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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL.XXXII 36 WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1913 THE WINNING TICKET 15,000 MAJORITY PREDICTED BIEBER WILL BE SWEPT FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH VICTORY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION. Great Meeting This Week—Chase and bradshaw, Marshall and Tindall Indorsed. This has been a busy and enthusiastic week for the Administration ticket. Everywhere the name of President Taft has been souped like tounder from the mouth of cannons. The joint meeting of the 6th and 6th districts last Tuesday night was a success. Every available space in the Masonic Temple was occupied. On motion of Robert Jones, the organizer of the two districts, Dr. Samuel Pierce was elected president of the joint meeting, and Wm. Washington secretary. The first speaker introduced was Dr. Charles H. Marshall, who made an interesting and eloquent talk. He was followed by Attorney Perr W. Frisby, who was loudly applauded. Dr. Clarence Wright was the next speaker. He said, among other things, that he was for the Bradshaw-Chase ticket. His speech was applauded throughout its delivery. He also said that while walking through the public streets the name of W. Calvin Chase could be heard upon the lips of every one. James L. Turner, of the 4th district, was present, and was called upon to speak His speech was enthusiastically applauded. Aldridge Lewis, president of the Young Men's Protective League, also spoke. His address was listened to with a great deal of attention. One of the most telling addresses delivered was by W. T. Soder, who has entered the campaign for the administration ticket. W. Calvin Chase, Aaron Bradshaw and others spoke, after which a letter was read to the crowd from Robert Jones, reciting the history of the work of Mr. Chase, after which a motion to indorse the administration of President Taft and the candidacy of Chase and Bradshaw was unanimously adopted. Rachabite Hall, 043 Louisiana Avenue Northwest, was crowded Monday night with white Republicans. There were fully 200 present. This meeting comprised the 12th and 16th districts. The administration was indorsed, as well as the Bradshaw-Chase ticket. Salem Baptist Church was a scene of great jubilation last Wednesday night. This church is in the second district, where the vote is expected to be heavy. Attorney P. W. Frisby, W. T. Soder, W. Calvin Chase and Aaron Bradshaw spoke. The administration was indorsed and the Bradshaw-Chase ticket. The 10th district Republicans inter Friday night at 1203 C street North- west. The Bradshaw-Chase ticket was indorsed. Chase and Bradshaw. The Minute Men's Club of the 21st district met last evening, in the club room, 13th street Northwest, Philip Ferverson, president, and Charles Proctor secretary, decided to attend the Bradshaw-Chase rally in Daily's Hall, Warren and B streets, this evening. The administration of President Tatt and the Bradshaw-Chase ticket were indorsed. The Hillbrook Club, of the 2d district, near Burville, D. C., met last evening, John Walter, president, and J. N. Califield, secretary, and indorsed the Bradshaw ticket and appointed a committee of three to watch at the polls. The 8th and 9th district Republican Clubs met Wednesday night and decided to attend the meeting of the Blaine Invincible Club, which is to meet in Fisherman Hall. South Washington, Friday night. A committee of five was appointed to arrange for an escort to accompany the M. M. Parker Club to Chicago, June 18th. The Garman Republican Club, of the 16th district, Win. F. Geiger, president, and B. Lascomb, secretary, met at the corner of First and Indiana avenue and voted to accompany the M. M. Parker Club to Chicago, III, June 18th. The administration of President Tatt and the Bradshaw-Chase ticket were indorsed There was a large meeting of the colored Republicans in Salem Baptist Church last night. This is the second district, and one of the largest in the city. Speeches were made by Dr. Charles H Marshall, Perri W Frisby, and W. T. Yarder. For the Administration Ticket. Rev. W. J. Howard, one of the leading Baptist ministers in South Washington, has declared for the Bradshaw-Chase ticket. Recorder of Deeds, Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, says that the Wilder-Bieber ticket is anti-administration, and that he favors the Chase-Bradshaw ticket. Rev. W. A. Ray, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Methodist Church, the largest Methodist Church in the Southwest, has declared for the Chase-Bradshaw ticket. Assistant United States Toorney Gus Schultz, has declared for the Chase-Bradshaw ticket. ATTORNEY MOSS. Captures Bieber Meeting—Negro Democrat Lauds Tillman. There was a lively time at Douglass Hall, Anacostia, D. C., last Tuesday night. The meeting was called by Bieber and Wilder. There were about 75 men present. Attorney John M. Mass delivered one of his broadsides, and captured the meeting. Sidney bieber, in his remarks, said that he didn't see why there were not more Republicans out. Concedes Defeat. "Well, all I can say," remarked Bieber further, "is that I want you to vote for the best man." At True Reformers' Hall Silas Johnson brought about 40 men there. Harry Clark became excited and chagrined, and charged unfairness on the part of Johnson, whom he said promised to bring two hundred men to the hall. There were only forty men present, and they were brought by Johnson and Sidney Bieber, who only remained ten minutes, and Silas Johnson's forty men left with him. Rev. Howard. I desire to inform the public and my friends that Rev. W. J. Howard, the well-known pastor of the Zion Baptist Church, indorsed the Chase-Bradshaw ticket in the presence of witnesses. I have his signature to my paper, signed in the presence of witnesses, and I challenge any one to disprove at any price. Signed W. CALVIN CHASE. RUMORED BREAK Between Postmaster General and Recorder of Deeds Johnson. (From the Atlanta Constitution) An open rupture between Mr. Hitchcock and Henry Lincoln Johnson, the former Atlanta Negro who was made recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia by President Taft, has led to a whole chain of interesting developments. Johnson was sent to Georgia last December, according to the story current here in political circles, to see that the State Republican committee did not declare their preference for any candidate for the Republican nomination. When Johnson returned to Washington after the committee had met and instructed for Tait he found several messages and telephone calls summoning him to the office of the postmaster general. Going over to the department, he found the door of the postmaster general's private office barred to him. Thomas L Weed, the chief Clerk of Mr. Hitchcock, delivered this message "Mr. Hitchcock requests that you return to him the autographed photograph which he recently sent you with his compliments" There was no opportunity for a private interview, for explanations, nor excuses. Since *that day Johnson has been excluded from the confidence and friendship of Mr. Hitchcock. Fearing for his political safety, Johnson immediately goes to the White House and tells the president that he has been stricken from the Postmaster General's list. VOICE FROM THE SOUTH. Governor Stubbs Reminded. Editor of The Washington Bee: Will you allow me space in your most valuable paper to ask my colored representatives of the Northwestern States a few questions in regard to the coming Presidential campaign of 1912. Governor Glasscock, of West Virginia, in an interview in New York on January 26, said he believed Colonel Roosevelt would be nominated, and was sure he would be elected President. Governor Stubbs, of Kansas, in an interview, said he believed Colonel Roosevelt is the only man in the Republican party who can lead this party to success. I am sorry for Governor Stubbs, as well as for the Republic can party, having only one man in that grand old party who can lead to the victory in this coming Presidential campaign in 1912. Governor Glasscoe, of West Virginia, seems to think that the colored representatives of that State have forgotten the Brownsville, Texas, affair, as well as Governor Stubby, of Kansas. Never will the colored race; for those noble heroes who were discharged without honour and the colored voters would be migrateful did they forget the Brownsville affair. I do hope that through the votes of the colored race in the North, East, South and West, delegates will be elected to the National Convention in June who will remember Brownsville and will stand by the regular ticket, of which President William H. Taft is the leader. Very truly yours. R. C. Clayton, 730 Clarence St. Lake Charles, La Don't forget to vote the Bradshaw-Chase Ticket WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10,1912 VOTE THE RIGHT TICKET BRADSHAW-CHASE TICKET THE ONLY GEN-UINE TICKET When you go to the voting places today, be sure that you vote a ticket that calls for the sending of Aaron Bradshaw and Wm. Calvin Chase as delegates, and Mr. Tindall and Dr. Marshall as alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention. BE SURE TO VOTE THE BRADSHAW CASE TICKET TODAY THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. TRIP THROUGH FLORIDA. Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 3. Dr. Booker T. Washington, together with a number of prominent colored people in Florida, and out of Florida, is planning to make an educational campaign through the State of Florida, beginning at Pensacola March 1st and extending through March 7th. In some respects this will be the most important educational trip that Dr. Washington has made. Mr. M. M. Lewey, of Pensacola, Florida, president of the Florida State Negro Business League, is in charge of the trip, and is being liberally assisted by prominent colored people in every part of Florida. Aside from the prominent colored people in Florida who will accompany Dr. Washington, the Florida business men have also invited the persons who have been in charge of Dr Washington's tours in other States. Those who have accepted invitations from outside of Florida include prominent persons as Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the U. S. Treasury, Washington, D. C.; Major R. R. Moton, of Hampton Institute, Va.; Mr. W. T. B. Williams, Field Secretary of the John F. Slater Fund; Dr. Geo. C. Hall of Chicago; Rev. Richard Carroll, editor of the Ploughman, Columbia, S. C.; Mr. John Merrick and Mr. C. C. Spaulding, of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Insurance Company, Durham, N. C.; Dr. S. G. Elbert, of Wilmington, Del.; Dr. M. W. Gilbert, of Selma University, Selma, Ala.; Bishop Geo. W. Clinton, of the A. M. E. Zion Church, Charlotte, N. C.; Mr. W. T. Andrews, editor, The Defender, Sumter, S. C.; Mr. J. B. Bell, the wealthy real estate man of Houston, Texas, and Mr. R. L. Smith, president of the Farmers' Improvement Society of Texas. Already both men and women at the points to be touched in Florida are hard at work with their preparations. It is expected that Dr. Washington will speak briefly at many points where the train will stop a few minutes, aside from the points already scheduled. Meets With Success. (Special to The Bee.) New Bedford, Mass., Jan. 28. One of the largest and most cultured audiences ever assembled in New Bedford, greeted Dr. James E. Shepard, who spoke in the North Congregational Church. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Frank E. Ramsdell, a life long friend of the Negro race, introduced Dr. Shepard in most eloquent language. Dr. Shepard spoke on the Religious Education of the Negro, and made a most convincing argument in support of his position. At the conclusion of his speech, men and women crowded around to meet and cheer a man who is fast becoming recognized all over the country as standing for the best and highest ideals of his race. Judge J. C. Pritchard and Dr. J. E. Shepard in New England. The tour of Judge Jeter P. Pritchard and Dr. J. E. Shepard in behalf of the Religious Education of the Neger through New England was a triumph. At Springfield, Mass, on February 1, in the Church of the Unity, a representative audience greeted the speakers. The Springfield Republican, the leading paper of the city, devoted two columns to the speeches of the two men, and printed their cuts. Friday, February 2, Judge Pritchard and Dr. Shepard spoke at the Brookline Baptist Church, Boston, to a large audience Saturday, February 3, Judge Pritchard addressed the 20th Century Club of Boston, in behalf of the school Sunday, February 4, Judge Pritchard and Dr. Shepard addressed the Citizenship Class at the Church of the late Dr. Edward Everett Hale At this church a remarkable demonstration occurred at the close of the speeches. Men and women shouted "You are right. We are with you." Dr. Shepard contends he has no feeling against the higher or industrial training, both are needed; but the only thing that will add to the permanent uplift of the race will be a religious training and by it he means putting the highest and best ideals into everyday life, and these are found in the examples and teachings of the Bible. He claims that a more trained community adds more to stability of the government and the happiness of its citizen than any others. The Journal Office. A representative of The Bee paid a visit to the Odd Fellows Journal last Wednesday afternoon, and the time of Mr Goins, who is printing that paper. It is no doubt the most complete newspaper and printing office in the United States. It is the first up-to-date office of which anybody would feel proud. Everything is systematically arranged. Every appointment complete. The machinery is up-to-date, and the office contains everything for the convenience of the help. The young ladies who operate the different machines are very accomplished and competent in every particular. Two of the lady attaches are from this city, and the other is from Philadelphia, Pa. Editor Slaughter was out; but Manager Goins, who is an all around printer and newspaper man, is constantly on his job. He is full of business, and he is to be complimented for the manner in which he conducts the business of his own department, and the Odd Fellows' Journal. Editor Slaughter is making the Journal a success. BRICE VS. CURTIS. Victory for Dr. Curtis. Dr. A. M. Curtis, who was sued by Lelia Brice and won in the lower court, was appealed to the Court of Appeals. The court, after having considered the case, dismissed it. Messrs. James A. Colb and Mason N. Richardson were Dr. Curtis' attorneys. Rev. Jarvis' Denial. Rev. W. J Jaryis, president of the Baptist Ministers' Alliance, informed The Bee that the Baptist ministers didn't indorse the Bieber-Wilder ticket. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Important News Happenings of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERALINTEREST Andrew Carnegie declined last week, an invitation to address the Roosevelt Club in Oklahoma. Mr. Carnegie declared that he was an out and out supporter of President Taft. Representative Foster, of Vermont, proposed an appropriation of $50,000 to erect in this city an equestrian statue in honor of Oliver O. Howard. Gen. Howard served with distinction throughout the Civil War. President Schurman, of Cornell, proposes to make public figures showing how fraternity men stand in their classes, as compared with non-fraternity men. Washington's penny restaurant will be opened February 22, at 216 John Marshall Place. The restaurant will be conducted by the Gospel Mission for the benefit of the poor. All food articles will be sold at one cent each. Senator Gallinger, of the Senate District Committee declares he believes a curfew law for this city unnecessary. He likes to see children have a good time, and he says he will not support such a measure. War on special pensions has been started by Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia. He holds up the omnibus bill, which carries about 300 claims. Senator Smith had experience in fighting pensions as Secretary of the Interior under President Cleveland. The Rev. W. S. McElveen, of Illinois, in his sermon last week, used a scriptural quotation to describe the reason Theodore Roosevelt should be a candidate for President. Mrs. Sandford, a Morman woman of Spring Valley, Utah, died last week, leaving five hundred and thirty-four descendants, running to the fifth generation. She was the mother of eight children, and three great-great-great grandchildren. The suffragette movement has reached a new pinnacle Annie E Peck, the mountain climber, arrived in New York last week from Mount Coropuna, in South Peru, where she reached a height of 21,812 feet, and planted a flag in the interest of the suffragette movement. William Watson, the English poet, and author of "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue," which created considerable controversy here and abroad, participated in the Dickens centenary at Carnegie Hall, in New York last week. Lallian E. Small, who has enrolled in Normal College, to become a teacher, holds a unique distinction of never having been late to school in her ten-year course. The new issue of postage stamps authorized by Postmaster General Hitchcock last fall are now ready, and will be placed for distribution where the old supply is used up. The new one-cent green, and two-cent red bear, the head of Washington in purple from London's bust, looking to the left. The 10th of each month has been set as the official pay day of the Washington school teachers. The announcement was made at the last meeting by the Board of Education. The historic mansion at Springfield, birthplace of betty Patterson, and later the home of former Gov Frank Brown, was destroyed by a last week. A movement has been inaugurated to organize a society of veteran newspaper writers, and correspondents among the survivors of the war who in old Newspaper Row wrote their current history of the Civil War "Douglas and Lincoln Night' at Bethel Literary. Arrangements have been made by Bethel Literary to celebrate the anniversary of the births of Douglass and Lincoln next Tuesday night the 4th inst. at Metropolitan W M E Church. The two principal teachers of the exercises will be a paper on Frederick Douglass" by Prof. John W. Cromwell, and a paper on "Nathan Lincoln" by Lieutenant Thomas H R Clarke. The public has been invited to be present and participate in these exercises. GILCHRIST STEWART Lands Good Job in New York (Special to The Bee) New York, Feb. 7—Gilchrist Stewart, who won fortune and fame agitating the cause of the Brownville soldiers, has been appointed Deputy Clerk of the New York State Assembly at a salary of $1,500. The State Assembly is Republican this year. Mr. Stewart, although he fought for the retention of the 25th Regiment men, never left the Republican party, and has always remained loyal to the party in any and all contests. He now gets his reward for his regularity, and the race is rewarded thereby. Gone to Richmond Mr. J. W. Lewis and a delegation of True Reformers, left for Richmond, Va., Thursday morging, to attend the funeral of the late W. R. Griffin, who was killed in a railroad accident Tuesday. The floral design that was carried was by the delegates, was very beautiful. Mr. Lewis is the man who made Mr. Griffin chief. S. G. SWAIN & SON 932 La. Ave. N. W. The finest and best groceries in the city. Fresh poultry killed daily Get Your Christmas Turkey at this place. Phone Main 1699. 932 La. Ave. N. W. Suspender Anatomy. Suppose that instead of being provided with a frictionless, ball and socket joint, your arms had to stretch a muscle or ligament every time you moved them. You would be tired out long before bed time. 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An ointment, makes soreness, inflammation and initiation vanish. Remedy No. 2. An internal remedy to aid the ointment by expelling the poison caused by constipation. To be used together. Both for 59c postpaid. J. C. BROWN, Registered Pharmacist 609 Third Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. A Story of the Duke of Somerset and the Artist Seymour, Who Refused His Request. We have all heard of the "proud" Duke of Somerset, but we do not all know of the occasion on which his pride had a fall. The story is told in "The Glenbervie Journals." It seems that the duchess had sent for Seymour, a celebrated painter of horses, to make the portrait of a racehorse at Petworth. Seymour during his stay used to dine in the steward's room, but one day the duke was so pleased with the picture as it advanced that he desired that he would dine at his table. At dinner Seymour, who probably had not been expected to mix in the conversation, took occasion to say that he believed he had the honor to be related to his grace. This gave such offense that he was either sent away or put so much out of humor as to go away from Petworth without finishing the picture. Afterward the duke's pride gave way to the desire he had of possessing a good portrait of his favorite horse, and he ordered his steward to write to Seymour and engage him to return to finish his work at Petworth. Seymour directed his reply to the duke himself in these words: "Your pride would not allow that I am of your family. To convince you that I am, your picture shall remain as it is; for —, I won't come!" THE GULF STREAM. No Material Change In Its Course In Modern Times. Much has been said in recent years in regard to the changing route of the gulf stream. Indeed, the character of this steady, consistent and unswerving body was getting so maligned that the government looked into the matter, with the result that this mysterious current of the ocean was entirely vindicated. Experts declare that there is no change in the course nor has there been for many years. No other physical feature of the ocean is subject to more persistent misinterpretation than is the gulf stream. All vagaries of climate are laid to its charge. It is a pet theory of many that the temperature of Europe is greatly affected by it, but this idea is held by high authorities to be erroneous. It is not as extensive as is commonly thought. Practically starting at the Florida strait, where its volume is made up by the union of currents, it ceases to be a true current by the time it reaches the southern limit of the Grand banks, where it becomes surface drift, governed by the winds. The government experts aver that there has been absolutely no material change in the gulf stream's course, in modern times—New York Press. Young America's English. "What is the most incorrect sentence any of your children ever got off?" asked a Glenwood schoolteacher recently at the Schoolmen's club. "One of mine got this off not long ago," responded a young man who teaches at the Robert Morris school: "It ain't hisn like, but youn." "My best," said another teacher, "ran something like this: 'Rare roast beef is meat what there ain't none what's any underdunner.'" The best one of the afternoon was furnished by a Germantown teacher. "Here is one," he said, "which has the old classic, 'He seen his duty and done it noble, beaten forty ways.' Lewentment Grant hearn the enemy in his bed, but he snuck up on him and killed him without known' who, where or what he was."—St. Paul Dispatch. Young Eagles. An eagle lives from 80 to 160 years. The young birds are driven forth by their savage parents to provide for them-elves as soon as they are able to fly. No training is given them by the old bird. That is left to their wild instincts, which hunger and necessity develop. There is no "going back to the old home" for the young eagles. The mother bird tears up every vestige of the nest, and if they emit plaintive shrieks the old birds dart at them and push them off the crags or rocks and thereby make them take to their wings. It takes three years for a young eagle to gain its complete plumage and strength. The Variable Star Algol. The most noted variable star in the universe is Algol, which changes its brilliance so remarkably that it was noted by shipwrights of Mesopotamia many years ago. It is now known that Algol is not one star, but a double one. There are two suns revolving around a common center, one of which is blazing like our sun and the other is dead like the earth. Thus when the dark sun partially butyvenes between us and the burning Algol much light is cut off. Reason For Her Opinion. "Do you think genius and insanity always go together?" always go together?" "Oh, no. I am convinced that my husband is half crazy most of the time, but I've never seen him give the faintest gleam of genius."—Chicago Record-Herald. Hit Hard. "I flatter myself I've made a hit with this song. Er-by the way, who was the gentleman that was moved to tears and went out?" "That was the composer."—London Tatler. We must laugh before we are happy or else we may die before we ever laugh at all.—La Bruyere. The Faroe Called Justice That Siam Used to Play. TESTS OF FIRE AND WATER. The Accused and the Accuser Each Had to Face the Same Kind of Music, and Whichever Way the Case Was Decided the Judges Were Winners. The modern methods of justice in civilized Europe do not include trial by ordeal, but in the east it is still a recognized means of proying an accused person's innocence or guilt. In a country like Slam, now so closely in touch with western influences, the ordeal by fire was practiced a generation ago. This is the oldest form of ordeal in Slam, as in any country. When preparing for the ceremony two trenches were dug side by side. They were each about ten feet long, two feet wide and two feet deep. These were filled with layers of redhot coal to a depth of ten inches. The plaintiff, or accuser, walked over one fiery path and the defendant over the other. In order to prevent the parties from unduly hurrying over their tasks rods were placed across their shoulders, and certain of the officials leaned heavily on these, one at the end of each rool. In reality they partly defeated their own ends; for the great pressure of the horny soles of feet unused to boots somewhat quenched the fire beneath them. When the walk was completed the soles of the feet were examined in order to detect any burns on blisters. This examination was repeated every day for fifteen days, and at the end of that time the man who showed no signs of being hurt in any way was adjudged the winner. During the course of the trial the judges, sat in a specially erected and gaily decorated pavilion, where they feasted royally, the expense of which had to be defrayed jointly by the persons engaged in the lawsuit. It happened more than once that the fire failed to make any impression on the feet of the competitors. In such cases they were both compelled to undergo another trial by means of the water ordeal. If both parties got singed, then they were both held to be guilty of something or other, and so they were both punished with heavy fines. The water ordal is a kind of diving competition. The spot chosen was either some part of the nearest river or else a large, deep pond. The law insisted that the spot must be one where the water was clear and cool and free from leeches and mud. In the case of a river there was to be no strong current. The preliminary preparations were simple and consisted in driving two tough poles into the bed of the pond or river for the competitors to take hold of an immersion. These poles were placed about ten feet apart. Before the actual trial took place a cocktail was held, in which the two birds were supposed to represent the two litigants, and the result of this preliminary conflict was held to be ominous of the results that would attend the serious trial. This was never omitted, because the spectators, who were assembled in hundreds to watch the event, always treated it as a kind of holiday and gambled largely as to the issue of the day; hence the cockfight was a sort of guide to them in their speculations. The two persons next addressed themselves to the water delights and asked for their protection and help, each beseeching them to help him only and each promising gifts and offerings should be successful. Then they stepped into the water until it reached up to their necks. They were hampered by heavy collars similar to those sometimes worn by Chinese prisoners. Round their wrists they were bracelets of unspun thread, which had been blessed by the priests and which were considered to possess a protective charm against all adverse influences. Finally each one had a strong rope fastened tightly round the waist by means of which he could be hauled out of the water, because when both men were possessed of great breathing capacity it sometimes happened that after prolonged immersion the competitors were too much exhausted to get themselves out of the water. When all was ready a horizontal pole was placed across the shoulders of each person, and at a given signal from a metal gong the two poles were simultaneously depressed by the officials, and so the two heads were thrust under water. The divers gripped their wooden stakes and grimly held their heads under the surface of the river until one or both found themselves in danger of immediate suffocation. The man who remained under the water the longer of the two won the day. The trial was subject to a time limit. In certain cases diving by proxy was allowed, and then a general search was made for able and willing substitutes. There is a story extant, says Ernest Young in the London Tatler, of how a Persian trader quarreled with a Burmese about some commercial fraud. The Burmese engaged as his representative the champion diver of the district; but the Persian outwitted him by employing as his substitute a professional pearl diver from the Persian gulf. In 1882 this form of trial was in vogue in the north of Slam. WHEN SHAW WAS SHORT. His Days of Poverty When a Shilling Looked Big and Car Fares Were Seriously Considered. In Mrs. T. P. O'Connor's reminiscences, "I Myself," where she tells of her early acquaintances, we get a glimpse of George Bernard Shaw in the days when he was struggling for fame and fortune and when in his destination a shilling looked big and car fares were seriously considered. In September, ISSS, we find him declining an invitation to accompany Mrs. O'Connor to West Kensington. He wrote: "I walked home from my lecture at Dalston last night to save a tram fare—think of that and blush! Probably I shall walk home from the New Cut tonight for the same reason. Last month I earned £12s. The month's rent is £5. I have another paper to prepare for Oct. 5, equal in difficulty to the Bath one and equally paid in the gratitude of posterity. I have two books commissioned, payment by royalty after they are published—and you talk of the Italian exhibition! Ha, ha! Do you know what the Italian exhibition costs? Our tickets, third class, including admission, half a crown if they would cost a penny. One program between us, a penny; the Blue Grotto, threepence (for you—I should wait outside, as I have seen the imposture already); sixpenny seats at the Coliseum, 1 shilling; threepenny seats at the Marmontettes, 2 shillings; switchback railway, one turn, sixpence; refreshments, say fourpence, as we could scrupulously economical; loss of time reckoned at Star rates of payment, half a crown apiece; total, 2d. So that eyen if I borrowed 10 shillings from you to start with (which an army reserve man tells me is the cheapest plan of managing an affair of this sort) I should still be 2d. out of pocket. Two shillings and twopence to gratify the whim of a giddy young woman who proposes (monstrous conceit) to take my education in hand! My education! You a baby, still looking with wide open, delighted eyes at the glitter of west European whitewash, and advising malds, wives and widows with the artless wisdom of an incomparable and unique navette—educate me! Stupendous project! No, I learn from everybody, and what I learn I teach, but I am nobody's pupil, though, I should be glad indeed to meet my master." SEX AND LONGEVITY. Woman Has the Better of Man In the Term of Life. It is a well known fact, proved over and over again in vital statistics, that the term of life of women is slightly longer than that of men. Just why this is so has never been explained satisfactorily. One fact, however, is clear, and that is that during early years females possess a greater tenacity of life than do males. The difference of the mortality rates during the first few years of life is striking. During the first year the mortality among males is decidedly greater than among females. Although more boys are born than girls, the proportions are reduced to almost even terms at the end of the first year by the excessive male mortality. Even during the first four years the mortality among males exceeds that among females, notwithstanding the fact that there are practically no distinctions made in the management of the two sexes. Both are subject to the same conditions, are dressed virtually the same and receive the same food. At the age of about five years the comparative death rate among girls begins to increase. This has been attributed to the fact that boys of this age are more in the open air. The mortality in both sexes diminishes from this time until the twelfth year, when it attains its lowest point. It then steadily rises, being larger in each successive year. Between the twelfth and sixteenth years the death rate among girls increases more rapidly than among boys, but after the sixteenth year for several years the rate of increase is more rapid on the male side. St. Louis Post-Delpatch. How Byron Fought Fat. Poetry and a too pronounced plumpness do not harmonize well, and no one was more widely awake to this fact than Lord Byron. Many were the means he adopted for ridding himself of his unwelcome "adipose deposit." In a letter to his solicitor he says: "I wear seven waistcoats and a great-cont, run and play ricket in this dress till quite exhausted by excessive per spiration, use the bath daily, eat only a quarter of a pound of butcher's meat in twenty-four hours. By these means my ribs display skin of no great thickness and my clothes have been taken in nearly half a yard." "I suppose," said the absconding cashier to the friend who had run across him in parts unknown, "that there was a good deal of talk about me after I disappeared." "I should think there was!" answered the friend. "Why, man, the weather wasn't mentioned at all for two weeks." Rich Man, Poor Man, You can easily tell a poor man from a rich one by examining his mail. The poor man's mail consists of requests for money that he owes, the rich man's for money that he doesn't owe.—Lippincott's. If we cannot strew life's path with flowers, we can at least strew it with smiles.—Dickens. THE W. B. Reduso Corset brings well-developed figures into graceful, slender lines. It reduces the hips and abdomen from one to five inches. Simple in construction, the Reduso unhampered by straps or cumbersome attachments of any sort, transforms the figure completely. Fabrics are staunch woven, durable materials, designed to meet the demand of strain and long wear. There are several styles to suit the requirements of all stout figures. Style 770 (as pictured) medium high bust, long over hips and abdomen. Made of durable couil or batiste, with lace and ribbon trimming. Three pain. hose supporters. Sizes 19 to 36. Price $3.00. Other REDUSO models $3.00 per pair upwards to $10.00. BLOCK GAS MASTER MOST BRILLIANT AND STRONG 10¢ 15¢25¢ END YOUR MANTLE If you light with Gas, Gasoline or Kerosene Block Mantles. Buy Mantles by name. O say firmly, "I want Block Mantles." Dealer THE BLOCK LIGHT CO. BLOCK INNERLIN AND VY-TAN LINED For sale by Golde berg Department Store, I. 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WEINGARTEN BROS., Makers, 34th St. at Broadway, New York BLOCK GAS MANTLES MOST BRILLIANT AND STRONG 10¢ 15¢25¢ FOR GAS, GASOLINE AND KEROSENE END YOUR MANTLE TROUBLES If you light with Gas, Gasoline or Kerosene you will eventually use Block Mantles. Buy Mantles by name. Go to your dealer and say firmly, "I want Block Mantles." Dealers write for catalog to THE BLOCK LIGHT CO. :: :: YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO makers of THE INNERLIN AND VY-TAL-TY MANTLES For sale by Golde berg Department Store, I. Small W. T. & F. V. Armentroft Northwest Cafe Northwest Corner of Eleventh and You Streets Boulevard STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS VISITORS TO THE CITY SHOULD TAKE THE CAR AT THE UNION STATION AND GET OUT AT THE DOOR OF THE CAFE The Place for First Class Service and the Place to Find all Washington Polite and accommodating waiters—Everything the market affords Fish and Game in Season First class breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bulls, parties, recep tions and private dinners served in the large and commodious aining rooms up and downstairs BRING YOUR FAMILY AND TRY OUR SPECIALS W. W. MARTIN, Proprietor THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HAIR FOOD IS WHAT YOU NEED TO STIMULATE GROWTH ERADICATE DANDRUFF CLEANSE THE SCALP AND MAKE THE HAIR STRAIGHT, SOFT & SILK Get a bottle today from your Druggist and note the improvement. Trial size 10c, on sale at all Drug Stores THE Best Hose for the entire family, Men, Women and Children, can always be found in the "Onyx" Brand. FOR Quality, Style and Wear, get a pair of "Onyx" Hose in Cotton, Lisle, Silk Lisle or Pure Silk, from 25c. to $5.00 per pair—none genuine without trade-mark stamped on every pair. Sold by all dealers. Wholesale Distributors --- ful, ips es. quire- DEAD SEA WATER. It Contains 23 Per Cent of Solid Matter, or More Than Double That of the Red Sea. The Dead sea contains 23 per cent of solid matter and is bulk for bulk heavier than the human body. Many believe that it is impossible to swim in this sea, and even in Jerusalem ridiculous fables are told as to the impossibility of bathing there and that no animals or vegetation can exist near its shores. So far as swimming is concerned, the excessive buoyancy of the water simply renders it difficult to make much headway, but a swim is both feasible and enjoyable. Care should be taken, however, not to let the water get into the eyes. Indeed, did Palestine belong to any power but Turkey probably the northern shore of the Dead sea would be a popular bathing station. No doubt the chloride of magnesia which enters so largely into the composition of the water would be found to have medicinal and curative properties. Perhaps a better idea of the density of the water of this inland sea may be realized from the following statistics: In a ton of water from the Caspian sea there are eleven pounds of salt; in the Baltic, eleighteen pounds; in the Black sea, twenty-six pounds; in the Atlantic, thirty-one pounds; in the English channel, seventy-two pounds; in the Mediterranean, eighty-five pounds; in the Red sea, ninety-three pounds; in the Dead sea, 187 pounds.—World's Work. JOHN BANISTER. An English Violinist Who Won Fame In the Seventeenth Century. Public concerts owe their direct encouragement to John Banister, who had won fame by his playing on the violin and who succeeded the celebrated Baltzar as leader of Charles II's band of twenty-four violins, Peps, in an entry in his diary for February, 1007, tells us the court gossip of the day—"how the king's viallin Banister is mad that the king hath a Frenchman come to be chief of some part of the king's mustone." Banister's concerts at the close of the year 1672 were advertised in the London Gazette as follows: "These are to give notice that at Mr. John Banister's house (now called the muskell school), over against the George tavern in White Fryers, the present Monday will be muskell performed by excellent masters, beginning precisely at 4 of the clock in the afternoon, and every afternoon for the future precisely at the same hour." Four years later on we read again, "At the academy in Little Lincoln's Inn Fields will begin the first part of the parley of instruments, composed by Mr. John Banister." The admission was at this time as a rule a shilling, and these concerts seem to have been held pretty regularly down to within a short time of Banister's death, which took place in 1679.—London Graphic. The Peanut. The common peanut originally came probably from tropical America. Peanuts were introduced into the United States in the days of the colonies. Botanically the peanut belongs to the same group of plants as beans and peas, but the peanut matures its fruit or nut under the surface of the soil, not above ground, as do most other leguminous plants. Properly speaking, the peanut is a pea rather than a nut, the term "nut" having been added on account of its flavor, which is similar to that of many of the true nuts. The peanut is known under the local names of goober, goober pea, pindar, groundpea and groundnut. Reasonable Request. "Ladies and gentlemen," appealingly began the village handy man, advancing to the front of the stage and addressing the few patient persons who remained of the audience which had assembled to witness the beautiful pastoral drama. "The Mad Miller's Daughter," written by the hamlet's accomplished authoress and presented by home talent performers, "I am requested by the members of the company to ask you to remain until the end of the play. In the next act, which I solemnly assure you is the last, the villain gets his due and is slain without mercy, and we want witnesses."—Puck. They Might Do Worse The German proprietor of a Brooklyn-delicatessen store has got far enough along to pin in English. A writer in the New York Sun reports the fact. Hanging in the window of the little shop is this advertisement: "The best you can do is to buy our wurst." A Borrower. "Has Dinguss any occupation?" inquired Ruggles. "Yes," said Shadbolt. "He's a so-hetor." "Solicitor? For what?" "Small and unsecured loans."—Chicago Tribune. A Surprised Poet. Wife—What is the matter, dear? Haven't they published your poem? Poet-Oh, yes, that's all right, but they're actually selling the paper at a penny, as though there was nothing unusual in it—London Tit-Bits. Waiting. "De man dat puts in too much time learns' to wait patiently." said Uncle Hiben, "is liable to git out o' practice foh doin' anything. else."—Washington Star. TOMBS OF SAND. Cape Cod's Treacherous Shoals Are the Burying Ground of Many a Ship. Secrets of the sands of Cape Cod are constantly being disclosed by the sea. In the many storm tides that flood the desolate beaches the hulks of stanch ships lost along the coast on the half hundred miles of beaches between Monomoy at Chatham and Wood End at Provincetown are frequently exhumed from tombs of sand. Sometimes a wreck appears that has been buried a century or more, as in the case a few years ago of the bones of the British frigate Somerset, whose timbers of oak were disclosed to view back of Provincetown, near the life saving station in Dead Men's Hollow. The Somerset was lost on Peaked Hill bars Nov. 2 or 3. 1778. Once a vessel is gripped by the sands the process of entombing her goes on with great rapidity, the craft appearing to sink steadily in the yielding beach. All around the doomed vessel the sand piles up in great drifts, like snow. Every crevice of the hull is quickly filled. The sand rises in a solid barrier outside it and flows about it as the tides flood the shelving beaches. Finally it sweeps over the wreck, and the process of entombing goes on until the entombed craft is covered many feet deep.—Boston Globe. SURE TO BE MISSED. A Famous Cook's Lament on the Death of His Royal Master. The most successful book that was published by William Harrison Ainsworth during his first year of business, says Mr. S. M. Ellis in his biography of the English author and publisher, was a cookbook. It was "The French Cook," by Louis Eustache Ude, "the Gill Blas of the kitchen." This unique study of the culinary art brought in a handsome sum to the astute young publisher who had purchased the copyright, and the book was in the hands of every gourmet in London. Ude had been chef of Louis XVL_r of Mme. Letizia Bonaparte and then of the Earl of Sefton, at a salary of 300 guineas a year. At another time he presided over the culinary department of the Crockfords, but his favorite master was Frederick, duke of York. When the royal gormand died his bereaved chef pathetically ejaculated: "Ah, mon pauvre duc, how much you will miss me, wherever you are gone to" Odd Word Survivals. Far away back in the days when the English language was in its infancy there were poets who wrote of the blossoms on the trees in the spring. They didn't write "blossom," however, but used the word "blow" and made it rhyme with snow and flow. When they wished to sing of the beautiful mass of apple or hawthorn flowers they called it the "blowth." This word is found in the dictionaries, which assert that it is obeselete, but it is very much alive in Rockingham county, N. H., and York county, Me. The orchardist thereabout speaks of a "full blowth" or "light blowth" on his trees in May and predicts a good or poor "set" of the fruit in consequence. "Orts" are supposed to be refuse of some kind, but in the valley where the Piscataqua river mingles with the sea "orts" is the name for "swill."—Exchange Tricking the Bobby. A Dublin eccentric a short time ago entered a purveyor's shop and bought a ham. Having paid for his purchase, he requested that it should be hung outside the shop door, saying that he would call back for it. The customer then paced up and down outside the shop till a policeman came in sight, and just as the man in blue caught his eye he grabbed the ham and bolted. The constable, however, soon collared the thief, as he thought, and hauled him back to the shop. Having explained the nature of the alleged crime to the shop assistant, he asked the latter to charge the offender. "But," said the assistant as he realized the joke, "it's his own ham. He was quite at liberty to take it in any circumstances he chose."—London Answers. Weatherwise Birds and Fish. Weatherwise Birds and Fish. The seagull makes a splendid living barometer. If a covey of seagulls fly seaward early in the morning sailors and fishermen know that the day will be fine and the wind fair, but if the birds keep inland, though there be no haze hanging out toward the sea to denote unpleasant weather, interested folk know that the elements will be unfavorable. Of all weatherwise fish the dolphin is the most remarkable. During a fierce gale or a storm at sea the mather knows that the end of it is near if he can see a dolphin or a number of that fish sporting on the high sea waves. Faith Destroyed. "I'll never believe in phrenology again." "Why?" "We had a phrenologist in our house the other night and got him to feel the cook's head. He said her bump of destruction was small."—Chicago Record-Herald. Easy. "Women," remarked the grocer, "are not hard to please." "So?" interrogated the bachelor. "Yes," continued the grocer. "All you have to do is to let them have their own way."—Chicago News. By the work one knows the workman.—La Fontaine. The A. e. ica H. me Life Insurance FIFTH G STREETS, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. is a real home company, organized and incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, and has been doing a life, health, and accident insurance business in Washington for nearly twenty years. THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. has paid over 7,000 claims to its policy holders, amounting to over $250,000.00. THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. owns the largest building owned by any insurance company in Washington, D. C., and is one of the first companies to comply with the new insurance law. THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. issues Policies in FULL BENEFITS and INCONTESTABLE from date of issue, and payable ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH. THE MUSEUM THE LEXINGTON HOTEL THE LEXINGTON HOTEL A Great Colored Hotel at Last The colored Americans are to have an up-to-date first-class hotel with every modern convenience with buffet, barbershop, kitchen, billiard parlors, office, lobby and waiting room, automobile to convey guests to and from the Union Station, etc. A Long Felt Want Fulfiled. Nathaniel Ruffin, a well known citizen is sole manager. Ever since the foundation of this government the colored citizens of this city have been in need of a first class hotel where families and guests from other cities may go with impunity and with reservation. Thousands of the best and well known colored people have visited this city and do visit it now, but they have no place of dignity to go with their families and feel at home. Dr. Booker T. Washington, about a year ago made a special plea to the Negro Business League of this city to seep to it that a hotel he erected, for the accommodation of the colored people that when he. Dr. Washington, comes to the city he is compelled to go to some private home. The Lexington Hotel. has been erected at the southwest corner of twenty-first and L streets northwest It is a beautiful three story edifice to contain every modern convenience and accommodation for guest. Incorporated Under Act of Congress Approved June 26,1887 CAPITAL and ASSETS over $50,000.00 THE LEXINGTON HOTEL. The Front Entrance Will be on L St. The entrance to the Rathskeller will be on L street or main entrance leading to the basement. The Rathskeller will be fitted up equal, to any in the United States. the L street entrance. The Buffet Cannot be Surpassed. The dining-room which will be large and commodious with a seating capacity for one hundred and fifty guests. The barber shop will be managed by a first class tonsorial artist with every modern convenience The billiard parlor, office, lobby and waiting room will be unsurpassed. The waiting parlor will be on the first floor, handsomely furnished There Will be Thirty-Eight Large Airy Bed Rooms and Nine Baths. There will be at least two private bath rooms connected with the suite of rooms on the second and third floors The Lexington Will be Conducted on the Basis of Any Up To Date First Class Hotel. The banquet hall which is so much needed, in this city for the accommodation of first class visitors and patrons will be one of the features of this hotel. The automobile will run to and from the Union Station to the hotel for the accommodation of the guests. This has been just what the city has needed for a long time for the Colored Americans, who visit here. Whenever a person intends to visit the city, a card to the manager of the hotel will be promptly re- sponded t. and the guest or guests be driven immediately to the hotel in the hotel's automobile which will meet any train that comes into the Union Station or Steamboat wharf. The erection of this hotel in the city of magnificent distances will be an honor as well as a benefit to the colored people. Almost any city in the South has a first class hotel and the people in Washington have determined not to be behind in meeting the demands of strangers and visitors. Capital Stock The company is incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, of this amount the company has decided to sell fifteen thousand dollars of it. A greater opportunity has never been offered the people of this city, who are enterprising and wish a good investment. The Sole Manager. is Mr. Nathaniel Ruffin, a well known citizen of Washington, who is known to the president of the United States, to the cabinet officers and other public men of character and influence. He needs no introduction to the people, because he is prominently connected with some of the best, strongest, and leading organizations in the city. For honesty and integrity and influence among his people no better man could have been selected for the position of manager. The country is asked to keep its eyes on The Bee for advertisement and full particulars, of the opening of this new up-to-date hotel and for other particulars address Nathaniel Ruffin, manager, the Levington Hotel, 21st and L street. N W. Washi- gton, D. C. FRANK HUME, INC. Importer and Wholesale Dealer in GROCERIES AND LIQUORS. 454 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. d-16-3t Telephone. Main 3148. ELGIN CREAMERY CO. HEADQUARTERS FOR Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Coffee and Tea. 220 Ninth Street N: W. Washington, D. C. d-16-3t Phone North 3229-M. Private Dining Rooms. CHEAPER BOARD THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE CITY FOR THE MONEY. CAFE REEVES For Ladies and Gentlemen. 626 T. STREET NORTHWEST, 2nd Dood from Howard Theater. Residence, 635 T St. N. W. Washington, D. C. d-16-1m H. B. TERRETT, WHOLESALER AND RETAILER OF Fancy Groceries. Provisions, Fruits and Vegetables. Telephone. Main 3887. 950 Louisiana Ave. N. W. d-16-1t PRICE LIST FOR CITY DELIVERY M. J. COLLINS Family Liquor Store. Wholesale and Retail. 1435 H Street N. E. Washington, D. C. Telephone Lincoln 2760. C. S. FAUNCE, 454 NEW YORK AVE., N. W. WOOD, COAL, AND ICE. THE BEE Published at 2109 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months...1.00 Three months....20 Subscription monthly...20 VOTE RIGHT. Colored men of this District should not throw away their vote today. Every man should vote, and vote right. A vote for the so-called Bieber-Wilder ticket for delegates will be a vote thrown away. In the first place, this ticket is against the administration now in power. In the second place, there is no possible chance of its being elected. The colored voters of the District will be sure to repudiate it at the polls today by a large majority. They will repudiate it because of the duplicity it attempted to practice, in trying to let it appear that it was an administration ticket while in reality it is against the administration. Sidney Bieber has told several persons that he had a sore spot for President Taft because he (Bieber) was not made Collector of Customs in place of a colored man, Whitefield McKinley. Dr. Wilder, the colored man associated on the ticket with Mr. Bieber, failing to get the editor of this paper to pull off in order that the anti-Taft ticket might have a clear field, gave out that he was for the renomination of Mr. Taft, and believed his running mate. Bieber, was also for the renomination of Mr. Taft. His running mate, Mr. Bieber, speaking for himself, said he was for an uninstructed ticket, and as; in this case, the dog 'wags the tail, the statement of Mr. Bieber is accepted to mean that he is not for the renomination of Mr. Taft, but is for the nomination of some other man. People do not want a ticket one side of which is against and the other for. People cannot trust such a ticket, and will not trust it. Dr. Wilder is an aspirant for the Haitian Ministership, which he has no possible chance of securing. Mr. Bieber wants to succeed himself as national committeeman for this District. But as he has failed to accomplish anything for the people of the District during the four years he has had it, the people will not want him to serve another four years. The District wants a big man for national committeeman. Bieber, in the estimation of many, is not big enough for the job. The Bieber-Wilder ticket will be defeated by a large majority, in the primary election today. . SHEPARD AND PRITCHARD IN THE NORTH. The tour of Dr. James E. Shepard and Judge J. C. Pritchard in the North is convincing the people of the entire country that the National Religious Training School has the support and confidence of all classes of people. It is a great achievement to get such men as Judge Pritchard, Governor Glenn, Gen. Carr and men of their standing to go North and plead for the Negro; especially is it a remarkable achievement, when you consider that these men were formerly slave owners. The whole race is under a debt of gratitude to Dr. Shepard for his efforts to change the sentiment of the country toward the Negro, and to have it recognize the country as a man. He believes, that a morally trained man is the most valuable asset of a community. That he is doing a monumental work none can deny, and he is doing it without the noise of trumpets and the beating of drums. The Bee ventures the prediction that very soon the whole country will recognize the worth of the man and the great work he is doing for his race. KNOW THEE NOT. When Christ was brought before Pontius Pilat his disciples said "I know him not." How much does this remind the readers of The Bee of the two brave editors of the Washington American, when they answered charges brought against them to the Civil Service Commission. They denied their own existence, but they must answer and say that they are or are not the editors of this paper. The Postoffice Department will be able to show that the American is published by Taylor and Randolph, and edited by them. Why do they now deny that they are not the owners and publishers? It is true, that the entire paper is a patent back and inside, and hence it has an imaginary existence. The Bee will ask no questions, and it will talk not, but will keep within the law in defending itself of the continued attacks of these two office editors. No man but the editor of The Bee writes the editorials for it, and whoever says otherwise is a liar, and when a man is called a liar in France it is settled in a gentlemanly way, and The Bee will settle it. CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN TRAP. The Bee has been saying for some time. "that a man once did sell the lyon's skin while the beast still lived, was killed while hunting him." How well has this been applied to the two individuals that have been persuading The Bee and its Editor. Is this all? By no means. The end has not come as yet, and when it does come, the Bible will be a prophetic dream. The pit that the opposition dug for the Chase-Bradshaw ticket was its own death knell. Who is this that rails against the "Lord's amounted?" The Editor of The Bee is everywhere prepared, and when demagogues attempt to hide their own insincerity it is about time for the devil to pray. The Bristow resolution was aimed at the administration candidates, but the grave-diggers were caught themselves. Let all sinners now believe in NAPOLEON MARSHALL. Napoleon Marshall, writing from St. Louis to The Boston Guardian, criticises the colored office holders who recently held a conference with President Taft. The colored office holders are all men who have reflected credit on the race by earning an honest living before appointment to office. They all had visible means of support, and not one of them were parasites. Can Napoleon Marshall say as much? Is not Marshall running around the country in the pay of the Democrats, making them believe that he has influence when he hasn't influence or energy enough to get a job? Let Mr. Marshall answer these questions before he criticises anybody. Who is fool enough to follow Marshall? Nobody. BAD DREAMS. Freeman Murray must have had a bad dream last week when he wrote that rot about Kelly Miller and the presidency of Howard University for The Boston Mudsock. Murray won't write the truth. He deals in pipe dreams and sensational lies instead of facts. If Murray don't watch out, and continues to be obsessed with the idea that Dr. Booker T. Washington had designs on the whole universe he is liable to go crazy. But let him dream on. He is injuring no one but himself. RECORDER JOHNSON. Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson early endorsed the candidacy of the editor of The Bee for delegate to the Republican National Convention. Mr. Johnson not only endorsed our candidacy, but proffered his assistance and influence. Mr. Johnson is opposed to the Bieber-Wilder ticket because he does not consider it an administration ticket. NAGEL. Secretary Nagel is the man who will be acceptable to the country. Mr. Justice Stafford is another judge who would be acceptable to the Nation. Judge Hook's appointment would defeat the Republican party. The Negroes are against Judge Hook. Vote the Bradshaw-Chase ticket today See that your neighbor votes the same ticket. Remember that the Bradshaw-Chase ticket is the only genuine ticket. But one ticket, to be voted for today, bears the stamp of approval of the Republican party of the District. and that's the Bradshaw- Before Mr. Sidney Bieber asks for the support of the colored men of this city he ought to see that they are not jim-crowed in amusement places with which he may be connected. If a colored man is good enough to vote for you, he ought to be good enough to be allowed to sit anywhere in a theater he is able to pay for a seat. We ask Mr. Bieber, if he will tolerate colored men and women in decent seats in any theater with which he may be connected? President Taft has done more for the District of Columbia, and has taken more interest in advancing its interests than any previous President, and because of this fact the voters should cast their ballots for delegates who will, go to the next National Republican Convention pledged to his renomination. Aaron Bradshaw and Wm. Calvin Chase are pledged to his renomination. It was President Taft, and the only President who ever did so, who insisted that the estimates for the colored schools should be in proportion to the colored enrollment. As a result of President Taft's deep interest in the colored schools, and his demand, that they receive a fair and just appropriation for new buildings, teachers and maintenance, the estimates sent in this year were the highest ever sent in for colored schools of the District. A President who takes this interest in the colored schools deserves the support of the colored people of the District. THE BRADLEY BILL The Emancipation Semi-Centenary On January 1st, 1913, it will have been 50 years since Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery in the United States and setting free four millions of Negro men and women and children From the time that Christopher Columbus set foot on this continent, October 12, 1492, up to January 1st, 1863, no event more farreaching in consequences ever transpired in this Western world. Should such an event be commemorated? Should the ten millions of Negroes in this country put forth their energies and have a national memorable affair, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation? In order that this may be properly planned and executed, brains and money are needed, coupled with experience, and this without help the Negro will not be able to do justice to such a mannoth undertaking. But, it is a matter of nation-wide interest among the Negroes, that one man, standing in the front rank of power and prominence as a national legislator—a man of the South, born and reared among Negroes; the first Republican Governor, that the historic commonwealth of Kentucky, had offered a bill in the United States Senate which, if it passes, Congress will make it possible for the Negroes of the United States to celebrate the Semi-Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, in a manner in keeping with the importance and dignity of the occasion. There is every indication that the bill will pass, but whether it does or not, the Negroes of the United States will not forget United States Senator William O'Connell Bradley, of the State of Kentucky, the erstwhile boy who at the age of 14 ran away thrice and joined the Union army to fight for freedom and thus a patriotic boy has made a great man The Negroes' friends grow fewer with the setting of every sun: and when a man in our National Legislature stands up and champions the cause of ten millions of people whose voices are not heard in the halls of legislation, that man, who stands up for the defenseless and unrepresented, must be a man of nobility of soul, broadness of heart and with charity for the lowly; and such is Senator Bradley. The Negro remembers his few remaining friends; and not only will the Kentucky Negro bless his name and pray for his length of days, but the Negroes of the Nation will ever remember with grateful hearts the kindly consideration shown by the Bradley bill for the semi-centennial exposition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and may yet be able to vote for him to fill an office, even higher than the one which William O'Connell Bradley now fills as United States Senator from Kentucky. Let the Bradley bill speedily pass; let the Negroes commemorate and in that commemoration, remember the man who made it possible for them to show to the world an imperfect picture of progress from 1863 to 1913. Since writing this, the Senator has been informed that his bill will be reported favorably. Thank God for this. Read Them. The attention of the readers of The Bee is invited to a series of articles written especially for this newspaper and contributed by James C. Waters, Jr., Esq., of the local bar. The first of the series entitled "The Tipping System," appears elsewhere in this issue. The subjects of Mr. Waters' articles cover a wide range, and will include "The Church Solnolent," "Mr. Hannis Taylor's Masterpiece," "Tomato Catsup," "The New Race Leadership," etc., etc. Nex week the contributor will discuss the so-called woman question under the caption, "The Woman Pays." Public Men And Things Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac) "Life is a pitching of the penny—heads or tails—we never tire of the game, because there is still a slight sludder of astonishment when the other face turns up." I was ruminating in my thought dome the other night, and this quotation did the Teddy Roosevelt stunt of coming to the front. I believe it was dry Emerson who speeled it off. He's an awfully hard man to read after. His points are so obscured in a climate of dense highbrowism But I am hitting the long trail, so must back up. When this quotation of Emerson swept across my top sail, I just naturally thought of Dr. Harris away down there in South Washington. Now life to Doc. is the pitching of the penny, but they pitch them to him, and as a backstop he's got old Silver Flint, who use to do the backstopping on the sand lots, backed off the boards. Doc is a round, fat, jolly little mixer of dope and nostrums who a fellow likes to talk to Lots of druggists are like cod liver oil—Dr. Harris is just like two pounds of rock candy dissolved in a quart of Golden Wedding Rye, and you know how smooth and palatable that is when you think you are going to have a bad cold. Drop in Doc. Harris' sub-trauma down in South Washington, and if that nice, smooth, home-like, make-yourself-contented style of talk of his don't make you relieve yourself of some of your coin, if only for a cigar, then I will enlist to fight in the Tripoli war. Is he making money? Well, now, it would be just as foolish to ask if the Rigg's Bank is receiving money. He's making it as fast as he can, and I like to see it, because he's a jolly duplicate of Fallstaff. About once a week Doc blows himself for a dime and comes up in the Northwest and calls on his brother; pill purveyors, and other cuarenta, as my Spanish friends would call old time friends. Ain't it funny that lots of times the fellows, you hear the less about are really the fellows, who have got the gray matter pretty well stored up in their brain cells. Now there's Fountain Peyton. You never see his name mentioned in the list of guests at the President's reception, and over in Le Drout Park, where pennyroyle society is always in a jam with the climber's brigade, you never meet Fountain at any of the pink tiles, and yet, when you come down to figure out niches for these Blackstonians, you just have to carve a pretty good size rich for Fountain, because he is a sure-encounter lawyer. Some months ago Fountain got it into his brain-mow that up in the Northwest—away up there where La Follette and Uncle Like Stephenson come from, they were of lawyers that they would take anything that come along, so he packed his grip, bought a first-class ticket for most of the distance, and sat out for the country that caused Horace Greely to write "Go Widow had race Greely." But Fountain didn't stay long. One morning we woke up in Washington to discover that Fountain was in our midst again. Fountain's a peculiar sort of a fellow. He's got his sign on him, and as a result he don't mix as much with the men as he should. All the lawyers, and that includes myself, because I graduated in law, hand it to him for being a lawyer. George Collins, who is also a sort of hide-and-go-seek member of the bar, told me right on Louisiana avenue, while standing only four feet from Melenez King, the probable first chief justice of the Chinese republic, that Fountain Peyton is a real, sure-encounter lawyer, and one who can back most of the present-day saints off the boards when it comes to knowing what law is. If Fountain would just snuff out that false light of his that blazes the way to reclusiveness, and mix more with the Son of Ham, he'd be a headliner most every week on the public bill board. Come Fountain, break your face up into a smile occasionally, like Bob Pendleton, and occasionally practice the "turkey trot" like Royal Hughes, and blow the boys to a two-for-a-federal-dollar cigar, a few times, like liberal Tom Beckett, and you'll soon be a room-mate for Bill Optimist I heard Prof, Kelly Miller given a new title the other day, "the Great Pacificator." It seems as though Prof. Miller has been gum-shooting it around through the Eighth Precinct trying to patch up this school case: trying to get the three sagebrush worriers on the school board to permit Little Lord Fauntleroy, like Daniel of old, to enter the lion's den without being made a hammerger stake by the lions. Now I guess it isn't no secret, so I can give it out Fact is Prof. Miller has no secrets, except returned manuscripts, that come back marked "not available." Kiley is a dear old soul who has confidence in everybody, and believes everybody is just as innocent as he is of an unkind deed or thought. Well one day, some few weeks ago, so a brilliant lady teacher told me, Kelly conceived the idea of forming an arbitration board consisting of five responsible colored celebrities for the colored board members, and five irreproachable members of the colored "who" fraternity for Bruce, he to make the eleventh member who would vote only in case of a tie. It was a beautiful scheme, and even the angels fluttered their wings in apprehension when they got the news up in Paradise. Now in order not to hurt the feelings, or inconvenience the three board members, Kelly conceived the idea of the board members dictating the arbitrators both for themselves and for Bruce. Wonderful psychological thought! Now if the ten arbitrators decided against Bruce, according to Kelly's "surecatch" mouse trap, "Little Lord Fauntleroy (minus hair on head) was to chase himself out of his job, and proceed to support his family on oxygen and nebular promises. On the other hand if the arbitrators decided in favor of the ivory-domed head of the colored schools, the colored members of the school board would be allowed, to increase the climatic disturbances by exclaiming in a harsh, guttural tone of voice, "the villan still persuas him," and Little Son of His Father would be expected to continue to duck and dodge the blows. How Kelly ever evolved such an unusually fair, and such a stupendous scheme of arbitration without bursting every dogged spindle in his brain room. I can't for my life understand if Kelly ever gets his scheme of arbitration copyrighted, patented, and entered in the postoffice as fourth-class matter, his fortune is made. If Compers should hear of it, he would ask Victor Berger to introduce it in the House as a constitutional amendment to the constitution. I did hear that Kelly thought so well of it that he went down to the Eighth Police Prescinct station and unfolded the whole scheme to Capt. Doyle, and then he asked Captain what he thought of it. "Wait a minute," said the Captain to the nubian dean, and reaching for the telephone, he said, to the operator, "Give me Lincoln 14:26." That was enough. Kelly knew that number was St. Elizabeth's phone call, and he hurriedly left without thanking the Captain for listening to him but as I said heretofore, before hand, and priorly, Prof. Miller is one of those dear good old souls (and he ain't old by a long time), who loves unity, and he can't bear to know of any discord, and he won't stand for estrangement, even if he has to apply his arbitration lotion. I wonder what Teddy would say in The Outlook to Kelly's peace arbitration treaty? For heaven's sake, don't tell hint. When a fellow gets to hitting this drug store whisky as a regular diet, it's the hospital next. I was up to Freedman's the other day to see a one-time friend of mine, who is sick up there, sick because he has experimented too much with drug store whisky—the kind that corrodes the bowels, torpifies the liver, and granolitholizes the kidneys. He's all down in the ash heap now, but he use to be a good scout, and I like him for his past. A fellow's past ought to be an asset once in a while. You know these hard drinkers, especially the drug store whisky drinkers, or rather the drinkers of drug store whisky, all have some excuse for dipping their bill down into the red corn juice. Now I said to my friend, said I, "Junius Brutus Cicero, what made you enter on this last free-for-all race with death over the whisky route?" "Tapeworms," he laconically replied. "Tapeworms?" said I. "Yes, tapeworms. You see them there tapeworms in my stomach jest got to stamping around, and a gnawing at my insides until I could stand it no longer, and whisky is the only thing that will stop 'em. They wanted whisky, wouldn't rest till I gave it to them, and just had to give it to them." This was a new excuse for me, so I asked him how much whisky an ordinary healthy tapeworm could stand. "These here tapeworms I've got jest can stand all you can give 'em to drink, 'he said. Now whenever you see one of your friends blowing the foam off a glass of beer, or watching the beads settle in a glass of fermented rye, you will know what's the matter—their tapeworms have sent in the riot alarm. Major Young. The United States Army establishment has a new major "of color"—the only one now in the service Capt. Charles Young, whose long and useful career as a West Point student, military instructor at Wilberforce, military attache at Port-an-Prince, Haiti, soldier in Cuba, the Philippines, on the Mexican border and at various posts in this country, is well known to every follower of current history, has successfully passed the examination required, and is now a full-fledged major in the regular army. The test was given at Fort Riley, Kansas, before a board composed of veteran military tacticians. Major Young came out with flying colors. He sails this week for Monrovia, Liberia, to assume the duties of military attach at the American legation. One of his primary responsibilities will be the organization of a Liberian constabulary. Major Young will be accompanied by three bright young college men, who will bear military titles conferred by the Liberian Government, and will draw hand-some, salaries, paid out of the Liberian customs collections, over which an American receiver-general will have jurisdiction. Dr. Wilson Ballard, of Louisville, Ky., will be a major at $2,000 per annum and quarters; Dr. Arthur Brown, of Chicago, and Mr Richard Newton, of Washington, D. C., will be captains at $1,600 per annum and quarters. These young men have been selected by Major Young because of their exceptional fitness for the work in hand and because of the inspiration their recognition will bring to others of the race now struggling for opportunities to rise. Major and Mrs. Young are the guests of the Dickerson family, at 1711 11th Street. Mrs. Young, a Californian by birth, will remain in Washington for the present, as she desires to see something of Washington and the East before leaving for foreign shores. The Youngs have been the recipients of much social attention during their stay here Second District Meeting. The Republicans of the second district met in Salem Baptist Church last Tuesday evening. There were about 150 men present. Thomas W. Ray presided, and speeches were made by Attorney Perri W. Frisby and W. T. Soder. A. Γ. Gaskins. Gaskins' restaurant, at 320 Eighth Street Northwest, is no doubt one of the best places in the city to be accommodated. Mr. Aaron J. Gaskins, is a polite and dignified gentleman. He conducts an up-to-date cafe, where dinner parties are served in first-class style. Private dining room for parties of three or more. Anything cocked to order. THE TICKET TO VOTE FOR The Ticket That the Twenty-two Districts and Other Organizations Have Indored. National Delegates. Aaron Bradshaw. (21st District). W. Calvin Chase. (9th District). National Alternates. Dr. William Tindall. (1st Dist). Dr. Chas. H. Marshall (4th Dist.). The foregoing is the ticket that the Republicans of the District of Columbit have indored, and it is for the re- nomination and election of President Wm. H. Taft. FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. Good Condition of the Organization. Washington, D. C. Feb 5, 1912 The Laborers' and Mechanics' Realty Company: Report of Auditing Committee of the Laborers' and Mechanics' Realty Company: We, the Auditing Committee of the Laborers' and Mechanics' Realty Company, examined and audited the books and make the following statement: In going over the accounts of Mr. Bowie for twenty months, from May 1, 1910, to December 31, 1911, we have not found a single error. We found the books kept in a neat and business like manner, and, wish to highly commend Mr. Bowie for his careful and accurate methods. We hereby certify that the following grand totals for the time mentioned to be correct to our best knowledge and belief. Receipts ..... $20,806.55 Expenditures ..... 19,936.78 Balance, Dec. 31. 1911..... $869.77 Respectfully submitted. E. W. TURNER, Chairman, Com. THORNTON, M. HUNT, Secy. DORA JOHNSON, MAGGIE ROBINSON, S. S. CORBIN. Washington, D. C., Feb. 5, 1912. To the Laborers' and Mechanics' Reality Company: As a member of the Auditing Committee, I have examined the financial standing and the books of your Secretary and Treasurer, and desire to make the following statement, in connection with the report submitted. Each entry in the day book and ledger from May 1, 1910, to December 31, 1911, was carefully checked and verified, and found absolutely correct. Such a record is worthy of your approval and a determination to accomplish greater results. Six years ago you organized this company with seven (7) members and $14.00. Today you have 500 members and $30,000.00 of taxable property, with Mr John W. Lewis and Mr. Wim. A Bowie at the helm, who have proved to you, that they are proficient, honest and faithful servants. To appreciate their services, you should rally to their support, increase your stock and membership. Sufficient has been the record of the Laborers' and Mechanics' Realty Company to guarantee an effort to make it the leading financial institution in the District of Columbia, where the average man and woman can invest their spare earnings and realize a good interest or dividend. Thus you will assist in establishing an industry and give employment to worthy members of the race. Hoping this report may create renewed confidence, and a more loyal support to the principles and officers of the company, I am ever yours for success. Third Baptist Church. Rev Jas H Lee, D. D, who has been somewhat indisposed this winter, is again out, and Sunday preached two inspiring sermons, at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M., respectively. The earnest appeal to sinners to seek salvation is being rewarded by several converts. The revival services will continue. Quite interesting are the Christian Endeavor meetings held at 6 P. M. each Sunday "Christian Endeavor Day" last Sunday was celebrated in appropriate exercises, including an address by Mr. Jas. R. Moss, the president of the Christian Endeavor Society of Shiloh Baptist Church. His address on the origin and mission of Christian Endeavor was inspiring and full of hope. The ideals of C. L. were fully explained by him, to the large audience present. Next Sunday the topic Christian virtues: "Generosity," will be explained by Hon. Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor of the Navy. The singing will be conducted by Mr. A. D. Gilmore. of the Shiloh Baptist Church choir, assisted by Mr. Reynolds. Indications are a large attendance will be out to greet the speaker. All are welcome. Alice V. Lewis, secretary. J. H. Coleman, president. Richards Club. The Richards Literary Club met at the residence of Miss Rachel Guy, 2017 B. Street Northwest It was "guest night," and the club entertained as honored guest Prof. B. G Brawley, of Howard University, who discussed the topic of the evening, "Michael Angelo as a Sculptor." Not only did he discuss Michael Angelo as a sculptor, but related the entire life of this great artist in a way that could only be attributed to a man of his ability. In addition to the discourse of Prof. Brawley, Miss Guy, the hostess, rendered several vocal selections: "Just A.Wearying for You," and "You'll Never Miss the Sunshine Until the Shadows Fall." At the conclusion of the program covers were laid for a palatable repast. VOTE THE BRADSHAW-CHASE The Week in Society Your doctor wants your prescriptions filled right. He wants results Neither you nor the doctor will be disappointed if your prescriptions are filled at the drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912½ 14th St., and 9th and You Sts. N. W. They employ four graduates in pharmacy, skilled and experienced, and you get the results in perfect service. Miss Lillian M. Johnson, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., anticipates visiting friends in this city shortly. Miss M. P. Murrell, a teacher of English in the Armstrong Manual Training School, was married last Saturday and will reside in Cairo, Ili. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Jackson and family, of Savannah, Ga., are now residing in this city. Mrs. Martha Brown and daughter Miss Martha, of Parkersburg, W. Va., are visiting in Anacostia. Mrs. Julia Hayes was in Richmond, Va., last week, visiting relatives and friends. Dr. J. W. Morse is about tired of "deer" hunting, and has decided to offer his best cream and soda to the public at surprising prices. He wears a smile that will not come off. Miss Naria E. Coates, a graduate nurse of Freedman's Hospital, is now located in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Lillian B. Henderson, who has been spending several weeks in this city with Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Tignor, has returned to her home in Indianapolis, Ind. During her stay she was royally entertained. Mr. John F. Collins returned to Harrisburg, Pa. after spending a week in this city. Mr. Edward J. Walton returned to Harrisburg, Pa., last week, after a pleasant stay in this city with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Clayton, of this city, spent a few hours in Gordonsville, Va., while en route to Massic, Va. Mrs. Ann Rowlin, of Gordonsville, Va., is visiting in this city. Miss Lena Armstrong, of Gordons-They met at Dr. Morse's Gem Drug Store and saw themselves in front of that beautiful fountain, 19th and L streets Northwest. ville, is visiting here. Mr. Arthur Williams, who has been spending three weeks in Cambridge, has returned to this city after a very pleasant visit. Mrs. Bertha Green Nesbitt, of this city, who is visiting friends in Dayton, Ohio, is being royally entertained. Mr. G. Holmes, who has been visiting in Toledo, Ohio, has returned to this city. Miss Florence Young, of this city, is the guest of her aunts, Mrs. J. H. Johnston, Mrs. A. R. Jackson and Mrs. T. R Jefferson, in Connellville, Pa. Drs Board and McGuire, 14th St. N. W. and 9th and You Streets N. W. continue to treat their patrons in a manner that continues to draw them. J. Finley Wilson, manager of the Hair Vim Co. is spending a few days in Norfolk, Va. Mr. George Noble has gone to Norfolk, Va. for a few days. Mrs Ellen Brooks Gross, of Baltimore, Md. spent a few days of last week in our city, visiting Mrs. Walter Lawson, of 320 You Street N. W. Mrs. Almora M. Hawkins, of Newburgh, N. Y., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Porter, of 718 23d St. N.W. Mr. Miles C. Maxwell is sick at his home, 1229 First street N. W. If you want hot soda, don't fail to call on Dr. John W. Morse, 19th and L streets Northwest. WEST WASHINGTON. The article appearing in last week's issue of The Bee in a statement of Mr. Geo. T. Beason, a prominent member of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, has caused no little degree of gossip among the fraternity in this section, and the decision of the S.C. of M., of the order, is awaited with much interest, as to whether the defendant will be sustained in his contention as to the contempt charged. The First Baptist Sunday school held very interesting exercises last Sunday, the Men's Day was very appropriately observed, and an excellent program, under the direction of the superintendent, Mr. Jos. N. Lawson, was presented Rev. E. E. Ricks, the pastor, concluded the service in a very instructive address. The usual monthly song and praise service of Mt. Zion M. E. school took place on Sunday morning last, and was largely attended, in which an interesting program was presented Mrs. Marie Wheeler, superintendent of the school, concluded the exercise. Special music, under the direction of Mr. Jas. L. Turner, accompanied by the organ and piano. Miss Emma Williams, Miss V. Watts, and Mr. Ernest Hayes, assisted by Mr. John Bird, violinist. The Epworth League of Mt. Zion M E Church has arranged a special program for Sunday afternoon, 4:30. The Hon. Frank W. Hackett, Asst. Secy. of the Navy, under President Lincoln, will address the meeting. Mr. Douglass Smith will be the presiding officer. The Bee is the people's paper. Why don't you have it sent to your home? Seasons may come and seasons may change, but the crowds go on forever at the two drug stores of Board & McGuire, 1912$^{1}$ 14th St. and 9th and You Sts. N. W. Two places (By R. H. Brooks, 723 So. Fairfax St.) The evangelistic campaign at Alfred St. Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. S. L. Johnson, D. D., assisted by Rev. Alexander Truitt, D. D., the able pastor, was a most remarkable success and closed on Sunday night, Feb. 3d. Rev Johnson left for Richmond the early part of the week to conduct a series of meetings in that city. Rev. Johnson lays the plan of Salvation plainly before the people without any whooping or "Bible-Beating" so characteristic of so many colored evangelists. In Rev. Johnson's system of conducting revival meetings we find absolutely no undue excitement. His lectures are all in plain English. His adduces are all clear and concise; and seldom does his voice rise above normal. His interest manifested in the men surpasses that of most of our divines, and it can be said without fear of successful contradiction that with the exception of Rev. George W, W. Jenkins, D D, (now pastor Simpson M. E. Church, Wheeling, W. Va). Rev. Johnson has done more toward clearing the way between our men and their Lord than any who have come to labor in this field during the past decade The men of the city are unanimous in extending him a standing invitation to return to them.' "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God" was the subject selected by Mr. Clarence H. Madella in addressing the children of the Junior Epworth League at Roberts Chapel on Sunday. His discourse was arranged with a chronological precision equal to a graduate from a theological seminary of the highest rank. Indeed so much so that, in congratulating him, several of his friends told him that, as a preacher, the only thing he lacked was a license from the church. Little Master Hackley furnished the principal number on the children's program. He recited Mark Anthony's address to the Romans, and did much credit to himself, the League and his tutor and guardian, Lawyer Edmund Hill. The Whist Club will give a Valentine Dance at St. Mary's Hall, on Feb. 14th. The Regular monthly meeting of the young men's Bible Class was held at Alfred St. Baptist Church on Monday evening, February 5th Edward P. Dixon, Jr. presided. Mr. John F. Parker, principal of Snowden Public School, will address the Methodist Brotherhood at Roberts Chapel Sunday, February 18. The male choir is preparing special music for the occasion. Mr. Edgar J. Johnson is overhauling the organ at Alfred Street Baptist Church. Miss Rose Clark is improving after a spell of illness. Mr. Robert Burke, the confectioner, remains quite ill. The Bee is on sale at David Ware's barber shop, 101 N. Columbus St., and Miss Julia Browne, No. 200 N. Payne Street. He was in the West End, and he was told to carry his doctor's prescription to Dr. Morse, 19th and L Streets Northwest. BASKET BALL. Lively Contest Between Howard, Jones and Other Schools. Three basket ball games Saturday night, brimful of classy playing, and three extra halves of exhibition playing, kept an audience of over 300 spectators thrilled throughout the evening. Howard Varsity team furnished the most expert sample of skill and team work, but considering age and experience the teams of M Street. Armstrong, Howard Academy, Commercial High, Jones and Garrison, lightweight grade school teams, are not far behind. For individual honors of the evening, Gilmore, Oliver, R. Jones, E. Mabry, T. Taylor, W. Smith, Green, Hughes, Holland, Dandridge, Walker, Tatum, R. Green, Maynard, Hart and Lewis Up-to-Date Moving Picture Theater. Pictures Changed Daily. Admission 5 cents. LAMES H. HUDNELL, Manager HIAWATHA THEATRE The Hiawatha Theatre, on 11th Street, above You, Northwest, will have Lincoln and Douglass Night Monday, February 12th. Special pictures and Music. It will be the best show of the year. Admission 5 cents. Hiawatha Theater. Beginning Saturday, February 17, Children's Matinee's every Saturday, 2:15 P. M. Juvenile pictures. Cinderella, Three Bears, Jack and Bean Stalk, and many others. Cinderella, Saturday, February 17. Select music with lecturer, and lady attendant will constitute the program. Five cents admission. R. H. Murray, Manager. sc-Hiawata Theater-ra have the call on others in their different classes. With regard to the presence of many P. S. A. L. workers, Messrs. Washington, Nixon and Henderson placed the strictest interpretation on the rules, and as a result all of the games were fast, clean and hard played. M Street High School team had little difficulty in defeating the Hiawatha Athletic Club five. The final score was 21 to 12. The game was fast and both teams were equally skillful, but lack of stamina played havoc with the club quint. Mabry, ot the Hiawathas, was all over the floor, shot with accuracy from the field and foul line for the largest number of points gained by any individual. The entire M Street team did well. Rector missed several nice chances, Green was good in forward, and shot one of the prettiest seen in the hall; Holland, as usual, had the goods; Randall gave evidence of a coming star, and netted six points, although a little lacking in endurance, but "Cotton" Hughes, of M Street, showed the greatest reversal of form, and played a faultless, heady game as guard, although not in the best of condition through injuries. R. Jones, next to Mabry, did the best work for his team, clean, consistent playing marked his playing, with not a foul scored against him. Lewis was fouled three times by the Referee for elbowing his opponent at the jumps, and thereby showed ivory tendency in so evident a manner. Moody cannot play basket ball as formerly; his team mates have gone 'way head of him in the game in the past two years. J. Jones plays clean and well. Business High boys repeated with Tech as the victim, the score being 9 to 8, after a session of two fierce halves; Tech led for the greater part of the game, but Tatum and Walker got in a couple of shots and put the game on ice. Neither team has for; wards who are quick, accurate shots, due to practice around an indoor court. Tech's team is entirely of green material, but with the opening of the new gymnasium, Armstrong and Commercial teams will be as good as the best. Dandridge and T. Taylor were the stars of the contest, with Tatum, Walker, Savoy and Smith close up, Smith fouled much, but played well, and was in the game all the way. Burnell impfoves, but is still a little crude. Garrison school won from the Jones lightweight team by the score of 7 to 3 in the fastest game that has marked this class of contests in the P. S. A. L. series. The Jones boys suffered some by reason of being lighter than the Garrison boys, but the playing of the Garrison kiddies was good enough to win. Coach Holland has been giving considerable attention to Garrison, and undoubtedly relishes the victory of his charges. Jones boys could stand a little more weight, and still be lightweights. Three of the squad could add fifteen pounds more each and yet be under 95 pounds; undoubtedly this places Jones at a handicap with other schools. One of the Jones forwards is due to make one of the best in the game, who now weighs only 76 pounds, but is good as any of the heavier boys. Howard Varsity had easy innings with the Academy five and St. Mary's five in exhibition halves, while the Preps ran rings around the St. Mary's team in a later session. Summaries. Jones School. Garrison School. R. F. H Brown.....R. Green L. F. C Hart.....W. Carter C. A. Dyer.....Maynard R. G G. Lewis.....Jackson L. G. D Baltimore.....Williams Goals from field, Green 1, Maynard 1. Jackson 1: goals from foul, Brown 3. Green 1. Referee, Mr. E. B. Henderson; Umpire, Mr. Nixon; Timer, Mr. M. P. Robinson; Scorer, Mr. B. Brown. M. St. H. S. Hiawatha. R.F. Green, Capt.....Mabry L.F. Rector.....Moody C. Randall.....J. Jones R.G. Hughes.....H. Lewis L.G. Between now and the end of June the great General Conference of the A. M. E. Church will have met and passed into history. Representing as it does the largest organization of colored people, in the world, this conference will attract great crowds of people, both interested and curious, and will be the subject of editorial and conversation for many months to come. Already it is the subject of newspaper comment and conversation in many quarters, but in addition to that it has become the objective point of about as sickening a scramble as ever worldling engaged in. It has been my intention for a long time to say something somewhere about certain doings in the A. M. E. Church, but for various reasons I have delayed saying it, so far as the public press has been concerned. I have, however, been saying a good deal here and there privately, by way of conversation and letters to men I have known from boyhood, and from the replies to my letters I am permitted to feel that I have been able to contribute a part—a small and inconspicuous part, of court, but nevertheless a part—toward that readjustment of affairs, in the A. M. E. Church which is certain to come up in the next general conference, though it will take several general conferences, aided by the withering hand of death, to bring about its full consummation. Observing a recent call on the part of one of the church editors for a "regulation," by the coming national conclaves of Methodism, of graft and Mormonism in the church, I have determined to offer as my contribution this week a copy of a letter sent by me a few days ago to a young man who will be at the next General Conference of the A. M. E. Church, and whose voice will be heard there as certainly as grass grows and water runs. The letter reads in part as follows: "Dear Doc: It is a question in my mind as to whether I shall ever at any time in my life receive a letter, which will find a warmer welcome than did yours of recent date. Besides the pleasure of hearing from a very likely fellow who retains his sterling qualities in spite of the fact that he is a preacher, your letter brought forth a whole host of recollections, like a 'song of other days' back 'along the road to yesterday' it took me to the time when we were the leaders of the jolly bunch who used to play 'pompey' to our intense enjoyment and the scandal of the parsonage yard. Then suddenly I brought up with a jolt. Know what happened? I thought of the two kids we used to call on over in Red Hill. You remember them, I'm sure: they had that terrible father whom we used to refer to as an 'institution' Ha, ha, ha. I say, Doc., though I freely admit that you were the moralist end of our 'pard-ship' in those days. I do not believe that even you ever thought the worst would come—that you would actually turn out to be a preacher. * * * * * * * * "So you are to be a delegate to the General Conference of the A. M. E. Church, eh? Well, 'good evening.' I am glad you are going, Doc, for it gives me a chance to ask you one or two of the questions I have asked others. Before I ask my questions, however, I will relate an incident. One evening in late August, 1910; I was standing on Fourteenth Street, this city, talking to several gentlemen who were getting ready to attend the great "B. M. C." of the Odd Fellows, in Baltimore. After listening for a time to 'the real dope' as handed out by the gentlemen, I asked 'How can you fellows be so sure about pulling things off as you say you will? I understand the delegates will number several hundred. Won't they have anything to say about it?' 'Aw, the delegates be durned,' answered one of the gentlemen; 'the delegates will do as they are told.' Now I want to ask if you are going to do as you are told? And if you are, what have you been told? Why are you going to the general conference anyway? Are you going there to 'flabbergaste' and elect 'nigger bishops' or, are you going there to legislate and elect Negro Bishops? "I will define, in inverse order. A Negro Bishop is a churchman, identified with the Negro race, who has been duly elected by delegates lawfully assembled for that purpose; who has been ordained by the proper authority, and who represents in the fullest sense the terms imply. Christianity, scholarly attainment, moral force, and dignity among men. The "nigger bishops" are the make-believe boys. They are the fellows who adopt the clothing and simulate the dignity of the real thing; who rant and swagger at the drop of a hat: who traffic in pulpits as the modern Hebrew syndic traffics in metals, both base and precious; who slip and slide around 'neath the cloak of night like second story artists; who, although their traveling expenses are paid by the Financial Department, never fail to accept the collection, however small, lifted by the pastor Specialty made of Constitutions and Pamphlets BUSINESS OFFICE and PLANT. 1109 EYE STREET. N. W. PHONE MAIN 4078 Uptown Office: 1212 Fla. Ave.. N. W. Phone: North 2642-y We can tell you fifty more why it will be vantage to buy Carpets from us. Just one is sufficient We make it possible to have everything for home comfort. Anything you charged on an which is made your circumstance gest. Come where every price and before there's a how or when you PETER C and Sons 'to pay the Bishop's fare to the next station'; who stoop to every manner of spitefulness, such as removing a pastor after a single year's service, from a charge which pays handsomely and sending him with his wife and little ones to some 'Turtle Creek' mission', or 'Snake Run' circuit; who always see to it that the trusted lackey is on hand at the annual conference to say 'I move that the sum of $150.00 be presented to the Bishop with the prayers of the Conference,' followed by the faithful jack-snapes with, 'I second the motion' (and the motion is always carried, ybn know): who cannot listen with even common decency to a pastor's report at the annual conference until he has heard a snug sum mentioned as 'dollar Money' (the same being the fund out of which his salary and perquisite come, and is therefore, of course, first;) who bully and browbeat the elders and ministers under them, like the cowards that they are: who, asking everything and giving nothing, have perverted the words Holy Writ making them read, Very lee, very-lye, I say unto you, it is more blessed to receive than to give: who— I say, Doc, the Bishops for whom you will vote at the coming general conference, to which of these two classes do they belong? "Some months ago the New York Age denounced the pastor of an A. M. E. Church for being a drunkard. Now the New York Age is 'boosting' the same fellow for one of the general offices of the church. I do not know the chap personally, but I have known of him for years, and he is notorious in three cities for being a rummy of the first water. Are you going to vote for this fellow? Another mutt is candidate to succeed himself as editor of the 'Weekly Lemon' the church publishes. I have had some dealings with him personally I shall not tell you of them, lest you think I am prejudiced against him on that account. You get the paper? What of it? What of the methods used in its management? Write a letter to the editor. What kind of an answer do you get, all things considered? This same journalistic joke was held up to obloquy by the New York Age some months ago, and the editor came back with a table of statistics, as if every one didn't know what figures are, and what they can be made to do. Are you going to vote for this chap? "In Baltimore there are Bethel, Trinity, St. John's, Waters Chapel and one or two others, all of them considered 'plums.' Bethel, Baltimore, is a queen among churches. The gentleman who is pastor of Bethel was pastor of Trinity in 1897 fifteen years ago—and he hasn't been out of Baltimore in all that time. The gentleman who was pastor of Waters Chapel in 1897 is one of my best friends The truth won't hurt him, however, for I want to tell you that he passed from big pulpit to big pulpit in Baltimore for all those year until he was made a general officer at the last General Conference The same thing is true in Chicago and other cities In the Baltimore Annual Conference gang rule has reach THE JANE FREEMAN BOOT Announces Classes in Cooking, S Branches taught by competent Apply to MRS.. J. Announces Classes in Cooking, Sewing, Shampooing, Manicuring. Branches taught by competent teachers. For further particulars Apply to Washing Phone North 7681. should you reasons be to your ad- tion Furniture and one sufficient possible for you necessary start AT ONCE. wish will be open account payable as ences may sug- you can read do the buying question about you desire to pay. HIROGAN Ins Co ed a perfection that would put "Fingy" Conners to shame and make Hinky Dink, of Lorimer fame, look like a sick 'chitlin' fiend, and the worst of it all is, that the fellows who are behind it are with few exceptions a lot of handkerchief-heads who adopted preaching because ward heeling was less profitable. What is the matter with the men in the Baltimore Annual Conference? Are they like those other fellows, doing what they are told? "That mediocrity should triumph over excellence is a sorry fact wherever it transpires. It was lamented most bitterly not long ago by Mayor Gaynor, of New York, as he told of how the late Edward M. Shepard had striven for political honor—in vain. You and others like you are college men, and seminarians, too. Are you going to act like a lot of slaves all your lives, and allow these miserable abuses to go on in the A. M. E. Church unchecked? Of course, you can 'get in on de graft' yourself, but do you want to do it? Have you, too, been told?" 'Doc, my lad, I know the A. M. E Church, and you know I do. I was born and reared in its midst. My father was one of its pastors at the time of his death, and you know that. too. It is one of the grandest organizations in the world. Those who fill its pews and the rank and file of its ministers are a part of the salt of the earth. The vast good they do every day in this nation makes the people thereof, though they may not be willing to admit it, their debtors. As Dr. Seelig said to DeLota in "As a Man Thinks,"—"New York deserves the very best Jews"—so in my opinion, it is to be said of the good people of the A. M. E Church: they deserve the best Bishops—real ones, not the "nigger" kind—and the best general officers, and it's up to you and the other young men to see that they get them. The old aces are not going to do much, as a rule; you young men will have to do it yourselves, and I am sure you will do your part. If I thought there was any possibility of your failing to do your utmost to deal a mortal blow to the evils I have referred to in this letter, when you get to the General Conference, and even before then. I would be unable to sign myself as I do. Yours. of our better days. The -Mirror Institute of Beauty Culture and F. St. N. W. Hair dressing, manueuring, scalp treatment, shampooing, and all branches thoroughly taught by competent instructors, late of N Y. City. Learn right and face the world. The most pleasant and remunerative occupation. The Goldfeld Orchestra entertained by the Columbian orchestra Auditorium Hall, 8th st. bet. E & G, southeast Friday, February 16 Continuous dancing from 6 to 2 TH SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIES Sewing, Shampooing, Manicuring. It teachers. For further particulars F. BOOTH, 1914 Third St. N. W. ton, D. C. "JIM WATERS." To the Republican Voters of the District of Columbia. We, the undersigned, constituted an election board by the Republican National Committee, to direct and supervise the election of delegates and alternates from the District of Columbia to the Republican National Convention to be held in the city of Chicago on Tuesday, June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, under and by virtue of the authority vested in us by the said Republican National Committee, do hereby adopt and promulgate the following regulations, and arrangements for holding and governing said election: Official Call of the Republican National Committee Under Date of December 12, 1911. "The election of delegates from the District of Columbia shall be held under the direction and supervision of an Election Board composed of Leonard P. Bradshaw, Esquire, John Lewis Smith, Esquire, and Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, of the District of Columbia. This Board shall have authority to fix the date of said election, subject to prior provision herein, and to arrange all details incidental thereto; and shall provide, for a registration of the votes cast, such registration to include the name and residence of each voter." In accordance with the requirements of this official call notice is hereby given that the election of delegates and alternates to the next Republican National Convention to be held in the City of Chicago on Tuesday. June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, will take place on SATURDAY, TENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, nineteen hundred and twelve. Every male citizen of the District of Columbia twenty-one years of age or over, without regard to past political affiliation, who believes in the principles of the Republican Party and indorses its policies, and who has resided in the District of Columbia for one year next prior to the date of the registration and election herein provided for and has resided for two months next prior thereto in his voting precinct, and who does not claim citizenship elsewhere shall have the right to vote. The District of Columbia shall be divided into twenty-two election precincts corresponding with what has formerly been known as the legislative districts. The voting places shall be hereafter designated. Prior to the election, this election board shall appoint for each polling place three citizens of known integrity as a board of judges whose duty it shall be on the day of the registration and election to determine the qualifications of the voters as herein prescribed, to receive, count, announce and return the ballots to a Returning Board hereinafter provided for. Said board of judges shall choose one of its members as chairman and another as clerk. The Election Board shall, prior to the election, select three citizens, qualified voters as hereinbefore prescribed, as a Returning Board. The polls shall be kept open during such hours of the day as this Election Board shall hereafter determine. No person will be eligible to vote who shall not have registered. The Election Board will furnish ballots printed in plain type which shall contain the following words only: "For delegates and alternates to the Republican National Convention in the City of Chicago, Ill., June 18, 1912. Delegates _____ Alternates _____." Each board of judges shall ascertain and determine the qualifications of any person offering to register. If the right to register and vote is challenged by any person said board of judges shall at once determine finally such person's right to register and cast a vote. When any such challenge is made no other vote shall be received by the board until it shall have determined the qualification of the person whose right is challenged. The Returning Board shall choose one of its members as chairman and another as clerk. At the expiration of two hours from the close of the polls, said returning Board shall convene to receive the returns from the several boards of judges at such place as may be hereafter designated. Said Returning Board shall unseal the Each board of judges shall keep a registration record, upon which shall be entered before the vote is deposited, the full name of the voter, his street and the number of his residence. No voter shall be allowed to deposit his ballot until such registration is fully completed. Ten minutes prior to the closing of the polls, the chairman of each board of judges shall announce that the polls will be closed at the time hereafter to be fixed by this Board o. Election. At the close of the polls, each board of judges shall open the boxes and openly count the ballots cast and made a return thereof, to be signed by them, or a majority of them, which returns shall state the name of the persons for whom ballots are cast, the number received by each, and shall thereupon make a public declaration of the results. The board of judges or a majority of them immediately after making such declaration shall seal up all the ballots and over their names shall address and deliver the same, duly certified, together with the registration record, to the Returning Board within two hours from the time of such sealing. In no case shall the board of judges adjourn until its duties are completed. packages of ballots and tabulate the returns as made by the boards of judges. No appeal shall be allowed by the Returning Board from a decision of the board of judges relative to the qualification of a voter. When the Returning Board shall have completed its tabulation, it shall openly announce the names of persons for whom votes have been cast and the number received by each. The Returning Board or a majority of them shall upon the completion of its duties file immediately with the Election Board a statement over their signatures showing the names of the persons for whom votes have been cast and the number received by each candidate. This Election Board, or a majority of them, shall give to each of the two candidates for delegate and to each of the two candidates for alternates on the ballot receiving the greatest number of votes a certificate of election as delegates and alternates, respectively, to the Republican National Convention. To secure recognition under this call each ticket must be complete, consisting of two candidates for delegates and two candidates for alternates, and must be indorsed in writing by at least one hundred citizens of the District of Columbia, to be filed with the election board at its office in the Union Building, 619-21 G Street Northwest, on or before 12 o'clock noon, Thursday, February first, nineteen hundred and twelve. The candidates comprising each ticket must deposit with the Finance Committee to be selected by the Election Board on or before January thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, the sum of four hundred ($400.00) dollars, payment to be made to the chairman of the Finance Committee on or before 12 o'clock noon, February first, nineteen hundred and twelve. The money so subscribed will be used to defray the expenses covering the purchase of, registration books, printing of ballots, compensation of judges of election and clerks, registration and voting booths, and other necessary expenses. The Finance Committee will make all disbursements, and after this election is closed an accounting will be held and any unexpended balance remaining in the hands of the Finance Committee will be returned to the candidates representing each ticket, every ticket to receive its pro-rata of the surplus. Changes or amendments to these regulations may be made in the discretion of the Election Board. LEONARD P. 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If you purchase the NEW HOME you will have a life asset at the price you pay, and will not have an endless chain of repairs. Quality Considered it is the Cheapest in the end to buy. If you want a swing machine, write for our latest catalogue before you purchase. The New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C A handsonal Illustrate 1 museum of art for the month. EL by JURN & Co. 361 Broadway. New York Branch C. 61 St. Washington. D.C. COSTELLO'S Sixth and G Streets N. W. Washington, D. C. TheOlympiaDancingClass YALE FORCHESTRA Music for all occasions, address eo. S. King, 416.3d Street, S. E. Printing. P Telephone Main 810 CHOICE Wines, Liquors ...and Cigars.. J. H. Kennedy PROPRIETOR OF The Moose House 625 D Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Special Liquor Sale Every Saturday. LADIES' NURSE MADAME K. L. COLEMAN Ladies' Nurse 3335 Sherman Avenue N. W. Phone. Columbia 466. J. D. O'CONNOR WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS 1500 Seventh Street N. W. XANDER & PLUGGE. Importers, Rectifiers, and Dealers in Wines, Liquors, High-grade Sherries, Rhine & Clarets 1317 Seventh Street N. W. Washington, D. C. TELEPHONE NORTH 528 : WILLIAM CANNON WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS Purrissima Whiskey a Specialty 1225-27 Seventh St. N. W. Washington, D. C. ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 4th Street, N. W. Washington.D. C. H. K. FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE No. 314 Ninth Street, N. W. Loans made on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. You! Why pay 10 per cent. when you can get it for 3 per cent. K. FULTON BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS LADIES' AND GENTS' WEARING APPARAL. OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED PLEDGES FOR SALE. 361 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HAIRSMINKY OR CURLY HAIR CLOSER, SOFTER AND MORE PLIABLE, EASY TO COMB AND GUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT UNEXCEILLED FOR PRESENTING HAIR FROM FAILING OUT GANDUFF AND ITching OF SCALP BEWARE OF IMITATIONS GET THE GENUINE,PUT UP IN 25+ AND 50+ BOOTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE TRY FORD'S ROUYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION. MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCELED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLES! SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPRISE YOU, WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRESS SMALL BOTTLE 25-LAKE SODDEN BOTTLE 505. THE CLUB ON MARROW CO. 232 LEE ST. 10001 CHICAGOILL DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF PORK PRODUCTS AND FRESH TRIPE MY SPECIALTY. 286-87-88 Center Market. 3 Eastern Market. Rooms. Rooms for rent at the Cameron, Apt. 41, 1902 Vermont Avenue N. W. Gas, steam heat, sanitary bath, telephone and cafe at your service. HAIR VIM TRADE MARK HAIR-VIM is an ideal and elegant hair dressing. Especially prepared for persons who appreciate the ideal and elegant appearance of their hair. It makes the hair soft, silky and glossy, and greatly promotes its luxuriant growth. It cures dandruff, stops falling hair, and prevents the dandruff germ. 25cts the box; the bottle, by mail, 30 cents. HAIR-VIM SOAP is cleansing in its effect and beautifying in its results. Especially adapted for shampooing the hair, and fills every requirement for use in the toilet, bath and nursery. 25cts the cake. BEAU-TE-VIM CREAM—Is a restorer, preserver, beautifier and bleach for the skin. Lubricating the surface, giving it life and adding brilliancy to the complexion. 25cts the box: "BABEK" CURES MALARIA. Washington, D. C., April 11, 1900. Battles of" Elvir Habek" I purchased of you an of incalculable benefit to my daughter's remedy I have yet come across for Malaria. Yours truly, F. SHARP. Gentlemen: I wish to state that two bottles of "Elixir Babek" I purchased of you at the recommendation of a friend has proven of incalculable benefit to my daughter's health. I deem it the best, indeed, the only, remedy I have yet come across for Malaria, and offer this testimonial voluntarily. Yours truly, F. SHARP. I have tried "Babek" for the last four years, both as a preventive and cure for Malaria, and found it to be more than is claimed for it. Without it I would be obliged to change my residence, as I cannot take quinine in any of its forms. J. MIDDLETON, Four-Mile Run, Va. 1000 Maryland Avenue, S. W. Washington, D. C., April 9, 1900 Kloczewski & Co. Sirs: Within the last five months I have sold 3,600 bottles of "Elixir Babek," for Malaria, Chills and Fever. Our customers speak very well of it. Yours truly, HENRY EVANS. 922 F St., N. W. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUCCISTS. Gaskin's Restuar ALL DRUGCISTS. Restuarant Gaskin's Restuarant A. J. GASKINS, PROP. Famous for a dozen years for its Cuisine Service and ments. A quiet, attractive place to Lunch Cuisine Service and Liquid Refresh- e place to Lunch or Dine. Specialty. Series of three or more. Washington, D. C. L. 1033. DIEMER PHONE MAIN 2041 Restaurant. DIEMER Garden. Perfect Brew on Draught. , Washington, D. C. Candy Kitchen CANDIES in the CANDY KITCHEN Street Northwest and, 3 pounds for 25 cents. and, 2 pounds, 25c. .00. $1.00. 5 cents per pound, 2 pounds, 25 cents. purchase your Nuts and Candies. Ice Famous for a dozen years for its Cuisine Service and Liquid Refreshments. A quiet, attractive place to Lunch or Dine. Private dining rooms for parties of three or more No. 320 Eighth St. N. W. Phone M. 1033. JACQB J. DIEMER Private dining rooms for parties of three or more. No. 320 Eighth St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Buffet and Restaurant. JACOB J. DIEMER Summer Garden. Favorite Brands of Whiskeys. Perfect 480 La. Ave., N. W., Washington, D. New York Candy CHRISTMAS CANDIES at the NEW YORK CANDY KITCHEN 1506 Seventh Street Northwest Fresh Candies Daily Special Candies, 8 cents per pound, 3 pounds for Special Candies, 15¢ per pound, 2 pounds, 2 Five pounds Candy, $1.00. Six pounds Candy, $1.00. Mixed Nuts, 15 cents per pound. The best place in the city to purchase your Nu Cream Soda of all flavors. Favorite Brands of Whiskeys. Perfect Brew on Draught. 480 La. Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. New York Candy Kitchen CHRISTMAS CANDIES Mixed Nuts, 15 cents per pound, 2 pounds, 25 cents. The best place in the city to purchase your Nuts and Candies. Ice Cream Soda of all flavors. 1506 Seventh Street Northwest Among the latest deputy sheriffs sworn in in New York is Joseph H. Vendig, known the country over as "Circular Joe," former bookkeeper and proprietor of famous gambling establishments. President Taft, officers of the army and navy, and many others in official life will be present at Arlington Na the restoration, of the army canteen will be presented to Congress. The statement that there were 35,000 former Japanese soldiers in Hawaii, who would support Japan if that country and the United States went to war, created a deep impression on the House Committee on Military Affairs. The town of Franklin, Wis., is paying $500 per annum for support of a school where there is but one pupil. This fact was reported by the county superintendent. The spring convention of the Republican party in the State of New York, to elect delegates to the Republican National Convention will be held in Rochester, April 9. The omission in the treaty of Geneva, of any provision for the protection of the Red Cross workers in civil wars will be the principal topic of discussion at the ninth international Red Cross Congress here next --- --- I have tried "Labek" for the last four years, both as a preventive and cure for Malaria, and found it to be more than is claimed for it. Without it I would be obliged to change my residence, as I cannot take quinine in any of its forms. J. MIDDLEFON, Four-Mile Run, Va. After-the-theater parties a Specialty. LADIES' DINING ROOMS. Among the latest deputy sheriffs sworn in in New York is Joseph H. Vendig, known the country over as "Circular Joe," former bookkeeper and proprietor of famous gambling establishments. President Taft, officers of the army and navy, and many others in official life will be present at Arlington National Cemetery next April, when the remains of the men who perished in the destruction of the Maine are laid to rest. Senator Claude A. Swanson, of Virginia, was the principle speaker at the joint celebration of the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Gen. Stonewall Jackson. United Confederate Veterans and associated Confederate organizations were present. A petition signed by about 2,300 women, wives, daughters and relatives of army officers stationed at various army posts in the United States and its possessions, asking for Astoria Pharmacy The Astoria Pharmacy, Third and G Streets N. W., is doing a rushing business now. Dr. Armstrong, the proprietor, makes a specialty in trying to please his many colored patrons. They are swarming in his store, in order to be in time for Christmas gifts. Dr. Armstrong comes from an old Virginia family with a heart bigger than that of any beef you may kill. This is one of the few drug stores in which our people are treated right. Where to Buy The Bee. Smith's, 4th and Elm St. N. W. Pope's Pharmacy, 1319 H St. N. E. Jackson & Whipp's, 1513 7th St. N. W. 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Free Information. An up-to-date financial plan to liquidate church debts with ease and certainty. Free information to all ministers and church workers 1223 S street, Washington, D. C. no-1-3-m Martin's Cafe, 11th and You Streets Northwest, is setting meals at reduced prices. First-class in every particular. BEST IN THE CITY. Why do you go elsewhere and buy your ice cream when you can get better at Murrays. Murrays cream is pure and is delivered to any section of the city. This is an old established firm First class meals at all hours in the day may be had at Murrays—1216 U street, northwest. Ice cream cut, $1.20 per gallon. Plain ice cream at 90 cents per gallon. His large and commodious dining room will accommodate any number of people House & Herrman. The next oldest house in the city is House & Herrman. If you can't be satisfied elsewhere, call at this house. Healy's. Healy's Capsules for colds and grip. Third and Massachusetts Avenue N. W. Sure cure. 25 cents. Dr. W. J. Gaines, Bishop of the First Episcopal District of the African M. E. Church, died at his home in Atlanta, Ga, at the age of 71 years. He was interested in educational work of his race, and the founder of Morris Brown College. He had been Bishop for thirty years. The Spanish Government is deciding upon placing an army of 16,000 blacks, to be officered by Spaniards, to take part in the Moroccan campaign. Mr. Joseph H. Jones has the finest cigar and news stand in the city. The Bee is on sale there.