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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and. Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE SHEPARD'S WESTERN GREAT ITINERARY Eight States Visited. Thousands Hear Him. Triumph of Religious Education WILL RETURN TO DURHAM FOR THE CLOSING EXERCISES VOL.XXXII NO49 Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., arrived in this city Friday morning from his Western itineracy. Eight great Western States were visited by him, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California. It was the greatest itineracy that has ever been taken by any colored American. His ovation all along the line was most remarkable. The greatest banquet that was tendered him during his entire itineracy was the most successful and the greatest triumph in the history of the religious educator and the National Religious Training School. The trip was watched with a great deal of interest by the people throughout the United States. No people watched it more than the Southern people, who believe in this great exponent of a new propaganda. Durham, N. C., is becoming a great educational center. Thousands will visit there during this month, and men realize that the Southern black man is doing something, notwithstanding the North has every educational advantage. Another.great ovation he met with was his trip to the 9th Cavalry, at Fort Russell, Wyoming. He opened the eyes of the Negro soldiers. He delivered a forceful address last Thursday evening at Fort D. A. Russell having for his hearers an immense concourse of the citizens of Cheyenne and the Fort, packing the largest auditorium available in this military reservation. Dr. Shepard's theme was "Religious Education the Hope of the Race," and he ably sustained his contention that moral training and mastery of self preceded and overshadowed in importance all other systems of education. "First make the man," declared Dr. Shepard," and the man rightly made can be depended upon to make a living." The great meeting was held primarily for the benefit of the 9th Cavalry—the famous "Fighting 9th"—and Dr. Shepard's message was heard gladly by the sturdy defenders of the flag. Only two civilians have been honored by special invitation to speak to the 9th Cavalry—the late Bishop Grant and Dr. Shepard. Thus the brilliant young Christian educator and statesman is the only living person enjoying this distinction. On his arrival at Fort D. A. Russell, Dr. Shepard was met at the station by Chaplain G. W. Prioleau and Randmaster Wade H. Hammond, formerly of Durham. He was entertained at dinner by Chaplain and Mrs. Prioleau, and among others present were Lieut. and Mrs. B. O. Davis, of Washington, D. C. Dr. Shepard's next stop was Denver, Colo., and he was accompanied to that place by Rev. D. E. Over, pastor of Zion Baptist Church. Extensive preparations are being made for his annual commencement. Among the principal speakers will be Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of New York City, and Hon. W. H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General of the United States. He will leave this evening for Durham, N. C., where his coming is looked for with great interest. (From Los Angeles Times, May 2.) The Colored Business Men's League and citizens of Los Angeles tendered to Dr. James E. Shepard, president, National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C., a magnificent banquet, at Dawson's Cafe. Sixty covers were laid. Mr. Frederick M. Roberts, president of the local league, was master of ceremonies. The leading citizens of Los Angeles united to do honor to a man, who is being honored everywhere for the great work he is doing and the high ideals for which he stands. The banquet was enlivened by music and songs rendered during the repast. Many citizens responded to toasts, and finally, amid great applause, the toastmaster introduced the guest of the evening. Dr. Shepard responded feelingly to the flattering reception accorded him on his tour West, and the cordial greeting of the citizens of Los Angeles. He paid a high tribute to their great progress, but he also pointed out the tremendous responsibilities resting upon the leaders, and how, without religious character, they could not be entrusted with great wealth or lift the man who is down. He paid in the course of his many remarks here, high tribute to the character of the work done by Mr I. A. Green, the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. On Wednesday Dr. Shepard was the guest of honor at the Federation Club of the city, one of the leading white organizations of civic improvement. At this meeting he was introduced by Dr. David Bartlett, who for his great work of love in Los Angeles, is rightly called "The best loved man in the city." At this luncheon Dr. Shepard was the recipient of another great ovation, and congratulated on the forward stand he was taking for the race uplift. The good of Dr. Shepard's visit cannot be told in words. He has inspired his race, and created a feeling of sympathy between the races that cannot fully be seen at this time, but which will bear abundant fruit in the years to come. Dr. Shepard was accompanied by Prof. Charles Alexander, of Boston, who ably seconded the work of Dr. Shepard in Los Angeles. (From Los Angeles Times) His Honor, Mayor George Alexander, General Secretary D. E. Luther, of the Y. M. C. A., Dr. S. Hecht, the Rabbi of Temple B'nai B'rith, Dr. Dana W. Bartlett, and other prominent citizens will join with the colored clergymen of the various denominations in an educational mass meeting in the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of San Julian and 8th streets, Monday evening, April 29th, on the occasion of the first visit to the Pacific coast of Dr. James E. Shepard, the president and founder of the great National Religious Training School, at Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Shepard will arrive in the city Thursday, April 23th, and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shackleford. He is one of the most distinguished educators and orators of the South. He is the president and the founder of the National Religious Training School, has traveled nearly around the globe, and has had contact with the ablest educators and scholars of the world. For eight years he was the Field Secretary of the International Sunday School Association, and during that period organized interdenominational Sunday School Conventions in all the Southern States. Dr. Shepard is visiting the cities of the Pacific coast in the interest of his institution. He will preach in the South Park Presbyterian Church Sunday morning April 28th; will speak before the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and in the evening he will preach in the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. Robert Freeman is the pastor. On Monday morning he will speak for the Ministers' meeting in the First M. E. Church, and in the evening will be the principal speaker at the mass meeting in the Wesley M. E. Church. The Colored Men's Business League will tender him a banquet Tuesday evening April 30th, and on Wednesday, May 1st, at 12:30 he will be the principal speaker at the Federation Club Luncheon in the Wright and Callender Building. On Wednesday evening he will deliver a lecture on Religious Education in the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, corner Figueroa and Tenth streets. At the mass meeting a chorus of 50 voices will furnish the music consisting largely of plantation melodies. Admission free. To avoid overcrowding the church tickets will be furnished for this mass meeting, and the same may be obtained at the Y. M. C. A. rooms, 831 San Pedro street. This will be the most important meeting of the character ever held among the colored people in Los Angeles. Dr. Shepard is regarded as one of the safe leaders of his race, and by training and experience he has demonstrated great executive ability. Such men as Governor B. R. Glenn, of North Carolina, and Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, ex-United States Senator, have devoted several weeks of their time visiting the New England States in the interest of the great school which was started by Dr. Shepard. The famous Dr. W. Y. Chapman, pastor of the great Presbyterian Church at Newark, N. J., is one of the school's most enthusiastic supporters. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt claims for the National Religious Training School that it is one of the most patriotic and helpful influences among both the white and colored people of the South, now in operation. He says: "Dr. Shepard is doing a really fine work. There could be no finer or more patriotic purpose than the object his school has in view, and the good it would do would be as great to the whites as to the Negroes themselves." There is not a man in the State of North Carolina who commands greater influence for good or who is more highly respected by all classes of citizens than Dr. James E. Shepard. The National Religious Training School is interdenominational and is open to both sexes of the colored race. The objects are to train ministers and leaders, social settlement workers for home and foreign fields and to furnish means for industrial training in the various useful handicrafts, enabling those who go out from the school to make themselves useful, self-respecting and self-supporting citizens. This school was opened to students a little over two years ago. The property already acquired is conservatively estimated to be worth $110,000. Ten buildings have been completed and are now occupied. Two of the buildings on the school grounds are steam heated, lighted by electricity and well supplied with water, are valued at $17,000. Seven buildings, lighted by electricity and supplied with water, are valued at $30,000. The land was given by the white people of Durham, and is now worth $12,000. The school has an ideal loca (Continued to page 4.) THE MUSIC OF THE MUSIC OF THE MUSIC JUDGE WM. H. DELACY. Judge of the Juvenile Court Re commended for Reappointment. GRAND TESTINONIAL To Capt. James F. Oysetr For His Eminent Public Service to the District of Columbia. The colored citizens of the District of Columbia will give a grand testimonial to Captain Oyster, "the great Commoner of the District of Columbia," at the 19th Street Baptist Church Wednesday evening, May 22d, at 8 o'clock. musical and literary programs ever presented to a Washington audience has been arranged. There will also be two or three short speeches by representative men. Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury, will preside. Seats will be especially reserved for members of Washington's commercial, civic, and literary organizations on application of their presidents to Mr. C. F. M. Browne, British Embassy. Seats for the students of M Street High School will be reserved on one side of the house, and for students of Armstrong on the other. The ushers will begin seating the audience at 7:30 P.M. Come early to avoid the rush. Come early to attend the Mass. Remember the Date—Wednesday, May 22d. Remember the hour—Eight o'clock. Remember the place—19th Street Baptist Churches. Oyster Testimonial. All citizens are requested to take part in the testimonial to Captain James F. Oyster. Send your name to Mr H C. Tyson, 2124 K Street, N. W. at once THE NEW YORK TIMES THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN DR. JAMES E. SHEPARD. One of the Finesse All Seats Free. Oyster Testimonial HONOR PROF. COOK Testimonial Dinner in Honor of the Energetic Secretary of Howard University. Hon. W. H. Lewis Scores as Toastmaster — Congressman Kendall Speaks—Brilliant Career of Guest of Honor Reviewed by Appreciative Friends—Largest Function of Kind Known in Nation's Capital. The testimonial banquet in honor of Prof. George William Cook, held last Friday evening in Miner Hall, on the canipus of Howard University, was the largest function of its kind ever known in the District of Columbia. Coyers were laid for over two hundred guests, and the dining hall was crowded to its utmost capacity with appreciative friends of the energetic secretary of Howard University, representing the best brain and culture of the Negro race in the world. Prof. Cook has been identified with the institution for thirty-nine years, and a more fitting recognition of his valuable service, efficiency and the esteem in which he is held by the people of the community could not be conceived. Hon. William H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, was too-tmaster, and his speeches, abounding in rich witticisms and flights of real eloquence by turns, justified the wisdom of the promoters in selecting him for this arduous task. Toasts that sparkled with humor and carried information of much value, enlogizing in felicitous and sincere fashion the central figure of the occasion, were responded to as follows. THE BROADWAY BROADWAY BROADWAY The Toasts. "Howard as She Was." Rev. Logan Johnson. "Our Guest as a Citizen." W. Justin Carter, of the bar of Harrisburg, Pa. "Howard as She Is," Prof. Kelly Miller. "Our Guest as an Educator," Prof. Dwight O. W, Holmes, of Baltimore. To all of the many expressions of commendation of his efforts to place Howard in the front rank of educational centers and to exert his influence toward the advancement of civic righteousness, Prof. Cook feelingly responded, taking for his theme "The Two Seals," relating the story of how the University came to have two seals and describing the sublime spirit of human and national uplift for which they stood. His outline of the work that Howard has done since its forty-five years of existence was intensely interesting, and the larger portion of the historical data presented at first hand, was new to many of the guests. His happy tributes to such eminent founders of Howard as Gen. O. O. Howard, John M. Langston, Dr. Robert Reyburn and others, evoked hearty applause. Prof. Cook's address is voted by his admirers to have been the most comprehensive study of the University yet given to the public, and it marks the orator's high-water mark in forensic quality. At the close of Prof. Cook's speech he was presented with a beautiful bouquet of American Beauty roses, a gift of the ladies of Howard University. Just before he spoke, the audience was keyed up to the spirit of the hour by the rendition of a song, "Howard! I Love Old Howard," by the Howard Academy Quartet, Messrs. Charles Howard, Charles W. Preston, Gonzalo James and Linwood G. Koger. Music was furnished by the Howard University Orchestra, under leadership of Prof. J. H. Doughlass. Congressman Kendall Speaks One of the truly delightful treats of the evening was the graceful and encouraging address of the Hon. N. E. Kendall, member of Congress from the "Buxton District" of Iowa, who was present as a special guest, coming at the direct request of his friend and alumnus of Howard's law department, Mr. G. H. Woodson, now a practicing attorney in the State of Iowa. Mr. Kendall saw in this gathering a promise of great things for the Negro race in the future. He believed that color prejudice is gradually disappearing as the black man gives continued evidence of his ability to cope with the best brain and brawn of America and is getting hold of the elements that make for the most advanced civilization. He said he would not have missed this occasion for anything, as it was a distinct "eye-opener" to him, well acquainted as he was with the colored people in many sections of the country. It was his final suggestion, that the young men and women who come to Washington to secure advantages in education not obtainable elsewhere, go out into the West and South and carry their cultivated talents to those of their people who stand in the greatest need of their illuminating touch. Congressman Kendall struck a popular chord anw was cheered to the echo. The closing feature of the program was an original skit, "Facts and Figments," by Messrs. Robert A. Pellham and Shelby J. Davidson, assisted by Mr. Herbert D. Myers, who operated the lantern and slides used to illustrate the points brought out by the humorists. Many familiar scenes with which Prof. Cook was connected in his life work at Howard University were shown to a decided advantage, including portraits of the University workers. The portraits of Dr. W. P Thirkield, Hon. J. C. Napier, Dr. W. C. McNeill, Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, Dr W. A. Warfield, following those of Gen. Howard and Prof. Cook, were given a hearty greeting. The decorations consisted of American flags, the white and blue colors of the University, electric lights, palms and ferns. The menu was gotten up in Caterer W. W. Martin's best style, and was unusually toothsome and varied. The executive committee, to whose intelligent, painstaking and indefatigable efforts the success of this remarkable function is due, was made up of W. A. Madden, chairman; Andrew F. Hilyer, secretary; Shelby J. Davidson, financial secretary; Prof. G. M. Lightfoot, treasurer; Robert A. Pellham, C. F. M. Browne, Dr. J. H. N. Waring and C. B. Lee. A Word About the Guest of Honor. Prof. Cook, besides his connections as pupil, tutor, teacher, principal of the normal and commercial departments of the University, has also found time in his continuous service to take a deep interest in civic affairs and to contribute to the uplift of his people in a decidedly practical fashion. For some years he has been a member of the District Board of Charities, and is now serving on the President's Homes Commission. His splendid work at the Industrial Home School, Blue Plains, D. C., where, during a brief severance of his relations with the University, at the request of the Commissioners, he established this school, marks an epoch in the industrial opportunities of the race. It is regarded as an open secret that in the event Dr. W. P. Thirkield is elected to the Bishopric by the M. E. Conference now in session at Minneapolis, Prof. Cook is likely to be a formidable candidate for the presidency of Howard University—a position for which his friends claim he is eminently fitted by temperament, experience and capacity, and (Continued to page 5.) PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Important News Happening of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST DEVOTED TO GENERALINTÉRÉS (Miss G. B. Maxfield.) Mrs. Peter Custer Stark, who was a relative of the late General Custer, massacred at the Little Big Horn, died this week, at the age of seventy-five years. She is survived by her husband, eight children, forty-two grand children, and eighteen great grand children. Coinage of three-cent and one-half-cent pieces in Government Mints is authorized in a bill introduced by Congressman Bulkley, and which passed the House. Secretary of Treasury MacVeagh, and Director of Mints Roberts, favor creating the new coins. The Daily Guide, in St. Paul, Minn., is the only daily newspaper edited and published by Negroes. It is now in its fourth year. Jacob W. Bolotin, a blind medical student at the Chicago College of Medicine has taken the examination for a physician's license before the Illinois State Board of Medical Examiners. Thus far he has met very test given him. If he qualifies he will be the first blind medical practitioner in Illinois. Mr. C. G. Woodson, a teacher in the M Street High School, has received the degree of doctor of philosophy, conferred by Harvard University. Only one other Negro, Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, has had the honor of receiving said degree from Harvard. The new Boston, blue laws regarding the sale of liquor to women are to be strictly enforced. The new regulations provide that no women are to be allowed in any part of saloons or cafes except dining rooms, and no men accompanied by women will be served with liquor on Sunday. England, it is said, has 536 war vessels, Germany has 334, France, 206, the United States 100 and Japan 161. John H. Reed, president of a college in Monrovia, Africa, who is visiting this country, hopes to raise $20,000 for the erection of a new building there, which he says is very much needed. The will of Benjamin Guggenheim, who perished in the Titanic disaster, has been filed in New York. The amount of property is not stated, except as being more than $10,000. Memorial services in honor of Clara Barton, founder and honorary president of the American Red Cross Society; will be held in Philadelphia, Pa., next Tue.-day. The exercises will be held in the Philadelphia School for Nurses, which institution was founded by Miss Barton. Several candidates are in the field for the office of bishop to fill the places of Bishops Lampton, Grant, Hardy and Gaines, who died during the past year. Mrs. L. R. Garnfield, of Pasadena, Cal., widow of the martyred President, James A. Garfield, celebrated her eightieth birthday recently. Mrs. Garfield has been residing in Pasadena, Cal., for ten years. She has been visited in her home by both President Taft and ex-President Roosevelt. The proposition to erect a stale of the late General Benjamin F. Butler, either within the State Capitol or upon the State House grounds, has again been set back. The Butler statue bill has been before the Legislature annually for a number of years but has always failed to pass. The bill provides for an appropriation of $25,000. A pair of cuff buttons 511 years old, and for 17 generations have been handed down from father to son, has been lost by the owner in Chicago. The buttons were made in Scotland and were brought to the United States before the Revolutionary War. Mrs. William F. Curry, wife of William F. Curry, clerk of the Justice Court, of San Jose township, has been sworn in as a deputy constable, without pay. All the life insurance companies having executive offices in New York City, have decided to pay off their losses on the Titanic passengers without further evidence that the policy holders sailed on the Titanic were not among the survivors. The claims will reach almost $2,000,000. DR. CORROTHERS DENIES IT. .General Conference Rooms. 24th Quadrennial Session of the A.M.E. Zion General Conference, in Session at Clinton Metropolitan, A.A.E. Zion Church, 411 Mint Street. There are delegates in attendance upon the General Conference who are for both Taft and Roosevelt. No candidate has been indorsed by the General Conference, and under the circumstances I cannot tell which will happen, as both men have friends among the delegation. Yours very truly. S. L. CORROTHERS, Per G. M. D. P.S.—Any news being circulated to the contrary, contradict it. S. L. C. WHITE HOUSE APPOINTMENTS. Many Worthy Colored Promotions Made. When the President assumed office March 4, 1909, six colored messengers and laborers were employed in the Executive Office, as follows: Boardley, Joseph. Boardley, John E. In the reorganization of the office in 1911, Anderson and Ayler were transferred to positions in the Departmental service. Joseph Boardley was afflicted with tuberculosis, and the President had him transferred to a good position in the War Department in New Mexico on the advice of his physician. He died there. Since the President's inauguration three colored employees have been added: Arthur Brooks, William Pannell, and Harry L. Mickey. In the Executive Mansion the following colored men, in addition to several others who are still on the rolls, were employed at the time the President came into office: Duncan was transferred to the Treasury Department at an increased in salary; Amos was made an inspector in the customs service at New York at an increased salary; Brent was transferred as a clerk to the city post office at an increased salary; Reeder was transferred to the State Department, and Pinckney was given a place as messenger in the Executive Office. All these places were filled by the President with colored men. In addition the President appointed the following colored employees at the Executive Mansion: Anne Brooks. When the President came into office there were five colored coachmen and hostlers at the White House stables. On account of changing from carriages to automobiles, chauffeurs and footment were employed, but places were found in the Departments for four of these colored coachmen and hostlers. The other two voluntarily accepted positions in New York. In his speech at Salisbury, Md., today, Colonel Roosevelt pharsically asked "every decent colored man in this State" to see to it that no colored man sells his vote in this primary" and declared "that unscrupulous white men are willing to debauch the colored man, taking advantage of his needs; the colored man who sells his vote is doing immeasurable harm to his own race." In these words Colonel Roosevelt places a very low estimate upon the honesty and integrity of the colored men of Maryland. He seems to think that they are human chattels to be bought and sold. His words do not comport with the known boasts of his adherents, who have openly declared that no matter what the Taft people do legitimately to influence colored voters through the usual methods of meetings, literature, etc., they will see to it that the colored men are delivered bodily to the Colonel on election day by the use of the large slush fund at their disposal. It is a well known fact in Maryland, which the Roosevelt people have not attempted to disguise or dispute, that they, well heeled with the money of Perkins and the interests and are using it freely in behalf of the Colonel. Also that additional funds were intended to be forthcoming had Massachusetts declared for Roosevelt, in order to more vigorously carry on the campaign to debauch colored voters in Maryland. The Taft victory in Massachusetts put a crimp in their plans and now Col. Roosevelt realizing that Maryland is lost to him, assumes the attitude of a purist and insults every intelligent and self-respecting colored man in the State. It has been known for some time that "unscrupulous" white men in Maryland would try to corrupt all classes of voters, but the colored men have been forewarned of the attempt and have indignantly resented such efforts. They will go to the polls on Monday and vote their preference for President and for Taft delegates. The percentage of literacy among the colored people of Maryland is higher than in the States of the South and these intelligent men are capable of exercising their hard-earned right of suffrage and will exercise it in behalf of the man in whose keeping they know their real interests will be safeguarded. Mr. W. P. Bayless, formerly of the Census Bureau, is on the staff of The Courier, at Pittsburgh. Miss Ray Bailey, the popular vaudeville artist, is at the St Regis. Judge Robert H. Terrell went to Pittsburgh Sunday night. Mr. John Braithwaite, secretary to Bishop Walters, is spending a few days in the city. Mr J. W. Henderson, editor of the New England Torch Light, at Providence, R. L. is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Jarvis, 044 T Street N. W. Mr. Hender-on's paper is giving Malarious Fever "Myself and whole household had suffered very much for some time with Malarial Fever. 'Elixir Babek' has cured us perfectly, so that we en-Elixir Babek, a splendid remedy for Causing loss of appetite, headache and billious attacks prevented by such ailments. to. D. C. Va. Elixir Babek, 50 cents, all drugjoy at present the best of health."—Jacob Elberly, Fairfax Court House, gists or Lloczewski & Co., Washing- Mr. Joseph H. Jones has the finest cigar and news stand in the city. The Bee is on sale there. In Italy Dealers Have Brought the Art of Forgery of Old Curios to Perfection. There are dealers in curios, a crafty set of tradesmen, all over Europe, but it is in Italy that they have carried the art of deceit and forgery, the substitution of modern products for ancient, to the acme of perfection. Verona, Venice, Siena and Rome swarm with shops in which lurk these dealers in the antique, and they are keen to spot any American that may pass their way. Next to the American in gullibility is the Englishman, but he does not so freely give up his money. Sir James Yoxall, the English connoisseur, thus describes one of these dealers: "He knew how to crackle new ivories by boiling them like eggs, how to cook new pictures in the oven, how to smoke new prints and how to green new bronzes with nitrate of potassium. It was so amusing to see the things age in a minute! He would bring a new earthenware dish out of the over, burning hot, and plunge it into iced oil; result, contraction, chill—chilblains, so to speak—and the enamel all cracked into the wrinkles of age. And then he would rub the surface upon a dirty paving stone till signs of wear and tear appeared that might out-wit anybody. "As for pictures, it was easy to find an old canvas or an old panel for a Loreno. It was when the artist's work was over that the real science and art began—first of all, a wash of varnish that had been colored with sepia; next, on the more raised portions, rubbings with licorice juice to attract the flies. He could even imitate fly marks with india ink. A few drops of salty water left on the canvas would produce moldiness and mildew. A needle deftly used would cover the picture with a network of cracks." THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Classed as a Tavern and Has the Right to Retail Beer. In the census records of the city of London the Bank of England is classed as a tavern. This is because it has the right in common with some other old established city businesses to sell beer by retail. The power to do this was granted it by charter under the great seal in 1694, and it has never been taken away from it. The bank could therefore, it it chose, start in business as a public house to morrow, or it could send round a special "Bank of England brand" of say, bottled stout, delivered in its own drays at your door, with a facsimile of the chief cashier's signature on the label of each bottle as a guarantee of purity. The dean and chapter of St. Paul's cathedral can also lay claim to a similar privilege, with the right, in addition, to brew their own beer. Paul's brew house formerly stood at the corner of the entrance to Doctor's commons from the churchyard, and an average of between 60,000 and 70,000 gallons of "strong ale" were brewed there every year. The sale of this, however, was confined to the cathedral precincts. They must have been thirsty souls, those old time ecclesiastics. But, then, it must be remembered that in those days tea and coffee were unknown and beer was drunk at every meal. Even very little children had their allowance, two quarts a day, sent up to the nursery regularly each morning from the buttery below.—Pearson's Weekly. Trade In Skeletons. The principal center for the distribution of articulated skeletons for purposes of study by the medical profession is in Paris, from which point they are shipped to every part of the globe. The price of a well mounted articulated skeleton varies from $50 to $300. This difference has little to do with the condition of the subject while alive. In the cheap skeletons only the barest framework is offered, but in the expensive specimens every detail is worked out with sedulous care, and often both the nervous and the circulatory systems are shown.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A. Preference. "After all," said Mrs. Oldcastle as they were returning from the picture gallery to the drawing room. "I think my preference is for Botticell." "Well," replied her hostess, "I can't say that mine is. For me it doesn't seem that there's anything to beat good old fashioned raspberry jam."—Chicago Record-Herald. Quick Work. "That editor is terribly slow at reading manuscript." "Think so? , Why, I know the time he went through twelve stories in less than a minute." "Gracious! When was that?" "When the elevator broke."—Philadelphia Press. "My tailor always has a touch of the appropriate in his work." "Yes; I've known him to press mourning suits with sadirona."—Baltimore American. Fitting Procedure If you want money, go to strangers. If you want advice, go to friends. If you want nothing, go to relations. Lippincott's. Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. The "Untouchables," Whose Life Is Spent In the Lowest Depth of Human Woe. The "untouchables" of India reside in little huts made of palm leaves or mud, without windows, and with a single doorway, usually so small that even a child must stoop in order to enter it, containing absolutely no furniture, except a few rudely baked earthen pots and pans. Generally there is no bedstead of any kind, the whole family sleeping huddled up on the bare dirt floor, which is commonly plastered with cow dung. A few rags cover their persons, and these are worn night and day. Their financial condition precludes eating more than one meal a day, and this oftener than not is far from hunger appeasing and is seldom calculated to appeal to the palate. For this wretched existence they must work hard and long hours. On account of the filthy condition in which they live disease is rampant among them. According to the last census, eighty-eight out of every 100,000 people of the depressed classes are afflicted with leprosy. In the matter of education they are as deficient as they are in every other virtue. According to the report of the director general of public instruction of Bombay, barely five out of 1,000 of the pariah children of the presidency of school going age attend school. In one word, these fifty-three odd millions of Hindus are not only socially but also intellectually, physically, financially and morally submerged. Saint Nilhal Singh in Southern Workman: FREEZES THE LUNGS. When Intensely Cold Air Is Breathed In Through the Mouth. "I asked an Alaskan pioneer who was crossing to his old home in Sweden what happened when the thermometer goes down to 60 and 80 degrees below zero," said a Seattle man. "At 60 degrees below," he said, "the exposed cars, hands or nose will freeze in going a quarter of a mile under ordinary circumstances, but the children go to and come from school as usual without suffering from the cold, provided their faces and hands are protected. "They soon get used to it. But caution must be used to avoid drawing the cold air into the lungs, and it is dangerous to breathe through the mouth. More die from pneumonia brought on by freezing the lungs in that way than from any other form of exposure. Horses are protected by breathing bags, which extend down from the nose of the animal about eighteen inches and are open at the bottom. The breath which is exhaled warms the air in the bag before it is inhaled and drawn into the lungs. And men wear a 'parky' or headdress which extends over the face and affords similar protection. "In the Canadian districts the northwest mounted police regulate the treatment of horses on the freight wagons and stage lines in a most humane manner, so as to prevent them from suffering in this way."—Washington Herald. Slavery In Scottish Mines. Slavery lingered in the Scottish mine until the very eve of the nineteenth century. Mr. Hackwood, in "The Good Old Times," draws a picture of the Scottish miner's unhappy lot in the past: "From about the year 1445 until 1775 the miners of Scotland were bought and sold with the soil. It is stated in old chronicles that bloodhounds were kept to trace them if they left their employment and to aid in bringing them back. By statute law miners were bound to work all days in the year except Paschal and Yule, and if they did not work they were to be 'whipped in the bodies for the glory of God and for the good of their masters.' Not until 1775 was the first law passed in an attempt to better this state of things, but it was 1790 ere the law gave the working miner of Scotland his complete freedom."—London Chronicle. The Word "Terse." "Terse" is a word that has an understood meaning nowadays. Shadwell in the fourth act of "The Humprists" (1671) put this question into the mouth of one of his characters: "Must I stay till by the strength of terse claret you have wet yourself into courage?" It is probably an allusion to what is still sometimes called "Dutch courage"—bravery inspired by alcohol. Claret was in those times imported in "tierces," and "terse" may be a condensed form of that word; also "terse claret" may have been a drink that did its business without any circumcution, like the terse speaker or writer. Circular Plates All our plates are circular in shape. Now, a square or oval plate would be just as convenient. Is there any reason why plates should be of their present shape? It seer that if we dip into the far past we may discover the cause. Our remote ancestors ate their food off flat pieces of wood cut from a tree trunk. The tree trunk being cylindrical in shape, the earliest plates were therefore roughly circular, and the shape has been used ever since. Taking Her Down. Miss Elderbud .(triumphantly)—Just think of it! At the ball last night I listened to five declarations of love. Her Friend—How mean of you, Alice! Who was the pretty girl you were sitting near?—Boston Transcript Good breeding is a lett over the world. LEON'S LIQUID POMADE A Will Soften and Invigorate Your Hair Leon's Liquid Pomade is an excellent hair dressing. Softens and invigorates the hair, removes dandruff and relieves irritated scalp, giving rich, long and luxurious hair. It is the best preparation you can use on your head. Perfectly harmless, and can be used every day if desired. 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. We not only say we can produce a perfect-fitting, gracefully-draped English model suit, but we guarantee our work to you or ask no pay. Can we do more? As a Special Easter Offering We Feature a Suit, Made to Measure, for Never before has any one establishment shown so many attractive fabrics at such an attractive price. We have scoured the woolen markets for extraordinary values which we could offer at this extraordinary price. Our efforts were well rewarded, and now we show all the novelty cloths, as well as the staple blues and blacks, which we will tailor to your measure for as little as $20. And, remember, we guarantee the fit or we ask no pay. If you are not quite decided as to what style or what pattern you want for this spring, we offer our wide experience and extensive displays to aid you. Goldheim The Young Man's Tailor 403-405 Seventh Street 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. 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 Rd. Anacostia, D. C. 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,idence 1212 Florida Avenue, Northwest. Phone N. 2642 Y. M. 4078. very job will entitle you to a free notice in The Bee. Imported and Domestic Suitings Made to Your Measure, $15 to $40 J. A. ANDERSON M. MCDANIEL SOCIAL SERVICE LUNCH Meals at all Hours. NEVER CLOSED LADIES TABLE 1531 14th St. N. W. Washington, D. C. THE HOME OF GOOD CHEER and Satisfaction. All Beverages Absolutely pure at D. RIORDAN, New Jersey Ave and L St. N. W. House & Herrman. The next oldest house in the city is House & Herrman. If you can't be satisfied elsewhere, call at this house. To the Druggist: This coupon is redeemable for 5c. from your local jobber. Druggist's Name..... Address..... This coupon and 10c. is good for a 15c. bottle of Leon's Liquid Pomade at all druggists. Please sign name and address below. Name..... Address..... Date.... ing on a great with the young men we are ad- sement. This country is en- ter, unpadded English be mastered the art. We concentrated our order of months past. perfect-fitting, grace- guarantee our work, We Feature ture, for shown so many attrac- have scoured the wool- we could offer at this rewarded, and now we staple blues and blacks, is little as $20. And, re- pay. style or what pattern experience and exten- Suitings, ture, 0 LADIES' NURSE MADAME K. L. COLEMAN 3335 Sherman Avenue N. W. Phone Columbia 466. BEST IN THE CITY. Why do you go elsewhere and buy your ice cream when you can get better at Murrays. Murrays cream is pure and is delivered to any section of the city. This is an old established firm First class meals at all hours in the day may be had at Murrays—1216 U street, northwest. Ice cream cut, $1.20 per gallon. Plain ice cream at 90 cents per gallon. His large and commodious dining room will accommodate any number of people. Phone M. 6396, James Enright, Brookland Rye, fine wines, liquors, atl domestic cigars. 306 Four-and-a Half Street S. W., Washington, D. C. An Incident of the Great Naval Battle Off Santiago. SCARED BY THE FIRST SHOT The Thundering Boom of the Oregon's Big Gun In Opening the Attack on Cervera's Fleet Proved Too Much For the Nerves of the Old Veteran. "It's a remarkable thing," said the captain, "that almost always in any great event of exciting experience, even one in which human lives are involved, there is likely to be some little minor feature with a humorous side to it that will call forth a smile, if not a sudden burst of laughter. It seems as if in such trying moments one's feelings seek a quick vent and seize upon any little incident as a safety valve." This particular piece of philosophy was expressed by the grim old captain of our steamer as we were lazily churning along the lower coast of Florida. "I never get down on these southern seas," continued the captain, "without thinking of that 3d of July, 1898, when our fellows pushed the Spanish fleet up on the shore after their attempt to steal out of Santiago harbor. "I was first officer of the Dasher, one of the auxiliary steamers that the government had chartered and rushed into service. We had been engaged in carrying provisions from Tampa down to the ships of the fleet, and it was ticklish business, too, because no one really knew up to the last few days' just where the Spanish fleet actually was, and we expected to be overhauled and captured almost any time. "This particular trip had been an eventful one, and after rounding Cape Maial, on the eastern end of Cuba, we soon sighted our splendid fleet of fighters ranged in that fatal semicircle round the entrance of Santiago like a pack of hounds watching for a fox to come out of his hole. It was a great sight, I tell you! The smoke was larly curling up out of each stack, showing that steam was up and everything ready for the spring from the leash the moment the fox showed his head. "We had our orders and in a short time were close alongside the big old Oregon, which, you remember, had just made that wonderful trip round the Horn to take part in the fracas. I don't believe there ever was a hotter day even in the tropics than this Sunday, the 3d of July. Things were simply sizzling everywhere, and the ocean itself seemed to be steaming. "After we had warped alongside and the crew had begun carrying aboard the consignment of bread, potatoes, onions and other stuff I stepped into the captain's room to see if I could get any comfort out of the electric fan which was working overtime. I had just spoken to old Admiral, the captain's pet tomcat—and a huge fellow he was—who was lying on the floor stretched out as wide as possible, fairly gasping for air, when, holy mackerel, there were a concussion and a deafening roar which sent me sprawling and nearly knocked my head off. All I remember seeing that instant was a big cat going almost to the ceiling, with a tall as big around as a grapefruit and every leg, claw and hair standing straight out. The Oregon had let go one of its big forward turret guns right alongside of us, for the Spanish fox had started out of its hole. "In just one instant everything on earth in the way of activity seemed to be doing. I rushed to the door, and the thing that caught my eye was that old tomcat going aft on the upper deck like a streak of greased lightning, with every sail set to catch the wind and fairly clawing at the deck in his effort to make time. "In almost less time than it has taken to tell you that one shot had grown into a deafening roar from almost every gun in the fleet that could bear on the fox. Our lashings had been cut loose, and away went the fleet in that dramatic rush to victory for us and death to the Spaniards. "As my captain and I stood on the bridge and watched the sight he turned to me and said: 'Knight, I'm an old man and haven't but a few years more to live at best. I'll give the rest of my years to see this fight to the finish, and, by the gods, I'm going to follow 'em!' And he gave the signal for full speed ahead. "Say, but that was a sight! No man who saw it will ever forget it. The race was all in front of us, the Spaniards running for cover and putting up the best fight they could in their half baked condition and our fellows plugging them fast and furiously. "We followed until the sight was all, over and then came about to return to Santiago. The captain gave orders to serve supper in the officers' mess, for neither of us in the excitement of the day had thought a thing about eating. As we sat down to our meal he turned to me and said: 'Knight, have you seen my old tocatem Admiral? I've hunted for him all over the ship.' "Well," I replied, pulling out my watch and looking at it, "if he has kept up the pace he was making when I saw him last going aft on the upper deck he's due in about six minutes now on his third lap around the world." "We never did see old Admiral again, and the captain mourned him till his dying day."—Frank Presbrey in Chicago Record-Herald. A QUICK TWIST. A Good Reason Why the Watchful Owl Did Not Wring Off Its Own Head. Boys who have tried to "put salt on a bird's tail" generally come to the conclusion that birds can "see behind them," and some may half believe that the heads of these little creatures are kung on pivots. How easily one could conceive such a notion is illustrated by the experience of a Maryland man who had read a story about an owl wringing its own neck by looking at a man who was walking around him. The Marylander decided to experiment along these lines and so procured a fine specimen of an owl and placed him on a post. It was not difficult for the experimenter to secure the owl's attention, for the bird never diverted his game from the man while the latter was present. The man began walking rapidly around the post a few feet from it, keeping his eyes fixed upon the bird all the while. The owl's body remained motionless, but his head turned exactly with the man's movements. When the man was halfway round the owl's head wag directly behind. Three-quarters of a circle were completed, and still the same twist of the neck and the same stare followed the men. One circle and no change. On the man went, twice around, and still that watchful stare and steady turn of the head. Three times the man want around, and he began to wonder why the owl's head did not drop off, when all at once the man discovered what he had failed to notice before. When the man reached a distance halfway around from the front, which was as far as the owl could turn his head to follow the experimenter's movements with comfort, the owl whisked it back through the whole circle so instantaneously and brought it facing the man again with such precision that the latter failed to detect the movement, although he was looking intently all the while at the bird. The Marylander repeated the experiment many times afterward on the same bird, and he had always to watch carefully to detect the movement of the readjustment of the owl's gaze.—Philadelphia Record. SOBERED AND LABELED. The Pre-Raphaelite Treatment For Drunken Geniuses. Nothing in Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer's "Ancient Lights" is more amusing than the account of his illustrious grandfather's efforts to reclaim the many drunken geniuses of his acquaintance. It appears that he "was in the habit of providing several of them with labels, upon which were inscribed his own name and address. Thus when one of these geniuses was found incapable in the neighborhood he would be brought by cabmen and others to Fitzroy square. The poet, being thus recaptured, would be carried upstairs by Charlotte and told in the bath and would be reduced to sobriety by cups of the strongest coffee that could be made (the bath was selected because he would not be able to roll out and injure himself). And, having been thus reduced to sobriety, he would be lectured, and he would be kept in the house, being given nothing but lemonade to drink until he found the regime intolerable. Then he would disappear, the label sewed inside his coat collar, to reappear once more in charge of a cabman. Whistler was not among the wine-bibbers, but he had other peculiarities. "Upon one occasion," says Mr. Hueffer, "Madox Brown, going to a tea party at the Whistlers' at Chelsea, was met in the hall by Mrs. Whistler, who begged him to go to the poulterers and purchase a pound of butter. The bread was cut, but there was nothing to put upon it. There was no money in the house, the poulterer had cut off his credit, and Mrs. Whistler said she dare not send her husband, for he would certainly punch that tradesman's head." A Nice Sandwich For a Pink Tea. Various counties in England have their especial brand of sandwiches. In some apple and meat are mingled together; in others the customary slices of bread are supplanted by slices of parkin. Devonshire perhaps can boast the most luscious sandwich of all English counties. To make a Devon sandwich a "split" or scone is cut in half, each side is buttered, then jam is spread upon the butten, upon that again a thick coating of marmalade. Finally clotted cream is added with equal liberality, and the split, thus poulton beyond recognition, is ready for consumption.—London Globe. Cupid In Caledonix ancient Scotswoman rallied her daughter. "Meg, for why canna ye encounterandy boy but ye must go red as red?" he asked. "Mither," the girl shyly confessed, "the glares at me that fiercely I maundeem he's in loo' wi' me!"—Woman's Home Companion. Just Like His Dad "Bliggins says he has one of the smartest and handsomest youngsters in the country." "Yes," replied Mr. Growcher; "that's what comes of so many people thinking it necessary to tell a man that his children take after him."—Washington Star. Where He Went. "Did the prisoner go beyond well defined ethical bounds in his defense?" "Nope. He just went to jail"—Exchange. The American Home Life Insurance 5th and G STREETS, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. is a real home company, organized and incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, and has been doing a life, health, and accident insurance business in Washington for nearly twenty years. THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. has paid over 7,000 claims to its policy holders, amounting to over $250.000.00 THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. owns the largest building owned by any insurance company in Washington, D. C.. and is one of the first companies to comply with the new insurance law. THE AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO. issues Policies in FULL BENEFITS and INCONTESTABLE from date of issue, and payable ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH. His Obligation. Mrs. Richquick—John, I want you to buy a new parlor suit. Mr. Richquick—Maria, I've been agreeable enough so far to get different clothes for morning, noon, afternoon and night, but I'm consarned if I'll change 'em every time I go into a different room—Brooklyn Life. Musical Sounds and Noise It is a curious fact that musical sounds fly farther and are heard at a greater distance than those which are more loud and noisy. If we go on the outside of a town during a fair at the distance of a mile we hear the musical instruments, but the din of the multitude, which is so overpowering in the place, can scarcely be heard, the noise dying on the spot. To those who are conversant with the power of musical instruments the following observations will be understood: The violins made at Cremona about the year 1600 are superior in tone to any of a later date, age seeming to dispossess them of their noisy qualities and leaving nothing but the pure tone. If a modern violin is played by the side of one of those instruments it will appear much the louder of the two, but on receding a hundred paces when compared with the Cremona it will scarcely be heard.—London Globe. The Nebular Hypothesis. The nebular hypothesis is the name generally given to the theory put forth by the celebrated Laplace in "Systeme du Monde" in the year 1706. His idea was that the solar system was evolved mechanically from a vast diffused revolving nebula, and that nebulae were the early stages in the formation of planets and their satellites by cooling, condensation and contraction, according to certain laws of mathematics. This theory was accepted by Sir William Herschel and, though at first bitterly opposed in many quarters, is now generally accepted by astronomers and scholars and is taught in most schools and colleges.-New York American. Two Machines. "Bubbles has bought two new machines—one for himself and one for his wife." Mother's Diagnosis. "Have you spoken of our love to your mother yet?" "Not yet," murmured the dear girl. "Mother has noticed that I've been acting queer of late, but she thinks it's billiousness."—Pittsburg Post. Not the Same. Solicitor (cross examining)—Now, didn't you tell the prisoner that you doubted his veracity? Witness—No. I merely told 'im 'e was a bloomin' liar.—London M. A. P. I've never any pity for conceited people, because they carry their comfort about with them.—George Elliot. Incorporated Under Act of Congress Approved June26,1887 CAPITAL and ASSETS over $50,000.00 CARLISLE THE LEXINGTON HOTEL THE LEXINGTON HOTEL A Great Colored Hotel at Last Tic colored Americans are to have an up-to-date first-class hotel with every modern convenience with buffet, barbershop, kitchen, billiard parlors, office, lobby and waiting room, automobile to convey guests to and from the Union Station, etc. A Long Felt Want Fulfiled. Nathaniel Ruffin, a well known citizen is sole manager. Ever since the foundation of this government the colored citizens of this city have been in need of a first class hotel where families and guests from other cities may go with impunity and with reservation. Thousands of the best and well known colored people have visited this city and do visit it now, but they have no place of dignity to go with their families and feel at home. Dr. Booker T. Washington, about a year ago made a special plea to the Negro Business League of this city to 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 guest. --- THE LEXINGTON HOTEL. The Front Entrance Will be on L St. The entrance to the Rathskeller will be on L street or main entrance leading to the basement. The Rathskeller will be fitted up equal to any in the United States. the L street entrance. The Buffet Cannot be Surpassed. The dining-room which will be large and commodious with a seating capacity for one hundred and fifty guests. The barber shop will be managed by a first class tonsorial artist with every modern convenience. The billiard parlor, office, lobby and waiting room will be unsurpassed. The waiting parlor-will be on the first floor, handsomely furnished. There Will be Thirty-Eight Large Airy Bed Rooms and Nine Baths, There will be at least two private bath rooms connected with the suite of rooms on the second and third floors. The Lexington Will be Conducted on the Basis of Any Up To Date First Class Hotel. The banquet hall which is so much needed in this city for the accommodation of first class visitors and patrons will be one of the features of this hotel. The automobile will run to and from the Union Station to the hotel for the accommodation of the guests. This has been just what the city has needed for a long time for the Colored Americans, who visit here. Whenever a person intends to visit the city, a card to the manager of the hotel will be promptly re- sponded 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 in Washington have determined not to be behind in meeting the demands of strangers and visitors. Capital Stock The company is incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, of this amount the company has decided to sell fifteen thousand dollars of it. A greater opportunity has never-been offered the people of this city, who are enterprising and wish a good investment. The Sole Manager is Mr. Nathaniel Ruffin, a well known citizen of Washington, who is known to the president of the United States, to the cabinet officers and other public men of character and influence. He needs no introduction to the people, because he is prominently connected with some of the best, strongest, and leading organizations in the city. For honesty and integrity and influence among his people no better man could have been selected for the position of manager. The country is asked to keep its eyes on The Bee for advertisement and full particulars, of the opening of this new up-to-date hotel and for other particulars address Nathaniel Ruffin, manager, the Lexington Hotel, 21st and L street. N, W, Wash-ington, D C THE BEE Published at 110p Eye S., N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance... $40 Six months..... 70 Three months..... 80 Subscription monthly..... 90 NEGRO DEMOCRATS BARRED. The local Democrats of Champ Clark persuasion have issued an edict debarring local alleged Negro Democrats from participating in their coming primaries. The question came up in the local Democratic committee last week, and it was unanimously decided that no Negro Democrat will be permitted to take part in the local Democratic primaries. Our dstinguished friend, L. C. Moore, Charles C. Curtis, Charles R. Burns, the manager of the local Democratic journal called the Era, will no doubt explain why they are excluded from participating in the coming local Democratic fight for their chief, the Honorable Champ Clark, Democratic Presidential candidate. The big chief, Bishop Alexander Waters, who appeared before the National Democratic Committee, in Baltimore, Md., some few weeks ago, asking for financial aid to run his Democratic sheet, will have time now to reflect and tell his cohorts what all this means. Seriously speaking, what does it mean? These blind followers who have been crying themselves hoarse for Speaker Champ Clark for President cannot expect to receive any of the spoils in the event of Democratic victory. Now that none of these men are wanted, what will be their next move? They have been told that Southern Democrats don't want the Negro Democrats. No Negro Democrat, with any respect for himself, will play the dog now by crawling to the doors of the local Democrats and asking them to allow him to participate in their primaries. It can be plainly seen that all the Democratic party wants with the Negro is to use him to defeat the Republican party. The Republican party is the colored man's best friend, and the sooner he realizes this fact the better it will be for him. The vote in the recent Democratic Central Committee is an evidence of its dislike for the alleged Negro Democrats. If these alleged Negro Democrats will now force themselves on the local Democrats, after the rebuke given them a few evenings ago, they should be charged with vagrancy and sent to Occoquan. ```markdown ``` HONORING CAPT. OYSTER. The testimonial being arranged by public-spirited, and appreciative colored citizens of the District for Capt. James F. Oyster, President of the Board of Education, is a deserved recognition of an unselfish and constant friend of the colored schools. If Captain Oyster had been a colored man he could not possibly have, manifested more and taken deeper interest in the colored school. His interest in and activity for the colored schools has been marvelous. When those whose color, race connection and associations made them the logical guardians of the colored schools were strenuously, seditiously and reprehensively striving to make the colored schools but a pawn for selfish purposes, this sterling, honest, courageous white citizen, backed by the other white board members, threw himself into the breech and prevented the Negro conspirators from accomplishing their aim. It is singular, and perhaps uncomplimentary to the race, that the colored citizens should be honoring a white official for doing what they had a right to expect the colored board members to do. But be that as it may, Capt. Oyster has earned the honor, the colored citizens are happy to honor him, and the honor cannot be too enthusiastically conferred. And Capt. Oyster's white associates on the school board are likewise worthy of our highest respects and heariest and sincerest thanks. BLACK DEMOCRATS BARRED. At a meeting of the District Democracy a few evenings ago to arrange a primary for the election of delegates to the Baltimore convention next month, the question as to colored Democrats being allowed to vote for delegates came up, and it was decided that Negroes be barred from any participation in said primary. Yet we are told by certain colored men who are now supporting the Democratic party, that the way to secure a full recognition of all our civil and political rights is through that party. We merely call attention to this instance to show that whether in Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia or the District of Columbia, the attitude of the Democrat party towards the rights of citizenship of the black man is the same. From the organization of the Democratic party and since given legal sanction over fifty years ago by Judge Taney in the Dred Scott case, it has been a cardinal principle of that party that black men have no rights that white men are bound to respect. The saving of the late and lamented Frederick Douglass still holds good: "The Republican party is the ship: all else is the sea." NATIONAL CONFERENCE. Dr. S. L. Corrothers made every effort to be fair at the recent conference. In his heart he was for ex-President Roosevelt, and would have turned the conference over to him if he could. The friends of the administration were too strong, and out numbered the opposition two to one. About one hundred of the delegates left after the first night's meeting for the General Conference, in Charlotte. N. C. The conference was in every way a success, and a finer representative body of men could not be found. Attorney Geo. F. Collins, with his seven Howard University students, were anxious to discuss the recall of judges, but they were too busy making noise in an effort to beat the passage of the resolutions to prevent the indorsement of the administration. Rev. Corrothers, with all his alleged faults, is entitled to the respect of his people, no matter what his enemies may say. The Bee is confident that Dr. Corrothers will support the President if he is nominated, and these men who are abusing him are far from being as clean as he is. He never robbed a bank nor the people, and neither is he a bankrupt. Every man has a following, no matter what his occupation may be. INSULT AND INJURY. Col. Roosevelt, in one of his speeches delivered in Maryland last week, went out of his way to admonish the colored voters about selling their votes. We do not know why Col. Roosevelt should particularly single the colored voters out to give this warning and advice, unless he did it to add insult to injury. There never was a time when the Negro vote-seller could even approach his white brother in vote-selling. With the Senate of the United States investigating the bargain and sale of Senatorial mantels, why step aside to advise the Negro not to sell his vote? Why did not the Colonel advise his white brothers—those more adept in vote-selling and vote-buying—against the evil. The main who so ruthlessly discharged, without honor, 167 patriotic Negro soldiers, without proof of guilt, is but adding insult to injury when he singles out Negroes to harrass with about vote-selling, when his own kith and kind are bartering away Senatorships. We do not thank the Colonel for his gratious advice, the giving of which was adding insult to injury. Go sweep your own doorsteps, and get right your own house before you, tell us about our own. THE TEACHERS. The teachers and the officials of the public schools will be permitted to take part in the testimonial to Captain James F. Oyster as citizens of Washington, and not as teachers and employees in the public schools. The teachers have, no doubt, the same respect and confidence in Captain Oyster as citizens who are not connected with the public schools. The committee doesn't want it understood that teachers are barred from participating as citizens, if they so desire. It is the desire of the committee that has this testimonial in charge that every loyal citizen who appreciates the good work of Captain Oyster and the interest he has taken in the colored schools to be present Wednesday, May 22, at the 10th Street Baptist Church. There is a popular demand for the reappointment of Judge Wm. H. DeLacy. He has made a good judge, and the only exception The Lee takes is his declaration some time ago, that he thought it unwise to send a white girl to the Reform School where colored girls are sent. A judge must have no prejudice. A white criminal is no better than a black criminal. God judges all wrong-doers alike, and He makes no discrimination when the time comes for all to die. He made all humanity of one blood. MERRITT AND SPAULDING. The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the greatest insurance company in the United States operated by colored Americans, has just paid off its last debt. Messrs. Merritt and Spaulding are two hustlers and honorable men. They go right along and attend to their own business. The Beg congratulates its two North Carolina friends, and wish them continued success and prosperity. DR. CORROTHERS. A special dispatch from Dr. Sylvester L. Corrothers, who is attending the Methodist Conference at Charlotte, N. C., to the editor of The Bee, denies the telegraphic reports from the conference chamber that Col. Theodore Roosevelt had been indorsed by that organization. Elsewhere in The Bee will be seen the dispatch. Will the Negro sell his vote any quicker than a white man? President Taft fairly illuminated his home State this week. Col. Theodore Roosevelt ought to know that the Negroes of Maryland are honorable and upright. The Taft colored Americans in Baltimore. Md., worked manfully. Rev. Collis, Councilman Harry Cummins and Editor Joseph H. Dorsey made a good fight. The recall of judges means the repudiation of the 13th. 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution. Sundown editors, correspondents, lawyers and doctors come under the Civil Service law. The Bee is supported by the people, and for that reason it will defend the rights of the people. The testimonial to Captain James F. Oyster will be one of the greatest events that has ever taken place in this city. The three colored members of the Board of Education don't represent the colored people, and for that reason Captain Oyster will receive the honors because he has always defended the interests of the colored teachers and schools. Abolish the present Board of Examiners in the colored schools before it is too late. The people demand that the colored assistant superintendent be given entire control of the colored schools, and his recommendations be respected. Maryland is not lost to the administration. Auditor Ralph W. Tyler is doing some good work in Ohio. Ohio will go for President Taft. He laughs best who laughs last. The anti-Taft Negroes on the pay roll of the Roosevelt headquarters worked over-time arranging for the meeting last week to repudiate Taft, only to awake to find the resolutions endorsed the Presidents. Mr. H. E. Dunn to Tour the South- west. The Howard University. Law School boasts of no student more progressive than Henry E. Dunn. Several years ago he formulated in his mind a business scheme, the development of which will reflect much credit upon the race. The Progressive Development Company is a real organization, officered by substantial men, and backed by a working capital aggregating several thousand dollars. Mr. Dunn as promoter and manager is soon to leave for points in Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma, winding up in Birmingham, Ala., on July 15th, where he will meet the other interested members of the project and there render his report and at the same time recommend a suitable place for location. Mr. Dunn reports this as the third of a series of trips through various parts of the country, the purpose of which is to ascertain the needs of various communities and finally settle where the most good may be done. For this particular itinerary, conferences have been arranged with some of the leading citizens of both races. Public MenAnd Things There was a parents' meeting down to Jim Gray's on the avenue the other day. I happened in there to get one of Wash, Wood's famous elixers, and when I took my position, I observed three or four prominent parents down at the other end of the bar—I should say counter, since it was a parents' meeting) earnestly, wildly, vociferously and sane and insanely discussing the suspension of the M Street High School boys for tampering with Prof. Craig's near-automobile. One of the parents, who had caught about three of Wash Wood's inshoots with a whisky sauer flavor, said: "Now it's just like this. The boys were wrong, but Prof. Williams ought not to allow Craig to stand his would-be automobile nearer than ten blocks to the school. That contraption that Craig calls an automobile is about as irreconcilable, "and about as ameductible to consistency as Craig himself, and you know Craig is about as far from reconcilability and consistency as Horner and Bob Waring are from a good fat office, or 'Corrothers from playing square." "Oh, for the love of Mike, be reasonable," broke in the second parent, "Now I know Craig and know he reminds me of a jumping jack, and I know he is the most unpopular, and perhaps unsatisfactory teacher, at M Street High, according to the notion of the boys, and you can't always trust a boy's notion, but he has some swell points about him. For instance he can talk faster than the Congressional Limited can travel; he thinks he knows more about automobiles than the manufacturers of the Buick, Pearce-Arrow and Winton machines all combined. But at that he is a fair sort of a fellow. I don't think he was ever cut out for a teacher of boys, and while I think his proper sphere is in a machine shop, because he has an inventive genius, still I won't stand for the rest of you parents handing him too many straight-arm jabs." "Well, all I've got to get-citulate," said another before-the-bar parent, "is that youse will have more or less trouble with the boys as long as Craig is on the pay roll down at M Street. The boys just naturally don't smucker up to him. He's so peculiar, excitable, and sort of jim-jam in his action. Now my daughter told me—and before he could finish it another parent entered and said, "What will youse all have?" and that broke up the discussion, for every one of the P. P's—prominent parents—immediately gave Wash Wood, their order for another one of those insidious stimulants on which Jim Gray makes a hundred per cent profit. Now I believe in parents' meetings, and I believe that Craig could take four or five bottles of Lydia Pinkham's medicine for nervousness without ill effect, and I think his automobile is a joke, and I have seen men who were more accurately designed to teach boys, than he, yet I must gently whisper that a bar room is no place to discuss teachers and pupils, and especially after you have about six of Dash Wood's pantomime shows put away under your belt. I would suggest to Craig that he, try to conciliate the boys, and that the aforementioned prominent parents hold their future meetings about two blocks, at least, away from Wash Wood's acme of mixing drinks. Now while I am on this subject I might just as well hand over an easy suit' hall to my friends Bassett and Shippen. I have heard it said, in street corner society, and at bar room tree-a-tees that these two pedagogues were simply tolerated by "Old White Top," and that the boys never had a Damon and Pythias feeling for them. Bassett, who has a sort of 1-mandr-of-myself walk, and a style of talk that suggests the same thing, appears to be an awfully clever bit of brown flesh, but sometimes things are deceiving, and as Long-fellow wrote in his Psalms of Life, "things are not what they seem." Shippen—beg pardon. I should say Prol. Shippen—I fear has been too much concerned with trying to get Roscoe Bruce's goat to be put down in the category of successful teachers. It is in him to be a bang-up teacher if he will get his mind off him-elf, and collect his thoughts long enough to rejuvinate his mental qualities with the fact that Roscoe's goat is like Grimes' goat—they just can catch it. Now since Roscoe has been dieting on exhonoration consume and popular endorsement entrees, and public deserts, my advice to those teachers who have been the boon companions, consorts and conspirators of Neverwork Marshall, had better begin saying their rosary. In straight, everyday, understandable English, they had better attend to their knitting. And from what I hear in street corner society, cafe receptions, and bar room teas, Professors Jennifer, Shippen, Bassett, and one or two others are very clever and finely equipped pedagogues who can make better teachers, if they apply them-selves, than levers to pry Little Lord Fauntery out of his job. In soft, persuasive words, my dear fellows, your levers are not long enough and your fulcrums are not big enough. All of you are my particular friends at that. Now, if you doubt me, why, in the language of Bert Williams—"dream on." I met the Hon. Wm. H. Lewis the other day. At least I passed him on the Rue del Pennsylvania. I imagined, from his cast of countenance, that he had paraphrased Milton's lines: "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," to read "In the spring an office-holding fellow's mind earnestly turns to Massachusetts' preferential primary results." And that reminds me that everybody now has their ears to the ground waiting to hear from the disturbance out in Ohio. There was a rumor that Tyler had sent a hurry call for Lewis, Johnson, Napier and "What-you-call-em" McKinlay to proceed at once to the Buckeye State. I can't verify it, how- ever, and noticing that my old friend and ex-undertaker merchant Billy Clifford is still domesticating around Washington, I get the notion that things ain't serious out that way. Billy used to hike out there every time they had a fuss or a frolic. May be the accident that happened to the carbureeters of two other clerks under the Civil Service for running their skiff too far out in the political whirlpools, has made Billy a standpatter. And Bob Harlan, he too, is remaining here far from the fray, just like some of the other would-be white clerks who secure promotions by being politically inactive. OVATION TO DR. SHEPARD. (Continued from page 1.) Just outside of the city of Durham. The school owes in bills and notes but $26,000. The current expenses are but $1,700. The needs of the school are urgent. A $20,000 theological building is needy, $25,000 for social settlement work and $25,000 for other buildings. The most urgent need is an endowment fund of $2,000-000. The institution is now taxed to its utmost capacity. It is conducting seven departments with 156 students. The present enrollment of the Summer school of Teachers and preachers is 280, representing seven States. Dr. Shepard is a wise leader, a preacher of power, an eloquent lecturer and man of broad vision. He says, there are 30,000 Negro preachers in the United States in the various denomination and that but to per cent of them are well trained, in the work in which they are engaged. The need of religious training is therefore obvious. While in Los Angeles, Dr. Shepard would be pleased to meet any lady or gentleman who is interested in the problems of uplift for the lowly Negro race. He will be found at the Angelus Hotel, or his secretary may be reached at the colored branch of the Y: M. C. A., 83t San - Pedro street. Beginning July 6th and ending July 13th, a Ministers' Conference will be held at the National Rligious Training School. Colored preachers from every State in the Union will be present and the problems now engrossing the attention of the serious minded men of the Negro race will be thoroughly debated by wise leaders. The enterprising and progressive citizens of Durham of both races are preparing to make this meeting one of national importance. The institution will entertain during the week of the conference all of the ministers who will attend, without expense to them. Such a concourse of ministers of the various denominations deliberating upon questions of vital importance to the race and nation will be epocalish in character and influence. This conference will be a potent factor in reaching the great mass of the race and turning the moral activities of thousands of them into channels of service and usfulness. Beginning July 3, the summer school and chautauqua of this well known educational and religious Mecca will be crowded with students and teachers and visitors from all parts of the United States. Dr. C. H. Johnson, of Xenia, O., the noted Bible student and instructor, says that this effort has an influence and helpfulness analogous to the great moral and religious movements of the white race, and although as one of its lecturers, he was greatly benefited by the lectures of others. The musical features will be above the average. Noted singers and reciters are heard daily. Such lecturers as Professor Kelly Miller, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Dr. W. Y. Chapman, Mr. D. Webster Dayis, with his wholesome wit and philosophy, and others will be heard daily. THE EDITOR IN MARYLAND Sees the Politicians and Attends Church—Rev. Collis Preaches a Sermon and Urges Taft—Editor's Good Work. Baltimore, Md., May 5. I left Washington Saturday evening on the midnight train, and arrived here early Sunday morning. The preachers are thinking of what they will say this morning and the politicians have gone to bed to digest the speech of President Taft. I was up bright and early after I retired, and the first man I found was Councilman Harry Cummins, who had been quite sick for a week. He was out of bed however, and gave the appearance of having been under the weather. I asked the astute politician how everything looked, and I was assured by him that the colored Americans would vote right, and the State would be carried for Taft. I didn't remain very long with Harry, as we familiarly call him, because I wanted to see Rev. Collis, the old ministerial war horse, and a finer man doesn't exist. I went to the Rev. Collis' Church a few blocks away, and when I entered his church he was preaching an earnest sermon, and gave his hearers to understand where he stood. Of course I understood his politics. Of course I distinguished我 gave me a nod of recognition where I met a friend, and I remained until after the great Sharp Street Church. I arrived a little before Communion service, and in time to give a contribution. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, District Superintendent, Baltimore District, Washington Conference, was in charge of the services. Rev. Hughes is a genial and polished gentleman. He came down from the pulpit and greeted the Editor, who was not a minister, but he believes in the Christian religion at any rate, and has a heart more charitable than many so-called Christians. I was not invited to take Communion, so I left on my political mission, and held up every Republican I could see. Coming down Cary street on an electric car, who should I see standing upon the corner but Ed. Sutton, of South Carolina. I know he must have been talking politics, because he talked his victim out of his house, hatless. Ed. didn't see me. I went down to, the barricks—I suppose you call it barricks—I saw hundreds of people, but a very few colored Americans. I asked those I met what the political out look was. I was informed by all that Mr. Taft's speech on the recall of Judges and the repeal of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution had great effect on the colored voters. "I tell you," remarked a Taft enthusiast, "that the sentiment in this city has been changed. so far as the colored voters are concerned." I gave each a copy of The Bee containing the report of the Negro congress, and called their attention to the article concerning the appointment of colored help in the White House. This will have a good effect, remarked one of my hearers. If you can get this article circulated it will have its effect. I came here to see that The Bee is in the hands of every intelligent voter. If you know of any one that wants The Bee with this article, tell him to apply to Rev. Collis, 1616 Baker Street, or Editor Jas, Dorsey, 1344 Strickler Street. I tell the baracks and returned to the city, and got with the boys, and I predict that President Taft will either carry the State or it will be close. My friend Harry Cummins and Rev Collis is quite certain that the President will carry the State M. B. RVIPH W TYLER Is in Ohio Doing Some Good Work A Level-Headed Politician INDUSTRIAL MOVEMENT. Good Work Among Colored Virginians. Alexandria County, Va.. May 3, 101. The colored public schools of Alexandria County, Virginia, on last Wednesday night, the 1st of May, held an enthusiastic industrial meeting at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. For some time the schools had been raising money by popular subscription whereby a showing of sufficient magnitude might be made to influence the county officials to grant an appropriation for the industrial work. At this meeting there was on exhibition several hand-some exhibits made by the pupils of the various schools, the different designs, proving conclusively to the large audience the wisdom of the experiment by the superintendent in inviting the official of the schools to adopt this branch of school work. It is needles to say that after this meeting each one felt secure in his and her belief that the industrial movement had come to stay. Mr. William T. Hodges, the superintendent of the county schools, preided, and many were the words of praise voted to this popular school official during the evening. Other numbers on the program were addresses by Miss Ella Boston, Mr. Noble N. Thomas, Mr. H. W. Ball and Miss Randolph, the teacher in charge of the branch of the work. The invocation and welcome address were delivered by the pastor, Rev. Frank Washington Mr. E. C Hoffman appealed for the offering and many subscriptions were added to the sum reported by the superintendent as having been raised by the schools by popular subscription to inaugurate this work. The different schools rendered musical selections and the Rev. S. Q. Swann pronounced the benediction. MASONIC NOTES. "The joint entertainment at the Old Fellows" Hall given by the several Commanderies last week towards the entertainment fund for next August, was a success. The Sir Knights and ladies were out in large numbers. The several subordinate committees and the general committee of the International Congress of Knight-Templar, to be held in August, held a largely attended meeting at the office of the grand master, Sir Knight N. E. Weatherless, at the corner of 2oth and You Streets last Sunday afternoon, and transacted a large amount of business. The committee has received many applications from all parts of the country for quarters during the congress. Building Association Notes. The subscriptions for stock of the new Masonic hall to the present date from individual members of the craft amounts to about $70,000, with the several lodges, commanderies, Royal Arch, M. Chapters and the Order of the Eastern Star to be heard from in June which no doubt that these thirty-two lodies will bring the subscription list up to over $100,000. Thus we begin to see in the vista the new Temple at the corner of 10th and U streets. Citizens' Barbershop. the greatest barbershop in the city and one of the most popular, is the Citizens' Barbershop, 1024 You Street Northwest. Mr. McMullen, the proprietor, is an up-to-date artist, and believes in having his place conducted in a manner that will conform to the laws of the Health Department. Clean service on every customer. It is the citizens' sanitary barbershop. Ask J. S. Jones for 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, 1912% 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. Mrs. Joseph H. Stewart, who was taken suddenly ill with an attack of indigestion is now out of danger and is doing well Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C. arrived in the city yesterday, en route for his home. Assistant Attorney General W. H. Lewis arrived in the city from Massachusetts last week. Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson is yet in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Eliza Maxfield is now up and out again. Don't forget the Oyster testimonial Wednesday, May 22. Register J. C. Napier addressed the citizens of Baltimore, Md., last Sunday. Dr. N. T. Pannell, chemist, is with Dr. John W. Moos, the well known druggist of 1902 L Street Northwest. Dr. Pannell has been in West Virginia for several years. He and Mrs. Pannell are now residing at 403 Florida Avenue N. W. Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman, the manufacturer of Coleman's Hair Vim, is about to enlarge her business. She is no doubt the most progressive female druggist and manufacturer in this country. Rev. S. L. Corrothers, accompanied by his wife and two small children, left for the General Conference of his denomination Thursday morning. Mrs. Corrothers was not feeling so well when she left, and the Doctor is in hopes of improving her condition by a change of climate. The General Conference meets at Charlotte, N. C. They met at Dr. Morse's Gem Drug Store and saw themselves in front of that beautiful fountain, 19th and L streets Northwest. The Legend of Niagara, by the Enterprise Club, was presented at the True Reformers' Hall last Tuesday evening. It was a most interesting drama. The many friends of Miss Lillian Jones are glad after closing a very successful school term in Garriersonville, Va. She is residing with her aunt, Mrs. L. Jackson, 2533 Mozart Place, where she will be pleased to see her friends. Mrs. Carrie Clifford, eex-president of the Ohio Federation, is in Chicago, visiting her aunt, Mrs. Eva Jenifer, of 3430 Vernon Avenue. Miss Tate, who has been visiting her brothers in Chicago, Ill., has returned to the city. Miss Madeline Stone is visiting friends in Savannah, Ga., for two weeks. Read The Bee if you want a live paper. Mrs. J. H. Baker, of Harrisburg, Pa., is the guest of relatives and friends in this city. Dr. Booker T. Washington delivered an address at Hampton Institute last Thursday. Attorney E. J. Graham, of Wheeling, W Va., was in this city a few days on professional business. Rev. I. N. Ross will stop over a few days in Chicago and will be the guest of his niece. Mrs. S. L. Birt, while en route to this city from conference. Mrs. M. C. Maxfield, who has been ill, is out again. When in the neighborhood of Dr. Moss' drug store, call in. It is so refreshing to be able to drink a delicious glass of soda water. W. Calvin Chase spent Sunday and Monday in Baltimore on business. Mr. T. S. Finley, of this city, will render "Hold Thou Me," a bass solo, before the Y. M. C. A. of Norfolk, Va. Messrs. John Merrick and Charles C. Amey, of Durham, N. C. spent a few days last week in Norfolk. Va. on business: Mrs. Fannie M. Clair, wife of Rev. M. W. Clair, left the city yesterday morning to visit friends and relatives in Baltimore, Md. Col Henry A. Rucker, formerly collector of internal revenue, who has been visiting the city, has returned to his home in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Elhora Douglass Henry, of Cleveland, Ohio, is in the city the guest of her sister. Mrs. S. S. Thompson. With the coming of delightful weather the favorite promenade on Fourteenth street is becoming more fashionable than ever, and the crowds of happy, laughing, satisfied people never forget to stop in at their favorite old stand at Board & McGuire's drug store, between T and U, for the most crisp, sparkling and delicious ice cream sodas in the city, and the most joyous sundaes that pure fruits, nuts and ice cream ever produced. Join the laughing throng and be happy. The colored Federal employees in the Panama, Canal Zone are anxious to have a chaplain of their own race to minister to their spiritual needs. At their earnest request, Register J. C. Napier is taking up the matter with the War Department, and there is a likelihood that the wishes of this large army of canal workers will be complied with. Dr. J. E. Shepard, president of the National Religious Training school, Durham, N. C., makes his headquarters at the Hotel Victoria when in New York City. 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. Dr. Bennie Brown, of Baltimore, formerly of Washington, visited relatives and friends here last week. He is looking well and doing well financially. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Abrams, of 1241 22d Street Northwest, was a scene of beauty last week. The table comprised all the delicacies of the season. Seated at the table were: Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Abrams, the guest of honor, Mrs. W. T. Smith, of New York City; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Boston, Mrs. Mattie Herbert Smith, Miss Nellie Herbert, the Misses Johnson, of Kentucky, Lieut. and Mrs. Jones, of Indiana, and A. Williams. All repaired to their homes after a well-spent evening. ALEXANDRIA NEWS. (By R. H. Brooks, 723 So. Fairfax St.) The members and friends of Ebenezer Baptist Church are making great preparations for a grand rally Sunday, May 19. At 11 o'clock Rev. E. R. Jackson, of Arlington, will preach, and the choir, under the able direction of Mr. Edgar J. Johnson, will furnish special music. At 7:45 P. M. there will be a service of song. An elaborate program has been arranged, which will include several high-class anthems by the choir, solo numbers by Miss Anna Townes and Mr. Fairfax Jackson, and a piano solo by Mrs. Christina Jackson. Mr. Richard Jackson will be the master of ceremonies. The Magnolia Social Club scored a most phenomenal success at their reception Monday evening. It is reported that the crowd was the real record breaker of the season. This, of course, was no surprise, in view of the fact that the club is composed of a set of wide-awake business-like young fellows who are conservative yet optimistic. The roster of the club is as follows: Wm. H. Rose president; Jas. Byrd, vice-president; Robert Day, secretary; Andrew Jackson, assistant secretary; Jos. Wallace, treasurer; Samuel Tucker, manager; Roland Williams, chaplain, and T. M. Watson, counsel. The prize waltz was won by Mrs. Leua Payne and Mr. "Buddie" Tancil. Rev. Stewart H. Brown, D. D., will preach the anniversary sermon to the E. G. Andrews Chapter, No. 494. Methodist Brotherhood, of -Roberts Chapel Sunday, May 19. All the Brotherhood Chapters of Washington, Falls Church, Woodlawn and Halls Hill have been invited and an excellent meeting is expected. The meeting of the Young Men's Bible Class at Alfred Street Baptist Church was well attended last Sunday. Rev. Dr. S. H. Brown was the speaker of the afternoon, and spoke in his usual instructive, pleasing and entertaining manner. Dr. Brown has won the esteem of young men of all denominations since he was sent here from Ebenezer M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., last March. Other participants who appeared, on the program were Mr. Campbell Johnson, who is destined to be an orator of no mean ability, Mr. Wesley Gaines Courtland Willis, Mr. John H. Jackson and his quartette from Howard University, and the choir under direction of Mr. Henry Buckner Mr. Edw. P. Dixon, Jr., presided. Mrs. Lucy Boyd, who has been visiting her brother, Mr. Armistead Taylor, in West Virginia, has returned to the city. A large and attentive crowd listened to the third sermon of Dr Brown's most interesting series of seven sermons to young men. The subject last Sunday was "The Young Man in the Gutter." Tomorrow morning the subject will be "The Young Man Thinking." The interest in the series is becoming more and more manifest each Sunday morning. Mr. Joseph Brown, who was the guest of Miss Etta Lyles during the past week, left for New York Monday. The meeting of the Methodist Brotherhood was well attended Monday evening. The officers for the ensuing year were elected. Only three changes were made in the executive committee. viz.: Mr. Jas. Berry, Jr., was elected secretary, Mr. Robt. Burke, second vice-president, and Mr. Zachariah Taite, chaplain. Mr. Herbert Lucas, Wm. Credit and Burril Brown were initiated into the chapter. The Bee is on sale at George H. Lane's barber shop. No. 104 N. Columbus street, by David Wair, and Miss Julia Brown, No. 200 N Payne street. Seasons may come and seasons may change, but the crowds go on forever at the two drug stores of Board & McGuire, 1912½ 14th St. and 9th and You Sts. N. W. Two places ```markdown ``` M. E. Church. The spring rally of the Fairmount Height. M. E. Church had a very promising opening. The Sunday school was well attended. Forty-five little voices sang their Children's Day music to their heart's delight. Both the 11 and 8 o'clock sermons were delivered by the pastor, Rev. O. C. Sprague. He urged his members to work and have faith in God for any desired success. Rev. W. J. Tyler, of Jones M. E. Church, spoke at 3 P. M. He pointed out to the audience the need of home missionary work, and community building. A chorus of young ladies of the Young Woman's Training School of Lincoln, were present and rendered many beautiful selections. All services were well attended. Miss Nannie Burroughs is doing great work at Lincoln, and the whole race everywhere should be proud of and encourage her in her work. The ordination services at the Presbyterian Church were held last Wednesday evening. Rev. Chas. A. Thompson was ordained by the members of the Presbytery. Rev. Grimke preached the sermon for the occasion. Rev. Dr. Radcliff and Dr. Davis delivered the charges to new pastor and congregation. This being one of the grandest affairs held in the communi- The Public School. The teachers of the Fairmount Heights public school are looking forward to a crowded house on the night of their drama, May 16. This entertainment is given to extend the school term one month longer than the school officials of Maryland allow. This is a worthy cause, and we sincerely hope our friends will rally to the teachers. There will, in addition to the pupils of the school, be talent from Washington. Union in Fairmount Heights. There is great prospect of a great united citizens' association here. The presidents of both old organizations, with their officers and members, see the great benefits which will come to the community as a whole when the union is perfected, therefore, committees on arbitration have been appointed to arrange the basis of the union. May all that is good assist in getting together. The members of the committee representing the Fairmount Heights Citizens' As-ociation, and appointed by President Coalman, are James F. Armstrong, chairman; James A. Campbell and Rev. A. H. Strother. The members of the committee representing the Progressive Citizens' As-ociation, and appointed by President Payne, are: John S. John-on, chairman; Dr. F. J. Cardoza and C. H. Fonville. 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Wormley, G. C. Wilkinson, Thomas Walker, R. F. Watson, J. Milton Waldron, W. A. Warfield, Geo. A. Young. SOUTHERN BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL. Interesting Exercises May 2—A Brilliant Gathering. One of the largest crowds that has ever assembled in the Second Baptist Church was on Thursday evening, May 2d. The occasion was the first graduating exercises of the Southern Beauty Culture School of this city, Mrs. Lucie R. Pollard, principal. It was an outpouring of the friends of this new school, which Mrs. Pollard has made a success, by hard work and perseverance. She is a most accomplished woman, and her school has demonstrated the fact that young ladies can be taught an art which is a benefit to humanity. The exercises were very interesting throughout. The following are the Graduates. Miss Essie L. Coleman, Hampton, Va. Miss Maggie L. Doby, Camden, S. C. Miss Mamie E. Bennett, Wadesboro, N. C. Mrs. Effie M. Byrd, Wadesboro, N. C. Mrs. Margaret Ellis (Post Graduate), Boston, Mass. Mrs. Sarah Crump, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ophelia Crowder, Nashville, Tenn. Mrs. Mamie Edwards, Washington. D. C. Miss Margaret L. D. DuBo-e, Selma, Ala. Miss Leontine Goldsby, Selma, Ala. Miss Mayne E. Gibbs, Washington. D. C. Miss Geneva A. Taylor, Washington. D. C. Mrs. Lillian Howell, Demopolis, Ala Mrs. Bettie Jackson, Richmond. Va. Miss Grace Lyles, Washington, D. C. Mrs. B. Rebecca Payne, Ontario, Canada. Mrs. Bessie Steward, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Estelle Sayles, Washington, D. C. Miss Beatrice Alice Tillman, Wadesboro, N. C. Miss Edythe White, Washington, D. C. Miss Mary E. Watkinson, Roanoke, Va. Mrs. L. Warner, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Evelyn. M. Wingfield, Washington, D. C. Miss Saline W. Marshall, Rochester, N. Y. Miss Hulda C. Lundgun, Switzer land. Mrs. Louisisla Malline, Orange N. J. A GREAT RALLY $5,000 GRAND UNITED RALLY AT COSMOPOLITAN BAPTIST CHC Beginning Sunday, May 12. Special Music by COSMOPOLITAN BAPTIST CHU Sunday, May 12. Special Music by Beginning Sunday, May 12. Special Music by Choir, led by Mr. Joseph Douglass. THURSDAY, MAY 16—SENATOR Special M Sunday, May 19—St. Luke's Day 8 P. M., Mrs. P. MAY 23—CONGRESSMAN CLOSING GRAND EVENING Joseph H. Douglass, our greatest lector of Howard University Concern, company of selected artists and famou ist Church. Monday evening, June 3 Admission. Reserved Seats. Dr. S. P. W. Du We can tell you fifty r why it will be vantage to buy Carpets from us. Just o is suff We make it po to have everyth for home comfort Anything you charged on an which is made your circumstan gest. Come where every price and before there's a how or when you PETER G and Sor The Wilberford KARL F. PHILL Apartment 43, The Camer MAY 16—SENATOR BLAIR IN Special Music. 19—St. Luke's Day. A. C. Garm 8 P. M., Mrs. P. B. Anderson. —CONGRESSMAN THOMAS R. NG GRAND EVENT OF THE S Douglass, our greatest master of the rd University Concert Orchestra, will ected artists and famous singers, at C sunday evening, June 3, 1912. eats. Dr. S. P. W. DREW, PASTOR. "The House of Pitally Marked Prices." We could tell you fifty reasons —why it will be to your adv- antage to buy Furniture and Carpets from us. Just one is sufficient We make it possible for you to have everything necessary for home comfort AT ONCE. Anything you wish will be charged on an open account which is made payable as your circumstances may sug- gest. 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 VilberforcianOr KARL F. PHILLIPS, DIRECT 43, The Cameron Vt. Ave. THURSDAY, MAY 16—SENATOR BLAIR IN AN ADDRESS. Sunday, May 19—St. Luke's Day. A. C. Garner, Dist. Asso. 8 P. M., Mrs. P. B. Anderson. MAY 23—CONGRESSMAN THOMAS PARRANI. Joseph H. Douglass, our greatest master of the violin, and conductor of Howard University Concert Orchestra, will appear with his company of selected artists and famous singers, at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, Monday evening, June 3, 1012. "The House of Plainly Marked Prices." We could tell you fifty reasons —why it will be to your advantage to buy Furniture and Carpets from us. Just one is sufficient We make it possible for you to have everything necessary for home comfort AT ONCE. 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 The WilberforcianOrchestra KARL F. PHILLIPS, DIRECTOR Apartment 43. The Cameron Vt. Ave. & T st.,N.W. Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. The mother of Rev. S. P. W. Drew arrived in this city this week, and is the guest of her daughter and son, Dr. Simon P. W. Drew and wife. Five thousand people wanted to give $1.00 each toward raising $5,000 in sixty days. Next Sunday, May 12, at 8 P. M., is True Reformers' Day at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N Street Northwest, between 9th and 10th Streets. Mrs. S. F. Lewis, acting chief, will have charge. Dr. Simon P. W. Drew is pastor. Sunday, May 19th, at 8 P. M., St. Luke's Day. Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, District Deputy, and Dr. A. C Garner, Associate Deputy, will have charge: Mass meeting next Thursday, May 16, at 8 P. M., at which time Senator Henry M. Blair will be the principal speaker, Special musical program by Prof. Joseph H Douglass. Wednesday, May 22, at 8 P. M., Dr. W. D. Jarvis, pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church, and choir. Thursday, May 23, at 8 P. M., May Feast by the Sunday school. Address by Congressman Thomas Parran. Monday, June 3d, at 8 P. M., great musical concert by Prof. Joseph H: Douglas, director of Howard University Concert Orchestra. A prominent friend has made an offer on condition that the said church would raise $5,000 in sixty day that he would give $5,000. Therefore the public is hereby asked to contribute toward the fund. Any amount given will be highly appreciated. Robert H. Roberts, treasurer, 3224 Sherman Avenue. N. W.; Dr. S. P. W Drew, 2014 8th St. N. W. Dr. John W. Moss is now prepared to serve you with soda water and the best cream manufactured in this city. "Boy Scouts" Hold "Camp Fire." Last Friday evening the "Boy Scouts" of Lovejoy School, under the direction of Mr. Charles A. Marshall, held a highly enjoyable "camp fire." The occasion was marked by the rendition of patriotic songs, practice drills and appropriate addresses on the value of the "boy scout" spirit. Mr. Marshall, who recruited the Lovejoy company and brought it by hard and persistent labor to its present standard of excellence, is the youngest "Boy Scout" commander in the District. As a leader, he is a praqounced success. Special Music by Choir, led by Douglass. FOR BLAIR IN AN ADDRESS. Music. A. C. Garner, Dist. Asso. B. Anderson. THOMAS PARRAN. T OF THE SEASON The master of the violin, and concert Orchestra, will appear with his music singers, at Cosmopolitan Bap- 1012. 25c. 35c. REW, PASTOR. Should you be seasons to your ad-Furniture and one sufficient possible for you being necessary at ONCE. Wish will be open account payable as services may sug- you can read the buying question about desire to pay. MIROGAN Ins Co AmericanOrchestra CHIPS, DIRECTOR Vt. Ave. & T st., N.W. FairviewPark Formerly Lakeview Park UNDER MANAGEMENT OF Lewis T. Thomas 946 Tea Street, N. W. Open for engagements Beginning May 1st The Crummell Old Folks' Home. Editor of The Bee Nearly fourteen years ago Rey Alexander Crummell, founder of St. Luke's P. E. Church, pas-ed away, leaving his estate to establish an old folks' home. Upon the death of his widow a few years later, it was ascertained that she tog had devoted the bulk of her holdings to the same purpose. Two brick houses, situated respectively on O and Swann Streets, have been rented out and the cash has accumulated a fund of ten thousand dollars. It would seem that some preliminary steps should be taken looking to the opening of this home, especially as there are quite a few who would fall under the category of the beneficiaries to be helped What is the cause of the delay? Have any steps, preliminary to the opening of the home at some future date, or upon some contingency within the power of the colored Episcopalians to bring about, been taken? I understand that the Rev. Thomas P. Brown is ex-officia a member of the board of trustees charged with the responsibility of administering this trust. Besides, not a few of the friends of Dr Crummell, white and black here, who, if the home were begun in an humble and unpretentious way, might add to the foundation and thus make such an endowment ultimately as would make this philanthropy worthy alike of the Doctor, his church and the community. JOHN W. CRUMMELL. Will Go to Chicago. The following additional representatives will accompany the Taft delegation to Chicago next month: Attorney M. T. Clinkscales, James H. Gray, James O. Holmes, Attorney A. W. Scott, W. Sidney Pittman, Robt. Jones and Jesse Foster Will Go to Chicago. Powder Makers Toil In Constant Peril of Their Lives. THEY DON'T WANT VISITORS Men Callers Are Permitted In the Plant Only With Extreme Reluctance and After Drastic Precautions, and Women Are Absolutely Barred. In all the vocations in which a man can make a living in the United States there is none more perilous than the manufacture of gunpowder and none in which the public, which usually suffers severely in case of accident, takes so small an interest. The word gunpowder itself carries a suggestion of peril which is reflected in all the suspensions of the men who work in the trade. The man who work in powder plants are a study in themselves. Probably in no other business do the human agents take more precautions against disaster with such pitiful results. Men who work in powder plants are in constant fear of death. They are face to face with peril every second. Instead of growing hardened to it, as do the laborers in many other fields of danger, they appear to be the most superstitious class of men on earth. They are well paid. A man who has nerve enough to work at this trade is worthy of his hire. He can command $10 a day, sometimes $20. He practically makes his own rules, since he is the one to suffer from an infraction of them. His every suspicion is respected by his employer. He cannot dictate the hours of labor, since that is a matter eternally in dispute, as in other kinds of labor, but he can dictate the conditions under which he works from the moment he enters the factory until he leaves. These superstitious seem absurd sometimes, but they are the law of the gunpowder factory. If you are an employer you break the law at the risk of financial loss; if you are a fellow employee you violate it at the risk of your life. One of the first laws among the employees is that of self preservation. They have a deep rooted fear of the casual visitor. Few men have gone through a gunpowder plant out of mere curiosity. They are not wanted and are told so frankly. If they succeed in obtaining the permission of the superintendent or possibly of some one higher in authority they are subjected to an extraordinary ordeal before they are admitted to the sacred precincts. First they are searched, and no police official is more adept in the art of "frisking" than is the outer guardian of the average gunpowder plant. Every piece of metal, from pocketknife to garter clasp—every coin, match, suspender buckle, everything that could possibly strike a spark, is removed. The hatband of the most fashionable derby is examined with care to see that it carries no metal initials. And this examination is not carried on alone by the official whose favor you have gained. A representative of the employees takes an active part in the examination, and if he has any doubts he will politely request you to strip to the skin. Once inside the powder factory you are under even more careful scrutiny. Your shoes are taken away, and you are provided with felt slippers. Convinced that on your person there is no piece of metal which under any provocation could strike a spark, you may feel at liberty to roam around, but you are not. Your every movement is watched carefully, and should you make a gesture calculated to inspire distrust you would be hustled out of the building and told to leave the neighborhood within a given time. I had a graphic illustration of the extreme care taken by these men to prevent an accident and to save their own lives. After having been carefully searched and after having surrendered everything which might come under the classification of metal I was admitted to the plant. Secure in the knowledge that I was thoroughly "disinfected," I assumed a nonchalance which I was far from feeling as I watched the various processes of making gunpowder. I was so well at ease that I drew a toothpick from my pocket and calmly picked my teeth. Instantly I was thrown to the floor and while two husky men held me a third searched my clothing. When finally I was released it was explained to me that they feared the toothpick might be a match. Laboring under the constant fear of death, the employees grow extraordinarily superstitious. Once allow a woman to set foot within a powder factory and the entire force will quit. It is one of the axioms of the trade that a woman brings misfortune, and it is useless to argue the question. A woman photographer for a newspaper on a "Sunday assignment" once was admitted into an Illinois powder factory by an inexperienced official, and the next day the plant was shut down. The employees struck. The plant remained idle until an entire new force was recruited.-Chicago News. Natural Longing. However old, humble, plain, desolate, afflicted, we may be, so long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life they preserve also, shivering near that pale ember, a starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and affection. 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The following article was prepared by representatives of the national council of horticulture to stimulate interest in gardening: While plants can stand great extremes in temperature, corresponding extremes in moisture surely will tend to ruin if not to kill the strongest of them. Water should be given only when needed, then in such quantity that the soil is soaked. Soft stemmed plants, especially those with large leaves, need much more water than hard wooded, slow growing varieties, and, while the former kind easily recover from drought, the latter usually suffer permanent injury from extremes. Heavy clayey soils sour easily, while light loamy soils dry out quickly, and unless carefully watched the plants in such soil soon will wilt. In either case it is better to water thoroughly and only when needed than to water sparingly and often. The season and time of day should be considered in watering. Plants not in active growth should be watered sparingly until they have regained their foliage. Watering in the evening, just before dark, will greatly aid the growth of fungous diseases, as the foliage will continue wet through the night. It also causes "damping off" of young cuttings and plants. Never water during heavy, cloudy weather. PHYSICAL STRAINS. Men Over Forty-five Should Take No Excessive Exercise. The physical decay of men over forty must be more frequently mentioned lest we forget the fact that our physique was evolved for only thirty-five or forty years of strenuous use, says American Medicine. It was not so long ago that forty-five was extreme old age—counting time in the large way of evolution. Lengthening of life has been possible only because civilization has let up the physical strains, so if we continue them we must expect to break as of old. Athletes stop their efforts merely because they are beaten by younger men, but the nonathletic seem to think that it is necessary to keep up excessive exercise, though the tissues simply cannot stand it. There is, then, no mystery in the large number of damaged hearts now being found, and they will continue to increase in number and severity until the medical profession succeeds in impressing the lesson Let us repeat it over and over again until every man over forty or forty-five realizes that he has lived his allotted time of physical vigor and must ease up the strains to retain his health. There is no reason except abuse why so many men break at fifty-five or sixty. They should be healthy until seventy or seventy-five, and it is our duty to show how. Painless Extraction of Teeth Filling and Crowning SURGEON DENTIST First Class Work Guaranteed 1229 Pennsylvania Ave.N.W. Washington, D.C. National Religious Training School ```markdown ``` Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. House & Herrmann of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that will satisfy you. WELLINGTON VISIBLE TYPEWRITER Only $60.00. You Save $40.00. SOLD ON EASY TERMS. Only Typewriter Sold Which is Guaranteed for Two Years. Two Dollars per Month Will Rent the Wellington. WILLIAMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 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Sirs: Within the last five months I have sold 3,600 bottles of "Ellixir Babek," for Malaria. Chills and Fever. Our customers speak very well of it. Yours truly, HENRY EVANS, 922 P St., N. W. DY KITCHE St. N. W. Good Taffy 10c $1.00 gal. 30c qt. DURHAM, N. C., and women 6 7 8 artment is T W. C. A. wome Home and T Ierr its., N. W TON E Coat, Suits ROBE Nor SITU by: 11, 1900. based of you my daughter's for Malaria, SHARP. Dr Two in th CHEN There are special scholarships for deserving young men and women, in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open July 3, 1912. For further information and catalogue, address ermann N. W. Beautiful Lounges Morris Chairs Writing Desks Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room suite, call after you have been elsewhere The : Up-to-date : Cafe FIRST-CLASS PLACE FOR MEALS Ice Cream, cut, $1.20 per gal. Plain Ice Cream . 90c per gal Public and private receptions served in our large dining room. E. Murray 1216 You St. N.W. THE ENTERPRISE CLEANING AND PRESSING. CO. The Proper Cleansing and Pressing of Gent's Clothin. Our Exclusive Work. 75c per Suit. Coat, 40c. Pants, 20c. Vest, 15c. Suits Pressed, 35c. Four for $1.00. 1537 Fourteenth St. N. W. ROBERT DOUGLASS, Manager. North Mountain Sana- torium FOR COLORED CONSUMPTIVES SITUATED AT NORTH MOUNTAIN BERKELY CO., W. VA. Elevation 1200 Feet P. Franklin Scott, Samuel Gray. Supterintendent Medical Director For further information apply to Dr. Sam'l Grav Martinburg, W. Va. Open all the Year Dr. W. S. Richardson 316 41-2 St. Southwest 14th and R Sts. N.W. Two of the best knowndrug stores in the city. Drugs and toilet arcles of all kinds A valuable remedy in general Debility, and fortifies the system against the rapid waste of Pulmonary and Scrofulous diseases. It is one of the Best Tonics for persons in advanced years. PRICE 50c. --- PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD. Durham, N. C. E. MURRAY DRUGGIST .TYREE'S We claim for this preparation she the reliability insured by the use of pure chemicals, skilfully combined. TYREE & CO. 15th and H Sts., N. E. OPEN ALL NIGHT Where you change the cars for Chesapeake Junction. n, N. C. Fosters -DYE Works FOSTER'S DYE AND CLEANING WORKS. (You Street, between 11th and 12th Streets, Northwest.) Business and Display Office, 11th and You Streets, Northwest. CALL AND INSPECT OUR WORK. Ladies' suits a specialty. Gentlemen's suits cleaned, pressed and sponged. Gloves cleaned. All goods look like new when they leave our works. FOSTER'S DYE WORKS. FOSTER'S DYE WORKS Go To HOLMES' HOTEL 333 Virginia Ave., S. W. Pent Afro-American Accommodation in the District EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLAN Good Rooms' and Lodging [50c, 75c and $1.00. Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give us a call. James Ottoway | Holmes, Proprietor | Washington, D. C. Phone|Main 2315 HIRSH'S SHOE STORES Washington's Best and Most Up-to-Date Shoe House Phone Main 4471. 1026-1028 Seventh St. N. W. Washington, D. C. SMITH'S PARK PHARMACY 4th and Elm Streets N. W. LE DROIT PARK. The Only Up-to-Date Druggist South of If you want fresh drugs and carefully compounded prescriptions, the Park Pharmacy is the place to go. Toilet articles of every description. Assorted candies of the finest and best makes. Holiday souvenir cards and cigars. The latest and most up-to-date Soda Fountain, and all kinds of fruit syrups. Wm. L. SMITH, 4th and Elim Streets N. W. LeDroit Park. Phone Col. 2578. Wm. C. McCURDY. DEALER IN Wholesale (Baked Goods) Retail. Special Xmas Price Pound and Fruit Cake, 15c. Best to be had. Stand 662-3. Center Market. James H Winslow UNDERTAKER AND EMBLAMER K FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. James H. Dabney FUNERAL DIRECTOR HIRING, LIVERY, AND SALE STABLE. 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OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. J. H. DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third St. N. W. Phone, Main 3200. Carriages For Hire. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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 people are treated right. The Term Philosopher. The word "philosopher" is said to have originated with the celebrated Pythagoras, who was born about 570 B.C. The word means a lover of wisdom. Pythagoras must have been a very remarkable man, for it is certain that he made a profound and lasting impression upon his time. He was the originator of the idea that nature is a harmony and that its varied phenomena are all brought about by unerring and universal laws and are an expression of nothing less than the universe itself. True to the name he gave himself, Pythagoras is said to have devoted his whole life to the acquisition of knowledge to the end that he might impart it to others without money and without price. He was one of the noble influences of antiquity, and the effects of his unselfish labors are still visible among men.—Exchange. A Quaint Introduction. Clarence King, the ethnologist, once wrote from San Francisco to John Hay the following letter of introduction: "My Dear John—My friend, Horace F. Cutter, in the next geological period will go east. It would be a catastrophe if he did not know you. You will 'swarm in,' as the Germans say, when you meet. Lest I should not be there to expose Mr. Cutter's alias I take this opportunity to divulge to you that the police are divided in opinion as to whether he is Socrates or Don Quixote. I know better; he is both." The Macgregors. The Macgregors were forbidden to use their family name in 1603. The prescription was removed by Charles II., only to be inflicted again in the reign of William and Mary. It was not till 1622 that a royal license to use the name was granted to Sir Charles Macgregor, up to then known as "Murray." In the early years of the seventeenth century every man's hand was raised against this persecuted race and they could be mutilated and slain with impunity.-London Spectator. A Turkish Biddle Here is an old Turkish riddle which has been handed down for many centuries and yet has never been answered: "There was once a beggar who always dreamed he was a pasha, and there was a pasha who always dreamed he was a beggar. Which was the happier?" All Have Troubles "Everybody worries about money." "Oh, I don't know. Some men are so rich" "That's just it. Poor men worry because they can't get money, and the rich man worries for fear that it will get away from him."—Philladelphia Ledger. Each day is a stone in the great temple of life. Aim to hew the stone so that it will be four square to every wind that blows. A H. Underdown Employment Emporium. Reliable help furnished. Employment secured. 1742 14th Street, THE SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. NOT SOLD UNDER ANY OTHER NAME. HOME If you purchase the NEW HOME you will have a life asset at the price you pay, and will not have an endless chain of repairs. Quality Considered it is the Cheapest in the end to buy. If you want a sewing machine; write for our latest catalogue before you purchase. The New Home Sewing Machine Co. Orange, Mass. The Olympia Dancing Class Every Thursday Evening AUDITORIUM HALL Music for all occasions, address Geo. S. King, 416 3d Street, S. E. 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The poor sinner's bell is a bell in the city of Breslau, in the province of Silestia, Prussia, and hangs in the tower of one of the city churches. It was cast July 17, 1386, according to historic records. It is said that a great bell founder of the place had undertaken to make the finest church bell he had ever made. When the metal was melted the founder withdrew for a few moments, leaving a boy to watch the furnace and enjoining him not to meddle with the catch that held the molten metal, but the boy disobeyed the caution, and when he saw the metal flowing into the mold he called the founder. The latter rushed in and, seeing, as he thought, his work of weeks undone and his masterpiece ruined, struck the boy a blow that caused his immediate death. When the metal cooled and the mold was opened the bell was found to be not only perfect, but of marvelous sweetness of tone. The founder gave himself up to the authorities, was tried and condemned to death. On the day of his execution the bell was rung to-call people to attend church and offer a prayer for the unhappy man's soul, and from that it obtained the name of "the poor sinner's bell." SEEING A PURPLE COW. Perfectly Natural Under Certain Conditions, Says an Artist. H. Anthony Dyer, painter of water colors, was explaining the matter to some possible buyers of his wares. "Suppose while you are in the country in summer," said he, "you chance upon a Holstein cow grazing on a hillside. Holsteins, of course you know, are black and white. The pasture is green. Off at one side is a gray unpainted barn. Do you stagger with surprise when you notice that that cow is purple? Not a bit of it. If it were not purple you might reasonably consult an oculist. That would be a sign that your eyes needed attention. "But you may never have tried to figure out why the cow is purple. Here is the answer: The complementary color of the green pasture is red. The sight of green always suggests red, although we don't realize it. Flooding the scene is the yellow sunshine. The yellow, the red and the green combine to tint the grazing neutral colored cow purple, and purple it undeniably is, as you must admit when next you encounter one under such circumstances. Nevermore, therefore, may you sing with Gelett Burgess: I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see one. —New York Press. The Bug Bible. The bug Bible was printed in 1549 by the authority of Edward VI., and its curiosity lies in the rendering of the fifth verse of the Ninety-first Psalm, which, as we know, runs, "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow which flithe by day," but in the above version it ran. "So thou shalt not nede to be afraid of any bugges by night." Ludicrous as this sounds, it is not etymologically without justification. "Bug" is derived from the Welsh word "bwg," which meant a hobgoblin or terrifying specter, a signification traceable in the word commonly in use today—"bugbear"—and Shakespeare once or twice uses the word in this primary sense, notably when he makes Hamlet say, "Such bugs and goblins in my life." Daffodil Superstitions. Daffodils are not only poisonous and libelous, but most unlucky flowers, especially when single specimens are encountered. Herrick, who must often have gone through the experience without much harm happening, declares that— When a daffodil I see Hanging down her head to me, Guess I may what I must be. First, I shall decline my head, Secondly, I shall be dead; Lastly, safely buried. In Herrick's own Devon to this day if you place a single daffodil on the table of a farmhouse the farmer will jump up and exclaim, "Now we shall have no young ducks this year." The evil spell can be broken by increasing the single flower to a bunch.—St. James' Gazette. c Nest of the Tentah Queer Nest of the Tontobane. The oddest of all birds' nests is the one built by the tontobane, a South African songster. It is built of cotton and always upon the tree producing the material. In constructing the domicile the female works inside and the male outside, where he builds a sentinel box for his own special use. He sits in the box and keeps watch or sings nearly all the time, and when danger comes in the form of a hawk or a snake he warns the family, but never enters the main nest. A Dodger. "Bibles is a great man to try to dodge a responsibility on technicalities." "Yes. He once signed a pledge. Then he forgot about it and called in a handwriting expert to prove that the signature was a forgery."—Washington Star. Various Ships. Ostand—Pa, what kind of ships are courtships? Pa—Soft ships, my son. Ostand—And what kind of ships sail the sea of matrimony? Pa—Hardships, my son.—London Tit-Bits. Neither desplse nor oppose what thou doest not understand.—William Penn. ```markdown ``` HAIR-VIM is an ideal and elegant hair dressing. Especially prepared for persons who appreciate the ideal and elegant appearance of their hair. It makes the hair soft, silky and glossy, and greatly promotes its luxuriant growth. It cures dandruff, stops falling hair, and prevents the dandruff germ. 25cts the box; the bottle, by mail, 30 cents. HAIR-VIM SOAP is cleansing in its effect and beautifying in its results. Especially adapted for shampooing the hair, and fills every requirement for use in the toilet, bath and nursery. 25cts the cake. BEAU-TE-VIM CREAM—Is a restorer, preserver, beautifier and bleach for the skin. Lubricating the surface, giving it life and adding brilliancy to the complexion. 25cts the box. ANNOUNCEMENT THE BOOKS OF THE PALATIAL IRON STEAMER ANGLER, ARE NOW OPEN FOR CHARGE AT THE OFFICE WATER AND N STREETS SO TO WASHINGTON PARK A LOWER RIVER LANDINGS F SEASON, 1912. SPECIAL RATES FOR EARL Southern Ha Why Can't We Have a Colored Laundry. loving Colored Pe The Southern 2031 7TH STREET, N. W nd prove tna: the Negro can supp WORKS OF THE WAL IRON STEAMER NEW OPEN FOR CHARTER OFFICE AND N STREETS SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON PARK AND RIVER LANDINGS FOR 1912. RATES FOR EARLY CHARTERS. LEWIS JEFFREY Southern Hand Laundry Why Can't Washington Colored Laundry. WANTED 100, moving Colored People to patroni the Southern Hand Laundry 7TH STREET, N. W. NEAK FLORIDA na; the Negro can support himself. Pho ANGLER THE BOOKS OF THE PALATIAL IRON STEAMER ANGLER. ARE NOW OPEN FOR CHARTER AT THE OFFICE WATER AND N STREETS SOUTHWEST TO WASHINGTON PARK AND LOWER RIVER LANDINGS FOR SEASON, 1912. SPECIAL RATES FOR EARLY CHARTERS. LEWIS JEFFERSON, The Southern Hand Laundry 2031 7TH STREET, N. W. NEAK FLORIDA AVE. nd prove tna: the Negro can support himself. Phone North 1847 Chas. H. Jarvins & Son FISH POULTRY AND OYSTER DEALERS, 930 C Street Northwest, and Center Market. Phone, Main 4480. Washington, D. C. TIMOTHY J. HANLON 1300!H Street, N. E. Washington, D. C. 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. Phone Main 3252. The Best in the City. If you want a first-class tonsorial service, go to the Citizens' Barbershop, 1024 You Street Northwest. Ask for the boss, M(Mullen. Every artist is a gentleman. Clean service on every customer. It is an up-to-date establishment. You will meet the people there. Mention The Bee. TER SOUTHWEST ND OR BY CHARTERS. LEWIS JEFFERSON, General Manager. Hand Laundry Washington WANTED 100,000 race people to patronize Hand Laundry NEAK FLORIDA AVE. ort himself. Phone North 1847 Those Useless Questions. "How did you get the bruised face?" "It was caused by the hatrack last night." "Accidentally?" "No; I think it attacked me purposely."—Kansas City Journal. I look for the day when women will cease to be imitative, copying men, but will become completely, perfectly and proudly women.—A Woman's Letter in London Times. Neither Not Not sympathy. Teacher — Willie, did your father cane you for what you did in school yesterday? Pupil—No, ma'am. He said the licking would hurt him more than it would me. Teacher—What rot! Your father is too sympathetic. Pupil—No, ma'am, but he's got the rheumatism in both arms. — Lippincott's. Prima Donna—I have here a certificate from a doctor to the effect that I can't sing tonight. Manager—Why go to all that trouble? I'll give you a certificate that you never could sing! London Tit-Bits WARNING! We Keep Open House the Year Round, and We Keep it in Order Bottled by JOHN CASEY 4th and H Streets, N. W. Washington, D. C. Oné Better. WHISKEY WHY SUFFER WITH PILES. Browns Pile Remedy is used successfully for Internal and External Piles. Remedy No. 1. An ointment, makes soreness, inflammation and initiation vanish. Remedy No. 2. An internal remedy to aid the ointment by expelling the poison caused by constipation. To be used together. Both for soa To be used together. Both for 500 postpaid. C.BROWN, Registered Pharmacist: 609 Third Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. St.RegisHotel 1832 14th Street N. W. Near the corner of 14th and T. In the heart of the quietest and most refined neighborhood. The finest and best equipped house, owned and operated by colored management. Our rooms and apartments represent the standard of comfort and beauty. Dining room. finest in the city. Quick and polite service. Reasonable rates. Ice cream and soda fountain. GRACE T. MERCER. ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 4th Street, M. W. Washington, D. C. . Ox Marrow. We want our readers to patremise 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 so a bottle. H. K. FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE No. 314 Ninth Street, N. W. Loans made on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, look at our stock first. You! Why pay 10 per cent when you can get it for 3 per cent. M. K. FULTON BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY, GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS LADIES' AND GENTS' WEARING APPAREL. OLD GOLD AND SILVER BOUGHT. UNREDEEMED PLEDGES FOR SALE. 361 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HAIR, KINNY OR CIRCY HAIR GLOSSY, SOFTER AND MORE PLUABLE. EASY TO CAMB and PUT UP IN ANY STYLE. THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT UNBREAKL FOR PREVENTING HAIR FROM FALLING OUT, DAMMING AND FRIES OF SCALE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GUIDE, PUT UP 25+ AND 50+ BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE TRYFORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION. MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION: WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCELED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLES. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOULL WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES. SHALL SEED BOTTLE 25A-LARGE SEED BOTTLE. THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 222 LAKE ST. DEPT. 284 CHICAGO, IL AGENTS WANTED. 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. E. R. JAMES, -2319 L. St. N. W. JAMES TANNER Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. THOMAS BECKETT and AUGUSTUS W. GRAY, Attorneys. GEO .F. COLLINS, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Col- umbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 18,850, Administration Docket. Estate of Willis Hunnicut, De- reased. Application having been made herein inor probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Mildred Hunnicut, it is ordered this 8th day of A.pril, A. D. 1912, that Dollie Thomas and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Tuesday, the 21st day of May, A. D. 1912, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "The Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WRIGHT, Justice. JAMES TANNER Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. GEORGE F. COLLINS GEORGE F: COLLINS, Attorney, ATTORNEYS JONES AND WARING. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court, No. 18543, 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 Lucy Robb, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouche's thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 17th day of April, A. D. 1913, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this, 17th day of April, 1912. SUSIE P. ROBB, 1431 11th St. N. W. JAMES TANNER Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. JONES AND WARING, Attorneys. TIGNOR AND TIGNOR, ATTORNEYS. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 18904, 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 Andrew Payne, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of April, A. D. 1913, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 26th day of April, 1912. SARAH PAYNE, 2 Douglass Ave., Anacostia, D. C. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. TIGNOR AND TIGNOR W. L. HOUSTON. ATTORNEY In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Charles Baker, Plaintiff, vs. Sophia Baker, and John C. Curtis, Defendants. No. 30.927, Equity Doc. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of marriage with the defendant, Sophia Baker, on the grounds of adultery with correspondent, John Curtis. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 20th days of April, 1912, ordered that the defendant, Sophia Baker, cause her appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and the "Bee," before said day. A true copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG. Clerk. By T. E. CUNNINGHAM, Assistant Clerk. Christian Xander's Cabinet Rye Whisky Universally Popular 50c full quart 25c pint ONLY AT 909 7th St. JONES AND WARING In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding a Probate Court—No. 18,963—Administration Docket 45—In Re Estate of Augustus Stewart, Deceased. Application having been made herein for Probate of the last Will and Testament of said deceased, and for Letters Testamentary on said estate, by George Washington Blake, it is ordered this 7th day of May, A. D. 1912, that Daniel Stewart, his heirs and the unknown heirs of John H. Stewart, and all others, concerned, appear in said Court on Thursday, the twentieth (20) day of June, A. D. 1912, at ten o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "The Washington Bee" once each of three consecutive weeks before the return day herein. WRIGHT, Justice. THOMAS L. JONES, ROBT. L. WARING. MRS. GERALD TYLER . Loses Her Father by Death. (Special to The Bee.) ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 7.—The father of Mrs. Ray Tyler, wife of Mr. Gerald Tyler, former teacher of music in the Washington public schools, died here last Thursday. He had been a life long resident of this place. Just before his death, anticipating the end, he made a deed transferring all his real and personal properties to Mrs. Tyler, his only child. A sad coincident was that his death occurred just at the time when Mr. Tyler was preparing to take a train for Columbus, Ohio, because of the serious illness of his mother. MEETING OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE Tuesday Night—Great Enthusiasm Manifested—Chairman Tyson Appoints Committees. About fifty representative citizens met at the residence of Mr. H. C. Tyson, 2124 K Street Northwest, for the purpose of completing arrangements for the testimonial to Capt. James F. Oyster. During the temporary absence of Rev. Wiseman, Prof. L. M. Hershaw acted as secretary. The main question of discussion was the application made by a committee of teachers, representing all the colored teachers in the schools, to take part and render whatever aid that was necessary to do honor to the man who has always been their friend and a friend of the colored schools. After a lengthy discussion by the committee it was decided not to invite any public school teacher as an official of the schools to serve on any committee or to take an active part, and while the committee appreciated the interest manifested by the teachers of the public schools, it was finally decided that any teacher or official in the public schools may attend the te-timonial as a citizen, which he or she has a right to do, but not as a member of any committee. Any teacher or school official is at liberty to attend the testimonial to Captain Oyster, which will be held in the 10th Street Baptist Church Wednesday evening, May 22d. The committee on notification consists of Prof. L. M. Hershaw, Mr. John T. Howe and Rev. I. E. Wiseman. Committee on Place of Meeting is: Dr. Charles H. Marshall, Auditor Ralph W. Tyler and Dr. George W. Cabaniss. The above committees have completed their business and have been discharged. The following additional committees have been appointed: Committee on Publicity—W. Calvin Chase. R. W. Thompson and Joseph H. Stewart. Jeronie A. Johnson. W. Sidney Pittman, Dr. Clarence Wright. Committee on Program—Maj. Chas. R. Donglass, Dr. George H. Richardson, and Rev. J. C. Van Loo. Committee on Re-solutions—James A. Cobb, chairman; L. M. Hershaw, Assistant Attorney General Wm. H. Lewis, Rev. F. I. A. Bennett, W. H. Grimshaw. Reception Committee—Judge Robt. H. Terrell, chairman; Maj. C. A. Fleetwood. H. S. Lassiter, L. C. Bailey, Armond W. Scott, M. T. Clinkscales, M. C. Maxfield, Dr. R. J. Collins, W. L. Pollard, Walter J. Abraham, Dr. S. W. Pierre, Thomas H. Wright. Finance Committee—Rev. O. L. Mitchell, Prof. L. B. Moore, Rev. W. J. Howard, Dr. A. M. Curtis. Committee on Arrangement—Rev. D. A. Wiseman, chairman; John H. Cook, Dr. Amanda Gray, Mrs. A. M. Curtis, W. Calvin Chase. After the appointment of the last-named committee it was announced by Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the 10th Street Baptist Church, that the church would be tendered to the committee free of charge. On motion of Mr. Chase all committees were requested to report in full on progress on or before May 16th. Following is the leteter presented to Captain J. F. Oyster by the Committee on Notification: 1460 T Street N. W. Washington, D. C., May 4, 1912. Captain James F. Oyster, 000 Pennsylvania Aye. N. W. 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 THE MUSEUM OF ART AND SCIENCE Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: The colored citizens of the District of Columbia desire to publici- testify their appreciation of the uni- form patience and courtesy with which you have received and treated representatives of theirs since you have been a member of the present Board of Education; and to express their confidence in your capacity, integrity and sense of justice as a public offi- cial charged with grave responsibilities. We, accordingly, request your presence at a meeting to be held for this purpose, at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Wednesday evening, May 22, 1912. Very respectfully yours, L. M. HERSHAW, J. T. HOWE, D. E. WISEMAN. NO COLOR LINE IN MERIT. General Land Office an El Dorado For Worthy Colored Workers. Commissioner Dennett Sets Noble Example for Federal Chieftains Everywhere—The "Square Deal" in Practice as Well as in Precept—A "Roll of Honor." The formal observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the General Land Office, a highly important bureau of the Department of the Interior, brings it conspicuously into popular notice, not only because or its valued functions as the "real estate director" of the United States Government, but because of the good things its chief official and his sponsors have done for the uplift of the worthy Negroes sheltered beneath its wing. The sky under which colored men live is often so dark and lowering, and the rewards of merit are so meager, that many of the race have come to believe that justice to them from members of another race is not to be expected. As an antidote to this frame of mind, it is pleasant to relate the record of Hon. Fred Dennett, Commissioner of the General Land Office, in Washington. There are seventeen classified employees of the colored race in the Land Office, and during the four years of Mr. Dennett's incumbency, ten of these have received promotions. Commissioner Dennett's "Roll of Honor." Charles E. Cheatham, of North Carolina, an expert stenographer, who entered the service in 1908, has been promoted through all the grades from $900 to $1,600, and is now in the office of the Secretary of the Interior at a salary of $1,620 per annum; L. M. Hershaw, of Georgia, who had been a file clerk for a number of years at $1,400, has been promoted to $1,620 and assigned to examine desert land claims. Other notable promotions are: W. W. Cohran, of Mississippi, $1,000 to $1,200; James A. Davis, of Tennessee, $1,000 to $1,200; David W. Utz, of Alabama, $900 to $1,000; Charles L. Webb, of Illinois, $900 to $1,000; Samuel H. Webb, of Virginia, $720 to $900; Charles N. Barker, of Kansas, $720 to $900; Benjamin S. Stewart, of the District of Columbia, $720 to $840; Gabriel Fletcher, of Maryland, $666 to $720. In addition to these promotions Edward H. Hunter, of North Carolin, who resigned to enter the ministry, and is a candidate for one of the general offices of the A. M. E. Church, was given the position of law examiner at $1,600, the first colored man who ever held such a position in the classified service; and Samson H. Brent, was classified as a skilled laborer at $660. While this is not a promotion in salary, it is a promotion in grade and tenure. A "Merit System" That Means, What Term Implies. Commissioner Dennett makes the merit system of promotions mean what the term implies, namely: that those who show capacity for and performance of assigned tasks are rewarded according to ability and performance. The pigmentation of the skin and ethnological alignment are not factors which enter into the estimate of qualifications for advancement. He has a fixed, unvarying standard of justice, and applies it to all having no thought as to race, po Bryan's Villa TWQSQUARESFROM READING STATION Terms per day or week,reasonable NOAH B. BRYAN. Proprietor sition or substance. He is calm and undemonstrative, indulging in neither professions nor flatteries nor patronizings when dealing with members of the colored race. A colored clerk who had been promoted to a high grade went to Mr. Dennett to thank him for his promotion. The Commissioner's reply to the clerk's expression of gratitude was: "You owe me no thanks. I had you assigned to a line of work that would show what you could do. You made good, and that's all there is of it." It is well that the race should know and keep track of the white people in places of authority who are doers of the work of justice, and not sayers only. Of this number, standing high in the galaxy of "Nature's noblemen," is the Hon. Fred Dennett, Commissioner of the General Land Office. Second International Conference, 1915. The matter which follows is a memorandum of the meetings of the committee appointed to nominate a committee to arrange for a Second International Conference on the Negro in 1015 At the final session of the International Conference on the Negro, at Tuskegee, Ala., Friday, April 9th, the task of appointing a committee to carry out the suggestions of the Committee on Declarations to provide for a continuance of these international meetings was referred back to the original committee with power to act. This Committee at a meeting held Saturday, April 20th, have agreed to name Dr. Booker T. Washington, who served as presiding officer of the first Conference and Emmett J. Scott, its Secretary, together with Dr. Hollis B. Fris-ell, of Hampton, Va., Robert E. Park, of Wollaston, Mass., as members of this committee, and authorized them to add three others to their number, these to serve as a permanent Executive Committee of a General Committee, referred to further on, for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements for a second International Conference on the Negro, three years hence. It was agreed that this General Committee shall consist of the members of the Executive, including the three others to be named, together with the members of the Committee on Declaration and other members to be nominated by the Executive Committee within the next twelve months. As finally constituted, it is intended that the General Committee shall represent, if possible, all the countries in which the Negro constitutes any considerable portion of the population, as well as all the interests that are concerned in any way with the education, moral or religious, of the Negro, or the investigation and study of Negro life, or the employment of Negro labor. Signed: J. R. Williams, Director of Education of Jamaica. W I. Thomas, Professor of Sociology. University of Chicago. Maurice S. Evans, Representative of the British African Society, London, England. James Denton, Principal of the Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, Africa. Isaiah B. Scott, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Monrovia, Liberia. Washington Harper, Representative from Barbados, B. W. I. Robert E. Park. Former Secretary of the Congo Reform Association in America. PAID OFF LAST DEBT. North Carolina Mutual Celebrated Birthday by Paying Off Debt. Durham, N. C. May 2. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, the largest Negro life insurance company in the world, celebrated its fourteenth birthday yesterday by paying off the last big obligation of the company. They paid the Fidelity Bank $10,000 yesterday, and that, was the last account against the company. The North Carolina Mutual has had a rather remarkable business career. The unpretentious beginning of the business has been gradually increased every year, till today the company has over 65,000 members and a million and a half dollars insurance in force. They have never failed to pay a claim and have never had a check of the officers go to protest. They own the handsome block of office buildings on Parrish street, and also own their offices in several other citites. The company operates in North and South Carolina and Georgia. John Merrick is the president and founder of the company, and C. C. Spaulding is the general manager. AN UNEASY SKELETON It Had a Very Lively Time Before It Found Its Final Resting Place. "Speaking of final resting places," said Ike Purcell the other day, "an Indian buried at Wakeeney has earned his. He was the first Indian killed in the last Indian raid in Kansas. The raid was pulled off by 150 Sioux Indians, and a good many settlers were killed, considerable property was burned and hundreds of horses and cattle were stampeded. The Indians came within a few miles of Wakeeney, when a part of a cavalry regiment from old Fort Hayes met them. The Indians fled, but were forced to a stand over in the edge of Rush county. "The history of the chase is interesting. Every Indian in the band was killed. The subject of this item tumbled off his pony near Wakeeney and rolled into a ditch. His body was not found for several months, and by that time nothing was left but a skeleton. The men who found the skeleton wired the bones together and tied it to a post on the public road, with a label telling that it was the first Indian killed in the last raid, etc. Complaint was made about the grewsome spectacle, so the county board ordered the skeleton buried in the cemetery. To celebrate the fact that civilization had come to stay speeches were made at the grave of this the first Indian killed in the last raid, etc. "Later some 'fellers' got full, dug up the skeleton, dressed it in store clothes and had fun with it. They hired a liveryman to take their 'friend' home, and when the driver found what he had in the seat with him he yelled mightily and jumped out of the buggy. The team ran away, spilling the Indian in a park where an ice cream festival was in progress. The skeleton was again buried with ceremony, being the first Indian killed in the last raid, etc. Lo was permitted to repose about a year, when another bunch of rounders disinterred the skeleton, redressed it and shocked sensitive citizens with a moonlight lynching, shooting at the dangling figure and all that sort of thing. Officers cut the 'corpse' down, and then the gang that was wise to the joke indulged in a merry ha-ha. For the third time the skeleton was buried with more speechifying. After that the skeleton was not disturbed, and the good people of Wakeeney hope that it has found its final resting place."-Kansas City Journal. Stage Steeds The steed is always a difficulty in staging "Don Quixote." At the Theatre de la Galite, in Paris, the Rosinante in Massenet's opera grew so fat under the light work and good food that it was found necessary to "paint protruding ribs on his rotund side every night." Irving's difficulty in London was in the other direction. He had engaged a peculiarly decrepit animal, the property of a baker, for the part, but on the morning of the rehearsal he found that it had been taken by an officer of the S. P. C. A. to Bow street, where the magistrate ordered it to be killed. Wild Onion Place. In a bulletin issued by the United States geological survey service giving derivations of local names in the United States is this entry: "Chicago city and river in Illinois; the Ojibwa Indian form, 'She-Kag-Oug,' signifies 'wild onion place,' from a root form implying 'bad smell.'" Several derivations were dug up, but the definition of the word Chicago was generally admitted to be the most unpleasantly outspoken of them all, according to the Chicago Tribune. Dr. Shepards Trip. The great Western trip of Dr James E. Shepard has just been received and will appear next week. It is prepared by Charles Alexander, one of the greatest writers of the age. It is written exclusively for The Washington Bee. INVEST YOUR MONEY MOUND BAYOUL We are promoting and financing The People's Brick Company, one of the most needed and best paying enterprises in the town. Our reference: The Bank of Mound Bayou, or any citizen. Your money will earn 7 per cent from the time it is invested, and much more in the verv near future. For complete information address: The Security Investment and Enterprise Corporation, Mound Bayou, Miss. m-11-aug-11 33d Anniversary. No good citizen should miss being in the 33d anniversary edition of The Bee next Ju. The Southern Hand Laundry. Don't you want a first-class laundry service? If so, patronize the great Southern Laundry. See advertisement in another column of The Bee. Mention this paper when you call. 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Has settlement work been conducted to any extent in your community, and with what results? What has been the effect of the Temperance Organizations, and have you co-operated with them? To what extent has the work of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. been effective in your community? Do you approve of them? What is the general fitness of the city and country school teacher? What has been the attitude of the day school teacher towards the church and Sunday school? What is the real religious condition of your people? Revivals, how conducted? Rev. 'X. Jesse L. Hurlbut and Rev. Dr. W. Y. Chapman will be in charge of the expository features during conference week. All ministers who intend attending this conference should make it known at an early date, addressing the President, National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C., so that reservation can be made for them. There will be no charge while in attendance upon the conference. 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