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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE DR.EVAN'S DISMISSAL Has a Parallel in the Dismissal of Miss Nalle—Excerpts From the Supreme Court's Decision Sustaining the Board of Education. The dismissal of Dr. W. Bruce Evans, last week, from the position of principal of the Armstrong High School, by the Board of Education, has prompted the assertion, it is said, by some of his friends, that the matter will be carried to the courts, and that they are sure the courts will not sustain the dismissal for the reason that no charges were filed, and no opportunity given to Dr. Evans to make defense. For the information of its readers, the Bee has searched court records, and herein gives excerpts from the minutes of the board and from the decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the District in the case of Mary E. Nalle, which would indicate there is small chance of the dismissal being overruled by the courts. The following is an excerpt taken from the minutes of the Board of Education for September 14, 1906: "That the following persons be dismissed for the good of the service: * * * Miss Mary E. Nalle from the position as teacher in the M Street High School." Miss Nallie carried her case into court, the style of the case being Mary E. Nalle vs. George W. Baird et al., and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia rendered the following decision, Justice Anderson handing the decision down: "For the purposes of this demurrer, the return of the respondents must be taken as true, at least so far as the same is legally responsive to relator's petition, the one essential fact being that 'these respondents found on examination that the relator was not sufficiently qualified in all respects to be competent to continue, to teach... but was deficient in the necessary academic and pedagogic equipment of a competent teacher... And at a meeting of these respondents as the Board of Education on, to-wit. September 14, 1906...upon the written recommendation of the superintendent, the relator was dismissed by the vote of the board for the good of the service.' The return further states, in substance, that no charge or accusation against relator was filed with the respondent as such board; that she was not dismissed because of any charge or any accusation against her; that 'there could not be and there was not any trial or investigation of relator, but relator was dismissed because of her not being qualified sufficiently to continue to teach in the schools', and that the place made vacant by her dismissal was, pursuant to the written recommendation of the superintendent, duly filled by the appointment of another teacher on September 14, 1906, and that said teacher has been fulfilling the duties of that position and drawing the salary thereof since said date." "So far as the relator is concerned it is admitted by the demurrier that she was dismissed by the Board of Education upon the written, recommendation of the superintendent, simply because she was lacking in the academic and pedagogic equipment of a competent teacher and for no other reason; and the action of the Board in so doing, in the absence of any accusation or charge against her of the character contemplated by section 10 of this act, was clearly within its powers as defined by the act; and therefore the court is as much bound by the action of the Board of Education as the relator herself, even though the board was mistaken as to the lack of equipment on the part of the relator as to which this court has nothing to do. "That Congress never intended to tie the hands of the Board of Education so that it could not dismiss a teacher who was found to be lacking in the necessary qualifications of a competent teacher, is not only evident from the act itself, but in the very nature of things it must be so. If a teacher could not be removed in this and kindred cases except by a formal trial or investigation, then the conferring of 'the control of the public schools of the District of Columbia' upon the Board of Education, and the right in a proper case to dismiss teachers upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools, would be a meaningless and absurd thing. I can conceive of no greater calamity that could befall the public schools of this city, or of any other community, than to place them under a law whereby incompetent teachers could not in any case be removed or dismissed without formal trial, with all the annoying and vexatious incidents attendant thereon. The disastrous consequences of such construction of section 10, of this act, cannot be overestimated, and no such construction should be given the statute unless its language made it the imperative duty of the court so to do. That Congress never so intended is not only clear as it seems to me, from the language of the act itself, but from the further fact that Congress at its last session refused to amend section 10 so as to provide that no teacher could be dismissed for any reason except after a trial, thus indicating the purpose of Congress in passing the original act. "For the reasons stated the demurrer overruled." (See the Washington Law Reporter, Friday, June 14, 1907, pages 371 to 373 inclusive.) Have you read The Bee? If not, do so at once. INSTALLATION SERVICES. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church—Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D. Installed—Attorneys Scott and Gray Speak—Distinguished People Present—Great Popularity of New Pastor. The Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, corner Fourth and L Streets Northwest, has been a scene of liveliness since November 7th. The Rev. Dr. Jernigan, who was called from Oklahoma to this charge, is a wide-awake man. He is an eloquent and logical speaker, and his people think the world of him. His popularity is on the increase, and there has never been a man at this church who has ever been more honored and respected than Dr. Jernagin. The crowd last Wednesday night was the largest that has been at this church during the revival exercises. Every night, however, the church has been crowded to the doors. The exercises Thursday night were the installation of the new pastor. The program was long, but interesting, and the addresses by those present were good. Scated in the pulpit were: Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Rev. W. H Brooks, Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, Rev W. T. Brooks, Rev. W. E. Carroll, Dr. Wm. D. Jarvis, Rev. Ross, Attorneys A. W. Scott and W. A. Gray. At 8:30 P. M. Rev. W. H. Brooks opened the exercises in the absence of Rev. Jarvis, who was booked to preside. Rev. Brooks delivered a most eloquent opening address. The program of exercises was as follows Devotional Exercise—Rev. J. E. Willis. Welcome Address on Behalf of Church—Sister Sophia Lyles. Welcome Address on Behalf of Sunday school—Dea Jackson. Installation Sermon—Rev. W! Bishop Johnson, D. D. Charge to Pastor—Rev. Walter II Brooks, D. D. Rev. Norman failed to put in his appearance, and Rev. Ross came late but in time to deliver one of his most eloquent and timely addresses. The addresses were all very interesting and to the point. The duet by Mrs. Johnson and Carroll was beautiful and loudly applauded. By request of Rev. Brooks, the entire congregation sang very sweetly "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." The choir of the church rendered some very sweet music. One of the most amusing incidents was when a collection was asked for two of the speakers made a quick exit but returned in time for refreshments, which were served in the lecture room below large collection was lifted, and Rev Jernagin was presented with a large basket of flowers and a substantial contribution. The interesting family of the pastor was ushered in and introduced to the guests. Mrs. Jernagin and the four daughters were well received by the people. Refreshments were served by E. Murray, the caterer. The birth place of Rev. Jernagin is Mississippi, and he went to Oklahoma where he lived eight years. There is no man who is better appreciated and liked than he is. It is quite evident that he will win a host of friends and that his administration will be a success. The people of Mt. Carmel love him, and there is every reason that he will succeed. The Bee's female representative was kindly received and entertained, for which she extends her thanks on behalf of the editor. SCHOOL ATHLETICS All' of the officers and committees of the Public Schools Athletic League for the year 1912-1913 have been chosen. A few changes were made as a result of transfers and shifting of the teachers from one division to another but in the majority of cases all efficient officials and committeemen retain their respective assignments. The football season in the high schools is reaching its close and basket ball is booming among the high and elementary schools. Over 66 teams are formed in the elementary schools with a total of nearly 800 boys in training. Players of teams in all four divisions have been weighed in by the committees in charge, and the few players who did not report to be weighed will not be eligible to represent their schools during the basket ball season. The liveliest interest is being taken by the schools, teachers and pupils, in the coming struggle on the basket ball court. The division series in the 11th division will begin next Friday at the gymnasium of the Armstrong Technical High School. Other divisions will commence their series soon. The physical director of the colored Young Men's Christian Association has kindly arranged time during which many of the games of the league can be played in the gymnasium of the association building. Messrs. Guy, Wilkinson, Key and Adams are in charge of the division series, while Messrs. M. COMMISSIONER CUNO RUDOLPH, Who has been Endorsed for Reappointment. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale portrait of a person. M. J. J. B. COMMISSIONER J V JOHNSTON, Who has been Endorsed for Reappointment. HOWARD vs LIN WARD vs LIN HOWARD vs LINCOLN HOWARD vs. LINCOLN: HOW, WILL YOU SPEND THANKSGIVING What a question ! WHY, OF COURSE, ON HOWARD CAM HOWARD-LINCOLN GAM WILL YOU SPEND THANKSGIVING AR What a question! OF COURSE, ON HOWARD CAMPUS HOWARD-LINCOLN GAME. HOW WILL YOU SPEND THANKSGIVING AFTERNOON? Gates open at 12:30 o'clock. Admission, 50 cents. Key, Matthews, Montgomery, and Hamilton, are in charge of the city championship of the elementary schools. The two final games of the city series to decide the championship will be played at the big indoor athletic carnival to be held on February 28, at Convention Hall. The officers and committees of the division leagues and Public Schools Athletic League are: Major James E. Walker, president; Miss E. A. Chase, principal of Jones School, vice president; E. B. Henderson, physical director of colored High Schools, secretary; Miss A. E. Thompson, principal of Slater School, treasurer. The officers of the lea ue and the following are members of the executive board: A. K. Savoy, principal of Burrville School; A. P. Lewis, principal of Patterson School; Dr. M. E. Gibbs, principal of Stevens School; and Haley G. Douglass, corresponding secretary, of the I. S. A. A. The Finance Committee: G. S. Wormley, principal of Bunker Hill to wote at did fand Sa ShI to niti o unl njkoh Sh wote as nl S LINCOLN LINCOLN. THANKSGIVING AFTERNOON? question! WARD CAMPUS AT THE LINCOLN GAME. Game called at 2:30 o'clock Road School, chairman; W. A. Hamilton, W. B. Hartgrove, M. C. Clifford, R. B. Greene. Publicity and Printing Committee: J. Moria Saunders, chairman; B. C. Dodson, E. H. Lawson, E. B. Henderson, Miss A. V. Shorter. High Schools Games Committee: E. B. Henderson, chairman; M. Morton, G. Henry Murray, S. E. Compton. Miss A. J. Turner, J. D. Campbell, J. L. Chestnut. Elementary Schools Games Committee: G. B. Key, chairman; S. Matthews, J. O. Montgomery, W. A. Hamilton, Miss Julia Davis, Miss Harriet Edmonds. Davison Athletic League, No. 10: Dr. M. F. Gibbs, principal of Stevens School, president; Miss M. M. Orme, principal of Sumner School, vice president; Miss F. S. Bruce, principal of Montgomery School, secretary-treasurer. Games Committee: N. L. Guy, chairman; Albert Knorl, Miss Emola McDaniel. Division Athletic League No. 11: A. (Continued to page 8.) WASHINGTON ON THE FRANCHISE. Noted Educator Tells Why He Favors Restricted Ballot—The South's Fatal Mistake—Founder and Head of the Great Tuskegee Institute Advocates Even Handed Justice in Method of Voting White and Colored Citizens in the South—Abhors Lynching. "No influence could ever make me desire to go back to the conditions of reconstruction days to secure the ballot for the Negro," writes Dr. Booker T. Washington in the November Century. "That was an order of things that was bad for the Negro and bad for the white man. "In most Southern States it is absolutely necessary that some restriction be placed upon the use of the ballot. The actual methods by which this restriction was brought about have been widely advertised, and there is no necessity for my discussing them here. "At the time these measures were passed I urged that, whatever law went upon the statute books in regard to the use of the ballot, it should apply with absolute impartiality to both aces. This policy I advocate again in justice to both white man and Negro. "Let me illustrate what I mean. In a certain county of Virginia, where the county board had charge of registering those who were to be voters, a colored man who had long been a resident of the county, a quiet, unassuming man, went before the board to register. He was refused on the ground that he was not intelligent enough to vote. "Before this colored man left the room a white man came in who was so intoxicated that he could scarcely tell where he lived. This white man was registered and by a board of intelligent white men who had taken an oath to deal justly in the administration of the law. "Will any one say that there is wisdom or statesmanship in such a policy as that? In my opinion it is a fatal mistake to teach the young black man and the young white man that the dominance of the white race in the South rests upon any other basis than absolute justice to the weaker man. "I have spoken plainly regarding the South because I love the South as I love no other part of our country, and I want to see her white people equal to any white people on the globe in material wealth. in education and in intelligence. I am certain, however, that none of these things can be secured and permanently maintained except they are founded on justice. "In most parts of the United States the colored people feel that they suffer more than others as the result of the lynching habit. When he was governor of Alabama I heard Governor Jelks say in a public speech that he knew five cases during his administration of innocent colored people having been lynched "If that many innocent people were known to the governor to have been lynched it is safe to say that there were other innocent persons lynched whom the governor did not know about. What is true of Alabama in this respect is true of other States. In short, it is safe to say that a large proportion of the colored people lynched are innocent." DEFINITION OF BULL MOOSE. By Theodore Roosevelt. The following letter was sent from the West, which gives a correct definition of Bull Moose, by Theodore Roosevelt. No better-definition could be given by any other person than the one who led the Bull Moose party and country to destruction: "In view of the fact that Candidate Roosevelt has taken the name of Bull Moose as the label of his new party, it is interesting to note just what Mr. Roosevelt thinks of the bull moose as it appears in his book, 'The Wilderness Hunter.' Even if the comparison is painful, and Roosevelt will undoubtedly declare it -odius, it must stand, for the Colonel's own words should certainly be final. The extract is as follows: The extract is as follows: "The bull moose lives on the public domain and is a very wasteful feeder. "He is of a wandering and flighty disposition. His flesh is moreover, coarse and stringy; his hide is thick. "He frequently shows a clumsy slowness of apprehension which amounts to downright stupidity. "Another noticeable characteristic of the bull moose is his inordinate and unchangeable selfishness. Whether roaming the woods in solitude or tearing up the earth, or coming headlong to the call, he is, thinking first, last and all the time of the safety of his own skin and the fullness of his own stomach. "Further indications of the bull's essential selfishness are found in his frequent abuse and browbeating of all other moose that are smaller than himself. He cannot tolerate a rival but flies into a jealous rage at the first suggestion that there is any other bull moose in the universe." PRINTERS WANTED Wanted, at The Bee office, two good printers, who also have knowledge of making up forms. Also wanted, a first-class stenographer and assistant bookkeeper. The Bee does a real newspaper stunt this week by publishing excerpts from the Supreme Court's decision in the Nalle case, which will be found in another column, to show that the Board of Education acted clearly within its rights when it dismissed Dr. Evans. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Important News Happening of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST (By Miss G. B. Maxfield.) President Taft will make appointments that will fall due before March 4th, and leave it to the Senate to confer or to reject. Judge James L. Pugh has been spoken of as the successor of Mr. Wilson for United States attorney. He will accept if he can be convinced that he can be appointed. Blair Lee will be the next Democratic nominee for Governor of Maryland. Hon. Harry W. Bass, of Philadelphia, was re-elected as a member of the Legislature by a substantial majority over other candidates. All sorts of dirty schemes were in motion to beat Mr. Bass, on account of his color, but he received 2,655 votes, while Mr. Long received 1,214. There are 3,957 Negroes serving the government in the Postoffice Department, whose annual salaries aggregate $3,699,907. Among these are included postmasters, clerks, rural mail carriers and railway mail clerks. Jack Johnson has five indictments to plead to, to which he must answer. Roosevelt declared that his party has come to stay. The Progressive party may stay, but Roosevelt will go. Ambassador James Bryce will soon be succeeded by Spring Rice. He is said to be a very accomplished statesman. H. S. Reeside, treasurer of the local chapter of the Red Cross, has received $1,347 in contributions to the Balkan war fund. The honorary presidency of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Southern Commercial Congress has been accepted by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the President-elect of the United States. Thomas Burt, the first labor representative elected to the British Parliament was seventy-five years old last Tuesday. Lucretia Mott, abolitionist and pioneer advocate of Woman's rights, died near Philadelphia last Monday, forty-two years ago. The President and Mrs. Taft will extend an invitation to Governor and Mrs. Wilson to be the guests of himself and Mrs. Taft at the White House in the course of the winter. It is likely the invitation will be extended during the Christmas week, at which time the President-elect will be passing through the city en route to Staunton, Va., his birthplace, to attend a jubilee in his honor. Jose Canalejas, Spanish premier, was shot dead Tuesday by an anarchist. Roosevelt's assailant plead guilty to attempt to kill him. The assassin's sanity will be inquired into. Russia is to guard citizens of the United States against Turkey. Yesterday William Vincent, Astor, son of the Titanic hero, took his place with the richest men in the world, as under the provisions of his grandfather's and his father's wills he came into possession of upwards of $100,000,000. The declaration that the solitude of the life, the drudgery and the want of variety, have made women of the farm prone to insanity, and that a persistent calumny, without the least foundation is the declaration of Dr. George K. Holmes, expert on conditions of farm life and labor, of the Department of Agriculture. Democrats don't agree on the extra session agitation. There is a difference of opinion among them. Dr. Waldron assures the colored people that President-elect Wilson will treat the negroes right. It is claimed that employees will be protected in the departments after the new administration comes into power. Rev. Waldron didn't advise colored waiters to join the unions. He wants colored men to be treated right and proper by the labor organizations. Rev. Waldron doesn't bite his tongue. There will be several thousand applicants for office after March 4th. President Taft may give you several surprises. The President is still on deck. Reorganization means to freeze opponents out and put favorites in, and Negro government employees are not favorites under a Democratic administration. Subscribe for The Bee JOSEPH CANNON. Veteran Illinois Congressman Defeated For Re-election. Three Stores Fall For Million. Receivers were appointed for the department stores controlled by William S. Butler & Co., the Gilchrist company and Everybody's Store company in Boston. It is estimated that the liabilities of the three concerns amount to more than $1,000,000. William E. Butler, the treasurer of the three companies, committed suicide by shooting. All the shares in the Butler and Everybody's companies are owned by the Butler company, a voluntary holding association. The majority of the stock of the Gilchrist company is held by the holding concern. On petition of a firm dealing in fixtures, which has a claim of $25,000 against William S. Butler & Co., Judge Colt, in the United States district court, appointed C. F. Weed and Milroy H. Gibson receivers. By request of Frederick H. Nash, representing Everybody's and the Gilchrist company, the receivership was extended to those concerns. Mr. Nash said that after the death of Mr. Butler the accounts were found to be so mixed it was impossible to straighten out the affairs of the three stores without resorting to the court. Bank Looted: President Insane: The vaults of the Kirby Savings bank in Chicago, which was taken charge of by receivers on Saturday on the discovery that William T. Kirby, president, had been insane for some time, were found to contain only $852. Several hundred persons, representing about $50,000 in deposits, it is said, waited outside and shouted in rage when the information as to the amount of funds was given them. The police were summoned to disperse the crowd. The total liabilities are unknown. The $552 was made up partly of small change and stamps. The trial of Daniel J. Kirby, Jr. nephew of W. T. Kirby, and cashier of the bank, charged with operating a confidence scheme, was put over by Judge Newcomer to Nov. 15. Carneole Swears Off Taxes. Andrew Carnegie will pay no personal property tax to the city of New York. The iron master's personal property was assessed at $10,000,000, but he appeared before the presidetn of the New York tax department and made affidavit that this was erroneous. Mr. Carnegie swore that the value of his effects in the city did not exceed $3,500,000, while his debts aggregated $8,400,000. Accordingly, the assessment against him was canceled. Woman and Baby Found Dead. Mrs. Mary Wilson and her baby were found dead in a room at their home near Farmington, Pa., by her daughter, Mary. Mrs. Wilson's throat had been cut and the baby's head almost severed. It is thought Mrs. Wilsou, in a fit of melancholia, seized her husband's razor, and after killing the infant committed suicide. 25 Die In Religious Blots Twenty-five persons were killed and many others were wounded in religious rits at Loiria, in Estermadura province, Portugal. The rioting followed a clash between Liberals and Clericals. Troops were rushed to the acene and the city has been placed under martial law. Dies With Five Dogs From Gas. Falling to sleep on the floor, after knocking over a gas stove and thus permitting the gas to escape, Joseph Hearn was asphyxified in the kennels of Joseph Cullen, 1415 Germantown avenue, Philadelphia. Five bulldogs, valued in all at $1000, were killed with him. B. 4. O. Orders Balls. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is about to place contracts for rails, amounting to between 50,000 and 60,000 tons. She Bet on Election. As he result of an election bet, Miss Catherine A. Henry, a school teacher of South-Norwalk, Conn., wore white pumps and white hose to school and will continue to do so all winter. SOCIALISTS GAIN NEARLY DOUBLE ELECTED MANY LEGISLATORS Leaders Say They Would Have Made a Better Showing Had Colonel Roosevelt Not Been a Candidate. The Socialist vote in the United States at last week's election was almost 100 per cent greater than the vote cast for that party's candidate in the presidential election in 1908, it will be near the million mark. The spread of the doctrine seems not to have been confined to any particular section, nearly every state in the Union showing an unusual increase. While rejoicing over the progress made by their cause, many Socialist leaders declare that a still greater showing would have been made had Colonel Roosevelt not inaugurated the Bull Moose movement, which attracted many voters from Debs, who has been running for president on the Socialist ticket for many years. It is believed that when all the returns have been canvassed it will be found that a score or more Socialista throughout the country will have been elected to state legislatures. Kansas has elected one state senator and one member of the general assembly. From the far south comes the story that in Mississippi Debs received a total vote greater than President Taft. In the far west California gave him 66,350 votes, or 37,691 more than he received four years ago. Minnesota, on the northern boundary line, went a little better with her Socialist vote than in 1908, returning an estimated total of 15,000 Debs ballots. In New York state the Socialists polled 49,956, an increase of 11,535, and in Pennsylvania they polled 61,000 and nearly doubled their vote. Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia and Washington are among the states which trebled or nearly trebled their vote for the Socialist candidate. In Indiana the movement was largely recruited by dissatisfied men in the Democratic party, it is claimed, the total increase being 270 per cent over the Debs vote of 1908. DEMOCRATS GET SENATE Will Have 49, a Majority of 2—California For Roosevelt. Virtually complete returns from California show that Colonel Roosevelt has definitely wrested the state from Governor Wilson, his plurality over the Democrat being about 900 votes. Wilson, however, gets four more electoral votes by winning Idaho from President Taft by a plurality of about 600. If an official count does not change these two results Wilson will have carried forty states, with 433 electoral votes; Roosevelt, six states, with 90, and Taft only two states, with 8 votes. These two states are Utah and Vermont. Unofficial returns show the nation's popular vote to have been: Wilson ..... 6,398,000 Roosevelt ..... 4,315,000 Taft ..... 3,350,000 Positive announcement of the success of Harry Lane, the Democratic candidate for the United States senate in Oregon, assures Democratic control of the upper house of congress and places both branches of the national legislature and the presidency in their hands for the first time in eighteen years. The addition of Oregon to the Democratic list gives that party forty-nine senators, or a majority of two. SLAIN BY HUNTER Companion Tripped and Fell, Pulling Hammer of Gun. Another hunting tragedy occurred near Lewistown, Pa., when John C. Nipple, aged twenty-one years, was fatally shot by William Campbell while hunting rabbits near their homes in Ferguson Valley. Campbell tripped and fell, pulling the hammer of his shotgun and sending the load of shot into Nipple's right kidney and lung. The wounded man fled in a short time. STEELTRUST MAKES RECORD Unfilled Tonnage at Highest Figure Ever Known. The unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation for the month ending Oct. 31 was 7,594,381 tons. This breaks all monthly or quarterly records. The unfilled tonnage for the same month last year was 3,694,328 tons, and for September of the present yea rit was 6,551,507 tons. Falling Pulley Killis Worker. A heavy pulley wheel broke from its fastenings on a large derrick used for hoisting stone at Nicholson, Pa., and William Shields was killed instantly when the pulley struck him in the back of the neck. Repair White House Lightning Rods. - The lightning rods on the White House were repaired and put in good working order. The rods had been wearing out gradually. ARMAGEDDON OF THE SCRIPTURES Startling Presentation of Coming Events. Churches of All Denominations and the Civil Powers of Earth Are About to Unite In Common Cause—Powerful Influence Preparing For the Battle of Armageddon—A Reign of Anarchy Will Be the Result of the Warfare Until The Messiah Takes Control. Brooklyn, N. I. Nov. 3. — The Brooklyn Academy of Music was crowded to the limit today to hear Pastor Russell's discourse on the "Battle of Armageddon." His text was: "He gathered them together unto a placed called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." PASTOR RUSSELL Brooklyn, N. I. Nov. 3. - The Brooklyn Academy of Music was crowded to the limit today to hear Pastor Russell's discourse on the "Battle of Armageddon." His text was: "He gathered them together unto a placed called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." (Revelation xvi, 16.) The speaker said: Armageddon in the Hebrew signifies the "Hill of Megiddo," or Mount of Destruction. It was famous as a battlefield in Old Testament times. The Lord has seen it to associate the name Armageddon, with the great controversy between Truth and Error, right and wrong. God and Mammon, with which this Age will close, perish, and the New Age of Messiah's glory be ushered in. He has purposely used highly symbolical figures of speech in the last book of the Bible, evidently with a view to biding certain important truths until the due time for their revelation. But even in the due time, the Bible assures us, "None of the wicked shall understand" (Daniel xl, 9, 10—none who are out of heart harmony with God—but only the wise of His people—the "wise virgin" class of the Master's parable. I have long avoided presentation of my understanding of our text and its context. I take it up now by request and because I believe it is due time to be understood. I disclaim any special inspiration. In some particulars my views agree with those of other Bible students, and in other respects they disagree. Each hearer must use his own judgment, do his own Bible study, and reach his own conclusions. Kindly remember that I am not responsible for the figures of speech used by the Lord. My interpretations do indeed constitute a terrible arraignment of institutions which we have all reverenced and which embrace good people, of good words and good works. God's saintly people in these various institutions, being comparatively few, are ignored when systems as a whole are dealt with in prophecy. The Dragon, Beast, False Prophet. Our context tells us that three impure spirits (teachings) will go forth from the mouths of the Dragon, the Beast and the False Prophet, and these three will be in accord, and symbolically the doctrines are represented by "frogs." These three doctrines are to have a mighty influence throughout the civilized earth. They are to gather the kings and their armies to the great Battle of Armageddon. The ecclesiastical kings and princes, and their retinues of clergy and faithful adherents, will be gathered in solid phalanx—Protestant and Catholic. The kings and captains of industry, and as many as can be influenced by them, will be gathered to the same side. The political kings and princes, with all their benchmen and retainers, will follow in line on the same side. The financial kings and merchant princes, and all whom they can influence by the most gigantic power ever yet exercised in the world, will join the same side, according to this prophecy. These "doctrines of demons," represented by the "frogs," will lead many noble people in this great army to assume an attitude quite contrary to their preference. For a time the wheels of liberty and progress will be turned backward and medieval restraints will be considered necessary for self-preservation—for the maintenance of the present order of things. In giving this interpretation, it is necessary for us to indicate what is symbolized by the Dragon, the Beast, and the False Prophet. Bible students of nearly all denominations agree with us that the "Dragon" of Revelation represents the purely Civil Power. Protestant interpreters generally agree that the "Beast like a leopard" (Revelation xll. 2) represents the Papacy. But fewer still, we fear, will be ready to support our view that Protestantism is the "Image of the Beast" (Revelation xll. 15) in our context given another name, "the False Prophet." We urge no one to accept our interpretation, nor shall we think hard of any who refuse it. We will neither slander nor otherwise injure them now, nor threaten them with eternal torture. They have the same right to their views that I have, and the same right to make them known to others. And I, for one, will be very glad to consider anything which opponents may set forth as their interpretations of our text. "Unclean Spirits Like Frogs." The symbolisms of Scripture, rightly understood, are always forceful. When the Holy Spirit used a "frog" to symbolically represent certain doctines or teachings, we may be sure, the true application will fit well. A frog has a sage look, a wise look. It swells itself up in an apparent endeavor to impress the beholder. Its great mouth well represents its chief power, used to croak. Applying these symbols, we learn that an evil spirit, influence, teaching, will come from the Protestant churches federated, from the Church of Rome, and from the Civil authorities, all in full agreement. The spirit of all will be boostful; an air of superior wisdom and knowledge will be proudly assumed—all will croak in harmony. All will tell of dire results that would follow, involving the interests of both the present and the future life, if their counsel be not followed. However, conflicting the creeds, the differences will be ignored in the general proposition that nothing ancient must be disturbed, or looked into, or repudiated. The Divine authority of the Church, and the Divine right of kings, aside from the Church, will not be allowed to conflict. Any persons or teachings in conflict with these boastful and inscriptural claims will be branded as everything vile, at the mouths of these "frogs" speaking from pulpits, and platforms and through the religious and secular press. The nobler sentiments of some will be strangled by the philosophy of the same evil spirit which spoke through Calaphas, the high priest, respecting Jesus. As Calaphas declared its expedient to commit a crime in violation of justice, human and Divine, to be rid of Jesus and His teachings, so this "frog" spirit will approve of every violation of principle necessary to their self-protection. The croaking of these "frog" spirits or doctrines will gather the kings and princes, financial, political, religious and industrial into one great army. The spirit of fear, inspired by the croaking of these "frogs", will scourge the passions of otherwise good and reasonable men to fury, desperation. In their blind following of these evil spirits, evil doctrines, they will be ready to sacrifice life and everything on the altar of what they mistakenly suppose is justice, truth and righteousness, under a Divine arrangement. For $p$ brief time, as we understand the Scriptures, these combined forces of Armageddon will triumph. Free speech, free malls, and other liberties which have come to be the very breath of the masses in our day, will be ruthlessly shut off under the plan of necessity, the glory of God, the commands of the Church, etc. All will seem to be serene, until the great social explosion in our context described as the "great Earthquake." An "earthquake," in symbolic language, signifies social revolution, and the declaration of the context is that none like unto it ever before occurred. (Revelation xv1, 18, 19.) Jesus described it as a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation.-Matthew xxiv, 21. The Lord Will Gather Them. The Lord Will Gather Them. The false, frog-like teachings will gather together into one host the great, the rich, the wise, the learned and the kings of the earth, to battle. At this juncture Divine Power will step forward, and our text tells us that HE shall gather the marshaled hosts to Armageddon—to the Mountain of Destruction. The very thing which they sought to avert by their union, federation, etc., will be the very thing they will hasten. Other Scriptures tell us that God will be represented by the Great Messiah, and that He will be on the side of the masses. Thus we read in Daniel xil, 1: "At that time shall Michael [the Godlike One—Messiah] stand up"—assume authority. He will take possession of His Kingdom in a manner little looked for by many of those who erroneously have been claiming that they were His Kingdom, and authorized by Him to reign in His name and in His stead. Jesus declared, "His servants ye are unto whom ye render service." Some may be rendering service to Satan and to error, who claim to be rendering service to God and to righteousness; and some of these may be serving ignorantly, as did Saul of Tarsus, who "verily thought that he did God a service" in persecuting the Church. The same principle holds true reversely. As an earthly king does not hold himself responsible for the moral character of each soldier who fights in his battles, so the Lord does not vouch for the moral character of all who will enlist and fight on His side of any question. "His servants they are to whom they render service," whatever the motive or object prompting them. The same principles will apply in the coming Battle of Armageddon. God's side of that battle will be the people's side, and the very nondescript host, the people will be pitted at the beginning of the battle. Anarchists, Socialists, and hot-headed radicals of every school of reason and unreason, will be in the forefront of that battle. The majority of the poor and the middle class prefer peace at almost any price. A comparatively small number, God's consecrated people, will at heart be longing for Messiah's Kingdom. These will bide the Lord's time and wait patiently for it; they will be of good courage, knowing the outcome outlined in the "more sure word of prophecy," to which they have done well to take heed, "as unto a light shining in a dark place until the Day dawn."—II Peter L 10 The masses will be restless of their restraints, but will be consolous of their own weakness as compared to the kings and princes, financial, religious and political, which will then hold away. Besides, the masses have no sympathy with anarchy. They realize truly that the worst form of government is better than none. The masses will seek relief through the ballot and peaceful re-adjustment of earth's affairs for the elimination of evil, for the placing of monopolies and utilities and the supplies of nature in the hands of the people for the public good. The crisis will be reached when the hitherto upholders of law shall become violators of the law and resisters of the will of the majority as expressed by the ballot. Fear for the future will lead the well-meaning masses to desperation; and anarchy will result when Socialism falls. The Cloud's Silver Lining. Horrible would be this outlook for the future did we not have the infallible Word of God assuring us of a glorious outcome! Divine Wisdom has withheld until our day the great knowledge and skill which is at the same time breeding millionaires and discontents. Had God lifted the veil a thousand years sooner, the world would have lined up for its Armageddon a thousand years sooner. But that would have been too soon for the Divine purpose, because Messiah's Kingdom is to be the great Thousand-Year-Sabbath of the world's history. God in kindness velled our eyes until the time when the gathering to Armageddon would immediately, precede Messiah's taking to Himself His great power, and beginning His reign—Reveal lton x1. 17. 18. "Send Them Strong Delusions-" St. Paul wrote prophetically of our time, that it would be one of serious trial and testing to many professing to be Christians. The reason for this he states—they received not the Truth in the love of it. (11 Thessalonians II, 10, 11.) They preferred their own erroneous theories, the Apostle explains, and therefore God will give them over to a "strong delusion," and let them believe the lie which they preferred, and let them suffer for missing the Truth which they did not love. Thus they will be in the condemned host, "fighting against God," because of their lack of love for the Truth. It is sad to say that we all as Christians have been laboring under a thorough delusion respecting God's Plan. We have claimed that Christ set up His Church in Kingdom power, and that the Church has been reigning on the earth as His representative. On the strength of this delusion, Jews and heretics have been persecuted to death as opponents to Christ's Kingdom. All the while we thoughtlessly repeated the Lord's prayer: "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as in Heaven." We knew that the Redeemer said that He would come again to make us His Bride and Joint-heirs; but we ignored the Scriptures. We were drunk, as the Scriptures symbolically say, "all nations were drunk" with the false doctrine. It is this false doctrine that will constitute the "frog" spirit which soon will begin to croak and to prepare for Armageddon. The Bible, presentation is that the world is a section of the universe in rebellion against Divine authority, under the captaincy of Satan and his associated fallen angels. By Divine grace Jesus has already "tasted death for every man," and the merit of that sacrifice must, eventually, grant Adam and his posterity a full, fair opportunity for the attainment of exgranting life. All who thus see the Divine program and are walking in the light may know something at least respecting the "times and seasons." These brethren "are not in darkness, that that day [and that battle of Armageddon] should overtake" them, "as a thief"—unawares. Armageddon Not yet but Soon. For forty years the Armageddon forces have been mustering for both sides of the conflict. Strikes, lockouts and riots, great and small, have been merely incidental skirmishes as the belligerent parties crossed each other's paths. Court and Army scandals in Europe, Insurance, Trust and Court scandals in America, have shaken public confidence. Dynamite plots, charged by turns on employees and on employers, have further shaken confidence and tended to make each distrustful of the other. Bitter and angry feelings on both sides are more and more manifest. The lines of battle are daily becoming more distinctly marked. Nevertheless Armageddon cannot yet be fought. Other matters intervene, according to prophecy. Gentle times have still two years to run. The "Image of the Beast" of our context must yet receive life—power. The Image must be transformed from mere mechanism to a living force Protestant Federation realizes that its organization will still be futile unless it receive vitalization—unless its clergy directly or indirectly shall be recognized as possessed of apostolic ordination and authority to teach. This the prophecy indicates will come from the two horned beast, which, we believe, symbolically represents the Church of England. High-handed activities of Protestantism and Catholicism, operating in conjunction for the suppression of human liberties, await this vivifying of the Image. This may come soon, but Armageddon cannot precede it, but must follow—perhaps a year after it, according to our view of the Prophecy. Still another thing intervenes: Although the Jews are gradually flowing into Palestine, gradually obtaining control of the land of Canaan, and although reports say that already nineteen millionaires are there, nevertheless prophecy requires an evidently larger number of wealthy Hebrews to be there before the Armageddon crisis be reached. Indeed we understand that "Jacob's trouble" in the Holy Land will come at the very close of Armageddon. Then Messiah's Kingdom will begin to be manifested. Thenceforth Israel in the land of promise will gradually rise from the ashes of the past to the grandeur of prophecy. Through its Divinely appointed princes, Messiah's Kingdom, all-powerful but invisible, will begin to roll away the curse and to lift up mankind. seed, rye and buckwheat. With the value of the growing cotton crop and the crops of tobacco, rice and apples, the aggregate value of these principal farm products will amount to well beyond $5,000,000,000. Upon the preliminary estimates of production and prices announced, the value of the crops figure out as follows: Corn, $1,850,776,000; hay, $854,615,000; wheat, $603,038,000; oats, $476,169,000; potatoes, $188,501,000; barley, $120,845,000; flaxseed, $39,698,000; rye, $24,370,000; buckwheat, $12,526,000. Record crops of corn, potatoes flaxseed, oats, barley, rye and hay were harvested this year. The government* official estimates of the value of the various crops and its final estimates of total production will be announced in December. Bulgariana Take Turklab City. A dispatch from Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, says that Kirk-Killish has been captured by the Bulgarian army, which has been fighting against the Turkish troops in the vicinity of Adrianople for several days. The possession of this fortress opens the way to a Bulgarian advance upon Adrianople, as Kirk-Killish is regarded as the key to this great fortress, and is the headquarters of the Turkish Third Army Corps, commanded by Kennan Pacha. The Turkish garrison at Kirk-Killish, consisting of 5000 men, surrounded to the Bulgarians. The Turkish generals were among those captured. The fighting lasted five days, with heavy losses of life on both the Turkish and the Bulgarian sides. The capture of Adrianople is the next objective of the Bulgars. The Turkish garrison of Adrianople suffered heavy losses during the sortie from the northeastern quarter of the town. They left twelve cannon on the field when they retired. Thanks giving Proclamation. President Taft issued the time-honored Thanksgiving proclamation calling on the nation to render thanks for past blessings and setting aside Nov. 28 for the observance. Washington, Nov. 8.—President Taft issued the time-honored Thanksgiving proclamation calling on the nation to render thanks for past blessings and setting aside Nov. 28 for the observance. The president departed from the usual text to write in a little paragraph, which might refer to the election, and which specified how strong and steadfast the people were in the "conservation of the heritage of self-government bequeathed to us by the wisdom of our fathers and their firm resolve to transmit that heritage unimpaired." Lord Decies Is Sued. Lord Decies, who married Miss Vivien Gould, was sued in the London, Eng., courts by a firm of builders for $35,000, the balance of $100,000 for work at his country place, Theford Park. Lord Decies' defense was that the prices charged were exorbitant, and entered a counter claim for $25,000 damages for bad workmanship. The plaintiff's architect stated that Lord Decies had told him there would be no difficulty about the money, which was being found for him, and that decorative effects were to be looked after by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Gould. The case was adjourned. Ban on Christmas Trees. The department of agriculture has placed an embargo upon the interstate shipments of Christmas trees from Malne, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, because of the gypsy and brown-tall moths. The quarantine becomes effective Nov. 25 and also affects the shipment of decorative plants, such as holly and laurel, known as "Christmas green or greenery." Only in cases where the plants and plant products have been inspected and pronounced to be free from these two insects by the department's inspectors will they be permitted to enter interstate commerce. Reading Greek Killed. Information has just been received in Reading, Pa., that Louis Polites, a Greek, who returned to Greece from Reading fourteen weeks ago, has been killed in the Balkan war in action near Monastir. He was thirty-four years old. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $4@4.25; city mills fancy, $5.25@5.50. RYE FLOUR quiet, at $3.85@4 per barrel. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, 97½@88e CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, 88¢ 88¢c OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 381½ 98t, lower grades, 37c. FOULTRY: Live heady; hens, 12@ 14c; old roosters, 11@11½c. Dressed firm; choice fowls, 17c; old roosters, 13c. BUTTER steady; fancy creamery, 34½c. per lb. Live Stock Markets. 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Jules Lamaltre in a work on "the great egotist," as he calls Chateaubland, tells how the author bargained with the mayor of St. Malo for the grant of a rock whereon to plant his tomb, which, he stipulated, was to be a simple stone with a cross, without a name, amid the waves. "He was bent," says Chateaubland's latest biographer, "on astonishing the world, even when he could no longer be by to enjoy the effect. There was vanity in his very skeleton."—New York Press. Hung by an Expert. The box car nomad wiped the last lingering ple crumbs from his lips, with a grimy coat sleeve and dragged his reluctant feet over to where the scythe was. His whole nature revolted against touching the thing, but he had his part of the contract to fulfill. Besides, the farmer was watching. With the scythe in his hands he advanced cautiously toward the battle array of iron weeds in the fence corner and made three or four half hearted swipes at them. Then he rested the hated blade on the ground and called to the farmer. "Say, boss, this scythe ain't hung right." "Well," was the retort "hang it to suit yourself." Whereupon the hobo hung it upon a convenient sapling and departed hastily in the direction of the railroad track—Brooklyn Eagle. Right—Try It! Get up right in the morning. Go to bed right at night. Start with joy in your heart, hope in the future, kindness in your purpose. If it is a dark day, never mind; you will lighten it up. If it is a bright day, you will add to the brightness. Give a word of cheer, a kindly greeting and a warm handshake to your friends. If you have enemies, look up, pass them by, forget and try to forgive. If all of us would only think how much of human happiness is made by ourselves there would be less of human misery. If all of us would bear in mind that 'happiness is from within and not from without there would be a wellspring of joy in every heart and the sun would shine forever. Try it—John A. 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"I have not got one," replied the king. "Then," rejoined the gendarme, "I shall have to summon you. Your name, address and profession?" "Alfonso de Bourbon, king of Spain, Palace Miramar, S. Sebastian," was the reply. Tableau—"The Passes of the Pyrenees." Taking Him Down. "What reason have you to think my Jaughter loves you?" "She says she is willing to make any sacrifice for me." "That's no sign she loves you." "What is it, then?" "An indication that she's crazy."—Chicago Record-Herald. Psychological Study. "What makes you think that man has a melancholy disposition? His remarks are always highly optimistic." "That's the point," replied Miss Cayenne. "Only a person of melancholy tendencies would have to go to so much palms to cheer himself up."—Washington Star. Piling It On. "Thompson's cow got into my garden and ate all the grass off the lawn." "What did he do?" "Sent me a bill for using his cow as a lawn mower." Superscience. 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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. Criswell, 1901 7th St. N. W.; Quigley's Pharmacy, corner 21st and G Sts. N. W.; Daw's Drug Store, corner 23d and H Sts. N. W.; Howard Pharmacy, 10th and R Sts. N. W. People's Pharmacy, 7th and Mass. Ave. N. W. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$4. Six months..... Three months..... Subscription monthly.... "WILSON, THAT'S ALL." Woodrow Wilson was elected President by such a stupendous majority as to preclude him, or his party, from believing, even were the imagination accelerated three-told, that the Democratic Negro voters had any part whatever in bringing about his election. By no way or reasoning, and by no analysis on the vote, by counties, states or sections, can the Democratic Negro vote be figured as a factor in accomplishing the result of the recent residential election. This being true, and it cannot be shown to the contrary, Woodrow Wilson is under no obligation to appoint Negro Democrats to office, and he will not, with the possible exception of Minister to Haiti and Minister to Liberia, two positions to which white men do not aspire. And the selections for these posts, if made, will be high-class Negroes whose names did not appear on the Democratic committee's payroll. Again, every Negro Democrat who worked for Mr. Wilson, and we make not a single exception, was on the payroll; was paid in full, in cash, and in the light of results there was no service rendered by them. New York Negro Democrats who have plummed their wings to fly into every position now held by a Negro, were all Tammanyites, and as Mr. Wilson lost the city of New York where Tammany is in complete control, it follows that they cannot expect or hope for recognition at the hands of the incoming President. And all these New York Negro Democrats were on the payroll, were paid in cash to support Tammany first, last and all the time, without regard to Mr. Wilson. And as to the over-night voteless Negro Democrats here in Washington who are deluding themselves into the belief that they will get office, the thought is but a mere form of aggravated insanity. When the investigation into campaign contributions, by Congress, was scheduled to begin, William Randolph Hearst, editor of The New York American, boldly stated in public prints that unless all called told the truth, the whole truth, he would publish certain documentary proofs that would discredit their testimony. When The Bee now charged that every Negro Democrat who supported Mr. Wilson, or alleges to have supported him, received pay in cash, we boldly declare that if any deny this statement it will devolve upon The Bee to publish their names and after each name the sum received, as shown by the books of the Democratic committee. And The Bee will welcome the opportunity to give to the public this information. And we will show, by the sums received, by Negro Democrats as compared with the service rendered that the Negro Democrat was an expensive luxury for Mr. Wilson's party. We repeat, unqualifiedly, and with emphasis, that Woodrow Wilson, in the light of results—his overwhelming majority—is absolutely under no political obligation to recognize, with office, a single Negro Democrat; and that every Negro Democrat who worked for Mr. Wilson, or alleged he worked for him, was paid in full in cash, and receipts for such payment are in evidence. All that the Negro Democrats—that limited bunch of impecunious grafters, will get when Mr. Wilson shall have been inaugurated will be "Wilson, that's all." This is both a statement of facts, and a challenge. WARNING TO DREW. The daily newspapers here carried a news item the past week to the effect that a fund of $1,000 is to be raised and presented to Rev.? Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. If such a fund is raised, who will be the donors to that fund? Why, poor washer women and laboring men, whose hard-earned wages ought to, by rights, go to their needy families. Here is a church that is in debt, and yet, instead of toiling to pay off the debt on the church it is proposed to raise a fund of one thousand dollars and give to the pastor. Rev. Francis Grinke, Rev. Walter Brooks, Rev. Rivers, Rev. Norman, and scores of other Negro pastors in this city who have rendered a real service to their church and to the community have not had the audacity to propose that their congregations, and incidentally the public, raise such a fund for them. Then why should this man Drew, who is but a recent comer to Washington, and whose church membership is composed of poor, struggling, hard-working people, be given this, or any other amount beyond his salary? Here we are right upon the threshhold of winter, when work is scarce and when destitution among the poor is greatest, and yet it seems, there is one minister so unmindful of his duties as to be willing that the public shall be taxed to enrich him. The Bee assumes, and the public assumes, that it should protect the people against undue avarice on the part of layman or minister; should protect against tributes levied by the undeserving, and it proposes to oppose, with all the vigor of its strength this proposed effort to tax the poor, hard working people for the benefit of Rev. Drew. It's a shame to take the money. This is a warning to Rev. Drew that he better at once veto this ridiculous and unjust proposition to raise a fund of one thousand dollars, or any other amount, for l.i.s benefit. FEW CHOSEN. After the inauguration of Mr. Wilson, the hungry brows will infest this city, the hay-seeds of the South will permeate the government departments and eye one another, and say to themselves: that is a good place that "nigger" holds. I can sit down like he does and draw his salary." The "bull moosers" will begin to think and wonder what they have done. He will think of his little ones at home, his wife and children, and how he had a full dinner pail while he occupied the same position under the Taft administration. But, O! won't the traitors of this administration think of the "friend they've had?" The corn bread, ghash and fish they left behind then, in the South and pushed aside when they were installed in office, will be a strange menu to them. Bean soup will be a healthy relish, and pigs' feet will be an excellent dish when Woody Wilson comes in. O! you bull moose and administration traitors! Teddy can't feed you all. Prophet Dixon will tell you to wait until 1916, but you will starve to death before that time. No bolter from President Taft will be given any consideration by the Wilson administration. NEGRO STABILITY. There is but little stability among certain Negroes, and more especially the so-called intelligent Negro. How do they expect the white man to have any respect for them? They so soon forget a wrong that has been inflicted upon them. No man in this country has been any more brutal towards them than Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and yet thousands of them flocked to him in the last Presidential contest. The Bee makes the prediction, before the administration of Mr. Wilson is half over these same Negroes will wish for the return of the Republican party and regret the defeat of President Taft. The time will come when the name of Wm. Howard Taft will be as immortal as that of Abraham Lincoln, and that of Theodore Roosevelt will be as great a blot on the pages of history as slavery is to the Southern people. Why do the Negroes so soon forget their benefactors? Why will they allow themselves to be betrayed for a piece of filthy lucre? The so-called Negro Democrats and Negro bolting Republicans expect great plums from Mr. Wilson. O! but won't they be disappointed? Many of them imagine that they will get big plums by the mere asking. Stability with any race is the entering wedge to recognition. THE DISGRUNTLERS Certainly our local Democrats will not be deceived or hoodwinked in allowing a few disgruntled and disappointed Negro Republican office hunters making them believe that they actually divided the Negro vote. Those Negro Republicans who did not vote for President Taft voted for Col. Roosevelt, and they now see what a gigantic blunder they made. They don't know what to think of themselves, and if they had it to go over again they would do otherwise. The bull moose party is as dead as a door-nail, and those who supported and voted for it look like a lot of caged rats. Take every Negro "bull moose" and ask him why he voted for Roosevelt, and he will tell you, that Roosevelt promised more, or promised him an othec. It is amusing to hear a certain Negro bull moose, otherwise a gossiping corner alleged colored Democrat, declaring that President-elect Wilson has promised to make him Recorder of Deeds. The next Recorder of Deeds will be a white-local Democrat, who wants everything in sight. The Bee expects to see several Negro applicants candidates for "Dahoma." A FRIENDLY ADVICE. The friends of the deposed principal of the Armstronging Manual Training School have advised him to carry his case to the courts; that he was removed without cause. The principal of the Armstrong knows as well as The Bee why he was removed. Every teacher in his building knows why he was removed. They all know what they have testified, and what they voluntarily said to the proper school officials. The alleged friends of the principal had better go slow, because if a public investigation should be held or should the Board of Education be called upon to answer any bill of complaint it will not do the principal any good, and his friends, will then be convinced what a mistake they have made. The principal had an opportunity to resign and his refusal to do so resulted in his removal. The Bee advises the friends of the school to let good enough alone. A hint to the wise is sufficient, and the friendly advice The Bee gives to those who don't know the facts in this case is for the best interest of the schools. The charge has been made that there is a clique in the schools. There was a clique before Dr. Davidson made a few important changes. Had it been left to The Bee, Prof. N. E. Weatherless would have been the successor of the deposed principal. He is the most competent and best qualified for the place, and The Bee is of the opinion that a mistake was made when he was not appointed. Prof. Weatherless is qualified in every particular. He knows every branch of the work that is taught at the Armstrong Manual Training School. As a mechanic no better man can be found; as a mathematician, his equals are not in the schools; as a teacher of physics, he is number one. He is an all-round teacher, and such a man should have been placed at the Armstrong. AUDITOR TYLER Auditor Ralph W. Tyler is one man under the present administration who is entitled to the highest commendation of the American peole and his race especially. When the Democratic administration comes into power and assumes control of this government, it will find that there is one Negro official who has conducted his office in a manner that is creditable and commendable. The paymasters of the navy, whose accounts Mr. Tyler has settled, have the greatest respect and commendation for him. Many have complimented him for the accuracy and dispatch he has adjusted their accounts, and it is likely that these officials, who did not look upon Mr. Tyler with favor in the beginning, will ask the Democratic administration to retain him. Should the Democratic administration appoint a successor to Mr. Tyler, The Bee is confident that every officer in the navy whose accounts have passed through his office, will speak of him as a most competent and fair official, and no doubt the best that has ever held that office. With the many clerks and other employees under him, they will testify that he has been unassuming, fair and just to all, regardless of color or condition. In this connection, The Bee desires to say and inform the world, that no man has done any more for the colored public schools in securing adequate appropriations for them than he has, through his Senators and Representatives from the State of Ohio. Should he be retired, The Bee is confident that he will succeed in anything that he will undertake. He has been fairer to his friends than they have been to him. He has sacrificed his own personal interests for those who have failed to reciprocate, and no one knows this better than the editor of the New York Age. Mr. Tyler has done all in his power to advance Negro journalism and had it been left to him, the entire Negro press of the country would have been a unit for the reelection of President Taft. When apologists and sycophants worm themselves in power by subterfuges, we can't expect anything but a setback for legitimate journalists. Mr. Tyler is not only a journalist of the highest ability, but he is a man and a true friend of the Negro race, whose elevation and advancement he has endeavored to push. For him The Bee has the highest praise, in or out of office, he may command us. BE WHAT YOU ARE. "Mr. J. T. Oatmeal, a barrister from Washington C. H., Ohio, has been appointed an examiner of claims in the Pension Office, assisting in administering the new pension law." The above item has appeared in the Washington correspondence to several colored newspapers. Mr. Oatmeal was appointed temporary clerk in the Pension Office, at $1,000, his tenure to close on or before June 30. He is not an examiner, and any one connected with the Pension Office knows that not one of the 300 temporary clerks appointed are examiners. Only experienced, permanent clerks, long in the service are examiners. This item is on a par with a certain item which appeared in Washington correspondence to colored newspapers that Mr. So-and-So (who is a messenger) "holds an important position in the Treasury Department." Now there is no disgrace in being a messenger. It is a perfectly honorable position, and therefore respectable. But The Bee has no patience with the four-fusher who thinks himself above the other men in his class, and is so much ashamed of his respectable position as to try to hide its designation. Mr. Oatmeal knows he is but a temporary clerk—one of the three hundred recently appointed—the son of the Editor of The Bee being the first to be appointed—and is not ashamed of it. He has no desire to pose as an "examiner," when he is not that. All employment that is respectable is honorable, and vice versa. Because a man is a messenger does not make him any less a man. But if he is a messenger and tries to palm himself off, as other than what he is then he is unworthy of the respect of his equals or peers. The safe thing to do is to be what you are, and be that well, striving all the while to better your position. And it is commendable in any man to strive to advance upward. Not that the higher positions are any more respectable, for they are not, but because the emoluments that go with the higher positions enable a man to better care for his family. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Bee has at all times stated that the Catholic Church was more of a friend to the colored people than any other white denomination. The Catholic Church has given more consideration in all parades to the Negro than any other denomination. The Bee did say last, week that Cardinal Gibbons' attack on the Republican party in the Tilden campaign was unfair, when one considers what the Republican party has done for the Catholic Church. Because The Bee made the assertion it doesn't stand for reason that the Catholic Church is not fair and just towards humanity and the Negro. The Bee has great faith in the Catholic Church and the supporters of that church, and it doesn't want its friends to believe or think to the contrary. EDITORIAL BOMBAST. It is amusing to witness every week or so certain persons calling themselves editors and editing papers in the interest of the colored people continually having their cuts in their own papers. This is editorial bombast. GLENDALE. Those who have not purliased a lot at Glendale should do so at once. It is, no doubt, the best subdivision in this city that has been offered to the colored people. A ride to this beautiful place will convince you all that now is the time to secure a good lot for a home. It is only three squares from the Benning bridge, and about eight minutes walk. Excellent water and everything else may be found in this subdivision. Who's Who? The Democrats are pledged to a reorganization of the Civil Services. PublicMen And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) I observe that the daily newspapers are busy naming a cabinet for Woody Wilson, so I guess I can be excused if I figure on a slate for his Black Cabinet. The picking the Black Cabinet is the hardest task for the reason that a fellow has to shut his eyes to ability when combing the field for fellows to fill the posts. Now some have figured on Nap Marshall for Assistant Attorney General. What Nap would do with a legal case against the government no one knows. He has never been regarded as a trust-buster, and a fellow who has been a high monstrosity in the "Never work Society for the Prevention of Destruction of the Hookworm," ain't on easy fellow to place. If Nap was made Assistant Attorney General he would have to move his immense law library from Tom Jones' office, and if he did Tom's office would be minus of at least three books. Jim Ross, who knows about as much law as a Chinese pagoda, is also spoken of for this place. Jim's a clever sort of a fellow in a cafe when mixed drinks are being ordered every five minutes, but Woody Wilson ain't so sure he is lawyer enough to handle Indian claims. Of course I know, you know, and the Sultan of Turkey, although now on the run knows that there will be no Assistant Attorney General, but that doesn't prevent me from-making a slate or mentioning the names of pie hunters who would not refuse it. Jim Curtis, down in New York, who is close to the Tammany's Sachem, has been mentioned also. There are more "mentions" than successors to Bill Lewis. For Register of the Treasury everybody is out for it. Up to date those mentioned for it are the same fellows suggested for the Attorney General along with R Wordy Thompson, Charlie R, Chief Lee, if he can learn to sign his name before March 4, Ralph Langston, and six or eight others whose trousers have long been frayed at the bottom, and whose shoes need half-soles. For Recorder of Deeds my old college chum Woody Wilson will receive a wagon load of applications, including all the above-mentioned, and it ain't no violation of speculation to say that Judge Hewlett, Horner, and one or two other snow flakes will be after it. Trotter, just to say he followed in the foot steps of his father, will go after it. Both the Register of the Treasury and the Recorder of Deeds are slated to be filled by white men, but this doesn't prevent me from figuring on the Black Cabinet. For Auditor for the Navy, every anthracite-colored son of Ham feels he can audit enough to handle $,000 per. This place, if it goes to a Darktown native, will probably go to Charlie Curtis, just because he is so handsome. Bob Waring will tramp the grass down in the vicinity of the Hall after the place of Assistant District Attorney, now held by Jim Cobb. Bob can point with pride that he started to work for Rooseevit, was discharged and then worked for Wilson, or rather dreamed he worked for him. He received enough to feed him from both sides, for a few weeks. Bob has about as much show of landing as a stick of dynamite has not exploded in one of Satan's furnaces. When Bob files his application they will look him over, and quietly say to him, in a tone so low you can hear it down at Alexandra: "As We See It" you don't measure up to the place. Run along and sell your books." For the Assistant Register of the Treasury there will be a line of duplications that will reach from here to Mound Bayou. Judge Terrell's place will be sought by Bountain Peyton, Judge Hewlett, Mr. Horner and a few other "quick-made" Democrats who have a colored alliance, a scarcity of legal lore and a lot of nerve. None will land, because the District white Democats, who donated real money, want the place. All these Negro demimes were subtraction proposition. That is they took money as fast as the white demimes could contribute it. Rev Waldron, the preacher-politician, who looks like a white man, and acts just like a son of Ham, after he has rendered an accounting of the money he handled, will probably, regard himself as big enough for Minister to Haiji. The Reverend Waldron delivered lots of votes, in his dreams and prayers, and managed a suspicion of a league, and so is entitled to at least file an application. It is conceded that Whittie McKinley's job will go to a white man, so none of them are after it. It is also conceded by all but Japs that the other schools will go to white men. Bountain Walters, the divine with a file voice, and a penchant for politics when there is any money around for "legitimate expenses" is undecided whether to play the role of Warwick or go as Minister to Haiti. Billie Powell, who rattled around in the chair of Minister to Haiti until jerked back home, is after it again. There is going to be an awful scramble and a scrap. Bishop Walters insists he must be the "OK" stamp, and Waldron thinks same, so does Nap Marshall, and even Charley Barnes, who has been studying law so as to succeed Bill Lewis, means to "sass back" if he ain't consulted. And there is Swan, I almost forgot him—he's worth forgetting—who claimed to have run the Negro publicity end for the blackville Democats. Now Swan will want something, and he is likely to get something—something that spells "failure" just like all the other sad sea dogs. From the inside information I get, via way of Princeton, this black cabinet reminds me of the saying "thee ain't going to be no core." There ain't going to be no Black Cabinet. Woody Wilson's maager, according to a letter, can't figure out why he should give these mauve-complexion ham sandwish Democats office after having carried them on the payroll for months for grandstand concerts. I'm betting $100 of John Dancy's money to $5 of Aaron Gaskin's money that there will be about as many Negro office holders in Washington under the Democats as there are horses in Liberia. And this goes for Sweeney. They may have to have a newspaper correspondent ent, and in that case, news comes from Chicago, that Swan will be given Thompson's place in the Treasury Department, and Dick will be allowed to give all his time to the National Negro Press Association or some other fictitious organization. I guess most of you have read Geo. W. Cable's novel, "Mr. Sevier," and if so, you recall his description of the darky who came to Washington for office with a trunk full of "jimswingsers," gray trousers and silk ties, determined to take nothing but a big job, but finally hunted up a crap game to win enough" for a sandwich because he was broke and starved. Well look out for a staging in active life of Cable's novel when the black phalanx arrives. Many who will file applications—most of them, for $4,000 jobs, will finally accept positions as "Custodians of the Cuspidors," just to be in office. There ain't going to be no core for Mr. Ham. Swing on to this announcement and hold fast. Announcement. I desire to announce that I am no longer connected with the Jas. E. Churchman Company, 641 Florida Avenue Northwest, but have accepted the position of manager of the Grayson Company, Funeral Directors and Embalmers, and I am now located at 717 T Street Northwest. Phone North 5548. I shall be pleased to give my patrons the same excellency of work and politeness of service as heretofore. WM. GRAYSON. An exchange states that a close friend to President-elect Wilson is authority for the statement that the assertion that Bishop Walters, or any other colored man, will "O.K." colored appointments is very distasteful to him. And farther, that he has not given colored appointments any consideration whatever, and has no thought of giving that subject any consideration soon, if at all; that his election was not dependent, in any sense, upon Negro votes. This ought to hold some of these Negro Democrats for a while. THE NOVEMBER CENTURY. The Century Magazine for November, while interesting as usual, is especially interesting to the colored race for the reason that it contains a strong article from the pen of Dr., Booker T. Washington on "Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?" two poems by James D. Corrothers, one "Paul Laurence Dunbar," and the other "The Negro Singer," and a song "Exhortation" (a Negro sermon), words by Alex Rogers and music by William Marion Cook, a former Washington boy. Three features by colored men in the same issue of so popular and great a magazine as The Century, is unusual. ALL DEMOCRATS. It is said that the incoming Democratic administration will not disturb the office holders. Why should it? Two-thirds of the office holders are Democrats. Two-thirds of the chiefs of divisions are Democrats or Negro haters. Both Judges of the Police Court are Democrats. Of course there are the outs, who want to get in, not withstanding that they are Democrats. There are five Negro Republicans holding good jobs, and as hungry as the local Democrats are, they will not remain long enough to repeat the Lord's prayer. If colored men in Washington will turn their minds to business, and figuring on commercial enterprises for the benefit of the more than an hundred thousand colored population in Washington, employment will be found for many young colored men and women, and the fortunes of politics will not bother them. GLENDALE. Ask any one living in the near suburbs of Washington—on good high ground—enjoying good, pure country air—raising enough garden truck, chickens, etc., for their own table—in fact enjoying all the economies and benefits of the country, with city conveniences. Ask any one so situated if they would care to be back in the congested city. Ask them how much the high cost of living affects them. Ask how much of their salary they can save. Ask how soon they will own their own home, if they do not already do so. Then compare your own living conditions with theirs, how much rent you pay, how much it costs to set your table, how much good, healthy air you get to breathe, how much you pay annually for doctor bills, and medicine, how much time you lose from your work on account of sickness, how soon you will own a home by paying rent, ask yourself all these questions, and the result will be that you will take a car and go out to Beautiful Glendale the first opportunity you get and secure a home site before all of the best ones are taken. Glendale colored sub-division, Benning, D. C. The Week in Society Your doctor wants your prescriptions filled right. He wants results. Neither you nor the doctor will be disappointed if your prescriptions are filled at the drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912½ 14th St., and 9th and You Sts. N. W. They employ four graduates in pharmacy, skilled and experienced, and you get the results in perfect service. Mrs. E. C. Williams entertained her whist club last Thursday afternoon. In every way the affair was a social success, dainty in its appointments, and enjoyable. One of the most successful musicales ever given here was that given last Friday evening by Mrs. Robert Pelham, at her residence in Howard Place. The program was an artistic setting of artists, and the guests were among the best lovers of music, and prominent in social circles. At the conclusion of the program a delectable luncheon was served. Mr. Wm. H. Lewis has returned from Boston. As James Cobb failed to matriculate in the benedict class under two Republican administrations, his probable marriage under a Democratic administration, according to friends, is a barren hope. Mrs. James Chestnut, of Eleventh Street Northwest, was ill the past week. Mr. John C. Dancy, who has been out of the city, has returned. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C. arrived in the city Thursday morning. Dr. Smith, the druggist at the corner of Fourth and Elm Streets, has the only up-to-date drug store in LeDroit Park, and equal to any in the city. When strolling through LeDroit Park, go to Smiths' drug store, at Fourth and Elm streets Northwest. Miss Violet Kibble, who has been quite ill at her home, is sufficiently improved to be up and out again. Attorney A. W. Scott attended the Elks' reception in Baltimore, Md., Monday night. Mrs. Eva A. Gordon, wife of Rev Alexander Gordon, of Philadelphia, Pa., and her son, Mr. Levi Gordon, who is a medical student of Howard University, dined with Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Maxfield, of 1229 First Street Northwest, last Friday. Mrs. Gordon left last Saturday evening for her home. Miss Jessie C. Mason entertained a few of her friends last week. Miss Flora Brooks, daughter of Major Artnur Brooks, who is the Index Clerk in the Office of Recorder of Deeds, will spend Thanksgiving in Philadelphia.-Pa. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., who has been confined to his home by sickness, is fast improving, greatly to the gratifications of his many friends. Dr. John W. Morse is now prepared to serve you with the finest ice cream that is made. 1902 L Street Northwest. The Misses Hattie and Estelle Conklin, of this city, were seen at the Saturday evening Sport Dance at Young's Casino, New York. Councellor William L. Houston, of this city, was visiting in New York last week. Mr. Charles Cheatam, of this city, was one of the guests at a Halloween party given by Miss Maude E. Young, in Raleigh, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Reyburn, of this city, have gone to Toledo, Ohio, where they will spend the winter. Mr. Charles Lane, Sr., has returned to the city from Durham, N. C., after a short stay. Mrs. Louis-Gordon, of this city, has gone to Washington, Pa., to be with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Derham, who is critically ill. Mr. Albert R. Harris, of this city, is spending several weeks in Pittsburg, Pa., visiting his mother and sister. Mr. E. Tyler Hill, formerly of this city, is now acting as a business manager for the McDowell Times, at Keystone, West Virginia. Mrs. Emma Jones, of this city, who has been visiting her sister in Richmond, Va., is home again. Dr. Ulysses C. Houston, brother of Attorney W. L. Houston, has returned from Chicago, where he graduated from the medical department of the Chicago University, winning high honors. Mrs. Duggins, of this city, was the guest of Mrs. Chas F. Brown, in Philadelphia, Pa. last week. Mr. J. H. Gray, of Philadelphia, Pa., spent Sunday in the city, the guest of Mr. John T. Howe, of 2014 Fifth Street Northwest. Mr. George Johnson, of this city, is a guest of Mrs. Retta Moss, in Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. Carl Settles has returned to her home in Indianapolis, Ind., after a delightful visit in the city with friends and relatives. John Wesley A. M. E. Church is being remodeled under the direction of the energetic new pastor, Rev. W. C. Brown. Mr. A. S. Pinkett, of this city, went to Omaha, Neb., last week for a few days' visit with his brother, Mr. H. J. Pinkett. Prof. J. P. Strickland has come to the city from Little Rock, Ark., to take the position of assistant register of the United States Treasury. After a pleasant stay in the city of about two months, Mrs. Anna B. Steele and her mother, Mrs. Fannie Sheffield, have returned to their home in Florida. Mr. John A. Carter, of this city, was in Detroit, Mich., last week, the guest of Attorney C. W. Smith: Mr. Allen LeRoy Locke, of Minneapolis, Minn., has been appointed Assistant Professor of English at Howard University. Mr. Locke is a Harvard graduate and a former Rhodes Scholarship student, and his appointment seems to meet with the hearty approval of the entire faculty. Dr. Samuel Davis, who served a year as interne at Freedman's Hospital, has gone to Pittsburg, Pa., to practice. We wish him much success. After a delightful visit in the city with friends and relatives, Mrs. Lee Belmont has returned to her home in Rochester, New York. Mrs. Andrew Tanner and daughter, Mrs. Lee Wheeler, of Richester, N. Y., have come to the city to spend a few months with Mr. Hackley Tanner, Mrs. Tanner's son. Miss Felicia Wiseman has returned to the city after spending a delightful summer in Battle Creek, and Detroit, Mich. She also visited Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, of Baltimore, Md. Miss E. Beckett, of Philadelphia, Pa., is in the city visiting her brother and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Beckett, of 2015 Thirteenth Street Northwest. Mr. Ralph Qualls, of Dayton, Ohio, a government employee in this city, visited his mother in his home town last week, and has now returned to resume his duties. Mr. Bolivar, of Philadelphia, Pa. sneet part of last week in the city open part of last week in the city. Among the guests at the Hotel Newman, Philadelphia, Pa., was Mrs. Mason, of this city. Mr. Elwood Hubert, a prominent lawyer, of this city, was the dinner guest of Mrs. A. Lewis last week, in Wilmington, Del. Messrs. Richard D. Venning and John W. Cromwell, of this city, went to Philadelphia, Pa., last week to vote. Mrs. Hester Carter, who has been visiting friends in the city, returned to her home in Virginia last week. 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, 1912% Fourteenth street, or else you will find them at the busy corner at Ninth and You Streets. Two places "where everybody meets everybody else." Society Wedding. Philadelphia, Nov. 11, 1912. A brilliant society wedding took place in this city on Saturday afternoon, November 9, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Taylor, 3223 Woodland Avenue. The bride was their only daughter, Harriet Belle. The groom was Jesse Max Barber, D. D. S., at one time editor of "The Voice of the Negro," which was published in Atlanta, Ga., and Chicago. He took a four-year course in dentistry and graduated six months ago. The ceremony was performed by Arch Deacon Alexander McGuire, after which they went on their wedding trip. They will be at home after Saturday, November 25. They were surrounded by their intimate friends, and were the recipients of many and valuable presents. They will live at the home of their parents, where the doctor has fitted up a fine suite of offices. On November 7, 1912, at 1934 Third street Northwest, the marriage of William Law and Mrs. M. O. Bromhoffer was soleinnized by the Rev. Anderson Hogans. Only a family party were present: An "at home" at a later date. Mr. James C. Waters made a flying trip to New York City last week. Miss Lillian Brown, the piquant comedienne and male impersonator, who has been making such a hit at all the local theaters, has taken a house at Sixth and T Streets Northwest. Mrs. Emma Cobb and Mr. Thomas Jones, of this city, spent a few days in Charlotte, N. C., last week. Miss Mamie Lee has returned to her home in the city after having spent two weeks with friends in Charlotte, N. C. Attorney W. C. Martin, who has been ill with the rheumatism, is able to be out again, greatly improved. Recorder of Deeds, H. L. Johnson left the city Tuesday for Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Bruce to Speak. Assistant Superintendent Roscoe Conkling Bruce will deliver a short address before the Christian Endeavor Society at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church at 6 o'clock on next Sunday. Besides the anthem by the choir, an instrumental solo by Miss Cassie Davidge and several vocal solos will be rendered. The meeting is open to the public. Have The Bee sent to your home. The Bee is the people's paper. MISS BURROUGHS IN EAST. To Tour the State of New York—Great Reception Awaits Her By the White Women in the State—Her Plea for Social, Educational and Religious Uplift. New York City, Nov. 16. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the great female orator and educator has been invited by the white women of the United States to participate in the 50th anniversary of organized Home Mission Work. Meetings are to be held in all the large cities of this State. Miss Burroughs will deliver her first speech at Buffalo, N. Y., next Monday, November 18th. These same women invited Miss Burroughs to the State meeting last May. She will plead for a general co-operation on the part of white women throughout the country in the social, educational and religious uplift of the colored woman. They have decided to help every way possible, and to have Miss Burroughs to return at this time and tour the State and put her message directly before the people. Geo. F. T. Cook. Mr. Geo. F. T. Cook, whose memory will be extolled at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church Tuesday evening, November 19, was an exemplary character, and a man above suspicion. The exercises will be more than interesting. Distinguished citizens will speak, and many vocal and instrumental solos will be executed. Order of Exercises. Presiding Office—Mr. Roscoe C. Bruce, assistant superintendent of schools. Invocation—Rev. F. J. Grimke, pastor, Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church. Music, (Selected) — Octette of Teachers. Recitation, "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep"—Miss J. E. Brooks. Eulogy—Dr. W. S. Montgomery, supervising principal, 12th division. Violin Solo, (Selected)—Mr. Felix Weir. Reminiscences—Mr. Henry Johnson, former trustee of public schools. Solo (Selected)—Prof. John T. Layton, assistant director of music. Tributes—By citizens. Music (Selected) — Octette of Teachers. Resolutions—Mr. M. Grant Lucas. Benediction. Madam Hackley Thanks. Mme. E. Azalia Hackley returns gratitude to all who attended the Recital Demonstration on Monday evening last, to those who assured its success by becoming patrons, and to the kind friends who made the evening still happier by sending tokens of beautiful flowers. Especially does she, thank Mrs. Jesse Lawson, and others who assisted in securing patrons, and she regrets that some of the patrons' names were unintentionally omitted from the program, because of the haste in which they were printed. Mrs. Nonie Bailey Hardy, the popular contralto, is at home again, after a triumphal tour of Jamaica, accompanying Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the dramatic reader. Mrs. Hardy added many new laurels to her already rich store. The Arkansas Club is arranging to give a testimonial banquet in honor of Mr. J. P. Strickland, the new assistant register of the Treasury. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Shippen, principal of the Boys' Reform School, Hanover County, Va., attended the National Prison Reform Association in Baltimore last week, by appointment of Gov. W. S. Mann, of Virginia. She was the only colored delegate. Smith's drug store, 4th and Elm Streets, LeDroit Park, is where you meet the people. Wanted—A first-class stenographer with experience, one not afraid of work; salary liberal, splendid opportunity for first-class man. Applicants requested to file references, photograph and application in own hand writing: Address B. R. C., care Washington Bee, 1109 I. Street, Washington, D. C. Assistant Register Strickland In the private office of Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh on last Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Mr. J. P. Strickland, of Arkansas, took the oath as Assistant Register of the Treasury, succeeding Mr. Cyrus Field Adams, of Chicago. The oath was administered by Mr. George Parson, of the Appointment Division, and the ceremonies were witnessed by an assemblage that included Assistant Secretaries R. O. Bailey, Sherman Allen and J. F. Curtis. Register Napier and all of the chiefs of the bureaus of the Treasury Department, who had gathered there by invitation of Secretary MacVeagh. After handing to Mr. Strickland his handsomely-engraved commission on the finest parchment, the Secretary, in his happiest vein, welcomed the new Assistant Register to the Treasury Department, and wished for him a most successful administration of the important duties assigned to him. Old employees of the Department say this is the first instance wherein a chief of the Register's Office, has ever been sworn in in the private office of the Secretary of the Treasury, or where there have been present the heads of the several branches of the government's greatest bureau The oath of Register and Assistant Register has usually been administered in the office of the Appointment Clerk. The high honor paid Mr Strickland is heartily appreciated by the race at large and is a particular mark of recognition on the part of the administration to the loyalty of the State of Arkansas and a tribute of respect to Gen. Powell Clayton, to whose influence the coming of Mr Strickland is accredited. Assistant Register Strickland is being warmly welcomed here. Among other courtesies since his arrival, he was on last Sunday the dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, at their home, 908 S Street Northwest. In the party were Prof. Charles H. Moore, of Greensboro, N.C., national organizer of the National Negro Business League, and Lieut. Thomas H. R. Clarke, of the Treasury Department. Following the dinner the party attended the Elzie Hoffman band concert at the Howard Theater and made calls upon several friends in the city, passing a delightful afternoon. HAY'S HAIR Pomade Does All and More it Promises to Do HAY'S HAIR POMADE straightens coarse, kinky hair and makes it glossy and luxuriant. You can dress your hair in any position and keep it so, if you USE HAY'S HAIR POMADE REGULARLY. Any one with kinky, coarse hair that is stubborn, will always get satisfactory results from HAY'S HAIR POMADE even if all others have failed. — Highly Perfumed — Present this adv, with 25 cents, and get a large jar; and free sample of HARFINA SOAP; at NO SMOKING Philo Hay Spec. Co. Sole Manufacturers Newark, N.J., U S. A. The Turkey Trot. If you want to see a proud set of individuals, make an observation of some of the colored Democrats and bolting Republicans. They have a strut that will do justice to Lord Chesterfield. When they promenade the streets they talk to themselves and say, now look at the Negro Republicans and Tafties. We are the bosses now. You all must walk the chalk line and watch us do the Turkey Trot, and other stunts. Col. Costello's headquarters at the corner of Sixth and G will be invaded from now until the next Presidential election. He has more Republican visitors than he has Democrats. Leads the World. Dr. J. W. Barrett, member of the Board of Governors, University of Melbourne, Australia, in an article which decently appeared in the Melbourne Argus, states: "It really looks as if he (Booker T. Washington) had led the world from the educational point of view." Mme. Anita Patti Brown Coming. Mme. Anita Patti Brown, the eminent coloratura soprano, who is to appear at a matinee musicale Monday afternoon, November 25, at 4 o'clock in the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard University, will reach the city the latter part of next week, and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, 908 S Street Northwest, where she will be glad to meet her many Washington friends. Mme. Brown has just returned eastward from a tour of the Pacific Coast, and after filling engagements in Philadelphia and New York, will pay an extended visit to Bermuda, Jamaica and South America. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis Returns Miss Henrietta Viaton Davis, the well-known elocutionist, returned to her home in this city last Sunday, after an absence of more than seven months in Jamaica, where she achieved new triumphs as a dramatic reader, visiting all of the principal cities of the island, making her general headquarters at Kingston, the capital. She was the recipient of much social attention, having been the guest of the Lord Mayor, the British and American consuls, and many of the distinguished families of the Jamaican soil. The established dramatic companies at Kingston and Montego Bay, producing standard plays, and for several months, she managed with marked success the Covent Garden, one of Jamaica's leading al fresco amusement resorts. By invitation of Manager Thomas, Miss Davis will read a number of selections tomorrow afternoon at the Howard Theater, in connection with the Elzie Hoffman band concerts, beginning at 4 6'clock. This will be her first public appearance since her return to "the States." Smith's drug store, 4th and Elm Streets, LeDroit Park, is where you can get pure drugs. Wanted—Apprentices. Wanted—Several apprentice girls to learn Dressmaking, Ladies' and Gent's Tailoring. Good pay while learning; Apply Mrs. R. L. Pannell, 403 Florida Avenue Northwest, City. Dropsy Treated By Mail Shortness of breath relieved in 24 hours. Swelling usually gone in one week. Write for symptom blank and testimonials. Address Dr. Patterson, Dropsy Specialist, 435½ Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, Ga. PURITY ICE COMPANY. Purity Ice Company, 5th and L Streets N. W. Near the K Street Market. JOHN McGAW, Proprietor. Come out Sunday. Take District Line or Kenilworth car going east on H Street, and get off at Bennings, walk three blocks on Benning Road, turn to left at 42d Street, and there you are at GLENDALE. You'll be glad you came. GLENDALE LA 38 Warder Bu Washington, Mme. E. Azalia Hackley Scores. An immense audience completely filling the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, greeted Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, the famous soprano, last Monday evening. The high standard of Mme. Hackley's delightful lecture-recital had preceded her, and for more than two hours she held her hearers spell-bound by her classical and diversified musical selections and practical observations and demonstrations in voice culture. Mme. Hackley gave the entertainment alone, and it was no small feat to thus engage the rapt attention of 2,000 people, with no visible sign of weariness on the part of either the audience or the performer. Mme. Hackley has a remarkable personality and is gifted with personal magnetism of the highest power. The schools of the city were well represented. Mme. Hackley is to retire from the concert stage shortly and open a studio in Chicago for the training of music teachers for the race. Tom Lemonier, a well-known performer, is here with "Little Miss Brown" at Belasco's. Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce delivered a masterly address last Friday evening at the Mu-So-Lit Club's monthly meeting at the Washington Conservatory of Music. His subject was "The School of Today," and he gave a vivid contrast between the up-to-date equipment of the schools now enjoyed by the people and the improvised facilities of a generation or two ago. The address was ably discussed by Judge Robert H. Terrell, Dr. C. A. Tignor, Dr. Arthur Gray, Messrs. Nevil H. Thomas, F. L. Cardoza and others. Prof. C. H. Moore, of Greensboro, N. C., Dr. Edwards and Lawyer A. W. Scott were present as special guests and contributed generously to the fund of wit and logic dispensed by the membership, lauding the speaker of the evening. Mr. R. W. Thompson presided in the absence of President R. A. Pelham. Misses Lottie Gee and Effie King are at the Deas Theater in Wilmington. Del. WEST WASHINGTON. The funeral services of Mr. Thos. Dynn, a highly respected citizen and a member and class leader of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, took place from the church Thursday afternoon, and was largely attended. He was a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows and Grand Army fraternities, who attended in a body. Interment, Arlington Cemetery. Rev. D. W. Hays officiated. The funeral of Mr. Wm. Chase, whose sudden death on Saturday took place Wednesday morning from St. Augustine Church, and was largely attended. The Young Ladies' Protective League will attend divine worship at the First Baptist Church Sunday evening for the purpose of having their annual sermon. Rev: E. E. AND CO., building, D. C. Ricks will deliver the sermon. Special music by the choir. The members of the Bee Hive Circle of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church will commence their annual bazaar, to continue for two weeks, in the interest of the improvement fund of the church, which is now progressing to an early completion. The Ladies' Aid and the Ladies' Trustees Aid of Mt. Zion M. E. Church are competing in an unique entertainment in the interest of the trustee fund of the church. Rev. D. W. Hays, pastor. The stork, on election evening, visited the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carpenter, and presented them with a Miss Democracy. Miss Amelia Cushard has been reinstated as operator in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS: Rev. Lewis C. Sheafe has been invited and he has kindly consented to deliver a special sermon at the Fairmount Heights public hall next Sunday evening, November 17, at 3 o'clock. He has promised to favor the audience with several vocal soils, which are always pleasing. Rev. A. H. Strother is progressing nicely with the building of his new church. His co-workers are enthusiastic, and they are looking forward and making great preparation for the corner-stone laying, which will be held on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1912. The service will be in charge of the Mount Bethel Baptist Ministers' Alliance. The sermon on this occasion will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Wilbanks, D. D., the president of said alliance. All Washington has been invited. Rev. E. S. Williams, D. D., who has been on leave of absence on account of illness, returned to the city last Saturday, very much improved. He, in company with Rev. G. A. Davis, visited Fairmount Heights November 9, 1912. Rev. O. C. Sprague preached a timely sermon Sunday night at the M. E. Church. An up-to-date congregation was present. The Sunday school of the M. E. Church gave a concert Monday night, November 11, which was well attended. Great preparation has been made for Sunday, November 11, at 11 A. M. Rev. Lewis C. Sheafe will preach and sing at the public hall Sunday afternoon, November 17, at 3 o'clock. An invitation has been extended to friends in the city of Washington, as well as to friends in this community. Dr. Smith the druggist, 4th and Elm streets Northwest is the only place in the Park where you get pure drugs and prescriptions carefully compounded. --- --- Personal Brevity, says Rowland Grey in the Century, was the soul of Sir W. S. Gilbert's wit, which sparkled in chance conversation no less than in the lines that he wrote for Sullivan's operas. Mr. Grey gives a few instances: The terrible verdict as to a certain Hamlet whose impersonator unwisely asked him to be candid is historical: "Funny, my dear fellow—funny without being vulgar." A remark about another conceited player was made to a very limited audience: "Poor——! He has all the faults of an actor without the excuse of being one." A word was enough. He described a sweet old lady, all sloping shoulders and honlon lace, as "belonging to the early keepsake period." Another, who was being ridiculed for the hideous Middlesex accent, which converted bad weather into a "voll d'y," was gravely defended by him: "She is of ancient lineage, for it is evident she descended from the Twanglo-Saxons." Didn't Fear For Mamma A Lakewood woman was recently reading to her little boy the story of a young lad whose father was taken ill and died, after which he set himself diligently to work to support himself and mother. When she had finished the story she said: "Dear Billy, if your papa were to die would you work to support your dear mother?" "Naw," said Billy unexpectedly. "But why not?" "Ain't we got a good house to live in?" "Yes, dearie. But we can't eat the house, you know." "Ain't there a lot of stuff in the pantry?" "Yes, but that won't last forever." "It'll last till you get another husband, won't it? You're a pretty good looker, ma." Mamina gave up right there.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Let Her Go. Gallagher." Judge Beaver of Morgan county, Ky., had a trotting mare of which he was very proud. The animal was always driven at the race meets by a man named Gallagher, who was at that time city marshal of Harrodsburg. On one occasion the judge entered his mare at a trotting meeting in Tipton county. Some sports there, knowing of the judge's pride in the animal, thought they would lower his colors for once, so they entered against her a noted fast trotter. At the end of the first half mile the two trotters passed under the wire neck and neck at a 2:40 pace, and the judge grew wildly excited. "Let her go, Gallagher! Let her go!" he shouted. And Gallagher, hearing, loosened the lines. The mare pluckily responded and finished more than a dozen lengths ahead, amid the wild cheering of the crowd.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Forgetful Disraeli's Luck. Disraell received one morning a letter from a Mrs. Willyams, whom he did not know, in which she said that she had read his novels with much interest and would like to make his acquaintance. She also asked a question which rendered it necessary for him to answer the letter. Unfortunately the letter was left in his greatcoat pocket, and "Dizzy" did not wear the coat until several months after, when he happened to be in the south of England and in the very town in which Mrs. Willyams lived. Coming across the letter in such circumstances, it occurred to him to call upon her, and Mrs. Willyams was so flattered at, as she thought, his carrying the letter so long about him and then calling that she decided on leaving him her fortune. Function of the Eyebrows The eyebrows protect the eye from external violence. The hairs, on account of their oblique direction, prevent the perspiration from flowing toward or irritating the surface of that organ; they direct it toward the temple and the root of the nose. The color and number of hairs of the eyebrow have an influence upon their use. They generally have some relation to the climate. The eyebrows protect the eye from excess of light, particularly when it comes from above. This effect is made more conspicuous by knitting of the brows. A Will In Rime This will, although written in rime, was probated in County Dublin, Ireland: Capped. Yankee, boasting of the great heat experienced in America—it's so hot it burns the wings off the files! Pat—That's nothing to what it is in Ireland! We have to feed hens.on ice cream to keep them from laying bolled eggs! London Telegraph. Inanimate Saleaman. Are those good graphophones. "The goods speak for themselves." "That's so. Well, wind one up and let's see if it can effect a sale."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Quite Likely. "What do you know of old dog Tray?" "Judging by the name, he must have boat the deuce."—New York Press. "How old are you, Ethel? "I'm five, an' mamma says if I'm good an' eats lots o' oatmeal I'll be six next birthday."—Life. WOMAN SLAIN AND HOME FIRED Mrs. Laura Rayne Found Dying Near Blaze. VISITOR ACCUSED OF CRIME Man Seen Coming From Direction of Farm Shortly Before Fire Was Discovered, Is Held. The Rayne farm house, situated about one mile from Powellsville, Md., a small village in the eastern part of Wicomico county, was the scene of a murder on Friday, when some one entered the building and crushed in the skull of Mrs. Laura Rayne, the lone occupant of the house, and then, in the hope of hiding the crime, set fire to the dwelling. Benjamin T. Davis, a resident of Powellsville, has been arrested and charged with the crime. About five o'clock in the morning smoke was been pouring from the windows of the Rayne home by neighbors, and upon reaching the house they found a pile of wood in the center of the kitchen, which had been saturated with kerosene and then ignited. Near the burning mass was the form of Mrs. Rayne, apparently dead, with the top of her skull crushed in. When the neighbors attempted to move the body they found Mrs. Rayne was still alive and she managed to say "Don't." Medical aid was quickly summoned, but when Dr. Lawrence Freeny, of Pittsville, arrived he pronounced her dead. A short time prior to the discovery of the smoke coming from the Rayne house, Davis, who is now under arrest, was seen coming from the direction of the Rayne home, with a gun under his arm. Suspicion quickly pointed to him. It was alleged that he caused the separation of Mrs. Rayne and her husband some months ago, and has since been a frequent visitor at the house. Warrants were sworn out for his arrest. After some searching by Sheriff Smith, Davis was discovered at Willards, a small town about six miles from the scene of the murder. He was arrested, and on being arraigned he pleaded not guilty. He was held under $3000 ball for court. Mrs. Rayne, the murdered woman, was about forty years old, and had been married twice. About six years ago she married Lemuel Rayne, a prosperous farmer, with whom she lived until two months ago, when the couple separated. Her first husband was Noah Clark, of Wicomico county. Davis is a wildower and has been engaged in the mercantile business near Powellsville. About two years ago he was arrested and convicted of illicit selling of liquor and sentenced to six months in the Maryland penitentiary. Leaves $1,000,000 to Charity. By the will of Mrs. Mary Packer Cummings, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., an estate of $1,000,000 is distributed, mostly to charities. Mauch Chunk gets the Packer mansion and grounds to be used as a public park and known as the "Asa Packer Park." For the maintenance of the park $60,000 is set aside. To the school boards of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk are given $40,000 and $20,000 respectively for the advancement of schools. St. John's church, Jacksonville, Fla., gets $50,000 and a house for the establishment of a home for children. To the Y. M. C. A. is given $45,000 and the Church Home for Children at Jonestown, Pa., gets $40,000. The Robert Packer hospital at Sayre gets all real estate owned by Mrs. Packer there, which has already been transferred, and $50,000 goes to the rector, church wardens and vestry of the Church of the Redeemer, at Sayre, Pa. To the Protestant Episcopal Divinity school in Philadelphia is bequeathed $50,000. Other bequests are: St. Mark's church, Mauch Chunk, $30,000; missions in St. Mark's parish and in the diocese, $50,000; parish Sunday school, $20,000; Mauch Chunk Cemetery association, $10,000, already paid; fund for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church, $40,000; Clergymen's Retiring Fund, $40,000; Dimmlck Memorial Library, Mauch Chunk, $25,000; St. John's church, East Mauch Chunk, $40,000; Protestant Episcopal church of the diocese of Delaware, $10,000 for St. Michael's Day Nursery and Hospital for Babies in Wilmington; Coleman Memorial, Sayre, Pa., $40,000, already paid; 'All Saints' chapel, Lehighton, $5000, already paid. Corn Crop Breaks Record. A corn crop sold to amount to 3,169,137,000 bushels, or 281,921,000 bushels more than the greatest crop of corn ever grown in any country of the world, is the feature of the country's most remarkable agricultural year in history, according to the November crop report of the United States department of agriculture. This great crop of corn was worth on Nov. 1 to farmers $1,850,776,000. The acre yield was 21.3 and quality 101.1. The enormous sum of $4,171,134,000 represented the farm value on Nov. 1 of the United States crops of corn, hay, wheat, oats, potatoes, barley, flax- National Religious Training School The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a rural landscape with buildings and trees. Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. House & Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts., N. W. of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that will satisfy you. Stephen M. Newman, A. M., P. D., President. Located in the Capital of the Nation. Advantages unsurpassed. Campus of over twenty acres. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library Building. New Science Hall. Faculty of one hundred. 1,409 students last year from thirty-seven States and eight other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES With CLASSICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND ENGNEERING COURSES. THE TEACHERS COLLEGE. THE ACADEMY. THE COMMERC SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS COURSES IN MUSIC SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. 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It proposes to uplift the race along moral, social and industrial lines, to be the largest association of its kind in the world, and to establish subbordinate lodges in every village, hamlet and town, however small, holding a convention in Washington, D. C., during the coming Presidential Inauguration. It pays sick benefits ranging from $2.50 to $6.00 per week, and from $100 to $1,000 at death. Joining fee from $2.50 to $5.25. Good organizers wanted everywhere, and are assured from $50 to $100 per month salary. For further information, address Supreme Lodge of Malachites, 609 F St., N. W., Washington, D. C. L. Melendez King, G. S. G., Dr. W. Bruce Evans, G. S. L. G., Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, G. L. ADDING TO WEALTH. Progress of Colored Race Indicated by Figures—Work Done at Tuskegee-Booker Washington, in Annual Report, Notes Results of Educational Training in South. Changes in agricultural conditions in the South which are largely the result of the educational work done by the Tuskegee Institute are pointed out in the annual report of Booker T. Washington, principal, to the board of trustees of the school. Beginning with the organization of the annual Negro conference in 1851, the Tuskegee Institute has systematically attempted to change and improve conditions in the South. The effort has been made to induce the people to buy land, to get rid of the one-room cabin, to improve their farming methods, to secure better teachers and better ministers, and to give more attention to improving health conditions. Great Need of the South. "One of the great needs of the South is agricultural education for its large rural population," says Mr. Washington in his report. "In proportion as farming methods are improved they will be better able to support their schools. To meet this need the Tuskegee Institute has car- THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL running of young men and women in successful operation. Training. This department is of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. maconesses, and for Home and women & Herrn and Eye Sts., N. W. ABOUT YOUR Furniture He and Herrmann is the place house of its kind in the city he satisfied. This is satisfy you. UNIVERSITY M. M., P. D., President. Nation. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general Building. New Science Hall. ents last year from thirty-seven Unusual opportunities for self- SCIENCES With CLASSICAL, MEERING COURSES. IAL COLLEGE. AND APPLIED `SCIENCES. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. AND DENTAL COLLEGES. Malachites Ordered Under the Laws as Enacted President of the United States. long moral, social and industrial its kind in the world, and to estab- lure, hamlet and town, however small, D. C., during the coming Presidential $2.50 to $6.00 per week, and from from $2.50 to $5.25. here, and are assured from $50 to Supreme Lodge of Malachites, 609 Melendez King, G. S. G., Dr. W. Betta Vinton Davis, G. L. ried on its annual Negro conference, as stated, has established local conferences, promoted county and state fairs, and through the agricultural demonstration work has carried instructions to the farmers on the soil. "It is gratifying to note the increased interest that some of the white farmers of the South are taking in the subject of agricultural education for the Negro. At our last farmers' conference $250 in prizes were distributed to Negro farmers in Macon county. This money was given by the white planters and merchants and bankers of the county in order to encourage better farming. "The large increase in the amount of property owned by Negroes is, I am sure, due in no small part to the teaching that has gone out from the annual Tuskegee Negro conference and similar agencies. I find that the value of the domestic animals which the Negro farmers of the South own increased during the past ten years from $85,000,000 to $177,000,000, or 108 per cent; poultry, from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000, or 25 per cent; implements and machinery from $18,000,000 to $36,000,000, or 100 per cent; land and buildings, from $69,000,000 to $273,000,000, or 293 per cent. From 1000 to 1910 the total value of farm property owned by the colored farmers of the South increased from $17,000,000 to $493,000,000, or 177 per cent. --- DURHAM, N. C., THE ACADEMY. 6. Department of Literary Training 7. Department of Industries. 8. Extension Home Classes. There are special scholarships for deserving young men and women, in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open July 1, 1912 For further information and catalogue, address PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD, rmann N. W. Durham, N. C. Beautiful Lounges Morris Chairs Writing Desks Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room suite, call after you have been elsewhere Effect of Extension Work. "One indication of the effect of our extension work is the improvement of the personnel of the annual Tuskegee Negro conference meetings. Whereas in former years it was made up for the most part of ignorant, uncouth renters and croppers and a few owners, now it is composed largely of well-dressed, intelligent, progressive and wide-awake owners, who are always eager to discuss farming methods. "At our last annual conference, some of the farmers brought photographs of the five-room and six-room up-to-date houses in which they now live, and discussed intelligently the use of improved farm tools and machinery which they are now using. One dealer stated recently that the amount of improved farm machinery in his county used by colored farmers has increased within the past few years by at least 100 per cent." Resting on His Laurels An undertaker was discussing queer sepultures. "A queer sepulture indeed," he said, "was that of a German playwright, Gustave von Moser. Von Moser kept in his house a costly and beautiful urn. He purposed to be cremated, and his ashes were to be put in the urn afterward. "But the strangest thing about the urn was that it contained a little bed of ashes during Von Moser's life. He used, you see, to get a good many laurel wreaths when his new plays were put on, and he would take a sprig from each wreath, burn it and drop the ashes into the urn. "My own ashes," he would say, 'will lie on top. Thus after death it may be truly said of me that I am resting on my laurels."—New York Tribune. Flags We Have Known- The first flag to float over American soil was the royal standard of Isabella, emblazoned with the arms of Castle and Leon. A white flag, with a green cross was its companion. Some years after Columbus landed at San Salvador the Cabots planted the banner of England and of St. Mark of Venice on the eastern shore of North America. In the centuries that have intervened since a variety of national flags have waved where now only the stars and stripes is the accepted emblem. Over Texas have floated the French, Spanish, English, American and Confederate; in Louisiana the illies of France, the Spanish flag, the tricolor, the American and Confederate flags; in California the Spanish, Mexican, Russian and American. Moors Consider Us Dirty. A habit of our own which we consider far more cleanly than eating with our fingers is looked upon by the Moors as filthy—that is, washing our hands or face in a basin and, still more, taking a bath where the water is not running. The cleaner we become, they say, the dirtier the water we are washing with must necessarily become, and eventually we step forth as cleansed from water which is no longer clean. A Moor to wash his hands has the water poured from a vessel over them and never by any chance dips them into the dirty water. The same way in their baths. The water is thrown over their bodies out of bright brass bowls and flows away through holes in the marble or tile floor. --- Japan's Curious Museum. The oldest museum in the world may be found in the city of Nara, the former capital of Japan. Since its foundation, in 756, it has gone through all the changes of the Japanese empire without one single addition to its collection. Dr. Otto Kummel is one of the few Europeans who were permitted to visit this museum. It opens its doors but once a year, on a day in spring, when a special committee inspects the collection, and a new list is made out. The museum contains about 3,000 articles, which are said to be the most beautiful specimens of decorative work which have ever been produced by human hand, such as lacquer ware, decorative furniture, enamel ware, cambric-like fabric, etc. The origin of the majority of the articles is uncertain. Some came from China and others from Korea, but most of them appear to be of a more exotic origin. I'll however, came of a time prior to the year 756. Handy Life Insurance Policy. A curious festival takes place annually in the village, of Isobe, in the southern province of Japan, the Wilde World says. The festivity is called the Omita and attracts large crowds from the neighboring districts. The young men, stripping off their clothing, take their positions in a rice field, where they struggle violently with one another for possession of a decorated bamboo pole. The man who succeeds in pulling the pole down promptly cuts it into pieces, which he distributes among his less fortunate competitors, retaining a portion for himself. It is believed that if any one meets with a storm out at sea he can easily save himself from a watery grave by simply throwing a portion of this pole into the sea. With a handy life insurance policy of this kind to be obtained at the price of a little effort, it can be understood that the struggle for the pole is a distinctly strenuous one. Patti's High Charges Adelina Patti at all periods in her long and unexamplied career received by far the largest honorarium of any singer in the world. At no time did she obtain less than $4,000 a night, while on her last tour, when her wonderful voice was waning, she was paid $5,000 a night for singing two songs and two encores. Patti also received a percentage of the gross receipts when these were in excess of $7,000 a night. And on the night of Nov. 9, 1904, at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, she achieved the record of singing to not only the largest audience ever recorded for a concert in America, but her fee on that occasion was $8,200, by far the largest sum ever paid to any singer or player for one performance in the world's history. New York World. Dining Room Cranks The waiter became talkative after he had answered a question and among other things said: "Don't go to the funny ward at Bellevue if you want to study cranks. Get a job as waiter. The man who just went out is a steady. He's all right except for coffee and bread. He must have his coffee boiling hot, and he always puts a lump of ice in it. He has always paid for special hot bread. He gets a small loaf, cuts it in two, removes all the crumb part from one half and eats the crust. The other half he leaves untouched. I have a 'regular' who puts salt and pepper on his grapefruit, and—"He could be talking yet," said the man who related the story, "if I hadn't told him that I was a crank on being served quickly."—New York Tribune. Locating the Polar Both Peary and Amundsen made allowances in determining the site of the poles. Their position is not perfectly constant, there being a counter lock elliptical movement of some thirty feet, and a counter clock circular movement of some twenty-six feet in diameter in a period of 428 days at the extreme axis of the earth. This change, however, is so slight as not to be reckoned in practical calculations. Peary and Amundsen made no guesses, but took several observations from various standpoints to determine conclusively that they had reached the poles. Christian Herald. James H Winslow UNDERTAKER AND EMBLAMER K FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. mes H. Dabney ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. 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Phone call for Stable, North 3274M OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. J. H. DABNEY, Prop., 1132 Third St. N. W. Phone. Main 3200. Carriages For Hire. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Machinery of Memory. The machinery of memory was thus interestingly described by an authority on the brain: "The act of remembering something," he said, "involves a distinct change in the brain substance. The thing to be remembered is recorded by a little nerve cell. The first time the cell does its work an impression is made upon it. But that impression is apt to wear off unless the action of the cell is repeated, and the oftener this is the case the more fixed becomes the impression, or 'cell memory,' as it is called. Suppose that the work of this particular cell is to enable you to recognize a certain smell. If the impression is made but once the cell may fall to retain it, but if it is repeated several times a lasting impression will be made, and you will recognize the particular odor when you meet with it again." A Curious Marine Monster. One of the horrors of the sea is the great ray of Florida waters. Schools of them are often seen playing on the surface of the bayous or in the inlets. Their immense black fins rise and fall in the water like the flapping wings of buzzards or vultures. The great ray shows on its head protuberances resembling horns, features that give them the appearance of the conventional devil as they disport themselves on the surface of the water. It is said that these monsters sometimes attain the weight of a thousand pounds, and mariners have averred that a great ray has unwittingly towed a vessel by becoming entangled in the anchor cable. They are hunted with harpoons and always give the fishermen an exciting struggle. It so happened that two ladies were making their way to their seats at the very moment Von Bulow finished his introduction of the first movement of Beethoven's "Sonata Pathetic." This so irritated him that he purposely commenced the allegro at such an absurdly slow pace as to make the quavers in the bass correspond exactly to the time of the ladies' footsteps. As may be imagined, they felt on thorns and hurried on as fast as they could, while Von Bulow accelerated his tempo in sympathy with their increasing pace. Barnett's Musical Reminiscences. Once a Saharan traveler was informed by one of his African escort that he had just killed a devil, which proved to be his master's watch that the savage had found, and, hearing it tick, concluded that there was an evil spirit inside. Accordingly he smashed the timepiece by hurling it against a tree. "How did that race between the zebra and the giraffe come out?" asked Little Jinks. "It hasn't been decided yet," said Jorkins. "The giraffe's head came in two feet ahead of the zebra's, but his tail was three feet behind."—London Express. Auntie (anxiously)—Do you think you have had the proper training for a poor man's wife? Sweet Girl—Yes, indeed. Papa hasn't given me any spending money worth mentioning for years. I always get things charged.—Exchange. Mrs. Pryer—Why did she leave her husband? Mrs. Crier—He lost his money. Mrs. Pryer—How? Mrs. Crier—Gave it to her—New York Globe. A hundred men make an encampment, and one woman makes a home. THE SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. If you purchase the NEW HOME you will have a life asset at the price you pay, and will not have an endless chain of repairs. Quality Considered it is the Cheapest in the end to buy. If you want a sewing machine, write for our latest catalogue before you purchase. The New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mass. Cars to the Northeast Section and Suburbs pass the door. (W. ARMSTRONG) Fresh Drugs. Third and G Streets Northwest. 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He was seventy-one years old. The death came as a great surprise to every one outside the immediate family. Mr. Griscom had been ill for only two weeks. Congestion of the brain caused death. Mr. Griscom was at times a director of the United States Steel Corporation, the William Cramp Ship and Engine Building company, the Electric Boat company, the Electric Company of America, the Fidelity Trust company, the Bank of North America, the Commercial Trust company, the Fourth Street National bank, the Mercantile Trust company, the Long Island and railroad, the National Transit company, the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk railroad, the United Gas Improvement company, the Western Savings Fund society and a trustee of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance company. VINCENT ASTOR TO GET $100,000,000 Young Heir Will Have Control of Big Fortune. The immense Astor estate, estimated at about $100,000,000, will be turned over formally in New York to the keeping of William Vincent Astor on Friday of this week. On that day he will come of age, and the millions which have been held in trust-for him since the death of his father on the Titanic will become his in fact, and there will be no one to tell him how they shall be used. The property consists of large parcels of land in the central part of Manhattan, especially in the neighborhood of Broadway, Fifth avenue and Forty-second street. There is a group of business and tenement buildings on the middle West Side and one on the lower East Side, a large tract in the Bronx near the old Morris Park race track, the immense country estate, Ferncliff, at Rhinebeck, N. Y.; a villa and grounds in Newport, several less important properties and a collection of jewels, paintings and sculptures. TWO KILLED BY ECONOMY Gas Jet, Turned Half-Way Down, Is Blown Out by Wind. A mother and son are dead and another son is hovering between life and death as a result of an attempt at economy in Cincinnati, O. Mrs. Mary Peters and her son, Charles Peters, were overcome by gas. The mother was dead when found and the son died later at a hospital. Another son, William, is in a precarious condition. A gas jet, turned half way down, had evidently been blown out by a draft of wind. The three then went to sleep and were found in sleeping positions and rushed to a hospital. William Peters is not expected to recover. Colombia Glad Wilson Was Elected. The election of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States has been received with general satisfaction in Bogota, Colombia, both by the public and the press. It is hoped it will result in a favorable settlement of the Panama claima. Death to Bird and Boy. As Andrew Irvin, aged eleven years, of West Pittston, Pa., held a bird in his hand, Peter Timlolnin, aged sixteen years, picked up a shotgun he didn't know was loaded and fired at the bird. The bird was killed and Irvin fatally injured. Both hands were blown off and a hole was tern in his abdomen. CONSTANTINOPLE MAY SURRENDER EUROPEAN CRISIS IS NEAR Collapse of the Turkish Empire in Causing Grave Consern in Diplomatic Circles. Infernal negotiations for the surrender of Constantinople have been already entered upon, according to the correspondent of the Vienna Reichspost, with the Bulgarian army. He adds that the Bulgarians hope the fall of the Turkish line of forts at Tchatalja will be simultaneous with the taking of the fortress of Adrianople. The correspondent adds that the Turkish troops have been repulsed from the principal points of the Tchatalia line, the fall of which is expected immediately. The Turkish advance posts on the right wing opposite the fort of Dellyunus have been captured already by the Bulgarian troops belonging to the third column, and these forts form excellent bases for pushing home attacks on the other lines. The Greek army, commanded by Crown Prince Constantine, occupied Salonika, the Turkish stronghold in southwestern Turkey in Europe. The imminent fall of Constantinople puts the crisis up to the powers. The threatened rupture between Tustria-Hungarl and Servia on the question of Servian access to the Adriatic sea and the immensity of numerous other political quicksands caused by the collapse of Turkey are causing grave concern in diplomatic circles in Paris. At the moment when an intimate accord is more desirable than ever before, it is pointed out that the two groups of European nations, as the triple alliance and the triple entente, which together compose the so-called concert of Europe, find themselves badly out of tune and arrayed in hostile camps. With Russia leading, France and England are inclined to support the Servian claims on which Austria-Hungary, encouraged by Germany and Italy, apparently has placed a direct veto. Among other bristling international difficulties are the compensation that Roumania will demand as an offset to the aggrandizement of Bulgaria, the future standing of the Dardanelles, Constantinople, Salonika and Turkey in Asia, the fate of the islands in the Aegean sea, the regime to be introduced in Albania and the adjustment of the conflicting Austrian and Italian special claims there in such a way that other powers shall not be prejudiced. Apart from all these visible controversies comes the news of the proclamation of a Russian protectorate over Chinese territory equal in extent to one-third of the whole of Europa. Russia has taken a step which is likely to cause further uneasiness by keeping the time-expired soldiers of her army with their regiments during the winter, which means that her army will be on a war footing till next year. Bulgaria has no intention of remaining in Constantinople. The Bulgarian troops will, however, go to the Turkish capital. Klamil Pasha, the aged grand vizier, will doubtless make a determined diplomatic effort to save Constantinople for his country. In fact, a German paper publishes a dispatch from Sofia which says that Klamil Pasha has already approached Bulgaria direct to begin negotiations for peace. BURNS T. R.'S PICTURE Connecticut Organization Makes Bonfire of it on Lawn. An exclusive social and Republican organization in Meriden, Conn., the Home club, is in a chaotic state as the result of the action of some of the dyed-in-the-wool Republican members, who destroyed the photograph of ex-President Roosevelt, which was presented by him to the club with his autograph, when he was president. When the election of Wilson was indicated late Tuesday night the picture was taken from a prominent place on the wall of the clubroom by one member and thrown to the floor. Another member thrust his foot through the canvas, and then it was taken to the lawn in front of the club building and burned. Bulcide on Husband's Grave At the grave of her husband, Mrs. Alice M. DeVine, of New York city, shot and killed herself in Milford, Conn. Her husband was buried three years ago. Grief at his death is believed to have unbalanced her mind. She came to Milford from New York by train. Among her effects was a letter directing that she be buried beside her husband. Postal Banks Utilized by 880,000. Postmaster General Hitchcock announced that $28,000,000 has been deposited up to date in postal savings depositories by 290,000 individuals, averaging $96 per depositor. The system now is operated in 12,773 postoffices and 7837 banks have qualified to receive postal savings funds. L. Smith & Co. L. C. SMITH & I Typewriter L. C. SMITH & BROS. Typewriter BALL BEARING LONG WEARING The escapement of the L. C. Smith permits the carriage to get away from the last printing point so instantaneously that no speed of operation is too rapid. The escapement of the L. C. Smith per- get away from the last printing point so ins- speed of operation is too rapid. The hair trigger touch of the ball bear- riage that is never shifted for capitals, a cap- ing only one-third ordinary pressure, a co- carriage return and line space, which spac- lines with the same sweep, and the light- tension—give an ease of operation that m- easy for the operator. 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WHY not give your lad the same training? "When I was a growing lad, and came upon many words in my reading that I did not understand, my mother, instead of giving me the definition when I applied to her, uniformly sent me to the dictionary to learn it, and in this way I gradually learned many things besides the meaning of the individual word in question—among other things, how to use a dictionary, and the great pleasure and advantage there might be in the use of the dictionary. Afterwards, when I went to the village school, my chief diversion, after lessons were learned and before they were recited, was in turning over the pages of the "Unabridged" of those days. Now the most modern Unabridged—the NEW INTERNATIONAL—gives me a pleasure of the same sort. So far as my knowledge extends, it is at present the best of the one-volume dictionaries, and quits sufficient for all ordinary uses. 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Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 19340, 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 Charles S. Harrison, 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 15th day of October, A. D. 1913, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 15th day of October, 2011. WILLIAM H. LEWIS, JR. Garfield Heights, D. C. Attest: JAMES TANNER Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. JONES AND CLINKSCALES, ATTORNEYS. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 18475, 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 Matilda Minor, 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 13th day of September, A. D., 1913; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 17th day of October, 1912. Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. BURE COURT THOMAS L. JONES. MARION T. CLINKSCALES, Attorneys. Buy at Once. For Sale—Truck farm containing one acre of fertile land, in D. C., on a fine Macadam, electric lighted highway. Good fruit on property. Suitable for subdivision. Cheap for cash. For particulars address room 38, Warder building. ALEXANDRIA NEWS Prof. L. B. Moore, of Howard University, lectured to an appreciative audience at Roberts Chapel Wednesday evening, the 13th. Prof. Moore spoke in his usual eloquent style and demanded the attention of all present Mrs. Lizzie Shorter, of Maryland, and her two children, Marguerite and Henry, are spending some time with Mrs. Shorter's mother, Mrs. Cathrine Butler of South Fairfax Street. Mr. Lewis Jones, of South Fairfax Street continues ill Street, continues in. Mrs. Jane Hawkins is sick at her home on S. St. Asaph Street. Mrs. Jennie Jones, who has been sick for the past two weeks, is improving. Mrs. Bryce, of New York, who has been visiting Mrs. Luvenia Jackson, of S. Columbus Street, left for Richmond, Va., Tuesday, the 12th. Mr. Wm. F. Evans, of Washington, D. C., spent Sunday in the City, the guest of relatives. Mrs. Jennie Brown, of Los Angeles, Cal., was the guest of Mrs. A. M. Buckner, Tuesday, the 12th. Mrs. Julia Hanna, of Washington, D. C., was in this city visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary Braddock, during the past week. The ball given by the I. B. P. O. E. at Odd Fellows' Hall, S. Columbus Street, on the evening of Tuesday, the 12th, was very largely attended and much enjoyed. Cards are out announcing the approaching marriage of Mr. F. H. Rich, of this city, and Miss Esther C. Bennett, of South Richmond, Va. The ceremony will take place in Richmond on the evening of November 20. Mr. Moss Promoted. Mr. Albert Moss, who has been confidential messenger to Commissioner Johnston, has been appointed to a clerkship in the assessor's office. Mr Moss is a very deserving young man, and his promotion meets with general approbation. DELEGATES TO CONGRESS. We would like to see National Committeeman Brown, representing the Republican party, J. F. Costello, representing the Democratic party, and Frank J. Hogan, representing the Progressive party, get together and call a meeting of the people and petition Congress to give the people a representative in Congress. All three of the parties should get together on this proposition. Let the delegate be elected by the people, and let the right man be elected Gentlemen, get together and let us have a representative in Congress. RENEGADE REPUBLICANS. The Bee is reliably informed that the local Democrats have nothing for renegade Republican bolters to do. They are not wanted in the Democratic party, and if they expect to receive any consideration from the local Democrats they, are mistaken. EXIT ROOSEVELT. An article recently appeared in the Tulsa, Okla., Daily World, on Theodore Roosevelt, which can be reproduced at a time when he is about to take his place in the political graveyard. It is intended as a parody on "Phillips' Fall of Napoleon," which was one of the selections in McGuffy's fourth reader in our school days. The following are some extracts from the paper referred to: He is fallen! We now pause before the unique prodigy that towered amongst us like some modern Don Quixote, whose insolence terrified the glance its audacity attracted. Aggressive, intolerant, and peculiar, he strode the halls of the White House a sceptered dictator, wrapped in the glory of his own egotism. A mind bold in its comprehension of popular ideals—a will despotic in its dictates—an energy that distanced expedition; and conscience pliable to every touch of interest marked the outlines of this extraordinary character; the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of the United States, ever 106e, reigned, or fell. Flung into life on the ebb of a revolution that taxed every device of a people that acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course an aristocrat by birth and scholar of no mean attainments. He knew no motive but interest—he acknowledged no criterion but success—he worshiped no god but ambition; and with an eastern devotion he knelt at the altar of his idolatry. in the hope of the Presidency he upheld the "machine," and when that deserted him appealed to the mob. The orphan of McKinley he became the adopted child of the "interests"—the denouncer of bosses, he became himself a boss; the pretended friend of law, he defied the law, the courts and the government, and, on the ruins, of McKinleyism, the courts, the masses, the interests, and the government itself, he reared the throne of his own political despotism! A professed Christian, he was the idol of the profane and dissolute; a professed patriot, he made his country subservient to his own ambition, and under the name of Lincoln he grasped without shame, and wore with remorse the diadem of Burr! In all this affectation of politics and other creeds, must not be omitted. A Republican, a Democrat, a stand-patter, a Progressive, a protectionist, a free-trader, a Socialist, an anarchist, he was all things to all men, and to himself alone was he true! He affected a crusade against his "bosses," that he himself might become the country's own boss. He made war on predatory wealth and tainted combines and trusts which did not support him. He was an Eastern Puritan and a Western Pugilist! That he might secure Negro support in the North, he admitted them to terms of political equality; and that he might obtain white support in the South, he excluded the Negro from his political conventions. Affecting to hate "muck-raking," he was himself a political scavenger. A Rough Rider, he attempted to rough ride the Chicago convention, and got "steam rolled" for his pains. Failing to rough ride the Republican party, the only party which had ever honored him, he bolted, and of his vassals formed a party which he could ride at pleasure—a party "quick to the master's will." He selected the moose as his emblem, because that animal changes its coat every year, and is never found twice in the same place. He was a political chameleon that took the hue of every party with which he associated. He wielded the Bible or the "big stick" with equal skill, and quoted scripture with as much ease and application as Satan himself. He insisted on a "square deal—when he held four aces—but refused to play if not allowed to stack the cards. Professing to be a reformer, attempted to reform everything himself—professing to venerate the memory of Lincoln, he was everything that Lincoln was not; and in the name of Washington and the famous cherry tree, he became the mogul of his self-created order of Ananias. So long as the Republicans kept him in office he was true to them as it was his nature to be true to any one but himself. But when the party could submit no longer to his intolerant bigotry; when it refused to be made the footstool of his insatiable ambition; when it refused to keep him perpetually in office, he deserted it, that he might form for himself a party of serfs and sattelites. He was grand, gloomy and hilarious by turns, and through all his moods he was the same selfish, egotistic ambitions self. But he is fallen! But he is dead. He declined Hadley's admonition to fling away ambitions, and by that sin he fell. A Progressive Business Man. Mr. Watt Terry, of Brockton, Mass., the young Negro real estate agent who had such an exceptional career, stated at the recent meeting of the National Negro Business League, that he controlled real estate aggregating $500,000. "There were those disposed to discredit Mr. Terry's statement at the time, so much so that the executive committee of the business league, through its Secretary, made a special report in open session with regard thereto. Booker T. Washington, President of the National Negro Business League, has been quietly investigating the matter at the hands of responsible Brockton people. A letter just received from the Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association—white—of Brockton, states: "Some weeks ago I wrote you relative to our mutual friend's (Mr.Watt Terry's) business, but now I want to enclose the clipping from the tax list which you will see is positive evidence that at the time the taxes were recorded he was carrying well on towards $300,000 and I know his large purchase of $120,000 occurred since then, so with the estimated valuation of these properties, in the minds of our best real estate men, I am thoroughly satisfied that the amounts reported are very little, if any, overstated. It is certainly a most wonderful development in a few years." It must be gratifying to the Negro people everywhere to learn that one of their race has achieved so wonderfully in so short a space of time, Mr. Terry is an alert, aggressive, but sincerely modest young man. St. Luke's Gospel Services. Last Sunday afternoon St. Luke gospel service was held at Third Baptist Church, Fifth and Q Streets, Rev. James H. Lee, pastor, under the direction of Roberta Council I. O. St. Luke, of which Mrs. Roberta Minor is degree chief. The following councils had been invited: Metropolitan, V. E. Robinson, Taylor, Rowan, Emma V. Woodmont, Washington City, Cecelia Brooks, and Olive Leaf. The pastor's sermon was a great lesson, to benevolent orders and was duly appreciated. Rev. James H. Lee is a powerful force for good among his people. For twenty-seven years he has successfully labored in his charge, having built the fine edifice in which the congregation now worships, Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, the district deputy of the order of St. Luke, presided in her usual graceful manner, and spoke of the great benefit the order brings to this city. Madam L. R. Pollard and Mr. A. S. Richardson made brief addresses, and Miss Ballard sang a good selection, accompanied by Mr. J. I. Minor, pianist. The choir rendered some fine anthems. It is the intention of the St. Luke officials to hold public meetings in various churches during the coming season and in this way bring into public notice the benefit and social work of their order, which has a membership of nearly three thousand in Washington. Howard vs. Lincoln. The greatest football game of the season will take place Thanksgiving Day between Howard University and Lincoln. It will be a hot contested display of endurance. A ten-days' revival services were begun in the Second Baptist Church on Sunday, November 10. This was regular communion Sunday with spiritual baptismal, communion and covenant-meeting services. In the ten days' meetings a choir of twenty-five voices will lead the singing. Rev. Gunn, of Washington, D. C., is the evangelist for these meetings, and already he has preached several forceful sermons. On Wednesday night a full attendance showed up, and about twenty young sinners came forward on the urgent invitation of Evangelist Gunn. Already there are two new additions one by baptism and one by watch-care reception. This is harvest-time, and the abundance of corn and other provender being hauled in from the fields, the large number of fodder, shocks seen on the farms, and the joyous laugh and song of these prosperous people give a fine spirit of contentment, and as the Thanksgiving occasion approaches there is talk of gay parties, the turkey dinner, the Thanksgiving service, all of which makes one glad to be a part of such a community. Mr. J. E. Taylor, the barber at East End, is pleased with "The Bee" saying that is a good race paper. Mr. Taylor has traveled quite extensively, having recently come to this village from Oklahoma, California and other points West. He has a good white trade. Rev. Joseph Matthews, pastor of the First Baptist Church, at Vienna, reports good revival meetings in his church. Already there are four or five additions. Mrs. Marshall, of 3331 Q Street Northwest, died at her residence Sunday, November 10. The funeral services took place on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at Trinity Church (Catholic) in Georgetown. Deceased was a sister of Mrs. Susie Campbell, now of Falls Church, Va., and died at the age of forty-five years. Three sisters, one brother and several children are left to mourn her loss. She had a wide circle of relatives and acquaintances. The family have our sympathy in this hour of trial. Mr. Stapleton Brown, of 1107 Delaware Avenue Southwest, conducts a successful store for the small trade in that vicinity. He is a business man of more than twenty years' standing. Miss E. Simms, of 919 R Street Northwest, is convalescing slowly. Her many friends will be pleased to see her out again soon. Messrs. Beckwith and Coates, who do first-class shoemaking at 625 G Street Northwest, are lovers of race enterprise. Each takes "The Bee" and pays for it. Quite a grand reception was given the new pastor, Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D., at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Fourth and L Streets Northwest, on Wednesday night, November 13. Mr. J. Clomax, of 684 Street Southwest, has made wonderful progress in his wood, coal and automobile repairing business. He is a man of steady and well directed effort. IN FAVOR OF HADLEY. Single Men Than Women—Illiteracy Smaller—Marriage Percentage. That the percentage of Negro population of the National Capital decreased during the decade between 1900 and 1910 is shown in a bulletin which has just been published by the Census Bureau. In 1900, 31.1 per cent of the population of Washington was colored, while two years ago this percentage had been reduced to 28.5. Another interesting fact disclosed by the bulletin is that Washingtonians are a home-loving lot of people. Seventy and six-tenths per cent of the entire white population are of native birth. In the total population there are 158,050 males and 173,019 females, or 91.3 males to 100 females. In 1900 the ratio was 90 to 100. Among the whites there are 94.9 males to 100 females, and among the Negroes 82.2 males to 100 females. Of the native population—that is, population born in the United States—45.5 per cent were born in the District of Columbia and 54.5 per cent elsewhere in the country; of the native white population, 53.3 per cent were born outside the District, and of the native Negro, 57.1 per cent. Irish-Born Citizens in Majority. Of the foreign-born white population of the District, persons born in Ireland, represent 21.9 per cent; Germany, 21.3; Russia, 13.9; Italy, 11.3; England, 10.8; Canada, 4.6; Scotland, 2.9; France, 2.1; Austria, 1.9; Sweden, 1.5; Greece, 1.4; Switzerland, 1.2; other countries, 1.4 per cent. Of the total white stock of foreign origin, which includes persons born abroad and also natives having one or both parents born abroad, Ireland contributed 27.8 per cent; Germany, 26.4; England, 11.1; Russia, 8.3; Italy, 6.6; Canada, 3.9; Scotland, 2.9; France, 1.5; Austria, 1.2; Sweden, 1 per cent. The total number of males 21 years of age and over is 103,761, representing 31.3 per cent of the population. Of such males, 73 per cent are white and 26.6 per cent Negro. Native whites represent 61.7 per cent of the total number and foreign-born whites 11.3 per cent. Of the 11,738 foreign-born white males of voting age, 6,474, or 55.2 per cent, are naturalized. Males of militia age—18 to 44—number 78,349. Of the total population, 8.1 per cent are under 5 years of age, 15 per cent from 5 to 14 years, inclusive, 18.9 per cent from 15 to 24, 36.1 per cent from 25 to 44, and 21.5 per cent 45 years of age and over. The foreign-born white population comprises comparatively few children, only 4.6 per cent of this class being under 15 years of age, while nearly five-sixths (83.1 per cent) are 25 years of age and over. The Negro population, as compared with the native white, comprises a smaller percentage under 20 years of age and a larger percentage from 20 to 44 years of age, inclusive. or 64.2 per cent attended school. In addition to these, 1,529 persons under 6 and 2,300 of 21 and over attended school. For boys from 6 to 20 years, inclusive, the percentage attending school was 64.6; for girls, 63.8. For children from 6 to 14 years, inclusive, the percentage attending school was 86.7. The percentage for children of this age was highest among native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, 88.7, although the percentage of native whites of native parentage, 87.8, was only slightly lower. For foreign-born whites the percentage was 86.4, and for Negroes, 83.7. Number of Illiterates. There are 13,812 illiterates in the District of Columbia, representing 4.9 per cent of the total population 10 years of age and over, as compared with 8.6 per cent in 1900. The percentage of illiteracy is 13.5 among Negroes, 8.2 among foreign-born whites, and 0.5 among native whites. It is 0.6 for native whites of native parentage, and 0.4 for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage. For persons from 10 to 20 years of age, inclusive, whose literacy depends largely upon present school facilities and school attendance, the proportion of illiterates is only 1 per cent. In the population 15 years of age and over, 40.2 per cent of the males are single and 34.5 per cent of the females. The percentage married is 53.8 for males and 48.8 for females; and the percentage widowed 5.2 and 15.7, respectively. The percentage of those reported as divorced, 0.4 and 0.6, respectively, are believed to be too small, because of the probability that many divorced persons class themselves as single or widowed. That the percentage single is so much smaller for women than for men is due largely to the fact that they marry younger. Thus 7.9 per cent of the females from 15 to 19 years of age are married, as compared with 0.8 per cent of the males; and 40.7 per cent of the females from 20 to 24 years are married, as compared with 21.2 per cent of the males. In the next age group, 25 to 34 years, the difference largely disappears. In the age group 35 to 44 the percentage married is greater among the males, while in the age group 45 and over it greatly exceeds that for females. That there is a larger proportion of widows than of widowers may indicate that men more often remarry than women, but, since husbands are generally older than their wives, the marriage relationship is, in fact, more often broken by death of the husband than by death of the wife. Marriage Percentages. For the main elements of the population the percentages of married persons among those 15 years of age and over are as follows: Foreignborn whites, 57.6 for males, 54.5 for females; native whites of native parentage, 53 and 48.8 respectively; native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, 50.4 and 49.4, respectively; and Negroes, 55.6 for males and 47 for females. These percentages by no means indicate the relative tendency of the several classes as regards marriage. To determine that, the comparison should be made by age periods, since the proportion married in any class is determined largely by the proportion who have reached the marrying age. 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ALL WELCOME President-elect Wilson proposes to have an open door, and will see everybody. This is a sign that all may come, but a few will be chosen. (Continued from page one.) P. Lewis, principal of Patterson School, president; Miss K. C. Lewis, principal of Mott School, vice president; secretary-treasurer, Miss M. E. Shorter, principal of Military Road School. Games Committee: J. F. N. Wilkinson, chairman; P. Gillem, Miss J. E. Davis. Division Athletic League, No. 12: J. C. Payne, principal of Banneker School, president; Miss L. G. Arnold, principal of Abby Simmons School, vice president; J. A. Richardson, secretary-treasurer. Games Committee G. B. Key, chairman; J. L. Chestnut; Miss Etta Williamson. Division Athletic League, No. 13: Eugene A. Clark, president; Miss J. E. Page, vice president; S. D. Matthews, secretary-treasurer. Games Committee: Cato Adams, chairman; T. A. Heathman, Miss H. V. Edmonds. 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