Washington Bee
Saturday, September 10, 1910
Washington, D.C.
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VOL.XXXI NO15
AN OPEN LETTER
Open Letter.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 6, 1910.
Mr. A. T. Stuart, Superintendent of
Public Schools, District of Columbia
Dear Sir: The Act of Congress creating and defining the duties of the present Board of Education for the District of Columbia imposed upon the superintendent vast power and responsibilities, not the least among which is that of naming certain subordinate officers second only to the superintendent in authority and power. In the continuance of Mr. Percy Hughes as your chief aid for the white schools you displayed your usual good judgment, for in Mr. Hughes the white schools have a broad-gauge educator—a man who is not only familiar with the school system, but by his knowledge and thoroughness has impressed both teachers and pupils with the fact that he possesses all the qualifications for a safe and sane guide. On the other hand, the legacy left by your immediate predecessor, the assistant superintendent for the colored schools, has proven a lamentable failure!
Inducted into a position previously held by such competent and experienced educators as Cook and Montgomery, the present incumbent, after a few months drilling, was placed by the before-referred-to superintendent at the head of the colored schools—a position next in numbers and importance to that held by yourself. If it were a chair in some college instead of the head of a vast school system, he would flounder in its vastness; as it is, X-rays fail to do justice to his infinitesimalism. Mr. Superintendent, the colored people look to you for the betterment of their schools, not because Congress has placed in your hands the remedy; but from the fact of your personal knowledge of the great difference in the colored school management under Cook and Montgomery. The former, as you are well aware, were competent and practical educators, while the present accident is a visionary theorist and experimenter.
Mr. Superintendent, no large body, civic or otherwise, can be successful unless there is confidence in the ability and integrity of those at its head. The lack of those pre-eminent elements for success is one main reason why the colored schools are trailing far behind the white schools. The teachers' confidence as to the practical knowledge and reliability of the misfit at the head of their schools is of a variable quantity. Those, and they are few in number, who fawn for favors, are loud in their praise of the youth of Tuskegee, but the reliable mass who appreciate the trust, the people's children, confided to them are compelled to witness daily fruitless attempts to engraft on a public school system the ligaments of college life.
Mr. Superintendent, analyze the many, many things of questionable correctness brought to your official notice pertaining to the management of the colored schools, and, having done so, weigh them by your sense of justice; then add a margin for the silent, suffering teacher. The result, I feel sure, will be to the advantage of the colored schools.
In conclusion, Mr. Superintendent, Tuskegee is a wonderful institution and Dr. Washington's great insight into personal fitness and character has questionably made it what it is, as he is known to get none but the best educators, and let go only, those who fail to make good.
I am, with respect.
THE EDITOR.
CULTIVATING THE FARM.
Regrets of Farmers—Col. Roosevelt's Address.
Rural district life is engaging the attention of man and woman. Cultivating the farm and living thereon will drive poverty from many a door.
President Roosevelt's address to the citizens of Utica, N. Y., is replete with advice to the farmers. As published in the South Carolina State, he touched every phase of life on the farm.
This speech ought to be circulated among the farmers and their wives throughout the country.
The preachers, teachers and other leaders who are interested in the affairs of humanity, should lay more stress upon the importance of drawing the sustenance of life from the breast of the soil, thereby inducing 5-BEE 6,
the young to improve their rural district life. Then there would not be such a tendency to crowd to the cities, spending their time indolently and amusement.
Excuse the digression, but allow this observation in passing. If a compulsory work law could be enacted by our State Legislatures, which would drive the idle and thriftless youths from the street corner universities and from the park training schools of our large cities, where they congregate daily and play crap, when they should be at work; and banish them from the railroad stations and pool rooms of our towns and villages, it would be of outtold value in the solution of the many problems which confront us, and as he as great a benefaction as compulsory education. If every county in the different States of the Union had its social settlement workshop, including a farm, where this indolent, go-easy class of humanity which is a menace to mankind could be sent and compelled to work until habits of thrift and usefulness are cultivated, quite a revenue would be brought into the county treasuries, which would help to increase the school tax. This municipal compulsory working element should be paid
wages, part of which should be deducted for food and clothing, and the other part should be placed in the bank to their credit during their apprenticeship. When they have been trained to respect the dignity of labor and taught to work and can and will work, release them and use this accumulated money to start them on small farms, or some other self-supporting enterprise.
In conversation with a farmer and his wife in one of the States the other day they said: "We hire hands to work and these hands, instead of giving an honest day's work for the pay promised, work to kill time. When we leave them they slip to the orchard or to the watermelon patches, or go to the spring, half a mile away, frequently, and often leave the mule and plow in the field and lie under a spreading shade tree and sleep." A farmer in another State said: "I have almost given up the hope of making any progress on my farm with the kind of labor now available."
But the industrial school, where agriculture is taught in practice as well as in theory, will make a more efficient and reliable class of helpers in such fields of endeavor and solve many intricate problems. Therefore, every county should maintain a compulsory agricultural work-settlement for the indolent, non-criminal class, who can work and will not work.
Every public school should have an industrial department, and teach the girls to cook and to keep the house clean. Such training is largely neglected in the home life of the present-day generation of young people. Is it any wonder that there is so much tuberculosis fatality? Work is a pancacea for all disease. Let there be less book grinding and more knowledge about agriculture and domestic science. A return to the farm will produce a better class of boys and girls who will develop into self reliant and reliable men and women.
In his Utica address, Mr. Roosevelt told the farmers that they ought to avail themselves of expert advice from technical men, and not be content to go on without improving their methods of farming. He thought that the farm life should be made more attractive and that the farmers' wives ought to have an easier time. He spoke of the country church, and urged the farmer to have the right kind of religion.
Adam and Eve were the first farmers, and they combined farm work and religion, and had the best preacher—God. On every large farm there should be a church and a school, and the preacher and teacher should be as godly as it is possible for human beings to be.
Says Mr. Roosevelt: "I want to be able to recognize the good Christian by the way he acts on week days." He says further: "I will never go with the type of farmer who says, 'I am down on the lawyers: I am against the business man.' I will go with him when he says, 'I am against a bad type of lawyers, or bad type of bankers.' In other words, I will go with him when he pronounces judgment on a man not on account of his occupation, in accordance with conduct."
Please permit your correspondent to speak of a farm in Virginia, managed and worked by a lawyer and his wife. Here farming and law are combined. These people are wielding a most hallowed influence in the community. Because of its boundary—two rivers and a creek—its plenty, its beautiful situation, and one man and one woman, being its only human inhabitants, it is named "Paradise Farm." The mountains, the hills, the plains, the valleys, excellent water, and pure, bracing air, make it an ideal health resort. A visit to Paradise Farm will convince you that all Mr. Roosevelt says about farming is worth while.
Everything the market affords is produced on this farm. Hence the high-priced food problem here is not a knotty question. They have many horses, mules, oxen, swine, chickens, turkeys, apple trees, peach trees, cherry trees, all kinds of berries, beautiful flowers, chestnut trees, walnut trees, and great towering pines and oaks. To see those stately oaks, deep covered with moss, reminds one of Tennyson's "Talking Oak." The scenery is magnificent! Goldberry mountains, clothed in verdant vines; Nat-Lu-Pu, with its sweet-scented shrubbery; "the Lucinda Picnic Grove;" high, slady, and lovely, for pleasure seekers, are among the attractions of Paradise Farm.
Mrs. L. S. Chase Goldsberry is a most wonderful woman, having been reared and educated in Washington, and being principal of one of the largest schools in the city up to the time of her marriage to Lawyer Goldsberry, and never before living on a farm until now. It hardly seems possible that she has developed into a full-fledged, up-to-date farmer. She herself cares for about five hundred chickens. The hennery yields dozens of eggs daily, which she ships to market. She mounts the machinery, drives the horses over the farm, and plants the seed the same as Mr. Goldsberry.
Paradise Farm is located in Nelson County, Virginia, in two forks of Buffalo and Tye Rivers. It is one mile and a half from Tye River Station, on the Southern Railroad, containing (goo) five hundred acres. On the north and west are the Goldsberry mountains: southeast it has three and a half miles river front, affording bathing, fishing, and boating recreations, abounding with river-side parks and surrounded by the Blue Ridge mountains, some of whose chains and peaks are seen from all points of Paradise Farm.
The health features are excellent. Great springs here and there, among
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which are sulphur, lithea, iron, etc. was not legal, and yet the This, farm, operated by Lawyer N. T. constituted the Lodge were Goldsberry and his wife, is a busy initiated, past and raised in work shop. They have the up-to-date military lodge, working in farming machinery. His mower and Grand Lodge of England take harvests the hay; his mill grinds Lodge was chartered by his corn and wheat, and that of his, Master of England and was neighbors; his thresher threshes his African Lodge, 459, and w grain. The wheat is safely shedded. on the rolls of the Grand His wood saw, feed cutter and shred- England until 1813, at w der are operated by gasoline power; African Lodge and all w indee l, all his machinery is so oper- working under the Grand and, will soon again be called England we stricken from into use with his workmen for the The question has arisen fall season. not they pay dowage fee
Goldsberry mountain is ringing with the axes and saws of his wood-choppers, cording wood to till a contract which he has for fifty car loads of chestnut wood. On either side of this farm are large quarries manufacturing soapstone (and this farm itself has an extensive vein of the soapstone), the vein of which runs across Paradise Farm.
The owner, whose law office is in the city of Lynchburg, and his smart and excellent wife, spend their winters in their beautiful home in Lynchburg.
Paradise Farm is an Edenic spot for quiet, rest, and recuperation, and the Pilgrim (W. V.) shall be enticed to return next summer.
C. T. WALKER FOR PRESIDENT.
Eminent Divine From Georgia Will Possibly be Elected President of National Baptist Convention in New Orleans.
Augusta, Ga.—When the announcement was made several months ago that Dr. Charles T. Walker, of this city, was a candidate for the presidency of the National Baptist Convention, a commotion was created, and it was at once whispered around the entire United States among the leaders that his election would be a certainty. This argument is more fully substantiated by several facts which, when looked at properly, mean his unanimous election. He is one of the most eloquent speakers and forceful debaters in the United States, and hails from a State that is overwhelmingly Baptist. He is the people's ideal, and has the ability to organize. He knows what the people want, need and must have.
The strongest thing in favor of his unanimous election is the fact that Dr. Morris, who has served for more than 16 years as president of the Convention, has said emphatically that under no condition would he accept the presidency if there were another candidate for the position; that it would have to be acclamation or not at all. It is understood that Dr. Walker has notified Dr. Morris that he is a candidate for the presidency and has asked him for his support. The delegates from Georgia are enthusiastic for Dr. Walker. It is said that when the name of Dr. $C_{q}$ T. Walker is presented at New Orleans that Dr. Morris will decline to stand for re-election, and that when Dr. Walker is put in nomination by his home State, it will be seconded by nearly every State in the Union.
VIRGINIA·ARCH·MASONS.
They Take Exception to the Action of Rev. Lucus.
It would seem from the action of some people of this world, like Banquo's Ghost, that they will not be down or stayed buried, it makes no difference what decision may be rendered against them. This event is called to my mind by an article in the issue of this paper of Aug. 27, wherein certain parties are trying to defend the legality of the so-called Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of F. A. A. Y. M. Masons. In this article the parties assert that African Lodge, 459, located in Boston, constituted in 1787.
was not legal, and yet the men that constituted the Lodge were regularly initiated, past and raised in a regular military lodge, working under the Grand Lodge of England, and this Lodge was chartered by the Grand Master of England and was known as African Lodge, 459, and was carried on the rolls of the Grand Lodge of England until 1813, at which time African Lodge and all white lodges working under the Grand Lodge of England were stricken from the roll.
The question has arisen whether or not they paid dowage fee. This does not enter the question; suffice to say that the Grand Lodge reorganized their legality; therefore, all of the legitimate descendants of the African Lodge must be legal, and all Grand Lodges duly constituted and organized by three of more legal Blue Lodges must be legal, and no Grand Lodge organized without three or more subordinate lodges is not or cannot be legal; and as the so-called Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, F. A. A. Y. M. Masons was organized in 1896 without a single subordinate lodge in the United States, we cannot see how they can claim legality. They claim to have charters or warrants from across the waters constituting them a Grand body. For anybody that is familiar with Masonic law knows that no Grand Body in foreign countries would attempt to invade the jurisdiction of the United States to set up lodges, as it is directly against the Masonic laws, because this has not been virgin soil for over 50 years or more; and aside from the Mystic Shrine, no auxiliary of Masonry has been brought into this country for ever 50 years.
I hope that this short sketch will be satisfactory to all parties concerned. WM. H. SEVORSON.
The Smart Set.
The greatest combination upon the boards to-day is the Smart Set Company at the Howard Theater. The Washington people, as the Bee predicted some time ago, will support a first-class theater as well as a first-class show. Every evening during this week the capacity of this theater has been taxed to its fullest extent. Mr. S. H. Dudley is a comedian of the first water. His acting is natural and at no time does he fail to win the admiration of his audience. Mrs. Ada Overton Walker is the most refined genius on the stage to-day. Her singing, acting, dancing and everything about her perfect. She is no doubt the greatest actress upon the American stage to-day. Now here comes Andrew Tribble. Where can you find such another genius? His make-up as well as acting is faultless. James Lightfoot, who is a very young man, plays the part of an old man. Well, he is good, and he plays his part to perfection.
Miss Lottie Grady is a very sweet singer and dancer and plays to perfection her character. She is very sweet and refined in her stunts.
Mr. William Ramsey, who plays Moes Lewis, the sport, will no doubt be one of the best comedians upon the stage in the near future.
Mrs. Ella, Anderson, who plays Carolina Brown, a widow, is entitled to the highest commendation. She is dignified and sweet in her singing and perfect in her acting.
The choruses are good and the young ladies show off to an advantage.
Too much cannot be said of the Smart Set Company, and those who have failed to see it have missed a great treat. All of the participants are entitled to great credit. The hardest-worked participants in the show are the chorus girls, whose singing, dancing and the many changes of their costumes are some of the principal features in the show.
The genius who set the play to
music is Mr. James Braith, who leads the orchestra, and he led more white orchestras than any colored director in this country.
INDEPENDENT POLITICAL MOVEMENT
Taft and Roosevelt Denounced—Colored Voters Advised to Support Men and Not Party—Revs. Corrothers, Waldron and Neal Make Pointed Addresses — Rev. Ross' Wild Flight.
There was a large meeting of the Independent Political Movement held at True Reformers' Hall Tuesday evening. Rev. S. L. Corrothers presided and stated the object of the meeting. He made a most eloquent plea for Negro independence in politics and advised colored Americans to cease being serfs and cowards to political parties. He declared his dislike for President Taft and ex-President Roosevelt.
Mr. James L. Neal, in a well-pointed address, explained the object of the organization. He said that the members of the organization were not Democrats or Republicans, and that they did not urge colored men to support either party; but what he did advise was for the colored voters to support men irrespective of their parties, as long as they believed in equality of citizenship. His address was applauded throughout.
Rev. Waldron delivered a most vehement address. He denounced the President for his failure to protect the colored people and his white man's Southern policy. That he was no Democrat, but an American citizen. Any man, said Rev. Waldron, who would say that he would not appoint a man to office who had a majority of the white people against him was not the kind of man to ask for the support of the colored people.
The most unwise speech was delivered by Rev. Ross. His oratorical flights were without sense or reason. He denounced the men who erected the Howard Theater and said that the colored people could not be fooled, etc. That he wanted to see a theater built by the colored people with a colored manager in deed and in fact. This reference to the theater was irrelevant. Rev. Ross' speech did not help the cause of the movement.
Over the B. & O. R. R.
At a meeting of the delegates-elect to the 15th B. M. C. held the 31st inst. at Odd Fellows Hall, it was agreed that the B. & O. Railroad shall be the official route over which the delegates shall travel from this city to Baltimore, the convention city. The delegates from the Households of Ruth, meeting the same night, also agreed to travel over the same road. Both delegations will leave Washington at noon on Sunday, Sept. 10. Mr. Isaae' W. Scott, chairman of the Transportation Committee, has made arrangements with the B. & O. company to furnish a special car for the occasion.
I. O. of. St. Luke of Washington at Home.
An old-time housewarming and lawn fete will be conducted by the members of the I. O. of St. Luke of Washington at the recently-purchased "St. Luke Home," 1924 13th street northwest (corner 13th and U streets), Friday, Sept. 16, 1910, from 12 m. until 1:30 p. m. Free-will offering. Refreshments served at moderate prices. Admission free—Bessie B. Anderson, Deputy; A. C. Garies, Associate; Mattie E. Bowen, Vice President; Sarah A Barton, Secretary; M. M. Peace, Treasurer.
The National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C., offers the following special courses:
I. Religious Training. This course is especially adapted to those who desire training as Settlement Workers, Deaconesses, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries, Evangelists and Home Visitors.
II. Training for the Christian Ministry. This Department will train young men especially in practical Theology, the art of reaching and saving men. This course will be very thorough. The teachers have been selected with great care. III. Department of Music, vocal and instrumental. W. Literary Branches, Academic
IV. Literary Branches. Academic and Collegiate.
V. Commercial Department.
VI. Department of Industry.
Young men and women to a limited number, who are worthy, will be helped. All applications for admission must be made by September 15,
1910.
Regular school term begins October 12, 1910.
For further information address President, National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C.
Mr. Hennessy.
Among the most progressive men in this city is Mr. M. Hennessy. He is well versed in books and has one of the largest libraries of any citizen in Washington. Mr. Hennessy is a liberal man and one in whom the people have confidence. He is a friend to the poor, and his abilities call for greater things.
Automobile Corporation.
This corporation is growing stronger daily; M. W. R. Griffin is the manager, and will this evening, at True Reformers' Hall, show you what he has done for the young men in this line of work.
The 1910 Texas cotton crop is estimated to be 3,500,000 bales. At 15 cents' a pound this will bring the planters about $262,500,000.
The population of New Haven, Conn., according to census report, is 133,605.
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
(By Miss G. B. Maxfield.)
Osawatomie battlefield, where, more than a half century ago, the noted abolitionist, John Brown, fired his first gun in defense of liberty, was dedicated as John Brown's Park Aug. 31. Col. Roosevelt was the orator of the day.
A bronze statue of the late Thomas B. Reed, for many years Speaker of the House of Representatives, was unveiled Aug. 31 at his home in Portland, Me. The cost was about $35,000.
Miss Lucy Johnson, sister of Jack Johnson, the world champion pugilist, was married to A Mr. Otto-Bowlden, of Oklahoma. Among her, presents were a check for $3,000, a gift from her brother.
It is said that the Negroes in Philadelphia in a single bank opened 2,015 new accounts, and their deposits in all the banks amount to at least $3,500,000.
More than 200 letters have been received by the Commissioners, protesting against the order extinguishing the lights in the suburban districts. According to a statement given out by Supt. Stewart, instead of devoting so much time to the academic lines of study, more attention should be paid to the trade or vocational lines. Henry Chapman, a numismatist, paid $340 for a one-cent piece. The coin was made in 1793, and is of the "Liberty Cap" variety. It was formerly owned by Peter Mougly. It is said Rev. D. Webster Davis is likely to be chosen pastor of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. Rev. Davis will preach there the third Sunday in September. The Illinois manufacturers sent a telegram to President Taft, requesting a full membership of the Interstate Commerce Commission to conduct their hearing instead of special examiners.
The population of Philadelphia for 1910 is 1,549,008; in 1900 it was 1,293,697—a gain of 19 per cent. It is said Mr. James F. Needham, John C. Dancy and Henry P. Slaughter are in the race to succeed Mr. Asbury as editor of the Odd Fellows Journal.
Two thousand and ninety dollars was collected during the month of July by W. C. Haskell, Superintendent of Weights and Measures.
The Washington, Laurel and Berwyn Railroad has been purchased by the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Railway for $75,000.
The total coinage at the United States mints during August consists of 17,593,500 pieces, valued at $11,428,460, according to the statement issued from the Treasury Department.
Mr. B. H. Warner will make a great fight in the Sixth Maryland district.
J. L. Brown, son and brother of Gov. Brown, of Georgia, is dangerously ill.
Ex-Gov, Odell, of New York, is back to New York, and things will be lively for a time.
Gen, Ellsworth D. S. Goodyear, of New Haven, Conn., who developed the rubber industry, is dead.
Ex-Judge Parker, of New York, wants the delegates for the Democratic State convention to work hard.
There is a great fight on hand against Assistant Superintendent of Schools Bruce. Smart Set has been the drawing card at the Howard Theater this week. The crew of the British freight steamer West Point suffered great hardship in midocean last Sunday. It is claimed that Europe has plenty of money.
The Washington baseball team is a puzzle, one day up and the next day down.
Students have begun to register at Howard. University.
The bandits who killed the paymaster and his colored driver, dropped their boodle and will no doubt be caught.
President Taft and ex-President Roosevelt will unite the party before November.
The Negro Business League will be a factor in this country.
Dr. James B. Shepard is to-day the greatest educator in line in the United States. He is the pride of the South, and North Carolina especially. He is now in the North.
The Howard Theater should not want for patrons.
Dr. Thrifield is endeavoring to pick successors to Professors Cook and Joiner.
An Italian woman and a deputy
sheriff are dead and an innocent by-
stander is critically wounded and four
more persons are more or less injured
as the result of a family row in New
York.
The colored voters in the Sixth
Maryland district are greatly divided.
Judge De Lacy urges night school
education.
Rev. W. P. Hines, the noted evangelist,
is in the city.
Rev. S. L. Corrothers wants 1,000
members for his independent organization.
A Polish Catholic priest broke all
marriage records Labor Day at Utica,
N. Y. He married 11 couples in one
hour.
In spite of the Negro death rate,
the Negro insurance companies have
made wonderful progress. In 1909
$114,137.58 was paid to beneficiaries
by one insurance company in North
Carolina.
Pennsylvania holds the record for liquor in all the States of the Union. Its annual liquor bill amounts to $78,000,000. It has 12,000 saloons, 706 malt dealers and 1,020 wholesale dealers.
HEART'S SWEET CHAINS (HERZENSFESSELN) Sung with great success by JENNIE MONROE at Alhambra Music Hall.
Roses glowing, Breezes blowing, Listen to my heart's com-
plain ing; Cupid found me, And he bound me, Lovely captive I
to his enchaining. Help, dear roses.
Help me, ah, ... ah, ... ah, ... ah! How loose from
cupid pray. Do not de lay, Or
Copyright by the American Melody Company, New York.
$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 requirements of all stout figures.
Style 770 (as pictured) medium high bust, long over hips and abdomen. Made of durable couil 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.
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TOLD ALL HE KNEW AT ONCE
Dyspeptic-Looking Man Successfully Choked Off the Conversation of His Fellow Passenger.
A dyspeptic-looking man had taken his seat in a railway carriage, when a fellow-passenger bent forward with a confidential "Pardon me, sir, but what—"
The dyspeptic was ready.
"Adam was the first man," he said, in a cold, dull monotone. "Moses was the meekest man; there never was any meekest woman. Columbus discovered America. In the winter of 1847 and 1848 potatoes formed almost the sole food of the Irish peasantry. White sheep eat more than black ones, because there are more of them. A door is not a door when its afar. Golf is pronounced 'golf'. It is highly improper to wear a wide-awake with a frock coat. Yes, it is a good morning, and I have used everybody's soap. I—"
Here the inquiring man attempted an interruption, but it was of no avail.
"The foregoing, information," went on the accentless voice, "is all I know about anything of any name or nature—past, present or future. I want nothing in the world but quietude," he added; "and if you don't let me alone I'll throw my grip out of the window, and jump out after it. I have spoken."
Wonder of Nature.
During the course of a voyage recently, when midway between Murseillies and the Strait of Bonifacio, a "green flash" was seen at sunset. The sky was perfectly cler after a cloudless day, with little wind. As the sun approached the horizon the line 'twint sea and sky for about forty-five degrees each side of the sun became suffused with a rich dull rose pink and the waves reflected a marvelous ruby shade on their surfaces facing the sunset, while the other faces were an opalescent blue or green from the upper sky. The two colors flashed and changed in a marvelous way. Such intensity of coloring had never been seen by those on board. The sun set clean into the sea and about ten or less seconds after it had disappeared a bright green single flash, just like a railway signal lamp, but brighter far, met our view and rewarded our watching for it.—Symon's Meteorological Magazine.
Relecta Favorite Dish:
One of the articles of food that have disappeared from the New York restaurants is the thick slice of cold
lure..... my . love this way,
Yes, my love lure this way.
Ro - ses glow - ing. Breo -zes blow - ing.
Love's sweet chains,
Love's sweet chains.
ference where you go or what you pay," said a New Yorker who always seeks this dish when he dines in a restaurant, "you never find the thick, cold slab of a few years ago. It is gone. The price asked for cold roast beef is everywhere higher than it was and the difference ranges all the way from five cents to a quarter. But neither the place nor the price seem to avail. The slice is certain to be about half as thick as it used to be. And I'm not the only man who'd pay even a greater advance for one of the old thick slices."
Female Education.
There is no division of opinion as to the goal for which our girls are educated. More and more out of the chaotic past the conviction stands out that each one of us is in training for the service of the race. A woman's goal, like a man's, is to give up her life that the life of the next generation may be safer and wiser and happier than this one. No higher education that is not foolish and ill judged can unfit a woman from bringing splendid children into the world and training them wisely. No higher education that is not foolish and ill judged can unfit a woman who is not blessed with children for dealing nobly and wisely and generously with the rising generation.—Harper's Bazar.
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TANGIER"HOLYMAN"
HAD LEARNED THE METHODS OF BARNUM AND BAILEY.
American Experience Aided Charlatan In Galning the Reverence and Small Coin of His Fellow Believers.
"There is hardly anything more enjoyable than to find an unexpected bit of the west in places thousands of miles and hundreds of years from the United States," said a New York man, according to the Sun of that city.
"My wife and I went to Tangler from Gibraltar. The day after our arrival we paid an early visit to the market. Suddenly, as we stood looking on, there was a commotion in the crowd, which parted right and left. I could hear the clash of cymbals, but was amazed to see men bowing almost to the ground as they made way. In the lane thus created appeared a tall man wearing a long robe of many colors and a necklace of charms. He kept his eyes turned heavenward as he walked, keeping up a clashing with a pair of cymbals as he proceeded. At his girdle was a gourd into which some of the multitude tossed copper coles. My courier told me that he was a dervish, a holy man from the Sudan.
"I thought the dervish would make a good subject for my camera, but the courier said he doubted whether it could be arranged, as all good Musselmans had religious scruples against being photographed. I insisted, and the courier said he would do his best.
"So we followed along after the dervish, through a little side street into a broader one, and having turned the corner the courier approached the dervish and exchanged a few words with him. The holy man looked to see whether any Mohammedans were looking on, and there being none in sight he nodded in a dignified manner. He posed while my wife and I took several good snapshots of him.
"I went up to give him a small token of thanks and was surprised when, after looking at me a moment, he said: 'English'
"No.' I replied. 'American.'
"Ah! American!" he cried. "Me America,' he continued, pointing toward himself. 'New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, St. Louis. Six months Barnum & Bailey.' He smiled all over as he took what I offered him, then bowing in a dignified fashion he went off, casting his eyes toward the sky and clawing his cymbals as he went. "The next morning we went to the market again. Suddenly again we heard the cymbals clashing, and saw the crowd part, and almost prostrate itself, and in a second our dervish friend of the day before appeared again, his eyes plusously cast toward heaven.
"We were sitting on our donkeys and watching him in some curiosity as he neared us. Just as he got opposite he turned his head in our direction. He caught my eye and the lid of his left optic closed in one long, eloquent wink."
A Dry Occasion
Broek, Ind., where George Ade practises gentleman farming, is right in the middle of the teetotal belt of Indiana.
Last summer, one broiling hot day, a man came along in an automobile, having just patched up a puncture outside of Brook.
He ran into the little village and saw a native standing in front of the general store. He stopped his machine and went up to the native.
"Say, brother," he said, "will you tell me where I can get a good, cold bottle of beer around here?
The native took the autmobilist by the arm out to the middle of the road, pointed down its dusty length, and said: "The nearest place is 50 miles right down that road."—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
About Egypt
The total area of Egypt proper is about 480,000 square miles, of which however, only some 14,000 square miles are arable. The population exceeds 10,000,000, the density of the settled part thus surpassing that of any other land on earth, Belgium not excepted. This superiority of Egypt as an agricultural country is owing to the equable climate; the possibility of carrying on farming all the year round, a constant supply of water and, as a consequence of the Nile overflow, a natural and perpetual richness of the soil, which does away with the great cost of fertilization.
For the Scandalmonger
The Orleans museum has just been enriched with a curious relic of the past which some workmen in making excavations in the city came across. It is a stone representing a grinning figure, showing the teeth, the countenance being repellent enough. In this way the loquacious woman, the scandalmonger, was brought to her senses. The stone, suspended by a chain, was placed round her neck, and so accoutered she was compelled to walk round the town in which she lived. The stone is supposed to date about the sixteenth century.
No Chance for Fraud.
Jones (to friend who is showing his collection of "old masters")—How do you know they are originals?
Friend—Oh, I was too smart to play into the hands of a dealer. I bought 'em myself right on the spot.—Judge
Pilgrim Was Looking for Iron Springs,
But That Story Was More
Than He Could Stand.
He was a weary, thin and sallow-
looking American, who had never
been so far west before, and when
he struck Carson City he hailed the
first native he met.
"Can you tell me, sir, if there are
any mineral springs about here?"
"From the east?" asked the west-
erner.
"Yes."
"Come here fer yer health?"
"Yes."
"Tried everything, I suppose?"
"Yes."
"Tried surphur springs?"
"Yes, and everywhere else."
"What kind of water are you looking for now?"
"Well, no kind in particular. I was told, though, that I'd find a variety of springs out here."
"Golng to locate?"
"That depends."
"Well, stranger I have got just what you want. A vacant lot in the best part of the city. Finest iron springs in the country. Go and see for yourself."
"But how do you know it's iron?" queried the easterner.
"Well, pardner, I drove my horse through it and he came out with iron shoes on his feet. And that ain't all. I drove some plgs down there to drink. They turned into plg iron, and I sold them to the iron foundry. Just what you want. For sale, cheap. Why, hallo! What's the matter?" The weary easterner had turned abruptly and was walking off up the road.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Why England Belleves In a King.
The great majority of Englishmen of all grades and opinions do undoubtedly believe in a king, and think they have some fairly good reasons for doing so.
The great reason, of course, is that on the whole the system works, or seems to work, fairly well. It is very costly. Everything included, it probably costs ten times as much as the average man thinks; and if a rate were levied for the purpose on him, he might feel it and begin to grumble. But the money is derived from the duchies, or voted from the taxes, and nobody feels the pinch or even knows the difference. It is a rallying point for all kinds of senseless anachronisms and abuses. But in an old country many things have a better chance of continued existence by being old than by being good, and an abuse comes to be esteemed almost when its hairs are gray and its years many. It promotes snobbery and creates snobs, though it will not be supposed to be unpopular on that account—The Congregationalist.
To Save Alcott Home.
Efforts are being made to inaugurate a movement for the preservation of the old Alcott homestead in Concord, Mass., where Bronson Alcott lived and died and where Louisa Alcott created the immortal children that run through the pages of "Little Men" and "Little Women." The place at present is fast falling into hopeless decay and action must be started soon if it is to be preserved at all. "Perhaps if Miss Alcott had been dead two centuries instead of only about 30 years her former home would not be in such a dangerous plight as it is today," said a New York woman who is trying to interest others in its preservation. "But by and by Miss Alcott will have been dead 200 years and if Orchard house is not saved now American soil in future generations will be the poorer for our neglect. We never shall raise a harvest of ancient associations for our land unless we take care of the associations while they still are comparatively modern."
A Different Sort of Doctor
Dr. Charles Harriss, the well-known Canadian musician and composer, tells an amusing story about himself.
While he was on his way to South Africa, he desired to keep his identity a secret. During the voyage one of the passengers managed to get into conversation with the musician, and asked him if he would medically examine his little girl who was with him on the boat.
"My dear sir," replied Dr. Harriss, I have never examined a child in my life."
Ten minutes later, he overheard the passenger say, in the smoking-room:
"There you are; didn't I say that man was a fraud?"
The Girl Grad.
Mark Twain was a firm believer in the higher education of woman, but Hartford still remembers a speech he made one June to a platform of Hartford girl graduates.
This speech, a humorous attack on the college girl, ended:
"Go forth. Fall in love. Marry. Set up housekeeping. And then, when your husband wants a shirt ironed, send out for a gridiron to do it with"
Metaphorically Speaking.
"What do you think of these new palaces I have been rearing?" asked Mr. Dustin Stax.
"Magnificent," replied the cynic.
"Yet," he proceeded with a visible effort to be modest, "this earthly pomp reminds me that all the world is a stage."
"Right. And the modern tendency is to make up with the fine scenery for bad acting."
ON THE SKYSCRAPER
STRENUOUS LIFE IS THAT OF THE IRONWORKER.
Well Styled "Cowboys of the Skies," the Men Who Erect City's Tall Buildings Always Have the
In the past they were a bolsterous, swashbuckling lot. They "floated from New Orleans to Vancouver, lived in freight cars, built bridges and dropped off of them with a grin and a choking "good-by." A hero among them was a man who had the longest fall to his credit, or who could toss a white-hot rivet the greatest distance. They lived hard and dled easily. Today they know that a man stands highest on the pay roll who takes his work and its danger most seriously, who also watches the man next to him—for in this calling one man's error often means another's life. Harper's Weekly says.
Even so the bridgeworker of today has not lost his romantic side. He is still the cavallier of the workaday world. See him now, clinging like a fly to the top ring of that lofty derrick, or swaying in midair with one leg wound carelessly about a dangling cable, or standing upright alongside a dizzy column, hundreds of feet above the ground, with nothing more substantial under his clinging toe than an inch-wide bolt! The plumber laying pipes in the dark basement gets just as high a wage and his work is quite as important. But the ironworker gets the eyes of the crowd and knows it. "Cowboys of the skies" they have been styled, and aptly so. They have many characteristics in common with their brethren of the plains. They love a dare and a scampering race. Often they make and have them—when the boss is not watching. Just recently two skyscrapers in New York raced up side by side—a veritable Marathon of the skies!—and prodigies of daring and foolhardiness were done by the rival gangs facing each other across the intervening side-street. They stole each other's hats and wrenches as they sailed up atop the loads of iron, danced giddy hornpipes on the ends of projecting beams, tried to "best" each other taking chances amid the pandemonium of whip-snapping cables and swinging iron.
They affect extravagances and peculiarities of dress. That athletic-looking fellow with the grimy face and hands appears on idle Sundays in white fannels and silk hose. The man beside him is a favorite at bridgemen's dances and has been known to wear and grace a frock-coat. They made no serious complaints over the new order of things—the rush of the work. "Sure," said one, "it's all right, only it's over nowadays before you get your second wind."
Sald another: "This going up at a story a day interferes with me social life. On that 13th street building there was a hotel within arm's reach, and one day I got to talking with a pretty mald—through a window. Next day I had to talk down to her and next I had to yell to her, and in two days more I had to say good-by.
"'Good-by' says she. 'Sorry to see you go;' but I'll introduce you to my friend Katie who works on the tenth floor.'"
Be Cheerful.
Engraved faces are more often the result of habit than the marks of Time, that professional etcher, who usually receives all the credit for feminine ugliness. Woman is not content with expressing herself in words; she must needs make little noses and funny faces to give completion to her ideas. If you wall about your lack of beauty, watch yourself for one short day. You will be surprised to find what. wonoderful things you will do with your own face. If countenances were not so substantially built they would sooner show the wear and tear imposed upon them.
Wrinkles and lines are indexes to one's life book. The fretter has a signboard on her forehead and she advertises her profession of official worrier by growing box plaits between her eyes, by allowing her mouth to droop at the corners and by taking on the plaintive portrait of misery in which she really rejoices.
But the optimist, the individual of good cheer and laughter, sails serenely along the high seas of existence (with a smooth, nicely ironed face, which makes her remain so young that she never really outgrows her happy days of mud pies and pinafores.—Woman's Life.
Sovereigns Who Died on Saturday.
Sovereigna Who Died on Saturday.
Authorities on things supernatural may be able to explain why Saturday has been a fatal day to the rulers of England. William III died on Saturday, March 8, 1702; Queen Anne on Saturday, August 1, 1714; George II on Saturday, October 25, 1760; George III, on Saturday, January 29, 1820, and George IV on Saturday, June 26, 1830. George I just missed Saturday by two hours, dying at 2 a.m. on Sunday, and the late King Edward breathed his last just a quarter of an hour before midnight, Friday night, May 6.
Not to Be Led.
Clerk--You told me not long ago to lead a better life, sir.
Employer—I believe I did.
Clerk—I want to lead your daughter to the altar.
Employer—Impossible, young man!
If you go to the altar with her you follow; I know her better than that—Boston Herald.
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The President has signed several proclamations eliminating nearly half a million acres of land from the national forests, adding a little more than 100,000 acres to the reserves.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Hampton Negro Conference will take place at Hampton Institute, Va., July 13th and 14th.
The twenty-fifth anniversary services of the establishment of the Salvation Army in this city were held in the various churches last Sunday.
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There are many colored families who are living in crowded houses on small plots of land in towns or cities who want real freedom and real opportunity for themselves and for their children. It is very difficult to rear children in a crowded town or city. The place to rear children is in the country.
In Macon County, Alabama, the colored people have a rare and exceptional opportunity. This is the county in which The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute is located. There is plenty of good land for sale on easy terms. There is a 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:
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There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in the Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes are registering $3,044,404. These more than three million spent right here in Washington, but scattered hundreds of tradesmen. Is this amount of money big for? It certainly is, and not even the larger they would refuse to get the big end of it did. How much money the Negroes are really spending? Now The Bee is the only Negro publication bounds without a rival or competitor, and covers new of the merchants in this city will patronize the firms of The Bee, presenting the attractive bargain. These Negroes — these 5,499 Negroes who draw government over three millions of dollars — will beizing a publication edited and operated by one with fires desire and deserve their patronage. And receive the bulk of these over three millions of dollars by advertising in The Bee?
Place your advertising in The Bee and watch them. Negroes spend their over three millions of dollars. Now is the time to advertise in The Bee, the need to every Negro home in Washington. Remember Washington, it's what advertising pays you, not what colored people groom themselves daintly, clean odors, remove grease shine from the face, recoveries for improving the skin and dressing will be better received in the business world, money, and advance faster.
The Chemical Wonder Company of New York business friend colored people have. It improves Dr. Booker Washington improves their mines by manufacturers nine Chemical Wonders, colored people as attractive as individual peculiar. Colored men in New York who use these better situations in banks, clubs and business men have better positions, marry better, get alopecia. Complexion WonderCream will lighten (black or brown) every time it is used. In the trial, we send demonstration sample for 100, 50 cents postpaid.
(2) Magneto-Metallic Comb, called Wonder heated before using, to help straighten and rests 50 cents, and will last a lifetime.
(3) Wonder Uncurl. When this pomade dries the kinks can be uncurled and the hair been heated into the scalp and through the hair Comb, any stiff knotty hair will dress well.
(4) Wonder Hair Grow fertilizes the hair grow long, just as fertilizers in the soil grow. 50 cents postpaid.
(5) Odor Wonder Powder instantly destroys. People who neglect such chemical cleanses. 50 cents postpaid.
(6) Odor Wonder Liquid. This fine toilet body with delicate perfume. When used with Odor Wonder Powder the conditions of the hair. If you can spare 50 cents extra, order the posts postpaid.
(7) Wonder Foot Powder keeps the feet off postpaid.
(8) Wonder Wash. A shampoo to clean and insure the health of the hair and scalp. 50 cents.
(9) Shell Pink Creme will give light brown cheeks without trade-up appearance. 50 cents. We guarantee all these Wonders as represente. We give advice free about hair, skin and
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.
. MORE MONEY—RACE PROGRESS.
If colored people groom themselves daintly, destroy perspiration odors, remove grease shine from the face, and use new discoveries for improving the skin and dressing the hair, they will be better received in the business world, make more money, and advance faster.
The Chemical Wonder Company of New York is the best business friend colored people have. It improves their bodies as Dr. Booker Washington improves their minds. That Company manufacturers nine Chemical Wonders, which will make colored people as attractive as individual peculiarities will permit. Colored men in New York who use these Wonders hold better situations in banks, clubs and business houses, and women have better positions, marry better, get along better.
(1.) Complexion WonderCream will light up any colored face (black or brown) every time it is used. To prove this on one trial, we send demonstration sample for 10 cents. Regular jar, 50 cents postpaid.
(2) Magneto-Metallic Comb, called Wonder Comb. Can be heated before using, to help straighten and dress the hair. Costs 50 cents, and will last a lifetime.
(3) Wonder Uncurl. When this pomade dressing is in the hair the kinks can be uncurled and the hair becomes flexible. When heated into the scalp and through the hair with a Wonder Comb, any stiff knotty hair will dress well. 50 cents postpaid.
(4) Wonder Hair Grow fertilizes the scalp and makes hair grow long, just as fertilizers in the soil make cornstalks grow. 50 cents postpaid.
(5) Odor Wonder Powder instantly destroys perspiration odor. People who neglect such chemical cleansing are 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.
Will send book an attractiveness free. We will prove we are true business friends. We require one agent for every locality and inst loss. Only $2 capital required. Always write to M. B. Berges & Co., 2 Reck. We market all the Chemical Wonder Co. Richardson's Pure Dru
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.
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316 4½ Street, S. W. Just received a large assignment of fresh collection of very fine toilet preparations, Eastern Indian articles, just the thing you desire for East Richardson's Old Reliable Pure Dr 316 4½ Street, S. W. and 14th and R Streets, N. W.
Just received a large assignment of fresh drugs and a large collection of very fine toilet preparations, Easter goods, and many useful articles, just the thing you desire for Easter offering. Richardson's Old Reliable Pure Drug Store, 316 41/2 Street, S. W. and 14th and R Streets, N. W.
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NEGRO SUFFRAGE AN
TAScliir
Under the above caption, and as
x special from Austin, Tex., the
white dailies throughout the coun-
try carried the following news
item on the 2d. inst.:
“A resolution was introduced in
the Legislature to-day requesting
the Texas Congressmen and Sen-
utors to work for the repeal of the
15th amendment to the [Federal
Constitution. The resolution re-
cites that in order to purify poli-
tics it is necessary to take the
right of suffrage away from the
negro. Action on the resolution
was postponed until to-morrow.”
Granting, for the sake of argu-
ment, and with some degree of
truth, that the Republican party
in these lafter days have not been
as instant as fornterly for the
preservation of the rights of their
Toval black allies, those of the race
.Who advocate a division on our
vote, in order to punish the Re-
publican party, can find little
consolation in the above account
of a resolution i the Democratic
Legislature of Texas. If the lily-
white Republicans of the South
are not solicitous for our vote, or
for our rights, under the constitu-
tion, the Democratic party of the
South offers no asylum, for the
reason that it still insists, after a
half century has passed since ree-
ognition was given our rights
that the right of suffrage should
be denied us.
If by any hook or crook the
Democratic party should secure
control of the National Congress.
we may expect to see introduced
and enacted into the law of the
lnnd a resolution calling for the
repeal of the 15th amendment to
the Federal Constitution, and
once more making serfs of our
race. The white man, perhaps, can
be an insurgent to the point where
he will insurge clear out of his
party, but_ with the Democratic
party South (and the majority of
that party is in’ the South)” de-
manding “a repeal of the 15th
amendment, the Negra cannot.
nnd dare not, in the interest of
self-preservation, insurge from
the Republican party. ‘The Dem-
oeratic: party is uialterably op:
posed to Nearo suffrage. °
DIVIpE?
Tt amuses The Bee when it sees
in the daily press that the col-
ofed agitators are urging a divi:
sion of the colored vote. It is
more amusing when it sees what
x bombastic stand that is being
assumed by the colored politt-
cians. They claim to be politicians
but are they? A. politician will
tuke some.kind of ground, if not
+ for his own benefit, he will for
those he wants to use. But doe:
the colored politician take
stand? He declares that he will
nosupport any party; or, to be
mdFe emphatic, he will not sup:
port either the Republican ot
Democratic party. ‘The Demo:
cratic inanagers are looking on in
disgust and say that these Negroes
want to sell. “The Beessvants te
inform these Democratic man.
agers that these auctiopGers may
. sell, but they can’t deliver.
There are some pole in_ this
country who say that they have
a great deal of property and have
the right to sell it. Well, when
they go to deliver, this is where
the rub is. Tt seems that the col-
ored man is an eyesore to the
Democratic party. If there was
nothing in the colored American
these “Democratic Legislatures
would not attempt to legislate
him out of existence. The Bee ad:
vises the colored voter not to be
deceived. There is nothing in the
Democratic party Imt_ brutality
and discrimination. The Demo-
cratic party offers-nathing, but is
doing everyting ty destroy the
usefulness and the citizenship of
colored Americans.
These colored men who are for-
ever agitating a division of the
colored yote at this time are
either insane or fools. There was
a time when it was safe for col-
ored men to divide. That time has
pes The Democratic party has
knocked down all the pins that the
Republican party set up for the
colored man, and what these in-
sane Negroes are thinking of
when they advise their people to
forsake the party that gave them
liberty, The Bee is unable to
state.
When the Democratic party ha:
done something, or when. it .has
been purged of its damnable ras:
cality and demagogery, then the
colored American can give it con:
sideration, and not until then.
What_has the colored man suf-
fered South under Democratic
rule? baa is it endeavoring to
do now? If you want a second
hell, go to Texas. The recent
cowardly murder of innocent col-
ored Americans in that State, is
an evidence of what respect the
Democratic party hag for the col-
ored man, Divide the colored
vote. and for what?
THE INDEPENDENT MOVE
\IENT
There are some people in this
country who imagine that. loud
talking and imaginary figures
make an orator. If you could have
heard the address of Rev. I. N.
Ross, of the Metropolitan Chureh.
last Tuesday evening at True Re.
formers’ Hall, when he declared
that the colored people could not
be fooled in supporting the How:
ard Theater, the conclusion would
have been that the would-be
orator was lost for ‘something to
say.
Does Rev. Ross mean to: infer
that Mr. W. H. Smith, the man.
ager of the Howard Theater, is
not a colored man? Does he want
the owners of the Howard to ap:
point aman as black as he (Rev
Ross) is to satisfy his vanity’
Mr. Smith, the manager, is a gen-
tleman and an up-to-date business
man. The great trouble with
some black colored men, as well as
some half-white colored men, is
they continue to make faces at one
another. What has the independ.
ence of the colored man in polite
got to do with the Howard Thea-
ter and its manager? If Rev.
Ross would study oration anc
prononnes the word massacre and
not “massacre,” ete.; if he would
fall more in Jove with the King’s
English and not attempt to make
a mockery of oratory and imagin-
ary figures and use sound logic
he would do justice to himself.
The speeches of Reys. Cor-
rothers, Waldron, Messrs. Neal
and Newsom were to a great. ex-
tent timely. If the, Republican
managers don't eare what becomes
of the colored vote. it is not neces:
sary to pay any attention to this
movement. These men don't ash
the colored voter to join the Re-
publican or, Democratie party “but
16 snnnort wh:
EYES TIPOWN I's.
‘The eyes of the thespian world
are just now upon the Negroes
of Washington, ‘They are rivet-
ted upon the! magnificent New
Howard Theater, a playhouse de-
signed to accommodate the Negro
and the white man on an equality.
without reference to color, and
with no discrimination in the seat-
ing of them. If the one hundred
thousand Negroes of this city fail
to give the Howard a paying
patronage. depend upon it ‘that
conditions in this country. espe-
cially with reference to” amuse-
ment accommodations, will not
improve, but on the contrary, will
grow decidedly worse. If the
Negro patronizes the Howard as
he should, and as the house and
its promoters desérve, The Bee
confidently believes that condi-
‘tions will improve, in sq, far as
amusement accommodations are
concerned, throughout the coun-
try. The white theaters of this
city, those who insist on shoving
the Negro attendants up in the
peanut gallery. predicted, and
now predict. that the Howard will
be a failure. If it, is, the loss
financially to its builders will be
infinitesimal to the loss the race
will suffer here and throughout
the country.
We urge, and urge with all the
vigor at our command, that the
race patronize the Howard, and
patronize it well. for all eyes are
upon us. :
OUR SCHOOLS.
The Bee will be glad when the
teachers in the colored public
schools will feel safe and free to
act as the teachers in the white
schools. .The Bee ventures the
assertion that the superintendents
of the white schools don’t continue
to nag, browbeat and find fault
with their teachers and overlook
meritorious teachers. The Bee has
evere confidence in the members
of the Board of Education to the
extent that they will remedy any
wrong that has been inflicted upon
worthy and deserving teachers in
our schools. For almost a quar-
ter of a century the colored
schools ran smoothly under the
superintendency of Mr. George F.
T.. Cook. Not/an ioto of scandal
was ever attached to his garments.
Tlis successor, Prof. Montgomery,
had the confidence and respect of
his teachers, and to-day he stands
prominent in their estimation.
The Bee sees no reason why our
teachers should work undgr such
a strain, fear and intimidation.
If the Board of Education want=
to see good results in our schools.
place a man at their head in whom
the people and the teachers have
confidence. The colored teachers
have faith ahd confidence in Mr.
Stuart and believe that — the
Board of Education is being im-
pesed upon.
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT.
| SPOOL AAS RUNG Cdk CSI
dent Roosevelt may be on the outs,
hut, there must be more evidence
of it than there seems to exist to-
day. Both men have the poli-
ticians. guessing. Both, however.
stand for the South being let
alone on the colored question. The
South will never be satisfied, as
we have said heretofore, no mat-
ter what the administration may
do.* The South is angry. _The
South has the colored Americans
where they cannot extricate them-
selves, ‘The South, notwithstand-
ing the suppression of the colored
race, is not .happy. What can
tte Southern enlored. nan hope?
Let's see: x
Ist. The South has suppressed
the colored vote.
2d. The Southern Democrats
have all fhe offices.
All of these privileges having
been given to the South, it is not
happy.
Af President Taft fails to be te-
nominated and —__ ex-President
Roosevelt is, the South will re-
main in the same condition. The
South’ is like the spots upon the
leopard’s back—they can never he
changed. All that may be done
for the South, it will remain until
a man strong enongh rises and en-
forees the lavts.
THE COLORED VOTE.
The agitators want to deliver
the colored vote to some one or
to some party. Which party will
be his choice?) What person will
put up the largest amount of color
vote, regardless of principles? In
the first place. the colared vote is
uot for sale. and\no set of men can
deliver it to any one. or any party.
The Democratic party “doesn’t
want it and the Republican party
has never deserted it, no matter
what the enemies of the party may
say. The colored vote cannot he
purchased by the Democratic
party. There are a few colored
men’ who are up for sale and can
be purehased at any price.
CONETSION.
The Philadelphia Tribune is of
the opinion that The Bee is politi-
cally confused. The Bee has never
been confised on polities or men.
The Tribune was born in an age
of confusion, and confused has
been the brain of the editor of
that paper. He doen't. know
whether to support the independ-
ents in his State or the regulars.
The Bee has always stood for the
principles of the | Republican
party. because they have always
meant untversal freedom for the
colored Americans.
Ohio, according to a Cleveland
special in onr last week's issue.
has elected four colored _members
of the Republican State Executive
Committee, Oneof them, Mr.
Flemming. the special says, is the
“leading politician in Ohio.” Mr.
Flemming should ask fo be saved
from his press agent. _A mere
politician is in disrepute these
days, and it is no credit to a-man.
but rather a reflection. to refer to
him as a “politician,”
NO MORE ROSS.
Just. such rot as that of Dr.
Ross at, the meeting of.the Inde-
pendent Political) League _ last
Tuesday night is the cause of the
condition of the colored people.
Let us know what the Negro
ministry has done for the colored
people. Let us know what it is
doing, but drawing salaries. The
Howard Theater has all “colored
employes. from manager down.
who is an up-to-date man. If
Dr. Ross wants a Negro theater
let him start one and let him be
the first to contribute some money.
Tho Bee ventures the assertion
that he would not contribute o
cent; and the sooner such men as
he get out of the town the better
it will be for him. The Negro
pulpit will not do itself and it
ubuses others ssho are doing. We
want no more Ross,
-!———_
THE TEXAS RACE RIOT.
What the Leading Newspapers Had
to Say On It.
| Perhaps the best way to bring the
|American people to a proper sepse of
‘the enormity of such mob outbreaks
as recently ocurred near Palestine,
Texas, suggests the Rochester Demo-
crat and Chronicle, would be {or the
Powers of Europe to “unite in bn em-
phatic protest to Washington dgainst
the lynchings, burnmgs, and_massa-
eres of mnocent people which are
taking place in some parts of this
country.” Although the press dis-
patches telling of this particular out-
break are very meager and conflicting
as to details, it seems that at least a
score of Negroes have been killed by
a band of armed whites. While the
carlicr accounts told of a pitched bat=
tle between the two races, with many
casualties on both sides, according to
later accounts furnished by the As-
sociated Press, it was not race war,
but “just murder.” To quote from
the news columns of the New York
‘Sun:
“The‘slaughter of the Negroes was
not the result of any face war, al-
though the feeling which the whole-
sale killing engendered threatened for
a time to cause an uprising on the
part of the Negroes of the two comi-
munities.
“Mobs of white men started out
carly’ Friday night and rode from
cabin to cabin calling out the Negroes
tho had been marked for the slaugh-
ter and shot them down in. their
tracks. This work continued all Fri-
day night, and with the dawning of
a new day the lust of the mobs for
blood seemed to increase.
“Negroes were shot and killed upon
the highways and in the fields where
they were working, despite the pray-
ers they made that their lives be
spared,
“While twenty dead bodies of vic-
tims Rave been found scattered along
the roads and over the country, it
may never be definitely known how
many more Negroes were murdered
in out-of-the-way places where their
bodies may never be found.
“So far as learned the Negroes who
were killed offered no resistance to
the mob.
“The wholesale slaughter of Ne-
groes was brought about by the re-
port that reached the cars of white
men of the Slocum community that
secret meetings of the blacks had been
held at which plans were formulated
for burning the barns and residences
of certain wlute citizens.” er
According to other stories, the
trouble originated in a quarrel be-
tween a white man and a Negro who
failed to pay a note indorsed by the
former. :
‘The Texas authorities are given full
credit for taking prompt measures to
suppress the outbreak, and to find and
punish the guilty whites. Sheriff
Black, of Anderson County, where the
slaughter occurred, is reported as mak-
ing this statement?
“I found he greatest excitement.
Men were killing Negroes as fast as
they could find them, and so far as I
have been able to ascertain without
any real cause. These Negroes have
never done anything that I could dis-
cover. There was just a hot-headed
gang hunting them down and killing
them,
“We found cleven dead bodies,” but
from what [ have Heard the dead must
number fifteen or twenty. Wo came
across four bodies in one house on
a marsh between Denson Springs and
Slocum. * * * one
. “One Negro had becn killed at this
house the night before, and three were
sitting up with the remains, one of
them being old and white-haired.
These three were killed right where
they were. So far as I can learn the
Negroes were not armed.
“I sent two deputies out through
that cauntry to collect all the arms
they could lind in the houses of Ne-
groes. They made a thorough search,
but found only nine single-barreled
shotguns, none of which seemed to
have been fired ately, and about
thurty sltells, all toaded with small
shot. * *%¢
“We found two negroes in the road
that had been shot about 10 o'clock
the night before last. Tt was evident
rthat at the time they were killed they
were trying to get out of the country,
for they had their bundles of clothes
with them.”
This story is indeed “a pitifl one,”
says the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat, “and puts the slaughter {n a very
bad light,” and it adds:
“White supremacy is in danger no-
where in Texas, sq far as we have
been informed, and at ‘this distance we
know of no other cause adequate to
condone the horrible slaughter which
is reported."
Other Southern papers speak_as
strongly, the Richmond Times-Dis-
patch’ characterizing this “brutal
butchery of innocents” as a “reproach
to the State and an offense to human-
ity." And in Texas the Houston
Chronicle cries out against such “in-
discriminate butchery of Negroes be-
cause of some crime committed by an
individual member of the race.”
‘fe wild poste Saten to fad a
ted Sioux warriors on white men.”
‘The Memphis Commercial Appeal,
while regretting such an outbreak in
the South, advises Eastern people to
“remember their own troubles, and
not be too severe in the condemna-
tion of the Texas tragedy.”
The New York World wonders
“what account of the trouble would
come out of Palestine if the surviving
black men could write the press dis-
patches,” and The Globe takes it upon
itself to deliver the following lecture
to the people of the South:
3-~BEE
“How long are right-minded and
civilized citizens of the Southern
States going to permit this sort of
business to go on? They can stop it
when they genuinely wish so to do.
They can stop it by apprehending
and hanging a few of the murderers.
They can stop it by frowning on the
insensate negrophobia that they have
hitherto tolerated if not' encouraged.
Such things. can not be allowed with-
out in the end bringing punishment
in their train. The Negroes ulti-
mately will be driven to try and de-
fend themselves, and they. number 10,-
000,000. The black race has been re-
markably docile under the wrongs
which it has suffered, but it is stot safe
to push them beyond endurance. The
worst enemy of the South is the pro-
fessional Negro-hater who indiscrimi-
nately assails a race for the misdeeds
of a few of its members. Such events
as have occurred in Texas are the
natural result of th feeling he fos-
ters, and it will take generations to
obliterate the memory of them.”
“Cruel is the irony and deep is the
disgrace of the Palestine outbreak on
Christian and democratic America,”
declares the New York Age (colored);
“every American who has a care for
his native land should consider the
remedy for this constant reversal to
barbarism.” ‘The one consolation of
the outraged race, according to this
Negro editor, is that while “the Ne-
gro will not become discouraged and
will continue his, progress, Southern
whites are cach day becoming more
lazy, more licentious, more criminal,
and farther behind and comparatively
few in numbers.”
SHALL OKLAHOMA JOIN THE
SOLID SOUTH?
ee see mee ee eee
“The Grandfather Clause,” to the Con-
stitution, Oklahoma has justified the
hopes.of its enemies. It has proven
that in its makeup and intentions it 1s
a Southern instead of a Western
State; and the ambition of the present
administration seems to be to line it
up- with the Bourbon Democracy.
The adoption of the Grandfather
Clase 1s a step backward. It is a
thrust at all efforts the Negro has
made these forty-five years to make a
man of himself, to rise in the.scale of
civilization, and to develop the best
within him. .
It is up to us to fight this measure
to the last ditch, at whatever cost to
us. Therefore we should understand
the import of this meeting.
It seems that the fair proposition
would have been to disfranchise the
fellow who had a grandfather who
could read and write, and whose son
could not, and place a premium upon
the fellow whose father could not
read and write, and whose son had
overcome these conditions.
The Grandfather Clause 1s a na-
tional issue, from the fact that should
the law stand the test in Oklahoma,
other Southern States will adopt the
same law: ahd from this source the
Negro will lose a very large per cent
of his voting strength—the power
which has kept him safe in the affairs
of the country.
Taking the attitude of the admunis-
tration seriously, Mr. Taft. said, in
outlining his policy toward the South,
that he would appoint no Negroes to
important offices “in communities
where a large body of the whites ob-
jected. He stated that this was in pur-
suance of what he believed to be the
best policy for the preservation of
friendly relations between the races.
Growing out of this policy, he declm.
ed to appoin Dr. Crum to be collector
of the port of Charleston, S.C. Upon
this policy, he recently appointed
Henry S, Jackson, a white man, col-
lector of Internal Revenue in Geor-
sia, in place of H. A. Rucker, a Ne-
gro, who had already held the office.
The South regards this step as a
friendly act from the administration,
tending to remove what they term
“The Black Peril.”
The Republican party in Texas has
just announced that it is now a body
for white men, and that only white
men shall hold office in the organiza-
tion. As a result, the Negroes of the
State of Texas are organizing with a
Proposition to join with the Demo-
crats.
Under the Grandfather Clause. the
Negro stands no chance as against
such a test. He may be highly edu-
cated; but since the election boards
are made up of-white men, he is in-
variably disqualified, the ignorant
whites apparently mect the require-
ments, Se
The St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press
of Saturday, August 13, in an edito-
rial, had this to say:
“There is a question if Oklahomays
Grandfather Clause would stand the
test of the courts. - The,real purpose
of it is so imperfectly hidden that it
is almost certain a court of review
would hold it 2 nullity; but the trou-
ble is to get it before such a court.
The Negroes of the State apparently
lack the means or the spirit necessary
toa prolonged legal fight.”
The above clipping is significant
from the fact that it calls our atten-
tion to a condition. In spite of what
others may do in our favor and for us.
we are expected to show to the world
that we are awake to our interest, and
for that reason. if for no other, this
convention at Boley, Thursday,” Sep-
tember 8, has been called, that every
citizen of Negro descent say: -have
a voice and a vote in his own behalf.
We Are Boosters, Not Knockers.
This meeting is in no way antago-
nistic to the efforts of others at
Guthrie and elsewhere which have
been put ferth to reach the same te-
sults: but we must bear im mind the
fact thet there are forty, thon-and So-
cialist voters who gave us their sup-
port, to say nothing of the many oth-
ets of various faith and denominations
who may or may not be Repubiivans.
2—BEE
Some of them do not vote with any
party. Without any party affiliations
theré were a large number of people
in the State who voted with us, and
against the Grandfather Clause, for
the reason that they were good citi-
zens and believed that it is only right
that we should have our rights as
American citizens, to vote and have
that vote counted as any other citizen,
_ Our reason for calling the meeting
at Boley is that this is an exclusively
‘Negro town, and a place where we
could have all the protection desired,
jin that we could talk and act freely.
without having those on the outside to
know what we were, doing and saying.
We believe that it is only fair that
all our big conventions should be held
in our own Negro towns. To-do this
bespeaks harmony in purpose, and is
the very evidence of our sincerity.
We are sure the good people of Boley
will make ample preparation to enter-
tain the visiting delegates, and that
every effort will be exerted by those
interested in this movement to make
this a big meeting,
|The representation by counties will
‘be upon a basis of one delegate for
‘every three hundred of Negro popula-
tion, which will be as follows
SABORE ccccccrcrervcccossesesosees &
BBIGIGE,scccsssccccerccesarceemnee, &
Btyan sscsciscssccassesesccccccss, (6
Calle occ. Liigegsuseeesccoseces 3
Gatien. ccasvesteteussccsiassdes 2g
Chetohes:..i..cesesciessshicegces,
CHOCO sererenveconaeesczsnnctcuslG
Craig .,...-cecqeeececeescresrscee . §
Crete eee eee coi pascecee 2
Garvin vcisesasiaseuccceoeon ces dg
Gtady atts. ccisscscdasecticscccs 6
Hughes 00.00 .TR SII 6
Kingfisher ....cccccccccscescssses 9
Leflore’... ..scneccenea@eosencrere (7
Lincoln ......eeeeeeeeeeeececeee ID
Logan ..c-cces8cceacersaccceeece. 28
Lave a accssscteseosceessepeccescs
MeGlaint..c.cscascscuaqesseescccceh Of
McCurtain --.-..ccesecssssoncuss 23
Melntosh 022.0022
Muskogee -.......liisscstesesseee 35
Nowats wosicissecdsetesecencecas J
Okfuskee 222. 2TIIIIIIIIIINT, a7
Oklahoma 0000 IIERUIIIIN 32
Okmulgee 2000.00 IIINIIIIEN ge
PSYHC snecessscsscteereeseacctess (6
Pittsburg ....-.sigssccseseesceees 18
Pottawattomie 2000000 7
Seminole .......cccececnecsoesee If
Sequoyah 120...000INIINIII a
NURI seinen ciceceescepoece 3o
Preteen ertebee see taeseai reso 15 88
it ts expected that those to whom
this call is sent will get active at once
in their respective counties and pre-
pare for a mass meeting in their coun-
Ties to sclect delegates fn time to send
a list of delegates elected to our
Muskogee office by September 4, so
that proper arrangements can be made
for the delegates before they reach
Boley.
Each county is entitled to a staff of
officers usual in such organizations,
such as, president, secretary, treasurer.
and executive committee, who are
supposed to have authority to direct
the affairs of their-counties. After
the convention the organization will
send literature out from time to time,
keeping.the citizens of the State post=
ed as their case develops.
It is the purpose of this organiza-
tion to place every Negro in the State
in immediate touch with every other
‘one in so far as the intentions of the
organization are concerned. In order
to accomplish results it is necessary to
do this, and it is expccted that the
officers’ of each county organization
Keep as near a complete Jist of the
Negro voters in their’ counties as pos-
sible, so that in case it should be
necessary to reach them. time will be
saved by having this information at
hand at all times.
Address all communications to A.
G. W. Sanga, chairman, Box 1487,
Muskogee, Okla. Ernest D. Lynwood,
secretary.
FRENCH ISLAND NEGROES
BEST CANAL WORKERS,
‘eaitt and Martinique Blacks Excell
all Others With Pick and Shovel.
|. French Negroes from Haiti and
Martinique excel all other classes of
laborers in pick-and-shovel work on
the Panama Canal. That is shown in
iS report to the War Department giv-
ing the results of recent practical
tests of the valye of the various
classes of laborers employed in exca-
lvating rock and earth for the channel
through the “Gatun lake region. The
work was done on the “task” system—
that is, the laborers were paid accord-
ing to the amount of material they ex-
eavated. ‘
All kinds of laborers were employed.
White Spaniards and Italians recrut-
ed in Colon were taken to Bohio. Ac-
cording to the report they were will-
ing and intelligent, but weak and slow,
and were abl¢é to earn just about
enough from daybreak to sunset to
Keep them alive. Native Panamans,
men of tha class that excelled on the
felearing recently completed by con-
tract, did not find the work of digging
profitable.
Negroes from the British West In-
dies worked in teams, and, the report
says, did well enough, but they could
Jeara'very litle more than the fo cents
gold an hour that the commission pays
on regular work. The French Ne-
groes from Hlaity and Martinique did
better than any of the others. They
also. worked in teams, some loading
while others dumped the cars. They
made $1.50 gold a day in six hours of
actual work day after day. ‘The report
ays that they are well nourished, work
as-rapidly as the English Negro, and
keep up their speed all day. "They
are also reliable.” says the report,
“returning to work very day and
keeping’ at-it regardless of rain.”
The Negroes of Nashville, Tenn,
are seriously thinking of leaving the
Grand OldsParty. They declare that
singe the Republicans have put_ Mr.
Napier, the only colored man, off the
State committee, they consider this an
outrage. They are tired of broken
promises.
Dr. Patterson and a party of friends
in the South were ejected from 2
Pullman car at Earle, Ark., although
they had Pullman tickets. They were
chiected to on account of their color.
The railroad officials refused to act, on
account of inter-State law.
The Week in Society
Get your drugs, medicines and toilet articles at the Board & McGuire Pharmacy 1912 1-2 14th St. N. W. "The place where everybody meets everybody else."
Miss Emma B. Hall, of 1529 Fifth street northwest, has returned to the city after a pleasant stay in Middleland, Va.
Mrs. Hattie Ricks Tayloe, who has been the guest of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. James H. Lee, left the city this week for Richmond, Va., enroute to her home in Columbus, Ga.
Dr. C. A. A. Gordon, of Philadelphia, Pa., who was here attending the N. M. A., visited his sister and brother-in-law, Dr. and Mrs. Moore, of Roanoke, Va., before returning to his home.
Mrs. Julia M. Layton has returned to the city after an enjoyable trip in the West
Recorder of Deeds Henry Lincoln Johnson went South last week.
Attorney, Thomas L. Jones, after a delightful stay in Atlantic City, Cape May and Long Branch, N. J., returned to the city with his family last Thursday.
Miss, Clarice Jones will leave for her school next week.
Attorney Horatio Peyton, who has been out of the city on a vacation, has returned. The afflicted son of Attorney Peyton is a genius. He has a dramatic turn of mind. Already he has written one or two plays.
Prof. and Mrs. W. O. Clayton and family, of Norfolk, Va., expect to make this city their future home.
Mrs. Portia Pittman had as her guest Miss Gertrude Watkins, of Montgomery, Ala., last week.
Mr. W. C. Robinson, who has been visiting friends in Savannah, Ga., has returned to the city.
Miss R. A. Boston has returned to the city after a pleasant trip to Niagara Falls and other points East.
Mr. and Mrs. John Jenkins, of this city, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Roberts, of Indianapolis, Ind.
Mrs. Estelle Jordon and Mrs. Henrietta Boone, of this city, are visiting Mrs. C. W. Jordon in Suffolk, Va.
Mrs. Erma Northern, of Norfolk, Va., is visiting Mrs. Fannie Guy in this city.
Mrs. Mamie C. Moore is now in Baltimore, Md., where she will reside during the winter with her sister, Mrs. Sarah J. James.
Miss Pearl Lewis has returned to the city after a pleasant trip West, where she was the recipient of many social events.
Mr. Lester A. Walton, the dramatic editor of the New York Age, attended the opening of the New Howard Theater in this city.
Mr. J. R. Bennett is at Niagara Falls. He is having a delightful time.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryn, of Smart Set, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Mitchell, father and mother of Mrs. Brynn.
Miss Mary E. Willson has arrived in Atlantic City, N. J.
Dr. John R. Francis could not return to Arundel-on-the-Bay last week on account of being too busy.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Horner will spend a few weeks in the mountains of Virginia.
Ex-Recorder J. C. Dancy has gone East on special business.
Mrs. Carrie B. Rivers, of Savannah, is the guest of friends in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown, of Yonkers, N. Y., entertained a number of friends last week in honor of Mrs. and Miss Carroll, of this city.
Among the Washingtonians seen on the boardwalk in Atlantic City were Miss Mary Wilson, Mrs. M. A. Lee and daughter, Miss Ellen; Miss Sally Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. John Butcher, Mr. J. Moria Saunders and Miss E. Fleetwood.
Mr. Harold G. Trulear has resumed his duties in the Postoffice in Philadelphia after a pleasant visit to this city.
Miss Anna E. Bell, of this city, has returned after a pleasant visit to Philadelphia, Pa.
Capt. and Mrs. E. L. Webster are visiting friends at Mt. Holly, N. J.
Dr. U. J. Daniels, of this city, has been the guest of his cousin, Mrs. J. Barrett, of Darby, Pa.
Mrs. Julia A. Lee, of 1815 L's street northwest, accompanied by Mrs. David Watson, is in Atlantic City. Before returning she will visit New York and Boston.
Miss Jessie C. Mason left the city Monday for New York City, where she will be the guest of her cousin, Mrs. J. D. Younger, 196 West 134th street.
Mrs. Mattie Taylor Davis and little son William, of 2250 12th street northwest, are spending three weeks at Asbury Park at the Hulbert House.
Mrs. Annie M. Folkes is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Carter, of North 25th street, Richmond, Va.
Miss Marion Brent is visiting her cousin, Miss Rebecca Dickerson, in Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Fannie Davis, accompanied by her accomplished daughter, Miss Ruth, of Richmond, Va., are visiting here.
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friends in Richmond, Va., was tendered a reception by Pythian Castle, a club of young ladies. Mrs. W. S. Savoy and son Leonard have returned from a delightful visit to Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
mrs. George Wilson has just returned from a very pleasant trip to Maryland.
Miss Daisy Critcheton left the city last Saturday to visit friends in New York City.
Miss Violet A. Kibble returned to this city Friday morning of last week from a very pleasant stay in Northumberland County, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Thomas are visiting at Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Henry D. Masbon has returned to this city after spending the early part of the week with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Johnson, in Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Bessie Siebert, who has been boarding at Summit Point, Va., for two weeks, has returned to this city. Mrs. Maria Randolph returned Saturday last from a two weeks' trip North and East, visiting relatives and friends, among whom was a sister, Mrs. Lucy Carter, of Boston; a brother, Mr. Robert Washington, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; her niece, Miss Louise Washington, who is spending the summer at Mt. Clair, N. J., and Mrs. Sloane, of Princeton, N. J. At Princeton Mrs. Randolph joined her daughters, Miss Leonora Randolph and Miss Mary Ellen Randolph, who returned home with their mother. Mrs. Randolph was accompanied during her trip by her daughter, Miss Rachael Randolph.
After the 5 and 10 cent theatre, between the acts, and at all hours, ice cream soda is now all the rage, especially that snappy, cold, pure, delicious kind that is served at the drug store of Board & &McGuire, 1912 1-2 14th St. N. W. It is made right, served right, tastes right, and is right.
Mr. John Wright and family are spending a pleasant summer at Hamburg, Va.
Miss Ellen Boilling has returned home after spending a pleasant stay at Elkwood, Va.
Miss Zellaca'C. Wooding has been sojourning at Asbury Park, Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Saratoga, N.Y.
Miss Marion Carroll has returned to her home in Baltimore after a pleasant stay in this city.
Mr. Nathaniel Robinson has returned to this city after spending a pleasant stay in Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Thomas-Miller has returned to her home in Harrisburg, Pa., after being the ten-day guest of her niece and nephew, Miss Maggie Miller and Mr. Thomas Miller, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Syphax spent last week in Harrisburg, Pa.
Mrs. H. B. Quander has returned from a pleasant sojourn of two weeks in Harrisburg, Pa., visiting her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Carter.
; Mrs. Mary Brown and daughter, of Detroit, Mich., are visiting here.
Mesdames M. Lewis, Mary Taylor, M. Frazer, M. E. Miller, Miss Mary E. Bird and Sir Alex. Howard are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bird, of 607 Beaubien street, Detroit, Mich.
Dr. J. E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., passed through the city last week enroute for New York.
Miss Lillian Robinson and Miss Blanche Cropp are the guests of friends in Atlantic City.
Mrs. S. A. McKinney, of 61 P street northwest, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Estelle Fendall, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Miss Lucy J. Moten, of 12th street northwest, is in Brooklyn, N. Y., the guest of her sister and brother-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. I. Holland Powell. The New York Tribune paid Miss Moten a deserving compliment for the rendition of a vocal solo last week.
Assistant U. S. Attorney James A. Cobb has returned to the city from his Northern trip.
Mr. Joseph H. Jones, who has been dangerously ill, is steadily improving under Drs. Brooks and Williston. The many friends of Mr. Jones are very solicitous about him.
Mrs. Frank Payne has returned to her home in Denver, Colo., after a pleasant visit to this city and Virginia. Miss Othelia Cromwell has returned to the city from New York, where she has been attending the Columbia College. Miss Lizzie Ross, daughter of Dr. I. N. Ross, has returned to Cincinnati, where she teaches in the public school. Rev. Sterling N. Brown and family have returned to Asbury Park. Miss Alice Murray, a graduate of Howard University, has been appointed teacher in high school in Cairo, Ill. Dr. J. B. Hyman was the guest of Mrs. J. Seldon, of Red Bank, N. J. E. H. Brown, District Manager of the National Benefit Association, has returned to the city after a pleasant stay in Red Bank, N. J. Mr. R. H. Rutherford was seen at Coney Island last week.
Mr. Nathaniel Robinson has returned to the city after a pleasant visit to Richmond. Va., where he was the guest of Maj. John Y. Smith.
Mr. Lynn Balsley, of Winston, N. C., is visiting friends in this city. Mrs. J. M. Gandy, wife of Prof. Gandy, is visiting friends in this city. Mrs. Thomas Buckner, of this city, in company with Mrs. Joseph E. Williams, of Boston, Mass., have been visiting friends in Asbury Park, N. J. Miss Josephine Lawson, daughter of Prof. Jessie Lawson, was married in Oxford, England, to Prof. James Harley, of Antigua, B. W. I. Miss Emily White, of Greenville, S. C., is the guest of friends in this city. Mr. S. Burton, of this city, is visiting relatives in Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. S. B. Washington and daughter, after a pleasant visit to this city, have returned to their home in Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Jackson, pastor of Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, have returned to the city after spending several weeks in Virginia. Rev. Jackson preached before a large congregation. It is said a son of Prof. J. M. Gregory, who recently graduated from Harvard University, will be an instructor at Howard University this term. Mrs. Mary Pierce and children returned to the city Tuesday after a pleasant stay in Maryland. Prof. W. S. Montgomery returned to the city this week after having spent some time in Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Mr. Brynn and his wife, Mrs. Daisy Mitchell Brynn, of Smartset, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mitchell, 1091 Ninth street northwest.
Mrs. Mary E. Jones and her two daughters, Misses Clarice and Georgia, have returned to the city. They occupied at box at the Howard Theater Wednesday evening.
Dr. and Mrs. U. J. Daniels have returned from Niagara Falls after a pleasant stay of two weeks.
Mrs. E. M. Mercer and Mrs. M. Holland, of 1132 20th street northwest, are very sick. We wish them a speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Stephen Fuller will be glad to see their many friends after Sept. 15 inst.
Miss Pearl M. Barbour and Mr. Bert Marchant, of Howard University, were married Wednesday, Aug. 31. They are living at 1506 Pierce place northwest. Miss Barbour is connected with one of the leading families in the city and is a young lady of refinement and education. Mr. Marchant is a teacher in Howard University
Dr. James E. Shepard arrived in the city from Norfolk, Va., Friday morning and left in the evening over the Southern for Greensboro, N. C.
Dr. Arthur S. Gray returned to the city from Atlantic City last Monday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. James Brynn, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tribble, Miss Lillian Brown, Miss Lottie Jean, Messrs. Jas. Lightfoot and Clarence Red, of the Smart Set, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mitchell, 1901 Ninth street northwest.
Miss Jeannie Hillman, of the Smart Set, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. J. Malvin, of 11th and R streets northwest.
Mrs. Ada Overton Walker, of the Smart Set, is with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Hudnel.
Mrs. Lizzie Newton and her daughter Celestine left for an extensive trip to Niagara Falls, Canada, Thousand Islands and Atlantic City, N. J.
Dr. N. J. Kennedy, of Beaufort, S. C., who has been visiting in this city, has returned to his home after a pleasant stay in this city.
Miss Bessie Reed, a teacher in the graded school in Beaufort, S. C., has returned to her home after a pleasant visit to friends in this city.
Mr. John Brown, of this city, is visiting in Wadesboro, N. C.
Miss Julia Flinch, who is a clerk in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, is visiting friends in Denmark, S.C.
Mrs. B. F. Braxton and daughter Ethel, of Boston, Mass., are visiting relatives and friends in this city.
Miss Georgiana Brooks, a teacher in the public schools of this city, has returned from New Haven, Conn.
Miss Florena Thompson, of Indianapolis, Ind., is visiting in this city.
Mrs. Lizzie Robinson, of Keystone, W. Va., entertained Mr. Adams, of this city, last week at tea.
Among the Washingtonians who have been visiting in Atlanta, Ga., are Mr. John Fluellen, Mrs. W. H. Porker and Mrs. W. H. Partridge.
Among the Washingtonians who have been visiting in Boston are Mr. and Mrs. George Webster, Mrs. Anita R. Grandier, Mr. M. C. Wingfield and Mr. Lloyd G. Cuney.
Dr. David D. Thompson, formerly of Northampton street, Boston, has been very ill at his brother's residence in this city, Dr. S. S. Thompson, 952 R street northwest.
Mrs. Elizabeth Daniels, of Rosslyr, Va., the wife of Prof. R. J. Daniels, has returned home after a seven weeks' stay with Mrs. Grace L. Mahoney, of Allegheny, Pa. The friends of Mrs. Daniels were more than pleased at her return.
Mrs. Emma Adams, of 24 O street, had her sisters, Miss Cynthia Pettit and Mrs. Ralph Chatman, of Texas, as her guests.
Mrs. Martin, wife of Dr. Ulysses Martin, of 308 New York avenue northwest, was buried last Tuesday from her residence. Her death was quite a surprise to her friends, although she had been lingering some time.
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A large congregation at Mt. Zion M. E. Church greeted its pastor, Rev. D. W. Hayes, D. D., Sunday at each service, he having returned from New York, Virginia and other places of interest during his month's vacation. The evening services are now resumed, having been suspended during the month of August. Rev. George W. Jacobs was the acting pastor during the absence of the regular pastor. The funeral of Mrs. George Bowlding, the wife of George Bowlding, an old and much-respected citizen of this place, and a member of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, took place Tuesday afternoon from the above-named church, and was largely attended: Rev. D. W.
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Hayes officiated. Interment at Mt. Zion Cemetery.
The wife and little daughter of the Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dumbarton avenue, whose illness was announced a few days ago while visiting friends in New York, are convalescing and have been unable to return home. The Rev. Ricks has the sympathy of his many friends and congregation.
Rev. D. Webster Davis delivered his famous lecture entitled "Scraps" to a large audience Monday evening at the First Baptist Church.
Rev. V. G. Leeper preached a special sermon to the Stewerdests Sunday evening. The congregation of Ebenezar A. M. E. Church is steadily increasing under the pastorate of Rev. Leeper.
The Patriarchie and Odd Fellows Lodges are putting on their last touches, preparatory in attendance of B. M. C. next week, which convenes in Baltimore, Md., at which time many members will attend.
The following public school teachers, who have been out of town during the summer vacation, have returned and are ready for work: Misses H. H. Beason, Arrebella Beason, Nellie Hurbert, Cloda Butler, Sadie Williams and Miss Sadie Gaskins.
Messrs. Charles H. Turner and James L. Turner have each been recently promoted in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
The National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C., offers an unusually strong course for young men who are preparing to enter the Christian ministry. There is always an inviting field for the trained minister. Lectures by distinguished men will be delivered throughout the entire course. It will be thorough in every particular. It will seek to combine the cardinal principles of religion and work. One hundred young men are desired to enter this particular department. The regular school term opens October 12, 1910. All applications for admission must be made by September 15, 1910. For further information address the President, National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C.
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Arundel-on-the-Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. Moorland are in their new cottage at Arundel-on-the-Bay. Mr. Alfred Lewis and family are numbered among the cottagers of Arundel. Mrs. A. M. Curtis had as her guest this week at Camp Merrill, at Arundel-on-the-Bay, Mr. Pelham and sons and Dr. A. M. Brown, of Birmingham, Ala. Dr. Brown is the only colored Surgeon in the U. S. Army, and was elected chairman of the Committee on Surgery at the convention of doctors recently held in Washington. At his home in Birmingham, Ala., he is one of the leading physicians, with a very large practice. Mr. Williams, of the M Street High School, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Tyson at Arundel-on-the-Bay.
The sad news of the death of Miss Grace Bowen (one of the cottagers of the Bay) at her home in Baltimore threw a bit of gloom over this little resort. Miss Bowen had been in charge of her parents' hotel at Arundel-on-the-Bay, and though so young, met with entire success.
Fairmont Heights.
On Monday, Sept. 5, Mrs. Clarence H. Hunt, of Addison avenue, Fairmont Heights, entertained at lunchon Miss Mazyck, of Charleston, S.C., who is visiting her niece, Mrs. Henry Pinkney, of Fairmont Heights. Mrs. Pinkney was also a guest. The Citizens' Association is doing well.
Mr. W. Sidney Pittman has returned from Durham.
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It seems to be the opinion of leading physicians that the common house fly carries germs of infantile paralysis, which is prevalent in many cities.
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After a delay of 83 years, the $800 estate of Timothy Caldwell, a resident of Wilmington, Del., who died in 1827, was divided last week. Owing to the case being involved the estate could not be settled before.
In London, England, wireless telephoning from a moving train has been accomplished with complete success on a stretch of railway line four miles in length between Horley and Three Bridges, on the Brighton railway.
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A new silk mill has started in Reading, Pa., with Jansen & Pretzfeld, of New York, as managers, with twenty employees.
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It Was the Prize Package Given With Mexican Palace That H. Clay Pierce Bought.
H. Clay Pierce, St. Louis oil magnate, is now the owner of the Borda Gardens at Ceurnavaca, Mexico, and may be said to be the custodian of the ghost of the Borda Gardens. Nothing was said about it when Mr. Pierce paid $15,000 for the historic spot which was the favorite summer haunt of Emperor Maximilian and Queen Carlotta in the days of Mexico's splendor as an empire.
But it is to be supposed that the ghost, having occupied the gardens without leave these many years, will continue to do so, and an occasional glimpse of the ghostly intruder may be vouchsafed to the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce after Mr. Pierce has spent $100,000 in restoring the gardens and they are ready to entertain their friends there.
Mrs. Pierce, who will be the mistress of the mansion of the mad empress, is an Edwardsville (Ill.) woman, the daughter of Maj. William M. Russell Pickett. Before her marriage to Mr. Pierce she was Mrs. Virginia Pickett Burrowes.
The mansion, in recent years, has divided into several suites and has been let to tenants. These say that they often see the ghost.
Whose ghost is it, and why it haunts the Borda Gardens nobody pretends to know, but it is the belief of the locality that the ghostly appearances have some relation to buried treasure and a dark crime of the long ago.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
How Hay Wrote "Little Breeches."
On the train, as I journeyed to New York, I entertained myself by writing "Little Breeches." The thing was done merely for my own amusement, without the smallest thought of print. But when I showed it to Whitelaw Reld he selzed the manuscript and published it in the Tribune. By that time the lilt and swing of the Pike county ballad had taken possession of me. I was filled with the Pike county spirit, as it were, and the humorous side of my mind was entertained by its rich possibilities. Within a week after the appearance of "Little Breeches" in print all the Pike county ballads were written. After that the impulse was completely gone from me. . . . There were no more Pike county ballads in me and there never have been any since. Let me tell you a queer thing about that. From the hour when the last of the ballads was written until now I have never been able to feel that they were mine, that my mind had anything to do with their creation or that they bore any trace of kinship to my thought or my intellectual impulses. They seem utterly foreign to me—as foreign as if I had first encountered them in print as the work of somebody else. It is a strange feeling—Letter from John Hay to G. C. Eggleston, quoted in "Recollections of a Varied Life."
Good Time to Turn Farmer.
In theory there never was a better time than right now for a sensible man to move from city to country. The movement has been away from the farm until prices of all kinds of food and fiber are high. There is nothing in sight to indicate that prices will be greatly reduced by increased production. A crop well grown and handled with good business judgment will be reasonably sure of sale at a fair price. There never was a time when it was so easy to learn new methods and the principles of scientific farming. A man starting now may receive at once the benefit of 30 years of the experience and study of good farmers and scientific experts. For example millions of acres of land in the eastern states are almost nonproductive and thrown on the market at a low figure, simply because they are waterlogged and sour. When these farms are drained and limed they become at once productive and double in value for farm purposes. They are naturally strong and drainage and lime make their strength available.—H. _W. Collingwood, in Metropolitan Magazine.
The Last Stage.
Mrs. De Fashion—My dear, late hours, late suppers and general social dissipation have ruined your constitution.'
Miss De Fashion (belle of six seasons)—I know it, ma.
"And you are losing your beauty."
"It's all gone, ma."
"It really is. And so is your plumpness."
"I'm nothing but skin and bones."
"There's no denying it, my dear, you are a mere wreck of your former self."
"Too true."
"What are you going to do about it?"
"Get married."—New York Weekly.
Nothing Subdued About Her.
Fuddy—Do you believe that people acquire mental qualities from what they eat?
Duddy—Hardly think so. My wife's mother eats crushed oats, mashed potatoes and whipped cream, and yet she's very pugnacious.
Looking Up Father.
"May I see my father's record?" asked the new student. "He was in the class of 1877."
"Certainly, my boy. What for?" "He told me when I left home not to disgrace him, slr, and I wish to see just how far I can go."
WHY THE OX WAS MUZZLED
Old Welsh Plowman Took Timely Precaution to Save the Tall of the Leader.
The oxen were harnessed tandem fashion; stocky little Welshmen they were from the western hills, usurpers there, for the true Sussex ox is red. They eyed me with an expression of plaintive inquiry, and I noticed that the rear one's moist black nose was guarded by a string muzzle, through which he snorted at me in a manner hardly inviting confidence. The old plowman smiled indulgently while I admired them.
"Why do you muzzle the rear one?" I inquired.
"Look at the t'other's tall an' ye'll see," he chuckled.
And certainly the leader's tall was not so bushy as it should be.
"There aren't many oxen used now for farm work?" I asked.
He shook his head. "Only a few, just here an' there, mayhap," he answered; "horses an' stem plows 'a' done away with 'em. 'Sides, there ain't many smiths left now as can shoe an ox. Rare fun it is, I tell ye, stickin' the kews on 'em, throw 'em we have to tie up their legs an' hold their necks down wi' a pitchfork. Ha! ha! rare fun it is, lad."
I looked at the wide-spreading pointed horns, and thought of the usual run of village smithles. "I shouldn't imagine any smith would be anxious to learn the art." I remarked.
The old man agreed with me. He had the rosy, childish unwrinkled face of the countryman, his eyes were gray-green, the color of the Channel sea below the edge of the Down; his grizzled head shook as he cut into his bread with the pointed blade of a big pocketknife. "No, things ain't as they were," he said slowly—Manchester Guardian.
SWAM TO SHORE IN BASKET
Desiring to Join His Sweetheart, a Sailor Rlisks Life In Jumping From Ship.
Love for an old sweetheart and desire to save her from a marriage arranged by her parents impelled Makinzono Inousko of Seattle, Wash., a sailor on the steamer Inaba Maru, to risk his life in a daring attempt to escape from the vessel.
Waiting until the dark hours of the night Makinzono picked up a bamboo basket, and, holding it over his head, leaped from the steamer. Both guards and ship's officers heard the splash and rushed to the spot. Electric flash lamps and the ship's searchlight shot their rays over the waters, but all that was discernible was a bamboo basket bobbing around in the bay. Apparently without any guidance the basket floated around the end of the grain elevator and disappeared. In the morning Makinzono was missed, and investigation developed the manner of his escape.
Sent among the passengers with a message from one of the ship's officers, Makinzono recognized the girl as an old sweetheart. It was then he carried out his plan of escape. The girl is held at the detention station.—New York Herald.
Murdered for a Cent
A quarrel over a single penny led to a murder in Hoboken the other day. A man from Nebraska, who stopped at a hotel in Hoboken while awaiting the sailing of the steamer for Europe, put a penny in the slot of an automatic music box in the dining-room of the hotel, but the box refused to pour forth the expected ragtime tune. The Nebraskan became indignant and upbraided the German porter. The latter explained to him that it required a nickel and not a penny to set the mechanism of the music-box in motion, but that explanation did not satisfy the man from Nebraska. He became abusive and when the porter threatened to put him out; he pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot the porter dead.
Man an Aquatic Animal.
Every moderately well-educated person knows that life originated in the water, but not so many are aware that we are still aquatic animals. Every cell except those of the outside skin is dependent upon a surrounding liquid to keep it alive, and if it became dry it would perish. A person who realizes this fact will always take care to drink plenty of water, and will also eat plenty of fruit and vegetables, since these contain large quantities of water, and that in a purer form than is usually available. The pickanianny shows his good sense when he feasts upon the juicy watermelon, and instead of ridiculing him we might better go and do likewise.
Why He Sought Pardon.
Roquelaure, the deformed jester of Louis XIV, contrived to get out of many a scrape by his ready wit. One day he went to the king to ask his pardon for having struck off the helmet of one of his sentinels, who had failed to give him the military salute. Louis, who knew his man, wondered that Roquelaure should crave his pardon for so venial an offense, and sald to him: "This is a serious matter. Roquelaure, but I will pardon you this time." It afterwards turned out that the soldier's head was in the helmet, and fell with it to the ground.
Unusual.
Knocker—Say, here's an original baseball story.
Second senior—How's that?
Knocker—Hero wins the game in eighth inning instead of ninth.
LAMB ONCE A JOURNALIST
In connection with Lord Glenesk's recently published history of that old established London journal, the Morning Post, it is interesting to recall the fact that at one time Charles Lamb was on its staff of contributors. This gentle essayist wrote largely for a column headed "Fashionable Intelligence;" in those day, as Lamb says, "every morning paper, as an essential retainer to its establishment, kept an author who was bound to furnish daily a quantum of witted paragraphs." It was in this capacity that Lamb was engaged on the Post; furthermore his contract stipulated that in "the chat of the day, scandal, but above all, dress" he should supply six paragraphs a day, not one of which was to exceed seven lines in length, and the payment for which was to be 12 cents each.
In his essay "Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago," Lamb seems to have been rather pleased with the "sticks" of chat he contributed to the press; we now find that "Dan Stuart," his editor, entertained a different opinion as to their value. "As for good Charles Lamb," he said, "I never could make anything of his writings. Of politics he knew nothing; they were out of his line of reading and thought, and his drollery was vapid when given in short paragraphs fit for a newspaper."
HOW SHE GOT RID OF THEM
Discouraged Visits From Her Niece's Children by Teaching Them Verses From the Bible.
"What has become of those two children who visited you so often?" asked one West side woman of another. The other smiled discreetly.
"They are the children of my niece, and she was making a convenience of me. Of course I love the children, but I never allow myself to become much of a victim of imposition. My niece is an extremely gay young widow, and she does not like to take care of her children. She is fond of shopping, matinees, afternoon teas and everything, in short, which takes her away from home, and she got into a habit of sending her children over to my house for me to take care of whenever she wished to gad about. I decided it was time to break up the habit, for her own good and that of the children, as well as mine, so I did."
"I suppose that made your niece angry?"
"Oh, no; it couldn't. I never said anything about it. The last time the children came over I spent the afternoon teaching them verses from the Bible, and they didn't find it sufficiently entertaining. They never came back. Just how they managed to work it out with their mother I do not know, but I suppose they struck or begged off. Of course, she could not object to what I had done, and it proved a very simple solution."
The Boaz.
President McCrea of the Pennsylvania railroad, in his study of all classes of men who are under him, entertains a great admiration for the Irish foreman of a gang of laborers who went to any lengths to show his men that he was the real boss. One morning this foreman found that his gang had put a hand car on the track without his orders.
"Who put that him' car-r-r on the thrack?" he asked.
"We did, sor," one of the men answered respectfully.
"Well," he said shortly, "take it off ag'ln!"
The laborers did so with some difficulty.
"Now," said the foreman, "put it on ag'ln!"—Popular Magazine.
Knew She Was Right.
An auction was announced of the library and household effects of a man who had once entertained in a lavish way, and among the persons who went to the sale were many who had enjoyed the fallen family's hospitality. When a set of after-dinner cups was put up one woman said: "There are only five of those, not six." The auctioneer consulted his catalogue and replied: "Thank you; you are right" and proceeded with the sale. Then the woman whispered to the one next to her: "I knew I was right, because my husband dropped one of that set the last time we dined there."
Couldn't Come Back
Enoch Arden crept softly up to the window and peered in.
The former Mrs. Arden sat talking sternly to Enoch's successor.
"Do as you like," she was saying.
"But remember this, it's just as I told Enoch when he got to thinking he was boss of the house: You may go away, but you can't come back."
Fortunately Mr. Tennyson learned of the incident before the eminent literati of the prize ring got to it.
Senaltive.
"Miss Passay is furious with that society reporter."
"Why sof"
"He published the announcement of her approaching wedding under the column headed 'Late Engagements.'"
—Life.
A Hero.
The Player—You're a lover of music, aren't you, Mr. Smith? The Hearer—Y-yes, but don't mind me. Go right on playing.
WHY WOMEN GROW OLD EARLY
Through a Mistaken Idea of Duty She Permits Her Life to Become a Treadmill.
Why do some women grow old and others keep the secret of perpetual youth? Here is one answer:
One reason why the average woman wears out, grows plain before her husband, is that, through a mistaken idea of duty, she lays out for herself at the beginning of her married life a scheme or plan of duty and employment for her time, every hour filled with work, with rare and short periods of relaxation.
This she follows religiously for years, feeling that she has done her duty, because every household event occurs regularly and on time, while she soon becomes merely a machine, a thing without life of itself or volition. She settles into a rut, and goes round and round on the same track everlastingly.
Can any woman keep brightness, originality of thought or speech, or even mere prettiness with such a life? And without those things how can she keep her husband and growing children full of loving admiration, which is the strong chain by which she can bind them to her? How bright and jolly the neighbor's wife seems when she calls. In nine cases out of ten it is because the surroundings and talk of your home are variety to her, and rouse her to originality and brightness of speech.
Cultivate a broad attitude toward the world and its people. Let your interests be far-reaching, and there will be renewed vigor when it comes to solve the problems of the home.
WANTED PAY FOR HIS WORK
British West Indian Who Wanted Recompense for Building His Own
An English naval officer tells of being on a war vessel which took provisions to St. Kitt's, one of the British West India islands. A hurricane had left many of the inhabitants in a destitute or even starving condition. Hungry crowds gathered at the wharf, but refused to help, unload the food that was to be given to them unless paid for their work. A similar story sheds light on the Jamalcan negro. Five or six years ago a hurricane devastated the island, and a large relief sum was raised, much of it in England and the United States. The committee having charge of this fund sent a wagon load of lumber to a husky black man whose house had been scattered over the parish. He and his family were living in a rude shack, made out of odds and ends.
"What's that fur?" he asked of the men who were unloading the material in front of his patch of ground.
"That's for your new house," was the reply. "It's from the relief fund and won't cost you anything."
"Who's goin' to build mah house?"
"You are, if anybody does."
"Who's goin' to pay me fur mah work?"
Drops Pick as Wife Gets Rich.
Michael Flannagan threw down his pick when he got word his wife had fallen heir to $50,000 left by her uncle, John Hogan, a Brooklyn saloonkeeper. Flannagan has been one of the jolly, deqil-may-care workers employed in building a road on Franklin Murphy's large estate, which is being fashioned out of the wilderness near here.
"I'm sorry to leave you, boys," said Flannagan when a lawyer's clerk from Morristown brought the news, "but I'm suddenly elevated to the Rocko-feller and Carnegie class, and so I must be off."
Michael, notwithstanding he had money in his pocket, walked a mile in the hot sun to the railroad station rather than pay a nickel on the trolley.
"If any part of that $50,000 gets away from me foolishly it will be when I'm asleep and can't hold on to its wing," remarked Flanagan departing.
Eating Between Meals.
Not much is said about this bad habit nowadays, but is is still a bad habit. Do not let children eat chocolates, biscuits or sweetmeats at odd times, whenever the whim seizes them.
This practise leads to many troublesome little ailments connected with the digestion.
Nibbling at crackers and sucking sour balls or taffy are perhaps the most common forms of "eating all the time" and should be checked as soon as the habit is noticed.
A little pure candy may be given for dessert at a meal, or at night before the teeth are washed, but it should not be given more than once a day.
A Misunderstanding.
Census Taker—What did you say your name is?
Editor of the Century—R. U. Johnson.
Census Taker—What difference does it make whether I am Johnson or not? You've got to answer the questions I ask or get arrested. What did you say your name is?
Unosalfied.
"Where's the ossified man?"
"Fired him."
"What for?"
"He fell in love."
"But that shouldn't have spolled him as a drawing card."
"That's what you think; but after he fell in love he was the softest thing you ever saw."
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MAN'S RESPECT FOR ANIMALS
We Must Recognize That We Are Overseers of Other Forms of Life on Earth.
If we have any belief at all in a difference of moral faculty between ourselves and the animals we must recognize that we are, so far as our powers over nature will permit, overseers of other forms of life upon the earth, not merely for our own advantage but for the good of the universe. We cannot deny that the struggle for life exists and that we must take part in it and do our best to destroy those forms of life which are hostile to ourselves. We cannot go so far in respect for life as to found a society for the prevention of cruelty to bacillii. But at the same time our respect for life is a sign of our triumph, however imperfect, over, the struggle for life; and the greater this respect becomes the more we are men conscious of the promise and significance of all life and the less we are beasts involved in the blind waste of nature.
Very slowly and imperfectly this sense of the promise and significance of all life grows in us. It is not only an intellectual, but rather a religious and emotional idea. It appears first in men like St. Francis with a prophetic sense of a nobler state of being. From them it is communicated by the beauty of their example rather than by argument, to other men; and perhaps when it has become a matter of course in all civilized human beings we shall find that it is of practical value and it will attain to a scientific justification.
Teaching Correct Speech.
A woman of culture and travel has made a glorious success teaching correct speech. It is surprising how much incorrect speech there is among our educated people. They cling to provincialisms, incorrect pronunciations, wrong use of words, and unmusical intonations. The southerner holds to the soft, rless utterance of his "mammy" days; the middle westerner flattens his vowels; the Bostonian throws his r's completely out of joint. This woman undertook to correct such errors and teach a pure, perfect English speech to a few young women. She became so successful that she was compelled to start a school of correct English which has grown to great proportions. This particularly promising field is open in every town in America.—The Delineator.
Limited Vision:
There was a man once—a poet. He went wandering through the streets of the city, and he met a disciple. "Come out with me," said the poet, "for a walk in the sand dunes." And they went. But ere they had progressed many stages, said the disciple. "There is nothing here but sand." "To what did I invite you?" asked the poet. "To walk in the sand dunes." "Then do not complain," said the poet. "Yet even so your words are untrue. There is heaven above. Do you not see it? The fault is not heaven's; nor the sand's."—Maarten Maartens.
World's Oldest Tree
The recent rose show given in Paris by the French Horticultural society recalled the fact that the oldest rose tree in the world is believed to be one which grows on a wall of the cathedral at Hildesheim, Germany. Eleventh-century records make mention of expenses incurred by caretakers of the cathedral in maintaining this tree, which covers the wall to a height of twenty-five feet and is twenty inches thick at the root.
Hla Opportunity:
"You never saw a man more delighted than Flutterby is!"
"What's the cause?"
"He's going to get a public hearing for his poems at last."
"In print?"
"Not exactly. He's been sued for breach of promise, and all his poems are to be read in open court."
THEY KNEW THAT BAD ROAD
Mark Twain Tells How Three Natives Dodged Task of Hauling Stage Through Mud.
Mark Twain was a firm believer in the national movement for good roads, and had many a tale to tell about the incredibly bad roads of some sections. A Hartford man recalled the other day this experience of the famous humorist's: "I once had 30 miles"—so Mark Twain began—"to go by stage in Mississippi. The roads were terrible, for it was early spring. The passengers consisted of five men and three women—three large, well-developed women, swathed in shawls and vells, who kept to themselves, talking in low tones on the rear seat. Well, we hadn't gone a mile before the stage got stuck two feet deep in the black mud. Down jumped every man of us, and for ten minutes we tugged and jerked and pulled till we got the stage out of the hole. We had hardly got our breath back when the stage stuck again, and again we had to strain our hearts out to release her. In covering 15 miles we got stuck eight times, and in going the whole 30 we lifted that old stage out of the mud 17 times by actual count. We five male passengers were wet, tired and filthy when we reached our destination, and so you can imagine our feeling when we saw the three women passengers remove, as they dismounted, their vells, their shawls and their skirts, and, lo and behold! they were three big, hearty, robust men. As we stared at them with bulging and ferocious eyes, one of them said: "Thanks for your labor, gents. We knowed this road and prepared for it. Will you licker?"
DOG KEEPS PEACE IN FAMILY
Lucky Cur Whose Appetite Is Pampered to Prove Innocence of His Master.
My most interesting patient is a bull-dog owned by a man down on Ninety-seventh street," said a veterarian. "Every afternoon, between four and five o'clock, the dog and his master take a walk. Just before they go home they stop in here and I give the dog an appetizer.
"He is such a healthy looking beast that it seems wicked to waste drugs on him, but it is only by keeping him toned up so he will eat them out of house and home that the man can allay his wife's suspicions. Formerly the daily wanderings of the pair were not quite as innocent as they are now. They had a habit of stopping at a saloon where the dog's prtion of their refreshment was a sausage.
"That took the edge off the dog's appetite. Owing to domestic restrictions the man does not stop at the saloon any more, but if the dog is slightly off his feed no arguments will convince the wife of the couple's innocence
"The funny part of the thing is that the woman used to hate the dog, and before her animus toward beer reached a head she nearly starved him to death. These are happy days for him, when he has to eat his head off to keep peace in the family."
The Perfect Foot.
A woman's foot, when perfect, is hollowed out well, both inside and out, with a high instep, short heel and long, straight toes, slightly spatulate at the ends.
This is the type of the most beautiful foot. It is, on the whole, a foot not frequently seen in its perfection, for often one or the other element of beauty is wanting. The rarest point of beauty is the hollowing of the outside of the foot.
If anyone would convince himself that the hollow of the outside of the foot is rare, let him watch the prints that seaside bathers leave when they step on a dry plank or walk. Most of such footprints show a greater or smaller hollow on the inside of the foot, but nearly every one shows a straight wet mark on the outside, says Woman's Life.
That water should flow under the arch of the foot without wetting it is an old and good rule where feet are concerned.
Small Homes
Green things growing indoors are the most successful antidotes to winter ever devised. Thousands who cannot have a conservatory change the whole temper of a home by a few plants. There are many varieties of palm today, both hardy and decorative, and of ferns. Of the many blossoming plants which do well indoors, the place of highest honor, considering what it has done for humanity in the mass, must remain with the humble geranium. A single pot in a hall bedroom often helps a young man or woman through a lonely winter. Many of the newer plants do not require direct sunlight in order to thrive. These points are childishly elementary, but obviousness and human importance often lie very near together.—Collier's.
Letting the Cat Out of the Bag.
The saying "let the cat out of the bag" probably had its origin in the trick of substituting a cat for a young pig in the days when it, was customary for the country folks in England, to take pigs to market in bags. These bags, in old phraseology, were called "pokes." If anyone was foolish enough to buy an animal without looking at it, he was said to have bought "a pig in a poke," but if he opened the bag the cat would jump out and the trick was exposed.
HIS ELOQUENCE WAS USELESS
Colonel Morgan's Futile Attempt to Persuade Cleveland to Grant Pardon to a Murderer.
Col. Franklin Pierce Morgan of Washington and New York never made but one great speech, and the story of it is pathetic. His audience was Grover Cleveland, then president of the United States, and his purpose was to secure a pardon for a murderer named O'Neill, in whom the colonel had become interested. "I'll never forget that day," said the colonel in telling about the incident. "I had told Dan Lamont the day before that I intended to ask Cleveland to pardon O'Neill, who was a creature of the dark places at times, but a pretty good fellow at that. Cleveland had taken the precaution to send to the department of justice and get the papers in the case. I got up early the next morning, had a massage and was feeling tip-top. I got in to see Cleveland and I spoke 20 minutes. Never in my life, before or since, have I been as eloquent as I was pleading for that fellow O'Neill. The end of every sentence I uttered brushed the edges off a cloud. I concluded my argument, confident that I had swept the president off his feet. 'Mr. Morgan,' he said, 'is that all you have to say on behalf of your friend?' Mind you, he said 'friend.' 'Yes, Mr. President,' said I; 'I think that's all.' 'Mr. Morgan,' he replied, 'never as long as I am in the White House shall that consummate scoundrel—consummate scoundrel, mark you—get out of the penitentiary.' "What's the use of eloquence, anyhow?" concluded the colonel.
OLDEST LIVING CREATURES
Giant Tortolse Brought to London From Mauritius Probably Entitled to That Honor.
What species of animal lives to the greatest age is a question that has not been satisfactorily answered, but it is contended that a giant tortolse brought to the London zoological gardens from Mauritius about ten years ago is probably the oldest living creature whose age is positively known.
This tortolse, which weighs a quarter of a ton, has lived at least one hundred and sixty years, as historic documents prove.
It is said that one hundred years is a good old age for an elephant and that no other animal except certain birds and reptiles and the whale reach this span of years. In 1821 there died at Peterborough, in England, a tortoise whose age was said to be two hundred and twenty years. One instance, at least, is known of a tortoise which was still growing when eighty years old.
Tragedy In Prison Cell.
Some time ago a whole family was murdered at Potchep, in southwest Russia. Two men named Gluster and Shnakhn were charged with the crime, and although protesting their innocence to the last the former was hanged and the latter sentenced to a long term of hard labor. It was subsequently ascertained that there had been a miscarriage of justice, and the real murderers were arrested and tried by court-martial at Chernigoff and sentenced to death and were confined in Chernigoff pending execution of their sentences. Two of them were found dead the other day in their cell. They had been strangled by their companion with a piece of twisted linen. The three had drawn lots as to which of them should kill the two others, and then commit suicide. The man who lost fulfilled the first part of the bargain, but at the last moment shrank from doing away with himself.
First Telescope Preserved.
Very few people are aware that the first practical telescope—the one which Galileo used in discovering the satellites of Jupiter in January, 1610, is still in existence—and preserved at the Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence. It is about three hundred years ago since this instrument was first turned toward the heavens. Unlike the present astronomical type, it had, a concave instead of a convex eyepiece, just like the opera glasses now in use. When Galileo first exhibited his new telescope to the doge and an enthusiastic assembly he was overwhelmed with honors, because it was thought that the instrument would give the soldiers and sailors of the republic a great advantage over their enemies.—Strand Magazine.
- Rain Defeated Napoleon.
The plan of Waterloo as laid down by Napoleon was a most brilliant one, and had it not rained on the night of the seventeenth of June the man of destiny would in all likelihood have kept his throne. Had it not rained and made the land miry he would have had his artillery in position four days before he actually did, and Wellington would have been disposed of long before Blucher's arrival. Even as it was, the Iron Duke was pretty well used up when the Prussian came up on his left. Napoleon's genius never shone more brilliantly than it did in his last campaign. He was defeated by the elements.—Literary Digest.
Disproven.
Cynicus—It is quite impossible for a woman to keep a secret.
Henpeckke—I don't know about that. My wife and I were engaged for several weeks before she said anything to me about it.
A PROTEST AGAINST "JOLTS"
Sources of Discomfort That Destroy Our Comfort and Help Shorten Our Lives.
"One need not fear that his liver will really be jerked out of place when a trolley car comes to a stop," says the New York Medical Journal, "but the sense of such an impending catastrophe is certainly something more than a jarring of the pleasant tenor of one's daily life. It is a source of discomfort that is needlessly varied in a thousand ways, and frequently recurring discomfort amounts to such wear and tear as must enfeeble the vital forces and tend in the long run to the shortening of life, for it is the continual dropping that wears away a stone. The jolts that madden a person also serve to undermine his power of resistance to the malign agencies that more obviously threaten his life.
That freedom from agitation which promotes contentment is well known to be highly conducive to longevity. Statisticians have demonstrated this over and over again, and society ought to exert its full power in the effort to do away with all avoidable sources of discomfort—the heat of the subway trains, the screeching of locomotives, the clang of bells, the horrid stridor of motor car horns, and all things else that go to make life miserable. To be long lived, we need to be happy, and comfort is indispensable to happiness."
CHOATE'S TRIBUTE TO WOMAN
Why He, Believes the Bible Story of Eve Being Made From Adam's Best Rib.
There is no part of the sacred writings that has so impressed me as the history of the first creation of woman, I believe that no invasion of science has shaken the truth of that remarkable record—how Adam slept and his best rib was taken from his side and transformed into the first woman. Thus, sir, she became the "slide-bone" of man!—the sweetest morsel in his whole organism! (Laughter.) Why, sir, there is nothing within the pages of sacred writ that is dearer to me than that story. I believe in it as firmly as I do in that of Daniel in the den of lions, or Jonah in the whale's belly, or any other of those remarkable tales. (Laughter.) There is something in our very organism, sir, that confirms its truth; for if any one of you will lay his hand upon his heart, where the space between the ribs is widest, you feel there a vacuum, which nature abhors, and which nothing can ever replace until the dear creature that was taken from that spot is restored to it. (Cheers and laughter.) Follow my example, sir, and place your hand just there and see if you do not feel a sense of "goneess" which nothing that you have ever yet experienced has been able to satisfy. From a speech by Joe Chote.
Once Enough.
"I am not an inquisitive man," said the minister, "but there is one thing I would like to know. Why do people who marry more than once never get the minister who tied the first knot to tie the second or third or fourth?
"I have married enough couples to earn for me the title of marrying parson. Many of those people were prominent enough socially to get their doings recorded in the newspapers and I learn through that medium that a fairly large percentage of them marry again. But they never ask me to officiate.
"Why don't they? Didn't I bring them good luck the first time? Has their experience prejudiced them against me personally, or is there a superstition that prevents a man being married twice by the same minister?"
"Even members of my own congregation who marry again seek a strange minister. Why?"
Memorial to Aylators.
At Louveciennes there is a memorial which commemorates the ascent of the first Montgolfier balloon. The brothers Montgolfier were on friendly terms with the celebrated statesman Boissy d'Anglas, and they offered to make their first experiment in his park. After the famous ascent. Francois Antoine Boissy d'Anglas erected a little column to commemorate the event, simply boaring the date. The ravages of time are seen on the column, and the date is almost obliterated. To the casual observer this famous landmark is only a mystery, but Boissy d'Anglas evidently saw the possibility of aerial flight by erecting this modest memorial.
Thickest Skin of Any Animal
The skin of a hippopotamus is about the thickest covering worn by any animal on earth. That of the whale is only slightly thicker, but then the whale lives in the sea and not upon the earth. By reason of this thick hide the hippopotamus can laugh at ordinary bullets, which merely tickle him unless they strike him in the eye, the nostrils or the ears. Therefore, when shooting hippopotami, the sportman uses explosive bullets with sharp steel points.
There's a Reason.
Wilfred—Ma, I wish I was cross-eyed.
Mrs. Gunbusta—What makes you wish such a foolish thing, my dear?
Wilfred—Why, then I could stand on the sidewalk and watch a parade coming and going at the same time.
Mrs. Billtops Objects to the One Ingenious Method That Pleases Her Husband.
"As some sage has remarked," said Mr. Billtops, "the longer we lives the more we finds out. You take, for instance, the mending of a trousers pocket that has a hole in it down at the bottom, so that you are in danger of losing out of it your keys or your pocket knife or such small change as you may there carry.
"Now I supposed there were just three ways of mending that pocket, three and no more. One way would be to put a patch on it, another way would be to cut off the bottom of the pocket and sew on a new section, and still another way would be to put in an entire new pocket; but the tallor to whom I took these trousers to be fixed up has shown me a fourth way that made me laugh for its simplicity and at the same time as I thought ingenuity.
"He just folded over the bottom of the pocket high enough up to cover the hole, and then just stitched the pocket across through the folded over part and the main body of the pocket, this you see something that could be done in a minute and that at the same time served its purpose. I admired it for its ingenuity and effectiveness, but Mrs. Billtops doesn't look at it as I do.
"She says that if it's a sloppy way of mending a pocket, that it makes the pocket shallower, for one thing, and that then that folded over part, making the pocket of double thickness, makes a ridge there which is not desirable. She says that she has mended pockets that way herself, but that it is not a good way, and I guess she's right; she generally is."
TIN A GOOD SOUND BARRIER
German's Experiment With Telephone Booth Convinces Him It Should Be Put In Walls.
Any one who in a telephone booth has been disturbed by loud talking outside, or some other noise to interrupt the electric conversation, will be interested in an article in a German periodical, Der Gesundheitsingenieur. The writer tells how he dealt with this difficulty. He had been making some acoustic experiments, which convinced him that if a wooden telephone booth were lined with tin, all noises would be excluded. He mailed sheets of tin on the wooden walls, with the result that an expert, who had laughed at his idea, was so impressed that he forthwith proceeded to construct a number of such booths. Nor are telephone users the only ones who may profit by this experiment. The writer referred to appeals to architects to introduce tin, or aluminum, in the walls of houses generally, to deaden sounds. He is convinced that if this were done, the neighbor's daughter's piano and voice would cease to be a disturbing factor in life, except, of course, in summer, when all the windows are open. The tin manufacturers may be trusted to see to it that this plan is properly pushed and advertised.
Where Men Are "Pretty."
A British investigator is ungallant enough to state that the reason why women are as a rule of a beauty not attained by man lies in the fact that they are more indolent and not so prone to "exercise their brains" as men are. Intellectual labors and asdiduous attention to business are, according to this authority, matters extremely prejudicial to the development of physical beauty.
In support of his theory this Briton points to the Zaros, a tribe of British India. Among them, it appears, women hold the place that in other countries is pre-empted by men. The Zaro woman manages the affairs of state, engages in business on her own account and does not restrict herself in the narrow field of woman elsewhere. On the other hand, the Zaro man has nothing to do but cook the meals and look after the children. The natural result of all this, says our scientist, is that the men of this singular tribe are "very pretty" and the women unusually plain.
Brought Bees to Earth.
A rather novel way of capturing a swarm of bees was adopted in North Hants, England, recently, where a gamekeeper found that a roving colony had settled high up on a beech tree fifty or sixty feet above the ground in his garden. A man went to his assistance and spread a cloth on the ground on some hay just beneath the swarm. The keeper fired a shot which cut away the bough from which the bees hung from the tree. They fell like a bunch of grapes on to the cloth, and a "skep" was immediately placed over them. The swarm weighed nearly five pounds, and the bees appeared to be none the worse for their treatment.
Strange Juvenile Depravity.
An extraordinary case of juvenile crime recently occurred at Rosenfeld, near Munich, where two choir boys have been sentenced to several years' imprisonment for poisoning sacramental wine. The elder boy stole some hydrochloric acid, and the younger who was assisting the priest at mass, poured the polson into the wine. The first person who tasted the wine fortunately noticed that something was wrong, and a strong emetic was administered by a doctor in the congregation.
DANGER PLACES IN STORM
Bell Wires, Open Windows and Fireplaces Should Be Avoided When Lightning is Flashing.
What is the safest place in a thunderstorm? As a rule the safest place of all is inside a building which is provided with a perfect lightning conductor. The conductor, however, must have no defects. If it be broken or have a faulty earth connection it is then a source of grave danger.
In an ordinary dwelling house, unguarded as it usually is against lightning, a safe place is the middle of the largest room, where one is away from the walls, or a still safer precaution is to lie on an iron bed drawn out from contact with the wall.
The most dangerous places in the house, we are further told, are near the bell wires, or an open window, or the fireplace. Outside the house the places of danger are proximity to walls and buildings and iron fences. Another danger is a crowd. The vapor which rises from a crowd tends to lead a flash toward the crowd. In the open country one of the most dangerous places is the bank of a river. Avenues of trees, lakes and hedges are likewise dangerous.
If any one doubts the danger of a hawthorne hedge let him take his stand at a safe distance during a respectable storm and watch the effect. The lightning will dart along the hedge like sheets of fire. If the observer gets wet to the skin, so much the better for his safety.
ATHLETES OF OLDEN·TIME
Those of Greece Wore Hair Cropped and Were Subjected to Very Careful Diet.
Some interesting comparisons may be drawn between ancient and modern athletes. The athletes of ancient Greece, for example, if they should appear to view today, would not be taken for a football team. The old-time man of muscle wore his hair cropped, a distinguishing feature in a land of long hair. Trainers for the games led a very careful life. They were under orders for a rigid diet, which became especially severe just before the contest. Their bill of fare consisted of fresh cheese, dried figs and wheaten porridge. A little later in the era meat was allowed, with a preference for beef and pork. Bread was not allowed with meat, and sweets not at all.
At one time a strange custom of diet came into vogue. Every day at the conclusion of practise the athletes were obliged to consume enormous quantities of food, which was digested in a long-continued sleep. The amount was gradually increased until huge meals of meat were taken. This diet produced a corpulence which was of advantage in wrestling, but injurious for other sports.
An Australian Plant Post.
Just thirty years ago a lady at Bright, Victoria, planted in her garden a few seeds of St. John's wort sent her from the old country. The lady's intention was to have one or two of the plants at hand for medicinal purposes. The hardy weed, however, soon spread beyond the garden, and before anyone had grasped the magnitude of the evil it had been carried by cattle along all the main stock routes and jumped the Victorian watershed into Gippsland. It has now completely taken possession of something like 20,000 acres of agricultural land, and the agricultural department of Victoria is spending thousands of pounds in the endeavor to eradicate it, some of the methods tried coating nearly £50 an acre—Westminster Gazette.
Object to Slaughter of Lions.
According to some of the farmers of East Africa, the lion should be protected as a useful animal, notwithstanding the fact that once in a while he kills a man. The lion, they maintain, is a great destroyer of noxious herbivorous animals, such as zebras and antelopes, which are a scourge to the fields. In one district they say no fewer than 46 lions have recently been killed by hunters, and they estimate that this represents the saving of 85,000 to 40,000 zebras and antelopes, which would otherwise have fallen a prey to the lions that have been destroyed. Of course, the hunters shoot zebras and antelopes, but this fact, they think, does not counterbalance the destruction of those animals that would have been effected by the slain lions.
Curiosities of Small
No substance that refuses to dissolve in water has an odor. It is the actual substance itself, floating in particles in the air, that appeals to the nose, and not simply a vibration of the air, as in the case of light and sound. The damper a thing is the more powerful the odor it gives off. A pleasant proof of the fact can be had by walking in a garden after rain. There is no end to the curiosities of smell. It is, for instance, the vapor of a liquid that smells, and not the liquid in the mass, itself. If eau de cologne be poured into the nostril the nose refuses to recognize any odor there at all.
A Smile or Two.
Tenant—I hear you have a letter for me. Just give it to me, will you? Concierge—All right, ma'am, but I warn you, you won't be able to make much out of it. None of the servants, nor my wife, nor myself can read it.—Pele Mela.
Thomas Walker, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding Probate Court. Estate of Matilda Tyler, deceased. No. 15537 Administration Docket.
Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament and codicil of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by John W. Brunson, it is ordered this 17th day of August, A. D. 1910, that the unknown heirs-at-law and next of kin of said Matilda Tyler, deceased, and all otherse concerned, appear in said court on Tuesday, the 27th day of September, A. D. 1910, at 10 o'clock a.m. to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the Washington Law Reporter and The Washington Bee; once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned—the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day.
JOB BARNARD, Justice.
Attest: JAMES TANNER.
Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. THOS. WALKER, Attorney.
HERE'S A GOOD CHILD STORY
One Which Comes From the Family of a Boston Educator and Has Unusual Originality.
Perhaps the most startling child story extant, however, comes from the family of a famous Boston educator, whose children all are distinguished by an unusual degree of originality. Several boys and girls of various ages have been adopted into this family, so the sudden appearance of new and well-grown associates seems to the younger members quite natural. This rather unusual attitude toward family growth worked out oddly a year or two ago, upon the occasion of the Christmas play, which the little ones annually write, rehearse and produce, quite without adult assistance, for their parents.
The plot of the play included the financial redemption of a highly worthy couple—this being an extremely cultured and sociologically learned yet natural group of youngsters—by the good luck of the husband, played by an eager urchin of seven, in the gold fields of Alaska. The happy bridegroom returned to his weeping bride of a year in the nick of time, bearing with him a huge and heavy bag of gold. The bride, in a neat speech, revealed to him the poverty-stricken, hungry straits to which she had been reduced, and warmly commended his skill and industry in gold finding. Then, rising with a proud and modest air, she gently informed him: "And I, meanwhile, have not been idle!"—and, drawing a convenient curtain, disclosed an assorted group of laughing boys and girls as "Our children, dear!"
The audience, not unnaturally, rocked with helpless laughter, but those dear little lads and lasses still are wondering why.
VALUE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS
How One Small Boy Was Cured of Destructive Propensities by a Lasting Lesson.
Small boys are very apt to fall to recognize the value of others' property. My small son, in company with a playmate, in a game used the lights in a neighbor's henhouse for a target. The owner of the damaged property visited both homes, where the culprits hid in dismay, and collected damages. Here was a valuable opportunity for a lasting lesson. I called my boy to me, and we talked the matter over, he having full chance to explain his side of the case. Then the mischief he had wrought and the reputation it might give him were gravely discussed.
He voluntarily offered to refund the amount of his part of the damage out of his small savings until full restitution was made. This was finally agreed upon, and here came the hard part for the boy. His pocket money allowance was 25 cents a week, which was frequently reduced by fines for ill-temper or other sundry breaches of etiquette or duty. It took him seven weeks to get out of debt.
When the last cent was paid, he gave a sigh of relief, and said: "There, I'll never destroy anything again as
Baked Fish.
Clean, wash and dry the fish and sprinkle the inside with salt. Cut gashes in the side two inches apart and the fish in letter S shape. Rub with salt, pepper and melted butter and put a piece of salt pork in each gash in the side. Put in oven to bake and baste often. Add following dressing: Take cupful of cracker crumbs, two tablespoonfuls melted butter, one saltspoon salt, one of pepper, one tablespoonful of chopped pickle, one tablespoonful parsley and one tablespoonful of onion juice. Add hot water to moisten.
Hot Chicken Salad
One tablespoonful of butter, melt, add one tablespoonful of flour mixed with a pinch of salt, a little pepper, cayenne, and if liked celery salt, or for a change a few drops of onion juice. Use about a cup of milk to make a cream. Stir in a beaten egg, then carefully a cup of chopped chicken meat. Don't stir much after adding the meat. Veal is good instead of chicken, and lamb can be used, but cut it into little dice instead of chopping it. Serve on toast or with fried potatoes.
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To my friends and the public in general:
It is with pleasure that I take this you that the books of the Independent Company are now open for charters for coming season, and it will be to your int secure the most desirable dates.
Our terms are most liberal and charters.
Washington Park and Some To which place we have the exclusive ex Mathias Point, Rock Point, Norfolk, Wiltimore and all points on the Potomac Bay.
Our facilities for chartering parties respect. Our large covered wharf (used cursion business) enables us to give your date service. No crowding, no exposure tween Washington and Washington Park long and tiresome waiting for the steam.
Before the construction of Washing place of recreation was afforded the people proudly point to the fact that I have for the people in every respect.
You have one of the best and most sorts in this part of the country. Washing riads of electric lights, mammoth scenic sel, dance hall and numerous smaller and passed in point of natural beauty and resort south of New York.
By perseverance and an enormous c this, and now I ask you to show me that port by calling at once and making ch a son.
Yours for pleasu ure and Lewis Jefferson. 1910
ensure that I take this opportunity
of the Independent Steamboat
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and it will be to your interest to call
desirable dates.
Most liberal and charters can be made
Bington Park and Somerset Beach.
We have the exclusive excursion right
Rock Point, Norfolk, White City, R
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own and Washington Park does awa-
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Construction of Washington Park
can was afforded the people of our
the fact that I have fulfilled the
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and numerous smaller amusement
of natural beauty and modern equi-
New York.
Once and an enormous cash outlay
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at once and making charters for the
Tours for pleasure and comfort,
Lewis Jefferson. 1910 First Street
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.
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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 carrousel, dance hall and numerous smaller amusement devices is surpassed in point of natural beauty and modern equipment by no resort south of New York.
By perseverance and an enormous cash outlay I have done this, and now I ask you to show me that I have your hearty support by calling at once and making charters for the coming season.
Yours for pleasure and comfort,
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1910 First Street, S. W.
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 Why pay 10 per cent, when you can get it for a per cent
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.
ROBERT ALLEN
Buffet and Family Liquor Store
Phone North 2340
1917 4th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.