The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 2, 1902, Page 7

THE WASHINGTON BEE. eS 4 atiy request young te 4 column, and any la vy wished answered in before Saturday iy oo“ Miss May CLEMATIS. 1d some people im- eauty is all that is . s only skin deep swell as discreet. ievelop itself as e industrious girl work. The only is the lazy one. k always. formed last week read during sum- yd literature will im- oman witha stable ation and re- ty in a woman is t wisely and always to honesty is act rut tion. vise to talk too free- should be discreet with what vou se all some day. yme things some thing all the time. ee their mistake pose upon your will loose in the ot impose up- ir companions for an escort. are not wanted, ciate with your accordingly. js and never de- ivorced. isplease your o will not de- lip is stronger put your mo your trueand who sition, « smiles influence e hearted girl 1 and hides your atter you and ex- magine that you} a thers tell you so. enotes vulgarity a eed taste will wear ng will be seen Dress with taste and ing. birds that fly me that they 1 tor succor. good sometimes int your loses iything unless tion is to be bene- marry. Don’t the results are e numerous and if what you say is your best 1 never desert lwaysand never riends. s best to do what never allow your- by others. opinio cise ite no of r yourself. books while you nt Maken Brittle Bones, ged people have than those of the 4 re are more brit- Me +. son why a fall is 1 to an elderly ng person. sn Insecticides, \ . vith basins of pee Pike 5, o, are new used in night-flying ~ in- neyards. In une ht “cts were recently WELL SALTED iN VAIN. Story of the Failere of an Illinois Man’s Scheme to Sell His Farms as Oil Land. “Some years ago,” says a New Or- leans Times-Democrat itributor, “an oil boom hit Litchfield, 11, and everybody for miles around was seen sniffing for oil and every stranger suspected of being an expert look- ing for a good thing. An old farmer named Loomis had a big place thre miles out of town which would have been a fortune for him had he not been possessed of mania for swap- ping, manifest in a perenn ial attempt to trade off his for its value, land twice “When the boom was at the top potch Loomis received a visitor who DIDN’T LIKE THE WATER. took 80 so much interest in the farm, iked its appearance, location, ete., that the old farmer scented a petro- leum man and saw visions of incal- culable wealth. Being a shrewd man, Loomis did not care to take any un- necessary chances with Providence, and on the quiet he sent the hired | to $5,000 to the city man out the back way with orders to dump the kerosene can into the well. The visitor liked the entire place, inspected the barn, the chicken yard and then, as if by chance, asked for a drink of water. “Loomis was waiting for that and haulec up a brimming bucket before the man’s own eyes and poured him | out a gourdful of liquid with a fine, opalescent upon it. The itor smelled it, tasted it, made a wry face and asked if the like that. ‘but yous scum vis- water was al- ‘Oh, yes, 1 get accustomed ways said | Loomis, to the taste, and our doctors say this | is the finest water on earth for the | stomach.’ ‘Well, I am d ng-danged | if I'll ever get used to: it,’ was the | unexpected response. ‘I! am looking | for a farm, not an oil well, and if I} have got to haul my drinking water three miles from Litchfield L guess | I'd rather buy nearer town.” | “It took Loc six months to get | oil out of his well, and as left of the oil craze derricks and abandoned HAD NARROW ESCAPE. Deadly Moceasin Lodged in Southern Woman's Bose nd Resisted Its Removal, he Yaz for the s had a narrow ese om n the other nold being | bitten by a deadly moceasi | | day. She and her husband were in the pasture on their farm in the Redmond ville neighborhood, A short distance from them was a wire fence, and they proposed to each other to run a race and see which could cross the fence first. When they reached the fence Mrs. Arnold attempted to crawl] unc Just as she was in the act of got down on the ground a crawled into her dress at her throat. She saw the snake when it entered her and instantly she grabbed it in the folds of her garments and screamed. Her husband ran to her and attempted to pull the snake out by it tail. Mrs. Arnold held it so irate that Mr. Arnold pulled it in two. “In getting the upper portion of the moccasin dress, reptile’s body from his wife’s dress, one of the snake’s fangs stuck into one of Mr. Arnold’s thumbs, but for- tunately there was no poison © on it,and Mr. Arnold felt no bad effects from ft. They were both terribly frightened, and well they might be, for it was a narrow escape from a deadly bite. Trains Must Be on Time. In France when a railroad train is more than ten minutes late the com- pany is fined. _ ce ee Pe — -_ a j nation of $1.000.000 | does GIVER OF MILLIONS | So Modest That His Fame Has i Never Gone Abroad. | William Deecring’s Heneficence Has | Been Extensive and Sdon He May Give Another Million ts North- { Western University. Reports that William Deering, the | well-known harvester of Chicago, has in contemplation a gift of $1,000,000 to Northwestern uni- versity, bring to light the fact that while this philanthropist has continu- manufacturer ously for 20 years given thousands of dollars to educational institutions, churches and charities his beneticence practically has been kept a secret. While he can hardly be placed be- side Rockefeller in the total sums he has given, it is known that he has given away fortunes. Small, struggling col- leges or churches, particularly of the Methodist denomination, for Mr. Deer- ing always has been a warm supporter of the Methodist church and its institu- tions, have been helped by him when confronted with debts or mortgages without the fact being flashed over the wire and becoming public through the newspapers. Some time ago Mr. Deering heard that his native town im Maine would like to have a library. He immediately wrote out a check sufficient to pur- chase one and maintain it without put- ting any obligations on the city. Garrett Biblical institute, affiliated | with Northwestern university, has been the recipient at various times of Mr. Deering’s generosity. He bas been president of the board of trustees of the institute and also held the same position on the university board. At one time he gave $5,000 to a seminary at Omarga, Ill. He endowed and built | Fisk hall, which is occupied by the pre- paratory school at the university and built Willard hall, the girls’ dormitory at Evanston, where the university is located. He has regularly given from $2,000 missionary and WILLIAM DEERING (Chicago Pi Who Does Much ) church extension societies in Cl ) to support evangelistic wor s Chi to-erect a new building and make it a first-class medical institu- | tion, The pit is a Methodist institution. Northwestern university 1as received many times valuable | | from Mr, De g, which nettec |some return. The sums of mor from all given since the Northwestern university range 000 to $100,000, institution was founded, There many other gifts that would make a are long list. Mr. Deering is the oldest and wealth- fest friend of the university and the announcement that there will be a do- for endowment not cause much surprise. Ac- cording to information the gift is to be presented as soon as President James, recently left: the University of assume management at is found to meet Mr. Deer- ble time, who Chicago to Evanston, ing’s approval, after reason, from the viewpoint of the institution’s are. The period of probation will as the manner in which wel not » long President James grasped the situation | as he found it has gone far toconvince friends of the university that its future is s with him. Negotiations under w for the af- filiation of Hedding cel Abing- ton, Ill, with the Northwestern, are taken as un indication of the polity of expansion the institution is to pursue under the presidency of Dr. James. For some time Mr. Deering has been in poor health. Recently he trans- ferred to his sons his interest in the jmmense harversting machine plant, and the real estate on which it stands, with the expressed intention of with- drawing from active business cares. ge at = Marriage in Hindostan, In Hindostan the arrangements for a wedding are made hy the parents of the bride and bridegroom, who, when the alliance is agreed upon very like- ly behold one another for the first time. Then there is no appearance of reluctance about the bride, who play- fully skips toward her future husband and seats herself beside him. The priest's part is to tie a corner of the bride's veil to the bridegroom's shew, A Dime Well ft ated. Tt was an Odessa, Pa., youth, accord- ing to one of the Lafayette county pa- pers, upon whom this advertisement made a deep impression: “Young man—Some woman dearly loves you. Would you know who she is? She would like to be your only sweetheart. Send ten cents in stamps to Occult Diviner, address as above, and learn her name.” He sent the stamps and got his answer, What was it? “Mother.” — ee ee lA GREAT MONUMENT. The Hieroglyphic Stairway Found at Copan, Honduras. Finest Specimen of Aboriginal Amer- jean Architecture in Existence —lts Beauty Is a Puzzle to Archaeologists, The remarkable hieroglyphic stair- way at Copan, not far from the boundary of Guatemala, is in many ways the isost important and in- teresting monument of aboriginal American architecture that has ever been brought to light by the excava- tions of the archaeologist. Ten years ago it was practically unknown, but since then it has been uncovered and studied as a whole by the various Co- pan expeditions of the Peabody mu- seum of American archaeology and ethnology at Harvard, under the di- rection of George B. Gordon, whose elaborate report on the discovery and restoration of the stairway—just is- sued to subscribers by the museum au- thorities—affords much incidental in- formation concerning a memorable prehistoric civilization that may prove to be older than even the Assyrian or the Egyptian—that of the ancient Maya people which once dwelt in the plains and valleys of Central Amer- ica. How many hundreds—or thousands —of years old the hieroglyphic stair- way really is, even the archaeologist hardly ventures to guess. It is a prin- cipal feature of the ruined acropolis of what is known to be one of the most ancient cities on the American con- tinent, the annals of which, however, were no more than a shadowy legend even when the Spaniards came to Mexico; and in spite of the fact that the steps of the stairway carry, graven in a series of picture characters or hieroglyphics, what is apparently some kind of a continuous chronolog- ical record, these “glyps” are still, for the most part, quite undecipherable, and the record which they contain is as yet little more than an ‘archaeolog- ical puzzle—though to solve it might in Honduras, ABORIGINAL SCULPTURE. (Rare Work of Art Discc Centra vereé at Copan, in America.) well mean the opening up of a chapter s it is mys- tructure of he ci ity is 1id, which at one time was crowned by bui a height of about 85 some publ I a temple or palace—rises to On the western slope of this pyramid is the hieroglyphic stairway, originally af- fording access from a square or plaza below to the temple above and a sys- tem of terraced courts beyond. At some time in the past, however, a land- slide swept away the symmetry of two large faces of the pyramid and brought down the upper steps of the great staircase in an almost indistin- guishable mass of debris which com- pletely buried the lower stairs, so that when Mr. Gordon first visited Copan the whole plan of the stairway was en- tirely obliterated, and the pyramid it- self was little more than an overgrown mound of earth and broken stones. Four entire seasons were required to bring something like order out of this chaos. From 50 to 100 laborers were at one time constantly employed, and the fragments which were re- moved covered an acre of ground. Every important fragment was care- fully molded, and the molds shipped to Cambridge in order that some day a restoration of the whole staircase may be made and set up in the Peabody museum. Only 15 of the 40 or 50 up- per steps which went down in the land- slide retained in any degree their iden- tity or their relative positions, how- ever. Hedgehog Kills a Vipe A resident at Versailles, M. Guignet, sends to Nature a vivid account of a duel he saw between a hedgehog anda viper. The two enemies knew very well at first sight who was who, and eyed each other as if they knew a moment’s inattention would be fatal. The viper was the first to get tired of gazing and it began to glide away. Just then the hedgehog rushed for the viper’s tail, and having nailed it fast with his teeth, it rolled itself up. The hedgehog was very careful, however, not to cut the tail off. The viper curled back, and delivered furious assaults on its ag- gressor, wrestling and rolling with the curled-up hedgehog all over the place. At length the snake, wounded ina hun- dred places, died. The hedgehog be- gan its repast on the tail of its victim, and was careful not to eat the head. Attentive Bible Reader. From early youth Ambrose §, Ottey, ef Cecil county, Md., has been an at- tentive reader of the Bible. He has read it from beginning to end 117 times, and informs us that it contains 1,189 chapters, 31,198 verses, 773,697 words, and 3,566,420 letters._ a Ne SEP <ieenicneeneneneenentis sneeessssseensseneee ees Sess sss sssssssnessnsssonssssesesesssnsrersensssessee-anes pesenesesnses-enecenneeseeseen ATTENTION LA S -Hair Restorer.— All wno are dersirous of having @ beautiful suit of hair, or if your hair is falling out, yon should get a bottle of Hairoline, better known as the Renowned Hair Restorer Oriental Complexion Cre m ao cures all skin diseases and makes the skin like velvet. Price, 25e to 75e per bottle, Treatment of the Skin Scalp STRAIGHTENING A SPECIALTY. All kinds of implements ana toilet articles for sale. 1304 4th Street Northwest. Agency at THE BEE Office. and J. B. Dabney, Funeral Director Hiring. Livery and Sale Stable carriages hired for tunerals ties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carriages kept in first-class style ana satisfation guaranteed. Busines at 1132 3rd Street, N. W. Main Office Branch * 222 Alfred Street, Alexandria, a. Telephone for Office Main 1727 ‘Telephcne call for Stable Main 1482-5. Our Stables, In Freeman's Alley Where I can accommodate fifty horses. Call and imspect our new and wodern caskets and in- vestigate our methods of doing First-class work. 1182 rd St. wn. w. J H. DABNEY, Proprietor WOMAN FIGHTS SNAKE. Kills Reptile in Cellar After an Ex- citing Experience Lasting Near- ly a Whole Hour, A woman fought with a snake ina dark cellar for nearly an hour in Phil- adelphia. The contest ended with the death of the reptile. Mrs. George H. Smith, who lives at Jackson and Bridge streets, Frankfort, went into the cellar of her home to get some coal. She was just about to go upstairs when she heard a h ing sound, and, turning in the direc tion of the noise, saw two e3 es gleame DEFENDED HERSELF NOBLY. ing in a dark corner. The next instant a snake made fer her. Seizing a broom handle which lay by the stairs, the woman defended her- self from the attack of the snake. At the same time she tried to strike the reptile with her club, but the snake was too quick for her. Finally, after a struggle of nearly an hour, she drove the reptile into 2 cor- ner and killed it with the club. The reptile proved to be a water sna ubout three feetinlength. How it got into the cellar is not known. Never Heard Lord’s Prayer, If Hetty Williams, of Fort Scott, Kan., could have repeated the Lord’s prayer she might have had one year less to serve in prison—but she couldn't. She confessed she never had even heard ghe prayer. She is a dashing and rather pretty young woman of the frontier who has been convicted of horse stealing. The evi- dence showed she was a professional. The court, moved by her youth, after having sentenced her to five years in the penitentiary, offered to reduee the term of four years if she would repeat the Lord’s prayer as an indi- eation that there was good ground in her heart in which to start a crop of reform. Hetty owned up frankly she didn’t know a word of it. She will serve five years. The Children of Drunkards, A noted physician of Paris asserta that it is impossible for an habitual drunkard to have sound children. Cost of Corer at In connection with the news from London that the price of good win- | dows commanding the coronation pro- cession of Edward VII has gone up to something like $365, it may be noted j that at the coronation of Edward I. the price of a seat was half a farthing; | in Edward II.’s time a whole farthing was required; to see Edward ITT. cost a halfpenny. A good seat for Edward IV.’s procession cost two pence, and for Edward VI. the price was four ' pence. 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Shakes- peare refers to it in “Much Ado About Nathing” when he makes Beatrice say to Ursula and Hero, who had been speaking of her: “What fire is in mine ” The burning of the ears is ears? supposed to be due to the agency of guardian angels, who touch the left ear if the talk be favorable, and the right if it be otherwise, in order that their charges may be encouraged or warned, as the case may be. j Batrachian, “You say,” said the city editor, pointing out the word in the manu- ecript, “she sung with a ‘warty’ soice. What do you mean by that? “That ought to be plain enough for anybody,” replied the sporting editor, who had been detailed, in the absence ef the musical editor, to write up & eoncert. “She had a frog in her throat.”—Chicago Tribune. Wants Women to Wear Hats. } In an address before the diocesan convention of the New Jersey Episeo- pal church, Bishop Scarborough called attention to the growing practice of women appearing hatless in public places. It had been extended to at- tendance at divine worship, which he thought, was not a consistent practice, and he hoped it would be discontinued. asp cancun saniamenoaeenndie pomemnonin mditonia neg ee Sameer ot enemies or james: fe emennammrnanmte 9