Washington Bee
Saturday, October 12, 1907
Washington, D.C.
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VOL.27 NO.20
W. SIDNEY PITTMAN
ARCHITECT OF THE RACE.
M. Tuskegee Faculty for Five
Man of Character and
Mr. Pittman Will Marry
Born Washington Next Month.
From the Indianapolis Freeman.
The heights by great men reached
and kept,
Not attained by sudden flight;
While their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
immortal Longfellow, speaking his great heart of hearts in of "The Builders," earnestly and the sentiment of mankind reference to the constructive of the earth. The world rejoices longest and applauds the sincerely the men who have stood up the waste places and who reared monuments in brick and to contemorate the epochs of an development and to mark the posts of the onward march ofization. The thinkers, poets, orators and artists have given birth to spirit that has made for moral material development, but it is builders who have vitalized this spirit and given concrete expression to them, the aspirations and ideals of student and philosopher. The builders has made things possible; and they has made them actualities. W. Seyley Pittman, of Washington, confessedly the Negroes' foremost architect in the land, and whose greatest triumph is embodied in the magnificent Negro Building at the farstown Exposition, is a builder of the type of which Longfellow has so frequently sung. Combining most happily the genius of the student and the worker with his hands, he is both an idealist and a practical man of affairs—a dreamer, if you please, and a hard headed pusher for results. Following not the beaten paths trodden by the masses, he has wooed fortune as an architect—a builder of everlasting temples. A self-made man in the best sense of the word, he has struggled upward through the mores of poverty and prejudice, until today he stands at the head of his chosen profession, with a future most bright with the promise of higher honors still to come.
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The parents of W. Sidney Pittman were both ex-slaves. The father was a butcher by trade, and the mother worked as a laundress. The family was prematurely left without a head, and early in life the faithful mother was compelled to assume the responsibility of the support of herself, and her three children, of whom Sidney was the youngest. How well she performed this sacred duty is attested by the fact that all were given a fair start in the struggle of existence, and all have "made good." Sidney, the subject of this sketch, first attended school in Montgomery, Ala., where he was born, April 21, 1875. Later he studied in the schools at Birmingham, returning finally to Montgomery, where he finished such courses as were available. Having heard marvelous stories of Tuskegee Institute and what it could do for an ambitious lad, he longed to go there. At the age of seventeen his hopes were realized, and he entered the famous school of Booker T. Washington as a work student. He proved to be an apt pupil, and soon commended himself to the attention of the observant principal, who took a deep interest in his fortunes, which interest continues to this day. In 1897 idney graduated in wheelwrighting and structural work, and received a diploma for a three years' course in architectural drawing, finishing also a course in the Normal Department, having worked out all expenses.
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Tuskegee's faculty, seeing the very bright possibilities residing in the young man, and wishing to develop a teacher for the school, effected an arrangement with Mr. Pittman by which he would take a regular course in the higher branches of architecture, with special training in mechanical drawing, and return to the institution for service as a member of the faculty. In 1900 Mr. Pittman was accordingly admitted to Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, Pa., and by means of
financial support advanced by Tuskegee Institute, was enabled to complete the regular curriculum as planned. So satisfactory was his progress that after six months at Drexel the officiary and instructors of that great school voluntarily voted him a free scholarship in architecture and all allied subjects, as a reward and encouragement for his efforts. On graduating in 1900, he was one of the four "honored" students of the class, and received special mention by the president, when the diplomas were awarded. Returning to Tuskegee as by original agreement, Mr. Pittman was given charge of the department of architectural drawing, and all planning and superintending of the buildings were included in his round of responsibilities. During the five years that he remained at the head of this department, over $250,000 worth of buildings were built, after his plans on the school grounds alone, add other buildings designed by him for various parts of the South involved an expenditure of fully half that amount. In the same period he graduated eight students in architectural drawing, planned and superintended the Collis P.Huntington Memorial Building. Tuing for the money of all the libraries he has yet given), and assisted constantly in the planning of the $35,000 Rockefeller Hall, the school's largest and finest dormitory for boys
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His ambition kindled by these phenomenal successes, like Alexander, Mr. Pittman "sighed for other worlds to conquer." He felt called to a broader sphere of action. Resigning at Tuskegee in May, 1905, he chose Washington as the field offering the best prospects along this particular line of endeavor, and the following October found him smugly enconced in a set of offices at the corner of Sixth and Louisiana avenue, in the business center of the National Capital. His rich talents did not go a-begging. From the beginning his services were in steady demand, and the work has gradually grown to the point where he has had to call in a regular assistant and a clerk, with a likeli hood that at the present rate of increase the services of another assistant will soon be required. Mr Pittman does not confine his operations to the District of Columbia, but makes a specialty of filling orders for work in any portion of the country, and has had many calls through out the surrounding States, and in the South and West. He is at present supervising work at Nokesville, Manassas, Alexandria, and in Arlington, Va., besides several valuable contracts in the city of Washington. He recently completed plans for a very large Trades School Building at Denmark, S. C., for the Voorhees Industrial School, of which Miss Elizabeth E. Wright, formerly of Tuskegee, is principal. He has just remodeled two large public halls in South Washington, and is now enlarging one of the leading hotels of Norfolk, Va. Work in Wasihngton and the District of Columbia is nearly evenly divided between white and colored clients. He is regularly employed and recommended by three of the leading white contractors of the city, and two white real estate lawyers. Mr. Pittman, however, takes the greatest pride in stating that colored real estate men, lawyers, contractors and builders have been the chief means of support of the office from its beginning. It is suggestive of the growth of the firm's popularity and reputation for square dealing that subsequently all classes have assisted liberally in one way and tanother toward lending it substantial encouragement.
The chef d'ouvre of Mr. Pittman's brilliant career as an architect is the massive Negro Building at the James-town Exposition. It is his latest and best achievement, and is confessedly the handsomest structure within the vast enclosure. This building has been praised without stint by the most skilled architects of the country, and won the warmest congratulations at the hands of President Roosevelt during his visit there on "Georgia Day," and was the subject of the heartiest commendation by Dr. Boker T. Washington on "Negro Day." The drawings for this superb building took first place in competition with
four of the race's expert architects, and won without material discussion the approval of the committee named by the United States Government to select the most suitable plans submitted by architects of the Negro race, to the end that the Negro Building would be in every detail a production of the people in whose interest it was to be used. This is the only instance where the United States government has awarded a colored architect the plans for one of its federal buildings. Further proof of the young man's general ability is found in the fact that he personally superintended the construction of the building at Jamestown, and when accepted by the Government inspectors, after a most rigid test, it was pronounced flawless, and conceded to be one of the strongest and most durable buildings on the exposition grounds. Other smaller buildings in connection with the Negro Department, and concessionaries, were also planned by Mr
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Pittman, and they are fine specimens of the architect's versatility, taste and lofty conception of the "eternal fitness of things." From the stately colonial type to the Spanish Renaissance is a far cry, but on the Negro reservation Mr. Pittman has blended in true artistic fashion the prevailing features of the Greeks and of the Elizabethan era and the quaint castles of Queen Isabella, with here and there an example of Wesleyan simplicity, and not forgetting a dash of the Oriental in the various concession booths with which the place so abounds. Mr. Pittman's work at the exposition is a distinct triumph, and has established him as beyond question the race's premier in the building profession and a resident of the lumbia, having resid life. By act of last system of public eduagurated, which mention of the public school virtue of that act a tendent of schools ww. The first being appoint S. Montgomery, who by succeeded by Mr. B. Bruce, the present in few days ago said Br published a malicious me to the Superintendent Mr. Wm. E. Chancec the same was forward dent of the Board, Ca which he (Bruce, p. superintendent) stat
Still another brilliant opportunity awaits him. By unanimous vote of N. M. C. A. officials, held on the 3th of June, Mr. Pittman was engaged to draw plans for and superintend the construction of a $5,000 building for the colored branch of the YoungMen's Christian Association of the city of Washington. He is also engaged on tentative plans for the laying out of a Negro city on the Potomac River below Washington, to be developed into an industrial center and a pleasure resort. In addition to drawing a plan for the topographical features of the new city, Mr. Pittman is expected to design the amphitheater, the pavilion, bowling alleys, a new hotel and many cottages. The scheme is a stupendous one, and is said to be backed by a number of the wealthiest colored men in the vicinity, who see the need
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BRUCEUNDERCHARGES
BRUCEUNDERCHARGES
ROSCOE CONKLING BRUCE UNDER CHARGES—THE BOARD OF EDUCATION DISMISSES COLLINS.
The Board of Education met last Wednesday afternoon at the Franklin Building. There was a full meeting and a large and representative crowd of colored citizens was present. They were not disappointed because the attack of Roscoe Conkling Bruce received a just rebuke. Mr. John F. Cook called and asked if there was not a communication from Mr. W. Calvin Chase, who was present and desired to make a statement. Cpt. James F. Oyster, president of the Board of Education, handled the following communication to the secretary, who read it:
to the President and Members of the Board of Education:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am a Citizen of the United States
THE NEW YORKER
and a resident of the District of Columbia, having resided here all my life. By act of last Congress a new system of public education was inaugurated, which meant a reorganization of the public school system. By virtue of that act a colored superintendent of schools was provided for. The first being appointed was Dr. W. S. Montgomery, who was subsequently succeeded by Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, the present incumbent. Some few days ago said Bruce uttered and published a malicious charge against me to the Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Wm. E. Chancellor. A copy of the same was forwarded to the president of the Board, Captain Oyster, in which he (Bruce, present assistant superintendent) stated that Mrs. Mary Syphax Gibson, a graduate of the Normal School (colored) and formerly a teacher in the public schools of this city, had paid me fifty ($50) dollars for having her.appointed in the night schools in the year of 1906-7. At the same time Bruce made the charge in writing he knew that it was false and malicious and a conception of his brain and imagination. I believe, and I have reasons to assert, from the accompanying affidavits of Mrs. Mary Syphax Gibson, that said Bruce knew at the time he uttered and published this malicious charge it was false and untrue and the motive behind it is well known to me, which I desire to state to the members of the Board of Education. many of whom I have the highest respect, as has been evidenced by my support of its reform policies, without compensation or hope of reward. That if I have ever acted in the capacity of an attorney before the Board
or the Superintendent, it was when charges have been presented to the authorities which the law provides, that any accused teacher in the public schools has a right to be represented by counsel accompanied by a friend. I beg leave to further state my advice has been asked on certain matters and publications in my paper, The Bee, have been requested by the superintendent, Dr. Wm. E. Chancellor, and the assistant superintendent, Roscoe Conkling Bruce. That the last appointment that I ever requested was made at the request of a trustee, now a member of the present Board of Education.
In conclusion. I think that I should be given an opportunity, in justice to myself, to defend myself against the malicious aspersions and that Roscoe Conkling Bruce be removed as an unfit official to represent the Colored Schools of the District of Columbia.
Wm. Calvin Chase.
The following is the malicious libel sent to Captain Oyster:
September 30, 1907.
Dr. W. E. Chancellor, Superintendent of Public Schools, Washington,
D. C.
My Dear Dr. Chancellor:
Mrs. M. S. Gibson is, I understand, making complaints to members of the Board of Education because she was not reappointed to the night schools. Among the reasons which justify Mrs. Gibson's elimination from the service is the fact that she herself voluntarily told me that she had got into the night school in 1906-7 by paying Mr. W. Calvin Chase $50. I can keegee's largest and costliest build-not vouch for the truth, or the falsity of Mrs. Gibson's statement; the fact that she did make the statement amply justifies her elimination.
Personally appeared before me a Notary of Public in and for the City and District, aforesaid, Mrs. Mary Syphax Gibson, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says as follows:
Last winter I called on Mr. R C Bruce, then Supervisor of the Tenth Division, to inquire about the position of Librarian at the Summer School. He advised me to see Dr. Chancellor, which I did. The latter told me if Mr. Bruce would recommend me I would be appointed to the position. Mr. Bruce said he could not support me, as his superior officer, Mr W. S. Montgomery, did not favor me and he (Bruce) could not go against him (Montgomery).
I told Mr. Bruce that I had heard that Mr. Chase had a great deal of influence, I was thinking of seeing him, but as the latter is an attorney I suppose I would have to pay him at least $50.
Mr. Bruce advised me not to do this, saying he would not care for Mr. Chase to know he said this, as he (Mr. Chase) thought well of him and his late father. I replied, "Very well, Mr. Bruce, I will take your advice and not see Mr. Chase." This ended our talk on the school question, and I will swear I have not seen Mr. Chase for years until yesterday. October 5th, when he called me em about this rumor, of which he says he heard through Captain Oyster, President of Board of Education. (Mrs.) Mary Syphax; Gibson. October 6th, 1907. Subscribed and envoys to before me this
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
8th day of October, A.D. 1907.
Peter J. Bacon,
Notary Public
District of Columbia.
Last Monday, September 30th, 1907, I called on the Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Bruce, to inquire why I was not reappointed for this term as a teacher in the night schools.
He informed me that I was recommended for reappointment. Mr. Bruce says he dropped me because I told him that I had paid Mr. W. Calvin Chase $50 to have me put in the Night Schools last year, and that I intended to offer him (Mr. Chase) a larger sum to put me in the day school. This is false. Until yesterday, when Mr. Chase called at my home to inquire as to this rumor, I had not seen Mr. Chase for several years. I did not apply for a day school. Mr. Bruce informed me Monday that he dropped my name as he thought anyone to be mixed up in an affair like this has not sufficient judgment to teach in the public schools.
Being a graduate and having taught in our schools, the Assistant Director of Night Schools suggested my appointment for last year and my first knowledge of it was when I saw my name with the
By Miss Beatriz L. Chase.
The notoriety the Governor of Virginia gained by his speech before the Bankers' Association at Atlantic City will prove no stepping stone for him.
Mr. W. R. Griffin, chief of the District Division, True Reformers, is making a success of his stereopticon views. He has photographs of everything of interest at Jamestown, and is preparing to give a complete Jamestown stereopticon display.
Rev. J. D. Chavis, pastor of Centennial Methodist Episcopal Church, has resigned as pastor and accepted a professorship in the A. H. College, Greensboro, North Carolina.
The American Citizen published caricature cuts or "Nigger" pictures to illustrate its condemnation of the habit of cartooning "Negroes."
It is published that the citizens of Philadelphia will on the 16th instant give a testimonial for the benefit of Rev. J. B. Reeves, D.D., at Odd Fellows Temple, that city
Mrs. R. Lawson delivered a lecture last Sunday at a mass meeting in Gilbert Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware.
The Christian Index thinks it best for the C. M. E. Church to eliminate from its marriage ceremony "obey your husband," and assigns very good reasons. The Home Mission and Church Extension Convention began last Thursday and continued three days at SharpStreet Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md.
P. S. Twitter says that the experience of the last two years makes it doubtful about Howard University being the least useful institution of learning in the world today.
Mrs. M. E. Washington, of New Albany, Ind, has been appointed National Secretary, by the National Executive Committee, to fill the unexpired term of Rev. S. E. Smith, who died some time ago.
It is reported that Lady Nakayama, "real" mother of the Emperor of Japan, died last Saturday morning.
Mr. T. J. Hobbs, who has been disbursing clerk of the Treasury, is to retire, after more than forty-four years of honorable service, in one department.
According to Professor Henry, of the Weather Bureau, the highest altitude ever reached by a kite in this country was that recorde dlast week at the Mt. Weather Station, in Virginia, at which time a kite was sent up 23,000 feet.
A broom factory has been started among the colored population at Clarksville, Tenn.
It is stated that the Ordnance Department of the Navy has sent anagen tto Europe to buy a number of Whitehead torpedoes.
The Widows' Benevolent Association of Garfield, D. C., had their annual sermon by Rev. Mrs. Frye last Monday night.
Many railroad officials who came to this city to inspect the new Union Station were the first passengers to take a trip through the tunnel.
It is reported that Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, who is serving a term in the Ohio Penitentiary, is dying.
The recent order of Major Sylvester declaring that the speed laws must be enforced to the letter" is being carried out by the police.
The fall term of the Supreme Court of the United States will meet this coming Monday.
The Convention of Fire Chiefs, convened last Tuesday morning in Odd Fellows Hall, on Seventh street.
The Baptist women of the State of Kentucky held their twenty-seventh session last week in Richmond, Ky.
Night Schools appointees in the Post.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
8th day of October, A. D. 1907.
Peter J. Bacon,
Notary Public.
District of Columbia.
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At the continued session of the M. W. Eureka Grand Lodge of the Compack Masonic Fraternity for the District of Columbia, an endowment fund was inaugurated for the benefit of the sick and dead members.
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For the biscuit, sift together two cupfuls flour, one-half teaspoonful salt, a level teaspoonful sugar and a rounding teaspoonful baking powder. Put into a bowl a half cup each sour cream and milk, then beat into it half teaspoonful soda dissolved in a table-spoonful cold water. When it stops "singing" stir in with the sifted flour, mix gently but quickly with a spoon and turn out on a well-floured board. Pat with the floured hand until a smooth cake is formed, then cut into shape with a small biscuit cutter or tea caddy lid. Lay in a greased biscuit pan and bake in a hot oven. If you have no cream, rub a spoonful lard or butter in the prepared flour before adding a cupful sour milk with the soda. Keep the dough as soft as possible, so that the biscuit will be tender. Buttermilk biscuits are made in the same way, using a tablespoonful shortening to a quart of flour.
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Steamed Cornbread.—Sift into a bread bowl three cupfuls Indian meal, one cupful wheat flour, and a half teaspoonful of salt. Mix in another bowl one cupful sour milk and one of molasses and beat into it a teaspoonful soda dissolved in a tablespoonful cold water. Add to the sifted flour, pour in a well-greased mold and steam steadily for three hours. Bake a few moments at the end to brown the top of the loaf.
Sour Milk Corn Cake.—Sift together one cup flour, a half cup Indian meal, two tablespoonfuls sugar and a half teaspoonful each salt and soda. Pour in one cupful sour milk and a teaspoonful lard or butter melted, and beat well. Fold in a beaten egg and bake in hot gem tin or a round shallow pan.
Sour Milk Pancakes.—Stir into a plint of sour milk a teaspoonful soda, a half teaspoonful salt and flour to make a good consistency for baking
bake the cakes in perfect circles and pile one on top of the other. No eggs are needed. A nice addition at this season is a handful of huckleberries. Soft Gingerbread with Sour Milk. Put into a pan one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, one-half cup softened butter, one heaping taspoonful soda, a tablespoonful ginger and flour to mix very soft.
Grimslichs.
Two motzas (passover cakes), one-quarter pound of motza meal, two ounces of ground almonds, two ounces of stoned raisins, two ounces of cleaned sultana raisins, two eggs, a quarter-pound of brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg to taste. Soak the motzas, mix the almonds, sugar, raisins, sultanas and spice with one egg. Squeeze the water out of the motzas, add to them the meal and the other egg. Put a little of this paste into a spoon, shape into an oval, lay a little of the other mixture on and cover with paste. Shape carefully, sprinkle with meal and try in boiling fat or oil. Serve with clarified sugar.
Orange Cream Ple.
Beat thoroughly the yolks of two eggs, with one-half cup of sugar; add one heaping tablespoonful of cornstarch, dissolved, in milk. Pour into one pint of boiling milk and let it cook about three minutes. Cool and flavor with extract of orange. Pour into a baked crust. Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth; add one-half cupful of sugar, flavored with extract of orange. Spread on top, put in the oven, and let it slightly brown.
English Salmon.
Take the best brand of salmon. Pour off the oil, but do not take out bones nor skin. Put all into a basin and beat well with a silver fork, after adding pepper and salt, until thoroughly mixed. Put into small earthenware molds and cover with melted butter. The most expert cook could not tell it from the fresh salmon.
Baked Breakfast Eggs.
Grease muffin tins well with butter; break an egg into each compartment, and season with salt, pepper and butter. Set in moderate oven for five minutes. Remove each egg carefully and serve on hot platter. Eggs cooked this way make an attractive dish.
Mending Gloves.
Select silk to match the shade of glove. Buttonhole stitch the edges of the rent around once or twice, as the size of the hole may require. Then join the edges together with a close buttonhole stitch.
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Four eggs, beaten separately: one cup sugar, two cups molasses, one half cup sweet milk, one and one-half cups butter, one pound each figs, dates, raisins, currants, and nuts; one half pound each candied orange and lemon peel; one-half pound citron; one teaspoonful each cinnamon, spice, cloves, and nutmeg; one teaspoonful baking soda, sifted with five cups of flour. Chop at 1 flour well separately all fruit, mixing a little at a time in the batter. Put in a well greased pan and bake in a slow oven two and one-half hours.
GROWTH OF THE TELEPHONE.
Millions of Instruments Are In Use In This Country.
Washington. — Statistics issued at the close of the year 1906 show that there were in use in the United States alone more than 7,000,000 telephones, while an aggregate of a little more than 6,000,000 miles of wire was used for telephone service. The telephone industry gives employment to 90,000 persons in the United States, an increase of 171 per cent. in six years, while during the same period the number of stations has increased 239 per cent. and the wire mileage 349 per cent.
There is little doubt that much of this increase is due to the general adoption of the so-called message rate system in place of the flat annual charge formerly in vogue. By making the charges proportional to the number of calls the use of the telephone has been widely extended both because of the greater willingness of people to become subscribers under such conditions and because the system gives an incentive to the local telephone companies to give good service and encourage the use of the telephone.
Another cause for the increase in the number of telephones in use is
doubtless the extending number of large business buildings in various cities, since the telephone is an absolute necessity in the modern tall building, making it possible to transact business as well from the twelfth story as from the ground floor. The installation of the telephone is every suite in the modern hotel and large apartment house accounts for a portion of the increase.
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Head of Family Undergoes Torment to Help Wife Get Carpet.
Trenton, N. Y.—When the new rug is laid in Grace Baptist church, about four yards of it will be consecrated to the fortitude of Henry Lonsdale. Every thread represents a whistle which Lonsdale submitted to a razor wielded by his wife.
Mrs. Lonsdale is a member of the Ladies' Aid society, which planned to buy the church carpet on the self-denial plan. There is some difference of opinion on this point, the men asserting that Lonsdale showed himself a martyr, while the women are congratulating the wife.
While other women baked bread and sewed, Mrs. Lonsdale decided she would shave her husband, and charge him 15 cents for the operation. It is not on record how Lonsdale first received the proposition, but the fact that he consented to act the victim is proof that his wife has the true religious spirit. For four months did Lonsdale go through the shaving process. He once believed that a shave once a day was a necessity, but under the skillful manipulation of his wife he discovered that he could get along on three shaves a week.
Only once did Mrs. Lonsdale ask: "Does the razor hurt?" He did not swear; he did not groan, but the look of angulsh was enough.
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ROONS FOR RENT.
Large, comfortable furnished heems
fe reither ladies er gentlemen, 1207 K
street northeast. j
Furnished rooms fer rent at 111734
Sth street, N. W.
Front Parlor suitable fer a decter
ne back bedrvem, 1410 First street,
AROUND THE HOUSE
LITTLE HINTS THAT-WILL SAVE
TIME AND MONEY.
Excellent Method of Renovating Vell
—Dressing for. Black Goods—
Washing Piano Is Better
Than Polishing tt.
Renovate Veils—Cover a broom-
stick with white cotton cloth, the
width of a veil. Roll carefully, Pin
top and bottom. Steain over bolling
Water. They will look like new.
Yolk of Egg Removes Spots.—To'
take spots from wash goods, rub them
with the yolk.of egg before washing.
Black Goods Dressing—Boll ten
cents’ worth of logwood bark in two
quarts of water. When cool add two
quarts of stale beer. Add water suffi-
clent to cover goods; lift and stir
Goods occasionally untit uf an even
black. Then rinse, partly dry and
Press.
Stop Squeahing Shoes.—Drive a peg
In the sole,
Wath the Pranoa—When your piano
looks dull and dings, don't daub on
more polish. but simply wash it. Take
any goed pure soap, preferably white
castile. and ‘make a lather with tepid
rainwater Wash the plano carefully
bat thoroughly, using a plece of soft
cheesecloth or clean chamois, and rub
dry with clean cheesecloth. The plano
SII look like new, This is what ts
used In prano stores.
Triumph Furniture Polisb.—One-
half gallon raw oil, one pint turpen-
Une, one-half pint’ alcohol, one-half
pint bonzine, one-half pineaqua ammo-
‘nla, First remove ali dust from article
to be polished, then rub with a canton
flannel cloth dipped in the mixture.
Dingy Mack Kid Gloves.—Renew
black kid <loves by adding a few drops
of ink to & tablespood of olive oll. Ap
ply wath a feather and’dry in the sun.
Beer Polish for Furniture—First
rub furnitmé clean with a woolen
cloth wet with beer. Then boll a plece
of wax the size of an exg, the same
amount of sur. In two cups of beer.
When this ts cold polish the furniture
with It
ee eG tQped in Ramequins.
Stir half a cup of butter (generous
if you like) into a cup each, of grated
bread crumbs suft) and cracker
crumbs. Have the oysters carefully
rinsed with water, to remove bits of
shell. Butter the ramequing, put In a
layer pf the buttered crumbs, then a
layer of oysters and sprinkle them
with salt and pepper; then add a
sprinkling of buttered crumbs, a table.
spoonful of oyster Jiquor or sherry
wine, then a second layer of oysters;
sprink\ with salt and pepper and
cover with buttered crumbs. Leave
the dish uncovered and hake about 20
minutes. Serve in the ramequin,
For the Flower Lover.
Little Glass contrivances are to be
Uought that will assist In beautityins
the home with a few flowers. They
Fo into the bottom of a vase, and be-
ing pletced and open to the water un-
derneath, 4 half dozen blossoms will
stand apart gracefully and fill a fair-
ly large vase. Home-made substi
tutes of cardboard, a lttle larger than
the mouth of the bowl, or smaller if
it flares and leaves a place whete-
on to rest the citcle of pierced card-
board, answer the purpose very well.
but they must be covered with the
flowers anil leaves.
About Curtain Poles,
Often when moving Into a new
house there is the necit for an extra
Jong curtain pole and If one is not in
a couventent place to purchase It, a
substantial one can be made by prop.
erly cutting two for the purpose. Take
two poles and lay side by side, then,
with a saw cut diagonally through one
end. This leaves both poles with
sharpened ends which can te nailed
together with fine long wire nails.
‘They can be so cleverly adjusted that
the matk is not noticeable.
Velvet Cake, .
Cream together one cup sugar and
one-half cup butter. Rreak Lato this
one egg and beat all tozether. Sift
together one and one-fourth cups flour,
one-third cup corn starch, one tea-
spoon of baking powder and pinch of
salt, one-half cup sweet milk and an-
other egg. Now add a little of the
flour, the other egg and a little malik.
beating each in therourhly until ali
are gone. Bake in loaf tin 49 or 45
minutes.
Rust from Flatiron, *
To remove rust from flatirons rub
them with a little warm grease and
wrap them up in brown paper. Then
dissolve a small piece of soda in hot
water. Dip the irons in this; rub
them dry, and put them to heat as
usual. When ready to use rab thom
op a piece of brawn paper thar hits it
Ultle powdered bata buck wren at
Inexperienced Cook’s Guide.
A good rule for x young housekeey
er in cooking vegetables is that al
vegetables that stow above the ground
should be put op to cook in boiling
water; all that crow below the ground,
except new potatoes, in cold water.
Graham Bread Without Yess?
| Two cups graliam, one cup wheat
four, one teaspoon soda, a little salt,
one cup sour milk, Gne-half cup molas-
ses, one cup cold water. Stir well,
|and bake at once.
French Eggplant.
S'ce an eggplant and fry each slice
brown, Put a layer of them while
hot in a baking dish, add a layer of
cheese and then one of white sauce,
antil the dish is full, with cheese last
Brown in the oven,
CANDLES FOR DINNER TABLE.
Tallow Dips Will Answer the Purpose
- if Properly Prepared,
Candles add so much to the appear:
ance of the dinner table that house-
keepers should use them even more
sSenerally than fs now the custom.
Cfien the exponse proves a draw-
back, as these charming lights have a
way cf burning out very quickly.
When wax or prepared candles are
used the cost 1s undoubtedly an item
to be considered. The economical wo-
man, however, will not choose these
expensive varieties, but will buy in-
Stead, the ordinary tallow dips. These
if kept in a cold place between meals
will burn for three nights,
If these tallow dips are used In the
porcelain candleholders they not only
may be used longer, but none will
kuow whether they are of the finest or
poorest quality.
The first expense of the patent can-
dies, while quite Inconsiderable fn It-
self Is, very soon, more than equalized
by the saving of being able to use the
candle inside up to the tiniest tip.
Candles of any kind should bo kept
on the {ce for at least 24 hours before
being used. It will not only make them
burn longer, but more brilliantly.
TO UTILIZE BITS OF SOAP.
It Ie Lxteavagant to Throw Away the
Odds and Ends,
Soap left over from the tollet, the
Taundry and the kftehen Is usually
considered so much waste. It fs
thrown out, though probably most
housewives have misyIviugs as to the
extravagance of not using the las
scrap of an expensive or good snap
Hut every small piece ot svap should
be saved. No matter to what tiny dl-
mensions it has been reduced ft will
help to clean the bathtub and the sta
‘onary washstand. ‘This may be ac-
complished by means of a substantial
cotton or woolen bag which should be
about a foot square and made with a
drawing string. Inte it ts dropped
from time ta time the bits of soap
collected from the bedrooms, the bath-
room, the laundry and the kitchen,
The big 18 closely drawn at the mouth
and the string woul about the top
and then tightly ned When this bar
is dipped into water she contents give
forth pleuty of suds and the whole
may be used us 4 cleaning cloth to
scrub the bathtub and marble bowl.
Corn Relich.
Materlals—Two doven ears of corn.
alx large white onions, one large, titm
head of cabbage. six small red pep
pers, six large sweet peppers. one cup
sugar, two quarts vieeeir, one-quarter
cup salt, two heaping tablespoonfuls
ground mustard, two tablespoonfuls
celery seed.
Way of Preparing—Take a sharp
knife and, after husking, shave the
corn from the cabs. Chop your cab:
bage. onions and peppers. Mix you
‘mustard, with one pint of your vine
gar and mix all of the other ingie1
ents. Then place the latter mivin
of all the ingredients into a ketlle and
boll them 20 minutes, stirring all the
time. Now add your mustard an¢
vinegar mixtme, bring to the boiling
pojnt once more, place in bottles and
seal while hot. This relish is a tine
accompaniment ot cold meats,
Das Sets Snie,
Two efss, one cup of sugar, one-half
cup molasses’ one-half cup-butter, one-
half cup atk, ane-halt teaspoon of
soda, one cup of hlack coffee (or good
sithont), one-fourth pound of raisins.
one-fomth pound of currants, one.
fumth pound of eltron, one teaspoon
of all kinds of spices, two and one-half
cups of tour. Make one loaf. Bake
two hours in moderate oven, I mix
the soda, flour (sifted) together dnd
then roll the fruit in it to prevent
falling at the bottom, pinch of salt.
Small seedless raising are preferable.
Large ones should be chopped.
Pineapple Tapioca.
Soak one cup taploga, drain off
water, and add juice two lemons ad
onchalf cup of water: also add one
half pound shredded pineapple and its
juice, and one and one-half cups
sugar. Cook slowly until almost
clear; stir carefully: jut into this
whites of three eggs well beaten.
Serve ice cold with whipped cream
Carcant Cakes,
The following Is adapted fom a
Greek recipe: One pound flour, one-
half pound butter. three-fourths pound
sugar, four eggs. one-half pound cur
rants, well washed and dredged, one-
half lemon, xritted vind and juice, one
teaspoon cinnamon, diop from a spoon
on well buttered vaper, lining a bak-
ing pan. Bake quickly.
G White Wallpaper.
All white’ watered paper for walls
has proved to he the relief sought by
women of fastidious taste from the
‘overflowed cretoune papers “that be-
come so excerdinaiy tiresome to the
eyes und nerves The effect of a
anor of which the w.a'ls are papered
In white and furpishe | with eretonnes
of a Choice Cat acter, is charming
2 Chestnut Selad. :
* For a daintyssalad slice thin a dozen
cr two Itallan chestunts that have
been bleached and couked tender, dnd
mix them with preserved cherries that
have been cut in two . Dress with oll,
lemon juice, salt’ and paprika, and
gerve In white lettuce leaves.
Hiekorv Nut Ple_ .
Mix thoroughly one cup of sugar,
one-half cup of bread crumbs, two-
thirds cup of hickory nut kernels and
one tablespoon of flour. Fill pastry,
cover with sweet milk; drop a few
chunks of butter over the top and
bake.
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Columbia Ice and Coal Go.
FIFTH AND L STS., N. W., NEAR 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 Wut
DO THE REST. - .
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILL-ED. LEAVE YOUR NAaed
AND ADDRESS AND TELLUS THE KIND OF COAL You
WANT.
COLUMBIA COAL AND ICE COMPANY.
MSCOLUMBIA COAL AND ICE COMPA
FULL DRESS AND TUXEDO
“ SUITS,
$t.00--For Hire—$1.00.
Julius Cohen,
tog 7th street, N, W.
———$
ST. LUKE HALL,
HEADQUARTERS
L 0. of St. Luke,
Richmond, Virginia,
W.Sidney Pitt
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| RENDERING IN PATENT DRAWINGS
_ MONOTONE, WATER COLOR DRAFTING,DETAILING, TRACING
1 AND PEN & INK * BLUE PRINTING
STEES. CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY.
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Leland Giants Base-Ball and Amusement Assn.v
Now Organizing—Capital Stock
, *$100,000
The Stock-Holders of the Leland Giants Base-Ball Association, has con-
Gluded to dissolve that Assrciation in order to give rom for the former. with it's
increased Capital fpr tie parpose of ou; az a Permanent Home For The Leland
Giants Base-Ball Club and Establishing For All ‘The People, The Only First
Class, Up-To-Date Amusement Park, With Its ‘Theater (Light Opera),
Figure Eight, Shoot The Chutes, Minature Ry. Electric Theater, Dance
Pavillion, Roller Skating, Hurley Burley, Double Swing, Boating, Auto
“Riding, and ad tue ‘atest fun meking devices and laugh producing concessions, to-
“uiner wth a Virst Class Summer Hotel, large enough to accomodate 1000
tests, ab its pres it wecation, 79th and Wentworth Ave., twenty (20) minutes
de on the Etectr'c Cars to the Loop District in Chicage.
‘The Pubic is B-se-Ball mad: and amusenent Crazy. Stocks have doubled in
slue in a single season’ Millions can be made by those Who Take Stock In
his New Enterprise.
Are You Im Favor Of The Race Owning And Operating This Im-
nense And Well Paying Plant, Where More Than 1,000 Persons Will
3e Employed, between May and October of each year. where you can come with-
ut fear and Enjoy ‘The Life and Freedom of a Citizen unmolested or annoyed?
The Answer canonly be effectively given by subscribing for Stock in this Corpara~
tion. it has been made purposely low so that all Loyal Members of the Race can
gave a Share and Interest in this Twentieth Century Enterprise. Think of it,
Shares Only Ten (10.00 Dollars Each. You Squander More than this amount.
Any Holiday around Amusement Parks and Public Places. where you are not
wanted and never welcome. Come! buy and build one of your own by filling out.
“he a.tached Coupon and mail_with Ten Dollars to the Leland Giants Base-Ball
ond Amusement Asséciation. Do it-to-da, so that we may commence to build.
sland Giants Base Bail & Amusement Assn.
- 6258 Halsted Street, Chicago, IM.
tr Beauregara F. Moseley: Treas: : 7
8 Enclosed please find S$...
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sxnich | am sending as Part (or mfully as subscription fee for - ase
shares of the Capital Stock cf tie Leland Giants Base Ball and Amusement
Association. $
Tagree to pay $v per menth until the foll amount
Ss’ «+, sseseseseshas beer paidat whieh time I ara to recieve my stock
certificate. ve . x *
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All payments on Stock Ac, Name SS emereewaasemaaess
‘outs must be made tothe arde* *
M Beauresard F Moseley. - f :
Treasurer. 625 Halsted Street
chicago, illinos Al Stack: Address
iolders are entitied to prefer- ———
ance as employees and should * fe
form the Treasurer with therr finite
imal remittance of their inten: : ‘
norsto apply foremployment. City = Scag meee areal
For further in‘ormation ad-
dress Leland Grants Base Ball, ‘7
ad Am remedt Arn C2EE eso, _ Ue
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Inepenent Order of SI tke
WITH HEADQUARTERS AT
Richmoid, Va., is a growing Fra-
ternal Society, with several
Incorporated Departments, op-
erating :—
1 A Fraternal Society paying
Sick Dues and an Endowment at
death.
2 AJucenile Department, pay
ing Sick ues and an Endowment
wt death.
3 A Regalia Department.
4 ASavings Bank.
5 A Large Department Store.
6 A Weekly Paper—The St.
Luke Herald. .
7 A Job Printing Office.
‘The St. Lukes are now operating
im 15 states, and are rapidly spread-
ing jn every direction,
‘e want good, hustling Deputies.
Good terms for the right persons.
male orifemale. When vou write
jnclose testimonial as to character
amd ability. ‘
For-further information, address
MAGGIE L, WALKER,
@ Grand Sec’y, I. O. St. Luke,
@. Luke Hall, Richmond, Va. °
James F, Qyster,
The Leading Place in the City for
BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS.
Oyster's Butter is the sweetest in the market. His Cheese is the.
‘purest and Eggs the freshest. * 7
Square Stands, Center Market, 5th and K: streets, N. W., ama
Riggs Market.
OFF ICE
Vholesale Dealer and Salesman, 990 and go2 Pennsylvania Aveaue,
. N. W.
tomato Fitau.
Alternate layers of bolled rice and
raw tomstocs in the baking dish.
Sprinkle over each layer of, tomatoes
8 Iittle minced green pepper and tend:
er young raion, also some previously
stewed veal. chteken, or liam, * Salt
to taste When the dist is full place
a layer of green corn. from the cob,
and a little rolled cracker to give
firmness, with bits ot butter on top.
Add a cup of veal broth, which must
penetrate: all ot it. and bake half or
‘hree-quatters of an hour, according
to deree of heat in the oven, *
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5 Ld vf satisfachun 1 « rare thing in
L, | al i most $3.0u shoe. Shoes at this
|. price usually lack style or comfort
L,I = , or beth,
LAI | a The style of more expensive -
70 [J shoes and good solid vaiue are |
| | found in our
7 LI | SIGNET SHOE “
“EL .° 3
° | because of the exceptional attention bac:
19 lJ stowed on the making. The only cheap>
ness in it anywhere is the price. a
a8, A Goodyear-welted shoe, mada on sevae ;
| J ral of the season’s handsomest lasts, im *
the most popular leathers.
| ‘Looks first rate and wears tha? wey
| el every time,
os It's worth vour while to come In and look
f the Signet over, even If you're not reacy
‘ to buy
'§ Always welcome.
Wm.Moreland,
40! OLDSTAND. sIGY OF TLE BIG BOOT
| A Chocolate Affair.
Chocolate now is served at. after.
noon functions where tea once was
considered the only proper beverase
At a charming afternoon affair given
by « girl who had become tired of
the beaten track of the usual “teas”
the refreshments served were com.
nosey! almost entirely of the chocolate
viuivty, ‘There were cups of hot eboc-
olate with whipped cream, thin bread
sm butter sandwiches, with ollves for
a ivhsh, this of course was followed
by a chocolate Ice, fancy chocolate
cakes and chocolate bonbons.
To Remove Medicine Stains.
/ Stains made by medicine and lini
ment are often obstinate to remove
in the hands ofan amateur, Todinc
marks mii} be removed by washing
the spots with strong ammonia unt)
ir fades, after which wash with tepid
Water and strong soap.
Ammonia is equally good for remov-
ing cod liver oil stains. Fuller's earth
made into a paste and thickly applled
‘to the spots will also remove them.
Fairy Puddino.
One pint boiling water, stir {nto this
three tablespoons of cornstarch, mixed
smooth with a little cold water, the
Juice of a lemon, piece of butter the
size of a walnut and one beaten egg,
It will thicken up nicely in three or
four minutes. Then turn into mold.
To be eaten with sugar and cream
or rich milk,
Mexican Alole, .
Two tablespoonfuls of blanched al-
monds. three tablespoontuls of rice.
Grind the almonds fine first, then the
tice, then mix: add a cup of sweet
milk and cook in a double boller until
the mixture thickens, Add salt or
augar to taste and serve.
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- OUR LEADERSHIP
Sap [SUR oe. Se SMe Ray oeeee:, Se a eee
among the colored Americans, it is
incumbent upon them, individually,
to be his own leader. Our present
leadership, even in great religious
gatherings, proves to be apoologetic
individuals, With but a few ex-
ceptions colored leaders are always
‘looking for the “loaves and fishes.”
In great negro political conven-
tions you will find one or two trait-
ors. Why is this? is a question
which has puzzled learned political
philosophers, The race is divided
on negro leadership, It is unfor-
“ tunate that every curbstone politi-
cian imagines himself a leader. He
will not be advised and neither will
he be dictated to by anyone. If you
put the quasi leader in office he im-
agines that. his white deputy must
Tun it, and he, the principal, must
necessarily subscribe to what is
done by his white subordinate.
Many of these so-called represent-
atives of the race have been an im-
pediment to its progress.“ Colored
Americans ‘don't any more respect
or regard what the -négro office-
holders say or do. The masses
know, with but a few exceptions,
that they must obey their master’s
Tash. Many of them. have gone out
of their way to apologize for the
blunders of their chief executive.
“Silence is sometimes golden,” but
many of them haven’t sense enough
to know it.
A great number of these so-
called leaders have been given rear
seats and conditions have forced
them to look up to the masses.
They must cither do that or die
ignominious political death. It is
amusing to see so many small great
Negroes in the United States, men
who can’t go to the White House
without a guide. A young man for
» whom The Bee has the utmost re-
spect related a story sometime ago
of the visit several so-called negro
leaders made to the White House
under President Mckinley. The
only man in the entire crowd whe
demonstrated his manhood was the
Editor of The Richmond Planet
Another individual in the company
who claimed to be a great leader
this day agreed with President Mc
Kinley on a certain propositior
that he claimed to have had knowl
edge, but President McKinley in
formed this apologist that only tw«
men knew, Long before this del
egation of big negroes called upor
the President every man had <
gtievance, but before they left the;
"all agreed with him with but on
exception. This young man wh
accompanied the party said that hi
became disgusted with the so
~ called negro leader. He is, indeed
a failure with but two or three ex
het .
A CALAMITY
JUSTICE’S COURT. .
Sub-District No, 6.
gn G St. NW. Washington, D, C.
October 5, 1907.
W. Calvin Chase,
Editor of The Bee.
Sir:
You are hereby notified that I stop my
subscription to The B.e, of which you
are editor, from this date. You will
greatly oblige me by not sending the
paper either to my house or to my of-
fice. «
Robert H. Terrell.
The Editor of The Bee regrets
that he has just received a note
from Justice of the Peace Robert
H, Terrell, reqyesting that the sub-
scription to The Bee be discon-
tinued from the date of his note,
October 5th. Just think of it! Ca-
lamities never come single handed.
‘This learned jurist’s name will
from October 5th be erased from
the subscription list of The Bee.
This broadgauged and learned jur-
ist, who has a national reputation
which any savings bank would
envy, a man learned in law and
who never allows his reassuring
faculties to disturb his sleep, will
no longer, look through his gold eye
glasses for classic information that
he often found in The Bee. Then,
again, the great school in which his
household will soon be interested
will be in ignorance of events which
should undoubtedly occupy the
reading room of the learned jurist.
What will become of The Bee with
the name of Justice Terrell erased
from its subscription list? Posterity
will look over the sacred archives
of this institution in vain for the
name of Robert H. Terrell. There
will be no explanation, no cause
given why he sent this note, Pos-
terity can only conjecture. The Bee
must place in- one corner of the
sacred list these lines:
- The name of Robert H. Terrell
once graced the leaves of this book,
but on account of his great knowl-
edge in law and books he could no
longer stomach small things, hence
he had his name erased from. the
subscription list of The Bee. Will
some charitable friend of The Bee
weep with it? It isa calamity from
which it will not soon recover.
BRUCE UNDER CHARGES
AND COLLINS DISMISSED
| Roscoe Conkling Bruce is now
under charges and will be tried for
is malicious false and libelous
‘comunication that he sent to Dr.
‘Chancellar and Captain Oyster and
against the Editor of The Bee. It
is quite evident that Bruce knew
what ‘he was doing when he wrote
that malicious lie. He knew that
Mrs. Gibson never uttered such a
falsehood as he preferred to the
superintendent. Fred Collins, who
went to confer didn’t confer at all,
but he, made two contradictory
statements to the superintendent,
who recomniended his dismissal for
‘the good of the service. This is
the man that Bruce had to come to
him to foster up his farce sensa-
tion. It is the intention of the
Editor of The Bee to carry ‘this
matter into court, but before doing
so it was thought best to wait until
the committee investigated all the
facts. The committee will find out
that the guilty parties have not
been exposed, but they will be at
the proper time. This is only one
of the great blunders Bruce has
committed. This letter to the su-
perintendent against Lucy Motor
was unmanly, and when The Bee
publishes it the country will say
that Dr. Watson has been a victim
‘of mistaken confidence. Bruce's
;Ietter is contradicted by those who
{recognized her ability at Tuskegee:
This remarkable document by
fd will be published in the next
issue. . :
STAND PATTERS
Dr. Wm, E. Chancellars and his
negro assistant. Roscoe Conkling
Hruce. who declared that they were
stand patters, and Bruce, who said
that his bars was right in eliminat-
ing: negro lawyers. will be given a
sample of some of the steel that is
in the negro lawyer. Bruce came
‘to this city from Tuckegee, Ala-
bama, When he was brought here
hy Mary Church Terrell The Bee
did think that he would behave
himself for a few months at least.
The Bee wants to say in all kind.
ness to this young man who had
a true friend in The Bee to pack
up and leave. It makes no differ-
ence whether ‘Dr. Chancellar signs
his dismissal or not, he must go.
The people propose to have a
change in both offices, and these
stand patters will see that the peo-
ple mean business. Both superin-
tendents secured a band of liars
that could not be trusted. Captain
Oyster became disgusted. The col-
ored attorney has a duty to per-
form, and he means to perform it.
The public schools are public prop-
erty, and no man has any right co
say that he owns them., A teacher
has a right to employ a lawyer if
her rights are being taken from
her, The Editor of The Bee is
willing and ready, as a lawyer, to
defend any teacher in the public
schools whenever his services are
needed.
THE COMMITTEE TO IN-
VESTIGATE BRUCE.
‘The President of the Board o!
Education has appointed a commit:
tee to investigate the charge:
against Bruce that will go to the
ballot, and we will see if he hac
the slightest foundation to make
sonal objections to Mrs. Syphax
tendent of Schoots. Why wasn’
he man enough tO state his per.
sonal objections to, Miss Syphax
without such a subterfuge? It is
a fact that the young man wa:
married in the lady’s house, and it
he had personal grievances against
her or any of her family he should
have been more magnanimous
Mrs. Syphax is not only a young
widow with a baby to support, but
an orphan. She is from one of the
leading families in the community.
She is a Normal School graduate
and a competent teacher. Thrown
out of employment as she was un-
der a subterfuge is more than the
public will tolerate. This way of
throwing out teachers without an
investigation is more than what
Congress had intended, and at its
next session The Bee feels confi-
dent that the entire school system
will be modified.
AGE VS. DR. CORROTHERS
ane Wew TOrkK “ge in is at-
tempt to be funny stated that Dr.
S. L. Caruthers talked too much
and that the Bishop should put 2
check on his mouth. Dr, Caru-
thers has the confidence and re-
spect of the people in this country.
He is neither a trimmer nor an
apologist. He is a man and he
doesn’t hesitate to express himself
on all questions pertaining to his
people, The Bishop will not at-
tempt to put a check on himself
for expressing himself in the in-
terest of his people. If we had
more men like Dr, Caruthers the
cotintry would be a great deal bet-
ter off. The people have confidence
in him, and they will follow him,
The Age to the contrary notwith-
standing, While The Bee may not
agree with everything that Dr.
Carrothers may say or do, he never
does an act that will injure his peo-
ple. He will never be a party te
small things, and neither would he
be guilty of committing acts that
would, affect his people.
‘He has a large following and the
support of his people.
THE SCHOOLS AND THEIR
TROUBLES
In another column of The Bee
will be seen and read with interest
the affidavit of Mrs. Harry Syphax
Gibson, the daughter of the late
William Syphax. It is immaterial
to the Editor of The Bee whether
the superintendent of schools be-
lieves the lady or the Editor. Facts
don’t lic. The Editor is prepared
to show that any dealings that he
has had with the schools ha¥e been
upright and honorable and that he
has done nothing more than the
law permits, It will be necessary
for Congress to investigate the
schools and find out upon whos
recommendation certain recent ap:
pointments were made and if any
money.was paid, and by whom anc
to whom paid. It will be an easy
matter’ to find out the individuals
This tirade againse the Editor o:
The Ree is a subterfuge to shielc
the guilty of the real violators of
the law. Time alone will establist
the justice of the contention made
by the Editor of The Bee. ,
MESSRS. COOK AND
HORNER
The stand that’ Messrs. Cook and
Horner, members of the Board of
Education, took against the adop-
tion of the committee’s report on
the recent examination for super-
vising principal was just and
proper. The Bee will disclose
startling facts in the investigation
of Roscoe Conkling Bruce. These
two members of the Board of Edu-
cation deserve the plaudits of the
people. They are loyal to the in-
terest of the colored schools, The
Bee regrets that Attorney Horner
did not+resent the insinuation of
Mary Church Terrell at the Board
meeting Wednesday night. It, is
stated that she intends to publish
all the good things The Lee said
about her, She should include all,
the bad, if any, as well. Mrs. Ter-
rell should resign and at once, :
ATTORNEY “HORNER'S DE-
. PENSE.
Had it not have been for the
wespect Attorney Horner had for
womanhood he would have given
the impudent female members of
the Board of Education a good
dressing down last Wednesday aft-
ernoon. Mr. Horner should have
taken into consideration that if a
woman puts herself in a position to
be criticised or attacked she may
expect the consequences, no matter
whom she may be. The Bee, how-
ever, extends its congratulations to
Messrs. Horner and Cook for their
position in the School Board. Mr.
Horner's defense for the honor of
the colored schools was manly and
the people are with him. IF there
is any honor in the next Congress,
and The Bee believes that there
will be, the colored schodls will be
conducted by people of their choice.
THE RACE’S GREATEST
ARCHITECT.
Mr. W. Sidney Pittman stands
today the greatest architect in the
country in the colored face. The
Bee reproduces the article in this
week's issue written by Mr, R. W.
Thompson, the best-known news-
paper correspondent among colored
men in the United States. Mr.
Thompson’s tribute to this young
man is a deserving compliment.
True as he said that Mr, Pittman
is unassuming and ‘true to his
words. He has made his own way
through the world, which is an evi-
a monument to this accomplished
dence of his ability to do without
the aid of others. The negro build-
ing at the Jamestown Exposition is
artist. The Bee tenders its ‘con-
gratulations,
THE READ ISSUE
‘The public should not lose signt
of the real issue in this school con-
troversy. The charge that has been
alleged against the colored attor-
neys is dnly a subterfuge as subse-
quent investigations will show. Are
the colored schools a bar to the
whites is the issue, and why did Dr.
‘Chandler make such a wholesale
charge against the colored schools?
Te is not a question whether cer-
‘tain téachers‘and janitors were ap-
pointed ten years ago, but why
were the colored schools declared
to be a bar to the whites? z
CONGRESS SHOULD INVES-
TIGATE
Under the present school admin-
istration the Editor of The Bee
has asked for the reinstatement of
four teachers who were removed
ior prejudicial and cowardly rea-
sons. The superintendent promised
to do justice to these injured teach-
ers. The Bee will tell all about
that magazine article which was
denied and many other interesting
facts. Don't lose sight of the is-
sue—Chancellar’s speech.
‘THE INTENT OF CONGRESS
| It was not the intent of Con-
gress to adopt a school law that
requires to have a lawyer to ex-
plain. Our schools should be con-
structed so that a child could un-
derstand. The Board of Educa-
tion cannot understand its‘ own laws.
The Board should ask Congress te
modify the school laws to such an
extent that “he who Tuns may
read.” -
TOBY SPEAKS ~
Little Toby, editor of The Cleve-
land (Ohio) Journal, is either a
fool or demented. ' He attempts to
be funny; but he makes himself out
an ass. The very idea of Burton
being elected, in Cleveland could
only have originated in the brains
of a fool. Toby need not worry
about The Bee.
SALOONS.
The Bee is in favor of closing
those saloons that are conducted on
a skin game. There are saloons in
this city that will charge certain
citizens double the amount they
charge certain other citizens, The
Excise Board could justly put such
saloons out of business. They have
no right to exist. There should be
a law enacted by Congress of pro-
hibiting saloons to exist that make
discrimination in their sales.
MR. GROGAN
- The people of this city should
read carefully the large advertise-
ment that appears weekly in this
paper of Mr. Peter Grogan, It is
one of the largest’ installment
houses in this city and one of the
finest and cheapest houses from
which to purchase your goods. Thi
is the place where you “may make
your own terms. It would do well
to give him a trial, if nothing more.
Read “his advertisement and men-
tion The Bee when you call,
CITIZEN’S COMMITTEE
The Colored Citizens’ Commit-
tee will hold a public meeting next
week on the public school ques-
tion. It is expected that fully two
thousand people will be present.
Important business will be trans-
acted. :
A man is often dismissed from
the public service without cause.
There are people in the world
who never know avhen they are do-
ing well.
Mr. Monroe was discharged be-
cause he failed to show a first-class
engineer license to run an engine,
Whenever advising the assist-
ant superintendent should take les-
sons. It is not advisable to follow
fools always. ey
* 8 eave
The smelling committee may run
against a snag before long if it
hasn’t already. The father of the
son made several appointments 10
years ago.
It is not necessary to send out a
drag net to know how many
schools have been sold under the
present administration and by
whom. *
Somewhere in the Bible someone
erected a gallows for another fel-
low, but the man who erected it got
it himself. Things will happen that
way sometimes. .
+ Fred Collins should have told the
smelling committee to whom he is
giving S1o per month. He should
frame those receipts as mementoes
to posterity.
There are blacklegs in and
around the city who will be upon
the farm one of these bright days.
He should go to work and keep
his brains active.
The man on Capitol Hill, who
told the smelling committee of the
public schools that he paid $895 to
his uncle for a job aught to be
given a medal. At this junction the
smelling committee became dis-
gusted, .
W. SIDNEY PITTMAN
* (Continued from Page 1.)
Mr. Pittman will continue to pros-
per. He has character, grit, deter-
mination, and courage, together with
an abiding confidence in himself and
if the future of his people. He is
faithful to every trust reposed in his
hands and keeps his word. He prom-
fises little, but delivers much, and is
‘ure to grasp every opportunity to
‘hask in “the fierce white light that
heats about a throne.” But his work
tells, and the mute, but eloquent tes:
timony of the splendid buildings he
tae given to an appreciative world
will keep his memory forever green in
| the hearts of the forces who are worth
| while, and in them he has a monument
‘more fasting than marble, more en-
during than brass. His success in all
of his undertakings is but another link
in the endless chain of evidence that
in intelligen€-industry, honesty, pluck
F .F y ae
and persistence lie the secre: oF tay
reste,
ss se
Mr. Pittman is the arch, =
own good fortune—and he :
solidly on an impregnabie ; ost
Taking a cue from hiv sie...
icy and faithful methods, 1. |
tingly say to the young - ara
Tace—again in the langui;-
fellow: ,
“Let us then be up and dos;
With a heart for any far.
sein achieving, still. pursu-:
Learn to Jabor and to w+:
RE WE Thon gsi4
:
| REGISTER VERNON Sr yg.
(From the Springfield (11 \ Tay
OW. T. Vernon, the famotis oe «
addressed the Chautauqua Emanc-;
tion Celebration last Monday ~
Tt is said by thousands why te a
him speak to be the equal of Fy
W. J. Bryan as an orator,
| Complimented- by Ex-Sena:n- +1
‘son, who followed Mr. Verray -1
said that he had heard all the cay
‘men speak in this and other o-7-»- ..
atd that his addres. was the i-2- -»
had ever heard fall from the’. «
any man. We consider it 1 cu
compliment from Mr. Mass |
will find a part of his addre. i +
other column.
| Signature Is In Great Deming
Who is this man Vernon. and what
is the secret of the great value of his
autograph?
Vernon is in the autograph buste
ness. He makes his living by putting
his mame on paper. He caters toa
ee that is insatiable. His siz
natures are all alike, but vary in price
from $1 to $10,000, according to the
paper on which they are written. Still
NO one ever tries to beat him down
for the $10,000 kind is ten thousand
fold more desirable than the $1 kind
He was born 36 years ago in a log
cabin on a plantation near Lebanon
Mo., of parents who had been slayes
Re ent to work in the fields drag-
ging hay at the age of 8. When 15
years of age he began his education
at’a school for negroes in Missoun
finishing his course of study at 1¢
He taught schol in Missouri for six
years, and then took charge of West-
ern University, a schot for negroes at
Quindaro, Kan.
Mr. Vernon was then the onl
teacher, and his pupils numbered six
When he left the institution last June
he had 14 teachers and 250 pupils
The college property consists of 130
acres of land, with buildings value
at $175,000.
He is affiliated with leading neg-o
organizations, has had the degree of
master of arts and doctor of laws -”
ferred’ upon him, and as an educator
an orator, a writer and 2 fader of
the people up to the light of a hicher
plane of life, he is classed with the
famous teacher of Tuskegee. Ps i 7
T. Washington.
ITEMS ON THE WING
The Grand Encampment of k [
for the United States and Cana‘. at
its recent Conclave, re-elected 1) 7
G. Jones, Thirty-third degree, of (b+
go, Ill, as the M. E. G. Master ‘he
District of Columbia received pos uns
by Sir Alexander Payne, Thirty third
degree, as the Grand Generali-~ 20
port F Henry, Thirty-third deg”
the Grand Treasurer; Si Alexani~ Of
gesby, Thirty-third degree, as thy Grind
Corresponding Recorder, and Sir Nes
port F. Henry, Thity-third degree. a+
the Grand Sentinel. The next Conclave
‘will be:in Staunton, Virginia, in 1468
Mrs. W. H. Shorter, daughter «f Rev
p. Lucas, Thirty-third degree, ot ‘Tr
September 11. Interment at Moun’ Ol-
ive Cemetery. She leaves a hr-tan!
and three small children. Reqre- * 37
pace. ‘
Dr. Gales, of Anacotia, Dt 71”
of our enterprising druggists 1.”
joined the matrimonial band,
Rew. A. FLW. Ingram, Lr’!
of London, seored the milli ©”
the Holy Trinity Church, NS *
relative to dirty wealth, In-t-v+
John Coleman, colored, of 27" “
Sixty-second street, New York cit + >
found dead in the airshaft of 27+
Sixty-second street lase week
Ill. W. B. Brooks, Thirty-th.rt 37
gree, PF. G. M,, is_still “in the *
the fiving (living casy}.s
Mrs, G. D. Gale, colored, ei Yo°*.
Pa, predicts that Philadelphi . «
destroyed by fire She warre i *
dent McKinley. and predicted t' ?-
timore fire.
More than one hundred pr“
were held up by the pole fer 2 =
speeding “during their trip to the f-
ternational Council of Religious L'ber-
als last week at Reston, Mass. Tv7
represented pearly every quarter of the
globe.
1 Blackmailers have threatened to 25
Sassinate the Rt. Rev. Bernard J. Me
Quaid, Bishop of Rochester. The Po
lice’ have him under guard.
Read The Bee. *
The Week in Society
M Williams has returned after a pleasant visit to Rich-
M Maxwell spent some time former home, Charleston, rolina.
H. Green and wife, who have sitting here, have returned to Georgia.
Robert McCaden and Dilf Virginia, expect to make the Washington their home. They a few days ago.
Lucy Wortham, of Annapolis, the guest of friends.
Mrs. Eliza West spent some weeks as the guest of Mrs. Eliza Godwin, of Newport News.
Mr. Charles F. Fuller, who left the city in the spring, has returned much improved in health.
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Jackson, were called to Virginia last week by the death of his sister, Miss Crawford.
Rev. Tannell, of Howard University, was custmaster at a reception to Right Rev. Samuel D. Ferguson, of Africa, by Rev. J. Gregg, Jr., in the lecture room of his church, Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Louse Cary from Bates, Va., is in the city and expects to remain some time.
Mr. Tertha Byas is visiting her sister, Mr. J. Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr. Thomas Taggart, of this city, was married to Miss Florence P. Brown, of their parents' residence, in Detroit, Michigan, September 26th.
Miss Gracie Early, who spent the summer in Providence, R. I., has returned to the city.
Mr. Lugge, of Cumberland, Md., will attend the Medical Department of Howard University this year.
Mrs. Mayne Simmons, of 516 T street in West, has returned to Washington after a pleasant trip to New Jersey.
Mr. B. Burke, of the Land Office, is visiting friends and relatives at his home North Carolina.
Arthur Wallace, a recent graduate of Howard University, has returned to the city after a pleasant trip to James-town.
Mrs. Jennie Pinkney, of 81 Q street northwest, is the guest of relatives and friends in Baltimore, Md.
Dr. Harry Brown, a graduate of the Medical Department of Howard University, is practising in Baltimore, Md.
Mr. Dancy may be Recorder of Deeds, if someone else is giving orders.
Will be explain why colored female berks are not allowed to write in the front office.
Mrs. C. C. Stewart, wife of Dr. Stewart, will return to the city in a few days.
Mrs. Fannie Mitchell passed through the city for Virginia last week. She will visit her mother.
Mrs. Hortentia E. A. Jones, who has been confined to her bed for several days, is improving slowly.
Mrs. S. R. Clark's school opened October 1. under favorable auspices.
Mr. Oscar Lewis, accompanied by his wife, paid his old home a visit last week en route for the South. Mr. Lewis is a native Washingtonian. His sisters, Miss Rosa Lewis and Venia Robinson, wife of Rev. Robinson, of North Carolina, are also, native Washingtonians. Mr. Lewis has been suffering with an acute rheumatism for a number of years, but he is fast improving, and it is hoped that his visit South will relieve his health. He and his wife left the city this week. Mrs Robinson, his sister, left for home Saturday. She has been the guest of her sister, Miss Rosa. While here Mr. Robinson was visited and entertained by a large number of the old friends and former associates.
NOTES FROM WEST WASHINGTON
Rev. Edgar Ricks, the newly elected pastor of the First Baptist Church, corner Twenty-seventh street and Dumbarton avenue, presided a moderator for the first time since his election, on Friday evening, at their regular church meeting, October 4.
After devotional exercises and other routine business, the boards of Deacons and Trustees were dissolved, and the following were regularly elected: As deacons—M. D. Howard, Lewis Frasier, Stephen Bailey, C. C. Diggs, Joseph Miner, James Howard, and John Har-
ris; as trustees—Sanford Hazard, Raphael W. Hewlett, James Jones, Robert L. Strothers, Thornton Kidrick and Benjamin Smith, and as treasurer, Charles Gaskins.
Mr. Joseph E. Smothers was relected as Church Clerk, and Prof. J. B. Walker re-elected as conductor of the choir, all of whom were duly installed on Wednesday evening, October 9, the pastor, Rev. E. Ricks, officiating. The dissatisfied element in the church seemingly yielded to the inevitable.
Miss Annie E. Hewlett, who was called home because of the death of her grandmother, Mrs. Ellen Jordan, has returned to New York.
Jerusalem Baptist Church, P street between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, having purchased the house and lot adjoining them on the west, expect to begin their new edifice in the near future. They have a large congregation and under the pastorate of Rev. George Harris are doing excellent work. Rev. and Mrs. Charles N. Pryor are spending a month with friends at Quantico, Va. The janitor of Phillips School, Mr. James Hunter, and family have removed from No. 2320 M street northwest to No. 1421 Twenty-eighth street northwest.
On Wednesday evening, October 2, 1907, the Florida Club met at the residence of its president, Mr. E. G. Evans, 1703 Tenth street, northwest. This session was the most interesting one since its organization. After calling the meeting to order, President Evans made a short speech, welcoming the guests and stating the object of the Florida Club. Among those who delivered interesting remarks were Mr. Moore, president of the Louisiana Club; Dr. W. H. Conner, Major C. W. Filmore, R"W. Thompson, W. H. Fielding, of Indiana, Ira T. Bryant and W. T. Menard. After the speech-making was over a collation was served. Among others present and invited were I. H. Spears, Richmond Milton, J. W. Baker, Dr. S. S. Thompson, R. L. Pendleton; G. W. Shaed, Col. W. Calin Chase, Thomas L. Jones, G. W. McKenzie, A. Martain, Paul Stewart and G. V. Fowler. The Florida Club has a membership of twenty. The officers are E. G. Evans, president; Paul R. Stewart, vice president; W. T. Menard corresponding secretary; I. H. Spears, recording secretary; Dr. S. S. Thompson, treasurer; G. V. Fowler, chaplani; Richmond Milton, sergeant at arms, and R. L. Pendleton, chairman of the entertainment committee.
Mr. Andrew Jackson, 1261 First street southeast, has returned to this city after spending the summer in New York. Mr. and Mrs. William Minor and daughter, Mrs. James Edwards, of 1233 Twelfth street northeast, gave a surprise party to Mr. George B. Minor, in honor of his birthday, Thursday night, October 3, 1907. Mrs. Edwards entertained the guests with several vocal selections, and after dancing until a late hour the guests were ushered into the dining room, where a bountiful repast was served.
RALLY - GALBRAITH.
The fall rally of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church began last Sunday. The church was crowded at both morning and evening services. The collection for the day amounted to $360. The effort is to be continued for forty days. The amount desired is $2,000. Next Sunday will be Old Folks Day, and a special sermon will be delivered by the pastor. The public is cordially invited to attend as an effort will be put forth to make it unusually interesting.
A UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT.
The pleasant ladies of St. Luke's Guild will receive their pleasant friends at the pleasant residence of Mrs. A. M. Cole, 1448 Park Road, Mt. Pleasant, at their Vanity Fair, beginning Monday, October 14, 1907, continuing five nights.
Music by pleasant musicians each evening.
Good supper served.
Season tickets, 25 cents.
Single admission, 10 cents.
ATTORNEY COBB.
Attorney James A. Cobb, who has been confined to his home for several days, is able to be out again.
It is reported that this young member of the bar will be the next justice of the peace.
SUPPORT THE PROHIBITION.
CHAS. H. WOOD, T. S.
No. 75 Chestnut Street,
Rochester, N. Y.
September 23, 1907.
W. Calvin Chase, Esq.
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
You will observe from the caption of this letter that I am located in the city where stands a fitting monument to the character, memory and greatness of the late "Hon. Frederick Douglass."
I remember him well, and I have listened to his appeals and eloquence.
The great conflict came, the onslaught was terrific, the crisis was acute, and but for the united efforts of the "war Democrats" and the unswerving loyalty of the colored people, North and South, this great nation would have been cut in twain. No doubt of that.
It was not the Republican party triumphed; it was the "Union party" and this is the key note of my letter.
Within a few days it has come to me that you are at the head of a great racial movement vs. "Teddyissm" and "Taft Taffy." While I wish to commend the idea, I wish, in great kindness and good will, to go steadily, move discreetly, and acquit yourselves like men; yea, verily, like God-fearing and God-loving men.
The so-called "Republican Party" of today is not the party we had in the days of Lincoln! No, indeed! I have no "pet names" to mention, but the G. O. P. is not the colored man's "grateful friend." I am ashamed to say it, but the logic of events suffices. "Enuff sed."
What I want to suggest and urge upon your race is to move aright now and co-operate with those who have been, are now, and will be your friendss, namely.
The Prohibition Party.
Or, a it is sometimes called, "The Grand New Party," for North and South.
If you are familiar with our history, and platform as a party, you know what I say is true.
We are more truly Democratic for all the people, without respect to class, race or color, than any other organization extant.
(a) We are for equal rights and privileges to all who can read and write, both sexes included.
(b) We are in favor of home protection, as well as industrial tariff, and we declare that the tariff should be a non-partian question.
(c) We oppose special or class legislation by State or Nation.
We feel that our affairs here at home (in the United Statess) are of more importance to us as a mixed people than so much "diplomatic galore" abroad. Yes, sir! In a word, I may say that it needs no prophet to discern the trend of current events; the attitudes of the two dominant parties—the one is an ingrate and rotten to the core, while the other is without a "spinal column" so the
Opportunity
Is now up before us. Let us strike hands together, mark time, shoulder to shoulder, "forward, march," on to freedom that means liberty; inalienable rights, that mean "equal privileges to all," industrial schools for the masses, and the sobriety and virtue of our "American Homes."
The first step or movement is to overthrow the present dynasty. It is not true to its promises, and it is unworthy of support.
I am not a politician, a "wire-puller" or a "heeler." No, sir! I am a plain citizen, a traveling salesman, a member of the Society of Friends (or Quakers) and as I go up and down this heritage I observe what I see with my eyes and hear with my ears, and Jesus himself says, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Mark the words. Yes; to listen is courtesy; but to listen and heed is to hear. I obey. Quite a difference, indeed!
Wishing you grace and wisdom in your well-chosen purpose, I am, truly, Your friend and well-wisher.
Color-phobia has reached British Columbia. It will reach Heaven, and Hades next. At the next Papal Consistory to be held in Rome four new Cardinals will be created; but no Americans. In the death of Rear Admiral John G. Walker the United States Navy has lost a distinguished officer. Requiescat in pace.
The Spanish War veterans are opposed to the admission of the colored veterans to the Department Encampment. At a meeting held of Harding Camp, E. L. Coogan, department commander, was the one who led the movement. The way things are now moving, we advise the Negro to keep out of the army and navy, and inaugurate independent or-
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organizations and let the white brother fight his own battles. The Negro has been in every battle from the beginning of this great land of the free, and he has been and is now getting the short end of the stick. During the last rebellion if the North could have whipped the South without the aid of the Negro, today we would be slaves. Even the South, before the end, proposed to arm the slaves; and yet it is claimed that the Negro is no good. The whole trouble is that the white man of the United States is jealous of rapid progress made by the Negro of the United States since the war.
the Washington Asylum Hospital have been badly abused. A secret investigation is being made by order of the Commissioners. Such things should be looked up. Star chamber proceedings on the Russian method should be suppressed in this country, supposed to be the land of the free.
One of the main reasons of the troubles with colored Masons is the ideas of some Grand Masters that they have the full control of the higher degrees, when they only have control of the First Second and Third Degrees. The other degrees are controlled by their respective Grand Bodies. Graft in many cases is the root of this evil. We rest here
The Jap is a born soldier. During the recent unpleasantness in this country they sounded the bugle. Every Jap responded. Scouts were sent out. After finding no danger, the bugle again was sounded and they disbanded. Every Jap in this country and others has to report his whereabouts to his Council. The Emperor of Japan can put his hand on each of his subjects in any part of the world at any time. If the colored brother of the United States was only united like this, how much nicer we would get along. Ladies and Gentlemen make easily from $2 to $5 daily, representing us. Steady income. Easy. Success sure. Particulars free. Address Taylor Remedy Co., Dept. 21, Louisville, Ky.
THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT ADDRESS. Adopted at The Annual Meeting at Boston, Mass., ugust 26 to 28, 1007
For the third time the Niagara Movement in annual meeting appeals to the world and to America. This has been a year of wrong and discrimination. There sits today in the governor's chair of a sovereign Southern Commonwealth a man stained with the blood of innocent black workingmen who fell in the Atlanta massacre, and whose unavenged death cries to God for justice. What answer does Georgia return: The fraudulent disfranchisement of her citizens, and with the echo of her fell attack on demoeracy sound the eager voices of a great tribunal dedicated to industrial freedom, which has in unseemly haste scurried to uphold social slavery and the vicious and nasty Jim Crow car. And why not?
Has not the man in the White House set them brave example by bowing before the brown and armed dignity of Japan and swaggering roughshod over the helpless black regiment whose bravery made him famous? With such example why should not the lawless and vicious of the land gake courage? Why should not the less civilized parts of our country follow this lead and spread the mockery of republican government in the South? But we will not follow. We are Americans. We believe in this land. We cannot silent see it false to its great ideals. We call for repentance, regeneration, reconsecration to the ideals of Wasihington, Jefferson, and our own Hamilton. We demand freedom from labor peonage. We demand a free and fair ballot. We demand the denial of national representation to States who deny the rights of citizens. We demand Federal legislation forbidding exclusion of any persons from interstate cars on account of race or color. We ask common school training for every child, if necessary, at national expense. We demand full exoneration and reinstatement of our shamefully libelled soldiers, and, finally, in God's name, we ask justice, and not only do we ask and pray, but we back our prayer by deeds. We call on the 500,000 free black voters of the North. Use your ballots to defeat Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, or any man named by the present dictatorship. Better vote for avowed enemies than for false friends. But, better still, vote with the white laboring classes, remembering that the cause of labor is the cause of black men, and the black man's cause is labor's own.
We are not discouraged. We thank God for life and health and property, for shade and shine, and above all for the opportunity in the twentieth century of Jesus Christ to fight the battle of humanity in the very van of His army. Help us, brothers, for the victory which lingers, must and should prevail.
THE LORD OF THE RING
The Bee begs leave to introduceto the citizens of Washington Mr. Leon De Voux, the world's greatest photographer, who has traveled very extensively, and has given satisfaction in the profession of which he is the master. Colored Americans have largely depended upon white photographers to do their work and accept it if it does not satisfy them. There is not a white photographer of any note in the city that will permit the photo of a colored American to be placed upon exhibition.
Mr. De Voux is an expert in his profession. He makes his pictures the exact likeness of his patrons. He has leased for a term of years one of the most convenient and commodious places near the Fourteenth Street Bank, 1359-61 You streets, near the corner of Fourteenth street northwest. Mr. De Voux will have upon exhibition some of his own work as an evidence of his artistic workmanship. His photos are as natural as the person himself. He means to give his patrons entire satisfaction, and if he fails, your money is refunded.
There is no artist in the United States who has made the reputation that he has. Mr. De Voux wants the world to know that his studio will be opened to the public on or about Wednesday, October 9th, and the citizens of Washington should avail themselves of the opportunity of the great offers that he is making. The public should inspect his studio and select the style or character of pictures desired.
MONEY REFUNDED.
If you are not satisfied with your pictures, your money will be refunded. This proposition alone ought to be sufficient to assure the public that Mr. De Voux is a superior artist. He makes you look like a natural image. So artistic is his work. There is no photographer in this country who has traveled as Mr. De Voux. He has in his travels acquired great knowledge in photo-making. His work has been pronounced superior to any artist in his line of business. It will not cost you anything to call and inspect his studio: It will not cost you anything if your photos don't suit you.
Artists are known by their work. They are appreciated for what they can do. This city has been in need of a first-class photographer for years. Colored Americans may have their pictures placed where they will be seen and admired. Mr. De Voux claims to be able to do any kind of work in this line of business.
There is no flattery about his work. He portrays the person in his natural shape and at the same time makes the image to be admired.
His studio opened October 7th, and if the public wishes to inspect first-class work, Mr. De Voux is the artist that the people of this city have been looking for theseyears.
His studio will have its opening October 7th, and be continued for thirty days, to enable the public to be convinced that Mr. De Voux is the artist that the people of this city have been looking for these years.
Mr. De Voux has succeeded in securing the services of Mr. William Hoag, the finest developing and printing artist identified with the colored race, as assistant and manager. He was formerly with Sexton and Maxwell of St. Louis, Mo.
Artists of other nationalities do not cater for colored citizens' trade.
The Bee presents a man who is superior to any artist in the country, no matter to which nationality he belongs.
Call and inspect his work. His studio is 1359-61 You street northwest.
James H. Winslow
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AB ED CA 5 Care in Preparation of Contents il
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RECIPES FOR BOTH NEW AND] i the child goes ta school so far! YORK EXPERT. .
OLD DISHES. from home that a basket lunch Is nec- >
posuere essary no less care should be taken ae a we 3
in preparing this makeshift for a meal. | two Appetizing Preparations of Oys- : ‘ INGJ EW
Te Prepare Unfermented Grape | jt. should be put up dalntily, the vari- ters—Mock Terrapin—tdea for E
dulce—Canned Grape Juice With oug hinds of food being neatly wrap- Thes: Who Use the Chaf- .
Sugar—Ralsine Marmalade ts ped in ofled paper. Tosend a child to i Dish. = . 725 Tth Street Nr rthy
an tdea from France. school with a lunch composed of “any } . g ie a. a ol, i.
Unfermented Grape Juice.—\..
and pick’ over sound Coneord griere
rejecting all that are soit. Fat ti o
stone jar and place this fu a b+ ti
with cold water tu nearly Ue de pil
ef the Jar. With a wooura spoon cr ish
Mebuy when they begin te coun, ai he
same time pu aug the grapes Lem
the top of the ya: toward the bottom.
Cook abvat two ours ur until the
Brapes ave all wufteued Then pour
jato a large bag w drain. Do not press
er squeeze or the jnice will be cloudy.
Have ready perfectly clean and well
sterilized bottles with the patent
china or metal tops. If you do not
have these, be sure your corks are
ew, soaking them first in cold water
wo they can be pressed in tightly. Re
heat the juice to the boiling point,
eook steadily half an hour, removing
the scum as it rises to the surface.
Turn into the hot bottles and seal
air-tight.
Canned Grape Juice With Sugar.—
Put the grapes, washed and sorted,
fato a preserving hettle and add a
Uttle cold water, but not enough to
eover. Cook slowly until the skins
break, mashing and stirring from time
to time with a wooden rpoon. When
softened and at the boiling point, pour
fato a new coarse jelly bag to drain
Measure the juice and to each quart
allow a quarter-pound granulated
sugar. Boil again folr minutes, turn
Into hot sterilized bottles and seal
while bot.
Raisine—To make this famous
French marmalade allow an equal
weight of grapes, couk in a little water
until soft, then press through a col-
ander to remove the seeds, Add the
pears, cored and’ vliced, and simmer
sntil thick, stirring almost constant-
Jy. When thick. sweeten to taste. scald,
strain through « colander and can.
Grape Relish.—Pick'from the stems
neven pounds of xrapes, rather under
wipe, and put the shins in a preserving
ettle over the fire with Just enough
water to prevent their burning. Place
the pulp In another Lettle and cook un-
Wl the seeds loosen. Press through #
sieve and add tw the skins with a
half pint of vinegar, three pounds of
sugar and a teaspuunful each cloyes.
allspice and cinnamon. Boil until
thick. This Is fine to serve with game
er roast meats.
Macaroon Dessert.
A delicious uweet to offer at Iunch-
een is made of whipped cream and
macaroons. Use the rich cream that
4s of the proper consistency to whip
well. Sweeten and whip until stiff.
@et maccaroons that have been kept
about two days and roll them until
‘hey are crumbled finely, but not pow-
@ered, Stir enough of them with the
whipped cream to give it a delicate
trown color. This should be served
Weaped In dainty cups, as, while it
makes 4 most delectable compound, It
fa altogether too rich to be taken in
any but the most moderate quantities.
Mud Spots.
Mud spots may be removed from
white or wasbable material by laun-
dering. Black or dark cloth, how
ever, may be freshened by belng rub-
bed with a raw potato cut In halves
(another remedy that 18 sure to be at
‘band), first, however, removing as
much of the mud as possible with 4
brush; the potato is to remove the
stain left by the mud, and not the
wud itself. Machine ofl marks on
dainty white or colored goods should
be dipped In benzine. ,
Snow Puddinc.
Soak onefourth box of gelatine In
one-fourth cup of cold water until soft,
then add one-half cup boiling water.
one cup sugar, juice of two lemons,
whites of three eggs beaten stiff. Set
in cold place to harden and when
ready to serve pour around it the
following sauce, also cold. Yolks ot
three eggs beaten until light, thres
teaspodnfuls of sugar, one-half spoon.
fal salt, one pint bot milk, one-hall
teaspoonful vanilla. Cook together
until slightly thickened—about five
minutes.
Cooking Cocoa.
According to a cvoking schoo!
theory cocoa is never done until it has
cooked Jong enough to coat the spoon
It Is boiled, of course, In water, the
scalding milk being added just before
serving. It is sald the cocoa should
boll from halfan hour to an hour.
Persons who have found cocoa Indi.
gestible often find it harmless when
it is thoroughly cooked. Undercook.
ing is sald to be the trouble when it
proves indigestible. ,
Lvonnaice Potatoec.
One tablespoonful of butter,’ one
onion chopped fine, 12 cold potatoes
cut into dice; parsley, salt and pepper.
To the butter and oniuns add the po-
tatoes and stir quickly uver the open
flame for five minutes, taking, care
that they do not stick to the pan.
Season with salt and pepper, add
chopped parsley. Serve while hot.
Vanilla Cream Cookies,
Cream together one cupful of but-
ter and one and one-half cupfuls of
fine granulated sugar; add one beaten
egg, one-half cx ful of sweet milk, one
teaspoonful of sadirg powder, and just
enough fiour to ich without stickinz
Flavor wl: vanilla. Cut Into fancs
#2 sit ft with ¢ aaulated
5 *. ,) “eute brown,
IN THE LUNCH BASKET.
Care in Preparation of Contents Is
Well Worth While.
If the child goes to school so far
from home that a basket lunch Is nec-
essary no less care should be taken
In preparing this makeshift for a meal.
It.should be put up daintily, the vari-
ous hinds of food being neatly wrap-
ped in olled paper. Tosend a child to
school with a Iunch composed of “any
old thing,” arranged In a hapbazard
manner {s to Invite all kinds of {hs
to take possession of the little stom-
ach.
The frst thing, of course, Is to be
sure that the lunchbox or basket is ab-
solutely clean. Then cut several pleces
of olled paper. In one you may put u
number of small sandwiches. Thinly
sliced whole-wheat bread, with some
sensible filling makes the best sand-
wiches, but there should be enough of
them to assauge the cravings of
hunger. . ©
In another packet place some tasty
sweet. Avoid pie assiduously, but any
cahe that is not too rich and that
has only a plain cing will answer the
purpose nicely. Fruit, too, should be
added, with some crisp cookles of
ginger wafers, but do not be tempted
to insert any candy unless you chance
to have a supply of absolutely pure
maple sugar.
TO PAPER A PAINTED WALL.
Homemade Solution Will Completely
Remove the Paint.
| Occasionally a househeeper wants
to paper a rvon that has presiously
ad the walls painted. -
This is not easily done, nor one that
is by any means cheap, ff men munt
be hired by the day or hour to do it
Any enterprising woman who Is will
ing to take the Ume and trouble ean
Ket the paint off herself.
Mix in a bucket of hot water enough
potash to make strung solution, and
|scrub the walls with a stiff brush dip
ved in it Wash off in cold water and
finish with dry flannel.
If the paint fs very old it should be
covered with a wash of three party
quicklime ,slaked in water to which
has been added one part of potash. Al-
low this coating to remain on over
night and the paint may be eusily
scraped of.
Rit tenis %
Pare peaches and add to every
pound of fruit a pound and a quarter
of granulated sugar. Put in a kettle
and boll five minutes. Turn out In a
large bowl, cover with a thin cloth,
put {0 sun and stir every day unti}
perfectly transparent, Put in jars
and cover with thick paper.
Pickled peaches—Ten pounds of
veaches pared. five pounds sugar, one
quart vinegar. mace, cinnamon,” and
cloves to tastet. Lay the peaches in
the sugar for one hour, drain off the
sirup and put on the fire; add one
cup of water. oil until scum ceases
to rise, skim, put the peaches In and
boll five minutes. Take out the
‘peaches .and spread upon dishes to
cool, Add vinegar and spices to the
sirup, boll 15 minutes longer and then
put In the peaches again and when
they come to a boil can them
Mustard Pickles.
Take an equal quantity of sinall cu-
‘cumbers, green tomatoes, sliced caull-
flower, picked up small, small button
onions. Mix toxether and cover with
strongly ealted water, a pint of coarse
salt to six quarts boiling water, boil-
ed, skimmed and cooled before using.
After 24 hours, seald the brine and
dissolve in It ulun size of nutmeg
When cold, drain very thoroughly,
prepare enough vinegar to cover, To
one quart of vinegar id one cupful
brown sugar, one-half cupful tlour, one
fourth pound ground mustard, “Beil
sugar and vinegar, mix flour and mus-
Yard, stir boiling Vinegar into it, when
smooth pour over pickles Put small
piece of horse radish in bottle to keep
from molding Melted paraffin may
be poured over ,the top.
) Green Corn. Country Stvle.
Material—vight ears of corn, one
tablespoonful salt, two quarts cold wa.
ter, two tablespoontuls sugar, melted
butter, pepper, salt.
Way of Preparing—Iusk, the corn
and remove all silk, leaving one lay:
er of husk neat to the kernels. Put
cold water in’a deep kettle, put in
your corn, bring to the boitlig point
and boll ten minutes. Add the salt
and sugar and boll six minutes longer.
More-than this will cause the corn to
lose Its sweetness. *
Heap the cérn on a.platter, serve to
each person one ear, accompanied by
a small sauceboat of melted butter.
pepper and salt.
Nut ‘Brown Bread.
Recently a recipe was given me for
a most délicious and easily prepared
brown bread. MIx together three-
quarters cup each of white floyr and
graham with ove teaspoon of baking
powder and one-eighth of a teaspoon
of salt. Then add one-quarter cup
wach of molasses and chopped English
walnut meats. Mix to a batter with
milk—it will requite about three-quar-
ters of a cup-—and bake in a moderate
oven. The nut meats ald an inde-
Serfbable richness of flavor.—Govd
Housekeeping.
Red Vegetable Salad.
One cupful of cold boiled potatoes,
chopped; one cupful of pickled beets,
cut fine; one cupful of uncooked red
cabbage, chopped fine. Add three
tablespoonfuls of oil, four tablespoun-
fule of vinegar in which the beets
have been pickled, one-half a tea-
spoonful of salt, half 2s much penpe:
Mix together lichtly, let stand ne
hour In a coo] jn e and serve.
LUNCH AND SUPPER
SOME SUGGESTIONS FROM A NEW
YORK EXPERT. ;
Two Appetizing Preparations of Oys-
ters—Mock Terrapin—idea for
Thes: Who Use the Chaf-
| Ing Dish.
New ¢stes for Iunebeon or good
suaeest > ‘sr chafing dish suppers
never Cu = awtiss even with the house:
sie ace aiddes he self on the varlety
ay wells tLe eace-I-nee of ber menus,
saya writer In the New York Her-
ald. Try some of the folloving and see
if you do nt aciee with me that they
are worthy of consideration:
Oyster Custard.—Take a round loaf
of bread. remove the crust with a
sharp knife, ent the inside, leaving a
wall about half an inch thick. Brush
over with melted butter and brown
evenly In a moderate oven. Take the
inside bread which has been removed
and crumb it. Put a -heaping table-
spoonful of butter in thefry pan and
fry crumbs until they are a golden
brown. Cook a’quart of oysters In
thelr own Hquor to the point of sep-
aration, skim the o¥sters out and set
the liquor aside. Put in a saucepan a
heaping tablespounful of butter, a half
teaspoonful of grated onion and a tea-
spoonful of finely minced: parsley; al-
low this to cook a few minutes. before
rubbing In two heaping tablespoonfuls
of tlour; turn into this a pint and a
half of cream—rich milk can be made
'to do—and your oyster liquor. Allow
| this to boll up and thicken; season
with salt, cayenne pepper and a Httle
good sherry. Now take your prepared
crust and place in the bottom a layer
of oysters, then a layer of the frled
crumbs, pour over this a patt of the
sauce, and repeat, oysters, crumbs and
sauce, until the crust Is filled. Sprin-
kle the top with crumbs and set in a
“hot oven only long enough to heat
thoroughly. Serve Immediately. *
Sweetbreads and Oysters in Shells.
—Take three or four sweetbreads
which have been prepared and cooked,
cut Into dice, season with salt and
| pepper and dredge with flour. Have
‘ready three dozen oysters cooked to
‘the point of separation, a small teacup
of button mushrooms, cooked, and one
auzen olives, jmred in one plece cloze
to the kernel Put a quarter of a
| pound of butter in a saucepan, add two
tablespoonfuls of flour, stir rapidly and
add enough steck to make a sauce of
creamy connistency. Into this turn
the sweetbreads, olives, mushroms
an last of all the oysters. Heat, but
do not boll. Season to taste with salt,
| cayenne pepper and a dessert spoonful
of tarragon vinegar. Serve In shells
of puff paste or in the ttle cases
made over 4 hot iron.
Mock Tertapn —One pound of calt's
liver, cooked one cup of cream, one-
| half cup of beef stock, two ounces but-
ter, one half cup of sherry, two hard-
bolled eggs, chopped fine; one table:
spoonful of cornstarch. Cut Ilver into
small thin pieces, Put into a sauce-
[van the stock, cream and the corn-
starch and litter well rubbed to-
| gether; when thick, add the liver and
} stir for ten minutes. Season to taste
with salt and cayenne pepper, add
sherry antl eas apd serve hot. *
| Have you ever tried oysters and ba-
con in your chating dish? If not, I
think you will like Them. Have your
“bacon cut 4s thin as a wafer, or, bet-
ter yet, buy Jt already cut, in tins.
Place six or eight strips of this in the
chafing dist and cook to a delicate
crisp, remove. and drop into the fat 2
dozen or so plump oysters. Cook
until they separate well. Serve with
the bacon on hot toast, with a dash of
lemon juice and paprika.
Apple Johnny Cake,
Grease deep plepan around the
edges, fill with nice cooking apples
aliced thin, bits of butter and sprinkle
with sugar, a little cinnamon and a
little cloves: imix into one cup of
milk sufticient flour (sifted with two
teaspoontuls of baking powder and a
pinch of salty to make stiff batter;
spread over apples, bake and serve
with cream, Serve with apples side
up.
Grape Pudding—Pick and wash your
rapes; put a layer of grapes in pud:
ding dish, then a layer of sugar and
a laser of «rams ull half full; then
make a pancake batter of two eggs.
a cup of flour and pour over grapes
(I forgot to add a teaspoonful of bak-
ing powder): bake half an hour; serve
with sugar and cream. ‘
Marshmallow Cup.
Dissolve over hot water a_ half
pound of vers fresh’ marshmallows.
Add half a cup of water and cook until
it spins a thread, Beat the white of
one egg until stiff and pour the bull-
ing marshmallows over this Cook It
all until cold “and smooth, Now add
gradually, while beating constantly,
half a cupful of red currant juice, a
cupful of ripe red raspberries, half a
small peeled cucumber cut into dice,
the Juice of one oranse and a pint and
a half of chilled mineral water, Put
in a puch bow! With fresh berries,and
Maraschino cherries,
Fish Cutlets,
Scald a cup of milk. Rub together
three tablespoonfuls of butter and
three of flour, and add to the hot miik.
Stir and cook until the mixture is
smooth and thick. Add the yolk of
an egg, one tablespoonful chopped
parsley, ten drops of onion juice, a Ilt.
tle grated nutmeg, two cups of cold
bolied flaked fish dnd palatable sea
soning‘of salt and cayenng Turn out
to cool and when cold form Into cutlet
shapes, dip in beaten egg, then in
crumbs and fry In deep hot fat. Serve
‘with cream or tomato sauce.
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Prices in the Diamond market
af advancing. but eur prices have
net been advanced in some time.
[We still have a large collection of
superb Diamonds which we bought
2 considerable time ago at lower
prices than prevail today.
We shall net advance prices gn
‘these stenes, We are merchants
‘and net speculators and our fair
percentage of profit is all we ask.
So, as long as these Diamonds last,
it will be possible to buy them here
under the regular market for fine
stenes.
| Ladies’ Diamond Rings, $5.0¢ *
$150.00.
| Ladies’ Diamond Breaches, $5.50
te $1,000.
| Diamond . Earrings, $15.00 to
hace
Diamond Scarf Pins, $7.00 up.
Diamond Cuff Butons, $7.00 up.
. Diamond Studs, $10.00 up. -
| We have Ladies’ Handsome Dia-
mond Rings set in Tiffanv Meunt-
ing which we are selling at $30.00.
This will make an appropriate pres-
ent fer Christmas. Every stone a
ball of fire.
CLOCKS AND BRONZES
Clocks ef‘ all makes—American,
French and German. We have a
Clock as cheap as $5.00—must be
seen to be appreciated, All Clocks
kept in order for two years.
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Ladies’ Solid Gold Signet Rings,
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Child’s Solid Gold Signet Rings.
$1.00 up.
Ladies’ Solid Gold Medallion
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Ladies Solid Gold Crosses. $4.00
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Gents’ Solid Gold Lockets, $4.0¢
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Ladies’ Selid Gold Bracelets,
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Ladies’ 14-Carat Gold Filled
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SILVERWARE
Silver Tea Sets, $10,00 up.
Silver Cake Baskets, $4.00 up.
Silver Cups for Children, $1.25
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Silver Baking Dish, 7.00.
Silver Butter Dishes, $3.50 up.
Silver Pickle Castors, $3.00 up.
The above silver is the Genuine
Regers, which speaks for itself.
CATHOLIC GOODS
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Religious Medals in Geld aad
Silver; Immaculate Conception, St
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Infant of Prague, St. Vincent de
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Eight-Day Sanctuary Oil, $1.10
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Crucifixes, hanging and standing.
Candle Sticks in Gold Silver, any
Brass.
Sacred Hearts, Selid Gold, 75
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JAP WRESTLING HERO
CHAMPION HIDACHIYAMA WILL
UNIT UNITED STATES.
Six Feet Tall and Weighs 308
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Not Weaklings.
Boehring-Hidachiyama, the champion of Japan, is soon to visit Hidachiyama is the one hero who is written in the profound admiration of his countrymen Wrestling is the nation of Japan, and Hidachiyama is more the champion. By virtue of superiority over all the men has been granted the privilege of wearing the Yokozuma, a form of a rope, an honor bestowed but 16 wrestlers in the
two distinct kinds of in japan, jujitsa, a muscle-stem, and sumo, whose vowel personal strength and body and much as on knowl- mentic grips and falls. It and size are considered to advantage to sumo wrestle- systematically fattened. athletic training is in strict opt- all accepted theories on set for they not only eat and accessively, but of any kind beverage they fancy. physical exercises consist in butting at posts with should- chest and in lifting, catching ing about large sacks of rice like they also go through a al of posturing with a view to their limbs supple and as a balancing practice.
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[Illustration of a sumo wrestler in traditional attire].
Japanese Wrestling Champion Who Will Visit America.)
Konno complimented him on his physical development, and said:
In America the Japanese are supposed to be weaklings, but if you were to show yourself you would convince them to the contrary, and they would give you a great reception.
The prince invited me to accompany him to America, but his untimely death upset our plans. I could not give the idea, however, and now that the May tournament is over, I am preparing to go with two or three young wrestlers. I am bearing letters of introduction from Marquis Ito and others and hope to receive courteous consideration from the American people.
There is at present a movement to set a permanent structure for the international tournaments. For many hundreds of years these matches have been held in Tokyo on grounds set aside for the purpose, named Ekonn. Time approaches for the Janu- May tournaments temporary bamboo poles, covered tapes are put up. Tournament begins at 10 in and lasts all day. The using their lunch boxes, beehive innertant vendors of tea to ply their trade. The weather classes and foreigners co- bamboo boxes, which ex- tertely around the amphitheater, the bank and file squatting on their branches on the floor of the pit.
The wrestling takes place in a 12-ring covered by a canopy, supported by four posts, from two of which suspended small baskets of
wrestlers wear no clothes on cloth and an embroidered which is discarded after the These aprons are made of plush or velch designs are worked in and are frequently worth
wrestler is the hero of his admirers present him of finest silk, and for a room in Tokyo the guest On the seventh day but is pledged to refor the next tournament, of Japanese wrestler has been known to
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TO OPPOSE TOM JOHNSON.
Nominated for Mayor by Republicans of Cleveland, O.
Cleveland.—Congressman Theodore E. Burton, who has been nominated by Cleveland Republicans to oppose Tom Johnson for mayor, is a "scholar in politics." Speaker Cannon has said he is "the ablest man in congress." Mr. Burton is an authority on law and finance. His work as chairman of the rivers and harbors committee has made him a national figure. It is said he can give the source and course of every creek in the United States. He is 55 years old and was born in Ohio, where he was graduated from Oberlin. He has served six terms in congress.
Cleveland is regarded as a normally Republican city by from 7,000 to 10,000 majority in national elections, and up
[Pictorial portrait of a man in a suit and bow tie].
THEODORE E. BURTON.
(Republican Nominee for Mayor of Cleveland. O.)
to the advent of Mayor Johnson, six years ago, the Republicans had ruled the city and county for years, with the exception of isolated cases, such as the election of Mayor Farley, following the defeat of the McKlisson administration and the rehabilitation of the faction led by Senator Hanna.
In the last two campaigns made Johnson succeeded in increasing the plurality which he gained in his first election, six years ago, and in his last race, two years ago, he piled up a plurality of nearly 12,000. The county as well as the city administrator has, as a result of the Johnson leadership, become nearly solidly Democratic.
CELEBRATED-BERNE TIMEPIECE.
Historic Clock an American Millionaire Wished to Buy.
London.—A story comes from Berne to the effect that a "Chicago millionaire," name not given, has been trying hard to purchase the celebrated clock in the Zeltglockenturm in that city. It is asserted that he made one offer after another, each time raising the price, but that he was at last convinced that there was something in Switzerland which money could not buy.
The clock announces the hours by the crowing of a cock, and two minutes before each hour a number of bears walk around the sitting figure. Unlike many of the curious and elaborate clocks in existence, the Berne timepiece is also notable for its artistic workmanship.
The Swiss newspapers were exceedingly indignant at the idea of the
Clock Wanted by American Millionaire.
clock going to America and said some unpleasant things about the habit of rich Americans of trying to purchase everything that takes their fancy.
Descoveries far beyond expectation have resulted from the work of an expedition sent out by the German kalser to explore the region round about the town of Turfan in Chinese Turkestan. Dr. A. von Le Cog was given charge of the enterprise, and the results of his excavations, sent home in 200 large cases, are believed to be more important than any others in central Asia for many years: There are manuscripts in at least ten languages—Nagari, Brami, Chinese, Tibetan, Tangut, Syriac, Manicharean, Nighur, Turkish and one unknown tongue—which will attract the attention of ethnologists throughout the world.
There are also paintings on hardened mud, plaster and wood, with a background of gold leaf similar to that so often employed in early Italian art. Most of the paintings represent Buddha and scenes in his life.
The mystery which at present puzzles students of history is the unknown reason for the strange commingling of races at Turfan, but the answer may be supplied when the manuscripts are decliphered.
Her Ambition.
"Have you seen 'Everyman'?" asked the Boston girl.
"Have you seen everybody asked the Boston girl.
"No," replied the pretty flirt. "I haven't; but I'd like to."—Harper's Weekly.
SONS OF PRESIDENTS
BOME WHO HAVE CHANCE FOR
THE WHITE HOUSE.
Thus Far Only One Man, John Quincy Adams, Has Succeeded In Following His Father Into Executive Chair.
Washington.—Sons of former presidents of the United States are not to be discounted as factors in public affairs.
The boys of President Roosevelt and President Cleveland are still too young to be reckoned with, and McKinley had none, but those wearing the name of Lincoln, Grant and Garfield are holding prominent places in public life, and it is by no means an impossibility that one of them may yet go to the White House.
There is a precedent. John Quincy Adams made a greater president than his distinguished father, John Adams. Harrison, father and son, did not succeed each other, but Benjamin Harrison was grandson of William Henry Harrison, so that it will be seen that relationship is by no means a bar to a man's ambitions.
The case of the Grants at once suggests itself. There are two of them now holding high places in public esteem, and one of them, Frederick Dent Grant, has followed the calling of his father, and is a soldier. The other, Jesse Grant, who has spent most of his years in California, was not quite so well known until recently a number of boomers suggested him as available material for the Democratic nomination to the presidency.
Then folks began to sit up and take notice and ask questions about Jesse Grant. They found out that Jesse was the third son of Lee's conqueror, that, having retired from business, in which he acquired liberally of wealth, he is now settled down in New York. Perhaps the strongest plank in Mr. Grant's platform is opposition to Mr.
Jesse Grant
Roosevelt. He does not believe in the policies inaugurated by the strenuous man from Sagamore Hill. He does not think that a trust is necessarily pernicious, he favors a restriction of immigration, and he deplores the elaborate ceremonials that are now deemed essential to White House hospitality.
Though he is much younger, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, youngest son of the martyred president, perhaps stands a better chance of some day going to the seat his father occupied than any other president's son.
His career has been of the kind that invites expectation. He was a boy around the White House, he went to school at Hentor, studied law graduated, made himself an honorable record in the Ohio senate, and then came to Washington.
It is a fact not generally remembered that James Rudolph Garfield was not Mr. Roosevelt's first choice for civil service commissioner. The place was originally offered to his brother Harry A. Garfield, leading Ohio attorney and man who gained fame because of the persistence with which he has opposed political corruption in the state. Harry declined the place, and it then went to James R.
As soon as the latter got a foothold at the capitol, he made a quick impression and proved to President Roosevelt that he is the kind of man needed to aid in the administration's war on corporations. In a short time he had been advanced from the civil service department and made commissioner of corporations. It was in this post that he did his most notable work, and as a reward he was finally taken to the official family of the president as secretary of the interior.
Here Mr. Garfield gained his spurs by addressing himself to the task of dealing with the land thieves.
President Roosevelt was much delighted with the vigor the son of Ohio's first martyred President put in his work, and Mr. Garfield is now one of the president's closest advisers.
In his intimacy with Mr. Roosevelt he enjoys one great advantage that Senator Lodge is perhaps the only man who shares. He is a great reader, and his tastes for books is the admiration of the president, also a man of letters. No matter how great the stress of official business, the young secretary can always find time to read, and his knowledge of a wide range of topics makes him especially valuable at the cabinet conferences.
Though his face is bright, smiling and full of life, Mr. Garfield is really a serious man. He works hard and incessantly, and he compels employees in the department to follow his example.
WOMAN DISCOVERS "SOUL KISS."
Vesta La Viesta Declares It a "Dellrium of Ecstasy."
New York.—Vesta La Viesta, mystic and cosmologist, after two years of silence, has emerged to unfold to us the wonders of the soul kiss. No such rapture is known to humans in the present state of knowledge, she says.
Asked what it was like, she answered that when you have been properly developed and try on the soul kiss, your whole being responds to a perfect dellrium of ecstasy. It is like the fusing of two great forces when
M.
VESTA LA VIESTA.
(Mystic and Cosmologist Who Has Discovered the Soul Kiss.)
responsive souls meet in this exercise.
It may last for hours, but whatever the length of it you do not breathe except cellularly.
What's that?
Why, breathing through the pores of the skin, of course. Education makes it possible. Indian mystics speak of various ways of breathing, but they do not know of the cellular.
Another strange feature of the soul kiss is that it is wireless. When you have learned it you can send one to your affinity through mountains and over seas.
The trouble with most people is that the solar plexus is not aroused, and for that reason they are unable to enter the higher spheres. La Viesta's mission, in addition to teaching the occult, is to develop the solar plexus much as the mind is improved. La Viesta has made a tour of the planets and in mingling with the inhabitants made many interesting discoveries. Nothing beats the soul kiss, which she was taught by her affinity on the planet Neptune.
DIVING SUIT OF THICK IRON.
Though It Weighs 540 Pounds, the Diver Feets Light and Alry In It.
Brooklyn.—At Eaton's Point, L. L, the other day, O. E. Gandy made a plunge into the sound incased in a diving suit of a new pattern, reaching a depth of 230 feet. As a result of the experiment an expedition is to be sent within a few weeks to Venezuela to get the $3,000,000 in gold and jewels aboard the ill-starred San Pedro de Alcantara. This ship, which sank in 1815, still lies in the harbor of Cumana.
The plunge was made from a scow about six miles off Eaton Point. At the greatest depth the diver conversed with persons above by means of a
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Diver Gandy in His Suit.
telephone, told how light and alry he felt in his 540- pound suit, and jokingly added that he was so comfortably cool that he would like to remain down the rest of the summer.
At the top is shown a section of the chain by which the daring diver is lowered to the floor of the ocean.
The costume in which the diver performed this astounding feat consisted of thick iron, of the strength of a locomotive boiler. Unlike the ordinary diving costume, however, it was built to withstand the tremendous pressure of the water of its own strength, instead of relying upon air pressure from pumps. Enos B. Petrie is the inventor of the diving suit.
Character throws out its threads of usefulness everywhere, in standing for sentiment, in defending principle and in working for the good of the whole as well as for the individual aspirations.
ORIGIN OF SWASTIKA
BAUBLE OF SUMMER GIRL WORSHIPED BY PRIMITIVE MAN.
When She Sticks Ornament in Her Shirt Waist She Should Know That It Is One of the Great Religious Symbols of the World.
Boston.—The swastika is just now having remarkable vogue as an ornament for woman's dress. As brooch, belt buckle, stick pin, collar fastener, or hat pin, this upright cross, with each of its four arms bent to a right angle at the end, meets everywhere the eye.
Nearly every woman who buys one knows that it is in some sense a "good luck pin," but how it came to be considered such and where the peculiar and curiously attractive symbol originated not so many know.
What is the swastika?
It is one of the great religious symbols of the world. It has been recognized as a religious emblem by more people, very likely, than has the cross itself. As such symbol it is very many hundreds of years older than the Christian era; in fact, it is, perhaps, the very earliest of religious signs or characters. It has been revered all over Europe and Asia, and long before the dawn of Christianity our pagan ancestors looked up to it, as the emblem of what they worshiped. It is one of the oldest things in history, and there is scarcely a land in whose ruined temples it is not found.
"Suastika," the name given it by the Brahmins and Buddhists of India, is a Sanscrit word signifying "of good fortune." In the Pall tongue it is "sutl," which means "It is well," or "so be it," which is much the same meaning as the Sanscrit word. The Japanese call it "manjl" and the Chinese know it as "ouan" or "wan." The French call it "le croix pattee," the footed cross, while the ancient English name is "fylot," meaning either four-footed or many-footed. The most puzzling and most interesting thing about the swastika is that it is found in nearly all parts of the world, in this country as well as in
The Swastika on an Ancient Chinese Painting.
Europe and Asia, wherever archaeologists digs up the buried cities of the remote past. Drawn, painted, cut, woven, scratched or otherwise designed, not only upon burial urn and sacrificial stone, but also upon utensils and objects of everyday use, the curious symbol appears.
It has been found among relics that mark the bronze age in Europe, and some antiquarians believe they have discovered the fact of its existence in the so-called polished stone age of man.
Prof. Schllemann found it at Hisarilik in the buried cities that underlay the ancient Troy, of which Homer sang, which indicates its existence at a period from 3,000 to 3,500 years ago.
By those who look upon the region to the northwest of India as the primal home of the blonde races of the world, that ancient land is also looked upon as the birthplace of the swastika. R. P. Greg, an eminent English authority, argues that "it was a much-used and favorite religious symbol among the earlier Aryan races, and was intended by them in the first instance, to represent in a cruciform form an ideograph or symbol suggested by the forked lightning." Our primal white forbears worshiped Dyaasoltar (Jupiter), the sky father, and the jagged lightning was the natural emblem of this awful power.
So with the successive emigrations of the Aryans from northern India all over Europe, the swastika spread and, adopted as a symbol of Buddha in the seventh century before Christ, it was later carried into China and Japan. The Arabs and Jews knew it not, nor did the ancient Egyptians, but they were not of Aryan blood.
Thus the hammer of Thor, the Scandinavian deltoy for whom Thursday is named, was this very same swastika which the malden of to-day is using to ornament a summer shirt waist. It was with his mighty hammer, Mollner, that Thor is fabled to have crushed the head of the Midgard serpent, destroyed the giants, restored to life the dead goats which drew his car, and consecrated the pyre of Baldur the beautiful.
Jays Whipped Cat
Birds defend their young to their uttermost abilities and often yield up their lives in unequal combat with the ravagers of their nests. One summer Dr. Welr saw two jays whip in a fair fight a large cat, which had attempted to rob their nest. They seemed to have arranged the order of *ombat* with one another before they attacked the would-be ravisher of their homes. The father concentrated his attack on the cat's head, while the other went at its back with claw and beak.
DO YOU WIGGLE WOGGLE!
Latest Amusement That Is All the Rage Down East.
Chicago.—It has arrived. It is the wiggle-woggle.
Do you wiggle-woggle? If not, why not? You've got just as much right to wiggle-woggle as anybody else. People who have wiggle-woggled say it's the best fun in the world. It's the fad down east. Everybody wiggle-woggles around down there.
The wiggle-woggle in principle is a three-cornered piece of wood with a castor leg under each corner and a steering rudder in front. By standing on the stool with a foot on each of the two corners farthest from the rudder
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The Wiggle Woggle Looks Like a Turtle.
and by jiggling, or, rather wiggling, the body so as to give motion to the feet, the stool will move along quite rapidly. By means of ropes fastened to the steering gear the stool may be made to travel in any direction required.
This stool, painted to look like a turtle, is the wiggle-woggle. The man who invented it is said not to have thought much of his discovery. He could travel faster on a street car or on a bicycle. So he left his wiggle-woggle neglected in the back yard.
Then his wife tried the queer contraption. She was a very stout person, and anything that looked like it was good for a ride she was willing to try. The lady was delighted. She discovered that the too, too solid flesh melted off perceptibly while she gave that sinuous swaying motion that induced the machine to go. She was so charmed with the machine that she induced her daughter to try it.
Daughter demurred for some time, for she was so thin she had to stand three times in one place to make a shadow. She shuddered to think what would become of her if she began riding the wiggle-woggle. Strange to say, the wiggle-woggle that had made her mother so sylph-like gave daughter a shape like Juno. The wiggle-woggle had brought into play and development the very muscles needed to fill out the figure.
The constant movement of the hip and waist, which is necessary to make the machine move, is one of the best known means of reducing the waist line. But scrawny persons are just as enthusiastic about the wiggle-woggle as are stout people. It builds them out and makes them so proud just to promenade up and down the beach in a bathing suit that they don't go near the water.
VETERANS HONOR MISSOURIAN.
C. G. Burton, New National Commander of G. A. R.
Nevada, Mo.—Charles G. Burton, who has been elected commander of
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(Recently Elected Commander of the National G. A. R.)
the National G. A. R., was a resident of this city several years ago until his appointment in 1906 to be revenue collector at Kansas City. He has been judge of the twenty-fifth district and also served in the fifty-fourth congress and for many years has been a leader in Republican politics. Judge Burton was born at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1846, and entered the union army at the age of 15. Illness compelled his discharge in a short time, but he again enlisted in 1854 and served with the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio in a hundred days' campaign. After the war closed he studied law and was admitted to the bar at Warren Ohio. He then came to Missouri and speedily made a name for himself in legal circles. Before bein' elected to a judgehip he had been circuit attorney and prosecuting atti- y and he has sat as special jud- important cases.
A GRAND MASONIC CHARITY FAIR.
To be given under the auspices of the CHARITY COMMITTEE
NEW AUDITORIUM,
Eighth street between E and G Sts.,S.E.
Beginning Monday, October 7, 1907;
Ending Friday, October 18, 1907.
New attractions each evening.
Come and vote for your favorite.
MONUMENTAL ORCHESTRA,
Prof. Charles Hamilton, Leader..
Season tickets, 50 cents.
Grand Opening Night, Monday, October 7th, by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge and the Subordinate Lodges, F. A. A. M., escorted by the Grand and Subordinate Commanderies of the District of Columbia. The Grand and Subordinate Commanderies of Baltimore, Md., and Wilmington, Del., have been invited to attend. The Grand and Subordinate Chapters of the Order of the Eastern Star, and Courts of Heroines of Jericho, nUited Supreme Council, A. A. S. Rite, and the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows are also invited.
Tuesday night, October 8, Social Lodge and Ionic Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Mt. Vernon Chapter, R. A. M.; Miriam Chapter, O. E. S.
Wednesday night, October 9, Felix Lodge and James H. Hill Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Union Chapter, R. A. M.; I. B. P. O. Elks.
Thursday night, October 10, Hiram Lodge and Charles Datcher Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Prince Hall Chapter, R. A. M.; Simon Commandery, K. T.; Young Mens Protective League.
Friday night, October 11; Eureka Lodge and Prince Hall Lodge, F. A. A. M.; St. John's Chapter, R. A. M.; Mt. Calvary Commandery, K. T.; Prince Hall Chapter, O. E. S.; Banueker Relief Association.
Shriners' Night, Monday, October 14. Mecca 'Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Nobles from Wilmington, Baltimore and Alexandria are expected to be in line in full uniform.
Gethsemane Chapter, O. E. S.
Tuesday night, October 15, Meridian Lodge and St. John's Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Keystone Chapter, R. A. M.; Gethsemane Commandery, K. T.; Queen Esther Chapter, O. E. S.; Young Men's Immediate Relief Association.
Wednesday, October 16, Widow's Son Lodge and Lodge and John F. Cook Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Henderson Commandery, K. T.; Electa Chapter, O. E. S.; Crispus Attucks Relief Association.
Thursday night, October 17, Warren Lodge and Pythagoras Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Queen of Sheba Chapter, O. E. S.; Douglass Relief Association; Coachmen's Union Relief Association.
Friday night, October 18, Charles Datcher Chapter, O. E. S.; leading social clubs of the city.
LEGAL NOTICES.
FOUNTAIN PEYTON, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS TRICHT OF COLUMBIA
This is to give notice, that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia Letters Testamentary on the estate of Elizabeth Keckly, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 16th day of September, A. D. 1908; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 24th day of September, 1907.
Home of Nat. Asso., Eighth street above Berry Place Northwest, Washington, D.C. Attest, James Tanner, Register of. Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court.
The Probate Court
Fountain Peyton, Attorney.
W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS-
Administraition Docket. No.14690 Estate of Louise C. Robinson, Deceased. Application having been made herein for letters of administration on said estate by William Reynolds, it is ordered this third day of October, A.D. 1907, that W. George Rabain and all others concerned., appear in said Court on Monday, the 11th day of November, A. D. 1907, at 10 o'clock a.m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and the "Washington Bee" onct in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned — the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day.
James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Pro- READ THE BEE.
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Cor, 7th and I Sts., N. W.
The United Supreme Council, Thirtythird degree, A. A. S. R., on the occasion of its triennial session, will hold divie services at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Sunday night, October 20, 1907. The sermon will be preached by the Rev. and Ill. Sir E. W. S. Peck, Thirty-third degree, of Baltimore, Md. Special music by the Metropolitan Choir, under Director Prof. J. T. Layton, P. G. M., October 21. Reception will follow. Many prominent members of the craft will be present.
Roosevelt's plans worry politicians. They are not at all pleased with his Congressional program. Anti-Administration factions are trying hard to block the Executive.
A reorganization of the administrative force of the Government Printing Office is said to be impending.
The Right Rev. S. D. Ferguson, D.D.
have designs. Carpets and draperies, profusion. Rich and delicate effects are beautiful. Prices are low, and carpets by sewing, laying and lining do not even charge for the waste in a point you view our stock it is a special things—splendid qualities at the most point of all is that you can choose what at once, and arrange the payments marked in plain figures and you can easily obtain anywhere, and paying highly amounts that you can spare with easy. We invite you to open a box as you see fit without first closing the currel about the terms, for you have to suit yourself.
R GRO
venth Street.
SCIAL
HELDS OF COAL PURCHASED
ONE PECK OF COAL FREE
ER.
COMPANY,
Near K Street Market.
IERRMANN
CARPETS
and size. One of the most representative showings of made-up carpets, room size, in the city. The stock of velvet and tapestry brussels rugs is especially rich in unusual values.
D.C.L., Missionary Bishop of Cape Palmas, West Africa, was the only colored bishop in attendance at the Episcopal Convention held at Richmond, Va., last week.
James P. Wood, of Ohio, has been appointed as the chairman of the Spanish Claim Commission, vice Hon. W. E. Chandler, resigned.
In his recent address to Iowans the
The members of the Senior Brotherhood of St. Andrew wear red cross pins, the Juniors wear blue.
The Right Rev. A. B. Allen, D.D.
National Grand Master of the Compack Masonic Fraternity, has been sick. He has recovered.
John V. Johnson, colored, of Chicago, Ill., all-round sport, died last week. He was worth $250,000. He was noted for his charitableness toward the race. Ten thousand seven hundred and seventy-six saloons in New York City.
Phone, Main 2524.
ROBERT ALLEN,
BUFFET AND FAMILY
LIQUOR STORE
1917 14th St. N.W.
Washington, D. C
ColoredSkin Made Lighter
At last, science has discovered it. Every application makes the skin a shade lighter and softer. Price 50 cents per jar. Send 10 cents for sample Francois de Salle, P. O. Box 1837, New York City.
FOR RENT.
Two nicely furnished rooms for gentlemen; all modern improvements; half block from Fourteenth Street transfer point; terms reasonable. No. 1348 Wallach Place, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, T and U (You) Streets.
G. CLIFFORD SMITH PHARMACIST 10th and R Streets, Northwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. SODA WATER
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. W. S. RICHARDSON.
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. RICHARDSON'S, PURE DRUGS, 316 41/2 Street, S..W.
[Medal, Paris Exposition, 1900.]
Finest medicinal wine in the world
Highly recommended by the medical
profession for typhoid convalescents
75c full qt.
ONLY AT
CHRISTIAN XANDER'S
Quality House 909 7th St. Phone 754
Established 1866.
Gold and silver watches, diamonds, jeweiry, 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.
PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE.
GREAT DOUBLE VALUE DRUG
25c. Sanitol Tooth Powder, paste or liquid, 19 cents.
25c. Sozodont Powder, paste or liquid, 17 cents.
25c. Rubifoam, for the teeth, 19 cents.
25c. Lyon's Tooth Powder, 14 cents.
15c. Aromatic Tooth Powder, 10 cents.
10c. Chalk and Orris Root, 5 cents.
50c. Pure Glycerine, a fine product, full pound, 25 cents.
35c. Blaud's Iron Pills, 5-grain, 100 in a bottle.
powder made, pound can, 15 cents.
25c. Double Distilled Witch Hazel, full pint, 15 cents.
25c. Laxative Quinine Tablets, just the thing for that cold of yours, 15 cents.
25c. Phosphate of Soda—the liver tonic —pound, 12 cents.
25c. Sedlitz Powders, 1 dozen in box, keep perfectly, 15 cents.
25c. Dead Stuck, for bugs. 17 cents.
Pitcher's Castoria; elsewhere, 25c.; special, 15 cents.
Quinine Pills, best grade, 2-grain, 100 in bottle; elsewhere, 25c.; special, 18 cents.
Beef, Lron and Wine, elsewhere 50c.; special, full pint, 25 cents.
15c. Chloride Lime, disinfectant, pound, 9 cents.
$1.25 Zinc Douche Pans, 69 cents.
$2 Enameled Douche Pans, $1.19.
25c. Euthymol Toon Paste, 17 cents.
10c Rose or Violet Cream, 8 cents.
10c. Camphor Ice, 8 cents.
25c. Rhinitis Tablets, 100 in bottle, 15 cents.
25c. Cherrifoam, makes teeth pearl, 19 cents.
Little Liver Pills, 7c., 4 for 25 cents.
25c. Espey's Cream, 15 cents.
25c. Sugar of Milk, full pound, 15 cents.
10c. Almond Cold Cream, 7c.; full pound, 49 cents.
Effervescent Phosphate of Soda; elsewhere, 25c.; special, 1-4 pound, 15 cents.
Lady Webster Pills, elsewhere 35c., special, 100 for 17 cents.
$1 German-make Dressing Combs, coarse
or coarse and fine, 60 cents.
3-grain Asafetida Pills, 100 for 15c.;
5-grain, 100 for 25 cents.
50c. Olympian Massage Cream, 29 cents.
50c. Malvina Cream, 34 cents.
50c. Viola Cream, 34 cents.
Williams' Shaving Soap, cake, 5 cents.
15c. Rat Bisket, 12 cents.
25c. Denmcura Tooth Paste, 17 cents.
$1 Shoulder Braces, 69 cents.
$2 White Maple Crutches, pair, 98 cents.
50c. Solution of Formaldehyde, full pint
15c. Toilet Paper, full pound roll, 8 cents.
..You can get it for less at our Store than elsewhere.
PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE,
844 7th St., N. W., just above King's Palace.
Mrs. Alexander Olgesby wife of Capt. Alexander Olgesby, Thirty-third degree, of the War Department, is sick at her residence, 1724 T street northwest. The largest city in the world is London. The population equals the combined population of Paris, St. Petersburg and Rome.
HOLLY MOUNT PURE RYE
WHISKEY.
Sold Only
JOHN F. MEENEHAN.
14th St. and Rhode Island Avenue
N. W.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
Phone N. 2166.
HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN
HIGHER WAGES TO NEGRO WORKMEN
Secured by This New Union Order grows By Leaps and Rounds—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 are seen 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, doing an International Union Order from the Courts, which gives full protection and Benefits to our race.
There is no color, race or sex
crimination in this Order. The
has an equal standing with the
members, and can be elected to
any office. Every effort is made
vance the condition of the mem-
securing equal opportunities
with other workmen, to learn the
and to have steady work at high
and Union hours.
The Grand Lodge donates $1000
the burial of each deceased member
a fine monthly Journal is pub-
Membership Book of the Order
nized by all Lodges everywhere
tressed members are assisted
member and Subordinate Lodges
privilege of buying stock in
on low monthly payments,
paying $8 per cent interest.
A Leading Negro Deputy
in each locality. AT ONCE
Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal
subscriptions, sell Stock and act as DISTRICT DEPUTY ORGANIZER
This work can be done in spare hours
many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Pg money is made by good hunters.
Write at once. Name of paper, and enclose information and pass. Address
THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE,
34 to 40 Canby Builng. Davton, Ohio.
FORD'S
HAIR POMADE
Formerly known as
"OZOMIZED OX MARROW"
SO STRAIGHTEN KINKY or CURLY HAIR that it can be pun up in any style desired consistent with its length.
Ford's Hair Pomade was formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" and is the only safe preparation known to us that can be used on hair that is shown above. Its use makes the most stubborn, harsh, kinky or curly hair soft, pliable and easy to comb. These results may be obtained from one treatment; 2 bottles are used sufficient for a year. The hair prevents dandruff, relieves itching, irritates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking off, makes it grow and, by nourishing the roots, gives it new life and vigor. Being one of the most necessary for ladies, gentlemen and chi'en. Ford's Hair Pomade has been made and sold continuously since about 1855, and label, "OZONIZED OX MARROW," was registered in the United States by Ford's仕 uses make the hair STRAIGHT SOFT and PLIABLE. Beware of imitations. Remember that Ford's Hair Pomade is put up only in 50 cts. size, and is made only in Chicago and by us. The genuine has the age. Refuse all others. Full directions with every bottle. Price only 50 cts. Sold by drugrists and dealers. If your drugrist or dealer can not supply you, he can get it for you from you. For 50 cts. on one bottle postpaid at $1.40 for three bottles or $2.50 for six bottles, express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all points in U. S. A. When ordering send postal or express money order and mention name of buyer. Write your name and address pliably to us.
The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co.
(None genuine without my signature)
Charles Ford Press
153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, IL
Agents wanted everywhere.
DR. ROBERT L. PEYTON
Crown and Bridge Work a Special-
310 Four-and-a-Half Street S.W. Washington, D. C. COLE & SWAN, WATCHMAKERS AND JEWELERS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Choicest jewelry of every kind,
To suit the most fastidious mind;
With taste and skill combined.
The best and finest you will find.
The Episcopal Church in America has reached the conclusion that the colored brother in the church is a failure (N. B.—When they reach heaven and the other place, Jim-Crow places will be in order, as they have it.)
The new vagrancy law of Chicago. It was largely drawn by Major DeNovo a colored lawyer, of Chicago
Last Saturday the Army and Navy Union was incorporated at Washington District of Columbia.