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VOL.XXIX NO 39 Dr. Sheppard's Work Dr. Sheppard's Work THE SOUTH'S GREAT WORK NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL AND CHAU TANOHA Durham, N. C., Feb. 1909—One of the greatest, if not the greatest National Training School and Chautauqua, is to be started in this place under the direction of Dr. James E. Sheppard, no doubt one of the rising young men in the South. Dr. Sheppard is looked upon in this section as the right man in the right place. Although a busy man he is making a great sacrifice to take a hold of this new national enterprise to the exclusion of his other business. The success of the school means that Dr. Sheppard must let go some of the enterprises in which he is now engaged, namely: Director of the Mechanics' and Farmers Bank; Trustee Lincoln Hospital, given by the Dukes to commemorate the fidelity of the slaves; Director of the Baptist Sentinel Publishing Company; First vice President, Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; Treasurer of the Interdenominational Sunday School Convention of North Carolina; and one of the three colored members of the executive committee of the International Sunday School Association. There is no man in the South who is more highly thought of than Dr. Sheppard. He has a new method of tending colored Americans and it is quite likely that this new propaganda will be an eye opener to the colored people in this contry. President Roosevelt highly commends this new enterprise of Dr. Sheppard's and is of the opinion that it will do good work for the masses. Where to be Located? Hillsboro, North Carolina. Hillsboro is one of the oldest towns in the State. The site embraces 40 acres of land running near the small chain of Occoneechee Mountains. A little stream winds its way through the beautiful woodland. A quiet, picturesque spot, and yet near enough to three of the most prosperous cities in the State, Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro. Why Such an Institution? There is no similar one for the colored race in America. It is to be modeled after Northfield and Winona. The Location Central? North Carolina is the happy medium between the North and the South. The conservative feeling of its white citizens, makes the State especially attractive to colored people. Do the Colored People Need Such an Institution? All industrial or college education that will cause the betterment of the real condition of a race must be founded upon a moral and religious training. The rallying cry of the race must be: "Change the man and the environments will be changed by the man." What are the Advantages of a Religious Training? 1. It awakens the sluggish, dormant energies of the individuals and turns them into channels of usefulness and service. 2. It lessens crime, reduces idleness, stops violence, teaches lessons of restraint. 3. It builds up a better citizenship and checks the great waste of human material found in chain gangs, jails and penetentiaries. 4. Makes a man practically religious and the industrial and educational side will take care of itself. 5. The rallying cry should be—'change the man and the environments will be changed by the man.' What is the Plan Proposed in the Establishment of Such an Institution? 1. To train men and women in the Bible and thus change the inner life and with this life changed, send them out to change others. 2. It is also planned to have a literary department especially adapted for the illiterate minister. The ministers of the colored race are the real leaders of the race, and for the next three or four generations will remain so. There are about 30,000 colored ministers in the United States, a safe estimate is that only ten per cent., or 3,000 are educated. leaving 27,000 yet to be reached. These 27,000 largely control the future of 8,000,000 people. In many instances these ministers are seeking the light. They cannot spend a long time in college and hence a practical course must be arranged to suit their needs. They must be made discontented with the old way and seek a better one. 3. A special course for Sunday School teachers. The Sunday Schools will be the largest and most potent force in shaping the future of the race, and yet the schools already established are neglecting it. Listen to what Vice President Fairbanks says on this subject: January 29, 1908. Mr. James E. Shepard. Your letter of the 18th instant is received. I fully agree with you that "The Sunday School furnishes the most hopeful field for the future work in the uplift of the Negro." There is no better field of endeavor than this. The work is worthy of the utmost encouragement. The hope of the race lies in the salvation of the young. Specially trained teachers must do the work if it is to be effective. A course covering a definite period will bring the only permanent results. 4. Settlement work will be attempted in several communities and the results given to the public. 5. A special course, designed for the training of young men and women, to do the work required by the Young Men's Christian Association will be established. With proper trained men and women ready for service, this great arm of helpful work will do more for the masses. What Industrial Work Will be Done? It is planned to establish practical industries, Agriculture, Horticulture, courses of Domestic Science and similar branches. The men and women will be taught to work, and this idea will be sent to the masses, that religion and work go hand in hand. Are the Colored People Ready? They are, and will support it. Sixty applications have already come in. When Do You Propose Opening? July, 1909. How will it be Supported Financially? It is planned to raise an endowment to start of $150,000 and to raise an additional $50,000 for buildings—the income from the endowment will pay the salaries in the beginning. It is planned to start industries and to sell lots for settlements. Thrifty families will be induced to purchase homes and thus make an ideal colored settlement. Can Other Land be Secured? Yes, over 100 acres can be secured at a reasonable rate. Has Any Money Been Subscribed? $50,000 has been promised provided $100,000 is raised within one year. We believe that the money you invest in this institution will begin to show results at once and become a permanent investment. Dr. Sheppard will leave for Washington today and his headquarters will be at 1203 Tenth street, northwest, Washington, D. C. AUDITOR TYLER HAS BEEN FURNISHED THE MANU- Prident-elect Taft has furnished Auditor Tyler with the manuscript of all his speeches delivered on the race question, and Mr. Tyler is now hard at work compiling same. This week a copy of the introduction pre-pared by Mr. Tyler was submitted while Judge Taft was in the city. The aim is to place before the race, for preservation, the speeches of Judge Taft, delivered before and after his election in consecutive form. The pamphlet containing Judge Taft's speeches will be for free distribution. It will begin with his Greensboro speech and include his last speech, delivered January 19, this year. Read The Bee. WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, JD. C., SATURDAY FEB WASHINGTON, [D. C., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1909 Tuskegee NeoRo Conterence THE NEGRO FARMER THE NEGRO FARMER Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 17, 1909.—Of the thousand or more delegates to the eighteenth annual Negro Conference, which met at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, today, probably two twelfths came from the eight surrounding counties which make up what is known as the Black Belt of Alabama. They came by all sorts and descriptions of conveyances. Many of them had ridden all night in order to reach here and were dusty and travel-stained in consequence. These made up the bulk of the delegates, but there were farmers in attendance from every part of the South, wherever the fame of this unique institution at the mark were an ut- the lly mark v- the ut- and or o- on er or ul ? al e- a- a- THE TIMES OF NEW YORK DR. SYLVESTER L. CORROTHERS. Twenty-five years ago when the school was just starting here there was a famous camp-meeting ground just a few hundred yards away where now stands the little model Negro village of Greenwood. The Negro Conference is to a certain extent modeled on that old camp meeting and has come to take its place. The proceedings today were opened in the same old-fashioned way. An old antebellum minister led in prayer, and finally some one in the audience struck up an old-fashioned plantation hymn of the type that is still cherished among the people in the country districts. After that the different delegates, whose fame had preceded them, were called upon to "testify," as they are accustomed to do at home in the experience meetings. The difference, however, between the Tuskegee Negro Conference and the Negro camp meeting whose place it has taken, was brought out in a striking way by the difference in the character of the "testimonies" that were offered. In the old days such a meeting as this would have "raised a great shout" and when the whiskey flowed freely, as it sometimes did, there would have been wild, happy, and riotous scenes. Today a large part of the "testimonies" refer to the efforts that the churches and other organizations throughout the Black Belt are making to help enforce the prohibition law which closed the whole state to the sale of liquor on the first of January this year. For the past two or three years a serious effort has been made by the authorities of the Tuskegee Institute, through the Local Negro Conferences which are scattered throughout the eight black-belt counties of the state, to discourage the purchase and drinking of liquor by colored people. Since the passage of the prohibition law a year ago a more strenuous effort has --- has penetrated. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20, been made to secure the co-operation of the colored people in enforcing the law. Reports which have come to the school recently and which were corroborated by the statements of delegates today seem to indicate that there is a pretty general enforcement of the law in the black-belt counties. A Great Speech AUDITOR TYLER IN NEW YORK New York Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Dr. Reverdy Ransom is pastor, was packed to the doors, and many turned away unable to gain admission last Friday night to hear Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor of the Navy, deliver an address on Lincoln. His address was thoughtful, and showed great research, and has been the subject of great praise from all who heard it. Mr. Tyler [Name] was the principal speaker, the other speakers being Honorable Charles W. Anderson, Counselor J. L. Curtis, Counselor Johnson and Counselor Wright. On Sunday evening a handsome dinner was given at Hotel Gross in his honor by prominent New Yorkers. Assistant District Attorney Cobb accompanied Mr. Tyler over here, and was also a guest at the dinner. Mr. Tyler remained over for a few days to attend to some official matters connected with his department. DR. S. L. CORROTHERS THE MAN By Professor William H. Ferris. Last week I was talking with one of the most noted educators of our race. He lamented the fact that many of our latter day leaders have not the stiffness in their vertebrae column which Douglass, Langston, Crummal and Garnett and Downing and Walker possessed. He felt that the great crying need of our race was for leaders of whom it can be said that manliness was an inborn characteristic of their souls. And then this educator began to discuss some of our latter day leaders. I casually referred to Dr. Corrothers. "Yes," he said, "I regard Corrothers as a very valuable man to the race. He has one quality that is a very valuable asset to the race, and that is courage. I don't always agree with his political position in every particular, but, we must thank the Giver of every good and perfect gift that in these decadent days when so many of our leaders bow the knee to Baal and worship the brazen calf, and jump on the band wagons; that in Dr. Corrothers we have a bold, fearless champion who like Elijah of old, stood alone for God and the right, against the prophets of Baal." --- Dr. Corrothers the Orator. Dr. Corrothers came to Washington in the spring of 1902. Washington is the city of magnificent distances and disappointed hopes. Washington is the graveyard of reputations.. Congressmen and Senators, who are stars of the first magnitude in their native state, come to Washington and shine with a subdued light, paling into insignificance before the resplendent glory of men of national reputation. Colored preachers and teachers come here who were big moguls in some northern, western or southern town. Washington is the place where giants are reduced and get lost in the crowd. But before Dr. Corrothers had been here a year he made the walls of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Second Baptist Church ring with his impassioned eloquence. When the Negro church was discussed in the Bethel Literary, and Booker Washington was discussed in the Second Baptist Lyceum, tall, broad shouldered and athletic, with a rich barytone voice and a magnetic personality, Dr. Corrothers electrified and held spellbound his audiences. Then, two years ago he led the fight in behalf of the discharged teachers which finally resulted in the unhorsing and unseating of Superintendent Chancellor, the well known educator and writer. Then, Dr. Corrothers with Dr. Waldron, was in the van in the controversy that waged around the Brownsville matter, striking out like the old knight in Froissorts Chronicle, and standing by Foraker. Dr. Corrothers the Pastor. But the fame of a mere agitator is evanescent. New issues come and issues fade away like a long summer day. A mere radical agitator bursts before the astonished gaze of mankind. Like a meteor in the air, He dazzles the imagination of men by the seintillating brilliancy of his verbal pyrotechnics for a few months or a few weeks and then he joins the unnumbered host of those who pass into the midnight of oblivon. So, if Dr. Corrothers were a mere agitator he would be a trailing comet rather than a fixed star in the firmament of national greatness. But Dr. Corrothers is a gospel preacher of rare power and a church organizer of high administrative and executive ability. Before he had been pastor in the Galbraith African Methodist Episcopal Church six months, he had successfully planned and mapped out a thousand dollar rally. Since New Year he has conducted the biggest revival in the history of the church. The meetings have been largely attended; the singing and preaching and praying have been of that old-fashioned type which caused people to shout for joy and cry "Glory Hallelujah." Dr. Corrothers and Bishop Blackwell preached the people into hysteria. The singing of such pieces as "I Heard John Wesley Say;" "While I am on My Way;" "When the Roll is Called;" "I Want to be There to answer to my Name" and "This is your Last Time Poor Sinner, you Must Make up Your Mind," etc. roused up the audience to the fever heat of enthusiasm and caused from fifty to one hundred people to rise and shout and sing at once. Already over one hundred have been converted and the good work still goes on. The first Sunday in March will be a gala day for the church. Then this popular and magnetic Bishop Alexander M. Waters, the thundering Bishop A. L. Warren, of Tennessee, called the "Swamp Angel of Alabama," will fill the pulpit and break the bread of life. And Dr. Corrother's final title to a place in the Negro Hall of Fame resides in the fact that he has behind him nearly a quarter of a century of solid, substantial work in Little Rock, Arkansas, Elmira and Binghamton, New York, and Washington, District of Columbia; and before him a career of ever widening influence and usefulness. READ THE BEE. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS In special message to Congress last Monday, President Roosevelt recommended the legislation of laws for the government of dependent children in the District of Columbia, an by so doing the Capital of the nation may become an example for the other sections of our country. Special exercises were held last Monday at Arlington Cemetery by the Maine Memorial Association, and friends, in memory of the victims of the Maine's destruction eleven years ago. Rev. Willam Harris, pastor of Greenmount Methodist Church, Baltimore, Maryland, fainted last Sunday morning in his pulpit while on his knees offering the prayer. Morris Winthrop, a Seventh street grocer, was fined $100 by Judge Kimball for having his scales loaded. Captain Williams, of the first precinct had to send a special squad of his men to disperse the crowd of people on the corner of D and Tenth streets, because it was rumored that a man had been pulled out of a turret window in the post office by the hawk which has been holding such high carnivals in the tower of the building. The rumor was false. The Italian Ambassador says his government "has many things for which to thank the people of America." The number of vessels said to have been stranded during the year 1908 is 1,083. There were no funeral services held in this city over the body of Representative Daniel L. D. Granger, but the funeral was held in Providence, Rhode Island, last Wednesday at noon. The funeral of Mrs. Louisa Washington took place last Wednesday from her late residence, 330 Elm street. Rev. Dr. S. P. W. Drew has announced that the midnight parade by his church will take place some time during the first week in March. There may be many balls on the fourth of March, but there will be only one "inaugural" and that one will be held in the United States Pension Office. Applications for positions in the line of the inaugural processions are being received from every section. The fine of $50,000 imposed upon the Waters-Pierce Oil Company by the Court of Missouri was paid last Monday. The Buxton Gazette says Buxton is a thriving city and belongs to the laboring man. Peace rules supreme, and "life and property" are safe day or night. The admonition of the Denver Statesman is to "keep your eye on the colored Democrat." Mrs. Leola S. Oliver, the wife of Mr. S. B. Oliver, died on the fifth instant at her home in Mississippi. Mrs. Oliver was prominent in social and musical creles. A boy, twelve years of age, was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary in the criminal court of Louisiana, for placing obstructions on the A. C. L. railroad track. Rev. Father G Alexander McGuire, in an address at the Men's Forum, Boston, Massachusetts, on the "Power of the Will," paid a glowing tribute to Mr. B. T. Washington and his will power. The Boston Advocate says the State Central Committee is making elaborate preparations to visit Washington during the inauguration. A movement is on foot to have the Legislature of the State of Kentucky make appropriations to construct a bridge across the Kentucky river at Frankfort as a "joint memorial of the two former leaders, Lincoln and Davis, both of whom were from Kentucky." The dedication exercises of the First Congregational Church, at Atlanta, Georgia, which began on the 10th instant, closed last Monday evening. The new pipe organ was played on by Mr. William H. Busk, Continued to page 8. ’ sO so. eS a a 7 ~ . a 7 . 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Theregular price ef these tiresis $3.50 per pair,but for EASY RIDING. sdvertising purposes weare making aapecial factory pricets the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders ‘shipped § ‘same day letter is received. We shipC 0. D. co approval, Youdo not pay a ceat until you have examined and found them strictly as represented, | ‘We will allow a cash discount of § ‘per cent (thereby making the price 84.55 per pair) if you ‘send FULL CASH WITIL ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one Bickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned sh, OUR expense if for any reason they are Rot satisfactory on exammaation. We are perfectly reliable and moncy scat to us is assafcas in a Penk. if you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easter, run faster, | | wear better, last Jeaaee ‘and look finer than any tire you bave ever used or seen at any price, We i anew that you will besa well pleased that when you want e bicycle you will give us your order. (We want you to send us atrial order at once, hence this remarkabletire oMer. go aang , jon’t buy an) jt a lor a pail IWF YOU NEED TIRES Seagetnden Poncture riot tires on approval aad thal st , 8 1 introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and ‘Gundry Catalogue which ry ides and quotes a! i makes and kinds of tires af about hall the neual Pree ea ite us a posta! a N 3 UYING 2 bicycle 1WIO HOT WAIT ora pair of tires from anyone until you know Oe Ov Iod wondertoh fers weare making. It caly costs. postal to learn everything. Wnitc it NOW. a J. L: MEAR CYCLE COMPANY,’ CHICAGO, ILL. Answers. Brides Older Than Bridegroomes. The vital statistics prepared by City Clerk Entwisle of Salem shows that during 190g thare were 479 marriage lcenses issucd and 306 sol- emnized in the city, which is 18 fewer than the previous year. The oldest brigegréom was GS and the oldest bride 50, while the youngest bridegroom was 16 and the youngest bride 15. Seventy-one brides were older than the bridegrooms.—Boston ‘Transcript. en Vegetable Milk. “Vegetable milk” is used in Japan. it Is made from the soja bean. The quid, is exactly like cow's milk in appearance, and in taste can hardly be distinguished from it. To make it the beans are first soaked and then boiled in water. Some suga! and phosphate potassium are added and it fs boiled down till-it has th a condensed milk. Waluable Relics. At an auction sale at Christies in London of the late Marchioness of Conyngham’s art collection a silver ewer and dish, welghing together 90 ounces, a gift cf George IV to an ‘ancestor of the Marchioness, sold for | $21,000, ns A Venerable Tartle. | A Massachusetts boy, Nathan Sampson, hag found a venerable tur- tle which bears markings made by his grandfather, now 81 years old, which were pit on in 1840, and by his great-grandfather, who marked the same turtle in 13816. —_—_—__—__—_- : Slightly Mixed. The story {s now going the rounds of the country papers about’a man who visited the paying-teller’s win- dow in a bank and asked for one of the new coins with “God Bless Our |Home” left off. YOU WILL BE PROUD OF A en KENYON OVERCOAT Be eee beer eee oe eee aes 23 wearing quality—are neverlacking es ox in Coats that bear the Kenyoa One PN omar: rm label. They arethe kind of aS «: re Qyeroats that not oaly ~> Paint) S By” Be YY oe ee, 0° tut all the +Q) alr rion | time. \ Q P40 x, J © GF we cee , a> a AC . sweatshop wher the art of. coat-making has Ae reached perfection. Only PAH. tees O We” workman Auk yourdeakr Ff | C. KENYON CO., * 20th | A Healthfnl Occupation. | Bull fighters receive $417 per hour, and the occupation Ss 50 health. ful that unless killed by accident its followers invariably reach a green old age. — Newspapers in Persia Persian newspapers are reproduced from aandwriting by lthography, no types belng used, ———$—$_—$—$<— | " -Viennas Beggars. Vienna has 32,000 street beggars, and many of them make a better liv- ing than workmen. —_—__—_ It has been estimated that a Lon- don fog weighs 3,600,000,008 tons. rime — =i le ex.” SF ta a . 7 oye How the Smooth Demonstrator Gets His Victim's Coin. “One of the latest schemes of the @ounterfelt money awindlers is to show guillible peorle a machine with which they can print for themselves large size bills, imitative of Govern- ment currency,” said Capt, 8. F. Khodes, formerly of the secret ser- vice. “This money producing ma- @bine has a smooth demonstrator who will, after getting 2 prospective Victim Interested, turn the crank and §rind out a $20 note, which, it is Roodlezs to say, ts genuine. The Vicim ahows the bill to a bank cash- fer, and hears {t pronounced good, Qnd bis mercenary nature being aroused, he sees visions of gigantic wealth, and hands over to Mr. Sharp- er $600, or at least $250, for the fastrument that is going to make him @ Rockefeller. It iz needless to say that the subsequent specimens turn- ed out are such miserable imitatians that they would hardly fool a blind Ban, bat the ignoramus Is In w place where he can’t make a roar for his bot money. The Swaying Skyscraper. Through the chance of perfect ad- fustment in the way of balance, of & row of large photographs that fang on 2 wall o. an office bullding down town the clerks In the place Lave a good deal of quiet amusement with persons who visit the place for the first time. Owing to this bal- ance: the pictures are easily sway- ed by the wind that blows through the open windows and since the of- fice force goes in for fresh alr the Year round the pictures are never mull. The Joke lez in catching the horrified expresston on the faces of the callers when they get a sight of the swinging frames. Thea it in al- waya explained with due solemnity, if the boss fz not around that the sway- ing of the frames !s due to the oscil- lation of the structure. It usually takes some time for the obfect of the $oke to see the point. Meanwhile bs has suffered 2 considerable shock.— X.Y. World. Odd South American Animals. Many curfeug animals haunt the marshy parts o.Seath America north ef the pampas. Frogs big and fero- cous, given to ‘making vicious springs when closely approached; the eapybara, a cavy “contented with the bulk of a sheep"; the huge coypu rat and the swarthy piglike tapir are frequently seen. Along the forest margins troops of peccaries are often met with, occasionally the jaguar sometimes the puma, likewise that toothless curlosity, the great ant bear, long in claw, long nosed and remarkably long tongued. A famil- far object is the great Jabiru, a stork with a preference for the desolate lagoons, where it may often be ob- served statuesque on one leg and Wrapped im prospection.—Scotsman. The Gincko Tree. Studies by Miss M. C. Stopes of the Sorail flora of Scotland have shown that the gingko or maldenhatr, tree, @ native of Japan and China, which fs cultivated-tn Europe and this coun- tryron account of its remarkable fol- fare, belongs to an extremely anc- fent family, of whic. it {s now, ap parently, the last surviving repre- sentative. At one time it seams to have been widely spread. A singu- Jar fact is that the fossil specimens @f the gingko, found in the rock beds ef the Inferior Oolite series, at Bro- Ya, Scotland, are so Bimilar to the Mring trees that ct first sight no dif- ference {x apparent. Only an ex- amination of the struciure of the @ells reveals a variation.—Youth’s Companion, For Pressing Plaitery &kirts. Plaited Skirts which have been washed are dificult to press, Time and expense may de saved by baving the work dene after the following method, which fs fo. woolen skirts e.pecially: Before the gkir has be- come badly creased or rumpled run a besting thread, using short, even stitches, down ihe entire ength of each crease whict marks the folds ef the plaits. By this meens, after the skirt has been washed, the pro- per location of each lest can read- ily be determined, and the pressing done sucessfully, Balsac tm Church Pew. The woman who had left « rol- wme of Balzac in the church pew on prayer meeting night felt 2 Httle bit ashamed when she asked for the book, but the sexton assured her she meed not fee] that way. “Many things are left tn the church,” be said, “‘and some of them are a whole Jot leas respectable than Balzac. Af- ter each service the pews yleld a strange grist of forgotten or dis- earied articles.” A Clever Bear. A noted ethnologist observed in Vienna a bear deliberately making with his paw, « current in some wa- ter which was close to the bars of his cage po az to draw a piece of float- img bread within his reach. These actions of the bear could hardly be attributed to instinct or inherited Babit, 2s they would be of little use to an animal fp a state of nature. Quill Teothpicks. ‘The largest quill toothpick fac- tury in the world fs near Paris, where there is an annual product of 20,- €00,000 quills. The factory was atarted to make quill pens, but when these went out of general use it was eonrerted into a toothpick mill. , , a Edward E. Thomas. , "Edward P, Lynek "eo ken 4 1 OTR 7 as | ” WM. T. NEWMAN & co., - A < Undertakers and Embalmers, ‘ 510 O Street Northwest. Prices Moderate. » Carriages for All Occasions. : The Wm: F. Newman & Co. wishes to announce to the public * and its friends that they have opened a modern Funeral Partor at the abové address, and are prepared to render nothing but p= to-date service at “Moderate Prices.” We solicit your patronage and, thanking you for your former patronage, We are yours, ; 4 LTT SE WM. T. NEWMAN & CO, EERSTE | Undertakers and Embalmers. Wm, T. Newman, formerly of Georgetown, D. C. : A Beautiful Hair Dressing an e e -€ - Tonic for the Hair! ‘, Read what Madam Robinson, the Famous Black Patti; Queen of the Opera, says of Kink-ine e | . Fat i ice : a BSS een : ee i areal pe Bees ge. e pn) 4 <@ aoe SAMS s AVORALO, New xork City, Deas Sir: ,, have used your Kink-ine for the vast year and my hair is growing yery fast, find it the most delightful hair dressing and tonic I have ever used, altogether different fro the many cheap pomades and vaselines on the market. It makes my hair so beautiful, soft silky, and has @tirely removed all dandruff and stopped it from falling out and breakin; off. And enables me to do it up in any of the many styles that I use on the stage. does all you claim for it, and I would not be without it. Yours sincerely, Maz. ROBINSON, Kink-ine Hair Dressing is a delightful perfumed tonic prepared largely for the use of colored people; is guaranteed to be absolutely safe and harmless, It makes harsh, stubborn, kinky, curly hair Soft, silky and glossy, enables you to comb it with ease and to dress it & enc ko hk oe 2 MADAM ROBINSON eee Spas aati ag a Ue! © KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING by supplying the needed oils directly to thegroots of the hair tones up atu me the scalp, increasing the growth and giving new life and vigor to the hair. i KINK-INE HAIR DRESSING is for sale at alt druggists for 35c per bottle. Tf yourdruggist does not keep it him order it for you; he cangetit. If not, send mae soc. and I will send same to you, prepaid. as J H.Winslow . 5 UNDERTAKER AND PRACTICAL EMBALMER. « * ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE, . TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. - OF -— we ~_— e rm —- * . " - € ' © SPECIAL OFFER.—To prove the quality and auperlo ity of our gooda over all others, we will sell one full-size bottle of Kink-Ice, price 35 cents, one eake of Kink-in: Soap, the hest shampoo and Toilet Sonp in the world, price 25 cents, both for ouly £0 cents, or six bottles and six cakes of soap for $3.00, Spectal offer zood only at the following stores: Henry Evins,928 F street sorth- F. A. Tschiffeley, 485 Pennsyl- William H. Davis, 2001 Elev- wtst, vania avenue northwest. enth street northwest. tg oo a IR. Ballinger, Prop 343 W [4th St New YorkCity J H DABNEY z TINERAL DIRECTOR. Hiring, Levery and Sale Stable. a Carriages hiréd for funerals, parties, balls, receptions, etc. : Horses and carriages kept in first-class style. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Business at 1132 Third street northwest. Main office brancll ‘ it 222 More street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office, Main 1727. Telephone call for Stable, Main 1428-5. 3 3 . OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN’S ALLEY.’ - ‘ Where I can accommodate 50 Horses. . oe Call and inspect our new and moder stable. J. H. DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third Street N. W. - lay AE YOU EA eo ARE, Shee Le a ¢ Ken 4 pee he? ie Pell = eee eRe a (gee? i yi sis fe ‘ fr are We Jobcare., Ze fe . Bpveritiss Ny Go to HOLMES’ HOTEL, No. 333 Virginia Ave., S.W Rest Afro-American Accommoda- tion in the District. FUROPEAN AND AMERI- oN “LAN. Good T.ooms and Lodging, 50., 75c- and $t.0o. Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give usa Call James Otoway Holmes, Prop. Washington, D. C. Main Phone 2316. ; ColoredSkin MadeLighter. For centuries scientific men have been trying to make dark skin lighter colored, not by artificial whitening, but in a‘ natural way. At last the Chemical Wonder Co., of New York, has discovered Complexion Wonder, which does bring a lighter natural color ev- ery time it is applied. The effect is not artificial. The lighter color is natural. The effect on the colored countenance is magical. The price of Complexion ‘Wonder is 50c. The Chemical Wonder Co. has another preparation which is indispensable for colored people, as well as white people. It is called Odor Wonder, a toilet prep- aration which prevents perspiration odor and encircles the body with perfumed daintiness. It will make anyone physically wel- come in society or business circles. Our men customers secure bet- ter positions in banks, clubs, or business houses. Our women cus- tomers advance faster in life. Price of Odor Wonder, $1.00. Our Wonder Comb will straighten any chair. A heavy comb, magneto-metallic. Will last a life-time—soc. Don’t fail to order ‘one. Wonder Grow fertilizes the scalp; supplies nourishment which makes hair grow lengthy; gives the scalp strength which prevent the hair from falling—goc. Wonder Uncurl—This preparation uncurls knats and kinks and makes the hair pliable, so as todress well—soc. We promise that our specialties will do more to advance colored people social- ly and commercially than showy garments or gew-gaw jewelry. | Delivery free. Applications for agency considered. M. B. Berger & Co., 2 Rector Street, New York City, selling agents for ‘Chemical Wonder Company. . | Ross & Mundin, 100 2uth St., Washington, D. C. : Board & McGuire, r4th St., Washington, D. C. . « & 1 1 W.Sidney Pittman - Architect ; RENDERING IN fATENT DRAWMOS MONOTONE, WATER COLOR RAFTING, DETAILING, TRACHRD AND PEN & INK . BLUE PRINTING * ‘ STEEL CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY. Phone: Main 60s9—Bi. Office 494 Louisiana Ave.,N.W: Wim. Cannon, ° 1225 and, 3227 7th Street, N. W. OLE,DISTRIBUTER OF,OLD;PUR: SIM WHISKE we _, ire Soran) ~~ eo = | anton are sewiea 2 eae ate ery Tess a a ee Sea orgies Frc mtombe ress TF PEATE a fr r Sane = THE BEE AND McCALL’S GREAT FASHION MAGAZINE for one year for $2.08. COUPO*. Edithr Bee — Find eaclosed two dollars. Send to my address below The Bee and Mall's Fashion Magatine for one year. Street. .cecosccseesersserreeee Town Or City..+..esseereesesreeseonen ME-LANGE “ pp c . SERTE -«3 TS ‘ BEFORE SIX AFTER USING. MONTHS USING. Never fails; nothing like it for hair that is not naturally straight. Price, 25 and so cents a box. For sale by the following druggists: Board & McGuire, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth street northwest; Julius Mayer, Fourth and N streets northwest; L. H. Harris, Third and F streets southwest; A. F. Pride. Twenty-eightth and P streets, Georgetown, D. C. ! . mee pe : FRANK E, WHITE M’FG. CO., Box 107, _ East Orange, N. J. Goods mailed on receipt of price’?"2" merge >, POM egialail a~ eral A: TIGH: DEGREE: 5 | 5 lid . t 4 . OF SATISFACTION IS A a us RARE THING IN MOST $3.00 loll” SHOES. SHOES AT THIS Ld r PRICE USUALLY LACK Lal ral STYLE OR COMFORT OR PT BOTH, L B _ THE STYLE OF MORE EX- L,I PENSIVE SHOES AND GOOD “al SOLID VALUE ARE FOUND ‘ 1 rd IN OUR ‘ A SIGNET SHOE I Le because of the exceptional attention bec! Ge stowed on the making. ¢ The only oheaps: ness in it anywhere Is the price. * So A Goodyear-welted shoe, mada on serge 2 I. ral of the season’s handsomest lasts, im LI “I the most popular leathers, : FL j Looks first 1. z¢ is the? way, 2 | sl every time. ‘ i I. 4] [ts worth vourwhllet. In and took. the Signet over, even Hf yu. re pet ready p (> to buy « : ‘FG Always welcome.) = ———- Wm.Moreland, "a 491 OLDSTAND. sIGY OQ? THEBIGBOUT | SS een <i Ei 1 ' ‘S Y } ® as By Se. * : a Oo te. = ra \ oe) bee ta, ry ae . 4 Ra : (i Br ae we al F es : N NA ‘ie ae eX i Ln a Fs The Old Reliable Remedy. For twenty-five long years—a quarter of a century—there has never been a remedy equal to Elixir Babek fer Majaria and such miasmatic diseases. Thousands have used it with mest gratifying results. Malaria is prevalent now. Do not wait fer it to take hold of you. Begin the use of Babek now. SOc Bottle, Your druggiss will tell you that Babek [s the best thing he eelis e @ or 7* MALARIA, CHILLS% FEVER __ If you are unable to secure Bab . : in your vicinity write to Kloczew 7 : 7 Street, Washington, D. C . BUY THE | a TGS TURE] AS rd 2 ‘ten eR Were ite Ee BF Ae ee Cotas) aT ee ‘ ACHINE : Before You Purchase any Other Write THE NAW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, ORANGE, MAGS. Many Sewing Machines sre madeto sell regard “3 of quality, but the * New Mlome” 1s made wear, Our guaranty nerrr runs out. ? ‘emake Sewing Machines So suit all conditions tthetrada. ‘The “New 2ome”™ stands atthe bead of all High-grade family sewing machines , Seldby authorized doalers only, Fon sauce ar THE REE PUBLISHED AT 1109 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months......50 Subscription monthly......20 BLACKMAILING Readers of Negro newspapers have been regaled with Washington correspondence, here of late, attacking Negro federal officials here for no cause. Their official records are not attacked, because these pseudo correspondents can find nothing in their official records to attack. Not a line can be said against their standing as gentlemen, for one, and all are conducting themselves is a morally upright manner. The Washington correspondents, or some of them, are just sending out a lot of rot criticizing men who are their superiors for no other reason than a despicable jealousy entertained for these men because of their color. It is bad enough for colored men to have to criticise colored men when there is just cause for it, but jealous criticism sent out by colored correspondents, of colored officials, serves no other purpose than to discredit such correspondents in the eyes of colored men who believe in race uplift, and to invite criticism from white newspapers simply because the officials are colored. Some of these would-be correspondents are messengers in the departments. If they were to send out correspondence criticising white officials who are their in-official life, they would be dismissed from the service at once. The Bee justifies criticism of men when there is just cause for it, but it is opposed to this rot being sent out from Washington each week by a lot of irresponsible understrappers who are not worthy to latch the shoes of our colored representatives in high office. The Bee has threatened to divulge the reason for all this, and the names, if it is not stopped, and The Bee will go farther—it will take steps to have some of these rot-senders reported to the powers that be. President Roosevelt would not stand for it an instant, and The Bee is confident that President-elect Taft will not countenance for a moment the retention of colored messengers or clerks who, simply because of a mean, jealous spirit, and without just cause send out such stuff reflecting on Negro officials. Such lying, rot-senders, blackmailers and mud-slingers ought to be separated from the service. They are a discredit to the race. Every week there is a pack of lies sent out from Washington. HOME RULE There is one thing the people of this city want and that is home rule: The southern portion of the District of Columbia, not only demand and get home rule, but, it objects to bona fide citizens of color holding office, no matter how competent they may be. The citizens of Washington are entitled to similar consideration, especially since they pay all the taxes to support and assist in maintaining the government. It was hinted a few days ago that quite likely Dr. Crum, of South --- Carolina, would be appointed to the office of recorder of deeds to succeed Mr. John C. Dancy. The Bee, as well as the people, would certainly file a protest to the importation of an outsider to fill any local office in this city. The protest should have the same force and effect as that had in the Crum case in South Carolina. If it be true that Mr. Daney is to be succeeded by some one else, there are hundreds of patriotic and deserving citizens in Washington who would not object to being appointed to the office. Mr. Taft has not said as yet that he is going to make a change in this particular office. The Bee is confident that there are hundreds of white people who object to colored men holding any local office and equally as many colored citizens who are anxious to see competent colored citizens fill the office. The Bee, for one would like to see as few bona fide colored citizens appointed to a few representative positions. There is not a representative colored citizen filling a representative place under our local government, although taxes are paid on many millions of dollars worth of real and personal property by colored citizens. MS. TAFT AND THE SOUTH. The colored man is the South had better wake up. He must get a move on himself. Under the next administration, if the colored man is unable to fill the bill he might as well take a back seat. Mr. Taft says that he proposes to leave the Negro question with the Southern white people to settle. The Bee agrees with him. The Bee is of the opinion that the better element of white people in the South will protect the colored man against the attacks of the poor white trash. Mr. Taft knows what he is doing and saying. The colored man is doing harm to himself. He is doing himself more harm than the white people. He is discriminating against himself. He wants to be "Jim Crowed" and every day he lives he does some act to convince the white people that he is an inferior individual. The only way certain colored men can succeed is to have a white overseer. He succeeds better under a white boss than he does under a colored boss. Mr. Taft told the colored people of Mississippi what he told the colored people in Atlanta, Georgia. He may have said a little more. He said that the Northern white people didn't understand the colored people South and the best thing for them to do is to keep their hands off. The Bee agrees with the President-elect. The colored people South need not fear the better element of white people. All he must guard against is the poor white trash. JUST WHAT YOU MAKE IT Credit forms such a great part of the world's business capital that every person should guard their credit as carefully as they would the same amount of cash. If you open an account with a store and agree to pay that account in thirty days, don't let it run for forty days. See that the bill is settled on time. If you have been given the privilege of paying a small part each week or month see that those payments are made just as you have promised. Meet your obligations as they become due and you will establish a credit of just the same value to you as a cash balance in the bank. It will give you the same independence, and you can demand your credit rights with a certainty of their being granted without question. DR. CORROTHERS Galbraith Church has been doing some good work. Dr. Corrothers, who has been pastor for a number of years has been able to build up one of the largest churches in the city. No man in this city is any more entitled to BAD RULE ABOLISHED Secretary Cortelyou has abolished a bad rule that existed in his department for a number of years. Under that rule only the favorites could be promoted and the unworthy. There are today worthy men in the treasury department who have been kept from being promoted. Just whose fault it was The Bee is unable to state, however, Mr. Cortelyou was convinced that something was going wrong. VISITORS The Bee suggests to all householders who will receive and entertain their friends during the inauguration week to send in their names and addresses to this office at once. The Bee will publish a personal directory for the benefit of the visitors. DR. SHEPPARD The great work that Dr. James E. Sheppard is doing in the South should be commended. This is a young man who is an honor to the race. Dr. Sheppard has traveled a great deal among his people, hence he knows their wants. A REMINDER Did you receive a letter from this office calling your attention to your indebtedness? If so, please answer at once before your paper is discontinued. Auditor Ralph W. Tyler has returned from New York where he received such an ovation on Lincoln's birthday anniversary. Register W. T. Vernon, who has been traveling through Oklahoma is a chartered car returned to the city Tuesday highly pleased with his trip. REGISTER W. T. VERNON The Statesman, Denver, Colorado The colored citizens of Oklahoma, because of the restrictive measures and discriminatory legislation, have been making an organized effort to protect themselves from the encroachment of that element in the state who are apparently opposed to the progress of the Negro citizens. An organization headed by Honorable E. T. Barbours of El Reno, and others, secured the services of Register Vernon, who was met by a company of the most distinguished citizens of Oklahoma, at Caldwell, Kansas, in a private car, secured for the accommodation of the entire party. This aroused the interest of all Oklahoma and from the beginning of the journey across the state and back again, the register and party were given an ovation. It was necessary at Hennessy, Oklahoma, for Mr. Vernon to respond to the call for a rearend speech and the train pulled out amid the applause of the multitude gathered there. Finally they reached El Reno and a large crowd of citizens, white and colored, met them at the train. The school children sang as they marched through the streets and the procession inspired by the music made its way to the place of meeting. That night the opera house was filled with people of both races. Representative citizens, headed by the Mayor of El Reno, occupied prominent seats in the audience. TOPEKA, KANSAS SURPRISED LAW MAKERS The Band and Singers Gave Concert at State House. Topeka, Kansas, Feb., 12, 1909 The last hour and a half of yesterday afternoon's session in the House was given over to the faculty and students of the Western University at Quindaro, Wyandotte County. This is the only school of the kind in the state and is really one of the best col- President Vernon came to Topeka yesterday accompanied by other members of the faculty, the choral society, the colored band and many other students. At five o'clock the House was turned over to them. President Vernon presided. The choral society is made up of about twenty students. They sang half a dozen selections and rendered such melody as can be rendered only by colored people. The House members and the many visitors cheered them loudly after each selection. Following this part of the program the House called for a speech from President Vernon. He informed the body that the program was only half completed; that the college band was waiting at the door and with the permission of the House would play several pieces. The members of the band trooped in with their instruments and music stands and while no count was made there are probably about thirty-five pieces in the band. The first selection played was Il Trovatore. Nothing of this nature was expected from the band which was composed entirely of boys and young men and the House was agreeably surprised. Expressions of praise were heard on every side. Two more selections were played, but the fourth was dispensed with, because of the lateness of the hour. The students and the faculty came to Topeka with a' purpose, of course, and after the program was completed President Vernon made that purpose known. He stated that he wanted the members of the Legislature to see the kind of young men and young women the school was turning out in order that they might know the appropriations made were not wasted. He did not urge heavier appropriations than have been made heretofore, but simply thanked the Legislature for its kindnesses in the past and asked for a continuance of them. In closing he presented Speaker J. N. Dolley with a gavel made by the boys in the Industrial department. In accepting the gavel, Speaker Dolley expressed the opinion that no money appropriation for the education of the colored people at Quindaro had been wasted; that the House was proud of the students who had entertained it and that the place for the colored people is on the farms of Kansas where they may have equal advantages with the white farmer. The stockholders of the Pensacola (Fla.) )Loan and Trust Company held their first meeting January 15, and in accordance with the terms of their charter elected their officers. The following were elected for 1909; A. M. Johnson, president; D. J. Cunningham, cashier; I. H. Spreads, secretary and manager; and three directors. The capital stock of the company is $10,000; the shares are all sold. A Building and Loan Association was organized in Salisbury, North Carolina, the third week in January. This business effort is another one of the many evidences of the influence of the Negro Business League whenever and wherever i is duly organized and properly managed. This makes the thirteenth association of the kind in North Carolina.. R. S. Abbott, a practical newspaper man, founder and editor of The Chicago Defender, is the president of a publishing company, organized for the purpose of furnishing Negro newspapers ready prints with cartoons along racial lines. They will be ready for business on and after February 15. The corporate name is The Defender Publishing Company: capital stock. $50,000. The business men of Durham, North Carolina, came together in a banquet on the evening of December 31, 1908, to take a retrospect and make a horoscope of the financial, moral and physical conditions of the Negro in that city. John W. O'Daniel was master of ceremonies. A few of the toasts responded to were: "The Progress of Durham Enterprises during 1908," by R. B. Fitzgerald and others; "The High Mentality of the Negro—Cause and Remedy," Dr. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Mechanics' Savings Bank, Richmond, Virginia, held January 5, 109, it was shown that the total amount of deposits for the year 1908 was $465,716.90. The aggregate amount for the six years of its existence is $2,222,173.18. The directors declared an annual dividend of ten per cent, now payable, and recommended an increase of capital stock to $100,000. They also recommended that a three story banking house be erected in the near future, and preparations of the plans for the same will begin at once. The president of the bank is John Mitchell, Jr. editor of The Richmond Planet. The Sunflower Agricultural Association of Kansas held its ninth annual meeting in Kansas City the second week in January. There were over forty farmers present, representing more than six thousand acres of land and thousands of dollars in stock, grain and implements. The association is growing yearly; and what is interesting to note is that the young men of the state are paying more attention to agricultural pursuits. There were more at this meeting than on any other like occasion. The association has purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land near Kansas City, to be divided into ten-acre tracks for truckers and those who wish to live in the country. Mr. C. A. Groves of Edwardsville, is the president of the association. According to an announcement in The Atlanta Constitution of January 28, the first old line life insurance company to be financed and operated by Negroes was granted a charter January 28 by the Secretary of the State of Georgia. Among some of the incorporators are J. O. Ross, David T. Howard, H. A. Rucker, Collector of Internal Revenue, Atlanta; M. B. Morten, of Athens, and a number of others. The organization has grown out of the discrimination as operated against Negroes taking out policies in the old line white insurance companies. The company must deposit $100,000 (as it is capitalized at $200,000) with the State Treasurer for the protection of its policy holders, as required in all case of insurance companies chartered by the state. The aggregate wealth of the incorporators is estimated by The Atlanta Constitution at $300,000. NEGRO INSURANCE COMPANY GRANTED CHARTER Standard Life Insurance Company Operated and Financed by Negroes—Capital $200,000. Atlanta, Ga., Feby. 1—The first old line life insurance company to be financed and operated by Negroes was granted a charter yesterday by Secretary of State Phillip Cook. It is the Standard Life Insurance Company, with a capital stock of $200,000, and headquarters in Atlanta; and its incorporators are J. O. Ross, David T. Howard, H. A. Rucker ((collector of internal revenue)), Lewis G. Watts, R. A. Holman, Thomas H. Slater, A. D. Howard, P. A. Chappelle, William Driskill and H. E. Perry, of Atlanta; F. J. Wimberly, of Gilmore; J. P. Davis and M. B. Morton, of Athens; and Emmett J. Scott, of Tuskegee, Alabama. The organization of this company is said to vaheradoodiwowaoaor ra is said to have grown largely out of the fact that in very few instances will the established old line life insurance companies accept risks upon the lives of Negroes, and usually only in the shape of high-priced endowment policies. The Standard will offer old line insurance to the Negroes without discrimination, and it has, therefore, a large and valuable field. It is estimated that the men named in the charter are worth, combined, over $300,000. Much of the stock, it is said, has already been subscribed. The company will have to deposit $100,000 with the state treasurer for the protection of its policyholders, as is required in all cases of insurance companies chartered by the state. THEY DIFFER From the Western Star The Dallas Express and the Washington Bee don't seem to agree altogether concerning the course which President Taft will pursue regarding the Negro politically. The Bee believes firmly that President Taft will make good in every particular; the Express wishes ever so much to entertain the same opinion, but feels a little doubtful. President Taft may not be able to do all that needs to be done for the Negro, but he will come nearer to it than any president in our opinion since Lincolnns day. Of course we should not expect President Taft to pick out all the appointments that the Negro wants and save them for him. The Negro must do some of the picking for himself and then go to work heroically after what he wants. The Star ventures the assertion that not a Negro in Texas has decided on making a straight fight for some certain presidential appointment. They are all waiting for Colonel Lyon to pick out the place for them and then pull them into it. If that isn't done they'll stand around and whine about Mr. Lyon not giving them anything. Go after something yourself and ask Colonel Lyon to help you. SECRETARY TAKES POWERS FROM THE TREASURY PER- The committee on the personnel of the Treasury Department, which, for more than thirty years has passed on the examinations and recommendations of all clerks of the department who have been considered for promotion, was abolished by an order issued Monday by Secretary Cortelyou. The committee, which was organized in the early seventies, was composed of Assistant Secretary Coolidge, chairman; Theo, L. De Land, secretary; W. W Ludlow, chief clerk, and Charles Lyman, appointment clerk. In future there will be no departmental examinations for promotion in the Treasury force, but the heads of the bureaus and offices and chiefs of division of the Secretary's office will make recommendations in writing to the Secretary of the Treasury for promotions or other changes of personnel in their respective offices and divisions. They will forward such recommendations to the chief of the division of appointments, by whom they will be submitted, with any further information or comment, to the Assistant Secretary having supervision of the bureau, who will submit them to the Secretary for action. FOR AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL Two mass meetings in the interest of the National Industrial School for Colored Children, to be established in the District, will be held in Convention Hall tomorrow at 3:30 and 8 o'clock. The primary effort to establish the school was initiated at a meeting in Conversion Hall. June 30, 1907. In connection with the school it is planned to have an agricultural school nearby in Maryland. Rev. S. G. Lankins, promoter of the movement, has succeeded in having three acres of ground in the District donated for the site of the trades building, and he has also, bought twenty-seven and one-half acres at Tuxedo, Maryland, for the agricultural department. This ground cost $16,000, of which amount $2,000 has already been donated. The meetings next Sunday are, for the purpose of raising the balance. The school will be non-sectarian. All trades will be taught to the Negro, boys and domestic science to the girls. The school was incorporated under the District law in 1903. From the Kentucky Standard The Honorable Ralph W. Tyler, of Washington, D. C., sends a splendidly written letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, in which he pays a respectful difference to the correspondent of said paper who has been writing some ghost story or pipe dreams about the various offices in the Navy Department under the supervision of Mr. Tyler. Mr. Tyler has certainly set himself right in the matter before the people, but it is the only plea that a white man can make against a competent Negro who holds a big office, (he is BLACK1) and he should not be allowed to hold it. Mr. Tyler's letter will be largely read throughout the country.orm No. 27. HOTEL MACEO. When visiting New York City, stop at the Hotel Maceo, 213 West 53rd. Street, corner Broadway. Steam heated. Telephone, 803 Columbus. B. F. Thomas, Prop. The Week in Society Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Lofton, 1523 M street, northwest, will be at home informally Sunday, March 7, from 5 to 7 to meet their guest Mrs. Matilda Duncan Givens of New York. Mrs. Aubrey Moseley of Jersey City. Mrs. Dora Needham Lee of Buffalo New York. Mrs. M. Anderson, Plainfield New Jersey. Something out of the ordinary is Hire's Root Beer as served from the special apparatus at the Board and McGuire Pharmacy on 14th street between T and You—Cool, pleasant to the taste, healthful. Tomorrow evening a sacred concert is announced at the residence of Dr. Williston, in S street, northwest. A silver offering will be received. Proceeds to be devoted to the Anti-Tubercosis Society of this city. Mrs. O. M. Waller and daughter, of Brooklyn, New York, will visit the city during the inaugural ceremonies, as a guest of Mrs. J. A. Johnson, 1528 13th street, northwest. A movement is on foot to organize a permanent society in the District, embracing the oldest inhabitants. Last evening a novel entertainment the "Midget Wedding," was given at the residence of Dr. W. A. Warfield. The proceeds were for the benefit of the 15th Street Presbyterian Church Miss Pierce, sister of Dr. S. M. Pierce, who has been ill has returned to her school again. Bishop E. Cortrell, of Holly Springs, Mississippi, is to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Smart at their beautiful residence, 527 F street, northeast, during inauguration week. Miss Martha Liggons has returned to her school greatly improved in health. Mr. Roscoe C. Bruce has returned from Cleveland, Ohio, where he has been for several days. Miss G. B. Maxfield, who has been sick with pneumonia for the last few weeks, is able to be out again greatly to the gratification of her many friends. Everybody who can is coming to Washington inaugural week, but in the meantime everybody who can is going to the drug store of Board and McGuire, 19121/2 14th street, northwest for drugs, medicines and toilet necessities. His many friends are glad to see Mr. J. C. Cunningham up and out again. He has been ill since September last with typhoid fever. Miss Sadie Thompson, of New York, and Miss Hampton, will be in the city during the week of the inauguration. Also Mrs. B. H. Ames, of Albany, New York. They will reside at 422 L street, northwest, the guests of Mrs. Hampton. Many New Yorkers are preparing to attend the inauguration, among whom are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Middleton, Honorable and Mrs. Charles Anderson, Dr. Roberts, Mrs. Freeman, Mr. Gilchrist Stewart and Mr. Fred Moore and daughter. MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS The Bethel Literary and Historical Association will be addressed Tuesday evening February 23, by Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Wednesday, February 24. she will appear at the Second Baptist Church, of which Rev. W. Bishop Johnson is pastor. DR. CABBANISS Dr. George W. Cabbanniss, the well known physician is to deliver the first of his series of lectures on Tuberculosis, at Shiloh Baptist Church. These lectures will be finely illustrated. Full particulars will be given in The Bee. The Fairmount Heights Presbyterian Church, recently organized, has a membership of fifty persons, which is increasing rapidly. Prayer meetings are being held weekly in the homes of the members under the auspices of the officials of the church. The members of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church are devoting their energies principally to a grand bazaar for the benefit of the church, beginning next Monday evening and continuing until the 8th of March. The sum of $2,500 is the amount desired to be raised. The John Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 18th street near L, northwest, is having a protracted meeting. The membership of the 19th Street Baptist Church are showing much activity during the present season. There were twenty-two persons baptized on the 7th instant. The officials of the church have introduced a new financial system consisting of the adoption of the weekly envelopes. The collections thus far from the new system are said to be highly satisfactory. A revival has been going on, which closed last Friday evening with the conversion of thirty-five persons. The Sunday School is in a very flourishing condition. The choir is preparing for a concert on the third of March, at which time Miss Fields, of Cleveland, Ohio, said to be a vocalist of large merit, will appear, supported by Miss Europe, an instrumentalist well known in this city. The choir of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church will give a song service on Tuesday, March 14, at 6 o'clock p.m. Last Sunday evening the Rev. C. Ernest Smith, D.D., Recor of St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church, preached. Tomorrow evening the Bishop of the Diocese, the Right Rev. Dr. Harding will preach. On Tuesday evening the 28th instant, the Rev. Dr. McKim, Recor of Epiphany Church, will preach. All these services begin at 8 o'clock. The Berean Baptist Church is holding a series of Christian Endeavor meetings each Sunday afternoon. THE INAUGURAL WELCOME CLUB MUST HAVE A WHITF MASTER The committee that has charge of the selection of a caterer for the Inaugural Welcome Club has decided to have a white caterer. The Bee is informed that Mr. E. Murray, the popular caterer has been defeated by a trick. Mr. Murray, The Bee is informed, agreed to furnish one more item than the white caterer, which the white caterer was not asked to furnish. The members are up in arms against the man who has endeavored to dominate the social functions of two inaugural halls by the Inaugural Welcome Club. The report has it that he had the committee to meet at his house and told the committee what he wanted. The committee, like a lot of babies, consented to have the white caterer. It is understood that a majority of the subscribers object and will make an open fight. This same individual endeavored to control the committee on music but the committee was too wise for him. He wanted white music also. This individual has been used to playing second fiddle to white people and he is never in a happier mood than when he is following behind some white man. Just what the outcome will be, The Bee is unable to state. In almost every church in the city interesting Lincoln Memorial Exercises were held in this city. In the southwest, one of the largest and most representative meetings was held in the Metropolitan Wesley Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Friday evening. Rev. W. A. Ray, D.D., pastor, presided. There were fully twelve hundred people in the church and every available space was occupied. The music was under the direction of Professor James T. Newman, whose choir rendered some of the sweetest music that one desires to hear. Much credit is due this very accomplished director for his excellent program. At 8:30 oclock, Madame M. Harry Clinkscales rendered very artistically an organ overture, followed with a very eloquent prayer by Mr. Miles C. Maxfield. The musical pragram was as follows: 1. Overture, organ, Mrs. M. Harvey Clinkscales; 2. Prayer, Rev. W. A. Ray, D.D.; 3. Gloria—Mozart's Choir; 4. Solo—Selected, Mr. H. W. Lewis; 5. Solo—Selected, Miss Mamye Chase; 6. Chorus "When Thou Comest"(from Rosini's Stabat Mater.), Choir—Miss Laura Tyler, Soloist; 7. Solo—Selected, Mr. Joseph H. Wilson; 8. Solo—Selected, Miss Laura Tyler; 9. Chorus "Remember," Choir; Soloists: Mr. Joseph H. Wilson, Mr. H. W. Lewis, Miss Sarah Cooper, Mr. Eugene James, Violinist. The principal speaker of the occasion was Mr. W. Calvin Chase, who gave a brief history of the life and work of Abraham Lincoln. He was frequently applauded throughout its delivery. He was followed by the pastor of John Wesley Church, Rev. Mr. Allen, who said that it was well enough for persons hundreds of miles away from the South to tell the Negroes what to do, which tended to injure their cause. Lieutenant R. E. Toomey followed and took issue with his remarks and said that it was agitation that brought freedom to the four millions of freedmen. He concluded by reciting an original poem which was loudly applauded. The Zion Baptist Church celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in the presence of over two thousand people, Sunday evening. Hundreds of people were turned away. Long before the hour for the exercises to begin standing Rev W J Howard room was at a premium. Rev. W. J. Howard, the pastor, opened the meeting and introduced the presiding officer, Mr. Thomas Watkin, who made a brief speech and introduced Rev. W. A. Ray, D. D., who delivered the invocation. The opening address of welcome was delivered by Dr. Howard. It was eloquent and interesting. Professor J. T. Newman, leader of the Wesley African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, conducted the music. The program was as follows: Rev. W. A. Ray, pastor of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church; Address of Welcome, Dev, faradwoododress of Weicome, Rev. W. J. Howard, D. D., pastor of Zion Baptist Church; Song, "America" congregation; Violin solo, "Evenng Star"—Tannhauser Mr. James Carroll; Reading Enunciation Proclamation, Miss M. A. Madre; Vocal Solo, Selected, Mr. Joseph Wilson; Address, General J. Warren Keifer, M. of C., Ohio, Piano Solo, Mss Mary Europe. Duett "By the Rivers of Babylon," Miss Laura Tyler and Mrs. F. C. Smiler, Composed by Professor E. W. Trice, a Negro soldier, an inmate of the United States Soldiers Home. Address, Honorable W. S. Greene, M. of C., Massachusetts; Instrumental Duet—Violin and Cello, Jeter Brothers; Offetory; Vocal Solo—Selected, Miss Lottie Wallace; Vocal Solo—Selected, Miss Rosa B. Childs; Vocal Solo—Selected, Miss Lola Johnson; Song, "Star Spangled Banner," congregation; Benediction; Accompanists, Miss Mary Europe, Miss Homeselle Walker. The first speaker of the evening was General J. Warren Keifer, M. C., of Ohio. He was introduced by Mr. W. Calvin Chase. General Keifer delivered a most eloquent and logi- THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN MANUFACTURER OF THE A. C. HOWARD HIGH GRADE SHOE POLISHES. A PROGRESSIVE MAN THE A. C. HOWARD PLAZA The Bee prints for its many readers and a brief sketch of Mr. A. C. H. Howard. Shoe Polish. Mr. Howard is a manufactures shoe polish and ships it to and indeed as far as the Philippines. The largest drug stores in the city. The man will appear in the next issue of The B. no householder should do without it. His high grade shoe polishes should be do business, address The A. C. How manufacturers of High Grade shoe p. Is Your Hair Soft Use Nelson Your head will keep clean amount of oil. You will never have scalp disease. 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Theare was a large audience at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Friday evening, the 12th. The church was beautifully decorated and the music was good. The following was the program of --- --- Does it combine easily without breaking? Is it straight? Does it smooth out nicely? Can you do it up in any of the charming styles, so it will stay, and make you proud of it? Is it long and full of life? If you cannot say YES to all of the above questions, then you need Hair Dressing 1. Organ Voluntary, 2. Invocation, Rev. J. H. Welch, D. D., 3. Music, Choir; Introductory Remarks, Chairman L. M. Hershaw; Emapication Proclamation, Mrs. Julia M. Layton; Music—Tenting on the Old Camp Ground; Address, Honorable J. Warren Keifer, M. C.; Lincoln's Favorite Poem, Mrs. Coralie F. Cook; Music—Battle Hymn, Address, Rev. THE GREAT MOCK TRIAL SUIT FOR BREACH OF PROMISE BY LEADING ATTORNEYS OF THE DISTRICT BAR METROPOLITAN A. M. E. ZION CHURCH D street, between Second and Third streets, southwest. Friday Evening, February 26, 1909 Beginning at 8 o'clock Do not miss this grand rare treat, which will be given under the auspices of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the above named church, and for the benefit of the Missionary cause. THE SUIT Miss Grace Tilman Gould, vs, Sir Thomas Dixon, Jr., Vaudeman, for Breach of Promise Mrs. H. Louise Williams Sir Thomas Dixon, Jr., Vaudeman, Attorney Thomas L. Jones Judge of the Court, Attoorney W. Calvin Chase Clerk of the Court. L. M. King and J. Louis Taylor Baliff Stewart M. Lewis THE WITNESSES For Plaintiff—Mrs. Cecelia Ellis, Mr. George W. Smallwood, Miss Blanche Henson, Mrs. Katie Alexander. For Defendant—Miss Alice Henson, Mr. Moses Grant, Mr. John T. Rhines, Mr. Nelson Newman. Mr. T. J. Marshall, Sr., Foreman, Mr. William H. Ricks, Mr. William Blake, Mr. Frank Wells, Mr. Henry Lewis, Mr. W. A. Bowie, Mr. J. Addison Turner, Mr. Robert Camp- bell, Mr. J. W. Monroe, Mr. Alfred Moss, Mr. M. M. Taylor, Mr. Edward W. Weyms. Mrs. Lizzie Scott Jones, President; Miss Ida Contee, Secretary; Mrs. Marion Clinkscales, Pianiste, Rev. W. A. Ray, Pastor. Admission 15 cents. Walter H. Brooks, D. D.; The Gettysburg Speech, Dr. W. L. Board; Address, Honorable John C. Daney; Music, Resolutions, John A. Davis; Benediction, Rev. F. J. Grimke. D. D. SERGEANT CHARLES W. ED- For more than two years, Sergeant Edwards of the Registers office has tried unsuccessfully, to have himself classified in accordance with the President's General Executive Order, issued three years ago. Finally he appealed to Bishop E. Cottrell, of Mississippi, who made a special trip to this city to look after his interest. Accompanying the sergeant to see President Roosevelt, who remembered him as one of his brave sergeants who with his company made the gallant charge at San Juan Hill, Cuba. He was delighted to again meet him, and after hearing the Bishop, at once issued an executive order, not only placing him in the classified service, but because of his splendid record as the Registers office, promoted and transferred him from the Registers office to that of the office of the Auditor for the Interior Department. Whenever meritorious cases come to the knowledge of the President, he does not fail to act promptly and sees that justice is meted out to those deserving. The President has observed the splendid educational work the Bishop has done in Mississippi, and is a warm admirer of his. When he informed the President that the post office at his home, Holly Springs had been for eleven years, held by democrats, he had the Bishop to name a Republican and at once appointed him at a salary of $2,500. No recent act of the President has so gratified the colored people as these two urged and promoted by Bishop Cottrrell. The Bishop and his wife will visit this city during the inauguration, while en route for an extended eastern tour, and will preach at Israel Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, B and First streets, southwest, February 28, at 11 o'clock a. m. Because one of the text books submitted for use in the schools of Louisiana contains a direction to pupils to write an essay on Booker T. Washington, it is declared that the book will get into the schools only over the vigorous protest of the confederated bodies of this state. TUSKLESS ELEPHANT: Ceylon the Only Part of the World Where They Exist. What a sight for a Ceylon elephant hunter would be the first view of a herd of African elephants—all tuskers! It is a singular thing that Ceylon is the only part of the world where the male elephants have no tusks; they have miserable little grubbers projecting two or three inches from the upper jaw and inclining downward. Nothing produces either ivory or horn in fine specimens throughout Ceylon. Although some of the buffaloes have tolerably fine heads, they will not bear a comparison with those of other countries. The horns of the native cattle are not above four inches in length. The elk and the spotted deers antlers are small compared with deer of their size in India. This is more singular, as it is evident from the geological formaton that at some remote period Ceylon was not an island, but formed a portion of the main land. It is thought there must be elements wanting in the Ceylon pasturage for the formation of ivory.—Ceylon Manual. Smokeless Coal. A London inventor claims to have discovered a process for producing smokeless coal, apparently by distillation of coal at a low temperature. This, after distillation, is said to deposit a very brilliant substance, the heating properties of which are far greater than those of the original coal, and which is absolutely free from smoke and dirt. The inventor contends that efforts to overcome the smoke plague have hitherto been unsuccessful because they have been made in the wrong direction, and that by the extraction of the smoke-producing material in coal before being burned, he has been successful in producing a smokeless coal. Electrocuting Animals. The slaughter of animals for food by electrocution is being experimented by Dr. Leduc, a French scientist, who has been conducting his investigations in the French abattoirs. He has been using the intermittent low tension currents and says that he is satisfied that the system is painless, the central functions of perception being first destroyed and then those of circulation and respiration, so that there is neither suffering nor reaction in the animals thus killed. The doctor is endeavoring to devise some piece of apparatus by which the killing of cattle may be accomplished by electricity with economy and celery. The Shy Man. Women show no mercy to the shy man, for he stands outside of the compass of convention. Could he break out all might be zaved; the man might be permanently cured. But he cannot. He has been brought up to respect convention. His muscles may be of steel, his heart of fire, but in his soul the spirit of difference holds him in a vice. In a drawing room he stands gaping, quaking, a prey to introspective torment—he who would perhaps storm a rampart with a triumphant smile or lips.—London Observer. Hanging Pictures Dangeron. "Railroad casualties receive wide publicity," said an insurance man, "that there is a common belief on the part of the public that one is more liable to accidents while travelling than when living the simple life in the confines of his home. "As a matter of cold fact, statistics show that accident insurance companies pay more money to people who get hurt hanging pictures or taking stoves apart than they do to the victims of head-on collisions. It sounds strange, but it's the truth." Kansas City Journal. Three Men to Move Book. There lies in the British Museum the largest book yet printed, a collossal atlas of engraved ancient Dutch maps. It takes three men to move it from the giant book case in which it is stored in the library of the museum. It is bound in leather, magnificently decorated, and is fastened with clasps of solid silver, richly gilt. It is nearly seven feet high and weighs 800 pounds and was presented to King Charles II. before he left Holland in the year 1660. Valuable East African Forest. The Colonial Office recently sent out an expert to report on the Kenya forest, in the East Africa protectorate. He finds the forest extends 287 miles long by eight miles broad, and comprises 1,000,000 acres of timber. Taking the average value of the $2\frac{1}{2}$d. per cubic foot, this works out tq £23 per acre, or a total value for the whole forest of £23,000,000.—London Tit-Bits. Dead Historians. I for my part believe in the dead historians. I glory in the possession of some hundreds of volumes by them. A great deal of cant is talked and written on this subject. There is an idea in some minds that a book on history to be good must be new. In nine cases cut of ten the new book is a common-place re-statement of facts that were better presented by an older writer.—The Sphere. A Man and a Woman. A man's idea of being stylishly dressed is to wear something in which he looks atrociously bad; a woman's to wear something no other woman can duplicate. The Clever Little Weasel and His Means of Defense. Take another of our animals, a fierce little weasel, clad in summer in a coat of brown, in winter turning white, but always with a jet black tip to the tail. The ermine, as it is incorrectly called in its winter coat, has an easy time of it, sneaking upon the mice and birds upon which it preys, but when a hawk takes after it in an open field in the sunlight or an owl in the moonlight, it would have but short shrift with all its sinuous leaping, were it not that the black tall tip is so conspicuous that it constantly attracts the eye and allows the pure white of the body to be confused with the snow. Even when we place a dead weasel on the snow and look at it from a distance we realize how true this is, and how valuable must be the pencil tufts of black hairs to this little vermin who spends his life in hunting or being hunted.—The Outing Magazine. Everyone of Them a Bird. A current newspaper item is as follows: "The wife of a Methodist minister in West Virginia, has been married three times. Her malden name was Partridge; her first husband was named Robin; her second husband, Sparrow; and the present one's name is Quayle. There are now two young Robins, one Sparrow, and three little Quayles in the family. One grandfather was a Swan, and another was a Jay; but he's dead and now a bird of Paradise. "They live on Hawk-ave., Eagleville, Canary Islands, and the fellow who wrote this article is a lyre, bird and an interesting relative of the family." Arctic Dog Life. Nowhere in the world has the dog such unrestricted right of way as in our most northerly possession—Alaska. In winter, when the more than 60,000 square miles of territory are sealed up in solid ice, dogs are almost the sole means of getting from place to place—in fact, they seem necessary to life itself. The aristocrats of Arctic dog life are the mall teams in the service of the United States Government. They are to-day a superior breed to the dogs employed some half dozen years ago before great gold discoveries demanded increased mall service.—St. Nicholas. Names that Don't Name Many chemical names convey no exact idea of the things they stand for. Oil of vitriol is no oil, neither are oils of turpentine and ke-osene. Copperas is an iron compound and contains no copper. Salts of lemon is the extremely poisonous oxalic acid. Carbolic acid is not an acid but an alcohol. Cobalt contains none of that metal but arsenic. Soda water has no trace of soda, and sugar of lead has no sugar; cream of tartar has nothing of cream, nor milk of lime any milk. German silver has no silver and blacklead no lead. Dora Around Blacksmith Shops. Two or three dogs are nearly always to be found loafing about every blacksmith shop. This fact is so well recognized that detectives when sent out after valuable dogs that have been lost invariably visit first all the blacksmith shops in the neighborhood. The reason why dogs visit the blacksmith shops is that they love inordinately the odor and the taste of burning hoofs. They sniff the odor as a woman sniffs a rose, and they eat the hoof parings as a gourmet eats truffles.—Minneapolis Journal. Supply of Gold. It is mainly from Africa, America and Australia that the world draws its supply of gold, some $400,-000,000 worth won regularly every year. Africa leads with about $150,-000,000; next comes the United States with about $95,000,000; Australia ranks third with some $85,-000,000, while Russia, both in Europe and Asia, Mexico, Canada and several other countries, make up the remalnder. A Long Sleep. An astonishing trance case has come to light in Berlin. A clerk, aged 46—a healthy normal man—suddenly fell asleep in June 1904. All efforts to awaken him were unsuccessful and the sleeper since then has never opened his eyes. He breathes regularly and swallows his food mechanically, but is insensible to the severest attempts to arouse him. Lace Curtains. Lace window curtains should always be soaked for an hour in cold water to which a little borax has been added, before being put into warm suds. This gets out the smoky smell that is sometimes so noticeable in curtains that have been used in a city. Life in Germany. Every one who has travelled in Germany is familiar with the word "verboten"—forbidden. He finds it is verboten to almost everything which he thinks he has been accustomed to do in the United States. Chicago Standard. A Valuable Belle. A thirteenth century copper and gilt clborium, supposed to have come from Malmesbury abbey, was sold by auction in London for $30,000. ANTIQUITY OF GLASS. Made in Egypt Thousands of Years Before the Christian Era. Though the art of making glass of certain kinds is very old, spectacles had to wait on the discovery or invention of some method that would present it perfectly transparent. Splints of glass have been found in the Egyptian tombs that are more than 4,000 years old, and glass bottles are represented on tombs at least 1,500 years earlier. In Mesopotamia the art of making glass has been treasured at least 2,000 years. Glass of antique ry, and w is priceless a t That window glass, such as is now in current use, was slow to gain currency is shown by the little panes in many old buildings in Europe. They are usually round, or nearly so, and so small that one of them can easily be held between the tips of the fingers and the thumb. Cards for Everything. So thoroughly has the card index or catalogue become a part of modern business that practically no activity is without it. Brides keep the list of presents on cards. Pastors are adopting the card index to keep the name and addresses of their parishioners. Not long ago the complete list of members of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New York was transferred to cards. There are a million names. Owners of stables and kennels keep the records of their animals on cards instead of in books. Writers now keep cards on which they put down "experiences" or "eplsodes" to be filed away and to be used for material when they get down to writing.—Sat. Evg. Post. Followers of Mark Twain. The latest addition to the fresh air fiends seems to be included in the young ambulance surgeons. In spite of near-to-zero weather it is common to see one of these young men responding to a hurry call without a hat, and it is quite as common a sight to see them, even at night time, when it always seems colder than in the day time, seated on the rear seat of the ambulance, attired in white duck trousers. DoubJess it is only a part of the exuberance of youth, but duck trousers on a night when the mercury is trying to push the bottom out of the thermomter do seem a trifle out of place. Saving Paper. The price of paper has increased so much in the last few years that we may have to do our writing on bark or celluloid. But here is a pointer: One of the big firms in New York, employing 7,000 people, has a way of assisting you to save letter paper, and at the same time serves itself in a matter of file and record. In writing to a customer, for instance, only one side of the sheet is used. Sheets are made of many sizes, to fit the length of all correspondence. At the bottom is printed in blue ink: "If necessary to reply, please do so on the back of this letter." This is a clever idea. Good Sentries. "Silly goose" is an expression which should be used by the extremely ignorant alone. No bird requires more patience to shoot with gun or camera, especially the latter. When feeding you will find flocks varying in size on open ground, and nearly always on such ground that a stalk is impossible: On the outskirts of these flocks you will always find sentries with heads erect, eyes and ears alert, the slightest sound or movement and you are detected—true descendants from the ancient preservers of Rome. Country Life. Prince Bismarck. Bismarck himself, was a tremendous smoker, eater, and drinker, and would stride about the house followed by his dogs. The pipes and long cigars which he smoked in a day would have killed an ordinary man. He loved to pour into a huge stein a bottle of champagne and then a bottle of porter, and drink the whole mixture off at a single draft. Bismarck said of himself: "If there were many eaters like me in Prussia the state could not exist. I should have to emigrate."—P. T. O. World's Greatest Wonder. "What is really the greatest natural wonder on earth?" It is easy to answer now, says the Travel Magazine, since the stupendous falls of the Zambesi River have been discovered; one of the world's mightiest rivers, two miles wide, falling a sheer 420 feet. Niagara is only half a mile wide and 153 feet high, so that it figures as a mere cascade in comparison. Another Way to Put It. It might not be incorrect to say that the man who was smothered in a bin of oats, died from an overdose of breakfast food. The Man With the Gun. Trouble is always waiting round the corner for the man who has a gun in his pocket. E. VOIGT MANUFACTURING JEWELER 725 7th Street, Northwest Everybody has some friend whom they wish to make happy. It may be mother or father, sister or brother. It may be a wife, or it may be a sweetheart and no better time than Christmas is so appropriate so suggestive. Nothing makes one feel happier than to gladden the heart of another. Our stock of Jewelry and Bric-a-brac is now complete. Each in- carefully selected and we feel satisfied thata visit from you will bear us out section ascan be found anywhere. Why not give us a call tomorrow? select will be laid aside and deliveredwhen wanted. Experienced cloak We mentions specials. Gnetleme "an Stem dies" ers an me $4.50. Ladies' Face, $8.00. Boys' Soli Put Your M Prices in the Diamond market are advancing, but OUR PRICES HAVE'NT BEEN ADVANCED in some time. We still have a large collection of superb Diamonds which we bought a considerable time ago at lower prices than prevail today. We shall not advance prices on these stones. We are merchants and not circulators, and our fair percentage of r is all we ask. So, as long as these Diamonds last, it will be possible to buy them here under the regular market for SICK AND ACCIDENTAL CHANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE VERY LIBERAL TERM PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE FIFTH and G Streets N. W. WORTH ADVERTISING. There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes do $3,044,404. These more than three millions of here in Washington, but scattered among them. Is this amount of money worth bidding for not even the largest stores in this city would end of it did they but realize how much money spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro publication without a rival or competitor, and covers the few of the merchants in this city will patronize of The Bee, presenting the attractive these Negroes — these 5,499 Negroes who Government over three millions of dollars — rationizing a publication edited and operated by such firms desire and deserve their patronage, receive the bulk of these over three millions of spent by the Negroes of Washington. What clothing stores, what furniture stores and what other lines of business will now themselves these over three millions of dollars by advertising in The Bee? Place your advertising in The Bee and write Negroes spend their over three millions. Now is the time to advertise in The Bee into every Negro home in Washington. In Washington, it’s what advertising pays you. M PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH AMERICAN.HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in Washington by the Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes draw salaries aggregating $3,044,404. These more than three millions of dollars are spent right here in Washington, but scattered among the hundreds of tradesmen Is this amount of money worth bidding for? It certainly is, and not even the largest stores in this city would refuse to get the big end of it did they but realize how much money the Negroes are really spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro publication in this city. It stands without a rival or competitor, and covers the field like a blanket. If a few of the merchants in this city will patronize the advertising columns of The Bee, presenting the attractive bargains they may have, these Negroes — these 5,499 Negroes who draw annually from the Government over three millions of dollars — will assume that by patronizing a publication edited and operated by one of their race that such firms desire and deserve their patronage. And such firms will receive the bulk of these over three millions of dollars received and spent by the Negroes of Washington. What clothing stores, what furniture stores, what dry goods stores and what other lines of business will now make an effort to divert to themselves these over three millions tf dollars spent by Washington Negroes by advertising in The Bee? Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 5,499 appreciation. Negroes spend their over three millions of dollars with you. J. divi.1 that we Any article Chance for Much Trouble. The Bultan of Turkey recently paid $400,000 for a diamond. If he doesn't wish to have trouble with his harem he will insist on using the stone himself. Danger in New York Roads. There is an average of seven car collisions a day on the steam, subway, elevated and surface railways of New York. or No Ladies' Diamond Rings, $5.00 to $150. Ladies' Diamond Brooches, $5.50 to $1,000. Diamond Earrings, $15.00 to $500.00. Diamond Scarf Pins, $7.00 up. Diamond Cuff Buttons, $7.00 up. Diamond Studs, $10.00 up. We have Ladies' Handsome Diamond Rings set in Tiffany Mounting, which we are selling at $30.00. This will make an appropriate present for Christmas. Every stone a ball of fire. IDENT INSURANCE 1,00 PER WEEK INSURANCE ON NON-TERMS AFTER DEATH. THE INSURANCE CO. Washington, D. C RISING FOR. And here in Washington by the Negroes draw salaries aggregating millions of dollars are spent right among the hundreds of tradesmen dealing for? It certainly is, and they would refuse to get the big much money the Negroes are real. Publication in this city. It stands over the field like a blanket. If all patronize the advertising contractive bargains they may have, does who draw annually from the dollars — will assume that by patronized by one of their race that patronage. And such firms will millions of dollars received and on. Mature stores, what dry goods stores will now make an effort to divert to as tf dollars spent by Washington Bee? Bee and watch these 5,499 appreciative millions of dollars with you. The Bee, the newspaper that goesington. Remember, merchants of pays you, not what it costs. Mustard manufacturers grow rich, we are told, not by the quantity of mustard consumed, but by that which is wasted and left on the diners' plates. The saying is recalled by an interesting statement made by the Postmaster-General as to the number of pens supplied for use by the public in the post offices of the country. It seems that last year the total was 1,259,000. Post Office Press Mme. Davis, $\textcircled{3}$ CARD READER TELLS 'ABOUT BUSINESS. 1228 25th St. N.W., Washington, D. C. Gives Luck to ALL N. B—No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. N. B—Mention The Bee Fireless stoves, or self-cookers, as they are variously known have been in use in Germany for a number of years. These colkers are used as follows: After a thorough heating the food to be stewed or boiled is placed inside the box, sealed and left for a sufficient time, when it is opened, and the food cooked by the retained heat, is ready to serve. Bank of England's First Safe In the Bank of England's museum may be seen the old oak chest which was the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street's first strong-room. It is a little larger than a common seaman's chest and in this the bank stored its cash, notes and valuable papers.—Strand Magazine. Great Britain consumes more bufter than any other nation. The average per head is 13 pounds per year, as against eight pounds in Germany, four pounds in France and two pounds in Russia. The word "stung" has now come to mean such a variety of things in the vernacular that the busy little tee, the wasp, the hornet, and their ilk, have especial need to think twice before they act. As to Butter. "Stung." THE NIGHT RIDERS AIDED KENTUCKY Original Organization Did Away with Toll Gates and Brought About Good Roads. COMPANIES DISOBEYED THE LAW Crimes Committed Now Are by Gangs Hiding Behind Name of Old Association Which Caused the Abolishment of the Turnpike Companies. Louisville, Ky.—There has not been, it is said, a crime of mob violence committed in this State, in Tennessee, or, in fact, in any of the Southern States or in any of the Middle Western States in the past several years, with the exception of the occasional lynching of a negro by a mob, that has not been shouldered on the Night Riders. The Night Riders were an organized body back in 1900, when the State Legislature passed a law doing away with private ownership of State roads. For months the turnpike corporations refused to obey the State laws. They appealed to the State Supreme Court, then to the Court of Appeals, and lastly to the United States Supreme Court, and on each appeal they would get a stay, which made it possible for them to continue running their toll gates and charging two cents a mile for every horse or vehicle that passed over their property. Because of the law's delay the condition of the roads became impassible. The owners of the turnpikes would not expend one cent for improvements as long as there was question of their losing their property by a final court decision, but they did not cease to mulct travellers. All this while they refused to accept the fair price offered by the State for their roads. It was then that the Night Riders were organized. The organization spread from Shelby County to every part of the State, and one night in the late fall men rode from their homes and began burning toll gates. There is no record of a toll gate keeper being injured unless he showed resistance. Then he was taken from the house, and if he continued to be defiant he was flogged. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the tole gate keeper was glad to give up his job and let the gate burn. Night Riders undoubtedly brought the turnpike corporations to terms. There was not a toll gate left standing in the State of Kentucky by the following spring. Had the taxpayers and farmers been contented to allow the law to take its never ending course the chances are that toll gates would still be holding up travellers on the State roads to-day, and that the roads would have been worse now than they were when the Night Riders became organized. The Kentucky roads now are among the best in the United States. There are not millions of dollars of watered stock on which to pay interest, and the State tax has improved them and even made it possible for almost all of them to be sprinkled with oil during the summer season, thus laying the dust. The success of the Night Riders in the war against toll gates led to an organization of a similar character when the fight was waged against the American Tobacco Company. But out of this last organization there grew a body of violent men, who live on excitement and thrive on lawlessness. Then sprang up, too, lawless bodies of men in many of the Southern and Middle Western States, who chose to call themselves Night Riders, though the probabilities are that 99 per cent. of the men didn't own so much as a horse to ride. If a list of the original body of Night Riders could be had the chances are that the names of many men who figured in the operations of the old Ku-Klux gang would be found, and if this list were sifted down it would show that many property-owners and men of prominence had resorted to violence because of their belief that action was their only safeguard against ruin, and that a defiance of law had to be met by a like defiance. Psyche Knot a Life Saver. Altoona, Pa.—Having washed and dried her hair, Mary Housner, aged twenty-two, did it up in a Psyche knot and walked on the front porch. While she caned against the railing it gave way and she was precipitated backward, head first, ten feet to the sidewalk, alighting on her head. The colfure broke the impact of her head against the flagstones, but she did not entirely escape injury. She suffered a slight concussion of the brain, but recovered consciousness a few hours later. Paris, France.—Rochefort seems to be a great town for longevity. Investigation of the records reveals the fact that during the last century from January 1, 1801, to December 31, 1900, 144 persons in Rochefort attained the age of 90 or over. Two of these were centenarians, one reaching the age of 192, and the other dying at 106. 2 GREAT This Spendid Six-Piece Set of W. H. Rogers' Guaranteed Silver Ware Free to the Washington Bee Subscribers. 1. Famous W. H. Rogers Brand Warranted Solid Silver Metal, Beautifully Finished. No Plating to Wear Off. Absolutely guaranteed by manufacturers to wear forever. Solid silver metal throughout—they cannot tarnish. Rogers Silverware needs no introduction to the American public. For more than 50 years the standard, it is recognized the world over as the very best there is made. The name Rogers stamped on a piece of silverware represents the highest type of skill and workmanship and material. Unquestionably the Daintiest and. Acceptable Premium Ever Ever Offered by Any Newspaper. 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SQUARE STANDS, CENTER MARKET, 5TH AND K STREETS, NORTHWEST, AND RIGGS MARKET. OFFICE WHOLESALE DEALER AND SALESMAN, 900 AND. 902 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. NORTHWEST. M. HENNESSY Buffet and Restaurant. The Best place in the city for hot lunchee, and dinner. 216 Ninth Street. Northwest. THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE. IT IS 9 IN LONG STEEL MEATING BAR THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $100 POSTAGE PAID. SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE HONEY ORDER. Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Agnes Smith, 1308 L st reef, northwest, this city, is the agent. Call or send for the Magic Shampoo ad Hair Straightener. 1308 L street. northwest, Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. Enclosed herewith please find S. The Washington Bee for one year postage paid, one six-piece set, Spoons, as advertised. Name ... Address ... Name ... Address ... 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This is one of the most reliable places in the city, where you may obtain the genuine article. Mr. Voigt is a man of the most accommodating disposition. Treat him right and he will do likewise. HOUSE AND HERRMAN. If you want to purchase Christmas and New Year household goods, and if you cannot satisfy yourself elsewhere, give House and Herrman a call. This establishment is one of OFFERS This Offer of The Washington Bee 'Wii' Appeal Especially to Women A FIVE-YEAR GUARANTEE CERTIFICATE ACCOMPANIES EACH PAIR OF THESE SHEARS THE NO. 10077 TONING SPIND MULLE THE USEFULNESS. OF THE SHEARS. SUPPLIED AND GUARANTEED BY HAMILTON SILVER CO. FACTORY B. MUNCIE, IND.. DIDDY VIEW SHOWN BY DEBRIAN SCHRAW. Come to our office, 1109 Eye Street, northwest, and see this "Self-Tightening Shear." You never saw anything like it. ABSOLUTELY FREE Eye Street, northwest, and see this You never saw anything like it. To Get a Pair. Subscriber, paid one year in advance; or which paid three months in advance. 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H JAVINS & SONS, FISH POULTRY AND OYSTER DEALERS, 930 C STREET NORTHWEST, AND CENTER MARKET. PHONE, MAIN 4480 WASHINGTON, D. C. the largest in the city. Theer is no excuse for the housewife; she is in a position to call and make her own selection. CHAS. H. JAVINS & SONS, FISH POULTRY AND OYSTER DEALERS, 930 C STREET NORTHWEST, AND CENTER MARKET. PHONE, MAIN 4480 WASHINGTON, D. C. DADE'S BUFFET, Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Polite Attention Ladies' and Gents' Dining Room Meals Served at All Hours Pool Room Attached MOSES DADE, Proprietor, 1216 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. the largest in the city. Theer is no --- --- Louis J. Kessel 5 TENTH SREET;N. W. Telephone—Main—160 Wm. Cannon Old Purissima Whiskey is a compound of pure grain and free from harmful impurities. Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Act, June 30, 1906. Sold by William Carman, 1225 7th street, northwest. Phone. North, 528. Every husband should see that his wife is satisfied before the beginning of the New Year. Mr. James H. Hudnell, one of the best known business men in this city has returned to Castleberg's National Jewelry Co. 935 Pennz Ave., N. W. Mr. Hudnell can always be relied upon to give you the genuine article. Now is the time to place your orders before the holidays. Phone. Main 2363. Address 2009 9th street northwest. VELV-INE WILL GIVE YOU SMOOTH SILKEN TRESSES. THE MOST OBSTINATE HAIR YIELDS TO IT. KEEPS THE SCALP HIEALTHY, PREVENTS DANDRUFF AND FALLING HAIR. EASY TO USE. SEND 25 CENTS FOR MONTH'S SUPPLY, PREPAID TO ANY ADDRESS. Things are going in a rush,at the drug store of Board & McGuire 1912% 14th St. N.W. Best up-town store to buy fine Candies, perfumery, cigars and toilet articles, as well as drugs and medicines of the best quality. Body of B T. Pratt, Dead from Hunger and Thirst, Found in California. Los Angeles, Cal.—"Water, if I could only and water! I'm suffering terribly from hunger. To-day I ate some green brush, but I can't go any more. I wonder how long it will take to die. These entries in the notebook of B. T. Pratt, whose body was found on the desert in Inyo county by two prospectors, give pathetic evidence of the suffering the man underwent as he watched the approach of death far from human habitation. The diary also was found by G. W. Lewis and S. E. Shattuck, the prospectors while on a trip through the Argus Mountains in Inyo county. Pratt had been dead nearly two months. He was evidently trying to reach the mountains, where he knew he would find food of a sort and water in abundance, but within sight of his refuge he gave out and could go no further. Pratt was sixty years old. The entries in the notebook were scribbled and began only when the man found he was in danger of dying. "Food gave out to-day; guess I can make Argus," was the entry for August 3, seyen days after he had started to cross the desert. "Water gone," told the story of the following day. For one whole day he went without water or food, but maintained an optimistic spirit, as is witnessed by the following entry for August 6f. "Signs of water about half mile ahead. There will be green stuff there too. Will reach it early in the morning." But evidently the desert was playing tricks on him, as it so often does by means of a mirage. Two days later came the two entries quoted first. The last entry reads:— "I left Grapeville, Inyo county, Cal., July 28. Tom Spratt told me I would perish. I thought I could make it, but got lost, so guess I will have to give in. I have no water, nothing to eat and can't walk. I have brothers, C. H. Pratt, at Banner Springs, Wyandotte county, Kan.; E. B. Pratt, in St. Louis, and W. R. Pratt, Custer county, Wyoming." LONGEST AUTO FREIGHT LINE. Cars Will Carry 27 Passengers and 10 Tons of Freight. Spokane, Wash.—What is believed to be the longest automobile freight and passenger stage line on the continent is in operation between Oroville and Brewster in Okanogan County, Wash., connecting with a steamer line to Wenatchee. The line has two 60-horse power cars, which will carry twenty-seven passengers and ten tons of freight, making the run of eighty miles in eight hours. The trip by wagon occupies almost two days. Branch lines will also be established to other points in the Okanogan country. The other line is between Marcus and Kettle Falls in Stevens County, north of Spokakne, connecting with a steamer to Spokane Falls. These cars will be of twenty-five and thirty horse power, respectively. F. L. Barney has charge of the automobile line, while Capt. Bruce A. Griggs, a veteran river man, will operate the steamer line. HAS A RABBIT PLAGUE. Bold Cottontails Destroy Crops on California Ranches. San Francisco, Cal.—Jack rabbits are said to be so numerous in the Antelope valley of California that the ranchmen are in despair. The animals are becoming so fierce that they are actually breaking down the fences around the adjacent fields and eating crops down to the roots. Not content with this, they are swarming into the desert towns and invading front yards of the dwellers. Citizens of Lancaster turned out recently and made a round-up. They put up a fence across the road between fences surrounding fields on each side and in short time drove in and killed with clubs five hundred jack rabbits. EAGLE KILLS A SHARK. Ship's Crew Witness Desperate Fights in Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore.—A remarkable combat between a large eagle and a shark was witnessed recently by Captain Henderson and the crew of the steamer Tangler in Chesapeake Bay. When coming out of Occohnock Creek they saw the eagle dive and come to the surface with a shark. Then followed a fierce struggle, the shark pulling the eagle under the water until it was almost exhausted. The fish was finally killed and floated dead on the water. Members of the steamer's crew put off in a small boat and captured the eagle, although it clawed them repeatedly and its mate, hovering close by, tried to attack them. Shot an Albino Squirrel Marquette, Mich.—While hunting near Grand Marals, Gustav Herbert shot and killed an albino squirrel. It has been presented to James Calins, of Grand Marals, and will be mounted. Albino deer are occasionally killed in upper Michigan, but this is the first time of which there is record that a white squirrel has been bagged. LEGAL NOTICE L. MELENDEZ KING, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Holding Probate Court. No. 15731 Administration. 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 Lewis H. Douglass, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 19th day of January, A. D., 1910, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my land this 19th day of January, 1909, Hellen A. Douglass. 2002 17 street, northwest. Attest: William C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. L. Melendez King, Attorney. P. W. FRISBY, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS TRICT OF COLUMBIA, HOLDING PROBATE COURT No. 15560, Administration. 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 of Administration on the estate of Albert Dickerson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 9th day of February, A. D., 1910; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 9th day Given under my hand this 9th day of February, 1909. Thomas Dickerson, 823 Second street, southeast. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. Perri W. Frisby, Attorney. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS By order of the Board of Directors of the WASHINGTON MERCANTILE COMPANY, each stockholder is hereby notified that there will be a meeting of the stockholders of the above named Company at the Company's Store, number 300 G Street, Southwest, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1909, at 7:30 o'clock P.M., for the purposes of extending the Company's business: to levy assessments; to increase the number of subscribers to the Company's shares of tock unsold; and to increase the sale of shares of stock to those who are already stockholders, And immediately thereafter on the same date and at the same place the ANNUAL ELECTION of the Board of Directors of the Company will take place. Each stockholder should be present in person or by proxy. Proxy blanks can be obtained at the Company's Store. Notices have been mailed to each stockholder signed by the Board of Directors. John H. Lee, President of the Board of Directors. Charles A. Robinson, Secretary to the Board of Directors February 8, 1909. Marion T. Clinkscales, Attorney for the Company. ROOMS Nicely furnished and unfurnished rooms. Hot and cold baths. 2018 Vermont avenue, northwest. FOR RENT Furnished room, with steam heat and gas. 1002 26th Street northwest. Excellent furnished room with hot and cold baths. Centrally located, and and cold baths. Centrally locate, and within one hundred yards of two lines of cars. Address Box C, Bee Office. FOR RENT Rooms. Nicely furnished room with hot and cold water baths. Gentlemen preferred. 1907 13th street, northwest. Room. Centrally located, near two lines of cars. Quarter of a square from each. Hot and cold baths. Write box C, Bee office. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS (Continued from page 1.) of Connecticut, Rev. F. P. Woodbury and Mr. T. J. Calloway, both of this city, took part in the dedication. We congratulate the Colored Alabamian on its anniversary appearance and wish "continued prosperity. The Searchlight says the Seattle Cathedral is the place "where all races, rich and poor, worship together and are treated alike." Mr. James Allen entertained a number of friends at his home in Baltimore, among whom was Mr. Clarence Palmer, of Howard University. Professor E. F. Wilmore, whose funeral took place in Philadelphia last week, was ranked among the leading band masters. Miss Virginia Moore the violinist, gave a recital in Boston the 11th instant. President Roosevelt bade farewell to the members of Grace Reformed Church last Monday evening at a meeting in the churéh. There is a strong movement under way to have the administration confer some honorable recognition upon Lawyer Thomas L. Jones, who since his graduation from the law department of Howard University, has held a leading place at the bar of the District of Columbia. His legal ability is pronounced and as an orator he has few, if any equals. He would be as much at home on the bench as pleading at the bar, and taking note of his poise, dignity and judicial temperament, his friends will probably urge the Department of Justice to offer him a position commensurate with his brilliant and solid attainments and in which he can bring to bear his exceptional talents as a barrister or an administrator of justice. It is pointed out that in the District, where one-third of the population is colored, that it would be only fair that one of the judges of the police court should be a member of the Negro race. The unfortunates who are hailed before this court often feel that they are given short shift there, and the presence of a jurist of their own color would go far toward re-establishing their confidence in the tribunal. Lawyer Jones would not be lax with any class of criminals, be they colored or white, but his friends are of the opinion that the court would carry a larger degree of influence for law and order if the colored people who are brought there could be led to feel that they are being dealt with by a man who is better able to comprehend their short-connections, special needs, and difficulties than any white man on earth. As Judge of the Police Court, Lawyer Jones would set a new mark and such an appointment would make a hit with the colored people, and at the same time meet the approval of the local bar and the white citizens who know the high character and impartial judgment of the man proposed for the honor. Lawyer Jones is particularly strong with the colored citizens of Maryland, and his work in that State was productive of excellent results, as the returns for Taft and Sherman indicated. His eloquence is being relied upon this year to defeat the disfranchising amendment, very largely, and there is no doubt that he will be the vital force in rescuing the "old line State" from the hands of those who would continue to hold it back as the tail to the ancient bourbon kite. As a judge or prosecutor of violators of the laws, the Department of Justice would find in Mr. Jones a valuable ally. MORRELAND'S If you want a first class shoe, read the advertisement in The Bee and then go to Moreland's, 361 Pennsylvania avenue, northwest. Don't fail to go to Moreland's. EDWIN MEAD It would be well if there could be laid in Washington, at least in purpose, in this Lincoln centennial year, the foundation of a Lincoln Institute, to be devoted to those studies and activities which shall most broadly and efficiently promote the knowledge, maintain the rights and inspire the duty and devotion of the colored race. It might be allied with Howard University or it might be independent. It should be endowed by the most generous gifts of American wealth and public spirit. It should enlist in its service the best scholarship and the best statesmanship of both races, and its management should be in the hands Moselblumchen —An excellent quality wine. Imported in wood. Our own bottling. $7 doz $7.50 24½ Bottles. CHRISTIAN XANDER'S Quality House 909 7th St. Phone CHANCE TO BUY A PRINCESS DRESSER For $16.75 HOUSE AND HERMANN No piece of furniture is more useful in a lady's Dressing room than a Princess Dresser. The long mirror gives a full length view of a costume. This Dresser, in American quartered Oak, full swell front, and with French bevel plate mirror, is a January special bargain at the price above. When in Doubt, Buy of HOUSE AND HERRMANN 7th and I (Eye) Sts. N. W. Convenient Credit Terms Arranged. E. MURRAY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ICE CREAM AND CONFECTIONS. OYSTERS IN SEASON. 1216 YOU STREET, NORTHWEST. PHONE. NORTH 908. N.B.Wigginton N. B. WIGGINTON (Twenty years with the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n. First Class Modern Prices THE ALWAYS BUSY BUFFET "Don't Worry" The best is none too good for you I have it 532 Eighth Street, S. E. Washington D. C. equally of men of the North and the South, who stand alike for those fundamental principles of justice, humanity and progress for which Lincoln stood and stands. It should represent no sectional sentiment; it should be a temple of national duty and national law, and upon the temple's front should be inscribed those great provisions of the Constitution which embody the results of Lincoln's life and work. Edwin D. Mead. —From the Independent. PINK CHEEKS are not becoming to very black countenances but they are a beautiful adornment to light brown skin. There are two kinds of 'Complexion Wonder Cream.' No. 1 makes any dark skin lighter. No. 2 gives women with brown skin a very attractive complexion. We recommend our women to use 'Wonder Cream' and the 'Wonder Comb' with 'Uncurl Pomade.' This will improve their faces and make their hair long and dressy. Each article costs 50 cents. M. B. Berger & Company, 2 Rector street, New York, will mail it on request. THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW If some colored architect is going to draw the plans for the new library of Howard University? If the "Black Cabinet" is satisfied with its appellation? If bombastic writers will be more careful? What you think of the Negro Business League now? If colored men will continue "Jim Crowing" themselves? If it would not be a good thing to make politics an incident and not the direct object of Negro citizenship. How many colored politicians will be after other politicians' jobs? The Kentucky Reporter A full coach-load of the most prominent Negroes of the state will go to Washington on the "Bradley Special" to attend the inauguration. THOMAS J. CALLOWAY, Attorney at Law. 494 Louisiana Avenue. Washington, D. C General Pracitce. Phone M 2404 Prompt and Careful Attention to All Matters. TRY HIM. HOLTMAN'S OLD STAND FINE BOOTS AND SHOES 491 Penn. ave, N. W. OUR $2.50 AND $3 SHOES ARE THE BEST MADE. SIGN OF THE BIG BOOT WM. MORELAND, PROP. J. D. O'CONNOR, Union Bar, and Union Goods. Yellow Keystone Pure Rye Whiskey. J. D. O'CONNOR'S BUFFET, Cor. Seventh and P Sts. N. W. Tel. Lincoln 2969 SIGNORA ANNIE FAZZI All kinds of hair cleaned Wgs, braids,pompadours, puffs, and, curls made to order. 801 East Capitol St., Wash, D. C. THE ONLY UP TO DATE HAIR DRESSING PARLOR IN THE CITY FOR COLORED LADIES. SCALP AND HAIR TREATMENT. ELECTRIC FACIAL AND SCALP MASSAGE. MANICURING, SHAMPOOING, ELECTRIC HAIR DRYING. HAIR CULTURE A SPECIALTY. ALL WORK DONE IN SEPARATE APARTMENTS. DAVIS & THORN, 1403 & 1405 T STREET NORTH WEST. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS, LADIES' AND GENTS' WEARING APPAREL. OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED PLEDGES FOR SALE. Why pay 10 percent when you can get it for 3 percent? H. K. FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE, No. 314 Ninth Street N. W. Loans made on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. You can save money. Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIBS--I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, but it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. MRS. W. F. WALKER, Sta. I-Harriman, Tenn. Pomade (Formerly known as Oxizoloid Ox Marrow) Fifty years of success has proved its merits. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade makes stubborn, harsh, kinky or curly-hair straight, soft and glossy and easy to comb, and arrange in any style desired consistent with its length. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or being pulled back, and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with almond results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as ladies of refinement everywhere declare. Ford's Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't buy anything else alleged to be "just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay on. Look for this name Charles Ford Press on every package. If your drugstores supply you with the guestine, we will send you One bottle regular size for . . . $.50 Three bottles " " . . . 1.40 Six " " . . . 2.50 One bottle, small . . . . 2.25 We pay postage and express charges to all points in U.S.A. When ordering send Postal or Express Money Order. All orders shipped promptly on receipt of price. Address The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 13 East Kinsley St. Chicago, Ill. FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chil- icago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. ```markdown ``` DR. MORSE'S DRUG STORE THE PALACE OF WEST END WHY WAIT? Never purchase inferior drugs. Always patronize a first class and up-to-date pharmacy, to have your prescriptions compounded. Use the best and purest soaps. Purchase fresh toilet articles. They can be obtained at the drug store of Dr. Morse. Everything in the drug linemay be found in Dr. Morse's drug store. Dr. J. W. Morse. 1904 L Street, Northwest. Committee Of Twelve Committee Of Twelve Any one may obtain a copy of any of these publications now in print by writing to the Secretary of the Committee of Twelve, Hugh M Browne, Cheyney, Pa., and enclosing for each publication desired a two-cent paper wrapper addressed to himself. *Out of print. * To the Colored Men of Voting Age in Alabama. Can the South Solve the Negro Problem? Why Disfranchisement is Bad. Archibald H. Grimke. * Voting Instructions to Maryland Voters. * What a Colored Man should do to Vote. Garrison Centenary Leaflet. Slavery and the Race Problem in the South. Hon. William H. Fleming. The Atlanta Riot Work of the Colored Law and Order League of Baltimore, Md. James H. N Waring. East Bessemer, Alabama. Negro Banks in Mississippi. Some Successful Negro Business Men. Business Cooperation between White and Negro Men in Helena, Arkansas. In round numbers the circulation of the above articles has reached 100,000. THE CRITERION CAFE Mr, William H. Gwathney. formerly proprietor of the Eureka Cafe at 729 4th St. begs to announce that he has now opened the spacious and improved Criterion Cafe at First and G Sts. N. W.. Convenient to all car lines, within five minutes walk to Union Station and one square from Gov't Printing Office Meals quickly carefully served at all hours, very reasonable. Hot home bread daily at breakfast. Fried chicken a specialty. Furnished rooms & board. Steam heat, no rear rooms. Phone. Main 7094 Residence; 310 Elm Street, Northwest. I sell and rent houses. JABEZ LEE. Law, Loans and Real Estate. 619 F Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. With John C. Keelan. OLD MADE NEW. If you want your clothing cleaned, altered or repaired, you should send a card or call at the up-to-date repair establishment. All work guaranteed or money refunded. 614 D street, northwest. SAN ANTONIO THE MECCA. Dr. G. J. Starnes, a member of the recent International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington, D. C., and a specialist on all lung and chest diseases, in addition to the use of Compound Oxygen, Compressed Air, and the Nebulizer, is using the best remedies introduced at that Congress, by the leading medical men of the profession. He is located in San Antonio, Texas, the designated by the World's Medical Congress in 1896, as one of the best for people suffering with any form of lung trouble. Address 324 W. Commerce Street. Phone, Main 2524. ROBERT ALLEN, BUFFET AND FAMILY LIQUOR STORE 1917 14th St. N. W. Visit The Best One of the leading places in the city is that of Samuel G. Stewart, 1141 Seventh street northwest (between L and M streets), Washington, D. C. Wines, Liquors, etc. Phone, N 4117. Buy your butter and eggs from the Elgin Creamery, 9th and Louisiana Avenues, northwest.