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o; her life Mrs Christman possessed the
facu!.N Of .atner.inS many friends about
her. She was a great sufferer. but
throughout the years she maintained a
cheerfulness of disposition that endaared
her to trCsa with whom she came In
contact. SEe spent the last summer with
her son. Howard l.. Chrstman, who has
a country home on the Chesapeake bay.
few weeks ago she returned to her
residence in this city, where she died.
Besides her husband and son. Mrs.
Christman is survived by brother.
Fielder i. Hackney OF Washington. am
two sisters. Mrs. Martha a. Bremermau
Of Philadelphia and Mrs. Sarah 4. Nc
1ntosh of Washington.
Following the funeral. which will be
conducted by Rev. Charles l.. Pate. pas
tor of Dun. barton Avenue NJ. +. Church,
assisted ~ Rev. NJ. Ziegler, pastor of
tie hatr1der Christian Church. near
Tuxedo, No. burial will be at Oak Hin
Genet GTE,
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LIFELONG RESIDENT DIES.
Mrs. p. n. Christman Had Been Con.
fined to Her Home % Years.

The funeral Of Mrs. Philip II. Christ
man will be held fran ner residence No.
1897 Cor oran street. tomorrow morning
at 10 o clock. Mrs. Christmsn, life
long resident OF Washington. died Friday
night, artef an illness which kept her
confined =, EsT home for twenty-eight
years. She WAS member Of old
Georgetown family, being a daughter Of
the lac i. Barton Hackney and Eliza
f.. Hackne..
Though az invalid for Q greater part
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TO FILL STAFF VACANCIES.
Board of High Ranking Army OH
GERS to Meet Here.

A board of high ranking army officers
has been ordered 10 meet in this city next
Thursday for the purpose Of making rec
concentrations for the filling OF existing
and anticipated vacancies In the general
staff corps.
The board is composed of Maj. Gems.
Leonard Wood. United States Army, and
j. Franklin Bell, chief OF staff, and Brig.
Gems. Arthur Murray. chief of Coast Ar
tillery; Albert l.. Myer United States
Army, and Charles l.. Hodges, United
States Army.
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CHILD BRINGS FIVE DOLLARS
ONE OF MANY GIFTS TO EP1S-
coPAL HOSPITAL.
Donation Day at the Institution
Productive of Beneficial
Results.

.1 want tn give this 81 to help. SAID
a rim, girl as she approached one oi 'iie
,.-5 NJ lady managers of the EpiScopai
,,,a Ear and Throat Hospital III enc VI
~, Goodwin rooms of the INSTITUTION
....ra.r afternoon. She then stated She
ia basn treated at the hospital recehti!
60. of charge. and that her mother want
ed her to give the 81 10 aid in the WORK
which is being carried on by the insult
,iop The lady took the money from the
cLild and added ii to the large huiip"i
of gifts of currency received during the
day and which amounted to over $3.50.
The incident was one OF a number. for
Yesterday was donation day al The nos
pital, when most every one in Washington
who is interested in the work which the
Episcopal women are carrying forward
there made a gift of either money or pro-
visions Throughout the day many OF
the ladies engaged in the work were kept
busy at the hospital receiving the gifts.
Potatoes, canned goods, jellies and almost
b, ought 10 the receiving room in the base
ment They were later taken to the store
room. and i'm the afternoon the place
looked as If half of the splendidly stocked
iarders I'm the National Capital had been
drawn upon almost to depletion.
Where the Gifts Were Stored.
Arranged on shelves were the delica-
cias while below in other parts OF the
room were many sorts of provisions. And
all these donations did not come from the
folk who live in the big. comfortable
houses. either Some persons who have
very little of this worlds goods. but who
had been treated at the hospital in the
name of sweet charity. had given their
mite-given il I'm a. spirit of gratitude.
And while the ladies were receiving the
provisions and money on the lower floor
there was an interesting affair being car
ried out on one OF the upper hoors- II
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Tampa Mans Suicide on Steamer

NE" YORK. October Ca man wbo
vas registered nthe ships frs; cahi,,
oooAs as Manuel Gonzalez of Tampa. Fla
committed suicide by cutting his th-oa,
with razor In his stateroom ato.rd ,ho
Nde line steamer Iroquois TO-DAY uhan
li'e snip was ninety miles soutb NJ S.
a,pSk The , case was reported upon tho
zslez is la te lroquois here tonight. Con
ana leaves family in Tampa. ''"Aer'
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Missionary Delegates Elected.

PITTSBURG, October 3O.-Thrty-three
delegates attending the fortieth annual
meeting of the WOmen's Foreign Mission
airy Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church were chosen today to represent
the organization at the worlds ecumen-
ical missionary convention 10 be held at
Edinburgh, Scotland. next year
Reports from the mission field occupied
rhe greater part of the third days session
of the society.
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FIVE MEN KILLED.
Freight Engine Explodes on Coal
and Coke Railroad.

ELklNS. W. Va. October 30.-Mea ger
details have been received here OF the
explosion OF a freight engine on the Coal
AID Coke ra: .'Hu at Yankee Dam, w.
Va, about forty Ave miles from this
city. this afternoon. in which five of the
crew lost tnei" lives, the other one es-
Gaping being the fiagman
TIE cause of the explosion is no,
known.
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Lights on All Vehicles Suggested.

All vehicles i'm the District will be com
PEELED to carry lights if the Commission
ers adopt an amendment to the police
regulations favored by Commissioner
Macfa rland and now under consideration.
Suggestions of such an ordinance, spe-
cialiS applicable To parks and suburban
driyeways which have few. II any lights,
have been made TO the District heads on
several occasions, but no definite action
has been taken up To the present.
The severe injury of John +. Moulden,
local electrical contractor. few nights
ago due TO the collision of an automobile
with a wagon upon which no lights were
displayed has again brought up the ques-
ton.
Mr.. John r. Moulden. electrical con-
tractor. Commissioner West said i'm a
memorandum Ia the Commissioners.
states that he suffered q severe auto
mobile accident last night on the Tenley-
town road by colliding with n wagon
which had no lights and suggests the adj
visa bility of a regulation compelling all
vehicles on public roads to carry lights
after dark.
Responding to this suggestion Commits
sioner Macfarland has announced to his
colleague that he favorS, as he has be-
fore stated, the amendment of the police
regulations 10 compel all vehicles OH pub
Ii: highways throughout the District to
carry lights after dark.
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Hudson Brown of Warsaw, Va. sixty
five years old. died suddenly of heart dis
east. A. wife. two sons and one daugh-
ter survive him.
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Urged by Automobile Club.

Similar suggestions were made by rep
resentatves of the Automobile Club of
Washington at recent public hearing be-
fore the Commissioners. Al that time
new regulations affecting automobiles
were up for consideration. and the own
ers OF machines who appeared declared
thar many accidents have occurred be-
cause OF the inability Of those in an au-
tomobile to see wagon or carriage OH
tie road after dark.
On the ground OF public safety. il was
argued, all vehicles should be compelled
to carry lights which would warn others
of thu. danger OF collisions. The increase
of traffic on all the streets and roads of
the federal jurisdiction. il is declared. Is
All important argument iii favor or such
l a regulation.
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NINE LIVES ARE LOST IN FIRE
TWO MORE FATALLY INJURED
AT ST. JoHNsBURY, VT.
Principal Business Building Prac'
tically Destroyed-Property DAM
age Estimated at $4,000.

ST. JOHNSBURY, VT, October so
When the ruins of the Citizens Savings
block had been wet down to tempera-
ture which made a thorough search pos
sible il was definitely learned that nine
lives were lost in the fire which practi-
cally destroyed the principal business
building Of this town early today. Two
other persons were probably fatally burn
cd. The property loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Of the killed two persons fell from the
upper stories while seven Were burned
to death.
The dead are:
Charles T. Ranlett. printer.
Il. 4. Darling. laborer.
Charles Tanner. a painter.
Mrs. Charles Tanner.
s. d. Cushman.
Mrs. Cushman.
Child of Mr.. and Mrs Cushman.
Miss Rose-Massey.
Miss May Sleeper.
The fatally injured are:
Mrs. Jeanette Davie
liam Pope.
The others injured are William Pope
and Roy Smith. They will recover.
Originated in Restaurant.
The block. four-story brick building.
was combination of stores offices, tene-
ments and assembly halls. 1t was owned
by the Citizens Savings Bank
The fire is believed to have originated in
d restaurant in the basement
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
- - - REMOVES
- - - BLOOD HUMORS

the employed work Of
cleansing IT,
ton through each tiny outlet which goes on continually day and night
OF these impurities also of With e natural evaporation
its natural oils causing p bols pustes itching
troubles
acids blood
thickness ulpes its nutritious red corpusc and enches
instead of
exudng acrd matter nqred soothed and soened cooling
healthy blood blood
aD foreign matter letter Salt Eheua
heads other unsghty bmshes
complexion.
advice free- THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA Ca
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
BANDITS HOLD UP
A WESTERN TRAIN
Rob Mail Car and Escape
With Several Posses in
Close Pursuit.

RATHDRUM, Idaho. April S0.-North-
ern Pacific passenger train No. was
held Up by bandits near Hauser juno
tion late last night, the engine and mail
car detached and the engineer compelled
to run the ears to point between Trent
and Yardley. where the mail car was
robbed. 1t is not known here whether
the bandits got valuable booty or not.
Posses have been sent against the han
dts from two sides and word is ex-
pected at any time OF a battle.
The train was tagged three miles east
OF Hauser Junction and the mail car
cut out. Then the bandits climbed onto
the engine and threw the firemen off.
While one OF their number attended to
the stoking the others compelled En-
gtneer Whitesey to draw ahead. AS the
engine and one car passed through the
junction the tower operator saw that
the rear signals were missing and s-nt
out the alarm TO Spokane and this place
The engine and mail car passed Trent
all right, but were not reported at Yard
ley, so 1t is known that the robbers are
in that vicinity. They are supposed to
be from Seattle.
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
CORONER'S VERDICT
DELAYED FIVE DAYS
Commissioners Macfarland
Complains Lacey Findings
Were Not Delivered.

In noting the receipt Of the coroner $
verdict in the case OF the drowning or
young Elmer w. Lacey. Commissioners
Macfarland calls attention to the fact
that the inquest was held on April IL
while the verdict was not delivered to
the commissioners until April %
I'm matters of impor tance there
should not be such delay" SAID the
Commissioner today. "The jury recon-
mends that the Commissioners prevent,
as far as possible, the apparently com
mon practice of renting boats to chill
6ren. and recommends that the proper
steps be taken to prevent a recurrence
of similar accidents.
waiting for the opinion of the Cor
poration Counsel on the question as to
whether the Commissioners can make q
regulation TO control the hiring OF
boats, have no recommendation at
this time respecting the verdict OF the
ccroner's jury.
day. that while he has not yet reached
an official decision he will probably
submit an opinion holding that the Com
missioners have authority TO adopt q
regulation prohibiting the hiring of
boats to children.
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
ACTOR LAYS WAGER
ON NEW YORK TEAM

CHICAGO, April 30-De Wolf Hop
per. an ardent supporter of the Giants
has wagered s., 600 TO $500 that the New
York team wins the pennant.
Dustin Farnum, Boston 'Beaneater
rooter, took the short end.
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
TAFT WILL MEET
800 At BANQUET
Dinner to Be Attended by
Vice President, Speaker,
and Cabinet.

Vice President Sherman, Speaker
Cannon, and all the members of Presi-
dent Tafts Cabinet will be present at
the dinner which will be given in the
Executives honor by District citizens at
the New Willard May s.
This was announced at a meeting of
the committee on arrangements in the
Board of Trade rooms at IL o'clock this
morning. Invitations TO more than
fifty guests win be mailed this after
noon. Two hundred and twenty-five
members of the Board of Trade and
the Chamber of Commerce have prom
sed to attend. This Will make a total
of practically 200 persons who will be
present.
The work in charge of the subcom-
mittees has oeen practically completed.
Another meeting of the full committee
will be held tomorrow, after which il is
probable that announcement will be
made Of the details.
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
FASCULA FORFEITS
SAC IN TWO CASES
Still Must Face Charge Of
Failing to Pay 10Y
Ride" Bill.

Frederick NJ. Fascula, otherwise
Frederick NJ. Forster. WHO, when ar
rested on March so, CHARGED with OBJ
tanning money under f1Ise pretenses,
refused to disclose his Identity. was
allowed to forfeit $50 IN each OF the
two cases against him, when placed
on trial before Judge Mullowny in the
Police Court this morning
Fascu!a, who has a wealthy aunt in
Lebanon, Tenn, who has come TO his
aid several times before. has still to
stand trial for alleged failure to pay
for S45 worth of 10Y ride" taken at
the expense of the Terminal Taxicab
Company.
The charges which he faced in the
Police Court this morning were based
on the issuing of two checks for small
amounts, one cashed at bank In
Lebanon and the other here
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
KENDALL MAY HEAD
DISTRICT SCHOOLS
Washington Board of Educa-
ton Considering Indian
apolis Man for Position.

While no direct tender OF the super
iatendency of the Washington public
schools has been made TO Calvin s.
Kendall. head of the Indianapolis. Ind,
public schools. it is not improbable,
that he will be in charge of the local
educational system before next fall.
This is the impression gathered FROM
talks with members Of the Board of
Education in an attempt today to con-
firm the dispatch from the Washington
correspondent of an Indianapolis news
paper, in which the statement Is made
that Mr.. Kendall, who is remembered
as having once before been offered and
zfclined the position as superintendent
So the District schools, has been tenta-
lively approached on the subject again.
and is likely to reverse his original
negative decision.
Oyster Is Reticent.
Although Capt. James f. Oyster,
president of the Board of Education,
would not admit today that Mr.. Ken
dali is being considered as District
school head, neither would he deny it.
When shown the Indianapolis dispatch.
he said:
"That matter is not yet ripe for dis
cussion. Superintendent Stuart has not
intimsted any desire to Withdraw from
his position, and until he does we
shouldn't anticipate him"
Captain oyster was asked to deny
. specifically tnat there was any ground
for considering a change, but he also
declined to do this. DR. Barton w.
kverman and Mrs. Ellen 5. Mussey,
members of the board, were emphatic
in, their denial that the board has ever
had occasion TO consider the question
of Mr. Stuarts withdrawal since he as
sumed the bun ldens of District school
management
1t is understood, however that in fits
present status the matter has gone no
further than TO have been considered
by Captain oyster and friends of Prof.
Kendall, who desire to see him at the
head of the District schools. Should
Prof. Kendall decide in the end to come
20 Washington, it may not be known
for some time yet
Stuart's Health Bad.
The probability OF Mr.. Stuart de.
hsiding, if he has not already decided
relinquish his present office, is
strengthened by the fact that his health
has not been robust for some years. II
was with reluctance that he agreed to
take the position after the Withdrawal
of Dr. William Chancellor, whose term
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
TAKES A BRIDE
INCAIIFORNIA

Word has been received in this city
of the marriage at Vallejo, Cal, April
10, of the Rev. Benjamin J. Darneille.
pastor Of St. Mary's Church. Napa.
Cal, and Miss Eleanor Cecilo johnson.
The ceremony was performed by Bishop
Moraland, assisted by the Rev Mr..
Voyd.
The Rev. Mr. Darneille is a brother
of Hope Darneilee, former Assessor of
the District, and is well known ia
washington. where he lived for a num-
Der of years.
The Washington times., 1909-04-30

as superinteneent was marked with
rupture and dissension, ana ne mas
since intimated to friends that the
duties of the Office were at times eX-
trenaely burdensone. and he would not
regret to be relieved of them. Mr..
Stuart, who Is at present recovering
from an attack OF grip and is confined
10 his home, has proved an eminently
satisfactory administrator to the board.
II Is thought that IL the change is
made it win come next fall, before the
opening of the new school term.
The Washington times., 1909-04-30
MAURITANIA MAKES
NEW SPEED RECORD
Completes Fourth VOYAGE at Aver
age of 25.33 Knots an
Hour
Hour.

NEW YORK, April 3O-Despite high
seas and strong head winds. the Maure-
tania arrived here today after a pas
sage from Liverpool and Queenstown
of days Is hours and IL minutes, COM
pleting the fourth successive round voy-
age she has made at an average speed
of 25.33 knots an hour.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-11-04

He picked out of the command five men who
had some music in their souls and provided
them with instruments.
When the British officers arrived and pre-
liminary courtesies had been exchanged they
were shown into banquet hall with table
in its center gittering with silver and with
cut glass. The red-coats ate of delicacies and
OF substantials that none of them thought
could be found nearer than New York, and
they drank wine of the kind that needs no
bush.
There wore two walters for every guest
and five enlisted men fddled away and blew
at their instruments throughout the 20
courses of the dinner. There were toasts and
toasts and toasts, and 1t was not all over until
about an hour after the host had excused him
self temporarily to attend reveie roll call.
Then came the cold gray light OF the week
after. The joy of remembrance of the ban
quet had kept Lieut.. FitzGerads heart up for
the week that had passed. Then the bills
came in from San Francisco. In amount they
were s1.40o Second Lieut. FitzGerald's ban
quet had cost 5000 plate.
II the lieutenant should pay the bills the
banquet would mean bankruptcy. The com
handing officer of the island post passed
night in thought In the morning there was a
look of relief upon his face. In an hours time
there was ready for transmission to Gen Nc
Dowell in San Francisco a large official en-
velope marked in large letters in red ink I'm
ternational Courtesies"
Inclosed were the bills for pate de foie
gras. rare old Burgundy and other things
which never before had found their way to the
northwestern coast. With the Enclosures went
this, written in Lieut. Michael FitzGerald's
own hand: Excerpt from Maj-Gen. Mellow
ellis instruction: Above all things, Mr.. Fitz-
Gerald. observe the rules of international
courtesies.'"
Gen. Mcdowell fumed, and tradition has it
that he swore. but he ordered that the bills
be paid out of the contingent fund, and the
memory of that banquet in the wilds OF one
of the islands which now forms part of San
Juan county. in the state of Washington, lives
to this day in the minds of several veterans
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-11-04
Rhymed MarrIaae serviee.

Judge Norman Moore OF Maben.
Miss. came into the limeiight as an
impromptu rthymer for the first time
when he performed the ceremony that
made James Davis and Bette JRinson
man and wife. Here are his exact
words:
"Jim will you take Bet
Without any regret.
To love and cherish
Until one Of you perish.
And Is laid under the sod.
So help you Godf"
The groom replied In the affirma-
tive. Then. turning to the bride. Judge
Moore said:
Bet, will you take Hm
And cling to him.
Both out and In.
Through thick and thin
Holding him to your heart
Until death do you partf"
The bride blusbed In consent and
the twain went their way rejoicing
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-11-04

er and lack of money had much to do with
the former soldiers surrender to the authori.
ties.
The records looked up and 1t was
found that the man was what he declared him
self to be-a deserter. and nothing less. He
was locked in the guardhouse to await trial,
and the waiting was not long. for court-mar-
tial was convened and the result of the off,
GERS deliberations a sentence of four
years in Fort Leavenworth for the prisoner.
Then 1t that the deserter began to
think he had been fool to give himself up
and he began to think of something else as
well II was Just week before Christmas
when the prisoner sat down in has cell and
wrote a letter to Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
White House. d. C. 4sfterward fellow pris-
oner of the deserter said that he had been
allowed to read the ietter before 1t was sent
to Washington and that 1t was such an appeal
ing epistle that 1t made him weep. Mrs. Rar-
rison was told how hard 1t was to be in prison
during the glad Christmastide. when the world
was bright from the reflection of happy faces
and when, IL ever, pardon should come to the
erring.
The presidents wife received the letter
and was touched that she made II a point
at once to interest her husband in the case
The result was that President Harrison par
doned the prisoner. The young fellow was
released and by permission he stayed around
the barracks at Fort Sheridan a few hours
before leaving for Chicago.
When he left he carried away all the
money which sergeant OF F company had
been saving for a year to furlough The
pardoned one also took gold watch belong.
Ing to the first sergeant of the same company
That deserter never was caught and as far
as II is known he never again gave himself
up to the authorities. There was more than a
rumor at the time. however, that two enlisted
men In the United States army saw to 1t that
the tale OF the deserter's deeds was sent to
the White House in order that the presidents
wife might learn that even a woman and a
presidents wife may sometimes mistake hu-
man nature
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-11-04
CONDENSED COURTESY.
Wise Club Member Wheatcaked German Bar.
on Instead Of Wineng and Dining Him.

German baron-he said-blew into New
York and got acquainted with some clubmen
He was put up at a club by one of them for
the customary two weeks and paid his bills
promptly.
There was great surprise when the man
who put him up refused to make an applica.
tion for a renewal of the courteses of the club
for the baron. Club members were Indignant
about 1t and one of them had a card
issued.
The baron appreciated the compliment and
entertained lavishly. He left without paying
his bills and the member who volunteered the
second time had to settle.
did you lose anything7" he asked the
man who had stood sponsor first time.
NO." he said. Il didn't wine and dine him.
like you. { took him out day and wheat
caked him Saturday Evening Post.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-11-04
A sookmARk CHURCH.

In Japan. under the guidance OF Rev David
s. Spencer as presiding elder. many OF the
native churches have been engaged In strong
effort toward sefsupport. The Toyohashi
church was built of the proceeds of the sale
of silk bookmarks made by the members of
the congregation. These silk slips with tas-
sells were sold by friends In other lands. Some
of the workers made elegant embroidered silk
handkerchefs, which are also sent for sale
among the people of the home land. The ia
panese are showing themselves in labors and
patience true types of the Christian.