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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXIII KO² WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1912 THETUSKEGEENEGRO A Model. A 'Plea for Social Service And Industrial Service—Booker T. Washington's Work Liberally Praised. Dr. Frederick Burke, president of the San Francisco State Normal School, has prepared a statement for the San Francisco Examiner which has stirred California educational circles to the depths. He makes a plea for civil service, social service and industrial service. Then we shall have, he says, men and women fitted by character and training to be citizens of working ability, world knowledge and real effectiveness in life. He has invented a new phrase, "school-scholars," and he flings at them rony denunciation, and the charge that they are not the men that things in life, that they are rather am-glorious ornaments. He urges as a fit model for the educational system of California the work being done by a black man. Dr. Purke says: "Down in Tuskegee there is a black man's school. It was established by Booker T. Washington, a black man who came up from slavery so hurriedly that he fortunately did not have time, to familiarize himself with the white man's pedagogy. All wherewith he had to clothe his school, pedagogically, was home-made common sense. "After a quarter century this system of education has proved successful beyond the most optimistic hopes, while the Anglo-Saxon schoolmen, with far simpler problems and with libraries of ancient pedagogy, have ignominiously failed. "That Negro school at Tuskegee has transformed several hundred of helpless, shiftless Negroes into intelligent, self-supporting men and women whose social and moral habits and ideals are worthy of respect. "The exercises employed are the pursuits of life themselves—social, moral, vocational and industrial. Booker T. Washington did not use algebraic exercises as a means to train his scholars to reason clearly concerning hog rearing; he used hogs. Carpentry With Saw. "Carpentry was not taught by means of the twelve sacred models of manual training, chut, but by actual carpentry. The school exercises were identical with life-pursuits. "Here, by ignorance of pedagogic preconceptions, was wrought out the greatest education experiment of the nineteenth century, and the only one which the modern world spirit may call its legitimate offspring. "It does not follow that the school upon Fifth Avenue should teach the rearing of pigs nor the cultivation of cotton, but whatever it is that the Fifth Avenue child will be called upon to do in intelligent life, that let the school teach him. "The pupils of Tuskegee escape from the barren exercises in the grammar of dead tongues and in the school of logic of pedantic mathematics because they are black. But for the pupils of Fifth Avenue there is no escape—because they are white. They must bear the white childs burden." ILLINOIANS SPLIT. Friends of Cyrus Adams Resent Criticisms of Charley Hall-Intimated That Protest May Follow. That colored men from Illinois who are employed in the government departments here are not all a unit, and that there are two factions of them is shown by the attacks, verbal and otherwise, which it is alleged Charles E. Hall, colored clerk in the Census Office, has been making on Cyrus Field Adams, Assistant Register of the Treasury, appointed from Illinois. Some of Mr. Adams' friends, tired and incensed by the alleged constant criticism of Mr. Adams by Mr. Hall, have begun to speak out, and say they mean to make an issue of whether a Civil Service employee has the right to continually criticise and belittle a Presidential appointee who has done nothing to the critic. Mr. Adams, it is said, has paid no attention to the criticism of Hall, nor to his continual attempts to groom some, one for the place. One of Mr. Adams' friends, however, in an interview given to The Bee said: This man Charley Hall has been intriguing against every Presidential colored appointee who has come to Washington of late. He started in by intriguing against Mr. Cheatham, when he was Recorder of Deeds, resorting to despicable measures to get Cheatham dismissed that he might profit in a promotion; he has been knocking Mr. Adams for the past six years; he knocked Mr. Vernon, and has not even spared Judge Terrell, and the other colored officials. But with all his intriguing and knocks, he has not been able to secure a promotion, and no man can get promotion who goes at it by the 'knock' route Charley Hall does a lot of talking about Illinois, and is constantly trying to give campaign managers, Taft and anti-Taft, advice as to how to run campaigns, and yet he has not been out to Illinois, the State he is accredited to, to vote in eight years, while Mr. Adams never fails to go home to vote at, elections, and never fails to make contributions to the campaign fund of his party. I question whether Charley Hall is eligible to vote in his State now, he has been away from it so long without exercising his right to vote. It is about time to squelch Mr. Hall and put a stop to his knocks, and if he is wise, being a Civil Service employee, he will be as quiet as a lamb from this time on or there will be something doing. Mr. Adams has some friends who stand by him, and among those friends are the Illinois Senators, members of the lower branch of Congress, and the Secretary of the Treasury, in whose department Mr. Adams is a conscientious official. Mr. Adams has remained in office in spite of the knocks of Charley Hall, and if certain rumors are correct he possibly will be in the service long after Hall is not. Mr. Adams' friends don't propose to permit Hall to continue with his senseless and selfish knocks any longer without a protest, and that protest when it come will be emphatic and conclusive." The Bee has not been apprised as to what form the protest will take but it has been intimated that the case. If there is a case, may be one for the Civil Service Commission to handle. Mr. Adams, in addition to being Assistant Register of the Treasury, which he has held for three terms, is also editor and proprietor of The Chicago Appeal, one of the oldest colored papers, that has always supported the Republican party, State and national. CHARITY DANCES, BALLS, ETC. There is a so-called "charity" group of individuals in this city who delight in giving "society" balls under the guise of charity dances. That the cause for which these dances have been given is a worthy one, there is no doubt; but that the principles under which these affairs have been given were founded upon gross hypocrisy is becoming more and more apparent every day. One of these a-la-400 "charity" hops was given on May 7th. According to those in charge, it was a financial failure, and why? It was not advertised to any great extent. Tickets were not printed; posters were not displayed. And what was the reason for such an act of omission? Simply to discriminate against the public. To keep away common people. To make it an exclusive affair. And yet, it was for "sweet charity's sake;" still they hesitated to take the money from some poor charitable soul whose social standing was not 100 per cent according to judgment of these Christian-like (?) society folk, who have no conception of the meaning of "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Inasmuch as the affair of May 7th was a financial failure, though not a social failure, these "exclusives" were determined to give another "charity" dance early in June. It took place on June 6th. This is, briefly, the writer's report on this event It has been learned that the hall was donated, and that two musicians of the orchestra which was engaged, donated their services. It was noticed that tickets had been printed for this event, which had been passed out with the admonition of "discretion" as to whom they should be sold. The writer believes there were about seventy-five (75) "society folks" present, who seemed to be more to desport scenic garments, and the like, than to contribute to "charity," judging from the very small amount of ice cream which was sold. At the close of this second "brilliant" affair, the writer observed several of those in charge endeavoring pleasantly and otherwise (mostly otherwise) to cut the wages of the musicians, and to force them to play overtime. The writer has seen charity volunteered, and begged, but never demanded by threats of injury to business. Just because the "sports" present had bought cream at a ratio of about one in every ten, some of those in charge actually demanded one musician to contribute his fee to "sweet charity," and when he demurred, his business as a musician was threatened. Strange to say, some of these people are in business themselves. The Bee wonders how much they have given to charity? Here is a prayer that some one will really give some meritorious charity dances in the future, where real charity shall exist unguised. Jabez Lee. (From Washington Post, June 11.) Jabez Lee, lawyer and real estate agent, was born in Windsor, N. C., in 1882. At the age of 8 years he was working on a farm for five cents a day and board; at 15 he was still receiving a pittance. He then came to Washington and entered the first grade of the public schools, completing all grades in five years. He entered the business department of the A. M. T. High School in 1902, and graduated with honors in 1904. All this time he was working mornings and evenings to pay his way. In 1904 he entered the law department of Howard University, graduated three years later, and was admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia in 1908. 'Beginning his practice with deskroom in the offices of another lawyer, Mr. Lee's business has increased until he now occupies a modern suite of offices at 609 F Street Northwest. When he began his business and professional career he held a clerkship in the government printing office, to which he was compelled to devote eight hours a day. This present year he has been enabled to give this up, and is devoting all of his time to the affairs of his own office. Let The Bee follow you. PRESIDENT DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, A deserving compliment to this Educator. THE CLOSING WEEK A GREAT WEEK ON LINCOLN HEIGHTS. Principal Burroughs' Success. On Friday, June 7, the National Training School for Women and Girls, Lincoln Heights, D. C., closed a record breaking year. A year of marvelous progress and splendid work, but faintly describes what has been done on Lincoln Heights since the opening of the school last October to the close on Friday afternoon when hundreds of friends assembled on the campus to witness the closing exercises. Commencement week was opened with a great sermon by Dr. Walter H. Brooks, on Sunday afternoon, June 2, and followed each evening by exercises in the chapel in which students took part. The concert on Monday evening was of the highest order. The school has made an enviable reputation for good singing, and though there are no male voices we heard with delight during last week Handel's Hallelujah Chorus rendered by young women, together with such masterpieces as Mendelssohn "I Waited for the Lord," Waldmeister "Happy Hearts," Rubinstein "Voices of the Woods," Denza "Good Night," and Rossini "Inflammatus." The plantation songs were most effectually rendered. The exercises given by the various departments during the week showed superior training. There was not a poorly rendered nor common place address given. One of the most notable features throughout the week was the personal appearance of the MISS YANNEH BURROUCHS MISS NANNIEH. BURROUGHS. young women. While their dresses were extremely simple, they were well made and looked well on the girls. Another noticeable feature was the fact, that there was not a bad looking head in the crowd, the hair dressing was simple and becoming. And to the credit of all concerned there were no bandages and big bows worn on the heads. There was no display of jewelry, silk hose, cheap pump, and white shoes. The girls did look good about the feet, but they all wore either good button shoes or sensible black ties. Friday was a record breaking day—friends of both races throughout the city came to witness the closing exercises. The principal address, was delivered by Mrs. P. J. Bryant, of Atlanta, Ga. She is the vice-president of the National Organization that owns and operates the school. Her address was a masterpiece. Mrs. S. Willie Layten, president of the Convention, was present, and made a short address, Major R. R. Wright, president of the Georgia State College, came to see what had been accomplished and to wish the promoters of the institution unbounded success. He made a captivating speech full of hope, encouragement and sympathy. There were many distinguished persons present, and the people of the District of Columbia are showing their appreciation for the school by turning out in full whenever anything is given. The graduates are as follows: Missionary Training Class—Diplomas Miss Florence Brown, Massachusetts; Miss Delia Wilhimena Rudolph, Africa. Certificates. Miss Kathryne Mae Johnson, Illi- ```markdown ``` nois; Miss Etta Versa. Texas; Miss Belle Battle. Colorado; Miss Nettie Washington. Texas; Miss Fannie Blackburn. Ohio. Fourth Normal—Diplomas. Miss Kathryne Mae Johnson, Illinois; Miss Delia Wilimigena Rudolph, Africa; Miss Etta Versa, Texas. Certificate Miss Belle Battles. Colorado: Miss Nettie Washington. Texas. Business—Diplomas. Miss Savannah Ashe. Connecticut; Miss Kathryne Mae Johnson, Illinois; Miss Marion Dozier. Florida. Certificates. Miss Belle Battles, Colorado; Miss Delia Rudolph, Africa. Dressmaking—Certificates. Miss Irene Amelia Malone, N. C.; Miss Frankie Turner, Georgia; Miss Sallie Johnson, Virginia; Miss Nettie Washington, Texas; Miss Hazel Price, West Virginia; Miss Mary Coleman, Alabama. Millinery—Diplomas. Miss Annie Webster French, W. Va.; Miss Estelle Washington, Texas; Miss Bettie Reid, Mississippi. Hair Dressing and Maicuring—Diplomas. Miss Mary Coleman, Alabama; Miss Mittie Hayes, West Virginia; Mrs. Dannie Addison, Washington, D. C.; Miss Lillian Day Corbett, New York; Miss Annie Roach, West Virginia. Certificates. Miss Lucile Spencer, Ohio; Miss Marion Dorier, Florida; Miss Bertha Watson, Illinois; Miss Alice Pierre Alexis, Hayti. Domestic Science—Diplomas. Miss Ruth Corinne McNorton, Texas; Miss Estelle Washington, Texas. A RECORD BREAKING RALLY At the Ebenezer M. E. Church—Total Amount Raised in a Sixty-Day Effort, $2,804.05. June 2d and 9th, the Twelve Tribes reported as follows: Napthali. Mrs. George E. Miller, captain, S172. captain. $322 Zebulun. Mr. Peter Butler, captain. $315 Levi. Rev. W. H. Dean, captain. $286 Simeon, Miss Ella Hickman, captain, 8348 Benjamin, Mrs. Amelia Spriggs, captain, $200 Judah, Mrs. Nannie Ware, captain, $205. Asher, Miss Mary Griffin, captain, $200. $204. Reuben. Mrs. Estelle Jordan. capt. Steg. 8. Gad, Mrs. Emma Gilbert, captain. $175. Dan, Mrs. Virginia Allen, captain. Soo. Joseph, Mrs. Eliza Thomas, cap- tions. tam, $89. Sunday School, Mr. Rudolph Wheeler, superintendent, $75. Epworth League, Mr. Grant Coun- tee, president, $88. Rev. W. H. Dean, the pastor, the official board, and members thank the many friends who aided us in this effort on the bonded debt. Ebenezer church is situated at the corner of Fourth and B Streets S. E. This is the largest collection that has ever been made at this church. They Sailed for Africa. On Saturday last. Miss E. B. DeLaney, of Florida, who spent five years in British Central Africa, and Miss Susie E. Taylor, of South Carolina, sailed for the west coast of Africa, as missionaries of the National Baptist convention. Rev. L. G. Jordan, who has served as head of the Foreign Mission Department of the convention, passed through the city en route to the headquarters at Louisville, Ky., and called at The Bee office. Rev. Jordan says that at no time in all the history of their work have the colored Baptists been in better shape to do work in foreign fields. More friends are being made for the work, more persons are hearing the missionaries, and more young people are attending their schools. OFF FOR CHICAGO. Special Train Over the B. and O. Today. W. Calvin Chase, delegate-at-large, and Dr. C. H. Marshall, alternate, from the District of Columbia, accompanied by a delegation from North and South Carolina, and local representatives from this city, will leave the city at 1:25 this afternoon over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for the National Republican Convention! Among those who will accompany the District delegate, are Dr. George W. Cabiniss, Jesse Foster, Dr. John W. Morse, James W. Gray, M. T. Clinkscales, Thomas L. Jones, A. C. Williams, Dr. J. B. Williams and others. Important News Happening of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST (By Miss G. B. Maxfield.) Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson won in his contest before the National Committee. The Treasury Department may require the banks to have more capital. Aaron Bradshaw, the Tait delegate from this city, left for Chicago, Ill., Monday night. Representative R.° C. Wickliff was killed on a railroad track in Potomac Park Tuesday. His wife was in the House gallery at the time. She fainted when she was told. In Washington, Pa., James Ribarik, who was condemned to die for the murder of a man and his wife, attempted to kill his daughter a few moments before he had to be hanged. Transport workers in England refused to strike when a general order to strike was given. In the Des Allemonds section in Louisiana, the flood is endangering the lives of the people. An effort may be made to impeach Judge Cornelius Hanford, of Seattle, Washington. The sub-committee of the House of Representatives is investigating the charges. There is a division in the Senate over the abolition of the Commerce Court. Mr. Anthony, of Kanass, thinks that the President will be nominated and elected. The Washington base ball team has made a record on its Western tour. President Noyes is to be congratulated. Attorney Jabez Lee had a fine compliment paid him in the special edition of the Washington Post Tuesday morning. Wm. Barnes, Jr., has arrived in Chicago, Ill. He immediately conferred with the political bosses. Major R. R. Wright, of Georgia, is determined to have a colored fair association and a Negro Exposition. The Senate will vote on the Lorimer case July 6th. There is much doubt whether his seat will be declared vacant. Prof. Kelly Miller is being strongly urged for the presidency of Howard University. Also the names of Roland P. Faulkner, assistant director of the census, and H. B. F. Macfarland, former Commissioner of the District of Columbia. By the will of the late Sir Julius Charles Wernher, of London, England. $2,500,000 was left to charities. Of this amount $1,250,000 is given to South Africa, for the establishment of a university near Cape Town. There has been a bill adopted, according to a dispatch, permitting women to practice law in Russia. The North Washington Citizens' Association, at its last meeting held in the Church of the Advent, adopted the following resolution: "That no member shall sell or rent property to colored persons unless forced to do so by virtue of the fact that adjacent property is already occupied by colored tenants." It is claimed the association is actuated by economic conditions. OFF FOR CHICAGO. Delegate Chase and Friends Leave Today. W. Calvin Chase, Editor of The Bee, and one of the Taft instructed delegates, and Dr. Charles H. Marshall, alternate delegate from this city, will leave on the W. Calvin Chase special over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Saturday afternoon at 1:25 P. M. for the National Republican Convention at Chicago, Ill. The Taft District delegate will be accompanied by Dr. Geo. W. Cabaniss, James W. Gray, J. O. Holmes, Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Attorneys Thomas L. Jones, M. T Clinkscales, Dr. J. B. Williams, Dr. John W. Moss, Assistant U. S. District Attorney Jas. M. Cobb, and a delegation from the Atlantic City Republican League, headed by James A. Lightfoot, chairman; W. W. Watson, of South Carolina; A. C. Williams, of Georgia, and others. Another Jolt for Negro Democrats. (From Wagnas (Okla.) American.) Not content with excluding Negro Democrats from participation in the Democratic primaries held in the District of Columbia to elect delegates to the national Democratic convention at Baltimore. Colorado Democrats have just pulled off a stunt in evidence of the solemn truth, that no Negroes are wanted in the Democratic party. Out in Colorado, a Negro named J. D. Harkless, was duly chosen delegate to the Democratic convention at Baltimore, but he has been ruled out by the white delegates, who declare no Negro will be allowed to accompany the Colorado delegation. These stubborn facts might puncture a tire of an automobile, but not the hide of the human pachyderms making up the great unwanted Negro Democratic contingent. From all accounts, if the freight rates can be met for these noted curiosities and celebrities, a side show at Baltimore will be pulled off beside which "The Pike" is negligible in consideration. If you want a live paper, read The Bee. CURIOUS CUSTOMS. Normar French Still Used In Lawmaking In England. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL FARCES. Amusing History of a Royal. Daily Ration of Rum and the Astonishing Story of a Stellid Sentry and an Innocent Grass Plot. *In Europe there is perhaps nothing more astonishing to the American mind than the persistency with which certain old customs are maintained. The Romans, for instance, keep up the saturnalia of their ancient pagan ancestors in a harmless way, and the Florentians go on one morning of the year to catch crickets in the grass simply because the Etruscans did the same thing 2,000 years ago. John Bull has always had an affection for the old ways. So persistent he in keeping to the forms and traditions of the past that his French neighbor over the way has dubbed the United Kingdom a "museum of antiquities" among modern nations. It is somewhat odd that the Norman French of Edward the Confessor should still be the language, the legal voice, of parliament, but so it is in a way. Whenever a bill has passed the commons the clerk before he forwards it to the house of lords writes upon it, according to the ancient usage, "Soit baille aux seigneurs" (Let it be sent to the lords). If it is sent from the peers to the commons it beers the like indorsement, "Soit baille aux communes" (Let it be sent to the commons). Should a bill pass both houses it needs only the royal assent to become a law. Here the Norman French appears again. The commons, summoned by the usher of the black rod, are admitted to the bar of the house of lords to hear the statement of his majesty's commissioners. When all are assembled the lord chancellor makes a sign to his assistant, who reads the title of the bill and then says in a loud voice, "Le rol le veuil" (The king wills it). In the case of financial bills the form is this: "Le rol remarche ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et alnsi le veuil" (The king thanks his good subjects, accepts their faith and so wills it). For private bills the form is, "Soit fait comme il est desire" (Let it be done as is desired). Sometimes, if the bill is of special importance, the sanction of his majesty is given in person. In such a case the king, seated on the throne at one end of the chamber, bows his assent as the clerk reads the title. The inflexibility of Russian official orders has resulted in some queer and needless fixtures in the official system. Quite a ludicrous discovery of this sort was made by the Empress Catherine, who was the mother of that Emperor Paul who was assassinated in 1801. Catherine at one time was inspired by some passing whim of economy to scrutinize the imperial housekeeping accounts. To her amazement, she found among other queer items that "one bottle of rum daily" was charged to the heir apparent. Inasmuch as her son, Naslednik, then a young man, had never evinced any signs of intemperate habits, his mother was greatly astonished. Going over the accounts to ascertain how long this sort of thing had been enduring, she found to her still greater astonishment that the said expenditure went back to the day of his birth, and indeed, far beyond it. So, it appeared, the heir to the throne had not only been charged with drinking over thirty dozen bottles of fine Jamaica rum ever since he was born, but for a long time before that. It is hardly necessary to add that the empress made a thorough investigation of this queer entry. Finally, by the aid of an antiquarian, she at last reached the original entry. A century or so before the imperial physician had prescribed for the Naslednik of the period, "on account of a violent toothache, a tearpoonful of rum, to be taken with sugar." This dose was given for several days in succession, and the nurse in charge had deemed it more fitting to the imperial dignity, as well as more profitable to herself, to purchase a new bottle of rum each day. No one had ever given the order to discontinue the purchase, and it had gone on for a century, the rum having constituted one of the perquisites of the court nurse. When Bismarck during the term of his mission as ambassador at St Petrusburg was walking one afternoon in the summer garden he met the emperor, who invited the diplomatist to continue his stroll with him. Soon Bismarck noticed a sentry stationed in the middle of a large grass plot. He asked what the soldier was doing there. The czar did not know. The aid-de-camp did not know. So inquiry was made of the sentry himself. Every official gave the same answer, "it is ordered," but nobody knew by whom. A sentry had always stood guard in the middle of that innocent grass plot. The archives were searched, but in vain. Finally an aged official was found who gave the explanation. He had had it from his father that the Empress Catherine had once seen a snowdrop ready to bloom in that plot and had ordered a sentry to stand guard and allow no one to pluck it. For more than a century the watch had been maintained because "it was ordered" and because no one had ever dreamed of disobeying the order or questioning any one as to the reason therefor.—New York Press. MODERN OCEAN LINERS. Numberless Safety Devices and Double Hulls That Defy Hidden Rocks and Derelicts. In the hands of a skillful marine architect much more has been accomplished with steel construction than the mere economy of space. The safety of vessels at sea has been enormously increased until in the highest type of modern ocean liners the element of danger is virtually eliminated. The marvelous ingenuity displayed throughout this great fabric of steel in guarding against every possible contingency of the sea comes to the average landsman as a surprise. A great liner of 50,000 tons may be controlled by a single hand. The complicated machinery for safeguarding the ship is practically automatic. The bottom of the great hull of the inner is doubled, the inner shell being strong enough to float the ship even if the outer hull be completely torn away. It is exceedingly unlikely that water would ever reach this inner shell, through accident to the main hull, but the precaution is taken so that if it should strike a hidden object it will prove absolutely invulnerable. The shipwrecks of the past caused by running upon hidden rocks, derelicts and icebergs are thus completely eliminated.-M. B. Cea in Cassler's Magazine. STARTLED THE BISHOP. An Untimely Royal Letter and the Message It Conveyed. One night at 3 o'clock the bishop of Orleans was roused by a royal courier who had in hot haste brought a dispatch from his majesty Louis XV. The bishop imagined that something terrible had happened. Tremblingly he opened the package and read: "Monsieur the Bishop of Orleans—My daughters wish for some preserved Orleans quinces. Pray send some. If you have none I beg that you will"— In this part of the letter there was a drawing of a sedan chair, and underneath the chair the king's letter continued thus: "Send immediately into your episcopal town and get them, and, monsieur the bishop, may God have you in his holy keening. Louis." Lower down on the page was this postscript: "The sedan chair does not mean anything. It was drawn by my daughter on this sheet of paper, which I happened to find near me." Greatly, relieved, the bishop hurried a courier into Orleans, procured the preserves and sent them to his royal master—Thomas E. Watson in "The Story of France." Value of New Ideas Some large business firms employ a man whose sole duty it is to read every trade journal, every technical paper or pamphlet and every magazine in order to get new ideas about the conduct of their business. Such information is laid each day before the heads of the various departments, who in turn pass it down the line to men under them and see that the new idea is tested. By this means each worker is kept in touch with what other men are doing in his particular line, and so his personal efficiency is increased. Almost everything can be done in a manner a little better than the present way, and modern business demands to know and practice the best. Dlogs enes carried around a cup to drink water out of till one day he saw a dog lapping water with his tongue. He threw away his cup and afterward drank water out of the palm of his hand. He got from the dog a new idea—Louisville Courier-Journal. Gold That Blackens. Blackening of cafts and shirt fronts by the rubbed off gold is a matter of much annoyance to jewelers when their customers come back, thinking they have bought brass. The skin on the neck as well as on the fingers is frequently discolored by fourteen carat, eighteen carat and, some say, pure gold. An expert says that even in the case of pure gold this coloration of the skin is not due to any particular properties of the metal, but, rather, is the result of chemical changes in the body or, rather, in the perspiration and natural oil of the skin—Exchange. Globe Trotters Plus. A number of tourists were recently looking down the crater of Vesuvius. An American gentleman said to his companion: "That looks a good deal like the infernal regions." An English lady, overhearing the remark, said to another: "Good gracious, how these Americans do travel!"—Lippincott's. A Change of Name. "Who can give a sentence using the word. pendulum?" asked the teacher. Little Rachel's hand shot up. The teacher nodded encouragingly. "Lightning was invented by Penjulum Franklin."—Everybody's. On account of its great strength drawn glass is used for many purposes. It withstands sudden changes of temperature, resists fire to a great extent and is very strong. Anxious Customer—Are you sure that you have that medicine mixed right! Druggist—No, I am not, but I've got it mixed the way the doctor ordered it. Judge's Library. Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.—Milton. 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"I have used 'Elixir Babek' for four years for Malaria, and found all that it is claimed for it. Without it I would be obliged to change my residence, as I can not take quinine in any of its forms." - J. Middleton, Four-Mile-Run, Va. Elixir Babek 50 cents, all druggists or Klozeczewski & Co., Washington, D. C. Setting Her Right. The pretty and petulant wife of a congressman stood for a moment before the window of the receiving teller in a Washington bank, then tapped the window with her parasol, exclaiming: "Why don't you pay attention to me?" "We pay nothing here, madam," was the reply. "Please go to the next window."—Denver Republican. Painless Extraction of Teeth Filling and Crowning Dr. Robert L. Peyton SURGEON DENTIST First Class Work Guaranteed 1229 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. Gas Administered Hours 9 to 5 Incorporated Under Act of Congress Approved June26,1887 CAPITAL and ASSETS over $50,000.00 THE MUSEUM THE LEXINGTON HOTEL THE LEXINGTON HOTEL A Great Colored Hotel at Last The colored Americans are to have an up-to-date first-class hotel with every modern convenience with buffet, barbershop, kitchen, billiard parlors, office, lobby and waiting room, automobile to convey guests to and from the Union Station, etc. A Long Felt Want Fulfiled. Nathaniel Ruffin, a well known citizen is sole manager. Ever since the foundation of this government the colored citizens of this city have been in need of a first class hotel where families and guests from other cities may go with impunity and with reservation. Thousands of the best and well known colored people have visited this city and do visit it now, but they have no place of dignity to go with their families and feel at home. Dr. Booker T. Washington, about a year ago made a special plea to the Negro Business League of this city to 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.. ```markdown ``` 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 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. Washi-ghton, D. C. GOLD FOR JEWELERS. Mest cf the Raw Material Used by ‘Them te Bought From the Government. Jewelers derive their gold supply from various sources, such as old jew- etry, banks and refineries, but the greater part of the raw gold used by the manufacturer comes from the gov- ernment. From the refiner the gold comes to the factory in the form of buttons or granules. The refineries employ the ‘waste of the jewelry shops and by Durning off the material portions and wubjecting the result to certain proc- @mees recover much gold that other- ‘wise would be lost to the trade. - For many years there was a steady Grain on the gold coin in circulation, caused by the use of the coln by jew elers in search of raw material. The fact that our government turned out a cain that’after passing through the assay office was of twenty-two carat fineness, only two grains below the pure gold standard, and had also been ‘worked over, the silver and copper forming “the alloy having been mixed theroughly in the gold before the coin ‘was minted, made the gold coin par- ticularly attractive to the jeweler. The manufacturer experienced no trou: ble when the gold coin was used, in- asmuch as the alloy always had been combined with the metal, and all that was necessary for the commercial utilization of the coin was to alloy it sufficiently to bring the gold down te the point required; also, from the jew: eler’s viewpoint, a lot of time and dif enulty was saved, inasmuch as this echeme aid away with much bookkeep: ing and rendered unnecessary the ty: ing ap of considerable amounts of tmoney tn the purchase of raw mate rial to be held #6 stock. Later, how: ever, the government made up the pure gold in brick or*bar form, and tt is tn that shape the greater bulk o! the supply is now derived. ‘Thousands of dollars pass betweer -the banks and the manufacturing jew elers every year in the forms of bar of gold, the banks handling these for ‘the benefit of their clients. The brick vary in value according to weight fron $200 to $500 and come with the gov ermment assay office stamp as 2 guar antee of purity and fineness.—Nev York Press. ~ STANDARD MEASURES. ‘The Old Buckat and the Half Bushel Basket Were Alike, Farmer Giles had heard rumors of the short weight scandal; but, a+ for himself, he was honest in thought, word and deed. He was naturally in- censed when an apple buyer from the city objected to his half bushel meas. ure.” “Tye used that red bucket five years,” be eaid, “and I know it's correct.” “A dozen years’ use wouldn't affect its correctness,” was the reply. “Have you any other reason for thinking it $s correct?” ‘The farmer controlled his anger and after a moment's thought led his etitic to the corncrib and showed him a basket woyen from hickory splits “That measure twice full fills this,’ be said. ‘‘And this holds exactly A Deshel” “How do you know it does?” “Because Bill Sullivan made it, a: be makes baskets for everybody, an¢ be said it was a bushel.” Still the man was not satistied. They ‘went to interview Bull. “Why, of course,” sald the basket maker, “I weave every one of them of an exact size. I make only one pattern basket to hold a bushel.” “But bow do you know the pattert holds a bushel?” “How do I know? I'm sure of it I made It originally to hold two o! this half bushel basket,” “Andéthis half bushel basket?” Bill frowned and pulled his hair 11 ‘an effort to remember. Then his fac brightened. _, “Why, yes," he said, “I'm sure of it I tried it one time, Giles, by that ol red bucket measure of yours!" Youth’s Companion. * The Way to Bake Beans. -To make baked beans soak one and one-half pints small white beans over- night in soft water. In the morning drain and parboil, but not enough to crash the beans. Place in the bottom of a bean pot several slices of bacon (salt or fresh pork), then put in about half the beans, over which sprinkle salt, a heaping spoonful of brown sug: ar or New Orleans molasses, then mote slices of the bacon. Orer this place the rest of the beans, with the salt, sugar or molasses and bacon on top. Cover with soft water and bake’ a! least eight hours, though they are bet. ter tf baked all day. Add soft water as needed. . . ‘The Hich Hathox. Tf yeu keep your hatbor on a high smatf m a closet you may find the fol- Jewing weggestion worth trying: Slit open the two upright edges of one side of the hatbox. so that when the corer $s raised this side will drop down as if on hinges. This will allow you to re- more or replace the hat without taking the Dex from the shelf.—Harper’s. His Sincerity. “I was sorprised when I heard that Grabrox had joined the church.” “I wam’t. I happened to be present when he and his business partner shook dice to see which member of the firm should join.”—Indlanapolis Jour- nal. In Hie Line, “He is building an immense artts- cla] mountain on his country estate” “Well, I guess it comes sort of mate- ral for him to put ap a bieff."—Pwck. DUCKING A SCOLD, A Custom Quite Popular at One Time In This Country. WOMEN ALWAYS THE VICTIMS. Im Colonial Days Ducking Stools Were Common In Maryland, In Virginia the Penalty Was Often Inflicted, and Georgia Sinned as Lato as 1819, ex insists upon saying unpleasant things in wrong places and “at wrong geasons there ate several things which way happen to her. If she is a person of some social standing her husband may get a divorce, or if she belongs fm one of the lower strata he may Jeave her without that little formality. It she makes life too unbearable for the nelghbors she may possibly be an rested and fined. If she lives in Eng land and interrupts the proceedings of pariiament, calls names, chases digni- tarles to cover whenever they show themselves in public and. knocks off policemen’s helmets she is called a suf- fragette and sometimes -imprisoned. But even the most “obstinately oppro ‘Drious and ‘virulent woman,” to quote the stately Adulison, may be confident that she will escape the punishment meted out to her sister of old. What: @ver happens, she won't be sentenced to the ducking stool. In many ways modern life is tame and lacking in @ramatic incident for a self assertive lady, and even the English suffragettes complain that they are not taken se rigusly enough. No such claim could have been made im the past, say between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, when fai more rigid views prevailed on the sub Ject of feminine self repression. - Iz those days magistrates were unant mous {n the conviction that “meekness By ye chojsest orniment for a woman,” and It was held a crime to speak “dis. cornfully” of those in authority, civil or ecclesiastical. A woman must noi even indulge in too great’ freedom o1 mpeech in the privacy of her own homé« and neighboriiood. Sometimes she did, and then she was attended to In a sim ple yet spectacular manner. She was bound securely to a stout! chair firmly fixed to the end of a long eam, arranged to work up and down on the principle of the seesaw, on -the edge of a river or pond. On the bank at the other end a man worked the contrivance by means of a strong chain, and she was given a ducking, which lasted until justice was sate fied or reform was promised, the popu: laee of course gathering in large num. bers to ass{st at the function. In England the practice was so gen eral that each town had its ducking pond conventently located ‘where petty offenders of various kinds were disci plined. The pond for the western part ! of London was what {fs now a portior Be Trafalgar square, Charing Cross Many of the old ducking stools are | still in existence as curiosities, In the days of their activity they were kep' | im the church’ porches, where they doubtless pointed a moral as to the | haughty spirit which goeth before : fall. | The first colonists brought the nett , tation to this country, although it nev | er flourished in New England. In fact ' there are no uuthentic records of th | actual use of the ducking stool ix these colonies, although a number o ‘women were sentenced to be so pun ished. They bad, however, other meth ods of treatment for ladies of a shrew ish disposition, one of these being the wearing of a cleft stick upon th tongue. In the central and southern colonie: the custom was quite popular. “In th seventtenth centuty ducking stool | were in every county in Maryland, an in 1775 one was placed at the conflu { ence of the Oblo and Monongahela riv ers. In Virginia the penalty was ofte: employed, and in 1634 a Thomas Hart ly of that culony wrote, it is said, t Governor Endicott of Massachusetts giving a detailed account of a duckin administered to “one Betsey, wife o | John Tucker, who by violence of he | tongue had made his home and y | neighborhood uucomfortable.” Afte | describing the machine he adds: “Y -] Tope was slackened by ye-officer, an | ye woman was allowed to go dow. _] under ye water for ye space of half minute. Betsey had a stout stomac: | and would not yield ugtil she bad a | lowed herself to be ducked five severa | times.” After she promised to “sin n ,] more” Betsey was untied and allowe || to “walk home in her wetted clothe: .| @ hopefully penitent woman.” ‘| Whe ducking stool prevailed longe fm America than in England. In th old country it does not seem to hav | Deen used later than 1609, but in Geo: _| gin women were ducked for scoldin ,| 28 late as 1819. It is Interesting t ,{ Rote that in 1824 a woman in Phils -|delphia was sentenced to be ducke ;| but the decree was not carried out, a _|it was “deemed obsolete and contrar ,| to the spirit of the times.” A write ° | on colonial customs states that one ¢ the last indictments for ducking 1 thia countrr wns that of Mrs. Ann 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. : 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. oe 4. Literary Department. : 5. 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Elaborate arrangements for the seating and decorative features of the Coliseum at the Republican National Contention on June 18. have been mapped out by Arthur G. Brown, the building architect, and artisans are at work remodeling the big structure. Profiting by his experiences on two previous occasions, Mr. Brown is making special efforts to have every inch of space available, and at the same time care for the comfort and --- Magic Shampoo Drier Co... THE SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. 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. ADMISSION 15 CENTS YALE ORCHESTRA Music for all occasions, address Geo. S. King, 416 3d Street, S. E. For Women Have More Friends than any other magazine or patterns. 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The speaker's platform will occupy the same position as four years ago—at the south end of the main auditorium. Behind the platform will be an elevated structure of seats reserved for the 2,000 distinguished guests of the convention. In front of the speaker's platform, and on one level, will be the seats of the 2,156 delegates and alternates, the latter to be seated directly behind the principals. The remainder of the seats on the ground floor will be for the actual participants and the press, and the galleries will accommodate the visitors. The band stand will be suspended at the north end of the hall. The 500 active newspaper men who will be here from all parts of the country to "cover" the convention will occupy two stands, abutting on each side of the speaker's platform. Another feature which is being carefully looked after is the safety of those in the hall in case of fire. Although the building is fireproof, having a main facade of stone and arches of steel, no chances are being taken. Eleven exits have been arranged, half leading into Wabash Avenue and others leading into the alley. Robert T. Lincoln, so of Abraham Lincoln, is under consideration for appointment as permanent chairman of the Republican National Convention that will assemble at Chicago June 18. Mr. Lincoln was Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885 and served as Minister to Great Britain from 1885 to 1893. GREET TAFT CORDIALLY. Crowds Close in on President, Compelling Impromptu Reception on New York Street. President Much Pleased—Is Forced, However, to Seek Shelter with Brother's Law Partner to Escape His Enthusiastic Admirers. New York, May 20. President Taft held an impromptu but enthusiastic reception in upper Fifth Avenue late yesterday afternoon. He had started from his brother's house in Fifth Avenue, and tired of riding in an automobile, wanted to take a quiet stroll. But he had hardly turned north into the avenue, before people recognized his familiar figure, and pressed forward. Others joined those, and in a few minutes fully 1,000 people surrounded the President, each desirous to shake hands with him. The secret service men could not force a way for him to walk on the avenue and patrolmen who hurried up, were equally powerless. Finally it was necessary to stop in John L. Cadalader's home, while Secretary Hilles telephoned for the President's car so that Mr. Taft could escape from this remarkable and spontaneous demonstration. The President was visibly pleased with the cheers and salutations, and the famous Taft smile was well in dence as he stood talking to his broth evidence as he stood talking to his brother, while the patrolmen made a lane to his automobile. Fifth avenue was filled with its customary Sunday afternoon throng, and President Taft had not gone fifty feet north on the thoroughfare before some one recognized him and said so loudly. The word floated through the crowd, and a swarm of people followed in the wake of the President. Automobiles, handsoms and carriages swung in close to the sidewalk and people began to wave their hats and handkerchiefs and cheer. Mr Hilles said last night the President had been very much pleased with the demonstration accorded him. "He never had any idea he would attract so much attention on the avenue when he started out." said Mr. Hilles. "Only two Secret Service men went with us. The President does not care for policemen as an escort, except when he goes out at night to a dinner and they are needed to help get through the traffic. Ordinarily he thinks it makes him look too conspicuous. So today we never had any thought there would be any need for them." Tells in Magazine Article What He Is Trying to Do. New York, May 26. "What I Am Trying to Do," an article by President Taft, appears in the current issue of the World's Work. It deals with tariff revision, business prosperity, arbitration and independence of the judiciary. The President asserts that he is willing to go before the people for a verdict on his veto of the three tariff bills passed by the House in extraordinary session last year; that no charge yet made against him has gone nearer to his heart than that he, by enforcing the anti-trust law, was hurting business; that he intends, so long as he can raise his voice, to continue to favor general arbitration, and that the Republican party would lose caste as a defender of American civilization should it take up the judicial recall as one-of its tenets. POLITICAL POINTERS John Hays Hammond, the highest salaried man in the world, is president of the National League of Republican Clubs, and many of the prominent Republicans of the country will attend the convention, which will be held during the hours when the Republican National Convention is not in session. 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