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VOL.XXX NO 44 Tatt's Great Speech ARMSTRONG AND NEGRO PROGRESS WILBERFORCE NIGHT President Taft, Senator Dick and Prof. Scarobough Speak Before Capacity House. The Metropolitan meeting, Tuesday night, March 8th, was a magnificent assemblage, and attested the popularity of the Wilberforce Club, and the admiration for Wilberforce University. Senator Dick, Dr. John Hurst, Justice Harlan, Mr. Louis Gregory were speakers in addition to President Taft and Prof. Scarborough, Dr. W. T. Vernon introduced the President in a speech and paid a high tribute to the Chief Executive. The President, when he arose, lost no time, but plunged at once into his speech. The President spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: First, I want to congratulate Wilberforce University on having the influence to bring together so large and so intelligent an audience. I am sure it augurs well for the cause which President Scarborough is pressing. Of course, when I see him in a week or two, I will ask him to put it down in figures, and perhaps then he will think he will have to call two or three other meetings for the purpose. But what I am anxious to do is to testify by my presence to the deep interest I take in the progress of that institution of learning which for fifty years has been in my native state and has been full of usefulness for the race and for the country. Confession is good for the soul—and I have to say that I reached my interest in the education of the Negro through the responsibilities that were thrust on me with reference to the education of another race. It isn't until you have responsibilities—until you have to do something affirmative—that you look into a question with a seriousness that makes you a bit thorough; and when I went to the Philippines, with a population of 8,000,000, and with only seven per cent. speaking Spanish, thus indicating the proportion of the people that had any education at all, I begun to meet a problem with reference to education that gave me an interest in every other problem of the kind in the world, and when I returned from there the Negro problem forced itself on me with an emphasis that I didn't before understand and gave me an interest in it that I never before had. Of, course, the first feeling that one has with reference to the education of the Negro is that education that it is possible to bring to all colored men and women, and, of course, the only education that you can bring to all colored men and women—as, indeed, the only education that you can bring to all white men and women—is primary education, with industrial education added. As you study the problem, and the importance of that industrial education forces itself on you, you forget for the time that any significance is to be given to secondary and higher, or university, education; and you fall frequently into the error of saying that money spent in university education is wasted; that the Negroes who are educated at universities, who are engaged in studying Greek and Latin, and who are preparing themselves in an academic way, are making an error. You yield to such aphorisms as Dr. Wiley has used with respect to woman's education—that it is better for woman to learn how to cook than to learn calculus. But there is nothing quite so misleading as an epigram. The Negro race is a great and growing race—4,000,000 when the war closed; 10,000,000 today—a race with whose history the United States has been bound, and with whose progress and improvement this country must always be bound and united. While the white race and the Negro race live contentedly together in this country, they must have among the Negro race leaders. They must have a highly educated class from which those leaders are to be drawn The Negro race is a race peculiarly susceptible to the teaching from the pulpit, and nothing can do more to secure their uplift than the thorough classical and higher education of their preachers. If you are going to spread industrial and primary and secondary education among the Negroes generally, you must do it through competent teachers, and those teachers can only be obtained by receiving the best education that the country can afford. Another path along which the Negro race must laboriously mount upwards is the path toward hygiene and the guarding against the ravages of disease, which has brought about such loss and suffering to the entire race all over the country; and that can only be accomplished by having among the Negroes competent physicians, competent surgeons, competent nurses, and competent leaders of the people in this regard to teach them how to live. And those physicians have got to receive the highest education, both academically and medically, if they are to serve their highest purpose. One of the things that is always very amusing is the criticism that comes on the part of men who do not know much about the subject or which they are speaking, but with regard to which they have a very strong prejudice. There are many—well, there are not as many as there used to be—who scout Negro education at any rate, and then they may come to primary education, but they say beyond that teach the Negro how to calculate how much his cow is worth and how much his cotton will sell for, and then don't teach him anything else. They say that all this that is wasted on the classical education of the Negro ought better be devoted to teaching them something about the farm. Now, I am entirely agreed that it is wise to teach those who farm as much as possible about the farm, but what I want to call your attention to is that the amount of money that is devoted to the higher education of the Negro, as compared with the 10,000,000 Negroes in this country, is not enough, if you are to divide it up with that 10,000,000, to make any great amount per capita. President Scarborough can tell you. I went over the figures once or twice, and instead of being enough to indicate waste, there is an indication that there is not near enough money to even educate the leaders of the race that the race must have if it is going on to progress as it is. Therefore, whenever I hear of a movement toward Negro education—whether it be primary, secondary, industrial, or university—I am in favor of it from the ground up. I know, and it is undoubtedly true that a great deal of money is given with the hope of improving the human race for charity and other purposes that does not reach its object in any efficient way, not for lack of good intentions on the part of the donor, but because he ties it up in some way that makes it effective. Indeed, it is almost as hard to spend the money so that it accomplishes the good that it is contemplated, as it is to make the money itself. But I venture to say that there is no money that has been devoted to the cause of Negro education that has been wasted I have had the pleasure of attending Hampton Institute, Tuskegee Lucy Laney's School in Augusta, and Uncle Daniel's little Shiloh in that same village. There a dear old colored man, with not a great deal of education, together with his wife constituted themselves the guardians of all the dark waifs that found their way on to the streets of Augusta, and who, but for him and her, would doubtless have gotten into, prison and into the penitentiary; and there I do not know how, by dint of effort and begging—living in three or four shacks—they have finally gathered together a school of from 60 to 100 little dark children, with nondescript clothing, and a good many with not too much clothing at all. Uncle Daniel took me in and put me down in a seat that he had to strengthen in order that it might hold me, and he had that whole class WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., SAL PRESIDENT WM. H. TAFT SE The Largest, The Most Select and Assembled in the Metropolitan W. H. PRESIDENT WM. H. TAFT SPEAKS TO THREE THOUSAND The Largest, The Most Select and Cultured Audience That Has Ever Assembled in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, March 8. PRESIDENT WM. H. TAFT SPEAKS TO THREE THOUSAND The Largest, The Most Select and Cultured Audience That Has Ever Assembled in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, March 8. of boys and girls get up and recite the Twenty-third Psalm. The earnestness, the spirit, that they put into that recital brought tears to the eyes of our whole company who had the opportunity to be there and see the work of the two simple, old Negroes, who hadn't any money, who had only a good will for their race and who had by their characters in the community been enabled themselves to gather enough by charity to support this institution. And now they have raised three or four thousand dollars; they have paid off the mortgage; they have straightened up the shacks; they have increased the number of children; they are enlarging the good they are doing; and they are convincing the white people as well as the black people in that community, of the wonderful influence that two such white souls as they are can have in a community in attempting to educate their own race. I have spoken so often on the subject of Negro education, and the fact that the whole future of the race is involved in it, that I feel that every time I get up to speak as if somebody would say, "Can't you talk about something else?" It is a subject in which the interest of this country, and especially the interest of the South, is much taken up. I verily believe that in the South, where the good proportion of our Negro population lives, there is coming to those people the feeling that in education is the future of that country. Now, the education that is lacking there is not alone among the Negroes—the education lacking is both among the Negroes and whites and it is to the credit of the Negro race, and those who have done so much for the education of the Negro race, that the white race is learning the lesson with respect to the necessary education for both races from the advanced teaching of the colored race. It is in Tuskegee, and Hampton, and like institutions that the whole Southern people are learning the secret and the value of industrial education. I heard President Eliot, the foremost educator of this country, say at Hampton that it was General Armstrong, and the men who gathered about him, Booker Washington and others, who had solved the problem of education that up to that time had never been met. SONG SERVICE AT HOWARD The Vera, choir of Howard University will render a song service tomorrow afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock, in the Andrew Rankin Chapel. The Song service will take the form of a sacred cantata, entitled "The Seven Last Words of Christ." A silver offering will be taken at the door. All are requested to be present. READ THE BEE. SPEAKS TO THREE THOUSAND and Cultured Audience That Has Ever tan A. M. E. Church, March 8. Numerators Appointed COLORED ENEUMERATORS NAMED FOR THE DISTRICT There will be 44 colored men and women to take the 1910 census for the District of Columbia, most of whom are students at Howard University. It is now known that W. S. Broughton, Census Supervisor for the District, has designated for appointment as enumerators the following colored men and women. They will begin work the first week in April. The appointees are: James R. Alexander, O. C. Black, Jr., E. J. Braithwaite, Geo. H. Butcher, Wm. Calvin Chase, Jr., Crafton E. Clair, J. W. Clifford, Frank Coleman, James A. Compton, Wm. E. Cox, M. L. Crawford, Clarence B. Curley, Geo. T. Day, Leo. V. English, Wm. W. Fraction, A. C. Garver, Chas Garvin H. L. Grant, Wm. H. Haig, A. J. Stafford, M. L. Houston, G. F. Jones, Geo. A. Kyle, Warren Logan, Jr., J. H. Love, Sam. D. McCree, F. D. Morris, H. D. Myers, J. G. Norwood, J. W. Parker, E. M. Pollard, C. A. Quander, J. C. Ridout, J. E. Rose, Chas. Smith, Wm. R. Smith, B. R. Thompson, A. L. Tunnel, Park Tancil, W. R. Wilson, J. B. Wright, Mrs. Emma M. Adams, Mrs. Lillian Wilkinson. AS COLLECTOR ANDERSON KNEW HIM New York, March 8. — "Senator Platt's death gives me the pain and sorrow of a personal bereavement," said Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue March 8th. "He gave me my first chance in public life in those far-off days when I was a youngster, and his friendship for me was warm and constant until the hour of his death. He was a very remarkable man and one who loved his friends and the Republican party with a love that knew neither variability nor shadow of turning. "He understood the strength and weakness of party movements and alliances as few men have ever understood them, and his judgment of men was seldom less than accurate. His was a busy life, and yet he always seemed able to find time to listen to any suggestion which appealed to his sympathy or kind feeling. I could recite a thousand instances of sentimental kindness on his part, which was all the more remarkable when we remember that he was regarded as a practical politician. "He was made the leader of his party in the State because of his preeminent capacity to lead, and he loved power only that he might use it to promote the interest of the party." The New York Ledger in speaking of Mr. Anderson has the following "Mr Anderson's district is a very extensive one, and as he has been Collector of Internal Revenue for over five years, he is an adept in the Revenue Service. Besides, he is very popular, and that goes a great ways in such an exceedingly important district as is the Second. He was COLLECTOR CHARLES W. ANDERSON OF NEW YORK TRIBUTE TO EX-SENATOR PLATT appointed by President Roosevelt the day following his inauguration. Mr. Anderson was for two years private secretary to the Treasurer of this State, was four years chief clerk of the State Treasurer and before that for seven years Superintendent of the State racing accounts. When anyone goes to the Custom House to see Mr. Anderson and reaches the outer room to his office he does not have to cool his heels in that room after sending in his card. Red tape bars no door. "Come right in," says a cherry voice, as you ask for Mr. Anderson, and that cherry voice is Mr. Anderson's." CAPT OYSTER Captain James F. Oyster is authority on the schools as well as on butter. This distinguished citizen was before a Committee in Congress this week giving his CAPTAIN JAMES F. OYSTER BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE opinion concerning the Elgin Butter Company. Captain Oyster talked like a philosopher. He gave the committee some important information concerning the Elgin Corporation. DR SHEPARD Dr. James E. Shepard of the National Religious Training School of Durham, N. C., will speak at Manchester, N. H. April 3. May 17th, he will deliver the commencement address to the girls of the Adlin Smith Industrial Home, at Little Rock, Ark., May 17th. AT THE SECOND BAPTIST Mr. A. H. Severson, one of the informed men in the Masonic order will speak at the Second Baptist Church tomorrow, subject: The Problem on Sturdy Living. Song and Literary service, for the benefit of the Colored Women's Christian, Association at the Second Baptist Church tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock p. m. Mr. J. F. Bundy has prepared an excellent programme. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS PARAGRAPHIC NEWS By Miss G. B. Maxfield Subscription of the school children of this city to the George Washington Memorial Fund, which it is intended to erect in this city a large auditorium as a tribute to Gen. Washington have now reached $2,000. Andrew Carnegie as president of the Peace Society of New York, says there should be no war between civilized nations. He has just published for free distribution 50,000 copyedition of a pamphlet written by himself, in which he pleads for world peace. The State of North Carolina expended in the enlargement of its asylums for the insane at Raleigh, Morgantown and Golsboro, last year $447,528.95 providing accommodations for 720 patients. Fayetteville, W. Va. is making a strong bid to take divorce honors away from Reno, Nev. Since the first of the year nearly sixty divorces have been granted in these two cities. The richest and oldest student at Howard University is Daniel W. Field 45 years of age and a millionaire, president of seven corporations. Mr. Field was compelled to leave school when about fifteen years old and enter a slave shop as an apprentice. Now he employs about 4,000 hands. Prof Richard T. Greener protests to Census Director Durend against the use of the terms "white," "black" and "mulatta" to designate the colored American race. Mr. Durand replied he was only carrying out the intent of Congress. During the month of January 50,242 emigrants were admitted to the United States. 36,899 of this number were men. Commissioner Johnson is contemplating a partial reorganization of the Police Department. He has consulted Mayor Sylvester, who is fully in accord with his idea, as he has long realized a change would be beneficial to the service. To give visitors to the National Capital a proper first impression and to prevent the erection of buildings not in architectural harmony the Wetmore bill, providing that no houses should be built from Union station to Capitol is favored. President James of the University of Illinois said: "It is the aim of the University to give a considerable amount of training in some special business field as the demand for trained workers exceeds supply. A bill was introduced by Representative Hobson, of Alabama, prohibiting by fine and imprisonment, the exclusion of soldiers and sailors from hotels, theatres, dance halls and etc. The recent outcome of the two members of the marine corps, who city, inspired the introduction of the were barred from a theatre in this bill. HOWARD'S DEDICATION On the evening of the dedication of the new Carnegie Library building at Howard University, Dr. Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, a lecturer of national reputation, and pastor of the Central Church in the Auditorium, Chicago, will give his lecture on "The Lyrical Interpretation of Life" under the auspices of the University. Dr. Gunsaulus will bring with him his famous quartette, who will interpret and enforce the lecture by the rendition of ten selections illustrative of the relation between music and life. Dr. Gunsaulus is an old college friend of President thirkield, and generously makes this contribution to the interests of the University. The date of the dedication has been necessarily changed to April 25th, in order to accommodate Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who will be present. President Taft has kindly consented to change the date, and will deliver the principal address. Mr. Herbert Putham, Librarian of Congress, will also speak, and Ambassador Bryce will, if practicable, be present. The African Miniuq and Real Estate Company is offering an unusual opportunity to investors. You should look up the ir advertisement on pages 5. . \ : ‘é . Nery . 7 2,8 3 . 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It only corte postal to learn creryibing. Write ft NOW. « J. L.°MEAB CYCLE COMPANY, CHISAGO, ILL | Pearys sirtnpiace and to Inelude | Part ef the Old Home. land ports, the coming, and going of clipper ships, laden with Maine lum. ber and many other products, by suz- gestion and appeal aroused in the youth love of the sea and its adven- tures. Leut, Peary’s distinct ambt tion to discover the pole !s kzown to ‘have been born in him as a result of the Greeley expedition and its relfet. ‘He was then a young officer in the navy, a8 were a number of those Dromiment fn the work of exploration at that the, and hence the glory which now shines upon the water arm of Uncle Sam's military service by reflection. It Is strange how scon we are for gotten, People who knew Lieut. Peary’s father are not now certain of his Christian name. Charles H. Peary of Chest Springs, a cousin of ‘the explorer and who spells his name |Perry, calls the Meutenant’s father Charles Peary. Ex-Judge A. V. Bark. er of Ebensburg is certain his name | was George. It has been auggested that perhaps his name was Georges |Charles Peary. However that may be, Mr, and Mrs, Peary on coming Into this county located in the wodds near what is now Cresson, where Peary established a shook shop, A house standing on the tura of the road from Cresson to Loretto, about 100 yards from the town, is now generally ac- eepted by the people of the county as occupying part of the site of the orig- inal Peary home, and fs Zald to acte- ally inclade a fragment of the old ballding, = Tt was tm that house that Robert B. Peary was born, and there, two or three years Iater, his father died. Frank O'Hara, an old farmer living {a Munster township, recalls Peary’s birth clearly and tolls a story of the elder Peary sending a messenger In a conveyance to a point some distance away to fetch a physician. “Kill the horse if you have to,” Mr. Peary fs al- leged to have sald to the driver, “but get the doctor here in = hurry.” And it’s ancther reminiscence of O'Hara that the elder Peary, who died at Gal- Utisia, was buried amid a blizzard, That was like the north pols Itself,” says the aged Munster man. Peary was boried at Cape Eifsabeth, Me. The only basis for the claim that Peary was born at Chest Springs fs the residence there of his couain. Charles H. Peary’s father, Jamer Peary, came from Maine about the same time as George Peary did, but tastead of locating at Cresson, settled at Chest Springs and there his chil dren have resided ever since, George Peary, fortunately, left enough of an estate to make ft possi. ble for Mrs. Peary to educate her son thoroughly and he finally found his , way to the Naval academy. hor , re Write at once for a Christmas sample bottle of ED, PINAUD'S LILAG -VEGETAL t Enclose 5 cts. (for postage and packing). the sample—then axk your dealer for our ea te aoe 38 oz, bottle of this exquisite perfume; PRICE,75Sc. Nothing like it in the world; sensational value for Holiday presents. Everybody loves perfame— 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, otc £0, PINAUD Bldg., New York Italian Civil Engineer Invents the "Psephograph" to Foll Ballot Box Stuffers. Rome.—European ballot box stuffers, who are as expert as any of Boas Tweed's henchmen ever were in the palmiest days of corruption in New York politics, soon will find their occupation gone. An Italian civil engineer, Signor Goglano, has invented a voting machine which, it is claimed, is absolutely ungetatable" and incorruptible. He calls this invention the psephograph. So complete and sat- POLITICAL CONTROL SUMMARY INDICES INTELLIGENCE VOTING New Voting Machine. factory has this machine proved that it had been adopted by both the Italian and the French governments. The psephograph is a little over a yard in height and is provided with as many openings as there are candidates in the field. The voter presents his card to an official who has charge of the voting booth and receives a small metal chip about the size of an American dime. He is then given permission to enter the booth and steps behind two screens which render him invisible to both the public and the overseers alike. There he finds the voting machine facing him. After carefully scanning the different slots, above which is a space containing the names of the candidates, he selects the one he wishes to vote for and drops his chip in the slot corresponding to it. The fall of the ship causes an interior lever to rise, this movement making the number of persons voting appear on a "title tablet on the outside, which is always visible, and in the interior registering the vote for the chosen candidate. When the voting is over the officer in charge lifts aside the metal covering on which is registered the number of persons voting and the number of votes obtained by each candidate is revealed. By this system 37,000 votes were cast in two hours at a recent election at Turin. Miss Mabel Boardman Honored by Italy for Aiding Victims of the Earthquake. Boston.—The Marquis de Montagliarl, Italian charge d'affairs at Washington, has remitted to Miss Mabel Boardman of Manchester, Mass., and Washington, a golden crown, the gift of the Italian government in recognition of her services as a member of 1 Miss Boardman. the American Red Cross society to the victims of the recent Italian earthquake. The crown, a reproduction of the ancient, Roman civic crown, is composed of oak leaves and acorns, made of solid gold. It is inclosed in a typical Roman box of leather, which is adorned by the royal coat-of-arms in gold. On the crown is engraved: "To Miss Mabel Boardman of the Red Cross, from the Italian Government, as a Token of Gratitude, 1905-1909." Miss Boardman, as the executive head of the Red Cross society, recently announced her intention to devote her life entirely to its interests. She is the sister-in-law of Senator Crane and was a member of the famous Taft Philippine party. While visiting Japan she saw the evidence of the work of the Red Cross in the Russo-Japanese war and was impressed with the boundless possibilities of the movement. She is an intimate friend of both President and Mrs. Taft. She Won't Waste the Rope. Give a woman plenty of rope and she will hang—her washing on it. Mme. Davis, e 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 Be IF YOU WANT A POP THE BOUNDY ADVERTISE Go to HOLMES' HOTEL, No. 333 Virginia Ave., S.W. Rest Afro-American Accommodation in the District. EUROPEAN AND AMERI PLAN. Good Rooms and Lodging, 50, 75c. and $1.00. Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give us a Call James Otoway Helmes, Prep. Washington, D. C. Mam Phone 2315. MCCALL PATTERNS 10 15 MORE HIGHER MCCALLS MAGAZINE 50 YEAR INCLUDING A FREE PATTERN McCALL PATTERNS Celebrated for style, perfect fit, simplicity and reliability nearly 60 years. 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Thousands have used it with most gratifying results. Malaria is prevalent now. Do not wait far it to take hold of you. Begin the use of Babek now. 50c Bottles. Your druggies will tell you that Babek is the best thing he sells For MALARIA, CHILLS & FEVER THE BANK OF NEW YORK SICK AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE UP TO $25.00 PER WEEK WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO., FIFTH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C WORTH ADVERTISING FOR There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in Washington by the Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes draw salaries aggregating $3,044,404. These more than three millions of dollars are spent right here in Washington, but scattered among the hundreds of tradesmen. Is this amount of money worth billing for? It certainly is, and not even the largest stores in this city would refuse to get the big end of it did they but realize how much money the Negroes are really spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro publication in this city. It stands without a rival or competitor, and covers the field like a 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. of colored people groom themselves daintly, destroy the odors, remove grease shine from the face, and use discoveries for improving the skin and dressing the hair. It will be better received in the business world, make money, and advance faster. The Chemical Wonder Company of New York is a business friend colored people have. It improves the skin of Dr. Booker Washington improves their minds. The very manufacturers nine Chemical Wonders, which we colored people as attractive as individual peculiarities. 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When used with Odor Wonder Powder the conditions of the body be- come. If you can spare 50 cents extra, order this lus- tus postpaid. (7) Wonder Foot Powder keeps the feet dainty. postpaid. (8) Wonder Wash. A shampoo to clean from insure the health of the hair and scalp. 50 cents. (9) Shell Pink Creme will give light brown girls cheeks without made-up appearance. 50 cents. We guarantee all these Wonders as represented. We give advice free about hair, skin and scalp. If colored people groom themselves daintly, destroy perspiration odors, remove grease shine from the face, and use 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 obsoious. 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. We give advice free about hair, skin and scalp. Will send book an attractiveness free. We will prove we are true business friends of col We require one agent for every locality and guard inst loss. Only $2 capital required. Always write to M. B. Berger & Co., 2 Rector St. We market all the Chemical Wonder Companies. We will prove we are true business friends of colored people. We require one agent for every locality and guarantee you against loss. Only $2 capital required. Always write to M. B. Berger & Co., 2 Rector Street, New York. We market all the Chemical Wonder Company preparations. THE REE Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C. as second-class mail matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance__$2.00 Six months____ 1.00 Three months____ .50 Suscription monthly____ .20 TAFT'S WILBERFORCE The three thousand who were present at the Wilberforce University meeting to listen to the addresses of President Taft were a unit in declaring it to be a splendid pronouncement in favor of higher education for the Negro, and a most helpful and encouraging effort in behalf of Wilberforce. President Taft captivated that audience—one of the finest and most representative colored audiences ever assembled in this city. He gave evidence by his remarks, that he stands for the same education for the colored race he advocates for the whites; viz, that is the broadest, the highest and the best, and his declaration in favor of an educated leadership struck a responsive chord. There was no ques in the minds of those who heard him that he is sincere in his desir to contribute to the betterment of the race. Wilberforce University, the institution aimed to assist, cannot feel any more grateful to the President for his splendid speech than the two thousand who heard him, and the hundreds of thousand colored Americans throughout the country who read it in the newspapers the morning after its delivery. The generous, and spontaneous applause which greeted him, and punctured his address at frequent intervals, and followed its conclusion was evidence that our people respect the office of president and admires the present occupant for his utterances on the subject of education for the race. It was a great speech, and one long to be remembered. WHAT A CHANGE Mr. Henry Lincoln Johnson has been visiting the city for a number of years. During all of these years his presence in the city was not known. He had no one to meet him at the train. He had no one to escort him to the train. How time, circumstances and conditions change. Today he is not permitted to leave or go to the train alone for fear that he be lost or go astray; or perhaps he might stump his foot or dust may fly in his face. O! what changes take place when a man gets a big office. He becomes the observed of observers. It is a great honor to be appointed to office. Hon. James G. Blaine said on one occasion "the way to make Negro leaders is to appoint Negroes to office." The average white man thinks that office holding makes leaders. Some colored men think that the moment that they are appointed to office they become leaders. Mr. J. Lincoln Johnson is no bigger man today than he was before he was nominated recorder of deeds. It is true that he may earn a little more money. Not much more, however, if any more. Mr. Johnson has a large law practice in Atlanta, Ga., and if he takes the office it will be more for recreation than anything else. If Mr. Johnson will act wise he will decline every invitation to every doll baby show that many Washington people give. Every new man who comes to town is more or less invited to attend the baby show. The Bee believes that Mr. Johnson will be recorder of deeds. MAYOR OF DURHAM As an evidence of what The Bee said last week relative to the esteem in which Dr. James E. Shepard is held by the American people, elsewhere in The Bee will be seen a letter from the Mayor of Durham, N. C., who commends Dr. Shepard for the great work that he is doing in the interest of the colored people of the United States. There is no man in the United States who is better liked than Dr. Shepard. He deserves the commendation and assistance of all lovers of racial progress. He spoke at Jamestown, New York last Sunday to one of the largest audiences that has ever assembled in that historic place. Everywhere he goes he meets with an ovation by the very best people in the country. Great preparations are being made by the people of Durham, N. C., for the laying of the cornerstone of his National Religious Training School. There will be people from all over the country present on this occasion. The Mayor of Durham will make things pleasant for the people. EASTER AT TUSKEGEE The quietly gotten up invitations for an excursion to Tuskegee, Alabama, will not materialize. Invitations were sent out to twenty of the most select and best educated men and women in this city. Out of three thousand of the best educated and select scholars in the city the committee failed to secure twenty. A letter was sent to The Bee asking its advice about the affair, but The Bee could not give the desired information until it asked one of its friends and he said that Mrs. A. M. Curtis was getting the excursion up; that the fare for the round trip would be forty-two dollars. The Bee regrets that the select excursion of educators to Tuskegee was a failure. Perhaps the invitation committee was too narrow and selfish. There are hundreds of people, no doubt, would have been too glad to have visited Tuskegee Easter. The Bee made an investigation and ascertained that not even Mrs. Pittman had been asked to visit her father's school Easter. This very select excursion to Tuskegee was too select for its own good. The next time The Bee hopes that the committee will be more liberal with its invitations. PRESIDENT TAFT'S Elsewhere in The Bee will be read with interest the speech of President Tait, delivered in the Metropolitan Church last Tuesday evening, March 8th. When Mr. Taft said that the so-called representatives of the colored race or quasi leaders should be educated men—he spoke the truth. He also scored a hit when he said that the doctors should likewise be educated. This speech should be read by every colored American and well digested. Mr. Taft lost no time in getting down to his speech after he had been introduced. His speech or rather his introductory was very significant. He doesn't believe in flattery. Mr. Taft would rather for a man to tell him his faults and point out his errors. He would appreciate him more. Mr. Taft knows that the colored people are dissatisfied and nothing will convince him otherwise. The speech speaks for itself. RADICALLY WRONG There is something radically wrong in the colored schools. A reorganization of the normal and kindergarten normal schools would improve conditions there. Either the Armstrong Normal Training School or Normal School No.2 ought to be abolished or investigated. Pupils from the Armstrong declared to be too incompetent to enter Normal School No.2. Will the Board of Education appoint a special investigating committee. Six Armstrong pupils forced to repeat, thus declaring their incompetency. The children of poor parantage suffering either by favorism or prejudice. Will the Board investigate before the attention of Congress is called to it IN THE ALLEYS The Bee is pleased to publish an account of the great work the ministers are accomplishing among the lowly in the alleys. This alley campaign was first instituted by Mr. Miles C. Maxfield, two years or more ago. Many of the Christian ministers laughed at him. Mr. Maxfield, in his humble way, worked hard and today to the surprise of many Rev. Waldron' Rev. Grimke, Rev. Garner and many other leading ministers in the city have work to be done in the alleys. This is where the reform should begin. Clean out the alleys and endeavor to persuade the colored people to live in the street. NO MEYER IN IT The manager of the Casino Theatre Meyer said some time ago that he was building the theatre on Tea street for the colored people. For the benefit of the colored people and for the benefit of Mr. Meyer The Bee states publicly that he (Meyer) is not building a theatre for the colored people on Tea street, that Meyer is in no way interested in this theatre and neither has put one cent in it. Messrs. J. T. Rosenthal and Benjamin Benedict of Baltimore are building this theatre with their own money and so far as Meyer is concerned they don't know him, and The Bee is prepared to put up a wager that Meyer is not in it. It is as much as he can do to run his Casino. Helping The Poor AN ALLEY WORKERS' CONFERENCE A conference of individuals and organizations—white and colored —interested in the uplift of the alley population in the city was held in Shiloh Baptist Church on Wednesday last. The meeting was called by The Alley Improvement Association of Washington, and there were present: Dr. George M. Kober of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, Mrs. John Newton Culbertson, President and Mrs. H. E. Monroe, Mrs. L. F. Olney and Miss Lanterman of the Woman's Interdenominational Missionary Union, Dr. and Mrs. Kline of the Gospel Mission, Dr. George W. Cabaniss of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Mrs. B. K. Bruce of the W. C. T. No. 2, Mrs. Williams, President and Misses Cook, Carpenter and Cromwell of the Boys' Club in Blagden's Alley; Mrs. Bettie G. Francis, President and Mrs. M. E. Holland of the C. Y. W. C. C., Mrs. Anna E. Murray of the Day Nursery Association, and Mrs. P. Donoho, President and Mesdames Mary C. Dismond, Elora Wilson, and H. V. Roberson, James R. Moss, and Charles P. Roy of the Alley Helping Hand Society of Shiloh Church and the following members of the Association calling the conference, namely: Revs. Milton Waldron, A. C. Garner, W. J. Howard, E. E. Risks, F. J. Grimke, D. E. Wiseman and Rev. Prof. Joseph; Mesdames Rosetta Lawson, M. M. Waldron, S. Boyce and E. C. Lewis. Res. Dr. Waldron presided and Rev. Mr. Wiseman conducted the devotional exercises. The chairman stated that the object of the conference was three-fold (1) To become better acquainted with these engaged in social betterment, moral and religious work in the alleys in the city. (2) To de- [Picture of a man in a suit and hat, facing forward.] REGISTER W T VERNON INTRODUCES PRESIDENT TAFT AND DEFENDS THE RACE IN A MASTERLY SPEECH 3.000 PEOPLE APPLAUD HIM TO THE ECHO. REGISTER W T VERNON INTRODUCES PRESIDENT TAFT AND DEFENDS THE RACE IN A MASTERLY SPEECH 3.000 PEOPLE APPLAUD HIM TO THE ECHO. THE LEGEND OF THE MUSICIAN DR. JAMES E. SHEPARD INDORSED BY THE MAYOR DURHAM, N C. vise methods for enlarging and improving the work already being done. (3) To prevent duplication of work and to insure harmony among workers. There were addresses by the following: Dr. Kober, Mrs. Culbertson, Mrs. Monroe, Mrs. Anna E. Murray, and Miss Cook. All the speakers commended the conference and urged the great need of more effective work being done for the uplift of the 19,000 people living in the alleys of this city. Dr. Kober said that these alley people were among the weaker and poorer citizens and that their only capital was their labor, and that it is highly important that they be healthy to make their capital profitable and that anything that tended to make them clean in home and life was to be commended for this promised health. Mrs. Monroe and Dr. Kline felt that the homes of these people, and their bodies, as well, would be clean when the gospel took deep root in their hearts. Mrs. Culbertson thought that all the churches ought to be interested in this work, and that the Missionary Societies of those churches should pray as well as work for the regeneration of the alley people. She also stated that the organization she represented was deeply interested in the people living in the courts and alleys of Washington and was doing considerable for them. Mrs. Bruce urged that more attention be given to the work of destroying the drink evil among the alley people. Miss Cromwell showed the value of the stamp-saving work among them and called attention to the large number of bright and intelligent boys and girls in the alleys and courts eager to learn and who would be greatly helped by a boy's and girl's club. Miss Cook spoke along the same line giving some facts concerning her work in Blagden's Court and urged that similar work be done in all the other alleys. Mrs. Francis and Mrs. Holland spoke of the good work being done in Willow Tree Alley and in other places by the C. Y. W. C. A., and Mrs. Murray presented the great need of day nurseries to care for the small children whose mothers are compelled to leave them without protection while they go out to earn a living. Dr. Waldron called attention to the fact that many of the shacks in numerous alleys in the city were unfit for dwellings and urged that they be replaced by brick structures and that the city fathers see that there are proper sewerage connection in all the houses in the alleys and that hydrants with sinks be placed inside each house. He said that the city would always have a large class of poor people and that there would always be need of small houses, and instead of closing up the alleys he would advise that the houses in them be kept in a sanitary condition, and blind alleys be done away with, and that the condition of the people living in the alleys and courts of the city be improved so that these places shall cease to be plague spots and the rendezvous for the idle and the vicious, as many of them are at present. The conference favored the formation of a Central Committee which shall be made up of representatives from all organizations engaged in work of any kind for the uplift of the alley population of the city and that this committee hold conferences and public meetings at frequent intervals for the discussion of methods of work and the strengthening of the work already being done in the alleys and courts of Washington.. After partaking of a delightful dinner provided by the ladies of Shiloh, the Conference adjourned subject to call of the president of the Alley Improvement Association. SOUTH'S OPINION OF DR. SHEPARD Durham, N. C., March 10, 1910. Dr. J. E. Shepard. I want to congratulate you and your co-workers on the success that you are making in your work for the building and establishing of a national religious training school and chatauqua for the colored race, and say to you that the best element of the white race of the South are very much interested in your work and hope to see you make it a great success. There is nothing in the estimation of the white people of the South, that will benefit the colored race more than such a school as you are working to establish, and we as a white race, stand ready at all time to help you along in your good work. Hoping that you will meet with the greatest success in your undertakings in this work. am Dr. J. E. Shepard is fast becoming a second Washington. He arrived home last week after a very successful trip north and west and brings most encouraging news of the growth and popularity of his idea of race redemption. The program for the summer school is out and is doubtless the very best that could be secured. It is certain that no better program has ever been attempted among the Negroes of this State and none but Dr. Shepard could have conceived of a summer school of such magnificence and usefulness. This is another evidence of what he means to his home city.—From the N. C. Reformer. The Student Volunteer Gymnasium Movement of Howard University will canvass Washington, Baltimore and vicinity during the Easter holidays. Beginning Thursday, Marcin 24, continuing through Monday, March 28, the students hope to tag every person in these cities. The Volunteer Gymnasium, Movement is an association of the entire student body formed to assist the Alumni Association in raising funds to erect a gymnasium. The students have been working toward that end for a month and they hope to make a creditable report at the Alumni Reunion in May. The students earnestly solicit the aid of their friends in this worthy movement. A gymnasium is a necessary adjunct to the University as it appears to the students, consequently they are striving earnestly to realize such an undertaking. The teams have no place to train, the athletes are handicapped and above all our young ladies have no opportunity for physical culture. You can readily see that this is indeed a matter worthy of much consideration and the students have pledged themselves to make the movement a success. Let everybody buy a five-cent tag during the Easter-holidays. Every tag means a brick in the gymnasium This is one time the students will appreciate brick-throwing. COLORED ENUMERATORS The Week in Society Ice cream soda is popular with the crowds the year round at the Board & McGuire Pharmacy, on Fourteenth street between Tea and You streets. Mr. Lewis Moore of St. Paul, Minn., arrived in this city last week, to enter into services of the Census Department. Mrs. Alex. Woodley of Philadelphia, Pa., is the guest of her parents in this city. Mr. E. A. Johnson, attorney at law, of New York City is in this city. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cruso of this city were the guests of their parents Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Lewis in Baltimore, Md., recently. Messrs Samuel Bond and Jno. Thomas of Baltimore, were in this city to the basket ball contest between the Baltimore High School and Howard University. Miss Edna Moten of this city is visiting friends in Middletown, and Harrisburg, Pa. The basket ball game between Howard University and Union University on Saturday evening last, at True Reformers' Hall was very interesting, Howard was victorious. Miss Jessie Rollins, one of the society belle's of Springfield, Ill., has accepted a position in the Census Department here as stenographer. Miss Hattie Thomas of this city is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Mary Lustre at Hampton, Va. Mr. George May, of Newport News, Va., is visiting friends in this city. Bishop W. B. Derrick and Madame, of Chicago, Ill., have enjoyed their visit to this city greatly. Dr. Jno. Keatz of this city was recently in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. A. S. Gray of this city has gone to New York, as stenographer to a special committee, appointed by Bureau of statistics to study statistical methods in the custom house. Miss Bertha Harris of Pittsburg, Pa., has been the recipient of many social functions while in this city. Mr. Scipio Jones of Little Rock, Ark., was in the city last week. Mr. Jones left Tuesday to visit his daughter in Concord, N. C. There will be song service at Howard University on Palm Sunday by the choir, at 4:30 p. m. Dr. E. C. Morris has returned to his home in Helena Ark., after a delightful trip to this city. Our old friend, J. A. Johnson of 1528 15th street, N. W., has been confined to his residence for several days with the grip. Jery always carries a smile that will not come off. The Holy Rite of Confirmation was administered by the Bishop of the Diocese, Rev. Dr. Harrowig last Thursday evening to a large class at St. Luke's Church. Mrs. Richard H. Nugent, residing in F street, n. w., has been quite indisposed the past week, necessitating the attendance of a physician. The Maceo Moving picture show has changed hands. Dr. Corrothers will preach a special sermon tomorrow. Mr. W. Sidney Pittman will leave for North Carolina this evening on professional business. Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson having been confirmed he left for his home in Georgia this week. If you want your suit cleaned and have it put in a good condition, call on Mr. Smith, 935 R street, n.w. The illustrated Historical Calendar displayed and changed daily in the window of the drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth street northwest, is attracting teachers and their pupils. It is an educational feature of unusual merit. An enjoyable theatre party was given on last Saturday night in honor of Miss Alice Claggett of N. Y. The chaperons were Mesdames Laura Douglass, and Alice Colbert. Misses E. A. Chase and R. E. Bell. In the party we recognized Misses Evelyn Lacy, Gladys Freeman, Virginia Williams, Ada Williams, Marion Freeman, and little Rosma Lacy and Warren Williams. This is the second of a series of such excursions that have been planned for her pleasure; the first one, that of march 5, was by her uncle, Mr. Charles R. Douglass. Mrs. Fareley of Brookland, D. C., is convalescing. Her daughter, Mrs. Harry Burliegh, who has been with her since the beginning of her illness, left the city on Wednesday last for New York, where she will join her husband. A successful song service was held in the 15th Street, Presbyterian Church last Sunday night for the benefit of the social settlement. Much credit is due Miss Louise Womley for its success. Little Marion Montgomery, daughter of Dr. W. S. Montgomery of 11th Street, is ill at her home with scarlet fever. On Sunday last, the 15th Street Presbyterian Church was crowded to its utmost capacity at its morning services. About thirty-five new members were admitted into the church some of whom were: Vivian Williams, Sylvia Piper, Edith Merriwether, Petty Mitchell Tulip Cook, J. H. N. Warning, Jr., Hattie Holmes, Evelyn Carter, Ruth Peters, Jennie Cornell, Marie Scott, Tulip Cook. On Monday last about two o'clock five was discovered in the flat on 3rd and T Streets, which accasioned much loss for its inmates. Mr. Wormley and family being enumerated among its victims. Miss Nannie Burroughs is ill at the Baptist Home, Lincoln, D. C. The Men's Educational Club of this city was entertained by Mr. Haley Douglass on last Saturday night, at his residence, 318 N. E. Mr. Morris Cafritz, who conducts a first-class grocery store at 4th and Q streets, n. w., is said to be one of the best business men ever located that section. He stands high with all classes and is very liberal with the churches Mr. W. L. Pollard went to New York city last week on business and was royally entertained by his friends On his return home he stopped in Philadelphia, Pa., and wry the guest of Editor J. E. Asbury. Mr. R. R. Colbert is now himself again. Rev. S. L. Corrothers has a movement on foot to help Livingston College. Rev. J. Anderson Taylor preached an eloquent sermon last Sunday, MEN'S CLUB The Men's Club of 19th St. Baptist Church will hold its first Public meeting and installation of officers on Easter Sunday After at 4 c'clock in the church. An interesting musical and literary programme has been arranged. Hon. J. C. Dancy will deliver the principal address installing the officers. This club has been recently organized and has for its object the spiritual, moral, intellectual and social uplift of its members and a desire to do some useful service in the community, also to financially assist the church. Mr. A. L. Alexander is president; Mr. Ewell Conaway, Secretary; and Mr. L. H. Peterson, chairman of the committee on exercises. The Christian Endeavor Society of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church held its annual election of officers recently which resulted in the following elections: President, Miss H. Pinn; vice president, Miss Edith Savoy; secretary Miss Ellen Lee; Treasurer, Miss Ada Williams; pianist, Miss Virginia Williams. On each Sunday a very interesting musical and literary program was rendered. LENTEN ORGAN RECITALS During each Lenten season in the Diocese of Washington, organ recitals, embracing special music and sacred cantatas are given at stated periods by the choir masters and organist of the several parishes, assisted by well known vocalists and instrumentalists. The present season has thus far witnessed recitals of the highest order, and have proved most pleasing and enjoyable, as well as inspiring, elevating and uplifting to those who have patronized them. The second rectal of the series was given by Mr. Wm. C. Braxton, organist of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, on the evening of the 4th inst., assisted by Miss Mary Denby, a well known soprano soloist of Boston, Massachusetts. A large number of auditors greeted Mr. Braxton and his program which follows was highly enjoyed: (1) "Movement of Sonata, No. 1, Whiting. (2) "Algretto in B Minor," Guillant. (3) Soprano "The Holy Cross," Starr. (4) "Prelude and Fuge in A Minor," Bach. (5) "Spring Song," Mendelsohn. "Pilgrim Chorus from Tannhauser," Wagner. (6) Soprano, "The sorrows of Death," Mendelsohn. (7) "Overture to Wm. Tell," Rossine On Sunday evening, the 13th inst. the choir master and organist of the old St. John's P. E. Church, Mr. Henry H. Freeman assisted by Master Samuel Leech, soprano solo-boy of St. John's choir, gave a recital before a large audience.' The following program has rendered: (1) "Concert overture in E flat Major," Faulkes. (2) "Romance in D flat Major," Lemare. (3) Grand Choeur in A flat Major, Faulkes. 4 Capriccio, Lemaigne. 5 Solo Come unto Him, Millard. 6 Hosanna, Wachs. 8 Solo, O Jesus Thou Art Standing, Guonod. 9 To a Wild Rose, MacDonell. 10 Chopin Funeral March. On last evening the recital was given by Miss Lulu Howe, organist of St. Luke's Church, assisted by Miss Nettie Murray, soprano solist, and Mr. W. Scott Mayo, tenor soloist. An appreciative audience was present. The numbers of the program were as follows: 1. Oppertorie, Read. 2. Traumerei, Schumann. 3. Solo, selected, Miss Nettie Murray. 4. Sonate Pathetique, Bethoven. 5. Serenata, Mozowski. 6 Solo, selected, Mr. W. Scott Mayo. 7. March, DuSacre, Meyerbeer. These enjoyable recitals will end with the cantata, "Seven Last Words of Christ" by DuBoise, on Friday evening, the 25th, (Good Friday) to be given by the choir of St. Luke's Church, assisted by well known local talent, to which the public is respectfully solicited to attend. NEW PHARMACY Dr. Walter C. Simmons, a graduate of the M Street High School and Howard University, a young man who has won his way by push and perserverance, has purchased the drug store at the corner of 20th and K streets, northwest and has thoroughly remodelled it and put in it all kinds of first class toilet articles and fresh drugs. Dr. Simmons proposes to make it one of the finest drug stores in the city. Aside from his new line of drugs, he has stocked his store with some of the finest cigars and tobacco that can be found. His many friends would do well to call and inspect his place and be convinced that he has an up-to-date pharmacy. Call today, 20th and K streets, northwest. BETHEL LITERARY Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, president of the National Association of Colored Women, will deliver one of her stirring addresses before Bethel Lit- erary and Historical Association on March 22, subject, "The Needs of the Hour." Miss Carter is a speaker of great power and is said to be one of the most remarkable of American women. A musical program will support her address. All the Women's Clubs of Washington are lending a hand to make the meeting a success. SECURE YOUR DATES AT ONCE If you want to go down the river this summer secure your dates now from Col. Jefferson. The River Queen and Jane Mosely will be the the only excursion boats for colored Americans this season. Don't delay. Principal Booker T. Washington has just received a letter from President William H. Taft in which he says that he intends to take a contribution toward the endowment fund of the institution within a short while. GONUNDRUM MAN ONCE MORE This Time He Has a Fine One About Policeman and Civil Service 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-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 32. 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 merritorious literateur." And the door closed, shutting off the breeze. SHOW THEM YOUR TICKETS This Will Surely Relleve 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 save 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 human them in it during our stay. 25% to 35% Don't misunderstand our offer. We cannot afford to make such price reductions on all Furniture-at the same time we are not inviting you to buy "odds and ends." The goods marked for this special offering are of our best qualities. 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Solo — Selected, Mrs. Lucy Blazburn. Sermon—Rev. Dr. Isaac N. Ross. Music—Metropolitan Junior Choir. Collection. Music — Metropolitan Choir, Mrs. Alicia Chase, sup't. Appeal for the St. Luke object. Miss M. A. D. Madre. BLUE LODGE It was with profound regret that owing to sickness, the Masonic voter was unable to attend the 65th anniversary of Universal Lodge, No.1, of Alexandria, Va., on February 27. The writer has much historical data relative to the early history of that Lodge under which this jurisdiction owes many obligations for the position it occupies in the Masonic world today. Social Lodge No.1 was set apart in 1825, but little progress was made until 1845, when a young man Felix Dorsey noted the condition of affairs . --- creole color, some have Indi- faces, and others have black some girls have light brown skin that color your skin may be, if both, by using Complexion Won- your features will permit. "is used by aristocratic white er what color her complexion attractive. 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Most Excellent Grand High Priest Companion A. W. Sears, and his officers entertained on last Sunday, at the Hotel Brunswick, the M. X. Grand Chapter of Maryland also the Grand Commander of the K. T. Ice cream soda is popular with the crowds the year round at the Board & McGuire Pharmacy, on Fourteenth street between Tea, and You streets. We want four thousand more subscribers for The Bee at once and we must have them. 1st. Because The Bee is preparing to come out in a new suit of clothes. 2nd. Because we are about to install an up-to-date job printing office with all modern type. If the patrons of The Bee want a real live, up-to-date journal. To enable us to secure the four thousand additional subscribers the management has decided to make the subscription for The Bee for one year, one dollar and twenty-five cents. This offer will hold good for 30 days. Send your name in at once. Real The Bee. THE BEE Lincoln Memorial Building Co. IT IS THE NEW EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION --- CAPITAL, $400,000 $100,000 OF STOCK AT PAR $10.00 PER SHARE To be paid for on the Easy Payment Plan $100,000 OF STOCK AT PAR $10.00 PER SHARE To be paid for on the Easy Payment Plan Why? Because It advances the interest of the Negro race. It affords the individual a safe and sure investment. It opens up new channels of enterprise. It presents the Negro in his true light before the eyes of the world. IT IS THE NEW NEW EMANCIPATION Proposed LINCOLN MEMORIAL OF WASHINGTON paying amusement place in America. IT KNOWS ALL THIS AND IT INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE in an enterprise ABSOLUTELY DEVOID OF RISK, where every dollar will be invested in the best of Washington Real Estate, that increases in value annually at the rate of 5% per cent nearly DOUBLE bank interest. Even that is good enough for most people, but the LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY will do better than that. It will have offices and stores and lodge rooms, which will earn, on a conservative estimate, at least $23,200 per year. Equal to 5 9-10 per cent per annum. Committance for First Payment A. W., Washington, D. C. as first payment on .....shares of following terms and conditions: ten dollars per share. and non-assessable. the first payment shall not be less than 10 per to me for the number of shares applied for upon ... State... (2) FIRST OFFERING This is of importance to YOU and and every Negro in the land! WASHINGTON IS THE SEAT OF OUR NATION'S GOVERNMENT. The eyes of the world are on Washington.. One-third of Washington's population is Negro. If all the Negroes in Washington were colonized in one place they would make a city larger than Richmond, Virginia. There are seven theatres in Washington, supported by a white population of 241,923 and a few foolish Negroes willing to be colonized in the galleries, the only place to which the Negro is admitted. THERE IS NOT A SINGLE FIRSTCLASS OFFICE BUILDING in the city of Washington, where a colored professional or business man or woman, and there are hundreds of them in the National Capital, can obtain business quarters. JUST THINK OF IT! 100,000 enterprising, thrifty, intelligent people, through race prejudice, swept completely out of the business district of Washington; 100,000 genteel, prosperous, amusement loving people deprived of every form of theatrical entertainment unless willing to submit to the most humiliating conditions. Every colored man and woman IN Washington. Every colored man and woman VISITING Washington. Every colored man and woman in America, familiar with the true state of the Negro in Washington, realizes that a theatre, store, and office building, operated by the Negroes, for the Negroes, is A NECESSITY. The welfare of the race demands it. The self-respect of the race demands it. Any enterprise resting its hope of success upon a NECESSITY is bound to be a SUCCESS. A THEATRE AND OFFICE BUILDING IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, built by Negroes, for the use of Negroes, is a NECESSITY. Appreciating to the utmost that fact— THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY proposes to erect in the Central Business District of the city of Washington a magnificent theatre, seating capacity 2,500, and a store and office building of splendid proportion, adequate in every respect to meet the requirements of prosperous professional and business men. The enterprise is exceptional in two respects: First—It is absolutely safe. Second—It promises enormous possibilities as a money maker. Features that must appeal to every man or woman with a few dollars to invest, and you are such a man or woman or you would not have read this far. THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY has surveyed the field carefully, and it KNOWS that hundreds of tenants are available for the offices, that dozens of merchants are ready to rent the stores, and that 100,000 people are anxious to patronize the theatre exclusively, and make it the best 9 EMANCIPATION Proposed Front Elevation LINCOLN MEMORIAL OFFICE AND THEATRE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. ```markdown ``` Proposed Front Elevation LINCOLN MEMORIAL OFFICE AND THEATRE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. MENT M.C. shares of conditions: shall not be less than 10 per of shares applied for upon Lincoln Memorial Build 494 Louisiana Gentlemen: I have read your ing Company. Please send me by It is understood that th e... PATION PROCESS Front Elevation PACE AND THEATRE BUILDING BUTTON, D. C. It will also have a theatre, which, if patronized at prices ranging from 10 to 50 cents, by only 1 per cent of the total colored population of the city of Washington, will enable the Company to pay 15 per cent on its total capitalization. Equal in all to 20 9-10 per cent, to which may be added the land value increase of $5 \%$ per cent. Now, all this is Conservatively Estimated. Now, all this is Conservatively Estimated. Banks and Insurance Companies engage in enterprises like this with their depositors' and policyholders' money-YOUR money, but YOU get only about 3 or $ _{1/2} $ per cent. The banks or insurance companies keep the balance. THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILD- Tear off and Lincoln Memorial Building Company. 494 Louisiana Ave., Washington, D.C. Gentlemen: 'I have read your advertisement and desi- ing Company. Please send me by retnrn mail, free of ch It is understood that there is no obligation on m Name ... Street Lincoln Memorial Building Company. 494 Louisiana Ave., Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: 'I have read your advertisement and desire further information regarding the Lincoln Memorial Building Company. Please send me by retnrn mail, free of charge, prospectus of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company. It is understood that there is no obligation on my part whatsoever. DR SAMUEL G. ELBERT, 1st V.-Pres. Physician Wilmington, Del. DR. L. H. SINGLETON, Auditor Pharmacist Washington. D. C. The C men of s you are p through t Their They have Company earned m vest YOU NG DCN'T The pr able $1.0 months u Tear off and mail for Free Prospect company. e., Washington, D. C. Arrisement and desire further informa nail mail, free of charge, prospectus or no obligation on my part whatsoever. name ... ... ... ... Street ... City OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS W. SIDNEY PITTMAN. President. Architect Washington, D. C. WILLIAM A. BOWIE, Secretary Secretary Laborers' Building and Loan Ass'n Washington. D. C. JOHN W. LEWIS President Laborers' Building and Loan Ass'n Washington, D. C. ADVISORY BOARD LAMATION ING COMPANY is ENTIRELY NEGRO. Not one dollar of white capital will be accepted in exchange for its securities. There is not one dollar of Promotion Stock, consequently there is no watered stock. Every holder of stock from the President down must pay at LEAST $10.00 per share for every share of stock allotted to him. This does not mean that the price of stock will REMAIN at $10.00 per share. It is $10.00 NOW. It will advance in price far beyond $10.00, just as railroad and public utility stock goes to several times par. So will the Lincoln Memorial Building Company's stock go to several times its present value. This means that a share of stock costing $10.00 NOW will be worth $40.00 when stock goes to four times par. Estimates show that the Company's earnings will be 20 per cent, and that is four times par, with every dollar invested in Real Estate. THE BEST in the city of Washington, where values are as firmly fixed as the Rock of Gibraltar. This does not mean that the price of stock will remain at $10.00 per share. It is $10.00 NOW. If the Company, as it is estimated, pays 20 per cent, a $10.00 share of stock will be worth $40.00. If it pays 40 per cent, a single share of $10.00 stock will be worth $80.00. Just as railroads and public utility stocks increase in value, so will the Lincoln Memorial Building Company's stock increase in price. The first allotment of stock at $10.00 a share is being rapidly subscribed, and the next allotment will be $12.50 per share, to which point it will soon be advanced; therefore, you are urged to avail yourself of the present opportunity to get in as completely on the ground floor as any one of the Company's Directors are. The Company's Directors, by the way, are men of sterling worth, integrity and honor, as you are possibly aware, or can easily ascertain through any COMMERCIAL AGENCY. Their names are at the top of this page. They have unbounded faith in the future of the Company. They have invested THEIR hard earned money in it, and they advise you to invest YOUR money side by side with theirs. DCN'T WAIT UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. The price of stock is $10.00 per share, payable $1.00 down and $1.00 per month for nine months upon each share subscribed for. Before you lay this paper down cut out the coupon on the lefthand corner of this page and mail to-day, with remittance for first payment, if for but one share of stock. We shall be glad at all times to give you any further information desired, and again invite you to join us in this enterprise. C. are further information regarding the Lincoln Memorial Build- charge, prospectus of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company. by part whatsoever. City State. S. H. BOLLING Contractor and Builder Lynchburg, Va. ```markdown ``` SAMUEL W. RUTHERFORD 2d V.-Pres. Manager National Benefit Association Washington, D. C. DR. CHAS. H. 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Prescriptions carefully compounded. Old Celenial Records Show Act Was Attempted In 1656 — The Punishment. It is not necessary to give up our plious faith in the superior political morality of our forefathers when we learn that even in the first generation of Bostonians was found a ballot stuffer. The same record which reveals this break records also its instant repudiation and punishment. It was on the fourteenth day of January, 1655, 25 years after the settlement of Boston, according to the quiet records preserved of the king's chapel, that a referendum was held as to whether a part of the land should be alienated. The old chronicle runs: "The Inhabitants proceeded to bring in their votes; and when the Selectmen were receiving 'em at the Door of the Hall they observed one of the Inhabitants, viz., John Pigeon, to put in about a dozen with the word Yea wrote on all of 'em, being charged with so doing, he acknowledged it, and was thereupon Ordered by the Moderator to pay a Fine of Five Pounds for putting in the settlement of Boston." PATENT DRAWINGS ARTING,DETAILING,TRAC BLUE PRINTING cording to the more than One Vote according to Law, and the Moderator thereupon declared to the Inhabitants that they must draw and bring in their Votes again in Manner as before directed, and the Inhabitants accordingly withdrew and the Votes being brought in and sorted it appeared that there were Four Hundred and two votes and that there was two hundred and five Yeas and one hundred and ninety-seven Naya." — Boston Transcript. BITTER WAS THE AWAKENING Sleeping Owner of Millions Brought Back to Earth by Stern Yet Modest Demand. "I dreamed last night that beginning with $100 I pyramided my bets on the stock market so that in a little while I had $2,000,000,000," said one of the artist colony in West Sixty-seventh street yesterday. "A crowd of people came to me and besought me to cease speculating. They pointed out that I had more money than I could ever spend and if I kept on I would own all there was in the world. I replied that I wanted a billion dollars more for my own use and that I proposed with the two billion I already had to establish a great institution where all the artists and writers and sculptors might work free from pecuniary annoyances, and raise the standard of beauty in all the arts throughout the world. The last man who came to beg me to stop making money was my attorney. I turned a deaf ear to his entreaties and finally he sternly demanded of me the two dollars and a half that I had borrowed from him last week. Then I woke up."—New York press. This Offer of The Washington Bo Will Appeal Especially to Women The Winner Louisiana Exposit If this pair of Shears breaks or within five years from date of p with a new pair without cost Hamilton Silver Co., Factory B. Notice the Guarantee Given by The Best Shears In The World Come to our office, 1109 Eye Street, northwest, and see this Self-Tightening Shear." You never saw anything like it. ABSOLUTELY FREE Enclosed herewith please find $2.00 for which please send me or one year, The Washington Bee, and at once, free, postageaid, one pair of Self-Tightening Shears, as advertised. James H Win low ALL WORK-FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. James H. Dabney James H. Dabney FUNERAL DIRECTOR.. FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Hiring, Livery and Sale Stable. Carriages hired for funerals, parties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carriages kept in first-class style. Satisfaction guaranteed. Business at 1132 Third street northwest. Main office branch at 222 More street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office, Main 1727. Telephone call for Stable, Main 1428-5. ", OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY, Where I can accommodate 50 Horses. ,Call and inspect our new, and modern stable. J. H. DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third Street N. W. Phone, Main 3200. Carriages for Hire. John T. Rhines and Company Carriages for Hire. Telephone, Main 19 Funeral Directors and Embalmers. Bodies Cremated as Well as Interred Satisfaction Guaranteed. 600 Second Street S. W. Washington, D. C. Picturesque Feature of the Battleship is Being Supplanted By a Structure of Steel. Boston.—One of the most picturesque features of the battleship is rapidly on its way to the scrap heap. The military mast, that heavy steel column of which most ships of Uncle Sam's navy carried a pair, fore and aft, which had fighting tops from the platforms of which machine guns could be used to pop away at torpedo boats or like craft, is being regarded as obsolete. The military mast was considered not so very long ago, a formidable feature of the equipment of a battleship. Now, it is being supplanted by a skeleton mast, a stranded structure of steel sufficiently open in its inter- New and Old Masts of the Battleship Missouri. New and Old Masts of the Battleship Missouri. lacing of supports to permit of the least possible damage from the shots of the enemy. It has been shown by experiments that this form of structure will stand the greatest amount of puncture from shots before it collapses, and so the navy department is replacing the more or less solid structures with this grapevine arrangement. The new mast, while rising to the height of the topmast of the old style, is only about one-fifth of the weight, averaging about 7,000 pounds, as against 34,000 pounds of most masts of the old style. The height of the new masts from the water to the lookout is about 120 feet, or approximately the same as the old ones, but the "eye" of the ship is infinitely safer on the top of the new masts than it was on the top of the old wooden topmasts. The illustration very adequately shows the masts on the battleship Missouri recently fitting at the Charlestown navy yard, the foremast being the new model and the mainmast the old. NEGRO AT THE NORTH POLE Matthew Henson, Peary's Valet, Proves That Black Man Can Stand Coldest Weather. New York.—The general supposition that the negro can't stand cold weather and is a warm climate person only, is refuted in the case of Matthew Henson, Commander Robert E. Peary's personal servant. Among the interesting announcements connected with the north pole discovery was the statement that Henson was the only civilized person with Peary when the top ```markdown ``` Matthew Henson. of the world was discovered. Henson, in fact, says it was he who raised the stars and stripes at the "great rail" and that he taught the Eskimos to cheer when the American flag was unfurled. Walter Kitchener at Disadvantage. Gen. Walter Kitchener, who is stationed at Bermuda, is a brother of Lord Kitchener, and this fact has worked against him rather than for him. He is considered a clever soldier in England, and at the time of the war in South Africa it was thought that he would receive an important post that would become vacant. He was passed over and his brother, Lord Kitchener, was asked for the reason. "It should have gone to my brother," he said, "but if I had given it to him everybody would have yelled 'favoritism' at the top of their voice," so I picked someone else." Walter Kitchener was expected at Cape Town at a railway station once when an old lady rushed in excitedly and asked at what platform Lord Kitchener was expected to arrive. No one seemed to know anything about his visi- until it finally dawned upon the staff officer that she had heard of the arrival of his brother. He informed her that this was only Kitchener that was expected. "I call it a shame that this man, whoever he may be, should be allowed to use Lord Kitchener's name; the government ought to do something about it," she said, stalking majestically out of the station. Yarmouth Scenes Which Dickens Described in His Story of "David Copperfield." London.—A Yarmouth hundred of herring really counts 132, and in many ways the inhabitants of the old town are credited with an open-handed genesis. Peggotty told David Copperfield, you remember, that it was the finest place in the universe, to which the boy replied that "a mound or two might have improved it, and also that if the land had been a little more separated from the sea and the town and the tide had not been quite so much mixed up, like toast and water, it would have been much nicer." But All that Is Left of Pengotty's Hut. presently, when he got into the streets and "smelt the fish and pitch, and oakum, and tallow, and saw the sailors walking about and the carts jingling up and down over the stones." Young Copperfield admitted that he had done Yarmouth an injustice. The remains of Peggotty's hut may still be seen, sad and forlorn, alas! but suggestive nevertheless of the quaint home where David was so happy, of Peggotty's jokes, of little Emily's pretty ways and of the dolefulness of Mrs. Gummidge. There are many ancient buildings that have stood the test of time better than the queer boat-home of Peggotty. Formerly Yarmouth was one of the principal ports of England, and its merchant adventurers enjoyed the patronage of Queen Elizabeth. Its Tolhouse claims to be the oldest municipal building in the kingdom. WILSON WILL GO TO MEXICO Minister to Belgium to Succeed Ambassador Thompson in Neighboring Republic. Washington.—Henry Lane Wilson, American minister to Belgium, will soon be officially named to succeed David E. Thompson as ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Wilson has been notified of his appointment by the state department and is clearing up his business at the legation in Brussels pending his departure for his new post. Mr. Wilson, who is a native of Crawfordsville, Ind., has been in the diplomatic service since 1897, when he was appointed minister to Chile. He Henry Lane Wilson. became minister to Belgium in 1905. Before entering the diplomatic service Mr. Wilson was successively editor, lawyer and banker. He is a graduate of Wabash college. Concert givers in Germany find it more and more difficult to get an audience. Free tickets by no means insures one. A Berlin journal tells how audiences at recitals (Berlin often has more than 50 of them in one week) are apt to be made up. Miss N., who plays or sings, sends out about 200 tickets, some of them to prominent persons. One of these is the wife of Prof. X. She kindly accepts the ticket, but has no intention of attending the concert, so she gives them to her dressmaker, who in turn bestows them upon her assistants, who probably may go to the concert. In one case it was found that of 200 free tickets only 47 were used.—Musical America. Pulsation and Respiration. Before birth the average number of pulsations per minute is 150; in the newly born, 140 to 130; during the first year, 130 to 115; second year, 115 to 100; seventh year, 90 to 85; fourteenth year, 85 to 80; adult life, 80 to 70; old age, 70 to 60. At birth there are 44 respirations in one minute; at five years of age, 26; from 15 to 20, 20; from 20 to 25, 18.7; from 25 to 30, 16; from 30 to 50, 18.1. The average ratio which the number of respirations bears to the number of pulsations in a given time is $1:4\frac{1}{2}$. The temperature of a healthy human adult averages from 98.4 to 96.6, but 97.5 and 99 F. are within normal. W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY, SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS TRICT OF COUNTY No. 16353. Administration Docket. Estate of William Fleming, Deceased. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Maggie Holmes, Executor, it is ordered this 24th day of Febru- ary, A. D. 1910, that Maria Fleming, Joseph Fleming, Vassar' Fleming, Benjamin Fleming, Horace Fleming, Harrison Fleming, Edward Fleming and Ethel Fleming, and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Friday, the 22nd ay of April, A. D. 1910, at 10 o'clock a.m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "the Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned — the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. Job Barnard, Justice Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Porbate Court. W.C. Martin, Attorney. NOW READY Col. Lewis Jefferson the most successful steamboat operator in the country announces that he is now ready to receive dates for the excursion season for his two boats, the River Queen and the Jane Mosley. these are two of the best boats that run upon the Potomas waters. Col. Jefferson has again renovated his boats at a cost of several thousands dollars and at the beginning of the excursion season, the several excursions that are under the control of J. H. Col. Jefferson will be first-class. The Bee states now as it has always stated that these two boats should be encouraged for the reason that Col. Jefferson has made it possible for colored Americans to enjoy themselves, when all other enterprises of a similar character have barred them. The coming season will be the largest and the best in the history. Secure your dates at once because there will be no other boat running this season for colored Americans. J. A. PIERRE J. A. PIERRE Orders Delivered Promptly J. A. PIERRE Wholesale and Retail Dealer in COAL, WOOD AND ICE 454 New York Avenue, N. W. Gents' Pool 441 L Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Your Patronage Kindly Solicited J. A. Pierre. Proprietor Easter . Af . Murray's My Easter opening consists of everything in the line of pure drugs just received. My toilet selections for the season will compare with any to be found in the city. Presents.—Yes, we have them on hand for your Easter offerings. Perfumes of every variety. Murray's SEASON OF 1910 To my friends and the public in general: It is with pleasure that I take this you that the books of the Independent Company are now open for charters for coming season, and it will be to your intes secure the most desirable dates. Our terms are most liberal and charters Washington Park and Somers To which place we have the exclusive exe Mathias Point, Rock Point, Norfolk, Whitimore and all points on the Potomac R Bay Our facilities for chartering parties are respect. Our large covered wharf (used cursion business) enables us to give you date service. No crowding, no exposure tween Washington and Washington Park long and tiresome waiting for the steam It is with pleasure that I take this opportunity to inform you that the books of the Independent Steamboat and Barge Company are now open for charters for Excursions during the coming season, and it will be to your interest to call at once and secure the most desirable dates. Our terms are most liberal and charters can be made for Washington Park and Somerset Beach To which place we have the exclusive excursion rights as well as Mathias Point, Rock Point, Norfolk, White City, Richmond, Baltimore and all points on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay Our facilities for chartering parties are unsurpassed in every respect. Our large covered wharf (used exclusively for our excursion business) enables us to give you most modern and up-to-date service. No crowding, no exposure and our schedule between Washington and Washington Park does away with the long and tiresome waiting for the steamers. --- CHEVROLET Before the construction of Washington Park absolutely no place of recreation was affordedthe people of our race, and I proudly point to the fact that I have fulfilled the demands of the people in every respect. You have one of the best and most modernly improved resorts in this part of the country.Washington Park with its myriads of electric lights, mammoth scenic railway, huge carrousel, dance hall and numerous smaller amusement devices is surpassed in point of natural beauty and modern equipment by no resort south of New York. By perseverance and an enormous cash outlay I have done this, and now I ask you to show me that I have your hearty support by calling at once and making charters for the coming season. Lewis Jefferson. 1910 First Street, S. W. HE WHO HESITATES IS LOST HE WHO HESITATES IS LOST African Mining AND! REAL ESTATE CO. 206 Broadway, New York City. ROOMS 16 and 17. IS OFFERING FOR SALE A LIMITED NUMBER OF ONE DOLLAR ($1.00) SHARES OF STOCK WHEN ISSUED, AT 25c PER SHARE. Development Of 12,800 acres RUBBER and COCOA plantations and PLACER GOLD MINES, ACCRA GOLD COAST, WEST AFRICA. There is no time like the present. Bishop Alex. Walters, Chairman of our Executive Committee, sailed for Accra, Africa on Jan. 25th, 1910. He will inspect property of cempany and the newly constructed R. R. which passes the property. ACT NOW! This, no doubt will be the last allotment offered at this low price. After this allotment is sold the price will advance to its full value of $1.00 per share. WRITE OR CALL or send money by Postal Order or Money Order to ALFRED C. ICOWAN, President, 206 Broadway, N. Y. City. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR FACE LIGHTER COLORED FOR EVERY IMPORTANT OCCASION? YOUR SKIN CLEAR,SMOOTH,FINE? YOUR HAIR LONG,THICK,DRESSY? YOUR PERSONALITY MORE ATTRACTIVE! SEND 10c FOR SAMPLE OF WONDER HAIR GROW ANOTHER 10c FOR 2 SAMPLES OF COMPLEXION WONDER These samples and our information book and the private letters we will write to you will show you how to have all these improvements. We cannot overcome nature, but as far as your individual characteristics will permit, we can make you prepossessing, presentable and attractive. The editors of colored newspapers will tell you we are responsible. We are doing more for colored people than any business concern in this country. Our mission is not a lofty one like that of Dr. Booker Washington, but in our way, we are trying to do for their bodies, what he is doing for their minds. We Represent The Chemical Wonder Company of New York That Company enables people, white or colored, to improve their appearance. People, who have good appearance and who are prepossessing and presentable, secure better positions commercially and socially and get along better every way. WE WILL BE GLAD TO CORRESPOND, WITHOUT CHARGE, WITH COLORED MEN AND COLORED WOMEN WHO TAKE PRIDE IN THEIR PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND DESIRE TO BE INFORMED OF DISCOVERIES WHICH WILL BENEFIT THEM SEND 20c FOR THE THREE SAMPLES IMMEDIATELY THIS LITTLE EXPENDITURE WILL BENEFIT YOU MORE THAN YOU KNOW. After the samples are received, watch for the postman. He will bring you letters very often. 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Two to four applications a month will keep the hair in satisfactory condition, and two to four bottles, regular size, are usually sufficient for a year. Directions with every bottle. Ford's Hair Pomade removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp and keeps it from getting harsh and dry, stops itching and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off and gives it new life and vigor. Absolutely harmless. Used with splendid results even on children and infants. Delicately perfumed, its use is a constant pleasure. A most satisfactory toilet preparation for ladies, gentlemen and children. Don't buy anything else alleged to be "just as good"; if you want the best results buy Ford's Hair Pomade. Look for this name—"Charles Ford, Prest."—on every package. 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Ladies who attend the parlors of Mr. Smith will be given free Clipping and singing of the hair. Mrs. A. J. Smith, 935 R Street, N. W. WHY EXPERIMENT? Entire satisfaction by consulting Prof. F. M. Christo, on all matters pertaining to palmistry' clarivoyance and spiritualism. His 10 years continuous practice in Washington is, in itself sufficient guarantee of his accuracy and reliability. He can tell you your past, present and future. Who your are, and your enemies. To him the secrets of the inner mysteries of life are clear as day. A special reading wil be given for one dollar upon mentioning The Bee. Proi. F. N. Cristo, 713 4th St., N.E. OLD MADE NEW. If you want your clothing cleaned, altered or repaired, you should send a card or call at the up-to-date repair establishment All work guaranteed or money refunded. Mrs. D. Smith, 614 D street, northwest. 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The property is a thoroughly built cottage with porch front and back, concrete foundation, metal roof, on two 25x125 foot lots. Never occupied. Barn and abundant spring water. Plenty of shade and only short walk to two car lines. 1420 N. Y. Ave., N. W. ROOMS FOR RENT, FURNISHED or unfurnished 412 T St. N.W Minneapolis, Minnesota. Does it combine easily without breaking? Is it straight? Does it smooth out nicely? Can you do it up in any of the charming styles, so it will stay, and make you proud of it? Is it long and full of life? If you cannot say YES to all of the above questions, then you must