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VOL.XXX NO 13 FROM THE BOOKS Colored Are Doing Well A Bee representative takes facts from the books. The Bee informant misquoted facts. In The Bee last week there was published a list of the salaries of the white and colored teachers in Howard University. The official register of teh institution shows the following: During the present administration, five colored men, two of them representing the Alumni, have been placed on the Board of Trustees of Howard University. The proportion of colored teachers employed in the several academic departments has been increased. While 10 per cent increase has been added to the salaries of all professors in the academic departments, all of the large special increases in salaries have been given to faithful and efficient colored professors. At the beginning of President Thirkield's administration there was not a single colored employee in the University office; there are now one white and five colored employees. The office, besides being managed efficiently, being also a training school for the several assistants. A prominent member of the Board of Trustees has said that there has been greater advance in the buildings and equipment of the University in the past three years than there has been in the past forty years. During the past year a new steam heating plant has been installed and the Library and Science Hall, costing $140,000.00 are being built. There has never been a time when the Alumni and friends of the University were more united and enthusiastic in its support. The Alumni are now united in raising $110,000.00 for a new gymnasium. During the past three months two colored men were invited to prominent positions in the University but on account of other plans did not see fit to accept. SCHEDULE OF SALARIES Statements having gone forth with reference to salaries established by the Board of Trustees of Howard University for white and colored teachers that are entirely out of harmony with the facts, the following list of salaries, as fixed by the Board, is given from the official record of the Treasurer, for the current year. White Teachers School of Arts and Sciences: 1 Professor, $1,650, and rooms. 1 Professor, $1,500. 1 Professor, part time, $500. 1 Professor, 1,650, and rooms. Teachers College: 1 Instructor, $950. 1 Instructor, $1,500. Academy: Dean, $1,760 and house. 1 Instructor, $1,100. Commercial College: 1 Instructor, $800. School of Manual Arts: 1 Instructor, $1,100. 1 Instructor, $1,050. 2 Instructors each $800. Administration: Librarian, $900. 1 Expert Cataloguer, $600. 1 Office Assistant $500. Total, $17,160. 4 Professors, each, $1,650 and house. 1 Instructor, $1,000. and house. Teachers College: Dean,, $1,760 and house rent. 1 Associate Professor, $1,500. 1 Instructor, $850 and rooms. 1 Instructor, $715 and rooms. Academy: 1 Associate Professor, $1,250. 2 Instructors, each, 500. 1 Instructor, $750 and room. 1 Instructor, $550. Commercial College: Dean, $1,760, and house. 1 Instructor, $700. Musical Department: 1 Director, $900 and rooms. 1 Assistant, $550. School of Manual Arts: 1 Instructor, $1,200. When board and room are both received they are listed at $150. A Great Man IN A GREAT WORK. DR. JAMES E. SHEPARD IN THE EAST There is no man in this country who is doing any greater work than Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, North Carolina. The press dispatches show that Dr. Shepard, at Orange, New Jersey, Sunday, September 26. delivered three speeches in three different places to the largest crowds that have ever gathered in that place. Tomorrow, October 3, Dr. Shepard will speak in Cleveland, Ohio, in the largest white church in the city. Monday night, October 4, he will address the ministers mass meeting of Cleveland, Ohio. Monday night, October 11, there will be 2 ministers meeting held in Baltimore, Maryland, over which the Honorable George R. Gaither will preside. Dr. J. E. Shepard and Recorder J..C. Dancy will be the principal speakers. Everywhere Dr. Shepard is booked to speak he receives the greatest ovation. There is no doubt that Dr. Shepard is engaged in work that the people in this country will support. The Bee will from time to time keep its readers informed of the progress of the work in which Dr. Shepard is engaged. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Miss Gonevia B. Maxfield Luke T. Pollard has been offered $20,000 for his patent for flushing cuspidors. He inherited his genius from his father, who is said to have been a great inventor, but never received any benefits because of not having sufficient backing. Booker T, Washington, Jr., will visit the Seattle exposition with Mrs. Washington. Elaborate preparations are being made to entertain Mathew Henson, the Negro Artic explorer. At the twenty-ninth annual session of the National Baptist Convention, which was held in Columbus, Ohio, a case about twenty feet long, containing Negro dolls, was opened. This was the first time they had ever been exhibited in the North and was a success. The dolls were all sorts and sizes, and were from 50 cents to $8. They are made at the National Baptist Publishing Board and are made by Negroes. Miss Marie Hardiwick has entered her new field of duty as preceptress of Howard University. By training and experience in college work at Atlanta University, for over twenty years where she has lived and worked with young women, has made her well qualified for the position which she is filling. President Taft descended 1200 feet into the richest mining camp in the world, the famous "Leonard copper mine," in Butte, Montana. He 'said he would not have missed it for the world. The statue of General Lew Wallace, Indiana's contribution to the Statuary Hall, will be unveiled January 11, 1909. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts will deliver the oration, and Lew Wallace, Jr., the grandson of the distinguished soldier, author and diplomat, will loose the cords holding the flags that will drape the statue. The one hundredth anniversary of Admiral Raphael Semmes, of the Confederate Navy, was celebrated on the 26th at the Confederate Memorial Home. It brought back memories of the ante bellum days. Several speeches were made by old friends of the famous sea figher and lawyer. Although the principle for which he fought was not right, his memory is still honored. A monument to the memory of REV. SYLVESTER L. CORROTHERS ONE OF THE MOST ELOQUENT PULPIT ORATORS IN THE COUNTRY. REV. SYLVESTER L. CORROTHERS ONE OF THE MOST ELOQUENT PULPIT ORATORS IN THE COUNTRY. Business High School,Dr. S.L. Corrothers BOARD OF EDUCATION LAYS FOUNDATOIN FOR A NEW BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL A desire to promote the commercial interests of the colored community has led the Board of Education to approve the recommendation of the Principal of Armstrong School and the Assistant Superintendent in charge of colored schools to place the business department of the Armstrong Manual Training School in a separate building where its work may be carried on in its own atmosphere free from the influence of the other courses offered at the manual training high school. The work in the new building began on Monday; the brick addition to the old Mott schoolhouse at Sixth and Trumbull streets, northwest, just below Howard University, is being used and it is well adapted to the purpose. The Principal of the Armstrong School remains the administrative and supervisory head of the department; he has assigned five teachers to the work. Two courses are offered; one for students who can afford to remain in the school only two years and the other for students who are willing and able to remain four years in order to gain a more thorough preparation for business pursuits. The school trains clerks, book-keepers, and stenographers; but, more important yet, it gives ambitious and promising young men and women such a training in the fundamentals of business as will enable some of them to eventually set up for themselves. The graduates of the business department of the Armstrong School have already made a showing in the various business pursuits in and about Washington which justifies the school administration in feeling that the enlarged facilities for the department will prove highly serviceable. Already an enrollment of 85 students is announced; this enrolment, it is expected, will increase before the end of the week to at least 150. The business department enjoys the interest and support of the colored business and professional men of Washington and will be conducted so as to meet their needs. Students who have completed the course of the elementary schools of the District or a fair equivalent, may enter the business department of the Armstrong School by applying at the old Mott schoolhouse. Mary Draper Ingles, pioneer heroine, and the first English bride, married west of the Alleghanies, was unveiled at Radford, Virginia, Wednes Continued on the 5th page. DR. S. L. CORROTHERS' STIRRING SERMON IN GALBRAITH A. M. E. ZION CHAPEL By Professor William H. Ferris, A. M. Principal of The Academical Department of the Afro-American School of Correspondence. On Sunday morning, September 26, Dr. S. L. Corrothers, pastor of the Galbraith African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, preached the second in the series of twelve morning sermons upon "The Need of Reformation in the Church" to a large and interested audience which followed with breathless interest his every word. Dr. Corrothers has preached many splondid stirring sermons in Galbraith Chapel, but last Sunday morning he blossomed out as a prophet and race statesman. His text was taken from Isaiah i: chapter 18, verse "Come let us reason together, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as the snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be like wool." and like the book of the greatest of all the Hebrew prophets, Dr. Corrothers sermon was characterized by spiritual insight into divine truth and by a broad statesmanlike grasp of public questions, as they affect the interest of the race. Dr. Corrothers began by pointing out that the strife and unrest of nations was not due to the condition of their hearts and not to their poverty and exterior conditions. "The present generation" Dr. Corrothers said, was not altogether responsible for its condition, for the conditions that surround us have grown out of the past. And the conditions that confront us come from the past." In order to change the drift of public sentiment in order to change the conditions that we are facing we must not go forward, but we must go back to the past. The great and crying need of the present age is not the discovery of a new light, but the going back to the old truth and old light of the fathers. The leaders of the Church, like the present day political leaders, have departed from the constitution. Our political leaders have departed from the spirit of the constitution and are now trying to repudiate the principles of the fathers." Dr. Corrothers then complimented President William Taft for his recent letter to the Evening News of Baltimore, in which he said that the proposed disfranchisement clause of Maryland was malicious, designedly unfair to the Negro, against the spirit of and purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment. But Dr. Corrothers said that he would like to call President Taft's attention to the fact that the same conditions that he condemned in Maryland, prevail throughout the South. And Dr. Corrothers said that it required quite a stretch of the imagination to call the Southerners who had outraged and murdered poor helpless Negroes, kind and courteous, as our distinguished President has done. Then Dr. Corrothers said that the blacks outnumber the whites in South Carolina, by one hundred and seventy-five thousand. They pay 40 per cent of the taxes for education and only receive 16 per cent of the money expended for schools and colleges by the State of South Carolina. The blacks are recognized by the constitution of the United States, which the Southern states are defying as citizens. They form the bulk of the population in the South and they pay a large per cent of the property, personal and school taxes, and are entitled to some political recognition. The principle of refusing to appoint colored men where white men object, carried out to its logical conclusion would mean that colored men in Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington could be driven out of Federal offices and out of the Civil Service and completely eliminated from the political life of the society of which they form a part. In conclusion, Dr. Corrothers said that it is the duty of the Church and Negro pulpit to look out for the Negro's civil and political rights and not leave them to politicians and ward heelers. The Church must point out to the Negro the path of Liberty and life. The crisis is coming. The country at heart believes in justice and fair play, and all the Negro needs is to be the being God intended him to be, when He formed him out of the dust of the earth, breathed into his nostrils the breath of a spiritual life and charged him with God-like hopes and aspirations which stretch beyond this vale of tears. The Negro needs character, built upon the grace of God, education, and money. Dr. Corrothers concluded his eloquent address with an appeal for men to consecrate their lives to God and with a plea for them to be true to the mighty hopes which made them men. A few came forward for prayers. In the evening Dr. Corrothers preached another strong sermon from Revelation xxii: 5th verse, "There shall be no night there" and spoke of the home of the soul and its inhabitants. So impressed was the congregation by this fervent discourse that ten men, one a white man, came up for prayers. During the past summ. Galbraith African Methodist Episcopal Church has had the largest following in its history. People from every walk in life came to the church and crowded it to its doors. In the last few days the public collections in the Church have amounted to over $600. In July the church raised over $300 in public collections, in August over $400, in September over $600 and the coming fall and winter promises to be the most prosperous in the history of the church, both from a spiritual and a financial standpoint. Dr. S. L. Corrothers is President of the Pastor's Congress of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, whose object is to create a revival in every Zion church throughout the world. An aggressive campaign will be introduced in every A. M. E. Zion Church in the country. Dr. Corrothers' morning sermons will be radical and practical and his evening sermons will be evangelical in character, but his burning theme in both his morning and evening discourses will be "Men must realize their end and destiny as spiritual beings and rise to fulfill it." THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS RELIEF The Frederick Douglass Relief Association is preparing for a reception at Convention Hall for the benefit of the "Home for Friendless Girls." The alcohol drank in Italy every year costs 1,760,000,000 francs, which is more than is spent on grain, including Indian corn, and sugar added together. It is said the Northern Negro Baptists have taken steps to build two more publishing houses, one in Philadelphia, and the other in Chicago. A GR AT MEEING Woman's National Convention A RECORD BREAKER Columbus, Ohio, Sept., 15. There has never been held a Convention by Negroes, National in-scope, complex in personnel, that approached in excellence the meeting of the Woman's Convention, Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention at Columbus, Ohio, last week. The delegation was very large, representing nearly every state in the Union, retired foreign missionaries, outgoing missionaries, missionaries on, furlough, and prospective missionaries from Africa, South America, and the West Indies. The meetings were held in the beautiful auditorium of the Second Baptist Church, Rev. A. D. Chandler, Pastor. The Welcome Addresses were permeated with that cordial and "make-yourself-at-home" spirit that should characterize greetings of this kind. There was nothing stiff or perfunctory about any of the addresses. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Abner, of Texas, did not arrive in time to respond to the welcomes. Mrs. James P. Bryant, of Atlanta, Georgia, the able Vice-President, was asked to accept the kindly greetings on behalf of the Convention. She was equal to the emergency. Without notice or note, she held her audience spellbound for twenty minutes, while in simple eloquence she covered the field of our activities and related our struggles upward, and painted with the touch of a master upon the heart of every delegate, a picture of the future of the organization that stands for Christ and with Christ in the evangelization of the world. The annual sermon was preached by the Rev. C. H. Parrish, D.D., Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky, President Eckstein-Norton University, and Chairman of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention. Dr. Parrish is not only scholarly, but he is highly spiritual. Under the power of the gospel he breathed into dry bones and made them witness for Him whose reign the Convention is laboring to establish. The President's annual address was full of practical suggestions. She was requested to have it printed. The Corresponding Secretary's report told of the work that had been done during the year, and the plans for the ensuing year. This report is in print, and may be had for 10 cents per copy. Thursday night the Trustees of the National Training School had a platform meeting. Addresses were delivered by Drs. M. W. Gilbert,, T. L. Griffith, Walter H. Brooks, Professor Byrd Prillerman and Mrs. J. M. Layton. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the President-elect, delivered an address in which she discussed "What the Institution Will Do." This was one of the best attended meetings of the Columbus session, and enthusiasm ran high. Trustees from the various states were introduced, and three hundred dollars in cash and heaps and piles of towels, sheets, pillow cases, quilts, and other supplies for the institution were laid on the altar, and dedicated to the Lord's service in the Institution by the Rev. G. B. Howard of Petersburgh, Virginia. The discussion on the question of "Preparation for Service" by the men and women on this evening, showed breadth of vision and accurate knowledge as to specific needs of those who are to become home-makers and race builders. The Vice-Presidents and state representatives were called upo into report their work for the year. Nearly every state responded, and the Convention was highly pleased with the good work done by these women in their various communities. Friday morning was foreign mission period. The speakers were women who have been working at the foreign mission problem for a number of years. Their addresses showed intimate knowledge of missionaries and Continued on Page 4. Copyright, 1906, by American Melody Co., New York. WHE Patho It w leon r was a oned t served WHE Patho It w leon r was a oned t served Kenyon Hangwell Trousers wear wonderfully well. They never loo they are cut on our own special pattern of room for sitting. 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Finally, for Nemesis would have it so, it was at Fontalnebleau that Napoleon signed his abdication and saft forewell to his army in 1814, coming down the horseshoe 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 did 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! "Foron my children!" That, surely, is the most pathetic, as it is also the most dramatic, scene in the whole history of Fontalneleau. 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. The memory came so suddenly and the connecting link was sought for so immediately that a dropping out of a segment of consciousness is altogether improbable, yet he felt that there was a connection somewhere, if it could but be found. And it was lit - tle cloak an' Sun-d'y clothes; An' when my Pa comes home to tea, She loves him most as much as wenn sie kocht und wenn sie brät'; Und wenn Pa - pa dann kommt nach Haus, Dann set - zen wir uns hin sum sempre. f me. She laughs an' tells him all I said, An' grabs me up an' pats my head. An' Schmaus. Sie sagt ihm was ich all's geschwatzt, Und dann werd' ich noch abgeschmatzt. Und I hug her, an' hug my Pa, An' love him purt' nigh much as Ma. ich zu ihr, und zu Pa - pa. Und lieb' ihn grad' so wie Ma - ma. My Mother She's So Good To Me. 2 pp—2d p. My Mother She's So Good To Me. 2 pp—2d p. WANTED: A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district to ride and exhibit sample Latest Model "Ranger" bicycle furnished by us. 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The memory in the stream of consciousness was spontaneous, and yet we see how it may come under our law, at least in its physiological version. —From the Mental Man. Her Choice. They were sisters-in-law and reasonably well disposed toward each other. One was the mother of George, aged six months, and the other the mother of Marlan, aged six months and four days. It was impossible that a slight parental rivalry should be altogether concealed. "Marlan does not seem to grow very fast," said the mother of George, with a suggestion of commiseration in her tones. "George is much taller—" (height being measured in inches). "Perhaps he is," replied the mother of Marlan, coldly, "but Marlan weighs more." "Oh, well," responded the sister-in-law, with a smile of high-bred superiority, "of course I should not wish George to be gross." Drawings and Painntings. The first sketch from nature which a great artist makes nearly always has a freshness which he only labors away in the picture he bases on it; and the rough pencil or charcoal lines of the former frequently reveal more of his feeling toward his subject than all his anxious manipulations of the brush. That is why it is so exceedingly worth while to collect and catalogue every scrap of drawing that once littered a great painter's studio. His drawings give you his intentions; his paintings do not always give you their fulfillment. It is true that a drawing is incomplete, but therein lies its charm. Possessing a drawing you possess a hope, and hope is better for mortals.—T. P.'s Weekly. About Corn. "I can't understand about the corn in this country, you know," said the Englishman. "It is the best vegetable you have here, you see what I mean? And you never serve it fresh. It is always canned, you understand, always canned. "Now, why in the name of common sense do you take the fine, fresh article, you know, can it, and offer it to people to eat, when they might better eat it in its pristine condition? You see what I mean? Eh? But no, all the year round, they serve you canned corn, canned corn. Can they can it cheaper than they can cook it fresh? Is that it? Eh?" Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "I" and "D," also rim strip "Ii" to prevent rim cutting. This makes the rubber easy to make—SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. HAD THE AUDIENCE WITH HIM Christian Missionary Had Little Show in Argument with Native Mollah. As a medical missionary, stationed for 16 years in northwestern India, near the Afghanistan frontier, Dr. T. L. Pennell had his share of peril and adventure, which he has recounted in a volume entitled; "Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Border." As a medical man, Dr. Pennell had his ups and downs with the native doctors, who sweat their patients and burn sores with lighted oil, but have no faith in western treatment. They also bleed and purge; but gradually the new-fangled treatment was accepted, and grateful converts were made at the Bannu dispensary. As a missionary, Dr. Pennell had to contend with the mollahs, who are argumentative and great browbeaters; and very often, he confesses, he got the worst of it by verdict of the ragged crowd that hemmed in the theologians. With a certain mollah, who regarded the Christian medicine-man as a rival, Dr. Pennell had an amusing encounter. "Do you know," asked the mollah, "what becomes of the sun when it sets every day?" The doctor gave the native circle the scientific explanation. "Rubbish!" exclaimed the mollah. "We all know that the fires of hell are under the earth, and that the sun passes down every night, and therefore comes up blazing hot in the morning." All Dr. Pennell's accounts of natural phenomena were ridiculed by the mollah. Then, turning to his people, he said, with contempt in his face and voice: "It is evident that I shall have to teach him everything from the beginning."—Youth's Companion. ORIGIN OF BRITISH SQUARE Battle Formation First Used by Scotch Troops at the Battle of Bannockburn. The greatest of all Scotch anniversaries is that of Bannocburn, fought on midsummer day in the year 1314. Apart from its bearing on the independence of Scotland, the battle will always have an exceptional interest from the military point of view, as Bannockburn may be said to have been the birthplace of the British square. "Proud Edward's" army mainly consisted of cavalry, while that of the Scots, on the other hand, was almost exclusively composed of foot-folk, armed with the spear, and these Bruce threw into "schiltroms," or oblong squares—a formation borrowed by Wallace from the Flemings, who had employed it with success at Courtray—to resust the charge of the English cavalry. Hitherto the mounted mall-clad knight had carried everything before him, but Courtray and Bannockburn proved that he was powerless to break resolute, spear-armed infantry drawn up in "schilltrom" or hedge-hog formation, and these two battles revolutionized the tactics of the continent and of our own island. Profiting by the lesson which had been taught them at Bannockburn the English applied the tactics of the Scots with brilliant success at Crecy, and still more at Agincourt. As it was the Scots who may be said to have originated the British square at Bannockburn, so it was they again who at Balaclava were the first to discard it with "their thin red line," and now, owing to our changed conditions of warfare, it is discarded altogether. Duel with a Tiger Three Jakuns (aborigines) and a Malay chanced to be together in the jungle in Johore when they came across a tiger. They were only armed with parangs, and the Malay, wisely deciding in favor of discretion, took to his heels. Not so the Jukuns, however; for they at once determined to give battle, not utilizing their numerical superiority, but in the most sportsman manner arranging for the combat in a series of duels, if necessary. As might have been expected, the series was necessary, and the end was not long in coming. The first man who entered the fray missed his blow and was at once struck down, and the same fate befell his two comrades, all three being killed.—Singapore Free Press. For Parents Only. Parents nowadays have good cause to grumble. When they were young, father and mother were paramount. Now that they are old, pa and ma don't count a straw. "After all," exclaimed the young lady visitor to the paterfamilias, who had supplied her plate with all the choicest titbits from the roast fowl, "there is nothing in the world like the breast of a chicken, is there?" "I can't say," replied paterfamilias enviously. "I have never tasted the white meat in my life. When I was young my parents ate it; now my children do." Soldier's Odd Weapon A soldier named Pavlet was condemned to death by court-martial at Oran, France, the other day. He was charged with assaulting a corporal whilst on duty. During the hearing he threw at the president of the council a curious weapon made by himself, the blade of a pair of scissors fastened into a wooden handle. He was at at once tried for this crime, and the death sentence pronounced. 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Your druggist will tell you that Babek is the best thing he sells --- AMERICAN MUSEUM SICK AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO., FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C 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 of dollars spent by Washington Negroes by advertising in The Bee? Place your advertising in The Bee and watch these 5,499 appreciative Negroes spend their over three millions of dollars with you. Now is the time to advertise in The Bee, the newspaper that goes into every Negro home in Washington. Remember, merchants of Washington, it's what advertising pays you, not what it costs. ColoredSkin MadeLighter The Chemical Wonder Company of New York manufactures seven Chemical Wonders which enable colored people to improve their appearance. These wonders cost 50 cents each. White people spend millions to beautify themselves. Colored people should make themselves attractive as possible. Colored men who use these wonders secure better situations in banks, clubs and business houses. Colored women occupy higher positions socially and commercially, marry better, get along better. (1) Complexion Wonder Creme makes dark-skin lighter colored, not with artificial white, but naturally; makes the skin itself lighter colored every time it is applied. Keeps the skin healthy, soft, fine. Makes any colored face more attractive. Improves any colorel countenance like magic. (2) Magneto-metallic comb, called Wonder Comb, can be heated before using and will straighten any hair. Will last a lifetime. 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(7) This pink variety of Complexion Wonder Creme No. 2 is called Shell-Pink. Gives lovely pink cheeks to light brown or mulatto colored faces. Light brown complexion with pink cheeks mark great personal beauty. Information Look free. Correspondence free. Please send your address. Agents wanted everywhere. Can start business with $3.60. Delivery free. Applications for agency considered. M. B. Berger & Co., 2 Rector Street, New York City, selling agents for Chemical Wonder Company. ICTIM TELLS HOW LOCKJAW FELT Doctor was Worried When His Face Began to Stiffen—Fought Disease St. Louis.—Dr. F. W. Grundmann of Washington avenue, who was pronounced out of danger from lock-jaw, after suffering for almost three weeks, described how he felt during his illness. "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," said 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 pained me and were constricted. Next I observed spasmodic jerking of the limbs. These I knew to be premoni- tory symptoms or lockjaw. "I was alarmed, naturally, but thought perhaps I might be mistaken, so I visited a physician and told him how I felt. 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 REE PUBLISHER 1105 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 MISCHIEF MAKERS There are people who are never happy unless they are making mischief. Old men and old women make more mischief to a square inch than any other class of individuals. The old man is worse than the old woman. The mischief maker has a style and peculiar way of putting one against the other. The Bee has known where two life-long friends, living near one another in peace and happiness. Their happiness has caught the jealous eye of some mischief maker. The mischief maker will, in a sly way, say something that he knows will tend to sever their friendship. Some people will believe whatever is told them; whether it be true or false. A man or woman who will believe anything and everything that is told him or her, you may conclude that he is a very weak man. A little expression said in a joke is often diverted to a great tale. Without thinking, the person to whom it is said concludes immediately that his old friend has been talking about him. Unless the man is strong in mind, he will believe the first story. The mischief maker has a heavy eye. He cannot look you straight and honestly in the face. He will show his teeth and gums. His object is to separate you and your friend. You should never believe what is always told you. Never distrust your friend or one that has demonstrated his friendship for you, from what a mischief maker tells you. A mischief maker will extoll his own virtues and those of his immediate family. It is well that you don't believe any thing he tells you. If he has daughters, he will immediately tell you that his daughters are the personification of uprightness and their existence is no expense to him. He sees no good in other people: in himself he sees nothing but sunshine. DEGRADING MOVING PICTURES. A certain moving picture theatre offered as its bill last Sunday evening a series of pictures not calculated to raise the stand ard of morality, especially for children who attend. The first series showed a robbery scene. The next was a hold-up of a stage coach by highwaymen, including a barroom scene in which a double murder was enacted. The moving picture part of the show wound up with the pictures of the Nelson-Gans prize fight. During an interval a vaudeville skit was put on the crude stage, in which two colored fellows, outlandishly attired, got off a lot of stale chestnuts which were a mockery on the race, some very bad clog dancing, and some bad singing which was simply a travesty on music, for all of which they should have been run in by the police and given thirty days at least. Now this --- was the offering for the Sabbath Day to entertain an audience composed chiefly of young boys and girls in their teens. Such a bill would be bad if offered by a conscienceless fakir, but when it is known that a school teacher in the public schools of this city is the proprietor of this moving picture snow referred to it calls for the severest censure from parents, and the School Board. No teacher should be allowed to remain on the payroll of the Washington schools who will offer such a bill for week days, much less for Sunday. The police should censor these moving pictures. There is a class of moving pictures that are highly edifying and of educational value, but the series offered last Sunday was positively degrading. Parents should see to it, if the police will not stop such disgusting and degrading exhibits, that their children be not allowed to attend. Such pictures, and such a vaudeville skit are disgusting and degrading even to adult persons. In the interest of the children and public decency, The Bee proposes to keep tab on these moving picture shows. It is to be hoped that the letter of President Taft to The Washington Times denouncing the proposed disfranchisement amendment for Maryland will defeat the amendment. President Taft spoke out strongly on it. There was no misconstruing or misinterpreting his words. He was opposed to the measure, and unalterably so. He is sincere in his opposition. In a letter he wrote to Auditor Tyler last week he stated that he hoped the amendment wolud be defeated; that it was an outrageous thing, and that he wrote his letter with the purpose of defeating it, if possible. The colored voters of Maryland should thank the President for his interest, and the colored voters of the country should be thankful that a President stands committed against the passage of disfranchising laws. The Bee praises the President for his opposition to the Maryland disfranchising amendment. Taft's all right, and the race will find it out later, if this is not sufficient to prove he is a friend. Just putting men in office is not the whole thing. Protesting against and helping to defeat disfranchising measures is of more value than appointing fifty men to office. WHITE VS. BLACK There is a disposition on the part of some white officials in authority to show to the Negro that he is the white man's inferior. Wherever the white man is in control, he, to a great extent, exercises his authority over his subordinate colored brother. The Bee is informed that the colored laborers in the interior department are badly treated. On the laborers' roll may be seen the names of several highly educated colored men, while many of these men are entitled to promotion they can never obtain one. The colored laborer in the interior department has a hard time. The Bee is confident that Secretary Ballenger is not responsible for the condition of the colored laborers in his department. These are facts that should be investigated. THE ADMINISTRATION It may be apparent in the eyes of colored citizens that the Administration is inimical to him. The Bee denies the charge and is free to admit that the Administration is sound on the Negro question. The action of the Administration and every speech that has been delivered by Mr. Taft has been in defense of the Negro. The Negro is disorganized. He has no force to demand. His ambition at this time seems to be for office, regardless of his political rights. It seems to The Bee that the Negro would be more interested in his civil and political rights than he would be in seeking an office, which should be an incident and not the direct object of his citizenship. For the benefit of our esteemed contemporary, the Philadelphia Tribune, Dr. Washington had nothing to do with the selection of the president of the alleged National Press Association. The Bee feels confident if Dr. Washington or Mr. Scott had been consulted, neither would have selected Mr. Thompson. The Tribune, as The Bee is, is opposed to a correspondent being at the head of an editorial press association. The reason the Negro is not a factor in this country, is because he is not united. Why are mischief makers tattlers, and why are tattlers mischief makers? If the conditions at Howard University are as, The Bee published last week, an immediate investigation is necessary. Will some one state why it is that there are all kinds of organizations in the city, even among ants, except among Negro layers? Is Judge DeLacy practicing, the reason he so frequently occupies a seat upon the Police Court bench beside Judge Kimball? The Bee has it from reliable authority that Congress will investigate the schools next year. A resolution will be offered in the South in December; to investigate the schools. It is claimed that the colored teachers are in a state of collapse. their work. Nearly every speaker roused the audience and awoke in each heart a new consciousness of duty to the lost world. Every address was the best. Friday afternoon was social study. The home life of the race was discussed. Moral and industrial conditions were reviewed, and suggestions as to the best way to reach the unreached, were brought out in nearly every address. Every phase of Negro life, north and south was covered. Those who lead in the discussions during the foreign mission and Social Study periods, gave us in a nut shell, their version of the subjects, and clinched the arguments' of those who had delivered the principal adresses. Friday evening our young girls had the platform. Every available space in the church was occupied. Men and women who had attended all kinds of conventions in this and other countries, declared that it was the best meeting they had ever witnessed. They stood for hours and were swayed by the earnestness, the eloquence, and the enthusiasm of the young women, who have dedicated their lives to the Lord's service. Miss Katheryne Johnson, of Chicago, Illinois, presided. She is perfectly at home on the platform, and made a splendid presiding officer. The singing by the children's band of the Shiloh Church, of Columbus, was indeed a treat. The little soloist from Cincinnati, under Miss Fannie Blackburn, sang herself into the hearts of the people. The solo by Miss Jessie May Gross of Houston, Texas, showed the result servatory in Boston. The sweet-sing of her careful training at the Coner from Georgia, Miss Clara Bell Rivers, captivated the audience. Addresses were delivered by Miss. Ida C. Plummer, Mrs. Emma Lewis, both of Washington, District of Columbia, Miss Herbert Webber, of Indiana; Miss Willa Spaulding, Georgia; Miss Rosalie Hanna, Kentucky; Miss Delia Rudolph, Capetown, South Africa; and Miss Mary Buchanan, Middledrift, South Africa. These young women simply swayed that vast audience. Men and women wept like babes, others shouted for joy. Miss Geneva Cowels, the sweet singer of Ohio, was at her best. Our two African girls made a most profound impression, and helped the cause of Missions as perhaps no other speakers who have appeared before our National gatherings have helped. A chaiational gatherings have helped. A cash offering of one hundred and fifty-three dollars, pledges for foreign mission, and hundreds of names of those who willl pray for the work that these young women will, do in foreign fields, were laid on the altar. This was the most blessed meeting to us all. Saturday morning, the Ohio Sullivered a splendid address on "How perintendent of children's bands deto Enlist Children in the Missionary Enterprise." Those who took part in the discussion gave many practical suggestions on how to make children's work effective. The election of officers took place early Saturday afternoon. Some one remarked that this election was more like a love-feast than an election. Officers:—S. W. Layton, Pennsylvania, President. S. C. Bryant, Georgia, Vice-President. M. V. Parrish, Kentucky, Treasurer. N. H. Burroughs, Kentucky, Corresponding Secretary. V. W. Broughton, Recording Secretary. M. E. Goins, Assistant Recording Secretary. E. Arlington Wilson, Historian. Rev. A. C. Powell, pastor Abysinia Baptist Church, New York City, preached the Sunday morning sermon. It was good to be there, to hear him talk on the "Transforming Power of the Word of God." The sermon was a masterpiece. Christ and the Cross stood out before us lighting up and transforming the entire human family. Men and women shouted for joy, as he talked with us by the way, and to all of us who heard him, the Bible has a new place in our lives, and in our homes. Dr. A. S. Jackson was programmed to preach the Sunday evening sermon, but could not be present. Rev. A. A. Barbour, of Texas, preached for us. Dr. Jackson sent in his stead a hundred dollars and a student for the Training School. The officers were installed by the Rev. W. H Jernagin of Oklahoma. The President of the National Training School was presented by Mrs. M. V. Parrish, Chairman of the Trustee Board, and the Convention ratified the action of the Board at its June meeting in the selection of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs to take charge of the Training School at Washington, Two distinguished women were the special guests of the Convention, and delivered inspiring addresses. One of them, Mrs. Katherine S. Westfall, Secretary of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, spent several days in our meeting. She brought greetings from her organization, delivered a most helpful address, expressed her very great, please at all that she had seen and heard and assured us that her society would be glad to know of the good work we are doing. Mrs. Maggie Walker, the other guest of honor, President of the St. Luke's Bank, Richmond, Virginia, delivered a telling address. She declared that our convention is a great school in which we are doing a most wonderful work. Professor Jones, Sociologist of Hampton Institute, delivered an excellent address and took occasion to commend the women for their splendid program. He said that it was one of the best he had ever seen. He was impressed with the arrangement and the practical, live questions discussed. Can we account for the splendid meeting at Columbus? Yes. Early in June we sent out a card to the hundreds of women, asking them to pray that this might be the best session in the history of our organization. These cards were signed and returned to us. There were hundreds of women praying for the success of the meeting, and God heard them. Back of all this was the band of women who met every morning at eight o'clock to study God's word, and to seek His guidance. Mrs. S. E. Bailey, of Dermont, Arkansas, and Sister Joanna P. Moore, our veteran missionary, had charge of these meetings, and women came from far and near to study God's word under these consecrated leaders. The early morning prayer meeting was a blessing to us all. Our Columbus meeting was a success, because we had an organized praying force back of it. We offered a banner to the state bringing up the largest number of annual members. We could not award the banner in the meeting, for the reason that we did not, have time to classify our reports. Louisiana is the banner state, having reported the largest number of annual members. The grand total receipts at the Convention, including money for foreign missions, training school, and from the sale of supplies, is $1,620.08. Besides this money, we have received many useful articles for the Training School and pledges for help during the year. What more can we ask? The Lord hath abundantly blessed us, wherefore we are exceedingly glad. The Trustee Board of the National Training School for Women and Girls, Washington, District of Columbia, held a most important meeting in the Second Baptist Church of Columbus, Ohio, Friday evening, September 17. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Mary V. Parrish, Chairman; Rev. J. M. Layton, District of Columbia, Secretary; Mrs. P. J. Bryant, Georgia; Treasurer. The Local Executive Board was appointed as follows: Miss Martha Johnson, Miss Ida C. Plummer, Miss Emma Lewis, Miss Susie Robb, Mrs. T. H. Jones. An Advisory Board was also appointed and consists of the following members: Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Chairman; George W. Lee, M. W. D. Norman, W. Bishop Johnson, Aquilla Sayles, W. J. Howard Dr. George W. Cabaniss, W. L. Pollard, Kelly Miller, Rev. James T. Clark. Lecturers: Rev. M. W. D. Norman, Christian Evidence; Rev. George W. Lee, Personal Work; Rev. Walter H. Brooks, Church History; Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Old Testament Interpretation; Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, Biblical Theology. FREEDMAN'S HOSPITAL Dr. W. A. Warfield, Surgeon in Chief of the Freedmen's Hospital has submitted his annual report to the secretary of the Interior. Dr. Warfield has been a success at the institution, and he deserves credit for his businesslike and faithful management of the hospital since he has been in charge. Among other things Dr Warfield says as follows: "The work done at the Freedmen's June 30, 1909. Hospital during the fiscal year ended THhis period reprshdlumefhrrood This period represents the first complete fiscal year the institution has occupied the new building. The work of the hospital has been conducted with a marked degree of success; due in great measure to the harmonious relations of its several departments and efficiency of service by those connected therewith. At the close of the preceding fiscal year there were 131' patients remaining in the hospital. During the year just ended 2,346 were admitted and 244 births occurred, a total of 2,721 under care. Of these 1,836 wer residents of the District of Columbia, and 885 wer from the states. Two thousand five hundred and ninety-two were discharged, their conditions being as follows: 1,288 recovered, 915 improved, 121 unimproved, 7 not treated, and 261 died, leaving 129 in the hospital July 1 09. Of the death, 57 occurred within fortyeight hours after admittance, being absolutely beyond human aid when received and were only admitted as an act of humanity. In the out-patient department the following were treated: Medical, 1,457; surgical, 300; ear, nose and throat, 479; eye, gynecological, 192; nervous, 134; skin, 258; genito-urinary, 225; total 3,358, making a total of 6,210, in and out patients, receiving the benefits of the hospital. Eight hundred and seventy-seven surgical operations were performed—a larger proportion of which being of a major nature than ever before. Patients from the District of Columbia are admitted under a contract with the Board of Charities at the following rates; Adults, $1.10 per day; children, $0.65 per day, and infants $0.40 per day. The appropriation by Congress for this purpose was $25,500. The bills rendered for the care and treatment of District patients amounted to $38,846.40, or $13,346.40 more than the appropriation. It would seem reasonable that the Commissioners of the District of columbia should make their estimates to Congress based upon the actual number of District patients sent to the hospital. The number of persons refused admission was 141, fifty-five of which wer due to lack of available beds at the time of application and 86 wer not proper subjects, for treatment in this hospital. CHRISITIAN ENDEAVOR A large and enthusiastic audience of Christian Endeavorers filled the main auditorium of the First Baptist Church, 27th and Dumbarton avenue, northwest, Wednesday evening, to listen to the report of the Saint Paul Christian Endeavor Convention, by the pastor, Rev. E. E. Ricks, who was in attendance at the Convention held in July. The church was tastefully decorated with United States flags and the St. Paul Convention flags; over the pulpit a large Christian Endeavor emblem was suspended while the motto of the Society, "For Christ and the Church"hung over a large United States flag that covered the desk. A profusion of palms and ferns covered the front of the platform while smaller plants were arranged around the top of the galleries and in the windows; the whole giving the appearance of a miniature convention. Miss Lillian Ford, the President of the Society presided and fittingly introduced the speakers who were: Miss Hall, and Messrs. Miles and Cumeya who gave their impressions of the Convention; while Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron gave a brief talk on the benefits derived from the Christian Endeavor Societies and pledging his allegiance to the same. Refreshments were served at the close of the meeting. BRODT'S 419 ELEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. THIS IS THE LEADING HAT FIRM IN THE CITY. HATS OF ALL STYLES MAY BE FOUND AT EITHER Fair View Park Spend a day in the Country with the Birds and Wild 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 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 Maceo, 213 West 53rd. Street, corner Broadway. Steam heated. Telephone, 803 Columbus. The Week in Society Mrs. Fannie P. Mitchell went to Baltimore last week to witness the Smart Set. Mrs. Daisy Mitchell Bryan, accompanied by her husband, Professor Bryan, of the Smart Set company, wer the guests of Mr. W. P. Mitchell and wife, father and mother of Mrs. Bryan, at 420 L street, northwest, last Sunday. Mr. W. P. Mitchell has opened a first class oyster house at 420 L st., northwest. Master Clyde C. McDuffie, son of Dr. J. C. McDuffie of 1530 15th street, northwest, has entered old Williams College, of Williamstown, Massachusetts. His entrance examination is said to have been a first class one. The Bee is sending out warning that all delinquents will be cut off. Our agent will call on you: if you do not pay him, your paper will stop. Mr. U. B. Anderson, B.S., who spent the summer in Toronto, Canada, is now in Richmond visiting his relatiyes, but will return to-this city in time to resume his studies in the Dental Department of Howard University. Mr. Richard Wells, of this city, has been the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Giles I. Cuffie, in Portsmouth, Virginia. J. Hyland Hayes, of this city, has entered the Pennsylvania University, after passing a rigid examination. Mr. Aubrey Morton returned to his school duties in North Carolina, Monday September 27. Miss Wilemena Morton, of Third street, Le Droit Park, who has been very sick, is better. Mr. Paul Smith, formerly of this city, is doing well in Cincinnati, Ohio. Miss Georgie Letcher and sister, Mfs. A. Alexander, shall return in a few days from Middlesboro, Massachusetts, where they spent the summer. Mrs. Robert L. Middleton and children, of 516 8th street, southeast, are enjoying their stay in Richmond, Virginia, with her parents. Mrs. Estelle Thomas, of Linden street, northeast, who has been quite ill, is on the mend. Mr. Fred Kemp of 13th street, northeast, is still sick. Miss Rosa Belle Lane and Mr. Willard Lane of Eighth street, northeast, returned to their school duties at Oberlin. Thursday September 23. Misses M. C. Bush and R. L. Millner, of this city, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Winfrey, of Newport News, Virginia. Miss Lizzie Addison of this city, has returned from Philadelphia, where she was the guest of Miss Florence Brickhead. Miss Florence Bolling, formerly of Lynchburg, Virginia, but now of this city, who was visiting friends in Philadelphia, was suddenly called home on account of the illness of her father. Misses Alice and Sarah Harris, who spent the summer in Wilmington, have returned to the city. Messrs. J. Harold Ayers and H. Curt, medical students, have returned to the city. Miss Lula Allen stopped in Wilmington a few hours, en route for this city. Mr. Morris S. Walton, of Howard University has been appointed a teacher of history at Tuskegee, Alabama. Mrs. Richard Mayo, for several days was the guest of Mrs. William S. Fields, of Petersburg, Virginia. Mrs. Emory T. Morris, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, entertained the Misses Estelle and Hattie Collier, Beatrice Lewis and Jennie Pinkney, all of this city. Miss Alice Wheeler visited Hartford, Connecticut, this summer. time in Plainfield, New Jersey this summer. Mr. Arthur Simmons who has been in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has returned to the city much benefited by his trip. Miss Julia Young, who took a usmer course at the University of Chicago, spent several hours in Harrisburg, en route to this city. Miss Jane Carter, after spending her vacation with her parents has returned to the city. Miss Carter is a student at Freedmen's Hospital. Rev. J. Milton Waldron spent a few days in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Maggie Stewart of this city is visiting her sister Mrs. Mary Slater, who has been very sick. Misses Margaret Dangerfield and May Turner were delightfully entertained by Bessie Brown of Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Annie Brown, of this city spent a few days in Baltimore, the guest of Mrs. Lelia T. Whyte, of Pine street. Among the Washingtonians in Baltimore last week were Miss Alexina Dabney, Miss Enola McDaniels and Messrs. Thomas Smith, C. Richardson, and A. Johnson. The student's dance given by the Philippine Scouts was a success. Professor W. H. Brooks, of the 19th Street Baptist Church, preached a very interesting sermon last Sunday morning, as he usually does. Attorney L, M. King, is in Boston on professional business. On his return he will attend the Hudson-Fulton celebration. Miss Eva Hall who has been visiting relatives in Maryland, has returned to her home 1904 3rd street, northwest. Mrs. Annie B. Robinson, head nurse in a hospital at Charlotte, North Carolina, is in the city for a few days the guest of her mother, Mrs. Madre. of P street, northwest. Miss Julia Brooks is now teaching in the High School, also Miss Halfie Queen. Miss Violet Kibble, of 1238 Wylie street, northeast, who has been indisposed, is now able to be out again. The Bee Printing Company has at last secured the services of a competent and accomplished young lady, one who is capable of fulfilling the duties of the office. The entertainment given at Mrs. Fleming's of 1246 Wylie street, northeast, was indeed a success socially as well as financially. Miss A. Blondell Newsom, of New York avenue, has returned to the city from visiting here relatives and friends in the South, and reports a most enjoyable time while there. Mr. W. Stephen Fuller leaves today for Boston, Massachusetts. He will visit Providence, Newport, Hartford and New York before returning to Washington. Mrs. Maggie Rogers, of 1824 L st., northwest, after visiting Baltimore, Philadelphia, Manassas, Virginia, and Harper's Ferry, has returned looking the picture of health. Messrs. Hamilton Thornton and George H. Payne are recuperating in New York. Mr. Charles W. Mason of the Post Office Department, spent his vacation in the mountains of Virginia. Rumor has it that Mr. Walter J. Abrams, the tonsorial artist of West Washington, has $1,500 that he will shortly invest in the business. Mrs. W. T. Vernon is visiting the Hudson-Fulton celebration. After the close of the celebration she will visit Philadelphia and other points. ARMOND W. SCOTT, JR. On Thursday night, September 23, little Armond W. Scott, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Armond W. Scott, was christened at their residence, 1442 Pierce Place, northwest, by the Rev. Thomas Brown, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. There was a large and representative gathering present to witness the ceremony. After the christening a sumptuous feast was served which everybody enjoyed. Little Armond Jr., was one year old on the day of his christening and he was the recipient of many useful and handsome presents. Mrs. Eva Burrell was God-mother, Dr. Edward Williston was the God-father and little Christina Young God-sister. Those present were; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harris, grand-parents, Honorable and Mrs. John C. Dancy, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howe and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Syphax, Mr. and Mrs. John N. McDuffie, Mrs. John Cromwell, Misses Fannie and Mamie Cromwell, Misses Mamie and Essie Burrell, Mrs. Eugene Brooks, Mrs. Annie Taylor and Mrs. Jeanetta Nickens, Mrs. T. J. Houston, her daughter Miss Coltil Houston and Mrs. Houston's little grand-daughters, Mr. and Mrs. T. Henson, Miss Marguerite Brent, Dr. Clara H. Smyth, Miss Carrie Price, Mrs. Alice Chase, Honorable Emmett J. Scott, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Dr. George O. Price, Honorable Ralph W. Tyler, Attorney James A. Cobb, Dr. Howley, Mr. Edward Harris, Jr., and Editor W. Calvin Chase. During the evening Professor John Taylor presided at the piano and rendered many beautiful and difficult selections. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS (Continued from page 1.) day. Mrs. Ingles was captured by the Indians and carried beyond the Ohio, escaping and making her way back to her home on the New river. She is one of the most-striking figures in pioneer history. It is said that the Omaha Indian problem has reached its critical period, and all competent Omahas will be given complete possession of their lands and money to which they are entitled. Captain Edward L. Webster of the District National Guard, has been named as substitute military instructor of the High School Cadets, filling the place of Major Arthur Brooks, who is touring the country with the President. It is said the Salvation Army is established in fifty-two countries. A bronze statuette modelled from life, of President Taft, the work and gift of the famous Italian sculptor, Signor Ettore Ximenes, was received by the President. "The Story of the Negro" is now being published in serial form in the Outlook magazine, by Booker, T. Washington. Among our new exchanges are the Detroit Leader, published in Detroit, Michigan, and The Observer, published in Los Angeles, California. We welcome them to the journalistic field. St. John's Catholic Church in New Orleans, was almost totally destroyed by fire as a result of a bolt of lightning. The loss amounted to about $200,000. Don't forget to pay your subscription for The Washington Bee. It takes money to run a newspaper. A slight earthquake shock was felt at various points in the West this week. Mrs. Dewey C. Bailey, wife of the United States Marshal of Colorado, and President of the Denver Women's Club, has been nominated a candidate for Congress. The ground breaking exercises for the new Science Hall, were held at Howard University last Tuesday afternoon after chapel services. 'Masters Howard A. Hayner, Chas, B. Fisher and Robert Taylor have returned to the University of Pittsburg to resume their studies. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Attorney Robert L. Waring Speaks Mr. Editor: Time and again I have been asked the question, by parent-taxpayers and other interested people, "What do the people generally of the city of Washington think of the management of the public schools?" So much has been said and so many "oily" newspaper articles, apparently inspired, bearing on our schools have been sent out of our city, that they may be little that is new left to me to enlarge upon. However, I shall endeavor to answer this question, partly from my own observations and partly from comments of those with whom I have talked. Let us go back to the time just prior to the displacement of our former Assistant Superintendent by the present incumbent. At that the great Chancellor held forth. Doubts, fears, and turmoil permeated the whole system. No one person in the schools was sure of his position or certain as to the amount of remuneration he would receive during the following year. The then Assistant Superintendent was powerless to relieve the tension under which the teachers were working to remove the causes which brought about their doubts and fears or to squelch the factions that were at work undermining and sapping the life out of the system. Then came a change. A new head was secured for our schools. At that time I was asked what the people thought of the new Assistant Superintendent?" to which I then answered that he was regarded by all who knew him as a huge joke. I think the people in exceedingly large numbers are still of that opinion. The reason for this is not hard to find. Who does not remember the alleged commencement exercises of our Normal, High, and Manual Training schools at Convention Hall last June? A more regrettable, humiliating spectacle I never witnessed. Our boys and girls, fresh from their books, eager for the words of wisdom and encouragement which they expected on that occasion. They were proud that the President of the United States would greet them and present to them their diplomas. But what met their youthful gaze when they stepped upon the stage at their commencement? What was the condition of their young minds when the crator, selected for the occasion, arose and began his studied oration? Did they wonder, as I did, and as hundreds of others wondered, whether or not they were in attendance upon a Bowery ward meeting, something new to them, or were they really being graduated? I have not talked with one of these graduates who was not bitterly disappointed by this portion of the proceedings. But when I also noticed the presence of a number of politicians upon the stage and a number of vacant chairs that should have been occupied by Negro educators and saw that the President of the School Board had been superseded in the performance of certain functions that attached to his office, then I knew that something, almost a tragedy, was being enacted in the name of our schools, something that was sure to again hold us up to the world as incompetent and stamp us as people who have no conception of the eternal fitness of things. How much more fitting would have been the arrangement had it been possible for the person who had this demonstration in charge to have risen to the occasion and filled the vacant chairs on the stage with Negro educators, some with and whose presence would be persons whose lives were in touch an inspiration to the young people who were being graduated? These same educators could have waited until the lordly politicians had clasped the Presidential hand, hoping to feel therein a few more years of official could then have been properly introlongevity. The educators, if need beuced, with some show of dignity, thereby giving the President of the United States to understand, by contact, that there are some Negroes in Washington who are not office-seekers. Through the kindness of the Assistant Superintendent, on some other person, I received tickets for six seats in Section "D" in the immediate front of the stage, among the distinguished persons whom the Senators and members of Congress who had received tickets had sent to these exercises in their stead. From this position I was permitted to observe the various "stunts." Not being satisfied with my own impressions of this humiliating spectacle I talked with dozens upon dozens of representative citizens and tax-payers concerning this affair and their opinions are similar to mine. I am able, therefore, to give expression to what I believe to be the majority opinion of those present on that memorable occasion. Scarcely had the echos of this commencement celebration died down before there came the recommendations of the Assistant Superintendent over which another such howl, hue and cry was set up. Next week, Mr. Editor with your permission I will give your readers a detailed account of the effect of those recommendations upon the parent-taxpayers, pupils and teachers alike. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Metropoli- BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. SPECIAL LOW FARES TO New York City Hudson-Fulton Celebration Only $8.50 Round Trip TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 24 TO OCTOBER 2nd 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 THE BILLION DOLLAR MILE BALTIMORE & OHIO TERMI NALS AT LIBERTY STREET AND WEST 23D STREET. ASK TICKET AGENT FOR FULL PARTICULARS. The National Automobile College 1509 7thSt. N. W. A PRACTICAL SCHOOL OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING FOR COLORED STUDENTS. reason why" that extends credit searches binding obligation to secure ments of its accounts. years of experience have contract, lease or note is as- section as the customer's and Carpets that stand the ce—and we replace them if low as those of the cash es— are graded to correspond resources. we up the "reason why" we try to compel a purchaser to use or notes, nor to pay any the order. we do business with people comes, and we're ready to of an open account. The "reason why" The "reason why" VERY firm that extends credit searches for the most binding obligation to secure prompt settlements of its accounts. Forty years of experience have shown us that no contract, lease or note is as effective in this direction as the customer's SATISFACTION. Selling Furniture and Carpets that stand the test of time and service—and we replace them if they do not— Making prices as low as those of the cash stores, for equal values— Giving terms that are graded to correspond with the customer's resources. These points make up the "reason why" we do not find it necessary to compel a purchaser to sign any contract, lease or notes, nor to pay any part of the bill with the order. That's the way we do business with people who are furnishing homes, and we're ready to give you just that kind of an open account. Peter Grogan --- --- tan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, D street, between 2nd and 3rd streets southwest, will celebrate "Woman's Day" Sunday, October 10th, at the above church. Mrs. Lizzie Scott Jones, the President of the Society has used great care in the supervision of the arrangement of one of the most powerful and elaborate programmes in the history of the church or society. The programme in part is as follows: 11 a. m., Missionary Sermon, by Rev. Dr. W. P. Thirkield, President of Howard University. 3 p. m. A Missionary Mass Meeting, at which time the following well-known talent will speak: Mrs. Helen Spencer Mussey, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, who will be the principal speaker of the day, Miss Mattie R. Bowen, Miss Katie J. West who will act as Mistress of Ceremonies; Miss Edythe May Welch, and Honorable John C. Dancy Recorder of Deeds D. C. The well-known Howard University Lyric Orchestra, accompanied by the choir of the church, will render a Missionary sacred concert at 7:30 p. m., also other leading talent. Silver offering in the afternoon and evening, and the proceeds will be for the missionary cause both home and abroad. The Ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, of the District of Columbia, have elected new officers for the conference and Sons Co. 817-823 7th St. year of 1910. Dr. W. A. Ray succeeds Dr. Corrothers as president, Dr. C. C. Alleyne, elected secretary, Dr. W. H. Ferguson, treasurer, Dr. W. H. Smith, vice president, James W. Poe, reporter to the press. Committee on Program: Chairman, S. L. Corrothers, J. G. Hocks, Logan Johnson, W. A. Barten, N. M. Bell, J. H. Saunders, J. S. Cole, C. H. Baker, W. P. Fondville. A movement for a world wide revival among the pastors of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church has been inaugurated and the first union communion services looking to that end will be held at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Monday evening, October 4, 1909. The first union sermon will be preached by Rev. Sylvester L. Corrothers, Pastor of Galtaith African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, at which time every official of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in the city is expected to be present. F. T. 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. IT IS THE NEW EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FIRST OFFERING $100,000 OF STOCK AT PAR $10.00 PER SHARE To be paid for on the Easy Payment Plan 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. NEW EMANCIPATION Proposed LINCOLN MEMORIAL OF WASH 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%8 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 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 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..... Street....City....State.... 17 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. 19 Proposed Front Elevation LINCOLN MEMORIAL OFFICE AND THEATRE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. Building Co. WASHINGTON, D. C. DR SAMUEL G. ELBERT, 1st V.-Pres. Physician Wilmington, Del. GEORGE F. COLLINS, Counsel Attorney Washington, D. C. WILLIAM A. Secretary Laborers' Wash. DR L. H. SINGLETON, Auditor Pharmacist Washington, D. C. S. H. BOLLING Contractor and Builder Lynchburg, Va. JOHN President Laborers' Wash. ADVISOR George W. Robin Dr. Wm. L. Board.....Washington, D.C. Hon. John C. Dancy.....Washington, D.C. R. E. Frazier.....Pittsburg, Pa. Henry Forrest.....Washington, D.C. B. F. Hailstorks.....Washington, D.C. L. R. Henderson.....Hampton, Va. Thomas L. Jones.....Washington, D.C. Dr. W. W. Jones.....Deanwood, D.C. Joseph N. Lawson.....Washington, D.C. J. Henry Lewis.....Washington, D.C. PATION PROC Front Elevation CE AND THEATRE BUILDING GTON, D. C. 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 9-10 per cent, to which may be added the land value increase of $5 \frac{1}{8}$ 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 $3 \frac{1}{2}$ 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. 5 W. SIDNEY PITTMAN, President. Architect Washington, D. C. SAMUEL W. RUTHERFORD, ad V.-Pres. Manager National Benefit Association Washington, D. C. DR. CHAS. H. MARSHALL, Treasurer Physician Washington, D. C. WILLIAM A. BOWIE, Secretary Secretary Laborer Building and Loan Azin' Square J. L. FORBES Real Estate and Loans Norfolk, Va. GEORGE W. ROBINSON Merchant Washington, D. C. JOHN W. LEWIS President Laboters' Building and Loan Ass'n Washington, D. C. ADVISORY BOARD Robert Mattingly.....Washington, D.C. R. H. Merchant.....Lynchburg, Va. Zeph. R. Moore.....Washington, D.C. Dr. J. W. Morse.....Washington, D.C. J. W. Nimocks.....Meridian, Miss. E. W. Pearson.....Asheville, N.C. F. A. Roman.....Washington, D.C. R. W. Thompson.....Washington, D.C. Wm. H. Watts.....Washington, D.C. W. R. Williams.....Washington, D.C. 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. DO IT NOW. 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. 494 Louisiana Ave., Washington, D. C. 2 GREAT OFFERs This Spendid Six-Piece Set of W. H. 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As usual. invites the public to visit his MAMMOTH STORE Stocked with everything in the Drug line. Easter offeings in every design. Pure drugs. Prescriptions carefully compounded. RICHARDSON'S DRUG Firemen in the Metropolis. There are more firemen killed and injured in the performance of their duties in New York City than in any other city in the world. Long Lived Swan. Among the birds the swan lives to be the oldest, in extreme cases reaching 300 years. The falcon has been known to live over 162 years. The Sawed Off. Laplanders are the shortest people in Europe, the men averaging 2 feet, 11 inches, the women 4 feet 9 inches. The Bristol to Paddington (England) express covers 11 3/2 miles in two hours. Glass telephone poles reinforced by wire are being used in some parts of Germany. --- High Priced Peaches. A commission agent in the Paris fruit markets, recently shipped a basket containing 63 selected peaches to London. The price for the lot was $540, or about $9 each. The Telephone. If all the Bell telephones made each year were blended into a single instrument it would be nearly 300 miles high and reigh 4,000 tons. Phonograph in Schools. In some Viennese schools a phonograph which repeats speeches as recited by eminent actors has been introduced in order to teach the pupils declamation. The Sallors Tobacco. Three hundred tons of tobacco are distributed annually among the sailors of the British navy. It is sold to them at cost. A new monthly postal service across the Sanara has just been established. The messengers are mounted on camels. A Big Sawmill. Lousiana has a steel sawmill with a capacity of 600,000 feet a day, which is said to be the largest in the country. When terrified the ostrich will travel 25 miles an hour. This Offer of The Washington B Will Appeal Especially to Women SELF-TIGHTENING SHEARS GUARANTEE THE ADJUSTABLE TINSEL SPREADS MODELS THE USEFULNESS OF THE SHEARS. A FIVE YEAR GUARANTEE CERTIFICATE ACCOMPANIES EACH PAIR OF THESE SHEARS. 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GENERAL DIRECTOR Hiring, Levery and Sale Stable for funerals, parties, balls, receipts riages kept in first-class style. at 1132 Third street northwest. et, Alexandria, Va. office, Main 1727. for Stable, Main 1428-5. TABLES IN FREEMAN'S A immodate 50 Horses. our new and modern stable. ABNEY. Prop.. 1132 Third St als, parties, balls, receptions, etc. apt in first-class style. Satisfaction gua Third street northwest. Main office bran andria, Va. on 1727. e, Main 1428-5. S IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. 50 Horses. and modern stable. Prop.. 1132 Third Street N. W. Carriages hired 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 branch at 222 More street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office, Main 1727. Telephone call for Stable, Main 1428-5. OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. Where I can accommodate 50 Horses. W.SidneyPittman Architect STEEL CONSTRUCTION ASPECIALTY. Phone: Main 6059-M. Office 494 Louisiana Ave., N.W Wm. Cannon, 1225 81 C, 1227 71b Street, N.W. OLE DISTRIBUTER OF OLD PUR SIM , WHISKE YOU SHOULD DEAL ONLY WITH A HOUSE WITH ANY ESTABLISHED REPUTATION. American Whiskies. Cascade, qts. $ 1.15 Cascade, pts. .60 Cascade, 1-2 pts. .30 Duffy's Malt .95 Forefather 5's 1.00 Forester, qts. 1.15 Gibson .90 Hunter 5's 1.15 Live Oak .85 Maryland Club Rye 1.10 Mt. Vernon, qts. 1.30 O'Grady's Tennessee 12.5 Old Arey (Corn) .75 Old Arey Rye .75 Old Arey Malt .75 Old Henry Rye .90 Old Prentice 1.10 Rosslyn Pure Rye, qts 1.00 Runnymede Rye 1.00 Sherwood, qts .90 Three Feathers 1.60 Trimble 1.15 Wilson 1.10 Canadian Club (Walkers) 1.30 Bottled in Bond. Cecil(Pure Rye) qts 1.10 Old Beacham, qts .85 Green River, qts 1.20 Green River, pts .65 Green River 1.00 Guckenheimer, qts 1.00 Guckenheimer, pts 60 Hermitage Rye 1.25 Hermitage Bourbon 1.25 Meadville 1.00 Lynchburg, qts .85 Lyndale, qts .85 Overholt, qts .90 Overholt, pts .50 Old Taylor .95 Old Sage .80 Old McBrayer .80 Jas. E. Pepper Spg '02, 5's 1.00 Jas. E. Pepper, qts 1.25 Union Pacific, qts .75 Green Briar 1.00 Scotch Whisky. Black and White 1.35 De War's White Label 1.35 Haig and Haig 3 Star 1.45 Haig and Haig 5 Star 1.89 Heirloom 2.10 King William V. O. P 1.75 Thistle 1.40 Irish Whisky. Burke's 3 Star 10.35 Burke's 4 Star, qts 19.60 Bushmill 13.00 Geo. Roe and Co. 1 Star 10.00 Geo. Roe and Co. 3 Star 11.15 Gins. Burnett's Old Tom 1.08 Burnett's Dry 1.00 Booth's Old Tom 1.00 Booth's High and Dry 1.00 Gordan and Co.'s Dry 1.00 Gordan and Co.'s Tom 1.00 Coates and Co. Plymouth 1.00 Oxford Club Dry 1.00 El Bart Dry 1.90 Rums Arey's New England 75 Keep These Prices for Reference—Telephone, Main 3446, or come to our store, 480 Pennsylvania Avenue. HE WANTED TO BE ON TIME But It Is Probable Mrs. Blank Had Something to Say to Him That Night. He was a very busy man, and, like all of his kind, he hated to waste time by unnecessary waiting. 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. "I thought I'd let you know in time, so that directly you have had your lunch you can begin to put your hat on," he went on. "Then we can get there before the middle of the first act. By-by, dear." The only answer was an angry click at the other end of the wire, which seemed to indicate that another recever was in trouble, but Mr. Blank only laughed as he returned to his work.—Lippincott's. NO FOREST FIRES IN EUROPE There Every Part of the Tree Is Utilized, Leaving Nothing to Start Conflagration. The question has been asked why there should be so many fires in our American forests when there are so very few or none at all in the forests of Europe. The answer is this, says Outing. When the trees are cut in the forests of Germany, France or Switzerland, the entire material in the tree is marketed and removed, leaving no inflammable litter on the ground. 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, 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. THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA This is to give notice: That the subscriber of Burrville, D. C., has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters tertimentary on the estate of Effie Ware late of the District of Columbia deceased. All persons having been admitted to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 27th day of September, 1910; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 27th day of September, 1909. Edgar W. Porter, Burrittville, D. C. ATTEST James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. L. POLLARD, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TRICT OF COLUMBIA HOLDING PROBATE COURT No. 16288, 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 c. t. a., on the estate of James F. Wilkinson, 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 23rd day of September, A. D. 1910, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 23rd day of September, 1909. William L. Pollard, 609 F street, northwest. Attest: James Tanner. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. Thomas Walker, Attorney SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 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 Mary M. Jobuson, deceased. All persons having claim against tae deceased are hereby warned that the same will be with vouchers there or officially authenticated, io the subscriber on or before the 30th day of September, A.D. 1910; or otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. WANTED. Three young ladies who understand typewriting. Permanent place for the right kind. Apply to the Manager of The Bee after two o'clock. FOR RENT-ROOMS Three rooms, with bath. Suitable for light housekeeping. Apply 402 N street, northwest. Any person purchasing a lot at Westford, from Mr. O. H. Fowler, (advertisement of the lots will be found on the last page of The Bee) will receive The Bee for one year. Please mention The Bee when you go to purchase. 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. THE GRAND SELECT EXCURSION The "grand and select family excursion" to River View on the 17th instant, under the direction and management of Mr. A. Garry Booker, was a most successful affair. Over fifteen hundred persons, embracing some of --- William L. Pollard, Attorney. WANTED. The Bee Printing Company. SPECIAL OFFER SALESMEN WANTED. 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 Wines, Liquors, and Cigars Just the place to visit before you take the boat, or after leaving the boat. This place is at 620 11th street, southwest, near the river. N. E. cor. 14th and S sts, N. W. CLEANSERS AND DYERS Our establishment is a Fountain of Eternal Youth for Clothes Cleansing of Ladies,' Gents' and Children's Garments, Lace Curtains and Blankets by the French Process of Naptha, Steam, Sulphur and Dry Cleaning. J. HENRY FOSTER, Manager 1801 14th Street, N. W. (N. E. Cor. S) the most notable citizens of this District, were in attendance.The weather proved highly desirable, the arrangements were perfect, and the sail down the Potomac was a most pleasant one. There was no disorder, and the affair was voted the best of the excursion season. It is thought that at least two similar excursions will be given next season, thus affording the best citizens a series of these enjoyable outings. The tenor of the article published in your issue of last Saturday with reference to the affairs of Howard University, was to discredit the administration there, and to create a sentiment of mistrust concerning the exercises of fair play in the distribution of salaries by the authorities of the University. To those in a position to know the facts it is clear that The Bee has been greatly misinformed on the point of salaries, and of course The Bee will be glad to make proper correction when furnished with the facts in the case. But aside from this merely minor point, the larger fact is the influence which such articles are bound to exercises not only in shaping the public attitude towards the school, but also in affecting the spirit of loyalty in the student body. The Bee has always stood committed to the policy of progress for every public institution or organization devoted to the elevation of the colored race, and Howard University because of its location, its mission, its traditions and equipment stands foremost, among such institutions. Can The Bee afford now, by such publications, to throw obstacles in the path of the University's progress? The past few years have witnessed a very gartifying improvement in nearly every department of the University, with respect both to its facilities and its attendance; and this is but the beginning of what is to be if the program of the authorities is not hampered by unwarranted criticism from the outside and a deplorable disloyalty from within. Howard University, like every other large institution, has liad its share of troubles from within and without, but it is now seeing the dawn of a bright day. It has a distinct mission leading to a splendid future; and it should be the pleasure, as it surely is the duty, of every alumnus and friend of the university to lend a hand to the work of ac complishing that mission and making sure that future. This surely can not be done, by fo menting internal dissention, inviting public criticism, and fostering the spirit of dsloyalty which must needs result from unwarranted aspersions on its management. "Let us. have peace" there once more, and if we cannot help let us at least not hinder the good work now in progress. Henry E. Baker Oard Dupuy's Very Old Cognac —Surpasses all other brands in quality, age and delicacy. Ideal for milk punches for typhoid convalescents and for social use. Full qt. $2. Only at Christian Xander's Quality House. 909 7th St. Phone Main 274. 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. 361 Pennsylvania Ave. N. W. E. MURRAY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ICE CREAM AND CONFECTIONS. OYSTERS IN SEASON. 1216 YOU STREET, NORTH- WEST. PHONE. NORTH 908 ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 4th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. ASTHMA CURED Expert Medical Scientists Announce Startling Results Obtained by Senpine New York.—Thousands are taking advantage of the generous offer made by the Woodworth Co., 1163 Broadway, New York City, requesting an experimental package of Senpine, the great discovery for Asthma, Hay Fever, Brouchitis, and Catarrh, which is mailed free of charge to all who write for it. It is curing thousands of the most stubborn cases. It makes no difference how long you have been suffering or how severe the climatic conditions are where you live, Senpine will cure you. If you have experimented with other treatments and have failed to find a cure, do not be discouraged, but send for a trial of this wonderful truly meritorous remedy which is a scientific compound discovered by a professor of Vienna University, and is being recommended by thousands. ECZEMA CURED Pimples Disappear and Complexion Cleared Over-night. New York.—Thousands are taking advantage of the generous offer made by the Woodworth Co., 1163 Broadway, New York City, requesting an experimental package of Lemola, the new skin discovery; which is mailed free of charge to all who write for it. It alone is sufficient to clear the complexion over night and rid the face of pimples in a few hours. Those who have tried LEMOLA will find that the 50c box on sale in WASHINGTON at all Drug Stores, is sufficient to cure the worst form of eczema, where the parts affected are not too large. On the first application of Lemola the itching will stop. It has cured thousands afflicted with Eczema, Teeters, Rashes, Itchings, Irritations, Acnes, Scalings, and Crusting of skin, scalps of infants, children and adults. It is good for the preservation and purification of the skin, scalp, hair and hands, and for the prevention of the clogging of the pores, the usual cause of _pimples, blackheads, redness and roughness and also the treatment of burns, scalds, wounds, sores, chappings, as well as the toilette and nursery. --- B I G Bill Kennedy THE NEW YORKER If you want fresh beer, good wines and liquors, don't fail to patronize this house. Hot free lunch at 12 noon daily. 625 D street, northwest. SIGN OF THE BIG BOOT WM. MORELAND. PROP. HOUSE & HERRMANN We close at 5; Saturdays at L p m Put down Mattings or Matting Rugs everywhere in the home if you want the coolest, freshest effects.. We are equipped to, fill all orders for Mattings, whether for one room or the largest hotel. Our Matting stock is enormous and imported to our special order. Our stock of Mattings was woven to our order and bought in such quantities that we can UN* DERSELL on all grades. When in Doubt, Buy of HOUSE and HERRMANN 7th and I (Eye) Sts., N. W. GASKIN'S RESTAURANT Gaskin's restaurant, 320 8th. street, northwest, formerly Gaskins and Gaines. First Class Services. All the delicacies of the season. Free Lunch from 12to 1 Every Day. The Connecticut Market WAHL & THOMPSON Where you will find a choice line or roceries and fresh meats daily. Call and getour pricesand be convinced FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS J. H. HUDNELL AND P. D. WASHINGTON, PROPRIETORS Phone, Main 3322. 107 SIXTH STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, D. C 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. Mrs. D. Smith, Proprietor, 614 D street, northwest. Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIRS:-I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. MRS. W. F. WALKER, B.A. I-Harriman, Tenn. Ford's Hair Pomade (Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow) Fifty years of success has proved its merits. It is a soft, moist, and airy dress for barn, 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 skin, and helps to prevent or break off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless—used with splendidrod sults even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as well as a pleasure to the child. Lies of Refinement everywhere declare, Don't buy anything else alleged to be "just as good." If you want the best results, buy the best Fomade—it will pay on. Look for this name Charles Ford Pruitt If your drugkrist cannot supply you with the genuine, we will send you One bottle regular size for $0.50 Three bottles $1.40 Six $2.50 One bottle, small $0.25 We pay postage and express charges to all points to 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., 18 East Kiosin St. FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. II. ATTENTION! Now is the time to have your Fall announcements printed. Send in your order now. Printing of all kinds. 400 Business cards for $1.90. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., 1212 Fla. ave., S or 1109 Eye Street, Northwest. $5 DOWN $5 A-MONTH STOP Paying Rent AND Own Your Own HOME BE INDEPENDENT. RAISE YOUR OWN PULLTRY AND GARDEN PRODUCTS. BEAUTIFUL. LOTS $150 TO $300 y ever offered the home or make an in- hallord." High and H on of the city, with one car fare Electr cars and transfer at Line Cars, get off two blocks. Sundays and Holi engagements and fun WLER, Owner, 5th St., N. W., a Ice C O COMPANY CO. ade to all parts of resident and General I ntary and Treasurer northwest. ever offered the refined colored people home or make an investment "No Taxes." said." High and Healthy Location in the mid of the city, within 25 minutes ride of car fare Electric Lights, and Graded and transfer at 15th Street, N. E., to one Cars, get off at Minnesota Avenue, 2 blocks. Sundays and Holidays from 10 A. M., to agreements and further particulars, apply LER, Owner, th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Ice Company COMPANY • COAL AND WOOD to all parts of the city, by telephone ent and General Manager. ery and Treasurer. The finest opportunity ever offered the refined colored people of Washington to own a home or make an investment "No Taxes." "No Interest." "No Landlord." High and Healthy Location in the beautiful northeast section of the city, within 25 minutes ride of the U. S. Treasury. One car fare Electric Lights, and Graded Streets. Take the H Street Cars and transfer at 15th Street, N. E., to Kenilworth, or District Line Cars, get off at Minnesota Avenue, and walk up K Street two blocks. Agents on the grounds Sundays and Holidays from 10 A. M., to 6 P. M. For weekly engagements and further particulars, apply to O. H. FOWLER, Owner, Columbian Building, 416 5th St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Columbia Ice Company COLUMBIA ICE COMPANY COAL AND WOOD Prompt delivery made to all parts of the city, by telephone or postal card. 11.3 Her-Tru-Line For The Hair HER - TRU - LINE. The Great Hair Co. I wish to say that my hair was only about three inches long and so kinky, stiff and haresh I could not manage it at all, but aft nsingtwo jars of your Her-tru-line I have as rety suit of hair as any lady in Atlanta. wish every onewith curly or kinky hair knew of this wonderful Her-tru line. Yours respectfully. Miss Lovie Mayes Agents wanted everywhere to sell this wonderful HAIR GROWER. Medicine Co. Atlanta Ga. Hair Beautiful Soft, Silky and Long? n Medici 4 Atl Hair Be Is Your Hair Beautiful Se it m rang it k and Use Ne Your head will k Nelson's Hair Dressing Nelson's Hair Dressing and you'll never have dandruff. and will keep clean. The roots of your hair will have the necessary scalp disease. You will be delighted with its delicate perfume. Dressing is put up in handsome four-ounce square tin boxes, like the lady holds in her hand. Druggists and a box. If you can't get it, send us 30 cents and we will mail it now, or sit right down and write us. Address ACTURING CO., Richmond, Va. United. Write Quick for Terms. THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR-STRAIGHTENER. have scalp disease. You will be Dressing in put up in h like the lady entacts a box. If you can't get and buy it now, or all right do UFACTURING O Vanted. Writ TAN PICTURES IT IS 9 PM LONG MAID SEND Nelson's Hair Dressing is put up in handsome four-ounce square tin busses, like the lady holds in her hand. Druggets and agents everywhere sell it at 25 cents a box. If you can't get it, send us 30 cents and we will mail you a full-size box postpaid. Go and buy it now, or right down and write us. Address Every lady can have a beautiful and luxurious head of hair if she uses a MAGIC. After a shampoo or bath the Magic dries the hair, removing the dandruff; and it will straighten the curliest head of hair. Hurts the hair, because the comb is never heated. The steel heat-ons, put into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater, self-detached from the heating bar, then. after the bar is heat-uttable and is held by a turn of the handle. Mer $1.00. Magic Alcohol Heater $0.50. Liberal terms to agents. Mer Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota. the hak, because the comb is never heated. The steel heat-put into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater, detached from the heating bar, then, after the bar is heat-able for curling irons, has a cover and can be carried in a F00. Magic Alcohol Heater $0.50. Liberal terms to agents. The Magic will not burn or injure the hair, because the comb is never heated. The steel heating bar which irons the hair, is alone, put into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater. The Aluminum Comb is easily detached from the heating bar, then after the bar is heated the com> goes back into place and is held by a turn of the handle. The Magic Heater is also suitable for sinking from a cover and can be carried in a hand bag. Magic Shampoo Drier $1.00. Magic Alcohol Heater $0.20. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. Magic Shampoo Drier Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota. Southern Medicine Co., Atlanta, Ga. Southern Box754 "Her-Tru-Line" stimulates the growth of the hair, it takes out the curl and leaves the scalp in a clean and healthy condition. "Her-Tru-Line" cures dandruff, ringworm and scalp tetter. "Her-Tru-Line" leaves the hair soft and glossy and easily dressed. "Her-Tru-Line" is delightful as a dressing for the hair, being perfectly harmless. It is a true luxury and a valuable addition to toilet accessories. Large jar 50 cents at all drug stores and by our special agents. Sample box mailed to any address on receipt of five two-cent stamps. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING is the direct hair pomade on the face of the earth for colored people. It makes your hair grow fast it makes stubborn, brittle and tangled hair as soft and supple as silk. It makes it healthy. It keeps it from splitting or breaking off. It makes it rich and gives it that charm, so longed for by all true ladies. MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $100 $100 PERCENTLY BY POSTPONED PAYMENT Phone, Main 272. Does it comb easily without breaking? Is it straight? Does it smooth out nicely? Can you do it up in any of the charm- ing 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 Minneapolis, Minnesota.