The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 7

~ SHE 8 ‘A Miss May CLEMATIS. WASN’T THE REAL THING. Posed as a Social Showed a Qacen, Woetal Ignorance of the Requirements. She looked like “the real thing.” The women in the corridor, who were groomed, looked her enviously as swished rhythmically into the re- of the hall men supplemented this atten- with miring softly modulated = “whe relates the New York The dozen in the also after becomingly she past them ception room at the and the tion end nods and w-ew-ews,” Times. people already gathered reception room reading and talking were likewise visibly im- pressed with the general excellence of her manner and appearance and every one of them would > been willing But She! aaa HS ius bE —— LETTERS FROM HEAVEN. dianapolia Crank to the Nation- al Treasury Department. For five or six years the treasury de- yartment has periodically received a etter or epistle from an Indianapolis nan who signs himself “Unite nm Heaven,” and who dates his epistles “Heaven sications is in line with all the others, and although terestin of matter which sometimes reaches the executive partments. This o “Heaven, 52, 9, 15,” ‘I do not ¢ States The latest of these commu- brief is i showing the de- n is dated and is as follows: Te to set up my oF others of ion in controversy with the American bar, but I have oppose Panama canal because I think it un- riages are dangerous 4] to take o; h jee! ore ee ae ssn't @ Kink wise, because the French company has miliar with a doubtful title.” It iss United ie friendship should be scontaetaaee ates in Heaven.” eee! el ae communications from this eor- srefuland do not allow | that we ae toward deel. respondent are peempey transferred ing th Ss} ected etek to the waste basket, and from there fully : ie ores are carried out by the charwomen who Happin Agia : , aie ‘ar : oe lean up the treasu rtment. No s y > hu J i ay et hie lite OBSWer is sent to t “heaven- atte~ tha : tle Es : Be ly” correspondent. In some of the de- an shatwou can hota | the ; i o a ‘ puriments the heads are sc exceed g- oie Pecans sey te t e ! , in. ly courteous in their treatment of cor- ’ , sii ; , aris respondents that. they might be « Vou are bound t e your] fae o abate ndall who P0€d to insist upon an answer ti , cuior wards him willy ine “*"° munications of this kind, but this is not eparation You eee Stee ranuaal : so in the treasury departmen : Sl enaiheae wrace and culturewailea (mEtO™ Star, wx it is seen absolute i e doing we c= lade ot : " \ly that a or her Pte ers a What has happened?” she cried beset vy satan’ : “You'y tamed oi ekc clocteie n the most e ‘ ype lo Tet light said a po who had rushed THE ACTORS OF CHINA elfish actior in to prevent a possible crime. “What m= ssi 1 want?” Theirs Is a Which Once : a or c ; ated to call a bell boy,” sobbed Adopted ls Vital to Those Who b . a apotheosis. “I thought that was Follow it. the button.” etain the oe ROYAL COPPER JEWELRY. well paid, ikewise are much me Sig in| TRSt Metal Is Very Popalar for Caf getor e at the public ex apes Links, Belt Buckles ee iie= tikes 1 ous Other Art which i way Lo ] ve posit he latest of the com-| ion when once adopted, is vital to ; myidlearpete ML enon (t Once E doctor ss yourself BS) OU) AS ERO: MOENS eagle: to a 4 young actor sted now Beauty wil sy employed, and all| whose as in a bad condition = h life, ! te things’ in Cie’ way of m s treatment. The foot i i f the result of } \ iat fe Show jury caused by a fall én the sta e $ esd mink : so used, | Filth and negligence kad done tt a iaine Om rs you are tee 5 pits eed bea rest and there was very tittle chance : i t ee taal ag [Of the man’s recovery, still the doc t ldo gun metal, which is eséentialty | felt that he should take that i cr pina) as ee -hance and the refore took off, the ‘ It Sone entails loctor y healed once ip \ k a ee ancl seca leane cack) a to go on the stag Phe doc d F same as would a similar article of |(fO%, ftted him with an artificial leg é " r und. ¥ 1 sound ind his good forts He at _ - he so n und the shiny |OPC® Uneerioo’ 2 pal storms is le think it ig | Was, knocked off to the horror of the not be so careless | pretti i vudience. After the ‘ A es ae : articles shown |JeBt be was carried 2 ibsom this fall are delightfe artiste) eer . ve the me in ich silver ioncnead heads ittle about artifice gs and each scoala . bad ed io gip_| time the dramatic incident occurred, " = rela sees win cae they regarded it as a miracte © better u 110 ai ee caea, are amu the mest| SNUG LITTLE FRENCH INNS. becoming. You t ane) ee note uso used | cyarming Otd Hostelries Which Have : sa th latene for as cineca Coe saa tenets ates Been Greatly Uelp by ihe t 1 \ siti bie Ht is ‘scarce at Automobiie. presen ne more plen- i sioiebts t ke are better] «4 talk about the decadence ' ? : ed for turning it out those delishtl eenek (ane .e BOOKS ON STREET CARS. sapere PU ie ec ae r ne wl New Vorkers Are Noticeably Given | ‘tip. “The ete stone t 1 ‘ gids Sa a to the Habit of Reading While ; oe ra their pat 4 stranget One : in Transit } —ee Soo | took to riding along those t reet-car-riding public of New |beantifal roads instead of whizzing g id about it, says the New i what charmi those k Times. ‘! in who said them | 4 ire! ‘Their immacu antique pretty well acquainted with tha > monsieur with his cheery > the lady el Late dances are vulgar id lf xc row whe you afr right. Do not be hasty you o find him out hy familiarity) wilt ect tor you \ ino in your company should ne =e hing astreetcar is vulgar all you know to appea nyince who previously hi yn of you, that you have are dangerous to the feet iress will not become a lady. Donot practice deception w others to talk about ener always, you May cighbor that you hows that you are a ery one you do not 1 are king. es to your friends of in you | onfidence friend ship en- same are 1 friend is the 2 good mother, both pis a gem. dnd when youd friendship dees not last f © admire your dress and >vch admiration is not lasting. street car habits of every large city in the United States, and his verdiet ight to be 1 ynething. “You Gothamites may be great on push and pull and hustle,” he said, but if t number of library books een in reet cars e days are an index to the publie taste, you also stack up pretty well intelligently. I never struck a town where so many street car passengers read librar books Even in th ish hours, when it is all a person can do to find space for his body, half the peo- ple are bent on mental expansion, Library books stare you in the face. jab you in the back and hump your elbows on the right and left. I have never taken the trouble to find out the kind of literature that there abounc but whatever the nature of the books, the traveling Hbraries thus displayed certainly do give New York a mighty cultured appearance.” Big Trees of Florida. It is difficult age of the ancient ‘ Life in America, number even ne to guess at live oaks, says but some centuri and them ail with its ground | with limbs trunks of trees a garden of aerial ferns This Country of them must and greatest of of the the oldest torest, g the 120 feet across. is a monarch outer in a circle t as ordinary branches sweepi as gre and bearing and air plants upon their bark. tree ak in Florida. venerable largest live Enormous grapevine ks rise-sinuously from the ground and lose themselves amid the quarter-acre of foliage that crowns this tree; gave them support the saplings that have ap- their oniy and curves once ed long ord beirg the ape vine stem to which they lent aid in climbing sky- years ago, angles their transient ward No Quails in Ireland. Quails are now said to be extinct in Ireland, where they were formerly | ligestion, dyspepsia, to be found in great numbers. is supposed to be the | the black-eyed waitir awkward chore boy; there is a cde 1 ful quaintness about the place not to jbe fou elsewhere And after the evening meal what a pleasure it is to | sit on one of those cozy porches over- looking the queer little town nestled at the foot of the great chateau “Others may pass their time abroad in the tial hote found in the to be t cities,” said the traveler, ac cordir to the New York Tribune, *but me ive me one of the snug > inns hidden away in the terior of France.” TEN MEN AND A SAFE. | Three Doors to a Box Have Co trolled by Immense Strong Con- hat Number. In the sub-basement of one | big life of our insurance companies is a safe so iarge that a sion perform doors, the ¢ theatrical company therein. There are three mbinations of | which are controll xy ten men. Each }man, a h ficial of the company, is an integ part of the integral whole jsays the New York stance: Five men are required to open the ovter door, |part of the entire combination and no jmore. A having set the gratings in his |sombinatioa, is followed in turn by B, |C. D. and when the may be moved. In the same manner the second |door is opened by three men in com- | bination, and the third two, in the lat- Iter case each being in For in ach knowing a fifth bolt combination with one or more of the other eight lon the outer and second doors. The jsafe is rega d as safe No Breakfast Society. A society has been formed in Man- chester, England, the members of which eschew the morping meal. The |non-breakfasters contend that break- lfast retards activity of both mind and body, and is a fertile cause of in- and like ail nents. itrange Communieationa of an Im« | VIRTUE WAS REWARDED. P Am Ohio Boy Receives Large Reward for Simple Politeness and Free- dom from Vices. Items telling how young men and young women have been rewarded for teturning packages ef mone ‘y and bags of diamonds wéth gifts varying from one to five dollars have been so nu- merous recently that the old adage about virtue being its own reward has been beautifully exemplified, ing to the Milwaukee Sentinel. face of many accord- In the evidences of a lack of generosity toward those who are truly good, it is pleasant news that an Ohio boy has received $2,100 froma stranger to whom he was polite. The name of the Frank fortunate Prevost. He is 19 boy is old, years and he drives a delivery wagon. The other day, when a man asked him for a ride, he obligingly gave the unknown a place on the seat beside him. When the drive was ended the str ser in- vited the young man to take a drink. Frank refused. Next the tempter of- fered a chew of tobacco. This was de- clined. Lastly a ¢ was used as 2 it. Frank was stilladamant. Mod stly he had none In a few days da check for $2,100 from announced that he the ¢ 10N Vices. nk receive stranger, who disclosed the fact e was a San Francisco million- when he e to recognize virtue found it Up to last accounts Frank’s he had not been turned by his sud- den »0d fortune. He had put his noney in a bank and he was still driv- ing a delivery wagon. In two years he intends to st a business of his will the money kings of the own, and, if he does, of course, he become one of future. RICH REPUBLIC OF MONKS. . ix an Independ- ouweslth, On th point of the sac Mount At the Turkish per sula Chalkidike a settlement of 000 monks, scattered among 20 mon eries, the whole forming a mon ¢ republic in the dominions of sultan, to whom they are tribu- tary The yearly tribute they pay to Abdul H id ne is a smail one, but the s ret »y the republic, which is rich ind counts many millionaires among its membgrs. As an ‘independent commonwe the republic maintains its own a sailing vesse!, called Polkroy 1 wiatyja Bogorotizy \ short time since this vessel lay in the harbo of the south Russian town of Tag anr She is in reality a floating onaster, black, she at her cies bow the i ero: of the Pantelei monastery on Mount Athos. The captain, Father Gerassim, and the whole crew are mon Mount Athos and wear the mon ic I H N Yor 1 Th msists of ho ‘i! from or the Panteleimon nonastery in) Moscow There is a trech on board and all of the crew live under the ri of their order TOO LAZY TO GET UP. re Who Lett His Bed or Dressed Himself Has Not for ‘Ten Years. cars | An original character taron | Hugo Ortliet, a millionaire vho spends his time between his magniti vent palaces at St. Petersburg and Moseow and his supurb country seat rear Kazan, but always in bed, says the Philadelphia Press For ten years he has not got up or dressed Phere has never been anything the matter with him phy- sically, and even to-day, in spite of bis bulk, his bodily condition fur- aishes a striking illustration of the fallacy of the assertion that much se is indispensable to the pr servation of health But se about 1892, after hay ' ave conceivable form of ar -itement, he took to his bed from r¢ mid has there e wee He does not even leave it when he his bed being earried from rooms to specially-constructed ge and tl to his private cailwa loon, and he always trav 2ls by special train. He is quite an average man in all other respects, mana his immense property with the greatest sugacity and shrewd- aess, and is brilliant and witty in ronversation. ! Unjustly Paniahed. end of mine returning to up *s shooting, s: Army, s she be: a writer ddenly came in ght eat g r with two cubs ollowing in single file, proceeding ilong a ridge, the forms of the g sharply silhouetted against the sky. It was a very three long shot, but Le letermined to try it, so drew a bead m the old she bear and fired, The esult was curiow Vhe procession stopped, the she bear scratched her- self hastily, then turned around, and. regarding the cub immediately be- rind with grave disapproval, boxed ts ears soundly lling cn ander the impression some offsprin anusually objectionable tricks. and then went trur- the r e along evidently that her frolic- had been up to some Oldest Schoolhouse. The “old log school house” at Camp Run, Westmoreland county, Pa., is iaid by the Young People’s Weekly |s0 be the oldest school house in this sountry. It is very primitive in all ts appointments, but the teacher, Miss Cella J. Miller, who is only 16 years old, has enlisted the help of the ; ‘big boys” to make some improve- | nents. ~ loon on its ALTENiiUn Li D.Es!! -Hair hi torer.— All wno ave dersirous of having teanuiful suit of hair, or if your air is falli: g out, you shonid get bottle of Hairoline, better know: s the Renowned Hair Restore: Vrienial Gomplexion Cre m= x ures all shin diseases and m he skin hke velvet. Price, 2 ?5e per bottle, Treatment of Sealp STRAIGHTENING A SPECIALTY. All kinds of implements ana toilet articles for gale. 1304 4th Street Northwest. Agency at THE BEE Office. & de to the Skin ard i. J. B. Dabney, Funeral Director Hiring. 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Young M ht in a fall Rope Rises t and Escapes Without Hart, e-an i ne ot day i fo « in the y e « von and he ar- ' and ied \ > top ng Prof. Hillman, sronaut, who has 4 et SUSPENDED HEAD DOWNWARD been and | parachute Hillman’s one, exhibitions at Hoag park. | nlloon, a was being hot air prepared for the aft- massive ernoon exhibition, and Ward and cth- | eee ers were assisting. | Everythi ready, the professor ave the word, j and swift- ly mounted into the air with the pro- | fessor ha parachute. out of the way released, but his one of the guy to the horror of the sev- | spectators, he was car- into the sir suspended head | His weight held the bal- | in danger of an im- and certain death | Hillman acted quickly. | from the balloon about ronaut, and be- | lf the the balloon was released, ng to the Ward started to get as the 1 ropes, balloon wa ft foot caught in and, eral thou ried downward. side, mediate collapse to both me rd dang ten feet yond brought to was some above the a +h un upright pe ehance words of his r balloon was | ion there | for Ward, so, after as to how to nd draw himself up- sased the parachute | 200 Yeet in the air and came a few advice secure himself right, Hillir when but safely to the groun¢ The balloon, freed from _ this weight, righted itself and shot up- ward and across ake, which is about half a mile wide. 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