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VOL.XXX NO 52 DR. THIRKIELD DR. THIRKIELD URGES CHRISTIAN UNITY Violation of Principle of Fellowship His View of Incident Upholds Rights in Church Believes That American Men of Black Race Are to Be Means of Evangelizing Africa. Rev. Wilbur P. Thirkield, president of Howard University, discussed today the exclusion of the colored Sunday School workers of the District from yesterday's big parade of delegates to the World's Sunday School Association. In an interview he made what he termed "a plea for Christian unity and universal race cooperation in the movement to bring all peoples of the world into Christ's kingdom through the World's Sunday School Association." The question is purely civil and religious, and not social he argued. Dr. Thirkield's Plea "Representatives from the nations of the world are gathered here at the capital of the greatest republic on earth," Dr. Thirkield said, "to attend the convention o the World's Sunday School Association. Delegates from Europe, Asia, Africa and the islands of the sea are present. They are welcomed by thousands of delegates from all American churches. "The report of the chairman of the executive committee says: Christian unity has been emphasized in a wonderful way' in these conventions. 'In Rome twenty-seven countries and fifty-three religious denominations, without a note of discord came together. "We are not divided, All one body we.'" "The theme of this Washington convention is the evangelization of the world in this generation. The world is here. "The native Bishop of Japan, with his plea for his dark-skinned brethren, is welcomed. The Bishop of Africa, representing the uncounted millions of the dark continent, is here with his plea for the redemption of the brother in black. "And it is my conviction that if Africa is to be redeemed it must be largely through the educated, consecrated American Negro, redeemed and equipped through the Sunday School, the church and the college. "The great leader from Korea pleads for the darker-hued millions of that nation who are here represented. "The convention in character is ecumenical. It is missionary in purpose and spirit. Its plea is that all races and peoples of the world shall be won to Christ. Exclusion of Negro From Parade "An impressive feature of the program is the great procession, marching along our streets as an illustration of the bigness and world-embracing character of this great Sunday School movement. "The races of the world are here represented, and all find a place but one," Dr. Thirkield continued. "The American Negro here in the District of Columbia is shut out. And this of set purpose by the local committee in charge, although the representatives of the colored churches have made earnest plea for representation. "Other colored races are assigned places in the profession that last evening went from singing in the name of our common Christ. 'Onward Christian soldiers, Marching as to war.' (for the conquest of all races of the whole world for Christ) TOO LATE! - TOO LATE!! ON ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENCE NEGRO CHRISTIANS IN HERE I OBJECT TO THE BLACK COLOR OF YOUR SOULS. QUICK - LET US IN. - WE ARE THE WHITE SUNDAY SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF THE D.C. WE ARE THE WHITE CHRISTIANS OF THE PARADE COMMITTEE. DEVIL The Local Committee of the World's Sunday School Convention refused to allow the colored churches of Washington to take part in the Convention, and refused to allow the colored children to take part in the Sunday School. The Local Committee of the World'sSunday School Convention refused toallow the colored churches of Washington to take part in the Convention, andrefused to allow the colored childrento take part in the Sunday School "What a contrast to the exhibition of educational work in the District, where white cadets and black cadets march in parade, illustrating the achievements of education among all the youth. What a contrast to the political and civic parades, where, at the inauguration of the President, white and black columns follow each other. It is asserted that the Catholic Church does not deny to the colored man recognition in such religious services. "One is your Master," even Christ; and all ye are brethren"—Matt. 23:8. "But God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean."—Acts 10:28. "So they went singing under the dome of the Capitol Yet here in the center of this republic representatives of the Sunday school movement among a people comprising every ninth soul in the United States, and representatives of Christian churches and Sunday schools comprising millions of members, are on a technicality as to organization, shut out from a place in a parade that is designed to set forth the solidarity and greatness, the unity and the Christian spirit of this movement for the saving of all peoples in America, and the evangelization of the world for Christ. AN OPEN LETTER To the Delegates of the Sixth World's Sunday School Convention, Washington, D.C., May 19th to 24th, 1910. From the Colored Ministers of Washington, D. C. Voted (1) That it is the sense of this meeting that there does no appear us from anything that has been done that there has been any discrimination against us on the part of the Executive Committee of the World's Sunday School Association. Voted (2) That the colored people of the District of Columbia have been discriminated against by the Local Committee of The World's Sunday School Convention. Voted (3) That the following open letter be placed in the hands of the delegates of the Sixth World's Sunday School Convention. Resolutions passed unanimously by the colored ministers of Washington, D. C. in mass meeting assembled at Walker Memorial Baptist Church on May 16th A. D., 1910. "My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons"— "If ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well; but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors." —James 2:8 and 9. Dear Fellow Christians. The Lord Jesus Christ leaving the world left to His disciples the command to preach the gospel to every creature. He also said He came to seek and save that which was lost; hence it is the purpose of Christianity to redeem the whole world. The object of the Sixth World's Sunday School Convention is to carry forward God's work in the spirit of Christ among all nations. We know how completely the Lord eliminated race and national prejudice from His social practice; no Samaritan was below His notice, no Magdalene beyond His touch. He is the one Lord and Master of us all. Subject to our temptations, He was without error. It is unfortunate that any one who bears His name should at this time when "the evangelization of the world in this generation" is the watchword of millions — resort to such offensive forms of race prejudice as the Local Committee of Washington has done in completely (as far as it is concerned) eliminating the colored people from any part in the Sixth World's Sunday School Convention and in barring them from the public parade of Sunday Schools. It is difficult to see how any one can pray or hope for the evangelization of the world, when one refuses to fellowship his neighbor next door because of race and color. It is our belief that Foreign MissionaryWork will be greatly hindered in this generation unless race prejudice in America can be conquered. As Christians we have striven to better ourselves by the practice of those virtues handed down to us by Anglo-Saxon social custom, and by surrendering ourselves to the Christ spirit. Considering the numerous unchristian practices of so-called Christians in the name of social expediency, we think we have done well. The Sixth World's Sunday School Convention is now being held in this city upon invitation of the Washington Sunday School Union (white). Said invitation being seconded and warmly urged by a colored man, viz, Rev. Dr. W. J. Howard, who was a delegate to the Convention in Rome, and who spoke for the colored people as the representative of the Colored Sunday School Asso- ciation of the District of Columbia, which organization has been a member of the World's Sunday School Association for ten years or more The thirteen colored delegates of the District of Columbia to the Sixth World's Sunday School Convention were elected by the Colored Sunday School Association of the District of Columbia, and are therefore members of the World's Sunday School Association in precisely the same manner as the delegates of the white Sunday School Association of the District of Columbia. We wish all the delegates from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and the islands of the seas to know that in our hearts we welcome them; but because of unchristian race prejudice, which we are sure the delegates can neither understand nor appreciate, we cannot show our hospitality and Christian fellowship without greatly offending the Local Committee of white Christians, as it claims to have had an agreement that in case the invitation to come to Washington should be accepted the colored people of the District of Columbia were to have no part in the Convention arrangements, the Sunday School parade, etc. We regret the manifestation of such prejudice and are sure it does not honor our Lord and does not help either the white or the darker people of the world. We believe that race prejudice, so prevalent in the American church, greatly hinders the outpouring of the Holy Ghost and retards the coming of the Kingdom of Christ. One object of this letter is to welcome to this city on behalf of the colored Christians of Washington all delegates of the Sixth World's Sunday School Convention. We are fellow-servants of the same Master, but we cannot refrain from expressing our deep sorrow that a body of brethren who, while wearing the badge of a Christian, would refuse to manifest the spirit of Christ to any of His children. We herewith express to the executive Committee of the World's Sunday School Association (under whose auspices the Convention is being held) our deep satisfaction, that, so far as doth appear, it has at no time ignored the spirit and teaching of Jesus Christ in its efforts to bring together the races and nations of the world to further the cause of Christ among the peoples of the whole earth; and we are pained beyond expression that the Local Committee—made up (as it is) of white Christians who belong to the same religious bodies as ourselves should ignore the commands and examples of their Lord and Master, and ours and "have respect to persons," and ill treat their brethren in the Lord on the account of their race and color. We are yours in the unwavering belief in the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of all men, the Messia- ship of Jesus Christ the Son of God and the divinity of the Holy Spirit. COL. JOHN E. McGAW. Col. John E. McGaw, the genial president of the Columbia Ice Company, is again showing the people how to put ice at every man's door. He has a method of his own in disposing of his ice. The company will sell you twenty (20) tickets for one dollar, and it is meeting with success and the approval of the housekeepers. Look for the yellow wagon of the Columbia Ice Company. The Colonel knows how to handle ice. He is accommodating as well as liberal in his dealings with the people. This company's wagons go in every part of the city—hotels, flats, club houses, drug stores, meat stores, markets, etc. You will get your money's worth. WILL PRACTICE LAW. Mr. Robert L. Waring, formerly connected with the Police Department, but who has since resigned, will now practice his profession. Mr. Waring is the author of "As We See It," a book that has gained national reputation and made a noble defense for the colored American. He is an honest and upright man who never shirks a responsibility. He will be truthful to his clients and honest in all of his transactions with them. His offices are at 609 F street northwest. According to Richard B. Watrons five hundred or more cities intend to follow the District by having a safe and sane Fourth of July. The Bee is the peoples Forum and the races Advocate. PARAGRAPHIC By Miss G. B. Maxfield Nine hundred and fifty-six persons have been pardoned by Governor Patterson of Tennessee in three years, one hundred and fifty being murderers. Harvard College has abandoned the idea of the erection of memorial tablets in Memorial Hall in reverence to her sons who died fighting under the colors of the Conferedacy. The one hundred and thirty-third anniversary of the adoption of the stars and stripes as the flag of the United States, is to be celebrated Tuesday, June 14th, throughout the United States. On account of the severe cold weather, reports from the Southwest sections of Virginia are that the fruit crops and early vegetables are entirely destroyed. Ninety-one years ago, the first ocean steamship to cross the Atlantic started from Savannah, Ga. This vessel was called the Savannah and was launched in New York on August 22, 1818. The Mountain Leader has suggested the Honorable Phil. Waters of West Virginia, for Assistant Registrar of the United States Treasury. An electric light, saying "Jesus the Light of the World," has been placed over the Central Union Mission. The top historic spots in the District, which will be permanently marked with bronze tablets are to be unveiled July 4th. The commencement address was delivered by the Hon. William H. Lewis of Boston, at the Tuskegee commencement exercises. It is said the United States has now an invested capital in Canada about $225,000,000. The Rev. John E. Burke, who has charge of a Catholic Church in New York City, will devote his time to the founding of a Catholic institution for the colored race of the South, similar to Tuskegee. According to Dr. Emil Monsonyl aologist of Budapest, Hungary, there are buried cities of magnificent proportions beneath the waters of the Caribbean Sea. In Japan, day laborers get twenty cents per day, and women servants receive eighty-four cents per month. The white papers feel greatly relieved since the 18th has come and gone, and they can cease putting their superstitious fears on the Negroes. The Great World's Sunday School Convention, left nothing to be remembered but its Jim Crowism, which prevailed throughout the Convention. Out of the three hundred applicants in Philadelphia who took the examination, to operate steam stationary engines, Walter B. Johnson, colored received the highest percentage. DR. A. S. RICHARDSON. If there ever was a man who is rewarded for his good deeds and works, it is Dr. A. S. Richardson. He is the most popular man in the National Drug Exchange of this city. He is known as the "watch dog" of this organization, which is an important factor in this country. He is reliable and truthful, because members and Senators take his word when he is asked a question or is consulted on any question of a public nature. Dr. Richardson is a man in whom the people have confidence, and The Bee feels that the people appreciate him because he is a humanitarian and a Christian gentleman. The people have something in store for him, and in a very few days they will show their appreciation in no mistaken tone. Of what is the maid-en dreaming? 1. Of what is the maid-en dreaming, As she stands at the cot-tage door, what is the maid-en dreaming, As she sleeps in her lit-tle bed, And gazes far out in the And sheds fast tears of dis-tance, sor-row? Over the shing-ly shore? She thinks up-on the dead, Of what is the maid-en dreaming, As she walks on her way a- She dreams of a man-ly fig-ure, With a face with dark eyes lone,... blue; With a sad, sad look in her blue... eyes... As she None... hears... but... the salt sea's moan,... As she... hears... the salt sea's moan?... but... this maid-en knew,... None... Copyright by American Melody Company Kenyon $15 Men's Suits When you seek economy, ask your merchant to show you this $15 Suit. Compare it with one that costs $25, and see wherein lies the difference. It does not lie in the wearing qualities, surely not in the style and fit. The great difference is one of price, caused by more than one reason—made in the largest factories of their kind in the world. C. Kenyon Co., 23 Union Sq., N.Y. W.B. Reduso CORSETS THE W.B. Reduso Corset brings well-developed figures into graceful, slender lines. It reduces the hips and abdomen from one to five inches. Simple in construction, the Reduso unhampered by straps or cumbersome attachments of any sort, transforms the figure completely. Fabrics are staunch woven, durable materials, designed to meet the demand of strain and long wear. There are several styles to suit the reqments of all stout figures. Style 770 (as pictured) medium high bust, long over hips and abdomen. Made of durable coutil or batiste, with lace and ribbon trimming. Three pairs hose supporters. Sizes 19 to 36. Price $3.00. Other REDUSO models $3.00 per pair upwards to $10.00. gs oul, hips hes. so quire- NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS As Reported By The National Negro Business League. In Franklin, Virginia is located the Ashburn Bros. Shirt Manufacturing Company, Inc. It was established March, 1909, incorporated September of the same year. The capital stock is $20,000. Its daily capacity is from fifty to seventy-five dozen shirts. The number of employees required is forty. The present number operating, about fifteen; the factory building is 45 x 65 in a one-acre lot. C. R. Patterson and Sons, the Negro carriage manufacturers of Greenfield, Ohio, have recently issued their 1910 supplement. This supplement shows eight new styles as nobby and attractive as ever came from a carriage factory and like all of the Patterson work, these new styles are the perfection of durability and high quality. For years now C. R. Patterson and Sons have been among the leaders in their line, and today they show more styles of distinctive, professional vehicles than probobly any other firm in the country. In addition to this, this firm has made original contributions to the carriage industry. For instance, the Patent Winter Buggy is their latest, and encouraged by the surprising success of the past winter's sales, preparations on a large scale are now being rapidly pushed for next year's business. There are about thirty workmen (equally divided between the white and colored) employed in this factory. - Edenton is one of the oldest and most picturesque towns in North Carolina. The members of the race here are very thrifty and industrious They constitute more than half the population and are said to own about one-third of the real estate. Some of the most prosperous and successful business men and women here are: V. D. Jones, who does a good mercantile and livery business; R. E. Lee and Son, the proprietors of a general mercantile establishment, enjoying the confidence of both races in the community; H. R., Miller the owner of one of the most complete tailoring outfits in Eastern Carolina; Mrs B. G Lovther, who operates a 2. Of 3. The dream of that fearful morning, When in a frightful storm, His boat sank down mid the waters, His life-less form was borne, By the dashing waves and the breakers, And laid on the shingle stone; And froz-en hence... and for-ever, The maid en must be a-lone,... The maid en... must be a-lone... Of What is the Maiden Dreaming? 2 pp—2d p. successful millinery and mercantile business; Mrs. J. N. Leary, the proprietor of a barber shop for whites, and the fortunate possessor of splendid business realty on Main street, worth about $30,000. N. W. Ryan is a wholesale dealer in fresh and salt fist. He is one of the two colored men in the Tidewater section of this State, who is engaged in the fish business on a large scale He has been following it for over twenty years. He owns two hundred and fifty (250) acres under the waters of the Albemarle Sound. From this tract he usually catches and ships to the markets in this and adjacent territory annually 150,000 herrings, 5,000 shad, and 30,000 fish of other varieties. During the fishing season he employs an average of six men and seven women. Their salaries range from $26 to $50 a month. A SONNET To Alfred B. Cosey, Counsellor at Law, Newark, N. J. By R. L. Johnson (From The Jersey Tribune, Marci 12th, 1910.) Man of most keen and unrelaxing zeal— Press ever onward in the path of truth, Thy manhood's prime fulfilling all thy youth, In its attainments heralded—the seal Of Blackstone's on thy life, the years reveal A brave, undaunted heart; an ernest love For justice here, which, weighing far above All baser motives thy sound mind could feel, Have sped thee on thine oft-times thorny way, And shed their light over many a cloudy day. On then, not falter, let thy path be trod, What time thy Maker grants thee yet, with eye Lit up and reverent, then, thou shalt die When comes thy summons, blest of man and God. READ THE BER COND BAND BICYCLES. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycles, but usually handle them in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out promptly at prices ranging from $38.99 to $49.99 and ship them in padded hips made free. single wheels, imparted rubber chafing to pedals, parts, repairs and equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail prices. A special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that their tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. The regular price of these tires is $5 per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider of only $8 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.O.D. on approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price $4.55 per pair) if you send FELL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUI expire if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a trial order at once, hence the remarkable tire offer. don't buy any kind at any price until you send for a pair of FOR YOU IF YOU LIKE PERFUME Send only 4¢ in stamps for a little sample of ED. PINAUD'S LILAC VEGETAL The latest Paris perfume craze A wonderful creation, just like the living blossoms. Ask your dealer for a large bottle -- 75c. (6 oz.) Write our American Offices to-day for the sample, enclosing 4c. (to pay postage and packing). Parfumerie ED. PINAUD, PL M ED. PINAUD BLDG. NEW YORK The regular retail price of these tires is $3.50 per pair, but to introduce we will sell you a sample pair for $8.95 (with order $5.5). NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES NAILS, Tackles or Glass will not let the air out. Sixty thousand pairs sold last year. Over two hundred thousand pairs now in use. DESCRIPTION: Made mall sizes. 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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 chip 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. GETS A GOLDEN CROWN Miss Mabel Boardman Honored by Italy for Alding Victims of the Earthquake. Boston.—The Marquis de Montag-Marl, Italian charge d'affaires 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 A. H. 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 cost-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, 1908-1909." 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. IS STRANGE CHINESE ANIMAL The Takin Seems Moose, Yak, Antelope and Goat Combined—On Exhibition in New York. New York—Strange to contemplate is the Chinese takin, first of its kind ever brought to the shores of the United States, which was placed on exhibition, stuffed, in the American Museum of Natural History. As far as is known to Mason Mitchell, one of the American consuls in China, who presented the specimen to the institution, he is the only Caucasian who has ever seen one on its native craga. The takin, or Chinese buffalo, which now adorns the museum, is about the T size of a Jersey cow, and it cannot be said that he bears much resemblance to the American bison. His body and legs suggest both the antelope and the goat, his back is like that of a yak and his head, which is surrounded by curving horns, has the bulging nose which suggests that of the moose. The takin has hoofs which are parted and his ways are like those of the goat. He is a rather heavy animal, yet he spends his time in the western mountains of the Sze-Chuan province, where he gets about among the crags as lightly as does the big horn of the Rockies. He is strong and able-bodied and in a fight can give a good account of himself. The hide of the takin which was sent here was dry and as hard as a board, and Mr. Figgins, chief taxidermist of the museum, had a long struggle with it in getting it into proper form, but by following the hair patterns he has been enabled to present the skin with all the distinction which an animal of such complicated anatomy deserves. The hoofs of the creature are very hard and have grooves and scratches in them, which indicate that he was well acustomed to making his agile way over the sharp rocks in his native province. Mr. Mitchell has sent to the American museum several rare animals which he obtained in remote parts of the Chinese empire. A REMINDER OF LA SALLE. Cross Found on the Site of Old Fort St. Louis Built by Explorer In Texas In 1685. Houston, Tex.—A number of ancient relics have been found from time to time during the last few years upon the site of old Fort St. Louis which La Salle, the noted French explorer, and his brave band of adventurers erected in 1685 upon the east bank of the Navidad river, just above where Port Lavaca, Texas, is now situated. One of these historic reminders of the visit of the explorer is a cross which is made of iron. It was found several feet beneath the surface near the bank of the river. It is now in possession of Harry Bickford of Port Lavaca. It was from Fort St. Louis that La Salle started upon his ill-fated expedition into the interior in search of the CROSS OF FRANCE EXECUTED 29 AUG BY LA SALLE FOR LOUIS ACCOMMENDED BY WILLIAM J. MAYER 1897 This Iron Cross a Relic of La Salle. Mississippi river. He entered Pass Cavallo and explored Matagorda bay in the original belief, it is said, that it was here that the Mississippi river emptied its broad waters. 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W. ment of fresh drugs and a large searations, Easter goods, and many desire for Easter offering. reliable Pure Drug Store, --- good schoolhouse, and the school term lasting from seven to eight months in every part of the county. The white people in Macon County are of the very best class. There is no disorder or racial trouble. We advise colored people who are now living in crowded towns or cities, in the North or in the South, and especially those who have children to raise to come to Macon County and buy a home where they can get plenty of land to cultivate and rear their families in the county free from the temptations of the cities and towns. For further information write or see: Clinton J. Calloway, Real Estate 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 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. THE OLD NEGRO MAMMY From the New York Sun. We see that the Galveston people who proposed in the first place to erect a monument to the old colored mammy have been prevailed upon to transfer the location to Washington, making it a national affair and inviting all parts of the country to contribute. It is a good and pleasant opportunity, in our opinion and we should like to see the whole nation take part in it. Storied urns and sacred edifices have been placed in all parts of our land, dedicated to memories good, bad and indifferent and to achievements noble, beneficent or otherwise. We see heroes, some of them too cheap to quote, careering on stationary but foaming horses, and mark the attitudes of sculptured patriots and statesmen, most of whom are planted in our private pantheons and immortalized in grateful memory. But we encounter also the effigies of Mud-stained publicists and futile warriors and questionable benefactors. Nothing more or less could be expected. We let it go at that. All of us, however, can unite upon the old black mammy, the millions who have enjoyed her kindly ministrations and the other and more numerous millions who have only heard of them. Ah! just think, a free trip to Atlantic City for three of the most popular teachers. Wonder who the lucky ones will be? THE HOTEL 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 ADVER TISING 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 bidding for? It certainly is, and not even the largest stores in this city would refuse to get the big end of it did they but realize how much money the Negroes are really spending. Now The Bee is the only Negro publication in this city. It stands without a rival or competitor, and covers the field like a 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 races 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 or Washington, it's what advertising pays you, not what it costs. MORE MONEY—RACE PROGRESS. If colored people groom themselves daintly, destroy perspiration odors, remove grease shine from the face, and use our new discoveries for improving the skin and dressing the hair, they will be better received in the business world, make more money, and advance faster. The Chemical Wonder Company of New York is the best business friend colored people have. It improves their bodies as Dr. Booker Washington improves their minds. That Company manufacturers nine Chemical Wonders, which will make colored people as attractive as individual peculiarities will permit. Colored men in New York who use these Wonders hold better situations in banks, clubs and business houses, and women have better positions, marry better, get along better. (1.) Complexion WonderCream will light up any colored face (black or brown) every time it is used. To prove this on one trial, we send demonstration sample for 10 cents. Regula jar, 50 cents postpaid. (2) Magneto-Metallic Comb, called Wonder Comb. Can be neated before using, to help straighten and dress the hair. Costs 50 cents, and will last a lifetime. (3) Wonder Uncurl. When this pomade dressing is in the hair the kinks can be uncurled and the hair becomes flexible. When heated into the scalp and through the hair with a Wonder Comb, any stiff, knotty hair will dress well. 50 cents postpaid. (4) Wonder Hair Grow fertilizes the scalp and makes hair grow long, just as fertilizers in the soil make cornstalks grow. 50 cents postpaid. (5) Odor Wonder Powder instantly destroys perspiration odor. People who neglect such chemical cleansing are obnoxious. 50 cents postpaid. (6) Odor Wonder Liquid. This fine toilet water surrounds the body with delicate perfume. When used with used with Odor Wonder Powder the conditions of the body become perfect. If you can spare 50 cents extra, order this luxury. 50 cents postpaid. (7) Wonder Foot Powder keeps the feet dainty. 50 cents. postpaid. (8) Wonder Wash. A shampoo to clean from dandruff and insure the health of the hair and scalp. 50 cents postpaid. (9) Shell Pink Creme will give light brown girls beautiful pink cheeks without trade-up appearance. 50 cents postpaid. We guarantee all these Wonders as represented. We give advice free about hair, skin and scalp. Will send book an attractiveness free. We will prove we are true business friend. We require one agent for every locality against loss. Only $2 capital required. Always write to M. B. Berger & Co., 20 ork. We market all the Chemical Wonder ons. 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 PUBLISHED at 1109 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. W: CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance $2.00 Six months____ 1.00 Three months____ .50 Suscription monthly____ .20 BREAKERS AHEAD. Things are coming to an alarming pass in our schools. As vacancies occur in our colored schools, consolidations are taking place, and no new appointments are being made in the vacancies. Two resignations in the teaching corps have left vacancies which have not been filled. It is said that should six vacancies occur between now and the end of the present school year, no new appointments would be made. In other words, the colored schools have two teachers less now than they had at the beginning of the present school year; and should additional vacancies occur up to six, there being no new appointments, the colored schools would have eight teachers less at the beginning of the next school year than they had at the commencement of this. What is the matter with our schools? Is the attendance falling below that of previous years? Is the present management of our schools permitting matters to deteriorate and to run amuck? This reduction of the teaching force would naturally lead one to that conclusion. It is said that the present tendency to reduce the teaching force in the colored schools is due to the interference of Major Judson, the Engineer Commissioner of the District. It is said Major Judson thinks the teaching force is too large by several hundred, and that it ought to be reduced until there are fifty scholars to each teacher. Could anything be more ridiculous? Major Judson is an army officer. What does he know about school administration and pedagogy? If he knows anything, he should at least want the schools as well provided with teachers as the army is provided with officers. In time of peace a company of soldiers consists of sixty men, who are controlled by a captain and two lieutenants, at aggregate salaries of $5,400 per annum. And yet Major Judson, so it is said, would have one teacher at a salary of $600 per annum control fifty pupils. If three officers are necessary to control sixty men, two teachers to sixty pupils is none too many. At present rates of pay the two teachers would cost $3,200 less than three army officers. Surely our schools are at least of one half the consequence of our army. Besides, what has Major Judson to do with our schools? Congress took the appointment of the board out of the hands of the Commissioners and put it in the hands of the judges to avoid this very thing of meddling and dictating to the board about matters with which the board is especially competent to deal. Our teaching force ought not to be reduced at all. If the attendance is falling off the matter ought to be looked into. There are plenty of children in Washington. Why are they not in the schools? CHRISTIAN HYPOCRACY There are more white hypocrits in this city than you can find further South. The white Catholic Church is condemned, but The Bee has found more honest religion in the Catholic Church so far as colored Catholics are concerned than there is in this so-called National Sunday School gathering that made itself so ridiculous, recently in the eyes of this civilized world. There was one happy thought that was uttered last Sabbath morning in the 19th Street Baptist Church by one of the foreign delegates when he said that the Local Christian Committee in gion as the devil. The latter did this city haven't as much reli- not discriminate against any body, religious creed or sex. The devil welcomed everybody,black, green, white or any other color or nationality. The remarks of Dr. Thirkield, seen elsewhere in The Bee this week, are the sentiments of a man with a white heart. The Bee believes that Dr. Thirkield will do all in his power for the uplift of the colored race. He has demonstrated this. What Howard University is today, Dr. Thirkield has made it so. The Bee, therefore, maintains that trustees for this University should be selected from men of high Christian character. IT SUITS So far as the editor of The Bee is concerned and the office of recorder of deeds he has this to say: This office is strictly political reserved plum for Negro politicians who are persona non grata at home and this city is a rendezvous of these politicians who must leave their home where they are better known, and comes to this city where they are not known. The best evidence of a man's unpopularity is when he is compelled to leave his own home and go to another place to get a job. This particular office is strictly local and a local man should be appointed. The Bee is satisfied with the present incumbent because he was not a candidate for the office. He is also a gentleman and a lawyer with a large clientage. The editor of The Bee never was a candidate for the office and hopes never to be. He is perfectly satisfied with being the boss of his own business and a servant for the people. The editor of The Bee is unlike many office seekers in that he is not a candidate for an office. Can the Freeman say as much? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Since the appointment of Commissioner Johnston, Republican, and who has been assigned to the police department, no colored officers have been appointed. A colored man passed the police examination some time ago by the name of Jackson, and after the expiration of his time to be appointed, he was compelled to take another examination. He took two and passed, but a few weeks ago he was compelled to take another examination, and he was turned down because he had scars upon his legs. He was passed twice before with these same scars, but now these same scars are objectionable, hence he was turned down. The Bee of course is unable to state who is responsible for no more colored men being appointed on the force. The Bee would like to know what it means. THEY WERE BLACK Some few days ago a parent made complaint to the principal of the High School against a teacher who had her children instructing there. This parent states that her children were criticised and made fun of because they were black. She reported the matter to the principal and informed him that she would lay the case before Captain Oyster, whom she knew to be the children's friend. After some investigation and explaining by the principal, the matter was adjusted. THE RECORDERSHIP What has one Calvin Chase to say of the Recordership plum passing beyond the "sacred precints of "mine" own ballliwick?—Indianapois Freeman. ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT BRUCE'S REPORT. There has been so much discussion of Assistant Superintendent Bruce's recently published report (1907-8) that The Bee reprints a section of it which will interest a great many people M Street and Armstrong. * * In physics there were at Armstrong 88 pupils, but not one failed to pass the work of the term, whereas at M Street there were 78 pupils, of whom 27 or 35 per cent. failed. In view of this and kindred evidence, I think there is little doubt that in courses common to the two schools the standards of attainment are appreciably different. It is important that this disparity be remedied. Not only in physics, but also in drawing, domestic art, domestic science, and the various types of shopwork, not one pupil at Armstrong failed. If the subjects distinctive of the manual training school are not taught with greater rigor than these facts would suggest, their educational value cannot be duly realized and their equivalence to academic studies will not be granted by the community. With the hearty co-operation of the principal, I have urged the teachers to see that no such misfortune occurs; I have also urged them to develop the correlations of these studies with mathematics and the sciences, with history and English. In addition to the percentages of failure in the several academic and scientific subjects, another group of facts may be cited. In June, 447 pu- Faulty Articulation With the Elementary Schools The transition from the elementary school to the secondary school is seldom effected with ease and economy. Many pupils leave off their schooling entirely at this period and those who continue fail, in very many cases, to maintain the promise and the actual superiorities they displayed in the grades. Now, the onset of adolescence occurs before the high school is reached. Indeed, a six-year high school course is more accordant with the developments of adolescence, than the present four-year course; the adjustments now so markedly a feature of entry upon the high school career would come more appropriately in the seventh and eighth grades. "We have learned," says a distinguished American educator, "that a child should know how to read and write by the end of the third school year, i.e. at about nine years of age; that in about five years (by eleven years of age) he can learn all the arithmetic he needs for the ordinary affairs of life and for further progress in mathematics; that during the rest of his elementary school training the pupil's progress in the school arts should be incidental to his pursuit of other subjects." But with some qualification it may be truly said that even to-day the work distinctive of secondary education, emphasis upon the elements of liberal culture as distinguished from exercises in the school arts, is deferred to the ninth year of school life. More specifically, sciences and foreign languages are begun in the high school; English and history and algebra, although begun in the lower schools, are taught in the high school by very different methods. Moreover, instruction in all subjects by one teacher is to the pupil a very different proposition from instruction in each subject by a different teacher; the intimacy of the elementary school teacher with every pupil in the class and her profound personal influence over the thought and feeling of each, can hardly be equaled in the high school. In the elementary school the responsibility for the pupil's progress in knowledge and in character is joyfully and freely shared by the teacher; in the high school the responsibility is sharply and suddenly shifted to the pupil. The high school teacher is characteristically prone to a certain aloofness and austerity for which most pupils are ill prepared. My argument is that the materials and methods and discipline appropriate to secondary education should be consciously entered upon two years earlier than at present, and should gradually emerge from the materials and methods and discipline of the lower schools. The fact that this is not the case—the transition is now exceedingly abrupt—largely accounts for the violent and wasteful readjustments so characteristic of the earlier years of the high school. Other Causes of Pupil's Failure. There are other factors not so fundamental. The high school teacher thinks of his subject first and of his pupil afterwards; he should be more regardful of his pupil and of the modes of presenting the subject most effectively to that pupil. He must be careful to guard against the dangers of forcing his pupil to accomplish predetermined amounts of work; it is not the amount done that counts, but the educational effects of the work. Even when the subject has been presented carefully, the teacher should be loath to assign the cause of the pupil's failure to the pupil's stupidity. The proof of the teaching is the learning. Very many pupils enter the high schools without having learned to study systematically. Some remain for two or three years in this plight wasting effort and accumulating "conditions" and discouragements; others—not necessarily of mean abilities—drop out. Now, in each subject there are, of course, specially economical modes of attack; the methods and the collateral materials appropriate to the subject should be mastered by the pupil as soon as possible. But, such mastery presupposes detailed and individual guidance such as is hardly Free Trips to Atlantic City THREE MOST POPULAR SCHOOL TEACHERS The Washington Bee has decided to provide three great prizes for the most popular teachers in the Washington Public Schools. The contest is open to either male or female. Each week, until July 2d, inclusive, there will appear in The Bee a coupon, entitling the holder to one vote for any one of the Washington school or Howard University teachers. In addition, for every yearly subscription received from now to the close of the contest SIXTY VOTES will be allowed; for every six months' subscription, THIRTY VOTES, and for every three months' subscription, FIFTEEN VOTES. THREE PRIZES The teacher receiving the highest number of votes will be given a trip to Atlantic City for 30 days, with railroad fare and board paid. The teacher receiving the next highest number of votes will be given a trip to Atlantic City for two weeks, with railroad fare and board paid. The teacher receiving the third highest number of votes will be given a trip to Atlantic City for one week, with railroad fare and board paid. CONTEST CLOSES JULY 2, 1910 This is a grand opportunity for teachers to have an enjoyable outing at the most popular summer resort in America absolutely free. Ever made by any race newspaper—three trips; with all expenses paid to Atlantic City. And you may secure one of these delightful trips offered by The Washington Bee, the leading race newspaper in Washington. Each week, until the close of the contest, the following coupon will appear in THE BEE. Cut it out, fill in the name of your favorite teacher, and mail it in time to reach The Bee by Tuesday of the following week. The Bee's Teachers' Contest Coupon One vote for..... Teacher in the..... School MAY 28 The contest is open for male or female, and that it will close July 2d, 1910. The three teachers receiving the highest number of votes will be allowed to take the trip any time in July or August. Let the votes come thick and fast for the free trip to Atlantic City for the most popular School Teachers. THE WASHINGTON BEE possible in the classroom. It is true that the assignment of the next lesson is the point at which the teacher should carefully indicate to the whole class the nature of the difficulties to be encountered and suggest ways and means of meeting them; but because its function and value are not duly appreciated, the assignment is at present, I am safe in saying, precisely the weakest point in the teaching of our secondary schools. The guidance I have mentioned is more than the perfunctory answering of questions and indicating of reference books, it involves more than technical scholarship; it demands personality and a sound sense of values in learning and in life; it proceeds from emotional as well as intellectual fellowship with the pupil in his ambitions and his strivings. In very few homes are there conditions favorable to study. At school the library and the study hall are logically the places for special guidance. But, the salary for the librarian is so small as to make the appointment and continuance of a person with the modern professional equipment. out of the question; moreover, one librarian, however well trained, could not meet the needs. And the average teacher assigned to duty in the study hall is expert only in his own group of subjects, the number of pupils in the room is large, and the teacher considers his function there to be monitorial rather than educational. So serious is the situation that I am inclined to believe it would be wise to have the high school remain open until four o'clock every school day, a sufficient number of teachers of the several subjects being assigned to duty, for the specific purpose of offering pupils the optional opportunity to extend their private reading and to pursue their studies in quiet, with reference books a plenty and competent advisors at hand. At any rate, the high schools must take the incoming pupil precisely where they find him; if he does not apply himself to his studies diligently and systematically, it is the business of the high schools then and there to put him in the way of learning to do so. - In advising pupils in the selection of courses, teachers perform a most delicate, difficult, and important task. It is of fundamental importance in such matters to realize and to act upon the view that "power cannot be trained apart from the subject matter upon which it is brought to bear." "It is false to assume that because a youth has studied Latin and Greek for several years, he has been trained to apply himself with vigor and success to any mental problem that may be presented to him. The truth is that he has been trained primarily to study languages, and, in particular, Latin and Greek; and only incidentally to exercise his mental powers THIS IS THE GREATEST OFFER THREE PRIZES the highest number of votes will be given a tr highest number of votes will be given paid. and highest number of votes will be given paid. CONTEST CLOSES JULY 2, for teachers to have an enjoyable outing. THIS IS THE GREATEST OF paper—three trips, with all expenses paid. NOW. GET YOUR FREE these delightful trips offered by The the contest, the following coupon will teacher, and mail it in time to reach The The Bee's Teachers' Contest Coupon One vote for..... Teacher in the..... School MAY 23 REMEMBER for female, and that it will close July 2 be allowed to take the trip any time and fast for the free trip to A TON BEE 1109 outside the field of linguistic study." To advise a pupil who has no aptitude for Latin to study it for its disciplinary value, is to fly into the face of modern thought in education and to do the pupil an injustice by exposing him to needless discouragement. Many of the failures in our high schools are due to precisely the fact that the studies are not accordant with the specific aptitudes of the pupils. "The greatest defect in our school system to-day," says Superintendent Maxwell, "is that the principals and teachers do not guide pupils, in selecting their high school courses, along the lines of their special aptitudes." Miscellaneous. I respectfully renew the recommendation of my predecessor, Doctor Montgomery, that Spanish be taught in the M Street High School and the Armstrong Manual Training School. Doctor Montgomery also recommended that pupils in the M Street High School be given opportunity to take "manual training, at least as an elective during some of the study periods." "The proximity of this school to the Armstrong Manual Training School," said he, "makes this quite feasible without additional cost, since the manual training plant exists there." I renew this recommendation. A committee of citizens voicing a general sentiment and conviction presented a memorial to the Board of Education which set forth an argument for the removal of the business courses from the Armstrong Manual Training School. I am heartily in sympathy with this view; the business courses should have a separate building, a separate faculty, their own atmosphere. An Amendment to the Organic Law, I have the honor to recommend that the organic law be amended so as to provide for a head of the department of ancient languages, and a head of the department of modern languages, in Armstrong Manual Training School and M Street High School, instead of one head of department for both groups of languages as at present. It is difficult for one person to exercise close expert supervision over both the ancient and the modern languages. MR. MILES C. MAXFIELD If there ever was an energetic and true Christian worker, it is Mr. Miles C. Maxfield. It makes no difference how bad the weather is, this missionary worker may be seen in the lowly sections endeavoring to Christianize and moralize humanity. Every Sabbath morning and evenings during the week days Mr. Maxfield is in some Christian School or 1109 Eye Street Northwest some alley. Last Sabbath morning he was introduced to the Salbath School of the Plymouth Church. He made a most interesting address to the children. At the World's Congress at Convention Hall, he was one of the most constant and potent citizens. He is doing good work. AUDITOR TYLER'S OVATION Zanesville, Ohio May 27 Mr. W. Tyler—Auditor for the Navy Department was given a great reception on his arrival here today. The city officials received him, and the Elks gave him a reception at the Elks' Rest. Mr. Tyler has just come from Cincinnati and Dayton, where he was tendered a reception. The Dunbar Club gave a reception for him at Cincinnati, and the Lincoln League at Dayton. Mr. Tyler gave the citizens here a splendid talk. He left here tonight for Cleveland. TEACHERS CONTEST Interest continues to grow in the teachers Atlantic City contest. In this issue several of the Howard University teachers have been sent in by their friends. The Bee is reminded by a student who sent in the name of Dr. Moore that if votes will secure the prize Dr. Moore will get them. Well, the field is open to all and if you want your favorite to win get a move on you. Every coupon cut out of The Bee entitles you to one vote. Every cash yearly subscription will entitle you to 100 votes. Every six month cash subscriber will entitle-you to 50 votes. Every three months cash subscriber will entitle you to 25 votes; one of the best cottages and one of the popular ones have been selected. 30, 15 and 7 days trip respectively given absolutely free to the successful teachers, including all expenses. Are such offers worth working for? If so, let every teacher go to work. Look at the list of new entries this week. ee tg Wein ee = a ti} Ea q Sess pee 4 Dole” : IS at ti Bie ee i Ce: Hy ee 3 A\\§ AE EOE] i(.2 SSeS As eee —CTIN NeThel\\ save , ee aX ONIN a ely eos iad , . ‘ouet articles at the Board asd Mc- Guire Pharmacy 1912 1-2.14th street n. w., “The place where everybody meets everybody else.” Recorder of Deeds, Mr. Lincoln Johnson .is confined to’ his home slightly indisposed, y « Dr. CB. Punn is in the city. Dr. James E, Shepherd of Durham, N: C, left the city Monday, for his home, _ Mrs, Ellen V. Chasef Williams of Abbeville, S, C., who has been se- . niously ill for several weeks is able be up again, Dr, J. Elmer Dillenger, M, D., late major and surgeon U, S. Vs, was in the city this week as a delegate to the Sunday School Convention, Miss May Fletcher of Baltimore, Md., visited this city last Sunday. Miss Nellie Johnson of this city, attended the A, M. E. Zion Confer- ence recently heldvat Horrisburg, Pa. Mrs. John B. Lockely of this city, stopped over in Harrisburg, Pa., on Monday of last week to see relatives, She was en route to Oil City where she will spend the summer, Miss Mayme Smith of Cincinna- ti, Ohio, is spending a few days in this city. Miss Mary Hicks and Mrs. Sadie McCuba of Baltimore, are “visiting friendS“in this city. Miss Montrose Green of Harris- burg, Pa., was in this city last week to the graduating ,exercises of the rurses of Freedmen’s Hospital, Mss janet Harris» aid Mrs, Howard Harrison are visiting rel- aves in Harrisburg, Hon, Ralph Tyler was in Cincin- nati, Ohio, last week, Dr. L. H. Harris, Jr. of Rich- mond, Va, is visiting friends here. Rev. J. C Tyler of this city is spending a few days in Pittsburg. Among the Washingtonians who attended the National Negro Con: ferences in New York on May 12, 13 and 14th, were, Mr. L, M. Hershaw, Rev. J. Milton Waldron and Mrz. Mary Church Terrell, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Brown have returned to New York, a spending a few days in this city. They were the guests of Dr. and Mrs, S. L. Cor- rothers. . Mr. Geo. W. Adair, has returned to this city after a very pleasant stay in Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs.-Geo. H. C. Williams are spending an enjoyable stay 1m Indianapolis, Ind, . Mr. W. C. Hueston of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting friends in this city, Mr. James Minor has returned to Jersey City, after a very pleasant Stay of ten days here, Mrs, Samuel Purnell, Mrs. Charles P. Mitiniss and Mr. Allen Bell of Wilmington, Del., are visiting rela- tives and friends hefe. Miss Mamie Harris is the guest of Br and Mrs. O. L, Simpson in Phil- adelphia, Pa. Dr, and Mrs. W. S. Loften re- turned ‘here Monday, May 16, after very pleasant stay in Philadelphia. While there they were the guests of Miss Mary Walton on Christian St. Mr, Frank Backus spent Synday, (May 15th in Richmond, Va., with his mother Mr Dock W. Boyden came to this city this week to get his mother and accompany her to his home in De- trott, Michigan, where she will re: side m the future. . Rev, J. H. Holloway and Dr. Mac. beth of Charleston, S. C, attended the Sunday School Convention ir this city last week and this week, Mr Frank Fowler Brown of th Cole and Johnson show has gone te his Rome in Indiana, where he wil spend his summer vacation, s Dr W D. Cooke. pastor of Ouin: when his oldest daughter Tecelved a diploma from the Normal Train- ing Class. : . Prof. and Mrs. J. D. Martin of Charlotte, N. C,, came to this city last Wednesday to attend the Sun- day School Convention, MiP B. Young, editor and man- ager of Journal and Guide, Norfolk ‘Va., spent Tuesday of last week in this cjty. Vhile here he was the guest of Mr. R. W. Thompson, Rev. Dr. S. S. Morris of Suffolk, Va., spent a very pleasant trip in this city last week and this week, Rev, Moses Jackson of Chicago, IL, arrived here last Thursday to attend the Sunday School Conven- tion. After the 5 and 10 cent theatre, between the acts, and at all hours, jice cream soda is now all the rage, especially that snappy, cold, pure, de- ficious kind that is served) at the drug store of Board and McGuire, 1912 1-2 14th street, no w. It is made right, served right, tastes right and is right, Miss Virginia Gibson of Chica- go, Ill, has been appointed to a po- sition in the Recorder of Deeds’ Office. ~ | Mrs.~Thomas J. Calloway of this city are the quest of Dr, and Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala, | Mrs, Henry Ogletree and Mrs. Lee Kilpatrick, who have been vis- jiting friends in this city and Balti- more, Md., have returned to their homes in Atlanta, Ga, Mrs. Ogletree and Mrs, Kilpatrick were the recipients of many recep- tions in both cities. | Mrs. C. J. Jones of Atlanta, Gay Jattended the graduating exercises of jher son, Mr, LeRoy Jones at How- ard University this week. Friday evening, May 13, was the occasion of quite a brilliant entertain- ment given in honor of Miss Anna Martin, at- 1109 New Sampshire venue, n, w., as an expression of the regard of her friends. Miss Martin left the city on Monday, May 16, for ‘a sojourn of six months in Chicago, accompanied by Mrs. Lannie Diggs, Miss Phoebe E, Perry, a member of the senior class of ‘the Teachers’ College of Howard University has been appointed teacher of English and ¥Story in the Lincoln High School, Wheeling, W. Va. Miss Hattie B. Cole of New York sister of Mr, Robert Cole, is the guest of her sister, Miss C. Harris, 316 Elm street, n. w. Miss Marie Wolfolk of Atlanta, 'Ga., is in the city the guest of friends. Rev. and Mrs. Wallace have been the guest of their mother, Mrs. Jen- | nie Pinkney of 81 O street, n. Ww. CLASS DAY EXERCISES There were a large crowd pres- ent Tuesday afternoon in the amphi- theatre of Howard University. The occasion was class day exercises This is one of the largest classes that has ever held faith at this institution, Class Day Exercises, May 24, 1910. The program: Overture—Orchestra. Welcome Address—President, Class History—Miss J. M. Berry. Oration—J. S. Butts. . Music—Orchestra, Class Poem—L. E. Jones. Giftatory—W. C. Chase, Jr. \ - Mantle Oration—W. R. Wilson. | Music—Orchestra, Prophecy — Miss Sadie B. Davis Valedictory — E.»M. Pollard. Class Song—Words by Miss H. J Terry. - ¥ Class Roll: Charles Wi Barnett, Brandon Miss. . - Joanna M. Berry, Washington, D c. Norman E. Boyd, Washington, D ow Jonathan S, Butts, Jarrets, Va. , William C. Chase, Jr., Washing- ton, D, C, Henley L. Cox, Grove Hill, Ala. Joshua W. Clifford, Cleveland, Ohio. Sadie B, ‘Davis, Augusta, Ga. James F, Dagler, Ladonia, Tex. Rufus J, Hawkins, Live Oak, Fla. Bertha Hanson, Washington, BC Ethel G. Jones, Baltimore, *Md. LeRoy E, Jones, Atlanta, Ga. Julius H. Love, Baltimore, Md. William A, Love, Baltimore, Md. Reginald L. Lynch, Barbadoes, B. Wi Sarah: N. Merriweather, Washing- ton, D. C.* , Alice P, Murray, Washington, D. Gs _ Frederick D. Norris, Helena, Ark, _ George W. Oldham, Austin, Tex. Phoebe E. Perry, Wytheville, Va. Earnest M, Pollard, Littleton, N. c. 5 John C, Ridout, Baltimore, Md. Carrie E. Snowden, Washington, DC . Howard H,. Summers, Harrisburg, Pa, a Harriet J. Terry, Cornwall-on- Hudson, N. Y. ‘ Welford J. Terry, een Va. . Williams R. Williams, Norfolk, Va. - UNION RECEPTION Rev. S. L, Corrothers, pastor of Galbraith A, M. E, Zion Church has been returned for the ninth term as pastor of Galbraith Church, There is no man in the connection who is appreciated and honored more than Dr. Corrothers. ‘There is to be special services tomorrow at 11 o'clock a. m. Sunday, May, 29, is to be a red Iet- tre day in Zion, Bishop Hood, the senior Bishop of the A, M, E, Zion Church, will at- tend the services at 11 a, m., and of- fer the morning prayer. The sermon for the morning at 11 a, m., will be delivered by the Right Reverend J. W. Smith, A. M., D, D, In the afternoon ,there will be a Woman's Rally under the supervis- ion of the Woman’s Home and For- eign Missionary Society, at which time Mrs, Ida V. Smith, the wife of Bishop Smith, will present Mrs. J. W. Hood, the first president in the Missionary Movement in the Africap Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Sunday night, at 8 p, m., there will be the annual gathering of the Masons of the District of Columbia to hear a special sermon by the pas- tor, Sylvester L. Corrothers, D, D. The public in general is invited. Monday night, May goth from 8.30 to1r p,m. - The distinguished guests will be Right-Reverend J. W. Smith, A. M, D. D., a resident Bishop of Wash- ington, and Right Reverend J. W. Hood, D. D., LL, D., of Fayetteville, N. C., the oldést Methodist .Episco- pal Bishop living. Andther import- ant feature of the occasion will be the celebration of the eighty-first birthday of Bishop Hood. . ‘The following program is to be ob- served: _ . “Scripture Lesson — Rev. Logan Johnson, D. D. Prayer—Rev, C, C., Alleyne, A, B. Address of Welcome on behalf of jthe. Zion Preachers’ Association — ;Rev. W. H. Ferguson, D. D. On behalf of the Baptist Church— Dr. J. Milton Waldron. On behalf of the A. M, E. Church Rev, John Hurst, D. D. On behalf of the Public Schools— Prof, R. C, Bruce, Assistant Superin- tendent of Public Schools. On behalf of the District Govern- ment—Justice Robert H. Terrell. On behalf of Howard University— President W. P. Thirkield, D, D., LL. D. . Our indebtness to ‘J. W. Hood— Hon. J. C. Dancy, LL. D. The Negro Pulpit — Dr. I, N Ross. Response — Bishop J. W. Smith jand Bishop J. W. Hood. : | Rev. Dr. Abrahm Simon teacher, orator scholar. Rabbi } Washington Hebrew Congrega- tion will address Y. M. C. A. Men’s Meeting on subject “The Education that is Worth While,” Sunday, May 29th, 3.30 P, M. True Reformers’ Hall, .r2th and You Sts. n. w. Special music— Whistling chorus. s | Hear this great leader of his :tace, Hear the final reports 9) ithe’ great campaign for $15,000. | Keep your eyes on the voting con test among the teachers, THE MOST POPULAR TEACHER. aa be OER. F Cree 50%, The Bee's popular teachers contest exciting interest. Cut out a coupon a vote for your favorite. Read the prop sition in another column of The Bi Those who are being voted for are: Howard University Contestants, W. J. Joiner, 5. - Kelly ‘Miller, "5, < Miss Maude Young, 3. Miss Maude Childress, 2. W. A. Dyson, 3. ws . George W. Cook,3z *- L. B. Moore, 5. J. G. Logan, 2. Public Schoo! Contestants. Mr. Grant Lucus, 5. Miss Katie C. Lewis, & J. W._Cromwell, 5, Miss Emma F. G. Merrill, 7. J. E. Walker, 1. J. T. Layton, 3. Mrs, M. E. Tucker, - + W. T. S. Jackson, 4. J.T. Layton, 10, Miss Mary E Wilson, 114. Miss J. G Grant, 1, Miss E. A. Chase, 25. J.C, Nalle, 3. Miss M. L. Jordon, 1. Miss C. E. Hunter, 3. Miss Serena Carter, 3. Miss Agnes Davis, 1. Miss Voshta Turley, 1. . Miss Clotile Houston, 1. Miss Dollie Doin, Miss Florence, W. Williams, 2. Miss Martha Legeinis, 1. ~~ F, L. Cardoza, 1. Miss Maude Fleming, 1. Miss Alice Jackson, 1. Miss Isabelt Sidney, 1, Miss Notala Collier, 2. . Miss Harriet Shadd, 1.0. Miss Jevena Campbell, 1. Miss Rachel Cornish, 2, Miss Bessie Miller, 4. Miss Sallie Fisher, 2. Miss Marcia Montgomery, 2. , Miss Janie Cole, 4. : Mr. Moria Saunders, 5. -. Miss Partherine Woodson, 5. Miss Lula Davis, 2. W. Bruce Evans, 50. Hoface Andeison, 10. Miss Matilda Wheeler, 1. Miss Marie A. D. Madre, 2, Miss Mattie Bowen, 2. Miss Belle Kinner, 1. Miss Julia Brooks, 4. Miss Estelle Collier, 1. « Miss Pearl Lewis, 3. Mrs. Eva Fletcher, 5. Miss M. S. Jordon, 10. Miss Elfrida Kennedy, 27. Miss Minnie A. Lucas, & E. Christopher Williams, 64. Robert Mattingly, 105. Miss Sarah C Lewis, 10. Miss Rosa Carter, 18 Miss Beatriz L, Chase, 55. Miss Lou Washington, 5.~ ' Miss Gertrude Tibbs, 3. Miss Emma B. Hall, 5. Miss Beatrice Martin, 4. Miss Mamie McGuinn, 3. Mr. David Green, 2. * Mr. L. C Bradley, 5, Miss Millie Gibbs, 8 Miss Gertrude Early, 2. Miss Nellie Ford, 4. Miss Elizabeth Tancil, 6 Miss Emma Carroll, 2. Miss Harriett Williams, 5. Mr. Maurice Clifford, 3. * Miss Lizzie Clark, 2, Mr. Thomas Heathman, 2. Mr. H. W. Lewis, 3. . Miss Susie Quander, 4. Miss Ray Cornish, 3. Mr. Bernard Keyes, 2. Mr. Roscoe Vaughn, 3. Miss Annie Howard, 5. Miss Eva Watson, 4. SACRED CONCERT ihe tmusic loving folks of this city was given another rare treat ‘Sunday evening at Metropolitan A. M, E. Church. Prof, John T, Layton gave one of his sacred concerts by his famous choir. To say Metropoli- tan A, M. E. Choir is going to give a Song Service is sufficient. Every- body knows what that means—a rare ‘musical treat, They were assisted by Mrs, Mary H, Demby of Boston, ‘Mass., and Mr. Frank Fowler Brown of Indianapolis, Indiana. | The opening hymn “Metropolitan” is a composition of Prof J. T. Lay- to, it Is a harmonius and beautiful yz and has become a great favor- itéin the A. M. E. Church Hymnal. “The Lord is My Light” by Thomp- i wds given with great precision and vigor—the bass solo by Prof. Layton was artistically rendered—the deep and sonorous bass notes were very appealing. “Show Thy Mercy” by Marshall was artistically rendered by Miss H. Demby, she has a wonder- fully sweet and pathetic voice and sings with great artistic skill. “Ye People Rend Your Heart” by Men- dels was sung by Mr. Frank Fowler Brown, who has a beautiful tenor voice and an exceptional range was a master-piece, “Inflammatus” by the choir and the obligato by Miss Demby was a great musical triumph forthe choir and Miss Demby, she sustained the high “C” with a large and ferfect tone, which envidenced that she is a great artist, The or- ganist;?rof. Wm. Braxton was up to Ihis usual standard and showed what practice and consistant effort can accomplish, The choir as usual held the pen- nant “Excelsior” where they sang at the Church of the Covenant a few ete ago. One of the’ most prominent members of that church .said “that is the best music that ha: been presented in this church this season.” May Prof, John T, Laytor and fis efficient and gifted: choi continue to ascend the ladder of The Help of an Open Account -We have made it possible for thousands of young couples to begin married life with all the furnishings nec- essary to make their homes comfortable and attractive. We give them qualities that may be depended upon for long and satisfactory service. At prices as low as the best to be found in cash stores, we charge their purchases on an open account and make its terms.to correspond with their individual circumstances. ‘Make your selections and Iet us arrange an account for you now. There’s no need to wait until after the wedding. We're always ready to help the young folks in a happy start, Peter Grogan si¢S77 irs. A NIGHT WITH THE SPIRITS Strange Manifestations At True Reformers’ Hall Sunday Night a SNE i ‘ ; " : " con See CEOs | Bile cee Reginiaiive a7... The great Houdon, the “Man of Mystery,” frém Calcutta, India, is to give a Scientific Test Seance of spirit phenomena at True Reformers’ Hall, on Sunday night, commencing at 8:15. Admission, 25 cents; reserved Seathy.85 Compe fame. ° . MR. BRUCE'S REPORT.- Elsewhere in The Bee will be seen excerpts from the report of Assistant Superintendent Bruce, of which there has been so much talk and criticism. If what Mr. Bruce states be true, the Colored High School is radically wrong, and makes contention of The Bee cor- rect when it stated some time ago that graduates from the Armstrong Manual Training School to the Normal School No. were not justly treated. Certainly. Mr. Bruce's report calls for an investigation somewhere. : FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS On Sunday, May 15th, 1910, the grand fally of the Methodist Episco- pal Church of Fairmount Heights, was held at the public hall at that place, Rev. E. S. Williams, District su- perintendent preached the annual sermon on this occasion to the Co- rinthian Lodge No. 3857, G. U. O. of O. F., which attended in a body. The Household of Ruth connected with saia order also attended the services and very a gratifying collection was raised towards the erection of the new M, E. Church shortly to be built at Fairmount Heights under the supervision of Rev. Wm.'H. Howard, pastor in charge. In furtherance of this enterprise, a literary and musical entertainment was given at the residence of Ser- geant Frank Coleman of White ave- nue, Fairmount Heights, Wednes- day, May 18, 1910, at which the fol- lowing program was rendered: Mr. Frank Coleman, Md.—Open- ing Address. : Mr. R. D. Williams, Md. — Re- sponse, . Mrs, W. T. Chapman, D. C. — Recitation. Mr. W.H. Andison, Md.—Solo. Mr, W. D: Nixon, D. C, — Ad- dress. Miss Mabel Browner, D. C.—Solo. Miss, Lillian Noble, Md—Solo. Mrs. W. B, Calls and Mr. Witz, Md.—Instrumental Duet. Miss Hattie Boyd, D. C—Solo. Mr. Wm. Dixon, Ohio—Solo. The attendance was very large and refreshments were served, | The remains of Samuel T, Jackson brother of Annie M. Pearson, wife of James A. Johnsan, were interred in Harmony Cemetery, Thursday afternoon last, The Grand Lodge of Free and Ac- cepted Masons of the District of Columbia will celebrate St. John’s day, June 24th, with a grand excur- sion, Dr. J. Ro Wilder. will sail for London from New York on the 31st inst. He will be accompanied by his son. He will also visit Argentina, South America and other cities be- fore he returns to the United States. fore hé returns to the United States, APPEAL TO PARENTS AND OTHERS To the Supervising Principals, High and Normal School Principals, Assistant Directors, Building Prin- cipals, Teachers, Ladies and Gentlemen: There are many evidences of the fact that hundreds of our children between, say, 6 and 14 years of age are not enrolled in the local public schools. A trustworthy estimate of the aggregate number of such chil- dren is, of course, imposstble, but one may safely say that the number runs up into four figures. For the entire. District of Columbia the col- ored schools have but one Attend- ance Officer! This officer has de- voted herself to her work with the utmost tact, intelligence, and effici- ency but the task “transcends the powers of any one person, What can we do to cooperate the Attendance Officer in this vital matter of get- ting the children into school, Would it not appear .advisable for us to urge all persons to-send in to us the names and addresses of pu- pils from 6 to 14 years of age who,’ they happen to know, are not attend- ing school? These lists we could, then, forward to Mrs. Ida G. Rich- ardson, Attendance Officer, at Sum- mfer School? The fact is that most of the students in the intermediate’ grades of our elementary schools and in the classes of the high, manual training and normal schools know the names and addresses of at least one or two such delinquents. The teachers of these students might be instructed by the proper authorities to have each pupil hand in a list of names and addresses before June 1, every precaution being taken to make the information absolutely correct. The list. should, I think, contain, if possible, the following items: (1) Name of delinquent pupil, (2) sex, (3) age, (4) street address and (5) name of ‘pupil’s parent or guar- dian. Many of the students in the grad- uating classes: of the ‘whole Normal School No. 2 are willing, the prin- cipal tells us, to give their services to the Attendance Officer, say, during the latter part of August and of September, for the purpose of visit- ing the homes of pupils who are not but should be in school and to im- Press upon the parents not merely penalties of not observing the Com- pulsory Education Law, but also the moral wrong of denying their chil- dren the opportunities of our free ‘schools. Such service by the Nor- mal School students (and by oth- er persons who ‘may be willing to assist) would prove of great value. [write to you for your opinion of the plan which I have roughly out- lined above and for any criticism or suggestion that may occur to you. | Moreover, don’t you think that our teachers would be willing to bestir themselves much more systematically than they have hitherto done, to bring children to school? Very sincerely yours, Roscoe C. Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of Pub- Don't fail = 7 Hall aft fal to woe? ‘True Reformers’ According to the reports of -the Pennsylvania Railroad for the years of 1908 and 1909 its various lines carried a total of 299,762,658 passen- gers, ahd only one of this number have been killed as a result of a train wreck. : Tt is reported from Atlanta that cotton crop experts estimate that more than 25 per cent. of the cot- toa area in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana will have to be replanted. as rs Don't fail to go to True Reformers’ Hall Sunday night. Notice how the list for the teach- thy. | = | Have you noticed the contest which in your vote, Lincoln Memorial Building Co. IT IS THE NEW EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION $100,000 OF STOCK AT PAR $10.00 PER SHARE To be paid for on the Easy Payment Plan $100,000 OF STOCK AT PAR $10.00 PER SHARE To be paid for on the Easy Payment Plan It advances the interest of the Negro race. It affords the individual a safe and sure investment. Because 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 ABSQLUTELY DEVOID OF RISK, where every dollar will be invested in the best of Washington Real Estate, that increases in value annually at the rate of 5% per cent nearly DOUBLE bank interest. Even that is good enough for most people, but the LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY will do better than that. It will have offices and stores and lodge rooms, which will earn, on a conservative estimate, at least $23,200 per year. Equal to 5.9-10 per cent per annum. Tear off and mail with your remittance for First Paid Lincoln Memorial Building Company, 494 Louisiana Ave., N. W., Washington, D. Gentlemen: Find inclosed.....dollars as first payment on stock in the Lincoln Memorial Building Company, upon the following terms and do First. That the price at which I purchase this stock is ten dollars per sha Second. That the stock issued to me shall be fully paid and non-assessable Third. That if purchased on deferred payments that the first payment s cent of the purchase price. Fourth. That my contract of purchase will be issued to me for the numb my first payment. Name..... Street.....City.....S Surrender for First Payment W., Washington, D. C. has first payment on.....shares of allowing terms and conditions: ten dollars per share. and non-assessable. the first payment shall not be less than 10 per to me for the number of shares applied for upon State..... Tear off and mail with your remittance for First Payment Lincoln Memorial Building Company, 494 Louisiana Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. Gentlemen: Find inclosed...dollars as first payment on...shares of stock in the Lincoln Memorial Building Company, upon the following terms and conditions: First. That the price at which I purchase this stock is ten dollars per share. Second. That the stock issued to me shall be fully paid and non-assessable. Third. That if purchased on deferred payments that the first payment shall not be less than 10 per cent of the purchase price. Fourth. That my contract of purchase will be issued to me for the number of shares applied for upon my first payment. Name..... Street....City....State.... 11 FIRST OFFERING This is of importance to YOU and and every Negro in the land! WASHINGTON IS THE SEAT OF OUR NATION'S GOVERNMENT. The eyes of the world are on Washington... One-third of Washington's population is Negro. If all the Negroes in Washington were colonized in one place they would make a city larger than Richmond, Virginia. There are seven theatres in Washington, supported by a white population of 241,923 and a few foolish Negroes willing to be colonized in the galleries, the only place to which the Negro is admitted. THERE IS NOT A SINGLE FIRSTCLASS OFFICE BUILDING in the city of Washington, where a colored professional or business man or woman, and there are hundreds of them in the National Capital, can obtain business quarters. JUST THINK OF IT! 100,000 enterprising, thrifty, intelligent people, through race prejudice, swept completely out of the business district of Washington; 100,000 genteel, prosperous, amusement loving people deprived of every form of theatrical entertainment unless willing to submit to the most humiliating conditions. Every colored man and woman IN Washington. Every colored man and woman VISITING Washington. Every colored man and woman in America, familiar with the true state of the Negro in Washington, realizes that a theatre, store, and office building, operated by the Negroes, for the Negroes, is A NECESSITY. The welfare of the race demands it. The self-respect of the race demands it. Any enterprise resting its hope of success upon a NECESSITY is bound to be a SUCCESS. A THEATRE AND OFFICE BUILDING IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, built by Negroes, for the use of Negroes, is a NECESSITY. Appreciating to the utmost that fact— THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY proposes to erect in the Central Business District of the city of Washington a magnificent theatre, seating capacity 2,500, and a store and office building of splendid proportion, adequate in every respect to meet the requirements of prosperous professional and business men. The enterprise is exceptional in two respects: First—It is absolutely safe. Second—It promises enormous possibilities as a money maker. Features that must appeal to every man or woman with a few dollars to invest, and you are such a man or woman or you would not have read this far. THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY has surveyed the field carefully, and it KNOWS that hundreds of tenants are available for the offices, that dozens of merchants are ready to rent the stores, and that 100,000 people are anxious to patronize the theatre exclusively, and make it the best A. B. EMANCIPATION Proposed Front Elevation LINCOLN MEMORIAL OFFICE AND THEATRE BUILD WASHINGTON, D. C. 100 LINCOLN MEMORIAL OFFICE AND THEATRE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. ment C. shares of conditions: will not be less than 10 per of shares applied for upon e. Lincoln Memorial Building 494 Louisiana Gentlemen: I have read your a ing Company. Please send me by It is understood that the PATION PROCESS Front Elevation PACE AND THEATRE BUILDING BINGTON, 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. Banks and Insurance Companies engage in enterprises like this with their depositors' and policyholders' money—YOUR money, but YOU get only about 3 or 31/2 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.-Prea. Physician Wilmington, Del. GEORGE P. COLLINS. Counsel Attorney Washington, D. C. DR. L. H. SINGLETON, Auditor Pharmacist Washington, D. C. S. H. BOLLING Contractor and Builder Lynchburg, Va. This day will remain NOW. pays 20 p. worth $2.5 share of as railroad in value, ing Company. The fin is being ment wi it will s urged to tunity to floor as are. The O men of s you are through Their They ha Compan earned m vest YO DON'T The p able $1.0 months Tear off and mail for Free Prospect Company, Love., Washington, D. C. Advertisement and desire further inform inrn mail, free of charge, prospectus or is 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 Aaa'n Washington, D. C. ADVISORY BOARD CLAMATION ING COMPANY is ENTIRELY NEGRO. Not one dollar of white capital will be accepted in exchange for its securities. There is not one dollar of Promotion Stock, consequently there is no watered stock. Every holder of stock from the President down must pay at LEAST $10.00 per share for every share of stock allotted to him. This does not mean that the price of stock will REMAIN at $10.00 per share. It is $10.00 NOW. It, will advance in price far beyond $10.00, just as railroad and public utility stock goes to several times par. So will the Lincoln Memorial Building Company's stock go to several times its present value. This means that a share of stock costing $10.00 NOW will be worth $40.00 when stock goes to four times par. Estimates show that the Company's earnings will be 20 per cent, and that is four times par, with every dollar invested in Real Estate. THE BEST in the city of Washington, where values are as firmly fixed as the Rock of Gibraltar. This does not mean that the price of stock will remain at $10.00 per share. It is $10.00 NOW. If the Company, as it is estimated, pays 20 per cent, a $10.00 sha_2 of stock will be worth $40.00. If it pays 40 per cent, a single share of $10.00 stock will be worth $80.00. Just as railroads and public utility stocks increase in value, so will the Lincoln Memorial Building Company's stock increase in price. The first allotment of stock at $10.00 a share is being rapidly subscribed, and the next allotment will be $12.50 per share, to which point it will soon be advanced; therefore, you are urged to avail yourself of the present opportunity to get in as completely on the ground floor as any one of the Company's Directors are. The Company's Directors, by the way, are men of sterling worth, integrity and honor, as you are possibly aware, or can easily ascertain through any COMMERCIAL AGENCY. Their names are at the top of this page. They have unbounded faith in the future of the Company. They have invested THEIR hard earned money in it, and they advise you to invest YOUR money side by side with theirs. DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. The price of stock is $10.00 per share, payable $1.00 down and $1.00 per month for nine months upon each share subscribed for. Before you lay,this paper down cut out the coupon on the lefthand corner of this page and mail to-day, with remittance for first payment, if for but one share of stock. We shall be glad at all times to give you any further information desired, and again invite you to join us in this enterprise. mail for Free Prospectus A. C. are further information regarding the Lincoln Memorial Build- charge, prospectus of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company. may part whatsoever. --- SAMUEL W. RUTHERFORD, 2d V. Press Manager National Benefit Association Washington, D. C. DR. CHAS. H. MARSHALL, Treasurer Physician Washington, D. C. J. L. FORBES Real Estate and Loans Norfolk, Va. GEORGE W. ROBINSON Merchant Washington, D. C. DO IT NOW. Very truly yours, LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY, 494 Louisiana Ave., Washington, D. C. SCHWARTZ'S JEWELRY STORE BRING YOUR OLD RINGS, BROOCHES, PINS, WATCHES AND OTHER JELRY HERE FOR REPAIRS. WE MAKE OTHER JEWELRY, DO ALL KINDS OF REAIR WORK AND CHARGE THE LOWEST PRICES FOR FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP. YOUR EYES NEED GLASSES IF YOU HAVE HEADAIR OR IF YOU CAN'T SEE TO OUR OPTICIAN WILL BE AND TELL YOU WHAT'S SPECTACLES AND EYES JEWELRY—DIAMOND ANNOUVE LIBERAL CRE IN ORDER TO ASSIST O WAY, SCHWARTZ, "THE PR BE PLEASED TO SELL YOU SELECT ON CREDIT TERMS APPROVAL. WE WANT YOU TO FEE STORE AND BUY WHAT YOU INSURANCE THAT YOU WILL THE SMALLEST PRICES ON EXPERT WATCH REPAIR NCE. OUR WATCH-INSUR URE SET-INS EXPLAIN T ON OPTICAL DEPARTMENT REACTION. EYES EXAMIN 824 7th St James H JU HAVE HEADACHES, PAIN IN THE JU CAN'T SEE TO READ WELL. APTICIAN WILL EXAMINE YOUR EYE AL YOU WHAT'S THE TROUBLE. ACLES AND EYEGLASSES FROM $1 U JEWELRY—DIAMONDS—SILVERWARD ANNOUNOUNCEMENT LIBERAL CREDIT TO ALL PERSON TO ASSIST OUR CUSTOMERS IN JEWARTZ, "THE POPULAR JEWELER NED TO SELL YOU ANY ARTICLES YOU N CREDIT TERMS THAT WILL MEET YOU TO FEEL FREE TO COME T AND BUY WHAT YOU WANT LWITH T THAT YOU WILL GET THE BEST VAL LEST PRICES ON A LIBERAL BASIS. IT WATCH REPAIRING, 30 YEARS' E OR WATCH-INSURANCE IS A GREAT INS EXPLAIN THE PLAN. WE ALSO DEPARTMENT THAT GUARANTEE EYES EXAMINED FREE. 24 7th St. Northwest James H Winslo IF YOU HAVE HEADACHES, PAIN IN THE EYES OR IF YOU CAN'T SEE TO READ WELL. OUR OPTICIAN WILL EXAMINE YOUR EYES FREE AND TELL YOU WHAT'S THE TROUBLE. SPECTACLES AND EYEGLASSES FROM $1 UP. JEWELRY-DIAMONDS-SILVERWARE IN ORDER TO ASSIST OUR CUSTOMERS IN EVERY WAY, SCHWARTZ, "THE POPULAR JEWELER" WILL BE PLEASED TO SELL YOU ANY ARTICLES YOU MAY SELECT ON CREDIT TERMS THAT WILL MEET YOUR APPROVAL. WE WANT YOU TO FEEL FREE TO COME TO OUR TORE AND BUY WHAT YOU WANT LWITH THE ASURANCE THAT YOU WILL GET THE BEST VALUES AT THE SMALLEST PRICES ON A LIBERAL BASIS. EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING, 30 YEARS' EXPERIENCE. OUR WATCH-INSURANCE IS A GREAT FEATURE SET-INS EXPLAIN THE PLAN. WE ALSO HAVE IN OPTICAL DEPARTMENT THAT GUARANTEES SATEACTION. EYES EXAMINED FREE. James H Winslow UNDERTAKER AND EMBLAMER, LL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. James H. Dabney es H. Dabn James H. Dabney FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Hiring, Livery and Sale Stable. Carriages hired for funerals, p. Horses and carriages kept in guaranteed. Business at 1132 T. tree branch at 222 More street, Telephone for Office, Main 17, Telephone call for Stable, Main OUR STABLES IN FEHERE I can accommodate 50 B. all and inspect our new and m. J. H. DABNEY, Prop., 11 one, Main 3200. W. Sidney Arch RENDERING IN NOTONE, WATER COLOR AND PEN & INK STEEL CONSTRUCT One: Main 6059—M Office aired for funerals, parties, balls, receptions, and carriages kept in first-class style. Satisfies Business at 1132 Third street northwest. At 222 More street, Alexandria, Va. For Office, Main 1727. Call for Stable, Main 1428-5. "R STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY, accommodate 50 Horses. Protect our new and modern stable. DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third Street N. W. 3200. Carriages for SidneyPittman Architect PATENT DRAWING WATER COLOR CRAFTING, DETAILING, BEN & INK BLUE PRINTING EL CONSTRUCTION A SPECIALTY Office 404 Louisiana Ave. Carriages hired for funerals, parties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carriages kept in first-class style. Satisfactionaranteed. Business at 1132 Third street northwest. Main see 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, Here I can accommodate 50 Horses. All and inspect our new and modern stable. J. H. DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third Street N. W. One, Main 3200. Carriages for Hire. V.SidneyPittman Architect SCHWARTZ. ention is called to the advertent of Schwartz, jeweler and cian. 824 Seventh street northen in this issue of The Bee. This one of the best and most thorough store in this city. Everyg in this store is first class in detail Your eyeglasses are all your eyes examined, and the best material is used in the structon of your glasses. Satction is guaranteed in everything CHES, PAIN IN THE EYES READ WELL. EXAMINE YOUR EYES FREE 'THE TROUBLE. GLASSES FROM $1 UP. BONDS—SILVERWARE NOUNCEMENT EDIT TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS IN EVERY POPULAR JEWELER" WILL ANY ARTICLES YOU MAY THAT WILL MEET YOUR FREE TO COME TO OUR U WANT LWITH THE AS- GET THE BEST VALUES AT LA LIBERAL BASIS. BIRING, 30 YEARS' EXPERIANCE IS A GREAT FEA- THE PLAN. WE ALSO HAVE T THAT GUARANTEES SAT- ED FREE. Northwest Winslow Dabney parties, balls, receptions, etc. first-class style. Satisfaction third street northwest. Main Alexandria, Va. 27. in 1428-5. ", REEMAN'S ALLEY, Horses. Modern stable. 32 Third Street N. W. Carriages for Hire. Pittman itect PATENT DRAWING CRAFTING, DETAILING, TRAC BLUE PRINTING TION A SPECIALTY 404 Louisiana Ave. N W that is sold, or your money refunded. He is a friend of the race, and you won't regret dealing in this store It is what you are doing and going to do. There is more pleasure in saying "I just bought a suburban home site and expect soon to have a home of my own where I can enjoy fresh air, sunshine, pure water, flowers, a lawn and garden. In another column of The Bee is offered a splendid opportunity to start a home in Bloomburg Park. THE ARRIVAL OF MINISTER LYON After much anxiety on the part of the Liberian public, awaiting to hear from the United States of America, the Cruiser Birmingham reached this harbor early. Monday morning, the 4th of April. At 8 o'clock a. m., a salute of 21 guns was fired by the 4th of April. At 8 o'clock a. m., a Now for popularity, solicit votes salute of 21 guns was fired by the for yourself. Southern Medicine Cq as a Atlanta, Ga. perfe Gentlemen: luxu Yours respectfully, Miss Lovie Mayes. Southern Medicine Box 754 THE MAGIC IS TWO TIMES LARGER THAN PICTURE. IT IS 9 IN LONG. STEEL HEATING BAR ALUMINUM COMB Every lady can have a beautiful and luxurious head of hair if she uses a MAGIC. After a shampoo or bath the Magic dries the hair, removing the dandruff; and it will straighten the earliest head of hair. The Magic will not burn or injure the hair, because the ing bar while irons the hair, is alone, put into the flame. The Aluminum Comb is easily detached from the ed the comproves back into place and is held by a turn. The Magic Heater is also suitable for curling iron hand bag. Magic Shampoo Drier $1 00. Magic Alcoho Write for literature today Magic Shampoo'Drier Co. Is Your Hair Is Your Hair Beautiful Soft, S NELSON pomade It makes your hair tangled hair as m it keeps it from and gives it that Use Nelson's H NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING is the first hair pomade on the face of the earth for colored people. It makes your hair grow farty it makes stubborn, kinky and tangled hair as soft and supply as silk. It makes it healthy, it keeps it from splitting or breaking off. It makes it rich and gives it that charm so longed for by all true ladies. Nelson's Hair Dressing is put up like the agents everywhere sell it at 25 cents a box. If you can't you a full size box postpaid. Go and buy it now, or at it. NELSON MANUFACTURING Live Agents Wanted. Nelson's Hair Dressing is put up in handcowe four-some square tux boxes, like the lady holds in her hand. Druggists and agents everywhere sell it at 25 cents box. If you can't get it, we send 30 cents and we will mail you a full size box postal. Go and buy it now, or sit right down and write us. Address Q Gentlemen: I wish to say that my hair was only about three inches long and so kinky,stiff and harsh I could not manage it at all, but after using two jars of your Her-true-line I have as pretty suit of hair as any lady in Atlanta. I wish every one with curly or kinky hair knew or this wonderful Her-true-line. Cruiser; this salute was immediately answered by the man behind the gun tory overlooking the sea to the west of the city. At 8.30, the launch "Newport" steamed out of the harbor, carrying Mr. Geo. W. Ellis, secretary of the Legation, Dr. J. H. Reed, Vice Cousel-General, Miss Annabel Lyon, Clerk of the American Legation, and Prof. W. F. Walker, of the College of West Africa, who went out to meet the Minister. After meeting the Captain and officers of the ship, and exchanging greetings and sentiments of regard, the party embarked on the launch to come ashore. At the departure of the Minister, a salute of 13 guns was fired. The launch was soon ashore, where a large concourse of Liberian citizens had assembled to greet the Minister. After some salutations and hearty hand shakes, the Minister soon found himself at the American Legation, surrounded by friends and and well wishers, where soon afterwards he was called on by Government officials and other distinguished Liberian citizens. The captain of the cruiser came ashore at 3 o'clock p. m., to meet the President and his Cabinet. The cruiser will be here for several days yet, and her prégence means much of hope in the breasts of Liberians for the future of the republic. We welcome the Minister back to this most delicate post, and wish for him continued health in the discharge of his diplomatic duties. — From the Liberian and West Africa. Her-Tru-Line Her-Tru-Line FOR THE HAIR HER - TRU - LINE The Great Hair Grower "Her-Tru-Line" stimulates the growth of the hair, it takes out the curl and leaves the scalp in a clean and healthy condition. "Her-Tru-Line" cures dandruff, ringworm and scalp tetter. "Her - Tru - Line" is delightful as a dressing for the hair, being perfectly harmless. It is a true luxury and a valuable addition to toilet accessories. Large jar 50 cents at all drug stores and by our special agents Sample box mailed to any address on receipt of five two-cent stamps. sell this wonderful HAIR GROWER. MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $100 $100 PERSON BY BESTOWED PENNY ORDER Minneapolis, Minnesota. Does it comb 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 preud of it? Is it long and full of life? If you cannot say YES to all of the above questions, then you need POSED ASTHE QUEEN Wisconsin Girl Original for Painting of Alexandra. Evelyn May Converse, Playing Model, Met Artist, Who Kept Her Arrayed In Royal Finery Until Picture Was Finished. New York—When the loyal and honest Britishers pay homage of heart to the pictured Alexandra at the coronation—from the brush of Edwin R. Abbey, R. A.—it is only to their queen's head and face. The rounded arms, the well poised neck, the stately, patrician carriage of the figure are another—the secret is out now. Miss Evelyn Converse, an American girl from Wisconsin at that, posed as Queen Alexandra for Mr. Abbey's great painting, "The Coronation of Edward VII." Miss Converse hasn't sat on the royal throne, but she has worn the coronation robes. She has never been presented at court, but she has come and gone at Buckingham palace as if born to the purple. She was never proclaimed queen in Westminster, but there she is in the picture. The king himself ordered the painting to be hung on the walls of Buckingham palace. He posed; the queen posed; all the important personages who were nearest to their majesties on that august occasion faced Mr. Abbey for their portions of the picture. But for two years the great work was held up because there was no suitable model in England. "For two years I've waited for you," said Mr. Abbey when he met Miss Converse. He knew he had found the model he wanted—the rest was only a matter of course. Who that could do it would refuse to pose for her majesty, consort of Edward VII, and wear her robes and jewels? Strangely enough, Miss Converse isn't a professional model at all. She comes from Eau Claire, Wis., where her father, Henry Edward Converse, is a successful up-to-date American A Miss Evelyn May Converse. business man. He went there from New York and took a hand in mining and timber and made good. There is sturdy New England stock in Miss Converse, too-on her family tree is the name of Oliver Wendell Holmes. It all happened just because Miss Converse fell in love and played model for her fiance, a painter prince—Effiatoum Boy, son of a Russian nobleman and a French countess, who adopted Egypt as their country, where Effiatoum Pasha is one of its foremost men. When she was 16 Miss Converse left Eau Claire and went abroad with some cousins to study. She stayed in Paris several years, studying French and music, and hoping that perhaps some day she might go into grand opera. Then she went to England, and at Cambridge she met Emiatoum Bey, who had been to the 'varsity there and rowed in one of the crews. He had taken up painting—and he tell in love with Miss Converse. They became engaged And what could be prettier on canvas than the fiancee's shell pink skin and her dusky black hair and her eyes that are sometimes black and sometimes blue and sometimes gray? And those arms, so exquisitely modeled! Well, George Story, the artist, saw the throat and arms and shoulders at a reception at the American embassy. "Just one sitting," he begged of the beautiful American girl, and when she told her fiance of this he said: "It's a very great honor from such a painter—by all means pose for him." They got along famously, and one day Mr. Story ventured to suggest that Mr. Abbey might want her for some of his next pictures. Miss Converse laughed merrily—the idea that such an artist, one of the two Americans in the Royal Academy, should want to paint her! "Why, there are plenty of other girls who will do quite as well," she went on, protesting. And now we get to the point where the pretty American girl was asked to wear Queen Alexandra's coronation robes. Miss Converse called on Mr. Abbey. As she tells it: "He smiled and just looked at me hard, hard, for about a minute. Then he asked me if I would mind taking off my glove, that he might see my hand. I said, 'Yes, I'll do it,' and then—why, he just said that if my arms were like that he'd most certainly want me for a very important picture he was painting. "And that very day I put on Queen Alexandra's robes and he began to paint me in the picture." 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 Peggotty's Hut. presently, when he got into the streets and "smelt the fish and pitch, and oakum, and tallow, and saw the sallors 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 but 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 ```markdown ``` 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. Deadheads Must Be Coaxed. 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 100 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 1:4½. The temperature of a healthy human adult averages from 98.4 to 96.6, but 97.5 and 99 F. are within normal. KING AND BIRD ATTORNEYS SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding Probate Court No.16,794. Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Alexander A. Hicks, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 25th day of April, A. D. 1911; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 25th day of April, 1910. Henry P. Slaughter, 2236 13th St., N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. L. M. King, John W. Bird, Attorneys. PERRI W. FRISBY, SOLICITOR. IN*THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA No. 29159. Equity\Docket. Alfred Holmes, complainant, vs. Georgiana Holmes, Defendant. The object of this suit is to obtain a decree declaring the defendant legally dead, by reason of her continue absence from the complainant'somicile in the District of Columbia, and not having been heard from by him for the last past seven years. On motion of the complainant; by his solicitor, Perri W. Frisby, it is this 14th day of April, 1910, ordered that the defendant, GeorgianaHolmes cause her appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and The Washington Bee before said clay. A true copy. Thos. H. Anderson, Test: Justice. J. R. Young, Clerk, by F. E. Cunningham, Asst. Clerk. THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS- TRICT OF COLUMBIA No. 16815. Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Charles Matthews, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warn- ed to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of April, A. D. 1911; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 15th day of April, 1910. Hannah J. Grant, 3029 O street n. w. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Thomas Walker, Attorney. L. MELENDEZ KING, ATTORNEY SUPREME CQURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding Probate Court. No. 16821, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of James Richard Jones, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 12th day of May, A. D. 1911; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 12th day of May, 1910. William H. C. Brown, 1929 13th St., n.w. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of Probate Court. L. Melendez King, Attorney. ```markdown ``` COMFORTABLE SUBURBAN HOME AT HAMPTON PARK, Add. Built from Your Own Plans and Sol- Public Schools, Churches, Lodges and 2 Minutes' Walk of 30 Minutes one far Soil is excellent. Enough vegetable with little labor, to supply your table. before some investors make up their s judgment prompts them to buy now. To reach Hampton Park: Take the and H streets northeast to the Kenilworth house in Kenilworth (M street) and Park, D. C. For further particulars, see or write W. G. WHITE, sa On the Grounds at Hampton Park A In case of death, a bunch of Rent R therefore your duty to your fa No Interest and No Taxes. BE INDEPENDENT A Man Cannot be Independent W. G. WHITE, 913 9th street northwest, Washington, D. C. Please have your salesman call and is understood that I am under no oblig Name..... Address SUBURBAN HOMES FOR SALE ON PARK, Adjoining Ken- own Plans and Sold on Easy Me- churches, Lodges and Two Streets 2 Minutes' Walk of the Property. Minutes one fare to Tres- nt. Enough vegetables, chickens, or to supply your table. Every lot wi- ctors make up their minds to buy, them to buy now. Hampton Park: Take the H street c neast to the Kenilworth car, and get worth (M street) and walk 3 blocks. Regulars, see or write WHITE, Sales Agent, 9 At Hampton Park All Day Sund a bunch of Rent Receipts is a pe your duty to your family to OWN No Taxes. Free Do BE INDEPENDENT. not be Independent and Live in northwest, on, D. C. our salesman call and explain your I am under no obligation to buy. Name..... COMFORTABLE SUBURBAN HOMES FOR COLORED PEOPLE COMFORTABLE SUBURBAN HOMES FOR COLORED PEOPLE AT HAMPTON PARK, Adjoining Kenilworth, D. C. Built from Your Own Plans and Sold on Easy Monthly Payments Public Schools, Churches, Lodges and Two Street Car Lines Within 2 Minutes' Walk of the Property 30 Minutes one fare to Treasury Soil is excellent. Enough vegetables, chickens, etc., may be grown, with little labor, to supply your table. Every lot will probably be sold before some investors make up their minds to buy, though their good judgment prompts them to buy now. To reach Hampton Park: Take the H street car; transfer at 15th and H streets northeast to the Kenilworth car, and get off at the first brick house in Kenilworth (M street) and walk 3 blocks east to Hampton Park, D. C. For further particulars, see or write W. G. WHITE, Sales Agent, 913 9th Street N. W. On the Grounds at Hampton Park All Day Sunday. In case of death, a bunch of Rent Receipts is a poor heritage. It is therefore your duty to your family to OWN YO UHOME. No Interest and No Taxes. Free Deed in Case of Death BE INDEPENDENT. A Man Cannot be Independent and Live in a Rented House. W. G. WHITE. Please have your saesman call and explain your offer more fully. It is understood that I am under no obligation to buy. Name..... Date..... Southern Cultu Formerly of 1730 Hereby announces ING AT 1510 This school is open for the benefit and teaches beauty culture in all ated a host of young ladies in this skilled operators. MRS LUCIE RPO Columbia Ico Wholesale and Retail Families a 22 5 cent ice tickets sold in sold $1.00. Delivered at your h Office 10th Southern Beach Culture St formerly of 1730 14th St. N announces ITS in AT 1510 14TH open for the benefit of young beauty culture in all its branched young ladies in this and other ers. UCIE RPOLLAR Columbia Ice Company sale and Retail ice Dealers Families a specialty tickets sold in $5.00 lots; 27 delivered at your house. Office 10th Street Whar Southern Beauty Culture School This school is open for the benefit of young colored women and teaches beauty culture in all its branches. It has graduated a host of young ladies in this and other cities who are skilled operators. MRS LUCIE RPOLLARD, PRES 22 5 cent ice tickets sold in $5.00 lots; 21 5 cent ice tickets sold $1.00. Delivered at your house. President and Gen'l Manager. W. CALVIN CHASE, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding Probate Court. No. 17049, Administration This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of Administration on the estate of Samuel Henry Hariston, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 20th day of May, A. D. 1911; otherwise they may by law be excluded, from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 20th day of May, 1910: Sophia E. Hariston, 2216 Champlain street, n. w. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. Calvin Chase, Attorney. First class work. Fair prices. THOS H. ROBINSON SIGN PAINTER & DECORATOR 5132 F Street Southwest Washington, D. C. Ask you friends tto vote for you in the contest now going on among the teachers. $15 Per Month BUYS this Beautiful Home Smaller houses sold on smaller monthly payments. Phone Main 272. John E, McGau, HOMES FOR COLORED PEOPLE Adjoining Kenilworth, D. C. and Sold on Easy Monthly Payments Laws and Two Street Car Lines Within walk of the Property. Use fare to Treasury Vegetables, chickens, etc., may be grown, table. Every lot will probably be sold their minds to buy, though their good aw. Make the H street car; transfer at 15th Kenilworth car, and get off at the first brick and walk 3 blocks east to Hampton Write Sales Agent, 913 9th Street N. W. Park All Day Sunday. Rent Receipts is a poor heritage. It is your family to OWN YO UHOME. Free Deed in Case of Death. INDEPENDENT. Invest and Live in a Rented House. Call and explain your offer more fully. It o obligation to buy. Address..... In Beauty ure School 1730 14th St. N. W. ences ITS REOPEN- 10 14TH, N. W benefit of young colored women in all its branches. It has gradu- in this and other cities who are RPOLLARD, PRES Ice Company rail ice Dealers ties a specialty in $5.00 lots; 21 5 cent ice tickets our house. both Street Wharf. Country Board Boarders wanted for the summer, at Metropolitan Grove, Gaithersburg, Md., good place, good water and board. Terms moderate; opens June 1, 1910. For further information address Mrs. Dora Dorsey, Metropolitan Grove, Gaithersburg, Md. Brodt's 419 ELEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. 503 NINTH STREET N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C. WASHINGTON'S LEADING HATTERS. THIS IS THE LEADING HAT FIRM IN THE CITY. HATS OF ALL STYLES MAY BE FOUND AT EITHER Prof. L. M. Hershaw, who went to Augusta, Ga., to deliver an address to Haines Institute, Miss Lucy E. Laney, from there he visited Atlanta, Ga., the guest of Collector Henry E. Rucker, He also visited his mother who has been quite ill., Prof. Hershaw had a most delightful time at his old home and among old friends. He returned to the city Monday. ers contest is growing, send in your vote for your favorite teacher. Joseph Peake, Secretary and Treas. PROF. HERSHAW FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINNY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAY. BEST POWADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25+ AND 50+ BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL, SIZED BOTTLE, 25¢ LARGE SIZED BOTTLE, 50¢ THE OZONIZED OX MARNOW CO. 216 LAKE ST. DEPT. 15 CHICAGO, ILL. AGENTS WANTED. HOLTMAN'S OLD STAND FINE BOOTS AND SHOES ```markdown ``` THE BEST MADE SIGN OF THE BIG BOOT 'WM, MORELAND, PROP. OLD MADE NEW If you want your clothing cleaned, altered or repaired, you should send a card or call at the up-to-date repair establishment. All work guaranteed or money refunded. Mrs. D. Smith, Proprietor, Fine Suburban Home For Sale. Bargain For Quick Purchaser In Hyattsville, Md., Mont- Rose Avenue. Description of Property Eight room frame building, butler's pantry, large closets in each room, all modern improvements, both hot and cold water, furnace hea Cellar under entire house, seven foot porch running across front and down one side, also large back porch. Lot 141x135, twenty shade trees in yard and lawn, two-story stable 24x 16 also chicken house on rear. Large lawn, Only one block and a half from cars. Price $5,000,00. Terms to suit. Apply L. Melendez King, 609 F street, n. w., Washington. PURCHASE A HOME. Elsewhere in The Bee will be seen the advertisement of Mr. W. G. White, who offers to the people a house and lot by the payment of $50 and $15 per month. Why pay rent when you can own your own home today? Now is the time to own a home. Look! These houses are beautifully located. Just think of the price— $50 down and $15 dollars per month!. Read particulars elsewhere. FOR SALE Up-to-date cigar, confectionery and periodical store, good business, terms reasonable. Apply to Bond-Dabney Co., 1020 You street, Northwest. See who is leading in the teachers contest. Vote for your favorite. MATTINGS Imported direct from the Orient. A great show of the finest patterns woven especially for us. To make special inducements for early buyers, we have determined to put these Mattings on sale at very low prices. You can save a considerable sum by by selecting now. HOUSE & HERR MANN HOUSE & HERR MANN Seventh and I (Eye) Streets, N. W. SEASON OF 1917 Steamer River WILL OPEN Excursion Se WASHINGTON Sunday May 29 3 Pr Round Trip. La Tosca Pleas SEASON OF 1910 ner River WILL OPEN Excursion Season WASHINGTON P y 29 3 Trips 12 rip. Tosca Pleasure 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 the coming season, and it will be to your, intsecure the most desirable dates. Our terms are most liberal and charters. Washington Park and Some To which place we have the exclusive exMathias Point, Rock Point, Norfolk, Wittimore and all points on the Potomac Bay. Our facilities for chartering parties respect. Our large covered wharf (usecursion business) enables us to give you date service. No crowding, no exposure between Washington and Washington Park long and tiresome waiting for the stea Before the construction of Washington place of recreation was afforded the proudly point to the fact that I have the people in every respect. You have one of the best and most sorts in this part of the country. Washington riads of electric lights, mammoth scenery, dance hall and numerous smaller a passed in point of natural beauty and a resort south of New York. By perseverance and an enormous this, and now I ask you to show me the port by calling at once and making cherson. Yours for pleasuure and Lewis Jefferson. 1910 measure that I take this opportunity,asks of the Independent Steamship,now open for charters for Excursions, and it will be to your interest to desirable dates. Most liberal and charters can be Washington Park and Somerset Bay,we have the exclusive excursion to Rock Point, Norfolk, White City points on the Potomac River. Uses for chartering parties are unlarge covered wharf (used exclusively) enables us to give you most of the crowding, no exposure and Boston and Washington Park does not waiting for the steamers. The construction of Washington Station was afforded the people of the country. Washington Station lights, mammoth scenic railroad and numerous smaller amusements of natural beauty and modernity of New York. Grance and an enormous cash offer I ask you to show me that I have at once and making charters. Yours for pleasuure and commendation, Lewis Jefferson. 1910 First 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. ```markdown ``` Before the construction of Washington Park absolutely no place of recreation was afforded the 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 carroussel, 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. Yours for pleasuure and comfort, Lewis Jefferson. 1910 First Street, S. W. J. A. PIERRE Orders Delivered Promptly J. A. PIERRE Wholesale and Retail Dealer in COAL, WOOD AND ICE 454 New York Avenue, N. W. Residence 935 R street n. w. Phone, North 2036. NOTICE TO LADIES Ladies spring is the time to begin to have your scalp treated. If your hair is falling out, growing thin, dry and lifeless, itching scalp; purchase at once a bottle of Mrs. A. J. Smith's HAIR TONIC It will give new life to the hair and clean the scalp. All hair tonic guaranteed under the pure food law and drug act. Ladies who attend the parlors of Mrs. Smith will be given free. Clipping and singeing of the hair. Mrs. A. J. Smith, 935 R Street, N. W. Now is the time to pay your subscription, and gain votes for your friends in the teachers contest. --- Season TON PARK Trips 12, 2 3/4 P.M. 25Cents Tasure Club General: This opportunity to inform ment Steamboat and Barge for Excursions during the interest to call at once and Parters can be made for Somerset Beach have excursion rights as well as White City, Richmond, Bal- mac River and Chesapeake Parties are unsurpassed in every (used exclusively for our ex- pose you most modern and up-to- posure and our schedule be- n Park does away with the steamers. Washington Park absolutely no the people of our race, and I have fulfilled the demands of and most modernly improved re- Washington Park with its my- scenic railway, huge carrous- ler amusement devices is sur- nd modern equipment by no ous cash outlay I have done me that I have your hearty sup- g charters for the coming sea- re and comfort, 1910 First Street, S. W. H. K. FULTON Why pay 10 per cent, when you can get it for 3 per cent. H. K. FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE No. 314 Ninth Street, N. W. Loans made on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. You! BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS LADIES' AND GENTS' WEARING APPAREL. OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED PLEDGES FOR SALE. 361 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 4th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C.