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Odd-Fellows Split HOUSTON DEFEATED. THE REVOLUTIONARY METHODS OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. THE COURT ENJOINS IT. ENTIRE SOUTH AROUSED. Philadelphia, Pa., July 27. William L. Houston, of Washington, D.C., who was elected Grand Master of the Odd Fellows in America, has at last met his Waterloo. What would have been a brilliant career has been turned into a farce and a dissolution of the order is evident. The Georgia and Alabama cases were concluded Saturday, but before a decision was rendered a bill was filed asking that the sub-committee of management be placed in the hands of receivers. The following is from the Philadelphia Record of taday: NEGRO ODD FELLOWS AT WAR Application for a Receiver for Sub- Committee of management. John Clinton, Jr., J. P. Crenshaw and H. A. Knox, members of three different subordinate lodges of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, a colored organization, instituted equity proceedings in the Common Pleas Court yesterday to have a receiver appointed for the subcommittee of management. Charges of various acts of mismanagement, including wastefulness, extravagance, and violations of the by-laws of the order, are made again the members of the committee, who are also summoned as defendants to the suit. The latter are W. L. Houston, L. N. Porter, James F. Needham, B. J. Davis, Thomas P. Woodland, W. W. Lawrence and A. T. Shirley. It is charged that the sub-committee illegally increased the salaries of the grand master and the assistant secretary, and refused to recognize an increase given to the grand treasurer at the last annual meeting of the movable committee the main governing body. Although the by-laws of the order provide that the grand secretary shall receive all contributions, fines and other money due the sub-committee, and shall pay the same over to the grand treasurer, it is alleged that he has refused to do this. It is also charged that he has refused to account to the treasurer for the specific tax collected from each subordinate lodge, which fund was to be used for the erection of a building for the order in this city. The secretary has also received, it is asserted, from the sale of the printed copies of the laws, regulations, etc., of the order, $20,000, for which he has likewise refused to account to the grand treasurer. In conclusion the bill avers that five directors were elected to the committee defendant without any change or alteration in the charter, which provides for only four directors, and that the subcommittee is holding "trials" of members charged with violations of by-laws, despite its alleged want of jurisdiction and power to act in such matters." This is the second suit filed against the order under the administration of W. L. Houston, which tends to be a failure, the first in the history of the organization. In his speech before the sub-committee of management this week he denounced The Bee and its editor in unmistakable terms. The Bee's report of the proceedings of the sub-committee of management in the Georgia and Alabama cases has offended the Houston faction, which is on the down road of defeat. The moment those suits were filed Edward Morris, who has been dominating the committee, announced himself a candidate for Grand Master at the next B. M. C. He declared to-day that he made Houston and now he will unmake him. Morris need not have said that. Houston has killed himself. He is no more than a plaything in the hands of Morris. His sub-committee of management is composed of weak men. Editor Benjamin Davis, editor of the Atlanta Independent, is the only real man of the committee. Editor Davis has refused to honor certain extravagant and illegal bills that have never been authorized. This is the offense that Editor Davis has committed, and for which he was summoned before this committee. The latest jackass move that was made was to summon Editor J. C. Asbery to appear. He was charged with having published the dissenting opinion of Editor Davis. One fool in the committee attempted to chastise Editor Asbery, but he would not tolerate it. Ed. Morris wanted to make answer for the entire committee, but Editor Benjamin Davis, of the Atlanta Independent, declined to permit him to make his answer. The answer of Davis will show up some wholesale and illegal misappropriation of the funds of the order which he declined to honor. His refusal threw conservation into the camp of the opposi- The suit of Mr. J. McHenry Jones and other suits to follow will cause the order to spend over two hundred thousand dollars. The overwhelming defeat of Houston and his satellites in the sub-committee is predicted at the next B. M. C. It is claimed that the new Odd Fellows' building is a fraud. It is disgusting to look at. The next B. M. C. will order the sale of the new building, and one will be erected in Washington city. The South is aroused, and the following States have joined the anti-Houston-Morris combination: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. These States have rebelled against the tyrannical methods of the sub-committee of management. One of the head officials remarked today that the removal of the printing plant was objected to, too; that the office force did not want to come in contact with the dirty printing office laborers. What it took sixty years to build up in the Odd Fellows this wild goose sub-committee of management has destroyed in six months. It is to be regretted that such a brilliant order should so soon be destroyed by bad leadership. THE TROUBLE IN THE ODD FELLOWS. The beginning of the present trouble in the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows was at the Thirteenth B. M. C., held in Richmond, Va., last October. At this meeting there were 1,400 delegates enrolled. When it came to the election of officers, after an all-night and all-day session, and the polling of about six hundred votes, it became apparent that the full vote could not be polled at the same rate before Monday morning. Had the roll call been regularly completed, a number of delegates—approximately, seven to eight hundred—from Far Southern States, would have been compelled to pay double transportation, for the reason that their tickets expired at 12 noon Tuesday. This state of affairs was responsible for the bringing about of a compromise in which those who were ahead in the first six hundred votes polled were acknowledge to be the legal officers, and a truce between all contending factions was patched up. At the first meeting of the new subcommittee of management, which was inaugurated the second Monday in January, 1907, it became apparent that those in power were bent upon punishing and destroying the influence of the leaders in the States which opposed them, and to that end, irregularly, illegally, and contrary to all precedent in the order, ordered the District Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of Alabama to call his lodge together again after having been adjourned for six months. The lodge was reconvened in extra session and the Grand Master, W. L. Houston, with about fifty out of four hundred delegates present. A farce was gone through with, and one C. F. Johnson and a coterie of his own, attempted, through Grand Master Houston, to foist themselves upon the loyal Odd Fellows of Alabama. Two suits have been entered in the Courts of Alabama, and in each case Grand Master Howze and the regular organization have won. Both of these cases are now pending in the Court of Appeals in the State of Alabama. Notwithstanding this fact, under the leadership of Grand Master Houston, at the present session of the sub-committee of management, an attempt was made to suspend Grand Master Howze for five years, unless he assented to the illegal election of C. F. Johnson and turn the interests of the widows and orphans who were interested in the Endowment Department of Alabama over to C. F. Johnson, who owns a small insurance company and desires to get control of the Endowment Department of Alabama. In addition to these irregularities, the sub-committee of management at its January meeting, unlawfully attempted to declare null and void the law providing for national endowment, and the election of J. McHenry Jones national superintendent of edowment; the appointment of the Fraternal Society Committee; the law providing for the increase in the initiation fee of the members of the order; the law providing for the increase of the Grand Treasuer's salary—and in fact almost everything done by the B. M. C. except their own election. A contract has been entered into for the building of a building which, together with the site upon which it now stands, will cost approximately one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. It is costing twice as much as the order expected to spend, and in spite of the Contiuned to page five. WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY AUG HOWARD UNIVERSITY Foraker The HOWARD UNIVERSITY Foraker DR. THIRKIELD MEANS, BUSINESS. President Thirkield announces the election of several strong members to the faculty of Howard University, all by the unanimous action of the committee. Dr. Edward L. Parks comes to the professorship vacated by Dean Fairfield, he having been placed on the Carnegie Foundation with a liberal pension for life. It is a significant fact that Howard now takes a place among the few institutions on this Foundation. Dr. Parke is an honor graduate of the Northwestern University, where he taught seven years; for six years he was president of Simpson College, Iowa, where he doubled the attendance and broadened the courses of study; for some years he was professor in Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, where he took front and gained the confidence of the Negro race by his loy- MR. C. A. DISTRICT GRAND MASTER OF ENGLAND GANIZER AMONG ODD FELLOW [Portrait of a man in formal attire, wearing a suit and bow tie, with a serious expression. The background is plain and oval-shaped.] DISTRICT GRAND MASTER OF ENSLY, ALA. THE GREATEST ORGANIZER AMONG ODD FELLOWS IN THE SOUTH alty, courage and ability. He comes to Howard at the height of his power. Mr. Ernest Everett Just accepts a position as teacher of English. He has a brilliant record at Dartmouth and honors the Negro race in having taken the degree of magna cum laude, the only man who did so among one hundred and eighty-two graduates, even the degree of cum laud being granted to only two men. On the commencement program his name stands in every list of honors—"Commencement Standing," "Phi Beta Kappa Standing," and "Rufus Choate Scholar," "Honorable Mention," "Honors," taking all the three given, also "Special Honors." Professor Foster writes Dr. Thirkield: "Mr. Just deserves all these honors and is a fellow of high ability. He is also a man of high character with an unstained reputation and with high aims and far-reaching ones. He seems to me to me the teachers' instinct, the love for acquisition and careful investigation, a readiness to attack and a power to solve problems, capacity to see questions which should be asked and answered, and a liking to impart information." Mr. Edward P. Davis, class of '07, College of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest men ever sent from Howard, has been called to a position in the Academy. The successor to Professor Hay, who is called to take charge of the biological work in all the white high schools of Washington, is Prof. R. E. Schot, of the Pennsylvania State Normal School. He is an experienced teacher in biology and botany and has gained some distinction as an original investigator. He is a man of exceptional gifts and will bring everything by the laboratory method, having prepared by his own hands over three thousand permanent microscopic slides. His modern methods are indicated by the following: "My classes never get text-book work until they have learned the specimen, and I insist quite strongly upon their learning to use their hands and eyes, and not merely their memories." READ THE BEE TURDAY AUGUST 3, 1907. Foraker The Demosthenese FORAKER'S CHALLENGE. TAFT AND THE TARiff. NO REPEAL OF THE 14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS. THE SOUTH TO BLAME. Bellefontaine, Ohio, July 27.—Senator Foraker made some sharp remarks today at the Chautauqua Assembly, in which he included the President, Secretary Taft, Congressman Burton, Senator Tillman, and Governor Vardaman of Mississippi. He spoke in reply to Senator Tillman's recent race-problem speech, but digressed when, after desiring to stop, the audience urged him to proceed. A challenge was issued to Taft to make specific what changes he desires in the tariff. "I see his is going to make a speech HOWZE, SLEY, ALA. THE GREATEST OR- S IN THE SOUTH. at Columbus, and I would like to have him tell what he wants changed in the tariff, for I am getting particular about the views of men who want to be President. Let us go slow in this matter, and be certain that any changes are necessary or would be beneficial before we begin to tinker. "I am not now a candidate for any office, but if I ever am I will not get the lockjaw. I think every representative of the people should be able to answer the questions of his constituents, and if he is not able to do so satisfactorily, let him be recalled. Desires Free Speech. "But don't draw any big stick on him, for that won't work on the tree American today. Sugar, in the way of post-office appointments, don't help it any, either. When I can't walk around and express the opinions I entertain, I will eliminate myself." He said that he had heard that Congressman Burton wanted a revision, and also that he had heard it rumored that Burton wanted to succeed him in the Senate. "I am not going to let him have the place if I can help it." He apparently criticised President Roosevelt in a reference to President Andrew Jackson, in which he said: "Johnson was one of those Presidents who had policies, believed the executive power is everything, and he managed to displease almost everybody." In concluding the part of his address dealing with Senator Tillman, he said the people need not worry about men like Tillman and Governor Vardaman of Mississippi, for they do not represent the sentiment of the South in their radical utterances. "When you hear people talking about someone voting against the rate bill you may know that was I, for I was the only man who opposed it," said the Senator defiantly. "If there is a single shipper anywhere who has not been benefited by it, I have not heard of him. There are some good things in the bill, and those I wrote into it myself." Puts Blame on South. Senator Foraker, answering Senator. Tillman, said in part: "Before taking up anything else I want to speak briefly in answer to some utterances of Senator Tillman. He has been making a speech in Ohio. It was on the race problem. This is his favorite topic. He is at his best when he talks on that subject, but his best is also his worst. "He is one of the frankest and one of the ablest men the South has ever produced. Everyone is fond of him as a man, but his views on this subject are so extreme that but few of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate, if any of them, fully agree with him. In this latest speech he is quoted as saying: If, after the war, the North had not, in its passion and sectional hatred, gone far beyond the bounds of reason, decency, and rightousness, there would today be no race problem. "We resent and resist the doctrine of equality under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. "You have done wrong. The North has done wrong. It can remedy the feeling by repealing the Fifteenth Amendment and letting the States control the franchise." Cannot Force Equality. "All the way through his discussion is in the nature of a protest against social equality. Nothing could be more wide of the mark. Everybody understood then, as now, that social equality cannot be forced upon anybody. "The purpose of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments was to provide political equality, to put all citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, white or black, upon the same plane, so far as political rights of citizenship were concerned. "What I want to answer is his charge that in hatred and passion the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution were forced upon the South, and that in this way the North needlessly precipitated upon the South the evils they suffered during the reconstruction period. These amendments, not fully demanded by the war itself, were made necessary by the situation created by the seceding States immediately after the war." Senator Foraker discussed conditions at the close of the war at great length, and then continued: "If they had accepted the Fourteenth Amendment there would not have been any Fifteenth Amendment, for with the Fourteenth Amendment accepted and all the seceding States restored to their places in the government, the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by the requisite number of States would have been an impossibility. Says South Was at Fault. "If, therefore, there be any fault to find with anybody on account of the Fifteenth Amendment it rests with the seceding States, for they, by their refusal to accept the Fourteenth Amendment, not only compelled reconstruction, but precipitated a submission and ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. "They accentuated\all this by their treatment of the freed men. It would be difficult to exaggerate the unfriendly character of the legislation affecting them that was enacted immediately after the war in most of the seceding States. "It is no exaggeration to say that the spirit of this legislation was not justice, but injustice, and that of the most malicious and revengeful character. This kind of legislation, coupled with refusal to accept what were thought to be the generous terms of the Fourteenth Amendment, naturally created a public sentiment in the North that secured the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and led to the Fifteenth Amendment, by which it was provided that no State should have the right to deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. But it was not passion, neither was it hatred that brought about these results, but only a solemn sense of duty. Can Never Be Repealed. "There was never a time, except only when the Fifteenth Amendment was adopted, that it could have been adopted, and there has never been a time since it was adopted when it could have been repealed, and, in my opinion, there never will be a time when it can be repealed, simply because it was right then and is right now. It was a great forward step in the recognition by government of the rights of citizens governed to participate in their government and to have equal protection under it. If BALTO. AND OHIO EXCURSION. Sunday, August 4. $1.00 to Harpers Ferry and Martinsburg, and return. $1.35 to Berkeley Springs and return. $2.00 to Cumberland and return. Special train leaves Washington at 8:15 a.m. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS 3Y MISS BEATRIZ L. CHASE Thomas Black, of Kenton, Ohio, a leading Republican and two-term mayor, acknowledged the forgerly of $28,000, covering a period of nine years. The acquittal of W. D. Haywood ends the remarkable trial at Boise, Idaho. Ought a minister who uses slang in the pulpit, with his pants turned up, to criticise the young man who wears what the minister calls "snaked toed shoes"? No! Revs, G. W. Lee and M. W. D. Norman attended the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. The National Association of Teachers met in its fourth session at Hampton Institute Thursday and Friday of this week. The True Reformer organization could "perpetuate its founder's memory, the late W. W. Browne," in no better way than by building an Old Folks' Home. Mr. Joseph A. Gaines, who died at his home, 1612 Arctic avenue, Atlantic City, two Sundays ago, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gaines, of Fauquier county, Va. Thermometers registered 179 degrees in the sun in some parts of Texas last Sunday. It is said that it was the most terrific heat visitation ever known in Texas. Millions are said to be starving in China from the famine. The funeral of Senator Pettus, of Alabama, who died at Hot Springs, N. C., last Saturday night took place at Selma, Ala., last Tuesday afternoon. The National Packing Company, known as the Beef Trust, has purchased the stock in the Colorado Packing Company. William R. Kenyon, who was for a number of years a business partner of Senator Clark, and twice Mayor of Butte, Mont., died at his country home, near Amsterdam, N. J., at the age of 67 years. Teofila Pettrilla, the leader of the strike at Hibbing, Minn., was placed under arrest last Tuesday morning, on the charge of carrying concealed weapons. The important subject discussed by the George Washington University last Tuesday evening was the abolition of capital punishment in the District of Columbia. It is stated that any patient who has more than $50 value in his possession when taken to Bellevue and allied hospitals at New York may be charged $1.50 a day for treatment in the institutions. Dr. John D. Ballard has the honor of being the first dark-skinned citizen ever admitted to the New Jersey Dental Society. Postmaster General Meyer has issued an order which says that all lawyers practicing before the Postoffice Department must be members of the District Supreme Court of the State or Territory to which they belong. Miss Helen P. Gray, who was charged with obtaining money from the Crow Indians on their reservation in Montana under false pretenses, has been arrested and put in jail at Billings, Mont. The Zion Ministers' Association of the District of Columbia and Baltimore, a new colored religious organization, has been formed. The law of Maryland is very strict against Sunday labor. Charges have already been made against some persons. Helen Bailey Trowbridge, an actress at Pittsburg, committed suicide not long ago by cutting herself with a razor across the throat. Night Policeman John H. Dougherty, of Crisfield, Md., was shot and instantly killed last Saturday night by James Reed, half Negro and half Indian. Otto Hoffman, who was appointed a keeper in the Bronx Park Zoo at New York, was attacked by an elephant at the Zoo last week. A monument dedicated to the memory of Major James Stewart, who commanded Battery B, Fourth United States Artillery, in the Civil War, was unveiled at the Arlington National Cemetery last Sunday. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. Popular excursions to Niagara Falls, only $10 round trip; August 2 and 16; September 6 and 20; October 6, 1907. Excursion tickets will be sold on the above dates, good going only on Special Train leaving Washington at 7:45 a.m., arriving Niagara Falls at 11:00 p.m. Tickets valid for return ten (10) days, including date of sale, on all regular trains, except "Black Diamond Express," of Lehigh Valley Route. Call on ticket agents for pamphlet giving full particulars as to stop-overs, side-trips, etc. eyes so blue. 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One Every Thirteen Minutes for the Month in Chicago. Chicago.—While you read these words, stop and think! Chicago has 3,300 June brides to-day! The love bug has been working overtime and has broken all records. Three thousand three hundred June brides! That means 110 brides a day or one every 13 minutes! Hymen, Cupid & Co. report the most prosperous month since the firm was established. Last year there were 3,103 June brides; in 1905, 2,907; 1904, the record was 2,758. Marriage License Clerk Salmonson, the man who has opened the door of wedded happiness to hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans and others, preached a little lay sermon the other day for June brides. These are the points on which he laid stress: 1. Love your husband always. 2. Be his companion, his friend, his chum. 3. Never. never be suspicious or 4. Study his tastes and give him what he likes. 5. Get up and cook his breakfast for him. 6. Make his home as attractive for him as you can—as attractive as the club or the saloon. PLAGUE SWEPT INDIA. In Ten Years There Have Been 5,411, 212 Deaths—Mortality Increasing. London. During the first three and a half months of 1907 the deaths from the plague in India totalled 494,000, the heaviest monthly mortality yet reported during the epidemic. According to the Indian World this would appear to show that the present year will exhibit a record number of deaths. The plague records for the ten years October, 1896, to December, 1906, show that there was a large annual increase from 1901 to 1904, the deaths numbering 274,000 in 1901, 577,000 in 1902, 570,000 in 1903 and 1,022,000 in 1904, the worst year in ten years. There was a small decrease in 1905, the deaths falling to 951,000, and a large decrease in 1906, when there were only 332,000. The total deaths for the whole ten years numbered 4,411,212. The improvement which was shown in the two years 1903 and 1906 has not, unfortunately, been maintained. From the first appearance of the disease up to the year 1901 the mortality was greatest in the Bombay presidency, but from 1902 onward, with one exception, the worst area has been the Punjab, and in 1905 the deaths in the latter province alone numbered 364,625. ACROSS AFRICA-IN AUTOMOBILE. Prussian Army Officer and His Alds Will Make Daring Trip. Berlin.—Lieut. Graetz of the Prussian army will leave here soon to make the first effort to cross Africa in an automobile. He proposes to start from Dar-Es Salaam, on the east coast, about August 10, riding through German East Africa, British Central Africa, Rhodesia and German Southwest Africa to Swakopmund. He proposes to make the journey in not less than six weeks. He will drive a specially made 45 horsepower car, with very heavy wheels and compartments for holding sufficient gasoline for 1,000 kilometers. 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PIE WILL SOON BE A LUXURY Pure Food Law Will Raise Price of Desert and Other Things. Washington.—The operation of the federal pure food law are going to add still further to the cost of living in American homes, with the increase will be can only be estimated thus far. The manufacturers whose products and methods will be changed in order to con regulations can only go pense of the changes. broadly, the use of pro coloring matter has ma to sell many staple ar public for less money th be sold for when these are Take the single list of and vegetables, pick jams, jellies, catchups and Coloring and preserving fruits used in these. Some may claim to produce them without servatives, but the housewife wants to know how much is saved by the privilege of using them. It will be able to learn by a grocer the difference in price from the goods that are guaranteed to be free from these seasonings and those which are not. She will learn that for the greater part the articles guarantee the free of such preservatives or matter constitute the limited artistry of food articles, at prices which make them the luxuries of the comparatively few. Pie at any rate is going up whenever sodium benzonate is desired by the makers of the insides. The skill which now sells at five cents command ten, and the current portion will go for not less than 15, according to the dire predict. of the pie purveyors. Pie will become the luxury of the rich rath in the staple of the bourgeois d ist h fil, LANDIS geen Noted for His Determina. * p. -cuchout Hie Career of Dis- ie i jperience as Secre- wry 0’ Gresham, who bave tollowed nlge Kenesaw Moun- ‘ww issued the subpoe- vaght John D. Rotke- . high Standard Of : court fn Chicago re- surprised at the de has shown to get the ts fm connection with ‘Standard Ol! company “+. ge Landis has ‘been a .. vter wherever he bas <u + \merican, well grounded 1» .\ defatigable, not to be a. ' = Darpose once fired— th wee whe told Jobn 8. 4 utmey, of “immunity t* + hat he must produce cer- g¢. + i order that Judge Lan- rs ® what sums would con- < +d equitable fines in the - ++ & the Standard Oil com. i) ' nama had been found , uty in a federal court. : + and thoroughness won ‘ tan of the foreign diplo- ‘stangton and of the Amer- +u and politicians as well ‘ served as private secretary ¥ Q Gresham, secretary of che cabinet of President + ted that apon one occa tandis, acing for Mr + lashed with the wishes of vland, and the president + remove: Rut so attached + Coesian, become to the e o MS AS tale Reig Ae SS: See ASE ay Per eee i pe eee Bie ha 3 in iS Af ry Ve IS h7 4a? 8/7 46 KENESAW M. LANDIS. Feterai sudge Who Hailed Rocke feller Inte Court.) mr sian that he stood up loyally 'e = burdinate. and when Mr. : found that to take Landis’ * 2 would have to take Gresham's % acquiesced In the situation, * Vandis and the president be- a ~ custy attached to each other ‘> nf strihing features Is Judge 4 - above tangled fron gray hair +! 4 the appearance of a man =) ‘ba for the fudge is not quite { 1+ was born in Millville, O., No- * «0, 1866, and Is the sixth child “o" \braham H. Landis, who during ‘ . sil war was a surgeon In the “sy fifth Ohte regiment. It ts to ‘tb fact that his father was badly * ‘ted at the battle of Kenesaw B am fhat the judge owes his y .1> baptismal names. \t he age of seven he went with t.). ents to Logansport, Ind., where te -. sued publle school. AS a boy Me caro papers. Then he becanie Amcor on the Logansport Journal. 4+ hed stenography, and from “\"< sa6 was offictal stenographer © te ‘sucult court of Lake county, ed Coming to Chicago, he entered tte Tan College of Law, from which Ae w ~ _ adnated in 1890. He was ad- wc: « the bar, and at the time we, Scirtary Gresham chose him fr \ate secretary and confidant Sw of the Instructors In the \er ‘cn Untversity Law school, E Wa. bington Landis gained _ knewfedge of men and i + +R proved helpful in his ‘ He came to know Mr ; sell that he divined in- "+ famous Kentuckian’s : nt Landis often assumed : *'s nlitles ia the absence of 7 ‘nvarinbly to be backed Ss Le did by the secretary of { * Lad fmplicit confidence in . ‘ed his chfef of as much of * ‘1 of the office as possible, < © te be khown In and out a “artmeat as having Gresh- = ‘on for all matters in which & + aathority. Thoroughness ‘aes characterized his every t, ! beg gifted with tact and oe s-ment he knew as well what Bas '« '* alore gs what to take Sf + made friends with all who had *38iness with the department, and es $$ was well liked by many mem. > he diplomatic corps. ‘frst arrival he shunned the X side of diplomatic life, but be- a, ° ?ft he was well broken in ta ‘Me. sss coat and reception habit. ¥ . 4 @e a @ Fi See eA XS wy = F ad i Teeraremere MeGall Patseran sed bbe Dane ee = Masastae! ma more: ‘thas any other ‘Magume One Eee ae ay Agents Wanted. ‘Mandowme prowtrme a mlity dacete estes: Mente rice THE BEE AND McCALL'S GREA1 FASHION MAGAZINE fer ene year fer fa.s0, COUPO:. Editer Bee:— Find enclosed twe dollars. Send te my address below The Bee and McCall’s Fashion Magatine for one year. 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London,—In the third week in June, following a custom established over a thousand years ago, Hindug by tens of thousands flocked to Pouri, In Oris- 80, India, for the religious Festival of Juggernaut. From the temple the fa- mous Car of Juggernaut was brought forth and dragged through the streets. It headed the annual procession of devotees of the god Vishnu, or Jug: gernaut, Lord of the Universe, whose image, or statue, without legs and ‘with stumps of arms, rests within the colossal car. Hundreds of -pilgrims harness them- selves to the stout cables by which ‘the car is drawn. As they pull the ponderous car on its clumsy wheels many work themselves up to a degree of religious fervor little short of mad- inliasPeeroceaitn eine | eBAB TELS , eae, FUE || Gi eee ore) ha Fabeus Car of Juggernaut. ness. And fanatics attempt to throw themselves to destruction under the murderous wheels, as a voluntary sac- Tifice to their idol. British civil off cers prevent any act of sulcide. Hindus Uelleve that to gain the favor of Juggernaut opens for them the gates of heaven. Therefore, In the days before the British occupation of India. natives occasionally cast thelr bodies under the car to be crushed to 4 pulp, the belief being that self-tmmo- lation thus would be speedily reward: ed by entrance into Paradise. —* The ear le [3 feet high. Its wheels are each mote than six feet high. A wooden cage around the top, an addi- tion of recent years, keeps fanatics from jumping upon thelr {dol within. Body and wheels are of wood beautl- fully sculptured and inlaid, and for the festival the car 1s draped with gold cloth, STRIKING SOLDIER STATUE, Mr. Newman's Fine Work for New York Building at Jamestown. |. New York.—When recounting how he got his inspiration for his “Spanish War Veteran,” a statue executed for the rotunda of the New York state building in the Jamestown exposition, Mr, Allen G. Newman relates an amus- ing experience he had at West Point. and which formed a determining fac: tor in his choice of a model. He went up to West Point while looking for material for a soldier's monument. “Out on the parade ground,” says Mr. Newman, “was a company of artil- lery. They drilled as well as cadets, but on account of the uniform I asked a regular who passed if they were cadets or regulars, “He answered with pride, ‘No. Dose arn't cadets, Dose are sogers.’” a my NY ea y i \ hz. h Ames» W¢ Wf, i Nese. iS , “WEN i : i mH iy Me | f > ay ig a Ke me /Z ae ZA | F We “4 i ge 2! ii ANS 2 Sf DP ee Statue of Spanish War Soldier, Mr. Newman was born in New York city In 1875. In 1897 he entered the studio of Mr. J. Q. A. Ward to study and work under that sculptor for the next three years, a favor which the “dean of the profession” has extend ed to but few. The student's most lasting {mpression from his exnerience was a desire to keep as close as pos- sible to nature fn his work and to de velop simplicity of expression. After this he modeled as assistant to sev eral sculptors, finding this an excel- Tent school, affording him opportunity to see and study how different men work. ‘The “Spanish War Veteran" has a quality that is very valuable in sculp- ture subjects of this k{ad—repose, which yet suggests ample capacity for action. 5 ; _ Ever Notice It? Little Willle—Say, pa, what fs fame? Pa—Fame, my son, is the thing that makes everybody want to shake bands with a man.—Chicago News. Al FULL DRESS AND TUXEDO SUITS. $1.00--For Hire—$1.00. , Julius Cohen, 1104 7th street, N. W. AL: . Columbia Ice and Coal Co. | FIFTH AND L STS,, N. W., NESR K ST. MARKET. WOOD AND COAL UNDER COVER, OUR COAL IS CLEAN, ANDWE SELL CHEAP. REDUCTION ON COALFOR CHURCHES. . FILE YOUR NAME ANDADDRESS, AND WE WILY DO THE REST. : ORDERS PROMPTLY FILL-ED. 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A Regalia Department. 4 A Savings Bank. 5 A Large Department Store. 6 A Weekly Paper—The St. Lake Herald. | 7 A Job Printing Office. ‘The St. Lukes are now operating im 15 states, and are rapidly spread- ing in every direction, _” We want good, hustling Deputies. ‘Good terms for the right persons, male or female. When you write doclose testimonial as to character and ability. For-further information, address MAGGIE L, WALKER, | © Grand Sec’y, I. O, St. Luke, ®t. Luke Hall, Richmond, Va. EXPERT BU:LDERS EXAMINERS AND ESTIMATORS, Plans gotten out at short notice from rough sketches, pencil draw- ings, written or verbal description, and mailed to any section of tie country. In tne past forty-two months we have designed, overhauled, repaired and built over Eight Hundred Thousand ($800,000) Dol- lars worth of work in Washigtonn, D. T., and vicinity, the work be- ing of nearly every description and character. . WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DESIGNING-FOR CHURCH- | ES, SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND HALLS. We also make a specialty of building up’ vacant lots,installing steasa and industrial plants for schools, colleges and business places. Ange one contemplating having plans gotten out, buildings overbauled oe Tepaired, we would, be glad to have them call on or write us. Main Office 317 Sixth St, N. W.,Residence, 1210 V Street, N. Wi, Washington, D. C. Telephone 4629. Branch, Miller’s Hotel, Richmond, Va. : Branch, Taner’s Hotel, Norfolk. Va. OO ———————— mes F Oyster James F Qysier, The Leading Place in the City for ; . BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS, : : : Uyster’s Butter is the sweetest in the market. His Cheese is the purest and Eggs the freshest. . Square Stands, Center Market, sth and K streets, N. W., amd Riggs Market, s : 2 . OFFICE - Wholesale Dealer and Salesman, 900 and goz Pennsylvania Aveaue, N.W. LONGEST STEEL BRIDGE. WiIII Be Built by Railroad Over Hell Gate. New York.—Another step In the progress of the Pennsylvania rail road's New York tunnel extension was taken reeently when plans for the East river brige of the New York con- necting railroad were submitted to the municipal art commissfon for its ap- proval. This bridge will form part of a stee! viaduct more than three miles long, connecting the New York, New Haven /'& Hartford railroad system in the Bronx with the Long Island and the Pennsylvania. It will be the longest and heaviest steel bridge In the world. Eighty thousand tons of steel will be used In Hts construction. It will carry four railroad tracks imbedded in stone bal- last so as to render the structure noiseless. When It is completed New York will enjoy for the first time a through all- rail route between New England and the south and west. Plans for the bridge over the waters of the Hell gate show a steel arch span of 1.000 feet between abutments. These abutments are stone towers dl- viding the arch bridge proper from the steel viaducts that form ap proaches to it. The towers will rise to a height of 200 feet and will con- tain rooms needed for railroad opera- tion ‘The tracks théinselves will be 140 feet above the water. Besides planning a bridge of ample strength the company has endeavored to make it a thing of beauty, an archt- tectural creation. ‘A: HIGH:DEGREE- A Oe et Oe Beet Rant E a. ~~ 4 , : LW : of satisfachun _ 4 care thing in | | J most $3.04 shoes, Shoes at this é hue | a Price usually lack style or comfort 7 LI s or both, : a | | ol The style of more expensive oot | vhoes and good solid vaiue are. . L found in our . | | SIGNET SHO: - =. Hl ld ae ig ; [| Ez because of the exceptional attention ber jo iB stowed on the making. The only cheape! ness in it anywhere Is the price. as, A Coodyear-welted shoe, mada on sevee iso | J ral of the season’s handsomest lasts, im LIi-}{ the most popular leathers. 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CALVIN) CHASE, EDITOR. * Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C,, as second-class mail matter. ° “ESTABLISHED 188, ooo TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One copy per year in advance. $2.00 Six months -..2.-..+.sseeseee 1.60 Three months .....-.ceessseee 50 Subscription monthly .......2. 28 : FOR . ‘PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SENATOR JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER OF OHIO FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, OF NEW YORK ThE NEGRO PROBLEM, -In a calm, dispassionate way we are inclined to look facts in the face. It is folly to distort, misap- ply, or circumvent, or tather at- tempt to do so, when the truth is ever present and irresistible, It is still less excusable when the facts are shrouded in unauthenticated ‘heat or real gloom. The truth ought to be told, and will be told ‘sooner or later. Time-servers and sycophants may succeed in delaying the application of the limelight of critical analysis to actnal conditions. All the infinite host of would-be prophets, , politicidhs and dema- gogues may prophesy, manipulate and preach; but the .fact will re- main as undisturbed, inexorable and incontrovertible as though these accidents had never been born, _ Weassert, as we have always as- serted, that there is really no Ne- gro problem, but simply a white man’s problem. “The Emancipation, which was primarily intended to liberate the slave, has unshackled the bonds of the poor white man. There is, nor can there be, any objection to the extension of the emancipation act. All mankind was benefitted by the act—the rich, tne poor, the high, the low, the black and the-white. But, when the slaves were cmancipated, they felt emancipated indeed. They forgot and forgave the master’s lash, and maintained the same loyalty toward him as they did before ‘the war. They forgave those hordes of “pa- trols,” or poor whote trash, who had been to them worse than slav- ery, and hoped that the hand of fellowship might be extended to- ward them. History records that, in the es- timation of the best people of the South, the slave was more trust- worthy and in fact more intelligent than the rank aid file of the “poor white trash.” The stroke of the pen which liberated three million slaves liberated twice as many poor whites. The conditions of today consti- tute the sequel. The y liberated slave, with gratitude to Lincoln and an abiding belief in Almighty God, accepted Emancipation in the spirit in which it was declared and enforced, while the poor whites, who have been the co-participants in the results of the edict, have lost no time in declaring themselves al- ways and_eternally free and inde- pendent, ‘and. predicating it all merely upon the doubtful fact that «they are white. Hence we are confronted with a condition of things quite anomalous and intensely trying, The new propaganda, instituted by self-seek. ‘ing politcians at the South, ahd put _in motion and exaggerated by Southern colonies in the North, is to predicate superiority upon the mere fact of color. In the meantime the ex-slave, fully realizing his ob- ligation to his racé, and to, those who had been the instrument’of his liberation, are seeking to tdvance upon all lines calculated to justify their friends in their humane and philanthropic endeavors, All the while the “poor whites” are, as a class, at a standstill, imitating the master-class in imperiousness, and self-superiority ; but lacking whol- ly in those qualities which distin- guished the aristocrat “from the “cracker.” Hence the conclusion is irresist- ible, as we have many times stated, that the poor white man is now on top. He is regalizing in an at- ‘mosphere purely his own, He is intensely arrogant, tyrannical and ‘supercilious,- and imagines, like the fly on the wagon wheel, that he is the cause and effect of its revolu- tion—indeed, the whole push—ana deludes himself into the belief that the present conditions will continue, He may find hope and encourage- ment in the unexampled audacity of the Haywood jury, but the hand- writing is on the wall. Truth, thouglr crushed to garth, may rise again, and the eternal verities are incontestable and absolute. The poor white trash is verily on top. And he will remain so for a time. It is recorded in Scriptures that the devil must reign for a certain tine, But virtue and culture and heredity of the nobler instinct must eventually prevail. The best peo- ple are now, only pausing. They are awaiting the opportunte mo- ment. They will strike when the time comes: strike,long and hard and successfully, Then, and only then, may the Negro hope to find his own. . _ Let us bide our time. The cri- terion of acceptability will be thor- oughly established in time, and those who have made the most of their opportunities will be among the preferred, whether they be black or white. POLICE DEPARTMENT vs, BOOKMAKERS. sanonymous writers are nothing more than assassins. They are more dangerous in a community than book- makers or gamblers, They are thieves and blacklegs and will stab a man in the back. Anonymous writers will ‘stab characters and reputations, Sen- sible men pay no attention to anony- mous writers. The individual that Wrote an anonymous letter to the Commissioners a few days ago, libel- ing the Police Department, was no other than a blackleg, whose reputa- tion is well known. There is no department in the United States that has a better set of men than the Police Department, under the supervision of Major Rich- atd Sylvester. His men are active, and persevering, who never allow a criminal to escape when in their clutches. They spend their~ money and jvork overtime to serve the gov- emment and to protect the interest of the people, ‘ Will the community,will the Com- missioners (and certainly Major Syl- vester will not) listen to the tales o! blacklegs in an anonymous _lette1 against some of the best detectives in the country? 3 * The great trouble with the people in this city is, they don’t give enough credit to the detective department o! our local government., There is no! a man in the detective bureau who i not entitled to the highest commend: ation, and it is not believed by decent people that there is one man in the detective bureau who is a confederate or a go-between for gamblers or book makers. If the writer of the anonymous let ter is a respectable citizen, why doe: he not come out under his real name’ ‘Why does he’not go before the chic af police or the Commissioners it person and give the names of th | detectives who are the confederate of bookmakers? It is because he i a blackleg and a demagogue wh should not be contidered by the of |ficials of our local governemnt. If there is one man in this country who has and does try to have a re spectable police force and detectiv bureau, it is Major Sylvester. Com. missioner West does not believe in anonymous communication. He wants every man to come out in the ‘pen. There is no proof ‘against any de- tective that he is a confederate of 2 bookmaker or any other gambler. It is a dirty libel on the detective bu- reau. It is the wark of a scoundrel who deals in blackmailing letters in the hope of future reward. This future reward will never come to him, unless it, is a repentance of his many sins, There is not a crook con- nected with the detective bureau. They are not allowed to remain, The present force in the detective bureau would not associate with a crook. This has long since been demonstrat- ed. Where can you find a better set of men than Detectives Horn, Weed- en, Grant, Hartigan, Evans, Muller, O'Day, Hulen, and in fact every member in this department are all men of the highest integrity and they should not be blackmailed by the writings of demagogues and black- legs, . . Major Sylvester and his: men should be complimented. The men in his bureau should be Eommended instead of being criticised and libeled. The Commissioners will uphold men in the right, and will not be like this assassin of the anonymous letter, to strike the character of men without positive proof, There.is not a man in the detective bureau who would not willingly be investigated and confront his accusers, . ODD FELLOWS DISRUPTION - It was in the power of the sub: committee of management of _ the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows to have avoided this disruption. The alleged charges against Messrs. Da. vis and Howze were subterfuges and without foundation. On the other hand this committee was made aware of the bribery and deal that had been entered into to subsidize Mr, Knox of Alabama, which was sufficient in itself to have vindicated him and Grand Master Howze, of Alabama, and sustain the contention and dis. senting opinjon of Editor Davis, of the Atlanta Independent, * Grand Master Houston, The Bee is informed, went out of his way to attack The Bee and its editor. The Bee has always sustained this young man and supported his ambitious de- signs. Mr, Houston was aware that the contention was made by the Ala- bama and Georgia contingent and greed to repudiate a man by the name of Johnson, if the check, contract, telegrams, etc., were presented to the sub-committee, All of those facts were placed before the sub-committee of management and put in the hands of the Grand Master, who declared that he would have nothing to do with the accused parties. The North, or many in that sec: tion,are of the opinion that the South. ern Odd Fellows are ignorant and unfit to rule. No charge is more ri diculous and false. Some of the most allented men in this great organiza tion come from the South. The next B. M. C. will witnes one of the greatest revolutiohs tha: has ever occurred in this order. The South will remain the headquarter to this city, and men will be placec at the head of the order who hay sense and brains, It was stated that “The Bee was « meddler because it exposed the il legal acts that were committed. newspaper is a medium through whicl the people receive information, anc it is not necessary for a paper to b the organ of any institution, becaus: then the people will not get the tru facts, The most impudent act of this sub committee was when it cited Edito Asbury of the Odd Fellows Journal to appear before it and be rebuked be cause he published ‘the dissentin opinion of Editor Davis, of the At lanta (Ga,) Independent. Edito | Davis, when he appeared before th sub-committee, was requested to re | tract his publication. He manfull declined, and before this arbiitrar court could carry its order into effec a rule from the Common Pleas Cour ‘was served on it, = ' This sub-committee will hav jenough suits to contend with to last 'i¢ until the next meeting of the B. a. C. This committee is composed ‘of ignorance and bigotry, with but Jone exception; and, as The Bee stat- ed several week’ ago, that a revolu- ‘tion exists in the ofder, Mr, Houston to the contrary notwithstanding. The South, which is composed of two- thirds of the Odd Fellows in the country, will not tolerate the revo- Jutionary action of this sub-commit- tee of management. : The end is nog yet. . ——— + Whatever the results of the cam: paign in Ohio may be, one fact is supremely evident, The Ohio voter is now experiencing the crucial test. He is called upon to choose between his real and true’ friends and those who only profess to be so, At no time since Emancipation has the Ne- gro been called upon to demonstrate his manhood. By nature and educa- tion he.has been taught to revere and sustain, in so far as he could, the prin- ciples of the Republican party. He has been instrumental in keeping in its place the diadem of the republic. And he will continue to be so, con- ditions being favorable. But the Ne- gro will ‘not be a party to wrong, to injustice, and will hurt back in no uncertain manner the epithet of party prostitution. He is favorable to “a square deal,” but recognizes no ter- rors‘in “the big stick,” and however may be the pressure and whatever may be the consequences, he is determin- ‘ed to stick close to his ideals, And ‘he will vote to signalize his devotion to best interests. ‘In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsyl- vania and New York, where the col- ored vote is a factor, he will do his duty and do it well. The Negro vot- er will calculate the “square” as ap- plied to him. He will make no, mis- takes. He knows the road in the dark as in the light. Fox-fire and tomfoolery cannot now encompass him. He will consider, and consider well, before he votes~ And when he embraces the glorious privilege of suf- frage_he will insist upon the charac- ter ds well as party designation, of the men for whose elevation he will be called upon to endorse, A long-tried and indubitable -friend has advised us to vote for no man who is cautions enough to withhold his true purposes, We favor the sug- gestion and declare that we would rather vote for an out-and-out enemy of the race than to grope in darkness relative to the friendship of a should- be friend. As has been suggested by one in high authority, Cast your vote for no man, Republican or Democrat, who cannot afford to commit him- self to use his utmost endeavors to annul “Jim Crow”scar laws and seek es give every man, white or black, the value of his hard-earned money. Says a true and tried friend, vote for no man in whose honesty you cannot confide, Iti is reported that Ohio and the pivotal States will heed the “signs of the times” and cut, and cut deeply if necessary. - a a eee eer eee ae There are times in governments when men are needed, There are times when honest men should be at the helm of the “Ship of State.” If there ever was a time-in the his- tory of this republic that a man like Senator Foraker was needed it is now. At no time in the history of the American people is there a greater demand for a man like Sen- ator Foraker than now, Eleven millions of colored Am: ericans owe jt to themselves to make personal sacrifices to uphold - the hands of America’s greatest states. man and defender of human rights Men who have views and dare not express them are unfit to be counted in as the representatives o this republic. Secretary Taft is th candidate of the Administratior for the Presidency. Mr. Taft maj have been all right before he en tered the Cabinet. He has become intoxicated with Southern prejudice and the policies of the present Ad. ministration, which make him un fit to be placed at’ the head of thi: government. “If Mr. Taft has any views on th tariff, why doesn’t he express them? ‘He should outline his pol- icies if he wants to be the standard- bearer'of a great party and be the President of a great republic. > Whether Senator Foraker wants the Presidency or not, the colored American voters will be guided alone by his advice and choice. We believe that he is right. We know that he is right. We have faith and confidence in him. We can- not desert him. We shall rise or fall with him. No matter where he goes, the colored Americans will go with him. When he rests his ‘bones, there will the colored Am- ericans ‘rest their bones. We are in duty bound. to defend and: up- hold him. The colored Americans have been and are loyal to the republic. At no time has he failed to “respond When duty demands him. It is strange that the deeds of rebels should be applauded and the acts of patriots condemned. Those who re- belled against our republic are ap- pointed to office in the South, while those who upheld the flag are dis- criminated against and told that their places’are in the rear. What ddes it mean? Why should rebel gencrals be made brigadiers? Why should. Union colonels like Ayers be retired? Why should Southern Senators be taken into the confi- dence of the chief executive,while his once greatest friend, Senator Foraker, be threatened with defeat and ignored The colored Americans are very grateful and will follow the Senator of Ohio. HOWARD'S STRONG FACULTY The Opening of the school term of Howard University will be greeted with a new and strong fac- ulty. Dr. Thirkield, the newly in- stalled president, intends to make Howard University the equal of any college in the United States. There has never been a man at the head of this institution more in- terested in the work than Dr. Thir- kield. In the first place he ig an honest man. In the second place he has no prejudices whatever ; and, lastly, he will not tolerate tattlers. This institution has been infested with this class of individuals,which has been its greatest drawback. The college law and medical de- partments have been greatly strengthened since Dr.Thirkield has been at the head. The outlook for this coming year is encouraging, and there is no doubt that the stu- dents to those three departments will be high-class men and women. wo beak ARES HERES The medical department will be unusually large this year, and so far as the college department -1s concerned the new dean is a man equal to any in Amherst, Yale or Harvard. There will be a reorgan- ization of this department. GRAND MASTER HOUSTON. For some unknown reason, Grand Master Houston, states our special correspondent, denounced’ The Bee and its editor at the sub-committee of management in Philadelphia, Pa., last week. . 2 Just why the young and ambitious man should be guilty of such indiscre- tion The Bee is unable to state. Be- cause the editor has been the gentle- man’s friend ever since he has been in the city and certainly he has been treated more fairly than any person The Bee has dealt with for years. Mr. Houston stated this himself, The editor’s correspondence will |show that he (Houston), instead of | being the smallest mag in the Od¢ | Fellows order, would have been’ the | greatest, had the editor’s advice been taken, ‘The many lawsuits which are te | follow and the expose that will b& -| made will-convince the world the edi J tor acted wisely, discreetly and fairl; | with him, : | This entire affair could have beer || settled and the order saved from dis | grace and humiliation, .| The Bee will give all the fact .| ftom time to time from the record: .Jof the court and from data in pos | session of The Bee, FORTUNE MUST DISCLOSE | The charge by an anonymous cor. respondent in a recent .. 2 ofg New York Age that | he shaw had abused Pre, , Cpe velt, Secretary Taft an A = administration policy. . | . newspaper, and Suggest--~ 1 Pre aration from the en: - weet about one of the mean. 4 factional venom ani :. sty has come under our ni. - a day. The last iss - « ~ besa acommumea: — - e Hershaw branding +h, oy false, and demanding a the maker of the char_. * Be shaw is entitled to hy, at this malicious article, - he that he May seek such -, a8 Open to him in the priv. . lh ‘Age cannot do les. - Soe name, or assume th - ... . which comes from a3, _- a so. Mr. Hershaw is on. | - es ful men of the race, HUE ae tempt to injure him in : Dior ment is deserving of 1, .. reg | censure. CAMP PLEASANT We desire to call attent on ¢9 th successful work being acu =! , or Camp Pleasant. . Camp Pleasant is a new. ~p arg) anew experiment, Hertorer Cang Good Will was the only epers.cg of the charitable and p stooge spirit of the city of Wain: » Ty charity expressed in the s+. amp contemplated the whites: o~ :x, —who were in peed of the a} “as of the camp. Of course no \roo need apply. So-that the goo > pe sought to have a camp for « ni children. After many trials ar! ~ 4 vexation Camp Pleasant wast ed and as a result wore, ot Chita have beer incalculably benefitcd 4 the new camp, ‘and we are told thz the management is quite as Fucat if not more so‘ than those conducting Camp Good Will. To the efforts of the executive com- mittee are'due the success so far of the camp. | EDITOR FORTUNI. The Bee's esteemed contemporary, the New York Age, is of the opm fon. that The Bee has bik +n the brain. Editor Fortune » anzq with himself, and when he tas these sudden fits he 1s «scssable because he is not responsible for ‘these sudden flights. The Bee was informed that Editor Fortare, y virtue of his changeable « htcral attitude, the powers fin~l The Age had made him an adsi- ry o& itor. However, The Bee 1+ phased to know’ that- Editor Fort me ror tinues to’be the editor of Te \36 See the chars in ais religious convictions. | THE NEGRO BUSiNLSS LEAGUE. The programme of th Negro Business League appear~ 1 this issue of The Bee. Frem ail ind cations, the meeting 1" T apek, Kansas, this month will 'e ‘he largest that has ever ber held ‘President Washington and fis able ‘secretary, Mr. Emmett Set, have ‘prepared a programme that wil meet all conditions and present the colored Americans in their true eelee NEGRO LEADERSHIP. Of all the “ships” in this coum try Negro leadership is the mot cowardly and humiliating. Neg leadership under this Administ tion is the weakness that The Be has witnessed since recons:ructice Charles Anderson of New York is the only Negro officeholder posits ing sand. ,He is delivering te goods. All others are pigmies, ape pees and trimmers. FORAKER THE DEMOSTHFNES : Continued from Ist paz? in some places it has failed to bring 5% results, that fact is due more to 3 bad faith that has been practiced © defeat its purpose than to any inheret trobule. . “Except only to state these facts ¢ history I have no desire to pursce subject further at this time, but 1 a not help remarking that God moves B a mysterious way His wonders t? pee form. Out of the vanity acd ‘oli of ‘Andrew Jobnson and the obduncr #4 unreasonable conduct of the secstit States came the conditions that FF vented the American people frect °F ping short in the great work of 0” lishing the doctrine of human er pefure the law for all mem” The Week in Society in Morgan left recently to in Hampton. Dickerson was the guest ughan, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Chicago after leaving Cin- Millard was in Fair Haven visiting friends. Meta and Blanche Hope have relatives and friends in Va. H. Brown and daughter, visiting friends in company George Steele, at Rawlings, William Rammster will continue White Sulphur Springs dur- summer. and Mrs. William Hawkins were much pleased with their visit to where they were the guests and friends. Norman has gone to Hunt- Va. to spend some weeks of Mr. and Mrs. Isam Scott. d wife are in Providence, rother, Mr. Albert Huff. Jackson, of this city, left go for Columbus, Ohio, objects to reside permanently. Lewis is receiving much ton at Spokane, where she the summer with her sister -law, Mrs. and Mr. Chas. ing Hampton, Mrs. Lillian city, is the guest of Mrs. well, her cousin. M. Jannifer is visiting in Hamp- H. Baker was at Cape May last Dusy Ball is the guest of Misses Lou Ellen Spriggs, of Insti- L. Tyler was in Hampton last guest of Mrs. Martha Will- erson was with her. C. Spurlock, of St. Albans, ar- washington a few days ago. Master Houston has returned Adelphia, where he spent a telling over the session of the office of management. He will light for Birmingham, Alabama, to deliver an address at the news demonstration on the 5th; he will deliver an address in Mississippi, and on the 9th Silver Jubilee in Springfield, Illin- turing to Washington by way of Pittsburgh, where he will r of the sub-committee of manage- G. U. O. of O. F. residing at w Orleans, was in the city this week, guest of Grand Master Houston. Frank Farrell, of New Orleans, District Grand Master of Odd days for the State of Louisiana, spent days in the city, the guest of his er, Charles J. Farrell, and while divided his time with Grand Mast- houston. J. T. C. Newsom has returned to city. Kelly Miller went to Jamestown, this week. Attorney N. T. Goldsborough, of Louisburg. Va., passed through the sunday morning, enroute for Pitts- ta on legal business. C. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart, will leave next Monday after Atlantic City and Asbury Park, they will return about the last month. Mrs. Lotte Johnson and Miss Selene of D street southwest, have gone to Northumberland, Md., to be gone about three weeks. Mrs. Etelka Valentine is spending the summer in Springfield, Ohio, the guest cister and brother-in-law, Dr. and M. Gorden. Miss Ruth and Helen Williams are visiting relatives in Virginia. They will soon be joined by their mother, Mrs. J. T. Williams, of 322 Spruce street northwest. Mr. P. J. Crenshaw left the city for his home, in Athens, Alabama, last Friday. Mrs. Mary Jones and her two children are in Bealton, Va. They will remain until September. Mr. M. C. Maxfield, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, left the city Monday morning for Hampton, Va. He will take part in the great Negro Conference at Hampton and from there he will visit the Jamestown Exposition. Mr. Maxfield is a thorough race man. Mrs. Baxter, of 318 C street southwest, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Maud Agnes, will leave the city for Staunton, Va., on or about August 15. Mrs. Eustace B. Johnson and sister, of No. 1916 Thirteenth street northwest, are confined to their residence by severe illness. Both of these ladies are under the treatment of Dr.Charles West. Don't delay in making your preparations for the day's outing on the 6th of August at Somerset Beach. See notice in another column. Our old and esteemed friend, R. K. Morris, of Pierce Place, is complaining of lumbago. He is able to attend to his official duties, however. John Craig, of the United States Supreme Court, and 1437 Pierce Place northwest, has entirely recovered from his late sickness. Our genial friend, J. W. Mayne, of Eleventh street, was confined to his residence two days' last week, occasioned by a sudden attack of vertigo. Professor Chase's dancing classes hold forth during the summer season at Madre Park, Eckington, Monday and Thursday evenings of each week. Prof. Charles Hamilton's augmented orchestra will furnish music on the 6th of August. Mr. A. K. Brodie, baritone, will do the solo work at St. Luke's Church to-morrow morning. The Zion Baptist Church of South Washington, Rev. William Howard, pastor, has a membership of twenty-two hundred persons. Light is furnished by electricity. Professor Daniel is organist and has a very creditable choir. Mrs. John C. Dancy has gone to Winchester, Va., where she will spend some time. Miss Gussie Hawley, one of the leading society ladies of Bridgeport, Conn., spent several days with relatives and friends in this city and returned to her home Monday. Mrs. S. M. Lewis and sister, Miss J. M. Cropper, will spend the month of August with their sister, Miss Amanda Cropper, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Dollie Dotson, 1338 Fourth street northwest, will leave the city next week for a two weeks' vacation. Miss Cornelia Burk, 1336 Fourth st. northwest, will leave Monday for Pittsburg, Pa., where she will spend some time with her brother. She will return by way of New York. Mrs. Mayme Beckett Lane is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Beckett, No. 1628 M street, where she will be pleased to see her many friends. CAMP PLEASANT. The dedication of Camp Pleasant took place on the grounds last Sunday at six o'clock. Rev. Wiseman presided. Miss Russell gave a graphic account of the struggles made in order to establish the camp. Rev. Sterling N. Brown opened with prayer and afterward made appropriate remarks on the value of out-door camps for children. He was followed by Dr. G. H. Richardson, Attorney Moore, Rev. Wiseman; Mrs. Hayson, Mr. Mills, Dr. Thompson and others. A vote of thanks was tendered Miss Dora Smith, Miss Wilson and Mrs. Dr. Richardson for the unremitting care and devotion they have displayed in this first experiment. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION NOTES. The following letter has been received at the Jamestown Exposition, and shows something of the success of the Exposition: "Dear Sirs—I am pleased to be able to advise you that the members of the Board of Governors of the Jamestown Exposition, who had the pleasure of inspecting your exhibits in the Negro Building today, were gratified at the extent, variety and value of the exhibits found therein. They are a credit to your race, and they are valuable as marking the progress which has been made by your people during the past fogerty years—progress which must be pleasing to you, and should be gratifying to every American citizen. "Beg to assure you the officers of the Jamestown Exposition most heartily join you in the wish that many of your people will visit the Exposition, and we beg, through you, to give them the as- surance that they will be welcome, and that every building on the grounds is open to them for their inspection. We trust that your efforts to secure a large attendance may be rewarded, and we shall be happy to join with you in any way to secure an increase in the number of visitors whose coming will be gratifying to us. Very truly yours, Chairman, Board of Governors. The address of Dr. Booker T. Washington today promises to be a "red-letter day" in the history of the Exposition. The Hampton Institute students will give a special drill exhibition on the parade ground of the Exposition, and the Hampton Band will furnish music for the parade, which will lead from the parade ground to the Negro Building, where the speech will be delivered. The Fisk Jubilee Singeres are preparing a special program of music, and there are other events that will make this one of the great days of the Exposition. Nepro Business League ITS EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES Program: Eighth Annual Session, National Negro Business League to be held in Topeka, Kansas, August 14, 15, and 16, 1907. Wednesday, August 14, 10.30 A.M. The Laague called to order. Invocation, Rev. Harry B. Brown, pastor, St. Simon Protestant Episcopal Church, Tepoka, Kan. Music. Addresses of Welcome—On behalf of the State, Hon. E. W. Hoch, governor; on behalf of the city, Hon. William Green, mayor; on behalf of the Topeka Commercial Club, Mr. C. K. Holliday, president; on behalf of the Topeka Negro Business League, Mr. James H. Guy. Appointment of Committees—(a)Credentials, (b) resolutions, (c) auditing. Twenty-eight Years as a House Mover, D. F. Tipton, Emporia, Kan. Twenty-seven years' Experience in Slate and Gravel Roofing and Contracting, M. W. Turner, Indianapolis, Indiana. Railroad Contracting and Building, E. E. McDaniel, South MaAlester, I.T. Cement Contracting and Building, John Spencer, Grinnell, Iowa. The Real Estate and Loan Business, Robert C. Owens, Los Angeles, Cal.; J. B. Bell, Houston, Texas. Wednesday Evening Session, 8 O'Clock. (This session of the League will be held in the Auditorium, Corner Seventh and Quincy Streets.) Invocation, Rt. Rev. Abraham Grant, Bishop of the A. M. E. Church, Kansas City, Kansas. The President's annual address. The Wholesale and Retail Grocery Business, John Covington, Houston, Texas. General Merchandising, Foster Williams, Coffeyville, Kan. Operating Vans and Express, Philip Lee, New York City, N. Y. Managing a Department Store in the Country, W. L. Sayers, Hill City, Kan. Manufacturing Brushes, S. J. Jones, Jenkintown, Pa. Thursday August 15, 10 A.M. Invocation, Rev. C. G. Fishback, pastor Shiloh-Baptist Church, Topck, Kan. Corresponding Secretary's Annual Report. National Organizer's Annual Report. Treasurer's Annual Report. Compiler's Annual Report. Making Farming Pay, C. N. Miller, Rolling Fork, Miss.; E.'G. Terry, West Point, Miss. Sugar Beet Growing, George W.Gross, Rocky Ford, Colo. Developing a Small Farm, T. B. Patterson, Hegins, Pa. General Farming, Miss Jennie Drum, Colorado; Benjamin J. Carr, Hartsville, Tennessee. Market Gardening, Robert N. Turner, Topeka, Kan. The Jewelry Business, J. A. Wilson, Kansas City, Kan. The Negro in the Oil Business, S. Laing. Williams, Chicago, Ill.; A. B. Knight, Pine Bluff, Ark Fashionable Tailoring, J. S. Hopson, Louisville, Ky.; Eugene Walker, Los Angeles, Cal.; Isidor Adamson, Little Rock, Ark Carpet Renovating, Laying and Making, J. H. Finley, Dayton, Ohio. Addresses or Papers are each limited to twenty minutes. In the discussions to follow, speakers are limited to five minutes. Thursday Evening Session, 8 O'Clock. Invocation, Rev. J. E. Edwards, D.D. pastor, St. John's A. M. E. Church, Topeka, Kan. Business Opportunities in the West, Hon. W. T. Vernon, Quindaro, Kan. Practical Catering, John T. Writt, Pittsburg, Pa; S. G. Walker, Paterson, New Jersey. Manufacturing Harness and Vehicle Dealing, P. Fred Romare, Joplin, Mo. A Vehicle "Sanitarium," A Mills,Sam Antonio, Texas. How I Have Succeeded in the Millinery Business, Miss Jennie Laws, Jackson, Miss.; Mrs. J. T. Mason, Pensacola, Fla. The Undertaking Business, James N. Shelton, Indianapolis, Ind.; W. C. Gordon, St. Louis, Mo. Publishing a Secular Newspaper, M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla. Publishing a Religious Newspaper, J. H. Collett, Philadelphia, Pa.; George C. Clement, Charlotte, N. C. Friday, August 16, 10 A.M. Invocation, Rev. E. Arlington Wilson, D. D., pastor Metropolitan Baptist Church, Kansas City, Kan. Banking Symposium. (The morning session will, in part, be given to the National Negro Bankers' Association, affiliated with the National Negro Business League, for the discussion of the banking subjects.) The Place of the Accountant in Business Enterprise, William H. Carter, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Up-to-date Barbering, R. E. Clay, Bristol, Tenn.-Va.; William Jones, Keokuk, Iowa. The Drug Business, Dr. J. Edward Perry, Kansas City, Mo. The Establishment of Negro Towns & Communities, by representatives from Mound Bayou, Miss.; Boley, I. T.; Buxton, Iowa; Hobson City, Ala.; Cassopolis, Mich.; Eatonville, Fla.; Wilberforce, Ohio, and Booker City, Ala. Negro Business Enterprises—Of Jackson, Miss., by Dr. S. D. Redmond, Jackson; of Birmingham, Ala., by Dr. U. G. Mason, Birmingham; of New York City, by John H. Adkins, New York City. Announcements. The banquet in honor of the members of the National Negro Business League by the local Negro Business League of Topeka, Kan., will be held in the Auditorium, corner Seventh and Quincy streets, Friday evening, August 16, beginning at 8:30 o'clock. The local Negro Business League of Topeka has arranged the following additional entertainments for delegates and visitors: An outing at Garfield Park, on Thursday afternoon, August 16. A "Seeing Topeka" ride, Friday afternoon, August 16th. A picnic at the magnificent pleasure resort, "Vinewood," on Saturday, August 17. ODD-FELLOWS SPLIT Continued from 1st page expressed wish of the order does not contain a suitable place for the printing plant, one of the principal departments of the order, it being alleged that the working men from the printing plant, who go in their shirt sleeves, were not sufficiently dignified to go in this elegant building. The Grand Master, W. L. Houston, has had his salary raised from $50 to $80 per month. The assistant grand secretary's salary, in spite of negative action four successive times in eight years, has been raised from $75 to $90. It is up to the Grand Master to explain how it is he puts in an expense account of $22 for a one-day's trip to Philadelphia, when his carfare is but $6 and his carfare and meals could not possibly exceed $10. On account of these and many other irregularities, a suit has been brought in the courts of Philadelphia asking for a receiver to take charge and administer the affairs of the order until the next B. M. C. meets. This deplorable condition of affairs is brought about by bad leadership, as most of the members of the sub-committee of management are supposed to do right, but are misled. It is also claimed that relatives of members of the sub-committee of management have their daughters on the pay roll, drawing a salary and at the same time drawing pay as school teachers. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. ATTORNEY THOMAS L. JONES' SPEECH. Annapolis, Md., July 27. The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres held its Grand Eighteenth Annual Session at Annapolis, Md., beginning July 22, 1907, and ending July 24, 1907. More than fifty-two Lodges composed the Grand Lodge, representing a membership of ten thousand. The welcome address to the Grand Lodge was delivered by Mayor Claude, of the city of Annapolis, and was responded to by Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, representing the Capitol City Lodge, No. 1, of Washington, D. C. Mr. Jones spoke in part as follows: Mr.Mayor, on behalf of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, representing more than ten thousand law-abiding citizens of the republic, I have been chosen as their accredited representative to tender to you our heartfelt thanks for this most interesting visit and the encouraging words which you have left with us on this occasion. We feel that our visit to this city without your official presence would have been a failure. We recognize that it was through the efforts and sacrifices of just such patriotic, liberty-loving and true friends of the colored American as you that he has been able to reach the heights where he now stands, claiming and demanding only those rights and MOOT COURT. Of the District of Columbia, August Term, 1907, will Convene in Trinity Baptist Church, Church Street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets northwest, Thursday evening, August 8, 1907 at Eight o'clock sharp. Proceeds for the benefit of the church. Equity No. 17897. Of the District of Columbia, August Tern Trinity Baptist Church, Church Street, be teenth streets northwest., Thursday evening, o'clock sharp. Proceeds for the benefit of Equity No. 17897. Miss Arminta Clovertoy, plaintiff, vs. T Breach of promise. Case for damages. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, judge of Moot C rict of Columbia, August Term, 1907, will wiliist Church, Church Street, between Fourteenth is northwest., Thursday evening. August 8, 1909. Proceeds for the benefit of the church. 17897. Dointa Clovertoy, plaintiff, vs. Thomas L. Jones promise. Case for damages. Calvin Chase, judge of Moot Court; Miss Arminta Clovertoy, plaintiff, vs. Thomas L. Jones, defendant. Breach of promise. Case for damages. Mr. W. Calvin Chese, judge of Mount Mr. W. Calvin Chase, judge of Moot Court; Mr. Perry W. Frisby, clerk of Court. Mr. M. T. Clinkscale and Mr. Royal H. Armond W. Scott and C. H. Thomas, J. The members of the local Bar, under the of the Trinity Baptist Church, will present 8th, at 8 p.m., the celebrated breach of prom Thomas L. Jones figures as defendant, and plaintiff. This well-known member of the Bar willneys Armond W. Scott and C. H. Hemond that it will be one of the most brilliant pro and arguments that has ever been present legal profession. OFFICCERS OF THE C W. Calvin Chase, Judge. Attorney Stewart M. Lewis, United Admission - 15 Clinkscale and Mr. Royal Hughes, attorneys W. Scott and C. H. Thomas, attorneys for members of the local Bar, under the auspices of Bury Baptist Church, will present, Thursday even the celebrated breach of promise case, in wh ones figures as defendant, and Arminta C known member of the Bar will be represented W. Scott and C. H. Hemons; and there one of the most brilliant presentations of tests that has ever been presented by the mem- bon. OFFICCERS OF THE COURT: Chase, Judge. Attorney Perry W. F. Stewart M. Lewis, United States Marshal Admission - 15 cents. Mr. M. T. Clinkscale and Mr. Royal Hughes, attorneys for plaintiff. Armond W. Scott and C. H. Thomas, attorneys for defendant. The members of the local Bar, under the auspices of Club No. 4, of the Trinity Baptist Church, will present, Thursday evening, August 8th, at 8 p.m., the celebrated breach of promise case, in which Attorney Thomas L. Jones figures as defendant. and Arminta Clovertop, as plaintiff. This well-known member of the Bar will be represented by Attorneys Armond W. Scott and C. H. Hemons; and there is no doubt that it will be one of the most brilliant presentations of legal points and arguments that has ever been presented by the members of the legal profession. OFFICCERS OF THE COURT: W. Calvin Chase, Judge. Attorney Perry W. Frisby, Clerk. Stewart M. Lewis, United States Marshal. Admission - 15 cents. COME ONE. - - - - COME ALL. The congregation and friends of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. Thomas J. Brown, rector (assistants: Rev. Henry Joseph and Rev. A. C. Collier), beg to announce their second annual excursion to Somerset Beach, Tuesday, August 6th, 1907. The congregation and friends of St. Lukes Church, Rev. Thomas J. Brown, rector (as seph and Rey. A. C. Collier), beg to announce excursion to Somerset Beach, Tuesday, Aug. The commodious steamer Jane Moseley was and Water streets southwest, at 9.30 o'clock city in ample time for the cars. Somerset Beach is a most pleasant summited on the Lower Potomac, affording to fishing, boating, crabbing, etc. Refreshments will be furnished at moderately. An excellent dinner will be served by the Migration and friends of St. Luke's Protestant Church, Thomas J. Brown, rector (assistants: Rev. W. A. C. Collier), beg to announce their seafront Somerset Beach, Tuesday, August 6th, 1900. A delicious steamer Jane Moseley will leave her west streets southwest, at 9.30 o'clock a.m., return time for the cars. Beach is a most pleasant summer resort, best suited to Lower Potomac, affording to the excursionists ling, crabbing, etc. It will be furnished at moderate prices. Dinner will be served by the Woman's Guide. The commodious steamer Jane Moseley will leave her wharf, Ninth and Water streets southwest, at 9.30 o'clock a.m., returning to the city in ample time for the cars. Somerset Beach is a most pleasant summer resort, beautifully located on the Lower Potomac, affording to the excursionists bathing, fishing, boating, crabbing, etc. Refreshments will be furnished at moderate prices. An excellent dinner will be served by the Woman's Guild. Proceeds for the benefit of the church. No postponement on account of weather. The right is reserved to decline admit this excursion. Music by the Monumental Orchestra, Pr leader. Fare for the round trip, 50 cents; childr 25 cents. Ticket the various committees, or at theboat on SPECI FOR EVERY THREE BUSH-ELS O AT OUR YARD WILL GIVE ONE I DURING THE COLD WEATH-ER. COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE is reserved to decline admitting improper the Monumental Orchestra, Professor Charles the round trip, 50 cents; children under 14 y Tickets can be purc committees, or at theboat on the day of th PECIAL RY THREE BUSH-ELS OF COAL PU ARD WILL GIVE ONE PECK OF CO HE COLD WEATH-ER. A COAL AND ICE COMPANY The right is reserved to decline admitting improper persons on this excursion. Music by the Monumental Orchestra, Professor Charles Hamilton, leader. Fare for the round trip, 50 cents; children under 14 years of age, 25 cents. Tickets can be purchased from SPECIAL FOR EVERY THREE BUSH-ELS OF COAL PURCHASED AT OUR YARD WILL GIVE ONE PECK OF COAL FREEB. DURING THE COLD WEATH-ER. COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE FIFTH AND L ST., N. W., COMPANY, Near K Street Market. Repairing neatly done Our $2.00 Derbies and Soft Hats Have no Equals BRODT'S HATS ARE OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD Factory and Salesroom 419 11th St. N. W. Phone Main 4474-Y BRANCH, 503 9th St., N W Our $2.00 Derbies and Soft Hats Have no Equals BRODT'S HATS Our $2.00 Derbies and Soft Hats BRODT'S ARE OF THE HIGHEST ST privileges under our constitution and the laws of the country, that should be the common heritage of all. The white people of this country owe the Negroes a debt of gratitude which they will never be able to pay. For their fidelity to duty and loyalty and devotion to your and ours, in the darkest hours of this nation's life, the history of the black man is unparalleled in the annals of the world. It has been said-that we are the wards of the nation; then as our guardians it is your duty to see to it that we have a square deal in the race of life, for we are in this country not by our own choice. When we were in the native jungles of our fatherland, and knew no God except the crocodile as his picture was reflected from the dark waters of the Ganges and the Nile, we were seized by the white man and brought to this land. This was in 1619. The hand of Providence was at work. We looked toward the North, and in the distance what do we see? Behold, another vessel appears upon the horizon; it is the Mayflower, struggling against the winds and the waves, on a dark December night, with its precious cargo, yea, a band of religious patriots, the Pilgrim Fathers, trying to make the shore. They are to plant another civilization, in antagonism to that which was to be fostered by the slave trade in the old dominion. With the landing of these two . 3. Repairing neatly done Factory and Salesroom 419 118 St. N. W. Phone Main 4474-Y of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Director (assistants: Rev. Henry Jo- to announce their second annual Sunday, August 6th, 1907. Roseley will leave her wharf, Ninth go o'clock a.m.; returning to the ant summer resort, beautifully lo- ding to the excursionists bathing, moderate prices. d by the Woman's Guild. church. weather. admitting improper persons on stra, Professor Charles Hamilton, children under 14 years of age. Tickets can be purchased from boat on the day of the excursion. SCIAL METELS OF COAL PURCHASED ONE PECK OF COAL FREE. ER. COMPANY, Near K Street Market. Soft Hats Have no Equals HATS WEST STANDARD ships and these two civilizations the destiny of the two races was to be inseparably linked together, that could not destroy it without peril to the republic. In other words, in 1619, God Almighty pronounced a marriage ceremony between the whites and the blacks of this country, and whatever God has joined together let no man undertake to put asunder." This speech was loudly applauded and at the conclusion of the morning services he was warmly congratulated by the Mayor and other visiting friends. "The House of Representatives tonight voted down a bill to tax the property of the Booker T. Washington School at Tuskegee. "There were several sensational speeches on the bill, one member declaring that the school should be wiped off the earth, and that it was the South's greatest curse. "Most of the members, however, look upon the school as a great factor in the development of Alabama and the South, and as a powerful influence for the settlement of the race question. "A commission appointed by the legislature to investigate the school recently made a most flattering report." Postmaster Barnes has issued orders that carriers must not smoke on duty. BRANCH, 503 9th St., N W CAPTURED BY RAISULL COMMANDER OF SULTAN'S BODY- GUARD A PRISONER Why Moorish Bandit Chief Holding Cald Gen. Sir Harry MacLean, a Former British Officer, Until Demands Are Granted. Tangier, Morocco. — That pictureque bandit Ralsuil has made a captre of Cald Gen. Sir Harry MacLean, commander of the sultan's bodyguard, who organized his army and, who next to the sultan, is the most powerful personage in Morocco. Raisull announces that he will hold MacLean prisoner until the sultan grants these demands: 1. That Raisull's house at Zinat be rebuilt. 2. That an indemnity of 100,000 spares (about $200,000) be paid to him. 3. That he be reappointed governor of Tangier and of Fahs and be made commandant of police. MacLean is now at Elkmes, in the heart of a wild mountain district, three days' march from Tangier. He is being well treated and has been allowed to write to the British minister and send for his baggage. MacLean has been urging Raisull recently to acknowledge the sultan's authority and to live peaceably. The cunning bandit chief assumed a willingness to submit. So to him the sultan sent Gen. MacLean with gifts of horses and tents, hoping to easily bring Raisul to terms. With seeming military courtesy Raisuli sent 15 of his men to meet Cold MacLean, and to be a bodyguard, assorting him to Rouina. There Raisul met him, accepting the sultan's presents and told MacLean he was a prisoner. Then Raisul sent to the sultan the terms on which he would release MacLean. MacLean, a strong and brainy man, was completely hoodwinked by Raisul, it seems. Cold MacLean was a British officer for 30 years, and has lately been the power behind the throne in Morocco. CAID GEN, M'LEAN. [High Moorish Official Held Captive by Bandit Ralsuill.] No uneasiness is felt about his personal safety, but it is believed that with so powerful a personage as a hostage Ralsuill will drive a hard bargain with the sultan. MacLean's handsome, daughter is credited with having great influence in the sultan's court. In fact, she is styled the "Empress of Morocco." Sir Harry MacLean, as he is still known in England, is the commander-chief of the Moorish army, has a splendid palace in Fez, gets a salary of $25,000 a year with such perquisites as have enabled him to accumulate a large fortune. He became a Mohammedan many years ago and virtually a Moor. His deeds of valor have been numerous and although he has only one eye he is a crack shot with a rifle. His greatest achievement was when his patron, Sultan Mulaj, died of fatigue during a campaign against some turbulent tribes and MacLean concealed the death, carrying the corpse in a gorgeous golden litter until he reached the capital, snuggled the body in through a hole in the wall, then met and proclaimed the new sultan. MacLean knew that news of the death of Mulaj would be the signal for a military revolt, which would result in an enemy of his being pated on the throne. Forty MHHon Yards of Ribbon. Forty million yards of narrow ribbon have been ordered by a western brewery from a Philadelphia concern to be used for advertising purposes. The ribbon will be placed about the necks of the beer bottles, and it is estimated that four inches will be required for each bottle. Basing calculations upon this, it is estimated that 122,000 bottles of beer is to be brewed, while the ribbon, stretched out, would reach nearly 23,000 miles, and in the latitude of Philadelphia, would encircle the globe.—Philadelphia Record. Hard to Tell. Mrs Style-I'd like to see your baby, my dear. Is it here in the park with these others? Mrs Caste-Yes, it's here, somewhere, but the new nurse my husband escaped came while I was out and I don't know her by sight myself yet. "What did you say when Jack need you last night, dear?" "I couldn't say anything." "Why not?" "He was kissing me."—Milwaukee festival. 18 NEW GRACE DARLING. Miss Ida Lewis Credited with Saving 18 Lives From the Sea. Newport, R. I.-Miss Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling of America, as she is known, who has lived for 50 years at Pine Rock lighthouse, off this city, celebrated her golden anniversary as a resident of the historic spot the other day. For 28 years Miss Lewis has been the keeper of the beacon, succeeding her father, through a special act of congress, when he became disabled. Miss Lewis was 68 years old in March last, but she is still alert in body and mind. Practically all of A. B. Newport took part in the celebration, for the people there are proud of the brave woman who has to her credit the saving of 18 lives from the sea. Not a few of these rescues were made under circumstances that called for both daring and clever seamanship, and as a result of her courage and skill, under conditions that would have tried the strongest heart, her fame became world-wide. Craft of every description; laden with admirers made their way out to the light, where Miss Lewis kept open house, cheerily receiving and entertaining her visitors. Those who had not seen her for years were astonished at her mental and physical vigor and it was predicted that the light would not soon lose its famous keeper. Lime Rock lighthouse has had many noted visitors, including Gen. Grant, Vice President Colfax, Admiral Dewey and Gen. Sherman. In the interior of the house, which is wonderfully neat, are many medals and trophies. LAND AND WATER MOTOR CAR. Vehicle Which Travels on the Roads or Takes to the Water. Paris.—M. Ravaillier, a civil engineer, has invented a type of "amphibious" automobile and boat combined, which travels on the roads or takes to water, according to whim or necessity. M. Ravaillier calls it the "canot-volture." Spectators at the recent yacht port inauguration ceremonies at Suresnes had an opportunity of inspecting and trying the new craft. M. Ravallier conducted a series of parties from the bank of the Seine into the water and back, among the passengers being Mme. Thomson, wife of the minister of marine, and Mme. Barthou, wife of the minister of public works. The sensation of "rolling" into the water, gliding about and emerging high and dry on land was pronounced to be delightful. The "canot-volture" passes back and forth between land and water with The "Canot-Volture." practically no change in maneuvers. It is about 12 feet long, and the hull, of steel, was constructed by M. Bltro, of Malsons-Laffitte. M. Boutilier, of Vincennes, accomplished the mechanical construction. The wheels are of sheet steel, disk pattern, and are fitted with solid rubber tires. When the vehicle is used as a boat the power is shifted to a small propeller, this being done simply by moving a lever. On the roads the automobile attains a speed of about 35 kilometers an hour, and in the water, where it is a boat, the speed is nine kilometers an hour. Ought to Know How. The animal trainer having been taken suddenly ill his wife reported for duty in his stead. Have you ever had any experience in this line?" asked the owner of the circus and menagerie, with some doubt. "Not just exactly in this line," she said, "but my husband manages the beasts all right, doesn't he? "He certainly does." "Well, you ought to see how easy I can manage hfn." An Expensive Bridge. Teacher—Now, Tommy, we reach bridges. Which is the most costly bridge in the world? Tommy (whose mother plays—Bridge whist, ma'am—Philadelphia Inquirer. WHERE PEACE DELEGATES MEET THE STUDIO The Rldderzaal, where the second Peace conference is being held, stands on the eastern side of the Binnenhof or Inner Court of the ancient official buildings of The Hague. The Binnenhof occupies the site of a palace built in 1250 by Count William of Holland. Within the court on May 13, 1619, John of Barneveld, Chancellor of Holland, was put to death by his rival, Prince Maurice. BELL UNDER THE SEA NOVEL WARNING TO SHIPS OF APPROACHING PERIL. Electricity Conveyed by Cable From the Shore Operates Mechanism Washington.—A novel method to inform ship captains of the approach of their vessels to the danger zone has been perfected in connection with the use of the system of submarine bell signals in places where the bell cannot be placed on a light ship or lighthouse. The electric bell is hung from a tripod set on the bottom of the sea at the edge of the shoal at the required point and this bell is struck by a mechanism operated by a current of electricity conveyed through a cable from the signal station on shore. Such a station at Point Allerton, Mass., and another at the entrance to Hallifax harbor are operated with cables more than two miles long The bell strikes any code that is desired and the sound travels through the water, so that vessels from five to ten miles away hear it, and get directions accurately in a fog or at night when equipped with a receiving apparatus. The lighthouse board has made arrangements to place these submarine signals on all light ships not already so equipped, including the five vessels approaching completion at the yards of the New York Shipbuilding company and the four to be built at the Fore River yards at Quincy, Mass. The board also has arranged for electric shore stations at the Delaware harbor refuge and at Detroit, the entrance of St. Mary's river and Lake Superior. The Canadian government is installing such bells at St. Johns, Loulsburg and Yarmouth, and when the work now ordered by the two governments is completed every important harbor in North America will be protected. JUDGE LINDSEY AIDS LAD. "Wanted to Get Ahead"—Gets Place Paying $2,000 a Year. Denver.—"I want to get ahead, so I came to work for you." Two years ago Judge Ben. B. Lindsey was interrupted at his work by a boyish voice. Looking up, he saw a youngster with a shock of bright red hair and mirtful blue eyes. He was wearing knee pants and for a moment the judge wondered what the small fellow could do. The vermillion crown appealed to him. So Jay Bacon was kept in the juvenile court and given a chance to advance. First he was made a sort of messenger boy and "handy Andy" for everyone. He was given the dignified title of clerk, but the young man is authority for the statement that he frequently did many services beneath the dignity of his title. He had studied stenography at home with his stepfather, D. H. Colburn, who is one of the probation officers, and his first attempt at taking dictation from Judge Lindsey convinced the latter that his clerk could hold his own. Then Judge Lindsey was appointed judge of the new juvenile court. Under the statute creating the court he was to name a stenographer at a salary of $2,000 a year, almost as much as stenographers to district judges receive. The next promotion had come to Jay Bacon, for without considering any other applicant Judge Lindsey appointed him to the place. Brick Lost with Body in It. Pittsburg, Pa.—Friends of Herman Unger, the musician who committed suicide in Boston some time ago and who directed that his body be cremated and the ashes made into a brick, are much alarmed over the present whereabouts of the brick. It has disappeared and all efforts to locate it have been fruitless. The brick was shipped from Boston more than a week ago by the secretary of the Boston lodge of Odd Fellows to Morris. Nosokoff, of this city, the nearest friend of the dead musician. Nosokoff has the priceless violins that Unger owned, but he was very anxious to secure the brick as well. Ordnance Found at Fort McHenry Is Over Century Old. Baltimore, Md.-While examining the contents of the ordnance storehouse at Fort McHenry, Lieut. J. J. Holcombe, of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth coast artillery discovered several boxes of old hand grenades which are supposed to be more than 100 years old. The missiles are of the earliest make used by the United States government, and were probably placed at the historic old fort when it was first erected in 1812. Owing to the way in which they were packed the grenades had only the slightest trace of rust on them. The discovery of the weapons recalls a bit of the ancient history of the country. In explaining their use Lieut. Holcombe said that the grenades were handled only by the grenadiers of the ship, who, walking out upon the yard-arms of the old-fashioned fighting vessels, threw them into the ranks of the enemy. An explosion followed which created havoc. They weigh about four pounds and are shaped after the fashion of the bombs used by anarchists, and are iron and loaded with gunpowder. Several days after the discovery one of the new recruits at the fort was found trying to dry the powder in one of the missiles by roasting it on the fire. A report was made to Lleut. Watson, in command of the post, who said that he intended to write to the authorities and ask permission to dump them in the middle of the Chesapeake bay, as they were so old-fashioned that they would be of practically no use whatever in modern warfare. BIG DOG ADOPTS CHICKENS. Five Orphan Chicks Are Cared For by Large Black Brute. Des Molnes, Ia.—Performing all the functions of a mother to five orphaned chickens, a large black dog is attaining wide notoriously on the east side. The chickens lost their mother in some unaccountable manner and five little screaming fowls. made the neighborhood miserable with their piteous cries. The chickens belonged to M. M. Friedman on East Fifth street, where the dog also belongs. The chickens huddled together after losing their mother and during the night were taken in charge by the dog, who protected them from the chilly night air. Now the dog has come into constant attendance on the five chickens and watches over them all day long. Ed Sunberg, constable of Lee township, hearing of the strange incident, went to investigate and tried to take one of the chickens out of the box where they had huddled around the dog. He received a bite oh his hand as a reward for his attempt to molest the little chicks and the dog is now left severely alone with his little family. NO SLEEP FOR 25 YEARS. Man with Continual Grief Sits In Chair, Wide Awake. Erie, Pa.—Joseph Root, a hermit resident of Presque Isle peninsula, claims he has not slept in 25 years, and those who have become interested in the case believe his story. A number of well known physclans examined him. They say he is in a healthy condition and he was awake all the time they observed him. His close friends also youch for his story. Drugs have been administered, but have no effect on Root. The man has lived for a long time on the peninsula and tells an interesting story. He says that about 25 years ago two dear relatives were killed suddenly in a railroad accident. He suffered so much from shock that he gave up the idea of sleep, and now remains in a chair all night with his eyes wide open. After his rest in the chair he feels as much refreshed in the morning as if he had enjoyed a good night's sleep. Doyle Will Hunt for Jewels. London—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, anxious to justify his reputation as a real Sherlock Holmes, has offered his services to Sir Arthur Vicers, the Ulster king of arris, in unraveling the mystery of the loss of the jeweled insignia of the order of St. Patrick, which was recently stolen from Dublin. HOUSE HAS A HISTORY WAS PLANNED TO BE THE HOME OF NAPOLEON. Structure Still Standing in New Orleans—Plot to Rescue Exiled Emperor from St. Helena Only Folled by His Death. New Orleans—Of all the romance in history there is no episode more startling than the Creole plot to rescue Napoleon from his prison on St. Helena—and hence, little is known about it. The seeds of the plot were sown when Joseph Bonaparte left France and bought an estate on the northern edge of the Adirondacks. Thither flocked the Bonapartists. But it was in New Orleans that the plot came to a head. To the Creoles there was a great appeal in the pathetic spectacle of the "prisoner of Longwood," a broken old man, "brutally imprisoned," they said, on the bleak rocks of St. Helena. Of all the influential and rich Creoles who were interested in the plot, the most ardent was Nicholas Girod, millionaire, philanthropist, patriot, mayor for several terms and veteran of Chalmette. The plan, in a few words, was to equip a fast vessel, which was to slip past the patrol ships and into the cove some dark night; and a party of picked men were to scale the cliffs, overpower the guard and lower the emperor by means of a block and tackle. Then the speed of the vessel was to show a clean pair of heels to the lumbering old English frigates, which couldn't make any better time than so many bathbubs. No hair-brained scheme was this, impossible of accomplishment. The collters were not visionaries, but practical men of affairs, who knew the obstacles and knew how to meet them, and whose hearts and souls were bound up in the enterprise. Three days before the Seraphine, built for the purpose, was to weigh anchor, Nicholas Girod gave a banquet in his splendid mansion to celebrate the event. It was a dramatic moment, worthy of a master's canvas. The conspirators were flushed with assured success. But at this dramatic moment, when enthusiasm was at its height, and as toasts were being "Napoleon" House In New Orleans. drunk, appeared the fatal handwriting on the wall. News came of Napoleon's death. As a mute reminder of the plot, there stands to-day the old Napoleon house, much sought by visitors. The Napoleon house was one of the finest in the Vieux Carre. It was an imposing mansion of three stories, standing on a line with the street, as do all the other old houses in the French quarter, and crowned with a belvedere that afforded a fine view of the city and river. The walls and cellings of the epacious apartments were frescoed in the empire style, the corner medallions bearing the arms of France of that period. The same courtyard separated the main building from the scullery and slave quarters, and in it was a profusion of tropical plants, such as bananas, cactus, Spanish dagger and a magnolia tree, at the foot of which so tradition said, was burled a lady, victim of a husband's fealousy. But this is not the Napoleon house of to-day. The frescoes became discolored, peeled and were painted over. The rez-de-chausse bulges with showcases. The wrought iron ballustrades have rusted. The plants have been destroyed. The magnolia tree has been cut down and no souvenirs of the lady found; hence, that dear tradition has been knocked in the head. The plastic ornaments and furniture have vanished, and the Italian marble mantels of the empire period have lost their splendor. Even the old knocker has disappeared—gone to satisfy the lust of some curio collector. From one of the most magnificent residences of the Vieux Carre the Napoleon mansion has degenerated to a liquor shop, dangling a "to let" sign. No Fears. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" asked the insistent reformer. "Here you are day in and day out in a state of intoxication? You know what such dissipation leads to. Already you show the symptoms of a man who is on the verge of delirium tremens. And I understand that some weak girl is foolish enough to have accepted your proposal of matrimony. I shudder for her, and for you!" "Nev' min', ol' fel'," replies the hopeless case. "Zhe lady I'm go' to marry ash shnake charmer in shide show."—W. D. Nesbitt, in Chicago Post. IN OFFICE FOR 47 YEARS. Pennsylvania Postmaster Longest in Continuous Service. Wellsboro, Pa.—It is said of Danforth K. Marsh, of Galnes township, Tloga county, that in point of continuous service he is the oldest postmaster in the United States. The villages of Marshfield, named after him, was made a post office in 1860, and Mr. Marsh was appointed by President Buchanan to take charge of the office. He has held the position continuously since, and is still discharging the duties with all of his old-time force and vigor. Administrations have come and gone, presidents and policies faded, the great civil war waged, and the hate engendered by the strife forgotten and three presidents assassinated during Mr. Marsh's peaceful administration. The country has been K. W. W. DANFORTH K. MARSH. (Pennsylvania Postmaster Who Has Been In Office 47 Years.) larged and developed, the telephone arc and incandescent light, photograph and electric railway invented, and in the meantime, "far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife he kept the noiseless tenor of his way," sorting the Marshfield mall and delivering the same to the patrons of the office and has been chief merchant of the village since 1867, when he established the first store there. In addition to being a man of the highest integrity, he is of keenest intelligence and has not allowed the times to get away from him by reason of his somewhat isolated location. He has kept fully abreast of them by omnivorous reading, and is one of the best informed men in the county. Mr. Marsh was born in Colenville, Broome county, N. Y., June 30, 1815. He attended school taught near his home by F. W. Martin. Martin afterwards became sheriff of Broome county, on whom developed the task of hanging Ruloff, one of the most noted criminals of his time, a man with one of the greatest brains by actual weight that medical science records. Mr. Marsh has always had pride in his chiography: and that is pardonable. Even at the advanced age of 54 years he writes a bold, clean-cut, legible hand. He recalls with pleasure when a mere lad at school in the primitive days when the "master" wrote the copy for the class in writing, how, on the second day of the term of a new teacher, no copy was given him, and asking the reason, was told that he could write so much better than the "master" that no copy would be furnished them. Prior to attaining his majority, Mr. Marsh moved to Tioga county, where he lumbered in summer and taught in winter till on his birthday in 1851 he married Sarah C. Watrons. He was a delegate to the first Republican convention ever held in Tloga county, and has always affiliated with that party. He has run the gamut of township offices, and, with Capt. Phillips and Israel Stone, who was the father of ex-Gov. William A. Stone, served as county auditor in 1869. GARFIELD'S SON HEADS COLLEGE. Harry A. Leaves Princeton to Taks Presidency of Williams. Cleveland, O.—Harry A. Garfield, eldest son of the murdered president. W. W. L. HARRY A. GARFIELD. (Son of Dead President Head of Wil- liams College.) and brother of James A. Garfield, se- cretary of the department of commer- cies and labor, has just been elected to the presidency of Williams college, from which he himself was graduated in 1885. Garfield practiced law in Chevi- land for years, was president of that city's chamber of commerce, and then became professor of politics in Prima- ton, which place he leaves for his new honor. MAJOR SYLVESTER TO FOUR THOUSAND COLORED CHILDREN. At the picnic and barbecue given in Green Willow Park, Thursday, July 25, under the auspices of the Cosmopolitan Temple Baptist Church, Major Richard Sylvester was greeted by four thousand colored children, not counting the mothers and fathers and aunts of these little colored Americans. When it was announced that Major Sylvester would address the colored children at Green Willow Park the greatest interest was manifested on the part of the colored citizens to get their children ready to greet the Chief of Police. Major Sylvester arrived at the appointed hour, and on his approach four thousand colored children, with American flags, arranged themselves from the entrance at the gate to the pavilion, while the band played "Hail to the Chief." Major Sylvester was escorted to the pavilion and was introduced as the guardian of the life and property of the people. As he stepped forward he was greeted by a tremendous applause, and said in part as follows: "Children and older folks who call themselves such: It has been a long time since I visited the hillside, and when your pastor invited me to visit your entertainment and say a few words to those who might be present, I told him I would do so, and I am pleased to observe that you all are having a good time in a manner highly to be commended. "We should all have opportunity for rest and recreation, and should take it in order to become better fitted physically and mentally for the labor to be done in life. While you work it should be earnest and willing, and then all the more appreciate the time for play. "These are beautiful grounds, and you are surrounded with the good things which tend to make an occasion like this enjoyable. You all seem to realize that, and I must compliment you again on the decorum and excellent order which have marked your festivities. It is always proper that in doing whatever we may have to do, to do in a manner that will cause no offense to our friends and neighbors, to the community in which we live. Following along these lines we are pretty sure to receive a proper encouragement and satisfaction. It don't cost anything to be polite, to hold out a helping hand, to endeavor to live a peaceful life, and this should be the aim of each and all of us. "I thank you for listening to me so attentively, and wish for you a pleasant and profitable afternoon." A DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NEGRO BUILDS A CIGAR FACTORY J. A. LANKFORD & BRO. PLAN AND DESIGN THE BUILDING. Mr. Y. Aguilar, a Cuban by birth, but who has been in this country for the last fifteen years, and who has been on Pennsylvania avenue the best part of this time, engaged in the manufacture of cigars, said by many of the wholesale and retail tobacco dealers to be one of the best smokers and sellers in the Washington market, has bought a large lot at 1720 Fourteenth street northwest He has had J. A. Lankford & Bro. to design a modern and up-to-date cigar facotry. The tearing down of the old building on the premises is now under way, and the plans and designs for the new building have already been accepted by the Commissioners and Building Inspector. The work will be begun at once. The building will be a very imposing structure of a classical design, consisting of three stories and basement, with the cigar store on first floor and the factory, workroom and storehouse in the rear. The second and third floors will be used for flats. The outlay when complete will be worth about fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000). Mr. Y. Aguilar is a good, conservative business man and an excellent cigarmaker, having learned his trade in Cuba. He has made his money in the United States however, in the manufacture of cigars. It is the only factory of its kind we know of on such a large scale north of the Mason, and Dixon line owned by Negroes. Mr. Aguilar has an excellent patronage from the best wholesale and retail merchants of the city. He works all Negro help and is an honest and reliable gentleman, who is a credit to himself and the race. AUDITOR TYLER SECONDS THE MOVE. Editor The Bee The suggestion of Dr.Booker T.Washington, published in the last issue of The Bee, that we as a race make preparations for celebrating the anniversary of the immortal Whittier should appeal to and interest every member of our race. All they who in the darker days blazed their names on the list of freedom's advocates; the lives and careers of men who did so much to make possible the advantages we now enjoy, should be annually commemorated by us. Here in Washington, where is assembled, from every State in the Union, so much of the brains and culture of the race, what an inspiring celebration HOWARD UNIVERSITY 1867. 1907. Rev. Wilbur P. Thirkield, D.D. Robert Reyburn, M.D. President. Dean. The Fortieth Annual Session will begin October 1, 1907, and continue eight months. FOUR YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN MEDICINE. THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN DENTAL SURGERY THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN PHARMACY. Full corps of forty-five instructors. Well-equipped laboratories. The New Freedmen's Hospital just completed at a cost of $500,000 offers unexcelled clinical facilities. The Second Session of the Post-Graduate School and Polyclinic will begin May 18,1908,andcontinue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course. This School is connected with a Great University of Seven Departments; one thousand students, and over one hundred professors. For further information or catalogue, write A Word To The Women Instruction in Cooking and General Housekeeping. Day and Night Classes in All Departments. Employment Provided for Pupils While Attending School and After Graduation. Excellent Opportunities for Young Women to Become Self-Supporting. This school was established eight years ago, during which time it has trained and secured employment for nearly three hundred young women; and all are now employed in various cities and towns as teachers, dressmakers, and sewing in families by the day. For further information, address, Mrs. L. R. CLARKE, Principal, 2000 Eleventh Street oNrthwest.....Washington, D. C. Jame H.Winslow UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICAL EMBALMER. ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE. TWELFTH AND R STREETS. N. W. Courses in Dressmaking and Millinery. ALSO Instruction in Cooking and General Health Day and Night Classes in All Department Employment Provided for Pupils While Graduation. Excellent Opportunities for Young Woman. This school was established eight years ago, trained and secured employment for nearly all are now employed in various citing makers, and sewing in families by the co. For further information, address, Mrs. L. R. CLARKE, Principal, 2000 Eleventh Street oNrthwest..... Jame H. V. UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICE ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERM TWELFTH AND R S could be arranged! And how appropriate would it be to have that savant, that Nestor of the best thought in the city of Washington, Prof. Kelly Miller, take the initiative in arranging a celebration in the city! Let's remember December 17, the anniversary of America's liberty-loving poet, who was, in the living, the race's steadfast and earnest friend; the blazoner of the now passable road o'er which we travel. Ralph W. Tyler. EQUAL RIGHTS COUNCIL. The second meeting of the Equal Rights Council convened in Trinity Baptist Church, Monday evening, with Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, president, presiding and Miss Jennie Shelton, secretary. The Council decided to elect permanent officers at its next meeting. There will be public meetings held in the different churches during the fall and winter seasons. The object of the Council is to protect the interest of the people and secure counsel for unfortunates when arrested. Special attention was called to the discrimination against colored citizens in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and several other departments of the government. A special committee was appointed to wait upon Secretary Cortelyou and lay before him the gross discrimination in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. This was one of the largest meetings that has yet been held by the Council. All members are requested to be present at the next meeting, as officers are to be elected for the permanent organization. FUNERAL OF DANIEL JORDAN. Daniel Jordan, a well-known resident of this District, and janitor of the Gunton Building the past twenty years, died at his residence, 472 Louisiana avenue, last Tuesday week, the 23 ultimo, after a protracted illness. Funeral services over his remains were held the following Thursday in the Zion Baptist Church—South Washington—to which he belonged, and of which he was a trusted and influential official. Rev. Dr. Howard, pastor in charge, preached the funeral sermon, selecting as a text Matthew xxv, 23: "The Lord said unto him, well done thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make the ruler over many." Dr. Howard handled his text in a very able manner, testifying to the many activities of the deceased in Church work, which continued for many years, and within a few months prior to his death. Addresses limited to five minutes were delivered by Rev. Drs. Clair, Sales, Richardson, Robinson, Stuart and Jarvis. Deceased at the time of his death was very prominent in several secret and beneficial societies, embracing Old Oak Lodge, No. 1695, G. U. O. of O. F.; Washington Patriarchie, No. 18; P. G. Masters' Council, No. 4; the Household of Ruth, and the Order of St. Luke, delegations from which attended the services in funeral regalia. Deceased was well and favorably known among business circles, as a very thrifty and prudent man, and possessed of considerable real estate in this District. Resolutions commemorating the memory of the deceased were read by Thomas Scott, secretary of Old Oak Lodge. The several lodges performed funeral services in the church according to their rituals, after which the remains were borne to Harmony Cemetery, preceded by the National Cornet Band and the Washington Patriarchie, followed by several lodges and a large concourse of mourners and friends in carriages. NOTICE TO PATRONS Patrons of The Bee are hereby notified that no one is authorized to collect subscriptions or advertisements unless he can show authority from this office. No bills should be paid unless a bill is presented properly signed. The company has authorized collectors. The collector is now on his rounds, and subscribers are requested to have their money ready. Don't put him off. W. Calvin Chase. STEWARDESS DROWNED AT NORFOLK. Mrs. Charlotte Knoll, of New York, aged twenty-eight years, stewardess on the Old Dominion steamer Jamestown, was drowned while attempting to board that vessel at Norfolk. The body has been recovered. Mrs. Knoll had, been on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Studdell, stewardess on the steamer Princess Anne, lying in another dock, and was boarding the Jamestown on an iron ladder, when the ladder either gave way with her or she slipped therefrom, reports as to which differ. The woman screamed for help, but Negro longshoremen who saw the accident became panic-stricken and gave no assistance. THE BEE'S COLLECTOR Mr. Briggs, the subscription collector for The Bee, will call on subscribers daily. Don't tell him to call twice. Pay up when he makes his first call. The weather is too warm. WANTED HELP Any person who can read and talk a little can earn from $1 to $2 a day very easily. Big things for High, Manual and Normal School pupils. Only 75 cents capital needed to start, and you can't lose that. J. B. Hyman, 1451 Corcoran St. Call any evening at 5.30. W. S. RICHARDSON, DRUGGIST. 316 41/2 Street, S. W. A stitch in time saves nine. At this drug store are all the freshest drugs, choice perfumes and toilets. Before going to the Jamestown Exposition get your toilet articles at this store and save money. Soda Fountain open the year round. Practical Harness Maker. Whips, Blankets, Lap Robes, Fly Nets, New and Second-Hand Harness, Etc. 308 10th St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Residence, 1017 Dartmouth Street, N. W. GEORGE V. GREEN, The Harness Manufacturer, The Horse's Friend. New and Second-Hand Harness— 200 to 300 Sets Always on Hand. Blankets and Stable Findings of All Kinds. 303 Tenth Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Phone: Main 6260. Friend of the Coachman's Union of District of Columbia. COLE & SWAN, WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELERS, No. 1514'14TH St., N. W. WASHINGTON,' D. C. Choiceest jewelry of every kind, To suit the most fastidious mind; With taste and skill combined, The best and finest you will find. MADRE'S APRK FOR PICNICS. Madre's Park is being fitted up for picnics, lawn fetes and other outdoor amusements. A new floor will be put in the pavilion this year. For terms and other information call and see M. A. D. Madre, 1314 Eighth street northwest. During July and August we close at 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 1 p.m Credit for all Washington. Midsummer Reductions Midsummer Reductions This is the time when thrifty housekeepers can pick up the biggest bargains of the year, for we are cutting prices right and left in order to make as complete a clearance as possible before the fall goods commence to arrive. All summer goods, such as Refrigerators, Mattings, Willow Furniture, Go-carts, etc., must go, and go quickly, and we are hastening their departure by taking a big slice off the prices. But there are also a great many other things that we have decided must go, too. and you will find us offering astonishing bargains in all kinds of Furniture and Metal Beds. CREDIT. You can ALWAYS have your purchases charged here. We never withdraw our offer to arrange accommodating terms of payment, no matter at what prices we are selling the goods. Thus you can will take advantage of the midsummer reductions without the least inconvenience to yourself or disarranging the plans for your outing. PETER GROGAN, 817, 819, 821, 823 Seventh Street, Bet. H and I (Eye) Sts. JOHN H. MYERS, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Phone. North 6285. Practice in all the Courts of the District of Columbia. Office and residence, 405 N Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. FOR RENT. Furnished rooms, large and commodious, with hot or cold baths or both. In a fashionable and healthy part of the city, 1916 13th street, N. W. ROOMS FOR RENT. Large, airy front and back rooms for rent. Good locality. H. E. Edwards, 727 4th street, N. W. Christian Xander's PRIDE OF VA. PORT is rich in iron and phosphatives. A nourishing and most delightful summer punch. 75£. and $1 00 full qt. CHRISTIAN XANDER'S Quality House 909 7th St. 'Pho. Established 1866. Gold and silver watches, diamonds, jewelry, guns, mechanical tools, parel. Old gold and silver bought. Unredeemed pledges for sale. 361 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. JOHN E. McGAW, Pres. and Gen'l Mgr. JOSEPH T. PEAKE, Sec'y-Treas. COLUMBIA ICE COMPANY. Also RETAIL DEALERS IN WOOD AND COAL. Cor. FIFTH AND L STREETS, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE, MAIN 272. BEAUTIFY THE COMPLEXION IN TEN DAYS. NADINOLA CREAM. THE NADINOLA GIRL The unequaled beautifier, is endorsed by thousands and guaranteed to remove freckles, pimples, liver spots, tan, sallowness, etc., the worst case in 20 days, and restore the beauty of youth. TOO MANY WHITES. A Matter of Bad Blood Between the Two Races. There are two races in every persons blood, one is a red race and the other is a white race. The red race represents food and the white race represents the scavengers. The red race produces healthy color in your cheeks, healthy flesh on your bones, strength, brightness in your yes and all the happiness that comes from good health. The white race takes the impurities out of the blood and wards against disease. There cannot be too many "Reds," but if there are too many "whites," then the blood is said to be thin, the face gets pale, and the whole body is open to attacks of any kind of disease. Graham's Blood Compound wards off disease and is recommended for all blood impurities, eczema, pimples, and skin diseases. $1.50 COUPON $1.50 Present this Coupon and we will give you the mammoth $1.50 size Graham's Blood Compound for $1.00. Only one bottle to a customer, and the Coupon must be presented. : : : : : $150 COUPON $1.50 Sold by all Druggists. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE, Special Agents, 824 Seventh St., N. W., Washington, D. C. HOUSE & HERRMANN. We close at 5 P. M. Saturdays, 1 P. M. Reduced Prices on small lots, odds and ends, dropped patterns, and summer goods. Credit if you wish. When in Doubt, Buy of HOUSE & HERRMANN, 7th and I (Eye) Streets, N. W. G. CLIFFORD SMITH PHARMACIST 10th and R Streets, Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. SODA WATER HOLLY MOUNT PURE RYE WHISKEY. Sold Only By JOHN F. MEENEHAN. 14th st. and Rhode Island Avenue. N. W., WASHINGTON. D. C. Phone N. 3166. HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN Secured by This New Union Order grown By Leaps and Bounds—Started Five Years Ago with Nothing But a "Principle"—Now Has Over 400 Subordinate Lodges and 36,000 Members. Over 30,000 homes of our people have been filled with joy, because of the Protection of a great and powerful Union Order, which is using its strength and influence to secure better conditions for our people. This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which gives full Protection and Benefits to our race. There is no color, race or any discrimination in this Order. The nego has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the members, by securing equal opportunities to work with other workmen, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates $10000 for the burial of each deceased member. A fine monthly Journal is published. A Membership Book of the Order is recognized by all Lodges everywhere. Destroyed members are assisted. Each member and Subordinate Lodge has the privilege of buying stock in the order, on low monthly payments, and stock paying $8 per cent interest, guaranteed. A Leading Negro Deputy is wanted in each locality. AT ONCE, to form Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and act as DISTRICT DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This work can be done in spare hours but many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Big money is made by good hustlers. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cent for full information and postage address. THE I. L. U GRAND LODGE, 34 to 40 Canby Building, Dayton, Ohio. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" So STRAIGHTEN'S KINNY or CURLY HAIR that it can be put up in any style desired consistent with its length. known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" and is the only safe preparation known to us that makes kinky or curly hair straight at birth, up to 18 months. born, harsh, kinky or curly hair soft, plainable and easy to comb. These resins bottles are usually sufficient for a year. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade removes and prevents dandruff, relieves itching,浸 out or breaking off, makes it grow and, by nourishing the roots, gives it new life and vigor. Being elegant, perfumed and gentlemen and chi dren. Ford's Hair Pom made has been made and sold continuously MARROWY, was registered in the United States Patent Office, in 1875. Be sure to get Ford's as its uses make the hair STRAIGHT Remember that Ford's Hair Pomade is put up only in 50 cts. size, and is made only signature, Charles Ford. Preview on each pack. Refuse all others. Full directions with every bottle. Price only 20 cts. Sold by dealer can not supply you, he can get it for you from his jobber or wholesale dealer or for one box postpaid. bottles, express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all points in U.S. A. When order is complete, express money order and mention name of paper. Write your name and address plainly to The Ozonized OX Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Post 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL Agents wanted everywhere. CREDIT IF YOU WISH When in doubt, buy of Telephone, North 595. A. E. BEITZELL. 401 O Street, N. W. WHOLESALE WINE AND LIQUOR DEALER. Distributng Agent for EVANS ALE AND PORTER, PAUL JONES WHISKIES, BONNIES WHISKIES. PRIVATE TRADE A SPECIALTY, DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY BY OUR WAGON. DR. ROBERT L. PEYTON Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty, 22K. Gold Warranted. Phone, Main 5872 DR. ROBERT L. PEYTON. Surgeon Dentist. Office Hours.—9 a.m. to 12 m. 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays—8 a.m. to 1 p.m. 310 Four-and-a-Half Street SW Washington, D C.