Washington Bee

OYSTER HONORED Reception to the Great Commoner—The People's Idol Received an Ovation—Over 500 of the Representative Citizens and Educators Were Present. Before an audience of over 500 teachers and officers in the coloured Public Schools Captain James F. Oyster, retiring president and member of the Board of Education, was paid high tribute for his services to the schools and to the community. Never before in the history of the schools have so many appeared under one roof to pay homage to an individual. Never before has an audience shown greater appreciation of the life and deeds of a public servant. Captain Oyster has given seven years of noble service to the public schools of the District of Columbia. Most of this time—in fact, nearly six years, he was president of the board. He is a man of business, but his duty to the schools and to the community, as he saw it, demanded the sacrifice of much of his private life. And he gave his sacrifices unselfishly. The exercises began at 3:30 in the assembly of the M Street High School. The program was as follows: Invocation—Rev. F. L. A. Bennett Music—Piano solo by Miss M. L. Europe. Remarks by Presiding Officer—Mr. Rosseo C. Bruce. Music—Vocal solo by Miss C. M. Wallace. Address—Mr. G. C. Wilkinson Music—Viglin solo by Mr. Fehv Weir. Address—Dr. William M David son. Recitation—Miss M P Burrall Address—Mr. Henry P. Blair Music—Vocal solo by Miss Lola Johnson. Remarks—Dr. C H Marshall Remarks—Miss M L Jordan Music—Piano solo by Miss J C Williamson. Resolutions—Mr A C Newman Remarks—Mr Oyster Music Piano solo by Miss M I Europe BENEQUENCE RAY M W CLARR APT JAMES L OYSTER Honored by Colored Citizens CAPT JAMES L OYSTER Honored by Colored Citizens Garnet C. Wolkinson, principal of the Armstrong Manual Training School, delivered the address in behalf of the teachers. He paid glowing tribute to the character, abilities of convictions of Captain Oyster and like the other speakers, expressed keen regrets that the Captain would not necessary to sever his official relations with the school. Mr. Henry P. Blair, who succeeded Captain Oyster as president of the board, took occasion to enlistize Captain Oyster in the highest terms. He stated that he felt keenly the responsibility which was placed upon him when he was elected to the position of president, but that if he accomplished half as much as the Captain had accomplished, he would feel that his duty was being done. He said that it was his intention to carry on the work where the Captain had left it when he resigned. Tribute was again paid Captain Oyster by Miss M. L. Jofdan on behalf of the teachers and officers when she presented the retiring president and member of the board with a handsome loving cup—the gift of the officers and teachers, in the public schools. The following inscription appeared on the cup: JAMES FREDERICK OYSTER President of the Board of Education for Six Years Presented by His Friends of The 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Di- President Blair was presented with a pretty bouquet of carnations. In presenting the bouquet in behalf of the schools Miss Jordan expressed the appreciation of the teachers in his elevation to the presidency and the hope that he would have a successful career in the position which the Captain relinquished. Captain Oyster was visibly affected by the great ovation which he received when he rose to speak. He had been eulogized by each speaker who had appeared on the program before him; he had been presented with a handsomely inscribed loving cup; had paid tribute to him and seemed to bid him Godspeed. When he had recovered himself he said, in part: "What shall I say? What can I say to express my gratitude to you all: Perhaps the less I say the better. And so, I simply thank you, one and all, from the bottom of my heart I hope that before you leave this hall each and every one of you will let me grasp his hand in token of my friendship and my gratitude. You have made this a red-letter day in my life. I am and shall ever be sincerely grateful." The speaker paid tribute to the Public Schools Athletic League and those who have labored to make the league the finest anywhere to be found. Continuing, Captain Oyster said: If I have been of any service to the teachers and other employees of the Board of Education, to the schools of the community, it has been a glad service. For ever since I reached a man's estate I have been deeply interested in public education. Long ago I realized the truth that the only assurance of perpetuity that a great democratic Nation like ours really has, lies in the character and the intelligence of its rulers. Its rulers, of course, are its citizens. So, a democracy must provide every citizen, however humble his birth, however slight his abilities, however modest his prospects, with the most appropriate and adequate opportunities for the development of civic character and civic intelligence. Public schools, then, are vital to the stability and the progress of every democratic Nation. It is the duty and business of all the people to promote the interests of public education: the best is none too good for our children. If I have served the public schools of my native city in the smallest measure, I am a happy man. I must congratulate you upon the ASST SUPT R C BRUCI Deferred a Scholarly Address ASST SUPT R C BRUCI Deployed a Scholarly Address substantial progress that your schools have made since July. 1, 1906, when the new organic school law became effective. Let me name at random the new school houses that have been opened since that date. Lacretia Mott. Military Road. Bunker Hill Road. Alexander Crummell. Cardozo Vocational. Burrville, Garneld. O Street Industrial Center. If I include the $05,000 addition to Armstrong, here you have none but new structures. In addition, the Board of Education has persuaded Congress to appropriate monies for an annex to Birney School, and for splendid sites and modern buildings to accommodate Normal School No. 2 and M Street High School. You will note that the Board of Education has been quite as solicitous to provide properly for the higher as for the lower schools, for the academic as for the vocational. However, the progress which the schools have made in these great tangible terms of buildings and grounds has been not half so important as the progress they have made in the scope of their intellectual and moral opportunities, in the efficiency of their administration and supervision and reaching. After the exercises each teacher shook the hands of Captain Oyster and bid him a hearty adieu with best wishes. The following committees had charge of the reception: Reception Committee—Miss A. E. Thompson, chairman; Miss M. V. Tibbs, Miss L. G. Arnold, H. Wythe Lewis, O. W. McDonald, Dr. Lucy E. Moten, Miss M. E. Hillmon, Thomas W. Hunster, Felix Weir, J. Moria Saunders, Miss M. H. Perry, Miss H. V Edmonds, Benjamin Washington, Neval H. Thomas, Miss A. W. Saxoy and Miss M. E. Hillmon. Committee on Resolutions—Arthur C. Newman, chairman; Dr. L. E. Moten, Dr. W. S. Montgomery, E. C. Williams; Miss M P. Shadd, Miss M M Orme, W. T. S. Jackson, John C. Bruce, G. C Wilkinson, J. C. Nalle, J. E. Walker, Miss E. A. Chase, Miss K. C. Lewis, Miss E. F. Wilstyn and John T. Layton. Committee on Flowers—Miss S C Lewis, chairman; Miss Florence Smith, Miss M L. Jordan and Dr. M. E. Gibbs. Committee on Decorations—Miss Mineola' Kirkland, chairman; Miss K. B. Bruce, Oswald J. Burke, Roscoe C. Orme, Clarence K. Wormley and William N. Buckner. Dr. Vernon. Dr. W. T. Vernon is in the city. He preached Sunday morning at the Metropolitan Church and lectured Monday evening in the same church to an appreciative audience. His lecture THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN The South's Great Educator - The White People of Durham, N.C. With Judge Pritchard, Say That the National Religious Training School Will succeed. WHAT CHANCE? Is the Negro Discriminated Against? Three Times Certified and Rejected. During the existence of the last Republican administration Mr. Arthur M. Carrier, a young colonel then employed as stenographer and typewriter in the law office of Mr. Thomas L. Jones, took the Civil Service examination and passed successfully three times, and each time the Civil Service Commissioner certified him for an appointment, after whenever he presented himself, after having been requested to come to the department, he was told that the department was not in need of his services. Three times has this young man been sent for and given some kind of subterfuge. On April 5 Mr. Carter received the following communication, which speaks for itself. Department of Commerce. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Washington, April 5, 1913 Mr. Arthur M. Carter, 1213 W Street Northwest Washington D. C. Sir: Your name has been certified to this office by the Civil Service Commission as an eligible qualifier and willing to accept a temporary appointment as clerk at a salary of $600 per annum. Please let me know by return mail whether or not you are willing to accept such an appointment and if so, and in case you are selected, how soon you could report for duty also where and how you may be reached by telephone. Respectfully O H TITTMANN, V. B. Superintendent Mr. Carter answered the foregoing communication immediately, informing the department where he could be reached and notified the department also that he would accept the position. To his surprise he received the following communication in reply to his: Department of Commerce and Labor. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Mr. Arthur M. Carter, 2205 Twelfth Street Northwest Washington D C Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt at this office of your communication of recent date stating that you are willing to accept the position in regard to which this office recently wrote you. In reply I have to inform you that the position will be filled by the selection of another eligible, ajid that your papers have been returned to the Civil Service Commission. The presumption is, when it was a-certained that he was a colored man he received the same treatment that he has been receiving for the past two years or more. Some investigation must have been made as to where and for whom he was working, and, being convinced that he was working for a colored man, the applicant must necessarily be colored. The Comparison. Those who have seen the picture of Napoleon after his return from Waterloo and then look at the crushed ambition of Negro Democracy today, will any one say that conditions are not similar? Before the idees of November 5, 1912, the united Negro Democracy was full of hope, full of ambition and it was so filled with delight and the idea of future bene- lights that made Democracy shine. But, O' what has become of that hope and ambition? Its hopes have become blighted; its ambition, like the return of Napoleon from Waterloo. One by one the plums which it coveted are being taken by their brethren in white, and just are their brethren in black going with the passing show. The mistake that colored men who have supported the Democratic Party, make is the attempt to have so-called colored Democrats to succeed colored Republicans. SUPPORTING JUDGE TERRELL. Leading Lawyer, Irrespective of Politics, Will Ask President Wilson to Reappoint Him—A. Most Popular Jurist. The refusal of the Baptist Ministers' Union to sign a petition or another colored lawyer as the successor of Judge Robert H. Terrell of the Municipal Court only started a petition among the leading white lawyers M. R. at the local bar requesting President Wilson to reappoint him. There is not a more popular man on it bench than Judge Robert H Terrell. Not only is he indorsed for reappointment by every leading white member of the bar, but the Judge's of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia have endorsed him for reappointment. Judge Terrell is recognized for his judicial ability and integrity as a judge. He treats all citizens alike, irrespective of color or condition. It is evident that his appointment will meet the approval of the entire bar NEGROES GIVEN FAIR PLAY. Secretary McAdoo Revokes An Unjust Order—He Defends Two Negroes. Information reaches this office that a colored man employed in the Treasury Department, who had been granted twelve days' sick leave and when his time had expired an order was made that he be given no more sick leave, but he dismissed. When the attention of the Secretary had been called to it the Secretary sent for the chief and he was asked why such an order for dismissal was given when the law allows a person 30 days' sick leave? The Secretary immediately revoked the order and the colored man was given additional leave. Another more glaring than the foregoing was stopped by the Secretary, A colored laborer was called and questing his own reduction. When it reached the Secretary, it is said, he asked why should this man ask for his own reduction when he was only receiving $55 per month? Oh, the Secretary was informed that he was a Negro and a white man was recommended for the place. The Secretary sent for the party responsible and was told that there was to be no discrimination in his department and the first person who practiced it would be dismissed. The colored man's request for reduction was torn up and he was directed to return to his work. The Bee has been informed that in almost every department under the Democratic Administration there is a great deal less discrimination made against the Negroes. The entire atmosphere is different. Colored clerks and other employees are treated better even than they have been under the entire Republican administration. This is the information that comes to The Bee THE BEE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE The News Comes From the Society of the Negro Business League. To The Bee, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: In a recent issue of The Crisis was a report to the effect that the Lincoln State Savings Bank of Chicago is a Negro institution. Now comes The Bee of April 12 under the headlines, "Notes indicating Negro Progress," with the following news item: "The Lincoln State Bank of Chicago is to have a big new bank building on State Street with all up-to-date appointments." The Lincoln Bank is in no sense a Negro institution. I have before me a list of its officers. Not one of them is a Negro. There are no Negroes employed in its building with the single exception of the janitor. One naturally wonders how much of the remaining news of that column he is to believe when the very first item is a misrepresentation. What is the reliability and the source of the news of such admirable papers as The Bee and such wonderful periodicals as The Crisis that such mistakes are possible? Surely the local Negro Business League is aware of the undeniable facts. We readers expect more of W. Calvin Chase, and W. E. L. Dulles. F. S. ALEXANDER. The Editor of The Bee received this note from the secretary of the Negro Business League. Dr. Francis Ill. Dr John R Francis, one of the best known and one of the prominent physicians in this city, was taken sud- dently all t week by over work His friends are very solicitous about him and hope that he will be able to be out in a few days. THE DURHAM SCHOOL. Notwithstanding the tendency of a few Durham, N. C. Negroes who would like to see the school fail, Dr. James E. Shepard, with the united support of the white people in this county, and several loyal blacks, are doing all they can to make the school a success. There are some few Negroes in the State who are playing into the hands of his enemies and would like to see him fail. Dr. Shepard deserves the support of the entire Nation for the good he is doing for the people in the South. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. Mass Meeting Last Sunday After noon. A large mass meeting of the Christian Endeavors was held in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church last Sabbath afternoon. W. S. Duffield, the mover in the Sunday Observance Law, called the meeting to order and stated its object. He said in part that these Sunday theaters should be closed and that a law should be passed by Congress closing theaters of amusement that are open on the Sabbath. A very beautiful solo was rendered by Miss Virginia Williams, which electrified the audience. Rev. I N Ross, Mr. Geo, W. Cook, Rev. Wallace Radcliff, D. D., and others delivered addresses. Prof. J. T. Layton directed the Important News Happenin of the Week Ty Cobb is still holding out for $15,000 from the Detroit's Manager Navin has made up his mind not to give Mr. Cobb that amount. He may sell automobiles. The concensus of opinion is that Messrs. Oyster and Rudolph will be nominated by President Wilson. Commissioner Rudolph and Capt. Oyster have improved in looks. Two hundred miners in Hazleton, Pa., are on a coal strike because many of their fellow workmen refused to wear union buttons. Secretary of State Bryan was made a grandpa by the birth of a grandson in England Tuesday. The Secretary is happy. There is some talk of the abolition of the Board of Charities. The Commissioners are not inclined toward it, anyway. The Odd Fellows' hall in Atlanta, Ga., is the largest in the United States controlled by colored men. Mr. Johnson, the recorder of deeds, has his office in that building. It is the hand-somest building in Georgia. James M. Lynch, whose name has been proposed for Public Printer, has a fight on hands. Mr. Lynch is a fighter himself and a handsome man with it. The Pope has improved and quite likely he is again out of danger. H. Snowden Marshall, law partner of Senator O'Gorman, of New York, a Tammanyite, has been recognized by the administration. The outlook is that the administration will recognize colored Democrats. The friends of Mr. James Ross are hopeful that their chief will secrete a big plum. The Northeast Washington Citizens' Association voted down district suffrage by a vote of 7 to 8. Major Richard Sylvester will be held blameless for alleged dereliction of his officers in the suffrage parade. The police trial board continues in session. A bill has been introduced into the State Legislature providing for mustering in of a colored regiment of State militia. It has received the endorsement of prominent men in various sections of the State. Mr. P. Black, a successful Negro farmer, ginner and merchant, of Arkansas, has recently purchased 78 acres of land for which he paid $10,000, which is nearly $128 per acre. The number of persons lynched since 1885 to 1913 is estimated about 3,530. In 1912 there were 64 persons, while in 1911 the number was 71. Dr. Mary Walker has announced herself a candidate for Commissioner or Pensions. Mr. Robert Smalls, Collector of Customs in Beaunford, S. C. has resigned and was succeeded by a white man. The constitutional amendment for the election of U. S. Senators by direct vote of the people has been ratified by Legislatures of 36 States New York City is said to have a colored daily newspaper called the Gazette. The Daily Reporter is the name of a Negro daily published in Jacksonville, Fla., by a company of colored men. It is making a favorable impression. Evelyn Thaw, the wife of Harry K. Thaw, has been held responsible for the clothing she purchased in 1908. Judgment was 'held against her for $3,700.46. An itemized account showed that she paid from $30.00 to $85.00 for her hats and $350 for her gowns. Chairman Underwood, of the Ways and Means Committee, has been ordered to bed by his physicians. He is in danger of a breakdown from overwork. Notwithstanding assurances that their relations are entirely harmonious and satisfactory, gos-ip has started in the Democratic circles which deals with the likelihood of a break between President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan. The rupture bases upon the President's apparent determination to keep a strict surveillance of State Department matters. A Washington woman donated $5,000 to promote respect for the flag. The donor is anxious that her purpose but not her name be made public Harry Burleigh rendered "Calvary" beautifully and effectively at the funeral services of the late J. Pierpont Morgan in New York City Monday WHY JESUS DIED FOR SINNERS We Have All Erred Seriously In the Past, Said Pastor Russell. A RANSOM PRICE NECESSARY The Penalty For Sin According to the Bible 'Contradicts Our Creeds—The Bible Theory Reasonable—How It Could Have Been Different Had God Pleased—How Jesus Suffered the Penalty of the Sinner—He Redeemed Not Only the Church, but Also the World—How All For Whom He Died Must Ultimately Be Profited—Diving Justice as Well as Divine Love Involved—The Glorious Outcome. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 20. — Pastor Russell's tople in the Brooklyn Academy of Music here today was, "The Necessity for Jesus' Death." His text was: "In due time Christ died for the ungodly." — Romans 5:6. PASTOR: RUSSELL The speaker stutted that while the Bible everywhere PASTOR·RUSSELL ed that while the Bible everywhere declares the importance of the death of Jesus, Christian people in recent times seem to be perplexed upon the subject. Some dispute the Bible statement of the necessity for Jesus' death, and claim that His life was no different from that of other men, and His death was no different from that of others. Some claim that Jesus came into the world, and passed through various trying experiences, not in order to redeem mankind from anything, but in order to show His followers how they should live and die for a good cause. Others in bewilderment declare that they see no relationship between Jesus' death and what they have been taught is the penalty for sin; namely, eternal torment. In general, said the Pastor, there confusion upon the subject, and only those who get the proper Scriptural focus on the question of why Christ died can be mentally at rest, and able to enter sympathetically into the various features of the great Plan of God, of which the death of Jesus for human redemption is a part. protested against the too tise of accepting a portion and rejecting the remain- tared that any man wise iticise the inspired, Word cepted as an inspired au- bule of writing a better the Dirine Plan. For his part, he believed that the Holy Scriptures, as St. Paul declares, were written aforetime by holy men for the admonition of the Church. He believed that this was done because God wished His people to understand His Divine purposes and arrangements, and sympathetically to enjoy them and cooperate in their fulfilment. We should hold fast "the faith once delivered to the saints," and should not allow our own wisdom or the wisdom of other men to make the Word of God of none effect. He reminded his hearers of how Jesus had reproved the Pharisees for their neglect of God's Word and for taking instead of it the traditions of men—Mark 7:6, 7. However, the Pastor declared that our English Bible does not profess to be the Word of God, but merely a translation of it. If, therefore, we find some passages of Scripture which have been untranslated, and thus represent the original Scriptures, we should make haste to correct these, and to admit that the translations were not Inspired. Additionally, he reminded us that all old manuscripts show that during the long period of eighteen centuries errors had crept in—additions to the words of Jesus and the Apostles. He stated that at the time of the presentation of our Common Version English Bible the number of Greek manuscripts was only seven, whereas now there are several hundreds. Three of them in particular are very old—the Sinaitic, the Vatican 1200, and the Alexandrian Manuscript. The people of God are to so hunger and thirst for their Heavenly Father's words that they will spare no pains to know exactly what He said to them and what He did not say, and to base their faith upon the living Word, which surely will ablieve forever. So doing, the Pastor declared, the Bible becomes more beautiful and more reverenced by Bible Students every day. . . Jesus Died to Meet Mary Penalty. There is no dispute among the various orthodox creeds that there was a penalty against mankind which needed to be met, before the Divine blessing could come to any of our race. These creeds all agreed, he said, that Adam, the father of the race, was created perfect. In the image, in the moral likeness, of his Maker, but that he had sinned, and come under a penalty, or curse, on account of sin. Hence all of his race inherited life from him, sharing his weaknesses and his condemnation to death. God, having sentenced man to death as unworthy of life, could not con sistently have any dealings with him, while still condemned. Hence God's provision that Jesus as the Son of God should recover Adam and his race from the sentence of death—in order that all might have an opportunity to return to harmony with God, and thus to everlasting life. This, said the Pastor, is clearly set forth in both the Old Testament and the New. If we would forget our creeds and rid our minds of the false theories which they inculcate, these Scriptures would now guide us without difficulty. Christendom is handcapped by the creeds of the Dark Ages, which confuse us. On this subject, for instance, of Christ's redeeming work, we are met with the proposition of the creeds that the curse of God against our race is eternal torture in some far-off place, we know not where—possibly within the earth. The misconceptions of our forefathers on the subject of punishment for sin were built upon mistranslations or figurative statements meant to be understood symbolically. For instance, we read of our Lord, "He opened His mouth in parables and dark sayings." When our Lord illustrated the utter destruction of the finally incorrigible by the destruction of the offal of Jerusalem, cast into the Gebenna fire outside of the city wall, it was not torment that He taught, but annihilation. Nothing was tormented in the fire of the valley of Hinnom. In the Book of Revelation, wholly symbolical, the plain statement is made that the intake of fire represents the Second Death. "The Wages of Sin Is Death." "The Wages of Sin is Death." Most emphatically the Bible declares the graves of sin to be death—not to mement. And test any one should, think of this as merely meaning the death of the body, while the soul continues to live. The Scriptures expressly state more than once that the death of the soul is meant. "The soul that smeth it shall die." "God is able to destroy both soul and body" in Hebenna, the Second Death. The penalty against Adam, "Dying, thou shalt die," signifies the death of his soul, his entire being "Under that sentence, unless redeemed. Adam, and his race would have had no future life. But God from the very beginning purposed to redeem man from this death sentence. In due time He sent forth His Son to pay man's redemption price. Jesus' redemptive work will restore man's soul from the power of the tomb, by a resurrection of the dead. Therefore, even before Jesus had died for our sins, He said to some of the people, "Fear not them which can kill the body," and thus take from you all that remains of the present Adamic life. Fear God, with whom are the issues of the future life, for He is able to destroy not merely the temporary life of the present time, but also your prospective life, which He purposes to secure for you through the Redeemer's sacrifice, and by the resurrection from the dead. We see, then, that God rested every feature of His Plan for mankind upon the great work which from the beginning He intended Jesus should accomplish for our race. St. Paul, said the Pastor, expresses this in a few words, saying, "As by a man canne death [not eternal torment] by a man also comes the resurrection of the dead. For all in Adam die, even so all in Christ shall be made alive, every man in his own order." The first order, or resurrection, is that of The Christ, Head and Body, to glory, honor, immortality, on the Divine plane of being. Search carefully the Old Testament Scriptures—every word of God through Moses and the Prophets—and we find not a hint of any other penalty for sin than this death penalty. What the Death Penalty Includes. Man lived in Eden as happily as angels live in their Heavenly home on the spirit plane, for he is an earthly being, adapted only to earthly conditions. Besides, had it not been for sin. God would not have permitted the curse, nor brought thorns, thistles, storms, cyclones, drouth and deluges, which in death-dealing power have been permitted to come to man, be cause he is a convict. He is already under sentence of death, and not entitled to any consideration. The favors that God has promised to him through Christ will come in their due season. They will make earth a Paradise garden, with nothing to hurt or destroy. The Divine blessing will bring to all mankind the opportunity to return to the image and likeness of God, and to everlasting life, under the New Covenant. Another of Our Difficulties. An additional difficulty under which we labored as Bible students in the past, said the Pastor, is that we confused the special work of this Gospel Age with the general work of the next Age. God's provision, through the death of Christ, for rolling away the curse of sin and death from mankind applies to the next Age, and not to the present Age. When His due time shall arrive, everything will be in readiness for the great work which He is promised shall be satisfactorily summated Divine Wisdom, backed by Divine Power, will establish Messiah's Kingdom in power and great glory, blind Satan, break the shackles of ignorance, error and sin, and set humanity free from the slavery of sin and death, under which it has rested for six thousand years. This great work is spoken of in two different ways: (1) It will be a time for overthrowing and breaking down the powers of sin, darkness and evil (2) It will be a time for uplifting mankind to the original Divine image in which Adam was created. As the entire reign of sin and death came, through Adam's disobedience. upon the whole world, so the entire release from the curse will come to every member of the race, through Jesus. The broad basis for this work has already been laid in the death of Jesus "Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:33) Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, fasted death for every man. "He is the propilion for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (1 John 2:2) As all the race were involved in the death sentence, the one redemptive work was necessary for the releasing of all, in God's arrangement He has divided the redeemed into two great classes, both of which will attain ever lasting life. But one class will receive it on the spiritual, or Heavenly, plane, while the other will get it on the earthly plane. This does not signify universalism, for while these two classes are to be saved, the Bible distinctly tells of some who will receive the gravest of God in vain, and die the Second Death.—Revelation 21:8. From this viewpoint, note the force of the Apostle's words: "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23). The death sentence passed upon all through one man, Adam. The gift of God is to come to all humanity through the second Adam, the Lord. The Riches of God's Grace. Our Great Creator is rich in grace the Apostle tells us. He not only pursued to recover mankind from the disadvantages of the fall, but additionally took advantage of the circumstances connected with the permission of sin to give an especial opportunity to any of the slimmers to manifest. If they would, special loyalty to Himself. God might have placed a different penalty against sin. He might have excluded our first parents from Eden for a year and then have returned them, or He might have simply banished the race from Eden, and have allowed all to live without sentence of death against us. Had He done so, Jesus would not have needed to die for man's redemption. Because the sentence of death had been imposed, however, it must be canceled before the race could be restored to perfection and to God's favor. It is evident, then, that God wished to have the death penalty upon our race, so as to make necessary the death of His Son This, in turn, meant that the Father invited the Son to become man's Redeemer, and that the Son accepted the offer, and came into this world for that very purpose. This implied that the Father would reward Him with a high exaltation, in recognition of His loyalty and obedience unto death, even of the cross. Thus Jesus suffered for our sins, and entailed into His glory. But God had a further Plan. Hence He sent Jesus to die for the world nearly two thousand years before He was ready to deal with the world. And that long period of nearly thousand years has since been devoted to the calling out of the Church, to be the Bride of Christ, and Joint-heir in His Kingdom. This Church is described as a Little Flock, a salient few, while through which tribulation are walking in the footsteps of the Redeemer, and ultimately, will be accounted therefore as worthy to share with Him in His glories—on the spirit plane. This election of the Church in no sense or degree hinders the great work of God for the world. On the contrary, God in His Wisdom has made the election of the Church to be a helpful and connective link in His great Plan for blessing and restoring mankind to human perfection and earthly Eden. Acts 3:19-21. The Bible Triumphant. We are all witnesses to the confusion which has prevailed amongst us as the people of God. Our difficultly have been connected with this problem of eternal torture, and a redemption and recovery therefrom. How glad we are, as children of God and students of His Word, for the light that is now shining upon us! This does not mean that we have made the light, and may therefore boast of it. It means that as in the dawning of the natural day the darkness flees gradually, so now in the dawning of the New Dispensation, Messiah's Day a thousand years long, the light of Divine Truth is shining more and more clearly. It is scattering our darkness and our fears, and enabling us as people of God, more and more to love the great Fountain of blessing from whom cometh every good and every perfect gift. Now we see that the faults which have been found with the Bible belong not to it. It is consistent. It contain the Divine Plan, or Program, so comprehensive and so beautiful as to be heart-assuring that it is of God and not of man. No human mind could possibly devise the glorious features of God's Plan, providing a place on the Heavenly plane, for the eldest Church, and a place on the earthly plane for Adam and all his race—many of them as will accept the offer when clearly and distinctly presented to them, when the blind eyes shall be opened and all the deaf ears shall be unstopped.—Isaiah 35:5.6 We see, then, my dear brethren, that the death of Christ is, by God's arrangement, the most important fact in the whole world's history. The one next in importance is His resurrection from the dead and ascension to glory His work for man will be at His Second Coming; He will establish His Heavenly Kingdom, and rule, bless and uplift the world to all that was lost in Adam and redeemed at Calvary—the Bride of Christ sharing with her Lord in all that great and wonderful work, being qualified thereto by her share with Him in the First Resurrection—Revelation 20:4. Two Days In One. Two hours in bed in the early evening is an effective health recipe for the busy man whose day begins early in the morning and lasts till late at night. The "treatment," which consists simply of going to bed from 5 till 7 o'clock, was described by a London medical man who prescribed it for a business man whose manifold interests had been compelling him to crowd two days' work into one to the detriment of his health. "My patient now has two distinct days and two distinct recuperation periods every twenty-four hours," the doctor explained. "He begins work with his secretary an hour before most business men are thinking of getting up in the morning. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon his first day's work ends, and he goes to bed for two hours' complete rest. At 7 o'clock he is up again, bathes, dresses and dines. He is then fresh for another four or five hours' business or social duties. His two rest periods combined give him almost nine hours in bed. The 'patient' gets through a greater amount of work and enjoys better health."-London Mall. Standardization. Standardization is not by any means the new and revolutionary thing that efficiency engineers and scientific management fakers would have you believe. Standardization is, in fact, as old as the bills: Take wheels—buggy wheels, for example. They are all the same standard size, and they are painted in just a few standard colors. When a buggy wheel breaks you don't have to get one made to order. You replace it at any shop. It's standard size. All circus rings the world over are precisely the same diameter to an inch, no matter what may be the size of the tent itself. Thus the circus rider knows the angle at which he must lean. The angle of safety in Oshkosh is the angle of safety in Copenhagen. Ladders are standardized. The tool carrier, with his heavy load, need never watch his step, for every step or runs on a builder's ladder is seven inches.—New York Tribune. Presidents and Their Messages. The custom of presidents of the United States reading their messages to congress prevailed up to the first term of Thomas Jefferson, who discontinued it. Various explanations for Jefferson's departure from the custom of Washington and John Adams have been advanced, the most popular being that Jefferson felt that it savored of royalty, seeing that the king of England went in person to parliament and read his address from the throne. Another explanation was that Jefferson's voice was notably weak. Jefferson himself said in making the change, "I have had principal regard to the convenience of the legislature in the economy of time to their relief from the embarrassment of immediate answers on subjects not yet fully before them and to the benefits thence resulting to the public affairs."—Magazine of American History. - His Wardrobe a Coffin. Some twelve or fifteen years ago there died in the north country an old gentleman (with whom formerly I had some acquaintance) of remarkable intelligence, an occasional writer on economic subjects, says a correspondent in London Notes and Queries. I am not aware that he was "eccentric." but I was told that he had a coiff made for himself and kept it upended in his bedroom or dressing room. I asked a near relative of his not long ago if this story was correct. He said yes, that it was done to save pain and trouble at death; that the coiff—I think it stood in an alcove or recess—was fitted with hooks and was used as a hanging wardrobe. I think, with a curtain before it. Drums In the Making: The process of making drums reveals the same minute division of labor that is shown in all modern manufacturing. How minute this is may be shown by the fact that a single workman is able to turn out more than 2,000 pieces a day of some of the parts. The making of the heads is an interesting process. The sheep-kins arrive in a partially dressed state and are at once scraped and dried. The wooden barrel of the drum is made by a machine, which takes a log of wood and peels from it, somewhat as a skin is peeled from an apple-"The Trail of the Bulldog." The Cure. "In love with that penniless young scamp, are you?" said old Roxley. "Well, I propose to cure you of that." "You can't." retorted the willful young girl. "I'm determined to marry him." "That's it exactly. I propose to let you do it"—Exchange. "S-ah! If mother hears you she'll make me take it off."—Pittsburgh Post. Joy. He-How did you enjoy the sermon? She-Oh, ever so much! I had on a new hat and gown, and I sat just in front of that horrid Miss Briggs. That They Are. Oliver—Men are more valuable than women. Oliver—What nonsense! Oliver—It's a fact. Every man has his price, but bridles are given away. Where Descent Counts Where Descent Counts. Blobbs—A person is an idiot to bother about his descent. Don't you think so? Hoggs—Yes, unless he happens to be an aviator. An Old School Dominic. An Old School Dominie. I examined the contents of the satchel of a schoolboy of tender years the other day and found it to contain sixteen books of study. The textbooks covered a wide curriculum, and the perusal of them awakened me sympathy for the schoolboy, together with a feeling of thankfulness that my own schooldays had been passed in a more stern if less strenuous age, when taws were more in evidence than textbooks. I mentioned this subject to an old highlander whose schooldays date away back to the "hungry forties," and he assured me that in those days he trudged to school with a Bible in one oxter and a peat for the schoolroom fire in the other. The Bible was the only book possessed by each of the scholars, and it had to serve for all purposes. As a reading book place names occurred which baffled all the tongues of schoolmaster and pupils to pronounce. The master never was known to admit defeat, however, for, recognizing that "discretion is the better part of valor," he would extricate a halting reader by observing sagely: "Pass it on, my lad. Ye'll never be there."—Glasgow News. They Both Wore Beards. "It's a strain in bindery work not-to make mistakes," a girl worker told Mary Van Kleeck, the author of "Women In The Bookbinding Trade." "A book is easily spoiled. I know a girl that put a picture of Longfellow in a copy of 'As You Like It.' Nobody knew it until she looked in another girl's book that had a picture of Shakespeare. 'Well,' she said, 'that doesn't look like the picture I pasted. He was a funny looking man, but not as funny as that.' The reader who has come to a ful, stop in the middle of a book or of a magazine article because the "signatures" are mixed may be in no forgiving mood with the girl who doesn't know Longfellow's beard from Shakespeare's, but he may have some sympathy with the fatigue and monotony of factory work. Another girl put it tersely "When you do one thing all day you lose the feeling in your fingers. You are likely to pick up two sheets at a time." The Future of the Windmill The great possibilities of the windmill of the future, as outlined by scientists, reads like a fairy tale. It will be and is now used not only to irrigate millions of acres of desert land, but it can be used to produce electric power, which can be stored away and kept for future use in lighting the house, cooking, heating and furnishing the water supply. Even the weekly washing and ironing may be done by means of the windmill. Among other ideas suggested by scientists is the establishment along all the roads in the country of electrical windmill storage places where any one driving a motor car may stop, drop a coin in the slot, repleinish the supply and on going. In fact, the possibilities of this latest adaptation of the windmill are so great as to make an enumeration of the many things for which it may be used almost impossible—London Opinion. When the Sea Was Fresh Water. When the Sea Was Fresh Water. The ocean was once merely brackish and not salt, as it is now. This was when the earth was in its first youth and before there was any land showing at all or any animal life in the water. At this time the water was gradually cooling from its original state of steam, and the salts were slowly undergoing the change from gases into solids. Then came the appearance of land and later on rivers, which gradually washed down more and more salts, while at the bottom of the ocean itself chemical action was constantly adding more brine to the waters. At present it is estimated that there are in the world's oceans 7,000,000 cubic miles of salt, and the most astonishing thing about it is that if all the salt could be taken out in a moment the level of the water would not drop one single inch. Queer Name For a Flower. Every one knows that wild flowers are known in various districts by local appellations. Some of them are pretty, many are curious, others merely quaint. But there is one pretty wild flower, the ordinary white anis, beloved of bees, a low growing flower which edges many garden paths. At Guildford, in Surrey, England, it is known as "welcome home the husband be he never so drunk." The origin of the name is not apparent. It is believed to have gained the name because the flower shines out so white at night. Nothing but Work. One very well known character at Oxford used to say that modern undergraduates were sadly inferior to their predecessors, who had constantly employed him when they went out with gun or rod. "There's a very idle set of gentlemen at the university nowadays," he said. "They never shoots; they never goes a fishing. They do nothing—nothing but read, read, read from morning till night." To the Point. "That was a very appropriate remark the jockey made when they pulled him from under his mount when it stumbled and fell on him." "What was the remark?" "This is a horse on me."—Baltimore American. Modern Dancing. Clara—They say that one evening's dance is equivalent to walking ten miles. Mand—That was the old style. Now it's equivalent to climbing about 100 trees.—Life. Patience is the most necessary thing in this world.—Confacina. Oldham Likes. Its Fun. While Oldham cannot claim to have any one of the twenty-two biggest cotton mills in England, it is the premier cotton town for all that, since it is pretty safe to say that it has more cotton mills to the square mile than any other town in the world. The Oldham people are peculiar. They are steady and thrifty while they work, but, bent on pleasure, they want all they can get. An Oldham family was returning from the annual holiday at Blackpool, and one of the daughters told the mother that they ought to have stayed another day. "We couldna, lass," said the mother. "T' brass is all done." "Well," retorted the undutiful daughter, "it's all thy fault. I told thee to sell t' clock ere we started, and thou can't say as I didn't." And this anecdote is a true illustration of the Okham character, too, for it has been estimated that in one week of the year Oldhamers spend something like £300,000, about £2 per head of the population. That is the week of "Oldham Wakes," when the mills stop working and everybody chases pleasure—London Globe. Loie Fuller and Dumas Fils Lole Fuller was dancing at Les Folles Bergere, in Paris, when a friend from Haiti, M. Eugene Poule, arrived in Paris and offered to take her to see Dumas at Marly. She tells about it in "Fifteen Years of a Dancer's Life." "During the journey in the railway carriage M. Poulle taught me a French phrase which I was to say when, Duas extended his hand—"Je suis tres contente de serrir votre main" (I am delighted to grasp your hand). And of course, when the psychological moment arrived I phrased the words all askew. Instead of taking one of his hands I grasped both, and emphatically and with stress on each word I said: "Je suis tres contente de votre main serre" (I am delighted with your close-fisted hand). I did not understand his reply, but my friend later on told me that Dumas had replied, "My hand is not close-fisted, but I know what you mean, child. * * * and I open my heart and my hand in your service." Habit of Formation. Psychologists who have studied the subject tell us that in the psychology of success—success won by a man's own efforts—there are always two periods. There is the period of struggle. Every man who amounts to anything wins his way at first by will power and sheer endeavor. He has to use all his energy to climb the hard places determinedly, to tight and persevere. At first the battle is exhausting and often seems hopeless. But the thing to do is to hold on, day by day, through this first period. Then comes the period of habit formation. When the will has insisted upon certain acts or thoughts over and over again a path, so to speak, is cleared in the mind. Daily travel sets in over this path, and a habit is formed. Soon the thing that was so hard becomes easier and easier. The new method of thinking or acting becomes organized and solidified—Philadelphia Ladder. Correcting Family Speech. A Cleveland man who makes a practice of choosing his words with care, a practice which he has endeavored to instill into the family circle, made a memorandum of the misused word uttered by his son and daughter during a recent breakfast. Here is the result: When the meal was over the head of the household called the family around him in the library and gravely read the totals to them. "Foe, that's deceit," said the soil. "Isn't it awful?" said the daughter.—Cherlinda Plain Douler. Stage Money. Stage money—that is, money of no value off the stage—is first said to have been used by David, Garrick in the eighteenth century. The money is said to have been made by the wealthy actor-manager so as to look actually like real money. There was little money, even of this counterfeit kind, used in the days of Shakespeare because of the scarcity of any kind of money, particularly among actors. Much More So. "Is there anything more exasperating?" asks an exchange, "than a bureau drawer that has constitutional objections to closing up after it has been opened?" Yea, verily, brother—to wit a bureau drawer that has constitutional objections to being opened after it been closed—Chicago News. Supremely Exasperating Supremely Exasperating. "Don't you think Mrs. Spurrell has an awful temper?" "She has, but can you blame the poor woman? She has a husband who just absolutely won't get at all." Dear. Indeed! "The dear, dear girls!" exclaimed Mrs. Pawkins, looking at her fashionable daughters enthusiastically. "Yes, the dear, dear girls!" muttered Mr. Pawkins, despondently. Had to Confess. Wife—Do you mean to tell me you lost $2 at cards? Husband-I don't mean to tell you, but I may as well You'll find it out anyway.—Philadelphia Bulletin. No man rejoiceceth safely unless he bath within him the testimony of a good conscience—Thomas a Kempa. Unless Statute Is Renewed Annapolis Will Have but 533 Students In 1917 and Cost of Graduates Will Increase, Says Secretary—To Revise Curriculum For First Year. Annapolis, Md.—Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced that he would seek to have congress extend the provisions of the law of 1903 authorizing the appointment of two midshipmen to the Naval academy every four years by each senator, representative and delegate in congress. This law expires this year, and unless it is extended the number of appointments to the academy will be cut in half and within four years the number of midshipmen will be reduced from 1,059 to 533. "The capacity of the Naval academy," said Secretary Daniels, "is sufficient without enlargement to furnish officers for the line and staff of the navy and marine corps in adequate numbers for many years to come, but if the number of appointments be reduced the relative cost of educating each midshipman will increase, while the existing shortage in the navy will grow rapidly worse. There is little likelihood of more graduates from the Naval academy than the government will require." Secretary Daniels has approved a recommendation of the academy board of the Naval academy that for subjects in which the only examination comes at the end of the year the term work shall count three-fourths instead of two-thirds, reducing the examination accordingly. Under this arrangement THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN JOSEPHUS DANIELS, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. the work done during the term will hereafter count more in determining the scholastic standing than formerly. The effect of the revision of the curriculum on the first year's work has been shown by the decrease in the number of fourth class men dropped for deficiency in studies at the semi-annual examinations. Last year nearly 17 per cent of the fourth class were recommended to be dropped. This year only 13 per cent failed. In determining the term work the examination now counts only one-sixth in subjects in which monthly examinations are given. The recent entrance examinations also showed an increase over the usual percentage in those who qualified for admission. Out of 125 examined in February 155 per cent passed, as against an average of about 41 per cent during the last six years. This increase, it is said, is not due to a difference in examination, but is due to a change in examination dates. In order to limit the amount of expenditures of milkshipmen for civilian clothing and haberdashery, as well as to prevent their running in debt, an order has been issued which forbids them from making purchases directly in Annapolis, but allows limited purchases from firms who send representatives to the academy. Local merchants have no objection to the order as their payment is certain and facilities for taking orders are freely granted them. DOORWAY IN A RUDDER. Made Necessary For Work on the New Giant Cunarder Aquitania. London—The rudder has just been placed in position on the 50,000 ton Cunard liner Aquitania, which will be launched at Clydebank, Glasgow, during the last week in April. The rudder is so large that a doorway was made in the lower part of it to admit workmen and enable them to work on a pln four feet long connect ing the rudder with the ship. Preacher of Ninety-eight In Pulpit. Middletown, N. Y.—The Rev. O P Crandall, who is ninety-eight years old and since his superannuation has lived at Ridgebury, near here, preached a sermon in the Methodist church there UTAH HAS MAMMOTH CAVE One Found Near Ogden Shows Old Indian Hieroglyphics. Ogden, Utah. With what appear to be prehistoric hieroglyphics carved on its walls, a mammoth cave rivalling the famous cave of Kentucky was discovered in this vicinity by Thomas Whitaker, a rancher, who will later lead a party of University of Utah professors on a tour of investigation. The cave is located in the mountains near Promontory point, eighteen miles from Ogden, and has probably never been visited by white men, as the surrounding country is a bleak desert. The front chamber of the series is 75 by 150 yards, 41 feet high, and the walls bear pictures of Indians crudely drawn. There is an Indian legend current in the locality to the effect that a great battle was fought years ago between two tribes near the point, the vanquished having perished in a mammoth cave. $3,000,000 FOR A FAMILY. Girl to Get That Amount For Rising Children. Lowell, Mass.—Wedding bells, it is said, will soon ring for Miss Mary Belle Shedd of Lowell, the most talked of young woman in Middlesex county. Under the terms of one of the strangest wills ever filed in a New England court Miss Shedd will lose about $3,000,000 unless she marries and has children. When this became known the young woman was deluged with marriage proposals. The offers of marriage continue to arrive, but it is rumored that the daughter of the late millionaire perfume manufacturer, Freeman B. Shedd of Lowell, made her choice some time ago. This will save overburdened letter carriers. CUPID WORKS BY CABLE. "Will You? Says He In Japan—"Yes, Quoth She In Kansas. Kansas City, Mo.—Last year Miss Ruth Bookwalter of Kansas City, Kan., and Arthur Hummell of Indian- apolis were students together at Oberlin college. They knew each other pretty well. Hummell went to Kobe. Japan, to teach. Then these cable- grams were exchanged: "Bookwalter, Kansas City, Kan. Will you?" "Hummell, Kobe, Japan. Yes." "Bookwalter, Kansas City, Kan. Hilarious." Now they are going to know each other much better. TRAPPER KILLS A PURE WHITE MOOSE Seattle, Wash.—The skin and head of a magnificent pure white moose arrived here from Cordova, Alaska. The albino moose was killed on Kenai peninsula by Ezra Higgins, a trapper and hunter The Thinket Indians cherished an old tradition that this or a similar white moose was the spirit of an Indian maiden, the daughter of a beloved chief. One winter day the girl left the village for a visit to another and became bewildered in a blizzard and was never seen again. After the great storm had passed over searching parties went into the ravines of Kenai peninsula to search for the maiden. When in the woods a beautiful snow white moose sprang out of a thicket and dashed away. Year after year the Indians have worshiped the albino moose, and from time to time the animal has been seen. Now that an albino has been killed the Indians will miss it unless, as many hunters think, there are several in that section. The mounted skin will be placed in the university museum. GYMNASIUM FOR HENS Expert Declares It Increases Production 30 Per Cent. St. Paul, Minn.-Hens should have a gymnasium, proper training and an occasional change of diet to break egg laying records, according to Samuel E Mahan, a local poultry expert. Mr Mahan recently established in connection with his chicken coop a gymnasium where daily each hen is given two hours of exercise. He declares that as a result of this training the average production of each hen has been increased in nine days from 55 to 55 per cent. Pulls the Wrong Tooth Chicago.—Is a tooth worth $1,000? What is its value? These are two questions that will have to be answered by a jury in the municipal court when the case of Miss Madeline C Henry against George W. Nevius, a dentist, is called for trial. Miss Henry filed suit charging that she went to the doctor's office and asked to have a wisdom tooth pulled. Instead the doctor pulled the wrong tooth, she alleges Bears Twenty-four Pounds of Twirls Alpena, Mich.—With the birth of twin sons to Mr. and Mrs. John Ladouse the record for large children was broken in Alpena. Each child welged twelve pounds. The parents are of average size. Mrs Ladouse is twenty-eight years old and is the mother of five other children. TARIFF BILL RATES ARE LOW Steel Rails, Sugar, Wood Pulp and Meats on the Free List, Woolen Goods and Machinery Reduced—Tax Would Affect Incomes of $4,000 a Year and Over. Washington.—The special session of congress, which was called to revise the tariff, was addressed personally by President Wilson, who read his message to the houses. It was the first time that a thing of this kind has been done since John Adams was president. The new rates would reduce the government's customs revenue $120,000,000 a year, a sum which, it is proposed, shall be made up through the new tax on incomes. The purpose of the measure is to put the burden of governmental expense upon the wealthy and by reducing the price of necessaries lower the cost of living for the poor. The metals schedule: Steel ralls free; steel and iron wire, now 35 per cent, to 20 per cent; forgings, now 30 per cent, to 15 per cent. Machinery to be generally reduced. Automobiles unchanged. Steam engines and, machine tools reduced from 30 per cent to 15 per cent. Sugar to be on the free list in 1910. An immediate reduction of 25 per cent is proposed. Woolen cloths, knit fabrics and manufactured goods to be reduced from 55 per cent to 35 per cent. Cotton cloth is reduced from 30 and 40 per cent to 71% and 271% per cent. Meats are to be on the free list. Rates on live stock to be reduced generally—cattle, from 271% per cent to 10 界 1913, by American Press Association. PRESIDENT WILSON. per cent; sheep, from $1.50 each to 10 per cent; poultry, from 3 cents to a cent a pound; horses, from 25 to 10 per cent; swine from $1.50 a head to be free. Wood pulp will come in free. Print papers at 2½ cents a pound or less are also on the free list. Silk goods are reduced from 70 cents and 44 a pound to 45 per cent; ribbons from 50 to 40 per cent, and partially manufactured silk goods from 35 cents a pound to 15 per cent. Linen fabrics are cut from 60 per cent to 45 per cent. Handkerchiefs reduced from 50 per cent to 35 per cent. The income tax bill provides a graduated tax upon every resident of the United States whose income is over $4,000 a year. In all cases the first $4,000 of income is exempted from taxation. From $4,000 to $20,000 the rate is 1 per cent. Thus on an income of $20,000 the tax would be $160. From $20,000 to $50,000 a surtax of 1 per cent is added, and from $50,000 to $100,000 a surtax of 2 per cent. On incomes in excess of $100,000 a surtax of 3 per cent is added. Thus on an income of $1,000,000 a year the tax would be $18,260. The bill would repeal the present corporation tax law imposing a 1 per cent tax on the earnings of corporations and stock companies. The salaries of the president of the United States, federal judges and all state officers and employees are exempted from the income tax. These are the principal administrative changes proposed: Trade with the Philippine Islands is placed upon an absolutely free basis. Commercial relations with Cuba are not changed. The president is urged to make reciprocity treaties. These must be ratified by a majority of both houses of congress. The senate thereby loses its exclusive power to ratify trade treaties. The income tax is collectible at the source of the income. Thus stock owners will receive dividends less the government tax. MIND THE BABY.MAYOR WINS. Candidate Holds Youngster While Mother Casts Deciding Vote. Mother Casts Deciding Vote. Glenwood Springs. Colo.—"I'll hold the baby while you go and vote," said Mayor James Zimmerman of Carbon-dale to a woman voter of that city. Five minutes before the polls closed Mayor Zimmerman, who was seeking re-election, learned, that two of the fair voters of the town had not voted. Rushing to the home of one of the women, he explained his mission, and she hurried to the polls and cast her vote for him. Mr. Zimmerman then hurried to the residence of the other delinquent and found her rocking her baby. "Here," he said; "I'll hold the baby and you go and vote. I need every vote I can get." The mother put the baby in his arms, tled on her bonnet and went at a double quick to the polling place. The mayor walked the floor, sang lullables, whistled and made faces to amuse the baby, and when the votes were counted he found he had been elected by a majority of one vote. A GOOD INVESTMENT. Californian Lost One Wheel and Got Three Back. Palo Alto, Cal.—There is at least one man in Palo Alto who has profited by the philo-ophical way in which he looks upon the dark side of life. This unusual person is Van Dyke Works, whose bicycle was carried off by a thief. Works called upon his erring brother to return the missing wheel by posting the following words of wisdom in a conspicuous place: "If the cyclist who borrowed my bicycle and failed to return same had only waited until May he would have spared the owner; considerable inconvenience. If he will be so good as to leave it on the lawn at 505 Embarcadero road one of these dark nights he will have the reward of a clear conscience and the owner's blessing. During the next week the watchdog will be kept indoors." Works awakened in the morning to find three bicycles on his front lawn. He is advertising for the owners of the other two recovered wheels. Paris.—A dispatch from Brindisi received here says that the Duke of Montpensier was proclaimed king of Albania by the provisional government of that country. The country which has now set up a government of its own was at the beginning of the Balkan war a villayet of Turkey in Europe. Not long after the war started, however, finding itself harassed on one side by the Bulgarians, on another by the Greeks and on another by the Servians, it appealed to the great powers for protection and proclaimed a provisional government Keamil Bay became president of the new government provisionally until the Albanian should have compiled with the decrees of the ambassadors of the great powers resulting from the peace conference in London, which decree said that Albania should not be partitioned among the Balkan states, but that it should be ruled over by a prince of some royal house of Europe and supervised by the powers The Duke of Montpensler was approached several weeks ago on the subject of becoming Albania's new ruler, but as the prince is wealthy and already socially prominent, being related to the royal families of Bulgaria, Spain and Italy, he was not especially attracted by the idea of becoming king Duke Montpensier, the new Albania ruler, is twenty-nine years old, only brother and heir of the Duke of Orleans, chief of the Royalist party in France. In spite of the fact that his exile prevents him from serving in the French navy, the people of France are attached to him because of his exploration services in the hinterland of Toukking and French Cochin China and for the bravery he showed in the Moroccan campaign when he served under the banner of Spain. His most popular title of Duke of Montpensier comes from his mother who was a Spanish infant, the daughter of the Duke of Montpensier. His father, from whom he inherits his ample fortune, was the Comte de Paris. His sister married the Duke of Aosta cousin of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. NOTES FROM THE NEWS. Senator Smoot has a bill appropriating $500,000 annually to experiment in home economics, which, if passed, says, will rob the garbage can of millions every year by teaching housewives how to utilize food. A new trial was granted in an ejection case in Philadelphia when it was found that one of the jurors was a deaf mute. He had sat through the trial, and his affliction became known only when he was called on to give his verdict. The ten-year-old daughter of Harry Kramer of California, Pa., had a toy bank across the top of which was the motto, "In God we trust." A burglar looted the house, but left the bank after writing below the motto, "So did I once." There was $50 in dimes in it. GREAT AIR FLEET FOR THE GERMANS SEPARATE WING OF THE ARMY $25,000,000 Will Be Spent on Military Aviation, and New Fortresses Are Expected to Cost $52,000,000—Ten Dirigibles and Fifty Aeroplanes, With Crews of 1,452 Men. Berlin.-Germany's plans for a big aerial navy have been made public. The fleet of airships and aeroplanes, which is to be entirely separate from that connected with the army, on which nearly $25,000,000 is to be spent, will cost $12,500,000. A bill appropriating $750,000 as the first outlay was introduced in the reeling st. It calls for ten naval dirigible balloons of the largest size, of which eight are to compose the active fleet and two are to be held in reserve. Fifty-four double revolving balloon halls, into, which the dirigibles will be able to enter regardless of the weather, are to be erected and two more to be kept in reserve. Fifty aeroplanes, of which thirty-six are to form the active fleet and four- THE RIVER GERMAN ARMY DIRIGIBLE FLYING OVER BERLIN teen the reserve, are also to be built, to be manned by a special corps of 1,452 officers and men The appropriations for this fleet to be spread over the years 1914 to 1918 include $8,750,000 for dirigibles and $2,250,000 for aeroplings, while $1,500,000 is asked for in connection with the pay and maintenance of the crew. The life of the new airship is estimated at only four years each. The sum to be devoted to military aviation is unexpectedly high, reaching $19,750,000, with supplementary estimates of $5,000,000 to be added later on. The sum of $52,000,000 is assigned for the construction of new fortresses After the passage of the army bill the land forces of Germany on a peace footing will comprise 33,800 officers 661,176 privates and 15,000 one year volunteers. The balance of the total of 870,000 will include medical, veterinary and pay officers, artificers, the hospital corps and other noncombatants. The imperial parliament, it is argued by the newspapers, will undoubtedly demand radical modifications of the new tax proposals, rejecting some and demanding the substitution of others which will weigh more heavily on the well to do classes Dr Otto Wlemar, the leader of the Progressives in the reichstag, expresses the opinion that the debate on the military measures will not be finished before the summer recess. Foreigners domiciled in Germany are to be subjected to the war control buttons on the same basis as German subjects. TO DIG LONGEST TUNNEL. Canadian Pacific Will Bore Sixteen Miles Through Mountain. Winnipesau - The Canadian Pacific railway announced that it will begin construction shortly of the longest tunnel in America. The tunnel will be dug through Kickling Horse pass in the Rocky mountains, will be sixteen miles long and will cost $14,000,000. It will take seven years. It is estimated, to build it, and it will be four miles longer than the Simplon tunnel through the Alps. In Sleep Breaks Leg Again. York. Pa.-Dreaming in his bed at the York hospital of the runaway accident of a few weeks ago which had laid him up with a broken leg William H. Smelch reached that part of his dream where the runaway bore down upon him. Smelch tried to profit by his previous experience and leap aside. He gave an actual leap, which carried him over the edge of the bed and broke his leg again at the place of the first fracture. ZEPPELIN SECRETS SAFE. Germans Don't Believe French Could Reproduce Mechanism. Berlin-German army officers who were on board the Zeppelin air cruiser Z-IV, when she was captured by French officers after crossing the French frontier and landing at Luneville are of the opinion that the Frenchmen did not discover any of the secret workings of the aircraft. The German officers in their report say that, although General Hirschauer, inspector of the French aviation department, and other experts boarded the dirigible, they think the Frenchmen did not observe enough to enable them to reproduce the intricate mechanism of the airship. Some members of the Zeppelin crew say that they heard shots fired at the dirigible, but this is not confirmed by other persons on board. NEW WEAPON FOR ARMY. Automatics of 45 Caliber Will Replace the 38 Now Used. Hartford, Conn.-To replace the present 35 caliber pistols used by the United States army the federal government has decided to supply the enlisted men with 45 caliber automatics. The smaller revolvers are being recalled at once from the field artillery and signal corps and are being replaced by the 45 caliber guns, which have met all the severe tests for accuracy and safety to which the government experts subjected them. The tests have been in progress for a year under the supervision of the war department, which approved the automatics and supplied a few to each brand of the service for thorough testing. RADIO STATION FOR PANAMA. Plans Are Completed For Towers Like Those In Use at Arlington. Washington. — Rear Admiral Stanford, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, has just completed plans for the construction of the second set of great naval wireless towers, which will be erected on the canal zone at Camito, practically duplicating the initial plant at Arlington reservation There will be three 600 foot steel towers. With a 100 kilowatt radio set it is believed that this section should be able to communicate either directly or by relay with similar high power stations to be erected by the navy in the Hawaiian Islands, Tutuila, Samoa, Guam and the Philippines. CABINED WATERPLANE MIGHT CROSS OCEAN British Expert. Describes Best Type of Air Craft. London.-Harold Short, a pioneer in the use of the British waterplane, when asked his opinion concerning the type of machine likely to make the transatlantic flight, replied: "About twice the size of the present type of waterplane, twin engines each of 200 horsepower, tanks inside the body to carry 480 gallons of petrol, enough for twelve hours' dying, and 160 gallons of lubricating oil, a cabin with a sleeping bunk, food lockers and a wireless telegraph installation. "She would travel sixty-five miles an hour under favorable conditions, and with two stops at depot ships during the voyage to fill up her petrol tanks she would fly from Newfoundland to the west coast of Ireland in thirty hours." The flight, he thinks, would best be made from west to east, so as to take advantage of the prevailing westerly winds Two days of fine weather would be enough for it. The air man would travel at a height of 6,000 feet. If one of the engines failed at that height the waterplane would cover 100 miles before touching water and could then go along the surface to the nearest depot ship. If both engines failed she could call a liner with her wireless installation. WOMEN CONTROL TYRO. Elect the Mayor and a Majority of the Council in the Kansas Town- Tyro, Kan.-The election of a woman mayor and a majority of women in the council of Tyro is assured by complete election returns. Mrs. II C. Defenbaugh was elected mayor, Mrs. E. F. Herring, Mrs. Myra Newton and Mrs. Maggie Park were elected to the council. The women's ticket was designated Independent on the ballot and competed with Progressive and Citizens' tickets. The women's platform called for a "clean up" of the town, better street lighting and an annual audit of town books. GOLF LINKS IN SKYSCRAPER. Charles R. Crane Has Nine Hole Course in Chicago Building. Chicago—Charles R. Crane, who may be appointed to a post in the diplomatic service by President Wilson, is a golf enthusiast to such an extent that he has just completed a nine hole course on the twelfth door of the Crane building. The course was laid out by Tom Vardon of the Spring Lake (N. J.) club, who is also in charge of it. The course has sand covered putting greens and hazards. The foundation is of burlap. THE BEE Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... .20 DANGERS THAT CON- FRONT US. The State of California and the Government of Japan may terminate in a manner that will be serious to both State and Government. It would seem to us that all of this color question should be eliminated, not only with Japan, but with all other nationalities. Just how certain people get into their heads that they are better than some other people is a question The Bee has not been able to understand. The Japanese never attempt to molest anybody unless they are disturbed, and then they will certainly defend themselves. In the event that the Government of Japan should regard the act of the legislature of California as an insult to the people of Japan and declare war against this government. The Bee wants to know if the Negro will be needed? Since the American Negro is excluded from all benefits, so to speak, that the American government is giving to other nationalities, would this government demand that Negroes be grafted to oppose Japan? The Negroes in the Southern States are disfranchised and they are not regarded as citizens. Every Negro military company has been legislated out of existence, which is quite evident that the good white people of the South will fight their battles without the aid of the Negro. The American people are unaware of the dangers that confront us. Why not give all nations and nationalities a fair deal? The Negro is harmless. He is obedient to the laws of his country, and is always ready to defend it against foreign invasion. What nation, except the Jews, has suffered in this country any more than the Negro? Can this oppression of the Negro continue without a protest on his part? Must he continue to accept the insults of those who are now being benefited by the valor and patriotism he displayed in the late civil war, which made this a republic indeed and in fact? The Bee believes in fair play to all nationalities. The Japanese cannot help their color any more than the Negro can. With the progress that the Negro has made since his emancipation has been most remarkable. The prejudiced American white man should cease his brutality and oppression towards weak nations before the worm is forced to turn over. A WARNING. The question of appointing young men as teachers in schools where they will be thrown in contact with young women but few years their junior, has been seriously debated by educators. We cannot believe that youth is a crime, or that all young men ought to have the avenue of an educator closed against them, and that none but men who have reached the age of senile decay should be teachers. Because a few young men, in the hilarity of youth, forget propriety's limitations is no excuse for condemning all young men. But less a few bring approbrium on the many here in Washington, we want to utter this solemn warning to a few that while they are impinging upon the bounds of proper decorum, believing they have everybody fooled, they are fooling no one but themselves. When you are if ever you are, off in some apparently isolated, secluded place where vice hides and vanishes, think not that it is unknown. When you are meeting school girls for an afternoon or evening siesta, think not that you are unobserved. And when you go strolling down the streets nonchalently puffing on a cigaret, think not that you are not setting a questionable example for the boy pupils under you who are among your closest observers. And while a bottle of beer or a cocktail may not, in themselves, be a crime, when indulged in in a public place, or in company with young women without the chaperon of a mother, such indulgence comes dangerously close to impropriety, and it only increases the opposition against young men being appointed teachers in schools where young women are pupils. The Bee feels called upon to utter a solemn warning, less a few go to the well too often, and less their pitcher be broken by frequent going. The time to stop a questionable practice is NOW. Perhaps it would be better to separate the female and male pupils and give the male pupils to male teachers and female pupils to female teachers. REV. BROWN'S BAD BREAK In another column we print a Boston special giving an account of an address delivered in that city by Rev. Sterling N. Brown, of this city. Rev. Brown made the startling statement that out of the 30,000 Negro ministers in this country only 300 of them can be called educated. By a simple process of division it will be readily ascertained that this means that only one out of every one hundred Negro ministers can be called educated. There are one hundred Negro ministers in Washington. According to Rev. Brown's statement only one out of the hundred is educated. Now who is that one? Is it Rev. Brown himself? This is an awful indictment Rev. Sterling Brown has drawn against the Negro ministers of this country, and if he really made such a baldface statement, he should be called to account for it by the Negro ministry. The Bee does not believe that such a small per cent of Negro ministers are uneducated. It does not believe that of the thirty thousand Negro ministers in this country twenty-seven thousand are ignorant divines. Perhaps when Rev. Sterling Brown made this startling, and manifestly false statement, he thought the news would not gravitate back to Washington. There may be many Negro ministers who are uneducated, doubtless there are too large a per cent of ignorant Negro ministers, but it is an outrageous statement to make that there are but three hundred educated Negro ministers out of the thirty thousand in this country. Come, Rev. Brown, and explain this bad break, this gross reflection upon your peers, such as Rev. Ross, Norman, Waldron, W. Bishop Johnson; no better scholar exists; Dr. Rivers, Dr. Grimke and dozens of others. KILLING THEMSELVES. The so-called Negro Democrats are killing themselves. If The Bee is to believe all that has been sent to it for publication against the representations of Negro Democracy, not one is fit to be appointed to any position in the gift of the Democratic administration. Probably there are about a dozen against whom nothing has been sent to this paper. Some of the charges are frivolous as well as rediculous. What can be gained by such slander? What does Negro Democracy mean? A candidate for Register of the Treasury, or for Deputy Register of the Treasury, or Auditor for the Navy, is called an advertising iaker. Another is charged with having misappropriated funds of the Odd Fellows; another is charged with having deserted his wife; another is charged with having deserted his wife and daughter and is now living with a white woman. The gentleman to whom this charge refers is living with his wife and daughter. The Bee is personally acquainted with the entire family, and knows the man well. If all the other charges are as true as the foregoing, then the entire attack on the Negro Democrats for office is false. The Bee merely wants to show what Negro Democrats are doing to one another. PRESIDENT WILSON The Bee is of the opinion that or, rather it hopes so, that President Wilson will be as liberal towards the colored man as the late President Cleveland. Thee Bee already sees signs of improvement in many of the government departments. There is at least one department under the government where certain employees were "Jim Crowed," but since the appointment of a Democratic chief the "Jim Crow" section has been eliminated. The most hopeful colored Democrat is Mr. James A. Ross, of New York. He firmly believes that President Wilson will recognize the colored Democracy. REV. BROWN When a minister of Rev. Sterling N. Brown declares that such highly educated men as Revs. Grimke, Clair, W. Bishop Johnson, Rivers, Ross and Brown, of St. Lukes, are ignorant, it is about time to examine him and see what he knows about the ministry. Sudden elevation of Negroes cause them to lose their heads. Just what put it into his head that there was only 300 educated Negro ministers in this country The Bee would like to know. The Bee would like to know if anything other than water was served at the reception of our townsman. MILLER'S MAGAZINE Prof. Kelly Miller has issued a magazine called and styled Kelly Miller's Monographic Magazine. The present issue is an essay entitled "Education for Manhood, to wit: Man as a personality; born as an instrumentality, character, efficiency, motives, service, enjoyment, etc." The foot note states as follows: Published after and on by Kelly Miller, Washington, D. C. Prof. Miller will kindly explain what he means by the foregoing. He has us guessing. NO DISCRIMINATION NO DISCERNATION. The Democratic Assembly at Albany, N. Y., passed Assemblyman Levy's bill, and it having been signed by Governor Sulzer, prohibiting discrimination in public amusements in the State is a progressive step on the part of the Democratic party in New York. New York is one State that will refuse to ratify the proposed amendment to the constitution of Vardaman, of Mississippi. NABOBS. The Nabobs at Howard University who have been knifing Prof. Kelly Miller on the sly will make the great mathematician and scholar the greatest man in the world if they keep it up. Those jacklegs who are punching him belong to the down and out brigade. RUDOLPH AND OYSTER. Commissioner Rudolph and Captain James F. Oyster will probably be named by the President. Mr. Harry Cummings is making a strong fight in behalf of the colored schools in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Cummings is a strong race man. The successor to Mr. R. R. Horner, a member of the Board of Education, will be made shortly. The Court has several names under consideration. Mr. James A. Ross, editor of The Detroit Informer, and incidentally candidate for Recorder of Deeds, goes for A. B. Cosey, candidate for the same office, rough-shod, charging Cosey with being a late arrival to Democracy. It is said that the National Independent Political League crowd has filed charges against Ross; and that they have muckraked Frank Wheaton's record; that every Negro Democratic candidate for office has had his record, public and private, presented at the White House as Exhibit A. And thus the knocking of each other proceeds hilariously among the Negro Democrats. If Bishop Walters accepts the Liberian Ministership, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth among his followers. James Ross, candidate for Recorder of Deeds, has begun to read the over-night Negro Democrats out of the party. Wonder if James will include all competitors for the office he is an applicant for among those read out of the party? Mr. Carnegie's Gift. The Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute; Snow Hill, Ala., is in luck. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has just made this institution a generous donation toward the construction of a building. Gift to Tuskegee. The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has just received $5,000 from the estate of the late E. W. Marsh, of Bridgeport, Conn. Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) I met one of the Negro Democrats who is here grazing in the pasture of expectancy, last Sunday, and asked him about some of the charges it is claimed one faction is filing against the other. He said "You doubtless recall what the Queen of Sheba said to King Solomon on the occasion of her visit to his Nobs some four thousand years ago." The half has not been told. Solomon had bragged about his many wives, concubines, cunches, retainers, vassals, slaves, etc., and when the beautiful Doll arrived in splendor with her gorgeous retinue she thought she could not be surprised by anything his old Nobs had. But alas! the glimmer and glamour of that gold-plated palace got her goat, and in awe and wonder she uttered the immortal words I just quoted. Now, when we heard that charges had been filed we thought they were simple ones, but holy smoke and holy gee! those charges make some of us everything known in criminal practice. It just looks to me that one faction is doing its best to help Mr. Wilson to follow the bend of some of the Southern Congressmen's mind, just shut out in the cold world. Iain't expecting nothing now. I think Elder Walters was handed a nice, large, juicy lemon when he bundled us up and delivered us to the Democrats last November. But, just on the quiet, between you and me, there wasn't many of us who voted democratically anyhow, and some of us got our per diem at that." Here's something I got from Chase. Whether it's true right off of the bat you will have to go and ask Calvin. He told it to illustrate what a restless thing than is, and especially these men who come in variegated colors, from a cold black to a Kingdom white. He said a highbrow, or to be more exact, an initiation highbrow, blew into his sanctum the other day and relieved himself of the following dope you will find below. I ought to say that a hotelkeeper was in Chase's office at the time—one of those "rooms hastily let" hotelkeepers, who joined in the confab. Here's the dope, just as Chase handed it to me. "When I was in business," said the retired merchant, "I used to look forward with longing to the time when I could read all I wanted to. I kept buying books right along, and storing them up against the happy day when I could read them in comfort, without any worries on my mind. And now that I have all kinds of time on my hands, I don't enjoy reading at all. Books bore me to death." "It's always that way, doggone it," commented the hotelkeeper. "Man always will be but is never blessed, as the cross-roads poet said. A man's always looking forward to something, and when he gets it he finds it's nothing but mining stock. A boy wants to be a man so bad that he can't sleep at night, or enjoy his victuals, and when he grows up he looks forward to getting married." He feels dead sure that when once he's married life will be one grand sweet song, and so he spends a lot of money getting spliced up with some female, and then he finds he's been gold-bricked again. Being married is about the poorest fun I know of. As he grows older he begins to bone for a political office, and is quite sure that if he can be appointed to some job he'll be completely happy. And when he is appointed and all the hangers-on come around pulling his leg, he wishes he had died long ago. From the cradle to the grave a man is always picturing his own little paradise in his mind, and when he reaches his paradise he finds it's the city dump in disguise. "Running a hotel is the only business I'm fit for. I always do well at that, and I always go broke at anything else. I used to say that, I'd stay in the hotel business just long enough to raise enough money to begin farming in good shape. My wife and I were full of pipe dreams about the agricultural life. We spent most of our spare time talking about the delights of having our own butter and cream, and eggs fresh from the henery, and all that sort of thing. We had the idea that farmers hadn't anything to do but wallow around in new-mown hay and listen to the nightingales. "Well, finally we moved to the country and began farming, and the whole business was a disgusting failure from the start. There's no comfort on a farm. You have to go tramping from one end of a field to the other all day, and, as there are no sidewalks, you soon get spavined. The hent lay fresh eggs, of course, but they always lay them under the barn, about half a mile from daylight, and you have to crawl along on your stomach like a doggone crocodile to get them. A man soon loses his appetite for fresh eggs when he has to collect them from under the barn. Fresh, fragrant milk is a fine thing for town people to dream about, but it's another false alarm, for in order to get it you have to milk an old splay-footed cow and she pounds your face in with her tail. There's nothing on a farm but hard work, and when the day is ended there's no antusement. No moving pictures, no slot machines no skating rinks. All you can do is to go out on the back porch and pick the sandhurs out of your feet. "About ten million idiots in this country have the idea that they'd be happy if they could quit their stores and offices and go out among the new-mown hay and the dodgasted doloholinks. And about ten million farmers have dreams of moving to town and wearing baked shirts. A man would naturally think that there's some sense in the ambition of the husbandman, knowing that life on the farm is worse than life in the penitentiary, but there isn't. When the farmers move to town they are just as miserable as the town men when they go to the country. I don't know of anything more saddening than a retired farmer. Every time he sees a dirty mule with its tail full of cockleburs his eyes fill with tears; he wants to clean the brute'so bad, and he hates the asphalt pavement because he does not get his feet full of thistles when he's walking on it. "There isn't anything in this life that's worth looking forward to. but we keep on looking forward, like a lot of blithering chumps." SCHOOL BOARD ROW Pleases Anderson—Got Him Publicity, Which Satisfies Him, He Says. Will Flood Streets With His Pamphlets. Special to The Rec. Baltimore, Md.—Declaring that he was well satisfied with the action of the School Board in refusing to permit him to distribute Anti-Saloon League pamphlets in the schools, because of the advertisement which said action had given him. Superintendent William H. Anderson, of the League, left the city this morning for Washington on what he described as a "secret" visit to the halls of Congress. Mr. Anderson precipitated his row with the School Board over these pamphlets at a meeting of that body held yesterday afternoon. His proposition was turned down by a vote of 5 to 4. The light was watched with interest because many believed that Mr. Anderson's proposal was a move to inject the saloon question into the administration of the public school system. Had His "Roast" Ready That Mr. Anderson was prepared for the action of the Board was shown when, at the conclusion of the debate on the question and the announcement of the vote, he read to the Board a typewritten arraignment of those members who had voted against him. "We shall gain more advertising out of this rejection by the Board of my proposition than if the Board had granted my request. Inside of 30 days we shall distribute 100,000 of these pamphlets around Baltimore, and every one will be eager to learn what the Board turned down." Biggs Worked for Lee. Commissioner Biggs, following the approval of the school names which were selected on Tuesday, proceeded to tell why the name Lincoln failed of election by the pupils and the name General Lee won. "The school \histories devote 20 pages to the work of President Lincoln," said Commissioner Biggs, "and only seven lines to the deeds of General Lee, and the lists which the committee sent to the schools had not a word of praise or description after either name, while all of their other names had two or three typewritten lines." "But Lee was elected and Lincoln was not," interrupted Dr. Chambers. "Yes, but the children had more than seven lines about Lee before they voted; I sent it to them." Commissioner Biggs advocated that the name of Grant be included in the next list with that of Gen. Stonewall Jackson as a running mate and under the same proviso of both or neither elected as applied to the Lincoln-Lee resolution. A communication was read from a patron of School No. 55, saying that this school would feel honored to accept the name of Lincoln and requesting that it be submitted to that school. Summer School Plans. An unfavorable report on changing the curriculum of the Colored High School was read and approved. No change will now be made in the studies at the colored school. Detailed plans for the summer schools were read and approved. They will be essentially, the same as in 1911. Of the $6,000 appropriation, $4,000 will be spent on the summer schools and $2,000 on a vocational summer school. This latter school will teach cooking, manual training, wood-working, sheet metal work, printing, clay modeling, drawing, sewing, chair caming, millinery and house-keeping. The schools will open July 8 and run to August 20. Warning to Girls. It is proposed by those officially connected with travelers' aid work that the following timely warnings to girls be posted in railroad cars and stations and in street cars in all parts of the land: From Leslie's Weekly. Girls should never speak to strangers, either men or women, in the street, in shops, in stations, in trains, in lonely country roads, or in places of amusement. Girls should never ask the way of any but officials on duty, such as policemen, railway officials, or postmen EXCEPTIONS TO MR. ROSS. Criticism That Is Displeasing. To the Editor of The Bee Mr. Editor: An article in last week's issue of The Bee, of which the Editor claims irresponsible for its writing, passing unfavorable comments upon colored men desiring presidential appointments under the present administration seems to me very discourteous to the race, and especially to Mr. J. A. Ross, of Buffalo, N. Y., for Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, and Mr J Frank Wheaton, of New York City, for the Liberian Ministry, of which, to my personal knowledge, should not only receive the glad wishes of all colored men in this country, but their personal indorsement. Few men know Mr. Wheaton as I do. He is a man possessing the highest attentions and culture. Were I to be allowed in your valuable paper to cite the Hogan-Wheaton case in which he proved to the world what few public men, have proven: His gracious act for a fallen friend should always be remembered by men. Slander cannot injure his many disposition. Such men as J. Frank Wheaton in the colored race are far and few. The colored writer of this unpleasant article should learn to boost rather than knock. You dare not sign your name. Why not? Can one speak of you as I do of Mr. Wheaton? I think not. Then it should be remembered that Mr. J. A. Ross deserves more than criticism. He has made himself; few men do likewise. As a lawyer he has every requirement to master that profession. Because he adopted journalistic work that he might benefit his race from an intelligent standpoint does not justify any man who himself has lost the opportunity afforded him to speak evil of him. Mr. Ross, from his early boyhood to his present manhood, has lived after the words uttered by the immortal Lincoln. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we under stand it. I myself would advise that the gentleman who has nothing but hatred to express for these men remember this prayer: Let nothing make thee sad or pretul! Or too regretful, be still. What God hath ordered must be right. Then find it in thine own delight His will. A NEGRO'S FRIEND, G. E. S NEGRO MINISTER Uneducated, So Claims Rev. Sterling Brown—Makes Startling Statement That Only 300 Out of 30,000 Are Educated—Ministers Are Aroused Over It. Boston, Mass., April 14—Rev. Sterling N. Brown, D. D., professor in the Howard University School of Theology, Washington, D. C., addressed the Congregational minister of Boston and the Boston Literary Society last Monday, April 7, on the Negro minister, telling of the unparededness in the majority of case and of Howard University's relation to the ministry. Professor Brown is trying to interest friends to help the untrained spiritual leaders of his race "Out of the 30,000 Negro minister in America, not more than three hundred can be regarded as really educated, leaving 27,000 men preaching with little or no technical training for their holy calling," said Dr. Brown "The annual call of the churches for new pastors to supply vacant pulpits through the country is for 1,500 men when less than 300 annual graduate come from all the seminaries, North and South, East and West. In other words, the churches yearly need 1,500 new pastors, while the seminaries can furnish only 300, leaving 1,200 pulpits to be annually supplied by men without adequate preparation. Hundreds of these men can hardly speak correctly an English sentence. Howard University, Washington, D.C. has just established a new professorship of the English Bible and extension work, with definite plans for helping the country ministers throughout the Southern States. A legacy of $20,000 has been left for this new movement, but the work cannot be fully launched until the fund reaches $10,000. "This amount will be necessary to pay the salary and expense of seminary extension. Howard University has the largest student body of any school, mainly for colored people, in the world. Its present enrollment is 1,562 in all departments. While the Government aids the university, it does not give a single dollar to the school of theology." St. Luke's at Tenth Street Baptist Church. The John T. Johnson Council of St. Luke held a gospel meeting at the Tenth Street Baptist Church last Sunday evening and there was a good attendance. Music was furnished by the church choir, Mrs. Manie Washington, leader. Words of welcome were spoken by Mrs. Lola J. Wallis to which response was made by Mr. W. M. Royster, Mrs. Florence R. Wilson, degree chief of Council No. 780, presided. The pastor, Dr. J. A. Brown, preached a very interesting sermon on "Come Over to Macedonia and Help Us." Mrs. S. A. Barron read a paper, taking "Hope" as her subject, and Miss Mamie Dade read an esay concerning duty. Mrs. B. B. Anderson, State deputy, made the closing remarks. She fervently appealed to our people to stand close together, to be firmly united in every movement tending to the uplift of the race, as we are now in a period where we are being tried like gold in the furnace. She spoke of the great work the pastor is doing in the way of securing the valuable property at Tenth and R Streets Northwest for his congregation, and how he is being ably assisted in his work by the earnest efforts of Mrs. Brown. A good collection was taken up and turned over to the church. A public meeting will soon be held in the church at the request of many of the members, who are anxious for a new Council to be set apart in their midst. Madre's Park is being refitted up for picnics, lawn fetes and all outdoor amusements. For terms and dates see M. A. D. Madre, 2227 Cleveland Avenue N. W. The Week in Society Quality and good service. You will always find at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. Mrs. Walter Powell, of Cumberland, Md., left her home Saturday to visit friends in this city. Miss Helen L. Grimith, of Frostburg, Md., and her guest, Miss Scott, of Los Angeles, Cal., have returned to the Cathedral School in this city. Messrs. Charles E. Conley and Frank Lee Carl were visitors in this city and Baltimore Thursday. While in this city they were the guests of Hon. David J. Lewis. Col. John T. McGraw, of Grafton, Md., passed through Cumberland Tuesday en route to this city. Mr. Herman D. Bellmeyer, of Cumberland, Md., was a visitor to Baltimore and this city last Tuesday. Miss Winona R. Taylor, who underwent an operation for appendicitis, is now convalescent. Mr. G. Etienne Durrloo and Miss Alice G. Cooper were quietly married in the home of the bride, 412 Tea Street Northwest. April 5 at 2:30 p.m. The ceremony was performed by Father Brown. Owing to death in the family only the immediate relatives were present Miss Odean Campbell entertained a number of her friends in her comfortable home in South Washington last Thursday evening. Among those present were Misses Grace Tanner, Zenobia Chew, Helen Morris, Ethel Tanner, Catherine Carter, Elsie Coleman, Edith Campbell, Anne Henderson and Messrs Clinton Nickens, Abraham Ghew, Herbert Diggs, John Hamilton, Henry Hardy, Julien Lar'y, Charles' Marshall and Sterling Horse. Miss. Ellen Williams has returned come after a brief stay in Pomonkey, dd. Dr. L. B. Moore, of Howard Uni- versity, was among the speakers at the third annual conference for the colored schools of Washington Coun- y. Among the prominent visitors who triended the Delaware M. E. Confer- cee was Rev. T O'Connell, profes- or of Howard University. Dr. Levi S. H. Pink, a graduate of oward University, and a surgeon artist, is practicing in Tualoa, N. Y. e is one of the leading dentists ere. zen teaching in Falls Church, Va. has returned home. Miss Lucas reports a very successful school term. Dr and Mrs Herriot, of Wheeling, W. Va. passed through the city en route to St. Louis, Mo., where he is to accept a position. Mrs Tarten, of this city, is visiting her sister in Wheeling, W. Va. Mrs Bearice Keeling, of this city, returned home after spending a week visiting with Mr and Mrs Thomas Jacobs, of Baltimore. Mrs Mamie Mumford, of Wilmington, Del. has returned home after visiting her niece in this city. Dr. J. W. Morse is prepared to accommodate his customers with soda water and ice cream with an up-to-date service. Rev. Monzo Robinson, of this city, during his stay in Philadelphia has been assisting Dr B. T. Moore in a two-week evangelistic campaign. Mrs. Madison, of this city was the guest of Mrs. Arminta Dumpson while in Philadelphia last Sunday. Lawyer H Hurbert, of this city, was recently the guest of Mr. Matthew Morris, Central Avenue, Chester, Pa. Mr. Artie Brown and Miss Loretta Williams were married recently. Mr. Preston C Slowe was in the city last Sunday and rendered a number of local selections at St Luke's P. E. Church. A banquet and reception will be given Dr. Booker T. Washington by the Negro Business League in Philadelphia Tuesday evening. April 20. Among the guests of this city to be present are: Hon William H Lewis, Mr. Ralph W. Tyler and Dr. A. M. Curtis. Mr. Charles Snowden, of Charlestown, Va., who has been in this city for some time, has returned home Mr. Edward J. Walton, of this city, is in Harrisburg, Pa. He is associated with the Advocate-Verdict Miss A. Penn, of Alexander, Va., was in the city last week the guest of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Childs, of Wallach Place Northwest. While in the city Miss Penn visited Mrs. Lillian Williams and Mrs. Marjorie Wormley, of Thirteenth Street Northwest Mr. Bert Williams, now a worldwide famous comedian, is to visit England. While there he is to be the star of the "American Revue" at the great London Opera House Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson have returned to their home in Charleston, S.C., after spending a delightful visit in this city Hon. W. T. Vernon, former Register of the Treasury, was in the city last week Mrs. Ada B. Conn, of 031 S Street Northwest, spent Sunday in Philadelphia, a guest of her brother. Mr. Harry Brown, of 723 South Nineteenth Street. 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. derson. Mr. James W. Jackson, of Charlestown, W. Va., a graduate of Howard University, is visiting friends in Charleston, S. C. S. H. Dudley will make this city his headquarters for the summer. Mr. James S. Williams, of Philadelphia, has returned to his home after a pleasant trip to this city. Mr. Blanche Runner was called to Wilmington, Del. on account of the serious illness of her father, Mr. Jeffries. Mr. Jeffries is slowly improving. His many friends in this city wish him a speedy recovery. Dark race of many lands will do homage to the May Queen at Children's Carnival Mr. James McKinney, the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. V McKinney, was quietly married to Miss Bessie Jones of Fairmount Heights. D. C., last week Mr. and Mrs. McKinney are residing in Fairmount Heights, D. C. St Phillips Episcopal Church will hold confirmation May 18th. Bishop Harding will conduct the services. Miss Henrietta Bowie, of Ohio, is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Liverpool, of Michigan Avenue, Anacostia, D.C. Mr. George W. Butler, an old resident of Anacostia, was buried from the Metropolitan Church last week. Dr. J. W. Morse, having commenced his season with a new line of goods, he will be pleased to greet all of his old and any new patrons that may come. 1904 L Street Northwest. Mr and Mrs. William R. Dinguid celebrated their fifth anniversary Tuesday evening. April 15, at their residence. 1347 Corcoran Street Northwest. A very pleasant evening was spent with their many friends and hearty congratulations were extended. The Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Choir leaves the city Sunday morning to render a song service in Baltimore, Md., Sunday afternoon. Dr. E. W. Smithhelby and Dr. E. F. Green, of this city, were the guests of Miss Amelia Gleed and Miss Katherine Grant, of Lawrence, Kan. last week. Mr Roland Haynes, who some time ago was the central figure in a recital at the Lincoln Memorial Church of this city, sang to the students and faculty of the State Normal School of Nashville and received much applause. Dr. A. M Curtis, who had a serious operation performed on him, left the hospital and returned to his home this week. He is improving. Dr. James E. Shepard arrived in the city Wednesday morning and left on the afternoon train for Richmond, Va. Miss Phoebe Hart has been elected chorustress of the M. E Church Sunday School. She is thoroughly qualified for the place. Miss Victoria Floyd was re-elected treasurer for the ensuing year Mrs. Blanche Lewis is on the sick list; also Mr. Frank Young is at Freedmen's Hospital. Mrs. Laura Nichols, Mrs. Lavinia Briscoe and Miss Lillian Knight are busily engaged working up a drama which will be given at the M. E Church May 2. 1013 Mrs. Queen V. Coalman, of White Avenue, left for Jacksonville, Fla., to attend her mother, who was seriously ill. Her mother lived two hours after Mrs. Coalman's arrival there. This community extends Mrs. Coalman sympathy, and hopes for her safe return. Prof. Henry T. McDonald, president of Storer College, Harper's Ferry. W. Va., has consented to deliver a lecture at the public hall Friday night. April 25, for the benefit of the John Brown Memorial Fund. A public meeting in the interest of the Fairmount Height school was held at the M. E. Church in Cedar Lights Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m. the auspices of the Parents-T association of said school number of parents and present, addressed the gated and subscribed to association decided to in May in the pine groe Eighteen dollars in c April 15. Mr. Dave S brother, Mr. Spriggs, to the school extensi The International school Union of Fairmount the District of Columb ciative session at Center Chapel, Burrville, April 13. The next session will be held at the Deanwood M. E. Church on the second Sunday in May at 3 o'clock. The official board of the M. E. Church, in a meeting April 14, unanimously agreed to give a reception in honor of Rev. O. C. Sprague, the pastor, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, the district superintendent, and Rev. E. S. Williams, the ex-district superintendent of the Washington District, Monday night, May 5. * Rev. Ernest S. Williams expresses himself highly pleased with his annual conference assignment at Annapolis, Maryland. The Public School here was closed by the County School Commission April 15. The patrons and friends of the school promptly came to the rescue of their children and have agreed to extend the school term until May 29. The community is bound to prosper under the management of three Christian Churches, two Citizens' Associations, a Parents-Teachers' Association, and one Odd Fellows' Lodge. The Knights of Pythias, the Good Shepherds, Sons and Daughters of Moses and St. John, together with Melchesadeck, are cordially invited to establish here. A nice house is being erected on Chapple Avenue near the public hall. Mr. T. N. Brown is installing electric lights. 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. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. The exhibit work of the colored schools of Fairfax County was held in Falls Church Colored School Friday, April 11. It was largely attended by people from all over the county. We are real glad to say that the petition that the members of the Mothers' Progressive Council sent to the School Board did a great deal on good for the school. The School Board decided to extend the term of all the schools in Falls Church District one month longer, with one teacher remaining in each school. Our primary teacher. Miss E. A. Lucas, remained in Falls Church School. Miss K. C. Carter, the principal, goes to Norman, in Culpepper County, to fill the vacancy of the principalship for two months. We are proud to know that the exhibited work of each school was fine. It has been said that the literary work of Falls Church was the best, which speaks well for the teachers. We regret very much to lose our supervisor, Miss May Smith, but on account of sickness she was obliged to give up. The welcome address delivered before the assembled officials, teachers, patrons and all at the school house was highly complimented for its sane advice and easy delivery. Mrs. Lena Dixon was the worthy speaker. The dinner given the assembled audience of school officials, patrons and visitors was under the auspices of the Mothers' Council of Second Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Susie Campbell is president. Mrs. Lena Dixon supervised the service of this dinner, which took place in the Christian Endeavor room of the Second Baptist Church, for the teachers and visitors, while the officials were served in the auditorium above. The first Quarterly Conference of Galloway M. E. Chapel was held on Saturday night last, with the same officers for the year elected. Dr. Charles Hodges, the new district superintendent, presided, coming over to his new field almost directly out of the Baltimore Conference. The Sabbath School Sunday morning was largely attended despite the bad weather. The district superintendent made a long address before the Sunday School, and preached at the 11 o'clock morning service, taking for a text, "Is Thy Heart Right?" 2 Kings 10:15. Quite a number were present at this service. Miss Fannie Stribbbling, who has been quite ill for several weeks, is now improving, but not yet able to leave her room. The district superintendent requested that both the Junior and Senior Epworth League Societies resume their work We are glad to have our pastor, Dr Colbert of Galloway Chapel, with us for another year. He preached the Sunday night sermon. Mrs. Delia Jones' baby, at West End, died on Wednesday, April 9, and was buried on Friday. Rev Dr. Powell officiated. Mr. Abner Newman and his friend, Mr. Frank E. Tyler, paid a visit to his mother, Mrs. Georgia Philips, Sunday. Miss Cora Bryce is still on the sick list at her home in the village. --- --- Rev W. C. Thompson is the new pastor at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. Last Sunday Rev Thompson received a very warm and hearty welcome from the members and congregation. Those who know the people and the signs of the times predict for Rev Thompson a very successful administration at Mt. Zion. Rev Thompson is well known and much thought of by the members of his Conference. He has just completed his fifth year as presiding elder and district superintendent. He was sent to the session of his General Conference that met in Minneapolis last May. This is the highest gift in the possession of the reference—to send its members to great law-making body of the Dr. Flagg preached a special day afternoon at Ebenele Church, O Street Northcoastor was greeted with station, including many churches and delivresting sermon. A large collection was raised in the interest of the Annual Conference, soon to convene at Hagerstown, Md. Rev W. Leeper is the pastor. Rev. Alfred Young, of Baltimore, Md., will preach his famous "Railroad" sermon Wednesday evening, April 23, at 8 o'clock p. m., at the First Baptist Church, Dunharton Avenue, Rev F. E. Ricks, pastor All are invited. The Epworth League Society will give a very interesting literary and musical exercise Sunday evening at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. The Sunday School Orchestra will be the special feature in the program. Mr. Leroy Gaskins is president. The vested choir of Mt. Zion M. E. Church is soon to render one of their interesting Sunday evening song services, of which announcement will appear in our next issue. REV. W. C. THOMPSON Appointed Pastor of Mt. Zion M: E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street Northwest. A very large congregation greeted the Rev. W. C. Thompson, the late superintendent of the Alexander District, who was appointed pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church. At the close of the session of the Washington Conference M. E. Church at Baltimore, Mt. Rev. Thompson occupied the pulpit on Sunday morning and evening service. At the 11 o'clock service he delivered a very eloquent sermon, taking for his subject "Love." St. John 1:10, 11, and made a very favorable impression upon the congregation. At the close of the sermon he and his wife were introduced to the officers and members of his new congregation by the recording steward, William Ballard. Rev D W. Hays, D. D., who was appointed superintendent of the Baltimore District, has reported to his new field of labor He was transferred from Mr Zion on account of the desire of the presiding bishop to select a man who is qualified for the duties of the assignment It is said that the report of his last charge was one of the best presented to the Conference in many years. HALLS HILL, VA., NEWS. The Washington Annual Conference of the M F Churchh closed, removing our pastor, Rev T H. Brooks, after his having served a very successful pastorate of four years, and sending to us in return Rev. Queens as pastor in charge of Halls Hill and Laugley. We wish him a very successful year. Sunday morning and evening very able sermons were delivered by Rev Queens, administering the Sacrament at the evening service. Notwithstanding the ram, both services were attended with interest. The community at large, both coefor and white, join in sympathy for Mrs. A. G Islar, wife of the principal of this school, at the death of Mr Islar, who, after having been stricken while attending the Conference, died after a few days' illness at his home in Alexandria, Va. His funeral services were largely attended by pupils and patrons of the school; for never before since we have had a school have we had a teacher who took the work at heart and pushed it along as has the late Mr. Islar. Easter Sunday very elaborate exercises were given by the Sunday day School under the direction of Mrs. E. V. Ferguson, assistant superintendent, combining the Livingstone Centenial with the Easter program. The fifth Sunday being Missionary Day, a beautiful song service was given by the Junior Choir of Calloway Chapel, assisted by members of the Mt Zion M E. Church, of Washington, D. C. clearing a sum of $13,87 for the benefit of the Benevolent Committee, under the direction of Mrs. E. V. Ferguson, who was unable to attend the services owing to an accident on the Friday before, receiving serious injuries on the head and arm from which she is now recovering. Prof. T. W. Hyson officiated in her absence. Mrs. C. Chinn is improving after an operation performed at her home by our successful resident physician, assisted by the surgeon from the Freedmen's Hospital. Mrs. Susie Ewald is also recovering from an operation performed at the Freedmen's Hospital. The Rev Coleman is still carrying on the revival with much success. Mr and Mrs. Ferguson and Mr. and Mrs. Wright received a delightful call from our new pastor, Rev. Queens. Mr. Richard Moore is occupying his new residence, renting the old one. The dwelling is beautifully located on the main road leading to Washington, having all modern improvements. The work was completed by D. W Ferguson and J. J. Carpenter, contractors and builders of Halls Hill. Mr T W. Hyson also occupies his new store. The entire community is alive with interest. ALEXANDRIA NEWS The funeral services of Rev. Augustus G. Islar were held at Roberts' Chapel M. E. Church on Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The deceased was a native of Darlington, S. C., and had resided in Alexandria about nine years, where he had made for himself a host of friends, and, being principal of the Public Schools at Halls Hill, Va., was well known in that section for his excellency as an educator. Since Rev. Islar took charge of the school he has improved it to such an extent that four teachers are now employed instead of one. He was a member of the Alexandria Lodge of Elks and the Masonic Order. He is survived by a widow, three children, mother, father, four brothers and three sisters. the pastor, Rev. N. M. Carroll, officiated, assisted by Rev. M. W. Clair, D. D. Rev. W. C. Thompson and Rev. Jacquelin Strange. Interment was made in Darlington, S. C., the home of the parents of the deceased. The funeral of Mr. John Ballard took place from Alfred Street Baptist Church Thursday afternoon. The de- HOWARD THEATRE Tst.near7th,N.W. The Theatre for the People One Week—Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. CORWELL AND NYE Present THE MISSISSIPPI MINSTRELS and MUSICAL MAIDS. Great First Part Minstrel Featuring in the Olio, "The Fagan Trio," the Sensation of Three Continents. 30 — PEOPLE — 30 Headed by Those Peep HAPPY SAM GARDNER AND Superb Band and Orchestra. Prices: Night, 10c. 20c. 30c. Mat HOTEL HAPPY SAM GARDNER AND FUNNY AL. STRAUDER HOTEL DALE CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located in seashore resort in the world; replete superlative in construction, appointn age. Orchestra 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. Orcbestra daily. Garage, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention given to ladies and children. Send for booklet. ceased was a member of Lancaster Lodge of Odd Fellows and Beulah Baptist Church. Owing to the host of friends of the deceased who wished to attend the services, the same were held in the spacious auditorium of the Alfred Street Baptist Church. Mr Ballard was a veteran of the Civil War and after the war was employed at the Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., until his death. He is survived by a widow, three sons (James, Malachi and Daniel) and three married daughters. Rev. Moore, pastor of Beulah Baptist Church, officiated, assisted by Rev. Alexander Trutt, pastor of Alfred Street Baptist Church. Rev. A. W. Price was ordained a deacon of Alfred Street Baptist Church on the eve of Thursday, April 10. Rev. W. J Howard, pastor of Zion Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. preached the sermon Rev. S. M. Johnson, pastor of Zion Baptist Church of Alexandria, Va. was master of ceremonies. Mrs. Cora Conway is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mary Redding, of Wilmington, Del. Miss Eva L. Stokes is visiting her sister and mother in Pittsburgh, Pa. sister and mother in Pittsburgh, Pa. Roberts' Chapel is greatly delighted with their new pastor, Rev. N. M. Carroll, one of the fathers of the Conference. Rev Carroll has been pastor of the church once before and during his two years' pastorate "made good." He installed a pipe organ, an instrument not quite so plentiful in colored houses of worship, about twenty-five years ago. He paid for the organ before he left and did lots of other good work also. He expects to eclipse even his previous efforts this year. Get The Bee from David Wair. 202 North Col. Street. Young Men's Protective League— Eighteenth Annual Sermon. The Young Men's Protective League 'celebrated their eighteenth annual anniversary on Sunday evening by attending divine service at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. M Street Northwest, at 8 o'clock. The members filed into the main auditorium, each wearing a white eryan-themum, accompanied by the Ladies' Protective League and Coachmen's Union. After the following program was rendered, the sermon was delivered by Rev. I. N Ross, D. D., the pastor: 1. Processional. 2. Hymn. 3. Prayer by Rev. Joseph H. Lee. 4. Scripture reading by Hon. W. T. Vernon. "History of the League." by G. L. Walton. Solo by Mr. John M. Johnson. Solo by Mr. John M. Johnson. Introduction by Dr. Clarence Wright. Solo by Miss Olive Mae Wells. Solo by Miss Olive Stae Wells. The sermon was one of the best addresses received since the league's organization, which numbers 575 and has a bank account of seven thousand dollars. The officers are W. Stephen 1. Processional. E. W. DALE, OWNER. Buller, president; James L. Turner, first vice president; Mr. Nathaniel, second vice president; A. Lincoln Alexander, financial secretary; Alphonzo Wood-on, assistant secretary; J. Benard Smith, recording secretary; R. G. Smoot, assistant recording secretary; W. H. Hamilton, sergeant-at-arms; Chas. H. Shorter, assistant sergeant-at-arms; Daniel Freeman, treasurer; Rev. Jos. H. Lee, chaplain. Board of Director—Geo. L. Walton, W. E. L. Sanford, Harry A. Goodrich, Arthur T. Boston, Wm. H. Johnson, Fred A. Sabbs, Elton H. Jackson, Wm H. Carter, Jr. Bethel Literary and Historical Association Dr. R C Ransom, editor of the A. M. E. Review and one of the most eloquent speakers in the country, will address Bethel Literary and Historical Association at Metropolitan Church Tuesday evening; April 22 at 8 o'clock. He will discuss "The New Emancipation." A rare treat is in store for all who attend this meeting. The quarterly meeting of the Colored Young Women's Christian Association was held Monday evening at the Shiloh Baptist Church. The meeting was called to order by the vice president. Miss Ella D. Barrier. The president, Mrs. Bettie G. Francis, was absent on account of the illness of her husband, Dr. John R. Francis. After the reports of the several committees were read and approved, the association intended to an excellent address by Mrs. B. K. Bruce on the "Conservation of the Child." Mrs. Rullin, of Boston, told of the establishment of civic centers in Boston in the poorer quarters of the town for the betterment of the submerged. GOING TO DURHAM. Assistant Superintendent of Schools to Speak. Special to The Bee. Durham, N. C. April 16.—The coming of As-istant Superintendent Roscoe C. Bruce to this city next month is looked forward to as one of the greatest educational treats it the history of school commencements. Great preparations are being made for his reception by the school officials of this city. There will also be tendered him several private receptions by his friends and admirers. Last year Dr. C. W. Childs addressed Whitted Public School and from all accounts his address was well received. Dr Childs is a fine speaker and is regarded not only a fine physician, but a high-class educator and one that is interested in the advancement of school work. Children's May Carnival at Howard Theater is based on music by S. Coleridge Taylor and other colored composers. National Religious Training Schoo The image shows a rural landscape with a large building in the center, surrounded by trees and open fields. The building appears to be a farmhouse or a large barn, with a chimney and a large window. The surrounding area is covered in grass and low vegetation, indicating a rural setting. Origin of Paper. At various times the scholars of different countries have tried definitely to determine the real discoverer of paper in the eleventh century. It is to paper that we owe the renaissance of letters. From time immemorial something answering modern paper was used in China, where it was manufactured from silk. About the middle of the seventh century of our era there seems to have been established in Arabia a manufactory of paper, and fifty years later the way was discovered to make it from cotton instead of from silk, silk being a rare commodity outside of China at that time and cotton relatively plentiful. In the reign of Henry II. of France a Greek scholar was sent to Paris to arrange systematically a catalogue of antique manuscripts in the royal library, and a notation in his hand speaks of what was then known as "paper" as originating in Damascus. The later invention of making paper from flax, linen or hemp has been attributed equally to Italy and Germany, but there is evidence that it existed prior to the fourteenth century.—Harper's. Escort For the Holy Carpet. As is well known to Mohammedans, but to few Europeans, the Holy Carpet always travels with an escort to and from the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. This escort consists of 300 to 350 men of one of the Egyptian infantry regiments, with two small field pieces and two quick firing guns, and about forty mounted men, together with their horses. The object of such a strong escort is to protect the sacred object from falling into the hands of the Bedouin tribes, through whose countries it must pass at various stages of its journey and who are also on the lookout for it, as the carpet is worth a fine ransom. Desperate attacks are not infrequently made upon the Holy Carpet by the Bedouina of the desert; hence the strength of the escort—Egyptian Gazette. Lions and Tigara 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 car 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 fn. 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. 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The : Up-to-date : Cafe FIRST-CLASS PLACE FOR MEALS Ice Cream, cut. $1.20 per gal. Plain Ice Cream 90c per gal. Public and private receptions served in our large dining room. E. Murray 1216 You St. N. W 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, Jimmie?" she asked. "Somethin' t' eat," replied Jimmie. "But I'm not hungry." "Yes, you are," insisted the ragged philanthropist, winking at her gravely. "Nobody's sick 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 funemal 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 scat 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 door nail," "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 attendance," "send him packing," "kill with kindness," "give and take," "an eyesore," "to boot" and "the map 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. 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Nothing is easier than to fall into conventionalities of speech, and nothing so impoverishes conversation. A generation ago it was customary to thank a person for a service rendered. Now we thank him "very much," although the service be no more than picking up a penell. Also it is "awfully good" of him to hold the door open for us or to give up his seat in a car. An amusing story is sure to be applauded by the inane "Oh, that's lovely!" At least let us pray that we may never be the party of the second part in "How's your mother?" "Nicely, thanks."—Youth's Companion. "The Charles Dickens Train." A friend of mine who was connected with the London and Northwestern railway for over forty years was traveling to London on the "Charles Dickens" train. Before starting he strolled up the platform as usual to have a look at the engine. "Well, driver," he said, "how much of the original engine have you there today?" "I wraps the whistle, sir," said the driver.—Manchester Guardian. "You can't paint the 'illy." declared the rose. "Maybe not." responded the aster. "But have you noticed?" "Noticed what?" "The lily pads!"—Washington Her ald. Slilicus—What is the age of discreet? Cynicus—There isn't any know a man over seventy who married his fourth wife the other day.—Philadphin Record. Many a man finds out too late that he cannot hide anything from his own conscience.—Pliny. Go' To HOLMES' HOTEL 333 Virginia Ave. S. W. Finest Afro-American Accommodations in the District. European and American Plan. Good Rooms and Lodging, 50c, 75c and $1.00. Comfortably Heated by Steam. Give Us a Call. James Ottoway Holmes, Prop., Washington, D. C. Phone, Main 2315. DURHAM, N. C. se & 7th and IN DOUBT ABOUT hold F ption, House and is no other house o people can be satis ouse that, will satis thool es. continue five ession. Staff. ve accom- . C. ALL W Les Pictures of Photo Stu with st SITTII al. illy." declared ed the aster Lo Floral Scanlal. 6. 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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 continued 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 ligness requires him to on a railroad in New skirts a large lake. Will by the train, will some long distance parallel speed the same as thence it was easy, by getting the speed rate the conductor, to lead were going. The rate ty-seven miles an hour fifty. The belief of g sometimes travel at a minute is therefor truth. THE SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. NOT SOLD UNDER ANY OTHER NAME. HOME WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. If you purchase the NEW HOME you will receive a life asset at the price you pay, and will have an endless chain of repairs. 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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 friend 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 post paid; imitation alligator skin, gold edges, $1.00 postpaid. Order now little ble 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, I 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. Wit ness—All right; hand the old rag here I'll wave anything to oblige you. Bal more American. A concealed spark is more to be an open fire.—German The Regeneration of Organa. Many interior 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. The Ants' Drum Corps. One day Professor Bugnion visited a little island on Lake Anobalangoda, in Ceylon. While lilling 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 Bugnion 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, Staudigl 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. Staudigl 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 Staudigl were not here I certainly would claim the lead." Formes without hesitation Instantly said, "The greatest basso, sir--that's me. Karl Formes." How to Unearth a Scot. A Scot, commenting on the fact that "Scottism" 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 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 "homogate," too, do the writing Scots; allude to prisoners as "panels," take much to "avizandum" and "compare" their witnesses in a law case—London Tatter. Cost of Firing Naval Guns. In the appendix to "A Landsman's Log" R. W. Neeser supplies many interesting and startling statistics in regard to naval expenses. 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"Yes, indeed." responded the justice, "ite a fine morning—in fact, a ten fine morning." Hunt For a Hangman. 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 dogging the man who had volunteered and failed.—London Standard. Found the Sneeze. The overanxious 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, pupa." Tap-tap at the adjoining door. "Tupip at the beginning. Good." "Mary, my love, was that you sneezing?" "No, indeed, para dear." No, indeed, pop a drink. Pad-gad to the door at the end of the corridor. "Margaret, my pet, I heard a sneeze. Was it you?" "Oh no, nips, dearest." Just then the guest room door, halfway down the corridor, opened a hand's breast, and the mild voice of an old lady guest, who had retired early, is issued forth: "I am, extremely sorry. Mr. Brown; it was I who squeezed."—New York Sun. Artificial Ears Artificial cars are so skillfully made that they may with difficulty be distinguished 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 cars 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 car 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. 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This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia letters 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. E. L. GASKINS, ATTORNEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding an Equity Court. Equity No. 31,550. Daniali 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, Margie Fuller, Archie Fuller, Beatrice Fuller, Garfield 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 unknown 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. J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. Py J. McKEE, Assistant Clerk. Smith & Warrick, Attorneys. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding probate court. No. 19,590. 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 Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of, the Probate Court. JAS. H. SMITH. T. B WARRICK 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. 31626. 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 Editer Miller. On motion of the complainant, it is this 1st day of April, V. D. 1013, 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 times in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee. A true copy Miss Hammie. Miss Flora Hammie, who was becoming to be such a successful female journalist, has decided to enter the Freedmen's Hospital as a trained nurse. Miss Hammie will no doubt be a success, because whatever she attempts to do she makes a success. The Bee wishes her a successful career in her new field of labor. RUFUS L. PERRY—AN APPRECIATION. Versatile Attorney-at-Law Should Receive the Appointment of the Haitian Ministership—Men High in the Realms of Finance and Commerce Suggest Mr. Perry as the Most Logical Candidate. From the New York Mercantile and Financial Times Financiers, men high in the ranks of commerce and business, and educators in every branch of science and art, are now enlisting the attention of Washington. D. C. executives in an effort to have Ruins L. Perry appointed Minister to Haiti. President Wilson may not know who Rufus L. Perry is, and in order that his memory be kept fresh, and for the benefit of those who have not the pleasure of this gentleman's acquaintance. At the very beginning it is necessary to say that Mr. Perry is a man of great character. He has molded his own life, and has mastered every situation as it arose. As a youth he worked night and day to secure recognition, and was at last appointed an attorney, graduating at the age of 20 from the New York University. Mr. Perry was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a boy he determined that the practice of law should become his profession, and how well he has succeeded is best evidenced by the fact that he has an extensive clientele among the colored people of every borough in Greater New York. Secretary of State Bryan should consider the fact, too, that Mr. Perry has a wide range of accomplishments, speaking a number of languages, and is thoroughly acquainted with the internal affairs of the Republic of Haiti. Science, art, literature, music and law comprise the learned factors with which Mr. Perry has an intimate acquaintance. If the Secretary of the United States should heed the words of those who know Mr. Perry, the latter will promise to bring about development in that Republic which will prove of invaluable worth to the United States. Mr. Perry claims that Haiti holds many undeveloped gold and copper mines, and his knowledge will positively bring this well before the captains of industry the world over. Mr. Perry stands for what is clean and conservative. He is not a dreamer or a theorist—he reduces to facts all the so-called dreams and fancies—and although he has been termed eccentric by a few who were and are still jealous of his great and forceful advancement, not a single iota of evidence can be produced to prove that Mr. Perry by any act of word or gesture ever conceived an idea that has not been frivolous of results. He upholds the colored race, and is fond of telling folk lore stories of the old days. As a man Mr. Perry is an example for the youth of today. He was born of humble parents, and was compelled at an early age to earn his livelihood. During every possible spare-moment he learned the works of great authors, and during his studies of law he managed at all times to stand well at the head of his class. He gained many friends during his student days, although when he first entered college there were distinct rumbles of rebellion. He did not heed them, however, because he had confidence in him-elf—he felt that with kindness and courtesy he would win these factors over—and he succeeded beyond all measure of belief It is a man of this caliber that will "make good" at any post. Those who have fought him in the Common and Supreme Courts know that they must deal very conservatively with a man of the high ideals of Mr. Perry. He is an ardent student of music. As an glaciationist and orator his skill is acknowledged, and on many occasions he has won his jury with tears and the highest of elementary English. Although the surface of Mr. Perry's features are dark, a whiter man in spirit never lived. This newspaper throws aside for the time being all editorial policy, and asks that the powers that be in the executive chambers at Washington appoint Mr. Perry to the Haitian Ministry, feeling certain that he will be a credit to the nation. Mr. Perry is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Society of Natural History, Brooklyn League, Ethnological Society, and a number of others "DISCRIMINATION" BILL Is Signed by Governor Sulzer—Measure Introduced by Assemblyman Levy Provides That No Person Shall Be Kept Out of a Place of Public Resort or Amusement on Account of Race, Creed or Color. Albany, N. Y., April 12—Governor Sulzer today signed Assemblyman Levy's bill which amends the law relative to equal rights in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement. With his approval of this bill Governor Sulzer stated it makes more stringent provisions against discrimination on account of race, creed or color in places of public resort. It provides that no person who is the owner, lessee or manager of a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement shall deny any person accommodations, or publish, circulate, display or post or mail any printed communication or advertisement to the effect that any of the accommodations or privileges of any such place shall be refused or denied to any person on account of race, creed or color Goldheim Says My stock of New Spring Fabrics has arrived and is now ready for the selection of every particular tailor-clothed man in Washington Make your selection from over seven hundred of the season's newest fabrics—Serges, Worsteds, Cassimeres, Cheviots, Homespuns, and Tweeds. 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Secure your tickets at once. All new features Nothing to equal it COLORED SCHOOLS Of Baltimore—Attorney 'Harry·S. Cummings Makes a Great Fight for His People. Special to The Bee Baltimore, Md., April 11. Councilman Harry S. Cummings, of the Seventeenth Ward, has written a letter to Mayor Preston praising the School Board for declining to interfere with the curriculum of the Colored High Schools. School Commissioner Bigg-recently introduced a resolution before the board providing for a sweeping change in the present studies of the advanced colored boys and girls and recommending the introduction of manual training work. Through the efforts of Mr. Cummings, the City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling upon the School Board to decline the acceptance of the resolution. The Board of Superintendents, after making a thorough investigation into the subject, reported to the School Board last Wednesday that the Biggs resolution should be turned down. This was done. Discussing the School Board's action yesterday, Councilman Cummings said: "I am very glad to see that the Board of School Commissioners, at its last meeting, adopted the unfavorable report made by the Board of Superintendents on the Biggs resolution, which proposed a change in the curriculum at the Colored High School. "My object in vigorously opposing the Biggs resolution from the beginning was due solely to my intense interest in the present and future welfare of the young men and women who are now rendering efficient service to the city as teachers, and in those who, though 'now pupils, will become our future teachers. Of course, without a standard High School course these pupils could never hope to become teachers, and they would thus be unable to repay the taxpayers, for the large amount being expended for their education, and would also be unable to protect and comfort in their declining days the parents who have made so many sacrifices that they might attain an education. The reconsideration of the Biggs resolution leaves intact our splendid High School course with all the benefits present and future which flow from it. It also furnishes another evidence that Mayor Preston's administration has no other desire than to give fair play to all classes of our citizens in every department of our city government. The board's action in this matter also shows it to be in harmony with the legislative branch of our city government, for it was the First Branch City Council who, by my instance, unanimously adopted a resolution requesting the School Board to reconsider the Biggs resolution a few days after its adoption. "Being grateful for the action that taken by the School Board and thanking them for the same on behalf on the parents, pupils and teachers. 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