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VOL.XXII NO 44 THETRAININGSCHOOL DEDICATION SERVICES HELD FOR NEW HALL ALL OVER—MANY PLEASING INCIDENTS—PIONEER HALL A MEMORIAL TO THE SCHOOL. It was a real spring day last Sunday, and the National Training School for Women and Girls was a scene never before witnessed. The commanding figure was Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the woman who is teaching young women and girls to live the life of righteousness. The occasion was the dedicatory exercises of Pioneer Hall, a new building that has just been erected by this enterprise and worthy woman. Every available space from the platform to twenty feet from the entrance to the hall was at a premium. Revs. I. N. Ross and M. W. Clair delivered very entertaining addresses, the former in a most eloquent flight of oratory, which electrified the vast audience, pronounced Miss Burroughs the "Queen of True Womanhood." The crowning of Miss Burroughs with such a title received the hearty, applause of the people. Pioneer Hall, an imposing new building on the campus of the institution, was dedicated at 3 o'clock. The people from every walk of life and from all parts of the city, turned out en masse. Hundreds who could not gain admission into the already over packed building, strolled about the beautiful campus, marveling at the rapid strides that the institution has made during its short existence of two and a half years. The sight was inspiring, and we only regret that we haven't a picture to present the readers of The Bee. The chapel was decorated with American flags, together with blue and gold—the colors of the institution. The splendid choir of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, under the direction of its masterly leader, Dr. James T. Walker, furnished the music. Nearly every denomination bore greetings and best wishes for the continued success of the school. Prominent among the distinguished persons were Drs. M. W. Clair, of the M. E. Church, I. N. Ross, of the A. M. E. Rev. A. C. Garner, of the Congregational. W. H. Brooks, Baptist, Mrs. J. M. Layton, Secretary of the Trustee Board, Mrs. Alice Tucker, of Philadelphia. Pa. who was sekt as special representative by the Union Baptist Church, Hon. Chas. R. Douglass, son of the late Fred Douglass, Mr. Henry P Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal; a special messenger bore greetings and a neat contribution from Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury; and the editor of The Bee was on hand to represent the "Press and Laymen." Miss N. H. Butrroughs, president Miss N. H. Burrroughs, president of the institution, presided. The addresses were eloquent, inspiring and enthusiastic. They were characterized by the ring of sincerity in a pledge of everlasting support to the school that has dedicated itself to the special work of uplifting the womanhood of the race, and of sending out consecrated, well-trained workers in the various walks of life. Greetings were read from friends of the institution throughout the country. The president has asked for one thousand dollars of the eight thousand dollars that must be raised to pay for the improvements. The following report shows that she came pretty near getting what she asked for: Alabama. Mrs. Rebecca Pitts.....$2,50 Colorado. Miss Nancy Carter.....75 Miss Mary E. Johnson.....1,30 Maryland. Mrs. Bettie B. Holmes.....1,00 Mr. John Toadvin.....1,00 Mrs. L. E. Saunders.....1,00 Illinois. Baptist Congress, per Mrs. Evat Hooper .....5,00 Mrs. H. J. Wells.....1,00 Mrs. L. H. Kemp.....1,00 Mrs. Emily Boyer.....1,00 Miss Goo .....1,00 Mr. Jones.....10,00 Mrs. Kate L. Cosby.....1,00 Kentucky. Alabama. Illinois. Kentucky. Rev. J. E. Wood..... Miss Georgi G. Moore (in Miss Burrough* report)..... Miss Alice Nugent (in Miss Burrough* report)..... Miss Geneva R. Cowles..... Mrs. F. Berryman.... Mississippi. Mrs. Louisa Hicks.....Mrs. S. A. Mims..... Missouri. Mrs. Jennie Thurston.....Miss Gladys E. Hamlet.....Mrs. C. M. Jackson.....Mrs. Ruth L. Bennett..... New York. Rev. J. Edward Nash.....Miss. So. per Mrs. Edw. Slaughter Rev. W T. Hemsley..... 1.00 Mrs. Posey..... 1.00 Mrs. Julia Chapman..... 5.00 Dr J. Phillips..... 1.00 Mrs. Marie Tyson..... 1.00 Mrs. Mattie Thornton..... 1.00 Mrs. Janie Payne..... 1.00 Mrs. Marion Towns..... 1.00 Mrs. Parker..... 1.00 Mrs. Bowser..... 1.00 Mrs. Emma Coleman..... 1.00 Mrs. Katie A. Sawyer..... 25.00 Miss Grace Sawyer t..... 2.00 Lydia, Miss Circle, per Mrs. Alice Tucker..... 10.00 Mrs. Amanda East..... 1.00 Mrs. A. Barbour..... 1.00 Mrs. Agnes Warfield..... 1.00 South Carolina. Mrs. Mary Gerald. ..... Mrs. A. P. Dunbar. ..... Tennessee. C. W. Hamilton (in Miss Staulz' report)...... A. B. Cottrell (in Miss Staulz' report)...... Alberta McClaren (in Miss Staulz' report)...... Rev. C. A. Bell (in Miss Staulz' report)...... Miss L. E. Bushnell.....1.00 Miss Grace Eaton.....1.00 Miss So., per Mrs. M. E. Hamilton.....1.00 Virginia. Mrs. M. J. Peyton.....1.00 Mrs. Josie Graham.....5.00 Mrs. Maggie L. Walker (in Miss Burroughs' report)...... Rev. and Mrs. C. E. Jones.....1.00 Ohio. Ohio. Miss Ida M. Saunders..... 1.00 Mr. Richard Miller (Miss Kimball's report ..... 5.00 Zion Baptist Miss. So., (Miss Kimball's report ..... 1.00 Georgia. Mrs. Ary Boynton.....1.00 Texas. Mrs. H. A. Weekley.....10.00 Mrs. Odalia M. Jackson.....1.00 Mrs. M. Handley.....50 Mrs. S. J. Wilkerson.....1.00 Mrs. L. A. M. Williams.....1.00 Mrs. P. A. Lights.....1.00 Miss Hattie A. Shaw.....1.00 Prof. J. M Codwell.....1.00 Rev. D. A. Scott.....1.00 Louisiana. West Virginia. Shiloh Bapt. Mission So., per Mrs. Susie Crawford. New Jersey. District of Columbia Jr. Miss. So. Metropolitan Baptist Church 14.50 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baker 1.00 Fairmount Heights M. E. Ch. 5.00 Mrs. J. M. Layton 1.45 G. E. Carter 1.00 Mrs. Rachel Brownbill 1.25 Rev. James Lee 1.00 Miss Gladys H. Powell 1.00 Nineteenth St. Bap. Ch 13.90 W. T. Chapman 1.00 C. O. Fairman 1.00 Wm. H. Lacey 1.00 Mrs. George O'Neil 1.00 Mrs. I. N. Ross 1.00 Miss Alice Jackson 1.00 John Q. A. Wesley 10.00 John W. Lewis 4.00 Mrs. Mahala Hill 1.00 Mrs. Sallie Johnson 1.00 Hon. J. C. Napier 5.00 Mr. Charles Douglas 1.00 Rev. I. N. Ross 1.00 Rev. Walter H. Brooks 5.00 Rev. M. W. Clair 1.00 Dr Walker 1.00 Mr. J. W. Williams 1.00 W. H. Lewis 1.00 Miss Violet Tibbs 2.00 Mr. Dawson 1.00 Mr. Green 1.00 Mrs. J. Collier 1.00 Israel Bapt. Ch. per Rev. Burke 5.00 M. Scott 1.00 Mrs. Wormley 1.00 Mr. Addison 1.00 Mrs. M. Johnson 1.00 Mr. L. M. King 10.00 Mr. C. S. Jones 5.00 Miss Ida Plummer 1.00 Mrs. Cook 1.00 Miss Cook 1.00 Miss Emma Hall 1.00 Miss Brown 1.00 Mrs. R. W. Thompson 1.00 Trinity Baptist Church 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Hughes 1.00 Mr. Ed. Snyder 1.00 Mr. Maxfield 1.00 Mr. Taplett 1.00 Mr. Robert M. Brown 1.00 Mrs. J. A. Taylor 1.00 Miss Esther G. Irving 1.00 Mrs. M. F. Lewis 1.00 Mr Wm. Ryers 1.00 Dr. J. W. Morse 3.00 Mrs. Melissa Jackson 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dabney 10.00 Mr W. Calvin Chase 1.00 Mrs. Martha Webb 1.00 Mr. Eugene Foster 1.00 Mrs. Cordia Brown 1.00 Mr. Cabaniss 1.00 M. Charity 1.00 Dr. Porter 5.00 Mrs. Annie Gilmore 1.00 Mr. F. M. Thompson 1.00 (Continued to page 8.) 15 MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS "THE QUEEN OF TRUE WOMANHOOD" Was the Benediction of Rev. I. N. Ross—Lincoln's Great Day. THE BOOMERANG Only a Tempest in a Tea Pot. The great advertised indignation meeting took place in Rev. Garner's church last Wednesday night. It was fifteen minutes to 9 when a representative of The Bee was ushered into the church by Mr James, L. Nal, who stood guard at the front door. There were about 85 people present, a majority of them women, and one third school teachers, who attended out of curiosity. Seated upon the platform were Rev. Waldron and Mr. E. M. Hewlett. Rev. Garner was expatiating upon school conditions in Ireland, France and Germany, and declared that the people ruled. Amen! Ejaculated Rev. Waldron. Attorney Hewlett gave one of those mysterious looks, which people often take for thought. Nine o'clock arrived, and the three dignified colored members of the Board of Education who had been invited to come, failed to put in their appearance. One lady remarked at the door that the meeting was a failure. She expected to see the church filled from the pulpit to the sidewalk, but she didn't. Seated in the amen corner were two old sisters who had fallen asleep, and their dreams were of far away events. The prominent signers to the call were conspicuously absent Rev Ricks, who signed the call, decided to remain away. Attorney L. M. King, who was not present, said that he signed the call merely to invite the colored board members to speak. The meeting was a tempest in the tea pot, and a boomerang that didn't shiver. If this is what you call the representatives of ninety thousand people, remarked a Bruce adherent, it is quite evident that the people are against the three defeated board members.. About 10:30 the meeting adjourned with a dosology. BAD RUMORS. Current as to Laxed Discipline and Improprieties on the Part of Male Teachers. There are lots of rumors current in the city as to the action and department of certani teachers. One rumor is that at Armstrong High School recently certain young men teachers were in the new gymnasium playing basket ball with the young girl students, the young girls being attired in their tight fitting bloomers. It is never customary; in most schools, to permit men, except possibly the instructor, in the gym at the time the young girls are there in bloomers. Parents, it is said, will protest strongly to such association, on the part of young men teachers, with their immature daughters. One parent, when he learned of the rumor, pronounced it an outrage and stated that Principal Evans ought to institute an investigation and discipline the male teachers, and give such orders as would prevent the occurrence of such an infraction of custom Another rumor is that a certain male teacher had been seen frequently in company with one of the young girl pupils, at a late hour in the evening. Parents will not stand for this. And still another rumor is that a certain young man teacher in one of the high schools had been guilty of writing a note to one of the young girl pupils, and that the irate father of the girl had threatened to cowhide him. Another rumor is to the effect that a certain male teacher is frequently seen under the influence of liquor, and that it is reputed that he has appeared in this condition at school. Another rumor is that certain male teachers, among them some of the younger ones, frequently visit cafes and publicly indulge in intoxicants. The Bee has heard these rumors, and has also heard parents strongly condemn the actions, if the rumors are correct. There is, it is said, altogether too much association, out of the school rooms, of young male teachers with high school girls. If these things, if the rumor is true, are permitted to continue, some say they will be followed by a scandal that will arouse the entire city to protest. One male teacher, so the rumor goes, has taken a leave of absence, and before going was quite nervous for fear one parent would prefer charges against him, while away, for too frequent association with a young girl pupil. From the persistency of the rumors, parents are cautioned to be advised about their daughters, and certain young teachers, and two or three older ones, are cautioned to be very circumstant from this time on, or there will be a few dismissal for the good of the teachers, and for the preservation of the girl pupils morals. If necessary, and the school authorities cannot, The Bee, in the interest of parents and pupils, will itself institute an investigation, and if the rumors continue, and are found true, will drive from the service the guilty teachers. "What' more can you expect," remarked one parent, "when Mr. Bruce's hands are practically tied by a constant assault on him by colored board members, disappointed place-seekers, and irresponsible agitators who have no children in the schools." Bruce Indorsed. "At a meeting of the local Hampton Alumni Association, held March 18, 1912, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: "Whereas, Our Assistant Superintendent, Prof Roscoe C. Bruce, has been unjustly criticised and wrongfully charged by some disgruntled citizens, this association, after carefully investigation of Prof. Bruce's record and the charges, find a few individuals have systematically organized to denounce Prof. Bruce to satisfy a personal grievance. "Whereas, we realize that none but a selfish interest could prompt such charges, therefore be it "Resolved, That Prof. Roscoe C. Bruce he retained as assistant superintendent of schools, and the superintendent of the public schools and the Board of Education brand charges coming from all sources as unfounded." DO YOU THINK SO? Do you think that you can give questions to your friends and get off? Do you think that your scheme has been kept a secret? Do you think that the, Board of Education will stand for it? Do you think that the hint is sufficient to enable the offenders to understand? Do you think there will be an explosion? These foregoing hints are based upon facts. Wait and see. EX-SENATOR BLAIR HIS POLITICAL PREDICTION IS THAT TAFT WILL WIN Champion of Human Rights and Author of the Blair Educational Bill Interviewed by the Editor of The Bee-Champ Clark Will Not Win, Says Mr. Blair-Taft as Good as Nominated — Will Be Elected—Democratic Party the Negro's Enemy. Question. Who will be the best Democratic candidate for the Presidency? Answer. I don't know about that. The best Democratic candidate for the country is the one who can be beaten the easiest. But there are several able and honorable gentlemen now canvas-ing for the Democratic nomination, and it is a source of pride and satisfaction that whoever of them is successful the Republicans will have a good man for an opponent so that his defeat will be an account of his bad principles rather than his bad character. I think on the whole, that Champ Clark is most likely to be the Democratic candidate. It is too bad to beat such a man, but we have got to do it for the good of our country, just as Grant conquered Lee to save the Union—and after it was all over, Lee was glad of it, because in his heart he felt that he had fought on the wrong side, and really against the interests of the South as well as of the whole country. Q. Who do you think the Republicans should nominate? A. Oh, President Taft will be, and I think ought to be the Republican candidate-of this I have no doubt. He is the only man we can elect. The campaign next fall will be the most tremendous political contest since the first election of Abraham Lincoln. We have but three candidates in sight, and it is no year for a dark horse. Mr. La Follette lacks that general support geographically, which is in- J. dispensable to success. But he is a great statesman, thoroughly acquainted with all the mighty problems and issues of the present and coming times, and if he preserves his health, stands firm as a party man, as I am sure that he will, and just naturally keeps on growing, he will be very formidable in the year, 1916. There are millions of Republicans who will either vote against a "third term" candidate, or refuse to vote at all, and that disposes of Mr. Roosevelt as an available candidate, to say nothing of his recent political utterances, which are so imponderable or so supernaturally wise, that we common mortals cannot master them in season for the next November election. All the same though, he may be a mighty asset on the stump for the Republican party, and may do as much good after the nomination as he does harm before it. There is one benefit about all this superfluous noise, and that is it will bring out a full vote, which generally means Republican success. I do not believe any dark horse can win. There must be a certain amount of organized force behind any candidate in order to make a successful campaign, but the feeling is so strong between the several factions that they are not likely to unite upon any new man—and besides this there is no new man, in my belief, available, for Mr. Justice Hughes is said to refuse to run, and what other man but Taft can carry New York and Ohio? No other Republican is so strong in either State as Taft, and whoever carries those two States is elected Still further, the President is already as good as renominated, and the only duty remaining is to elect him, and that duty will be done. It would not be human nature for the administration to support any other candidate, as zealously as it will its own head. I can see no other probably successful candidate for either the nomination or the election but Mr Taft. Q. What do you think the duty of the colored people under the circumstances? A. To support President Taft in the June convention, and to vote the Republican ticket, as they always did ever since they could vote at all. The colored people have always done their duty to their country. Crispus Attucks was the first martyr to Lib- (Continued to page 4.) DEVOTED TO GENERALINTERES? By Miss Gonevia B. Maxfield For the first time in the history of Pennsylvania, a colored man has announced his candidacy for Congress from the First District, to succeed the late General Bingham. Former Congressman George H. White has announced his candidacy. The Jamaican Government has accepted the invitation from Dr. Booker T. Washington to send representatives from that country to the Tuskegee conference. April 17, 18 and 19. New York City is soon to have a colored regular probation officer. Miss Grace Campbell, who has been doing some effective probation work for the protection of colored women, Miss Campbell has been recommended by the leading ladies of the city. During the forty-seventh annual session of the M. E. Conference, which was held in this city, over $20,000 was raised for various denominational needs. Mrs. Anna J. Cooper, a teacher in the M Street High School, and the author of "a Voice From the South, by a Black Woman of the South," will deliver a lecture in Harrisburg, Pa., tomorrow, April 7, at the Union Wesley Church. The Advocate verdict says: "Among the names of the world's twenty greatest men, no name of a Negro was given; but the list of 150 of America's greatest men include the name of one colored man—Booker T. Washington." Recent statistics show that the M. E. connection has 14 bishops, 5,630 churches, 600,106 members; the A. M. E. Zion connection has 8 bishops, 3,298 churches and 547,216 members; the C. M. E. connection, 7 bishops, 2,857 churches, and 234,721 members. It is said the Filipinos are demanding the appointment of a judge of the colored race. Sentiment seems to be in favor of Guilford E. Campbell, a graduate of the University of Michigan, and now a resident of Monohulu. There is being erected in Wichita, Kan a new school for colored children to cost $29,000. Twenty thousand workers in Umontown, Pa., in the coal mines, have had their wages raised 7½ per cent President Lunch, of the Coke Company, said the increased demand for coke is responsible for the increase. Jack Johnson has announced that he will soon embark on a campaign of short battles "to clean up the white hope divi-ion before his championship battle with Jim Flyn on July 4 next A statue of George Washington has been given by the American residents of Mexico City to Mexico, an commemoration of the centennial of the Mexican republic. It was unveiled February 22d, last. There is every reason to believe that President Yuan Shi Kai will shortly resign and retire from public life. The newly organized Chinese cabinet held its first meeting March 30, last. The Rev. W. H.-Dean, who was pastor of Jackson M. E. Church, of Lynchburg, Va., has been appointed pastor of the Ebenezer M. E. Church, in this city. President Taft, besides appointing Negroes to all the prominent places to which Roosevelt had appointed them, has given colored men four places never before filled by Negroes: Collector of Customs, Honolulu; Collector of Customs, District of Columbia; Lieutenant of the Regular Army, and Assistant Attorney General of the United States. Mrs. Caroline Hall Randolph, who celebrated her nineteenth birthday anniversary at the Home for Aged Women, was once one of the wealthiest of the early day Missouriian Miss Elenore Sears, of Boston, has completed more than half of a 115-mile walk from Burlingame to Del Monte. She is trying to break a record established some years ago by an Englishman Miss Sears is accompanied by a professional pedestrian and friends in an automobile The colored people of Cambridge, Mass., observed the 142d anniversary of the death of Crispus Attucks. Under the will of the late Susan L. Munroe, of Fall River, Mass., her entire estate, valued at $100,000 is to be placed in trust and the income to be used to provide for the care and support of her horse Daisy. After the death of the horse the money is to be divided among relatives Daisy, the horse, is now thirty-one years old. 30 Years. Lawrenceville, Va. March 9th was the 30th anniversary of Archdeacon Russell's ordination to the deaconate, and the 16th year of the beginning of his ministry. Will Go to Chicago. Among those who will go with the District Taft delegates to Chicago are: Dr John W. Moss, Dr. Ed. D. Williston, Register James C. Napier, Attorney M. T. Clinkscales, Attorney Thomas L. Jones, Mr. James W. Gray, Mr. Jesse Foster, and others. Those who wish to go on the W. Calvin Chase special, will send in their names as soon as convenient DR. BEANS FROM BOSTON A SCREAM EVERY MINUTE AND SOMETIMES TWO The MusicalEvent The most interesting event of its kind that has taken place in Washington since the memorable debut of either Mme. Marie Selika, Sisseretta Jones (Black Patti) or Samuel Coleridge Taylor Mr.R.G.Doggett Mr.R.G.Doggett Miss Muse won a sweeping victory at the Yale Conservatory of Music this year when, of the three scholarship winners, she was awarded the Lockwood scholarship for merit in vocal music. Miss Hagan also won a sweeping victory at the Yale Conservatory of Music this year, when she was awarded the Morris Steinert prize for merit in instrumental music. Mr. Hayes has recently won such distinction as a singer that he has been awarded a three years scholarship at the New England Conservatory of Music, and since his stay at the Conservatory he has shown such enthusiasm and love for his art that he has been given a scholarship in one of the Conservatories abroad. All seats reserved. To secure good ones, patrons are urged to make selections early. Mail orders addressed to Mr. R. G. Doggett, 408 T St. N. W., when accompanied by return postage, will receive careful attention. J. H. With Washington's S H D The Man Who made In The merry M DR. BEA FROM A SCREAM EVERY MINUTE Series of Artists Recitales The Music EXTRAORDINARY The most interesting event of its ington since the memorable debut of Jones (Black Patti) or Samuel Colerie Mr. R. G. has the distinguished host A Song and Piece By the Remarkable Miss Jessie C. Wonderful Young Miss Muse won a sweeping viti Music this year when, of the three she the Lockwood scholarship for merit in Miss Helen G. Brilliant Young Miss Hagan also won a sweeping Music this year, when she was awa merit in instrumental music. Mr. Roland Remarkable Mr. Hayes has recently won such been awarded a three years scholarship of Music, and since his stay at the Co sien and love for his art that he has the Conservatories abroad. 1. Mr. Roland Hayes All seats reserved. To secure good selections early. Mail orders addressed N. W., when accompanied by return p TAKES ISSUE WITH ATTY. LEE Letter to The Bee Creates Sensation. Ednor Beez The letter of Attorney Jabez Lee, which appeared in the last week's issue of The Bee, regarding the troubles in the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, created quite a stir in Baptist Church circles here One would judge from the tone of Mr. Lee's letter that the end of their struggle is not yet in sight. The best thinking people in this community would like to see them find a way to settle this difference satisfactory to both sides. But honesty is the best policy. Why misrepresent the facts? Why cry peace, peace, when there is no peace? I am reminded in this connection of certain secret developments regarding the Baptist Church, corner of Tenth and R Streets Northwest. This church is now paying $60 per month rent for their house of worship, which they once owned, and could have kept by paying less than $40 per month, and retained their equity in the property, of at least $5,000 --- SMART SET Mrs. Gabrielle L. Pelham Famous Accompanist ADDRESS BY Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Admirable Speaker Subject: The Artistic Gifts of the Negro Metropolitan A. M. E. Church M street, between 15th and 16th sts. Friday Eve'g Apr.12, '12 at 8:30 o'clock RESERVED SEATS in the horse shoe, $1 and 75c. ADMISSION 50c, 35c, and 50c On sale at J. R. Mayer's Drug store, 501 Florida ave., daily from 8 to 10 P.M. Week of recital 10A. M. to 5 P. M. and 8 to 10 P. M. good ones, patrons are urged to make sed to Mr. R. G. Doggett, 408 T St. postage, will receive careful attention. Rev. Lamkins purchased the church property for them for the small sum of $7,000, but they could not, or would not hold it. The same people who are now reported to have less than forty active members, are trying to repurchase the church property, which they cannot now buy for less than $11,000. Four thousand dollars more than what they bought it for in the first place. They are required to raise $2,000 of the purchase price, in cash, in addition to raising $1 per month rent, before the owners will consider the sale of the property. The result is they are reported to be running far behind in their rent. If one should hear the officers of this church on Sunday asking the people to come forward with their money to meet their notes he would certainly be under the impression that they were buying the church. Why fake the public? Why not ask the people to help them to pay their rent? The Baptist Ministers' Union appointed a committee several weeks ago to look into the affairs of this church and report. The officers of the church wrote the ministers a letter stating, that their services were not needed, that they could attend THE NEW YORK TIMES to their own affairs. It would seem that some of the Baptist churches of this city need, something like a bishop to govern them. I dare say that no other body of respectable men in the District of Columbia would have taken such an insult without resenting it, except the Baptist ministers' conference. When it was hinted to the members of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church that they were trying to secretly purchase the church property referred to above, they showed their disapprobation by staying away from the church where they had been helping to pay the rent. These people ought to be advised to join or consolidate with two or more other small churches and make one good church instead of throwing their money away as they are doing by paying $60 per month. They are all poor people, and are paying rent for both soul and body. NORWAY'S INCOME TAX. Reaches All Incomes Exceeding $83.08 Per Year—Graduated if You Are Married and Have Children. How should you like to pay an income tax on next to nothing? If you were a Norwegian living at home and earning $134 a year you would be taxed on one-tenth of it if you were unmarried; on about one-twentieth of it if you were married and had no children. If you had children you still would be taxed on one-fiftieth of it. With an income of $536 a year you would be taxed if unmarried on more than half of your income, if married and having no children on about 40 per cent of your income, having one child on about 37 per cent, two children on about 31 per cent. Unmarried and having an income of $2.680 a year in Norway your income tax payment would be $421.22; married, with one child, $389.94; married, with six children, $355.17. All that you would get off your income tax (married) for having six children would be $66; all that you would get off by having five more children would be $44 and six bits! Married or unmarried in Norway, you could escape paying an income tax only by having an income less than $83.06 a year. Think of paying an income tax out of earnings of $7 a month—New York Press. THEY PLAYED CHESS. The Loser Afterward Learned Without Asking Why He Lost. Baron Hengelmuller, the Austrian diplomat, a man famous for his chess ability, one day at a house in Washington met a young man whose name he did not catch when the introductions were made. Chess was the topic of the conversation by all those in the company, and presently the young man suggested diffidently that he would be highly honored if the baron would play a game with him. The baron consented. They sat down. After a few moves the baron looked up from the table checkmated and found the young man reading a paper. The chessmen were placed again and, after not so many moves as before, the baron looked up to find the young man reading the paper and himself checkmated. After his dinner the baron came back. He wanted another game, being somewhat chagrined at the ease with which he had been beaten. As he came in he found the young man who had played with him that afternoon blindfolded and playing against sixteen opponents at the same time. The young man was Pillsbury.—Saturday Evening Post. Goldheim says English cut clothes are riding on a great wave of popularity this spring with the young men. And it is to these young men we are addressing this particular advertisement. Almost every tailor in this country is endeavoring to make these narrow shoulder, unpadded English coats, but only a few—a very few—have mastered the art. We have succeeded because we have concentrated our efforts along these lines for a number of months past. 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The stupendous aggregation comprises no lesser talent than Henry, Troy, James Burris, Daisy Martin, Alberta Ormes, Jessie Harris, William Ramsey, Frank DeLyons, Arthur Talbot, Roley Gibson, and Ella Bevans, as well as a goodly number of comedians and singers who have attained to the highest ranks of delightful entertainers. Then again, "Dr Beans from Boston" is said to be still further fortified in its powerful organization by the introduction of fifty pretty, active girls and trained chorus men, all of whom contribute with intelligence and discretion towards the astonishingly pleasing mixture of fun, frolic and music that has made laughter gained by legitimate methods throughout an entertainment of quantity as well as quality. Fifteen song-hits are introduced during the action of the play. Matinees will be on Thursday and Saturday. St.RegisHotel 1832 Fourteenth Street N. W. Washington, D. C. 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C. ee Tee i...” y ~ 8 * a. t - ~ a we, ee “— CCU -_ o :™ Ff “ss o : = . : ® R “7 . “4 i ES ET 2 SETI. ree ay 8 Buea se a . *~¢ i: oa bi “hg ye et : o . v a. . z, ve sage si *° E a he eh abdede soo i toe a’ bee: Bapeee Mba as 6 een ww Sew Seti Ok Sk ee * 5S gl SG Ries. ates 2s. Spleen eee tl ee a THE NEWS IN BRIEF. The Washington Bee has won the admiration of fair-minéed men by its whole-souled defense of Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, The conrageous and far-sighted ‘Recorder of Deeds Gelivered a manly speech at the Georgia, State Convention, and pre- sided with dignity and firmness. The Colonel is never a truckler. The race has nowhere a more fearless and out- spoken leader. “Integrity is 2 more valufble as- set than legal acumen to a-practicing Jawyer,” is one of the many pearls of wisdom cast out to a large audience xt Plymouth Congregational Church Sunday afternoon by Representative Selomon Prouty, of lowa. The iorty-ninth annual session of the Washington Methodist Episcopal Comrerence began Wednesday _morn- ing at the Ebenezer M. E.=Church. The conference includes churches in Peun-ylvania, the *\Western’ Shore of ‘Marsland, West Virginia, and the Dietrict of Columbia, and is one oi tthe wildest of the colored M_E. con- rerenees in. the country. ‘The es sions are being presided over by Bishop William F. Anderson. Be sides the regular delegates, Rev. R E, Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, Rev. I. Garland Penn, 2 field agent of the church, and Rev. J. P, Wragg, of the American Bible Society, are m attendance. Arrangemeiits are pending by which a well-known business | man will take over the Washington Amer jean, until recently conducted by Messrs. Oliver M. Randolph anc Ocea Taylor. : An agitation has been started looking to the erection of a reform school for incorrigible white girls The present reform school is usec only for colored girls, the _ white being sent to private institutions. “The new building at the Nationa Rehgious Training School at Lincols Heights, will be dedicated on Sun. day, March 31, with imposing cere monies. Miss Nannie H. Burrowghs the indefatigable principal, has in it ed all of the ministers of the” Dis trict to participate, and the churches regardless of denomination, will_as sist. by liberal contributions. The y structure is 2 handsome one and. cos about $7,000. Another building | i: heeded, and plans are in preparation jor it, as the increasing enrollmen aders enlargement of the school’ ‘lities absolutely necessary. ne suggestion that — churche: < id have 2 “press agent” appeal to quite a number of our ministers some of whom have been ising thi papers constantly" in the exploitatio: of their work. If what the, churcl is doing is worth while, there is ever: reason in the world why the people who are to be benefited, should knov something about it. Advertisin: helps both the shepherd and th cheep he would reach. THE NEWS INBRIEF. This is the “big week” in politics. Taft opens strong, gaining steadily. “You subscribe to my banquet and TM subscribe to yours,” is the way the festive Washingtonian greets a friend while passing through U street these fine mornings. Bishop O. W. Clinton denies that he has signed any statement an- nouncing his preference for any can- didate for President of the United States. W. P. Bayless, until recently con- nected with the Census Burean, has started a weekly magazine at Colum- bus. Ohio, called “The Record.” As- sociated with him is Mr. E. E. Finch, i Wilberforce University. Mr. Bay- less is one of the race's best writers, and js 2 young man of indefatigable energy and fertility of resource. His friends here: are confident that he will prove a success in his new field, Washington newspaper men, not- ing the formation of a City Press Bureau among’ the colored journalists of Chicago, are talking of a “get-to- “gether luncheon,” to be pulled off in the near future. The capital has but one newspaper. The Bee. but it has s host af ex-nenspaper owners and 2 legion of correspondents, who are doing execiient work in the publicity ine “Don't iret.” says a prominent white business man oi this city “There will never “he a ‘jim-crow street car in Washington, no matte? how anxious certain Southern Con gressmen and nondescript polices offi tere may be to provide separate ser- vice for the races Common carriers cannot discriminate under the presen! law, and there will be no change, TI there is trouble on. the cars, we shal insist that the police settle it by enforcing the Jaw impartially agains any and all disturbers. That is the milk in the cocoanut” . Attorney General Wickersham i being commended by all fair-mindec people in the country for his deter mined stand in favor of the retentios of Assistant Attorney General. W H. Lewis as a member of the Amer jcan Bar Association. If Mr. Lewis i: not sustained at Milwaukee in Au gust, it is.evident that the time-hon ted organization will be split it twain and go into history discredi ted because of the reason that led t its disruption. A medium of commor sense, however, can spare the, associa tion this shameful record. It is te be hoped that the leaders of the na tion's bar will be broad enough t meet the situation like true American and solve the problem in accordanc with justice and equity. Champ Clark has been indorsed a meetings held hy the Irish, Italian and Jews, but the newspapers have as yet, carried no story, of any rati fication meeting for Clark, held b Nercroces. AMONG THE MUSICIANS AND . PLAYER FOLK. “Mies Clarice Jones, Lawyer Thomas L. Jones’ accomplished daughter, “Qeaned up” for all contemporaries at a recent Conservatory of Music .e- cital in Ithaca, New York. SH. Dudley. in his new comedy “Ds, Beans of Boston,” comes to the Howard Theater Easter week,, open: ing April 8 Frank Montgomery's Dixie Players are putting on a good show at the Howard this week, styled “In Ethio- Piaville." The singing and dancing are. especially praiseworthy, and the chorus is lively. Florence McClain’ appears to exceptional advantage in a role calling for great versatility. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the tragedienne, will spend next week at her home iu this city, sailing for Ja- mica Saturday. She has given an order on her printer for five hundred copies of her “Book of Recitations, to supply the demand for them at Kingston. Manager J. H. Iudnell is nursing a gouty foot. . Efiie King, and Lottie Gee, the “anger girls.” haye “signed up” on a ~big ume” cireuit, and will appear shortly at Mammersteii’s, in New York City. Adams and Beverly are running the Chelsea now, “and are making it a “go! aiter many predecessors have failed. . “The right man” has a chance to make money by taking hold of the Minnchaha, on U Street. | NX. R. Harper's “Tallaboo” was pre- sented at the Auditorium, Eighth Street Southeast, Wednesday even- ing. S. Tutt Whitney, in “The Mayor of New Town,” is headed this way from the South. “Black Patti” is as good as ever, herself. For twenty years or more this wongeriul woman has been the Tace’s cknowledged ““Queen Song,” dnd she richly deserves the title. She has nobly upheld the dig. nity and good name of our woman: hood on the stage, and was a pionecr in blazing the path of the talented local choir singer and amateur dra. matic luminary to the professional arena, and opened the way to larger opportunities for scores of ambitious colored artists. Nearly every star of any magnitude in the past two dec: ades, has been-at onc time or another, enrolled in her band of “Troubadors.’ J All this is a leader-up to the convic. tion that “Black Patti” is sadly ir need of a new play. The people have had their fill of “A Trip to Af tica,” in various forms, and 2 newe! Jand stronger vehicle for the capabili ties of herself and her co-worker: must be provided, There is no dearth Jof suitable material, and we have ar abundance of playwrights who cat {put it together in attractive fashion Manager Voelckel_ will Jook inte this if he ‘is wise—and we thinl he is. He must loosen up his purs | strings as other prosperous manager: Jare doing, and give ‘the people “ tun for their money” in the shape o a well-written play and a competen corps of players. WASHINGTON GIRL FIRST. Miss Clarice Jones Leads all Rivals as Pianist in Brilliant Recital at Ithaca’s Stately Conservatory of Music. ‘Miss Clarice Jones, daughter of the well-known Attorney Thomas L. Jones, has won new laurels for her- seli and for the cultured citizens of this community, by her admirable recitation of classic music at a formal recital of the advanced students of the Conservatory of Music, in con- ‘nection with “Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, where she is tak- ing a special course. Among a group of well-trained instrumentalists Miss Jones was accorded first place by the best critics of the school, and was given due credit by the principal daily of the city. The Ithaca Daily Journal. under the caption “An Excellent Recital,” says in part: “The third public recital of the sea- son by the advanced students of the Ithaca Conservatory. of Music in Music Hall last evening was charac- terized by a varied selection of num- bers." > * . * * “The orchestra appeared twice, ac- companying two violin solos, the first Svendsen's Romance, played by Mr James Campbell, and the second “The Concerto” in D major, by Mozart, to the beautiful music of which Mr, Van Vieet did admirable credit. “There were five piano numbers. of which the-best were Miss Clarice Jones’ delightful interpretation of the Variations by Mendelssohn, a very difficult work, and one that is rarely heard.” a ‘This happy complinient to Miss Jones’ ability as an interpreter i the highest classical music, was preceded and followed by a careful summary oi the work of the other participants all white except Miss Jones—show- ing the dramatic and picturesque qualities of the selections presented and indicating the degree of skill with which they were rendered. Miss Jones is a conscientious and painstaking student of the piano,. and her triumph on this signal occasion is a distinct victory for the race every- where, demonstrating the absence ol any imetes and bounds to the possi- bilities of the Negro who diligently aspires. All Washington is proud gi, Miss Clarice Jones, and a warm welcome awaits her upon her return to her native heath, The recall of judges or of judicial decisions has no standing among the colored lawyers of the country. The Teason is plain. CC Curtis, national organizer of the National Colored Personal Lib- erty, League, announces that there will be a conference of the colored Democrats in Baltimore. June 25, 26 and 27, coincident with the sitting of the Democratic National Convention The new stationery, noted by friends who have received . letters from Tuskegee Institute within the past fortnight. bears the name of Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, and the pmaines of the two new members of «the Board of Trustees, Messrs. Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, and Mr Charles E.’ Mason, of Boston. Mr. Joseph H’ Jones fas the finest cigar and news stand in the city. The Bee is on sale there. The American Home Life Insurance 5th and GSTREETS,N. Ww. WASHINGTON, D.C. ets eee 8S " < a ap te oe Meo ow ys ESRC Aa. Oo Sa - ss " ya oe i . . : . rs oy a . *, 7 he : at . / B Sil, ree, fl ae Lik ee ie . oe él : Bi ES git es a «EPS : Lie Cee j ee iF wee, Ti ae Lo went we cigeilss BS sae we yell PE Bu aan Ng mas . Bf re - ee . Bie AS i FAS “i ae 7 | ; PBR, wi 7 — a a i hy ! a . 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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. _—— 7 te we SR ee ee ee) ed ee be “en | Bo pet att eee = Pies gmeee : Lament | avy Lo CAS SPERMS ys Oto # te Lo TRESS. * peepee Be o,0g eS Pa PRD s eee a Z eel Rk ee r ~d F & yk “ Gee y ems © se Ba 5 SR e, * Oye cS RA va Saat Se 3 a “¢ aie “x! Je Se. eee Gb ekg ut 2% fhe j me aS Sesser WI eo Nes Z OO ee) ey i f * MD Py Uae Song! CET Pf. Lge ee ag Seve oh ar ie See ae Me be oo sey, to fe o elt Se tee iid ae te pee ee See Sn eA oi ia SORE eae e ig Ge Rg RS Bee Se ne Ceo ES oe a eee ee oes a4 bs + i és as tare ry Dt Ee aS eae AL eee dae ba |e ee a] a oy BE Oo ae te oe ae nl es eo co Ai. Goes See a a I as Pt De a ne | | ae Me ee ee ae oe aes | a deeds Font aera 1a ed E a E Sse ge ah age — ie S Pees a em a nhc cere NS ee ee rE es ta) Stee THE LEXINGTON HOTEL * The colored Americans are to have an up-to-date first-class hotel with every modern convenience with buf- fet, Barbershop, kitchen, billiard par- lors, office, lobby and waiting room. automobile to convey guests to and from the Union Station, etc. t * A Long Felt Want Fulfied. Nathaniel Ruffin, a well known cit- izen 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 im- ‘punity and with reservation. Thou- sands of the best and well known colored people havz visited this city and do visit it now, but they have no place of diginity to go with their fam- ilies 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 see to it that a hotel be 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 gusst.. Incorporated Under Act of Congress Approved June26, 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’ lead- ing 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 ca- pacity for one hundred and fifty guests. fr The barber shop will be managed by a first class tonsorial artist with every modern convenience. The bil- liard parlor, office, lobby and waiting room will be unsurpassed. The wait- ing parlor will be on the first floog, 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 accom- modation 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 accomodation 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 to, 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 im Washington have. deter- mined 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 dol- lars, of this amount the company has decided to sell fifteen thousand dol- lars of it. A greater opportunity has never been offered the people of this city, who are ‘enterprising and wish a good investment. z 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 anu other pub- lic men of character and influence. He needs no introductron to the peo- ple, because he is prominently con- nected with some of the best, strong- est, 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 savertistcleat and full particulars, of the opening of this new up-to-date hotel and for other particulars ad- dress Nathaniel Ruffin, manager, the Lexington Hotel, 21st and L street, N. W., Washi.gton, D. 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One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....80 Subscription monthly.....80 WHO KNOWS? There is a glamour about the Spirit of Youth that shrinks from the spirit of maturity or old age. Who knows, and who can tell to what far bourne the Spirit, of Youth goes when at last it takes its reluctant farewell and passes from the field of our wistful eyes? None of us know. All that we know in this regard is that it goes, and that it never comes again. And this we know also: that with it goes from us forever something ineffiable—that fine bouquet of the wine of life, than which there is nothing under the stars more delightfully myterious. Youth itself is a mystery. Youth is callow, immature and foolish, unstable, fickle, weak—yet is not Youth all of life that is altogether worth the living? The rest, those soberer years after Youth has flown, are they not worth the living only in proportion as the perfume and glamour of Youth lingers on to grace the days that are with something of the rest of the days that were? Even the high joy of motherhood or fatherhood—what is that but a sort of vicarious delight that has its real source in the renaissance of Youth? Verily, the wisdom of sages is as naught beside the foolishness of Youth. Fame, fortune, power, honor—all these flaming goals of life, when attained, are at best but Dead Sea fruit as compared with the mere moonshine of Youth. But if Youth could only know! But Youth cannot know. That's part of the mystery of it. Not till the long, the ineffable days have gone, till the sunshine goes pale and the moonlight cold, do we realize all that Youth means. Then indeed we know. Then comes home to us the true significance of the days we held so lightly as they passed—then, when it is too long to conserve the evanescent treasures they have lavished upon us, too late to sense to the utmost the sweetness of the volatil mard of Youth, with which they have anointed us. Then, alas! we know how sweet indeed is that "sweet-scented manuscript" that shuts so soon and never more unrolls. But Youth, never knows. Youth is a trance, a dream into which can never enter the knowledge of its own blessedness. For life is a flower that buds and blooms and withers to a rattling pod—and it is only in the blooming that the perfume is. MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND Twice, at the crucial period, President Taft went to the front in defense of the right of suffrage for the Negroes in Maryland. Twice, once from the far South, and the next time from good old New England, he sent ringing letters protesting against the Democratic measure to disfranchise the Negroes of that State. Colonel Roosevelt, too, may have been opposed to the measure, but there is no record of his having protested against its passage. President Taft did protest against its passage, and that strongly, too, and in all human probability had it not been for the ringing, emphatic protest President Taft sent, and which was published in every newspaper in and out of Maryland, the Negro men of Maryland would today be in the same sad state of their brothers in the South—without a vote, and without a voice in the elections. In view of this, if President Taft's courageous defense of the Maryland Negro's right to suffrage is followed by the Negroes of that State voting against President Taft in the forthcoming primaries what a sad, deplorable story of ingratitude it will tell. Because of President Taft's prompt and courageous demand that the Maryland disfranchisement measure be defeated he is entitled to the gratitude of the Negro voters of that State, and ought to receive their votes in the Presidential primary soon to be held. Because of his inherent and honest belief that the Negro is entitled to and ought to have the right of suffrage the same as the whites, President Taft will no doubt again protest against the next disfranchising measure offered by the Democrats, even if the Negroes of that State vote against him. But who could blame his friends, did the exigency occur, if they remembered that courageous defense was followed by base ingratitude. The Bee does not believe Maryland Negroes are ungrateful. NEGRO DEMOCRACY. What a Negro can see in the Democratic party The Bee is at a loss to know. Those who are supporting it are indorsing their own disfranchisement. The reason that so much discrimination exists in the several government departments is because there are so many Democrats in control. In the Postoffice Department of the general government no Negro has been promoted for over three years, and, if Negro Democracy or white-washed Republicans can explain The Bee will be satisfied. What is in the Democratic party for the Negro? . What is he now receiving but a few dollars and a few spittoon washers' places. Colored men, The Bee takes this occasion to warn you against the treachery and deception' of the Democratic party. A few Negro Democrats gave out the report that Mr. Champ Clark had invited Negroes, irrespective of party affiliation or religious creed, to his birthday anniversary, but when the Editor of The Bee wrote Mr. Clark and asked him whether he had revoked the published invitation to Negroes to attend his birthday anniversary, he was eloquently silent. Negroes are being fooled, and they will be convinced, should the Democratic party obtain control of both branches of Congress. HON. HENRY W. BLAIR. On the front page of The Bee will be seen an interview the Editor of The Bee had with Ex-Senator Henry W. Blair, on the present political outlook. Mr. Blair doesn't believe that Speaker Champ Clark will be the nominee of the Democratic party, but he is certain that President Taft will be nominated and elected. He also gives some good advice to Democratic Negroes who have come to the conclusion that the Democratic party is their friend. It would benefit these misquided deciples to read this interview, because Ex-Senator Blair is one Republican in whom colored Americans should place confidence. He has been their true friend and is today. It will be remembered how he fought in the Senate of the United States for his memorable educational bill. If this bill had become a law, the colored people as well as the ignorant whites would have been benefited. This bill was bitterly fought and defeated by the Democratic party. Is there any hope or salvation in the Democratic party for the Negro? OUR SCHOOLS. The colored schools should be under the entire control and supervision of the colored assistant superintendent, or the present system ought to be abolished. A superintendent who is in charge of schools indeed in fact, by law should exercise his authority. The subordinates in the colored schools seem to go over the colored assistant's head to the superintendent. Why should this be tolerated by Superintendent Davidson? The superintendent has recommended to the Board of Education the exoneration of Mr. Bruce of alleged charges. Why then, should subordinates not be made to recognize his authority? What right or authority do certain principals have to go over the head of the assistant superintendent? Why doesn't Dr. David-on see that all reports of whatsoever kind, concerning the colored schools, are made to Mr. Bruce? WORMLEY TO RESIGN. The Lee has been informed that Dr. C. Sumner Wormley will soon tender his resignation, if he has not already done so, as head of the Howard Dental College. It is to be regretted that Dr. Wormley finds it necessary to take this step. It will be hard to fill his place, and his retirement from the dental school faculty will be a distinct loss to the school. It is pretty generally known that much of the success achieved by the school was mainly through the efforts and em- inent ability of Dr. Wormley. Not only was he regarded as a most efficient instructor, but he is universally popular. Dr. Wormley's resignation will mean a regretable loss to Howard's dental school. In the interest of the school some effort ought to be made to induce him to reconsider resigning. AN APPROPRIATE CHOICE. The selection of Dr. Booker T. Washington to speak, as representing the race, at the great national meeting of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, was an admirable one. In such a national gathering it is eminently proper that one of the acknowledged leaders of the race should be selected to speak. There is no question but what Dr. Washington will reflect credit on the race in what he will say. Men of ripe experience, varied attainments and judgment can always be relied upon to properly represent the people at any and all gatherings. The right men and men of our race should always be chosen to speak at the national gathering of the Men and Religion Forward Movement. If tomorrow is a pretty day, You street will be thronged with Easter gowns and bonnets. Newspapers have begun to carry columns of stuff boosting the bishopric ambitions of Dr. W. T. Vernon. His hat is in the ring. The A. M. E. Church owes it to the sanctity of the church, in selecting its four new bishops, to choose men about whom there has never clung scandalous apersions or the filth of immorality. No minister who has gone, scathed, through serious charges of immorality ought to be chosen as a bishop. Four years ago what was known as the "allies," the anti-Taft forces, charged then President Roosevelt with using patronage to, help secure the nomination of Mr. Taft. And President Roo-evelt did use patronage, as had been done every four years before. Now the Colonel is charging President Taft with doing just what he did four years ago. It all depends upon whose ox is gored. Four years ago the "steam roller" was a highly prized vehicle and instrument which bore the crest of Roosevelt, and the successful operation of which was a delight to him. Now the steam roller is regarded by him as an instrument of uncivilized warfare, and its users are enemies of the people. After all, it is just a matter of who is who. A boss is only a boss, in appearance, to the fellow who wants to be boss. Taft is all right, and the Colonel will be all right for him after June f8. Stick a pin right there. CAPT. JOHN C. DALEY. To the Honorable Commissioners of the District of Columbia: Gentlemen The Public Interest Association of Northeast Washington desire to express its disapproval of the unjust and unwarranted language attributed in the public press to one John Daley, Captain of the Ninth Police Precinct, appearing under the caption "For Jim Crow Cars." We earnestly protest against the presence of an olicial on the police force so prejudiced against our people as to publicly express a desire to degrade over 90,000 colored citizens for the alleged offense of three or four unfortunate men Especially do we protest, when Capt. Daley knows better than any other man, that the real cause of the riot on the Benning car line can be traced to the white men who conduct the eleven saloons within two squares of the 15th street junction, who sell the poor misguided men of both races, that which destroys all decency and self-respect, and if them for riots. If Capt. Daley really desired to stop these disorders, he would be more active in trying to wipe out the disgraceful condition of having in his precinct these dens of viciousness, at a point where people are compelled to change cars. These saloons were established to cater to these very people, as the immediate population is not sufficient to support one tenth of this number. We feel that the captain of the Ninth Police Precinct should be a man whose judgment and bearing are such as to command respect for himself and for his office. We are of the opinion that it is not the duty of subordinate officials of the Police Department, to give expression as to what in their private opinion should be the law; but, rather to enforce impartially the law as established. Such utterances on the part of a police official in reference to "Jim Crow" legislation, do more harm and create greater race hatred than can be remedied by all those who have at heart the best interest of both races, and their harmonious relations. Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) It is mighty amusing to me to see so many Negroes who four years ago were searching the dictionary to find denunciatory words to hurl at Col. Roosevelt; now shouting themselves hoarse for him. Rev. Corrothers actually disheveled his sleek-pasted hair, and that’s awfully hard to do, four years ago, pronouncing against the hero of San Juan Hill. Dear Richard Horner threatened to lose one of his arms (I forget whether right or left), rattier than vote for Taft just because Taft was Roosevelt’s candidate Judge Hewlett would work himself into a frenzy at the mere mention of Teddy’s name. Bob Waring, in blue and brass buttons, and with the insignia of a police officer pinned on his coat, went as far as he could agin the ex-president, Jim Neal was so enraged at Teddy that he would have applied to lend him money, ladd he applied, at the usual rate of interest—“ten, twenty or forty per cent for each calendar month.” Bishop Walters, with that voice of his that splits your ear every time he opens the throttle, was only kept from swearing at Teddy because he was some sort of a bishop. Rev. Waldron, who looks like a white man and speechless like a real, every-day, plain capitalized Negro, always, figuratively speaking, carried a dynamite stick around to blow up the Oyster Bay President. And all these enumerated, perfectly unselfish, assumed race leaders, were swearing undying enmity to Teddy, and placarding the country with rabbit-rousing words—“Remember Brownsville.” Now, presto change, they have consigned Brownsville to innocuous disuette, put a soft pedal on their four year old convictions, ushered the memory of four years ago into the sepulchre of the past, and are calling vociferously for the Oyster Bay Colonel. I can’t account for their change of front, and their inconsistency. Not for the world would I intimate that either the receipt of or promise of a nice roll of legal tenders would influence them. Rev. Corrothers has no use for money, except to buy things. Bishop Walters, you know is a real bishop, and that’s “nuff self,” and for the other derelicts, we all know how unselfish, sacrificing, gold-spurring patriots they are. I was talking to old Uncle Ike Waldy, down in South Washington, once—that was before, old Uncle Ike slipped out of the mortal into the immortal, and noting that his opinion was changed about a certain thing since the last time I treated him to an old-fashioned toddy, I said: “Uncle Ike, the last time I talked with you you told me that Ad Mitchell was the most no-countest, good-for-mothingness in South Washington, and now you tell me that Ad Mitchell is dearest man and de most sympathizies man dater ever-spring up from old Virginia.” What’s caused the change in your opinion? The old man puckered his lips, slipped out his tongue, as if to ensemble in his mouth the remnants of the toddy left on his lips and shaggy mustache, and remarked, confidentially: “Son, de lastest time I dun seen you was mosh dan a month ago. Since dat time Ize been prised of fings I didn’t believe befoath, and Ad Mitchell he dun talk to me, and I tell you son, he dun hept diele man mightly. It’s jest most like a miracle de way he dun changed my pinyin. You see, son, der are time when dere are powerful dements to change yer pinyuns.” The other day, as I passed down the avenue, just as I reached the front of the Munsey Building, an individual who resides here, and votes here—every four years, at the delegate primaries, and who has sufficient influence with himself to make himself believe that he is really a mastadon fellow, came out of the building, wearing a huckleberry smile, and counting over a few bits of bills of exchange, all the while humming—just loud enough to be heard, that classical refrain: "Everybody's doin' it, doin' it, doin' it." Well, brother, there are a lot of them "doing it," now, and a whole lot other trying their darnest to get a chance to do it—graft a few sheeckles from political headquarters. Some of them come in long tail coats, white cravats and a ministerial cast of countenance, carrying a large-sized itching palm; some of them come in rags, with their vest front decorated with cooked cold-storage visuals, and also carrying a catalogue-size itching palm; and they wander and wonder from one headquarters to another, humming to themselves: "Everybody is doing it; doing it, doing it." One day, I met one of these fellows with a "D. D." trailing to his name under false pretenses, at the corner of Tenth and the avenue, and he stopped me, and asked if I knew where the Roosevelt headquarters were. I plead justifiable ignorance Then he said: "Do you know where the Taft headquarters are?" To this I honestly averred, politely, no "Well, could you direct me to the Champ Clark headquarters," he supplicated, while he pressed his near-astrakan overcoat collar back, I had to tell him that I was not in politics, had no influence, and was not known outside of Washington, and therefore had no political affinities. With that, he smiled, showing a row of white pearls, and with his number ten pair of feet, moved on hesitatingly in quest of the silver fleece. As he suffered along, I began to recall all the distinguished personages of antiquity, such as Obadiah, Zachariah and Jeremiah, and a few other mummified hasbeens whose names finished with a flourish of "iah." Yes, mighty near "everybody is doing it." I see they are going to give George Cook a banquet. Well, it is about time. George has responded every time they sent out notices for a banquet to the fit and misfit, and George has acquiesced every time they said “let George do it.” Of course I don’t imagine that the banquet table will groan under the weight of a bit of spirits ferment, for George has a holy horror of anything that savors of rye or sourmash. He's just naturally agit it. And yet, what is a banquet without a bit of moisture that has heads on it? Why, a banquet without just a suspicion of Golden Wedding, Wilson—"that's all," or Trimble, is like a church communion without the unfermented wine, and the salt-bereft bread that they hand to you in germ-infected glasses and with unmanicured hands. I hope George will squint one of his eyes long enough for me to hum "coming through the rye," when I sit myself at his banquet. As much as George Cook has done for the community, and incidentally for himself, he ought to have one bang-up banquet—wine with each course, and about a dozen courses. Speaking about church communions the last time I partook, I was kneeling next to a man who had the odor of Knox Express Company's hotel for equines. When the minister passed me the unleavened bread I observed that his finger nails had suffered from the long strike the manicurist had been on. Of course, that made the bread taste a bit garbage can to me. Then, just after he passed me the unfermented wine, which to me tasted as if some one had switched the alcohol bottle on him, and when we arose to receive the benediction, etc., I turned and looked at the fellow next to me and noticed that he had a sore on his lips, and his teeth had a coat of secretion on them it would take four white wings a week to remove. Right then and there I decided that hereafter I would take my communion at home, and I have been doing it ever since. And I don't wait until a quarter has passed before I take communion either. Some times I take it every morning before breakfast, and every evening before dinner. Now I don't mean to be sacrilegious—far from it—but this taking communion, when it comes to drinking a cheap wine-out of an unwashed goblet which fifty or an hundred other redeemed ones have germasized and becullisized, I just cut it out. Why not get individual communion goblets for all churches, or make some arrangements to have a couple of dozen, enough to have one for each communicant at a kneeling, and then sterilize them just before the next bunch kneels to "drink ye hereof." Never again will I germasize my anatomy by taking communion where they use the same unwashed, bacilli-coated silver goblet out of which fifty or an hundred have drunk before. And you can tell it to ministers or marines, if you want to. Even bar rooms wash glasses after using each time. EX'SEXATOR BLAIR. (Continued-from page 1.) erty in the Revolution, and there are thousands of the names of colored soldiers on the muster rolls of that war, who fought for independence, from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. Jackson specially thanked the colored troops who did their full share of patriotic service at New Orleans, albeit that they proffered their lives to protect their masters while their own limbs remained in chains. There were hundreds of thousands of them fighting and dying for the old flag in the mighty strife for the preservation of the Union. It was my fortune to witness their valor on the battle fields at Port Hudson, when first they wore the uniform of their country, and to mingle my own blood with theirs when white and black men died together that free institutions might not perish from the earth, and I gladly hear testimony that our colored countrymen are as true soldiers and patriotic men as live. They worthily won freedom in that mighty contest. But still the fact remain that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, and that it was a Republican administration of the government that set the Negro free. Jefferson Davis was a Democrat and the spirit of Lincoln and Davis are living yet. Something is due the old Republican party still. I do not claim that full justice has been done to the colored people since the war. But we have done all for them that any party has done. We would have done more, but for the opposition of the same party and policy which we together fought in the war. We have done the best that we could. And further, as God and time give us ability, we shall do more, and that more shall include our Southern white brethren as it does you. Behold the progress of less than fifty years! You were four million. Now you are ten. Consider your progress from rags and nakedness to education and wealth—to a civilization vastly superior to the condition of England two hundred years ago. You are a great nation yourselves, twice larger than the England of Elizabeth, when she destroyed the invincible Armada, broke forever the despotic power of Spain, gave the North American Continent to the Anglo Saxon and free institution to mankind. The Abolitionist set you free. As the descendant of one of them, I charge you to remember all these things before you lay violent hands upon the Republican party which, under God, transmuted their principles into your freedom, with all its wonderful realizations and radiant homes But further, in this campaign the greatest issue is that of protection to American labor against the competition of the far cheaper labor of foreign lands. Millions of these cheap laborers come here and seize upon the work by which our own labor lives and all parties join in permitting this, from motives of humanity. But the Democratic party is Free Trade in foreign goods also, imposing tax or tariff only so far as it may be desirable for public revenue—but protection to American labor, they say, is robbery. Now ninety-eight per cent of the value of the total value of American production (some thirty billions of dollars) is labor—American labor—and it is paid an average of at least fifty per cent more than like labor receives abroad. If foreign goods and farming products come into this country free, then foreign goods, etc., will stop American production or reduce American wages of the laborer on the farm, in the mine and the factory, and all trades and occupations, one half. The poorer the laborer, the harder he has to work, the more he is interested to have his labor and wages protected by keeping the foreign products out. How is the colored man ever to improve his condition if he loses half his pay or his whole employment entirely? But you say that he raises cotton and foreign nations cannot—but the truth is that Russia, and all Europe, are sure to get cotton elsewhere before long, and with their cheap labor unless we protect ours, they will sell us not only cotton goods, but raw cotton also—and so of other labor and products of labor unless wages here sink to the level paid abroad. So here we have in this very campaign a vital issue to all, but more and most of all to poor, and epecially wage-working men. What is freedom worth if we can get nothing to do? or if working like slaves, we get only pay of slaves, and have to take care of ourselves in sickness and age—which last, before emancipation, was a charge upon the owner of the slave. No portion of the American people are so interested in a protective tariff, which is a great principle, with the Republican party and the chief issue in this campaign, as the colored man, especially the laborer of the South—because he is the poorest man, and whoever would help him, or poor men anywhere, should vote the Republican ticket next November It is impossible to say everything in one interview, but I pray you to ponder these things and remember that, in this campaign candidates are less important than principles, and that the Protective Tariff is the principal thing—no other great issue can be forced into this campaign. The colored men of the North have imposed upon them a sacred trust of voting, not alone for themselves, but also for their disfranchised fellow citizens—elsewhere—a trust always to be discharged by devotion to great principles—rather than by the attainment of official station or material advantages of any kind. - Will some one mention a single thing for the good of the Negro ever proposed by the national Democratic party?- and in some States they have re-en-laved him, in all but the name. But President Taft is opposed because, in the goodness of his heart he had hoped vainly, perhaps too trustingly, to make the general condition of the colored man better by surrendering local office to conciliate local prejudice. A President, like other men, has to learn by experience, and as Henry Clay, in like case, asked the mountaineer if he would throw away his rille because it missed fire at first or would rather pick the flint and next time bring down the game—so let us try President Taft once more. Every campaign turns upon a single supreme issue, no matter what else may be in the platforms; and now it is Democracy, Freq Trade, and industrial ruin on the one hand, or on the other, Republicans-m, Protection and prosperity. Choose ye now whom will ye serve and which will you have? SMART SET. The remarkable outpouring of musical comedy attractions makes it a pretty safe proposition that this form of entertainment will survive indefinitely, and continue to charm, amuse and delight the average audience, composed of theater patrons who believe in the playhouse as a place to drive away dull care. In the gigantic preparations made this season the question of supremacy seems to be the one most consulted: it was, who could get there with the largest and most superb production, who would pre-ent the most novel and attractive features, and what organization would contain the greatest aggregation of funny comedians. The promoters of the Smart Set Company, with S. H. Dudley, in the new comedy, "Dr Beans from Boston," which will pay us a visit to the Howard Theater, commencing Monday, April 8th. While taking into consideration the high importance of all these commendable essentials, were determined, not to sacrifice the dramatic status of their sacrifice, by neglecting to supply a story of reasonable intelligence around which to shape the infusion of song and fun material in a wholly consistent manner: hence a plot, and a very excellent one too, was first secured: then came the stringing together of such features as would lend dignity and tone as well as afford the keenest possible enjoyment of the best. How well this idea was developed and carried out in "Dr Beans from Boston," is best told from the splendid unanimous verdict accorded by the press everywhere. From such a source it is also learned that "Dr Beans from Boston" is hand-mealy blessed with pretty girls, who becoming massively exquisite gowns that were especially designed for this inciting musical comedy. The company is headed by everybody's favorite. S. H. Dudley, and an all-star cast of funmakers, including Henry Troy Arthur Talbot, James Burris, William Ramsey, Alberta Ormes, Roley Gibson, Frank DeLyons, Daisy Martin, Jessie Harris and Ella Beavens. The book is the joint work of Mr Dudley and Henry Troy, music and lyrics by Will H. Voldery and Henry S. Cramer PRESIDENT TAFT Will Speak at the Metropolitan. Next Tuesday evening, April 24th, President Wm. H Taft will speak for the Alumni Gymnasium Rally at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. President Taft will deliver a speech that will electrify this county. House and Herrman. If you cannot be satisfied elsewhere go to House and Herrman. Mention The Bee 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. Charles H. Houston, a freshman at Amherst College, is in the city spending the Easter holidays with his parents. Judge and Mrs. W. L. Houston Dr John C. Ellis, who has been practicing in Charleston, W. Va., for the past year, will be home to spend the Easter holidays. While here he will be the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Mary Meckins, of 1503 Swan Street Northwest. Miss A. M. Brown, of MeyersDale, Pa., is visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Mrs. and Mr. Thomas W. Short, of 1107 B Street Southeast. Miss A. M. Brown is being royally entertained by her friends and acquaintances. Mr. Arnette Boyd is in Little Rock, Ark., visiting his sister, Mrs. Dr W. O. Foster, and other relatives. Mrs. Bessie McKinney Austin, who has been visiting her parents, has returned to her home in Lynchburg, Va. Mr. N. Wilson Addison, of Boston, was a visitor to the city last week on business. Mr. Addison returned to Boston last week. Miss Hattie Spotswood, of Waterberry, Conn., who has been visiting Miss Baltimore, of Harrisburg, Pa., in this city, the guest of Dr. and Mrs Boyd, of 501 Florida Avenue Mr. Ephrian Slaughter has returned to his home in Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. Slaughter came on to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Mary Jackson. Mrs. E. H. Oxlley, of Harrisburg, is spending a while with her parents in this city. Rev Francis J. Grimke was in New York last week. Mr. James T. Needham spent several days in this city last week on business. Rev S. L. Corrothers spent last week in Philadelphia, Pa. Rev Dr. S. J. Jones, of Philadelphia, Pa., president of the Afro-American Ministerial Protective League, was in the city last week Dr. H. L. Lenox, of this city is Dr. H. L. Lenox, of this city is visiting friends in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. C. W. Byrd, of this city was called to Virginia last week to attend the funeral of his brother, Mr. A. R. Byrd. Read The Bee if you want a live paper. Phil Waters, of Charleston, W. Va. was in the city last week. Rev. C. C Gill of Fairmont. W. Va. was in the city last week. Charles H. Houston, a freshman at Amherst College, is in the city spending the Easter holidays with his parents, Judge and Mrs. W. L. Houston 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. Nellie Moore, of Richmond Hill, New York, one of the race's foremost pianists, made quite a hit at the Presbyterian Church last Monday evening in the recital. She was assisted by Felix Weir and the 15th Street Church choir. Watch for a prominent wedding this spring. Standing room was at a premium at the Lincoln Temple Church last Sunday night. Song services was held by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Mrs. M. E. Washington, who has been the guest of her cousin, Mrs. M. O. Maxfield, has returned to her home in Proctor. Vermont $ \sigma $ The father of Mrs J. F Loftiens, of 40 Hanover Street, is seriously ill. His friends are hoping for his early recovery. The choir of Howard University rendered "The Seven Last Words" at a song service last Sunday evening. The chapel was crowded. Miss Childress, the director, deserves great credit, as well as Miss Young, the pianist. Watch this paper for the amusements next week. Miss Jessie C. Mason, who has been quite ill, is able to be out again. Miss Mattie E. Bowen' is improving. Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson, who has been ill for the past week, is able to be out again. Attorney W. C. Martin is able to be out again. Rev. S. L. Corrothers returned to the city from New York this week. Dr. James E Shepard will pass through the city for New York Monday. Don't fail to go to Galbraith Church tomorrow and listen to Rev. Talliferro. They met at Dr. Morse's Gem Drug Store and saw themselves in front of that beautiful fountain, 19th and L streets Northwest. Miss Vivian Johnson, of Howard University, who was called to her home in Memphis, Tenn., on account of the serious illness of her mother, has returned to her work in the Uni- FORCE OF HABIT. How it Was Exemplified in the Case of an Automobilist Who Bought a Motor Boat. S II. Dudley, the comedian of the Smart Set Company, which will hold sway at the Howard Theater next week, tells an interesting story which actually describes what force of habit can do. "There was once a fellow," said Dudley to The Bee reporter, "who was a died-in-the-wool motorist. Why, he was so much wrapped up in the sport that he thought of nothing else. He had plenty of money, and was able to keep three expensive machines. One day, however, he met a friend who told him that the only real sport was motoring on the water. The friend advised him to buy a motor boat, and assured him that he would never regret it "The man bought a boat and agreed with his friend that it was better sport than automobiling. Thereupon he sold all of his cars and confined himself to motor boats exclusively. "One night, after returning from a day's outing on his boat, his wife noticed that he was soaking wet. "Why, John, where have you been? Surely it can't be that you fell overboard? I can't believe that anything like that occurred after your repeated boasting that you have become an expert on motor boats." "Sure, I'm an expert, my dear, John replied, "and I didn't fall overboard, either. You see I was going at a break-neck speed, something like forty miles an hour. When I got to the middle of the river, there was a loud report, a flash, and my boat came to a standstill. I immediately got out of the boat and crawled under it to see what was the matter. Before I realized what I was doing, I was soaked. It was just force of habit, my dear, just force of habit." 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. The Bee is the people's paper. Why don't you have it sent to your home? Reception in Honor of Postmaster and Mrs. Frank Davis, of Panama. Mrs. Kate Ross and Mrs. Mary P Jones gave a reception on Tuesday evening. April 2. at their residence, 305 T street N W. in honor of Postmaster and Mrs. Frank Davis, who received more than two hundred callers from among the most prominent citizens of Washington. Judge Robt. H. Terrell bade them: welcome in behalf of the city. In expression of return the postmaster said he and Mrs. Davis was delighted, and regretted to have to leave the city of beauty and splendor, which they have enjoyed so much. An excellent buffet service was served and richly enjoyed. The Asbury M. E. Church Choir. On Sunday, evening next, the choir of the Ashbury M. E. Church, under the direction of Mr. Robt. W. Johnson, will render a special musical program, commemorative of Easter. The soloist will be Mrs. Alberta Byes, and Messrs Ferrol Gibbs, J. E. Jones and C. S. Beale. Two choruses by the celebrated composer, P. A. Schnecker, "The End of the Sabbath." and "Our Lord is Ri-en From the Dead," will be special features of the program. The Choir will be accompanied by Mrs. Estelle V. Jarvis, organist, and Mr. Bernardin Smith, violinist. On Sunday, April 21, the choir will sing at the Sharp Street Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md 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 Mr. and Mrs. Davis. Mr. Frank Davis, postmaster at Panama, accompanied by his accomplished wife, held an informal reception at 305 T-Street Northwest, from 8 to 10 o'clock. Mrs. Kate Ross and Mrs. Mary P. Jones were the hostesses. Many social lights paid their respects to these two distinguished guests. A BRILLIANT CONCERT. The Washington Conservatory of Music Chorus, Mr. Harry A. Williams, directing, gave a brilliant concert before a brilliant audience which filled the Howard Theater last Friday night. This chorus of twenty-five voices has been organized about three months only, and already their work and the conducting of Mr. Williams marks a new epoch in music developing in Washington. The parts are nicely balanced, no part at any time is overprominent, every singer intently watches the director, each movement of whose beaten time is responded to with ease and certainty by the chorus. Every number on the program was beautiful, some numbers extremely so. Kevin's "The Rosary," harmonized and arranged for chorus and orchestra by Mr. Williams, with Mr. Ernest Amos as soloist, was the most exquisite piece of work heard in Washington in many a 'day. One of the most difficult features to overcome in chorus work is the tendency to make climaxes fortisimo. In the Rosary, the climaxes were most beautiful because of their subdued form. In "Love's Dream After the Ball," the theme carried by cello and strings and daintily accompanied by chorus was very pleasing. The "Song of the Vikings" displayed effective-unison chorus work, and the quartette from Rigaletto was linely rendered by Miss Mamie Simmons, Miss Charlotte Wallace, Mr. Franklin Childs and Dr. Sumner Wormley. The solos were artistically rendered, Mr. Childs' tenor, singing Tosti's "My Dreams" well indeed. Dr. Wormley's rich voice was heard at its best in the Toreador song from Carmen, and Miss Wallace's glorious contralto surpassed former efforts in the Cavatina from Gounod's "Queen of Sheba. The Coleridge Taylor trio did some fine playing in Rossini's "William Tell," and Mr. Henry Lee Grant's accompanying was just what accompanying should be, but the piece de resistance of a very fine program was the sextette from Lucia, sung by Miss Simmons, Miss Wallace, Messrs. Childs, Stanton-Wormley, Amos and Dr. Wormley, with orchestra and chorus, which was superbly rendered, a vociferous and prolonged applause showed appreciation of its artistic rendition, and the audience was not satisfied till it was repeated. Washington loves a chorus and is fortunate in having so thorough an artist and musician as Mr. Williams locate here. The management of the Washington Conservatory of Music deserves commendation for securing his services and hearty support in retaining them. Three character dances staged by Miss Theresa Lee supplimented the program, the Spanish dance by little Belita Douglas and Dorothy Craft being especially well done. Misses Ruth Welborn, Belita Douglas, Dorothy Craft, Josephine Hughes, Lillian Murdock, Phyllis Terrell, Ruth Gordon, Pearle Brown, Kittie Nolle, Algernon Pryor, Jewel Jennifer, Ione Odell, Katie Smith, Mary Terrell Grace Gibbs, Ruby Holland, Orville Stevens, Isadore Blagburn, Masters M. Curtis, Holland, A Scott E. Davidson, R. Douglass, C Wegleman, J. Stewart Elaborate plans for a unique musical are being worked upon, and the public may expect a rare treat some time in May. WEST WASHINGTON Among the Churches. Rev U G. Leeper, pastor of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, who is closing up another year with success, had a grand rally day on Sunday, which was liberally patronized and aided much in his conference collections. It is expected that Rev Leeper will be again returned to Ebenezer. The Christian Endeavor Society of the First Baptist Church was largely attended Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. The singing of the Endeavorers was the main feature of the exercises. Mr. Jas. L. Turner spoke on foreign missions. Mrs. Fannie E. Smothers preided. A large congregation greeted the return of the pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Sunday morning, but on account of having contracted a heavy cold, although present, was unable to preach, and Rev. Dr Thomas, the District Superintendent, of Alexandria, delivered a very interesting discourse. At 3 o'clock a "Baby Rally," under the auspices of the Junior Epworth League, was held, which was a very unique service. Mrs. Louise Brown presided. At 8 o'clock the senior choir rendered the sacred cantata, "The Darkest Hour," and was greeted with a very large and cultured audience. Rev and Mrs. Daniel W. Hays were tendered a reception Monday evening by the members and friends of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, at the parsonage, 2002 O Street. Refreshments were served by a committee of ladies. Rev. Hays expressed thanks. (By R. H. Brooks, 723 So. Fairfax St.) Rev S H. Brown, D D., his good wife, Mrs. Brown, and his son, each received a most cordial welcome on Sunday morning from the members of Roberts Chapel. At each service Dr. Brown preached in his usual instructive and eloquent way to an audience composed not only of members and regular attendants of Roberts Chapel, but members and friends from the other churches in the city as well. Judging from the interest that is being vividly manifested, and the earnest support that has been pledged, it is safe to predict that, by this time next year, the results of one of the most prosperous conference years will have been recorded in the annals of old Roberts Chapel. Those who attended the Ebenezer Baptist Church last Sunday night felt that it was indeed good to be there. The occasion was a series of sermon and song under the auspices of the choir, with the direction of their able choirmaster and organist, Mr. Edgar J. Johnson. The committee did their church and community a great service in se- lecting the Rev. Charles W. Jordan, B. D., to preach. Rev Mr. Jordan preached a sermon that blended so effectively with a song service of the higher grade, that even those of average intelligence could have listened to him most attentively for at least twice the time he put to such good use. It is hoped that the church will retain the Rev. Jordan. Mr. Russell Coles, Mr. A. D. Cephas, Mr. Richard Jackson, and all the members of the choir can freely feel that their efforts have not been in vain. The ushers were Mr. B. F. Watson, the hustling president of the Methodist Brotherhood; Mr. Wm. Lee, of Alfred Street Baptist Church, and Mr. Christopher C. Brooks. Mr. Edward P. Dixon was master of ceremonies instead of Dr. J. Milton Hopkins. The organization meeting of the Colored School Improvement League was a phenomenal success. Capt. Wm. Sweeney presided, and made many encouraging and complimentary remarks relative to the effort. In the election of officers Lawyer T. M. Watson selected the real cream of available material for the presidency in the person of Mr. Edw. P. Dixon, Jr., who was unanimously elected. Mr. Dixon is one of that optimistic kind that possesses that elusive but clean quality of "stick-to-it-iveness" that knows no defeat. Messrs. W Calvin Chase, Jr., Maurice B. Thomas and S. L. Jones came over from Washington to assist in the good work. The Brotherhood male choir, under direction of Mr. Lumpkins, rendered several vocal numbers. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Alexander Truatt, Rev. Sam. B. Ross, Lawyer T M Watson. The invocation was offered by Rev. S. H. Brown, D. D., of Roberts Chapel. The roster elected is as follows: Edw. P. Dixon, Jr., president; Mrs. Molly Tancil, vice president; Mr. Rosier D Lyles, of Snowden School, secretary; Samuel Tucker, assistant secretary; Mr. John F. Parker, principal, of Snowden school, treasurer. The next meeting will be announced later. Mr. Maggie Evans, superintendent of the Junior Epworth League, and Miss. Martha E. Buckner, the organist of the church, are preparing an appropriate musical and literary program for the young people's meeting at Roberts Chapel, 4:30 P. M., Easter. Prof. Ernest E. Just, of Howard University, will be the speaker at the public meeting of the Young Men's Bible Class, Alfred Street Baptist Church, Easter, 3 P. M. The program will consist of solos by Mrs. Susie Belle Brooks, Mr. Albert Tucker, and recitations or select readings by Miss. Beatrice Brown and Miss. Helen Johnson The Brotherhood male choir will render "The Resurrection," by Manney, tomorrow morning, 6 o'clock. The public is invited to attend. The service has been extensively advertised, and a very large crowd is expected. Mr Phillip Beander continues quite ill at his home on So. St. Asaph St. Mrs. Ella Thomas and her children left for their home in Richmond on Thursday morning. The Bee is on sale at David Wair's barber shop, 106 X. Columbus Street, and Miss Julia Brown, 200 X. Payne Street FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. The. Fairmount Heights Citizens Association held its second March meeting in the lecture room of the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church and discussed many questions for the general and special interest of the community. A committee was appointed to take under advisement the feasibility of all the citizens holding a great joint festival during the coming summer. The new pastor of the M. E. Church will enter upon his work about May I Meanwhile Rev. D. E. S. Williams, D. C. District Superintendent, will have charge of the work. Rev. Dr. Williams preached a sermon and gave some timely advice. Dr. Williams is a divine ambassador, and is always "on business" for his King. Messrs. R. S. Nichols, James F. Armstrong, W. S. Crouse, Frank Coalman and W. S. Pittman, the members of the building committee of the Fairmount Heights school, inspected the school house and found the work more than two, thirds completed. The committee signed an order on the county school commission for one thousand dollars, which was paid over to Mr. Lewis N. Hayes, the contractor, by Hon. Frederick Scassar Mr. C. S. Williams' blacksmith-shop and the shoe shop of Mr. A. Willers are located in Cedar Heights. Mr John Spencer gave a banquet March 29, 1912, for the benefit of the Baptist Church here Mrs. M. Tramwell, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. M. Thomas, Mrs C Green, Miss Fauver and many others proved valuable helpers around the banquet table Mr. James A. Campbell, the efficient superintendent of the Sunday school of the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church, assisted by his corps of officers and teachers, are making special preparation for Easter services Sunday. While the enrollment of the Sunday school is nearly a hundred pupils, the officials are planning a campaign, and by the sitting of the first quarterly conference will be considerably increased. The Epworth League of the M. E. Church rendered a most excellent program last Sunday night. Mr. J. T. Slater, Rev. Washington, Mr S. J. Barbour and others took active parts in the exercises. Among those present were: Rev. Dr. E. S Williams, D. D.; Rev. Washington, Mr and Mrs. S. J. Barbour, Mr. J. A. Campbell, Mr. W. A. Brooks, Rev. A. Garner, Mr. F. Coalman, Mr. R. Slater, Mrs. G. Griffin, Mrs. Q. V. Coalman, Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe, the Misses Gardiner, Mrs. and Miss Boozer, Mr and Mrs. Addison, and others. Have The Bee follow you. THIS IS THE ONE YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR WITH $ _{P} $ In the Laughing Musical Dr. Beans fr PRICES NIGHT—25. 50 75¢ We can tell you fifty re —why it will be advantage to buy Carpets from us. Just one is suff We make it possible to have everything for home comfort Anything you wish will be charged on an open account which is made payable as your circumstances may suggest. Come where you can read every price and do the buying before there's a question about how or when you desire to pay. PETER GROGAN and Sons Co. TESTIMONIAL RECEPTION. Supreme Crand Master Minor Honored—Ancient I. O. of Moses, St. John's Tabernacle, No. 39, Presents a Banner—W. B. Harris, G. M. of Odd Fellows, and Editor Chase Speak One of the most brilliant gatherings of the representatives and their friends of the Ancient Independent Order of Moses, assembled in Cadets Armory last Tuesday evening, the occasion being a testimonial reception and banner presentation. The occasion will be long remembered. The principal speakers were Mr. Wm. B. Harris, D. G. M. of G. U. O. of O. F., and Mr. W. Calvin Chase, editor of The Bee Grand Master Harris took for his subject "Race Pride," which was full of sound advice and logic. The address of Miss R. F. Toliver, in presenting the banner, with the portrait of Grand Master Minor on it, was one of the most eloquent and timely addresses that one would want to hear. Miss Toliver has a very distinct articulation, and every word she uttered was weighed. Special mention should be made of every lady who delivered presentation addresses, but space will not permit it. The following is the program of exercises. Master of Ceremonies—Mr. W. A. Carter Song—All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, etc. Prayer—Geo. W. Childs. No. 79. Solo—Mp. Wm. Allen. Presentation of Banner—Miss R. E. Toliver. N. G. R. Response—Mis. Sadie Gaskins, No. 53 Solo—Mr. Bernard Botts Presentation to Grand Master by the following tabernacles. St. Johns. No. 39; Dickerson, No. 44! Crystal Fount. No. 45; Williams, No. 46; Mt. Horeb, No. 53; Western Star, 55; Wilkerson, No. 59; Early Rose, No. 67; Grantling, No. 70; Caleb, No. 79. Solo—Mr. Charles Lane. Address—Mr. W. B Harris, G. M. of Odd Fellows. ROLEY GIBSON WILLIAM RAMSEY FRANK DELYONS ELLA BEVANS ARTHUR TALBOT DAISY MARTIN JAMES BURRIS HENRY TROY ALBERT ORMES ROBT. WILLIAMS HATTIE BURRIS JESSIE HARRIS Song—Twilight Glee Club, Prof. Cha. Lane, leader; Pianist, Miss Ruth Johnson. Remarks—Mr. Grant Contee, P. G. F. S. The banner was given by St. John's Tavernacle No. 39, to Mr. Joseph Minor, Supreme Grand Master, for the excellent service performed by him in making this great organization a success Mr. Morris' response was modestly delivered He gave, some good advice, which was loudly applauded. At the conclusion of the exercises the invited guests and delegates were invited to the hall below, where the committee of arrangements had artistically set a long table heavily laden with the most choice viands. Every guest was more than satisfied with what the committee had set out to eat Everything was plentiful, and great credit is due the committee of ladies for the excellent repast. Among some of those present were Mr and Mrs. Joseph J. Minor. Mrs. Minor was beautifully gowned; Miss Sadie Gaskins. Mr. Charles Turner. Mrs Betty Lee, the widow of the late Albert Lee, of West Washington, who has done much for the order of Mose in that section of the city, Mr Charles Minor, P. G. O., and also a member of Early Rose Tabernacle. No. 67. Mr. Benjamin West, a P. G. O., and a member of Miriam Tabernacle 71. Mr Thornton Rhodes, a Past Grand Master, and a member and trustee of Early Rose. 67; Mr. James H. Jackson, Past Grand Deputy and trustee of Early Rose, 67; P. G. V. Mrs. Sarah Larkum, a member of Dickerson, 44; P. G. S. Sis. Cora Minor, wife of Grand Master Joseph Minor; Mr. Collins Chloe, presiding officer of Crystal Fount No. 45; Mr George Davis, P. G Financial Secretary of the National Supreme Grand Lodge; Mrs. Maggie Taylor, of Williams, No. 46; Mrs. Elizabeth Horner, a P. G O.: Mrs. Laura Delaney, the present Grand Treasurer; and Miss Blanche Delaney, delegate and secretary of Cook's Juvenile No. 1. A token in real coin was sent from West Mountain Tabernacle No. 50 Located in Pittsburg, Pa. When Roused These Serious and Usually Patient Animals Fight Like Fury. The usually patient and submissive camel, like the proverbial worm, will sometimes resent an overdose of abuse. Too dense to think of a way in which he can outwit his driver and so take him unawares, when roused to the pitch of fury he rushes at the tyrant open mouthed, and his formidable teeth and powerful jaws do serious damage. Of this vindictiveness the camel driver is aware and of the certainty that sooner or later the camel will seek revenge. Accordingly it is customary for the person who fears his malice to throw his clothes before the camel, meanwhile hiding himself until the animal's fury has been expended in tossing and tramping on them, when the injury, real or supposed, is at once forgotten. The camel will not identify himself with his driver or rider in the smallest way whatever. He steadily declines all advances. His eye never lights up with love or even interest at the approach of his master. Should you attempt to pat or caress him he will object in a very decided manner. Good treatment or bad makes no difference to the camel. Life and its hard conditions are taken for granted. His view of things is far too serious. He is so absorbed and preoccupied that he has no time to waste in the gambols indulged in by all other young animals.—Harper's Weekly. A PLEASANT MEETING. It Is Nice to Find a Friend Who Scatters Sunshine. "I don't like people who are always coming to me for sympathy." "They do get tiresome, but I prefer them to the ones who come boasting of their successes and trying to make me dissatisfied with my lot." "Oh, I don't mind that kind. They never worry me any. I am always so successful myself that I never have cause to envy them. And, speaking of success, I made $500 last week in a little real estate deal, and my boy has been making a great record in school. He's away ahead of all the other boys of his age, and my wife has a maid now who is the best girl we have ever been able to find—the best one in our neighborhood, in fact. How is your boy doing now? I heard some time ago that he was inclined to be rather wild." "Please don't mention, him. I'm afraid he is going to bring sorrow upon us. You always were lucky. I guess I will have to lose the little home I've been paying on during the past eight years, all on the boy's account. My wife has had to quit keeping help, although her health is very poor and"—"Well, goodby. I've got to be going. Cheer up. What's the use of being grumpy? Look at me. You'll find, if you try it, that it pays to scatter sunshine."—Chicago Record-Herald. Story of a Nail Keg. A hundred years ago Jeremiah Atwater was a leading New Haven merchant, buying his supplies in Boston and receiving them by vessel. Among other goods received were several casks of nails, one of which on opening it under a layer of nails at each end was found to be filled with silver dollars. Mr. Atwater, who was a conscientious man, immediately wrote to the Boston merchant that there must be some mistake in the invoice of nails, as one of the casks contained other articles besides nails. He was promptly informed that the nails were bought for nails, sold for nails and nails they must be. Forthwith Mr. Atwater had a basin made of the silver and presented it to the Center church, where it has been used in the Baptismal service from that time to the present. Art and Nature: Art is the revelation of man, and not merely that, but likewise the revelation of nature speaking through man. Art pre-exists in nature, and nature is reproduced in art. As vapors from the ocean floating landward and dissolved in rain are carried back in rivers to the ocean, so thoughts and the semblances of things that fall upon the soul of man in showers flow out again in living-streams of art and lose themselves in the great ocean, which is nature. Art and nature are not, then, discordant, but ever harmoniously working in each other.—Longfellow's "Hyperion." Illuminating. While touring abroad a certain citizen of New York found this item in a list of police regulations posted up on a highway in Ireland: "Until further notice every vehicle must carry a light when darkness begins. Darkness begins when the lights are lit."—Saturday Evening Post. The Family Orchard. "Could I interest you in our orange more proposition?" "On my wife's hat,"—Houston Post. 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A certain amount of mean work had to be done, he claimed, and "mean natured men" were intended to do it. The slaves in some of the Greek states outnumbered the freemen four or five to one. Manual labor came in Greece to be thought a degradation, suited only for beings who could not do the higher work. Even freemen who worked for wages were by Aristotle placed outside the constitution. And what was true of the Greeks was equally true of most of the other ancient nations.—Exchange. Shakespeare as an Actor. About the year 1500 one of the London companies received an addition in the person of a young man who was not only a skillful and useful actor, but who also possessed the accomplishment of being able to adapt older plays to the taste of the times and even proved to have the gift of writing tolerably good plays himself, though older and jealous colleagues might hint at their not being altogether original. This young man, whose capacities became of no slight use to the company and the theater, was named William Shakespeare. - From "A History of Theatrical Art." Very Complicated. Aunt Kate—What brings that young Mr. Stevens to the house so often? Mildred—Well, his mother's stepfather married a second cousin of my father's great-aunt. We're trying to figure out what relation that makes him to me, and it can't be done in one evening.—St. Louis Times. Keeping Tab on Dad. "What does your father do when you ask him any questions?" asked one small boy. "He generally says, 'I'm busy just now; don't bother me,'" replied the other. "Then when I go out of the room he looks in the encyclopedia."—Washington Star. Breaking the Record. The Caller—I hear that you've been to a party, Mabel. Did you dance much? Mabel (aged eight)—I should say I did. I danced two quadrillions.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. We ought to call in reason, like a good physician, as a help in misfortune.—Epictetus. 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Washington's matchless superintendent of the public schools, by the Board of Education, and are rightly showering congratulations upon Mr. Bruce and the Board O I am of the opinion that a large amount of the credit for the wise actions of the school board is due you, because you, through your excellent paper, which is read by all, kept the public informed of the movements of Mr. Bruce's opponents, and the people rallied to the support of the superintendent as they never have before, since the days of Prof. Geo. F. T. Cook (hallowed be that name). The efforts to deceive the worth and belittle the usefulness of Mr. Bruce proved a failure. PROPRIETOR OF The Moose House Washington, D. C. I regard Mr. Bruce as a scholar, Christian gentleman, and a man who has the interest of thousands of colored children of the District of Columbia at heart, and works day and night for their educational, social and material advancement. Special Liquor Sale Every Saturday. MADAME K. L. COLEMAN your very respectfully JABEZ LEE. Ladies' Nurse 3335 Sherman Avenue N. W. Phone Columbia 466. Remedy No. 1. An ointment, makes soreness, inflamation and initiation vanish Printing If you want first-class printing done in the most artistic manner, send it to W. Calvin Chase, Jr., for estimates. Office, 1109 Eye Street, Northwest, residence 1212 Florida Avenue, Northwest. Phone N. 2642 Y, M. 4078 Every job will entitle you to a free notice in The Bee. Remedy No. 2. An internal remedy to aid the ointment by expelling the poison caused by constipation. To be used together. Both for 50c postpaid. L.C.BROWN Registered Pharmacist C.BROWN, Registered Pharmacist 609 Third Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. Washington, D. C. SAVAGES AND CLOTHES. Their Carefulness About Their Ralment Was Not Appreciated by the Missionaries. Ardent missionaries were trying to convert the natives of a village in unclad Africa to modesty as well as to Christianity and for that purpose provided them all with more or less complete outfits of clothes. The natives were delighted and spent several days simply in parading in civilized garb through the one narrow village street But when Sunday arrived and the blacks thronged to the weekly church service, carrying the new clothes in bundles under their arms, the missionaries were dismayed and feared some kind of barbaric outbreak. But since there seemed to be the usual mingling of curiosity and reverence on the part of the natives they decided to ask no questions until after the service. There was a normal quiet until just as the sermon was begun. Then suddenly a huge chief, who had been squatting with his face toward the open doorway, leaped to his feet with an exclamation. Immediately the others of the tribe did likewise, crying, "The sun—the sun" unwrapped their bundles and proceeded to put on their clothes. "What does it all mean?" inquired one of the white teachers. The old chief turned to him with equal amazement. "Of course," said he. "we could not wear our beautiful ornaments when the rain might come and spoil them."—New York Tribune. KILL OFF THE RATS. It's a Mighty Big Job, but Black Death Looks on and Waits. "The pneumonic plague is due to the marmot. The marmot lives in the Lake Baikal region. Kill it off—and it can easily be killed off—and the pneumonic plague will disappear forever." The speaker, a bacteriologist of the University of Pennsylvania, resumed: "The bubonic plague is due to the rat. Kill the rat off and the bubonic plague will disappear. But to kill off the rat!" He made a gesture of despair. "A litter of rats;" he said, "numbers thirteen. Of these six will be does. A doe rat will have her first litter at the age of three months and thereafter another litter every six weeks all through the year, winter and summer alike. Thus if every member of these litters survive the progeny of one pair of rats in a year would number 25,000. "They don't number that, of course, but they number something like it, and if our millionaire philanthropists don't help us to exterminate our parasites—our rats and mice, our cats and dogs—if they don't help us to exterminate all animals save those that are of direct value to us—why, some day another black death will nearly, will perhaps completely, exterminate civilization."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Applied Science. When James Russell Lowell was minister to England he was guest at a banquet at which one of the speakers was Sir Frederick Bramwell. Sir Frederick was to respond to the toast "Applied Science." It was long after midnight when the toast was proposed, and several speakers were still to be called. Rising in his place, the scientist said: "At this hour of the night, or, rather, of the morning, my only interest in applied science is to apply the tip of the match to the side of the box upon which alone it ignites and to apply the flame so obtained to the wick of a bedroom candle." A moment later Löwell tossed a paper across the table to him bearing these two lines: Oh, brief Sir Frederlek, would that all could catch Your happy talent and subply your match! Easy Enough. Just before the capture of Savannah General Logan, with two or three of his staff, entered the depot at Chicago to take the cars east on his way to rejoin his command. The general, being a short distance in advance of the others, stepped on the steps of a car, but was stopped by an Irishman with: "Ye can't go in there." "Why not?" asked the general. "Because them's a leddies' caer, and no gentleman 'll be goln' in there without a leddy. There's wan sate in that caer over there if yees want it." "Yes," replied the general, "I see there is one seat, but what shall I do with my staff?" "Oh, yer staff!" was the reply. "Go take the sate and stick yer staff out of the windy." The chief of the clan of McIntosh once had a dispute with a London cabby over the fare. "Do you know who I am?" the highlander asked angrily. "I am the McIntosh." "I don't care if you are an umbrella," retorted the cabby. "I'll have my rights!" In For It! First Small Boy—We'd better be good. Second Small Boy—Why? First Small Boy—I heard doctor tell mother to take plenty of exercise.—Woman's Home Companion. She-I will have no smoking in this house. Do you understand? He-Yes; please extend this prohibition to the stoves.—Baltimore American. "What constitutes a first class society drama?" "Three acts, six gowns and nine epigrams."—Loulsville Courier-Journal. HAIR VIM TRADE MARK HAIR-VIM is an ideal and elegant hair dressing. 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"BABEK" CURES MALARIA Gentlemen: I wish to state that two bottles of "Flixir 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. NEW YORK CANDY KITCHEN 1506 7th St. N. W. Fresh Candies Daily Good Chocolate Candy 15c lb. Good Taffy 10c lb. PURE ICE CREAM $1.00 gal. 30c ot. The Jane Booth School The-Jane Freeman Booth School of Industries announces courses in Cooking, Sewing, Shampooing, Manicuring, Millinery. THE GREAT DUDLEX 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. NEW YORK CANDY 1506 7th Fresh Candy Good Chocolate Candy 15c lb. PURE ICE CREAM The Jane B The Jane Freeman Booth School in Cooking, Sewing, Shampooing, Special course in the making of For further particulars, address MRS. JANE 1914 Third Street, W. Phone N. 7681. Ox. Marrow. We want our readers to patronize us; it helps all around. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. advertises in this paper, and when you want a first-class dressing for kinky, harsh and unruly hair, go to your druggist's and get a bottle of Ford's Hair Pomade, 25c or 50c a bottle. He Still Pursues Them. March 14. 1912. Mr. Geo, L. Knox, Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Sir: 1000 Maryland Avenue, S. W. Washington, D. C., April 9, 1900. Kloezwki & Co. Sirs: Within the last five months I have sold 3,600 bottles of "Eilrxir Babek" for Malaria, Chills and Fever. Our customers speak very well of it. Yours truly, HENRY EVANS, 222 E. N. W. DY KITCHEN St. N. W. Indies Daily Good Taffy 10c lb. $1.00 gal. 30c at. Booth School School of Industries announces courses Manicuring, Millinery. of Braids, Puffs, Dyeing, &c. F. BOOTH. Washington, D. C. Knowing your peculiar qualifications for gauging the Negro vote in your State and county, I am taking the liberty to write you for information regarding the Roosevent sentiment. The indications here are that he will be nominated. Have you any Roosevelt Clubs in your county? Can the Negroes be organized into Roosevelt Clubs to take part in the coming primaries? I hope that I am not troubling you with these questions, but we, of the 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. Board & McGuire's, 9th and You Sts. N. W. Board & McGuire, 1912% 14th St. N. W. Simmons', 20th and K Sts. N. W. Throckmorton, 1500 14th St. N. W. Morse's, 1904 L St. N. W. Smith, 28th and Dumbarton Ave. Leonard Blagburn, 201 Morris R1. Anacostia, D. C. For Rent For rent, nice large, sunny rooms, furnished or unfurnished. Modern conveniences. Apply 1438 Rhode Island Avenue. N. W. For Rent. Seven room brick, 1957 Fourth St. Northwest, LeDroit Park. Rent, $20.50 per month. By Thos. Walker, 506 5th St. N. W. no-25-31 FOR RENT. A three-room flat, suitable for two ladies or gents' bachelor quarters. Fine light airy rooms. Heat and light furnished. Apply 1224 You Street, N. W. Roome For Rent One large, front room (unfurnished) with heat, light and other privileges, and one hall room for rent; excellent location; reasonable price. 1520 Corcoran Street N. W. An Opportunity. I can start any honest or energetic boy or girl in a pleasant and profitable business if they are willing to do a little work after school hours. For information write Mr. A. R. Stewart, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. 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 dinning 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 colitis and grip. Third and Massachusetts Avenue N. W. Sure cure. 25 cents. District of Columbia, have no vote, as you people out in the States have, and as a result we are not, as up-to-date as you are. Will you kindly forward me, the names of any friends who may be interested in the progressive movement? I want to know what are the people doing. I have the honor to remain Very truly yours, ROBT. L. WARING. Cars to the Northeast Section and Suburbs pass the door. THE ASTORIA PHARMACY (W. ARMSTRONG) Third and G Streets Northwest. Drugs and Preparations always fresh. rhone Main 3252. ATTORNEYS BECKETT AND GRAY. Supreme Court of of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 17805, Administration. No. 17895, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Mary L. D. Cooper, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 27th day of March, A. D. 1913, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 27th day of March, 1912. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of. Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. THOMAS BECKETT and AUGUSTUS W. GRAY. Houses for Rent Houses for Rent. Several houses at Burville, D. C., for rent. Large garden tracts to each house and good water. Four, five and six rooms; 4-room, $8.00; 5- room, $10.00; 6-room, $12.00. Apply to Thomas Walker, 506 5th St. N. W. WANTED-BOYS Boys who want to earn money should call at The Bee office every Friday afternoon and secure The Bee and sell it to the people. More money is earned from selling The Bee than from any other paper in the city. WARNING! I MEAN IT! We Keep Open House the Year Round, and We Keep it in Order WHISKEY Bottled by JOHN CASEY 4th and 11 Streets, X. W. Washington, D. C. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. Workingmen, pulling yourself up by your boot-straps is hard; seeing you near shoes, but here's news: Slightly used suits $3 to $10; do they meet with your views? One price. Justh's Old Stand, 619 D. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes of Pineville, S.C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Il. For sale by Nichols' Pharmacy, Corner 19th Street and Penn. Ave.; S.' A. Richardson & Co., 7th and Q Sts., N. W.; Morse's Pharmacy, 19th and L Sts. N. W.; W. S. Richardson, 316 Four-and-a-Half St. S. W.; Daniel H. Smith, 28th and Dumbarton Ave., N. W.; J. F. Simpson, corner 71th St. Rhode Island Ave.' and R St. N. W.; Singleton's Pharmacy, 20th and E Sts. N. W.; Market Pharmacy, corner 20th and K Sts. N. W.; John R. Major, 716 71th St. N. W.; Ideal Pharmacy, 11th St. and N. Y. Ave. N. W.; R. A. Veitch, corner 20th and M Sts. N. W.; E. E. Cissell, 10th St.; and N. Y. Ave.; W. P. Herbst, Penn. Ave. and 25th St. N. W.; Hutton & Hilton, 22d and L Sts. N. W.; R. W. Duffey, Penn. Ave and 22d St. N. W.; Whiteside Pharmacy, 1921 Pa Ave.: Board & McGuire,-corner 9th and U Sts.; F. M. Ciswell, 1901, 71th St. N. W.; Quigley's Pharmacy, corner 21st and G Sts. N. W.; Daw's Drug Store, corner 23d and H Sts. N. W.; Howard Pharmacy, 10th and R Sts. N. W. People's Pharmacy, 7th and Mass Ave., N. W. --- Mr. Johnson ..... 1.00 Mrs. Tossett ..... 1.00 Mr. J. B. Brown ..... 1.00 Miss Dandridge ..... 1.00 Mrs. Sadie T. Henderson ..... 1.00 Mrs. E. M. Adams ..... 1.00 Mrs. M. A. Wilson ..... 1.00 Mrs. Hettie Williams ..... 1.00 Mrs. Laura Queen ..... 2.00 Mrs. Roxie Burrell ..... 1.00 J P. H. Coleman ..... 1.00 Mrs. Jones ..... 1.00 Mr. B. F. Henderson ..... 1.00 Miss M. V. Chapman ..... 1.00 Mrs. Fannie Ruffin ..... 2.00 Friends ..... 16.26 Summary. Contributed by Faculty.....S142.75 Contributed by friends.....334.17 Contributed by Domestic Science Department.....25.00 Contributed by students.....60.75 Contributed by office.....15.00 Special gifts.....255.00 "The Washington Colony of Kentuckians" turned out in full. The Independent Order of St. Luke was on hand to show its love and loyalty to the school, whose president is one of its anembers. Miss Burroughs called upon friends to furnish rooms. There are seventeen dormitories, each requiring a wash stand, two beds, one chiffonier, one table and three chairs. Nine friends have furnished rooms, thus leaving eight rooms yet to be furnished. The following is the report of the gifts of furniture: The National Baptist Church Supply, Rev. Henry Allen Boyd, manager, Nashville, Tenn., contributed a handsome platform set, including three chairs and table. The District Board, Mrs. Emma Cabanis, president, furniture for one room. Mrs. Pettit, Washington, D. C., to furnish room $40.00. Mrs. Maggie Waldron, Muncy, Pa. $50. Ushers' Board, 19th Street Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., $25.00. A friend, New York, $100.00. The interest of the students in this special effort to provide necessary accommodations is attested by the beautiful way in which they responded to the appeal of the president. They laid on the table Sunday $60.75. The faculty is to be commended for its tangible interest. The following is a report of the money contributed by them: Miss Jennie L. Peck..... $25.00 Mrs. Julia A. Foster..... 25.00 Miss Laura Austin..... 15.75 Miss Rosalie Hanna..... 17.50 Miss Geneva L. Staulz..... 15.00 Miss N. H. Burroughs..... 25.00 Miss Fannie Blackburn..... 14.50 Miss Elizabeth Johnson..... 5.00 The office force was on hand with gifts to help carry on the good work. Mrs. Emily E. Boyer, secretary to the president, contributed $10.00; Miss Gertrude L. Johnson, $5.00. The Domestic Science Department, one of the most successful departments in the institution, contributed $25.00. Washington is justly proud of the Training School. Local interest is moving to high water mark. The institution is "Making Good," and will establish itself in the hearts of the people of the National Capital as well as in the hearts of friends throughout the country. The Bee hopes that the eight thousand dollars needed to pay the present pressing obligations will be forthcoming. A visit to the school will convince you that every dollar is wisely spent, and that the young women in training will be of invaluable service in helping the race to solve its various problems. CHURCH TROUBLES Attorney Jabez Lee Speaks Out—No Peace in Gideon—Will Continue to Struggle for Right—Why They Oppose Rev. Willis. Editor of The Bee: This City of Magnificent Distances is not only the seal of the National Government, of "the land of the free and the home of the brave," but it is the Nation's literary port of entry, its distributing center and its literary capital. Its public school system is the finest in the country; its universities are second to none; its private schools of learning are superb. In fact, its great machinery of education runs both day and night. Those who are too busy during the day to attend school can avail themselves of the advantages of the evening schools, either public or private. There is no excuse for a young man or woman not being able to use the "Queen's English" correctly. We are proud to say that close observation proves that there is more intelligence to the square inch in the City of Washington than there is in any other city in the United States. The people endeavor to keep abreast with the times, with a few exceptions. One of these exceptions is the present pastor of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. He has flaunted about fifteen years in this city a veritable ocean of intelligence, education, refinement and culture and he has not been able, up to date, to grasp and assimilate one drop of it. The revised edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary states there is only one correct way to spell the word "funeral." Our pastor (?) a more recent authority spells the same word in four different ways in a letter of about seventy-five words. This letter was handed to me a few days ago. There is a rumor aloft which has gained considerable circulation to the effect that we opposed Willis because we have a favorite that we want to have in his place. This I brand as an unmitigated and unwarranted falsehood. We are contending for a principle. We want an intelligent minister, one who is progressive, scholarly, experienced, adapted to pastoral work and who has some degree of executive ability. Any man who measures up to the standards of our best Baptist pulpits is the man for us, for instance, a man who stands in the class with the following: Drs. Brooks, Johnson, Rivers, Howard, etc. We believe in spirituality, but we are not extremists. Give us a practical sermon. The Atlantic Monthly contained an article a few months ago which describes to perfection the kind of sermons we like: The Monthly said in part: "Too many sermons merely warm over our emotions. We are aroused, it may be, Sunday after Sunday, but men and women need more than arousing. They need instruction and training. They desire to know what to do. If our pulpits turned from their, exhortations, to practical instruction in the substance of the Christian faith, to positive and clear teaching of doctrine, to specific and calm statement of the methods of developing righteousness and holiness, to an exposition of real and not artificial sins, I believe that we should find men returning to the pews. If the pulpit should train men to pray, and to use the spiritual strength of prayer for their daily tenaptations, to read the Bible with intelligence and insight, to understand the fundamental doctrines of the religion of Christ, to judge between good and evil, to rear their children in godliness, to do their duty toward their neighbor, to accept their part in a world where they live with, and not apart from, other men, and then if the church would arbose conscience and love by ringing appeals, men would be propelled with open eyes and understanding hearts, along the distinct and well marked paths of righteousness and duty." But what do we get at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church? We get blood and thunder sermons. Willis tells his followers by implication to keep us out of the church. We were at church last Sunday, and one of our ladies was assaulted by a Willisite. We intervened just in time to prevent a riot. Willis condones this practice. He preaches it every Sunday, and he will not allow any man in the pulpit who will not indorse his methods of maintaining himself in power. The leading Baptist ministers of this city and country do not visit our church or associate with Willis, because they can not countenance his means of holding a pulpit. Our church has a membership of two thousand active members. Willis was elected (?) by less than five hundred and fifty votes, all the rest of the members were disfranchised by the Willis-Hawkins-Tymus-Sewall machine. There are more than a thousand members opposed to Willis. Do you think that a thousand people will submit to the mis-rule of about five hundred and fifty people? No. We do not believe in that kind of Chinese business. We are enlisted in this fight not for a day nor for a year, but until we shall realize our fondest dreams—the undoing of wrong and the establishment of right. JABEZ LEE. 609 F St. X. W. THE ELKS. Columbia Lodge 85.. Improved Benefolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, gave a banquet Thursday, March 28th ult., at Old Fellows Hall Mr. Erastus Molen was Master of Social Session. He presided with dignity Mr. Samuel W. Taylor acted as secretary to the Master of Social Session. The following was the program of exercises Auld Sung Sung. Whiting. Just. Eilen. "clock Toast—Our Absent Brothers—Dr. J. G. Porter. The Old Church Organ—Seitz Losey. Introduction of Master of Ceremonies P. D. Morris The Grand Lodge—Robt. P. Rhea. Dist. Deputy, Master of Ceremonies. Things. Seen and Heard at Our Convention in Boston—C R. Richardson. Exalted Ruler. Morning Star Lodge. No. 40. The Wedding of the Winds—L. T. The Wedding of the Winds-J. T. Hall. The Power of Organization-W. Calvin Chase. The Press-Oliver Randolph, Morning Star Lodge, No.40. Idyl-Paul Linke. The Elks-Hon Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Delegs, D.C. The Bar-Armand W. Scott, Morning Star Lodge, No.40. Patrol-Hindley. The exercises concluded with the following dances 1. Grand March—The Elks. 2. Waltz—Mine. 3. Two Step—The Only Pal I Ever Had. 4. Schottische—Moonlight Bay. 7. Quadrille—Magnolia. 8. Two Step—Cum Bac. Monumental Orchestra, Charles Hamilton, director. A flash light picture was taken of the banquet and its guests. NORMAL SCHOOL EXERCISES Wednesday afternoon Dr P. P Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, before a high characterized and appreciative audience delivered one of the most able, magnificent, and inspiring addresses on the character of the teacher ever heard in Normal School No 2. After tracing the development of the "insignificant" child, he showed the relation between it and the teacher, emphasizing especially the personality of the latter. In so doing he brought forebly home to us the fact that God created man in his own image, hence, the child can be fashioned only after the teacher. Among some of the qualities of a teacher set forth by Dr Claxton were strength, vitality, truthfulness and kindness. The rest of the program was as follows: Chorus—Build Thee More Stately Mansions—School. Violin Solo—Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer (by request)—Mr. F. Weir. Piano Solo—The Spinning Wheel— Miss Celestine Scott. Chorus—True Freedom—School. Among those present were members of the Board of Education, Mrs. Harris and Mr. Horner, Dr. Wm. Davidson, superintendent of schools, who presided@; Mr. E. L. Thurston, assistant superintendent of schools, and the supervising principals of the 10, 11, 12 and 13th divisions. Dr. Lucy E. Moten, Principal of the school, is to be congratulated on securing the services of Dr. Claxton, and the school is deserving of commendation for its excellent order. THE NEGRO IGNORED In the Forthcoming Educational Conference to Be Held at Nashville. This city is just now displaying a good deal of interest in the coming meeting of the Conference for Southern Education, which is scheduled to assemble in this city some time in early April. A good deal of printed matter describing this Conference is being distributed. It seems to be composed partly of Northern men and partly of Southern men, but for some reason which your correspondent has not been able to find out, it seems that no colored man is to appear on the program. The people of Nashville are all the more surprised at this because they know the names of prominent white men both of the North and of the South who claim to be greatly interested in the education of the Negro. It is not stated whether colored men are expected to attend the Conference, or not, but we presume that owing to the fact that no colored man or woman's name is upon the program, that it is expected, if colored people do attend, they will take seats in the gallery. One-third of the population of the South is composed of Negroes, and those mostly in need of education are Negroes. Under the circumstances, it would seem that some one of the Negro race, who has been concerned in education, should be invited to be present or have a brief "say" on the program. It seems almost inexplicable that forty years after our freedom, when the education of the Negro race is to be discussed in an enlightened community like Nashville, that even one colored man or woman cannot be invited to take a place on the program. Your correspondent does not believe that the best Southern white people are properly represented in thus excluding the Negro race. The most cordial relations exist between black people and white people in Nashville, and in this city, above all others, we do not think it necessary to introduce this element of exclusion which the forthcoming conference foreshadows. The American Bankers' Association had a meeting in New Orleans, a few months ago, and at least one Negro banker was present, and he has been a member of the Bankers' Association for a number of years, and has been cordially welcomed. If the bankers can tolerate a Negro as a member of their association and upon their program, it certainly seems to us that educators might do the same thing. Further than this, it is impossible for white men to have much lasting influence upon the Negro population when they act in such a curious way. No matter how much they may profess to be deeply interested in the elevation of the Negro, if they cannot afford to stand a little criticism, if necessary, by placing a Negro upon the program on an occasion of this kind, they lose whatever influence they may have in trying to guide and help the colored race in matters of education. The sentiment here expressed is that which not a few intelligent colored men and women have uttered since they have seen the printed matter which has been distributed in reference to the forthcoming conference. DR. THIRKIELD ANSWERS WATERS. Letter Branded as Untrue. Such careless misstatements as to the School of Law of Howard University have been circulated as the result of an article recently printed in a Washington paper from a young attorney who might easily have had access to the facts, that the following statements giving the true situation have been sent forth from the offices of the University 1. No definite steps whatever have been taken looking to the removal of the School of Law from its present site. A committee of the Board of Trustees has merely been appointed to inquire into the feasibility of the removal of the school to the campus, and to report its findings to the board. The appointment of the committee is based on the fact that the school has now grown to proportions that its present action are utterly inadequate to the new enlarged growth that is considered expected. Any plan for it would contemplate the sale to the present valuable site, and the creation on the most eligible site available on the campus of a modern unit to date building, with large assembly room and lecture halls, greatly enlarged library space to meet the needs of the growing library, and other needed facilities. The new $300,000 law school at Columbia; as well as the new building at Harvard, is located on the campus of the institution. This would bring students into the atmosphere of university life, giving them the facilities of the Carnegie Library, access to college classes, etc. This is the modern tendency. However, all parties interested will have a hearing before any recommendation even is made to the board. This is not likely to be made before 1013, as no offer has been received Lowest Prices Best Work TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING 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 2. The present administration has greatly enlarged the facilities of the school. At much cost, an additional large lecture room, occupying the second floor, has been fitted up, thus relieving the library room from law classes. About $2,000 or more in cash has been expended in law books during the last five or six years. An assistant librarian has been appointed, in order to render the library available for students throughout the entire day and evening. 3. The standards of entrance have been raised to include a tour years' high school course, or its equivalent, thus elevating the character of the school, and giving new dignity and strength to the graduates from this department of the University. Even under the advanced standards the attendance now surpasses all previous records, and the quality of the student body has been elevated. Competent judges of the recent public Moot Court held in the University chapel, state that the conduct of the case in legal skill and knowledge of the law displayed, surpassed the record of previous years. B. & O. Ticket Office The ticket office of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, which was located at 1417 G Street Northwest, has been removed to its former place, 15th and New-York Avenue, Northwest. That well-known, accommodating and genial District Passenger Agent, S. B. Hedges, will be pleased to meet and see his friends and patrons of the road. BARGAINS. Go to Grogan, the oldest furniture house in the city. It is the place where everything in household furniture may be purchased. Goldheim & Son. This is the greatest house in the city, and one that will fit you to order. Call before you purchase your spring suit. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. SCHOOL ATHLETICS. The High School Games Committee of the Public Schools Athletic League has decided upon a series of six games for the championship. A handsome trophy is to be the reward of the victors. Messrs. John Wilkinson, J. Brown, and A. K. Savoy have been asked to officiate in the series. The games committee consists of Messrs. Henderson, Murray, Campbell, Houston and Chestnut, who will have charge of the series. M Street High School baseball team expects a banner season Coach Memard has had a full squad on his hand for the past three weeks. Nearly all of the veterans are out. Very few were lost through graduation. The team is without a captain, but it is pretty sure that either First Baseman Sudler or Pitcher Thornton Jackson will be made captain. The Armstrong squad looks stronger than the squad of last year. A game with Storer College at Harper's Ferry is the first event of the season. Commercial High School team was the first of the high school teams to take to the field this year, and are working strenuously to repeat the feat of last year, that of winning the high school championship. Captain Dandridge and Coach Murray are in charge. o enggd the ehlh yeee DR. G. P. U. TALLIAFERRO Who will preach at Galbraith Ch the Tenth year of the pasto Who will preach at Galbraith Church at the Union Revival celethe Tenth year of the pastorate of Rev. S. L. Corrothers Who will preach at Galbraith Church at the Union Revival celethe Tenth year of the pastorate of Rev. S. L. Corrothers for the present building. Mention The Bee. Linotype Composition Institutions and Pamphlets T. 1109 EYE STREET. N. W. 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