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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 READ THE ACE IN LIFE WITH THE WORLD'S BEST MEN ICOT-VER STEVE. G. W. O. OF O. F. Remarkable Progress of the Hall Association—The Success of President Wright and His Associate—Twenty-three Years As President and His Great Career. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association, held at their hall Friday, December 27, 1912, by the unanimous vote of the stockholders present, all the officers and directors for the past year were re-elected for the ensuing year. The officers and directors so elected are as follows: Officers. Thomas H. Wright, President; Lawrence Clark, Vice President; Samuel W. Watson, Secretary; Alex. F. Hicks, Assistant Secretary; Joseph Manning, Treasurer. Directors. Thomas H. Wright, Isaac W. Scott, Henry P. Slaughter, Samuel W. Watson, Joseph Manning, James Langhorne and W. O. Davis. The financial statement submitted by the secretary, showing the receipts and disbursements for the year was exceedingly gratifying and the board of directors were highly complimented for the faithful and efficient manner in which they had performed their duties. The report showed that after the payment of all expenses, including the annual dividend of $2,500, there remained in the hands of the treasurer upwards of $1,700. The remarkable financial success of this association illustrates in a marked degree what proper business management can accomplish. Not only has every cent of the cost of their splendid hall and the current expenses in full to date been paid, but for the last four years an annual dividend of five per cent, aggregating $10,000, has also been paid the stockholders, and President Wright states that unless some unforeseen emergency arises, he sees no reasona why the payment of this annual dividend should not continue indefinitely. Without disparaging, in the least, the work of others, it may, however, be said that to Mr. Wright, the capable and energetic president of the as able success that has attended its wonderful career—and that has secured for the Odd Fellows here in the capital city of the nation one of the most commodious and handsome buildings owned (and paid for) by any organization among us. For twenty-three consecutive years President Wright has stood at the head of the association and, amid "sunshine and storm," conducted its affairs with unswerving fidelity, unflinching courage and indomitable perseverance and by his masterful executive ability, both from a business as well as fraternal standpoint, he is justly entitled to all the honor the Order here can bestow upon him as an Odd Fellow "good and true." The Odd Fellows of this city owe it to themselves, as well as to Past Grand Master Wright, to see to it that he is not only properly honored here in his native city, but that he should be given deserved recognition at the next general meeting of the order. THE JAMAICA HURRICANE RE LIEF FUND. To Raise Voluntary Contributions in Aid of Rebuilding, the Houses of Two Families and to Procure Food and Clothing; Also to Aid Sufferers in the Neighborhood. On the 17th of November last, the great hurricane that desolated the western part of Jamaica has completely wiped out the houses of two families in Good Will, Parish of Westmoreland. The families of twelve, my own and my brother's, are homeless and in destitution. Trunks of clothes were blown out of houses and contents destroyed by wind and trees. Two of the girls are my own dear ones, and others—a brother and sister and kinfolks. An urgent letter has just reached me from my sister, the guardian of my family, narrating the disaster and pressing for immediate help. I humbly and respectfully appeal in the name of heaven and on behalf of the sufferers. I appeal to the spirit of the Christian Commonwealth of the U. S. A. to help. I appeal to the philanthropic and humanitarian character of patriotic America to scatter sunshine across the Carribean, and thus lay up treasures in heaven. EVANGELIST D. SAML TATE, 2920 3rd St. N. W. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D.C.; SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1913 B. P. S.—Remittance by P. O. Order, payable to Rev. D. S. Tate, B. D., will be much appreciated. Testimonial, on. Rehalf, of Appeal Testimonials on Behalf of Appeal and Applicant. Judging from the various letters presented to us by Mr. Tate, from his own home by the Government of Jamaica, etc., ministerial conferences in the States and Washington, and from the articles in the Post and Herald, also personal letters, we heartily recommend him to the public sympathy as a man of integrity and Christian character. Done by order of the Baptist Ministers' Union of Washington, D. C., and vicinity. REV. W. D. JARVIS, D. D., President. REV. J. I. LOVING, D. D., Secretary. Also Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., Pastor of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. My..... Heaven has prepared me to do this. I have been trusting and praying, since the disaster, that our God may open the door of your sympathy to show mercy. The Post and Herald give concise public appeal. D. S. TATE. VICTIM OF JAMAICA EARTHQUAKE SEEKS AID. Rev, D. S. Tate, B. D., is in Washington trying to secure funds to help rebuild the homes of himself and others that were completely wiped out by the earthquake in Jamaica on November 17. Mr. Tate has been a student of the Virginia Union University, and has done a great deal of missionary work. There were twelve persons in the two houses that were leveled to the ground, including two of his own children, all of whom are in destitute circumstances. Ambassador Bryce, the British Minister, has promised some assistance. Mr. Tate's address is 720 Twenty-third Street Northwest. RECOGNITION WANTED For Services Rendered—To the Victors Belongs the Spoils. The only way to build up and keep up a party is by oiling and keep oiling the machinery that has done the work. On this theory the editor voices the sentiment of the colored voter (steadfast Democrats) to those whom it may concern. It is a well known fact that there are some negroes that are asking for recognition outside of the colored Democratic ranks, and these same colored men have done more to damage and hind- the cause of the Democratic party than any other known cause. Now they are calling themselves Democrats for revenue only. It is fortunate, however, that the real colored Democrat has clearly indicated what he interprets as the real general principles of the Democratic party. Moreover, the Democratic platform specifically states that the independent vote should be recognized as soon as the "powers that be" come into control, and discussion along these lines was carried on during the past campaign, and the colored voters who have worked ardently for the success of their party (Democratic) feel that they will be taken care of as they should be, and deserve to be. And, in this connection, if there are any criticisms to be offered in regard to the work of the colored man, they should be brought forward NOW. Howard Theater. The Howard Theater has been a scene of great brilliancy this entire week. The Whitman Sisters and their two male assistants have made a great hit. Manager Andrew Thomas is bringing the theater up to a high standard. With but a few exceptions, his productions have been very attractive and he deserves great credit for the success of the theater. The house has been made a successful institution under its present management. ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Breaks up in a Fuss—Complimentary Remarks. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People broke up in a fuss last week. It was a meeting of the local branch of the organization. One of the speakers said to the other that he was no gentleman. The man hurled back that she was no lady. It was a war of words. Many of the members became disgusted and left the church where the meeting was held. CLEARING UP THE FACTS ABOUT CURTIS FUNERAL. Father of A. G. Frey, the Undertaker, Explains His Own Part in the Controversy. Some of the confusion of politics and personalities that has surrounded the story of exciting incidents concerning the burial of Charles Curtis, an employee of the House of Representatives, was cleared Tuesday by a statement made by Abram Frey, Sr. father of A. G. Frey, the undertaker called in by Mrs. Curtis to take charge of the funeral. It was the senior Mr. Frey, it was made clear today, who caused the arrest of Prince Robinson on a charge of assault, and not his son, the undertaker. Complainant Frey denied today that he caused the arrest of Robinson after Chief Clerk South of the House of Representatives refused to pay the bill of his son as undertaker for the Curtis funeral. He had preferred the charge of assault against Robinson, he declared, before the dispute over the funeral-arrangements was decided, but did express a willingness not to press the charge, in order to reach an amicable adjustment of the matter in favor of his son. The Senior Frey Charged Assault. The confusion of names in the case arose from the fact that it was the father of Undertaker Frey and not the undertaker himself who preferred the charge of assault that brought the case into the limelight of the courts. Mr. Frey, Sr., explained today that his son was called in by the widow to take charge of the funeral arrangements, and that the charge was made high because the widow's insistence, against the arguments of the undertaker, for an expensive and handsome couch casket. Then Undertaker Frey went to the house to complete the arrangements. "Upon his arrival he was denied admission by Prince Robinson," stated Mr. Frey, Sr., today, "not because he (Robinson) was a relative or even acquainted with the wife, but because he and Curtis belonged to the same Democratic club, and he said the bill would have to be paid through him by the chief clerk of the House, and the bill would not be O. K.'d unless he said so. 1 Says Robinson Took Certificate. "Frey thereupon in company with Policeman Wall entered the house and asked Mrs. Curtis to advise him in the matter. She told Frey in the presence of the policeman to go ahead and bury her husband, but in the meanwhile Robinson had taken the death certificate which the undertaker had left at the house for the doctor to sign. Frey demanded the death certificate, Robinson refusing to give it up, saying he wanted a Democrat to bury Curtis." It was after these differences had been reported to him by his son, Mr. Frey, Sr., said today, that he decided to take a hand in the matter by going to the officials of the House and asking them to arbitrate the matter. It was while he was at the Capitol, Mr. Frey, Sr., alleges, that he was struck by Robinson. Because of the charge made by Frey, Sr., against Robinson, it was explained today, they went to the office of the captain of police. Representative Cox of Indiana was then called in an effort to reach an amicable adjustment. "Representative Cox advised Robinson to get the doctor's certificate back and let my son go ahead with the funeral." Mr. Frey, Sr., said today. "Representative Cox asked me if he did that would I withdraw my charge. I told him 'yes,' so funeral arrangements could go on." This proposed adjustment. Mr. Frey, Sr., explained, was upset a minute later when Chief Clerk South entered the discussion and said he would not O. K. the bill if Mr. Frey conducted the funeral. Mr. Frey, Sr., declared that his son was willing to cut his price to the figure of the rival undertaker, even though it meant a loss, to complete the funeral. But Chief Clerk South decided in favor of the other undertaker. M. H. "THE EVERLASTING LIGHT." On Sunday evening, December 29, the choir of the Asbury M. E. Church, under the direction of Mr. Robert W. Johnson, rendered Wilson's cantata. "The Everlasting Light," before an audience that crowded the church. The rendition was a brilliant affair. The choruses were given with a precision and enthusiasm that was truly inspiring. Mr. J. E. Jones, tenor soloist, was admirable and the work of Miss Cora B. Mason deserves mention for brilliant and finished rendition. Miss Melissa Jackson contributed a most delightful "Lullaby" number, and the duet for contralto and tenor by Miss Ida Price and Mr. Ferrol Gibbs was the hit of the evening. It was most beautifully interpreted. The voices blending with a sweetness and smoothness of tone that held the vast audience spellbound until the last notes had died away. The choir was accompanied by Mrs. Estella V. Jarvis, organist, and Mr. Bernardin Smith, violinist. WOMAN'S SUPERAGE. There will be a discussion of this question at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, Thursday evening, January 9, 1913, at 8 o'clock. The affirmative will be espoused by Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford and Mrs. Belle I. Riley while Attorneys John D. Drake and Alyn Bates will oppose suffrage for women. Special music by some of Washington's best talent. Proceeds for the benefit of the church. The selection of a colored public chairman has been a puzzle to Capt. Oyster. Bishop Alexander Walters will be the boss of Negro Democracy. Consensus of opinion is that Mr. Ralph E. Langston will receive a handsome plum. Mr. Albert Cozy, of Newark, N. J., found conditions changed when he appointed himself chairman of the public comfort committee. Jack Johnson is yet in the lime light. It is doubtful to tell what his next move will be. Deputies of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate are on the trail of Wm. Rockefeller. An air ship would carry him out of their reach and jurisdiction. Ismay, of the White Star Line, has resigned active management. He continues his hold on the line. The passing of the "growler" was solemnized last Tuesday night in a manner that was hideous and unique. President Taft and party, who went to Panama, have returned, and the President is highly pleased with his visit. The Canal will be opened in August, it is believed. When Gov. Wilson declined a few days ago an invitation from President Taft to dine in the White House, he upset a tradition which dates back to the early days of American politics. The refusal is the third of its kind on record. Relies of the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, including autograph letters from notables all over the world, manuscripts and other mementoes of the poet were destroyed by fire in Artesbury, Mass. There are 3,170 foreign-born enlisted men in the navy at present. Filipinos head the list of nationalities with 1,123. Germany is next with 636: Ireland next, 435: Sweden with 294. England with 236: China with 232, and Japan with 214. There are 1,789 non-residents in the enlisted personnel. Fourteen hundred convicts in Sing Sing prison, including Charles Becker and the four gunmen who killed Herman Rosenthal, had a Xmas dinner that included all the luxuries of the season. Before the spread there were religious services. Admiral George Dewey, the most famous living American naval officer, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday last Thursday. Miss Bessie Townsend, twenty-four years of age, has been appointed city controller in Atlantic City, at a salary of $1,500 a year. She will have care of over $3,000,000, and the sale of all city bonds. The young woman's signature will be necessary for every cent paid out by the city. Mrs. Anna B. Powell, ninety-five years of age, one of the oldest and best known residents of Delaware County, died after an illness, of one month, having lived in the one house all her life. She died in the same room in which she was born. The Theodore Roosevelt criminal libel case against George A. Newett, editor of "Iron Ore," a paper published at Ishpening, Mich. has been postponed. Newett is charged with having published alleged libel injurious to the Colonel. The civil suit is scheduled to be heard in February. The American community in Peking, numbering 80 persons, telegraphed to this city urging an early recognition of the Chinese republic. President Yuan Shi Kai and the members of the Chinese Cabinet are delighted at this action. Miss Maude Ingersoll, daughter of the late Col Robert Ingersoll, was married to Walter McLean Probasco, of Cincinnati. The ceremony was performed in New York by the Rev. Dr. John L. Elliott, of the Ethical Culture Society, in strict accordance with the ideas of Col. Ingersoll. Mr. William Smith, who owns a farm near San Antonio, Texas, and also one in Guadalope County, and considerable other property, for seven years has been sheriff of Guadalope County, and is held in high esteem by the best people of the South. The Tousaint L'Overture Building in Wichita, Kansas, was recently decided. The building cost $40,000, and is to be a part of the recent established separate school system. BETHEL LITERARY AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. During the month of January the meetings of the society will be held at John Wesley Church, Eighteenth Street, between L. and M Streets DYNAMITERS SEE LAST OF FAMILIES ‘Bid: Them Gond-ye In Jail in Indianapolis. THEY EXPECT ND MERCY Prisoners Expect to Be Sent to Fed- eral Jail at Leavenworth, Kan., With. cut Stay of Judgment. Thirt/-eight ‘union labor Iehders, who had been convicted under te federal statutes, said thelr goodbys to members o1 their families in the Mer fon county yay in Indianapolis, Ind From the moment the prison was open to visitors the wives, childrea and other relatives of the convicte} men swarmed into the gray wailed building to give cheer and tomfort 1» the men who are‘ to hear their scn- tences from the Ups of Judge A. i. Anderson. ‘Mrs. I'rank J. Higgins, 0 Boston, who fainted when she saw her nus: band led ont of the courtroom foliow- ing his cun.iction, was one of the first callers. 2 Seemingly all hope of appeal or de- Jay has departed from the prisoners. None of them had a word of comtort or cheer for their visitors, All believed they were to be “railroaded” to the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., ‘without stay of judgment Almost the entire executive staff of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers was cou: Victed. Only two officials of that un- fon now remain out of jail. it was fh this union of structurul fronworkers, with 12,000 members, that Jobn J. McNamara was secretary- treasurer while he continued the dy. namitings out of which the present convictions grew. President® Frank M, Ryan, when asi- ed what would be done in the inter. esta of te Ironworkers’ unfon, now that all ev: ept two of its officials were fn prison, saldz “I will say’ nothin: about that at this time.” Presider’ Iyan's only comment on the verd: was: “Greater men than we are hive been Incarcerated. In olden tim-~ they used to cut off tne ears of host men? United States Marsbal Schmidt ha: prepared tp a special train, whien will leave Indianapolis for Leaven- worth as =.0n as the sentences ate Pronounced Fach of the convicted SE RTE IS NAPE SAG: Ce Sitar stacey of all the mien fs not the parting with ‘friends and relatives, but the ternr of imprisonnient they will have to suffer, and it is small wonder that they .ev- hibit but slender interest in their vis; Stors. . a Sentences from thirty-nine yeags to less than a year fn prison may be im- posed, at the discretion of the judge. There was no attempt on the part of the convicted men to get together, as each knows his sentence must rest upon the judge's conviction of the quality of his guilt. Some of the men undoubtedly are facing heavy sen. tences. Their lawyers have been in conference with these men about the appeal they should make to the judge. So far as can be learned, none of them has decided to make a special ples for clemency. Should ‘one man weaken and make a plea for mercy. others doubtless will follow, but it is the belief of the presocuting attorney that there will be no turning back, and that each man as he comes up tur sentence will receive his punishment -without a word. KILLS SELF BEFORE WIFE Bullet Into Head. Harry C. Cummings, thirty-two years old, who was president of a couch manufacturing company in Philadel | phia until three yars ago, and whose mother lives fn Pottsville, Pa., commit. ted-sulcide at his home in Baltimore, Ma. Cummings arose early, and while he was dressing awoke his wife. When she asked what he was doing Cum- mings sald he had been figuring on bis accounts. ‘Then he called to her to logk at him, and as she did so, he pointed a pistol to his head and fired. Ha died instantly. | Cummings conducted a grocery etore and had been worrying over his finances. ~ Auto Racer Killed, Hal Shain, a well known automobile Egos 2d Injuries that, davsed : ‘half an hour, three oth- ee lously hurt and a nunt = cut and brulsed, when & tobile shot out of the cup- . on the Concession pier ~ ar Los Angeles, Cal, and oo. the crowd, {ls Children With Axe, it of Insanity, Mrs. Dan ‘d twenty-six years, of Ark. selzed an axe and heads of her two chil- ged two years, and Leon- vur months, Killing them 1 then cut her own throat .FRANK M, RYAN, President of Ironworkers Con vieted as Dynamiter, Lng ie gui - es Zs BESS “et “Bares “ oe ak i See \ a o ee eed re] eg » Ie 3 E: ny ta ot) ef a - 4 bi ee ae 2 3 ae Ma ; Ls Bow y TWO DEAD IN BIG FIRE IN NEWPORT Ten Buildings Burned ani Many More Damaged, = Two persons lost their lives, sixteen families were driven from their homes, ten buildings were completely destroy. ed, as many more partly damaged an} Property damage that will probably amount to between $200,000 and $21 |. 000, is the result of the most diss trous fire that has ever viisted New port, R. 1. ‘The persons losing their lives wer Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Heath, an age! couple, tenants in the old Governo: Bull house. on Spring street, one o° those destroyed. The fire, which started evident! from spontaneous combustion among the paints and oils in the George \ ‘Weaver company’s big hardware stor and was fanned for a time by almost @ gale of wind. It spread with grea’ rapidity and it was only with | the of the old Governor Bull house. On July 18, 1996, this house was marl.e: by a tablet sy the Rhode Island His tarical society. " Ss The tablet bore the Inscription “Ti e “Governor Bull house. The oldest hou-« in Rhode Island. Built in part in 103 by Henry Bull, governor under tho royal charter of the colony of Rhodr Island and Providence plantations In the years 1685, 1686 and 1690 adJl tlons were made to the building. XMAS COST CARTEGIE $75,000 Sent Checks With Border of Holly to Relatives and Friends. Andrew Carnegie's merry Christmas to his friends and relatives cost him $75,000. - : . This amount of money was sent ott in checks especially engraved with 1 border of holly, in amounts ranging trom $50 to $1000, Although about 500 persons had their Christmas brightened and mad a bit more merry by Mr. Carnégie’s remembrances, he did not give any amounts larger than $1000, and it was charitable organizations for the mos! part that received more than $500. In each instance where such organi zations received money it was stipu lated that the funds should be used Ir distributing Christmas cheer. BOY SHOOTS SISTER DEAD Gift Gun Fatal to Oniid, While examining a new shotgun given bim for a Christmas present Vernle Lawrence,, of Lookout, neat Scranton, Pa., accidentally pulled the trigger. The charge struck bis seven-year old sister Mary, who was standing a few feet from him. The child's head was literally blown from ber body by the heavy charge. It Is believed that the shell was lef! in the gun by the dealer who sold the Weapon. Both the boy’s parents are prostrated over the affalr, and it is feared that his mother will not re cover. § Z “Negligently”, Killed Gulde. An, Indictment’ against Will” "Wilding, of Indianapolis, Ind. ch: ing him with “negligently shoot and killing” Warren Holden, a gu * at Jackmaa last month, was, retur in Showhegan, Me. Wilding {s alle to haye,shot Holden hile they ¥ | hunting, mistaking him for a deer Harvester\ Trust Bas $500,000 Fi Two of of Akron, Ohio, jernatls Harvester com} se. fire, the loss b e € pany inanufi es farm implements wil temorarily out of w MURDER } “STERY ' IS i FAREF Doctor and Mur = of Luella’: i CONFESSES Free Lo. Perna ane Se See CS egy eeegy woe Walt For Another When Girl Ap peared. The mystery surrounding the fa tal attack made upon Miss Luella by Marshall on the outskirts of Tren.on N. J, on the evening of Dec. 3 wa suddenly cleared up when Willi, Atzenhafer, thirty years old, confesgcu the crime after he had been placed i. the power of the police by Miss Id Capen, a trained ‘nurse, and Dr, Ju seph G Dencisbeck, a physician, bot of Trenton. This unexpected turn in this no. famous crime startled the police an’ the people of Trenton, The confessio.. fame when all hope of solving t.ic mystery had disappeared and whil. the police authorities of Mercer cou ty were discussing theorles and mo tives for the assault. The first intimation that Atzenhafer was connected with the crime came to Miss Capen, whose suspicions were aroused by the man’s eagerness to db tain information from newspapers t~ garding Miss Marshall's condition be fore ‘her death and the movements o. the police afterward. Miss Capen communicated her sus. picions to-Dr. Denelsbeck, who was at tending a case which Miss Capen was nursing. Dr, Denelsbeck interviewed Atzenhafer and became convinced tha ‘he was Miss Marshall's assailant. He caused the suspect to come to Tren: ton and housed him in a hotel. Then the physi ian informed the police and a confession was readily obtained | Atzenhafer told Prosecutor Willa’ | J. Crossley, of Mercer county, that h attacked Miss Marshall, but declare he mistook her for another person and that he did not intend to kill her. | When questioned as to whom he thought he was attacking, Atzenuafit sald, be had no reason to attack an: one. Further questioning brought fre m Atzenbafer the fact that the attac’ was made with the two and a hv! foot length of pipe found by the sit: of Miss Marshall's unconscious fort. | the night of the crime, Atzenhafer sald he cot the nine from acuuS ailu seit eh duwuuouvde du the fleld upon the approach of two m2n. Atzenhafer told the prosecutor th: he had no reason to strike Miss Mar shall, and insisted that no such ‘a tent was in his mind. The actions v. the man Indicate weal meniality. Atzenhafer for some time was em ployed at the Purity milk farm nev: Pennington. About $3000 was offere | as a reward for the ‘capture of the 2s gallant. It will probably go to Ms Capen and Dr. Denelsbeck. Of the +> tal reward $1000 was offered by th state of New Jersey. BAIMOTHER SHOT BY SON Lad Was Cleaning Gurl He “Didn't Snow Was Loaded?* Mrs, James Williams, of Grafton Mass., is In a dying condition as th result of being shot by her twelve year-old son, Spencer, who was clean Ing a shotgun which ‘ho “didn’t know was loaded.” ‘i The“mother was at -work washinz dishes, The boy was in a corner ol the room working over an:old shot gun. He had been warnefl “by his mother to be careful, but he, answered that the gun was not loadedl, He had hardly spoken when the report of a shot echoed through the houfe. ‘The charge went through the moth er’s arm, tearing away the jfiesh and lodging in her body. The bdy used tourniquet about her arm to Nop the flow of blood and then ran for doc tor, Elght Killed by Boller Explosio ‘Three white men and five negro\s wero killed and several negroes ai messing as the result of the explo sion of one of the bollers at the shops of the Seaboard Air ‘Line rail road at Hamlet, N. C, The dead in elude C. D. Utter, general foremaa; his brother, W. T. Utter, assistant foreman, and H. G. Reynolds, electri- cian, all white. The explosion was caused by turning water into a boller while it was hot. Drops Dead on Leaving Church. Rev. Edward.L. Brady dropped dead at Delaware Ci . Veactaw leies 7 tactne art oa com FB . , Mc. a soe y 4 SF wt oea ge qin oes SON fp i i wo th ® wear “ne oatyic wh ” 5 tos wee .- : eet cr iac the . soon yore, ‘ a eS 4 ao} a thes . ate a . ih . re Ft ey tie OO BARON HARDINGE, ; Viceroy of Indla Who Was Injured by a Bomb. STEM etek. ae eee F Tn Ke Fae si . Eo. “EONS bene sce YS CRUST ee, ge Sp ARES Bee i Broa eae ee Bee et cree Rhee BA oot SS a 22S eo oss pk OE Ree RN RARER SS 1 Dead, 1 Bying, In Mysterlous Fight. ‘Thomas Nicolo, the proprietor of # ‘barber shop at Charlerol, was killed while Frank Genoba, of Callforuia near Washington, Pa, was fatally wounded, and at least six other per sons suffered moro or less serious hurts in a tragedy in a room back o! the Charles Darben fruit store in Cal: fornia. 3 £ The tragedy was not discovered wa til James Whitley, a ten-year-old bos, entered the store to buy frult for 2 alck brother. Findlng no one In the store, the boy opened a deer to the back room and there he saw the dead man Ising. The small back room resembled a shambles. Furniture was broken, ove: the floor were strewed cards and broken bottles, while several revolve: and knives lay about. Nicolo was 10 through the heart. Later Genoba wa- found at his home nearby In an un conscious condition, with a bullet ho.c in his head. His wife said he had co:..¢ home a few hours before, but had n ° ‘sald a word, soon becoming unc-.0 | sclous. He was taken to a Pittsbuig' | hospital In a dying condition. /* It has been learned that Charl-s | Darben, proprictor of the store; MH wife, two children and five men lef: California on a train, Darben anil | three of the other men were wounde'l Mother Frozen to Death. It bas just been Jearned in Mount Holly, N. J., that death had banished 2 : ar see euee auu ner two dau: ters left Harris Station to walk hone a distance of four miles, and got I~: in the woods. Reallzing the terrib.c situation of her mother, Mary, age fourteen years, picked up her younge: sister and started for help. It was n° long before they were overcome am: were compelled to lle in the snow al night, Mary had her hands ang fee badly frozen, but Dr. Haines, of Mc'l ford, thinks amputation can be avo'd ed. be A resident of the Pines found th girls while carting shingles. Later b: found the body of the mother.’ Un loading his wagon, he took the unfor tunate ones home, ‘Was Fattened by Cannibals. Guy de Villepion, who arrived in San Francisco, Cal, from the west coast of South America, told a tale of hav. ing been fattened for a feast by can nibals while trying to cross:from Ciu. dad to Buenos Ayres. He escaped after many adventure: and found his way to Callao. “The were a strange people,” he sald, “and appeared to be half man and half ape I have no.doubt that they meant tc eat me. 1 was mystified by all thei: Kindness until I saw that it was all directed to the one end of getting me fat. Then I thought I had better leave and I did. Woman Dead on Culm Dump. Lying face downward, her body and head badly, bruised, Mrs. Michael Cor: nor was found dead on the Jermine No. 2 culm dump at Old Forge, a min ing hamlet two miles from Scranton, Pa. Many circumstances connected with © affair leads the authorities to be eve that the woman was murdered. —. 3 Girl Asleep Eighty-six Hodrs. Grice Odell, eleven years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. EB. Odell, of Sterlihs, Il, bas been fast asteer for elg\hty-six hours. Physicians bave used eNery means known to awaken her, but| they have been unsuccessful. A recenft vaccination is believed to have cau\sed her long slumber. Bok, 15, Kills Girl, 14. As Clara Le May, aged fourteen, as entering a cotton mill in Mill ary, Mass, Me was shot and killeu y Charles A@lams, fifteen. The boy ten shot him¥elf, infilcting injuries tom which he Yled. The police say te shooting was\ due to Jealousy. Prize Hen Stold For $800. “Lady Show You, {a Plymouth Rock en toat won the na¥fonal egg laying -ontest at the state \poultry stato, Tountain Grove, Mo., year, was ‘old in Springfield, Mo., pr $800 by J. .. Bickerdite, of Millersville, Ml. The en’ has 2 record of laging 281 fall felght-eezs this year. PS EMA YL Ee, rT 1° * VICEROY OF INDIA - HURT BY BOMB Explosive Thrown From House- top as He Rides By. AN ATTENDANT IS KILLED Baron Hardinge Was Struck by Frag- ments of Infernal Machine — His Wife Escapes’ Unhurt, The viceroy and vicereine of India, Baren Hardinge of Penshurst and Lay Hardinge, narrowly escaped assazs. nation by 2 native fanatic while mak {ng thelr ceremonial entry into Deshi, the new imperial capital of India. ‘Three splinters of a powerful bon™ which killed one native attendant on.' injured anoiher, penetrated the b.. and shoulders of the viceroy and u was also wounded in the neck by the screws with which the bomb was fili ¢ and which passed through bis helin-: ‘The doctors who removed the metui splinters from the wound declared ii marvelous ‘that the viceroy escaped fatal injurtes. Lady Hardinge immediately afw: the explosion asked her husband if lc was hurt. The viceroy replied: “I an all right; so on.” Lady Hardinge then sald: “We cannot, There is a deau man behind.” The elephant on which they were riding halted and the viceroy tried tv stand up, but reeled and fainted and the officials who assembled had mucj difficulty in removing him. The howdah, a box-like affair on the elephant’s back, in’ which Baron and Lady Hardinge had been seated, was blown into matchwood. The viceroy will soon be able to leave the hospital for the vicereg. lodge. The umbrella bearer, who was Killed, had acted in that capacity for Lord Curzon. 7 ‘The bomb thrower has not yet been caught, although several arrests were made. A reward of 10,000 rupees (2; proximately $3300) bas been offerc.. for his arrest. ~ The police have learned that the plot to assassinate Lord Hardinge was hatched shortly after the Durlar when King George moved the capi.a to Delhi. The attempt at assascination wa- ‘made during the procession escortns Lord and Lady Hardinge from the -raflway” station to the official vic. ‘Tegal residence, which has just bess eteceaues caparisoned howdab it which Lord and:Lady Hardinge we:¢ seated. Immeilately the fafernal wa chine exploded with a loud roar wW. fc threw the procession into confusi., ‘The trumpetings of the frightened e'e phants, mingled with the shouts of t'« soldiers anil natives, as eeveral sepore dashed Into the house from the rovl of which the bomb had been hurled Lord Hardinge fell to the bottom +! the howdak with the blood stream!: from his sheulder. The ceremonles were interrupt” for only a short perlod while the vice roy and viccreine were being convere to the hospital and vice regal resi dence respectively. Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, financial member of the council of the governo: general of India, took the viceroy’: place in the procession, which the: proceeded on its way through the nev Smperfal city fo the Durbar’ camp where a great number of rajahs ani other Indian chieftains were assem: dled. Sir Cuy then took up his position 1 front of the vice regal dais and reat aloud a dispatch from Lord Harding. saying that he was only slightly in jared. The reading of the message wz Teceived with prolonged cheering. Brutal Attack on Woman. Following the sending of a Blaci Hand letter to Mrs. Harry Brooke, 9 matron, of Stowe, near Pottstown Pa, a man attacked the woman as she was returning from a Christmas entertainment. Mrs. Brooke was beaten into uncon eclousness and her clothing was sat- urated with coal oll, her assailant probably Intending to’ burn her alive. ‘The woman screamed for afd, and her husband, armed with a gun, rushed out of the house to her assistance. Her assallant fled before he could ap- ply a match to her «'l-soaked cloth- ing. Mrs. Brooke had been knocked un- conscious by a club. Her condition is Tegarded as serious, For two years the woman bas been receiving anonymous communications from some enemy who signs himself “The Black Hand.” Various attempts have been made before on her life. ‘Vitriol was poured in her eyes a few months ago, and on another occasion she was ordered to meet a man in Mount Zion cemetery or she would bd murdered. ; Device Stops Fast Trains. a A new electrical device designed to Live Stock Markets. 0, stop instantly rapidly moving trains ave: St0e: th Rock| has had three different tests on thfl|_ PITTSBURGH (Unlon Stock. Tarde ; laying( Huntingdon & Broadtop railroad all prime $8009. ae station,; Muntingdon, Pa. = fy | @BHEEP steady; prime wethers, $13 ar, was| ‘The frst test was made from the| SAEs ous 204, CaPcalvc §2G2 59 00'by F/ rear end, by stopping one train sorle|gieee FOC SOs Veal calves, $10.50 MI ‘The distance in advance of the block at4-] HOGS hicher: prime heavies, $7.7: 281 fall tion, while another train following at| mediums and heary protkers, (£1152 a high rate of speed was brought to ago, diene. Yormare: $Ee0@aae> Pe ee ae se standstill by the antomatic device. os & normal. +he engines are equipped with an electrically comected. wheel When this wheel comes in contact with the short rall It closes the throt- tle, shutting off.the steam and applies the airbrakes automatically, Gas Overcomes Six; Four Will Die. Mrs. George Anderson went to the home of Charles Mauer, in Eassa fras strect, Erie, Pa, where she for:ac six persons, all fully dressed, sittin | and lying In chairs, overcome with coal gas fumes. ‘ All of the victims are patients at] the Hamot kospital and have not re/ galned consciousness. Four of the: Probably will die. The victims are: Charles Mauer, Mrs. Charles Mauer, his wife: Liliax Mauer, ono year old; Theodore Muues, three years old; John Welsh, 2 boatl- er and relative of the Mauers; Geor te Phell, a boarder and relative of the Mauer family, : Reports, from the hospital indiiae that all of the adalts will dle. Mrs. Anderson, the mother of Mrs Mauer, went to the house to make a call. Things were scattered about ih house, and Mr. Mauer was seated :1 front of a coal stove with one of the doors open and his face in front of it. ‘The occupants of the house had bren: about in the morning, as the breakfs table showed they had eaten from It. Dying Man Coughs Up Tooth; Recovers ‘William Peck, who has been operat ed on for lung.trouble, treated by 2 score of doctors and- given up as an incurable consumptive, went from a sanitarium to his home in Sayre, near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. believing that be could not be cured. He was seized with a violent cous- ing spell at bis home, and the cau.» of his illness was coughed .up in th~ form of a wisdom toot which sur two years has been imbedded in his lungs. After he had coughed up the tots he began to grow better at once ait his speedy recovery now seems to bv certain. - Two years ago Peck was in New York and had a wisdom tooth extract- ed by a dentist. He took gas and :.:+ tooth slipped from the dentist’s wr ceps into the mouth of the patient. Congressman McHenry Dies. Joho G. M: Henry, of Benton, Col - ounty, Pa, who represented . «+ enth district in congress, die1“1 ome*from apoplexy, aged fi.ry- + | fears. * ifenry cad’ not been tn 1 +. a for over a year. For year it was a power in the Democratic p= | in his section of the state. He was elected to congress in J. + from the Sixteenth district and va re-elected. in 1909S and 1910. He wi< manager of a distillery and head o the Farmers Grange banks in several counties. Electric Stock “Suspends” Life. ‘With “animation suspended,” as th> result of an electric’ shock, Warner T. Vandegrift, an electriction, Hes in the Mercy hospital In Trenton, N. J. His case bafftes all the efforts of the physicians to revive him or to indirw any indication of the Ife they know is still in his body. ‘Vandegrift was sent to the old pow- er house on Ingham avenue to rerair a wire. He was on top of a car at work when a heavy cyrrent pas~~< through his body. The man was burl~d to the street and has lain since as on dead. ° Both Dead In Pistol Duel. ‘Two infuriated laborers on the Dela- ware, Lackawanna & Western railroa! quarreled and engaged in a pistol duct at Scranton; Pa., with such effect that both of them are dead. One of the men fell’ dead after re- ‘celving a fourth bullet in the brea. and the other. with five wounds in his chest and back, died after be.nz brought to a hospital. In Scranton. The men were Stephen Rockso and Melfe Bossar. The latter, who died In the hospital, declared he fired In self- defense. English Airman Dashed to Death. Edward Petrro, an English alrman, was Killed near Redcar, while under- taking a filght from Brooklands, Eng.. to Edinburgh. His monoplane ran Into a heavy gale on the way and bls ma- chine was dashed to earth. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $4.10@4.25; city milla, fancy. $4.75%5.25. @aE FLOUR aitot; por barrel, $3.59 WHEAT firm:"No. 2 red, ssqonrie CORN steady; No. 2 yellow, 55 ¢¢98¢ aes, gelets No. 2 white, 40164 e.; lower grades, 38¢. POULTRY. Live steady; hens, 136 pet old roosters, 11@11%4¢-_ Dreased rm; cholce, fowls, 16%4¢.; old roos. ars, 12c.; turkeys, 23c, aeULTER steady; fancy creamery, ec. per Id. EqGS steady: gelecteg, $5 @ 38c., Rearby, 32c.; western, BOE ATORS sheedg? 70@72e. bush. PITTSBURGH (Union Stock tards) we ead chica $9@9.23, SHEEP steady; prime wethors, $438 O60; culls and common, $2@2.50; Fubs, $6@8.75; veal calves, $10.50¢; 30S higher: primo, heavles, $7.7>; mesons oe kee anaes e ers, 3 > } 180; Upbt Yorkers, $720@726; ples Live Stack Marketa. Maple Sugar Trees. Within its wide range the sugar maple appears as a predominant tree only in the New England states, New York, southern Canada, northern and western Pennsylvania and in parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the southern Appalachians it occurs in scattered bodies where climate conditions are similar to those of the north. In the extreme northern part of New York state and the adjacent district of Quebec the forest growth is often almost pure maple, and even considerably farther south, where beech and birch become associate trees, the sugar maple holds its own as the dominant species. In northern Pennsylvania at an altitude of over 1,000 feet the mixture is much the same as it is in New York. In Ohio, Indiana and Illinois a similar condition is found. But as the hilly country disappears the maple retreats to the richer and damper soils, leaving great areas to the oaks and chestnuts.-Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. The Fascinating "Danzon." The "danzon," which is the universal Cuban dance, is the oddest, most indescribable of dances, at first the least inviting, at last the most insidiously fascinating. Long before turkeys trotted or bunnies hugged in our land, in Havana they walked through dances. But you can dance the "danzon" all night on three feet square of floor. A crowded ballroom is almost motionless; a few steps, a queer shiver that runs down the body, a rest, then a few steps again—so hundreds of couples go on for hours. It would be inexplicable but for the music, the music that seems idleous at first, but ends by pulsating your very blood with some strange magic. It seems forever loosing its rhythm, dropping its beats, while at times the barbaric rattling and din of crashing gourds wholly drowns the monotonous melody. There is very little that seems Spanish in the "danzon" music; it hints rather at Africa and transplanted voodoo rites in the Cuban forests.—Metropolitan. A Wesley Anecdote. It is said that Charles Wesley was sometimes easily annoyed, and on one occasion at a conference he became so irritated at the prolix remarks of a speaker that he said to his brother: "Stop that man's speaking. Let us attend to business." But the offender was relating his religious experience, and, though it was at so great a length, John Wesley evidently thought that no one had a right to interfere with it. He was therefore allowed to continue, but the moment came when Charles could contain himself no longer. "Unless he stops," he whispered to John. "I'll leave the conference." By this time John was enjoying the man's simple story, and he only turned and whispered to some one sitting near: "Reach Charles his hat." Only Truth Abides Was it not ordained of old that truth only shall ablide forever? Whatver we may say today or whatever we may write in our books, the stern tribunal of history will review it all, detect falsehood and bring us to judgment before that posterity which shall bless or curse us as we may act now, wisely or otherwise. We may hide in the grave which awalts us all—in vain. We may hope to be concealed there, like the foolish bird that hides its head in the sand, in the vain belief that its body is not seen. Yet even there the quick coming future will decide that it was a hypocritical pretense, under which we sought to conceal the avarice which prompted us to covet and to seize by force that which was not ours.—Thomas Corwin. The Bloody Meadow. Tewkesbury, where a famous battle was fought during the War of the Roses, is in Gloucestershire at the confluence of the Avon and the Severn and 150 miles from London. The battle was fought on the bloody meadow just outside the modern town, and, according to local tradition, one night in every year on the anniversary of the conflict the adherents of the white and red roses meet and fight the battle over again—London Mirror. A Free Hand. "You sketch with a free hand, Miss Brownsieth," remarked the professor, who had been critically examining her portfolio. "Entrely Tree," said the young lady as she cast down her eyes in soft confusion and waited for the professor to follow up the opening. Short of Material. Editor (of society paper)—Young fellow, you opened a letter that was addressed to me and marked "personal." New Reporter—Yes, sr. I'm doing the personal column today, and there was not another blamed item in sight. Chicago Tribune. It Might Have Been Worse. Lydia—I'm just as mad as I can be with Charlie. He kissed me right before all the girls. Georgette—Well, can't that better than if he kissed all the girls before you? Mathematics. Mother—Jean, give half of your apple to your little sister. Remember that a pleasure shared is doubled. Jean—Yes, mother, but an apple shared is halved.—Nos Loisirs. Delinguent "Does Daisy put up with you when he is here?" asked the traveling man of the hotel clerk. "No. He used to stop with us, but he never put up a cent." Origin of Paper. At various times the scholars of different countries have tried definitely to determine the real discoverer of paper in the eleventh century. It is to paper that we owe the renaissance of letters. From time immemorial something answering modern paper was used in China, where it was manufactured from silk. About the middle of the seventh century of our era there seems to have been established in Arabia a manufactory of paper, and fifty years later the way was discovered to make it from cotton instead of from silk, silk being a rare commodity outside of China at that time and cotton relatively plentiful. In the reign of Henry II. of France a Greek scholar was sent to Paris to arrange systematically a catalogue of antique manuscripts in the royal library, and a notation in his hand speaks of what was then known as "paper" as originating in Damascus. The later invention of making paper from flax, linen or hemp has been attributed equally to Italy and Germany, but there is evidence that it existed prior to the fourteenth century.—Harper's. Escort For the Holy Carpet. Escort For the Holy Carpet. As is well known to Mohammedans, but to few Europeans, the Holy Carpet always travels with an escort to and from the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. This escort consists of 300 to 350 men of one of the Egyptian infantry regiments, with two small field pieces and two quick firing guns, and about forty mounted men, together with their horses. The object of such a strong escort is to protect the sacred object from falling into the hands of the Bedouin tribes, through whose countries it must pass at various stages of its journey and who are also on the lookout for it, as the carpet is worth a fine ransom. Desperate attacks are not infrequently made upon the Holy Carpet by the Bedouins of the desert; hence the strength of the escort—Egyptian Gazette. Lions and Tigers Three feet or a little over is the real height of good sized lions and tigers. And when sportsmen realize what an extra six inches or nine inches added to the stature involves in increased length and general bulk to balance the known proportions of the animals I am equally sure they will admit that no lion ever scaled anything like four feet at the shoulder and that the height measurements of dead specimens give quite a false idea of the actual heights of the animals in life. The following are the heights at the shoulders of some of our large felidae: Large lioness, 2 feet 11 inches; Manchuria tigress, 2 feet 9 inches; Nepal tigress, 2 feet 8 inches; Sumatran tiger, 2 feet 7 inches; large male jaguar, 2 feet 3 inches; male cheetah, 2 feet 2 inches.—London Field. Youth. Youth is the springtime of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know. The wise youth will "lay low" till he gets a whole lot of knowledge and then in later days turn it loose in an abrupt manner. He will guard against telling what he knows, a little at a time. That is unwise. I once knew a youth who wore himself out telling people all he knew from day to day, so that when he became a bald-headed man he was utterly exhausted and didn't have anything left to tell any one. Some of the things that we know should be saved for our own use. The man who sheds all his knowledge and doesn't leave enough to keep house with fools himself.-Bill Nye. Turkish Justice. The poor baker for some reason appears to have been singled out for some extraordinary punishments. It is only within late years that there has been rescinded in Turkey a law by which the baker guilty of short weight tricks was punished by having his ear nailed to the doorpost. Turkish officers of the law are notoriously averse to giving themselves more trouble than is absolutely necessary. If the recalcitrant baker did not happen to be at home when they arrived to administer punishment they didn't bother to call again, but just seized his son or his journeyman or his father-in-law or whoever was handy and nailed his car to the doorpost. So long as somebody was punished it did not matter. The Samian Letter. The letter Y is called the Samian letter. 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Alice was calmly seated on the floor, around her a goodly collection of the delectable tubers. "Good gracious!" exclaimed the horrified mistress. "What in the name of all that's wonderful are you doing?" "Dolin', ma'am?" replied the fair maid of all work. "Dolin' what ye told me, indeed. I've done the best I could, too." Then she pointed to the potatoes. "I've paired off all of them, ma'am," she mumbled, "but, try as I will, I can't find a mate for this little beggar!" —Pearson's. Where the Apostle Isabed. The abundance of fish in the sea of Galilee is to this day the wonder of travelers. Most of the fishing done by the Syrians involves the use of nets probably identical in construction with those of the apostles, and the best evidence of the fishing having through the centuries been done with nets is to be found in the ease with which most of the fish may be deceived with the help of any bait, natural or artificial. The pellucid water of this beautiful lake, with its ever changing reflections, is in striking contrast with the muddy deeps of the Jordan, but the silt in that river, however unsightly to the eye, does not seem to inconvenience its fish, which are extraordinarily plentiful even in the lower reaches before it falls into that deathly lake which the Arabs call the sea of Lot. London Outlook. Granite, the Bedrock of the Earth. Granite, the Bedrock of the Earth. Granite is the bedrock of the world. It is the lowest rock in the earth's crust and shows no signs of animal life. It is from two to ten times as thick as all the other layers of rocks combined. No evidences of life of either animal or vegetable are apparent in granite. The presence of lime is due to animal life. Some scientists assert that all the lime in the world has at some time been a part of some animal. This includes human beings. A Portrait of Wordsworth. 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One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months ....2....0¢-20+e2e204 1.00 Three’ months ssessseseeeseesees 50 Subscription monthly .....+.4+64 20 BACK TO THE FARM, = The congested condition of our large cities, the keen competition for employment, the latter making for most of the race discrimination - prevalent, and the inability of the farm-reared Negro to compete, un- der his many handicaps, with the whites of the cities, unmistakably calls the Negro back to the farm. Washington, like many of our large Cities, is overrun with 4 Negro pop- ulation that is unfit by education and experience to’ cope with con- ditions confronting them in large cities. They come teeming into this city—into all large cities, from southern farms and_ plantations. They have no trades, their educa- tion is too limited for the keen con- test of city life, and the result is that too large a per cent. of them take on all the vices but none of the virtues of city life. They are housed in, dilapidated: tenements— mere hovels, back in insanitary al- leys which admit vice freely but bar out virtue. If these farm immi- grants would take up and cultivate, some of the many thousands of un- ‘cultivated acres lying within an hour or two ride to Washington, instead of finding their way to the notice == + me, tan many of them : wreed to cat me sol a scarcity on 3 being with. San nd employ- on ge ‘+ mmunes to! etimeptivent situa, clean lives, would have sufficient wholesome! food to eat, and good protecting clothes to wear. Washington has a colored population (Negroes and Mulattoes) of 127,000. This is fully 50,000 more than can find _com- pensating emplovment here. Eighty per cent. of the Negroes crowding into this and other large cities come ‘irom the farms, and are Inred to the cities by the false hope of bet- ter wages, and more plentiful and varied pleasures. In the cities the death toll, among Negroes, is ‘shockingly high —tuhereulosis claims thousands of them annually. When Dr. Booker T. Washington began’ preaching “back to the farm” for his pople, the Latin and Greek veneered Negro criticised and opposed him. ‘Today, when the awful insanitary, _poyerty- pinched mode of living enforced upon many thousands who come to the city is distressingly apparent: today, when’ the death ‘rate among city Negroes far exceeds the rate among whites, and when the police court docket. of our largé cities is crowded with Negro , criminal cases: today, when keen’ competi- ‘tion for employment is making va- grants -of thousands of city Ne- groes. we are awaking to the fact that there is great wisdom in Dr, Washington's “back: to the farm’ sermons, and we are beginning to applaud them. And even the whites: have taken up the cry to stop the influx of rural whites to the cities, and to relieve the congested white- “populated city districts. Let us take up the cry of “back to the farm,” and there, under God’s clear sky, surrounded by heavenly ozone, cultivating a sun-kissed ~ hillside slope. or a fertile valley, away from the cold, unsympathetic brick walls and stone pavements of the city, away from expensive _ frivolous wleastres and life-gnawing vices, tt the Negro plant his Eder and perous and happy. ” HE NEW YEAR. “Y xe New Year bring forth ti ags for the Negro. ‘ts condition improve to the ” ** advancing his citizen- fi. re several things that Mr. s+ do when he comes in wer at ed make the colored ‘33 'hathe is a citizen. ‘a. 2veral departments of the expr t thé colored man is seg- mse: + . ri regated. Will this condition con-, tinue under Democratic rule? ! The most glaring and unjust dis- crimination, m any department of ‘the general government, may be found in the Sixth Auditor's office. At 1s to be regretted because this is a Republican administration and it is a fact that cannot be denied that the Negro has demonstrated his loyalty to it. The new leaders of the incom- ing administration have great hope that Mr. Wilson will be the mas- ter of his party and competent col- ored men will be recognized. Ev- ery Negro supporter of Mr. Wilson expects to be. given recognition. This cannot be. There are some men who have rendered some sery- ice, no doubt, but whether service will warrant the president to rec- ognize the unworthy is a_question that Mr. Wilson will carefully con- sider, It is true that Bishop Wal- ters represents a strong constituency in the Methodist Church and the constituency will be a, factor in the next campaign, ‘The Negro has done his duty toward the Repub- lican party, and if he is fairly treat- ed The Bee feels confident that the Negro vote ha$ been divided to such extent that it svill be felt in the nest election. The Negro likes fair and just treatment. He wants to see some overtures from the Democratic party. If the New Year will bring forth fair and just legislation for the Negro, on the part of the Democratic Congress, the future of the Negro will be good. There are some good col- ored citizens in, this country, and especially in the [South are they ad- vaneing. They are far ahead of the Northern Negro, as will be shown. In business, the Southern Negro is advancing. In all branches of in- dustry the colored man of the South is progressing. What the Southern Negro asks is to be let alone and not be. disturbed. He asks for protection of life and prop- erty, ‘The Bee has’ every reason to be- lieve that Mr, Wilson will not tol- crate unjust legislation against those who thought it wise and best to leave the Republican party and support him. Tlic Bee hopes that these men will not be disappointed. Bishop Walters has given every as- surance to his people that Mr. Wil- son will be their friend. Let us, therefore, live to experience a good and prosperous New Year. May the president-elect be inaugurated in pomp and splendor and -his in, duction in office will be one that history may record as the greatest. Let the New: Year be a bright star of hope, and the president-elect will protect all the people, irrespect- ive of party or condition. ‘THE BRUTAL ASSAULT. “The brutal assault that was re- cently committed upon a lady re- cently is only another evidence of the necessity of having niore of- ficers in the police department. Our chief of police has made every ef- fort to persuade Congress to give him more men, but Congress doesn’t seem to take any heed. The recent assault cannot be too severe- ly dealt with, if the scoundrel “is found guilty. There is but one way to deal with assailants of such a character. Aside from imprison: mignt, every person who is convicted of such a crime should have at- tached to the sentence twenty-nine jashes upon his bare back-once a month. This would be a reminder of the crime that he had commit- ted upon a helpless female. Our vagrancy law is not strong or drastic enough. Every man and woman and child over the age of 14 should be made to work. No idler should be permitted upon the pub- lic street. Every person found not doing work or employed in sonic capacity should be put in a chain gang. A tab will be kept on every idler in the city, and no crook could escape the clutches of the police de- partment. If the evidence warrants a conviction of a criminal assault upon the recent victim, the assail- ant should be given the extent of the law. The sentence’ should be so drastic that it will be a lessor hereafter to all such characters. There are some white men as brutal as colored. men, and in al cases, regardless of color, the as: sailant should be severely deal with. Every defendant, no matte! how guilty he is, must have coun sel; hence, the minds of the pub lic should not be prejudiced agains the counsel that the court assignec to defend this brute. | JUST LIKE “GILL.” “The nigger in the woodpile” has ‘been a favorite expression when re- ferring to some hidden secret, hand or person that puts a doubt or question irito an enterprise or ef- fort. When Hearst, he of the yel- los ieartals, startled the publi with all copies of-gorrespond- ence between the Standard Oil Company and ment officials, dared nurse tk complexioned ure in the ex in the ‘Cangre those who dai belief had no one Gilchrist § ing of a law foot two in h ‘course, and hi measurement.- iarly speak of MNKs in Hgures. Fe has an ungg- ination that would have served even ‘a romancer like Shakespeare, and he is as sinooth as olive oil. Now, to get in touch with a senator, to run down to the Standard Oil building at lower Broadway in New York, and to seta trap out in Chicago was but a trille of an un- dertaking for “Gill.” If he ,would tell the truth, and this is -not inferring _ the does not and cannot, what a-mirac- ulous tale this bright, brainy, suave little brown man Who put “stew? it Stewart, could tell of haitbreadth escapes, kidnapving, etc. His story, had it a Lugo to write it, would make “Dare-devil Jim,” or “The Life of the Indian Hunter of the Red Plains,” read like one of Ba- con's essays compared with his hair- raising experience. There is only one Gilchrist Stewart, and he's the delux edition who ran into fame at Brownsville, who matriculated in the dairy department of Tuskegee and learned to milk cow or man, and who now hibernates around New York in quest of millionaires with money to burn. And we take off our hat to that quiet little sleuth who found and return the letters de cachet. It was just like Gill. BISHOP WALTERS. It is the opinion of the better cle- ment of Negro Democracy that no better leader could be found than Bishop Alexander Walters. Bishop Walters is unselfish as well as hon- est. So far as The Bee is con- cerned, its Editor has never been a candidate for. office, but The Bee is interested in the selection of good representative colored men for of- fice, either by Republicans ér Dem- ocrats. President-elect — Wilson could not have a better advice, so far as the selection of colored men for office, than Bishop Alexander Walters. He did not support Mr. Wilson for money as some others are charged. He was hanest and honestly paid colored men for serv- ices rendered. ‘There have been no complaints of any kind against Bishop Walters. He is clear in this particular and he 1s morally clean, Such a man shonld be the advisor of Mr. Wilson. Bishop Walters knows how to conduct a campaign, and if President-clect Wilson treats’ the colored voter properly they can never be driven away from it, The Democratic party has it in its power to hold ‘the ‘colored vote by recognizing such a man as Bishop Walters. The colored voter has faith in him. He is a wise and judicious leader. “THE BEE FOR 1913. The management of The Bee, by the request of many, will extend the - reduction thirty-one ‘ day's longer, or to the first day of Feb- ruary, 1913. We do ‘this because several re- quests have been made from those whose obligations have been heavy during the past year, The time, therefore, has been extended to February, 1913, and those who want to take advantage of our re- duced rates should send in their names, The subscription will start from January 1, 1913. Don’t delay any longer. The Bee is'a great pa- per and every citizen who is willing to support a fearless defender of their rights should fill out the cou- pon found in another column anc send one dollar at once. Don’t de- lay. JACK JOHNSON, ‘ The Bee has been extremely friendly to Jack Johnson and went out of the way to defend him against the attacks of the white press because it believed that he was unfairly treated. The Bee is now of ‘he aninion that ench men as Jack committ one of | taught < opinion used by Johnson well as t in which he been The Bee ble peop sideratio in; ae ‘yon Eis | fhe,opini. MR. RUDOLPH, . ‘The people know that Co:amis- ‘sioner Cuno Rudolph is an honora- ble and upright man and any at- tempt to impugn his motives or arts will not change the sentiment of the people for him. Mr. Rudolph is a man of the people and for the peo ple. Just why the President keeps Judson in this city The -Bee is al aloss to know. He is objectionable to the people. ‘This so-called in surance investigation is only an at tempt to get a competent and popu: lar official out of office. Let the investigating force com to a close. ‘That Fresident-clect Wilson will haye around him a trusted colored leader. He will have ayman who declined to. support him” for reve- nue only. The Bee has in its pos- session the facts that will convince the President-elect that a certain al- leged Negro Democrat threatened to baw! it the committee had failed ta. send him money when he asked wor it. Le got the money and failed to distribute it properly. All the facts in this particular case will come out at the proper time. OYSTER AND RUDOLPH. - The Bee would like to see Cap- tain James F. Oyster and Mr. Cuno Rudolph appointed Comunissioners of the District of Columbia. Capt. Oyster is the choice of the people, as well as: Mr. Rudolph. President Taft, it is believed, will appoint these two well known citizens. to preside over the destinies of this government, If President Taft knew how much these two gentle- men were appreciated by the peo- ple he would not hesitate for a mo- ment. ° Did'you swear off? Make the New Year pay you big- ger dividends. than the old year. Washington should have a col- ored bank. The population is here to support it. Our Chicago contemporary, The Defender, is getting out a live, newsy paper these days. In fact, there are none hetter, The Register’s office never had a more capable, better adapted man for the duties, or a finer gentleman than J.C. Napier. And Negro, De- mocracy has not his equal. \ There are two colored men on the inatigural committee, Messrs. R. R. Horner and J. Milton Waldron. Of course. their position is a mere empty honor—a sort of fill-in, but if appointed because they look like white men, as rumored, it is a doubtful honor to the race. In reply to inquirer why The Bee doees not run the Dodson plate ser- vice, we answer because the Dod. son plate service, as now issued, is nothing but advertisements of in- dividuals who pay from five to ter dollars for write-ups to, R. W ‘Thompson and others, which is di- vided. in some cases with Dodson, while the newspapers that use the service give space to the paid write- ups for nothing. The Bee does no! regard paid, advertisements, for which it gets no pay for running, as vorth our space. “That's why w: do not and will not run the Dodsoz service. a RACEET RATT In order to meet the fullest needs of a course in physical training, the Hirh School Games Committee has planned a series of basket ball games to be plaved by teams representing each year at Armstrong and M Street High Schools and’ three of the classes at the Commercial High School to determine the champion class team in these schools. Each team will play every other team al M Streét High School or at, Arm- strong Manual Training School. This method of intra- and inter-high school contests will permit as many as 100 or more boys to get the phy: sical development and the mental and moral benefits to be derivec throug’ highly organized play as the game of basket hall. Two games will be played every scheduled afternoon, and will be wit nessed by all members of the High School Athletic Associations. Mr. Morton of M Street High School, Mr. Hartgrove of Armstrong, Mr. Compton of Commercial, assisted, by the basket ball coaches, ‘the physical director and members of the school athletic association, will have charge of the series. i It is the intention of the commit tee to insist upon the execution o} every rule of the, game which tend: fo fasten the principles, of self-con: trol, punctuality, and the ethics o! good sportsmanship upon the® par. ficipants in the series. A team-that is five minutes late will forfeit the game of the day, and players whe lack in the ability to play the game without entering in disputes with the afficials will be excluded from thai game. ‘The boys are very much enthuse: over the oncoming struggle and are getting in trim for the occasion. ‘The games for January are as fol Llows oe ° «0 @ PublicMenAnd Things ‘reainta Ate fo oe ee presents, did it ever occur to you| how tastes run riot? Men always cae You neckties that are so breezy they take your breath away, and wo- nee Send you cigars that almost in-' duce you io swear off smoking. For; risimas three of my fridnds of the male persuasion sent me ties. They were like some of the acts at How- ard Theatre last week..o loud as to need censorship of the police depart. ment. | Hf Sid Pittman was in town Would swear that he selected them. You know when it comes to picking ties Sidney just backed the rainbow off the board. and ran in a few colors Munkasy, “the Russian artist, sith a predilection for colors, never! heard of. These three ties T received: when Jaid on my dresser together made so much noise the Eighth Pre- cinct sent out the police reserves to quell the riot. They were. frights One of them had green, red, yellow and purple so worked in as to make it look like the Hungarian Rhapsody sounds—terribly loud. It had all the cresendo of colors needed to wake the dead who had been sleeping since Dorsey made his escape. The other two would even have abashed Dr Williston, and, Doc. don't care -no more about colors in ties than Me- Iendez King cares for a case in the police court. 1 guess I will save all three for Sid Pittman, the man whe collects varied colored ties with the same_zeal that Morgan collects rare paintings. «1 thought when Sid went to Texas the shops of this town had stopped _ ordering ties that made more noise than a trombone artist in a colored band. tat And cigars, I received two boxes from lady friends of my wile. I smoked one of them Christmas night, before I went to bed, and all through the night, as_a result, I was chased by a pack of hyenas while being flanked on both sides by an army of cannibals, and just ahead of me was a fiery furnace—one of those fierce burning Simon_ Peter Drew creations. You know Simon put hell back in the Bible. The next morn- ing, and ever since, I tasted the flavor, which was across between five cents’ worth of Epsom salts and a_pound of burned horse hair. The pictuée on the box lid was a beauty: It was Diane at the Bath, and oid Diane had about as much, in the clothes line, on as some’ of our preacher politicians have conscience. I'm going to keep the lid of the box for the picture, but the cigars I*am going to send down ‘to Judge Pugh and Judge Maloncy to hand out to some of these coal-colored individ uals who ought to get a real stiff sentence. If they sentence a fellow to smoke one of these cigars these ladies sent me, it will be worse than “fifty, fifty,'—fifty dollars’ fine and fifty days in the bastile. ay Another friend, whoedon’t drink a drop, and ain’t got no more idea of red liquor than the Young Women’s Femperance Union, sent. me two half pints of whisky. [asked Aaron Gaskins to give me a list of the va- rious brands of whisky, and he gave me about two fundred, but the name fof this\tuff T got ain't among them. ‘The name on the bottles is "Old Ac-: queduct Rhye.” I poured me out a thimble full and shot down my ali- mentary canal, and after I drank it, T felt that 1 had taken the exces: stock of carbolic Gray & Gray keeps for real emergencies. My wife used some to flavor the mince meat she made, and it burned all the meat and dissolved all the fruit, I've got some friends that I would like to sce tied up with cramps, but T just ain't mean cnough to send them this whisky, so 1 guess I will Keep it to polish the ‘stove, and pour down the sink to clean it out, and thus save the con- centrated lye that I usually use for that purpose. If this whisky [ got ws analyzed I will wager anything that it would be found to contaiti all the poisons compounded by all the alchemysts that ever breathed the ozone of Rotterdam. to * “Now, talking about loud acts at Howard Theatre, I just got to tell Andy Thomas he ought to put a soft pedal on some of them. He had a couple last week that were too, loud for the red light district of Chicago OF course, I know that the first night these hamfattos can run in a speckled act on him, but after the first night its up to him to soft,pedal them. Now. I took my little girl and a girl friend of hers one night: and T just had to get up and move out for the reason the act—words Snd_ gestures, were too rank for a| child of tender years to hear. There fsa bunch of jays who zo wild on this vulgar dope some of these ham- fatto actors hand out, and there is a larger bunch who don’t like it. T know how hard it is to get real bang-up acts for every week. and I appreciate that little Andy Thomas is trying awfully hard to please the people, but if he will just make some Save from_$30,000 during his fift; years-in office. When Big Bill Tait rot tired of having him write him a congratulatory letter every day, and shoved John’ off the pay roll, John got reckless and began sspending money just as if he represented the total reserve fund of all the Wash- ington banks, and up to this minute he has spent $3.62 since he has been out of office. Now they tell me he tells everybody. that he personally bought and paid for that $75 fur- lined garment, but I come. from where Vernon was born—out in Mis- souri, and you have got to show me. John’ is awfully strong with the brothers in his church,.and I sort of calculate that he hunched them to make him a present.” .\t any rate, he’s got the coat, and up to date I haven't heard of any firm replevining it, so I guess it’s his all right, all richt. If John had held office just four years Tonger, [ guess these for- eign countries when’ trying to se- cure war oans instead of going to my old friend with a Serino de Ber- zarrah nose—Picripont: they would have gone direct to Dancy, and he could “have loaned them at 20 per per month. You got to hand it fo that old Tar-heel tinancier for sav- jing $1.15 out of every dollar the gov- ernment paid Inm. He stood for them calling him | “Tightwaddo,” “Baron de Miser,” and the “new pat- ent squeezer of money.” but he knew the way colored statesmen were fil- ing applications for his job that sorte, day he would have to live on the salary of yesterday while expect- ing the salary of tomorrow, and so he just went to bank with every- thing except enough to buy wind puddin’ and air sauce. Oh, you flour- ishing ex-official Dancy! 3 FALLS CHURCH NOTES. WE SE AE AE ae ee eae ae ete ee oe 9p Chiistmas season here has been one filled with a spirit of real good cheer and a glad time. For several weeks preceding December 25, when the public school closed for a two [iweeks’ vacation, both children and grown-ups were making themselves More and more busy in the prepara tions for the oncoming Xmas enter- tainments, ‘services and dinners. ‘The carly Christmas _ morning prayer meeting was a spiritual one and nicely attended despite the cold and snow The Christmas tree and “service rendered by the children at the Second Baptist Church was moved up from Christmas night to December 27, while the song service by the chotr was moved up from December 27 to Sunday night, the 20th. Both oc- casions were entertainments of pleas- ing effect. The solos, duets, choruses, recitations and responses, as well as the instrumental accompaniments of organ and violin, were well rendered on both occasions. .° On Monday night, December 30. Galloway. Chapel” M. E. Sunday School had their Christmas tree en- tertainment. ‘There was a full attend- ance of the villagers and they man fested a keen appreciation for-the so- los, duets, and choruses, toether with the story of the Christ-child, rendered bythe children. The tree was beautifully trimmed and filled with presents. We were indeed pleased to meet our little friend, Master Alphonso Niel, who came down from Hendon, Vo.,'to spend the Xmav holidays with parents, Mr. and Mrs, Edward Niel, Miss Pearl Geneva Taylor and Miss Edna Stone, both students of Manas- sas Industrial Institute, came home for the Xmas holidays. Mr. Elijah Dixon, though still in Led, is slightly improved at last hear- ing’ from. him. We gladly welcome Mrs. Cora Strother out again after an illness of several weeks. Trust her recovery is complete. ‘ Mrs, Lillian Marshall is now at her Upton home, where she is recovering slowly from the operation performed while in_Freedmen’s Hospital just prior to Christmas She has the deep- est interest of her many friends for a complete recorery., s The oyster supper_at the rEsidence of Rev. Powell on Friday night pre- celing-Xmas was well attended. Mr. Notie Jones, Mf Floyd Evans and Mr. Olis Wade held up the church trustees’ and deacons’ portion of the affair, while the following lafies. Miss Nettie Lee and Mrs Laura Farmer, represented the Ladies’ Aid side. An enjoyable evening was had. The pro- ceeds were for the benelit of the Trus- tees’ Fund. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Nicker> were up from West End to attend the Friday night (Dec. 27) Christmas en- tertainment at the Second Baptist Church. Our young friend, Mr. Harry Goins, is slowly improving from a recent ill? ness, 7 And now, a happy New Year to alll May.the year nineteen thirteen be one filled with much in society, school and church efforts, all the glory of God, and peace, happiness and prosperity attend the path of each individual. Gray & Gray’s Health Hints—No, 1. Take no chances with your health. Care and skill characterizes eve prescription compounded at Gray's Pharmacy. d-2t-tt |. BRODT'S HATS. The greatest hat st -es in the city. Only places where the up-to- date hats are made fresh from the block. Give your friend a Brodt hat for Christmas. Brodt’s stores, 419 |Eleventh Street Northwest, and, 503 Nirth Street Northwest. Negro Academy. | The sixteenth annual meeting of the American Negro Academy, will | be held at the ¥. 3f. C A. building, | Monday, December 3o. Many import- fant questions will be discussed. The Week in Society Your doctor wants your prescriptions filled right. He wants results. Neither you nor the doctor will be disappointed if your prescriptions are filled at the drug store of Board & McGuire, 1912½ 14th St., and 9th and You Sts. N. W. They employ four graduates in pharmacy, skilled and experienced, and you get the results in perfect service. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Johnson, of Yorktown, N. J., who spent Xmas holiday in Virginia, will visit friends in this city and Baltimore, Md. Mrs. J. F. Wilkerson, accompanied by her son and daughter, Miss Rosetta, and Mr. John F. Wilkerson, spent the week in Jersey City, N. J., guest of Mrs. George E. Cannon. Mr. Jackson of Providence, R. I., was a visitor in this city last week. During his stay he attended the banquet held by the Robert T. Freemen Dental Society of the District of Columbia. Mr. H. W. Edwards, of Pittsburgh, Pa., spent the week in this city, guest of Prof. Ernest, Peace, of No. 1615 10th Street northwest. Mr. Judson W. Lyons, former register of the Treasury, is spending the holidays here. Attorney Thomas L. Jones, left Tuesday for a visit to New York and Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Sarah Terrell, who has been visiting Mr. Terrell's relatives here, returned to her home in Merchantville, N. J., after a pleasant stay. Mr. E. Clayton is visiting in Reading, Pa. Mr. R. J. Young, student of Howard University, is spending the week with his parents in Reading, Pa. Mr. George Colburn left the city for Wilmington, Del., where he will spend New Year's Day with his relatives. Dr. John W. Morse, at 1904 L Street Northwest, is now prepared to serve hot soda. Miss Edith Gibson, of Troy, New York, will be in the city for New Year's Day. Mrs. Clara Daniels, of Wildwood, N. J., will be the guest of her mother in this city during this week. Miss Ida Lee, who has been visiting in Bryn Mawr, Pa., is in the city. Mrs. Julia Myers of this city passed through Savannah, Ga., en route to Jacksonville, Fla., where she will spend the winter. Mrs. Wm. Chambers, of Pennsylvania, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mrs. McKenney, of P. Street Northwest, left the city Saturday night for Philadelphia, Pa., to spend a week with her daughter, Mrs. Fendall. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Page, of Pittsburgh, Pa., have as their guest for the holidays Miss Blanche George, of this city. Miss Jennie Jones, daughter of Mrs. A. I. Killows of this city, is visiting friends in Pittsburgh, Pa. Misses Fairfax and Sara Brown, popular school teachers of this city, were visitors in Pittsburgh, Pa., for the Christmas holidays. Miss Marguerite Diggs is visiting her parents in Leesburg, Va. Miss Helen Butler left the city Saturday for her home in Leesburg, Va. Among the out-of-town guests who attended the Upper Classmen's dance on Friday night, December 27, was Miss Marguerite Butler, of Boston, Mass. Mr. Frank L. Forbes is spending two weeks in Philadelphia, Pa. Misses Mamie and Etta Williamson are spending the Christmastide with friends in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Carrie Syfax Watson, of this city, is the guest of the Misses Howard, of 1513 Christian Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Florence M. Harper, a student of Armstrong Manual Training School, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harper, of Cumberland, Md. Miss Edna Rhodes, a student of Howard University, is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Rhodes, of Cumberland, Md. Mrs. J. Wellesey Bailey, of Germantown, Pa., delivered a lecture on "The Negro in Mexico" at the New Y. M. C. A. in this city. The lecture was interesting as well as instructive, and contained authentic briefs from different parts of the world. Misses Elizabeth Clark, Dr. Trapp and Miss Curtis of this city were among the guests who attended the Twentieth Century Whist Club's party on Xmas night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. T. Watkins, of Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Wendell Tucker is spending the holidays in Savannah, Ga., with his relatives. Mr. Shaw passed through Savannah, Ga., en route to his home in Brunswick, Ga., to spend the week with his parents. Miss Amabel I. Monroe, who is attending Howard University here, is visiting her father in Savannah, Ga. Dr. W. L. Smith, 4th and Elm Street Northwest, is the only druggiest in Le Droit Park where you may obtain all kinds of toilet articles for the holidays. If you don't see what you want, ask for it. 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." Mr. Geo. S. Contee and wife, of Denver, Col., are in the city, the guests of their mother, Mrs. Laura Contee, and sister, Miss Ollie. Mr. and Mrs. Contee have been given a great deal of social attention. Several teas and dinners have been tendered them. Quite a number of their old friends and citizens called to see them last Sunday. Madame G. W. Quarles, of Germantown, Pa., entertained at tea in her home, West Penn Street, in honor of Miss Addie V. Posey, of this city, who is spending her holidays there. Dr. John W. Morse has just put in a fine stock of new Christmas and holiday toilet articles. Call and see them. 1904 L Street Northwest. Miss Erma Welch, daughter of the late Rev. Welch, of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, was quietly married in her home, on Wednesday, December 25, to Mr. Claude Amos, both of this city. Dr. W. C. Thompson of this city will preach Sunday, January 5, at John Wesley Church in Charlottesville, Va. Mrs. Brown of this city is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. S. Clutlaw, in Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. Jas. T. Davis and Miss Nannie L. Davis, of Brooklyn, N. Y., are guests of their brother and sister Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Walker, of 1811 Eighth Street Northwest. Miss Isabelle Grinnage is visiting her mother, Mrs. Grinnage, of Arctic Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. Dr. J. E. Moorland, of this city, and R. P. Hamlin, of Louisville, Ky., international secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, will visit Kansas City, Mo., during the month of January. Miss Alberta R. Ray will spend the winter in Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Adeline Merrill, of Cranberry, N. J., and Mr. Frank Damsail, of this city, were married Tuesday, December 17, 1912, in New London, Conn. Miss Matilda R. Le Brandt, who has been teaching in Baltimore, Md., is at home with her mother and father in Third Street, Southwest, spending the holidays. She will return to Baltimore next Monday. Mr. Ralph E. Langston is in the city the guest of his mother, Mrs. J. M. Langston. Bishop Alexander Welts arrived in the city this week, the guest of Mrs. Smith. Dr. J. W. Morse is spending the holiday at 1904 L Street Northwest. Don't fail to carry your subscriptions to Smith's drug store, 4th and Elm Streets Northwest. Miss Ethel Johnson Price is the guest of her mother, at 1808 New Jersey Avenue Northwest. The second and third Normal Class of the National Training School gave a reception Wednesday evening. Dr. Minnie Crews and several other ladies received at Murray's Wednesday from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. Quite a number called. Dr. Smith. Fourth and Elm Streets Northwest, Le Droit Park, will welcome his patrons to inspect his new line of goods for 1013 January 4. Dr. Smith. Fourth and Elm Streets Northwest, extends to his many patrons a happy New Year January 4. Dr. John W. Morse, 1904 L Street Northwest, wishes you a happy and prosperous New Year January 4. If you want first-class articles and fresh drugs, go to Dr. Morse, 1904 L Street Northwest, January 4. Mrs. Lula Mitchell was taken suddenly ill a few days ago by the bursting of a blood vessel. She was carried to the hospital. She is improving. The Triangle Printing Co. has just installed a new call or phone for estimating job printing. W. Alvin Chase, Jr., manager. Mrs. Rose gave a very delightful reception at her home on Twenty-first Street last Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis entertained their friends New Year Eve night. Miss Jessie C. Mason of Wyle Street Northeast had quite a number of callers Wednesday evening. Mrs. Pet Henderson, wife of Dr. Henderson, of New York City, spent the holidays with her mother and sisters, Mrs. Laura V. Carter and Miss Ollie Carter. Miss Annie Steel, who returned from New York City, where she has been visiting her mother, left for her home in Virginia, Thursday evening. She was the guest of the paragraphic editor of The Bee at the Howard New Year's night. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, of 319 U Street Northwest, kindly remembered them substantially on Xmas Eve. The donation was presented by Mrs. J. T. Williams, of 324 U Street Northwest. Miss Alice M. Carroll left on Monday for Princess Ann Academy, Maryland, after spending Xmas at home. Mrs. J. M. Brown, of 1345 Girad Street, Brookland, D. C., entertained at luncheon Friday, December 27, 1 Misses Alice M. and Emin E. Carr Miss Davis, Miss Moore and Mr. T. lor. Miss L. May Thomas spent Xn with her parents at their coun home, Wirhle, Va. The members of the newly organized club of this city, known as Soap Box Club, gave its first priv hop New Year's Eve at the reside of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Newn Those present were Mr. and M Garfield Harris, Mr. and Mrs. C Younger, Mr. and Mrs. Talbert Dowling, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thoson, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Davis, Mr. Mrs. Harry Cole, Mr. and Mrs. drew Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Vton, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coates, Noble Burks and Miss Julia Hickn Mr. Stephen Plummer and M Brown, of Milsdale, Pa., Mr. C Francis and Miss Nannie Harris Mr. Vernon Gallert and lady. Supper was served by member; the club. Mr. Samuel G. Thompson, form of this city, but now practicing law Detroit, Michigan, is in the city sping the holidays with his mother sister. Mr. Thompson is always gil the glad hand by his numerous friie whenever he pays his home a visit Their 25th Anniversary. One of the most brilliant social events that has taken place this season was the 25th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Self, of 1921 17th Street Northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Self are two genial and entertaining host and hostess. Mrs. Self was gorgeously dressed in a beautiful gown. The reception was held from 8 to 10:30 o'clock P. M., and a large number of well known society people attended. The presents were costly and beautiful. Many guests were from Philadelphia, Pa., Alexandria, Va., and Front Royal. MISS WRIGHT MARRIED. Miss Edith E. Wright, daughter of Mr. Thomas H. Wright, was married to Dr. Park Tancil, the well known and popular dentist, Christmas night at the residence of her father, 916 Twentieth Street Northwest. Owing to the recent deaths in the family only immediate friends and relatives were present. Rev. Dr. Rivers officiated. A Stag Party. Baltimore, Md., December 20 A stag party was given last Saturday evening by Mr. W. M. White at his residence. 521 Mosher Street, Baltimore, Md. Quite a number of guests were present and a very sumptuous repast was served. Those present were: Messrs. Walter Singleton, Wm. Spilliards, Garnet Wilkinson, U. J. Daniels, Kyle Webster, Geo. W. Scott, of Washington, D. C., Messrs. Henry Jenkins, Logan Jenkins, John W. Young, Wm. Douglass, W. M. Lee, Albert Peck, Ford Dahney, J. Cross, M. Pollard, Emanuel Chambers, John W. Rich and Clarence Lowrey, of Baltimore, Md. ALEXANDRIA NEWS. Roberts Clapel M E. Sunday School, under the able direction of Mr F. H. M. Murray, presented "Hail to Santa Claus," an elaborate Christmas cantata, in a most pleasing manner to a large and appreciative audience on Monday evening. The work of the choruses bespoke great preparation, on the part of Mr. P. H. Lumpkins and Miss Laura M. Dorsey, the Sunday School pianist. The costumes, which were, for the most part, made by Miss Martha E. Buckner and Mrs. F. H. M. Murray, added much to the credit of the performance. The singing was accompanied by Mr. Samuel H. Webb, violinist of Washington, D. C., and Dr. Raymond H. Murray, manager of the Hiawatha Theater, Washington, D. C. Doctor Murray, who in his boyhood days used to be the Sunday School cornetist, proved to the satisfaction of his audience that he could really "cum back." Miss Dorsey presided at the piano. The superintendent, Mr. Charles A. Robinson, was much pleased with the success achieved by his co-workers and was unstinted in his praise. The funeral of Mr. Frederic Tibbs, who died on Saturday of last week, was buried from the Wheatley Chapel on Tuesday. Owing to the illness of his son the family feared having the services at the home of the deceased. Mr. Tibbs was one of the most highly respected citizens and had been in the employ of the Southern Railway, at which place he was employed at the time of his death. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Susan Tibbs, a daughter, Miss Mary Tibbs, two sons, Fred and Benjamin Tibbs, and a daughter, Mrs. George Washington, of Pittsburgh, Pa. The entertainment at Odd Fellows' Hall on Friday, under the auspices of the Colored School Improvement League, was a phenomenal success. The Columbian Orchestra, under direction of Mr. Sylvester Thomas, accompanied the singing, which was really angelic. The affair was gotten up principally through the efforts of the principal, Mr. John F. Parker, Lawyer Thomas M. Watson, Edward P. Dixon, Jr.; the president of the league, Miss Laura M. Dorsey, R. H. Brooks; and each seemed feel with pardonable pride, that tl efforts had not been in vain. Mr. Samuel W. Madden has b visiting in the Blue Ridge Mount: in the holidays. Mrs. Mary L. Robinson and dau- ter, Leola Lillian, have been spen- ting the holidays in South Orai N. J., with Mrs. Robinson's brot The dance on Monday evening the residence of Mrs. Maggie Dar Evans was well attended. Misses J Lyles and Alma Pinn, the origina- of the affair, saw to it that everyb was happy. Whitfield H. Bro Alexandria's premier dance pia- presided at the piano and deliv- in in a most excellent and pleasing n ner a repertory of all the latest many standard numbers. Friday evening, of Mr. L. Griffattened. Many are present and myself. Music Whitfield H. Club of Fair-ome very com-ing the short peon. Mr. Wm. president, de- or the energetic work and for the tributed the ef-ects ms many friends were so kind to trust to his care. Through the efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Silence their committee were able to furnish dinners for eleven unfortunate but deserving families. They were nice baskets, each filled with potatoes, cabbage, apples, oranges, candies, nuts, celery and meats. Rev. Dr. E. S. Williams, D. D., district suenintendent of the Washington Conference, Mrs. Mary J. Williams and Rev. W. S. Jackson, pastor of Simpson M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., were out here Tuesday, December 24, 1912. Rev. E. S. Williams has the honor of organizing a great number of Methodist Episcopal Churches since being on the Washington District. He organized the churches at Fairmount Heights, Md., and Deanwood, D. C. Those charges have built two beautiful churches. They both are in a flourishing condition. Six other congregations have been organized by Dr. Williams during the past few years. A detailed statement of the same will appear later. James A. Armstrong is attending the Business High School of Washington, D. C. He is boarding at 2117 M Street Northwest with Mr. and Mrs. Simmes and getting along nicely. Hon. Clarence M. Roberts, the State's attorney for Prince George County, Maryland, was elected as a Democrat, but when it becomes his duty to enforce the law he knows no party and is governed by justice and equity. Men of high honor like Mr Clarence M. Roberts deserve the confidence of all the people, Republicans as well as Democrats, and should be kept in office. The Prince George's County School Commission, composed of Messrs. O. B. Zantzinger, Hyattsville, R. Hugh Perrie, Westwood, Virgil M. Lawrence, Woodville, and Frederick Lasser, Upper Marlboro, has ordered that the school property of the Huntsville school be turned over to the Trustees of the Fairmount Heights School. The idea being to consolidate and form large schools where possible and wise instead of maintaining many small inefficient schools. This method is being practiced throughout the county among the white schools. The commission has been quite liberal with the colored schools in the county and they desire to strengthen and build up all the schools. Mr. Frederick Sasser deserves great credit for the special attention given the weaker schools of the county. Miss Hattie De Ville, a graduate from the M Street High School, also a graduate from the Washington Normal School No. 2, has been recommended by the board of trustees of the Fairmount Heights School for a position as assistant in said school. The board of trustees is composed of Meers. Robert S. Nichols, James F. Armstrong and W. S. Crouse. Miss DeVille came to us highly recommended by Dr. M. W. Clair, Ph.D. pastor of Asbury M. E. Church Hon. R. N. Ryon, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Prince George's County. Dr. Alphonso Harris, and by many other distinguished persons. With the proper assistance of the principal of the school, as will be given, Miss DeVille will make good. Mrs C. L. 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The Scullin-Gallagher Steel Foundry, of St. Louis, Mo., one of the largest steel plants in the world, employs several thousand colored men in its shops. Negroes are to be found working in all but three of its departments and lack of experience and training is the sole The wages paid Negroes run from $1.75 to $6.00 per day. Not a few Negroes have learned the trade in this foundry and are now foremen of their departments. Sam Powell, of Paw Creek, N. C., sold in the Charlotte market early in December 13 bales of cotton for which he received $1.0-6. He disposed of 400 bushels of cotton seed of $500. Eight bales sold at 18 cents a pound and five bales at 17 cents a pound. He averaged a hale to the acre. Mr. Powell is in every way an up-to-date farmer. He subscribes for and reads several papers, raises each year his own food supplies and sells enough to pay his expenses. Dearfield, Col., is the scene of a Negro colony in the West. It is located west of the Missouri River and north of the Mason and Dixon Line, 70 miles northeast of Denver. Twenty-six colored families are settled on government land. Most of them have already been here long enough to own the soil they till. They have 6,000 acres under their control. In 1911 they had but two habitable houses. Now they have fourteen. In the same year there were but 200 acres fenced; now there are 3,000. In 1911 they had 150 acres broken and in cultivation; this year 500 acres are under cultivation. The land is especially adapted to the cultivation of beets. The settlement is crying for tradesmen. They are especially in need of blacksmiths, cobblers and saddle makers. Mr. Jesse Washington, a wholesale and retail grocer of Marlin, Texas, is an example of the up-to-date. Negro business man. Mr. Washington was former- C. B. HORNER Coupon Present this coupon to driver or office and a 5 per cent discount on your milk if at retail prices "HORNER'S DAIRY 8th and M St. N. W. north 436. meralda CHOP HOUSE. and Retail. Meals at all Hours. MURRAY, ly a school teacher, but happening one day to read an article of Dr. Booker T. Washington's advising the Negro to branch out, he quit the school room and embarked in business. He now operates a wholesale and retail grocery store at Marlin. He carries regularly a $10,000 stock. When he began business in Marlin, there was only one Negro business in the town and this was failing because the proprietor was unable to buy so as to successfully compete with the white businesses of the town. He has been able to buy goods in large enough quantities to successfully meet competition. He has also been able to sell to the colored businesses so that they can also meet competition. This has been helpful in building up colored businesses in Marlin. There are thirteen prosperous Negro businesses in this small town. Mr. Washington is assisted in his business by two of his sons, one of whom is a graduate of the Bryant & Stratton Business College of Chicago, and the other has just graduated from an embalming school in that city. Mr. Washington's success in Marlin is an indication of what can be done in almost any small town in the South and is an inspiration to young men to engage in business. RENOUNCES HIS RACE. Tells Virginia Court He Prefers to Live With Negroes—His Sanity is Questioned. Richmond Jurist to Have Lunacy Commission Examine Westerner—"This is Not the Country in Which Such Things May Be Admitted," He Tells Prisoner, Who Sent Threatening Letters. \ Special dispatch from Richmond, Va., to the Washington Post says: Virginia justice apparently takes a much more charitable view of the mingling of the races than Illinois does. Chicago displayed an eagerness to "draw and quarter," or to "burn in oil" Jack Johnson, the Negro pugilist, for presuming to associate with white women. Richmand, the heart of the South, has decided that a white man who associates with Negroes from choice must be crazy. The subject, of the Virginia tapital's solicitude is Marcus Lamkin, who came here recently from Fon du Lac, Wis. Clad in a shabby blue serge suit, his sandy hair and beard showing sad need of a barber's care. Lamkin was arraigned before Justice Clutchfield, in the police court, charg- Washington, D. C. National Religious Training Schoo THE STATE HOTEL Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. House & Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts., N. W of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that will satisfy you. HOWARD Located in the Capital of the I Campus of over twenty acres. M equipment. New Carnegie Library Faculty of one hundred. 1,409 stud. States and eight other countries. support. THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING THE TEACHERS COLLEGE. THE COMMERCIAL SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS COURSES IN MUSIC in the Capital of the Nation. Advantage over twenty acres. Modern scientific New Carnegie Library Building. New hundred. 1,409 students last year in eight other countries. Unusual oppor AGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ENGNEERING COURSES COLLEGE. THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIANCE MUSIC PROFESSION 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. 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. COURSES IN MUSIC PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. Knights Of A National Negro Secret Society Cha- by Congress and Approved by the It proposes to uplift the race a lines, to be the largest association of lish subordinate lodges in every village holding a convention in Washington, D. Inauguration. It pays sick benefits ranging from $100 to $1,000 at death. Joining fee f Good organizers wanted everywh $100 per month salary. For further information, address F St., N. W., Washington, D. C. L. Bruce Evans, G. S. L. G., Miss Henry MENTS Of MALLE Migro Secret Society Chartered Under the and Approved by the President of the to uplift the race along moral, soo the largest association of its kind in the w the lodges in every village, hamlet and to ention in Washington, D. C., during the benefits ranging from $2.50 to $6.00 per past death. Joining fee from $2.50 to $5.25 nizers wanted everywhere, and are as salary. For information, address Supreme Lodge Washington, D C. L. Melendez King, G. S. L. G., Miss Henrietta Vinton Davi MEDICAL, PHARMACEUTIC, AND DENTAL COLLEGES. Knights Of Malachites 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 establish 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, G. S. G., Dr. W. Bruce Evans, G. S. L. G., Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, G. L. ed with sending threatening letters to Governor Mann, Chief of Police Werner, High Constable Wyatt, and the judge himself. The jurist who presided over the destinies of the Richmond police court is famed for his manner of applying the laws of Virginia to cases involving the habits and customs of the Negro. Knows a Square Deal. "A nigger is a nigger," the justice frequently has announced from the bench, "and you have to deal with him as such. He knows nothing about your Blackstone of your minors' institutes. But he, does know when he is getting a square deal in court, and that is what I have always tried to give him. "I'll give a good nigger the best of it every time, but when one of these vicious Sugar Bottom niggers comes before me—well, he's got to have a pretty good alibi to get off with anything less than 60 days." Mr. Lamkin, of the Fon dd Lac, therefore, had a good chance to get a "square deal" from the eccentric judge until it was brought out in the testimony that the sojourner from Wisconsin hobnobbed with and lives among the dusky inhabitants of Jackson ward. "How about this thing, Mr. Prisoner?" sharply asked the court. raining of young men and women in successful operation. Training. This department is of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Deaconesses, and for Home and & Herr and Eye Sts., N T ABOUT YOUR Furniture Lee and Herrmann is the place house of its kind in the city he satisfied. This is I satisfy you. UNIVERSITY M. M., D. D., President. Nation. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general Building. New Science Hall. Ents last year from thirty-seven Unusual opportunities for self- SCIENCES With CLASSICAL, MEERING COURSES. THE ACADEMY. NAL COLLEGE. AND APPLIED SCIENCES. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Malachites Ordered Under the Laws as Enacted President of the United States. long moral, social and industrial arts kind in the world, and to establish, hamlet and town, however small, D. C., during the coming Presidential $2.50 to $6.00 per week, and from $2.50 to $5.25. ere, and are assured from $50 to Supreme Lodge of Malachites, 600 Melendez King, G. S. G., Dr. W.etta Vinton Davis, G. L. "Why, I prefer to live with Negroes instead of white persons, your honor," was the reply of the Wisconsin man, who appeared to feel a pride in his utterance. "What's that?" fairly shouted the court. "I mean here in the South," the prisoner hastened to add. Then he continued to explain: "I know this is odd, but I can't help it. Life among your Negroes is really more to my liking." Believes Prisoner Insane. "You must be insane," retorted the justice. "Don't you know you are in a bad country to talk like that? It simply won't do in this city, sir." Then Justice Crutchfield leaned over and conversed for a moment with Edgar B. White, his clerk. Turning to the prisoner again, he said: "Your case is most perplexing. I think I shall have a commission of lunacy held upon you. It is not because of the threatening letters you are accused of having sent, but because of the abnormal tendencies you have shown in your preference for niggers over white folks. No sane man could have such prejudices." Lamkin was hustled off to the city jail, to be held until December 28, pending an examination by alienists. DURHAM, N. C., Durha rmann N. W Beautiful Lounges Morris Chairs Writing Desks Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room suite, call after you have been elsewhere He was subjected to first tests today, but others will follow before the physicians formulate their report to the court. Lamkin came here two months ago, and at once attracted attention by his peculiar habits. The letter to Gov. Mann, which led to the arrest of the Wisconsin man, contained a rambling account, of alleged trouble the writer had had with the Commonwealth Bank, of this city. The writer declared he had a balance on deposit in the institution, but could not get it out. An appeal was made to the governor to take up arms to the end that justice be done. Since he came to this city, Lamkin has worked as a carpenter, a draftsman, and a ditch digger. Governor Blease, of South Carolina, has been declared the enemy of the South. Jack Johnson has purchased a $35,000 house in the millionaire neighborhood in Chicago, as a gift to his white bride. The autocratic white people have protested. Louis P. Shoemaker has been indorsed for Commissioner of the District of Columbia by the Chatham Heights Citizens' Association. The inaugural question has been settled, and now the chairman will begin his work. was awarded to the wife by Judge Monroe, in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, Cal., December 20. The judge ordered the husband to mortgage his property and pay his wife. The charge against the husband was cruelty. Assistant Attorney General Wm. H. Lewis, in company with ex-Minister John Durham, of Philadelphia, are receiving a royal reception by the crown heads of Europe. Mr. Ralph E. Langston, of New York, would make an excellent successor of his brother-in-law, J. C. 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She was only sixteen stone and three-quarters, so that when she trod on a banana skin she subsided very gently. A polite shopkeeper came out to assist her to rise from a box of his best new laid eggs. "Oh. I do hope I have not broken them!" she cried. "Not at all, madam," said the polite one; "they are only bent"—London Globe. Time's Changes. "You," said she as she came down the stairs leisurely pulling on her gloves—"you used to say I was worth my weight in gold." "Well, what if I did?" he asked, looking at his watch for the third time in fifteen minutes. "And now you don't think I'm worth a wait of two minutes." J. H. Kennedy When we are children we brag about our parents. When we get to be young men and young women we brag about ourselves. When we become older we brag about our children. Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.—Fuller. Special Liquor Sale Every Saturday. THE BEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. 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So you see "worth its weight in gold" is not such exorbitant praise after all.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Wit of Philip of Macedon. Plutarch tells the following stories, good in their way, of Philip of Macedon: In passing sentence on two rogues he ordered one to leave Macedonia with all possible speed, and the other to try to catch him. No less astute was his query as to a strong position he wished to occupy, which was reported by the scouts to be almost impregnable. "Is there not," he asked, "even a pathway to it wide enough for an ass inden with gold?" Philip, too, according to Plutarch, is entitled to the fatherhood of an adage which retains its ancient fanie about "calling a spade a spade." Another story tells how Philip removed a judge, because he discovered that the man's hair and beard were dived. "I could not believe," Plutarch reports the king as saying, "that one who was false in his hair could be honest in his judgments." Tennyson and Tobacco. Tennyson's devotion to his pipe is well known, but the following story of it will probably be fresh to most readers. A friend had driven him from Plymouth to visit an old lady who stood in no awe of the poet. The visitors were invited to remain for the night, but on Mr. Tennyson's stipulating that if he old he should be allowed to smoke in his bedroom the old lady bridled up. That she could not allow. Bedroom smoking was not only objectionable, but dangerous, and for no one would she relax her prohibition rule. Mr. Tennyson proving equally obdurate the hostess' own carriage was ordered out, and he was sent in it back to his hotel at Plymouth, whence, however, he returned the next morning to breakfast—From Mrs. Walford's Recollections. This Theory Is Now Doubted. The increase of temperature observed is about 1 degree F. for every fifteen yards of descent in the earth. 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Then he told one of his famous stories illustrative of the horrors of corpulence. "A fat man," he said, "could not help laughing one day at the ludicrous appearance of a very bow legged chap, one of those arch looking chaps, you know. "Though a total stranger to him, the fat man slapped the bow legged chap on the back and said: "By jingo, brother, you look as if you'd been riding a barrel." "The bow legged man smiled and poked his forefinger deep into the fat man's soft, loose stomach. "And you look as if you'd been swallowing one," he said."—Washington Star. A Town You Should Reach. The pleasant town of Get There lies far up a rocky hill, across the sands of Courage and above the swamp of Will. The path that leads to Get There leaves the pleasant thoroughfare and wanders off 'mild rocks that grind and briar vines that tear. And thousands pass along the road that leads to Nowhereville and grumble at the few who climb to Get There on the hill, and others start the thorny path and seek the town to gain, but falter at the swamp of Will and turn them back in palm. Oh, happy town of Get There, shining in the morning sun, you only show the toller how yet higher peaks are won! The truest recompense you give for self denying years is but the promise old, yet new, that conquers doubts and fears. For no one lives at Get There, but with heart and purpose set on better things, from peak to peak they climb up higher yet. — Rural New Yorker. He Favored Brevity. A bishop once rose to address the house of lords and began by saying he intended to divide his speech into twelve heads. Lord Durham thereupon got up and begged leave to interpose for a few minutes to tell the house an anecdote. He was returning home, he said, a few nights before and passed St. Paul's cathedral just before midnight. 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This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration on the estate of Hattie C. Johnson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 23rd day of December, A. D. 1913; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 23rd day of December, 1912. of December, 1912. EUSTIS B. JOHNSON, 1916 13th St. N. E. Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. SHELBY J. DAVIDSON, CHAS. S. HILL. Attorneys. JAMES F. BUNDY, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Col- umbia, holding Probate.Court. No. 19488, Administration Docket. Estate of Frederick Johnson, De- signed. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Mildred Johnson, it is ordered this 30th day of December, A.D. 1912, that Oscar Hall and John Alexander and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Monday, the 10th day of February, A.D. 1913, at 10 o'clock A.M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and The Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned—the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. JOB BARNARD, Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. JAMES F BUNDY, Attorney. CHARLES H. HEMANS, SOLICITOR. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in re. Joseph Edward Jones, Change of Name to James Daniel Sneed, Equity No. 31479. Notice is hereby given that on the twelfth day of December, 1912, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Joseph Edward Jones praying a decree changing his name to James Daniel Sneed for reasons set forth in said petition. CHARLES II. HEMANS, Solicitor. WEST WASHINGTON. Watch Meeting Among the Churches. The congregations of the First Baptist Church, Rev. Edgar E. Ricks, pastor, Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Rev. U. S. Leeper, pastor, Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Rev. Daniel W. Hays, pastor, Jerusalem Baptist Church, Rev. W. Harris, pastor, and Alexander Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. Carroll, pastor, each conducted the regular watch meeting service with large attendance and very solemn and interesting exercises. The choirs of each rendered special music for the occasion. The Christian Endeavor choirs of the Third Baptist Church rendered an evening of songs at the First Baptist Church Sunday under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor of the said church, George A. Parker, president. The selections were composed of solos, duets, choruses and several recitations, which was very creditable and pleasing to those present. Mr. Jas. II. Coleman is the director of the chorus, which promises to be one of the best choirs in the city. The choir of Mt. Zion M. E. Church was the guest of the pastor, Rev. and Mrs. Daniel W. Hays, on Friday evening, where a quiet social hour was enjoyed. The exercises were recitations, songs and instrumental music, etc., at the conclusion of which Mrs. Hays, the wife of the pastor, invited those present into the dining room, where abounded the compliments of the season, which were delightfully enjoyed. Mr. James L. Turner, who was present, responded to the excellent repast and congratulated the choir upon their musical selections during the regular church services. Rev. Joseph N. Wheeler, the District Superintendent, occupied the pulpit at Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Sunday morning and delivered a logical and eloquent sermon to a large number of his friends and associates. Rev. Wheeler was a product of Mt. Zion and his excellent discourse was greatly enjoyed. Although a young man in the ministry, he takes high ground among his brothers in the conference and he has a great future awaiting him in the cause for which he seems to be so energetic. Personal. Miss Martha Henderson, teacher in Baltimore City, is spending the holidays at home. Miss Ella Hays, public school teacher of Baltimore. Md., is at home to her friends, 2008 O Street. Rev. E. W. S. Williams, District Superintendent of M. E. Church, occupied the pulpit at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street Northwest, New Year's night and delivered a very excellent sermon to an overflowing congregation. Rev. D. W. Hays has recovered from his recent illness and is again able to attend to his pastoral duties. Twenty-second Annual Tukegee Nepro Conference. Tuskegee, Alabama, December 31, 1912—"Agricultural Credit" and "Finances of the Negro Public School" will be the two principal topics of discussion at the Twenty-second Annual Negro Farmers' Conference to be held at the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, on Wednesday and Thursday, January 22 and 23. The first day's conference will be given over to the Negro farmers. As stated in the program, the subject for discussion is, "How to Secure Cheaper Money for Running the Farm." This puts the problem of agricultural credit in terms that the Negro farmer understands and is interested in. Representative Negro farmers from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas will describe the present condition of the Negro farmer in the states from which they come and the present methods of obtaining loans, and rates of interest upon their yearly rates of interest and so forth. Individual farmers will tell hoy they have succeeded in reducing the principal loans. R. L. Smith, of Waco, Texas, who is the head of a Negro Farmers' Cooperative Association in that state, which has established a bank, will discuss the subject of co-operative credit and the success of the Texas farmers in cutting down the item of interest in the farmer's annual budget. Charles Banks, cashier of the Bank of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, which supplies a large share of the funds necessary to conduct the agricultural operations of the farming community of which the little Negro town of Mound Bayou is the center, will discuss the question from the point of view of the man who makes the loans. One of the features of the day's proceedings will be the exhibits showing some of the results of the demonstration farming work being done in the several counties adjoining Tuskegee Institute, where the demonstration method of teaching farmers has been in operation. The reports of the demonstration agents will be followed by a distribution of prizes to the corn clubs organized and conducted in these counties. The second day's session of the conference is the meeting of teachers, principals, school trustees and others actively interested in school work. The subject for discussion as stated by the program committee is "How to Secure More Money for the Public Schools." Teachers and principals of schools in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia will describe the present condition of the schools in their home communities and the various means employed by the county school teachers to secure the interest of white planters, county school superintendents, and others, in meeting the needs of the Negro schools. They will also report upon the extent to which the Negro farmers are taxing themselves in order to improve the school building and lengthen the school term in different local communities. It is expected that representatives of the Anna T. Jeanes Fund, for the improvement of Negro rural schools, and also that the new State Supervisor of Negro public schools in Alabama will speak at this conference session. J..D. O'CONNOR Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars 1500 Seventh Street N. W. Washington, D. C. Phone Main 228 N. T. REDMAN Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Poultry, Pro- visions, Imported and Domestic Groceries. ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY 916 LOUISIANA AVENUE, N. W. SPECIALS Best Tub Butter, 35c lb. Best Coffee, Roasted on Premises, 25 cents. Eggs, no Guarantee, 25 cents. Best New Minex Nuts, 12½c. per pound. Fresh, Pure Candy, 10 cents per pound. Studio. The Clio Studio, 135 West 136th Street, between Lenox and Seventh Avenues, New York. Most elegant and comfortable place in Greater New York. Permanent or visiting guests. References. Mrs. Annie C. Williams, Manager. d-21-4t Hia Company. The Sultor-Then I'm all right, for I've been keeping company with your daughter for over two years. He means well. "Maybe so, maybe so, but I fired him because he'd too blamed willing to let it go at that."—Detroit Free Press. A man should be upright, not be kept upright.—Marcus Aurelius. Hundreds Witness Tragedy In New York and Women Grow Hysterica at Fearful Sight. Major John Conrad Mallery, U. S. retired, a member of New York Philadelphia, Newport and Alken's most exclusive set, leaped to death from a room in his suite on the tenth floor of the Manhattan hotel in New York city. The suicide was most dramatic. At least a hundred persons in the street saw the leap, and many shouted to the aged man to go back as they saw him pulse himself on the window sill. His body struck the sidewalk with a terrific crash, landing directly in front of a young girl on her way to work. She screamed with horror and fainted, falling beside the body. Major Mallery's body crashed head first on the sidewalk, and the sight was so fearful that several women became hystrical. The suicide occurred during the rush hours when thousands were pouring from subway exist and the Grand Central station. In a few minutes a crowd of several thousand gathered, blocking all street car traffic in the neighborhood. The body, clad only in pink silk pajamas, lay on the sidewalk, surrounded by a dense crowd, until the reserves arrived and cleared a space in front of the hotel. Major Mallery had been suffering from melancholia for a long time. He was in such a state of depression that his valet was under orders to watch him constantly. Mrs. Mallery was in the apartment when the suicide occurred. With her also was the valet and Garrick Mallery, a son. Major Mallery was sitting on the side of his bed, waiting for the valet to prepare his bath. The valet notified Major Mallery that the bath was ready and began arranging the major clothes. The major then went to the bathroom, sent the door and walked to the window. He opened it and, according to those who watched him from the street, climbed out on the broad window sill and stood for several second-gazing to the street. Either he did not hear the shouts of warning from the street crowds or paid no attention to them, for he suddenly threw up his hands and sprang into the air. The body turned over twice in its descent, one foot striking an iron-rail fringing an arcway at the side of the hotel. This turned the body over so that it struck on the head. The crash and the fenting girl, who topled over at the feet of the body, caused a panic among the crowds, and several women ran shrieking into the stores across the street. The cries brought other guests in the hotel to the windows and some of the hotel employees rushed to the street. Garrick Mallery later identified the body. Taft Sounds Note of Warning Taft Sounds Note of Warning. A note of warning to European powers which by indirect means continue to discriminate against American trade; a strong appeal to the congress to uplift the great foreign policies of America above mere questions of partisanship; a triumphant vindication of the diplomacy of the administration which is characterized as that of dollars vs. bullets;" a masterful pride in the enormous expansion of American trade as a result of the foreign policies of his administration, and an earnest appeal for joint action by congress and the executive to open new markets for American industries—these are the striking features of President Taft's fourth annual message to congress. The message is the first of a series of such communications which Mr Taft will make to congress in the early days of this session; the last of his term, and deals entirely with the foreign relations of the United States. A notable omission from the message is that of any discussion of the commercial treaty of 1832 with Russia, which will terminate on Dec. 31 through the denouncement of the convention last year. The president has let it be known that the state department is not seeking to negotiate another treaty with Russia, and that this will be left to the Wilson administration to accomplish. Beginning with the usual reference to the existing good relations with foreign powers, the president adds that these have been strengthened by "a greater insistence upon justice to American citizens, or interests, wherever it may have been denied, and a stronger emphasis of the need of mutuality in commercial and other relations." For the first time, says the president, the state department has obtained substantially the most favored nation treatment from all of the countries of the world. Therefore, he says that it is only natural that competitive countries should view with some concern the expansion of our commerce. Hence the warning "If in some instances, the measures taken by them to meet it are not entirely equitable, a remedy should be found." A. Wonderful Prodigy. The king of prodigies died on June 27, 1725, at the age of five, after having astonished the whole world. His story is the most remarkable in human annals and is attested by evidence which has satisfied all the learned inquirers who have written about him. The infant, Christian Melnnecken, was born of respectable parents in Lubeck, 1721. A few hours after his birth he began a conversation, at ten months there was scarcely a subject on which he could not express an opinion, and at a year and a month he had mastered both the Old and New Testaments. He was only two and a half when he was able to answer questions concerning anything in ancient and modern history, and he was also at this time an expert geographer. He spoke Latin and French and at the age of four was speaking in the French language at the court of Denmark. All this time he was being nursed by his mother. At the age of five it became necessary for him to be weaned, and in consequence of this change of diet he died, leaving psychologists an insoluble problem.—Westminster Gazette. Politician and Other Bibles. "You biblophiles talk about the breeches' Bible, the 'bug' Bible, the 'politician' Bible, the 'vinegar' Bible, and so on. What do those names mean?" "I'll tell you," the collector answered. "Take first the 'breeches' Bible. It so called because a typographical error in it causes the garments made by Adam and Eve out of fig leaves to be termed breeches instead of aprons. "In the 'vinegar' Bible of 1807 the word 'vineyard' is misprinted 'vinegar.' "The 'printers' Bible, 1702, makes the psalmist say, 'Printers have persecuted me without a cause.'" "The 'religious' Bible, which was printed in 1637, put 'religious' for 'rebellious' in the fourth chapter, seventeenth verse of Jeremiah—'Because she hath been religious, * * * saith the Lord.'" "The politician' Bible was published at Geneva in 1652. It makes the famous verse 'Blessed are the peacemakers' read 'Blessed are the place makers.'" A Radical Old Aristocrat. "The old French aristocracy dies with me," cried the Princess de Valmont on her deathbed. She was a bitter old soul, who, born of a long line of uncontaminated ancestors and married to a noble of equally superfine strain, had, through her husband's death in financial difficulties, to marry her five children to "abominable persons" of high character, but with the blight of trade or industry in their blood. Her last years were made mournful to her by this pitiful descent, and just before her grandlose last utterance, looking with a bitter smile at her children and grandchildren in tears round her deathbed, she broke silence in the following terrible reflection: "We have here," counting on her fingers, "representatives of carriage making, wholesale grocery, confectionery, coal mining and the stock exchanges, and all grafted on the old tree of the De Valmont." The Value of Knowledge. Mrs. Featherton had embroidered a gown for herself. Butterfiles were the design, and she had made them look so natural that—so Mr. Featherton said—one would think they were actually alive. But Mrs. Featherton's little son was more critical. He regarded the decorative insects long and earnestly, opened his lips to speak and then, with remarkable self control for one so young, closed them again without speaking. "Well, Frankle," said his mother at last, "tell me what you think of my butterfiles." "They are very nice, mother," replied he seriously, "but the next time you embroider butterfiles would you mind putting the antennae on the other end?"—New York Press. Osculation Conjugation Sam Slick once said that kisses were, like creation, made out of nothing and very good, and another American writer thus conjugated the verb "to kiss." "Buss," to kiss; rebus, to kiss again; pluribus, to kiss without regard to numbers; syllabus, to kiss the hands instead of the lips; blunderbus, to kiss the wrong person; erebus, to kiss in the dark; omnibus, to kiss every one in the room." Persiflage "Hello, Jones! I hear you were sick." "Yes; I was threatened with a fever, but the doctor succeeded in arresting it." "Ah! He arrested it for making threats. I suppose."—Exchange. Concentration The weakest living creature by concentrating his powers in a single object can accomplish something; the strongest by dispersing his over many may fall to accomplish anything.—Carlyla. Enough For Her Her Father-What are the young man's business,prospects? Daughter—I don't know that, pa. All I know is that he means business.— Boston Transcript. The Cure. Guest—Yes, my wife has been ill, but she is out again now. Hostess—What doctor did you have? Guest—No doctor at all. I bought her a new hat—London Opinion. NEW YORK CANDY KITCHEN 1506 7th St. N. W. CANDIES. FRESH CANDIES MADE DAI.Y. One pound, 15 cts; 2 lbs., 25 cts.; 1 lb., 10 cts.; 3 lbs., 25 cts. New Nuts, 1 lb. 15 cts. Candy, 10 cts. box; 6 boxes, 50 cts. Candy 15 cts. box, 4 boxes, 50 cts. DON'T MISS THE NUMBER 1506 7th St. N. W. JAMES F. OYSTER GET A FINE BOTTLE OF PERFUMERY THAT HOLDS ITS ODOR Cars to the Northeast Section and Suburbs pass the door. THE ASTORIA PHARMACY Third and G Streets Northwest. DRUGS AND PREPARATIONS ALWAYS FRESH. I have used your Pomade. It's the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes, of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's), manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. For sale by Nichols' Pharmacy, Corner 19th Street and Penn. Ave.; S. A. Richardson & Co., 7th and Q Sts., N. W.; Morse's Pharmacy, 19th and L Sts., N. W.; W. S. Richardson, 316 Four-and-a-Half St. S. W.; Daniel H. Smith, 28th and Dumbarton Ave., N. W.; J. F. Simpson, corner 7th St. Rhode Island Ave., and R St. N. W.; Singleton's Pharmacy, 20th and E Sts. N. W.; Market Pharmacy, corner 20th and K Sts. N. W.; John R. Major, 716 7th St. N. W; Ideal Pharmacy, 11th St. and N. Y. Ave., N. W.; R. A. Veitch, corner 20th and M Sts., N. W.; E. E. Cissell, 10th St. and N. Y. Ave.; W. P. Herbst, Penn. Ave. and 25th St. N. W.; Hutton & Hilton, 22d and L Sts., N. W.; R. W. Duffey, Penn. Ave. and 22d St. N. W.; Whiteside Pharmacy, 1921 Pa. Ave.; Board & McGuire, corner 9th and U Sts.; F. M. 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. HIRSH'S SHOE STORES Washington's Best and Most Upto-Date Shoe House. Phone Main 4471. 1026-1028 Seventh St. N. W. Washington, D. C. CHAS. H. JAVINS & SONS Dealers In -Fresh Fish, Oysters, Terrapin, Poultry, Game, Etc. Center Market, B Street Wing. Phone, Main 4480. Oyster House, 930 C St. N. W. GEORGE W. MURRAY DRUGGIST. The Most Reliable Druggist in the Southwest. For Holiday Toilets Murray's is the place to go. 201 D Street S. W. Mention The Bee. Justh's Old Stand. Justh's Old Stand. We have recently bought 240 pairs bran new pants and the way we mark them in plain figures should interest any poor man who wants something nice, as they are from the very best maker, who makes the best pants on the market. Hurry if you want a pair. One price. Justh's Old Stand, 619 D. If you want first-class job work call or phone for estimate. Triangle Printing Co., 1109 Eye Street Northwest. Wanted—Two girl collectors and advertising solicitors at The Bee office. Colored Detectives Wanted WANTED-Colored men, be a detective. Earn from $100 to $200 per month. Send reference and 50 cents for full particulars. Sidney P. Dones, 401 Central Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. Wanted—Apprentices 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. Wanted. Having twenty-five years' experience in, cutting and making, also tailoring generally, would like to correspond with one that would like to go into a Merchant Tailoring business in Washington, D. C., or Baltimore, Md. Experience unnecessary. Write E. T. Jones, 500 Raleigh St., Bluefield, W. Va. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Seven room dwelling. No. 110 Howard Avenue, Anacostia, D. C.; latrobe and open gate heat; front, side and back porches; large yard and garden; lot contains more than 11,000 feet of ground. Rent, $15.00 per month. R. L. Pendleton, 609 F St. N. W. Phone Main 1145. WANTED. WANTED: Agents, male or female, to sell our Hair-Dressing and Scalp and Hair Cleaner, in the City, of Washington. Can make big money. We furnish everything and credit you. Address Johnston & Sons Co., Wanted—Typewriter. Wanted—A competent lady typewriter and bookkeeper. Also two collectors. Write to Box T. Bee office. A suitable person can obtain a good position. Address Box T. Bee office M. J. COLLINS Wholesale and Retail Family Liquor Store 1435 H Street N. E. Washington, D. C. Phone Lincoln 2760. HOLIDAY WINES AND LIQUORS AT M. HENNESSY Restaurant, 216 Ninth Street N. W. It is the place to get best beers and whiskies. Fine lunch and dinner daily. When you are at the Center Market call on Mr. Hennessy. It is the place for first-class wines, liquors and cigars. Breakfast, lunch and dinner always read.