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VOL. XXXIII, NO. 48 JAMES E. SHEPARD JAMES E. SHEPARD Dr. Shepard Commends the People of Durham for Their Loyalty. Durham, N. C. April 26, 1913. Editor W. Calvin Chase. Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Chase: My attention has been called to a scrib in your paper of recent issue, which I think does an injustice to the colored people of Durham. The Negroes of Durham have loyally stood by the National Religious Training School. It would indeed be an affecting story if the world could but know the sacrifice of men and women in all walks of life here for the maintenance of this school. Every negro church, societies, and every leading business man of color has contributed liberally to the current expenses of the school. People who have been too poor to give without great sacrifice more than one pound of sugar have brought more than this and have given it with a pride and sacrifice almost sublime. I cannot tell the whole story, but the church people of Durham in all walks of life are loyal to this institution, and there is no such word as "fail" known to us. Yours very truly. JAMES E. SHEPARD. Editor Bee: In your issue of the 3rd inst. appears a communication from the pen of Mr. Henry Lassiter, for whom I entertain sentiments of the highest esteem, in which he takes occasion to adversely as well as severely criticise the spirit which is just now prompting leading men and women of the race to render financial assistance to the widow and children of the late Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Among other things, Mr. Lassiter writes; "The old adage of 'charity beginning at home' seems to have been ignored or laid aside for what I call outside show. I will admit that we all make blunders at times, but I believe 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." I can hardly understand how a gentleman of Mr. Lassiter's intelligence can be unmindful of our obligation to Mr. Coleridge-Taylor or of that still greater debt we owe to the people of Great Britain. Mr. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was probably the greatest musical composer of Great Britain at the time of his death, and he ranks with the greatest of continental Europe—with Wagner, Beethoven, Verdi and the others. He was a winged genius who contributed quite as much to the uplift of colored America as he did to the decadent musical powers of England; for, like Poushkin in Russia and the Dumas family in France, his life is another illustration, and a timely one that African blood, mingling with that of Europe does not result in either intellectual, moral or physical degeneracy as so many ignorant white Americans declare. This is the particular and inestimable service which he has rendered us, situated as we are in the midst of an arrogant people frantically proclaiming our inferiority in all parts of the land, and whose social and political system is such that among our millions not one possesses national distinction as distinction is measured by world wide standards. The thought power of the world has been focussed upon the extraordinary achievements of Mr. Coleridge-Taylor during the last decade, and the fact that he was an Anglo-African as we are Amer-Africans has given us a higher place than we would have had but for him. This is our debt to him, and it is one which can be settled without driving anybody into bankruptcy. Mr. Lassiter reminds us of the poor in our midst, and would not have us "create splendor for an English lady," and that there is a debt still unpaid on the home of Frederick Douglass. If the skies rained gold for twelve months there would still be a large pauper element ever present. They have always been in evidence and always will be. But we can not forget that while we will be helping an "English lady" many English ladies have rendered to our people financial and moral assistance when we needed them most. The English people stood with Frederick Douglass in his great fight for the emancipation of his race—and have contributed large sums of money for the education and uplift of the colored people of this country. William Wilberforce was an Englishman who in season and out of season worked for the abolition of slavery. His name is held high in the church of which Mr. Lassiter is a prominent member. Lord Somerset was an Englishman—a judge who liberated a black man from slavery and handed down a judicial decision which for more than a half century confounded the judicial system of this country, and made the Supreme Court of the United States took contemptably mean and ridiculous when it evaded the issue in the Dred Scott case. We are under a debt of gratitude to the English people which will remain very large, even should we succeed in raising the required funds to liquidate the mortgage on the home of the widow of Mr. Coleridge-Taylor, I shall contribute my dollar with pleasure and hope that a thousand other people will do likewise. RACE DISCRIMINATION. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Is This Sanctioned by the Secretary?—Failure of Rev. Waldron to Help. The publication in The Bee of last week of the story of the pressure being brought to bear on the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to segregate colored girls in the Bureau lunch room has been corroborated in many details from sources independent of those relied upon by The Bee as authority for the story. The difficulty of learning the details is greatly augmented by "gag orders," by the traditional fear which Negroes have of Democrats, and by a number of other things not necessary to mention now. The Bee can assure its readers that what was published last week is substantially true, and that what follows is true in its main facts. According to The Bee's informant, as soon as the oppressed and outraged girls had with fear and trembling told their story to a few intimate friends, these friends began to think of ways to help them. First, they thought of the branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has been organized in the District of Columbia, and especially of the Rev. John Milton, Waldron, Doctor of Divinity, national organizer of the National Independent Political League, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church, recipient and disburser of Democratic funds in the campaign of 1908 and 1912, the exponent of employees in public office, to have them returned, but, to conclude with, president of this local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. It should also be stated that Rev. John Milton Waldron, doctor of divinity, etc., etc., is chronically disposed to denounce all Negroes as cowards, and especially Negroes holding federal office by appointment from Republican Presidents. It was perfectly natural that the friends of these young women should appeal for aid in time of stress and storm to a man who has said the things Rev. John Milton Waldron has said, and who is at the head of such an organization as the N. A. A. C. P. It is said that when approached and informed of the object of the call, the reverend receiver and disburser of campaign funds assumed a silence and taciturnity not at all characteristic of him. He meditated, he stammered, he interrogated, he accused the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of adopting a course of conduct designed to help himself in his place. In short, the reverend R. and D. of C. F. talked about everything except the matter of taking steps to bring the question of threatened segregation to the attention of the powers that be. Finally, after having sparred long enough to get his wind, he suggested to the friends of the girls that they come before the Executive Committee of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. This they did. The spokesman of the delegation said that the girls were being persecuted, humiliated and outraged in every feeling common to decent womanhood. They, therefore, appealed to those who ought to go forward, if anybody should, in the interest of justice to the race. Said this spokesman: "We look especially to those who get their means of livelihood from the patronage and contributions of the race. Our ministers are supported entirely by the free offerings of colored people. The ministers, therefore, are in a special sense under obligation to their people, and owe a special debt of service to their cause. If the ministers, who are fed and clothed and housed, and given vacations and pin money, and education for their children by the masses of the colored people, can not unreservedly go forward in a crisis, where are we to look?" This Executive Committee consists of school teachers, Civil Service employees, and ministers. The delegation representing the girls got absolutely no encouragement from the committee, not even the promise of investigating the case, or taking it up with the authorities of the Treasury Department. The delegation left the committee meeting feeling that, while the N. A. A. C. P. was a worthy organization, the local branch was not in competent hands. It would be hard to find a more shameful exhibition of cowardice than this. From all the demeaniors that Dr. Waldron has delivered against the cowardice of Negroes and the cowardice of officeholders, one would have expected him to have appeared at once as a remonstrant before Secretary McAdoo. HARPER FERRY, W. VA. W. W. Martin Leases Storer College. Just as The Bee was about to, go to press information reaches us that Mr. W. W. Martin, late of the Northwest Cafe and now conducting the Y. M. C. A. Cafe, has leased Storer College, Harpers' Ferry, W. Va, for the season. He will remodel the dining and bed rooms and make many extensive improvements for the accommodation of summer boarders. Everything will be in readiness by June 15th and those who may desire accommodations to a first-class summer resort should address W. W. Martin, Y. M. C. A., 1816 Twelth Street Northwest. WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1913 ANNUALCOMPETITIVE 21st COMPETITION DRILL. Great Preparations—Said to Be the Most Exciting That Has Yet to Take Place—History of Former Drills Since 1895. (By J. Moria Saunders.) The twenty-first annual competitive drill of the Separate Battalion of High School Cadets will take place on Thursday, May 22, at the American League Baseball Park. The six companies from M Street High School, Armstrong Manual Training School and the business department of the M Street High School will clash on the field, not together but separately, to determine which company is 'best drilled. The annual competitive drill of the cadets is a function which is looked forward to with interest by not only the cadets themselves and the student body, but by the general public who are more or less interested in the corps and the schools. The enthusiasm at the drill has steadily increased since the first competition in 1893 and last year 20,000 voices combined in the recently remodelled baseball park to cheer the individual companies and the battalion as a whole. The first competitive drill of the colored cadets was held in 1893 in the basement of a local church. The enrollment in the cadet corps at that time was so small as to permit the formation of only one company. At that time the first platoon drilled against the second, which resulted in a victory for the latter under command of Lieutenant Benjamin Washington, now a teacher in our high schools. The second platoon won the drill the next year. In 1895 sufficient interest was aroused among the male students to organize two companies—A and B—and at the first drill of company against company, Capt. H. D. Burwell of company A was awarded the trophy. Since 1895 the companies have won as follows: 1896-Company B, Capt. Clarence Wormley. 1899—Company C, Capt. William Brown. 1900—Company B, Capt. W. J. Howard. 1901—Company C, Capt. R. N. Mattingly. In September, 1901, the Armstrong manual Training School was established and quartered in the Douglass Building. Of course, cadet companies were formed and the friendly rivalry which had existed between companies of the M Street High School developed into a rivalry between the two schools. Company B of M Street High School carried off the honors in the first competitive drill of school against school. And M Street won the next year also. This time Company B, under command of Captain Hugh Francis, was awarded the trophy. Thus did Armstrong suffer defeat two years in succession and the first two years of the existence of the school. But this defeat seemed to spur Armstrong cadets on, for in 1904 the school came to the front and for the first time defeated M. Street. Company C, under command of Captain John Wilson, was adjudged the winner. Wilson's company consisted of seven squads—the largest company ever in competition on the drill field. Company D of Armstrong won the drill in 1905. In 1906 Armstrong registered its third consecutive victory when Company D, under command of Captain William Henderson, carried off the flag. M Street High School won the drill the following two years—1907 and 1908. In 1909 the medal went back to Armstrong, but, as it developed later, to stay only one year, for in 1910, 1911 and 1912 M Street High School repeated Armstrong's previous record by winning the drill three years in succession. Because of the fact that M Street High School has held the coveted flag three years in succession, the competition this year is expected to be the closest seen for several years; it will be a real competitive drill. And there is also the business branch of the local school system which, although officially a part of the M Street High School, feels its separateness to the extent of adding its degree of friendly rivalry in the competition. The battalion this year consists of six companies. A, B and F are at the M Street High School; C and D are at Armstrong School, and Company E is at the business school. According to the law of proportion, then. M Street High School has three chances at the prize to the two chances of Armstrong and to the one chance of the business school. But the award of the trophy is not a matter of chance; it is the result of expert drilling on the part of the company which is successful. The companies have drilled for two hours twice each school week since the organization of the companies last October. Each one is ready to enter into the competition and each company feels confident of victory. A, B, C, D, E and F—which company will it be? The staff and non-commissioned officers are: Major, Arthur Dyer, Armstrong School. First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, Percival Piper, Armstrong School As the eventful day draws near each cadet pictures himself marching in his company onto the green drill field amid the yells of thousands of voices and the waving of school and company banners. He sees the captain march his company to the Board of Judges and report to the senior office of that Board. That officer presents the Captain with a copy of the program. But, he has previously learned each movement "by heart" and he tucks the paper into his blouse. The cadet sees this and he feels confident of victory. Then the cadet pictures himself drilling with might and main through the 42 numbers on the program. Through the corners of his eyes (for he dare not turn his head) he espies one of the judges making a note with his ever-ready pencil and paper; he wonders if he is the cause of that note. The competition is on in earnest. He gets nervous, but the inspiring words and commands from his Captain puts renewed vigor and confidence into him and he settles down to that normal condition in which he found himself when drilling on the street. It is time for firing. The command "Load" is given and he slips a blank cartridge from his box and into the bore of the rifle. The command "range 800 yards" is given, the sight is adjusted. "Aim" is given and taken. Then "Fire" and instantaneously with the explosion of so many blank cartridges comes a yell from the stands—a yell which reminds the cadet that all the time he has been drilling before nearly 20,000 persons. And this yell gives these 20,000 voices opportunity to let go their pent-up enthusiasm. But the conscientious cadet soon forgets those in the tier upon tier of seats and makes each valley which is being fired as perfect" as when he practiced firing before coming on the field. He has now completed the extended order and the Captain marches the company up to the stands and reports finally to the Board of Judges. The company is then marched off the field amid the repeated yells of friends and admirers. The officers and some cadets are showered with bouquets. After all the companies have drilled, the battalion is formed and marched upon the field again. The battalion is carried through the manual of arms and a dress parade. But most important to the cadet is the decision from the judges which each one—not only in awaits with eagerness. The battalion is formed in line and the judges are seen to emerge from the batters' box, where they have been summing up the averages. The Major orders the Adjutant to report to the Judges. The Adjutant comes from his position and to the center of the battalion and then receives the report of the winning company from the Chairman of the Board of Judges. It is a breathless moment with the spectators and the cadets alike. There are nearly 300 cadets in line. All cannot win. Who will win? And the breathless moment seems like hours. The Adjutant slowly but deliberately and with soldier-like cadence winds his way to the center of the battalion. He halts just long enough to give himself opportunity to execute right or left face or right or left flank. And when he halts a double hush (if such were possible) creeps over the previously yelling mass. All is expectancy. In the meantime the "cynosure of neighboring eyes" has made his turn which indicates, at least, that the decision will soon be reached. He passes this Captain and that and finally faces quickly in front of the Captain of the winning company and orders him to the front. And the hush which had fallen over the entire park bursts forth in a yell, which can be heard squares away. The company marches briskly to the front and in the presence of school officials and friends in general receives the congratulations of all. The diamond medal is pinned on the breast of the Captain as well as the gold medal, which becomes his property. The lieutenants, too, are clothed with honor with a silver medal. And the cadet who has struggled during the year to make his company the best feels that, after all, conscientious drill and obedience has brought its rewards. He is the happiest mortal on earth. COLERIDGE TAYLOR BENEFIT. Editor The Bee. In your issue of the 3rd inst. a correspondent writes to question the motives of those promoting the Coleridge-Taylor Benefit Concert, and to voice opposition to the movement to relieve the distress facing the family of a man of African descent whose talents have conferred distinction upon and earned respect for all the members of a despised and greatly persecuted-and proscribed race. As to said correspondent's accusation of improper motive on the part of those having the benefit in charge, it can only be said that he contents himself with mere statement without bringing forward one particle of evidence to support it. In the absence of proof, the promoters of the Coleridge-Taylor Benefit have no answer to make to this gratuitous charge of improper motive. As to the benefit itself, it goes without saying that the work which Mr. Coleridge-Taylor did appeals only to those whose culture and knowledge have lifted them to the level of a genuine appreciation of the good, the true and the beautiful. Civilized men and those whose minds and hearts have been liberalized by refining influences have in every nation and clime deemed it to be not only a duty, but a privilege to honor "the immortal few" who illustrate the possibilities of their kind. The men of genius devoted to the fine arts rarely acquire riches. It is a common experience for such to leave those dependent upon them unprovided for; and the general public who have derived pleasure and enjoyment from the labors of these geniuses have seen to it that those left behind were not permitted to beg bread. This benefit was designed to afford an opportunity to those of this community who recognize and appreciate the value of a great musician in the race to testify to that fact; to permit those who believe that one member of a race may by his talents and labor show its possibilities, to pay honor to him so that in time to come our youth may be inspired to nole endeavor for the common uplift. It was on no account to be expected that persons who had not this conception would patronize this benefit. J. M. HERSHAW USE PULPIT TO DANCE "Grizzly"—Minneapolis Pastor Has Chorus Girls Illustrate Sermon on Dances. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 2, 1912. Two chorus girls danced rattle dances on the platform of the pulpit of the Rev. G. L. Morrill in Minneapolis to-day, illustrating his sermon on "Praise Him with the Dance." The most amazing and hold dances were executed by the girls who are playing at a Minneapolis burlesque house and the audience fairly gasped. The "Turkey Trot," the "Crab Crawl," the "Tortoise Tango," the "Jelly Wobble," the "Angleworm Wriggle," the "Grizzly," and other unique dances were given. Then began Mr. Morrill's sermon. "Now you have witnessed just how fashionable society carries on when it gets started," said Mr. Morrill. "I admit there is a decent dance, a dance helpful to the body, plea-tion to the mind and harmless, to the soul, but these rag dances that you have witnessed, not at all exaggerated, will make the devil blush and he would hesitate to introduce them into hell. "There was a time, when statues were made of graceful dancers, but to-day there is a crying demand for statutes against dancing which is disgraceful. The dancing whirlpool of society has drawn into its drowning depths many of the best craft that ever sailed life's sea. The dance you have witnessed has degenerated from devotion and diversion into dissipation and debauchery. These rag dances are animal in name and nature and often as much more passionate than the Oriental dance as Vesuvius is warmer than an iceberg. "We seem almost ready for the naked dance proposed by Plato in his ideal republic. The animal is libeled Mr. Bear and Mrs. Turkey were never guilty of such antics and doubtless look with surprise and shame at the dances which bear their name. "It has come to a pass when children are post graduates in ragtime tunes before they can sing a hymn or say the Lord's prayer." As the two chorus girls performed these "rag" dances, now and then a coin would fly toward the pulpit while the big organ of the church pealed forth ragtime music to accompany the dance. High-Class Vaudeville. The polite vaudeville performance to be given for the benefit of the Crisis Fund at True Reformers' Hall May 23 at 8 p. m. will be of high artistic merit. Living pictures will be posed by Mrs. Charles I. West. Pantomime - Famine scene from "Hiawata" by a group of girls. Miss Elina May, reader. Misses Olive Wells and Malire Thomas, song artists. Howard University Glee Club in humorous selections. Miss Blanche Wright, soloist. Mrs. Andie Goins Lewis, and Mrs. Emma Lee Williams in character impersonations. Clever dancing and other attractions. Good music. Admission, 25 and 15 cents. Local Crisis Fund Committee, MRS. ANNIE W. CLIFFORD, Chairman Local Crisis Fund Committee. The Last in Georgia. St. Marys, Ga., May 7. The last Negro officeholder in this State has been removed in the person of J. B. Holtzendolph. He has been succeeded by a white Democrat by the name of Lincoln S. Townsen.I. We send our congratulations to Bishop Alexander Walters and all other Negro Democrats. The Freedmens Hospital is graduating some very competent nurses. DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST (By Lime G. B. Mansfield.) The Odd Fellows of Atlanta, Ga., has the strongest organization in the United States. Charles Carlson, aged 26 years, an aviator of Milwaukee, Wis., fell 200 feet and was killed at Akron, Ohio. Twenty brides from the steamship California rushed toward the gangplank May 5th in New York. They had to be married because they did not have the necessary papers to pass the immigration inspector. Ralph Pulitzer, of New York, was refused a warrant for Mayor Gaynor. The mayor was accused of libel. President Wilson won his fight in New Jersey. The Legislature will pass the jury reform bill, in which the President is interested. A bomb was found among the packages collected by the parcel post at the Southeastern District Post Office in London, May 5th. Williams: an art student, shot and killed Lee Carroll in Chicago, Ill., because he paid too much attention to his wife. The breaking up of coffee valorization in Brazil may cost American manufacturers millions of dollars. The House of Representatives fixed the free list and the amendments of the Republicans were lost in noes. The Japanese Embassy in this city has been furnished with a copy of the California alien land bill. The embassy will make known to Secretary Bryan his grounds of protest. The Chief Justice dissents in the contempt proceedings against Gompers, Morrison and Mitchell. The decision of the Court of Appeals may be carried to the United States Supreme Court. The Legislature of Wisconsin ratified the wrong amendment for the direct election of United States Senators. The Legislature of Tennessee has gotten itself in a tangle. All laws passed by the Legislature may be nullified. Senator Work scored John D. Rockefeller. It is stated that his attack may be unlimited. Sidney T. Manning, Fire Commissioner of Baltimore, Md., declared to the people of Baltimore, Md., that he would knock the block off the first man who again attempted to sing to him of Jerusalem, the Golden. He meant the earthly Jerusalem. It would take 1,000 men and carts to clean up the streets and make them look like Baltimore. The Washington baseball team is making a record. It stands a good chance to win the prize. Auditor Ralph W. Tyler will enter business for himself after his retirement from his present position. An executive order has been issued compelling all fourth-class postmasters to take a competitive examination. Representative Smith, of Maryland, has recommended two persons for District Commissioner—Messrs. Clayton and Crenshaw. The latter is a citizen of Maryland. For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court a female has been made assistant clerk, in the person of Miss Meggs, a very accomplished woman. The charges against members of the police force for neglect of duty during the suffragette parade—have been dismissed. An informal conference of Progressive Republicans has been called to meet in Chicago, Ill., today or Monday. Jack Johnson is on trial in Chicago under the Mann act. There are 42 counts in the indictments. The local Negro Business League is making a great success under the presidency of Mr. Daniel Freeman. REFORMATION AND UNITY. "Can the Leopard Change His Spots?" 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. Fools and Numbskulls Cry for Office The platform of the National Democratic Fair Play Association is a howling officeseekers' mob. They cannot see beyond the crave and ambition for office. Read and reflect: "Platform of the National Democratic Fair Play Association, Washington, D. C.; "In mass meeting assembled, in the city of Washington, be it resolved: "That whereas, after careful investigation, we find that the existing Civil Service system, under which about 90 per cent of the offices under the Federal Government are held, has been unfairly and fraudulently operated; and "Whereas, first, we find that a very large per cent of the present Federal officeholders have never been subjected to any examination, but were arbitrarily brought under the protection or life tenure feature of said Civil Service system by congressional enactment and executive order, and, "Whereas, second, we find that provision of the Civil Service law, which provides that the offices shall be apportioned from among the Territories, District of Columbia and the States, according to population, has been utterly ignored and deliberately violated; and "Whereas, third, we have cause to believe and do believe that many frauds have been successfully perpetrated by applicants for said offices, who have made false statements as to their citizenship; and, "Whereas, fourth, we have cause to believe and do believe that powerful selfish interests have and are suppressing, as far as in their power, information which would disclose the discrimination and fraud under which thousands of the present Federal officeholders have and are now occupying in fancied security their positions in the Government service. "Resolved, That it is the sentiment and opinion of this association that the said grievances and abuses shall be fully investigated, and upon proper proof, be speedily, fairly and thoroughly remedied. "Also whereas, we find that Negroes are holding Federal positions in Washington and elsewhere in the United States, in the same departments with white men and white women, and in a great many instances exercising supervision and control over white men and white women in said departments, and, "Whereas, we believe that said conditions are mutually disagreeable and injurious to both the white and Negro races, and is destructive to the moral welfare and amicable relationship, so much desired by both races. "Resolved, That it is the sentiment and the conviction of this organization that a Democratic Congress should by law segregate the races in the public service, conserving to the Negro race its fair share of Government employment, based upon that tee's numerical or voting strength, in the sound discretion of Congress shall be just and fair to the Negro. "Resolved further, That it is our sincere belief that the consummation of the purposes of this organization will aid and assist our National Democratic administration; and that the realization of the processes and principles hereof, are vital to the continued supremacy of the Democratic party. "Resolved further, That this association be permanently located in Washington, D. C., that membership and correspondence be solicited; that every Democrat and every patriot in the United States be invited to become a member." A PRESUMPTUOUS SET. The Democratic Fair Play Association—Its Methods Denounced To the Editor of The Bee. I have before me a copy of what purports to be a "Platform of the National Democratic Fair Play Association." It bears no names of any of its members, and starts with "In a mass meeting, assembled in the city of Washington, Be it Resolved," etc. After setting forth a more or less accurate statement of evident facts, which it "finds," and after resolving that the manner of the enforcement of the present Civil Service system be investigated, it finds (colossal discovery) that "Negroes are holding Federal positions in Washington, and elsewhere in the United States, in the same departments with white men and white women, and in a great many instances exercising supervision and control over white men and white women in the said "departments," and speedily resolves that steps be taken to check such conditions. It assigns the following reasons, to-wait; mutual disagreeableness, destructibility of moral welfare, and amicable relationship between employees of both races. This leads every well-thinking employee of the Government, whether "Democrat," "patriot," or just a man, to ask this association these questions: Isn't it just a little presumptuous and unadvised to reach a conclusion without consulting said employees; that "the holding of Federal positions in the same department by the two races is mutually disagreeable; that it is destructive to the moral welfare and amicable relationship so much desired by both races? Can it produce any facts sound in reason or law in support of the same? No. Any merit system, reformed, devised or conceived, by even so fertile a set of brains as that possessed by the N. D. F. P. A., could not select intellect and requisite skill for a particular position, and at the same time have regard for the idiotic prejudices of some men. As to the second, if said conditions are destructive to the moral welfare, then morality must indeed be at a very low ebb in department life, as these conditions have existed for quite a little while. If destructive to the amicable relationship, so much desired by the two rates, I would suggest that all that should be desired or demanded by fellow-employees of the United States Government, is a courteous business relationship; that the de partment is not the place for exhibitions of Platonic devotion. This, then, it seems to me would be the nature of a supplement to the platform of this organization, and which would undoubtedly measure up to its approval. Give it a reformed merit system, not quite so meritorious as at present, have it based upon a system of averages, ever remembering its prejudices in ascertaining the same, appoint to life tenures, but make them uncertain in point of duration of time of service, and, lastly, recognize worth in making appointments, but don't give it intellectual chiefs. Is there any possible viewpoint from which the aims and intentions of this Southern organization can be squared with the principle embodied in the Golden Rule? the Golden Gate C. W. TIGNOR 473 Florida Avenue Northwest SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS. Black Eye to Demagogues—Southern Reform Which Will Improve a People and a Section—What the Southern Negro Is Doing—The Governor of Georgia Makes the Welcome Address. Atlanta, Ga., April 30.—The Southern Sociological Congress held here in Atlanta this week represents one of the most significant movements in the New South to reclaim itself from the dominion of the demagogues who have given it such an unsavory reputation in other parts of the country. It is a movement which has behind it the best brain of this section and has enlisted the sympathies and the money of those forces which apparently have decided that the Vardamans, Tillmans and Bleses shall be subordinated to those newer issues which have come to the front as a result of the industrial progress of this section. The Southern Sociological Congress stands— For the abolition of convict lease and contract systems, and for the adoption of modern principles of prison reform. For the extension and improvement of juvenile courts and juvenile reformatories. For the proper care and treatment of defectives, the blind, the deaf, the insane, the epileptic, and the feeble-minded. For the recognition of the relation of alcoholism to disease, to crime, to pauperism, and to vice, and for the adoption of appropriate preventive measures. For the adoption of uniform laws of the highest standards concerning marriage and divorce. For the adoption of the uniform law on vital statistics. For the abolition of child labor by the enactment of the uniform child labor law. For the enactment of school attendance laws, that the reproach of the greatest degree of illiteracy may be removed from our section. For the solving of the race question in a spirit of helpfulness to the Negro and of equal justice to both races. For the closest co-operation between the church and all social agencies for the securing of these results; The Congress began April 25th at 7:30 in Wesley Memorial M. E. Church and closed April 29th. During that time as fine a series of addresses as have ever been delivered in the South were delivered in the general meetings held in Wesley Memorial M. E. Church, in the New Atlanta Auditorium, and at the Broughton Baptist Tabernacle, and at various other points where sectional meetings, were arranged for. An address of welcome was made by Governor Joseph M. Brown, of Georgia, and by Mayor Woodard. These were responded to by Chancellor James H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Tenn. It was so arranged that the various conferences were handled in this wise: General Congress sessions in Wesley Memorial Church and in the Atlanta Auditorium, and the sectional meetings in various other places. These sectional conferences were as follows: Conference on Public Health. Conference on Courts and Prisons. Conference on Child Welfare. Conference on Organized Charities. Conference on Race Problems, and Conference on the Church and Social Service. Each of these sectional conferences had its own particular chairman and secretary. Probably the most interesting conference of the whole number was that conducted by Dr. J. H. Dillard, chairman of the Conference on Race Problems at the Baptist Tabernacle. Probably the finest addresses of the whole session were those delivered before the Conference on Race Problems. Some of the subjects which were discussed were as follows: The Work of the Southern Commission on the Race Problem—Prof. C. H. Brough, University of Arkansas. The Economic Status of the Negro—Prof. W. M. Hunley, University of Virginia. The Negro Working Out His Own Salvation—Prof. E. C. Branson, Athens, Ga. Rural Education and Social Efficiency—Prof. Jackson Davis, Richmond, Va. Industrial Education for Negroes—Miss Grace Biglow House, St. Helena Island, S. C. The Negro as a Farmer—Dr. J. H. DeLoach, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. The Efficiency Test in Negro Progress—Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, Federal Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. The Religious Condition of the Negro—Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. Open Church Work for Negroes— Open Church Work for Negroes— Rey, John Little, Louisville, Ky. The White Man's Debt to the Negro—Mrs. J. D. Hammond, Augusta, Ga. Racial Self-respect and Racial Antagonism—Dr. C. V. Roman, Nashville, Tennessee. The Jeanes and the Slater Boards and What They Are Accomplishing—Dr. J. H. Dillard, New Orleans, La. The Social and Hygienic Conditions of the Negro and Needed Reforms—Prof. Josiah Morse, University of South Carolina. Desirable. Civic Reforms in the Treatment of the Negro—Prof. W. O. Scroggs, University of Louisiana. The Prevalence of Contagious and Infectious Diseases Among Negroes and the Necessity of Preventive Measures—Dean George W. Hubbard, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn. How to Enlist Southern Forces for Improvement of Conditions Among Negroes—Dr. W. D. Weatherford, Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. Nashville. It would be difficult, indeed, to adequately speak of the significance of such addresses as that made by Mrs. Hammond, Prof. Morse., Prof. Scroggs, Dr. Weatherford, Prof. Branson and others of that particular type, who did not for one moment evade the issues presented by the problems of the two races working out their destiny side by side here in the South. Such papers as these deserve to be separately printed and distributed by the thousands throughout the country; they certainly would arouse the better sentiment of the South if they could be got into the hands of the people who count. The particular criticism of the Congress is that the meetings of the Conference on Racial Problems were attended only by groups of colored people and by well wishers of the Negro. None of these striking papers were quoted in the daily newspapers so as to give any idea as to their contents, aside from the address by Dr. S. C. Mitchell, Chancellor of the University of South Carolina entitled "The South's Challenge for a Better Nation," and the address by Bishop-W. P. Thirkield, entitled "A Cathedral of Co-operation." No subject affecting the Negro was discussed in the general meetings attended by large numbers of Atlanta white people. It is to the credit of the officers of the Congress that they have recognized the fact that the racial problem cannot be settled in the South by white men alone, and so Negro leaders from every section of the country were invited and were present at the various meetings. Dr. C. V. Roman, of Nashville, Tenn., spoke most convincingly on the subject, "Racial Self-respect and Racial Antagonism." Prof. J. B. Watson, of Atlanta, Ga., followed Prof. Scroggs, of the University of Louisiana, in the discussion of the subject, "Desirable Civic Reforms in the Treatment of the Negro." The following leaders among the Negro people and many others representing various organizations of one kind and another were present: Prof. L. B. Moore, of Howard University, Washington, D. C. Mr. W. T. B. William and Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, both of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. President Walter S. Buchanap, of A. and M. College, Normal, Ala. Miss Charlotte R. Thorn, Miss Hallowell and Prof. C. H D. Calhoun Colore Ala. Prof. Wm. P. & engagement President Edw. lanta University, Atlanta, Ga. President John Hope, of Atlanta Baptist College, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen and Dr. S. E. Idlemen of Ammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. W. A. Fountain, of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. Miss Lucy Hale Tapley, of Spellman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. W. T. Amiger, President, State University, Louisville Ken. Dr. C. H. Parrish and Dr. J. H. Frank, both of Louisville, Ky. President Z. T. Hubert, of Jackson College, Jackson, Tenn. President J. B. Dudley, of A. & M. College, Greensboro, N. C. Dr. C. F. Mervease, of Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. Dr. James S. Russell, of St. Paul School, Lawrenceville, Va., besides a host of others, including Mr. W. T. Andrews, a successful business man of Sumter, S. C.; Dr. J. R. Levy, of Florence, S. C.; Mr. Jesse Lawson, of Washington, D. C.; Major J. B. Ramsey, Commandant; Mr. E. T. Attwell, Business Agent, and Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. THE MOST USEFUL AMERICANS. A Referendum of Independent Readers on the Most Deserving of Their Contemporaries. New York, Saturday, May 3.—The New York Independent in its issue of this week, May 1, publishes the result of a referendum of Independent readers on the most useful Americans. This is one of the most interesting things which has appeared in this most valuable journal. In its issue of January 30, the editors of the Independent put to their readers, the following question: Who Are the Most Useful Americans? If life insurance could really insure against loss of life on whole lives should the American people best afford to pay the highest premiums? In other words, who among our contemporaries are of most value to the community, whose places would be most difficult to fill? If Congress should decide to award ten prizes to the most deserving men and women in the country and leave the choice to popular referendum, who should get the largest number of votes? The Independent states that when the returns came in the editors found that they had over ten thousand names to count and that 343 persons had been considered worthy of the honor of being included in the list of the ten most valuable citizens. The most interesting thing about the poll is that the only colored man who seems to have been seriously voted for was Booker T. Washington. Principal of the Tuskegee Institute. at Tuskegee, Alabama, who received 326 votes: including the vote received by Dr. Washington, the poll shows the following. Thomas A. Edison 898 Jane Addams 611 Andrew Carnegie 604 Theodore Roosevelt 514 Helen Gould Shepard 474 Alexis Carrol 479 George Goethals 461 William J. Bryan 458 Woodrow Wilson 427 Luther Burbank 398 Booker T. Washington 326 The editorial comments of the editors of the Independent in this discussion of "The Most Useful Americans," referring to the Negro educator, follows: Highest in the class of educators comes Dr. Booker T. Washington, but of those who include his name in their lists not so many mention his development of a system of vocational training at Tuskegee Institute as his services to his race as a whole, as the following phrases show: "The inspiration of 10,000,000"; "The evangel of peace in the South"; "Doing for the South what Jane Addams is doing for the slums"; "The Moses of the Negro race, leading them up from slavery through the desert and into the promised land"; "Race pacificator and educational opportunist"; "Solving the second hardest question we have to deal with in America"; "Because of his efforts for the promotion of a better understanding between the races." The whole article is most illuminating and should be carefully read by the readers of the various colored newspapers. HUSBANDS LEARN TO SEW. Are Training For the Time When Wives Will Vote. Picture Rocks, Pa.—Asserting they were fearful lest the ballot will be granted to women and the husbands will have to do housework, the able-bodied men of this place have formed an organization known as the Men's Sewing Square. At their last meeting they brought sewing bags and their wives' stockings to mend and began the task of plying the needle in order to ascertain if darning was as hard as they had always been led to believe. The Rev. l. N. Earle, pastor of the Methodist church, who was elected chairman of the "square," presided, and some of the work that the men performed is declared by their wives to have been far better than they could have imagined. The men prepared a supper without women's aid, which, they say, they ate with relish and were all home before 11 o'clock The "square" will meet once each week. FIRST SMILE IN THREE YEARS Convict Who Grinned Hasn't Spoken In That Time. Stockton, Cal.—"Silent" Carson, the convict who was brought to this city or investigation by alienists and who is not been known to utter a word during the three years that he has seen under sentence of death for participation in a prison break, is reported to have smiled at one of the hospital attendants, and this, may break down the obstacle that has prevented his execution on a charge of murder. Physicians who have had Carson under observation say this is the first display of any emotion on his part of which they have any record and that conclusions heretofore accepted as proving him insane may be reviewed. Carson is being subjected to a new and original system of investigation by several physicians. SHIFTING RIVER MAKES CLAIM. Sacramento's Freaks Give Man a Fine 160 Acre Homestead. Hamilton City, Cal.-Taking advantage of the freaks of the Sacramento river in making land along its course, John P. Ryan, a well known young civil engineer of Hamilton City, will in a few years become possessor of 160 acres of the finest land in California, as he has filed a homestead on 160 acres on Packer Island, in the river a short distance south of Butte City. The Mexican government made the west bank of the Sacramento river the eastern boundary of the Larkins grant. At that time there was a channel around Packer island which filled up on the west side as the years went by and the island became a part of the Larkins grant. The land on the opposite side of the river was surveyed and the island was not included. The owners of the Larkins grant claimed the island, and their right was not disputed. As Ryan has notified the other owners on the island, there are no more lucky acres to be obtained by homesteading. FLIES OVER PANAMA CANAL Fowler Makes Trip From Pacific to Atlantic In Fifty-five Minutes. Panama.—Robert G. Fowler, the aviator, successfully flew from the Pacific over the canal in a hydroaeroplane with a passenger, landing at the Atlantic side in fifty-five minutes. A picture was taken of the operator and machine in motion. The flight has frequently been termed impossible on account of the air currents over Culebran. Fowler flew directly over the cut and was able to carry out various evolutions, despite wind obstacles. Leaving Panama Beach at 9:45 a.m., he circled over Panama City and the canal's entrance for aflight, then rose high and steered toward Colon, where he encountered a twenty-five mile breeze. In continuing to Cristobal the motor suddenly stopped, after missing fire through the gasoline giving out. Fowler succeeded in landing with ease on a reef. The pontoon was torn, but otherwise the machine was undamaged. STEFANSSON NOW READY FOR START Party Will Study Blond Eskimos and Gather Scientific and Geographical Data About Arctic Sea and Vast Unexplored Regions Between Bering Strait and the North Pole. New York—Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who discovered the blond Eskimos, in announcing his plans for his coming four year expedition in the north, said that it would be the party's object to gather geographical and scientific data about the vast unexplored territory between Bering strait and the north pole and between the western border of the arctic archipelago and the known open sea north of Siberia. "We shall start from the navy yard at Esquimalt, Victoria, for Bering strait, in the first week of June, in the steam whaler Karluk, of 247 tons, proceeding east along the north coast of Alaska," he said. "The expedition, planned as a private American expedition, has been taken over by the Canadian government, which has enabled us to double its size. "I have engaged as oceanographers James Murray of Glasgow, who was [Image of a man in profile, wearing a suit and tie]. the biologist with Shackleton in the British antarctic expedition, and Dr A. Forbes Mackay of Edinburgh, who was Shackleton's surgeon. Two anthropologists engaged are Henri Beuchat, a Frenchman, a specialist in American archaeology and anthropology, and Dr. Edward Janess, who now on his way from New Zealand Dr. Fritz Johansen, a Dane, will go as zoologist. The second in command will be Dr. R: M. Anderson of the American Museum of Natural History The skimmer of the Karluk will be Captain C. T. Pedersen, a whaler of twenty years' experience, who will pick a crew of fourteen or fifteen hands. "My experience shows that explorer had best live off the country. As far north as land has been discovered there is plenty of bear, caribou, musk ox, seal and walrus. The provision taken will be grains, like rice and oats and only dried fruit. "One of the big things will be the study of the blond Eskimos, and we are going to ascertain the depth of the arctic sea, character of its bottom, direction, speed of its currents, temperature of the water, its salinity and its vegetable and animal life." Mr. Stefansson expects to be gone four years, but may in summer send the ship back to Esquimalt. Whether the territory to be explored is all ice open sea, a continent or a series of lands is one of the few remaining mysteries of the world today, according to the explorer. the thirteen ton schooner Teddy Beam may be used as an auxiliary for establishing a base on Victoria island in the arctic, for discovering metals and studying tribes. If the Kikuruk should come across land the party may establish a base upon it. Mr. Stefansson, the child of Icelandic parents, was born at Winnipeg in 1878 was graduated from the University of Iowa with Dr. Anderson in 1893 and afterward became a professor of anthropology at Harvard. In 1908 he went with Dr. Anderson to the arctic spent four years there and discovered the blond Eskimos, who, he says, can not be descendants of whalers or survivors of the Franklin expedition. History on a Vase. Berkeley. Cal.-Lost for a half century, a Greek vase dating back to the sixth century before Christ has been discovered in the anthropological museum of the University of California and through the discovery Professor Oliver M. Washburn of the department of classical archaeology is enabled to amplify records of history and mythology. From this black figured Attic vase, which was given to the university by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, the story of the killing of the son of Priam has been deciphered. WRONG TO WATCH BASEBALL Harvard Expert Says Spectators Get Too Wrought Up. Cambridge, Mass.—Beware. O ye baseball fans, for you are the product of a radically wrong attitude toward athletics. Witnessing professional baseball contests tends to harmful excuses and immorality. Thus spoke Harvard's world famous strength expert, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, recently. He said in part: "The excitement, attending ball games as they are played at present is harmful. Our baseball fans nowadays are devotees of a game in exactly the same sense as are those fascinated by watching a roulette game or other games of chance. "Attendance at these games means that thousands of men and boys and even women become unduly excited over the athletic prowess of professional players. They leave the ball grounds with nerves tingling and spirits exalted if the game goes well, and the question is. What outlet do those men and women find for their emotions thus aroused? I am tempted to leave the subject with an interrogation point. "There is nothing wrong with a ball game as such any more than there is with a theatrical performance as such, but such games arouse emotion without furnishing a motor outlet. This would not be the case if the game were actually played. Instead of watched. We are overdoing one phase of the so called love of sport. "There is nothing in this house form of athleticism, and the less, we have of it the better." BISHOP PREPARES TO DIE. Chooses Grave, Orders Cross and Calms Monument Maker. Trenton, N. J.—Bishop McFaul of the Catholic diocese of Trenton, in good health, is preparing for death. He has just chosen his last resting place and ordered his monument, going about the business as though it were an every day incident. For his grave Bishop McFaul has chosen a plot of ground in front of Morris hall, a home for aged women at Lawrenceville, erected by the bishop several years ago. Dennis Dooley, a marble cutter, was somewhat shocked when Bishop McFaul ordered him to make a Celtic cross to be placed over his grave until the bishop assured him that he had no intention of dying soon. IS DONE WITH PULPIT BECAUSE OF CRITICS Pastor Resigns and Gets Job In Local Store. Fort Smith, Ark—Members of the congregation of the Hemphill Presbyterian church have been balloting on whether they will accept the resignation of their pastor, the Rev. J. P. Hicks, just now a floorwalker in a hoslery department of a big department store. The preacher is hoping they accept his resignation, for a taste of floorwalking has spoiled him for the pulpit. Hicks' advanced ideas of theology invited criticism among his flock, and without apologizing he resigned. Many of his church members, however, sympathized with him, and the ballot was taken as the best means of determining his relative popularity. *The preacher and W. G. Burton, department store head, are close friends. Burton not long ago commented on the lack of help during the Christmas rush of last year. "Hire me." Hicks said. "If they accept my resignation I'll need the money to meet old obligations." "You're on," the merchant said. And Hicks went to work. The floorwalker went home tired the first night of his new work, which was a Saturday night, and the next morning he preached a sermon on "Why I Resigned, or Cogs In the Wheels of Progress." Hicks is a deep student and until he took his new job never knew anything familiarly but theology. Some of the more stalked members of his congregation regard his latest venture as the most daring and unconventional thing he ever attempted, but it is not his first departure from convention. $5,000 WHEN HE EARNS $1,000 Uncle Leaves Legacy Under This Condition to Nephew. Minneapolis, Minn.—After he earns $1,000 "by his own efforts" S. E. Davis of Los Angeles will receive $5,000 under the will of his uncle, the late Spencer E. Davis of Minneapolis, just filed "S. E. Davis is not a bad young man but good and too freehearted," commented the uncle in the will. Mr. Davis died April 7 on a train returning from Pasadena, Cal. His estate is estimated at $10,000. He was the founder of the Monitor Drill works at St. Louis Park. The widow will receive the home and other real estate. Kansas City. Ken - With the appointment of a woman as city clerk in this city five important positions under the government of this municipality are now held by women. Miss Laura A. Jost was appointed city treasurer, Mrs. Merle Addison Cutler and Miss Esther Bower, deputy treasurers, and Miss Beulah Belts, city clerk. hs. ays pelgbike ote... oatbthlitiiete weacaces “Sheba aags.: . 2. ARR: abe Set a ec eet le BB ee ee Re ee ees snmarmemesesesjioeans, cessesciemmmanamnsien im \d“eoetpe see scp ane eh ag he ERE en NN eee NS ee en meee he og PEO SAS Oo he — ae > RIST ASCERDED: [Sacre ctect Se 22 sun rue siayane tat ADOPT & fore,” were fully established Im the| Contrary to Divine Love and Justice, +p | minds of the Aposticn, they would vet | 820 blessing all who come fnto full Couple Leg [Den s at contetoarta ensues i | accord with the Lard z the disciples of Jesus. On the other} Amother channel of blessing to the st. Louls hand, they were unable to receive epur | Word vill be the Ancient Worthles, gop atteen = — {tual things until after the splrit-beget-| Who wil be made princes 19 all te 47, and BM fing at Pentecost. Hence the instruc. | fat These will constitute Oe em, Gareld ar We Have Etred In- Supposing ios sicen:tnem must necessary be te ee Netcnmens avery ld notre e pe phir ner the rule of righteousess every Wid not ret His Flesh Ascended Tet us suppose that Jesus had not] Crit Seed will be promptly punishet. ered 1a th is Flesh Ascended. appeared tn the Gesb after His resur-| $74 every Rood deed will De promnly eas whic — 5 Tection. Suppose that He had appear-| suacments of the Lord are abroad in Miss 8m ed ae He did to Saul of Tarsue—as 2| tno earth, the inhabitants avili learn «named Tip PASTOR RUSSELL EXPLAINS, | sect !tsbt shining ttom Heaven, above] 26 cont on to very nee sball, and is COD n 1 | the brightness of the sun, and spoken| ponteumeser” on) eT se personal ac ‘ to them. What proof would they have The Cis Gite hae, Her fost had that It was the sarie Jesus who] 5. are Jally interested fa! adoption b ‘The Logos Descended—He Was Made] had died? How would the, message of | But we are shecaly interested OO to protect | Flesh—Humbled Even Unto Death,| His resurrection and ascension been | G00 Te ani qcbsry. over sin and The Smith Sheol, Hades—He Wax Raised From | Conreyed to thelr minds? Evidently tt] 40°18 “ie made it possible for us tol Well t6 do the Dead a Spirit Being —He Axon en ede soa ee a camen.| become His footstep followers, and iy eee het I od as He Desconded—Jeoue a Quick-| suffering with Him*to become joint ae ue @ basis for thelr falth, and.ours. Then He gave! tioned. 7 aning Spirit Ascended to Glory, Hon-| “Incidentally. there were given them | heirs in Hs Kingdom, ‘Then YS air oa or and Immortality—What He Left vartous proofs that, He was no longer| 08 the varfous gifts for oar Bavalop. | ‘Miss St and More Added Glory, fa flesh beluc-thet He had ernerienced | Ment. Not all appreciate the gifts of “Miss Sal Detroit,. Mich, May 4. — Pastor Russell gave -two addresses here to- day. We report the one on Christ's Ascension, His text was: “Thou hast ascended on High, Thou has led captivity cap tive: Thou has recelved gifts £01 men: yea, for the vwhetnes aiee | — Ng ) SE Ss ee rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them"—Psalm 68:18. Pastor Russell declared that one of the scrlous errors engrafted into the Christian faith {s the supposition that Jesus is still a man in Heaven. He de. clared that this thought has helped to turn away many from the faith in the premillennial coming of Christ, and the establishment of His Kingdom for blessing the world, as the Bible de- clares. Many Christians perceive that a localized reign of Christ in the flesh would be far Inferior to a spiritual relgn, and hence the gencral rejection of all falth in the Second Coming of Christ and His Millennial Kingdom. He polnted out that all Christians firmly belleve that Jesus was a spirit being before He was “made flesh, and dwelt among us” All believe also that ag spirit being is of a higher order than a buman being, and that Jesus made a great stoop when He laid aside the glory of His prettuman conditjon to Decome’“the Man Christ Jesus.” St. Paul's reference to this was quoted: “Though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich.” He divested Himself of His glory and took upon Himself the Seed of Abraham, and was “found in fashion as a man.” ‘A man {s “a Uttle lower than the an- gels”—eren In his perfection. ‘The Pastor declared fhat no student of the Bible coild suppose that the Heavenly Father bas permanently de- graded His Son from a station Aigher than angels to one fower than angels. Nobody believes this in his heart of hearts, and yet mang profess this very thing. The ascension of Christ Is claimed to prove It. It 1s absurd to suppose that with our Lord Jesus, ac customed to the spirit condition, and made fiesh for the short space of thir- ty-three and a balf years, could be otherwise than discommoded and se riously dishonored by the Father, if ‘He now has a body of flesh. Ascends Where He Was Before. ‘The Pastor declared that mistaker ylewa respecting the word “ascend’ helped to confuse Christian people ‘The Apostle quoting and explaining his text, shows that Jesus’ ascensior fs to be considered in conjunction witt His descent. Le that ascended Is th same who thirty-four years before de acended. Did the descending have an} reference to the kind of bods? Surely not! Then the ascending bas no refer ence to the kind of body. ‘The descend ing signified the humiliation, the leav ing of spiritual glory, In order to bi born! in the ficsh. ‘The life of the Logos was transfer red from the spirit body and becam the life zerm of-the babe. that He might become the Man Christ Jesus and give Himself sacrifcially for the ains of the world. Similarly, the be getting, of the Holy Spirit came to Je sus at Ills baptism and during three and one half sears tt gradually con stituted Him a spiritual Priest. whose work it was to “offer up Himself.” ‘That offering ended at Calvary, when He cried, “it ts finisued!” and died. ‘When on the thint day, the Fathel ralsed Him from the dead. it was the Priest that was raised to glory, hono and {mmortalits, and not the animal or human. body which He bad sacri ficed. As it Is written, “A body has ‘Thou prepared Me™ “for the suf fering of death.” That flesbly bods was never Intended to be an incom brance throurhout eternity, upon th Only Begotten of the Father. “EH dleth no more," and therefore has n further use for the body of flesh. ‘What became of the fleshly body the Pastor would not undertake t sey. It was not seen in the tomt “We know ft was the soul, not th bods, that was raised to life. “Tho ‘wilt ‘not leave My soul in Sheol”—t Hades—the tomb. “Thou wilt not sa ter Thine Holy One to see corruption. Why a Body of Flesh Was Used. <WWe must remember three things | connection with this subject, sald th Pastor. The followers of Jesus wer required to have foll faith (1) That J sus was the Logos, who had descen ed from the spirit plane to the humar (@) That He had dled sacridctally; ¢ What God raised Him from the dea Whless these points—that God raise ‘Him from the dead,’and that His as- cendled t Heaven, “where He was be- fote,” were fully established in the minds of the Apostles, they\would ‘not De in a St condition to continue to be. the disciples of Jesus. On the other hand, they were unable to recelve splr- ttual things until after the spirit-beget- ting at Pentecost. Hence the instruc tion given them must necessarily be along earthly Ines, Let us suppose that Jesus hed not appeared In the fesh after His resur- rection. Suppose that He had appear- ed as He did to Saul of Tarsue—as 2 great light shining ttom Heaven, above the brightness of the sun, and spoken to them. What proof would they have had that It was the samie Jesus who had died? How would the, message of His resurrection and ascension been conveyed to thelr minds? Evidently it ‘was neceskary that some ocular demon- stration should be made to constitute the basts for thelr faith, and.ours. Incidentally, there were given them vartous proofs that, He was no longer & flesh belug—that He had experienced a complete change of nature. “These Proofs were His repeated manifesta- tions to His disciples, during the forty | days between His resurrection and His ‘ascension. ‘These appearances were | go circumstanced as to leave no doubt that they were miracles, such as previ- ously had been wrought when angels appeared in the flesh to mankind, During the three and one half years of His ministry, Jesus had never ap- peared miraculously to His followers, had never vanished out of thelr sight. Tt ts not a quallty of human nature to appear in a room while the doors fare shut, or to appear in the garb of ‘a gardener, then in that of a traveler, and at other times bearing the wounds of His crucifixion. All these things demonstrated the great change which had occurred. “1 Ascend to My Father.” After the forty days, were ended, Jesus ascended up where He was be fore. As Il{s resurrection body was a spirit bods, His ascending would not have been tistble, had He not for thelr sakes"appeared in a body of flesh and Dlessed them, and ascended with that body until a cloud recelred Him, Then the flesh-bods, created for that special occasion, censed to be. It was just as when an angel appeared to Manoab and his wife. After talking with | them, the angel ascended in the flame of the star, and the human body, cre ated for the very purpose of the mani festation, dissolved Into gases. So {i was with Jesus. + Jesus’ real ascension was His as sumption of the Heavenly glory. ‘The Aisciples saw very little of thls, bu Rat they did see fixed in thelr mind | te great fact that thelr Redeeme1 would not manifest Himself in thi [seu again. Our Lord ascended where He was before, except that, as the Apostle declates, He was received t superior distinction. He was seated ai || the right hand of Divine Majesty, a: stated in the prophecy, “Sit Thou a ‘|My right hand untii [the time com '| when} 1 [will] make Thy foes Th; "| tootétool.”—Psalm 110:1. The Return of the Logos. +} The Logos left His glory that Hi ,| might deliver the world from the pow ,Jer of sin and death, ‘The primary ster ,| necessary to this end was Ilis ow | death, the Just for the unjust. ‘Th | | time was sct when Satan, the prince o .| this world, shpuld be bound for a thou ,| sand years, and his captives in sin anc -|death released. The only thing re +] maining to be done was that th Church class should be developed. Th period for: their development was 5 fixed that it should be accomplishe 1\ by the tine Satan’s empire would b due to fall. "| Having this in mind, we gstasp th =| poetic declaration of our text—that Je ; | Bus ascendesl on High, lending a mult tude of captives. First in the Ist 0 | captives released were those disciple ~ | of Jesus who received Him at tho Firs y| Advent, and who were recelved of th | Father. Others of the same class hay “| followed all down the Gospel Age—al | conquerors of self. all victors throug 5 | Christ. ‘The-picture bids us look away dow _|tnto the future, and for a thousan years ‘see the thousands of millions o | Adam's race returning from bonds © | ain and death. It bids us realize tho * | they will all have a full opportunity t "| recover the perfect human nature, th "| earthly image of the Divine Father- "| except such as shall refuse the l!bert "J of the sons of God, and perish wit | Satan, as the adversities of God. > pa Oe ey ie Father. Others of the same class have followed all down the Gospel Age—all conquerors of self, all vietors through Christ. ‘The-pleture bids us look away down Into the future, and for a thousand years ‘see the thousands of millions of Adam's race returning from bonds of sin and death. It bids us realize that they will all have a full opportunity to recorer the perfect human nature, the earthly {mage of the Divine Father— except such ag shall refuse the liberty of the sons of God, and perish with Satan, as the adversities of God. “He Gave Gifts Unto Men.” St. Paul specified the gifts secured for the Church by her Redeemer, say- Ing, “He gave some, ‘Apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists: and some. pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the-Son of God, unto a Perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the. fulness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:11-13. ‘Theso are the riftd'dt-the Lord Jesus @uring tt Gospel "Age. After the Body of Christ has been perfected in the First Resurrection, the Lord's bless |ing will extend to the non-elect world, ‘as indicated by the prophecy, “Yea, for the rebellfoys also.” ‘The blessings yet to come to the world will be wonderful. ‘They will in clude the binding of Satan for a thou sand years, the restralning of all evi influences. and the inauguration o: | the Kingdom, The gifts of the Lor¢ | to the world will be, in part, Hs ovr , Hingdom for a thonsatid sears—the 2 Greatest hoon, the greatest blessing 'f that could possibly be imagined. | Another gift of Christ to the world }] will .be the Church in glory. ‘Thes jthen associated with the great Re " deemer wil be supervising earth's at a EN SETS ROS LEY TRE SG EFUEL SE Cty Cai RE 2 PT eg EMR FOS, ng TS 9 ee ae fairs, overthrowing everything that ls contrary to Divine Love and Justice, and blessing all who come {nto fall accord with the Lord. Another channel of blessing to the world will be the Ancient Worthles, who will be made princes in all the earth. These will constitute the earth- ly phase-of the Heavenly Kingdom. ‘Under the rule of righteousness every evil deed will be promptly punished, and every good deed will be promptly Blessed and rewarded. “When the Judgments of the Lord are abroad in the earth, the inhabitants aril! learn righteousness,” and “Every knee shall bow and erery tongue confess.” The Gifts to the Church, But we are specially interested fa God's gifts to the Church, secured by our Redeemer’s victory over sin and death. He made {t posstble for us to| Decome His footstep followers, and by suffering with Him“to become tnt heirs In His Kingdom. Then He gave us the various gifts for our develop- ment. Not alf appreciate the gifts of the remote past. Not all realize that’ tle writings of the Apostles constitute the Key to the Bible. Jesus’ words were not so Intended. ‘They were therefore uttered in para- bles and dark sayings. Jesus’ teach- ings are made luminous to us througtt the Holy Spirit given to the Apostles, Just as Jesus promised. (John 16:18) ‘This was accomplished, not by a mirac- lous operation upon each individual, but through the gifts of the Spirit Of the gifts specified, some were gen- eral; others were particular. Thus the Church still bas the gift of teaching given to the Apostles ‘for our blessing. ‘Thus we still have pastors and teach- ers, to ‘assist the Chureh to an under- tanding of the Divine Word and to the, proving of all things by that Word. And this was to continue untlt all the Chureh shall have been edified, built up, and the Body of Christ shall have been completed. Moreover, each mem- ber of the Body has need of this edl- ‘tying work, that he may be qualified for his place In the Body. According to the Apostle's explanation, all these gifts of the Spirit are of the Lord, ex- ercised throughout this Gospel Age un- der the supervision of our glorious Head and Master—Jesus. * Other gifts of the Spirit were local and temporary; gifts of miracles, tongues, interpretations, ete. ‘The early Church {contained not many great, wise or learned. Few of them would have been capable of reading the Bible, if they had had one. Fev, if any, of the ttle classes,’ were posséssors of the Old Testament Scriptures, ‘These could be heard read every Sabbath -in the ‘I synagogues. but not otherwise. They | were kept very sacredly guarded, and || especially were they refused to heretics, ‘}as the Jews thought the Christians | tobe. : | ‘The New Testament Scriptures, we |] must remember, were not written unt ‘Js considemble time after: Pentecost, ‘and It was not iintil the close of the | ret century that they began to be cdl | lated, and two or three centuries before the question was finally decided which Books should constitute the canon of the New Testament. »| We may suppose that even then thest -| were reverenced more as_helrloom: »| than as the, only existing Divinely in | spired authority. The doctrine of Apos 3] tolic succession came In about tha’ | time. Not having Scripture, and reallz -ing that the power to work miracle: {| bad descended as a kind of-legacy frou -| our Lord tu the Apostles, many wer >| led to believe this doctrine almost In >| stinctively. and to rank the living bisb »| ops as equal to the Twelve Apostles. 1] Moreover, to receive instruction frou 2] a living teacher ts always easter that to receive ft from the study of a book >| Therefore the avritings of the Apostle -] and indeed of all the Bible—fell tnt - | aisuse, to the Injury of thé Houschol f}of Falth. A greater appreciation o 3| the gift which the Lord had poure t | out tipon His followers—the Holy Spiri e| und the fruits which that Spirit de 2| veloped,. Joy. peace. faith, love, etc.- 1| would have kept them from such erro1 1| They would have- been more apprec! ative of the inspired Record, and corre 1 | spondingly less appreciative of the ur 1) inspired words of all other men. ¢] We see, however, that under exist t| ing conditions at that time—the at t | sence of Scriptural writings—the gift >| bestowed ut Pentecost (visible man! e|festations of supernatural power -|were vers essential to the earl 5 | Church, Well would it bave been fo » | them and thelr suecessors If, after hav ing made se of these miraculous mau {festations at the beginning of th them and their successors if, after hav- ing made use of these miraculous man festations at the beginning of the Age, and heing prepared by them for the written Word. they had further appreciate! the importance of the Word of the Lord throwzh the inspired Apostles. ‘This would have guarded thein from srievans errors which ure still troubling the Lord's followers. The Fruits of the Spirit. Quite a distinction is to he observed between the gifts of the Spirit and the fruits of the Spirit. The gifts were those miraculous pawers stlready ex- plained, and the special zifts of Apos- tolic qualification. Mut these gifts gradually passed uway. ax God bad foreknown, Instead, the Lord looked for the frults of the Spirit. which the loyal and dbedient nre to cultivate. All who hare recelved the tmparta- tion of the Tord's Spirit are éxpected to manifest the frults of His Spirit, even as those who, first received the gifts were expected to use them. The frults most evidently are higher ‘gifts in God's estimation, and should ‘bein ours. Earnestly let us desire the fruits of the Spirit, Teese are the re- sult also of the great gift bestowed after Jesus tad ascended. They are Indirect gifts, however. In giving us a knowledge of the Truth, through the merit of Jesus, the Father prepared the way by which we might develop these fruits, and thus bécome copies of His son. ADOPT GIRL AFTER 15 YEARS. Couple Legalize Her Right to Thelr Namie and Property. St. Louls.—Although she bas Hved for fifteen sears as the daughter of Mr. and Mra, George B. Smith of 151 Garfleld avenue, Miss Ethel R, Smith did not really become so until the otf er day. when a deed of adoption was filed in the office of the recorder of deeds whicb made her so, Miss Smith, whose parents were ‘named Tipton, ts twenty-two, a blond and 1s considered good looking by her personal acquaintances, Her foster mother sald that the adoption bad been decided on ax best to protect the girl's Anancial 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 ques tioned. They bave no children o: | thelr own blood. ‘Miss Smith was adopted by “th | ‘Smitha when she was seven years old Bhe has lived in St, Loulg ever since and, although she has a wide circle o friends, few of them knew that she ‘was not the daughter of Mr. and Mra Smith. She has not in many year been known by her birth name, Tip ton. SHE'LL TRY TO SAVE CROOKS. Sophio Lyons, Once a Criminal, at Six- ty-eight Turns Benefactor. Detrolt. Mich.—Sophle Lyons, woman crook of worldwide police acquaint- ance, wife of Billy Burke, now in a Stockholm prison for a big swindle, bas decided to devote the remainder of her life and her fortune of $500,000 to saving frst offenders from going deeper toto crime. She ts sixty-eight and lives In a modest home in Detroft She owns much other real estate from which she derives a large income. She sald that she feared her new resolution would allenate her husband. “Bot I want to accomplish his ref- ormation more than any other single thing,” sbe added. “He is weak and easily tempted, and bis criminal opera- tions were not Induced by necessity, “as were mine. | “I have lived a straight Ufe for twenty-five years, I want to try to make amends for what I did before that” Berlin Gamasters Plan a Monte Carlo In Balloon, Berlin.—Owing to the increased strin- gency of the German antigambling laws, some, Ingenious managers at Frankfort aud Dresden have launched the following idea, which frees the gambling dens of ‘any police domicill- ary visits. 5 ‘A company has been formed by these enterprising gentlemen, and an old Zeppelin dirigible balloon {8 to be pur. chased by them. In the {nterlor of ‘the condola of the alrsbip @ kambling room will be arranged, and gambling will take place there at_several thou sand feet up in the afr. This will make the gambling absolutely free of police interference, as laws do not foresee the possibility of of aerial gam bling The scheme ts eagerly discussed tr German gambling circles, and it is un derstood that a conference of the lead ing police prefects of the largest cit fes {9 Germany will be summoned t Berlif to determine what measures shall be taken to meet the emergency ‘The question raised is whether the ‘police will be allowed to shoot dow any airship which ts used for llega <amanian LINGERIE IN HIS TRUNKS. Customs Men Make Heino’ Transfer Finery to Girl, Its Owner, New York.—When the custom houre inspectors examined the baggage of Eric Heino, a second cabin passenger on the, White Star liner Baltic, they found one of his trunks had a false bottom, in which be had hidden elghty- 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 consider: able lngerle, dresses and other wom- en's Wearing apparel tn Heino’s tranka, Dut were satisfied with bis explanation that they belonged to a Miss Severin. gon, witb whom he had grown np trom childhood and who was also a second cabin passenger on the Baltic, The inspector made Heino transfer ‘the lin- gerle and other goods to Miss Severin: son’s trunk, and she was detained un- til friends called for her. TAKES CHRIST AS HIS MODEL. New Justice of Peace Will Follew Golden Rule, Chicago.—Henry Neill, father of the wothers’ pension bill, has been elected ‘4 justice of the peace in Oak Park. He announced that be will conduct bis court as nearly as posaible as it would be conducted by Jeaus Christ were be on earth today “All the mloisters in town will be asaistant Justices.” , sald Mr. Nell “The Golden Role and the Bérmon on the Mount will have more influence with me than city connell ordinances I will abolish all my fees, bet I can- ‘ot abolish the constable fees. I wish | could.” FUT iC) LEC BIBLES STUBY2ON SN AFFLICTED, YET A COMFORTER. ‘Genesis 40, 41—May 4. . “God giveth grace to the humble."\—1 Peter 6:8. OSEPH, the model young man of Old Testament times, lived before the days of spirit-beget- Ung, and beoce was merely a natural man, not a Christian. He had Inherited strong faith in the God of Abraham, who bad promised that ulti- mately a blessing should come to all people through Jacob's posterity. Jo- seph reverenced God, and sought to live nobly-to have God's approval. Joseph's falthfulnesa was rewarded by bis‘advancement to the position of steward In his master’s house. But Just at the helght of bis prosperity, bis master’s wife, angered by his stead- fastness to principle, falsely accused him, and be was cast into prison. Only God and bimself knew of his inno- cence. The Adversary had made cir comstantial evidence so strong that Joseph's gullt was unquestioned. Dreams of Butler and Baker. Joseph remained for years in prison, probably forgotten. , When be was twenty-elgbt years old, two high off dials were thrust Into prison One Was, Pharaoh's secretary and butler, and the other the head of bis culinary department. Jo- seph, whose falthfolness and intelligence bad made bim gener- al overseer of the prison, ten- dered sympathy to these men. pig? Dae . i INN eee ‘Temptation. Learning that = —* they were troubled because of impres- sive dreains. he volunteered interpre- tations. He told the: butler that with- $a three days he would be restored to the King’s favor, but tnforméd the | baker that he would be executed. "Then he besought the butler to bring bis case beforé the proper authorities, that he miglit be released. Bot alas!, The butler forgot all about bis prisoner friend for two years. Then Pharaoh had dreams which none of the Egyptian wise men could interpret. With apologies for his neglect. the butler ‘told Pharaoh about the wonderful young maa who had correctly Interpreted his dream and the baker's. Pharaob then sent for Joseph tu prison. Pharaoh's Dreams Interpreted. Pharaoh related bis dreams. In the first he saw seven fine cattle, and a Uttle -Iater, seven very lean cattle, which devoured the fat ones, but look: ed no better. {n, the second dream be ‘saw n due stalk of corn spring up. bearing seven full cars. and the an: other stalk with seven withered ears. ‘The latter swallowed the former, but looked none the better. Joseph quickly nterpreted — the dreams, tirst giving God the glory They foreshadowed seven plentifa years. followed by seven years of famine. Ie then suggested that ar agent be appointed to buy up the sur plus grain during the years of plenty, and store it for use during the famine Pharaoh promptly appointed Josept to the position, ‘Thus suddenly b stepped Into 1 pince of the bighest au thorits, next to Pharaoh himself, {1 | the greatest empire of those days. Car wwe doubt that Go's band was In thi matter? Or that the lessons learne< during Joseph's adversity were prepa | mtfons for his subsequent experience as Pharaoh's mouthpiece? || We recall the lesson of a week ago- '| that Joseph's experiences were typlca | of those of Jesus and the Church. Th : Bible assures us that bumility and pa tence are related to love and loyalty : It is because the Lord loves these no }| ble characters that He counts ther : worthy of trials and testings. Thes experiences are necessary to qualif. them for the position to which the are called. + The Value of Adversity. ,| _ sacob's special love for Joseph man fested Itself In favoritism, and quit probably he would hare spoiled bis so1 >| tiad not Divine Providence taken Ji sepR away, Ssany tathers, especially the rich,have made almilar mistakes. God makes tho such mistakes. His pedple are assured that trials and dit: ficulties are marks of relationship to Him and of Bis éare over them ‘This providential ‘il .. Sen 3, ae } ue ul Rate Joseph Interpreting dealing is, restrict. ‘Pharaoh's Dream. eg: “The Lord knoweth them that are His.” His spe- cfal dealings are with His consecrated people—those in covenant relationship with Him. These alone have the prom fse that all things work together for good. Joseph belonged to this ne in cove- nent relatlonsbip with God. This ac- counts for God's dealings with him rather than .with young men of other families. The'Israelites passed through many trying experiences because they ‘were God's people. Many of these they might have escaped, bad they not’come into covenant relationship with God Bat then they would bave escaped cer tain blessings also. . Wherever the pldwshare of” trouble has gone, has made ready for the seed gf Divine Truth. The next Age. ‘under Messiah's beneficent rule, will be the time of sowing seeds of knowledge of God and appreciatloa of Ells glori- ous character. ‘The results will be wow derfal, aa the Scriptures declare. eae a EO DOWN AND OUTERS” HOTEL, Banker to Erect $100,000 Strusture as Memorial te ‘Son. Chicagu—A hotel fur “down and out” men, to cost $14UI00, will be erected by Charles G. Dawes, president of the Central Trust company of [linols as & memorial to bly son, Rufus Searing Dawes, who was drowned in Lake Greva on Sept. 5, 1912 Eventually Mr. Dawes will erect a similar refuge for women of the same class, ‘These hotels bad been projects which the father -and son bad planned to carry out together, and Mr. Dawes pledged himself to devote all his spare time to currying out the work bis son had long looked forward to, “Lodging will be furnished at cost, not to exceed 5 cents.” said Mr. Dawes. “The dovrs of this hotel will never be closed to those out of employment. All We ask ts ‘that they promise to pay when they find work again. It will ex- tend credit to the unfortunate upon thelr promise alone. A free employ- ment agency will be ron in connection with the botel. “My boy was greatly Interested in the ¥. M. C. A, and the {dea of this work was, originally suggested by that being done by the Bowery ¥. MO. A. of New York city.” | MAY GET ARTS DEGREE AT 15. Young Sidis, Mathematical Wonder, Entered Harvard at Eleven, Cambridge, Mass. — William James Bidls, fifteen, gives promise of obtain- fog a Harvard bachelor of arts next Jone. This youthful mathematical wizard entered the university at eleven as a specialist 1s pathetic, Mean- while be bas Inctided sufficient other courses to make bis college schedule an evenly balanced one. Young Sidis is ‘the son of Dr. Boris Bidis, one of’ the foremost psycholo- gists In the country. . His younger Years were spent at the knees of his father. where be imbibed the rudi- mentary knowledge of mathematics which was later to make bim known as one of the scholastic marvels of the country. At elzbt he entered the Brookline high school. and two years tater saw bim at Tufts, where be re- mained for one year before entering Harvard. ICELAND GOING “DRY.” This Year. Copenhagen.—At the end of the.pres- ent year it will be impossible for either natives or tourists to obtain alcobolic Uquors In Iceland Onder the antl- spirit law permission was given to con-, sume the present stock of Nquors and figuring on the per capita consumption it will all be gone by the end of the year ‘The Danish government adopted the drastic probibition laws because It was felt that the excessive drinking of the Icelanders was undermining the physi- | cal Gtness of the peopie. . ‘To Leam How to End Holdup of Gity Finances, Philadelpbig.—Rudolph Blankenburg, the reform mayor of this city, and the members of bis cabinet have decid- ed to go back to school to ‘take.a ‘course in political economy. so that they may be more competent to admin- ister the affairs of the city. ‘The mayor and at least two mem- bers of bis cabinet bave arranged to go to Madixon. Wis., to attend a course of lecture’ at the Universlty of Wis- consin. The course, which {s shortand theoretfenl, 1s designed to solve the problems that confront modera muntct- palltles. When the mayor and bis dl- rectors return they expect to be able to ride ronghshod ‘over some of the ‘municipal quagmtres whlch have al but engulfed them to date. ‘The most trsing difficulties are mat- ters of finance. the mayor being de alrons of cetting eaouzh funds to run the city. aud members of councils bav- ing conrenlently blocked every move. ‘The mayor acknowledzes that if the lecture course will answer the question of how to whip In Une belligerent councilmen be and his directors will feel that they have been’amply repald forvthelr trip west. Not only will Mayor Blankenburs and bis advisers take the lecture’ course—which Is to be jammed Into three dasx—but the entire membership of the City club. an aplift organization, will probably accompany the officials. | ‘The special lecture program arrang- ed to assist Mayor Blankenburg and bis directors to run Philadelphia ts ‘a very comprehensive one. It has been arranged bs the University of Wiscon- ‘ain facnity and takes tn every phase of municipal existeice, even telling what shall te done with the waste or anoceupled fands to 9 city, to say nothing of the broad aubject of taxa- peony Court Closes When Dog Dies. Evans, Colo.—When a terrler belong- tag to Judce James Trefoning refused to answer bis summons in the midst of a suit that Judge Trefoing was hear- ing the cuurt made an fnvestigation and discovered that the animal was dead: “Court was adjourned for the day. The judge made a coffin for bis pet, and witnesses and fury as well 2 pectators attended the funeral. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year, in advance...$2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... 20 DEMOCRATIC SMELLING COMMITTEE The National Democratic Fair Play Committee, otherwise known as a smelling unfair association, has been visiting the several departments of the government and from what this smelling committee stated the association of the superior blacks to the inferior whites and equal blacks to the equal whites was nauseating to the nostrils of this reform committee. The colored people in the several departments of the government have fully demonstrated superior ability over many of the whites and so for as cleanliness is concerned colored employees from a sanitary standpoint are equal to the whites and in many instances superior. The smell from many white people is different from that of colored. Those who have come in contact with both races will admit a white person has a sick, death-like odor, while a colored person has a want of soap odor. This alleged segregation association is backed up by Democratic clerks and other white employees of the government who are inimical to the Negro. The Bee is of the opinion that Secretary McAdoo, of the Treasury Department, will not tolerate such conditions as segregation to continue in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Compare, if you please, the looks of many colored young women in the Bureau, with many of the whites, and decide for yourself who are the more preferable. Take, if you please, the personnel of the smelling committee that is investigating the several departments and see if it is composed of the better cultured class of white people. The cultured white man and woman know that a colored person will not attempt to go where he is not wanted. The lily white Negro will attempt to go where he is not wanted. When he is found in company with white people it is with the common class. The lily white is living a life of misery. The genuine colored man is happy. He lives to make others happy. This segregation committee is also composed of Democratic office seekers. The Bee feels confident that the administration will not stand for any more discrimination against an inoffensive race of people. THE ATHLETIC GIRL THE ATHLETIC GIRL. That the athletic girl is less liable to succumb to temptation than her sister who does not go in for athletics is the opinion of so eminent an authority as Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, director of athletics at Harvard. He contends that the social evils are the result of life's forces being turned into wrong channels. The eternal longing to externalize one's self—that is to find an outlet for the emotions—is an inherent one in human nature. The basic impulse may find natural healthy expression in athletics, or it may find some sinister form. Woman is more emotional than man, and with her the sex attraction is apt to be more blind. Athletics offer the girl who is budding into womanhood not only the opportunity to acquire a sound healthy body, but a moral and mental equipose which can, perhaps, be acquired in no other way. It is certain that the girls of athletic tendencies are less liable to go astray, because they find in athletics a safe outlet for the emotions. Athletics is nature's own scheme for preserving the moral balance. If the parents of some of our young colored girls would force their immature, but fast developing into womanhood, daughters, to take vigorous, healthy athletic exercises for the time spent in strolling the streets with boys, and attending dances at which rag- GO HELP ALL is an inspiring vista of two crops and products for me, modern school buildings, institution north or south. Led by a Negro architect, and in their construction was that school. Tout ensemble,—Dr. Booker-T. Washington himself, without tearing do with his, and no indolent but monument. Tuskegee is an designed to mould into use from Nashville, Tenn., stands, white men who, years ago, intention for the Negro—high to push back the dark curt, opportunity to catch a gleam, and old Fiske, is now battling of funds as she never was he that roseate for her because the work for which her build for higher education in cem. Negroes in this country, he moved an energy antidote, industrial education and bitter lifft work. At Tuskegee, of Harvard, Brown, Cornell, of Chicago—many of it. Dr. Washington takes institutions and gives them help the race onward and us Tuskegee' decryers who loath sincerely in their vocal声 go out and help build up opportunity and help raise fun new vigor and better do the man whose chief occupies in the field of lethargy while are Tuskegee or will help weekly slanders and distortie degree or will accelerate the associated critic, who permitsists can arraign the people. If higher education is to pose, and you are sincerely the word; why not go out and earnest efforts. Build Fiske and Hampton. Go help your narrow vision will so the fact that no one kind of the all people. Industrial and higher education Negro as each is the high proconclast. Go help Fiske. Neither Fiske or Tuskegee school at Durham, N. C., united. There is no school in the encouragement than this go North Carolina is interested. lift of his people. He is honest and not vindictive. The South cannot produce. The Durham school has the rate, although a few slimy s. In Durham are behind Dr. S. my citizen of character has no black and blind have been school. Let us help them all. Durham was erected and a Sidney Pittman, son-in-law credit of doing a great work the White Rock Baptist us. NANGER THAT CONFROST is stew. The Japanese and white man into frenzy. The present any insult that is oath or be made the laughing democratic party or those democratic party have or areory association against the will petition the governm of citizens. What can be those Negroes who have democratic party. Nebraska will go down to posterity andization. The colored man will be needed within a few empathy in his heart will humiliation. The black man this humiliation without oppression and discrimination. There are dangers confound to overcome. The government or state can perpetuated and enforced by just and fair to its citizenry and ridicules the inferior dark man committed? Democracy feel as to the Zero Democrats feel now? Questions? Doesn't the Dem in inferior being, and yet the finds consolation in the past has broken loose within a combustion, Democracy here of the North and indoest every state in the United must be aroused from his slain been dear to this nation. Are suns the white man of world. At Tuskegee there is an inspiring vista of two thousand cultivated acres of land yielding crops and products for man. And there is an assemblage of as fine, modern school buildings and homes, as grace the grounds of any institution north or south. Every one of these buildings was designed by a Negro architect, and every bit of brick, stone and lumber used in their construction was placed in position by Negro students of that school. Tout ensemble, Tuskegee represents the genius of one man—Dr. Booker-T. Washington. Tuskegee is his monument, built by himself, without tearing down some institution not paralleled with his, and no indolent brain, no loafing iconoclast can injure that monument. Tuskegee is an institution to teach industrial education, designed to mould into useful form raw material. Out a few miles from Nashville, Tenn., stands Fiske University, the gift of philanthropic white men who, years ago, lent their assistance to the cause of education for the Negro—high purposed, noble white men whose aim was to push back the dark curtain of ignorance and give the Negro an opportunity to catch a gleam of the light of Hope. Fiske University, grand old Fiske, is now battling for existence. She is hampered by lack of funds as she never was hampered before. The future is anything but roseate for her because of this very lack of funds to prosecute the work for which her builders consecrated her. Fiske is an institution for higher education in contradistinction to industrial education. There is a class of Negroes in this country, the kind for whom a little learning has proved an energy antidote, who devote their time in crying down industrial education and bitterly anathematizing Dr. Washington for his uplift work. At Tuskegee, engaged in teaching, there are graduates of Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Massachusetts' Tech, Pennsylvania, 'University of Chicago—many of the famed institutions for higher education. Dr. Washington takes the product of these "higher education" institutions and gives them employment at good salary, to help him help the race onward and upward. Now, if this indolent coterie of Tuskegee' decryers who loaf here in Washington and elsewhere are really sincere in their vocal support of higher education, why don't they go out and help build up Fiske? Why don't they seize on the opportunity and help raise funds so that grand old Fiske may take on new vigor and better do the work her founders dedicated her to? No man whose chief occupation in several years has been a dreamer in the field of lethargy while his wife became the wage-earner, can injure Tuskegee or will help Fiske. No punitive editor who deals in weekly slanders and distortion of truth can estop the advance of Tuskegee or will accelerate the advance of Fiske. No pessimistic, self-opinionated critic, who permits himself to be 'supported by white idealists can arraign the people against Tuskegee or align them with Fiske. If higher education is your one dream, one thought and one purpose, and you are sincere and honest, why 'not suite the action to the word; why not go out and help Fiske? There is a fertile field for earnest efforts. Build Fiske up without trying to tear down Tuskegee and Hampton. Go help Fiske, and when you have helped Fiske your narrow vision will so expand that you will become reconciled to the fact that no one kind of education can be suited to the requirements of all the people. You will then awake to the fact that both industrial and higher education ought to be as much the privilege of the Negro as each is the high privilege of the whites. Cease being a lazy iconoclast. Go help Fiske. Before you reach either Fiske or Tuskegee there is the National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C., under the supervision of Dr. James E. Shepard. There is no school in the South that is more in need of help and encouragement than this great school, in which the entire State of North Carolina is interested. Dr. Shepard is doing great work for the uplift of his people. He is unassuming as well as progressive. He is honest and not vindictive. He is anxious to see every man succeed. The South cannot produce a man any more progressive and honest. The Durham school has the backing of the leading people in the State, although a few slimy sneaks may attempt to bite the pronioter. The honest people in Durham are behind Dr. Shepard and they feel proud of him. Every citizen of character has come to his aid. The poor, the rich, the sick and blind have been supporting the National Religious Training School. Let us help them all. Every building at Durham was erected and planned by a Negro architect. Mr. W. Sidney Pittman, son-in-law of Dr. Booker T. Washington, has the credit of doing a great deal of work for the Durham School and the White Rock Baptist Church. Long live these great institutions. THE DANGER THAT CONFRONTS US. The world, is in a stew. The Japanese and the Negro question seem to disturb, the white man into frenzy. The inevitable is bound to come. Japan will resent any insult that is offered to her people. The Negro must fight or be made the laughing stock of other nationalities. The Democratic party or those who believe in the principles of the Democratic party have or are about to organize a national discriminatory association against the colored Americans. The association will petition the government to discriminate against a certain class of citizens. What can be the feelings of Negro Democracy or those Negroes who have boasted of their affiliations with the Democratic party. Nebraska has added a blot to its constitution which will go down to posterity as one of the greatest evils to Western civilization. The colored man has nothing to fear; because his services will be needed within a few months. The white man who has no sympathy in his heart will be subjected, before long, to the greatest humiliation. The black man doesn't intend to stand these insults and this humiliation without a protest. Right is bound to prevail Oppression and discrimination against any race will not be tolerated. There are dangers confronting the colored American that he is bound to overcome. The adoption of discriminatory laws by any government or state cannot continue to exist. No wrong can be perpetuated and enforced by a government which is supposed to be just 'and fair to its citizens. The white man boasts of his superiority and ridicules the inferiority of other races. What offense has the dark man committed? The Bee would like to know how Negro Democracy feel as to the existing conditions? How do alleged Negro Democrats feel now? What has become of their boasted declarations? Doesn't the Democratic party charge that the Negro is an inferior being, and yet the Negro, in his own weak mind and heart, finds consolation in the principles of the Democratic party. What has broken loose within the last few days? Like a spontaneous combustion, Democratic prejudice has permeated the atmosphere of the North and indeed, it has found encouragement in almost every state in the Union. The black man must awake. He must be aroused from his slumbers and fight for a principle that has been dear to this nation. Before many more suns the white man of America will make his appeal to the world. JUSTICE SHALL REIGN. SCANDAL-MONGERS. A woman's name can be easily ruined by scandal-mongers. Persons who, on living under a cloud, are the first to suspicion other people. This is a great town for scandal-mongers and gossipers. No person can escape the tongue of scandal-mongers. If a teacher is pleasant with his pupils, the scandal-mongers will impugn his motives. It is useless to attempt to trace gossip. A woman's name can be easily sons who, on living under a cloud people. This is a great town for No person can escape the tongue is pleasant with his pupils, the motives. It is useless to attempt A woman's name can be easily ruined by so sons who, on living under a cloud, are the fine people. This is a great town for scandal-mo. No person can escape the tongue of scandal-mo is pleasant with his pupils, the scandal-mong motives. It is useless to attempt to trace gossip time music and sensuous dances are indulged in, there would be more purity and less scandal perhaps. And we might add that street strolling girls and boys are all together too common a sight in this city. A GREAT BOOK. "Can the Leopard Change His Spots" is the title of a new book by J. Arthur L.L.B. It hour. The roasting, com minister shoots see him. the press an in a few w cure one of RR There are ruined by scandal-mongers. Per- l, are the first to suspicion other scandal-mongers and gossipers. of scandal-mongers. If a teacher scandal-mongers will impugn his so trace gossip. by J. Arthur Davis, Esq., A.B., L.L.B. It is the sensation of the hour. The pulpit gets its share of roasting, commendation, etc. Every minister should see himself as others see him. The book will be from the press and ready for distribution in a few weeks. Don't fail to secure one of these books. REV. BROWN. There are things more dangerous to the people of this country than whiskey. Why doesn't the committee that complimented Secretary Dryan for dispensing with liquor at state reception, condemn the existin diabolical Jim Crow legislation? If Rev. S. W. Brown wants to help his people let him condemn acts that affect the entire Negro race. People are busy slating Ralph Tyler for something after he goes out of his present position as Auditor for the Navy. First they had him slated for Editor of The Bee, then for editor of The Age, and now the rumor is current that when Dr. DuBois is made minister to Haiti, because of his newspaper experience, Tyler is to become editor of The Crisis. What next? Frank Wheaton is still on the job, waiting for that appointment as Minister to Liberia. This waiting for a dead man's shoes is a most unsatisfactory thing, and besides it is expensive, for who pays the freight while you are waiting? The latest report is that none who have applied for the job to the country of sleeping disease will get it, but that the man selected will be one whom the office sought. We are handing you this for what it is worth. Washington is full of rumors. Frank is a Chesterfield, notwithstanding, and The Bee hopes he will land. NEGRO DEMOCRAT DISMISSED Leader of the National Negro Democracy and First to Organize the Negro Democratic Party, Removed From Office by Those He Served. Consternation in the Camp of Negro Democracy. Charles C. Barnes, one of the best known Negro Democrats in the United States and one among the first Negroes to advocate the principles of the Democratic party, has been removed from office. Mr. Barnes was employed at the Capitol and he was one among the first Negro Democrats to receive an appointment under the Democratic House when the Democrats took the House from the Republicans. He was the secretary of the National Negro Democratic Association, with headquarters at Eleventh and You Streets Northwest, and manager of the first of the New Era, a magazine published in the interest of the Democratic party. As a politician Mr. Barnes is among the shrewdest and a man of fine qualities. Just what the trouble was The Bee was unable to learn. But rumor has it that Mr. Barnes thought that his services as a Negro Democrat and what he has done for the Democratic party and his influence among Negro Democrats entitled him to a better place, so it is said when he applied, for an eighteen hundred dollar job and forced his claim he was given reasons why it would not be done. Just what those reasons were The Bee doesn't know. There is one thing certain: that Mr. Barnes has been the head and front of the Negro Democrats in this country and his dismissal at this time, when Negro Republicans are being removed, has thrown consternation in the ranks of Negro Democracy. Bishop Alexander Walters is using all the power at his command to have Mr. Barnes reinstated, as he is the Bishop's right hand bower. Mr. Barnes is one of the most congenial and active Negro workers among Negro Democracy, and Negro Democrats argue, if Negro Democrats stand no show, what hope is there for Negro Republicans. Since the removal of Mr. Barnes, there has been a gloom cast, over the colored Democratic headquarters at Eleventh and You. At any time, before the removal of Mr. Barnes, the electric lights in the front office of the Negro Democratic headquarters were brilliantly illuminated. In this place the leading warriors could be seen holding councils of war, but now it is all over and Negro Democracy will be a thing of the past. Bishop Walters (Vt.) a Candidate for Anything. An exchange says: "Bishop Walters is not a candidate for Minister to Haiti, Minister to Liberia, or any other place within the gift of the administration. The reports sent to certain papers in New York city and elsewhere, carrying this intimation, are said to be absolutely false, and are regarded as the work of a marplot, whose purpose is to try to break down the influence of the bishop by arousing the suspicions of his followers. As the malicious intent is so plain, no one is paying any attention to the letters that are being sent out gratuitously to various papers., Anonymous writers, who waste valuable time and energy in circulating matter likely to stir up jealousies and to cause confusion among friends, are enemies of the race, and should be suppressed in the interest of decency and order." Festivals and Concerts. Negroes are becoming as color prejudice as the whites. In the schools you very seldom see a black-skinned boy or girl in those festivals or concerts. This kind of race discrimination is being felt in the grade as well as the High School. Let there be a revolution in the schools on the color question. In Toronto, Ont. Secretary and Editor, Charles C. Barnes and Editor James A. Ross are in Toronto, Ont, Canada. Secretary Barnes is passing for an Anglo-Saxon and both are having a delightful time. Secretary Barnes says if this city was like Toronto, Ont., he would be happy. Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) I dropped in at the Dunbar Club Monday evening, and found a bunch of Vardamized statesmen discussing everything from the tariff to the penalizing a dog for carrying flies around. I did not enter the discussion. I just sat there quiet like blowing the foam off a Schlitz that was about two months in arriving here from Milwaukee. Presently the bunch of wise ones fell to discussing R. Wordy Thompson. I gleaned from their conversation that they must be employed where he is, over in that Corinthian style of architecture building where Bud Napier sits and signs all the long green. Evidently, from their gesticulations, they were not as much stuck on R. Wordy as a fly is on a sheet of fly paper. One of the statesmen said: "Oh, he makes tired trying to make people believe he's the main gazabo in the building. He's got the same size job we have, but he is posing as a big injun on the war path; thinks he's better than the rest of us." And right here the second ghost broke in with: "Yes, and he's trying to make 'em believe he was an original Wilson man; been a Democrat since Hector was a mangy pup. Why during the campaign he was writing all kinds of Taft dope, sending it out by the yard, and now he's using all the Democratic flavoring extract he can get; just trimming, that's all." I never said a word; just sat there extracting, or trying to extract three glasses of exhuberance out of a bottle of Schlitz what Murray told me was fresh as an egg two seconds old. It has been been whispered to me a few times through a megaphone that the other messengers around the Corinthian building ain't awfully strong on R. Wordy 'cause they think he thinks he's a bigger frog in the pond than they are. I reckon they judge the Thompson National Correspondence Bureau all wrong. Dick, of course, has a pretty high estimate of himself, but he can't help it, and it's up to him to take his own measure, and I rather like the guy what chalks himself up 'at the top of the blackboard. It shows he's ambitious anyhow. 'Dick fancies he's the main push, but you got to hand-to him that he's not a real bad fellow, and it's all his own business if he runs ahead of the hounds. He's a harmless cuss. Just got in the habit of puffing everybody, even himself. That ain't such an awful bad trait. I sure do like his spirit of forebearance. Why that fellow can stand more than an ox. It doesn't bother him how much an editor roasts him. If an editor slashes him up in four places in the paper one week R. Wordy will send him a bunch of over-ripe news the next week, without promise or price, just to make that editor remember him. He hates awfully to be criticised: got the thinnest skin imaginable, but he bears it. But I am going to hand him this bit of advice even if I never eat another one of McGuire's sundae or blow myself for another one of Arthur Gray's dyspepsin tablets—he had better get down where his co-laborers exist and be on good terms with them, cause there ain't nobody what can jam a 'fellow so full of holes as the fellows what work along side of him when they get it into their billiard ball that he thinks he is above them. Speaking about R. Wordy brings me jam up against that crowd around in the departments whats down on the payroll as messengers. Take 'em just as they came. I don't believe you could find a brighter bunch of fellows in this wide world than the colored messengers in the departments. They are right down to the last minute men; know all the officials, their fancies and their foibles. Now there's Dick-Green, just as fine as they make 'em. Dick was made fine, so can't help it. Secretaries of the Treasury come and go, but Dick Green goes on forever. You never saw Dick when he wasn't nursing a smile just as broad and genuine as his heart is big. He's just as diplomatic as the French ambassador, just as wise as old Solomon before his nobs got tangled up with those three hundred wives and seven hundred concubines, and he's just as chesterfledean as old Chester Chestnut. Now Dick's wife and daughter tell me they think he is as good or better than the first of the season strawberry shortcake, and you know that's going some. And when a man's wife and daughter bank on him, he's the best that's made. Everybody around the Treasury Department says that Dick Carries a load of joy and a full measure of manhood around every day in the year, including Sundays and holidays. \*\* And then there's Auggie Savoy over in the State Department. Auggie was there when Congress created the State Department, and he will be there a couple of days after Gabriel blows his trumpet. They tell me that every Secretary of State what comes in goes to Auggie to get his lessons in diplomacy. He's as full of information as a two-year-old cake of cheese is full of skippers. He will talk, you deaf, dumb and blind about everything from the catacombs to the width of it. He will treat you to fojuices right in success it's got him to give yc bout State Department might just as well tr sing the Barber Shim minor as to get Auggie to tell you anything what occurs in the State Department. Dick Green runs up to about six feet two, and Auggie Savoy runs down to about four foot six, they make a mighty strong pair to draw to. You can tell Dick's age by the row of ivories he beams on you, but you can't tell Auggie's age no way you figure it. In some things he's as pert as a newly hatched chicken, and in other things he's as old as old Diogenese. Both of them, Dick and Auggie, are a yard wide and all wool. And as I squeaked to you before, all that bunch of messengers, take 'em as they come, are a mighty wise bunch, and every one of them, including R. Wordy, are worth more salary than they get? If Dick Green, Auggie Savoy, Harry Reynolds, Harry Williams, and some whom I could name, got all what's due them Congress would have to increase the appropriation bill a billion dollars every year. Now I hope I won't be considered either officious or offensive, but I got to whisper to R. Wordy that he had better cultivate that bunch he works alongside of every day, 'cause they are a royal, ace high, flush, and that's the hand that beat Tom Scott out of $50,000 cold. Just take it from me! that any time you play one of the colored messengers in the Department for a survivor of the Know-nothing party you have got your dates twisted. * * Notice that during all this segregation agitation my two old college chums, Bishop Walters and Rev. Waldron, ain't so much as whispered. They use to be regular alarm clocks—just went off on the least provocation. And when Taft was in J. Milton was always taking his pen in hand to protest. Now he nain't saying a word, as I can hear. Of course they know their own business better than I do, and I leave it up to them to say why. Charley Barnes, now that the Democrats have removed his salary collar, I presume will put on his roller skates and do the Paul Revier stunt; go out and yell they are coming, get a move on yourself. It's mighty tough to think that a leading Negro Democrat like Charley should be made to take the same medicine that these Negro Republicans are taking. And just to think, Charley was the high priest of Negro Democracy! Bishop Walters' man Friday; organizer and furnisher of a headquarters! They, the Negro Democrats, held an indignation meeting when they heard that Charley had been cut loose from his job, but their indignation didn't get him back on the salary roll. Charley's a mighty clever fellow, and deserved better treatment. He ought to have been shoved up instead of shoved out. COLORED STUDENTS Of German Debarred—United Societies Will Not Include Them in the-Awards of Medals. One of the foremost papers edited today by the American Negro and is ever alert to discover injustice and race discrimination and boldly defends it in an intelligent and masterly way is The Washington Bee. The Bee noted the publication in a recent issue of The Herald of the actions taken by the United German Societies at its recent monthly meeting at Arion Hall, debarring colored students in German in our high schools here from the awards of medals. The motion to include them was ably defended by Mr. Martin Wiegand, the president of the society, and several other members. Whereas, The president of the United German Societies in the person of Mr. Martin Wiegand manifested his convictions and interest in the education of our people, and his defence upon this particular occasion serves to encourage our hearts in our upward struggles for self improvement; and. Whereas, We, the pastor, officers, members and friends of Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, having been the recipients of a voluntary and generous favor from the hands of Mr. Martin Wiegand, mill owner and manufacturer, two years ago manufactured our new pews and gave us a liberal discount to help our small but worthy church and declined to take a note or mortgage against the church for the balance due because of his confidence in us and our race. Therefore, be it Resolved, That we extend our hearty appreciation as a congregation again to Mr. Martin Wiegand for this last and recent manifestation on behalf of our race by favoring and advocating the justice of the colored high school students being included in the proposed awards of medals. Resolved, further. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Mr. Martin Wiegand and one to the Editor of The Washington Bee, Hon. W. Calvin Chase, who noted the publication and actions taken and gave it to the thousands of readers of The Bee. Done by order of the church in meeting assembled. J. S. ARMSTRONG, G. W. TAYLOR, WM. CLEMENTS, THOS. MULLEN, CHAS. ADDISON, PATRICK WARREN, C. M. DeVEILE, GEO. MATTHEWS, FRANK JACKSON, ALEXANDER HALL, THOMAS WILLIAMS, PETER COALTRAIN, H. B. JENKINS, REV. W. S. JACKSON, Pastor. SPORTING HOUSE Names of. Prominent People Used. The Bee desires to call the attention of the Third Police Precinct to an alleged sporting house in the vicinity of Nineteenth Street. Where the house is located The Bee doesn't know, but information reaches this office that persons visit the house and use the names of certain prominent men. Such places should be raided at once. A similar house existed in Le' Droit Park, but the Eighth Precinct got so close behind that the inmates were forced to flee. The attention of Captain Sullivan is called to this house, wherever it may exist in his precinct. BISHOP WALTERS RESIGNS. Disgusted With Politics and Has Decided to Retire from the Club. Bishop Alexander Walters, president of the National Democratic League, at a meeting of that organization, held at its headquarters Tuesday evening, resigned from the presidency of the club. It is quite evident that the distinguished divine is disgusted with politics. The Week in Society From one of the most beautiful, sanitary and down-to-the-minute soda fountains in Washington, the W. L. Board Pharmacy, successor to Board & McGuier, at 1912½ Fourteenth Street Northwest, is dispensing to large crowds delicious soda drinks and ice cream dainties. They could not improve their sodas, so they improved their fountain. The highest quality in everything is the motto of this store. Mr. Charles E. Butler, of Boston, Mass, is visiting in New York, en route to this city. Miss Josephine Davis, who has been visiting friends in this city, has returned to her home in Eckhart, Md. Mr. Walter McKenny, of this city, is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Mr. W. L. Jones, of Leesburg, Va., was in the city Thursday visiting his daughter, Miss Mary Jones. Mrs. Helen Brooks Irvin, of this city, has been visiting friends in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Maggie Atwell, of Philadelphia, Pa., who has been visiting her sister in this city, has returned home. Mr. William Baltimore, of this city, was a visitor to Baltimore, Md., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hubbard, of Gouldtown, N. J., spent Sunday in this city. Miss Sarah Whiting, of Leesburg, Va., is visiting in the city this week. The Misses Ethel and Ernestine Brent, of this city, who have been visiting in Philadelphia, Pa., have returned home. Miss Louise Helms and Mrs. Jamie Davis, of Leesburg, Va., were in this city Saturday. Miss Jessie Faucet, of this city, has been visiting friends and relatives in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Joseph Page, of this city, has been visiting in Baltimore, Md., the guest of Mable Bunday, of Druid Hill Avenue. Mrs. Televia Bryan, after a month's visit in this city, is now visiting in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Bryan will return to New York next week. Mrs. Gracie Green and Miss Eva Green, of Luray, Va., were visitors in this city Monday. Mrs. M. B. Pugh, of 1515 Opal Street, Philadelphia, Pa., is visiting relatives in this city. Miss Mary A. Walker, of this city, visited her cousin, Miss Strange, of 3620 Locust Street. Philadelphia, Pa., Sunday. Misses Lillian and Laura Skinker, of Le Droit Park, were visitors in Falls Church, Va., Sunday. Mr. and, Mrs. Oliver L. Simpson has as their guest Sunday from this city Miss Nannie B. Harris, Miss Eliza A. Bell, Mr. W. P. Thomas and Miss E. J. Stokes, of Alexandria, Va., all having gone up on the excursion for the day. Mr. Creed Childs, of this city, spent Sunday in Wilmington, Del., the guest of Miss Lillian Garner. Mr. T. J. Calloway and Mr. A. L. Ballard, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who have been in this city on business, have returned home. Mrs. Cassie Brooks, of Baltimore, spent a few days this week visiting friends in this city. Mr. L. H, Newels, of Pittsburgh, who has been visiting in this city, has returned home! Miss Cora Lucas, who has been ill for several weeks in Freedmen's Hospital, is very much improved, much to the gratification of her many friends. Misses Anna Kelly and Maud Smith, of this city, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Randall; of Philadelphia, Pa. Sunday. Mrs. Sitka Thomas, of this city, has been visiting in Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Annabelle King, of this city, was the guest of Miss Edith Carroll, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss King was the guest at many social functions during her stay in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Ellen Gross, of Baltimore, Md., was the guest of Mrs. G. Lawson, of 1807 Thirteenth Street Northwest, for a few days. Miss Agnes P. Lee, Miss Nellie Lee and Mr. Levi Gordon, of this city, were visitors in Falls Church, Va. Mrs. Harris, of Williamsport, Pa., visited friends in this city last Sunday. Miss Georgia Jones, the daughter of Lawyer T. L. Jones, and Mr, Tucket were married recently. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has returned home after visiting her family in Memphis, Tenn. Miss Lulu T. Howe and Mr. Charles T. Robinson were married at St. Luke's P. E. Church Wednesday evening. Invitations are out for an at-home by Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Monday, May 2ath, from 8 to 10 p. m., 1939 Thirteenth Street Northwest. It is to be one of the most brilliant events in the social circle. Mr. Percy McGuinn, who has been a long-life resident of the city but who has been living in Chicago, Ill., arrived in the city Tuesday morning at 6:30. Perry says that he intends to stay in this city. There is no place like home. Mr. W. A. Adams, of this city, has been authorized by the J. P. Howley Publishing Company to represent that corporation to write criticisms on all music that is for that publishing house. Quality and good service. You will always find at Board's Drug Store. 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. At a meeting of the W. C. T. U. of the Lincoln Temple Congregational Church Sunday evening, April 27, resolutions were passed, strongly commending Hon. and Mrs. William Jennings Bryan for the position they have taken in not serving wine at their public dinners. A committee consisting of Lloyd G. Cuney, Daisy Greer and Sterling N. Brown, pastor, was authorized to notify Mr. and Mrs. Bryan. Miss Essie Hebbron, Miss Jennie Boston, Messrs. Ada and Alice Thomas spent Sunday in Philadelphia as the guest of Mrs. and Miss Mason, cousin of the former. Mrs. Bertha Howard Collins, who has been sick for some time, is now convalescing. Mrs. Howard, of Cantonsville, Md., was in this city Sunday visiting friends and relatives. Mr. Raymond Middleton an alumnus of the M Street High School and of the University of Michigan, who was in the city to attend the funeral of his sister, the late Miss Ella G. Middleton, has returned to Michigan, where he will resume his vocation as a teacher of civil engineering. Mrs. Alfred Price and her son, Master Douglass Price, of Richmond, Va., were the guests of Mrs. Alice M. Lucas, of 1909 Thirteenth Street Northwest. Rev. W. H. Jernagin, who has been confined to his home on account of an operation performed on his eye, is much better at this writing. Miss Cora Lee, of this city, visited friends and relatives in Falls Church, Va., Sunday. Mother's Day will be celebrated at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Fourth and L Streets Northwest, Sunday. May 11. We hope our friends will join with us in, making, this a great service in honor of mothers in this country. Mrs. Fearing and son, Charles, are in the city to spend a few weeks with Mrs. Fearing's mother. Mr. Horace Graves, of Little Rock, Ark, will visit this city shortly. Rev. Mashaw, of the C. M. E. Church, of Charlotte, N. C., is on his way to this city on an evangelistic tour. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., left the city Monday to attend the funeral of Miss Jennie Dean in Manassas, Va. Mrs. Ellen A. White, of this city, has for the past few weeks been visiting her granddaughter, Mrs. Whiting, in Greenwood, Ala. Lawyer and Mrs. Jones wish to announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Georgia C. Jones, to Mr. William H. Tuckett, of Pittsburgh, Pa. The marriage took place Wednesday, April 30, 1910, in Windsor, Ont., Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Tuckett will make their home at 49 Superior Street, Detroit, Mich. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. The M. E. Church at Annapolis has decided to purchase a lot and erect a new parsonage. The plans are being drawn by Isaac T. Hatton & Co., of Washington, D. C. Mrs. R. S. Nichols, Mrs. Edward Briscoe and Miss Lillian Knight gave a concert at the M. E. Church here Friday night, May 2. Rev. O. C. Sprague preached May 4. The Sunday School under the management of Mr. J. A. Campbell, superintendent, is preparing for Children's Day, which will be held the second Sunday in June. The trustees of the Fairmount Heights School went to Upper Marlboro, Md., Tuesday, May 6, 1913, to attend the annual meeting of the County School Commission of Prince George's County. To their surprise they met there Messrs. W. H. Addison, C. E. Payne and B. H. Harris with a petition signed by themselves, Messrs. Wm. Dorsey, R. D. Mulling, W. O. Dawson and one or two others asking the removal of the Board of District School Trustees. This board is composed of James F. Armstrong, R. S. Nichols and W. S. Crouse. Strange to say that Mr. Crouse concurred in the action of the delegation. He made a speech against the board. After hearing the petitioners, the School Commission, consisting of Hon. O. B. Zantzinger, Hon. Hugh Perrie, Hon. Virgil Lawrence and Hon. Frederick Sosser, reappointed Messrs. Robert S. Nichols. Mr. Jas. F. Armstrong; and they appointed Mr. James J. Woodward a trustee on the board to serve in the place of Mr. Walter S. Crouse. The Parent-Teachers' Association held a very excellent meeting at the public school-Tuesday night, May 6. Mrs. Lucy Makel, the president, Mrs. L. Crouse, secretary, and Mrs. A. J. Ware, of the officers, and many of the parents were out. Sergeant Frank Coalman, the chairman of the committees arranging for the picnic, which will be held May 19, in the pine grove here, made an excellent report. Mr. Trotter, chairman of the Publicity, Finance and Social Committees, also made excellent reports. Mrs. A. J. Ware, the treasurer, reported on hand sixty-one ($61) dollars of school extension fund. Mrs. Queen V. Coalman, who was called to Florida on account of the death of her mother, returned Wednesday night, May 7. The First Baptist Church of North Fairmount Heights, held Woman's Day exercises Sunday. Quite a number of visitors were out from the city of Washington. Rev. McCary, of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., preached a great sermon at the First Presbyterian Church here May 4. Quite a number were out to hear him. It is predicted that Rev. McCary will soon be called to the pastorate of said church. Mrs. Alice R. Dorsey is on annual leave. She is one of the most trusted lady employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mrs. Daisy Thornton, of Washington, D. C., was out here Sunday. Mr. C. L. Marshall is doing fine business on Belmont Avenue. business on Belmont Avenue. Dr. W. E. Gales, of Burrville, is on the sick list. He is installing a fine soda fountain in his drug store. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. There was a lively attendance of pupils and teachers at the Second Baptist Sunday School for the first Sunday in the month. The superintendent, Bro. Lowe, was on hand and promptly opened the school. Spirited singing by the school, all ascending into the choir gallery at request of the organist, gave inspiration and enthusiasm to the occasion and set the minds and spirit of all for a full day's glorious service. Prof. E. B. Henderson taught the Bible class at the request of Pastor Powell, and all the classes proceeded with full interest in lesson study. This is surely a live Sunday School. The collections are good and regular. It hopes to make this a "banner year" in Sunday School. The 11 o'clock hour for morning service arriving, the regular organist having to leave on a special trip up the country, Miss Annie Henderson, Prof. Henderson's sister, took charge of the choir and organ—a place she has so often before well killed—and a good service is reported for this period of the day, At night the "Mothers' Meeting" brought out a good attendance, and another "spiritual feast" was enjoyed. The president, Sister Susie Campbell, assisted by Mrs. Powell, led the meeting. These meetings continue through the week and close. At Third Baptist Church the pastor, Rev. H. Bowser, conducted services for his flock. His church also carries a good attendance. The morning services' at Galloway, M. K. Church were largely attended, beginning with Sunday School at 10 o'clock a.m. We are glad to see so many young men taking interest in the Sunday School work. The lesson was so beautifully discussed in the Sunday School, being opened by Mrs. Carpenter. Class No. 1 received the banner. Bro. James Turner led devotional exercises at the 11 o'clock service. Miss Frances Tinner spent a Sunday in Philadelphia with her sister and many friends. We are very sorry to lose one of our best Sunday School teachers and a most faithful worker for the church in the person of Mrs. Mary Richards. She leaves Thursday morning with her three little ones for Pittsburgh, Pa., where she will spend the early part of summer with her parents. Her many friends wish her a pleasant visit. Miss Fannie Stribbling is still unable to leave her home on account of illness, but is improving. Mrs. Elizabeth Gaines is quite ill at her home. The last report was that she is slightly better. We all hope for her an early and complete recovery. We are glad to see our young friend, Mr. Harry Goins, about again after his recent illness. Mrs. Bettie Bryce's mother, Mrs. Thompson, is ill at her home. Mrs. Bryce is attending her. She is well cared for. WEST WASHINGTON. Mothers' Day will be appropriately observed Sunday morning by the First Baptist Sunday School and an interesting program has been arranged. Mrs. Nora Dunguid will sing a special solo for the occasion. The seven-baby contest under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor of the First Baptist Church was an unique and interesting affair on Tuesday evening. The three babies who received the first prizes in gold were Jas. Daniels, M. Honesty and O. N. Butler, Jr. Miss Sadie Johnson was the mistress of ceremonies. Rev. and Mrs. U. G. Leeper were tendered a farewell reception on Tuesday evening at the parsonage of Ebenezer A: M. E, Church, O Street, by the Ladies' Missionary Mite Society. Mrs. Martha Harris, who was the mistress of ceremonies, gave the farewell address. Rev. Leeper and wife each responded very pleasantly and assured the society and others present they were very grateful for the many kind words of expressions and appreciation. Addresses were made also by Rev. and Mrs. Arnold, Rev. and Mrs. L. M. Beckett, Mrs. Walsh, Mrs. Pryor, Jas. L. Turner and others. Among the many present were Mrs. J. Magruder, Mrs. Sewell, Mrs. Shelton, Miss K. Bennett, Mrs. Daisy Magruder, Mrs. H. Hawkins, Mrs. Mary Thomas. Messrs. B. Dailey and Chas. Lee S. Williams Mrs. Mary Alexander, of.2145 Ward Place, died on Thursday morning after a lingering illness of two years and was buried Saturday afternoon last. Funeral services were held at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Rev. Walter H. Brooks officiating, assisted by Rev. E. E. Ricks. A large number of friends and members of the Golden Leaf Association, of which she was the president, and the Young Ladies' Protective League attended in a body. Resolution were read speaking of her benevolent work and kindness. Many floral tributes were presented. Interment in Harmony Cemetery. Mr. Wm. Payne, of 1742 V Street, whose death occurred on Thursday of last week, was buried Sunday. Funeral services were held at the residence, Rev. Walter H. Brooks officiating. The Young Men's Immediate Relief Association and the Young Men's Protective League attended in a body. The following representatives were present: Alexander Brooks, J. Stephen Fuller, Jas. Cox, W. Jackson Lee, Jas. Thomas, John Thomas, Lucis Wheeler, Benjamin Warrack, Robert Robinson, Jas. L. Turner, J. B. Smith and Garfield Thomas. Recent Deaths. Miss Isadora Burley; of 1636 Thirty-second Street, a very highly respected young lady, died on Friday and was buried Tuesday. The funeral service took place from Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth-Street, and was largely attended. Members of Queen Sheba Household of Ruth, Miss Harriet Johnson, M. N. G. Mrs. L. Mitchell, secretary, and the Young Ladies' Protective League, Mrs. Ida C. Dogans, president, Mrs. Lillie Bundy, secretary, attended in a body. Many floral offerings were presented, including a beautiful monument from the Y. L. P. League. Rev. W. C. Thompson officiated. The pallbearers were Theo. Woodward, Jas. Boyd, Daniel Boyd and H. C. Brown. Interment in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Among the Churches. Rev. W. C. O. Hughes, the district superintendent of the Washington District, delivered a very interesting sermon last Sunday at Mt. Zion M. E. Church to a very large congregation, and administered the Holy Sacrament. At the evening service Rev. W. C. Thompson preached a sermon to a large concourse of people. The Epworth League service, which was to have been in charge of Roberts Chapel League of Alexandria, Va., at Mt. Zion, M. E. Church, was filled by an improvised program on account of the failure of the participants to be present. Miss F. I. Hays presided. Mrs. Daisy MaGruder, Mrs. Mattie Smith, Miss G. Duffie and Miss Furgerson. Each rendered an excellent number in the program. Rev. Thompson also addressed the league. The Return of Madame E. Azalia Hackley to the Capital City. Never was a night more full of different interests than Friday night, May 9, 1913. Yet Washingtonians hurried out on mass, particularly the music lovers, to welcome the return of Madame Hackley—not only as an artist, but as the woman. She has had a triumphal tour to Cuba. She came with a new program and a new message. Not only did her program delight, but her message was inspiring. She has toured nearly the entire southland since leaving here last fall. So delighted have her audiences been with her new demonstration on "Beauty and Success for the Negro" that in one city one of the most blue-blooded of white southern women afterwards sent her a pearl bead necklace and flowers and accompanying the gift was her card with the following inscription: "What wisdom, what purity, what love should belong to her who helps God train immortal souls! I thank God for having touched the hem of your garment, from which simplicity and goodness flow. God bless you!" Other southerners of the white race have been as complimentary. During the past year Madame Hackley has taught voice culture to over sixty thousand colored people. For instance, in Norfolk the other day, direct from an all-night trip from Danville to one school at 9 a. m., and three others until 3 p. m. (with only a lunch from the Domestic Science Department in one school, until supper at Hampton Institute, she instructed over 1,000 children. She uses her earnings, her time, her talents going from town to town between engagements, until one marvels at her tremendous vitality. In one day in Chattanooga she taught as many as 3,000, going directly from a train and giving lessons in five schools, and a recital at night. In Wilmington, N. C., over 1,600 were reached in one day. In Augusta, Ga., three colleges, two large public schools, and held a recital at night, instructing over 2,000 in one day. And so she leaves a trail of inspiration without a thought of financial return. During one day she visited schools in three towns, using trains and autos. Once she drove in an open buggy sixteen miles in a drizzling rain to keep her word to a young music teacher, who hails from our own town, Washington—Miss Bessie Patterson. Nothing has seemed too much trouble if young people are helped. Every young girl and boy should hear her message on "Beauty and Success," even if they were not to hear the beautiful vocal compositions by our colored composers, and the other offerings of the program. People wonder at the continued tremendous success of this woman, who has stood at the top of her profession for over twelve years, for that when she first appeared here at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. However, most people have to understand that genius is the result of continued hard work and high ideals. One cannot rest upon laurels won. Prof. R. Wilfred Tibbs accompanied Madame Hackey, and Washington was given another unique treat. 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. The fact that Miss M. A. D. Madre managed this was a guarantee of success. PROMINENT NEGROES. ADDRESS WARWICK COUNTY TEACHERS. Mulberry Island, April. 18.-The Warwick County Teachers' Association met at Colossian Baptist Church last Monday, after a short session held by the teachers the doors were thrown open to the public. Promptly at 1:30 p. m. President James I. Mitchell called the meeting to order. After singing by the school children Rev. D. W. Harris, pastor of the church prayed. Miss Maud Plummer was then introduced to speak on ```markdown ``` the subject "Discipline," which she did in great style. Her language was perfect and her thoughts sublime. She demonstrated the fact that she was master of her subject. Her effort was highly appreciated by all who heard it. She is a very talented woman and one of the best public school teachers i. this or any other state. Miss Plummer is a graduate of Normal School No. 2 of Washington, D. C., and is a very accomplished young lady. She is connected with one of the oldest and best known families in the city. HALL'S HILL, VA. NEWS Sunday morning the Sabbath School of the Calloway M. E. Church was well attended. The 11 o'clock services were conducted by Bro. J. F. Williams. At 8 o'clock the I. O. of St. Luke's held their first annual exercises there. The pastor, Rev. C. E. Queene, eloquently delivered the sermon. The Alexandria Council No. 917 was present, among whom were: Mrs. Mary E. Collins, deputy, Mrs. Julia H, Hays, Mrs. Bessie Anderson, Mrs. Sallie Baxton and Mrs. Nancy E. Gardner, W. C. o' Council, Mrs. Sarah A. Barton delivered a very instructive and enthusiastic address. It is a very useful organization. Music was reheated by the Senior Choir, Mrs. Mattie Bell, organist. We are very pleased to have as one of our residents Rev. Queene and family, as their plane of usefulness will be more beneficial to the church and easier for them. We all extend to them a hearty welcome and pledge our earnest endeavor and support. The church is already exetting renewed strength. Preparations for Mothers' Day are being made for the third Sunday in May. A-literary program for the Epworth League will be rendered Sunday next, Mr. Charles Chinn, president. Services were held at the Mt. Salvation Baptist Church by the pastor, Rev. Coleman. The Sabbath School in the afternoon is progressing nicely. The afternoon service is a means for many young people being able to be present. We wish them much success. The Y. P. W. W. Society of Union Baptist Church rendered a very interesting program Sunday, April 27. Mrs. Grace Borgus read a paper on Miss Maud A. Plummer. VIENNA, VA., NEWS. the subject, "Christian. Endeavor Work." Mrs. Patterson read one on "The True Road to Success," while Mrs. Dean presented one on the subject relating to "Duty." All were interesting papers and well prepared. For Sunday, May 4, the meeting was one of the most interesting held during the year. It was Consecration Day and the topic on "Prayer" was entered into by the members and visitors present with much fervency of spirit and Christian zeal. The president, Prof. H. L. Mills, is a faithful and earnest worker and is leaving no stone unturned in building up this part of the church. He is assisted and well supported by Bro. and Sister A. W. Miner and their many friends. Mr. C. B. Thomas, principal of the Vienna School, has resigned and accepted a position in the Government Printing Office. Miss Reddicks, of Alexandria, will complete the term Miss Nannie Miner, who has been confined to her home several weeks by sickness, is convalescent and will be able to return to school in a few days. Mr. Edward Jackson is building an addition to his residence. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Myers, of Washington, D. C., have moved to their new residence on Pleasant Street, near the Washington and Virginia electric railroad. Mr. Charles Harris, a young business man of Washington, D. C., spent Sunday with his friend, Mr. Andrew Miner, Jr. Mr. Thomas Carter has been appointed to a position in the Department of Agriculture as helper to the electricians. Sunday School hour, for the past two Sundays, at the First Baptist Church. have continued in its usual interesting way. New song books have been purchased, and the singing grows more and more soul-reviving. The rehearsals for Children's Day are to begin soon. FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, VA. NOTES. Fairfax Court House is about the center of Fairfax County. Here we find our people quite enterprising. We make special mention of Mr. W. H. Neal, who is residence manager of the Richmond Beneficial Insurance Company, having been connected with the company for 15 years and doing a good business. Mr. Neal is indeed an insurance expert. He owns his home, and, by careful management and an eye to business he has been enabled to establish a large business which both races appreciate. Mr. James T. Hunter, another enterprising young man, owns a beautiful home; also Mrs. Altona Payne and Mr. Henry Neal. The Sabbath School under the direction of Superintendent Clark is well attended each Sunday at 3 o'clock p. m. Mrs. Ellen Gray, our popular and energetic dressmaker and designer, reports a profitable spring business. Mrs. Lula' Perry was the guest of Mrs. Altonia Payne Sunday evening last. Mrs. Geo. Hunter is on the sick list, but is convalescing. Mrs. Sarah M. Terrell, of Herndon, Va., is visiting Gertie Hunter. The Bee agency is at the residence of W. H. Neal. Five cents a copy. Subscribe. NOTES FROM ANACOSTIA. Verner B. Scott, a pupil of M Street High School, who went to Denver, Col., a few years ago, is now located in San Francisco, Cal. He enjoys the climate and is much improved in health. Mr. Walter Smoot was in town a few days to see his parents. Mr. Smoot is en route to Salt Lake City, Utah. Rev. W. V. Tunnell, rector of St. Philip P. E. Church, went to Chicago on business for the university. He will return this week. Miss Clandine Taylor, who has been teaching in the State of Delaware, returned home last week. Rev. Waldron. The report is that Judge E. M. Hewlett asked to be endorsed for the Recordership and appealed to Rev. Waldron to endorse him. Correspondent F. H. M. Murray, of the Boston Guardian, made a speech in behalf of Rev. Waldon and opposed Judge Hewlett. Judge Hewlett denounced Rev. Waldon to everything he could think. Judge Hewlett forced Rev: Waldon to disclose his hand and tell who he was for. At this time Rev. Waldon was in the chair presiding. E. W. DALE, OWNER Rev. Waldron. THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL. At various times the scholars of different countries have tried definitely to determine the real discoverer of paper in the eleventh century. It is to paper that we owe the renaissance of letters. From time immemorial something answering modern paper was used in China, where it was manufactured from silk. About the middle of the seventh century of our era there seems to have been established in Arabia a manufactory of paper, and fifty years later the way was discovered to make it from cotton instead of from silk, silk being a rare commodity outside of China at that time and cotton relatively plentiful. In the reign of Henry II. of France a Greek scholar was sent to Paris to arrange systematically a catalogue of antique manuscripts in the royal library, and a petition 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. Escape 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 800 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 loner ever scaled anything like four feet at the shoulder and that the height measurements of dead specimens give quite a false idea of the actual heights of the animals in life. The following are the heights at the shoulders of some of our large felidae: Large lioness, 2 feet 11 inches; Manchuria tigress, 2 feet 9 inches; Nepal tigress, 2 feet 8 inches; Sumatran tiger, 2 feet 7 inches; large male jaguar, 2 feet 8 inches; male cheetah, 2 feet 2 inches.—London Field. Youth. Youth is the springtime of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know. The wise youth will "lay low" till he gets a whole lot of knowledge and then in later days turn it loose in an abrupt manner. He will guard against telling what he knows, a little at a time. That is unwise. I once knew a youth who wore himself out telling people all he knew from day to day, so that when he became a bald-headed man he was utterly exhausted and didn't have anything left to tell any one. Some of the things that we know should be saved for our own use. The man who sheds all his knowledge and doesn't leave enough to keep house with fools himself.—Bill Nye. Turkish Justice. The poor baker for some reason appears to have been singled out for some extraordinary punishments. It is only within late years that there has been rescinded in Turkey a law by which the baker guilty of short weight tricks was punished by having his ear nailed to the doorpost. Turkish officers of the law are notoriously averse to giving themselves more trouble than is absolutely necessary. If the recalcitrant baker did not happen to be at home when they arrived to administer punishment they didn't bother to call again, but just seized his son or his journeyman or his father-in-law or whoever was handy and nailed his ear to the doorpost. So long as somebody was punished it did not matter. The Samian Letter. The letter 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, 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 upetials in such grief stricken tones that I almost wept myself out of sympathy. Wanted to Find the Grumb. Mamma—What are you tearing your doll to pieces for? Hattle—I'm looking for the crumb of comfort papa said was to be found in everything. Friendship. Bounder—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 mental thing is a green hand in life. 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Churchgoing Mothers Sure They Can Identify Their Own. Evapston, 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 handing 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. 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 halary 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 malarial 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 "wrigglera" used to breed have disappeared, and their last refuge, the swamp, has been drained. House & Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts., N. 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Lf you jrantasewing machina, write Sar ear latest catalogue before you purchase, The Kew Hors Sewing Masten Ca, Orange, Mae, For sale by Gustave Oppen- heimer, Cor. E and 8th Sts. N. W. OMAHA DENIES TALE OF RED GROSS HELF Cyclone City Objects to ‘Fake’ Stories About Relief Given, Omahe.—Relief to the value of $1. 950,000 has been received for the bene fe of the sufferers from Omaha's biz Waster cyclone. This sum includes cost, supplies, labor, automobile and hospital service, tornado * Insurance and everything that*was dove for the Yietims to help them. | The biggest slogte item on the list fa the $500,000 in“ tornado insurance carried by the losers. Insurance com panies have been very liberal i thelr ‘edjustments of losses and many homes tm Omaha are now being rebuilt which otherwise would have remained in reins. ‘The second largest item is that of essh contributed from all sources ‘This amounts to $470,000 and will un- Goubtedly reach the half million mark before the fund is closed. This $470. 00 was raised almost entirely in Oman. hea iteelf. Many donations. Were sent fm from Nebraska towns and the state of Nebraska contributed $40,000. New ‘York city’s donations amounted to $8. *@00. San Francisco, to which cits Omaha was the first In the Union ta wend guccor after the earthquake and fire, sent Omaha just $5. This was an individual subscriptior from the editor of a labor paper. On the afternoon following the earth: quake Omaha started a special tralr 6 supplies and provisions and a larg: moant of cash to San Francisco. ‘The great american Red Cross so clety bas not aided Omaba te the er tent of a single dollar, although Oma ha hears frequently of ‘subscription: being handed to that Institution fo the benefit of the tornado sufferers ‘Omaha fs not kicking against the Rev Cross for nonassistance: but does of fect to the stories spread over th country telling of the quickness ani speed with"which the Red Cross leap ed {nto Omaha and did wonderfu deeds of relief. . AGED MARE KNOWS — DENVER MAIL ROUTE Needs No One to Gulde Hel on Trip About City. Denver.—There Is probably no person in Denver who is able to‘start at the Union depot, traverse every street be- tween there and Broadway, with Four- teenth street as the western mit and Nineteenth street as the eastern, and stop without 2 mistake or a change of mind at every mail box in that area, but a horse, aged fifteen, yclept Bess, knows the hundreds of mall boxes and knows them so well that she can find them on the darkest of nights, with a Dilzzard, a rainstorm or a ninety mile wind occupying all available space. Bess is the property of Frank Mon- roe, a mail collector. She has grown aged in the service of Uncle Sam's mail department. In the twelve years df her service as assistant mall collector for the aforementioned route she has missed only: seven days, none of these in the last year, ‘ It is the boast of her master that a substitufe mail collector can be placed ‘on the route for the first time and re. turn with the mail without the ald of any guide other ‘than the sagacious ‘Bess. As her master climbs into the ‘wagon after gathering the mall from One box Bess heads directly for the next one, be it around the corner, across the street or down the block and she never misses a box. Moreover until the mail is in the rear of the wagon and she hears her master’s Yolce, she will not leave the spot, | Bess, says her master, intends to re- main a government employee for many years yet. Except for the fact that she spends most of the day sleeping in he stall until time to go on duty at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, she exhibits no signs of advanced age. . REPAYS FRIEND HE ROBBED. But Not Until Twenty-six Years Have Passed By. - Louisville.—The stricken conscience of an aged man in Germany was re- sponsible for the return of German ‘pank notes amounting to nearly $1,000 American morey to Nicholas Wermelis- tert’ this city, who was robbed of that amotnt at his old home in Mets, Germany, twenty-six years ago. The letter inclosing the notes was ated March 10, 1913, the anniversary of thd theft, and was unsigned. Al- though the writer referred to himself as 8 “trusted friend who betrayed the confidence of your household,” Mr. ‘Wermelster declared he was unable to Mentify him. SWAT FLIES FOR PRIZES. Cincinnati to Raise $1,000 For War on : the Pests. Cincinnati—~Swat the fy” crusaders have commenced hostilities against the household pests and will spend hun- dreds of dollars in thelr fight on them and their breeding places, according to the plans made here-by the.food com. mittee of the Consumers’ league. It tg planned to raise $1,000 for prizes to boys and girls who catch the mos! files during the months the pests are bustest spreading disease. One plan fs to ask all the women’s clabs of the city and smothers’ clubs in the schools te ralse the money. Another plen pro ‘posed is to interest the business men. WARM RECEPTION FOR AMBASSADOR Attiral of Gt Bra’ Now Representative Here, IS A VETERAN DIPLOMAT. Gir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice Was Best Man at Colone! Roosevelt's Wedding §n 1886—Very Popular on Board Ship, Where He Made Many Friends Among Passengers and Crew, New York.—Sir Cecil Arthur Spring- Rice, the new ambassador‘ from Great Britain to the United States, on his ar- rival here on the Carmania, accompa- nied by his secretary, D. G. Osborne, announced that his family would come over Inter, when he had prepared for them in Washington. ‘The ambassador was met at the Cu- aard pler by Geérge Wilson, vice pres ‘Went of the Pilgrims Society of Amer. Pg Rere: Reese _"% * os eee SS : . @193. by American Press Association. ica; Courtenay Walter Bennett, British consul general in New York, and bis staff; L. David Campbell and Clark Kerr, attaches of the embassy, who came on from Washington. On the voyage Sir Cecil Spring-Rice sat at the captain's table and made himself popular with the Americans on board, which included 130 Clark tour- ists from the Egyptian cruise of the ‘Laconia. In making the customary speech on bebalf of the seameii's chai- ities as chairman the ambassador sald ‘he occupied the same place as a bride- gtoom ut a wedding-inconspicuous, | but necessary. When asked if he bad anything to communicate regarding European events Sir Cecil sald, with a smile, that Gplomats abroad in the service of thelr respective governments were not permitted ‘to express their opinions, “I know very little of American af- fairs,” said he, “as 1 bave been out of touch for so long. It will probably be some time before I am familiar with all the details of my new post.” The new ambassador’to the United Btates is of medium helght and me- lum build, with a good head and fore- head, deep set blue eyes and a grizzled, stay Vandyke beard, giving a business air to a Keen Intellectual face. He Is not of the physical type of the big, imposing, “ruddy faced diploniat! Picturing magnificent audacity, but his looks betoken rather methods of great affability. powers of analysis and the ability to use the lancet instead of the big stick: = Sir Cecil 1s most approachable and democratic. He-was a popular passen- ger and # good, mixer on the Carmania. His manner fs so easy and he is so re- sponsive that his questioners forgive him when he talks and yet says noth- ing. The ambassador:!s Irish by descent. He ts the grandson of Lord Montengle of the second creation. His father was the Hon. Charles Spring-Rice, and in 1904 Sin-Cecil married, Florence, the Gaughter of Sir Frank ‘Laacelles, who was his chief in the embassy at Ber- sin, when in February, 1905, Sir Frank sent him hurriedly to London to con- fer with Lord Lansdowne and King Edward. After the conference he made a hur- rled trip to this country, called witb Bir Mortimer Durand, the British am- bassador at Washington, upon Presl- dent Roosevelt at midnight of a. Sun- day and set on foot the process of mediating between Russia and Japan. In elgbt days Sir Cecil was back in London. Ambassador Spring-Rice was born in 1859 and educated at Eton and Ballol. Oxford. He was clerk in the war of- fice and the forelgn office, assistant secretary to Earl Granville preclis writer to Earl Rosebery. secretary of legatiog at Brusssels, Washington Tokyo, Berlin and Constantinople. charge d'affaires at Teberan, minister to Persia and on Sept. 1, 1908, he as- sumed the duties of British minister at Stockholm. ‘ In addition t6 English the new am- bassador speaks French, German and Itallan Buently and bas a good know: edge of Russian and Swedish. When Theodore Roosevelt was married to Miss Edith Kermit Carow in Londou on Dec, 2 1886, the new ambassador ‘was best man. POOR OVERTAXED MILLIONS A YEAR Roprasontatv ul Of Tonaas: sae Defends Income Levy. CARNEGIE AN “EXAMPLE? Author of Income Tax Measure De- olares That Public Is Compelled to Pay —$1,500,000,000 Annually Into Pockets of “Selected Individuals.” Properties Assessed Too Low, Washihgton.—“The richer a person grows the less be pays in relation to bis property or income. Experience has shown that under the present tax system personal property practically escapes taxation for elther local ot state purposes.” ‘These statements were made in the house by Representative Hull of Ten: nessee in defending the income tax. which is carried in the Underwood tariff bill and is estimated to yield the government $70,000,000 a year in reve nues. . Andrew Carnegie is singled out as ¢ shining example of the ‘tich who es cape taxation,“ He holds $400,000,000 of United States Steel corporation se curities. Until recently he has palc state taxes on $5,000,000 of persona Wealth. New York city authoritie: | have increased this assessment recent ly to $10,000,000. “The rich investor,” said Mr. Hull “the money lender, the wealthy busl ee cae P esas - Sees ee Pk SRE Sess 6 Oke SSA BER 60350 AN ay Gg A SF PO RRR eS ERS we YS Diao ee ted Se ‘ @ by American Press Association. REPRESENTATIVE CORDELL HULL. ness and professional men, cover up most of thelr taxable property. The intangible personal stock, bonds and other securitles escape taxation almost entirely.” According to Mr, Hull, manufactur- ers have been in a tariff partnership with the government and have waxed tat. For more than half a century there hag been a constant struggle by the wealthy to shift the burden of tax- ation to the slioulders and backs of those weaker, poorer and less influen- al citizens, Statisties of property valuations were given by Mr, Hull to show that wealth is not being taxed and is not bearing its fair burden. ‘The census investigation, 1904, in New York reported that the city had about $5,500,000,000 of personality, abd the returns for taxation were about '$1,500,000,000. The Kentucky tax commission re- ported in January, 1912, that the total amount of bank*deposits from which the assessors were to make up thelr taxation Usts against the depositors and taxpayers was about $12,000,000, ‘The bank statement to the comptroller for the same month placed these de- poslts at $13,000,000. The mayor of Philadelphia recently told the councils there that property In that city had been undervalued more than $300,000,000, The census reports in 1904 valued all real property at $107,000,000,000. The nd valorem as- sessment was $39,000,000,000, The value of personality was placed at $44.- 000,000,000. It was aasessed for taxa- ton purposes at $9,000,000,000. Hull charged that under the former scheme of taxation the government, {n forcing the people to turn over for gov- ernment maintenance about $300,000,- 000 annually, gave a bonus of about $1,500,000.000 a year to selected indi- yidails who were given special favors by the high protective tariff tax. ° Dental: was made of the charge that the income tax was sectional fa char- acter. Hull argued that fealth had made itself sectional Five-year-old Girl Prodigy. St, Louls—Wannetta Haverstick of 4259 Maryland avenue, just five years eld, bas developed in the last six months {ato a prodigy of learning, wit and wisdom under the.teaching of her tather, Dr. G. W Haverstick, formerly a lecturer on children’s diseases at the Physicians and Surgeons’ hospital. 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Moeller’s cat wakens him ever; morning at 6 o'clock, and if he turn over for just a few more winks th feline begins clawing at the covers un til Moeller arises, ‘Moeller used to have an alarm clock Sometimes he would forget to wind it He would oversleep and arrive late a work. There is a whistle at a factor} close, by, and this always blows at | o'clock, The cat knows when the whis tle blows it is time for Moeller to arise and it jumps on the bed and stay: there until the sleeper ts aroused. ‘The cat has been more reliable tha: the clock and has not missed awaken ing Moeller except Sundays for severa months. TEETH IDENTIFY" SKELETON. Dental Work Shows That Bones Be. long to Lost Girl. Albuquerque, N. M.—The finding of s woman's skeleton in lonely Los Huer ‘tas canyon, thirty miles from this city explains the disappearance on Nov. 14 1911, of Margaret Greb, twenty-two @aughter of John Greb, a carpenter who afterward went insane over thi loss of his daughter, while brother contracted tuberculosis from exposurt in the search and died. ‘The girl started out for a walk in th sand hills, lost her way when nigh feil, and, although the mountains anc mesas were searched for a trace of her none was found. - The skeleton, which was founc stripped, clean of flesh and clothing was identified by a gold Milling in thr teeth. BEES KILL 200 PULLETS. Honey Gathorers Also Give Auto Party a Hot Time ° | Porterville, Cal.—Iwo hundred pat Iets belonging to W. FB. Weems, a poultry raiser in the Plano district were stung to death when a swarm of bees attacked them. The bees, which belong to the Kern County Land com- pany, are brought to this district every year-during the orange blossom season. Besides the chickens which were Killed, several score of others were so badly stung that they will also die. After the bees had attacked the elickens they continued down the road nd attacked an automobile party. 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PARRISH, 95 Camden St.,Boston,Mass, -@ Phone 868 R Tremont. ‘Mention this paper when writing. _ Read The Bee kK you want « live B. L. GASKINS, ATTORNEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding an Equity Court. Equity No. 31,550. Daniel E. Wiseman, Executor of Last Will and Testament of Hannah Fuller, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Harriet Freeman et al., Defendants. Order. The object of this suit is to correct a certain deed from Harriet Freeman to Henry Fuller and Hannah Fuller dated the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and two, conveying the south half of lot lettered "K" of Wright's Subdivision of lots numbered respectively, sixty-four (64), sixty-five (65), sixty-six (66), and sixty-seven (67), of Wright and Cox's Subdivision of part of Pleasant Plains. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 24th day of March, A. D. 1013, ordered that the defendants, Sandy Fuller, the younger, Maggie Fuller, Archie Fuller, Beatrice Fuller, Garfield Fuller, Dora Cornish, Florence Burke, and Sarah Washington, and Catherine Jones, cause their appearances to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order, and that the defendant, James Henry Fuller, if he be living, and his unknown heirs, devises, and alienees, if he be dead, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the first rule day occurring after the 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) JOR BARNARD A true copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By J. McKEE, Assistant Clerk. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court.—No. 9403, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration c. t. a. on the estate of Jane Lowry, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 30th day of April, A. D 1914, otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 2nd day of May, 1913. THOMAS A. COX, 1511 Church St. N. W. (Seal) Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Prohate Court WILLIAM I. LEE and L. MELENDEZ KING, Attorneys. PERRIE W. FRISBY, ATTORNEY IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. No. '31624. Equity. George Scott, Plaintiff, vs. Mary Scott, alias Mary Barnes, alias Mary Martin, Defendant, and John Martin, Co-respondent. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the defendant, Mary Scott, alias Mary Barnes, alias Mary Martin, on the ground of adultery with John Martin, the Co-respondent. On motion of the complainant, it is this 20th day of April, 1913, ordered that the defendant, Mary Scott, alias Mary Barnes, alias Mary Martin, defendant, and John Martin, Correspondent, cause their appearance 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; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and the Washington Bee before said day. (Seal) THOS. H. ANDERSON. Justice. W. CALVIN CHASE, ATTORNEY the object of this suit is to secure for the complainant, Lucy A. Montgomery an absolute divorce from the bond of marriage between her and defendant, James E. Montgomery, on the grounds of adultery with Lucy Houff. On motion of the complainant, it is this seventh day of May, 1913, ordered that the defendant, James E. Montgomery, and Lucy Houff, co-respondent, cause their appearance 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; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and the Washington Bee before said day. JOB BARNARD, (Seal) Justice. The committee composed of delegates from the fifty-two branches of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in the District of Columbia have completed arrangements for holding the annual thanksgiving services at Convention Hall, Fifth and L Streets Northwest, tomorrow afternoon and evening, at 2:30 p. m. The children composing the juvenile branches of the order will meet at the hall and the exercises will consist of short address and the rendering of the cantata, "Esther." At 5 o'clock p. m. the male members of the order will meet at their hall on M Street and march to convention hall, where the members of the Households of Ruth will have already assembled. The exercises will begin at 8 o'clock sharp. The annual sermon will be delivered by Rev. W. H. Mixon, D. D., of Selma, Ala., to whom the committee extended invitation. The oration will be delivered by Attorney A. W. Scott, of Old A. M. Lodge No. 1695, and a member of the local bar. Mrs. Mary A. Parker, M. W. G. S. of the Household of Ruth in America, and some other prominent members of the order, will deliver short, appropriate addresses. The music will be quite a feature, as the orchestra of the Ebenezer M. E. Church, the Jubilee Singers of the People's Congregational Church, and the Clinkscale-Tyler Choral Society are on the program. Past D. G. M. J. H. Coleman, chairman of the committee, will preside. The committee extends-a cordial invitation to the friends of the order and the public to attend the exercises. Through a committee composed of Past D, G. Masters W. C. Martin, J. H. Coleman, M. V. P.'s J. H. Lee and E. Cunningham, and P. N. F. Henry Edmonds, Rising Sun Lodge No. 1355 is arranging to hold a reception in the main auditorium at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1606 M Street Northwest, Tuesday evening next, in honor of Rev. Dr. Mixon. DR. CABANISS DEAD. Well Known and Successful Dentist Passes Away in New York. New York City, May 7—Dr. James E. Cabaniss, of New York City, dentist, brother of Dr. Geo. W. and Mr. I. N. Cabaniss, died in this city May 5th. Dr. Cabaniss was only 39 years of age and conducted one of the largest businesses in this city among colored dentists. He was taken some few weeks ago with an abscess under his right arm. His brother, Geo. W. Cabaniss, and his sister, Miss Cabaniss, a trained nurse, have been with him ever since his illness. This young dentist had the largest practice in dentistry of any young man in this city and was one of the most popular and best liked. His body will be shipped to Washington Wednesday evening on the 9 o'clock train, accompanied by his brother, Df. Geo. W. Cabaniss, and his sister. He was married to a very accomplished young lady from North Carolina. Later.—The body of Dr. James E. Cabaniss arrived in this city Thursday morning at 6 o'clock and was carried to the residence of Dr. Geo. W. Cabaniss, 1744 K Street Northwest, from which place the funeral services were held. The body was conveyed to the old family lot in Virginia, where it was buried at the foot of his recently deceased father. NATIONAL INDEPENDENT League—Rev. Waldron Forced to Disclose His Candidacy for Recorder of Deeds—A Lively Meeting of the National Independent Political League. There was a, lively meeting of the National Independent Political League Saturday evening, May 6th, in its headquarters, corner Sixth and Louisiana Avenue Northwest. Rev J. Milton Waldron was presiding. The dignified political exponent of democracy was called upon to endorse a member of the league for Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. Rev. Waldron stated that he could not endorse any one because he had already endorsed an individual, Judge E. M. Hewlett and others insisted on him telling who the person was that he had endorsed. Rev. Waldron with tears in his eyes said that he was a candidate for the office; that he would have made it known before, but he knew that he would be attacked if he did. When those facts were made known to the meeting the wildest excitement prevailed. It is said that W. H. Harris, formerly connected with the public schools of this city and formerly employed under the government years ago, will be appointed Deputy Recorder in the event Rev. Waldron succeeds in landing the Recordership. Since the disclosure of the candidacy of Rev. Waldron for the Recordership, two-thirds or more of his membership in the league have deserted him. DR. WASHINGTON Tours Virginia Urging Negroes to Industry, Thrift and Morality. Dr. Booker T. Washington made one of his long-hoped-for trips through what is known as "Tidewater," Virginia, the past week, accompanied by a number of prominent Virginia colored men. At all stops he addressed the colored people urging industry, morality and the cultivating of their white neighbors' friendship. Several Washingtonians were invited to accompany the Doctor on this trip, among them being Prof. Kelly Miller, J. C Napier, Register of the Treasury F. L. Lee, President of Hampton's Alumni Association, and R. W. Thompson, in the Treasury Department. None of the Washingtonians, however, we are advised, were able to make the trip. Mr. Hawkins Banquet Mr. Hawkins Banqueted. Baltimore, Md., May 8—W. Ashbie Hawkins, who made the successful legal fight which resulted in the segregation law being declared invalid, was tendered a complimentary banquet by citizens Tuesday night. He was greeted on every hand as the man who without remuneration had always led the battles of the race in Maryland against discriminations. He was pledged earnest support in his fight before the Maryland Court of Appeals to sustain the decision recently handed down by Judge Elliott of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, declaring the law invalid. Those responding to toasts included Warner T. McGuinn, Prof. Mason A. Hawkins, Dr. Edward Short, Bishop John Hurst, Gough D. McDaniels, the Rev. A. L. Gaines, Dr. E. V. Stokes, Councilman Harry S. Cummings, and John H. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American Ledger. Hairdressers' Association. There has been recently organized a colored Hairdressers' Association for commercial and professional improvement. It is providing for its members lectures on physiology, anatomy and hygiene. These lectures are given at its monthly meetings and are followed by heart-to-heart discussions of individual experiences and of problems confronting the body of co-workers. It is hoped that every colored hairdresser of Washington will avail herself of membership. MRS. A. T. DOWNY, Pres. MISS R. L. ALSTON, Sec. O. W. Wright. Mr. O. W. Wright, dealer in first-class beef, veal, lamb and pork, is situated at Stand 58. O. Street Market. Everything is fresh and in first-class order. When you want fresh meats of all kinds ask for Mr. White. Ask This Man to Read Your Life His Wonderful Power to Read Human Lives at any 'distance amazes' all 'who write to him. 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Do not enclose coins in your letter. Postage on letters to England two cents. Coloridge 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 Cef. 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 for help to the family of Mr. Coleridge-Taylor. This is fit and proper, since Mr. Coleridge-Taylor's achievements as a composer testify to the possession by his race of those artistic qualities which makes all the world kinsfolk. The British army was once in disputes through the lack of a hangman. Murder was committed by a soldier in the Crimean, but nobody could be found to carry out the sentence of the court martial. It was announced that £20 and a free discharge would be granted to the man undertaking the task. At last a man did volunteer. He was a newcomer to the army. On the night prior to the date fixed for the execution they locked up the hangman in a stable to keep him safe. In the morning the party at the gallows waited, but there was no hangman. He had gone mad during the night or else he was now simulating madness. The officer in command turned to one of his captains with, "Captain, you will have the goodness to hang the prisoner." The captain changed countenance, but he pulled himself together and appealed to the sergeants with, "Which of you will hang this man?" And to spare his captain one of the men volunteered. He afterward had the satisfaction of flogging the man who had volunteered and failed—London Standard. Found the Snakeze The overanxious father of three charming daughters, after his family had sought seclusion for the night, caught somewhere in the distance the echo of a sneeze. At once, in dressing gown and slippers, he padded down the hall and knocked at the nearest door. "Jane, my dear, did you sneeze?" "No, papa." Tap-tap at the adjoining door, "Mary, my love, was that you sneezing?" "No, indeed, nana dear." Pad-pad to the door at the end of the corridor. "Margaret, my pet, I heard a sneeze. Was it you?" "Oh, no, napa, 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 15thus 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 slides continually fell in, thus doubling their work. The Phoenicians, with their superior intelligence, began excavating at a breadth much greater than the canal itself was to occupy, so as gradually to narrow with a convenient slope as they dug down. London's Street Traffic. It was not until about thirty years ago that London's existing system of regulating traffic at street corners was instituted. At the beginning it required four policemen at every important junction to do with difficulty what two constables and sometimes one now effect by a motion of the hand. But the men in blue stuck to their task and hung on to horses' heads and summoned rebellious drivers till the reign of law and order was established. A Bigger Dose. "My doctor ordered two weeks at the seashore." "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, Winker! I hear you married a woman with an independent fortune. Winkers (andly) N-no. I married a fortune with an independent woman. Cool Spot Fussy Old Lady—I want two good seats for this afternoon in the coolest part of the house. Ticket Agent—All right, madam. Here are two in 2 row. —Life. Easy. "Have you any trouble naming the baby?" 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Your Friends' Birth Dates An autograph and birthday record feature in this book is a great convenience. Opposite, each day of the year are blank lines upon which you can secure the autographs of your friends and be reminded of their birthdays as they occur. This makes the book more valuable yearly. In ten years you would not sell it for ten dollars. Besides it has a place for Birth Records, Marriage Records and Death Records. Also it has a table showing the day of the week of any date for one hundred and fifty years. Printed on bond writing paper, blue cloth, handsome. Price, 35 cents postpaid; imitation alligator skin, gold edges, $1.00 postpaid. Order now. Bible and Tract Society, 17 Hicks Street Brooklyn, N. Y. BLIND 32 YEARS, SHE IS REGAINING SIGHT Mother of Eleven Children, Has Only Seen One. Syracuse, N. Y.-Mrs. Peter Berger, who became totally blind thirty-two years ago, after an operation for cataracts, is regulating her sight. She can now distinguish the forms of persons standing against the light and can see the rays of electric street lamps and lights in her home. Her physician says that soon she will see as clearly as ever. Mrs. Berger is the mother of eleven children. She has seen only one of them. That was the oldest son, who died twelve, years ago. Since she became blind she has attended to all her household duties and cared for her children. Mrs. Berger said: "I have prayed nightly and during the day that my sight shall be restored so I could see my children before I passed from this earth. "They have never refused to obey me and have treated me with the greatest of kindness. Some of them are married. I have often wondered how the children appeared and even at times have pictured each of their faces in my mind." I am sure that I will not be disappointed in my first sight of them." Mrs. Berger said that she could clearly make out the outlines of people's forms, but was unable to distinguish their features. 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 Elijah Root of New York will preside at the annual dinner Sept. 3. Egg Shower For Letter Carrier. Iola, Kau.-Milton G. Rumbeck, rural route mail carrier out of the Havenburg 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 118 fresh eggs and two dressed chickens. 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