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THE NATIONAL FORUM Library of Congress City. VOL. I. No. 21. --- ISRAEL METROPOLITAN C. M. E. CHURCH Corner First and B Streets, S. W., Rev. R. Kent Harris, Pastor, 41 D Street, S. E.; Miss A. Woods, Church Editress, 1106 O Street, N. W. CHURCH SERVICES. Sunday-school, 9.30 to 10.55 A.M., Mr. John Boston, superintendent; Miss B. Clifford, assistant superintendent. Preaching, 11 A.M.; night services, 7.45 P. M. There are dark days in every year; days on which the sun is hidden behind dark threatening clouds and the sky is a leaden gray, as was Sunday, September 11, 1910. There are what may be called gray days in every human life; days of mental mists and drizzle, when the heaven of thought is overcast and no glimpse of brightness breaks upon the soul. But whether there were clouds in the sky of any one or more of those persons present at Israel C. M. E. Church last Sunday, or whether the weather's gloom had cast a spell somewhat depressing over any, certain it was that after listening to Brother Severson, who, in the absence of our beloved pastor, Rev. Harris, discoursed extemporaneously upon that passage of scripture beginning "I am the Way, Truth and the Light," etc., all feeling of gloom or depression must surely have been forgotten, and instead the sweet assurances of our dear Savior became more firmly and lovingly fastened upon our minds and souls. Added to the uplifting sermon from which we gained more understanding of the purpose and ain. of existence, and saw more clearly, as expressed by Brother Severson, that Jesus prepared for us many glorious mansions by His exalted life and His conformity to the ideal, the very appropriate music of the choir, selected by our efficient leader, Mr. Joseph Wilson, increased the spiritual enjoyment of the congregation. Our regular organist being absent, Mrs. Sarah Moxah rendered excellent service in her place. The painting and beautifying of the church building is progressing rapidly. Already the fence has been painted, and on Labor Day the decoration of the first story was started. The brethren of the church spent the greatest portion of their holiday in that Christian labor, and were amply rewarded by a very enjoyable dinner prepared by the faithful sisters. The work on the outside walls will soon be started. Miss Carrie Tibbett of Southeast Washington is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Indeed, Hymen, the God of Marriage, is playing us some odd tricks, for we had hardly been able to realize the truth of the announcement of the marriage of Miss Noomi Boston, secretary of the Sunday-school, to Mr. Noble, than we learned of the marriage of Miss Ruby Nichols, who will make her home in Philadelphia, the birthplace of her husband. Miss Ruby Nichols formerly resided at 1959 3d street N. W., and is the sister of Miss Nannie Nichols, one of the leading alto singers of Israel C. M. E. Church choir. There will be a special sermon preached to the local Elks by Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Sunday, September 18, under the auspices of Companies H and P, together with Company Q, of the Men's Regiment of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. PULPITS AND PEWS Dr. A. C. Garner, Pastor, 493 T Street, N. W.; Miss Gussie Harrod, Editress, 1145 Fifteenth Street. Sunday-school, 9.30 to 10.50 A. M.; H. R. Adams, superintendent; J. S. Neal, assistant superintendent. Preaching, 11 A. M.; vesper service, 6.30 P. M. Last Sunday morning being our first communion in the beginning of the new church year's active work, special effort was made to have as many as possible present, especially the aged members of the church. God in his providence has taken so many of the old faithful founders of our church from labor to reward that we have only a few remaining to share the pleasures and trials of our church life. Among those who worshiped with us on Sunday by special effort were Mr. Frank Brown, Mr. King of Marudian Hill, and Mrs. Louisa Washington. The congregation listened with attention to an impressive sermon preached by our beloved pastor, Dr. Garner, from I Cor. 7:31, subject, "Transient Life." The junior choir sang sweetly, and the service throughout was unusually impressive. Mr. John L. Lacy was ordained Senior Deacon of our church to fill the unexpired term of our esteemed and beloved late Senior Deacon, Brother Henry W. Freeman. Mr. Lacy, like Mr. Freeman, was one of the founders of the church, and in the choice of him as Senior Deacon the church is to be congratulated. Dr. Garner conducted the services, that were very impressive. The Y. P. S. C. E. was well attended in the evening, and Mrs. J. E. Buckner of Louisville, Ky., made an interesting address on the subject "Forward." The trustees entertained the financial club on last Monday evening at the residence of Mr. James Cox, 2117 Newport Place. After business transactions a delicious collation was served in their beautiful dining-room, and everyone enjoyed a delightful evening. Special effort is being made by the trustees to raise more money this year than ever before and clear all indebtedness of the church. A committee of seven was appointed to make plans to this end, to be presented to the financial club on Friday night, September 16. Miss L. Joice is to lead the endeavor meeting on Sunday evening, September 18. Miss Martha Lee's Sunday-school class will assist the junior choir in furnishing the musical program. All members and friends of the church are earnestly requested to be present to help us encourage the young ones, as special effort will be made this year to keep them deeply interested in all the services. Several of our Sunday-school workers have returned from their vacation and taken up the work with renewed zeal, but a few are still away. Among our members who have recently returned are Mrs. Alice Joice, Mrs. G. Ford, Mrs. Susan Washington, Miss Sadie Shorter—all seemingly much benefited by their trip. Miss Lilie Lacy, Miss Carrie Thomas, Mrs. Mary Douglass and others are still enjoying their vacation. Mr. W. O. Davis is in Baltimore this week attending the B. M. C. to represent the Excelsior Lodge 5441. Miss Catherine Smith is also attending the B. M. C. as a delegate from the Household of Ruth. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1910. SHILOH BAPSTIST CHURCH Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Pastor, 1334 V Street, N. W.; W. H. Scott, Church Editor, 1503 Pierce Place, N. W. Rev. F. W. Dixon, who has charge of Shiloh during the absence of Dr. J. M. Waldron, preached for us last Sunday morning, using for his subject "Truth." The sermons of Rev. Dixon, always interesting and instructive, was especially so on that occasion, and was listened to attentively. Rev. H. L. Goins preached at the evening service. During the absence of the pastor, though Rev. Dixon will visit the sick of the church as often as possible, it is especially desired that the members visit them also. Among those reported last Sunday were: Sister Julia Brooks of 440 O street, who was said to be somewhat improved. Brother Thomas Veney, 1126 21st street, is improving. Sister Ellen Rollins, who has been in Freedman's Hospital, has returned to her home, 1751 Seaton street. Sister Lucy Roy, though not entirely well, was able to attend the morning service last Sunday. Sister Gilbert of 1135 21st street, an invalid, though physically very weak, was reported by Rev. Dixon as being spiritually very strong. During his recent visit to her bedside he says she preached him one of the best sermons he ever heard. If not possible to visit the sick ones, then give them your prayers. Brother James A. Moss, who has been spending his vacation at his home in Louisa county, Virginia, and also actively assisting at the revial meetings, returned last week greatly improved in health and appearance. Brother W. H. Henderson and his wife reports having a splendid time at his home. The Board of Deacons, assisted by our Deaconesses, without whom it would hardly be a success, will give an entertainment on Wednesday evening, September 28, in the lecture-room of our church, for the benefit of the poor saints. If you are unable to attend, purchase a ticket, which is only 10 cents, and thereby help swell the fund, which is used for the poor and needy of the church. That the Rose Mission at Tenallytown, over which Rev. W. O. Coates has charge, is at work is evidenced by the announcement of a watermelon feast which they are preparing to give on Tuesday evening, September 27. It is to be given on the lot which they have just purchased and enclosed, and on which they hope at some time to build. The proceeds of the entertainment is for the benefit of the aged and orphans of their mission, and deserves to be encouraged. Go out and spend a pleasant evening with them and see what they are doing. Tickets of admission are 10 cents, and can be purchased from Brother W. O. Coates or Sisters Rose Campbell, R. E. Coates, Bettie Carter and Edmonia Smith. Brother Isaac C. Reddie of the choir returned last week from Baltimore, where he had been to visit his wife, who has been very ill. He says she is somewhat improved. During his absence he was greatly missed by the Christian Endeavor Society as well as the choir. Sister Sarah A. Lucas left the city last week for New York, to be absent till the middle of October. When the Deacons give their entertainment on the 27th of September her absence will certainly be noted, METROPOLITAN A.M.E CHURCH Pastor, Rev. N. Ross, 1444 Q Street, N. W.; Editor, E. G. Evans, 1015 Q Street, N. W. Sunday School at 9.30 A.M. The Electoral College of the Baltimore Conference, at which two laymen were elected to our next General Conference, assembled at Wayman Memorial Chapel, Baltimore, Md., the 7th inst. The delegation was not as large as we anticipated, but those present were the young blood of the church. It is a progressive sign for any organization to see its young men and women making strenuous efforts to become its representatives. It shows that they have faith in their organization and are willing to expend their time and talent for the betterment of all concerned, but encouragement is essential, or failure approaches; but if you are not willing to encourage, then close the doors of your common schools and nail up your high schools and colleges. The meeting was called to order by E. A. Thompson, Esq., of Annapolis, Md., and he was elected temporary chairman of the meeting, and Prof. Geo. S. White was elected secretary. After the devotional exercises the temporary organization was made permanent. The following gentlemen entered the contest for delegate: Messrs. T. Hilyard, J. T. Layton, Taylor Wilson, J. F. Blagburn, Geo. S. White and Frisby. Hilyard and Blagburn were elected on the second and third ballot, respectively, and Frisby and White were elected the alternates. The young men were very proud of their election, and we feel sure that they will make better churchmen. All of them, save Mr. Hilyard, are Sunday-school officers, as well as that of their churches. This seems to be "Oh, you Scott!" season among our members. On the 8th inst. Chaplain Scott was feasted by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bailey at their residence, 2210 12th street N. W. Their tables were loaded with plenty of the best and daintiest. The Helping Hand Circle entertained him Saturday evening, the 10th inst., at Mrs. Josephine Wheeler's, 1113 11th street N. W. The reception certainly reflected great credit upon every member of the club. The invited guest, as well as the members, seemed to be surcharged with adoration and admiration because of the achievements of Rev. Scott, both while pastor in this city and since being chaplain of the United States Army. Among the many invited guests and speakers were Hon. W. T. Vernon, Rev. Dr. John Hurst, Dr. I. N. Ross, Rev. Garner, toastmaster, and Rev. Dr. Sterling Brown. The speaker thrilled the for she is always faithful in the discharge of her duties. Among the number who went to Arlington, Va., recently to attend the Sunday-school rally were Sisters Edna Smith and Mary Roy, and Brother I. C. Reddie, Luke Reynolds, Wm. Smith, A. D. Gil, more and Jas, E. Kent. The superintendent of that school, Brother Hiram Ball, is the assistant teacher of the adult Bible Class at Shiloh. Judging by his zeal and interest in work with us, we know and are pleased to say that his work at Arlington is a grand success. Sisters Kate Washington and Louise Thomas are among the latest of our members who have returned home. audience with a spirit of brotherly love and church pride. One of the speakers advanced the thought or statement that the chaplain had his greatest struggles at Metropolitan, but won his greatest victory there also, and made of it an A. M. E. church. To us the statement is very true. What was it before he changed it, you ask? Well, if anyone asks you the question, you just tell him you don't know. Sunday was a high day at the church, although the Sundayschool wasn't as full and strong as has been during the summer. Dr. Conner, the superintendent, returned to his post. Rev. Mixon of Alabama was introduced, and made an inspiring address. Miss Kate Martin has returned from her trip to Atlantic City. Miss Addie Hall has returned from Shepherdtown, W. Va. Chaplain O. J. W. Scott preached to a crowded house at 11 A. M. His text was, "I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." His argument seemed more forcible and earnest than ever; his practical illustrations were striking and touching. The visiting divines were Rev. W. T. Vernon, Arnold and Mixon. The lecture on the "Mysteries of the Philippines" Monday night by Chaplin o. J. W. Scott was grand, patriotic, instructive and highly enjoyed throughout. Upon the platform were Rev. Dr. Vernon, John Hurst and I. N. Ross, and General Burt, once commander of the Twenty-fifth Infantry; Kev. U. S. Edwards and a bugler. The junior choir did itself proud in rendering its new music. The lecturer held his audience spellbound, shifting them from one magic scene to another for more than an hour. Gen. Andrew S. Burt, chairman of the meeting, and late commander of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, was introduced by Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross. The General, in a few choice selected words, paid a glowing account of and a righteous tribute to the bravery and manliness of the Twenty-fifth Infantry and the undisputable fine qualities, zeal and noble manhood demonstrated by the present chaplin, Dr. O. J. W. Scott, since appointed by the President of these United States, and then introduced the speaker of the evening. The speaker's first proposition was that a race is judged by its ideals and its activities along those lines followed by all civilized peoples. He told of many phases of army life—their mode of deportment, schooling, their physical exercises, athletic sports, their devotional exercises. He gave the house a sample of bugle language by having a young man talk through his bugle. After the lecture the house passed below to the lecture and Sunday-school room, where the guest of the evening sat down around a sumptuous table ladened with the best that the Wesley Club could find in the markets. Dr. W. T. Vernon was toastmaster, and rose to his fullest height in his endeavor to help pay a merited respect to one of his dear friends, Chaplain O. J. W. Scott. Mrs. Julia Hamilton, the president of the club, happily introduced toastmaster Dr. Vernon. Speeches were made by Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross, Sterling Brown, W. R. Arnold, John Hurst and Gen. A. S. Burt; Miss Mattie Bowens, Prof. W. H. Richards and our able chaplain, O. J. W. Scott. At a late hour the guests arose and fervently sang "God be with you till we meet again." Miss Manie Ross will have charge of this column the next two weeks while we are out of town. VANITY FAIR Conducted by JOHN H. WILLS. The Main Difference Between Civilized Man and the Savage Is—Savages Don't Read. The High Cost of Living and the Tariff. Everybody is talking about the high cost of living. There is good reason for the talk, for, as the grocer-poet say: "Times is hard and money's scarce, How to live is something fierce." Among the many causes ascribed to the high cost of living is our present system of tariff. Making a casual investigation, I find that the articles which show the greatest increase in cost are meat, eggs, butter, fish, fruit, vegetables, wood fuel—all products of nature and the soil. They are all much dearer than before the passage of the first great purely protective tariff act of 1883. There were protective tariff acts before that, but the act of 1883 was the first to embody the principle of protection for American industries, as opposed positively to the doctrine of tariff for revenue only. Since the passage of that act clothing, silk, cotton and wool fabrics, hats, shoes, teas, coffees, sugar, canned goods, drugs, furniture, paints, household utensils, tools, machinery, books and paper have become much cheaper. All manufactured articles have been cheapened as a direct as well as indirect result of that protective principle. Among the other necessities which have been cheapened indirectly by the tariff are transportation, illuminating oils and gas. All foodstuffs which come to the market in a natural state are higher in price. Those which are prepared by some process of manufacture are cheaper. This shows how the tariff has affected food prices. For instance, peaches and apples in the natural state have been rising steadily in price every year, while peaches and apples preserved, canned or manufactured in any form are becoming cheaper. Wheat and corn are dearer, but flour and meal cheaper. The rise in prices of the products of nature is not caused by the tariff, the lack of supply and the increase in demand, except in the case of wood fuel, but by one of the fundamental principles of economical finance, and that is, creating an artificial demand by restraining the natural supply. There are meats, grain and fruit a-plenty, but through the operation of the commission merchant system they are put on the market at an arbitrary price, and if unsold at that price are sent to the canneries; or they are stored in granaries and refrigerators for purpose of forcing the prices. This practice is old as trade, and the story of Joseph and his operations with the wheat of Pharaoh is not so much a miracle or fable as the account of a successful enhancement of the price of foodstuff by a clever financier of that age. So I am inclined to think that the high cost of living is mainly caused by the producers and merchants of foodstuffs forming trusts and operating in restraint of trade. What remedy the law can give has yet to be seen. As to the tariff, I am of the opinion also that many articles of manufacture are rated too high, and allow opportunity for an overprofit to the manufacturer. Our factories can make goods and ship them abroad for sale at a lower price than they are sold at home, which shows that an arbitrary high price is charged in the home market and that there is an artificial overprofit sufficient to allow exploiting and attempts to corner the foreign market. For an entire century the tariff ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. question has engaged the earnest attention of our greatest statesmen. As the country has grown and its industries developed there has been a gradual recognition of the soundness of the doctrine of protection, though the latter belief has changed in favor of low tariff protection instead of the high protection as expressed in the McKee bill of 1883 and modified in the McKinley and Dingley bills. We will soon see the expression in a tariff law of the low tariff idea of protection. I hope to discuss the high cost of living from another point of view and in relation to the house rent problem at another time. What Shall We Do to be Saved. (Being a Reply to "Crusader.") It gives me great pleasure to know that Crusader could find nothing more in my article on "The Colored Voter and the Democratic Party" to criticise than the closing paragraph, in which I advise the colored voters to get together and organize and help to turn the rascais out and replace them with good Republicans. Well, I think that good advice yet. There was never a time in history of the Negro in America when organization was more needed. With the solid South actively arrayed against us and the Northern Democrats holding out the bait of office in State and city, along with the attitude of the present administration toward Negro influence in the party, if organization is not needed, nothing else is. The Irish are Democrats, they are organized; the Germans are Republicans, they are organized; the Italians are Republicans, they are organized; the Jews do not concern themselves to any great extent with politics, but they are organized. All of these nationalities are closely organized, and any movement for their betterment is discussed and concerted action agreed upon, or any movement antagonistic to their interests finds presenting a united opposition. The Negro is alone of all straggling this way and that. What idea animates and unifies the entire Negro people of this country? On what are they all agreed? The forces which are acting against us are organized, solidly, actively and with great skill. There should be organizations of colored voters in every city, county, Congressional district, State, through which information, instruction and plan of action upon matters affecting our welfare can be put into action. If it be true that the colored voters of this country are "a horde of automatoms," as you say, then they will be more easily organized than if they "all want to lead," as others have charged. Organize the "automatoms," and then we will galvanize them into useful life. As to the rascals in command. Have you noticed what's going on? The people have served notice to quit to most of the old line of machine politicians, and many of them have not waited, but got out without waiting for the notice. Progress and pure government is the watchword of the hour, and the colored voter had better organize and get in line. As to Mr. Taft and your "modern Cagliostro," or the Big Noise, you may take your choice. With the solid South and its many villainies as the be all and end all of the Democratic party, I consider either or both of them better than a Democrat. (Continued on Page 3.) The National Forum Subscription Rates: One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....50 PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1022 You Street, N. W., Room 1. RALPH W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor. JOHN H. WILLS, Business Manager. C. L. BARNES, Special Agent. Entered as second-class matter, May 27, 1910, at the Postoffice at Washington, D. C., under Act of March 3, 1879. Address all communications, checks and money orders to R. W. WHITE, 1022 You Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. EDITORIALS It would seem that Mr. J. C. Waters, president of the Upper Classmen, has good grounds for the contention he is maintaining against what may be termed "Doctored Newspaper Reports." There can be no doubt but that in the majority of instances happenings, and we are willing to admit that some of them are of the most objectionable nature, when reported with reference to occurrences in which Negroes are concerned, are grossly exaggerated. One of our daily papers last week came out in glaring headlines "Race Riot," and when the facts were really investigated it proved that a few children on one of the playgrounds had gotten into a contention, and the result was that one little white boy struck another boy (colored) on the head, from which blow the latter died. This came out in glaring headlines, and was given all the prominence possible. By what stretch of imagination that reporter could caption that such, and by what system, save it was from pure malice and race antipathy, that paper could permit it to be so published, we are unable to see. Sifted to its last analysis, there is no reason to believe that any of the children had malice in their hearts, but when the affair is discussed, as discussed it will be about the different and several firesides, these little fellows will be inductively taught that they have done a great thing, and are heroes; thus the mischief is wrought. We have said, and we reiterate with emphasis, if a portion of the money that comes to the Negro by way of philanthropy were spent in the establishment, equipment and maintenance of a large newspaper plant, with facilities to go into alleged commitment of crimes and to investigate impartially many of the so-called happenings, the truth could and would be given to the world without color or tint of shade, and the Negro would appear in the light of what he really is, and not what he is maliciously made to be in many biased instances. PRECIPITOUS DEPOSITION. Still faint rumors fill the air of the probable deposition of one of our professors in the Law School of Howard. We can get no intelligent line upon the proposed decapitation, but hope the rumor is without foundation. We are only refraining from the mention of names because it is the strict policy of this paper to deal with principles, and not with men, and not because we are one bit timid about "naming our man," as they say in conventions. Whenever the question of eliminating this particular individual is raised here are a few things that every colored man, woman and child, not only in the District, but at large, should weigh and remember, viz.: It was this same man who broke all rules of the United States Senate and in a measure saved the day for Howard by way of securing to her appropriations that would, in all probability, otherwise not have been hers; that this very action placed the Law Department of Howard on a firm basis; that it saved to the colored people at the nation's head that branch of the university that deals with the knowledge of the rights of men; that it was the action and sacrifice of this man and the splendid exhibition of moral courage, coupled with an accurate knowledge of the law as regarded his and the rights of his people that has made it possible for the wife and child of every colored man to ride out of the District of Columbia without being "Jim Crowed." When the question of elimination and the steam roller process is broached it will be just as well to think on these things. We propose to have something to say about it whenever the question is raised, and, for that matter, whenever the question of deposing any colored man is raised, where that man has done his duty and is capable and competent. THE NEXT HOUSE. Maine has gone and done it. We have repeatedly tried to point out that unless there is a radical change in the political complexion of affairs we are likely to lose the next House. Of course, it is easily possible to lose Maine to our side and yet win out, but the effect of this defeat is at once encouraging to the Democracy and discouraging to the Republican party. It may serve as the source of impetus that will awaken every Republican to his duty and show him the more serious side of the pending struggle. There is no doubt but that Colonel Roosevelt's trip through the West has clarified matters considerably, but at that there is much to do. "The harvest is great and the laborers are few"—few because they are in many instances divided. There is no doubt but that by getting together the Republican party can win in November, but it will not have a margin more than broad enough to drive a twohorse wagon on at that. It is predicted by W. J. Browning, auditor of the national congressional committee, and chief clerk of the House, that by September 25 there will be set in operation plans so replete with argument within themselves that the welding of the Republican party will be only a matter of a few days, and that by the time election day is upon us we will present a solid front and win out easily. It is certainly to be hoped that the auditor's prediction is well founded. Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church In the lecture-room of the Galbraith Church on Monday night the Christian Endeavor workers met for their installation ceremonies. After a number of addresses and pledges for consecrated and zealous work, Dr. S. L. Corrothers, the pastor, installed the officers for the coming year. Among the officers the following were re-elected: Mr. Frank Spriggs, president; Rev. John H. Saunders, vice-president; Miss Victoria Lane, secretary; Mr. T. Chase, assistant secretary; Mrs. Lucy Counter, treasurer. Chairmen of committees, Mr. Thomas Hawkins, Mr. A. Sparrow, Miss Enner and Mellie Lune, Miss Anne Comtee, Mrs. Mary E. Shirr, Miss M. Liggons, Mr. W. Fletcher, Mr. W. H. Anderson. A Musical Genius. A Musical Genius. Conversing with Ford Dabney the other day I was surprised to find that he was so much of a composer. I have watched Ford from boyhood, and early recognized his ability and talent as a pianist, but he has later come to the fore as a lyric composer. Among his later compositions are The Minor Strain, a song now sung by Louise Dresser, with De Wolf Hopper in the "Matinee Idol." Bert Williams sings the same song in "Follies of 1910," in which is another composition by Dabney, entitled "Pensacola March," a song and dance chorus. He is writing a song by contract for Marie Cahill, entitled "Loving in Pyramid Land," and another entitled "I'll Go the Limit For You." Besides those mentioned and the three Mme. Aida Overton Walker is singing with the "Smart Set," he expects to have four or five other songs on Broadway before the season closes. Mrs. Millie Lewis, sewing teacher in the public schools, has returned from a two weeks' rest at Rocky Point, Md. Miss Emma George, teacher in the public schools, has returned to the city, after spending two weeks at Rocky Point, Md. Mrs. L. B. Moore and son, Tanner, have returned to the city, after a delightful visit at Pittsburg, Pa. Rev. Dr. M. W. D. Norman, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, left Monday morning for New Orleans, La., where he delivered the annual sermon on Wednesday evening at the National Baptist Convention. Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury, left Monday morning, in company with Chaplain O. J. Scott, Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, for Baltimore, Md.. for the opening session of the B. M. C. Hon. James A. Cobb, Assistant District Attorney, attended the opening session of the B. M. C. in Baltimore Monday. Attorney and Mrs. J. Louis Taylor left Thursday for Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Anna Hopkins and Miss Mary Curtis left Thursday for Baltimore to attend the grand parade of the Odd Fellows. The lecture given by Chaplain O. J. W. Scott on Monday evening at the Met. A. M. E. Church was a signal success. A large and appreciative audience turned out and gave him a grand ovation. The subject was "The Colored Soldiers in the Philippines." Before exhibiting the slides he gave a very interesting description of the trip to the Philippines and stay there and his return. The most interesting part of the lecture was the "Calls" and their interpretation. There was a bugler on the platform, who proved himself to be an adept in the reproduction of "Calls." Gen. Andrew S. Burt, former general of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, was present and made a few introductory remarks. After the lecture an informal reception was tendered Chaplain Scott in the lecture-room of the church by the Wesley Club. The Hon. W. T. Vernon acted as toastmaster. Those who responded were Dr. John Hurst, Rev. Arnold, Dr. Sterling N. Brown, Dr. I. N. Ross, Miss Mattie R. Bowen and Chaplain O. J. W. Scott. The death of Mr. James Bogues, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bogues, of $1432\frac{1}{2}$ Q street N. W., and a student of Cornell University, was a great shock to his host of friends and acquaintances. We extend to the bereaved parents our sympathy in their hour of grief and sadness. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Calloway were "at home" Monday evening at their residence, 1335 T street N. W., in honor of Mrs. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Assisting Mrs. Calloway in the receiving line were Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. E. C. Williams and Mrs. Warren G. Fearing. Refreshments were served under the direction of the genial Mr. Charles F. M. Browne. Some of those present were Prof. and Mrs. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Mrs. and Miss Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Whitefeld McKinley, Judge and Mrs. Robert H. Terrell, Prof. and Mrs. Kelly Miller, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Childs, Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Cabaniss, Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Baker, Dr. and Mrs. W. Bruce Evans, Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Harris, Prof. and Mrs. W. J. Decatur, Mrs. Stanislaus Boyce, Mrs. Arthur Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Pelham, Rev. and Mrs. Sterling N. Brown, Mrs. R. W. Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, Mrs. J. L. Chesnutt, Dr. and Mrs. M. O. D. Miss Gertrude Backus, Mrs. George M. Collins, Prof. and Mrs. A. U. Craig, Mrs. and Miss Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Johnson, Mrs. C. W. Fillmore, Miss Marie O. James, Mrs. John M. Langston, THE NATIONAL FORUM Mrs. Jesse Lawson, Prof. and Mrs. John T. Layton, Mrs. and Miss Meriwether, Miss Katie E. Moten, Mrs. Hugh N. Browne, Mrs. Thos. Walker, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Mrs. J. W. Cromwell, Mrs. and Miss Europe, Dr. F. J. Grimke, Prot. and Mrs. C. G. Harris, the Misses Howard, Mrs. Gank Langston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Nalle, Mrs. R. L. Pendleton, Miss Marion P. Shadd, Mrs. W. G. Haynes, Mrs. J. F. Bundy, Mrs. J. Milton Waldron, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Childress, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cornell, Mrs. Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. Felix F. Weir, Mrs. B. R. Pinchback, the Misses Wormley, Rev. and Mrs. M. W. Clair, Rev. O. L. Mitchell, Mrs. and Miss Dorsette, Dr. O. M. Atwood, Prof. B. G. Brawley, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Horner, Miss May Tyson, Mrs. Montague, Miss Love Derry, Prof. and Mrs. James Storum, Mrs. Daniels, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Washington, Mrs. W. A. Pinchback, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clifford, Miss Lillian Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cameron White, Miss Jennie B. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wilkerson, Dr. and Mrs. John Hurst, the Misses Atwood, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilder, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Brooks, Dr. W. L. Beard, James A. Cobb, C. F. M. Browne, Walter Dyson, L. G. Gregory, J. L. Neill, Prof. George William Cook, A. N. Sourlock, G. H. Benjamin, L. N. Neill and others. ELITE COLUMN Conduced by W. PRESTON BAYLESS, 1915 6th Street N. W. Miss Blanch L. Wright entertained at whist on last Wednesday evening in honor of Mrs. Earnestine Brown and Mrs. Florence Woodward of Chicago, both daughters of Father Thompson, founder of the St. Thomas Episcopal Church of Chicago, and cousins of Mrs. Kelley Miller of this city. The following ladies were present: Drs. Amanda Gray, Eva Ross, Mrs. Kelley Miller; Misses Edna Gray, Effie Simmons, Lula Allen, Bessie Shippen, Gerster Smallwood, Jennie Robinson, Lucille Nooks, Etta Maxwell and Minnie Brown of New York city. First prize in whist was won by Miss Jennie Robinson; consolation prize by Miss Etta Maxwell; booby prize by Miss Edna Gray. A guessing contest on the words "Wright," "Write," "Right," was arranged for the "Wright" party. Dr. A. V. Gray won the first prize, and Miss Smallwood booby prize. Dainty refreshments were served, after which the guests left for their homes with pleasant memories of the delightful evening spent at the "Wright" party. Mrs. Spencer Murray and her charming daughters, Misses Nettie and Edna, have returned from a pleasant outing of several weeks at Asbury Park. Mrs. T. J. Houston and family are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Houston of Baltimore during the B. M. C. Miss Inez Golsby, 1167 6th street N. E., entertained a party of young ladies last Tuesday evening. Misses Mamie and Essie Burrell have returned from Vineland, N. J., where they spent a very pleasant summer. York. Mr. David Brown is chairman of the New York delegation. Mrs. V. Scott, a teacher in the city schools of Paris, Tex., has resigned her position in the Bureau of the Census, where she has been employed since the close of her school last spring, and returned home to resume her school work. Hon. W. L. Houston, G. M. of G. U. O. O. F., accompanied by his wife and son, are the guests of Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Wheatley during the B. M. C. at Baltimore. Mrs. S. J. Slaughter and Miss Harriet Lee, who were in Westmoorland, W. Va., recuperating, have returned. Wednesday evening of last week a party of young people gave Miss Jennie Cornell a surprise party. A very delightful evening was spent Miss Cornell goes to Boston to attend Simmons College. Those present were: Misses Ruth Cornell, Dorothy Waring, Natalie McGinnis, Beatrice Childs, Ruth Grimshaw, Antonette Brooks, Eva Jackson of Pittsburg, Mabel Tunnell, Jessie Jenifer, Dorothy Johnson, Ruth Petsen, Eva Johnson of Macon, Ga.; Sylvia Piper, Wilhelmenia Talifero, Ermer Welch, Angella Braxton, Minnie Wilson, Lillian Wright and Edith Merriwether; Messrs. Benj. Piper, William Johnson, Walter Grimshaw, T. Price Hurst, William Haines, Maurice Curtis, James H. Waring, Jay Cox, Robert Brooks, T. Captan, William Writt, Nathan Nesbitt, John Fearing, Joe Martin, Arthur Tunnell, Theodore Turner, Claude Amos, Flavius Lucas and Ferdinand Amos. Miss Pearlie Lewis has returned from an extended trip in the West, visiting friends in Dayton, O., and in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Annie Watson, her daughter Thelma and mother, Mrs. Burgess, have returned from Thoroughfare, Va., where they spent the summer. Mrs. Alice Smith and daughter, Audrie, have returned from Buena, Va., where they were visiting. Miss Dorsett, 407 T street N.W., left for Tuskegee, Ala., last Sunday. Miss Adella Parks is visiting in New York city. Messrs. Elmer Burns and Vivian Mitchell returned from Atlantic City Wednesday. Mr. F. E. Parks is visiting dear friends in Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Celia M. Stewart, wife of Mr. C. H. Stewart, formerly advertising manager of the Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind., is visiting friends in the city. The international conference of Knights Templar, which met recently in Detroit, Mich., has chosen Washington as their next place of meeting, in September, 1912. Washington's degree team won first prize in conferring the Order of Knighthood. The colored clerks employed in the Census Office have formed a "Census Social Club," the object of which is to bring about an acquaintance among their fellow-workmen and to promote social relationships. The first meeting was held at Plymouth Congregational Church, and the following officers were elected: President, H. H. Thweatt of Georgia; vice-president, E. C. Jones, South Carolina; secretary, E. W. Harrison, Arkansas; assistant secretary, Miss Sewall, District of Columbia, and treasurer, E. L. Burns, Ohio. The organization is to be permanent during the life of the thirteenth census. An "acquaintance banquet" is planned for the near future. Prof. B. G. Brawley, a native of South Carolina, and son of Dr. E. M. Brawley, president of Morris College at Sumter, S. C., has come to Howard University as the head of the Department of English, succeeding the late Prof. Charles C. Cook. Professor Brawley is a graduate of three high-grade colleges, having secured the degree of A.B. at the Atlanta Baptist College. A.B. at the University of Chicago and A.M. at Harvard. For seven years he has been a member of the faculty at the Atlanta Baptist College, and is recognized the country over as an expert in all that pertains to the study of the English language. The advent of Professor Brawley will greatly strengthen the teaching corps at Howard, and is another step toward bringing to this magnificent institution the finest aggregation of colored scholars that money and prestige and opportunity can induce to come. Rev. A. C. Garner, Commissioner for the District of Columbia, has sent a very creditable exhibit to the Appalachian Exposition, which is now being held at Knoxville, Tenn. Chaplain O. J. W. Scott, of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, United States Army, delivered a highly instructive lecture Monday evening at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on the Philippine Islands. Chaplain Scott is in Baltimore this week attending the meeting of the B. M. C. Mr. E. P. Davis instructor in Latin and Greek at Howard University, has just finished a summer course at the Chicago University, and will write his thesis during the year. Mr. Davis is known as one of the ablest teachers of the classics in college circles, and will take hold of the work this year at Howard more thoroughly equipped than ever for the exacting duties that will fall to his lot. Bethel Literary and Historical Association will open its twenty-ninth year on Tuesday evening, October 4. The speaker will be Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, who will describe "The New Forward Movement," of which he is the responsible head, with offices in New York. The new president of Bethel, Mr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, has mapped out a fine program for the season, and his reputation as an executive of commanding ability guarantees that the organization will be maintained at the high standard set by his predecessors. Mr. Wilkinson is an instructor in the M Street High School. The officers of Bethel, besides the president, are: Elias G. Evans, first vice-president; Miss Parthenia Woodson, second vice-president; Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, recording secretary; Rev. A. C. Garner, corresponding secretary; Miss Mattie R. Bowen, treasurer; Miss Marie A. D. Madre, librarian; W. H. Richards, lecturer and counsel; Rev. I. N. Ross, chaplain; Harry Parker, marshal. The advisory board, or "cabinet," is made up of Elias G. Evans, chairman; L. G. Gregory, Rev. John Hurst, Dean Kelly Miller, Miss Ella M. Boston, Joseph H. Stewart, Mrs. Julia A. Hamilton, Ralph W. Tyler, Miss Marie C. James, James A. Cobb, J. Henry Lewis, R. W. Thompson, James A. Alston, Mrs. Lelia A. Pendleton, James H. Hayes, Dr. Laura E. Joiner, Mrs. Anna E. Waddleton, Charles H. Shorter, Dr. Walter H. Brooks, E. C. Williams, Ocea Taylor, Walter L. Smith, Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, Dr. A. M. Curtis and Dr. H. C. Scurlock. Bethel Literary was organized in 1881 by Bishop Daniel A. Payne of the African Methodist Church. The Independent Order of St. Luke has made phenomenal progress in this city in the past 11 months. A year ago the Order, as such, did not own a lead pencil, and its membership was small and scattered. Now a revival of spirit is manifested, the membership has quadrupled, and hundreds of dollars have been collected and placed to the credit of the organization in cash or property. Recently the St. Luke fraternity purchased for $8000 the commodious 10-room building at 1924 13th street N. W., in the heart of the best colored neighborhood of Washington, and on a street that is rapidly becom- ing a business thoroughfare. Eventually the building is to be arranged for stores and a branch of the St. Luke Bank at Richmond, Va., is to be installed in one of the business rooms. Space for enlargement is to be secured in the rear by the ultimate purchase of an additional building. Friday there will be held an old-time house-warming at this St. Luke Home from 12 M. to 11.30 P. M., and a large attendance is looked for. The officers of this wonderfully progressive department of the Independent Order of St. Luke in Washington are; Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, deputy; Rev. A. C. Garner, pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church, associate deputy; Miss Mattie R. Bowen, vice-president; Mrs. Sarah A. Barton, secretary; M. M. Peace, treasurer. Howard University will open for its forty-third year on the 19th. From present indications the enrollment will break all previous records, and President Thirkield and his associates are being confronted with the knotty problem of what to do with the mass of eager students who wish to come. Accommodiations will probably be arranged for 1500, an excess of 300 over the capacity enrollment of last year. Everything will be in readiness for the opening day. The main building and Miner Hall have been painted white, and present a spick-and-span appearance. The new $90,000 Science Hall is completed, and will add materially to the school's facilities for instruction in scientific branches. It is expected that the industrial building will be ready for occupancy before the end of the school year. The gymnasium project is being pushed with vigor by the Alumni, under the leadership of President Kelly Miller of the Alumni Association. President Thirkield's offices are now located in the new $50,000 Carnegie Library, and this structure is the pride of everyone connected with the rejuvenated Howard University. Dr. D. Webster Davis of Richmond, Va., preached a powerful sermon on "A Cheap Religion" last Sunday evening at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, as the opening feature of a week's financial rally under the auspices of the "Organized Women of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church." The edifice was packed to the doors, and standing room was at a premium. It was pretty generally reported that Dr. Davis would preach his "trial sermon," and everybody was anxious to hear the maiden effort of the divine, who is very generally regarded as the successor of the late Rev. George W. Lee as pastor of this church. Whether it was a "trial sermon" or not, Dr. Davis "made good," and his probability as pastor took on the color of a certainty. Dr. Davis is of truly national proportions, and a more fitting selection could not be made. The Independent Order of Good Samaritans will hold its grand lodge in Alexandria, Va., beginning on the 20th. Delegates from every section of the country will be in attendance. Thirty delegates from the Odd Fellow lodges of the District of Columbia went to Baltimore Monday morning to attend the fifteenth session of the Biennial Movable Committee, the legislative body of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. The delegation was in charge of H. H. Naylor and W. I. Lee. A big crowd of Washingtonians will go over on Thursday to witness the grand pageant and to take in the ball at the Lyric Theater. Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University, has published in the Nineteenth Century Magazine an article on "The American Negro as a Political Factor," and already the line of reasoning advanced by Professor Miller is being widely discussed throughout England and America. The Birmingham Daily Mail, a powerful molder of public sentiment in the British Empire, analyzes the salient points for the benefit of the English people, and the Review of Reviews on this side of the Atlantic goes into the subject at length, from the inspiration furnished by Dean Miller. These and other competent literary critics unite in pronouncing the article the most remarkable discussion of the Negro's political status that has yet appeared in print. The reading public of two continents will be pleased to know that Dean Miller has arranged to have the article appear in pamphlet form, and that copies will be ready for distribution about October 1. Thirty graduates of the Colored Normal School are engaged in a canvass of the city, with a view of increasing the school attendance for the ensuing year. There has been an alarming falling off in the enrollment of colored children of school age in recent years, and Assistant Superintendent R. C. Bruce has devised this method of bringing in children whose parents might not otherwise have their attention directed to the advantages offered by the public schools. As the number of graduates of the Normal School to receive appointments as teachers has been growing less and less, the young ladies are cheerfully co-operating with Professor Bruce in thus increasing the attendance, with a view of creating a demand for more teachers. Over 5000 non-attending colored children have been rounded up so far. Public night schools open on October 3. Dr. Arthur M. Brown of Birmingham, Ala., succeeds Dr. A. M. Curtis of this city as chairman of the surgical section of the National Medical Association. The Elks Club will give a grand barbecue at Greenwillow Park on September 22. The park will be open at 12 o'clock M., and remain open until 2 A. M. There will be a grand street parade from 12th and U streets to the ground. The Smart Set is in Baltimore, Md., playing to capacity this week. Our good friend, Jeff De Mount, is in Richmond, Va., at the Dixie this week and electrifying his audiences, as usual. Visit the Maceo Theater for clean, up-to-date shows. If you want to see the prettiest theater in town and enjoy a good program, go to the Blue Mouse, at 26th and M streets N. W. Howard University Notes The scholastic year in the School of Liberal Arts and Academic Departments of Howard University opens on September 21, the professional departments on October 1. The formal opening address will be given by Dr. Elmer E. Brown, the United States Commissioner of Education. The formal applications to the Deans of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Teachers' College promise an entering Freshman College Class of over 150—over twice the entire enrollment of the College Department four years ago. A gratifying surprise awaits old students in the transformation in the appearance of the main and minor halls within and without, gained at the expense of several thousand dollars. A large force during the entire summer has been earnestly at work under the direction of Secretary and Business Manager G. W. Cook. The new $80,000 steam-heating, electric and power plant will be pushed to as early a completion as possible. The enlargement of Howard is indicated by the fact that the steam equipment erected two years ago has been so soon outgrown. The tragic death of Prof. C. C. Cook is an irreparable loss. President Thirkield and Dr. Tunnell spoke at the funeral. His work will be taken up by Prof. B. G. Brawley, formerly of Atlanta Bap tist College, who is a brilliant English scholar and experienced teacher. Plans have been completed for offering to the students special work in the new Carnegie Library. Courses in library training will also be offered. A series of beautifully illuminated post cards giving attractive views of University Campus and buildings have been ordered. VANITY FAIR (Continued from Page 1.) Mr. Taft is the people's President, and as Presidents go, is about as good as they come, since there is no good and perfect thing in this world of sin and sorrow. His policy regarding the Negro in the South is a matter of pure politics rather than sympathy, and I do not think he meant colored officeholders only when he decides not to appoint them in communities that objected. With education, organization, watchful care and great labor we will finally answer all these vexing questions. The Pure-Milk Products The health departments of all the large cities, as well as the doctors and the learned highbrows, are trying to solve the milk problem. Milk, it seems, is quite an important article of food, and is used very largely as a food for babies, and however much the opponents and advocates of vegetable or animal food may argue, disagree and quarrel about which kind of food is best for grown-up humanity, they all agree that milk is the best food for babies. It only remains, then, to decide what kind of milk is best. Cow milk is in the lead for favor, goat milk has quite a number of advocates among infant epicures, and now and then we hear of an old-fashioned baby who prefers human milk. The reason I speak of this class of young persons as "old-fashioned" is because the idea seems to prevail among those who make any pretension to "education and culture" that any old food is better for babies than human milk. Now and then an "ignorant" immigrant, or mayhap some "uncultured" colored woman may believe human milk the best food for her baby, but those women who are esthetic, cultured, beautiful, fashionable, scientific or stylish, consider that the feeding of babies on human milk to be harmful to the baby, or the mother, or both; or old-fashioned; or destructive of charms every woman is proud of, and are of more importance to society than properly-fed babies; or too much trouble. Now, everyone knows that a cow's milk is intended for a calf, and as calf food it is the proper thing, but for babies, real human babies, it is not a success. It is not sweet enough, does not contain the proper amount and quality of fat and sugar, cannot be temperatured to normal human heat, can rarely be had fresh, and the results of its use are nervousness, fevers, constipation and nearly all the ills the infant flesh is heir to. If one may form opinions from a casual glance at the external evidences presented to the passing eye by that delicate art whose purpose seems to be to reveal what it conceals. I can form no reason why every baby should not be plentifully, indeed bountifully supplied with that food which God in His infinite mercy and glory has vouchsafed for his tender years. It Pays to Advertise. The season is open, and we must get up and hustle. No more vacations or sitting around taking things easy. We are offering the business folk a live, energetic, carefully edited paper, with ads, classified and selected. Our ads are all alive. We carry no dead ones to hide or smother those who pay. Our circulation is growing. We hope to add another thousand subscribers, which will mean about five thousand more readers, before Christmas. BASEBALL TEAMS PUNISH PITCHERS IN HOME STRETCH WHO HIT BATTER? Fans Figuring Chances of the Teams In World Series. Frank Chance's Team Will Not Have as Easy Time With Philadelphia as It Did With Detroit Tigers—Mack Has Strong Pitching Staff. Now that teams in the National and American league pennant race have hit the home stretch fans already are beginning to think about the world's series. The enthusiasts have awarded the banners to the Athletics in the American league and to the Chicagoos in the National league and now are speculating as to whether the White Elephants will make a better showing in the big series against the Cubs than the Tigers made. The Mack men of 1910 are a better set of athletes than the team of five years ago, which made such a sorry showing against the Glants in a series for the honors of the universe. Philadelphians are certain that the White Elephants will make a far better showing against the Cubs than the Tigers made. The rout of the Athletics in the world's series of 1905 was a terrible blow to Quaker fans, who imagined Harry Davis, Ralph Orlando Seybold and the other hard hitting Mack men would knock the curves of Christy Mathewson and Joe McClinnity galley west. What happened is a matter of history. Many critics on the major league circuits consider the Chicago National league club the grandest baseball machine in the country, and the Cubs will be the favorites over the White Elephants when the two teams get into the world's series. Eminent pastimers who have been spoken to on the subject aver that the Chicagoans will have a much harder time to beat the Philadelphiaians than they had to beat the Detroitis and say it is no moral certainty that the Teddy Bears will win the series. Ball players consider that the Philadelphia American league club's pitching staff is superior to Chicago's. Jack W Photo by American Press Association. EDDIE PLANK, ONE OF PHILADELPHIA STAR BOX MEN. Coombs is undoubtedly one of the greatest boxmen in the country. "Chief" Bender hasn't shown any signs of retrograding in his work. Minstrel Man Morgan is an able exponent of the spitball delivery, and Eddie Plank is as clever a left hander and as steady as any club possesses. Chance's probable gunners in the world's series will be Mordecal Brown, Jack Pfister, King Cole and Ed Reulbach. The "peerless leader" hardly would dare intrust the curving assignment in any of these important games to Lew Richie or Harry McIntyre, as the White Elephants have had lots of practice hitting against spitball pitchers. Orvie Overall is not likely to be of much use to the Cubs for the rest of the season and hardly would get a chance to perform in the world's series. Brown and Pfister will be Chance's mainstays. Mordecal isn't as good as he once was and has been hammered, freely several times this year. In the catching department the Cubs thoroughly outclass the Mack men. There is no doubt about Johnnie Kling being the best backstop in the country, and he and Jimmy Archer undoubtedly would thwart a great majority of the White Elephants to flick hassocks. The Philadelphia wind padlists—Ira Thomas, Jack Lapp and Paddy Livingstone—are all hard workers, but that about lets them out. They have pegged to bases fairly well this year, but not one of the trio is in Archer's class. The infields of the two teams are evenly matched. While the Cubs' outgardeners eclipse that of the Athletics, the consensus of opinion seems to be that the two teams are most evenly matched, and the world's series of 1910 will be the most stubbornly fought of any set of contests ever played for the greatest honors of the baseball universe. THE NATIONAL FORUM Penalty Should Be Imposed on Twirler For Such an Offense. GIVE BATSMEN THREE BASES. Slabbists Then Would Be Compelled to Use More Discretion—Boxmen, as a Rule, Do Not Intentionally Hit Man at Plate. Many close students of baseball are of the opinion that the penalty imposed on pitchers for hitting batsmen is altogether too light. It is suggested that the batter who is hit by a pitcher should be allowed to take more than one base. Some suggest that if a fine or suspension was imposed on a pitcher every time he hit a batter there would probably be a decided decrease in the "hit by pitcher" part of the tabulated scores. It is argued there is no satisfaction in awarding first base when a team may lose the services for weeks of one of its best players. If the man bit were allowed to take second or third base instead of first there would be fewer wild inshoots and fewer men struck. Pitchers then would be compelled to use a little more discretion and so many balls would not shoot by within a sixteenth of an inch of a player's head. If the pitcher found that by hitting a man he gave that player third base and stood in jeopardy of giving the opposing team a score he would soon change his tactics. Some may argue that certain players would walk into the ball and take a chance of getting hit if third base were the penalty, but the umpire usually can decide this point. No man is going to walk into a swiftly thrown ball if he can help himself, and those who tried to bump into a floater would not be able to get their point. Pitches, as a rule, do not intentionally try to hit or cripple a batsman, although there have been cases where strong suspicion was raised by a twister's "wild" heaves. A case in point arose during the first game of a double header played in New York last June between the Highlanders and the Athletics. Russell Ford was pitching for New York and Cy Morgan for the Quakers. Twice Morgan pitched the ball directly at Ford's head. The second effort grazed the peak of Ford's cap. He was allowed to take first base, but he was so completely unnerved that the Athletics knocked him out of the box in the next inning. It was said at the time, after the awful howl Connie Mack set up last fall when Ty Cobb spiked Jack Barry, that the manager of the Athletics was somewhat inconsistent in allowing such tactics. Through being hit by pitched balls some of the best batsmen in the game fell off in their stick work for months, and some never got back to their original form. Hughey Jennings and Billy Lauder are in the list. Freddie Parent was never again as good as before he was hit by a pitched ball. Danny Hoffman was winged by Jesse Tennehill, almost killed, and has never since been able to face with any confidence a left hand pitcher. Birdle Cree of the New York Americans was put on the injured list for a long time through the same cause. Walter Johnson, the speed merchant of the Washington club, has a record for this seeming wildness that sometimes looks intentional. He put Harry Lord, the Boston captain, out of business for a while. Big league pitchers admit that they use a "bean" on dangerous batsmen in order to drive them away from the plate. Fans can see for themselves that often when the pitcher is in a hole and a good batter up the twirler will send the ball as close to the batsman as is possible to deliver it. His intention is to shake the confidence of the hitter and make him back away. He figures that the next couple of balls he can curve over and get the batsman in a hole. Sometimes the first ball comes too fast for the batsman to get out of the way and he is laid out. Uhlan, 1:58%, Well Bred. Bingen and Blonde, the sire and dam of Ublan, are owned at Ardmaer farm, Raritan, N. J. Ublan's mite, trotted in 1:58% at Cleveland, may not be his limit. England's Big Football League. The English Football association amateur cup series has 244 teams. COMING SPORT EVENTS St. Louis will hold the annual American bowling congress in the Coliseum, Jan. 21 to Feb. 6. The amateur track championships under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic union will be held in New Orleans Oct. 13. Richard Dwyer, the California horseman, has leased the Oden (Utah) half mile race track and will open a twenty day meeting there on Sept. 23. "Texas" Ramsdell, the University of Pennsylvania spinner and football player, who has contested a big meets in Great Britain this summer, will soon return. He is expected to enter the Amateur Athletic union championships at New Orleans in October. BONHAG IN TRAINING. Holder of Thirty-one Distance Records New Record Inte Ronto Fargo Now Rounding Into Best Form. There are two athletes of worldwide repute constantly in the minds of athletic enthusiasts. One sets the athletic tongues wagging during the torrid summer months, then settles back and permits the other to occupy the field of hotor while the wintry blasts blow. These two athletes are Melvin W. Sheppard, the best middle distance runner that ever fianced the American shield on his shirt, and George Bonhag, the amateur without a peer or even an equal at distances ranging from two to ten miles. Shep EAGLE GEORGE BONHAG, HOLDER OF THIRTY-ONE DISTANCE RECORDS. pard's star is rapidly dimming in the athletic constellation, while Bonhag's star is gradually growing in luster. The mild mannered champion who is the proud holder of thirty-one American distance records, eleven of which are world's indoor marks, is now devoting a great deal of his spare time in conditioning himself for the winter campaign. Unassuming George has enjoyed a perfect rest during the past few months. He engaged in several base ball games to keep his limbs from stiffening, but from now on he will be a very busy athlete. Bonhag is looked upon as the modern athlete. He has never touched insects in any form and has never been known to smoke. FOUR FIGHTS FOR PAPKE. Crack Middleweight to Visit Australia to Meet Best In Antipodes. At a conference between Promoter Hugh McIntosh of Australia and Billy Papke, claimant of the world's middleweight title, recently an agreement was drawn up whereby Papke will meet four middleweights in Australia during a period covering not more than twenty weeks. The four men named are Dave Smith, Arthur Cripps, Edward Williams and Les O'Donnell, all of whom are practically unknown to Americans. It also was agreed that none of these fighters should weigh more than 165 pounds ringside. Passing of Young Ten Eyck Wisconsin is to be congratulated upon the passing of the younger Ten Eyck as crew coach. Young Ten Eyck was a fine single sculler, but as a coach he was an unqualified failure. The art of sweep rowing was a closed book to him apparently, and he sent poor crews to the east, despite the wealth of material from which to build them. It will be a difficult matter to find a successor, for coaches of eight oared crews are scarce. HEIGHT HELPS HIM. Connie Mack's great height may be the means of the Athletics winning the pennant this year. Connie admits this himself. All American league managers agree that the dugouts in the new ball parks worked a hardship on them. They were accustomed to sitting on a bench about three feet above the ground, from which point of vantage they could watch the signs of the opposition. With the new ball parks came dugouts, which dropped the manager and player about three feet lower than the ground level. Their beads no longer towered high and dry above the plays pulled off on the diamond. The generals just had to about learn the game over again. The Athletics' leader was not handicapped as much as the other team bosses, as he is some tall, and he managed to get wise to the doings long before the others. Connie's players say his keen vision helped him materially. Passing of The Hermit Kingdom AJIU JITSU hold is a hard thing to break. We may squirm and protest, but down we go. If you don't believe, it ask the Koreans. Japan got a jiu jitsu grip on Korea, and what has been the result? That country has been laid on its back, so to speak—in fact, wiped off the map. Korea is no longer Korea, the Hermit Kingdom, but She-Sun, the Land of the Morning Calm. It is part of Japan, having just been annexed by that country. The emperor becomes Prince Gi and will rank lower than the Japanese crown prince. The civil list will not be curtailed, and there will be more money for the court to spend, as there will be fewer retainers. Morning calm will be succeeded by evening calm where once Korea was, and another ancient nation has been smothered out of existence. Japan by the formal annexation of the Hermit Klingdom has at last really grasped the rich prize toward which all her efforts have been directed for twenty years, to gain which she fought China and dared to measure arms with the mighty empire of the czar, expending in the long struggle hundreds of millions of dollars and the lives of countless thousands of her subjects. Slowly, but with grim relentlessness, the acts of the drama have been evolved, succeeding one another with the inevitability of the scenes in a Greek tragedy. The minds at Tokyo which conceived the plot two decades ago knew what the denouement was to be. When Japan first cast covetous eyes on Korea-valuable on account of its intrinsic mineral wealth, but still more on account of its strategic position on the mainland of Asia-China was regarded as possessing suzerainty over that kingdom. Japan soon found a pretext for alleging that China was causing an unfriendly feeling in Korea against the mikado's government. PRINCE GI AND SON, FORMERLY EMPEROR AND CROWN PRINCE OF KOREA. The usual negotiations were but a prelude to war, the first act in the modern drama of the far east. China as a result of the war lost all right of interference in the affairs of Korea. But the exit of China proved to be merely the entry of Russia on the stage. Japan saw clearly that Russia's line of expansion would lie toward the Pacific through Manchuria. She saw that Russia's eyes were bent on Korea, and she resolved to be first in the field and place herself as guardian at the Pacific gateway of Manchuria. Japan's plan seemed to have succeeded when the intervention of the powers in 1805 barred her progress and installed Russia in Liaotung. Thenceforward Japan had but one idea—Russia must be dislodged from Korea. Matters came to a head toward the close of the year 1903. Japan demanded that Russia withdraw her troops from Manchuria. Russia declined, and long negotiations followed. in the course of which Japan offered to efface herself entirely in Manchuria if Russia would do the same in Korea. An ultimatum from Tokyo having failed to bring a reply from the St. Petersburg government, the milkado's naval forces entered the harbor of Chemulpi and fired on and disabled two of the czar's warships. The war was on, and the result is history. On Nov. 17, 1905, the emperor of Korea was practically forced by Prince (then Marquis) Ito, the mikado's special envoy at Seoul, to agree to a new pact. Korea's independence then became practically nonexistent. Nothing but a shadow of her national sovereignty remained. The emperor became practically a vassal of the mikado. Marquis Ito was installed as resident general at Seoul, and his subordinates ruled the destinies of the old kingdom. The following year, by a new agreement, the emperor recognized the residency general. Within a year he abdicated in favor of his son, who was sent to Tokyo to be educated in Japanese surroundings. By an agreement signed July 31, 1907, all administrative measures and the ap appointment of all high officials became subject to the resident general. Finally in July, 1909, Japan seized control of the administration of justice and prisons. The national government of Korea was no more. Woman's World No More Flossie's Fair—Miss Libbey's Stopped Writing Novels. 9301 Girls, it's something awful! Laura Jean Libbey has written her last book. Positively her last! Her press agent says so. Georgiana, the beautiful silk spinner, will never again clasp Alexander Algernon Du Bois Vere de Vere in her strong young arms while the liquid starlight flames in the burning depths of her lapis lazuli orbs. Alas, how perfectly horrible if true! No more marriages of gartered dukes to the sweet singing little canary in the chambre de cuisine. Never no more will the proud earl discard his son and heir and cut him off with a shoe button for marrying the lodgekeeper's magnificently pulchritudinous adopted daughter who eventually turns out to be a lost duchess and heleness to all the coffee lands in Brazil. L. J. Libbey's threat must carry consternation to every kitchen in the land, and 10,000,000 factory girls will tear their hair with pitiful wails when they get the stupendous news. And what will the distinguished authoress-vaudevillian turn her pen to now? Hist! She e'en will become a playwright. The playwright banker grips her soul and mayaphe she will strip the brows of Theodore Kremer and Owen Davis, vaudeville playwrights, of theft tofully won laurels. What Women Are Doing. There is to be a lady chapel in the new Liverpool cathedral, for which is planned a scheme of stained glass windows commemorating the deeds of good women. On one the inscription reads, "Queen Victoria and All Noble Queens," and others are inscribed: "Grace Darling and All Courage Women," "Catherine Gladstone and All Loyal Hearted Wives," "Elizabeth Barrett Browning and All Women Who Have Seen the Infinite In Things." Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, it is reported, will be appointed policewoman of Los Angeles, Cal. It was Mrs. Wells' efforts, backed by the ministers and clubwomen, that caused the ordinance to be passed creating the office of policewoman in Los Angeles. "My work is to be chiefly where young people gather for entertainment in parks, penny arcades, moving picture shows and dance halls," Mrs. Wells explained when asked to talk about her new work. "I will deal chiefly with the proprietors of such places and will see that all laws are obeyed and the places are kept clean and moral." Although Miss Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross society in the United States, is ninety-one, she still takes personal charge of one of the branches of the society. Miss Barton's relief work dates back to the civil war, when she became a nurse on the battlefields and organized searching parties for missing soldiers. Still a Housekeeper at 104. Still a Housekeeper at 104. Living far up in the Allegheny mountains is a remarkable woman who is more than 104 years old. She has the proofs of her age, and the inhabitants for miles around gather on Aug. 2 each year to make merry on her birthday and to express hope that she may live many more years. She is Mother Shoeemaker, and her home is near Dubols, Pa. She was born in 1806. Bent with her years, but happy and contented, she sits in a tiny house built in the mountains. She does not have a housekeeper or a servant. She says she is strong enough to do her own work and to attend to her own wants. It would not bother her if she did not have an income for her support. She says she could earn her own living without any trouble. She has lived the simple life. She has worked in the fields, and she has been a mother. If You Want to Be Liked. Don't, when people say nice things to you, think that they must necessarily be insincere. It is quite as natural for some persons to put their nice thoughts about you into words as it is for them to breathe. M. Bashon Crusor & Co. Architects and Builders SUBURBAN OFFICE East Deanwood, D. CITY 1022 You Street, N. We have the most desirab home seekers. Plenty of ro scenery, plenty of fresh air and din, dust and noise. All hom Chesapeake Junction. We bu Architectural plans free. Site subdivisions. Stop paying r home. Best people in the e neighbors. We are ab'e to o Fire Departments, Mail and transfers to any part of city. IDEAL LOCATION In Beverly, Deanwood, East D Park, Bloomsburg Park, D Heights and all For Suburban Office Take 't and H Streets N. W., am FOR INFO Bashon Crusor, at Suburb R. White, Attorney for the Deanwood, D. C., R. F. D. No. 3 CITY OFFICE At You Street, N. W., Washington have the most desirable location in the city, for workers. Plenty of room, a cultured community of fresh air and pure water, away from land and noise. All home sites on the Electric Junction. We build houses to suit the natural plans free. Sites secured in any of the lots. Stop paying rent and apply that the best people in the city among our purchase. We are ab'e to offer you the advantages of departments, Mail and Police Service. Onto any part of city. DEAL LOCATIONS TO BE HAVENY Deanwood, East Deanwood, Linwood, Burd, Bloomsburg Park, Dennings, Kenilworth, Fair Heights and all Maryland Suburbs. Suburban Office Take "District Car Line" at N H Streets N. W., and get off at Brooks St. FOR INFORMATION SEE Crusor, at Suburban or City Office, or, Attorney for the Company, at the C East Deanwood, D. C., R. F. D. No. 3, Box 44 CITY OFFICE 1022 You Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. We have the most desirable location in the city for colored home seekers. Plenty of room, a cultured community, fine scenery, plenty of fresh air and pure water, away from the city's din, dust and noise. All home sites on the Electric car line to Chesapeake Junction. We build houses to suit the purchaser. Architectural plans free. Sites secured in any of the suburban subdivisions. Stop paying rent and apply that to your own home. Best people in the city among our purchasers and neighbors. We are ab'e to offer you the advantage of Schools, Fire Departments, Mail and Police Service. One fare and transfers to any part of city. IDEAL LOCATIONS TO BE HAD In Beverly, Deanwood, East Deanwood, Linwood, Burville, Grant Park, Bloomsburg Park, Dennings, Kenilworth, Fairmont Heights and all Maryland Suburbs. For Suburban Office Take "District Car Line" at Fifteenth and H Streets N. W., and get off at Brooks Station. FOR INFORMATION SEE Bashon Crusor, at Suburban or City Office, or Consult R. White, Attorney for the Company, at the City Office. CARTER B. BRAXTON, Chief Mechanic. THE CHASE A High Grade Portraits and Pillow CHASE ART COMP MAKERS OF Portraits and Pillow Tops, Novelties a High Grade Portraits and Pillow Tops, Novelties and Chemicals All Goods Made and Sold by Us are Guaranteed 539 F Street Northwest, Room 21, Washington, D. C. Best Work and Workmanship at Lowest Prices. ONE-THIRD DEPOSIT REQUIRED ON ALL ORDERS. 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Any person of this organization by taking private lessons up special rates to all ladies who can make them Secure our special class rates to advanced pupi object of the class is that the result of the from a priced score instead of by cash Music Furnished for All Sacred For Terms Apply to - JAS. H. BOGGERSON, THE MOUSE THEATRE 26th and M Streets N. W. Handsomest and Coolest Theatre in Good Vaudeville and Motion Picture Cardial Welcome Extended to Vi- l H. C. SMITH, Manager ACEO THEATRE S. E. Cor. 11th and You Sts. N. W. To Up-to-Date, Clean and Clear Motion 1,000 feet of Films nightly. Dramatic, Life Motion Plays. Plenty of Fans to dined Vaudeville and Illustrated Song, all for An Hour Show. Bring the Children. YES ALWAYS A BIG SHOW, 3 REELS 5 OPENING Washington Conservatory of AND SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION (Incorporated) N. W. 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Dramatic, Comic and Western Life Motion Plays. Plenty of Fans to keep you cool. Refined Vaudeville and Illustrated Song, all for 5 cents. An Hour Show. Bring the Children. SUNDAYS ALWAYS A BIG SHOW, 3 REELS 5 CENTS. The Washington Conservatory of Music AND SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION Impromptu Rectal for Pupils and Public, by Mr. Carl Diton, who sails for Europe Oct. 1st For first-class Piano Tuning we recommend Mr. Harper Fortune. Leave orders at Conservatory Boggerson's Union Literary Musical League AND FEMALE SACRED ORCHESTRA SCHOOL Now open for New Members. Any person of good moral character can become a member of this organization by taking private lessons upon Brass, String or Reed Instruments. We offer special rates to all ladies who can make themselves useful and interesting in a Musical League. Special rates are charged for adult pupils who find it difficult in reading music. The object of the class is: that the result of the instructions should be, that members can play from a printed score instead of by ear. Music Furnished for All Sacred Occasions, Concerts and Rectals PROFESSIONAL THOMAS BECKETT Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 494 Louisiana Avenue Room 15, Lewis Building, Washington, D.C. Joseph H. Stewart ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW 609 F St. N. W. Room 203 N. Room 203 Room 9. 802 C., R. F. D. No. 3, Box 44 OFFICE W., Washington, D. C. The location in the city for colored film, a cultured community, fine pure water, away from the city's sites on the Electric car line to old houses to suit the purchaser. Secured in any of the suburban at and apply that to your own city among our purchasers and after you the advantage of Schools, Police Service. One fare and ONS TO BE HAD Linwood, Linwood, Burville, Grant Manings, Kenilworth, Fairmont Maryland Suburbs. District Car Line" at Fifteenth get off at Brooks Station. INMATION SEE in or City Office, or Consult Company, at the City Office. ART COMPANY ERS OF Tops, Novelties and Chemicals Room 21, Washington, D. C. Enship at Lowest Prices. QUIRED ON ALL ORDERS. USE THEATRE Streets N. W. Coolest Theatre in Town and Motion Pictures Extended to Visitors TH, Manager THEATRE and You Sts. N. W. On and Clear Motion Pictures. Nightly. Dramatic, Comic and Plenty of Fans to keep you Illustrated Song, all for 5 cents. Bring the Children. SHOW, 3 REELS 5 CENTS. SEPT. 24, 1910 Conservatory of Music OF EXPRESSION (renamed) Branch School in Anacostia and Alexandria, Va. Elements Interpoint, Fugue Lyon Wind Instruments History of Music History RECITAL Mr. Carl Diton, who sails for Europe Oct. 1st Harper Fortune. Leave orders at Conservatory Musical League AND FEMALE SACRED ORCHESTRA SCHOOL Good moral character can become a member of Brass, String or Reed Instruments. We offer useful and interesting in a Musical League, who find it difficult in reading music. The instructions should be, that members can play Occasions, Concerts and Recitals In. Mgr. and Dir., — 1249 Maryland Ave. N. E. Sylvester L. McLaurin ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW 609 F St. N. W. First Floor L. C. MOORE COUNSELLOR and ADVISOR Room 9. 802 F St. N. W. THE REED STATUE. Memorial Erected in Portland to Former Speaker of House. A national figure of a few years ago and one whose reputation was not confined to his own country was honored in his home city. Portland. Me., recently when a bronze statue of the late Thomas B. Reed, for many years speaker of the house of representatives, was unveiled. The memorial stands on the western promenade over- WILLIAM C. WARD MEMORIAL TO THOMAS B. REED. looking Casco bay, is eight feet high and represents Reed in an attitude of repose, with a scroll in the left hand. The pedestal is of Malie granite, nine feet high. The memorial was modeled in Paris by Burr C. Miller, who not only worked from accurate photographs, but who had the advantage of having seen Mr. Reed many times during his congressional career and who met him frequently after his retirement from public life. It gives a fine idea of the statesman as he looked up to about two years before his death. The cost was about $40,000. Esperanto and the Police. We may poke fun at Esperanto, but have you heard the latest? So many, it is said, are using the language that the police in many cities are now to be taught it in order that they may reply intelligently to the Esperantist who is in need of their services. As it now stands, what would happen to a man who walked up to a "cop" on the corner and said aggressively: "Lau ula preg?" Why, he would immediately be battered into insensibility. In "BEAT IT!" stands, what would happen to a man who walked up to a "cop" on the corner and said aggressively: "Lau uia preg?" Why, he would immediately be battered into insensibility. In Washington, during the meeting of the Esperanto congress, one of the members from a foreign country asked a bluecoat in Esperanto to be directed to the capitol. How that visitor would have praised our police abroad if he could have been sent on his way rejoicing? Instead, believing himself insulted, the indignant officer shook his club and shouted: "Put an egg in your shoe and beat it!" While the police are struggling with the new language, however, it would be just as well for us to find our own way about. A MIGHTY PROJECT. Features of the Pennsylvania Railroad Terminus Just Opened. The opening recently of the new Pennsylvania railroad terminus, occupying four city blocks in New York, calls attention again to this mighty project. The station has sixteen miles of railway lines, which are sunk forty feet below the ground. The building is 774 feet long, 483 feet wide and sixty-nine feet above the ground, which figures give one some slight idea of its magnitude. The trains run in a NEW PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TERMINUS. tunnel under the Hudson river and the East river, while the daily capacity will be about 2,000,000. According to the company's official statement, the Pennsylvania station covers more territory than any other building ever constructed at one time in the history of the world. The Vattman, the Tullieries, the St. Petersburg Winter palace are larger buildings, but they have been centuries in their construction. The Pennsylvania station is unique, covering as it does eight acres of ground, with exterior walls extending approximately one-half of a mile all toled. THE NATIONAL FORUM Meeting of The Irrigation Congress COMING event that is attracting a large share of the country's attention just now is the meeting of the national irrigation congress, which will be held in Pueblo, Colo., from Sept. 20 to 30. This will be the eighteenth session of the organization, and that its work is being foll- and all over the world is shown by, the fact that from thirty to forty foreign representatives will be present on this occasion. Several thousand delegates will attend from the various states in this country, including practical agriculturists and irrigationists, heads of the various governmental departments, capitalists and engineers. As Colorado has a larger acreage under canals and ditches than any of the western states, those present will have an excellent opportunity to study the various plans. If you have paid little or no attention to irrigation it will open your eyes to learn what is being done in this direction. The law less than nine years in existence has given the country twenty-five projects, representing the reclamation of more than 3,198,000 acres of land, at a cost to date of approximately $60,000,000, while thirteen projects held in abeyance until the completion of the foregoing will add 3,270,000 acres to the crop producing area of the United States. This total of 6,468,000 acres will furnish homes for more than 3,500,000 men, women and children and add several hundred million dollars to the taxable property of the various states. Irrigation canals representing an in- ALFALFA ON IRRIGATED LAND. vestment of $155,000,000 are in operation in sixteen arid states and territories, and a harvest valued at $250,000,000 is the deserts' response annually to the intelligent application of water to the sun scorched valleys. In the states from the Pacific ocean to the Missouri river, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, there are fully 3,000,000 acres under irrigation or to be watered in the not distant future. Allowing an average of twenty acres to a family, and five persons to a family, this acreage will support 750,000 persons. It is not unfair to add to this number 750,000 more, representing the number of persons needed to supply the wants of these tillers of the soil and to transport their products. Many irrigationists claim that an average of ten acres to the family is high enough, but to be conservative an average of twenty is used. On that basis the 3,000,000 acres in the northwestern states would furnish a living directly or indirectly to at least 1,500,000 people, or one person to each two acres. The possibilities of reclamation and its bearing on the future welfare of the nation can be better realized when we consider that it is possible to reclaim fully 35,000,000 acres of arid or DATE TREE AFTER IBRIGATION. semlard land by irrigation in addition to that now irrigated and approximately 75,000,000 acres of swamp land by drainage. Between 10,000,000 and 11,000,000 persons are engaged in agriculture in the United States. Practically all the arable land in the humid regions is embraced in the 6,000,000 farms now under cultivation. The average size of these farms is 146 acres. Under irrigation the tendency is to greatly restrict the size of the farm unit. Experience teaches that in most irrigated districts it is impracticable for a farmer to cultivate a large holding. As a consequence the average farm under ditch is much smaller than in the humid regions. Thus provision is made for a greatly increased farming population, with a corresponding increase in the production of farm products, thereby adding immensely to the country's wealth. Cookery Points A woman who always dresses the salad at the table has various accompaniments brought to her with the oil and vinegar. Sometimes a sweet red pepper chopped very fine is used; at another time hard boiled eggs reduced to flakes serve as a foundation for the dressing. Chervil and chives chopped very fine are sometimes in the bottom of the bowl, and when the salad is plain lettuce there may be a slice of onion chopped very fine or a green pepper minced or even a tomato. The three tablespoonfuls of oil and one of vinegar, salt and paprika go into the bowl, whatever it may contain, and are emulsified with them. A New Soup. Not every one knows that the common field sorrel makes a soup that is popular in France. A cultivated kid with larger leaves and somewhat less acid flavor than the wild kind is sometimes found here in the fancy markets. Wash, drain and chop about a pint of the sorrel and mix it with minced chives. Turn the mixture into a pan with a tablespoonful of butter and cook very slowly for ten minutes. At the end of the time add three cupfuls of boiling water with salt and pepper and boil for five minutes. Remove from the fire, stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs and turn into a soup tureen over croutons. Spiced Plums. For the sirup allow one pound of sugar to each pound of fruit and a scant pint of vinegar to every three pounds of sugar. To each peck of plums allow one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, one of cloves, one of mace and one of allspice. Prick each plum well with a darning needle, add the spices to the sirup and pour the sirup, boiling hot, over the plums. Let them stand three days, then skin out the plums and boil the sirup down until quite thick, so there is just enough to cover the fruit. Pour hot over the plums. Set away in a stone jar, with paraffin paper over the top. Sweet Apple Pickles. Make a sirup with three pounds of sugar and one plint of vinegar and while it is heating put in about a teaspoonful of cloves and allspice and a stick of cinnamon broken in bits. When the sirup boils up well put in seven pounds of good cooking apples, pared, cut and cut in quarters. Turn them over gently with a wooden spoon, being careful not to break them. Cook until you can penetrate with a fork and then turn into jars. More apples can be added from time to time. If you have them in a stone crock, until the crock is full. These will keep for a year. Apple Lemonade. Take six tart apples, three lemons, one-quarter stick of cinnamon, four cups of sugar, two bay leaves, one cup of raisins and one orange. Wash, quarter and core the apples. Put them into the kettle with the raisins, bay leaves and cinnamon. Add two quarts of water and bring to the boiling point. Add two quarts more of cold water in which the sugar and grated rind of the lemons and orange have been dissolved. Simmer slowly half an hour, strain and when ready to serve add the juice of the lemons and the orange. Set on ice until very cold. Spiced Pears. To seven pounds of fruit, one quart of vinegar, three pounds of sugar and a tablespoonful each of cloves and stick cinnamon. Put the fruit, sugar and spices in the jars in layers and let stand overnight. In the morning drain off the juice and let it boil up, then pour over the fruit. Repeat this process and on the third morning add vinegar to the sirup and when boiling turn in the fruit and cook until the pears are transparent and can be pierced with a fork. Oatmeal Cookies. Sift a quart of flour twice with a teaspoonful of salt and one of baking soda and stir into it three cups of dry oatmeal. When the meal and flour are thoroughly mixed and a cupful of melted butter and two cupfuls of powdered sugar. Add enough cold water to make a dough that can be rolled out, roll thin, cut into rounds and bake. Keep in a tin box in a dry place. Try This Small white turnips cut into dice browned slowly in butter, boiled tender in stock or hot water flavored with beef extract and then mixed with a small can of peas that have been drained from their liquor and heated through and served with crountons is a French way of cooking the familiar vegetable. Corn Pudding Cut the corn from the cob. Mash rather fine; for each cupful of corn one cupful of milk and one beaten egg; add a spoonful of butter; pepper and salt to taste; put into a baking dish. Bake twenty minutes until a light brown. Black Satin Hats Are Very Popular, but Commonplace. THE HAT TWO OF THE NEW HATS. Everywhere one goes the inverted flowerpot hat of black satin is sure to be seen. This piece of millinery in artistic hands is wonderfully chic, but when attempted by the great majority it is a cheap imitation of a good mode. A two inch ruffle of white lace peeps from the brim, and the trimming is usually a large, flat bow at the side. What hats have lost this season in circumference they have gained in height, and some of the models are prodigiously tall, but as they are the advance guard of millinery there is every reason to hope that as the season advances they will be modified. The new hats, though, are very trying to the average woman, for they either sit down over the head, concealing most of her hair, or they flare up abruptly and unbecomingly from her face. To be sure, there is a certain smartness about them, especially the coronet shapes that have a rather narrow upstanding brim in front and gradually rise to stupendous heights in the back. A wreath of feathers resembling an Indian chief's war bonnet is the sole trimming. The all feather toque, although not new, is very smart, and there is one advantage in this model—it cannot be carried out in cheap feathers. Beaver shapes in all colors promise to be popular, and ostrich feathers arranged in high, upstanding groups of three or more add an extra degree of altitude to many smart shapes. It is to be a great season for velvet, both for hat coverings and for trimmings. And in feathers there is a new effect called the Belgium plume, composed of owl feathers, that is as weird as it is expensive. Fur, too, will be very much used on hats. She Won Beauty Prize An international beauty show was recently held in Folkestone, England. Six women were chosen to compete, and the audience was asked to use their judicial faculty in regard to beauty, grace and dignity in the selection of the winner. Competitors were A. B. present from Paris, Naples, Belgium and Valencia, Miss Kitty Darling, whose picture is here shown, was the successful beauty winner. Miss Darling is only seventeen years of age. She is fair, dresses simply and wears her 'hair in long plains on either side of her head. She has posed as an artists' model. If America had sent a representative Miss Kitty very likely would have been out of the running. An Embarrassing Habit. Hicecoughs are distinctly mortifying to the vietnam. As they are signs of poor digestion and may mean bad stomach trouble. If of frequent occurrence, they should be treated medically. For temporary cures try gradually dissolving a small lump of sugar on the tongue. Slow slipping of hot water is also good or gargling the throat with ice water. PALACE shoe Shining Parlor For Ladies and Gentlemen Newspapers, Periodicals and Magazines Imported and Domestic Cigars 810 Florida Avenue N. W. THE FORUM And all Leading Colored Papers for Sale Could You Do Better Than wear a nice tailored, slightly used suit at $3.00 to $15.00, and think of the money you save. Savey? ONE PRICE Justh's Old Stand, 619 D St. N.W. 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