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VOL.XXX NO 32 OpenLetter To President Washington, D. C. Dec. 15, 1909 My dear Mr. President: I stated in my last letter that I would discuss the Liberian question, but, as I have not finished the discussion concerning the colored office-holders, I have decided to defer the Liberian question until after you have considered colored appointments. As I understand that you will make very shortly. I also understand or rather it is rumored that you will displace the one year appointees among your colored allies for new colored politicians. If this rumor is true, I regret it because the removal of one colored man who has held office only one year appoint another colored man is no benefit to the race. Why should this obtain among the colored people? I notice that you have reappointed Mr. Palmer, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia; this makes his fourth term. Register Vernon, Auditor Tyler and Charles Anderson have not held office one term as yet, and I think that these applicants for their jobs should be given to understand that the occupants of these offices are to serve another term and then you would not be bothered. There is a great deal of unrest in this country among colored Americans. They want recognition of some kind. They claim that the time has come for the literal colored Americans to show their political influence. In this city there are nearly ninety thousand colored people and they are not considered for a moment. There are several separate and distinct organizations of white men that claim to control the affairs of this government and when the people of color make a demand for recognition they are told to be notified with what they have. They have nothing, Mr. President to lose Everything has been taken form them and whenever the mob feels dispose it takes the lives of these helpless colored Americans without judge or jury. Don't you think it is time for you to act? Don't you think that the people in this city are entitled to the office of Recorder of Deeds, in the event you decide to make a change in that office? If it is your intention to bring in an outsider, the people would prefer that you allow Mr. Dancy to remain. If Mr. Dancy is removed and an outside colored man is appointed, the appointment will only please that particular individual. I understand that every State in this union has a colored candidate for the recorder's office. There are only two colored candidates in this city, Mr. President, why not consider their claims and take the wishes of the people as to the fitness of one or both. If Mr. Dancy is removed and an outsider is appointed in his place he gets no credit for leading the fight in the last campaign, Mr. President, for you. Do you know that the Negroes in this country, at the beginning of the campaign, was about to mob him for advocating your nomination and election? Do you know, Mr. President, that Register Vernon, Auditor Tyler were two of your most loyal advocates. The Bee, of course, not excepted? If the official ax is to fall upon their necks, I can only say, gratitude where is thy charm? I want to see the colored men now holding office remain in and make a few places for the wolves on the outside. There is a great deal of unrest. Mr. President, among the colored politicians. I am telling you what others will not tell you. I know that you want to be informed of the unrest in this country among colored Americans and suggest to you a remedy. I am of the opinion, Mr. President, that a few new places for the proper men will give entire satisfaction. But, if you appoint men who don't represent anything or anybody, you will be convinced that The Bee is a prophet. I don't mean to dictate to you, Mr. President, but, merely to suggest to you and inform you that the colored people in this country are dissatisfied and that they are more than anxious that you do something at once. I also desire to call your attention THE BEE WASHINGTON to the police court of this city. There are several applicants to succeed Judge Kimball. So far as JudgeKimball is concerned, he knows no man by the color of his skin. He may be severe;if he is he does no more than carry out the law as he sees it. I see no reason why he should be removed. He is honest. What more? You know, Mr. President, there are some people, in this country, who are never satisfied, no matter what you do for them. Take for instance the Democratic party South. You have given to that party, every best office to the exclusion of colored Republicans and when the terms of the colored office-holders have expired, the rumor is, no more colored men will be appointed. Grover Cleveland, although a Democrat, gave the South to understand that no man should be removed on account of his color. He would not permit those who were inimical to colored Americans to dictate to him. What is about the colored man, South that he should not be appointed to an office? Is it fair to bar a man simply because he is colored? You are the president of the people; you are the man to whom the nation will look for protection. Give the South to understand Mr. President that you know no min by the color of his skin, but recognize all citizens of the United States, true Americans and they must and shall be protected and recognized according to merrit. Relative to the coming appointment of colored men let them be worthy. Please give the District of Columbia some recognition. Bring no more outsiders to this city for District offices. If you will follow this policy the people will appreciate you. Until I write again, believe me to be THE MORRILL FUND Editor The Washington Herald: The proposition to have the Morrill fund apply to the District of Columbia as well as to the States has just been presented to Congress. The purpose of this fund is to encourage the several States to prosecute the scientific study of agriculture. For geographical purposes, the District of Columbia has a distinct position, on a footing with the States and Territories. In population and general importance, it is by no means the least among the grand divisions. There seems to be no good reason why it should not share equally with the States in this provision to promote the application of science to agricultural pursuits. The fact that the District has little agricultural area is hardly an effective argument against the proposition. The apportionment is not made on the basis of agricultural area; if so, Rhode Island and Deleware would not receive the same amount as Texas and Pennsylvania. The incidental advantages of Washington are superior to those of any State for the location of an agricultural college The Department of Agriculture,with its great facilities easily accessible, would enable the student to perfect himself in this branch of practical knowledge to a degree that would be impossible elsewhere. In States where the two races are taught in separate schools, the Morrill fund is distributed between them on the basis of numerical strength. This equitable principle will, of course, prevail in the District of Columbia The George Washington University and Howard University are the institutions for the racial allotment of this fund. The work to be accomplished should be of the highest scientific character. Agriculture furnishes today the most fertile field for the application of science to the practical affairs of life. Aside from its purely utilitarian value, there are few fields that arouse so deep an interest on the part of the student or quicken such enthusiasm or offer so wide an opportunity for originality and research. There is certainly as much quickening pow- WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY DECEMBER 18, 1909 M. HONORABLE THOMAS RAY HAMER, OF IDAHO in the living roots of growing plants as in the dry roots of a dead language. The allotment of the National one hundred and sixty acres University would be of the greatest significance to the colored race. This institution stands out conspicuously in the eye of the nation as the national university for colored youth. Congress has just established here a science hall at a total cost of $9,000, which will shortly be completed and equipped with adequate facilities for up-to-date work in physics, chemistry, and biology. The first outlet of these sciences is the medical department. The natural step is scientific agriculture. Statistics show that 85 per cent. of the Negro race derives their living directly from the soil. Although there are agricultural schools in the several States built upon the basis of this Morrill fund, still there is no such institution in all the land with adequate scientific equipment and a competent student body to pursue agricultural science of collegiate grade. In this respect an agricultural department at Howard University would answer the needs of the whole race. A goodly number of colored men trained in the principles of agriculture, with exact knowledge and methods, who might serve as teachers and general directors of the race in agricultural pursuits throughout the South, is one of the great demands of the situation. This demand Howard University is prepared to supply. Independent of this fund, the authorities of this institution are planning to enlarge the scope of the university by establishing a department of technology and a department of agriculture, which, together with the medical school, will furnish ample scope for the application of exact scientific knowledge to the practical pursuits of the race. The unique relation of Howard University to our national race problem and its peculiar preparedness to render this high-grade scientific service to the nation is by all odds the strongest reason why Congress should extend the application of the Morrill fund to cover the District of Columbia. Kelly Miller. DEFENDS NEGRO RECORD Denied That He Is Lacking In Patriotism Rev. Dr. Nelms Challenged to Prove Truth of Assertions to Sons of American Revolution. The recent lecture of Rev. Dr. J. Henning Nelms before the local chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, in which he is described the Negro as lacking in the higher ideals of patriotism, and suggested that one of the labors the society should undertake was the teaching of what true patriotism stands for, was condemned by a mass meeting of colored residents in the Second Baptist Lyceum Sunday afternoon. Resolutions were adopted challenging Rev. Dr. Nelms to prove his assertions. Richard E. S. Toomey presided. William H. Ferris, Perri W. Frisby, J. H. Stewart, Rev. James D. Crothers and others spoke on the patriotism of the American Negro. Nation's History Reviewed The first speaker, after reviewing the history of the nation from the revolutionary days through the Spanish war, declared that members of the race were never found wanting in patriotism. The speaker declared that Negroes were with Balboa at the discovery of the Pacific Ocean, with Cortez in Mexico, and were members of the transcontinental expeditions of Fremont and Clark. As proof of the patriotism of the race, the speaker told of the r86,000 Negroes enlisted for service in the Civil War, and their conduct in several battles, their participation in the battles of Bunker Hill and Lake Erie and their courage in Cuba in the war with Spain. "When an unbiased or unprejudiced person reviews these historical events," the speaker said, "how can he doubt the black man's patriotism? Rather the person would be constrained to believe that the Negro is a member of the human family and can rise to deeds of heroism or mount the summits of achievement." Perri W. Frisby said that though the Negro has been ostracised and proscribed by many of his white brothers of the country, he has never wavered in his allegiance to the nation. J. H. Stewart declared despite the position of many of the race and their crying wants there were no Negro anarchists or bombthrowers. Rev. James D. Corrothers described the mental progress of the race and its desire to be considered a part of the country's loyal and devoted population. He pleaded for fair play for the black man at all times and declared the race would not be found wanting. The meeting was an enthusiastic one and lasted for several hours. The resolutions were adopted without dissent. A copy of them will probably be forwarded to Rev. Dr. Nelms. DR. WASHINGTON'S GOOD WORK Last August at Louisville, Ky. the National Negro Business League passed a resolution empowering its president, Dr: Booker T. Washington, to proceed to formulate plans for holding in 1913 a semi-Centennial Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation. Last month Dr. Washington laid the matter before President Taft and the latter immediately gave his approval of the plan, and in his annual message transmitted to Congress, Monday, December 6, not only indorsed the proposition, but request- ed permission of Congress to appoint a Commission to consider plans, etc., for holding such an exposition. To carry out the President's suggestion and at the request and suggestion of leading officers of the National Negro Business League, and other interested bodies, Congressman E. L. Taylor, Jr., of Ohio, member of the House Committee on Appropriations and Congressman William A. Rodenberg, chairman of the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, have together offered the following joint resolution, which was introduced in Congress Tuesday of this week: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a commission consisting of seven persons to consider carefully whether or not it is advisable to hold an exposition in the United States in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation granting freedom to the Negroes; and that the said commission report to Congress on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and ten. Sec. 2. That to enable commission to carry out the purpose of this Act, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be expended. The members of said commission shall serve without compensation,but shall be paid their necessary expenses, and disbursements made under this Act shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury on vouchers approved by the Chairman of said Commission. SCIPIO AFRICANUS JONES Distinguished Attorney in Town Attorney Scipio Africanus Jones, of Little Rock, Ark., was in the city this week accompanied by his daughter, who is on her way to North Carolina. Mr. Jones is a native of Little Rock, Ark; president of the Negro Business League of that State, one of the largest organizations in the country; he was at one time delegate to the National Republican convention and one of the big Republicans to throw Arkansas into the Taft column. Fifteen dele- [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. gates voted for Mr. Taft from Arkansas. Mr. Jones was elected from a white Republican district. He is president of the Arkansas Realty and Trust Company, a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and has a large legal practice in his State. The entire State of Arkansas is urging President Taft to appoint him to a position under the Federal Government. Rumor has it that he would not object to the office of recorder of deeds if President Taft intends to make a change. THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO SEE Honest men keep honest promises. A man who makes a mistake correct it before he is compelled to do so. The Negro Business League a factor in the city. President Taft appoint more colored men to office and retain those who are in. The medical profession a factor in this city. District men appointed to District offices. READ THE BEE. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS It is said a petition signed by fully 5,000 persons, has been forwarded to Secretary of War Dickinson, to be presented to President Taft, asking pardon for Sheriff J. E. Shipp, permitting the lynching of a Negro prisoner. Andrew Carnegie, in his address who is serving a term in prison for before the members of the "Armstrong Association on the Negro question, said:: "The lowest blacks in the South are ahead of his Scotland ancestors of two hundred years ago. No race ever made such progress as the Negroes have in the last forty years. He finished by saying foreign mission is good in its way, but the first duty of the American people is to contribute all we can toward the black race God placed among us." For the first time in the history of Kansas, a Negro has been appointed postmaster. Hon. W. W. Fisher has received the appointment Mr. Fisher served in the same capacity, in South Carolina, under President McKinley. By the will of Charles H. Farmer, Jr., an estate of $500,000 is left to Yale University, for buildings for the Sheffield Scientific School. At the sale of the library of Louis I. Haber, in New York, a letter of John Brown, to his wife, in which, under the words, "poor, miserable looking sheep," he disguised the real nature of his occupation, relating to the freeing of slaves, was sold for $46.00. Colored Americans can boast of having forty eight banks, controlled successfully by them. Eleven alone are in Mississippi. The youngest of these banks opened 1st of this month in Selma, Ala., and received $12,114.45. The oldest one is also in Alabama. Hon. Thos. W. Fleming, who was elected councilman, in Cleveland, Ohio, will be the first colored man to ever have a seat in the Cleveland City Council, and the first in the State of Ohio elected councilman at large. The first woman to hold position as executive of a State Department is Miss Katie Banard, who is State Commissioner of Charities and Correction in Oklahoma, the manner and term of election being the same as that of governor. The Langston Negro College of Oklahoma will have soon an addi-gro's share in this fund to Howard Metropolitan Choir. of land, which will give it two hundred and fifty acres. Ninety thousand dollars was appropriated for this school by the first legislature of the new State. Agriculture will be the strongest department in the college. The will of Charles N.. Crittenton, the founder of the Florence Crittenton Missions for Women, Girls and children, which has been filed for probate, will give half of his big estate to the institutions he founded by him, and about $200,000 to his employees. Judge Lurton has been nominated as an associate Justice of the Supreme Court, as successor of the late Justice Peckham, who died some time ago. No more teachers will be dismissed without trial. Supervising Principal Jackson is every inch a man. He is level-headed and reliable. Supervising Principal Jackson will succeed because he is honest. 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Before that time the name of Lick was great in the musical world. Lick's pianos—out of which he made the money which he invested in land—were manufactured by him. But on the poetic side of life—a world apart from such things as piano-making and mud-flats—the great Lick Mill stands as a monument to Lick's love. In early life James Lick sought the hand of a miller's daughter, but was repelled by the father on the ground that the young suitor did not possess PATENT DRAWINGS AFTING, DETAILING, TRAC BLUE PRINTING TION A SPECIALTY. 404 Louisiana Ave. NW a min. Many years afterwards, when he had become one of the richest men in the states, he erected a large mill and adorned it like a palace. It was built of mahogany and costly woods, and erected solely as a memorial of his youthful attachment. His only pleasure was to contemplate this palatial mill and to gloit over the man who had spurned him for his poverty. —Harry Furniss, in the Strand. She Wanted to Be Sure. Just What the Wind Should Be It was blowing rather hard, and there was a nasty sea on an hour and a half before the first breakfast bugle. An officer of the ocean liner hurried along the passage between the state rooms, and a timid voice called to him: "Oh, Mr. Officer, please stop." He turned and saw a dear old lady with a wrapper thrown around her, peeping through her half-open door. "Yes, madam," said the officer. "Mr. Officer, please; would you call this a gale?" asked the old lady, anxiously. "Oh! no, madam. There's not the least danger. I assure—" "Not even half a gale, and this is such an excellent sea boat that you needn't worry a hit," explained the officer. "Well, what would you call it, please?" said the lady, steadying herself as the vessel rolled. "Just a fresh nor'west breese, madam, with a cross sea running. But, really, there's nothing to fear." 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"Twar jes' like dis: Marse Charlie an' Marse William, dey bose tuk de mos' grejus fancy to a young lady dat come a-visiting de house; an' somebody had fill deir foolish halds all up wid talk about duels; an' dey jes' promulgatetd to hab one, an' find out which ob 'em was to hab de young lady. "Marse Charlie he was seventeen, short an' fiery, and Marse William he was sixteen, slim an' cool; but dey was boe sot' an' termined on de duel. "Course deye didn't tell me 'bout it, but I 'spected it, same as I always did, 'kase I looked after dem boys fo' deir paw an' maw, when dere was comp'ny. "So I watched out, an' I follered, an' I crep' up to where day was beginning to take p'sition fo' de duel, an'—an' I les' broke it up." "How did you do it, Pomp?" each listener is sure to ask. "How did I do it, chille? Why, I Jes' emptled a pail o' water right on Marse Charlie's hail, an' I tuk an' spanked Marse William—dat's how."—Youth's Companion. SET AVERAGE MAN THINKING Could There Be Anything Sarcastic In What She So Quietly Set Forth? "How sad it is," said the Average Man to the Average Woman, "that you are a tiresome creature—considered of course, from a purely impersonal standpoint." "I am interested," said the Average Woman. "Pray go on—as far as you like. I'm in the mood where real can- dor is the only thing I care for. Why then, am I tiresome?" "Because of your limited range. For example, your conversation is ex- clusively confined to babies and bridge, servants and cigarettes clothes and cotillons." "How interesting!" exclaimed the Average Woman," "and how true" That suggests an idea. I shall reform." "In what way?" She smiled ambitiously. "Hereafter," she said, "I shall wider my range of thought to include business, sport, woman and the quality of tobacco and rum, interspersed occasionally by the telling of indecent stories." The Average Man had nothing to say. Indeed, for the first time in his life he was actually thinking.—Life. Really Poor Penman. There is a certain Philadelphia physician of considerable prominence who is renowned among his friends as the worst penman in the Quaker city. He used to write them letters and then feel hurt when they could not read them. When he wrote to persons who were not familiar with his scrawl they frequently would not know whom the letters were from. Some time ago he introduced a typewriter into his office, and this rendered the body of the letter intelligible, but did not clear up the difficulty over the signature. Now, however, says the Record, he has had made a rubber stamp bearing his name and address in printing. He signs his name in the usual scrawl, but alongside he impresses his stamp. It is a little humiliating, he says, but he no longer has any trouble about persons to whom he writes not knowing from whom the letters are. What Roads Owe to Salt. Roads, we are told, owe a great deal to salt. According to one theory, the oldest trade routes came into existence as a result of the traffic in salt. One of the oldest roads in Italy is the "Via Salaria," along which the people of the Sabine country obtained their salt from the salt pans of Ostia. Salt was the main merchandise carried in the trans-Libyan caravans of the days of Herodotus, and salt is one of the chief elements in the trade along the Sahara caravan routes to-day. Salt and salt fish, it is interesting to remember, entered largely into the commerce of the Carthaginians. The latter, by the way, was considered a delicacy in those pre-Christian days. Forced to Guess Answer It beats all what odd question reach some of the departments of government in Washington. Not long ago the treasury received a letter from a Pittsburgh man who had made a bet, asking: "How many cents are there in a bushel?" The answer was not easy to offer. If the man had asked about pounds he might have received a definite answer. As it was, he got in reply a guess from a clerk, that "roughly there are something like $320, or 32,000 pennies." On the Installment Plan. "I dreamed last night that I bought a fine set of books, so much down, so much a month." "Pshaw! There's nothing remarkable about that. People actually do that every day." "Walt a minute. I dreamed I finished paying for them." American Visitor in Great Britain turns with His Feelings Perturbed. "I wish," growled a man lately back from a tour of the British Isles, "that the British bandmasters would take a course of instruction in what constitutes the American national airs. Band concerts are the rage all over England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. During the summer season, probably as a compliment to the hordes of Americans who are flinging away gold for their benefit, they present daily what is generally dubbed 'American national airs.' "The majority of these bardmasters think 'Dixie' is the national air, because they sagely observe it is the only one which Americans applaud. The 'Star-Spangled Banner' is dismal and lugubrious enough under the best of circumstances, but to hear the Scotch bagpipes have a fling at it is indescribable misery. The man who wrote the 'Columbia' hymn would not know his own work as performed in King Edward's domain, and even the 'Kentucky Home' and other negro ballads get a touch between an Irish jig and a Scotch wall which robs the American visitor of any pleasure which he might experience in hearing songs from home. It may be that British, Scotch and Irish guests on this side of the water get as much discomfort in hearing 'Annie Laurie.' I hope they do, for it would establish a sort of international musical balance." PASSING OF PARLOR CARPET Modern Methods of Living Turn to the Rug as the More Sanitary. Modern methods of living are asserting themselves more and more very day. For some peculiar reason man always has assumed the prerogative of supplying what he considered the untillitarian portions of the home, and to woman has been delegated its ornamentation, but in the last few years ideas have been changing in this regard and women have become not only the largest buyers, but the finest judges of the necessities, as well as the luxuries of everyday existence. Only a few years ago the height of womanly ambition in household decoration or idea was a Brussels carpet in the "best room," a floor covering that was often put over a cushion of straw and left to gather dampness, dust and germs, sometimes for years, in the unused parlor. Anyone who has been around at spring cleaning and caught a view of the dirt which has lifted through the carpet was certainly appalled at the sight. For many years this floor covering was considered the acme of elegance, and the woman in comfortable circumstances who would have had the temerity to substitute hardwood floors and rugs for the old fashioned carpet would have been considered as decidedly eccentric and extravagant. Haunted Alaskan Island To the south and west of Kodiak, distant about 100 miles, and forming one of the Semidi group, is the island of Chirikof, the haunted island of Alaska. Enshrouded for a great portion of the time with almost impenetrable fog, the Tanna Tribune says, this lonely isle is an object of terror to the natives, who will not go near the island, saying it means certain death to invade the canny confines, and there are few men in the far north who have the temerity to test the truth of the many and weird tales told of this forbidding and barren island. Shipmasters and sailors passing the place assert that the agonizing cries of Russian exiles sent there to starve or die of torture are sometimes heard on quiet nights, while the clink of chains and the sound of blows are testified to in an affidavit by a white man who once attempted to remain there for a week and who lost his reason. Legend Proved True. A curious legend surrounding a country estate in the Meon valley, Hampshire, which has been fulfilled with painful reality, has set the whole country-side talking. The story concerns the-death at Corhampton house, Corhampton, of Mr. Campbell-Wyndham, J. P., who on the death of his mother on September 8, last year, succeeded to an estate around which a legend runs that a male heir will not live over 12 months after succession. Mr. Campbell-Wyndham was the first male heir for generations. In the last stage of his illness, Mr. Wyndham prophesied that he would die in bed 12 months to the day his mother passed away, and by a truly remarkable coincidence, he died a few minutes after midnight on that very day. London Mall. Extreme Polliteness. "Although he overcharged me terribly," says the returned traveler, "the cab driver who took me over Paris was most polite." "All Frenchmen are," we observe. "Yes, but this one got off his box and helped me find the necessary profanity in my French-English dictionary, so that I might say what I thought of him."—Exchange. will stick to Dad. "Come indoors immediately!" called a nurse to a small boy whose father was going out. "You won't go to heaven if you're so naughty." "I don't want to go to heaven," was the aggrieved reply; "I want to go with father!"—Brooklyn Citizen. THE REAL Entered at the Post Office at Wash ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. one coov per year in advance...$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....5.00 Subscription monthly.....3.00 SEEKING OFFICE There is a great deal to be learned in politics. Prior to the nomination and election of President Taft the colored politicians presumed that they would receive the plums in the event of the election of Mr. Taft. How sadly mistaken many of them have been. Not only are many of them been ignored, but they have been denied admission at the White House. Many of them are afraid to go to the White House for fear of being denied admission. The office seeker must either be accompanied by a senator or a representative in Congress. There is not a colored man in this country with sufficient influence or temerity, who will go to the White House and tell the President that nine millions or more of colored Americans are dissatisfied or displeased with his Southern policy. Why is it? Because many of the so-called colored representatives are candidates for office and they are afraid to go to the President and tell him the truth of the conditions of the colored people in this country. The colored American doesn't seem to be considered at all. He is not consulted by party leaders, and why? Because many of them are too cowardly to talk. The colored office seeker must be indorsed by a powerful and influential white man notwithstanding the ten millions of people he represents. Just think of it! Ten millions of colored Americans and not a representative in Congress. Let the colored office seeker take a rest. Swift on the heels of the President's recommendation, in his message to Congress, that a commission be appointed to decide on the wisdom of holding a Negro exposition to celebrate our fifteenth anniversary of freedom, Congressman E. L. Taylor, of Columbus, Ohio, and Hon. Wm. A. Rodenberg, member of Congress, from Illinois, introduced a joint resolution calling for a commission of seven to be appointed by the President. The enthusiasm, and the interest displayed by these two congressmen evidences their high opinion of the race, and their desire to assist the race. Every Negro will feel grateful to these two congressmen. Congressman Taylor has never failed in all his career to advance the interests of the Negro, and Congressman Rodenberg has ever stood like admantine for their rights. Both are strong, and loyal friends of the race, and will do everything in their power to assist to make the exposition, when held, a great success. The Bee extends to Congressmen Taylor and Rodenberg its sincerest thanks. MORE MONEY The Bee would like to know who is responsible for the small appropriation of money for the colored schools. Is this not the time for the colored members of the Board of Education and the colored assistant superintendent of schools to look into this matter? Senator Gallenger has made a favorable reply to the citizens for a new normal school. The colored people would be more than glad to have a colored business High School. There is great need for such a school for colored children. What the colored schools want is a good business high school. The young colored boy and girl are in need of a business education. The young boy and girl are not put in a position whereby they can obtain a business education. While the whites are asking for a new normal school let the colored people ask for more money for their schools and a business high school. Anybody who says that the colored American lacks patriotism is either a fool or a knave. In another column of The Bee will be seen a letter from Prof. Kelly Miller, clipped from the Herald. The Bee indorses every word he says. There is no one in Howard University better acquainted with the needs of that institution than Prof Kelly Miller. GROGAN One of the greatest installment houses in this city is that well known establishment known as Peter Grogan and Sons Company. When readers of The Bee want a Christmas present or any household articles of furniture, go to Grogan's. Mention The Bee. XANDERS Do you want Christmas bargains? If so, go to the best and most reliable house in the city. The best wines on the market. The largest house in the country for pure goods. Go to Xanders now. Read his Christmas advertisement in another column. You need to have no fear of purchasing impure goods. HOUSE AND HERRMAN Where can you find a better house to buy household goods. One of the oldest and one of the most reliable houses in the city. Mention The Bee. At the annual session of the Grand Lodge, December 8th, the following grand officers were elected: Bro. W. E. Whitney, Rt. W. G. M.; W. A. Clarke, Deputy, W. M.; R. T. Tascoe, G. S. W.; Henry Collins, Gr. Tr.; W. H. Myers, Gr. Sec., being relected the 27th time. Meridian Lodge, No. 6 W. H. Anderson, W. M. Charles Counter, S. W. Frank Wells, J. W. W. M. George, Tr. Frank Spriggs, Sec. These officers are installed by Grand Lecturer W. G. Smith, assisted by W. K. Stevenson. were from Electa Chapter. This has been the banner year in the Masonic jurisdiction, as evidenced by the annual report from every department, including the adoptive rite. The reports shows a large increase in membership in every department. The annual report of the Grand Master Rt. W. M. Bro. W. A. Warfield, was an able document, touching on all lines and giving credit to the membership for the large increase in members and finances. We also paid a high tribute of respect to the memory of that masonic nestor, the Bro. T. A. Jackson and others. The officers of the Grand Lodge ill be installed at the continued session on December 27. Bro. Robert Dickson was born in Prince George County, in 1853, at the age of 5 years he was brought to Washington by his parents. After spending a number of years in various ways, he was appointed to Truck No. 1, March 13th, 1875; transferred to No. 4 Engine in 1879; remained connected with that house for 16 years. He was transferred to No. 3 in 1890, and there remained until retired in 1907. We find on the flag staff of Engine house No. 4, a brass plate with the following inscription on it: Organized January 19th, 1870 on June the 30th, 1880 this tablet was placed on the pole of the said house with the following names: Commissioners of the District, Hon. W. B. Webb, Hon. Samuel Wheatley, Hon. C. W. Raymond. Parris, Chief. Heads of the Fire Department: Jos. Parris, Chief. L. P. Low, 1st S. W. E. Belt, 2nd S. Officers of No. 4 Engine Co.: W. Sorrell, Fo. Jas. Keliher, As. Fo. F. Donelley, Eng. H. Lambert, Firman. J. Morland, D. Private C. Mead, C. Burke, W. Cox, J. H. Dean, W. W. White, Robert Dickson, The only members of the original company now living are, Mr. H. Lambert, Bat Forman, W. Sorrell; Jas. Kiliher and C. Burke, retired. Bro. W. W. was a member of John F. Cook Lodge, No. 10. The funeral of the late Bro. Robert Dickson, took place from Zion Baptist Church, Sunday, December 13th, It was largely attended. Social Lodge, No. 1 had charge of the remains. Osceolo Lodge, No. 33, G. U. O. O. F. The Sons of Veterans and the delegation from the Fire Department was in attendance. The services were conducted by Sr. Kt. Rev. J. W. Howard, assisted by Kt.' M. W. Clair, who read the lesson. Papers were read from the Odd Fellows, family poem by Mrs. Julia Layton, entitled "Died at his Post." Orations were all in high tribute of respect to his memory. During his thirty years connected with the department he was ever faithful to his duty and thus gained for himself the high commendation of the officials. He leaves a wife and the following children: Robert, William, Thomas, Albert, Alexander, Clarence, Estella, Clementina, to mourn his loss W. M. Alonza Beverly was accompanied by his cabinet of officers. R. A. M. At the regular convocation of St. John Chapter, held Thursday, Dec. 9th, the chapter decided to celebrate its 37th anniversary on April 25th, 1910. There as some interruption this year in the installation of the several chapters, this should not have occurred again. It is to be hoped that the president, secretary, counsel and high priest will for the future establish their officers at the Masonic Hall during the month of Oct. in each and every year; so that the officers elect of the several chapters may be able to find them and get in their petition. For these officers were not installed until Nov. 17 when it should have been done in October. Sir Kt. J. P. Turner, Emt. Gr. Commander and Staff has received and accepted an invitation from the Grand Commander of Kt of Md. to install the Grand Officers of the Grand Commandery. on Wednesday, December 29. Gr. Commander J. P. Turner and staff will leave over the --- electric road 4.30 p.m. for Baltimore on that date and will be met at the station and escorted to the Asylum. PROHIBITION FOR THE DISTRICT Yearl: Signers On Five City Squares The Commissioners submit the following summary of the operations of the Excise Board: ensuing year of 1910 were elected. W. For the year ending October 31, 1908, 528 barroom licenses were granted, and 7 were rejected. During that period 139 whole liquor licenses were approved, and 5 disallowed. For the year ending October 31, 1909, 526 barroom licenses were approved, and 13 rejected. During that period 134 wholesale liquor licenses were approved, and 3 disallowed. Under date of July 26, 1909, the Commissioners, in reporting upon the various bills referred to them by the Senate and the House Committees of the District of Columbia, renewed the following recommendations: First. That the prohibition zones be increased in number, so as to cover the neighborhood of the Navy Yard and Marine Barracks, and the War College and Enigee Barracks.. Second. That no barroom license be 'issued, renewed' or transferred, without the consent in writing of the majority of all property owners, and of all tenants in the square in which it is to be used and the four squares confronting that square, and that a license shall be revoked upon the conviction or the forfeiture of collateral in one case. Third. That no license shall be issued, enewed or transferred for use in any saloon within 400 feet of any building used for a public or private school, or other educational institution or playground, or any house of worship, or place regularly used for worship, or religious institution. Fourth. That the so-called "growler" trade be prohibited. Fifth. That the law be strengthened so as to prevent imitation hotels and clubs obtaining licenses. Sixth. That, in no event, shall there be issued in any year more than one barron license to every 1,000 of the population, within the fire limits of the city of Washington.—Extract from Commissioners' Annual Report to Congress. BETHEL LITERARY One of the greatest and most inspiring meetings in the history of Bethel Literary and Historical Association was that of last Tuesday evening, commemorative of the life and service of the late General O. O. Howard. The following is the complete program, which held the distinguished audience spellbound from beginning to end. Invocation—Dr. John Hurst. Reading of Minutes—Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, secretary. Introduction—President Gregory. Address, "The Soldier and Citizen"—Prof. Wm. H. Richards. Music—Tanhauser—Aeolian Mandolin Club. Reminiscences of Gen. Howard — Mrs. Belle M. Howard. The following were elected and Music—Selection from Oratorio—Address—"The Freedmen's Bureau"—Dr. Walter H. Brooks. Music—"Shine out Thy Light"—Metropolitan Choir. Remarks—Bishop Abraham Grant. Benediction—Dr. I. N. Ross. The next meeting will be held January 4th. WHERE NEGROES REIGN SUPREME The mayor of Boley, Okla., is a Negro, the president of the bank and his associates and employees are Negroes, the school system and seminary are in charge of Negroes the girl who says "Number, please," at the telephone exchange is a Negro, as is the young women who accepts your telegram at the telegraph office and the one behind the cigar counter at the hotel, which itself is owned and operated by Negroes—in short, the entire 5,000 population of the town is composed of Negroes, and a white man could not live there if he desired. The lint against whites is drawn as tightly as in few communities it is drawn by the whites against the Negroe.—St. Louis Palladium. PROF. J. T. LAYTON If there is one teacher who is giving satisfaction and doing his duty it is Prof. J. T. Layton of the musical department of the public schools. Professor Layton has won success and distinction by hard study and close application to study and hard work. VILLAGE UNDER THE GROUND Remarkable Community in Austrian Poland Has Its Home In Ancient Mine. Deep in the salt mines of the hamlet of Villiczka, in Austrian Poland, some 11 miles from Cracow, lies a veritable underground village which dates away back to the days when slaves first opened these mines in 1334. It is a busy subterranean human hive, all the busier in contrast with the sleepy hamlet above. In fact, all the life of the settlement is concentrated below ground. The air is clean and the temperature that $\sigma$ warm spring day. The center of the mine is situated in a sort of court which forms a railway station. Here all the railway lines which intersect this huge mine meet. Men and women go above ground to do their marketing, and meet in this court on their return to gossip and compare their bargains. Children play about in the shade of the grotto and sail boats in the gutters, running with salt water. These gutters were made hundreds of years ago to get rid of the moisture which runs from the upper floors of the mine, and lead down to the very bottom, forming a huge salt lake, the water of which is gradually pumped off and distilled to obtain salt. So difficult and expensive is it to light up the whole mine that visitors must make up a party of at least 30 and pay various sums according to their number. No less than 260 steps lead down to the salt lake, and it is there that the Chapel of St. Anthony stands. WITH UNEXPECTED ENDING Story Contains All the Requisite Details Yet Seems to Fall of Satisfaction. The merciless heat made the passengers gasp as the limited plowed its way steadily across the western plains. Dreary, monotonous, was the vista of sand scrub which greeted the eyes of the wearied travelers. To add to their discomfort, above the muffed roar of the train arose the continuous wailing of a child. More than one man cursed softly and sought refuge in another car—all, as it happened, crowded. Finally a harsh-looking passenger spoke. "Why don't you keep that brat quiet?" he snapped. The mother, a forlorn-looking woman clad in rusty black, looked pathetically up at him. "I'm trying to," she faltered. "But, you see, the heat and the long journey—" A new expression stole over the harsh-looking passenger's face. "Give it to me," he said in a tone of marvelous gentleness; and the poor mother placed the fretful baby in his arms. Whereupon he threw the child out Curious Properties of Minerals. Certain minerals exhibit the curious optical property known as asterism. That is to say, they show a star-shaped figure when light is reflected from them, or transmitted through them. This is seen, for example, in the star stone, a sort of sapphire, and in the star ruby. A note in Knowledge describes and figures the asterism of mica. The photograph of a lamp taken through a plate of mica shows a beautiful six-rayed star, with six fainter radiations between. Outwardly star mica resembles the ordinary form and shows the same phenomena under polarized light. When examined under the microscope, however, the star mica is found to contain fine needles of another mineral, and these are regularly arranged at angles of 120 degrees. To these needles the star seen by transmitted light is due. Pet Mispronunciations. "Have you ever noticed," asked the teacher in English, "that a great many well-educated people persistently pronounce at least one word incorrectly? I know a college man who for some mysterious reason always says "timidity" for timidity, and he drags this oddity into almost every sentence he speaks. Mrs. Smith's pet word is "predulice," while Mrs. Jones can't help saying "gujantic." Just listen to them, and you'll hear the same people repeating over and over such mistakes as "predeliction," "circutuous," "cupolo," etc. Some one must have called their attention to it, I suppose, but, they have grown attached to their way of pronouncing, and don't like to change." Samples of Air at Great Heights Samples of air at a height of nearly nine miles have been recently obtained and examined for the presence of the rare gases. The collecting apparatus, carried by a large balloon, is a series of vacuum tubes, each drawn out to a fine point at one end. At the desired height an electro-magnetic device, connected with each tube and operated by a barometer, breaks off the point of the tube, admitting the air. A few minutes later, a second contact sends a current through a platinum wire around the broken end, melting the glass and sealing the tube. All the samples obtained show argon and neon, but no helium was found in air from above six miles. Tricks of the Trade. ing to that painting of yours? Dauber—Can't you see? I'm rubbing a piece of raw meat over the rabbit in the foreground: Mrs. Al-shoddie will be here to-day, and when she sees her pet dog smell of that rabbit, she'll buy it.—Judge. Major Elvin R. Helberg of the Island Scouts is Appointed Governor of Cotabata, in Mindanao. Minneapolis, Minn.—Elwin Reuveld Helberg, a major of the Philippine scouts, formerly captain of Treo A, Sixth United States cavalry, has been appointed governor of Cotabata province, Mindanao, Philippine lands. It was only a few months ago that the promotion of Mr. Helberg to be major of the Philippine scouts was recorded and news of the recent honor [Illustration of a man in a military uniform with a badge on his chest.] Major Elvin P. Helberg. conferred upon the young army officer was received with pleasure by his friends in this state. Mr. Helberg was born in Rushford Minn., 34 years ago. He received his education in the common and high schools of La Crosse, Wis., Following his graduation there he took the competitive examination for entrance to the Military Academy at West Point, passing with highest honors, and was appointed a cadet in 1892. During his four years' course in the academy he stood well in his classes, and was made corporal, sergeant, captain and finally adjutant of the cadet corps—a coveted honor among the cadets. On graduation from West Point in 1896 he was assigned as second Lieutenant of the Sixth cavalry, but afterward was transferred to the Third cavalry, with which regiment he remained one year. He was transferred later to the Sixth and was with Uache Sam's famous cavalry regiment until he was promoted to the position of major of the scouts stationed on Corsigidor island in the Philippines. Mr. Helberg has seen service in the Boxer campaign in China, the Porto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American war, the miners' troubles in Idaho, and he commanded a detachment of cavalry in Wyoming when the Ute Indians left their reservation several years ago. The governor's wife, who was Miss Anna Howell Dodge of Washington, and their three children, returned from the Philippines last fall because the climate of the tropics was too drying on them. FAMOUS SONG'S BIRTHPLACE Austin House at Warren, O., Where Stephen C. Foster Writes "Suwanee River." Warren, O.-Within the next few weeks Col. W. W. Dunnevant of the city, the owner of the Austin house, will begin extensive repairs on the same that will bring the old structure up to a better standard of appearance and cleanliness, but almost all of the lines of the original building will remain unchanged. This is not only one of the oldest buildings in the city, at one time the The Austin House. finest hotel between Pittsburg and Cleveland, but is also famous as the home of Stephen C. Foster at the time that he wrote "Way Down Upon the Swanee River," by far the most popular of the many songs that he wrote. There are many people in Warren who recall the sight of the man in the streets, and not a few who knew him personally and had been at his rooms in the Austin house to hear him play on the violin and sing during a visit to this city with his daughter, Marion. He had come here from New York city to visit his sister, the mother of Miss Henrietta Crossman, the address. Quite Excusable. Judge—"This lady declares that you hugged her at 'he baseball game.' The Accused—"Couldn't help it. Judge. She was sitting next me when one of our boys swatted a homer over the left field fence!"—Puck. The Week in Society Select your gift now at the drug store of Board and McGuire, 1912 1-2 14th Street, n. w. They will lay it aside for you until $ ^{\circ} $ Christmas, and then deliver it for you free anywhere in the city. Miss Rosa B. Childs, will spend the Christmas holidays with relatives in Philadelphia. Mrs. Duncan, mother of Mrs. W. S. Lofton, of this city, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Mable Washington, in Philadelphia. Miss Belle Ward, of Plainfield, N. J., was recently the guest of Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson, of this city. Mr. Robert Young, of Baltimore, Md., recently visited the National Capital. Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson, of Richmond, Va., and Mr. and Mrs. Lauray Johnson and children, of Waterbury, Conn., were called to the bedside of their sister, Miss Elizabeth Johnson, of 445 N St., n. w., who had been very sick for a long time and died last Sunday. There will be several nice dances given during the holidays, watch for them in the Bee. The Council of Upper Classmen of Howard University, will give their second annual holiday reception at Odd Fellows Hall, Monday 27, 1909. The Monicans will give the first of their series of receptions at the New Auditorium, Thursday, the 23rd, 1909. The Pullman Porters' receptions, which was given Wednesday was largely attended. Mr. Herbert Allen, a student or Howard University will spend the Christmas holidays at his home in Richmond, Va. Mr. Jackson, a Howard student, whose home is in Atlanta, Ga., will be the guest of Mr. Allen during the Christmas holidays in Richmond, Va. Mr. J. C. Fountain, who recently met with an accident is still confined to his home, 1124 18th St., n. w. Miss Hamlar, of this city, was entertained by her sister, Mrs. Plater, while in Philadelphia. Hon. W. T. Vernon, of this city, visited Richmond, Va., last Friday morning. Dr. Sterling Brown, of this city, was the guest of Dr. and Mrs., O. T. Day, in Norfolk, Va., last week. Mr. Whallen Webb, of this city, visited his brother in Cincinnati, Ohio last week: Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Atlanta, Ga., will spend several days here. Attorney S. A. Jones, of Little Rock, Ark., is in this city. His daughter, Miss Hazel, who is attending school at Concord, N. C., will join him and spend ten days at the nation's capital. The carnival of Nations, given by the thirty-six councils of the Independent Order of St. Luke, at the Auditorium last week was largely attended and well patronized. Mr. R. R. Church, Jr, of Nashville, Tenn., will be the guest of Judge and Mrs. R. H. Terrell during the Christmas holidays. Mayor J. E. Ramsey, of the Cadet Regiment at Tuskegee, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Calloway on his recent visit to this city. Bishop and Mrs. J. W. Smith, of this city were in Baltimore, last week to the bisk conference. Miss Louise Buckner and Mrs. Devean, who have been spending a while in Doylestown, Pa., will spend the winter here. Rooms for rent, furnished or unfurnished. 1228 You St.,n. w. The most beautiful Christmas cards, the most artistic packages of high grade candies, perfumery, stationery and toilet articles are to be found at the Board and McGuire Pharmacy on 14th Street, beteen Tea and You. The National Afro-Art Co., of this city announces that orders for the busts of Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the great A. M. E. Church, and Dr. Booker T. Washington are now being taken for the holiday trade. Mr. Isaac Hathawav, the noted colored sculptor, has never done finer work than is displayed in these busts. They will be delivered to any part of the city for $1.00 each. Leave orders at 1912% 14th St., n. w., or at 1234 You St., n. w. Attorney Scipio A. Jones, accompanied by Miss Hazle K. Jones, his daughter, of Little Rock, Ark., are in the city the guests of Attorney L. M. King and wife. Miss Jones, who is a preposing young lady and one of the bells of society in Little Rock, left for Scotia Seminary, North Carolina, where she will attend school. There are no two people in Little Rock, Ark. better known than Attorney Jones and his accomplished daughter. BIRTHDAY RECEPTION TO DR. S. L. CORROTHERS. On Friday evening, December 3, the friends and well-wishers of Dr. S. L. Corrothers the powerful and popular pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church turned out in force to offer him the tribute of their high regard and esteem. Dr. Corrothers has remained eight years as pastor of Galbraith Church, the longest pastorate in the history of the church. He has raised large sums during that period and taken in upward of seven hundred members. He has been a real pastor and Good Samaritan. With regard to his public career, Washington, D. C., recorded its judgment in the assertion of Dr. J. Milton Waldron on December 6, that Galbraith A. M E Zion Church was Washington's Cradle of Liberty, and Dr. Corrothers the John the Baptist of the Negro race. These considerations caused the auditorium of Galbraith Church to be early filled with well-dressed people who chatted pleasantly. Mrs. Mamie West Tapscott, president of the Board of Stewardesses, presided in a very gracious and thoroughly pleasing manner. Then Hons. John C. Dancy, Ormond Scott, Henry Smith, Brother William Graham, Stewart, Miss Emina Wallace and Rec.C. C. Alleyne unlocked the gates of eloquence and for two hours made the walls of Galbraith Church resound with the thunder tones or silvery notes of their inspired eloquence. Mrs. Mary Shaw presented the pastor with a purse of over $100 and spoke in a heroic strain. Dr. Corrothers in his reply said that he has endeavored to be a great big, broad-hearted man, afraid of nothing but his God. Then the audience went down-stairs and partook of an elegant supper which had been prepared by the Board of Stewardesses. And still there is more to follow. The friends of Dr. Corothers have also fitted him with a commodious study, which is located in the church. Thite walls have been beautifully papered and the furniture, consisting of a magnificent rug and splendid oaken table and desks and fine hair chairs and couch, cost upward of $250. Dr. Corrothers' career indicates that it pays to be true and brave. Mrs. Adele Roberts of New York City,who spent several days visiting Washington has returned to her home. Mr. and Mrs. W. Sidney Pittman entertained at dinner several of their friends Thanksgiving Day. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hall; Mr. S. H. Bolling, Mrs. Carrie P. Jackson, and Dr. W. W. Jones. Mrs. Marie Clark of New York City was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Pearsch for a few days. There is a strong probability of converting the town hall into a moving picture theatre. One or two men with the necessary capital are making negotiations to that effect. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols had Miss Sadie Freeman and Miss Nettie Smallwood out to dinner last Sunday. The Fairmount Heights' Presbyterian Church is half way completed. Several social teas for the purpose of adding money to the church have been given by the ladies. Among the most active workers are Mrs. Henry Jenifer, Mrs. Chas. Payne, and Mrs. W. B. Coles. At a red-hot primary of the Citizen's Association, Mr. W. Sidney Pittman was unanimously nominated to succeed himself as president. There had been some opposition to Mr. Pittman because of personal grievances of certain individuals, but after some "right-out from the shoulder" talk by several men in Mr. Pittman's behalf, the house voted unanimously to elect him for another year. The principal speakers were Mr. Thos. Redman, Dr. Jones, Mr. Hargroves, Mr. John George, and Mr. George Mullin. Tuesday night, December 14th, was election night of the Fairmount election night of the Fairmount' Heights Citizens' Association. All the offices of the Association for the L.Pittman was to succeed himself as President. ROYAL CABINET The Royal-Cabinet Dancing Class announces to the general public that it will give prizes every Tuesday evening at the hall, which is beautifully arranged, F street between Third and Four-and-a-half streets southwest HIAWATHA If you want a first-class amusement for your children, one that is instructive as well as interesting, you should spend an evening at the Hiawatha. The greatest Comedian upon the stage today will be seen at this place. His name is Finley Forarigivalitz, he cannot be surpassed. The manager deserves credit for giving the people of this city such a high class vaudeville. Empress Uses Typewriter. It is related that in passing through her husband's library recently the attention of the empress of Japan was attracted to a peculiar-looking machine. On learning that it was a typewriter, and having it explained to her, she became interested and began to hit the keys. Now, it is said, she does a good deal of correspondence for the emperor. It is further reported that Queen Alexandra of England, Queen Maude of Norway, the czarina and the queen of Portugal are all fond of using the typewriter in corresponding with their intimates. It is probable that all of them put together do not use the machine as much as Carmen Silva, the queen of Romania, who rattles her poems and stories on a typewriter.—St. Nicholas. Treating Tree Wounds. Plastic slate, that is to say, moldable slate, is a mixture formed by combining about one part of coal tar and four parts of slate dust and is recommended for covering large wounds in trees. This mass must be about the consistency of a not too thick glazier's putty, so that it can be balled and rolled out in the hand. Slate dust can easily be made by crushing small pieces of slate. The mass sticks to wood, to metal, to stone, and in fact to everything that is not greasy and closes every opening airtight.—Scientific American. Dld as He Was Told. Some years ago the Yankee schooner Sally Ann, under command of Capt. Spooner, was beating up the Connecticut river. Mr. Comstock, the mate, was at his station forward. According to his notion of things the schooner was getting a "leetle" too near certain mud flats which lay along the larboard shore, so aft he went to the captain and with his hat cocked on one side said: "Cap'n Spooner, you're getting a leetle too close to them flats. Hadn't ye better go about?" The captain glared at him. "Mr. Comstock, jest you go for-ard and tend to your part of the skuner. I'll tend to mine." Mr. Comstock went for'ard in high dudgeon. "Boys," he bellowed out, "see that ar mud hook's all clear for lettin' go!" "Ay, ay, sir!" "Let go, then!" he roared. Down went the anchor, out rattled the chains, and like a flash the Sally Ann came luffing into the wind, and then brought up all standing. Mr. Comstock walked aft and touched his hat. "Well, cap'n, my part of the skuner is to anchor."—Bluejacket. Read The Bee. But youll often say: I'm afraid I can't spare the ready cash just now." Most of us have said that same thing. We want you to become acquainted with our method of selling, and an open account is a good introduction. Select one gift; or a dozen—tell us to charge them—say what you wish to pay each week or month after the first of the year. We're perfectly willing to trust that promise without any contract, lease or notes, and no money is required at the time you buy. Peter Grogan and Sons Co. 817-823 7th St. can't spare same thing. There's venience of or reference We want ing, and an Select o you wish to We're p tract, lease o PLEASURE TO BE PAID FOR How Wise Mother Directed Little Daughter's Steps in Ways of Common Sense. She was a very little malden, and she thought that Willy Smith, whom she met at a party, was the very nicest boy she had ever seen. "Mummy," she told her mother the morning after the party, "I want to write every day to Willy Smith; I said I would." "All right, dearle," was the cheerful reply. A very inky letter went off that day to Willy Smith. But the next day, when the small damsel had finished writing her missive, she looked up at her mother. "Must I pay two pennies every time I write to Willy Smith?" she asked, plaintively. "Why, of course, darling," said the mother. "But if I pay two pennies every day to write to Willy Smith, I won't have any pennies of my own." "No, that is true." "Mummy," in a pleading voice, "won't you give me two pennies for my letter?" "No, dear. I don't care to write to Willy Smith. Why should I spend my pennies on him?" "Then," with a sigh, "I think I won't write any more to Willy Smith. I'd rather have my pennies." The modern parent seems to be adopting Herbert Spencer's advice—to leave the children to be taught by the penalties that life inflicts. NO PLACE FOR HAUGHTY MAN A haughty citizen once strolled into the supreme court at Washington when an argument was being heard and took a seat in the inclosure, reserved for lawyers. After he had been there a few minutes an attendant came over and asked him: "Are you a member of the bar?" The haughty person wasn't, but he took out his card with a flourish and handed it over. The attendant received the card gravely, carried it to the clerk, who glanced at it and gave some instructions. A moment later the haughty citizen was touched on the shoulder and asked to retire. "Why?" he asked. "I sent up my card. It usually gives me a seat in any court in the land." "Certainly," said the attendant; "but please retire." The haughty citizen did retire. When he got out in the corridor he fumed and fussed a bit. "Sir," admonished the aged negro at the door, who has been there for many years, "think it over. Don't do no persiflagin' 'bout thst co't. If you should git in contempt of them you ain't got nobody to appeal to but God."—Saturday Evening Post. She Lives In Louisville. A young woman whose name is—whose name is—well, if you can guess it, is something like—never mind what her name is—startled everybody within a certain block on Fourth avenue the other day. She proved then that she doesn't believe in hiding her light under a bushel, especially when it is needed by the other fellow. A car was nearing a corner, and a man was dashing madly down a cross-street in an effort to nab it before it sailed by. It looked as though he would miss it, though, and then it was that the girl placed her fingers to her lips and blew a shrill blast that Peter Pan would have delighted in, and which is given only to the elect to produce. The car stopped. The fatigued runner clambered aboard, turning once to bow his thanks to the laughing damsel.—Louisville. Courler-Journal. Christmas gifts are doubly appreciated when they fill some need in the home. Why not give a dainty piece of furniture? HE pleasure of giving is doubled also when you are able to give something really valuable. But you'll often say: "I'm afraid I is no better time for you to learn to personal credit. We don't ask you less. We're going to do business w ent you to become acquainted with an open account is a good introduction one gift; or a dozen—tell us to chan pay each week or month after the f perfectly willing to trust that promise or notes, and no money is required a ter Grogan and 817 time for you to learn the value and con- dicit. We don't ask you to bring credentials going to do business with you, personally. Become acquainted with our method of sell- at is a good introduction. A dozen—tell us to charge them—say what week or month after the first of the year. Ling to trust that promise without any con- d no money is required at the time you buy. Grogan and Sons Co. 817-823 7th St. Christmas THEQUALITY HOUSE Christian THE LEADING HOUSE IN THE BEST SELECTED STOCK IN WINES, DISTILLATES, Erc. FOR PURITY AND EXCELLENTES. NO OTHER HOUSE CAN ADVANTAGES FOR BUYING HOLIDAY B 909 SEVENTH STREET. No Branch READING HOUSE IN TOWN. THE LARGE SELECTED STOCK IN THIS COUNTRY DISTILLATES, Erc. ABSOLUTE GUARITY AND EXCELLENCE. MODERATE OTHER HOUSE CAN COMPETE. CAGES FOR BUYING. HOLIDAY BEVERAGES NTH STREET. PHONE Branch Hou THE LEADING HOUSE IN TOWN. THE LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK IN THIS COUNTRY. 315 WINES, DISTILLATES, Erc. ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE FOR PURITY AND EXCELLENCE. MODERATE PRICES. NO OTHER HOUSE CAN COMPETE. GREATEST ADVANTAGES FOR BUYING. No Branch Houses SOME BIG REDUCTIONS ON SOLID MAHOGANY BEDROOM FURNITURE. Our only reason for making such reductions is the fact that some of these designs have been discontinued by the factories, which must bring out new designs each year, and some of the pieces show slight traces of having been on our show floors. We believe we will benefit our customers more by offering these reduction until tra Solid generation little inductions of Mahogorately of very high Making, want regrade of WHENINDOUBT.BUYOF HOUSE1& JSE1 & HERRM HOUSE1 & HERRMANN Seventh and I (Eye) Streets, N. W. M. HEN Restaurant, 216 Ninth Street, best beers and whiskies. Fine When you are at the Center WM. C 1225 and 1227 7th Street, north. Sole distributor of Old Puri One of the leading houses in HOWARD THEOLOGICAL NIGHT SCHOOL M. HENNESS nt, 216 Ninth Street, northwest. It is the and whiskies. Fine lunch and dinner you are at the Center Market call on Mr. VM. CANNO 1227 7th Street, north. Phone, North 528 distributor of Old Purisima Whiskey. If the leading houses in the city. Don't fa M. HENNESSY Restaurant, 216 Ninth Street, northwest. It is the place to get best beers and whiskies. Fine lunch and dinner daily. When you are at the Center Market call on Mr. Hennessy. WM. CANNON 1225 and 1227 7th Street, north. Phone, North 528. Sole distributor of Old Purisima Whiskey. One of the leading houses in the city. Don't fail to call. The evening training classes for ministers and Christian workers have become an interesting feature of the Howard School of Theology. More than fifty students now enrolled from among the city pastors and active Christian workers. Its continued growth and enlargement are assured. Inquiries may be made of President Thirkield, Dean Clark or Prof. Sterling N. Brown. Phone North 3628 FULL DRESS and TUXEDOS SUITS FOR HIRE ONE DOLLAR Julius Cohen, 1104 7th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. --- of us have said that the value and con- to bring credentials with you, personally. our method of sell- on. urge them—say what first of the year. rise without any con- at the time you buy. d Sons Co., 7-823 7th St. Beverages BUY YOUR WINES AND DISTILLATES OF A WINE MERCHANT WHO INTIMATELY KNOWS THEIR NATURE. Xander's TOWN. THE LARGEST AND IN THIS COUNTRY. 315 ABSOLUTE GUARANTEE LENCE. MODERATE PRIC- N COMPETE. GREATEST G. BEVERAGES PHONE, MAIN 274. h Houses CREDIT reductions now, rather than wax until trade is duller. Solid Mahogany lasts, through generations and depreciates very little in value. Our special reductions on the highest grades of Mahogany Furniture, in elaborately carved designs of the very highest grade of Cabinet Making, will interest those who want real bargains in the best grade of Furniture that is made. T,BUYOF HERRMANN INESSY northwest. It is the place to get the lunch and dinner daily. Market call on Mr. Hennessy. ANNON Phone, North 528. Sisima Whiskey. in the city. Don't fail to call. Southern Beauty Culture School chand do the following work by expert ladies ALL BRANCHES OF HAIR WORK. TREATMENT OF SCALP AND HAIR, MANICURING, CHIROP- ODY, USE OF ELECTRICITY ASSOCIATE TREATMENT. ....CONSULTATION FREE..... Giveus aca Nor Mrs. L. Pollard, 1730 14th Street, Northwest. Cheap! Quick! Artistic! Triangle Printing Company, 125 Florida Avenue, Northwest. Tele- phone, North 2002-M. Job Printing of every description Tickets, Programs, Circulars, Plac- cards, Letter-heads, Bill-heads, Sta- ments, Business and Visiting Cards, Invitations, Pamphlets, etc., a specialty. W. Calvin Chase, Jr. and Com- pany. --- CREDIT QUEEN OF THE LILIES. Words by JESSIE VILLARS. Music by A. FRENCELLI. Come in ... to my boatie May, loy-al subject I will be. Come, come, come, May, I'll row you down the stream; Come, come to Come, come, come, May, Your ever faithful knight; Come, come, where the water-lilies grow, And you shall be their queen, May, And I will crown thee there. May, With gar-lands fresh and white. Your Ah! ... ah! ... ah! ... Copyright, by American Melody Company, New York. Sell Trousers they never lose their shape because special pattern which allows plenty to do not bag at the knees because ams. 100 fabrics. t sell them, write to us. TON COMPANY NEW YORK 3. Reduso CORSETS Kenyon wear wonderfully well. They never lose their shape because they are cut on our own special pattern which allows plenty of room for slitting. They do not bag at the knees because there is no strain on the seams. Made in 116 sizes and 400 fabrics. If your dealer does not sell them, write to us. C. KENYON COMPANY 21 UNION SQUARE NEW YORK W.B. Reduso CORSETS New W. B. Reduso No. 770. For large tall women. Made of white count. Hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. New W. B. Reduso No. 771. Is the same as No. 770, but is made of light weight white batiste. Hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. New W. B. Reduso No. 772. For large short women. The same as No. 770, except that the best is somewhat lower all around. Made of white count, hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. New W. B. Reduso No. 773, is the same as No. 772, but made of light weight white batiste. Hose supporters front and sides. Sizes 20 to 36. Price $3.00. you the new W. B. 'hip-mubding' models, prevailing modes, or any of our numerous styles guarantee perfect fit for every type of figure. to $3.00 per pair. 377-379 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Ask any dealer anywhere to show you the new W. B. "hip-subduing" models, which will produce the correct figure for prevailing modes, or any of our numerous styles which are made in such a variety as to guarantee perfect fit for every type of figure. From $1.00 to $3.00 per pair. WINGARTEN BROS., Mfrs., 377-379 BROADWAY, NEW YORK The Perfect Corset for Large Women It places over-developed women on the same basis as their slender sisters. It tapers off the bust, flattens the abdomen, and absolutely reduces the hips from 1 to 5 inches. I not a harness—not a cumbersome affair, no torturing straps, but the most scientific example of corsey, boned in such a manner as to give the wearer absolute freedom of movement. N. W. W. CONUNDRUM MAN ONCE MORE This Time He Has a Fine One About Policeman and Civil Services Clerk. "Say," whispered the man with the iridescent whiskers and the green handkerchief, leaning over the desk of the man with the bashful bald spot. "I've got a dandy for you to-day. You can use it if you want to. It's nothing to me. I believe when a man's a friend of a man he ought to give the man the benefit of what good ideas come to him from time to time. Live and let live is my motto." "We're not handling mottoes to-day. What is the other thing?" asks the man at the desk, absent-mindedly trying to sharpen his fountain pen. "What is the difference between a policeman who got his appointment through the influence of a brother-in-law who is in cahoots with an alderman and who is detailed to arrest people who have no vehicle license upon their wagons and carriages, and a civil service clerk whose duties consist in registering the descriptions and numbers of automobiles!" "Why is a policeman who arrests three dozen hoboes less four like a man who happens up an alley and finds a chunk of dynamite behind a handbook shop?" asks the man with the hiatus on his head. "Because he has located bum $2. Good morning." "Very well," hisses the man with the luminous whiskers. "Very well! The answer to mine is that one nabs the tagless and the other tabs the nagless, but I shall give it to some more meritorious literateur." And the door closed, shutting off the breeze. SHOW THEM YOUR TICKETS This Will Surely Relieve the German Railway Guard of His Sadness. Whenever a German railway guard feels lonesome, and does not know what else to do with himself, he takes a walk round the train and gets the passengers to show him their tickets, after which he returns to his box cheered and refreshed. Some people rave about sunsets and mountains and old, old masters, but to the German railway guard the world can show nothing more satisfying, more inspiring, than the sight of a railway ticket. Nearly all the German railway officials have this same craving for tickets. If only they get somebody to show them a railway ticket, they are happy. It seemed a harmless weakness of theirs, and B. and I decided that it would be only kind to humor them in it during our stay. Accordingly, when we saw a German railway official standing about O come, an!... come. We'll let the old boat drift, May, Among the wood-en pier, We'll glide a-long so peaceful a-cross the foam-capp'd well, And watch the wan-ing moon Gleam thro' the haw-thorn trees; O love, we will float till morning, Till dew falls on the leaves. Ah!... ah!... ah!... come, ah!... looking sad or weary, we went up to him and showed him our tickets. The sight was like a ray of sunshine to him; all his care was immediately forgotten. If we had not a ticket with us at the time, we went and bought one. A mere single third to the next station would gladden him sufficiently in most cases; but if the poor fellow appeared very woe-begone, and as if he wanted more than ordinary.cheering up, we got him a second-class return —Jerome K. Jerome, "Diary of a Pilgrimage." How She Knew. "I do think," exclaimed Mrs. Tolkier, indignantly, "that Mrs. Gadabout is the most aggravatingly inquisitive woman, if I must say so, I ever knew. Why, I never pass her on the street but what she invariably turns her head and stares back at me to see what I've got on and how it sets from behind." "How—or—that is, I was wondering, my dear, how you found out that the mean thing looked back. Some one tell you?" inquired Mr. Tolkier, innocently. And Mrs. Tolker straightway turned the stream of her indignation, seething hot, from Mrs. Gadabout to her "insinuating wretch of a husband," as she fondly termed him, and after the first pyrotechnic outburst steadily refused to speak to the unfortunate man for the rest of the evening. Conducive to Speed. Farmer Nubbins—I wuz readin' a piece in one of these air comic papers t'other day, Maria, which allowed that a dude couldn't run. Said t'wa'nt in him to travel faster than a walk. Mrs. Nubbins—Well, Hiram, hav ye seen anything to convince ye to the contrary? Nubbins (with a reminiscent chuckle) —Herv I? Waal, I jest wish the editor of that comic paper had bin out in the field with me a spell ago an' seen that air city dude who boards with the Hankinses sa'nterin' across the pastur' lot ahead of my two-year-old bull! Enough Talking Already. Stebbins—That new congressman of ourn't don't amount to much; why, all he does is to set thar an' vote an' let the rest do all the talkin'. He ain't offered to make x speech yet. Snoggins—Hain't, eh? Waal, if that's the case we orter keep him thar right along. We're gittin' plenty of chin music from congress now without havin' him chip in. Business Man's Falling. "The policeman says you stole a pie," remarked the magistrate, "what have you got to say!" "It's my busy season," explained Tired Tim, "and I was so rushed at the noon hour I'd only time to run out and eat a little lunch." WANTED A RIDER AGENT IN EACH TOWN and district: sample Latest Model "Kanger" bicycle furnished by us. Our agents over here are making money fast. Write for full particulars and special offer at once. NO MONEY REQUIRED until you receive and sell of your bicycle. We ship to anyone, anywhere in the U.S. without a one-dollar advance, pay by freight, and allow TEN DAYS' PRIOR TRIAL diving with time you may ride the bicycle and put it any test you wish. If you are then not perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep it any test you wish, your expense will not be one cent. FACTORY PRICES are at one small profit above your bicycle, is possible to make to $25 middlenen's profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturer's guarantee behind your bicycle. DO NOT BUY a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unbehind factory prices and remarkable special offers to rider agents. YON WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED when you receive our beautiful catalogue and less prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for less money than any other factory. We are satisfied with $1.00 profit above factory cost. We also offer our bicycles under your own name plate on our prices. Orders filled the day received. SECOND HAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually have a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $3 to $8 or $10. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. COASTER-BRAKES. Equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $50 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only 4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price 4.85 per pair) if you send. FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUB expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. IF YOU NEED TIRES don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of Hedgehorn Functure-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above, or write for our Big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describes and quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual prices. DO NOT WAIT or a pair of tires from today at buying a bicycle offers you are making. It only pays a postal to one until you know the new and wonderful For Christmas Enclose 5 cts. (for postage and packing). Try the sample—then ask your dealer for our special Christmas box, containing a 6 oz. bottle of this exquisite perfume; PRICE, 75c. Nothing like it in the world; sensational value for Holiday presents. Everybody loves perfume—ED. PINAUD'S LILAC VEGETAL is the finest, just like the living blossoms. Send us your name and address to-day for the sample, enclose 5 cts. and please mention your dealer's name. PARFUMERIE ED. PINAUD, Dept. MC ED. PINAUD Bldg., New York $5.50 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $20.00 each order $4.50. NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tanks or Glass will not let the air. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside with a special quality of rubber, which never becomes shout allow- from satire- penumped so more than being given brisk on the pair, but for Notice the thick rubber trousl "A" and puncture strips "lT" and "D," also rim strip "lF" to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make—SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. EFFECT OF COLORS Red Makes You Angry, Blue is Soothing. Paris Medical Experts Claim to Have Found a Cure for Divorce as Result of Experiments with Paris. — Medical experts of the French capital have found the latest cure for divorce. It is a result of experiments in colors made by eminent medical men, who declare that red wall paper, red clothes and red glass windows make persons angry. Blue, on the other hand, is soothing to the nerves of excited and "touchy" husbands and wives. A Paris husband who had been having trouble with his wife consulted one of these experts as a last chance before seeing a lawyer. The doctor visited the man's office and saw a brilliant crimson carpet on the floor. A large oil painting, the prevailing tone of which was red, hung on the wall. At the home he found red wall paper, red curtains and red furniture. "Red," said the doctor, "exclites your temper and your wife's too. Try some other color. Put blue wall paper in the house and throw away every red piece of furniture you have." The husband obeyed the doctor's orders and since then there has been no trouble in that family. You remember the old crusade over blue spectacles? Everybody wore them once. They were thought to hold a wonderful power to ease pain, toothache and other troubles. The principle was the same that is being used in Paris now, but the doctors of 30 years ago had not quite solved the secret of the effect of blue light on the human brain. They were going it blindly—just like the farmer who put green goggles on his cow and fed her shavings. But now science has found the real reason for the effect of red and blue on people's overworked minds. There's a quality in the red and blue rays that doctors call an actinio quality. When you look at anything bright red, the red rays of light quicker than the mind can conceive, travel to the BLUE SECT CELLS HATE CELLS RED LOVE CELLS How Colors Affect the Eye. ight cells of your brain, tingling the hairrilke nerves on their way there. When you look at anything blue the same thing happens, only the nerve wire to your brain is a different nerve wire, for different colors tingle different nerve wire lines, just like different telephones signal "central" over different wires. The red nerve lines pass through a part of the brain that contains what doctors call the cells of hate! The blue nerve lines go a certain distance on the red party nerve line, and then switch onto the sight cells through a part of the brain that contains the cells of love! So with this in mind you can see the point made by the French doctor who says he can stop divorces, cure family jars, and make happy homes by changing red furniture and wall paper to blue. For nearly 50 years the men of science have known something about the colors' effect on the brain of man. The love cells are just below the hate cells, and as far back as 30 years ago Prof. Fowler, the eminent reader of men's heads, called the place on the head where the love cells are the bump of Amativeness. Above this bump of amativeness is the bump of Hate, which ought to be less prominent on your head than the other bump. Prof. Frederick Starr, a present-day student of the heads of Indians and other strange peoples, found that the bump of hate was larger on an Indian's skull than on a white man's. He believes that is why an Indian never forgets a grudge. The possibilities of treatment of family jars with colored rays are almost without limit, they say. Wives, especially, will be interested in the new discovery. Lots of evenings a man will come home and scold his wife, scold the nice supper she has cooked for him and find fault with everything. Perhaps it's a red carpet in the man's office, or a red curtain at home, red wall paper, or a red-headed maid in the kitchen! Hereafter, instead of "painting the town red," a man will win honor if he paints it blue. The way to a man's heart after all may be through a blue glass window, or a blue silk dress, rather than through his stomach. In this marvelous discovery science has again shown one of her most wonderful truths—that it is 'the little things that cause trouble in the world. The first post route in the United States was established in 1672. It was between New York and Boston and the schedule was once a month. Today the yearly cost of mail transportation on our railroads alone is about $4,000,000. The railway postoffice lines cover 208,484 miles and employ over 6,000 officers and clerks. Mme. Davis, M. H. ```markdown ``` BORN CLAIRVOYANT AND CARD READER TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS. 1228 25th St. N.W. Washington, D. C. Gives Luck to All. N. B.—No letters answered unless accompanied by stamp. N. B.—Mention The Bee. ..... IF YOU WANT A PLACE 15 Boaty ADVERTISING Go to HOLMES' HOTEL, No. 333 Virginia Ave., S.W. Best Afro-American Accommodation in the District. EUROPEAN AND AMERI- LAN PLAN. Good Rooms and Lodging, 50. 75c. and $1.00. Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give us a Call James Otoway Holmes, Prop. Washington, D. C. Main Phone 231c. MCALL PATTERNS 10 AND 15 HORE HIGHER MCALLS MAGAZINE 50 YEAR INCLUDING A FREE PATTERN MCCALL PATTERUS 10 AND 15 HOKE HIGHER MCGALLS MAGAZINE 50 YEAR INCLUDING A FREE PATTERN ME-LANGE Catalog for style, perfect fit, sophistication and relaxation for any 40 years. Send in neatly every city, town in the United States and Canada, or by mail direct. 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What clothing stores, what furnand what other lines of business withthemselves these over three millionNegroes by advertising in The BeePlace your advertising in The Beetive Negroes spend their over threeNow is the time to advertise in Tinto every Negro home in Washington, it's what advertising p merchants in this city will patronize the advent of the Bee, presenting the attractive bargains they offer — these 5,499 Negroes who draw annually over three millions of dollars — will assume the application edited and operated by one of their fire and deserve their patronage. And such a lack of these over three millions of dollars recalls Negroes of Washington. Bring stores, what furniture stores, what dry goods, or lines of business will now make an effort to use over three millions of dollars spent by W. Advertising in The Bee? Advertising in The Bee and watch these 5,499 spend their over three millions of dollars with time to advertise in The Bee, the newspaper, Negro home in Washington. Remember, mercy's what advertising pays you, not what it costs. 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. MORE MONEY—RACE PROGRESS. If colored people groom them tion odors, remove grease shine it discoveries for improving the s will be better received in the money, and advance faster. The Chemical Wonder Comp business friend colored people like Dr. Booker Washington impany manufacturers nine Chemic colored people as attractive as mit. Colored men in New York better situations in banks, clubs men have better positions, marry (1,) Complexion Wonder face (black or brown) every ti one trial, we send demonstration jar, 50 cents postpaid. (2) Magneto-Metallic Combe heated before using, to help s Costs 50 cents, and will last a l (3) Wonder Uncurl. When hair the kinks can be uncurled When heated into the scalp and der Comb, any stiff, knotty hair paid. (4) Wonder Hair Grow hair grow long, just as fertilizers grow. 50 cents postpaid. (5) Odor Wonder Powder odor. People who neglect suchious. 50 cents postpaid. (6) Odor Wonder Liquid. the body with delicate perfume. Odor Wonder Powder the confect. If you can spare 50 cents e cents postpaid. (7) Wonder Foot Powder k postpaid. (8) Wonder Wash. A sham and insure the health of the hair (9) Shell Pink Creme will g pink cheeks without made-up a We guarantee all these Won We give advice free about people groom themselves daintly, destroy remove grease shine from the face, and use for improving the skin and dressing the ear received in the business world, make advance faster. Chemical Wonder Company of New York is and colored people have. It improves the water Washington improves their minds. Theracturers nine Chemical Wonders, which were as attractive as individual peculiarities of men in New York who use these Wonders in banks, clubs and business houses, later positions, marry better, get along better (complexion WonderCream will light up and/or brown) every time it is used. To provide demonstration sample for 10 cents. postpaid. Magneto-Metallic Comb, called Wonder Core, uses, to help straighten and dress hair, and will last a lifetime. Wonder Uncurl. When this pomade dressing kinks can be uncurled and the hair becomes into the scalp and through the hair will any stiff, knotty hair will dress well. 50 Wonder Hair Grow fertilizes the scalp being, just as fertilizers in the soil make cents postpaid. For Wonder Powder instantly destroys hair who neglect such chemical cleansing and posts postpaid. For Wonder Liquid. This fine toilet water can delicate perfume. When used with us, for Powder the conditions of the body bed can spare 50 cents extra, order this luxury. For Foot Powder keeps the feet dainty. Wonder Wash. A shampoo to clean from the health of the hair and scalp. 50 cents. All Pink Creme will give light brown girls without made-up appearance. 50 cents guarantee all these Wonders as represented. If colored people groom themselves daintly, destroy perspiration odors, remove grease shine from the face, and use our new discoveries for improving the skin and dressing the hair, they will be better received in the business world, make more money, and advance faster. The Chemical Wonder Company of New York is the best business friend colored people have. It improves their bodies as Dr. Booker Washington improves their minds. That Company manufacturers nine Chemical Wonders, which will make colored people as attractive as individual peculiarities will permit. Colored men in New York who use these Wonders hold better situations in banks, clubs and business houses, and women have better positions, marry better, get along better. (1,) Complexion WonderCream will light up any colored face (black or brown) every time it is used. To prove this on one trial, we send demonstration sample for 10 cents. Regular jar, 50 cents postpaid. (2) Magneto-Metallic Comb, called Wonder Comb. Can be heated before using, to help straighten and dress the hair. Costs 50 cents, and will last a lifetime. (3) Wonder Uncurl. When this pomade dressing is in the hair the kinks can be uncurled and the hair becomes flexible. When heated into the scalp and through the hair with a Wonder Comb, any stiff, knotty hair will dress well. 50 cents postpaid. (4) Wonder Hair Grow fertilizes the scalp and makes hair grow long, just as fertilizers in the soil make cornstalks grow. 50 cents postpaid. (5) Odor Wonder Powder instantly destroys perspiration odor. People who neglect such chemical cleansing are obnoxious. 50 cents postpaid. (6) Odor Wonder Liquid. This fine toilet water surrounds the body with delicate perfume. When used with used with Odor Wonder Powder the conditions of the body become perfect. If you can spare 50 cents extra, order this luxury. 50 cents postpaid. (7) Wonder Foot Powder keeps the feet dainty. 50 cents, postpaid. (8) Wonder Wash. A shampoo to clean from dandruff and insure the health of the hair and scalp. 50 cents postpaid. (9) Shell Pink Creme will give light brown girls beautiful pink cheeks without made-up appearance. 50 cents postpaid. We guarantee all these Wonders as represented. We give advice free about We will prove we are true ple. We require one agent for ev against loss. Only $2 capital re Always write to M. B. Ber York. We market all the Chemi tions. MONTHS helves daintly, destroy perspiration the face, and use our new skin and dressing the hair, they business world, make more day of New York is the best place. It improves their bodies moves their minds. That Com- Wonders, which will make individual peculiarities will per- ho use these Wonders hold and business houses, and wоetter, get along better. team will light up any colored it is used. To prove this on simple for 10 cents. Regularly called Wonder Comb. Can brighten and dress the hair. At time. This pomade dressing is in the hair becomes flexible through the hair with a Wonder will dress well. 50 cents post- fertilizes the scalp and makes in the soil make cornstalks instantly destroys perspiration chemical cleansing are obnox- this fine toilet water surrounds When used with used with tons of the body become pera, order this luxury. 50 cups the feet dainty. 50 cents, soo to clean from dandruff and scalp. 50 cents postpaid. The light brown girls beautiful appearance. 50 cents postpaid. Nurses as represented. ```markdown ``` LEGAL NOTICES. W. L. POLLARD, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- -TRICT OF COLUMBIA HOLDING PROBATE COURT No. 16220, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District vf Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Co- lumbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Amanda Willis, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the de- ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, Wegally authenticated, to the subscrib es, on or before the 21st day of Oc: tober, A, D. 1910, otherwise they may by law be excluded from al benefits of said estate. Given under my hand this 21st day of October, 1909. 7 Mary Catlett, 2251 Cleveland Avenue, N. W Attest: * James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District 0: Columbia. Clerk of the Praobat Court. Wm. L. Pollard, Attorney THOMAS L. JONES, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA HOLDING PROBATE COURT No. 16378, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained “from ‘the Probate Court of the District of Co- lambia,Letters of administraticn’ or the estate of Alice Thomes, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to ex- hibit the same, with the voucher: thereof, legally authenticated, to the sabscriber,,on or before the 25th day of October, A. D, 1910; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 25th da) ef October, 1909. John Thomes, 2236 Cleveland Avenue., N. W Attest: % James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District o Columbia. Clerk of the Probat Court. Thomas L. Jones, Attorney ZEPH P. MOORE, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- TRI OF COLUMBIA wounmeas PROBATE COURT No. 16351, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District ef Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Co- lumbia,Letters of administration on the estate of Arthur’ Grice, 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 25th day of October, A. D. 1910; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 25th day of October, 1909. James H, Winslow. 1805 r2th Street, N. W. Attest: y James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District o! Columbia. Clerk of the Probat Court, Zeph P. Moore, Attorney W.L. POLLARD, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- 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 Co- lumbia, Letters of administration c. t a, on the estate of James F. Wilkin- son, late of the District of Columbia, Heceased. Al persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warn- ed to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenti- cated, to the subscriber, on or before the 23rd day of September, A. D. 1910, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefits of said es- state. Given under my hand this 23rd day ef 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. William L. Pollard, Attorney. HUGHES AND GRAY, ATTOR- NEYS, IN THE SUPEME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- 7 BIA. Elizabeth B. B. Moxley vs: Edward J. Moxley, defendant; Stella Bryant, Corespondent. ‘No. 28854, Equity Doc. 63 The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce on the ground of adultery. On motion of the complainant, it is this 4th day of November, 1909, ordered that the defendant and core- vponeent cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, cccurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be procerded with as in case of de- fault. Previded, a copy of this or- der be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Wash ington Law Peporter, and the Wash- ington Bee before said day. Job Barnard, Justice. * A true c opy Test: A true copy. J. R. Young, Clerk, by T. E.. Cun- aingham, Assistant Clerk, RULLING AND CLARA, ALLOR=| NEYS = IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ‘THE DISTRICT OF COLUM- y BIA Sadie M. Bradford, Complainant, ys. Eugene Bradford and Mamie Chose, Defendants. a No, 28,95, rj The object of this suit-is to obtain ja divorce from the bonds ‘Of mar- riage, with the defendant, Eugene Bradford,on the grounds of adultery _ On motion of the complainant, it is this tst day of December, 1909 ordered that the defendant Eugene Bradford’ and the co-respondent Ma- mie Clidse, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause vill be proceeded with as in case of default, Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week» for three successive weeks in the Washingtor Law Reporter, and the Washingtor Bee before said day, . Job Barnard, Justice. Test: ‘ : A true copy. J. R. Young, clerk, by F. T. Cun: ningham, assistant clerk. TRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding Probate Court! No. 15801, Administration. This is to give notice: That the subscriber, of the District cf Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Co- lumbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Thomas Wilkins, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the de- ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof legally authenticated, to the subserib- er, on or before the roth day of De- cember, A. D. 1910; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefits of said estate. 7 Given under my hand this roth day of December, 1909, Zeph P. Moore, 1700 12 St. N. W. “Attest: James Tanner, Register o! Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court Mason N. Richardson and Willian L. Pollard, Attorneys. JOHN J. KENNY 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. nee ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 4th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C | SEND FOR ESTIMATE If you want first-class printing done, send to W. Calvin Chase, Jr.,, 1212 Fla. Ave., N, W. Phone North, 2002 M. - Now is the time to have your visiting cards printed. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., can do the work. I£ you send two dollars for one year’s subscription to The Bee, you will receive a package of visiting cards with your name printed in beautiful script type. Ford’s Hair Pomade ers ry fad eS Fifty yoars of success havo proved the merits of f = proparation.\; | Whatis more at ¢ than 3 beautiful bead of hair? lta xen vis ambifoz of ‘women inallaces. {he useof Ford’s Heir Pomade makes etubborn, harsh, kinky or curly hair softer, more pilableand glossy. gas ‘tccr* sud arrange in any style de- sirea Ovrsigtent with ..2 ior. 0.8) ue as the Pomade remains in the hair, “ ais result may be obta’ned by one thorour u application acoarding to directions. w ve fourapplica~ tionga month will keepth hal n satisfac- tory condition.and twotciourbotttes.reular size, are usually sufficicat fora year. Direc- tons with ever? bottle, 5 . u Yemroves and prevents dandraff, invicorates the scalpand keeps It from getting harsh and dry, stone itching and prevents the hair from falling out or breakinc off and cives it new Kifo and vigor. Absolutely harmless. Used with splendid results eren on children and infants. Delicately perfumed, ita use {3 a ‘constant pleasure. A most sattifactory tol- gt preparation for ladies, geatlemen and children, Don't buy anything else alleged to be “just as Egod" if you want the best results buy Ford's Hair Pomado. Look for this name “Charles Ford, Prest.°—on every package. If your druggist or local dealer cannot sup- ply you with the genuine, we will send you Ono botely, regular size, for. . $ .50 Three * eee ao bx ua « 2) 280 One “ small “oo 0. las we is ww chs points f v.82 Wen Ordering send Festal or farrers Money Grass.” alvordersauipped prompur “= ecelpt of price The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. ‘Ls West Kingie 8t- Chicago, IN. FORD'S HAIR POMADE ts made only in Chicage by the above orm. Agense Wanted Everywhere. . (Alcohol 6-10 per cent) A High Class Complexion Beautifier For Ladies and Gentlemen of All Races. 9 a a Beas , om | _ Before Using * After Using This preparation wil! not mate you white, but will make your com- plexion fair. For removing pimples, blackheads, ting worms, and sun burn, wrinkles, bumps, chapped hands and tetter, or exzema, also liver spots. Keeps the skin soft and youthful, makes people good Jooktng. CONTAINS NOTHING THAT IS HARMFUL TO THE FACE. 40Z. BOTTLE, PRICE 50 CENTS If your Druggist hasn't it, send Money order, to address below. We will send itto youelther by mallor express, charges pre- pald. Reference Owensboro panking Co. Owensboro, Ky Serial No. 27862, guaranteed by JONES, WESTERFIELD & CO.. Owensboro, Ky, under Pure Food and Drug Act. June 30, 198 Diale Liquid Bleach Made Only By JONES, WESTERFIELD & CO. 520 4TH ST., OWENSBORO, KY. Agents Wanted Everywhere Every" aft@rnobn just before twilight a row of cats of all ages, stages, gauges, breeds, tribes and then a few other kinds thrown in to sort of even up the balance of things, can be seen in the yard next to St. Andrew's church, at Eighth and Shipley streets. All of them, are squeezed as close te the wall of the church building as they can get, and there they He fn walt for sparrows which infest the creeping vines thet grow all over the wall of the church on the south side. Every moment or so some lucklest sparrow alights toe near the ground or chirps too loud, and some cat Im- mediately makes a running jump up the vine, and before the bird can fiy from under the leaves it 1s cat food. Sometimes as many as 25 can be seen in a row watching for their evening weal of birds —Wilwington News. i . FOR RENT 5 1836 oth street, northweat. Choice second floor room adjoining bath, with or without Doard. Gentlemen only. . House on roth Street , near East Capital, all improvements, eight rooms, fine location, con- venient to car lines. For infor- ‘niation, apply, or address to this office, . ¥ | . By Owner. | FOR RENT, FURNISHED. | 1523 Church St., N. W.—A large, comfortably furnished room, con- venient to both lines of cars, suitable for two gentlemen. Furnace heat. Phone North 874. 2d ee >a ee ea ness man; also flat, five rooms, wate no bath $16 ioe eS ee ine inet Reet, IS : Christian Xander’s | OLDEST i | TOKAY | ; Amellow, aged, sweet wine for dessert and, l receptions. 63¢ full quart. { : “ omeyar h The Family Quality Housel gog 7th St i lcci sa CHAS H. JAVINS. & SONS; | FISH... Poultry and Oyster Dealers, 930 C Street, Northwest, and Center Market, Phone, Main 4480 Waddington, N. C. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD Al’D SIL®ER WATCH ES, DIAMONDS, JEWEL RY, GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS, LADIES‘ AND GENTS’ WEARING APPAR EL OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED PLEDGES FOR SALE. 361 Pennsy;vinia Ave. N. W SRR HOLTMAN’S OLD STANE FINE BOOTS AND SHOES 4gt Penn. ave, N. W; QUR y2.50 ANU 3 SHORS ARE THE BEF MAI‘E. SIGN OF THE BIG BOOT WM. MORE!.ANW, PROP. OLD MADE NEW. If you want your clothing cleaned, altered or repaired, you should send a card or call at the up-te-date repair ‘establishment. All work guaranteed or money refunded. Mra, D, Smith, Proprietor, 614 D street, northwest. [og 7 | ass 3 tee 1b ‘Dffice Hours: . 9 A, M. to6 P, M- Sunday by appointment. DR. J. ARTHUR FRAY Surgeon Dentist Office, 310 4% Street, S. W. Specialties: : Crown and Bridgework Why pay 10 percent wher -ort can get it for 3 percent: H. K FULTON’S LOAN OFFICE, No. 314 Ninth Street N. PY. Loans made on Watches, Dia- monds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If ‘you want te buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of am kind, look at our stock first. You BRODT’S 419 ELEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST, 503 NINTH STRET N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C WASHINGTON’S LEADIING HATTERS. THIS IS THE LEADING HAT FIRM IN THE CITY. HATS OF ALL STYLES MAY BE FOUND AT EITHER BDI: % Bill Kennedy g . Rata eee es ae Si ewe aM creo —————————— If you want fresh beer, good wines and liquors, don’t fail to patronize this house. Hot free lunch at 12 noon, daily . 6a5 D street, northwest STOP Paying Rent , AND . Own Your Own HOME |» “*“ NEPFNDENT. RAISE YOUR OWN 2ULLTRY AND : GARDEN PRODUCTS. BEAUTIFUL ‘WESTFORD - Tes Lots $150 To $300 Th. finest opportunity ever offered the refined colored people of Weshington to own a home or make an investment. “No Taxes.” “No Interest.” “No Landlord.” High and Healthy Location ia the beautiful northeast section of the city, within 25 minutes ride ot the U.S. Treasury. One car fare Electric Lights, and Graded Streets, Take the H Street Cars and transfer at sth 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 to A, M., to 6 P.M. For weekly engagements and further particulars, apply to O. H. FOWLER, Owner, Columbian Building, 416 sth St, N. W. Washington, DC, oe s Is Your Hair Beautiful ee ° A Res Be, Soft, Silky and Longs? Cas ~ ey Dovsit comb easily without breakiag? Nees aD Is it stratght? Cee “ae * ——"M Doves It smooth out alcely? a y Ve Can you do Itvp In any of the charms eS fr Hig!) tog styles, so it will stay, and hy. i jac make you proud of It? ! ye L¥{|"exes |] Is It long end full of tite? 1 SONY es MWyou cannot ay YES to all of the | 4 ) SS 3 e/ above questions, then youneed x ‘ 2 wy A 4 , ys te Ky Nelson’s ee . ° °. wy) eieste Hair Dressing’ —F , 7 re NELSON’S HAIR DRESSING th the fieest hete a Lh ey Jy pomade on the face of the earth for coloeed pcopte. Et Be tr makes your hils-grow farts it makes stutbem, biaky and oe hols hy tangled Bair as acft and supple saaik. Itmakeste healthy. EN dod shat aarcheres selennd ie by ali vests Fy \ Use Nelson’s Hair Dressing cmt sit dis Vowelllurreehanasaiy dex Posse betanbocl starouuoe sae si ou wlll never Rave aca eae gbted with ha delcate peoluran, Nelson's Hair Dressing rn Sir ores, ents agents everywhere sell it at 25 centaabor. LU you cao’t get It, send ox 30 cents and we soit cath | you a full alze box postpaid. Gosnd buy it now, or alt right down and writeus, Address q NELSON MANUFACTURING CO., Richmond, Va. | + Live Agents Wanted. Write Quick for Terms. 9, | Southern Medicine Company Box 754 —____ Atlanta, Ga. Tat Maciess Tyo Teste LARGER man mCTUR 17 16 9im Lome SHAMPOR Se TEMAGICHHR ee : mi eaetr H we a A i pera: f ANYWHERE INU: HIRT LLG) MAILED specs cas: 125, LADIES LOOK! Every lady can have = pesutifol and luxuriant head of hair ff she uses s MAGIC. Afters shampoo or bath the Magic dries the hair, removing the Gandruff; and is =i B straighten the corilest head of hair. ‘The Magi win aot bura of injure the hair, because the comb ia never heated. ‘The stocl beat ing bar whic> trons the hair, is alone. put into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater. ‘The Alapinum Combis caps, detached from the neatinz bar. then. after the bar is oa ed the com> goes back into pce and is held by a turn of the handle. ‘\'The Magic Heater is also suitable for'curling Lrons. has a cover and can be carried tua handbag Magic Shampoo Drier $100. Magic Alooho! Heater 90.30. Liberal tarms to sgrags. Write tor Uterature todsy Magic Shampoo Drier Co., Minzeapolis, Minnesota. E. MURRAY GASKIN’S RESTAURANT WHOLESALE AND exc: Gaskin’s restaurant, 320 Bth ICB CREAM AND CONFEC-) 0000 northwest, formerly Gas- TIONS. kins and Gaines. First Class OYSTERS IN SEASON. |Services. All the delicacies af 1216 YOU STREET, NORTH"|the season. Free Lusch from WEST. PHONE. 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It is a true luxury and a valuable addition to toilet accessories. . | Large jar 50 cents at all drag “stores and by our special agents. Sample box mailed to any ad- dress on receipt of five two-cent | stamps. sell this - wonderful HAIR GROWER.