Washington Bee

VOL. XXXIII, NO 31 HISTORIESOFHEROES The Bee the Race's Defender—Chase the Greatest Opposer of Damnable Outrages Against the Race—Negro Cowardice Condemned. Editor The Bee: In my (personal) letter to you of December 9th, 1912, relative to certain questions pertaining to the injustices perpetrated against us, I said that your style of saying things at times through the columns of The Bee concerning the injustices perpetrated against us, is more in keeping with the history of the heroes who died at different periods of the world's civilization; is of greater importance to the question than anything I had read, etc. Now, sir, I would kindly beg permission to be permitted to publicly say through the columns of The Bee, this: The colored person or persons who do not agree with me—that Chase, of the Washington Bee, of Washington, D. C., is one of the greatest propagators of the just rights of the colored persons of the United States today—is a weakling of the weakest kind. Any "colored, person" who reads The Bee and then says that he is not electrofied by its editors, I must say that he is a "deficient" whom we should look upon with pity. In your editorial: "So Much For Buckingham," in The Bee for December 28, you advise that "the time has come for the Negro to speak out and express himself and act accordingly." No better avenue can be found by the "colored men of blood" to give vent to their outraged feelings on the damnable injustices and outrages perpetrated against us in this country than in keeping company with Chase and The Washington Bee. Thus I want to take advantage of this opportunity to say: After these many years of painful contact—both South and North—with our surroundings of oppressions, villifications and human assassinations, I have reached a most serious conclusion as to the dissatisfaction of the "white man" on our presence in the United States today. My Dear Mr. Chase: It is real tally to suppose how we are to compare Emma Goldman and her propagation of "anarchism?" with the real and actual deeds in human blood in the present and past forms of anarchism practiced and publicly propagated by a certain class of "white Americans" against the "colored citizens" of this country. The propagation of Emma Goldman and other anarchists in the United States, is a rather mild and tame affair when we stop and seriously consider the burnings at the stake and other forms of lynchings, and other vicious things done to discriminate the "colored population" of this supposed land of freedom? Yes, and done too, to discriminate a people who has so freely shed their blood in every war in which this country was engaged. Yes, Emma Goldman and her anarchism is mere child's play in comparison with the anarchism actually propagated and perpetrated against the "colored persons" of the United States today. It is a strange, but yet, the most undeniable truth that the present demands of "Christianity" is slavery in its most violent forms. It is as bitter and as cruel as the slavery of the past. Thus my opinion is that it is a failure And in order that its demands for the future be for a higher and nobler purpose, it will be necessary to completely change the present disorder of things. Not unless "Christianity" can prove to the coming generation of "colored persons" that "Christianity" is capable of and intended for a better and higher purpose than what the past and present condition conveys to our conscience, I do not hesitate to predict that the "colored persons" will repudiate and completely obliterate every "stick" of it from their conscience by considering it a false, selfish and most cruel propagation used against them. As one who saw actual service in Cuba, in our war with Spain in 1898, with a family of four bright girls, in this "great family" of ten millions of us, I think that I have a just right to have a few words to say concerning the villifications, assassinations and unjust treatment of our rights, privileges and opportunities in this country. I want to say to all of our "public colored men" that I am bitterly opposed to their seeming cowardice, crooping, vulgar theorizing and compromising of our just rights, liberties and opportunities as they have done and are now doing. Let those who are engaged in their different ideas on the education of our children, who are forced to find it impossible for them to do justice in their public arguments to the anarchistic and revolutionary injustices propagated and perpetrated against us, keep out of the "firing line"—"that zone" we all know, places them in a dangerous position, when it is not necessary for them to do so. Let that class of our leaders attend strictly with their educational work, so as to permit those who are not obligated to have an opportunity to properly deal with the revolutionary questions which are daily presenting themselves on the presence of the Negroes in the United States today. I am with Chase and The Washington Bee. Who's next? P. L. CARMOUCHE. Dec. 31, 1912. Struggling to Raise Endowment. Nashville, Tennessee, January 1.—Announcement was made today that the trustees of Fisk University have been able to meet the conditions of Mr. Julius N. Rosenwald's offer of $2,500 a year for a part of the current expenses of Fisk University, which the board of trustees are finding increasingly hard to raise. The conditions of a five-year annual offer of $2,500 was made by Mr. Julius N. Rosenwald, of Chicago, to the university about a year ago as follows "I will, for a term of five years, be one of four persons who will contribute to Fisk University $2,500 per annum. Or I will give $2,500 annually for five years, as soon as you have found persons who will contribute the balance of a $10,000 annual fund for the same term, no contributions to be less than $1,000 per annum; further, that these additional subscriptions must all come from new subscribers or additional subscriptions from former subscribers; further, that the full amount of these pledges must be received and the first payment made during the year 1012." The trustees have been making strenuous efforts for two years to raise a fund of $300,000 to pay off accumulated indebtedness, make necessary repairs on the plant, and leave a balance for endowment. Nearly two-thirds of the amount have been raised, $60,000 being offered by the General Education Board, $25,000 by J. Pierpont Morgan, with a number of other smaller pledges, amounting to $81,000, all conditioned upon the raising of the total amount. The authorities of the university are now planning a campaign in Nashville to help complete the fund needed to save this great school. NEGROES ADVANCING. Judge Terrell, of Washington, Told of Progress of Race Since Given Freedom by President Lincoln. From the York (Pa.) Dispatch, Jan. 2. Eloquent tributes were paid to the leaders of the abolition movement, and the economic and educational progress, which the Negro has made since he has enjoyed the boon of freedom, were discussed in an emancipation address which Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the municipal court, of Washington, delivered in the lecture room of A. M. E. Zion Church last night. The address by Judge Terrell was a feature of an emancipation celebration held by the People's forum. Dr. George W. Bowles presided. The celebration opened with a prayer by the W. D. Battle, pastor of the church. After paying tribute to the leaders of the abolition movement and to Abraham Lincoln, Judge Terrell discussed the economic and educational progress of the Negroes of this country. Among other things, he suggest- M. B. H. ed that January 1 he made a national holiday "For," said he "when the shackles were struck for four million slaves in this country all of its citizens, white and black, were set tree The Negro is better off in this country than anywhere else on earth. In intellectual and material advancement he far outstrips the members of his race who live in other lands, because in free and better institutions he has those essentials needed for unhampered human advancement." Judge Terrell quoted a fund of statistics to illustrate the progress of the negro in the United States. After the invocation, "America" was sung by a chorus of women and girls. Brig. Gen. C. R. Edwards Knows Nothing of Move to Eliminate Troops—Officer Does Not Believe Politics Will Figure in Latest Army Proposal. Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards in command of Fort D. A. Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyo., arrived in Washington Tuesday to attend a conference of general officers of the line. One of the proposals that came before the conference is a plan to repeal the law which requires the maintenance of four regiments of Negro soldiers. The claim that Negro troops are neither welcome in the South nor North is the principal argument. "The Ninth Cavalry of Negro soldiers is stationed at Fort Russell," said Brig. Gen. Edwards. "They have been on the Mexican border since I have been at Fort Russell, and I can say that the people of Cheyenne are anxious that they be returned to Fort Russell. There is no prejudice against them there, though, of course, speaking generally, there has been considerable feeling against Negro troops since the Brownsville affair. "There are few desertions among them... A large number re-enlist, and for their services as soldiers, M. H. CAPTAIN JAMES F. OYSTER Has been decided on for one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. His name will go to the Senate next week. Captain Oyster is no doubt one of the most popular Democrats in this city He is a man of the people. distinguished statesman should be willing to testify. "It was the Ninth Cavalry which figured so conspicuously at the battle of San Juan, and for the service of Negro troops in the Philippines much can be said. "I know nothing of a movement to eliminate Negro troops from the army except what I have read. But I cannot believe politics will be permitted to figure in it, any more than politics will be permitted to figure in the administration of the Philippines." COLORED BAR ORGANIZED. Negro Lawyers Met at Houston and Formed Association. Houston, Texas. January 3, 1913. The colored lawyers of the State of Texas met at Houston Monday and organized themselves into an association to be known as the Lone Star State Bar Association. The organization elected as officers, M. H. Broyles, of Houston, president; A. S. Wells, of Dallas, first vice president; Charles D. McBeth, of Galveston, second vice president; G. O. Burges, of Palestine, third vice president; R. D. Irvans, of Brenham, secretary; J. Vance Lewis, of Houston, assistant secretary; W. M. C. Dickson, treasurer. The meeting comprised a morning and afternoon session. At the morning session a committee was appointed to draw up a constitution and by laws and the report of the committee at the afternoon session was adopted. A committee on program and affairs was appointed, compris-ing Charles D. McBeth of Galveston, L. V. Allen of Honston, R D Evans, of Brenham. This committee will meet to name the date and place for the next meeting. Mr Richard D Evans, the secretary, is a Howard graduate and a hunter. The Texas Bar Association is looking forward to a National Bar Association. NEGRO-DEMOCRATIC SHEET. Rev. Waldron Wants An Organ—More Advice to Negro Democrats. Rev. J. Milton Waldron' likes to write circular letters and send them to his alleged Negro Democratic constituents. His recent and last letter is dated December 24, 1912, and among other things he says: "Dear Comrade: You doubtless know that after the 4th of March every department of the National Government, including the Supreme Court, will be in the hands of the Democrats. "When Governor Wilson was nominated we visited him, along with four other gentlemen, and secured his promise that, if elected, he would treat the colored American with fairness and justice. "The leaders of the National Democratic party, and many of the Congressional and State leaders, as well, recognized the services which the colored man rendered the party in the recent campaign," etc. * * * * "In connection with the work the league is doing for the race we find it absolutely necessary that we have a weekly newspaper here at the Capital in order that we may speak out against any hurtful legislation which may be proposed, and encourage those congressmen, senators, and other officials who are willing to stand up for us as a people," etc "After conference with members of our league in their sections I have taken steps to establish such a paper. A number of influential members of the league here have already pledged $10 each towards starting this paper, and as soon as I secure 100 persons who will send $10 in cash, or will pledge the amount payable within Commissioners of the District of Senate next week. Captain Oyster Democrats in this city He is a man thirty days, the paper will be started. I have a dozen competent, independent, manly and experienced men who have agreed to serve as editors, and editorial writers free of charge for a year. With this item of expense out of the way, I find I can get out a seven-column, four-page paper—all home print—for $65 a week for 1,500 copies. I will control the policy of the paper, and will see to it that it is not used for selfish ends," etc. * * * "I wish to ask that you become one of 200 person to put up or one of the 200 to put up $5 or one of the one thousand to put up $1 each to operate such a paper. After the paper has been started we propose getting out articles of inco- poration and issuing 5,000 shares of stock at a dollar a share. * * * "Hon. Wm. H. Harris is treasurer. Wishing you success and a awaiting your reply. I am "Yours very truly. "J. MILTON WALDRON." Today is the Fiftieth Anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. (The writer of these resonant stanzas, in which he voices the sentiments and the aspirations of his own race, is a graduate of Atlanta University and pursued his post-graduate studies at Columbia University. He is a member of the Florida Bar, and he has been for seven years in the United States Consular Service, having held the important post of Consul at Corinto during the recent revolutionary movement in Nicaragua.) O brother mine, today we stand Where half a century sweeps our ken Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand, Struck off our bonds and made us men. Just fifty years—a Winter's day— As runs the history of a race: let, as we now look over the way. How distant seems our starting- place! Look farther back! Three centuries! To where a naked, shivering score. Snatched from their haunts across the seas. Stood, wild-eyed, on Virginia's shore. Far, far the way that we have trod, From heathen kraals and jungle dens, To freedmen, freemen, sons of God. Americans and Citizens. A part of His unknown design. We've lived within a mighty age; And we have helped to write a line On history's most wondrous page. A few black hondmen strewn along The borders of our eastern coast. Now grown a race, ten, millions strong. An upward, onward, marching host. Then let us here erect a stone, To mark the place, to mark the time; A witness to God's mercies shown. A pledge to hold this day sublime. Where we, in deep humility, For faith and strength renewed may pray, With open hearts ask from above New zeal, new courage and new powers. FIFTY YEARS. For never let the thoughts arise That we are here on sufferance bereat bare; Outcasts, asylumed 'neath these skies, And aliens without, part or share. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin-earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. Where once the tangled forest stood, Where flourished once rank weed and thorn. Behold the path-fraced, peaceful wood, The cotton white, the yellow corn. To gain these fruits that have been carned, To hold these fields that have been won, Our arms have strained, our backs have burned, Bent bare beneath a ruthless sun. That Banner, which is now the type Of victory on field and flood— Remember, its first crimson stripe Was dyed by Attucks' willing blood. And never yet has come the cry— When that fair flag has been ass- sailed— For men to do, for men to die, That we have faltered or have failed. We've helped to bear it, rent and torn, Through many a hot-breath'd battle breeze; Held in our hands, it has been borne and planted far across the seas. And, never yet, O haughty Land— Let us, at least, for this be praised— Has one black, treason-guided hand Ever against that flag been raised. Then should we speak but servile words, Or shall we hang ous heads in shame? Stand back of new-come foreign hordes, Anr fear our heritage to claim? No! Stand erect and without fear, And for our foes let this suffice— We've bought a rightful sonship here, And we have more than paid the price. And yet, my brothers, well I know The fatherly feet, the pouton- wings. The heart grown faint from wounds The spirit bowed beneath the blow, and stings; The staggering force of brutish might, That strikes and leaves us stunned and dazed; The long, vain waiting through the night. To hear some voice for justice raised. Full well I know the hour when hope Sinks dead, and 'round us every- where Hangs staring darkness, and we grope With hands uplifted in despair. Courage! Look out, beyond, and see The far horizon's beckoning span! Faith in your God-known destiny! Because theologians are now cold in death And Phillips are now cold in death Think you their work can be undone? Or quenched the fires lit by their breath? Think you that John Brown's spirit stores? That Lovejoy was but idly slain? Or do you think those precious drops From Lincoln's heart were shed in vain? That for which millions prayed and sighed. That for which tens of thousands fought. For which so many freely died. God cannot let it come to naught. JAMES W. JOHNSON. Knights of Pythias Reception. On Sunday, December 29, the Catlet Department, Knights of Pythias, held its first annual reception at the True Reformer's Hall at 7 o'clock P. M. The occasion was opened with the reading of the seventh chapter of Ezekiel by the battalion adjutant, L. S Stanard. This was followed by a prayer by the department major, C M. Long. The program was a very interesting one, particularly a paper entitled "Our Object." read by First Sergeant James Picket There were many distinguished guests in attendance. A few of the many guests were General Clay Smith, Commanding General of the Uniform Ranks of Knights of Pythias of the District of Columbia, Major A. G. Gaines of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, Mrs. Julia T. Layton, Captain Patterson of the District National Guards, Sergeant Winsome of the District National Guards, Mr. and Mrs. Starks, Dr Delaney, and Mrs. and Miss Picket. After the companies' program, General Clay Smith, Mrs. Laytoni and Major Gaines spoke very interestingly. The company was greatly benefited and it was thought by all who were present to be the most inspiring and profitable remarks ever delivered on this occasion. General Clay Smith expressed his regret that more boys and parents were not present to hear the paper read by First Sergeant Picket. After the exercises the guests were entertained in another room to refreshments. Important News Happenings of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST (By Miss G. B., Maxbridg) Cardinal Gibbons was recently the guest of Mr. Morgan at his New York home, and marveled at the treasures of art gathered there from all parts of the world. The Catholic University will confer an honorary title on the financier. In-Russia Jews are not permitted to buy land. Jackson, Miss., has the distinction of having all its letter carriers colored men. Muskogee has the same fame. President Taft sounded the rally call to the Republican forces of the nation, and declared war against Theodore Roosevelt and the third party last Saturday. The President declared his defeat victorious, as the nation was saved from ruin, anarchy and chaos. This has been a banner year for Santo Domingo. The total collections for the eleven months ended December 1, 1912, was $3,252,454.23, which exceeded by nearly 5 per cent the total customs collections for 1911. The Illinois colored regiment gave a ball and reception last week to which Jack Johnson and his white bride attended, but were hissed out of the hall. According to reports Hetty Green was confirmed in the Episcopal Church last Tuesday, in Jersey City. The anniversary of the emancipation was observed last night by Howard University. Exercises were held in Rankin Memorial Chapel. The principal address was delivered by Albert E. Pillsbury, of Boston, his subject being "Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipator." President Taft has taken a hand in the controversy between the suffraghs and the District official over the use of Pennsylvania avenue for their parade March 3d. The president has made it known that if the police department cannot furnish proper protection he will order out the 15th Cavalry Regiment at Ft. Myer. The latest estimate of the population of continental United States places the figure at 96,496,000 on January 2, 1913. This figure was used by Treasury Department experts in determining that the total money in circulation in the country on that date was $3,350,727,580; the amount per capita was $3,72. Andrew Carnegie, with no reference to the local discussion as to the advisability of accepting tainted money has sent to San Francisco-co the first installment of $750,000 for a library there. The city already raised $126,000 for the library on sale of bonds. To make room for new law books, the Harvard Law School has put down the cellar statues of such famous Americans as Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster and Charles Sumner. A. N Heiskell, editor of the Little Rock Gazette, has been appointed United States Senator to succeed Jeff Davis. Heiskell was born in Memphis forty-one years ago. The appointment by Governor Donaghey has been announced. This country is the world's greatest producer of motion picture film. Eleven thousand miles of motion picture film, thirty million dollars' worth of automobiles, a million dollars' worth of telephones and more than one hundred thousand dollars' worth of aeroplanes were exported from the United States in 1912. It is said $50,000 annually is to be contributed by the colored churches for foreign mission work, 200 home missionaries and 100 millionary stations are being supported also. Mr Carnegie says that he will have an opportunity to make for himself an immortal name by inaugurating the judicial settlement of our international disputes; and though himself a Republican, Mr. Carnegie promises his earnest support and that all peace-lovers without regard to party affiliations Gen. Jones in the Southland. Asheville, N. C. Jan. 6--Gen. Joseph L. Jones, vice chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, editor of the Pythian Monitor at Cincinnati. O. vice president of the National Negro Press Association, and a prominent factor in the Odd Fellows and other fraternities, has been making a tour of the South, winding up a series of successful visitations with a brief sojourn in "The Land of the Sky." He has addressed large crowds everywhere, and has also given enjoyable demonstrations of the rich and varied assortment of lodge furnishings, badges, buttons, regalia, etc., manufactured by the Central Regalia Company at Cincinnati, of which he is president. General Jones had a display here, at Mound Bayou. Miss., on the occasion of the dedication of the great oil mill, and later at Charles S. C. and Chattanooga Tenn. CLASPS WIFE AS SHIP SINKS Pathetic Indident In the Wreck of the Luckenbach SEVENTEEN LIVES WERE LOS? Steamer Was Rammed In Chesapeake Bay by British Vessel and Weni Down Like a Rock. One of the most pathetic incidents of the wreck of the steamer Julia Luckenbach in Chesapeake Bay was the death of Captain H A. Gilbert and his wife in the pilothouse of the ship as it went down When the crash came the wife rushed from her room into the pilothouse into the open arms of her husband There was not a moment's time for thought of escape and they died to together. This story was told by five survivors of the Luckenbach, who were picked up by the Indrakuala. They repeated it to the officers of the revenue cutter Apacha and to a party from Crisfield, which visited the beached ship on Diamond Marsh, in Tangier sound. Again and again Mrs. Gilbert, who insisted on travelling with her husband, had told failends that if the ship ever went down she wanted to be as close as possible to her husband and that she did not want any one ever to try to rescue her if he was to be lost. From the reports of the men who were saved, all of whom owe their lives to jumping from the deck of the sinking ship or seeking a refuge in the rigging, it seems that she died as she had said she wanted to die. Men who saw the incident said that there was, however, no opportunity for any rescue of the captain or his wife. If there had been the chance the men of the Luckenbach say they would have been at her side to rive her aid. The Luckenbach, from Port Tampa to Baltimore, was about to anchor off the Tangier gas buoy at the mouth of the Potomac, when the Indrakaula caught her and cut her practically in two at the line of her No. 2 hold. She went down, like a rock, and only the men on deck had a chance for life. The Indrakaula, badly damaged and in danger of sinking, drew off and beached to save herself. Eight of the survivors were taken from the loomest part of the rigging. e verge of exhaustion, when the seamer Pennsylvania hove in sight and took-them off The report from the men on the Indrakaula was to the effect that not more than a minute elapsed before the ship sank The pilothouse was the last part to be flooded The Apache has been in the scene of the wreck since Saturday looking for bodies The Luckenbach, with a single spar still projecting above the water's surface, marks the scene of the tragic crash in which so many lives were lost last Friday. All vessels going up or down the bay are stopping to look for bodies, but none has been found so far There are five more survivors of the sunken vessel on the disabled Indrakaula, having been rescued from the sinking craft by the larger vessel One more who was picked up by the Indrakaula's crew died as a result of his exposure to the weather, leaving the death list at seventeen. FINDS HER SON SHOT Believed He Was Examining Revolve When It Was Discharged. Hearing a pistol shot from the bedroom of Alfred McKean, in Shamokin, Pa., his mother and another son hurried to the room and found him dead, with a revolver on the floor beside him. A bullet had pierced his brain. It is supposed he was sitting on the bed examining the weapon, when it was accidentally discharged. Shortly before the shooting he had been conversing with his mother. Record Revenue Receipts The year 1912 established a new record in the amount of revenue receipts at the York, Pa., office of the Ninth internal revenue district. The sale of stamps for cigars, tobacco and liquor amounted to $1,223,008, a gain of $104,472. In the city and county of York 159 cigar factories were opened. Bank Burglars Get $15,500. Burglars robbed the Bank of New South Wales at Surrey Hills of $15,500, chiefly in gold and silver. 1913 JANUARY 1913 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Iths belief of their privilege to do so under the right of free speech. McCarty Gave Palzer Beating. Luther McCarty beat Al Palzer to a frazzle in their fight for the white heavyweight championship of the world at the Vernon arena in Los Angeles. Cal., scoring what amounted to a knockout soon after the eleighteenth round started. Referee Eyton stopped the fight during this round, as Palzer was hopelessly licked. He was just able to stagger to the center of the ring when the hell called him to his fate. The big fellow was a whipped man after the fifteenth round, but he managed to hold on through the fifteenth and sixteenth, three minute periods. He was groggy when he came on for the seventeenth round, but he showed wonderful nerve, and his ability to take punishment enabled him to stay the round out. He could hardly find his corner at the end. Congressman Lloyd W. Wedemeyer, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who suddenly went insane while on a visit to Colon, Panama, at the time of President Taft's recent visit to the Isthmus, jumped overboard from a ship on which he had been taken at Colon. His body has not been recovered. Mr. Wedemeyer went to the Isthmus with a congressional party at the same time that the president visited there. On the voyage from New York he collapsed and was taken to a sanatorium in Panama, and later was placed in confinement in a hospital, where he became violent and raved about his defeat at the recent election. He developed a sulcidal tendency and was closely watched Senator Resigns. Senator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, who sang his "swan song" last week, resigned from the United States senate. This action was expected, although Mr. Bailey said that he might not offer his resignation for several days, so that it would not detract from his speech in which he defended the constitution and assailed the plan of direct legislation as proposed in the initiative, referendum and recall. Mr Bailey will be succeeded by his closest personal and political friend, Colonel R. M. Johnson, Democratic national committeeman from Texas, Johnson will hold the seat till March 4, when the term for which Bailey was elected will expire. Three Boys Drowned. Four little boys while playing on the ice near their homes in Boardmanville, near Olean, N. Y., ventured out upon some thin ice and three of them The bodies were subsequently recovered and taken to their homes. The drowned are: Raymond Fath, aged eleven; Homer and Milo Williams, twelve and fourteen years old respectively. Seven Killed When Bridge Falls. The first day of the new year brought to the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad disaster. An engine of the heaviest type, pulling westbound freight train No. '99, plunged through a temporary bridge spanning the Guyan river at Guyandotte, on the eastern' edge of Huntington, W. Va. Seven men were hurled to death and a half dozen more were seriously hurt. The dead are: F. E. Weber, engineer; Henry White, watchman; Emmett Wood, bridgeworker; Charles Haddle, bridgeworker; James Crawford, bridgeworker; Charles Coyner, bridgeworker, and J. G. Wheeler, a bridgeworker. Mails 1000 Paying Bricks One thousand concrete paving blocks, each in a separate stamped parcel, were the first instalment of parcels post mail to leave Gary, Ind. Two big drays carrying the blocks, wrapped and addressed, backed up to the postoffice. The postoffice force had to carry the 6000 pounds of blocks into the office to have the stamps canceled. The blocks are being sent out as samples by a manufacturer, who found that he could send them cheaper by parcels post than by express. "Newshoy" Dles at 105. Carsamus Palge, believed to be the oldest newsboy in the world, died at his home in Jollet, Ill., aged 105 years. He sold papers in the streets up to a few days ago. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR quiet; winter clear, $4.10@4.25; city mills, fancy, $4.75@5.25. RYE FLOUR quiet; per barrel, $3.60 @3.75. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, 97½@98c. CORN steady; No. 2 yellow, 54½@65c. OATS quiet; No. 2 white, 40½@ 41c; lower grades, 38c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens, 14@ 16c; old roosters, 11½@11c. Dressed firm; choice fowls, 15½c; old roosters, 12c; turkeys, 23c. BUTTER steady; fancy creamy, 39c, per lb. SCALE steady; selected, 33 @ 36c; nearby, 30c, western, 30c. POTATQES steady, 70@73c. bush. Live Stock Markets PITTSBURGH (Union Stock Yards) PITTSBURGH (Union Stock Yards) choice, choice, $8.75@9; PRIMO, $8.75@9; SHEEP higher: prime wethers, $5.10 @ SHEEP lower: common, $4.15 @ SHEEP higher: $7.55 HOGS steady; prime heavies; $7.65; heavy Yorkers, $7.90@7.95; light Yorkers and plgs, $7.95@8; roughs, $5.50 @7. --- JEFF DAVIS. U. S. Senator From Arkansas Dies Suddenly. J. United States Senator Jeff Davis died suddenly at his home in Little Rock, Ark., of apoplexy, in his fifty-first year Senator Davis complained of feeling badly Thursday, but the family physician did not regard his condition as serious. Early Friday morning the senator called to his son, who was in an adjoining room, that he was ill and to summon a physician. A doctor arrived in half an hour. As he entered the room Senator Davis fell back dead. Up to the time he called his son, Senator Davis had apparently silent soundly The senator when he returned home from Washington for the holidays seemed in his usual health, and Thursday was out on the streets. He had not been feeling well, however, for several months. During his last political campaign in September there was general comment on the fact that he did not use the vigorous methods that characterized his earlier campaigns. ger told Frank Broger, a companion, as the two, from the lake's edge saw two small boys break through the thin ice. "I can't swim," he added, as he and Broger dashed out across the ice and plunged in, "but I'll manage it, somehow." Berger grabbed the Yabel boy and both sank from sight. Broger held the other boy above water until men came to their rescue. Young Stevenson Kills Girl Adalal Stevenson, grandson of former Vice President Stevenson, accidentally shot and killed Miss Ruth Merwin, sixteen years old, in the Stevenson homestead in Bloomington, Ill. Some of the boys at a party at the home of young Stevenson's father, L. G. Stevenson, were students at a military academy, and during the evening decided to give some of their drills. They found an old rifle, and, as they thought, took out all the cartridges. During the drill the weapon, in the hands of young Stevenson, was discharged, the bullet striking Miss Merwin in the forehead, causing instant death Three Burned In Hotel Fire Three men were burned to death and a number of others narrowly escaped with their lives when the four-story Wilson hotel in Keystone, W. Va., burned The dead are: James L. Reynolds, a lumberman, of Buchanan county, Va., and two unidentified lumbermen. The men were asleep in the third-story of the hotel when the fire, whose origin is unknown, cut off their escape. The property loss was $60,000. Five Children at Birth Five male children, all of them perfectly formed, were born to Mrs. Audrey Lassen, the wife of a carpenter, of Abbeville, La Two of the children were dead at birth, but the others lived intervals of from five minutes to more than an hour. The smallest of the children weighed twenty-two ounces and the largest tipped the scales at slightly over five pounds. Girl Asleep Eighty-slx Hours Grace Odell, eleven years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Odell, of Sterling, Ill., has been fast asleep for eighty-six hours. Physicians have used every means known to awaken her, but they have been unsuccessful. A recent vaccination is believed to have caused her long slumber. Acid Fumes Kill Firemen Lleutenant Herbert Eldridge, of the Portland, Me., fire department, died as the result of inhaling nitric acid fumes while fighting a drug store fire. Deputy Chief William H. Stella also died, and four other firemen were made very ill by the poisonous fumes. Solitary. Confinement. The punishment which replaced the death penalty in Italy—namely, life imprisonment with solitary confinement—is considered to be much worse than death itself. Murderers sentenced to life imprisonment invoke death to end their sufferings. Isolation, complete in the very sense of the word—enforced idleness, lack of exercise and sufficient food and continual surveillance in a cell so small as to almost render any movement impossible—such is the fate of a murderer in Italy. Solitary confinement lasts for five long years, sometimes for ten, but convicts can hardly bear it for more than six months. Invariably they are insane long before the term expires, and often they commit suicide. The fear of solitary confinement acts as a preventive to murder as much as and perhaps much more than that of capital punishment. It is quite true that the cases of murder have not diminished to any great extent in Italy since the abolition of the death penalty; but, on the other hand, they have not increased.—Chicago News. German Justice. A curious illustration of the principle of responsibility abroad is afforded by a civil damage suit growing out of the breaking of a plate glass window in a German town. A witness had testified as follows: "As I was passing down the street in front of the window I saw a big stone come whirling through the air. I did not know whence it came. I saw it coming through the air, and I had just time enough to dodge to save myself from being hit by it." The witness was sharply questioned upon the point whether the stone that broke the window would have struck him had he not dodged it. He was then dismissed. Eventually the decision of the magistrate was this: "Inasmuch as if the witness had not unfortunately ducked his head the glass would not have been struck by the stone, he is hereby adjudged responsible for the breaking of the window and is ordered to pay to the owner the value of the same."—Chicago Inter Ocean. Bees Stick to One Flower. It is usually supposed, especially by the poets, that bees sip sweets indiscriminately from many a flower. Ho woes the Poppy and weds the Peach, Inveigles Daffydowndilly; And then, a deserter, abandons each For the petals of the Lily. The seasons appear rather mixed in the verse, which in other respects, however, reflects the popular belief about bees. It is far from being the true one. All bees, including the honey bee, show a strong tendency in collecting offer an abundance of pollen add/nectar-London Post. Moving Pictures In Japan. The Japanese take the moving picture with the seriousness befitting the national character. They enjoy it thoroughly, but they like it best when it makes them sad. The favorite theme is the allegorical play that represents the warrior fighting for righteousness. Next in popularity comes the pathetic picture. The strictly educational film is also popular, and there is always applause for good scenery. But the love story is never represented in the Japanese moving picture. It would be an outrage to modesty and a violation of decency and therefore intolerable. Pictures derogatory to the dignity of officials and of policemen are forbidden, as well as those likely to instill revolutionary ideas in the minds of the young. A Dangerous President. The best case which I have seen of law versus justice and common sense is one which Montaigne relates as having happened in his own day. Some men were condemned to death for murder. The judges were then informed by the officers of an inferior court that certain persons in their custody had confessed themselves guilty of the murder in question and had told so circumstantial a tale that the fact was placed beyond all doubt. Nevertheless it was deemed so bad a precedent to revoke a sentence and show that the law could err that the innocent men were delivered over to execution.—London Graphic. By Comparison: "Say, mamma, my teacher 'd make a bully highwayman!" exclaimed a boy as he rushed in from school. "Why.. Freddy, what in the world do you mean?" inquired his astonished mother. "Why, she's always telling the children to 'hold up their hands.'"—Judge's Library. Took the Count. "Bobby, you have been fighting with that Stapleton boy again. Did you count ten before you struck him, as I have always told you to do?" "No, but I was told that somebody counted ten after he landed on me."—Chicago Tribune. A Woman's Age. Guest—Delightful party you are having tonight, old fellow. Host—Yes, I am giving it to my wife. It is the twelfth anniversary of her thirtieth birthday.—Harper's Bazar. Millions of money are not better than millions of grains of sand at the gate of Eternity. Horse Sensa When a collar hurts, the average horse winces upon being asked to throw his weight into the collar. Later he becomes what we foolishly call balky perhaps, and finally he fights like an army mule when some one tries to put a collar on him. That's knowing something! I am personally acquainted with a horse which simply hates a certain blacksmith who once upon a time nailed a bad fitting pair of shoes to his feet and inflicted sore feet upon this horse for all time to come. There are men in this world of ours cruel enough to fasten a horse with a heavy rope in a stall and then beat the horse with a chain. But such men have "bad luck," for forever afterward if the horse which has received, this sort of discipline bears a chain rattle he will bolt in terror, whether hitched to a mowing machine, a carriage with children in it or a heavy wagon loaded with produce. This is either horse sense or horse revenge.—Farm and Fireside. Place Names In Russia The Russian has not applied his names without reason. In 1858, when he founded the capital of the Amoor province, he named it Biagoveschensk. This means "good news"—to all save the proofreaders in the newspaper offices. Three years later he founded the capital of Primorskaya and gave it a name that planly showed what it was intended to be—Vladivostok, "ruler of the east." Near the end of his great transcontinental railway he made a brand new city and called it Dalny, "farthest," a very appropriate name for a place 5,500 miles from the starting point of the road. A petty clan of the Suchan family, springing from the narrow, beautiful, but savage glens southwest of Changbalahan, founded the Manchu dynasty, which for more than 200 years ruled China. They took the dynastic name of Manju, or Manchu, in their own language meaning "clear." To this the Europeans have added a termination, and we have Manchuria, the "country of the Manchus."—London Answers. His Shaky Memory. The lawyers got a tartar when, in a recent trial in a southern city, they summoned to the stand an aged darky who had been an eyewitness of a fight that had occurred between a number of persons. "Tell us what you know about this fight," said counsel when old Mose had been placed upon the stand. "Flight?" asked Mose, apparently greatly surprised. "What fight?" "You know very well what fight is meant," said counsel. "Tell us about it." n't know nothin' about no fight," I the witness. "When was it?" here, Moses," exclaimed the; "no trilining—the fight day be-esterday. You know all about ill us"—de fight day befo' yisterday," Iose. "Well, sub, you see. It's slept since de day befo' yisterday, and I never kin rickollect anything after I'm been asleep." And that was all they could get from him.-Green Bag. Blind Dogs and Rats. Canines born blind or Towers that become blind by accident are able to smell and paw their way into the most inaccessible and out of the way places. It is practically impossible to starve them, lose them or trap them. Furthermore, blind dogs learn stunts just as quickly as those that see. Loss of sight in no way interferes with their ability to learn tricks, acquire habits or find their bed. Rats, as a matter of fact, if they use their eyes at all—a doubtful matter—can see little or nothing of the world. The retina of these creatures has no point of perfect vision such as is found in the higher animals and man; hence their noses, muscles, touch and hearing give them information about the world they live in.—New York Press. Gave Himself Away. A little girl was weeping bitterly in the street, and a benevolent old gentleman, putting her on the shoulder, inquired what was the matter. "I've lost a penny, sir." the child sobbed. The old gentleman promptly handed her a penny. She looked at him askance for a few seconds and then said in a tone more of sorrow than of anger: "Oh, you wicked old man! So 'ou had it all the time'."—London Tatler. His Opinion of War. "What is your opinion of war? "War," replied the old fellow. "is a bad investment. "The poor man goes out to fight and then, if he doesn't get killed, he has to come home and help pay the debts." —Detroit Free Press Mighty Texas. Texas is so big that if it swung around in a circle over the United States it would touch the great lakes to the northward, to the east would reach the Atlantic, westward the Pacific and southward the Caribbean sea. Casseler's Magazine. A. Popular Recreation. "Where are you going, Sandy?" said one Scotchman to another. "Doon to the club," said Sandy. "And what faoor?" "Just to contradeect a wee bit." Executive Ability. Little James—Father, what is executive ability? His father—The faculty of earning your bread by the sweat of other people's brows, my son. Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.—Goldsmith. Vanishing Seamen It used to be seamen. Now it is steammen. The change suits to a "t." The old time sailor has nearly vanished. Steam has put him out of the running. If a new Sir Joseph Porter were to come from the imagination of some new librettist he would no longer be told of gifted sailors "who could handle, reef and steer or ship a selvagee." There will be no present day Allingham to chant the glories of "the wet sheet and the flowing sea and the wind that follows fast to bend the willowy mast," for there are no longer sheets and masts enough to inspire him muse. For the matter of that, the entire song has gone out of sea life. When men "tripped anchors" and did it by manning a capstan and bending their backs rhythmically to the job, as the mate'sang chanties to them, music counted as an exhilarant, but now steam winches lift the anchors and what would be the sense of singing to a mass of iron and steel?—Cleveland Leader. Trees and Lightning The relation of trees to lightning, as shown by a bulletin of the United States forest service, does not wholly accord with popular beliefs. It is found that trees are the objects most often struck because they are the most numerous of all prominent objects, they offer a short course to the ground, and their spreading branches in the air and roots in the soil present an ideal conductor to the ground. Any kind of tree may be chosen by the lightning, the greatest number in any locality being found among the dominant species. The likelihood of any tree being struck is increased if it is taller than surrounding trees, is isolated, is on high land, is deeply rooted and if its condition—as when wet—makes it the best electrical conductor of the vicinity at the time of the flash. Lightning may set a forest fire by igniting the tree or—what is much more likely to be the case—the humus about the base. First Recorded Alimony An Egyptian mummy now on exhibition in London was wrapped in papyrus which scholars have found to be covered with inscriptions. Among others is one which indicates that at least one lady of the pharaonic period failed to agree with her life partner. The document is a petition to the proper authorities for justice against a spendthrift and abusive husband. "When I married Heracleides," writes the petitioner, "I brought 200 drachmas as a dowry. Besides this, my husband, when he lost his property, found a home in the house of my parents. In spite of this, Heracleides, after he had run through my dowry, cursed me, because, deprived me of the necessary parts of life, wickedly deserted me and left me in misery. I pray you to force him to appear before you and to cause him to return to me the dower I gave him in creased by half."—New York Ameri can. Turks First Banned Tobacco Tobacco was first carried into Turkey by English sailors, and its use was quickly prohibited. As in Russia, a tradition was discovered prohibiting its use by the faithful. Mohammed, it was said, had prophesied that in future ages some of his fellows would smoke a herb called tobacco, but these would be unbelievers. Sultan Amurath IV. strictly prohibited its use. Search was made for smokers. Tobacco pipes were driven through their cheeks, and rolls of tobacco hung as collars around their necks. Thus arrayed they were mounted on asses, facing the tail, and driven through the streets as a warning to lusters after tobacco to be hanged. New York Sun. Euphemisms For Death. "Decease" is now a regular form of word for death. But it began as a gentle euphemism. "decessus" departure seeming much less harsh to the Romans than "mors." All languages abound in euphemisms of the kind, which go back to a superstitious reluctance to mention death plainly that gradually passed into a kindly desire to soften the idea. "Passed away." "departed," "kone," "expire" (breathe out). "no more," "demise" and even "the late" are expressions of this nature. Most striking of all is the roman euphemism for "be is dead," "vixit" (he has lived). A Son to Her: Conscience Hub (after a night out)—I feel like the two spot. I wish you'd telephone to the office that I'm in bed with the grip. Wife—That would be a lie. Huh—How particular you women are? Fetch over that grip and lay it on the bed near my feet. There! Now will you telephone?—Boston Transcript. Happy Homes To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.—Dr. Samuel Johnson. True Greatness Life is made up of little things. It is but once in an age that occasion is offered for doing a great deed. True greatness consists in being great in little things.-George Macdonald. Literary Item. "Does your husband do any work around the house?" "Nothing except splits a few infinitives."—Indianapolis News. Nothing Mean There. "I say, Uncle Jack, I dreamed you gave me half a crown last night." "Did you, me boy? Well, you can keep it."—London Tatler. GIVE DYNAMITERS JAIL SENTENCES One Prisoner Given Seven Years. Eight Get Six, Years Each, Two Four Years Twelve Three Years, Four Two Years and Six One Year and One Day. The thirty-eight labor union leaders convicted in the federal court on Saturday of conspiracy in connection with the interstate transportation of dynamite, were called up for sentence in Indianapolis, Ind. One prisoner received seven years, eight six years each, two four years each, twelve three years each, four two years each; six one year and one day each. Five prisoners were given their liberty through suspended sentences. One, though he pleaded guilty, was given a suspended sentence, making a total of thirty-nine prisoners disposed of. Frank M. Ryan, head of the ironworkers' union, was given the heaviest sentence, a prison term of seven years. Others were given terms ranging from one to six years. Olai Tweitmoe, of San Francisco, convicted on charges of aiding in plotting the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building, and Eugene A. Clancy, also of San Francisco, were given six years each, as was also Herbert, S Hocklp, once secretary of the International union. Terms of imprisonment were imposed as follows: Seven years—Frank M. Ryan, president of the ironworkers' union Six years—John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice president; Herbert S. Hocklin, former secretary and formerly of Detroit; Olaf A. Tvletmoe, San Francisco, secretary of the California Building Trades Council; Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco; Philip A. Cooley, New Orleans; Michael J. Young, Boston; J. E. Munsey, Salt Lake City, Utah; Frank C. Wobb, New York. Four years—John H. Barry, St. Louis; Peter J. Smith, Cleveland. Three years — Paul J. Morrin, St Louis; Henry W. Legleitner, Denver; Charles N. Baum, Minneapolis, Minn.; Michael J. Cunnane, Philadelphia; Edward Smythe, Peoria, Ill.; Murray L. Pennell, of Springfield, Ill.; Wilford Bert Brown, of Kansas City, Mo.; George Anderson, of Cleveland, O.; Michael J. Hannon, Scranton, Pa.; Ernest G. W. Basey, Indianapolis; William J. McCalin, Kansas City; William E. Reddin, Milwaukee. Two years—Fred Sherman, Indianapolis; Richard P. Houlihan, Chicago; Frank J. Higgins, Boston; Frank K. Palnter, Omaha. One year an one day—Edward E. Phillips, New York; Charles Wachtel, Detroit; Fred J. Mooney, DuLuth; James E. Ray, Peoria, Ill.; William C. Bernhardt, Cincinnati; William Shunne, Chicago. Sentences on the following were suspended: Patrick F. Farrell, New York; James Cooney, Chicago; James Coughlin, Chicago; Hiram R' Kline, Muncle, Ind.; Frank I. Murphy, Detroit. On motion of the government, Edward Clark, Cincinnati, confessed dynamiter, who testified for the government, was given a suspended sentence. One of the six men who were given their liberty by suspended sentences, Clark, confessed to blowing up a bridge with the help of Hockin. He appeared as a witness for the government. Ortef E McManigal, another confessed dynamiter, was not sentenced at this time. The sentences of one year and one day were imposed so that these men might be confined in a federal prison. Prisoners with terms of less than one year are kept in the county jails. Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson had many of the prisoners whom, he said, he considered less guilty than the rest, brought before him to make statements. Thus for an hour and a half the judge in a conversational way asked them whether they believed in dynamiting as a method of promoting a strike. All of them professed innocence. All the prisoners who received prison sentences were taken to the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. Prison and Fines For Editors. R. S. Sheridan and C. O. Broxon, publisher and managing editor respectively of the Boise, Idaho, Capital-News, and A. R. Cruzen were found guilty of contempt of court by the state supreme court and sentenced to ten days in the county jail and fined $500 each. The paper had printed and commented editorially upon a message to the people of Idaho from Colonel Roosevelt, criticising adversely a decision of the court by which names of Progressive candidates for electors were barred from ballots in Idaho. Cruzen was charged in the complaint with being interested in the newspaper. The costs also were assessed against Cruzen. In the answer filed two weeks ago by Sheridan and Broxon, representing the Capital-News Publishing company, they admitted responsibility for publication of alleged contemptuous articles in the Capital-News, and in explanation said the articles were published Notions as to "Lost Arts." Current tradition credits the ancients with many "lost arts." It is still common to hear people say that means unknown to us must have been employed to erect the pyramids, that the Damascus blade is beyond the power of modern cutters and that the art of hardening copper died with some little brown Aztec. In point of fact, larger stones than any found in the pyramids have been quarried in Maine, carried across the sea and erected in buildings in England and France. If any one cared to pay the cost there are plenty of contractors who would build a replica of the largest pyramid and would not take so very long about it. It is doubtful whether a "Damascus blade" will stand as much as a good modern hand saw or the spring of a cheap clock. Copper can be hardened by modern methods to equal any specimen that has been left to us by the ancients. Many arts that are supposed to be lost are simply abandoned because there is no modern need of cultivating them, and others are not even abandoned, but employed every day and improved upon.—New York Tribune. Old English Press Gangs. In the past the news of a shortage of men in the navy and the hint of action by the admiralty would have put the merchantman on guard. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, for instance, there was a call for sailors for the navy, and "persuasion" was the rule. "The press in the Thames for the last three days has been very severe. Five or six hundred seamen have been laid hold of." Thus runs one of many entries in the papers of the period. It was not always peaceful "pressing," as this item in the Times of 1795 will prove: "There was a very hot press on the river Friday night last, when several hundred able seamen were procured. One of the gangs in boarding a Liverpool trader was resisted by the crew, when a desperate affray took place, in which many of the former were thrown overboard, and a lieutenant who boarded them was killed by a shot from the vessel."—London Chronicle. A Bit of Kitchener's Tact. The Egyptian Bedouin is not compelled to pay taxes or to render the ordinary obligations of citizenship, which in Egypt includes military service. Soon after the outbreak of the war between Turkey and Italy a delegation of Bedouins approached General Kitchener and told him that they wanted to go across the border to the assistance of their hard pressed fellows in Tripoli. The English general admitted with unexpected readiness that their request was reasonable, but he reminded them that by granting it he would be creating a precedent which would make them liable for military service with the Egyptian army. The delegation withdrew, and Kitchener was not troubled any more with requests for leave to cross the border. Scotsmen and Funnertle Englishmen, says Ian Maclaren in "Books and Bookmen," bear themselves well at marriages, where Scottsmen are at a disadvantage because the cautious Scotch eye is focused upon an uncertain future. But the Scottsman shines at a funeral as one of the luxuries of life: "Peter." says one mourner to his neighbor at the tail of a walking funeral. "div ye see Jamie Thompson walking in the front side by side wi' the chief mourner and him no a drop o' blood to the corpse?" "Fine I see him, a forward, upsettin', amebetious body. He would be inside the bearse if he could"—the most awful and therefore most enviable position for a sober minded Scot. The House of Romanoff. $ The house of Romanoff passed out of existence with the death of its last survivor, Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, who was succeeded as ruler of Russia by her nephew, Peter of Oldenburg, duke of Holstein-Gotorp, son of her younger sister, Grand Duchess Ann. It is from this ear, who reigned as Peter III., that the whole of the reigning house of Russia are descended, and they are, therefore, not Romanoffs, but Oldenburgs. Raid Her a Compliment. Dr. Johnson never had a reputation for paying compliments, but it is related that once when Mrs. Siddons, the great actress, called on him in Bolt court and the servant did not readily bring her a chair he said, "You see, madam, wherever you go there are not seats to be had!" The Two Sides. "There are two sides to every argument." said the ready made philosopher. "Yes." replied the gloomy person, "but it makes a difference which side you choose. There are two sides to a piece of fly paper." - Washington Star. Nicely Fitting. "It was a very appropriate birthday present our young friend, the lawyers, got, wasn't it?" "What was the present?" "A new sult-"Exchange. Reticence. Cautiously avoid talking of the domestic affairs of yourself or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip. Theirs are nothing to you—Lord Chesterfield. Yes Whenever you find a man who is a failure you will also find a patient little woman making his excuses to the world.—New Orleans Picayune. The American Home Life Insurance 5th and G STREETS, N. W. WASHINGTON, D.C. AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING These Perfect Pairs "Now, Alice," said Mrs. P. to her newest domestic, "while I'm out just pare the potatoes and put them ready. I shall not be long gone." About an hour later Mrs. P. came back from her shopping expedition, bringing the meat that was destined to accompany the potatoes to the dinner table. 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 mald 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 Apostles Fished. 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 case 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 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 scientist 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. One of Charles Lamb's friends said to him that he had never seen Wordsworth. "Why, you've seen an old horse, haven't you?" asked Charles Lamb. "Yes, I suppose so." "Then you've seen Wordsworth."—Pall Mall Gazette. Not Hard Headed. Griggs—I hear that young Sapleigh has run through his inheritance and is looking for a job. He, won't have as soft a thing as he has had. Briggs—Oh, I don't know. He'll have a soft thing as long as he doesn't lose his head.—Boston Transcript. Monte Carlo Robbera. "They are greater robbers at Monte Carlo," said a traveler, speaking of high charges, "than anywhere in the world. The German tourist is sneered at in Monte Carlo because when he enters a barber shop he always asks what the charge is to be before he sits down in the chair. But what is a man to do in barber shops, where it is no uncommon thing to be charged $2 or $3 for the simplest operation? "And it's the same thing in the hotels. I know a man who took a suit at a Monte Carlo hotel without asking the price of anything—and in the restaurants of such hotels it's a common thing to find no prices even on the menus. Well, when this man came to pay his bill it was enormous. But he paid it. Then he said: "I have you any twenty-five centime stamps?" "Yes, monsleur," said the clerk. "How many do you wish?" . "My friend smiled blandly. "Tell me first, please," he said, "what you charge for them here?"— Exchange. A Wonderful Gun. Since the introduction of gunpowder as a propellant and the general use of firearms in warfare and hunting there has been a more or less insistent demand for mechanisms that would give the soldier or hunter a number of shots at his command without reloading and enable them to be rapidly discharged. The first patent for a firearm of this description seems to have been issued by the British patent office in 1718 to James Puckle, a citizen of London, for a gun mounted upon a tripod, having a single barrel and a revolving cylinder. Strangely enough, one of the claims set forth in this patent appears almost verbatim 135 years later in a patent taken out by Rollin White, an American inventor of a revolving pistol. Another curious claim of the patent was: "The mechanism permits the use of square bullets against the Turk and round bullets against Christians. Moreover, so great is the rapidity of fire that ships armed with the gun cannot be boarded by any attacking force."—S. J. Fort in Outing. The Unicorn. The unicorn was one of the fabled monsters of antiquity. It was, according to a summary of the opinions of several of the old time writers, a beast about the size of a common horse, but with very short legs. The people of the middle ages believed in the existence of three kinds of unicorns—the magnificent white unicorn, which had a purple face and blue eyes and a single horn a yard in length; the eglisserion, which resembled a gigantic deer and had a very sharp horn growing from the middle of the forehead, and the monoceros, or common unicorn. The white unicorn's horn was of three different colors—white at the lower part, black as ebony in the middle and red at the point. Common unicorns were said to have had horns about eighteen inches in length, but so strong that they could easily kill elephant. cal home company, organized and incorporated under the laws of the insurance business in Washington for nearly twenty years. d over 7,000 claims to its policy holders, amounting to over $250,000, the largest building owned by any insurance company in Washington, ance law. Policies in FULL BENEFITS and INCONTESTABLE from date Fair Sample. Mr. Follett and little Edward were sitting meekly in the corner where they had been placed by Mrs. Follett, well out of the way of her evening's work. Little Edward was reading the "History of the Town of Dorby" to his grandfather. He had reached a genealogical labyrinth. "What does 'paternal grandmother' mean, grandpa?" he inquired, pausing for breath. "You look up paternal in the dictionary, sonny," said Mr. Follett. And he shoved the book toward his grandson. "It means 'fatherly,' 'like a father,'" read the boy. "I don't understand that, grandpa." "Well, now, see here," said Mr. Follett hastily as his wife left the room for a moment. "it's like this, I reckon. The father's the head o' the house so called and the same with a grandfather, but sometimes they're married to a kind of a masterful—well, I guess your grandma's what they'd call a paternal grandmother." Mr. Follett hastily finished as he heard brisk footsteps along the hall. "You get right on with your reading, boy."—Youth's Companion. A Buoy's Long Voyage. On Sept. 13, 1911, there was picked up on the beach at Cullivee, Papastour, in the north of Scotland, a life buoy, battered and stained, bearing the inscription, "Passed by J. Guthrie, San Francisco, Cal.; June 1, 1905." The vessel Stanley Dollar was wrecked off the west coast of Japan in August, 1905, and the buoy, whose history is bound up with that of the ship, must have been dozing in the ocean currents for six years until it landed in Scotland. Whether it went around the Horn or through the northwest passage or down by Australasia and around the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic will, of course, always remain a matter of doubt and conjecture. This buoy is said to hold the world's record for drifting the longest distance. It was six years on the way from the Pacific ocean to the Atlantic and must have been washed into many a strange port before it was picked up on the Scotch island.—Harper's Weekly. The Horsehair Trick Almost every day illustrations are afforded of the marvelous ingenuity of the modern thief. Recently a couple of rogues nearly succeeded in extracting a valuable tie pin from the cavat of a man slitting between them in a music hall by means of an almost invisible horsehair stretching from the right hand of one thief to the left hand of his accomplice. The thieves by simultaneously raising their hands under the pretense of putting their pipes or cigarettes into their mouths tried, by pulling, the horsehair taut, gradually to lift the victim's tie pin from its place. In this particular instance the trick was not successful, but it is often worked with advantage. If the pin falls to the ground unnoticed the thieves take the earliest opportunity of seizing it, or by a skillful manipulation of the horsehair the article may be made to slide down the almost invisible line right into the hand of one of the thieves—London Tit-Bits. 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. Relics 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 Amesbury, Mass. The Toussaint L'Overture Building in Wichita, Kansas, was recently depleted. The building cost $40,000, and is to be a part of the recent established separate school system. 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 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. Where to Buy The Bee. Smith's, 4th and Elm St. N. W Pope's Pharmacy, 1319 H St. N. F. Jackson & Whipp's, 1513 7th St. N. W. Board & McGuire's, 9th and You Sts. N. W. Board & McGuire, 1912% 14th St. N. W. Simmons', 20th and K Sts. N. W Throckmorton, 1500 14th St. N. W Morse's, 1904 L St. N. W. Smith, 28th and Dumbart m ave Leonard Blagburn, 201 Morris R4 Anacostia, D. C. Phone Col. 2578. THE BEE Published at 1109 Eye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... .20 ARE THEY FOOLS? Southern Democrats are asking themselves are the Negroes or so-called Negro Democrats, fools? Many of them say to each other that no Southern Negro can consistently be a Democrat or give the Democratic party any consideration, and when a Negro asserts that he is a Democrat a Southern Democrat looks upon him with suspicion. The Democratic party has offered no consideration to the Negro, and until it does any Negro who alleges that he is a Democrat is a traitor to his race. The Bee will be pleased when the time comes to enable the Negro to say that he can consistently support the principles of the Democratic party. There are some democrats who have no more prejudices than Republicans, but no Republican has thus far voted to disfranchise the Negro. The Bee is of the opinion that the time will come when there will be no parties and race discrimination. The labor forces are making a great struggle for freedom and independence of the Negro. The Bee believes, in labor organizations when they don't discriminate against a man on account of his color. There should be no discrimination in this great body against races or peoples on account of color. The few Negroes who supported or alleged to have supported the Democratic party in the last election will hand out their hats and hands for additional consideration. They must be able to answer these questions intelligently: 1st. Why did you support the Democratic party? Answer. For revenue only. 2d. Don't you know that the Democratic party has disfranchised your people wherever it controls? Answer. Give us more money; what effect has it had? 3. Don't you know that many of you left the Republican party because you were disappointed in office? Answer. And for that and revenue only we have joined your party. 4th. How many of you in the District of Columbia were Democrats before the election or declared for the Democratic party? Answer. Only one, and he was a disgruntled Republican. As a matter of fact the District of Columbia alleged Negro Democrats were after revenue only and after the inauguration they will be office seeking. There is but one office upon which all Negro Democratic eyes are centered, and that is the office of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. No District Negro Democrat or alleged Negro Democrat in the District of Columbia will get it. Hence these Negro Democratic hoodlums may as well cool their office seeking ardor. Another District Negro who calls himself a Democrat and who was kicked out of the Department for attempting to flirt with some white ladies, is a candidate for office. His name is Dennis for any kind of job under the Democratic administration. The record of these office seekers will be sifted before the O. K. stamp is placed upon them. The Bee would advise many of the out-of-town Democrats to bring their lunch haskets and a few extra baskets of lunches with them, because they will be in town for some time. The most ridiculous sight is the action of the alleged recent converts to Democracy. Men who have been sucking the tit of the Republican party ever since their emancipation. Not only do they want to crowd out the so-called old-time Negro Democrats, but they attempt to repudiate their old-time Republican friends. Look over the list and you will be surprised to see the names of colored men who affiliated with the Republican and Bull Moose parties, suddenly turned after having been kicked out of both parties. If these men supported the Democratic party from principle, or they say, they will not object waiting, allow themselves to be seasoned in the course of the Democratic party before they ask for or expect recognition. The Republican party with all of its faults and failures, has been loyal to the colored American. Its leaders have never attempted to degrade the Negro. While many of them have made promises, their law makers have never passed objectionable laws to disfranchise him. The freedom that we enjoy today, our great public school system, are due to the Republican party. The Bee is compelled to look with amazement at the action some colored men who are willing and ready to sell their birthright for a piece of silver. What has become of the colored man's gratitude? How can the Democratic party trust these traitors to the cause of freedom and liberty? If men betray those who have made their freedom and independence possible, what will these men say who continue to crush and oppress them? Was the war of rebellion fought in vain? Was the shackles on four millions of slaves taken from them and caused their liberation to be a mockery? Is this the way the cause of the liberators is to be paid? The Bee has nothing to regret for its defense of Republican principles, and those whose acts are yet fresh in the minds of loyal Republicans. The Negro soldier who fought to perpetuate the constitution and uphold the Republican party cannot help from reflecting to themselves and ask the question: Are they fools? MOORE AND FORTUNE. Some time ago The Bee took occasion to criticise the banquet tendered to Bishop Alexander Walters by the Negro Democracy and other office seekers of New York City. The editors of the New York Age took greater exceptions_to the criticism than the distinguished Bishop himself, and in their comment they indulged in a great many personalities and infectives against the Editor of The Bee. The Bee retorted in a very drastic editorial, which did not set on the stomach of The Bee's vilifiers. The Bee has no apologies to offer for what it said and in its own defense, and the editors of the Age must distinctly understand that the Editor of The Bee is not ashamed of his record and is willing to compare it and his reputation with those of the Age editors, and leave them to the people of this country and the citizens of Washington to decide. Fred Moore is a native of this city, who is well known to the people as the messenger to the late Secretary Mannings, of the Treasury Department. He never went higher than the primary grade in our public schools before he was appointed in the Treasury Department. Fred Moore can not write a dozen lines gramatically correct to save his life, and T. Thomas Fortune came-to this city from Florida and was given a job as as a compositor on the People's Advocate, edited at that time by Mr. J. W. Cromwell. Fortune's escapades in this city are still fresh in the minds of those who know him. In speaking of his alleged report on the Philippines, to which he referred in the last issue of the Age, it was not of sufficient importance for the government to publish. It has never been published, and it will never be published. It is a conglomeration of glittering generalities and the conception of a distorted brain. T. Thomas Fortune is a journalistic failure, and it is evidenced by his failure to allow the Age to be transferred from him to the misfit which claims to be its editor in chief and manager. One is full of imaginative ideas, the other like a parrot that repeats what he is taught; one the journalistic accident, while the other a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. One that would make a better farm laborer than he would a journalist; the other whose appetite always craved for "Wilson, that's all;" which brought him to the level of a has been; one that lives on dreams, the other whose existence was perpetuated for a time by a charity testimonial; inaugurated by the man he had villified and abused. If the Editor of The Bee is a beast, an ignoramous, and venomus, his brain has never become intoxicated with rum and imaginary greatness. This beast has always found in the colored females of his race such honor and virtue that he has never been inflicted with the white fever. The blood money which those two misfits charge against the Editor of The Bee was never tainted with school examination papers, which T. Thomas Fortune asked the Editor of The Bee to secure for him; the evidence of which The Bee has in its possession, and it challenges the editors of the Age to deny it. The Bee is, in every particular, prepared to meet any and all attacks of the Age and its alleged threats. T. Thomas Fortune has been a Republican, a Greenbacker, a Democrat, last a Republican. At this time he is not much of anything. He charged in his editorial that the people of this city were fools or crazy to follow The Bee Editor's leadership. As a matter of fact, T. Thomas Fortune must be one of the fools; although he claims to be a scholar. If he was a scholar ten years ago, he declared the Editor of The Bee was the leader of the Republican party in this city. The Bee will not attempt to depreciate his greatness in years ago, although he may be a fool today. If the Editor of The Bee was a great leader ten years ago he must be a greater leader today, because he has improved with age. The Bee's Editor's record ten years ago was great in the eyes of the Age. T. Thomas Fortune should be the last man to charge us with ingratitude and false friendship. If what he said to us concerning his benefactor Dr. Booker T. Washington, the man who came to his assistance in his declining years and failure in journalism, then Fortune is the most treacherous ingrate that ever lived. If he wants all he said and many more sensational incidents, the Age editors may have them. He will be welcome to everything we have, and if we are forced to disclose, let the "chips fall where they may," The Bee will not be responsible. The Editor of The Bee believes in the Mosaic dispensation, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. SUMMARY. SUMMARY. Of what the Editor of the Age said against the Editor of The Bee January 2d, 1913: 1st. An ignorant and venomous Editor. 2d. Is by a flux of mud-gutter personalities foreign to the question. 3d. As a beast he never was false to an enemy nor true to a friend. 4th. A large number of New Yorkers who tendered Bishop Walters a banquet need not set at the big feet of Mr. Chase, nor expect to learn anything from what comes out of his black heart or through his big mouth. 5th. He has never hesitated to beoflour his own nest and to eat his own vomit. 6th. We remember very well that there has not been a Negro prominent in public life in forty years, since 1872, from Frederick Douglas to Booker T. Washington that, in the Plaindealer or The Bee Mr. Chase has not striven at one time or another to slime with the venom of his beastly serpent. 7th. If he desires to discuss the whiskey question, let him begin with his own favorite bottle," etc. Right here The Bee will state that Mr. Fortune was the last one to drink from the bottle, and heartily at that. 8th. If he desires to discuss the question of blackmail, let him produce his memorandum books, etc. The editors of the Age would have the world believe that the Editor of The Bee unjustly attacked Dr. Washington. Does Mr. Fortune remember what he told the Editor of The Bee concerning Dr. Washington while out driving with him? He better reflect for a moment before he says too much. If he invites the expose the Editor of The Bee will gladly remind him. From 1872 to 1901 the editors of the Age were aware of the alleged notorious character of the Editor of The Bee. He has been charged with every offense that would down him in the eyes of a reading public, and notwithstanding their guilty knowledge of these offenses which they claim they knew from 1872 to 1901, Editor T. Thomas Fortune sends the following letter of endorsement to President Theodore Roosevelt; WHO IS THE LIAR? "The New York Age, No. 4 Cedar St., Borough of Manhattan. Fortune & Peterson, Publishers. Afro-American Journal of News and Opinion. Subscription $1.50 Per Year. Published Every Thursday. New York, Nov. 11, 1901. Copy: For the President, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Washington, D. C. "Sir: "I have pleasure in endorsing Hon. William Calvin Chase to be one of the ten Justices for the Dis- trict of Columbia under the new bill. "Mr. Chase is the leader of the Republican party in the District of Columbia, a reputable lawyer at the District Bar, and editor of The Bee, which has rendered effective service to the Republican party. "Very respectfully, "T. THOMAS FORTUNE." A VAGRANCY LAW. What is most needed in this city is a drastic vagrancy law. A law which will force every idler to work. Such a law that will keep a tab on every citizen who is without visible means of support and who may be found standing upon the public lawns attempting to attract the attention of females. If we had a drastic vagrancy law, that would compel every idler to find work, then our bar rooms would be clear of loafers. The Bee suggests to the District Commissioners to recommend to Congress the passage of a drastic vagrancy law. A law that will either force a man to work for himself, others or the District of Columbia. Officers should be stationed at all railroad stations to meet every incoming train, at every boat and at every bridge. Every person should be forced to give an account of himself, where he lives, where he is from, and the place of his destination. If he has no place of destination, he should be deported without ceremony. There are too many assaults perpetrated upon helpless females, and the way to stop them, no matter by whom committed, is to enforce the law. There are white men who are as bad as colored men. White men insult many of our best colored female citizens but there is nothing said. A few evenings ago while attempting to board a car a well known young colored lady was insulted by a white man, but by her pluck and bravery the white brute was afraid to strike her when she resented the insult offered. The Bee doesn't condone the brutal acts of anybody, be he.white or black. Let us have a drastic vagrancy law. WAKE UP MASONS. It has been quite a year since the late Lincoln Memorial Building Association's possessions at the corner of Tenth and You Streets passed into the hands of the Masonic fraternity. The way the change was made has never been considered, by some, as open and above board, and not a few believe some one profited and that some one blundered. The understanding was that the Masons were to return to investors the money they had paid in for stock of the Lincoln Memorial Building Association. Up to date the Masons have not redeemed a dollar's worth of stock, nor have they intimated that they will. Until the Masons do the "square" thing by investors in stock of the old company a heavy pall of suspicion will hang over the deal. The colored Masonic fraternity of this city can not longer afford to withhold the refund promised to investors. Unless they come forward soon with a refund, in part or in whole, the entire fraternity will rest under suspicion. For the sake of maintaining the name of the great organization, and for the sake of facilitating the raising of sufficient funds to clear the property of mortgage, we urge that they consider that they, the Masons, are morally and legally bound to take up the old stock of the old company. The whole transaction has never been a clear one to many, and the longer it remains an open account just that long will the Masonic fraternity suffer in the estimation of the public. Wake up you Masons, and fulfill a promise made. THE DEATH PENALTY. There is but one proposition to which The Bee agrees that was discussed in the meeting of the East Washington Citizens' Association held last Monday night, and that is the death penalty should be inflicted in the case of the brute that committed the criminal assault a few weeks ago. No mercy should be shown any brute that commits such an assault. Relative to "Jim Crow" cars, there is no necessity for them in this city, unless poor white people, similar to poor black people, are to be "Jim Crowed" also, and all first class white and colored people ride in the same car. This agitation for "Jim Crow" cars is only made by a class of poor white people. The refined and cultured class of white people never worry themselves about social equality. They have sense enough to know that the colored man is allowed to come so far and no farther. The colored man works only for fair play. Let all brutes that commit criminal assaults upon women receive the death penalty. THE NEGRO SOUTH. Notwithstanding the hardships, disfranchisement and discriminations, the colored man in the South is way ahead of his Northern brother, where they exercise the freedom of speech, civil and political rights. The colored man South may be seen in all branches of industry. The colored man South is a commercial factor. He is doing today what his white brother is doing, and will continue to do so long as an opportunity is given him. Compare the work North with that in the South, and see who is ahead. Struggling as he is, against oppression and race discrimination, the colored man South is coming to the front. One by one God is removing his enemies, and in a very short time every constitutional amendment which is restraining the colored man's progress will be removed. Why should the colored man South lament? His friends are legion and his enemies are few. GOD MOVES MYSTERIOUSLY Shortly before 1912 was ushered into the past, Senator Rayner, of Maryland, an implacible foe of the race, was called to his Maker. Next came, with the advent of the New Year, Senator Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, another uncompromising foe of the race. His death was followed by the resignation of Senator Bailey, of Texas, an arch foe of the race—a resignation that was, in effect, a forced one, for it was not possible for him to succeed himself. Verily God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform, and those who are arrayed against the race, fighting our struggling people with unjust discrimination and race hatred, one by one have meted out to them their reward. We shed no tears for Rayner, we have none to shed for Senator Davis, and we are thankful that Bailey is no longer a United States. Senator. Who will be the next to answer the final summons? FIFTY YEARS. The New Year's issue of the New York Times carried a poem by James W. Johnson, entitled "Fifty Years," which was written in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the race from slavery. The following day the same newspaper carried a half column editorial commending in the highest terms Mr. Johnson's poem. Two points determine the merit that poem possessed; first, the great New York Times carried it, and second, the same newspaper in a half column editorial review, pronounced it a really great poem. James Johnson, modest almost to a fault, is a real literary gem. He is a writer of prose and verse, whose delicate touches of sentiment and pathos, whose delicious bit of humor, and whose smooth soaring of imagination reflects high credit, not upon the race alone, but upon this, his country, the country we, all of us, have helped to make. Mr. Johnson is the John Hay of the Consular Service. A GREAT CALENDAR. The greatest and most unique calendar is the one just issued by the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association at Durham, N. C., Mr. John Merick, president; Mr. C. C.-Spalding, manager, and Dr. A. M. Moore, secretary and treasurer. This calendar measures three feet and four inches in length, and two feet and two inches in width. At the top is a large painting of North Carolina pines, which alone is a gem and is an ornament to any office or household. The picture shows a beautiful stream of water, and on either side of the stream are massive pine trees and in the distance is seen similar pines and others of nature's production. The Bee extends its congratulations to the enterprising firm, and wishes the greatest Negro insurance company in the world continued success and prosperity. If you want to see Negro thrift, industry and perseverance, go to Durham, N. C. REV. WALDRON'S CONSISTENY. Our distinguished friend Dr. J. Milton Waldron, will start a Negro Democratic publication. In his letter he states that Gov. Wilson had assured him and others that he would treat the Negroes fairly and justly. In another paragraph the distinguished divine tells his Democratic comrades that he must start this paper, and they must help him to prevent obnoxious Democratic PublicMenAnd Things Nok speaking about Horner, you just got to hand it to him that he is a bunch of ripe energy. I have remarked before that when you think you got him on the toboggan, he is just spitting on his hands to make another pull. I can't help but admire his energy, and to soliloquize that if his energy was spent in the right direction he would be an awfully hard fellow to head off. The trouble with Horner is he always gets started wrong. He begins to build before he lays a foundation. If he hustled for a law practice the way he hustles for things that don't mean a bucket of burnt coal for anybody, he would have the best practice in the town. But he ain't such a bad fellow after all. And if he will remain in one party for one consecutive minute, he might be able to land something. But he makes too many sudden changes I heard this morning that Mr. Robinson, who trims moustaches, cuts hair and massages faces up at the (Continued on page 8.) legislation against his race. Just where the consistency of Rev. Waldron is The Bee would like to know. If he has faith in the party which he claimed to have assisted in placing in power, why should he start a Negro Democratic paper to prevent objectionable Democratic legislation against his race. "Consistency is a jewel; Deception is the devil." UNDERDOWN'S SELECTION GOOD. The selection of Mr. Underdown as sub-chairman of the Public Comfort Committee for the inauguration was a happy one. Mr. Underdown is a successful business man, and deserves this recognition, not because of his Democracy, which is but recent, and but surface deep, but because he is a business man. We congratulate him upon his selection, and hope for him all the success possible of extraction out of the honor. At best it is but an empty honor and hard work, and it offers no future, at least political, since the inauguration is a non-partisan affair. However, it may serve to call attention to Mr. Underdown as a successful colored business man, and if it does that he, and the race, will have been benefited. MR. ROSS BANQUETED. The Editor of The Bee regrets his inability to attend the testimonial banquet to his old friend and contemporary, Mr. James A. Ross, under the auspices of the Colored Citizens and the Erie County Democratic Colored League, Friday, January 10. From all indications the affair was a great one. The affair took place in the Little Savoy Hotel, Buffalo, New York. We congratulate our old and esteemed friend, Editor Ross. If Fred Moore is named for Liberia, he will carry along a private secretary, Harvey's grammar and an unabridged dictionary. He will never be confirmed if named. 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 & McGaire, 1912% 14th St., and 9th and You Sts. N. W. They employ four graduates in pharmacy, skilled and experienced, and you get the results in perfect service. Miss Janie Scott, of this city, spent last week in Richmond, Va., where she attended the marriage reception of her sister, Miss Sallie W. Scott, whose marriage to Mr. Harry J. Williams took place June 28, 1912 Mrs. W. Graujer Williams entertained a few of her friends at her residence, 1916 Thirteenth Street Northwest, Thursday evening, January 2. The guests enjoyed the evening in parlor pool and whist, after which they were served with a dainty menu. Mr. Hillary Lewis, of New York city, was a visitor in this city, last week. Dr. Smith, who was recently married in Mississippi, returned to his home last Sunday in company with his bride. A reception was held in honor of their wedding at his home, 938 S Street Northwest, Friday night, January 3. The bride wore an elaborate costume, and received many handsome presents. Miss Savilla Lowe, who is attending Howard University here, spent two weeks in Wheeling, W. Va., as guest of her mother, Mrs. J C Lowe Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Hawkins and sons, who have traveled for more than a year on account of Mrs. Hawkins' health, have returned to their home in this city. Mrs. Ethel Johnson Price, formerly of this city, and now of Chicago, Ill., is the guest of her mother, at 1808 New Jersey Avenue Northwest. Mrs. Price will spend the winter and part of the spring here Dr. James E Shepard, of Durham, N. C., arrived in the city this week. He is en route for New York City on business. Mrs. James F. Bundy, who has been ill for several months, has sufficiently improved to be up and out again. Mr. Jas, Erwin, of this city, stopped over in Rock Hill, S. C., a few hours Thursday of last week, en route from Guthriessville, where he had been to attend the funeral of his mother Dr. John W. Morse, at 1904 L Street Northwest, is now prepared to serve hot soda. Mrs. Cruickshank, of this city, is the guest of her daughter, Miss Cruickshank, of North Vernon, Cal. Hon. Moorfield, prominent lawyer and banker of Boston, Mass., is visiting friends in this city. Mr. Benjamin Locke, who is attending Columbia University, passed through this city last week from his home in Baltimore, Md., where he had been visiting his parents. Mr. Locke will also make a short stop in Philadelphia, Pa., before returning to college. Mr. George Blackwell, of Chicago, Ill., who is a graduate of Howard University Law School, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Blackwell, Ph. D., of 14 East Thirteenth Street, Richmond, Va. Mrs. E. J. Brown, of this city, spent a few days with her sister. Mrs. Hattie Gray, of West Leigh Street, Richmond, Va. Mr. A. M. Walker, of Howard University, spent last week in Richmond, Va. Miss A. J. Brown, of 1217 W Street, who has been seriously ill for several weeks is improving. Mr. James Togans, a student in the Pharmaceutical Department of Howard University, spent the holidays with his parents in Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Wm. Till, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. America, of Wilmington, Dell, were in this city the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Sewall of, 2337 Ontario Road Northwest. Mrs. Sewall made their stay in her cosy home one to be long remembered. Miss Marie Pinn started the New Year as Mrs. Frank Chiles. A Happy New Year to them both. The Clover Sewing Circle gave a New Year's party at the residence of Lieut. and Mrs. Darris 722 Girard Street Northwest. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. Darris, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ashton, the Misses H. Peterson, Alice Ogile, Felicia Wiseman, Essie Nell, Antonia Weaver and Rosa Smith; Dr. Key, Mr. Mitchell J. Morrison, C. Richardson, A. Foster and C. Walton. Prof. Geo. W. Cook, of Howard University, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. Justin Carter, while in Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. R. C. Davis, of Berkley, Va., is a patient in Freedman's Hospital, in this city. Dr. Smith, Fourth and Elm Streets Northwest, extends to his many patrons a happy New Year January 4. Dr. W. L. Smith, 4th and Elm Street Northwest, is the only druggist 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. George Davenport, of Howard University, spent the holidays with his parents in Norfolk, Va. Mrs. H. R. Lewis of U Street Le Droit Park is visting friends in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Gilford Jones, of Louisburg, N.C., was in this city to visit Miss Etta M. Branche, formerly of Louisburg, N.C. Miss Mabel Bryce, of New York is here, the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. T. Taylor. She will be glad to see her friends at the Temple Flats, Eleventh and R Streets Northwest. Mrs. Mattie Harris, of Sixteenth Street Northwest, spent a portion of her holidays in Maryland with her daughter, who accompanied her home to spend the remainder of the holidays. Mr. Arthur Bonner has resigned his position in the Navy Department on account of his health. He, with wife and child, returned to his home in New Orleans, La. His friends hope the change in climate will improve his health. A reception was given by Miss Helen Morris in honor of Miss Edith Scotland, of Newark, N. J., Monday evening, December 30, 1912. Those present were: Misses Josephine Lawrence, Grace Tanner, Zenobia Chew, Ellen Williams, Homosella Racks, Martha Porter, Annie Henderson; Messrs. Ellsworth Pryor, Abraham Chew, George Jenkins, Henry Hardy, William Magruder, Hudson Oliver, Garland Wooding. The matinee given by "The Yule Tide Club" at Odd Fellows' Hall Saturday, December 28, 1912, proved to be a success. The officers and members of the club desire to express their heart-felt appreciation for the support given their Christmas dance. If you want first-class articles and fresh drugs, go to Dr. Morse, 1904 L Street Northwest, January 4. Judge Robert T. Terrell, who delivered the emancipation address at York, Pa., Wednesday, January 1, has returned to the city. Mr. James B. Walker, of the White House, and his wife are both down with tonsillitis. Mrs. M. Grant Lucas is studying medicine. A delegation of Washingtonians will attend the Tuskegee Negro Conference January 22 and 23. Mr. Cary B. Lewis, Chicago and Louisville's favorite journalist, is to attend the inauguration in March. Bishop Walters has returned to New York City. Miss Vivian Lucile Thompson entertained the Young Ladies' Sewing Circle on the Saturday night of Xmas week. Mrs. W. H. Heard, wife of Bishop W. H. Heard, spent the holidays with her sister, Mrs. G. A. Carttier, of 1346 Wallach Place. Dr. E. Grant Norman, of the Treasury Department, has been visiting friends in Raleigh, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Middleton, of the Internal Revenue Service, New York City, spent the Yuletide in the city, the guests of Mr. Middleton's parents, 338 C Street Southwest. While here they were tendered a highly enjoyable reception at the C Street homestead and were the recipients of many other social courtesies at the hands of their host of friends in various sections of the city. They returned home last Saturday. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee Institute, is expected in the city soon. The local branch of the National Negro Business League is to meet Monday night. Getting ready for Philadelphia-none too soon. Dr. Frank P. Laney has been transferred to the book-keeping division of the office of the Auditor for the Post-office Department. Miss Jessie Parks entertained the famous T. M. N.'s and their friends last week at her home in Fifteenth Street. It was a most delightful affair, and thoroughly enjoyed by the ladies and gentlemen present. The Brownies entertained Monday evening of New Year's week at the home of Mrs. Moore, to the delight of members and friends. Mrs. Arthur Langston, who was the holiday guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Napier, and Mrs. Gerald Tyler, who was the guest of Mrs. Ralph W. Tyler, returned to their home at St. Louis last Saturday evening. Mrs. Mercer Langston and Mrs. Napier, both of Nashville, Tenn., nieces of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Napier, are still guests of their uncle and aunt. Hon. Wm. H. Lewis returned to Washington on the second instant after a month spent abroad, visiting London and Paris. Dr. Smith, Fourth and Elm Streets Northwest, Le Droit Park, will welcome his patrons to inspect his new line of goods for 1913 January 4. Mr. J. R. Brett, of this city, spent several days in Suffolk, Va. service. The bride and groom will be at home February 6, 1913, from 8 to 10 at their residence, 2147 H Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Edward W. Torrence has been confined to her home, 1400 Swann Street Northwest, on account of illness. Mr. Marshall Torrence, now connected with the United States Navy, was the guest of his mother in Swann Street Northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Trammell, of Fairmont Heights, were entertained by Mrs. Dabney, of 1132 Third Street Northwest. Mrs. Julius A. Bowley, of this city, will finish his course in February in medicine in the University of Michigan and accept a position in Mercer Hospital, Philadelphia. The pastor and members of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church welcome Miss A. J. Brown of 1217 W Street Northwest, who has been convalescent for some time, back to her place among them. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Middleton, of New York, have returned home after a pleasant visit in this city, the guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Middleton. Mrs. Hattie Hamer left the city Saturday for Wilmington. Del., after spending the holidays with her sister, Mrs. M. J. Adams. Miss Levi Galloway, of Winston, Salem, N. C., was the guest of Miss Hamer, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, of New York, passed through the city Tuesday on their way to Jacksonville, Fla., to visit Mrs. Johnson's mother Mr. Wijliam Jones, of Hartford, Conn., is in the city visiting his sister, Mrs. Butler, and Mrs. Washington. He is here for several weeks. His wife died in Hartford about two months ago. Mrs. Mary Fleming Stevens, formerly of this city, but now of Chicago, will remain the guest of her mother and father and sister for some time yet. Attorney W. L. Pollard, who has been quite ill at his home, is improving slowly. His friends are very uneasy about him. The father of Mr. Pollard is also sick at the Freedmen's Hospital. Miss Eloise Talbrett received New Year's day at her residence, 1540 T Street Northwest, from 4 to 7 o'clock. She was assisted by Miss Fannie Simmons and Miss Theodosia Shepperson. Miss Talbrett wore an all-over Gretchen lace dress over blue silk and ribbons to match. Miss Fannie Simmons wore a salmon-colored silk voile tinted with gold. Miss Shepperson wore a cerise gown veiled in white satin. The house was tastefully decorated in palms. A POPULAR MARRIAGE. Bishop Walters Marries Two Well Known Citizens In the presence of relatives Mrs. Belle I. Riley and Mr. Dorsey B. Conrad were married at the home of the bride's parents Wednesday, January 1. Bishop Alexander Walters performed the ceremony, assisted by Dr. G. M. Oliver. The bride is popular in the A. M. E. Zion Church and is especially interested in literary and Christian Endeavor work. She is the only colored woman in the District of Columbia who holds a degree of C. E. Expert conferred by the United Society of Boston, Mass. She is also the manager of the efficiency campaign of her church and is a general officer of the same. Mrs. Conrad is also a beautiful singer. The groom is popular in church circles, is from one of Washington's oldest families and is an employee in the government Distinguished Visitors From Abroad Cordially Welcome by the Flower of Washington's Social Life—Brilliant Function Permeated by Characteristic Napierian Hospitality—Suggests State Receptions at White House: House—Some Magnificent Toilettes in Evidence. Register of the Treasury and Mrs. J. C. Napier opened the social season of the New Year most suspiciously last Friday evening by giving a brilliant reception in honor of Mrs. Arthur D. Langston; of St. Louis, Mo.; and Mrs. James A. Napier and Mrs. Carroll N. Langston, of Nashville, Tenn., who were their house guests through the Yuletide period. The elaborate function took place at the historic "Hillside Cottage." 2225 Fourth Street, near Howard University, for many years the home of the famous Congressman John Mercer Langston, of Virginia. In this picturesque mansion Mr. Langston's widow has continued to reside, and with her for the past three years have lived Register and Mrs. Napier, the latter being her daughter. The reception was attended by upwards of a hundred of the flower of Washington's social and intellectual life, and at no similar entertainment within memory has there been brought together a more representative assembly of the race, and no group of visitors have been more cordially welcomed to the nation's proud capital than the charming and cultured ladies who constituted the guests of honor. While the flawless appointments, the personnel of the party, the elegance of the ladies' toilettes and the courtliness of the gentlemen suggested the stately functions of the White House, the genial whole-souled hospitality characteristic of the Naniers and the Langstons so thoroughly permeated the atmosphere that conventional formality seemed to disappear as if by magic and everybody enjoyed themselves in the heartiest fashion. The spacious parlors, divided by the center reception hall, in true southern style, were beautifully decorated for the occasion. potted plants and Christmas greens predominating. These, supplemented by the brilliant lights and scintillating costumes, formed a delightful picture, long to be remembered. Mrs. Napier proved herself to be an ideal hostess. In the Receiving Line In the Receiving Line. The guests were graciously present- ed by Register Napier. In the receiving line were: Mrs. A. D. Langston, who wore black peau de soie, trimmed with shadow lace, diamonds; Mrs. James A. Napier, gowned in yellow charmeuse, with shadow lace; Mrs. Carroll N. Langston, in brocade charmeuse, with overdress of beaded net; Mrs. J. C. Napier wore white lace, with American Beauty trimming, diamonds and pearls; and Mrs. John M. Langston was attired in heavy black brocade satin, with real lace trimming, diamonds. All of the ladies present were gowned with exquisite taste, and the colors, rich and varied, blended harmoniously. The gentlemen, of course, wore the "conventional black." A delightful menu, a triumph of the caterer's art, was served by Mr. Maurice B. Spencer, and the dining room, garlanded under his skilled supervision, was a veritable "bower of beauty." Instrumental numbers were rendered during the evening by talented artists in the music room. Miss Nettie Langston presided daintily at the punch bowl. Personnel of the Party. Among the many noted persons invited to Register and Mrs. Napier to meet the Mesdames Langston and Mrs. Napier were: Mrs. J. Gerald Tyler, of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. Stansbury Boyce, Jacksonville, Fla.; Bishop and Mrs. John Hurst, Baltimore, Md.; Judge and Mrs. R. H. Terrell, Major and Mrs. C. R. Douglass, Prof. and Mrs. Kelly Miller, Auditor and Mrs. R. W. Tyler, Mrs. Frank M. Langston, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Rev. and Mrs. Sterling N. Brown, Miss Cook, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Murray, Prof. and Mrs. E. C. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clifford, Mrs. Helen Brooks Irving, Miss Hattie P. Shadd, Mr. J. P. Strickland, Lieut. T. H. K. Clarke, Mr. Haley G. Douglass, Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Major G. A. Fleetwood, Mr. Robt J. Harlan, Prof. and Mrs. A. H. Glenn, Prof. and Mrs. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Assistant Attorney General W. H. Lewis, Collector and Mrs. Whitfield McKinlay, Prof. and Mrs. George W. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Langston, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Gray, Dr. and Mrs. W. Clarence McNeill, Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Garner, Mrs. Tibbs, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Calloway, Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilder, Prof. and Mrs. G. C. Wilkinson, Dr. and Mrs. John R. Francis, Dr. Lucy E. Moten, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Houston, Mr. Wyatt Archer, Dr. and Mrs. Milton A. Francis, Mr. James A. Cobb, Dr. and Mrs. E. Moorland, Rev. and Mrs. J. Milton, Waldron, Mr. Cyrus Field Adams, Recorder and Mrs. Henry B. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Charles I. West. Mrs. Clinkscales Entertains Her Pupils. Mrs. M. Harvey Clinkscales tendered the pupils of her music class a pleasant reception on Monday, December 30, from four to eight o'clock, at her residence, 1232 Linden Street Northeast. The first part of the afternoon was spent in rendering the latest vocal and instrumental numbers. After having immensely enjoyed this phase of the entertainment, they were conducted into her elaborately yet tastefully decorated dining room. Here they heartily partook of the choicest delicacies of the season, which were appropriated for their benefit. The Soap Box Club. The first regular meeting of the Soap Box Club was held at the residence of the president, Mr. J. Garfield Harris, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. After the transaction of business, an elaborate collation was served by the president and his charming wife. The menu was: Chicken salad, lettuce and cream cheese sandwiches, Rhine wine punch, ices, black coffee, cigars The officers and members of the club are J. Garfield Harris, president; Geo. Younger, vice president; Talbert Dowling, secretary; Dr. Geo. Davis, treasurer; Geo. L. Walton, social editor; Frank Tompson, sergeant-at-arms; Henry Coates, Stephen O. Plummer, Andrew J. Payne, Harry C. Cole, Noble L. Brooks, Charles Francis, Vernon Talbert. Mrs. Ruth Dabney Entertains. Mrs. Ruth Dabney, of 1132 Third Street Northwest, gave a dinner to Mr., and Mrs. Trammell, of Fairmount Heights, last Sufiday evening. It was an enjoyable affair. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dabney, Mr. and Mrs. John Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cheek, Mr. and Mrs. Bell, of O Street Northwest, Mr. and Mrs. Buck Thomas, of N Street Northwest, and others. Colored Girl Carries Off High Honors. Ann Arbor, Mich.; Jan. 6.—Miss Phyllis Wheatly Waters, a senior in the Ann Arbor High School, has been elected captain of the basket ball team of that historic institution. This is the first time since the establishment of the school that this honor has been conferred upon a colored girl. Miss Waters is the daughter of Col. Phil Waters, chief deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, residing at Charleston. Colonel Waters was himself a great athlete when he was a student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the '90's. Miss Waters, who is an accomplished young lady, is the recipient of congratulations from all parts of the country. Local Business League. The Local Business League will hold a public meeting Thursday evening. January 16, in the Y. M. C. A. building. Business and professional men and women are invited to be present. 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I have what the poets would call ‘an aching void, Sarah.” “You often suffer from headache,” ahe returned in a cutting tone. Banks drew his chalr up to the table with unnecessary noise and refrained from further attempts at conclllation for the rest of the day. foiling Fate. A well dressed business man climbed nimbly' up a telephone pole in the heart of town yesterday and swung bimecli ont hand over hand on a heaty cable. Half way to the next pole he stopped and, hanging by his hands, looked down at a man who stood at the foot of. the pole he had ascended. “Come on and do your worst," be etied. “Ha, hat I dare you!" ‘The man on the ground seemed about to follow, but turned away at last shaking his head. “That fs the second to escape me to day," be muttered. “People are get: ting too wild for any use.” “What becaihe of the first?” asked our reporter. . “He jumped into the river,” replied the Ife Insurance agent. — Newarl News. ss Chauccr’s Face In a Stone. In a xeolosical branch of the British museum the. visiter Is shown a won- derful specimen of natural imitation in a small “rivbon jasper.” This stone, the muterial of which is rot unlike that of other banded agates, has upon its surface x perfect miniature portrait of the poct Chaucer. Every detail is startlingly correct. There are the white face, the pouting lips, the: broad, low forehead gnd even the whites of the slightly upturned eyes. The at- tendants say that it fs utterly impos. aible to convince even some of the ca- ucated visitors that, it {s not an artl- ficlal production. Putting It Mildly. 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 lald eggs. “Oh, I do hope I have not broken them!” she cried. _ “Not at all, madam,” sald the polite one; “they are only bent.”"—London Globe. OR aR PR es “You,” sald she as she’ came dow the stairs lelsurely pulling on her Bloves—“youstised to say I was ‘wort my weight in zold.” “Well, what if I did?’ be asked, look- ing at bis wateb for the third time ia fifteen minutes. “And now you don't think I'm worl a walt of two minutes,” < Brag. When we are children we brag abou our parents. When we get to be youn: 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. Your Welght in Gold, ‘You often hear of a man or womaR or an object of some sort that ts pro claiming to be “worth his (her or its) weight In gold.” Did you ever stop to figure out what your weight in gold would be? Or your sweetbeart’s? Or your baby's? Or your favorite pipe’s? You can do it, approximately. The value of gold fluctuates. Usually It runs in price somewhere between $19 and $20 an ounce. Let's take the lat- ter amount. It’s easier to figure with. Gold !s weighed by troy welght, twelve ounces to the pound. In other words {at $20 an ounce) $240 a pound. Do you weigh 150 pounds? Then your weight In gold is about $36,000. (The “capitalization” of a man who gets an $1,800:\a year salary.) Is your girl's welght 110 pounds? She Js worth only about $26,400. Nearly $10,000 less than yourself, though you probably won't acknowledge It—to her. If your pipe weighs two ounces its welght In gold ts $40. Your ten pound baby {s worth only $2,400 In gold. So you see worth its welght in gold” Is not such exorbitant praise after all.—St. Louls Post-Dispatch. Wit of Philip of Macedon. Plutarch tells the following stories, good in their way, of Philip of Mace- Gon: In passing sentence on two rogues be 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 occups, which was reported by the scouts to be almost impregnable. “Is there not,” he asked, “even pathway to it wide enough for an ass Jaden with gold?” Philip, too, according to Plutarch, is entitled to the fatherhood of an adage which retains its ancient fame about “calling a spade a spade.” Another story tells how Philip re- moved a judge, because he discovered that the man’s hair and beard were dyed. “I could not belleve,” Plutarch re Ports the king as saying, “that one whe ‘was false in his hair could be honest in his judgments.” Pannveon and Tahaccea. ‘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 sttpulat- ing that if be did he should bo allowed to smoke In his bedroom the old lady bridled up. That she could not allow, Bedroom smoking wag not only objec- tionable, but dangerous, and for no one would she relax her prohibition role. Mr. Tennyson proving equally obdurate the hostess’ own carrlage was ordered out, and he was sent In It back,to his hotel at Plymouth, whence, however, he returned the next morn- ing to breakfast.—From Mrs. Walford's Recollections. ‘This Theory Is Now Doubted. The increase of temperature observ- ed ts alout 1 degree I. for every fit- teen yards of descent in the earth, Taking, then, as correct, the present observed rate of increase, the tempera- ture would be as follows: Water will boil at the depth of .2430 yards; lead melts at the depth of 8,400 yards; there Js red heat atthe depth of seven miles; gold melts at twenty-one miles; cast fron melts at serenty-four miles and soft fron melts at ninety seven miles. At the depth of 100 miles there is o temperature equal to the greatest artificial heat yet observed, a tempera- ture capabie of fusing platina, porce- lain and indeed every refractory sub- stance We «ire acquainted with.—Hum- boldt’s Cosmos. . ——_— e ee ae a ee Count von Moltke, Germany's great, field marshal, never lost a battle, and it annoyed him to lose a game of cards. A biographer says of his old age: “The family were trained to let him win If: they could without his noticing their Maneuver, and they would reckon up the sums to the smallest nmount. ‘It tg really wonderful that I have won in spite of my bad play," he remarked to me once rather suspiciously, but he abided by the result.” Light of the Stars. The light of the stars has been meas- ured and the following results have been obtained: The light that we re- celve from stars of the first magnitude, ike Vega, is equal approsimately to a forty-thousand-millionth part of that of the sun. It is cxlculated that the total ght recelved from the lesser stars is equal to that of 3.000 stars of the first magnitude, or a sixth part of that which fs sent to us from the moon. Classic. “And are your daughters musicals” we ask, a “I guess so,” he replies rather sadly “Oue of ‘em can sing things at the tor of her yoice so you can't understand @ word. and the other cau play the plano with her hands crossed."—-Ex change. Our Language. M. De France—You wind up ze cloc’s to-make him go? English Tutor—[x actly. M. De France—Zen what for you wind up ze beesiness? To make it stop? . Some Class. @ube—Thes say he is a fine after @lneer speaker. . Steve—Yos, he always veays, ‘Waiter, bring me the checks.”— Caocinnéti Enquirer. Now's the only bird lays eggs o' gold. —Torell. ‘The Punishment of the Bacna. In former times the punishment of the bagno (bath), one of the most clev- erly cruel Infiictions ever devised, was administered in Venice, where the wa- ter of the lagoons played so prominent 8 part in its penal system. The pun- ishment was as follows: The prisoner was placed in a vat the sides of which were slightly in excess of the average height of a man. In order to hold in check the rising tide of a supply of water which ran into the vat In a con- stant stream the criminal was furnish- ed with a scoop with which to bale out the water as fast as it came in. The respite from death by Immersion thus obtained was more or less pro- longed, according to the powers of en- durance possessed by the victim. But Imagine the mortal torture, the ex- hausting and even hideously, grotesque efforts, the incessant and pitiless toil by night and day, to stave off the dread moment fast approaching when, orer- come by sleep and fatigue, he was un- able to struggle auy longer against his | fate. | -———____ | Complimente. Said a certaln eminent actor, who at the age of fifty-nine looks no more than thirty-five: “I try to keep my hafr on and my stomach off—that fs the true secret of perennial youth.” Then he told one of his famous sto- ries illustrative of the horrors of corpu- lence. “A fat man,” he said, “could not help laughing one day at the ludicrous ap. pearance of a very bow legged chup, 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 sald: “‘By jingo, brother, you look as i! you'd been riding-a barrel.” “The bow lIexged man smiled, and poked his forefinger deep into the fat man't soft, loose stomach, “*And you look as if you'd been swal lowing one.’ he said."—Washingtor Btar. . A Town You Should Reach. The pleasant town of Get ‘There Iles far up a rocky hill, neross the sands of Courage and above the swathp of Will. The path that leads to Get There leaves the pleasant thoroughfare and wanders off 'mid rocks that grind and briur vines that tear. And thousands pass along the road that leads to Nowhere- Ville aud grumble at the few who climb to Get There on the hill, and others start the thorny path and scek the .town to gain, but falter at the swamp of Will and turn them back in pain, Ob, happy town-of Get There, shining {n the morning sun, you only show the toller how yet higher peaks are won! The truest recompense you give for self denying years 1s 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 bet- ter things, from peak to peak they climb up higher yet.— Rurel New Yorker. * ia Pavared Brecitv. A bishop once rose to address the house of lords and began by saying heintended to divide lls speech into twelve heads. Lord Durham there- upon got up and begged leave to inter. pose for 1 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. As he did so there was 2 drunken man trying to‘sce the time. Just then the cloch began to‘stfike the hour and slow; tolled ont 12. ‘The druoken man Ils: tened, looked hard at the clock and sald: : “Hang you, why couldn't you have said all that at once!” After this narration the bishop com densed his remarks.—London Globe. Walrus and Bullets. ‘The most vulnerable spot in which tc hit a walrus is the back part of the, skull, The forehead, being several inches thick in bone, almost Invariably turns bullets even ff solld ones are used In a big rifle, as should always be done. Bealdes the head, with the exception of the heart, there {g hardly a vital spot in these huge brutes’ bodies, and bul- lets may be fired ad libitum into these masses of fiesh and blubber without seeming to have much effect. Domestic Trasedy, “What's the matter?" “This morning our furnace was found choked.” “Whom do you suspect?” “Well, uncle was the sworn enemy of that furnace, and father is known to have made threats.” — Louisville Courier-Journal. a - A Fatal Error. Borrowes—Nellle, hand me my um brella, will you? It has commenced te rain, Mrs. B.—I lent your umbrella to Mr, Sweetfern last night. Borrowes— What In thunder did you do that fort Didn't you know it was bis?—Spare Moments. . The Mystery of Man, Man js greater than a world—thar systems of worlds, There is thore’mys tery in the union of soul with bods than in the creation of a universe— Henry Giles. E ‘The Inevitable. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. 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He charged the boy with not carning: his board. ’ The Yaquis Indians wiped out a whole town in Mexico and captured and carried off a lot of girls. Mr, Wm. Jennings Bryan denies that he has selectéd a place in Presi- dent-elect Wilson's. cakinet. Attorney Louis Gregory is in a fair way to solve the race problem. His new religion is making inroads in the most select circles. There are 20,000. cases of hook- worm among the school children in Breathit County, Ky. Every pupil has it. a A Harvard College thief has robbed. the students of $10,000 in money, books, etc. One of President Taft’s sons was a victim, Lulu Davis Maschino, formerly of Texas, was arrested for standering her husband, a member of- the Italian House of Deputies, was released from jail, divorced from_husband and given $50,000 alimony. She has returned to Texas. Dr. Williston, accompanied by -his friend, Mr. John T. 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Ment n this paner when writing, Read The Bee if you want a livs - DAVIDSON AND HILL ATTOR- TORNEYS. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding Probate Court. No. 19470, Administration. y This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber of the District of Colum- bia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration on the es- tate of Hattie, C. Johnson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All Persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to ex- hibit 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. EUSTIS B. JOHNSON, 1916 13th St. N. E. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Pro- bate Court. SHELBY J. DAVIDSON, CHAS. S,"HILL, . Attorneys. JAMES fy BUNDY, ALLORNEY, Supreme Court of the District of Co- lumbia, holding Probate Court. No. -19488, Administration Docket. Es- tate of Frederick Johnson, De- ceased, ‘ Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said g- tate, by Mildred Johnson, it is or- dered 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 roth day of February, A. D. 1913, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be grant- ed. Let notice hereof be published in the “Washington Law Reporter” and The Washington Bee” once in each of three successive weeks be- fore the return day herein mentioned —the first publication to be not less tas thirty days before said return lay. . JOB BARNARD, Justice. Auest: . . JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Pro- bate Court. JAMES F. RUNDY, Attorney. CHARLES H. HEMANS, SOLIC- ITOR. 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 _peti- tion was hled 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 H, HEMANS, Pa Solicitor. | Public Men and Things | (Contitued from page 3.) ( Capitol, wants to succeed Link John- son its Recorder of Deed-. Now Mr. Robinson, who hails from,.some un- “navigable creck -down in West Vir- ginia, was after the came place_un. der Taft Failmg’te land it-and find- ing that Woody Wilson got most of the electoral votes, he dropped down in the Democratic ranks the tiitl of ast Nevember—the day after the election. Link says there is a place in his office for a kitchen, but not for a barber. Old Link has a bunch af dry humor about lnm, and that Geor- xia peach ain't ne Simple Simon at that. When Robinson becomes Re- corder of Deeds it will he when the millenium has been here and gone about one thousand years. [f some Of these alleged Democrats wha have affiliated with the walnut-stained race. don't get rid of the ofice microbes that are eating into their brains’ fas- .ter than moths eat into a thiviot og er- coat. Dr. White will have to ask fer a appropriation. ta build another wing on to St Eliizaheth’s Hospital for Insane. Now there is Waldron. Robinson and Marshall looking lony- ingly at that Recorder job, with net one chance in a thousand of getting it. Litle Willie Harris thinks Collectur of Customs just his size. Everybody wants a bite of the core, and there ain't going to be no core ior Ham. On the fourth of March I am going to get one of these sightsecing cars, nile the whole bunch into it and take them out to St. Elizabeth's, and after showing them the inside from the outside. and the outsidie from the inside. | am going to quietly tell them if they don't get the Judson twist out of their brain pretty soon Doc, White will have the whole bunch on him for an indefinite stay. One year from date, if they ‘keep up thas yearning for office they haven't one chance im a thousand of getting, they will be rav- ing maniacs, and the whole outfit will he elocutionizing that Tittle piece we use to declaim when we were budding clocutionists: “I ani not mad who kneels to thee. for what Tam, and what I was too well | know." ‘1 do hope Hewlett and Horner won't get the hankering real strong again also, It will spoit two mighty hopeful fel- lows if they get into the seeking class, If you want your brain to work just like a pulley” that's beech oiled three times a day, for heaven sake go let Charley Barnes beat it out of your gray matter that you over-night wal. nut-stained Democrats are going to land the offices you are dreaming about. Robison is a pretty fair bar. ber: Waldron can preach some power. ful’ sermons, and Nap Marshall car live on_his wits too well to be spoiled by_an insane. unrequited desire for office. Bishop Walters’ got his little list, and you ain't on. See? *,* I overheard a covy of spades dis. cussing the' probability of Judge Ter- rell goirig off the bench after March foith, the other day. One of the . | aig | Christian Xander’s ) DELICIOUS - CORDIALIZED | APPLE BRANDY SLOO;Bottle © 65c full pint, Only at go9 7th St. NaIBERREH stores ) cove was 2 lean, lank tout ensembic of black who has thrived Tor several years on whisky bought by, others, and who is, as he claims, a “nigger” Democrat. I won't dispute the dis- criptive in this case. The other three were simply birds of passage, or indii- ferent suspects. All four belong to the hammer brigade. and could beat the anvil chorus. in Ili Troyatore when it eime to knocking. They ‘argued that the Judge would be handed his passport within sixty seconds after the neat President got his name on the payroll. Just to settle their argu- ment, I want to acquaint these sts- pects that the next President won't be dictated to by barflies, and whis- kyterians, and 1 rise to make the re- mark that Judge Terrell will be a judge many months, not less than two years, after the change comes, Now you ask how I know. Well, there are a few things I know, and I know them well. While some of the daubs are talking there is another class do- ing the cascaret act—working while you slecp. Some years*ago, a few deep water Baptists who were long on Scripture and short on brains, got to discussing “who will be here to bury the last man.” You can sit it down as coming from me, and then bank your last week's wages on it that T know what I'm talking about, that Judge Terrell will bea municipal judge long cnough to bury all these indifferent escapes from ‘St. Eliza- beth. You know old Confusius, who | use to write some pretty fare stuff-for | his time, once wrote “Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.” Now just chew over this for a few minutes, then make a Doc. Curtis diagnosis of your brain, and a Cabiniss diagnosis of your empty purse, and I guess you will ar- rive at the conclusion ‘you can't make | plans for Robert Heberton Terrell. I'm talking to those four bits of diar- rhoea of words and constipation of ideas, | US 2S Oe aA 0 pe a se ge a ae ee tee te ae ee a i & WEST WASHINGTON. & SE SEE A OS Se oe ie pe ne ae pte ge gee eae pe eg i = = The funeral of James Watson took pace from the Baptist. Church Sui day afternoon and was largely at. tended — Cormthian Lodge No. 2850 G. U, O. of OFT. Of which he was a members attended in a body. The resolution of condolence. tom _the lodge was read by Mr. G. Cubes The sermon was delivered by Rev. Theo- dore Wiftams,, pastor of Mt. Leba- non Baptist Chureh,-of avhich the de- ceased way .a inember, Rew. EL. Ricks and Rev Geo Harris avsisting. Miss Mary Pryor sang a_solo, “Face to Face "” Many floral offerings were presented. Interment at Wt. Zion Cemetery. The annual meeting of the ilelie- trope Cirele was held ‘Tuesday even- ine at the resitlence of Mrs. Martha Voward, 1322, Tenth Street North- west. The officers were re-elected tor the ensuing year. The reports of the secretary showed a healthy. treasury and a very cheerful year of pteasure and happiness. At the close of the meeting Mr, Howard invited the Cir- ele and other invited guests into the dining room, where a sumptuous luncheon was served. Among those present-were: Mrs, Maggic. Mrs. L. Palmer, Mrs. 1. G, Williams, Mrs Sarah Smith, Mrs. Anna Boyd Mrs. Mice Harris, Mrs. M_Uolt. Mrs. Mat- tie Harris, Miss Maria Morgan, Miss Allie Johnson, Mr, and Mrs. W. Cru- ser. r James LE, Turner and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Howard. The fourth and last quarterly con- ference was held Monday evening at Mt Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street. The district superintendent, Rev. E. W. R. Williams, presided. The reports of the trustees, stewards. Sunday School and all "the other branches of the-church were unamm- ously approved as being one of the hest’ conference years of the church, the “ebts being promptly met and one thousand dollars on the bonded debt being canceled. The officers were all re-elected except the record- ing steward, who -was succeeded by Mr. William Ballard, The conference asked for the return of the pastor, Rev. Daniel W. Hays, who is now tinishing a very sticcesstul year. Personal. R Miss Allie Johnson of Philadelphia, Va. is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sarah Smith, of P Street Northwest. Mrs. Lucy Moore (nee Jackson) ot Philadelphia, Pa.. is here on a visit at the home of Mrs. Fleet. ne SS He a eideeca ALEXANDRIA NEWS. x The monthly exercises 6f the Tunior League of Roberts Chapel, M. E. Church, were held at the church at 4 p.m, Sunday. Mr. F. H, M. Murray addressed the children. “There were solos by Misses Mallory, of New York (formerly of Alexandria), and Madame Margaret Browne; and the rendition of the regular Junior League program, consisting of solos and other a o ee? . Phone North 436. s ‘ The Esmeralda. } OYSTER*AND CHOP HOUSE. : Oysters and Clams. Wholesale and Retail, Meals at all Hours, ROBT. T. MURRAY, Proprietor. 600 T St. N. W., cor. Florida Ave., Washington, D. C. | ’s Dairy ! orner’s air nr ee Perfect Pasteurized Milk- and | - Cream. Raw milk if desired, Our Coupon Specialty: - | Presenl this coupon to driver or Fine grades of Creamery Butter, {office and.a 5 per cent discout Fresh laid eggs. Eight wagons give fon your milkif at retail prices ype prompt, reliable and aplent sere HORNER'’S DAIRY vice. Corner Eighth and M, = West. Phone, North veya, NCP 8th and M St. N. W. ‘C.B, HORNER —. 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Here it is simply an open ! book account, such as you carry ¥ with your grocer—except that we do not ask you to pay in a lump % /sum at the end of the month, i but divide the account into such % ‘amounts as will suit you. wi s We make these arrangements * with you; we make them ac- cording to your statements and % ‘wishes; and we do not go out- ¥ ‘side our store for information + regarding your private affairs. ; s ‘PETER GROGAN & SONS CO. 817-823 Seventh St. N. W. ¢ é ME SS PE SAE We EE Ue Se HAS ge BAe oe eae ae ‘musical numbers and recitations by the children. The: president of the League has arranged a rare treat for the rst Sunday in February, which will he announced later. Mr. Chas, W. Preston and his Se- nior Epworth) League will have charge at the young people's hour neat Sunday. At the regular meeting the Young Men's Bible Class Mr. Norman B, Murray was clected président to sue- ceed Mr. Edward P. Dixon, Jr. The class has been very. succe-sful uler the past administration and Mle, Mare ray. who is that same sort oi diligent worker, will continue the wark along the same progressive lites Following is the list ef officers elected at the meeting of the trustees of Roberts. Chapel. M. E. Church: Renjamin, F. Berry, président; BF. Watson, * secretary, and — Mosses Simms, treasurer. The prevent baard, which is composed of a set of wide- awake men, is doing great work for the church, and so systematic are they in their deliberations that Rey. Dr. S. 11. Brown, the pastor, has said that the meetings are ay orderly as a love feast. . ‘ Mrs. Essie Taylor, of Philadelphia, is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. UH. Murray. Mrs. Essie Strother is visiting her mother, Mrs. Marion Madella, John Holsendorf continues qufite ill at his home, 326 South, Columbus Street. . Mrs Nellie B. Webster was the week-end guest of her mother. Mrs. Mary F. Brooks. Frances Wilson, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson. is quite i] with pneumonia. x = e FALLS CHURCH NOTES. : MS HE SE SE Me oe ye Oe eae ge oe eae Mr. Edward Niel has moved and has his home nearer the village. He now has the Scott house near the Second Baptist Church,. but he will work during the winter at Leesburg, Va. A thrifty citizen, strong church- man, and a valued member of the choir, we will very mach miss his ‘presence so regular as a clock. | Mr Aleck A. Taliaferro. chaplain of Masonic Lodge No. 17.8. A. A. M. of Washington, D. C., ix now quite a regular Sunday evening visitor to our village. You are very. very welcome, Bro. Taliaferro. < Miss Harriet Lee, who has been spending some time in Boston, is now again with her home people. An cx- cellent young lady. Her’s is a Xmas visit, Miss Louise Goins, who has been spending a while with friends in Bal- timore, came home for a few days of Christmas cheer. Rev. Hamilton Bowser preached for his flock—Third Baptist—on Sunday night and gave. an impressive talk to the sinners of his congregation. Ue feels that the time is now at hand for a good Tevival. _ Miter spending thé holidays visiting their homes, the public school teaclt- ers are again at their posts of duty. Mrs. Josephine Martin has been quite illat her home in Falls Church. She had been spending a while before in Washington. We hope she may again soon he able to return to the city, where her many friends are al- ways pleased to have her. Prayer services will be held ior three nights during this week at Sec- onil Baptist. ‘Preparation for revival services -is the aim. On Wednesday aiternoon Mrs, Susie Campbell wil ‘conduct her “Mothers’ Meeting.” Mr. James Jones, of West End, is very sick at home. Seems a recently contracted cold is the cause. We wish his speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Nickens, ol “West. End, were guests at7a dinner on Christmas day, given in their honor by Mrs, Hattie J. Lee at her 'residemce, 512 U_ Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs, Charlie Newman, oi West End, had New Year's dinner with Mr. Newman’s mother, Mrs. Georgia Philips, at her residence, 2900 Fourteenth Street, Washington, D. C. Mr. E. Carmichael, Mr. Douglass Nickens, and Mrs. Hattie J. Lee werc honor guests at a dinner given by Mrs. Mamie Nelson at her residence, Providence Heights, Va., on Thursday evening, January 2, The West End Club, of which the following are members—Mrs. Mamic Nelson, Mrs. Hiittie J. Lee, Mrs. Rosa Walker, Mr. and Mrs, George Brad- ley, Mrs. Maime Philips, Mr. Mason Lee, Mr. Nolin Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Nickens, together with Mr. Elijah Carmichael, of New York, a gentleman who has chosen the law’ as his .profession—were invited ta Nauck'’s Station to attend a_party given'there at the residence of Mrs. Mary Berry, on Friday night, Janu: ary 3. An evening of real enjoyment is reported by them, Mr. Carmichac! just would not miss it, he having made a return trip to New York from New , Mexico, and hurried “directly down: At 6 o'clock P, M. Sunday, Janu- ary 3, the pastor of Second Baptis Chureh assembled a small crowd oj Sunday School workers in the mair room of the church for the purpose of reorganizing the Sunday School department for the year 1913. Bro. George Lowe and Miss Gracie Am. brose, who, as superintendent and secretary, respectively, have beer carrying the work so well, were given additional workers, and all were formed into a Sunday School commit. tee whose work will be the regular +e i - —Sd0lUlUlDlLlUl NEW YORK CANDY KITCHEN 1506 7th St. N. W. Bes 2 E CANDIES. 7 FRESH CANDIES MADE DAI7Y. One pound, 15 cts; 2 Ibs., 25 cts. 1 Ib,, 10 cts.; 3 Ibs., 25 cts. New Nuts, 1 Ib. 15 cts. Candy, to cts. box, 6 boxes, 50 cts. Candy 15 cts. box, 4 boxes, 50 cts. DONT MISS THE NUMBER 1506 7th St. N. W. : aa JAMES F.OYSTER | IEEE esr : Telephone Main 4820-4821. BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS. ee ae 900-902 Penna. Avenue. : Square Stands: Center Market, Sth and K St. Market. Rigg: “ -Market. _ . Washizeton, D. C. a . TOILET ARTICLES * . fs 9 AT = . : :,,. THE ASTORIA PHARMACY a a a a SNES: GET A FINE BOTTLE OF PERFUMERY THAT HOLDS ITS ODOR Cars to the Northeast Section and Suburbs Pass the door. THE ASTORIA PHARMACY ., ° (\v. ARMSTRONG) o 4 | sel Fresh Drugs, . = i _ ‘Third and G Streets Northwest, , sae . i * DRUGS AND PREPARATIONS ALWAYS FRESH. SB ———— PHONE MAIN 3252, 2 kaoemecn iat Gversight and enlargement of -the Sunday School life of the church. It was an enthusiastic meeting. The next, meeting will be next Sunday evening at 6:30 o'clock. SSS AE RE SE A AMO te ae a ee ee 3 - a 2 FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. z SE ONS HAS YE A ae He Be Se Be eS ns ae ae oe The Fairmount Heights M. E. Church, the First Baptist Church of North Fairmount Heights and the Presbyterian Church held interesting Christmas exercises and Old Santa Claus graciously remembered all the children. He was so generous that each pepson in the congregations was given cahdies and fruits, Mr. Edward Briscoe, Mrs. Blanche Lewis and Mrs Levinia Brisco organ- ized an Epworth League choir at the M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon. The leaders and stewards, also the Ladies’ Aid Society, held interesting meetings Monday night. Mrs. A. J. Ware tendered her resignation to the oltice of president of the Ladies’ Aid Society and Mrs. J. A. Campbell was elected in her stead. Mrs, Helen B. Cardozo called a meeting of citizens at the home of -Mrs. C. L. Marshall Tuesday might for the purpose of planning an old folks’ concert. Quite a number were present and success assured. Rey. E. M. Dent, pastor at Brandy- wine M. E. Church, visited his friends in this neighborhood and Washington January 7. Rey. and_Mrs. W. J: Tyler, of the Bennings Charge M. E. Church, are celebrating. the birth of a bouncing baby boy. Rev. C. S. Harper, pastor at Po- moukey, Md., isited the Rev, Mr. Ernest B. Williams, D.D., District Supermtendent, January 7. Christian Endeavor, “ Garnet C. Wilkinson, principal of the) Armstrong Manual Training School, will deliver an addres» under the auspices of the Christian En- deavor Society of the Fiiteenth Street Presbyterian Church on Sunday at 6 o'clock. It is expected that the Glee Club from the Armstrong Manual Training School will assist in the mu- sical program which has been ar- Trance. GEORGE W. MURRAY | DRUGGIST. | [ | The Most Reliable Druggist | | in the Southwest. | For Hoilday Toilets Murray's is the place to go. . | | zor D Street S. We | Mention The Bee. | Fi ee 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-2iegt Tusth’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 ni¢e, 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 Oid- Stand, 619 D. If you want first-class job work call or phone for estimate. Triangle Pniating Co., 1109 Eye Street North- wes! 7 ORs MESES PN eg Colored Detectives Wanted. ‘VANTED—Cofored men, be a de- tective. Earn from $100 to $200 per month. Send reference and $0 cents for full particulars. Sidney P. Dones, 4or Central Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. . d-1g-4t ——__—_—__. * Wanted—Apprentices, Wanted—Several apprentice girls to learn Dressmaking, Isadies” and Gent's Tailoring. Good pay while learning. Apply Mrs. R. L. Pannell, 403 Florida Avenue Northwest, City. Wanted. eneeyine twenty-five years’ experi- ence in cutting and making, also tail- oring generally, would like to corre. spond 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, soo Raleigh St., Bluefield, W. Va. ae FOR RENT. - FOR RENT—Seven room dwell- ing, No. 110 Howard Avenue, Ana- costia, D. C.; latrobe and open grate heat; front, side and back porches; large yard’and garden; lot contains more than 11,000 fget of ground, Rent, $15.00 per month. R-L. Pen- dleton, 609 F St. No W. Phone Main 1345. ——___ | WANTED. b — WANTED; Agents, male or female, to sell, our Hair Dressing and Scalp and Hair Cleaner, in the Cite of Washington. Can make big:money. We furnish everything ange credit you, * | Address Johnston & Sons Co., |W Broad and 23th Sts., ? Richmond, Va. d-21-gt v Wanted—Typewriter. Wanted—A. competent: lady type- -writer 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 . IMR oat Family Liquor Store Pale? 1435 H Street N. E. Washington, D. C. —————— Phone Lincoln 2760. HOLIDAY WINES AND LIQUORS AT M. HENNESSY Restaurant, 2:6 Ninth Street N. W.. It is the place to get best beers and whiskies. Fine lunch and din- ner daity. When you are at the Center wfar- ket call on Mr. Hennessy. It is the place for first-ci-ss wines, liquors and cigars. Breakfast, lunch and dinner al- ways reac+ BRODT'S HATS. er The greatest hat st .es in th: city. Only places where the up-to- date hats are made_fresh from the block, x * Give your friend a Brodt hat for Christmas. Brodt’s stores, 419 Eleyenth Street Northwest, and 503 Ninth Street Northwest.