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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 VOL. XXXIII, NO 44 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1913 School Officials Give Dinner to Former President—Barnard Lauds His Career—Justice Says Court Not Once in Seven Years Had Chance to Regret Appointment—A Gold Watch and Chain Given as Token—Eight Hundred Guests Hear Tribute and Applaud. From Daily Post James Frederick, Oyster, retiring president of the Board of Education, former president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, and one of the best known citizens of the National Capital, was last Wednesday tendered a reception by officials and members of the District schools in the New Willard Justice Barnard, of the District Supreme Court, and members of the Board of Education praised Mr. Oyster's seven years' service on the board, during six of which he was its president. Among the 800 who attended the reception were representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade, every school official, and most of the teachers and employees of the public schools. Mr. Oyster was presented with a watch and chain by the officials and school teachers of the District. At the conclusion of the reception a buffet luncheon was served "The public schools of the District of Columbia have been the best in the country and the pride of the National Capital for years, and the one person most responsible for this great advancement has been 'Capt. James F. Oyster,' declared Henry P. Blair, successor of the retiring president, who will assume his new duties on April 15. Justice Tells of Appointment. Superintendent William M. Davidson, who presided, then introduced Justice Job Barnard, of the District Supreme Court. He told of the establishment of the present board by the Organic Act in 1000. "When the justice, of whom I was one, looked around for a suitable man to appoint to the board, the first one they thought of was Captain Oyster." said the barrister "Since that time the board has never had a reason to regret its choice." A. T. Stuart, superintendent of intermediate instruction, who resigned the superintendency of the public schools two years ago, was the next speaker. He read a resolution passed by the committee appointed by the school officials and teachers, which said, in part: "Captain Oyster presided over the deliberations of the board at a time when grave questions were at issue, and in every crisis proved himself to be a man of unusual moral courage. He did not litch under the inevitable impeachment of motives which falls to the lot of public men. He was undismayed under the criticism of his official acts. Whenever his conscience and his judgment conspired to convince him that he was right in any undertaking, opposition to his purposes, whether coming from friends or enemies, only welded his convictions of duty more firmly and strengthened his advocacy of the cause he had espoused. Coordinate with his rare moral courage was his keen sense of justice. He insisted upon hearing both sales of any question at issue, and showed much patience in setting evidence before rendering decisions. JUDGE JOB BARNARD One of the Noblest Romans of Them All. Praise for Both Members. The committee which drew up the resolution was composed of A. T. Stuart (chairman). Dr. E. G Kimball, E. C. Westcott, B. W Murth, and John W. Chamberlain. Dr. Davidson, in commenting on the work done by the retiring president, also praised the efforts of Miss Elizabeth Hoeke, William D Hoover and Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, former members of the board, and all of the present members. He then presented Mr. Oyster with the watch and fob. Responding to the testimonial, Mr. Oyster said, in part: "The present Board of Education has from time to time met criticism because of the large amounts of money it has requested Congress to appropriate for buildings and grounds. Acting in response to the letter as well as the spirit of the organic school law, the board undertook to carry out the carefully devised program of the Expert Schoolhouse Commission authorized by Congress. The result is that today the public schools of Washington are better equipped in the vital matters of schoolhouses and ground- than ever before in their history." In the receiving line were Mr. Stu- art, Miss Elizabeth V. Brown, Dr. and Mrs. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Oyster Mr. and Mrs. Thurston, Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, Justice Barnard, Mr. Blair, Miss Anne Beers, B. W. Murch, B T Janney, Miss Flora F. Hendley Mr. and Mrs. W. B Patterson, Mr and Mrs. S. N Ely, Dr and Mrs. E G Kimball, Mr. and Mrs. S. E Kra- mer, Miss Edith Kingman Kern and Mrs. E. H. Daniels. The Reception Committee: The Reception Committee was composed of Miss Brown, chairman; Miss Beers, Mr. Kramer, B. T. Janney, S. N. Ely, Frank U. Daniels and Allan Davis. The committee which purchased the watch and fob was composed of Miss Hendley, chairman; W B Patterson, Emory M. Wilson, Hosner M. Johnson, and Miss Anne M Goding. In addition to the Schools Committee of the Board of Trade, the following committee of the Chamber of Commerce was present: William I Gude, chairman; Charles W Clagett, Arthur Runsay, Albert Schutee, Fred Coldren, Isaac Gans, Walter B Guy, B B Earnshaw, R J. Earnshaw, William E. Shannon, Joseph I. Weller, W Worthington Bowie, William T Gallier, S. Dana Lincoln, Thomas M. Melton, R Harrison Johnson, Benjamin S Graves, Joseph Johni, Major T Towson Smith, Washington Topham, George F Williams, A. Leftwich Suclair, L. E. Brenninger, W. A. I Church, E. C. Graham, Thomas W Smith, G. M. Hunt, Conrad H. Syne, Myron J. Jones, W. A. Johnston, Z D Blackstone, Charles W. Darr, Burr N. Edwards, Joseph Strasburger, Charles W. Semmes, John O. Gheen, George E. Walker, George O. Worthington, Samuel Ross and Ernest L. Thurston COLORED ODD FELLOWS DED. ICATE NEW HOME. Capacity Audience Present at the Exercises Held. ATLANTA, GA.-The formal opening and dedication of the Odd Fellows office building, built and owned by the Negro Odd Fellows of, Atlanta, was held at the Brewer-McL Church on Auburn Avenue and Butler street before a capacity audience. The addresses at the dedication of the building brought out prominently two striking things: First, they showed what could be done by cooperation; and second, they demonstrated what possibilities there were for the Negro race in the South. The building cost $110,000, and there is not a dollar of money owed on it, and every cent of it was said by the Negroes without any help from their white friends. The Negro Odd Fellows of Fulton County have 35 lodges for the men and 25 for the women auxiliary order of the "Household of Ruth." There are in the county 3,500 members. In Georgia there are over 60,000 Negro Odd Fellows. What the Order Has Done. The order in Georgia has loaned to us members $80,000, with which to build homes, buy farms and go into business. It has paid out to widows and orphans over $100,000. In the State the order owns property worth $300,000. Its city property is valued at $200,000. The city property consists of a whole block on Auburn Avenue between Butler and Bell Streets and a lot on the corner of Martin and Glenn Streets. It recently sold a lot on the corner of Fairlane and Poplar Streets for $50,000. At a single meeting, on the fraternal Thanksgiving in May, 1911, the Atlanta Odd Fellows subscribed $51,000 for the new building, and every dollar of it was soon paid. The Odd Fellows' Office Building is located at 200 Auburn Avenue. It is five stories high, not including the basement. It contains six fine stores, 42 offices and six lodge rooms. It is of concrete with pressed facing and the interior finish is of white marble. There is no building in the city better omitted or better constructed. The architect was W. A. Edwards. The Building Committee was as follows Dr. W. F. Penn, chairman; W. T. Gibson, B. J. Davis, S. Cunningham, and William Driskell. Others who were prominently connected with the work were: Dr. H. R Buller, G. M. Howell, Dr. A. B. Jones, R. E: Farrar, the builder, and Henry L. Johnson, attorney for the order. The building was thrown open and was inspected by the large crowd after the ceremonies at the church. The Dedication Program The program at the dedication was as follows! Invocation—Dr C M. Tanner, D. D., pastor Bethel A. M. E. Church. Introduction of master of ceremonies—Dr Wm. F. Penn. Remarks—Master of ceremonies. Music—Choir. "The Odd Fellows' Building and the Order's Contribution to the Race's Progress and Society"—Rev. E. R. Carter, D. D., pastor Friendship Baptist Church. "Why the Bank Should Take Quarters in the Odd Fellows' Building"—C C. Cater, cashier, Atlanta State Savings Bank. Music—Atlanta Baptist College Orchestra. "Why Every Negro Business and Professional Man Should Take Quarters in the Odd Fellows' Building and Other Negro Buildings"—Rev. P. WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1913 M. H. Given a reception by the teachers and students of the Colored Public Schools at the M Street High School Friday afternoon: 1 3:30. Castingoshel crowd was present James Bryant, D. D., pastor Wheat Street Baptist Church "Why All Negroes Should Show Race Pride and Self Appreciation" "Captain Jackson McHenry Solo—"Erngni." Verdi—Mrs. L. L. Hopdale "Why the Preachers Should Stand for Race Pride, Race Development and Unity"—Dr. W. A Fountain, D. D., president Morris Brown College "Ben Davis, His Achievements for the Order, Race and Community"—H. L. Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D. C. Solo—"Monta." Adams—Prof. Sidney Woodward. "Why Every Female Society Should Meet in the Odd Fellows' Building" Mrs. L. P Fortune, D. M. N. G. "Why the Masons Should Take Quarters in the Odd Fellows' Building" Dr. H. R. Butler, Music—Choir. "Why the Pythians Should Take Quarters in the Odd Fellows' Building" Prof. C. W. Hill "Why All Secret Orders Should Take Quarters in the Odd Fellows' Building" Prof. B. S. Ingram, D. G. M. Benediction. NOTES INDICATING NEGRO PROGRESS. As Furnished by the National Negro Business League. The Lincoln State Bank of Chicago is to have a big new bank building on State Street with all up-to-date appointments. The Union City News is a new Negro paper of Union City, Texas. Union City is a Negro town owned and operated by Negroes. The District Grand Lodge No. 18, G. U. of O. F., has invited the general public of Atlanta, Ga., to the grand opening of the $100,000 Odd Fellows Hall, on April 1, 1913. New York City is said to have a colored daily newspaper called the "Gazette." Its chief point of interest, it is said, is that the staff is to be made up of Negroes who are "rich in experience as journalists." The Los Angeles Liberator contains a glowing account of the activity now being displayed by well-to-do Negroes in that section in the matter of building businesses houses for Negroes. It mentions one man who will invest $40,000 along this line. The colored people of Los Angeles are the best housed of any in a city of like size in the United States. The Liberator claims Albuquerque, New Mexico, is to have an up-to-date Negro Fashion Store. "A fine line of hats and hair goggles" and "a complete line of Parisian fashions" are what the proprietress advertises. A firm known as Brown and Parson has recently opened a modern garage in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their cars with their valuation are: One Chalmer, $1,450; one Pierce Arrow, $1,650; one Thomas Flyer, $1,690; one Limousin, $7,500. "Banking Day Along Industrial and Financial Lines" is the headline of a big circular put out by a Colored Citizens' Committee of Memphis. Tenn. The exercise is a sort of rally to attract the Negro to banking and business houses conducted by members of his own race. The circular strikes a high and appealing note. It comprehends the laborer and wage earner, encouraging them to save and teaching them the way to a bank where their patronage is courted. Its appeal is for $100,000 "not alone for safe keeping, but to provide capital for promotion of various business and industrial enterprises for the employment of our boys and girls." The whole scheme is launched upon a broad and very intelligent basis. Press, school, pulpit, lodge, laboring man are urged to join hands in making deposits. To stimulate further interest prizes are offered to wi: 1. To each of the five new depositors opening the largest accounts at the Solvent Savings Bank and Trust Company, a gold medal. 2. To each of the five new depositors opening the largest account at the Fraternal Savings Bank and Trust Company, a gold medal. 3. To a boy or girl, under 10 years of age, opening the largest accounts at either or both banks, a gold medal. 4. To the principal of any whose pupils open the largest number of accounts at either or both banks, a gold medal. The mottoes or "pointers" carried by the circular, the pledges to keep record at both banks and so award the prizes on a just basis, the demonstration of the two Negro banks gaining funds to stimulate the business interests of the city, all make the scheme one worthy of emulation. THE INTERCOLLEGIATE PRIZE Essay—Prize of $50 for the Best Essay on "The Effect of Emancipation Upon the Physical Condition of the Afro American." Donor of the prize Allon Charles Francis Adams, Lincoln Mass. Francis Adams, Lincoln, Mass. Judges Dr. N E. Mossell, medical director Frederick Doyglass Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. J. E. Moor- land, international secretary of Y. M. C. V., Washington, D. C.; Professor George E. Haynes, director National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, New York, N. Y. Conditions of the Contest: 1. All competitors must be colored students, bona fide juniors and seniors in attendance at some American College. 2. Essay must not exceed four thousand (4,000) words in length, must be typewritten on but one side of paper twelve (12), inches by ten (10) inches with a margin to the left of the page of at least one inch. No essay must in any case bear the name of the competitor. Each essay, however, should bear a number. This same number should be written on an envelope within which is a sheet of paper bearing the name, college and postoffice address of the contestant. The whole essay and envelope should be forwarded to Professor Kelly Miller not later than September 25, 1912. 3. Those intending to take part in the contest should send in their names before April 15th, 1913, to PROF. KELLY MILLER. Howard University. Washington. D.C. Contest closes September 1, 1913. MRS. JULIA M. LAYTON Addresses Teaches of Talbot County, Maryland. Mrs Julia Mason Layton, accompanied Profs. Arthur Newman and Philip Williams to Easton, Md. to meet the teachers of Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, in their annual institute. Many of these teachers are graduates of our High and Manual Training Schools, and are doing excellent work and are an honor to our schools. Four sessions were held. Profs. Newman and Williams were masterpieces within themselves. Hour after hour they sat and instructed and answered questions of all kinds upon all subjects taught in that county. One would have supposed that they knew just what questions would be propounded by each of the many teachers, but not so. On the other hand it demonstrated that a fully equipped man or woman (and that is what all teachers should be) can answer any questions upon general or specific studies pursued in the schools of this country. Mrs Layton spoke in the morning of the first day on "What kind of teachers Negro schools in the rural district-need and must have." In the afternoon she spoke on the "Relation that should exist between teacher and pupil." At night, "What should be the attitude of parent toward teacher, and vice versa." First session, second day, "How to get the children in school and how to keep them." Splendid audiences greeted the teachers at every session. Mr. Nicholas Oren, secretary-treasurer of school commissioners of Talbot County, and County Superintendent, writes thus to Mrs. Layton: "We have never had a better meeting, and I feel that you did our teachers a great deal of good, which I hope will be lasting." LILY WHITES. The Schools Have Become Infested. Negro Teachers Who are Trying to Be White Should Be Removed. Since the organization of the Kingdom and its failure to have all lily whites to join, it is quite likely that it will disband because of the ostracism it is receiving from the people. There are in the colored schools of this city certain Negroes who are members of this Kingdom, and one in particular, who refuses to join, because she doesn't want it said that she is in any way identified with the colored people, lily whites or otherwise. This particular teacher always gets out of the car, one square from her school. She doesn't want it to be known that she is teaching in a colored school. The blacks don't want her and the whites, repudiate her, hence she is in a class to herself. If she left the schools today she could not make a living. She couldn't get into the white schools. The Bee would suggest to the school authorities the importance of having teachers in the colored schools who are not ashamed of their children. Negro women drawing salaries on the strength of being Negro teachers should be made to disclose their identity. Probably Prof Williams, in the High School, could make a few recommendations that would be important to the school authorities. Negroes who are ashamed of themselves have no right to exist, and certainly they should not be allowed to teach colored children. SIXTY. FOUR LYNCHINGS IN 1912. Awful Record of White Concerted Crime—But Less Than for 1911—Chicago Tribune's List—Many Not Recorded—Disgrace to Country—Every Man Entitled to Trial. Slowly—very slowly, it may sometimes seem to the black race—the practice of lynchings in this country is dying out. According to the Chicago 20 Tribune's figures, the total number of lynchings last year was 64, the smallest actual number in one year, with a single exception, and in proportion to population fewer than in any previous year. In 1885 the number of lynchings was 185, a rate per million of 3.25; in 1912 the rate was 67. Florida in the two years ending with 1912 had 40 lynchings, a rate of 10.63 per cent, while other Southern States show totals of over 20 for the five years. JUDGÉ UPHOLDS VALIDITY OF SLAVE MARRIAGE. Important Case Decided in Cam bridge, Mass., Court. (Special to The Bee) BOSTOX, MASS—because of the refusal of Judge Marens Morton, of the Superior Court, to rule that slave marriages are illegal, the full bench of the Supreme Court has ordered a new trial of the suit of Fred H. Merrick and others to secure rights in Cambridge property tenanted by George F Betts. The property in question is a house and lot at Washington and Portland streets, Cambridge. It was left by Fred Merrick, once a slave, who died in Cambridge in 1888, to his heirs, after the termination of certain life estates. St. Luke's in Baltimore St. Luke's in Baltimore. The St. Lukes of Baltimore, celebrated their Easter service Sunday night in the A. M. E. Zion Church, Penn Ave. Rev. McDonald preached a most eloquent and practical sermon. Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson and Mrs. Mary Collins held a meeting at Sparrows Point early in the evening, and then came directly to, this meeting. Mesdames Anderson and Collins are doing effective work. Mrs. Julia M. Layton made a short address urging upon the Baltimore folks to patronize colored organizations rather than the white insurance companies. She made a soul-stirring speech, and is booked on the 20th for another talk. Attorney Perry Calls. Rufus L. Perry, one of the best educated lawyers in this country and a scholar, was in the city last week and paid the editor of The Bee a call. Mr. Perry has one of the largest law firms in Brooklyn, New York. He will sail for Europe some time this year on a pleasure trip. He is one of the leaders of colored Tammany. After a pleasant interview with the President and Secretary Bryan, he left Saturday night. May Carnival tickets sold at Conservatory; hours, to 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 Secure your seats in time. Important News Happenings of the Week Pope Pius has suffered a relapse, and is critically ill. President Wilson addressed both bodies of Congress this week. Mr. Joseph E. Davis refused the assistant secretaryship of war. Mr. Davis is a citizen of Wisconsin. School teachers and officials of the white public schools of this city, held an elaborate reception last Thursday night at the New Willard in honor of Captain James F. Oyster, who recently resigned as president of the Board of Education of this city. Acceptance by the United States of the gift of the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln at Hodgginville, Ky., is provided for in a bill offered by Senator Zorah. President Wilson has broken all records. He will keep in touch with both branches of Congress. The seventeenth constitutional amendment has been adopted by the necessary States. What effect will it have on the Southern colored voter? A Baltimore trolley car jumped the track and killed one passenger and injured fifteen. With the Columbia Theater packed to its capacity by ardent suffrage advocates and with the best orators of the Militant Congressional Committee on the platform, an earnest appeal was made and demanded of Congress to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising the equal, not gentler, sex. Bennett Champ Clark, son of the Speaker of the House, was his father's parliamentary, advisor last week. He was appointed parliamentary clerk to succeed Chas. R. Crisp, of Georgia, who is now Representative. Mr. Clark, who is only 25 years old, is the youngest man ever to serve as clerk at the Speaker's table. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo deposited $2,000,000 in the national banks of Dayton, Ohio, to relieve the money shortage resulting from the floods. The Knights of Columbus appropriated $18,000 to the flood sufferers on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has broken one of her rules by accepting the honorary presidency of the Southern Industrial Education Association, the purpose of which is to uplift and educate the children of the mountains of the States where educational systems are inadequate. Fully one-third of the textile goods manufactured in France are the products of female labor. Rev. D. W. Hays has been promoted field superintendent. This is a promotion for a worthy man. The greatest Old Fellows' Hall ever erected in this country is in Atlanta, Ga. The plans were drawn by Mr. Ed. Sidney Pittman, son-in-law of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Mr. Pittman has won quite a reputation as an architect. A constitutional amendment changing the date of the inauguration of the President and Vice President from March 4 to the last Thursday in April, was proposed in a resolution reintroduced in the House by Representative Henry of Texas. In the day of Columbus only seven metals were known to exist. Now there are fifty-one in use. P. Emerson Taylor, United States Consul at Trinidad, died at his post. He was only 40 years of age. The suffragists had ample police protection this week. All Major Syl- vester wants is a chance. The Bull Moose Party presented a candidate for Speaker Monday. It didn't get a bite. Galbraith Chürch Last Sunday morning at 11 o'clock Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church was crowded with citizens from all parts of the city, notwithstanding the fact that Dr. Corrothers is closing his eleventh year as pastor of this church. The anxiety on the part of the public is greater now than at the beginning of his administration. Galbraith Church, under the leadership of Dr. Corrothers, has attracted the attention of this country. Some of the most public-spirited and best known citizens of this city are among its workers. Sunday, April 13th, at 11 a. m. Dr. Corrothers will preach upon the subject, "The Next Move in the Religious and Civil Liberty of the Twelve Million Black People of This Country." Any one that desires inspiration and hopes for better things will do well to hear this Negro pulpiteer. Services will begin at 11 o'clock and the public in general is invited. ~ + 3 7 - er ee ee - 7 Eee TOs Ul eee —————O ee SS din ie ition and glory, and took instead hu- 5 Pe —_ SS Arne os sc css = gan conditions.* "| Jointtheirs ti His glory, honor and im-(y a Spe | the dead are asleep, and that ther} - aap eet len From betng abore the angels, He of | Mortality? or, shall we take the other N E awakening ts to come in the resurrec- ; the education of the heart and the re- - ‘His own volition took u nature and | COUrse of pride. and thus hecome discl- ; tion morning. Indeed, they would , lisious proclivities of the human mind : see tn Uitte lower than the angele:'| Ples of the Adversirs, and learn of have omitted erersthing respecting the !bas teen revousis neztected, Would 5 . And He did this, knowing it was only him, and reach his doom—destruction resurrection; for it 1s one of the most that ! cuula imputve hére to this col- a preliminary step, He knew that the In the Second Death? difficult matters to explain—how there , Jere city a revivat of Bible study, of i Particular steps of self-denial and sut-| The Anestle Intimates that God teste) . can be a resurrection of the dead, when | reverence for God und holy things, but __ : [ae were to follow. He bumblet| U-upon certain general lines, general ce fey tench tant nobody Is dead and | not a reverence for superstition! sald Himself to bevome a man, because a| Principles operating, lly Government. at those whe seem to die really be- | the Pastor e ., A * man—Adam—had sinned, and through “He that hnmbleth hiwself shall be}: Uv come more alive than when they were “All Taught of God.” + Two Examples Given In Bible, ' lana tied colne under sentence ot | exaited, mint he that exatteth himelf Pastor Russell's Words Of Wis-| tins. ‘esicouy the utd Book, whiet posting: of the Siessinge ot thaiidass . : death. and could not extricate ftsoif.] Sal be abased" Beloved hearers. It] now | prize so highly, was net made | sinic period—the thousand Says Pastor Russell, | Gus" "msvontcreasen cout seems toe cat, wih thee cra | * OM In Collage Cty, | By man the iueectnls aeny are | stanle reriod—the thousaad sears of {deem the cmdemned one. For this| Hons before us, It would be folly for j Uscarding it, and the relisious, Sodiog | that the peste shall all be taught of —— purpose Jests left His glory, and “was us to permit the seeds of pride or per we t that they cannot defend thelr creeds | God. Messtab snd the Church in glory found in fashion a» a man.” sonal ainbitlon to take root In our] 4 from its pages, are at last disctedit- | yin) be the teuchers of the world of THE SAGRIFIGE OF JESUS.) “rhe tran ait wor tevome a star] Beats. Let ns he amizoats on the] BEST TEXT BOOK~-THE BIBLE 5% Sort of Goa: Thankind. In the Seriptures this doa- ee gn hte fee Eien eet Gatlook to eradirate orerstbian of tht 1 My hope and prayer and effort are | ences tte church te set forth Precent Enforced by Example—God's Great Lessons For Men and For An- gels—Satan and Christ—The Great Rebel and His Failure—God's Loyal Son and His Victory—Both Are Held Up to Us For Examples—One Pic- tures What God Hates—The Other Pictures What God Approves—The Penalty Upon the One Illustrates God's Provision For All of his Dis- position—The Reward of the Other Itustrates God's Love and Blessing Toward All the Followers of Jesus. ‘Toledo, 0. April 13.— Pastor Rus- sell, widely huown LY through lily putt lished sermons, ix A Ag here todayaddress- a) Ing Bible Students. and alo ax unital. if the public, Crowds seem ansious al: N ways to hear hiv. We report one of his discourses, PASTORRUSSELD) from the , test: “}tumble | rour- 4 fromthe , text: “Humble | sour- gelves therefore under the mighty land of God, that He may exalt you In due tme."—1 Teter 5:6, The Pastor declared that the Bible eserswhere holds, up the Lord Jesus Christ as the glorious Pattera of what 4g most pleasing to the Heavenly Fa- ther, a Pattern therefore to be copied dy all who would abide in God's favor. Be cemfuded his bearers tbat there are certitin steps necessary Lefore anv can come into the favor of God, amt properly be called His ebildren, or said to be under Elis supervision and care, or be permitted to address Him in praser. or to consider themselves heirs of His favors and blessings. ‘This is made very clear by the Apostles and alo by Jos Himself, sald the Pastor. The Apostles declare the necessity uf an Advocate with the Father before Any can approach Him: come ino 11s Presence or recelve any favor from Him, Jesux expressed this ste thought. saring, “No man cometh tmnta the Father, but by Me.” As u mutter of fact. therefore. comparytively small proportion of hnt- mapity ‘have ans of God's favors at the Imvevat,time: safd the Pastor. Rit swe rejoice in the breadth of the Me<- sage, which assures us that in Gel’s “due time* all shall be brought to Knowledze of Messiah, aud privilezed through Him to enjoy the gift of Gut everlasting life. But what Is comin and what is here now are two differ ent matters, No one has authority te snake the Narrow Way a Broad Wav. nor to siy that many will find it when the Scriptures declare, “Few there be that find {1° Our consolation is: that this Narrow Way leads to special ‘glory, honor. immortality and the Di “Fine Nature, and will develop a spe cial, clert class. Then sibsequentls thJs select cliss will be used of th Lord’in Messing the non-elect many with a creat, Int fuferior blessing. The Pastor demountrited wat hb text relates not to the world fn zen eral, but merely to the comscerate: “few who during this Age bear the in Fitation. secept it, and become foot step followers of Jesus, “These have thelr sins forziven as a result of fail! in the precious blood of Christ and 0 conseeration to do the will of Ged ‘These then have the Redeemer as thei Advocate with the Father, and are at cepted in the Beloved as Iffs brethren ‘These wre the prospective member of the Bride of Christ, who by: th Torts grace may now suffer wit! thelr Redeemer In crose-bearing, sin by and by Share with Him His glori ous Kingdom, ‘Thesd are begotten the Mather through the Holy Spirit and this become New Creatures: h Christ. No lonzer are ther to Is claseed as inembers af. the hnmat family. luit as splritual sons of God of a new order. higher than the angels Dut not set perfected. ‘Their perfect fog cannot take plice until thelr pro datlonary trial shall have ended. ani eft wi not etd unl death. In thy glorions First Resurrection, therefore these will be perfect, ax sons af God the Dirine pline. ascorlates and joint belrs with their Lord and Redeemer. ‘To These Our Text Applies. ‘These are “exhorted to come wit Doldness to the ‘Throne of Hegrenl Grace, to obtain merry, aud find grav to help in every thme of need. Thes and only thee, may know fhat the prayers are always heard. As Jean aaid, “Their messengers do alwars hav access tu My Father's presence.” (Ma thew I8:101 The exhortations of (1 Apostle are ta these alone—not to th ‘world. In our runtext the Apostle holds the Lord Jesus as the steat Pattern « humility, the example for all of 11 {followers, :wlmonishing that th sould walk in His steps. if thes won have the Divine favor that He ento: and attain with Him to Jointheirsh in Hix glorious Kingdom. He w: rich, yet In obedience to the Father will He Inid aside the riches of 11 Heavenly estate. and became poor—n merely appeared poor. He lald a-ti or directed ifimself of His spirit + ition and glory, and took instead hu- ‘onan #onditions.« = | His own volition took 4 nature and ‘place “a little lower than the angels.” “And He did this, knowing it was only a prelituinary step. He knew that the particular steps of self-denial and xuf- fering were to follow. He humbled Himself to bevome a mau, because a 'man—Adam—had,sinned, and through him a race nd cole under sentence uf fdeath, and could not extricate {self Only xu uncondemned man could re- ‘deem the condemned one. For this purpote Jess left His glory, and “was found In fashion as a map.” | The Logos did not become a siutul ‘man, 2 Wemished or imperfect man, On the coutrary, He was “holysharw Héxs, undotted and separate from sin. fers.” Otherwise. He could not have been the Reviecmer. Being shuless, how: Fever, this perfect One would spffer all | the more from the sme and ine malny connected with the mission He undertouk, As It win not a babe, but a man, that had sitmed and was to be redeem. ed, therefore Jess needed to walt wn til He reached manbood’s estate—thiety years—before He could begin His win- istry. Promptly at thirty He made His consecrution, and symbolized it | by water immersion at Jordan, ‘Then He went forth, declaring the Messaze which He knew would be misunder- stood- the Message pf God's Love, the Messuge that there must be a sacritiee for sin, the Messe that He was the Sin-Offering, the Messige that ay re sult of that Sin-Offering, blessed fruit- age afterwird would come, in the Mil lennial Kingdom, which would bless all the families of the earth. As He fgreknew, qanklnd, even the dest prepared—the Jewish peopte-- were not rendy for the Message. ‘Thus, as He foresaw and as the Scriptures foretold. they crucified Him—tgnorant- Is—for ax St. Paul declures: “Had thes known it they would not have eructtied the Lon! of zlork." (1 Corinthtans 2:8, St. Baul reminds us that we should consider (Christ's undeservedness of persecution, lest we should be “weary and faint In our winds.” Similar ex. perlences must to some extent come upon ns, And If He who was perfect endured patiently, we who are Imper. fect may well exercise great patience. And so in our text the exhortation fs that we perceive how Jesus humbled Himself, and that we should think i a great priviteze and pleasure siinilarly | to experience Inmiliations, The Rewards of Humility and Loyalty ‘No doubt the Logos, “the Begimius of the Creation of God.” the “First ‘| born of every creature." “the one by )whow all things were made, nd suet | Josalty to the Father that He would Ihave been obedient, even had ng te | art Ion atttched to: the invitation given Him. But, on the other tnd it would not have been consistent wit! || kindness, love or Justice for the Fate -) to demand ofIis Son such a sacritice -| Justice can make no such demaud | And If Love makes such a sugeestion -| it should properly back up the suzxe~ | tion with some promise of spect favor or Messin. According to th Hy Apostle. Godt did just this. He in 1} formed Mix Son that He would appre <]elate stich a sacrifice, and set befor Him a Joy. a hope '| ‘The Aptie does not explain the de -ptallx of that hope, but we may Infe tlthom: (1) The Joy, of the Father “| blessing fn a supettative sense, 42 "| The Joy of brinziig many sons of to. '} to the plane of glory as His Brid }elass. ath The? joy of reseuinz th | aworld of mankind front sin, sicknes ~| sorrow, paln. death, and of upliftin: | or resutrecting all the willing aud als “| dient wf the rice to human perfection and all at was lost by Adam. *| An exaltation to a still bigher statio +] than that which He bad left. Hl a | would In nvide partaker of the Divin | nature, fur above angels, prineipalitt | | and powers. and above His own prev ©) ous-hizh station ax the-Only Bexatte bl of the Mather, the Toco—the Won 11 John in. * |] Here we are, deur brethren, with Uh iT) Apostle’s words and the full scope ¢ “J bls fuspired testimony before us, 1 "tells us that if we desire to be of th “+ glorious Class of, more thin conque “lors, who will be honored by the kt N) deemer. we must bumble ourselves 1 Vl the doing wf the Divine will to I] pest of our ability. as our Redeent 1! humbled Timself to de the Father [wilt perfectly. Not dint the Fath "1 will accept anything less than perfo "| tion, bur that our Redeemer will mil ‘lup to us by the imputation of Hi I.) righteousness for all that which w “lack thronzh our share In Adam'> f | and its consequence. In other worl sacar ai ed ata a PSR Jointcheirs i His glory, honor and im- Se ee Ne ateree reey aad ples of the Adversiry, and learn of him, and reach his doom—destruction 4p the Second Death? The Apostle Intimates that God tests us-upon certain general Ines, general Principles operating, His Government. + “He that hnmbleth huself shall be exalted, nnd he that exulteth himself shall be abased." Beloved hearers, It seems to me that, with these Mlustra tions before us, It would be folls for us to permit the seeds of pride or per sonal ambition to take root In our hearts. Let ns be diligently on the ontlook to eradicate everything of the kind, and be close students of our Ms ter,-copying Tils course. There ix x reason behind every Dt vine command and regulation, Men may make arbitrary rules aud conti tHons without Justitiable cause, but we may be sure that the sreat Creator hat~ a good reason for His every act and re quirement. in the present case. wel ean readily discern the necessity fT the Divine requirement of humility The Lard Tests and 1s Church are f sited hy.the zreat Jehovah to the very] Bighest position In the universe, next to THimself Such an exaltation would be dangernus to any ane-possescel ef 2. spirit of pride or xelfish ambition, Whe can'tell at what thoe the smoldering fire might break Into a blaze and cause] confuston and disorder? Consider Satan's case. What mizht have heen the rest had he been en trusted with so high a position as that now oerupied hy the glorified Jesus: ‘There wonkl have heen genuine«te delllon’ in Heaven of the kind.Milton so foolishty Imagined. low we can gee the widem of the Almighty in testing those whom Tie would exalt t0 His own Divine nature! Even Its wWell-helovedd Son wasfrequtred to dem onstrate Tix falthfulbess and losalty unto death- woven tl} [gnominions] death of the crass.” \So the Apostle sasa that It became God, “In bringins many «ons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect throngh sufferinge"—Jo prove Him per fect by the things which’ Fle suffered to demonstrate that the things whieh He had always professed and had al ways done. expressed the sentiment of His heart In the fullest and most atmo late sense. . Thus again we read. “Though were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered” (Hebrews 5:8) Again we read that 4 was heeaise ofe Tis faithfulness thi God highly exalted Him-and gave tin a nie above every name. If” thi 1 Was’ necessary in the case of our [te deemer, hofore the Father could prop erly so highly exalt Him, what shall wi say of His followers? Surely we mus agree ta the. necessity for most thor ough testing, proving, demonstratinz the loyalty of the Church before thes | coutd te made partakers of the Divin nature cud sharers of that Heaven! | glors.—2 Peter 1:4. g | rrhis ts the Import of our text: Te | member the heights, the glories of th || Heavenly calling which you bave re | celved of God through Christ! Te member that you were by nature | chia of wrath, even as others! Re | member that ence you were alienate from God throush wieked works! [te member that Ged fs worklug in yon t -{ will and to do His good pleasure. ¢ :| develop in yon the eharieter pleatin ‘| to Himself! Remember that unies 1] this work of grace go on tu sour hear | day by day, If will not be accompti-! ‘| ed! Remember that unless It he a | complished. you, will not be St for “| place fn the Kingdom? Remember th: -| God has predestinated that only ste .| as demonstrate that at heart ther a +] copies af His Son can over he Hts Join 1] heirs in the Kingdom: sud rementte *) that In all this we see the force of th | text: “Humble yourselves therefor <| under the mizhty hand of God, th: | Be may exalt gan fn die time.” n} On tials and diflicuities, onr stun | blinss and gepentances, onr vows t the Lord. and onr endeavors to hee e} these, ane puts of the great hnuublin | process neeessars to our exaltation. "| Trials and Temptations Necessary. “) When se set the proper focus on th | subject of the calling and election | “| the Chineh, It clarifies everything. W "} see new tt if we could eseape tris "| and dittientties and testings, we woul T] escape the necessary schooling exper * | ences. atu) toe unfit for our gratuattio untit fora share in the Fitst Rest | rection. Itgtakes ms some time 10 "| this proper view of matters, even : *] when we were school ebliidren, It r || quired some time for us to teary MV fesson that te Ie helped with an a | awer or te be evxettsed from at Tesson « NOBLEST SCIENCE BEST INSTRUCTION ‘Pastor Russells Words of Wis- ~ dom In College City, BEST TEXT BUOK--THE IBLE wis Kinds of Keowee on Ithaca, N.Y, March 16.—Pastor Russell +t bere, and in view of this belng the seat of Cornell Univer sity he took ag 3 tert the words of the philosopher: “Wisdom from Above the noblest sclence, the bes! tnstruction.” 11 must be said, how: nines ia ea aha: F re ‘ beri % (PASTOR. RUSSELL) ever, that the I’as-| tor used various Scriptures, aby one of which intzbt have served for a text. Once the colleges of the world repre- sented, uot merely secular education, but the faith, the .nope, the religious | sentiment of their founders, who were ‘generally religious people. A great. change bas taken place. Today col- leges are ashamed to acknowledge any religious aftiiations; and although they stand for moral principles of a bigh order and represent 2 form of godli- ness, nevertheless’thes are hot-beds of Anfidelity—disbellef {n the Bible as the Divinels-Inspired Revelation. “This condition of things, the Pastor Geclared. 1s deplorable. In his opin- fon the greut Institutions of learning ‘throughout the world, so well equip ped for the Inculcation of fatth in.God, are, as a matter of fact,.doing more to overthrow faith than are all other in- fiuences combined. He declared {t not strange tnder such circumstances that the cry of “graft” ts going up in every { etvilized tand "The increase of knowledge, of late spread ubrond among the masses of mankind, the Pastor belleved to be accountable for the increase of vice. | which Is so great that if {t were not for our inventions and police arrange- ments, this would be the most inse- cure time In the world’s history. He explained that the undermining of falth | in the Bible as the Word of God, and the Inculcation of the Evolution theory. tend to destroy faith in a personal God, and {h rewards and punishments from | Him upon the Just and upon the un fust. One of the most peculiar thing to him was that the very wealtby mer || of the world have richly endowed Its leading collezes, thereby destroying || faith and unintentionally leading man kind to social revolution, and more, tc +] the precipice of anarchy. | Sympathy For Higher Critica, "| Nothing 4n the Pastor's words indi ;, cated condemnation; but on the gon [trary he manifested a deep: ssmpath; for those who are entangled in th ,] snare of Occultism and Evolution. EH ;{ bad once been entangled bimself, ti \] said. Me had gotten free tn tine "| thank God! Tad bis experience gon 50 far as to lead him to doubt the ex ,| fstence of the Supreme Creator, be be | Heed that le would have been ns tr "| revocably lost In Evolution ax ap | many of the noble specimens of out race who are in college chairs. .| The Pastor knew well that the pri || mary difiiculty fs that they cannot be | Heve the Bible to be the {aspired Rev pJ ord. So also be bad once rejected It “} because lhe thought ft to be in barmon; with the creeds of the Dark Ages whose absurdities are mote and mior "| apparent to all Intelligent, thinkin: ') people. Now, the Pastor pronounce ‘| himself a most firm bellever in the tn | spiration of the Bible. He had a res ) son for the faith within bifa, which Ii ‘| also explained. He sald: "| One of the surprising things my 1 | ble study revealed was that the Bib! ‘i supports the teachings of none of th P{ sects, none of the creeds; and tha "| none of the creeds and sects care fo “lor use all of the Bible. Each ha | made selections of doctrines from th n! Word of God. ,Each uses these fn it ' | own defense, and each finds in the B i} ble other teachings supported by othe | texts, which do not At in with its ow )| creed. Evidently none of the diffe >] ent sects manufactured the Bible. Ha | the Calvinists made ft up, they woul el have left out all the texts which teac we] Divine Free Grace. Had the Armit |4ans—the Methodists, ete—made u ‘| the Bible, ther would have put tn mor (>| Free Grice texts and would hare le! ‘e¢ out those which mention Election. | Had tbe Catholics made the Bibl y| they would have added something t ‘¢| teach the immaculate conception of th «| Virgin Mary. and to prove that sb jy ahould now be prayed to and worst} 1} ed. They would bave put in som ys] thing about indulgencles, high mas je low macs. holy water, holy candle jy| etc. They would have had it mentio ie| St. Peter as the first Pope. They wou! aj Rave had tt support thelr theory ¢ 3 Apostolle Ruccession—that all the bis! | eps are holy aposties, as well as th nf @riginal Twelve. They would hav .-| put in, as would most Protestants, -| number of texts tellfng about the do ..| trine of the Trinity, | Both Catbolics and Protestants woul hare feft out the texte which tell ths the dead are asleep, and that their gwakening is to come ip the rerurree- have omitted everythlog respecting the ! resurrection; fur it ts one of the most dificult matters to explain—how there can be a resurrection of the dead, when they tench that nobody Is dead and Ybat those whe seew to die really be- come more allve than when they were Uving. Evidently the old Book, which now [ prize so highly, was net made | by man ‘The intellectuals already are ' discarding it, and the religivus, Snding that they cannot defend thelr oe from its pages, are at last discredit | tng the Word of God! My hope and prayer and effort are on bebalf uf the thinking Christian people of tuday 1 would have them see that this wonderful Book, while out of accord with the creeds of Chris- tendom, and the world, ts fully tn ar- mons with itself. 1 would have them wee that the great Plan of salvation which the Bible sets forth towers far above all the efforts of puny men, ax represented in the creeds of Christen- dom. { wonld have them see the glorl- ous fulness of the Bible Message; that fts length and breadth and height and depth could not have come from any other quurter than from Abore. I would have them see that this “Wis- dom frown Above ts the noblest science and the West fastruction.” Great men of the past have percety- ed that the Bible bas been identified with the best there bas ever been of human, progress. Many bave been thelr expressions respecting It as the ‘Torch of Liberty and Civilization, But these dear men did not see the real | beauty of the Bible, because they did | Rot understaud {ts real Message. for } God's due titne for the full understand- | ng of that Message fs only now bere | And now Bible students have advan: | tages in Rtible study such as never be- | fore were possessed. And now, In '| God's time. His Word iS shining as a }} light upon the pathway, with a bril- Hanes that Is grand, a | Learning's True Value and Gost. "| Learning, along all the various lines of preseut day Instruction, is surely ‘| valuable. Ubemistry bas done and {s "Pdotng much for the world; so are elec- ‘| tricity and other applied sciences. | "| congratulate sour city upon having In -/its midst one of these institutions of >| Iearning. 1 remind you, howerer, that “| the truths of science which apply to ‘| our every-day life, while very impor- t/ tant to our human progress,-are not '] alone sufiiclent for us. In other words, in God's order, all ¢| humanity are so created as to bare \ mental cratlogs, appetites and powers e| which none of the applied sciences -| however useful, will satisfy. Tbe bu t} man mind must reason, must reflect, -| must have a theory respecting whenc "| we come and whither we go, and the e| object of our present existence. Thes b| questions, formerly the more promt &| nent ones, nave been cast into th | shade in recent times. 1. T understand that tn many classe: | such philoxupbizing ts tabooed A 1 | very most. the’xearcher for knowledg “| along these Ines is referred to Plat n} and Socrates, and thelr immature de s{ductions No one, seemingly, think &] of attempting to progress in menta +] philosophy beyond these giants of th o Ce And yet the Evolution theor: is us that living nearly three thou sand years azo, those men must bur j.| been inch nearer to the monkey stat | than we are today Besides all tht 5 those mun had none of the Wisdor S| which comes from Above—claime | Bone of It. | The Pastor sought to impress th »,| Propriety of bexinniog Bible stud < afresh, ignoring the creeds of the Dar ¢ Ages and permitting the old Book ¢ . | explain itself—one passage throwin © | ight upon another. He pointed ou ° howerer, that tbe Bible specifically di i: clares that none except the consecri ed, the saintls, can bare the Hol , | Spirit: and that not without {t can th ‘ Bible be fully and clearly understouw ® | His"exhortation implied, therefore, t rt, sald, that all who desire to have th Ne | Wisdom and instruction from Abo "| should first of all recognize a supren rl personal Creator, a God of Justle "| Wisdom, Love and Power. To li Ni | they should consecrate thelr heart "l) thelr lives, Then thes should take t " | the study of His Word, desirous « : poting His will that they might « "| ft in every particular. i Graduation Day Is Upon Us. te] Graduation day ts bere. The ezam ye | Batlous are on «Tbe intellectual ai at | being called upon to answer, Wh: pr) Bball {t protit a man {f be gafo all m re {terial knowledge and miss the Wi je | dom that cometh from Above? U: ty | less the Pastor 1s greatly mistaken. tt has teen reriousis nezlected, Would that } cuitla tinputee bere to this col- lege clty a revival of Bible study, of reverence for God and boly things, but not a reverence for superstition! sald the Pustor e “All Taught of God.” Speaking of the blessings of the Mes- slanic period—the thousand sears of Christ's relzn—the Scriptures declare that the peuple shall all be taught of God. Messiab and the Church in glory will be the teachers of the world of mankind. In the Scriptures this dou- ble function of the Church fs set forth tn the promise that the Church shall be kings ani priests of God and Christ and shalt reizo with Him a thousand Fears.—ltevelation 20:6. 3 A Kingdom thes sball bave, with full authority to rule the world. for the good and uplifting of the subjects —mapkind. As priests they will not merely be dignitaries and commanders. but srmputhetle Instructors of the peo- ple. The double ottice Onds its ful- filment In Jesus, the Head of the ‘Church, and proportionately in all the ‘members of His Bods. The whole ts ‘described as the Melchtzedek Priest-~ “hood. , Melcbizedek was a priest apoo ‘bia throne—z relguing priest, a type of Messiah, the nutityplcal Priesthood. ‘The success of that Institution ts abundantly affirmed by the Bible. The knowledge of God shall all the whole earth, uotit none will need to ay to his velghbor, Know thon the Lord; tor all shall know Sfe from the least of them to the greatest, salth the Lord. (eal 11:9; Jeremiah 31:34) With that knowledge will come the respons!- bility—their triat for life everlasting or death everlasting; for eternal Para dine or eternal destruction. Ateantime they will no longer walk by faith, but by slgbt: for the things promised will then have come. ‘Then mankind shall see out of the obscurity, and reallze the trathfuluess of God's promises, when in process of accomplishment. + “Some Taught of God New. The Bible tells us that some- are taught of God in advance of the world =a special class, under private tuition. anit were. These are called a Little Flock, We are distinctly told that they ‘are constituted chiefly of the poor—not many great, not many wise. not mans rich, not many learned are pupils tn this class, recetving this spe- al instruction, In order to enter this class for special, advanced instruction fn the Wisdom from Above, two par- teular matters are requisite: (1) The puplls must be Introduced. recommend: 0, and all their course guaranteed bs One who stands as thelr Advocate- Jesus. (2) They must make a complete surrender of themselves to God. prom fsing that as they learn the Wistom from Above they will use {t fm nar mony with the Divine will. This.class. beginning with the Aros tles, bas beeu In process of develop: { ment for nearly nineteen centuries und | fe almost completed, wre tellere Sho || ever would still Soin this clase sbowtc make haste to be enrolted—to have bt | nome written in the Lamb's Book 0 | Life.—Rerelution 3:5; 21-27. | This might be termed a special nor ' mat School: for the graduates of thi | Schoo! are to be the Instructors of th _| world of mankind tn the next Aze~th | Rosal Priesthood, But in addition t "| the privilece they will bave io zivin: -| the world “The Wisdom from Above || the’ noblest science aud best insteit tom,” thes will recelve qualiticatio: | for “that work by chanze of nature | “Flest_ and blood cannot inherit th | Kinzdom of God”; hence these runs , | all be ch:inged by the power of th ’| First Resurrection ‘Their change { “| represented by the Apostle when n “| says, speaklug of the First Resurre | tion class, “It Is sown In dishouor: | 1 is raised In glory; it ts sown tn weak ness: ft 1§ raised In power: it 1s sow f | a natural body; It ts ralsed a splritua ,| body."—1 Corinthians 15343, 44. | *Our High Calling, °| ‘The great honor to be conferred upo e} the Church—uamely. folnt-helrshi | with the Redeemer in Els Klogdot n} and glors—ts the Bible's explanatio - | of the Church's special trials. To te 7 | our loyalty. our love, our zeal for Gu | and for righteousness, the way to glor c | now fs permitted to be a narrow on ‘The fessonx whicb the Church mus learn ate to be learned under circum | | stances of greater dificulty than th » | world will experience to Its tal Th t | world will be required to prove obed [ence merely by abstaining from ever3 . | thing that is wrong, sloful, contrary t . | God's will. ‘The Churet ts required t e | do all that and faore—to sacrifice earth FE eee er a a THE BEE Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED r880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 Subscription monthly .20 By Political Economist.) The Bee does not stand sponsor for the opinions expressed in this column. The Bee, doubtless, in most instances, entertains opinions just the opposite. The opinions here given, however, are honest, and uninged by malice, or personal interest in any candidate, or even in politics. The facts related are of current rumor. There are perhaps two score or more Negroes seeking office under the Democratic administration. They have, all of them, made two serious mistakes. First, they, all of them, point to their democracy, rather than their equipment for the office they seek, as their chiefest recommendation. Secondly, they seek the office rather than letting the office seek them. But in this second error the Negroes but follow the rule of the whites. Even the President sought his office. The one and only argument these men put up, prior to the election, in favor of their support of the Democratic ticket, and this includes Bishop Walters, was that they desired to better the condition of their race. Immediately after the election every one of them became a candidate for office, proving that their anti-election argument was a mere hoax—molasses to catch flies. That's characteristic of American politics, however. Among the candidates for the Liberian Ministry, Frank Wheaton, of New York, Frank Warren, of Detroit, J. Silas Harris, of Missouri, are the most prominently mentioned. In ability Frank Wheaton top-all of them easily, and in most ways is real diplomatic timber. But the purists, the puritanical exacters, are picking flaws in Wheaton's past, and some of his opponents are emphasizing them. The efforts of his opponents might defeat his confirmation even should he secure the appointment. Warren, of Detroit, is not ideal diplomatic timber. He has a quick, hasty, and at times violent temper, it is claimed—a decided disadvantage for a diplomat. Some of his opponents, who are just as industrious as are Wheaton's, are declaring that he has a white wife, and that this would bar him as a desirable representative to send to a distinctively Negro country. But the men who make this argument against him are the loudest in their condemnation of any and all miscegenation laws, and when they urge the argument against Warren, they show themselves to be inconsistent. J. Silas Harris has a record that is too susceptible of marked indentations to be entrusted with the important affairs that must be handled by a United States Minister, is the opinion of many. Mentally he is a bright man. Just when he ceased to be a Republican and began to be a Democrat no one knows. A man who changes his politics with chameleon-like facility is hardly diplomatic weight. The other candidates spoken of and they are many, are not worth mentioning. A man ought to have an invulnerable record to be made a Minister to any foreign country is the prevailing belief. For Haiti we have Napoleon B. Marshall, of this city, James Curtis, Rufus Perry, and Carr, of New York, with Prof. DuBois as a receptive candidate, and one of two in nearly every State in the Union. DuBois is by all odds the best equipped man, mentally, for the place. but it is a question whether his exceeding narrowness, and his erratic temperament and the fact that he is a Socialist does not effectively disbar him. PLAGUES OF PHARAOH. These recent storms and pestilences which God has sent against the wicked world is a reminder of the Mosaic dispensation when the seven plagues were sent against Pharaoh. This old king would not obey the warnings of God. The children of Israel continued to be persecuted by Pharaoh just as the Negroes in the country are being persecuted by the poor whites. Nothing seems to stay the hands of persecution and oppression. God has spoken in no uncertain sound to the poor whites of this country, but they heed not. The Negro is an inoffensive being. He is patient and obedient to the laws which govern him. He is always willing and ready to take up arms to defend his country, but his kindness is too often met with a rebuke. The Negro is being persuaded. All kinds of obnoxious measures are being introduced in Congress, by the party which he voted for and helped to place in power. The Bee has no doubt of the ultimate destruction of the poor white man and woman who want the Negro to admit his inferiority to them. This the Negro will never do. The white man has been appealed to. He has been petitioned and begged to let the opposed Negro enjoy his rights of citizenship, but all without avail. The patience of the Negro is becoming thread-bare. These recent storms and pestilence the wicked world is a reminder of the seven plagues were sent against it, not obey the warnings of God. They be persecuted by Pharaoh just as being persecuted by the poor white hands of persecution and oppression, main sound to the poor whites of the Negro is an inoffensive being, the laws which govern him. He will take up arms to defend his country net with a rebuke. The Negro is in noxious measures are being introduced which he voted for and helped to pledge of the ultimate destruction of who want the Negro to admit his Negro will never do. The white man has been petitioned and begged to rights of citizenship, but all within Negro is becoming thread-bare. "And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh, and Naron thy brother she," "And the Lord said unto Moses the refuseth to let the people go." The people were oppressed as we were persuaded to treat the people as the Plague of Frogs." The Lord with the conscience of Pharaoh, but second plague, the plagues of lice, murtrian of beasts; followed by the plague of locusts, followed by hard hearted king continued to oppose that He would send one more Egypt. "And all the first-born in the land the first-born of Pharaoh, that sit in the first-born of the maid servant of the first-born of beasts. The heartened so that the children of Israelites in this will be the fate of the poor wilt the Negro will rise and Ethiopia willGod again, and he who was once warns the poor white man to cease. He had better cease before it is that Pharaoh will visit the Negroes' oppression cannot continue always in his mad career against him out of commission. The Negro they will pray for Vardaman and son Citizens' Association is composers. The cultured white man at this class knows that the Negro. This class of people knows that their homes without its consent. This jealous of the progress of the N educated class of Negroes to that vision of the cultured white peopleured Negro to that of the poor, we among the poor whites. There is Church today against the Negro to The Christian Negroes intend another white prejudiced associations predicts that the time will soon come destruction. The plagues of Pharaoh the oppressors of a struggling people. forms and pestilences which God is a reminder of the Mosaic he were sent against Pharaoh. The minings of God. The children of God. Pharaoh just as the Negroes by the poor whites. Nothing oppression and oppression. God has sent poor whites of this country, inoffensive being. He is pathetic govern him. He is always will defend his country, but his kind. The Negro is being persuaded are being introduced in Concord and helped to place in power the destruction of the poor white Negro to admit his inferiority to do. The white man has been beheaded and begged to let the opposite ship, but all without avail. The long thread-bare. He said unto Moses, See, I have seen thy brother shall be thy prince said unto Moses, Pharaoh's people go." Are oppressed as will be seen, threat the people as they should frogs." The Lord continued toince of Pharaoh, but without any plagues of lice and flies, the beasts; followed by the plague of locusts, followed by the plague of continued to oppress the Israelids send one more plague upon first-born in the land of Egypt. Pharaoh, that sitteth upon his maid servant that is behind beasts. The heart of Pharaoh of the children of Israel could mute the Israelites until the Egyptians of the poor white man and wise and Ethiopia will stretch in the who was once lost shall be white man to cease his persecute case before it is too late; because the Negroes oppressors, cannot continue always. If he had career against the Negro Mission. The Negroes prayed for Vardaman and all others. The association is composed of the poor matured white man and woman that the Negro cannot import people knows that the Negro would not its consent. The poorer class progress of the Negro. Compass Negroes to that of the poor matured white people would be that of the poor, whites. There whites. There is less prejudice against the Negro than in any Negroes intend to pray for reduced associations against the time will soon come when this. The plagues of Pharaoh will be a struggling people and injur "And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. "And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuseth to let the people go." The people were oppressed as will be seen. Pharaoh could not be persuaded to treat the people as they should be, hence God sent "The Plague of Frogs." The Lord continued to appeal and reason with the conscience of Pharaoh, but without avail, so he sent the second plague, the plagues of lice and flies, the third plague was sent, murrian of beasts; followed by the plague of hail, followed by the plague of locusts, followed by the plague of darkness." This hard hearted king continued to oppress the Israelites until the Lord said that He would send one more plague upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. "And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, for from the first-born of Pharaoh, that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid servant that is behind the mill," and all the first-born of beasts. The heart of Pharaoh continued to be hardened so that the children of Israel could not leave. Pharaoh continued to persuade the Israelites until the Egyptians were drowned. This will be the fate of the poor white man and woman eventually. The Negro will rise and Ethiopia will stretch forth her hand unto God again, and he who was once lost shall be found. The Bee warns the poor white man to cease his persecution of the black man. He had better cease before it is too late; because the plagues of Pharaoh will visit the Negroes oppressors. Persecution cannot continue always. If Ben Tillman had continued in his mad career against the Negro God would have put him out of commission. The Negroes prayed for Ben Tillman and they will pray for Vardaman and all others. The East Washington Citizens' Association is composed of the poorest class of Negro haters. The cultured white man and woman have no prejudices. This class knows that the Negro cannot impose himself upon it. This class of people knows that the Negro would not share inside its homes without its consent. The poorer class of white people is jealous of the progress of the Negro. Compare the refined and educated class of Negroes to that of the poor whites and the decision of the cultured white people would be, give them the cultured Negro to that of the poor whites. There is no Christianity among the poor whites. There is less prejudice in the Catholic Church today against the Negro than in any other denomination. The Christian Negroes intend to pray for Vardaman and all other white prejudiced associations against the Negro, and The Bee predicts that the time will soon come when this class will be visited by destruction. The plagues of Pharaoh will visit the wicked and the oppressors of a struggling people and injured people. THE BLACK CABINET. About four years ago a Negro correspondent dubbed the Negro presidential appointees here in Washington the "Black Cabinet." The term was applied more in levity than in earnest. Some newspapers, and this one among them, criticised the appellation at the time, but it stuck, and to this day both the white and Negro press voluntarily and involuntarily, refers to the Negro presidential appointees in Washington as the "Black Cabinet." But the "Black Cabinet" will shortly be a matter of history only, and the regret of all Negroes who are deeply interested, in race advancement is that the Black Cabinet may not, like the real white Cabinet, continue on, with simply a change in political complexion. Now that the disintegration has begun it is not amiss to review the work of this alleged cabinet. It had no delegated powers or functions. Whatever power or function it exercised was arbitrarily assumed. Knowing the race was without representation in either branch of Congress, and had no department heads, the members of the Black Cabinet arrogated to them, though not offensively, the right to work unelfishly, earnestly, without ceat, for the interests of the Negroes in the ranks the clerks, messengers and laborers whose promotions were delayed because of color alone. They, the cabinet, became the depository for the hopes and ambitions of the men and women in the ranks. Many of their efforts met with failure. They would have been more than human had they accomplished all they worked to accomplish, but there are many whose positions and salaries are better because of the interest taken in them by the Black Cabinet, whether as individuals or as a body. If they had not accomplished anything more than the defeat of Judge Hook for membership of the United States Supreme Court, which even the white press accredits to them, the presence of the Black Cabinet would go down in race history as having been a distinct benefit to the race. It would be a long story to tell the number of trips, either as individuals or as a body, the Black Cabinet made in the past five years to the White House, to department and bureau heads in the interest of this, that or the other Negro government employee whose station had been arbitrarily fixed by a prejudiced petty division chief, regardless of that Negro's ability and efficiency. Some of the members of the Black Cabinet (each one in turn) have been criticised and abused by men of their own race, even by some whose conditions they labored to improve, and did improve. But this did not deter them from continuing on in an effort to achieve all they possibly could achieve for their race. They will leave behind records of fidelity to duty and intelligent administration of office. This alone will inure to the benefit of the race as a whole, and fully compensate for their appointment. But when Negro clerks, messengers and laborers, in a near distant day, awake to the fact that the Black Cabinet is no more; that there is no one of their race in office here to command attention to alleged discriminations against Negro employees, they, perhaps, will realize that the Black Cabinet fulfilled well a mission; that praise ought to have been bestowed where criticism was given; that the passing of the cabinet will have created a void detrimental to the advancement of the men and women in the ranks, and that finally, they, the Negro clerks, messengers and laborers, not only in Washington, but the country at large, are the ones who really lost in the passing of the Black Cabinet. Every one of them was equal to the task imposed upon him; every one of them will leave behind a record reflecting the highest credit upon the race he so ably, conscientiously and assiduously represented. The Bee, for one, has this to say: For the Black Cabinet, here's rosemary—that's for remembrance. About four years ago a Negro co-presidential appointees here in W. The term was applied more in levi-papers, and this one among them, time, but it stuck, and to this day voluntarily and involuntarily, refer-pointees in Washington as the "Black Cabinet" will shortly be a matter of all Negroes who are deeply interested in the Black Cabinet may not, like them, with simply a change in politi-lis-integration has begun it is not a alleged cabinet. It had no delegation ever power or function it exercised the race was without represent-ress, and had no department he Cabinet arrogated to them, though work unselfishly, earnestly, without Negroes in the ranks the clerks, no promotions were delayed because the net, became the depository for the and women in the ranks. Many of They would have been more than all they worked to accomplish, but and salaries are better because of the Black Cabinet, whether as individu- not accomplished anything more for membership of the United State the white press accredits to them, net would go down in race history fit to the race. It would be a long either as individuals or as a body past five years to the White Heads in the interest of this, that employ whose station had been petty division chief, regardless of sciency. Some of the members of turn) have been criticised and abe-ven by some whose conditions to improve. But this did not deter effort to achieve all they possible They will leave behind records of administration of office. This all the race as a whole, and fully cont. But when Negro clerks, messeng-tant day, awake to the fact that there is no one of their race in o to alleged discriminations against will realize that the Black Cabin praise ought to have been bestow that the passing of the cabinet will to the advancement of the men and finally, they, the Negro clerks, men in Washington, but the country a lost in the passing of the Black O-equal to the task imposed upon him behind a record reflecting the high-ably, conscientiously and assidu-one has this to say: For the that's for remembrance. years ago a Negro correspondent in counties here in Washington thouggl applied more in levity than in earnest among them, criticised the fact, and to this day both the white involuntarily, refers to the Washington as the "Black Cabinet." Fortly be a matter of history only are deeply interested in race a set may not, like the real white a change in political complexities begin it is not amiss to revise. It had no delegated powers ofuction it exercised was arbitrary without representation in gits no department heads, the men had to them, though not offended, earnestly, without celat, for ranks the clerks, messengers and delayed because of color alone depository for the hopes and aune ranks. Many of their efforts have been more than human had to accomplish, but there are no better because of the interest whether as individuals or as a real anything more than the desir of the United States Supreme Courtredicts to them, the presenceown in race history as having left it would be a long story to tell, females or as a body, the Black Clerk to the White House, to depart interest of this, that or the other station had been arbitrarily fined, chief, regardless of that Negro of the members of the Black Clerk is criticised and abused by men whose conditions they labored in this did not deter them from the all they possibly could act behind records of fidelity to the office. This alone will imply whole, and fully compensate for two clerks, messengers and label to the fact that the Black Clerk of their race in office here toominations against Negro emperors at the Black Cabinet fulfilled that have been bestowed whereof of the cabinet will have created of the men and women in the Negro clerks, messengers and but the country at large, areing of the Black Cabinet. Every imposed upon him; every one is reflecting the highest creditously and assiduously represented to say: For the Black Cabinet abrance. Marshall has real ability. Marshall has been a consistent Negro Democrat, if it is possible for a Negro to be a Democrat and be consistent. Carr and Perry are men of ability, and might well represent this country at Port-au- which God has sent against the Mosaic dispensation when Pharaoh. This old king would be the children of Israel continued the Negroes in the country are. Nothing seems to stay the God has spoken in no uncertain country, but they heed not. He is patient and obedient to always willing and ready to, but his kindness is too often being persued. All kinds of objection in Congress, by the party in power. The Bee has no the poor white man and woman inferiority to them. This the man has been appealed to. He get the opposed Negro enjoy his out avail. The patience of the See, I have made thee a god to all be thy prophet. Pharaoh's heart is hardened; will be seen. Pharaoh could not they should be, hence God sent continued to appeal and reason out without avail, so he sent the and fies, the third plague was by the plague of hail, followed the plague of darkness." This press the Israelites until the Lord plague upon Pharaoh and upon end of Egypt shall die, for frometh upon his throne, even unto that is behind the mill," and all of Pharaoh continued to be harael could not leave. Pharaoh until the Egyptians were drowned. White man and woman eventually will stretch forth her hand unto host shall be found. The Bee his persecution of the black man, so late; because the plagues of pressors. Yays. If Ben Tillman had conduce Negro God would have put bees prayed for Ben Tillman and all others. The East Washing; led of the poorest class of Negro and woman have no prejudices; cannot impose himself upon it. The Negro would not dare invade the poorer class of white people Negro. Compare the refined and of the poor whites and the dee would be, give them the culhites. There is no Christianity less prejudice in the Catholic man in any other denomination. So pray for Vardaman and all against the Negro, and The Bee Bee when this class will be visited Pharaoh will visit the wicked and noble and injured people. correspondent dubbed the Negro washington the "Black Cabinet." Very than in earnest. Some news-criticised the appellation at the both the white and Negro press. As to the Negro presidential ap- black Cabinet." But the "Black of history only, and the regret of used in race advancement is that the real white Cabinet, continue real complexion. Now that the unmiss to review the work of thised powers or functions. What- was arbitrarily assumed. Know- station in either branch of Con-ads, the members of the Black not offensively, the right to eat celat, for the interests of the messengers and laborers whose of color alone. They, the cabi- hopes and ambitions of the men of their efforts met with failure. In human had they accomplished there are many whose positions the interest taken in them by the duals or as a body. If they had than the defeat of Judge Hook states Supreme Court, which even the presence of the Black Cabi- as having been a distinct ben- story to tell the number of trips, of the Black Cabinet made in the house, to department and bureau for the other Negro government arbitrarily fixed by a prejudiced if that Negro's ability and effi- the Black Cabinet (each one in used by men of their own race, they labored to improve, and did them from continuing on in any could achieve for their race. Fidelity to duty and intelligent one will inure to the benefit of compensate for their appointment.ers and laborers, in a near dis- Black Cabinet is no more; that office here to command attention Negro employees, they, perhaps, not fulfilled well a mission; that lived where criticism was given; I have created a void detrimental women in the ranks, and that, messengers and laborers, not only large, are the ones who really cabinet. Every one of them was men; every one of them will leave chest credit upon the race he so usely represented. The Bee, for Black Cabinet, here's rosmary— Prince. But they, too, have weaknesses—they are but human—which their foes persist in throwing the light on, but it is doubted if either of them get the call. nience, and of Buffalo, if necessary, and A. B. Cosey, of New Jersey. Ross is by all odds the oldest Negro Democrat. He has been a Democrat since the time the mind of man runneth not to the contrary. He is a lawyer who never practiced, and couldn't practice it he would, tor he knows next to nothing about law. He is an editor, out for political advantage rather than from newspaper love. Ross' enemies, and a man cannot be a Negro Democrat for twenty years or more without making enemies, charge him with about everything—even to being a political grafter. I have never heard of Ross robbing, or beating any colored man, and the chances are that most of the Independents who are attacking him have at some time been the recipients of his honour. Now, is Ross man-size for the position he seeks? He is not as able as his predecessors, nothing like it; but if C. H. J. Taylor could fill the position, Ross can. Ross has a manner and style, always perfectly agreeable—a natural courteousness that would make him popular with patrons of the office. Were it left to you to name the Recorder of Deeds, perhaps you would not select James A. Ross, but it would be downright falsehood to say that Ross is not capable of administering the duties of the office, and administering them well. Ross' opposition, apparently, comes entirely from his own party. I expect to refer to A. B. Cosey and some of the other Negro candidates next week. VARDAMAX All obscure people, especially Congress-men and Senators, who have not the ability to make a record, must attack the colored race or the constitutional amendments which guarantee political liberty to the race. Whenever you hear of an attack upon the colored people, search the record of the assailant and you will find that he is an obscure countryman. Who ever heard of Roddenbery, of Georgia, until he attacked the Negro? Who ever heard of Ben Tillman, Hefflin, Hoke Smith, Josephus Daniels and others of like character until they attacked the colored man? Search their records and convince yourselves. The colored man is an eyesore to these southern Negro haters. The Negro is making too much of a headway. Repealing the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution will not affect the Negro morally. A few more jolts by the present administration against China and Japan will give the Negro more rights than he wants. The Negro is not at all disturbed. The Democratic Party has done all in its power to degrade the Negro and take from him his civil and political rights, and still he continues to progress. There is every reason to believe that the Negro possesses such fine and intellectual qualities until they have made the common and poor white man envious of him. The refined, the cultured and educated white man has but little prejudice. There are a few Negroes in this country who are chasing false gods and are ambitions for social equality. But the more sensible Negro is anxious, to gain a livelihood. The Jews were once despised in this city as the Negro is today; but look at the record of the Jew and his achievements within the last twenty or thirty years. Whenever there is a Jewish holiday in this city, all Washington, so to speak, goes without dry goods. Shoes and many other useful wearing apparel. The Negro Business League is meeting a long-felt want in this country. The Negro is making politics an incident and not the direct object of his citizenship. Business leagues throughout this country are filling up gaps and meeting the demand of the people. Vardaman of Mississippi, who intends to turn the earth wrongside outward, has a great task before him. He intends to do what it cost thousands of him to do and the expenditure of millions of dollars. Vardaman intends to change the entire Constitution. Of course such men as we have named in this article may be successful. They may undertake to change the Constitution, but what a time they will have. The Negro is not at all disturbed. NEGRO INDIFFERENCE. NEGRO INDIFFERENCE. The Bee might as well speak plainly as to the indifference of the Negro, He wants money, but he dislikes to spend it. He sees his rights taken from him, and in many instances he is too stingy and close to contribute to a fund to pay counsel. If he organizes for the purpose of getting a fund, in many instances the officers are grafters. Instead of applying the money for the purpose for which it was collected, he will make an effort to hide as much as possible for his own personal benefit. The Negro is indifferent as to his own interest and advancement. The Northern Negro is unlike his Southern brother. The Southern Negro, with all the opposition to him and the many acts of disfranchisement, he is today superior to his Northern brother. This city is the capital of the Nation, where Negroes draw more money than any city in the world. He is slower here than in any other place. All he thinks about is society and going on a dress parade. Let a Jew, an Italian, or an Irishman move into a Negro neighborhood. Every Negro in the neighborhood will flock to him. In this connection The Bee is compelled to call the attention of its readers to conditions in Le Droit Park, where all Negroes live. At the corner of Fourth and Elm, Fourth and V., and on V street between Third and Fourth, and at the corner of Fourth and T, or near by you will see nothing but stores controlled by the Irish, Jew and the Italian. These stores are well patronized and their proprietors are getting rich. There is one grocery store at the corner of Third and Elm conducted by a Negro. The Negro is not doing the business the others are doing, although his goods are as cheap and as good, if not better. The Negro teachers, clerks, messengers, and laborers in this park prefer to patronize these other institutions. It is a shame to see how many of these Negro teachers spend their money and pay the highest prices for groceries. There is one store, in this park, in particular, that carries every month from 55 to 60 credit books of Negro government employees. The time has come for the Negro to be up and doing. He is behind and an enemy to himself. NEGRO DEMOCRACY. NEGRO DEMOCRACY. Mr. J. Frank Wheaton, who is a candidate for the Liberian mission, is very much of a gentleman, and would no doubt make a competent and dignified diplomat. The Bee is informed that the other side of Negro Democracy has filed charges against him. Not only has charges been filed against him, but against almost every man who has been named by Bishop Walters. If Bishop Walters represents anything he represents the simon pure Negro Democracy. This so-called National Independent Political League is composed of disgruntled Negro Republicans or quasi Negro Democrats. If so-called Negro Democrats are, to abuse one another what can they hope to get? The charge against Mr. Albert B. Cosy is that he has not been a Democrat long enough. Because a man has been a sinner all his life, must it go to reason that he will be lost if he makes up his mind to repent? It is an aphorism too true, "while the light holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return." John G. Ingalls once said that a "Negro Democrat was a political monstrosity." Show us a Negro Democrat and we will show you a Negro Democrat for revenue only. NEGRO DEMOCRAT'S MISTAKE Negro Democrats have made one fatal mistake. In their fierce contest for office, creating two or more factions, friends of some candidates have been passing on to the White House, it is said, the private and moral characters of other candidates. All the bad deeds alleged to have been committed at any time by candidates have been filed, and it is said some of the charges are bad. A prominent white Democrat made the remark recently that "we simply laid low and permitted Negro Democrats to kill off each other. We knew they would do it, and so it was really not necessary for us to protest against appointments of Negroes to high office." What a pity! DEFENSE OF THE POOR. Mr. J. T. C. Newsom, one of the best informed Negroes in this country has written a pamphlet entitled "A Defense of the Poor." It is one of the most unique and argumentative pamphlets in circulation. Mr. Newsom's association and contact with the poorer element of humanity makes him competent to deal with such a subject. The pamphlet is set in Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac) Everybody around Washington with anywhere from one-sixteenth to nine-tenths Negro blood in his arteries is getting attacked with the autitis. Now, autoitis is a fatal disease. If you get it, it's an acorn to a grub worm that you'll be in the regret ward before a year is out. The last est victim to this contagion is Roose-Bruce. He's got it bad. Every evening you can see him either examining his spark plug or his speedometer Dr. Curtis got it a couple of years ago, and now he is in the hospital on an insurance allowance of $50 per week or thereabouts. Armand Scott had it so bad for a while that he was supporting two red devils at the same time. Melendez King got it but when the cost of appliances, rubber bandages for his tires, and gasoline bills began to eat all the green lining out of his pocketbook, he returned his contraption to the agent and gave out the funeral notice that running the blamed thing injured his arm. Dae Cabiniss exposed him himself on purpose—just to enable him to own his daily collection. They tell me he made his machine pay for it self the first time he invested in Cabiniss Doc Childs, who invested a few hundred in one of those hooks, honk caruses it to keep speaking engagements, and you know when it comes to oratory, smooth as liquid refreshments. Creed is in a class all by his loan some. No one leit but him since Vernon migrated to the Yazoo Valley. Doc Gaskins has got the disease awful bad. Why, that boy got two machines and a wife in one year, and I wouldn't be surprised any day to look out of my French plate window and see him speeding by in a Force Arrow seven-seat touring car. There's nothing slow about Bad Taskers except when he starts in on Willie Wilkinson When Dae Wilkinson of the autitis everybody predicted he would be in the morgue in a week, and the support of the family would be on Little Subney But Dae's side of breaking the speed record every other minute. getting word from Captain Dayle, every other day to stop in and contribute, has met with no missteps while peddling pills in his Maxwell going at a speed that would make the record of a Zeppelin durable large clear type and the print is clear and the argument he advances is concise. Don't fail to send for one of his books. CAPT. JAMES F. OYSTER. It can be readily seen that Captain James F. Oyster is one of the most popular citizens in Washington. The reception by the white and colored citizens is an evidence of the esteem in which he is held. Judge Barnard's tribute to Captain Oyster was deserving and timely, especially coming, as it does, from that old Roman. If L. C. Bailey's $10,000 suit against another brother Mason comes to trial, it may be that we will get the facts, all the facts, about the transfer of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company property to the Masons. And it may be that Negroes who were muleht out of their money for stock in the Lincoln Company may get at least a part of their money back. If Negro Masons do not hurry up and begin to refund money for stock which they promised to do, the deal may come back to plague them. James A. Ross, editor of the Detroit, Mich., Informer, stated in his paper last week that Hoke Smith, and Postmaster Burleson are friends of the colored people. The Bee begs leave to ask how long since? The Bee has great faith in Senator O'Gorman, of New York. When Negro Democrats succeed Tyler, Napier, Charlie Anderson and Lincoln Johnson, kindly let us know. 'The dedication of the new Odd Fellows' hall in Atlanta, Ga., was a great event. Col. Henry Johnson and his Atlanta, Ga., Odd Fellows are to be commended. Upwards of fifty thousand people passed through the new building. The Negroes of Washington have never been able to erect a decent hall. Persons who failed to receive The Bee may know that they have not paid their subscriptions. All dead heads will be cut off and posted up in our office as dead beats. A person who subscribes for a paper and refuses to pay for it is worse than a thief. Many a person has read your paper for a year and the moment you send him a bill he informs you that he never subscribed. If you don't want your name printed among the dead beats, pay up. The man who loafs while waiting for a political job is injuring his chances. The Week in Society Quality and good service. You will always find at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. Mr. Lealand Ward, of this city, the son of Mrs. Ruth Dabney, of 1132 Third Street Northwest, left the city last week for Ohio to see that his sister, Mrs Ruth Ward, who is a student at Oherlin College, was not harmed by the flood, which did much damage in Ohio. Mr. Ward will then visit his brother in Detroit, Mich. returning in a few days to resume his studies in Armstrong Manual Training School. Mr. Horace L. Washington, of this city, and Miss Edmona Byrd, of Frederickburg, Va., were quietly married last week. The newly-weds will reside in this city Mrs. Nellie West Smith left the city for her home in Buffalo, N. Y., after a very pleasant visit of two weeks as the house guest of her friend, Mrs. C. A. Camper, 1009 Eleventh Street Northwest. Mr. C. Fleming Lewis, a student in the Dental Department of Howard University, was in New York with the Y. W. C. A. While there he was the guest of his father, Mr. Richard Lewis, of 120 West 132d Street. Miss Mirjam Worfley, of this city, spent some time in New York, the guest of Miss Blossom L. Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hayden, after spending a most delightful stay in this city, have returned to their home in New Bedford, Mass. Mr. James Magnet and daughter Mary, and Miss Elsie Reed have returned to their homes in New Bedford, Mass. Mrs. David Lane and Miss Spratling have returned home, having spent more than a week in Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. A. Perry Madison left the city last Wednesday after spending a month here visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. Perry will visit relatives in Richmond, Va. before returning to her home in Abingdon, Va. Mr. James C. Armstrong, proprietor of Howard Pharmacy, has been continued to his home for more than a week on account of sickness. Mrs. Celia Ruffin is visiting in the city. She is the guest of her son, Mr. Joseph Ruffin. 1730 Seaton Street Northwest. Mr. George Thomas, of Philadelphia, is visiting in the city. Dr. J. W. Morse is prepared to accommodate his customers with soda water and ice cream with an up-to-date service. Mr. Thomas Calloway is in Bradock, Pa. Miss Rachel Clarke is in Baltimore visiting Mr. Albert Davis was in Cumberland. Md. last week to attend the funeral of his mother. Mrs. Wm. Pannell, after spending two months with her mother in Charleston, S. C., has returned to her home in this city. Mrs. W. M. Lane and daughter, Miss Rosa Bell, and Miss Elaine Tancil have just returned to their home from Durham, N. C. Miss Lottie Sanders has returned to her home in Pittsfield after spending a pleasant time in this city. Miss Isabella Hardy and Mr. Harry L. Tignor were recently married. Miss Nannie Brown and Mr. Samuel Hardy were quietly married recently. Rev Sterling Brown, of this city, spoke at the Boston Literary and Historical Association at Boston 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. 1004 E. Street Northwest. Rev J. H Randolph, of this city, was in Richmond last week. Mrs. Kate, of Pittsburg, Pa., who is visiting her sister in law, Mrs. Ferguson, of Georgetown, spent Saturday in Falls Church visiting Mrs. Maggie Brown and Mrs. Limisa Henderson. Mr. James S. Williams, of Germantown, Pa., was a week-end guest in this city last week. Misses Ethel and Ernestine Brent, of this city, were highly entertained at a reception given by Mrs. Mary L. DeDoursey at her home in Philadelphia. Miss Annie Murdock, and Mr. Cruse of this city present at the great function. Mrs. Amy H. Weddington, who recently left Central America, is in New York, where she will remain until Saturday, April 12th Mrs. Weddington will then leave on the steamship Olympic for London. Mrs. Miles C. Masfield: who has been combined to her home on account of sickness, is better. Her many friends are delighted to see her, out again. Prof. George W. Hines: of the Commercial Department of Howard University, spent some time at Tuskegee Institute recently Miss Ruth Blyden Lee and Mr William H. McAbee will be united in wedlock April 16th, 1913, in Wilkinsburg, Pa. The newly-weds will be at home April 27th at 1520 Argyle Avenue. Baltimore, Md. Miss Lola M. Hammie has resigned her position as clerk in the Washington Bee newspaper office. The resignation is to take effect not later than April 15. She will accept a position as pupil in nurse training in Freedmen's Hospital April 21st. 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. Mr. W. J. Dixon, of Kansas City, Mo., is in this city to secure letters of patent on his latest invention, a car window screen, which he believes will be a financial success. Mr. Ralph W. Tyler left the city this week for the West. Assistant United States Attorney James A. Cobb made a trip to Wilmington, Del. Saturday morning. Recorder Col Henry Lincoln Johnson is in Atlanta, Ga., where he went to attend the dedication of the $100,000 Odd Fellows Hall Mrs. Eliza Maxfield, who has been quite ill, is slowly improving. Mrs. Maggie Walker, secretary of St Luke's, was in the city Thursday. She was on special business. For an up-to-date drug store. Dr J. W. Morse, at 1904 L Street Northwest, is the one. After returning home from his employment Monday evening, March 31, Edmond Reynolds, of White avenue, Fairmount Heights, died with acute indigestion. Mr Reynolds was well known in the community, and had many friends. He was a trustee and a faithful worker in the First Baptist Church. The Home Builders' Lodge of Odd Fellows had full charge of the funeral. They gave him an excellent burial. Two young ladies, Miss Louise Marshall and Miss Emma Payne, of the First Presbyterian Church Christian Endeavor Society, quietly went among their friends and begged three large baskets full of provisions and a sum of money, and surprised Mrs. Reynolds. Mrs. Reynolds is the aged mother of Mr. Edmond Reynolds, who died last week. This was indeed a charitable act on the part of Miss Emma Payne and Miss Louisa Marshall. The community is indeed fortunate to have such energetic young ladies. They will be encouraged. Rev. Owen C. Sprague was reappointed pastor of the M. E. Church here. The people are satisfied with the pastor. Many regrets are being expressed at the failure of the bishop to return Rev. Dr. Williams as superintendent. Ninety per cent of all the charges on the district asked for his return. The funeral of Mrs. Mary E. Johnson was held at the Fairmount Heights M. E Church Sunday, April 6, 1913, at 10 o'clock a.m. Rev. O. C. Sprague, the pastor, preached the funeral sermon. The choir of the church sang excellent and appropriate music *A section of the D. C. Grand Lodge of the Order of Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia was present; also a section of the brothers and sisters and sons and daughters of the Order of Moses. Beautiful testimonials were read from the orders mentioned above and from the citizen association of which Mr. J. S. Johnson was president. Floral designs from friends in Washington, Fairmount Heights and elsewhere were in great abundance. Rev. Charles McCoy, formerly of Alabama, but now of Brentwood, Md., preached at the M. E. Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Rev Wm. McDowell preached at 8 o'clock P. M. Rev. R. O. Hunter, the newly elected pastor of the First Baptist Church of North Fairmount Heights, Md., was installed April 6, 1913. The exercises at 11 A. M., 3 P. M., and 8 P. M. were well attended and the collection was twenty-five dollars. The M. E. preachers have finished their labors at the annual conference, which convened in Sharp Street M. E. Church, Baltimore, Wednesday morning, April 3, 1913. Bishop Earl Cranston, D. C., presided. This was the conference year of Jubilee. Great progress has been made during the past fifty years. The year just concluded being the most successful of them all. Dr. Ernest S. Williams, D. D., who was the district superintendent of the Washington District, was stationed at Annapolis, Md. Rev. Williams has done splendid work on the district during the past five years. The borders of the church have been extended as never before. Rev Hughes, the newly appointed superintendent being also a young and progressive man, it is the hope that the church extension work will be continued under the new administration Miss Lillian Knight, an accomplished young lady, the organist of the M. F. Church Sunday school, Epworth League and church choir, was elected and assigned a teacher in the Sunday school of said church. Miss Knight is a third-year student in the M Street High School. Hon. Fred Sasseer, county superintendent of Prince Georges County, passed through here April 7, 1913. He reports that the colored school of the county receives nearly ten times more money for the education of colored children than is paid in by the colored population for school purposes. He said also that the colored teachers' pay roll amounts to more than a thousand dollars a month. The county commissioners have promised to complete the Fairmount Heights school building by the beginning of the year 1913-1914. 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. FALI-CHURCH NOTES FALL CHURCH NOTES. Mr. Douglas Nuckens, who has been ill at his home since Easter Sunday, is now up and about his farm duties. Mrs. Hattie J. Lee came out from the city and spent a few days visiting among her West End friends last week. Another new house is going up just across the road from Mr. Nuckens home. Young Mr. Philips is the enterprising gentleman whose hope it is to be. Thus West End community is growing. April 6th was a well-spent Sabbath in both the Second and Third Baptist Churches. Pastor Powell fed the flock at the first and Pastor Bowser served the congregation at the last named church. The Second Baptist Church Choir held a pleasing half hour's rehearsal preceding the Sunday night's service, with Mrs. J. Powell, wife of the pastor, as leading soprano, and Mrs. Lena Dixon, Mrs. Georgia Taylor, Mrs. Susie Campbell, soprano; Mrs. Lilian Marshall, Mrs. Estella Norris, altos; Mr. Floyd Evans, Mr. C. Hunter, and Mr. Henry Taylor, tenors, and Mr. George Lowe, bass. Pastor Matthews, of the First Baptist Church, Vienna, Va., preached for his congregation on Sunday morning and led the lesson exposition for his Sunday School at 3 o'clock. Leaving the night service in charge of a brother minister, he went on to the city so as to fill an appointment at the other end of his circuit. Mrs. Dora Stone spent a portion of the Sabbath at her home in Merrifield, returning to her Falls Church residence in the late afternoon. As a member of the School League at Merrifield she was a faithful treasurer for more than two years and an earnest worker. Pastor Coleman, of the Hall's Hill Baptist Church, has been conducting a revival there from Easter Sunday up to now, having had seventeen additions to the church during this short time. Sunday he preached at morning, afternoon and night services. The afternoon service was "Society Hour." Quite a busy day in religion. Mrs. Susie Allen, superintendent of Galloway M. E. Sunday School, along with other friends attended the annual conference of her church at Baltimore on Saturday and Sunday, returning to Falls Church on Sunday night. While Mrs. Georgia Taylor continues doing business at the store, her husband, Mr. Henry Taylor, resumes for the season, his fish business, and from his wagon will supply as before his patrons along his old route with fresh fish. WEST WASHINGTON. ```markdown ``` The annual exercises of the Epworth League of Mt. Zion M. E. Church was held Sunday afternoon and was largely attended. Miss Victoria Williams presided and the following took part in an excellent and well-rendered program: Miss Lucy Lewis, Miss Alexander, Mrs. Daisy MaGrudgr, Mrs. Ethel Bolden, Mrs. Ethel Pope, Miss Smith, Messrs. John Carter and E. Smith. The orchestra of the school furnished the music. Those members are Mr. J Ricks, Mr. Vgrdle Fisher, Mr. George Williams, George Ferguson and Mr. L. Gaskins. The Ladies' Vid Association gave one of their old folks' concerts Monday evening at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. The program was amusing from start to finish and greatly enjoyed by the large audience in attendance. The funeral of Miss Mary Ann Teney, a granddaughter of the late Rev Pompia Teney, and one of the oldest residents of the section, took place Tuesday afternoon from the residence of her niece, Mrs. Mamie Wilkins, 418 Twelfth Street North-east, and was largely attended by the relatives and friends of the deceased. Interment in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Mr. Waller J. Abrams, who it was thought was convulsing, is again seriously ill at the Friedman Hospital. Mr Ralph W. Hewlett is very sick at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Mary Boyd, of O Street Northwest. Mr. Dock Tenney, of Annis, Conn. is here on a visit, having been summoned on account of the death of his mother, and will remain a week. The Annual Men's Day was conducted on Sunday morning by the male members of the school and Mr. Harry Thompson, assistant superintendent. The program was very interesting, there being several well known Sunday School workers present who gave very pleasant and encouraging talks. Among them were Mr. Miles C. Maxfield, Dr. S. M Pierre, Mrs. S. R. Harris, Mr., Silas James and Mr. J. Pier. The music was furnished by the Sunday School Orchestra. Mr. James L. Turner led the singing. Miss Emma Williams is organist. Tenth Annual Sermon. The Crispus Attuck Relief Association celebrated its tenth anniversary Sunday evening by attending divine service at the Second Baptist Church and listened to a very eloquent sermon by Rey Bishop Johnson, D. D. on the subject, "Equip Thyself a Man" which was one of the best discourses ever heard by the association. The choir rendered very excellent music for the occasion. The association left a liberal donation to the trustee of the church and the pastor was kindly remembered. The officers are: Joseph N. Manning, president; James L. Turner, first vice president; W. E. L. Sanford, second vice president; Wm Stephen Fuller, third, vice president; James C. Burles, recording secretary; James A. Payne, financial secretary; Edward W. Turner, treasurer; Alexander Tremble, sergeant-at-arms; Hilary Lee, assistant sergeant-at-arms; Horace E. Barnett, chapman. Rev. Daniel W. Hays, D. D., pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twentieth Street Northwest, has left for conference and has completed one of the most successful years in the history of the church. Although being highly endorsed by the several departments of the church, it is said he will meet with some opposition to his return by a few members and ex-officers. But the numerous friends of Dr. Hays feel that the record he has made will offset any objection that may be presented and that his return is more than likely for another conference year. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS. (Continued from page look like a prehistorical one. Doc. Lofton started in with a runabout, but after running up on the sidewalk, knocking lamp posts over, and getting pinched for irregular time, he became such a victim to the autoitis that he got him a touring car and a summer home out on the heights. Doc. Francis was the pioneer in getting paralyzed with autoitis. He had two machines, and his son, Dr Milton, has equaled his dad's record. But with the care both of them exercise in running a biz wagon one ought to last them until we get suffrage in the District Tom Jones, who is always retained on church trials, thought something of investing a few dollars in a care for autoirs, but when Armond Scott cahe tooting by his house one evening in one red devil with another one hitched on behind. Tom said he guessed he'd just continue to hire a Victoria once or twice a week, for tear if he got a machine. Armond would run into him somewhere in the vicinity of the Police Court. The nearest John Daney got to the disease was to buy stock in an automobile factory. Just because the stock didn't pay 250 cents on every half dollar invested the first week, John stuck to his feet as motor. And John is awfully proud of his feet—they look more like white men's feet every day. Judge Terrell gets a notion in his billiard ball every now and then that he ought to have a buzz wagon, but when they quote a price of $1,200 to $1,300 f. o. h., and e. o. h., the Judge just phones Armond to meet him and enjoy a sulzer lemonade, and after partaking of same he takes a ride-with Armond, and goes home satisfied. My friend Bill Chase told me confidentially that getting pay for subscriptions due The Bee was right now harder work than Dr. Gwathney does when he pulls a inolar, and if he bought an auto they never would pay subscriptions. Of course, Big Bill has the ready money to pay cash for a limoine—one of those big French cars—but he just don't want to squander his coin. There ain't a Negro editor living but what has all kinds of money Rev Howards lets his son who is a physician, suffer with autoirs for the whole family. The Reverend has just got a notion has owed in the back of his wise old head that if he traded that old "hoss" of his for a machine his congregation would forget to take up the regular Sunday collection for his salary. So the Reverend just continues to push on the line to keep that old "hoss" from swallowing the bit. It's a frigid day in August when Rev Howard goes chasing after false goats. But getting back to Rosco, the native-born diplomat. For the past four or five years they have kept that relict of the late Senator so on the jump his legs have just naturally given out, and he had to get an automobile. If the Vigilance Committee gets after him now the Columbia Road man will just give him the honk, honk while he heels by with a bunch of nearfriends who he is taking out for a joy ride. And you know there's nothing that makes a fellow feel so kinder close-like to you as giving him a joy ride. If Brother Horner ever accepts an invitation from Rosco to joy ride in his touring car there will be a placid surface on the school lake of trouble Rosco's machine ain't quite as noisy as Armond Scott's first edition of an automobile but it makes enough noise to give the police an idea that the engine was built at the Baldwin Locomotive Works rather than at the Peerless, Automobile factory. Speaking about the schools there is less friction right now in the schools than there has been for four years. Everything seems to be working in a well-oiled groove. Throwing out a sand bag or two has had good effect. Garnet Wilkinson is just proving Johnny-on-the-spot at Armstrong School—really he's made it a model, and Sherman Jackson has made that Business High School just what its name implies. The switch was a mighty good one, both for all concerned, pupils and teachers. If Rosco can only get his enemies to joy ride with him in that 4-11-44 limo-sine of his collated in the conveyance list as a gasoline, vehicle, he will have all of them voting for him. Take it from me, that kid, born with a silver spoon between a pair of rudy lips, knew just what he was up to when he empties his trouser pockets of all his spare change for a buz wagon Great bale head on that kid. I see Fred Moore has resigned his liberian job. Well, Fred let it be known to about four hundred people that he didn't want to turn up in that Metropolitan Baptist Church. R Street, Between 12th and April 16, 1913. Do we want conditions changed? Nation never rises. God helps the scattered army must retreat. Watch the Program. Silver Office C. MOORE, Chairman. Program of the 50th Emancipation aimed by our beloved and martyred April 16, 1863. Music by Howard University Conductor, Douglas, conductor. Reading Proclamation, by Attorney Old Glory, by Mrs. L. C. Moore. SPEAKER Hon. William J. Bryan, Secretary of Hon. J. Frank Wheaton, of New York Editor W. Calvin Chase. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton. Deacon Langhorn, Florida Avenue Prof. J. H. Harrison, of Virginia. REFRESHMENT OF Mrs. C. Scott, chairman: Mrs. F. H. Holland, Mrs. L. Akers and Mrs. Do we want conditions changed? Let us show it! A forgetful nation never rises. God helps the nation that helps themselves. A scattered army must retreat. Watch the Program. Silver Offering at the Door. L. C. MOORE, Chairman. W. H. NELSON, Secretary. Program of the 50th Emancipation of American Slavery, proclaimed by our beloved and martyred President, Abraham Lincoln, April 16, 1863. Music by Howard University Concert Orchestra, Prof. Joseph H. Douglas, conductor. HOTEL DALE CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located seashore resort in the world; replete superlative in construction, appoint in age. Orebestra daily. Garage, bath Special attention given to ladies and This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world; replete with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, service, and refined patronage. Orchestra daily. Garage, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention given to ladies and children. Send for booklet. E. W. DALE, Owner: land of sleeping disease. Just wanted to remain in New York and pull down the stipend. Now, that he's resigned. Frank Wheaton, Frank Warren, J. Sias Harris, and a couple of hundred other since-November Negro Democrats are chasing after it with tongues lolling out. Frank Wheaton is staying right here in Washington waiting for the summons. One thing about Frank, if he gets it that African sun has no more chance of tanning his complexion than a Bershire pig has of taking first prize in a dog show. I kinder like Frank. Fact is, he's a mighty pleasant sort of a chap—has a good word and about four inches of smile for everybody. And he's an orator, too. If he gets there, and ever makes one of his "aronsement" speeches to that coffee crowd over in Liberia, take it from me they will pass resolutions making him king. I don't care if he does get the place 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. Rev. Daniel W, Hays, D. D., Appointed District, Superintendent The congregation of Mt Zion M. E. Church, while losing their pastor, Rev. D. W. Hays, who it was thought would be returned for another year, and having so successfully tilled the pastorate for three years, are greatly pleased on learning that he has received the appointment of district superintendent of the Baltimore District. His successor, Rev. Thompson, will find the charge to which he goes in a splendid condition and with an excellent board of trustees and other officers. Madre's Park is being refitted up for picnics, lawn fetes and all outdoor amusements. For tennis and dates see M. A. D. Madre, 2227 Cleveland Avenue N. W. Suffrage Workers The suffragists had an enthusiastic meeting at Columbia Theater Monday morning at 10 A.M., and then marched to the Capitol, each hearing a letter to her Senator or Representative, asking that they urge universal suffrage. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton was one of the delegates. She belongs to a suffrage association in New Jersey, and early last week was urged to join and present a letter to her Congressional District. She was present and marched with New Jersey. Several colored ladies received letters on Monday morning which was too late for them to register, get their tickets, letters, banners, etc Daughter of National Committeeman who he to Mangiwita. Succumbs to Meningitis Clare Agnes Costello, the youngest daughter of Democratic National Committeeman and Mrs John F Costello, died late Tuesday night at the family residence, 3327 P Street N.W. The little girl, twenty-two month-old, had been ill for two weeks with cerebral meningitis, and for several days it was believed that the illness would be fatal. Besides her father and mother, the Let us show it! A forget- nation that helps themselves. Fering at the Door. W. H. NELSON, Secretary. Union of American Slavery, pro- President. Abraham Lincoln. Concert Orchestra, Prof. Joseph Hey H. V. Plummer. ERS. of State. York: Baptist Church. COMMITTEE. Robinson, Mrs. S. Turner, Mrs. M. Johnson. DALE AY, N. J. in the heart of the most beautiful place with every modern improvement, ments, service, and refined patron- houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Children. Send for booklet. E. W. DALE, Owner. child is survived by two sisters. Miss Catherine Costello, fourteen years old, and Miss Margaret Costello, seven years old, and by a large number of relatives. It was decided at a joint meeting of citizens and members of the S. Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society, held Monday night at the Berean Baptist Church, to give a benefit concert for the family of the late S. Coleridge-Taylor at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Friday evening, May 16. Unless the family can be provided with £2,500 by July 1, their home will be sold. Local Branch of Negro Business League will hold its monthly public meeting Friday night, April 18th at YMCC A. Building. Bishop Alexander Walters will address the meeting on the "Necessity of Supporting Negro Enterprises." A splendid program has been arranged for the evening. This promises to be a timely meeting of great interest to the public. Everybody is invited. Admission free. MRS. WILLIAMS GOES ABROAD. Among the many workers for the uplift of humanity, chosen to represent the United States at the World's Seventh Sunday School Convention at Zurich, Switzerland, July 8-15, 1013. 15 Mrs. E. V. C Williams, nee Miss Jennie Chase ( sister of W. Calvin Chase and the Misses Chase), principal of Ferguson Williams College, Abbeyville, S. C. She will leave for Zurich some time in June. The Congregational Missionary Society of the White Congregational Churches of this city, which is doing splendid work to break down Morrisonism in Utah, held a meeting last week in the Tenth Street Church. Prof. John T Layton directed a quipette of little boys and girls from Southwest schools, who sang most acceptably Jubilee songs, etc. Prof. Layton is very active and popular in every movement that tends toward the uplift of humanity and his work is appreciated and highly commended. Especially was this true with this white audience. Miss E. F. G Meritt made a forceful talk setting forth the great work being done by the Social Settlement workers for the colored people of the Southwest portion of our city. Miss Imogene Wormley and Mrs. Julia Mason Layton was present. Luncheon was served at the close of the meeting. Children's May Carnival at Howard Theater is based on music by S. Coleridge Taylor and other coloured composers. At 8 P.M., Sharp. Will Give a Benefit. Negro Business League J. P. H. COLEMAN. Secretary. DANIEL FREEMAN. President. Social Settlement Origin of Power At various times the scholars of different countries have tried definitely to determine the real discoverer of paper in the eleventh century. It is to paper that we owe the renalssance of letters. From time immemorial something answering modern paper was used in China, where it was manufactured from silk. About the middle of the seventh century of our era there seems to have been established in Arabia a manufactory of paper, and fifty years later the way was discovered to make it from cotton instead of from silk, silk being a rare commodity outside of China at that time and cotton relatively plentiful. In the reign of Henry II. of France a Greek scholar was sent to Paris to arrange systematically a catalogue of antique manuscripts in the royal library, and a notation in his hand speaks of what was then known as "paper" as originating in Damascus. The later invention of making paper from flax, linen or hemp has been attributed equally to Italy and Germany, but there is evidence that it existed prior to the fourteenth century.-Harper's. Escort For the Holy Garpet. As is well known to Mohammedans, but to few Europeans, the Holy Carpet always travels with an escort to and from the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. This escort consists of 800 to 850 men of one of the Egyptian infantry regiments, with two small field pieces and two quick firing guns, and about forty mounted men, together with their horses. The object of such a strong escort is to protect the sacred object from falling into the hands of the Bedouin tribes, through whose countries it must pass at various stages of its journey and who are also on the lookout for it, as the carpet is worth a fine ransom. Desperate attacks are not infrequently made, upon the Holy Carpet by the Bedouins of the desert; hence the strength of the escort—Egyptian Gazette. Liona and Tigers Three feet or a little over is the real height of good sized lions and tigers. And when sportsmen realize what an extra six inches or nine inches added to the stature involves in increased length and general bulk to balance the known proportions of the animals I am equally sure they will admit that no Lion ever scaled anything like four feet at the shoulder and that the height measurements of dead specimens give quite a false idea of the actual heights of the animals in life. The following are the heights at the shoulders of some of our large felidae: Large lioness, 2 feet 11 inches; Manchuria tigress, 2 feet 9 inches; Nepal tigress, 2 feet 8 inches; Sumatran tiger, 2 feet 7 inches; large male jaguar, 2 feet 8 inches; male cheetah, 2 feet 2 inches.—London Field. Youth. Youth is the springtime of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know. The wise youth will "lay low" till he gets a whole lot of knowledge and then in later days turn it loose in an abrupt manner. He will guard against telling what he knows, a little at a time. That is unwise. I once knew a youth who wore himself out telling people all he knew from day to day, so that when he became a bald-headed man he was utterly exhausted and didn't have anything left to tell any one. Some of the things that we know should be saved for our own use. The man who sheds all his knowledge and doesn't leave enough to keep house with fools himself.—Bill Nye. Turkish Justice. The poor baker for some reason appears to have been singled out for some extraordinary punishments. It is only within late years that there has been rescinded in Turkey a law by which the baker guilty of short weight tricks was punished by having his ear nailed to the doorpost. Turkish officers of the law are notoriously averse to giving themselves more trouble than is absolutely necessary. If the recalcitrant baker did not happen to be at home when they arrived to administer punishment they didn't bother to call again, but just seized his son or his journeyman or his father-in-law or whoever was handy and nailed his ear to the doorpost. So long as somebody was punished it did not matter. The Samian Letter The letter Y is called the Samlan letter. It is so-called because its Greek original was deferred to by Pythagoras, the philosopher of Samos, to illustrate how deviation from the straight path of virtue becomes constantly wider as the lines are extended. The poet Pope refers to this idea in the lines: When reason, doubtful, like the Samlan letter, Points him two ways, the narrower the better. Her Intense Sorrow He—I called to see you last evening and the servant told me you were not in. She—Yes; I was sorry to have missed you. He—I thought you must be. I heard you laughing upstairs in such grief stricken tones that I almost wept myself out of sympathy. Wanted to Find the Grumb. Mamma—What are you tearing your doll to pieces for? Hattle—I'm looking for the crumb of comfort papa said was to be found in everything. Friendship. Rounder—Is Slick a friend of yours? Rounder—I should say so. Why, he will let me share my last dollar with him.—Exchange. The man who cannot forgive any mortal thing is a green hand in life. Cream Puff Cure A young woman teacher in a school in one of the poorer parts of the city was overcome by a sudden attack of illness the other day. She dismissed the class, telling the boys she felt too ill to continue, but hoped to be quite well by the next day. The teacher rested her head on her arms and sat at her desk a few minutes waiting for strength to start on the journey homeward. She was only dully conscious of what was going on about her and did not notice a group of the ragged youngsters gathered by the door in deep consultation. In a little while she heard some one softly say, "Teacher!" and looked up. It was the raggedest boy of the lot, and he was holding out a paper bag full of something. "What is it, Jimule?" she asked. "Somethin' t' eat," replied Jimble. "But I'm not hungry." "Yes, you are," insisted the ragged philanthropist, winking at her gravely. "Nobody's slick except when they're hungry. We took up a c'lection an' got these cream puffs fur youse. 'Eat 'em quick, ma'am, an' you'll feel better."—Philadelphia Star. The Silence Wager Once a Brahman and his wife quarreled acutely over three kol fish. Each wanted to eat two and leave the third for the other. The husband argued that he had fetched them from the bazaar, the wife that she had cooked them. Nelther would give way. Then said the Brahmani: "Let us go to bed and see who speaks first. Whichever of us does will have to take the one kol fish." This agreed, they lay down, supperless, and passed the night, the dawn, the morning. In utter silence. The neighbors, alarmed, went in to see if they were dead. They shook them and pulled them about. Still no sound. Then three of them made the funeral pyre, placed the Brahman upon it and applied the torch. Next they lifted up the Brahmani to lay her beside her husband. At that moment the flames reached the body of the Brahman. Unable to keep quiet any longer, he jumped up, crying, "Brahmani, I'll eat the one!" "Then I'll eat the other two." she promptly replied.—"Bengall Household Tales." Some Indian Precepts. Ernest Thompson Seton's "The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore" contains the teachings of the Indian Chief Wabasha I., from which we quote the following: "In the day of his strength no man is fat. Fat is good in a beast, but in a man it is disease and comes only of an evil life. "No man will eat three times each sun if he would keep his body strong and his mind unclouded. "Bathe every sun in cold water and one sun in seven enter the sweat lodge "When your time comes to die sing your death song and die pleasantly. not like the white men, whose hearts are ever filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and wall and pray for a little more time so they may live their lives over again in a different manner." Almost Epigrammatic This overheard conversation appeals to the weary one as nearly epigrammatic. The young people on the seat ahead of us in the homeward bound car the other night talked it out so loud that we couldn't help hearing it and jotting down a few notes on it. "So," said the girl, "he said he knew me when I was a little girl?" "He didn't say anything of the sort," contradicted the man. "You said he did." "I didn't." "Why, then what did you say?" "I said he said he knew you when he was a boy." That put such a wet blanket on the conversation that we were able to read our sporting extra uninterrupted for the next several blocks.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bits From Shakespeare. Users of everyday catchwords are constantly quoting that ubiquitous person Shakespeare. "Dead as a doornall," "long and short of it," "getting even." "tag-rag," "birds of a feather," "that's flat," "mum," "scarecrow," "solid," "milksop," "loggerhead," "bag and baggage," "a mere song," "dancing atteduance." "send him packing," "kill, with kindness," "give and take." "an eyesore." "to boot" and "the man in the moon" are all his. Impertinence. "I was born on the 29th of February." "Remarkable." "Yes. There are few men who have that distinction." "Very true. Have you ever done anything else unusual?"—Chicago Record-Herald. Cynical. The old fashioned woman who used to get up at 5 a. m. to celebrate wash day now has a daughter who has an awful time getting the stuff together in time to give it to the laundry driver when he calls at 2 p. m.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Didn't Know Horae Talk. "Wanted, a man who can speak French and who understands horses," reads an advertisement. One of the applicants wrote, "Oh, yes; I can speak so Francais, but I know not what Tangue' ze 'orses speak."—London Standard. It is true that money talks, but its vocabulary is limited to "goodbye" and one or two other phrases.—Philadelphia Ledger. National Religious Training Schoo THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. 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She came to the city for the purpose of helping to lay plans looking forward to an elaborate celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of freedom in connection with the meeting of the convention at Nashville, Tenn., next September. Plans for a great religious celebration were carefully considered and it is quite evident that the Nashville meeting will be the biggest and best ever held by Negro Christians in this country. Mrs. Bryant received much social attention while here, but perhaps the [Image of a woman with a red headband] ```markdown ``` House & Herrmann of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that; will satisfy you. most beautiful and elaborate spread was the dinner served in the Model Home on the grounds of the institution. Fourteen of the most distinguished educators and social workers of Washington were the invited guests. There was a serious and helpful discussion of the various phases of the race problem. Mrs. Bryant returns to her own work in Atlanta this week, but will give much attention to the development of the plans for the celebration at Nashville. MISS BURRILL WINS AP-PLAUSE. A Large Audience Fills the Church. Before an audience which completely filled the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Miss M. P. Burrill gave two Lenten recitals from Henry Van Dyke on last Sunday. Her subjects' were "The Lost Word" and "The Story of the Other Wise Man." Miss Burrill's renditions were the best of their kind that have ever been given in Washington. Religious subjects are naturally difficult to portray, but Miss Burrill presented her readings with such ease and vividness that 'the audience was ready to shower her with hand-claps but for fact that it was the Sabbath. She possesses a natural eloquence and dramatic instinct which places her in the front rank of modern elocutionists. 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The darkness in this latter instance began between 10 and 11 o'clock on the morning of the day named and lasted throughout the day. The darkness extended from the northeastern part of New England westward as far as Albany and southward to Pennsylvania. The most intense and prolonged darkness, however, was confined to Massachusetts, more especially to the seaboard. It is said to have come from the southwest, but there is no mention of it made in the history of Ohio or the Virginias. The exact cause still remains one of the unexplained mysteries. "Warned Off" the Turf. To be "warned off" is the most severe sentence that can be imposed on any one in England connected with the turf. Not only does it debar a man from owning, training or riding horses, but until the committee decides to revoke the punishment prevents him even from showing himself on any race course. This is so owing to the fact that the decision of the national hunt committee is registered automatically by the racing authorities in France and Ireland and of course by the Jockey club. Like the national hunt committee, the stewards of the Jockey club also reserve to themselves the right of summoning any rider whom they suspect of sharp practices or even carelessness to appear before them and, unless the explanation given proved satisfactory, to "suspend" or punish the offender in some other way.—London Answers. Turner's Carelessness Perhaps the most prolific painter who ever lived was the great Turner. When he died his house in Queen Anne street, which he had not occupied for a long time, was found to be full of masterpieces all going to rack and ruin. Even the famous "Crossing the Brook," one of the priceless treasures of the National gallery in Trafalgar square, was there, with large pieces chipped off it. Many of Turner's masterpieces which he had refused to sell for "love or money" were almost ruined by the damp coming from defective windows and cellings. There were, besides the oil paintings, literally thousands of water color drawings "chuking about the place," any one of which would draw a little fortune at this moment from the pocket of an American millionaire. By his will he left them all to the nation.-London Spectator. Speed of Flying Ducks. How fast do ducks fly? Is a question that sportsmen have long debated. A correspondent of Forest and Stream throws some definite light on it. Business requires him to ride frequently on a railroad in New York state that skirts a large lake. Wild fowl, startled by the train, will sometimes fly for a long distance parallel to the track at a speed the same as that of the train; hence it was easy, by timing them and getting the speed rate of the train from the conductor, to learn how fast they were going. 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If Christians allow the rush and crush of selfish ambition to deprive them of their daily portion of heavenly food, they must not be surprised if they grow spiritually leaner day by day, and if the peace of God gives place in their hearts to the discontent which is growing in the world, not withstanding the multiplication of our comforts and privileges. Daily Heavenly-Manna contains a collection of Scripture texts with appropriate quotations for every day in the year. Surely the little title of time daily spent in partaking of its morsels of heavenly counsel cannot fall to profit all who partake. It is published to do good—not for profit. Your Friends' Birth Dates. Your Friends' Birth Dates. An autograph and birthday record feature in this book is a great convenience. Opposite each day of the year are blank lines upon which you can secure the autographs of your friends and be reminded of their birthdays as they occur. This makes the book more valuable yearly. In ten years you would not sell it for ten dollars. Besides it has a place for Birth Records, Marriage Records and Death Records. Also it has a table showing the day of the week of any date for one hundred and fifty years. Printed on bond writing paper, blue cloth, handsome. Price, 35 cents postpaid; imitation alligator skin, gold edges, $1.00 postpaid. Order now Bile and Tract Society, 17 Hicks Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Didn't Like the Combination. Weary Walker—I allers know'd it. Tired Tatters—Know'd wot? "Wot dat sign over de way sez- Cleaning and Dyeing." "Well, wot erbout it?" "Why, allers know'd day went ter gether."—Boston Post. Willing to Oblige. Lawyer—We want you to be willing to waive immunity in this case. Witness—All right; hand the old rag here I'll wave anything to oblige you.—Ballimore American. A concealed spark is more to be feared than an open fire.—German Proverb. The Regeneration of Organs. Many inferior animals have, as is well known, the power of replacing various parts of the body when lost, such as the tail and even in some cases the head. A worm may sometimes be divided into various sections, and each section will proceed to live its separate existence. Experiments made by naturalists to obtain a better understanding in this regenerating faculty have shown that the lungs of frogs and salamanders have grown again after being almost wholly extirpated; also the horns of snails have been extirpated with like results. Each so called horn has an eye which communicates with the outside world, and these eyes have been regrown with the horn, though practically useless for purposes of vision. It is established likewise that the caudal horn or tentacle of the silkworm if taken off will grow again, although it will be smaller than the primitive one and in some cases invisible to the naked eye. The crab and lobster, as is well known, can grow new claws. -Harper's Weekly. The Ants' Drum Corps. One day Professor Bugnlon visited a little island on Lake Amobalanguda, in Ceylon. While filling about he suddenly became aware of a faint drumming noise. Turning in the direction from which the sound came, he perceived a colony of termites beneath some dry leaves that had fallen from a bread tree. The noise, which lasted for a few seconds, sounded like the very distant roll of a drum. On closer investigation Professor Bugnlon discovered that it was caused by a little band of termites beating a lively tattoo with their mandibles against the bottom of the leaves. They had evidently been disturbed by his approach and were warning the working battalion of the army. On several other occasions under different conditions the same drum signal of danger by the ants was noted by the professor. Youth's Companion. - A Noted Basso's Egotism. Once in London were four great bassos singing at the same time, Lablache, Marini, Standigl and Karl Formes. Fashionable opinion was undecided as to which of the four was the greatest, and finally the members of a leading club determined to have the quartet of singers interviewed separately by one of the members to find out to whom each of the singers awarded the palm of being the greatest basso then in London. Standigl answered promptly and truthfully, "Lablache is the best." Marini replied, "I will not say who is the first basso, but I am sure Lablache is the second." Lablache modestly responded, "If Standigl were not here I certainly would claim the lead." Formes without hesitation instantly said, "The greatest basso, slr-that's me, Karl Formes." How to Unearth a Scot. A Scot, commenting on the fact that "Scottish" as a term of reproach has disappeared from Scottish schoolbooks, makes the curious contention that there is only one location now in which Englishmen discern a Scot's man's pen—in the uncertain use of "shall" and "will." And even there, he says, it has to be admitted that the English Bible often shows the same uncertainty. The name of the locations by which the pen of a Scot can be infallibly detected is legion, and Scots are fully aware of this. For example, Scots still write of certain horse-drawn vehicles as "machines" and puzzle us by references to the "policies" of castles and country houses. They "homologate" too, do the writing Scots; allude to prisoners as "panels," take much to "avizandum" and "compare" their witnesses in a law case.—London Tattler. Cost of Firing Naval Guns. In the appendix to "A Landsman's Log" R. W. Never supplies many interesting and startling statistics in regard to naval expenses. Among other things he gives the cost of our guns, projectiles, etc. We learn from him that a single shot from a twelve inch gun costs about $424. Rapidly multiply that by the number of guns shot off in a broadside and that again by the number of ships in the navy, and one may gain some idea of the expenses of modern target practice. When one further contemplates the cost of a modern battleship the possible expenditure involved in a naval engagement between two first class naval powers is appalling to contemplate. He Didn't Sign. "I seem to remember that lady. Who is she?" "She was my typist last year." "She's charming. Why did she leave you?" "She was too conscientious for me. One day I proposed marriage to her, and what do think she did? She took all that I said down in shorthand and brought it, nicely typewritten, for me to sign." A. Fine Morning. "Fine morning, your honor," affably remarked the man who had been arrested the night before for being drunk and disorderly. "Yes, indeed," responded the justice, "quite a fine morning—in fact, a ten dollar fine morning." A Taxicab Mystery. The great mystery presented by some of the taxicab meters is the question of how you could go that far in the space of time without being arrested for speeding.—Washington Star Want of care does us more charm than want of knowledge.—Franklin. The British army was, once in difficulties through the lack of a hangman. Murder was committed by a soldier in the Crimea, but nobody could be found to carry out the sentence of the court martial. It was announced that £20 and a free discharge would be granted to the man undertaking the task. At last a man did volunteer. He was a newcomer to the army. On the night prior to the date fixed for the execution they locked up the hangman in a stable to keep him safe. In the morning the party at the gallows waited, but there was no hangman. He had gone mad during the night or else he was now simulating madness. The officer in command turned to one of his captains with, "Captain, you will have the goodness to hang the prisoner?" The captain changed countenance, but he pulled himself together and appealed to the sergeants with, "Which of you will hang this man?" And to spare his captain one of the men volunteered. He afterward had the satisfaction of jogging the man who had volunteered and failed.—London Standard. Found the Sneeze The overnaughty father of three charming daughters, after his family had sought seclusion for the night, caught somewhere in the distance the echo of a squeeze. At once, in dressing gown and slippers, he padded down the hall and knocked at the nearest door. "Jane, my dear, did you squeeze?" "No, papa." Tap-tap at the adjoining door. Lap-up at the adjoining door. "Mary, my love, was that you sneezing? "No, indeed, papa dear." Pad-pad to the door at the end of the corridor. "Margaret, my pet, I heard a squeeze. Was it you?" "Oh, no, papa, dearest." Just then the guest room door, half-way down the corridor, opened a hand's breadth, and the mild voice of an old lady guest, who had retired early, issued forth: "I am extremely sorry. Mr. Brown; it was I who sneezed."—New York Sun. Artificial Ears. Artificial ears are so skillfully made that they may with difficulty be distributed from natural ones. It is claimed. When the individual who has lost an ear applies to the manufacturer for a substitute, there is made a mold of the remaining ear. If there be left any part of the other a mold of that part also must be taken to assist in the fitting of the artificial. Manufacturers assert that no two ears are alike and that it takes a skillful workman to prepare an ear from the mold or molds. When finished the new ear is pasted on the stump or simply set in the position of the lost ear. It is really only the first artificial ear that is expensive, the chief cost pertaining to the making of the mold. Vulcanized rubber, which can be bent and twisted, has been found to constitute the best material for the making of artificial ears.—Harper's Weekly. Xerxes Made Mount Athos an Island. Mount Athos is unlikely ever to be turned into an island again, as it was by Xerxes. The canal which he cut through the Isthmus was regarded as a myth even in the time of Juvenal, but traces of it are still in existence. One circumstance of its construction, recorded by Herodotus, may help to explain why it was a three years' business to cut this canal of less than twelve furlongs. Nearly all the peoples employed by Xerxes dug straight down, with the result that the sides continually fell in, thus doubling their work. The Phoenicians, with their superior intelligence, began excavating at a breadth much greater than the canal itself was to occupy, so as gradually to narrow with a convenient slope as they dug down. London's Street Traffic. It was not until about thirty years ago that London's existing system of regulating traffic at street corners was instituted. At the beginning it required four policemen at every important junction to do with difficulty what two constables had sometimes one now effect by a motion of the hand. But the men in blue stuck to their task and hung on to horses' heads and summoned rebellious drivers till the reign of law and order was established. A Bigger Dose. "My doctor ordered two weeks at the seashore." "He's a homeopath, isn't he?" "Yes. Why?" "Two weeks is a small dose. I'd go to an allopath and see if I couldn't get a trip to Europe."—Washington Herald. Very Different. Blinkers - Hello. Winkers! I hear you married a woman with an independent fortune. Winkers (sadly) - N-no. I married a fortune with an independent woman. Cool Spot. Fussy Old Lady—I want two good seats for this afternoon in the coolest part of the house. Ticket Agent—All right, madam. Here are two in 2 row.—Life. Easy. 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Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court.—No. 15,767. Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia letters testamentary on the estate of William Dickerson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 30th day of September, A. D. 1913, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 24th day of March, 1913. W. J. HOWARD. 100 Massachusetts Avenue N. W. (Seal.) Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. Martin, Attorney. B. L. GASKINS, ATTORNEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding an Equity Court. Equity No. 31,550. Daniel E. Wiseman, Executor of Last Will and Testament of Hannah Fuller, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Harriet Freeman et al., Defendants. Order. The object of this suit is to correct a certain deed from Harriet Freeman to Henry Fuller and Hannah Fuller dated the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and two, conveying the south half of lot lettered "K" of Wright's Subdivision of lots numbered respectively, sixty-four (64), sixty-five (65), sixty-six (66), and sixty-seven (67), of Wright and Cox's Subdivision of part of Pleasant Plains. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 24th day of March, A. D. 1913, ordered that the defendants, Sandy Fuller, the younger, Maggie Fuller, Archie Fuller, Beatrice Fuller, Garneld Fuller, Dora Cornish, Florence Burke, and Sarah Washington, and Catherine Jones, cause their appearances to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order, and that the defendant, James Henry Fuller, if he be living, and his unlown heirs, devises, and aliences, if he be dead, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the first rule day occurring after the expiration of three months from the day of the first publication of this order: otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided a copy of this order be published for three months, once a week for three successive weeks during the first month, and twice a month during each of the two succeeding months in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee. (SEAL) JOB BARNARD. Justice. A true copy. Test: / J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By J. McKEE, Assistant Clerk. Smith & Warrick, Attorneys. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding probate court No. 19,500, Administration. This Is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, at the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters, testamentary, on the estate of David G. Cleveland, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of March. A. D. 1914; otherwise they may be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 26th day of March. 1913 WEST: JAMES LANNER Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Count. Attorneys. THOS. L. JONES, ATTORNEY. Filed April 1, 1913. J. R. Young. Clerk. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding an Equity Court. Ruth Nellings, Complainant, vs. George Nellings, Defendant, and Edner Miller, Co-respondent.—In Equity—No 3106. Order of Publication. The object of this suit is to secure for the complainant, Ruth Nellings, an absolute divorce from the bond of marriage between her and the defendant, George Nellings, because of his adultery with Edner Miller. On motion of the complainant, it is this 11th day of April, A. D. 1913, ordered that the defendant, George Nellings, cause his appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays occurring after the date of the first publication of this order; otherwise, the cause will be proceeded with as in default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks before said time in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee Merited Compliment. Miss Gonevia R. Maxfield, of the Washington Bee, is one of the best general paragraphers and society news gatherers in the new-paper fold. She has a happy knack of condensing an immense amount of information in a nutshell, and knows what "news" really is. Christian Xander's Very Old California Madeira OF FINEST TASTE 50c full pint Only at 909 7th St. No branch stores FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM. Pennsylvania's Great Event—Great Prizes to be Offered—Valuable Exhibits of Negro Invention—Progress of the Negro Since His Emancipation. Philadelphia, Pa., March 31.—The Pennsylvania Emancipation Proclamation Commission, which will hold an exposition celebrating the fifty years of freedom of the Negro race of America, in Philadelphia September, 1913, is making elaborate preparations for the consummation of that event Hon. Harry W. Bass, the only Negro who is now or has ever been a member of the Pennsylvania Legi-lature, is the prime mover in the celebration, or it was through his efforts that Pennsylvania led off with an appropriation of $20,000 for this purpose. The executive committee of the Emancipation Celebration has just announced a number of prizes for the fifteenth anniversary celebration. There will be a prize of $50 in gold for the best Emancipation code. A prize of $50 in gold for the best Emancipation song set to music, and $50 in gold for the best paper of from 5,000 to 8,000 words on the subject of the progress of the Negro since the Emancipation, and $50 in gold for the best drama of from three to five acts, depicting fifty years of Negro progress. All the contestants are to send in their products not later than August 1 to the Emancipation Proclamation Commission, 1352 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, Pa. In connection with the celebration there will be also an athletic meet under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union of America, at which something like $1,000 worth of prizes will be awarded athletes, among which will be a memorial cup in honor of Dr. John B. Taylor, of the University of Pennsylvania, the latter a champion quarter-mile runner of America Dr. William M. Slowe, Messrs. Harry DuPelsss, George Smiley, Drs. J. T. Howard, C A. Lewis, J. Max Barber and others compose the local athletic committee, which proposes to bring to Philadelphia the most notable gathering of athletes which has ever met in the history of the country. This is already attracting wide attention. The chief feature of the exposition, however, will be the exhibits illustrating the industrial progress of the Negro race More than seventy schools have made application to exhibit their industrial and literary work. Negro manufacturers and inventors will have a large part in the exposition, while the Women's Domestic Science Department is expected to make one of the most attractive features. An organization of five hundred local Philadelphia women, aided by a similar organization in nearly every city in the State, is working night and day to the success of the Women's Department in the exposition. In this connection will be held a Women's Congress at which time will appear many of the leading woman of both races in the country. Next to the industrial exhibit the most attractive feature will be the musical carnival. Among those interested in this are Madam E. Azalai Hackley, F. A Clark, Edwm F. Hill and many other local musical people. A chorus of 5,000 voices, which will render the old plantation melodies, is being trained under the leader-ship of the eminent composer and musical director, Prof. F. A Clark, of Philadelphia. A similar chorus of school children of Philadelphia is being trained under the leader-ship of Prof. J. R. Paul Brock, principal of the Thomas Durham School, one of the largest schools in Philadelphia. During this carnival the musical committee proposes to bring to Philadelphia the very best musical talent of the race in the world. There shall be concentrated during the latter half of August and the month of September the greatest array of Negro talent that has ever been brought together at any time in any one place. In connection with the Exposition there will be a series of conferences: a sociological conference under the leadership of Rev. Matthew Anderson, founder and principal of the Berean Manual Traming School. There will be a conference of the medical men, under the leadership of a very competent committee, of which Dr. R. Wellesley Bailey is chairman. An interdenominational religious conference, which will bring together all the religious denominations to which the Negro belongs, under the leadership of a interdenominational religious committee, of which Bishop L. J. Coppin is chairman. Last August a special representative of the Commission, Dr. A. B Jackson, who is president of the Negro Business League of Philadelphia, went to the Chicago meeting of the National Negro Business Men's League and secured the acceptance of the invitation to hold the 1913 session in the City of Brotherly Love in connection with the Emancipation Exposition celebration. This will be one of the features of this great celebration of fifty years of progress of the colored race Last week the Hon. 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