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GEN. GRANT'S LIFE SAVED. Would Have Been With Lincoln When Assassinated but for the Mistake of His Negro Servant—Interesting Facts in the Case—Sketch of the Family. (From the Wood County Democrat.) Nearly three years ago in the Washington Hospital died a colored man, George W. Barnes, whose career had an important part in the great war of 1861-65. He was a historic character. After the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox Gen. Grant directed his personal baggage to be shipped from City Point to Washington. Barnes was given charge of the same, with directions to take it to the old Willard Hotel, at which Mrs. Grant was stopping. For some reason the baggage was taken to the old Baltimore & Ohio Station instead of the hotel. An arrangement had been made between Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Grant that their husbands should accompany them, on the night of the 14th of April, to Ford's Theater to witness the farewell play of Laura Keene in "Our American Cousin." Imagine the disappointment occasioned by the mistake in not having the baggage sent to the hotel as was arranged. When Gen. Grant reached the city the entire plans of the evening were changed. The General was without suitable change of clothing. Instead of enjoying the pleasure of the evening at the theater, he and Mrs. Grant took the early train for Burlington, N. J., to visit briefly some of her relatives. When the train reached Philadelphia a telegram informed them of the assassination of the President and the attempt upon other prominent officials. The party went on, however, to Burlington, but Gen. Grant arranged to return in the morning to the Capital on the first train. Mrs. Grant's disappointment in not being permitted to attend the theater was at first keenly felt, and she did not attempt to conceal her feelings in the premises. Later, however, she was inclined not only to forgive the faithful servant, but to express gratitude that her distinguished husband was saved from a fate that seemed to have been planned for the taking away of the two principal characters for the preservation of the Union. As long as the General and Mrs. Grant lived the faithful servant was duly remembered on the return of every Christmas and New Year's Day. As showing the genuineness of this case and the devotion involved, the writer wishes to submit confirmatory statements. In a personal letter from Maj-Gen. Fred D. Grant, commanding the Department of the Lakes, dated Chicago, June 2, 1910, occurs this statement: "The colored boy, William Barnes, came to my father's headquarters at Cairo late in the fall or early in the winter of 1861, and was employed by my father's Aide-de-Camp, then Lieutenant but afterwards Colonel Clarke B. Lagow. He was with headquarters in the service of different staff officers until just before the Vicksburg campaign, when he went to Colonel Bloomer and remained with him until Colonel Bloomer was killed during the siege of Vicksburg. He then returned to the headquarters, and was employed by my father as a valet, and remained with him until my father went out of office as President of the United States." In another letter, dated June 18, 1910, Gen. Fred D. Grant says: "Barnes was a dependent to a great extent upon my family from the fall of 1861 until he died. He was either in our employ or else in employment we secured for him with others nearly all the time, and when out of employment altogether was assisted from time to time by my family. I would be glad if I could be of any assistance to his widow now, though I have many calls upon me, and I do not feel like volunteering too much." From a statement dated "3 East 66th street, New York, Jan. 19, 1891," Mrs. Julia D. Grant, widow of the distinguished war General and mother of Fred D. Grant, says: "William Barnes was employed by Gen. U. S. Grant as his personal servant for the greater part of the war; also at our private residence in Washington and again at the Executive Mansion." Mrs. Barnes, the widow of William Barnes, is living in a dependent condition with her daughter at 1454 N street northwest, in this city. She has a sword, a camp stool and a bag in which the General's clothes were carried to the laundryman. The sword is alluded to thus, in one of General Fred D. Grant's letters to me: "I remember very distinctly that my father's sword was shot off at the battle of Shiloh, and that a new one was furnished him by General John A. McClernand, one of his division commanders." It is suggested that Congress ought to make some provision for this faithful colored woman by providing a small pension for her for the remainder of her life. Some small allowance might be made for the articles I have enumerated, and they might then be deposited in the Smithsonian Institution with other relics. The pictures of General Grant preserved in the little room by his loyal, faithful colored woman attest the faithfulness of the colored race during the war and subsequently to those who were supposed to be their redeemers from slavery. Let a Nation show its gratitude in the hour of need. J. FRAISE RICHARD. Washington, D. C., April 27, 1911. National Negro Business League. Gov. George W. Donaghey, of Arkansas, is manifesting great interest in this coming meeting, and has assured the Local League of his entire willingness to do everything possible toward making the meeting a success. Gov. Donaghey, the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, and the most important white citizens of Little Rock joined with the Local League of Little Rock in inviting the National organization to Little Rock. The citizens have already begun to make extensive preparations for this meeting. The annual meetings of the National Negro Business League are yearly increasing in value and helpfulness to the race. They bring progressive colored men and women together from every section of the country, and afford a chance to become acquainted and exchange ideas with each other. Moreover, the deliberations of the meeting, and the opportunity which the members of other races are afforded to learn of what the Negro is doing for himself, are helpful in the highest degree. Lastly, the annual vacation which every person usually takes, can be made both inexpensive, delightful and profitable by attendance at these meetings of the National Negro Business League. Hon. J. E. Bush, a member of the Executive Committee of the National organization, is the leading spirit in all of the activities now being made for the coming meeting, and is especially anxious to have Northern members of the League present in large numbers. "It is no further from New York to Little Rock than it is from Little Rock to New York, and Arkansas has always been largely represented at every meeting of the National organization." Mr. Bush assures the Northern members that the progress which the colored people of Arkansas have made will fully warrant their coming South in large numbers. The railroads have already consented to make an attractive rate for this coming meeting, and delegates are especially urged to give attention to the matter of arranging for Pullman or tourist car parties. Further information will be furnished regarding this feature within the next week or 10 days. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, President, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. J. C. NAPIER, Chairman Executive Committee, Washington, D. C. EMMETT J. SCOTT, Corresponding Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. National Training School We are in the midst of our annual examinations, and while we cannot say that everybody is happy, we can say that everybody is busy. The students in the Dressmaking Department were never busier. Yards and yards of lawn have been made into simple dresses to be worn during Commencement Week. The gowns are to be inexpensive, but pretty. The order has gone forth that no frills and ornaments must be used. Simplicity and economy is the slogan. Rev. E. W. Moore, Philadelphia, Pa., will deliver the baccalaurate sermon Sunday, June 4. There will be many attractions on Industrial Day. Aside from exhibitions and demonstrations, a dinner to cost just one dollar will be prepared and served to a family of five. The Business Department of the National Training School has given three very creditable and successful entertainments. The money has been spent in installing two new L. C. Smith typewriters and tables. The department is an attractive one, and it is destined to occupy a very important place and is destined to render invaluable service in supplying efficient stenographers. "Don't be a makeshift, but make good," is the department's motto. Visitors are constantly coming to the institution, and are pleased with the delightful situation and the progress that has been made. We gently remind them that all we need is room. The first annual Commencement will be held June 9. Several young ladies will graduate. A number of friends are very anxious to help us in our effort to install a water supply that will relieve our girls of the burden of carrying water. Negro Regiment in New York Defeated by, Democratic Votes Albany, N. Y., May 22—The Assembly last Thursday killed assembledman Cuvillier's bill proposing to give Gov. Dix authority to permit the organization of a National Guard regiment of negro citizens of the city of New York. Assemblyman Bush, of Chemung, insisted that the Governor already had the right to permit such an organization, but that no Governor would ever grant it because it would put the proposed negro National Guardsmen on the same social equality footing with the white man. The bill was lost by a vote of 25 to 68. The Democrats, who compose the majority in the State Legislature, defeated the bill, they voting solidly against it. WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., S.A. who masters its D. e. mess set- day, and res- der, mes, battle Ar- t in red ill- to- ess. ock ost tle ue on the ke et- on- ly to col- om af- eed er. the ch af- is he 18 10 19 PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. Addresses The Y. M. C. A. EDITOR AT DURHAM EDITOR AT DURHAM COMPANY A WINS Visits The National Religious Training School DR. SHEPPARD'S GOOD WORK The Populace and People Come Miles to the Exercises (Editorial Correspondence.) Durham, N. C., May 22 I arrived in the city of Durham, N. C., Sunday morning, yesterday. I have been an apprentice in a number of years to visit the home of my young and distinguished friend, Dr. James E. Shepard. I was not disappointed. Dr. Shepard is the same man at home as he is away from home. I will not in this letter tell you all about Durham, N. C., because I am preparing a special correspondence of Durham and her people for my issue of June 1, the occasion of the 32d anniversary of The Bee. Then I shall tell you all about the people of this great little city and the work of Dr. Shepard. I had the good fortune of taking a spin around the city yesterday afternoon with Dr. Charles H. Shepard, one of the leading physicians in the city and no doubt one of the most popular. This is a jubilee week at the National Religious Training School. Everybody of note attended the opening exercises at the school yesterday. The thermometer was 103 in the shade, and notwithstanding the people walked a distance of one and three-quarters miles to attend the exercises. The baccaloureate sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. A. R. Recock, pastor of the Church of the Unity, Springfield, Mass. His sermon was full of sound thoughts. Everybody is looking forward for the coming of Judge Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Judge Stafford will be the guest of Mr. Carr, one of the leading citizens of Durham and a millionaire several times. Did you ask whether I attended the services yesterday? I certainly did. I was brought to Durham without attending church. The people are very religious in this section of the State. Everywhere you turn in the house of Dr. Shepard you are reminded of the greatness and goodness of God. Before me this moment I am reading against the wall. God's Best. "God—His best things for the few Who dare to stand the test; He has His second choice for those Who will not have, His best." Who will not have this best. The foregoing are only a few of the sentiments that confront you in the home of the President of the National Religious Training School. It is all sunshine here. It is the palace of comfort, happiness and sunshine. Of course, I attended church. I went to the White Rock Baptist Church. The Presbyterian Church was too far off, and again the sun was too warm. The White Rock is the church that my friend Pittman reconstructed. I am fond of good singing. Without exceptions there is one of the finest choirs at this church that can be found anywhere in the country. The organist is an accomplished lady. She can do anything. I am going to tell you all about everybody and everything in my special on Durham. I shall dine this evening with Rev. Dr. Shepard. This entire week will be a busy one for me. W. C. C. A gift of $500,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by T. Coleman du Pont, of Delaware, has been announced. The gift follows closely the signing by the Governor of the bill which appropriated $1,000 a year for 10 years to the institute. SATURDAY MAY 27, 1911 COMPANY A WINS The Largest Crowd inHistory SUPT.BRUGE.PRESENTS MEDALS THE COMPETITIVE DRILL. M Street High School Wins—The Adversary in the Enemy-Capt. Qyster, Present. Company A of the M Street High School won the 17th annual competitive drill of the Separate Battalion of High School Cadets, which took place Thursday, May 18, on the campus of Howard University. The drilling of all the companies was exceptionally good, and it was some moments before the judges could ascertain the winner. The drilling of Company C of the Armstrong School was marked with such military precision that many of the several thousands present thought Company C the prize company. It was an almost unbearable moment of suspense when the battalion lined up in front of the judges and members of the Board of Education for a report of the decision. Adjutant Preston Early was ordered to request a certain Captain to bring his company to the front. The suspense of the spectators, as well as that of the cadets, was greater at that moment than before. The Adjutant paused on the line for a moment, and then with a sharp turn to the left marched in front of Captain Hugh Shipley, of Company A, and requested him to march his company to the front. The quiet of a moment before broke forth in applause which could be heard squares away. A feature of the drill this year was the presence of several squads from the National Guard, who performed guard duty during the drill. One of the most pleasing spectacles of the drill was the extended order which came at the end of the competitive drill program. Each company advanced on the enemy, composed of a detachment from the National Guard in ambush. Starting from one end of the field, the companies moved toward the enemy in squads and platoons and as skirmishers. One volley was fired after each advance. The enemy was so weak and the attack so strong that the former was compelled to seek cover behind the library and other university buildings. Indeed, the spectators were anxious to know if the authorities anticipate sending the cadets to the front at Mexico and leaving the National Guard here to protect the city. But, no, gentle reader; it was intended that the Guard should retreat under the fire of the cadets. It was the cadets' day, and all of Washington was willing to give and did give them every possible encouragement. The judges consisted of Lieutenant John E. Green, U. S. A., and Lieutenants Jones and Jackson, from the National Guard. The Captain's individual medal was presented by Roscoe C. Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of Schools. The flag which is competed for annually was presented by Captain Jas. F. Oyster, President of the Board of Education. He also reviewed the cadets after the drill. Mrs. Terrell presented medals to the Lieutenants. Dr. W. V. Tunnell, of the Board of Education, presented the teachers' medal to the winning Captain. This medal is set with six large diamonds, which surround a miniature knapsack, and is the gift of the colored public school teachers of Washington. The medal is competed for each year. It is worn by the Captain of the company winning it for a short while, and is then placed in a safe deposit vault to remain until the next competition. The Captain of the winning company receives a gold medal, and his two Lieutenants receive each a silver medal, which becomes their sole property. Each cadet and non-commissioned officer receives a badge as a token of their splendid work on the drill field. It is to be regretted that extensive repairs at the baseball park prevented having the drill there as usual, but the Committee of Arrangements spared no pains to make everyone comfortable in spite of the sweltering heat. Principal Williams is to be congratulated upon the success of his cadets upon the drill field. They have won each year of his two years as principal. The roster of the winning company is as follows: Captain, Hugh Shipley; First Lieutenant, F. Magruder; Second Lieutenant, George Adams; Sergeants, first Harold Quivers; second, H. Crawford; third, J. Dancy; fourth, J. Freeman, and, fifth, C. Johnson; Corporals, W. Smith, F. Malone, J. Holland, L. Blount, M. Ward and S. Berry; privates, R. Anderson, W. Bowie, G. Butler, J. Coles, J. Ellis, E. Gantt, H. Hamilton, E. Henderson, W. Jackson R. Key, C. Ramsay, G. Roye, E. Sejpio, R. Smith, L. Stannard, L. Walker, G. Williams, N. Barnett, E. Butler, W. Carson, M. Dandridge, W. Duncan, C. Gordon, E. Henson, D. R. Holton, W. Jeter, W. Loffin, U. Reed, G. Samuel, J. Scott, W. Sparks, S. Thompson, L. Watson, D. Yates, J. Boarman, G. Butler, R. Clarke, E. Davidson, J. Frazier, W. Hall, P. Hines, F. Hunt, E. Johnson, W. Mavrite, F. Robinson, H. Spencer, L. Skinner, A. Stafford, M. Turner and E. Webb. Tuskegee "Wizard" Honored. Chicago, Ill., May 20.—Chicago has again been visited this week by that marvelous "Wizard of Tuskegee," Booker T. Washington, who has brought hope and cheer to the negro citizens of Chicago, whose breasts he has caused to swell with pride because of the special attentions which have been lavished upon him by the most important people of this great city. Thursday, May 18, at 12:30 o'clock noon, at the Hotel Blackstone, Chicago's newest and finest hotel, he was the guest of honor at a luncheon tendered him by Mr. Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck & Company, one of the largest mail-order houses in the world. Mr. Rosenwald came into prominence last January by his offer to give $25,000 to any city willing to raise $75,000 for a negro Y. M. C. A. building. At the luncheon there were present in addition to Mr. Rosenwald, Victor F. Lawson, editor and proprietor of the Chicago News; H. H. Kohlsaat, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Record-Herald; Joseph Medill McCormick, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Tribune; James Patten, the "Wheat King," and half a dozen Chicago bankers, besides 16 others—26 in all—of the most prominent business and professional men of the Western Metropolis. At night Dr. Washington spoke at a banquet given by the managers of the Y. M. C. A. at the Auditorium Hotel, and on Friday evening, at the child's welfare exhibit meeting held in the immense Coliseum, where the Republican National Convention was held three years ago. On each of these occasions Dr. Washington was accorded a most enthusiastic and flattering reception. Our 32d Anniversary Brooklyn, May 17, 1911. My Dear Sir: Pray accept my hearty congratulations on the 32d anniversary of The Bee. The wisdom of its existence is vindicated by its long and useful career. Ever ready to espouse the cause of the lowly and oppressed, it has been to the negro its champion. May it be the good fortune of the race that you may be spared for many years to battle for those things which have made Our bee such a welcome visitor in Our home such a welcome friend. BURUES, LEWIS BEDRYS. RUFUS LEWIS PERRY. W. Calvin Chase, Esq., Editor of The Bee, 1109 Eye St., Washington, D. C. ANDERSON BOOMED AS SUC CESSOR TO MINISTER FURNISS New York Collector Said to Lead Race for Haiian Post. That Collector of Internal Revenue Charles Anderson, of New York, is now in the lead for the appointment of Minister to Haiti to succeed Minister Furniss, is the gossip that is going the rounds among the Negro politicians in Washington. This position has stirred up quite as much commotion among the Negro politicians here and elsewhere as did the appointment of Lewis to be Assistant Attorney-General. The former Register of the Treasury, W. T. Vernon, of Kansas, is an active candidate for the place. But it is understood now that Vernon will probably not be appointed. Senator Curtis, of Kansas, wants him named, but Senator Bristow and the other Kansas insurgents do not. Moreover, it is said the appointment of Vernon would please neither the Booker Washington following nor the group opposed to Dr. Washington. Others mentioned for the Haiti appoint ment are Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University, here, and W. E. R. Du Bois, of Atlanta University. The Washington Times. An Indian chief, Wedidaheld, is on his wav to the coronation of King George. The chief is carrying presents carefully packed in elaborate Indian fashion for the White Father. Important News Happenings of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST (By Miss G. B. Maxfield.) A movement is on foot to place a statue of John Brown in the Hall of Fame at the Capitol. Mr. William W. Glen, colored, who for eight years has been on the police force in Los Angeles, Cal., has been made sergeant. Some of the most successful white firemen owe their training to William G. Burnes, colored, of Indianapolis, Ind., who presides at the throttle of one of the fastest trains on the Pennsylvania line west of Pittsburg. The Philadelphia and Baltimore Annual Conference of the M. E. Zion Church in session at Metropolitan Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, has adjourned. Five hundred dollars as a free offering was contributed to the Varick Monument Fund and $50,000 was given to Mrs. Ida V. Smith, widow of the late Bishop Smith. The million dollar dam erected by the United States Government in Mexico to control the water of the Colorado River, is now practically useless by a break in the Bee River above it. A diamond studded sword, the gift of the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1844 to Capt. John Percival, of the United States frigate Constitution, is the subject of a suit in Boston, Mass, between a Miss Susan Minns and Chester A. Reed. The prolonged drought in sections of Eastern Carolina is working such injury to crops that planters are becoming alarmed. No rain of consequence has fallen since last September in many sections. At Chabourn, the Mayor has issued an official proclamation calling the people to gather at their houses of worship and invoke Divine help. It is said the Times, a Democratic white paper of Orangeburg, S. C., when it was found that the Recorder, a colored weekly, was about to miss an issue on account of a broken press, offered its services and got out the paper for the colored weekly. Paul Lawrence Dunbar Taylor, a relative of the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, is the first beneficiary of the $2,000 scholarship established at Wilberforce University, in honor of the poet. Thomas O'Connor, of New Orleans, La., 72 years of age, committed suicide last week. He was chief of the New Orleans fire department, and was the oldest fire chief in the United States, both in service and age, he having become head of the fire department in 1869. Mrs. P. T. Rowe is said to be the first woman ever elected as an alternate delegate to a diocesan council of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Rowe has been chosen by Trinity Church, Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Rowe's election will probably be a test case. Dr. L. E. Gibson is said to have discovered in Lewis Hanks a new disease to the medical profession. Hanks was possessed of an enormous appetite, and it was found he had 250 little animals about one-fourth to an inch in length, belonging to the crab family. The operation has thus far proved successful. Dr. D. K. Pearson's, the great Chicago philanthropist, has achieved his purpose of giving away his fortune of $6,000,000 and will retire to the Hindale Sanitarium with an income of $6,000. He was 91 years of age last April. It is said that suicide among the Negro race has increased by over 20 per cent. in the last 10 years, according to statistics. There are now five colored churches of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Walter Angelo Powell, aged 83 years, died at his home in St. Joseph, Mo., last Sunday. He, with Robert Mills, designed the extension to the Capitol during President Fillmore's Administration. He also built fortifications at Winchester, Harper's Ferry and other places. A memorial to the Wisconsin soldiers who died during the Civil War, was unveiled May 22 in Vicksburg, Miss. It is a granite column surrounded by bronze equestrian figures GRANDFATHER LAW In Oklahoma Declared Unconstitutional by the Federal Court. (Special to The Bee.) Muskogee, Okla.-The Federal Court has rendered a decision declaring unconstitutional the Grandfather's Law, passed by' a Democratic Legislature, disfranchising the colored vote of this State. The decision will effect about 40,000 colored voters who were denied the right to vote under the law. There is great rejoicing here among colored people. Brooksville, Okla., May 15, 1911. Bee Publishing Company, Washing- ton. Gentlemen: Please find inclosed $1, for which send me your paper for six months. I have read the few copies you sent me, and to my notion The Bee is a splendid paper. It is a paper that ought to be in the homes of every negro in the United States of America—R A. Ransome, Physician and Surgeon, Box 8, Brooksville, Okla. THE FINAL TEST. Where the Ablebodied Candidate For the Army Put His Foot In It. Bill was one of those fellows who always try to do things right. He lost his position recently and, being unable to secure another, decided to join the regular army. He applied at Uncle Sam's recruiting station. Now, Bill was a good looking specimen of manhood, and the army officer began his examination with pleasure. Heart, lungs, hearing, sight and nerves were found in the best of condition. But one test remained before he could become a regular. "Take off your shoes," commanded the officer. Bill did so. "Now wet your feet in that bucket," he was further instructed. Bill did as he was told. "Now walk across the room," said the army man. Bill knew from the actions of the army officer that he had made a good mark and wanted to increase his average. He started across the floor, bringing every inch of his weight to bear at every step. He looked back. Yes, he was doing fine. He could plainly see the whole imprint of his feet each step he had taken. He was happy, and the task was finished. "Don't want you. You're flatfooted," said the army man. "What do you think of that?" reflected Bill as he made his way to the street—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. THE ROYAL·HOAX. And the Missing Sword of the Duke of Cumberland. What became of the Duke of Cumberland's sword, which was lost or stolen at the Haymarket theater Jan. 16, 1740? It was on the night of the great "Bottle Hoax." According to advertisement, a man was to "play on a common walking cane the music of every instrument now used to perfection, get into a quart bottle without equitocation and while there sing several songs," besides doing other things only a little less marvelous—more marvelous that the theater should have been packed with spectators, including many of the nobility and the Duke of Cumberland of Culloden fame. The conjurer did not appear, but one of the theater officials did and informed the house that all money would be returned at the doors. "Cumberland was the first that flew in a rage," a contemporary account tells us, "and called to pull down the house. He drew his sword and was in such a rage that somebody slipped in behind him and pulled the sword out of his hand, which was as much as to say. 'Fools should not have chopping sticks.' This sword of his has never been heard of nor the person who took it. Thirty guineas of reward are offered for it."—London Chronicle. Curious Street Names The list of curious street names is inexhaustible Bernondsey possesses a Pickle Herring street. Near Gray's inn there is to be found a Cold Bath square. Most of the Nightingale lanes and Love lanes are hidden ironically enough in the slums of the east end. But for really bizarre street names one should go to Brussels. The Short Street of the Long Charlot, the Street of the Red Haired Woman and the Street of Sorrows are remarkable enough to catch the least observant eye. The Street of the One Person is, as one might guess, considerably narrower than Whitechall. But the cream of Brussels street names surely belongs to the Street of the Uncracked Silver Coconut. This in the original appears as one ponderous thirty-six letter word—London Chronicle. He Knew How It Was. James' mother is one of those unfortunate individuals who "pick up" unconsciously every error in speech that they hear. This falling is a source of much amusement and comment in her family, as are also the habitual and glaring mistakes of Mrs. F., a very estimable acquaintance. One day James' mother had been out and upon her return committed a grave offense against the mother tongue. Immediately little James confronted her, with upraised foreling, and exclaimed in accusing tones, "Now, mother, you have been playing with Mrs. F. again!"—Dellineator. Lights Out. An fracible sergeant going his nightly round of the barracks in order to make sure that all lights had been extinguished noticed that a window was illuminated. He roused the occupants of the room "Put out that light," he ordered, "and be quick about it." "But it's moonlight!" explained a private. "I don't care what it is!" roared the sergeant. "Put it out!"—London Express. A Genius. Little Willie—Say, pa, what is a genius? Pa-A genius, my son, is a person whom nature lets in on the ground floor, but whom circumstances force to live in an attic—Chicago News. A Strong Hint: Customer—You don't seem very quick at figures, my boy Newsboy—I'm out o' practice. Ye see, most o' de gents says, "Keep de change."—Harper's Weekly. The heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.—Bacon. A BYRON STATUE. It Was Made to Be Placed In Westminster Abbey, but Was Refused by the Dean. Many years ago some admirers of Lord Byron raised a subscription for a monument to the poet to be placed in Westminster abbey. Chantrey was requested to execute it, but on account of the smallness of the sum subscribed he declined, and Thorwaldsen was then applied to and cheerfully undertook the work. In about 1533 the finished statue arrived at the customs house in London, but to the astonishment of the subscribers the dean of Westminster, Dr. Ireland, declined to give permission to have it set up in the abbey, and owing to this difficulty, which proved insurmountable, for Dr. Ireland's successor was of the same opinion, it remained for upward of twelve years in the customs house, when (1540) it was removed to the library of Trinity college, Cambridge. The poet is represented in the statue of the size of life, seated on a ruin, with his left foot resting on the fragment of a column. In his right hand he holds a style up to his mouth, in his left a book, inscribed "Childe Harold." He is dressed in a frock coat and cloak. Beside him on the left is a skull, above which is the Athenian owl. The likeness is, of course, post humous. Thorwaldsen was born Nov. 19, 1770, and died on March 24, 1844. Exchange. A LAD OF MYSTERY. "That Awful Boy Jones," Who Tormented Queen Victoria. For a little while about the middle of the nineteenth century "that awful boy Jones" was the torment of Queen Victoria's life, and his short career in public contains a mystery which would, try the mettle of Sherlock Holmes. He was a barber's apprentice who in some unexplained way discovered a passage into Buckingham palace, with which he alone was acquainted. When he was first found trespassing he was gently admonished and sent home. Soon after he was encountered again in the palace. He would not tell how he obtained access. Again he was sent home, and again he reappeared. Once he calmly admitted that he had been lodging in the palace for a fortnight. He had laid sung during the day, sleeping in the royal apartments, and at night had wandered from room to room, helping himself to the food left over from royal repasts. He had seen the queen repeatedly and indeed had never been far from her. The matter was considered so serious that the boy was summoned before a special meeting of the privy council. He refused to give any account of his secret. Soon after he disappeared, and it is supposed that he was removed under state protection—London Globe. Grant In the Saddle: Grant was at his best in the saddle. The one real record that he made for himself at the academy, the one time that he excelled all his fellows, was at the final mounted exercises of his graduating class, when, riding a famous horse named York, he was called upon to clear the leaping bar that the gruff old riding master had placed higher than a man's head. He dashed out from his place in the ranks, smooth faced, slender young fellow on a powerful chestnut sorrel, and galloped down the opposite side of the hall, turned and went directly at the bar, the great horse increasing his pace as he neared it, and then, as if he and his rider were one, rising and clearing it with a magnificent bound. The leap is still recorded at the academy as "Grant's upon York"—St. Nicholas. Singular Marriage Custom. The Kurds have a very curious and somewhat dangerous marriage custom, which one would think would be more honored in the breach than in the observance. The husband, surrounded by a bodyguard of twenty or thirty young men, carries his wife home on his back in a scarlet cloth and is desperately assaulted the whole way by a number of girls. Sticks and stones are hurled at the bridegroom, who in the coming home with his bride can hardly be considered a very happy man, for the lrate amazons often inflict on him marks which he carries to the grave. It may be that among the lady pursuers are some of the bridegroom's former "flames," who turn the mock attack into downright earnest to average slighted love. Quite a. Comfort. "There was a time when they put men in jail for debt," said the bill collector severely. "Well," answered the fretted citizen, "I don't know but a good, stout jail, where your creditors couldn't send in cards or call you up on the telephone, would be a great deal of a comfort."—Washington Star. Experience Would Tell "I want an easy chair," said the householder, entering the store. "Yes, sir," said the salesman. "What sort?" "I don't know yet," was the answer. "Let me look into the boss' office and see what he has. He ought to be a judge."—Buffalo-Express. A Marrying Man. "Are you a marrying man?" was asked of a somber looking gentleman at a recent reception. "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply; "I'm a clergyman." "Silent creates a work; genius keeps it from dying." - Emerson The DAIRY CARE OF COW AND CALF. The Effect of Precautions Before Birth Are Farreaching and Must Not Be Underestimated. Throughout the months of April and May many cows become fresh, and each should have full four weeks' rest before time for the calf to arrive. During these last four weeks she should be fed good, nutritious food, consisting of clover hay, with liberal messes of bran, and if necessary toles and condition powders should be added to keep her in proper shape for the emergency to come. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred these careful attentions may not be necessary, and the cow will get along all right and apparently do as well to rough it, but who knows but that his cow may be the hundredth one and be lost from milk fever or some other disease that can be attributed to improper care? A cow doesn't have to be fat to be in proper condition for calving. She should be in good enough condition to be strong and healthy. A fat cow may be in the very worst kind of condition, and this is the reason why so many fat cows die of milk fever after becoming fresh. By all means keep the cow's appetite good and bowels loose, feed her properly and see that she gets plenty of exercise and good water. Then there will be little danger at calving time. In fact, the cow will come out all right with a big, strong, healthy calf that is well born and ready to start on the way for a good, healthy and profitable animal. There is little to say about teaching the calf to drink milk, for most everybody has had his ups and downs at that, and each has his own way, She Will Return Careful Treatment With Interest. which is always the best. But the calf should in very early life be taught to eat hay and oats. Keep some good, bright clover hay where he can get at it at will. Keep a shallow box of oats where he can nose around it, and if the oats get stale clean out the box and put in a fresh supply. In a very short time the calf will be eating both oats and hay, and after he has learned to eat well you can fool him by skimming the milk-and putting a little water in if milk is scarce. By working him gradually you can work off some buttermilk on him, with other things as well, and he will grow and make a fine animal. Don't turn him out when the first green grass comes, but keep him in a lot or paddock, where he can get exercise and go in the barn when he wants to, and feed him all the good clover hay he will eat in connection with his other feed, and you will have a calf that will "knock the seeks off" any grass fed calf you ever saw. The quarters of the calf should be kept clean at all times. If the bedding becomes soiled a fresh supply should be put in. The quarters, too, should be roomy, airy and light. If the sunshine can stream in all the time, so much the better. Sunshine is a great health promoter for all kinds of young things. Plenty of Water For Calves. Calves, like other farm animals, get thirsty, even though milk forms a large part of their ration. Calves three months of age will drink as much as five quarts of water daily per head. They drink often, slipping a little at a time. A half barrel, cleaned and replenished twice daily, will serve nicely as a water trough. Another good device is an automatic waterer which may be easily cleaned, situated a little above the floor to keep out the litter. Salt is essential to the development of the calf, as of other animals, and should be kept continually available. Give Thought to Feeding. When you are feeding your cows remember that you are indirectly feeding the soil of your farm for larger crops and more general farm profits. It pays well in the end to purchase feeds when you do not grow enough on the farm. Use Tin Milk Pails. Don't use wooden milk pails. Tin makes the best milk containers for any purpose, provided the seams are smooth and there are no sharp angles to catch and hold minute portions of milk in which bacteria can breed. Avoid Nervousness While Milking. Blanketing each cow while milking her will reduce her nervousness and switching while milking. 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It is on a hill the top of which is shaped like a horsehoe, the space between the two horns being represented by a deep ravine. The course runs round the horsehoe, the start being at the end of one horn and the finish at the end of the other. The result of this is that the equestrians who on other courses contrive to see both start and finish by the simple process of riding across while the race is in progress cannot do so at Goodwood. They must elect which they will see and remain there. On the other hand, the course is very easy to follow with glasses. The races as an institution are comparatively modern, but there must have been hunt races and matches on this course since the days of William III, when we hear of the Goodwood hunt as in existence. In 1800, however, the then Duke of Richmond made a new course, which is practically the present one. In 1801 the course was completed, and in order to celebrate this a regular meeting was got up by the duke with the assistance of the hunt and some officers of the Sussex militia and yeomanry, and prizes to the value of about £1,000 were put up. This meant a good sum in those days. This was the first floodwood meeting of importance, and from that year it became an annual event An Amendment: "Are you ready to live on my income?" he asked softly. She looked up into his face trustingly. "Certainly, dearest," she answered. "If—if— "If what?" "If you get another one for yourself—"New York Journal. The Dreaded Doctors "How did you like your dinner?" inquired the epicure. "Well," answered the dyspeptic, "it was admirable in every respect. But my doctor has put me into such an apprehensive frame of mind that whenever I really enjoy eating anything I become utterly miserable." MISS WISE SERVANT. She Was Too Well Posted on the Right of Employer and Employed. "Some girls may be green and easily imposed upon," said the woman, "but just as many more can give their employers points on law. The girl that came to my house the other day from an employment agency knew more in a minute about the rights of employer and employed than I would know in a year. About the first thing she did was to look out at that big hole in the ground at the other end of the lot, where they are preparing to build. She said: "If I should break any dishes while that building is going up you couldn't make me pay for them." "I asked why not, and she informed me that a girl working in a building that is likely to be shaken by blasting is protected by the same rule that governs employees in a dining car. Owing to the insecurity they are allowed $20 a month for breakage. Dishes valued at less than $20 may be smashed with impunity. She gave me a printed account of the trouble of two friends who had thrashed that matter out in court and had been sustained in their contention for a twenty dollar leeway. I didn't employ that girl. I don't want to impose upon any girl, but I didn't want to hire one who knows that she can smash my best dishes up to $20 worth and get off without paying damages."-New York Press. ANCIENT BRIDGES Some Built Before the Christian Era Still Standing in China. Suspension bridges which were built in the time of the Han dynasty (202 B. C. to 220 A. D.) are still standing, striking examples of oriental engineering skill. According to historical and geographical writers of China, it was Shang Lieng, Kaen Teu's chief of command, who undertook to construct the first public roads in the Flowery empire. At that time it was almost impossible for the province of Shenze to communicate with the capital. Lieng took an army of 10,000 workmen and cut great gorges through the mountains, filling up the canyons and valleys with the debris from his excavations. At places where deep gorges were traversed by large and rapidly flowing streams he actually carried out his plan of throwing suspension bridges, stretching from one slope to the other. These crossings, appropriately styled "dying bridges" by early Chinese writers, are high and dangerous looking in the extreme. At the present day a bridge may still be seen in the Shense which is 400 feet long and is stretched over a chaam more than 1,000 feet deep. How those early engineers erected such a structure with the tools and appliances at their command is a mystery, which will probably never be explained. Birds and Insect Life. Men of science are generally agreed that birds are nature's great check on the excess of insects and that they maintain the balance between plant and insect life. Ten thousand caterpillars, it has been estimated, could destroy every blade of grass on an area of cultivated land. The insect population of a single cherry tree infested with aphides has been estimated by a prominent entomologist at no less than 12,000,000. The bird population of cultivated country districts has been estimated at from 700 to 1,000 per square mile. This is small compared with the number of insects, yet as each bird consumes hundreds of insects every day the latter are prevented from becoming the scourge they would be but for their feathered enemies.—Harper's Weekly. A. Paper Restaurant. Hamburg, Germany, has an eating house made of paper. Its walls are composed of a double layer of paper stretched on frames and impregnated with a fire and water proof solution. A thin wooden partition affords further protection from the inclementy of the weather. Roofs and walls are fastened together by means of bolts and hinges so that the entire structure may be taken apart and put together again. The dining room itself measures 80 by 6 meters and is capable of accommodating 150 people. There are twenty-two windows and four skylights, and the heating is done by two isolated stoves. A side erection contains the manager's office, kitchen, larder and dwelling room. The total cost was $850.-Detroit Free Press. His Alternative Even at the tender age of four little Benny was considering his future occupation. "Mamma," he said, "when I'm a man I'm going to have a wagon and drive around collecting ashes." "Why, Benny," exclaimed his mother in horror, "mamma doesn't want her little boy to be an ash man." "Well, then," replied Benny with a very self sacrificing air, "I suppose I could collect swill."—Dellentor. An Anomaly. The average young woman doesn't like to see her thirtieth birthday. Yet when she has seen it she would like to see it again.-Smart Set. The Pets. Wifey at the hotel office)—The clerk says they don't take pets. Algy, so I suppose Fido and you will have to put up in the basement—Life. 8o Feminina. Lottie—I wouldn't be in Kittie's shoes for anything in the world. Hattie—Of course not. They hurt you terribly—Harper's Bazar. OR FIRST MINT. Some of the Rules and Regulations That Were In Force There Over a Hundred Years Ago. The first United States mint at Philadelphia was naturally a very imprecentious affair. The material for coinage was secured from abroad. There was found much difficulty to get any one of experience to operate the coinage, and the salary list of the first mint employees was: David Rittenhouse, director, $2,000 per annum; Tristram Dalton, treasurer, $1,200; Henry Volght, coller, $1,500; Isaac Hugh, clerk, $312. The regular coinage of copper began in 1793, silver in 1794 and gold in 1795. The following curious extracts are taken from the mint rules and regulations of the early days: "The allowance under the name of drink money is hereafter to be discontinued. "The operations of the mint throughout the year are to commence, at 5 o'clock in the morning. "Christmas day and the Fourth of July—and no other days—are established holidays at the mint. "He (watchman) will keep in a proper arm chest, securely locked, a musket and bayonet, two pistols and a sword. "The watchman must attend from 6 o'clock in the evening to 5 o'clock in the morning, must ring the yard-bell every hour and send the watchdog through the yard immediately after ringing the bell." Besides the Philadelphia mint, which is now established in palatial quarters at Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets, there are minks at San Francisco, Denver and New Orleans and an assay office at Carson City. OLD LONDON BRIDGE It Linked the Twelfth Century With the Eighteenth. For centuries old London bridge, with its double row of houses, was the home of generations who lived and traded over the Thames waters. Holborne lived and painted there. Osborne, the prentice lad, leaped through a window in the house of his master, Sir William Hewet, to the rescue of Sir William's daughter, who had fallen into the swollen flood of the river below, and by winning her for his wife laid the foundation of the ducal house of Leeds. Crispin Tucker had his shop on the bridge, to which Pope and Swift and many another author of fame made pilgrimages to purchase books and gossip with the waggish shopkeeper. Crocker's Dictionary was printed "at the Looking Glass on London bridge," and gigantic corn mills dominated the south end of the structure, not many yards from the wonderful Nonsuch House, a huge wooden pile with turrets and cupolas brought from Holland. Such in brief outline was the London bridge which linked the twelfth with the eighteenth century and which when it was on its last toterting legs was removed to give place to its fine successor of our day, the stone in which is said to be "nery" double that employed in building St. Paul's cathedral."—Mountreal Standard. His Danger. In these days of almost pre-eminent German music and musicians it is rather amusing to read the opinions of former generations concerning Teutonic singers. Frederick the Great was so impolitely unpatriotic as to declare that he would rather hear the neighing of a horse than the singing of a German prima donna. Perhaps in his day there was some excuse for such a remark, but the times have changed. There is a diverting anecdote of an Italian who was convinced that no German could sing. A friend induced him to go to the opera where Henriette Sonntag sang. After hearing her first aria the Italian got up to go. The friend urged him to stay, assuring him that he would be convinced soon. "I know it," replied the Italian, "and that's why I go." Doves and Coronations. At the ancient ceremonies of coronation of the French kings after the anointing had been performed some white doves were let loose in the church. This was supposed to symbolize the power of the Holy Ghost in directing the king's actions. A similar idea seems to have inspired all early kings, for among the English regalia is the rod of equity or the scepter with the dove. This is simply a golden rod with a mound at the top, which supports a cross. On this cross is a dove, fashioned of white enamel, with expanded wings. Some fine diamonds ornament the rod in various places. Gender of Garlic. "Why is garlic masculine gender?" asked the man who markets. "It must be masculine because the greengrocers I buy from call it 'he.' They are mostly Italians and ought to know the sex of garlic if anybody does. Of all the vegetables and aromatic herbs I buy garlic is the only one to which masculine virtues are ascribed. Everything else is neuter. To call garlic it would be an insult. The garlic, he is fresh, he is fine, he is cheap, he is dear. Funny, isn't it?"—New York Times. He Had Quit. "You say you have quit smoking?" "Yep; never going to smoke again." "Then why don't you throw away those cigars?" "Never! I threw away a box of good cigars the last time I quit smoking, and it taught me a lesson."—Houston Post. Not what you do. but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.—Studley. : Published - . at 1109 Eye St, N. W., Washington, oe D.C en W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ENneton, D.C, as’ second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months...sccssseeecseseees 1.00 Three months..ccseseseeseeeees 650 Subscription monthly....2-.e4++ 20 BEST TREE IN THE ORCHARD. "There is a disposition on the part of some, and we might say _many colored men, to harass, find fault, and intrigue against such colored oflicials who strive, in so far as they can, to assist the race by connecting’ themselves with churches, societies and enterprises whose aim is uplift for the race. Singularly, those colored men who do the most, make the greatest ef- forts, and really accomplish the most, are the men who must stand the most knocks from their own race. And, the man who holds himself aloof from his people, conneets himself with no society, no church or enterprise, may con- tinue on, uninterrupted, without so much asa kick being registered against him. 1f a man, a colored man, pases for white, absents himself from all gatherings of his pedple, patronizes white restau- rants and barber shops to the ex- clusion of colored like places, and who neither attends or contributes to colored churches, that man is an_-immune against’ faultfinding, and he may serve for an indefinite time without complaint. But after all, and in spite of all knocks,the man who really strives to do something, who knows hi peoplo at all .places qnd_at all times, and who mingles with and becomes a part of his race, is bet: ter for his unselfishness, and. the race, in general, is better for hav: ing him. As you can tell the best tree in the orchard by the number of stones and sticks which lic about it, so you can tell the real race workers by the number of knockers they have. It is well for the race that these men who strive to do for the rate, who lose no op- portunity to assist the race, and who are colored, men in every sense of the word on all ogcasions and in all places, do not become disronniged by the Imocks they receive. Knockers are a species of human beings who can do nothing that is helpful—narrow-brained. selfish misfits in a world of useful activity. If yon would. bring home the wealth of the Indies. you must carry wealth to the Indies. Knockers bring nothing home, be cause they carry nothing with them which is a fair exchange for what they seck. TART AT VY VWC. AL When President Taft appeared at Howard/Theatre last Sunday in the interdst of the Colored Y. M. "C. A. he was greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience of col- ored men. The greeting he re. ceived was sincere, and evidenced how much better the President is ‘now understood by colored men. ilis remarks were earnest and as “sincere as the greeting he received as President Taft becomes better understood. it is realized that his intentions, his aim, and his pur- pose is to better the conditions of the race in every respect as he sees the needs. And what an inspiration: is an audience, to a man who desires to be of real benefit, such as was resent to grect and hear the President. It was a fine body of intelligent, earnest, men. They were men who are deeply inter: ested in the betterment of their own race. On a hot day like last Sunday afternoon, when the ther. mometer registered neazly a hun- dred in the shade, for men to turn ont in numbers to fill so spacious an auditorium as Howard Thea- tre, no further proof is needed to show how earnest they are’ and how appreciative they are of the President’s efforts to render the race a real service. Down in his heart, William Howard Taft has a desire and a purpose to be of real bensficiel| service to this race of ours. Ev- erything he does, and everything he says is meant for the people, all the people, whom he fedls, and rightly, too, he must serve with as little regard for factional differ- ences or race differences as is pos- sible. Those who have his eonfi- dence, and know well his intent, know that his paramount aim is to secure the greatest good for all with the least possible friction, It was a compliment to the race that he appeared fo address the colored people last Sunday, and the race appreciates his eiforts, and especially his efforts directed toyards the completion of so worthy an institution as the Y.M. C. A, whose purpose is'the moral and religious uplift and _better- ment of men. “PASSING STRANGE. aimong the most insistent col- ered men for office under Presi- dent Taft are those who, prior to his nomination, after his nomina- tion, and since could find no‘words m the English vocabulary sufli- ciently strong to denounce him. Men who were at Chicago in the vanguard of the little army of grafters, who for pride, were meeting, resoluting, and vocifer- ously denouncing him, are now the most pressing for office. And they want no ordinary office, but want the best. ‘They ‘are willing, and anxious, to push aside those col- ored men who bore the brunt of the battle, and who were the ob- ject of thelr denunciation and vil- ification because, forsooth, they es- poused the cause of Mr. Taft, in order to make comfortable berths for themselves. But favors do not go to enemies, and blessings do not fall upon vilifiers. It is not the loyal men who are loudest in their demands that all loyal men be counted, but it is the insurrectos who are demanding, when an of- fice is in sight, that they, the paid insurrectos, stand up and_be counted for the few places which usually go to men, stanch and true. But. were these insistent, clamorous Negro paid insurreetos all men of ability, we might pos- sibly excuse their insistence; but when men who are almost illit- erates, men who are little Jess thin mere wardheelers and paid go-be- tweens, aspire to positions which call for brains, tact and ability, it is passing strange that real col- ored men should stand for them. But some colored men, just like some white men, do not appear to Imow their limitations. + They only have brass ehough to rush in where angels fear to tread. ‘THE SOUTH. It is gratifying to the Bee to be able to state that the conditions in the South are improving. While the “Jim Crow” car law is still in vogue, many with whom we have talked seem to appreciate the enactment of such a Ler: We find that it is the lazy class of in- dividuals that keep the more in- dustrions class down. The Bee be- lieves that the day will come when race prejudice will be entirely wiped out. There seems to be a more friendly feeling existing be- tween the more highly educated class in the South. Race preju- dice will continue to exist as long as ignorance continies to exist. There are a great deal of im- provements being made through- out the South, and the colored American is. being benefited by them. The’ colored Americans South, notwithstanding their im- pediments, are succeeding, TIIE PENSION BILL. it is beheved that the board of Education will succeed in passing the teachers’ pension bill. The teachers in our schools deserve more cons:deration than they re- ceive. There are hundreds of teachers in our schools who are ansiously waiting for the passing of the bill, It is hard to force a teacher to give up his <chool on account of old age. A. teacher should be encouraged, no matter how old he is. We should not dis- respect old age. Old age-is hon- orable. We have never thought that the teacher received enough money. Teaching is hard work, and ‘those wha don’t think so should try it once. A THIGH TRIRDTRE ‘ ‘That was a high tribute which Mrs. Mary E. Higginson, widow of the late Col. Thomas W. Tig- ginson, paid Dr. Booker T. Wash ington when she invited him to serve as one of the honorary pall- bearers at the funeral of her late husband. ‘The other honorary pallbearers wero the foilowing: — President Charles W. Eliot, President A. Lawrence Lowell, former Gor. John D. a Charles Francis Adams, Dr. Edward Emerson, George F. Mifflin, Rev. Edward Cummings, and Col. N. P, Hallo- well. * ——- | Yes, it's hot. . | But there's a hotter place. * Candidates for the Haitian mis- sion are Hot tumols, . : | With both Judge Terrell, and “ye editor” invading the South, it’s “likely to be dull here this weeks. “Dr, Kelly Miller, Enyoy Es- traordinary and Minister Plenipo- tentiary to Haiti.” That sounds pet And stranger things have happened, too. . Lewis Johnson is certainly the unadulterated article when it comes to Keeping the Y. M. C. A. movement alive and aflame with enthusiasm. Tlere’g a recipe for comfortable- ness during these hot days: Keep busy, mind your own _ business, speak well of your “fellow-man, and refrain from knocking. Judge M. W. Gibbs has reduced to a science this thing they call longevity. The Judge takes life easy, has a kind word for every man, never knocks—just boosts, ‘and lives the simple life, Tence his eight and eighty ripe, full years of contentment. The Iligh School Cadets? drill last Thursday week was a_Dril- liant spectacle, and the young fel- lows who drilled covered them- selves with glory. "The Bee, with all the race, ig proud of our col- ored cadets. ‘They are embryotic soldiers with the discipline of sea- soned warriors, thanks to Major Brooks, incomparable training. EDITOR CHASE HERE. ee eT aR PE en This Town, From the Durham, N. C, Daily Heraid. Euhtor W. Calvin Chase, who issues the Washington Ree weekly, is in Durham until Thursday and’ is at- tending the commencement at the Na- tional Religious Training School. ‘A writer in the class of Thomas For- tune and one of the-ablest newspaper men of his race, minus“the prophets of eternal hopelessness, is Editor Chase. OF Jack Johnson physique and more inclination to fight the dev- ilish things that deserve to die, Editor Chase, makes The Bee a power of good ‘and; writes good stuff every week, He lives in, Washington, and many things there fleck him on the raw, for which he makes frequent and lusty kicks. The hardest raps that Dr. Du Bois receives are from Chase's stinging Bee. _ He thinks well of Durham, “The ‘white people are treating the colored people finely here,” he said, and he will write of it in his National orgar when he retutns. Just at this time Durham is gaining a publicity thar i badly needs. There has been not a little of blind tiger news and things that hurt. Booker T. Washington has written gloriously of Durham, Dr W. E. B. Du Bois has found here the ‘one hopeful sign on earth, and Editor Calvin Chase will top them both in hhis several accounts. : ; Honorary Pallbearer. Boston, Mass., May 13—The long friendship which existed between_Dr. Booker T. Washington, of the Tus- kegee Institute, and the’ late Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson was emphasized by the following telegram sent by Mrs. Mary E. Higginson to Dr. Washington after the death af Colonel Higginson: “Can you serve as honorary pall- bearer at Colonel Higginson's funeral. Cambridge, Mass. Friday. 4 o'clock? MARY E. HIGGINSON.” Dr, Washington's response to Mrs. Higginson’s telegram was as follows: ‘Charlottesville, Va, May 10, 19rT. “Yrs, Mary. E.’ Higginson, Cam- bridge, Mass.: #Your telegram reaches me on my way South. But for fact that definite and positive engagements absolutely forbid my being in Cambridge on Fri day I should be very glad to act as honorary pallbearer. I regret my ab- sence more than I can explain, I had the very deepest respect and love for Colonel Higginson. He was one o} the greatest benefactors of my race. and we shall always treasure his memory. ~CROOKER T. WASILINGTON.” Rev. S. Geriah Lampkins Resigns. The regular business meeting of the Tenth Street Baptist Church was held Friday, May 19. for the purpoxe ‘of considering the resignation from the pastorate of the church of the Rev. S. Geriah Lampkins.” Alter long consideration the con: gregation agreed to accept the resig- nation, to he immediately effective, and the pulpit was declared vacant. At the same meeting it was decided to reorganize the Board of Trustees, Rev. Lampkins relinquishing his membership thereon. Both measures were adopted without a dissenting voice. Rev. Lampkins remains a member of the church. + Dr. Morse. Talking about enterprise, Dr. John W. Morse, the well-known druggist at the corner of roth and L streets, hac made a purchase of a large lot near his present store, where he intends to build a large, up-to-date drug store Tt will be the largest in the city and far superior to any in the West End Dr. Morse is an enterprising druggist in the city. The Bee extends its con- gratulations to this enterprising young man, Public Men. And Things Last Sunday, when the mercury in the thermometer was doing a Jack the Steeple Climber act by’ painting the flagstaff a lurid heated color, and ay wile was out gathering coupons for Rev. Rivers, I hied myself to my library and tummaged among my books surcised with knowledge. Now, my library never had a patron like ‘Steel King Carnegic, so it consists of about only a dozen or so stray books —mostly borrowed books. I read up on a lot of archaological rummies who flourished prior to the time when colored mien were free moral agents. I scanned the life of old Gesenius, and Gervinnus; speculated a little ‘with old Habakkuk, and Hammann, and reflected upon’ the accomplishments of that senile’critter known in history as Harpocration. Of course, there was method in my madness. "I was trying to discover some mummified apostate who knew more than our ‘own Jesse Lawson. Take it from me, that ‘not one of the past factotums who existed during or after the stony age, knew one-tenth of what Jesse knows. Compared with Prof. Jesse Lawson, the wonder of the nineteenth century, and then some, these old sagebrush savants were but one hun- dred to one shots. Jesse Lawson is in a class all by his lonesome. When the Great Master decided to produce an everlasting wonder, He spread a little salve on a palm leaf, put the whole contraption in an incubator, and in due time Jesse Lawson kicked himself into fame and notoriety. Jesse Lawson is the great organ- izer whose works exist in imagination, He's the greatest Bible student and expounder since Moses handed down a few tombstones upon which were written a few hierogliphics that have since been deciphered as command- ments. He has organized some kind of a Chautauqua, with himself as the whole show, for the purpose of sfumt- gating the race, with his eruditeness, but at last accounts the membership was composed only of the officers, and the_officers consisted of lonely Jesse. Did you ever talk to Jesse? Well,,of course you have if you ever met him, for Jesse lets no guilty man escape, And’ he can talk some, too. I met him one morning before break- fast, and he stopped me, saying he just wanted to say a word to me. Well, that word was the longest 1 ever encountered, fur the shades oi night were gathering iast when Jesse et me go. He's something like a tur- tle. You know, when a turtle bites he never remembers that expressive word, “stop.” or “let go.” There was a tinie when Jesse wanted to be a member af the faculty of Howard University. The only reason they failed to elect Jum was that the school hours are limited to about six -hours a day. Now, Jesse could never un- Toad his brain in six hours, I forget just what Jesse wanted to teach: how- ever, it was some very deep subject. Jesse is long on deep things. so darned long, that he tires you. When T see Jesse and his wnbrella—he's never without that rain-protector, I am al- ways reminded of Alpha and Omega =the beginning and end, because Jesse is so different’ from either. But Wo you know that Prof. Jesse Law- son, who operates the Pension Office on the installment plan, is a kattydid? That hairless dome of his was early filled with an assortment of knowl: edge that is the real stuff. Those huge spectacles of his «shade a_ pair of eyes that are always searching in: to the depths of the mystic romance of the future, and that slow, dray- horse movement of his is indicative of mental wealth. Jesse Lawson is not properly understood, and there: foré docs not get his proper rating One of these days he'll prove to 3 waiting world ‘that, unlike his name- sake, Thomas Lawson, he's not all wind, but that he possesses a-panacda for a lot of ills, and a recipe for 3 whole lot of good knowledge anc moral uplift. Keep your green gor gles on Jesse. | I see, or rather I hear, that Dr Wilder is after the Haitian Minister: ship. Now, “after” is a good and ex pressive word. Just what the crear colored physician wants with it de poneth sayeth not. It may be thal the Doctor desires to introduce tota abstinence on the island. You know the Docfor is ‘a crank on temperance Why, he wouldn't drink a fizz if i had So much as a quarter of a dran of Kentucky distilled ‘rye in it, He just naturally refuses that "Sever Nights in a Barroom” liquid. How: ever, if you should drop 2 piece .o money ina glass and then fill it with red sourmash, I'll bet you th Harriman estate that the Doctor wil get that piece oft money by fai means, if he can, ot by dissipating the red fluid, if he must. But don’ you know, Dr. Wilder wouldn't mak a bad Minister. He's cautious enous! not to declare himself, and he’ shrewd enough not to. acknowledge it if he did declare himself: As pohtician, though, he's only of th mushroom growth, In 1908 he saun tered into the political ring and es Serie yg agg toegestaan prize, you can wager your last simol- ean that he'd never make any of us ashamed of his administration. Clear- headed as a Presbyterian minister, careful as an ostrich when setting on a dozen eggs, clean as a hounds tooth, clever as the form of a pretty chorus girl, and as bright as a new silver dollar just from the mint, there are no bugs on the Doctor, And he's a fine looking chap, too. ‘Much bet- ter looking than his picture. Can't any one sty Dr. Wilder has not made @ Success of life. He's cornered suc- cess, and bet that old tintype of yours, he'll keep it cornered. Go it, Doc. You arg all wool and one full yard side in any country. , William Calvin Chase, the sage who issues news, accompanied with a rain check, from 1109 Eye Street, packed his trunk Saturday and " headed straight for Dancy"s. State. where he will confer, and _incidentaily extract, with and from Dr. Shepard. I met him at the station, just as he rolled up in a taxi, and Tet me tell you, he looked some pumpkins. The old edi- tor was dressed witlin one inch of his life. In his trunk, besides his dress suit, five change of underwear, 16 collars, and a recipe for getting the geld, he had several writeups that are worth something to a long-headed fellow. When the waiters, attend- ants and traveling public saw Chase enter the station’ waiting room te take his train, all gave him the grand salaam, and ail took him for a Rajah of some country in the vicinity of Persia. Your Uncle Calvin went traveling in style, too. Had a state room, and all that goes with one, and had a few sultry dollars in his trou. ser pockets. I'll bet when he strikes Durham, N. C., he'll make the natives of that tobacco berg know that he’s with them, and I'll bet Dr, Shepard will know it, too, before Calvin char. ters a special train for his return Your Uncle Calvin is no Baha fol: Tower—that's too slow. He's what you might call a resumptionist, al- Ways in favor of resuming payment on any basis. Funny about big Bil [Chase—we old timers call him’ Bill, you never saw, him when he couldnt ‘make a riffle. ®Never saw him when he didn't look prosperous. Never saw him when he couldn't call your hand. He's atways next. “THE POWER-OF SPIRIT” SCO, oan sere aes. See See Oe Thursday, May 11, contains a signifi- jcant editorial. It'is an editorial de- tailing how a girl in the South who is being educated at a school founded and conducted by one of Booker T. Washington's graduates “swept the boards” in a contest with all the ne- gro colleges and universities of Mis- sissippi recently. But we will let the editorial speak for itseli. The. Age says: | Two wecks ago more than a thou- sand people gathered in the American Theater, in Jackson, Miss,, to witness an oratorical contest. Not since Jeems Katydid Vardaman first dropped from the glorious dews of Letlore has any- things stirred the people of this quiet ol Commonwealth as this contest stirred them. Excursions were ar- ranged frdm nearby towns, and edu cators from afar gathered to hear the orators of to-morrow give a, sign to- day as to the well-being of the great- est art in the future. Juuges were picked with care, and the places of the orators were chosen with. stern dignity. Tt was an oceasion in the life of the State. ‘The leading colleges sent their star- talkers to compete in a talking-fest \Tougaloo, Natchez College, Jacksor College, ‘Rust University—all__ th [gusts lent watchmen, and “thei Keepers had seats on the platform Great was the enthusiasm as cact speaker, under his title, dresse thoughts in. wondrous words an sent. them ringing down the ages ‘In the midst of the program a girl, ; plantation girl, was presented. She came to speak for Utica Institute, the one school represented on that occa sion that makes no pretense at “col lege training.” She chose for hei subject “Ye Are the Salt of the Earth.” Her manner, her specch, it dress and power, captivated the audi ence as she proceeded. A homely subject she graced with all the faiti [of a struggling and determined youth jOne sentence plucked the sltonor “Often do I contemplate the charac ter of great ,Eliot, the New. Englanc scholar, who discovered the truc usagé of knowledge, and gave Har. vard its curriculum. ' But there is an other in whose fame I find my hope that Merino-haired negro working ou! God's plans in iron-belted Alabama.’ This simple girl touched ‘the spirit o the present, and defined the awaken ing of her race. First prize she wor by a unanimous yote. . Here was a girl from an “indus trial” school, as they call it, pitter Jagainst strong young men from five “colleges” in a contest of thought How. or why she won seems to he mystifying to many in her State, Bui not to us. She was a child of the spirit; her competitors children of the letter. She learned her lessons from one who had caught the inspiratior of a useful life from Booker Wash ington, a master mind working un der the spirit. Education is not let ters, but spirit, which produce: thought and gives to it a moving speech. The erudite Paul, aroun whom is built all the logic of Chris tianity, had great learning, and wa proud ‘of it, talking of it often ane withgu} reserve. But when he reached the eltd of his recital it was Gamalie to whom he turned to prove his pow- ers. At Gamaliel's feet he had sat. To have sat in humility at the foot of Booker T. Washington, “a master spirit for the Nation's need,” as Holtzclaw did, and as many another has done, is to have caught the spirit of education, and to. have caught ehough of it'to give it freely to all who may seek it. The girl from Holtzclaw’s school simply, got down to the fundamentals and without any sophistry talked ap- parently in a_ sensible, whole-souled way, and simply “put to the bad” the colleges and universities which sent representatives to engage in the con- test with her. PS, A. L. Notes. Every school of more than two rooms was represented on the base- ball field by 2 team which entered a tournament for the championship of the 12th and 13th divisions, Chair- man Keyes, of the 12th D. A. L. Games Committee, reports that after the elimination series was played, the Alited Jones School, of which Miss Chase is principal, won, The final |game was played with Deanwood School, and after a lively contest, \Jones conquered by the scare of 10 President Clarke, of the 13th D. A. L,, has received the report of Chair man John Syphax, of the Games Com- | mittee, that Bell School fas caprocd ithe championship of that division. Coached by Mr. Ferdinand Amos, the Bell School team has a clean slate, winding up ats season with a victory over Birney School, of Anacostia, which . displayed excellent. form throughout the season, and by many were considered the best team, Chait man Wilkerson, of the rth Division League Games Committee, and Chair man Guy, of the 10th D. AL. Games Committee, are still in the midst of their tournaments. As soon as the champions of these two leagues are decided, the P. S. A. L. Games Com- mittee will arrange the championship series between the four, division win- ners. A serial championship, instead of an climination series, will be played. Alfred Jones School boys played an open-air ‘basketball game with Ban- neker boys and were defeated by the score of 14 to 4. The Banneker boys Were stronger and more experienced, while Jones boys have only recently re- ceived any instructions in basket ball. An excellent spirit exists among the pupils of Jones School, as was evinced during the entertainment and game last week. Miss Chase re- marked that the discipline is made easier and school pride has been greatly enhanced, due to the introdue- tion of school athleties in her school. Principal M. E. Gibby, of Stevens School, not oniy. hias developed school pride and athletics in her school for boys, but has planned to bave girls get the benefits of athletic games properly governed. Tenms, thetber ball, volley ball and basketball are some of the games introduced. Dr. Gibbs on oie occasion doubted the ability to give time to the encourage- ment of school atlileties, but no sehool has done more to develop opportuni ties for healthy growth of the moral and physical condition of school pu- pils than has this principal Her teachers, all ladies, and Mr. Smuler, have worked hand in hand in inter- ested fashion for results. Now that the drill is over. track athletics of the local high schools will don running togs and put on finishing touches for the coming meets during the next 60 days. The big champion- ship meet on May 30 will test the prowess and skill of athletes im this section of the country. Harry Browne, the premier. quarter miler of Brook- lyn, N. Y.. will be on hand to match his running with the fleet Desmind, of Howard University, in a match quar- ter-mile feature. "Dunbar Athletic Club, of Haltimore, will send over 2 score of seasoned and promising ath- letes who will try, to duplicate theic performances of past seasons. ‘ Lincoln University will probably be represented by some sterling run- ners. The officials will all be experi- enced men, which insures smoothness in running the meet. The officials are: Referee. G. C Wilkinson; starter, H. G, Dougkss: clerks of the course, R. N. Mattingly and J. Clifford; scorers, W. L. Smith and RR. Green: timers, E. Marshall, W. Giles: B, Washington: judges of “track, Hon. W. A. Lewis, EC. Wil- sliams, J. E, Walker: field judges, W. yA. Decatur, J. C. Payne. W. Hamil- ton, A. Lewis, J. A. Callis: annown- cers, J. M. Saunders and G. H. Mur- |ray; marshals, .\. C Newman, A. K. | Savoy; inspectors. G. S. Worniley, E. Clark,’ M. Clifford, J. Chestnut; field | pliysicians, Dr. A. M. Curtis and Dr. | M.A. Francis. In charge of elemen- tary school boys: N. L. Guy, J. N. | Wilkerson; general manager, E. B. Eb ctnenie CLOSING SESSIONS HELD. Last Day of Conference of Colored Chuerchmen The Philadelphia’ and Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church began the closing day of its Tabors at 10 a, m, last Monday, with Bishop Walters in the chair.” The presiding elders are Rev. J. A. S Cole. Washington district: Rev. W. H. Chambers, Harrisburg district; Rev. E. H. Curry, Philadelphia dis- trict, The pastors attending the Con- ference preached in nearly all of the local colored churches yesterday. Ar- lington, Va.; Clinton Chapel, Roek- ville, Md., and Pennsylvania ‘Avenue, Zion Church, Baltimore, Md, were also supplied. — The following persons were or- dained yesterday hy Bishop Alexan- der Walters and the presiding elders attending the Conference pow im seo sion at Metropolitan A. M. E. Ziow Church, D Street, Southwest: J, E. Holder, R. T. Taylor," TE. Roack, H. P. “Lankford, J. A. Care W. J: Robinson. Daniel Laundin, John ‘T. Watson, Jannett Johns and G. W. Parker.’ These candidates had fin- ished their third and fourth year. Those who passed the first ang sec- ond year studies and were admitted to membership in Conference were T~ H. Rhodes, J. J. Turner. RL. Bris- coe, Charles B. Ashton and AL E Dyitti, The Men's Working Club of A. M. E. Zion Wesley Church presented a plea to Bishop Walters to return Rev. W. A. Ray as pastor for another year. The resolution will be laid before the Bishop’s Council when it meets .in executive session to-morrow to aid the Bishop in making his appoint- ments. FIGHTING BRETHREN, Church Mortgage to Pay for Church - Quarrel. The Mount Olivet Baptist’ Chureh, a Negro congregation, got permission from Supreme Court Justice Bischoff yesterday to mortgage its property at 159 ta 163 West 53d Street for $4,009 to. pay the expenses af three years’ litigation due to the efforts of dissat- isfied members of the congregation to compel. the trustees to dismiss the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, the pastor. The church hopes to have enough left from the proceeds to put a new roof on the building—New York Sun. The Week in Society The lure of Spring is bringing hundreds of happy promenaders along the popular Fourteenth street thoroughfare, and as usual, they fall in at the drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912½ Fourteenth street, "the place where everybody meets everybody else," or you see them enjoying those delicious sodas at Ninth and You streets, the popular "Lookout Corner" of Board & McGuire. Mrs. Barbara Oliver, of Connecticut, who spent the Winter in this city the guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mrs. H. E. Toppen, of 45 Hanover Street, has returned to her home after a pleasant stay. Mr. Alfred W. Topper, Jr., who has been confined to his home on account of sickness, is now out again. The marriage of Miss Roberta Scott and Mr. James Wood took place at the bride's parents on New Jersey Avenue, Northwest, Wednesday evening. Judge Robert Terrell delivered the commencement address at Tuskegee Institute on Thursday. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Miss M. Josephine Golden and Mr. Frederick Morton to take place June 6. Mr. Louis H. Fisher left the city this week for Newark, N. J., and Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Fisher will return next Fall. The May cantata "Queen o' the May," presented by the Sundayschool of Asbury M. E. Church last Tuesday evening was a grand success. The large audience thoroughly enjoyed the performance. Refreshments were served under the direction of the Queen Esther Circle. The St. Luke's Sundayschool is preparing for its annual outing at Washington Park on June 21. Full particulars will appear in our advertising columns. Dr. J. W. Morse has the gem drug store in the northwest. Prescriptions carefully compounded by registered clerks. Miss Margery Hubbard, of Denver, Colo., is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Conner. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dudley are the guests of Mrs. Thomas Watson. Miss Gertrude Ryan is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Robert Givens, of 418 West 155th Street, New York City, N. Y. Miss Julia M. Jones and Mrs. Lilian M. Webster, of Baltimore, Md., were the guests of Mrs. Garner Mahoney on last Sunday. Mr. William Cornish has returned to Baltimore after a delightful visit to this city. Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, of Harrisburg, Pa, has come to this city to reside permanently. Mr. John Royer, of Williamsport, Pa. was here on a visit last week. The Reys, John Fisher, W. H. Marshall, E. D. W. Jones, Thomas Smith and John Quincy Adams, of Harrisburg. Pa. were here last week in attendance to the Conference of the A. M. I. Zion Church. Miss Lotte Parker, of Rochester, N. Y. was here last week. Dr. Morse has the finest assortment of candies and toilet articles that can be purchased anywhere in the city. Mrs Sadie Dade is visiting, her father, Rev. Green, in New Orleans, La. Miss Helen Jackson, who was royally entertained during her stay in this city, has returned to her home in Chicago, Ill. Mr James Reese Europe is spending several days here with his fami- The annual commencement of the School for Trained Nurses of Freedrens Hospital, was held at Andrew Rurkin Memorial Chapel on last Friday night when Misses Clara E. Lockburn, Eva Virginia Clay, Edna Coates, Emily Estella Green, Nara Elizabeth Grisby, Florence M. Larrie, Jennie C. Hopkins, Bessie D'Patton, Ida J. Piper, Mac Irene H. Nettie Bentley Stevens, Lula E. Estine Thompson and Martella M. York were awarded diplomas. Mr J B. Seales, of Mt. Holly, N. J. the guest of Capt. and Mrs. E. L. Webster. Dn't pass Morse's Drug Store, at Neteenth and L streets northwest. Rv Henderson, of Atlantic City. N J was in attendance here last week at the Conference. Mrs Martha Henry, formerly of the city will visit Mrs. Hiram H. P. of 1018 20th Street, very soon. Stars better known as Miss Martha Cray formerly a famous worker in the 19th Street Baptist Church. Rv W A. Rice, a graduate of Lin- ncoln University, has just returned to the city after a very pleasant visit to Charite, N. C., where he visited rela- tions and friends. Mr Frank S. Tucker, accompanied by Lawyer Walter Land and Mr. David Brewer, of Norfolk, Va., are visiting friends here. Mr George Robinson, of this city, is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Margaret Randall, in Pine Street, Suffolk Va Dr G W. Miller, of 3552 Forest Avenue Chicago, Ill., is here on a six weeks' visit. During his stay he will pursue a post course in surgery. Col H. L. Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, was in Atlanta, Ga., last week Dr. Morse, who has the finest drug store in the West End, also has the best prescription compound. Dr. Morse, who is also a registered pharmacist, never makes a mistake. Call 19th and L streets northwest. Mrs. Gertrude Webb and son, Charles, of Dodge City, Kan., are visiting here. Mrs. Florence Harris Young, who was called to Mobile, Ala., because of her brother's illness, has returned to this city. $ ^{8} $ Mrs. J. Edgar Dibble, of Kansas City, Mo., is in the city attending her mother, who is sick. Miss Lucille Hamilton Nooks, of Nothing funny about it. People just like to deal at the drug stores of Board & McGuire at 1912½ Fourteenth street northwest and at Ninth and U streets northwest, two places "where everybody meets everybody 1314 V Street, Northwest, contemplates a visit to Ohio, covering Wilberforce University, Dayton, Columbus, Springfield, Ohio, and Richmond, Va. Messrs. James A. Wright and Carl J. Murphy will go to Cambridge, Mass, next year to study. They are in the Howard College graduating class. Mr. W. H.Sykes, of the office of the Auditor for the Navy, has just returned from a business trip in Savannah, Ga. Col. James H. Young, of Raleigh, N. C., visited his daughter, Miss Maude Young, of Howard University, last week. Mrs. E. V. Hollin, of Linden Street, Northeast, is visiting relatives in Jersey City. Mrs. Cora Pinson has returned to her home in Jersey City, after a pleasant stay of three weeks here. Everybody meets everybody else these beautiful warm days at the popular drug stores of Board & McGuire, at 1912 1-2 14th Street, Northwest, or at their "Busy Corner," at Ninth and U Streets, Northwest, two places for the most delicious ice cream soda in the city. Mrs. Henry Pratt, of Macon, Ga., arrived here this week to attend the graduating exercises of Howard University where her daughter, Miss Nellie, finishes this term. Before returning home they will visit Norfolk, Va., and Chattanooga, Tenn. On Wednesday, May 31, Prof. Roscoe C. Bruce will deliver the commencement address at the Georgia State Industrial College. Mr. W. W. Fraction, who has been indisposed for several weeks, is about again, to the great pleasure of his fraternal and other friends. Dr. John W. Morse, of the Gem Drug Store, at Nineteenth and L streets northwest, has everything that a first-class druggist possesses. Drop in. The male chorist of Galbraith will sing several selections at the Palm Garden opening of the Porter's Exchange next Monday evening, May 29. Several members of this popular chorist singers are friends of Mr. Redmon, the proprietor, and wish to compliment him on the changes and splendid manner the house is being run. Bring your job work to The Bee office, or address W. Calvin Chase, Jr., 1109 Eye street N. W., or 1212 Florida avenue N. W. Pastor's Reception A reception was tendered Rev. W. S. Jackson, pastor of Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, at the church last Tuesday evening, in honor of his faithful services. A large number of members and friends were present. A rally has been planned in which the membership has been divided into clubs. West Washington News. The sacred musical with popular readings at Mt. Zion M. E. Church Sunday evening last, under the auspices of the Trustees' Voluntary, was largely attended, and the following program elicited great applause, which was acknowledged by the waving of handkerchiefs and programs as the numbers were rendered, and the circle, under the management of Mr. Jas. L. Turner, are to be congratulated upon the presenting of such a rare musical treat. The program was highly appreciated by those present, and following was the program: Program—Part I. I. Chorus, "Scattering Sunshine" (Geibel), Junior Choir. 2. Solo, "The Publican" (Von Dervater), Mr. Wm. H. Carter, Jr. 3. Duet, selected, Misses N. Ballard and L. McDaniel. 4. Reading, "The Madonet at Palos," Mrs. Jennie B. Browne. 5. Solo, "Eternal Rest" (Piccolomine) Mrs. Nora, M. Duguid 3. Cole, Bernie M. (Record minc). Mrs. Nora M. Diuguid. 6. Cornet solo, selected, Mr. Wm Calvin Chase, Jr. 7. Chorus, "O Lord Most Merciful' (Conere au Williams). Junior Choir Part II. 1. Solo. "Behold the Master" (Hammond). Mr. Scott Mayo. 2. Duet and Chorus, "Heavenly Rest" (Geibel), Junior Choir. 3. Solo, "Eternity" (Lloyd), Mrs. Ethel Parrott Pope. 4. Reading, "The Legend of the Organ Builder," Mr. James Sewell. 6. Chorus, "Jerusalem," adopted by Rossine au William, Junior Choir. 7. Solo, "The Lord Is My Light" (Liddle), Mr. Wm. H. Carter, Jr. 8. Recessional (standing), Junior Choir. 9. Benediction, Rev. D. W. Hayes. Echoes of the Musicale. The solos of Mrs. Norah M. Diuguid and Mrs. Ethel Parrott Pope were the charming events of the evening. The duet of Miss M. Ballard and I. McDaniel was carefully and well sang. Mr. Scott Mayo sang in a very pleasing manner. Mr. Wm. C. Chase, Jr.'s cornet solo was a master fete of musical ability, and the graceful touch of Miss Chase, his sister, on the piano who accompanied him, was loudly applauded. Mr. Wm. H. Carter, Jr., was never better prepared to please his hearers, and the two selections were one of the greatest hits of the musicale. Mrs. Jennie B. Browne and Mr. James Sewell place themselves among the leaders in the amateur art of recitations and kept the audience spellbound during their recitals. Mr. Louis N. Brown, the accomplished young organist of Mt. Zion M. E. choir played Sunday evening like a veteran organist and received numerous congratulations after the musicale. The Junior Choir chorus work was more than commendable to their worthy instructor, Mr. James T. Beason, who has one of the best junior choirs in the city. The musicale is to be repeated early in the Fall and will be an acceptable musical feature in this session. Rev. E. E. Ricks is to be congratulated upon the success of the First Baptist Church rally on Sunday last. Eleven hundred dollars was realized, and it is expected to reach the twelve hundred dollar mark Sunday. A song service was given at the Berean Baptist Church on last Sunday evening under the auspices of Mrs. F. F. Weir's Sundayschool class. The following program was rendered: Organ Voluntary ..... Selected Mrs. C. C. White. Invocation ..... Rev. D. F. Rivers Trio, "Cujus Animan" ..... Rossini Mr. H. L. Jeter, Miss A. L. Williams, Mr. F. F. Weir. Soprano, "Sing, Smile, Slumber," / Gounod Miss M. Nicholas (With Violin Obligato.) Violincello, "Nocturne, Opus 9." Chopin Mr. H. L. Jeter. Recitation, "A Tale of Temptation," Mrs. Emma Lee Williams. Violin, "Romance".....Wieniawski Mr. E. F. Weir. Baritone, "There is a Lane Mine Eyes Have Seen" .....Crowninshield Me, F. Clayton Mr. E. Clayton Terry Trio, "Serenade" Schubert Mr. H. L. Jeter, Miss A. L. Williams. Mr. F. F. Weir. Benediction. A silver offering was lifted. This service was liberally patronized. HOWARD ALUMNI TO MEET. Exercises of Unusual Interest Arranged for Alumni Day at Howard University. On Tuesday, May 30, the General Alumni Association of Howard University will hold its annual reunion exercises under exceptionally favorable circumstances. The entire day will be devoted to the interests and entertainment of the alumni, and is termed Alumni Day. Because of the fact that the exercises occur on a holiday an unusually large number of old graduates are expected to participate. The business session will be held at 10 a.m. Important matters will come up for discussion and settlement. The annual address will be delivered by Dr. Herbert C. Scurlock, 'oo, Professor of Chemistry in Howard University. Professor Scurlock's gifts as a speaker assure a fine address. After this address the alumni will be the guests of the university at luncheon. The afternoon will be spent in viewing the great athletic meet under the auspices of the Interscholastic Athletic Association, at which numerous track and field events will take place. At 8 p. m. the annual alumni dinner will occur. A record-breaking attendance is expected. The campus will be illuminated with electric lights during the evening. There will be band and orchestral music. Subscriptions are already pouring in to Secretary E. P. Davis, '07, of the association. Mr. Robert A. Pelham, '04, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, is prosecuting his tasks with vigor. Professor Kelly Miller, '86, is the association's President. Medical Convention Convenes. Special to The Bee. The State Medical Association of Oklahoma convened in Oklahoma City May 10 and 11. It was a high-water mark for the Afro-American medics of Oklahoma. The house was called to order by the President, Dr. J. T. Jeter, at 9:30 a.m. After the calendered business had been attended to they took up the order of the day. Many helpful papers were read and discussed with interest and enthusiasm. Dr. R. Boyd, the great surgeon of Nashville, Tenn., was present, and delivered a masterful lecture which will never be forgotten by the medical fraternity of this State. Among those who were honored by the association were Dr. R. A. Ransom, of Brooksville, Okla, a negro town with quite an opportunity. Dr. Ransom was appointed by the President to address the students of Douglass High School. He was conveyed in Dr. Slaughter's touring car to the High School building, where he met its faculty of 47 and a large student body. When Dr. Ransom was introduced he shook his knowing head. The great student body was thrown into a quandary. He is well deserving of the high rank that he holds as an orator. Dr. Ransom is one of the most brilliant that ever hauled down the degree of M. 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FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE No. 314 Ninth Street, N. W. Loans made on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. You! Why pay 10 per cent. when you can get it for 3 per cent. K. FULTON tional Medical Association. As a scholarly medic Dr. Conrad goes in droves with the immortal few. He is among the oldest living representatives of the Louisville National Medical College. When the last moments of the association were about to expire Dr. White, a Mehary genius, rose with healing in his wings, and asked for the association to come to Boley in 1912. His request was in commemoration with all. On the eve of the 11th the President appointed the speakers for the banquet: Dr. R. A. Ransom, a toast to the ladies of Oklahoma City, and Lawyer W. M. Harrison, a toast to the visiting ladies. Dr. E. B. Brooks is one of the most popular medics in Oklahoma. He resides in Shawnee, Okla., and enjoys a lucrative practice. He has a wide influence with the State Medical Association and all honor him. Mrs. Dr. Ransom and Mrs. Dr. Brooks were Kentucky comrades. Both were present at the association, and made many friends in the city. The officers for 1912 are as follows: President, Dr. J. T. Jeter, of Oklahoma City; Vice President, Dr. Whitby, of Oklahoma City; Secretary, Dr. Pickens, of Muskogee, Okla.; Assistant Secretary, Dr. Cox, of Luther, Okla.; Treasurer, Dr. Blunt, of Oklahoma City. HAIR VIM. Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman's Success. One of the most talented women of the race is Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman, who is the manufacturer of a hair preparation known as Hair Vim. This preparation is in great demand and she is selling it as fast as it is manufactured. Hair Vim Soap is another selling article. Both the Hair Vim and soap are preparations that Dr. Coleman guarantees. Dr. Coleman is one of the most progressive and accomplished women of the race. She has her place of business at 643 Florida avenue N. W., where she may be seen. Her hair preparations are sold in all first class drug stores. BY THE J.C.C.T.D.A.W. & C. Alvssical and Dramatic Club OF WASHINGTON, D.C. J. J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON One of America's Greatest Composers who will Appear in a new and origi Pianologue Among those who will positively appear are: Aida Overton Walker, J. Rosamond Johnson, Ford Dabney, Harry Burleigh, S. H. Dudley, S. Tutta Whitney, J. Homer Tutt, Andrew Tribble, Arthur Payne, Minnie Brown, Lottie Gee, Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Mrs. Robert Pelham, Edna Gordon, Jacob Jones,and a number of beaux and belles of Washington will participate. Address by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. OFFICERS: R. G. Doggett, President. E. P. Robinson, Chairman Committee. H. D. Hightower, Secretary. C. C. Carter, Treasurer. R. G. DOGGETT, Gen. Manager. Tuesday and Wednesday M Tickets now on sale SIXTH Annual Champ Track & Fie and Wednesdav May 30th ts now on sale Prices $1.00 50c., 25 SIXTH nual Champions ck & Field nesday May 30th & 31st sale Prices $1.00, 75c. 50c., 25c. SIXTH Championship Field Meet Tuesday and Wednesday May 30th & 31st Tickets now on sale Prices $1.00,75c. 50c.,25c. Annual Championship Track & Field Meet TO BE HELD ON HOWARD UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, Tuesday, May 30th, at 1:30. AUSPICES INTER-SCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC For six years the L. S. A. A. has held Cha- in Washington, D. C. In no other place do so opportunities for competition in this world fa- those existing here. Although the efforts began in Washington, in the South and West. Lincoln University ha- ton Institute has started track sport. P. S. A. L., High School and Club Athletes wi- TRACK AND FIELD COM- W. J. Decatur, Chairman J. A. B. Callis G. C. Wilkinson Admission School Children School Tickets not sold at gate. Obtain from Follow the Crowd to Olympia Dancin EVERY MONDAY AND THUR At Coleman's Park Music by the YALE OR GEO. S. KING, General ADMISSION ER-SCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATE mars the I. S. A. A. has held Championship and D. C. In no other place do so many color or competition in this world famed sport there. the efforts began in Washington, the efforts and West. Lincoln University has a Track T has started track sport. high School and Club Athletes will be seen TRACK AND FIELD COMMITTEE, V. J. Decatur, Chairman E. Mars A. B. Callis W. A. J. C. C. Wilkinson Children not sold at gate. Obtain from Principal of Follow the Crowd to the Empia Dancing C MONDAY AND THURSDAY B Boleman's Park 2d Music by the YALE ORCHESTER GEO. S. KING, General Manager ION A. has held Championship Athletic Games either place do so many colored athletes find in this world famed sport equivalent to in Washington, the efforts are taking root John University has a Track Team and Hampk sport. Club Athletes will be seen in competition. D FIELD COMMITTEE, chairman E. Marshall W. A. Joiner E. B. Henderson 25 Cents 15 Cents State. Obtain from Principal of School. In the Crowd to the Dancing Class AND THURSDAY EVENING n's Park 2d St. bet. M & N sts. S.E. me-YALE ORCHESTRA KING, General Manager 10 CENTS INTER-SCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. For six years the I. S. A. A. has held Championship Athletic Games in Washington, D. C. In no other place do so many colored athletes find opportunities for competition in this world famed sport equivalent to those existing here. Although the efforts began in Washington, the efforts are taking root in the South and West. Lincoln University has a Track Team and Hampton Institute has started track sport. R. S. A. L. High School and Club Athletes will be seen in competition L. High School and Club Athletes will be seen in competition. TRACK AND FIELD COMMITTEE. Follow the Crowd to the Olympia Dancing Class EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING At Coleman's Park 2d St. bet. M & N sts. S.E. Music by the YALE ORCHESTRA GEO. S. KING, General Manager ADMISSION 10 CENTS We want our readers to patronize us; it helps all around. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. advertises in this paper, and when you want a first-class dressing for kinky, harsh and unruly hair, go to your druggist's and get a bottle of Ford's Hair Pomade, 25c or 50c a bottle. Northwest Cafe. Have you been to the Northwest Cafe on the boulevard? You should not fail to go there. This is the place to meet your friends and have a good breakfast, lunch or dinner. It is the place to take your family. Ask for Mr. Martin. If you want up-to-date work done at an up-to-date printing office, call or send for estimates. This office never disappoints. All kinds of printing done at the shortest notice. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., manag-, 1109 Eye Street, Northwest. Music Teacher Piano teacher; terms reasonable. Call between 6 and 7 o'clock p. m., at 446 1-2 Franklin Street, Northwest, for further information. The Bee is the paper that you should read. Job Printing. The Making of Lenae. The essential part of any device for the study of the starry millions—the suns, planets, comets and the nebulae that are perhaps new worlds in the making—is the lens or the optical train that consists of a series of lenses. It is this that makes the modern science of astronomy possible. There is absolutely no other human occupation that requires the accuracy of observation and the delicacy of touch that are requisite for the making of the finest lenses. These are the most perfect products of human hands. It may convey some idea of the labor required in the making of a large lens to say that at least one year's time is required for the grinding and polishing of a thirty inch object glass. A little lens two inches in diameter requires the unremlitting care and attention of a skilled workman for two or three days. It is easy, then, to see why it is that even lenses of high class photographic work are costly. A forty inch object glass for a large telescope cannot be made in much less than four years' time, and if everything does not go just right it may require much longer than that—Kansas City Star. Parsian Jasta. An exceedingly ugly man, says the Persian Joe Miller, was once in the mosque, asking pardon of Allah for his sins and praying to be delivered from the fires of hell. One who overheard his prayers said to him: "Wherefore, O friend, wouldst thou cheat hell of such a countenance? Art thou reluctant to burn up a face like that?" Another story the Persian jester tells is that a certain person with a hideous nose was once on a time wooing a woman. Describing himself to her and trying to make an attractive picture, he said, "I am a man devoid of lightness and frivolity, and I am patient in bearing afflictions!" "Aye," said the woman. "Wert thou not patient in bearing afflictions thou hadst never endured thy nose these forty years!" All of which is more witty than kind. ~ Harper's. Bonehans and Wedding Rings. "Here are two wedding rings that I have just made over," said the jeweler. "They are for Bohemian women. They lost their own rings, so they had their husbands' rings cut down to fit. That is a custom in their country. Both husband and wife wear wedding rings there. If the man loses his ring he has to buy a new one, but if the woman loses hers she wears her husband's. I do a good deal of that kind of work. Other women who lose wedding rings just buy another one and say nothing about it, but these women are too conscientious for that. Usually I have to make the man's ring smaller, but once in awhile it has to be spliced to make it fit. The women are always considerably chagrined over the splicing and offer all kinds of explanations to account for their big fingers."—New York Sun. The Roulette Ball. That capricious little ball that decides our fortunes at the ever fascinating game of roulette at Monte Carlo occasionally tiles from the skillful croupler's hand, though not often. One afternoon it slipped from its manipulator's fingers and found its way into an Englishman's coat pocket. So impressed was the Englishman that he promptly lost a couple of hundred pounds. But the little ball once found a far stranger destination than that. Escaping from the croupler's hand, it flew straight into the mouth of a German onlooker, and he was so impressed that he promptly swallowed it—London Brystander. Tea In Paraguay. When the natives of Paraguay drink tea they do not pour it from a teapot into a cup, but fill a goblet made out of a pumpkin or gourd and then suck up the hot liquid through a long reed. Moreover, the tea which they use is altogether different from that which comes from China, being made out of dried and roasted leaves of a palm-like plant which grows in Paraguay and southern Brazil. The natives say that this tea is an excellent remedy for fever and rheumatism. Sparrowgrass. It is stated that a well known riddle was written by a costermonger. The riddle in question is a charade and runs as follows: My first's a little bird as 'ops; My second's neqeilut in 'ay crops; My 'ole is good with mutton chops. The answer, of course, is "sparrow-grass," which the learned Dr. Parr always insisted on using in preference to the politer "asparagus."—London Notes and Queries. A Real Poet. "Poetry," said the literary girl, "is the art of expressing intense feeling in figurative speech." "In that case," replied Miss Cayenne, "the man who writes baseball news is sure a poet."—Washington Star. She Wanted to Know Bridegroom—Now that we are married, darling, we must have no more secrets from each other. Bride—Then tell me truly, Jack, how much did you really pay for that engagement ring? —Illustrated Bita. Bhe Was Numerave "I want a license to marry the best girl in the world," said the young man. "Funny, isn't it?" commented the clerk. "That makes 1,200 licenses for that girl this season."—Philadelphia Telegraph. I do not know of any way so sure of making others happy as of being so myself.—Mr Arthur Helps. the pennies bear portraits of George III, and are dated 1777, the other a portrait of George II, and dated 1742. Andrew Carnegie has given $100,000 more to the original gift of $750,000 for the construction of the handsome home of the Pan-American Union. Mr. Carnegie is hailed as the "great apostle of peace" and "benefactor of humanity" by President Taft. A huge boulder bearing a descriptive tablet of bronze will be unveiled to the memory of Abraham Lincoln on the spot where he stood July 12 47 years after the memorable engagement in which Lincoln played so conspicuous a part. Fifty members of the Cincinnati Commercial Club, who were President Taft's boyhood friends, have announced their intention to come to this city to help President Taft to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his wedding, June 20. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE NEGRO. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday April 17, 18 and 19, 1912. For some years past I have had in mind to invite here from different parts of the world—from Europe, Africa, the West Indies and North and South America—persons who are actively interested or directly engaged as missionaries, or otherwise, in the work that is going on in Africa and elsewhere for the education and upbuilding of Negro peoples. For this purpose it has been determined to hold at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 17, 18 and 19, 1912, a little more than a year from this time, an international conference on the Negro. Such a conference as this will offer the opportunity for those engaged in any kind of service in Af- WORTH ADVERTISING FOR There are 5,499 Negroes employed here in Washington, the Government alone, and these 5,499 Negroes draw the aggregating $3,044,404. These more than three millions are spent right here in Washington, but scattered at hundreds of tradesmen. Is this amount of money willing for? It certainly is, and not even the largest city would refuse to get the big end of it did they know much money the Negroes are really spending. 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In New York City there is great enthusiasm being manifested at St. Philip's Episcopal Church. There has been provided for amusement pool and billiard tables, card rooms, and occasional dances, like many white churches. The plan is meeting with the hearty approval of some and the criticism of others. The colored Americans of Peoria, Ill., are to be rewarded for standing by the Republican ticket. A colored fire company is promised them. Upwards of 100 business and professional colored men are recorded in the business directory of Birmingham, Ala. This shows remarkable progress. Two hundred dollars had to be paid by the Temple Theater of Rochester for violating the Civil Rights law. Mrs. Susan Joyner, a colored lady, was refused admission to occupy a box seat. It was decided that law-abiding citizens ought to be protected by those in authority, and operators of such theaters hereafter shall be punished to the full extent of the law. A gentleman in Rochester, N. Y., has just contributed $10,000 in cash to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. John E. McCrea, who served as Lincoln's personal courier during the civil war times, carrying dispatches between the White House and the front, died last week at his home in New York. Rumor has it that W. T. Vernon, former Register of the Treasury, will be named to fill the diplomatic post which was formerly held by Henry W. Wurniss as Minister to Haiti. Thirty-six new postal savings banks have been established by Postmaster-General Hitchcock to begin operations about June 1. Joseph Cordat, a gardener," of Lenox, Mass., refused an offer of $1,000 for three ancient English pennies which he dug up there. Two of rica, or the countries above mentioned, to become more intimately acquainted with the work and the problems of Africa and these other countries. Such a meeting will be valuable and helpful, also, in so far as it will give opportunity for a general interchange of ideas in organizing and systematizing the work of education of the native peoples in Africa and elsewhere and the preparation of teachers for that work. Wider knowledge of the work that each is doing should open means of co-operation that do not now exist. The object of calling this conference at Tuskegee Institute is to afford an opportunity for studying the methods employed in helping the Negro people of the United States, with a view of deciding to what extent Tuskegee and Hampton methods may be applied to conditions in these countries, as well as to conditions in Africa. It is hoped that numbers of people representing the different governments interested in Africa and the West Indies, as well as representatives from the United States and the countries of South America, will decide to attend this conference. Especially is it utged that missionary and other workers in these various countries be present and take an active part in the deliberations of the conference. It is desirable, in any case, to have a, y suggestions as to what might be done to make the work of the conference more helpful to all concerned. The names of persons who would like to be present, with whom you are acquainted, will be appreciated, and through you they are invited to be present and take part in the deliberations of the conference. Those who come to Tuskegee properly accredited will be welcomed and entertained as guests of the institution, and will be under no expense during their stay here. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Principal, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. River Queen. The River Queen is a safe as well as clean boat. It is the boat for the people. Up-to-date service will be given to all patrons of this boat. Every wharf where the boat lands is safe, and the parks are well lighted and the people well protected from the weather. Select your date now. Office at wharf The Analysis. "Did you have the soil of your back yard analyzed by the agricultural department?" "Yes. They said it consisted largely of glass, tin and putty, with traces of builder's lime, and suggested that it might do to raise a mortgage on"—Louisville Courter-Journal. Great Achievement. "And what do you regard as the greatest triumph of modern surgery?" "Collecting the bills," promptly responded, the great practitioner.-London Spare Moments. "There ain't but one trouble with this here city air," said Uncle Rufe, sniffing the atmosphere speculatively, "it do need ventilatin." — Holland's Magazine. His Reason. "Why do you always leave the house, James, when I begin to sing the old songs?" pouted Mrs Howlit. "Fresh air," said Howlit.—Harper's Weekly He who has the truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.—Ruskin. S=L KIDNEY BLADDER and LIVER Remedy FOR RETENTION AND INCONTINENCE OF WRINE. Inflammation of the Kidneys, Constipation. Pain in the back. It removes Uric acid from the blood, thereby relieving Rheumatism and many other long-standing diseases of the Kidneys & Bladder due from habit-forming drugs. PRICE 50c. Tyree & Co. Druggists S. E. Cor. Wash., D. C. 15th & H st.N.E. Telephone Main 810 CHOICE Wines, Liquors ..and Cigars.. 金 J. H. Kennedy PROPRIETOR OF Special Liquor Sale Every Saturday. A Gastranemle Jev. Of all the superb victuals which, by their great variety and unique collocation, make Maryland the Eden and Arcadia of every man who loves good eating, the planked shad is probably the most powerful and polignant in its appeal to the senses. The wild duck, though it sets the palate to vibrating like an acolliar harp, has no thrill for the eye. It is a small and unlovely bird of a dull color and ungraceful outline. So, too, the diamond back terraplin. It has no more beauty in death than a plate of soup. And certain other exquisite delicatessen, for all their sweetness, do not soothe the sense of smell. Of such are the raw oyster, the boiled hard crab and the Magothy river cabbage. But the planked shad—ah, here we come to a delicacy which enchants us alike through the eyes, the palate and the nosel. As it comes upon the table it has the imperial dignity of a Charlemagne. Its noble head moves one to reverence; the epicycloid curve of its tail is like the curl of a great comber upon a coral beach. And it radiates a perfume as of Araby.—Baltimore Sun. Water Under Dazartz Some of the most curious phenomena of the world are the underground water supplies beneath deserts. In the Rajputana deserts water is held in vast quantities in sandstone beds under the scorched surface and is drawn up from wells sunk into the strata. Bikaner raises its walls in the midst of a weary, almost rainless waste of sand and depends on these hidden clusters for its very existence. Whence it comes, where is the outfall and what quantity runs under the baked sand remain a mystery. In one well at Bikaner it has been ascertained that the water supply is equal to 20,000 gallons an hour, which is held to point to the conclusion that there is an enormous subterranean flow and that the snow fed rivers of the Himalayas must be the source. People in Bikaner say that pieces of wood dropped into one well have come up in another. The idea of an underground river opens up a wide range of possibilities to the imagination.—Times of India. Dashing Into Danger. "When I was younger," a big Broadway traffic cop remarked, "I used to cuss at everybody who insisted on dashing across the street in front of a car or truck. I cuss the act still, but not the person. Fact is, I've learned that a majority of people just can't help it. An approaching vehicle about to cross their path is like a red rag to a bull. It's a sort of challenge, a dare. And the impulse to defeat its purpose can't be controlled. There isn't any plan of action. It's a case of dash first and think afterward, and sometimes, of course, the thinking is done in a hospital. "It's a sort of disease of the nerves. I guess, because the head of a business house will do this fool thing just as quick as his errand boy will. But the cop and the driver are to blame whenever there's a miscalculation."—New York Globe. Fencad In. Near Harvard square, in Cambridge, stands the old elm under which Washington first took command of the American army. Around this tree is an iron picket fence enclosure perhaps a couple of rods across. One night a man who had imbibed too freely stumbled against this circular fence. Grasping one picket after another, he groped his way painfully round and round the outside of the enclosure about a dozen times. Finally he sank down in utter deeppair. "Oh, aln't it awful-fenced in and no gate to get out of it!" said he as a party of students rescued him and took him home.—National Monthly. Memory of Edwin Beeth. My sensor with Edwin Booth was delightful. I found him one of the kindest and pleasantest men of the profession. He also possessed what I consider a great quality—simplicity of manner. Some stars have the idea that it is necessary to be haughty and inaccessible with the members of their companies. They put on alrs. They like to crush their fellow actors and pose as a kind of divinity before them.—From Mme. Modjeska's "Memoirs" in Century. A Story of Robesplierre. The story is told of Robesplierre that at one time when at the height of his power a lady called upon him, beseeing him to spare her husband's life. He scornfully refused. As she turned away she happened to tread upon the paw of his pet dog. He turned upon her and asked, "Madam, have you no humanity?" On the Safe Bide. "May I see my father's record?" asked the new student. "He was in the class of '77." "Certainly, my boy. What for?" "He told me when I left home not to disgrace him, sir, and I wish to see just how far I can go."—Buffalo Express. The Advantage: Tenant—Look here, that house I took from you is extremely damp. House Agent (bluntly)—Well, don't you see the great advantage of that? If it gets on fire it won't burn. Right and Wrong. Things should not be done by halves. If it is right, do it holdly; if it is wrong, leave it undone. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. A really great man is known by three signs—generosity in the design, humanity in the execution and moderation in success.—Bismarck. Happiness In Sleep. I saw once how like sleep was to lie in the deep waters. A man who to my waking eyes looked cold and starved and ragged sat upon one of the benches on the embankment. He was sleeping, and I knew from his face that then at least he did not count himself miserable. But presently a policeman came and shook the sleeper into waking life. Then all the violence of the world seemed to be lat loose upon this wreck of a man. He shook and blinked his eyes and breathed with heavy spasms. It was just as when a fish is caught out of the depth of the sea and suddenly cast into a basket. I have seen mackerel shake and gasp like this poor man suddenly caught up out of the native depths of sleep. Or if you think that a fish thus dying is only an amusing and not a painful sight then think of what it might be if some giant of table could catch us up out of our native air into the space between the stars. Would we not willingly sink back again into the depth of air? So it is when the loud world lets us glide down into sleep.—London Outlook. His Name In the Directory: "One funny thing I have learned about human nature," said the drug store cashier, "is the habit many people have of marking their own names in the city directory. They do that because the directory is the only place where their names ever get into print, and it has such a fascination for them that they can't resist calling attention to it. A funny old man who likes to talk tells me that he has made special trips to different parts of the city just to mark his name in the directories of the neighborhood. He puts a little cross in red ink before it. I asked him what good it did. He said none possibly, although he is a teacher of languages and may get a few calls on account of that queer advertisement. But his is an exceptional case. Not many persons spend time and money hunting city directories, but every time they happen to see a new one they can't help looking up their names and putting some kind of a mark around them." -New York Sun. Mansfield's Coaching. "Richard Mansfield," said an actress who played in his company, "was a great teacher, but terribly relentless. I shall never forget a time when I was playing with him in 'The First Violin.' I could not, strive frantically as I would, do the thing he wanted. He was gentle at first, and then, persisting in my failure, he began to lash and whip and sting me with his words until I thought I should have to run away. In agony of impotent desperation I cried out: "I cannot! Oh, I cannot! "Mr. Mansfield threw up his hands in a gesture of relief, and a smile played about his lips. "Why," he said sweetly, "you're doing the very thing right now. No one on earth could do it better." And then I knew what he meant, and those lines were a triumph to me all that season." —Detroit Free Press. Walking: The Almighty has not freighted the foot with a single superfluous part. Every inch of every foot is meant for use. When a man walks in the right way, speaking literally, the back of the heel strikes the ground first. Then the rest of the heel comes down, after which the outer edge of the foot takes the bulk of the burden until the forward, movement shifts the weight to the ball of the foot and finally to the toes. The ideal step is a slightly rocking motion. At no time should the entire foot be pressed against the ground. Heel to toe is the movement. Try it and see how much farther and more easily you can walk. It's the Indian's way, and what poor Lo doesn't know about footwork can go into the discard.—New York Press. A Lesson With His Autograph An admirer once wrote to Lowell, describing his autograph collection and concluding with the remark, "I would be much obliged for your autograph." The reply came, bearing with it a lesson on the correct use of the words "would" and "should," which deeply impressed itself on the mind of the recipient. 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Lightkeepers are appointed for life. They enter the service between the ages of nineteen and twenty-eight, and their salaries are regulated according to length of service and not according to station. Lightkeepers as well as the other employees of the lighthouse service are pensioned when too old to perform duty. There is a regular lightship service, also for life, and the officers are selected from the men. The men enter between the ages of nineteen and twenty-eight, but must have been at sea. They are then eligible to work up to lamplighter, mate and master. These men are pensioned when too old to serve. BIZET AND HALEVY. The Story of the Origin of a Popular Air In "Carmen." Bizet, the composer of the world famous opera "Carmen," and Halevy, his librettist, once occupied apartments whose outer doors opened on the same landing. As soon as he had finished an air Bizet would hasten to submit it to his neighbor, who subjected it to the most severe criticism. From morning to night the plano resounded in the composer's apartments. One night Bizet finished a dramatic bit in which he flattered himself he had successfully sketched the pride of a triumphant toorader after a successful bullfight. But Halevy listened in silence and showed but a moderate enthusiasm. Bizet, somewhat plued, asked the cause of this coldness. "It's good, I admit," said Halevy. "In fact, it's too good. It lacks movement; it lacks snap—in short, it's not popular enough." "Not popular enough!" shouted the plued composer. "Do you want to write for the slums?" He went out in a huff, but soon relented and in an hour returned with another air. "Listen to this!" said he. "Here is my toreder idea written down to your popular level." It was indeed the song of the toreder and the only one which on the first night received an encore and seemed to move the first night audience from the torror. Speak For Yaucell H. John Speak For Yourself, John. The Lord Leclercet of a century ago had no sons by his first marriage and, being well on in years, was anxious to see his heir apparent, a nephew, happily wedded. His wish was that a charming daughter of his neighbor, the Earl of Albemarle, should be the future Lady Leclercet. With her and her sisters he used to enjoy his morning rides. One morning she came alone, and during the ride he asked, thinking to forward his nephew's interests, "Anne, my dear, how should you like to be mistress of Holkham?" "There is nothing I should like better," she replied. "Then I shall send my nephew William to court you," said the earl, glad that the fates seemed to favor his project. But the lady calmly and gravely answered, "I shall never be mistress of Holkham on those terms." "Why," exclaimed the astonished old gentleman, looking the lady hard in the face, "you don't mean to say you would marry me!" "Yes, indeed I would," was the answer, "and nothing I should wish better." And as a consequence the nephew did not succeed to the earldom—London Chronicle. Perseverance. Timour, the great Aslatic conqueror, commonly known by the name of Tamerlane, had extraordinary perseverance. No difficulties ever led him to recede from what he had once undertaken, and he often persisted in his efforts under circumstances which led all around him to despair. On such occasions he used to relate to his friend an anecdote of his early life. "I once," he said, "was forced to take shelter from my enemies in a ruined building, where I sat alone many hours. Desiring to divert my mind from my hopeless condition, I fixed my eyes on an ant that was carrying a grain of corn larger than itself up a high wall. I numbered the efforts it made to accomplish this object. The grain fell sixty-nine times to the ground, but the insect persevered, and the seventieth time it reached the top. This sight gave me courage at the moment, and I never forgot the lesson." The Landscape Near Jerusalem The country about Jerusalem is essentially a pale country. Indeed, I often thought it looked stricken, as if its pailor had come upon it abruptly, had been sent to it as a visitation. I was not sorry that I saw it first under grayness and swept by winds. The grayness, the winds, seemed to me to emphasize its truth, to drive home its reality. And there was something noble in its candor. Even nature can take on an aspect of trickness at times, or at least a certain coquetry, a daintiness not wholly free from suggestions of artificiality. The landscape in the midst of which Jerusalem lies is dreary, is sad; in stormy weather is almost forbidding. Yet it has a bare frankness that renders it dignified, a large simplicity that is very striking. The frame is sober, the picture within it is amazing, and neither, once seen, can ever be forgotten—Robert Hlicens in Century. What Happened to Bill. Mrs. Dixon was putting Frank, aged six, and Willie, aged four, to sleep with a bedtime story when she was suddenly compelled to answer the doorbell. Hastening away with the intention of immediately returning, Mrs. Dixon was detained by a caller. The boys grew restless. Finally, running to the top of the stairs, where he knew his mother could get a perfect view of him, Frank used nearly all his small stock of diplomacy in trying to attract his mother's attention without disturbing the visitor. After several futile attempts at gesticulations he called out in a loud whisper perfectly audible to both ladies below, "Mamma, you'd better come up," then in a most awe inspiring tone adding, "'cause Bill's nose is comin' unwiped!" — Youth's Companion. Tibetan Penal Code The Tibetan penal code is curious. Murder is punished with a fine varying according to the importance of the slain, theft by a fine of seven to one hundred times the value of the article stolen. Here, again, the fine depends on the social importance of the person from whom the theft has been committed. The harborer of a thief is looked upon as a worse criminal than the thief himself. Ordeals by fire and by boiling water are still used as proofs of innocence or guilt, exactly as was the custom in Europe in the middle ages. And if the lamas never inflict death they are adents at torture. Taken Literally: The tramp approached the pompous gentleman and asked for a copper. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard," quoted the gent. "Tain't no use, mister," answered the weary one. "Me aunt's jist as tight disted as me uncle and me other relatives."—Exchange. The Boy Told Him Father (after a long search)—Well, here it is. I wonder why one always finds a thing in the last place one hunts for it? Bright boy—I 'pose it's cause after people find it they leave off looking. She Still Lectures Mr. Tile—Your wife used to lecture before she was married. Has she given it up now? Mr. Milds—Well—en—yes—that is, in public. Temmy's Reason. "Tommy," the schoolma'am asked, "why are you scratching your head?" "Cause nobody else knows just where it fetches." The Power of Paderewskl. A hard headed business man wants to hear Paderewski play, say A. B. Thomas in Success Magazine. The man is not a musician. He spends his days trying to buy cotton when it is low and sell it when it is high. This is how he described his experience at the piano recital. "You know, I'm not easily stirred up, and I don't know anything about music. I wouldn't know whether a man was playing the piano extremely well or just fairly well. But I do know that Paderewski played one thing that afternoon that stirred me up as I never was stirred in my life. I don't remember what it was. I couldn't have told whether he was playing an hour or five minutes. All I know is that it stirred up feelings within me I had never felt before. Great waves of emotion swept over me. I wanted to shout and I wanted to cry, and when the last chord was struck I found myself on my feet waving my umbrella and shouting like a wild Indian. I went out of that hall as weak as a rag and happler than I'd been in years. I can't account for it. I've tried, but I can't explain it. Can you?" Burglar's Beetting Sin. The burglar's besetting sin is heedlessness. The chances are that it was heedlessness that first drove him out of honest employment and made a burglar of him. The burglar ransacks a house and carries away a spoon holder, a card tray or some other inexpensive souvenir of the occasion, and he overlooks the thousand dollar bill on the dining room table and the rope of pearls on the towel rack. This heedlessness seems to be common to the whole fraternity. We do not know what the experience of other cities in, but in Newark the burglar leaves an astonishing amount of portable wealth behind him invariably. When he reads on the day after the robbery that he took Mrs. De Stille's chasing dish and ignored her $500 ruby bracelet beside it or that he upset the Pompier's dresser drawer to get the revolver and failed to see the government bonds that lay in plain sight on the waststand, how he much grabs his teeth and hate himself for neglecting to develop his powers of attention and observation in his youth!-Newark News. What "Garbler" Once Meant "Garble," "garbled," "garbler," are words which nowadays convey quite a different meaning from that which was formerly accepted. "Garble" originally signified simply "to select for a purpose." At one time there was an officer, termed "the garbler of spices," whose duty it was to visit the shops and examine the spices, ordering the destruction of all impure goods. His duties were similar to those of the inspector of the modern health department, who forbids the sale of decayed vegetables or tainted meat. The word comes from a root meaning "to sift." The impurities sifted out have in the course of generations corrupted the term till a "garbled report" is no longer a report wherefrom all uncertainty has been removed, but one that is full of misrepresentation and made misleading with deliberate intent. Missalasippl Steamboating. The steamboat age on the Mississippi began about 1821 and flourished for fifty years. As early as 1834 the number of steamboats on the Mississippi and its tributaries is estimated at 220, and in 1842 there were 450 vessels, with a value of $25,000,000. But the golden era was from 1848 till the war. Never did the valley and steamboating prosper more than then. Thousands of bales of cotton were annually shipped to southern markets, and the wharfs of St. Louis and Memphis and Vicksburg and other large ports were stacked with piles of merchandise and lined with scores of steamers.—Travel Magazine. Corrected. It is the custom of a well known minister to point his sermons with either "dearly beloved brethren" or "now, my brothers." One day a lady member of his congregation took exception to this. "Why do you always preach to the gentlemen and never to the ladies?" she asked. "My dear lady," said the beaming vicar, "one embraces the other." "But not in the church!" was the instant reply. The Cruel Reason Mrs. Gossip—How does it come that Mrs. Newrich invited you to her party? I thought you were enemies. Mrs. Sharp—We are, but she thought I had nothing fit to wear and wanted to make me feel bad. So Foolish. "She is neglecting her game of bridge dreadfully." "Why is she doing that?" "Some silly excuse. Says the children need her, I believe."—Pittsburg Post An Ancient Custom "I wonder if men have always complained about the food their wives prepared for them," said one woman. "I guess so," replied the other. "Adam started it."—Washington Star. The New Cook. Wiley—This pudding is a sample of the new cook's work. What do you think of it? Hub—I'd call it medicre. Wiley—No, dear; it's tapioca.—Boston Transcript. Disused. Customer—I'm going to a masked ball, and I want something that will completely disguise me. Customer—Certainly, sir. I will give you something nice—Fula Male PLANET PROBLEMS. "The amount of ignorance not yet removed concerning the planets is very great," writes E. S. Srew. "We do not know, for example, whether the planet Venus rotates. If it does it may possibly have a life and a vegetation like our own, though we suspect that it is clothed in eternal cloud. Of Saturn's rings we cannot say whether they consist of millions of tiny moons like brickbats or whether they may be even smaller still—a vell of shining dust. Of Jupiter we can only say that it is covered with clouds, though of their substance we know nothing, and, according to Professor Lowell and Sir William Huggins, some of the bands we see on it may be rifts in the clouds revealing the body of the planet. Little lines crisscross these bands Photographs of Jupiter taken at Flag staff observatory seem to indicate that these lines, too, are the upper clouds of Jupiter. "But whenever we see a planet we see it badly. Even Mars, the most clearly revealed of them all, is constantly obscured by a refracting haze, so that even of the famous 'canals', though nearly 500 in number, only a few are perceptible at a time, and an unskilled observer would probably not make them out at all. Sandstorms, sometimes snowstorms, sweep the surface of the planet, and because the winds of Mars are very gentle and slow moving these occurrences take a long time to pass by."—London Family Herald. HE AMUSED THE CUBS. Then the Young Lions took a Turn at Amusing Him. A negro attached to an African hunting party met with a curious adventure, says an English paper. Wandering one day from camp, he surprised two lion cubs at play and thoughtlessly commenced to amuse them. He was only too successful. The big cubs gamboled fearlessly about him and to his dismay refused to desist when he wished to leave them. Realizing the danger to which he would be exposed should the mother appear, he began to run, but the cubs refused to be shaken off and in their play scratched his legs in fearful fashion. That the creatures were thoroughly enjoying themselves was evident from their manifestations of delight, and before long their unusual cries brought a lioness leaping to the spot. Trembling in every limb, the negro faced the growling animal, while the cubs continued to jump up at him, eager for further caresses. The enraged lioness moved round uneasily in a circle, man and beast keeping their eyes steadily on each other. Several times the lioness crouched to spring, but the man, from fear, never shifted his gaze. At length, after what seemed an age, when the negro was ready to drop from exhaustion, the animal suddenly called her cubs away and disappeared into the surrounding scrub. An Artist's Struggles. Professor von Herkomer, the famous painter, had such a struggle to gain a living in his early days that had it not been for his inexhaustible stock of patience and self confidence he would probably have abandoned art entirely. He sold his first picture for 2 guineas and later on earned for a short time a couple of pounds weekly for a woodcut which he supplied to a comic paper. This modest salary coming to a stop, he was at his wits' end to know what to do. He applied to a troupe of minstrels for an engagement as zither player, but in vain, and then took to designing carpets. For some years' he battled with poverty, achieving no success until he obtained employment on a weekly illustrated journal—London Globe. First Oll Well. In the year 1859 E. L. Drake of Titusville, Pa., drove the first oil well. Like other pioneers, he was regarded as a dreamer or a fool, and people laughed at the idea of tapping a subterranean oil lake. It was only by pretending that he was in search of a bed of salt that he was able to get drillers to work for him. When the borer had reached a depth of about seventy feet Drake found his anticipations realized, and he was the possessor of an oil well which, with the aid of a hand pump, yielded him twenty-five barrels a day.—New York American. Malacca Sticks The most costly walking sticks come from the Malay archipelago, and the most highly prized stick is the malacca cane. To insure, straightness these sticks are reared in glass tubes. A good malacca should be a yard long, not less than an inch in diameter at the upper end, perfectly straight and smooth and of a very dark chocolate color, slightly mottled. It should be used delicately, for the lacquer which gives it its beautiful gloss is easily chipped.-London Graphic. But They Can. Mrs. Muggins—When a girl is married she is apt to think her troubles are over. Mrs. Buggins—Yes; she does not seem to realize that things can go amiss with a Mrs.—Philadelphia Record. Relief. "My patience is taxed very often." "Well, I notice you get relief in the usual way." "What's that?" "Swearing it off."—Baltimore American. But It Had a Mighty Swat When It Fell Dead Out of the Clouds. W. M. Newson tells of an amazing incident in which a dead duck displayed more activity than would a live one. The incident is as follows: "We saw a small flock of broadbills approaching. They came directly for us, but unfortunately drii not stop for our decoys. As they arrived almost over us we stood up and fired. I pulled on a nice plump looking drake. He started to fall, so I turned my second load loose rather promiscuously and then started to load up. Behind me Johnny was still shooting. Then Johnny yelled, and something hit me a mighty swat on the back of my neck, whereupon I tried to clean a big hunk of stone of its barnacles by means of my nose and front teeth. This may be pleasant to look upon, but it is not an enjoyable pastime. "I had always liked Johnny, but the thought that he had hit me on the back of the neck and was now laughing was too much. I started for him with murder in my eye and a large driftwood stick in my hand. Johnny, still in fits of laughter, pointed behind me and mumbled some words about duck." I looked around, and there behind me on the rocks was the same plump looking drake that I had shot at the first time. It was hard to realize that such a small bird had such a mighty swat. "When Johnny had come out of his convulsions and I had pickled the feathers out of my back hair we looked around a bit and found there were four dead broadbills, so I cheered up a bit. Johnny didn't need any cheering up."—Recreation. HE WAS THANKFUL A Reporter Who Appreciated the Attentions of His Superior. A reporter for a Philadelphia newspaper was sent up the state to act as staff correspondent in an important court trial. It was the reporter's first big out of town assignment, and his managing editor kept the telegraph wires busy with instructions and inquiries. For two days and two nights the reporter had received a dispatch from his office half hourly, and it began to get on his nerves. ... At the end of the second day he worked until 2 o'clock in the morning, filed his last page of copy, received word that his story had been received, and he went to bed. Just as he was putting out the light the hotel porter appeared with the inevitable tray and the inevitable telegram. The reporter opened it and read: "What time does court open in the morning?" It was too much. He hated the sight of a telegram. He had been fleeing the curse of the dispatches only to have them pursue him to bed. He sat down and wrote to his office the most courteous answer he could compose; "Court opens at 9 o'clock in the morning. It is now 3. Thank you for waking me in time." — Philadelphia Times. Balzac's Way. Jules Sandeau relates that one time while living in Paris Balzac locked himself up in his room for twenty-two days and twenty-two nights, refusing to see any one and keeping the curtains closed and the lights continually burning even in broad daylight. The only human being he saw during this time was his servant, whom he rang for when he felt the need of food and which he washed down with numerous cups of coffee. He would throw himself on his bed only when entirely exhausted from lack of sleep, and he remained in complete ignorance of what was transpiring outside, the state of the weather and even of the time and day of the week. He only freed himself from this voluntary captivity when he had written the word "End" on the last page of the manuscript he began when he entered his prison. Coral That 8bocks. On the coast of the West Indian islands a curious kind of coral, is found, called "millepoca." This has a most extraordinary property which makes the people who know it very shy of handling it. The moment you pick up a piece a sort of electric thrill runs through you and an agonizing pain shoots through your jaws. You feel as if every tooth and every nerve and muscle connected with them was burning. The acute pain lasts generally for about half an hour and slowly passes off, but the effects do not disappear entirely for hours. The reason of this curious shock or poisoning is a mystery. Not Dangerous. "Madam, I thought I would tell you I met your husband awhile ago, as I heard he had started from home to kill a man he quarreled with." "Oh, sir, tell me—was my poor William shot?" "No, madam. Your poor William was only half shot."—Baltimore American. Depressing Bights If there is anything more depressing than rain falling on an overturned tombstone or the sight of a dining room table covered with dirty dishes, what is it? - Aitchison Globe. He Know. Teacher—Now, Willis, tell us one of the principal events in Roman history and mention the date. Willis—Mark Antony went to Egypt cos he had a date with Cleopatra—Harper's Bazar. If you would hit the target aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies inside the attraction of earth—Longinus. W. C. Martin, Attorney. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding Probate Court. No. 17982, Administration. This is To Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the State of Pennsylvania, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia Letters, of Administration on the estate of Stephen D. Ford, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 13th day of April, A. D. 1912: otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 17th day of April, 1911. Maggie F. Woolfalk. Care W. C. Martin, 563 D St. N. W. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. Martin, Attorney. Emanuel M. Hewlett In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding Probate Court. Estate of Charles S. Lane, deceased, No. 17924, administration docket. Application having been made herein for Letters of Administration on the estate of said deceased, by Minnie Allen, it is ordered this 1st day of May, A. D. 1911, that Henry H. Lane, and all others concerned, appear in said court on Monday, the 18th day of June, A. D. 1911, at 10 o'clock a.m., to show 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. Ashley M. Gould, Justice. Attest: James Tanner, Register of Wills for the District of Colum- bia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Emanuel M. Hewlett, Attorney. W. Calvin Chase, Attorney. In the Supreme Court of the Dist rict of Columbia, Sauser A. Gable, complainant, vs. Barbara Ellen Gable, defendant, and Alfred Trakel, co- respondent. The object of this suit is a divorce from the bonds of matri- many, between Sauser A. Gable and Barbara Ellen Gable. The grounds are adultery. On motion of the complainant, it is this 16th day of May, 1911, ordered that the defendant, Barbara Ellen Gable, of Neffsville, Lancaster County, Pa., cause her appearance to be entered herein on or before the 40th day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, after the first day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee, before said day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD, Justice. A true copy. Test: THOMAS WALKER, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding Probate Court. No. 18906 administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Osbourn Dorsey, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 23d day of May, A. D. 1912, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 23d day of May, 1911. WILLIAM L. SMITH. WILLIAM E. SMITH 946 E Street, Southwest. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. GEO. F. COLLINS, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 17,833, administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the estate of Maria Rickson, otherwise Sally Maria Rickson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 15th day of May, A. D., 1912; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 18th day of May, 1911. JAMES R. WILDER. 2109 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. For Rent One nice large, light room, furnished, modern conveniences. Convenient to car lines. Rent reasonable. Apply 1222 S street northwest. FOR RENT.—By Thomas Walker, 506 Fifth Street, Northwest, eight rooms and bath. House thoroughly cleaned and in splendid condition, 1613 Church Street, Northwest, $26 per month. FOR RENT.—By Thomas Walker, 700 Nichols Avenue, near Douglass Hall, six rooms, besides large hall rooms and cellar. Large front and back yards; also large garden, with excellent fruit trees, for $15 per month. Owner of house will rent one room from tenant, if agreeable. 1109 Eye Street 1212 Fla. Ave. Northwest Phone Main 4073 Phone North 2642-y AUDELLA WEST Tonsorial Parlors QUICK AND POLITE SERVICE 401 Q Street, N. W. FOR SALE—Motion picture machine 2 reels of film, stereoptican views, and gas making outfit. Cheap to quick buyer. Apply. 418 5th St., S E. AVERY COLL TRAIN COLLEGE TRAINING SC AVERY COLLEGE TRAINING North Pittsburgh, Pa. The institution offers young colored women exceptional opportunities to acquire skilled knowledge to become self-supporting in the following gainful occupations: Dressmaking, cutting and drafting, domestic science and an intermediate English course. The institution offers young tunities to acquire skilled knowl the following gainful occupations ing, domestic science and an inthe Lincoln Memorial Hospitation, offers excellent chances to professional nurses. Uniforms, and text books are given free, a The buildings are heated by plant, and has a modernly equi to all parts of the building. Nin penses in the trades department are no charges. Catalogues are cations to an offers young colored women excellent skilled knowledge to become self-fulfilled occupations: Dressmaking, cutlery and an intermediate English co-Memorial Hospital, in connection with silent chances to those who may wish. Uniforms, board, furnished are given free, and a small monthly are heated by steam, lighted by a modernly equipped hot-water system building. Nine dollars per month les department; in the hospital des Catalogues are now ready. Address The Lincoln Memorial Hospital, in connection with the institution, offers excellent chances to those who may wish to become professional nurses. Uniforms, board, furnished room, laundry and text books are given free, and a small monthly compensation. The buildings are heated by steam, lighted by its own electric plant, and has a modernly equipped hot-water system extending to all parts of the building. Nine dollars per month covers all expenses in the trades department; in the hospital department there are no charges. Catalogues are now ready. Address all communications to JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Box 154, Secretary and Treasurer, North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa. Under New Porters' 103-5 6th St NEAR REFRESHMENTS Buffet River SEASON SECURE The River Queen is a the boat for the people. Up-t patrons of this boat. Every w and the parks are we ighten not eweather. 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ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 4th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 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. IV. Literary Branches, Academic and Collierville 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. THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE, MRS. S. E. WORMLEY, Proprietress. Salads Made to Order. Notions. 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