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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXIII, NO 46 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913 MR. A. E. MANNING MR. MANNING AS "MINE HOST" HOOSIERDOM'S FAVORITE SON LANDED AT A NON-PARTI- SAN FESTAL BOARD. Bishop Walters, as Toastmaster, Shared the Limelight—Speeches That "Hit the Mark" for Race Unity—"Harmony" the Watchword. Leaders Point Way Forward for Bright Future—A Square Deal for Negro Expected. (Rreported Expressly for The Bee.) Mr. A. E. Manning, editor of the Indianapolis World, and courier of the Democratic National Committee, and one of the leading factors in the political and business life of the Hoosier State and of the country at large, was "mine host" at a delightful six o'clock dinner Monday evening at the beautiful home of Mrs. J. W. Smith, 1309 R Street Northwest. Mrs. Smith is the widow of the late Bishop J. W. Smith, of the M. E. Zion Church. The rich of the A. M. E. Zion Church. The riten varied and toothsome menu served on this occasion—a feast fit for the gods" —was prepared under her personal direction, and to say that it was a triumph of the culinary art and an example of the breadth of the Washington markets is to do but faint justice to the subject. "Harmony" the Keynote of the Hour. The dinner was tendered by Mr. Manning as a testimonial to a group of friends of long standing, but whom he had not had an opportunity to meet in a social way in recent years on account of much traveling and the pressure of business demands, and it was also designed by its author as an expression of the harmonious relations existing among the numerous elements that go to make up the active citizenship of the race in this crucial period of our political career. Around the festal board with Mr. Manning sat typical representatives of every helpful calling in which Americans are engaged, and among them were vigorous advocates of every phase of political and religious thought. Yet, all were a unit on the one proposition that the cause of the Negro was a cause in common, and while differing in method, each was equally honest, sincere and firm in his desire to bring to the race a satisfactory solution of the perplexing problems that confront us. Ministers, lawyers, doctors, judges, journalists, business men, educators, and federal officials—some of them Republicans, some Democrats some Progressives and mayap a re Prohibitionists and Socialists—mingled their voices in happy acco with the principle that "the injury one is the concern of all" and broke bread and gold stories in a vein that augurs well for the future of a people to whom division and dissension would threaten disaster. As a promoter of harmony and an expression of racial unity on all essential issues, the dinner was a monumental success, and great good is bound to flow from it. Speeches That "Hit the Mark." Speeches That "Hit the Mark." Although the function was wholly informal, there were delivered impassioned speeches that "hit the mark." They grew naturally out of the inspiration of a joyous occasion and the contagious influence of good fellowship. Without surrendering convictions or party allegiance, Republicans and Democrats exchanged felicitations and compliments with prodigal generosity and each was counselled to go his individual way rejoicing, with the hope that the different paths might eventually bring all to the goal of larger liberties, fuller rights and a universal recognition of the Negro as a co-partner in the American corporation. Bishop Alexander Walters was chosen toastmaster by general consent, and eloquent and earnest talks were made as follows: "Our Host," R. W. Thompson. "The Press," W. Calvin Chase. "The New Democracy and the Negro," James A. Ross, of New York. "Friends of the Cause," John C. Dancy. "A Voice From the Bench," Judge Robert H. Terrell. "The New York Democracy as a Vital Force for Liberty," J. Frank Wheaton, of New York. "Our Duty as We See It," N. B. Marshall. "Good Works and Their Rewards," Bishop Walters. Mr. Manning's Optimistic Response. Mr. Manning's response to the spirit of the toasts and to the many kind words said of him and of the labors he had striven to perform for his people was received with enthusiastic acclaim. He regarded the occasion as one of far-reaching significance because of the absence of the factionalism and bitterness that had too often militated against the success of many forward movements inaugurated by men worth while. A Democratic administration had come in, but the hopes of the race were as buoyant as ever and the leaders of all parties are going on with courage undiminished and fraternity unmarred by the mutations of politics and impending changes of pilots on the ship of state. Mr. Manning was glad to have an opportunity to meet and hold "sweet converse" with old friends and coworkers, whose field of labor is nation-wide. As a whilom resident of Washington, living here thirty old years ago, he had never ceased to be deeply interested in her people and in all of the issues that concerned their well-being. He was no partisan in the restricted sense of the term. He stood for the friends of the Negro wherever he found them. He be- lieved in his strong white friends and it was a source of pride to be sometimes in a position where he could serve his people through his business contact with high officials and State legislatures. He paid a high tribute to President Wilson, Vice-President Marshall, Hon. Thomas Taggart and other eminent statesmen of today, and concluded his brilliant speech with the declaration that he sought no reward and was "a candidate for nothing but Heaven." His tone was optimistic throughout and he saw a bright outlook ahead. The goodly company wound up the festivities by singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" in honor of the genial and whole-souled son of the Hoosier State, who had entertained them so royally. Others present besides those already mentioned were: Rev. G. L. White, pastor of Metropolitan Wesley; Rev. G. M. Oliver, Union Wesley, and Rev. W. C. Brown, John Wesley—all three A. M. E. Zion churches; Charles L. Barnes, of Pennsylvania; Dr. Peter J. Smith, of Massachusetts; A. H. Underdown, of Ohio, and W. L. Offord, of Pennsylvania. A Word About "Mine Host." Mr. A. E. Manning is a native of Virginia, but is an Indianian by transplantation and development. He was associated for years with Col. T. A. Lewis, a railroad magnate, and later became part owner of the Indianapolis World and entered actively into politics, being a pioneer advocate of a division of the Negro vote. He won the confidence of the Hon. Thomas Taggart (the Negro's best friend in Indiana, and for the past twenty years has been in close touch with the Democratic National Committee. Since 1908 he has been officially designated as its "courier" and confidential assistant. He has been deputy clerk of Marion County, Indiana, and has held responsible positions in connection with the Indiana Legislature. He is always a conspicuous figure at the national conventions of the Democratic party and invariably an interested visitor at the conventions of the Republicans. He has a host of friends among all parties, all races and all classes in any section of the country. Washington has an "open door" for "Alcee" Manning. "Harmony" was the watchword. There were candidates galore, but trooply tasked. The experienced fruit-growers counselled patience, as the best of "ums" ripen slowly. Bishop Walters shared the lime-belt with Hoosierdom's favorite son. The preachers for once gave the city right of way. The various candidates made dignified speeches and "looked the part" they aspire to play in the official drama. Editor Chase said The Bee had criticised all parties and had praised them when it could consistently do so. This would continue to be the policy of The Bee. Everybody endorsed Judge Terrell for reappointment, after he had so artistically carved the turkey that each diner got just the kind of meat he was looking for. Mr. Dancy was the happiest man in the party—wanted nothing, looking for nothing. The hopes for the success of the administration, but if it fails he will "come back" with the g. o. p. in 1916. RACES TO HALT INTERMENT Of Colored Bishop—Coroner Rushes Seven Miles in Response to Sister's Letter—Fear of Poisoning in Death of Clergyman. New York, April 20.—Coroner Schaeffer, of Queens borough, raced seven miles by automobile this afternoon to halt the funeral of Bishop William Benjamin Derrick, of the African Methodist Church at Flushing. A hint that the bishop had been poisoned, received at the coroner's office shortly before the time set for the funeral, determined Mr. Schaeffer to halt the ceremonies until an autopsy could be performed. A letter sent by Letitia Ferguson, a sister of the dead bishop to District Attorney Whitman, of New York County, aroused suspicion that the bishop had died from other natural causes. Assistant District Attorney Strong telephoned to Coroner Schaeffer the letter, which requested that the body of her brother be examined. The coroner jumped into an automobile with his secretary and Dr. Johnson MacLeod, and started at top speed for Flushing. The bishop died last Tuesday at his home, Bishop's Court, 26 State Street, Flushing. He was one of the best known Negro clergymen in the United States. Born in 1843, Derrick served in the Navy during the Civil War and then entered the ministry. He was made bishop in 1896. He is survived by his wife and two children. Public Meeting A public meeting will be held in the Lincoln Temple Congregational Church Wednesday evening, April 30, at 8 o'clock for the purpose of making known to this community the work being done at the Manassas Industrial School at Manassas, Virginia. The speakers of the occasion will be Rev. William J. Howard, Mr. Roscoe C. Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of Schools! Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury; and Mr. Leslie Pinckney Hill, principal of the Manassas Industrial School. J. H. H. RECORDER HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON The Promoter of the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Odd Fellows Building Atlanta, Ga 6 THE DISCRIMINATION RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION. Mr. Waters Writes to the Pastor. Editor Washington, Bd. April 19, 1913. I have the honor to enclose herewith certain correspondence which explains itself. It relates to an incident which has been referred to in the Washington Bee and casts withal an interesting sidelight on the so-called religious life of the capital of the nation as well as the country as a whole. I have added at the close one or two personal observations which may or may not be concurred in by the readers of your newspaper—which, of course, is beside the question. The correspondence is as follows: April 12, 1913. Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, D. D. Pastor, St. John's P. E. Church. Washington D. C. Reverend Sir: I have the honor to ask if you will have the goodness to set me right as regards an incident in which two ladies identified with the Negro race are alleged to have figured at St. John's P. E. Church not long ago. The incident referred to is stated to be about as follows: Mrs. X., residing in another city, was in Washington on a visit. She expressed to Mrs. Y. a desire to attend service in the leading Episcopal Church attended by white people in Washington. Just, why she desired to do this does not appear, but at any rate Mrs. Y. agreed to accompany her to St. John's Church. Upon arrival at the church, the ladies entered and found that no one came to usher them to a pew. At this point some one, said to have been an usher, accosted the ladies and told them that "when they observed that no one attempted to show them a seat in the church they should have taken that to mean that they were not wanted in St. John's Church. This church has established St. Mary's and St. Monica's chapels for you people, and you are expected to go there." At this point suffering from the lumiliation, it is said, Mrs. Y. fainted and was quickly assisted from the church and sent home in a cab. The incident, if it took place, is so far a variance with every tenet of Christianity as I have heard it preached from my infancy, that I determined to write you this letter and see if you version of this incident, if any such incident occurred. It has been many years since I voluntarily entered a Christian church. I stopped attending because of the hypocrisy which permitted just such incidents as the one referred to above. I recall, however, that when I was wont to attend St. Luke's Church in this city, there was never a service in that church that I attended without there being present also devers ladies and gentlemen of the white race, and if ever any indignity was offered these persons, either by word, act and otherwise, I never saw nor heard of the incident. I am told that this is still the case at St. Luke's, as well as at certain other Washington churches. I am inclined to discount this story about St John's, because from what I know of the magnificent record for good of its distinguished pastor, it seems almost beyond belief. That a single visit by two colored ladies would cause any white church in Washington to heap such an indignity upon them is certainly not to be taken as true without verification. I enclose postage and sincerely beg to have the favor of a word in reply at your leisure. Your humble servant. (Signed) JAMES C. WATERS, JR.. 1330 T. Street. N. W. Washington, April 17th, 1913. My Dear Mr. Waters: I have been out of town and find your I have been out of town and find your letter on my return. I thank you for your courtesy in writing to me. I regret to say that the incident took place. But there is no rule empowering such an act, and I shall do everything in my power to prevent it ever happening again. Sincerely yours, (Signed) ROLAND COTTON SMITH This is a true copy: JAMES C. WATERS, JR. Thus, you see, we have a practical demonstration of Christianity. Those who follow carefully the news in the public print, will recall in this connection an announcement appearing in the press some weeks ago under the caption "ISLAM'S CHALLENGE TO THE CHRISTIAN WORLD." The announcement came as added matter to the elaborated reports of the Lucknow Conference at which the missionaries from a thousand points admitted that Christianity as a militant force had ceased to be a factor in the near east and on the African continent; that the morning star of Islam's complete supremacy had already ascended into the heavens where it shone with unrivaled effulgence—her "challenge to the Christian world." Then came the "added matter" of recent date, just mentioned, to the effect that at last the Mohammedan Church had reached the point where its leaders felt justified in inaugurating a new Moslem Men and Religion Forward Movement the avowed purpose of which was, in its last analysis—the conquest of the world. It was shown that already the church had missionaries at work in South America, and now it was proposed to send them to the United States and Canada. I, for one, shall welcome the coming of the Islamic missionaries, not so much for what their religion is as for what it is NOT. The Christian church, for many years decadent, has now almost reached a state of inocuous desuetude. Its houses of worship are fast becoming the halls where syndies most do gather, where the carping pharisee scorns the God-fearing publican, and where Becky Sharp, utterly unashamed, promotes by tricks that are vain and ways that are queer, her unprincipled propaganda. Its pubits, except in rare instances, are manned by self-seeking, fat and sleek "clerical down-dogs who will not bark even though they see the thief mounting the wall." Maybe—who knows?—the doctrine that "there is only one true living God and Mahommet is his prophet" may yet cleanse the nation of the plague of religious palsy which is upon it. Perhaps—who can tell?—"the book of books which is the Keren" may yet be shown to bring surcease of sorrow, while its expounders lead the people gradually out of the slough of hypocrisy into which the wretched Christian marplots have at last plunged them. "Onward Christian Soldiers" are sung by our ancestors three generations back, had a dash and verve strongly reminiscent of the church militant of the days when the Apostle Paul stood upon Mars Hill or John Knox hurled fiery speeches at the very face of the Queen of Scots. Today that same beautiful hymn, as sung in the Christian churches in America, has a lilt to be found only in a "darky todaloe" or in the syncopated strains of a melody in ragtime. Thus hath the Christians done. Let Islam come. Very sincerely. JAMES C. WATERS. JR. REV. BROWN'S CORRECTION. The Only Educated (?) Minister Claims His Love for the Race's Uplist. April 21, 1913. Mr. W. Calvin Chase Editor Ree Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Editor Bee. Dear Mr. Chase: I have read your editorial, on my address before the Congregational ministers of Boston and am sure that you will note, if not already, that the number referred to was a typographical error as the other figures show. The difference between twenty-seven thousand (47,000) and thirty thousand (30,000) could not be three hundred (300). The statement as made was that we have not more than three hundred Negro graduates, annually, from all our theological seminaries to supply the fifteen hundred pulpits needing new pastors every year, and that of the thirty thousand Negro ministers there was not more than three thousand pastors with the technical training of the seminary. These statistics have been carefully gathered and they hardly overestimate the educational aspect of the subject considered. I join with all lovers of the race in the wish that the coming years may witness continued and even greater progress towards a more generally trained ministry. Sincerely yours, STERLING N. BROWN. Business League Report. Business League Report. The 13th annual report of the National Negro Business League is out and it is a splendid document. It tells in graphic fashion the story of the great meeting at Chicago last August, and besides presenting many of the principal addresses in full, it gives excerpts from the sparkling debates that are decidedly refreshing and imparts a piquancy to the volume that makes it more than ordinarily readable. Dr. Washington's inspiring annual address and the happy deliverance of Mr. Julius Rosenwald are admirable features, and the list of members by states and life members, who have paid $25 initiation fee, indicate the widespread interest the people of the nation are taking in this highly useful organization. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, editor. S. Laing Williams, compiler, and Dr. W. H. Davis, of this city, official stenography aided and abetted by the A. M. E. Sunday School Union, Nashville, Tenn., as publisher, are responsible for this valuable addition to the literature bearing upon the progress of the Negro. Carnival tickets on sale at Conservatory, 10 to 12 A. M., every day to 2 to 1 B. M. every Saturday. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Important News Happenings of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERALINTEREST President Roosevelt is about to become a political factor. He predicted the defeat of the Republican party, and he predicted his own return to power in 1916. Major Sylvester will begin the police census very shortly. The women of San Francisco, Cal., who made an active fight against a police judge, caused his defeat. A colored woman has opened a drug store in Helena, Arkansas. It is said she is the first colored woman to enter in the drug business there. A California Congressman is authority for the statement that there will be no separate exhibit building for the Negro race at the Panama Canal Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. Mrs. B. K. Bruce, in speaking before the National Council of Women, which convened here last week, stated that the uplift movement among the Negro youth was being seriously retarded by cheap places of amusement and the dance hall. President Wilson's suggestion in making Saturdays a half holiday the year around was welcome news for all government employees. It shows his intention to help humanity. According to Dr. F. W. Mott, who has charge of 20,000 lunatics in the London hospitals, and who is now visiting this country, says half of the great poets were insane, and genious and insanity are closely related. National Committeeman Costello will no doubt suggest a few names to the President for District Commissioner. The colored people will begin to accumulate property and keep out of politics. The Negro Business League is a great success. President Freeman makes a wide-awake president. President Wilson will name the District officers next week. The outlook is that Capt. Oyster will be named for one of the commissioners. Prof. Kelly Miller is in need of an editor. The magazine writer has some work to do. The president of the Bethel Literary is a very popular presiding officer. Chinese dentists use only their thumb and fore finger in extracting teeth. Jack, Johnson, the pugilist, was fined $1,000 by Judge Carpenter in Chicago, on charges of smuggling a $2,000 necklace. The necklace was declared forfeited to the government, and will probably be sold at auction. There is a great school scandal in the Atlantic City schools. There seems to be a school distemper. Wm. H. Freeman, janitor of the Warder building, has sued Joseph Auerbach for $5,000 damages for false arrest. He alleges that Auerbach accused him of stealing fourteen rain coats, hat and suit case. The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has received $5,000 from the estate of E. W. Marsh, of Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Roscoe C. Simmons has launched another paper "The Sun" which he publishes in Memphis, Tenn. It promises to be a first-class paper. For the second time within six months a constitutional amendment, permitting woman suffrage was defeated in Michigan. SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES. Men Who Are Making a Strong Fight. Just why there are so many candidates for the School, Board of Education The Bee is unable to state. There are some very active candidates for the place to be made vacant by the retirement of Attorney R. R. Horner. Dr. John Johnson, who was an active candidate last year is making a hard fight now. He is being urged by Mr. Cooper, head of the white Young Men's Christian Association. It would seem that the colored people would know whether Dr. Johnson would be acceptable to them. It is as much as Mr. Cooper could do to attend to the white schools and allow the colored people to select their own men. Rev. Van Lew is another candidate. Rev. Bennett is more than anxious to be on the Board of Education. What educational experience has any of the foregoing? There is something more to do than to attend school board meetings, and look wise. Can any of these men enter any school and decide whether a teacher is properly conducting her school? No man should be appointed on the Board of Education who makes an active canvass for the place. Dr. Collins, of South Washington, is being urged also. There are at least a dozen candidates for the Board of Education. A man's peculiar fitness for the place should be considered before he is appointed. The Judge will not make “ey ee ee ee a cake ee : : : 7 . * . x » Sg ° * i ri SAYS RAILROADS ne SOP ASTOR ESTATE IS 1 sco 7 oe Jerre rn py yp | Hr anu ra vows Take Pastor's Words Literally In ae SE KS T0 SOLVE ope ts . 1 P Fide His Murdered Father Bequeaths Love i Couple Legalize Her Right to Their | Breaking Ground Fer an eo . I we Fer Mothe? and Cauntey, : £ * Name and Property. 7 alan isliae aan as 0 Athens.—In his political will, which 1 St. Lonis.—Aithoush she has lived WAST E RE te Deceien Latmaren Re ch as. 3 5 “has now been made public, the late , for fifteen years ay the daughter of \ eee ee uheene ork — King Georze. after giving directions (Mr. and Mrs. George B. Smith of 151 i eid eee trie eay ecw ion . f 1 . ' for’the disposition of bis belouginzs, —- j Garfield avenue, Miss Ethel R. Smith {mony at the site of a bey inves of Value Much Greater Than Was: urges bis cbfidren to remain united. | . 7 a * did not really become so until the oth-. W. 8, Garter, Head of Fite-’ wormo salen ts to be a 1 Audressing himsett to the new wins} President Pledges His Aid 10. cr-aay, wnen a dow or sacpuce oes oa) ’ aster, the ler. G. 4. Fechoer, armed First Estimated | constantine, King George says: } | filed In the otfee of the recorder of in) j “with a silver spade, sto - . 2 + dsedé which made ber so. , men’s Union, So Declares, dle of the Jot and all iis Hock: gathered | i \eere een oa ear peapie at | Drainage Congress, 1 Miss “Seilih. whose |(ieale. ese — habout Bhi. Frinping the dee of 1s APPRAISAL ADE, | fave Soniiioncd ln them208 may jer — j ume Tipton, is twente-two, a blond ‘burch site were workmen with spades ” | and is cousidered good looking by ber GAN GIVE MEN FAIR WAGE. :ctrcheri "Scene Geo aise oc FINAL IS MADE, | trothers totiow the sameerample” | yn ponan ny aa pean gail ts coustdcrad good Bad Management and Watered Stock No Reason For Denying Men's De- mands, Says President of B. of L. F. In Brief Filed, With Arbitration Board In Wage Dispute, New York,—Dissipation of revenue. incompetent and wasteful mauage- ment nud watered capitalization are charged against railroads by W. S. Carter, luternational president of -the Brotherhood of Lucomotive Firemen, in a brief filed with the arbitration board which beard the waze dispute between the firemen and the fifty-four eastern toads. * .The railroads frequently asserted at the hearings that to grant the fire- men 2 25 per cent annual Increase in Wages would be too great a financial burden to Le borne by’ a number of the roads. + “All the railroads engaged in tie Present proceedings, when the actual amount of capital invested in roadbed, structures and equipment iy consider- ed, without reference to watered cap- Stallzation or Hnancial investments, sbow sulliclent operating revenue to cover all operating expenses, including a liberal advance in waxes to firemen and all legitimate capltal charges,” sald Mr. Carter. “If the construction of a rallroad has been without eco- nomle justificatlon or no profitable thaffic is developed im the territory ‘which it traverses or if it Is construct- ed without regard to development traf- fie through un agreement with con- necting ronds, these facts are no ground for denying firemen the pay- ‘ment of proper wages. “If the stocks and bonds of a railroad company have been properly issued for the purpose.of granting bonuses te stockholders, to underwriters or pro moters or acquiring the bonds anc stocks of other transportation compa nies and industrial corporations at in a re pa Rc Ree J Pec Wek Foca od “SAS 2) =i . @ 13 by American Press Association. flated values the necessity of paying dividends on such stocks or interest ‘on such bonds cannot be urged as a Teason aginst the grant of inereased Waxes to lucomblive firemen. “The proceeds of the labor of the Grewen xhd other rulroad employees should not be used by diverting a part ofthe uperating revenmes each sear into additions and betterments to give A market value to railrond securities which were orizinally worthless. “These unpardonable methods of in reasing ontstandiny — capitalization hare not only rendered absurd that claim: (hat all railroad steck and bond: should receive dividends, but thes have imposed a begry and grievous burden on the firemen and other labor engaged iu conducting transportatior and capital actually invested in the railroads, because they Lave caused large “drains on ‘operating revenu without wakius any contribution t the value or earning capaelty of th railroad properties “Forty-four of the roads involved {1 these proceedings showed a combine: net surplus of $256.288,931, With tht: ‘enormous amoimt at their disposal i is evident that they are Oilly able t pay the increase In wages asked by th Gremen, which, acconting to the road ethemselves, would result in an annua “charge atrounting to less than a twen ty-fth of the total amount of sui plus now held dy the railroad con Panles opposed to this arbitration.” Of the deal whereby the Toledo, S| ‘Louis and Western ratlroad—the Clic Yer Leaf road—acquired control of th Chicazo and Alton in 1901 Mr. Carte sald: “By the issue of new securities tn th (process of reorganization 6723 pe cent of the canitalization of the con pany was fictitious and represented 1 actual property or earning capacit: ‘Dividends and fixed charges on th: capitalization represented an onjust “fable burden on the labor and capit joperating the railroad.” CHILDREN DIG FOR CHURCH. Take Pastor’s Words Literally In Breaking Ground For New Edifice, Middtetown, N. ¥.—.All the congrega- tion nnd 100 Sunday school children of the Evangelleal Lutheran cburch as- sembled for the ground breaking cere- mony at the site of a new house of Worship which Is to be bullt. Tbe pastor, the Rev. G. A. Fechner, armed with a silver spade, stood in the mld- dle of the Jot and all his flock gathered about bim. Fringing the edge of the cbureh site were workmen with spades and shovels. Nearby was a line of wagons ready for the excavating work to hezin. ‘The pastor wound up bis dedicatory Temarks thus: “Now, ebildren, we are to build a fine, new cburth, and-all of you must set to work with sincere hearts nxd willing bands for its up- building and glorification.” Then with the silver spade be turn- ed over a bit of turf. Instantly the children made a dash for the picks and shovels of the workmen and began digzing farionsly, Girls and bors alike Joined In the scramble, and in a few minutes the waiting wagons were fill- ed with earth. x The youngsters bad taken thelf pas- tor's words Iterally. $30,000.000 FROM ONE TAX. What Corporations Will Pay to the Government For Last Year. Washington.—The net earnings of corporations of the United States for the calendar year 1912 were $3,000.- 000,000. an increase of $250,000,000 over 1911. This amount will yleld an income to the federal government un- der the corporation tax law of $30- 000,000, which 1s $2,500,000, or 8 per cent, gretter than a year ago. Toga) 1: Cabell, commissioner of in- teroal ‘revenue, has received returns from practically all corporations and bas now cowpleted assessments to the fall extent of the $30,000,000, which must he paid to the government by June 30. In addition, $2,000,000 will come from delinquents of previous years. Net corporation earnings for 1911 decreased 2 per cent as compared with 1910. The figures for 1912, Lowever, showing an Increase of about § per cent over 1911, were 6 per cent greater than 1910. LIZZIE BORDEN NOT GUILTY, SAYS SISTER Silence of Twanty-Years Broken In Sensational Gase, Fall River, Mass.—Miss Emma Bor- den broke a silence of twenty years when sbe declared her positive belief 1n the innocence of her sister. Miss Lizzle Borden, who was tried and ac- quitted In 1893 of the charge of mur- dering their father, Andrew J. Borden, and his sucond wife. : Her statement is the first onc,of a public nature that either sister bas made regarding one of the most nota- ble murder mysteries in New England. Eight years ago Miss Emma Borden quit the mansion where she and ber sister were living and made her home with friends This more caused an estrangement, and since then the two Women have not met or communicated with each other The Borden murder was the sensa- ton of twenty years ago, and, although ‘the authoritiés did ‘everything they | could to untangle the mystery. it never bas been solved. | Andrew J, Borden was a well to do but miserly farmer of Fall River. He lived with his wife and two adult daughters, Lizzie and Emma, On Aug. 4, 1802. he and bls: wife were found in their home in'separate rooms ‘murdered apparently by some heavy. sharp instrament, presumably au ax. ‘The police of Fall River produced evidence that Lizzie was the only per- | €0n who bad been fn the house during ‘the day. Mr. Borden left an estate of , about $300,000, and she stood to profit by bis death. It was shown that once | she bad made an attempt to purchase prussic acid. She was arrested and | put on trial. [ ‘The trial was at New Bedford and lasted sixteen days. The girl was ed- tented, with a sincere personality. and, while no direct proof was fur- nised against her. the state present- ‘ed a strong circumstantial case. The \sury acquitted her after an hour's de- Uberation. ‘ . The ten months intervening between the murder and trial only served to deepen the mystery. Borden had a ‘good reputation for probity, No ene- 'infes were found, and no cause why ‘any one suould murder him was ascer t tained. SOME INDIAN NOMENCLATURE Representatives of Families Who Are of the Landed Gentry. Washington —New and strange In- ion names are being added from time to time to the government payrolls ‘The treasury department bas sent war- rants drawn to the order of the fol- lowing as allottees of lands in the west: * . Mary Full Stomach, John Brings Home fhe Baby, George Circle Fool, Kettle Wo- man, Susan Howling Horse, She Paints Her Shoes, Helen Crows, Like Water and Exward Useful Heart. Indlan nomenclature has full play | en this payroll, the most interesting in ‘the files of the government. 7 ASTOR ESTATE IS OVER $87,000,000 Value Much Grete Than Was First Estimated, FINAL APPRAISAL IS. MADE Hero of Titanic Disaster Left $10,000,- 000 More Than Estate Was Thought to Be Worth—Vincent Astor Raceives $65,603,547—Few Worthless Securi- ties Found by Appraisers, New" York.—Final appraisal of the estate of Jobn Jacob Astor, who weut to his death pn the Titanic, Gses the value at $S7.21,091, ‘This is approst- mately $10,000,000 more than the tenta- tive appraisals and the assessed valu: ation indicated the estate 1 be worth +The share of the estate which passes Into the bands of William Vincent Astor, the first American. member ot the family’ to hold bis legacy absolyte: ly and without the intervention of trusts, amounts to $65.Gu3,547. The property set aside for Colonel Astor's first wife. Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, was appraised at $i87.097. ‘The Property placed in trnst for Colonel Astor's second wife, who vras Made Jelne Force, was appraised at Sl. 695,702 ot Unusual methods were adopted tn the appraisal of the Astor estate. In stead of the estate retaining its own appraisers and the state comptroller feces Be \ rev IROR a ee ier? Sa: eel j ¢ 7. @ by Marceau. ERAS AStve, retaining another set of appraisers, there was uppointed a board of ap- praisers agreed upon by botb sides. It was understood that the report of this board of experts should .be ac- cepted as final. In the appraisal of property which had been left in trust for both the first and second wives of Colonel Astor the appraisals were made without knowl- edge on the- part of the appraisers as to what purpose the property was to be desoted. ‘The value of the real estate, as deter- mined by the appraisers. 1s approst- mately $61,000,000, while the securities he owned had a face value of $20,000,- 000. It is said that the worthless se- curlties held by Colonel Astor were few. Most of these were {nvestinents {nto which Colonel Astor had been led by his love for scientific experimentation, he evidently having been willing to {n- yest money Jn ventures for the promo- tlon of sclentilic theories In which, it Is sald, he liad little hope of Gnanclal profit, Ry friends he bad beeu induced to Invest comparatively small sums in mining ventures, ‘The following are the principal items of realty, with the appraised valua- tlons: Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, including one-half of Astor court, $10,400,000; "Hotel Knickerbocker, $4,875,000; Totel St. Regis and three parcels adjoining. $3.975.000; Putnam building, $2,525. 000; south one-balf of the Astor House, $2,400,000; the Astor residence at 840 and 842 Fifth avenue, $2,475,000: the ground at the northeast corner of Broadway and Forty-second street. $2,125,000: Cambridge hotel at 320-33: | Fifth avenue, $1,475,000; Schermerbort building, $1,800,000; 205-203 “Sixth ay. enue with the adjoiuing five parcels In West Nineteenth street, $1,183,500. | ‘The largest single stock holding war in the New “York Central, of whict | securitles Colonel Astor held 40,00 shares, valued at $4,650,000, | When Colonel Astor's “body wa: found there was $3,817 In his pockets The appraisal of the Astor jewelry i $161,920. The two principal items are 2 diamond sunburst valued at $78,00 - and a diamond necklace valued at $60. 00. ie | Charles W Morse owed the Astor ‘estate $110,090, which the executor say they have been unable to collect since the claim arose ‘in 1900. ‘The , total deductions claimed by executors ‘including debts. administrative ex { penses, executors’ commissions and at { torneys’ fees amount to $1,875,771. * ‘The estate pald a preliminary tax o $3,150,000 last October. Owing to th increase in vafue upon final appraisa | the estate will be required to pay thou | sends of dollars‘in additional tax. LEGACY TO GREEK KING. His Murdered Father Bequeaths Love For Mother and Country. Athens.—In his political will, which has now been made public, the late Bing George. after giving directions for’the disposition of bis belouginzs. urges hfs cifldren to remain united. Addressing himself to the new Kinz, Constantine, King George says: “Love your dear little country. Serve ber and your dear people and have confidence in them, and may your brothers follow the same example.” ‘The will urges King Constantine to be courigeous und patient, “for you are reigning over a southern people whose temper and frritability take fir¢ rapidly and who at any moment maj say and do things which it ts proba: ble will be forgotten the followin; day. It is preferable that the kin; should suffer, even morally, rather than his people and his country. The Interests of the people of the country must wlwass be placed pefore all othe: interests.” In conclusion King George” declares his love for Queen Olga and urges. bi son to love und protect her, WON'T CHECK THEIR BABIES. Churchgeing Mothers Sure They Can Identify Their Own, Evanston, Il. proposed system to ebeck babies during service was re sorted to by several mothers at the Wheaton Methodist Eptscopal ¢hurcl ‘here. The mothers were willing to have their Ite ones cared for in an ante room by two attendants while they Istened to the sermon, but when thes were offered checks as a guaranter that no inistake.would be made when ‘the babies were reclaimed they vb Jected. o ‘The attendants were Bally persuad ed to take care of the infants wit}wnr handing out checks for thei in assure by each mother that there would be no mistake made when she cane to claim her own. The checking concession had been Iet by the ladies’ ald society of the church, the members of which desites to relieve {he congregation from the annoyance of the babies crying. SHOWS A HOUSEFLY AS LARGE AS A-CAT “oe View at Museum of iral History. OF eee eee erence wee sinew to the affairs of every: day life than many of the scientific treasures which the big institution houses élsewhere. The principal fz- ures of this newest exhibit are not pre- historle monsters, but tiny and famil- far insects of contemporaneous human Interest—the fly, the mosquito and the flea. . A housedy as big ad a fair sized cat occuptes the place of Lonor in the col- ‘lection. This model bas cost nine months of work and study on the part of Ignasz Matausch, a Hungarian mod- el maker In the service of the mdseum. It is constructed on a seale of 4,000 times the size of the living Insect, and the proportions have been preserved with the minutest caro, Mr. Matausch having made his drawings and casts for the head, body nd various men bers of the Insect from dissection. Larvae and pupae of the fig, are shown in models molded on the same seale, as are the exes, which appear as little cucumber shaped pleces of parat- fin about two Inches long. A real fly's egg is just about visible to the naked eye. % ‘The sawe artist has painted an en- largement (1,500 diameters) of the hairy foot of tle fy. sbowing the ty phofd bacilil, of which the insect 1s the common carrier, on the clawlike tip of the member. ‘The exhibit as at present constituted, however. covers a good deal of ground that {s not so well known to the pub Ug as ft should be. ‘The connection be- tween the rat and the bubonie plague. for example, Is shown in the reproduc- tion of a section of a dwelling in San ‘Francisco. This represents two ad- joining rooms, in one of which several ‘rats are seen feasting upon the refuse of @ garbage barrel, while in the next, the wall of which {s plereed by rat holes, are several more taking thelr ease in a room which 1s evidently a pantty. These rats, of course, are sup- Posed to be Infested with the fleas which transmit the plague. One of the most striking groups !s that of “the ill kept farm,” whicb has as a companion piece “the well kept farm.” In the first model are shown « farmhouse and farm buildings of the eld fashioned type. There is a well with an “old oaken bucket.” the stable has a large manure heap, the out- houses are of “primitive character, and adjoining the farmyard 1s a mala. rial mosquito breeding marsh, The companion group shows a windmilt. In. Aleating that the.shallow well bas heen replaced by n driven well, insurins | ga wopotlited watér supply. A fis tight box has been substituted for the unsigtly and insanitery manure heap. the outhouses bave been brought up to date, the rain, barrels in which the anopheles “twrigglers” used to breed have disappeared, and thelr last refuge, the swamp, has been drained, _ = CE ——————— = SEEKS TO SOLVE FLOGD PROBLEMS President Pledges His Aid io Drainage Gongress, ‘NO APPROPRIATION IS MADE j Deemed Better by Authorities to Con- centrate Forces For One Comprehen- sive Country Wide Project—National Department of Public Works Under! Cabinet Member 1s Advocated. | St. Louls.—The reading of 2 tele- gram from Wasbington pledzing the Wilson administration to tavestization toward the solition of tlodd, dratnaze and fiver navization problems, the adoption of resolutions urging the ere- ation of « national department of pnb. Me works under a cabinet member, thi defeat of n resolution urging a eva gressionat appropriation for the- tool prevention plans of the Missivstyn river commission—fhese events mark: Jed the closing sessfon of the natious! drainage conztexs here. In addition the drainage congress adopted resolutions providing for th establishment of a malaria section of the drainage congress and urging the southern states to appoint commissions that will co-operate with the United States pnblie health service in stump Ing ont malaria. The messaze from Wasbinzton ont [Uning the attitude of the administra tion was addressed to David, I, Prin cls, retirin president of the drainaze cougress. ‘The inessage told Secretary Tumulty authbrized the followin: as being substantially an ex pression of the president's opinion al | this tine: ‘That the president hopes to see and wih strive to bring about substantlal progress during his administration toward solving of flood, drainage, river navigation and other such problems; that {f the national drajnase congress concludes creation of a special department of the government ‘will assist solution he will give earnest con- alderation to tquestion; that suggestion ap- pears-to offer a practical way of co-ordl- ‘ * es 2 ae Be, Le a sae BS PF ey SY ey) poi oe Be eN a % Sates TERE Tehen + Sever y tite a DAYTID NR FRANCIS. nation and of {mproving the government's facilites for srappling these questions, but that he hesitates to commit himself until he has studied the subject more ful- ly a to method—in short, the president has un “open mind.” The same sugges- tions have been made during and consid. ered under the two preceding administra- tions. The situatloh simply Is that the president would prefer to Investigate rec- ords and consult his admirers before ad- vocating so sweeping a change. Secretary Garrison Is now preparing a report on the ways and meany of coping with floods. ‘This may have a bearing on the presi- dent's course. The resolution urging a congressional appropriation to carry out the plans of the Mississippi river commission was presented by It, B. Oliver of Cape Girardeau. Mo., and precipitated the only stirring debate that occurred dur. ing. the entire session. “Why talk of further investlgations,” sald Mr. Oliver, “when the Mississipp| river commission already has made an investigation and eminent engineers bave announced that its plans for flood control are feasible? It is little short of murder for this congress to go on record as failing to indorse the plan of the commissfon when along the lower Mississippi today people ate being driven fram thelr homes and separat ed from thelr friends by foods that they cannot contro! and that orfginat- ed in regiuns north of them.” Mr. Oliver's speech brought forth sev eral replies. the speakers contendins that the drainage congress sbould nvt center its attention on one project. that the matter bad been discussed thor- oughly {n the resolutions committee and that it was the part of wisdom to present a united front for a department of public works which should take over all matters of food control. ‘The Téacedy of Two Hunters. Vancourey, i. C.—The skeletons of two men, believed to have been M Maloney and Edward Whalen, bunt- ers, who disappeared on Thurlow ts land, on the northern British Colum bia coast nearly three years ago, have been found’ The men were believed to have been: killed by Indians when they failed to return from a bunting trip. The skalis of both had been ereshed. apparently with an ax. ADOPT GIRL AFTER 15 YEARS. FESR SSE ee ee, Name and Property. St. Lonis.—Sithough she has Mved for fifteen sears as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Smith of 151 Garfield avenue, Miss Ethel R. Smith did not really become so watil the oth-. er day. when a deed of adoption was filed in the otfice of the recorder of deeds which made her so. Miss Suith, whose parents were named Tipton, is twenty-two, a blond and fs considered good looking by ber Personal acquaintances. Her foster mother said that the adoption bad been decided on as best to protect the girl's Onancial interests. ‘The Smiths, who are cotiparatively well to do. desire, she intimated. to see that her right to the family name and inheritanve may never be ques- toned. ‘Ther have uo ebildren of their own blood. Miss Smith was adopted by the Smiths when she was seven years old. She has lived in St. Louly ever since. and, although she has a wide circle of friends, few of them knew that she Was not the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Sbe bas not in many sears been known bs her birth name, Tip-, ton, SHE'LL TRY TO SAVE CROOKS. Sophie Lyons, Once a Criminal, at Six- ty-eight Turns Benefactor. Detroit. Mich.—Sopbie Lyons, woman crook of worldwide police acquaint- ance, wife of Billy Burke, now in a Stockholm prison for a biz swindle, has decided td devote the zemainder of her life and her fortune of $390.00 to saving frst offenders from soitrz deeper into erme. She ts sixty-etzht and lives iva modest bome in Detroit. She owns mach other real estute from. which sue derives a larze income. She said that she feared wer new resolution would alienate her husband. “But I want to accomplish bis ref ormoation more than any other single thing.” she added. “He is weak and easily tempted. and bis criminal opera- tions were not induced by necessity, as were mine. “L bave livel a strafght life for twenty-five years, I want to try’? make amends for what 1 did befor thet” AERIAL GAMBLING — ~ DEN FOR GERMAN: Berlin Gamesters Plan a Mont Carlo In Balloon, Berlin.—Owing to the increased atrit gency of the German antigamblin laws, some Ingenfots managers ¢ Frankfort and Dresden hate launchea the following idea, which frees the gambling dens of any police domicili- ary visits. A company’ has been formed by these enterprising gentlemen, and an old Zeppelin ditizible balloon is to be pur- chased. by them. In the interfor of the gondola of the airship a gambling room will be arranged. and gamblinz will take place there at geveral thou- sand fect up in the air. ‘This ‘will make the gambling absolutely free of police interference, as laws do not foresee the possibility of of aerial gam- bling. . ‘The scheme ts eagerly discussed tn German gambling circles, and It fs un- derstood that a conference of the lead- tng police prefects of the largest cit- fes in Germany will be summoned to Berlin to determine what measures shall be taken to meet the emergency. ‘The question raised is whether the police will be allowed to shoot down any alrship which fs used for Illegal purposes. » LINGERIE IN HIS TRUNKS. Customs Men Make Heino Transfer Finery to Girl, Its Owner, New York.—When the custom house inspectors examined the bagzage of Eric Heino, a second cabin passenger on the White Star liner Baltic, they found one of lis trunks had a false bottom, fa which he had hidden elghty- one boxes of, cigarettes, the duty on which would have been about $23. The cigarettes were confiscated, and Heino was not detained. ‘The Inspectors also found consider- able lingerie. dresses and other wom- en’s wearing apparel in Helno’s trunks, but were satisfied with his explanation that they belonged to a Miss Severin- son, with whom he bad grown np'trom childhood and who was also a second cabin passenzer on the Baltic. The inspector made Helno transfer the ln- gerle and other goods to Miss Severin- son's frank, and she was detained nn- tit friends called for her. TAKES CHRIST AS HIS, MODEL. New vlstice oF Feace Will Follow Golden Rule. , Chicago.—Henry Neill, father of the mothers’ pension bill, has been elected & Justice of the peace in Oak Park. He announced that he will condact bis court as nearly as possible as {t would de conducted by Jesus Christ were he on earth today. - 2 “All the ministers in town will be assistant justices.” sald Mr. Nell. “The Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount will have more influence with me than city council ordinances. T will abolish all my fees, but I can- Bot abolish the constable fees, I wish 1 could,” SCHOOL HYGIENE CONGRESS SOON International Meeting at Buffalo In August. Representatives of All Leading Nations, Every State in the Union and Most of the World's Great Educational and Scientific Institutions Will Discuss Pupils' Health. All the leading nations, every state in the Union, every college and university of note in this country and various other leading educational, scientific, medical and hygienic institutions and organizations as well as various women's organizations will be represented at the fourth international congress on school hygiene in Buffalo Aug. 25-30, according to a preliminary statement issued by Dr. Thomas A. Storey of the College of the City of New York, secretary general of the congress. The president of the United States has accepted the honorary office of patron of the congress. The president of the congress is Dr. Charles W. Elliot, one time president of Harvard university. The vice presidents are Dr. William H. Welch, the great pathologist of Johns Hopkins university, formerly president of the American Medical association, and Dr. Henry P. Waleott, president of the recent international congress on hygiene and demography and chairman of the Massachusetts state board of health. It is the aim of the organizing committee in charge to bring together at Buffalo a record number of men and women interested in improving the health and efficiency of school children and to make this congress, the first of its kind ever held in America, one of direct benefit to each individual community. A program of papers and discussions is now being arranged covering the entire field of school hygiene There will be scientific exhibits representing the best that is being done in school hygiene and also commercial exhibits of educational value. Entertainment at Buffalo. Nor will the entertainment of delegates in any way be neglected. Buffalo has subscribed $40,000 toward covering the expenses of the congress. The Buffalo citizens committee has planned for a series of social events, including receptions and a grand ball, a pageant in the park and excursion trips to the great industrial plants and to the scenic wonders of Niagara falls. The congress is open to all persons interested in school hygiene, who may join as regular active members upon the payment of a five dollar fee. Application for membership should be sent to Dr. Thomas A. Storey, College of the City of New York, New York city. The list of honorary presidents contains the names of prominent men in foreign countries who have been active in the interest of school hygiene and in the support of the congress. Honorary Presidents. Among the names are: His royal highness the Duke of Connaught, governor general of Canada. His excellency J. Appel, minister of the department of education, Denmark. the department of education, Denmark His excellency R. J. Berquist, chief of the bureau of secondary education, Sweden. His excellency Dr. Kirchner, Prussian minister of the interior and president of the German School Hygiene association. His excellency M. Gulst' Hau, minister of public instruction and fine arts, France. His excellency Dr. Th. Heemskerk, minister of the interior, Netherlands. His excellency Dr. Rodrigo Rodríguez, minister of the interior and of public instruction, Portugal. His excellency D. Antonio Lopez Munoz, minister of public instruction and fine arts, Spain. Dr. Professor Burgerstein, Vienna. Dr. Professor Exner, Vienna. Dr. Professor Lobermann, Budapest. Dr. Professor Axel Johnnessen, Christiafu. Dr. Professor Twardowski, Polish Austria. Dr. Professor M. C. Schuyten, Belgium. Sir Lauder Brunton, England. Sir Lie Jose A. Lourz Del Valle, commissioner of health, Havana. Dr. L. Pasliani, Turin, Italy. Dr. Lals Hazetti, Caracas, Venezuela Honorary Vice Presidents. The honorary vice presidents have been selected from the most prominent exponents of the higher educational ideals of the North American countries. Among the names are: Dr. Abraham Jacobi, president of the American Medical association. James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore Philander P. Clayton, United States commissioner of education. John H. Finley, president of the College of the City of New York. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford university. Andrew S Drapef, commissioner of education, New York state: William H. Welsh, professor of pathology, Johns Hopkins university. Adelbert Moot, regent of the University of the state of New York. Dr. Rupert Blue, surgeon general United States public health and marine hospital service. When airships grow so commonplace That all men live in air Familiar signs we see on earth Will have new meaning there. Our well known sign "Keep Off the Grass" Will not restrain the crowds. Instead, to check the ruthless herd. We'll see "Keep Off the Clouds." "No Shooting Here" will not be meant For sportsmen up on high, But rather for the meteors That dart across the sky. And yet, though signs be modified As new environ wills, One old, familiar face we'll see Unaltered "Post No Bill!" —Blanche Elizabeth Wade in New York Times. HIGH HONOR CONFERRED ON AN INSANE PAINTER. Ralph Albert, Blakelock, an artist who has been an inmate of an insane asylum for sixteen years, was recently elected to an associate membership in the National Academy of Design. The balloting took place in New York. There were thirty-one other candidates, but Mr. Blakelock alone received the unanimous support of the hundred academicians voting. The decision to honor Mr. Blakelock was made after one of his paintings had been sold for $12,000 and others had been hung in the Metropolitan museum, the Brooklyn institute the Corcoran gallery and the National gallery, in Washington. The career of Mr. Hikakelock was one of the trainees of American art. He was born in New York on Oct. 15, 1847 and grained his art education there. He refused to attend the art schools, but studied with whatever artist took in fancy. It is first fame came from Indian guilds, and the greatest of these he painted, just before it was discovered that he was violently insane. While he was at work on this picture. "The Pine Dance," now in the Metropolitan museum, his friends found him in his studio playing a piano violently and then working on the painting, which was arranged on the piano in place of a piece of music. He was playing the piano and painting at the same time, he explained, because he needed the rhythm of the music to enable him to make his Indians dance. As a matter of fact, it was the rhythm mle swing of the dancers that made the painting famous. SNAKE ON "HUNGER STRIKE." Forcible Feeding Saves Big Python From Starvation A "hunner strike" which had been maintained for twenty-two months by Princess, a twenty-one foot python in the New York zoological park, was broken recently when Keeper Snyder and three of his assistants forced the big serpent to swallow a quantity of food. It is not unusual for pythons to go without food for several months at certain seasons of the year. Consequently Snyder was not alarmed when Princess toused to eat after fasting four months. At the end of about the sixth month, however, he began to be worried, for the python still refused to break her fast. Then for nearly a year and a half the keeper and his assistants tried to tempt the big serpent's appetite. Their efforts were in vain, and Snyder, fearing Princess would die, summoned his men and had them force down the snake's throat enough food to keep her alive for several months. INTERNATIONAL BOOK SHOW. All Branches of Industry, Including Photography, in Leipzig Exhibition. An international exhibition for the book industry and the graphic arts photography included, will take place this summer, from May to October in Leipzig, which is the center of the book industry in Germany. The exposition was planned to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in that city. The exhibition is being organized on an extensive scale, including among the allied arts the manufacture of paper, the development of newspapers and finally a group devoted to measure for the protection and welfare of women. NEW ITALIAN BATTLESHIPS Type Has Been Decided on, and Fe Will Be Done by 1916. The type of the Italian Dreadnought has been sextled upon, and four them are expected to be in commission by 1916. Each will carry nine fifteen inch guns in three turrets, one forwar and two aft. They will be of 30,000 tons displacement and will have a speed of twenty-five knots an hour. They will be very heavy armor, the maximum thickness of which will be thirteen inches. They will cost about $18,000,000 each. "Hug" Dances Barred. Because of the agitation aroused by the supposedly immoral effect of the various "hug" and "cuddle" dances the school authorities at Washington recently issued an edict forbidding a space of less than three inches between dancers. WORLD'S BIGGEST SHIP WILL BE HALF MILE LONG, SAYS AN EXPERT Growth in Size of Liners Has Continued Steadily For Forty Years. DIMENSIONS OF THE TWO BIGGEST SHIPS. AQUITANIA Length ..... 901 feet Beam ..... 57 feet Gross tonnage ..... 47,000 tons Speed ..... 23 knots Passenger capacity ..... 3,500 Number of crew ..... 1,000 IMPERATOR Length ..... 900 feet Beam ..... 55 feet Gross tonnage ..... 50,000 tons Speed ..... 22½ knots, Passenger capacity ..... 4,000 Number of crew ..... 1,000 --- NOTHER "biggest ship in the world" was launched recently at a Scotch shipyard. She is the Aquitania of the Cunard line and is much larger than another "biggest in the world," the ill fated Titanic, the sinking of which on her maiden voyage, with the loss of more than 1500 lives, was a blow that stunned the whole civilized world. Not long ago the Hamburg-American liner Imperator was launched as "the biggest ship in the world." The Aquitania takes that honor now, in popular opinion, being a foot longer than the great German ship. The Imperator however, will have a greater tonnage and passenger capacity. Her spec will be less than that of the Aquitania by half a foot an hour. The big ship building race between these two powerful ocean transportation companies is not yet ended in fact, the planning of other ships which will be bigger than either the Imperator or the Aquitania already is under way; hence comes the question, "What will the world's biggest steamship eventually be?" Astounding Prediction. The answer of an English authority is, "A ship half a mile long, registering 200,000 tons, having a beam of 210 feet and accommodations for 60,000 passengers, if the growth in the size of ships continues as fast for the next forty years as it has during the last forty." By means of a plotted curve be indicated the growing size of modern liners, which begins with the Great Western in 1810 and rises with steadily increasing ascent to the Aquitania and Imperator of today. If this curve is projected in the most conservative path to the year 1935 you have a ship 1,600 feet long and in two decades more one of 2,350, or five times the length of the Olympic. "Ships have been growing larger," he said, "ever since Mr. Paleolithicus, or more probably his young son, first sat on a log and paddled himself across a creek. And the growth has been perfectly continuous except for one break at the close of the Roman Empire when civilization declined. "The extremely rapid development of material civilization today will surely not be so much halted in the next generation, especially since the speed of progress is accelerating. And one of the characteristics of civilization has for a century been a universal growth in the size of things—buildings, railroads, ships, machines. A Steady Growth. "It is hard to imagine a ship whose cable links each weigh two-thirds of a ton being launched in two decades and a half. But the curve of growth has been stead, and sure, except where the Great Eastern exceeded it. If we say that it will not continue in the future we but echo what has been said time and again in the past, and always the curve has continued. "Objectives that greater ships would be unyieldly or too deep for our harbors have been made in the past and blotted out to the next leviathan. The advantages of having such large ships will be the greater speed they will ford, a regulation of the dangers at sea and the provision of greater comforts and amenities is not to mention the practical aid of the use of seismics." The launching of the Aquitania pressitated arrectionists on a scale of magnitude required at a shipyard on the ever Glade. The area of the launching ways was about 10,000 square foot and the pressure about 225 tons per square foot. Though the new ship was built on the berth occupied by the Lusitania, the ground had to be demol. To enable it to launch the load it was piled and cross-piled, and over the resplies were placed layers of steel plates and quantities of cement, especially toward the way ends, where the pressure when the vessel was partly waterborne was enormous. In addition to the preparations in the yard, a good deal was done in the river itself with the object of securing sufficient room and water for the liner when she wapt afloat. Under their act of 1904 the Clyde navigation trustees widened a part of the river opposite the yard for the purpose of accommodating the Lusitania, and since that time, in anticipation of the launching of the Aguitania, the One "Greatest" Rapidly Succeeds Another, and the End Is Not Yet. widening has been continued along the north side of the Newshot isle—that is, along the south bank of the Clyde. Dredging Necessary. A large piece of land was removed, and dredging operations increased the depth of water in front of the slip. Special provision had to be made in order that when the ship "dipped" on finally leaving the ways there would be an adequate depth of water. This abnormal depth is, however, necessary only over a comparatively small area. The builders' fitting out basin at Clydebank also had to be dredged to accommodate the liner. The Aquitania is expected to reach New York on her maiden trip in the spring of 1914. Her arrival there will present a new problem to the harbor experts, for special precautions must be observed in placing such a levitathan in a berth at the water front. An important feature of the Aquitania is the protection of vulnerable parts by means of a double shell, an inner as well as an outer, both being water tight. Further provision against flooding in case of an accident also has been made by the construction of water tight decks. Anti-rolling tanks also will be used. The division of the ship into water tight compartments is much more extensive than is required by any regulations, and exceptional conditions might therefore have been obtainable in connection with the lifeboats. The Cunard company fifteen months ago submitted its plans to the British board of trade for an installation of lifeboats to accommodate every passenger on board. Two motor lifeboats also will be provided. Lesson From the Titanic. The same provisions against accidents also will be found in the big livers Lusitania, Mauetania and Imperator. Profiling by the appalling lesson of the Titanic disaster, the owners of that lost "queen of the seas" also are equipping their vessels with double hulls. The Olympic,sister ship to the Titanic, is an example. All that human skill can do to make the Olympic safe has been done. For four months she was in the hands of her builders, and at a cost of $1,500,000 she was given a double hull and equipped with lifeboats capable of holding all her passengers and crew and with davits to lower them safe from the ship in the event of an accident. The Olympic is now a ship within a ship, and to make her so she was submitted to the greatest piece of surgery ever performed. This inner skin is a great water tight compartment so subdivided by bulkheads that it would up pear impossible to sink her, no matter how great a hole might be torn in the outer shell. The greatest menace to navigation is icebergs and, next, derelicts. It was an iceberg that sent the mighty Titan to her doom, an iceberg that ripped her bottom open as a fishmonger rips a fish. But there need be no fear of such a catastrophe overtaking the Improved Olympic. The surgeons attended to that. When the Olympic came from the operating room she had a new skin grafted, not on the outside, for that is an everyday operation, but on the inside. From how to stern on either side and from her double bottom to a distance of seven feet above the water line this inner skin extends. Between the inner skin and the outer skin and extending across the entire ship are thick steel bulkheads. The result of the double skin and the bulkheads is to produce over 100 water tight compartments, making it impossible for the big ship to sink even though she were stove in at the bow for a distance of forty feet. Plenty of Lifeboats. To make the ship doubly safe for her crew and passengers there are sixty-five lifeboats on the boat deck capable of holding 3.438 persons, and when it is realized that the carrying capacity of the vessel, both passenger and crew, is 3.473 it will be seen that there is no seaworthy of boats. When the Olympic went into the hands of the surgeons it was necessary to lift several of the twenty-eight boilers of the steamer from their beds to permit the riveters and platers to work. Upward of 100,000 rivets had to be drawn and 250,000 new rivets hammered home on the 1,200 tons of new plates that compose the inner skin of the ship. As a result of the operation the weight of the patient was increased from 45,321 to 46,325 tons gross register. Such a great amount of labor on the big ships now under construction never will be necessary after they are put into service for the reason that the double ships and other safety devices are being installed as primary features of construction. For instance, the Aquitanla and the Imperator will carry two motor lifeboats each and will have powerful searchlights and wireless apparatus of the greatest possible efficiency. Minute "Movies" of the News Right Off the Reel South Norwalk, Conn., has made kissing in public a jail offense. Only one baby was born to every thirty families in France during 1912. Two San Francisco prisoners have been sent up for twenty-two years for stealing 60 cents. The Marquis of Huntley, sued in London for a coal bill, pleaded that his only money was what his wife gave him. A Jamesburg (N. J.) farmer has invented a swivel gun that will swing automatically to any angle and pump buckshot into chicken thieves. Dexter Bullard of Spencer, Mass., is the oldest man in the country to hold public office. He is ninety-seven years old and has just begun a three year term as water commissioner. Two western detectives disguised as women carried $1,000 to meet robbers who had demanded this sum. Instead of capturing the bandits they were held up by them and relieved of the money. Over a thousand dollars in gold certificates was recently found in gutters, vacant lots and back yards of Leavenworth, Kau. The money is believed to be robbers' foot concealed in a tree and disguised by the tornado. SHAFT COMMEMORATES WILD WEST DAYS OF OLD. Kings of the Plains Unveil Monument at St. Joseph, Mo. A handsome granite monument, commemorative of the pony express riders of earlier days, was unveiled recently in Patee park, St. Joseph, Mo. The monument stands on the spot from which the first, express rider started April 3, 1890. It was presented to St. Joseph by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Charles Cliff of St. Joseph, one of the few surviving pony express riders, unveiled the shaft. William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody, one of the original riders, and Governor Ellott W Major of Missouri, a direct descendant of one of the owners of the first pony express company, delivered addresses. The monument is of red granite blasted from a quarry in the Ozark mountains. On its front the following words are inscribed: This monument, erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the city of St Joseph, marks the place where the first pony express started on April 2 150 Among those who took part in the ceremonies was L. P. Evans of Wathena, Kan., a cousin of John Fry, the rider who started with the first express pouch BIGGEST CANDLE IN WORLD. To Be Burned at Rome In Honor of the Late J. P. Morgan. The largest wax candle ever molded was ordered recently by Father E. T. Malone and his parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel's Roman Catholic church in Jersey City, N. J. It will be sent to the Vatican at Rome to be burned on feast days in memory of the late J. P. Morgan. It will cost $1,500 to make the candle and send it to Rome. An oil painting of Mr. Morgan by Paulo Restivo will be placed at the base. The candle will be sixteen feet in height, with a base eighteen inches wide tapering to six inches. Father Monteteleone says that if the candle was lighted one day each year it would last for 300 years, but it steadily burned it would be consumed in nine months. BOSTON FIRM RAISES FOXEC Will Produce the Valuable Prince Edward Island "Silver-Black." The raising of the Prince Edward Island "silver black" fox is making progress in Boston. A charter was issued recently for a $350,000 company to be known as the Massachusetts Silver Black Fox company, with offices in that city. A pair of tested breeders of this type of fox is worth from $30,000 to $35,000. Prince Edward Island has long been noted as one spot where silver-black foxes can be raised with success. The industry began on the island twenty years ago. At that time entirely black foxes were unobtainable. By inbreeding a type of animal has been produced which is jet black all over, except for a few silver hairs on the tip of the tail and a stripe along the back. Sect of Self Whippers. In certain unfrequented parts of La Animas county, Colo., the Penitentes a strange religious sect, recently put in week atoning for their sins of the vow. The rites consist of scourging themselves with pieces of twisted soappun until the blood flows freely from man-gashes in the skin. At sunset each day the Penitentes walk to a secluded spot and reproduce in a crude fashion the specifixion. INCOME TAX IN MANY NATIONS How It Is Assessed and Collected Abroad. SOME MINUTE GRADATIONS. Comparisons With That Proposed In Underwood Bill Are Difficult Since Rates, Rules and Exemption Are Constantly Changing—States and Cities Have Schedules of Their Own. Now that the subject of the income tax is attributing so much attention in America it is interesting to note how other countries apply the system and what results they obtain from it. An exact comparison of the tax proposed in the Underwood bill with those collected elsewhere is not easily drawn, for the reason that rates, rules and exemptions the world over are constantly changing and that, many other forms of taxation are hard to distinguish from the income tax proper. For instance, the separate German states levy income taxes. Some German cities do also, and the Imperial German government is about to take an especial contribution from large incomes, presumably paid in five installments, so that for five years and perhaps longer, some Germans may have triple income taxes to pay. In Great Britain the estate taxes levied as death duties bring in a revenue of $150,000,000 a year. They are graduated, rising to 8 and 10 per cent on large estates. On those of over $150,000,000 the first $50,000,000 pays 10 per cent and the remainder 15 per cent. British Exemption Varies. The British income tax proper was levied off and on during the Napoleonic wars and steadily since 1842. The exemption has varied from $200 to $800 and is now the latter figure. The rate has varied from less than 1 per cent upward. During the Boer war it rose to 14d. in the pound, or nearly 6 per cent. It was not then graduated. A super tax is now levied, and the principles of graduation and discrimination have been further introduced, though to a less extent than on the continent. The tax is producing this year $220,000,000, more than twice what the Underwood bill contemplates. An earned income of $15,000 pays 9d. in the pound on $9,200 and 14d on $5,000, $800 being exempt. An unearned income pays 14d. In general the lowest rate is 9d., or about 3.75 per cent. The highest is 14d., with a super tax of 6d. on incomes over $25,000, or in all a little above 5 per cent. Besides the general exemption there is a special exemption of $50 for each child under sixteen. A man with five children and $1,500 a year pays 9d. In the pound on $150, or about $5.40 tax. The Austrian Method. Austria divides the income tax into very many minute gradations. The exemption is $250, but above that limit the entire income is taxed. The lowest rate is 0.6 per cent. Strictly speaking, there is no "highest." The rate continues to rise as the income increases. At $12,500 the tax paid is $1,037.50, or 4.5 per cent. An income of $500,000 would pay close to 5 per cent. There are various exemptions for the emperor, diplomats, soldiers, families with children, the blind, crippled, bedridden, etc. The German income tax laws vary with the states. In Prussia the exemption is $225. An income of $220 pays $1.50 The rate averages 3 per cent, but large incomes pay 5 per cent upon the greater part. Earned incomes are taxed less than unearned ones, and these are numerous exemptions. Saxony has 118 gradations and taxes an income of $100 21 cents. There is an abatement for children. Large incomes pay a much higher rate than moderate ones. Inavaria taxes earned income up to 3 per cent, unearned income up to 4 per cent. The exemption in the case of unearned income is only $17.50. If you have, say, $20 unearned income it pays 20 cents tax. In Italy and Spain. The tax in Italy rises to 20 per cent on late 2012 incomes, but takes the place of other taxation to an extent not here contemplated. Much the same is true of Spain. New Zealand, a country very advanced in social legislation, exempts incomes up to $1,500. Incomes over $2,500 pay 5 per cent, and so do corporations. In thirty seven countries of the world the income tax is estimated to yield one-half of all the returns from direct taxation. In Great Britain it yields more than half. Wisconsin has a state income tax. The exemption is $500 for a single person, $125 for husband a wife and $200 for each minor or other dependent. The rate varies from 1 to 6 per cent. A Wisconsin millionaire, under the combination of state and federal taxation, may presently be called upon to pay 10 per cent upon the greater part of his income. Of course the average rent payer in any American city pays much more than 10 per cent of his income in indirect taxation, federal, state and local. THE BEE Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance... $2.00 Six months ... 1.00 Three months ... .50 Subscription monthly ... .20 MORE POWER TO THEM. Every Negro in Ohio who contributed to the defeat of the Reppert bill, introduced in the legislature of that State to provide against intermarriages rendered his race a great, and inestimable service. From all accounts, the stalwart members of the race, those who are fearless in contend those who are fearless in contending for equal rights and opportunities and privileges for their own, lent a helping hand. Among those most active who threw themselves into the breach and, with ceaseless activity and courageous energy, fought the pernicious legislation to a finish were Harry C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland Gazette, and W. P. Dabney, editor of The Cincinnati Union. Not only did these men give over their newspapers to help defeat the bill, but they went in person to the State's capitol and labored hard, effectively and zealously for its defeat. If the Negroes of Ohio have any appreciation left they will show it by subscribing for the two newspapers these two valiant editors conduct, and thus help to increase the power for good wielded by The Gazette and The Union. Proper support of Negro newspapers will not only help to defeat opposition aimed at the race, but it will serve to prevent opposition being formulated. Harry C. Smith and W. P. Dabney have honestly earned the applause and support of every Negro with an atom of race pride and race interest in his make-up. Let us take off our hats to these men, and let us give support to their publications as a sign of appreciation for their services rendered to the race in time of need. Every Negro who rendered service in defeating the infamous Reppert bill the race is under lasting obligations, but to none is the race more indebted than Harry C. Smith and W. P. Dabney. More power to them. CIVIL SERVICE CIVIL SERVICE. The Bee desires to call the attention of the President to the civil service and the colored people. Last week The Bee briefly called attention of its readers to the gross discrimination against Mr. Arthur M. Carter, a young colored man who had successfully passed the civil service examination and certified to the several departments several times for appointment and was informed, after having presented himself that he was not needed. What benefit is it to a colored applicant who has passed the examination and informed that he is not wanted? The Bee hopes that the administration will correct this evil. The Bee feels confident the secretaries of the several departments teach these under-troppers a lesson and compel, them to treat colored successful applicants fairly after they have successfully passed the civil service examination. What use is it to a colored applicant to enter the civil service examination and pass, if he is to be rejected on account of his color? This young man stood ahead of all other applicants, but because of his color he was given a subterfuge and told that some one else had been selected for the place to which he was certified. This is not the only case. Will the President remedy this evil? THE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE The address of Bishop Alexander Walters before the local Negro Business League Friday evening. April 18th. was timely and logical. The Bishop advised Negro business men to make politics an incident and not the direct object of their citizenship. His advice and suggestions will no doubt be helpful to this organization. There is no churchman who stands higher among the colored people in this country than Bishop Alexander Walters. Whatever his politics may be, the Bishop is for the advancement of the colored people. President Freeman and his secretary, Dr. J. H. Coleman are doing everything in their power to lift this league upon a basis that will redound to the commercial and business success of a people who have made politics, to a great extent, the direct object of their citizenship. There is too much time given to social entertainments and society. In this the Bishon is strictly correct. Every business firm conducted by colored people in this city should be a member of the Negro Business League. Now's the time to advertise. Advertise in The Bee and you will increase your trade. Lewis is out because he was a Negro; General Smalls has been superceded for the same reason, and those Florida Negro-haters are now hot after Joe Lee, Collector of Customs at Jacksonville. But Joe Lee has never been of any service to his race. The others were. Fred Moore has increased the price of The New York Age in New York city back to 5 cents a copy. Fred has queer ideas about running a newspaper. He increases the price and reduces the amount of news. When Fred was dropped from the salary roll of the State Department he had to make it up some where. Prof. Kelly Miller's magazine is just a trifle too much Kelly Miller to succeed. This is a friendly criticism. The editor and publisher announces that it will be devoted to the discussion of the race question. What is needed just at present is less discussion and more doing. If Prof. Miller should sandwich two or three articles from other writers, and on subjects other than the "Negro Problem," in his magazine it would be sure to command greater interest. Prof. Miller himself is an able writer, but the ablest writer cannot maintain uninterrupted and continued interest in a publication which carries only one article and that one from his pen. To use a bit of slang, but at the same time expressive, we advise Prof. Miller to "scatter the blows." The Articles in The Bee. n the Detroit Informer. from the Detroit Influenza. The 'Bee is a Republican paper. Its business is to please its patrons and give them the news as they get it. We find no fault with this. As the Economist, under this title, is a little severe on us, we expect all of this when we became a candidate for public office. We do not care what is said just so long as they do not prove it. We may know nothing as a lawyer. We may not be the equal of the predecessor in the office, and this we know. We may thrive on political graft, but we have nothing to show for it. All we have or possess we have secured by hard work and husseh. This all who know us will agree. Colored Democrats. No. President Wilson does not draw the color line, but he is an adept at setting around it. The resignation of William II. Lewis as Assistant Attorney General afforded an opportunity to follow the precedent that had been established by appointing another colored lawyer to that position Was it done? Hardly. The office was abolished on the ground that Mr Lewis's specialty had been the handling of Indian claims, and as that work had been pretty nearly cleaned up, the other assistants in the Attorney General's office could attend to all the business. This was a rather severe disappointment to a large number of colored Democratic lawyers, who reasonably expected that one of their number would be chosen to succeed Mr Lewis A little later, we expect, it will be found that the business of the Attorney General's office has increased to such an extent that another assistant will be needed, and when the time comes a white man will be chosen for the place. The colored Democrats will then have an opportunity to ponder over the difference between drawing the color line and killing a precedent Refined Vaudeville Polite society will entertain for the benefit of "The Crisis," organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Clean new songs; Poses Plastiques, artistic lacing, impersonations, tableaux Vivants, sparkling music, monologues Ten big acts. Each featured by an artist. Great comedy skit written expressly for the occasion. Music especially arranged and adopted. True Reformers' Hall, Friday, May 23, 10:30, S P. M. Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, Mrs. Leila Pendleton, Miss Jessie Faucet, Mr. Neval Thomas Public Men And Things Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) 19 tell you, this job of "uplifting" is the hardest job given to any guy outside of Sing Sing. Just when you think you are doing your race a great service by insisting they, as Americans, ought to have as much right to enter cafes, theaters, etc., as a Chinese laundryman, or a Greek boot-black, a bunch of over-ripe dinges puts out the dope that you ain't got no business going where white folks are. I remember when William Orator Vernon blew himself into the dining room at the Capitol, which he had a right to do, and when a white flunkey down there blew the Kansas brunet, out a lot of soft-boiled dinges got up on their hind legs and yelled "outrage" until they were a royal purple in the face. Then the next day they began calling Vernon all sorts of names because he dared to go where he had no right to go, and where every scantling-sized white man can go if he feels like it. Then Billy Lewis was rung into Washington by Billy Southern Policy Taft direct from Boston, where he felt himself the equal of any white of an egg. Some of these high-brows and low-brows here began telling him as soon as he hit the town, how they were discriminated against in the theatres and restaurants, and how the rest of these sucklers of the public teat were afraid to show their face in the theatres, around a hotel, or in a station dining room, and they thought it was up to him to make a center rush for his race. \* \* \* I read Saturday, Jim Ross' reply to some article in The Bee of the week before, and I "emigitly" hunted up that article to see what it said about the Buffalo-Detroit vandyked Negro Democrat. I read it over twice, and I couldn't see anything in it for Jim to throw a fit over. And I was surprised that Jim, claiming to be a newspaper man, would be so thin-skinned as to fret over it. If Jim can't stand having a few brickbats heat at him, he better not hang on to an office and locate in Washington, because the brickbat throwing is awful strenuous around here. I've seen copies of Jim's newspaper where he has roasted men to a frazzle, and even now he is roasting Cosey in his Detroit publication, and just cause Cosey has a hankering for the same job he is after. Now a fellow what lives in a glass house ain't got no business projecting projectiles at some other projectile, just take it from me. Come, Jim, don't be so sensitive. Take medicine just like you give it to others. You ain't got no cinnah on that Recorder job nohow, and noways, so don't get "het-up" over a little thing. Don't you know it all goes to help advertise you? Some inside refrigerator orated around official I mean white official week to the effect that i bon bun got that Record it would be Cosey. I straight as the shorter two points that there even considered for it that all other candid! as well get a job with some moving picture theatre. Another straight line duocecation I got next to is that candidates for the Haitian ministership might just as well withdraw their advertising from the Nexro newspapers what belongs to R. Wordy Thompson's association 'cause DuBois is the only hippodrome artist considered for the place. All the others are just free-for-all entries what won't get away from the post. If you don't believe this slope, if you have got a hundred or two hid in your wife's silk hose, just take it around to Chase and leave it and you will get it covered inside of an hour with odds of two to one. If you need your money to pay on your rent or on your grocery bill: don't put it up 'cause you are sure to lose. The offer is two to one on DuBois for Haiti in amounts from one hundred to a thousand, and a white man will take the bets. And "The Souls of Black Folks" don't know nothing 'bout it. * * * Last Saturday I had nothing to do and I strolled down to a friend of mine who has a little dug-out in which he does business that clears twenty per cent on the dollar. In his place is a telephone booth, and in the back room he has an extension and connecting phone. He told me to "drap" back there and I would soon learn a few gems of surprises. The first to come in to phone was a fat guy who thinks he's a lady-killer right off of the Rialto in Paris. He dropped in a nickle in the slot, called "North —-," and a little "velvet-kind" voice responded. "Hello!" Then he said in a soft, purring voice, "Is that you, Gludys?" She gurgled "Yes!" "What yer goin' to do this eve?" he question-marked her, "Nothing, dear," she soft-peddled back. "Meet me at 7:30. New Jersey and Florida," he hesitated. "All right!" she soft-foamed back to him, at which he rang off and walked out. Now this guy was a married man with a family and a small salary, probably, not over $1,200 or $1,400. I snickered to myself, "and who would have thunk it." The next one to enter the booth was a little broiler with about five cents worth of clothes on, and about $2 worth of Kink-no-More on her hair. She closed the door softly and tightly, reached down in her leggins and got a nickle and dropped it in the slot. "Give me North —" she evaporated. She got it. "Is Harry — there?" she queried. There was a moment's pause and a voice said: "Hello!" "You Harry?" she snuck-creed. "Yes, that you Geraldine?" he replied. She tee-heed. Then she whispered "Say Harry, can't you meet me on You Street tonight about eight?" "Where?" he came right back. "Same place," she fuzzled. He told her he could, and then she tee-heed some more, got off a little fudge talk, and rang off and left. Now this girl ain't eighteen yet. Her parents thinks she is a Venice de Mito, a Madonna, and Virgin Mary all roder into one. I am just going to saturate you parents with the dope that you better be knowing where your daughters are at nights or—well you'll be grieving some day. No charge for this advice. It's as free as oxygen. WITH THE MORMONS. Booker T. Washington in Salt Lake. The Policy of the Mormons. Salt Lake City, March 28.—For a long while I have been anxious to get right into the midst of the Mormons to see what kind of people they are, what they look like, what they are doing, and in what respect they are succeeding. I have been spending two of the busiest days that I have ever spent in my life in the midst of these people. They have been mighty interesting days and I have seen some mighty interesting people. The leaders of the Mormon Church, from President Smith down, have gone out of their way to show me kindnesses and to make my trip here successful. I am not going to discuss the Mormon religion, as I am not a theologian; I shall have to leave that to others. I am always interested in studying and observing people regardless of their religion. One of the Mormon bishops called to see me, and from him I got some mighty interesting information that ought to prove of value to our race. In speaking of the Mormons, my readers must remember that it was only 66 years ago that 150 people, led by Brigham Young, came into this country when it was a wilderness. They traveled in ox carts over a thousand miles from the Missouri River. The Mormon Church itself was organized in New York State only 84 years ago. From 150 people, hardy pioneers who entered Utah 66 years ago, the number has grown year by year until in Utah there are now over three hundred thousand Mormons, and they have certainly made the desert blossom as a rose. I have never been among a more intelligent, healthy, clean, progressive, moral set of people than these people are. All through Utah they have turned the desert into gardens and orchards. Wherever one finds a Mormon colony there he finds evidence of hard work and wealth. The Mormon leaders here told me in detail about the policy that they pursued when they first came here, and here is a great lesson for our people in the South and throughout this country. From the first the Mormons consistently and persistently pursued the policy of having their people get hold of land, to settle on the soil and become farmers. They knew that if they once got possession of the soil and taught their people how to become successful farmers they would be laying the foundation so secure that they could not be disband. Several of the leaders told that when they first came into this entry there was great temptation exploit the gold, silver and copper, but they would not let their people do this, but held them to the l. It is only within the last few rts that the Mormons have begun get wealth out of the mineral riches of the country notwithstanding they have known all along that this wealth existed. Now that they are in possession of the soil and have taught their people how to become successful farmers, they say they can afford to go into mining. There are two parallels between the Negro and the Mormons. First, as my readers already know, the Mormons were most inhumanly persecuted almost from the first organization of their church. This was especially true in Missouri and Illinois. Hundreds of their followers were put to death. The courts gave them little protection. The mob that either killed or wounded the Mormons was seldom, if ever, punished. They were an easy mark for any inhuman brute who wanted to either kill or wound them Joseph Smith himself, the founder of the church, was murdered in Illinois. But out of this inhuman and unjust treatment grew the strength of these people. The more they were punished the more determined they became to succeed. Without opposition and inflictive, I question whether the Mormon Church would now be in its present flourishing condition. They were deprived of their property as well as their lives in their early years, but the more they were persecuted the closer they handed themselves together and the more determined they were to succeed. Persecutions advertised this little sect to the world. The result was that through persecution their numbers increased instead of being diminished. The second parallel between the Mormon and the Negro is this. These people, I am sure, have been misrepresented by experience and observation that it is never safe to pass final judgment upon a people until one has had an opportunity to get into the real life of these people. The Negro is suffering today just as the Mormons are suffering and have suffered, because people from the outside have advertised the worst in connection with Mormon life and they have seldom called attention to the best in connection with the life of the Mormons. And then I have learned, too, that no person outside a race or outside a group of people can ever really know that race or that group of people until he gets into their homes and has a chance to observe their men and women and their children, has a chance to partake of their hospitality and get into their inner life. There are many people today who consider themselves wise on the condition of the Negro, who are really afraid to go into a Negro home, who never go into a Negro church or Sunday school, who have never met the colored people in any social circle, hence such people know little about the moral standards and activities of the colored people. The same I am convinced is true regarding the Mormons. The people who speak in the most disrespectful terms of these people are the ones who know least about them. I am convinced that the Mormons are not an immoral people. No immoral people could have such strong, fine bodies, and these people have, nor such vigorous and alert minds as they have. It has been my privilege to address schools and colleges and universities in nearly every part of America, and I say without hesitation that I have never addressed a college anywhere where the students were more alert, more responsive, more intelligent than is true of the students in these Mormon colleges. I was hardly prepared for the over-generous and rapturous reception that was given me at the State University, the students of which for the most part are Mormons, and I had the same experience in addressing the private schools and other institutions conducted by Mormons. I met, for example, one of the daughters of Joseph - H. Smith, the successor to Brigham Young, and now the head of the church. I was told that she was one of 49 children, but she was an intelligent, modest, fine young woman with a strong body and an alert mind. I was told that the other 48 children were just as healthy and strong and alert as she is. Just how many wives President Joseph H. Smith has or had I do not know. I am not going into the subject of plural wives, but I am simply stating facts and giving my impressions. These Mormons have first-class schools of every character, and they are pushing the matter of technical and industrial education to a stronger degree than we are in the South among the colored people. In fact, time and time again I was told that they learned their methods for the most part from Hampton, Tuskegee and similar institutions. I was nearly taken off my feet when I went into a class in the university and the teacher showed me a large piece of pasteboard with the pictures of our students at Tuskegee at work in the various industrial departments. They said they were taking this as their model. The Mormons have recently begun a systematic effort to give their young people training in gymnastics with a view of strengthening their bodies. Here again the colored people, especially in the schools of the South, can learn a great lesson. Everywhere in our colored schools we ought to have systematic and constant training in gymnastics. There are about a thousand colored people in Salt, Lake City, and they are above the average in intelligence and in other respects. The colored women especially strike me as exceptionally intelligent, more so I think than the men. They have here an Art and Music Club, which I had the privilege of addressing, composed of very intelligent women. They have two good churches with very intelligent ministers. The main weakness in the life of the colored people in this city, as in some others I have gone to, grows out of the fact that instead of having a commercial organization to promote the business and industrial interests of the colored people they have a club house for which I am told they pay a rental of $150 a month, where the men are encouraged to drink and gamble. It seems that they cannot throw away their money fast enough, but in order $150 a month for the purpose of helping them to dispose of their money faster. I have spoken to them plainly about this mistake, and I believe that a change for the better will take place. I met several colored men who have accumulated a respectable fortune and who are in good business enterprises. I think it will interest my readers to know that there are colored Mormons in Utah. I met several of these. Many of them came here in the old days; in fact, Brigham Young brought colored people with him to this country, and they or their descendants have remained. Of course, in the old days plural wives were not prohibited by law, but I have made careful inquiry and could find no case where a colored man ever had more than one wife. It seems to have been the custom, in the old days, that a man could not take a second or third or fourth wife without the consent of his first wife, and I was told that no colored woman in Utah would ever give her consent for her husband to take a second wife. I met one colored man who came out here in the early days who is now 82 years of age. He is a stunner Mormon, and neither the Baptist Church nor the Methodist Church can get hold of him. He came here from Mississippi. He is a fine looking old fellow, a kind of colored Brigham Young. He has a farm worth $25,000, and lives in the midst of a Mormon colored colony of which he is the leader. I am told that the Mormon Church treats the colored people well. I will, in my next letter, discuss the Mormons further, and call attention to their creed, and so forth. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. CREED OF MORMON CHURCH. Mormons Own Way to Worship God. Dr. Booker T. Washington's Talk With Mormons. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 27—I had opportunity while here to discuss the Mormon creed with the important officers of the Mormon Church, Bishop John M. Whittaker handed me as I was leaving St. Paul the following statement, which contains in comprehensive form the creed of the Mormon Church as formulated in its "Articles of Faith." "I. We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost. "2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgressions. 3. We believe that, through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. "4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: First, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins: fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy-Ghost. "5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by "Prophecy, and by the laying on of hands, by those who are in authority, to "reach the gospel and administer the ordinances thereof. "6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the primitive church—namely; Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers, Evangelists, etc. 7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues etc. 8. We believe the Bible to be the work of God, as far as it is translated correctly, we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. 9. We believe all that God has revealed, and that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God. 10. We believe in the Literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion will be built upon this (the American) continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed and receive his paradisaeal glory. "11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may. "12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring and sustaining the law. "13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul. 'We believe all things, we hope all things', we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely or of good report or praiseworthy we seek after these things"—Joseph Smith Just to what extent this creed will appeal to our Methodist or Baptist brethren in the South I am not sure. While, as I have stated, I am not a Mormon, and have no immediate intention of becoming one, I am free to say that there is a good deal in this creed that appeals to me. If everybody in the world can live up to it, I do not believe it would make them much worse people, but I seriously question one's ability to do so. I have promised these Mormons and others to come into this country again to see more of them, and after I have done so I may have more to say. Before closing I think I ought to add the* I can find no evidence of these people practicing polygamy at the present time, but with the old custom it seems it was common for a man to have several wives. Since that has been prohibited by Federal law each man seems to be obeying the law. This is possibly not true in the case of individuals who had more than one wife before the law was passed, but the Mormons are mighty interesting people. They believe in having a good time. Especially do they encourage their young people to have a good time. I suspect I will disgust our bishops and ministers when I say that it is a coming thing for dances among the young people to take place in the church building. This is not only permitted but encouraged. The church believes in religion. It also believes in business, and the lead of the Mormon church have the con of land, mines, banking concerns factories. They say, and I think wish that economic progress must go hand hand with religious progress. The Mormon church is tremendous well organized. Aside from the matter of religion from a purely business standpoint it is worth while to study this organization. It keeps 2,000 missionaries constantly at work in various parts of the world. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. LOCAL NEGRO BUSINESS League—A Large and Enthusiastic Meeting. Bishop Alexander Walters addressed the Business League last Friday night on the "Need of Co-operation Among Business Men and Women. The assembly room of the Y. M. C. A. was filled to overflowing with representative men and women from the business and professional world—who were eager to hear what this great silver-tongued orator had to say on this very important topic. The hall rung with applause again and again as the good Bishop would take some of his sudden flights into the realms of oratory or would in his calm and convincing way bring home to his hearers their dutty to their race in the business world. Editor W. Calvin Chase in a few well-chosen words introduced the speaker of the evening and adroitly tried to draw from the Bishop an explanation of his faith in the future success of the Negro who fosters the Democratic policies. The Bishop would no doubt have been glad to have discussed politics, but graciously excused himself by saying this is not the time nor the place. Hon. J. C. Napier and Mr B T Montgomery were other speakers of the evening. Miss Nellie Mehane rendered this beautiful solo, "Springtime." The local league is becoming to be one of the strongest organizations in this city. NEGRO APPLICANT For Haitian Ministership and One-time Candidate for the Presidency. Accepts a Janitorship Out in Illinois, Illustrating the "From the Sublime to the Ridiculous." (Special to The Beg.) SPRINGFIELD, III., April 21.—William T. Scott, the only Negro ever nominated for President of the United States by a properly constituted national delegate convention, representing thirty-seven States of the Union, and at present a candidate for ministership to the colored republic of Haiti, has been placed on the house pay roll as a janitor. The national liberty party, with 400 delegates, met in St. Louis in 1904 and nominated Scott for President over three other colored men—J. Milton Turner, of St. Louis, Bishop Alexander Walters, of New Jersey, and J. M. Mitchell, of Tennessee. 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 From one of the most beautiful, sanitary and down-to-the-minute soda fountains in Washington, the W. L. Board Pharmacy, successor to Board & McGuier, at 1912½ Fourteenth Street Northwest, is dispensing to large crowds delicious soda drinks and ice cream dainties. They could not improve their sodas, so they improved their fountain. The highest quality in everything is the motto of this store. Mr. Thomas Mallory, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is visiting friends and relatives in Campbell, Louisa County, Va. Mr. Charles R. Eyler, of Cumberland, Md., has returned home after a visit to this city. While here Mr. Eyler attended the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Maryland and Shield of Honor of this city. Mr. Eyler was nominated for inside guard for next year. Mrs. Robert MacDonald, of Cumberland, Md., was in the city Monday to attend the convention of the Federated Women's Clubs, returning to Atlantic City at the adjournment of the convention. Miss Lillie B. Smith, of Pine-Grove, Md.; and Mr. Walter E. Thomas, of this city, were married recently. Mrs. Blanche Runner, of 1211 W Street Northwest, who was called to her home in Wilmington, Del., by the serious illness of her father, Mr. Jeffries, reports him recovering. Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson left the city last Friday in interest of the St. Luke Order. Mr. E. B. Henderson, of Falls Church, and a teacher of athletics in the high schools of this city, has been confined to his home on account of illness for the past week. To the gratification of his many friends and co-workers, he is convalescing. Mr. Preston C. Stone, chief engineer of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, spent Sunday in this city. Mr. Norman Allin, of Newark, N. visited friends in this city last Sunny. Mr. A. W. Naylor, of Springfield, left en route to this city on business. Mr. Louis Howard, a student of award University, is visiting his parents in Steelton, Pa. Miss Lillian V. DeShields, daughter of Rev. L. Walter DeShields, of Brooklyn, N. Y., left for this city Sunday. Dr. Howard E. Young, of Baltimore, Md., has been elected president of the Maryland Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association. Miss Grace Grieger, of New York, has returned home from this city. While here Miss Grieger's visit was divided between her two aunts, Mrs. Robt. Colbert and Mrs. Chas. R. Douglass. Miss Grieger was royally entertained by her many friends during her stay. Dr. J. W. Morse is prepared to accommodate his customers with soda water and ice cream with an up-to-date service. Mr. and Mrs. Fluellen, Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Thomas, and Mr. E. R. West were arrivals at the Maseo Apartment last week. Miss Enold McDaniels, instructor of physical culture in the public schools of this city, is conducting lessons in physical culture at the rooms of the Y. W. C. A., Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore. Md. Dr. and Mrs. George Orme, of Milwaukee. Wis., passed through Harrisburg, Pa., en route to this city where they will remain indenetly. Mr. J. Wilson Craighead, of Harrisburg, Pa., spent the week-end in this city. Mrs. R. G. Griffin, of this city, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. D. Green, of Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Maggie Awell, of Philadelphia, Pa., who spent several weeks in this city the guest of her sister, has returned home. Mrs. Mary L. DeCoursey, of Philadelphia, Pa., entertained the Misses Ethel and Ernestine Brent, of this city. Mr. James S. Williams, of Germantown, Pa., spent several days in this city last week. Miss Evelyn Lee, Mrs Blanch Richardson and Mr. James Lee, of Brooklyn, N. Y., passed through the city Sunday en route to Falls Chutch. Va., to visit their parents and friends. 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. Miss Agnes Davis, who has been quite sick is now convalescent. Mr. A. H. Wallace, who has been confined to his home, is out again Mrs. Johnston and daughter Anna, of Newark, N. J., were in the city last Sunday, visiting Miss Ella Middleton Miss Ella Middleton, a pupil of Normal School No. 2, who has been quite sick for some time, was better at this writing. Mr. Walter Lawson, of Thirteenth Street Northwest, spent last Sunday in Baltimore. Mrs. Milton Fancis was in Falls Church. Va., Sunday, to call on Mrs. E. B. Henderson. Miss Ruth Smith, of LeDroit Park. Northwest, will render a solo at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church next Sunday night. Quality and good service. You will always find at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. Mrs. William Smith, of this city, spent last Sunday visiting friends in Baltimore. The song service by the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Baltimore last Sunday was quite a success. The choir from Miss Nannie Burroughs' Training School sang at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church last Sunday. Miss Lottie Patterson, of this city, who has been visiting her brother in Charleston, W. Va., has returned home. Rev. J. F. Griffin, of Memphis, Tenn., will be in the city Sunday to attend the session of the Church Extension Board. Miss Lucinda Brown, of Asbury Park, N. J., is visiting friends and relatives in Philadelphia, Sharon Hill, Pa., and in this city. Mrs. G. Wallace Edwards, of Asbury Park, N. J., who has been visiting friends and relatives in this city, has returned to her home. The Freedman's Hospital Christ Child Society will give a Reception and Dance at Odd Fellows Hall, Friday May 2. A very artistic and classical recital was given at the Metropolitan Church by the Treble Clef, under the auspices of the Bethel Literary Association April 8. Every number was highly appreciated. The instrumental solos of Misses Fraser, Lucy Moten and Gregori were no doubt masterly rendered. Mr. R. T. Watson, of Charleston, S. C., instructor of manual training at Avery Institute, arrived in this city Friday, where he will fill a position in the Treasury Department. Mr. Watson is accompanied by his wife and baby. Miss Hattie Ross, of W Street Northwest, spent Saturday and Sunday in Baltimore, Md. Miss Singleton, of Omaha, Neb., is stopping with Miss Velma Green, of Thirteenth Street Northwest. For an up-to-date drug store, Dr. J. W. Morse, at 1904 L Street Northwest, is the one. Mrs. Charlie Hughes Young, of Harbison College, Irmo, S. C., passed through the city and spent a few days as the guest of Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman. Mrs. Young has just finished an engagement of thirty lectures in the States of New York and New Jersey in the interest of Harbison College, of which she is principal. Mrs. Mice Lucas, of 1909 Thirteenth Street Northwest, entertained the officers of Prince, Hall Chapter Thursday evening in honor of her birthday. A very pleasant evening was spent by all and Mrs. Lucas received many useful gifts. Mr. J. E. Harley, a former messenger for Senator Brandegge, who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones, of Red Bank, N. J., at dinner last week. Mr. Crichton, of New York, spent last Sunday with his sister, Miss Daisy Crichton, of S Street Northwest. Dr. J. W. Morse, having commenced his season with a new line of goods, he will be pleased to greet all of his old and any new patrons that may come. 1004 L Street Northwest. Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson returned from Atlanta. Ga. Tuesday morning looking well. Indianapolis shuttleunwyp cnfwyp c Mr. James H. Lilly, of Indianapolis, Ind., is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Holmes. He has been out sightseeing and having a most enjoyable time Attorney L. M. King left the city for the West this week on important legal business --- After serving Roberts Chapel for one Sunday, Rev Dr N. M. Carroll was removed by Bishop Earl Cranston, to Ames M. E. Church, Baltimore, Md. The people of the charge were loath to give him up inasmuch as he had labored here 25 years, and protested strenuously to the Bishop. A committee composed of Mr. C. H. Madella and B. F. Watson, appointed by the official board, waited on the Bishop without favorable results. However, the congregation that greeted the present pastor, Rev Joseph Wheeler, were very favorably impressed with his sermons at each service; and it is learned from good authority that the peers of the Rev Wheeler are not at all plentiful in the Washington annual conference. Prior to coming here Rev Wheeler served a successful term on the Annapolis District and held several other good positions in the conference. The Rev. and Mrs. Wheeler and family are now comfortably located at the parsonage, No.614, South Washington Street, and they and their parishioners seem very well pleased with each other, The Waldorf Pleasure Club celebrated their third anniversary with an elaborate reception at Odd Fellows Hall on Thursday evening, April 24th. There were quite a number of out of town guests present, including the Misses Charleton and Messrs. R. M. Dwight and M. C. V. Crawford, of New York City. There were a large number number present from Washington and Baltimore, also. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. ```markdown ``` Though the weather was cool, the Sunday services at Second Baptist Church were well attended in the morning. The Sabbath School hour, was as usual, full of interest. The 11 o'clock services brought out a good choir attendance, and the music and sermon were inspirational spiritually. Pastor Powell delivered a good sermon. Ater this service the "Mothers' Meeting" took a few minutes for arranging some further business matters in connection with their two weeks' evangelistic meetings to be held during the weeks of April 27th and May 4th. Besides, the matter of sending the pastor and representation of the church to the General Association of Baptists of the State convening in Richmond next month, was also arranged for. The "Mothers' Meeting" is fast becoming a very helpful part of the church. The Sunday School of Galloway Chapel M. E. Church, was largely attended Sunday morning, and the discussion of the lesson opened by Mrs. Mary Richards, was so lengthy on account of the interest it brought out as to hold Sunday school a half hour beyond its time. These discussions, so helpful, are to be had every other Sunday. The Silver Star, Improvement Club had a sermon preached to them Sunday night at 7:30 P. M. by the pastor, Dr. Colbert. The collection, which was for the sidewalk, was $5.60. There was special music by the choir for the occasion. The grading for the sidewalk has already been started. Mrs. Lena Dixon and Mrs. Fannie Thomas made a flying trip Sunday afternoon to Vienna, returning in time for the evening service. The Sunday school hour, 3 o'clock P.M. at First Baptist Church in Vienna, Va., was fully attended. Indeed this is a real lively school. Superintendent Neal, and his assistants are earnet-workers. Particular mention should be made of the two little girl workers, Misses Mabel Henderson and Marie West. They are active in class-work, singing and whatever may come into their way to do. The lesson was very nicely reviewed by Bro. Carter, who leads his large class well. At the close of Sunday school all went down to the Union Baptist Church, where the Young People's Willing Workers' Society carried out a special program, conducted by Mrs. Grace Borgus, consisting of a well-prepared exercise of recitations by pupils from the First Baptist Sunday School. Among those participating were Masters Otis Harper, Wm. Henderson, Benjamin Henderson, Joseph West, and Misses Marie West and Mabel Henderson. A solo by a young lady, with Miss Minnie Taylor at the organ, was a part of the program. The Bible topic was led by "your humble worker." With the combined attendance of the members of the Sunday school and of the society, together with visitors who came from other points, this service was one full of pleasurable interest and calculated to build up a unified spirit of religious effort in this community. We were glad to be there. Miss Margaret Redd was at the home of Mrs. Floyd Evans on Sunday visiting from Plainfield, N. J. Miss Redd is a cousin of Mr. Evans. Mrs. Alice Williams visited friends in Baltimore, Md.' Sunday. Mrs. M. A. Gates and Miss Cora Jackson, of Washington, were callers on Rev. and Mrs. Powell $ ^{6} $ Last Sunday. Rev Lee Garner an old citizen of high standing here died of heart failure Friday morning, April 18, 1913. He left a widow, several children, and a host of friends. The services at the M. E. Church Sunday, April 20, were very impressive. Rev. Owen C. Sprague, the pastor, preached the funeral sermon. The work of the Baptist Church is still growing. Perfect harmony seems to reign. Rev. O. G. Hunter the new pastor, seems to have things his own way. The banner won by the Presbyterian Church Sunday School in the temperance meeting contest, was presented Sunday morning, April 13, 1913. Mr. R. S. Nichols, his officers and teachers deserve great credit for winning this banner, as it took push and pluck to do. Rev. Underwood and Rev. C. H. Strother worshipped at the M. E. Church Sunday. Also did Mrs. Pearl K. Fonville, Mrs. D. W. Utz, Mrs. W. W. Jones and Mrs. A. J. Choates. Mr. and Mrs. Sprague, brother and sister-in-law of Rev. O. C. Sprague, worshipped at the M. E. Church Sunday. Mr. Frank Young has recovered from a severe illness, and is home again. Mrs. Emnis and Mrs. Blanche Lewis are improving There was an interesting emancipation meeting held at Contee A. M. E. Zion Church Wednesday night, April 15. Rev. Logan Johnson, the pastor, introduced Mr. C. L. Marshall, who was master of ceremonies. Mr. G. W. Smith, of Kentucky, made the principal address. The following gentlemen were requested and made helpful remarks: James F. Armstrong, R. S. Nichols, C. F. Pavne, John W. Lewis, and others. Rev. A. Randall took up the collection. The singing for the occasion was rendered by the choirs of the Deanwood M. F. Church, Contee Chapple A. M. F. Church, and the Zion Baptist Church of Deanwood, D. C. Refreshments were served. Rev. Ernest S. Williams, D. D., pastor at Annapolis, Md., attended the M. F. Church Ministers' Union at Asbury Church. Washington, D. C., Monday, April 21. Special Meeting of the National Training School. The citizens of Fairmount Heights, Deanwood, Grant Park and Lincoln Heights held a special meeting under the auspices of the Northeast County Citizens' Association at the National Training School Monday night, April21. Dr. W. W. Jones presided at the meeting. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Women and Girls, made the principal address. Messrs. James F. Armstrong, A. H. Westley, Mr. Turner and Mrs. Fannie M. Addison, made timely remarks. All the speakers expressed their full, faith and confidence in the high integrity of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the other officers and teachers and the high standing of the pupils in the school. Mr. James F. Armstrong a trustee of the Fairmount Heights Public Schools, introduced a set of resolutions indorsing the wise and safe administration of Miss Burroughs. The resolution was unanimously adopted. The National Training School for Women and Girls supplies a long-felt need in this community, as well as throughout the United States, and Miss Nannie H. Burroughs should and will receive the moral and financial support of all the citizens, and especially those of the colored race, for whose development said school was founded. Ice Cream Sodas and Sundaes are always pure and delicious at Board's, the drug store on Fourteenth Street, 1912 I-2, where everybody meets everybody else. Potomac Union Lodge 892, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, will celebrate their 40th anniversary Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at Odd Fellows Hall, 28th and Dumbarton Avenue, Northwest. Rev. W. C. Thompson, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, will deliver the sermon and a 'poem will be delivered by Jas. L. Turner, Rev. Wm. Gains will preside. The Heliotrope Circle gave their annual reception Thursday evening at Odd Fellows Hall, which was a brilliant affair and largely attended. A very pretty tea party was tendered the family of Rev. D. W. Hays on Friday evening at the residence of Mrs. Geo. Fleet, 2508 P Street, by Mr. Wm. Ballard. The evening was spent in recitations and music. Among those present were Mrs. Hays, Miss Fannie Hays, Miss Mary Ferguson, Mrs. Hannah Fleet, Mr. Clarence Hays, Mr. Chas Hays, aid Mr. Jas, L. Turner. The services at Mt. Zion M. L. Church was largely attended on Sunday morning and evening, the pastor, Rev W. C. Thompson, delivering a very eloquent and interesting sermon at each of the services. Rev D. W. Hays, ex-pastor, and District Superintendent of the Baltimore District, attended the evening service, and bade his congregation farewell in very touching remarks, thankening them in co-operating with him during his pastorate and wishing them a great Christian and financial success this year. DEATH OF MR. HENRY JOHNSON The funeral of Mr. Henry Johnson, who sad and deplorable death occurred. Friday April 18, 1913, took place Monday afternoon from his late residence, 2459 P Street Northwest. The services, which were private, was conducted by Rev. U. G. Leeper, assisted by Rev. Geo Harris. Representatives from the Young-Men's Protec- tive League, Jas. L. Turner acting president, and employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing were in attendance. A handsome floral tribute was presented by the co-workers of the Bureau. The pall-bearers were Ottoway N. Butler, Daniel Richardson, Ferdinand Forl, Walter E. Todd, Chas H. Turner, and John Dillard. Interment, Mt. Zion Cemetery. The Epworth League Society of Mt. Zoon M. E. Church presented the following program on Sunday afternoon: 1. Recitation, Miss S. Johnson. 2. Solo. Mr. W. Lane. 3. Solo. Miss Jefferson. 4. Piano Duct. 5. Solo. Miss Lane. 6. Solo. Miss Carroll. 7. Miss Martha Harr. solo. Miss Gerite Turner; address by Mr Parker; music by the Sunday School Orchestra. M. Leroy Gaskins, presiding. The Christian Endeavor Society of the First Baptist Church was addressed on Sunday afternoon by the Rev. J. M. Waldron, of Shiloh Baptist Church, and an excellent musical program was rendered to a large and appreciative audience Mr. Parker presided. Rev. F. E. Ricks, pastor PERSONAL. Mr. Walter J. Abrams, whose illness was mentioned in our columns a few weeks ago, at Freedman's Hospital, is now convalescent, and at home, Twenty second Street Northwest. Mrs. Lillie G. Williams of 2005 P Street, has recovered from a severe illness of a few weeks. Rev. W. C. Thompson and his family, have moved to the parsonage of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, 2904 O Street Northwest. Mr. R. Hewlett is still ill at the residence of his sister, Mrs. M. Boyds, 2803 O Street Northwest. Mrs Jennie B. Browne will give an illustrated reading of Pilgrim's Progress at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Monday evening. May 5, 1013, 8 o'clock. The Recital. A large and appreciative audience attended the presentation of Mr. Nathaniel Guy under the auspices of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority of Howard University on Saturday evening, April 19th, in Andrew Rankin Chapel. The stage was artistically adorned with palms and pink roses; and ivy, the emblem of the Sorority, and college pennants were very conspicuous. Mr. Guy's repertoire was exceedingly well given, and Master Barrington Guy, who assisted, appeared at his best. The program was as follows: Invocation, Prof. W. V. Tunnell. Piano Solo-Impromptu No. 2, Schubert. Mrs. Gabrielle Lewis, Pelham. Piano Solo-Quartette Rigolote, Liszt Verdi-Mr. Lewis B. Thompson. Solo, selected, Miss Olive Wells. 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 T the Sensation of Three Continents. 30 — PEOPLE — 30 Great First Part Minstrel Featuring in the Olio, "The Fagan Trio," the Sensation of Three Continents. - Headed by Those Peerless Comedians HAPPY SAM GARDNER AND Superb Band and Orchestra. Prices: Night, 10c, 20c, 30c. M HOTEL CAPE M. This magnificent hotel, located scashore resort in the world; reple superlative in construction, appoint age. Orchestra daily. Garage, ba Special attention given to ladies an Prices: Night, 10c, 20c, 30c. Matinees, All-Seats 10c and 20c. HOTEL DALE CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world; replete with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, service, and refined patronage. Orchestra daily. Garage, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention given to ladies and children. Send for booklet. Reading, Selected, Mr. Nathaniel Guy. Song. I wish Today Were Yesterday, Master Barrington Guy. Pianola Solo -Rhapsodie Hungroise No. 2 -Listit-Verdi. Solo—Thy Sentinel Am I—Mr. James Wright. Reading—Fra Giacamo—Mr. Nathaniel Guy. Pianola Solo—To Spring—Grieg. Mr. Lewis B. Thompson. The Weber Pianola Piano was kindly loaned by the O. J. DeMoll Music House. TEACHER'S COLLEGE GRADUATES IN DEMAND. Dr. Moore's Report to President Newman. Dr. L. B. Moore, Dean of the Teacher's College of Howard University, Washington, D. C., in his annual report to President S. M. Newman, D. D., concerning the distribution of the graduates of the Teacher's College Class of 1012, reports an increasing demand in the public schools for professionally trained teachers. He says that the "stimulus" which has come to Southern education through the Jeanes Fund, the Slater Fund, and other gifts to education, has put additional emphasis upon the importance of thoroughly equipped teachers throughout the South, and especially in the colored schools. The demand for trained teachers in special academic subjects and in the Manual and Domestic Arts has been especially pressing. Of the 213 students who have been graduated from the Teachers" College in the last twelve years, more than 85 per cent, he reports, have gone directly into the work of teaching. Of those who have not become teachers, several are active in the development of education in their respective communities. The reports which have come to the Dean's office from Superintendents of Education say that the graduates of our Teacher's College in this University "are making themselves more and more serviceable, not only as professionally trained teachers giving satisfaction to their Superintendents, but also as community builders taking part in the larger movements for the uplift of the colored people." The list of graduates of Class 1912 is as follows: Distribution of Graduates of the Teachers' College, Class of 1912. Miles W. Connor, A. M. professor of pedagogy. State Normal School. Petersburg, Va. *Jean Hamilton, A. M. teacher in the Lincoln High School, East St. Louis, Mo. William J. Mundy, A. M., Pittsburg, Pa. Fred K. D. Anderson, A. B., Baltimore, Md. Edhra H. Cook, A. B., teacher of Higher English, Wilberforce Univer- ing in the Olio, "The Fagan Trio," three Continents. PLE-30 D FUNNY AL. STRAUDER Watch for Street Parade. Patinees, All Seats 10c and 20c. DALE AY, N. J. in the heart of the most beautiful site with every modern improvement. ments, service, and refined patron- th houses, tennis, etc., on premises. and children. Send for booklet. E. W. DALE. OWNER. sity, Wilberforce, Ohio. Percy H. Henry, A. B., Philadelphia. Pa. Vivian Johnson, A. B., Post Graduate student at Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York City, N. Y. Luther C. Mitchell, A. B., teacher of mathematics and science, Rappahannock Industrial School, Ozeana, Va. George H. Mowbray, A. B., Director of Manual Training in the Colored High School, Parkersburg, W. Va. Paul E. Mowbray, A. B. principal Paul F. Mowbray, A. B. principal of the public school, Dover, Del. Ernest E. Peace, A. B. instructor of Latin and Mathematics, Halifax Normal and Industrial Institute, Houston, Va. Anna L. Robinson, A. B. Baltimore, Md. Lillion J. Taylor, A. B. instructor in New Orleans University, New Orleans, La. Agnes A. Adams, teacher in the public schools, La Plata, Md. Alberta L. Beverly, Anacostia, D. C. Eva S. Davis, Director of Domestic Science and Art, colored high school, Parkersburg, W. Va. Isabel Marie Forrest, Charleston, S. C. Ivra L. French, instructor in Western University, Kansas City, Kan. Mabel Jack-on, teacher in pubffe schools, bridgeville, Delk. Emily Taylor, Amherst, Mass. Emma J. Washington, teacher in the public schools, Montgomery county, Md. Lilhan O. Winston, part year teacher in the State Normal School, Bowie, Md. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Johnson Entertain. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Johnson, at their cosy home, 412 B Street Southeast, last Friday evening, delightfully entertained a party of friends in honor of Mrs. White, of Montreal, Canada, who has been their house guest for a few days. A select musical program was rendered and a toothsome and dainty menu was served. Mrs. Johnson, always a splendid hostess, was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Carissle Johnson and Miss Maud Johnson. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ball, of Missouri: Mr. and Mrs. John Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner, Mr. and Mrs. William Queenen, Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins and others. Mav Carnival, the leading topic among the children. A brilliant array of costumes and dances of many nations, tunerel melodies by our own composers, and the wonderful child violinist of New York, a prodigy of eight years, are the special attractions. Ses 3 Be 2 ys Ree ow « *¢ wise « Syn" ee eee ee Sete apy Basse = ental fo bathe ets veo rena $c uta Ato ote be taebelineraiSes Se hes paises. sane Origin of Paper, =~ At various times the echolars of dif- ferent countries bave tried definitely to determine the real discoverer of pa- per in the eleventh century. It 1s to paper that we owe the renaissance of jetters. From time immemorial some- thing answering modern paper was used in China, where it was manufac- tured from silk. About the middle of the seventh century of ouf era there seems to have been established in Ara- bia a manufactory of paper, and fifty years later the way was discovered to make it from cotton Instead of from ilk, silk- being a rare commodity out- side of China at that time and cotton relatively plentifal. »In the reign of Henry 11. of France a Greek scholar ‘was sent to Paris to arrange sy6 tematically a catalogue of antique manuscripts In the royal lbrary, and & Notation in his hand speaks of what was then known as “paper” as oriz: inating in Damascus. The later in: yention of making paper from flax, lin en or hemp has been attributed equal ly to Italy and Germany, but there ts 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 Car- pet 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 tnfan- try reriments, with two small field pieces and two quick firing guns, and about forty mounted men, together ‘with thelr horses. The object of such a strong escort !s to protect the sacred object from falling into the hands of the Bedouin tribes, through whose countries it must pass nt various stares of its journey and who are also on the Yookout for It, ns the carpet fs worth u fre ransom. Desperate attacks are not Infrequent!y made upon the Moly Carpet by the Bedouins of the desert; hence the strength of the escort— Egyptian Gazette. . Lions and Tiners. Three feet or a little over ts the real helght of good sized Nons- and tigers, And when sportsmen realize what an extra alx Inches or nine Inches added to the stature Involves in, increased length and zeneral bulk to balance the known propoztions of the animals I.cm equally sure they will admit that no Mon ever sealed anything'like four feet at the shoulder and that the beight measurements of dead specimens five quite a fatse idea of the actual helxtts of the animals in fe. The followinz are the heichts at the shoulders of some of our larre felidae: Large lion- ess, 2 feet 11 inches; Manchuria tigress, 2 fect 9 inches; Nepal tigress, 2 fect 8 inches; Sumatran tiger, 2 feet 7 inch- es; large male jaguar, 2 feet 3 Inches; male cheetah, 2 feet 2 Inches.—London Field. Youth. ‘Youth is the springtime of Iife. It {s 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 tow" tll he gets a whole lot of knowledze and then In later days turn it loose in an abrupt manner, He will guard against telling what he knows, a little ata time, That 1s unwise, [ once knew a youth who wore himself out telling peepie all he knew from day to day, so that when he became a bald- beaded ‘man be was utterly exhausted and didn't have anything left to tell any onc. Swine of the things that we know shéu'd he saved for our own use. The man who sheds all his knowledge and doesn't lenve enough fo keep house with fools himself—Bill Nye. Turkich Justice. The poor Laker for some reason ap- pears to have been singled out for some extraordinary punishments. It 1s only within late years that there bas been rescinded In Turkey a law by which the baker.zuilty of short welght tricks was punished by having bis ear nailed to the doorpast. Turkish offi- cers of the law are notoriously averse to giving themselves more trouble than i absolutely necessary. If the recal- citrant baker did not happen to be at home when they arrived to administer punishment they didn't bother to ca! again, but Just selzed his son or his Journeyman ar hia father-in-law ér whoever was handy and nailed his ear to the doorpmst. So lonz as somebous ‘was punished it did not matter. 7 S Se acta Pieshae ‘The letter Y is called the Saminn let- ter. It is so called because its Gree’: eriginal was deferred to by Prthagoras, the philosopher of Samos, to illustrate how deviation from the straight pat’) of virtue becomes constantly wider =~ the lines are extended. The poct ow tefers to this idea in the Ines: ‘When reason, doubtful, tke tha Samia Ietter, . Polnts him two ways, the narrower t. better, | * Her Intenss Scrrow. } He-I callin! to see you last evening and the servant told ie you were rer fn, She—Yes: I was sorry to have missed you. He—I thought you mest be. T heart you laughing. upstairs 7 euch grief stricken tones that I ol most wept myself uut of sympathy. * Wanted to Find the Crumb. Mamma—What are you tearing your doll to pleces for?. Dattle—I'm lookin. for the crumb of comfort papa sail ‘was to be foiind In everything. + Friendship, Rounder—Is Slick a friend of yours: Bounder—I should say so. Why, he will let me share my last dollar with bim.—Exchanze. The man who cannot forgive any wortal thing Is a creen hand tn’ life, Cream Puff Cure A young woman te.cher in a schoo! 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 1 to continue. but hoped to be quite well by the next day. The teacher rested her ‘bead on her arms and sat at her degk a few minutes waiting for strength to start on the Journey home. ward. 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 Iittle while she heard some onc softly say, “Teacher!” and looked up: It was the raggedest boy of the lot and he was holding out a paper bag ‘full of gomething. | “What {s it, Jimmie?” sbe asked. “Somethin’ t’ eat,” replied Jimmie. “But I'm not hungry.” “Yes, you are," insisted the ragget 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. . Ea! "em quick, ma’am, nn’ you'll feel bet ter.”—Philadelpbia Star. . The Silence Wager. Once a Hrubman and bis wife quar- reled acutely over three Lol fish. Each wanted to e:it two aud leave the third for the other, The husband argued that he bad fetched them from the ba. vaar, the’ wife that sbe had cooked them. Neither would give way. ‘Then sald the Brahman: “Let us £0 to bed and see who speaks first. Whichever of us does will have to take the one kol fish." This agreed, they lay down supperiess, and passed the night, the dawn, the morning, in utter silence The nehbers, alarmed, went In to sec if they were dead. They shook then and pulied them about Stili no soum! Then three of thein made the furor pyre, placed the Brahman upon It and applied the wren. Next they fted 4, the Braliani to Jay her beside he: husband = ..t that moment the fam. reached the fwdy of the Brahman. Un able to kecp quiet any loogerete Jum ed up, orang, “Brahmant, Pil eat the one!” “Then J'll eat the other two.’ she promptly replied.—“Bengall House hold Tales.” * Some Indian Precepts. Ernest Thompson Scton’s “fhe Book of Wovdcraft and Indian Lore” con tains the teachings of the Indian Chief Wabasha L., from which we quote the following: “In the day of bis strength no mats fat, Fat 1s good in a benst, but in a man It Is disease and comes anly of an eri! life. “No man will eat three times eoch sun {f he would keep his body strong and his mind uuclouded. “Bathe every sun in cold water and one sun in seven enter the sweat lodge “When your time comes to die sing Your death sung and die pleasantly, not Ike the white men, whose hearts are ever filled with the fear of death 80 when their time comes they weer | and wall and pray for a Httle morc time so they may live their lives over | again in a different mabner.” Pea a acc This overheard conversation appeals to the weary one as nearly eplgrany matic.. The young people on the seat ahead of us hi’the homeward bound car the other night talked it out sc loud that we couldn't belp bearing i and jottinz down a few notes on it. “So,” sald the girl, “be said he knen me when-] 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 sald he said he knew you wher be was a bor.” _ That put such a wet blanket on the conversation that we were able to reat our sporting extra uninterrupted fo the next several blocks.—Clevelant Plain Dealer. Bits From Shakespeare. Users uf everyday catchwords are constantly quotlug that ubiquitous per- son Shakespeare, “Dead as a,door nail,” “lenz and short of it,” “getting even.” “taz-rag.”” “birds 6f a feather,” “that’s tht," “mum,” — ‘scarecrow.” “gold.” “uiliksop.” “loggerhead,” “baz and bassuce.” “a mere’ song,” “dane dag atte nd:uee.* “send bln packins.* “EM with kindness,” “give and take. “an exesure.” ‘to boot” and “the mak in the mean” ate cul his. * = Impertinence. | “] xene darn on the 2th of Febri: ar g ) “Remarks ble!” " “Yes, There are few men: who have _ that distine ion. 1 “Very true. tluve you ever done ansthing else unustal?—Chicago Ree ord-IHerald. : 1 * Cynical.” The old fasbion-d woman who used to Ret up rt 5a, a, to celebrate wash day now bay a daughter who had an awfsl time <ettine the stuff togethe In time to give it wo the laundry drive when te catls ate? p. m.—Cincinn:.: Enquirer. Didn’t Know Horse Talk. “Wantel, a man who can spewh Brench and who understands horses” jreads an advertisement. One of tau applicants wrote, “Ob, yes; I can apts te Francais, but I know not wha’ ‘fangue' ze ‘orses speak.”’—Londor Standard. ~ | . Talk cf Money, It 4s true that money talks, but its Yocabuinry 1s Umited to “goodby” and one or tu other phrases.—Philadeiphia Ledger, | $ aan ee ce ° Sees cebW Gece? Se . National Religious Training’ Scho. teete Sg GRRE RY VEEL oe SES ee eae oe . Er ae ea ema Aa ee Saat UG END rar gs ae roe ewer carl oe eee Sane ewe aestrd Res el ae Cie Pes oo eet? en eS fd . > SAO RRs Chee rane nati 8 i a NR a ee a a ye os iis Bhealig SAAR sais POE e amr MES SN ya ee ' . eRe Weak eS ee HERE Seen ee eae as Eee, i 4 te Petty Bane s de SRE NERA Sets 8 ~ ; i a 4 eae” RENE Tee OLE 5 ea SOR Pee Lok ct ii Ws wie eens ‘tal i? er an! a a. | REN, een ee ee Hong cs lense oe . 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This strange condition of the atmosphere lasted about three and a half hours. Again, on May 19, 1780, there was a remarkable darkening of the atmosphere, but the phenomenon did not come on so suddenly as that upon the earlier date. The darkness in this latter instance began between 10 and 11 o'clock on the morning of the day named and lasted throughout the day. The darkness extended from the northeastern part of New England westward as far as Albany and southward to Pennsylvania. The most intense and prolonged darkness, however, was confined to Massachusetts, more especially to the seaboard. It is said to have come from the southwest, but there is no mention of it made in the history of Ohio or the Virginias. The exact cause still remains one of the unexplained mysteries. "Warned Off" the Turf. To be "warned off" is the most severe sentence that can be imposed on any one in England connected with the off. 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. 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. How fast do ducks fly? is a question that sportsmen have long debated. A correspondent of Forest and Stream throws some definite light on it. Business requires him to ride frequently on a railroad in New York state that skirts a large lake. 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If Christians allow the rush and crush of selfish ambition to deprive them of their daily portion of heavenly food, they must not be surprised if they grow spiritually leaner day by day, and if the peace of God give place in their hearts to the discontent which is growing in the world, not withstanding the multiplication of our comforts and privileges. Daily Heavenly Manna contains a collection of Scripture texts with appropriate quotations for every day in the year. Surely the little tithe of time daily spent in partaking of its morsel of heavenly counsel cannot fall to profit all who partake. It is published to do good—not for profit. Your Friends' Birth Dates. Your Friends Birth Dates. An autograph and birthday record feature in this book is a great conven- ience. Opposite each day of the year are blank lines upon which you can secure the autographs of your friends and be reminded of their birthdays as they occur. This makes the book more valuable yearly. In ten years you would not sell it for ten dollars. Besides it has a place for Birth Re- cords, Marriage Records and Death Re- cords. 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; limitation alligator skin, gold edges, $1.00 postpaid. Order now. Bib ble and Tract Society, 17 Hicks Street Brooklyn, N. Y. Didn't Like the Combination. Werry Walker—I allers know'd it. Tired Tatters—Know'd wot? "Wot dat sign over de way sez- Cleaning and Dyeling." "Well, wot erbout it?" "Why, I allers know'd day went to ether."—Boston Post. Willing to Oblige. Lawyer—We want you to be willing to waive immunity in this case. Witness—All right; hand the old rag here. I'll wave anything to oblige you—Ballmore American. A concealed spark is more to be fared than an open fire.—German Proverb. Turner's Carelessness Speed of Flying Ducks. The Regeneration of Organs. 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. One day Professor Bujnion visited a little island on Lake Anholalangoda, in Ceylon. While filling about he suddenly became aware of a fatu 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 Bujnion 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, elr—that's me, Karl Formes." How to Upsearth 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 Scotsman'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 homes. They "homologate" too, do the writing Scots; allude to prisoners as "panels," take much to "avilzandum" and "compare" their witnesses in a law case—London Tatler. 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. Among other things he gives the cost of our guns, projectiles, etc. We learn from him that a single shot from a twelve inch gun costs about $424. Rapidly multiply that by the number of guns shot off in a broadside and that again by the number of ships in the navy, and one may gain some idea of the expenses of modern target practice. When one further contemplates the cost of a modern battleship the possible expenditure involved in a naval engagement between two first class naval powers is appalling to contemplate. He Didn't Sigr. "I seem to remember that lady. Who is she?" "She was my typist last year." "She's charming. Why did she leave you?" "She was too conscientious for me. One-day I proposed marriage to her, and what do think she did? She took all that I said down in shorthand and brought it, nicely typewritten, for me to sign." A Fine Morning "Fine morning, your honor," afably remarked the man who had been arrested the night before for being drunk and disorderly. "Yes, indeed." reponded the justice, "quite a fine morning—in fact, a ten dollar fine morning." A Taxicab Mystery. The great mystery presented by some of the taxicab meters is the question of how you could go that far in the space of time without being arrested for speeding.—Washington Star. Want of care does us more harm than want of knowledge.—Franklin. The British army was once in difficulties through the lack of a hangman. Murder was committed by a soldier in the Crimea, but nobody could be found to carry out the sentence of the court matriel. 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 flogging the man who had volunteered and failed.—London Standard. Found the Spicee The overcaucasious father of three charming daughters, after his family had sought seclusion for the night, caught somewhere in the distance the echo of a squeeze. 1 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. "Mary, my love, was that you squeezing?" "No, indeed, papa dear." Just then the guest room door, halfway down, the corridor, opened a hands' breath, and the mild voice of an old lady guest, who had retired early, is sound 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 ear that is expensive, the chief cost pertaining to the making of the mold. Vulcanized rubber, which can be bent and twisted, has been found to constitute the best material for the making of artificial ears.—Harper's Weekly. Xerxes Made Mount Athos an Island. Mount Athos is unlikely ever to be turned into an island again, as it was by Xerxes. The canal which he cut through the isthmus was regarded as a myth even in the time of Juvenal, but traces of it are still in existence. One circumstance of its construction, recorded by Herodotus, may help to explain why it was a three years' business to cut this canal of less than twelve furlongs. Nearly all the peoples employed by Xerxes dug straight down, with the result that the sides continually fell in, thus doubling their work. The Phoenicians, with their superior intelligence, began excavating at a breadth much greater than the canal itself was to occupy, so as gradually to narrow with a convenient slope as they dug down. London's Street Traffic. It was not until about thirty years ago that London's existing system of regulating traffic at street corners was instituted. At the beginning it required four policemen at every important junction to do with difficulty what two constables and sometimes one now effect by a motion of the hand. But the men in blue stuck to their task and hung on to horses' heads and summoned rebellious drivers till the reign of law and order was established. A Bigger Dose. "My doctor ordered two weeks at the seashore." "He's a homeopath, isn't he?" "Yes. Why?" "Two weeks is a small dose. I'd go to an allopath and see if I couldn't get a trip to Europe."—Washington Herald. Very Different. Blinkers — Hello, Winkers! I hear you married a woman with an independent fortune. Winkers (sadly)—N-no. I married a fortune with an independent woman. Cool Spot. Fussy Old Lady-I want two good seats for this afternoon in the coolest part of the house. Ticket Agent-All right, madam. Here are two in 2 row. -Life. Easy. "Have you any trouble naming the baby?" "Not at all. We've only one rich relative of her sex."-Detroit Free Press. Misplaced Confidence. Misplaced Confidence. "Are Jinks' misfortunes due to misplaced confidence, as he claims?" "Yes; he rated his own ability too high."—Buffalo Express. L. C. 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But, however well qualified he may be, no Brazilian can legally get a degree in his own country of a doctor of medicine or of law. Too Vigorous. Vicar (to sexton)—That pulpit cushion is worn out, Edward. I wish you would see that a new one is put on Edward (grimly)—Yes, sir; I know it be worn out, an' it's the third one this year. It ain't my place to pass remarks, sir, but in my opinion there's such a thing as carryin' religion a lee'te too fart—London Opinion. Amicus Curiae. "I hope this is the last sentence I shall pass upon you," said a French magistrate to a tramp who has appeared before him regularly for many years. Affecting surprise, the tramp replied, "Then you think of retiring, your worship?"—London Telegraph. A Musical Pun. In "Reminiscences, Impressions and Anecdotes" Francesco Berger records a pun made by the late Lord Coleridge at a public dinner. "Even in music," he said, "there is variety of opinion. Some loved their Bach often, while others preferred Offenbach!" 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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. 1933, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 24th day of March, 1913. W. J. HOWARD, 100 Massachusetts Avenue N. W. (Seal.) Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. Martin, Attorney. B. L. GASKINS, ATTORNEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding an Equity Court. Equity No. 31,550. Daniel E. Wiseman, Executor of Last Will and Testament of Hannah Fuller, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Harriet Freeman et al., Defendants. 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 Bots numbered respectively, sixty-four (64), sixty-five (65), sixty-six (66), and sixty-seven (67), of Wright and Cox's Subdivision of part of Pleasant Plains. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 24th day of March, A. D. 1913, ordered that the defendants, Sandy Fuller, the younger, Maggie Fuller, Archie Fuller, Beatrice Fuller, 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 alienees, if he be dead, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the first rule day occurring after the eximation 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. A true copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By J. McKEE, Assistant Clerk. Smith & Warrick, Attorneys. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding probate court. No. 10,200. 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 person-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. 1014; otherwise they may be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 26th day of March, 1913 SAM'L W. WATSON, 1119 Montello Ave. N. E. (SEAL) Attest: JAMES TAXNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk 'of the Probate Court. JAS. H. SMITH. T. B. WARRICK Attorney. 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 Edner Miller. On motion of the complainant, it is this 1st day of April, A. D. 1913, ordered that the defendant, George Nellings, cause his appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays occurring after the date of the first publication of this order; otherwise, the cause will be proceeded with as in default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks before said time in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee. Test. J. R. YOUNG. Clerk. By F. E. CUNNINGHAM. Assistant Clerk. NEGRO WEALTH' In Greensboro and Guilford County, North Carolina. From Greensboro Record, April 2. In looking through the "Report of the State Tax Commission of North Carolina" for the year 1912, I ran across some data and figures relating Christian Xander's STERLING SILVER RYE 60c full pint Most Popular for its fine quality Only at 909 7th St. No branch stores to the personal and realty holdings of the colored citizens of Greensboro and Guilford County that may be of interest to some of the readers of this paper. To make a comparative statement, I refer to the year 1900 when, according to the Auditor of the State, the total value of property listed by the colored citizens of Guilford County amounted to $203,607.00. According to the State Tax Commission of 1912, the value of property listed by them in this county in 1911 is $583.473. Adding to this at least to per cent. increase for 1912 according to expert authority we have a grand total of $641,842.30. The percentage of increase in value of property, therefore, listed by colored citizens in Guilford County between 1900 and 1911 is 53.6, according to the State Commission figures. Furthermore, when one takes into reckoning stock owned by some colored citizens in banks, building and loan associations and a few other corporations in the city and elsewhere, and that the above figures do not include church and school property, the homes of the fraternal organizations and property of benevolent associations, etc., and that the assessed value of property is from 1-2 to 2-3 of its real value, it may be seen that the real value of Negro holdings in Guilford County will, perhaps, reach one and a half million dollars. Another item of no small consequence is that the colored brother has caught on to the trick taught him by his "brother in white," namely, not to list all that he really owns. It is safe to say that 3-4 of this one and a half million wealth is here in the city of Greensboro; the balance elsewhere in the county. The total population of both races in 1910 in Guilford County was 60,497. We have not the information at hand, just now, as to the ratio between the two races, but the Negro population is, doubtless, nearly 15,000. In 1900 it was 11,103. The number of acres of land owned by these 15,000 Negroes is about 16,000, not counting town lots. According to the census of 1900, the population of the colored citizens in Greensboro was 4,089; in 1910, 5,710, showing an increase of 1,621. The number of town lots in Greensboro credited to the colored, according to the Commission report, is 688. This means that every eighth Negro one may meet on the streets of the city not only owns his own home, but perhaps "some more." If one stops to reflect that, when the Negro was physically emancipated fifty years ago, he practically owned nothing, scarcely the raiment on his back, the above figures portray most eloquently the progress being made by him in Greensboro and Guilford County. In view of the above showing, who can foretell what the story will be fifty years hence, provided he is given a fair and impartial hearing and just consideration by those who have it within their power to do so. NEGRO SOLDIERS Paid High Tribute by a French Writer—Rated Higher Than American White Soldiers. A Frenchman, writing to The Revu Militaire Generale, the French official newspaper corresponding to the Army and Navy Journal of this country, pays the following high tribute to the Negro soldiers in the United States service: "Taking everything into consideration, we cannot place the number of privates of the line, worthy of that name, above 10 or 12 per company, according to the testimony of the experts. We must, however, make an exception in the case of the Negro regiments, which number in the ranks many re-enlisted men, and therefore have a large proportion of well-disciplined and well-trained soldiers. They have indeed given proof of this, and particularly in the Spanish-American war. More than once in Cuba the honor of the day has, in justice, been due to them. I have personally seen the Negro infantry in Colorado and a regiment of black cavalry in Vermont; all these 'colored soldiers,' as they are called, were well built and well set up. They had a military hearing very unusual in the American army, and they would have taken an honorable place in the ranks of European troops. Coleridge Taylor Benefit Mrs. Katharine Skeen-Mitchell, Soprano, of Cleveland, has consented to come to Washington and sing at the Coleridge-Taylor Benefit Concert to be given at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Friday evening, May 16. Mrs. Skeen-Mitchell is a great favorite here and those who have derived pleasure from her singing at former appearances will gladly embrace the opportunity to hear her again. She comes without compensation, so great is her sympathy with the effort to relieve the family of the late S. Coleridge-Taylor from the distressful circumstances in which Mr. Taylors death left them. Patron's tickets now on sale are being taken at a rate which indicates that Metropolitan Church will be taxed to its limit on the evening of May 16. Mr. Holmes. Mr. James A. Holmes, one of the most successful business men in this city, and a popular Odd Fellow, is expected to take a trip North in a few weeks. There is not a more genial entertainer in this city than Mr. Holmes. 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. All sound woolens in the very latest weaves and the most fashionable colorings—distinctive patterns that will not be duplicated in ready-mades. Make your selection now and here and be sure of being correctly dressed. There is no reason why you should wear anything less than made-to-your-measure clothes—tailored to your body lines and to fit your individuality. The new models for Spring, with their close-fitting lines, make ready-mades more impossible than ever—and they are no economy. My tailored-to-measure prices run from $18 to $40. Goldheim The Young Man's Tailor 403-405 Seventh Street Hopelessly Tangled. Professor Thinkitout was about to be married and had just received an invitation to his own wedding, which he had absentmindedly mailed to himself. "Well, well," he mused, "what does this mean? My fiancee's name on a wedding invitation! The faithless husky! And great Logarithms! There's my name on it too. Either she's untrue or I'm about to be a bigamist."—Erchance. Testing His Love. "Has he ever tried to tell how much he loves you?" "Frequently, but I am going to get some inside information this afternoon." "How?" "I am going to take my engagement ring to the jeweler."—Houston Post Probing the Jury. Judge (to jury)—Have you agreed upon a verdict? Is the prisoner guilty or not guilty of theft, as charged in the indictment? Foreman—We have not yet reached a verdict, your honor. I missed my pocketbook in the night, and I would respectfully ask that each juror be searched. Naturally. "The prima donna we heard yesterday has a voice of velvet." "Of course. That's where she gets her pile." - Baltimore American. Cruel. Hint Mabel—George thinks I am so easy so please. Gladys—He must think so after all the rest of us had turned him down.—Baltimore American. He who laughs last is an Englishman.—Princeton Tiger. A Place For All Things Willoughby was nervously watching the time, and as the minutes passed and it became evident that the train could not by any possibility reach its destination on time he turned viciously to the porter and began angrily: "Of all the dad blinged old heaps of junk this side of the earthquake belt this railroad of yours is without any exception the"— "Excuse me, boss," said the porter, with a courteous wave of his whiskbroom toward the rear end of the train, "but dere's an observation cyar on de end ob diss yere train, suh, an' if Ah might take de libbity ob makin' a suggestion, suh, you might go back dere, suh, an' make de observations now risin' in yo' midst. De presence ob ladies on diss yere cyar, suh, is mah excuse fo' makin' de suggestion." Whereupon Willoughby retired to the rear platform and strewed his observations along the track with such effect that one of the ties was seen to be smoking long after the train had pass- Children's May Carnival at Howard Theater is based on music by S. Coleridge Tayldr and other colored composers. JULIYF J. C. PRITCHARD. One of the strongest supporters of the National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C. The man who is doing all in his power to make the Negro school a success. A few Negroes are stabbing him on a sly. Father E. T. Montelcome and his parishioners, of the Roman Catholic Church of Jersey City, are having molded a huge wax candle 16 feet in height to be sent to Rome to be burned on least days in memory of I. Piernort Morgan. "The Black Man's Burden." Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, Rev. M. W. D. Norgman, the pastor, will deliver a sermon at the Metropolitan Baptist Church, R Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets Northwest, entitled "The Black Man's Burden." He will "handle without gloves" many of the current problems that touch the well-being of the colored people of Washington and the nation, especially with reference to the pending bills in Congress and the State legislatures of the States designed to restrict the civil liberties of the Afro-American race Sick Doctors. Dr. A. M. Curtis, who has been quite ill, is improving. Dr. John R. Franeis, who was carried to Freedmen's Hospital last week, is steadily improving. Rev. W. H. Snyder, of Elyria. O., is in the city. May Carnival promises to be the greatest success of the season. One hundred children under careful training. LATEST DISCOVERY Johnston's Latest Discovery—a wonderful Hair Dressing and Scalp and Hair Cleaner. Johnston's Hair Dressing is now on sale in this city at the following drug stores: Geo. W. 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Adams, who has been in the undertaking business for quite a number of years and has the reputation of knowing his profession thoroughly, being very careful to perform all of the many details connected therewith. Mr. Adams is quite fortunate in having associated with him Mrs. Minnie B. Smoot, formerly a teacher in the Public Schools of the District. Mrs. Smith is a graduate of the famous Recontoon training School for Embalmers of New York City She was the only colored member of her class and completed the course with high honors, graduating at the head of her class. Mrs. Smoot is also an active and energetic member of I. O. of St. Luke, being the financial secretary of Azara Council No. 826 of Garfield, D. C. Mrs. Smoot assumes entire charge of the funerals of ladies and children. The prices of this firm are very moderate and special consideration is given to societies and other organizations. Office and residence, 504 Nicholas Avenue, Anacostia, D. C. Phone Lincoln 2010 For Rent. 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