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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE Ex-Lieut, Pierce L. Carmouche Disc cusses the Question. Detroit, Mich, Jan. 16, 1913. Editor Washington Bee; In regards to "Mixed Marriages," most particularly when it comes or relates to the "Negro's" and white persons, I submit to the Detroit Journal relative to its editorial of January 10, 1913, the following: While I am most bitterly opposed, not only to mixed marriages, but to any cohabitation or illicit intercourse between the "colored" and white persons, yet, to reach that agreement with The Journal, I must first disagree with its views on the subject, of which disagreement, I think the more proper way to reach an understanding of the question, would be by being truthful about it. I could cite in proof of such cases of "mixed marriages" among both "colored" women and white men and "colored" men and white women, whose wedlock would compare favorably with any marriages of equal race alliance, and whose offspring are the equal of any, physically, morally, intellectually, mentally, and intrepidly, in fact, capable and do accomplish things as well as any. It was so in ancient times, and it is equally so in our modern times, many men of this generation, coming as it were, from an illicit or concubine source, proves to be the equals of any. I take exception to the fact and do say that, the Jack Johnson's incident, as it seems to me, is taken as the bone of contention, which should not be. Jack Johnson and the white woman he married cannot be taken as a standard by which to record our disapproval of such intermarriages. All of such alliances belongs to the worse or sporting elements. My objections are based solely and strictly on the original color of the Negro: BLACK, of which color I do not think a disgrace, nor do I think it is a harr to his abilities and capabilities. Pleased of course with the credit given to Toussaint L'Ouverture and Booker T. Washington, but will the Detroit Journal tell us, why it placed L'Ouverture and Washington in the columns of full-blooded Negroes? Both of them are almost half-breeds. Yes, Paul Lawrence Dembrow, a Park man and I am proud of it too. A few words concerning the mixed and further mixed. Who was Alexander Dumas, the world famous novelist and son? Gen. Alexander dela Paillette Dumas, the Afro-French soldier under Bonaparte, who called him the Horatius Coales of the "Tyrol." In the Egypt expedition he commanded Napoleon's cavalry. A more modern example is Gen. Alfred Doods, one of the most distinguished officers in the French Army I could cite others. If justice would have been done to the American "Negro," since the time of Crispus Attucks, who lead the attack on the British in the Boston massacre, March 5, 1770. Can any one say as to how many Afro-American generals the race would have produced? What about Gomez and Maceo of Cuba? Who were they but half-breeds? What was Frederick Douglas, Blanch K. Bruce, John M. Langston, Robt B. Lewis, R. B. Elliott, John R. Lynch, Dr. Newman, Prof. Dubois, P. B. S. Pinchback and others too numerous to mention. What is Elijah J. McCoy, of Detroit, Mich. ("The Edison of our race") Prof. Dammond—"Our Wizard of electricity." Are not and was not all of these mulattoes and half-breeds? Notwithstanding the fact that many a "standard" works—of ancient as well as modern times—compiled of course by and for the benefit of the "white race," do not give credit to all the full-blooded and half-breeds of our race. Yet, we have sufficient to show that, it is no less true that, both of the breeds has produced a galaxy of wonderful men and women too, of the highest attainments. This half century we have reached—mixed as we are—and under circumstances which was capable of destroying every vestige of a race's capabilities, proves beyond the shadow of the least doubt, that the inherited vigor and other qualities of the "Negro," makes him a being which is hard to duplicate. Just think for a few brief moments: if it would not have been for the "Negroes" two hundred and odd years of slavery in America, what his history would be today? Just think of that from a white man's standpoint and note the conclusions you will reach. Now then, Mr. Editor, the following letter to "Rev." Gordon, J. M. Gordon, of Detroit, Mich., will show my positive attitude on the question of "mixed marriages" between "colored and white persons." January 3d, 1913. "Rev." J. M Gordon. 615 Fourteenth Ave., 615 Fourteenth Ave. Detroit, Michigan. As a colored man and a bonafide citizen of this country, with a family of four bright girls and a late first lieutenant—actual services in Cuba in our war with Spain in '98, I want to say that, you are a poor excuse as a "Christian minister" when in your comparison of a Chinaman and a "Negro" as an excuse to wed a white woman to a Chinaman. While I am bitterly, most bitterly opposed, not only to intermarriages between the "Colored" and white persons, but to any cohabitation or illicit intercourse, yet, I must in defense of my race, take exception to you and your comparison of a "Colored" man or "Negro" with a Chinaman. According to our definition of Christianity. I cannot see how you could compare the "Colored Christians" of this country, with the Chinaman, not unless you permitted The Chinese has never accepted our "Christianity" as a race, and he will never do so. Thus it seems to me mockery pure and simple when you attempt to make that difference or comparison between the "Colored" man or "Negro" with the Chinaman. There is no truthful way of comparing the "Colored" man as a Christian and a citizen of this country, with the Chinaman of "heathen" China, made into a citizen and a "Christian." The Christianity and citizenship of the "Colored" persons of this country, is today, one of the "strongest volum" of American history ever written. Then why you: "a teacher" of "Christianity"? insults the "Colored" Christians as you do, by comparing them with the Chinaman? In marrying, him, the Chinaman, with or to a white woman? On account of the capabilities and denied possibilities of the "black man." I would demand of the Michigan Legislature, in fact, the National Government, a law that would not only prevent intermarriages between "Colored or blacks" with the white woman and the white man with the "colored" woman, but a law, that would make it an equal offense, equally as prohibitive, to have secret cohabitation or illicit intercourse between the "colored" and whites. In that way, the "black man" of the future could not hear it said that the "Negroes" abilities comes from his cross breeding with the white race. Are we capable of enforcing such a law? LJUT PIERCE I. CARMOUCHE LIEUT. PIERCE L. CARMOUCH. January 16th, 1913. WILL YOU TAKE A TICKET? Danger and Insults. Editor of The Bee: Will you take a ticket from me, or will you give me something on my card? I am begging for such and such a church. How many of the men of Washington have been held up in the streets by married women and virtuous young innocent girls who have been sent out on a begging mission by our Christian Churches. Doubtless there have been many innocent girls that have strayed away from the path of virtue by this mode of money getting. And these are facts which are well worth the attention of husband and father. Often times this money getting carries with it a prize for the one getting the highest amount of money. And, in order to carry off the prize many of us little doubt that the winner must come across with a little bit of "tainted" money. True, our churches must be supported, but let us try to do it in a way that won't cost the loss instead of the saving of souls. Once a glittering prize is in view, those running for it will strain every nerve to obtain it. Men have been known to lose their very lives running for a great prize. The little jockey has even rode his horse to death because of the prize in view. Whenever there is a prize that's really worth something each competitor strives hard to win. Little do they know that these prizes offered by many of our churches are but the beginning on the downward road to destruction of many an innocent girl. Sometimes the prizes offered are a "diamond ring," a "gold watch," and other paraphernalia. The wife and daughter goes out with an earnest desire to get these things. They have no intention whatever to collect this prize money other than in an honorable way. But they soon meet up with some rascals (nearly all men are rascals, from the pulpit down through all the pews), who will stoop to insult these women who were sent out to get money—get money for the churches. Well, hubby, he done say: "Dearest, where have you been, and what kept you so late tonight?" "O," says wifey, "I been out, mah honey, tryin' to win de prizel." This church begging in the streets, in the hedges, and in the highways, ought not to be. Our pastors must be cared for nicely. They work hard, and will be very fatigued when they, enter into that haven of rest, but if the churches cant be run or paid for, without the sacrifice of the wives and daughters of husbands and fathers, then it is time to throw up the sponge and go back to the tents and brush harbors from which we came. KANSAS REFUSES To Pass Bill Prohibiting Marriages Between Whites' and Blacks. Bill Offered in the House by Democrat Defeated in the Senate. Topeka. Kan.—Kansas and Kansas may well feel proud of the noble gentlemen composing the upper house of the State Legislature for the position taken by them in refusing to let the grand old State of Kansas, the home of the martyred John Brown, enter the ranks of the southern idea or "Jim Crow" aggregation, where prejudice and not justice rules supreme. That congregation of forty true and tried men, selected from the various sections of the State, decided that there was no need for Kansas to stain her name in infamy by putting upon the statute books a law for bidding marriages between whites and blacks. Since no Negro can marry a white woman unless she be the willing victim, the white men of Kansas need not fear that there will be any great rush in such marriages. This fact the upper house of the Kansas Legislature seems to have fully realized, and it has acted in accordance and voted not to place a stigma upon the colored people of Kansas that would brand them as things unworthy the name of human, and such would be WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1913 U.S.V. EX-LIEUT. PIERCE L. CARMOUCHE No Discrimination Exists in the School Against Howard University. Assistant Superintendent Bruce Gives Facts and Figures—His Recommendation to Admit College Graduates Interesting Correspondence. Board of Education of the District of Columbia. Washington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1913 Professor Kelly Miller, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, Washington, D.C. My-Dear Professor Miller: I beg to acknowledge and to thank you cordially for your letter of the 29th instant in which you exonerate the present assistant superintendent in charge of colored schools of any charge or charges that may have been made that in the management of the colored schools he has discriminated against Howard University. The enclosed memorandum concerning graduates of the college section of Normal School No. 2 show that the twelve college graduates admitted to the opportunities of the course since September 1, 1908, are distributed in respect of institutions as follows: In a word, twice as many graduates were admitted from the college of arts and sciences of Howard University as from any other college. The problem of making equitable provision for teachers in the service of the primary grades who—stimulated, no doubt, by the privileges actually and invariably extended the graduates of the College Section by the Board of Education—have recently won the first degree in arts or sciences from Howard, is a new problem with which the school authorities must deal with fairness to all parties at interest. The assistant superinten- PETER H. HARRIS dent in charge of colored schools is quite as unwilling to disappoint the reasonable expectations of the three young women who entered the College Section in September, 1911, and graduated therefrom in June, 1912, as to fail to effect a proper correlation between graduates of this course and the aspiring teachers who, while in the service, worked for and in June, 1912, won college degrees. Equity may certainly be extended to each of these groups of worthy young people without inequity to the others. Howard University, I should imagine, could not consistently display a keener interest in the welfare of its graduates in one of these groups than in the other' a point of honor to further all by reasonable measures a cotidial and genuine co-operation between Howard University and the public schools. PROF. KELLY MILLER. He Denies the Charge. January 29, 1913. Professor R. C. Bruce, Franklin School Building, Washington, D. C. It has come to me, in a round about way, that you have been charged with disobjection against Howard University in your management or the Public Schools. I am in a position to know the facts in the case. Your attitude towards Howard University has been most cordial and generous, and I have been glad on more than one occasion to mention this fact. I now recall several of our graduates who have been appointed to the upper grades of the Public Schools after taking the post-graduate course in Normal School No. 2. It does not appear that graduates of any other institution have been given any preference over them. The four or five young ladies, who have taken our college course while teaching in the grades, form a class by themselves, whose case it seems to me should be considered on the basis of its own merits. If anyone has gotten the impression from anything which I have said on intimated, that you are disposed to discriminate against graduates of Howard University, I beg to hope that this note will be sufficient to dispel the misapprehension and to make clear my position in the matter. $ ^{+} $ Very truly, (Signed) KELLY MILLER. COLORED SCHOOLS REPORT. Excerpt From the Report of the Assistant in Charge of Colored Schools for 1907-8, Concerning the College Section at Normal School No.2. "I would urge that the Board of Education grant the principal of Normal School No. 2 permission to admit a few carefully selected graduates of the best colleges to the Normal School—men being given distinct preference—with the understanding that they be given opportunity to attain the diploma in one year of study and practice. College graduates thus admitted to the Normal School should pursue studies in school management and special method, be offered ample opportunity under expert supervision for observation and practice in all the grades of the elementary school; moreover, they should engage to some extent in independent research in connection with a seminary. Graduates of this course should be appointed to the fifth grades in the elementary schools, the minimum salary in this grade is $900, the automatic increase for satisfactory services being $30 per annum until a maximum of $1,000 is attained. After careful inquiry and reflection I am convinced that this plan will gradually increase not only the number of teachers in the service of the elementary school whose professional training is built upon a liberal education, but also—and quite as importantly—the number of desirable men teachers." Memorandum Concerning Graduates of College Section of Normal School No. 2. Class of June, 2012: Class of June, 1912: 1. Miss R. B. Lane, A. B., (Oberlin). Note: Appointed temporary teacher of grade 6, Miner School, 10th Division, by executive order, Jan. 17, 1913. Not yet appointed permanently. 2. Miss S. N. Meriwether, A. B. (Howard). Note: Not yet appointed. 3. Miss F. A. Holland, A. B., (Cornell.) 3. J. M. Cowan, A. B., (Oberlin.) Note: Appointed to 3d grade and detailed to Armstrong April 16, 1999, on the ground that he had qualified by the required examination. Cowan is now receiving a Class 6 salary at Armstrong. Ratings: 1911, "Good;" 1912, "Very Good." 4. J. L. Chestnut, A. B., (Amherst): Note: Appointed to 5th grade at Deanwood School Sept. 1, 1909. He is now teacher of the 6th grade at Jones School. Ratings: 1911, "Excellent;" 1912, "Excellent." Memo, prepared Jan. 27, 1913. Memorandum for Superintendent Davidson. In view of the discussion now current concerning the college section of Normal school No. 2, I think that, perhaps, I ought to indicate to you personally some of the reasons that in my mind warranted the recommendation for the establishment of this course: 1. To increase the number of liberally educated teachers in the intermediate grades of the elementary schools. It is a serious mistake to assume that in the elementary schools broad scholar-school administration should make shift with any but the best material obtainable. 2. To increase the number of men teachers in the elementary schools. The number of men who graduate from the regular two-year course of the Normal School is very small; the reasons are (1) that such graduates must begin their careers by teaching in the first or the second grade, and many men are ill adapted to such service; and (b) that men can readily secure congenial positions at the $600 salary paid first and second grade teachers, in other employments. The need for men teachers in the elementary schools is four-fold: (a) boys need contact with men if they are to be made manly; (b) men teachers are almost indispensable in some cases of discipline; (c) men are indispensable in school athletics; (d) the relegation of all teaching of elementary grades to women tends to associate 'culture in the child's mind exclusively with women, to make many children look upon scholarship and culture as merely "womanish." 3. To secure material which in the course of the years may best be used for filling principalships and supervisory positions. Routine promotions of ordinary normal graduates with some admirable exceptions, tend to make principals and supervisors lacking in outlook and initiative. Again and again when vacancies in such supervisory positions occur, embarrassment is felt because of, the lack of appropriate material for-promotion. The college graduates do and keep on growing much longer. It is precisely in the qualities essential to the best principals and supervisors—breadth of outlook, professional spirit, initiative—that the college graduate is likely to be distinguished. Respectfully submitted. ROSCOE C. BRUCE. February 20, 1912. Christian Endeavor. The Presbyterian Christian Endeavor reception which was held Saturday evening at the residence of Miss Jessie Parks, treasurer of the organization, proved to be a very enjoyable affair. Though not crowded, the parlers were comfortably filled. The musical program which was presented was a feature of the reception. The various numbers were loudly applauded by those present. The program was as follows: Piano Solo—Miss Fay Hershaw. Vocal Solo—R. E. Rattley, Sr. Instrumental Trio—Messrs. Conway. 'Reading—Mrs. C. C. Smith. Vocal Solo—Miss Jessie Parks. Instrumental Trio—Messrs. Conway. Instrumental Trio—Messrs. Conway. A feature of the program was the presentation of a handsome leather music bag to Dr. R. E. Rattley, leader of the Endeavor choir—a gift of the Christian Endeavor officers and members. The presentation was made by Mrs. C. C. Smith, vice president. Miss Gladys Freeman has been announced to preside over the meeting on tomorrow. Bishop Walters Coming. Bishop Alexander Walters will be in the city this week on important business connected with the inaugural ceremonies and pending legislation in Congress. The eminent prelate is taking no stock in the current gossip about factional differences among the colored followers of Woodrow Wilson. He is for "Harmony" with a capital "H" and title "looking for BEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST Widows in Korea never remarry, no matter how young they be. Even though they had been married only a month, they must not take a second husband. The Metropolitan Art Museum of New York is the richest in the world, $2,000,000 having recently been left by the estate of James B. Hammond, the typewriter manufacturer. The new nurses' home at Freedmen's Hospital was opened for public inspection last Thursday. It contains sixty-five rooms and cost $40,000. Jack Johnson will not be able to contract for any more fights until his Chicago cases have been settled. The inaugural parade will be one of the most imposing in the history of the country. Mrs. Armour wants divine services to supplant the ball. She paid-President-elect Wilson a high compliment. Miss Potts, daughter of Rear Admiral-Robert Potts, has decided to take the white veil. His two other daughters have dedicated their lives to the church. About fifteen colored clerks in the sixth auditor's office were furloughed two weeks ago. The Negro is succeeding in business. The Negro Business Leagues throughout the country are doing a great deal of good for the masses. Another colored man was elected a member of the Illinois Bankers' Association in the person of Mr. Berga. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., leads all Negro bankers. A new colored member of the Board of Education is being discharged. Retior has it that he has already been selected. Every State where Negro Democracy is strong there is a candidate for the Haitian mission. Local colored Democrats are making great preparations to banquet Bishop Alexander Walters. It will take place March 4th. It will be a great event. Rev. L. G. Moore, the Negro Democratic priest and politician, is the strongest endorsed Negro Democrat in the United States. The loan shark bill has become a law. The sharks have been convinced that they can't live on such a small interest. One per cent a month is equal to 12 per cent a year. Legal rate of interest in the District of Columbia is 6 per cent. Four cents above the legal rate of interest is not bad. The banks live. Why not the sharks. President Taft urges the study of the Bible. This is good advice and the wicked should take his advice. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS Graduating Exercises of the Eighth Grade—Work of the Kindergarten. The graduating exercises of the Eighth-year Classes of the Twelfth Division were held at the Alfred Jones School January 31 at 2 o'clock p.m. with the following program rendered: Invocation—Rev. F. I. J. Bennett. Address to the Graduates—Dr. W. S. Montgomery, supervising principal Twelfth Division. Address—Dr. Wm Marshall, member of the Board of Education. Presentation of Diplomas—Mr. R. C. Bruce, assistant superintendent of schools. The contribution to the program of the classes were several well rendered choruses under the direction of Prof. J T. Layton, assistant director of music Benediction—Rev. Fair, of Benning. D C "The Elks' Home," established at 2112 H Street Northwest, under the auspices of Columbia Lodge No. 85, with the cooperation of Morning Star Lodge No. 40, is to be one of the commanding institutions of the capital city The Home is a substantial brick structure, near the heart of the city, and it is to be provided with every convenience found in a well-ordered club-parlors, library, pool and billiard rooms, bowling alley, sleeping apartments, baths, buffer, etc An investment of about $15,000 will be made by the promoters. The officers responsible for the "Elks' Home" are: Harry E. Simms, exalted ruler; William H Simms, secretary; John L. Hughston, president of Home Association; Joseph H. Stewart, legal adviser; trustees and directors, Edward W. Bundy, Erastus Molen, John H. Banks, James S Chapman, Frank B. Williams, John L. Hughston, Harry E. Simms, Joseph H. Stewart, Robert P. Rhea, Auftaust A. Lee and Eugene W. Gates. The stock is being taken rapidly and the investment will be approved. Scotland's "Daft Days." So hilarious were the old ceremonies of welcoming the new year in Scotland that Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 won for themselves the designation of "the daft days." Temperance legislation has done much in recent years to moderate and refine the festivities, which still, however, assume extensive and exuberant proportions. Only a few years ago a writer in the London Chronicle in Edinburgh on New Year's eve saw the "Black Maria" perambulating the streets and picking up the hopelessly drunken persons from the pavements and doorsteps for conveyance to the police station. It was formerly the custom in Ireland and Wales to carry a lantern tastefully decorated with ribbons and containing a wren, round each hamlet and village on New Year's day and make calls on dwellers in cottage and hall. The bearers, swinging the lantern at each door, would favor all whom it might concern with a song and receive a monetary reward. The Old Time Stagecoach In 1762 there were, strange as it seems, only six stagecoaches running in all England, and of course these were the only public vehicles for travelers. Even these were a novelty, and a person named John Crosset thought they were such a dangerous innovation that he wrote a pamphlet against them "These conchees," he wrote, "make gentlemen come to London upon every small occasion, which otherwise they would not do except upon urgent necessity. Nay, the convenience of the passage makes their wives come often up, who rather than come such long journeys on horseback would stay at home. Then when they come to town they must be in the wade, get fine clothes, go to plays and treats and by these means get such a habit of idleness and love of pleasure that they are uneasy after." Roast Pig In Servla The favorite dish of the Servians, says a writer in the Wide World Magazine, consists of a lamb or sucking pig roasted whole over ashes. A pt is first dug and filled with wood-vine branches for choice, as they give the best flavor—and the fire is then allowed to burn for several hours. The carcass is next impaled with a stout stick and slowly turned round and round over the embers. The result, after six hours' turning, is a very luscious meal, for all the gravy is kept in and the meat is unusually tender. No plenic in Servia is considered complete without this delicacy. A story goes that on one of his campaigns Napoleon noticed a group of Servian soldiers cooking meat in this way, whereupon he came up, inquired what they were doing, tasted the meat and was delighted with it. Racer of Mankind The races of mankind are five in number white yellow brown and with the specialists for ages, but the disputes are as numerous as they were when the study began. Whether the various races sprang from some one original race and if so what that original race was, is a question that is still in trubo. Between these five races, as found at present, there are physical, moral and mental differences so marked as to seem to preclude a common origin and yet, unless such origin is assumed, the difficulty of the case is greatly enhanced. Race origins are an unsolved problem -New York American Rainbows That Can Change Sex. Rainbows That Can Change Sex In many parts of the world it is the general belief that the rainbow has the power to change sex. This queer belief obtains in such widely separated districts as South Africa and Norway and China and Australia. The Zulus have a long folklore story of the young man who was changed into a wrinkled old woman by touching the many hued arch. The Scandinavian peasants have a similar story, and in Greece they say that anybody who runs against the end of the rainbow will have his or her sex instantly changed. In France and India to pass under the rainbow has a similar effect. Well Trained. Old Lady (improving the occasion)—Ah, my poor man, you would not be in this position if you had received an early training in some trade or 'calling. Tramp—Don't you tork too sudden about wot you don't know nothin' about, missus. No trainln', indeed! W'y. I was in prison afore I was fourteen—London Mall. Made His Hair Come Out Habitual Customer (to his barber)—Your confounded hair restorer has made my hair come off more than ever! Barber—Ah, you must 'ave put too much on, sir! Made the 'air come right out, 'stead of only 'arfway.—Windsor Magazine. His Philosophy. Employer—I see you've collected a lot of small accounts, but you haven't made much headway with the bigger ones. Collector—No, sir; I generally make it a rule to—b'm—follow along the line of least resistance—Chicago Tribune. There Are Cooks and Cooks. A lady correspondent remarks cynically that many a man who would hesitate to make a wife of his cook is quite ready to make a cook of his wife—London Standard. He who would rest must work Italian Proverb. A German Fairy Tale As the cobbler stepped into his shop his scold of a wife started to lecture him unmercifully for coming in late. "Be quiet, Zenobla," said he affably. "Today I have had a great stroke of luck. Coming home, I met a fairy who had lost her way. I put her on the right track, and out of gratitude she presented me with this pair of slippers. Whoever puts on the left one becomes invisible. Then if you put on the right one you reappear. You will see that this present is very valuable, because we will be able to make lots of money with it." Zenobla became still and stood overcome with curiosity in front of her husband. "Come," said he; "let us try it once." She slipped on the left slipper and positively in the same instant vanished away. "It is really true" said the cobbler, astonished "She is gone" Then he took the right slipper, went out of the house and threw it in the deepest well—Fillegende Blatter. Munich Royalty Is Modest. As far as meeting royalty is concerned, Munich is a great contrast to Berlin. It is impossible to stay long in the Prussian capital without having one's path stopped or impeded by the passing of some prince of the royal house or, at all events, by the cohorts of police who safeguard them. One may stay for months in Munich without seeing more than a royal carriage driving past almost unnoticed except for the raising of hats. The popularity of the Wittelsbachs is genuine, and every Munich takes a lively interest in the ways and doings of the members of the royal house. The tragic history of the Wittelsbachs in recent times is perhaps the reason why the personalities of the present generation seem somewhat effaced. They at all events take care not to stand in the limelight.—Manchester Guardian. Champagne From Sponges "Champagne makers of Rheims buy a lot of our sponges," said a wholesale dealer. "They squeeze champagne out of them. They must squeeze in the year's course a million bottles of champagne out of sponges. Mystified, aren't you? But there is no mystery about the matter Champagne as it ferments is powerful stuff; it breaks the strongest bottles, and in the past all the champagne that broke its bottles and escaped was lost. Now, though, they pack the champagne bottles in clean sponges, and every day or two they go over the plant, and if any of the bottles have broken they squeeze into casks the wine that the sponges have retained. This wine, reclarified, refined and bottled again, makes a very good second quality drink." How a Flea Jumps: It is said that a flea leaps 200 times its height, and, while it usually does land on its feet, it often falls, especial- great help in keeping their owner right side up when it makes one of those gigantic jumps, and when it lands upside down or in some other way its ability to kick is so great that not more than one wriggle is needed to set things right. A flea's wings are mere scales and of no use. But, small and worthless as they are, they tell the entomologist something about the proper classification of the insect. To the flea itself they have no value. Compelling Use of Surnames Compelling Use of Surnames. Some folk have been compelled by law to change their surnames. In 1603, for instance, the name of MacGregor was proscribed, and those who had previously borne it were compelled to adopt another. In Ireland, also, as far back as 1485, an act was passed ordering the inhabitants of certain districts to "gae appareled like Englishmen, wear their head after the English manner and take English surnames." The act further directed that those concerned should take for their new names "the name of a town, as Sutton, Chester, Cork or a color, as White, Black, Brown," and that they and their wives should use this new surname under pain of forfeiting all their belongings—London Graphic. "To the Lamppost." "To the lamppost" is a mistranslation of "a la lanterne." There was no lamppost. The lamp was hung over the middle of the street in the center of a cord, which passed over pulleys at the sides of the street. The lamp was let down, the person to be hanged was substituted for it and the ends of the cord pulled.—London Notes and Queries, Poor Colors. "She's always trying to get things to match her complexion." "What of it?" "Haven't you ever noticed her complexion?"—Milwaukee Sentinel. "Wouldn't it be fine to live in clover?" said the optimist "Huh! You'd only get hay fever," said the pessimist. - Cincinnati Enquirer. Try It. A man never quite realizes how much furniture he owns until he tries to walk rapidly through his rooms in the dark—Puck Describing Her: Gibbs—Say, old man, that little wife of yours is a picture. Dibbs—More she's a picture puzzle.—Boston Tran script. Arab Hagoling. Alan Ostler in "The Arabs In Tripoli" comments on the amusing haggling scenes in the desert plunder market when loot of war was the merchandise. "Why do you not sell at a set price to all alike?" he asked a merchant. "But why?" said he. "If I can get but half a grush the more from one of them than from another, is it not gain?" "But that wastes time, for while you bargain with one you might have sold to three. They say with us, Time is money." "Oh, folly," he retorted scornfully. "Time is God's and given freely to all men, so that all have it alike. But with the flus one has much, another none, and you must take what you can get." To haggle with any one is a joy to the Arab. But mutual trust he lacks. "I have known two men," says Mr. Ostler, "farm partners, walk eight miles to a market with three scrawny bens to sell. Both must needs go, for neither would trust the other net to cheat him." The Speed of Animals According to naturalists, no animal is known to have exceeded the speed attained by the famous race horse Sysonby. Instantaneous photographs show the full length of one complete stride as about twenty-six feet. In the stride of the fastest racers the blind quarters and the limbs are raised considerably higher than the shoulders and from this relatively great height brought downward and forward, widely separated from each other, as a sportsman says, "to avoid striking the fore legs." The bare which is hunted with fast hounds has not in reality the speed of the dog. The dog, on the other hand, does not attain the speed of the horse. The giraffe is said to run at the rate of fifteen meters (yards) per second under the most favorable conditions. The elephant, going at the rate of two yards a second, carries a weight approximating that carried by six horses.-Harper's. An Interested Listener. Mark Twain one rainy day found himself in a room in his club which contained only one other occupant. The two men drifted into conversation. Mark began a discussion on the merits of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," and made brilliant deductions as to the character and personality of the writer of "Tess," from what he called the internal evidence of the story. His listener at times mildly dissented, but on the whole maintained an attitude of impassivity. When "Tess" had been labeled only passable, Mark Twain's chance acquaintance, excused himself and departed. Calling the smoke room attendant Mark Twain asked him whom he had been conversing with. "That's Mr Thomas Hardy, slir!" replied the steward impressively. death. Without that dread the world could hardly remain people. The dread of death is to the soul what the law of gravity is to the body. It anchors us to the earth. Without that dread to weigh us down and keep us to the globe half mankind would be driven by curiosity, by the love of change, by the dread of enmil, by what Bacon calls "niceness and satiety." to push open the closed door and see what is beyond. Children and a few very happy and easily pleased people might perhaps say they would not explore further and that they were perfectly content with things as they are.—St James' Gazette. To Calculate Longevity "Bacon took a deep interest in longevity and its earmarks," said a physician, "and Bacon's signs of long life and of short life are as true today as they ever were. You won't live long. Bacon pointed out, if you have soft, fine hair, a fine skin, quick growth, large head, early corpulence, short neck, small mouth, brittle and separated teeth and fat ears. Your life, barring accidents, will be very long if you have slow growth, coarse hair, a rough skin, deep wrinkles in the forehead, firm flesh, a large mouth, wide nostrils, strong teeth set close together and a hard, gristly ear." Obligation Both Ways "Of course you are very proud to have them." "Yes, and I have no doubt the old masters would have considerable respect for me if they knew what I paid for them."—Washington Star. A. Social Catastrophe. "Was no one injured in the railway collision, count?" "No, but nevertheless it was a most painful stintion. First, second, third and fourth class passengers all mingled together Simply unheard of!"-Fillegene Blatter. Not an Expert Opinion. "He has just returned from Mexico. He says a Mexican burro is the most aggravating stubborn thing on earth." "He isn't married."—Houston Post. A Helping Hand. "Why are you removing all the rocking chairs?" "Pa has sworn off on swearing, and we want to do all we can to help him." —Detroit Free Press. Ronst not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.—Proverbs. Animal Life The May fly's life is complete in four to five hours, during which it is born, matures, loves, lights, mates, propagates and dies. The ordinary moth lives three to four days, the locust (grasshopper) lives four weeks, dragon fly six to eight weeks, male bees or drones four to five months, snails two to three years, queen bee two to three years, mouse six years, squirrel six years, pigeon ten to twenty years, canary twelve to fifteen years, rabbit ten years, brer fox fourteen years, crawfish twenty years, plig twenty years, lion thirty-five years, toad frog forty years, cat forty years, bear fifty years, raven 100 years, elder duck, 100 years, parrot 100 years, golden eagle 104 years, white headed vulture 118 years, plke 200 years, carp 200 years, elephant 200 years and swan 300 years. Considering the fact that the average man's age is only about thirty three years, it will be seen that many members of the animal kingdom have a great advantage over the human race in their allotted length of life. An Insult. Angrily the head of the haberdashery concern stormed into the employment agency and demanded an interview with the manager "I understand," he said, "that you have been recommending as AI collectors certain young men whom you represent as having collected money from us. If they can get it from us they can get it from anybody. That's the way you make it appear, consequently your clients land good jobs." With visions of possible libel suits rising before his guilty conscience, the agent attempted self justification. "You are considered pretty hard nuts, you know," he said. "Oh, that's all right," said the man. "It ain't that I'm kicking about, but not one of your men has ever collected a dollar at our shop, and it don't do any good to lie about it."—New York Times. It Might Have Been Worse. Mark Twain during one of his lecture tours was waiting at a station for a delayed train. The lecture committee and several townsmen were with him and talking their best to pass the time away. One man told about a frightfully unhealthy town he had read about, and it was a grewsome tale of dying and burials and that sort. "It might have been worse," Twain followed, in his slow and direct manner. "I lived in that same town for two years, and I never died once—not a single time." The way he said it seemed to daze the crowd, and not a man said a word in response. "Of course you may think I'm lying," the humorist continued, "and I'm sorry, for I can't, get any witnesses to testify that I didn't, because everybody else that lived there is dead." that the panyte was selling the face of Englishmen and spoiling the beauty of women and expressed horror at the fact that no fewer than six ships were employed in the China tea trade. Dr. Johnson, who reviewed Hanway's diatribe in the Literary Magazine, prefaced his criticism with the frank avowal, "The author is to expect little justice from a hardened and shameless tea drinker, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with tea inmuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight and with tea greets the morning," but even he admitted that tea drinking was not good for the working classes, as he thought it an inducement to idleness. —London Chronicle. More Than Was Asked. The old tombstone, in the quiet fashion of its kind, implored the passerby to pause and drop a tear, and no sooner had the beautiful girl read the inscription than she began to weep. But her mother reproved her. "Cecilia," she exclaimed, "why can you not have more restraint? You are requested merely to drop a tear, and here you have burst into several!"—Puck. Patronizing Papa Father—Upon my word, you children are getting too dainty for anything, Jam and butter on the same piece of bread, indeed! Why, when I was your age I was glad to get enough dry bread to eat, Bobby—You have a much better time living with us, don't you, father?—National Monthly. Comforting. Wife—Why did you tell the Batsons that you married me because I was such a good cook, when you know I can't even boil a potato? Hubby—I had to make some excuse, my dear, and I didn't know what else to say.—London Opinion. His Advantage: "An aviator has one big advantage over other men." "Most of his advantages are over men, but what is this special one?" "He can want the earth without being called grasping."—Baltimore American. Economical. Johnny-Mamma, will you wash my face? Mamma-Why. Johnny, can't you do that? Johnny-Yes, but I'll have to wet my hands, and they don't need it-Lippincott's. Not Like the National Game. Geraldine-Did you ever play kissing games? Gerald-Yes, and I remember them as games that didn't have to be called on account of darkness.-New York Times. Death Through a Tarantula. One of the quickest and most complete and justifiable killings that ever I saw came about through a tarantula. It was at a mine camp in the old days, and the camp bully had a tarantula impaled on a stick. A man newly arrived from the east stood gazing, fascinated with horror, at the squirming reptile, working its black fangs in the effort to reach something that it could fasten them into. Suddenly, without warning, the bully thrust the tarantula straight into the tenderfoot's face. His whiskers saved him from the fangs, but he let out a yell as if he had actually been bitten and jumped back, I fully believe, ten feet. Then as the fellow came poking the tarantula toward him again, the tenderfoot drew his revolver and turned loose on his tormentor. His first shot would have been enough, as it went straight through the fellow's body, but the tenderfoot had his excitement to work off, and he never stopped shooting until his revolver had been emptied and the man with the tarantula was a sieve. "Served him right," was the verdict of the coroner's jury, and the case never went to court for trial. Why Chinese Shops Are Small Why Chinese Shops Are Small. The average Chinese shop of any kind in Tientsin and Peking is a one story building without doors or windows to the street. The entire front is closed by shutters at night. In the day time the shutters are removed. These shops are fourteen to sixteen feet wide on the street, and the room is not deeper than this. Three or four feet back from the front a counter runs, behind which there is shelving. The storerooms are not deeper because of the peculiar arrangement of Chinese houses. The typical Chinese house is only one story in height and is built on all four sides of a square courtyard. If more room is needed there is a second courtyard in the rear with a communicating door, and so on. The yamens or official residences of the various Chinese officials of Tientsin are all erected in this way—one courtyard after another surrounded by buildings all opening into the court. Opals and Ill Luck Many people regard the opal as an omen of ill luck, and the following will show how this superstition arose. Two or three centuries ago the stone was very popular in Europe, and the jewelers of Italy were especially cunning in its setting. At the height of its popularity came the plague which wrought great havoc in Venice. It was noticed by some observant persons if that city that when a victim was on the point of death his opal, if he wore one, brightened, while after death it became dull. The reason of this was the heightened fever made the stone become hot, and consequently very brillant, while after death the chill Scot Free. The expression "scot free." which is in use every day, harms back to the times of Scottish romance and tragedy so luminously described by Sir Walter Scott in "The Antiquary" and "Rob Roy." In these stirring tales we are told of one form of Scottish trials given certain offenders of justice. He who had broken the law was divested of all of his clothing and placed at a certain distance from archers who had bows and arrows ready, waiting the command, "Fire!" When the command was given the man under indictment would begin running and the archers would commence firing, and if in runnin: this gantlet none of the arrows hit him he was allowed to go scot free. An Unusual Request. A large, determined looking woman, undeniably from the country, entered the elevator in a well known New York dry goods establishment. She was carried up and down the elevator several trips, but showed no disposition to get out at any department. Finally the man in charge ventured to address her: "Where do wish to go madam?" "Let me out as near Madison Square Garden as ye can," came the unexpected response.-Dellneator. Not Wali Posted. She—There's always a crowd round the dear old professor. He's such a wonderful conversationist. He—Lor'l You really think so? I tried him just now on every possible topic—hounds, bridge, golf, music halls, everything, and he was simply useless.—London Punch. She Had a Substitute. Influential Member—I am glad to notice, doctor, that your wife never turns her head to see who comes into church late on Sunday morning. The Rev. Dr Goodman—No, but she makes me tell her all about them after we go home.—Chicago Tribune. Conserving Energy: If one half the world could be prevented from prying into the business of the other half the greatest problem in conservation of energy would be solved.—Philadelphia Ledger. The Brute Mother-In-Law—Has the young man who saved my life yesterday called upon you yet? Son-In-Law—Yes, indeed. He has already made his apologies.—Fliegende Blatter. A gentle hand may lead the elephant with a hair.—Persian. London's Hot Baked Potatoe- There are few colder places on a winter's night than the streets of London. Naturally anything warm is welcomed by wayfairers. Roasted chestnuts and hot pies stand high in public favor, but the cry of "Baked potatoes, all hot!" is peculiarly inviting. The simplest form of a potato can—really more like a box than a can—is of plain, unpainted tin, not unlike that used by the street pleman. In the central portion the potatoes are kept hot, while in compartments on each side salt and butter are kept. A large pepper box usually stands on the top of the can. A small valve lets out the steam, and its whistling guides the traveler in search of a hot potato. Street corners, where an omnibus stops or near places of amusement, are favorite spots for the vendors of this delicacy. The season lasts from the latter part of September until about the end of March. It is said that more than 3,000 people gain their livelihood in this way in the streets of London. Musical Sound and the Ear The well trained ear of a musician can distinguish notes differing only one-hundredth part of a tone from one another. Most people cannot perceive a difference of one-tenth of a tone, and a few can scarcely tell one tone from another. The cause of this curious disparity resides in slight differences in the structure of the cochlea, a wonderful piece of apparatus in the innermost part of the ear. It is a little body shaped like a snail shell and believed to be the part of the hearing apparatus which recognizes musical sounds. In its structure it closely resembles the strings of a piano and even has a damper to prevent the mixture of sounds quickly following one another. This little musical apparatus is set going by vibrations received from the middle ear or drum, and in some mysterious manner it sends these on to the brain through the auditory nerve in the form of musical sounds. The Drummer's Secret Here is an old war story. As a regiment of soldiers was on the march to Gettysburg some of the soldiers stepped out of the ranks and confiscated a couple of geese, and one of the drummers unheaded his instrument and put the captured birds in the drum Shortly afterward the colonel rode along and, noticing the boy, said sharply: "Why don't you beat that drum?" "Colonel," said the drummer mysteriously, "I want to speak to you." The colonel drew still closer and bending down pls head, said, "Well what have you to say?" The drummer whispered, "Colonel I've got a couple of geese in here." The colonel straightened up and gravely said, "Well, if you're sick and can't play, you needn't" The colonet had roast goose than night. A Writer on Mountain Top. As one climbs up to the mountain top the danger from lightning increases rapidly, and, as a rule, the observatories located on the mountain top are rather uncomfortable places of residence, as discovered by the selective gentlemen who have had the experience of a winter on a mountain top. It is evident that ordinary lightning rods are entirely inadequate to carry off the enormous discharges on the mountain thunderstorms. There are several observatories on Mont Blanc, and at one of them, that of Janssen, there have been a number of bombardments, during which the interior of the place was filled with ribbonlike sheets of electricity and balls of fire which moved silently from point to point—Exchange. Breakfast In Norway. Home brewed beer has of late years, says Harold Simpson in his "Rambles in Norway," largely displaced spirits as the national drink of the Norwegians. It is so popular that it is used even at breakfast to wash down the stock dish-fried pork smothered in quinons. The first sight of a Norwegian breakfast table, adds the author, is apt to astound one. It is covered with small dishes, principally fish-fresh fish, smoked fish, fish in tins, fish in miniature barrels. There are also cold meats and an endless variety of cheeses, of which the Norwegians are very fond. Tears Not Idle "My doctor tells me a good cry is beneficial." The second woman, opening her purse, displayed a first class return ticket to Europe "A good cry gained me this," she said.—New York Press. True Love. Tom-But perhaps she doesn't love you Jack-Oh. yes, she does! Tom-How do you know? Jack-When I told her that I had no money to get married on she offered to borrow some from her father -Philadelphia Inquirer The Droarting Son "Our boy has left us," wept the mother as their only son waved goodby from the car window. "Yes," said the old man, whom the boy had just touched for a heavy loan, "but he hasn't left us much."—Detroit News It Takes a Long Time "I do not think people should get married until they are thoroughly acquainted with each other." "What would you do—abolish matrimony?"—Judge. A life in continual need is half death—German Kroverb. Published i at tog Eye St. N. W., Washington, D.C | eee W. CALVIN CHASE; EDITOR. ina ee eee Eatered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C, as second-class mail matter. Se i ESTABLISHED 1880. —— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance... See conn pe ae eee Three months ..eeeessennseses oh Sebscription monthly .....s0.++ 20 MANUFACTURERS OF PRENIDICE. The Crisis, in its last issue, un- der the above caption, runs a mumber of black-face headlines, copied from white dailies, that used them in calling attention to accusations against Negroes. Of course these headlines as they ap- peared in The Crisis, were much smaller than the ones used in the white dailies. Whenever a Negro is accused of a crime, or rather suspected of a crime, the white dailies run “bull” or “scare” head- lines playing up prominently the word “Negro,” and largely fea- turing the statement “lynching is,” or was “threatened,” or “nar- rowly averted," or “lynching may follow arrest.” The Crisis is right in characterizing these vicious headlines as “the manufacturers of prejudice.” In most cases lynching is not thought of until the newspapers themselves sug- gest it, and incite the rift-raft of a town to it by such headlines. And when the headlines have in- cited, and excited, the flotsam and jetsam of a community to do a lynching,the passions of the brutes that were incited to mob vio- Jence are further inflamed against the race by vicious “scare” head- lines telling of the lynching and particularizing, in ‘the largest type in the shop. that the victim lynched was a “negro.” Then when the community is given an unsavory reputation—a_reputa- tion as black, bloody as the inqui- sition period, by the committing of the awful, irracible crime ~of lynching, over in the editorial col- umns of the same newspapers will be found a vehement denuncia- tory editorial, set in modest min- _ion or nonpareil—no display, as sailing the mayor, police, sheriff or some official, for having per mitted that to which the same newspaper was an accessory i iact. These vicious. flaming head. lines, whenever a, Negro is sus pected of a crime,’are the great est propigators and maintainer: of this mean, hurtful race_preju dice. Denunciatory editorial: that follow the vicious headlines are‘like locking the stable afte the horse has ‘gone. The Be agrees with The Crisis in tha these headlines are manufacturer of prejudice. NEGRO_ BUSINESS LEAGUE. «There is a first-class Negro bus- iness league organized in this city with Mr. Daniel Freeman as pres- ident and Dr. Julia I. P. Coleman secretary. Ata recent meeting of this association a presidential can- didate of the association was de- feated. He now intends to organ- ize a commercial club. The Bec never takes stock in bolters. Ne bolting - organization ever suc ceeds. What the people shoul do is for them to support the pres ent business league, which they will no doubt do. The Bee is glac to see the local business league it the hands of a thorough and suc cessful business man and womar . Mr. Freeman is a property owne and all he has accumulated wa hy thorough business methods Tie has a successful business; n doubt he as the leading photogra pher in this city. He is th Ieader of Negro photographer: He was in business when many ¢ ihese amateurs were in the eg shell. Let kickers and disgruntle Negroes retire. AND THOU TOO. TOHN? _ And now our old and distin- guished frjend, Jolin Mitchell. Ir.. -of Richmond. Va.. who is never at ease unless he is telling the pco- ple about his travels, would have the world believe that the Editor of The Bee is the most dangerous man in the world with his pen. Now. who would have believed that our friend would have made such a charge against us. Other! people kick up a fuss and attack: us, and when we throw up our arms and weapons of defense, we get the blame. "Now, brother John, when the Age attacked us Wwe had said nothing at all against its editors. We made no reier- ence to them dirrectly or indi- rectly. They made a vicious at- tack upon us without cause or provocation. In view of this should we have remained silent and allow them to rub it in? You know a bee hive and its bees never become disturbed unless some one disturbs them. ‘The hive is often full of bees as well as honey. The honey generally remains, and the bees break loose and has respect for no one’s feel ings. The Editor of The Bee is the most peaceful and the mos! gentle animal that exists if you don't disturb him in his peacefu slumbers. The Bee has no quar rels with its friends, and neither will it attack its enemies without cause. IS A BAPTIST The Jackson, Miss., Reporter states that The Bee has been mis- informed aS to the standing of Rev. E. C. Morris in the National Baptist Association, The Re- porter: further states that The Bee's informant is not a member of the National Baptist Associa- tion. ‘This The Bee denies. Its informant is one if noc the strong. est leader in the Baptist Associa- tion, and is and‘has done more for Negro Baptists than any member connected with the association. Rey. Morris not excepted. The Bee states again that there is a great deal of dissatisfaction against Rev. Morris, and The ‘Bee’s informants are all Baptists in good standing. Rev. Morris is playing politics with the associa tion, and The Bee will explode it the Mississippi Reporter to. the contrary, notwithstanding, and ‘The. Bee declines to give the source of its information. MURRAY’S MISSTATEMENT In his corréspondence to The Boston Guardian, F. M. Murray, the Washington correspondent, and clerk in the War Department, states that in the approaching Democratic inaugural parade, for the first time the Negro District militia will march with the white militia‘and the Negro high schoo! cadets march with the white high school cadets. There.can be no excuse for this misstatement, ex- cept on the grounds of a consti- tutional desire to misrepresent. ‘The Negro District militia has al- ways been assigned a place with the white militia, and the Negre cadets. always “assigned a place with the white cadets in every in- augural parade. And Mr. Murray is as fully aware of this as any man in Washington. It is neith: er fair to the newspaper he repre sents, nor to the race to which Mr Murray belongs to impose’such baldface misstatement. s WOMAN SUFFRAGE. \ great clamor is being made by women to give them their suf- frage, or otherwise all the rights aul privileges that man possesses and enjoys today’. Men are ccmpelled to do every- thing to advance the interest of their government and the coun- try. How anxious are the women to have every right. men enjoy? If women really want the right to yote and enjoy other privileges. let a constitutional amendment be submitted to the States, giving the women the right to vote, -as well as compelling all able-bodied females not less than 2t and no over 35 to be eligible to be draft ed in the army. Make it compul sory, that every female wh wants to vote be compelled + serve three years‘in the Nationa Guard. Then these petticoat J will not be so prestimptuous an }make so much noise. i MR. TUSTICE GOULD. There is not a more honorable man on the bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia than Mr. Justice Gould. The at- tempt of a smelling committee and fault-finders to besmere his good name, fell fiat. and his ene- mies were put to flight when he asked for a bill of particulars. Tudge Gould acquitted himself ad- mirably when he testified before *he recent investigating commit- tee of Congress, and he came out without a stain on his garments. Tie is one of the many men in the legal profession who has elevated himself by hard w rk and mefit. He defied his accusers to ac: knowledge the base charge they made against him. As a Judge ‘of the Supreme (Court of the Dis: trict of Columbia, he stards above ‘suspicion. Better get together. | Race unity is more necessary} than factional strife, . With race prejudice taking “ form of jim-crow. legislation in States heretofore reasonably free from it. it is about time for Ne- groes to cease bickerings and unite for common welfare. —__, Good for Kansas, By a sub- stantial vote the Sun Flower State refused to pass. the bill of- fered by a Democrat in the lower branch of the legislature prohibit- ing intermarriage between whites and blacks. One jim-crow legis- lation only suggests another. Kansas has done well to defeat a measure born of race prejudice alone? : Must Look to Roosevelt _and Wilson * “(From the American Economist.) PRET Roen Ane Californias have something like $200,- 000,000 invested in the business of grow- ing citrus fruits. The Ways and Means Committee of the Democratic House hhas its eyes on those citrus fruits, The duty ‘is going to be fadically cut, even if it is not abolished altogether: Nat- urally the fruit growers of California are very much disturbed. The fruit industry of Cahfornia is of the utmost importance to that State, as it is, indeed, to the entire country: Ir would have been thought, where a State.is so dependent upon “the protect- ive policy for which the Republican party has stood, that it would take par- ticular pains to’ support the party. But not so, California citizens went run- nmg after Roosevelt and Wilson and Dufieted the “Republican purty pretty well nigh out of existence. ‘This being the case, they must look to Roosevelt and Wilson to help them out in’ their emergency. Roosevelt is it no position to help them if he de- sired, for he is a defeated candidate and the lead’ of am organization of ‘unrest Wilson can-help them. but_won't, be- cause he is the apostle of Free-Trade. And, so, there you arc. What are these California iruit xrow- ers going to do about it? Nothing! ‘They can lift their voices in anguished appeal, but-that is all. They have mad their hed Sad must fie mt it—Philadel- phin Inquirer. 7 THE EDITOR OF THE WASH. INGTON BEE Misinformed About Dr. E. C. Morris. ‘The Following Editorial Appeared in the Washington Bee. (From the Jackson, Mivs.. Reporter.) Uas the National Baptist Assveration been turned inte a political machine? The occupation af Res Mortis 13 about at_an end, ‘There 1s a reat deal Of, dvssatistaction among the brethren The Bee informant, {am quite sure, ty not_a member of the National Baptist Association.” The National Baptist Convention. The man who Says or even thinks that the career of occnpa- tion of Dr. FG Morris is at an end is sadly mistaken, and the man who gave The Bee this information docs “not know what he i talking abont_or he is Minded by prejudice. Dr. E. C. Morris is the strongest man in the Baptist de- nomination in, America. and ‘if he 1~ dead, as The Bee says. he 18 indeed the Tivest, corpse that we ever seen. He is me for whom the race as well as the denomination should be proud. .\s % a great deal of dissatisfaction among the brethren, we got our first informa- tion from The Bee We should he ghd 1f The Bee would tell a where he got Ins information, MOLLIE GROVE MINING CO. Big Meeting Monday Night—Last ‘Meeting Next Monday. A Jarge meeting of the Mollie Grove Mining Co. was held in Mt. Carmel Baptist Church last Monday night. The lecture room of the church was well filled with anxious people to ascertain more about the value of this great company which is selling shares very rapidly. « The promoter of, this company made a very interesting address and assured the people that they need to have no fear about reliability of the company. Mr. Adams, the secretary, read several telegrams from people and the Register of Deeds of Colo- tado, who said that the Jand was rich with’ copper and other ores; but it would require work to develop them which the promoters said was being done. Every assurance was given t¢ the purchasers of stock that thes would be well protected and the} would realize returns from - thei money. Mr. Groves, the head of th company, has called a mass meetin: of the people to come to,the Sec ond Baptist Church next’ Monda: night, which would be their las chance to purchase stock. ‘At the mecting last Monday nigh a large number of shares were pur chased by the people, who seem t be well satisfied with the assuranc given them, : Don't fail to attend the meeting i the Second Baptist Church nex | Tuesday night. 4 Qe Tuke’a . 2, February 27, 1913. At & p. m. at Florida Avenue Baptist Church. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, R. W. G. secre- tary-treasurer, will speak to all Coun- Gils of St. Lyuke’s, and conduct a great union obligation. Every St. Luke bring one new member. {-1-8-15-22 Dr. Talbert. Rev. Horace Talbert. secretary of Wilberforce College, Witherforce, O., was in the city Wednesday, the euest bf his mother-in-law and Dr. and Mrs Tignor. Dr. Talbert is one of the ‘brainiest men in the Methodist Con- nection. Gray & Gray’s Health Hints—No. «. Take no chances with-your health Care and skill characterizes every prescription compounded at Gray's Public Menird Thiags Sarr SRE ORES OF Swe Roromac.) I sce the men have organized a so-|| cial club and named it The Dunbar], Ciub. This club, as they shoved the]; dope over to, me, will buy or lease| Doc. MeNeill’s house and convert it} into a club house with billiard parlor, wine glasses and an assortment off bonded stuffs just like any well regu- lated hide-away. Bob Murray is to be the whole cheese, when it comes to putting up axil grease to run the| thing. The members will be just wind-jamming renters »who will put up two-bits each month for a key go get out after they have once gotten fa. “Ex-State Senator” Wm. Clif- ford, the papes say, was clected pres- ident, whatever that means, I won- der where Jim Waters was when they’ Handed Billy Clifford this yard of ti- tes? I'l bet Jim threw 2 tit when he read it, We uns around here al- ways thought it was “Ex-Representa-| live.” But the reporter, I guess, thought while he was at it he might just as well go the limit, and besides he thought Billy was big enough to carry the extra, and it would serve! tw start Jim Waters on the rampage again. But E ain't going to discuss titles any, more for fear Jim Waters| will comé back next week with an larticle like he had in the last issue! of The Bee, in which he called him- self “king.” That article, by” the way, came- within an eighth of an, incl’ of being monkey jargon. If T had of writ it 1 would have signed anybody's name to it but my own. Why, ‘I would have signed Rev. Si- mon’ Peter's name to it, for then it would have read like it was genuine. But you have to hand it to “King l\Waters” for at last encircling his no- [ile brow, his thought dome, with a wreath ‘of ridiculousness. | “Every: man makes a fool of himself some time. hefore he dies,” wrote that old prehistoric bunch’ of _phylosophy. Aristocles, 1 rather suspect that “king Waters’ last article he, shas Huhout reached that “some time” re- jierred to by that bunch of munified phylosophy. ! eee s | ue tm off again, What I started cut to tell you, or “iilicitate,” as Kelly Miller ‘would say, was. that T fell into a bunch of hobble skirts last Sunday afternoon while they were discussing the ew Dunbar club. AIL oi them were wives. They gave prin facia evidence of this. Two were wives of pill pedlers, two were wives of brielless lawSers, and one was an, uplifter. What “they said ahont this Dunbar Cloly would have piade the Madonna lay down her kid in a Waste bashet, step out of the frame, and bunt up poor old Joseph te argue out with him a disputed question, One oi them, im a, voree Jpitehed in A minor: said: “TM het that club will be just a hachinalian jambore in six weeks They. said }dhey wanted a YMCA. buildutg where they could meet, play, billiards among gentlemen. ‘The YOM. CV Jiulding is finished, and ‘now they Jwant x club, They can't get whisky te drink ac the YOM GV. that’ | why they want ty organize a elub.” J And then Mrs, Uplift, who works Jalong the same line of undue excite. Jment that "Rin, Romanisni and [Rebellion” Burchard worked, to-ed her heal up in the etherial region Joateily. The wie uf a school teacher ‘}in a Voice suted ny sing “That Bar- her Shop Chord.” said: "My Ins C[hand might just as well get ready te Fray om alimony fF he joins thal sJchih “And if these school teacher: {jem theres Will be a few vacancies it {the schools befufe June Oh. E har [thes men's clubs. “We women muy j[break ic up.” Then the others joines {fin a chorns of jargoa, and of all th hammers, wrenches, brick bats an aver-ripe fruit ever thrown at a-ha int actor, the assortment these w0 men threw at the Dunbar took th {| Noble pre One Indy. who ss curio collector for the W. T. CU and who regards liquor as the pain e| Dante used to paint his Inferno. pic ‘Jtures, stamped her number six. ped yJeatremity coverings on the Persia x | rug, and shricked in a near-Nordic S|suprano tone: “They just want t S {make drunkards of our husbands an Sour sons. "A club that serves lique is no better than a saloon. It’s wors y| We women must lay the law down t your husbands and sons and defy the «| to join.” e a i 2 | Well, sir, it was a, circus, tc | course, these women can't understan s-|that men want to get off to then “h]selves now and then and sit down | it{a mahogany whats decorated with n,|few highballs that exhilerate but ¢ ig|Hot intoxicate. And they can't w tofderstand that Bob Murray's got | ‘yjmake a living somehow and som ey| Where. And ‘they can’t understar | that some of “our most promine he| citizens” cin’t afford to drop into ng {barroom every. time their thrist rin c-|for a sultser lemonade spiked dov ay|to a gin fiz. We ought to have | veel, Sts TE Wah ft CRE, |course, these women can't understand Jtlat men want to get off to them- selves now and then and sit down tt |a mahogany whats decorated with 2 |few bighballs that exhilerate but dc ‘|not intoxicate. And they can't un: |derstand that Bob Murray’s got te |make a living somehow and some |where. And they can’t understanc -|that some of “our most prominen .| citizens” cin’t afford to drop into ; :|barroom every: time their thrist ring =|for a sultser lemonade spiked dows to a gin fiz. We ought to have ; t|club here, even though it does sepa rate dbout a dozen happy couples tjand even though it makes quasi or *|phans of a few dozen nut-brown chil 5|dren, The wheels of progress, an e|the consumption of red liquor ‘mus not be stopped to please a few hys n|terical petticoats. This bunch 0 t{hobble skirts, hereinbefore _ men tioned, resolved they were going t harrass the club until it became on of them innocuous desetude Grove 1] Cleveland sprung on the public. An s.|these hobbles were all suffragets~ slthe militant kind) what will brea [faces and parade if necessary. 1 t! their husbands don't whisper to ther ethe erronious statement that Bo 2] Murray is a real. philanthropist © the evangelical stripe, and that he been running the Esmaralda on sf| strictly prohibition gang-plank—sert Hing nothing stronger than demi-tass siJof dimentia to those with a frog i 3 |their throats, the Dunbar may hay re|hard sailing beiore the wind of th petticoats who have got the ide Slumbering in their gray matter ths wine, women and song is the ke .Jused to unlock the doors of all men clubs. My advice to the men who a1 h {pioneering this, Dunbar concoctio " |under the direction of Bob Murray, [to break the news of your joining’ t “i 2S PE € Dates = ae | «ee your wives through the medium of a box of Huylers, a diamond tierra, and a swell gown for the 3d of March affair, or there will be trouble in some of your dug-outs. A little di- plomacy “will bring the hobbles around, providing they are not of the seasoned kind—those who” have cut their eye teeth so long their wisdom molars need the attention of Bud Gaskins and John Francis, Jr. And T warn you if you want Jim Waters to join you must, make the use of ti- tles a high misdemeanor punishable with death and forfeiture of mem bership after death. gas P. S—I forgot to say that if you are going’ to have a sideboard, decor- ated with glasses, etc, etc. You can just gamble on it that Prof. Geo. Cook will not become a charter mem- ber. Prof. Miller might slip around some evening when you have a. lit- etary program, and talk to you about leopard spots, but in that case he will have to haye ‘the chaparonage of both Prof. Cook and Dr. Grimke, and all traces of Her von Pabst, Baron von Schlitz, Count Mumm, and his excel: Tency, '“Wilson-that's-All” will have to be removed to the dog kennel. And Judge Terrell can't fraternize with you, if Prof. Cook is to be Allowed to pass in the same block, An Dancy is sure not to join as iong a you make twenty-five cents pe month the high-water mark for socia existence. ; But, getting right down to bras tax, there is a crying need for a clu in this town, one that will be run a least within hailing distance of re ‘aoectibility. THE: KINGDOM HAS COME. die lily white organization, known jas the Kingdom, and fostered by teachers in the public schools of this city, isnot quite what its name im- plies, There is sich a thing possible as overrating ourselves and _ being color blind. “This is true of the or- ganizer and many of her members. Had they possessed the real power of discrimination they would have seen or observed that they have color enough to open a modern dye shop ,—and sufficient wool to keep many [sheep warm. : VAs to their right of organization, the “luw allows it and the court awards it.” But it also prohibits by an_unwrit- ten law that whites (2) should teach colored children, Hence, they are lawbreakers. How, then, can they ex- pect the children under them to. keep the law? ‘Then, ton, this organization dis- cciminates against their own relatives --parents, sisters, and brothers who were considerably Browned in. the process when made, Some of these parents who support. many of the members of this organization are de- pendent upon the public composed of black people for their support. Those who are teachers depend upon black children to hald them in school by giving them a session or class room number. The mothers of these chil- dren should see to it that their chil- dren are taught in class rooms where no such atmosphere predominates. And the people in general should rise up and not give their support to a proiession where the parent instructs and* encourages his child 10 look down down on his clients’ parents or patrons, who. in many: instances arc their superiors. ‘This the law of cus tom allows ani the courts of justice laward. 4 CINCINNATI MINISTER Indicted for Rape of a Colored Gitl. Editor’ of Colored Newspaper Wins in Its Fight to Have Minister Pros- ecuted. Cincinnat®, O.—The grand jury of Hamilton County has. indicted Rev. J. Franklin Walker, D. D., colored, for rape! The bluff and bluster that the case would be thrown out can now die a natural death! The vile insinuation that his arrest was purely apolitical trick can also die a nat- ural death' Rev Walker was given every chance, . the benefit. of every doubs!, We have very reliable infor- mation\ghat one of his leading wit- nesses testilied before the grand jury. and that in itseli was a great favor to. the accused. for ordinarily only witnesses for the State appear before that body!” NOTWITHSTANDING THIS IMMENSE ADVANTAGE, THE GRAND JURY FOUND A TRUE BILL AGAINST HIM! HE WILL NOW HAVE TO STAND TRIAL! Tf found guilty, he will go to the “pen!” The penalty is from one te twenty years! The Walker case is the most sen- sational of its kind ever occurring here among our people. On one sitle a pastor, talented, eloquent, hand some, divinely proportioned, well fa vored with this world’s goods; -or the other a poor young, colored girl hnacmic and so light, frail, feagil Ithat seemingly even the balmy wind: Of summer would. blow her away While some few have sympathize: with Rev. Walker, and many. hav | sympathized with Ins wife and daugh |ters, yet this poor girl, lying now al |most at the doors of death, he |younger sister and her poverty VBteicken widowed mother, come i for the vast ocean of sympathy fron [the general public that is alway ‘aroused by scenes of suffering. Th flieart of the sorrowing mother Crie jior justice. The grand. jury ha heard and heeded—W. P Dabney editor “of the Union, the colore | newspaper published here, led the figh ‘lie have the thinister prosecuted: SOMETHING SAVED, MORE TO BE LOST. American Workmen and Mill Owners ‘Are Certain to Pay the Penalty of ‘Tarif Reduction. { (Pittsburg Gazette-Times.) | One reason advanced by Demecrats for their intended reduction of the tariff jon cotton manufactures is that “the American people pay annually about $20,000,000 more for their cotton goods” iecause of present custom rates, They claim that by scaling duties to the Jamount of $3,000,000 a year they wil decrease the cost of cotton goods to American consumers about $0,000,000 a year. But they -do not indicate at whose expense this is to be doze. They profess to know who will save, but they do not appear to care who will lose, and there is entir= absence of as- surance that our last state is to be better than our first In round numbers, cotton goods toX the value of $629699.000 are manu- factured in the United States in a year. Of such commodities, we export $40,- 851,000 worth and import $66,996,000. Hence we consume or use these manu- factures to the value of $6338;3,000 Upon this sum we are to save §$80,000,- 000 by foregoing $3,000,000 of revenues. Who loses "the $80,000,000? Granting that this amount will be saved—for sake of argument. That 13 about So cents a ygar for each person in the United States. Is the $80,000,000 to come off labor, from which complaint already comes that it is underpaid in cottoa mills, and which is represented by 371,120 individuals. ‘That means neatly S218 each. Is it to come off capital? Certainly; the employers cannot stand to lose $80,000,000 a year and expect to prosper. If you divide the saving— ‘or loss—equally, every cotton opera- tive is in for $109 a year. And if you run the $80,000,000 through the whole gamut, from mill to retail counter, the pinch ‘will still be painful The’ real benefit will be to foreign manufacturers, who aready send in more than $1 worth of cotton goods for every $10 we pro- duce. Suppose they double their ship- ments, and the consumer profits thereby, will not the American mill and its work- men and women suffer correspondingly from restricted production? It is probably useless to appeal to Chairman Underwood or even, to. Presi~ dent-clect Wilson to go slow in dis- turbing the cotton industry, which is a comparatively recent growth in the United States, but it 1s due the coun- try that it shall be warned just what im- mediate and downwatd fevision means. No “Jim-Crow” Department at "Frisco. A prominent member of Congress from California says: “Unless there is a radical change of feeling from what [ have observed among my con- stituents, there will be nothing like a Negré building or department in con nection with the Panama Canal Expo- sition at San Francisco in 1913, There is absolutely no demand for it, as far as I can sev, unless we except a few persons who hope to gain some_per- sonal profit by getting ltold of the management of it, and they count for little in the agpregate One of the strongest arguments made by the col- ored people against the selection of New Orleans as ‘the logical point’ was that the race would be ‘jim- crowd’ if, the exposition were held there or in any other southern city. Now to come forward and ask for a so-called ‘jim-crow’ department seems to be the height of inconsistency No. there will be no Negro department Congress will not vote an appropri- ation for it; nether will the State oi California; ‘and the calored people themselves do. not want such an ar- rangement. These ought to be suffi cient Teasuns for putting a quictus the agitation of the question.” Rig Xo. “jim-eruw" section 1 wanted "Frisco in Tots and there will be no Dr. Washington's Itinerary. ‘Pullman, Wash. Jan. 23 . Prof. F. A. Golder, of the Washir ton State College, located at this pla is arranging an extensive itinerary di ing the month of March for Dr. Booker T. Washington, of the Tuskegee Insti- hite, in Alabama, who is to deliver a series of lectures and addresses under the auspices of universities, chambers of commerce, boards -of trade, etc. 1m Washmgtor, Montana, Idaho and Utah lis program as already worked out hy Mr. Golder contemplates a series of arrangements covering nearly a month, isitine the following places: Bismarle, N. Dak.; Billings, Bozeman, Butte and ‘elena, “Montana Spokane, Pullman. Walla "Walla, North Yakima, Seattle and ‘Tacoma, Washington; Portland. Oregon, Boise, Idaho; and Salt Lake City, Utah. “There are not a great _many_colored people in this immediate section, but they too are unusually enthusiastic and are vying with each other to make Dr. Washington's visit a success taveoivnn®. —. Howard_University Dramatic Club presents Sir Bulwer Lytton's great five-act comedy drama, “The Lady of Lyons,” at Howard Theater Saturday evening, February 22. Popular_ prices Admission, 15¢, 25¢, 35¢, 50¢- Tickets now on sale. Phone North, 1660. ‘Trunk 34. D FeBt5-22 —————— ee Wonderful Results on Short Notice. T have used your Pomade. It's the best thing I ever used for makin curly hair lie smooth. I have not fin- ishéd my first bottle, but can see won- derful results, writes Mrs. Louise E Hayes,-of Pineville. S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh, stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion, Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine {Ford's), manufactured by the Ozon- ied Ox’ Marrow Company, Chicage. For sale by Nichols’ Pharmacy, Corner 19th Street and Pena. Ave.. §. A: Richardson & Co, 7th and Q Sts, N. W.; Morse’s Pharmacy, 19th and L Sts., N. W.; W. S. Richardson, 316 Four-and-a-Half St. S. W.; Dan- jel H. mith, 28th and Dumbarton Ave N. Wa: J. F, Simpson, corner 7th St. Rhode Island Ave, and R St. NW Singleton's Pharmacy, zoth and E Sts. N. Ws; Market Pharmacy, corner zoth and K’ Sts. N. W.; John R. Major, 716 gtk St. N. W.: Ideal Pharmacy, 11th St. and N. ¥. Ave, N. WR A Veitch, corner 20th and M Sts. N W.; E! E. Cissell, roth St and SY Ave: W._P. Herbst, Penn, Ave. and 25th St. N. W.: Hutton & Hilton, 2d and L Sts, N. Wa RW. Duffey. Penn, Ave. ang 22d St., 8. W : White- side Pharmacy, 1921 Pa Ave : Board & McGuire, corner oth and U_ Sts; F. M. Criswell, rgor 7th St. Ni W:: Quigiey’s Pharmacy, corner 21st and G Sts. N. W.; Daw’s Drug Store, cor- ner 23d and H Sts. N. W.: Howard | Pharmacy, roth and R Sts. N. W. | People’s Pharmacy, 7th and Mass. The Week in Society Quality and good service. You will always find at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. Mrs. Wingfield, the wife of Mr. Walter Wingfield, continues to be sick at the home of her daughter, at 1204 T Street Northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Easely, of 2431 Georgia Avenue Northwest, entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Simms, and Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, at their home Monday night. After playing whist the guests were served with bullion, chicken salad and sandwiches by the charming hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Archibold Runner, of 1211 W Street Northwest, entertained Miss Maud Anderson, of Freedman's Hospital, at dinner Friday-evening. Mrs. Callie D. House, National Secretary, M. R. B. P. A., of Nashville, Teen, is in the city. Mrs. B. E. Pannell, of this city, is in Charleston, S. C., the guest of her mother, Mrs. H. Robinson, of Spring Street Miss Dorris McAdoo, of 405 U Street, LeDroit Park, is on the sick list. Miss Vivian L. Thompson, of this city, is making quite a success as director of domestic science in the Whitted High School, Durham, N. C. Mr. J. P. Strickland, assistant Register of the Treasury, has taken the house 3341U St. N.W., and will bring his family there from Little Rock, Ark. Register J. C. Napier, has gone to Nashville, Tenn., to deliver a series of lectures on Medical Jurisprudence. Mrs. Lucille Smith, of this city, is visiting relatives in Charlotte, N. C. Miss Fairfax Brown, a teacher in Armstrong Manual Training School, spent Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pa. Misses Jessie Fauset was in Philadelphia, Pa., last week. Dr. J. W. Morse, having commenced his season with a new line of goods, he will be pleased to greet all of his old and any new patrons that may come. 1904 L Street Northwest. Miss Lucy C. Waltz, of this city, was quietly married to Mr. John B. Harrod, in the cory home of Mrs. Etta Frye, at Hartford, Conn. The groom's brother, Rey W. A. Harrod, joined them in happy marriagem. Only the immediate family and the bride's friends were present. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Gaskill, of Detroit, Mich., who spent the past six weeks in this city, Richmond and the principal cities of North and South Carolina, have returned to their home. Mr. Jas H. W. Howard, of Harrisburg, Pa., arrived in the city last Wednesday. Mr. Singleton, of this city, and Mr. John Asbury, of Washington, Pa., were the guests of the Mohican Club, Harrisburg, Pa., last week. Miss Josephine Penyon, of Washington, D. C., has succeeded Miss Holloway as student secretary to the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. Miss Penyon is a graduate of M Street High School, and also of Cornell, 1010. Miss Carolyn O. Abner, who was recently married to Dr. J. Bemby, has completed her course in nurse training in Freedman's Hospital. Mrs. Arminta Perry, of Abington, Va., is expected in the city, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Wadell Williamson. Mrs. Perry will also visit her son, Mr. Elmo Perry, while in the city. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Wormley has been on the sick list. Mr. John Lane will arrive in this city. Ice Cream Sodas and Sundaes are always pure and delicious at Board's. the drug store on Fourteenth Street, 1912 1-2. where everybody meets everybody else. Sunday to join his family, and will make this his future home. Mrs. Belle I. Riley, of this city, was recently married to Mr. Dorsey Conrad, in Charlotte, N. C. February 27th, 1913, at 8. M. at Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, R. W. G. Secretary-Treasurer, will speak to all councils of St. Lukes, and conduct a great union obligation. Every St. Luke is urged to bring one new member. Miss Helen Morris will leave the city after a short while, to accompany her parents to Nebraska, where they intend to make their future home. Miss Grace Tanner, of C Street Southwest, is expected within a few weeks to further pursue her studies at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N.C., arrived in the city from New York City, Tuesday afternoon. Mr William Eastly left San Antonio, Texas, last Tuesday night for this city, where he has accepted a position in the Agricultural Department. Miss Helen Gordon, a member of the basket ball team of this city, entertained the New York Basket Ball at her home in LeDroit Park last week. Mrs. Amanda Lee Barner, of Fairmont Heights, presented to the First Baptist Church, through an entertainment. $20.60, and by begging from friends. $10.50. Mr. Ole Barcus, of the Treasury Department, has returned from a pleasant visit to his old home in Beaumont, Texas, where he was entertained in lavish style. While in Beaumont he attended the meeting of the Colored State Teachers' Association and delivered a helpful address to the organization, many of the members of which had been former classmates of his in the Texas schools. Fourteenth Street was never a more popular thoroughfare than it is today, and Board's Drug Store at 1912 1-2 is its most popular center. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis is at home again after a brief tour of the Tidewater section of Virginia. Miss Kate B. Chase, of Twelfth Street, is to visit friends in Baltimore next week. Miss Abbie Mitchell, a great favorite in Washington, comes to the Howard next week, direct from a season in Chicago. Gen. Joseph L. Jones, Vice Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and president of the Central Regalia Company, of Cincinnati, will be here next week, following an important meeting of his council at Baltimore. He is visiting lodges in the South this week and demonstrating the goods supplied by the Central Regalia Company, one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the country, regardless of race. Gen. Jones, while here, will investigate the status of certain pending bills looking to the alleged "protection" of the names of secret orders. Washington colored people are severely condemning the correspondent of the New York World who is doing all within his power to east op-probrium upon the worthy colored citizens who wish to provide suitable entertainments for members of the race who will visit the capital during the inaugural period. "Black Patti's Troubadours" are playing to "standing room only" every night this week at the Howard Theater. A return engagement is talked of for the benefit of many who were unable to secure seats at any performance. The company is rendering "Captain Jasper" in admirable style. Mme. Sissieretta Jones is singing better than ever, and her vast array of diamonds seem to have taken on a more brilliant sparkle. Bethel Literary, in conjunction with the Society for the Advancement of Colored People, will observe Lincoln-Douglass Day on next Tuesday evening at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Editor T. Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age, will attend the inauguration. So will Editor James H Anderson, of the New York Amsterdam News. Congressman George S. Legare, of the First District of South Carolina, for whose seat A. P. Priolean has made an unrealing fight for many years, is dead after a long and painful illness. Plans for the inauguration are going inerrantly on. The wives of the Mu-So-Lit Club have discovered that the city of Washington was originally laid out by Benjamin Baneker, the illustrator. Negro mathematician and surveyor. Friends here are indebted to Bishop Charles Henry Phillips for a neatly bound copy of the admirable address delivered by him on Founders' Day at Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. It is a helpful and inspiring message to young men and we have read it with great pleasure and profit. Bishop Phillips is one of the greatest churchmen of today, and the C. M. E. connection is taking a higher rank among the influential religious bodies of the race because of his activity in so many fields of useful endeavor. According to figures supplied by the Customs Service, Mr. Whitfield McKinlay, Collector of Customs for the Port of Georgetown, D. C., received as salary, fees, etc., a total compensation of $3,755.61, apportioned as follows: - Salary, $500; commissions, $2,500; storage, $755.61. Not included in this summary is the amount received from the sale of manifests and other papers, which would bring the total somewhat higher than given above. For an up-to-date drug store, Dr. J. W. Morse, at 1904 L Street Northwest, is the one. Latest advices from Philadelphia announces the serious illness of James T. Bradford, late of this city and Baltimore. B. F. Toubert, of New Orleans, has been transferred to this city by the Treasury Department. Our genial friend Col. James Lewis, is his son-in-law. Mr. A J Thomas, manager of the Howard Theater, is the author of a strong drama entitled "Sacrifice," dealing in a thoughtful way with the spiritual side of the race problem. Mr. Thomas may stage the play next season, with a high-grade cast. Major Charles W. Fillmore, formerly of this city, now connected with the internal revenue service in New York City, has been elected vice president of the Equity Congress, a leading civic organization of the national metropolis. He was designated as the Colonel of the provisional regiment, intended by the colored people to become a part of the National Guard of the State of New York. Hope is expressed that the project will yet be successful, if the support of Governor Sulzer can be enlisted. The W. L. Board Pharmacy, successor to Board & McGuire, at 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest, will continue the painstaking, accurate and up-to-date work that has characterized it in the past and will soon add new features that will make this popular pharmacy one of the most beautiful and up-to-date drug stores in the city of Washington. It will always be the place "where everybody meets everybody else." The "Health Lectures" at the Y. M. C. A. include the following subjects for the next few weeks: February 10, Dr. H. W. Freeman, "The Air We Breathe"; February 24, Dr. M. O. Dumas, "The Use and Abuse of the Eyes"; March 10, "First Aid to the Injured"; Dr. S. L. Carson. Mr. Clarence Cameron White, the well-known violinist, has become director of the Victorian Orchestra in Boston, Mass. Mr. W. L. Porter, editor of the East Tennessee News, published at Knoxville, Tenn., spent a few days in the city very pleasantly this week. He had been attending the meeting of the executive committee of the National Negro Press Association at Philadelphia. While here he was tendered a magnificent dinner by Tennessee Club of Washington, and a number of distinguished citizens joined in the festivities. The sentiment among local Odd Fellows is practically unanimous for Philadelphia as the meeting place of the B. M. C. in 1914. The selection will be made at the July session of the sub-committee of management. Dr. W. L. Board, the Chesterfieldian druggist, will do business at the same old stand. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C, passed through the city Tuesday en route for Richmond, Va. The banquet to Bishop Alexander Walters March 4 will be a great event. If you want a Jive paper subscribe and read The Bee. Have The Bee sent to your home: it is a fireside companion. It cures the blues. Mr. O. M. Groves, of the Mollie Groves Mining Co., will address the meeting at the Second Baptist Church next Monday night. This will be the last chance to purchase stock in this company. Dr. W. L. Smith, Fourth and Elm Streets Northwest, is prepared to fill any kind of prescription. It is the only drug store in the park January 30 the officers of Mecca Temple, No. 10, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, were installed by P. D. I. P. Charles D. Freeman. These officers were elected December 30, 1912, and consisted of the following Nobles: Wm. G. Smith, illustrious potentate; Nelson Ronne, chief rabban; Samuel Hill, assistant rabban. Arthur J. Smith, H P and prophet: John A. Sorrell, O G; C A. Boags, treasurer: A. P Clark, recorder: H C Walker, second cer. master: S T. Craig, first cer. master: H. P Jackson, captain of the guard; Geo. W. Branch, marshal; Wm. M Perkins, O. G. After which a collation was served. The new potentate addressed the Temple, giving outlines of the work to be done this year, which was well received. The annual session of the Imperial Council will be held on the first Wednesday in August, 1913, at Indianapolis, Ind. The reason Morse's Drug Store is so well known is because it is first-class. The special revival services which have been successfully in progress for the last month at Mt Zion M. E. Church will, it is said, close this week. More than fifty new members have been added to the church. Rev. D. W. Hays, the pastor, is happily pleased with the great success of the meeting. The beautiful Biblical drama of "Queen Esther" by the Semper Paratus Dramatic Club at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O Street Northwest, on Monday evening, under the direction of Mrs. L. Naylor. Fitzhugh, was well rendered and highly pleasing to the large audience present. The club and management deserved credit for the production of this most excellent Biblical drama of "Queen Esther." Rev. E. E. Rick's Baptismal Service. The large success in the revival service recently held at the First Baptist Church was demonstrated on Sunday morning before a large concourse of people by the baptizing of thirty converts, with an equal number yet to be received in the church. Rev. Edgar F. Ricks is beloved and highly esteemed by the members of his church and the public in general. There is also an excellent Sunday School and Christian Endeavor Society of the church, which is free from debt, which has shown the wisdom of the congregation in having elected this able and worthy young minister as their pastor. The subscribers of this paper will please have their money ready when our agent calls next week and kindly oblige The Bee. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. The services at both churches continue in an interesting and satisfactory manner each Sunday. Up to now the Sabbaths for the year have been blessed with fair weather generally. A good attendance Sunday morning, February 2, gave Pastor Powell an audience of appreciable size, and both morning and evening sermons were well delivered. The Epworth League hour at Galloway M. E. Chapel has been changed from 6:30 p. m. to 4 p. m. The Third Baptist Church had a good morning service. The Public School League meeting Tuesday night, February 4, was an improvement on former meetings. The patrons are becoming more and more interested, thus encouraging the teachers in their earnest and faithful effect. we are encouraging the teachers in their encourag and faithful efforts. The Mothers' meeting on Thursday night, January 9, organized at Second Baptist Church with Sister Susie Campbell, president, Lester Lena Dixon, vice president, Miss K. C. Cartier, secretary and treasurer, and Mrs. Martha Wade, assistant secretary. There was a good attendance of mothers. A sermon is to be preached to the mothers by Dr. Powell on the first Sunday in March, followed on Monday night with a literary and musical entertainment. Two social suppers, the first a 5-cent and the second a 10-cent supper, have been given by the ladies of the Second Baptist Church for the purpose of raising funds to assist the trustees in paying certain bills. The first took place at the residence of Mrs. Martha Wade, on Friday night, January 31, and the second at the residence of Mrs. Cora Strother on Wednesday night, February 5. Though the attendance at each was not so large as to be desired, on account of unfavorable weather, they were very pleasant gatherings, at any rate. Miss Fannie Choice, of Atlanta, Ga., is now visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Ida' Major, at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Major is always pleased to have her Falls Church friends call. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thomas were visitors to the city on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Miss Emma Tinner, Mrs. Lillian Jackson and Mrs. Annie Lewis came into the village to visit and see the folks at home for a few hours on Sunday, February 2. They came down on an excursion trip from Philadelphia, reaching Washington at about 7 p.m. They were very cordially received by their many friends and relations. Mr. Thomas Marshall, of Baltimore, brother of Mr. Frank Marshall, was a welcome visitor in the home of Mr and Mrs. Frank Marshall Sunday. A quick trip, a grand dinner, and a hearty welcome were his, for it had been quite a while, since he had visited "the old folks at home." FAIRMCUNT HEIGHTS. Rey Dr. Ernest S. Williams the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church Sunday morning, February 2, 1913 The church was crowded and all expressed their delight in being present. At 3 o'clock Dr. Williams, Rev. R. A. Hart and Mr. James F. Armstrong went to Oxen Hill, Maryland, and assisted Rev. George H. Booze, the pastor of St. Paul M. E. Church, in his Woman's Day exercises. On arriving at Oxen Hill Mrs. Booze, the good wife of the pastor, insisted that her guests partake of a delicious repast which had been carefully prepared. The program at the church was made up of songs, prayers, essays and addresses, which added greatly to the occasion. The Brentwood brass band was present and rendered several sacred selections. The Quarterly Conference of the M. E. Church was held Tuesday night, February 4, with Dr. Williams, D; D. in the chair, Mr. James A. Campbell was elected secretary of the Conference. The annual reports of the different boards were read and showed great improvement. Quite a number of changes were made in the official board of the church. The list of trustees for the en-ning year confirmed by the Conference is as follows James F. Vrnstrong, W. H. Addison, Frank Coalman, John Medley, R. S. Nichols, A. L. Briscoe, Phillip Watkins and R. D. Mullin, Rev. C. S. Harper and Rev. R. A Hart, pastors of the Conference, were present and made encouraging remarks Rev. Dr. L. S. Williams administered as di-struct superintendent, was endorsed and the Conference prayed his return for another year. Dr. W. W. Jones, M. D., whose office is situated in Deanwood Heights. D. C., on Fifty-eighth Street Northeast, near the Fifty-eighth Street waiting station, has purchased a very valuable tract of land. This tract is one of the most desirable pieces of property in the Northeast. It fronts 127 feet on Fifty-eighth Street, which is a 90-foot thoroughfare, 237 feet east and is bounded on the south by a 15-foot, alley. It is the doctor's intention to erect a nice office and residence the coming spring and summer. The Fair Committee of the M. E. Church, of which Mrs. Queen V. Coalman is chairman, held its second meeting January 28. Don't miss the Park Drug Store, Fourth and Elm Street Northwest. Dr. W. L. Smith. The regular monthly services of the junior Epworth League, under the most able supervision of Mrs. Maggie Darnell Evans, was largely attended. Mr. L. Griffin Brooks addressed the children in a very entertaining and instructive manner. The Misses Benjie and Blanche Burke sang a beautiful duet. Other numbers included several organ solos of a high order by Mr. Edgar J. Johnson, and the usual program of recitations and choruses by the children. Rev. D. G. Henderson, of the Third Baptist Church, is continuing the revival at his church with much success. The congregation of the Meade P. E. Church, held regular services in their new edifice, corner Princess and Alfred Streets, on Sunday. At the 11 o'clock morning service Rev. Wallis, of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, preached. At the 5 o'clock service Rev. Morton, of Christ Church, preached. Special musical numbers were rendered by the choir, under the direction of Mrs. J. Milton Hopkins. There were also several solos. Miss Rust, of Wilmington, Del., and the Misses Minkens, of Washington, D. C., were the guest of Miss Mary E. Dorey Sunday. Mr. Chas, Taite, of Wilmington, Del. MAMMOTH INDOOR ATHLETIC MEET AT CONVENTION HALL THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 28 The Beginning of the Festival Season Under the Auspices of Interscholastic Athletic Association, Public Schools Athletic League, and The Teachers' Benefit and Annuity Association. Colleges, Schools, and Clubs as follows will be represented: Howard University, Hampton Institute, Alpha Physical Culture of New York, Lincoln University, Smart Set of New York, Salem and Crescent of New York, Public Schools Athletic League of Washington, D. C. Other teams from New York, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Newark, and Baltimore. Events begin at 8 and are over at 11 o'clock. Hoffman's Orchestra until 2 a.m. Reserved Seat Tickets $1.25, $1.00, 75c and 50c. On sale at Y. M. C. A. Office, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest. General admission, 50c. J. MORIA SAUNDERS, Chairman Committee on Advertising. E. B. HENDERSON, General Manager was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zach. Taite, Sunday. Miss Nellie Burke, of Wilmington, Del, spent Sunday with her mother. Mr. Edgar J. Johnson is making extensive repairs on the organ at Roberts Chapel M. E. Church. Mr. Stephen Pritchett is at Freedman's Hospital. Mr. Phil. Webb has been ill during the past week. Miss Martha E. Buckner was out of the city a short while last week Buy The Bee at David Wair's barber shop. BLACK PATTI The Greatest Ovation Ever Accorded the Prijma Dona—Standing Room at a Premium. When Madame Sissieretta Jones was first introduced to the people of this city it was in Asbury A. M. E. Church by the late Gov. Martin, of this city. The Bee first made the announcement and printed the first circulars. Step by step Madame Jones has advanced, and today she is a drawing card wherever she goes. At the Howard Theater this week the people could not be accommodated. Every seat and every available space for standing room was occupied "Captain Jasper," her new musical farce, surpasses all previous efforts of this great company. The manager, Andrew J. Thomas, and the house manager, Rufus G. Byars, deserve credit for the orderly conduct of the hours during the engagement of this distinguished singer. G. W. Tarrant, as Captain Jasper, is on the order of Happy John Larkin. His acting and jokes are laughable. M. F. Watts, as Major Drummond, W. G. Cook, as U. R. Swift, and the chorus were excellent. Madame Jones' costumes and the brilliancy of her diamonds showed to an advantage. Black Patti will close her final engagement this evening. Cast of Characters # Class of Characters. Jasper Charcoal... Julius Glenn Major Drummond... Al F. Watts U. R. Swift... W. A. Cooke Captain Jasper... G. W. Tarrant Colonel Warsaw... Chas C. Bongia Liey Warsaw... Tillie Segni Julia... Estelle Cash Leon... Edward Borden Guard... Jas Reed and John Grant and Chetcka. Madam Sissieretta Jones "The Original" Black Patti American Tourist... Jeanette Murphy, Marie Hendricks, J Hanna Livingston, Grace Steward, Jessie Hart, Manie Rowe, Edith Rowe, Blanche Howell, Fannie Hudson, Ray White, Marie Williams, Olivia Grunell, Lulu Cooper, John Phillips, Jesse Triplett, James Reed, Billy E. Jones, Louis Weir, Archie Johnson, Clayton Cook, Ernest Green Act First. Scene-At U. S. Military Barracks, Presidio, San Francisco, Cal. Julius Glenn and Chorus Finale, "Ragtime Soldier Man"... Messrs. Glen, Cook and Company Act Second Scene—Mountain Pass, near Racoor, Philippine Island. "Shine On".....Chorus "Willie, the Peeper".....W. A. Cooke "Sun-Blest Are You, O Golden Land" and "The Nightingale" Sissicretta Jones (Black Patti) "You Never Catch Me. There Act Third Scene—Lawn Fete, Golden Gate Park near Fort Mason, Cal. Opening, "Mellow Melody" ..... Full Chorus "Belle, of New York." Belle of New York Black Patti and full Chorus Duet, "Please Don't Take My Loving Man Away" Tillie Seguin and Julius Glenn Finale, "Belle of New York" Black Patti and full Company Lincoln and Douglass to Be Remembered. On Thursday evening, February 13 at 8 o'clock, in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard University, the Mu-So-Lit Club is to furnish a program for a joint observance of the anniversaries of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The affair is to be under the auspices of the Alpha Phi fraternity of Howard University, and the officers and members of both organizations will take an active part in the exercises. The eulogy on "Lincoln" will be present. ed by Mr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, principal of Armstrong Manual Training School, and the oration on "Douglass" will be delivered by Lieut. Thomas H. R. Clarke, of the Treasury Department. Musical selections will be rendered by Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, Mr. Joseph H. Douglass, Mr. Roy W. Tibbs, Mr. Henry L. Grant and others. President G. Luther Saddgwar, of the Mu-So-Lit Club, will preside, and the president of the Alph Phi will deliver the address of welcome on behalf of the university. The public is invited. Following the exercises in the chapel, the regular monthly meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club will be held at the residence of Mr. Robert A. Pellham, 603 Howard Place Northwest, and every member is expected to be present. January 30, 1913. Editor of The Bee During my recent illness, friends profiled their "good offices" to such an extent that, I take this method of returning my sincere thanks and deepest gratitude. I shall be only too glad to acknowledge such kindness and consideration in a more formal manner than this card of thanks. ANNIE M. JOHNSON. 1528 15th Street, N. W. Executive Committee of the Mu-So-Lit Club. Mr. G. Luther Sadwar, president of the Mu-So-Lit Club, has named Mr. G. Smith Wormley as chairman of the executive committee of the organization, and the latter will be assisted in the work of the committee by a corps embracing Messrs. M Grant Lucas, S. J. Davidson, E. C. Williams, James C. Waters, Jr. Henry L. Grant, Oliver Randolph and F. D. McCracken. The officers of the club and former presidents are ex-officio members of the committee. A NEW CLUB. The Paul Lawrence Dunbar. The leading colored citizens of this city met in True Reformer's Hall recently and consumed plans for the establishment of a first-class gentlemen's club, which will doubtless be the finest race enterprise of its kind in America. 4. 2. 1. 6. A magnificent edifice will be erected on one of the capital's principal boulevards and will be lavishly furnished. It will compare favorably with the wealthy Lotus, Cosmos, Army and Navy, Cosmopolitan and other white clubs of the Nation's capital. The membership comprises the flower of the business and professional circles of Washington. The club has an attractive beneficial clause in its charter. The genial, efficient and popular Mr. Robert T. Murray is general promoter and backer of this project. A grateful public honors him as the benefactor and founder of a notable epoch in the capital city's sociological development. The officers whose names follow are among the most distinguished citizens of Washington: President—Dr. Wm. S. Lofton. Vice President—Attorney John E. Collins. Secretary—Prof. James LeCount Chestnut. Corresponding Secretary—H. V. Plummer. Financial Secretary—Robert A. Pelham. Treasurer—Dr. Clarence A. Gray. Physician—Dr. V. J. Daniels. Attorney—Thomas Beckett. Chairman Board of Governors—Lieut Thos H. R. Clarke. 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To the surprise of many of its own members and of outsiders generally, the senate gave just one vote more than the necessary two-thirds in favor of the Works constitutional amendment limiting the tenure of office of president to one term of six years. This action of the senate assures that if three-tourths of the states ratify the proposed change within the next four years the presidential term of Woodrow Wilson will be automatically extended two years, and he will be ineligible for re-election, as will Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. The final vote by which the unamended Works resolution was adopted proved exciting in the extreme, as it was very close throughout and again and again it looked as if the resolution was defeated. Senator Henry A. Dupont, of Delaware, by his belated vote in the affirmative at last saved the day for the proposed constitutional change, the result being 47 ayes and 23 noes. In addition to the surprise caused by the success of the resolution, due to the apparent drift of senatorial sentiment during the three days' debate on the proposition, the way in which several senators voted was surprising and almost inexplicable. Senator LaFollette, for instance, turned up in opposition to the resolution, although its passage would be a long step in the direction of preventing Colonel Roosevelt from ever again being president of the United States. On the other hand, Senator Cummins was recorded in the affirmative, while the only Democratic senator in oppo sition was Snively, of Indiana. Senators Dixon, of Montana, and Polindex, of Washington, both ardent supporters of Roosevelt, of course cast their votes in the negative. Senator Oliver went the same way, while Penrose was recorded in the affirmative. In all seventeen regular Republicans supported the proposition. Senator Dupont had been paired with Senator Culberson, of Texas, and so announced when he voted, but said that he felt free to have himself recorded in the affirmative, because he understood that if the Texas senator were present he would vote the same way. There seems to be no doubt that the house of representatives will adopt the Works resolution or one practically identical with it. It is also expected that three-fourths of the state legislatures will be found to be in favor of the constitutional change when it is submitted to them for ratification. The language which it is proposed to insert in the constitution in place of the first paragraph of article 2 is as follows: "The executive, power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. The terms of the office of President shall be six years; and no person who has held the office by election, or discharged its powers or duties, or acted as president under the constitution and laws made in pursuance thereof, shall be eligible to hold again the office by election." 7300 MINERS ON STRIKE Quit Work Because Engineers Refuse to Join Union. Refusing to work alongside of engineers who have refused to join the union, 7300 miners at the Lackawanna collieries in Scranton, Pa., and Taylor and at the Delaware & Hudson colliery in Archbold are out of work. This was part of a general strike that had been planned for between Nanticoke and Forest City to compel engineers to become allied with the miners' organization. At the collieries not affected by the walkout the engineers have joined the union. The walking out of the 7300 men tied up operations completely at the n-n collieries. Every Lackawanna collieries in Scranton is affected, but the workers at its other twenty-four collieries remained at work. FIRE SWEEPS WATER FRONT Blaze at Savannah, Ga., Does $1,500,000 Damage. Destruction by fire of the wharves of the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation company and the Planters' Rice mill on the water front of Savannah Ga., entailed a loss estimated at $500,000. The fire raged for four hours before it finally was brought under control. No lives were lost. The wharves destroyed are owned by the Central of Georgia railway, but are used by the Merchants' and Miners' company. The burned area is a quarter of a mile long and two block wide. West Virginia Acts on Election. The lower house of the West Virginia legislature adopted a resolution ratifying the amendment to the constitution of the United States providing for the direct election of senators The senate has not yet taken action. Former Philadelphia Official Convicted of Conspiracy. [Image of a man with a bald head, a mustache, and a suit jacket. The background is plain white. There is no text or additional details in the image.] GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY Ex-City Official of Philadelphia and Two Contractors Convicted. Henry Clay, former director of public safety, John R. Wiggins and Willard H. Wallis, contractors, of Philadelphia, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the city in the erection of a fire house during the administration of Mayor Reyburn. Carl B. Zilleniger, tried on the same charge, was acquitted. A motion was made for a new trial. It was shown at the trial that Philadelphia paid $35,000 for a building that could be erected at a profit for $18,000, and that two sets of plans and specifications were used in awarding the contract. The favored contractors bid on the cheaper plans and others on those calling for high-priced material. Should the verdict be sustained the three men will be labled to a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment and $500 fine. Pending disposition of the motion for a new trial the convicted men were released on $5000 bail. March 1 was set for hearing argument on the motion. FIRE CHIEF'S MOTHER AND SISTER BURN Reaches Home Too Late to Save Loved Ones. Leading his company in response to an alarm, Fire Chief Patrick Curran found the blaze was in his own home on West Maiden street, Washington, Pa. Grabbing a chemical extinguisher, he rushed through the smoke filled doorway and, running through the hall, enered the room of his aged mother, Mrs. Bridget Curran, eighty-four years old, where the flames were burning fiercely. The fire chief stumbled over something on the floor and, reaching down, picked up the terribly burned body or his mother. He carried the woman into a neighboring house, where she died soon afterward. The aged woman's daughter, Miss Mary Curran, who attempted to save her mother, sustained fatal burns, while a son, Michael, was terribly injured by the flames. The fire had its origin in an open coal grate. It is supposed that Mrs Curran rose in the night and approached the mantel, her nightrobe becoming ignited at the grate. Her screams brought her daughter from the second floor, and in the fight with the flames Miss Curran was burned over the greater part of her body. TWO KILLED IN PANIC Cry of Fire Stampedes Audience In Moving Picture Show. Two women were killed and more than a stone of men, women and children were badly hurt in a panic at the Houston Street Hippodrome, a moving picture concern at 143 East Houston street, New York. A blind, unreasoning panic at the shout or "Fire!" swept an East Side audience o. Not got into the entrance way to the snow house, where they clutched and cove and trampled upon each other. The fire is set. 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Kennedy PROPRIETOR OF + Ohe Wloose House” 625 D Street, N.W. Washington, D. C, wrSpecial Liquor Sale Eve ery Saturday. . Hopelessly Tangled, | Professor Thinkltout was about to be married and had just received an! {avitation to bis own wedding, which | be‘bad absentmindedly mailed to him-. self. “Well, well,” he mused, “what does this mean? My flancee’s name on a| wedding Invitation! ‘The faithless hus- sy! And great Logarithms! There's my name on it too. Either she's un- true or I'm about to be a bigamlst.”— Exchange. Testing His Love. “Has he ever tried to tell how much! he loves you?” “Frequently, but 1 am going to get Pome inside Information this after- noon.”” “How?” “I am going to take my engagement, ring to the jeweler."—Iouston Post. | Probing the Jury. * | Judge (te jury) -ave you agreed! upou a verdict? Is the prisoner guilty or not guilty of theft, as charged in the Indictment: Toreman—We bave not yet reached a verdict, your honor. 1 Missed wy pocketbook In the olght, and } would respectfully ask that each furor be searched : Naturally. ~ “The prima donna we heard yester- day bas a voice of velvet” “Of course ‘That's Where she gets her pile.”—Italtimore Aterican Cruel Hint, Mabel—Georze thinks | am so easy to please. Gladys~He must think Bo after all the rest of us had turned bim down.—Baltimore American. Be who laughs tast is an Englsh- iman.—Princeton ‘Tiger, The gold plate on which the invi- tation to the late President Wm. Mc- Kinley was engrated was found in a New York pawn shop, where it was sold by the niece of the late Presi- dent. . Judge Pugh has given authority to the Commission to inpose a fine for the violation of the building regula- tions, * There will be three colored inaug- ural balls March 3, ‘with no President to inaugurate. Mr. Julius Rosenwald, of Chi¢ago who has.given so magnificently to the Colored Young Men's Christian As: sociation, gaye $2,500 recently to the National Association for the Advance: ment of Colored People. Horse Sense. ‘When a collar hurts, the average Borse winces upon being asked te throw his weight into the collar. Lat- @ he becomes what we foolishly call Dbelky perhaps, and finally he fights Mke an army mule when some one tries to put a collar on bim. That's knowing something! 2 _ 1 am personally acquainted with a horse which simply hates a certali blacksmith who once upon a time nail- ed 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 eruel enough to fasten a horse with « 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 recelved this sort of discipline bears a chuln rattle he will bolt in terror, whether bitched to a mowing machine, a. curriago with children In it or a heary wagon load. ed with produce. This fa elther horse sense or borse revenge—Farm and Fireside. Place Names In Russia. The Russian bas not applied his bames without reason. In 1858 when he founded the ‘capital of the Amoor Province, he named It Blizovesch- chensk. This means “good news"—to all save the proofreaders in the news- Peper oliices. Three years Iter he founded the capital of Primorskaya and gave it a name that planly showed what it was intended to be—Viadlvo- atok, “ruler of the ust." Near the end of his great transcontivental railway be made a brand new clty and called it Dalny, “farthest,” a very appropri: ate name for a place 5,800 miles from the starting polnt of the road. A pet: ty clan of the Suchan family, spring- ing from the narrow, beautiful, but savage glens southwest of Changbal- shan, founded the Manchu dynasty, which for more than 200 years ruled China, They took the dynastic name of Manju, ur Manchu, in their own language meaning “clear.” To this the Europeans bave added a termination and we have Manchuria, the “country of the Mancbus."—London Answers. bie Ghaky Memory, « ‘The lawyers got a tartar when, in & recent trial in a southern city, they summoned to the stand an aged darky who had been an eyewitness of a Hgbt that bad 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. “Fight?” asked Mose. apparently greatly surprised. “What fight?" “You know very well what fight Is meant,” said counsel. “Tell us about wn “1 don’t know notbin’ about no Sight,” insisted the witness. “When was it?” “See here, Moses," exclaimed the lawyer; “no trifing—the tight day be- fore yesterday. You know all about Mt Tell us"— “Ob, de fight day befo’ sisterday,” sald Mose. “Well, sub. you see, I's slept since de day befo’ yisterday, and I never kin rickollect anything after T's been asleep.” And that was all they could get from him.—Green Bag., Blind Dogs and Rats. Canines burn blind or ‘Tuwsers that become blind by nvcident are able to smell and paw their way’ into the most inaccessible und out of the way places. It ds practically impossible to starve them, lose them or trap them, Further- nore, blind dogs learn stunts just as quickly ay those that see. Luss of aight In no way Interteres with their ability to tearn tricks, acquire habits or find thelr bed. RatS, as a mutter of fact, tf they use thelr eyes at all—a doubtful matter— can see little or nothing of the world. ‘The retina of these creatures bua 00 point of pbrfect viaton such as is found {n the higher animals and man: bence thelr noses, muscles, touch and hearing give them {nformation about the world they lve In.—New York Press. , Gave Himself Away. A Ilttle girl was weeping bitterly tn the street, and a benevolent old gen- tleman, patting her on the shoulder, fnquired what was the matter. “I've lost a penny, sir." the child sobbed. The old gentleman promptly handed ber a penny, She looked at him askance for a few seconds and then paid.in a tone more of sorrow than cf anger: “Ob, 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, “ls a bad investment. “The poor man goes out to fight and then, If he doesn’t get killed, be has to come home and help pay the debts.” —Detroit Free Press. Mighty Texas. : Teras {s so big that if {t swung around in a circle over the United Btatea It would touch the great lakes to the northward, to the east would reach the Atlantic, westward the Pa- effc and southward the Caribbean sea. —Cassier's Magazine. A Popular Recreation. “Where are yon going, Sands?" sald one Scotchman to another. “Doon to the club.” said Sandy, “And wha’ foor?’ “Just tocontradcect a wee bit.” Executive Ability, Little Jawmes—Father, what ts execa- tive ability? His father -The faculty of earvins your bread bs the sweat of other people's brows, my sun. Philosophy is a good horse tn the stable, but an arrant jade on a jour Bey.—Goldemith, ‘The Punishment of the Bagno. In former times the punishment of the bagno (Gath), one of the most clev- erly cruel infilctions ever devised, was administered in Venice, where the wa- ter of,the lagoons played so prominent a 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 rat in a con- stant stream the criminal was furnish- ed with a scoop with which to bale out the water as fast as tt came in. The respite from death by immersion thus obtained was moro 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 toll by night and day, to stave off the dread moment fast approaching when, over- come by sleep and fatizue, he was un- able to struggle any longer against his fate. Comititinieite Bald a certain eminent actor, who at the axe of fifty-nine looks no more than thirty five: “I try to keep my hair on and my atomach off—that ts the true secret ot perennial youth.” Then he, told one of his famous sto Fes illustrative of the horrors of corpu lence. fe A fat inan,” he sald, “eéuld not hel} laughing one das at the ludicrons ap pearance of a very bow legged chap one of tho» arch looking chaps, yot know. “Thouzh a total stranger to bim, th fat man siapped the bow legged char on the buck and satd: “By Jinzo, brother, you took as 1 you'd been riding a barrel’, “The Low legged man smiled anc poked his forelinger deep into the fa man’t soft, loose stomach, - “*And you look as {f you'd been swal lowing one, he sald."—Washingto1 Btar. A Town You Should Reach. The pleasant town of Get There lies far up a rocky hill, across the sands of Courage and above the swamp of Will. ‘The path that leads to Get There leaves the pleasant thoroughfare and wanders off ‘nid rocks that grind and briar vines that tear. And thousand’s pass along the road that leads to Nowbere- ville aud grumble at the few who climb to Get There on the hill, and others start the thorny path and seek the town to gain, but falter at the swamp of Will ‘and turn them back in palu, Ob, happy town of Get There, shining in the morning sun, you only show the toller how’ yet bigher peaks are won! ‘The treest recompense you give for self denying years 1s but tho promise old, set new, that conquers doubts and fears. Tor no one lives at Get There, but with heart'and purpose set on bet: ter things, from peak to peak they elimb up bigher yet.— Rural New Yorker. Ble Mavared Beavity; A bishop once rose to address the house of lords and began by saying he intended to divide hts speech into twelve hewds. Lord Durham there- upon got up and begged leave to inter. Pose for 2 few rulnutes to tell the house an anecdote. He was returning home, he sald. a few nights before and passed St. Paul's cathedral Just before midnight. As he did so there was a drunken man tryin, to sce the time. Just then the cloch began to strike the hour and slow!s tolled out 12, ‘The drunken man Ils. tened, looked hard at the clock and sald: ’ “Hang sou, why’ couldn't you bave said all that at once!” After this narration the bishop oon Gensed his remarks.—London Globe. Wistecn ant Bullets: The most vulnerable spot in which te hit a walrus Is the back part of the skull, The forehead, being sevefal inches thick in boge, almost Invariably turns bullets even If solid ones are used in a dig rifle, as should always be done. Beales the head, with tbe exception of the heart, there ts hardly a vital spot in these huge brutes' bodjes, and bul: lets may be firefl ad Nbitdm into these masses of flesh and blubber without seoming to have much effect. , ee Domestic Tragedy. > * “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 1s Knows to have made threats.” — Louisville Oourler-Journa’. BM Matsl Seon Cl” Borrowgs—Nellle, hand me my um brella, will you? It has commenced tc rain, Mrs. B—I lent your umbrella td Mr, Sweetfern last night. Borrowes- ‘What tm thunder did you do that for’ Didn't you know it was bis?—Spare Moments. ‘The Mystery of Man. Man 4s greater than a world—thar| systoms of worlds. ‘There {s more mys | tery in the union of soul with bods than in the creation of a universe— Henry Giles. Tho Inevitable. There is no good in arguing with the tnevitable. 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Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. GEORGE F. COLLINS, Attorney. AUGUSTUS W.GRAY, ATTORNEY Supreme Court, of the District of Co- lumbia, Holding Probate Court, No. 19599, Administration, This is to give notice that the sub- scriber, of the District_of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Geor- giana Clay, late of the District of Co- lumbia, deceased. All persons having claims’against the deceased are here- by warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authen- ticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 16th day of January, A. D. 1914; otherwise they may by law be exclu- -ded from all btnefit of said estate. . Given under my hand this 16th day of January, 1913. JOHN ‘f. RICKS, 1905 oth St. N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. AUGUSTUS W. GRAY, ' Attorney. Supreme. Court of the District of Co- lumbia, Holding Probate Court. No. - 39590. Administration Docket. Estate of David G, Cleveland, deceas- ed. Appheation having been made for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testa- mentary on said estate, by Samuel W. Watson, it is ordered this 31st day of January, A. D. 1913, that Nelson Cleve- land, John Cleveland, Milton Cleveland, Magyre Cleveland, Glenn and Caroline Pickens, and_all others concerned; ap- pear in said Court on Monday, the 17th day of March, A. D. 1913, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause, if any they nave. why such application’ should not _ be granted. Lit notice hereof be published in_the “Washington Law Reporter” and “The Washington Bee,” orce in cach cf three successive weeks before the zctury day herein mentioned, the first publica: tion to be not less than thirty days before said return day. - ‘ THOS. 1. ANDERSON, : Justice. Attest: . - WM. -C, TAYLOR, Deputy Rewister of Wills for the Dis- trict af Columbia, Clerk .of the Pro- bate Court. CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION. Negro Baptists Plan for Semi-Cen- tennial in Connection With Annual Meeting in September. ~ The Negro. Baptists of the country. two and one-half million, will hold Semi-Centennial Services in connection with the September meeting of the Na- tional Baptist Convention. Fifty Years Progress Shown. Progress of the denomination during the last fifty years will be shown by exhibits, statistics, pictures, and other material evidences. This was the de- cision reached Wednesday, January 29, by the Executive Committee of the Na- tional Baptist Convention at a called mecting held at Tuskegee Institute, Ala- bama.” Exposition Managed by Commis- sioners. . A Conumssion. composed of onc member from cach State, will co-operate with the Baptist bodies of each State, under .the direction of the President of the National Convention .and collect the materiale for the exposition. Details to-Be Worked Out. Details will be worked out by the * WHITE BRUTE Outrages Half-witted Colored Girl—Lures Her to His Joint and Assaults . Her—Jury Finds Him Guilty. Wichita, Kans.—The case of the State against Fred Curtis. concluded in the District Court of Sedgwick County, brought to light one of the must atrocious and heinous crimes ever perpetrated by mankind. Ella Mae Thornton, a 13-year-old Negro girl, demented and- ignorant. was the sole object of pity and sympathy. Her traducer. Fred Curtis Qvhite), 30 year of age, a keeper of a chili joint. sat in the witness hex listening to the testimony of both white and colored, how he would ture this poor young demented girl to his place and assault her. His only chance and hope was. “I,am white. the jury is white. Willa @white jury convict a white man of rape on a poor ignorant black girl?” His hope was not very well founded, for the jury brought ina verdict of guilty uf assault with intent to rape. 7 This case had attracted the attention «i the whole colored population aswell as a major portion of the white The case first came to light through the absence of the gitl from school. The principal, Ferdinand Barnett, sent the truant officer to her hame te ascertain the reason ior her absence Thus supplied-with a limited amount of information. he went 10 her home and interviewed her in person . Satisfied with the reason ior her absence, he consulted Attorney E. P Blakemore, and these two interviewed the Chief of Police, with the result that. after she was examined by the county physician and Dr. A. K. Lawrence. a State warrant. charging rape, was issued, and this inhuman monstrosity was bound over to the District Court for $750 bail, which he was unable to furnish. This was on Novem- ber 23. On January 21 the case came to trial. This poor, unfortunate girl of 13 years, a pupil in the second-crade of Douglass School at Wichita. must go through life burdened with infection. with the child of a criminal to ever remind her of the eruel propensities that are heaped tipon womanhood of the Negro race. Surely’God in his infinite wisdom and mercy shall not sleep awhile such depredations are be- ing perpetrated. : . Christian Xander’s | | OLDEST | California Sherry ony at 90 7h St Commission, resident C, E. Morris, concurring. " How Financed. The project will be financed by pri- vate ‘donations and public subscriptions. The Executive Committee pledged $1,000, including $200 pledged by Dr. Booker T. Washington, $100 by Dr. E. C. Morris, $50 by Dr. Jordan, and $25 by each of the other members of the committee. : af The Commissioners will be appointed by President Morris. . May Meet in Nashville. In all_probability the meeting of the convention will be held in Nashville, ‘Tenn, | Committee Unanimous, The Executive Comraittee was unani- mous in the opinion that the exposi- tion should be held. ‘Dr Washington Offers Advice and Assistance. - By special invitation Dr. Washington remained with the Committée through- out its sessions and offered important suggestions which were freely accepted. Exposition Will Cost Over $2,500. It was carefully estimated that it will require $2,500 to finance the expo- ‘sition scheme. * The meeting was attetiled by Dr, E. C. Morris, president, Little Rock, Ark.; Rev. W G, Parks, D. D., ‘vice president, ‘Philadelphia, Pa; Rev. T._O, Fuller, assistant secretary, Memphis, Tenn.; Rev, A. J, Stokes, treasurer, Montgom- ery, Ala.; Rey. J. P Robinson, chair- man Home Mission Board, Little Rock, Ark.; Rey. T. J. Searcy, chairman Edu- cational Board, Memphis, Tenn.; Rev. R. H. Boyd, secretary Publishing and Home Mission Boards, Nashville, Tenn.: Rev. P. James Bryant, chair- man Baptist Young People’s Board, Atlanta, Ga.;, Rev. L. G. Jordan, secre- tary Foreign Mission Board, Philadel- phi, Pa.; Rev. C. H. Parrish, chair- man Foreign Mission Board, Louisville, Ky.:" Prof. J. D. Crenshaw, Editor Umon Review, Nashville, Tenn.; Rev. A. \. Cosey, member Benefit Board, Mound Bayou, Miss.; Prof. R. B. Hud- son general recording secretary, Selma, ab DIED IN FLORIDA. Sister of Thomas D. Tucker. | Jacksonville. Fla., Jan. 29."1913 Miss Rachael Tucker. sister of Mr Thomas D. Tucker, steward at the Dunbar Club. died suddenly in this place Sunday. Jainary 26, Her body was sent to Baltimore. Md. to her sister . Baltimore, Md. Feb. 2” Miss Rachael Tucker, who died snd: denly in Jacksonville. Pla. was buried irom the residence vf her sister Sat urday, February 1. | Mrs. Mary M. Syphax, widow uf the late Wm. Syphax, aged 83 years, died Tuesday. February 4. and was buried from her residence, 1616 Fifteenth Street Northwest, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. - Death.of Cameron White. é - Special to The Bee.) Boston, Mass., Jan. 31, 1913. Clarence Cameron White, Jr, age 4 sears, son of Mr and Mrs. Clarence ‘Cameron White, formerly of Washing: ton, D. C.. died in this city Friday, Jan- aary git Much sympathy is expressed for Mr. and Mrs. White. Beautiful Home of Lawyer Thomas a L. Jones. a . Extensive improvements have been made recently on the spacious home of Lawyer Thomas L. Jones. root Vermont Avenue Northwest, and it is now unquestionably one of the finest residences owned by Afro-Americans ‘in the capital city “The exterior has been painted in soft tints of stone and drab, and the interior has been reno- ‘vated and re-decorated from hase- ment to the towering mansard roof. A costly steam-heating plant has been installed, new conveniences have been Death of Mrs. Syphax. Phone North 436. . The Esmeralda - . OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE. Ko eH Oysters and Clams. Wholesale and Retail. Meals at all Hours. - ROBT. T. MURRAY, 600 T St. N. W., cor. Floride Men Washington, D.C. H ’s Dai friorner’s Dairy ‘DANIEL FREEMAN'S NEW MODERN STUDIO 1833 14th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. FINE PHOTOGRAPHS, CRAYONS AND PASTELS ‘Any Size and All Kinds. 7 : Groups, Flowers and Copying Interior and Exterior Views. . ALL WORK FIRST-CLASS AND GUARANTEED NOT TO FADE. ALL WORK REDUCED. ~ __ Lessons Given in Retouching and General Photography. Pictures and Picture Framing. ‘A ‘Handsome LARGE PHOTO FREE with each Order of Photos and Post Cards. 7 7 Studio on ground floor; 25 feet operating room; two dressing rooms with steam heat. . SITTINGS MADE RAIN OR SHINE, YOU ARE INVITED TO CALL . Phone North 724-¥. Perfect Pasteurized Milk ana Cream. Raw milk, if desired, Our Specialty. _ Fine grades of Creamery Butter, ‘Fresh laid eggs. Eight wagons give you prompt, reliable and efficient ser- vice. Corner Eighth and M, North- west. Phone, North 1872. c.B.HORNER — PROP ——— ‘DANIEL FREEMAN'S h 1833 4th Street, N. V FINE PHOTOGRAPHS, C Any Size anc Groups, Flowers and Copying ALL WORK FIRST-CLASS AND ALL WORK Lessons Given in Retouching an¢ Picture Framing. A ‘Handsome LAR of Photos and Post Cards. : Studio on ground floor; 25 feet | with steam heat. SITTINGS MADE RAIN OR SHIN . Phone Nc , added to the domestic arrangements, and heavy plate glass doors now grace ‘the main entrance. The structure, ris- ing four stories, and situated at a ‘graceful angle, commands a fine view of four of the District’s most fash- ionable thoroughfares, Vermont Ave- nue, and T, U and Tenth Streets. The ‘mansion is easily the most imposing homestead in,this most popular neigh- borhood of ‘the northwest section. ‘Lawyer Jones is essentially a “family man,” arid keenly enjoys the comforts of home. His ‘grawing-rooms have been the scene of some of the capi tal’s most delightful entertainments, ‘and he and his estimable wife, assist; ed by two charming and cultured daughters, Misses Clarice and’ Geor- gia, are known far and wide as dis- pensers of a hospitality that has no bounds, in point of generosity, cor- diality and absolute sincerity. i Peter Orden Day. ‘The District Grand Lodge and branches of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows are completing ar- rangements to celebrate Peter Og- den’s Day, March 3, 1913. The exer- cises will be held_ at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church at 8 o'clock. The committee on speakers and _pro- yram has secured the eminent divine, Bishop Alexander Walters, D. D., of Hamilton Lodge, New York City, the orator for the occasion. Miss Hattie McIntosh and Mr, W. B. Harris, the District Grand Master, will also be among the speakers. The music will be furnished by the choir of the chureh. with Dr Jas. Walker director. cee | 33 en i) rg = rs 3 4 eS i YS SHAIK J sie : manned NCS — Does All and More it Promises to Do | | HAY'S HAIR POMADE straightens coarse, kinky hairand | makes it glossy and luxuriant. You can dress, your hair in | any position and keep it so, if sou"USE HAY’S HAIR POM- ADE REGULARLY. ‘Any one with kinky, coarse hoir that is stubborn, will al- ways fet satisfactory results from HAY'S HAIR POMADE even if all others have failed. — Highly Perfumed — Present this adv. with 25 cents, and get a large jar: and free sam= ple of HARFINA SOAP, at O'DONNELL’S PHAR: | WASHINGTON, D.C. | 904 F ST. N. W. = - Se Philo Hay Spec. Co. ,.€9 7g) Sole Manufacturers fff Newark. No. USA. ASSH/?, | Telephone North 595 . LEWIS J. COHEN Wholesale Wines and Liquors es Fancy Groceries. 410 O Street Northwest <* Washington,.D. C. — Phone, Main 4856. OPEN ALL DAY I9. RONAYNE a Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars 436 L St NSW. , JUSTH’S OLD STAND. It's about this time of the vear that your money is supposed to go farthest. gets so far away you Never see it again.~ Many a man wishes he bad called here first, as we have the stock, and if you avant a tailor-made suit or a slightly used overcoat, low as $3, here’s headquarters. One price. Tusth’s Old Stand, 619 D. Coupon .Presenl this coupon to driver or office and a 5 pee cent discout lon your milk if atretail prices HORNER’S DAIRY 8th and M St. N. W. RIETORS — C.F,HEIM EW MODERN STUDIO J, Washington, D, C. RAYONS AND PASTELS } All Kinds. . : Interior and Exterior Views. GUARANTEED NOT TO FADE. . REDUCED. - | General Photography. Pictures and GE PHOTO FREE with each Order perating room; two dressing rooms E, YOU ARE INVITED TO CALL rth 724-Y. BRODT’S HATS. The greatest hat st es ia the ‘city. Only places where the up-to- date hats are made fresh from the block. Give your friend a Brodt hat for Christmas. Brodt’s stores, 419 Eleventh Street Northwest, «nd 503 Ninth Street*Northwest. GEORGE W, MURRAY. DRUGGIST. The Most Reliable Druggist in the Southwest. . For Hoilday Toilets Murray's is the place to go. a zor D Street S. W., Mention The Bee. ESMERALDO, Plone N. 406. Don't forget to go to the Esmer- -aldo, on the boulevard. Phone for a box of oysters before you leave the theater. Phone N. 406. Call or phone to the Triangle Printing Co., for estimates. It is one of the most up-to-date printing offices in the city. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., is manager. Two new presses will be installed beginning the New Year. a ; Wanted—Tvypewniter, 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. FOR RENT. For Rent—1604 Fifteenth Street Northwest; three desirable rooms on third floor; also one large front room on second floor, with light and heat; unfurnished. Reference required. . J25-2t FOR RENT OR SALE. My summer country home, nine- room house, with porch, and 2 1-2 Lacres of land. Water front. Suitable for summer boarding house. Near Highland Beach. Apply P. Gross, 308 K Street Northwest. 7 FOR RENT. Four (4) nice rooms, and bath, heat furnished; Dresden Apartment’, 4th and Florida Ave NX Wat $20.00. R. L. PANNELL. | - FOR RENT. _ FOR RENT—Seven room diwell- 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 feet of ground. Rent, $15.00 per month, R. L. Pen- dleton, 609 F St. N. W. Phone Main 1143. + Wanted. Wanted—Boys and girls to act as our agents, in spare time. We're making a very liberal offer for a short while. E. A. Jackson, 1735 S Seventh St. Camden, N. J. £-8-15 Notice to Patrons. For the benefit of those who con- tinue to send advertising matter for publication and want it inserted as news matter will kindly remember That news matter differs from adver- tising matter. Notices of public meet- ings, church meetings, sermons, ‘Christian Endeavor meetings or all notices of meetings to be held, enter- ‘tainments, for rent, for sale, for hire, must be paid for. JAMES F. OYSTER Telephone Main 4820-4821. ‘ BUTTER, CHEESE AND =GGS. 900-902 Penna. Avenue. : 5 Square Stands: Center Market, sth and K St. Market. Riggs -_ Market. Washirston, D. C. eS ae ee ee 7 cs PETER GROGAN & BONS,CO:% SE RE AS PS Oe we ne oe wee we ye oe eo # x _ It's time to be thinking about © Rew Furniture and Carpets. Look through your home and # ,See what will be needed—then * come to US. x : % Here is 2 store where you will € ; realize that a feeling of good will ; pervades every business transac- , tion, We take more than a mere ; buying and selling interest in our * customers. We're interested in f their homes and in their desire Eto make them comfortable and * g attractive. Our experience and i f advice is valuable to them, both % ¢ in this direction and in the mat- & E ter of economy. * f Our interest takes the helpful * = form of making it possible for % ‘them to have the things they ! é want, the qualities that will show » ¢ the most value, and to have them # z when they want them, : ¢ We tell you not to hesitate in! © saying that you wish your pur-: ¢ chases charged. We're not going ! £ to bind you with notes of any ! é description nor charge any inter- ! S est. 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, ! € but divide the account into such } z amounts as will suit you. 5 © 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 ! é regarding your private affairs. | MS AE oS OS He Oe ae ae oe eo yee ae ae ¢ 4‘ < PETER GROGAN & SONS CO.: < 817-823 Seventh St. N. W. e ! ASE WE HE Se Ye Be Se ee epee ge ae HE MOLLIE GROVES MINING AND MILLING PANY begs to announce to the public that they are closing out the last block of stock in their copper mines located in Grand County, Colorado, not far from Denver, in the vicinity of the famous Cripple Creek Mines, the Happy Dream Mines, and the Leadville Mines, each of which has long since enriched the country with its mineral resources. id The Mollie Groves Mines embraces 114 acres of pure mineral and contain gold, silver, copper, iron, aluminum and other products of wonderful resources. The Mine was incorporated March 4th, 1909, under the laws of the State of Colorado, and a record of the corpora- tion, as well as the deed transferring the property to said corpora- tion known as the Mollie Groves Mining and Milling Co., can be found with the Recorder of Deeds, whose office is Sulphur Springs, Grand County, Colorado. Mr.:O. M. Groves, the former owner and present manager, and Mr. T. W. Lott, General Agt., are in the city for the purpose of selling the last block of stock, consisting of 8,000 shares at $1.00 per share. The Mine is being operated already. There is $4,000,- 000 worth of ore on the dump waiting to be, smelted and sent to the market. With the sale of the 8,000 shares of stock, a smelter that is already built and contracted for, will be placed in position by March tst, at which time the sale of stock will end, and those ai- ready holding stock will receive a liberal dividend in addition to the increase in their shares of stock from $1.00 per share to $5.00 per share. A local Mollie Groves Mining and Milling League has been organ- ized with the following well known persons as officers (each one being a large stockholder himself in the Co.): W. Bishop Johnson, Pres.; W. H. Jernagin, Vice Pres.; Alfred W. Adams, Sec’y; Spen- cer Adams, Treas.; with offices at 818 3d St. N. W., Washington, D. C., where any additional information may be given. It is the desire of the League to put before the public at least too agents with a liberal commission. We will be glad to have anybody act as agent, giving their whole or spare time, to call at the office and make arrangements. The following prominent persons throughout the country are among the stockholders: . J. G..Groves, the “Potato King of the world,” Edwardsville, Kan- sas; Prof. E. A. Meyzeek, Principal of the Normal School, Louis- ville, Ky.; R. O. Johnson, a leading merchant, Louisville, Ky.3 Dr. L. G. Jordan, Sec’y of Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Philadelphia, Paf R. M. Brewer, Indianapolis, Ind.; R. H. Boyd, M. D., Nash- ville, Tenn.; Prof. W. J. Harvey, mail clerk; Memphis, Tenn.; W. J. Amigar, D. D.. Pres. State University, Louisville, Ky.; John Bond, undertaker, Brownsville, Tenn.; S. W. Bacote, D. D., statistician for National Baptist Convention, Kansas Cit, Mo.; W. T. Taylor, druggist, Cairo, IH.; Judge T. A. Head, Cairo, Ill.; Prof. J. W. Holmes. merchant and mechanic, Du Quoin, Ill.; Rev. J. F. Thomas, Pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church, Chicago, Ill.; Rev. Dr. Anderson, Pastor Quinn Chapel, Louisville, Ky.; Rev. L. H. Brown, Pre- siding Elder} C. M. E. Church, Louisville, Ky.; J. E. Johnson, Cit- izens’ Bank lena Trust Co.. Muskogee, Okla.; P. B. Austin, mer- chant, Muskogee, Okla.; R. Emmett Stewart, lawyer, Muskogee, Okta.; J. H! Escoe, Cashier Citizens’ Bank and Trust Co., Musko- gee, Okla.: Rev. Hardin Smith, leading Divine of West Tenn., Brownsville, Tenn. 4 [Lowest Prices = Beat Work TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. | - BOOK AND JOB PRINTING ‘ 8 Electric Power Presses Linotype Composition | | Specialty made of. Constitutions and Pamphlets BUSINESS OFFICE and PLANT, 1109 EYESTREET.N. W. § PHONE MAIN 4078 oe . Spee . Phone: Nerth 2652-5 3