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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Congressional Library. Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper That's THE BEE VOL. XXXIII NO.4 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY JUNE 29, 1912 PRESIDENT TAFT WINS ROOSEVELT MEETS HIS WATERLOO Last night Theodore Roosevelt met his waterloo. The Roosevelt forces went down in an ignominious defeat. The night previous Heany, of California, walked out of the committee room which was considering the contested cases. He advised every Roosevelt follower to do likewise, but only a few obeyed the command of their master. This convention will go down in history as the greatest and most sensational of the ages. Coming ages will not be able to realize that a party which has been so useful to the country would allow itself to go on record as favoring a King or an Emperor. The vote previous to the nomination had completely shattered the Roosevelt forces and demoralized their ranks. Manager McKinley never lost his nerve. He was determined to nominate President Taft and vindicate the Republican party. The talk that the colored delegates from the South would sell or had sold, seemed to have turned upon the white delegates. Only one Negro delegate from the South proved the traitor, and he was from Mississippi. His attempt to misrepresent Manager McKinley only proved to be the utterances of a political demagogue and the act of renegades. The night before the balloting, the Roosevelt forces threatened physical harm to the Taft delegates, but they were prepared for any kind of a rough house that they wished to precipitate. Sergeant-at-Arms Stone knew what he had to run up against, hence he was prepared to meet it. Only 107 of Roosevelt men obeyed his command. Heany lead the boot in the committee, but soon returned after having been convinced that a majority of the Roosevelt men in the committee would not obey the command of "Bwano Tumbo." Roosevelt would have come to the convention if he dared to do so. His entry into Chicago was a spectacular demonstration, and his departure was unaccompanied with any kind of demonstration. The night of the Roosevelt parade and demonstration he imagined himself a King. The enthusiasm was weak. In the corridors of the hotel the boosters are hallowing themselves hoarse. A similar demonstration may be witnessed in the convention. Governor Hadley, of Missouri, received the demonstration that caused Bwano Tumbo to become confused, angry and excited. The vote on the Presidential nomination was: Taft Wildly Applauded. The first mention of President Taft's name in the convention was greeted with a wild demonstration of cheering. Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, who arose to make the nomination was loudly applauded, and when he mentioned the name of the candidate an outburst followed that lasted for twenty minutes. Finally Chairman Root restored order. The speech was continuously interrupted by cheers and jeers from the excited audience, and Chairman Root found great difficulty in preserving order. Crushed between the triumphant sweep of the Taft majority and Colonel Roosevelt's frightened attempts to bolt the Republican national convention without leaving the Republican party, the Roosevelt forces crumbled into broken remnants. Almost one hundred of the Roosevelt forces deserted their fallen leader—whose ambitions the Republican national convention had spurned and climbed into the Taft bandwagon. The few who remained intact under the torn Roosevelt banner and refused to participate in the convention, under the direct order of the Colonel, were brushed aside and the Taft nomination proved but a question of the size of his majority. The real smash-up for the Roose- velt men came on the vote for the adoption of the Taft platform, on which but 343 of the Roosevelt delegates followed the mandate of their beaten leader and declined to vote. Seven Roosevelt men voted to no, joining the forty-six La Follette-Cummins delegates, who constituted the real opposition to the Taft forces. Practically all the remaining men of the Roosevelt camp deserted in a body and voted with the Taft men for the adoption of the Taft platform. Then Tafts total on this ballot was 666, the noes were 53; present but not voting, 343; abesent, 16. The first five hours of yesterday's session were tediumly slow in their grist of contest fights. But then the storm began. The Taft forces had such*complete mastery of the situation that the Roosevelt men had made no demands for roll calls. Colonel's Swan Song Read. The real tempest broke when Henry Allen, of Kansas, was permitted to read to the convention Colonel Roosevelt's "swan song," in which the Colonel—not yet daring to venture an open bolt—ordered his followers to refuse to vote on any proposition. When Mr. Allen began his reading his mention of Colonel Roosevelt's name brought out the last dying gasp of cheers from a defeated following. It lasted twenty minutes and at times it seemed as if its noise might breathe new life into the corpse of the Roosevelt movement. But it was beyond hope. When Mr. Allen actually got under way with his work and began to comment on the Roosevelt statement the convention resented the attacks upon its integrity in no uncertain terms and again and again it hissed his assaults upon the convention as finally Chairman Root had to make a personal appeal to the convention to permit Mr. Allen to complete his speech in peace. From that time on the convention became more exciting every moment. No one knew just what the beaten Roosevelt men might attempt—except that it was known that there would be no real bolt from the hall. It was known, too, that the Roosevelt men were far from united on their course, and it was expected that there would be plenty of clashes, once these differences within that camp got onto the floor of the convention. They came when the roll was finally called up on the adoption of the Taft platform, which had been read by former Vice-President Charles Warren Fairbanks. The refusal of the Roosevelt delegates in Alabama and California to vote brought forth cheers, but excited no surprise. Idaho Leads Break. The break came with Idaho, which cast its solid eight votes with the Taft forces. A storm of cheers broke out only to fade into silence when Illinois was called. This State was considered a keynote in the fight, and the attitude of the Roosevelt delegates there could go far toward determining that of other States. But Illinois disappointed the crowd, for Governor Deneen, the head of the delegation, asked for a respite, that he might poll the delegation. It was granted, and the rail continued. One Roosevelt man deserted in Indiana two in Kentucky, and one in Maryland. The Illinois vote was then announced, while the vast throng listened breathlessly: "Illinois votes 30 yes, 9 not voting." Len Small challenged the poll and the delegation was called by name. The final result was: Yeas, 46 not voting, 9; absurd, 9. This was a net loss to the Roosevelt forces of thirty-seven, and the crowd rose to its feet while the cheers shook the rafters. Illinois delegates refused to follow Governor Deneen in the "silent hold" instituted by the fanatical adherents of Colonel Roosevelt. And the Governor and his heuten ant, Roy O. West, were quick to see the trend of events and get into line. When the name of Illinois was called on the test vote on the adoption of the report of the platform antee, Governor Deneen asked that the State be passed to give them more time to poll the delegation. As the other States piled the vote for the Taft forces the Illinois delegates, including the Governor swung into line and before half dozen more delegations had been voted Deneen announced that he was ready to announce the poll. A hush fell on the expectantVENT and the announcement of fifty-six for the Taft forces (nine not voting, who represented the last ditchers of the Colonel's scatere remnants in Illinois, and three absent) was greeted with a great shout and prolonged cheering by the Taft army. Here is the list of the last ditchers: Chauncey Dewey, R. R. McCormick, H. W. Johnson, J. T. Williams, (Continued to page 4.) M. CHAPIN BROWN, ESQ. New Member of the National Committee for the District of Columbia. He succeeds Sidney Bieber, who was dedicated. CHAPIN BROWN, ESQ. New Member of the National Committee for the District of Columbia. He succeeds Sidney Bieber, who was dedicated. [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. The Defeated National Committeeman for the District of Columbia, who went down with Roosevelt by a unanimous vote. NEWCOMMITTEEMAN His Success and Services at Chicago. Acts for Chairman New at One Time. Chapin Brown, Esq., a prominent member of the locar bar and formerly president of the Bar Association, was elected National Committeeman for the District of Columbia. While in Chicago Mr. Brown's services were invaluable. He acted at one time on the National Committee in the place of Chairman Harry New. There was no man in Chicago any more popular than Mt. Brown, and no one whose advice was asked by the prominent men in the convention than was his. As a member of the bar he stands above the common level, and his election was indorsed by every leading organization in this city. Chapin, youngest son of Samuel Peters and Charlotte Metcalf (Mason) Brown, was born in Orland, near Bucksport, Hancock county, Maine. March 25, 1856. He spent his wintb of years between 1861 and 1865 in Washington, D. C., and retains in memory the important events of the later years of the Rebellion. He returned to Maine, however, to attend school for a portion of the years between 1861 and 1867, first at Orland and subsequently at "Little Blue" school for boys in Farmington. In 1867 he returned to Washington, D. C., and was prepared for college at the preparatory school connected with the Columbian University (now changed by act of the United States Congress to the George Washington University) in Washington City. He graduated from the university, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1876, and L. L. B in 1877, entering upon his course in law while a senior in the college. While attending the last year of the law school, he held a government position in the Postoffice Department school system of the District. In 1894, when the national convention of the Knights of Pythias was held in Washington, he was chairman of the committee of citizens appointed to provide for the entertainment of the visiting Sir Knights and their ladies. At the inauguration of William McKinley as President of the United States, March 4, 1897, Mr. Brown was a member of the general inaugural committee and chairman of the transportation committee. On the occasion of the dedication of the new municipal building of the District of Columbia, which took place July 4, 1908, he was selected to make the address on behalf of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. His law practice is of a general character before the courts of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Brown was never married. PRESIDENT SHEPARD A "D. D." Popular Head of the National Training School the First of His Race. to Receive Degree from Muskingum College. Durham, N. C., June 26. Muskingum College, Ohio, has conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon Dr. James E. Shepard, the popular president of the National Training School, located in this city. While Muskingum is one of the smaller colleges, it is regarded as one of the truly great colleges of the country. It has sent out a host of notable men, who have made their impress upon the intellectual life of the nation and whose constructive labors have gone far to advance the general good. Among the alumni of this college may be mentioned: the late President Harper, of the Chicago University; ;Dr. Morehead, dean of the Xenia Theological Seminary; Dr. Lawrence, Mr. Bryan's pastor; Dr. McClenahan, pastor of the wealthiest Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg, and a host of others not less distinguished. It boasts of the fact that 55 percent of the male graduates of this college are either in the ministry or the missionary work of the world. Dr. Shepard is the only colored man to be honored with a degree at the hands of Muskingum College, and the vote of the faculty on the question was unanimous. Side Attraction for the Teachers. Chittambaoga, Tenn. The local committee on arrangements for the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, in addition to the regular entertainment, is arranging for side trips to Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga National Park. Thousands of tourists from all parts of the world travel long distances to visit these marks of history. It was on the Look Out Mountain where Hooker fought the battle "Above the Clouds." We many stand upon the very spot where the battle was fought. From point Lookout on the mountain one may observe views in seven different States. To see the Missionary Ridge and the Chickamauga National Park is worth the cost of the trip, especially when it is noted that such low rates have been granted from various sections of the country. Henry M Stanley, the African explorer, standing on Point Lookout, said: "This is the most magnificent view in the world." The committee has arranged for the entertainment of the teachers at the usual rate of $1.00 a day. Principal W. H. Singleton, 21 Grove Street, is chairman of the executive committee. Dear Billy: You warmed the cockles of my old heart, by your steadfast loyalty to President Taft at Chicago. (The greatest man who has even occupied the Presidential chair, since the days of Lincoln.) But what you did, was only what I knew you would do. My long association with you for so many years, and the intimate friendship which has existed between us (which has never been broken) gave me the right to know better of the man Chase; than these harpers and gutter snipes who have ventured to question your honesty of purpose and loyalty to the President. These few lines are just written to Bill Chase to convey to him my personal feelings, and not for publication Meeting in this City in July—Prominent Negroes to Mest. The National Congress of Negroes, which was held in this city April 30, for which a national organization was formed, will meet in this city on or about July 17th and 18th. Dr. S. L. Corrothers was elected president, and W. Calvin Chase chairman of the executive committee. See full particulars next week. Dr. S. L. Corrothers, upon the opening of his eleventh year at Galbraith, was greeted by a large audience. One joined the church. Dr. Corrothers will preach next Sunday morning on "The fruits of Divine Association in This Life and the Life to Come." in Washington, from which he resigned upon being admitted to practice at the bar of the District of Columbia, June 16, 1877. In 1000 he was elected president of the George Washington Alumni Association; and in 1901 and 1902 he held the office of president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia. By appointment of the President of the United States he became a member of the board of trustees of the Reform School for Girls in the District of Columbia shortly after it was created by act of Congress in 1892, which not placed it under the supervision of the Department of Justice. He was elected president of the board of trustees in 1903, resigning in 1006, but has remained upon the board by successive appointments to the present time, and is now vice president of the board. He was one of the charter members of the University Club, and has retained his membership to the present time. He has been since 1886 a member of the Cosmos Club, a social organization for the advancement of scientific and literary objects. He is also a member of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington. He is also one of the charter members of the Commercial Club of Washington, D. C., the social organization of the business and professional men of Washington, and a member of its board of directors. He was the member representing the District of Columbia on the Republican National Committee at the convention held at Chicago June 21, 1902, that nominated Theodore Roosevelt for President of the United States. His interest in educational advancement was early manifested in Washington when he was made a member of the board of trustees of the Washington public schools, by making a thorough study of the public school system as it obtained in the older States, and his administration was productive of many reforms and innovations therefore unknown in the Letter of Congratulations. James H. Smith. Lawyer. 411 6th St. W..W. Washington, D. C. June 24, 1912 Sincerely your friend. HARRY. NATIONAL CONFERENCE Dr. Corrothers' Eleventh Year. DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST More than $5,000,000 was expended by delegates, politicians and convention visitors during the past ten days in Chicago. Of this sum, it is estimated that $3,500,000 was expended for food, drinks and sleeping rooms, the remainder for amusements. South African women are confident of winning the suffrage in the near future. Thus far the government seems equally divided on the subject, but it is believed the suffragist will win. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, the only daughter of former President Ulysses S. Grant, and Frank H. Jones, who was Assistant Postmaster General in President Cleveland's administration. The wedding is to take place in July. German statistics show that Europe has at present more than 7,000 people who have lived over 100 years. Bulgaria heads the list with 3,888 centenarians; Spain has 410; France has 213. A scientist in commenting upon these figures says although statistic for America and Russia have not been compiled, he thinks all will make a better showing than the United States, as the nervous strain to get rich quick tends to shorten life. While this country is wild over politics, France is celebrating in festivals all over the country the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the man who wrote these lines: "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." This inspired not only the French Revolution, but did much toward kindling the flames which inspired the American revolution; his name is Jean Jacques Rousseau. Judge Cochran, of Wilmington, N. J., has issued an order that no Negress shall be referred to as "Miss" in his court. She must be called by her first name only, says an exchange. What is the difference between a white criminal and a colored one? It seems as if the day is returning when the church and politics go hand in hand together. Judge Rose, of Baltimore, Md., fined two former Democratic supervisors fifty dollars a piece for alleged conspiracy to keep colored men from voting. This is the second time within the last two years race disfranchisement in Maryland was hit in the United States Court. By the passing away of Mrs. Emeline Jones, the original maker of Saratoga chips. New York loses its best female cook. Her services were sought by Presidents. Messrs. C. R. Bailey and W. O Warren have invented an electric device controlling traffic in congested districts, which is supposed to take the place of crossing policemen. The city of Boley, Okla., controlled solely by colored people, has a population of 5,000, and has a record that neither police nor saloons are there. In Savannah, Ga., colored people pay taxes on nearly $1,000,000 worth of property. A German scientist declares that married men live longer than bachelors, and are less likely to become insane. Another argument for matrimony is found in the fact that there are 38 criminals among every 1,000 bachelors, while among married men the ratio is only 18 per 1,000. The Panama Canal will have cost by the time it is completed $375,000,000. The big fire which broke out in Houston, Texas, May 20, destroyed a number of buildings in the business section of the city. The property loss was estimated to be about $1,000,000. California is the first State to have the distinction of sending women to the National Republican Convention, elected by direct vote, even if their candidate were defeated. Dr. M. C. B. Mason, the noted orator and secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society of the great M. E. Church, was succeeded by I. Garland Penn. Dr. Mason held the position for about twelve years. The Institute for colored youth, at Cheneyy, Pa., of which Prof. Hugh M. Brown, is principal, received an unexpected gift of $4,000 from Sarah A. C. Lloyd, as a memorial to her cousin, Sarah Ann Kite. It is said the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in Camden Station, Baltimore, Md., has substituted white girls in the dining room in place of the colored-men waiters. The Negro has again demonstrated that he was not for sale in the political market. They felt that the honor of the race was of more importance than filthy lucre. While the fight for the ballot was being made in the United States, Mrs. C. C. Catt, chairman of the woman's suffrage is on a round the world tour in vigorous campaign in the interest of suffrage. When she returns in October she will have spoken in 1,000 meetings and expended $10,000 of her own personal income to carry out her ideas. For the first time in the history of Boston, elevated Negro conductors are being employed on cars, in Boston, Mass. The elevated cars formerly employed white conductors, but by reason of a strike colored ones were supplied. Let The Bee follow you. Legend of "the Poor Sinner's Bell" That Was Cast In Breslau In the Year 1386. The poor sinner's bell is a bell in the city of Breslau, in the province of Silesia, 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. Holsteinns, 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 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. Quer 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. "Bibbies is a great man to try to dodge a responsibility on technicali- ties." "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. Ostend—And what kind of ships call the sea of matrimony? Pa—Hardships, my son—London Tit-Bita. Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.—Wiliam Penn. BASEBALL STRATEGY. Orders From the Bench Often Make a Batter Unpopular With the Fans. One of the charms of the game is its unexpectedness, the fact that you never can tell what's going to happen until it is history. Do you know what "inside ball" really is? Most "fans" think they do, but few really do know. In fact, it is a very interesting sidelight, both on the game and on the American character; to realize that nine out of ten people who see a ball game see only the flesh of it, never realize the skeleton, on which it is bulled, never see the heart beating nor watch its lifeblood flow. You go to a game and shout yourself hoarse. "Hit it out, you, you 'bonehead!' What yer standing there for? Think this a pink tea? They're all perfectly good—hit 'ein!' And the player at the plate, hearing, longs to obey—for all players love to hit—yet holds himself in. "Make him give you three balls. Then hit!" are his orders from the bench from the baseball general ordering the game. A man is on third. There is but one out. Hits have been few and far between, but a long fly will score the man. How get a long fly? By meeting one which "cuts the heart of the plate" square and fair. How get the pitcher to serve such a ball? By "working" him until three balls have been called, when the fourth ball must come over the plate or the batter be given a pass; hence the orders. If they go wrong, if the pitcher succeeds in getting three strikes across before three balls, the batter strikes out, and a groan goes up from the crowd. But the batter knows, and the pitcher knows, and the team knows, and the players on the bench know that the man at the plate struck out because he was obeying orders- World Today. TOLD IN FEW WORDS Shortest Robber Story. In History, as Narrated by Voltaire. In his study of "Seven Great Statesmen" Andrew D. White describes the work done in the eighteenth century by the French minister Turgot against the vicious system then prevailing of "farming out" the taxes. A great combination of contractors resulted, who grew enormously rich at the people's expense, not, however, without able criticism. This syndicate assumed the character of what in America of these days would be called a "combine," and at the head of it were the farmers general, wealthy, powerful and, as a rule, mereless. Their power pervaded the entire nation, from the king's apartments at Versailles to the cottages of the lowest village. To those men and their methods Voltaire had made a reference which ran through France and indeed through Europe. A party of Parisians were amusing each other by telling robber stories. Presently Voltaire, who had been listening quietly, said: "I can tell a robber story better than any of yours." The whole room immediately became silent and listened to the greatest personage in the French literature of the eighteenth century. Voltaire after clearing his throat began as follows:* "Once on a time there was a farmer general." Then he was silent. Presently all began to cry out: "Why do you stop? Go on. Tell us the story." "I have told the story," said Voltaire. "Do you not see that my statement implies the greatest robber story in history?" What Is a Bath? What is a bath? Is it the, simple bath of hot or cold water and soap, or the Turkish bath of hot air or the Russian one of steam, or the mud bath of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, or the compressed air bath of Relchenhall, or the baths of wine favored by famous beauties, or the sun bath of modern hygienists, or the Laplander's plunge into the hot blubber of a just killed whale, or the bath of asses' milk, to provide which for his consort an Earl of Portman bought cheap the Portman estate north of Oxford street as a farm to keep a herd' of asses? Now, which of these is a bath?—London Chronicle. "The Almighty Dollar" The idea of the forceful phrase "the almighty dollar" is much older than the time of Washington Irving. Ben Johnson's "Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland," commences thus: Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice, almighty gold. When Tennyson Sat Up Nights. We have had Alfred Tennyson here; very droll and very wayward, and much sitting up of nights till 2 or 3 in the morning with pipes in our mouths, at which good hour we would get Alfred to give us some of his magic music, which he does between growling and smoking, and so to bed. -Fitzgerald's "Letters" (1SSS). Had Misjudged Him "Does your father ever kiss your mamma, Willie?" asked the lady who had once been the gentleman's sweetheart. "Yes, every morning when he goes away to the city." "Dear me! And to think that I once doubted his courage!"—Chicago Record-Herald. Creditors have better memories than debtors.—Franklin. The Famous Actress' Deception Which Cost Banker Fould a Thousand Louis. Rachel, the famous actress, did not neglect any means of turning a more or less honest penny. In his new life of her Francis Gribble tells the following story of a guitar: Rachel first saw and admired it in an artist's studio. "Give it to me," she said. "I want to pretend that it is the guitar on which I earned my living as a street singer." The jest seemed a pleasant one, and the artist handed over the instrument. Rachel embellished it with ribbons and hung it in her own apartment, where it duly attracted the attention of Achille Fould, the banker. Hearing its story, he expressed the wish to possess it. "Very well," said Rachel, "you can have it for a thousand louls." "Five hundred," said the banker, trying to bargain. "No, a thousand," said Rachel, expressing her disdain for those who haggled. And the banker actually paid a thousand louis for the worthless knickknack. It is said that he learned the truth when he tried to sell his treasure at the Hotel Drouot and that the discovery of the hoax nearly sent him into a fit on the floor. MEASURING THE EARTH. Erasosthenes Made the First Attempt and Did Fairly Well. The earliest attempt to measure the circumference of the earth was made by a Greek, Erastosthenes, who was born 276 B. C. He found that at Syene the gnomon, or upright pillar, used by the Greeks to measure the height of the sun in the sky, showed the sun to be exactly overhead at midday at the time of the summer solstice, while at Alexandria the gnomon cast a shadow upon the same date, showing that the latter point was one-fifteeth of the earth's circumference north of Syene. Erastosthenes reasoned correctly that the length of the shadow at Alexandria bore the same relation to the circumference of the small circle described from the top of the quinon as a center that the distance between the two cities bore to the circumference of the globe. This latter was 5,000 stadia, or about 625 miles, which when multiplied by fifty gives 31,250 miles as the circumference of the earth. This result is not quite correct, but as nearly so as could be expected from the first rough attempt to estimate it. New York Mall. --- Mexico's Way With Women Mexico's Way With Women. Wopan's place in Mexican life is the inevitable mingling of the Moorish ideas of the Spanish conquerors and the savage ideas of the natives, the Milwaukee Sentinel says. The Castilian hides his wife and daughters behind stone walls and the picturesque lattices of romance, and he is their lord and master. On the other hand, the Indian tribes are, of course, still bound by the spirit of the ancient savage customs. Historians tell of one of the baptismal ceremonies of the Meshle tribes, who fought their way to supremacy long before the Spanish arrived on the scene. To each boy baby the priests chanted this command: "Thy profession and faculty is war, thy obligation to give the sun to drink blood of the enemies and the earth corpses of the foes." To the girl baby they said with far less ceremonial: "You are to stay within the house, as the heart does within the body. Our Lord enshrines you in that place, and your office is to fetch and to grind malze in the metate." Jokai's Joke. At a banquet held in his honor in Torda, Maurus Jokal was called upon to propose the toast of "The Ladies." He made an excellent speech, during which he continually toyed with the brown curls upon his forehead. Finally he said: "I raise my glass in honor of the gracious ladies of Torda. May they all live until my hair grows gray." His audience drank to the toast, but it was easy to see by the faces of the ladies present that they did not think much of the compliment. Jokal rose again from his seat and took from his head a magnificent brown wig, showing an entirely bald head beneath it. "My hair," he added, "will never grow gray." And the ladies, who had not known of his baldness, were more than pacified. Plants Without Roots The "flower of the air" is a curious plant found in China and Japan. It is so called because it appears to have no root and is never fixed to the earth. It twines around a dry tree or sterile rock. Each shoot produces two or three flowers like a lily-white, transparent and odoriferous. It is capable of being transported 600 or 700 miles, and it grows as it travels, suspended on a twig. A Fidgety Age. Repose of manner was considered at one time essential to the well bred woman, but this is an ideal long consigned to the past. Every one fidgets in these restless days, no one has time to sit still nor to listen for more than a minute at a time without being bored and showing it.—London Queen. Generally. Figg (sententiously)—To him that hath shall be given, you know. Fogg —Yes, the man, who has a head gets ahead, I've noticed.—Boston Transcript. True men and women are all physicians to make us well.—C. A. Bartol. LEON'S LIQUID POMADE T. H. 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. 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His every effort has been to advance the interest of the American people. He has endeavored to please all classes and nationalities. He has been President for all the people and if he has failed it is no fault of his. The Chicago convention showed one important thing. It showed that no one man controls the Republican party with all the 'indictiveness of Mr. Roosevelt, with all of his apparent hatred for the President, the President has won the admiration of the American people. He is growing stronger and stronger every day., and The Lee predicts as it predicted his nomination, that he will be triumphantly elected next November. He has committed no offense except to refuse to be the slave of the ex-President. Why should he? The country is rid of tyrannical rule. Mr. Roosevelt believed in tyranny. He believed that he was called by the American people. He never was so mistaken. President Taft has shown throughout this contest that he is a man. Mr. Roosevelt forced him to strike back and he would have been worse than a man had he not have defended himself. This question is asked: will Mr. Taft be elected? Yes, Mr. Taft is sure to be elected. The opposition of ex-President Roosevelt notwithstanding. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The broad declaration made by Theodore Roosevelt, in Chicago and at his home, that he could have been nominated is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. There never was a time during the proceedings of the National Republican convention that Mr. Roosevelt had the least show of being elected. It is quite evident that the Roosevelt forces made every effort to capture the convention and elect their man, but it failed. The opposition made all kinds of threats and without accomplishing anything. Every Taft delegate knew his business and he performed it. This so-called third party of Theodore Roosevelt will amount to nothing. The Bee speaks advisedly when it asserts that no prominent colored man connected with the Roosevelt combination will join any third party movement. Captain J. W. Lyons, of Georgia, John C. Dancy, of North Carolina, will not be found with any third party movement. The Bee also believes that the Southern policy of President Taft will be of such a character from now on that will warrant every colored man to support and vote for him next fall. This so-called third party movement will find a very few Negroes in it. · COL. LINCOLN JOHNSON. If there is one man in this country who deserves the highest commendation and admiration of the Republican party, it is Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Atlanta, Ga. The feather-duster fight that was made against him by feather-duster delegates in his State. Col. Johnson made a bold and successful fight for the President, and his argument before the Committee on Credentials was a masterly one. Every member of the Credentials Committee of the National Republican Committee and the Committee on Credentials from the convention, ridiculed the opposition to such an extent that it felt ashamed for bringing the contest before the convention. Col. Johnson was treated with the utmost consideration and respect when he was making his argument. At the conclusion of it, he was congratulated, and the vote for the admission of the Georgia delegates was unanimous. The same unanimous vote for the admission of the Georgia delegation was given it by the entire convention, Roosevelt deletaes included. LAXITY OF CONGRESS. The failure of Congress to pass the existing naval appropriation bill, which will cause more than twenty thousand employees of navy yards and arsenals throughout the country to be dropped from their work July first, show how exceptionally slow it has been in passing measures for the maintenance of the government departments. The failure of Congress to act upon measures pertaining to the welfare of the country is a direct reflection upon this legislative assembly. It seems now that it is impossible for Congress to act upon these measures before Monday, owing to an agreement to permit the attendance of its members at the national convention now in session. There seems to be but one remedy, and that through the passage of an emergency appropriation which it is hoped Congress will see the necessity of. NEGRO DELEGATES. There were many colored delegates in the recent Chicago national Republican convention. There were men who could not be purchased, and out of the great number only one disgraced himself. The Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, and one or two other Southern delegations had men in them who had honer and reputation. J. Madison Vance, Esq., Cohen, Johnson and Ben Davis, of Georgia, deserve the highest commendation. Vance, Cohen, Johnson, Lee and Davis, belong to the old school of reliable politicians who can be relied on. The Bee feels confident that the Southern Negroes need to have no more fear of the so-called Southern policy of the administration. The Southern Negro stood by the President when he needed help; now he will stand by him. MOTION PICTURE THEATERS. It would seem that with the number of moving picture theaters operated by colored men that the time has come for the colored people to cease patronizing the jim crow picture shows; yet there are some who continue to patronize the shows. The same pictures can be seen, the patron can occupy any seat in the house, and yet there are some who would rather patronize places where there are sections set apart for them. It seems that there will always be a certain class of colored people who will always feel themselves subservient to the white man and compelled to serve him. It is time that the Negroes had learned some sense. CHAIRMAN HILLES. The sub-committee of the National Committee has decided to make Mr. Charles D. Hilles chairman of the campaign committee. Mr. Hilles is a refined gentleman, and The Bee is confident that he will be able to unite all the so-called warring forces, except Theodore Roosevelt. The Bee congratulates the committee's selection. An Announcement. The most promising trip of this season is scheduled for the evening of August the 16th. Five clubs of the Bonded Debt of St. Luke's Church have chartered the steamer Angler, and will sail down the Potomac to Indian Head and return, without stopping. The pleasant feature of the affair is that the capacity of the steamer is about twelve hundred, but only nine hundred tickets will be printed, and will only be obtainable from members of the clubs, thus insuring ample space and an enjoyable time for the friends that go with them. The Monumental Orchestra will be in attendance. 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. TWO PART SONGS LUCAS AND PINN On sale at Nappers, 1846 7th St; Philips, 1st and N. Sts. S. W. Smith, 1st and Elm N. W. N. Braunstein, 4th and N. Sts. N. W; Leatherwood's Stationery, 1516 14th St. N. W, and of the authors, 307 St. N. W. Get a Copy.....25 cents Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) Last week was an awful strain on some of our near statesmen. They were trying to guess the nominee of the Chicago convention so as to be in right after he was named. I saw Calvin Chase, who has just returned from Chicago, today, and he told me that it was some more convention. Some of "Big Bill" seven-day-a-week enemies, who were predicting, he would go over to a dark horse, were disappointed when they learned that the tall hickory of the Potomac River never dodged a ball, but wished every time with the Taftites. Chase told me he was chairman of his delegation, and that's going some. Any time a fellow can be the compromse candidate for a delegation that consists of only two delegates, he is a pretty tolerable fair sort of a smo plank stake. There is one man on the plate tlat that is awfully disappointed because Taft was nominated. That's Mecca Building Children I dropped in Jones' Cigar Emporium one day while the convention was session, and Childs was giving Taft some awful body blows through his mouth. If Taft is elected Childs who have to begin to say his rosary over again. And up to Walter Pinchback's pool parlors that bunch that congregates, to Walter's rent and living expenses, talked more politics than you can find in a campaign book. Walter was pulling for Taft just the same as that twenty more team pulls what is owned by the Borax Company. Every time you mentioned Teddy's name Walter; would cut the guy rope and ascend in a balloon of wrathy vapor. If Teddy had of been nominated I would have have a peek of string beans against an over-ripened fruit that Walter would have took an airplane trip to Zululand. I observed that there were mighty darktown duplicates of man that went to Chicago from this seaport. They had to remain here and send their advice by wireless. If the Republicans want a manager who knows everything all they have to do is to come to Washington and pick from about five hundred near statesmen who are catalogued as colored men in the political dream book. Now that school is out I am figuring on my vacation. Just where I will go I don't know. I've only got my next year's salary to work on, because this year's salary has gone to the butcher, the laker and the landlord. If Congress had of passed that loan shark bill I would have been in an awful pickle, because they would have called for real security. As it is now I guess when I decide on what summer resort I will go to. I can drop in and get fifty or a hundred loan at ten per cent per month by simply giving a mortgage on my next year's salary. I tell you this living on the anticipations of yesterday while relying on the hopes of tomorrow ain't on easy game. It keeps a fellow always in a jack pot with only a bob-tail flush to stay on. I received a booklet of Dade's hotel down at Cape May yesterday, and it certainly looks good to me. But if some of my friends don't let me have something on a neatly drawn promis-sory note I guess Dade's Cottage down on Pennsylvanian Avenue is about as far as I can get to Cape May. And when you come to think of it three or four of his mint juleps will make you think you are spending the summer in the Swiss mountains. I heard today that John Dany was out to Chicago on a phone call from Senator Dixon. I don't know what influence John Dany had, but it's a bet of a ten-acre tract of land to a spade of dirt that John's actual living expenses while in Chicago did not amount to more than fifty cents a day. Dany is the great economier. He can take a dollar bill and make it cover a whole week just as easy as a millionaire can make one hundred dollars plaster up a minute. But he is a wise old guy at that. He has been out of office more than two years now, and no one has ever heard of him applying to the Board of District Charities for anything. Some of his former official colleagues who are also in the "ex" class, had to hustle to heat the hand to get a ray of sunshine. Dany never hired taxies or gave weekly banquets, or had his clothes made at Kean's, and the result is he had a few dollars left. Whenever Dany felt too tired to walk he film-flammed himself out of a nickel and took a street car. When he had a banquet fever, he just accepted an invitation from some friend and cat enough to last until the next week. And when he wanted to buy a new suit of clothes, which was only every three or four years, he just had one of his old suits cleaned dyed and pressed. Say what you please, John Dany is a fellow with a wise head on his shoulders. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW. W. C. Evans, who will be a factor in the District delegation to the Atlanta B. M. C., says: "E. H. McKissack, Mississippi's great captain of finance and industry, will be elected to membership on the sub-committee of management. The District of Columbia will be a unit for him." A testimonial is talked of in honor of Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, who carried off the honors at the Chicago convention by his superb generalship in handling the Southern delegate contests. Dr. Booker T. Washington was in town this week en route North to arrange for his chautaauqua dates. Mrs. J. W. Shaw is to have charge of the domestic' science department next month at the Summer School, under the direction of the Institute for Colored Youth, Chevyney, Pa. Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce's address at the M Street High School commencement at the Howard Theater last Wednesday, was pronounced by Supt. Davidson and a number of visiting educators to have been the ablest, most comprehensive and polished deliverance they had ever heard upon any similar occasion. Our ad- VOTE ON THE PRESIDETIAL NOMINATION. States, Territories and Delegate Districts. Votes. Roosevelt. Not voting. Cummins. La Follette. Absent Alabama 24 22 2 Arizona 6 6 2 Arkansas 18 17 1 California 26 2 24 Colorado 12 12 24 Connecticut 14 14 24 Delaware 6 6 24 Florida 12 12 24 Georgia 28 28 24 Idaho 8 1 24 Illinois 58 2 53 Indiana 30 20 3 Iowa 26 16 24 Kansas 20 2 18 Kentucky 26 24 2 Louisiana 20 20 2 Maine 12 12 12 Maryland 16 1 9 5 Massachusetts 36 20 16 Michigan 30 20 9 24 Minnesota 24 24 24 Mississippi 20 17 3 Missouri 36 16 20 Montana 8 8 24 Nebraska 16 2 14 Nevada 6 6 24 New Hampshire 8 8 24 New Jersey 28 2 26 New Mexico 8 7 1 24 New York 90 76 8 6 North Carolina 24 1 1 22 North Dakota 10 1 1 22 Ohio 48 14 34 Oklahoma 20 4 15 Oregon 10 8 2 Pennsylvania 76 9 62 Rhode Island 10 10 1 South Carolina 18 16 1 South Dakota 10 5 5 Tennessee 24 23 1 Texas 40 31 8 1 Utah 8 8 1 1 Vermont 8 6 2 1 Virginia 24 22 1 1 Washington 14 14 1 1 West Virginia 16 16 1 1 Wisconsin 26 16 1 26 Wyoming 6 6 1 1 Alaska 2 2 1 1 District of Columbia 2 2 1 1 Hawaii 6 6 1 1 Philippine Islands 2 2 1 1 Porto Rico 2 2 1 1 Totals 561 107 343 17 41 7 PRESIDENT TAFT WINS (Continued from page 1.) Frank G. Allen, William J. Graham, W L. Shellabarger, E. J. Hawhaker and Logan Hoy. Illinois Roll Call The following members of the Illinois delegation voted for platform with the Tift forces: Governor- Charles S. Deneen, Roy O. West, L. A. Ecllart, Robert P. Clark, L. L. immerson, W. A. Rosenfield, Francis P. Brady, Martin B. Madden, John J. Hankerg, Isaac N. Powell, Charles W. Vail, Thomas J. Healy, A. A. Chelser, Charles J. Hoppell, William I. Cooke, Homer K. Galpin, S. R. Ray, Abel Davis, Joseph I. Haskell, alternate, August Wilhelm (alternate), Isadore H. Himes, Fred W. Upham, James Pease, John E. Wilder, Iva C. Copley, John Lambert, Fred E. Sterling, Harry E. Brown, Clarence E. Snively, James B. Barker, Philip H. Eisenmayer and Walter Wood. Those absent and not voting were L. Y. Sherman, James A. Cowley and William H. Weber. New York helped to make the smash-up complete by casting eighty-five votes only five not voting. Missouri cast its solid delegation, 36, for the platform, a Roosevelt loss of 18—the work of Governor Hadley. The Roosevelt men lost nine more in New York, one in New Mexico, VOTE ON THE PRESIDENT States, Territories and Delegate Districts. Votes. Taft. Alabama . . . 24 22 Arizona . . . 6 6 Arkansas . . . 18 17 California . . . 26 2 Colorado . . . 12 12 Connecticut . . . 14 14 Delaware . . . 6 6 Florida . . . 12 12 Georgia . . . 28 28 Idaho . . . 8 1 Illinois . . . 58 2 Indiana . . . 30 2 Iowa . . . 26 16 Kansas . . . 20 2 Kentucky . . . 26 24 Louisiana . . . 20 20 Maine . . . 12 1 Maryland . . . 16 1 Massachusetts . . . 36 20 Michigan . . . 30 20 Minnesota . . . 24 1 Mississippi . . . 20 17 Missouri . . . 36 16 Montana . . . 8 8 Nebraska . . . 16 1 Nevada . . . 6 6 New Hampshire . . . 8 8 New Jersey . . . 28 1 New Mexico . . . 8 7 New York . . . 90 76 North Carolina . . . 24 1 North Dakota . . . 10 1 Ohio . . . 48 14 Oklahoma . . . 20 4 Oregon . . . 10 1 Pennsylvania . . . 76 9 Rhode Island . . . 10 10 South Carolina . . . 18 16 South Dakota . . . 10 10 Tennessee . . . 24 23 Texas . . . 40 31 Utah . . . 8 8 Vermont . . . 8 6 Virginia . . . 24 22 Washington . . . 14 14 West Virginia . . . 16 1 Wisconsin . . . 26 1 Wyoming . . . 6 6 Alaska . . . 2 2 District of Columbia . . . 2 2 Hawaii . . . 6 6 Philippine Islands . . . 2 2 Porto Rico . . . 2 2 Totals . . . 56t Total number of Delegates, 1,075 Charles E. Hughes was given mirable assistant superintendent has a remarkable gift for oratory, and the occasion was an inspiring one. Prof and Mrs. A. H. Glenn will spend the summer in New York city. Prof. Glenn will do some special work at Columbia College. Mrs. L. D. Kaufman, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will be the guest next week of Miss Vivian Lucille Thompson, 908 S Street N. W. Mrs. Kaufman is on her way to New York City, to finish her course in stenography. Mrs. J. C. Napier filled her husband's place last week on the program at the Wilberforce University commencement. The marriage of Miss Estelle Kennedy and Mr. J. Arthur Jackson, of Charleston, W. Va., takes place this evening at the 15th Street Presbyterian Church. W. B. Harris, district grand master of the G. U. O. of F., has thrown his hat in the ring for National Grand Auditor. Miss Beatrice Childs, teaches again next year in the public schools of Durham, N. C. Dr. J. E. Shepard was here Sunday, en route to Durham, N. C., to open the Ministerial Conference and Summer School under the auspices of the National Religious Training School. Many Washington clergymen will attend. Col. W. H. Lester, of Brooklyn, N Y., is in the city. Mrs. E. A. Wedlake was in the city for a week, visiting her mother, Mrs. E. A. Duffield. She is now gone on an extended tour of the West. Mrs.J. H. Howard, wife of the editor of the New Era, is the guest of Mrs. J. W. Smith, at the Zion Episcopal Home, 1309 R Street N. W. Tim and Hester Moore, comedy sketch artists, are going big this week at Manager H. W. Smith's popular West End Theater. Miss Elinor Wilson, who played successful engagements at the Howard and the West End Theaters, is in Wilmington, Del., this week. Miss Wilson is a remarkably handsome young woman, and is a soubrette of unusual ability. Her "Dream Man" made a pronounced hit here. Miss Marjorie Lorraine, Robert Davis and Johnnie Woods are in the big bill at S. H. Dudley's Theater this week. Col. C. W. Fillmore is said to be sorely disappointed over the failure of three in North Carolina, nine in South Carolina, one in Texas, one in Utah and two in Massachusetts. When the final result was announced the audience again rose to its feet, to cheer and to jeer at the broken and battered Rooseveltians. Then the nominations for the Presidency began. Calls Roll on Nomination. Immediately Chairman Root announced a call of the roll of the States for nominations for the Presidency. Alabama was passed. Arizona was silent. Down the list silence followed the calling of each State, until Ohio was reached. A cheer greeted the State and Warren G. Harding arose to place President Taft in nomination. Then it was discovered that Iowa had forgotten to nominate Cummings, and Root ordered that the State be called again. Silence greeted the second call, for the Iowans had decided not to nominate Cummins, but to vote for him. Then Ohio was called again, and Harding took the platform, greeted by scattered cheers, to nominate Taft. When New York was called there had been a murmur of disappointment, for William A. Prendergast sat still in his seat, although he had been expected to nominate Roosevelt. Frequently during his speech Harding was interrupted by applause and cheers. the New York Legislature to enact the law providing for, a colored regiment. It is rumored he may return to Washington. For the past year he has been living in New York City, and has been connected with the Internal Revenue Service by transfer from Washington. A big boom is starting for Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson for Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks. The biennial convention of the order will be held in Dayton, Ohio, in August. Col. Johnson is immensely popular with the Elks throughout the country, and could have the chief office, if he will indicate a willingness to accept. He is also Acting Grand Master of the G. U. O. of O. F., and is mentioned for Grand Master in the event of a stiff fight against B. J. Davis at the Atlanta B. M. C. rendering a compromise candidate necessary. Col. Johnson was the one big man among the colored delegates to the recent Republican National convention at Chicago. He is indeed th Negro's tallest figure, politically James C. Waters, Jr., is having much fun, yanking the tail of the forces now in control of the Alumni Association of Howard University. Mr. Waters is a young man of extraordinary ability, and made a fine record as secretary of the association last year, declining re-election this year. Among many other literary and legal productions on foot by Mr. Waters is a comprehensive digest, showing the reasoning and decisions of the United States Supreme Court in all of the cases involving the rights of the colored citizens of the nation. The cub reporters who tried to make "hot copy" of the fact that Justice Charles E. Hughes had some colored neighbors around the corner from his home at 16th and V. Streets, have given up the job in despair. As the Justice and his neighbors were all satisfied, there was "nuthin' doin' in what the assinine agitators were aiming at. There are 100 persons connected with the office of the Auditor for the Navy Department, and their aggregate salaries amount to $139,690 per annum, according to the estimates now pending in Congress. The auditor is a colored man, and there is a goodly representation of colored men and women in the bureau, drawing salaries ranging from $1,800 to $660 per annum. No Negroes are admitted to the lower floor of any of the white theaters of the Capital, and they have access to rear seats in the balcony of but one—the Belasco. In some of the houses, Negroes are barred out entirely, not being admitted even to the top gallery. This is the situation at the Capital of the Nation, on Federal soil, with the Sumner civil rights law in full force. It is hinted that some test cases may be filed soon, to see if something cannot be done to open the doors of the local playhouses to cultured colored people, who wish to enjoy the dramatic and musical offerings of the best artists of the country. Daniel Murray's "Encyclopedia of Achievements of People of Color" is in the hands of the publishers and it will soon be ready for the book shelves. It will cover several volumes. CONVENTION IS THE SEVENTH HELD IN CHICAGO Record of Republican Gatherings Since the Civil War. The gathering of delegates at Chicago formed the fifteenth National convention held by the Republican party since its birth in Pittsburg, more than half a century ago. The first convention was in Philadelphia in 1856, and Edward D. Morgan called it to order on June 17. Robert Emmett, of New York, was temporary chairman, and Henry S. Lane, of Pennsylvania, permanent chairman, with David Wilmot, as head of the committee on resolutions. The platform declared against the extension of slavery into new States and Territories, demanded the admission of Kansas, and advocated the building of the Union Pacific railroad. The candidates nominated were John C. Fremont—he defeating John McLean, of Ohio, on first ballot—and William L. Dayton, of New York. The ticket was beaten by the Democratic ticket nominated at St. Louis and headed by Buchanan: First of Importance. The second, but in point of importance really the first, convention of the party was held in Chicago, assembling June 13, 1860. The platform declared for the preservation of the Union, denounced the extension of slavery, and advocated tariff laws, "which would encourage the development of the industrial interests of the country." Abraham - Lincoln was nominated for President on the third ballot, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, was nominated for Vice President on the second ballot. This ticket was successful in the fall, easily defeating the divided Democracy. The third Republican convention met in albitmore on June 7, 1864. The platform declared for the carrying on of the war, advocated a constitutional amendment forever prohibiting slavery anywhere in the Union, returned thanks to the Federal soldiers and sailors, and endorsed the emancipation proclamation. Abraham Lincoln was renominated, receiving all the votes except those of Missouri, which were cast for General Grant. Andrew Johnson, of Tennesee, was named for Vice President. This ticket was successful at the polls. Record of Conventions. The record of Republica national conventions and candidates held since the close of the civil war is as follows: Chicago, May 20, 1868—Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, and Schuyler C. Fox, of Indiana. Philadelphia, June 5, 1872—Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, and Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts. Cincinnati, June 14, 1876—Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, and Chester A. Arthur, of New York. Chicago, June 8, 1884—James J. Blaine, of Maine, and John A. Logan, of Illinois. Chicago, June 19, 1888—Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Levi P. Morton, of New York. Minneapolis, June 7, 1892—Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and White- law Reid, of New York. St. Louis, June 7, 1896—William McKinley, of Ohio, and Garret A. Hobart, of New Jersey. Philadelphia, June 19, 1900—William McKinley, of Ohio, and Theodore Roosevelt, of New York. Chicago, June 21, 1904—Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, and Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indiana. Chicago, June 16, 1908—William H. Tatt, of Ohio, and James S. Sherman, of New York. The N. A. A. C. P. Getting Busy. The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is showing some activity. Through its legal redress committee, of which Hon E. M Hewlett is the chairman, proceedings have been instituted against Crossing Policeman William Napier, for the unjustifiable arrest of Mrs. Sarah Harris, at 7th and Florida Avenue, some weeks ago. Specific charges have been filed against him, and the chief of the police department has stated that the case will be investigated. Mrs. Harris was dismissed by the police judge, and the officer severely reprimanded. The committee was unable to get the co-operation of the elevator boy who was assaulted by Senator Smith, hence that case was dropped. The chairman of the committee attended the inquest over the body of Reed Adams, who was killed while attacking a policeman. The testimony indicated that the matter should be pursued no further. Resolutions were presented protesting against interfering in Cuba, for the purpose of "intimidating the patriots, contending for their rights". These were adopted, subject to some verbal changes by the committee. It was decided to request the local pastors to devote one service on the Sunday nearest July 4th, to instruction regarding the rights and duties of citizenship. The president, Rev. Dr. J. M. Waldron, announced the resignation of the secretaryship by Prof. B. G. Brawley, who goes to fill a deanship in the Baptist College at Atlanta. Prof. Hartgrove, of Armstrong High School, was elected to the vacancy. The next meeting of the branch will be in October. The Week Jin Doctor 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. Mr. John Wells and John Toliver have returned to their home in Altoona, Pa., after a most enjoyable visit to this city. *Mrs. Ida Stevenson, of this city, spent a few days in Boston, Mass.* Cedric Francis, son of Dr. and Mrs. John Francis, of this city, graduated last week from Dartmouth College. He expects to enter the Y. M. C. A work in Chicago. R Hayes Jones, of this city, was a visitor in New York last week. Rev. Volley V. Stokes, of the theological department of Howard University, spent several days in New York last week, visiting friends. Mrs. Ellen Topper, of this city, spent last Sunday in Cumberland, Md. guest of her daughter, Mrs. B. J. Lee. Miss Edna White is visiting relatives in Maryland. Miss Julia Levy, of this city, is the guest of Miss Fannie Kline, of Cumberland, Md. George Bienenman and Julius Lulley, both of this city, spent last Wednesday with the former's parents, of Maryland. Mr. Gen. Frazee, who has been here all the winter, has returned to his home in Cumberland, Md. Mrs. Nathan Howard and sister, Mrs. Sylvester Gaskill, of Detroit, Mich. who have been visiting in this city have returned to their homes. They met at Dr. Morse's Gem Drug Store and saw themselves in front of that beautiful fountain, 19th and L streets Northwest. Mrs. C. L. Carter, of Harrisburg, Pa. is in the city visiting her mother, Prof. L. B. Moore, dean of Teachers College, Howard University, lectured in Steelton, Pa. last week, and was the guest of Rev. A. B. Russell. Mrs. C. Lemon Carter, who has been visiting in the city has returned to her home in Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Mary Pugh, of Philadelphia, Pa. is in the city Mr. Lotte V. Taylor, of this city, is the guest of Mrs. Alice Tucker, of Morton, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Hillyer, of this city, are visiting in St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Frank Page, of New York City, is visiting friends in this city. Dr. William H. Howard, of this city, is the guest of Dr. Gordon Jackson, of Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Carrie Clifford, of this city, sailed from New York for Europe, last Saturday. Mr. Walter Savoy, of Montello Avenue Northeast, left the city Monday morning for Deal Beach, N. J. Mrs. S. B. Bacon left the city for her home in Blackshear, Ga., to attend the funeral of her father. Miss Nettie B. Bisard, of Savannah, Ga., is in the city for a short while. She will spend the summer at the Thousand Islands, N. Y. Miss Carrie B. Powell, who has been attending M Street High School, returned to her home in Charleston, S. C. last week. Assistant U. S. Attorney General Lewis, was the guest of his sister. Mrs. J. J. Francei of Portsmouth. Va. Mrs. E. E. Whitfield, of this city, was in Omaha, Neb., and lectured in one of the churches last Wednesday night. Mrs. George Brown, of this city, is spending the summer at Atlantic City. Mr. John Rector left the city Tuesday for Little Rock, Ark., where he will visit his grandmother. Mrs. John Davis left the city Monday for Atlantic City, N. J., where she will remain until fall. Miss Irene Jones is spending the summer in Norfolk, Va. After a successful school term at Pratt Institute, Miss Georgie Jones is now the guest in the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Pollard, at Atlantic City. Mrs. Thos. L. Jones and oldest daughter, Miss Clarice, who has just graduated with honors, is in Buffalo, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson. They will go to Niagara Falls and Canada; returning they will visit points in Ohio, and many receptions will be tendered them. Mrs. L. S. Thompson visited Baltimore Tuesday and spent a very pleasant stay. Mrs. Gertie Jackson, of this city, spent Sunday in Baltimore, guest of friends. Mr. Robert B. Duncan, a clerk in the Tenth Street branch of the Adjutant General's office, War Department, has been promoted from $1,000 to $1,200 per annum. He received hearty congratulations from his many friends. He is the only colored clerk in that office to receive a promotion to that grade in ten years. Dr. J. E. Shepard passed through the city Saturday from Chicago, en route to his home in Durham, N. C. Mr. Herman E. Cunningham, of 26 Defres Street Northwest, left the city last Tuesday in company with Mr. Charlie Moore, to spend the summer in Atlantic City. When in the neighborhood of Dr. Moss' drug store, call in. It is so refreshin' to be able to drink a delicious glass of soda water. Miss Marie Harris, of 17 Defreses Street Northwest, will spend her vacation in Atlantic City. Miss Emma Taylor, of 347 H Street Southwest, who has been very ill, is able to be up and out again. Mr. Chas, H. Diggs, formerly of Washington, but now a resident of Boston for the past twenty-nine years, was an alternate delegate to the Republican convention at Chicago. Mr. Diggs is a distant relative to the Lewis' and the Smith's, and received his early training at Stevens school. Miss Isabel Hurlong, a young and pretty school teacher of Charleston, S. C. is stopping in Washington for a few days. She will visit New York and the East before returning home. Miss Sadie A. Gaskins, of 284 Dumbarton Avenue, N. W., entertained the Conference Committee of the Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor at her home on Friday night last. Miss Emma Hall presided at the piano, and the hymn, "Help Somebody Today" was beautifully rendered by the Endeavors. After the work was planned for the sum Rev W. S. Jackson, pastor of Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, left the city last Thursday morning for Philadelphia, Pa, to spend a short time with friends. mer months, the curtains were thrown back and a table was spread, too beautiful to be disturbed. The Endeavors spent a delightful evening. Those present were: Mr. J. R. Moss, Mr Lloyd Cuney, Mr. W. L. Stone, Mr. J. T. Marsshall, Mr. John Miles, Miss Lillian Robinson, Miss Emma Hall, Mrs A. Waddleton, Mrs M. R. Peterson, Mrs L. M. King, Mrs B. E. Hall, Woodford, Mrs Brooks, Mrs Moore, Mrs M. E. King. It is now Dr. Robert T. Doughlass, 1020 You Street Northwest. Call and have your feet examined. After the show and throughout the summer evenings you will find the big crowds promenading Fourteenth street, where they fall into the ever popular drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912½ Fourteenth street, or else you will find them at the busy corner at Ninth and You Streets. Two places "where everybody meets everybody else" Auditor R. W. Tyler, ex-Recorder of Deeds J. C. Daney, ex-Register of the Treasury Lyons, Register J. C. Napier, Collector Whitfield McKinley, Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson, and Editor W. Calvin Chase, have returned to the city from the Chicago convention. Go to Dew Drop in—J. S. Jones, 1020 You Street Northwest. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. When the committee on committees makes its report to the temporary organization of the citizens of Fairmount Heights and vicinity Friday night, June 28, 1912, the name of the new organization will be "The Fairmount Heights United Citizens Association. The conditions here have taken on new life, and it is believed that before January 1, 1913, there will be more than one hundred and twenty new names added to the membership roll. The outlook is very bright. The question which fills the minds of the people is: Who shall be the officers of the new organization? The answer is: Those who are successful to secure the majority of the votes cast. The idea is to allow the people to govern through representatives honestly elected, after giving each one an opportunity to cast one vote for his choice. Today it looks like the following gentlemen will be elected to the office opposite their names: Mr. John S. Johnson, of New York president; Mr. Robert S. Nichols, of Texas, vice president; Mr. C. H. Fonville, of North Carolina, recording secretary; Mr. James A. Campbell, of Maryland, financial secretary; Mr. Wm. G. Silence, of the District of Columbia, treasurer; Mr. Charles E. Payne, of Kentucky, chairman of the executive committee; Mr. R. D. Mullin, of Alabama, marshal, and Rev. A. H. Strother, of Virginia, chaplain. M. E. Church. The Sunday school of the M. E. Church has grown to such an extent that the superintendent, Mr. James A. Campbell, stands greatly in need of teachers. Sunday, June 23, Rev. O. C. Sprague, the pastor, preached at 11 o'clock A. M. The Epworth League held an interesting meeting. At 8 o'clock P. M. Rev. W. H. Addison, the newly commissioned local preacher, preached his first sermon, which far surpassed the expectation of those who heard him. Indeed, Rev. Addison is called of God to preach the gospel. Monday night, June 24, the official board held an important meeting. Rev. E. S. Williams, D. D., who was a ministerial delegate to the recent general conference, has agreed and will tell all he heard and saw while at the general conference, Monday night, July 1, 1912, at the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church. Come and hear him. A Lantern Fete. Mrs. Adelaide Cardoza and a committee of ladies, including Mrs. Gertrude L. Payne, Mrs. Helen B. Cardoza, Mrs. Laura Nichols, Mrs. Blanche Silence, Mrs. E. L. Silence, Mrs. M. Charity, Mrs. S. M. Lewis, Miss J. M. Cropper, Mrs. Willis Parker, Mrs. H. E. Jenifer, Mrs. M. E. Tilghman, Mrs. S. E. Cole, and others, desiring to aid in beautifying the community worked up a lantern fete, which was given on the lawn of Mrs. E. L. Silence, Thursday night, June 20, 1912. The decorations were of red, white and blue colored lanterns, and United States flags and ribbons of various colors, and they were the finest over arranged in Fairmount Heights. Great crowds of friends were present from Washington, D. C. It was indeed a night of pleasure and entire satisfaction. The people here turned out in appreciable numbers, and the financial success was pleasing to those in charge. Garden Party. The Willing Workers' Club of the Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., gave an entertainment at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John George, June 17. The proceeds were gratifying. The Old Maids' Convention. The ladies in charge of the Old Maids' Convention, which will be held at the M. E. Church in the near future, had their second rehearsal at said church Monday night, June 17, 1912. The ladies deserve great credit for the personal and financial sacrifice they are making to aid the Christian work. They are laboring hard for success. Constitutional Committee. The Constitutional Committee, composed of Messrs. James F. Armstrong, C. H. Fonville, J. A. Campbell, S. M. Lewis, John S. Johnson, Wm. H. Addison and C. E. Payne met at the home of the latter and placed the finishing touches on the constitution, and will be ready to report June 28, 1912. Every citizen is invited to be present on that date. Confectionery Store and Tailor Shop. Messrs. J. H. Harris and brothers have opened a confectionery store and a tailor shop in the Nixon Building on White Avenue. This is another step toward the improvement and comfort of the place. A Mock Court. There was a mock court held at the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church Friday night, June 21, 1912. The officers of the court consisted of Judge James A. Campbell, Clerk A. El Briscoe, Bailiff James F. Armstrong, and the opposing counsel: Messrs. — — for the plaintiff and Messrs. — — for the defendant. The jury before whom the principal case of the session was held was composed of nine males and three females. Mr. C. H. Fonville was chosen foreman of the jury. The other members of the jury were: Before taking up the case on the calendar or docket for the day, the usual practice in both the municipal and the police court were shown by exhausting a docket in both branches. The case was a suit in damages for breach of contract of marriage, brought by Mary Roe, of Washington, D. C. against John Doe, of Paris, France, a young millionaire, for the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, and cost of the suit. The defendant entered a plea of confession and avoidance. The facts showed that there was a contract to marry entered into by Mary Roe and John Doe, but attempted to avoid the effect by proving a prior marriage. The plaintiffs proved that the prior marriage had been nullified by a subsequent decree of divorcement. However, the jury were unable to agree, there being six voting for the plaintiff and six for the defendant. Judge Campbell ordered the jury updied until they reached a verdict. Judge Campbell assessed a fine against Lawyer Montgomery for contempt of court. The court room was crowded. The Rev. Dr. F. J. Grimke will deliver the sermon at the First Presbyterian Church of Fairmount Heights on next Sunday, June 30, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, in aid of the "Church Pew Rally." These services have been uplifting and inspiring to a great degree, and as there will be special music and other, features to make them interesting, it is hoped a large audience will turn out to greet Dr. Grimke. All are most cordially invited. At the singing school service held from 7 to 8 o'clock last Sunday evening, Prof. John T. Layton loaned us his beautiful voice. The Professor has a host of friends in Fairmount Heights, and they always give him a hearty welcome. The singing school services will be held every Sunday evening from 7 to 8 o'clock until further notice. (By R. H. Brooks, 723 So. Fairfax St.) The Children's Day service of Roberts Chapel Sunday school was held Sunday evening, June 16. The exercises were of the usual high standard. The closing scene was especially beautiful and impressive. The perfect order of the large audience showed how highly they appreciated the program. Great credit is due the children and those who instructed them. S. H. Dudley Theatre S. H. Dudley Theatre High Class Vaudeville and Motion Photo Plays 1216 U Street, Northwst Lew W. ,Henry, Acting Manager HAVE YOU HEARD IT? WHAT? 1213 You Street N. W. Opens June 1st, with high-class Vaudeville and Photo Plays new every night. The best acts each week, clean and up-to-date. Bring your family. We are here to please. The funeral services of Mr. James Wright, who died Wednesday night. June 12, were held at the Third Baptist Church, Sunday, June 16. Rev. D. G. Hehnderson officiated, assisted by Rev. H. H. Waring. The deceased was a Mason and also a member of the I. B. P. O. E., No. 48. Miss Mabel Robinson, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks is improving. Mr. Joseph Mitchell, of Buffalo, N. Y., is the guest of Mrs. Mary Spriggs. So Washington Street. Mrs. Essie Strother, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Marion Madella, for several weeks, has returned to her home in Harrisburg, Pa. Miss Lucy Hodge spent Sunday at Spring Bank, the guest of Mrs. Amanda Quander. Miss Laura Dorsey spent Saturday and Sunday at Brooke Station, the guest of friends. The Children's Day exercises of the Ebenezer Baptist Sunday school were held Sunday, June 16, at 8 P. M. The Church was crowded, and all present enjoyed the songs and recitations of the children. Superintendent Cephas and his able helpers deserve commendation. Mrs. Sumner Harper, of Pomonky, Md., was the week-end guest of Mrs. H. A. Barrett and Miss Irene Randolph. The closing exercises of the public schools were held Tuesday at 9 A. M., at the school buildings. Very interesting musical and literary programs were rendered by the boys, under the direction of Mr. John F. Parker, their principal, and his assistants, and by the girls, who were under the direction of Miss B. K. Springs, principal of their school, and her corps of teachers. A large number of the scholars were promoted. The school children's Saturday excursion, under the auspices of the School Improvement League, promises to be a great success. Mr. Milton Davis, of New York, paid his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis, a flying visit on Sunday last. Mr. Leon C. Baltimore, left June 12 for the Airdonacks, where he will spend the summer. There will be a song service and sermon at Shiloh Baptist Church Sunday, June 30, at 3 P. M. Rev. W. J. Howard, of Washington will preach, and his choir will furnish a musical program. At 8 P. M. the pastor, Rev. H. H. Waring, will preach, and there will also be musical and literary exercises. The song service given by the choir of the Alfred Street Baptist Church June 23, was a great success. Roberts Chapel M. E. Church held its rally June 23. The results were very satisfactory. At II A. M. the sermon was preached by Rev. N. M. Carroll, an ex-pastor of the church. At S P. M. the pastor, Rev. S. H. Brown, D. D., delivered the sermon. The attendance at each service was large. A number of the members of Ebenezer M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., were present. Rev. Brown was formerly pastor of the above-named church. Mr. Joseph Haskins, of Philadelphia, has been visiting our city during the past week. Mr. Haskins was formerly of Alexandria. Mrs. Ada Fryer, sister of *Mrs. Anna Burton, of this city, died at her home, Buena, Va., last week. Mrs Burton, accompanied by her cousin, Miss Rachel Derrick, went to Buena Tuesday to attend the funeral. Mrs. Fryer has a host of friends in Alexandria, which was her former home. The funeral service of Mrs. Anna Richardson, who died Sunday, June 23, was held at Beulah Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon. The pastor, Rev. Moore, officiated. Sunday, June 23, at 3 P. M., the funeral service of Mr. Charles Chapman was held at Zion Baptist Church. The deceased was a member of Lancaster Lodge, G. U. O. of O. F. Miss, Rose Clark, who returned from Asbury Park several weeks ago, quite sick, is improving. 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. Dr. J. W. Morse is about tired of "deer" hunting, and has decided to offer his best cream and soda to the public at surprising prices. He wears a smile that will not come off. The Trustees of Mt. Zion M. E. Church have been enabled to pay one thousand dollars on the debt of the church from the proceeds of the rally recently held by the congregation, of which a full account will appear in our next issue. The Sunday school of Ebenezer A. ROOMS AND BOARD FROM $1.50 PER DAY UP TO $3.00 PER DAY. Our rooms for $3.00 per day are exceptionally fine. They afford ocean r view and private dining room. We $ Excursions To Escape Heath Excursions! Picnics!! 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Coleman, agent, 1522 12th St. N. W., 7 to 5 T. M., or W. C. Martin, Room 5. 503 D St. N. W., from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. M. E. Church was in attendance at the morning session of the Mt. Zion M. E. Sunday school on last Sunday, the occasion being the trip of the school from Jericho to Jerusalem, which travels began the first Sunday in June. The exercises were highly interesting, and were enjoyed by a large number of Sunday school workers. The joint singing of the schools, accompanied by Messrs. E. M. Hays and Jas. Bird, violinists. Mr. H. S. Ricks, cornetist, Miss Emma Williams, organist, and Mr. L. T. Gaskins, pianist, was a main feature of the program. The superintendent and teachers of the visiting school Were Misses Mattie Sewell; Alice Harris, Mabel Lee, Mrs. E. M. Benn. Mrs. Jennie Tucker and Mrs. N. G. Mitchell. Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor of the First Baptist Church has just completed a series of sermons, the concluding one on Sunday evening. Subject, "Shall a Woman Keep Silent in the 'Church?' The discourse was listened to with much interest by the members and visitors, who were present, and Rev. Ricks was congratulated upon his remarks. The choir of the church rendered excellent music for the occasion. The plans for the remodeling of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church have been completed, and Rev. U. E. Leeper and the officers of the church are now inspecting them with a view of an early beginning towards a very needy improvement of the church edifice. The Junior choir of M. Zion M. E. Church are furnishing the music for the services of the church, while the Senior choir is enjoying their usual summer vacation. Interesting School Commencement. Over six hundred people turned out to do honor to this occasion. This event is said to be by far the most brilliant that has ever been witnessed in this community, being the largest class that ever went out of this school numbering eighteen. Promptly at 8 oclock the pupils were marched into the assembly hall, headed by H. S. Cadet Wallace Lucas, carrying daisy chains and were met at the platform by the principal, Mr. Harry Lewis, where they were seated. In a short address Mr. Lewis thanked the Garfield people for their co-operation in keeping up a magnificent attendance during the year, and for their efforts in trying to increase the enrollment to the 400 mark. He also thanked his corps of teachers for their unlimited support and their willingness to labor out of season as well as in season. Mr. Lewis said that it was his candid opinion that a more self-sacrificing body of men and women could not be found in the District. Before turning the exercises over to Mr. Walker, the supervisor, who presided. Mr. Lewis took occasion to pay a timely but modest tribute to Mr. Walker. He said in part that it would not have been possible for this school to have reached its high degree of efficiency had it not been for the loyal and untiring support given by the supervisor. Mr. Lewis further declared that no weather had been too inclement, no business too urgent, but that Mr. Walker had always found time to serve well the people of Garfield, and that every man, woman and child in the community had learned to respect him and confide in him. The following program was carried Overture—Orchestra. March—Class of 1912. Invocation—Rev. W. A. Harris. Class History—Miss M. E. Jones. Orchestra. Class Prophecy—Master J. W. Baddy. Orchestra. Giftatory—Master E. I. Cook. Valedictory—"Usefulness"—Miss C. L. Hawkins. Address to the class—Mr. W. A. Bell. Orchestra. Presentation of certificates—Supervising Principal Walker. Class Song—Words by Mr. E. Brown. Orchestra. The Wilberforcian Orchestra, furnished the music. refreshed the music GARFIELD, D. C. 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Chicago, Jill, June 22 The Negro delegates from the South, who are standing loyally and by their instructions to vote for President Taft, have issues the following statement to the other Republican delegates to the convention: "To the Loyal Republicans of the North." "In this crisis at the national convention which confronts the existence of the Republican party, the Negro of the South stands before the bar of public opinion. The vital questions that have affected his upright progress are involved today as they never were before. A shameful situation has arisen which affects the honor and integrity of all Negro delegates, who in this hour bear upon their shoulders the good name of their race. The present political situation means to them more than the nomination of a President, more than the very principles of Republican government themselves. Upon them rests the burden and they are face to face with the crucial trial. "And without exception they have met the exigencies bravely and fearlessly. In the face of persuasion, the cajoling methods of political wise and wily managers of the third term aspirant, they have stood to their guns without fear or favor. They have refused offers of money, of favors and political positions, and have stood faithfully to their instructions. They have been led to the mountain top and shown the world beneath and have turned away. Stand by Their Guns. "Many are now standing under the fire of threats against them-elves and families upon their return home. In spite of this they have met the issues; and now in this crisis which with you they are facing, they call upon the loyal Republicans for help. They ask that their example be encouraged. They have refused the material things and are standing for the honor, integrity and glory of their race. "In view of these facts, in view of the effort being made to disrupt the Republican party, to strike at the very foundations of the Constitution itself, we, the united colored delegation from the South, appeal to you, loyal Republicans of the North, for help. We pray that you give us the courage that comes from the knowledge that we all, black or white, are carrying out our instructions, that we cannot reach the goal with promises, terrified with threats or bribed with money to barter our manhood and to besmirch our integrity. Crisis May Be Here Now. "Let us call to your memory the prophecy of the martyred Abraham Lincoln, who, in urging the ballot be given to the Negro because he was a man whose freedom he had won by fighting for it, said in these immortal words: "The Negro soldier has proven himself worthy of the ballot. As he has been dauantess in war, who knows but that in some future dire crisis he might be called upon to preserve the priceless jewel of our common liberties." "Wh6 knows but that the crisis is here? The loyal black delegates will fight to the last ditch to save the Republican party, as they fought to save the Union, and preserve from demolition its glorious principles. This they cannot do alone. Will you help us?" "GEORGIA DELEGATION." "Henry Lincoln Johnson, C. T. Walker, D. D.; William F. Penn, M. D." "LOUISIANA DELEGATION. "J. Madison Vance, F. H. Cook. "FLORIDA DELEGATION. "Joseph F. Lee." "Every Negro delegate of the Georgia delegation voted for Elihu Root, Colonel Walter H. Johnson, who voted for Mr. McGovern, is a white man, contrary to the statement made in the press accounts of the balloting."—The Chicago Inter-Ocean, June 22, 1912. One of the Most Closely Calculated Plays In Baseball. WORKING A. DELAYED STEAL The Way This Clever Trick, That Was Invented by Harry Stovey, Used to Be Pulled Off by "Big Bill" Lange. Anson's Wasted Sacrifice Bunt. "Base stealing, the gentle art of sprinting and 'hitting the dirt,' is the finest drawn and most closely calculated play in baseball and the one that, above all others, reveals the mathematical exactitude of the national game," says Hugh S. Fullerton in the American Magazine. "A player who can run eighty-five feet in three and one-third seconds from a flat footed start ought to reach second base exactly tied with the ball, nine times out of ten starts, if the play is perfectly made by the runner, pitcher, catcher and baseman. The slightest inaccuracy or hesitation decides the play. "It seems a simple matter to run ninety feet while a ball is being thrown sixty-eight feet and caught and thrown back approximately 132 feet, caught again and held in position to touch the runner. Yet there are art and science in the feat. "There were great base runners in the old days. This was chiefly because in the early days stealing second base was the chief aim of the game. Mike Kelly, Billy Hamilton, who in two successive seasons stole over 100 bases, and 'Big Bill' Lange, who stole 100 times in one season, were all great runners who would be great under present conditions. I recall vividly Lango's one hundredth stolen base, which established his record. He was on second base with no one out, and Chicago needed one run to win the game. Anson was at the bat, and, after his stolid, businesslike style, he - poked down a perfect sacrifice bunt and went lumbering toward first base. Lange started for third base, stopped and trotted back to second. Halfway to the bench Anson discovered where Lange was and came near having a stroke of apoplexy. Lange had deliberately permitted his captain to sacrifice without advancing. Then by a wonderful dashing start Lange stole third base, scored on a fly, and the game was won. Because he won the game Anson forgave him, but the modern player who attempted such a thing would be suspended and fined. "The most effective steal ever devised is the 'delayed' steal, which, although used during the early development of the game, was neglected for many years until revived by Manager Chance of the Chicago Cubs. It was used with great effect by Bill Lange and appears to have been invented by Harry Stovey, a wonderful base runner of the early days. The theory of the steal is to catch the catcher and the infielder unprepared and out of position, and its success lies entirely in its unexpectedness. "Lange, the leading exponent of the delayed steal, made it after this fashion. As the ball would be pitched he would leave first base at top speed and sprint as hard as he could perhaps twenty-eight to thirty-five feet, then stop short, hesitate and act as if he had blundered and intended to try to regain first base. If he succeeded in drawing the throw to first base he proceeded to second at top speed. But in the great majority of cases the catcher would not attempt to throw to either base, but would keep motioning as if threatening to throw, and all the time Lange would be edging back, inch by inch, toward first, jockeying with the catcher. The catcher, satisfied that danger was past and that it was useless to throw to first, would relax from throwing, position, ease down his arm and get ready to toss the ball back to the pitcher. The moment Lange saw the arm drop and the catcher change the position of his feet he would dash at top speed for second pase. The catcher would leap back into throwing position, raise his arm again and throw, provided the shortstop and second baseman had not deserted the base and walked back toward their regular positions. If they lost a fraction of a second in recovering the base Lange would beat the ball. The fatal hesitancy of the catcher and baseman gave him his opportunity. "Stealling third base from second is much easier in reality than stealing second from first, although it is attempted much less frequently. The runner 'moving up with his arm' can take more than twice the lead from second base than from first, and, besides that, it is much easier to gain a flying start. It has, however, been declared bad judgment to steal third except in close games with one out and the opposing pitcher going well and preventing hitting. In such cases, where one run will win or tie, stealing third is advised by many. It is more difficult to see the pitcher's movements from behind him than from one side. Still, the runner need not start as quickly, but can start at top speed when he sees the pitcher swinging his arm, advance a third of the way to third base and then retreat in safety because the catcher's throw is much longer. Also he is in much better position to take advantage of any slight slip in the work of the battery." Wife's Mother, of Course. Mabel—If your grandma has lost all her teeth, how does she eat? Willie—I heard pa say she had a biting tongue. QUAINT MARRIAGE NOTICE. William Cullen Bryant Broke the News Gently In a Letter to His Mother. The following letter from William Cullen Bryant to his mother, quoted by Professor Chubb in "Stories of Authors," indicates that the author of "Thanatopsis" could enjoy his little joke on occasion: "Dear Mother—I hasten to send you the melancholy intelligence of what has lately happened to me. Early on the evening of the eleventh day of the present month I was at a neighboring house in this village. Several people of both sexes were assembled in one of the apartments, and three or four others, with myself, were in another. At last came in a little elderly gentleman, pale, thin, with a solemn countenance, pleuritic voice, hooked nose and hollow eyes. It was not long before we were summoned to attend in the apartment where he and the rest of the company were gathered. We went in and took our seats. The little elderly gentleman with the hooked nose prayed, and we all stood up. When he had finished most of us sat down. The gentleman with the hooked nose then muttered certain caballistic expressions, which I was too much frightened to remember, but I recollect that at the conclusion I was given to understand that I was married to a young lady of the name of Frances Fairchild, whom I perceived standing by my side and whom I hope in the course of a few months to have the pleasure of introducing to you as your daughter-in-law, which is a matter of some interest to the poor girl, who has neither father nor mother in the world." SHIELDED THE LADY. A Tactful Head Waiter Balked an Offensive Hotel Guest. To illustrate an incident that occurred in a hotel uptown the other night, where, if you are not known, you have to produce some sort of patent of absolute respectability, construct a rectangle, lettering the imaginary diagonal corners A, B, C and D: A represents a solitary male person dining. B represents a comely person of the opposite sex seated at another table with a party. C represents a head waiter and D a group of the unemployed waiters. Let the line AB represent an admiring look that travels continuously. BA represents a look of annoyance. CA and CB are comprehending glances directed by the head waiter. The point C moves toward D, making a triangle. After a whispered direction a figure which may be termed O, because it represents a particularly rotund waiter, moves from the point D until it reaches a point on the line AB. C moves back to position. A finds that his ogle stops at O, which he cannot see through, and calls O to take an order. Thereupon C motions toward D, when another walter, traveling on the line DA, effects a junction with A and goes off at a tangent. A cranes his neck, stretching to one side or the other, but it cannot get past O. The result is that A finally sees what is up, finishes his coffee in sheepish disgust and leaves the room. —New York Sun. Astrology With Risks. Formerly they had rough and ready modes of testing claims to supernatural powers. "Dost thou know where thou wilt pass Christmas?" asked Henry VII. of an astrologer. He could not tell. Whereupon the king's grace, which did love a merry jest, made answer, "Then I am wiser than thou, for I know that thou wilt spend Christmas in prison." John Galeazzo, duke of Milan, is said to have made even merrier at the expense of an astrologer who foretold him that he would die early. "And how long do you expect to live?" he inquired of the prophet. "My lord, my star promises me a long life." 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C. i. “Billy” Cliffurd is watching his i chanee te come back {rom the minors ‘sate the “big league.” > ' Vhe Wks ard look’ng wise since the _ Supreme Court overruled the injune- tien ef the Georgia court against the ise of the title “Knights of Pythias” jis colored men. [snl it a ernel para dux that a Republican — Justice. ;Helmes, should offer a dissenting ‘opinion in such a case. while the ec Confederate Chief Justice. White, ‘should faver the Negro’s side? The p Alike will move next on the nation’s Wighest tribunal, .° The President of the. United States said some inighty seed things about the colored man's e¢sentional eppor- tinities the other right while com- wending Bishop Thirkield for the lat- ters intensely practical labors “in the training of Negroes as leaders in pro- fessional and business dife. William MW. Taft: makes Title noise, but he has demonstrated that he is areal friend of the race in a rational, level- headed. every-day-in-the week fashion. | The sensihle Negro will stick close sto the Constitution, To take liberties with it, is to risk our liberties, \ pin-head real estate agent has stacked a sign un a house in the goo Dleck’ of So street. reading thus: “Will rent to colored.” ‘The house has been vacant for nearly a year and the ownerthas grown desperate. sittce ne whités have applied. .\s a matter wf fact. no Neuro families have shown any disposition to fall over themselves trying to rent the place, and will not do suas Jong as this insulting placard is flaunted in their faces. The neigh- bors, white and black. are waiting for the aforesaid “fat-head” agent to appear in the street. They -have a package they wish to hand him. J C. Cunningham proposes Cant. -James F. Oyster for president of Howard University. When helpful things are to_be done for the Negro, the hustling Captain, unlike his name. is never “out of season,” regardless of the months without the “r.” Dr. Tunnell is said to be a “deep one.” President Taft wasn’t too busy with politics and other things to keep him away from the meeting of the Hamp- ton Institute Board of Trustees, of which he is an active and enthusiastic member. : “Bob” Pelham is the proud posses: wor of the spade with which — the V ground way hroken last week for the new “gym” on the Howard Univer- sity eatnpns, “Rob” says he holds g ‘eard in the National Shovelers’ Union. Seeretary MacVeagh, who is wanted in many quarters fér President, ha: mremoted more Negroes than ity ether member af the Taft Cabinet. Ve is the kind of a man to tie to. “To belt, or not to bolt"—that’s the question. © . Wen Davis. of Atlanta, is watching very closely the modus operandi ot the steam roller at Chicago. “There's a reason,” The al fresco Woward University commencement pleased every one o: the 3.000 persons present. The clas. sie strains of Joseph H. Douglass well-trained orchestra were intermin: aled with the twittering of birds lodged in the leafy boughs ahove The ‘skies were cloudless and th aladies looked fing in their vari-colores “summer gowns. "Twas indecd a bean tiful picture! . 3 | The near-wits are now styling th {Atlanta RB. M,C. “that Davis ratifica tion meeting.” * . | The political tenderfeet are side stepping the Chicago convention Too hot to handle? Y. M.C. A. Secretary Lewis, E Johnson is now a full-tledged discip! of Blackstone. Political schemers are being put t | the “acid test.” and from now on ther iy “nuthin” doin’” for the fakirs whe claim to be able to deliver the Negrc Former Recorder John C. Dancy has announced his appointment 2s field marshal for the colored troops— in dase “Teddy” is named at the Chicago convention. Despite the national notoriety thrust upon him, our good friend Woolsey W. Hall's head retains its snormal size, Matrimony seems to agree with that dovghty ‘warrior, Major John R. ‘Lyneh. Judge Terrell can “come back” from the minors, too, after the campaign line-up is reorganized. | Colored theaters will get all the ‘business they can handle, if they will advertise liberally, The people want to know “what's what,” and the truly enterprising manager will not _hes1- tate to give them the desired infor- mation. William }}. Harris, the effervescent district grand. master of the local Odd Fellows, has a grand auditorship bee buzzing in his bonnet. Will is a good fellow, a hard worker, and the Dis- trict delegation ought to stand by him for any old thing he wants, As still as it is kept, a few people are aware that Tom Fortune is yet in the land of the living and is editing the New York Age. ' It looks like Secretary Charles D. Hilles for chairman of the Republi- can National Committee. Register J. C, Napier says little, but no official under the government is doing so many substantial, solid, con- structive work for the uplift of oar people. 7 Former Commissioner Macfarland denies the rumor that he is anxious to-try on Bishop Thirkield’s shoes “on the Hill.” Napoleon Bonaparte Marshall bears all the hallmarks of prosperity. Poli- tics pays better than law sometimes. Why has no one been thoughtful enough to propose Prof. W. H. Rich- ards or Prof. W. H. H. Hart for the presidency of Howard University? Is Shelby J. Davidson making a still hunt for the inauguration-year_ presi- deney of the Mu-So-Lit Club? Hungry Washingtonians certainly dy miss— those lavish “free feeds" furmer Register Vernon was wont to hand out in the good old day= Some of the “kickers” mwvst he asleep at the switch. Roscoe Comk- ling Bruce has not needed a “vindi eatin” for over a week. F Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson 1s “he biggest Negro in Chicago. He sewed tip ina sack the Taft delegations from Georgia and Florida, and delivered the gocds, unseratehed, at the front door of the Colliseum.- That was “going some,” . - ‘The Normal school graduates com- plain that Cupid is too slow in pull- ing off his matrimonial stunt. among the female teachers hereabouts. “More pep” is the ery. . No, the new president of Pethel Literary is not S. HL. Dudley. the top- notch-comedian, “The gentlemants in- itials are “S. M." 4 “Phi” Waters, the Tey Orator of the Kanawha, 1 headed Waslangton- wards. . Assistant Attorney General Lewis’ eloquent plea for compulsory partici- pation in athletics struck a popular chord at the Toward eommence- nent 7 Uditer George W. Harris, of the Amsterdam News, New York City. is a benedict. Congratulations! ‘the Democrats of .\rkansas are playing sGme “inside” baseball. They have refused to endorse the “grand- father clouse,” disfranchising Negtoes. Will wonders neser cease? The Republica Senate will replace these much-needed items for Freed- man's Hospital and Howard Universi- ty. taken ont by the cheese-paring. short-sighted Democratic Touse, X lot_of supposedly well-informed people do not know that Freedman's Hospital is one of the: very finest in- stitutions of its kind in the conntry, regardless of colur, Surgeon-in-Chief WI? A. Warfield is being given a free hand to run the place, and he is run- ning it right. The schemers who tried ta tie his hands failed to score. Tt might be well for some of our agitators to remember that the gen- tlement who run the hanks, the big factories. iren and steel mills, who build railroads, develop coal mines, construct sub-river tunnels and bridge our streams, may justly claim membership in that great aggregation known ar “the people.” If they are not “the people.” who—in the name of ten cent-—are “the people?” We have passed the banquet period safely. . “There are signs of restlessness in the tall timber. . There will he a gen- eral exodus from its recesses within the next few days. ROOTISHU OTIFSTIONS. Will Judge Terrell indorse R. R Horner for municipal judge to suc: ceed him? ) Will Armond Scott arid Thomas L Jones form a partnership with Clink, ‘scales as private secretary to Tom and Waring as) chauffeur for Ar mond? Will Roscoe C. Bruce solicit vote: for the reappointment of Dr. Tunnel as a_member of the school hoard? Will R. R. ‘Horner ever succeed it landing an office before he dits? Will Billie Clifford’s memory ‘lapse tong enough to make him forge! how? . Will W. H. Lewis support Trotter for Minister to Haiti? Will Jim Cobb ever marry a wo man without a dowery? Wu John C. Dancy ever be extray agant cnough to dress well? Wonld Will Houston support Ec Norris for dictator of the colorec Qdd_ Fellows? . Will Ralph Tyler ever petition th White Ifouse -to promote his ene mies? ; Will Cy Adams éver circulate amon, colored people except just before ; national election? . Will J. C, Napier resign and ask fo the reappointment of W. T. Vernon Will. W. T Vernon ever be electe: to anything in the A. M. E, Ziot Church? «Will Whitfield McKinley ever for get that he managed Dr. Rayburn’ campaign? oy _ Would Napoleon Marshall wil lingly. accept an introduction to rea work? _ Will Dan Murray's bibliology con a Pye <a ena <i 4 é. 7 . 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ARE NOW OPEN FOR CHARTER’ ~ . -AT THE OFFICE WATER AND N STREETS SOUTHWEST - TO WASHINGTON PARK AND 5 LOWER RIVER LANDINGS FOR SEASON, 1912. . ~ SPECIAL RATES FOR EARLY CHARTERS. 7 ‘ LEWIS JEFFERSON, = General Manager.’ Chiropody Parlors * . to20 You Street Northwest (Upstaies) , Corns, Bunions and Ingrowing Nails Treated Without Pain. ” Lame or tired feet—Foot Massage. * oa == Soe Dieta cosnled «Stak | a Office Hours ’ . “Phone hy : . : x 9 A. M. to 6 P.M. . +» North $13 Sunday by Appointment. RQBERT T. DOUGLASS, Praprictor. . ‘Or me Tae 7 tain any fulsome praise of Rosco C. Bruce? 2 Will Dr. Wilder ever get cuough ‘of running for delegate from the Dis- trict? + Will Calvin Chase support _ Dr, Wilder for animal tender at the Zoo? Will Henry Lincoln Johnson ever favor Fred’ Moore for editor of the Odd Fellows’ Journal? Will Kelly Miller, L. B. Moore and W. VY. Tunnell withdraw their can- didacy for president of Howard in favor of Geo. Cook? Will Bruce Evans ever recommend Jap Wright for principal of the Busi- ness High School over his nephew Henry Murray? Would Jim Walker freely and un- equivocally declare himself for or against anything? 3 Would Dr. Williston exceed the speed limit if that limit was 60 miles an hour? Would Dro A. M. Curtis race Bar- ney Oldiield if they met_in their mia- chines in front of the Eighth Police Precinet Station? Would Dr. Will Davis recognize himself if he happened to discover himself outside of his store? Would Jesse Foster dye to live if he could live by dying? : Would Major Brooks favor Horner for the target when the District mili- tia bave target practice? . WARNING! I: MEAN iT! We Keep Open House the Year Round, and We Keep it in Order WHISKEY Bottled by. : ™ JOHN CASEY : 4th and H Streets, N. W. | en . Washington, D. C. TABy. FR se Pr banegeee Seer ete peeseme sent Chas. H. Jarvins & jSon’ FISH Pouttry anpd Oyster DEaters g3u C Street ‘Northwest, and Center Market. Phone, Main 4480. Washington, D.C. TIMOTHY J. HANLON 1300 H Street, N. &. Washington, D.C. Cars to the Northeast Section and Suburbs pass the door. THE ASTORIA PHARMACY (w. ARMSTRONG) Fresh Drugs. Third and G Streets Northwest. Drugs and Preparations always fresh. hone Main 3252. 2The Best in the City. PRU. F f omenree If you want a first-class tonsorial service, go to the Citizens’ Barber- shop, 1024 You Street Northwest. Ask for the boss, McMullen. Every artist is a gentleman. Clean service on every customer. It is an up-to- date establishment. You will mee the people there. “fention The Be WHY SUFFER WITH PILES. Browns Pile Remedy is used success- fully for Internal and External Piles. Remedy No. 1. An ointment, makes sereness, inflamation and initation vanish. a Remedy No. 2. An internal remedy to aid the ointment by expelling the poisom caused by constipation. To be used together. Both for soc postpaid. J.C. BROWN, Registered Pharmacist 609 Third Street, N. W. * Washington, D. C. e St.RegisHotel IO32 I4th street N. W. Near the comer of 14th and T. In the heart of the quietest .and niost refined neighborhood. The finest and best equipped house, owned and operated by colored management. Cur rooms and apartments represent the standard ‘of comfort and beauty. Dining room, fincst “1 the city. Quick and polite service. | Reasonable rates. Tce cream and soda’ fountain. * GRACE T. MERCER. ROBERY ALLEY Buffct and Fanily Liquor Store - , Phone North 2340 to:7 4th Street, N. W. * Washingtow, D.C Ox Marrew. - We want our readers to patronize us; it helps all around. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. advertises in this pa- per, and when you want a first-class dressing for kinky, harsh and unruly hair, go tu your druggist’s and get a bottle of Ford's Hair Pomade, asc or goc a bottle. _ H. K FULTON’S LOAN y OFFICE . ee ee No. 314 Ninth Street, N. W. Loans made on Watches, Dia- monds, Jewelry, ‘Silverware, Etc. If you want to buy a good watch, diamond ring, or jewelry of any kind, took at our stock frst. . You! Why pay 10 pec cent, whea you cam get it for 3 per ceat. @ K PULTON BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE GOLD AND SILVER WATCH- ES, DIAMONDS, JEWEL- | RY, GUNS, MECHANICAL TOOLS LADIES AND | 3ENTS’ WEARING APPAR- ek OLD GOLD AND SILVER | ROUGHT. ‘UNREDEEMED PLEDGES _ FOR SALE. 361 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. Ze5 FORD'S oi a HAIR POMADE. ke, EMM WAKES ARS IOWBY CR CACY RAR, we CLOSSE SOFTER AND WORE PLABLE,| VV UST TOMS AND PIT OP IM ANTSTTLE| THE LENGTH Wet ERATE OEE, Fm PREVENTING WAR FROM FLING OUT PARORSTY AA OM 98 SCALE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS GET THE GEDACORE PR UP ME ‘254M Soe BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S fuse oft CRY PACE ee ° 7e One "ray FORD'S ROYAL WHITE “= 'SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION, MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCELLED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM. PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLES.* © « Sotd BY DRUCGSTS.IF YOUR DAUGCIST CANNOT; SUPPLY YOU, WE WHL SEND IT TO YOU DIAECT AT THE, Race Piss SD OT 2 ARS Sox THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. ; a2 LAKE ST_DEPT. 204 CHICAGO! AGENTS _WANTEO,~ 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. Attorneys. A true copy. Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills. ATTORNEYS MARTIN AND LEWIS. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court— No. 18910, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the estate of Edward Montague, 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 May, A. D. 1913, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. . Given under my hand this 3rd day of June, 1912. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. JOSEPH H. STEWART, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 1,9068, 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 S. Brown, 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 18th day of June, A. D. 1913; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 18th day of June. 1012. JAMES TANNER Register of Wills of the District of of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. THOMAS WALKER, PRESIDENT. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 18,970, Administration Docket. Estate of Lucy B. Evans, Deceased. Application having been made herein for letters of administration on said estate, by Rosetta Benjamin, it is ordered this 20th day of June, A. D. 1912, that Charles H. Hope, Lucy H. White, Mary Hope, Margaret Hope, Charles H. Hope, 2nd, Cora Hope, Merritt Hope, Jr., Carnelius Hope, Cecil Hope, Susie Diggs, Anna Blue, Leckie Thomas, Mary Lester, Nannie B. Lester, Sidney Lester and James Lester, and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Monday, the 5th day of August, 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 "Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WRIGHT. Justice. Attest: W. C. TAYLOR. Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Pro- vate Court. THOMAS WALKER. Attorney. DINING ROOM. J. A. Anderson, Social Service Lunch, Meals to Order, Ladies' Table. 1531 Fourteenth St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Buffet Service Mr. J. J. Ronayne, who secured the saloon formerly run by Mike Kane, 436 I. Street Northwest, has made extensive improvements. The place looks entirely new, and he is conducting one of the cleanest saloons in this city. His Buffet Lunch from 12 to 2 P M cannot be surpassed for the money. Read The Bee if you want a live paper PURITY ICE COMPANY. Purity Ice Company, 5th and L Streets N. W. Near the K Street Market. JOHN McGAW, Proprietor. The Nomination of Taft. (From Chicago Journal, June 24.) The Republican party is to be congratulated on the nomination of President Taft. That nomination may not mean success at the polls. If the Democrats are at all wise, no Republican candidate can win the Presidency this fall. But by this nomination, the Republican party has avoided disasters worse than temporary defeat, has achieved results more to be desired than temporary victory. The party has proved that it is an organization, not a mob. It has proved that it holds to principles rather than gets drunk on catch words. It may be beaten, but it has not been stampeded. President Taft has been a very passable President, and an extremely good Republican. His blunders have been the blunders of his party—added to those bequeathed him by his predecessor. By all party tradition and national custom, he was entitled to the indorsement of a second-term nomination. To have refused him this nomination the party must have repudiated its own record, denounced its own policies and representatives. In the nomination of President Taft the Republican party has rendered a service, not only to itself, but to the nation. The third-term heresy is one of the most dangerous attacks ever made on the integrity of the republic. It was made by a consummate master of political warfare, backed by unlimited resources of noise and money. If the defeat of this heresy brings disaster on the Republican party, then the candid American can only say that party rendered more patriotic service in the hour of its disaster than in a whole generation of fulfilled prosperity. It is the duty of patriotic citizens, without regard to party, to see that this defeat of personal government is made final. The proposed amendment, fixing the Presidential term at six years, and prohibiting a second term, should be passed without delay. ADAMS ELECTRIC PARK. On another page of this paper will be found the advertement of Adam's Electric Park, located at West Annapolis, Md. This is a new and an ideal accommodation for all-day excursions. Mr. James A. Adams, of Annapolis, is proprietor of the park, and he has expended a large sum in fitting it up with up-to-date amusements and accommodations of those who desire to spend a day and enjoy the splendid shade and cool salt water breezes. The park contains ten acres, and is located on a high knoll; plenty of shade trees, seats, swings, flying horses and a pavilion for more than 100 people; also a large number of boats for pleasure, fishing and crabbing. The park is only two blocks from the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad. Excursionists can also visit the city of Annapolis and see the many historic points and things of interest. The proprietor, Mr. Adams, is already arranging to further improve this park by the erection of neat bath houses and a scenic railway. Mr. James H. Coleman, of this city, is the sole special agent of Mr. Adams, proprietor of the park, and of the B. & A. E. R. R. Co. and is prepared to make contracts respecting excursion dates. As Mr. Coleman is one of our most popular letter carriers and prominent Odd Fellows, further introduction of him here is not necessary. The terms upon which excursions can be run to this park are the most liberal of any to a suitable resort outside the District, whether by railroad or water. As a number of the heads and officers of several societies and organizations have expressed a desire to see the park, Mr. Coleman has arranged to take them over on a private excursion July 4 next. A special car will leave 15th Street and New York Avenue July 4, at 10:30 A.M. Fare, round trip, $1.25. Those who desire to go must address Mr. Coleman, the agent, before July 3. Among the organizations that have already booked dates are the Odd Fellows, *Marching Club*, July 18; Washington Potomac No. 18, August 2, and Golden Reef Lodge, No. 2362, G U. O. of O. F., August 8. Dr. Jackson Cheerfully Abides by Action of Zion Conference. Dr. J. S. Jack-op, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Church, who came within a stone's throw of being elevated to the Zion bench of bishops at the recent general conference at Charlotte, N. C., is not cast down over the result, and bears no one any ill-feeling. He says "Perhaps it is God's way." He lacked but a few votes of the requisite two-thirds—having a majority on almost all of the nine ballots—and could have been elected had some of the "complimentary" candidates thrown their votes to him. Dr. Jackson thanks his friends for their kindly support and is grateful to the delegates who stood by him so loyally from start to finish. He retired from the race to permit the business of the conference to go on. He could not feel content were Zionn's work for the next quadrennium to be retarded because of any persistence in advancing his own ambition. He believes in Zion first, and is glod to note that the church has some God-fearing, level-headed men who are broad enough to sink personal aspiration when the welfare of the church demands sacrifice. Dr. Jackson is gratified that he was re-elected financial secretary by a record-breaking majority, and he will go ahead and put in another four year's of hard work to make the financial condition of Zion all that it should be. He is of the opinion that the coming quadrennium will show even better results than he brought forward during his first term, as the situation is, in many respects, more favorable. He is satisfied that rewards will come in season to those who labor faithfully to serve the Master in the place where he can work best. It is the consensus of opinion that the broad and unselfish course pursued by Dr. Jackson this year will lead to his election to the bishopric by acclamation in 1916. A Scheme That Enabled the Commandant of a Military School to Detect Odor of Smoke. "The most striking fact connected with my school career," said the prep school graduate, "was a peculiar ability on the part of our commandant to detect the faintest odor of smoke in a room on his daily inspection. The school I attended was of the military variety, and smoking was a rather serious offense. No matter how much a room had been aired or fanned with wet towels previous to the inspection, the offender was always caught. "After I had received my finishing touches and become a citizen I made so bold as to inquire from what peculiar dispensation of providence the ability was given to detect one molecule of smoke in a hundred cubic feet of pure air. The old boy smiled and, binding me to secrecy, imparted the reason of his wonderful ability. Then he took me to a boy's vacated room and told me to wet my finger and rub my nostrils with it and sniff. Lo and behold, where before there seemed no talent in the atmosphere was now detected that smell of old tobacco amokel Since then I have taught school myself and have used the trick occasionally, entirely for experimental purposes, however. "I have also sought the scientific explanation, but with little success. It may, however, be somewhat analogous to the process of tasting. You know, it is impossible to taste anything that is not dissolved in water or is not a liquid itself. So the moisture on the nostrils must carry the small particles of smoke in a more or less damp state to the olfactory nerve ends and thus make the smell more apparent. At least this is the only explanation I have ever found for the phenomenon. "The same thing can also be used for detecting other odors, and I have found it useful on a number of occasions for this purpose, both in analytical chemistry, when only a small particle of a certain material is available for analysis, and in detecting faint perfume from flowers that are ordinarily quite odorless."—Chicago Record-Herald. COUNTING HEADS. The First Consus Was Taken by Moses In the Wilderness. There is a record of a census in China as far back as the year 2043 B. C. and of one in Japan in the last century before Christ. Under the constitution of Solon the citizens of Athens were divided and registered in four classes, according to the amount of their taxable property or income. The Roman census was burdened with more statistics than any of these, however. It had its origin under Servius Tullius, sixth king of Rome, and was an affair of much solemnity. Every citizen had to appear upon the Campus Martius and declare upon oath his name and dwelling and the value of his property under the penalty of having his roods confiscated. The most ancient statistical record of a census is found in the Bible. The census was taken by Moses in the wilderness, and, as shown by the first chapter of Numbers, the enumeration must have been very simple. "Take ye," says this account, "the sum of all the congregations of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel; thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies." This census was an affair that must have been soon over, lasting no longer, than one day, being merely a counting of the heads of the fighting men. The women and children and cripples and the old men were not included; "nelther were the Levites numbered among them." Those who did stand up to be numbered totaled 603,550.—New York World. His Bad Break. "Why on earth do you come to me to borrow money, Billups?" said Harkaway peevishly. "Why don't you go to Jorrocks? He's the prosperous looking member of our set." "That's just it, Harkaway," said Billups. "Jorrocks looks so very prosperous that I am quite sure he spends every penny he makes, but you, old man—why, you dress like a man who saves his money." P. S—He didn't get it—Harper's Weekly. FOR SALE Desirable lots in beautiful FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS, high, healthful, and on the trolly line. One car ticket takes you to any part of the city. Three CHURCHES, two PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a large PUBLIC HALL, and other attractions make Fairmount the most desirable residence location near Washington. Lots sell for from ONE HUNDRED to TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, on easy monthly payments. No interest, no taxes; Fairmount has already a population of over 600, and growing rapidly each year. Come out, and see it, and you will be pleased and locate among us. When your lot is paid for we will build you a home, which you pay for in small monthly payments. Take H street cars and go east; get off at 58th or 61st streets, and walk one square north, or call on or write the undersigned and we will call for you, take you out and show you over Fairmount. I also have several beautiful residences in Fairmount for sale on easy monthly payments. Now is the chance to own your home for less than your rent costs you. JAMES ARMSTRONG, Fairmount Heights. Or Address Benning, D. C., R. F. D. No. 3, Box 157. Englewood A New Subdivision - For Particular People NEAR Get in on the ground floor on a good paying proposition. Stock can be bought at the rate of $11.50 per share-$1 down and $1 per month. Any purchaser of stock may use amount paid for stock as part purchase price on lots when full paid if desired. LOTS FROM $80 TO]$275 For further information see or address Capitol Consulting Co. Real Estate, Investment, etc. 639 F Street, N. W. Robert A. Pelham, Manager Shelby J. Davidson, Attorney For Sale—A Desirable Building lot located in a good colored settlement at BURRVILLE, D. C., cheap to quick buyer. Cash or terms. Address C. C. Jennings, 327 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. FOR SALE—AT SACRIFICE. 8 rooms and bath, a. m. i., fine condition; excellent neighborhood; lovely home; $4,450. Inquire 124 S St. N. W. Wanted at The Bee office, two first-class stenographers and typewriters. Call after 5 P. M. Must come well recommended. WANTED—BOYS. Boys who want to earn money should call at The Bee office every Friday afternoon and secure The Bee and sell it to the people. More money is earned from selling The Bee than from any other paper in the city. Furnished Rooms at 1916 Eleventh Street Northwest. All modern conveniences. FOR RENT. Thomas Walker, Atty., 506 5th St. N. W. 1 6 room frame, water in kitchen. $15.50 1 6 room frame, water in kitchen. $15.50 1 5 room brick, store and dwelling. $20.00 1,6 room brick, all modern imp. $22.50 1 3 room frame, water. $10.00 1 0 room frame, front and back porch. $20.00 1 7 room frame, all modern imp. $22.00 SUMMER BOARDERS. Catlet, Va. Summer boarders. Forty miles from Washington, on Southern railroad; about a square from Calet. Good water. Terms. Board and lodging. 75 cents per day. Always ready to make patrons pleasant and happy. Ladies are gentleman only. Open June 20th. MRS. KATE McGUIRE. R. F. D., Catlet, Va. SUMMER BOARDERS. Boarding for the Summer in the Mountains. Rates from $4.00 to $6.00 per week. Write for further information. ROBERT E. ADKINS, Braddock Heights, Md. Specialty made of Constitutions and Pamphlets BUSINESS OFFICE and PLANT, 1109 EYE STREET. N. W. PHONE MAIN 4078 Horner's Dairy Apartment 43, The Cameron: Vt. Ave. &!T. st., N.W. Perfect Pasteurized Milk and Cream. Raw milk if desired. Our Specialty. Fine grades of Creamery Butter. Fresh laid eggs. Eight wagons give you prompt, reliable and efficient service. Corner Eighth and M, Northwest. Phone, North 1872. We can tell you fifty rents —why it will be advantage to buy Carpets from us. Just one is sufficient. We make it possible to have everything for home comfort. Anything you are charged on an apartment is made your circumstance gest. Come where every price and before there's a how or when you PETER C. and SON The Wilberford KARL J. PHILLIP Apartment 43, The Camera Meals to Order at all hours. Open from 6:30 A. M. to 8 P. M. Open Sundays, 7 A. M. to 6:15 P. M. LEE'S LUNCH ROOM GEO. H. LEE, PROP. 1106 E St. N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Meals 15c. and 25c. SPECIAL REMOVAL NOTICE THE SOUTHERN BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL, INC. Has moved to its new and spacious home at 1837 Vermont Ave. N.W. This building has been remodeled for the school purpose, and will be open all the year to those who wish to learn Beauty Culture. Call or address the Principal, MRS. L. B. POLLARD. 'Phone Connections. 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 very near future. For complete information address: The Security Investment and Enterprise Corporation, Mound Bayou. Miss. m-11-aug-11 Drug Stores. Dr. E. L. Robey has a string of drug stores: one at Fairfax, Va., one at Herndon, Va., and one at H and North Capitol Streets Northwest. In all of his stores the very best drugs and other articles are found. Everybody is treated alike. Dr. Frank A. Robey has charge of the Washington store. North Capitol and H Streets Northwest. Mention The Bee. Wonderful Results on Short Notice. I have used your Pomade. It's the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes, of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's), manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. For sale by Nichols' Pharmacy, Corner 19th Street and Penn. Ave.; S. A. Richardson & Co., 7th and Q Sts., N. W.; Morse's Pharmacy, 19th and L Sts. N. W.; W. S. Richardson, 316 Four-and-a-Half St. S. W.; Daniel H. Smith, 28th and Dumbarton Ave., N. W.; J. F. Simpson, corner 7th St. Rhode Island Ave. and R St. N. W.; Singleton's Pharmacy, 20th and E Sts. N. W.; Market Pharmacy, corner 20th and K Sts. N. W.; John R. Major, 716 7th St. N. W.; Ideal Pharmacy, 11th St. and N. Y. Ave. N. W.; R. A. Veitch, corner 20th and M Sts. N. W.; E. E. Cissell, 10th St.; and N. Y. Ave.; W. P. Herbst, Penn. Ave. and 25th St. N. W.; Hutton & Hilton, 22d and L Sts. N. W.; R. W. Duffey, Penn. Ave and 22d St. N. W.; Whiteside Pharmacy, 1921 Pa Ave.; Board & McGuire, corner 9th and U Sts.; F. M. Ciswell, 1901 7th St. N. W.; Quigley's Pharmacy, corner 21st and G Sts. N. W.; Daw's Drug Store; correr 23d and H Sts. N. W.; Howard Pharmacy, 10th and R Sts. N. W. People's Pharmacy, 7th and Mass. Ave. N. W. ROBEY'S PHARMACY. North Capitol and H Sts. N. W. Prescriptions our Specialty. A full line of Schaflint Specialties. j-8-6-mo. JUSTH'S OLD STAND 619 D Street, N. W. It's the fine quality of our stock that brings our customers and keeps us busy; best tailors make the most of the slightly used suits we sell at $3 to $10, and now and then we strike a manufacturer who "favors us." Pays any man well to know us. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D. One Price.