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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper That's THE BEE VOL. XXXIII, NO. 50 WASHINGTON. D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1913 NEGRO DEMOGRACY Chairman Underdow Explains Candidate for White House Stewardship. Succeeds Bishop Walters—Defends Democracy. Editor of The Bee. Your issue of May 10 contains several references to which we beg permission to reply through your valuable columns. The character of the references as well as the nature of the subject with which they deal causes question to arise. One of these references has to do with Negroes losing their places to white men. We should like to ask in this connection that, as a matter of precedent among all political parties, if appointments are not made from the forces of a victorious partisan system? What is there to Negro Democracy in the State of Georgia, and where does the responsibility of Bishop Walters for this State's political affairs come in? What could either a Negro or white man reasonably expect from a system for which he had not only done nothing, but had bitterly opposed? Conapare, if you please, the actions of the present administration with that of the former in this respect, the one acting under political pressure, the other sweeping scores of Negroes from the tenure of their charges without political pressure. Inform us, Mr. Editor, if you know the strength of Negro Democracy not only in the State of Georgia, but practically the entire South, and allow us the benefit of observations based upon questions of fact, not upon criticism the result of sensation and prejudice. Another of these references deals with the dismissal of Mr. Charles L. Barnes, respecting whom The Bee takes occasion to observe many qualifications and qualities of which the colored Democracy, although constantly and intimately associated with him, have not been able to discern. As to the relationship existing between Bishop Walters and Mr. Barnes, as well as the efforts, it is alleged by The Bee, the Bishop is making on his behalf, we are at a loss to know where The Bee could possibly have gained such information. Several instances are recalled in which the Bishop interceded on behalf of Mr. Barnes this confidence seems to have given us to the extent that patience have lost its virtue. The Democracy of the District of Columbia is unable to see how Mr. Barnes or anyone else, however important from a political standpoint, could reasonably expect to be retained in a position with glaring and gross neglect of duty. We also note that The Bee would create an impression that Bishop Walters had severed his connection with the Democracy and had "given up hope." It becomes our duty to advise that a recent conference with the Bishop disclosed the greatest optimism in the colored Democracy, and full confidence in the administration. We would also say for the information of The Bee that the resignation which seems to be the basis of his ill-guided reference only had to do with the local club, and was made temporarily persuant to the great amount of church work at this particular season and to give greater time for the more effective direction of national issues which affects our race. Our persuasion is that The Bee would, with its wholesome influence in molding sentiment, do not only itself but also the Negro race at large an estimable service if it would give its valuable assistance to the manly and courageous efforts of Bishop Walters, who to my personal and most intimate knowledge has suffered the greatest humiliation and self-sacrificing efforts of time and money advocating the wisdom of a division of our votes and making friends with our political enemies. In this most trying period the able and brainy Editor of The Bee, with all others high up in church and State, should write praises in place of adverse criticism, commending the aspirations of the churchman, statesman, and leader of men, to those who admire and record noble manhood in the person of Bishop Alexander Walters. Yours for the betterment of the race. A. H. UNDERDOWN, National Committeeman for the District of Columbia, of the National Negro Democratic League and Vice Chairman of the Local Organization. May 14, 1913. PROGRESS OF COLORED RACE IS DESCRIBED. Senator Works Inaugurates Anniversa sary Celebration at 12th St. Y. M. C. A. Discussing "The Case of the Colored Man." Senator John Downey Works of California addressed an audience Sunday after noon in the gymnasium of the 12th street branch of the Y. M. C. A. The occasion was the beginning of a celebration of the first anniversary of the dedication of the association's one-hundred-thousand-dollar home, which is now free of all debt, and last year expended over $8,000 for maintenance. The celebration will be continued tonight with an athletic exhibition in the gymnasium, and for tomorrow night a water carnival is announced. Arrangements are in the hands of the board of management, headed by Lewis E. Johnson, executive secretary. Senator Works declared that he was in the heartiest sympathy with the aspirations of the colored man to be a good and worthy citizen, and to enjoy all the rights and immunities that belong to other citizens of the republic. Victim of the Politicians. "It may be that a blunder was made in conferring the vote upon the colored man just after the close of the civil war. He was ignorant, inexperienced in the art of government and was easily misled by designing politicians who did not hesitate to use him for their own advantage, instead of the good of that down-trodden people. It might have been better to have accorded him the right of suffrage gradually, in proportion as he showed himself qualified for it. By this means perhaps much of the opposition, prejudice and violence that have attended his efforts as a citizen might have been avoided. "Nevertheless, in spite of difficulties, hindrances and mistakes, the colored American has made wonderful progress in the past fifty years, and now that his rights are guaranteed by the federal Constitution and written in the laws of our land we should respect those rights and give him an equal chance in the battle of life. "He should be encouraged to give the best that is in him for the uplift of the nation." The senator spoke in support of the Jones-Works law, which restricts the number of saloons in the District and which aims to improve moral conditions. Musical Program. Music was furnished by Joseph H. Douglass, violinist, and Miss Olive Wells, vocalist, and folk-songs were given by the Academy Quartet. Short talks on the value of the work of the Y. M. C. A. in developing the welfare of the colored people were made by Rev. S. D. Weaver, pastor of the Grace M. E. Church; Rev. A. C. Garner, of Plymouth Congregational Church; Rev. E. B. Gordon, Walker Memorial Baptist Church; Rev. E. E. Ricks, First Baptist Church of Georgetown; J. C. Napier, register of the Treasury; Maj. Chas. R. Douglass, Charles Stewart, of Chicago; Dr. C. W. Childs, Prof. John R. Hawkins, secretary of the financial board of the A. M. E. Church; L. M. Hereshaw, E. J. Morton, chairman of the association's board of management; O. A. Williams, vice-chairman, and others. Lewis E. Johnson presided and introduced the speakers. RALPH W. TYLER New Organizer of the National Negro Business League, of Which Dr. Booker T. Washington Is President. GUARD NEGRO RIGHTS. Enforce Fifteenth Amendment, Says W. E. Chandler—Puts Test to Republicans—Former Senator From New Hampshire Gives Out Letter Addressed to Committeeman Estabrook—Points to Proposed Reduction of Southern Delegation—Sends Copy to Hilles. Former Senator William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, has written a vigorous letter to F, W. Estabrook, member for the Granite State of the Republican National Committee, pointing out the proposed reduction in the membership of the Southern States in the national convention of the party and at the same time calling for the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. He has also transmitted a copy of his letter to Chairman Hilles, of the Republican Executive Committee. Mr. Chandler writes as follows: Washington, D. C., May 10, 1913. "Hon. F. W. Estabrook, New Hampshire Member of the Republican National Committee. "My Dear Mr. Estabrook—It seems to be taken for granted by reason of the outgivings of eminent and trusted Republicans that there are to be immediate conferences among them concerning methods for reviving and arming for future campaigns of the national Republican party. Republican party. "The New York Tribune of the 8th instant states that Chairman Hilles has called for May 24. in Washington, a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee, and says, 'There is scarcely any dissent from the view that the basis of representation in conventions should be changed before the next nominating convention. * * * Prominent members of the party such as Senators Root and Crane, of the conservative wing, and Governor Hadley, and Senator Cue- mins', of the progressives, are convinced that now is the time to set the party right before the people. Senator Cummins has planned to have a meeting of the progressive leaders of the party in Chicago next week.' Gardner to Be. Chairman. Gardner to Be. Chairman. "It is also understood that the courageous and combative Republican reformer, Representative Augustus P. Gardner, is to be chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, and to aid in framing new weapons for Republican success. "The above Executive Committee meeting called by Mr. Hilles, you will attend; and certainly there will be 10 member present of superior fitness for giving advice and promoting proper action than yourself; such fitness arising from your experience in connection with our canvass in 1912, your political wisdom, and your lifelong devotion and fidelity to the party you will represent. "Therefore, I confidently appeal to you to begin the conferences by insisting that the Republican party in State and nation shall prepare for the coming conflict for its regeneration by unequivocally pledging itself to renew its efforts for the enforcement everywhere under the flag of the fifteenth amendment, which guarantees the right to vote of the colored citizens of the Republic, and which the Congress is bound to enact and enforce, laws to protect, as the final condition upon which the Civil War was to be ended and controversy between the sections to be forever closed. Pledge to Enforce Amendment Pledge to Enforce Amendment. "The question whether the Republican party will so pledge itself will at once arise at your conferences, and will be continued at all future meetings until the Constitution is either amended or wholly enforced. As surely as the proposition is made to reduce the number of delegates to be cited to vote in the nomination of a President by the next national convention, and to base the number of such delegates upon the number of Republican votes which have been cast in each State at the previous election, a determined effort will be made to pledge the party anew to enforce the fifteenth amendment. The giving of such pledge I hope you will earnestly favor. "The question whether there shall be a change in the basis of representation in the convention to arise from the suppression of equal suffrage in the Southern States, and in connection therewith, whether the right to vote at the polls in the Southern States shall be enforced by the nation, has not been absent from the public mind since 1876. It has been discussed in national committees and in conventions, yet the proposed changes in the basis have made no progress. That the Northern States should continuously submit to the presence of 50 representatives in Congress and of 50 presidential electors based upon the colored people, and yet allow the votes of the colored people to be suppressed, seems incredible, but such has been and is the history. "Whenever the effort shall be seriously made to exclude those very colored people from full and equal representation in Republican conventions there will be quite a debate. Having on July 1, 1880, been appointed chairman of a committee of the National Committee to consider the question of a change of basis, I am preparing a history of the subject from that date to the conventions of 1908 and 1912, both of which decided not to make any such change. Inferences From the Platforms. "The convention of 1908 declared itself in emphatic terms in favor of the enforcement, in letter and spirit, of the fifteenth amendment, and nominated Mr. Taft, who went on to success. "The convention of 1912 said nothing on the subject; it only condemned lynchings and favored 'civic duty' and renominated Mr. Taft, who went on to defeat. "Nothing is of more importance than that the Republican party, about to reorganize for its own resurrection, shall tell why in 1912 it abandoned the amendments. Where did the twin Republican candidates personally stand? Let us have no equivocation in the future. The party from its organization in 1856 practically continued to control the government for a term of 56 years, down to 1912. If it now continues its previous allowances to the Democratic party of the 50 representatives and 50 electors, based upon suppressed colored votes, and confirms the suppression by formally depriving the 3,000,000 of suppressed voters of the privilege of representation in Republican national conventions, it will remain out of national power for a second term. of at least 56 years. In recent days Republican leaders have seemed to lament because the American Negroes have been black! How many of those leaders would have been famous or influential if the Negroes had been white? Yours truly, "WILLIAM E. CHANDLER" Letter to Mr. Hilles Mr. Chandler's letter to Mr. Hilles is as follows: "Washington, D. C., May 14, 1913. "My Dear Mr. Hilles—I notice that you are to hold a meeting of the Republican National Committee, of which I formerly had some knowledge. I do not know whether you favor the propositions of the wise men of Chicago, but I take the liberty of sending you a copy of a letter which I recently wrote to Mr. Es tabrook, member of the National Committee from New Hampshire. "I hope your committee will take up in earnest the question of renewed pledges by the Republican party to the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment. Very truly yours." "WM. E. CHANDLER. "Hon. Charles D. Hilles." FAREWELL MEETING OF THE Y. W. C. A. A very beautiful and inspiring service was held by the Y. W. C. A. of Howard University Sunday evening, May 11, in Library Hall, to commemorate Mothers' Day. The meeting was led by the president of the association, Miss Frederika Chase. Seated on the platform with her were the principal speaker, Miss Florence Brown, secretary of the F Street Branch of the Y. W. C. A., and Miss Sarah N. Meriwether, who has put forth so many efforts in behalf of the University Association. Not only were these members of the Association present but also a large number of visitors of both sexes. After a piano solo rendered by Miss Cornella Lampton, and a prayer offered by Miss Mott, Miss Brown was introduced to the audience. Before beginning her address Miss Brown read a letter from the International Headquarters conveying the gratifying news that Miss Meriwether had been appointed to represent Howard University at the World's Conference to be held at Lake Mohonk this summer. In recognition of honor bestowed upon Miss Meriwether and of her pre-eminent fitness for it, the audience gave a rising vote of appreciation. Every one felt glad that the University was to be so well represented and that one who has done so much for the association should have that honor. After this small tribute had been paid to Miss Meriwether, Miss Brown gave an illuminating and stirring address on Y. W. C. A. work. She briefly discussed the purposes of the Y. W. C. A., the work it was doing in the cities and the colleges of America, as well as in India, Japan, and other foreign nations. Then she emphasized the recent efforts for association work in the country communities of America. By relating as an example the personal work accomplished in a country community by one girl alone, Miss Brown set the ideals of the Y. W. C. A. concretely before her hearers. Her closing words told of the great need for trained association secretaries and were an inspiring appeal to the young women of Howard that some of the x choose this useful vocation. Upon the conclusion of Miss Brown's address, Miss Wells sang a selection. Following this musical number, Miss Madreine Penn, with her usual eloquence, gave an excellent and beautiful paper on "Mother's Day. After a vocal solo by Mr. Dogett different members of the association gave quotations in keeping with the spirit of Mother's Day. The last musical number was a piano solo by Miss Carrie Burton. At the close of this program a delightful surprise occurred. Each lady present was given a beautiful white carnation, that flower chosen to pay tribute to motherhood, to send to her own dear mother at home. As the members of the audience left the meeting carrying with them the fragrance of the white carnation, the inspiration from what they had heard and the incense of their own love for their mothers, they must have felt echoing in their hearts the closing words of Miss. Penn's paper, "God Bless Our Mothers." HELPING A WORTHY CAUSE. The school patrons of Germantown, Md., greatly appreciate their teacher, Miss Ida M. Henderson, a graduate of Normal School No. 2. She has been with these good folks for twelve years. The white people say they wish they had similar teachers on their rolls who could bring their children up to a high standard in so short a while as she each year does in the colored schools. The superintendent, Mr. Wood, extended her term two weeks and the patrons paid for two weeks, so that this school was open one month longer than the regular schedule. Then both white and colored united in contributing to a picnic, the net profits to be turned over to Miss Anderson for her untiring efforts and a worthy cause. Eighteen chickens, fifteen cakes and other things were contributed for the table-irrespective of race. The people came in crowds and a royal "Old Maryland Time" was had. The Rockville Band and violins, etc., were enjoyed. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton spoke of their loyalty to a worthy woman, a worthy cause. Mr. Frank Duffin, who, by the way, runs the farming interests of one of the largest farms of Montgomery County, owned by Mr. Baker, who not long since was District Attorney. This young man handles this great business concern equal to the secretary of any great business concern in the county. Mrs. Layton was the guest of Mrs. Jackson and she was most royally entertained. She returned home after two days' and a night's sojourn in this little Maryland town, well pleased with all that transpired. JAIL, ALMS HOUSE AND WORK HOUSE. These three institutions are left almost wholly to just a faithful few of our race to give any consideration whatever. The white people of our city make weekly visits, carry the gospel, words of cheer and consolation, and often things to these unfortunate people. But to Rev. William J. Howard belongs the sceptre. Every week, many times a week, you can see him wending his way towards these three great buildings. Then Dr. Roberts, though employed by the Government, can always find time to visit the jail, and say a word about the blessed Master. Once a month special exercises are held by him in the jail. Much good results from these meetings. He gets some of his friends who are blessed with musical abilities to come and play and sing for the folks shut in. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton helps him sometimes with a word of admonition—a word of cheer—and holds up the blood-stained banner and makes the convicts see that Jesus' blood is sufficient to wipe away the greatest sin. Mrs. Layton was in the jail last week to talk to some of the criminals who are soon to give up their lives for crimes committed and many who are to serve terms in the penal institutions of our country. She weekly visits the Juvenile Court, and many a girl and boy are paroled under her and others saved saved from Reform School. She is also a frequent visitor in Police Court, lending a helping hand and a word here and there for the race. Negro Must Be a Business Factor. The National Benefit Association held a largely, attended mass meeting Monday evening at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Prof. Kelly Miller was the principal speaker. He argued that the Negro, debarred from governmental influence, must rely upon unopposed activity in the church, opportunities in the educational field and commercial arena for a chance in the world's work. The business aspect is now most to be emphasized, because it is in commerce and finance that the Negro is the weakest, and there the tendency of the times is to set the standard of efficiency. The Negro will have a fine chance in business, as he has a distinct race variety to which he can appeal, and, other things being equal, the Negro would rather deal with a member of his own race than with others, Dr. Walter H. Brooks delivered an address of welcome to the National Benefit Association and Dr. R. W. Brown responded. A forceful address on "The Negro Business Man as a National Asset" was delivered by Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury, Mr. S. W. Rutherford, secretary and general manager of the company, presided, and a choir of employees, directed by Mr. E. N. Broadax, rendered music. The sale of stock for the evening was $231.71. DR. C. W. CHILDS. Dr. Creed W. Childs has held many positions of importance which have given him a wide experience in community work. He was at one time physician to the poor in the District of Columbia. From this post he was DR. CREED W. CHILDS The New Member of the Board of Education and Successor of Mr. R. R. Horner. promoted to that of Sanitary and Food Inspector of the Health Department and later to Medical Inspector of the Contagious Disease Department. Dr. Childs is a graduate of the Medical Department of Howard University, a member of the surgical staff of that institution and a member of the Medical Chirurgical Society, having formerly been a vice president. He is ex-chairman of the medical section of the National Medical Association. The newly-appointed member was an ardent worker for the passage of the Jones-Works bill and made a profound impression upon his audience at the hearings before the committees in the House of Representatives. Dr. Childs has always been a strong advocate and an untiring worker for all matters tending to civic betterment. In the Southwest section of Washington he was instrumental to a goodly degree in reducing the number of saloons in that section. He is a member of the local branch of the Y. M. C. A. and a large contributor to the building. He is also vice president of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor of the District. HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA. The booking for Storer College summer resort is very encouraging, which is now being done by W. W. Martin at the Y. M. C. A. Building. The booklets are now out and it is hoped that a copy will be placed in the hands of everybody who is contemplating spending any time in the mountains this summer. Call or drop a card to W. W. Martin. Y. M. C. A. Building, 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest. The Bee will have a correspondent at Storer College this season and Harper's Ferry letter will appear in each issue of The Bee from June 15 to September 15-13. The legislature of Pittsburg failed to regulate women's dress. Dr. Davidson of the public schools is making great success. Editor James A. Ross, of the Detroit, Michigan, Informer, is in Ontario. Auditor R. W. Tyler has been made national organizer of the National Negro Business League. It is expected that the new organizer will have the greatest business organization in the country. Rumor has it that either Mrs. Pelham or Dr. Amanda Gray will succeed Mrs. Harris upon the Board of Education. There is some talk of making Mrs. Harris' successor a male. In that event no colored female will be on the board of education. The Japanese are very much dissatisfied. The contention is that the Japanese think that the dark races are as good as the white. Mr. Patterson, of Oklahoma, is being strongly urged for register of the treasury. There is an idea that the office will be abolished. National Committeeman Costella is being urged for United States Marshal, to succeed Mr. Palmer. Assistant Superintendent Brown is a very busy man these exciting times. The schools were never in a better condition. Dr. C. W. Childs, the new member of the board of education, is from North Carolina but now a citizen and resident of the District of Columbia. Three persons at Huntington, W. Va., were killed in a train wreck and two others fatally injured. The national manufacturers are opposed to the Sundry Civil Bill. The association has appealed to the President. Efforts will be made to close theaters on Sundays. The meeting of the Negro Business League, which is to meet in Philadelphia, Pa., next August, will be the greatest event in the history of the organization. The National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C., has met all of its obligations. F L. Siddons will no doubt be the next democratic commissioner of the District of Columbia. It is rumored that the colored lawyers will organize. A new national association of lawyers will materialize shortly. The successor of Public Printer Donnelly has not been decided upon as yet. The President will take his time in filling important places. Four executions are to take place next month. You street is the Negro's promenade. You can meet everybody on this street if they are worth meeting. Mrs. Wilson denies that she had anything to do with the segregation of the race in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Senator O'Gorman, of New York, informed several colored men a few days ago that he has nothing to do with this so-called Fair Play Association. The Italian who killed little Harry E. Smith some time ago has confessed to the killing of the lad. Jim Crow cars continue to run in this city from Virginia. Woman's Day Rev. Edgar Ricks, pastor of. First Baptist Church, Georgetown, ranks among the foremost pastors of this city—a youth, as it were, and yet a giant in God's vineyard. Last Sunday was Woman's Day in his church. In the morning a crowded house welcomed Sister Dodge of the A. M. E. Zion Church, who preached a wonderful sermon. All went away saying, "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord." At 8 o'clock another crowded house greeted Mrs. Julia Mason Layton and Miss M. A. D. Madre. Mrs. Lyton took the 23rd Psalm as her theme. A Work of Charity. The Royal Industrial Club is an organization composed of an active set of young women. It is one of the most progressive clubs in the city. The week ending May 20 the members of this organization presented C. Y. W. C. A. a lot of linen. Miss Jane S. Noble is president, who resides at 1309 Q Street Northwest, and Miss Mattie R. Sommons is secretary. She resides at 1514 S Street Northwest. HATFIELD MAKES ATTACK ON KERN "Mother" Jones Not Imprisoned, but Merely "Detained," Says West Virginia Executive—Labor Agitators Must Keep Out of State—Peonage Does Not Exist There. Charleston, W. Va.—Governor Henry D. Hatfield of West Virginia in a redhot statement here attacked Senator John W. Kern of Indiana because of a resolution introduced by him in the United States senate providing for federal investigation of conditions in the West Virginia coal fields. Governor Hatfield declared that Senator Kern had been misinformed; that the coal strike no longer was in force, but that he intended to arrest any person aiding and abetting lawlessness. At the same time he stated that he courts a through investigation if the senate decide that it is necessary. "I am informed," said Governor Hatfield, "that Senator Kern has made a statement that peonage exists in West Virginia and that Mrs. Mary ("Mother") Jones has been on trial before a drumhead military court since her arrest some weeks ago. "In reply to the senator's statement relative to peonage I wish to say that his allegation is a fabrication out of the whole cloth. Mrs. Jones is not now nor has she at any time since her arrest been in prison. She is being detailed (and is not in any way confined) at a pleasant boarding house with a private family on the banks of the Kanawha river at Pratt, W. Va. "I do not intend to permit Mrs. Jones or any other person to come into West Virginia and make inflammatory speech." 7 GOVERNOR HENRY D. MATFIELD. es that have a tendency to produce riot and bloodshed, as were experienced under the administration of Governor Glasscock. We have evidence-in abundance to prove that the class of speeches made by Mrs. Jones and her coworkers did bring about a riotous state, which resulted in murder and the destruction of property. We have a dozen of the same class of people confined in different jails of the state, some of them guilty of murder, others guilty of alding and abetting by furnishing the necessary firearms and ammunition with which to commit murder. "The honorable body of which Senator Kern is a member has a perfect right to investigate West Virginia or any part of it. I shall be delighted to have such an investigation and will use my best efforts to aid the investigation committee in any way I can, but Senator Kern must remember that I am responsible to the people of West Virginia for the maintenance of law and order, and they will be maintained by me during my term of office at any hazard, and when it becomes necessary to detain or jail people to accomplish this purpose it will be done unhesitatingly. "The long drawn out strike on Palmt and Cabin creeks is at an end. Fewer than fifty persons are without work in that section, and in a short time every one will have been cared for. "Such twisters of the truth as Senator Kern seem to be largely responsible for these falsehoods and misrepresentations, which work untold hardships upon those in office who have due respect for law and order and who are trying to carry out and maintain the principles of good government. "I note that one of the statements of Senator Kern is to the effect that he knows positively that one newspaper correspondent was elected during the trial of 'Mother' Jones and deported from the state. I can use no better terms and cannot express myself more forcibly than to say that this was a willful and deliberate lie on the part of the one who informed Senator Kern, and it would not at all surprise me to learn that the senator knew this to be the case when he made the statement." College Post For Durand. College Post For Durand. Washington-E. Dana Durand, retiring director of the census, will become a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota next fall. His Present Opinion, and Attitude Toward the Negro-Editor Nic Childs of the Topeka,(Kan.) Plain-dealer Has Had Some Correspondence with Senator Benjamin Tillman Which Makes Very Interesting Reading. The following is taken from Mr. Childs' paper, the Topeka Plain-dealer of date May 2. The editor's first letter to Senator Tillman follows: Topeka, Kan., April 18, 1913. Senator Benjamin Tillman, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir—Being a South Carolinian, born in Abbeyville County, near the line of Edgefield, I slightly remember you, having known you when a boy and have watched your career for many years. At one time I thought you were very heinous in your remarks and attacks upon the colored race of this country, but of late have began to think that you, like Paul of Tarsus, have seen your error and you are now becoming reconciled to the fact that the colored man is human as well as the white man and he is entitled to some of the rights and benefits that they enjoy. My reason for saying this is because I have not heard of anything uttered by you for the last few months that would indicate that you were still opposed to the progress of the colored people. We hope before many days you will be found uttering some good words of encouragement for the uplift of these people, and hope you will introduce a measure that will place them on an equality with other men and encourage them to help a race of people who were enslaved by your race for over two centuries, and it is your Christian duty to help undo the great injustice that has been perpetrated upon them. If this is accomplished you will merit the prayers of thousands, for there are many praying Christians of both races who are striving to bring about this change. There are untold numbers of white people, both. North and South, who would like to see the colored man have a chance to prove that he is worthy of being an American citizen. I hope you will receive this in the spirit of friendliness and be kind enough to give us an answer, as I would like to know, what you think is best for the elevation of the colored race and if you think they are worthy of consideration and of the highest respect of the best white peo of the country, so they can apply themselves to any vocation in life and make themselves serviceable to the various communities in which they live. Yours truly. B. S.—I am editor and owner of The Topeka Plaindealer, established fifteen years ago, and we are striving for the betterment of both races. Senator Tillman's prompt reply follows: U. S. Senate, April 12, 1913. Nick Chiles, Topeka, Kan. Dear Sir—I have yours of April 8. I note what you say about my attitude toward Negroes. It shows how poorly you have kept posted. I take the liberty of sending you some of my speeches in the Senate itself showing the basis of my opposition to Negro equality, and my attitude towards the Republicans' claim that the Negroes are as good as white men. About a year ago my old-colored friend, Joe Gibson, who lived with me thirty years, died. I spent seventy-five dollars to have a granite monument placed over his grave to commemorate his good qualities. I hope you will read the speeches I am sending. Then let me know what you think about my attitude toward the colored people. I like them much better in their places than I do daoges; but out of their places, I have no use for them whatever. There is only one attitude they can assume with safety to themselves. That is the acknowledgment of white supremacy. Anything else will doom them to extermination. Upon receipt of the 'Senator's letter and speeches, we perused same carefully and replied to Mr. Tillman as follows: Topeka, Kan., April 23, 1913. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, Washington, D. C. My Dear Senator—I am in receipt of your letter of the 12th inst., which to my surprise did not answer the questions submitted to you in my letter of the 8th inst. I am also in receipt of your speeches delivered in the Senate on the Brownsville affair and also several speeches on the race problem delivered in 1903. I find nothing in them that refers to the uplift of any race, but deals in personalities. They are individual cases of colored or white men that can be selected to discuss in any manner that one would see fit to appease his feelings, whether good or bad. What we would like to know is if you consider the Negro a fit subject for citizenship after fifty years of freedom, accumulation of wealth, owners of vast lands, and millions of educated men and women, who at this age are not looked upon as the "old type of Negro," for whom you erected a monument and who served you as faithful as your dog, but as human beings with a Christian religion and noble ideals? The former class of Negroes have passed away and a new man in the image of yourself has appeared upon the scene and demands the same things that you demand to make him happy. Now, I would like to know if you are a Christian and believe in the Holy Bible, the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and if you acknowledge the colored man as an American citizen and subject to the rights of the Constitution that you enjoy? In speaking of the Mongolian race, you say you object to them being on the same plane as the white man, but I see no statement from you concerning California and the other West- een States who are trying to bar the Mongolian race from the same rights as the white man. Japan has made her demand upon this country to prevent outrageous laws being enacted making their race inferior to the white man of this country and you, as United States Senator, acquiescing in this matter to such an extent that your mouth is shut and your ears deaf to the pleas of the whites in California, that they be allowed to enact laws that will relieve them of the Japanese invasion—obtaining land and going to school with their sons and daughters. Now, Senator, you should be at least fair to the colored people, who have made you and the other people of the South what you are today. Had it not been for men like Joe Gibson, your ex-slave and his people, the Southern white man would not have been able to educate himself or accumulate the vast wealth that he now holds. You say that the only attitude for safety of the Negro of this country is to acknowledge white supremacy? I do not see why you should demand that of him and not of the Japanese! They are notacknowledging this and they have flocked into this country, acquired your land and defying you to pass laws infringing upon their rights! Now that your race is so powerful and mighty, why do you not let the said states pass these anti-Mongolian laws, thereby showing their supremacy over the other races of the earth? You seem to hinge on the Republican party as being responsible for the attitude of the Negro in asking for equality of law and the ballot. No citizen should be compelled to look to any one party for their rights. The Democratic party should be as loyal as the Republican party in meeting out justice and enacting laws to all alike. I am afraid you are getting out of touch with the present-day conditions and. the rapid progress that is being made by the colored man. The wealth that they now control runs into millions and their schools and colleges are turning out men of every profession, who are making good, and their only hindrance is men like you and your teaching, who try to obstruct every move they make by referring to their color and not their brain and skill. There is no reason why the low, degraded, criminal white man should have any superiority over the well educated, unright colored man, and when you teach this you do a gross injustice to both races. Now please tell me what you will do with that portion of the race that was mixed during the days of slavery by white men, and if you insist that they be brought up on equality with their half brothers? I still have hope that you will play the part of Paul of Tarsus before you end up in this world, and depart for that great beyond, and that you will see the errors of your way and will call a halt on your white brethren, who believe as you do on the race question, and thereby cause a complete revolution in this country 'on this question. I hope that you will kindly answer this letter, especially these questions, and tell us whether you are in favor of making citizens out of them and give them the same chance as the white man, and if you believe that the degenerate, criminal white man is superior to the upright, honest colored man. Very respectfully. NICK CHILES. United States Senate. Washington, D. C., April 25, 1913. Nick, Clega, Euga, Topeka, Kan. Dear Sir—I have yours of April 23. I do not care to enter into a discussion with you on the "Race Question," for it would be fruitless of good results. You have your ideas and I have mine, and we would never come to any common ground. I believe the white man to be the superior race of the world. You think the Negroes are as good as the white and have been taught so by the Republican party. But the Republicans have flinched every time the matter was brought home to them in concrete way, and they only preach that doctrine for political effect and use. I am in favor of California keeping out Mongolians, because I believe the two races are non-assimilable; and I would not have the United States Government interfere in the slightest degree with the enactment in California to prevent these Mongolians from holding land in that State. You do not pretend to believe, I hope, that the Negroes are equal to the Japanese or approach them in ability, for all history would thunder in your ears "falsehood, liar!" The "low, degraded criminal white man" deserves no superiority over the well educated, upright colored man, and I do not contend that such white people alone should govern; but you pick out the lowest types of whites and the best types of Negroes and draw comparisons that are altogether misleading and unjust. I have known Negroes that were better than some white men, but that has nothing to do with the general proposition that the white race is superior to the Negro race or any other race on the globe, for all history proves it. Even the Japanese were taught by the Europeans what they now know. They have been apt scholars and are good fighters. That is all. But if the test ever comes, and I think the prospect is that it will come before long, the whites will whip the Japanese just as they have whipped all the other races. Do not be a fool because you have Do not be a fool because you have been to college. It is not worth while for you to write me any more letters, for I shall not notice them by replying. Respectfully. B. R. TILLMAN. To the charge of having attended a college, I most respectfully plead not guilty, and am sorry to be thus misrepresented by the Senator. N. G. Madre's Park is being refitted up for picnics, lawn fetes and all outdoor amusements. For terms and dates see M. A. D. Madre, 2227 Cleveland Avenue N. W. EVIL OF SATAN'S MONSTROUS LIE QUOTES JESUS' ASSERTION. The First Lie—Where It Was Told. Why It Was Told—To Whom It Was Told—Its Result—Its Repetition—The Disastrous Results to Humanity—All Manner of Crimes Are Its Fruitage. The Only Remedy—Why?—When? How? Harrisburg, Pa., May 18. — Pastor Russell's address today on Satan's great lie was a remarkable one in several ways. He really told his audience that they had all-been believing Satan's lie. And he really told spirit mediums that they were the mediums, not be- PASTOR RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL that they were the mediums, not between dead and living humans, but between humans and demons—the fallen angels. And yet the Pastor said all this in such a kindly, sympathetic manner that surely none could take offense. Evidently no offense was intended, but merely the presentation of what the speaker assuredly believes to be the teaching of the Bible. He opened his address by noting the fact that the common conception respecting Satan's appearance and whereabouts is wholly false, built not upon the Bible, but upon human tradition, human imagination, handed down from a darker day. The Pastor believes in a real, personal Satan, and believes him to be Beelzebub, the prince of demons. In other words, he believes the Bible to teach that Satan is an angel of higher rank than ordinary angels and possessed of superior powers. Hence he outranks those who are with him, and perforce is their leader, or prince. That Satan is not in some far-off place with his fallen angels, torturing millions of the human family in furnaces, the Pastor made very clear. He showed that nothing of the kind is taught in the Scriptures. On the contrary, they teach that Satan and his host, since the Deluge, are under restraint, confined to Tartarus, our earth's atmosphere. They cannot wander around the universe, as before. Satan is very literally, therefore, "the prince of the power of the air," and his associate demons are members of this aerial, or spirit power, malevolent as respects everything that is of God and righteousness, and especially the foes, therefore, of such of humanity as renounce the works of the flesh and the Devil, and seek to walk in the footsteps of Jesus. The Lie and Where Told. The lie was told in Eden. The serpent was used as Satan's tool. Satan himself was originally the only rebel. His associates, the fallen angels, were not with him in his rebellion until some time afterward. The Pastor would not say that the serpent could not speak under a satanic impulse or obsession or hypnosis, but he inclined to believe that the serpent spoke by its actions. He quoted the proverb which declares that "Actions speak louder than words." He thought that this was probably the way in which the serpent spoke to Mother Eve. God had forbidden our first parent to eat of a certain kind of fruit in the Garden, without telling them why. It was simply a test of their obedience, their loyalty to Him. He told them that disobedience, disloyalty, in this matter would result in their death He said nothing about eternal torment The wilful sinner, according to the Bible, is to die, to perish as a natural brute beast. God's favors are for only those who will abide in His Love. "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord." The serpent, by eating of the forbiden fruit without dying, but on the contrary being the wisest of all the beasts, seemed to give the lie to God's word. Through the serpent Satan declared to the woman, "Ye shall not surely die." Through the serpent, Satan also told Mother Eve that God evidently was trying to keep herself and her husband in ignorance, blindness, darkness; and that it was time for them to awake, to assert their rights, and to make the best of themselves, by eating of the forbidden fruit. Father Adam knew better, but when he found that his dear wife had eaten and thus had come under the sentence, or curse, of death, he was so discouraged that he determined to die with his wife, loving her so much that he would rather die with her than live without her. Satan's object in telling this lie, in decelving our first parent, was made very clear by the Pastor. From other Scriptures he pointed out that Satan for some time had been saying in his heart that he would like to have and to exercise still higher powers than those which he possessed. He would like to be "as the Most High." He would be a sovereign, who might work out his own plans. He had no thought of supplanting the Almighty, but had the pride to suppose that he could manage the universe better than God could; and that if he had a small section un- this and put the Almighty to the blush. When man was created, Satan's opportunity for exercising his ambition seemed to have come. Man possessed a power which the angels had not. He could propagate his own kind, and was commissioned to fill the earth with a population, and to bring it to Edenic perfection. Satan saw his chance. By capturing the first pair and making them his subjects and alienating them from the Almighty, he would capture a race, and eventually be the spiritual prince, or ruler, of this world. It was to carry out this program that he deceived our first parents and started his great lie. Satan's Plans Changed. When Satan perceived that his subjects were perishing and becoming imbecile, mentally and physically, he thought to circumvent the Divine penalty by introducing fresh vigor, life, into the human family. This he did by seducing some of the angels. Originally angels apparently had the power of materialization of taking human form or any other form that they might choose. Satan's program deflected some of these from their loyalty to God and to their nature, and induced them to materialise and live as human beings and rear human families, by taking human wives. The Pastor pointed out the Scripture which described this deflection of the angels. This, he said, must have progressed for centuries, according to the Bible account. The angelic "sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took unto themselves wives of all that they chose." There were born unto them children, "men of renown," intellectually, and giants physically. The virility of the angels grafted upon the human stock, produced a race in some respects superior, but in others very inferior. Begotten and born in opposition to the Divine will and in a rebellious attitude of heart, these giants were brutish, deyilish. Soon the earth was filled, with violence. The impaired race of Adam, enslaved mentally and physically, were rapidly being demonized also. So far as the record goes, only Noah and his fully, were of pure Adamite stock and loyal to God. Then the time came for the Deluge, which God had foreknown, and had withheld until this time. In it God swept away both the progeny of the angels and the impaired Adamite stock. None of those who received their life-principle from the angels were of Adamic stock. None of them, therefore, have any share in the redemptive work of Jesus, and hence none of them will have any part in the resurrection and restitution, which God has promised shall be accomplished by the glorious Messiah during the thousand years of His Messianic Kingdom. They merely perished—were blotted out in the Deluge as natural brute beasts, as St. Peter declares of all willful sinners of Adam's race—2 Peter 2:12. Satan. Thwarted. Tries Again. "The angels which, kept not their first estate"—who followed the leadership of Satan—were cast to Tartarus—our earth's atmosphere—and there are restrained for a time that they may not roam throughout the universe. (Jude 6.1) They are restrained also for a time from materializing in human form—Satan likewise. Thus Satan's plan for empire failed. But still rebellious in spirit, he took up a new line of battle against God. He would be content to use humanity, as his tools, even though they were imperfect and dying. They should be his slaves, and he would embitter them against God, and defeat God's plans on behalf of humanity. Satan realized that the secret of his power with mankind must lie in his deception of them. If men knew that they were being led captive into sin at the will of Satan and his fallen hosts, they would rebel against him. In order to hold humanity as far as possible his slaves, he realized that he must seduce them by fostering ignorance and superstition. He must alienate them from God. Therefore he caused them to think of God as a terrible being, unworthy of their love and confidence, one whom they might fear, but could not worship in spirit and in truth. As a basis for this great scheme of human enamoration and obsession, Satan used his original lie. For now four thousand years he has sought by every means in his power to instil that lie into the minds of all humanity in every land. He has his demon host to cooperate with him in making light appear darkness, and darkness appear light, to deceive mankind. How wonderfully he has succeeded the whole world is witness today. Notwithstanding the fact that man's five senses tell him that the dead are dead, the masses believe to the contrary--that the dead are more alive than before they died. Notwithstanding the consistency of God's Word, "Thou shalt surely die," and the inconsistency of Satan's lie, "Ye shall not surely die," the whole world is enslaved by Satan's lie. The Pastor declared that the Book of the Revelation pictures the condition of the world, in declaring that all nations will be made drunk with the wine of false doctrine. Spiritism, Obsession, Possession. While we must acknowledge that some spirit mediums are merely frauds, said the Pastor, we have every reason to believe that many of them are very sincere, but deceived. Many of them thoroughly believe that they communicate with the dead. Only the Bible can save any one from delusion. It alone shows us that a demon host is co-operating with Satan, to prove his lie and to enslave mankind and to separate them from the truth of God's Word. Witches, wizards and necromancers were forbidden in the land of Israel; and yet there were some there, and influenced such as were not fully in harmony with God. King Saul, we remember, sought the witch of Endor. The demons made certain things appear on the retina of the witch's eye. She described what she saw to King Saul. He recognized it as a description of the Prophet Samuel. The witch also communicated to Saul what purported to be the word of Samuel, and what was really the word of demons. -1 Chronicles 10:13. Satan's lie is still potent in the world, hindering millions from the knowledge of God and the appreciation of Hla Word. Frequently the spirits get such control of the minds and bodies of those who yield their wills, that they not only suffer obsession, but sometimes become absolutely possessed by these demons. Under such circumstances, they are generally considered to be insane, although doctors know that many of these have no mental disease, but are controlled by outside influence. The Pastor urged all to accept the testimony of God's Word—that death is the penalty for sin; that the death of Jesus is the Redemption-price from the curse of death, and that the resurrection of the dead, the raising up again to perfection of life, is the salvation of the Bible. Not only would this help us to come nearer to God, through a better understanding of the Bible, but it would help to free us from the various snares of the Adversary. Furthermore, he found in the Bible intimations that in the very near future these evil spirits would be permitted to break over their restraints, and that all not properly fortified by the truth on the subject would be liable to be specially ensnared by Satan's lie. He would not prophesy what this trouble would be, nor just how it would come, but he did forewarn his hearers. He urged all to come out from the influence of Satan and his slanders of the Almighty and his misrepresentations of facts, and to enlist under the banner of Jesus as servants of truth and righteousness. Satan the Father of Liez. Jesus declared Satan to be the Father of lies. This corroborates the thought that never until Satan started the course of sin was there any need for lies. All of God's dealing with the angels and their dealings with each other have been along the lines of simplicity, truth, purity, holliness. The first use for a lie was when Satan determined to exalt himself as the god of earth. It was to alienate our first parents from the Almighty that Satan lied to them, assuring them that disobedience to God would not bring the death penalty that God had declared. Ever since then, sin, abounding, has given temptation to misrepresentations, bearing false witness, etc. Selfishness was the foundation for the first lie. And selfishness continues to invite falsehood, even amongst those who see clearly how despicable falsehood is. And each falsehood seems to call for another to help justify it, and to cover up the selfishness which prompted it. No wonder the Apostle urges those who become Christians to put away lying, saying, "Lie not one to another." As Satan stands as the Father of lies; so God, on the contrary, stands as the Father of Truth. Our Lord not only said that Satan is the Father of lies, but intimated that the lying spirit is of Satan, saying to some of those who opposed the Truth. Ye are of your vour, the Devil, if his works ye do. "He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth." (John 8:44.) On the contrary, God, the Father of Lights and the Father of the Truth, is the personification of Light, Truth, even as Satan personifies darkness, error, falsehood The Children of the Light. The conflict between light and darkness, truth and error, has progressed for more than six thousand years. God's Word is always the Truth. Jesus prayed, "Sanctify them through Thy Truth; Thy Word is Truth." Satan's falsehoods are always injurious; hence the promise is that when Jesus, the Prince of Light, shall take His great power and reign. He will bind Satan, the Prince of Darkness, that he may deceive the nations no more. Here we have another corroboration of the fact that the great deceiving power amongst mankind for six thousand years has been a spiritual one—Satanic power. No wonder that under this domination of Satan we have had what St. Paul calls a reign of sin and death. No wonder the Bible declares that from the Divine standpoint the world has been in darkness! "Darkness covers the earth; gross darkness the heathen." Jesus came, and brought light into the world. But men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil, because sin has gained such a hold upon them, because it is easier for them to remain under the blinding influence of Satan than to come under the blessed light of the Gospel of Christ in the present time. It costs something now to be a follower of the Prince of Light, an opponent of the Prince of Darkness, whose realm is world-wide. How glad we are that the morning of the new Day is so near! As Jesus explains (Matthew 13:43) "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father." Himself and His elect Church, gathered from every nation and denomination, will constitute the glorious ruling Power of the New Dispensation. Jesus likens His Kingdom to the sun. As the sun scatters, the darkness of earth and drives away its mist, so will the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in its beams and scatter all the ignorance, superstition, falsehood, and bring to all mankind a true knowledge of God. The light of the knowledge of the glory of God shall fill the whole earth as the water covers the great deep! Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14. EXTEND TIME ON UNDERWOOD BILL Many Petitions From Business Men Urge Definite Action. ASK FOR SPECIFIC DATES. Secretary Redfield Confers With Senator Simmons of Finance Committee. Wool Rates Likely to Become Effective Nov. 1—Other Sections of Measure to Become Law Jan. 1, 1914. Washington.—The fixing of specific dates when certain features of the Underwood tariff bill shall become operative is being urged with such persistence as to presage success. It is desired to have the schedule comprising wool and manufactured articles thereof go into effect Nov. 1, leaving other sections of the measure to become a law Jan. 1, 1914. The general impression prevails that President Wilson favors this extension of time. The chief reason for such belief arises from the fact that Secretary, Redfield of the commerce department recently held a long conference with Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, on the proposition. Although Mr. Redfield is largely interested in manufacturing enterprises, it is not regarded as possible that he would advance a change of such significance and importance without the consent and approval of his chief. The argument used by Secretary Redfield was that those engaged in many lines of industry demand a fixed date when the tariff bill should go into operation. They desire to adjust their business affairs in advance and be pre [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit] SECRETARY WILLIAM C. REDFIELD. paired for the change. This is especially true of those manufacturing wool products. Great masses of petitions have been coming in from those conducting woolen business in all parts of the country praying that Schedule K be made effective Nov. 1. They urge an immediate announcement by congress of such intention. They explain that this is absolutely essential in order that contracts may be made on that basis and raw materials purchased with that understanding. Of almost equal importance was the suggestion brought to Senator Simmons by Secretary Redfield that the levy on incomes be laid only on those accruing after July 1, 1913, and not beginning with Jan. 1 of this year. This would defer the gathering of an income tax for six months. The plea is advanced that an attempt to tax incomes accruing after Jan. 1, 1913, might be regarded as retroactive legislation and be pronounced unconstitutional by the supreme court. Winfred T. Denlson, assistant attorney general, and James F. Curtis, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of customs, are the authors of an amendment of farreaching importance. It had been previously laid before Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee. It has the indorsement of the attorney general and the secretary of the treasury. There is a possibility that it may be approved by the finance committee and presented in the senate before debate begins. Under the proposed amendment the secretary of the treasury would be given authority to proclaim the dutiable value of any merchandise as finally decided by the appraisers in case of no appeal to be the dutiable value. But whenever in the judgment of the secretary it is practicable to make a general schedule of dutiable values he may from time to time proclaim such values, publish them to take effect in no case less than fifteen days after publication, and "in the absence of such announcement proclamation shall take effect at the close of such fifteenth day, and such proclamation shall continue in effect until revoked or modified by the secretary upon sixty days' notice." Such proclaimed values by the secretary would be used in lieu of foreign market values, thereby steadying the customs case as derived from an ad valorem system. WAITER, MARRIES HEIRESS. Check and Blessing From Traction Magnate, Father of Bride Boston.—George A. Lamassee, "the handsomest waiter in Boston," has captured an heirress, Miss Nancy Redding, daughter of Michael J. Redding, a Baltimore traction magnate and president of the Democratic club of Oriole City. The couple were married, it has just become known, at the Boston Cathedral of the Holy Cross on May 1. Lamassee halls from Providence. He was captain of waiters at the Foller Bergere restaurant, New York city. Then he came to Boston and got a job a month ago in the Copley-Plaza hotel in the Back Bay. He waited on Miss Redding at the latter hotel, and it was a case of love at first sight. Though Mr. Redding, it is said, often told his daughters he would rather they be wedded to workingmen than idle society youths, he gave a gasp 'tis reported, when told of Miss Nancy's quick match. He barely got here in time to attend the wedding, but he gave the pair a check and a blessing. Jack Redding, the bride's brother, was best man. Lamassee will manage a restaurant in an amusement park partly owned by his father-in-law at Oll City, Pa. BLIND MAN'S MEMORY FEAT. Recalls 'Friend's Voice After Twenty-two Years. Vancouver, Wash.—The ability of Fred Lester, recently stricken blind, to recognize by his voice a man whom he had not heard speak for twenty-two years was demonstrated here. Having lived in the city for so many years, Mr. Lester goes about by use of a cane. His eyes look normal. When standing at Fifth and Main streets he was addressed by G. W. Holder, who had come to Vancouver for a short visit after being away twenty-two years. He asked Mr. Lester if the car went past a certain point, and when Mr. Lester had answered the question he added, "And, Mr. Holder, I am pleased to greet you." It was not until then that Mr. Holder recognized his friend of long ago. DUFFY BRIBERY CASE WILL COME UP NEXT Former inspector Sweeney to Face Graft Charges. New York.—District Attorney Whitman now plans to put Sergeant Peter J. Duffy on trial next. Duffy, who is alleged to have collected graft for Sweeney when he was in command of the Sixth police inspection district, is under indictment for bribery, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of fifteen years. It is the district attorney's intention to move for Duffy's trial immediately. The district attorney, after Duffy's trial, expects to put Sweeney on trial for grafting and after him the other three convict inspectors. The grand jury is soon to take up the question of graft collected in the Tenderloin by an inspector who formerly ruled there, much after the manner that Sweeney, Hussey, Murtha and Thompson ruled in Harlem. This inspector not only profited through winking at violations of the law on the part of disorderly houses, gambling houses and saloons, but he shared in the profit of all "snide" gambling games where everything was fixed for the victim to be fleeced. This inspector is also said to have shared in the huge sums of money that wire tapper swindlers obtained from out of town men, and in his investigation of this inspector District Attorney Whitman has come across fresh evidence against a high police official whose chief sources of illegitimate revenue are the wire tappers and the fortune tellers who are permitted to evade the law. WANTS A "SANEISH" WIFE. Lonely Man Also Says She Must Be Fairly Young. Los Angeles.-"Wanted, a wife. Candidates must furnish proof that they are of sanelsh origin and must be less than twenty-five years of age." Those were the specifications contained in a letter received by the county clerk from a man in Redding, Cal. The lonely man's modesty withheld his name, signing only his initials. The letter was turned over to the marriage license bureau, where all candidates may apply. PRISONER'S LEG BY EXPRESS. Detective Takes Unusual Precautions to Prevent Charge's Escape Chicago. - When Sergeant George Wilson of the Chicago detective bureau started from Portland, Ore., with George Hampton, alias T. E. York, wanted here on a charge of forgery, in his custody he took what he believed to be adequate measures to prevent his prisoner's escape. Wilson removed Hampton's wooden leg before boarding the train and shipped it to Chicago by express. Five Legged Colt Julletta, Ida. - Harve Southwick, a farmer of the Cream Ridge district, has a Percheron colt with five legs. The fifth leg is joined to the left front foot at the ankle, then branching into a perfect foot. HUERTA ACCUSED OF HIGH TREASON Formal Charges Made by Former Mexican Congressman. PENALTY MAY BE DEATH. H. Barron, Former Madero Agent Forwards Document to Mexican House of Representatives From New York City Citing Grounds For Articles of Impeachment. New York.—Charges of rebellion and treason, of usurpation of functions and violence against prisoners have been preferred against General Victorian Huerta, provisional president of Mexico, by Heriberto Barron, who was commercial agent at New York for General Francisco Madero, constitutional president of Mexico, who was assassinated on the night of Feb. 22 this year, when on the way, as Huerta's prisoner, from the national palace to a prison on the outskirts of the capital. Senator Barron, formerly a member of the Mexican congress from the [Image of a military officer in uniform, wearing a cap and a military uniform with a badge.] GENERAL VICTORIANO HUERTA state of Chihuahua, is now a resident of this city. His charges have been forwarded to the City of Mexico, and they will be laid before the house of representatives there. Accompanying the charges is a petition urging that General Huerta be impeached and subjected to the penalty for his alleged crimes, which is death under the constitution of Mexico. There are three separate counts in Senor Barron's complaint and petition, and each count is supported by quotations from the Mexican constitution and from the code of military law. General Huerta, it is alleged, was a traitor from the time General Felix Dlaz got out of prison, making no effective use whatever of his troops finally sacrificing them in an impossible attack on the Dlaz forces, after which he deprived President Madero of the loyal troops guarding the palace, substituting for them the traitorous soldiers of General Blanquet. Then, says Senor Barron, there were several secret conferences between General Huerta and the American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson. One or these conferences, it is averred, was on Feb. 17, the very day before Huerta and Blanquet came out in open revolt and ordered the imprisonment and detention in the national palace of President Madero, Vice President Jose M Pino Suarez, several members of the cabinet, the governor of the federal district and Congressman Gustavo Madero, a brother of the president. The code of military law is quoted to show that General Huerta was guilty of rebellion and treason in that he withdrew from the obedience of the government, used his troops in hostility to the government and insisted a report The Mexican military code provides the penalty of death for any officer whose unnecessary violence against a prisoner causes the death of the prisoner. On that count Senor Barron calls for the death of Huerta because of the assassination of Madero when in Huerta's custody. It is alleged that the statement which General Huerta gave to the press and public regarding the circumstances of Madero's death was deliberately false. In concluding his petition Senor Barron says: "It is shameful for Mexico that even for a few weeks there could have endured a spurious government based upon treason, usurpation and crime Mexico forms part of the civilized world. Her social, commercial, literary and other relations with the rest of the universe oblige us to maintain before other nations a decorous attitude, be cause in modern times there is not a nation which can endure while delivering herself to acts of savagery horrifying to the civilized world." Invents Nonrefillable Bottle. San Quentin, Cal.-With the time at his disposal in the last eleven months of his seven year term for burglary, E. J. McCalla, a prisoner employed as a waiter for the officers' table at the prison here, has perfected a patent nonrefillable bottle device which he asserts will net him a fortune upon his release two years hence. The device can be fitted to any bottle. CANCER STUDY AT HARVARD. A Special Investigation of the Effect of Radium to Be Made. Cambridge, Mass. - The effect of radium in the treatment of cancer is to be made the subject of a special investigation under the direction of Dr. William Duane at the Harvard medical school. For the present the experiments will be conducted in the Collis P. Huntington building, but as soon as possible a special building is to be constructed adjoining the medical school and devoted entirely to the work of radium investigation. Dr. Duane has studied in the laboratory of Mme. Curle, the discoverer of Radium, and has been in touch also with the work of the Radium institute in London. The investigation is to be made under the supervision of the cancer commission of Harvard. Dr. E. E. Tyzzee, director of the commission says that a group of investigators is being assembled to attack the problem of cancer treatment from various points of view. WILL WED ONLY THE SOUND. Montclair Pastor Will Insist on a Certificate of Good Health. Montclair, N. J.-The Rev. Henry E Jackson, pastor of the Christian Union Congregational church here, has announced he will perform no more marriages without a certificate signed by the physician of the bride to be that the intended bridegroom is in perfect health. At the coming annual meeting of Unity church the members will vote on the question as to whether the pastor, Rev. Edgar S. Weirs, shall perform the marriage ceremony without having first obtained from each of the contracting parties a medical certificate that they are physically sound. The eugenics movement in Montclair is attracting considerable attention, interest in the subject having been aroused by recent addresses of Dr. Henry Smith Williams, Professor H. E Jordan of the University of Virginia Dean Sumner of Chicago and Clifford Roe, also of Chicago. Venice, Cal.-Miss Ethel Johnston, a beautiful young woman from Dayton, arrived here in begrimed and torn boy's costume to join her fance. Miss Johnston and J. L. Perry had been sweethearts in Dayton. The youth moved west a short time ago, the better to prepare a home for his sweetheart, and was beginning to see the silver lined cloud when the flood swept down upon Dayton. Miss Johnston was making her home with her aunt in that city and suffered the loss of her only relative as well as her home. She cut her hair short, donned boy's clothing and struck out with but a few dollars for the coast. She traveled almost the entire distance, on freight trains, in empty box cars, on flat cars, brake beams and bumpers, only occasionally being able to obtain the comfort of the speedy blind baggage car. Once, when she was discovered riding a brake beam, she was taken into the engine and made to stoke to earn her passage. She reached Venice almost famished but happy. She did not stop to change her toilet, but as soon as she learned the Perry residence ran all the way there and threw herself into her fiance's arms. Perry and his mother have provided the girl with feminine attire, and the couple will go to San Francisco to be married. CLARENCE DARROW "BROKE." Labor Unions Asked to Raise Fund For McNamaras' Lawyer. Chicago.—Clarence S. Darrow surprised the Chicago Federation of Labor at a meeting here by walking in and taking a seat. He was given a rousing reception and addressed the federation on the child labor question. Later it developed that Darrow's fortune of $150,000 had been swallowed up in his two trials. A letter was read from President Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners calling on all union labor organizations to subscribe to a fund to assist Darrow in his third trial. This move was indorsed by the federation, and collections will be made. The trial is set for June 18. Uses Fire to Stop Dog Eight. Bellefontaine, O.-Fire was used to separate fighting bulldogs after they had created a panic in the Big Four station and driven people scurrying from the platforms. It appeared impossible to separate the dogs, which seemed to be in a death clutch, until a commercial traveler, using his own cigar and that of another man, pressed the lighted ends against the noses of the two combatants. Will Keep Evans' Diary Secret London.-Mrs. Evans, widow of Seaman Evans, one of the victims of Scott's antarctic expedition, who received her husband's diary from the hands of Commander Evans, says that she is forbidden to publish the diary for two years. SING SING CALLED A TORTURE HOUSE MEN GRIPPLED FOR LIFE Governor's Investigator Asserts That Cells Drip With Moisture and Are Infested With Vermin—Morals the Worst Feature—Graft and Waste Alleged—Colonel Scott Flayed. Albany.—"Stories of torture of prisoners in the middle ages sound like descriptions of luxuries in comparison to the tales that have been told me of the lives that some of the prisoners in Sing Sing live." This indictment of New York state's oldest penal institution is embodied in the report made by George W. Blake of New York, a special commissioner appointed by Governor Sulzer to investigate prison affairs. The worst feature—that dealing with the morals of the convicts—Mr. Blake says cannot be discussed in a public document, but should be called to the immediate attention of those competent to deal with the situation. The investigator describes conditions as "frightful." The prison cells, he says, are dark, small, damp, filthy and infested with vermin. In them men contract rheumatism and go out crippled for life. Into none of the cells on the lower tiers has a ray of sunshine entered for eighty years. The report opens with a bitter attack on Warden Kennedy and on Colonel Joseph F. Scott, who was removed as superintendent of state prisons by Governor Sulzer after he had refused to appoint Charles F. Ratigan warden of PETER M. BURGESS Photo by American Press Association. COLONEL JOSEPH F. SCOTT. Photo by American Press Association. COLONEL JOSEPH F. SCOTT. Auburn prison. Colonel Scott was appointed superintendent of prisons after a successful administration, covering more than ten years, of the affairs of the Elmira reformatory. He was considered one of the foremost penologists in the country. President Taft summoned Colonel Scott to Washington to preside over the international conference on prison reform held there two years ago. Mr. Blake in his report assails Colonel Scott bitterly and says flatly that he has done nothing to earn his reputation. Mr. Blake asserts that because of influence exerted by men well known in various walks of life money has been wrung from persons seeking clemency for prisoners, but in some cases the favors bought were "not delivered." The commissary department of the prison, according to Mr. Blake, "is run along incompetent if not dishonest lines. There is criminal carelessness if not downright grafting. Signs that this is the case stick out as plentifully as quills on the back of a frightened porcupine." John S. Kennedy, warden of Sing Sing, is charged by Mr. Blake with having violated the law. "He has permitted the creation and continuance of unbusinesslike methods," says the report, "and has caused the state to lose thousands of dollars in a way that points directly to graft. He has made no attempt to protect the inmates from disease and vice nor any effort to produce better conditions in this prison." Mr. Blake says he was told stories, amply corroborated, of such frightful character as to appeal to the most unfeeling person. The cells on the ground floor, he says, drip with moisture, so that the inmates in many cases have become victims of chronic rheumatism. Many pages of the report are devoted to a criticism of the industrial department of the prison. Mr. Blake says that there has been a constant decrease in the profits, which have dropped from $70.749 in the first six months of 1910 to $30.052 in the first six months of 1912. In the course of his investigation on the commissary department of the prison Mr. Blake says that, according to the records, 400 pounds of beef went to Warden Kennedy's table during the month of March. Commenting generally on the conduct of this department of the prison Mr. Blake says he found enormous waste, while the prisoners as a rule, were underfed. 'AGED VETERAN A WOMAN. Soldiers' Home Inmate Posed Fifty Years as a Man. Quincy, Ill.-The sex of Albert D. J. Cashler, civil war veteran and an inmate of the Soldiers and Sailors' home here, has just been revealed by Colonel J. O. Anderson, superintendent of the home, to be feminine. The woman, whose real name will probably never be known, served three years in the Union army during the civil war. She was mustered out of the service in 1865 and a few years later was placed on the government pension roll. She entered the soldiers' home two years ago, and at that time her sex was known only to Colonel Anderson, who promised not to reveal her secret. A short time ago she was adjudged insane, and as a result she was committed to the state hospital. Revelation of her sex was made two years ago in Livingston county, Ill., where she was employed by ex-Senator I. M. Lish as chauffeur. It is said by the ex-senator that one day his machine would not run and the chauffeur crawled under the car. While she was tampering with the mechanism the engine started suddenly, and the wheels of the car passed over her, breaking her right leg. When the chauffeur was taken to a hospital it was discovered that she was a woman. TO TRY FLIGHT TO ENGLAND. Aero Yacht to Start by July 1, Says Boston Official. Savannah, Ga.—A Batson aero yatch will start by July 1 for a flight across the Atlantic ocean, according to the statement made here by a representative of the company. It is the purpose of the Batson Interests to fly from Savannah to New York with a letter from Mayor Richard J. Davant to Mayor William J. Gaynor. Then the trip will be extended to Washington, where, with a letter from President Wilson to King George, the start on the transatlantic flight will be attempted. Captain M. A. Batson, U. S. A., retired, is the inventor and designer of the new air craft. His officers express confidence of winning the prize of $50,000 offered by Lord Northcottle through the London Daily Mall for the first transatlantic flight. SCIENTISTS NEARING LIFE'S BORDERLAND Tests Tend to Show a State This Side of Death. Baltimore.—Recent investigations in the laboratories of the Johns Hopkins Medical school seem to indicate a state intermediate between life and death, since life in many organisms may be suspended by freezing in liquid air and by other processes and then may be resuscitated. Bacteria, the lowest plant organisms, have enormous powers of resisting death. Bacteria of various diseases are seen in the laboratory frozen in liquid air at a temperature of 300 degrees F. There are instances of the lives of frogs, rats, snails and fish being suspended by this freezing process, yet on being "thawed out" after several weeks they revive. These animals are perfectly normal when placed in a refrigerating jar filled with liquid air at a certain temperature. After a short time the animals appear lifeless. A month later they are removed and on being massaged show signs of life, often reviving completely. Recently successful efforts were made in the medical school to revive the apparently dead-heart of an animal. As explained by Dr. Alexis Carrel, who recently lectured before the student body here, in about five cases out of ten the heart of a chicken took on renewed energy several hours after death. Immediately after death the heart was frozen and preserved. A few hours later it was resuscitated by massage. TELEPHONE BREEDS INSANITY German Alienist Says "Central" Drives Man to Madness. Berlin—Remarkable evidence as to the effect of the telephone upon the minds of people using it was given in a trial here. Dr. Strauch, a commissioner in lunacy, said that even phlegmatic men might have their mental balance upset by exasperation at getting no reply from "central." He mentioned the case of one of his own patients, a well known doctor, who became completely insane through telephone exasperation. Dr. Paechter, another witness, asserted that he could bring evidence to show that government telephone girls had been permitted by the inspectors to utilize one of the big exchanges for the reception of their flances. One amusement of the girls of this exchange was to look up all subscribers having the same name, to connect all of them, ring them all up and laugh loudly at the result. Tacoma Birds Night Bingers. Tacoma, Wash.—Mrs. Clara Gillespie of 4130 South Yakima avenue reports that Tacoma has birds that sing in the night. "We have an orchard that is frequently visited by these night singing birds," said Mrs. Gillespie. "They warble and trill very prettily, although I have never been able to see one." THE BEE Published at 1109 Eye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, 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 NEW BOARD MEMBER The appointment of Mr. W. T. Galliher and Dr. C. W. Childs to the Board of Education will meet the hearty approval of the people. Both men are well qualified and are popular among the people. Dr. Childs is well acquainted with the public schools and is no doubt the best qualified man to place upon the Board of Education to represent the colored schools. He is no doubt the very best man who has ever been appointed on the Board to represent the colored schools, and The Bee beespeaks for him a most successful career. There are several fine traits in the character of Dr. Childs. His first interest is the success and welfare of the schools, white and colored. He is fully able to defend the schools against attacks. No man is better qualified, white or colored. He is able to walk into a school room and take part in the lessons and assist the teacher if necessary. No such man of color has ever been appointed on the Board of Education. He will support the school administration as long as the administration is right, and is fully able to defend the best interests of the schools. He is the man to represent the schools before Congress, which very often becomes necessary. There were many treacherous demagogues who were candidates and ambitious aspirants who wanted to satisfy their personal interests. Dr. Childs doesn't carry two faces. He always speaks well of every man and endeavors to reform those who need reformation. The great trouble with many colored men who have been elevated to the Board of Education, it is not long before they lose their heads and come to the conclusion that it was their great intellectual powers that elevated them. But, what failures many of them make and have made, when they have been placed in positions to demonstrate their intellectual worth. Neither Childs nor Mr. Galliher will become effected with the fever of conceit or deception. The judges could not have made two better appointments. The Bee knew from the beginning, so far as the colored member was concerned, that Dr. Childs stood the best show. The Bee has nothing to say against the retiring member. He started out to make one of the best members the board has ever had. Of course he had his opinion and his way of expressing it. The Bee will say that there was no deception or conceit in him. He never would allow any personal feeling to influence him against the relatives of others while he was a member of the board. He would fight the individual and not the daughter or son or the father or mother. Whatever his faults may have been, The Bee shall ever hold him in the highest esteem. "Gratitude is the fairest flower that blooms in the human heart; ingratitude is stronger than traitor's arms." CHARACTER ASSASSINATION. There has been altogether too much freedom in gossip which connected the names of teachers. There have been some, altogether too many, who have permitted their gossip tongues to wag unbridled when they fell to discussing teachers. School teaching is by far the most important, and the highest of professional callings. A school teacher has the moulding of lives—young lives just at an impressionable age. If teachers can be talked about with Now that details of the first day of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg have been decided upon, it will be interesting to relate that said event is to be opened with the following ceremonies: Opening prayer by the chaplain of the Grand Army of the Potomac; oration by Governor Tener; addresses by an equal number of representatives of the Grand Army and the United Confederate Veterans; closing prayer by the chaplain of the United Confederate Veterans. The principal exercises will be held in a huge tent near the scene of Pickett's charge. The occasion is to be called a Reunion! A Reunion of whom? Only of the men who fought for the preservation of the Union and the extinction of human slavery? Is it to be an assemblage of those who fought to destroy the Union and perpetuate slavery, and who are now employing every artifice and argument known to deceit and sophistry to propagate a national sentiment in favor of their nefarious contention that emancipation, reconstruction and enfranchisement are dismal failures? The truth is that, in the light of the facts, the term Réunion is a misnomer, for the very plain reason that such conflicting sentiments as are represented by the respective participants are irreconcilable and because there has never been a union either in fact or in name. The coming together of these two hitherto contending forces may very properly be called a Reception, at which the victors propose to demonstrate a spirit of fraternal nobility and genuine hospitality, predicated upon the reasonable assumption that the results of the Civil War are sincerely admitted to be irrevocably settled. But will this "olive branch" be accepted in the spirit in which it is tendered? Has the South ever shown a disposition to "bury the hatchet," to "shake hands across the bloody chasm" and to join hands in actualizing those grand principles of liberty, justice and fraternity evoked by the constitution as amended? We fear not, And why not? Because the spirit which prompted the threat of Toombs that he would call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill—a spirit which denied the Negro the right to emancipation, either physical, intellectual or moral—still dominates the Southern whites as evidenced by Negro disfranchisement, Jim-crowism, peonage and the many oppressive and unjust laws and customs to which the race is subjected. And, further, because the South has thus far studiously abstained from any public or legislative expression indicative of her desire to fraternize with the North, except upon the condition that the latter stultify itself by an insane and servile acknowledgment that the most precious results of the war are a prodigious, unmitigated failure. Moreover, the battle of Gettysburg, while one of the decisive events of the Civil War, was one in which the colored soldier was peculiarly inconspicuous, participation in the anniversary of which will not, therefore, be altogether objectionable to the over-sensitive Southern white brother. Besides, it will afford an opportunity to further display that Italian diplomacy which has characterized the Southern politician ever since the formation of the government and which is epitomized in a sentence uttered by John Quincy Adams in 1841. "When the South cannot effect her objects by brow-beating, she wheedles." Not having been altogether successful at brow-beating, the South will wheedle the North at Gettysburg, wheedle, just as did Senator Daniels when he glorified Mat Quay for his political apostacy in defeating the so-called "force bill," by saying that the measure was "fraught with woe and horror to the people of the South and of permanent detriment to American institutions;" wheedle as did Senator Morgan on the same occasion, in commendation of the same inglorious act on the part of Quay, when the former characterized the friends of the same measure as "men who violated the capitulation of Lee and Grant, and had waged a war of depredation in the South through political machinery with the Negro race as the driving power." This dope was incorporated in memorial addresses delivered in the Senate, on the life and character of Mathew Stanley Quay, though sugar-coated, in true Southern style. A more abundant and spectacular display of indelicate wheedle may be expected at Gettysburg, the same malignant and audacious misrepresentation of the Negro and his friends, the same ungracious and inconsistent argument designed to humiliate the North and to glorify the white South. While admitting the sincerity of the Northern projectors of the Gettysburg affair, it would not be amiss to inquire, why this studious avoidance of celebrating events in which the Negro soldier has prominently figured? Is the heroic valor displayed by the Negro, in his fight for freedom and the defense of the Union less virtuous, less meritorious, or less appreciated than that shown by those who fought for disunion and the perpetuation of the infamous blot of human slavery? Gor forbid !! abandonment, their usefulness must necessarily be impaired. No mercy should be shown him or her who circulates rumors, unfounded rumors, regarding teachers. They should be given the law's limit for slander, and neither sex nor age should be spared when the guilty have been located. And when a teacher has been found who becomes an accessory to slander by giving currency to some slanderous story regarding a teacher such teacher or teachers should be summarily dismissed. For some years the gossiper, in Washington, has gone on, unmolested, casting suspicion upon those whose lives have been above reproach. For some years, gossip-mongers have exaggerated the most commonplace bit of innocence into an awful, hurtful rumor. And when a teacher becomes the victim these vultures of society, the gossip-mongers, fairly revel in delight in painting fair characters a hideous black. The matter has reached a point where action against defamers of characters must take the place of tolerance. A woman's character is too pricely a jewel to be tarnished by gossip. A man's character is too great an asset to be marred by the gossiper's rumors. Decent men and women, men and women who place the proper high estimate on character, should band themselves together to expose and estop every vulture in society who spreads his or her pinions to alight upon character. And school authorities have resting upon them the grave responsibility of protecting the teachers, as well as pupils, against vicious charges, and no compromising attitude towards the circulators of vicious should be allowed. Character assassination has reached the limit of tolerance in Washington. REGISTER'S OFFICE. should be permitted to hold office by false pretenses. The public schools in this city are infected with a few of these animals. Many of them are too ugly to be white and too white to be black, so let them go. The Kingdom has been abolished and many of the would-be members are struggling for existence. LEWIS E. JOHNSON. The celebration last week by the 12th Street 'Y. M. C. A., of its first anniversary, brings to light the successful and consecrated work of its promoters, especially that of its executive secretary, Mr. Lewis E. Johnson, who is primarily responsible for the active promotion and supervision of the work. Mr. Johnson has done well indeed. Many thought the task impossible, but he has shown the value of having a man on the job "who knows how." His great interest in other things concerning our people in this city has helped him greatly in his own work. He is a graduate of Howard University Law School, a member of the District Bar, a Mason, superintendent of Metropolitan A. M. E. Sunday school and a trustee of that church, a member of the Ministers' Union, President of the Association Tennis Club, and of the Protective Rights Association, a member of the Lindsey Social Centre and the Mu-So-Lit Club. He is a race man from his heart. He fought a civil rights case in Ohio through all the inferior courts up to the Supreme Court of the State, where he won a judgment which established a precedent in that State regarding Smith's Civil Rights Bill. He had a colored attorney, Mr. Alex H. Martin. His Y. M. C. A. work in Buxton, Iowa, before coming to Washington attracted almost national attention. He practically put the town of Buxton on the map. The profession of Y. M. C. A. secretary is a new one, but it ranks up with those of the first rank and is one which affords an unparalleled opportunity for service to your own people. It is calling for the best men in our race. Mr. Johnson's work deserves the heartiest commendation. The Bee congratulates him and his coworkers. It is a great thing to make good on a new and a big undertaking. It takes the right man in the right place and this is what Johnson is. THE CARDOZA CASE. The charge preferred against Dr. Francis Cardoza, and upon which he was tried, was a most serious one. No one can estimate what must have been his anguish, his misery and his grief, and that of his family while resting under that charge. Had he been guilty the limit of the penalty provided for by the law ought to have been his reward. Now that he has been acquitted, after a fair and impartial trial, with the prosecution having been given every opportunity to prove the charges, his friends, the school authorities, and the public are in duty bound to help make him, so far as it is possible so to do, forget the many long weeks of suffering he has passed, and restore him to full brotherhood. Guiltless though he may be, and which twelve sworn men have said, and a court pronounced, whatever is done for him, although his friends, the authorities and the public may go the limit in kindness, can never fully atone for the grief and mortification he has suffered. He has one consolation, however, his friends remained true to him; they never wavered in their loyalty to him, and in their belief that he was the victim of an outrageously false indictment. The memory of how steadfast his friends stood by and aided him ought to pierce the gloom of misery with a ray of light, and make him, which we believe he will do, consecrate the remainder of his life to helpfulness to others. His prompt, and unconditional restoration to his position, and in the confidence of all at once becomes a duty, not an alternative. And while referring to this case, we might add that if there was more of the spirit of uplift rampant in this city, and less of the spirit of the iconoclast lives would be sweeter and the bonds of friendship stronger, and fewer hearts would be bowed in grief. Let us help to hold men's heads up instead of conspiring to bow them down. . RALPH W. TYLER Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the Navy, who will retire from the position in which he has so well distinguished himself as a government official has been selected by the board of directors of the National Negro Business League of the United States as national organizer of that organization. Mr. Tyler is a thoroughbred gentleman and a man of ability. By profession, he is a high-class journalist and a man of national reputation. The Negro Business League, to which he has connected himself, is today the greatest factor among the colored business people in this country and it has been of great value and importance to the colored people throughout this country. Mr. Tyler will need no introduction to the people, because he is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to the gulf. The Negro Business League, with such a man as national organizer, will be a force in this country, and The Bee bespeaks for it a new emancipation among the Negroes. He knows his people, he knows how to unite them in business enterprises; believes that politics should be an incident and not the direct object of Negro citizenship. A new era in the business world will be the guiding star of Negro progress. Mr. Tyler is the man to infuse new life in this great organization, which will place the colored American upon a basis that will command the respect and admiration of a despised and outraged race of people. Let every business man and woman in the United States come to his aid and demonstrate to the world that the Negro possesses that element of manhood and industry that will make him a potent factor in the business and commercial world. Let us begin at home. Let President Daniel Freeman, of the local business league demonstrate his capability as president of our local that he is the local force and that his league will be found among the greatest in the land. TILLMAN'S LIBERALITY. Senator Tillman, writing to Nick Childs, of the Topeka Plain-dealer, recently said: "About a year ago, my old colored friend, Joe Gibson, who lived with me thirty years, died. I spent seventy-five dollars to have a granite monument placed over his grave to commemorate his good qualities." Yes, and we venture to say that old Joe Gibson, during those thirty years never received as much for his honest labor as $20.00 per month. Old Joe Gibson earned that $75 monument and far more for his honest toil which went unrequited by the one-eyed paralytic whose stock in trade is censure of Negroes. Senator Tillman is very liberal to a dead Negro. Get a wiggle. Everybody hit the scandal-monger square between the two eyes. Business is something we should teach the young. Teach them to enter business with better grace than entering politics. And Rev. J. Milton Waldron, that erstwhile brave conservator of the rights of his people, has never opened his mouth against the treatment the Democratic party is according his race. Why the silence? If Bishop Walters would preserve, or rather would mend his prestige; he will forever eschew politics. He dragged his ermin once too often through the political mire. Those who followed his lead have discovered that he either did not have any assurance upon which to base a hope, or he was outrageously lied to. We advise the bishop to stick to his church duties in the future. The colored government employees in the government service here will never know how much they were indebted to Ralph Tyler for the expose and breaking down of the Democratic Fairplay Association. It was he who first opened up on them, and he followed them up like a Pinkerton sleuth, hunting down their records and seeing that the records and actions got to places where it would do good. He even appealed to the President in the matter. Practically alone Ralph Tyler has wrecked the organization. The jubilation of colored Democracy has subsided and conditions are normal. (By the Sage of the Potomac.) I employed the Burns Detective Agency last week to get a elew on the new Black Cabinet, and while the whole force has been on the job, they reported to me yesterday that they can't get a line on it. On the 4th of March the Black Cabinet was composed of about fifty aspirants, and now you can't get one of them to even admit he was ever a candidate. Bishop Walters, at his personally conducted banquet, stepped out of the line of his judiciously chosen words, to tell the Republican officeholders that they might as well pack their trunks, for his boys were going to hand their places. When he said that, Frank Wheaton waved his red bandanna, Harrisburg Wood took off his glasses and danced the tango, Jim Ross forgot the gout down in his number eights and yelled himself hoarse, Peter Smith just threw a fit, Nap Marsh gave the Chautauqua salute, and Charley Barnes and the rest of the five ones stood up and made gooogoe eyes at prospective jobs. Then R. Wordy went off and wrote four hundred and forty-eleven notices to his newspapers saying that we would have another Black Cabinet mighty soon, and Bishop Walters would name every mother's son of them. That's been two months ago, and yet the first member of the new Black Cabinet ain't arrived, nor even had a chance to look at Woody in the Big House. Peter Smith is still waiting on corns and bunyuns, Harrisburg Wood has gone home in disgust, Frank Wheaton is wearing his silk tile out looking the part of a minister to Liberia without the appointment, Jim Ross is somewhere in the wiles of Michigan looking for a dugout where he can hide himself, Nap Marshall ain't saying a word—just as mum as an oyster after the bivalve has been dropped in the soup turene, and Charley Barnes is looking for a job in some town not quite so strenuous as Washington. And R. Wordy, who was handed a lemon by the whole bunch, is cogitating to himself: "If I had of only stop to think twice." But the Bishop made everybody believe he was next and could hand out plums by the gross. And I guess he thought so himself. The Bishop, who is an amateur in politics, was handed a green lemon. The old Black Cabinet is disfigured beyond redemption. They are scattered to the four winds, and the little room down to Jim Grays, where they used to meet every day and solve all State and financial problems, will see them no more. I kinder hate it'cause Woody didn't limber up and hand these Negro Democrats something. Getting right down to brass tacks, it don't help the race, nor the Negro Republicans, to have Woody refuse them a handout. I'm mighty sorry for Bishop Walters, 'cause he worked hard, and meant to serve his race. And I am mighty sorry for' the bunch of aspirants who hung around here till they blew their last nickle for a blind robin waiting for something to turn up. But it sure does look as though there will be nothing doin' for Ham for the next four years. I guess Kelly Miller will tell all about how the Negro Democrats missed connections with this administration in the next number of his (Kelly Miller)'s periodical. *** Speaking about Kelly reminds me that there ain't a man this side of Willow-tree Alley who can discuss a deep proposition and arrive at a conclusion to please all better than Kelly. He has got one of those mathematical minds what can add, subtract, multiply or divide and get the same results. That boy Miller is a wonder. The only trouble with Kelly he won't fight. You can crowd him to the last ditch and he just smiles, and reasons on in a circle. If I had all the dope in my billiard ball that that anthracite professor has stored up in his top-piece I'd make 'em think up at Howard that I was old Atlas himself, doing business on the installment plan. They tell me that when Methusala Newman tells Kelly to go away back and sit down, Kelly just moves over to the back part of the room, dusts off a soft spot in the chair and curls up and goes to sleep. Now, Kelly is the biggest noise there is up at that educational garage, and if he only knew it he could back all off the board. But you see he just won't fight; he's one of Carnegie's Hague Peace Tribunal supports. Now; Kelly's had a hankering to be a member of the school board for several years; but I can't figure out how he could exist in a place where you just have to fight. If Prof. Miller had one-quarter of the fight in him what Horne's got, everybody up on the college hill would be eating flax seed out of his hands. Now, speaking about Howard affairs, I suppose you heard that some of the trustees, it is rumored, have reached the viewpoint where they had better elect a new president at the annual meeting or turn the institution into a sort of old men's home for the care and propagation of centenarians. Of course, this is a rumor, and I am handing the dope to you just as I heard it down at George Murray's (Continued to page 5.) The force that elevates a thing or person gets from under some times, and the thing or person will fall. Sudden elevation often turns an egotists head. We should never discard the ladder upon which we ascend. We may need it again. The Boston Globe, Detroit News; and a number of other big dailies recently carried a feature article written by Ralph W. Tyler, on "Cost of the Modern Navy," for which they paid Mr. Tyler a substantial price. 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. and Mrs. Ford Dahney spent Sunday of last week in this city. Mrs. George Casey, of this city, spent a few days in Baltimore last week. Madame Cizalia Hackley, who has given several concerts in this city, entertained an appreciative audience in Baltimore last week at the Sharp Street Memorial Church. Lawyer Wm. Blackwell, of this city, is ill at the hospital. It is hoped that he may soon recover. Mrs. Blanche Cole and Miss Lizzie Fletcher, of Philadelphia, Pa., are visiting friends in this city. Dr. Francis Harrington, of Cumberland, Md., made a trip to this city last week on business. Miss Minnie Cooper has left the city to spend the summer at her home in Gordonsville, Va. Mrs. Preston Slowe, of Philadelphia, Pa., is in this city to spend a month with friends. Mrs. C. A. Johnstone, of Harrisburg, Pa., is visiting friends in this city. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, spoke at the Virginia Baptist State convention in Hampton, Va. Mrs. Susie Hundley, who visited friends some time ago in this city, has returned to her home in Newport News, Va. Mrs. Dora Letcher, of this city, attended the funeral of her father, Mr. Thos Jackson, in Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Goodwin, Mrs. Estella Ashton, Miss M. Ross and Miss A. R. Bowyer, all of Philadelphia, Pa., spent Sunday with friends in this city. Mrs. E. R. Evans and her son, Mr. Elber Evans, have returned to their home in Cumberland, Md., after a lengthy visit to this city. Mrs. Helen Brooks Irvin has returned to the city after a ten days' visit in Philadelphia. Mr. John Williams, of Baltimore, Md. visited friends in this city last Sunday. Mrs. Grace Robinson, who visited friends in this city some time ago, is now visiting Mrs. E. Hodges in Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Sheridan, of Cumberland, Md., is visiting friends in this city. Miss Mary L. Walker, of this city, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Laura Strange, in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. S. W. Rutherford, of this city, spent Saturday and Sunday in Baltimore, Md., the guest of Dr. Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wilson, of New York City, were in the city to attend the funeral of Mr. Wilson's uncle, which was last Sunday. Mrs. Nora Ruffin left Washington at 5:35 Sunday evening for Philadelphia, Pa., where she was called by the illness of her sister. She expects to return in about ten days. Mr. Henry W. Chase, who has been visiting friends in Philadelphia, Pa., for several weeks, has returned to the city. Misses Ethel C. and Ada Lou Mitchell, Mr. George Thompson and Mr. Raymond Middleton, of this city, were the guests of Miss Pearl Mayo, of Chicago, Ill., Sunday at dinner. Mr. Oscar Watts, Mr. Cooper and Mr. Butler were in the city last Sunday to attend the anniversary exercises of the Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Annette Sidney was the recipient of much social attention during the past week in Annapolis, Md., where she was the guest of Mrs. Francis. Miss Gaines, of Orange, N. J., is visiting friends in this city. Dr. Samuel Gray, of Martinsburg, Va., who has been visiting in this city, has returned to his home. Mrs. Dungeon, of Front Royal, Va., is the guest of her daughter, Miss Elsie Dungeon of this city. Rev. Wm. Howard, of this city, preached the annual sermon to the Odd Fellows in Harrisburg, Pa. While there he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cassius Brown, Sr. Miss Sarah W. Meriwether, instructor of English and History in the Academy of Howard University, will leave next week for Lake Mohonk, N. Y., to represent Howard University at the World's Conference of Young Men's Christian and Young Women's Christian Associations. Miss Meriwether is the only colored delegate representing a school. She will read a paper before the conference on "Christian Work." The Misses Smackem, Smoshers, and Plummer, city school teachers of Baltimore, Md., have returned to their homes in this city. Mr. W. S. Rutherford, of this city, spent last Saturday and Sunday in Baltimore, Md., the guest of Dr. Roberts, his old schoolmate at Howard University. The Misses Ruth and Jennie Cornell, of this city, spent the week end in Baltimore visiting friends. Quality and good service. You will always find at Board's Drug Store, 1912 I-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. Mr. Harold Haines, of this city, finds Baltimore a very pleasant place to spend week ends. Mr. Charles Marshall, of this city, spent the week end in Baltimore the guest of Mr. Oscar Watts. Miss Lucinda Brown, of Asbury Park, N. J., who has been visiting relatives and friends in Philadelphia, Sharon, Pa., and this city, has returned home. Misses Enola McDaniels and Emma McGinnis, of this city, were visiting friends in the Monumental City the other Sunday. Mr. Lewis, of this city, a member of the John Albert Club, spent the other Sunday visiting friends in the Monumental City. Ex-Asst. Attorney General Wm. H. Lewis, of Boston, Mass., was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Geo W. Cabaniss last week. Mr. F. E. Parks, of this city, spent the week end in the Monumental City the guest of Dr. R. Dewitt Price. Miss Marie Forrest, of Charleston, S. C., left Thursday for Greenville. After spending a short time there, Miss Forrest will visit this city to attend the Commencement of Howard University. Messrs. Maurice Clifford and James Chestnut, of this city, spent the week end the other Sunday visiting young ladies in Baltimore, Md. Miss Anna Speaks, of Indian Head, Md., is the guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Proctor. Miss Marie Duvall sang a very sweet solo last Wednesday night at St. Augustine Church. Mr. Frank Cheek was called suddenly to his home in Detroit, Mich., to the bedside of his sick father. The National Benefit Association, through S. W. Rutherford, manager, has bought ten shares of stock in the new Munsey Trust Company, valued at $1,000. This company owns some of the livest stock in the market, including city and gas, electric light and street car company's bonds. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. The pastor being absent Sunday, May 18, services after Sunday School hour were simply prayer meetings. Bro. Charlie Hunter conducted the review for the Sunday School. Sister Powell's class got the banner. At Third Baptist Church Rev. Bowser, the pastor, gave communion, after a live morning service. Among the visiting pulpit occupants was a lady evangelist who conducts for that church a week's series of meetings. Bro. Bowser is a forceful preacher and expresses himself in favor of a clear, upright Christian life. Much interest was manifested in the communion services. Galloway Chapel M. E. Sabbath School was addressed by Dr. Barnett. Class No. 3, Miss Frances Tinner, teacher, took the banner. At 11 o'clock there was a prayer service, and at night a song service by the Silver Star Improvement Club. There was quite a large attendance. Programs and collection envelopes were distributed in the Sunday School for Children's Day exercise, which are to take place on the third Sunday in June. Miss, Bessie Reddick, of Alexandria, Va., who completed the public school term at Vienna for Mr. Thomas, was a visitor Sunday in the home of Mrs. G. A. Taylor, returning to Vienna Monday to close her school. Then she goes immediately home for a two weeks' stay, after which she will attend the Summer School for Teachers at Petersburg. Mr. John Allen and wife, of Washington, D. C., were the guests Sunday of his parents, Mr. N. S. Allen and wife, Mrs. Susie. Mr. Tolbert Thomas came out Sunday on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thomas. Mr. T. W. Hyson and wife, with his sister, Mrs. R. E. Ferguson, all of Hall's Hill, were visitors here Sunday, the guests of Mrs: Jennie Neal. Mrs. Laura Toliver entertained friends from the city Sunday. Miss Louise Goins is home again for the summer. Mrs. Lil. Lee, accompanied by her two daughters, Miss Agnes and Miss Nellie, visited the old home place last Friday. Mr. Natie B. Jones, our good West End deacon, keeps quite busy at his city post of duty. His wife, though, gives regular attendance for the Sunday morning service at the Second Baptist Church. We are sorry to note the continued illness of Sister Nellie Nickens, wife of our good brother, Deacon Douglas Nickens. The many friends of Mr. Henry Brighthaupt and wife, Mrs. Anna Brighthaupt, who were formerly residents of Falls Church, will share with them their joy in the visit of a little daughter, who reached their home Friday morning, May 16, at about half past seven. Both mother and daughter are doing well at this writing, and Mr. Brighthaunt now rejoices in the fact that he is now a father of three children, two boys and one girl. He is regularly employed at the Washington Star Building. Miss Fannie Stribbling is greatly improved from her recent illness and desires to thank her many friends for the kindnesses they have shown her in this period of affliction. We wish her complete recovery. There was a birthday party held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Newman, 2000 Fourteenth Street Northwest, on Thursday, May 1, in his honor. Among the invited guests may be mentioned Dr. M. P. Milliard, Mr. and Mrs. John Philips, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Nickens and many others. In the midst of their enjoyment Mrs. Cora Taylor, Mrs. Newman's mother, arrived from New York with her son, Mr. Walter Hunter, who had been ill there, accompanied by the two Misses Watson's. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. ```markdown ``` The friends of Dr. F. J. Cardozo are congratulating him upon his clear cut acquittal. The pastor's reception at the M. E. Church which was given by the officers and members of said church Friday night. May 16 was a success. The house was overcrowded and the program was excellent. On the stage were; Rev. O. C. Sprague, the pastor; Mr. Edw. Briscoe, the Master of Ceremonies; Rev. G. A. Williams, pastor of Nash; Rev. J. W. Tyler, pastor at Jones' Chapel; Rev. O. G. Hunter, pastor of the First Baptist Church here; Rev. A. H. Strother, Rev. C. H. Strother, Rev. Carter and Rev. C. E. Queen. Several Gentlemen went to Upper Marthboro a few days ago and said that this community was dissatisfied with the administration of the school trustee board. This statement was discredited Monday night, May 19, in the 61st Pine Grove when the trustees and teachers of the Fairmount Heights school, with the entire cooperation of the parents of the children, under the management of the Parents-Teachers Association, gave a picnic. The chairman of the arrangement committee, Sergt. Frank Coalman, had everything in great shape and grand style. The chairmen of the various committees were: Ice Cream, Mrs.W. A. Brooks; Dinner, Mrs. Mamie Williams; Soft Drinks, Miss U. J. Wilkes. The cash proceeds will net between fifty and seventy-five dollars. Perfect harmony exists in the school system. This condition will continue and especially if the trouble breeders will just keep out of it. They are welcome if they desire to aid in the upbuilding of the school. There are three teachers being employed and over one hundred children are being educated by the hearty co-operation of the trustees, teachers and parents in the Parents-Teachers Association. What more can be done? Miss Peck, of the National Training School for Women and Girls, upon hearing of the united efforts of the trustees, teachers and parents of the Fairmount School, sent over a donation to help the cause. Rev. E. S. Williams, D. D., pastor at Asbury M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md., was here aid mingled with his friends Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Laura Nichols is on the sick list. The Interdenominational Sunday School-Union held its May meeting at the Deanwood M. E. Church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. S. Barlow was installed the first president of the organization. The Sunday Schools of the First Baptist Church of Fairmount Heights, the First Presbyterian Church, Contee A. M. E. Zion Church, Zion Baptist Church, Deanwood M. E. Church, and the First Baptist Church of Deanwood are members of the Union. It is the hope of the managers that the Sunday School of the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church will soon find time to become a member of the Union. Revival services are going on at the Baptist Church here. Mrs. D. W, Utz and Mrs. Frank Young joined the M. E. Church Sunday, May 18, 1913. Mrs. Dr. W. W, Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook, and many other visitors worshipped at said church on the same day. Rev. O. C. Sprague, the pastor, preached at 11 o'clock and Rev. T. M. West preached at 8 o'clock. The choir of the church has good singers but stands greatly in need of members and possibly a leader. WEST WASHINGTON. --- Have a Parents' Meeting. meeting. The parents and others interested in our public schools were in attendance at a very large and interesting meeting on Friday evening, May 16, at the Phillips Building, N Street Northwest. Dr. Chas. H. Marshall, member of the Board of Education, presided, after prayer by Rev. Chas. W. Pryor, the blind missionary, the minutes of a previous meeting was read by Miss B. E. Cropp. Addresses were made by Superintendent Davidson, Assistant Superintendent Bruce, Principal J. Nalle, Rev. Pryor, Rev. E. E. Ricks, Jas L. Türner, Mrs. Pryor, Miss H. H. Beacon. Miss Virginia Williams sang several very enjoyable selections. At the suggestion of Superintendent Bruce a motion was made by Mr. Chas. Beason, that a committee be appointed for a suitable memorial in honor of the late Miss Gertrude Smith. Refreshments were served by a committee of Pupils. The Woman's Home Mission Society held its annual anniversary exercises on Sunday evening, at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. Rev. W. C. Thompson, the pastor, conducted devotional exercises. Addresses were made by Mrs. Holmes, of Baltimore, Mrs. Clair, and Mrs. Thompson, the wife of the pastor. Miss H. H. Beason was the chairman, and read an excellent report of the society. The Mothers' and Fathers' Day exercises were continued at the First Baptist Church Sunday, and Rev. Sister Dodge delivered a very excellent sermon on the duties of fathers and mothers. Rev. E. E. Ricks, the pastor, also made brief remarks. Rev. W. C. Thompson, on Sunday last, preached a special sermon to women, and tomorrow morning will talk to the men of his congregation. Rev. Naylor, the new pastor of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, preached a very interesting sermon to his congregation on Sunday morning, and from present indications the church membership looks for a very prosperous year under the pastorate of Rev. Naylor. NOTES FROM ANACOSTIA The Ladies' Aid and Missionary Society of St. Phillip's P. E. Church sent to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society $18. The Citizens' Association held an interesting meeting in Douglas Hall Monday evening. Among the prominent speakers was Mrs. Tyree, of Buena Vista Heights. Conditions remain the same. The funeral of Mrs. Mary Collins, nee Ferguson, who died Wednesday, the 14th inst., was held at Campbell A. M. E. Church. A class of three was confirmed at St. Phillip's P. E. Church Sunday evening by the Bishop of Washington. The choir was assisted by members of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian choir. Rev. M. V. Tunnell, rector. An enjoyable entertainment was given in Douglas Hall Tuesday night—"The Heart of a Hero." It was conducted by Mrs. Lucy Blayburn and Mrs. Julia Coston, who took the leading part. Mr. and Mrs. Jones Entertain. On last Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Jones entertained a happy party of friends at an informal supper at their pretty and cozy home in celebration of their nineteenth wedding anniversary. After a social hour spent in the parlor, where the party was entertained by a musical program, the floral bell sounded and, keeping step with the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march, the guests passed through the wide-flung dining room doors and were seated to a most sumptuous repast prepared by the hostess. The ladies of the party prepared a most pleasant surprise for the host and hostess, and at 11 o'clock, in their behalf, Mrs. Taylor, with a short and appropriate speech, presented them with a handsome silver service. After supper all again repaired to the parlor, which had been decorated for the occasion, to continue the evening's round of pleasure playing games and dancing. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ross, Mr. and Mrs. James Aden, Mr. and Mrs. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cowen, Miss Ida Washington, Miss Nellie Herbert, Miss Geneva Campbell, Mrs. Fannie Taylor, Mrs. Pettiford, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Mattie Smith, Mr. Frank Johnson, and Dr. Henry Freeman. VIENNA, VA., NEWS. The regular Sunday School hour at the First Baptist Church was filled brimful of interest and activity. A good, live spirit was on and the classes did well. All look forward to Children's Day with bright faces and joyous hearts. This was an inspiration meeting. Supt. W. H. Neal, with Deacon Carter teacher, Bro. Carter, Mrs. West, Mrs. Henderson, Bro. Taylor and several other teachers and leaders whose names we do not now recall. All entered into the hour's work with excellent spirit. At Union Baptist Church the Y. P. Society meeting was one of the most successful since its organization. The C. E. toopic for the evening provoked lively comment from a number of those present. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Dixon and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thomas, all of Falls Church, were present. Mrs. Dixon sang a solo, and Mrs. Thomas and the organist a duet. The singing by the society was soul-inspiring, lending joy and spirit to the already well rendered solo and duet. Mrs. Borgus read a very interesting paper on the subject, "Self Pity." Mrs. Gertrude Harrison also read a paper. Mrs. M. H. Patterson recited a selection on "Kansas Dialect." Mr. Marshall Patterson read a selection in French. Our school closed last Monday evening. An exhibition was given at the Odd Fellows' Hall by the pupils of the school. The teacher, Miss Riddicks and the pupils deserve great credit for the excellent program rendered, which was so thoroughly prepared in sixteen days. Mr. W. R. Mills, who has a lucrative position in the Government Printing Office, is preparing to make some improvements in his residence on Maple Avenue. Mr. Fred Chivers of Washington, spent Sunday afternoon here visiting Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. At the Y. P. Society meeting Mrs. Lena Dixon's address was a timely one. She field her audience easily interested in her talk, which abounded in good advice to the mothers. She told of the work of the Mothers' Progressive Council of the Second Baptist Church at Falls Church, of which she is vice president. MERRIFIELD NOTES. Pastor Askew preached a great sermon to his people at 3 o'clock p. m., Sunday, May 18. His subject was "The Signs of the Times." A large crowd was in attendance. Mr. J. L. Terry sustained the loss of the end of one of his fingers last week by accident while working with the plumbers and was forced to stay at home since on account of it. He has our sympathy. The funeral of Mrs. Tolliver 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. mother of Mr. Edward J. Turner, was held at this place Friday, the 16th inst., Rev. Dr. Colbert, of Falls Church, officiating. The friends of the family are many and extend their sympathy. Mr. Robert Bradley, one of the first or oldest colored citizens of Merrifield, is a contractor and truck gardener of the first class. In building houses with modern improvements his work excels. He recently completed and turned over to Miss Elmira Tinner a house giving her a fine piece of work, and is now completing Mrs. Columbia Duncan Scott's house, which is a model. Mr. Bradley is one of the workers in the Liberty Lodge at Merrifield and a member of the Board of Directors of this order, meeting at Winslow's Hall, Washington, D. C. Public Men and Things Continued from page 2 elixir establishment, and you can pass it on, keep it for what it sounds like, or hand it over to George Cook to bank. But a white man done told me, and that's enough. According to the dope I get, there ain't been no revival held up there this year, under the new prexy; there ain't been no getting down and hustling. It's just been like a slow thaw in June up around Bearing Strait—just no good for vegetation. What Howard wants, and it wants it like the feller wanted red liquor in a dry town, is some noise and hustle. The outside dope, handed in by students, is that things are getting to remind one of old Rip Van Winkle. Of course, Prexy Newman is a great orator, can preach a few lines, and all that, but he's too close to the age limit line to be as full of pep and ginger as a ginger highbail made out of bonded Cascade. Now, if he had the pep and ginger in him that Dr. Moreland has in him, there would be a celebration up on the hill three hundred and sixty-five days in a year. Once when old Plato was carving out a new address on a marble slab, Digenitus came up and said to him: "Old Hawk, ain't you writing kinder slow?" Thereupon old Plato said: "Yes, Digenitus, I ain't got the vinigar in me that I had when I use to play leap frog, and I guess I ought to turn in." Now I am just going to quote this extract from prehistoric literature for the benefit of the trustees, and thinking that perhaps Prexy Newman will apply for an old-age pension under the pension bill Representative Hamill has drawn up. But, getting back to Kelly Miller, Prof. Moore once told me, and you know Moore very seldom makes a direct statement without giving it the curvature of the spine, that Miller was the best Negro educator in the land. Prof. Moore may have a lapse of memory and not recall his making this statement, but if he will meet me down at Iowa Circle some evening between seven and eight I will convince him that I have dealt myself four aces on this assertion. And George Cook, why George, always did dote on Kelly, and use to say that as between Duboise and Kelly he would play Kelly for first place in all three heats, and give odds of six to one. Ain't no question about it, Miller is some more big noise in the education world, and they know him from Vernon's "Everglads in Florida, where they grow purple grapes, to the rock-bound coast of Greenland." If I had Andrew Carnegie's money I would settle five hundred dollars a week on Kelly just to let him go the limit. And if he had a few hundred per second, I bet a pigsofthe sardine that he would stand like a newly laundried collar whenever the rexy told him to move off behind the scenes and sit down. THE PASSING SHOW IN WASHINGTON. Miss Anita Ramsey, who made such a favorable impression last week at Dudley's, is a sister of Miss Alice Ramsey, the agile 'dancer of the Black Patti Troubadours, and is an artist of the greatest promise. Miss Lyllyn Brown, the versatile vocalist and impersonator, came home for a brief rest last week, but was called upon by the Chelsea management to play at the popular M Street house, and put in a most successful week. She was assisted by the rapid-fire crayon artist, Prof. William Demont. Miss Brown had just completed a five weeks' tour on the southern round of the Dudley circuit. Miss Susie Sutton was warmly greeted by her old Washington friends last week at Dudley's. The magnetic Griffin Sisters, now at the Lafayette Theater, New York By R. W. T. E. W. DALE. OWNER. City, will play a return engagement here in July. Miss Jennie Taylor and her two classy "picks" are at the Fairyland this week. They "went big" during their two weeks at the Howard: Miss Taylor is a sister of Miss Nettie Taylor, of the Southern Smart Set, and of a highly musical family. All of them play three or four instruments effectively. Will A. Cooke, playwright and composer, will be here at the close of the Black Patti season. He will collaborate with James Vaughn and T. Spencer Finley in the framing up of a new musical comedy, with melodramatic features. Salem Tutt Whitney's, Southern Smart Set Company will rehearse its new piece on the stage of the Howard in August. A number of new faces will be seen in the company for next season. Ed Tolliver, of Tolliver & Chappelle, is visiting relatives in Jacksonville, Fla. James Reese Europe and a select party of six musicians came down from New York City Last Monday to play for a reception given by one of Washington's multi-millionaires. They "delivered the goods." Misses Lottie Gee and Effie King are finishing up their circuit of the white playhouses in Pennsylvania, and will be "at home" in Washington shortly. These "Ginger Girls" have had the banner season of their career this year. Lawrence Williams, trap drummer with the Southern Smart Set, is one of the best in the business. He and Johnny Miller, Howard's "crack" manipulator of the drums, were very chummy during the recent visit of Mr. Williams. The Committee on Arrangements of the General Alumni Association of Howard University met on Tuesday evening, May 20, in the Board Room of the Carnegie Library, Howard University Campus, and completed arrangements for Alumni Day, June 4. The members of the committee present were: G. Smith Wormley, chairman; Rev. D. E. Wiseman, vice president; George F. Collins, secretary; Mrs. Alma J. Scott, treasurer; Misses Nellie M. Quander and Eva Johnson, Messrs. R. A. Pelham, E. P. Davis, Meyers and Turner. The program adopted for the day is as follows: 10 a. m.—Business session of the Alumni Association. 12 m.—Annual address by Isaac H. Nutter, member of the bar of Atlantic City, New Jersey. 4. p. m.—Commencement. 8 p. m.-Lawn fete? Promenade concert. Illimination of grounds and buildings. Cards of admission to the lawn fete may be obtained from any member of the committee, for 50 cents each and will be on sale at the various drug stores throughout the city. The graduates from all departments of the University for the year 1913 are to be the guests of the Alumni Association. Boston, May 13—On May 6 the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued a certificate of corporation to Prince Hall Grand Commandery, Knights Templar Corporation, Jurisdiction of Massachusetts. The old Bay State is to be complimented upon having at the head of its Templars Branch of Negro Masonry such progressive men as Ulysses Grant Powell, Rt. Em. Grand Commander; Attorney-at-Law David E. Crawford; Attorney-at-Law and Past Rt. Em. Grand Commander Curtis J. Wright; Past Grand Master Nelson P. Wentworth; Rev. J. W. Hill, M. D., and Isaac L. Roberts, M. D., and many others through whose untiring zeal and unselfish painstaking efforts this condition in Massachusetts has been brought about. Date Postponed to June 5. On account of illness, we have been compelled to postpone the date of the "Vaudeville" concert to Thursday, June 5, at 8 p.m., at True Reformers' Hall. Interesting 'program and good music. Admission 25 cents and 15 cents. Minnesota, 25 cents and 15 cents. MRS CHAS, I. WEST, Chairman Program Committee. MRS. CARRIE W. CLIFFORD, Chairman Committee on Arrangements. For Rent. Room to let to first class colored people. Fine location. 1613 17th St. N. W. HOWARD ALUMNI Prince Hall Commandery. National Religious Training Schoo The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale background with a faint, indistinct pattern. THE SOWING AND THE REAPING. Genesis 42—May 18. Whatsoever a man sooth, that shall be also reap."—Galatians 6.7. THE story of Joseph and his brethren continues. Today's lesson illustrates how the remembrance of their cruelty toward their brother Joseph harassed the evil-doers long years after. Our Golden Text seems to lay down a principle. Whatsoever anybody sows intelligently will bring a harvest of similar kind. The famine-stricken region included Palestine. Word spread that there was no lack of food in Egypt, and that corn of the old stock was sold there at moderate prices. Jacob directed his sons, men of families, to go down to Egypt and purchase wheat. As strangers, they were directed to Joseph. Through an interpreter, he inquired whether they were spies, coming to see how much corn there was in Egypt, that they might bring an army to steal it. They explained truthfully. Joseph then inquired about Jacob and Benjamin. Finally he put Simeon into prison, and sent the others home with corn, telling them that they would need more and might have it, provided that they brought They explained truthfully. Joseph then inquired about Jacob and Benjamin. Finally he put Simeon into prison, and sent the others home with corn, telling them that they would need more and might have it, provided that they brought their youngest brother with them. "Are Ye Spies?" The guilty consciences of the brethren connected these experiences with their own wrong course in the past. They said to one another, "We are verily guilty concerning our brother, when we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us and we would not hear: therefore is this distress come upon us." They knew not that Joseph understood them, but he withdrew and wept. His heart was not hard. He was merely giving them a profitable lesson. Many Stripes and Few Stripes When Jacob's sons arrived with the wheat, they told their experience to their father. Moreover, they were perplexed to find that the money paid for the wheat was returned in each sack Their minds continually reverted to the crime of years ago. Many times had they reaped crops of sorrow and surmislings respecting what God might not exact from them in the nature of trouble, similar to what they had brought upon Joseph. How adventious it would be if this principle were generally 'recognized—that every trespass must receive a just recompense of reward! We have lost such an appreciation of justice and such a looking for retribution because of a very false doctrine which prevails. That false doctrine ascribes only one punishment for every sin, and that an unthinkable one—eternal torment. Few really believe that doctrine or are really influenced by it. Its monstrosity makes it unbelievable, and turns the mind aside from the proper view of the punishments which God has foretold. Humanity cannot improve upon the Divine arrangement. Hence all Christians should begin afresh to tell the world of both the Justice and the Love of God—that God's penalty against sin is death, but that He has provided through Christ for release from that penalty, during Christ's Millennial reign. Then all mankind will be granted full opportunity of reconciliation with God and of restoration to God's image and likeness, lost by Adam's sin Jacob's Gray Hairs For Sheol. When Jacob heard that Benjamin must go on the next expedition for wheat, he protested vigorously. Joseph was gone, and if now he should lose Benjamin, the grief would bring down his gray hairs to Sheol—the tomb—the death state. In the Common Version Bible Sheol is repeatedly translated Hell, Pit and Grave. In olden times these three words were synonymous. When the Revised Version was in preparation the learned men charged with that work refused to translate Sheol by the word Hell, which has lost its original meaning and has come to mean a place or torture. No such meaning attaches to the Hebrew word Sheol. So these scholars decided to leave Sheol and its Greek equivalent Hades untranslated. ```markdown ``` Our Baptist friends have recently met with a similar difficulty, and have translated these words as 'the Under- "To lose Benjamin will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol." and have translated these words as "the Underworld." Of course the grave, the tomb, the death state, may be thus indicated, and none can find fault. It is needless to say that Jacob did not mean his sons to understand that he expected to go to eternal torment. His meaning evidently is: "My sons, I am old and gray. To lose my youngest son would hasten my death—bring my gray hairs down to Sheol—the tomb." 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Quality Considered it is the Cheapest in the end to buy. For sale by Gustave Oppenheimer, Cor. E and 8th Sts. N. W. FLORIDA AVENUE BAPTIST Church—Installation of the New Pastor June 1. The people of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church are arranging to install their new pastor June 1. There will be exercises at the church commencing May 26 and ending June 2, with an elaborate banquet. There will be in attendance upon these exercises some of the most prominent divines of this city representing all denominations and men of prominence in public life. Dr. Taylor, the new pastor, was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, in the year 1872, the youngest of a family of six. When he reached his sixth year, he entered the county; public schools, from which at 16 he was promoted to Rankin Richard Institute, Windsor, N. C., and spent two years there. Then he entered the State Normal School at Plymouth, N. C., and was graduated in 1892. In the fall of the same year he entered Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. After leaving Shaw, Dr. Taylor was elected to the principalship of Hertford Academy, N. C., and served in that capacity for eight years. In 1900 he was ordained to the gospel ministry and during the same year was called to the pastorate of the -Antioch and Shiloh Baptist Churches. In the following year he succeeded Rev. M. W. D. Norman. A. M., D. D., now of this city, in the Bethel and Gales Street Baptist Churches, the latter of Edenton, N. C. In 1902 he was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Greenville, N. C. During the same year he was elected to the principalship of the Association School of the same town—the Tar River Institute. He held both of these positions until 1909, when he resigned to accept a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Newport News. Va. Dr. Taylor is one of the ablest ministers in the South at present and is coming to a very young but very progressive church. It was organized July 21, 1912, with twenty-two members, but today it has a membership of eight hundred. All of its departments are presided over by excellent workers. The first man that Dr. Taylor ever heard preach after the war was Rev. Bryant Lee, his mother's pastor, the father of the late Dr. George W. Lee, of the Vermont-Avenue Baptist Church, and Jabez Lee, one of the officials of the Florida Avenue Bap- . Dabney Parties, Balls, Receptions, Etc. Mass style. Satisfaction guaranteed. and Street Northwest. one call for Stable, North 3274M FREEMAN'S ALLEY. 1132 Third St. N. W. Carriages For Hire. IN LAND THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR-SYRAIGHTENER MAILED ANYWHERE IN U.S. $100 POSTAGE PAID. SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER. You can have a beautiful and luxuriant head of uses a MAGIC. After a shampoo or bath the the hair, removing the dandruff, and it will curlest head of hair. Use the comb to pierce healed. The steel hea- flame of the alcohol or gas heater. 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Any enemy may start an evil talk, and when once launched midst idle, gossiping women and men it to many persons soon assumes the appearance of truth, and many innocent characters become the target for a community now and may so be years in the future. It is good and perhaps bad law that prohibits the custom of years ago when for slander, insult, or scandal-toting a man might be called to account upon sight or on field of honor. In this year of civilization and Christianity, however, it is only the rank hypocrite masquerading as churchman or Christian who prevails in this blighting of character. I have the greatest faith in practical Christianity as the solution of the problem of preventing this sort of thing, but for those who but talk as Christians and do not so act, such editorials as have appeared in The Bee are needed and public pillory done to the truly malicious guilty. Respectfully yours, EDWIN B. HENDERSON Box 164, Falls Church, Va. HOWARD MEDICAL SCHOOL. Why Is It That Is Not in Class A-Plus?—Is There Anything Wrong? Complaint of James C. Waters. Washington, D.C., May 10, 1913. Editor Tie Washington Bee. Which I would rise to explain And my language is plain. Tis the Medical School that's peculiar. In the classified list of American colleges, issued by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association, revised to January 15, 1913. I find Howard University put down as one of the two medical colleges attended by Negroes, which belong to Class A, which class embraces all "Colleges Lacking in Certain Respects, but Acceptable in Others." Class A-plus includes only "Acceptable Medical Colleges." No medical college connected with any institution for Negroes belongs to Class A-plus. Why is this? What's the matter with Howard University that she can't get into Class A-plus? The reason doubtless includes many points not readily understood by the layman, but, Sir, I will bet my life against a plugged nickel that chief among the points will be found the treatment accorded the students by that terrific bunch in control of the Medical Faculty of Howard University. Who will be graduated from the College of Medicine this year? God in heaven may have an idea, but neither heaven, nor earth nor the powers of the infernal regions would dare offer even a forecast. If they have not already begun, in a few days there will be held the final examinations for the seniors. Following these there will be held a session the like of which cannot be duplicated in all the universe. This will be the meet- ing of the Senior Faculty, than which no deatlier tribunal ever sat—no, not even in the. days when Ximines damned his own memory and the name of the Roman church by the murders of the Inguisition in Spain. In the name of all that is holy and high, I ask what practical use is there in a final examination, anyway? Final examinations, to be worth a picayune, must be exhaustive, and exhaustive examinations in medical subjects as numerous as those supposed to be taught at Howard University would cover not only the senior studies, but would comprehend the entire field of medicine covered by the four years' work. Such examinations, therefore, would require a very long time, but they would justify themselves, for they certainly would be effective. As it is, the average final examination is as fully beset with chance as is the performance of the chap who hazards his all trying to make "Big Dick" or "Little Joe" in a loaded-dice crap game at the Bud Simpkins Social Club, A. C., N. J. By a single turn a bone-head will knock out 97 per cent., while one of the best men in the class will go down to defeat. If you will pardon a personal allusion, I will refer to a notice in my possession in which I was informed by the Faculty of the College of Arts that I was not considered a candidate for graduation. Some day I shall frame this document and hang it up beside my college diploma—which was received by me at graduation just a few weeks after my receipt of the very notice saying that I would not be allowed to graduate. I had had the "gall" to run amuck with one of the professors. What then? Assassination, of course. I was "up" in all my "stuff" and there wasn't a member of the faculty who did not know that I was the peer of that may be hurled at me—yet there it was proposed to throw me on the ground that I "hadn't done the work," the word "work" meaning the passing of an examination in the subject of one professor with whom I had had a tilt. Well, I came out, just the same, with the other boys, and at that no violence was done to any standard of fitness at Howard University. I detail this incident because it represents just what is the curse of so many of the boys in the Medical School. You not only must know your stuff, but you must keep yourself persona grata with the Rump Parliament of the faculty. A friend of mine who is about to begin practice in this city right now can tell you more about this than you need to know. They knifed him to death there for years and finally he had to leave. He went to another city, finished in one year with honors, came back, passed the board, and is now opening an office. And he's as good a doctor as Howard University ever turned out or ever will turn out. If he hadn't had the sense to leave Howard, however, they would have grabbed his $100-year after year for the next decade and still the final examinations would have returned without his being entitled to so much as a dream upon his chances of graduation. When my class entered the Law School in 1908 we all knew we would graduate in 1911, and we did graduate. The final examinations played a minimum part in the case. A man begins to demonstrate as soon as he enters school what there is in him. If he is worthless it does not take all the time up to the senior finals for the faculty to determine that fact. This is the rule in the Law School, and it is because the Law School is conducted by a faculty which treats the law students like sane human beings and not (after the manner of the Medical Faculty) like a lot of nincompoops bearing tickets of leave from St. Elizabeth's. It is to be hoped that ere the millenium the nincompoop method will be flung to the junk heap by the Medical Faculty, and that the same, humanitarian policy of the Low School—and all other real, wide awake schools, for that matter—will be taken on. Very sincerely, JAMES C. WALTERS, JR. 1339 T Street Northwest. Bishop Walters Turns Over to Underdown. Editor The R. Editor The Bec. I note in your issue of May 16 an article to the effect that Bishop Alexander Walters had resigned the presidency of the National Colored Democratic League, and had left the city in disgust, etc., which statement is misleading, and believing that your source of information is at fault. I respectfully submit the following for your information, in order that you may correct the statement of last week. Bishop Walters, in addition to being president of the National Colored Democratic League, is also president of the Wilson and Marshall Colored Democratic Club of the District of Columbia. The activities of the latter organization has drawn very heavily upon his time; and as his church-work will require his absence from the city for several months, he expressed the desire that A. H. Underdown act as chairman, in order that the affairs of the local organization would go on uninterrupted during his absence. This matter had nothing to do with the National Democratic League whatever, nor has the Bishop resigned the presidency of either. The Bishop is not disgusted, nor is he a victim of that hysteria and impatience which seems to have a few Negro Democrats and the race generally so firmly in its grasp, because he has-the utmost faith in President Wilson and believes that, notwithstanding the fact that a few jobs formally held by Negroes have been given to white Democrats, the Negroes will not lose anything, in that they will receive the equivalent in other jobs. It should further be remembered that the administration is not three months old yet, and the President has not broken any records handing out jobs to even the white Democrats, and the Negroes will have to wait their turn, as system is the most pronounced feature of Mr. Wilson's administration. Things are taken up in their order and not before. WM. L. OFFORD. NEGROES STIRRED BY RACE MEASURE. Evident From Request by Cummings That Ordinance Hearing Be Deferred. Baltimore. Md., May 14.—That the Negroes of the city are prepared for a hard fight against the passage of the new race segregation ordinance pending in the City Council is shown mings, the Negro City Councilman by the request of Harry S. Cumfrom the Seventeenth Ward, that action on the measure be postponed for a week or more. Behind the demand for the new ordinance there is a large and influential public sentiment. Cummings' request for a postponement was made today to Second Branch Councilman Curtis, chairman of the Committee on Police and Jails, to which the ordinance was referred. It has been granted to the extent that Curtis will not call the committee together for a public hearing on the measure until next week. The hearing on the ordinance is expected to be an interesting one. The white owner's of real estate in Northwest Baltimore and other sections of the city where Negro invasions are feared look upon the new measure as their only safeguard during the litigation of the original segregation ordinance which has been pronounced "invalid and unenforceable" by Judge Elliott. An appeal from Judge Elliott's decision has been taken to the Court of Appeals, but as it is probable that it will be months before the appeal is reached, those in favor of race segregation legislation fear that, unless some means of prevention be adopted, the Negroes may take advantage of the "loophole" established by the crippled state of the original ordinance and obtain houses in the formerly restricted neighborhoods. Although the new segregation ordinance differs but little from that introduced several years ago by Councilman Samuel L. West of the Thirteenth Ward, and now in litigation, it is believed that Judge Elliott's decision in respect to the original measure will not affect the new ordinance, and that, if passed by the Council, it will serve to prevent the mingling of the races until the status of the West ordinance is settled finally. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. Dean Cook Places His Graduates in Good Positions. Dean George Cook, the energetic and popular Dean of the Commercial Business College of Howard University, and also Secretary and Business Manager of the institution, has found valuable opening for the successful students to complete courses this June. Realizing the large field for college students in the commercial world, his department has nearly doubled its enrollment. The Faculty has been enlarged and now stands second to no other colored commercial college in the country. Not only have the standards been raised, but new studies added to meet the demands of the present day commercial world. The students are given both theoretical and practical training. The offices of the institution prove of especial value. Mr. Nelson Kendall leaves this week for St. Petersburg, Russia, to be stenographer for a large automobile corporation at a handsome salary. In looking over the chart of graduates we find them in almost every country of the civilized world making good. Dean Cook said to Mr. Kendall. "He knew of no better young man for the place beside himself." Mr. David Wells accepts a position as stenographer for the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Richard Avery, Secretary for a large colored insurance company in the State of Georgia. Mr. Sykes and Mr. Thompson are to go in business with their parents, who are successful business men in the South. Other students are being placed fast. The course does not aim merely to turn out stenographers, but business men as well. The business law courses, commercial mathematics, English, physiography, and other modern studies have been revised to meet all the demands of the present day, and so arranged that with the proper training one can complete the department in two or three years according to his preparation. Offered by a White Man. A white man interested in the welfare of the colored people has offered a medal to be awarded annually to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who has made the most distinguished achievement during the year in any field of worthy endeavor. This announcement was made at the fourth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization composed of people of both races, which met at Philadelphia last week to discuss the progress and welfare of the American Negro. This association among whose officers are Moorefield Storey, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Dr. W. E. B. 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Wiseman, Executor of Last Will and Testament of Hannah Fuller, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. Harriet Freeman et al., Defendants. Order. The object of this suit is to correct a certain deed from Harriet Freeman to Henry Fuller and Hannah Fuller dated the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and two, conveying the south half of lot lettered "K" of Wright's Subdivision of lots numbered respectively, sixty-four (64), sixty-five (65), sixty-six (66), and sixty-seven (67), of Wright and Cox's Subdivision of part of Pleasant Plains. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 24th day of March, A. D. 1913, ordered that the defendants, Sandy Fuller, the younger, Maggie Fuller, Archie Fuller, Beatrice Fuller, 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 alienses, if he be dead, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the first rule day occurring after the expiration of three months from the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided a copy of this order be published for three months, once a week for three successive weeks during the first month, and twice a month during each of the two succeeding months in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee. (SEAL) IOR BARNARD. Justice. A true copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By J. McKEE, Assistant Clerk. LEE AND KING, ATTORNEYS. Supreme Court of the District of Col- umbia, 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. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate 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 29th 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 In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.—No. 31779. Equity. Lucy A. Montgomery, Plaintiff, vs. James E. Montgomery, Defendant, and Lucy Houff, Co-respondent. 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. A True Copy—Attest: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By F. E. CUNNINGHAM, Assistant Clerk. FOR RENT. For rent, a furnished room with or without board. Apply after 5 p. m. at 41 O St. N. E. References exchanged. M-24-41. Only at 909 7th St. No branch stores W. L. HOUSTON, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court.—No. 19,917, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the State of New York, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of John N. Robinson, 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 16th day of May, A. D. 1914; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 19th day of May, 1913. VICTORIA E. ROSS, Highland Farm, Port Chester, N. Y. (Seal) Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. L. HOUSTON. W. L. Houston. Attorney W. L. Houston has become a citizen of this city and will probably be the next member of the Board of Education. Mr. Houston is a brilliant speaker and would no doubt make an up-to-date school official. The successor of Mrs. Harris will be a woman of brilliant parts. YOURS ON THE INSIDE. May 20, 1913. Meeting the Needs of the People. An appreciative audience greeted Miss Bessie Miller, domestic science teacher of the Armstrong Manual Training school, at her first demonstration in cooking at the Social Settlement, 18 L Street Southwest. Miss Miller prepared a dinner before her audience which proved the high cost of living may be greatly reduced by an intelligent understanding of foodstuff and employment of economy in preparing it. A dinner, well-balanced from the health standpoint, sufficient for a family of six, costing thirty-eight cents, was cooked and served to the guests of the evening. The menu consisted of fricassee beef—the beef costing twelve cents per pound—spinach, cooked without water or meat, left-over potatoes made into a most toothsome dish, and hot biscuits. During the demonstration the speakers impressed her hearers, with these valuable points: The nutritious value of food. How to transform left-over dishes into palatable ones. These demonstrations will be given every Wednesday night of this month by Misses Miller and Alice Nelson of the Manual Training School. All are welcome. Didn't Like the Combination. Weary Walker—I allers know'd it. Tired Tatters—Know'd wot? "Wot dat sign over de way sez—Cleaning and Dyeling." "Well, wot erbout it?" "Why, I allers know'd dey want ter mother."—Boston Post. Willing to Oblige Lawyer—We want you to be willing to waive immunity in this case. 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Denver.—There is probably no person in Denver who is able to start at the Union depot, traverse every street between there and Broadway, with Fourteenth street as the western limit and Nineteenth street as the eastern, and stop without a mistake or a change of mind at every mail box in that area, but a horse, aged fifteen, yclept Bess, knows the hundreds of mail boxes and knows them so well that she can find them on the darkest of nights, with a blizzard, a rainstorm or a ninety mile wind occupying all available space. Bess is the property of Frank Monroe, a mail collector. She has grown aged in the service of Uncle Sam's mail department. In the twelve years of her service as assistant mail 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 substitute mall collector can be placed on the route for the first time and return with the mall without the aid 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 mall is in the rear of the wagon and she hears her master's voice, she will not leave the spot. Bess, says her master, intends to remain a government employee for many years yet. Except for the fact that she spends most of the day sleeping in her 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 responsible for the return of German bank notes amounting to nearly $1,000 American money to Nicholas Wermelster of this city, who was robbed of that amount at his old home in Metz, Germany, twenty-six years ago. The letter inclosing the notes was dated March 10, 1913, the anniversary of the theft, and was unsigned. Although the writer referred to himself as a "trusted friend who betrayed the confidence of your household," Mr. Wermelster declared he was unable to identify him. THE GOLDEN AGE AT HAND Scriptural Evidences That Are Astonishing—No One Can Afford to Be Without the Knowledge. We do our friends a valuable service when we call their attention to the valuable book entitled, "THE TIME IS AT HAND," in which are given many Scriptural evidences to prove where we are on the stream of time. "Men's hearts are falling them for fear" and many of the leading thinkers are proposing remedies to better conditions. The Scriptures assure us that man's extremity will be God's opportunity, and this book holds out an anchor to those who fear the wave of unrest now spreading over the world. The honest heart confesses that it is at a loss for an explanation of transpiring events. 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"Look hyah, Mistah Jim," he objected, "if somebody has already stole yo' money an I comes back hyah an' tells you dat it' s gone yo' is gwine to say I tuk it." Although struck by the seeming justice of the objection, the plasterer was impatient. "What's the matter with you?" he ejaculated. "Nobody has stolen my money. You go ahead, and if the money is gone I won't blame you." The tender departed, to return in a few minutes and stand just inside the door. "Well," said the plasterer pointedly. The tender shuffled his feet, wide eyed and innocent. "It's jes' like I tole yo', boss, jes' like I tole yo'. Somebody done robbed yo'. Dey wunn' a cent in' dem clothes."—Kansas City Star. A Quaint Oriental Story. A recent English traveler in Baluchistan had from a holy man in that country a story about Moses which does not appear in the Scriptures, yet which has its pertinence to this matter of politicians proposing to do away with all the evils of the human lot, says the Century Magazine. The patriarch was sitting in his house very sad, and the Lord said to him, "Prophet Moses, why art thou cast down?" "Alas," said he, "I see so many people sorrowful. Some are unclothed, and some are hungry. I pray thee make all happy and contented." The Lord promised it should be so. But soon Moses was again disconsolate, and once more the Lord asked the cause. "Lord," cried the prophet, "the upper story of my house has fallen down, and nobody will come to mend it; they are all too busy enjoying themselves." "But what am I to do?" "Lord, make the people as they were before!" Affecting surprise, the tramp replied, 'Then you think of retiring, your worship?—London Telegraph. In "Reminiscences, Impressions and Anecdotes" Francesco Berger records a pun made by the late Lord Coleridge at a public dinner. "Even in music," he said, "there is variety of opinion. Some loved their Bach often, while others preferred Offenbach!" Hicks (meeting friend at 11 p. m.)— Hello, old man, what's going on out your way? Wicks—My wife is, I expect. I told her I'd be home at 6.—Boston Transcript. The more we do the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have—Hazlitt. What Is the Answer? : AmIcus Curiae. A Musical Pun. Fuming. in touch with "Col." Kyle B. Price, who signs from Alabama, and who is carried on the stationery of the "association" as chairman of the executive committee and who, by the way, is only an elevator conductor at the Capitol, and learning that the young woman in question originally came from New York, had Price take him to see Senator O'Gorman. They interviewed Mr. Oliver instead. Mr. Oliver said he would take the matter up with Johnson, the recorder. Johnson and every one in the office denied any knowledge of the trouble alleged and Johnson gave Mr. Oliver satisfactory assurances that the matter would be investigated, and justice be done. Martin, thinking to make capital out of this routine interest manifested by Senator O'Gorman's office, spread the story around that Senator O'Gorman has demanded the resignation of the colored woman in question, and in addition has, indirectly, at least, indorsed the "plank" in their "platform" calling for segregation. He has been told, and in the presence of Johnson, that Senator O'Gorman is interested only in seeing that no injustice is done to one of his constituents, and that the Senator has no intention of being dragged into the "fair play" movement, so-called. In simple justice to Mr. Johnson, it should be said that he left no doubt in the minds of those in Senator O'Gorman's office that he would do everything possible to run down the cause of the quarrel, if quarrel there was, between the two women. Divorced James Ortway Holmes has been divorced from his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Holmes. The contest between the two has been a long one, but at last the court has divorced them. 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