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10L. XXVI.NO. 36 President.—Not being actuated malice, I desire to ask you a questions which I hope may be fully considered. You claim to president of the people of the United States, irrespective of color relation. Your declaration for a "deal" has become household. In your Cabinet you have organized certain nationalities which to be political factors in the body politic, and ignored who have been loyal and faithfully to the republic, but to present party in power. You have recognized the Jews, have not? What have the Jews done comparison with what the colored Americans have done, both in war and peace? You have recognized the Irish, have you not? What have Irishmen done in comparison with what the colored Americans have In diplomatic service you have recognized elements that have been menaces to the party in power and to the republic, have you not? There are in this country over eleven million colored Americans who have received scanty recognition and you have boasted to the South that you have made less appointment from this race than your late predecessor, President McKinley. Will you kindly explain what you mean? Do you want the South to understand that you have made certain colored appointments and you do not intend to make any more? You made this statement two years ago and since that time you have made no additional colored appointment. I mean to new places. You, of course, appointed Mr. W. T. Vernon to succeed another colored man, which does not count. There is no office of a national character to which you have appointed a colored American in recognition of eleven million colored Americans. You are aware of the voting strength of the colored Americans; why then are you not appointed a few of them to positions commensurate with your voting strength? Your son-in-law Representative Longworth, has published to the world that it is not your intention to be a candidate again; he believes that Mr. Taft is the man to succeed you. You may thank so Mr. President, but the American people do not. You have wronged the faithful blacks in this country. You have demonstrated by your recent order of dismissal that have no faith in the colored ricans. Mr Longworth, your son-in-law, echo your sentiments, but the colored Americans will bid farewell to the Republican party if you thrust them a man like Secretary Taft to any other man in your administration or any man who holds to your name named by you. The chains he once held the colored man have broken and today he walks the streets a fine citizen, although he restrained to some extent exercising freely his civil and rights. It is true he intends to the army, notwithstanding the seal of his brave comrades. It right and constitutional privi- He loves his country although may be opposed to him. He will hold the flag, although he is disdained against. He will continue loyalty and partiotism to his countralthough he is disfranchised and many parts of the country he is applied to Jim Crow it. In almost department of this government made to feel that he is not wanting his white fellow citizens, of whom are inferior to him actually. There may be one exam. under the present administration where the colored American treated as a man and a citizen. It not necessary for me to name that department. In the department of commerce and Labor there is not aired clerk. My friend, Hon. Geo. Cortelyou, failed when he was at head of that department to apone colored clerk, although applied and passed successfully all service examination. I have THE AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL Washington, D. C. January 3, 197. To the Members of the Executive Committee of the Afro-American Council: You are hereby notified that there will be a meeting of the committee on Monaday evening. April 4, 1977, at five o'clock at G Business of interested; full att desired. A M at the above-named clock p.m. ally yours S. L. Brothers. The citizens of the colored people at the lowest-town exception will be arranged in the next Building by Stras. WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY FE WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1907. What I Saw And Heard What I Saw And Heard I visited the Capitol a few days ago and heard the speech of Senator Tillman. He is more amusing than he is dangerous. His reply to Senator McCarmack was full of wit and humor. Attorney James A. Cobb is working hard for his client, Cardozo. I must congratulate the fighting qualities of this attorney. Admiral Bird is not a bad man. He wants to see the public schools in a good condition. I feel confident that Superintendent Chancellor is not satisfied with the High School, although there is a new head. Well, you should take a walk through the new police court and see its construction. I don't see anything to be thankful for. It is true that a great deal of money has been spent for the erection of this court, but a walk through it will change the minds of the people. Just think of it. One whole side is in use for a private entrance for the judges and the exit for SENATOR J. B FORAKER. J. H. H. the people is narrow steps. If a crowd was compelled to make its exit there would be such a congestion that the people would suffocate. Chief Griffin of the True Reformers is doing good work. He is the right man in the right place. He is popular among his people and a thorough business man. I understand that the headquarters of the Jamestown Exposition Company has been removed to the Treasury Department, and that Mrs. A. M. Curtis is in charge, with a private secretary. There is also another hitch over the construction of the building. What is the cause of all of this fuss? There is a great deal of politics in the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. The recent banquet to Grand Master Houston was a success. He had several distinguished men from out of the city to greet him, what more? men are broadly humorous and obviously not intended for publication. Not in ten years has a serious debate occurred, and never before was the President of the United States unpleasantly involved in the evening's performance. To add space the guests were unusually interesting. In addition to the President and Senator Foraker, there were present Vice-President Fairbanks Speaker Cannon, J. Pierpont Morgan H. H. Rogers, Secretaries Root, Taft Straus, and Wilson, a score of Senators and Representatives. Deprecates Senate's Agitation. The President, when called upon launched into a defense of his administration. He justified his various so-called policies, especially in the Japanese and Brownville matters. He declared that the Senate discussion of the Brownville incident served no good purpose, could have no result, and was purely academic. In this portion of his remarks he used the catch phrase of a popular Negro song, "All coons look alike to me." The grand secretary, Mr. Needom, is a brilliant scholar and a man who knows his business. Grand Master Houston is a diplomat and a credit to the order. I hope the boys will stand by him and do all in their power to make his administration a success. There is too much jealousy among the members and not enough unity. The investigations to be conducted by the Senate Committee on Military Affairs will begin February 4 discharge of the 25th infantry.' David C. Tucker of Morristown, N. J., is dead. When a boy in 1824 he marched in a parade in honor of General Lafayette. The first tunnel to run trains under the Hudson River, N. Y., will be in full service September 1. Foraker's Resolution SHARP DEBATE WITH FORAKER AT GRIDIRON DINNER HIS POLICIES THE ISSUE "All Coats Alike" to President; "All Persons" to Scuator Foraker, Who Was Not on Program for Speech, Was Called on After President Had Defended His Course on Brownsville and Japanese Questions. Rights of Senators Vigorously Championed by Ohio Statesman. New York, Jan. 27.—A special dispatch from Washington says that the discussion between President Roosevelt and Senator J. B. Foraker, at the Gridiron Club dinner on Saturday night, is being whisperingly rehearsed in Washington today. The Gridiron Club's dinners are not reported for publication, except officially—that is, an account of the jokes of the hosts at the expense of their distinguished guests is prepared, censored and issued, and the guests themselves may, in a spirit of jocularity, utter all sorts of statements that would be surprising to the country at large and find no mention of these extravagances on the press. Invariably speeches made by public CHAMPION OF HUMAN RIGHTS men are broadly humorous and obviously not intended for publication. Not in ten years has a serious debate occurred, and never before was the President of the United States unpleasantly involved in the evening's performance. To add space the guests were unusually interesting. In addition to the President and Senator Foraker, there were present Vice-President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon, J. Pierpont Morgan, H. H. Rogers, Secretaries Root, Taft, Straus, and Willon, a score of Senators and Representatives. Deprecates Senate's Agitation. The President, when called upon, launched into a defense of his administration. He justified his various so-called policies, especially in the Japanese and Brownsville matters. He declared that the Senate discussion of the Brownsville incident served no good purpose, could have no result, and was purely academic. In this portion of his remarks he used the catch phrase of a popular Negro song, "All coons look alike to me." He discussed his attitude to the corporations, and said it was well to have them controlled "while the conservative forces are in power." Most of the criticism of his administration was based on a desire to make political capital, he said. The President was extremely strenuous in a vocal and gesticulatory way, and entirely serious. Senator Foraker, not on the program, was asked by the chairman of the dinner for his reply. If the President was serious, Senator Foraker was more so. He spoke long and impressively. He said the President would discover that the Brownsville discussion was not purely academic; that it had a significance that would be realized, and a result that would be recorded. He (the Senator) intended to express his opinion on the floor of the Senate, ignoring dictation from whatever source. He had always expressed such opinion, and would al- ways continue to do so. All Coons and All Persons. "Not only all coons, but all persons look alike to me," said Senator Foraker. The oath of a United States Senator is as sacred as the oath of the President, and as high a sense of duty may inspire a Senator as that inspiring the occupant of the White House." The Senator denied that the motive of a critic of the administration or of an act of the administration was, of necessity, an unworthy, motive. Mr. Foraker's well-known eloquence of manner was effective, and when he concluded in ringing tones, with a ringing tones, with a wave of the hand toward the President, in these words, "You know, Mr. President, I love you so," the applause was loud. Twice the President attempted to still the applause, evidently with the intention of making a running debate, but the hand-clapping continued to almost the point of embarrassment. When order was secured, the President got the floor, raised his glass, and proposed the health of the Ohio Senator. The speech of the President and the reply of Mr. Foraker consumed so much time that the dinner was adjourned before four or five speakers on the programme could be heard. SENATOR FORAKER'S RESOLUTION As passed Tuesday in the Senate read as follows: Resolved, That, without questioning the legality or justice of any act of the President in relation thereto, the Committee on Military Affairs is hereby authorized and directtd, by sub-committee or otherwise, to take and have printed testimony for the purpose of ascertaining all the facts with reference to or connected with the affray at Brownsville, Texas, on the night of August 13-14, 1906. Said committee is authorized to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, to sit during sessions or recess of the Senate, and, if deemed advisable, at Brownsville or elsewhere, the expenses of the investigation to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate. CONSTITUTIONAL LEAGUE ORGANIZED. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 28, 1907. To the Editor The members of the State Constitutional League of New Jersey take pleasure in stating that on the 23rd of January, 1907, the most representative gathering of Colored Citizens from all parts of the State of New Jersey that has met for years assembled at the New Indian League Hall, 260-266 Washington Street, Newark, N. J., and organized a State Constitutional League with the following officers: Alfred B. Cosey of Newark, president; Rev. H. Gillen of Cape May county. Rev. Goodwin of Monmouth County, C. R. H. Hawkins, of Union County. vice-presidents; Lewis Johnson and George Bates of Essex county and T. Bagley of Union county, secretaries; N. Vandervall of East Orange, treasurer. Hon. G. Stewart made the principle speech stating in full the evidence taken by him on the Brownsville question. Resolutions were adopted condemning the action of the President in discharging the soldiers without a trial. An address was issued by the league to the people of New Jersey. The League has opened headquarters in Newark and intends to do all in its power to assist in bringing about a fair exhaustive investigation of the trouble. The convention adjourned subject to the chair. It is the intention of the chair to make a call at an early date, for the purpose of discussing the school question in New Jersey. Repestfully, Lewis Johnson, Secretary. REV WALDRON. The new pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church gave his congregation a severe lecture last week. He told the members that he had not gone to three colleges for nothing. He declined to give the two hundred or more members of Trinity Baptist Church letters of withdrawal. Those who led the revolt, he said, must be tried, and those who were persuaded to leave could get their individual litters. All of them declared that if every member does not receive his letter not one will accept, but remain in Trinity Church just the same. Last Monday Brother Joseph Duskett, 33, of Excelsior Lodge No. 2, F. A. A. A. Y. M., departed this life. Deceased was connected with different orders and highly respected. He leaves a wife and three small children. Ill. P. B. Brooks, 33, M. D., we are glad to say is convalescent. George Burnham, Jr., who was former general counsel for the Mutual Life Insurance Company, Ossining, N. Y., was put to work last Monday afternoon in the printing shop in Sing Sing prison. The Norfolk and Western railroad officials last Monday said before the corporation commission at Richmond, Va., that they would lose money on a flat 2-cent rate in Virginia. Rifle shooting will hereafter be a part of the education of the children in the schools of Great Britain. Mrs. Geo. H. Richardson is doing nicely in the work of the public schools, to which she has been appointed. She makes a good official. Dr. Wm. Thoimpkins of Kansas City, Mo., says that tuberculosis is most destructive among the American dark-skinned people. The National Mirror in its issue of January 26 contained a great deal of information concerning the Masons of Kansas City, Mo., and the great good that is being accomplished by them. Mr. Homer G. Phillips, a graduate of Class '03, Howard University Law School, is a growing success in his profession at Sedalia, Mo. The Woman's Missioanry Society of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church will give a unique entertainment in the church Friday evening, February 15. Mrs. M. L. Meriwether is president of the society. Miss M. Vaux Warrick is very active and doing much to make the exhibition, of art at Jamestown a success. Mr. Johin W. Parker, a graduate of the Law Department of Howard University in 1906, has opened his law office in Baltimore, Md. It is reported that Bishop Turner fell and broke his arm in Kansas City while attending the Bishop's Conucil. The wife of Rev. N. M. Carroll, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md., is recovering from her recent illness. The funeral of Miss Bertie B. Barradall, who died at the residence or her sister, Mrs. Jas. Steven of Washington, recently, took place at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Barradall, in Virginia. Mr. J. Barnett of Newport News was called to this city by the recent death of his mother. Dr. W. A. Creditt preached at the funeral of Mr. Geo. Roy, who died in Philadelphia and whose remains were brought here for interment. The violin recital by Mr. Joseph Douglas in Wilmington, Del., was a success. The question as to what your Easter dress shall be and how it shall be made is answered in McCall's Magazine for March. Every instruction as to what will be most becoming to you is given. Be sure to consult McCall's "The Queen of Fashions" about your new dress. "The Gazetteer and Guide" contains many interesting articles for the month of February. TRINITY CHURCH. Rev. J. Anderson Taylor was too sick to occupy the pulpit last Sunday, but Professor Gorruthers, the elocutionist and divine, occupied the pulpit. There were about three hundred people out last Sunday evening, and a large collection was taken up during the morning and evening services. About two hundred of the members met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Roe last Friday night and a committee of twenty-five was appointed to go to Shiloh and present a petition, on which were two hundred or more names, asking for their letters. Attorney Jones was chairman of the committee. When the committee arrived at the church Attorney Jones arose and said that he represented Trinity Church, and that he had a petition signed by over two hundred members who had withdrawn from Shiloh who wanted their letters. Rev. Mr. Waldron became very indignant and told Attorney Jones that he could not get any letters. Whereupon Attorney Jones and his committee withdrew. The new church of which Rev. Mr. Taylor is pastor has increased its membership to a little over three hundred. This new church will build next spring. IMONUMENT TO HENRIK IBSEN. i —— Obelisk of Black Labrador Rock io Erected on Srave. Christiania, Norway.—On a peaceful spot In Our Savior’s churchyard at ‘Christiania the remalns of Henrik Ibsen vere returned to the earth on June 1, 1906—a day of sunshine and showers, full of light and shade like -his own poetry His grave, Ih the midst of what looks like a sea of grass, is Inaccessible as he was him- self In life, but in the birches above, the birds fy in and ont by summer: ume, and in winier the leafless branches bow unde. the weight of the snow. A few dass aso Dr Sigurd Ibsea, the poe*'s sun. in horct of his father, has raised the worthy bauta (memor WABI? NG Wp Bags. ¥ a LC ‘i Pea PANY pe 8 iA ce SS < 6 SE ‘ Obelisk Over tbsen’s Grave. fal) a picture of which is here shown. The grave fs entirely covered by a stone, which bears the name of Henrik Tosen, and the date of his birth and his death. . The monument is fashioned from biack Labrador rock. and cost about $10,000. The hammer of Thor Is out- Noed on the obelisk, and at its base is a laurel wreath, fashioned in ‘cop- per, which was presented by the Ital- fan Authors’ club. Ibsen died May 23, 1906, aged 78. NEW SHAH OF PERSIA, ej eee 2 Mohammed Ali Mirza Now in Charge of Affairs. London.—Mohammed Ali ~ Mirza, who, because of the death of Shah Muzafféreddlin. has taken control of Persian state affairs, is the eldest son of the shah, and Is 32 years of age. -He was proclaimed crown prince in 1896, and until recently was the governor of the province of Azer- baijan, the military resources and strength of which he has greatly in- ‘creased. During the absence of’ the shah from Persia, Mohammed All Mirza has acted as regent, and has made himself popular in the persian capita. He ls thoroughly familiar with Arable literature, speaks French fluently, and i$ sald to have a falr ; 2S Gi == : I r rink mt aoe AY W\ F RNY: PL y wk Mm ip ‘ ve ee VY pe A: : aK Ae QW ae \ . x a5 - ‘A \ 3 EN 2) . MOHAMMED ALI MIRZA, . ‘(Who Has Succeeded Muzaffer-ed-din as Shah of Persia.) grasp of modern science. On” his mothers side he is the grandson of Mohammed Shah, who was the third occupant of the Persian throne under the present Kajar dynasty, which was Anaugurated in 1794. ‘Tired of Being Called Colonel. John W. Yerkes, internal revenue commissioner, is a Kentuckian and proud of it, but he vigorously objects to belng called colonel, as has come to be somewhat of a habit in Washing: ton. It is hardly to be wondered at that he should cor ¢ in for a title ina city wheré almos’ any man of any position has some king of a handle to hls name—general, admiral, colonel, captain, Mr. Secretary, Mr. Doorkeep- er,or what not. One day Mr. Yerkes was sitting in his office chatting with some members of congress when Ad- mitral Watson came in. “Hullo, Jokn, how are yout” sald the saller. The commissioner leaped from his chair and rushed forward to xreet him. “Admiral,” he cried, “I could just hug you for calling me that Please do it again. I'm so dead sick and tired of delng called colonel that my given name Js music to my ears.” Hobby of Secretary Straus. Secretary Straus is one of the recog: nized connoisseurs in the United States of pottery and porcelains. For many years he has studied this fine old art, now so generally fallen into disuse. He has collected some of the finest specimens extant and many of these he will soon install In his Wash. ington residence. Mrs. “Straus {s equally addicted to the fad, and it fs said that one of the rarest pleasures hey hare in common is the purchkas ing of old pottery and porcelains. a HE -NEGKO DEVELOPMENT AND EXPOSITIONfCOM- - : PANY RO _ | OF the United States of America, - . _ 528 EAST BROAD STREET, . . : Richmond. Virginia. ~ ete SNES eg She SEIS, Fen FRETS SRCMESI Se te - 4 Rt Robert Kelser, Secretary. adh SUMS R. T. Hill, Treasurer. »o be @y death 2 si | Rev. Thos. Shorts, Sub-Treasurer. 2) ¢ , td. G.! Sb a Giles B. Jackson, Director-General. tyldoadebs John R. Hawkins, Auditor and Chief of Finance. Washington, D. C., Branch, r2th and U Sts. N.W., Washington, D.C. Norfolk Branch, 663 Church Street, Norfolk, Virginia. * Pursuant to an Act of the Congress of the United States of Amer- ica, there will be held a Naval and Land Exposition in commemora- tion of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the landing ofthe first English-speaking people in this country, ,at Jamestown, Virginia commencing on the 26th day of April, 1907, and ending on the Ist day ‘of November, ror,” = | Ja LR ASIESAQEEM TR That in order for the colored people of this country to show thei- achievements since their emancipation, it was deemed wise, by th tcadlers of the race, to hold a separate and distinct exhibit in order t | put upon exhibition the marvelous progress they have made mechan- veally. agriculturally, educationally, and financially ; that the world may suc and judge for itself the capacity of the Negro as a race; his abil- ity as a producer, * The Negro Development and Exposition -Company of the United Suates of America, a company duly chartered under the laws of Vir- gimia, with an authorized capital stock of $800,000, proposes to show at the Exposition what the race has made, produced, woven, carved, cngraved, invented, written.and published; in fact, everything the race has done or accomplished, from an industrial point of .view, that the world may form a correct and Mure favorable opinion of the Ne= gro race of this country; to the end that a proper solution of “the problem may be had‘from a business, commercial, financial, and in dustrial point of view. 5 ty It has. therefore, been decided to ask every member of our race to list for exhibition any and every article made by-any member of the race. It is the desire of the Company to have a complete exhibit my every character, ,except live stock. . Our women are noted for embruidery and handsome trimniings, kuitting, weaving, and hundreds of other domestic productions; while our men are noted for their skill in drawing, carving, inventing, _ Welding, and putting together articles of value too numerous to name; all stich articlés and hundreds ef othersg are solicited: for exhibjtion. Implements of every characte? are much desired, : + There will be given a first, a sec nd, and a third prize on the vari- ous articles. produced and exhibited by members of the race. The Congress of the United $ ates has appropriated S100,00 to aid the said Negro Develmpment and Exposition Company in making a sreditable exhibit at the said Jamestown Exposigion. - Now, it order to list the articles fur exhibition, it is requested ts the Company for all persons who have articles for exhibition, to write the names Of said articles on the coupon below, giving the full game of the owner, his or hier resiednce, together with P. O, address. In! every instance, please write plainly, that the articles may be listed so: as to be sent for in time to be placed on exhibition. It is incumbent upon every mezpber of the race to see to it that this Exposition is made a success;as the world has its eyes upon us and expects great results. saeSee Ele cal a fy. . GILES B. JACKSON, Director-General. . a + 528 East Broad St.. Richmond, Va. | Please show this to two or more of your friends and ask them to write + fora copy. . porclg ey et ey ab ‘Tear off and fill out the blank below and maif to Giles B. Jackson, 328 East Broad Street, Richmond. Va. j Name of exhidit ....... ccc eeeeeee esc eee eee ee eee estan eeeeeeene | Name of owner .2.... cece ebeeeeep ee eerereeeerenseeeeesee eens PLO. ACUreSS 6. nee e cee ee eee e eee et eet e ee eee eee teeeee tec ens crete | Remarks ..c.ececeecepeeeec ees eecesepeec neste es Ab aeee cere erent | Value of Artidle £20... ae cce gece cece eee cee e eter een eet eeeen ceed “SILENCE ROOM" OPENED BY BOS- TON METAPHYSICAL CLUB. Place Where Cne May Have Beautiful Thoughts—Tired Society Women Assured of Real Com- % fort. Boston.—.A room “in which one may sit In silence aad absorb sweet thoughts and-yartaks of the uplifting and harmonizing influence of Intell gent auto-suszestion” has been opened by the Metropolitan club in Hunting ton Chambers, throush the work of Henry Wood of Cambridge. one of, the founders of the organization and ne of the leadinz students of psyelio therapeutic law and metaphysics ‘4 the state. The power of susgestion, it Is de clared, is greatly auzinentéd in this room by the aid. through the ere, o! graphic goldea texts with appropriate symbolism. When one is in this room one is suppused ta pnt one’s sel: In a passive attitude toward these. Everyone is welcome, but only fou: may enter this sanctum of beautifu thought at ane time. These are som of the merits claimed: The treatment {fs cood for nervow: prostration, Iusomnia and chronit troubles. . It also’ will awaken Iateat souls, "Here pastors seeking inspiration fo! weighty sermons retreat. ’ Society women tired of the brain less social whirl find sweet peace an comfort. The mentally weary and physical; il find rest and relaxation. On the pinions appear the texts someof which are: “Loveneverfaileth, “Thy falth hath made thee whole, “I absorb the good.” “I am strong f: the Lord,” “J am {nll of faith,” “I lov peace,” “I rule the hadv™ “F =-b WE KNOW OUR OWN FLOWERS. . F. H. KRAMER. - Florist and Decorator. J. C. Powell, the florist, with F, H. Kramer, Central Market, and 916 F street, N. W.. will be pleased to see all his friends during the holidays. Plenty of Roses,. Carnations, Violets, Floral Designs and Decorations. Don’t fail to call Store phone, Main 3787. “Mirket phone, Main 2197. Greenhouse phone, East 193. Private office phone, | Main 3987. —_—$_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—=_— FULL DRESS AND TUXEDO SUITS. $t.00o—For Hire—$1.00. . Julius Cohen, e 1104 7th street, N. W. harmony,” "Fear not™ “Truth lives.” “Love God and all aumanity,” “The body fs a temple,” “Love thinketh no evil,” “Heal the sick.” “Thought {s formative.” “I am Lappy,” “Demand brings supply.” A statement Issued by the Meta- physics club states fegarding these texts: | | “When merely reac under ordinary conditions {he effect 1s superficial and soon fades away. But when mentally photographed throngh the passive ex- posure of sensitive consciousness they take on a living real.ty.” The four chairs face a wall on whick, on a blue background and framed in dark wool, appears the symbol of ancient times of the per- fected soul. It is a tound‘globe, and from each side stretches out bread piniens of shades of violet. The whole may be shut of from view by draperies of royal purple velvet. Abore the symbol are these words In gold: “God is here and every where. In him we live and move anc have our being.” On the plinions are other texts. 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Solid Child's Solid Gold Signet Rings; Stones, $ $1.00 up. : sear Ladies’ Solid Gold’ Medallion, Rosar Lockets, $4.00 up. . ‘Anns, St Ladies Solid Gold Crosses. $4.00 Seven D up. ae *Gentst Solid Gold-Lockets, $4.00 a up. : P) Ladies’ Solid Gold Bracelets, High ‘ $5.00 up. mn *Tadies’ 14-Carat Gold Filled ae Lockets, $2.00 up. Necom, We engrave the monograms on of Christ .them in the highest style of the art. and New SILVERWARE shera ine Silver Tea Sets, $10.00 up. Chetstnia Silver Cake Baskets, $4.00 up. . REL Silver Cups for Children, $1.25 “Religie up. teers " sitver Baking Dish, 7.00. 2 one! Silver Butter Dishes, $3.50 up. Infant a Silver Pickle Castors, $3.00 up. ” Paul, St The above silver is the Genuine ee Rogers, which speaks for itself. Eieht- “ CATHOLIC GOODS pet palla We have the largest line of Cath- G0 Gece olic Goods in the city. - Candie Genuine Pearl Rosaries, 35 cents po. up. 3 Sacred Genuine Pearl Rosaries, strung oo). ang ~~ : rT’ EXIST“. fe * rae. XS yy Ves y +" ae wen on Fine Silver. with Sor-i-Silver Crucifix, 75 cents up + Emerald, Sapphire, Cart, Rue by, Jade, Turquoise. T-paz. Crys- tal, and Corat Rosaries. str:-7 on 14-Carat Gokt-Filled Chai, $400 and $5.00. Will make a hazd-one Christmas present. Solid Gold Rosaries. ‘Tenuine Stones, $25.00. Rosaries for speeial sewct:ons. viz.z Immaculate Concept:cn. St. Ann’s, St. Philomena. St. Anthony, Seven Dotors, Infant of Prague, St. Joseph, etc., with prayers erher English or German. . PRAYER BOOKS High quality at low prices, s.ch as Key of Heaven, Manual of Fra.- ers, St. Vincent's Manua!. Wade Mecum, Sacred Hearst, Folles 7g of Christ (by Kempis), Bibles >"1 and New Testaments, etc. We 2:¢ them in cases suitable for brid=. or Christmas presents. + RELIGIOUS MEDALS ‘Religious Medals in Got! oi Silver; Immaculate Concer! 1 3: Benedict, St. Anthony, St > + 27. Tnfant of Prague, St. Ve: Paul, St. Aloysius, ete. Eight-Day Sanctuary ~ 10 per gallon. . Crucifixes, hawging and eta. 3. Candie Sticks-in Gold Suver ave Brass. Sacred Hearts, Solid ') 9 75 cents and $1.25. Ths2SmmmS be — Wm. C ~ Wim. Cannon, 3275 andy 1227 7th Street, NW. : SOLE|DISTRIBUTER,CF CLD IURI SIM W:t >°") ! ee games F , Qyster ' * 3 { The Leading Place in the City for ' BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS. 4 Oyster’s Butter is the sweetest in the market. His Cree” \ purest and Eggs the freshest. Square Stands, Center Market, sth and K’ streets, N. . @ ‘| Riggs Market. ‘ ‘ OFFICE Wholesale Dealer and Salesman, 900 and 902 Pennsylvania. & N. W. x es em a Toes. = oye aie Rca No one shall keep any kind of fowls Members of tie Oi /. in any square of the District of Colum-must reside in the D. C. acordins” “ bia that has been 75 per cent improvedopinion of Corporation Counc” = 2 without c*nsent of the Health Officer,of the District. = neglect to ubtain the same $10 Ane. The farmer in the long 7" : The Cathedral of the P. E Churchmain man in this country. Tee 27°" of the D. C ail Be located at St. Al-produced by him daring the st = San’s, 6n the Tenmallytown road. was $6,794,000,000, while the R. Re will be soo fect long and of Gothiereceired $2,320,000,000, and the ire style. $1.200,000,000. MONDNACHT AUF S DON NIGHT ON (English words by the Composer.) gen Träu men, Schimmert die ly dreaming, Shines all a r ore legatissimo. sich säu men, Herz. nun lass a gleam ing. Heart. let the hem Glan ze, Sil ber ner M the splen dor, Spread by the s Copyright. 1905, by The American Melody Co., N ORSETS The W. B. Reduso MONDNACHT AUF SEE. MOON NIGHT ON SEA. H. E. SCHNEIDER. Andante moderato. (English words by the Composer.) Lei se mit won ni-gen Träu men, Schimmert die ruhige See, Soft ly and qui et ly dreaming, Shines all a-round us the sea, religioso sempre legatissimo. Lich ich die Welken sich sau men, Herz nun lassen schwinden dein Weh. Graceful the waves are a gleam ing, Heart, let the sorrows now flee. poco cresc. 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Their lines are your lines, their shape that of your own figure. They make a bad figure good and good figure better. WOOES AND WEDS IN A DAY. Colorado Man Makes Woman Wife Short Time After Meeting Her. Denver.—To meet a woman for the first time, to woo, win, and wed her, all within 24 hours, would be a feat for the most attractive Adonis, yet that is what William E. Buel, a well known ranchman from Yuma, Colo., successfully accomplished on crutches. Buel started for Denver a few days ago, driving in from his ranch to the station. Buel's horse ran away and he was thrown out, and injured, but he secured crutches and continued his journey to Denver. In the afternoon he called on Mrs. Cora Brewer, an old friend, and there met Mrs. Anna Stumke. A rapid fire courtship ensued, and the following morning the couple were married by Magistrate Thomas Carlon. But there may be breakers ahead for the two, who started on a honeymoon trip about the state, if Frederick D. Stumke makes objection to the wedding. In securing the marriage license Mrs. Stumke admitted that she had been divorced, but she gave the date as January, 1905. But it was not in January, 1905, but on April 14, 1906, that Mrs. Stumke was granted a divorce from Frederick Stumke and was allowed $400 permanent alimony. The decree, in accordance with the Colorado divorce laws, provided that neither party should marry within a year. The law is binding only as to Colorado, and does not operate to hinder persons from going into another state and marrying as soon as they wish, but it provides a penalty for remarriage within the state if the other party to the divorce cares to prosecute the charges. As Bucel hobbled out on his crutches with his bride on his arm, however, he gave no sign of fear that his wife's former husband might interrupt the honeymoon. AS TO THE AMERICAN COW. Value of Products Presents Figures That Stagger Humanity. New York.—There are nearly 25,000 dairy cows in America and enough other cattle to make a total of over 60,000,000 head, including bulls, oxen, young stock and the "flocks and herds which range the valley free," and all condemned to slaughter. There are less than a million thoroughbred cattle in the country and more than 45,000,000 scrubs. The rest are half or higher grades. About 20,000,000 calves are born annually. The average value of a cow is $22. In Rhode Island, a dairy state, the average is $39. The cows of the United States yield about 9,000,000,000 gallons of milk a year (watred and unwated) the Und zu dem lieb li-chen Tan wee. Kräu-seln-den Wel-len winkt Look at the way how so ten der, Look how they rise and swoon. Schla-fet, ihr Lie-ben, in Frieden, Be-tend der Vater noch wacht. Peacefully sleep, Oh my daughter, Fa-ther lifts up still his hand. Wie der-schn sei uns be-schie-den, Schla-fet in Ruh, gu-te Nacht! Praying to God on the wa-ter, That He may guard thee on land. ED. PINAUD'S HAIR·TONIC (EAU DE QUININE) Ask your dealer for ED. PINAUD'S HAIR-TONIC and LILAC VEGETAL THIS OFFER WILL INTEREST YOU! The New York Age We desire the names of 30,000 persons on our subscription books before June 1, 1907. To get them we are planning a special campaign throughout New York City and the Country. To begin with, we offer ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) in GOLD, divided into Four Prizes of $50.00, $25.00, $15.00 and $10.00, each, to the persons sending the largest number of new subscribers to The Age, before May 1, 1907, when the prizes will be awarded. In addition, we shall allow a regular commission of Ten Per Cent. in this contest on each subscription forwarded at $1.50 a year; or $1.00 for 6 months. Regular Agents of The Age are permitted to participate in this contest. This offer applies to new subscribers only as renewals cannot be counted in awarding the prizes. Further information furnished on request. Address, THE NEW YORK AGE 4 CEDAR STREET NEW YORK CITY HIS HAIR UNCUT 23 YEARS. Eccentric German Lived Alone and Cleared Ranch Without Horses. Hunters, Wash.—Hans Kohlen, an eccentric character in Stevens county, has sold his fine ranch, four miles west of Fruitland, and will re-enter civilization after being almost a recluse for 23 years. All this time he has been a bachelor, and almost a hermit. He cleared his farm, built a house and fenced the land absolutely without assistance. Kohlen never owned a team, carrying logs and rails on his back for long distances, while at work on his place. During 23 years Kohlen never cut or combed his hair. For many years Kohlen's bed has been a big dry goods box, half filled with hay. Daily at sundown he drew on a gunny sack, buried himself in the hay and silent comfortably. S. Davis purchased the ranch for $2,500. With the proceeds of the sale Kohlen proposes to return to his native home in Germany. FEAT OF A CNE-ARMED MAN. He Builds a Two-Story House Without Outside Help. London.—Quite a pretentious two-story house stands at Rochester, England, as a monument to the industry of a one-armed man named Simpson, who is connected with the British postal service. The man has for many years been employed on one of the rural routes and as his time is not wholly taken up at his labor he spends a large part of each day at work on a farm which he owns and operates. Having a few spare minutes left each day, the thought occurred to him to build a residence for himself. He gave the matter some thought and finally drew the plans, which were submitted to the local authorities and duly approved by them. He commenced the work of foundation laying and for ten years he gave the project what time he had after attending to his other duties and at the end of this period the house was complete in every particular. The interior woodwork was all in place and the walls and ceilings properly decorated and all of this was done by the one-armed Handy-Andy during his spare time. The cart in which the bricks and lumber were hauled was also constructed by the remarkable workman. In the rearing of this building, all work was done by his hands, or rather his hand. Mr. Simpson's arm was shot off by the accidental discharge of a gun when he was a lad of 12 years, but notwithstanding this handicap he has more to show for his industry and perseverance than most persons with the usual number of arms. THE BEE PUBLISHED AT 1109 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance..$2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... .20 EDITOR WILKINS. The Bee, desiring to be fair, has published the entire editorial answer to The Bee of Editor Wilkins of the Chicago Conservator in this week's issue. Editor Wilkins charged The Bee with having surrendered the manhood rights of the colored Americans because it published the history of Tuskegee Institute and what Prof. Booker T. Washington is doing for the southern colored youth. Editor Wilkins in his editorial admits that the Tuekegee Institute is doing great work and that he meant no reflection on the Institute. Conceding this much, The Bee will ask what then becomes of the charge that The Bee has or does advocate the doctrine of surrender? Is not Editor Wilkins inconsistent? If the teachings at Tuskegee are correct, and those are the questions in controversy, and he admits that he sees no fault in the institution, what does he mean? The Bee has the highest respecet for Editor Wilkins and shall dismiss the question in a fair and unbiased manner. The Bee will concede that Prof. Washington did advocate a policy to which The Bee as well as other journals did not subscribe. He saw the error of his way and he now advocates manhood rights, industrial and higher education. What more does The Bee's learned contempo do not beg the question, but point rary want? Now, Editor Wilkins, out one act of surrender of the manhood rights of the colored Americans by Prof. Washington since the adoption of the revised constitutions in the South. The Bee has published this week your entire editorial, over a column, and you have not answered one question put to you by The Bee. You charge that The Bee advocates the doctrine of surrender. Name one—just one—only one. The Bee's esteemed contemporary has been buried too deep to resurrect and he must admit it. The Bee has published only a history of Tuskegee and what the principal of that institution is doing for the colored youth. By so doing have the manhood rights of colored Americans been surrendered? Come up to the judge's stand, Editor Wilkins, and take your sentence like a man. You further say that you are the best friend Prof. Washington has and that you believe in his institution. Now, is this not a surrender of your former position? Be honest, which The Bee knows you are, and plead guilty to your sins. You will not be harmed. The Bee's good friend, Editor Trotter, of the Guardian, will deal gently with you. Do not be ashamed or afraid of the stings of the Guardian. The Bee knows that you both are sound on the Negro question and fearless in your advocacy of human rights. The Bee has subordinated any personal feelings it may have entertained against the great educator because it knows what he has done and is doing not only for the manhood rights of the colored Americans, but what he is doing for the young colored man to enable him to compete with those who control the business and industrial world. The colored Americans must educate their hands as well as their heads. There is room enough for every teacher of the col- --- ored youth without abusing one another. Editor Wilkins is a man of refined qualities and brave in defending the rights of the colored Americans. He is in a state in which democracy respects manhood rights and pure and noble womanhood. Prof. Washington is surrounded by the enemy. He has them within and without. His institution rests upon a volcano which is liable to explode at any time. The enemy watches him with a jealous eye. The shot gun is ready to invade his home at any moment. Why should we, Editor Wilkins, encourage the invaders? You are at long range. You can shoot and hide. behind barricaded walls or fire in the open and receive the protection of the immortal Lincoln. Has the North, East or West erected such a monument as you know exists at Tuskegee? Speak now or forever hold your tougue. The Bee does not believe in the doctrine of surrender and neither does the education of Tuskegee. OUR SCHOOLS. It is the duty of the citizens of Washington to stand by the Board of Education against those who would destroy our public school system. The removal of one man from the public schools, for acts of insubordination should not cause the people to go into hysterics. The testimony as far as it went, in the opinion of The Bee sustains the contention of the Board of Education and these injunction proceedings should be at once dismissed by the court. If the courts uphold such a subterfuge the public school system in the city will amount to nothing. The present board of education is one of the best the people ever had, and so far as Superintendent Chancellor is concerned, he should be given an opportunity to show what he can do. It is firmly believed that he will make one of the best superintendents that has ever been at the head of our schools. This talk that the board is not properly constituted is all subterfuge. Strange that it has just been found out since the board is investigating a teacher against whom there are charges of writing a letter. This recent act demonstrated weakness of the defense. It is not believed that the board intended to take snap judgment or not to give the teacher a fair trial. Every indication showed that the board was fair. President Bird, and indeed every member of the board declared if Cardozo proved his innocence that he would not be removed. Why did he not then continue and put in his defense? The board doesn't mean to be bulldozed by any such subterfuges. It is not believed that any member of the board is biased. The contention of the defense is that the present board of education was not properly created by an act of Congress. What a flimpy plea. Congress did give the judges of the Supreme Court authority to appoint a Board of Education. Nine members were appointed at the time. Mrs. Brewer declined to serve. Does the defense mean to say because one member was not present that the acts of the other members of the board are contrary to law? No more so than the acts of the judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia or the decision of one judge of the police court who acts in the absence of the other. If the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia is properly constituted certainly the Board of Education is. The Supreme Court will certainly not nullify its own act by declaring that the Board it created is improperly constituted. If it did, it would revolutionize the public school system. The bill of the defense will not hold and when it is argued before Justice Clabaugh it will be seen that the defense saw its doom, hence this subterfuge. The defense of Mrs. Cardozo will turn out like the case of Mrs. Taylor, who applied for a mandamus to compel the Secretary of War to reinstate her to her former position after she had been dismissed for writing articles against the President. She carried her case to the Supreme Court of the United States and Mrs. Taylor was a wiser woman after the decision of that court. The Supreme Court cannot uphold the petition of the defense. It will not declare its own acts illegal by creating the Board of Education. It cannot and it will not. Why does the defense want to enjoin the present board, for trying Mr. Cardozo? If he is innocent why does he fear an investigation. It is "ALL COONS LOOK ALIKE." The mid-winter dinner of the famous Gridiron Club at the New Willard last Saturday was thrown into consternation by the attack of President Roosevelt on Senator J. B. Foraker in the discussion of the Brownsville matter. At this dinner were the diplomats and the brains of the world. In the discussion of the Brownsville matter among other things President Roosevelt declared that "all coons look alike to him." He was quickly reminded by the distinguished Senator from Ohio that not only did all coons look alike to him, but "all persons," President Roosevelt especially not excepted. When the nation's chief executive should so soon forget himself and fail beneath the dignity of a great nation by discriminating against one class of people to satisfy his personal pique he should say to the American people that he is unfit to occupy the office he holds. What had the Brownsville matter to do with the social functions that were in progress? The speech of the President showed his littleness. Senator Foraker was not slow in his retort. Not even the President of the United States could deter him from doing his duty. It was a manly speech which forced the author of a square (2) deal to offer to drink a toast to the Demosthenes of the Senate. So offensive was the speech of the President that the Club would not permit him to reply to Senator Foraker. It was a crushing rebuke to the Chief Executive. Brother Gardner in the "Lime Kiln" Club could not have made a more offensive address. Senator Foraker fully demonstrated his superior intelligence over that of the President. Have not the actions of the President towards the colored Americans fully proved the assertions of The Bee. When Senator McCarmack of Tennessee declared that the colored Americans owed the President a debt of gratitude he did not know what he was talking about. Does the Senator from Tennessee expect the colored Americans to take every insult that the President offers? Because he invited Prof. Booker T. Washington to the White House to dine, as he said in a speech in the Senate a few weeks ago, must the entire colored race accept every indignity and insult offered by the President? If there is one negro in this country who declares or has declared in a public or private speech that he indorses the action of the President he is a traitor to his people. It is true there are a few colored men who will curry favor with the Administration for personal aggrandizement, but there are not enough representative colored men in this country who have sufficient power to persuade the colored people to support the President, gratitude or no gratitude. Senator McCarmack condemns the action of the Boston colored men because they condemn the action of the President. These men are loyal to the race and don't look for any favors from the administration. Does the Senator from Tennessee indorse the speech of the President at the Gridiron Club? Was not Senator Foraker justifiable in defending himself against the attack of the President? The colored American is not ungrateful. WHY ARE WE ASHAMED OF ONE ANOTHER? There is but one nationality upon this great globe that is ashamed of one another. In the colored race may be found all colors, sizes and conditions. You are at liberty to pay your money and solicit your choice. The moment a colored man or woman is elevated from a scrub woman or a street cleaner to that of a school teacher, clerk or pianist, he or she comes to the conclusion that he or she is above the average colored American. The Bee has seen the most refined colored woman in a white person's kitchen or doing chamber work. A few years ago the editor of this paper was the medium through which several female graduates from the public schools secured appoint- --- ments to positions of teachers in the public schools who failed to receive their appointments at the time of graduation because they were black. Many of the school officers were opposed to them because they were washerwomen's daughters and because their condition in life did not command sufficient influence to secure their employment in the schools. Very often bastardy gets in control and refuses to recognize legitimate births. It has obtained to such an extent in this city, that the well-thinking people have become disgusted. Of course no one can help his birth. The mother and the father are responsible. In many instances illegitimacy overrides legitimacy. The former often attempts to set in judgment and dictate what shall and shall not be. Why should a servant girl or a laboring man or woman be treated with disrespect? One God created us all. There is no discrimination in death. Why should there be any in life. We all are laid upon the bosom of our Mother Earth. The honest laborer should be given the same consideration as the richest man in existence. Riches does not always make the man or the woman. Why then should we be ashamed of one another? Let us reflect. UNJUST DEAL. It cannot be denied that Washington has one of the best police departments in the country and the men, or many of them, deserve great consideration. The Bee does not agree with the recommendation of Major Richard Sylvester in his disapproval of the recent bill submitted to the Commissioners by Congress. The members of the force are entitled to thirty days' leave during the year. While many of the officers are upon their feet from morning until night, many of the government officials are basking in the mountains of Virginia or sitting in front of electric fans. During the hot summer months the members of the force must keep their coats buttoned up to their necks while the perspiration runs down their backs like a stream from the Bladensburg, Md., Spa Spring. Why should not the members of the force have thirty days? Year in and year out these faithful men patrol the city, protecting the life and property of the citizens while many of them are away at the sea shore enjoying life. The city is too warm for them. But the wealthy citizen remains away all the summer, while the blue coats are compelled to stay at home and protect his property. It is unfair as well as unjust and The Bee doesn't believe that Commissioner West rejected the bill of his own volition. He is too much of a humanitarian, and Commissioner Macfarland is too much of a Christian. Yes, the bill should become a law. The bill should become a law. MRS. WALKER SICK Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, not withstanding the severe snow storm last Tuesday, night and her failure to appear at the Bethel Literary, a large crowd turned out to greet her. Mrs. Walker is a woman to be encouraged. She is indeed a business factor in this country. She is a business woman and is doing more than any other woman in the United States to advance the colored people in business. She is a self-made woman and the organization that she represents is an honor to the colored people. A more deserving compliment could not be paid her than to elect her secretary of the St. Luke's for life. She is entitled to it. She deserves it and the delegates at the next convention should unanimously elect her to the above position. Attorney James H. Hayes, the legal representative of St. Luke's read the address of Mrs. Walker. While Attorney Hayes is an eloquent speaker, he could not impress the people as Mrs. Walker would have impressed them. The Bee means by that Attorney Hayes is impressive in his own language but not so when he speaks other people's thoughts. However, Attorney Hayes was applauded several times during the delivery of Mrs. Walker's address. The order of St. Lukes is next to the Grand United Order of True Reformers. Both of these organizations are doing great work among the colored people and The Bee is pleased to see them succeed. THE AFRO-AMERICAN COUNCIL. A meeting of the local committee of the Afro-American Council will be held at 5 o'clock Monday evening, February 4. In the evening there will be a public mass meeting held under the auspices of the league at which time several representative men will be present and speak. Everybody is invited to be present. Dr. Corrothers is the chairman of the local committee and it is his intention to do all in his power to make the Afro-American Council a factor. The local committee will establish permanent headquarters in some suitable place in the city where information may be obtained in the interest of the colored race. The local committee wants to raise five thousand dollars for the purpose of pushing through the certain measures affecting the colored race. It is hoped that the people will turn out and have the objects of the Council explained to them. THE LILY WHITES. The Bee has received several communications from reputable citizens condemning the recent organization of lily white negroes. It is this class of colored people who are dangerous to the social circle. They have been a menace to our public school system. Investigation shows that almost every individual connected with this recent movement is an interloper who has no social standing at home. From the Chicago Conservator. In his excellent paper, the Washington (D. C.) Bee, Brother Chase makes reply to our strictures on his change of base touching Dr. Booker T. Washington's real value to the Negro race as a leader and national representative. Before paying special notice to the points which Brother Chase raises, as palliating his face-about, we beg to say of Chase himself that it is a positive pleasure, as well as interesting, to dispute the feasibility of positions with a man of his calibre and high character and self-respect. In fact, we have, from a pure conscience and with no other motive but to serve the best interest of our people as a race journal, supported by the race, fought with all the power at our command. What we regard as Mr. Washington's doctrine of surrender and inactive contentment in the face of the most outrageous discrimination, civil and political, against our people — a sickly, cowardly submission to all sorts of multtreatment with the hope that after the Negro got rich in this world's goods the, white South would consent to let him enjoy his civil and political rights. This fight for our people the Conservator has carried on for more than ten years, and while a great reaction has set in for the better by reason of the Negro's throwing aside Mr. Washington's advice and repudiating Mr. Washington as his leader and his spokesman, we have in that short time more than realized our worst fears as to the results of Mr. Washington's peculiar doctrine on the general condition of our people. During all this time not one Negro newspaper, supporting Mr. Washington's policy and claiming to defend him in it, in attempting to meet our objections to his propaganda, ever arose to the dignity of an argument. Each one of his organs, and he had nearly all of them, contented itself with a line of vulgar blackguardism and billingsgate and cursing the editor of the Chicago Conservator as sufficient defense and argument for Mr. Washington's race-degrading policy. The result was that for a time, led by Tom Fortune, "the Nestor of the Negro press," that all the "enterprising" Negro newspapers of the country, with a few brave notable exceptions, like The Bee, either held up the Conservator to ridicule and contempt, or passed it unnoticed, and to this day some of them hate it worse than the devil hates holy water. But we were not running our paper for newspapers and newspaper men, but for the people, and we stuck by the people, ignoring and exposing and lambasting all cringing newspapers and all flunkies who were making merchandise out of the race. Now, as we see the result of our efforts in a subscription increased many fold throughout the country, with the whole race everywhere approving our cause, and above all the Negroes repudiating and setting aside Washington as a spokesman and a representative and the race fighting its own battles, making friends and growing in respectability all over the world as never before. We still love and highly respect all the press gang and hope the day will son come when we can unite our forces as one man for the race and stop this sickening fuss over Booker T.ington and remand him to his work, for which he seems best. If Washington could be induced out of politics and stop his preaching policies and orderrace and go and give his attentirely to the work which we all he can best do, and stop buying ential Negro journals which wou erwise serve the race for his boosters when he runs counterrace interest, we could all unteporting and holding up his hand, he taught our youth the use trowel, the spade, plow, hammer, et, etc. It is not a fight on Mr. W. ton's school or his person that t respecting, race-loving Negro ing; it is his persistent determination to use the great prominence which enjoys as a first Negro to improve country with the idea that the Negro must be content to be less than a fledged citizen to be acceptable fellows. Now, Brother Chase, a new recruit to Mr. Washington, cacy, opens up a new and living of disposing of disputed propos upon which honest men can differ still respect one another, and it opens his new allies with take advantage of his many example in meeting in force and assist in dignifying their ungrieved service by showing some respect for those who honestly oppose their notions. In his reply to the Conser, this strictures Brother Chase makes the common mistake of asserting that the Conservator is opposed to Mr. Washington's school methods, etc.; and that that line he has done no good, at least done more harm than good. In this Brother Chase does the Conservator an injustice which it is plain from his fair spirit and brave manner he does not intend. We have never known Chase to purposely misrepresent over his most bitter enemy in a combat. He will fight fair if he gets whipped. No Negro newspaper ont a truckling slave to our dear old friend, Mr Booker T. Washington, ever said more complimentary and beautiful things of the school and the school work of Booker T. Washington than the Conservator, and no man can find one word that it ever said against his efforts along that line. We have voluntarily commended the school and praised Washington as the greatest living projector of the industrial activities and have advised hundreds of our youth to take advantage of it. We have never said or entertained anything other than than Washington was a gentleman of finest character and in that respect a splendid example of our best men, which we should like our young men to follow. To argue with us, therefore, that Mr. Washington's school work is of great value to the race is superfluous. We know it all and appreciate it, and if he would agree to let the race go and contend for civil and political rights without his interfering to call them thieves, and to advise the white man to feed us out of a wooden spoon, while the rest of the citizens and Japs are fed out of silver spoons, the Conservator would support him and support him heartily and he would not send us a check every month to do it, either. Brother Chase is too close an observer and too well posted as to the position and policies to need any clear documentary statement of the Conservators position touching our active relations to the American negro. By a little reflection Brother Case will defy anybody to prove that the Conservator ever said one word to indicate that Mr. Washington was doing any injurious work in his schoo and the very fact that he cannot care on that school in the South and represent the great race in its contention for its Constitutional rights has been the reason why the Conservator has the name of the race contended that he should in no way meddle with matters he can only make worse by the dabbling in, and at the same time by the work by which he contributes so much to the material worth of our race This was the former stand of the Bee, and we believe The Bee did more good for the race generally in this position than it can possibly do in ten years' boosting Washington as a Leader and representative. Nog while his hands are tied to the skirts of the white South. We are Washington's real friend. THOSE LEFTERS. Editor Chase, of the Washington writes George B. Cortelyou a se- ring letter. THE DISMISSED SOLDIERS If there are any members of C panies A, B, and C, of the Twenty fifth Infantry in the city, please their names and addresses to the itor of The Bee. If any member of these three companies should notice he is requested to send his name to The Bee at once. If any citizen the United States knows the where- abouts of any member of any of above companies he will please send name to The Bee, Washington. District of Columbia. READ THE BEE The Week in Society TO SUBSCRIBERS. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers for The Bee are notified that no collector will be sent to them for subscriptions and they will either call and pay or send a check or postal money order. The management will not annoy subscribers with collectors. Address, B. L. C. Subscription Department of The Washington Bee, 1009 Eye street, N. W. I. W. Chavers, editor of the Columbus, Ohio, and Dr. Wm. Guy Ween both of Columbus, Ohio, visited the city this week. While here they visited the editor of The Bee. Dr Samuel M. Pierre is fact improving and will no doubt be able to resume his practice in a few weeks. Miss Jackson of Boston, Mass., was the guest of honor at a reception by Miss Josephine Mason of. 1614 Corcoran street, N. W. Mrs. Lucy Early, mother of Miss Mavne Early has been quite sick, but is now recovering. The friends of Dr. E. D. Scott of 903 9th street, N. E. are glad to hear of his return to the city entirely recovered from his attack of sickness. Mrs. Webster, daughter of Mr. Gorham Fletcher, will soon return to her home in Jamaica. Mrs. Mary Gray is very sick at her home. 24 Defrees street, N. W. Profil Ferris has been asked to be one of the editors of "The Constitutional League" a paper which they hope to edit in Philadelphia, Pa., next month some time. Miss Goldey Fletcher, who came to the city to attend the funeral of her mother, has returned to take charge of her school in N. J. Rev Lankins has been transferred from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to the Post Office Department in this city. The surprise party which was given Mrs. Haley of 45 Hanover street, was an enjoyable affair. It was indeed a surprise to her. Miss Julia Jenkins, who has been raising her parents here has returned to her school in Virginia. There was quite a large attendance in the missionary meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society at the main Street Baptist Church. The program was interesting. Every one convinced that "It is more blessed than to receive." Mrs. Mabre of 1112 New Jersey leane N. W., has left the city to spend the winter in Charlotte, N. C., with her daughter, Mrs. A. B. Robinier. There was a great deal of disappointment last Tuesday at the Bethel literary for not hearing Mrs. Walke as was announced. She was in- Miss Irine Lawson of this city was very much pleased with the few days spent in the Quaker City. Mr Harrison Bundy of Baltimore, he spent Sunday with his relatives 1850 street. N. W. The name of this club shall be the White Social Club of Washing- ton black, chestnut brown, or Japanese yellow are not in membership.—Part of con- trolly Whites. This Lily Social Club may enroll every in Washington but it will no effect upon the white people, more distasteful to them. The question of color in Negroes is doing the —Editor The Bee. Harry Lee of this city was while in New Haven, Mrs. L. S. Howard at her ork street. Arbella V. Chase, the Lit- tleor of The Bee, is confined of by sickness. Washington highly pleased with her visit. Mrs. Agnes Morris, the second vice-president of R. N. C., True Reformers entertained Mrs. Rosa Thompson during her stay in Washington. Mr. Alfred Churchill has as his guest Miss M. Ward, his niece, of Boston, Mass. Mrs. M. Barrett, president of the Woman's Auxiliary, Y. M. C. A., Kansas City, is arranging to make the visit of Mrs. M. C. Terrell to Kansas City very pleasant socially. Mrs. R. T. Farley, living in Brookland, was called to New York by the sickness of her daughter, Mrs. H. T. Burleigh. Mr. Chas Turner, who was visiting friends here, has returned to his home in New Jersey. Mr. J. A. Lankford reports an injury to Bishop H. M. Turner, of Georgia, who fell and broke his arm last week at the Bishops' Council, Kansas City, Missouri. The Council was so effected it decided to have no more winter meetings unless they were called by the Bishops. Mrs. Irene Morgan, of New Hampshire avenue, has recovered from serious illness. Mr. William H. A. Wormley, on account of severe and continued illness, has resigned his position as bailiff of the Supreme Court of the District. The Rev. Doctor Waldron, of Jacksonville, Florida, has accepted the position of preacher of the Shiloh Baptist Church. Mr. Bert Wormley, the eldest son of Willliam H. A. Wormley, met with a serious accident in Philadelphia recently. Grand Secretary of the Sub-Committee of Management, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, James F. Needham, of Philadelphia, paid a "flying visit" to this city last week. Mrs. A. V. Chase is confined to her bed with the grip. Mr. W. Sidney Pittman went to Norfolk, Va., last week. Mr. W. A. Andrews has returned to the city from West Virginia. Mr. Eustice B. Johnson, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, has been confined to his residence in Fourteenth streets the past week by severe indisposition. He is now convalescent. A fire in the residence of Mrs. Walker, Corcoran street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets northwest, Monday last did much damage, which was fully covered by insurance, we are glad to announce. The fire was occasioned by some defect in the heating apparatus. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COUNCIL A grand reception was given by Phyllis Wheatley Council, I. O. of St. Luke, last Wednesday evening at "Nu-La Torium Hall," 8th street between E and G streets, S. E. Phyllis Wheatley Council is the oldest St. Luke Council in the District of Columbia. TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. Second Baptist Lyccum, Colored, to Send Gift to Senator Foraker. There was a large crowd at the Second Baptist Church Lyceum last Sunday afternoon, when the question of the recent dismissal of the colored soldiers from the army was discussed. At the conclusion of the debate Attorney W. Calvin Chase offered a resolution setting forth: First, the Second Baptist Lyceum tenders to Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio a token of its esteem for his noble defense of right and justice. Second, that a committee of five be appointed for the purpose of selecting the proper token to be presented to the distinguished Senator on or before February 25. Third, that each member of the lyceum and its friends be requested to contribute the requisite amount for purchasing such a token as will be proper. The resolutions were adopted, and those present were asked to come forward and subscribe their names. A sub-committee of three was appointed on plans, which will report next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. REGISTER VERNON BANQUETED. Register W. T. Vernon was tendered a banquet Wednesday evening at Odd Fellows' hall by a committee of representative citizens of this city. It was a representative gathering of his friends, and admirers. The addresses by the guests were eloquent, parental and witty. Architect J. A. Lankford had the panquet in charge and he made it a success. The address of Register Vernon was pointed and unassuming, which elicited great applause. Too much cannot be said of Mr. Langford. He is one of the most enterprising men in the city and a man who enters a thing with a will. Mr. Lankford and Register Vernon are fast friends and they both married women of refinement and culture. Mr. Vernon's wife is the daughter of Bishop Emory and Mr. Lankford's wife is the granddaughter of Bishop Turner. Register Vernon will leave for the West next week. DE LILY WHITE. DE LILY WHITE. Da's some foolish haff-white nigger Dat am libbin in dis town, An da's go mo foolish notions Den an ole time circus clown. Da's done gone an fom a ciety, An da calls hit de elite, An do say dat you can't jine em Ceptin you kin pass fo white. Yass; da say da's not er gwine tu Mix wid cullud fokes no moah, Ef yu's black er brown or yaller Da will sho yu tu de doah. Yu don't need no repertashun; Virtue—hit's not counted in. Yu jes needs er little money An er chawk and cheese lak skin, Den jes swah dat you will nebber Mix wid cullud fokes no mo, Den da'll make you er full member, "lily white" from top top tu toe. Wen yu am er sclusive nigger, Rigged out fer tu cut er dash, An ef yu's FREE wid yo 'MONEY Yu kin mix wid "Poah White Twash." Dem dar fokes am sho do limit, Da don't b'long to necther race, So I guess da's started out tu Take thah rite and propper place, Case I'se sho no cullud pussen Am er hankerin tu claim kin Wid er thing so simple minded Ez tu jedge fokes by thar skin. Mongst da white fokes what's res- pected, Da won't neber cut no dash, So da'lknaffter fine thar level Mongst da soves an "Poah White Mongst da seves an "Poah White Twash." Ise done seed some crazy loons, Ise done seed some apes an monkeys An some grizzly, gray babboons, Ise done seed some curious varmints Now an den fom ebery clime, But dese "Lily White" contraptions Am de things whut beats my time. Hope dat da will be successful, Hope da'll fine der propper place, Case ole Saten's gwie ter cram dem All inter de hottest space Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 26, 1907. Editor Washington Bee: In your issue of the 19th inst. occurs an editorial article under the title "Do We Surrender?" We have just finished the perusal of the article and cannot refrain from writing to you our congratulations for your strong words of praise for Prof. Washington. He is worthy of high enconiums for the plain, homely advice he gives to our race. Mistakes, yes. Thank the Lord, he is human—so human that he is liable to make them, as well as we, and we hope that The Bee has said something to Editor Wilkins which will clear the dust from his eyes and mind, and lead him to believe that the world is full of people, and that he is only one of the units of the hundreds of millions of the world's population Sincerely and fraternally yours, R. B. Montgomery, Edwin N. Bason. NUMBER OF CHURCHES. From the last directory of this District issued, there appears to be 115 colored churches apportioned as follows: Baptist, 67; Roman Catholic, 2; Congregational, 4; Protestant Episcopal (including missions), 7; Presbyterian, 1; Seventh-Day Adventists, 1; Swedenborgian, 1; Methodist, 32, embracing all branches. Among our numerous church choirs it may be safely asserted that there are probably only four which may be specially mentioned for their rendition of church music in a highly satisfactory and acceptable manner. These choirs are the St. Augustine's, Fifteenth street near M street northwest; the --- Lincoln Memorial, corner of Eleventh and R streets northwest; the People's Congregational, M street between Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, and the choir of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Chapel, Twenty-third street northwest, between G and H streets. We suggest to all lovers of good music that they visit these churches from time to time, and hear sacred music rendered in a most beautiful and impressive manner. It will certainly repay the visit and prove both helpful and inspiring. "THE LILS MET." A special meeting of the Lily White Social Club was called Wednesday evening for the purpose of comparing notes. Only a few met and they greeted one another by saying that "I called to tell you that I could not join." "Did you read The Bee?" remarked another. The president of the Lils did not make her appearance, hence it was decided to disband. Peace be to the Lils. It was a sad meeting and those present sympathized with themselves. The president when last seen was hiding her identity. The secretary did not even show up at the meeting Wednesday evening. The meeting adjourned sine die. RABBI ELKIN PREACHES A SERMON ON GENERAL J.E.F. MON ON GENERAL LEE. From the Alexandria Daily Town Talk At the temple last Friday evening Rabbi Elkin took for his subject the life of Robert E. Lee in connection with some episodes from the life of Jacob. Speaking of the conflict of the States in connection with the meeting of Jacob and Esau, he said: "The ancients tell us that Jacob prepared himself in a three-fold manner to meet Esau. He bethought himself of gifts to placate his brother, then he resorted to prayer, and if these two would not help, then in the last resort, he would wage war as did Abraham for Lot. Robert E. Lee lived through all these compromises which were made to settle the great question of slavery. No question of matter and moment was ever settled till it was settled correctly and these compromises on the slavery issue only staved off the inevitable conflict. There are those who tell us that the conflict would have come without the problem of slavery. The 'Cavalier' of the South and the 'Puritan' of the North are temperaments entirely different and would have come to blows just as they did in England of old. Even if it be true that 'history repeats itself.' Yet let us not forget that the same problem is today before the American people and the stock in trade for the newspaper cartoonist is the 'Brownsville tragedy.' We have the spectacle presented of a Senator telling us that this great republic is on he eve of a 'race conflict.' "In the solution of this question, on the anniversary of this character 'sans peur et sans reproche,' we may profitably ask ourselves how would this warrior who bore the brunt of the battle for the South, have answered this question? Would he have approved of the cartoonist day in and day out, using a simple act of justice as a means to earn bread and butter and indirectly to goad the passions of the people? Would he have approved of a Senator criticising the President for an act which would have been consummated had the soldiers been white instead of black? Would the great Southerner have joined with those who see in a simple act of justice 'political material and thunder,' which can be used against one who has shown himself on various occasions a friend of the black man? Lee as a soldier accepted the arbitrament of war and the central question settled by the titanic struggle would not have been obscured in his lucid and clear mind by the side issues which today are engendered by the living together of the two races. Besides Lee was a peace-loving man. His wife wrote that he shed 'tears of blood' when duty compelled him to draw the sword for his beloved Virginia. Who can calculate the great good which he did for a reconstructed South when under his presidency of Washington and Lee University there were sent out eight hundred young men who, by their culture and education lit up the 'dark places'? "Fitting it is that his monument in the Crescent City should be the place where peace and love meet each other; where colored nurse and little babe and romping child flock as if they knew themselves to be at peace under the benign gaze of him who was greater in peace than in war. "With angels and with men he wrestled and conquered." As a general Lee may be open to criticism in consequence of his magnanimity to take upon himself the blame belonging to officers who did the best they could with the inferior material which a poorer South afforded; but as a 'man of peace' there can be but one verdict. He who makes two blades of grass grow where before there was one, is a public benefactor. What shall be said in eulogy of one who prefers to greater emolument, which might have been his, the praise of a whole people would rise up and call him by that most honored of Jewish titles, Rabbi—Teacher?" The color prejudice among the colored residents in the city is becoming more alarming daily. This social distemper will be the ruination of the race. It is true that there are certain colored people in this community who have been trying for ages to organize a lily white social club. The Bee spoke briefly last week about the Lotus Club that was organized several years ago. This club admitted none but clerks, teachers and professional men. The, club disbandee very soon after it was organized. Many of its members disgraced themselves by their immoral conduct. One or two went to the insane asylum, while others went to the poor house. It was a question of position in this club and not color. The club was organized very soon after the Emancipation of the Negro. Clerkships, etc., were new to the newly emancipated and professional men were at a premium. They were called the exclusive set. There are one or two other organizations in this city now that would like to dictate all social functions. It is composed of sporting men, a few clerks and social good time females otherwise called the elite. They are not the citizens of Washington but many of them have been given social standing by the people. A history of many of the members would make the natives blush. Some time ago a social function was to given by one of these clubs and a gentleman of high social distinction was black-balled by one of its members. The member who black-balled him was from North Carolina. His reason was that he was not seen in many social functions that he attended and his wife was not known. The wife of the member was formerly a public school teacher and from one of the leading families in the city. Normally the lady was above suspicion and stood high socially. The member who objected to the wife and husband was an unknown quantity when he came to the city, but a clerkship in one of the departments gave him quasi social standing among his immediate friends. There are a few social organizations now in existence that have taken the names of several white social clubs, but they are not incorporated. Many of these individuals continue to visit department houses, where they are frequently refused. MOB OF WHITE SOLDIERS. In a Riot Wrought Havoc Upon Colored Citizens. From the Colored World, Columbus, O. Columbus, Ohio, January 22, was the scene of a practical repetition of the Brownsville affair shortly after 6.30 Monday evening, when a mob of nearly fifty soldiers started out to wreck the colored citizens of the city on Locust street, between High and Fourth Sts. No shots were fired, but the soldiers wrought much havoc with bricks, stones and clubs. They sahtered windows, and assaulted men and women, a few being slightly injured. 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From the Christian Index. For a great many years the Washington Bee, published in Washington, D. C., has never seen anything said or done by Booker T. Washington to compliment. It has lost no time in criticising the sage of Tuskegee, and often handled him without gloves. In an issue of that paper in December there was a change of front by the versatile editor. It spoke very complimentary of Mr. Washington in the highest terms. Indeed we were glad to see that the lamb and the lion have come to be strange bed-fellows. There is no need of eternal warfare on a man because he is doing what he believes to be right. The Washington Bee is ably edited and one of the best weekly papers published anywhere. See! UNITE From the Flag of Peace. Let the Booker T. Washington League and the Anti's unite. Brother Chase is right. It is our daily prayer that the bill to prevent Negroes from enlisting in the army and navy will become a law. Let the Negro take some other road to heaven. FREE LECTURE AND MUSIC From the Bantist Trumpet. From the Baptist Triumph Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, of Richmond, Va., president of the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank; R. W. G. Sec., for the I. O. of St. Luke, with a membership of 30,000 adults and juveniles, also the president of the St. Luke Emporium, with a capital stock of $40,000, will arrive in this city Wednesday, February 6th. There will be a mass-meeting of all the councils of the I. O. of St. Luke Wednesday evening, February 6, at the Monumental Baptist Church, Firty-first and Ludlow streets; Dr. Gordon, pastor. Every member is urged to be present. Music by the choir also. Mrs. Anna M. Washington, of Wayne, Ind., will sing a solo. Mrs. Walker will lecture Thursday evening at the Zion Baptist Church, Thirteenth street below Wallace; Dr. E. W. Moore, pastor, Rev. A. H. Gunn of. Washington, D. C., who has charge of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in this city, will preach his farewell sermon at Mt. Zion Church on Sunday, February 3. Rev. Gunn came to this city in order to show a favor to Rev. H. H. Harris not seeking to become pastor of any church at all because duty calls him in Washington. Mt. Zion is a good church and her pastor, Rev. Harris, will soon be with them. VALENTINES. Valentines wholesale and retail. Heart cards. Favors. Wonders for children. J. Jay Gould, 421 9th street. Between H and I Street. ODD GIFT TO BRIDE FATHER GIVES WEIGHT IN SOAP AS DOWRY. Chocolate, Coal and Silver Also Figure in Wedding Presents Made by the Parents In- London. A valuable wife In the present state of the soap trade must be the woman M. Le illanc, a Parisian has just married. The bride, who was the daughter of a hairdresser In a large way of business, not only received from her father a handsome dot In money, but her own weight In the best toilet soap. As she weighed close to 140 pounds, the couple will possess sufficient soap to last them for some years to come. When asked by his prospective fa ther-in-law, a flourishing West end tobaccoist, to name the gift he would like to receive on his wedding day, the young man suggested a few boxes of cigars as being of more use than the usual presents presented on such occasions. "Very well, you shall have my daughter's weight in cigars," said the other. He was as good as his words. The bride welched 128 pounds. Mile. Marie Bric, the niece of a Marsellies confectioner, received from her uncle on her marriage three years ago an eccentric gift in the form of her own weight in chocolate. Perhaps the worthy patissier had in mind when making the present the custom which prevails in Peru. There, on the marriage morn, the bride is actually welghed, and after the ceremony the bridegroom is presented by his wife's relatives with her weight in sugar. A Yorkshire coal merchant's present to his daughter on her marriage was to be regulated by her weight, for every pound of which she is to be the recipient of a ton of the best coal. His intention, which he communicated to her on the day she became engaged, stirred her, as she was a young woman of frugal mind, to emulate the fat women of the fairs, so that during the six months her engagement lasted her value went up ten tons. Doubtless she would have made further inroads into her father's store had not that worthy merchant hurriedly married her off at a loss of only 172 tons. The father of a girl living in the town of Koniggratz offered to present anyone who should become her husband with her weight in silver currency. As she was well favored and of a build which, although not exceptionally stout, promised an amount ample to make a good start in business, more than one claimant appeared. The most eligible was at length selected and the wedding duly solemnized. Then came the most important function, the weighing of the bride, who, to her husband's delight, was found to weigh 155 pounds, or 13,500 kronen, an equivalent to $2,812. BOY SEEMS UNDER BAN. Blind, Deaf and Dumb, No Institution Opens Its Doors to Him. Bellefontaine, O.-The disposition that is to be made with Wilbur Reynolds, age seven years, who cannot see, hear, or speak, now rests with Gov. Harris. Neither the Logan county infirmary nor the children's home has accommodations for the almost helpless child. He was sent to the blind asylum by Probate Judge Plum of Logan county some time ago, but the superintendent there said he could not keep the child because he was also deaf and dumb. Then he was transferred to the deaf and dumb asylum, but now the superintendent there says he has notified the Logan county officers that the child cannot remain there because they have failed to make any progress with him, and he thinks the boy is not mentally competent. When application was made for the admission of the unfortunate boy to the imbecile asylum the superintendent of that institution said he would not take him because his institution was crowded. He refused to accept the charge from the Logan county officials. Now the matter has been laid before the governor to see in what institution he thinks the boy belongs. In the meantime the child is at the deaf and dumb asylum, but the superintendent insists that he will have to be removed from there. PAGE "AD" FOR BIBLE CLASS. Resort to Publicity Brings 150 New Members at a Time. Knoxville, Tenn.—The Cumberland men's Bible class, which inserted a page advertisement in a local newspaper last spring, and was discussed throughout the country, had another page advertisement to-day. The class is part of the Sunday school of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church. Its teacher is O. P. Sterling, a business man. "Advertising pays in business. Why won't it pay in a Sunday school?" asked Sterling of the Rev. W. T. Rogers, the pastor, and the plan was adopted. One hundred and fifty new members were the result. Now 150 more are wanted. A paragraph in the advertisement reads: "Men—Give us your attention a moment. The world to-day is crying more than ever for men of Christian character. Great corporations, financiers, business men are joining in this great appeal for men of merit and Christian integrity." MAINE LUMBER QUEEN MISS STIMSON HAS FAIRLY WON THE TITLE. Success in New Field Achieved in Face of Keenest Competition— Given No Advantage on Account of Sex. Boston.—Clara Stimson, who has earned the title of "the Lumber Queen of Maine," closed her mills at Smyrna Mills, Limerick and Ashland, recently, after a busy and successful season. Miss Stimson is one of the ablest and most enterprising women of New England, and has for many years conducted a large timber and lumber manufacturing business in the face of keen competition. She has had many interesting encounters with leading lumber barons of Aroostock, but so comprehensive is her knowledge of Malne's lumber resources and so accurate is her estimate of men that she seldom comes off second best in her deals. She will start up her mills again in the spring and expects to manufacture as much, if not more, lumber than in 1906. Miss Stimson's mills at Smyrna Mills and Limerick saw dong lumber, laths and shingles. She has a competent crew of men at each place, but drives from her home here in Houlton almost every day personally to oversee operations. Some of the logs which are converted into lumber at these mills are cut on her own timber land in New Limerick township. A few years ago Miss Stimson built a big mill on the Ashland branch of the Bangor & Aroostook, but found it M. (Maline Woman Who Conducts Large Timber and Lumber Business.) hard work to personally oversee so many plants, so she sold it. In the great fire which swept over Houlton two years ago Miss Stimson, with most of her neighbors, lost her dwelling house and many of her belongings. She has recently built a new house on one of the principal residential streets of the town, the house being one of the finest in Houlton. In the course of an interview, Miss Stimson said: "I was obliged to go into the lumber business first because of the death of my father, who was extensively interested in sawmills and timber lands. I soon became interested in it for its own sake, and have accomplished all I could. I have never been used discoureously in any of my business dealings, but I have never been given any advantage and have had to look out for myself. "The lumber business is becoming more complicated every year, but I have tried to keep pace with it. Stumpage has gone up to a very high figure and lumber has been at a high price for two years." "In my opinion, spruce lumber is too high. It is selling for more than it is really worth, and the market will slump some time, perhaps when least expected. "We have been bothered a good deal this year by the shortage of cars, although we didn't make as much talk about it as the potato raisers. I shipped a good many carloads to Boston, but the greater part of the output of my mills has been used right in the state. In fact, I consider my home market the best." From Miss Stimson's Smyrna plant 95 carloads of lumber have been shipped. The capacity of the mill is a little over 20,000 feet of long lumber per day. Darkey's Simple Reasoning. Darkey's Simple Reasoning. ' The peculiar simplicity of the country darkey in the south is illustrated by a story told by Congressman John Sharp Williams. An old negro had gone to a post office in Mississippi and offered for the mall a letter that was over the weight specified for the single stamp. "This is too heavy," said the postmaster. "You will have to put another stamp on it." The old darkey's eyes widened in astonishment. "Will anudder stamp make it any lighter, boss?" he asked. hilmene high pressure pump. The biggest high-pressure pump in the world is installed in the Dry Digging placer field of southern Oregon, on Rogue river, and is used to operate a battery of hydraulic motors in the mines. This pump is tested to withstand a maximum pressure of 250 pounds to the square inch. Its capacity is 13,000,000 gallons a day of 24 hours, or 9,000 gallons a minute. Technical World Magazine for January. Shooting Gold in a Siberian Mine. 10 The alliance it was made at the Troltzk mines, which are the most important and one of the whole district. Women are largely employed in the mills and do the surface works. "It was curious to watch them hard at work shoveling extra rich ore as it came from the shaft as though it were so much coal or rock." writes a correspondent. "Wages are ridiculously low as compared with what is paid in other mining camps I have visited—2 shillings a day for miners and general laborers, while women and boys get even less. Yet there is always an abundance of labor to be got at these rates. The Troltzk district is nothing more nor less than a huge gold-producing industrial center and presents a startling contrast to the dreary vista of endless forest or steppe one has to traverse to reach it. "The ore is crushed by what is known as Chilean mills." No convicts are employed in these mines. FARM LAWS ATTRACT INVESTORS PARTIAL TO AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY. Life Insurance Companies and Banks Favorable to This Class of Securities—Few Mortgages Chicago. - The attractiveness of farm loans in the middle west is having a decided effect on Chicago capital, according to bankers and brokers. Considerable activity is manifesting itself in this direction, and many of the leading life insurance companies are acquiring first mortgages on farms in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, Minnesota, the Dakotas and the country adjacent. The present holdings of the insurance companies considerably exceed $200,000,000 in these securities. Farm mortgages in the country mentioned net five, five and one-half and six per cent. They are limited, as a rule, to productive farms, and are made on a basis of 40 per cent. of the land value, closely appraised, and not including the value of improvements. Bankers point to the remarkably few foreclosures of farm mortgages in this section. The number scarcely exceeds one-tenth of one per cent. As compared with other investments based on lands in cities, the bankers of the middle west favor the well-placed farm loans, which, they declare, contain every element of attractiveness. A farm loan is regarded as a quick asset, whereas the contrary was true not much more than a decade ago. Many trust companies now include a separate department for the purchase and sale of farm loans. Chicago has a number of firms dealing in them, and it is estimated that close to $15,000,000 in such securities is held by Chicago investors. A large increase in this class of investment is predicted. Statistics show that the value of Missouri real estate, for example, is $2,000,000,000, while Kansas has real property worth $1,000,000,000. Oklahoma real estate is estimated at $358,000,000. Missouri has $204,000,000 invested in live stock, $32,000,000 in farm implements, $92,000,000 in manufacturing machinery and $310,000,000 in railroads. Oklahoma is a land of homes. Out of 87,000 families in 1900, more than 60,000 owned their homes. The people are engaged chiefly in agriculture. The cash value of the farms is estimated at $233,000,000. The 1906 corn crop amounted to 125,000,000 bushels, representing $37,500,000. The cotton crop has a value of $15,000,000. More than 27,000,000 bushels of wheat was harvested in 1906, and 23,000 tons of broom corn cut. Fruit of all kinds is raised in abundance. Farm lands in Oklahoma range from $18 to $65 an acre, or an average of about $30. Gets a Million; Quits School. New Haven, Conn.—Having inherited $1,000,000. Marlette Crouse, 22 years of age, until recently a Yale student, has founded a corporation to publish a national magazine to be known as the Journal of American History. Crouse was studying mechanical engineering at the Sheffield Scientific school, but, becoming enthusiastic over his work as manager of the Yale Scientific Monthly, he decided to go into the publishing business. Egg Says Judgment Day is Nigh. Dickson, Tenn.—A citizen of Hohenwald recently found that one of his hens had laid an egg, upon the shell of which was plainly waterlined the words: "Prepare for, the judgment, for it is close at hand." The find was made known and the egg immediately became the center of much curiosity. It is now on exhibition at Hohenwald, and has caused consternation among the superstitious. Many believe it a warning of the Judgment Dav. It Has Become a Leading Industry in Last Few Years. San Antonio, Tex.—Mexico is buying more well-bred breeding cattle than any six states in the union. This is the claim made by breeders of good beef stock. From the most miserable specimens of range cattle to the finest grades on the continent is the record of the Dlaz republic in the last ten years. The cattle-raising Industry in the republic is now one of the principal sources of prosperity there. The large ranch of Don Louis Terrazas and his son-in-law, Enrique C. Creel, the new ambassador to the United States, which covers many thousands of acres in Chihuahua, is one of the best-stocked cattle ranges in the world. This ranch has more than a thousand Hereford bulls that are of the blood royal. But there are many other ranches in various parts of the republic where cattle of the best quality have replaced the scrubs of a few years ago. The dairy-cattle industry is also being pushed to the front in the republic, and all along the line the breed of live stock is being bettered. This is due in chief to the great number of progressive American cattlemen who have removed to the republic to engage in cattle raising. Their lead has proven profitable to the Mexican ranch owners. At the recent San Antonio international fair a Mexican ranch owner made an order for 500 miles of wire fence for his sheep pasture. WHIST SINFUL, SAYS CHAMPION. Woman Stops Sermon to Renounce Game in Which She Excels. Des Molnes, Ia.—Before a congregation of nearly a thousand persons, and while the preacher was in the midst of his sermon, Mrs. A. B. Sims, a society woman and holder of the national woman's whist championship, arose in the University Church of Christ and denounced card playing as a sin. Mrs. Simms is one of the most prominent women of the city. For many years she has been an active member of women's clubs which affect whist and other card games. Two years ago Mrs. Simms won the first prize for women in the whist tournament held at Cleveland. Last year at St. Louis she won the national woman's championship. It is said that recent evangelical meetings held in the city are responsibye for the change in Mrs. Simms' ideas. She attended all of these meetings, which lasted for three weeks, and since that time has come to the conclusion that all card games are wrong. During the service Mrs. Simms impulsively stood up and renounced card games forever. Her friends in the congregation, who knew of her pride in her whist trumphs, gasped in amazement. She had told no one of her intentions. Chester, Pa.—Samuel A. Crozer, the Upland millionaire philanthropist, known as "the Grand Old Man of Upland," has reached the fortleth year of his career as superintendent of the Upland Baptist Sunday school. A marked feature of the many years the wealthy manufacturer has been at the head of the school has been Mr. Crozer's punctuality in beginning the session. He has never failed to begin the session just as the hour hand on his watch pointed to nine o'clock. The hours for study are regular, and the time for study is as much so, the result being that the young folks who attend the school are drilled to be diligent, punctual and methodical. Pay Comes for Sobriety. Amityville, N. Y.-Eugene Anderson has finished a ride of 13 years on the water wagon, the prize of his long abstinence being $1,000,000 left to him in trust, to be delivered when, in the opinion of the trustees, he showed sufficient control over his appetite for drink. He is now 50 years old. He has not sald how he will celebrate coming into possession of the fortune. BRAVE TEXAS RANGER CAPT. M'DONALD HAS HAD MANY THRILLING ENCOUNTERS. For Years He Has Been the Most Famous Peace Officer In the Southwest—Has Been Wounded Many Times. Washington.—Capt. William J. McDonald, who has become famous through Maj. Blocksom's report on the Brownsville affair, 'In which he was characterized as so brave that "he would not hesitate to charge hell with one bucketful of water," is the most noted peace officer in the southwest. He has been commander of a company of Texas rangers for nearly 20 years and has had many thrilling encounters with desperate men. Only a few weeks ago he and three members of his company were riding along a road near Rio Grande City, when they were fired upon by Mexicans in ambush. Capt. McDonald and his men returned the fire in the darkness, being guided in their aim by the flashes of the guns of the attacking party. They killed four Mexicans and wounded others. Capt. McDonald has killed a number of men while in the performance of his duty as an officer of the law. He is literally "shot to pieces," but he is still as lithe and active as a boy. He is never unarmed. Day and night he wears a big .45 and one of the latest improved automatic pistols. He sleeps with both these pistols by his side, whether in a hotel in town or in camp in some remote and dangerous locality of the border region. Practically all of Capt. McDonald's life has been spent on the frontier. He trailed Indians and hunted buffalo in Texas 40 years ago. He has a rec- ```markdown ``` CAPT. W. J. McDONALD. (Texas Ranger Mentioned in Report on Brownsville Affair.) ord for coolness and bravery almost unequaled. Ten years ago Capt. McDonald had a pistol duel with Sheriff Joe Matthews, of Childress county, Texas, and two deputies at Quanah. He killed Sheriff Matthews and was himself wounded almost to death. The two men had had trouble over which of them should have custody of a prisoner. Seven years ago John and George Humphreys, white farmers, were lynched. Alone and unalued Capt. McDonald arrested 12 of the lynchers, all desperate men, and they were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment It was through the efforts of Capt. McDonald that the notorious Reese-Townsend feud, which caused many killings in Colorado and Baastrop counties, Texas, was broken up. On one occasion when the members of these opposing factions, numbering 100 men, were drawn up in fighting array at Columbus, Capt. McDonald walked up to them and took all their guns and knives away from them. He left Quanah one day on the trail of a notorious criminal. He followed the outlaw 400 miles and finally overtook him in camp with four other men. He dismounted and arrested the fellow, although he expected every minute to be shot. He forced his prisoner to mount a horse and ride away with him. Three years ago Capt. McDonald had a fight with cattle thieves in the Pan Handle. Three of them escaped, and he followed them alone for 300 miles, finally rounding them up near Norman, Okla., where he arrested them single-handed. In 1896, when the Fitzsimons-Maher fight was scheduled for El Paso, McDonald was at the head of the contabulary commissioned by the state to see that the mill did not take place in American soil. McDonald camped with the fighters, and the mill wasought in Mexico—an inglorious encounter of one round. Emperor William has purchased the house in which his grandfather passed the night before the battle of St. Privat, better known as Gravelotte, in 1870. It is about seven miles from Metz, and it will eventually be turned into a museum. Counts Wealth In Reindeer and Spends It on Orphans. The richest Eskimo woman in America, Mary Anderwuk, is an unruly "queen." She does not count her wealth in stocks and bonds like Green, or in stool mills like Krupp, but in reindeer. The number of 500 reindeer gives her a social position among her peers the reindeer means as much as Eskimo as the horse did to our prairies in the early days of reindeer is the horse and cow of the far north. This interesting woman, who lives so much from her sister of [Illustration of a figure with a halo around the head.] MARY ANDERWUK. (Esquimo Who is the Best Beover Woman in Alaska.) in dress and mode of life, is not all looking, even judged by. american standards of beauty; indeed, she has a strain of Russian blood in her veins which has modified her appearance. Her kindly face is broad and light brown, and the eyes and the hair dark; the nose is not too prominent and the full lips are clearly marked. Her short, stout figure is usually in skirt and long coat of mundere skin, while about her head falls a trimmed with pretty white fur. Mary Anderwink is now pas- prime of life and, having no ch of her own, has adopted sove phans, reared them carefiel placed them in a school establish- Sheldon Jackson for the Eskim Alaska. She came by her bus bed of deer honestly. Her first husband who bore a very long Eskimo name so used an apprenticeship as reindeer heADER for the United States government and for his services received several deer. When he died his wife inherited the herd, which grew in number from year to year. She married again and both she and her husband are now members of the Swedish Lunar church at Unalakleet. Knowing several Eskimo dialects and having picked up a knowledge of English by contact with traders and missionaries she has often been employed as interpreter by United States government officials. This semi-official service has clothed her with a certain dignity in the eyes of the primitive folk of her native land. Mary Anderwuk is to-day the best known and the best loved woman in Alaska, and her fame is spreading from the mining camps of Alaska to the drawing rooms of the Pacific coast. He Pulls the Vehicle Up Hill and Rides Down. Denver.—The Cherrelyn street car line is famous almost the whole world over as being the only one where one Horse Riding on a Street Car can see the novel sight of a horse taking a street car ride. The line is a short one—only about two miles long, extending from Englewood, a suburb of Denver, to Cherrelyn, a sleep hamlet on the plains. From Englewood to the farther termin, the grade is all up hill, requiring the strength of a stout broncho to the motive power. On the trip, however, no motive power required beyond that supplied ity. The horse, therefore, ted to mount the rear plato ride down hill, while the driver his undivided attention to theulation of the brake. Royal Women Fond of Cats Royal Women Point of Queen Alexandra owns se chinchillas and Persian c cess Alexander of Teck and Maurice of Battenberg also valuable specimens, but the fancier among the royal f Great Britain is Princess Vio Schleswig-Holstein and the o cattery is the one now establ Cumberland lodge. This has ranged on the most up-to-date ciples and has curtained windows a front door, with a knocker and box. The portals are surmounted a crown and the initials "V S H BURNSTINE LOAN FIGE. Gold and silver watches, mamonds, Jewelry, guns, mechanical tools. Ladies and gent's wearing apparel. Old gold and silver bought. 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Sidney Arch RENDERING IN MONOTONE, WATER COLOR AND PEN & INK STEEL CONSTRUCT Phone: Main 6059—M. Office J. A. La EXPERT BUILDERS EXAMINED Plans gotten out at short notice inings, written or verbal descriptions country. In the past forty-two months repaired and built over Eight Hullars worth of work in Washington, ing of nearly every description and WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF ES, SCHOOL BUILD We also make a specialty of bus and industrial plants for schools, one contemplating having plans repaired, we would be glad to have Main Office 317 Sixth St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Branch, Miller's Hotel, Richmond Branch, Taner's Hotel, Norfolk, W. SICK AND ACCOUNT UP TO $250 WHOLE LIFE 100 VERY LIBERAL PAYABLE ONE HOUR AMERICAN HOME LIFE FIFTH and G Streets N. W. idneyPitt W.SidneyPittman Architect RENDERING IN PATENT DRAWINGS MONOTONE, WATER COLOR DRAFTING,DETAILING,TRACING AND PEN & INK BLUE PRINTING STEEL CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY. Phone: Main 6059-M. Office 494 Louisiana Ave., N.W. J. A. Lankford, THE HOME OF THE MASTER EXPERT BUILDERS EXAMINERS AND ESTIMATORS. Plans gotten out at short notice from rough sketches, pencil drawings, written or verbal description, and mailed to any section of the country. In the past forty-two months we have designed, overhauled, repaired and built over Eight Hundred Thousand ($800,000) Dollars worth of work in Washington, D. C., and vicinity, the work being of nearly every description and character. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DESIGNING FOR CHURCHES, SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND HALLS. We also make a specialty of building up vacant lots, installing steam and industrial plants for schools, colleges and business places. Anyone contemplating having plans gotten out, buildings overhauled or repaired, we would be glad to have them call on or write us. Main Office 317 Sixth St., N. W., Residence, 1210 V Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Telephone 4629. Branch, Miller's Hotel, Richmond, Va. M. KR. VANDEEL AM SICK AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C. WM. T. ASSOCI ROGERS an Embalmers and 1224 U STREET, N. W., AS. A. ROGERS W. H. CLIFFORD