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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 WOODROW WILSON EDITOR CHASE MAKES A PLEA FOR THE NEGRO. PRESIDENT NO COMMITTEE Is There Any Hope for the Colored American? Does the Action of the Democratic Administration Hold Out Any Hope for the Negro? Negro Democrats Despondent—The Editor's Letters to President-Elect and President Wilson. Long before the election of President Woodrow Wilson, alleged Negro Democrats and so-called independent Negro Republicans had great hopes of receiving recognition from the Democratic party and the Democratic administration in the event of the success of the Democratic party at the polls last November. Long before the election colored independents and alleged Negro Democrats picked out the offices they wanted. Every Negro Democrat of any prominence had selected places held by Negro Republicans and many of these declared that they would succeed Negro Republicans. Candidates had their eyes planted upon some of the choice plants that were held by Negro Republicans, and many of them declared that Mr. Wilson would not only appoint Negro Democrats 30 places held by Negro Republicans, but the President intended to give Negro Democrats two or three more additional places. Have their hopes and fond expectations been realized? Has Mr. Wilson held out, any hope to the 30 per cent of the alleged Negro vote that Rev. Waldron declared that he secured for the Democratic President? Who succeeded W. H. Lewis, the Assistant Attorney General? A white Democrat. Who succeeded General Robert Smalls, the hero of the Civil War? A white Democrat. Who has been nominated to succeed Auditor Ralph W. Tyler, one of the greatest Negro journalists of the age, and the most efficient Auditor who has ever held, the office? A white Democrat. Who will succeed all other presidential places held by Negroes, except, probably Havi i and Liberia? White Democrats. The Editor of The Bee, who has been a Republican ever since he has been able to know what Republicanism is, took it upon himself to address two letters to Mr. Wilson; President of the United States, one after his election and one after his inauguration, which speak for them-selves. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 1913. Hon. Woodrow Wilson. Sir: Representing ten millions of Negroes who are struggling upward and onward, this newspaper, in their interest, is naturally solicitus as to whether or not the race will enjoy a fair and equitable representation under your administration, when you become president. In spite of our desire to be considered merely as a part of the body politic, without being segregated into a class, nevertheless we are so segregated, and doubtless will be continued as a class. The race is anxious to learn whether it will be your policy to recognize individuals of the race with appointment to office, and whether the press announcement that you propose to recognize efficiency and merit, rather than partisan politics, will apply to the Negro public servant the same as to the white public servant. The race, as to be expected, hopes for no retarding class legislation during your membency of the office of president, and hopes for no dismunition in representation in public office. This newspaper, a national newspaper of the Negro race, is only interested in men of our race in so far as they reflect credit upon the race and contribute to the total sum of proper advancement and achievement. The editor of this newspaper is not now, nor will he be, a candidate for any office of any description. We trust, governor, that you can find it consistent to deliver some helpful, assuring message to a people who need all the encouragement it is possible for the dominant race to give. During our fifty years of freedom, in spite of hurtful and discouraging handicaps, we have made wonderful progress. We have not only supported the flag of this, our country, but we have followed it wherever it has been carried. And as a race—as a class, strict observance of law has been a record to which we point with pride. Assuring you of profound respect, and sincerely trusting you will find it agreeable to send some message of encouragement to our race, we are. Respectfully, THE WASHINGTON BEE. W. Calvin Chase. Proprietor Answer. WOODROW WILSON Dear Mr. Chase: For Governor Wilson I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of recent date. I know the governor will be interested in reading your letter and it will be handed to him at the earliest opportune moment. Very truly yours, J. R. TUMULTY, Secretary to the Governor, Mr. W. Calvih Chase, Washington, D. C. Since the reception of the answer to the letter sent by Mr. Wilson when he was governor of New Jersey, the editor has been patiently waiting for the promised answer, but no answer was re- ceived except the one sent by Secretary Tumulty, March 29th, sometime after the inauguration of Mr. Wilson, the following letter was sent to President Wilson: -After Inauguration. Washington, D. C., March 29th, 1913. Hon Woodrow Wilson. The White House, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: DEAR Mr. President: We wrote you some weeks before your inauguration asking if members of the race in whose interest this newspaper is published might be benefited by your reputed policy to recognize merit and efficiency. Mr. Tumulty replied that our letter would be brought to your attention. Further than this, we have heard nothing. Is it true, Mr. President, that color is to be the primary cause for the displacement of Negroes from office no matter how efficient, and that color will be the effectual bar to appointment to office of men whom God created with a darker skin than yours? There appears to be a generally accepted belief, prompted by statements from those closest to you that Negro officeholders will be quickly displaced, and that the door of hope is to be closed to the race by your administration. This newspaper asks nothing at your hands for its editor and proprietor, but we do ask something for our race—simply fair consideration at your hands. We ask this because we are American citizens taxed the same rate as white citizens, and amenable to the same laws which govern the whites. We were led to believe that your high Christian character would assure us equity. We hope, Mr. President, you will give the race substantial encouragement rather than discouragement. There are ten millions of us to help make the country better. Can you give my race reason to hope, and, hoping, can we expect to realize our hopes for fair representation under your administration? We trust you will deal equitably with the ten million Negroes. Respectfully. W. Calvin Chase, Editor and Proprietor. Mr. Tumulty thought enough of the editor's title to acknowledge it, hence he sent the following answer to the foregoing: THE WHITE HOUSE Washington March 31, 1913. My Dear Sir: Permit me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of March 20th, and to say that I shall bring it to the attention of the president at the earliest opportunity. Secretary to the President. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, 1109 Eye Street. Northwest, Washington, D. C. The editor has been waiting since March 31st for Mr. Tunnully to bring Editor Clase's letter to the attention of the President. From the way the heads of Negro Republicans are being decapitated and white Democrats put in their places, it is a sufficient answer to the letter sent President Wilson by the editor of The Bee. BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING Race Discrimination Rampant—Colored Girls Speak Out—Director Ralph Calls Them in and Advises Them to Segregate—Great Excitement These be strenuous days at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The policy of segregation is being worked out there to the last syllable of its infamous degrading purpose. It is hard to learn exactly what is going on because of "gag" orders forbidding employees to talk about occurrences in the bureau. The Bee learns from a source which it credits fully, the following story which is probably as great an outrage as was ever committed under the protecting eyes of the government itself since the time when fugitive slaves were restored to their so-called owners. The daily press of the last week or so contained very full and illuminating accounts of the visit of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for the purpose of seeing for herself the conditions under which women work in the shop of the government. It does not appear that what has since happened has any connection with the visit of the first lady of the land, but many assert that the two things are related to each other as cause and effect. It seems that a number of colored girls who work in the bureau have been for the last eight or nine years, buying and eating their meals at the lunch room established in the bureau for the convenience of the employees, without hindrance, or comment, from the head of the bureau, or other person in authority. Since the time of Mrs. Wilson's visit it was suggested to the colored girls that they eat at a table placed in the corner of the lunch room apart from the white girls most of whom do not buy their lunch in the place, but bring it from home, but use the tables in the lunch room to at it on. The colored girls refused to act on the suggestion. The matter was called to their attention by their chief, but they still firmly and courteously refused to comply. Later it is said, Director Ralph sent for the colored girls, and admitting them to his presence singly, having two of his men chiefs with him, questioned them one at a time, wanting to know why they were creating confusion in the office. They, of course, denied doing such a thing. He then asked them why they continued to sit at tables other than those they were requested to sit at. He was informed by the girls that they took seats where they found them vacant without reference to their position, because they thought they had a right to do so. Mr. Ralph, it is said, admit- THE BUDDHA OF THE TEMPLE ted such right, but informed the girls that he was going to have tables installed at the side of the room, two or three of them, and asked if they would sit at these tables and take their meals. They replied that they would do so, on his express direction given in writing. This he did not give, but suggested that they sit at the tables which he would have put in. The next day the girls went to the lunch room as usual and took seats as they found them vacant. On Monday, it is said, Mr. Ralph, in company, with two white men, came to the room where the girls were at work, and called them to the door in the presence of all the other employees, when the matter of their eating in the lunch room was taken up. Quite a conversation ensued. In the course of it, one of the white women, who said she was Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, remarked to the colored girls, "Why do you insist on eating in that room? Why will you go where you are not wanted? Do you know that we Democrats are in power? If you people will go along and behave yourselves, and stay away from places where you are not wanted, we may let you hold your places." The girls replied that they went into a place where they had a right to go; that they were not seeking social equality or personal intimacy with others who might go into the room, and that they considered her attitude in the matter gratitudinous, officious and without warrant. Much more to the same effect was said; Director Ralph walking away, and not hearing all of it. The victims of this outrage for reasons of prudence refuse to talk about it, and The Lee has learned this story from another source. (More post work.) CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME Why Should the People be Asked to Aid an Unnecessary Luxury—Orphans and Widows Suffering at Home—Henry Lassiter-Objects—A Pointed Letter to the Bee. Editor of The Rec: Permit me to say a few words, within the columns of your much read and useful journal, in regard to the movement now on foot to raise money to send to England for the purpose of relieving the indebtedness on what we are told is a hand-one residence purchased by the late S Coleridge-Taylor some years ago. It seems that a few of the citizens of Washington have secured the use of the Metropolitan Church for air entertainment, to take place in the near future, for that specific purpose. The old adage of "charity beginning at home" seems to have been ignored or laid aside for what I would call, outlining, "I will admit that we all make blunders at times, but I will make a large per cent of the race will regard this as being one of the greatest blunders ever made on the part of the intelligence of the Negro race at the Nation's capital. Furthermore, there was never a time when a greater wrong was ever attempted on the race by itself. Why the wrong is so great is due to this fact, which is clearly shown, that the intelligent people are trying to take advantage of the less fortunate by hoodwinking them to the extent of having them to believe that it is perfectly right to take their hard earnings, which should be spent to promote the welfare of their own households, to send it across the Atlantic ocean to do what? To create splendor for an English lady in England. Hundreds of widows whose husbands have been silenced by death, living within the borders, of the District of Columbia, leaving homes half paid for, are now struggling; some over the wash tub and other laborious tasks, trying to carry on the unfinished work of their loved ones. Do we hear of an effort being made, in this way, to assist them? No, but you have heard remarks made on the part of the gossipers, who at one time enjoyed the hospitalities of the individuals, saying what did they do, with their money? They have been working for the government, ten, fifteen or twenty years, and nothing to show for it, and at the same time they have helped to consume a part of it. It is to be remembered that we have, at the nation's Capital, any number of people who are badly in need of the comforts of life as in any part of that far off place known as England. We have men, women and children, right here in sight of the Goddess of Liberty, who are minus anything that has a tendency to be genteel; never see inside the shields, inside of a school, never come in contact with the learned, but we find them identified very largely with the criminals. In fact, they make up the criminals. Whose fault is it? It is largely the fault of that same element or class who is now supporting this movement, which I regard as an outrage on the people, who would do differently if they were called upon to exercise more judgment in trying to be good citizens. There are numerous requirements to make a good citizen. To begin with, every individual is expected to provide comforts for his own family before he secures comforts for those in some far off land. For two hundred and fifty years we were deprived of an opportunity of providing home comfort; but now the time has arrived, whether you can or not, you are expected to do something along that line. But if we are going to continue to mislead or to persuade each other to 'do the things that have a tendency to make us less or make us less than good citizens, then there is nothing for any of us to do but 'tay at the bottom round of the ladder for generations to come. I have, for a long time, felt miserable over the fact that we have such a large percentage of our people who support the whiskey dens in this vicinity. We also have here dance halls, and other so-called places of amusement, which are sapping the very life out of our race in every respect—piritually, physically and financially. Now, we are expected to take still more of our, small pittance and send it across the Atlantic ocean to create wealth for another race entirely. Could we say that this is absurd? No, that would be no name for it. We have now a similar case where the husband has been summoned by death to his long resting place, whose home is somewhat incumbered: how many will be found rallying to the aid of that dear widow, who is a member of our race, and lives in a respectable part of the city, and comes from good parents, and deserves every consideration. But with all that we will not hear of any entertainment or any number soliciting funds for the purpose of adding to her comforts. Let us think for a moment of the beautiful home, located at Cedar Hill, Amacoia, known as the Frederick Douglas Home. The home of a man who did more to distinguish his race, both in America and in European countries, than any man who ever lived. This home is also incumbered. The trustees, who have entire charge of it, have appealed to the citizens more than once for aid to relieve the indebtedness in order to make it a national memorial home, in honor of that grand and noble character, whose name will forever remain on the pages of history, known as Frederick Douglas. Would it not reflect great credit upon the race if we could lose sight of the sum needed in the far off lands for a while, and look after the comforts of our own homes and communities? I do not mean to be narrow, nor selfish, but I believe in carrying out the scriptures as far as we possibly can; and one of the things along that line is "to begin our charity at home." Galbraith Celebration. The celebration of the organization of the A.M.E. Zion Connection and the Denominational Rally will take place at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, Sixth Street, between L and M Streets Northwest, Sunday, May 4 the pastor will preach upon "The Origin and the Mission of the A. M. E. Zion Church" at 11 A. M. The choir will furnish a program embracing hymns, melodies and anthems showing the progress of the church for the last one hundred years. In the evening the pastor will inach upon the subject, "Zion and Her Future." The members and friends will be asked to make a liberal contribution, the same to be applied to education, missionary, and general assessment of the church. DOCTRINE OF SELF-HELP EX-POUNDED BY BISHOP Colored People Urged to Banish Wailings and "Do Something." Warnings and Do Something. The doctrine of self-heLP was held up to the colored people of the United States by Bishop Levi J. Coppin of Philadelphia, who is presiding over the twenty-first annual session of the church extension board of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at 1535 Fourteenth street, Northwest, today. The board, which is composed of representatives from each Episcopal district of the church, includes Revs. L. J. Coppin, bishop, and president; B. F. Watson, Washington, corresponding secretary; A. R. Cooper, New York city; R. H. W. Leake, Raigeh, N. C.; J. J. Gibbons, Huntington, W. Va.; H. H. Graves, Chicago, Ill.; U. P. Tollert, Rockmart, Ga.; D. A. Christie, Orangeburg, S. C.; W. B. Lewis, Greenwood, Miss.; W. H. Jones, Gurdon, Ark.; J. F. Griffin, Memphis, Tenn.; W. D. Miller, Houston, Texas; E. W. Byrd, Jacksonville, Fla., and A. W. Hackley, Toronto, Ontario. Bishop Coppin's Advice. "The future of our race in this country," said Bishop Coppin, "depends largely on our own efforts. We cannot afford to sit around and complain; complaints and wailings never yet made a race and never will. Let us do something. Let us put forth an effort to help ourselves, and then if help should come from the outside we will accept it." "Do for yourself is the motto of the age." Professor John R. Hawkins, Washington, D.C., financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, and Bishop John Hurst of Baltimore, who has charge of the work in Florida, delivered short addresses. Among the visitors introduced were Rev. L. M. Beckett, Washington, D.C.; J Rheibhart, Arkansas and Rev. Charles Stewart, of Chicago. The feature of the morning session was the report of the corresponding secretary, Dr B. F. Watson, who reviewed the work for the past twenty years, showing that the receipts had amounted to $408,390.07 and the disbursements $187,103.05. Financial Statement. Financial Statement. The financial statement showed that the department had property valued at $149,200; new church property acquired. Stewart Chayel, Oxford, Miss.; $80; St. Paul, La Grange Tex. $1000; total $151,300. Financial summary: From dollar money $15,203,32; from Children's day, $4,424.92; from regular loans returned $502; from irregular loans returned, $77.30; interest on loans, $77.31; interest on deposit, $173.82; conference expense for Children's Day programs, $156.50; church extension anniversary, $46.30; other special receipts, $161.40; total receipts, $24,060.15 with a balance from 1912 of $20,060.22, and the disbursement up to the close of the in-cal year amounted to $254,813. President Coppin announced the following committees: Auditing—A. R. Cooper, D. X. Christie, J. T. Gibbons. Application—A. W. Hackley, W. H. Jones, E. W. Byrd. Appropriation—R. H. W. Leak, U. P. Tolbert, W. D. Miller. Wav. and means—J. F. Griffin, W. Lewis, J. T. Gibbons. Memoirs—H. H. Graves, A. R. Cooper D. A. Christie. Bethel Association Election. Bethel Association Election. Bethel Literary and Historical Association held its annual election of officers at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church last night. The following officers were elected: S. M. Dudley, president; Miss M. A. D. Madre, first vice president; Mr. R. A. Tucker, second vice president; Miss A. D. Bell, recording secretary; E. G. Evans, corresponding secretary; Miss Mattie A. R. Bowen, treasurer; Prof. William He Richards, lecturer and counsellor; Miss Parthenia Woodson, librarian; the Rev Dr. I. N Rose, chaplain, and Charles W. Hale sergeant at arms. President Dudley, of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, has been the most popular president that has been at the head of this institution. He is not only a progressive president but has been the fairest one that has ever been at the head of the Bethel Literary. President Dudley has made personal sacrifices to make Bethel Literary one of the most successful literary forums that has been in this city. The Ree congratulates President Dudley as the most genial and entertaining president that has ever been at the head of Bethel Literary. Read this very interesting, unique and able argument of J. ARTHUR DAVIS, AB.,LL.B. To the Colored Church and Colored Preachers it is an open letter, which cannot be ignored. THE WASHINGTON BEE 1100 Eye Street N. W. Washington, D. C. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST John Brooks Henderson, former United States Senator from Missouri and author of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, died in this city last week. He was 86 years of age. The ninety-first anniversary of the birth of General U. S. Grant, in Galena, Ill., last week. Former United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey, from Texas, delivered the principal address. Mr. Bailey lauded the character and services of Gen. Grant and Abraham Lincoln. The insurance of the lives of children is forbidden in Montreal, on the ground that many parents neglect their sick offspring when they know they will profit by their death. E. Dana Durand, director of the Census Bureau, has accepted a professor's chair at the University of Minnesota. He will not begin his duties there until next fall. The Bank of Helena, Ark., established in 1875, has closed. A notice posted on the door said the assets are $1,000,000 in excess of its liabilities. The smallest book in the world is a French translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy," exhibited at the Paris exhibition in 1883. It comprised 500 pages containing 14,328 verses and measures just half an inch square. The sympathy and charity of the "first lady of the land," Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, was demonstrated when she visited the bedside of a poor, dying boy last week, presenting a beautiful bunch of flowers to the lad. Dr. Friedrich F. Friedman has arranged for the sale of the American rights in his anti-tuberculosis vaccine for $125,000 in cash and $1,800,000 in stock in thirty-six Friedman institutes to be organized in many selected states, with a total capitalization of $5,400,000. A wholesale drug firm in New York is named as purchaser. Senator Vardaman, it is announced, at the next session of Congress, will press for the adoption of a resolution submitting an amendment and repeal of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, the effect would be to disfranchise the colored voters and lead the question of their status to the states. The James Brothers have erected one of the greatest and up-to-date establishments that can be found in the country. The judges of the Supreme Court will carefully consider the candidacy of applicants for the Board of Education. Every candidate but three, whose names have not been mentioned, has made a personal and active canvass for the place. A needle in the heart is the report of a physician that caused the death of a two-year-old child in New York. A Japanese commission will visit this country to ascertain the condition of the Japanese in this country and the objections to their owning land. The West End Citizens' Association is in favor of suffrage in the District of Columbia. The present form of government was warmly defended. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, has introduced in the Senate a bill to regulate trusts. The City of New York continues to uncover corruption in the Police Department. Four former police inspectors are facing trial for grafting and conspiracy. President Wilson is firm in his position on the California alien issue. The Duchess of Connaught was operated upon in London Tuesday. The doctors say that the operation was successful. Secretary Bryan is on a mission in California for the administration which he hopes to entangle, provided that this entanglement doesn't conflict with State rights. Three hundred thousand dollars are being raised for a new emergency hospital. A first-class hospital is needed in this city. Peace day in the public schools will be celebrated by the pupils of the public schools May 18th. Officer Quinn. One of the most popular members of the police force and who has been transferred to the White House is Officer John Quinn. This officer, reliable, honest and active and always attentive to his duty. No better man could have been selected than him as one of the guardians of the Executive Mansion. Officer Quinn has been a member of the police force for a number of years and is regarded as one of Major Sylvester's trusted men. The Dangers of Ignorance and Superstition—The Worship of Hypocrisy and Fear Great Spurs—God Seeks Worship Only From the Reverential and True-Hearted—Popular Misconceptions of Hell—The Injury It Has Done and Is Doing—True Christians Should Awake to True Bible Study. Paterson, N. J., April 27. — Pastor Russell preached this afternoon in the Opera House. His tople was "Beyond the Grave." We report his discourse to Bible Students on the text: "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon it." -Ps. 1163. PASTOR RUSSELL Opening his address, the Pastor apologized for the selection of such a text. He would much prefer to talk along the lines of Christian character-building and the necessity of growing in grace, knowledge and love, and thus becoming more and more copies of God's dear Son. His apology was that his text, a sample of many other Bible statements, is so grievously misunderstood us to stand in the way of Christian progress. In conjunction with other Scriptures, it was woven into terrible theories during the Dark Ages. Those theories became imbedded in the various creeds of the time, and so obstructed the channels of thought that the grace, truth and beauty of the Bible were hidden. Many noble hearts, he claimed, are famishing for lack of the refreshment of God's Truth, by reason of the fossilized errors which block the way. "Parish For Lack of Knowledge." "Perish For Lack of Knowledge." The Scriptures foretell conditions exactly as they are today. They declare that there shall be "a famine in the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Word of the Lord." (Amos 8:11. Again the Scriptures declare, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6). It is certainly true that there are as many honest-hearted, conscientious, well-meaning people in the world today as have ever lived—perhaps more. Yet these well-meaning people are perishing, famishing, for lack of spiritual nourishment. True, there are some who claim to be well-nourished and to find in the popular pulpits of the land all the spiritual refreshment and strength they need. But these are as nothing compared with the millions who give a different testimony. I am glad that those who attend worship regularly, and are well-nourished and well satisfied, have what they desire, at the mouth of a hundred thousand preachers. I am reaching out after "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" through the secular press. They tell me that I am reaching millions of the unchurched every week. My readers are the disconcerted, the unsatisfied, perishing for lack of knowledge, hungering and thirsting after the right ways of God—the real teachings of the Bible. My heart goes out to those as the heart of Jesus went out to the same class, nearly nineteen centuries ago. We read, "He had compassion on the multitude, for He behold that they were like sheep having no shepherd." I am seeking, as an under-shepherd, to bring these hungering, thirsting, perishing sheep to the true "Shepherd and Bishop of souls"—the Lord Jesus. I am seeking to remove from their minds the prejudice and various obstructions which have blinded the flow of God's grace and truth to their hearts. I am seeking in the Master's name to present to them the Bread of Life, the Water of Life. I am not seeking to build up another denomination. Results show a certain measure of success already attained. I am receiving more than five thousand letters a week from hungry sheep and others, who, so far as denominational Christian systems are concerned, are homeless. Everywhere—all over the world—these instead of forming a new denomination, are associating themselves with Bible classes for the study of God's Word. I am simply doing all in my power to help them out of darkness into God's marvelous light—out of misunderstandings of the Bible into a right appreciation of it; out of ignorance into a knowledge of God; out of ignorance of the Savior and His work to a true knowledge of Him and His glorious Kingdom, which is yet to bless all the families of the earth. It may be interesting to know that while I am advertised by the newspaper syndicate as the Pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle congregation of independent Christians, and of a similar congregation of London Tabernacle and of the congregation of Washington Temple, I have additionally, been chosen Pastor of more than one hundred and fifty of those classes of Bible Students, to which I have already referred. They elected me Pastor without any suggestion or solicitation on my part. In so doing, I under- stand them to signify that they recognize the Lord Jesus as the great Divinely appointed Shepherd of the true sheep, and that they desire me to serve them in any way that I can as an under-shepherd. Through the columns of THE WATCH TOWER. I visit these classes regularly twice a month, doing a pastoral work to the best of my ability—leading them to, the Fountain of Grace and Truth and breaking for them the Living Bread, the Word of God. Additionally, they have my weekly sermon and a weekly treatise on the International Sunday School Lessons. The True-Hearted Should Rejoice. One would suppose that all of the one hundred thousand ministers and all their flocks would rejoice to know that the unchurched, straying sheep rebeaching with a Message of God's Love and Mercy which is appealing to their hearts and working a transformation in their lives. Many do rejoice, but alas a few are jealous, as were some of the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus' day. Of these we read, "They were grieved that He taught the people"—the people whom they could not reach. the sheep that were straying and famishing. As those jealous scribes and Pharisees antagonized Jesus and the Apostles, because their hearts were out of harmony with the Good Tidings, so it is today with some. Unable to uphold the doctrines which have driven away so many of the intelligent of their flocks, famished for Truth, a few ministers are angry with us. True to the Master's prophecy, these seek to say all manner of evil falsely against us, for His sake, for the Truth's sake. Yet, in spite of their unchristian course, the poor straying sheep are hearing and recognizing the Voice Divine, are coming back to the Word of God, are being sanctified by the Word of Truth. 1 Proceed With My Text. If this were the only text mistranslated and misunderstood, the ordinary reader would doubtless pass it by, saying, "I do not understand it. Probably it is a figure of speech." But this text is merely a combination of mistranslations, all of which are connected with an eternal torment system of doctrines invented during the Dark-Ages. It adds this combined system which has such power over men's minds. This power of error, this power of fear, is turning intelligent minds away from the Bible. Hence it is our duty to break down the false doctrines, and to clear away the obstacles which hinder the flow of Truth to the minds and hearts of the people of God—the straying sheep. Nor are these straying sheep all, or chiefly the ignorant. They include many of the ablest minds and truest hearts in the world—minds and hearts too true and too logical to believe palpable falsehoods, or to profess what they do not believe. The Psalmist is merely telling of his severe illness, from which by the grace of God he recovered. He would have us understand that it was not merely a slight aliment. He described his emotions in the language of our text, saying, "the sorrows of death compassed me about"; that is to say, the sadness associated with the thought that he was about to die, about to leave his friends. In the poetic form of the He brew language, he repeated this thought; namely, "The pains of hell gat hold upon me." In our modern language this would mean the pains death, or the pains of the tomb. They were pains that indicated the approa of dissolution. Nothing in this text has the slightest reference to anything in the future life. Our Baptist friends, in their revised translation of the Bible, have chosen for such passages as this the expression, "the underworld." Instead of the word "hell." Yet even here there langer of the average reader not catching the true thought. Far simpler and far less liable to be misunderstood would it have been, had the translator said, "The palms of the tomb." The Revised Version of the English Bible reads, "The palms of Sheol." Why Not the Whole Truth? Every learned minister knows that the Hebrew word Sheol really means the grave, the pit, the state of death. Why do they hesitate to tell the people the whole truth on this subject? Why do they translate it part of the time "the grave" and at other times "the underworld"? Why do they use the translation, "the grave" in one place, and "the pit" in another, and then refuse to translate the word at all in the third instance, but give the word Sheol. Was it their intention to confuse the people? What is the motive? We wish that some of these great men would explain. The Reason For All This We would like to have our ministerial brethren state their reasons for pursuing a course of hiding the truth on the subject of hell. Only because they neglect to give the reasons do we feel at liberty to suggest them. It seems to me that these ministers are of two classes, and that their reasons are therefore slightly different. All of them seem to agree that it would be dangerous to tell the people that God is really a God of Love, and that the doctrine of an eternity of torture is entirely unscriptural, finding no foundation whatever in the writings of the Apostles. They fear to tell* the people that these doctrines were built up during the Dark Ages by the very men who manifested so little of the Spirit of God and so little knowledge of God's will respecting His people that they burned one another at the stake. They fear to tell the people that during the Dark Ages our blind forefathers took the parables and dark sayings of Jesus as literal statements, quite contrary to the Master's evident intention. These they supplemented with certain crude misconceptions of the symbolisms of The Relation. From the combinations they made scarecrow doctrines, blasphemous in the extreme, which never produced salts, but which led men astray into thinking that they were copying God in the deviltry which they accomplished one toward another. The fear now seems to be lest the public should once perceive that the creeds of Christendom, while containing much good, are cankered, wormy and vitiated by those doctrines of demons. Why should they fear to tell the people the truth? Perhaps it is because the relation of our day is built so largely upon man-worship, system-worship, creed-worship and not upon the Bible. Perhaps they fear that if the creeds were thus discredited it would mean that the ministers of those creeds will be similarly discredited. Perhaps they fear that the people would never again have confidence in their teachings, and that thus all the various party walls of Christendom which for so long a time have divided the sheep would fall. We cannot delicately know of their reasons, because they do not tell us, we can only surmise. Others, very worldly-wise, have become Higher Critics, and do not believe in the Bible at all. They are really agnostics. But they do not desire to advertise their lack, of faith, lest it should detract from their esteem among men. They prefer to pose as believers, and to hope that the time will come when all the wealthy and intelligent will become unbelievers also. Then they will declare, "We have not been believers for many years, but we kept the matter secret, fearing to be misunderstood as opponents of the best interests of society." All the while, this latter class constitutes the greatest menace in the world to law and order, and are the best agents Satan has in making void the Word of God and destroying faith therein. Robert Ingersoll's methods of antagonizing the Bible were far less successful than the methods of modern Higher Critics and Evolutionists. Fear to Tell the Truth. All who oppose the telling to the public of the plain truth respecting hell seem to have one common ground of objection. They say, "With all the fear of hell that has been preached for centuries, see how wicked the world is and how little human life is worth! See how every law of God and man for the protection of life and purity and property is endangered!" Note that if it were not for our telegraphs, telephones and immense police forces of today, nobody would be safe, so much more wicked does the world appear to have become within the last fifty years! If the fear of eternal torment and of purgatory were lifted from the minds of mankind, would it not make the dangers tenfold greater than they are now? Would it not speedily be necessary, to double our police force, if the masses lost their belief in a place of eternal torture?" This is lame reasoning, it seems to us. It confesses in one breath, in spite of all the false teachings of centuries, wickedness has been growing. Would it not be wise to inquire to what extent the false doctrines, the misinterpretations and mistranslation of the Bible, have been responsible for the increase in wickedness? Are men wiser than God? Is it possible for man to invent some monstrous, unthinkable delusion which will have a greater power with men, than the plain, simple Message of God's Love? But if we were sure that by blaspheming God's holy name and by playing upon the ignorance and superstition of the masses we could make the wicked preserve pence, would it be wise to do so? Could God's blessing be expected upon such a course? Would it not be wiser for us, as the people of God, to have faith in Him and to trust that, while we faithfully present the Truth, Divine Providence will oversee and overrule its effect, and will influence for good? Experience proves that theirs is not the proper thought. When we go to the records of the various prisons, penitentaries, etc., we find that nearly all the worst criminals have been taught the doctrine of eternal torment. Many of them confess full faith in it. Or the other mind, many infidels—one violent oppressors of God and of the Bible and Christianity—after hearing of the Love of God, have thoroughly melted, and with tears in their eyes have become loyal soldiers of the cross. We heard of an interesting case recently. A colored man in prison for crime, somehow came in touch there with my sessions, and then with my books on Bible study. He became a thorough Bible student, and a master at handling the Word of God. His fellow-prisoners came gladly to hear this colored man preach the Divine Plan of the Ages from God's Word while they cared not at all to attend the chapel services addressed by the ordinary chaplain. In the "wonderful words of life" started by the Master's lips, and handed down through His Apostles, there is a sweetness, beauty and power that cannot be associated with the doctrine of demons, which became attached to the Message during the Dark Ages The Message of life everlasting through the Redeemer and by obe silence to Him, has its offset, or alter native, in death everlasting to those who refuse to obey after full eulgent ment. Eternal life is the gift of God tendered to all the willing and obedient, through the Messiah. All rebel will be destroyed in the Second Death (Acts 3:23.) Their punishment will not be everlasting torment, but "everlasting destruction"—a destruction from which they will never be recovered will never be resurrected. ADOPT GIRL AFTER 15 YEARS. Couple Legalize Her Right to Their Name and Property. St. Louis.-Although she has lived for fifteen years as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Smith of 151 Garfield avenue, Miss Ethel B. Smith did not really become so until the other day, when a deed of adoption was filed in the office of the recorder of deeds which made her so. Miss Smith, whose parents were named Tipton, is twenty-two, a blond and is considered good looking by her personal acquaintances. Her foster mother said that the adoption had been decided on as best to protect the girl's financial interests. The Smiths, who are comparatively well to do, desire, she intimated, to see that her right to the family name and inheritance may never be questioned. They have no children of their own blood. Miss Smith was adopted by the Smiths when she was seven years old. She has lived in St. Louis 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.* She has not in many years been known by her birth name. Tipton. SHE'LL TRY TO SAVE CROOKS. Sophie Lyons, Once a Criminal, at Sixty-eight Turns Benefactor. Detroit, Mich.-Sophie Lyons, woman crook of worldwide police acquaintance, wife of Billy Burke, now in a Stockholm prison for a big swindle, has decided to devote the remainder of her life and her fortune of $300,000 to saving first offenders from going deeper into crime. She is sixty-eight and lives in a modest home in Detroit. She owns much other real estate from which she derives a large income. She said that she feared her new resolution would alienate her husband. "But I want to accomplish his reformation more than any other single thing," she added? "He is weak and easily tempted, and his criminal operations were not induced by necessity, as were mine. "I have lived a straight life for twenty-five years. I want to try to make amends for what I did before that." AERIAL GAMBLING DEN FOR GERMANS Berlin Gamesters Plan a Monte Carlo In Balloon. Berlin.-Owing to the increased stringency of the German antigambling laws, some ingenious managers at Frankfurt and Dresden have launched the following idea, which frees the gambling dens of any police domiciliary visits. A company has been formed by these enterprising gentlemen, and an old Zeppelin dirigible balloon is to be purchased by them. In the interior of the gondola of the airship a gambling room will be arranged, and gambling will take place there at several thousand feet up in the air. This will make the gambling absolutely free of police interference, as laws do not foresee the possibility of of aerial gambling The scheme is eagerly discussed in German gambling circles, and it is understood that a conference of the leading police prefects of the largest cities 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 airship which is used for illegal purposes. LINGERIE·IN HIS·TRUNKS. Customs Men Make Heinó Transfer Finery to Girl, Its Owner. New York.—When the custom house inspectors examined the baggage of Eric Helno, a second cabin passenger on the White Star liner Baltic, they found one of his trunks had a false bottom, in which he had hidden eighty-one boxes of cigarettes, the duty on which would have been about $25. The cigarettes were confiscated, and Helno was not detained. The inspectors also found considerable lingerie, dresses and other women's wearing apparel in Helno's trunks, but were satisfied with his explanation that they belonged to a Miss Severinson, with whom he had grown up from childhood and who was also a second cabin passenger on the Baltic. The inspector made Helno transfer the lingerie and other goods to Miss Severinson's trunk, and she was detained until friends called for her. TAKES CHRIST AS HIS MODEL New Justice of Peace Will Follow Golden Rule. Chicago.—Henry Neill, father of the mothers' pennsion bill, has been elected a justice of the peace in Oak Park. He announced that he will conduct his court as nearly as possible as it would be conducted by Jesus Christ were he on earth today. "All the ministers in town will be assistant justices," said Mr. Neill. "The Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount will have more influence with me than city council ordinances. I will abolish all my fees, but I cannot abolish the constable fees. I wish I could." Hunt For a Hangmur The British army was once in difficulties through the lack of a hangman. Murder was committed by a soldier in the Crimea, but nobody could be found to carry out the sentence of the court martial. It was announced that £20 and a free disburge 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 clogging the man who had volunteered and failed.—London Standard. Found the Sneeze. The overmaxious father of three charming daughters, after his family had sought seclusion for the night, caught somewhere in the distance the echo of a squeeze. At once, in dressing gown and slippers, he padded down the hall and knocked at the nearest door. "Jane, my dear, did you squeeze?" "No, papa." Tan-tap at the adjoining door. "Mary, my love, was that you sneezing?" "No, indeed, pana dear." Pad-pad to the door at the end of the corridor. "Margaret, my pet, I heard a sneeze. Was it you?" "Oh, no, tapa, dearest." Just then the guest room door, halfway down the corridor, opened a hand's breadth, and the mild voice of an old lady guest, who had retired early, issued forth: "I am extremely sorry, Mr. Brown: it was I who sneezed." -New York Sun. Artificial Ears Artificial ears are so skillfully made that they may with difficulty be 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 ears are alike and that it takes a skillful workman to prepare an ear from the mold or molds. When finished the new ear is pasted on the stump or simply set in the position of the lost ear. It is really only the first artificial ear that is expensive, the chief cost pertaining to the making of the mold. Vulcanized rubber, which can be bent and twisted, has been found to constitute the best material for the making of artificial ears. -Harper's Weekly. Xerxes Made Mount Athos an island. Mount Athos is unlikely ever to be turned into an island again, as it was by Xerxes. The canal which he cut through the isthmus was regarded as a myth even in the time of Juvenal, but traces of it are still in existence. One circumstance of its construction, recorded by Herodotus, may help to explain why it was a three years' business to cut this canal of less than twelve furlongs. Nearly all the peoples employed by Xerxes dug straight down, with the result that the sides continually fell in, thus doubling their work. The Phoenicians, with their superior intelligence, began excavating at a breadth much greater than the canal itself was to occupy, so as gradually to narrow with a convenient slope as they dug down. London's Street Traffic. It was not until about thirty years ago that London's existing system of regulating traffic at street corners was instituted. At the beginning it required four policemen at every important junction to do with difficulty what two constables and sometimes one now effect by a motion of the hand. But the men in blue stuck to their task and bung on to horses' heads and summoned rebellious drivers till the reign of law and order was established. "My doctor ordered two weeks at the scenshore." "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 Z 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 "Yes; he rated his own ability too high."-Buffalo Express "DOWN AND OUTERS" HOTEL Banker to Erect $100,000 Structure as Memorial to Son. Chicago—A hotel for "down and out" men, to cost $100,000, will be erected by Charles G. Dawes, president of the Central Trust company of Illinois as a memorial to his son, Rufus Fearing Dawes, who was drowned in Lake Greve on Sept. 5, 1912. Eventually Mr. Dawes will effect a similar refuge for women of the same class. These hotels had been projects which the father and son had planned to carry out together, and Mr. Dawes pledged himself to devote all his spare time to carrying out the work his son had long looked forward to. "Lodging will be furnished at cost, not to exceed 5 cents," said Mr. Dawes. "The doors of this hotel will never be closed to those out of employment. All we ask is that they promise to pay when they did work again. It will extend credit to the unfortunate upon their-promise alone. A free employment agency will be run in connection with the hotel. "My boy was greatly interested in the Y. M. C. A., and the idea of this work was originally suggested by that being done by the Bowery Y. M. C. A. of New York city." MAY GET ARTS DEGREE AT 15. Young Sidis, Mathematical Wonder, Entered Harvard at Eleven. Cambridge, Mass. — William James Sidis, fifteen, gives promise of obtaining a Harvard bachelor of arts next June. This youthful mathematical wizard entered the university at eleven as a specialist in mathematics. Meanwhile he has included sufficient other courses to make his college schedule an evenly balanced one. Young Sidis is the son of Dr. Boris Sidis, one of the foremost psychologists in the country. His younger years were spent at the knees of his father, where he imbibed the rudimentary knowledge of mathematics which was later to make him known as one of the scholastic marvels of the country. At eight he entered the Brookline high school, and two years later saw him at Tufts, where he remained for one year before entering Harvard. ICELAND GOING "DRY." No More Alcoholic Liquor There After This Year. Copenhagen.—At the end of the present year it will be impossible for either natives or tourists to obtain alcoholic liquors in Iceland. Under the antisprit law permission was given to consume the present stock of liquors and figuring on the per capita consumption it will all be gone by the end of the year. The Danish government adopted the drastic prohibition laws because it was felt that the excessive drinking of the Icelanders was undermining the physical fitness of the people. QUAKER CITY MAYOR WILL GO TO SCHOOL To Learn How to End Holdup of City Finances. Philadelphia.-Rudolph Blankenburg, the reform mayor of this city, and the members of his cabinet have decided to go back to school to take a course in political economy, so that they may be more competent to administer the affairs of the city. The mayor and at least two members of his cabinet have arranged to go to Madison, Wis., to attend a course of lectures at the University of Wisconsin. The course, which is short and theoretical, is designed to solve the problems that confront modern municipalities. When the mayor and his directors return they expect to be able to ride roughshod over some of the municipal quarquiles which have all but engulfed them to date. The most trying difficulties are matters of finance. the mayor being desirous of getting enough funds to run the city, and members of councils having conveniently blocked every move. The mayor acknowledges that if the lecture course will answer the question of how to whip in line belligerent councilmen he and his directors will feel that they have been amply repaid for their trip west. Not only will Mayor Blankenburg and his advisers take the lecture course-which is to be jammed into three days-but the entire membership of the City club, an unplift organization, will probably accompany the officials. The special lecture program arranged to assist Mayor Blankenburg and his directors to run Philadelphia is a very comprehensive one. It has been arranged by the University of Wisconsin faculty and takes in every phase of municipal existence, even telling what shall be done with the waste or unoccupied lands in a city, to say nothing of the broad subject of taxation. Court Closes When Dog Dies Evans. Colo.-When a terrifier belonging to Judge James Trefoning refused to answer his summons in the midst of a suit that Judge Trefoning was hearing the court made an investigation and discovered that the animal was dead. Court was adjourned for the day. The judge made a coffin for his pet, and witnesses and jury as well as spectators attended the funeral. es eee : Published ey i ok ‘ . Eye” St N. W., Washington. 1109, Eye xg e W. CALVIN CHASE, EDI30R Entered at the Post Oice at Wash: ington, D. C, as second-class Mail matter. . ESTABLISHED 1880. ‘TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. - Qne copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six MOMIhS ....0.cseeeeseeeeee 100 Three months .........css0s0008 50 Subscription. monthly .....2...+. 20 The letter of Auditor Ralph W. Tyler to a local contemporary, which The Bee reproduces this week, ‘5 in keeping with many other manly utterances of this well known and competent public official. Mr. Tyler, in the letter, shows himself to be a man. ‘The Negro should feel proud of Au- ditor Tyler. His record has been most exemplary and the conduct of his office has been above re- .proach and suspicion. As a pub- lic official he has demonstrated manhood and ability which have received the highest commenda- tion of. former Secretary Me Veagh. He has commanded the respect of every official of char- acter in his office and when he re- tires and enters upon new duties, The Bee is contident that he will exercise the same ability as he has in his previous position as ‘auditor for the navy department, He has heen fair and just to all regardless af ‘color or condition. He is not to be succeeded by a -colored Democrat as was expect- ed and hoped for by those who applied for his position. There are only two more offices under zeneral government in this that remain for Negro De- acy, which will po to the * +, Democrats, it is said. to- The registership of the ary department and recorder eds. What can Negro De- rey hope to receive now? The office of auditor for the navy was expected to be filled by one of the alleged faithful Negro Democrats. But, alas! it is gone now never to return again, What will our friend Trotter say? What tloes-our friend Réss think? ‘Today these Democratic braves who had hoped for so much will pictare themselves as Napoleon after he had met his Waterloo. If there is to be a Negro Demo- cratic cabinet it will be made of, underlings next. ; Militant Th. Lewis was dis- placed as “Assistant .\tturney General to nrike place for a white Detiocrat; Gen. Robert Smalls was removed as Internal Reve- nue Collector at Beaufort, S. C., to make place for a white Demo- erat; Joseph Lee, Internal Rev- enue Collector for Florida, has received hi notice, and a white Democrat has been named for the place. Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor for the Navy, has been advised that _a white Democrat's name has been sent to the Senate as his successor: Charles Cottrill, Internal Revenue Collector for Honolulu, has been asked to re- linquisly his place to make room for a white Democrat: W. D. Johnson, sjiecial agent for the Agricultural Department, has been summoned to Washingtor to have his political head decapi: tated a white Democrat wants the - place. Napier, and all the rest have but a few days longer t wait until a white Democrat suc ceeds them. Bishop Walters Rev. Waldron: Woods, the col ored New York Democrat, and few more, who promised so mucl "fdr Negra Democrats, might bi interested in'learning the above And they also might be interestec in learning that neither Mr. Wil son nor members of +his cabine' have taken up Negro patronage except to lay it down as some thing decidedly repugnant~ tc Democratic policy. And now wil Negro Democrats be good? Rev. Sterling Brown, in his card appearing in The Bee last week, stated that a typographical error crept into his Bostqn Seat Me so cae RALPH W. TYLER, DISPLACING NEGROES. REV. BROWN AGAIN. Mena ade iw lL © sg ‘be and he really said that there were but three thousand educated Ne- gro ministers out of the thirty thousand, instead of three hun- dred, as reported. ‘This is a dis- tinction without a difference. By a little arithmetic process we dis- cover that three thousand out of thirty thousand is one out of ten. And onc out of every ten means ten out of every hundred. If fhere are one hundred Negro ministers in this city, according to Rev. Sterling Brown, only ten of them have got brains enough to know beans when the bag is open. Now will the Rev, Brown please give us the names of his «personally selected ten educated Negro min- isters in Washington. We think Mr. Brown made a mistake in quoting statistics. His speech at Boston would have been inuch stronger had he not undertook to partictilarize. However, we arc ‘of the opinion that his intentions were good. AN-VORBIECT LESSON. ‘The one hundred thousand dol- lar Odd Fellows building in At- Tanta, Ga., should be an object lesson to the people of the North. If you desire to see real race pride and industry you should go to Atlanta, Ga., and see the great work of the Odd Fellows in that city, and sec how the promoters of the great scheme are honored. The Bee cannot say too much for Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson, the attorney for the Odd Fellows in Georgia, and Benja- min J. Davis, editor of the At- lanta. Ga.. Independent. Messrs. Davis and Johnson deserve credit for the erection of the greatest building in the United States, which is an object, lesson te the Negroes of the North.” Give the Negroes in the South an oppo?- tunity and they will demonstrate to the world What they can do, notwithstanding the “hardships and discrimination thet have to encounter, The dd Fellows’ building that has been recently erected in the South surpasses the building that was erected in Philadelphia, Pa.. under the su- pervision of the national organi- 72tion. z SUCCESSOR ‘TO W. IL. - LEWIS. . “Samuel J. Grahain of Pitts- burgh has been selected for an assistant attorney general to fill the vacancy caused by the: resig- nation of William 1. -Lewis, col- ored, appointed by former Presi- dent Taft.” . = ‘The above, taken from ‘The Star of Tuesday, speaks for itself. When the present administration asked for Mr, Lewis’ resignation, Mr. McReynolds, Attorney Gen- eral, gave out the statement that the place was to be abolished. Several Negro Democratic law- yers were after the position, and to silence their activity it ‘was announced that no successor would be appointed to Mr. Lewis. Nobody was fooled by Mr. Me- Reynolds, statement that the place woud be abolished except the Negro Democrats who up to the present time have been given the cold shoulder by the Wilson adininistration. But ‘The Bee predicted this many months ago. VARDAMAN TO PROPOSE DISFRANCHISEMENT LAW. Senator Vardaman, of Missis- sippi, at the next session of Con- gress will press for the adoption of a resolution subniitting an amendment which will modify the fourteenth amendment and repeal the fifteenth amendment. The effect would be to’ disfran- chise colored voters and Teave the question of their status to the states. . Senator Vardaman’ says this question is more important than the tariff, currency, or trusts. He declares the preservation of the white race iss, the all-important problem.—From The ‘;fmes. Will old Vardaman, like ole Ben Tillman, have his tongu stopped in a short time, The Ne grocs throughout the country are praying for him. It will not be long before their prayers are an swered. ‘Lhe Bee is not at all dis turbed. The Negro is bound t live. notwithstanding the attack: of Vardaman. ONLY THREE. The colored studertts of Ger man have been barred by_ the United German Societies. There are three places from which Ne- groes cannot be barred, the grave, Heaven and hell, There is no discrimination in these three places and the only places the poor prejudiced white people have been unable to control. No amount of money has been able to keep the poor white man from the grave, Heaven or hell. These are the Negroes’ consolations. Let us reflect. WHO IS SAFE? Myhen the evil-minded, glibbed tongue scandal-monger starts out-upon his or hér daily round neither sex is spared, and youth or age, alike, is of no concern, The old and young, even thase of tenderest years, and those of greatest responsibility, and who ap- preciate the responsibility thrust upon them, are the victims of this curse of society—the scandal-monger. Just now this low, mean, debased creature of hell is holding high revel in Washington. Women who are the very embodiment of all that is pure and noble are his victims. Men whose upright lives have marked them as splendid examples, for emulation are his victims. Young women just budding into womanhood, young women who are but now standing at the brook where maidenhood and womanhood meet, are his victims. And teachers and preachers, the two highest and noblest callings, are his especial delight. “Not even those whose lives are mostly behind them, or those who lives have hardly begun, are spared by hin. Damned pirate, fit subject for the flames of hades, he is continually seking new vittims to devour, The scan- dal-monger must be arrested, irom. his mad. debased cotirse or all the’ pure will have impurity cast upon them, How can he be stopped? By locating the originator of some of, these low, mean, debased rumors which are casting aspersion upon the chaste and clean and then bringing the originator to the bar of justice. In- vestigations are now on, and the net of detection is being tightly woven, which, when completed will give the glibbed-tongued a startling jolt, and which will give into the hands of the court the disreputable scandal-monger for the ptirpose of inflicting upon him the full penalty of the law. ‘The assassins of character, the man or woman who starts a rumor reflecting upon the virtue of women or the high morals of men, is far more dangerous to society than the assassin who takes life. As long as the foul mouth, low and de- gfaded scandal-monger is loose to slime virtue over with foul ru- mors, who is safe? “Let an example, speedy and decisive, be made of the scandal-monger, whether man or woman, before they finish their dastardly game of character-aspersing. AN ATTEMPT TO BLACKMAIL TWO OF OUR MOST . SIICCReeCETIIT RIISINESS MEN. RECESS eas The DAMEN Ce SOR, & SHICTERRCEN, C2 NO, SOE he street N.W.. Washington, 2. C.. have been the victims of an un- ancapaaful sitempt of some of their business rivals to damage their business.Afy the malicious cireulation of an infamous lic, reflecting upon theirbonesty, which has never been questioned. ‘These pro- gtessive young en have just erected a new establishment for their business costing $15,000 at the Southeast corner of Nineteenth and L Streets Northwest, and the “géeen eyed monster” soon made its appearance among their business asgociates. and the effort was made to damage them. An ttnsuceessful effort has been made to apprehend the perpetrator of ihis vile attempt, and the Messrs. James are offering a reward uf-St.coo ior the arrest and conviction fof the person or persons responsible for this outrage upon their character. +The Messrs. James are of the unustal quiet and modest type, unassuming, and obliging, and condueting their business in a man- ner that speaks for itself. Visit their new estabtishment, ‘and see for yourself the beautiful chapel, with its large stained glass win- dows, beautifully iluminated with hidden electric lights, nice com- fortable church pews, expensive mahogany and chestnut trimmings. Visit their clean and sanitary morgue with its tile Hoors and side walls, a beautiful reception room, and office. “The entire second floor is converted into handsome room where one will sce fifty beautiful caskets on display. . The James Brothers do not sell their caskets from a catalog, but send one of their liveried teams to your door, and convey the rela- tives of the deceased back and forth to their show room, where one can see just what they are purchasing. ‘Their methods of con- ducting buste--- "56 re from'the old method that jealous ie type of men that the race should , o harm them should be met with Ui - i can be inflicted. The Messrs., Jar ie smile, that they are proud to say that their magmmicent bunamy was erected by a col- ored man, and that they personally supervised the work, and the specifications for the worl: exacted that no white man was to do any of the work upon their building. except that it was absolutely an impossibility to find a colored man to do it, and they are proud to say*that there has been only three whitemen on the job, viz: the electrician, steam heat fitter, and the clevator constructors. Messrs. James & Brother are not worrying in the least over this attempt to blackmail them, and when you call upon them at their place of business, they will meet you with a pleakant smile, just as busy as can be, but with just time enough to extend to you a cor- dial welcome, It seems a great pity that Providence does not have a specific punishment to be quickly administered to such low and infamous characters who will stoop to almost anything to be- smirch the character of men who stand for something in the com- munity. These hyenas should be driven from a community of respectable people, and the colored man will soon find out that he can not succeed by ang attempt to damage the business character of his business competitor, because of his superior methods of con- ducting his business, The firm of E. R. James & Bro. is a high- clasg firm and doing a high-class business. Their commercial atin is of the best: ask any banking house in Washington and theirs answer will be “they can get anything that we have," and ‘theylare proving it by their progress. They are both very modest younk men, and are of the type that you never know are around unless you happen to sce them, ‘There are few persons who know of theif charitable act of each and every Christmas of giving away two hundred and fifty Christmas baskets to the poor. They have been doing this act of charity for five years, yet few persons, other than the pastors of the various churches and the persons so bene- fited know of it. They are erecting their new building and extend- ing their business and performing these acts of chatity with no Dlare of trumpets and exclaiming from the house-tops, they are too modest for that. “The “Smiill” man who.attempts to injure them by acts of cowardice is simply hurling pebbles of prejudice at a Gibraltar of character and confidence. . “Watch for their full page advertisement upon the opening of their new establishment next month.” When black men were heing sold into bondage each day, their women unblushingly outraged. their children, even before birth, condemned to brutal slavery ; in that day when hope, for the Negro, was a lusterless star not yet appeared in the star-decked canopy above us, all day and ali night through the prayers ‘of Negroes When black men were heing sold into bondage each day, their women unblushingly outraged, their children, even before birth, condemned to brutal slavery ; in that day when hope, for the Negro, was a lusterless star not yet appeared in the star-decked canopy above us, all day and ali night through the prayers ‘of Negroes stormed the citacel of Heaven, crying for deliverance, praying that the hand of their oppressor be palsied. A pitiless, bloody war laid waste to the fair South; the arrogant? listful, brutal slave masters fell in battle, their homes were destroyed—the South for years was a poverty-stricken expanse of God-favored soil—and the Negro was delivered from slavery. The prayers of the righteous were answered. E . When Senator Tillman went up and down the land defaming the Negro in speech and articles, and, from his vantage point. on the floor of the United States Senate, urged race discrimination and incited race hatred;-in a million Negro homies, in thousands of Ne- gro churches, all over the land, prayers went up daily asking God to still the tongue of the slanderer. Senator Tillman was stricken with paralysis, and the mouth from which had come the bitterest denun- ciations of a peaceful, struggling, God-fearing race, was unable to articulate correctly the most simple word. The prayers of the righteous were answered. . Senator Varaaman, of Mississippi signaled his advent into the United States with vituperations against the Negro, the race which never did him harm. And every week sinte he has given vent to the most unwarrantable assaults upon the race, and reiterated his policy of race hatred; his purpose to incite sufficient intense race hatred for a people that are moving onward and upward by peace- > ful means, to again make them serfs. Just now from a milliot gro homes and from thousands of Negro churches there are pra, fervent, appealing prayers, going up from, the long-suffering, ag that God smite, with the rod of chastisement, the blaspheming P ise who is daily attempting to iricite race hatred for the Negro. “The prayers of the righteous will be answered,” it is writ. And the prophecy also is writ that “in due season he will become a chat- tering, ‘palsied idiot.” ; =. ee ADAMS’ CAMPAIGN BOOK. * > The maw from South Dakera, Public. Mer And Thing who declared with a great deal of t gusto that he favored the segrega- —_ fon Of the races and said in the] , ,_ (Sage of the Se cacc Pos, of April 3oth that he com- and Mme. Riano, wife of the Spani piled a table, did not have very |muminee hee declared that “vom much trouble, but if any sensible | stould design their evening gowns | Person would read the Republican ae eS aril eee Jewel. No and the Afro-American canipaign todety cenigeies Tsnaon colors book by Cyrus. Field Adams.Jof them what ain't got no jewelry ; page 13, will be seen the verbatim {all that to design their crering gow figures that appeared iit the Post. met Hat thy oui . Be =, *TNs, i is ic re use HUREAU OF ENGRAVING |B, tH pretisoriat serie wid N NTING - > Of a certain memorable oce: | the Bee would advise the col- ored young/women in the Bureau of Engraving not to submit to “Jim Crowism,” but cease patron- izing the lunch roonr. Let the white patrons who are afraid to come in contact with colpred pat- rons support this lunch rooms, Keep ont. * COWARDS. The organization for the ad- vancement of colored people should go out of existence at once: Tt was afraid to advise its own people. * Office seckers do not dare express their opinion. Its members are office hunters. Away with cowards, : VARDAMAN.. | Would it not be a wise act on the part of the Democratic party to take old Vardaman in charge? Ralph Tyler has been flooded with congratulations for his arti- cle in The Post; showing up these whites who are clamoring for the seyregation of colored clerks in the government service: Both white and colored, men and women, congratulated him for the manly and courageous reply to the segregationists. Negro messengers and laborers are much alarmed over an inno- cent request from Democratic heads to be furnished the list of messengers and laborers in each office who are Negroes. Is the ax being sharpened for the Negroes under civil service? That's the question Negro ‘clerks. messen- gers and laborers are asking, and even Mr. Thompson who ejected himself into the Democratic ranks after November 4, cannot answer the troublesome question. When a Negro newspaper cor- respondent who claims to be a national correspondent. carries his or his wife’s name three or four times in every news letter he sends to his papers, his letters are no longer news letters, but are weekly personal puffs. White newspaper correspondents keep their own names and doings out of their correspondence to news- papers. . . EDITOR kOSS HOPEFUL Leader of Negro Democracy Has Faith in Wilson—He Declares That Every Place Heretofore Held by Negro Republicans Will’ Be Ofiset by Other Pl3ces. Editor James A. Koss, of the Buf- falo, New York, Informer, is in the city, and té a representative of The Bee Mr. Russ stated that all places heretofure held by Negro Republi- cans ind have been succeeded by white Democrats will not be a Toss to the coldred Democracy, in that the administration will give Negro Demo- craty otler places equally as good, and that a Negro will be appointed Recorder vf Deeds for the District ‘of Columbia, Register of the Treasury and Assistant Register of the Treas- ury. Editor Koss is one of the first and original advocates of Democracy, and, from what he says, Negro De- mocracy will be taken care of by the administration. The administration will not tolerate discrimination against the Negro, and so far as these discriminating organizations are con- cerned, Democracy is not responsible, says Editor Ross. That The Bee as well as all Negroes will see that Pres- ident Wilson is the Negro’s friend, says the Adonis editor. _ 'W, A. STEWART DEAD. An Old Citizen Passes Away. ind =Wm, Augustus Stewart, brother of Ne- the late Dr. C. C. Stewart, Geo. W. ‘to Stewart and James Stewart, died Sat- ith “day morning, April 26th.” He was taken sick Tuesday at 11 o'clock a. m, IN- Mr. Stewart was apparently a young to]man and at one time he was one of the the factive and successful real estate men in this city. He was _an enterprising as well as a devoted Christian. . There the Jis no man who has ‘struggled ‘harder ich | for his people than Mr. Stewart. In to | former years he was one of the leading nig | Social lights in the city. The most suc- cessful and one of the popular social iC {and beneficial organizations in this city ¢- | was the Junior Excelsiors. . Public: Mest And Things Chie kere ue Chet jewelry. Now, this dope’ struck Washington colored society amidship. ‘There are so. many of them what ain't got no jewelry at all that to design their evening gowns to harmonize with their jewelry would mean that they would have ‘to appro- priate the prehistorical fig-leaf used by Eve on a certain memorable occasion. There is another bunch of anthracite dames who buy all their jewelry from the tive and ten cent store, Now if they: designed their evening gowns to har- monize with their jewelry it would mean that we would see a bunch of chocolate heauties floating through a tango dance with a five or ten cent Paper- mache gown, or a tissue paper gown. And what would a tissue paper fown look like in.five minutes oaker some of our near dancing gentlemen what come in assorted colors had put a few of their feet on the trains. T ain't much on evening gowns, but T would like to see some of our ball dames with gowns to harmonize with their jewelry. Some of these colored hubbies may champion this as a saving, for if it became a rule one bunch of chocolate bon ‘bons would appear in |aPor, another Tumeh would appear i tissne paper gowns, and another bunch would appear in gowns that looked like thirty cents on the decline. Mighty Tew would appear with gowns costing more than a dollar and a half per gross. That's the way sve it.up. If Tam wrong someone please’ rish to “the center and correct me. AA few of these hali-and-half gazelts what are down on the government pay roll as highly colored clerks who a few months ago were arguuyg that the Demies would be more constderate than the Republicans, are now shaking dice in their boots. "They have got next to the fact that a lot of white crackers are just crazy for their jobs, and that civil service is getting to the point where the Demies regard it as a de- lusion and a snare. The guy who was christened William Calvin Chase, and who has been running ‘out cach ‘week for thirty odd years a weather bulletin he calls The Bee, told you sone few months ago that when the change came you had hetter apply for a white-wing job. I heard the other day that one of these coffee coolers what trims his sail to every passing zephyr, was trying to convince himself that the Demies just dote on a colored clerk, and woald like- ly promote him right tp to the top. He was dreaming, and I hate to awake hin up, “cause when the blow comes it will be'so sudden. Some wise old sage once opened his valve and said that “nothing is more injudicious than to give your honest opinion when it is scientifically asked for.” That may be correct, but Tam jyst going to savvy theSe trimmers, and fillers with the dope that you bet- ter watch out or the goblins will get you, About the only’sure thing yor can gamble on. is that you will die some day. « ‘They tell me that a certain wife whose liege lordand good master is a huckle- berry hue, was approached by a minis- ter the other day and told that her hus- taind ought to he treated for the drink habit, The wife just sighed and then said: “Whyt Elder, that’s how he got the habit.” And you may take it from “me, this treating” business has sapped up a many a dime that ought to have gone to fill the mouths of the little ones with a loaf of Corby’ hrend, If there is one thing a Hamite likes to do it is to treat, He thinks he’s getting ip the "Wall street class when he says: “Now, just take another one on me.” Most of the time, when you take another one on him. he stands the benzine dis- penser off with a promise that about the first. or fifteenth. he'll come int and give lum his salary to bank for him. The fellow what's always treat- ing is the fellow what's working for the Ioan shark. just take it from me. Some of these preachers have been skinning Sterling Rrown alive, “They can't figure it out ltow they ain't just ay much educated as he. Rev. Sterhng done mide an awful mistake when he coughed up that dope that the Negro ministers were a bunch of ignoramius that twenty-seven thousand of trem were four-tlushers, in a word, f con't think the Reverend t.incoln Memorial Brown really intended to raise so much hades, and I really think he thinks there are two or three minis- ters what know almost as much as he. He just, in an unguarded mo- ment, got to toying with figures, las« soing a few thousands, ani forgot And'you know whem the average col- ored man gefs to talking figures, there is only one way to get the real figure, and that is by extracting the cube root, dividing the result by four, and then subtracting two-thitds of the sum, and you will about have the right figure. I met, Jim Ross Sunday. Jim is as debonaire and — hopeful 2s ever, though he don't look it. You_got te hand it to Jim for being tenacious. I the dase und tand shat sernedoretaut.. T met, Jim Ross Sunday. Jim is as debonaire and hopeful as ever, though he don't look it. You got to hand it to Jim for being tenacious. If he does not land that recordership, and course he won't, he'll have the consolation of knowing that he put up a mighty stiff fight, stayed right here of the ground, and didn’t fet no moss grow under those feet of his. The fellow has hustled day in and day out. And Frank Wheaton, al- ways looking like one of Oppen- heimer’s latest designed suits of clothes, has stayed right here on three square meals a day, nursing a bunch of hope as green as spring corn. Just about when he thought a still’ small voice would call him over (Continued to page 8) The Week in Society From one of the most beautiful, 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. Mrs. Eunice B. Cheney, of 1910 Eleventh street, Northwest, was suddenly called last Sunday to her old home in Windsor, N. C., by the serious illness of her brother. Miss Nellie B. Johnson, of 1309 R street, Northwest, is in Philadelphia, the guest of Miss Daisy Caldwell, daughter of Bishop Caldwell, of that city. Mr. Charles E. Conick, of New York city, ran down last week to "look 'em over" in his "old stamming grounds." The April meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club, held at the residence of Mr. Robert A. Pelham, 603 Howard Place, Northwest, was addressed by Professor G. W. Cooke, of Howard University, and Prof. L. M. Hershaw. Musical numbers were rendered by Frank Fowler Brown, the Hoosier tenor; Felix Fowler Weir, violinist, and Henry L. Grant, pianist. The next meeting will be held May 9, at the Hawata Theater. The club will then adjourn for the summer. The "Jessamine Club" gave a private picnic last Saturday in Anacostia, District of Columbia. A very pleasant day was spent by all who attended. Friends are sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Norman Johnson, a former student of Howard University. Miss Vivian Laclede Thompson, director of domestic science in the Whitted High School, Durham, N. C. has added physical culture to the curriculum of that school, and is now teaching that ranch, in connection with her cooking, sewing and laundering departments, underding was introduced by her since king charge of the work last October. Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, the noted agent, comes to the Metropolitan A. M. Church, May 9th, in a lecture recital ad musical demonstration. She is just including a long tour of the South. maybe she has met with phenomenal success. Mr. illiam Wesley Brown, of Baltimore, spent Sunday with Prof. and Mrs. J. S. Thomas of Fairmount street, Northwest. Mr J. E. Johnon, formerly an attachment of the staff of Speaker Cannon at the Capitol, is connected with the Tri-State Times in Baltimore. A chocolate social was given last Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Roberta Hunter, 1430 S street, Northwest, for the benefit of one of the employees of the Treasury Department, who is ill. Mr. A. E. Manning, editor of the Indianapolis World, and courier to the Democratic National Committee, is spending the week in the city, the guest of Mrs. E. E. Cooper, of 1331 U street. Northwest. Dr. C. Summer Wormley, Washington's favorite baritone, will fill a number of gigcert engagements next month, largely in connection with school commencements, for which his classic repertoire is exceptionally adapted. Mr. J. H. W: Howard, mentioned as an aspirant for the auditorship for the may, has returned to his home in Harrisburg, Pa. He expects to resume the publication of the New Era at an early date. Many Washingtonians will attend the Tuskegee Institute commencement, beginning May 25. Editor R. F. Jones, of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, will deliver the principal address. Mr James B Walker, for years attached to the White House staff, has been transferred to the internal revenue service. Treasury Department. Dr. J. W. Morse is prepared to accommodate his customers with soda water and ice cream with an up-to-date service. Prof. W. A. Adams has accepted the choirship of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church, Southwest. Attorney A. W. Scott, accompanied by his wife and son, went to Philadelphia, Pa., last Sunday and were the guests of his brother. Dr. John R. Francis, who continues ill at the Freedmen's Hospital, is improving. Dr. J. W. Morse, at 1994 L. Street Northwest, continues to improve. Dr. A. M. Curtis is fast improving. Mr. Charles Mitchell, of Institute, W. Va., is visiting in the East on business. His trip will include New York, Philadelphia and this city. Rev. J. R. Ransom, of Kansas City, Kansas, will leave Saturday for this city to meet the finance board of the A. M. E. Church. Mrs. I. Mitchell, of this city, was a guest at a surprise party given by Mrs. Henry G. Jeter, of Brooklyn, New York, Saturday evening, in honor of her husband's birthday. A very pleasant evening was spent and Mr. Jeter received many congratulations. Mr. Horace Dean and Miss Rene Burrell spent Sunday in Baltimore. The choir from the Asbury A. M. E. church of this city rendered a song service in Baltimore last Sunday night at Sharp Street Church. Friends are very sorry to hear of the Quality and good service. You will always find at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. death of Mr. Norman Johnson, a former student of Howard University. Mr. Rosa Norwood of Annapolis, Md., spent a few days last week with her mother, Mr. C. Carter, of Le Droit Park, Northwest. Miss Gertrude Walker, of Le Droit Park, who has been teaching in the South, has returned to this city for a few days. Miss Walker will leave this week for Fredericksburg, Va., to teach until June. Rev. Howard Graves, of Little Rock, Ark, will leave for this city next week. Mr. Ottoway Holmes, of this city, spent several days as a guest of Mrs. Arletta Hall, of Asbury Park, N. J. Miss Gertrude Hodgkin, of Warrenton, Va., made a visit this week to this city. Mrs. D. Douglas, of this city, spent a few days' in Baltimore, Md., as the guest of her sister, Miss Maggie Evans of 1326 Druid Hill avenue. Mrs. Julia Layton, of this city, who was in Baltimore, Md., recently, was the speaker of the evening at a reception given at Logan Post Hall. Rev C. A. Garner, of this city, was in Philadelphia, Pa., recently to attend the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored Race. Mr. L. F. Bergamin, of this city, spent a week in Warrenton, Va. Mr. Highland Hayes, of this city, who is a student of the University of Pennsylvania, spent Saturday and Sunday, with his parents in Tea Street, North-west. Mr. William Hodgkin, of Warrenton, Va., was visiting this week in this city. Mrs. Edwin Embrey, of Gold Vein, Va., has as her guests, her daughter, Mrs. Randolph Harding and two children of this city. Mrs. Madison of this city, was entertained by Mrs. Armina Dumpson of Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Ennis Coons of this city spent Sunday last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A Coons, of Warrenton, Va. Rev. Alonza Robinson of this city, who has been visiting in Philadelphia, has returned home Mr. Felix Wear, of this city, took part in the Thompson recital at Bethel church in Chicago, Ill For an up-to-date drug store, Dr. J. W. Morse, at 1094 L Street Northwest, is the one Mrs. George A. Carter is in Philadelphia. Pa. visiting her sister, Mrs. Heard. Mrs. Carter is one of the most congenial women in this city. She will probably remain some time with her sister, Mrs. Heard The Bachelor Bells' Club of Annacostia, composed of young ladies, gave a dance last week at Douglass Hall. It was largely attended. Mrs. Thresa Qualls, the mother of Mr. Walter Qualls, was buried last Thursday from Allen Chapel, Garfield, D. C. The Bishop of Washington will visit St. Phillips Church of Anacostia on Trinity Sunday for Holy Communion at 8 o'clock P. M. Mr. Frank Blagburn, cashier in the land record office, has returned to his post of duty after spending a few days out of the city. Mr. Arthur Smoot has recently moved into his house on Shannon place, in Anacostia D. C. where he will make his residence. Dr. J. W. Morse, having commenced his season with a new line of goods, he will be pleased to greet all of his old and any new patrons that may come. 1904 L Street Northwest. Mrs. Mary Rhodes, the mother of Mr. Thorten Rhodes, was severely scalded accidentally a few days ago, but is now convalescing. Miss Victoria Williams, of O Street Northwest, has received an appointment as a teacher in the Public Schools. The Bee can be purchased at the Smith Pharmacy, s2 Dumbarton Avenue. Syracuse Lodge No. 5, K. of P., Has a Smoker. A very excellent program was the occasion of much enjoyment last Thursday evening at the smoker of Syracuse Lodge, K. of P., at the True Reformer Tall, Twelfth and U Street Northwest. Addresses were made by Wm. B. Harris, district grand master of the G. U. O. of O. F., Major General, Smith of K. of P., Lawyer A. W. Scott, including solo by Mr. Gant, violin solo by Lawyer Scott, a three-minute sparring match between Messrs. Jannifer and Montgomery, causing much merriment. Among the prominent guests were Geo. W. Simmons, W. A. Graves, Jas. Wormley, Waverley Frances Richmond, Milton R. Dandridge, D. Martin, Jas. L. Turner, W. Ford and A. Williams. Committee on smoker were E. Jannifer, Philip Thomas, Lemuel Addi- sön, Eugene Gates, M. Wilcox, H. Howell, Walter Murray, R. Delainey, J. C. Smith. At the close of the exercises refreshments were served and the smoking of pipes were indulged in until a late hour. The master of ceremonies, J. Edward Wilson, adjourned the assembly sine die. The ladies of Holy Trinity Catholic Church gave a very pleasant entertainment last Thursday evening in the parish hall of the church. Music was furnished by the Monumental Orchestra. Mrs. Mary Russell, Mrs. Beet, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Booth were the committee in charge. Rev. Dr. O'Connell, of Howard University, occupied the pulpil of Mt. Zion M. E. Church Sunday morning and preached a very eloquent sermon from the fifteenth chapter of Psalms. A very large and appreciative audience was present to greet the distinguished divine. The Epworth League Chapter of Roberts Chapel of Alexandria, Van. will be the guest of Mt. Zion M. E. Chapter on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock and will present a very interesting musical program, including the topic, "The Sympathy of Jesus," Miss Fannie I. Hays presiding. The choir of the First Baptist Church, Dumbarton Avenue, presented the sacred cantata, entitled "The Prodigal Son," on Wednesday evening to a very large assembly, who enjoyed the excellent production. In the numbers rendered Mr. Frank Walker was director and Mrs. Nickens organist. The new pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Rev. W. C. Thompson, and his family were very cordially received on last Thursday evening at the parsonage, 2902 O Street Northwest, by the members of the Parsonage Association, where an excellent dinner was served, after which the members of the official board were introduced and a pleasant evening was enjoyed. The officers are: Mr. Wm. W. Walker, president; Miss Hattie Savage, treasurer, and Miss Rebecca Beason, secretary. Pótoimac Union Lodge No. 892—The Fortieth Anniversary. The fortyth anniversary of Potomac Union Lodge No. 892, G. U. of O. F., was celebrated Sunday afternoon at Odd Fellows' Hall. Twenty-eighth Street and Dunbarton Avenue. Many prominent members of the order were present and took a part in the exercises, Mr. J. W. Lee gave a very interesting account of the lodge since its birth, Mr. Burrell Wood of Union Friendship No. 891, who was the founder of Potomac Lodge, delivered an excellent talk to the members congratulating them for their long service in the order. A poem, "Who Are the Odd Fellows," was recited by Mr. James L. Turner. The sermon was delivered by Rev. W. C. Thompson, of Lexington Lodge, from the fifteenth chapter of Genes' "We Are One Man, Son," and wone of the best and most logical dourses of the best and most logical lodge Music was furnished by the orchira of Mt. Zion M. E. Sunday School Mr. Chas. Pryor organist. Rev. W Gaines, N. G. Ernest Penn, P. S. Bee Agency, Smith Pharmacy Five cents a copy. Send in your subscription for a lively, newsy paper. New Pastor of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. Rev. Naylor, late of Garfield Church pastorate, has been appointed pastor of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, succeeding Rev. U. G. Leeper, transferred to the Philadelphia Conference. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. Mrs. Mary Johnson, Mrs. A. J. Ware and Mrs. V. H. Hart were elected president, secretary and treasurer respectively of the committee to arrange the reception to be given in honor of the pastor May 16. Friday night, April 25, Prof. Henry T. McDonald, president of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. spoke at the town hall, Fairmount Heights. Besides the speaker, there were Mr. McDonald, Prof. and Mrs. G. W. Cook, of Howard University, Mrs. W. T. Pollard and many of the former students of Storer College; also Mr. W. H. Addison, the master of ceremonies. Mrs. G. W. Cook introduced the speaker in a very pleasing manner. Prof. McDonald gave many interesting facts in the history of the life of John Brown. Rev. Thompson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, resigned that post a few days ago. Rumpur has it that Rev. McCary will be assigned to fill the place. He will be received with open arms. Bishop Walters preached an instructive sermon at A. M. E. Zion Church, Burrville, D. C., and made many timely remarks; which served greatly to encourage Rev. Logan Johnson, the pastor. There was a mass meeting at the M. E. Church in the interest of the school, and Miss Emma Payne rendered piano solos. Mrs. Blagburn sang two beautiful solos. Mr. S. J. Trotter took up the collection, which was highly appreciated. The regular Parents-Teachers Association held a call meeting at the school Tuesday night. The finishing touches were placed upon the arrangements for the picnic which will be held May 19. It was decided that an instrumental music teacher could do well here. Investigate, music teachers. Mrs. Blanche Lewis went to the Freedmen's Hospital for treatment Monday, April 27. Mrs. M. J. Williams went to Annapolis Sunday and returned Monday, April 28. Bishop A. Waters, Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Rev. Logan Johnson and Rev. D. Landin were here Sunday, April 27, and took dinner with Mrs. Snowden on White Avenue. Rev. O. C. Sprague announced that he would hold but one service at the M. E. Church on Sunday. Rev. R. A. Hart is highly pleased with his new appointment. Sergeant Frank Coalman has the picnic well in hand for May 19. The officers, members and friends of the M. E. Church are anxiously awaiting the return of Mrs. Queen V. Coalman, who is now in Florida. Mr. John M. Kline, of the Treasury Department, is an exemplary official. The new Auditor for the Interior Department took charge of the bureau April 30. IS THIS MAN GIFTED WITH STRANGE POWER? Prominent People Say He Reads Their Lives as an Open Book. Do You Want to Know About Your Business, Marriage, Changes, Occupation, Friends, Enemies or What To Do to Achieve Success?-Test Readings Free to All Washington Bee Readers Who Write at Once. Attention of the mystically inclined seems to be centered at present upon the work of Air Guy Burton Vance, who, although lay jeg claim to no special gift of supernatural powers, attempts at lives of people through the slander 1 of hand-written letters 2 of the undeniable curacy of his delinctions leadone to surmise that herge palmists prophets, astrologists, and sage's divers beliefs have failed to a true principles of the science of dilamination. A. B. Aked to explain the method by which he gives his delineations, Mr. Vance replied. "I have simply resurrected an ancient science and mould it into a key to human nature. The following letter is published in evidence of Mr. Vance's ability; Prof. Dixon, M. A., Director Lanka Observatory, member of the "Societe Astronomique de France," member of the "Astronomische Gesellschaft, Germany, writes: Prof. Clay Burton Vance; Dear Sir—I duly received your letter and Complete Life Reading. I am perfectly satisfied with your Reading; it is in nearly all the items as exact as it could possibly be. It seems strange that you should refer to my suffering from throat trouble. I have just had a bad attack and usually have it two or three times per year. I shall certainly recommend you to my friends who desire a Life Reading. made to give ders of The quested that myselfs of application at tion of your true description of your characteristics, talents and op- portunities, simply send your full name, the date, month and year of your birth (state whether Mr. Mrs. or Miss), and also copy the following verse in your own handwriting: "Your power is marvelous. So people write, Please read my life- Are my prospects bright? Are my prospects bright? Send your letter to Mr. Clay Burton Yance, Suite 2891 Palais Royal, Paris, France. If you wish you may enclose to cents' (stamps of your own country) to pay postage, clerical work, etc. Please note that 5 cents postage is required on letters posted to France. Do not enclose coins or silver in your letter. The entertainment of moving pictures given by Mrs. Thos. Clark, of Washington, D. C., at Second Baptist Church on Wednesday night April 23, under the auspices of the "Mothers' Meeting" of the church, was a financial success. The church realized some $10 or more for their part of the proceeds, which in itself assures the "mothers" of success in sending the pastor and church representation to the General Association at Richmond. Last Sunday's services were up to the usual standard. The evening service opened the two weeks' evangelistic meetings of the "mothers." Sister Campbell, the president, presided, with Mrs. J. Powell, of the pastor, assisting. Quite a large crowd attended and remained throughout the service. Several talks were made by various persons interested in the work they hope to do in the uplift of the young of the community. This is a move along right lines and all seem to be thoroughly anxious for the undertaking to accomplish the end sought. We are pleased to see our friend and brother Edward Neal again in attendance on the choir for the Sundays. He is no more at Leesburg, but holds down a good job at Mt. Vernon, and looks happy and well. Prof. E. B. Henderson was a welcome visitor to Sunday school and morning service. Having fairly recuperated and a little stronger out of his recent illness, he is again showing his usual interest in the good work that is his, and we are all pleased to have him with us. The community is alive in every way, as Spring comes to us. Work in finishing up the houses that have been built during this year is resumed; the plowing and general farm and garden work, clearing away of trees and activity in general adds new life to the village and vicinity. Mrs. Mamie Nelson represents the "Mothers' Meeting" at West End. She is an earnest worker, and loves her church and its undertakings. Assigned to St. Paul. The Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes, formerly 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. of Waters Chapel, Baltimore, has been assigned to St, Paul A. M. E. Church by the late conference, which met in Hagerstown, Md., last week. Dr. Sydes has had great success in Baltimore, is an able divine and we anticipate for, him a successful year in Washington. He will preach his first sermon next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Communion will be served. HALLS HILL VA NEWS Owing to the inclement weather the Sunday services were not so well attended, although our pastor, Rev. Queen, was with us all day, giving an instructive talk to the Sunday school, with reference to improving its condition. Able sermons were delivered morning and evening; also officiating at the funeral services of Claybon King, grandson of Mrs. Elizabeth King, which were held in the Methodist church, and conducted by the Good Samaritan Juveniles, of which he was a member. The teachers and children thereof deserve great credit for their helping hand under the guardianship of Mrs. E. V. Ferguson. The Mt. Salvation Baptist church had their regular fourth Sunday services, administering baptism to eight persons, making in all an addition of twenty-five persons. Communion was served in the afternoon. The Rev. Queen dined with Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hyson, also their brother, Mr. R. E. Ferguson and daughter, Miss Mary E. Ferguson. The Misses Viola Hyson, Cora Myers, Mrs. Viola Points, and Messrs. Guy Ferguson and Walter Hyson, visited Philadelphia, Sunday. They were highly entertained by their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Ferguson, Mrs. Miller and daughter Theresa. The Virginia White Sox baseball team, of Hall's Hill, opened their season Thursday, April 24, with a game defeating the Armstrong Technical High School team, the score being 15 to 13. Afterwards, some of the friends of Guy W. Ferguson were served a dinner in honor of his birthday, at his parents' residence, Washington, D. C. At night a concert was given for the benefit of the team, at the Little National Hall. The Tennyson, of Washington, D. C. have occupied their residence at the corner of Church and Main Streets. Their daughter, Ollie, was married to Mr. Jesse Watts, Wednesday evening, by the Rev. Norman, of Washington. D. C. many presents being received by the bride. The sick of the neighborhood are convalescing. MERRIFIELD, VA. NEWS Here we find quite a lively settlement of our people engaged in the usual occupations attendant upon agricultural life. Church, school, society and business are established institutions and striving up the hill of progress. Mr. C. V. Hyson, a popular and enterprising young man of the race, is managing well and successfully a grocery store that would do credit to any town or village. With the assistance of friends able and influential, he opened this business the first of last June with a $250 stock of goods which, he says, has grown, by dint of careful management, to over eight hundred dollars. He rides in his own buggy behind his own horse, which he has acquired since going into business by reason of careful dealing and saving. The colored people seem proud of the business and patronize it well. The First Baptist church at this point is presided over by the Rev. B. J. Askew, with regular services on the first and third Sundays of the month. They have recently organized a choir, but are in need of an organist and choir director. Among their number, some fourteen in all, may be mentioned Mrs. Lillie Terry, Mrs. Jeannetta Ball, Mrs. Worthy Johnson, Mrs. Annie Collins, Messrs. C. V. Hyson, John Woodload, Walter Henry, Henry Bland and Charles Robinson. At a rehearsal of this choir on Monday night a good number were present and a happy hour spent in singing and arranging for better organization. There are two societies here. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty, who have a hall, and the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows. Mr. Alfred Nelson and Mr. S. Williams lead the Odd Fellows, and Mr. J. E. Collins the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Mr. C. V. Hyson is advocate in both. Coleridge Taylor Benefit The musical program prepared by the committee on program of the Coleridge-Taylor Benefit Concert, to be given at the Metropolitan A. M. E. church Friday evening, May 16, will consist of the compositions of the late Coleridge-Taylor. The Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society will render parts from the trilogy, "Hiawatha," Mrs. Kathryn Skeene-Mitchell, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, of this city, being the soloists. The Howard University Choir will contribute a number to the program as will also the choral society of the conservatory of music, and the Treble Clef. The officers of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church have granted the use of the church for this occasion free of charge. The services of all who take part in the program is contributed. The general public is responding heartily to the appeal to help, to the family of Mr. Coleridge-Taylor. This is fit and proper, since Mr. Coleridge-Taylor's achievements as a composer restyli to the posses- tion of a part of those artistic qualities which makes all the world kinsten- UNITED ORDER OF TRUE REFORMERS. Coming of a Great Convention—Chief Lewis and Her Aids—What Has Been Accomplished Under the New Administration. A large convention composed of several hundred delegates, both men and women, hailing from various sections of the North, South, and West will be held for two days beginning Thursday, May 8th 1973, under the auspices of the Respectful Department of the Northern Grand Division of the United Order of True Reformers here in this city at the True Reformers Hall Twelfth and You Great, Northwest. This book of men and women in the Respectful Department are highly interested in the future development of the colored boy and girls of our country. The Grand Worthy Master, Floya Ross, of Richmond, Va., and his cabi net will be present also. The True Reformers of the Washington division have made preparations to entertain the visiting guests. The public is cordially invited to attend the two evening sessions which will be open to the public and all citizens who are interested are urged to be present. Special invitations have been extended by the chief, Ms. Sarah F. Lewis, and her committee, to heads of all fraternal organizations, ministers and prominent citizens to visit the convention. Special music has been arranged for the occasion by Prof. W. A. Adams director of the Vested Choral Society U. O. T. R., and the recently appointed chorister of the Metropolitan A. M. F. Zion Church. Of special interest to the public will be the display of the Liberian Republic flag sent to Mrs Lewis by Mrs. Harriet H. Ives of Providence, R.I., the worthy prelate of the convention, being handmade by her, with the request that it be added to the national red, white and blue. Accompanying the flag is a communication of much interest which follows: April 10th, 1911. Dear Mrs. Irves: Mr. Harmon duly forwarded to me your letter of 5th of July. I have heard a great deal of the True Reformers. I think that the display of the flag of Liberia by Negro organizations in the United States a very "oper thing, and I have no objection to offer thereto. Yours faithfully. Mrs. H. H. Lrues, Division Correspondent, G. F. O. U. True Reformers, Providence, R. L. U. S. A The flag is a beautiful piece of work by Mrs Irves and will be on display during the convention. It will remain the property of the Northern Grand Division upon the request of the donor. We append hereto the following interesting information for the benefit of the public of the record of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, under the new administration, as follows: Has collected from all sources ..... $265,730.00 Has paid on Death Claims. ..... $120,741.07 Has added to its membership $ 24,725.00 Has organized (new Fountains in 19 different states) ..... 145 Has reinstated (old Fountains) ..... 50 The organization feels that this is a creditable manifestation of the activity now existing throughout the Brotherhood of this Order, and that they are rapidly gaining lost ground in the public's estimation, renewing confidence and otherwise keeping their many oblations. One of the greatest dye and cleaning houses in the city, Eleventh and You Streets. Telephone North 612. Mention The Bee. E. W. DALE. OWNER Jesse Foster Origin of Paper. At various times the scholars of different countries have tried definitely to determine the real discoverer of paper in the eleventh century. It is to paper that we owe the renalssance of letters. From time immemorial something answering modern paper was used in China, where it was manufactured from silk. About the middle of the seventh century of our era there seems to have been established in Arabia a manufactory of paper, and fifty years later the way was discovered to make it from cotton instead of from silk, silk being a rare commodity outside of China at that time and cotton relatively plentiful. In the reign of Henry II. of France a Greek scholar was sent to Paris to arrange systematically a catalogue of antique manuscripts in the royal library, and a notation in his hand speaks of what was then known as "paper" as originating in Damascus. The later invention of making paper from flax, linen or hemp has been attributed equally to Italy and Germany, but there is evidence that it existed prior to the fourteenth century.-Harper's. Escort For the Holy Carpet. As is well known to Mohammedans, but to few Europeans, the Holy-Carpet always travels with an escort to and from the holy cities of Medina and Mecca. This escort consists of 800 to 350 men of one of the Egyptian infantry regiments, with two small field pieces and two quick firing guns, and about forty mounted men, together with their horses. The object of such a strong escort is to protect the sacred object from falling into the hands of the Bedouin tribes, through whose countries it must pass at various stages of its journey and who are also on the lookout for it, as the carpet is worth a fine ransom. Desperate attacks are not infrequently made upon the Holy Carpet by the Bedouins of the desert; hence the strength of the escort—Egyptian Gazette. Lions' and Tigers' Three feet or a little over is the real height of good sized lions and tigers. And when sportsmen realize what an extra six inches or nine inches added to the stature involves in increased length and general bulk to balance the known proportions of the animals I am equally sure they will admit that no lion ever scaled anything like four feet at the shoulder and that the height measurements of dead specimens give quite a false idea of the actual heights of the animals in life. The following are the heights at the shoulders of some of our large felidae: Large lioness, 2 feet 11 inches; Manchuria tigress, 2 feet 9 inches; Nepal tigress, 2 feet 8 inches; Sumatran tiger, 2 feet 7 inches; large male jaguar, 2 feet 3 inches; male cheetah, 2 feet 2 inches—London Field. Youth. Youth is the springtime of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know. The wise youth will "lay low" till he gets a whole lot of knowledge and then in later days turn it loose in an abrupt manner. He will guard against telling what he knows, a little at a time. That is unwise. I once knew a youth who wore himself out telling people all he knew from day to day, so that when he became a bald-headed man he was utterly exhausted and didn't have anything left to tell any one. Some of the things that we know should be saved for our own use. The man who sheds all his knowledge and doesn't leave enough to keep house with fools himself.—Bill Nye. Turkish Justice. The poor baker for some reason appears to have been singled, out for some extraordinary punishments. It is only within late years that there has been rescinded in Turkey a law by which the baker guilty of short weight tricks was punished by having his car nalled to the doorpost. Turkish officers of the law are notoriously averse to giving themselves more trouble than is absolutely necessary. If the recalcitrant baker did not happen to be at home when they arrived to administer punishment they didn't bother to call again, but just selzed his son or his journeyman or his father-in-law or whoever was handy and nailed his ear to the doorpost. So long as somebody was punished it did not matter. The Samian Letter. The letter X is called the Samian letter. It is so called because its Greek original was deferred to by Pythagoras, the philosopher of Samos, to illustrate how deviation from the straight path of virtue becomes constantly wider as the lines are extended. The poet Pope refers to this idea in the lines: When reason, doubtful, like the Samian letter, letter. Points him two ways, the narrower the better. Her Intense Sorrow. He-I called to see you last evening, and the servant told me you were not in. She-Yes; I was sorry to have missed you. He-I thought you must be. I heard you laughing upstairs in such grief stricken tones that I almost wept myself out of sympathy. Mamma—What are you tearing your doll to pieces for? Hattle—I'm looking for the crumb of comfort papa said was to be found in everything. Friendship. Rounder—Is Slick a friend of yours? Bounder—I should say so. Why, he will let me share my last dollar with him.—Exchange. The man who cannot forgive any mortal thing is a green hand in life. LEGACY TO GREEK KING. His Murdered Father Bequeaths Love For Mother and Country. Athena.—In his political will, which has now been made public, the late King George, after giving directions for the disposition of his belongings, urges his children to remain united. Addressing himself to the new king, Constantine, King George says: "Love your dear little country. Serve, her and your dear people and have confidence, in them, and may your brothers follow the same example." The will urges King Constantine to be courageous and patient, "for you are reigning over a southern people whose temper and irritability take fire rapidly and who at any moment may say and do things which it is probable will be forgotten the following day. It is preferable that the king should suffer, even morally, rather than his people and his country. The interests of the people of the country must always be placed before all other interests." In conclusion King George declares his love for Queen Olga and urges his son to love and protect her. WON'T CHECK THEIR BABIES. Churchgoing Mothers Sure They Can Identify Their Own. Evanston, Ill.—A proposed system to check babies during service was resorted to by several mothers at the Wheaton Methodist Episcopal church here. The mothers were willing to have their little ones cared for in an anteroom, by two attendants while they listened to the sermon, but when they were offered checks as a guarantee that no mistake would be made when the babies were reclaimed they objected. The attendants were finally persuaded to take care of the infants without handling out checks for them, being assured by each mother that there would be no mistake made when she came to claim her own. The checking concession had been let by the ladies' aid society of the church, the members of which desired to relieve the congregation from the annoyance of the babies crying. SHOWS A HOUSEFLY AS LARGE AS A CAT New, York. Many sights may be seen in the new hall of public health, lately opened by the American Museum of Natural History, which have more relation to the affairs of everyday life than many of the scientific treasures which the big institution houses elsewhere. The principal figures of this newest exhibit are not prehistoric monsters, but tiny and familiar insects of contemporaneous human interest—the fly, the mosquito and the flea. A housefly as big as a fair sized cat occupies the place of honor in the collection. This model has cost nine months of work and study on the part of Ignasz Matausch, a Hungarian model maker in the service of the museum. It is constructed on a scale of 64,000 times the size of the living insect, and the proportions have been preserved with the minutest care. Mr. Matausch having made his drawings and casts for the head, body and various members of the insect from dissection. Larvae and pupae of the fly are shown in models molded on the same scale, as are the eggs, which appear as little cucumber shaped pieces of paraffin about two inches long. A real fly's egg is just about visible to the naked eye. The same artist has painted an enlargement (1,500 diameters) of the halry foot of the fly, showing the typhoid bacilli, of which the insect is the common carrier, on the clawlike tip of the member. The exhibit as at present constituted, however, covers a good deal of ground that is not so well known to the public as it should be. The connection between the rat and the bubonic plague, for example, is shown in the reproduction of a section of a dwelling in San Francisco. This represents two adjoining rooms, in one of which several rats are seen feasting upon the refuse of a garbage barrel, while in the next, the wall of which is pierced by rat holes, are several more taking their ease in a room which is evidently a pantry. These rats, of course, are supposed to be infested with the fleas which transmit the plague. One of the most striking groups is that of "the ill kept farm," which has as a companion piece "the well kept farm." In the first model are shown a farmhouse and farm buildings of the old fashioned type. There is a well with an "old oaken bucket," the stable has a large manure heap, the outhouses are of a primitive character, and adjoining the farmyard is a material mosquito breeding marsh. The companion group shows a windmill, indicating that the shallow well has been replaced by a driven well, insuring an unpolluted water supply. A fly tight box has been substituted for the unsightly and insanitary manure heap, the outhouses have been brought up to date, the rain barrels in which the anopheles "wrigglers" used to breed have disappeared, and their last refuge, the swamp, has been drained. 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At least let us pray that we may never be the party of the second part in "How's your mother?" "Nicely, thanks."—Youth's companion. "The Charles Dickens Train." A friend of mine who was connected with the London and Northwestern railway for over forty years was traveling to London on the "Charles Dickens" train. Before starting he strolled up the platform as usual to have a look at the engine. "Well, driver," he said, "how much of the original engine have you there today?" "P'raps the whus tle, sir," said the driver.—Manchester Guardian. "You can't paint the lily," declared the rose. "Maybe not," responded the aster "But have you noticed?" "Noticed what?" "The lily pads!"—Washington Herald. Proving His Point. Sillicus—What is the age of discretion? Cynicus—There isn't any I know a man over seventy who married his fourth wife the other day.—Philip delphia Record. Many a man finds out too late that he cannot hide anything from his own conscience.—Pliny. 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The first occurred on Oct. 21, 1716, when it suddenly became so dark soon after noon that the people were forced to use artificial lights to do their ordinary work. This strange condition of the atmosphere lasted about three and a half hours. Again, on May 19, 1760, 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 turf. Not only does it debar a man from owning, training or riding horses, but until the committee decides to revoke the punishment, prevents him even from showing himself on any race course. This is so owing to the fact that the decision of the national hunt committee is registered automatically by the racing authorities in France and Ireland and of course by the Jockey club. Like the national hunt committee, the stewards of the Jockey club also reserve to themselves the right of summoning any rider whom they suspect of sharp practices or even carelessness to appear before them and, unless the explanation given proved satisfactory, to "suspend" or punish the offender in some other way.—London Answers. Turner's Carelessness. Perhaps the most prolific painter who ever lived was the great Turner. When he died his house in Queen Anne street, which he had not occupied for a long time, was found to be full of masterpieces all going to rack and ruin. Even the famous "Crossing the Brook," one of the priceless treasures of the National gallery in Trafalgar square, was there, with large pieces chipped off it. Many of Turner's masterpieces which he had refused to sell for "love or money" were almost ruined by the damp coming from defective windows and cellings. There were, besides the oil paintings, literally thousands of water color drawings "chuking about the place," any one of which would draw a little fortune at this moment from the pocket of an American millionaire. By his will he will then all to the nation.-London Spectator. Speed of Flying Ducks. How fast do ducks fly? is a question that sportsmen have long debated. A correspondent of Forest and Stream throws some definite light on it. Business requires him to ride frequently on a railroad in New York state that skirts a large lake. Wild fowl, startled by the train, will sometimes fly for a long distance parallel to the track at a speed the same as that of the train; hence it was easy, by timing them and getting the speed rate of the train from the conductor, to learn how fast they were going. The rate varied from forty-seven miles an hour to a little over fifty. The belief of gunners that ducks sometimes travel at the rate of a mile a minute is therefore not far from the truth. AN "EDUCATIONAL CRUISE" PLANNED Sailors of Atlantic Fleet to See the World. It Is Secretary Daniels' Idea That Navy Can Be Made a Great Technical Training School as Useful In Time of Peace as In War—Cruise Will Replace Regular Winter Practice. Washington.—Beginning Jan. 1 next the Atlantic fleet will cruise in foreign waters for three months and perhaps longer, is the announcement of Secretary of the Navy Daniels. The cruise is to be known as "the educational cruise." It is in connection with the furtherance of Secretary Daniels' policy of making the United States navy in times of peace a great educational school where young men in the navy will receive thorough technical training in industries requiring special mechanical knowledge and at the same time enjoy the broadening advantage of first hand knowledge of the great countries of the world. The "educational cruise" is to take the place of the annual winter practice at Guantanamo, Cuba. The fleet which will make the "educational cruise" will exceed in total tonnage and strength of armament the famous battle fleet which went around the world. Speaking of the cruise, Secretary Daniels said: "I have decided to send the Atlantic squadron on a winter cruise covering the most interesting ports of the world, because I, believe we should offer to the enlisted men every opportunity which lies in our power to obtain that knowledge of other countries from personal observation, which in every rank of life gives to the traveled man an advantage over those who have spent their lives at home in the upward struggle. "The cruise next winter will be so timed as to give every enlisted man in the fleet shore leave at every port of interest. I. of course, am a firm believer in the general theory that the best way to find out if anything will PETER H. Photo by American Press Association. work is to try it and see, and I appreciate, from the technical side, the advantages that the officers of the fleet will gain on a long cruise of this kind, where curious maneuvers can be carried out at sea and many experiments in communication between ships and similar matters carried out under actual service conditions. "But what seems to me equally if not more important is the educational value of this trip to the men behind the guns. I hope before my administration is ended that the public will have a clear understanding of the splendid training in mechanics which the modern battleship offers to enlisted men. No man who has served in the navy leaves the service without being far better equipped to earn his living than he was before he enlisted. "The navy is a great and expensive institution which must be kept always ready for times of war. Why, then, not use it as a great technical training school for our country in times of peace?" The battleships which it is planned to send on the "educational cruise" are the Wyoming, Florida, Arkansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Louisiana, Michigan. New Hampshire, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas and Iowa. The tonnage of this squadron of ships is 364,500 as compared with 223,500 in the trip around the world in 1907-8. The tentative plans call for Gibraltar as the first stop. It may be that the fleet will make one or two stops en route. It will divide at Gibraltar and make a leisurely tour of the Mediterranean in divisions, stopping at practically every port of importance. Sent to Jail by Wife at Ninety. Sellinsgrove, Pa.—David Wertly, aged ninety years, was sent to jail here by Judge Moser on his wife's charge of nonsupport. He is the oldest man ever brought before the court. LEISHMAN DEFIES BOTH EMPERORS Marriage of His Daughter to Duke of Croy Opposed. NO RECOGNITION FOR BRIDE William II. and Francis Joseph Both Declare Match Would Be Undesirable to Them—Nancy Leishman Would Be Ostracized by German and Austrian Courts. Berlin.—Ambassador Leishman's announcement that his daughter Nancy was to marry the Duke of Croy in the face of Emperor William's strong opposition to the match has created much gossip in court circles here. It may even lead to embarrassing diplomatic complications if the American ambassador maintains the stand he has taken. The Duke of Croy lives in Germany, but his title is Hungarian, and as he belongs to the small number of mediatized houses of Europe recognized as having an equality of birth with the reigning families he cannot make a marriage that will be recognized in his own country without the approval of the German and the Austrian sovereigns. Both the German and Austrian emperors have refused to sanction anything but a morganatic marriage in this case, and Mr Leishman's open in- AMBASSADOR LEISJMAN. tention of assisting his daughter and the young duke in defying the two sovereigns is an extraordinary position for an ambassador accredited to one of them to take. The emperor and empress in Berlin are very much agitated over it. but Emperor Francis Joseph is more philosophical. 'Not so, however, is the Duke of Croy's aunt, Arehduchess Isabel, wife of the emperor's cousin, Archduke Frederick. She was responsible for the peremptory order transferring the duke from Potsdam to Vienna, as she hoped to bring him under her direct influence and persuade him to break off the match Should it be consummated according to the plans announced by Ambassa dor Lokshman, the bride will be in exactly the same position as the American born Countess Gisquet James, who married in England Duke Henry Borwin of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a cousin of the German crown princess, but who has failed utterly to have it recognized in Germany because it was made without the emperor's consent. Miss Leishman could not under any circumstances be received at the Austrian court, as its severe laws do not confer upon the wife any privilege of the court through her husband, but only those she inherits from her own ancestry. For this reason Gladys Vanderbilt has no position at the Viennese court, although she is on friendly social terms with the archduchesses, who receive and visit her. But the hostility of the Archduchess Frederick would make Vienna intolerable for the Duke of Croy's American wife He has large estates in Westphalia, but they are heavily encumbered and have to yield large incomes for various members of the family who have an entailed share in the revenues. His mother, a German princess, is still alive, and he has two young brothers and a sister whose marriage portions will come out of the estate. His father heavily mortgaged his resources to obtain a suitable dowry for the brilliant marriage of his sister, Isabelle to the Austrian archduke, while the father's second sister is now a widow and has to be taken care of by the Croy estates. The Leishman Paris residence has been on the market for some time, and it is hinted that they have suffered many financial reverses during the past few years. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to see how the ambassador can give his daughter sufficient dowry so that she and her husband can live out of the reach of the ostracism of his relatives and also go to the extreme length of compromising his diplomatic position by urging a marriage which has aroused the opposition of the emperor. Few Grizzlies New Left. Sacramento. Cal.-The grizzly bear is fast becoming extinct in California. The state fish and game commission reported that of hundreds that used to roam the Sierras barely a half dozen are known to remain. The report says that 30,000 deer are killed annually in the state. 20,000 by mountain lions and soyotes. N05 ESSA & BANKS N05 L. C. SMITH & B. Typewriter BALL BEARING LONDON The escapement of the L. C. Smith per- get away from the last printing point so ins- speed of operation is too rapid. 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TAFT TO ADDRESS LAWYERS. Ex-President Will Read Paper at Bar Association Meeting. Washington.—Former President Taft has accepted an invitation to read a paper on a subject to be announced later at the annual meeting of the American Bar association at Montreal in September. Chief Justice White of the supreme court of the United States will preside and will introduce Viscount Haldane, the lord high chancellor of England, who will make the annual address. Senator Elihu Root of New York will preside at the annual dinner Sept. 3. Egg Shower For Letter Carrier. Egg Shower for Letter Carrier Iola, Kan.-Milton C. Rumbeck, rural route mail carrier out of the Savonburg postoffice, was given an egg shower on a recent trip over his route. When Rumbeck returned to the office after the day's drive he was the recipient of 628 fresh eggs and two dressed chickens. His uniform courtesy to patron resulted in their planning this unique compliment for him. The Typewriter without a Speed Limit & BROS. 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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. Court Equity No. 31.559. Daniel E. Wiseman, Executor of Last Will and Testament of Hannah Fuller, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Harriet Freeman et al., Defendants. Order. The object of this suit is to correct a certain deed from Harriet Freeman to Henry Fuller and Hannah Fuller dated the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and two, conveying the south half of lot lettered "K" of Wright's Subdivision of lots numbered respectively, sixty-four (64), sixty-five (65), sixty-six (66), and sixty-seven (67), of Wright and Cox's Subdivision of part of Pleasant Plains. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 24th day of March, A. D. 1913, ordered that the defendants, Sandy Fuller, the younger, Maggie Fuller, Arhie Fuller, Beatrice Fuller, Garfield Fuller, Dora Cornish, Florence Burke, and Sarah Washington, and Catherine Jones, cause their appearances to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order, and that the defendant, James Henry Fuller, if he be living, and his unknown heirs, devises, and aliences, if he be dead, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the first rule day occurring after the expiration of three months from the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided a copy of this order be published for three months', once a week for three successive weeks during the first month, and twice a month during each of the two succeeding months in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee. (SEA1) IOR BARNARD. J. R. YOUNG. Clerk. By J. McKEE, Assistant Clerk. Smith & Warrick, Attorneys: Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding probate court. No. 19,500, Administration. This Is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, at the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the estate of David G. Cleveland, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 26th day of March, A. D. 1914; otherwise they may be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 26th day of March, 1913 Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. Court. JAS. H. SMITH. T. B. WARRICK Attorneys. THOS. L. JONES, ATTORNEY. Filed April 1, 1913. J. R. Young, Clerk. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding an Equity Court. Ruth Nellings, Complainant, vs. George Nellings, Defendant, and Edner Miller, Co-respondent.—In Equity—No. 31626. 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. D. 1933 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 he published once a week for three successive weeks before said time in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee. I. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By F. E. CUNNINGHAM, Assistant Clerk. WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DEAD. An Old and 'Well Known Citizen One of the oldest and best known citizens of Washington, Alfred Tapper, the husband of Mrs. Helen E. Tapper, and father of James Leonard, Alfred Wesley, Oscar Mc., and the late Mrs. Naomi Tapper Lloyd, foster father of Mrs. Lottie V. Morris, father-in-law of John Lloyd, Mrs. Lillian Tapper, grandfather of Miss Bessie N. Tapper, and brother of Mrs. Barbara Oliver, and Mrs. Jennie Wilkinson. Mr. Tapper was one of the charter members of the Rising Sun Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 1365, which organized February 26, 1965. He had been a sufferer for a number of years, but he was a man of great ambition and will power. He had been married 38 years ago Sunday, April 27th, which would have been the 38th anniversary of his marriage. The most remarkable occurrence in the life of Mr. Tapper has been the preservation of the suit of clothes in which he was married 38 years ago and in which he was buried last Wednesday from the People's Congregational Church. It was his last request to be buried in his wedding suit which was made of broadcloth. No such goods can be found today. The suit has been well preserved and it looked as good today as it did the night Mr. Tapper led his hand-one bride to the marriage altar. Mrs. Tapper was a most beautiful woman at the time of her marriage, and today she is well preserved, although she has three grown sons and one granddaughter. Her sons have been most faithful. The death of Mrs. Lloyd, formerly Miss Xhomi Tapper, was a severe shock to her father from which he had never been able to overcome. Xaoni was one of the most fascinating young ladies in this city, and was regarded as the baby of the household. She was just entering into her nineteenth year when she died, which has been about two months ago. The funeral was under the auspices of the Rising Sun Lodge, No. 1365, of which he was a member, which took place at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Reynolds, pastor of the People's Congregational Church, and he was assisted by Rev. James H. Howard. The floral offerings were beautiful. SECRET OF MYSTERIOUS POWER REVEALED AT LAST. How Prominent People Have Gained Wealth and Popularity—Simple Method That Enables Anyone to Control Thoughts and Acts of Others, Cure Disease and Habits Without Drugs, and Read the Secret Desires of People, Though Thousands of M'tes Avay. Wonderful. Book Describing This Strange Force and a Character Delineation Post Free to All Who Write at Once. The National Institute of Science has appropriated $25,000 toward a fund for the free distribution of Prof. Knowles' new book, "The Key to the Development of the Inner Forces." The book lays bare many astounding facts concerning the practices of Eastern Yogis and explains a wonderful system for the development of Personal Magnetism, Hypnotic and Telepathic Powers and the curing of diseases and habits without drugs. The subject of practical character reading is also extensively dealt with, and the author describes a simple method of accurately reading the secret thoughts and desires of others though thousands of miles away. The almost endless stream of letters requesting copies of the book and character deliminations indicates clearly the universal interest in Psychology and Occult PETER H. BURGESS Sciences. "Rich and poor alike benefit by the teachings of this new system," says Prof. Knowles, "and the person who wishes to achieve greater success has but to apply the simple rules laid down." That many wealthy and prominent people owe their success to the power of Personal Influence there is not the slightest doubt, but the great mass of people have remained in utter ignorance of these phenomena. The National Institute of Sciences has therefore undertaken the somewhat arduous task of distributing broadcast, without regard for class or creed, the information heretofore possessed by the few. In addition to supplying the books free, each person who writes at once will also receive a character delineation of from 400 to 500 words as prepared by Prof. Knowles. If you wish a copy of Prof. Knowles' book and a Character Delineation, simply copy the following verse in your own handwriting: "I want power of mind, Force and strength in my look, Please read my character And send me your book." Also send your full name and address (state whether Mr., Mrs., or Miss) write plainly, and address your letter to: National Institute of Sciences, Dept. 956, No. 258, Westminster Bridge-road, London, S. E. England. If you wish you may enclose to cents (stamps of your, own country) to pay postage, etc. Do not enclose coins or silver in your letter. Postage required on letters to England, two cents. A. M. T. S. Alamni Association .Officera. President, Mr. Roscoe I. Vaughn, Class of '04. Second Vice President, Miss Cathrine E. Allen, '09. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Cathrine Marshall, '07. Sergeant-at-arms, 1 Mr. Bernard Quiller, '10. Executive Committee—Mr. Herbert Stevens, chairman; Miss Norma E. Boyd, '60; Miss Jessie C. Mason, '05; Mr. William A. Henderson, '06; Mr. H. Pree, Mr. H. Marshall Sparks, '11, and Mr. Arthur H. Johnson, '04. Mrs. E. S. Blackwell, of Warrenton, Va, has as her guest her daughter, Mrs. Hugh MeClung, and little son, of this city. The exercises held Sunday, April 27 by the Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Women's Christian Temperance Union, were the most interesting ever held in this city. There was a very large audience, which was interested intensely by the following program: Prof. Garnet Wilkinson spoke on "The Religion of the Filipino;" Mrs. Alma Scott on "Temperance;" Mrs. Anna Downey on "Purity Work of 'Mothers'" Miss Hattie Mackintosh on "The Betterment of the Race Through Temperance." The solo by Miss Marie Mayo was enjoyed by all. MASONIC NOTES April 7, Grand Master H. C. Scott (33) instituted Corinthian Lodge No 13, A. F. & A. M. (U. D.). After the usual routine the craft called from labor to refreshments. Em. Sir D. F. Seville (33), of this city, has been appointed V E. G. C. Recorder of the General Grand Encampment of K. T. for the United States and Canada. Tri-annual session at Pittsburgh, Pa. July 10, 1973. Illustrions J. G. Jones (33) of Illinois, W. T. Grant (33) of Louisiana, J. C. White of Massachusetts, and J. B. Burnell of New York have returned from the Masonic convention at Luxburg, Europe. They were treated greatly by the craft. They visited lodges in France, Germany, England, Holland, Belgium and Luxburg. They established the legality of Masonry in this country from the first to the thirty-third degree. The convention knocked out the old system as handed down by prejudiced white Masons of the United States, that there could only be one Grand Lodge for each State and the District of Columbia. They adopted a law that there can be one white and one colored legal Grand Lodge in each State and Territory of the United States. They created a committee to write up and report on the legality of the colored Masons of the United States and Canada. Rev. J. J. Burnell, of New York was appointed as vice chairman; also to write for the States of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Bro J. C. White, for the States of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont, Bro John G. Jones, for Illinois Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, California, Canada, Colorado, State of Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Minnesota Iowa, Utah, Nevada, Wisconsin, Kansas and Michigan. The Masonic convention was a grand success. * Armstrong Alumni Association. Members of the Armstrong Alumni Association held their first regular meeting in the gymnasium of the school Wednesday evening. April 30. A large number of graduates were present and the prospects are very bright for a successful year's work. The association plans to encourage the literary, athletic and military activities of the school. It was also decided to hold an excursion in June for which plans are being arranged. Mr. Garnet C. Wilkinson, principal of the school, delivered the main address of the evening. Officers were elected with the following results; President, Mr. R. L Vaughn; first vice president, Mr. H L Stevens; second vice president, Miss C. Allen; recording secretary, Mr. T. Green; assistant recording secretary, Miss J. Stevens; corresponding secretary, Miss J. Lawrence; treasurer, Mr. A. Albert; custodian of records, Mr. S. Westey; sergeant-at-arms, Mr. B. Quiller. Executive board: H. L. Stevens, chairman: H. Proe, Wm. Henderson, A Johnson, H. Sparks, N. E. Boyd and J. Mason. R. I. VAUGHN. President, G. C. WILKINSON. Principal. A NEW BOOK Can the Leopard Change His Spots? What is Said of It. Mr. J. Arthur Davis, A. B, L.L. B. of this city, a very aggressive writer, has prepared for the press a new book entitled "Can the Leopard Change His Spots." Those who have read the advance sheets of this new book says this; Testimonials. I have had the pleasure of reading the proof of this "Open Letter," and I can commend it as an earnest and thoughtful production. The writer gives evidence of very deep concern for the well-being of his people and has developed the outlines of a scheme of amazing breadth. To read his offering mathematically cannot fail to produce expansion of view. I bespeak for it a most cordial reception. T. G. STEWARD. Washington, D. C., April 20, 1913. I have just read with deep interest the very thoughtful pamphlet of J. Arthur Davis, Esq., A. B., LL B., entitled "Can the Leopard Change His Spots." It is a plea for "Reformation and Unity," advocated with very great ability, addressed especially to the Negro ministry of the United States. The author starts out to submit a remedy by which the race'in this country may become more efficient for its own immediate benefit and its kindred, the many millions more to the south of us in the West Indies, South and Central America. Mr. Davis displays in his discussion familiarity with worldwide problems and the tendencies of modern thought. While all may not agree with him as to his solution all thinkers should give careful consideration to his facts and arguments, the discussion of which is bound to result in great good. SUNDAY THIEF. Rev. Wm. H. Howard, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church, had his wheel stolen Sunday by a man who came to the church and asked for alms. Mr. Manning, a member of the official board of Rev. Howard's church, was struck by the appeals of the stranger and he appealed to the church people, while in services, to help the brother. While the collection was in progress for the man, he quietly walked off with Rev. Howard's bicycle. It was some time before the well known pastor knew that the man for whom he was taking up a collection had walked off with his valuable wheel. Dr. Howard was compelled to board; an electric Four-and-a-Half street car for his home. The thief didn't get away, however, and in the police court Monday morning, Judge Pugh gave the bicycle thief six months on the farm. On another case, where an individual disturbed the church services, Judge Mullony gave him 15 days on the farm. Public Men and Things (Continued from page 4.) to the State Department, hand him five cents per mile for passage, and instructions to beat it for Liberia, that California crowd of trouble breeders went on a strike against the Japs, and Bryan had to hot foot it out there. IK I were Frank, and if I were Jim, but of course they know their own business, I would hoof it back from whence I came, and tell them that whenever they were ready to just send a messenger boy to notify them. Of course, Nap Marshall is right here on his own dung hill so ain't losing no time from his profession waiting for a commission. And they tell me that Nap has a string of signatures to his application that will run around the world two or three times and then lap over a few mules. I remember that when the other distinguished fellow citizen wanted to lasso a job here in the District he had a few signers too. It ain't the signers what counts, it's the size and force of the main squeeze what actually grees to the front for you and sees you just got to have it. Now there's where Dahook got the edge. He's got a big noise who is in position to go to the front, and go there with hells on his toes. Poor Peter Smith. The last I heard of Peter he had decided that operating on corns and bunions what had the appendicitis, and ingrowing toe nails what had the curvature of the spine, after all, was an honorable profession, and he didn't know whether he really wanted to be assistant register of the treasury anyhow. I never could get it straightened out in my brain cells how Peter ever got it into his vanyake that he had a chance of landing that job. It may be that Bishop Walters, out of the goodness of his heart, when he was claiming Auction Bridge Club. to Peter that somebody would get the job, and Peter thought that somebody was himself. But even Bishop Walters has been carrying around a couple of tons of discouragement since then, and to get right down to brace tasks, ain't claimine nothing but hydrophilous blossoms and heart-failure sprouts. Oh, I tell you, this political game is one more reminder of Memphis's winter home. Oath of Afro-American Youth. I will never bring disgrace upon my race by any unworthy deed or dishonorable act. I will live a clean, decent, manly life; and will ever respect and defend the virtue and honor of womanhood. I will unhold and obey the just laws of my country and of the community in which I live and will encourage others to do likewise. I will not allow prejudice, injustice, insult or outrage to cower my spirit or humiliate my soul; but well ever preserve the inner freedom of heart and conscience. I will not allow myself to be overcome by evil; but will strive to overcome evil with good; I will endeavor to deglop and exert the best powers within me for my own personal improvement; and will strive unceasingly to quicken the sense of racial duty and responsibility. I will in all these ways aim to uplift my race so that, to every one bound to it by ties of blood, it shall become a bond of ennoblement, and not a byword of reproach. COLORED STUDENTS OF GERMAN ARE BARRED. United Societies Will Not Include Them in the Award of Medals. From the Herald: The United German Societies at its monthly meeting at Arion Hall last night placed itself on record as being opposed to including the colored high school of the District, in a motion having for its purpose the awarding of medals to the best German scholars in the high schools of the city. The motion to recognize those pupils who can show the highest average in the German language, irrespective of color, was defended by Martin Wiegand, president of the society; Gustave Bender, secretary; Kurt Voelckner, and others. Those who spoke against recognizing colored students included Theo. A. Leckert, of the Bavaria Society; Hermann Lechner of the German Veterans Franz Rom, John Weber, August Schmidt, president of the Arion Society, and others. Dr. Voelckner, in speaking in favor of including the colored high school in the medal competition, said that the early German settlers of Gwertown, Pa. were the first to place themselves on record as being against slavery. against slavery. In speaking against the motion, Hermann Lechner said the white working-man was in danger of being supplanted by the colored working-man, who worked for cheaper wages. Mr. Leckert, of the Bayern Verein, said he did not believe in too much education for the colored man. Bishop Phillips at Meharry. Nashville, Tenn., April 23—Bishop Charles H. Phillips, D. D., of Nashville, preached the commencement sermon at the Meharry Medical College on the 20th in the presence of one of the most distinguished audiences that has ever assembled within the walls of this historic institution, and he did ample justice to the great occasion. Bishop Phillips and his son, Dr. C. H. Phillips, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo., are products of Walden University and Meharry College. His younger son, Jasper T. Phillips, A. B., is a member of the graduating class, and during his junior year passed the Tennessee Medical Board with a high average. Bishop Phillips and two sons are doctors of medicine—and it may be said that the Phillips family is one of physicians. ORGANIZES IN STATES. Society for Race Segregation Also Elects Its Officers—Big Meeting Being Planned. Representatives of 40 Commonwealth Attend Session at Which Constitution is Adopted—Those in Charge Looking for Permanent Headquarters Here—L. G. Warfield Vice-President for D. C. The National Democratic Fair Play Association which is advocating the segregation of the white and negro races in the government departments as the only means by which the civil service can be placed upon a fair basis, was made a permanent organization last night at a meeting in the National Hotel. Eighteen state delegates were sent home to form their sections of the country into subordinate councils. Forty states were represented at the meeting, officers were elected, and a constitution and by-laws were adopted. All day yesterday the committee was busy receiving applications for membership and explaining the magnitude of the movement. Mass Meeting Soon. Plans are being made for a mass meeting, the date of which probably will be announced. The tho-e in charge of the movement are looking for a suitable location for headquarters, and expect to obtain them by the first of the week, when the organization of the forces and the real work will start. The officers elected are: President, Ernest D. Martin, Missouri; secretary and treasurer, R. M. Harrop, of South Dakota; state vice presidents, J. M. Burns, Alabama; L. G. Warfield, District of Columbia; H. H. Lewis, Florida; C. A. Cooper, Idaho; Robert J. Hamilton, Montana; L. H. Musgrave, Missouri; E. B. McClelland, Ohio; C. C. Wright, Oklahoma, and J. J. Estes, South Dakota. 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