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VOL.XXX NO16 Not A Burden Not A Burden PUBLIC TAXATION AND NEGRO SCHOOLS Mr. Charles L. Coon, of Wilson North Carolina, delivered an excellent address at the twelfth annual Conference for Education in the South, at Atlanta, Georgia, last April 14 15 and 16. Mr. Coon gives statistics and facts of the amount of money paid by Negroes on taxable property and maintains that the education of the Negro is paid by himself. Mr. Coon claims that the Negro public schools in the South are not a burden to the white tax payers. Mr. Coon includes eleven southern states, which he claims, in 1900 contained 7,199,374 of the 8,840,789 Negroes then living in the United States, or 81.4 per cent try, namely: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. In these eleven states the total population in 1900 was 18,975,665, of which 11,776,391 were white and 7,199,374, or 40.1 per cent were Negro. First. In order to find out whether erer the Negro public school is a burden on the white tax payer in these states, it is necessary, first of all, to ascertain what these states are spending for public schools, both white and colored. The latest reports of the several departments of education indicate that these eleven states are now spending about $32,068,851 for elementary and secondary public education. This sum represents every item of expense, and is just slightly more than Pennsylvania spends annually for the same purpose. This sum is twenty-one millions less than New York States spent for public education in 1907, and not quite twice as much as Massachusetts spent in 1906. The wealth of these eleven Southern States is approximately twelve billion dollars, while New York State has property worth fifteen billions, Massachusetts five billions, and Pennsylvania eleven and a half billions. Second. The South is spending $32,068,851 on her public schools, both white and black, but what part of this sum is devoted to Negro public schools, which must serve at least 40 per cent, of her school population? It is not possible to answer this question with absoute accuracy. But it is possible, from the several State reports, to find out the whole amount spent for teachers, and, in all the States, except Arkansas, what was spent for white and Negro teachers separately. The aggregate sum now being spent for public school teachers of both races in these eleven States, is $23,856,914, or 74.4 per cent. of the whole amount expended. Of this sum not more than $3,818,705 was paid to Negro teachers, or 12 per cent. of the total expenditures. And here let me call your attention directly to the fact that nearly three-fourths of our total public school expenditures are for teachers, but that Negro teachers receive only 12 per cent of the total expended, while white teachers receive 62.4 per cent. It is also evident that the amount spent for Negro teachers is by far the largest item of expense of the Negro public schools. Note-In the Virginia report the amount paid to Negro teachers is not given, but the number of Negro teachers and their average salary is given. In the Tennessee report the average salary of all teachers and the number of Negro teachers is given. The amount credited to Negro teachers, is, therefore, likely too large. The amount credited to Negro teachers in Arkansas is based on the average tuition and enrollment in the Negro schools. In all calculation the Negro teachers are credited with such amounts as the face of the reports indicate. Investigation would undoubtedly lower the figures of some States. Third. But aside from the expense of Negro teachers, what is the additional cost of the Negro public schools? This additional cost cannot be accurately determined from the data now available. But South Caro- ilina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas-five States—report the total cost of Negro schools. In these States the additional cost of Negro schools above the cost of teachers is as follows: South Carolina, 1.3 per cent. of total expenditures; Florida 5.3 per cent; Alabama, 1.5 per cent; Mississippi, 4.2 per cent; Texas, 2.2 per cent. These figures indicate that between 2 and 3 per cent of the total expenditures for public schools in the South is being devoted to the Negro schools above the cost of Negro teachers. This means that about $917,670 is to be added to the cost of Negro teachers to get the entire cost of the Negro public schools in the South. The aggregate cost of the Negro public schools is, therefore, near $4,736,375, or 14.8 per cent. of all expenditures. The significance of these figures is that, while the Negro race has, at least, 40 per cent. of the children to educate, not quite 15 per cent of the money expended on public education is being devoted to their schools. Fourth. It is generally assumed in the discussion of the cost of the Negro public schools, that the white race bears all the cost or nearly all that the Negroes of the South are truly the white man's burden when it comes to paying bills for public education. Much of this unseasoned talk reminds me of the North Carolina farmer who was in the habit of asserting on all occasions that he could live and get along much better if it were not for his large and oppressive doctor bills. But the doctor declared at the next term of the court, on oath, that this chronic complainer had not paid him a cent in fifteen years, and that he was the only doctor in the community. And this brings me directly to the main inquiry: Is the Negro public school of the South a burden on the white taxpayer? But here again, complete data with which to work cannot be had. However, this question can be answered for Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia, with some degree of accuracy. First. Is the Negro public school of Virginia a burden on the white taxpayer of that State? (a) The State Auditor for 1908 reports the total assessed value of Virginia property at $702,503,778, divided as follows: Listed by white, $521,612,627 or 74.3 per cent.; listed by railroads and other corporations, $155,262,815 or 22.1 per cent.; listed by Negroes, $25,628,326, or 3.6 per cent. Thus it will be seen that the State of Virginia does not assess 22.1 per cent, of its property as either white or black. This is a fact worth remembering in any discussion of this question. On page 14, Advanced Sheets, State Superintendent's Report, 1907, it is said that Virginia raised for public schools during that year the sum of $3,473,048, of which amount $2,855,871 was raised by State and local taxation, while $450,000 was directly appropriated out of the State Treasury. The income of the literary fund was $60,127, leaving the sum of $107,050 raised from other sources. If we assume that the $450,000, directly appropriated to the schools was raised by taxation, then Virginia raised by taxation for schools in 1907, $3,305,871. Bear with me then, while I set forth what I conceive to be the part the Negro should have of this school fund, if we assume that it is to be divided on the color line and not on the basis of the actual needs of the children to be educated. (b) Property does not raise all this Virginia school fund. The Negroes pay something like $120,000 school poll taxes, after deducting insolvents and commissions. It is fair to assume that some of the literary fund income belongs to Negroes, but what part? This fund is neither white nor black. It was not created by white property. Negroes constitute 36 per cent, of the population of Virginia, and I take it they should be given 36 per cent, of the income of the literary fund, which amounts to $21,649. The 10 cents State school tax on Negro property after deducting commissions amounted to at least $22,500 more. The 10 cents State school tax on the $155,262,815 railroad and other corporation property would not, in all fairness, belong to WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., S.A. ippi the ese gro is per ida nt; 2.2. hat total the gro gro out of ost the re, of ce fe- of 15 on to ed the ite ll; re it M. B. the white children. Not many of us, I think, would after the last few years of agitation, charge the railroads and other corporations with being altogether white. I take it, therefore, that 36 per cent, of the proceeds of the 10 cents State school tax Virginia levies should be given the Negro schools. This would add about $50,000 more to the Negro school fund. Now we must consider the $1,913.760 raised by Virginia cities, counties and districts. If this shim were all raised by property taxation, and we shall so assume, then 3.6 per cent. of it was raised on Negro property, 22.1 per cent. of it was raised on corporation property, and the remainder on white property. The 3.6 per cent. raised locally on Negro property would add $68,895 to the Negro school fund. Then we shall have to add $152,259 more to the account from the corporation property taxed locally, or 36 per cent. of the total amount raised on that kind of property. Finally, if the $450,000 directly apper- over from 1908 to 1910 further objected to tions take no account local taxes are not property of the Sera-ation, but only of certain communi- ties are derived as property. But an amount calculated North Carolina was for the balance in taxes are general richer communi- ties groes own more piles is more corporation poorer communi- ties make much differen- sult, if the actual and the calculations. As to the local po- no injustice done in tions when it is ren- local taxes are all oed on property. The ber here is, that tha- all put into a com- distributed. My made as if such we propriated to the schools was raised by taxation, then 3.6 per cent, of that sum belong to the Negroes' school fund, also 36 per cent. of 22.1 per cent, of this $450,000 raised on railroads and other corporation property. $35,802, respectively, to the Negroes' These two items will add $16,200 and part of the school fund of Virginia, not taking into account the balance from 1906 or the fund raised from other sources. Summarizing, the Negroes' part of the school fund raised in 1907, will stand as follows: I have shown before that Virginia is spending only about $489,228 on her Negro schools. If my figures are correct, then $18,077 of the amount which should be devoted to their schools, if we assume the race division of the funds, does not reach the Negro schools of Virginia. I assume that the Negroes' part of the balance from 1906 and their part of the fund from other sources will cancel any balance carried over from 1907 to 1908, so far as the Negro fund is concerned. Second. Is the Negro public school of North Carolina a burden on the white taxpayer of that State? (a) The total assessed value of all property in North Carolina is $593,485,331, divided as follows: Listed by whites, $440,669,472 listed by Negroes, $21,716,922, or 3.7 per cent.; Corporations, $111,098,937, or 19.3 per cent. (b) The State Superintendent reports for 1908 the school fund as follows: I have shown before that North Carolina is likely spending only $402,658 on her Negro schools. This leaves $26,539 of the North Carolina fund which never reached the Negro in 1908. But, it may be objected, there is no account taken in this calculation of the balance carried SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18 over from 1908 to 1909. It may be further objected that these calculations take no account of the fact that local taxes are not levied on all the property of the State under consideration, but only on the property in certain communities; also that local taxes are derived from polls as well as property. But the excess of the amount calculated as due Negroes in North Carolina will nearly provide for the balance in question. Local taxes are generally levied in the richer communities and there Negroes own more property and there is more corporation property than in poorer communities. It will hardly make much difference in the final result, if the actual facts were in hand and the calculations made from them. As to the local poll taxes, there is no injustice done in these calculations when it is remembered that the local taxes are all considered as raised on property. The thing to remember here is, that the funds are not all put into a common treasury and distributed. My calculations are made as if such were the case. The practical result of such not being the case would be that the funds for Negroes in this State would be largely increased in many communities and reduced in others. Hence, I conclude that the Negro school is likely not a burden on the white taxpayer of North Carolina. Third. Finally, is the Negro public school of Georgia a burden on the white taxpayer of that State? *The total assessed value of all property in Georgia is $699,536,879, divided as follows: White, $540,073,885; Negro, $25,904,822, or 3.9 per cent.; corporation, $123,588,172, or 19.1 per cent. I have shown above that Negroes actually received about $506,170 of the Georgia school fund of 1907. This leaves $141,682.54 to the credit of the Negro fund, upon any fair race division. If we count the $42.126.82 not accounted for in the school report and the Negroes' part of the balance carried over to 1908, and also the Negroes' part of the balance due them from 1906, we shall still have a comfortable sum over and above the actual expenditures made for Negro schools by Georgia in 1907. Therefore, I think the Negro schools of Georgia are not a burden on white taxpayers. I do not wish it understood, however, that I favor any such race division of the public school funds as I have suggested above. My object is to show, first of all, that upon any fair division of the present school funds of the three States under consideration, the Negro would likely fare as well as he does at present, in the absence of any such division: I am confident, whether my figures are absolutely accurate or not, that any one who takes the pains to ascertain the present sources of the public funds of these States, and then tries to make a fair division of them between the races will come to the con- PARAGRAPHIC NEWS BY Miss Gonevia B. Maxfield Mr. Benjamin Davis, the Editor of The Atlanta Independent, who has been quite sick, is now improving. He has been under the professional care of Dr. William F. Penn. Professor Kelly Miller delivered an address in Atlanta, Geirgia, last Tuesday. John R. Early, the alleged leper, has been dropped from the pension rolls, as he has been found to be entirely free from any skin disease, which had been declared by eminent physicians to be leprosy. The International Esperanto Congress has just adjourned in Barcelona. The next congress will meet in this city August 1910. This year's gathering was attended by 1300 delegates, representing 33 nationalities. President Taft has removed two Supervisors of the Census, one a Republican is succeeded by a Democrat, and the other case exactly vice versa. Policeman Kelly, who did patrol duty at the White House under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, and who was retired for disability, died the first of this week. A silver loving cup is being made by a firm of local jewelers to be given by the American Government to the Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia. The gift is in the nature of a peace token and the inscription has not yet been decided on. The popular resort "River View," which had been for white excursions, but more recently it had come under colored management, was set on fire, it is said, causing a loss of $1,000. The dancing pavilion was burnt entirely down. Mrs. Russell Sage will give $500,000 to the Methodist Church, provided the Church raises a like amount by January 1910, the total amount to be used in spreading the Bible over the world. Hector Apollinaire, a Negro, was recently admitted to the bar in Paris. He is the only Negro lawyer admitted to the bar in Paris. The colored people of Philadelphia are organizing an Afro-American town just outside of the city. Land has been purchased and many citizens are migrating there. The place is called Sharn Hill. A bitter quarrel is raging between white and black secret societies, in Atlanta, Georgia, due to the signing of a bill by Governor Brown prohibiting the colored organizations from using the same insignia, ritualistic works, grips, etc. The case will be taken into the state courts when they are hoping to get justice. An industrial school as a memorial to Harriet Tillman Davis, of the underground railroad, has been proposed in Auburn, New York. In Alabama a bill was offered in the Legislature for keeping the Negroes from holding office in that state. Although more than $6000 was expended last year in the Medical College of Howard University, new apparatus and equipment, amounting to $7000 has been added this summer. The average attendance has advanced from 212 to more than 400. A Negro bank has just been opened in Dallas, Texas. The directors and principal managers are among the most substantial people. The Bee wishes it much success. The Negro Development Company of North Carolina, is planning to have a semi-centennial celebration of the abolition of slavery, and probably will hold a Negro exposition in Raleigh, N. C. Ninety-five applicants for teacher's certificates from Montgomery county, Alabama, were last week notified by the State Board of their success. Thirty-five applicants were found deficient. Fifty-one of the nine-tyfive successful applicants were Negroes. Mr. Lloyd G. Wheeler, a prominent citizen and lawyer, of Chicago, and business agent for Tuskegee Institute, died September 8. He was the first colored lawyer in Illinois. Although the National Medical Association has met and adjourned, among the things not to be forgotten were: they were only allowed to visit white hospitals and not take part in the clinics or operations to be performed. The only hospital they were allowed to perform operations in was the Plymouth, the only one controlled by colored men, having been founded some years ago by Dr. C. N. Garland. Think of Boston, the "Cradle of Liberty," the home of famous men and institutions! Better things were looked for there. Ex-Mayor George Ward, of Alabama, came out in a report asking that the city authorities give the Negro citizens their share of public funds for school purposes. He made a strong plea for better colored schools in Birmingham, and said "the colored people are so intertwined in the life and conditions of the South that they must either be elevated by the whites or the whites will be affected injuriously by them through bad health and sanitation. Good someone is understanding our cause. All things come to him who will but wait.. Do not fail to visit the Automobile. College, managed by Mr. Herbert D. Myers, located at 1509 Seventh street northwest. This young man should be encouraged. It is said the State of Georgia puts innocent Negroes on the chaingang and a big net income is the result of this unmerciful practice. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars was cleared in one year by this method of uncompensated labor. Have you read about the Lincoln Memorial Building Company? It plans to build a colored theater. Get interested; it is a good enterprise. WORK COMMENDED Editor The Bee: In your issue of September 4, 1909, there appears on the front page a most interesting account of the struggle of a young Negro—Mr. E. E. Ward, of Columbus, Ohio—from poverty to success. You state in your editorials of the same issue that you intend to continue the publication of such articles, giving the achievements of our enterprising and successful young men in various parts of the country. I wish to commend you heartily on such a stand and I feel that you will gain more firmly and securely the confidence of the public, and your many readers by giving them more matter that is alike and that stands for tangible results and achievements. We need such articles, for the inspiration of our rising youth and your paper as a medium can serve a noble purpose in making known the real facts underlying the struggles, experiences, and successes of these striving and achieving young Negroes. Mr. Ward is a luminous example in the "Transfer and Storage" business, and his success is duplicated many times by Negroes who have won the battle and succeeded in other trades, enterprises and professions. In conclusion, allow me to congratulate you on the fine and interesting cuts that accompany the article on Mr. Ward's life. Wishing you and your paper unbounded success, THE HELPING HAND CIRCLE Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, special services will be held in the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, under the auspices of the Helping Hand Circle. An elaborate program has been prepared, embracing an organ voluntary by Professor Braxton, an opening ode by the choir, a short devotional exercises by Dr. John Hurst, Financial Secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; a solo by Miss Lula Tibbs, and a sermon by the pastor, Rev. I. N. Ross. A silver offering will be lifted. The proceeds will go to the "Fall Rally Fund." clusion that the Negro school is not very much of a white man's burden, in at least three States, unless the white man is ready to say that the division I suggest is not a fair one. Continued on 4th page. (To the Spring.) SCHILLER. English Words by the Composer. HEDWIG VON ARNIM. Allegro. mf cresc. Willkommen, schöner Jüngling! Du Wonne der Na-tur! Mit deinem Blumen-korb-chen Will- Eil! Eil Da bist ja wie-der! Und bist so-lieb und schön! Und freun wir uns so herzlich, Ent- I greet thee, my dear fel-low! De-light to nature yield! Come with thy flower bask -et, I How glad for us thy com-ing! So dear thou art and good! Great is our joy when -ev -er Thou mp meno mosso. kom -men auf der Flur! ge -gen dir zu gehn. greet thee on the field. com'st with mer-ry mood. Denkst auch noch an mein Mäd-chen? Ei, Lie -ber, den -ke Know -est thou still my sweet-heart? Oh, dear-est, don't for- mp meno mosso. prit. mp esp. doch! get!! 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Finally, for Nemesis would have it so, it was at Fontalnebleau that Napoleon signed his abdication and said forewell to his army in 1814, coming down the horse-shoe staircase at the head of the Cour du Cheval Blanc, and placing himself at the head of the guard, as if for review: "For 20 years," he said, "I have been well content with you, and you have always been with me on the path of glory. With your help and that of all the brave men who are still loyal, I could have carried on the war for three years longer; but France would have suffered, and I eld not wish that to happen. "I might have died—that would have been easy; but I would not. I prefer to follow the path of honor, and to write the history of our exploits. "I cannot embrace you all, but I will embrace your general. Come, Gen. Petit. Bring me the eagle! Dear eagle. May these kisses find their echo in every brave man's heart! "Forowell my children!" That, surely, is the most pathetic, as it is also the most dramatic, scene in the whole history of Fontainebleau. STRANGE ACTION OF MEMORY. Scenes of Other Days, Thought Forgotten, Are Suddenly Flashed Into the Mind. Often suggestions out of all keeping with the surroundings come, and it may be asked, "What made you think of that?" Frequently we are positive that no conscious train of thought has brought up the idea. These memories, out of all rhyme and reason with our atmosphere and conscious occupation, pop into the mind and surprise us with their incongruity. Are these spontaneously originated as they seem to be, or have we merely forgotten the connecting train of ideas, as is often contended? The author but recently, while looking at some dill pickles, had flash upon his mind the image of a Southern California beach and an incident associated with the scene. 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Retail price 75c. for a large bottle. — All Dealers — PARFUMERIE ED. PINAUD, DEPT. M ED. PINAUD BLDQ., NEW YORK NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tacka or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easyruling, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "I" and "I" also rim strip "H" to prevent rim outing. This makes the rubber make-SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. IS STRANGE CHINESE ANIMAL The Takin Seems Moose, Yak, Antelope and Goat Combined—On Exhibition In New York. New York.—Strange to contemplate is the Chinese takin, first of its kind ever brought to the shores of the United States, which was placed on exhibition, stuffed, in the American Museum of Natural History. As far as is known to Mason Mitchell, one of the American consuls in China, who presented the specimen to the institution, he is the only Caucasian who has ever seen one on its native crags. The takin, or Chinese buffalo, which now adorns the museum, is about the The Takin, or Chinese Buffalo. size of a Jersey cow, and it cannot be said that he bears much resemblance to the American bison. His body and legs suggest both the antelope and the goat, his back is like that of a yak and his head, which is surrounded by curving horns, has the bulging nose which suggests that of the moose. The takin has hoofs which are parted and his ways are like those of the goat. He is a rather heavy animal, yet he spends his time in the western mountains of the Sze-Chuán province, where he gets about among the crags as lightly as does the big horn of the Rockies. He is strong and able-bodied and in a fight can give a good account of himself. The hide of the takin which was sent here was dry and as hard as a board, and Mr. Figgins, chief taxidermist of the museum, had a long struggle with it in getting it into proper form, but by following the hair patterns he has been enabled to present the skin with all the distinction which an animal of such complicated anatomy deserves. The hoofs of the creature are very hard and have grooves and scratches in them, which indicate that he was well acustomed to making his agile way over the sharp rocks in his native province. Mr. Mitchell has sent to the American museum several rare animals which he obtained in remote parts of the Chinese empire. A REMINDER OF LA SALLE. Cross Found on the Site of Old Fort St. Louis Built by Explorer In Texas In 1685. Houston, Tex.—A number of ancient relics have been found from time to time during the last few years upon the site of old Fort St. Louis which La Salle, the noted French explorer, and his brave band of adventurers erected in 1685 upon the east bank of the Navidad river, just above where Port Lavaca, Texas, is now situated. One of these historic reminders of the visit of the explorer is a cross which is made of iron. It was found several feet beneath the surface near the bank of the river. It is now in possession of Harry Blackford of Port Lavaca. It was from Fort St. Louis that La Salle started upon his ill-fated expedition into the interior in search of the CROSS OF FRANCE BY L. SALLE AFFILIATED BY THE LOUISIANA ACCOUNTED BY THE 1877 AND 1897 Mississippi river. He entered Pass Cavallo and explored Matagorda bay in the original belief, it is said, that it was here that the Mississippi river emptied its broad waters. He spent some time exploring the coast in this section and then went up the Navidad river some ten miles and there built his little fort. The site of this first settlement is full of beauty. The timbers of the ancient fort long since have rotted, but there are still heaps of stones and pieces of iron to be found scattered about upon the site. The trip which La Salle and his band of explorers made across the country was full of dangers and hardships. They are said to have left a few men behind to retain possession of Fort St. Louls. What became of these men history does not say. It is reasonable to suppose that they were killed by Indians Capacity and ideals are commercially profitable qualities.—Henry Ward Beecher. Mme. Davis, THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN 6 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. 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"In diagnosing my own symptoms a week after the germs of tetanus had entered my blood, I thought I had the disease, but I was not sure," sald Dr. Grundmann. "One day, as I was stepping off a street car, it started permaturely and threw me on my knee on the street. A hole was ripped in my trousers, and a gash cut in the flesh of my knee, into which earth from the street was ground. "It gave me no trouble, pained me very little, and I gave it no further thought. About a week later I found that I had fever and that the muscles of my neck palmed me and were constricted. Next I observed spasmodic jerking of the limbs. These I knew to be premoal- . . ```markdown ``` ME-LANGE BABEK For twenty-five long years—a quarter of a century—there has never been a remedy equal to Elixir Babek for Malaria and such inexorable diseases. Thousands have used it with most gratifying results. Malaria is prevalent now. Do not wait, for it to take hold of you. Begin house of Babek now. 50 Bottles. 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He did not think seriously of the matter, and I believed I might have been mistaken, but nevertheless I was worried, and when that night the symptoms grew more pronounced and became more perceptible I watched them all the more closely. "That night I got a real shock. I observed a growing rigidity of the muscles of the jaws. If it kept on they would become locked beyond all hope of unlocking them. "In one day I had 6,000 units, about a fluid ounce, of the serum injected. My jaws continued slowly to grow more rigid, but we fought the disease with the serum until at last we saw that we had the disease going the other way, and we fought it out. "The germs of tetanus may be in any manner of dirt. If you have a wound in your finger and go out into the garden and stick it into the fresh earth you stand a chance of getting lockjaw." THE BEE Entered at the Post Office at Wash ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. The copy per year in advance...$2.00 Tax months.....1.00 Three months......50 Subscription monthly......20 THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING Washington is soon to have a great office building and theater, situated in the central business district, devoted entirely to the interests of the colored race. Just as the Germans, Italians and Hebrews of New York and other large cities boast of their own office buildings and theaters; so will the Negro ere long be able to boast of his own commodious theater and business structure—and a proud boast it will be. Our people have for very many years recognized the necessity of such a building but the cost of such an edifice seemed to be an unsurmountable barrier to the realization of their dreams. Things have changed though within the last few years. The manner of doing things is different, and enterprises that a decade or so ago were quite beyond the reach of even men of great wealth, are now constantly engaged in by combination of individually small capital, which when united represents a sum sufficiently large to embark in a business venture staggeringly great in comparison with those of the early nineties. This is a fact our race must recognize. This is the age of "big things," the age of concentration, of consolidation, the age when people of a distinct nation, or a race, or religion, or business united for mutual protection and for mutual advantage. Various religious orders have for years invested in great office buildings and in almost every city in America can be found enormous buildings bearing the name of one or the other of our religious bodies, such as the Methodist Book Concern, the Presbyterian building, the Trinity building, etc., while almost every department of trade in almost every city in the Union has its own business building bearing the trade name amongst which at off hand may be mentioned the Shoe and Leather Exchange Building, the Dry Goods Exchange Building, the Produce Exchange Building, the Securities Building. The Germans, Italians, French and people of other nations have long ago erected buildings for the exclusive use of their people and America is dotted from Maine to California with Germania buildings, and Neapolitan buildings and Scandanavian buildings; yet we, a people born and brought up in America, representing over twelve million of our country's population are but now taking the initial step in the path well trodden by aliens who without one half of our need of such buildings have united their wealth and energies in the creation of magnificent structures to yield profit and lend prestige to their races. * The Lincoln Memorial Building is a necessity—every colored man and woman in America will in some way be benefited through it. No more fitting example to the thrift, enterprise and intelligence of our race could possibly be presented to the eyes of the world than such an edifice. Particularly when it is realized that the eyes of all Christendom are on Washington where over one hundred thousand of our people reside without one single evidence of our willingness to accept the new condition of affairs and avail ourselves of the new principle in business that is as far in advance of the old methods as the mile a minute express train is in advance of the stage coach. We look in wonderment at the tremendous fortune of Rockefeller, of Carnegie, of Weinhauser—were they self made? No, not by any means—their fortunes are the result of the new principal in business—They are the result of an evolution in forms of ownership—The product of a social phenomenon made possible by the present industrial needs. It would be as possible for one man to build up a fortune like Rockefeller's in the limit of his life as it would be for one man to sponge out the ocean and gather in all the fish. Thirty years ago the rich man managed to pile up a fortune of $100,000 or $200,000 in the span of his life through foresight, economy and the working out of a steady process of piling up a little profit day after day at a legitimate rate of speed. The brain of the business man of thirty years ago was just as keen as the brain of the business man of today, and it required more personal effort to build up a fortune of $100,000 in the old days than it does now a days to accumulate a hundred times that amount. In short, it takes no more brain power today to build up a $500,000 fortune than it took thirty years ago to build up a fortune of $100,000. Human nature is no different from what it used to be. Inequalities of ability are not greater; but the business world is different. The manner of "doing things" has changed. Ability is no greater now than it was then—but opportunity is greater. The rich man of thirty years ago was "self made." The rich man of today is "opportunity made." His opportunity was in turn made by conditions over which he had absolutely no control. The first was increase in population. The second was increase in productive wealth. These conditions were taken advantage of by comparatively poor men, who united their small fortunes and created capital sufficiently large to embark in enterprises of greater magnitude than were ever launched before—with gigantic capital they took full advantage of opportunity. This, in brief, is the story of Standard Oil. Theshremfwywk Standard Oil, the Steel Trust and hundreds of other smaller aggregations of capital—all having their beginning in the small savings of many people united into a big capital. When once a man of ordinary ability, or even devoid of ability has his money invested in productive enterprises backed by a large capital, it is as impossible for him to grow poor as it is for the average man to grow rich. They are in a current that will crush them on to fortune with the same swiftness that the relentless rapids of Niagara hurries a man to death in the whirlpool. Its juts a question of getting in right. The Lincoln Memorial Building is an enterprise constructed along approved modern business principles and out of the small sums-invested by a multitude of people it will build a big capital which will enable the company to engage in a gigantic undertaking such as millionaires engage in. The magnitude of the capital, the dignity of the enterprise and the nature of the investment, centrally located Washington real estate assuring the stockholders the largest possible degree of security. While the rents of offices and profits derived from the theater will enable the company to pay enormous dividends by the side of which the paltry 31-2 or 4 per cent banks pay on deposits will seem pigmy indeed. In this enterprise our people are afforded an opportunity to "get in right." Washington Centrally Located Real Estate is increasing yearly at the rate of 5 5-8 per cent, which in itself is nearly double bank interest. No one man of our race can engage in an enterprise of this nature because of the necessary size of the investment. The best our people at present can possible do is to pile up a little bit year after year in the slow old way of thirty years ago. It is time they awakened to the new business principle. It is time that they availed themselves of opportunities that are ever within reach of large capital and are constantly engaged in by banks, insurance companies and other large financial institutions having control of depositors or policy holders money to whom they pay the minimum of interest and keep for themselves the very large profit that is reaped from fields such as the Lincoln Memorial Building Company which is a conspicuous example. The difference being that the investor in Lincoln Memorial Building securities will receive the full profit of every dollar his money earns instead of a very small interest. The man of small means, the wage, earner with a few dollars surplus at the end of the week should go into business for himself—He can't do it with the profit on the very limited capital at his command—he can though unite his small capital with the capital of others. It is in this way that big combinations of money which are the wonderment of this rapidly moving age are created. These big combinations of money make money rapidly—Why? Because money makes money, and in the hands of men of integrity and honor and good business judgment your money invested under conditions that will guarantee you the full proportional quota of what your money actually earns' will increase with a rapidity amazing to the adherents of old methods. The Lincoln Memorial Building Company in providing a theater where our people may witness the best in the way of theatrical entertainment without humiliation deserves the gratitude of all our race. In erecting an office building for the accommodation of our professional and business men it is entitled to the heartfelt thanks of all colored men or women engaged in professional or business pursuits. And in giving our people a valuable lesson in modern business methods at the same time affording them an opportunity to invest their money under the most advantageous circumstances governed by conditions prevailing in the best of financial institutions it should receive the unqualified endorsement and the earnest support of every enterprising progressive man of our race. NOTICE Have you read the sixth page of this paper? If you have not it will pay you to do so, and if you are interested in placing a little bit of your money where it will have the greatest earning power, with the most substantial security, Central Business District Real Estate, it will pay you to drop a postal card with your name and address to the LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY, 494 Louisiana Avenue, northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, who will be pleased to mail you free of cost the beautiful booklet that gives you in detail the plans of the Company. Have you read the sixth page of this paper? If you have not it will pay you to do so, and if you are interested in placing a little bit of your money where it will have the greatest earning power, with the most substantial security, Central Business District Real Estate, it will pay you to drop a postal card with your name and address to the LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANS, 494 Louisiana Avenue, northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, who will be pleased to mail you free of cost the beautiful booklet that gives you in detail the plans of the Company. DO YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY? If so, read the sixth page of this paper: it will pay you to do so, and if you are interested in placing a little bit of your money where it will have the greatest earning power, with the most substantial security, Central Business District Real Estate, it will pay you to drop a postal card with your name and address to the LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY. 494 Louisiana Avenue, northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, who will be pleased to mail you free of cost the beautiful booklet that gives you in detail the plans of the Company. NOT A BURDEN (Continued from page 1.) And in view of the facts set forth for these three States, will the white man be able to maintain successfully that he pays nearly all the cost of the Negro public schools in these States? Time is not at hand to make a detailed study of this question for all the eleven States under consideration. What is true of the school funds of the three States considered above is probably true of all the others. A somewhat careful study of this question for several years leads me to the conclusion that the Negro school of the South is no serious burden on the white taxpayer. The same conclusion wil be reached if the subject is approached from another standpoint. Suppose the Negro children of these States were all white. Then it would be found that it would cost to educate the present Negro school population, on the basis they were all white, just about five times as much as it does now to give the same number of Negroes such education as they are getting. You will observe that we always count the Negroes in as a part of our population when we tell the world of our progress in material things! In this connection I wish to call your attention to the comment of two leading Southern newspapers on the recent exodus of Negroes from southern Mississippi and northern Louisiana to the Yazoo Delta. The Chattanooga Times said: "There is no doubt about the alarm and distress felt among our farmers and planters of southern Mississippi and northern Louisiana over the recent exodus of Negroes to the Delta pears, very attractive inducements region of Mississippi, where it aphave been held out to them. We will probably never fully appreciate the value of the Negro as the dependable labor of this section until we lose him, and we would learn this lesson from the situation in lower Mississippi and Louisiana, we will make up our mind we are not going to lose him." On the same subject, the Charlotte Observer of January 17th, 1909, said: "It is a singular fact that those who profess most antagonism toward the Negro and most desire to get rid of him are often the very ones who raise the loudest howl when the Negro begins departing of his own accord. Let a labor agent undertake to move Negroes from one State to another and he encounters rigid prohibitory laws backed up by strong public sentiment. Against similar activities within the bounds of States laws forbidding enticement of labor are uncompromisingly enforced. It is not merely that no one can be found immediately at hand to take the Negro's place, for in very many cases those most feelingly bent (as shown by deeds) upon keeping the Negro, almost will he nil he, oppose all steps for the furtherance of white immi- gration from without. They want a hired man, who, if he becomes a competitor at all, does not make a competitor of formidable efficiency. Complaints against the Negro as a burden and a curse are forgotten in louder complaints of another sort whenever any one attempts to lure him away. "Talk about deporting the Negro to Africa or colonizing him apart in this country! There would be almost another Southern Confederacy to fight if anything of the sort were attempted. The Negro is here to stay, and no men in their hearts recognize the fact more fully or regard it more complacently than the men who with their lips are continually abusing him." In 1891 the Negroes of North Carolina listed $8,018,446 worth of property. In 1908 they listed $21,716,922, or 171 per cent. increase in seventeen years. The property listed by whites increased only 89 per cent. during this same period. In other words, the Negro property increased during these seventeen years nearly twice in proportion to white property. In Georgia, in 1891, Negroes listed $14,196,735; in 1907 they listed $25,904,822, an increase of 82 per cent. White property during the same period increased just 39 per cent. This indicates that the ratio of increase of Negro property in Georgia during the last sixteen years has been maintained at a rate of increase more than twice that of white property. Such facts give us glimpses of the economic importance of the Negro and abundantly justify us in hoping that the senseless race prejudice which has for its object the intellectual enslavement of Negro children will soon pass away. I do not believe that any superior race can hope for the blessings of Heaven on its own children while it begrudges more light and efficiency for those of an inferior race. THE NEGRO BUSINESS There was a lively meeting of the Negro Business League held last Monday evening in the Y. M. C A rooms, True Reformers Hall. President Pittman presided, and Mr. Geo. F. Collins acted as secretary. After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting the president called for the collection of dues, etc. and membership. Dr. Jones, of Fairmont Heights, and Mr. Keyes were admitted to membership. After which the chair called for reports of the several committees. The executive committee, of which W. Calvin Chase is chairman, reported. Mr. Chase, the chairman, stated that after a full investigation of the charges preferred against President W. Sidney Pittman by Mr. J. A. Lankford, formerly president of the League, the committee was unanimous in exonerating the president; that if any portion of the constitution has been violated relative to the election of officers, the membership is to blame, and not the president, if the constitution states that the election of officers shall be by ballot on a majority of a quorum at a regular meeting voted, otherwise the president was not responsible, but the membership; that the League had nothing to do with the article complained of that was published in the Negro Business League Journal; that in no particular have the charges against the president been sustained, and the committee report concluded, for the best interest of the Negro Business League, J. A. Lankford be expelled. After the reading of the report a motion was made for its reception and adoption, which was unanimous President Pittman then laid before the meeting a communication from R. W. Thompson, giving a detailed statement of his trip to Louisville. Ky., and what was accomplished by the Negro press, he himself having been elected president. At the conclusion of its reading Mr. Chase wanted to know what bearing the letter had. Mr. Thompson was a newspaper correspondent who was permitted by editors to write, and they published his articles as a matter of accommodation; that an editor should have been elected president of the association, and not a correspondent. He also noticed that Mr. J. A. Lankford is named for the executive committee representing the District of Columbia, and many others who neither own nor control a newspaper. Mr. Chase suggested that we hear from Attorney George F. Collins. He gave a graphic description of his trip. He was followed by Attorney J. A. Cobb and Dr. A. M. Curtis. At this juncture Mr. Lankford rose to a question of personal privilege. The chair refusing to recognize him, he appealed to the house by saying that it was a shame to allow two or three men to run this great Negro League, and "I appeal to you to rise and help me." No one rose. President Pittman said, "Let us have prayer from Mr. Johnson, of the Y. M. C. A." Mr. Lankford declared that Brother Johnson would not pray until he had finished, and if the president did not reconsider the report of the executive committee a patrol wagon would be brought to the door. This remark was meant for President Pittman, but in his usual unconcerned manner he called for prayer by Brother Johnson. of the Y. M. C. A. Brother Lankford sprang to his feet and decared that Brother Johnson would not pray until he had spoken and the committee's report was reconsidered. Brother Johnson prayed; then Attorney T. L. Jones moved that the meeting adjourn, which was carried; and if Brother Lankford's patrol wagon came there was only one to get in if. No one saw it. F. E. GREEN & CO. Mr. Jesse Foster, manager of the F. E. Green & Co. Pressing Club, has one of the largest up-to-date places in this city. This is a place that will demonstrate Negro press and push. Mr. Foster has a dozen good and accomplished hands. His lady assistants are up to date, as well as his other help. See advertisement in another column. BIG Bill Kenny 625 D street, northwest. If you want fresh beer, good wines and liquors, don't fail to patronize this house. Hot free lunch at 12 noon daily. WILLIAM KENNY Fair View Park Spend a day in the Country with the Birds and Wild Flowers.. AT FAIR VIEW PARK, situated on the Little Fall Road or District Line; reached by the Cabin John or Glen Echo cars. This beautiful, elevated park is one of the healthiest resorts in the District of Columbia, and is noted for its water and shady grove. Dates are now open for picnics. The Park will also be open every Sunday to the public. Refreshments at city prices. JOHN R. SCOTT, At the Park. Propriteor. FOR PICNICS FOR PICNICS Madre's Park, situated on the Eckington and Suburban line, has been fitted up and is for rent for picnics. lawn fetes, Sabbath schools and private parties. It is beautifully lighted by electricity, has a spacious pavilion. 50 x 50, excellent water and fine car service. Take cars marked Berwyne, Riverdale, Laurel or District Line, and get off at gate. For terms call and see M. A. Madre, 1248 9th street, northwest. or see janitor at the park. HOTEL MACEO. When visiting New York City, stop at the Hotel Macco, 213 West 33rd. Street, corner Broadway. Steam heated. Telephone, 803. Columbus. B. F. Thomas, Prop. The Week in Society No need to ask who is in town; just go around to the drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912 l-2 14th St. N.W., and you will see the crowd. "The place where everybody meets everybody else." Mr. John C. Powel and wife, who have been to Atantic City, New Jersey, have returned to the city after an enjoyable time. Miss Moten, who has been visiting the city a the guest of her sister on 12th street, northwest, will return to her home in Lynchburg, Virginia, next week. Mrs. Julia M. Layton, one of the most polished and gifted of speakers in this country, left the city for Columbus, Ohio. Tuesday morning. Miss Lucy Moten, of 12th street, northwest, who has been to the seashore for several weeks, has returned to her home. Miss Moten is one of the best trained teachers in the public schools. Mrs. V. B. Jeter is President of the Circle and Mrs. A. B. Bailey is Secretary. Let there be a liberal attendance. Mrs. Charles B. Fisher, of the Treasury Department, has returned home from her annual vacation, having visited Toronto, Canada, the Niagara Falls, Albany, Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., and the great metropolis, New York City. The Washington Post mentions that the steamer River Queen has been chartered by the Wilberforcians in order to give the colored college clubs and their friends a good opportunity to view its great water carnival and regatta; Saturday evening, September 18. Indications are that so many wish to take advantage of this opportunity that its limited capacity will be taken long before the hour of sailing, which is six o'clock. The new Moving Picture Theatre the Dunbar, Douglass and Elite, are attracting great crowds. When one wishes to see the social world of this city, our popular dreamy eyed belles, and the young men of our race, intelligent, dignified, just go from 7th to 14th on You street. Monday night the Douglass was the center of attraction, the fight between Joe Gans and Nelson was being shown. Every one was convinced that the battle would have been Gan's had Nelson played fair, and not believed in butting so much. One would have imagined it was a real fight to hear the expressions from the audience. Mr. Jessie Foster was particularly interested, as well as Mr. Daniel Moore, Mr. W. Savoy, Ernest Ames, H. Anderson, Professor Layton, Honorable W. T. Vernon and a host of others. Many young ladies were also interested: Misses Annie and Violet Kibble, Misses Daisy Craigton, Gertie Ryan, Laura Wilson, Virginia Davis, Mary Booker, Ruth Thomas, Gonevia Maxfield, Cordelia and Annie Murdock, Louise and Jennie Wormley and a great many others. The young folks are coming. Miss Effie Simmons, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Louisville, Kentucky, will be in the city soon. Get your drugs and medicines at the Board & McGuire Pharmacy, on 14th St. between Tea and You. Miss Lillie Burk will leave the city soon for Downington, Pennsylvania, where she is teaching. Miss Turner has returned to her school in Atlantic City. Mr. Ira T. Bryant, Secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal Sunday School Union, of Nashville, has returned to his post of duty after spending several weeks in this city. Mr. Horace Morris, of this city is visiting friends in Louisville, Kentucky. Mrs. Pinkey V. Newton and Annie B. Scott, of Richmond, Virginia, spent Monday and Tuesday in this city the guests of Mrs. Rosa Hill. Mrs. M. E. Fennell, stenographer in the True Reformer's office is in the city. There will be several marriages this winter. Pay your subscription for The Bee. Our collector will call. Rev. Grimkie has returned to the city from his vacation. Rev. Brooks is attending the Baptist Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Rev. Jarns will fill the pulpit of the 19th Street Baptist Church on Sunday. Miss Gertie' Erwin will leave the city very soon for Downington, where she will travel.. Miss M. F. Madden and K. M. Pinkney are spending a few weeks at Luray, Va. Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson is spending a month in Plainfield, N. J. Mrs. Clarence Cameton White will arrive home about October 1, after being on the Continent for several months. Dr. Harold Norwood is to locate in east Baltimore. Among those at the Stag given in honor of Dr. George C. Hall, of Chicago, Illinois, were Doctors Willson, Creed, Childs, Lofton, McNeill, Wormley, Mitchell, Dumas, Freeman, Evans, Walker, Judge Terrell, Auditor Tyler, and Register W. T. Vernon. Mrs. Lou Pickett spent a week with Dr. and Mrs. James Lawson in Plainfield, New Jersey. Miss Eva Watson has returned to her home after a pleasant visit to her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Moore, of Brooklyn, New York. Miss Mayme White, daughter of ex-Congressman White, is visiting friends in this city. Miss Wilia Shook, a public school teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, was the guest of Miss Pearl Denny in this city. Miss Antoinette Church, of Nashville, will visit her relatives here shortly. Misses Rita Parker, and Bessie Reddick were in Baltimore last Sunday, the guest of Mrs. Daniel Murphy. Mrs. Winfred Braxton, of Bloom street, Baltimore, is spending a few days in this city. SOCIAL NEWS Miss Emma Norman, of this city, is in Hunting, West Virginia, where she will begin her work as teacher in the Douglass School. Dr. Clarence Gray, of this city, was the guest of Mr. H. M. Gross, of Baltimore, last Sunday. Mr. Chester R. Martin, of this city, one of the recent graduates of Howard Law Department, spent Sunday in Baltimore, the guest of Dr. Harry Brown. Dr. Coleman, of Le Droit Park, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coleman, of Baltimore, last week. Mr. W. A. Dinguid, of 720 Twenty-third street, returned home Friday after a stay of two months in Bar Harbor, Maine. Miss Mildred Porter, one of the charming daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Porter, is spending a month in Clarksburg, Md. Mr. W. R. Durgind, the nephew of W. A. Durgind, spent a few days in Virginia, visiting relatives. R. W. White, Esq., was in Montgomery, Md., on business, last week. Misses Beatrice and Lola Ruffin have, returned to the city, after spending a pleasant vacation. A WEDDING. Miss Bessie McKinney, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. McKinney, of 63 P street northwest, was quietly married to Rev. Austin, of Lynchburg, Va., last week. Although the engagement had been announced the wedding was a surprise, as the time had not been set. They were married by Rev. Clair, of Asbury M. E. Church, of which they were members. Miss McKinney was a student of Howard University, and was an accomplished young lady. She was a fine linguist, and was winning quite a reputation along that line, as she had recited in several churches. Rev. Austin is a graduate from the theological department of Howard University, and is pastor of a church in Percyville, Va., where they are now making their home. Mr. and Mrs. Austin will be missed by their many friends in this city, but who wish them much success in their future life. HERBERT D. MYERS Herbert D. Myers, son of Honorable George C. Myers, of Cleveland, Ohio, has returned to Washington after ten years absence. He is the manager and instructor of the National Automobile College, the only expert school of automobile engineering in America for the colored youth. Mr. Myers has completed a course at Case School of Applied Sciences in Cleveland, and spent two years at Ann Arbor in the mechanical department of the University of Michigan. He has been for sometime with the White Manufacturing Company, makers of the White steamers and gasoline cars. While there he served at one time as assistant engineer in the experimental laboratory under Professor George Carpenter, head of the mechanical laboratory at Cornell. He is probably better known by his athletic career in the middle West, he holding the Ohio state indoor and outdoor half mile records, as well as Freeman's banner for the all-around athletic championship of the middle West for 1905. He ran the quarter J. H. MR. HERBERT D. MYERS, Young Clevelander, teacher, and head of the Negro Automobile College. mile for Michigan in 1908. Mr. Myers has many friends in Washington and is very popular, and it may be said that Mr. Myers is one of the very few colored automobile engineers in the country. He is a young man who deserves to be encouraged. The colored people in this city don't have to depend on white people for anything in this age, as there are colored persons in all branches of industry, and as the branch Mr. Myers is engaged in will be a benefit to the colored people, The Bee suggests that a coupon be cut out from the advertisement of this firm and which will entitle the holder to one free lecture. THAT PRESS ASSOCIATION At Louisville, Ky., before, during or after the sessions of the National Negro Business League, it is reported that a National Negro Press Association was organized,with a newspaper correspondent, in the person of one Mr. R. W. Thompson, as its president. Just what those mutton-head editors were thinking about when they elected him The Bee is unable to explain. Not in the history of any press organization of editors has a correspondent been elected its president. Mr. Thompson owns no paper, and neither does he control any. His correspondence is published, sometimes, in different papers. He is only given permission to use the columns by the suffrance of the editors. Now, if he had been elected president of a correspondents' association, The Bee would make no objection. Aside from electing Mr. Thompson president, over bona fide editors, Mr. Thompson appoints men on his alleged executive committee who are not even editors, nor are they connected directly or indirectly with any newspaper. The Bee will support a press association of legitimate editors, but it takes no stock in tissue-paper press associations, presided over by journalistic apologists. If the Negro editors of the country want a national press association, let them organize one of editors; and only to this doctrine will The Bee subscribe. FUNERAL OF MRS.| MARTHA J. MAYO Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Martha J. Mayo, one of the most active and prominent members of John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Ch., were held last Sunday afternoon at two o'clock in the church. Deceased had been sick but a short time, and it is said that within a few hours of her death it was not thought that her malady would proye fatal." It is also understood that the loss of a devoted daughter a few months ago severely shocked her,from which she only partially recovered. The church was filled with friends of the deceased, thus showing high respect to the dead,and genuine sympathy to the stricken family. The funeral indeed was a very imposing one. The services began with a processional hymn, "Asleep in Jesus," by a vested choir of forty voices, under the direction of Prof. T. N.-Dickson. The pastor in charge, Mr. Alyne, read a short selection from the burial service, after which the Rev. Mr. Wallace, of the M. E. Church, delivered a fervent prayer. Hymn 529, "Jesus is mine," was rendered by the choir. Rev. Mr. Ross, of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, read a portion of the lesson from Corinthians set apart for the burial service of the Protestant Church.. Hymn "Come, ye disconsolate," was then sung, after which a short address was delivered by Mr. J. R. F. Browne, in which he spoke of the high Christian character of the deceased. Resolutions deploring the death of Mrs. Mayo were reported from the "Board of Deaconesses," of which she was treasurer; "Naomi Household of Ruth, No. 1038;" the "W. H. and F. Missionary Society," and the "Silver Links," all of whom attended the funeral in a body, and in full regalia. Rev. Bishop Johnson, of the Second Baptist Church, and the pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church dedelivered by Rev. Mr.. Alyne, pastor Christian character of the deceased. "Lead, Kindly Light" was then sung, after which the funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. Mr. Alyne, pastor of the church. The corpse was reviewed by a large concourse of people, during which time the choir rendered very feelingly the hymn "I am going home to die no more." The floral offerings were beautiful and elaborate, thus testifying to the affectionate regard for the deceased. Deceased is survived by her husband, four sons, and a married daughter to mourn her loss. At the time of her death she was fifty-one years old, having been born in 1858 at Winston, North Carolina. Interment in Harmony Cemetery. The annual celebration of the True Reformers last week was very elaborate and a decided success. The Washington division was headed by W. R. Griffin. The Grand Marshal was Philip Gaines. We desire the services of one hundred salesmen and saleswomen in Washington, and one representative in every city and town reached by this paper. They must all be energetic, earnest hustlers. To such people we will submit an exceptionally liberal commission proposition, with weekly advances. Both stretched to the limit, with a view of obtaining the RIGHT KIND of representatives. This is an immediate opportunity to men and women of intelligence, good appearance and address to present to investors the most attractive money certainty and substantial project before the public, where every dollar will be invested in the best of Washington centrally located real estate. We want men and women who are hustlers to follow the leads and close contracts. If you are a producer and looking for a good, live proposition, you had better apply at once to Lincoln Memorial Building Company's offices, 494 Louisiana Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C. VISITING CARDS. Send for a package of visiting cards. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., 1212 Florida Avenue or 1109 Eye Street Northwest. If you want first-class printing done send to W. Calvin Chase, Jr., for estimate. Excursion Season For 1909 Books now open for charter on the River Queen and Jane Moseley. See your dates at once, before they are all taken. WASHINGTON PARK This beautiful park has a collection of attractions to the Washington public. It is located in Washington on the Potomac River. It has its electric power plant for 7,000 lights, a roussel, double-decker, with music attaching to the Theater. A Penny Arcadium, Moving Gallery. A Dairy Lunch Depot and Buffet Hall and Billiard Hall, and forty acres of Shore the River Queen makes daily trips to Winston, 12 m., and 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m. For particulars address Lewis Jefferson, O'Neill and N Streets Wharf. ALTIMORE & O'NEILL SPECIAL LOW FARE New York FOR THE Hudson-Fulton Center Only $8.50 Rourd From Washington TICKETS ON SALE SEPTE MBER 24 GOOD TO RETURN UNTIL OCTOBER SIVE. IT NO OTHER TIME WILL THE BEEN BE SEEN TO SO GOOD ADVANCE WITH ITS MAGNIFICENT B ORDER, ONLY LINE OF NEW YORK T THE BILL ALTIMORE & OHIO TERMI NALS AT AND WEST 23D STREET. ASK TICKET AGENT FOR FULLY section of attractions never before ac. It is located about ten miles ac River. The Scenic Railway, 7,000 lights—a Figure 8. The music attachments. A 5 and 10- m, Moving Pictures, Shooting and Buffet. Dancing Pavilion, acres of Shady Woods and Dells. trips to Washington Park at 10 m. Jefferson, General Manager, Sev- & OHIO R. R. NEW FAREST TO New City Celebration 60 Round Trip Washington Oct 1 MEMBER 24 TO 30, INCLUSIVE OCTOBER 10, 1909, INCLU- IVE. THE BEAUTIFUL HUDSON D ADVANTAGE, TOGETHE B ORDER, THE FAMOUS THE BILLION DOLLAR MIL- NALS AT LIBERTY STREET OR FULL PARTICULARS. NISHED. National Au- e College St. N. W. This beautiful park has a collection of attractions never before offered to the Washington public. It is located about ten miles from Washington on the Potomac River. The Scenic Railway, with its electric power plant for 7,000 lights—a Figure 8. The Caroussel, double-decker, with music attachments. A 5 and 10-cent Theater. A Penny Arcadium, Moving Pictures, Shooting Gallery. A Dairy Lunch Depot and Buffet. Dancing Pavilion, Pool and Billiard Hall, and forty acres of Shady Woods and Dells. The River Queen makes daily trips to Washington Park at 10 a. m., 12 m., and 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m. For particulars address Lewis Jefferson, General Manager, Seventh and N Streets Wharf. BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. SPECIAL LOW FARE TO New York City FOR THE Hudson-Fulton Celebration Only $8.50 Round Trip From Washington Oct 1 TICKETS ON SALE SEPTE MBER 24 TO 30, INCLUSIVE GOOD TO RETURN UNTIL OCTOBER 10, 1909, INCLUSIVE. AT NO OTHER TIME WILL THE BEAUTIFUL HUDSON RIVER BE SEEN TO SO GOOD ADVANTAGE, TOGETHER WITH ITS MAGNIFICENT B ORDER, THE FAMOUS SKY LINE OF NEW YORK T HE BILLION DOLLAR MILE BALTIMORE & OHIO TERMI NALS AT LIBERTY STREET AND WEST 23D STREET. ASK TICKET AGENT FO R FULL PARTICULARS. EXPERT CHAUFFEURS FURNISHED. The Nationa tomobile Co The National Automobile College 1509 7thSt. N. W. A PRACTICAL SCHOOL OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING FOR COLORED STUDENTS. CALL OR WRITE FOR TERMS We help them over the rough places. ANY young couples find the first year of married life one of denial in home comforts. Expenses prove heavier than they have expected—their little bank account has disappeared. But a little careful planning in advance will save all this worry. Furnishing the home won't call for the immediate outlay of a dollar if they come to us. We'll make that home comfortable and attractive for a simple promise to pay a small amount each week or month. We trust them without requiring a penny at the time they buy. With the credit price in plain figures on every article comparison will satisfy them that they can do no better in the cash stores. Peter Grogan and Sons Co., 817-823 7th St. IT IS THE NEW EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION $100,000 OF STOCK AT PAR $10.00 PER SHARE To be paid for on the Easy Payment Plan $100,000 OF STOCK AT PAR $10.00 PER SHARE To be paid for on the Easy Payment Plan Why? Because It advances the interest of the Negro race. It affords the individual a safe and sure investment. It opens up new channels of enterprise. It presents the Negro in his true light before the eyes of the world.. IT IS THE NEW NEW EMANCIPATION paying amusement place in America. IT KNOWS ALL THIS AND IT INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE in an enterprise ABSOLUTELY DEVOID OF RISK, where every dollar will be invested in the best of Washington Real Estate, that increases in value annually at the rate of 5% per cent—nearly DOUBLE bank interest. Even that is good enough for most people, but the LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY will do better than that. It will have offices and stores and lodge rooms, which will earn, on a conservative estimate, at least $23,200 per year. Equal to 5-9-10 per cent per annum. Tear off and mail with your remittance for First Pay. Lincoln Memorial Building Company, 494 Louisiana Ave., N. W., Washington, D.C. Gentlemen: Find inclosed...dollars as first payment on stock in the Lincoln Memorial Building Company, upon the following terms and of First. That the price at which I purchase this stock is ten dollars per share. Second. That the stock issued to me shall be fully paid and non-assessable Third. That if purchased on deferred payments that the first payment is cent of the purchase price. Fourth. That my contract of purchase will be issued to me for the number my first payment. Name..... Street....City....St mittance for First Payment W., Washington, D. C. has first payment on.....shares of allowing terms and conditions: ten dollars per share. and non-assessable. the first payment shall not be less than 10 per to me for the number of shares applied for upon State Tear off and mail with your remittance for First Payment Lincoln Memorial Building Company, 494 Louisiana Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: Find inclosed...dollars as first payment on...shares of stock in the Lincoln Memorial Building Company, upon the following terms and conditions: First. That the price at which I purchase this stock is ten dollars per share. Second. That the stock issued to me shall be fully paid and non-assessable. Third. That if purchased on deferred payments that the first payment shall not be less than 10 per cent of the purchase price. Fourth. That my contract of purchase will be issued to me for the number of shares applied for upon my first payment. Name... ```markdown ``` FIRST OFFERING This is of importance to YOU and and every Negro in the land! WASHINGTON IS THE SEAT OF OUR NATION'S GOVERNMENT. The eyes of the world are on Washington.... One-third of Washington's population is Negro. If all the Negroes in Washington were colonized in one place they would make a city larger than Richmond, Virginia. There are seven theatres in Washington, supported by a white population of 241,923 and a few foolish Negroes willing to be colonized in the galleries, the only place to which the Negro is admitted. THERE IS NOT A SINGLE FIRSTCLASS OFFICE-BUILDING in the city of Washington, where a colored professional or business man or woman, and there are hundreds of them in the National Capital, can obtain business quarters. JUST THINK OF IT! 100,000 enterprising, thrifty, intelligent people, through race prejudice, swept completely out of the business district of Washington; 100,000 genteel, prosperous, amusement loving people deprived of every form of theatrical entertainment unless willing to submit to the most humiliating conditions. Every colored man and woman IN Washington. Every colored man and woman VISITING Washington. Every colored man and woman in America, familiar with the true state of the Negro in Washington, realizes that a theatre, store, and office building, operated by the Negroes, for the Negroes, is A NECESSITY. The welfare of the race demands it. The self-respect of the race demands it. Any enterprise resting its hope of success upon a NECESSITY is bound to be a SUCCESS. A THEATRE AND OFFICE BUILDING IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, built by Negroes, for the use of Negroes, is a NECESSITY. Appreciating to the utmost that fact— THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY proposes to erect in the Central Business District of the city of Washington a magnificent theatre, seating capacity 2,500, and a store and office building of splendid proportion, adequate in every respect to meet the requirements of prosperous professional and business men. The enterprise is exceptional in two respects: First—It is absolutely safe. Second—It promises enormous possibilities as a money maker. Features that must appeal to every man or woman with a few dollars to invest, and you are such a man or woman or you would not have read this far. THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY has surveyed the field carefully, and it KNOWS that hundreds of tenants are available for the offices, that dozens of merchants are ready to rent the stores; and that 100,000 people are anxious to patronize the theatre exclusively, and make it the best A. B. EMANCIPATION LOS ANGELES ment C. shares of conditions: will not be less than 10 per of shares applied for upon e. Lincoln Memorial Build- 494 Louisiana Gentlemen: I have read your ing Company. Please send me be It is understood that the PATION PROC It will also have a theatre, which, if patronized at prices ranging from 10 to 50 cents, by only 1 per cent of the total colored population of the city of Washington, will enable the Company to pay 15 per cent on its total capitalization. Equal in all to 20 g-10 per cent, to which may be added the land value increase of 5% per cent. Now, all this is Conservatively Estimated. Banks and Insurance Companies engage in enterprises like this with their depositors' and policyholders' money—YOUR money, but YOU get only about 3 or $ \frac{3}{2} $ per cent. The banks or insurance companies keep the balance. THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILD- Tear off and Lincoln Memorial Building Company, 494 Louisiana Ave., Washington; D.C. Gentlemen: I have read your advertisement and desi- ing Company. Please send me by retnrn mail, free of ch It is understood that there is no obligation on m Name . ... Street. Tear off and mail for Free Prospectus Lincoln Memorial Building Company, 494 Louisiana Ave., Washington; D. C. Gentlemen: I have read your advertisement and desire further information regarding the Lincoln Memorial Building Company. Please send me by retnrn mail, free of charge, prospectus of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company. It is understood that there is no obligation on my part whatsoever. Building Co. WASHINGTON, D. C. DR. SAMUEL G. ELBERT, 1st V.-Pres. Physician Wilmington, Del. GEORGE F. COLLINS, Counsel Attorney Washington, D. C. DR. L. H. SINGLETON, Auditor Pharmacist Washington, D. C. Wm. H. Watts ..... Washington W. R. Williams ..... Washington AMATION ING COMPANY is ENTIRELY NEG Not one dollar of white capital will cepted in exchange for its securities. There is not one dollar of Promotion consequently there is no watered stock. Every holder of stock from the Pr down must pay at LEAST $10.00 per sh every share of stock allotted to him. This does not mean that the price o will REMAIN at $10.00 per share. It is The C men of s you are p through t Their They have Company earned m vest YO DON'T The p able $1.0 months t Tear off and mail for Free Prospect Company, E., Washington; D. C. Arrisement and desire further informa tion mail, free of charge, prospectus or no obligation on my part whatsoever. Name . . . Street..... City.... OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS W. SIDNEY PITTMAN, President. Architect Washington, D. C. JOHN W. LEWIS President Law and Loan Ass'n Washington, Cc ADVISORY BOARD CLAMATION ING COMPANY is ENTIRELY NEGRO. Not one dollar of white capital will be accepted in exchange for its securities. There is not one dollar of Promotion Stock, consequently there is no watered stock. Every holder of stock from the President down must pay at LEAST $10.00 per share for every share of stock allotted to him. This does not mean that the price of stock will REMAIN at $10.00 per share. It is $10.00 NOW. It will advance in price far beyond $10.00, just as railroad and public utility stock goes to several times par. So will the Lincoln Memorial Building Company's stock go to several times its present value. This means that a share of stock costing $10.00 NOW will be worth $40.00 when stock goes to four times par. Estimates show that the Company's earnings will be 20 per cent, and that is four times par, with every dollar invested in Real Estate. THE BEST in the city of Washington, where values are as firmly fixed as the Rock of Gibraltar. This does not mean that the price of stock will remain at $10.00 per share. It is $10.00 NOW. If the Company, as it is estimated, pays 20 per cent, a $10.00 share of stock will be worth $40.00. If it pays 40 per cent, a single share of $10.00 stock will be worth $80.00. Just as railroads and public utility stocks increase in value, so will the Lincoln Memorial Building Company's stock increase in price. The first allotment of stock at $10.00 a share is being rapidly subscribed, and the next allotment will be $12.50 per share, to which point it will soon be advanced; therefore, you are urged to avail yourself of the present opportunity to get in as completely on the ground floor as any one of the Company's Directors are. The Company's Directors, by the way, are men of sterling worth, integrity and honor, as you are possibly aware, or can easily ascertain through any COMMERCIAL AGENCY. Their names are at the top of this page. They have unbounded faith in the future of the Company. They have invested THEIR hard earned money in it, and they advise you to invest YOUR money side by side with theirs. DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. The price of stock is $10.00 per share, payable $1.00 down and $1.00 per month for nine months upon each share subscribed for. Before you lay this paper down cut out the coupon on the lefthand corner of this page and mail to-day, with remittance for first payment, if for but one share of stock. We shall be glad at all times to give you any further information desired, and again invite you to join us in this enterprise. C. are further information regarding the Lincoln Memorial Build- charge, prospectus of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company. may part whatsoever. City..... State..... S. H: BOLLING Contractor and Builder Lynchburg, Va. SAMUEL W. RUTHERFORD, 2d V.-Pres. Manager National Benefit Association Washington, D. C. DR. CHAS. H. MARSHALL, Treasurer Physician Washington, D. C. J. L. FORBES Real Estate and Loans Norfolk, Va. GEORGE W. ROBINSON Merchant Washington, D. C. に と と と と と と DO IT NOW. Very truly yours, LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY, W. Sidney Pittman, President. 2 GREAT OFFERs This Spendid Six-Piece Set of W. H. Rogers' Guaranteed Silver Ware Free to the Washington Bee Subscribers. 9 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. 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That was why in the midst of his correspondence, along about 11 o'clock the other morning, he paused, and, turning to his secretary, requested him to ring up his residence on the 'phone. "Jemmison," he said, "get my house on the wire and ask Mrs. Blank to come to the 'phone. Just tell them that I wish to speak to her." The secretary made off, and in a few minutes the required connection was made. "Is that you, Mary?" he said. "Yes," was the answer. "Well, this is John," he said. "I have just rung you up to tell you that Barker was in here this morning with two tickets for the theater to-night. He and Mrs. Barker have been called suddenly out of town, and he thought we might like to use the tickets. How about it? "Fine," replied Mrs. Blank. "I have nothing else to do." "All right, my dear," continued Blank. "The curtain rises at 8:30." "Yes, I know," said Mrs. Blank. 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In our American forests, owing to lack of market for such material, fully one-half of the tree—the limbs, smaller branches, twigs and foliage—are left upon the ground, where they soon become dry and furnish material for a forest fire. In the European forests every part of the tree, including the smaller twigs, is sold. The sale of this minor product constitutes over one-half of the revenue. Hence, when the forester is through with his tree cutting no inflammable material is left upon the ground. Now, if our Adirondack lumbermen could sell the limbs and tops of the trees instead of allowing them to go to waste for lack of a market, they would not be obliged to leave the ground encumbered with the inflammable debris and litter which is such a prolific source of fire, and which when ignited is so difficult to extinguish. JAMES F. BUNDY, ATTOHNEY, SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding Probate Court. No. 16210. Administration Docket 40. Estate of Mary Jane Adams, Dec'd. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of the said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Eliza Ruffin, it is ordered this twenty-third day of August. A. others concerned, appear in said Court on Tuesday, the 28th day of September, A. D. 1909, at 10 o'clock D. 1909, that Sarah B. Davis and all A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "The Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned—the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. Thos. H. Anderson, Justice. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. James F. Bundy, Attorney.. ZEPH P. MOORE, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TRICT OF COLUMBIA HOLDING PROBATE COURT No. 15251, 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 Martha Ann Winslow, 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 30th day of August, A. D., 1910; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 30th day of August, 1909. James H. Winslow. 1702 12th Street, Northwest. Attest: James Tanner. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. SPECIAL OFFER Any person purchasing a lot at Westford, from Mr. O. H. Fowler. 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Dental College, twenty-Graduate School and Polyclinic. Address Neil, 934 R street, northwest. Courses of three years, giving a thorough and practice of law. Occupies own building house. Address Benjamin F. Leighton, LL. Street, N. W. Special information, address Dean of De- The College of Arts and Science. Devoted to liberal studies. C Latin, Greek, French, German, Phy tory, Philosophy and the Social Sci best approved colleges. Address I The Teachers' College. Afords special opportunities forular college courses in Psychology, degree of A.B.; Pedagogical course grade courses in Normal Training, mestic Sciences. Graduates helped B. Moore, A.M., Ph.D., Dean. The Academy. Faculty of Ten. Three course grade preparatory school. Address Dean. studies. Courses in E. German, Physics, Chemistry, Social Sciences such as Address Kelly Miles. Opportunities for preparation in Psychology, Pedagogy, Medical courses leading to Mental Training, Music, Mathematics helped to position Dean. 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