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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 DISCUSSES THE QUESTION "IS THE NEGRO HAVING A FAIR CHANCE." One of the Strongest Articles Ever Written by the Wizard of Tuskegee. Review of the Articles Appearing in the November Century. NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The contribution of Dr. Booker T. Washington to The Century Magazine has provoked much favorable comment, because of its directness and the vigorous language employed. The following newspaper review is proof of the interest it has aroused and that it has been very generally read by the whites: "Is the Negro having a fair chance?" This is the question Dr. Booker T. Washington puts, and answers, in the November issue of The Century Magazine. In all of Dr. Washington's writings there cannot be found a stronger plea, going hand in hand with a verile defense of his race, than appears in this article, and no question asked has been more clearly and convincingly answered. Comparing the chances of the dark peoples in the old world with those in this country, he briefly, but effectively, makes a parallel to the advantage of the Negro in America, and then immediately launches into a discussion of the "unequal laws," asserting, with vigor, that the basic cause of racial troubles in America rests in these "unequal laws." To use his words, "reduced to its lowest terms, the fact is that a large part of our racial troubles in the United States grow out of some attempt to pass and execute a law that will make and keep one man superior to another, whether he is intrinsically superior or not." Lincoln said that no man should govern another without the other's consent. Dr. Washington states this point, and proves it, even stronger. He adds: "No greater harm can be done to any group of people than to let them feel that a statutory enactment can keep them superior to anybody else. No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race or because of his color, he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts." With this sweeping, and self-evident, truth as a foundation, he builds up an argument, clear as a bell proving, beyond the peradventure of a doubt, that the Negro's fair chance in this country, stripped of all verbage, and reduced to the last analysis, is more honored in the breath than in the observance. The very striking feature of the article is the ungloved, vigorous manner in which the Doctor handles the subjects: railway discriminations, nigardy appropriations for Negro education, peonage, and the barbaric practice of lynching. Upon these subjects his language is as bold as the militant's, as uncompromising as the aggressive seeker for justice, but withal as sane as the statesman who plans, in order to insure permanency of reforms, to harpize all classes into a unity mass without destroying, or restricting a fundamental right of any one class. Taking these four subjects seriatim a sentence quoted from each is suffice to give some idea of the verility, strong, the unimpassionate condemnation of these injustices, that features the article. The article constitutes one of the strongest arraignments of those who are guilty of these injustices, and the severest indictment yet penned by this distinguished educator, author and constructive statesman, or by any of his contemporaries, white or black. Upon the subject of railway discrimination he says: "With few exceptions, the railroads are almost the only great business concerns in the South that pursue the policy of taking just as much money from the black traveler as from the white without feeling that they ought as a matter of justice and fair play, not as a matter of social equality, to give one man for his money just as much as another man." And then he proceeds to show that as a concrete business proposition railway discrimination, because of color, results in a heavy financial loss to transportation companies. On the subject of appropriations for Negro education he says: "It is only natural that the Negro in the South should feel that he is unfairly treated when he has, as is often true, in the country districts no school at all, or one with a term of no more than four or five months, taught in a wreck of a log-cabin and by a teacher who is paid about the price of a first-class convict." And then he shows that the Negro pays more than his share of education in the South, and quotes from white men to further prove it. Strongly condemning the convict labor evil in the South, he closes his arraignment of that evil with the following declaration: "Iinjustice in the courts makes slaves of the two races in the South, the white and the black. On the subject of the ballot he says: "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." Then pressing the barbaric crime of lynching to the door of the white man, he asks: "When ten millions of people feel that they are not sure of being fairly fried in a court of justice, when charged with crime, is it not natural that they should feel that they have not had a fair chance?" The article, in its entirety is a clever interlacing of calm, but bold,ensure Chicago, Ill., Nov. 20. The release of Jack Johnson from the Cook County jail is due to the efforts of two colored lawyers, Hon. Edward H. Wright, and W. G. Anderson. At the beginning of the trouble, he had an array of white legal talent, but they failed to get "Jack" out of the prison walls. Great credit is being given these two lawyers, for securing the right bondman and fighting unceasingly against prejudice and great adds. Only those who are in immediate confidence of the counsellors themselves will ever be able to appreciate the uphill journey and difficult task which Messrs. E. H. Wright and W. G. Anderson had to go through in order to secure Johnson's liberty. Attorney Wright was the first and only Negro to serve as president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, and has taken interest in all matters effecting the race. He has won many notable cases at the Chicago bar, and is held in high esteem for his honesty and integrity. Mr. Anderson enjoins a national reputation as a habeas corpus lawyer, having carried to successful termination some of the most notable cases attended in Cook county for the last fifteen years. He is an astute lawyer, careful attorney and has a remarkable ability for making use of the technicalities of the law. Mrs. Bessie Trotter Craft, sister of editor of the Boston Guardian, was tendered a swell social function on last Saturday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Charles E. Bentley, wife of the noted Dental Surgeon. Twenty-three of the leading society girls and matrons were present at a lunchean, and were gowned in the height of style. Ten courses were served, and following donner, sentiments were read on marriage. Some were humorous and others serious. Mrs. Cecil Johnson Mozee was voted honors for reading the best sentiment, and Mrs. Myrtle Fry, Mrs. Edward H. Morris and Miss Garnetta, Tibbs were reading the best sentiments. Dr. Charles E. Bentley, Mr. Harry Craft and Mr. Cary B. Lewis were tellers. In point and brilliancy and fashion, it was the leading social affair of the season. Tuesday, Jack Johnson was in court for assaulting a photographer of the Chicago American reporter but was released. JACK JOHNSON. A Square Deal is Asked for Him By Gilchrist Stewart—Colored Prejudice. Chicago, November 17, 1912 Dear Sir: From my investigation of all the facts relative to the Jack Johnson case, it appears that an unjustifiable attempt is being made to railroad him to the penitentiary. I think it is highly important that the race should know this and take a correct view of this matter. While Mr. Johnson may have committed an offense against the established code of morality similar to that committed by thousands of other men, this prosecution was so bereft of any present technical violations of any law that they have dug up an alleged offense committed over two years and a half ago. That this persecution against him is because of his color and because of the fact that he is the Negro champion of the world, is very plain. In the light of all the subsequent developments since his arrest there is more at stake in this fight, than the matter of Jack Johnson's personality. If one colored man can be thrown into prison, bail denied him on a bailable offense, and then railroaded to the penitentiary after a concerted attempt to prejudice public opinion, then it can be done against any other colored man and no man's rights are safe. Particularly is this unjustifiable because it is being done by the Federal Government who say that they are powerless to stop lynching—to stop disfranchisement—to stop any of the offences committed by white men against the race in the Southern States; yet when one of its officials consider it necessary to oppress a black man, the entire strength of the Federal Government is exerted and ways and means are at once found to endeavor to accomplish that result. 'A Republican administration going out of power would make a most fatal blunder to have as one of its last acts of administrative power, the persecution of any citizen merely because of his color. The race should protest against this matter energetically and see that Jack Johnson receives a square deal. GILCHRIST STEWART. School Athletic Sport Outplayed but not outgamed, the Armstrong Technical High School football team went down to defeat by the score of 18 to 0 at the hands of the well drilled eleven at M Street High School Monday afternoon. No prettier scholastic game has been witnessed hereabout in many a day, and no larger crowd of loyal school adherents has been on hand to cheer their champions on. From the time Rector received Greene's forward pass until the final play of the day, the game was never in doubt, and had not Armstrong's sturdy defense stood her in stead at critical moments a score twice as large would have resulted. M Street worked forward passes with skill and precision, and the line resisted all effort on the part of the opponent backfield to consistently gain. Randall, captain of M Street, played P. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, A deserving compliment to this Educator. M. B. PUBLIC PRINTER JAMES B. DONNALLY Who has made more appointments of colored citizens in the Printing Office than any of his predecessors. A man wi erate race discrimination in his office. HOWARD vs. LINCOLN. HOW WILL YOU SPEND THANKSGIVING AFTER What a question! WHY, OF COURSE, ON HOWARD CAMPUS HOWARD-LINCOLN GAME. Gates open at 12:30 o'clock. Admission, 50 cents. Game called a made more appointments of colored citizens in the Office than any of his predecessors. A man who face discrimination in his office. HOWARD vs LINCOLN. WILL YOU SPEND THANKSGIVING AFTER? What a question! OF COURSE, ON HOWARD CAMPUS HOWARD-LINCOLN GAME. Gates open at 12:30 o'clock. 50 cents. Game called a Who has made more appointments of colored citizens in the Government Printing Office than any of his predecessors. A man who will not tolerate race discrimination in his office. HOWARD vs LINCOLN HOWARD vs. LINCOLN. HOW WILL YOU SPEND THANKSGIVING AFTERNOON? What a question! WHY, OF COURSE, ON HOWARD CAMPUS AT THE HOWARD-LINCOLN GAME. Gates open at 12:30 o'clock. Admission, 50 cents. Game called at 2:30 o'clock SOCIAL SETTLEMENT COMMITTEE. The Ladies' Committee of the S lunches and refreshments during the FOOTBALL GAM ies' Committee of the Social Settlement will refreshments during the Howard-Lincoln FOOTBALL GAME ON THE FIELD The Ladies' Committee of the Social Settlement will serve hot lunches and refreshments during the Howard-Lincoln FOOTBALL GAME ON THE FIELD. the best game of his career; he was smattering plays all over the field, and was responsible for a touchdown and many of the gains of his team by hurling his bulk of nearly 200 pounds against his adversaries. Greene was a tower of cool, brainy strength using rare headwork under the stress of ex- (Continued to page 2) burdens and encourage him in his work at Tuskegee, to be given annually for five years, from a number of selected persons throughout the United States. The movement has been so successful and so spontaneously responded to, that $53,000 a year for five years has been guaranteed. Gift for Five Years. A few months ago a few special friends of Dr. Booker T. Washington organized a movement to secure a special gift of $50,000 to lighten his colored citizens in the Government decessors. A man who will not tol- ice. S LINCOLN A. LINCOLN. THANKSGIVING AFTERNOON? question! ENVARD CAMPUS AT THE LINCOLN GAME. 12:30 o'clock. Game called at 2:30 o'clock. social Settlement will serve hot the Howard-Lincoln E ON THE FIELD. burdens and encourage him in his work at Tuskegee, to be given annually for five years, from a number of selected persons throughout the United States. The movement has been so successful and so spontaneously responded to, that $53,000 a year for five years has been guaranteed. Madam Patti Brown. Madam Patti Brown, the great singer, assisted by Mr. Joseph H. Douglass, will give a recital in Andrew Rankin Chapel, Howard University, next Monday at 4 o'clock, P. M. Everybody should hear this remarkable woman. In Potteries, Tile Works, and Porcelain Enameled Sanitary Ware Factories. In a study of lead poisoning in potteries, tile works, and porcelain enameled sanitary ware factories, recently made for the Federal Bureau of Labor, Dr. Alice Hamilton found that, compared with British potteries, American potteries, with less than one-half the work people, show almost twice as many cases of lead poisoning. Even these figures, unfavorable as they are to American establishments, do not tell the whole truth, for in the absence of legal requirements for the recording or reporting of cases of lead poisoning at the time of the investigation, it was impossible to make a complete census of the cases which had occurred during the last two years. For the purposes of the investigation Dr. Hamilton visited 68 establishments, located in nine States, in which over 2,100 men and nearly 400 women were engaged in processes involving exposure to risk of lead poisoning. All these industries and establishments have one important feature in common, that of using glazes containing one or more poisonous compounds of lead. Factories were also visited in Great Britain, Germany, and Austria. The results of Dr. Hamilton's investigation are given in Bulletin No.104, about to be issued by Commissioner Charles P. Neill, of the Bureau of Labor, Department of Commerce and Labor. The principal centers of the white ware pottery industry in the United States are Trenton, N. J., and East Liverpool, Ohio. The manufacture of yellow ware and Rockingham is carried on in East Liverpool, and in the district of Ohio, of which Zanesville is the center. Art and utility ware are made chiefly in the Zanesville district. The eleven tile factories visited were in Trenton, N. J., Newell, W. Va., Covington and Newport, Ky., Indianapolis, Ind., Chicago, Ill., and Zanesville, Ohio. Porcelain enameled sanitary ware is made chiefly in and around Pittsburg, Pa., Chicago, Ill., Louisville, Ky., Chattanooga, Tenn., Sheboygan, Wis., several small towns in Ohio, and in Trenton, N. J. Extent of Poisoning. Among the 1,100 men employed in the potteries and tile works investigated Dr. Hamilton found 87 cases of lead poisoning occurring in 1911, or one for every 12 or 13 employed, and among the 393 women, 57 cases or one for every 7 employed. Among the 1,012 men engaged in the porcelain enameling of iron sanitary ware 187 cases of lead poisoning were found in 1911, or one for every 5 employed. Amount of Lead Used. The degree of danger involved in the various processes depends partly on the amount of lead used in the glazes and partly on the use or neglect of methods and devices for protecting the workers. In the 40 white ware potteries visited the glazes used contained from 1.75 to 33.3 per cent of raw white lead. In the 7 potteries making art and utility ware and in the 11 tile factories the glazes contained from 5 to 60 per cent of white lead. In the 10 porcelain enameled sanitary ware factories enamels are in use containing from 2 to 25 per cent of lead Prevention of Lead Poisoning. The precautions which should be used in establishments using these lead glazes are indicated by the nature of the danger. Lead is a slowly cumulative poison which enters the human system chiefly through the digestive tract. The mucous membrane of the respiratory tract may absorb lead, and lead has also been found to penetrate the blood vessels of the lungs and so to reach the general circulation. The greater part of the lead which is breathed in as dust is swallowed with the saliva, thus reaching the stomach, and this is the most frequent mode of poisoning by lead. Next in importance comes poisoning by lead which is carried into the mouth with food or chewing tobacco, which has been handled with lead-covered fingers, or left exposed in a room where there was lead dust, or carried in the pockets of dusty clothes. Absorption of lead through the unbroken skin is probably so little as to be negligible. The prevention of lead poisoning in a factory in which lead glazes are used depends upon measures to prevent dust so that the workmen need not breathe in lead, and measures to provide for personal cleanliness so that he will not convey lead into his mouth from his fingers or carry it home on his body or clothes. Absence of Protective Measures. Preventive measures of both these kinds were conspicuously absent in the factories investigated. Generally speaking, no effort was made to keep down the amount of dust, and no provision was made for carrying it off by exhaust or other mechanical devices. Processes which involve no dust were carried on in the same rooms with dusty ones, exposing workers in the first to a wholly unnecessary danger. The construction of the floors and the methods of cleaning added to the risk. Hot water, an absolute necessity for removing the lead from the hands before eating, Important News Happenings of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST By Miss G. B Maxfield's President Taft will make appointments that will fall due before March 4th, and leave it to the Senate to confer or to reject. President Wilson will have at his disposal, according to report, just about three hundred positions, which he may fill during his term. This includes everything, from nine members of the Cabinet down to the coachman. That the constitutional liberty of the 25,000 newspapers, magazines and periodicals published throughout the United States, is violated by the new provision in the postal appropriation act, is the brief filed in the Supreme Court by attorneys, in a suit to test the validity of the law. Preparations are being made for the counting of $1,350,000,000, funds of the United States that have been turned over to Carmi Thompson by Lee McClung. Twenty-four counters have been employed. John Berry, a Negro, who for the last three or four months has been employed in a barber shop as a porter has come into a snug fortune and acquired considerable fame. Berry has considerable musical talent, and in his idle moments wrote the words and music of a song which he sang to the men in the shop. Then he wrote words and music for a comic opera, and a short story, sending them to a Chicago company. The company accepted Berry's offerings and sent him a check for $3,000 for the comic opera, $200 each for two sacred songs, and $67 for the story, making $3,467. Berry was so delighted with the success of his first venture that he resigned his work, left for his home in Muncie, and will devote his time to writing music. For the first time within a dozen years, a lynching occurred in Steele, N. Dak. The victim was a white man who had killed his wife. Dr. J. Max Barker, formerly editor of the Voice of the Negro, was married November 9th, to Miss Harriet B. Taylor, of Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Barker will make Philadelphia their home. The State Department has been advised of the completion of arrangements for the issue of bonds for the rehabilitation of the finances of the Republic of Liberia. A commission of five alienists, reported to Judge Backus, of Milwaukee, Wis., finding John Schrank, who shot Col. Rosevelt, insane. Mrs. Scott, president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in explaining the use of the Confederate flag of decoration of the Continental Hall, says the decoration was justified by President Taft, who approved of its display, as it was regarded as no more than an emblem of tender memories. The largest mail tubes in the world are to be installed between the Grand Central and the Pennsylvania railroad stations in New York; the tubes will be at least twenty-four inches in diameter, and will be built to carry mail bags so that the rehandling of mail will not be necessary. Baptist Churches of this city spent for all purposes during the year ending October 21, 1912, $142,032.50. President-elect Woodrow Wilson and Vice-President-elect Thomas P. Marshall, are members of the Presbyterian Church. Representative Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio, who was defeated for re-election by 97 votes, spent $1,500 in his campaign. His opponent, Stanley E. Bowdie, reported that he spent $857. Jack Johnson, the colored pugilist, has been freed of the charge of abduction before Municipal Judge Hopkins, in Chicago, last Tuesday. The Carnegie Hero fund limits hero rewards, beginning with January first next. No act of heroism will be considered by the commission unless it has been performed within three years of the date on which application for recognition is made. Among the families in France 17 out of every 100 are childless. The Arabs show their friendliness when meeting by shaking hands six or eight times. Arabs of distinction go beyond this; they embrace each other several times. Mr. John A. Bostic will deliver a lecture at Galbraith A. M. E. Church Friday, November 29, on "The Bedowin Arabs of Moab." He will appear in native costume. Mr. Bostic is well known in philanthropic circles in this city, and is giving his time and talent free for the benefit of the cause of Christ. Do not miss this rare treat. Moslem Ruler Again "the Sick Man of Europe." TO COMPLETE CANAL ON SCHEDULE TIME Delay in Delivery of Material Retards Work. Practical completion of the Panama canal by July 1, 1913, is assured, according to the annual report of Colonel George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama canal. On that date, in spite of several slides in the Culebra cut during the past year, the excavation in the cut will be completed, and by Aug. 1, 1913, the spillway at the Gatun dam will be finished. The concrete work about the locks and dredging of channels to the sea will be, finished between Jan. 1, 1913, and July 1, 1913. Delays in the delivery of material and machinery for the gates of the locks has retarded their construction somewhat, though Colonel Goethals believes everything will be done on schedule time in spite of these handicaps. More than 34,000 men are now employed on the canal work. The natural decrease in employees, accompany inf the lessening of construction work on the canal, was offset by the inauguration of the work on the fortifications and the docks and piers for the Panama railroad and for the general terminal facilities. Of the employees, 5101 were Americans. It is recommended by Colonel Goethals that the economy and efficiency commission created by President Taft install a new system of accounting, to go into operation when the construction of the canal ends and the operation and maintenance begins. BOY, HUNTING, KILLS CHUM Gun Accidentally Discharged and Victim Bleeds to Death. Accidentally shot by his companion, John Oliver, sixteen years old, Albert Linton, eighteen years old, bled to death in a field near Wagontown, Chester county, Pa. The two boys, who had been playmates since childhood, were hunting rabbits. As Oliver was changing his gun from one shoulder to the other it was accidentally discharged and the load entered Linton's body on the left side above the thigh. Alone in a clearing, several miles from a house, and his companion dying from the wound, young Oliver stood beside his fatally wounded companion and screamed for assistance. Two hunters in a nearby woods heard the cries and responded. Physicians, who arrived after the victim had died, say he would have possibly lived had the flow of blood been stopped in time. Young Oliver went to Wagontown and gave himself up to 'Squire E. W. Grubb. Deputy Coroner Grubb held an inquest and a verdict of accidental death was rendered. Oliver was then released. THUGS ROB HER OF FINGERS Eut Off Four to Loosen Woman's Hold on Bag Containing $150. Mrs. Yetta Lanes, fifty years old, a wealthy real estate owner in New York city, was held up by two men and robbed of $150 in Avenue A, near Twelfth street. The tips of four fingers of her left hand were cut off by one of the robbers when she tried to seize his knife as he cut away a handbag, the strings of which were wound several times around her arm. In the bag was the rent she had collected a few minutes before in a saloon she owned. Lad Kills His Father The first accident of the hunting season in Ohio took place on the farm of Ignace Vala, near Cleveland, who was killed by his fourteen-year-old son when the boy's finger slipped as he was letting down the barrel of his gun and set off the trigger. A Modeet Hera. A French reporter encountered in a little village of the south of France a gardener who wore, plined on his clean Sunday blouse, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Naturally the newspaper man desired to know how he got it. The gardener, who, like many of his trade, seemed to be a silent man, was averse to meeting an old and wearisome demand, but finally he began: "Oh, I don't know how I did get it I was at Bazellles with the rest of the battery. All the officers were killed; then down went all the noncommissioned officers—bang, bang, bang! By and by all the soldiers went down but me. I had fired the last shot and naturally was doing what I could to keep off the Bavarians. "Well, a general came, and says he 'Where's your officers?' "All down," says I. "Where's your gunners?" says he. "All down but me," says I. "And you've been fighting here all alone?" says he. "I couldn't let 'em come and get the guns, could I? I says, and then he up and put this ribbon on me, probably because there was nobody else there to put it on." Too Obliging. When a Sixth avenue elevated train reached the Twenty-third street station an elderly and poorly dressed woman arose and walked slowly toward the door. She had reached the platform and was about to step off when a man noticed that she had left a paper parcel behind. "Hey! You forgot something," he shouted, but the woman never turned about. He jumped off the car and reached the woman's side as the gate banged and the train moved on. "Much obliged, but that isn't mine," said the woman. A slickly smile overspread the man's face as he said to the people who had witnessed the refusal of the parcel, "She's right; it belongs to me," and, seeing that some of the witnesses were incredulous, he said that the parcel contained a child's rubber coat, proving it by opening the parcel. He then joined in the laugh on himself.—New York Tribune. Rope or Rifle. The first legal execution by shooting to be carried out by civil authorities in America was at Salt Lake City in 1861, when William Cockroft, convicted of murder in the first degree, chose to be shot rather than hanged or beheaded. Under the laws of the territory of Utah a condemned man was permitted to select either of the three methods of his taking off, and when Utah became a state the choice was restricted to shooting or hanging. Of the executions in Utah in the last century only one man, a wife murderer, has chosen the noose. Utah was long the only American state that permitted an assassin any choice as to his means of exit from the world, but a few years ago Nevada passed a law giving a condemned man the option of the rope or the rifle.—Baltimore News. Sir Boxle Roche's Bulls Sir Boyle Roche earned the distinction of being the father of Irish bulls. Here are one or two of his remarks. "Why," he once said, "should we begar ourselves to benefit posterity? What has posterity done for us?" adding, "By posterity I mean those who come after us." At a political meeting he remarked that he would "not rest satisfied until the rocky mountains of Ireland became cultivated valleys," and on another occasion, "All along the untridden paths of the future I can see the footprints of an unseen hand." The most popular and best quoted bull and one which must always be allied with his name is, "A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird." Drinking of Health The drinking of healths in wine or liquor or other kinds originated in Britain at the time of the rule of the Danes, before Alfred the Great finally succeeded in driving them from the land. Owing to the assassination of Englishmen by the Danes, it became a custom to enter into compacts for the mutual preservation of health and security. These compacts were usually pledged in wine, and hence the custom of drinking healths.-London Standard. Incompetent. "Oh, Harold," said Mrs. Newlywed, a strange man was here today, and he said he wished to read our gas meter. "Wet," did you let him in? "Mercy, no! He used very poor grammar, and I felt sure that he would not read it properly."—Judge's Library. He Liked Them Cooked. There was a Frenchman who hated the country as much as did Charles Lamb, but compressed his feelings into few words. This was Charles Monselet, who lived on the Qual Voltaire, Paris. "It is," he said, referring to the country, "the place where the birds are raw." A Marked Difference Bilkins—He looked like his brother, and I hit him. Waller—Couldn't you tell them apart? Bilkins—I couldn't then, but now there a marked difference—Exchange Employment To him that has no employment life in a little while will have no novelty, and when novelty is laid in the grave the funeral of comfort will soon follow.—Anon. The hatred of the vicious will do you less harm than their conversation—Bentley. High Priced Poems What is the highest price ever paid by a publisher for a poem? It would be interesting to know whether any advance has ever been made on the £3,000 ($15,000) that Scott received for "Rokeby." Stephen Gwynn, in his "Life of Moore," tells us that Murray offered 2,000 guilneas for the copyright of "Lalla Rookh," "but Moore's friends thought he should have more and, going to Longman, they claimed that Mr. Moore should receive no less than the highest price ever paid for a poem. That," said Longman, "was £3,000, paid for "Rokeby."' On this basis they treated, and Longman was inclined to stipulate for a prelim.nary perusal. Moore, however, refused, and the agreement was finally worded, "That upon your giving into our hands a poem of the length of "Rokeby" you shall receive from us the sum or £3,000."—London Chronicle. The Alps Will Be Washed Away. The Alps, from a geological point of view, are very recent. The Welsh hills, though, comparatively speaking, insignificant, are far more ancient. They had been mountains for ages and ages before the materials which now compose the Rigl or the Pilatus were deposited. Indeed, we may say that it is because they are so old that they have been so much worn down. The Alps themselves are crumbling and being washed away, and if no fresh elevation takes place the time will come when they will be no loftier than Snowdon or Helvellyn. They have already undergone enormous denudation, and it has been shown that from the summit of Mont Blanc some 10,000 or 12,000 feet of strata have been already removed. Denudation began as soon as the land rose above the sea and the main river.valleys were excavated.—Pearson's Weekly. The Word "Lubber" The word "bubber" is in "Ralp Holster Dolster", *circa* 1550, 111, 3: And where he is louted and laughed to scorn For the verlest dot that ever was born And the verlest lubber, sloven and beast Living in the world from the west to the east. Tusser uses the word in "Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie," 1550, page 131 (E. D. S): For tempests and showers decelueth a menle. And lingering lubbers loose many a penile. The word "lubbers" was in constant use in the sixteenth century and occurs at least twice in Udal's translation of Erasmus "Apophthegmes." Almost 200 years before this Langland told of the "grete lobres and longe" who were too idle to work.—London Notes and Queries. Not For Fashion's Sake The criminal law of England was formerly marked by indiscriminating severity. The theft of an article valued above 10 shillings was punished with death. In writing about "Sweet Hampstead and Its Associations" Mrs. White records a pleasant thing of Lord Mansfield, who as a rule leaned to the side of mercy. It was Lord Mansfield who directed a jury to find a stolen trinket less in value than 10 shillings in order that the thief might escape capital punishment. To this the jeweler who prosecuted demurred, asserting that the fashion of the thing had cost him twice that money. "Gentlemen," replied the judge, with grave solemnity, "we ourselves stand in need of mercy. Let us not hang a man for the fashion's sake!" A Growsome Wedding Present. Among the Brass river tribes of west Africa when a young couple get married it is the custom for the oldest member of the bride's family to present the bride with a plot of ground six feet long. This is for the grave of her family and herself when they die. The first member of the new family who dies is buried about twenty feet below the ground and the next one almost sixteen feet, and this goes on until all the family die and are buried. The grave holds them all, and this they think, prevents them from being separated. This grewsome wedding present is the one most valued by the bride, the favorite native saying being, "When all other things are gone this remains." The Wasted Witticism "I always thought," said the hostess, "that Scotchmen were humorous. One night I showed a departing Scotch guest a great pile of overcoats in the dressing room. "Here," I said, with a wave of my hand, "you are the first to leave. Take your choice." "Thank you," said he as he fumbled searchingly among them; 'I'llave me own.'"—Exchange. His Own Words. Hubby—You could make me very happy if you would only exert yourself a little. Wife—But you told me when I accepted you that I'd made you the happiest man on earth. How can I improve on that?—Boston Transcript. The Little Pitcher Sald Edith to her doll: "There, don't answer me back. You mustn't be sane no matter how hateful I am.. You must remember I am your mother" Luck: Hokus—I wonder how it was that old Methusaleh lived so long? Pokus—Probably some woman had married him for his money.—Judge. Clever. He—Oh, yes; I write verse occasionally, but I tear it all up as soon as I write it. She—Ah! I knew you were clever.—London Tit-Bits JOSE CANALEJAS. Spanish Premler Who Was Murdered In Madrid. [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit]. President-elect Wilson announced that he will call congress together in extraordinary session not later than April 15 of next year to revise the tariff. In his statement, made public in New York on the eve of his departure for a four weeks' vacation in Bermuda, he says that he has determined upon this course not only because he was elected on a platform which declared for an immediate downward revision of the tariff schedules, but also because he feels it is due to the business interests of the country that they should be relieved of all uncertainty as to what the general purpose of the incoming administration at Washington is. Beyond his bald statement that he will call an extraordinary session the president-elect has made no comment on the situation other than that so far as he was concerned the pledges of his party and its platform would be carried out. Governor Wilson sailed for Bermuda on the steamship Bermudian and will rest there until Dec. 16. One of his first acts on arriving in Bermuda will be to call upon the governor of Bermuda and to request him that he be permitted to spend his time there without recognition of his official status, either as governor of New Jersey or as president-elect of the United States. McClung Resigns as U. S. Treasurer. Lee McClung has resigned as treasurer of the United States and his resignation was accepted by President Taft. Mr. McClung handed his resignation to the president at a conference at the White House, and its acceptance was announced by the president from the executive offices, with the explanation that Mr. McClung had resigned voluntarily. It is believed that Carmi Thompson, now private secretary to the president, will succeed McClung and that Charles D. Hilles, Republican national chairman, will resume his old position as secretary to the president. Mr. McClung's resignation becomes effective as soon as his successor is appointed. He declined to discuss his retirement in any way, but it was rumored that his resignation came as the result of continued friction with Secretary MacVeagh. Held Prisoners Years Illegally Discovery has been made of the plight of four penitentiary prisoners in Columbus, Ohio, who, because they were insane and were transferred from the state prison to the hospital, have been unlawfully held for years. John H. Whaler, sent to the penitentiary in 1874, has been confined for thirty-three years after his term expired. L. B. Childester, a forger, received in 1878, should have been released in 1884. Jerry Carter, sentenced for arson, has been detained twenty-four years. Charles Willis should have been released twenty-seven years ago. The prisoners will be transferred immediately to their respective counties to be probated. Their plight was discovered when the state hospital authorities submitted a bill for their keep. Parents Drown Baby Boy. Disappointed because their ten-days-old baby was a boy when they wanted a girl, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klipp, each twenty-two years old, of Cincinnati, O., wrapped the child in a shawl and tossed him into the Ohio river. They were arrested and the husband confessed, blaming his wife for wanting to dispose of the child. When arraigned in court their cases were continued to Nov. 27. The body was not recovered. Eggs at 72 Cents a Dozen. "Strictly fresh" eggs sold for 72 cents a dozen at retail, one of the highest prices ever recorded for them in New York city. Western laid eggs were quoted from 10 to 15 cents a dozen under this price, while storage eggs went begging at 24 cents a dozen. Robbbers Get $50,000. The Wells-Fargo express office at Lake Charles, La., was robbed of $50,000. The safe was dynamited. SAYS HE KILLED TWELVE BOYS TALE PARTLY CONFIRMED Postal Card Told Buffalo Police Where Dismembered Body of One Victim Was Hidden. The dismembered corpse of seven-year-old Joseph Josephs, murdered by an unknown maniac, was taken from the vault of an outhouse in the rear of a saloon on the Ridge road at Lackawanna, N. Y. The body was found in sixteen parts, the skull being the last portion recovered. The flesh had entirely disappeared from it. It does not appear that the body had been carved or chopped up, but that it had become dismembered in the twelve months it had lain in the slime of the outhouse, where it was crammed by the murderer after he had first assaulted and then strangled the little Syrian lad. The Josephs boy had been missing for a year, and his body was found by means of postal cards written at intervals to the Buffalo police and the newspapers. The last card described the spot where the body of the lad was buried. One of the postal cards written by the depraved murderer of the boy stated that he had killed twelve other boys. The police at first were not inclined to believe this, but Chief of Police Regan declared that after communication with other cities from which postal cards had been mailed by the murderer that the boastful murderer probably is telling the truth in regard to the number of crimes he has committed. Postal cards received from time to time since the disappearance of the Josephs boy were dated in Boston, New York, Washington and Philadelphia. Offers of rewards aggregating $1500 failed to give any trace of the boy, but the postal cards telling of his death appeared quite regularly at police headquarters, at the home of his parents and at the business house of the boy's father, who is a wealthy Syrian merchant. For a time these cards were ignored by the police, but when last Friday one was received describing the exact spot where the body was buried the police and medical examiners began an investigation, which resulted in the finding of the body, piece by piece. The last part found was the head. Immediately after the body was unearthed the police appealed to the postal inspectors to try and trace the writer of the cards. The murderer writes that he is a thirty-second degree Mason, and declares that on Wednesday he will return to Buffalo and give himself up to the police. This, it is thought, is merely a blind to forestall a search for him. Declaring that two other boys were attacked by him, the writer gives the places where the attacks occurred, and in one instance, that of a newsboy stationed at an outlying street car transfer point, the police have verified this statement. Since the finding of the Josephs boy's body the police are looking up records of children's disappearances within the last eighteen months and find that seven, all boys under ten years, have disappeared and have not since been heard from. BRIDE, AGED 10, GETS A DOLL FOR PRESENT Other Wedding Gifts Were Mostly Toys. Agnes Callahan, aged ten years, was married in Thibodeaux, La., and quit the third reader class in the public school. Her husband is Paul Dletz, twenty-three years old. The girl wore short dresses during the ceremony, but immediately afterwards announced that she would have her gowns lengthened, as she was a "married woman now." The priest who performed the ceremony was opposed at first on account of the age of the prospective bride, but because the parents of both of the contracting parties insisted that the wedding should take place, he finally yielded. Dietz's present to his bride was a huge doll that would open and close its eyes. Nearly all the wedding presents were toys, but the bride declared that she would not play with dolls any more. The wedding was the result of a courtship begun when the bride was almost a baby. Football Player's Neck Broken. While carrying a football around the end in a game between the West Pittston and Dunmore high schools at Pittston, Pa., Leonard Cummins, eleighteen years old, star of the Dunmore team, was tumbled by a flying tackle and in the fall had his neck broken. He is now at the Pittston hospital. 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, $1,850,775,000; hay, $854,615,000; wheat, $603,039,000; oats, $476,169,000; potatoes, $188,501,000; barley, $120,845,000; flaxseed, $39,628,000; rye, $24,370,000; buckwheat, $13,526,000. 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. Bulgarians Take Turkish City. A dispatch from Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, says that Kirk-Killiseh 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-Killiseh is regarded as the key to this great fortress, and is the headquarters of the Turkish Third Army Corps, commanded by Kenaan Pacha. The Turkish garrison at Kirk-Killiseh, consisting of 5000 men, surrendered 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 Decles 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 $35,000 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 Trace. The department of agriculture has placed an embargo upon the interstate shipments of Christmas trees from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, because of the gypsy and brown-tail 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. barrel. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, 97½@98¢. CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, 68@ 68½¢. OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 38½@ 89¢: lower grades, 37¢. 38c. lower grades, 31c. POLLUTR: Live heady; hens, 12@ 14c.; old roosters, 11@11½c. Dressed much; choice fowls, 17c.; old roosters, 13c. BUTTER steady; fancy creamery, 34½c. per lb. EGGS steady; selected, 39 @ 42c; nearby, 36c.; western, 36c. POTATOES steady; 55@68c. bush. Live Stock Markets. PITTSBURGH (Ulana Stock Yards) Stock Price, Volatility, $oice, $9.25 701, PHILA, $8.50/3.10. HOGS active; prime heavies, $8.10 @8.15; mediums and heavy Yorkers, @8.80; Light Yorkers, $7.60/7.75; bites, $7.70/8; roughs, $6.75/7.25. Tombstone Amid Waves. Americans by the thousand visit Mont St. Michel every year, there to explore the famous old monastery and beast on the renowned omelets of Mme. Poularde, and most of them tarry en route at St. Malo, the gay watering place on the Brittany coast, whose grim past is recalled by the fortifications by which it is begirt. Chateaubriand, the father of French romanticism, is buried at St. Malo, and no true American sightseer falls to pay a visit to his tomb, nameless, which at high tide is covered by the sea. Jules Lamaitre in a work on "the great egotist," as he calls Chateaubriand, 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 Chateaubriand'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 aln'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. Sleicher in Leslie's. This Was Made In Germany. In a second class compartment on a German train in which a gentleman is seated enters a woman with a box of cheese. A very strong odor soon pervades the compartment, and the gentleman becomes restless. "Oh, pardon me, sir," says the woman. "I'm taking my husband a box of limburger cheese; he is so fond of it, and where we are in the country none can be bought. The smell is quite harmless." "Don't mention it!" replies the man. As the odor becomes stronger he lights a cigarette. "Excuse me," speaks up the woman, "this is not a compartment for smoking. As for myself, I would gladly stand the smoke, but the cheese will draw the odor of tobacco."—Filegende Blatter. His Name and Profession. When Alfonso XIII. of Spain was in the grip of his earliest motoring fever his car was not always recognized, and so he had some amusing experiences. At Bayonne he was once "held up" by a gendarme, who requested him to show his driving license. "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 Mframar, S. Sebastian," was the reply. Tableau—"The Passes of the Pyrenees." "What reason have you to think my daughter 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 Modern science is that practical knowledge of truth that urges us to feel an oyster's pulse and look at its tongue before we eat it-Galveston News. The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds ceases to be charity and only pride and ostentation-Hutton. Painless Extraction of Teeth · Filling and Crowning Dr. Robert L. 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This is an old established firm First class meals at all hours in the day may be had at Murrays—1216 U street, northwest. Ice cream cut, $1.20 per gallon. Plain ice cream at 90 cents per gallon. His large and commodious dining room will accommodate any number of people. House & Herrman. The next oldest house in the city is House & Herrman. If you can't be satisfied elsewhere, call at this house. WHY SUFFER WITH PILES. Browns Pile Remedy is used successfully for Internal and External Piles. Remedy No. 1. An ointment, makes screeness, inflamation and initiation vanish. Remedy No. 2. An internal remedy to aid the ointment by expelling the poison caused by constipation. To be used together. Both for 50c postpaid. C.BROWN, Registered Pharmacist 609 Third Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. Wm. C. McCURDY Wholesale (Baked Goods) Retail. Pound and Fruit Cake, 15c. Best to be had. Stand 662-3. For Malaria, Chills, Fever. For Malaria, Chills, Fever. 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Bequests of $10,000 to the Catholic University are included in the will of former State Senator Patrick Garvin, of Connecticut, according to report which has been received. Political foes, as well as friends of Col. Theodore Roosevelt not only of the United States but of the world, wish for him a speedy recovery. Nearly 25,000 Bibles have been distributed to sailors, each of which, it is said, can be easily traded for some cigarettes or tobacco. The proposed planting of a young apple tree on the battlefield of Appomattox, Va., where General Lee surrendered the Confederate army to General Grant, will not take place until next month. Seventy-two Chicago instructors have decided to eliminate rag-time dances in their dance halls. A notice was placed in every hall. The Wyoming convicts who broke prison were trapped in a canyon. They were some of the most desperate criminals in the State prison. Deneen's brake with Col. Roosevelt will elect the regular Republican ticket. LADIES' NURSE MADAME K. L. COLEMAN Ladies' Nurse 3335 Sherman Avenue N. W. Phone Columbia 466. Malarious Fever "Myself and whole household had suffered very much for some time with Malarial Fever. 'Elixir Babek' has cured us perfectly, so that we en-Elixir Babek, a splendid remedy for Causing loss of appetite, headache and bilious attacks prevented by such ailments. to. D. C. Va. Elixir Babek, 50 cents, all drug joy at present the best of health." Jacob Elberly, Fairfax Court House, giets or Lloczewski & Co., Washing- Where to Buy The Bee Smith's, 4th and Elm St. N. W. Pope's Pharmacy, 1319 H St. N. E. Jackson & Whipp's, 1513 7th St N. W. Board & McGuire's, 9th and You Sts. N. W. Reeves', 626 T. St. N. W. Jones, 1020 You St. N. W. Gray, 12th and You St. N. W. Board & McGuire, 1912½ 14th St. N. W. Simmons', 20th and K Sts. N. W. Throckmorton, 1500 14th St. N. W. Morse's, 1904 L St. N. W. Smith, 28th and Dumbarton ave. Leonard Blagburn, 201 Morris Rd. Anacostia, D. C. Phone Col. 2578 Wonderful Results on Short Notice. I used our Pomade. It's the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful, results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes, of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's), manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. For sale by Nichols' Pharmacy, Corner 19th Street and Penn. Ave. S. A. Richardson & Co., 7th and Q Sts. N. W.; Morse's Pharmacy, 19th and L Sts. N. W.; W. S. Richardson, 316 Four-and-z-Half St. S. W.; Daniel H. Smith, 28th and Dumbarton Ave., N. W.; J. F. Simpson, corner 7th St. Rhode Island Ave. and R St. N. W.; Singleton's Pharmacy, 20th and E Sts. N. W.; Market-Pharmacy, corner 20th and K Sts. N. W.; John R. Major, 716 7th St. N. W.; Ideal Pharmacy, 11th St. and N. Y. Ave. N. W.; R. A. Veitch, corner 20th and M Sts. N. W.; E. E. Cissell, 10th St.; and N. Y. Ave.; W. P. Herbst, Penn. Ave. and 25th St. N. W.; Hutton & Hilton, 22d and L Sts. N. W.; R. W. Duffey, Penn. Ave and 22d St. N. W; Whiteside Pharmacy, 1921 Pa Ave. Board & McGuire, corner 9th and U Sts.; F. M. 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.; Howtard Pharmacy, 10th and R Sts. N. W. nPeople's Pharmacy, 7th and Mase. Ave. N. W. THE BEE Published at 11sp Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance... $4. Six months... 1.00. Three months... 0.50. Subscription monthly... . GLENDALE. To this site itself is attached a territorial pedigree that goes back to the reign of King George III of England. It was contained in one of the royal grants from the hand of the latter, and figured in the letters of Lord Baltimore late in the eighteenth century. Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War it passed into the hands of a wealthy landowner named Beall, and was known as "Beall's Adventure." Adjoining it on the west is another part of the original estate, set down in musty records as "Beall's Pleasure," and, between the two properties, down what is now the Anacostia road, Gen. Ross led his British forces as he retired from the burning capital during the war of 1812, passing under the silent fortifications of Fort Maham, from which the small garrison had watched the firing of the nation's Capital. The first mansion was erected on the place early in the nineteenth century, after "Beall's Adventure" had been sold to another family, the head of which is still remembered by ancient darkkeys living around there as "Marse Major Mannins." For years, even after it had decended to the major's son, Dr. Wilford Manning, the place was one of the handsomest plantation estates in this vicinity. Farmed by scores of slaves, boasting fine horser and live stock, and within a short distance of the Capitol, it was one of the show places of the District. Major Manning had all the Southerner's love of fine horseflesh, and on the_crest of the hill may still be seen traces of the half-mile track where his thoroughbreds received their training and exercise, a favorite sport which the major passed to his son. Dr. Manning was one of the hundreds who left for the war when the first thunders of civil strife was heard in 1861. Like hundreds, too, he neither returned nor sent back message after the farewell wave of his hand as he disappeared from sight of his plantation. Mrs. Manning remained on the plantation, but without the master's hand and with slavery a thing of the past, the estate lost much of its former grandeur and became principally a place of residence for herself and family. When Mrs. Manning died about fifteen years ago, the place passed to her eldest daughter, Mrs. Helen Manning Havenner, and has since been known as the Havenner estate. Mrs. Havenner continued to make her residence on the property, until it was purchased by the present owner, Mr. Joseph Swift, a capitalist of Wilmington, Del. Mr. Swift had two objects in view when the contemplated purchase of the property took place. The front thirty acres was found to contain about four million tons of a fine quality of sand and gravel especially fitted for building purposes, while the balance of eighty acres was a fine plateau overlooking the city and the proposed Potomac Park. After mature deliberation it was decided to make this beautiful tract into a subdivision exclusively for the colored people of Washington. Hence the colored people of this city are offered the best subdivision with building material at the door of every lot they purchase, backed by a company who will make you a loan to build your house and allow you to pay back on small monthly payments. THE CONSTITUTION. It was for the Constitution and the perpetuation of Republican principles for which the Taft administration and supporters went to slaughter November 5th inst. Those who supported President Taft and the Republican party knew that the tim: had come for a temporary retirement of the party. The perpetuation of the Constitution of the United States was dearer to President Taft than his own re-election to the Presidency. Take from this republic the constitution and adopt the platforms of the bull moose and socialist parties, our government would soon become a nonentity in the great body politic. The Republican managers of the last campaign were confident that Mr. Taft could not be re-elected, hence they bravely walked to the altar of sacrifice and met their sacrifice. Is this all? When future ages shall have recorded truthfully the events of the year of 1912 the record of William Howard Taft will electrify the generations then as the name of Abraham Lincoln and his deeds are the lights of this and future generations. Caesar had his Brutus and Taft his Roosevelt. The name of Caesar still lives, while the memory of Brutus is incased with other traitors of his time. A wild declaration has been made by Negro Democrats that 30 per cent of the colored vote went to Mr. Wilson, and at last the Negro is emancipated. The Negro was once emancipated, and when renegade Republicans tell us that he has been emancipated by supporting disfranchisement, Jim Crowism and other hellish discriminatory laws, they are insane. The physical emancipation of the colored race carried an independent thought and action, and if they ever wrongfully used it it was his fault and not the fault of the Republican party. The colored man has been given every opportunity to be a citizen and a voter. The republican party has done its duty towards the Negro, while others have violated every letter of our constitution. For this reason the Republican party went down in defeat November 5th inst. Its leaders walked deliberately to the pen of slaughter, knowing what the result would be; knowing it would be their Waterloo for a time at any rate. The Bee has no regrets. It too followed its chief and went to its death, but to rise again. It is the Constitution that we saved, although we were defeated. THE COLORED WAITERS The Bee wants to give a friendly warning to the colored waiters who have been recently appointed in the largest hotels in this city. The colored waiters have an excellent opportunity to make good, as The Bee stated two weeks ago. The Editor took it upon himself to make a tour of the city Tuesday night, and made an observation of the several dining rooms where the colored waite_s supplanted the white waiters'. The colored waiter of today is unlike the colored waiters in by-gone days. They are a fine set of men. Their linen is spotless white. Their neck-ties are white and clean, and their general department gives evidences that the colored waiter is here to stay. The Bee warns the colored waiters to beware of these so-called unions. It is a trap to betray them, as they were betrayed in Chicago several years ago. When the Negro can be used he is a jolly good fellow and is able to command the attention and respect of those who want to betray and use him. The colored waiters have been kept out of the unions for many years, and there is no reason that they should not let all union organizations alone. There is no time that a corporation cannot supplant the services of one set of employees for another. There is no time that the services of a colored man cannot be dispensed with. Let the colored waiter be careful and conduct himself in a gentlemanly and manly manner, and his employers interest be his interest. NEGRO, SOUTHI AND TRADE SCHOOLS Go where you please. in the South, and you will see the Negro engaged in all branches of business and industry. In this city, where he handles thousands of dollars and easy work, the Negro is a business nonentity, with but a few exceptions. The only business in this city in which the Negro is engaged and in which he is a success is the drug and saloon business. There are a few dining rooms where the Negro is also successful. In the medical profession and dentistry, the Negro is also a success. The Bee has been the only successful newspaper that has been able to exist among Negroes. There have been all kinds of newspapers and editors in this city, from a weekly to "Try Weakley," from a daily to a monthly, but they have failed. There are over ninety thousand colored people in this city, three-tenths of whom never read a newspaper, and those who do read, seem to cater to the people that abuse them. The Washington Times a year or so ago published-broadcast that it didn't cater to Negro patronage, and yet you will find Negroes reading it. Some Negroes are made wrong. They are hard finding out, and why The Bee is unable to state. The Southern Negro is a thrifty and successful individual. He knows how to run a bank and do other things that makes him a commercial success. In this city the Negro should be an independent commercial factor. We now need a first-class business high school. There is now great need for young men and women who understand how to conduct a business and how to keep books. We need good typewriters and stenographers. These are not thoroughly taught in our schools. Our Business High School is not what it should be. Everybody cannot teach, hence a business education should be taught our children. We favor the trade schools, because they will prepare our boys and girls for future usefulness. The young Negro in the South is fast surpassing the Northern Negro. The Northern Negro is too proud to work. He doesn't want to soil his hands or make them hard. We need more trade schools South. Higher education is a great factor, but trade schools will be a greater factor to the Negro. JAMES A. ROSS, ESO. One of the most energetic and successful Negro journalists in this country is Mr. James A. Ross, Editor of the Detroit Reformer and Gazetter. Mr. Ross has been active for several years in advising a division of the Negroes. Mr. Ross is a lawyer and journalist, and a man of remarkable ambition. He has the united support of the white and colored Democrats of the country for the office of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. If President-elect Wilson decides to appoint an outsideer, no better man could be found. It is claimed that the colored Democracy is a unit for the appointment of Mr. Ross. CAN'T FIND THEM. Long before the Chicago convention this city was full of colored Republicans. Only three Negro Democrats could be found! Curtis, Barnes and Moore. It is as hard to find a colored Republican now as it would be to find a needle in a haystack. If you go through the public departments, colored Republicans are as scarce as hen's teeth. The Democratic party has no use for traitors any more than the Republican party. We should not deny those who have given us freedom. The Bee is proud of the record of the Republican party. OUR PULPIT. There are a number of ministers in this city who can do a good work among the people if they will. Instead of begging so much money for their personal benefit, they should follow the example of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, by having attached to their churches free dispensaries for the benefit of the poor of their churches. The Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. W. H. Brooks, is doing a commendable work for the poor in their community. (Continued from page 1.) citing moments with opponents pouring in at all angles. His passes were accurate and Rector and Smith were ever ready receivers. For a light man Rector is one of the nerviest players the high schools have had in many a day; his running and al-round playing yesterday was spectacular and consistent. Talbert played a better game than at any time previously this season. Short and stockily built, he has always been a good running back, and yesterday proved no, exception in this regard. Burwell and Johnson are entirely too fast for the team of which they are members. Could an interference get under way with speed enough to keep in front of this pair, these two runners would prove stars of first water. Considering the loss of Captain Jenifer in the line and Hunt on end, and the lack of steady and systematic coaching; for no less than four coaches have been at work with the team at different times, Armstrong put up a splendid game against the veteran M Street team. Bowie, of Tech, did well as a line plunger, and bids fair to become a star. Smith, at tackle, did well, and Paige on the extremity played an excellent game. In the first quarter, Tech kicked to M Street, which team after runs by Talbert and Rector, put the ball on the 30 yard line, from which spot Greene shot a pass to Rector, within the end zone for the first touchdown of the game. A punt out for position failed. Johnson, Burwell and Bowie gained 20 yards for Armstrong in the second quarter, when Randall hurled Smith to the ground with such force that he dropped the ball, which Talbert swooped upon and carried across for a touchdown after a splendid thirty yard run. Talbert missed an easy chance for goal. Wonderful Results on Short Notice. I have used your Pomade. It's the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lift me smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see, wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes, of Pineville, S.-C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's), manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. For sale by Nichols' Pharmacy, Corner 19th Street and Penn. Ave.; S. A. Richardson & Co., 7th and Q Sts., N. W.; Morse's Pharmacy, 19th and L Sts., N. W.; W. S. Richardson, 316 Four-and-a-Half St. S. W.; Daniel H. Smith, 28th and Dumbarton Ave. N. W.; J. F. Simpson, corner 71st St. Rhode Island Ave., and R St., N. W.; Singleton's Pharmacy, 20th and E Sts. N. W.; John R. Major, 716 7th St. N. W.; Ideal Pharmacy, 11th St. and N. Y. Ave., N. W.; R. A. Veitch, corner 20th and M Sts., N. W.; E. E. Cissell, 10th St. and N. Y. Ave.; W. P. Herbst, Penn. Ave. and 25th St. N. W.; Hutton & Hilton, 22d and L Sts., N. W.; R. W. Duffey, Penn. Ave. and 22d St. N. W.; Whiteside Pharmacy, 1921 Pa. Ave.; Board & McGuire, corner 9th and U Sts.; F. M. 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. GEO. F. T. COOK. A Scholar and Gentleman—Loved By His Teachers and the World at Large—Memorial Exercises a Success. The meeting, to pay tribute to the late George F. T. Cook, former superintendent of the public schools for colored children in the District of Columbia, Tuesday evening, in the auditorium of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, was in every respect complimentary to the Teachers' Association, under whose auspices it was held, and a marked demonstration of the high esteem in which the memory of Mr. Cook is revered in this community. The church auditorium was tested to its capacity by representatives from the culture and wealth of Washington's best citizens. The meeting was called to order by Assistant Superintendent Roscoe C. Bruce, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Frank Grimke. Dr. Davidson, superintendent-in-chief of the public schools of the District of Columbia, paid a glowing tribute to the character of Mr. Cook, whose name and memory he stated, was an integral part of the colored schools of the District of Columbia. Dr. W. S. Montgomery's eulogy of Mr. Cook was a master piece of research—eloquence and heartfelt tribute to his former chief—and the delivery clearly evidenced his sincerity and love for Mr. Cook. Ex-Trustee Henry Johnson, who was associated with Mr. Cook, and who is the only surviving trustee appointed under the original act creating the colored schools, gave a brief account of their early days and the great work accomplished by Mr. Cook, which he stated, was in large measure due to the fact that trustee, teachers and superintendent, worked harmoniously together. Mr. Johnson also remarked that Mr. Cook's work should be measured by the great depth from which he raised the to the magnificent proportion in which he left them. Mrs. Rosetta Lawson spoke in the most entertaining manner of the most gifts to the colored people. Mr. Grant Lucas read several letters from citizens worded in praise of Mr. Cook's integrity, ability and high standing in the community. Among them was Dr. Tindal, secretary to District Commissioners; Mr. A. T. Stuart, late superintendent public schools, District of Columbia, and Mr. J. T. Petty, assistant assessor, District of Columbia. Mr. Grant Lucas introduced several resolutions which were adopted by a rising vote. Among them was one petitioning the Commissioners for the District of Columbia to name the new normal school for colored children, "George F. T. Cook." After brief addresses by trustees, Horner, Marshall and Mrs. Harris, the meeting closed with invocation by Rev. Walter Brooks. The beautiful flower decorations were donated by Messrs. Gudge Bros., and formed an attractive feature in the exercises. 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. COMMISSIONER J. Who has been Endorsed A. JOHNSTON, for Reappointment. Have The Bee sent to your home The Bee is the people's paper PublicMen And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) I dropped around to the Police Court Monday morning, and took in the proceedings. You know Monday is always bargain day in Police Court. All the "speak-easy" directors, "boot-legger's" turvin trustees, razor artists and aristocratic members of the Crap Shooter's union, to say nothing of barrel house whiskey consumers and turkey-trot Fatimas, whose complexions begin with a creamy yellow and end with a fancy black, are rounded up on Sunday by over vigilant policemen and put on the Police Court bargain counter on Mondays. All the colored lawyers were there after "a gitting theirs," and a few just trying to "gittin theirs." What took you around was that I read in the papers that Judge Pugh had been spoken of for U. S. District Attorney, Woody hands out the loaves and fishes. I wanted to get one more squint at the Judge handing out his mercy diluted sentences before he became a District Attorney. Now Judge has been mighty lenient with these charcoal individuals who make Sunday a legal holiday for razor parties, crap celebrations and "speak-easy" felicitations. He has figured that most of them got a bad start in life, and have been in a jam ever since the maternity hospital was opened, and that they generally get the worst of it just because they come done up in tar paper. If Judge is made District Attorney they will miss him, because he will have to change from a judge with about four pales of the milk of human kindness in his system to a prosecutor with a lion jaw, and a sort of Jerva persuit hidden about his make-up. When I see how lenient Judge Pugh is with some of these Monday bargain day bad smokes, I'm reminded of the old colored preacher who, when approached by one of his congregation to preach "ah pow-ful sermon agin crap shootin'," said: "Good God, brother, don't you know de white folks done took so much from us dah ain't nuffin left for a po' nigger to do but shoot craps?" Now Judge Pugh, who knows the history of the colored squeeze print from the time he was a class A monkey in the forests of Africa to the time Darwin evaporated him into a human possibility and who knows Ham ain't got a fair chance, never had it, and ain't likely to have it, just makes a sight draft on his sympathy bank, and a mercy confiscation of his great big heart every time a poor ink-colored resident of some be-nighted alley comes up before him. You see Judge, himself, came from away down there in Alabama behind the sun where they put a "dark" down on the tax duplicate as lower than Champ Clark's houn. The result is that instead of forcing the authorities to enlarge the work-house, as he could if he wanted to, to accommodate the overflow he could send, he frequently forgets the penalty, and just remembers that mebble the poor devil never did have a spoonful of the "velvet kind" in all his life—never had any sun shine—just had wormwood jam and cyclone clouds from the time he found himself a babe on the plantation to the time he struck this federal controlled berg where every fellow is presumed to have a show for his white alley' down Pennsylvania avenue. I kinder hate to see Jim Pugh believes that a little mercy is just as much needed on the police court bench as chloride lime is needed to fumigate a back yard what's decorated with a few decomposed rats and cats. He knows the law as she is writ, and he also knows that a hungry hound never forgets the guy who threw him a bone. I'm telling you, confidentially, Judge, if a letter of recommendation from me to Woody Wilson for you will do you any good, just communicate to me through Chase, and I'll write a letter that will make the old college professor sit up all night to read it. And let me tell you that when it comes to writing letters, to use Jack Bunsby's pure English, "If anybody kin, I kin." When old Ben Disraeli, the one time new premiere of England, after taking an overdose of digitalis for a torpid liver, sat himself down to write his "Lady Corisande," his first sentence was: "One's life changes in a moment." This bon mot was recalled to me when I discovered there were so many more Negro Democrats out on the raft the morning after the election than there were Negro Republicans the morning before election. If any body can beat the walnut-colored tribe making a quick change the "Who's who in America" doesn't contain his name. I recall some months ago I was sitting in one of the near-furnished law offices in the Temple de Visionary—that's 609 F Street—and a bunch of us lavender tie wearers were kneeding the dough of reminiscence. Sam Lacy was in the bunch—that little dried up, four-eyed jinx who has got a lot more horse sense and a better assayed brain stored under his six and seven-eighths hat band than people give him credit for. We had discussed about everything and everybody, dead, dying and living, except old Junius Pluvius and old Ajax, who defied the storm. Finally, while discussing anthracite colored Democrats, Sam, in his droll, sail-railter way, said: "That reminds me of the time when Cleveland was in. You know we had a National Negro Democratic League way back in those days, composed of misfits, illfits, and a few who could throw three fits in an effort to reach for a glass of rum. If I remember right, Dick Thompson, who had blown in from Indiana, was secretary, and Dick did get out some grandilouquent Democratic literature. The administration changed, and just --- to make a chameleon look like a closed up junk shop, Dick changes too, and he's now pitching curves in a Republican league club. Then there was Jim Ross, jaunty and debaionate who never jammed a Darktown resident for a penny in his life, but who does have an itching palm every time a white man shows up with cain and a "cheerful giver" cast of countenance. And there was Chavis, the cube root of "fakir", and a few other dead ones that time has chloroformed. And last but not least, old Alphabet Taylor, who was then fooling the government out of $333.33 every month as Recorder of Deeds. He was head, front, and all there was of our Negro Democratic League. The rest of us were simply deuces in a false deck." Sone one. I don't just recall who, whether Stewart, Barney McKay or Jom Neal, or some one else, remarked: "Well, in a country where they change the tariff every year or two I don't figure it a crime for a baked forty-fifth cousin of de Tocquville to change when it means bacon and eggs regularly every morning for himself and family." And then Sam, who never was a Simple Simon, dropped another bon mot that reminded me of a salvage corps dividing up a wreck between them. He said, slowly, about as slow as the new President of Howard University is in recognizing merit in colored girls for library positions: "Them were our foetus days, boys. We are better adepts now, and can make changes more unsuspiciously, and with some distant show of rhyme and reason." Sam is a bird if ever a lizard was a pullet. 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. ALEXANDRIA NEWS. ```markdown ``` The funeral of Mr. James Taylor, who died Saturday, the 16th, at his late residence on Queen Street, took place from Alfred Street Baptist Church Tuesday, the 18th inst. The Lincoln Lodge, F. A. A. M., of which the deceased was a member, attended in a body. Mr. Taylor was one of Alexandria's most progressive and industrious citizens, having come to the city from Farquar County when but a poor boy, and, at the time of his death, had acquired real estate and a comfortable and well located home. He was 63 years of age, and is survived by the widow and one son. Rev. Dr. Alexander Truatt, the pastor of the church, officiated, assisted by Rev. S. M. Johnson, Rev. Geo. O. Dixon, Rev. Clark, Rev. Henderson and Rev. Wood, of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Interment was made, in Bethel. The drill and supper given by the Eastern Star, at Odd Fellows' Hall, on the evening of the 20th, was a great success. All the participants of the drill acquitted themselves most creditably, and bespoke great preparation on the part of Mrs. Susan Holmes, Mrs.ella Reynolds, Mrs. Boiseau, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Cornelia Blackburn and all the other promoters. The Alexandra football team has been busily practicing each afternoon on the reclaimed flats. The flats, which consist of forty acres of level ground, and which being located as they are, adjoining the Lighthouse grounds, and the old Battery Hill which overlooks the Potomac, furnish an ideal place for the game. On Tuesday evening the games were so interesting that they lasted from late in the afternoon, until the early hours of the evening, when they played by the light of the silvery moon, as it rose over the green hills of the Maryland side of the Potomac. The boys are meeting "all comers," and a communication directed to Edw. P. Dixon, Jr., No. 308 N. Patrick Street, will put you in touch with one of the best teams in this section. The School Improvement League is rehearsing for an entertainment which they will give at Odd Fellows' Hall Friday, December 27. The entertainment, which is of a musical and literary nature, will include choruses from both schools, and the singing will be accompanied by the Columbian Orchestra, of Washington, D. C. Gold prizes have been offered the persons selling the highest number of tickets, and much interest is being manifested. Mr. Charles Simms, of Baltimore, was the guest of his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Moses Simms, on Sunday last. Mrs. Susan Tibbs, who has been quite sick during the past week is improving. Mrs. Hannah Strange is quite sick at her residence, 807 Duke Street. Master Andrew Madden, who has been to the mountains for his health, will spend the Thanksgiving holidays at home. There will be a scramble for office when Mr. Wilson comes in. If you want a great race newspaper, read The Bee. A full report of the consolation dinner will appear next week. The high school vacancies have not been filled as yet. There are five District Democrat candidates for the Recorder of Deeds. Three hundred places for five million Democratic candidates. The Week in Society Your doctor wants your prescriptions filled right. He wants results. Neither you nor the doctor will be disappointed if your prescriptions are filled at the drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912$ \frac{3}{4} $ 14th St., and 6th and You Sts. N. W. They employ four graduates in pharmacy, skilled and experienced, and you get the results in perfect service. Mrs. Blanche Nickens of this city, with her two little children, is visiting her uncle, Mr. Carter Washington, in Williamsport, Pa., where she intends to spend the winter. Announcement is made of the marriage of Mr. Eugene Triplet to Miss Susie Adkins, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Triplet will make their home in Wilmington, Del. After a short visit in the city last week, Mr. William C. Bollivar has returned to his home in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. James Evans, of Wilmington, Del., announces the marriage of her youngest daughter, Dorothy, to Dr. J. Walter Douglass which took place in the city August 8, 1912. Rev. Anderson Taylor, of this city, was a visitor in Philadelphia, Pa., last week. Mrs. O. W. B. Reed, of this city, spent Tuesday and Wednesday of last week in Cumberland, Md., the guest of her sister, Mrs. Amtrover. Miss Nellie Ragsdale, of Germantown, Pa., spent Sunday in the city. Prof. William Wesley, of Demorara, South America, who is one of the most accomplished musical instructors in the country, having received the greater part of his training at the Leipsis Conservatory of Music, will be heard in a grand concert at Bethel A. M. E. Church on the evening of December 6, 1912, under the auspices of the trustees and Prof. J. W. Cromwell. 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 Maud Gilmore Boyd, of this city, was the guest of Miss Powell, in Philadelphia, Pa. last week. Mr. A. S. Pinkett, who has been visiting relatives in Omaha, Neb., has returned to his home in the city. Mrs. Henrietta Cheeks has returned to her home in the city; after a short visit in Detroit, Mich, the guest of Mrs. D. Barrier. Mr. James A. Ross, of Buffalo, N. Y., who is slated for the Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D. C., was seen in Chicago last week, mingling among the big politicians. Mr. William Lee, of Burlington, N. J., is in the city. Among the arrivals at the Hotel Brown, Charleston, W. Va., were Messrs. Robert Cunningham and O. Kenny, of this city. Mr. Charles Pickett spent several days in Chicago last week, en route to his home in the city. Mr. H. Hodges, of this city, is visiting his sister, Mrs. A. Boyd, in Berkley, Va. Miss Mae Smith, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has come to the city to attend school. Miss Velda Boswell, of Allegheny, who was on her way to the city to enter Miss Nannie Burroughs' school, stopped in Williamsport, Pa., to visit her grandmother, who was accidentally shot, but has improved so far as to be able to leave the hospital. Rev. Dean, formerly of Front Royal, Virginia, now of this city, with his family, visited his old home last week. Rev. Dean is pastor of Ebenezer M. E. Church, and has just closed one of the greatest revivals in the history of the church. Mrs. J. H. Fletcher, formerly of this city, but now of Long Island, N. Y., is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Dixon, 1235 Seventh Street Northwest. Mrs. Fletcher has had an enjoyable time among old friends and acquaintances. Everywhere she has been she has been cordially received and entertained. Dr. John Wt Morse is now prepared to serve you with the finest ice cream that is made. 1902 L Street Northwest. Attorney James A. Lightfoot, of Atlantic City, N. J., and editor of the Atlantic City Advocate, accompanied by Messrs. J. A. Johnson and Kelly, of the same place, arrived in the city Wednesday evening on a pleasure trip. Mr. James B. McGuinn, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Mary McGuinn, arrived in the city Monday from Chicago, Ill., on business. They will leave tomorrow evening. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., passed through the city for the North Thursday evening, on business. Thanksgiving night Dr. D. Webster Davis D. D., will appear at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, in one of his famous lectures, under the auspices of the church aid society, of which Mr. Ferdinand D. Lee is president. Mr. Lee is a great worker. The object of this club is charity and relief. His subject suggests many things, and those who attend will receive a rare treat. The Artist's Thanks. Washington, Nov. 20, 1912. I take this method of thanking the many friends, here and abroad, who, by sending flowers, letters and telegrams, have tried to help me bear the grief I have sustained in the loss of my beloved wife. ISAAC HATHAWAY, 1234 You St. N. W., Washington, D. C. The Musicale. The musicale rendered by the pupils of Mrs. M. Harvey Clinkscales, assisted by the Clinkscales-Tyler Female Choral Society, and other local talent at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Z. Church, November 4, 1912, was a brilliant success. Among the numbers were solos by Prof. Jos. T. Newman, Mr. Jos. Carroll and Harry A. Harvey. This was the first public appearance of the Female Choral Society, and as such it made a noteworthy debut. Marriage Announcement. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Kemp, Jr., announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Katie Elizabeth Kemp, to Mr. John Wesley Holkins, which took place at their residence Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock P. M., November 20th, 1912. On account of the illness of the bride's father, the marriage was a quiet one, only relatives being present. At home after December 11, at 1139 Nineteenth Street Northwest. Bethel Literary and Historical Association A symposium on temperance, by Dr. J. H. N. Waring, Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson, and Dr. Walter H. Brooks. Tuesday evening, November 26, at 8 o'clock, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. After the show and throughout the summer evenings you will find the big crowds promenading Fourteenth street, where they fall into the ever popular drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912½ Fourteenth street, or else you will find them at the busy corner at Ninth and You Streets. Two places "where everybody meets everybody else." FAIRMCUNT HEIGHTS. The United Citizens' Association of Fairmount Heights met at the Public Hall Wednesday night, November 13. The Executive and Street Committees reported quite extensive sidewalk improvement. Thirty loads of gravel were ordered and placed on the District Boulevard leading from 61st Street. Sixteen loads on Fairmount Avenue leading from the District Boulevard to the Methodist Church. Mr. James F. Armstrong spent Friday, November 15, visiting the public schools of Fairmount Heights, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. He called first upon the teacher of the Fairmount Heights school. He found Misses Justin Wilkes, principal, Erna Welch and Mary A. Cooper, assistants, at their posts faithfully performing their duty. Miss Wilkes has charge of the 4th 5th and 6th grades. Her school compared favorably in every respect with any well regulated school. There were between 30 and 40 pupils in attendance. Miss Erna Welch the first assistant teacher, had charge of the first grade, which numbered more than 40 interesting tots, eager to learn, and Miss Welch being well prepared for her work, showed herself equal to the occasion. Miss Mary A. Cooper, the second assistant, was in charge of the second and third grades, numbering more than 40 pupils. Notwithstanding her newness on the job, she upheld the reputation of the high and normal schools of Washington, D. C. The second stop was made at the Phelps School. He met Miss Julia Brooks who is the section teacher and the teacher in English. This school seemed to be well in hand, and great work being done. Next to claim the attention was the Cardozo Vocational School, with the boys in charge of Mr. F. E. Parks, a young man accomplished in the work assigned to him. The last visit was made at the Burrille School. Mr. Armstrong met Miss E. W. Tancil in charge of the two sections of the first grade. She has a full school, and is doing great work. Miss Tancil is a well trained teacher, being a graduate of the high and normal schools of the District of Columbia, and is blessed with three or more years of experience as a teacher. The services at the M. E. Church were well attended November 17. Rev. O. C. Sprague preached an interesting sermon. Many visiting friends were present. Among them were Mrs. Martha Diggs, and Miss Lillian, of Lanham, Maryland, and Mrs. J. S. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Briscoe, who have been spending their vacation in New York City returned a few days ago and were present at the 11 o'clock services. Rev. Lewis C. Sheafe, according to previous announcement, was out and preached an eloquent sermon at the Public Hall November 17, at 3 o'clock. He sang several pleasing selections. A small collection was taken, and was used to defray a part of the expenses of the meeting. After laying the corner stone of the First Baptist Church of North Fairmount Heights, which will take place here Thanksgiving Day, November 28, Rev. A. H. Strother, Dr. Alexander Wilbanks, who will deliver the sermon, the Mt. Bethel Baptists Ministers' Alliance, and friends, will go to the M. E. Church, which Rev. O. C. Sprague, his officers and members has gladly opened for the accommodation of their Baptist friends. Cordial relationship has always existed between the Baptist and Methodist churches here. Rev. O. C. Sprague and Rev. A. H. Strother are here on business for our "Great King." Rev. Blackwell and a few Baptist ministers attempted to stop the church movement of Rev. A. H. Strøther by reporting an alleged defect in the title held by Rev. A. H. Strøther and the trustees of the First Baptist Church of North Fairmount Heights, of which Rev. Strøther is pastor. Upon the examination of this claim by the best lawyers in Maryland, it was found that Rev. Strøther has the true and only deed to the church lots; he paid the first dollar, and he paid, the last dollar on the land, and has a receipt in his own name for the use and benefit of his church. He has also the incorporation papers. He has all the evidence of title on file or otherwise. Rev. Blackwell has not any evidence whatever. Let not the peace of Fairmount Heights be disturbed by outsiders, or there will be something doing. Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y. City, Nov. 10, 1914. The wedding of Miss Catherine Dorinda Johannas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johannas, 30 Metcalfe St., Stapleton, to Mr. Samuel A. Browne, of Washington, D. C., took place at high noon today at the residence of the bride's parents. Rev. Dr. Sparling, rector of the Episcopal Church at Stapleton, officiated. The bride was given in marriage by her father and was attended solely by her sister, Miss Margaret C. Johannas, as maid of honor. James C. Waters, Jr., of Washington, D. C., was the groomsman. The bride wore a gown of crepe de meteor, trimmed with princess lace and pearls, Robespierre collar, and a court train. Her veil of point lace was draped in Grecian style, and held with a wreath of fresh orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses and lilies of the wall The maid of honor wore a decollette gown, train of charmeuse meteor covering dress of shadow lace over sillell pink satin, trimmed with pink rose buds and pale blue satin. She carried pink roses. The wedding march from Lohengrin was played by Mr. James Harris, of New York City. The home was prettily decorated with palms, autumn leaves and chrysanthemums. A reception followed the ceremony. At 3 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Browne entered a motor car and were driven to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. They left at 4:30 o'clock for Washington, D. C., where their future home will be. Department of Music, Howard University, The music department of Howard University had Madam Patti Brown, one of the greatest soprano singers of the colored race, last Thursday afternoon. Mme. Brown has a world-wide reputation. She recently completed a tour of West Indies and South America, where she received a triumphant reception. Mr. Joseph H. Douglas assisted Mme. Brown. The Tibbs Recital a Grand Success. Before a brilliant and appreciative audience Friday, November 15th, in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Mr. Roy W. Tibbs, late of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and now instructor in piano in the department of Howard University, gave what is considered by almost everyone present, the most artistic piano recital that has been heard in the District of Columbia for many years. While it is true that much was expected from Mr. Tibbs from the large audience, the fact is that he gave them more than they expected, to be perfectly frank, he surprised almost every one present. The advertisers of the occasion hailed Mr. Tibbs as being "one of those rare musical geniuses that only loom up occasionally." Strong as this statement may seem, it is only fairly adequate to describe the exquisite art of Mr. Tibbs' performance last Friday night. The Tibbs recital marks a new era in the Department of Music of Howard University. It was demonstrated last Friday that the department has a well equipped piano department. The "Concerto in E Flat" by Lizzt, in which Miss Clarice Jones, also an instructor in piano in this department, played the accompanying piano, was a rare treat and was enthusiastically received. Mr. Tibbs is a master. He is far above any pianist in the Negro race. His playing is absolutely faultless. He not only posesesse technique and temperament, but he is a wizard of touch. With a genius of his type at the head of the Department of Piano, the Conservatory of Music will become one of the outstanding departments of Howard University. Oldest Inhabitants. Prof. John Wesley Cromwell addressed the Oldest Inhabitants Association at its regular-meeting last Monday evening. Short addresses were also made by the Rev. Mr. Beckett, and Dr. Thos. J. Browne, of St. Luke's P. E. Church. Mr. Johnson, the president, entertained the as- sociation with refreshments after adjournment. The piano recital by Mr. W. W. Weekes, of New York, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Friday night, December 6, promises to be a great musical event. Mr. Weekes brings testimonials as to artistic skill. Besides selections from the great masters, he will render a couple of Coleridge-Taylor's Negro melodies and movements from Anton Dvorak's "Symphony of the New World." This work, based on Negro melodies, has never been given in any of our concerts here. Miss Gregoria A. Fraser will play the second piano. Felix F. Weir assists as violinist. Miss Maline Thomas, mezzo-soprano, and Jacob Jones, barytone, both of Howard University's musical department. W. F. Braxton, organist and accompanist. Tickets are placed at popular prices—25 cents admission and, 35 cents for reserved seats. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Maxfield entertained at dinner Tuesday evening Mr. J. B. McGuinn and wife, who are in the city on a visit. 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 al- ways 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 BARBECUE BARBECUE BARBECUE Philo Hay Spec. Co. Sole Manufacturers Newark, N.J., U S.A. A RETRACTION AND APOLOGY. Statement By Sadie E. Williams, to Mrs. E. K. Jackson (Formerly Estelle Kennedy) Withdrawing Any Derogatory Made by Her, Involving Mrs. E. K. Jackson and Apologising for the Same. A short time since I received a notice from a Commercial Company that they held a note made by Estelle Kennedy now Mrs. Jackson upon which I was the endorser; that it had not been paid and that I must see to its payment. Knowing that I had not endorsed such note as alleged or any other note, I was greatly surprised. I immediately went to the office of the company, where the note was exhibited to me. It purported to be made by Estelle Kennedy, and bore what purported to be my endorsement. I pronounced my alleged signature to be a forgery. The suggestion was made that I see Miss Kennedy, which I did without delay. She informed me that she had never seen the note, and did not know anything about it. At my request, she accompanied me to the office of the Loan Company, and her husband, she having recently married, accompanied us. She asked the man in the office if he had ever seen her before, but the man did not even look at her. She demanded to see the note, and it was shown to her. On looking at it she said: "never saw this note before. I never made that signature on it, and I never write my signature that way. I always signed E. V. Kennedy." The man then remarked: "I will have to put the matter in the hands of the District Attorney." Mrs. Jackson replied, "that she would be glad if he did." I was much worked up over the matter, and in the excitement incident to the affair made remarks in reference to Mrs. Jackson that I would not have made, had I given the matter maturer consideration. I feel that what I said was unjust to her, and I regret exceedingly if any words uttered by me have done her injury. I take this occasion to withdraw any derogatory statements by me made involving her, accepting as true her statement, that she had nothing to do with the note referred to, and I apologize for having allowed myself to do her injustice, even though it was done when I was laboring under great excitement. Mrs. Jackson is at liberty to show this letter whenever and to whomever she may wish. S. E. WILLIAMS. Washington, D. C. November 14, 1912. 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 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, 445½ Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, Ga. PURITY ICE,COMPANY. The best home sites in GLENDALE are.being rapidly taken up. 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 LAND CO. 38 Warder Building Washington, D. C. ```markdown ``` WEST WASHINGTON. ```markdown ``` Woman's Day was the exercises at Mount Zion M. E. Church on Sunday last. Mrs. Ida Nelson, a very prominent divine, occupied the pulpit at the morning and afternoon services, and spoke before large audiences upon each occasion. The Ladies' Aid and Trustee Aid, under whose auspices the meeting was held, collected during the day for the trustees of the church over one hundred dollars. Rev. D. W. Hays, pastor. The choir of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, under the leadership of Prof. J. Jones, recently reorganized, is furnishing excellent music for the regular church service. Special rehearsals are now being held for the Christmas music, which promises to be of a pleasing nature. the funeral of Mrs. Mary Cook, one of the oldest residents, and life long member of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, took place Sunday afternoon and was largely attended. The ladies of Olive Immediate Relief Association, of which she was a member, attended in a body. Mrs. Louis Brown, the president, read the resolutions. Rev. D. W. Hays officiated. Interment, Mt. Zion Cemetery. Young Ladies' Protective League Celebrate Its Eleventh Anniversary. The eleventh anniversary of the Young Ladies' Protective League, was observed Sunday, November 17, 1912, by attending divine services at 8 o'clock, P. M., at First Baptist Church, Dumbarton-Avenue, Northwest. The church edifice was crowded with the members and friends of the association. Mrs. George Henry was the mistress of ceremonies, and her introductions were scholarly and impressive in presenting the officers of the league, and the pastor, Rev. E. E. Ricks, who delivered one of the best sermons in the league's history, from the fourteenth chapter of St. Mark, eighth verse: "She done what she could." The discourse was listened to with a great deal of interest. The present membership is 375, with a large bank account. The officers are: Mrs. Ida J. Dogan, president; Mrs. Mary White, vice president; Mrs. Daisy Ellington, financial secretary; Mrs. Maud Boyd, assistant secretary; Mrs. Lillie V. Bundy, recording secretary, and Mrs. Eliza Wallace, treasurer; and is one of the most prominent benevolent associations in the city. A large collection was presented to the church. Mrs. Minnie Wright made the presentation speech. The choir, under the leadership of Mr. Jacob Walker, with Miss Hattie Williams, furnished special music for the occasion. Miss Margueretta Smith, one of the recent graduates in our public schools, has received an appointment as teacher at the Wormley Building. Personal. . Take Dis- ilworth car sreet, and get walk three Road, turn Street, and LENDALE. you came. AND CO., building, D. C. ```markdown ``` The many friends of Mr. Howard H. Turner are pleased to hear of his recovery from a recent illness. Mr. Henry Morgan is quite sick at his residence; 29th Street Northwest. While desiring to thank the many subscribers for their patronage of The Bee, we are compelled to remind the delinquent ones to kindly have their payments ready when our agent calls, or remit to The Bee office, 1109 I Street Northwest. DEANWOOD NEWS. The First Baptist Church young people have organized a Willing Church Workers' Club, which is a great financial adjunct to the church. They will give a grand concert Wednesday, November 27, and as usual promises an evening of much pleasure. The program will consist of choruses, solos, duets and recitations. Mr. Arthur E. Jessups, president, Rev. G. G. Mills, pastor, John B. Dillard, master of ceremonies. Mr. John B. Dillard has just added improvements to his handsome home on Minnesota Avenue, which make it one of the most attractive residences in the suburbs. Mr. Dillard is a member and superintendent of the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church. Under his superintendency the school has added many members, and is in excellent financial condition. The Sunday school holds its session at 10 o'clock each Sunday, and is attended with much interest. Mr. William Saunders, Sr., of Sheriff road, who is one of the oldest and most interesting citizens of this section. His long residence in Deanwood makes him one of the founders of the beautiful town, now developed and populated by excellent citizens who own their own homes. JUSTH'S OLD STAND Workingmen, the season is at hand when "reduction sales" are in full blast. No doubt you have been waiting for them, but see this stock of slightly used suits, $3 to 10. Get wise. One price. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D Street. 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. 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. —————— weo- Brevity, says Rowland Grey tn the Century, was the soul of Sir W. & Gilbert's wit, which sparkled in chance conversation no less than in the lines that he wrote for Sulllyan’s operas. Mr. Grey gives a few instances: ‘The terrible verdict as to a certain Hamlet whose impersonator unwise- ly asked him to be candid fs historicat: “Funny, my dear fellow—fonny with- ont being vulgar.” A remark about an: other concelted player was made to a Yery Hmited audlence: “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 honiton lace, as “belonging to the early keep: sake period.” Another, who was being ridiculed for the hideous Middicsex ac- cent, which converted bad weather Into a “voll d’y,” was gravely defend. ed by him: “She fs of anclent Mneace, 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 whore father was taken {1l and died, after which he set himself iligently to work to support himself and mother. When she had finished the story sbe said: “Dear Billy, {f your papa were to die would you, work to support your dear mother?”- “Naw,” sald Billy unexpectedly. « “But why not?” : “Ain't we got a good house to live int” “Yes, dearie. But we can't eat tho house, you know." “Ain't there a lot of stuff In the pan- try?" i: “Yes, but that won't last forever.” “It'll last till you get another hus- band, won't it? You're a pretty sood looker, ma.” Mamma gave up right ‘there—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. #@Let Her Go. Gallagher.” Judge Beaver of Morgan county, Ky., had a trotting mare of which he was very proud. The aulmal was always Qriven at the race mects by a man named Gallagher, who was at that time efty marshal of Harrodsburg. On one eccasion the judge entered bis mare at & 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, loos- ened the Ines. The mare pluckily re- sponded and Snishtd more than a dozen lengths ahead, amid the wild cheering ef the crowd.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Forcetful Dieraelita Luck. Disraeli recetved ono morning a let- ter fom a Mrs. Willyams, whom he did not know, In which she safd that she had read his novels with much in- farest and would Ike to make his ac- quaintance, Sho 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 be bap: pened to be in the south of England -and in the very town in which Mrs. Wilyams lived. Coming across the "etter in such circumstances, it oe curred to him to call upon her, and Mrs, Willyams was so flattered at, as she thought, bls carrying the letter so long about him and then ‘calling that she decided on leaving him her for. "tune. Sinincateleeviceows: The eyebrows protect the eye from external violence. The hairs, on ac- count of thelr oblique direction, pre- vent the perspiration from flowing to- ward or irritating the surface of that organ; they direct It toward the tem- ple and the root of the nose. The color and number of hairs of the eye- brow bave au influence upon thelr uso. They generally have some relation to the climate. The eyebrows protect the eye from excess of Nght, particularly when It comes from above. This ef- fect 1s made more conspicuous by knitting of the brows. ' A Will In Rime. This will, although written In rime, was probated in County Dublin, Ire- “land: , All earthly goods I have in store To my dear wife I leave for evermore. I freely give; no limit do I ix ‘This is my will, and she executrix. THOMAS ANDREW ARMSTRONG. Tho “earthly goods” amounted to $8,500 worth of propérty. Ginead: ‘Yankee, boasting of the great heat experienced 10 America—It's so hot jt burns the wings off the files! Pat— ‘That's nothing to yhat it is tn Ireland! ‘We have to feed hens on ic¢ cream to keep them from laying bolled eggs!— London Telegraph. Inanimate Salesmen. “Are those good graphophones?” “The goods speak for themselves.” “That's so. Well, wind one up ant let's see if It can effect a sale.”"—Louls ville Courier-Journal. Quite Likely, ° ee ee “What do you -know of old dog Trey?" “Judging by the dame, he must have beat the deuce."—New York Preas. Coercion. “How old are you, Ethel?” “Tm five, an’ mamma says if I'm wood an’ eats lots o’ oatmeal I'll be six ext birthday.”—Life, WOMAN SLAIN AND HOME FIRED Mrs. Laura Rayne Found Dy- , ing Near Blaze, VISITOR ACCUSED OF CRIME Man Seen Coming From Direction of Farm Shortly Before Firé Was Die covered, 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 hiditig 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 seen pouring from the windows of the Rayne home by nelgh- bors, and upon reaching the house they found a pile of wood In.the cen- ter of the kitchen, which had been sat- urated with kerosene and then ignlt- ed. Near the burning mass was the form of Mrs. Rayne, apparently dead, ‘with the top of her skull crushed In. ‘When the nelghbors attempted to move the body they found Mrs. Rayne was ‘still alive and she managed to say “Don't” Medical ald was quickly summoned, but when Dr. Lawrence Freeny, of Pittaville, arrived he pro- nounced her dead. + A short time prior to the discovery of the smoke coming from the Rayne house, Davis, who Is now under an rest, was seen coming from the direc tion of the Rayne home, with a gun under bis 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 Beith, Davis was discovered at Wil lerds, 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-un der $3000 bail for court. Mrs. Rayne, the murdered woman, wes about forty years old, and had ‘been married twice, About six years ago she married Lemuel Rayne, a prosperous farmer, with whom she Uved until two months ago, when the couple separated. Her first husband was Noah Clark, of Wicomico county. Davis is a widower and has been engaged in the mercantile business fnear Powellsville. About two years ago he was arrested and convicted ot illicit selling of Nquor and sentenced to six months in the Maryland pent tentlary. 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 man- sion and grounds to be used as a pub- ‘Me park and known as the “Asa Pack- er 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 establish. ment.of a home for children. To the ¥. M.C. A. ts given $45,000 and the | chores Home for Childrén at Jones town, 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 Redeemor, at Bayre, Pa. To the Protestant Eplsco pal Divinity school in Philadelphia 1s Dequeathed $50,000. Other bequests are: St Mark's church, Mauch Chunk, $30,000; mis sions fn St. Mark's parish and in the Alocese, $50,000; parish Sunday school, $20,000; Mauch Chunk Cemetery a¢ sociation, $10,000, already paid; fund for the Rellef of Widows and Orphant of Clergymen of the Protestant Epls copal Church, $40,000; Clergymen’s Retiring Fund, $40,000; Dimmick Me mortal Library, Mauch Chunky, $25,000; &t. John’s church, East Mauch Chunk $40,000; Protestant Episcopal churet | of the diocese of Delaware, $10,000 fo |8t. Michael's Day Nursery and Hospi tal for Bables in Wilmington; Cole {man Memorial, Sayre, Pa., $40,000, al |ready paid; All Saints’ chapel, Le highton, $5000, already paid. Corn Crop Breaks Record. A corn crop ‘said to amount to 3,- 169,137,000 bushels, or 281,921,00¢ bushels more than the greatest crop of corn ever grown in any country of the worlds is the feature of the cqun- try’s most remarkable agricultural year in history, acccrding to the No- vember crop report of the United Btates department.of agriculture, ‘Tals great crop of corn was worth ea Nov. 1 to farmers $1,850,776,000. ‘The acre yield was 213 and quality 1011. 4 ‘The enormous sum of $4,171,134,000 Tepresented the farm value on Noy. 1 wt the United States crope of corn, hay, ‘wheat, oats, potatoes, barley, flax- 5 e - - — National Religious Training School ie Se Se a a a - 2 Pe Re ee eS ee ee woo DE TRE oes oes : aie a es Rees PEA RSE ae pis é ZS SURGE RE 4, a EST RR ARR Ae Sea Song eee ae Meee eT a CGA RN kc a po Rs RR Ne Re SN a A 8 ee wa UR PR, SAL levees SRA he >i nt oe mes On ner: ‘ co RS ie 9 iad , iif Res : ones ee ara ae = oe _. = oe Rid PTs aN a Se Re ne ee Te ied Lat TE RRS Te BS az Se area ee a8 bon oo ee je: rn. ae an a e.g? = ~ =a As 5. 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This is = sutte, call after you have house that, will satisfy you. 2 been elsewhere Stephen M. Newman, A. M., D. 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. n THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES «With CLASSICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND ENGNEERING COURSES, THE TEACHERS COLLEGE. THE ACADEMY. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE: SCHOOL, OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. GHP RSES IN MUSIC . PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. : THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. ab THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. THE SCHOOL OF LAW. MEDICAL, PHARMACEUTIC, AND DENTAL COLLEGES A National Negro, Secret Society Chartered Under the Laws as Enacted By Congress and Approved by the President of the United States, 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 estab- lish subordinate 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, GS. G, Dr. W. Bruce Evans, G. S. L?G., Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, G. L. Knights Of A National Negro, Secret Society Charter By Congress and Approved by the Pre It proposes to uplift the race alon; lines, to be the largest association of its lish subordinate lodges in every village, I holding a convention in Washington, D. C Inauguration. It pays sick benefits ranging from $2.5 $100 to $1,000 at death. Joining fee from Good organizers wanted everywhere $100 per month salary. For further information, address Sur F St, N. W., Washington, D. C. L. Me Bruce Evans, G. S. L?G., ‘Miss Henrietta ae ADDING TO WEALTH. rie —- as Progress of Colored Race Indicated] fer by Figures—Work Done at Tuske-| fai gee—Booker Washington, in An-| de: nual Report, Notes Results of Edu-| str cational 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 Tus- kegee Institute has systematically at- tempted to change and improve condi- tions 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 meth- ods, to secure better teachers and better ministers, and to give more attention to improving health con- ditions. . 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 pro- portion as farming methods are im- proved they will be better able to support their schools. To meet this need the Tuskegee Institute has car- THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL, * DURHAM, N. C., “Malachites tered Under the Laws as Enacted President of the United States, long. moral, social and industrial its kind in the world, and to estab- e, hamlet and town, however small, . C., during the coming Presidential $2.50 to $6.00 per week, and from rom $2.50 to $5.25. ere, and are assured from $50 to Supreme Lodge of Malachites, 609 Melendez King, G. S. G., Dr. W. etta Vinton Davis, G. L. at ried on its annual Negro conference, as stated, has established local con- ferences, promoted county and state fairs, and through the agricultural demonstration work has carried in- structions to the farmers on the soil. “It is gratifying to note the in- creased interest, that_ some of the white farmers of the South are taking in the subject of agricultural educa- ‘tion 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, 1 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 yalue of the domestic animals whict the Negro farmers of the South own increased during the past ten year: from $85,000,000 to $17,000,000, 0: 108 per cent; poultry, from $4,000,00¢ to $5,000,000, or’ 25 per cent; imple. ments and machinery from $18,000,00 to $36,000,000, or 100 per cent; lanc and buildings, from $69,000,000 t¢ ' $273,000,000, or 293 per cent. From |190 to 1910 the total value of farm property. owned by the colored farm ‘ers of the South increased fron $17,000,000 to $493,000,000, or 177 pet cent. 6. Department of Literary Training - z- Department of Industries, . 8. Extension Home Classes. ° There are special scholarships for deserving younz men and women, in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The aext Summer School and Chautauqua will-cpen July 3, 1912. For further information and catalogue, address : PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD. Durham, N. C. 7 Effect of Extension Work. “One indication of the effect of our extension work is the improve- ment of the personnel of the annual Tuskegee Negro conference meet- ings. Whereas in former years it was made up for the most part of is norant, uncouth renters and croppet and a few owners, now it is compose largely of well-dressed, intelligent, progressive and wide-awake owners, who are always eager to discuss farm: ing methods. “At our last ,annual conference, some of the farmers brought. photo- graphs 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 ma- chinery which they are now using. One dealer stated recently that the amount of improved farm machinery in his county used by colored farm- ers has increased within the past few years by at least 100 per cent.” . Resting on His Laurela. ‘An undertaker was.discussing queer sepultures. “A queer sepulture indeed,” he sald, “was that of a German playwright, Gastave von Moser. Von Moser kept tn his house a costly and beantifal urn, He purposed to be cremated, and his asbes were to be put in the urn after ward. “But the strangest thing about the um was that it contained a little bed ef ashes during Von Moser’s life. He ‘med, you see, to get @ good many lav. rel wreaths when his new plays were put on, and he would take a sprig from each wreath, burn it and drop the ‘abes Into the urn. “ ‘Mfy own ashes,’,he would say, ‘will Me on top. Thus after death it may be truly sald of mo that I am resting on my laurels.”—New York Tribune. Flags We Have Known. The first fag to float over American soil was the royal standard of Isabel- la, emblazoned with the arms of Cas- tile and Leon. A white flag with a green cross was its companion. Some years after Colombus landed at Sen Salvador the Cabots planted the banner ef England and of St. Mark of Venice ca 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 atripes 1s the accepted emblem. Over ‘Texas have floated the French, Span- fsb, English, American sand Confed- eate; in Louisiana the llles of France, the Spanish flag, the tricolor, the Amer ican and Confederate flags; in Califor nia the Spanish, Mexican, Russian and Americén. 7 Moors Consider Us Dirty. A habit of our own which we con- sider far more cleanly than eating with our fingers is looked upon by the Moors as Gilthy—that is, washing our hands or face in a basin and, atill more, taking a bath where the water 4s not running. The cleaner we be- come, they say, the dirtier tho water ‘we are washing with must necessarily become, and eventually we step Yorth as cleansed from water which f no longer clean. A Moor to wash his hands bas the water poured from a vessel over them and never by any chance dips them into the dirty water. ‘The same way in thelr baths. The wa- ter is thrown over their botles out of bright brass bowls and flows away through holes in the marble or tile floor. ~ Japan's Curious Musoum. The oldest museum in the world may be found In the «ity of Nara, the former capital of Japan. Since Its foundation, In 756, it has gone through all the changes of the Japanese emplre without one single addition to its col lection. Dr. Otto Kun vel ts one of the few Europeans who were per mitted to visit this museum. It opens| its doors but once a year, on a day In spring, when a special committee In- spects the collection, and a new list ts made out. The museum contains about 8,000 articles, which are sald 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-llke fabric, etc. The origin of the majority of the articles 1s uncer- tain. Some came from Chine and oth- ers from Korea, but most of them «> pear to be of a more exotic origin. « U, however, came of a time prior to the year 756. Handy Life Insurance Policy. A curious festival takes place annu- ally in the .villagé of Isqbe, in the ‘southern province of Japan, the Wide ‘World says, The festivity {s called the Omita and attracts large crowds from the nelghboriug districts. The young men, stripping off thelr clothing, take thelr positions In a rice feld, 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 pleces, which he distributes among his less fortunnte competitors, retaining a portion for himself. ‘It is belleved 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 Ife {nsurance 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 Hich Charces.. Adelina Patti at all periods in her long and unexampled career received by far the largest honorarfum of any singer In the world, At no tlme did she obtain less than $4,000 a night, while on her last tour, when her won- derful volce was wanlng, she was paid $5,000 a nizbt for singing two songs and two encores. Patti also received @ percentage of the gross recelpts when these were in excess of $7,000 a night. And on the night of Nov, 9, 1904, at the Academy of Mustc, Philadelphia, she achieved the record of singing to not only the largest audience ever re corded for a concert in America, but her fee on that occasion was $9,200, by far the largest sum ever pald to any singer or player for one performance {n the world’s history—New York World. Dinina Room Cranks. ‘The waiter became talkative after be had answered a question and among other things sald: “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 fs asteady. He's all right except for cof- fee and bread. He must have his cof- fee boiling hot, and be always puts a lump of Ice in it, He has always pald 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 balf he leates untouched. I have a ‘regular’ who puts salt and pepper on his grapefrult, and”— “He could be talking yet.” sald the man who related the story, “If I hadn't told bim that I was a crank on being served quickly."—New York ‘Tribune. * Locating the Poles. Both Peary and Amundsen made al- lowances {nu determining the site of the poles. Thelr position Is not perfectly constant, there belng a counter lock el- Uptfea! movement of some thirty feet and a counter clock circular movement of some twenty-six feet In diameter in a perlod of 428 days at the extreme axis of the earth, This change, bow- ever, Is s0 slight as not to be reckoned tm practical calculations: Peary and Amundsen made no guesses, but took weveral observations from various standpoints to determine conclusively that they bad reached the poles.— Christian Herald James H Winslow UNDERTAKER AND EMBLAMER ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. TERMS MOST REASONABLE TWELFTH AND R STREETS, N. W. Jam es H. Dabney FUNERAL DIRECTOR. HIRING, LIVERY, AND SALE STABLE. 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The steel heat-flame of the alcohol or gas heater, on the heating bar, then, after the bar is heated, turn of the handle. Linging items has no cover and can be carried in a Alcohol Heater $0.50. Liberal terms to agents. Minneapolis. Minnesota. 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 fail to retain it, but if it is repeated several times lasting impression will be made, and you will recognize the particular odor when you meet with it again." A Curious Marine Monstor. 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. Van Bulow's Rebuke 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. Killing a Devil. 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. Hard to Scide. "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. Breakers Ahead. Auntie (auxlously)—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. Lost money. 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. FINAL BATTLE RAGES IN TURKEY Roar of Cannon Plainly Heard in Constantinople. Ambassadors Decide to Send Forces From Warships to Protect Foreigners. Bulletins received in London from several British correspondents from the front agree that the long-expected battle at the Tchatatalja lines is progressing. The cannonading is heard clearly in Constantinople. An official communication says that an attack by the Bulgarian right wing at Blyuk Chemedic has been successfully repulsed. Another message says the Bulgarian left wing has been repulsed. The French ambassador telegraphed that the battle was still in progress. Still another message said that in view of the heavy cannonade all day the ambassadors had decided to land detachments of bluejackets from the foreign warships to guard the streets leading to Pera. The small warship Lorely was assigned to protect the railway station. According to the same message perfect order prevailed in Constantinople. The villagers from the neighborhood o the firing lines, flocking to the upper Bosphorus, are legion. They are in a panic and numbers are begging for admission to the grounds of the ambassadors' summer residences at Therapla, Blyukdere and Yenlkeul. The Spanish ambassador has opened his gardens at Blyukdere to them. The battle for the possession of the city of Monastir, in Macedonia, continues. The Turkish troops number 40,000, and they hold good positions. The Servians have seized important positions along the line, including Tchairlar and Sofeche, and, it is stated, command the city. The Servians also captured some of the Turkish guns. The Servians, who are said to number 100,000, have 200 guns, including siege guns and howitzers. It is believed that they will not storm the city of Monastir, but will reply to the Turkish fire with artillery. It is stated that the city of Adrianople is now invested by Servans only. All the Bulgarians have gone to the Tchatalla lines. The Servian besleges propose from now on merely to isolate Adrianople and not to assault the Turkish works. 312 Turks Killed by Explosion. 312 Turks Killed by Explosion. News has been received in Athens, Greece, of a terrible and death dealing explosion of a powder and arms magazine at Salonika. Three hundred and twelve Turkish soldiers were killed, some being blown to pieces. Four hundred and thirty Turks were wounded and many houses were wrecked. The debris was strewn for some distance. The Turkish magazine was near the barracks where the Turkish prisoners of war were confined. The losses were among those prisoners. It is stated that the explosion was an act of revenge perpetrated by the bands of the outlaws Sandansky and Mondjoff. It is believed that the bands took this action as the result of the Turks killing many of their men at Kranlin. MODEL SUES FOR $50,000 Daughter of Wealthy Parents Accuses Morality Leaders. Rose Drew, a beautiful girl, an artist model at the Carnegie Institute Art School, Pittsburgh, Pa., and former vaudeville artist, entered suit against Dr. F. A. Rhodes and George Selbel, of the morals efficiency commission, and Policeman John W. Barry for damages in the sum of $50,000, charging conspiracy. Some of the charges in the suit are sensational. The girl, whose real name is Conty, is the daughter of parents who live at Connellsville, Pa., and it was on the advice of her mother, a prominent social leader of that section, that the damage suit was entered. The Drew girl was arrested at her sumptuous apartments in Oakland on the night of Oct. 1 by Policeman Barry on orders from Dr. Rhodes, and was held a prisoner until next morning, when she was sent to the Home of the Good Shepherd by Magistrate Curby. According to the statements of the Drew girl, she was forced to almost completely disrobe before the two men in her apartments. Thought Gun Unloaded; Killis Brother. Telling him that it was not loaded, Henry Wolf, nine years of age, handed a revolver to his brother, Martin, aged twelve, at the home of the boys in Toledo, Ohio. Almost immediately after Martin took the revolver it was discharged, the ball entering Henry's breast and killing him instantly. Quarrels With Fliance; Jumps in River. After a quarrel with her fiancee, Charlotte F. Westland, a young widow, committed suicide by plunging 153 feet into the East river from the Manhattan bridge in New York. SPANISH PREMIER IS ASSASSINATED Jose Canalejas Shot Down In Street in Madrid. KING WEEPS AT NEWS. Revenge For Execution of Professor Ferrer Believed to Have Been Motive of Assassin, Who Killed Himself. Jose Canalejas y Mendes, premier of Spain, and one of the strongest characters in the Spanish government in recent years, was shot to death as he was about to enter the ministry of the interior to attend a meeting of the cabinet in Madrid. The assassination was committed by Manuel Pardinas Serrato Martin; twenty-eight years old, of El Grado, province of Huerca, who recently came from Buenos Ayres, Argentine. He fired three bullets from a revolver into the premier's head, and then, as he was arrested, turned the same weapon upon himself and committed suicide. Anarchistic literature was found on his clothing. Persons nearby when the assassin shot Canalejas heard him say: "Thus I revenge my masters." From this it was deduced that he was a follower of Professor Francisco Ferrer, who was put to death several years ago following the suppression by the Canalejas government of the serious revolutionary outbreak at Barcelona. Canalejas was assassinated in the Puerta del Sol in front of a book stall near the entry to the ministry of the interior. The crime was witnessed by a large number of persons, but Martin acted so quickly that the premier had fallen dead before any could go to his assistance. The assassin sprang forward from the crowd as if to present a petition to the prime minister. A handkerchief concealed the revolver he had drawn from, his pocket. As Canalejas turned his head Martin rapidly fired four shots. The first shot struck the premier behind the right ear, and as he fell two others struck him. The fourth bullet, went wild. Bystanders seized the assassin and handed him over to the police. It was then that he shot himself. Medical aid was summoned and soldiers were brought from nearby barracks to prevent the escape of any accomplices of the assassin who might be nearby. Although the physicians arrived within a few minutes, Canelejas was dead. In his hand he clasped some papers which he had been carrying when shot. The first shot apparently had been fatal. News of the assassination spread rapidly and caused intense excitement. Immediate steps were taken to capture any possible accomplices and to forestall a revolutionary outbreak. When King Alfonso heard of the death of the premier he is said to have wept with grief. In court circles the prevailing comment was that "Spain's strong man is dead." Fear Lynching; Rush Men to Jail. Women living in the vicinity of Kennett Square, Chester county, Pa., are considerably relieved because of the capture of three colored men, Thomas Matthews, John Crone and William Asbury, who are accused of having broken into the house of Alban Dillworth two weeks ago and attacking his daughter, fifty years old. Matthews is alleged to have confessed. The attack was so brutal and the fire of the residents were stirred to such a pitch that the authorities quietly arrested the men and had them in the West Chester prison before letting the public know of the capture, for they feared a lynching might be attempted. On Hallowe'en, at about midnight, three masked men went to the house of Dilworth in a secluded spot near Rosedale. Dilworth is elgly-seven years old and his wife is more than eighty. They knocked on the door and asked that Miss Emma Dilworth come downstairs, as her sister wished to see her. The family suspected something amiss and Miss Dilworth decided not to go to the door. The men were enraged and stoned the house, shattering nearly every window. Then they broke in the door, went to the room of Miss Dilworth and pulled her out. The three occupants of the house fought the intruders and the daughter broke away, only to be seized again and dragged out to the barn, where she was terribly beaten and abused and left almost dead. In the scuffle she was shot in the head over the eye and may lose her eyesight. Mrs. Theodore Woodward, a sister, found her in the barn the next morning. Mrs. J. Rappe Myers, wife of the proprietor of the Rappe hotel, Greensburg, Pa., was shot by her daughter, Gladys E. Myers, in mistake for a burglar in a sleeping car on a Pennsylvania railroad train, bound for New York. Mrs. Myers died a short time later in a Trenton, N. J., hospital. The shooting took place when the train was passing Croyden, near Bristol, Pa. Miss Meyers and W. R. Cuthbert, sixty years old, of Lynchburg, Va., were arrested by the Trenton police. 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In a slow and uninteresting game, M Street High School foot ball team defeated the Manassas Institute eleven by the score of 22 to 0. Rector and Greene of M Street are the stars of the day, and play consistently throughout. Other play did well, but the heat of afternoon prevented any show of dash on the part of either team. Both teams scored their longest runs and most distance off plays in which forward pass was the chief feature. Rector was especially lucky in making tallys for M Street. After four minutes of play it was seen that the Virginians could do nothing against M Street's line, and on M Street's turn to carry the ball a touchdown quickly resulted. 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The athletic classic of the year takes place Thanksgiving Day on Howard campus when Howard and Lincoln meet to decide the football championship of Negro colleges. Each team has downed its most feared rivals and the game next week is certain to be stoutly fought. Howard defeated the strong Hampton team on November 9th by a score of 13 to 7, and took Shaw also into camp at Raleigh. November 15, 20 to 0. All who are fortunate to witness the Thanksgiving game will enjoy a contest worth seeing. Excursion parties to Washington are being arranged for this game from Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Baltimore, Richmond and other cities. The Howard-Hampton game was a clean, well fought one. The Hampton team came to Howard in high hopes after having been in training since September 1st. Howard had been unfortunate in having several star players on the injured list, and her supporters were not so confident as usual. But the Howard get-together spirit overcame the Hampton advantages of weight and longer training. Hampton, however, earned glory in crossing Howard's goal line, a feat that had not been accomplished in three years. The game with Shaw last Friday the 15th inst., added another to Howard's list of decisive victories. The strong Howard Academy team plays Storer College, of Harper's Ferry, Va., November 23d, on Howard campus. THE! CARDOZA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL Location: The Cardoza Vocational School is located at First and I Streets Southwest. The O Street Industrial Center is located on O Street, between Fifth and North Capitol Streets Northwest. Purpose: The purpose of these schools for colored pupils is to give the best modern equivalent for an apprenticeship in some of the common trades and industries. An opportunity is given the students to master the fundamental principles of the trade while continuing their general education. The course of instruction undoubtedly increases the student's earning capacity. Admission of students: Students who have successfully completed the eighth grade of the elementary schools, will be admitted upon the presentation of their graduation certificates. Students of not less than fourteen years of age who have reached the sixth grade in the elementary schools will be admitted upon certain conditions. The principal of the two vocational schools will be glad to confer with the parents of a student who contemplates enrolling. Instruction: The greater part of each day is devoted to work at the particular trade or industry which the students have severally selected. The trade instruction is individual, allowing each to progress as rapidly as his ability will permit. The instruction has been*planned carefully; a student can get a better training in these schools than he could secure by apprenticeship in any one of the trades. 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Because it is an encyclopedia in a single volume. Because it is commended by the Courts, the Schools, and the Press as the one supreme authority. Because he who knows Wins Success. Let us tell you about this new work. WRITE for specimens of the new divided page. G. & C. MERRIAM CO., Publishers, Springfield, Mass. Mention this paper, receive FREE a set of pocket maps. St. Lukes. The Worthy Deputy, for the District of Columbia, of the Independent Order of St. Luke, has invited all the members to attend a religious service at the Plymouth Congregational Church, corner 17th and P Streets Northwest. Sunday night, November 24, 8 o'clock. The thirty-first anniversary of the church is being celebrated, and tomorrow night has been set apart for appropriate services, and the pastor, Rev. Dr. A. C. Garner, will welcome the members of the order of St. Luke of which he is the Right Worthy Grand Prelate, as well as associate deputy for the District of Columbia. Laws of Friendship. Friendship" formed address delivered by assistant superintendent colored schools "The Laws of the subject of an Rosecoe C. Bruce dent in charge PETER H. HARRIS before the Christian Endeavor Society at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church last Sunday. The speaker compared the friendship of today with the friendship which existed between Jonathan and David and Ruth and Naomi. Mr. Bruce said that "by the calibre and quality of a man's friends as well as by the character of his deeds a man is known; that just to the extent that we estimate the qualities of our friends, we estimate ourselves." "Whom the world acclaims," he said, "and he whom the world ignores, may be the stanchest of friends for 'perfect love casteth out fear." "One's good will," "the speaker said, 'belongs to the many, one's friendship belongs to the elect. We may wish all well, but when it comes to performing a real friendly act—when the true laws of friendship operate—we elect the person upon whom to bestow the friendly act. Mr. Bruce said that the mere good fellow is not always an example of friend. In this day especially, he said, man is prone to be a "mere good fellow" but his goodness is not deep-seated; it does not extend deep down to the source of friendship; it does not extend to the heart. Another law of friendship is broken, he said, by the overzealous friend. In his efforts to serve his friends he oversteps the bound of sound sense and does his friend a real injury. "But," the speaker said, "the uncritical ardor of one's friends is a solace and a joy." He said that sometimes friendly advice reaches the point of harshness, but that it is better for a friend to err on the side of harshness than to be deceitful with friendship. There is no friendship that is not founded upon self-respect and mutual respect. Friendship cannot be one-sided; it must be mutual. Mr. Bruce stated that it often happens that A, B, and Z. are friends. Z has a misunderstanding with B, and because of this fact, expects A also to become unfriendly with B. The speaker said that no mutual friendship exists between men of this calibre. Identical animosities, he 'said, are not indispensable to mutual friendship. "One of the great laws of friendship which is so often broken," the speaker said, "is the law of confidence." "He who violates the confidence of the stranger without grave cause stands, and of right, in the shadow of suspicion; but he who violates the confidence of a friend—let him be cast into utter darkness." To justify the capture of a long standing friendship, he said, something more is required than chance and triviality—or even sincere and essential difference of opinion in matters of grave import." "He who has lost the confidence of a friend," he said, "is in a sadder plight than the dead. In conclusion the speaker said: "He who retains the tears and trials and mutations of many years the friendship of upright men and noble women, must by all the necessities have some rights and title to nobility." A beautiful mandolin solo was played by Miss Catherine Davidge; the choir, under the leadership of Dr. Rattley, acquitted itself creditably in the rendition of "O! That I Had Wings Like a Dove." Upon motion of Attorney Henry Heath seconded by Miss E. A. Chase, the speaker and the soloist were given a unanimous rising vote of thanks and appreciation by the large audience in attendance. MRS. HATTIE E. HATHAWAY. Impressive Funeral Service The funeral services of Mrs. Hattie E. Hathaway, late wife of the well-known sculptor, Mr. Isaac Hathaway, was held from their residence at 1011 T Street Northwest, at 1:30 P. M. Tuesday, November 19. The services were conducted by Rev. Rivers, pastor of Berean Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. I. N. Ross, of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Rev. Brown, of St. Luke's, and Rev. Sheafe, of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The deceased was a member of the Baptist Church of her native town in Virginia. The house was crowded by friends of the young couple, and the floral offerings were numerous and beautiful. Her sister, Mrs. Anna Washington, of Philadelphia, was present. Mrs. Hathaway was seriously taken ill Wednesday evening, the 13th inst., and upon the advice of her physician was taken to Freedman's Hospital, as an operation seemed necessary. Everything that medical skill could devise was done to relieve her suffering, but on Friday it was found necessary to perform the operation. From the Cesarian section operation was taken a baby boy not quite seven months in the foetal stage, who is alive and doing well. Every attention possible was given the mother, and everything that medical skill could suggest was applied to save her life, but to no avail. She died about a o'clock Sunday morning. The married life of Mr. and Mrs. Hathaway, though brief, had been an exceptionally happy one. Her amiable disposition, kind and cheerful nature, hopeful temperament and keen sympathy and interest in her husband's work and welfare, made their union an ideally happy one, frequently remarked upon by friends and neighbors. Mr. Hathaway has sustained an irreparable loss in the taking away of his wife, and has the sincerest sympathy of his many friends. THE NEW BAPTIST CHURCH. The Florida Avenue Baptist Church now worshipping in Winslow's Hall is making arrangements to take possession of its thirty thousand dollar building on the fourth Sunday in December, 1912. This church, although less than six months old, boasts of a membership of five hundred high-minded, high-toned, hard working and upright Christian men and women imbued with the very highest civil and religious ideals. A large amount of the credit for the success of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church is due to Attorney Jabez Lee, a brother of the late Rev. Geo. W. Lee, D. D. He was the foremost opponent of Rev. James E. Willis, of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, and was backed by five hundred people. These are the people who now make up the Florida Avenue Baptist Church. The church has no pastor. The pulpit is being filled by the young ministers of the church namely, Reverends Joseph S. Burke, James D. Fortune, Geo. W. Brent and others. Dr. William A. Taylor, of Newport News, Va., is very popular among the members, and may be their future pastor. No official action has been taken in this matter, however. Dr. Taylor is an alumnus of both the College and Theological Departments of Shaw University of North Carolina, and is one of the ablest ministers in the South. The officers of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church are: Deacons, James Langhorne, chairman; Major Towles, Essex Bogole, John H. Wright, Ellsworth Filmore, James I. McCallister and Lindsey Jones. Trustees: Jabez Lee, chairman; E. B. Reid, James A. Smallwood, Edward J. Branch, James A. Jackson, Albert H. Haragis, C. B. Braxton, Gilbert T. Hart and M. M. Peace, a former member of the legislature of North Carolina. DR. WASHINGTON Continued to page 1 for the assailment and strong, but just, defense of the victim. It constitutes an arraignment, a clear-cut indictment that precludes any "come back" from enemies. The facts are there. The militant spirit is there—plainly in evidence, however much sanity and a statesman's wisdom subdues it to a point in harmony with the hope for justice and permanent peace. Ten millions of people but partially equipped can not violently fly at the throat of eighty million fully equipped, with the hope of success. The small, unorganized minority must always arbitrate with the great and powerful majority rather than precipitately sever all alliance. But each arbitration should be but a temporary treaty upon which to base a more advantageous treaty later on, at some more propitious time. This sentiment is transparent throughout the article. It has ever been the corner stone in Dr. Washington's reasonings. He fully realizes the impatience—just and excusable impatience of his race for the denied rights that are clearly theirs, but a wiser deserter into the future than they, he is aware that impatience that brooks no delay, without sufficient force to execute, always extends, rather than brings nearer, the day of realization of the hope that prompted impatience. But no review of this article, in many respects the most virile, the most uncompromising, and the most appealing. Dr. Washington ever penned, can do justice to it. It must be read—every line of and every sentence in the ten pages. And the Negro who fails to secure The Century Magazine for November and read "Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?" neglects that which may give, him a clearer vision of truth and justice; of opportunity and restriction; of expediency and inexpediency. There is but one thing to which the Negro may drive, actually drive, a white man, no matter how just the Negro's cause, and that is to resentment. To everything else the proud, haughty caucasian must be persuaded by sane, sound reason. And Dr. Washington, whose contact with and understanding of the white majority is greater than any living Negro, does, and will depend upon reason—reason fortified with achievements in spite of restrictions, to ultimately properly adjudicate the just claims of his people." LEAD POISONING. (Continued from page 1.1) was furnished in but a few instances, and soap and towels not at all. Lunch rooms were not provided, and in many instances workers ate wherever they could find a place, regardless of whether or not lead dust was thick about them. No medical care was given the employees except when one of them was taken violently ill while at work in the factory. Better Hygiene of Foreign Factories. If the hygiene of the foreign potteries and tile works is compared with that of those in the United States, one is immediately struck with the recognition on the part of the foreign employer that the handling of lead glaze is a dangerous trade and that the workman engaged in it needs protection. The means generally adopted to protect him, which are not found in American factories, include efforts to lessen the amounts of soluble lead in the glaze by careful fritting; constructing the mixing, grinding, dipping, cleaning, and placing rooms with hard, smooth floors, easily kept clean; prevention of splashing from the dipping tubs by properly constructed creens, catching the heavy glaze scraped off by the cleaners in water and carrying off the lighter particles by means of air exhaust; providing and requiring the use of clean, washable work clothes and caps, and of properly equipped washrooms; forbidding the workmen to keep or eat food in any room except the lunch room; subjecting all glaze workers and decorators to a monthly medical examination. All these reforms could be introduced into potteries and tile works in the United States without necessitating any change in methods of manufacture. In the making of porcelain enameled sanitary ware in Great Britain and Germany leadless enamels are generally used and are there regarded as even superior in durability to the enamels in which lead is used. The result is that in neither Great Britain nor Germany is this industry looked upon as a dangerous one, while in the United States it ranks as the most dangerous of those covered in this investigation; dangerous because of the character of the materials used and the almost total absence of measures to protect the workmen. Maybe you don't like money enough to try to save it, but it's a handy thing to have in the house. and talking about overcoats, there certainly is a nice lot here, slightly used, and $3 to $10 saves a pile of cash, and that's certain. JUSTH'S Old Stand, 610 D. One price. Horner's Dairy Perfect Pasteurized Milk and Cream. Raw milk if desired. Our Specialty. Fine grades of Creamery Butter, Fresh laid eggs. 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Her hand was burned when she was eighteen months old, and the operation, restoring the fingers to proper position was a highly successful one. She expects to be at home by Christmas in time to eat her Christmas dinner with the loved ones there. She is now six years of age. The members and friends of Rev: Dr. G. W. Powell, the pastor of Second Baptist Church, are in deep sympathy with him in the loss of a sister at York, Ja. Rev. Powell left Sunday Nov. 17, at 2 o'clock, P. M., for that city, leaving the revival services with Evangelist A. H. Gunn, in full charge. Mrs. Bessie Marshall, Mrs. Cora Strother, and Mrs. Bertie Goins, all accompanied Mrs. Lillian Marshall to Freedman's Hospital on Monday, the 18th inst., where she goes to have performed an operation. Rev. Lloyd Dunmore Brewer, of Culpepper, Va., dropped in at Second Baptist Church, Falls Church, on Tuesday night, 19th inst., and assisted Evangelist Gunn. A large crowd and rousing meeting was the result as the news of Rev. 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