pretty
roses. also chrysanthemums, some geraniums
and some ferns. I would like for some one
to tell why my rose bushes die after q
year or two. I have lost several this way.
They will die any time during the year. Per
haps in full bloom. / live the farm and
like It much better than CITY life. Am a farm
er's wife. and do all my homework. washing
and iroring. I do not 60 to the field to work.
hut II 7 were needed. would go on and not
feel discraced. as some I know.
Little Maid, Busy Bee. Vera Noble Great
Grandma. come often. With hest wishes for
Miss Thomas and all the readers, I am, sin
ccrely yours.
MRS. DALLAS
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Another Side to the Question

Dear Miss 1nomas: How would you like tc
move along and let another stranger join your
tfter reading sylvanus Stubs letter or No
vctnber T. ! could not resist the temptation
That IS one Letter that l VIII not be satis-
fled by answering in my mind. l am a glrl
ana will take up for my side. don't know
how the girls are where ne lives, but l De
lisve he has been unfortunate in his associates.
l. for one, dor't sdmire the dollar very much;
it's useful and sometimes necessary, out give
me an honest upright gentleman with pure
character ard the energy TO do his part. Many
men expect more OF the women thah the9
H. Of themselves, and they are sure to 90
locking IoT rich wives.
| know ~ young men who viii drink aud
curse and then want TO go with tue pest therS
IS oh, that the time would come Nheh III
the girls will stand up for the right ana not
co with the boys that get drunk or swear or
frequent bad company. ! must admit there Is
Just snch girls Sylvanus Stubb speaks OF,
bUf they not the type OF all our girls:
Tuere are plenty Of men who have helped spoil
girls by talking to them about the dollar as
n .t's almighty. The girls in a family gener-
silly reflect the ideas that the men In that
family have. close observer can tell IN a
ideals in his or her home. Some one Is ready
70 say. '-She is an old maid, sure No, IN
deed. I an still in my teens, and have oeeh
five wears without mother. | have kept mouse
for nv father and three children younger than
myself since my mother died. and IL has MADE
me do q lot OF thinking. There are certainly
an homo when the mother is gone. Girls. 10
good 10 your mother, for you can never have
hnt one.
often think Of the song heard once. Fart
% IL like this.
.'You will see her there. in her old armchair,
But you'll never miss your mother TIN she Is
gone"
cen almost see Mr. Waste Basket smacking
Lis lips. getting ready to devour this first at
your new friend, SUSIE.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

other year. and the Christmas and New Year
holidays will sOCn be here. and how many
changes have come TO some Of us. My daugh-
ter and ! felt that we had much 10 be thank
full for this year; she has been going TO the
hospital for three years and half, for plaster
Jackets. but the dear Father has seen fit to
give her health back and make her back
strong enough TO go without them, so feel
that the good Lord has been very good to US IN
the past year. ! suppose the days In your
sunny south are warm as our summer days.
Many times I have wished could have visited
the south. l have been much interested OF
late in the SeIn-Weekly Journal accounts OF the
terrible mine disaster. What an awful accident
"a was.- J fear there is hard winter before
those poor women and children. Times are so
hard. everything Is expensive, meats, flour
and in fact, nearly all provisions here IN Maine
az least.
Well dear me. I guess have written enough
for this time but IL our dear Miss THOMAS
does not put this I'm the wastebasket l VIII uy
and send few lines from Strong little soon
or anorher time. ] guess IL Is pretty carry
but nevertheless ] will wish all the House
hooters a merry Christmas and happy New Year.
With love 20 all and be gone, -
MRS HATTIE CROSBY.
Bex Is Strong, Maine.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

Some women go along in life suffering
untold agonies, while others enjoy living
never know an ache or pain. Why is
this? l am a woman and had my share
Of pain. My share, say, and / mean It,
Such suffering as only woman stands in
silence, but l helped myself, and I say to
you sisters who suffer from Leucorrhoea,
liberation, Inflammation, Laceration, Tu-
mors, Painful Periods, Ovarian Troubles,
Pains in Back, Bowels Bearing-down,
Desire to Cry or Hot Flashes, you are
foolish to suffer longer. Write me, and
/ will mail you a S1.OO box of my Healing
Method Free. also my valuable book which
explains, Why Women Suffer SO. Doctors
don't understand your troubles, and they
can't help you. Don't suffer longer. Just
tell me where your pain is and l will
mail you the $1.00 box and the book, both
free of charge. Mrs. Sarah Furman,
las Athenaeum Bldg. Chicago, Ill.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10

example Of Christ and you will have happy
time. True happiness comes by doing the WEI
OF God.
Bingham wants some of us TO write on cruelty
10 animals. I don't expect my views would ne
accepted by some OF the readers OF The Journal
yet see a great difference IN children
the same father and mother. Ihey have the
same usining, yet some boys arc cruel while
their brother is kind and gentle stock VIII
soon learn which won't hurt them and VIII not
run off when lac comes around Int let the
cruel one come and they get out Of the way, ne
cause they expect a lick. And Il II is man
with a wife she would better give him distance
when he Is I'm a passion. He may not strike
her with his han1 but he is liable 10 give her
a ''tcngGc lashiEg." Some children seem natur-
ally cruel; r. seems TO be part of their nature;
children will break up and tear up all
the toys and books you give them. And a great
many OF them will grow to maturity with that
disposition. We have natural thieves; they are
prone TO steal from childhood up. Parents
should do all they can to teach them the error
~ their way, the sin of even coveting What DG
longs 20 another.
I knew a boy when he was very small thar
would steal things he had no for. His
parents were good people, but they could not
break him from stealing. and he went to the
penitentiary before he is years old.
Some Of our writer's have not been heard
from in long time; we would be glad TO see
letters from them.
Wishing you all merry Christmas.
UNCLE TOM.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-10
Concerning Unborn Sin

Dear Household: II has been some time since
! last wrote. J was taken down in July with
bronchial fever and abscess OF the lungs.
was sick ten weeks and the fever left me m
had shape. But I not fretting. tHka
what comes my way and feei thankful that II
is no worse than Il IS. We should try 10 be
cheerful; IL helps Is 20 bear olW aftlictiOns.
I nave Just read a piece in another Journal
BY Nellie Iersuld that suited me. ] would tiEe
for the young people 10 read and profit by the
reading.
This writer portrays a mother that has toii"d
many years for the happiness OF her family
that they may have a good time. She breaks
down: u = Christmas time-what gift would
she appreciate mosts Rest would be the great
est cift that could be bestowed on her Now.
hovs and girls. 10 Arthur, Mary and Cora
dii-lct this be mothers Christmas, and o.:
will be the happiest Christmas OF your life.
Let mother have a good time and some rest:
your father viii help you out II he appreciates
bis wife he should. Mothers have rights
that should be respected. / believe that is one
81 the great troubles IN married life. We do
not have the prOoer respect for each others
rights tina. should. Hence there is not much
love. To love a person there must he respect.
Make this a true Christmas by following the
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,-NTcnv shot at random sent.
Fints mark tho archer little meant;
Frll many word at random spoken.
Nav wound or heal heart that's broken
I was utterly cast down and almost ready
tn weld to dscoUra cements which beset my
path on every side, hut. reading the letters
Of Martha Jane and Busy Bee in recent
struggle is not altogether fruitless as IL
sometimes seems; | resolved To pluck up
fresh courage and still press forward. trusting
that my humble efforts may be a help to some
ether.
Busv Rec asks that | write letter on ''lhc
Teachers Duty in the School hoom,' but this
would be very difficult task. since the duties
are so numerous and so various. Briefly stated.
I should say: Exercise all the grit grace ana
gUmptien'' that YOU can command in thr oft D.
onlv for usefulness I'm this present life. nut
for participatinn in the life that lies beyond
this vale OF tears and death.
Nunex wants t. know how many give an
affirmative answer 10 the question, Are YOU a
thristians II, according 70 the general acceptu-
tim we take The word 10 mean n member OF
some evangelical church. !. together with tnOu-
andS of others. readily answer. Nes. nut
IL we take IL literally 70 mean like Christ
there are none worthy to clam such distinction.
Tpon neither Of these definitions do base my
claim but upon the fact that my heart is
fixed upon Him who gave Himself that >
might live: and while tho misIakes of my
life Lave been many. and the sins ol my heart
life is an earnest desire TO know and do His
will concerning me. While I fall far short
of 1.-THE mark Of the high calling that is IN
Christ Jesus" there no seasonal changes
in my relgion-there being no difference when
the temperatur" is below zero and WHOM the
Thermometer registers 95 degrees in the shade.
Lon Ella II glmDst broke my old heart be-
cause 1 could not go to the convention at