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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 SCHOOL GRADUATION SCHOOL GRADUATION The Greatest in the History of the Public Schools—All Washington Turns Out—225 Graduates—Henry P. Blair Presides With 'Dignity and Joviality—A Continued Roar of Merriment of His Witticism—Captain Oyster and Assistant Superintendent Bruce Received an Ovation. Principal Newman Praised—Music By Matine Band. The joint commencement exercises of the public schools took place in Convention Hall Wednesday evening June 18, in the presence of over 7,000 citizens. The decorations of that large hall and the platform was superb. Two hundred and twenty-five graduates, young men and girls, were seated upon an elevated platform a little above the lower stage; upon this platform were seated many distinguished invited persons. All Washington turned out. From the very best to the most humble citizen. The Marine Band, under the leadership of that matchless musician, Lt. Wm. H. Santelmann, furnished the music. President Blair, of the Board of Education, called the vast assembly to order in one of his eloquent and jovial addresses. Throughout the exercises each participant was introduced with dignity, the following was the ROSCOF C BRUCE. Assistant Superintendent of Schools. Program. Overture-II Guarany. Gomes. Scenes from "The Pink Lady," Caryll. March—High School Cadets. Sousa. Entrance of graduates. Rustle of Spring, Sinding. Presiding officer, Henry P. Blair, president of the Board of Education. Invocation—Rev. D. F. Rivers, pastor Iberican Baptist Church. Intermezzo—Indian Summer, Wen- rich. Address—Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Caprice—Heart's Message, Santelmann. Award of prize offered by Washington Human Society, Mr. John P. Heap, secretary. Popular Melody—Here Comes My Daddy Now, Christine. Remarks—Mr. James , Frederick Oyster, former president of Board of Education. One Step—Laughing Love, Fuir. One Step—Laughing Love, Purr. Award of Scholarships—Roscoe Coulking: Bruce, assistant superintendent of schools. Characteristic Dance—"Virginian," Voelker Award of Diploma—The diplomas were presented by members of the Board of Education in the following order: For M Street High School, Mr. Richard R. Horner. For the Department of Business Practice, by Mr. Charles H. Marshall. For Armstrong Manual Training School, by Mrs. Caroline W. Harris. Valse Lente—A la bien Amice—Schuett. Certificates, were presented to graduates of the Cardoza Vocational School by Mr. William M. Davidson, Superintendent of Schools. Humoresque—Dvorak. Benediction—Rev. F. I. A. Bennett, Vicar Calvary P. E. Church. March—Lincoln Centennial—Sanford. Music by U. S. Marine 'Band, Lt. Wm. H. Santelmann, leader. M Street Graduates. The graduates at the M Street High School were: Maude Lawrence Adams, Emily Aurelia Alexander, Virginia Florence Alexander, Senetta Bathella Anderson, Edna Naomi Barker, Marion Anita Berry, Edna Ellis Bowley, Edna Syphax Boyd, Bernice Martha Brooks, Elsie Hetta Brown, N. Pearle Brown, Adele Eloise Coleman, Rosa Belle Coleman, Louise Harriet Craig, Helene May Ease, Josephine Viola Edmonds, Helen Mar Fillmore, Laura Josephine Fowler, Fannie Virginia Francis, Mabel Augusta Freeman, Maude Whithers Gates, Helen Garaldine Hairston, Edythe Elizabeth Hamilton, Martha Anna Harris, Er- nestine Hawkins, Jeretta White Hawkins, Caddie Elizabeth Hill, Dorothy Dowling Hutchins, Olga Golden Hutchins, Florence Johnson, Beatrice Allease Jones, Leizie Sylvestine Jones, Lillian Jones, Marvel Annie Jones, Rhea Eloise Jones, Beulah Catherine Lee, Jeannette Virginia Lonesome, Bernice Catherine Lumpkins, Magdalene Elizabeth Lyles, Emile Evremonde Anderson, Frank Anthony Blackburn, George Joseph Benjamin, jr., Frederick Marshall Bright, James Madison Brown, Creed W. Childs, jr., Merrill Hargro Curtis, Moses Elijah Dandridge, Eugene Leon Coates Davidson, Malherbe Charles Dorce, Charles Malcolm Gordon, Vernon CAPTAIN JAMES F OYSTER, Fx-President of the Board of Education. Sylvester Green, Benjamin Harrison Gwathney, Hawes Houston Hamilton, Ashley Austin Hines, Jnr., Earl Robinson Hyman, Campbell Carrington Johnson, DeWitte Willeston Jones, Rachel Eunice Dickey, Effie Benonia Gaskins, Beulah Ursuline Monroe, Herbert Waldo Bryce, Leonard Francis Colbert, Richard Albert Dandridge, Andrew William Harris, Annie Laurie McCary, Viola Edna Mcutosot, Esther McLendon, Catherine Elizabeth Minor, Lilian Beatrice Murdock, Irene Inez Virginia Myers, Nettie Celebastia Norris, Theresa Etna Nutt, Ione Dandridge Odell, Eunice Virginia Parker, Esther Caroline Peyton, Ethel L. Plummer, Julia Beatrice Pride, Lillian Dorothy Quarles, Irene Ruby Reynolds, Carrie Olivia Russell, Jane Louise Russell, Bessie E. Scipio, Edna Virginia Sedgewick, Henrietta Lynette Shaw, Anna Beatrice Slaughter, Ruth Harrison Smith, Lula Elizabeth Swinson, Maude Earline Swinson, Mary Louise Terrell, Mabel Irene Thompson, Esther Lyle Tolson, Victoria S. Tunnell, Gertrude Elaine Turner, Amy Elizabeth Tyler, Annie Madeline Tyler, Sadie Beatrice Tyler, Emma Beatrice Wallace, Sametta Lillian Wallace, Nellie C. Bell Washington, Martha Elizabeth Watson, Geneva Athena Waugh, Ella Wesley, May Florence Youngs, Henry Sherwood Kennedy, David Alphonso Lane, jr. Milton Ceary Lewis, Rayford Whitingham Logan, Cyril Wadsworth Miller, Lloyd Brooke Muse, Perry Greenberry Myers, Verden Townsend Paginter, Albert Louis Pollard, John King Rector, Roscoe Gresham Robinson, Louis Albert Scipio, James Edward Scott, Frederick Lyman Slade, Ralph Leon Smith, Herschell Henderson Stewart, William Henry Sutton, Louis Lee Watson, Annie Dale McKenney, Marzette Inez Tate, Leon Vinton McElroy, Joseph Stanley Settlers, Omega Clinton Ware. DR. CHARLES H. MARSHALL, Member of the Board of Education. Armstrong Manual Training School. Those at the Armstrong Manual Training School were: Ida Winola Ballard, Helen Virginia Baylor, Sara Elizabeth Brooks, Odean Beatrice Campbell, Gertrude Leona Carroll, Elsie Mae Coleman, Tulip Isabelle Cook, Mary Edna Dade, Laura Dailey, Hattie Marie Dorsey, Theodora Amelia Dreear, Greekie Thomas Duffin, Carrie Virginia Gatewood, Marion Louise Giles, Ruth Naomi Greene, Florence Anna May Harper, Nellie Elasee Hawkins, Annie Elizabeth Henderson, Sydnev WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1913 Evelyn Hughes, Anna Mae Jackson, Cecelia Irene Johnson, Sadye Floretta Johnson, Alberta Eleanor Jones, Ollie Etta Kibble, Ernestine Elizabeth Lancaster, Beatrice Catherine Lanier, Josephine Veronica Lawrence, Preston Spriggs Baltimore, George Frederick Bentley, Samuel Marcellus Blackburn, John Fleming Bright, Emerson Cullen Brown, George Othello Brown, James Monroe Burwell, Roger Clarke, Arthur Alfred Dyer, George Alonzo Ferguson, William Henry Ferguson, Lewis Wentworth Giles, Charles Emerson Goines, Enoch George Gray, Estelle Virginia Lewis, Iller Jane Lewis, Myrtle Mason, Elizabeth McNair, Mayme Catherine Mehlinger, Marguerite Amanda Minor, Helen Beatrice Morris, Mathilde Lennea Nutt, Amy Louisa Pendleton, Constance Carlotta Peters, Marie Magdelene Piper, Helen Mae Proctor, Isabelle Robinson, Beatrice Mildred Saunders, Ophelia Belle Scott, Mabel Gwendolyn Shoucraft, Frances Anetta Smothers, Berenice Stewart, Ethel Mae Stokes, Grace Naomi Tanner, Ethel Eugenie Turner, Rosa Rebecca Wade, Helena Elizabeth Whipps, Martha Annie White, Adele Whiting, Ellen Elizabeth Williams, Alice McKeever, Woodland, Falstaff Lionel Harris, London Ellis Harrison, James Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin Jenifer, Verdi Merrick Jones, Wallace Bernard Lucas, William Cogswell Malord, Percival Piper, George William Saunders, William Alphonus Short, William Everett Smith, Lawrence Corbit Taylor, Leland Dubois Ward, Frederick Henry Whitford. Cardoza Vocational School. Those who completed the course at the Cardoza Vocational School were: Benjamin Wesley Freeman, Andrew Leroy Minor, Hermann Franklin Stamps, Marsshall Leroy Thomas, Walter Eugene Williams, Paul Alphonsus Wade, Walter Charles Ellis, Josephine Kathryn Battle, Mabel Emma Boyd, Gertrude Mildred Branson, Clarissa Drusilla Burrell, Annie Beatrice Cole, Mayme Emma Howard, Sarah Beatrice Jackson, Sarah Lillian Nelson, Permelia Erna Thomas, and Emma Louise Hines. The entire arrangements and management of these exercises are due to Principal Newman, of the Vocational School. The affairs were placed in his charge and supervision and he deserves the highest praise. Assistant Superintendent R. C. Bruce and Captain James F. Oyster received an ovation after the flattering introduction given them by President Blair, of the Board of Education. Dr. Marshall acted with dignity and decorum, as well as the other members of the Board of Education, who actively participated. In his address at the Convention Hall the other evening Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., praised the public schools system of the District of Columbia, in that it aims to give the youth of this community that quality and fullness of mental instruction and discipline which result in intelligence, culture, and purpose; and this is supplemented by that special fitness for service which is afforded in our Normal School, the Armstrong Manual Training School, and the Vocational School. In speaking of industrial education he said the race would not be worse off if every man among us was master of some trade or calling. In this connection he referred to Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity, as a carpenter; to the Appstle Paul, the inspired missionary to the nations, as a tent-maker, who sometimes found it necessary to ply his art in order to obtain the comforts of life, while he preached the gospel in unfriendly territories, and declared that William Carey, the father of modern evangelical missions, was a shoemaker. To these examples he added the names of men of intelligence, culture and purpose, who in their day acquired fame and wealth in catering to the appetites of the rich. Rev. Brooks believes in giving his people the education that develops the whole man, but ridicules learned idleness. All learning, whether general and liberal, or limited and special, should lead to service, and all service, however rated, should be service rendered to God. CONGRATULATIONS From Editor Robinson—One of the Ablest in the Craft. Washington, D. C., June 23, 1913. Hon.Wm. Calvin Chase, Editor Bee: My Dear Friend: Allow me to congratulate you upon entering your valuable journal "The Bee" upon its 34th year, I being one of the oldest, colored editors, with my brother, M. L. Robinson, living; I have watched your career as an editor, and give you great credit in the manly way you have conducted your journal. The Lord has spared you to see many newspapers started to freeze you out go dead, dead, and may you still be crowned with success in your future years. Your friend. R. B. ROBINSON, President National Christian Congress Association of America. REV. WALDRON NO LONGER A FACTOR. Removed from the Presidency—Meeting of Colored Citizens Don't Want Office Holders or Office Seeker, Candidate for Recorder of Deeds. The regular monthly meeting of the District of Columbia branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was held last Friday evening at the Lincoln Temple Congregational Church, and lasted from about 8:15 to 12 o'clock. As the result of the meeting the presidency of the branch, held up to that time by Rev. J. Milton Waldron, was declared vacant by the vote of 127, of the 160 members who participated in the meeting. The meeting was opened by Rev. Waldron questioning the regularity of the notice of meeting sent out. On motion, the action of the chairman of the executive committee who sent out the notice, was approved by a vote of two to one. The meeting then proceeded in an orderly fashion to transact the regular routine business. Dr. Waldron had omitted to take up the order "new business," and Mr. Neval Thomas called attention to the omission, stating that he had a matter to bring up under that head for the consideration of the meeting. Mr. Thomas had a roll of manuscript in his hand. At this point filibustering began, the friends of Dr. Waldron making dilatory motions to adjourn. Three different times propositions to adjourn were voted down by overwhelming standing votes. The presiding officer, Dr. Waldron, would recognize, no one except persons known to be friendly to him. On appeals from decisions of the chair, his friends demanded roll calls, and he ruled that there should be such call, although he had announced earlier in the evening that there was no completed roll of members in the house, and that it was possible in a company of ladies and gentlemen by standing votes to identify any person who improperly exercised the votio: privilege. This biologist unfairness and arbitrariness on the part of the chairman led to much confusion and disorder, and the conduct of the chairman was denounced violently, but there was no cursing, swearing, or blaspheming. The statement made in an interview in an evening paper to the effect that there was cursing and swearing is utterly without foundation in fact. As the evening wore on the confusion became greater, and some one began turning out the lights, whereupon Dr. Waldron arbitrarily declared the meeting adjourned, and he and a handful of his friends left the house. L. M. Hershaw took the chair and the meeting was resumed at the point of interruption. Mr. Nevel Thomas was recognized under\ head of "new business," and stated the matter which he had been trying all evening to get an opportunity to bring before the meeting. Why Dr. Waldron Was Asked to Resign. never intended to hold any political office; that his ambition in life was to be an humble minister of Jesus Christ, preaching the unsearchable riches of the Gospel to a dying world. He told the same thing to the officers of Shiloh Baptist Church. So that, when it did become definitely known that he was an office seeker in hot pursuit of his prey, every one who had reposed confidence in him was shocked and grieved. After Mr. Thomas had finished his statement, of which the above is a mere inadequate outline, (for he was very eloquent and visibly moved his auditors by the clearness and earnestness of his speech) a motion was made to declare the office of president of the local branch vacant, and this was carried without division. It was further voted, without division, that Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford act as head of the branch until the matter of recognition and approval of the constitution was settled. The statement made in an interview in an evening, paper to the effect that Dr. Waldron was asked to retire because he was affiliated with the Democratic party, and that the National Association intended to fight the administration is refuted by a number of facts. Dr. Waldron has repeatedly denied that he is a Democrat. His excuse for acting separate from Bishop Walters' organization was that he is not a Democrat. Only recently he said he was not a Democrat, that he was in sympathy with the Socialists. Dr. Waldron asked Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard to endorse him for Recorder of Deeds because he knew that Mr. Villard's paper, the Evening Post, had supported the candidacy of President Wilson, and that Mr. Villard had been a large personal contributor to the Democratic campaign fund in the election last fall. There are other charges to be preferred against Rev. Waldron. REGISTER'S OFFICE Suffers a Cut of Twenty-nine Employees—Riddling of the Office Accepted As Indication That the Position Is to Be Abolished. The office of Register of the Treasury, now held by Mr. J. C. Napier, was thirty raddied one past week by the advice of the Secretary of the Treasury. Twenty-nine of the forty-seven clerks of the office were transferred to another bureau, cutting Mr. Napier's force down to the very small number of 18 people. This wholesale cutting down of Mr. Napier's office by transferring the employees to other bureaus is accepted as the first step to abolish that office, and thus cut off another position heretofore filled by a Negro. As the Register's salary is $4,000 per year, the Assistant Register $2,500, and the chief of division in the office $2,000, it is not believed that Secretary McAdoo is going to sanction the expenditure of $8,500 per annum to manage 18 employees. The question of a Negro for this office has been embarrassing for the administration because of the office having been held right along by the race, and to dispose of the question, and make it impossible to appoint a Negro without criticism, the administration has hit upon the plan of ridding the office of clerks by assigning them to other bureaus, and thereby cut the office force down to eighteen. Just before Mr. Napier took the office the force was cut from 70 to 47, and now it suffers a further cut of 20 clerks. This is Democratic simplicity, it is rumored. R, J. Harlan, of Ohio, who has been chief of the division, has been transferred to the coupon division for 15 days counting coupons. The report is that he will be reduced from $1,800 July 1. Prof. Charles G. Harris Accepts Appointment. Prof. Charles G. Harris, a music teacher and chorister of national reputation, has accepted the position of chorister of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church choir. Prof. Harris has had many years of experience in work of this kind. He had charge of the musical department of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Alabama for seven years. During that time the music at the department was brought up to a very high standard, which has ever since been maintained. He was in charge of the music of the Young People's Christian and Educational Congress which was held in Atlanta, Ga., some few years ago. During the services he directed a chorus of five hundred trained voices, which rendered with great effect the works of the masters. Since being here in Washington, D. C., Prof. Harris was twice appointed to the position of music teacher in the public schools, as a result of competitive examinations, but each time declined because of insufficiency of the salary attached. He has rendered service in many of the leading churches of this city, both in the capacity of director and organist. Many of his pupils rank among the successful musicians of the city and in many of the States. The Florida Avenue Baptist Church is to be congratulated upon its choice of a chorister. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Important News Happening of the Week DEVOTED TO GENERALINTEREST The Crisis presents a firm front this month, known as the Educational Number. Mr. Justice Stafford knows a dangerous thing when he sees it. It was no imagination with him last Monday when Roy McStewart attempted to blow up the court house. The resignation of John S. McNab, of San Francisco, Cal., has been promptly accepted by President Wilson. President Wilson has refused to renew treaty with the Czar of Russia unless American Jews be allowed to enter Russia freely. Pelky, the prize fighter, who knocked out McCarty in Calgary on May 24, has been exonerated by a jury. Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, has thrown down the gauntlet to those who favor currency legislation. The fight is expected to be a long one. Tea to the amount of $20,000 was condemned by the United States government and will be dumped in the New York harbor. The United States leads all exporters of meats. Ex-President Taft is very fond of the Yale college work. Ex-President Roosevelt will go to South America on a lecturing tour. Charges against the Milwaukee Tax Commissioner have been sustained and he will be impeached. Senator Galliver, of New Hampshire, has introduced a bill in the Senate to incorporate the Alexandria, Va., Industrial School, of which Rev. R. B. Robinson is president. Mr. R. R. Honor, a member of the Board of Education, was presented with a handsome gold watch. A $75,000,000 water plant for California is under discussion before the Senate Public Land Committee. The National Baptist Association is becoming to be one of the strongest organizations in this country. Mr. Isiah Hatton is making a reputation as an architect. Mr. Hatton is daily growing in popularity. NEW PARSONAGE For Asbury M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md., Architect Hatton's Success—A Young Man and a Native of Washington. John G. Staley, builder, has secured the contract for, the new parsonage of the Ashbury M. E. Church to be located at 31 Second Street, Annapolis, Md., which is now being constructed at a cost of $4,250. The building will be ready for the occupancy of the new pastor, Rev. E. S. Williams, D. D., on or about August 15. The building plans were drawn by Isaiah T. Hatton, the talented Negro architect, of Washington, D. C. Neither time or expense has been spared to make this parsonage a model for other progressive churches throughout the country to follow. The lot proper measures 60 by 120 feet, the house 24 and 45 feet. The exterior is designed in the Georgian style of architecture, better known as the Colonial. Porches front, side and rear, add to the beauty of the building. The first floor will consist of butler's pantry, reception hall, living room, dining room, and kitchen. The second floor will have a pastor's study, three large bed rooms and bath room. Two large closets for every bed room. The interior finish will be Alabama pine and Chestnut. The basement will contain storage room, heating plant and laundry. The building throughout will be equipped with all modern conveniences and fixtures. TYLER REMEMBERED Employees Present(Ralph Tyler With Elegant Presents. The employees of the office for the Auditor for the Navy presented Ralph W. Tyler on his retirement as Auditor an elegant pair of gold initial cuffbuttons and a scarf pin set with a diamond and ruby in platinum. The gifts gave evidence of the high esteem in which Mr. Tyler was held by the force regardless of his color. Whites and Negroes combined to make the gift to the retiring official WOULD AVOID ALL LABOR DISPUTES "Capital and Labor Are Partners, and Each Should Have Voice In Determining the Terms," He Says—Doesn't Favor Strikes. Washington.—William Bauchop Wilson, secretary of labor, is a strong, sturdy man, with blond hair, fair face, fighting gray blue eyes and a Scotch accent. He was born at Blantyre, Scotland. April 2, 1802, and came to this country nine years later. Settling with his parents in Tloga county, at Arnot, Pa., he became a mine worker at the age of ten. The following year, just after he had passed his eleventh year, he was made a half member of the Mine Workers' union. He obtained his early education from a small village school and in rough and tumble debates in union meetings. He was elected to the Sixthth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second congresses. March 4 he was appointed secretary of the new department of labor. This, briefly, is the story of the man who is the first to hold a particular cabinet office. "What, this department hopes to do primarily," said Secretary Wilson, "is to try to bring about such conditions that 'uplift' work in industrial centers will not be needed. We are proceeding on the assumption that capital and labor are partners, capital furnishing the material ready for use and labor the vitalizing force. Capital and labor should each have a voice in determining the terms of the partnership." Secretary Wilson thinks that a strike is like a war between nations—to be resorted to when all other efforts have failed. "I would not favor a strike if anything else was left for me to do," he PETER © 1913, by American Press Association. SECRETARY WILLIAM B. WILSON. sald. "In strikes, as in war, there are destruction and ruin, but there are times when they cannot be avoided. "I look upon the department of labor as a means of helping to bring nearer year by year the goal of social justice. Every man is entitled to the full social equivalent of what he produces. The problem is to arrive at that condition. Capital and labor are partners. "Capital without labor is ineffective labor without capital is idle. Capital is animate; labor gives it life. The one can produce nothing without the employment of the other. To be effective capital and labor must serve each other. Their interests diverge when they come to divide what they have produced. These two elements should sit down together and work out a plan by which the division of profits will be fair, with due regard for the rights of each." It has been feared by advocates of the "open shop" that Secretary Wilson would lean a little closer to organized labor than he should do in this country of all sorts of labor. But he denies that he is to be a union labor officer of the government. He believes that laboring people should organize and that a union labor man, as a rule, is more fit than the nonunion worker. "With the growing industries," said Mr. Wilson, "there is no longer that personal relation between employer and employed that formerly existed. The employer is compelled to deal with larger numbers. The employee as an individual cannot make as satisfactory a contract with the employer as he can when he unites with his fellow workers and fellow men. That is what makes a labor movement necessary. "The department of labor was instituted to obtain by the rule of reason—that is, by striking a basis where the employer can compete with rivals and also pay satisfactory wages—a fair and amicable adjustment of all trade disputes. This would be a rule of reason based upon facts. "The purposes for which the department of labor was established will have been accomplished if we can bring capital and labor together upon a just bargain." CRAZY WOODPECKERS, THESE. Failing to Find Acorns, They Gather Pebbles For Food. San Francisco-The woodpeckers of Sonoma county are suffering from a mild sort of insanity, according to an erudite document issued by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California. The document says: "The reason why California woodpeckers in the vicinity of Sonoma mountain should have stored pebbles instead of the customary acorns is a mystery. "We know that instinct works as automatically as an alarm clock. In the failure of an acorn crop it would seem possible that the woodpecker might in reticulately have stored some other available kind of food, but to have chosen stones instead of some sort of food carries the analogy too far "It seems as though any bird with the intelligence of the California wood pecker which would make the same mistake ought to be classed as insane." PASTORS ADOPT EUGENICS. Won't Perform Marriages For the Physically Unfit. Lynn, Mass.—The Protestant clergymen here (Methodist, Episcopal, Congregationalists and Baptists) have resolved individually to take a stand for the physical fitness of applicants for marriage, and they are to meet to concentrate their energies in behalf of the protection of society. The Rev. C. Thurston Chase of the Central Congregational church, the pioneer in the movement, said: "I have performed my last marriage ceremony in which it will not be necessary for the couple to furnish certificates_vouching for their physical fitness. "I maintain that a minister should refuse to perform the marriage ceremony when he thinks it should not be performed." WASP STING MAKES POOR CRIPPLE WALK Feels "Hot Needle" Pierce His Ankle and Runs. St. Louis.—Charles Wightman, deputy county clerk at Clayton, told how he had just been able to walk without crutches for the first time in thirty eight of the forty-two years of his life. He fell when he was four years old and injured both legs permanently. He said that a neighbor had told him a snake story just before he went to bed. It was a tale of a black snake ever so many feet long and an incredible number of inches thick, which the neighbor had said he had killed. Charles woke up in the morning with the story still in mind. He thought how comfortable it was to live in a country where one could sleep in peace instead of in one of those countries where, he had heard, snakes some times creep in and share one's bed. Rervelling in the thought, he thrust his right leg deeper under the covers. Then something that stung like a hot needle pierced his ankle. "I sprang out of bed and ran and stumbled twelve feet across the room,' he said. "It was the first time I had taken so many steps unassisted since I was a baby." "And was it really a snake?" he waaasked. "No. It was a wasp." And he showed the ankle where the sting had swollen it. PRAISES GRAPE JUICE HOST Daniels Holds Bryan Up as Pattern Approves Rosevelt's Suit. Washington. - Praise of Secretary Bryan for "the courage of his convictions" in refusing to serve wine at a dinner he gave recently to the diplomatic corps was given by Secretary Daniels in addressing a Sunday school rally for prohibition in the District of Columbia. He advised all young men to follow Secretary Bryan's course and to seek safety in total abstinence. Secretary Daniels also praised Theodore Roosevelt for prosecuting for life an editor accused of circulating stories relative to drinking on the part of the former president. CORNELL BOYS IN KITCHEN Nine Now Going Through the Domestic Science Course. Ithaca, N. Y.-Male students have entered the domestic science course this year for the first time in the Cornell State College of Agriculture. Miss Brownell, the instructor, is authority for the statement that nine have registered and spend the usual hours in the "kitchen," kneading dough and doing other work with the women. They are becoming most proficient, according to Miss Brownell. Among the men cooks are Watson of the varsity baseball team and C. L. Whitney of Rochester, a member of the glee club. Woman to Manage Her Own Mine. Deadwood, S. D.—Backed by capital enough to develop on a good sized scale, Miss Elizabeth Marks of Rapid City has purchased the controlling interest in the Black Tom gold mine. known as the best producer in the Slate Creek district, and is preparing to do extensive work this summer. She will assume the active management of the property. TO HELP FARMERS UNCLE SAM'S AIM Department of Agriculture Begins Movement, Financed by Education Board, Rockefeller Philanthropy. Splendid Results Expected. Washington.-The broadest investigation yet undertaken by the department of agriculture, designed ultimately to solve some of the great problems of farm life, is being planned for the rural organization service, which has just been established by Secretary Houston. The secretary and Dr. T. N Carver of Harvard, who is at the head of the new work, are confident of splendid results. The rural organization service will work in closest co-operation with the newly created division of markets, which will devote its energies primarily to problems connected with the marketing of farm products at a profit. In many instances it is not the lack of a market that prevents the farmer from turning over a profit, but inability to utilize the means for reaching the market. Secretary' Houston, Dr. Carver and students of farm economics in general long have felt that the weakness of agriculture was disorganization. This disorganization is the natural and of ten necessary result of the vast number of farm units, each one a separate business enterprise. Also it is the result of the isolation of farm life and the fact that the farmer has learned to co-operate with nature better than with men. The rural organization service will be financed by the general education PETER H. SECRETARY HOUSTON. board, one of the philanthropies of John D. Rockefeller. While backed by practically unlimited funds, however, the work will not be done on an extravagant scale. The general education board so far has appropriated only enough money to make a beginning and to effect an organization of thoroughly competent men. The southern education board, a branch of the general board, for several years past has been co-operating with the department in its farmers' co-operative demonstration work in the southern states. This work has met with phenomenal success and has solved many farm problems for the south. Effective organization in marketing crops will ultimately bring the farmer a much larger return for his work and also reduce the cost of living to the consumer by removing the middleman wherever practicable. "The farmer is quite capable of taking care of himself if he can be put in possession of the necessary information," says Dr. Carver. "Generally speaking, the farmer must do his own organizing and not depend either upon financial agencies or upon government mental agencies for the doing of the actual work. The government, however, has facilities for collecting, tabulating and spreading information which neither individual farmers nor groups of farmers possess. "It is not only necessary that the farmer's income should be increased, but that country life should be made sufficiently attractive to induce the farmer to remain in the country even when he has a large income. In the past it was generally true that the more prosperous agriculture was the faster farmers have moved to town. "This problem is in some respects more difficult than the purely economic problems of marketing and credit. There must be some effective organization of rural interests to support an educational system in our rural schools at least equal to those found in the city schools. There must be organization for rural sanitation, which will make country life so much more wholesome than city life that people will seek the country rather than the city for these reasons." ACCUSED OF 25 MURDERS. Missouri Life Prisoner Said to Have Used an Ax. Leavenworth, Kan.—Twenty-five murders committed with an ax within the last three years in Missouri, Kansas Colorado, Iowa and Illinois are ascribed to Henry Lee Moore, now serving a life term in the Missouri penitentiary according to a theory formed by M. W. McClaughry, special agent of the department of justice, after an exhaustive study of the so called ax murders. Mr. McClaughry is a son of Warden McClaughry of the federal penitentiary here and has charge of the bureau of criminal identification at the penitentiary. Moore went to the penitentiary at Jefferson City after being found guilty of the murder of his mother and grandmother, Mrs. Mary Wilson and Mrs. George Moore, at Columbus, Mo., in December last year. Moore, on trial said he had made a study of famous murders, including the Crippen case in England. AN UNUSUAL MORTGAGE. Farmer Puts Up Chickens, Hogs and Revolver as Security. Washington, Ga.—There was placed on record in the office of the clerk of Wilkes county what is considered the most unusual mortgage ever recorded in this or any other county. The security named in the recorded instrument consists of the following valuable property—to wit: "Nine chicken hens, two sow hogs and a 32 caliber pistol." The amount of the debt thus secured is $23, and it is provided that if the obligation is not met at maturity the property mentioned therein shall be sold at public outcry. All homestead exemption rights are waived by the maker of the mortgage: The question is being asked, "Does this mortgage emphasize the increasing value of the 'hog and hominy' propaganda, or is it but another indication of the extreme stringency in the land about which so much has been said and written—which?" TABLOID BOOZE IS SERVED IN MAINE One May Carry Whisky or Beer In Vest Pocket. Bangor, Me.—A Maine sheriff might find a barrel of beer or even a jug of whisky, but he can't find a beer lozenge or a cocktail tablet, and over that glad fact the thirsty of this state are rejoicing now. For the tabloid booze drummer has come to Maine and is doing a rushing business in condensed drinks of all kinds, from plain whisky to cocktails and from beer to gin fizzes. The drummer carries a considerable stock of the tablets with him for immediate demands and arranges for further and unlimited supplies by mail. Many bars in Bangor, Lewiston and Portland are selling tabloid drinks, while a great many men who just must have their whisky or beer when they want it have obtained their own supplies and make their liquor at home while they wait, and the wait is not long. Nobody here knows anything about the constituent elements of the tablets, but nobody cares so long as they produce something that looks and tastes like liquor. The tablets come in little paper boxes or glass bottles of a dozen each and the price varies. A small phial of one kind of tablets, costing 13 cents dissolved in a gallon of water, with other ingredients costing 50 cents makes a gallon of what passes for whisky—total cost, 63 cents. It is not whisky that would appeal to a connoisseur, for it burns and bites all the way down, but is as near to whisky as a good many people are able to get in some parts of Maine, and it "goes." WHISTLING CAT HAS HARELIP Animal Never Has Mewed, but Is Musical Prodigy. Springfield, Mass.-Stanislaus Czynszky of Prospect avenue, West Springfield, is the owner of a cat with a harelip, which whistles with the facility of a schoolboy, but cannot mew or at least, never has mewed. Czynszky is inclined to believe that no animal in its normal state of mind would whistle, but is loath to do away with the cat, which, he says, attracts more attention than any other member of the family and is regarded as a musical, prodigy. Neighbors have suggested that the cat would prove a treasure to a maker of catgut violin strings. Hen Lays Thinest of Eggs. Vancouver, Wash.-An egg weighing but fifteen grains, laid by a real live hen, is the property of Mrs. Harvey Alexander of this city. The egg, about half the size of a hazelnut, is but 1-3/8 part of a pound. Mrs. Alexander found an egg with a soft shell, which crushed in when she picked it up, and inside was the small egg, perfect in shape and with a hard shell. 11th Born to 11th of 11th: Lawrenceburg, Ind. - An eleventh daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Silas W. Jackson of Miller township. Mrs. Jackson is the eleventh daughter of an eleventh daughter of a family in which there were no boys. The new arrival welged nearly ten pounds and is thriving. WOMEN COPS ON BEACH. Give Special Attention to Women In Distress at Newport. Newport—Policewomen—two o'them, the first in the history of Newport—have been assigned to patrol the beach. Each of the "sister cops," Miss Minnie Smith and Miss Janet Buchanan, carried a parasol over her head and a mesh bag on her arm. Their uniform consisted of blue blouse with brass buttons, blue skirt and sailor style straw hat. They carried regular police whistles. Their appearance at the shore started a rubberneck performance on the part of the crowds that caused the chief of police to detail a male patrolman to follow the two women police at a respectful distance to protect them from the curious throng. The "elster cops" were appointed at the request of the Civic league, and it is planned to have them patrol the beach, giving special attention to women in distress. RIDES ON A PORPOISE. Young Bather So Frightened That She Faints in Water. Venice, Cal.—A ride on-the back of a huge playful porpoise caused Miss Violet Nathan of Minneapolis to have hysterics while in bathing. While a large number of bathers were enjoying the surf near Maler Pier avenue a school of porpoles suddenly appeared and began to frolic with the bathers. All except Miss Nathan fled to the beach. When she observed the monsters she started to flee, but a big porpoise in a playful mood swam up and rubbed against the young woman. She screamed and jumped. The porpoise then swam directly under Miss Nathan, and she was carried several feet astride of the creature's back. She called loudly for help, fainted and fell off. David Moreno, a life guard, rescued Miss Nathan, and she was revived. Mistress Calls In Surgeon When Limb Was Fractured. St. Louis.—Bobby, a canary bird belonging to Mrs. William M. Walker, wife of the manager of the Planters' hotel, chirped inquiringly as he stood on one leg on his perch in his mistress' room at the hostelry. The bird had often balanced himself on one leg before because it pleased him to do so, but on this occasion he was compelled to. The other leg had been amputated by a surgical operation. Bobby, who is allowed the freedom of the room and is seldom in his cage, had been hopping about the floor when a domestic, not seeing him, pushed a chair against him. One of his feet was mashed, and the leg was broken. In such cases it is usual to destroy the bird. But Mrs. Walker was attached to Bobby because he often sat on her finger or perched on her shoulder, so Dr. Frederick W. Shaffer, a veterinary, was called into consultation. He arrived with a case of instruments and promised to save Bobby's life. With a hypodermic syringe he injected cocaine into the broken leg just above the place where the feathers begin and then cut off the limb with a pair of bone shears. RENOUNCES WEDDING FEES. Pastor Says They're Graft and Should Be Abolished. Chicago.-The Rev. Almer Pennewell, pastor of the Euclid Avenue Episcopal church of Oak Park, has announced that hereafter he will not accept fees for marriages because they are "graft" and as such should be abolished. "If the church insists that marriage is a rite that belongs to it," he said, "then the church should make marriages free to all. "The minister who does not need a fee should be ashamed to take it, and a church whose minister needs the fee should be ashamed and immediately raise his salary. No minister should be forced to stand at a wedding with his open hand behind him." Washington.-Julian Emmons, doorkeeper of the house of representatives, sixty-five years of age, ruler and hearty, swallows a teaspoonful of sand after each meal. He never leaves home in the morning without a vial of coarse sand. He says he was troubled constantly with sour stomach, heartburn, indigestion and kindred ills until he started the "sand cure." Now he asserts that he is never troubled at all, rellishes his food, sleeps like a baby and enjoys life to the full. Letter Fifty-two Years on Way. Pottsville. Pa.-A letter written at Fort Washington, Md., May 30, 1861, by Henry C. Russell of Pottsville, a civil war soldier, has just reached his widow in Pottsville through the regular channels of the United States mail. The letter had been intrusted to a comrade, M. E. Richards of Pottstown. Pa., to mail and was never sent. Recently Mr. Richards dled, and the letter, sealed and stamped, was found among some old papers. Russell dled about five years ago. CANNOT SLEEP ON BED. Twenty Years In Cell Unfits Pareled Convict For Real Bed. Topeka, Kan.—Morgan Wright, sent to prison in 1893 from Cowley county for complicity in the murder of a constable and released on parole by Governor Hodges, found that a free bed was so soft he was unable to sleep his first night out of prison. Wright came to Topeka to thank the governor. He is on his way to see his father in Shawnee, Okla., and then will go to California to begin life anew. "I didn't sleep well last night," said Wright to the governor. "It was the first real bed I have slept in for nearly twenty years. "When I left the prison yesterday I didn't know which way to turn or what to do. It was all so new and strange to me. Every one seemed so busy and in such a hurry that I can't quite understand it. Even the school children rushed along the street. But I think if the world is such a busy place that there must be some place for me, and I am going to try to find it." STREET STREWN WITH BILLS. Thought to Be Robber's Plunder by Government Officials. Leavenworth, Kan.-Three postoffice inspectors have begun an investigation of the finding of hundreds of dollars in gold certificates believed to be a portion of $20,000 stolen by Charles Savage from a mall truck in the Union station in Kansas City five years ago. Developments show that persons have been finding the certificates, mostly of the $20 denomination, for a month and have kept the matter secret. It is estimated that at least $1,000 has been picked up in gutters, vacant lots and back yards. All the money was discovered within a radius of eight blocks of the home of a relative of Charles Savage at whose house he stopped before his arrest. One theory of the investigators is that the money was concealed in a tree and dislodged by recent high winds. Edmonton, Alberta. — George Gardner of Ottawa is in Edmonton outlitting for a trek over the trail of romance to the Upper Hayes river district, to prospect a gold claim located by a man he believes to have been his uncle on the bank of the Peace river in 1808, during the rush to the Yukon, when this city was made the starting point of the overland trail to the Klondike. The story told here by Gardiner is that during the Kloudlike rush three prospectors went into the Hayes river country, which, except for a small part along the river near Vermillon, is unexplored. One of the party was found on the river bank a year afterward. The man was emaciated and lived only a few hours, but in his last few minutes of life told of a fight with Indians, who killed his two companions. He had in his possession samples of the richest gold. It could have been procured in no other place, so it may be that unexplored territory is rich in the yellow metal. Though the hinterland has been explored to points, within the arctic circle, the Upper Hayes river country still remains a vast unknown stretch. Remarking upon the fact, an old timer in the north country said he had never known of a white man getting far into that part of the country. From Edmonton to Peace river crossing by way of Athabasca is 400 miles, and outside of about a fifty mile stretch beyond Peace river crossing and the Upper Hayes still lies a great unexplored land of rolling and, so far as is known, open country. It is Inhabited by the Dog Ribs tribe of Indians. The territory runs clear through to the mountains on the British Columbia side, and it is supposed that a large number of "bad Indians" have settled in there. HORSE LEADS TO CROOKS' DEN Police Follow Unguided Animal to Resort of Thieves. Spokane, Wash.—After a horse had led detectives to a house occupied by two men already under bond because of larceny charges warrants were issued charging the two men with attempts to rob. The horse had been left behind in a lumber yard when Detective Benway shot at the men and in return was shot through the left leg. The horse, attached to the wagon, was turned loose and, followed by the two detectives, went to a house in the suburbs that the police alleged was occupied by the men named in the warrants. Gallon, O.—In addition to a fine coat of wool, a ram owned by David Lynch, a farmer, has a covering of flourishing oats. The ram wallowed around in a straw stack and got oats in his wool. Then it was rained on. Next the sun shone brightly. This continued several days, with the result that the oats sprouted. Lynch calculates that in case of drought he can save this crop of oats since if the rain won't come to the crop he can move the crop to the rain. THE BEE Published at 1109 Eye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... 5.0 Subscription monthly ..... 20 HOWDRD UNIVERSITY HOWDD UNIVERSITY. The time has arrived for some plain talk regarding Howard University and her future. It is with regret and hesitation that we indulge in this plain talk, but the exigencies of the situation demand it. To begin, there is an utter absence of virility in the present head of the institution characteristic of his predecessor. Howard University, during the past year, has floated along, uneventfully, with the tide—simply this and nothing more. There has been no initiative, and no display of energy, and the smallest pebbles, which when tossed into the stream make but a narrow circle of eddies, seem to have forged to the mastery to the subordination of men who really stand out prominently in the educational world. There is an apparent disposition of these small men to regard Howard as a local institution, and therein lies the menace to Howard's future. The recent election of trustees brought to the trustee board two gentlemen who, while they may not detract from the institution, certainly can add no prestige to it. In many respects they are excellent gentlemen. But "what ice do they cut?" How far are they known from their own door yard? What are their achievements to merit this high honor and assignment which demands both reputation and work? Howard's student body has been most largely drawn from the South, is now, and will continue to be if the university is to grow. The North sends but a very limited number of students, and Washington's representation is distressingly small. Then why was it necessary to go to the East and to this city for trustees who can contribute little, if anything—absolutely nothing—in the way of name and fame to re-vitalize the institution? It had already six trustees from this city, so why further accentuate the impression that Howard is a local institution by choosing another member from this city? And if one was to be selected from Washington, why not have selected one of the standing of the worthy deceased member, or of Dr. Grimke or Dr. Mooreland? Shaw and Melharry medical schools, in the South, are each attracting many students from Howard. If this localizing of Howard continues, and if mere ordinary men from this city are selected as trustees, instead of an occasional man from the South with a country-wide reputation, and if the present inaction at the head continues it will not be long until Howard's student body is far surpassed, in numbers, by like schools in the South. Howard's prestige is in danger, and Howard's reputation as the premier institution of higher education for the Negro is likely to trail behind that of some college in the South if the trustee board is to be packed with mediocre men, men unknown beyond their own household. This is plain talk, but the time is ripe for taking an inventory of forces that are proving a retardence to Howard's future-forces that are using the institution for selfish aims. And The Bee is deeply interested in desiring a splendid future for its editor's alma mater, hence this plain talk. A SOLEMN WARNING The Bee enters a strong protest against the appointment of any female to be in charge of any of the school playgrounds whose morals are questionable, and it sounds a solemn warning that if any female who is known to have visited places of ill repute in the past, or who now visits such is appointed there will be an avalanch of just condemnation which will descend upon the heads of those responsible for such appointment. It is bad enough, and unhealthy enough for the morals of young girls, to have to sit in the same school room with a female who is unclean of morals, but when such one is placed in charge of a playground, and put in charge of innocent children the limit of endurance will have been reached. Mark it well, The Bee enters a firm protest and a solemn warning. PUBLIC PRINTER FORD. The new Public Printer, Mr. Ford, is on the order of his predecessor, Mr. Donnelly. The best obtainable authority says that he believes in fair play to his employees regardless of color or condition. Mr. Ford is a practical printer and fair-minded man. He will not permit under-strappers to control him or influence him against the worthy. The Bee will have more to say about him in the future. Mr. Donnelly, the retiring public printer, is entitled to the gratitude and appreciation of all classes, regardless of color or condition. The Bee regrets his retirement. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS The joint commencement exercises of the colored public schools took place in Convention Hall Wednesday evening, June 18th. It must be admitted that the event was the greatest in the history of the public schools of this city. Too much praise cannot be given principal Newman, of the Vocational School, who had the entire arrangements and management of these exercises in charge. Assistant Superintendent Bruce and his other able assistants likewise deserve the highest commendation. Nathan Alexander, Receiver of the Land Office at Montgomery, Ala., was removed last week and a white man appointed in his place by the President. It might be interesting for Bishop Walters to know that the removal of Negro office holders goes merrily on, and the appointment of white men in their place continues uninterrupted. It seems to bear out the report that Secretary of State Bryan advised a certain Negro that President Wilson was going to persualtogether a new course, in the matter of Negro appointments—that he was going to appoint nothing but Negro janitors. We are not even getting janitor appointments, however. It would be interesting to learn Bishop Walter's innermost thoughts. NOTES ON NEGRO BUSINESS PROGRESS. Furnished by the National Negro Business League. The Church of God and Saints of Christ have established a grocery in Providence, R. I. A shoe store and a gents' furnishing store, conducted by Negroes, have recently been established in Washington, D. C., at the corner of Eleventh and U Streets. Both establishments are up-to-date as to stock and fixtures. Dr. J. E. Mooreland, International Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who has been campaigning for funds to erect an hundred Thousand Y. M. C. A. building for Negroes at Cincinnati, raised $5,000 among the Negroes of that city in a week. Lewis Brothers' Construction Co., is the title of a firm recently organized by Negroes at Montgomery, Ala., to construct residences and buildings of any description. E. H. Lewis is president; J. D. Lewis, treasurer, and Thomas Williams, secretary. William Hearns, a Negro at Ivy City, D. C., has patented a device which solves the problem of a century—the problem of how to insert taps and remove plugs from water mains without cutting off the water supply. A company has been organized by Negroes to build a plant and begin manufacturing it. Henry Allen Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn., is preparing a business, directory containing the Negro publications in this country, with the names of the manager or publisher, date of establishment, and the banks, bankers and concerns, controlled by Negroes doing banking business. It is expected that the directory will be ready for distribution very shortly. Seventy-four of the leading Negro business men of Illinois recently met at, Springfield, that State, and organized a State Negro Business League. The meeting which was very enthusiastic, took steps looking to the chartering of a special train on which to carry the Illinois Negro Business League members to the annual meeting of the National Negro Business League in Philadelphia, August 20, 21 and 22. Negroes in Cincinnati, O., have purchased a, tract of thirty-four acres of land in Hamilton County, that State, on which they propose to erect cottages, a school for boys, removed from the temptations of the city, and reserve a portion for a farm on which to raise poultry and garden truck. It is a company affair, the stock in which was sold at two dollars per share. W. P. Dabnev was the moving factor in organizing the company. INDUSTRIAL WORMWOOD. It has often been contended that inasmuch as the colored people, as a mass, live in the South, self-interest and sound policy dictate enthusiastic advocacy on their part of the principle of free-trade as against what is termed "protection." The main reason advanced is that what is good for the Southern white man must be equally good for the colored man. Were social conditions anything like just or equitable, such a conclusion would be irresistible. But unfortunately such is not the case, and will never be until the colored people are reckoned with in the economic problems of the day. It is true that questions involving the production, distribution and exchange of wealth need not be the subject of angry dispute on our part, at this time, for the reason that we have no large interests in the great combinations of capital invested in raw materials, manufactures and other vast industrial activities. Nor are we as a class being consulted or considered in the matter, although we undoubtedly have a very vital interest at stake. It is a contention between two distinct elements of white people, separated by geographical lines and characterized by distinct and in a large measure, by opposing civilizations. On one side are the Northern whites, as a class inured to labor, to adventure, strong in self-reliance, self-restraint, obedience to law and domesticity, whose initiative, skill, persistence and moral as well as physical bravery account for what this country now is in religion, science, art, literature, the industries, national wealth, power and prestige; who have many times declared preference for a system of "protection." On the other side are the Southern whites, in the main indolent, pride-blown, deficient, provincial, dependent upon the colored people for bread and upon the North for about everything else, except cotton, tobacco, "moonshine" and "yaller niggers," distinguished for intensity of race and sectional prejudice and land-poverty, who are clamoring for low tariff. Stripped of all frills, foibles and falsehood, the issue is freetrade or protection, or, more plainly, the supremacy of the Northern or the Southern civilization. In one case, the social system is predicated upon the right of the, majority, to rule, the greatest good to greatest number, the largest opportunity for the display of independence, consistent with proper social organization; and a zealous regard for the rights of labor. As a consequence, in the discussion of economic questions, a vast majority of the people, the wage-earners must be reckoned with, not only as consumers, but as producers, and hence, the matter of wages, subject to the law of supply and demand becomes the all-important topic. In the other social system or civilization, we have nearly opposite conditions. Agriculture being the chief pursuit as to production and conducted through the manipulation of the labor of the colored people, the question of wages is not at all serious or important. Why? Because the civilization is based upon the theory of the natural inferiority of the colored man and "that subordination to the white race is his natural and normal condition" and hence there is no question of wages but only a matter of reward for labor performed, said reward to be determined solely by the ipse dixit of the white employer. And this rule applies to labor outside of agriculture, it being that, however small or large may be the pay of a colored man, in no case must it be even approximately as high as the wages of a white man for similar service. At the North it is different. Why? Because labor is organized and insistent; because every laborer is a voter and because concerted action in any direction is capable of paralyzing business, determining who shall hold office and if necessary or desirable to change the character of the government itself. Wages being dependent on production, regulated by the law of supply and demand, can only be maintained by the regulation of supply by the prevention of over-production. Wages are already below prosperity point and barely sufficient to procure a decent living. The increase of production or the closing of markets must inevitably lower wages. The only remedy is less production, which, of course, means fewer laborers and in turn more idlers. Hence where labor is respected, the problem is how to increase production, find good markets for the saine and thus relatively increase if desirable, the number of labors and maintain living wages. Experience has shown that by free-trade or any measurable approximation to it, has invariably operated to lower wages and throw out of employment thousands and millions of laborers, middlemen and employers. This is because free American-markets have attracted the products of foreign labor employed at starvation wages, rendering American manufacturers and other employers unable to compete with foreign labor in their own markets and thus compelled to go out of business. Experience has demonstrated this. Hence, those interested in living wages are opposed to free-trade and favor protection to home labor under a form of tariff high enough to suit home requirements. With the South, the subject of wages not being considered a controlling consideration, the main question is the cost of articles of consumption, irrespective of the interests of the instruments of production. The Southern whites say: "We are not bothered about wages. We pay our labor what we choose; they must take that or nothing; and if they complain and attempt to organize, we will use the State machinery and lynch law, if necessary, to check them." As for putting us out of office or changing the law for their own protection, that is impossible, for although we have scores of members of Congress and as many electoral votes by reason of their presence among us, accepted as tender in exchange for the solenn promise to accord them the right of franchise, yet for our own aggrandizement and to outvote an equal population at the North and in spite of honor and justice, we deem it justifiable to rob them on the bare plea of "keeping the nigger in his place." Of course the Southern whites want free trade and will have it. How will all this affect the colored people at the South and more seriously than at present, under the operation of the new tariff measure, which is practically free-trade? In many ways. In the first place the bare fact that the South has succeeded in foistering its antebellum policy upon the country will act as an incentive to draw the chains of industrial, political and civil slavery more closely about the colored people. Wages will be lower and the obligation to pay them less respected. Moreover, the decreasing demand for colored labor in avenues hitherto conducted under the impetus of a protective tariff will necessarily drive the bulk of that labor back to the farms, thus increasing the supply of farm labor far in excess of the demand, lowering wages still further and rendering the tenure of the present farm laborer less certain and independent. More than this, it will drive thousands of laborers, who will be thrown out of employment in the North into the South to still further increase the supply and set up distinctions based on color from which the colored people will be doomed to suffer. This is inevitable, in spite of the delusion which is at present encouraged by the Southern whites to the effect that a colored laborer is preferable to a white one. The same delusion was encouraged with respect to barbers, waiters and mechanics, but how soon did the delusion vanish when white people appeared who, not only would but begged to do the work! The contention that with lower prices we can stand lower wages sounds very satisfying; but the history of such cases is that the tendency is to lower wages while the prices remain stationary or are advanced, so that progressive poverty is the result. Besides, free-trade means a long continued Democrat reign, with the South at the helm. That means a corresponding period of political obliteration, of social degredation, progressive illiteracy, and poverty for the colored people. Therefore let us pray that if the proposed tariff must come, it will come quickly and abide with us but a very brief period; that the Republican party may heal its breaches, present once more and soon its best and truest representatives, and in one solid phalanx move against the bulwark of Democracy and demolish it, together with all the ill-conceived, mischievous and destructive miscellany of false ideals and practices of which it has been constructed, and that the opportunities for constructive service, untrammeled citizenship, peace and prosperity may be vouchsafed without regard to section or color the country over, under the benign influence of a long period of Republican rule. Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) I have read about the Lime Kiln Club, and I have been to Irish wakes, but the meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of the Negro I attended last Friday night at Lincoln Congregational Church just naturally took the rag off the bush. They went after Rev. Political Waldron from the time they entered the hall to the time the lights went out. At one time I moved over close to the door, 'cause it sure did look like a rough house was right in the offing. Nev. Thomas had on his cluckers and he shelled Waldron worser than Grant shelled Richmond. Dan Murray wasn't more than Way-down Beebe of the, Lime Kiln Club, and Armond Scott made Doc. Wilder resemble Pull-back Johnson in a trance. Doc sure will have to locate some country where he can pass for a white-faced before he can be that escape from Wilmington, N C, who rides around this berg carrying an auto license in the name of Armond Scott. Talk about making a fellow look like a dirty dozen, well that's what Armond made Doc. Wilder look like. And he was feeling something like a two-year-old that night—just went around for blood, so he handed my old prexy Geo. Cook a little quiet sauce also. He stood George on his head and speaking. Doc, beg pardon, I should him over the floor, figuratively speaking. Doc, beg pardon, I should have Rev. Garner, the fellow who wears the smile what won't come, always shows a row of ivories whether he's for or against you; well, the Reverend was there pulling Waldron's chestnuts out of the fire. You see Brother Garner has always been a sort of messenger boy for Waldron, and he just must "heep" it. Of course Hershaw was there, studdering and stammering, but in a way that he just brought hot coals on Brer' Waldron's head. Hershaw planned the meeting, and planned to rid the society of the big hulk of flesh with a sordid top and a face like a white man's, but ways like a nigger. Rev. Thomas called Brer' Waldron everything but an honest man, and Nev. was about as far away from calling him honest as a grape juice rickey is from a mint julep, and you know that's some distance. Will Ferguson was there tearing around like some Arabian shiite hunting his lost colt, and stinging Brer' Waldron every time he turned. Dan Murray and his spouse and the one-time would-be Minister to Haiti, Doc. Wilder, combined with one or two others to save Brer' Waldron's face, but the opposition made it look like a summer kitchen in the tropics—all full of holes. Judge Hewlett was there with his squeaking voice, but it just thundered Friday night when he started after Brer' Waldron. The funniest thing, though, was Rev. Sterling Brown. That sleepy-hollow reminder was all excited—just scared to death. \*\*\* Now, I just want to digress a minute to inquire if any one knows why that pussy-footed gentleman of the cloth was christened Sterling? I never could figure out an ounce of sterling in him. He's slower than the Dead March from Saul, and he's about as interesting as a pulpit orator as the croaking of a pond full of frogs when you are just dying to get some sleep. He may be fast in some things, some of his intimate subservients say that in some things he's quick on the trigger, but I have never been around when those "some things" were happening. Ain't no disguising the fact that slow brother has brains, and a wart full of them. The way he slid into Howard University, the way he holds the job of talking his congregation to sleep every Sunday, and at the same time running a farm shows me that that white-craved gentleman has got some real high-class gray matter stored up in the cells of his billiard ball. But me, Oh my! he's so everlastingly slow. Now, on figures he's pretty good, 'cause he has figured it out that among the thirty thousand chicken-fed ministers of the "Cullud" race only three thousand of them have got brains enough to recognize, the difference between a fowl ball and a bowl of soup. But you got to hand it to him, he's got a fine assortment of brains. But getting back to that meeting Friday night. Well, Rev. Sterling Brown thought that a squad of police, under Capt. Doyle, was headed there from the Eighth Precinct. And I am breaking it to you softly, two certain individuals did start to call up Capt. Doyle and ask him to send the reserves down to Lincoln Memorial to quell the riot. But getting down to brass tacks, the meeting was a disgrace to everybody, and most especially to Bree' Waldron. The national body wants the roller put under him; they have respectfully asked him to please shove himself aside, but he won't, and the only thing to do was to "trow him down McCloskey", which they did. My advice to Bree' Waldron is to go and get a pale of whitewash and use it liberally on himself. Really, if I were him, I would get me a church in some community where they don't get no mails, telephones or wireless messages from this country, and therefore couldn't learn anything about me, and I would settle right down there and preach the gospel of "peace on earth and good will towards man." Now, you don't have to go unless you want to, Bree' Waldron, but "here's your hat; what's your hurry?" Oh, I forgot to tell you Horner was there, and so was Little Lord Fauntelroy. Horner kicked and caved, but Little Lord just voted right each time without saying a word above a whisper. Believe me, he's one diplomat that could give the Turkish Minister to Monte Carlo some lessons in transporting eels without dropping any. Well, if that pompedored overseer of John Dancy's church, Bishop Walters, isn't a callow youth in politics then you can'r rifle my pockets and hiss "Oh piffe" just cause you didn't find anything in them. Now, last week he mosied over here again, at the church's expense, to talk politics with Woody Wilson. Woody handed him an ironical smile and a pill of chloriform, and the Bishop went away believing he was going to dictate appointments just as R. Wordy said he would. He left another list with Woody, and that list contained names for places that had already been filled by appointment of white men to succeed black, and the Bishop hadn't heard of it yet. As soft a proposition as Bishop Walters is in politics, if ever he fell into a poker game with five other honest men, they would relieve him of all his borrowed cash in a few minutes, and he would thank them for it. Gee! ain't he a ripe pawpaw? Now, ain't he mush, in politics? \*\*\* Charley Barnes has read of "Alkali Bill, the Dead Game Sport of the Mad River," and he has read of "Nervy Joe, the Hyena of Devil's Gulch," so he thought he would go after little Law Student Offord and throw him in the ash pit, and just for fun make Underdown look like a load of fertilizer. Well, when they got their breath and started after Charley, Charley didn't do a thing but duck and dodge blows. He swore by all that was in cold storage that he never wrote a thing, couldn't write; in fact, didn't know enough English to throw "seven or eleven." And he's been writing a string of apologies and explanations that would make Elbert Hubbard revise that statement of his that "an explanation explains nothing." When Offord and Underdown took a car to ride in the vicinity of the District Attorney's office, just to look over his office, and "howdy" to him, Charley, although he's been reading law for two years, concluded he'd better get a lawyer and put up the danger signal. Well, he was pretty close to the next Minister of Haiti (I ought to have inserted a mark ask minister), so he hired him for nothing or next to it. But when Charley found that Offord and Underdown wasn't out for just a joy-ride, but really meant to go the limit, Charley Barnes, the brunett leader of the disorganized disappointed Negro Democrats, concluded it was time to get a real lawyer, so, according to the dope I get down to Lew Costley's hydrographic office, he went and hunted up Ben Gaskin, and after repeating the Ten Commandments, the Apostolic Creed, etc., he said, "for heaving's sake, Ben, go over to that District Attorney's office and tell them some law, 'cause this here brunett out of a job is in an awful prediction.' And Ben went. And now Charley is killing himself writing denials and explains. Doings at Florida Avenue Baptist Church Church. Prof. Charles G. Harris has been elected director of the choir' of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church. Prof. Harris will reorganize the old choir. Dr. William A. Taylor, pastor of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church, through his attorney, Jabez Lee, secured an order signed by Justice Thomas Anderson, June 18th, 1913, authorizing him to celebrate marriages in the District of Columbia. Last Sunday was Children's Day at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church. Miss Rebecca E. Toliver, superintendent of the Sunday school and a number of the teachers, namely, Misses Hattie J. McIntosh, Hattie White, Mattie Lindsey, Margaret Lindsey, Sophia Hill, Rosa King, Virginia Scott, Mrs. Marion Griffin, Mrs. Hattie Brown, Mrs. Emma Willis and Robert B. Green had prepared a special program for 11:00 A. M. and 7:30 P. M., consisting of recitations, solos, choruses, dialogues, etc. One of the special features of the occasion was the excellent music rendered by the Junior choir trained by Prof. Charles G. Harris. The pastor, Rev. Taylor, preached a special sermon at 11:00 A. M. to the children. Standing room was at a premium at both services. Hundreds of people were turned away. Sunday night at 7:30 every available seat was filled and from that time until the benediction was announced at 9:45 P. M., people came in large numbers, but were turned away; others satisfied themselves with seats on the spacious lawn, where they could enjoy the cool breezes and at the same time see and hear what was going on on the inside through windows. Hundreds of others were seated in the lecture room, where they were able to hear some of the program. A special invitation was extended by the pastor to Hon. W. Calvin Chase, editor of the Washington Bee, but owing to a previous engagement he could not be present. LINCOLN, MD. Savings Bank President and Party Speak. Lincoln, Md., June 22. John W. Lewis, president of the Industrial Savings Bank, Washington, D.C., accompanied by Jesse Foster, Wm. A. Bowie and R. W. Porter, arrived in this place this morning and went directly to the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, where President Lewis was introduced by Rev. Pue, the pastor, and made a strong and eloquent plea for the Industrial Savings Bank, of which he is president. His address was logical and sensible and made a profound impression upon his hearers. Addresses were also made by Mr. Porter, of the United States Treasury Department, Mr. Hicks and Rev. Love, of Rockville, Md. Jesse Foster One, of not the most enterprising men in this city is Mr. Jesse Foster, Eleventh and U Streets Northwest. The latest and newest addition to the Foster Dye Works is his new awning and gold letters at the top of the entire building. If you want first-class work done, don't fail to call and ask him to show samples of the work done at this place. The WeekSin Society Mr. Armond W. Scott, of this city, was a visitor in Richmond, Va., recently. Mr. William Lewis, of this city, has been visiting in Harrisburg, Pa., the guest of his brother, Dr. Stephen J. Lewis. Mrs. Annie E. Brown, the evangelist, of this city, is visiting friends in Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Turner is a student of the National Training School, of Lincoln, D. S., has returned to her home in Detroit, Mich. Dr. Robert Wilson, of 940 T St. Northwest, was a visitor in Baltimore, Md., recently. Mrs. Empson, of this city, who has been visiting in Newcastle, Del., the guest of her sister, Miss Violet Turner, has returned home. Mrs. John R. Herbert, of this city, who has been visiting in Trenton, N. J., the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Rogers, has returned home. Miss Nora Hyman, formerly of this city, will have charge of the program to be held at the Lafayette Presbyterian Church, of Jersey City, N. J., Sunday. Some of the participants will be Mr. Harry T. Burleigh, of St. George Church, New York; Miss Mabelle A. White, of Atlanta University, Miss Rachel Jackson, Miss Jennie Green, an octette of boys, Epiphany, Orange, N. J., Mrs. James A. Wormley and Miss Rachel Jackson, of Newark, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Silas, of Oklahoma City, Okla., are visiting in this city, the guests of Mrs. Mary Robb Hatters. Mrs. Mildred Herring, of this city, has been visiting in Baltimore, Md., the guest of Mrs. Saguel Smith, of Druid Hill Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Madden, of 1308 S Street Northwest, are jubilant over the arrival of a son, James Collins Madden. Mother and baby are doing nicely. Miss Frances Simmons, of this city, was in Falls Church, Va., Sunday visiting her parents. Messrs. Adolph O. and Webber Hodge, of this city, have just returned from Norristown, Pa., where they went to bury their brother, Austin, who died suddenly, Saturday, the 21st. Mr. Wm. H. Hall, of Thirteenth Street Northwest, left Thursday to be the guest of his mother in West Baleigh, N. C. Mr. William L. Offord, of this city, is in Philadelphia, Pa., visiting his parents. Arrivals at Hotel Dale during the week of June 21: Miss E. B. Miller, Mr. Nelson Sutherlin, Mr. J. J. Walker, Mr. Robert Smith, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Brock, Mr. P. L. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Shockly, Mr. Wm. J. Rider, Mr. George W. Adams, Mr. Harry Duplessis, Dr. L. W. Hopkins, Mr. E. Vincent Ryder, Capler J. Cummings, Mr. J. W. Cummings, Miss A. Louise Brooks, Mr. C. G. Sampson, Mr. Jas. T. Howard, Mr. F. O. Nichols, Mr. W. Oscar Harris, Mr. W. H. Jones, Mrs. Mary E. Steeth and daughter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. M. G. Skelly, Merchantsville, N. J., Mr. Harry Tunia and Mr. Fred Marshall, of this city. Mr. Robert Troy, of Phoebus, Va., is visiting in Baltimore, Md., and this city this week. Mr. Lewis E. Johnson, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of this city, has been visiting in Chicago, Ill., the guest of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Manson. Mrs. E. Breed and E. D. Waits, of Mart, Texas, left for this city. While here they will be the guest of their brother. Miss Beulah Burk, teacher in the Sumner High School, Kansas City, Kans., is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Burk, 531 T Street Northwest. Miss Margaret A. Flagg, teacher in the Baltimore High School, is in the city, guest of Miss Beulah Burk, 531 T Street Northwest. Miss Orlean V. Lane, teacher in the public schools of Philadelphia, spent June 21st and 22d with her parents, at 502 T Street Northwest, on her way to Greensboro, N. C., to teach in the State Summer School at the A. & M. College. Miss Lillian Burk, teacher in Berean Industrial School, Philadelphia, spent last week with her parents at 531 T Street Northwest. She will spend the next six weeks at Greensboro, N. C., teaching in the State Summer School, at the A. & M. College. Prof. J. E. Johnson, B. S., of Prentiss, Miss., principal of the Prentiss Normal and Industrial School Institute for Colored Young Men, has been in the city for several days en route to the East. Miss Florence Brooks, of the Recorder's Office, has been quite ill at her home for several days. Mr. Charles Houston, an alumnus of M Street High School, has returned home after a successful school term at Amherst College. Prof. W. Bernard Hartgrove, teacher of language in the Armstrong Manual Training School of the city, sailed Thursday for Germany, where he will spend his vacation. Mrs. D. L. Johnson, of Jackson, Miss., is visiting friends in this city. Mr. H. E. Moore, who has been attending Howard University, has returned to his home in Jackson, Miss. Editor J. W. Henderson, of the Torchlight, Providence, R. I., is visiting friends in this city. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., of this city, who has been visiting friends in New York, Philadelphia, and Wilmington, Del., has returned home. While in Wilmington Mr. Chase attended the graduating exercises of the Howard High School. A number of Washington's colored society have been employed at the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg at Gettysburg, Pa. Among them are W. H. Norwood, B. Gwatney, Cooper and Sheridan Jones. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. The Willing Workers' Club of the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church agreeably surprised the pastor, members and friends of the church Sunday morning, June 22, by having had placed in and covering the entire altar of the church a beautiful carpet of a very tasty color and quality; also by placing in the preacher's stand a set of very appropriate chairs. This committee is composed of Mrs. Ennis, the president, and several faithful workers in the church. The officers, members and friends of the First Presbyterian Church gave their newly installed pastor, Rev. W. W. McCary, a beautiful reception Monday night, June 23. An excellent program was rendered. Those who took part on the program were: Rev. McCary, Rev. O. C. Sprague, pastor of the M. E. Church here, Miss Lillian G. Knight, Dr. Porter, Dr. J. E. Ratley, Miss Berdelle Boozer, Mrs.W. W. McCary and her young daughter, and Miss Inez Davis. The committee on arrangements did excellent work. This reception was well attended, all the churches being nicely represented. Since Dr. Williams has been pastor at Annapolis he has purchased a lot upon which to build a new parsonage. The contract has been given for a $3,500 seven-room building with all modern improvements. Rev. W. W. McCary at M. E. Church. Rev. W. W. McCary, the pastor of the Fairmount Heights Presbyterian Church, preached at the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church Sunday, June 22, at 3 o'clock p. m. He was accompanied by his choir and congregation. He preached an excellent, instructive and appropriate sermon, and all expressed themselves glad for their having come out, to hear him. The choir under the leadership of Mrs. H. B. Cardozo sang beautifully and did great credit to those who composed it. Those present and taking an active part in the services were: Rev. W. W. McCary, Mrs. H. B. Cardozo, Miss Emma Payne, Mrs. Blanche Silence, Mrs. Georgia Silence, Mrs. M. H. Simms, Mrs. G. L. Payne, Mr. R. S. Nichols, Dr. F. J. Cardozo and Mr. C. E. Payne, Messrs. C. L. Marshall and T. N. Brown raised a handsome collection. Mrs. Laura V. Briscoe, of Valley Lee, St. Mary's County, Maryland, spent several days visiting at the home of Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Williams, Fairmount Avenue, Fairmount Heights, Md. She returned to her home Saturday, June 21, accompanied by her daughter, Gladys, who has been living with Rev. and Mrs. Williams. Dr. E. S. Williams came to the city Sunday, June 22, for the purpose of preaching for Rev. R. A. Hart, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Linden, Md. Miss Fostine Taylor, of Roanoke, Va., is visiting Mrs. M. J. Williams. In his rally at Linden was a great success. More than one hundred and twenty-five dollars were realized. Rev. M. W. Clair and other good pastors rendered very valuable assistance. Mrs. Emma Keasley, one of the leading residents living on White Avenue, Fairmount Heights, departed this life Saturday morning, June 21, in full triumph of the faith. "Servant of God, well done. The battle is fought; the victory won. Thou are home at last." The funeral services were held here Tuesday, June 24. The Children's Day exercises of the Contee A. M. E. Zion Church were held Sunday at 3 p.m. Notwithstanding the rain, the good pastor, Rev. Logan Johnson, registered a great success; also the Children's Day. exercises at the First Baptist Church of North Fairmount Heights were held at 8 o'clock p. m., June 27. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. The 11 o'clock morning service made up the Sabbath day observance at Second Baptist Church. Pastor Powell, with his choir and members, were invited to the Baptist Church at Alexandria, Va., pastored by Rev. S. M. Johnson, for the night service. Owing to interference by inclement weather and the consequent failure of a full meeting, the choir and members did not go over. The Sunday, School was represented at the Sunday School Union in session for the day at Merrifield by Superintendent Geo. Lowe. The church is now busily engaged in preparing for a great rally day on the fourth Sunday in July. Clubs have been organized and have begun work. It is to be desired most earnestly that this year's rally in money will surpass that of last year. At the 3 o'clock hour the Third Baptist Church, Rev. H. Bowser, pastor, held a good meeting. This was a rally occasion, too. Quite a number of visitors from Washington and elsewhere were in attendance. Mrs. George Gorhm has been on the sick list for the past week. We hope she will soon again be up and about. The funeral of Mr. Walker at West End took place Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Richards, with her children, has returned home after a visit out west for some weeks. She reports a pleasant trip and is now pleased to be at home again. The wedding of Mr. Chas. L. Summerall and Miss Fannie Stribling on Thursday, June 19, was a most brilliant affair. We hope to give a full report of same in our next letter. Sunday evening, June 29, at 6:30 o'clock, the Sunday School Literary Society opens. WEST WASHINGTON. The officers and members of the First Baptist Church choir spent a very pleasant evening at the residence of Mrs. N. Smith, No. 1013 Twenty-first street Northwest on Friday last, in honor of Prof. J. B. Walker, the retiring leader, and others who assisted the choir in the rendering of the oratorio "The Prodigial Son," at the above-named church, and also at the Asbury M. E. Church, corner of Eleventh and K Streets Northwest. The president of the choir, Mr. E. Chivis, praised the retiring leader in the most glowing terms, and presented in behalf of the choir, to Prof. Walker, a silver-handed umbrella, also a cake with 25 lighted candles, in commemoration of his 25 years service as leader of the choir. His successor has not yet been selected. The congregation of Mt. Zion M. E. Church have just concluded the annual church rally, which has enabled them to reduce the bonded debt to $3,500, and canceling all floating indebtedness upon them, and on Sunday evening Rev. M. W. Clair, D. D. preached to the forty captains and their groups, who reported $1r. 241.75, and on Monday evening it was arranged to increase the amount to fifteen hundred dollars. Rev. W. C. Thompson, who was recently appointed, was greatly pleased in the co-operation of his congregation in their efforts to reduce the church debt. The Epworth League cabinet of Mt. Zion M. E. Church held a very interesting meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lee, 2722 N Street, on Sunday evening. Miss Mary White, who was the hostess, invited the number to partake of light refreshments. Among those present were Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Thompson and little daughter, Mrs. Louise Brown, Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher, Miss Louis Williams, Miss Violet Ferguson, Mr. V. B. Fisher, Mr. Wm. Audrick. Rev. Miles W. White, who was ordained Friday June 20, at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, has resigned his position at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to accept a very flattering call at Easton, Md., and his many friends and co-workers wish him every success in his new field of labor. Mrs.- Hannah Fleet, of 2510 P St., who has been ill for several weeks, is now convalescent. HALLS HILL. Wednesday evening, June 18, Rev. R. E. Hart, of Deanwood, preached a very stirring sermon to the Tribe of Gad, J. J. Carpenter, captain, in Calloway M. E. Church, which was very largely attended. Music was rendered by the Silver Star Club, of Falls Church, Mrs. Carpenter, president, who is becoming famous for her eloquence in rendering vocal music. They were accompanied by other members and friends with a straw ride. Their presence was very highly appreciated. Miss Frances Tinner presided at the organ. A very fine collection followed, the proceeds for the rally June 20. Tuesday evening the Village Improvement Association gave a very enjoyable picnic at Harrison's Park. Music by an orchestra from the city. The closing exercises of Sumner School of this place took place last Wednesday. A very fine program was rendered. Many parents and friends attended. Several promotions were made from the minor grades. Prizes were awarded to Miss Marion Jones, Miss Alberta Dorsey, Miss Mabel Douglas, Miss Selmore Harrison, James Thomas. Sunday morning much rain caused some of our teachers to be little late in meeting their classes, but the pastor, who is always on hand, assisted the superintendent and the Bible class was taught by Mr. Walter Hyson with much interest. The lesson was commented on with much deliberation by Mr. J. J. Carpenter and Mrs. E: R. Ferguson, and its application by Superintendent Rhubottom and Rev. C. E. Queene, pastor, who preached at 11 o'clock a very instructive and practical sermon on the life of Stephen, setting forth the character of a deacon, and at 8:30 he filled the appointment of Rev. A. F. Champion. A sermon to Ephraim's Tribe, R. 9 E. Ferguson, captain, which was a great satisfaction to all was on "The Ten Virgins." Music was rendered by the choir from Chesterbrook, Mr. Henry Hall, director. Many of their congregation were present and contributed liberally. In all a good audience was in attendance. The proceeds are for the rally July 20. Little Miss Hall was organist. Sunday being Communion Day at Mt. Salvation Baptist Church, the services were as usual. Rev. Coleman, the very honored and esteemed pastor, preached a soul-stirring sermon on the subject, "God Will Guide Us." Ps. 48:14. At 11 o'clock closing remarks on "The Justice of God to Every Man in Due Time." At 3 p. m. Dr. C. B. Coleman, of Baltimore, assisted with communion and preached from Joel 11:27. Collection, $29.30. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, from Rosslyn, were guests of Mrs. Susie Ewald. We regret to announce the illness of Mr. Richard Mooney, who is at the Georgetown Hospital, and we pray for him a speedy recovery. An evening of pleasure was very much enjoyed with the Social Club of High View Park at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bryant June 11. Among those present were: Mr. L. Johnson, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mr. Richardson, of Washington; Mrs. Mary Foye, of Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scott, Dr. and Mrs. E. T. Morton. Geo. Wm. Ferguson graduated from the eighth grade in Washington, has received his diploma and is promoted to the high school. Please don't forget to muzzle your dog when you drive in town, or else you will be relieved of $5, as was Mrs. Katie Ruhbottom when her dog Brownie decided last Monday morning he must see the Capitol, VIENNA, VA., NOTES. The superintendent, teachers and a portion of the pupils of the Sunday School of the First Baptist Church attended the services of the Sunday School Union at Merrifield Sunday afternoon. Rev. E. M. Burrell, of Takoma Park, D. C., preached two very interesting sermons at the Union Baptist Church Sunday. The Y. P. W. W. Society held their meeting at 4:30 o'clock p. m. Mrs. Lulu Burrell led the topic, "Mission Work at Home and Abroad." The topic was ably discussed by Rev. Burrell, Prof. O. G. Granderson, Deacon A. W. Miner, Prof. H. L. Mills and others. Miss Mary Mills will lead next Sunday. Members and friends are requested to be present at 4:30 o'clock. Mr. Arthur Swan, an expert chauffeur at Ft. Myer, spent Monday here visiting Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Patterson. Mrs. Elvonio Mason, Mrs. Price and another lady friend of Rockville, Md., were the guests of Mrs. Sarah Monroe last Sunday. Last Thursday evening the home of Mr. John Mills was the scene of a social gathering. Miss Mary Mills gave her friends a party that was enjoyed by all present. Music was furnished by the Harrod Orchestra. Marrige license is issued in Washington Monday to Franklin Fry and Goldy Green, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Miner have reason to be proud and happy over the graduation of their young son, "Mannie," from the trades school at Washington, D. C., as a cabinet-maker. He is an excellent young man and will make his mark. Mrs. Fannie West is at home for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dean and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. West attended the Sunday School Union at Merrifield Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dean were delegates. HARPER'S FERRY NEWS. Mr. W. W. Martin opened his house on the hilltop Monday with a large number to greet him. For Rent—A beautiful 7-room cottage on the campus of Storer College, Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Apply at once to W. W. Martin, Harper's Ferry, Furnished or unfurnished. Arrivals at Mt. View Resort: Mrs. W. A. Warfield, wife of Dr. W. A. Warfield, of Freedmen's Hospital, and her two children were the first to register; Misses Daisy L. Ball and Vashti Turly, both Washington teachers, are also here. Several are booked for Saturday, June 28, and a large number will be up to spend July 3 to 7. A full season is already assured. Mrs. Daniel Murray, of S Street, has arrived and taken a cottage for the season. Miss M. E. Cromwell, of the M Street High School, arrived this week. A Brilliant Wedding at Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Miss Mary E. Brody, a teacher of Storer, was married to Mr. Howard Boyd, of Atlantic City; a graduate of Storer, at the college chapel at 9 a. m. Wednesday, June 25. It was the most brilliant affair which has taken place at Harper's Ferry for many days. Miss Mable Brody, bridesmaid; Mr. William Johnson, best man. Little Misses Mable Simms and Maggie Johnson were flower girls. The chapel was packed to its capacity by friends of the bride and groom, who left at 10 a. m. amid hundreds of congratulations for Atlantic City, their future home. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Beans officiated. Northeast Citizens Association The closing meeting of this association was held last week in Rev. Bennett's church. It was the closing meeting of the association..Some of the leading citizens in that section of the city were present. The program was: Addresses by Messrs Armstrong, S. W. Watson, Prof. Montgomery and others. Miss Gladies Jones sang very sweetly a solo. Among the many present were: Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Fair, Dr. H. S. Pope, Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Price, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Boyle, Miss Violet Kibble, Miss HOTEL DALE ```markdown ``` CAPE MAY, N. 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Industrial Savings Bank 2006 Eleventh Street. N. W. Industrial Savings Bank 2006 Eleventh Street. N. W. Have you a bank account? If not, why haven't you? Did you ever think that it's not what you earn but what you save? Do you not know that if you depend upon your salary alone you will not make much headway? Did you ever stop to think that your friends are plentiful while you are young and active? Do you not know when you get down sick, feeble and old with nothing, your friends will desert you? Why not begin a savings account with the Industrial Savings Bank today, when one dollar will open an account. It pays you 3 per cent on your savings; it guarantees the depositors the same protection of any other bank. It is under the supervision of the U. S. Treasury. It is convenient to all car lines, located at 2006 Eleventh Street Northwest, just above You. Banking hours, 9 to 5. Saturdays, 9 to 1 and 6 to 9 P. M. ANNOUNCEMENT STATISTICS SAY: $600,000,000 YEAR THE UNITED ANNOUNC Wellington A. Adams has been ap York music publishing company an whose "O. K." on a piece of music in low are among his recent patrons: Colored Composers. New Songs SAY: $600,000,000 YEARLY IS SPENT FOR THE UNITED STATES. ANNOUNCEMENT! A. Adams has been ap pointed as a representative publishing company and d is perhaps the only on a piece of music in sures publication. Ladie ing his recent patrons: Composers. New Songs Out-July 10th. Send STATISTICS SAY: $600,000,000 YEARLY IS SPENT FOR MUSIC IN THE UNITED STATES. ANNOUNCEMENT! Wellington A. Adams has been ap pointed as a representative of a New York music publishing company and d is perhaps the only colored man whose "O. K." on a piece of music in sures publication. Ladies named below are among his recent patrons: Colored Composers. New Songs Out-July 10th. Send for theml "Your Eyes Are Like Violets," "Just for a Kiss," (Arranged by W. A. Adams) (Arranged by W. A. Adams) Composed by Composed by Mrs. Henry Lincoln Johnson, wife of the Recorder of Deeds of District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. "After Awhile" and "When the Dance Is Over," composed by Wellington A. Adams, teacher of music and director Metropolitan (W.) A. M. Zion Church. "After Awhile" and "When the Daton A. Adams, teacher of music and Zion Church. Send me your songs or music! Bi rect music and words. Write or call 1200' You St (Cut this out for smile" and "When the Dance Is Over," composed s, teacher of music and director Metropolitan your songs or music! Big money in a hit! I arr ed words. Write or call today. W. A. A. 1200 You St reet N. W. (True Refo (Cut this out for future reference.) Send me your songs or music! Big money in a hit! I arrange and correct music and words. Write or call today. W. A. ADAMS. 1200 You St reet N. W. (True Reformer Hall). (Cut this out for future reference.) Maude Flemmings, Mr. and Mrs. B. W, Fair, Mr. and Mrs. J. A..Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Winston, Miss Ella Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Webster, Mr. and Mrs. John Quarles, Mr. J. C. Payne, Mr. J. P. Neal, Mr. Robert Cully, Miss G. L. Burke and many others. In Delaware Wilmington, Del, June 23. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., Washington, D.C., is in the city and is being highly entertained. He will leave Thursday for home. ride from Washington on the Electric Railroad. This beautifi- lly located on high ground near sites by salt water, fine shade, con- ing horses, swings and boats for sails, and Select Excursion Parties may's outing at this cool, breezy, "Lawn tennis courts." Also new Drawing Room, seating the entire grounds. see J. H. Coleman, agent, 1522. M., or W. C. Martin, Room 5, 503 to 4 P. M. Savings Bank Street, N. W. not, why haven't you? Did you learn but what you save? Do you on your salary alone you will not ever stop to think that your young and active? Do you not reble and old with nothing, your account with the Industrial Savings and open an account. It pays you guarantees the depositors the same is under the supervision of the to all car lines, located at 2006 love You. Banking hours, 9 to 5. EARLY IS SPENT FOR MUSIC IN STATES. DEMENT! pointed as a representative of a New and is perhaps the only colored man sures publication. Ladies named be- lieve. Out-July 10th. Send for them! "Just for a Kiss," (Arranged by W. A. Adams) Composed by Miss Mary Albertine Brodie, teacher Garnet Public School, Washington, D. C. ence Is Over," composed by Welling- director Metropolitan (W.) A. M. g money in a hit! I arrange and cor- today. W. A. ADAMS. Street N. W. (True Reformer Hall), future reference.) BOARDERS WANTED. Mrs. Delia Howard wishes boarders during the summer vacation, offering first-class table board; fine water; large and sunshiny rooms; music and tennis; shady and spacious lawns. P. O. Upperville, Va. Stations, Rectortown and Bluemont, Va. Music. Beginners in piano accepted. MISS IRENE PADGETT. 1904 6th St. N. W. "Beck good, and not evil, that ye may live."—Amos 8:14. It is safe to say that everybody is seeking good, and not evil. Everybody is seeking pleasure, and not misery—happiness, and not woe. The difficulty is that our judgments are more or less perverted. Some have greater wisdom than others; but there is none perfect, "none righteous, no, not one." All come short of the glorious standard"which God has set. The difficulty is that we were all born in sin, and are all misshapen. Not only our bodies are imperfect, but our brains are unbalanced—some one way, some another. Consequently young men and maidens, looking forth from childhood upon the problems of life, have various conceptions of happiness, and make various resolutions and endeavors respecting the filling of their cup with blessings long life, riches, honor, etc. KNOWLEDGE WISDOM LOVE School teachers' opportunity for good influence. The teachers of portunity for good our schools have a most wonderful opportunity for influencing the course of humanity. We rejoice that they are striving nobly for the fulfilment of gracious, benevolent ideals, and are using their opportunities for blessing their pupils. Yet evidently many of them have but a slight appreciation of their privileges. Some, of course, like the remainder of the world, are selfish, and think of their work from the business standpoint—so much work, so much pay. The first and chief responsibility for children rests upon their parents, the majority of whom, no doubt, to some extent recognize that responsibility in God's sight and man's. But they labor under the difficulties of their own ignorance. They know not the proper course to take for themselves. Their lives have been a succession of blunders, and they presume that their children must blunder similarly. Not seeing the principles underlying life's experiences, they are unable to guide their children intelligently. Here teachers find their opportunity. But how little any one seems able to accomplish, and how discouraged philanthropists become! On the whole, however, a broad view of the past fifty years shows progress in many directions. Our cities are cleaner—both physically and morally—at least so far as outward appearances are concerned. No longer does vice flaunt itself in the face of society. The battle against intoxication and the social evil is making progress in that it has made former conditions impossible. In some states the progress has been more than in others. New Issues Now—New Temptations. Our lesson tells of a time in the history of Israel when many of the nation's wisest and most brilliant people had settled down to ease and luxury—self-gratification. They considered that they had won in the battle of life, and would now enjoy the fruits of their diligence. The Lord through the Prophet upbraided them, declaring He was not pleased with such a course. He told them that woes would result. The mission of Amos was to call at tention to the fact that aggressive selfishness had accumulated great riches that the wealthy were living in luxury, and that these conditions fostered pride and moral laxity amongst the wealthy, while the poor were being filled with avarice, losing respect for God, religion, truth and mercy. Society was on the edge of a volcano, and God declared that an eruption was at hand. Present Day Conditions Correspond. Our lesson is not inappropriate to our times. Notwithstanding the progress made, notwithstanding the philanthropic sentiments of many, inside and outside Christian denominations, nor ertheless there is danger. First of all, let us consider the danger of the rich. The wealth of today reaches to a certain extent to the very humblest and scatters blessings. But the bulk of the world's wealth is in the hands of the few. People had settled down to ease and self gratification. People had settled down to ease and self gratification Rich are in great danger of injuring themselves. Some cannot devise means by which to consume even their incomes. Luxuries of every kind are tasted in hope of finding happiness. Not succeeding, they still pursue it. Wealth brings increased opportunity for sin in its various forms, including debauching. The influence upon the poor is notable. The latter, seeking pleasure, imagine erroneously that the rich and indolent are finding it, while they themselves seek in vain. Thus the poor, surrounded by the wonderful blessings of our day, are often miserable, because their minds are discontented. They desire happiness, and believe that they can obtain it only through wealth. The result is that their hearts are filling with anger, malice, and jealousy of the rich. Both rich and poor need to learn the great lesson that pleasure lies, not in self-indulgence, but in self-sacrifice—in service of others. God's Message to both classes is, "Seek righteousness, seek meekness."—Zephalanlah 2:3. President Mellen and Vice President McHenry, Arrested In April, Were Never Tried—Thorough Investigation of Most Recent Catastrophe. Stamford, Conn.—Close on the heels of a succession of wrecks which in the last two years have cost forty-nine lives and more than twice as many serious injuries on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, whose president, Charles S. Mellen, and vice president, E. H. McHenry, were arrested last April, charged with gross neglect and manslaughter and are yet untried, added on the afternoon of June 12, the thirteenth serious railway accident on its line since June 8, 1911. A most rigid investigation from several angles is now in progress and has placed the blame of the recent catastrophe on poor equipment, an inexperienced engineer, faulty brakes on the huge engine, lax enforcement of rules and the attempt to run express trains too fast over the road. And with the report of the interstate commerce commission attributing the Westport wreck of Oct. 3, 1012, to a neglect by the railroad of warnings issued by the commission fresh in the minds of the public, the management has failed so far to give even a lucid explanation of the cause of the Stamford wreck. The New Haven's trouble, railroad men say, is in attempting to use an- A PRESIDENT MELLEN OF NEW HAVEN AND VIEW OF LATEST WRECK. equated machinery and methods for maintaining modern passenger train schedules. Most of the recent wrecks, it was pointed out, were due to taking unsuitable crossovers at high speed. It was admitted that the company had rules which called for a slowing down of trains at antiquated crossovers, but it was added that an engineer had never been discharged for breaking those rules. This is the New Haven's record of wrecks in two years, responsible for forty-nine deaths: June 8, 1911, Fairfield, Conn, freight, four killed; signals were disregarded. July 12, 1911, Bridgeport, Conn., Federal express, twelve killed, a hundred injured; due to the carelessness of the engineer in taking a crossover at a high rate of speed. Aug. 28, 1911, Middletown, Conn., passenger train, sixty injured; rails spread. Oct. 15, 1911, Berlin Junction, Conn., passenger train, two dead, five injured; due to runaway freight cars crashing into rear end of train. June 11, 1912, Cilinton, Mass., passenger train, eight injured; ran into an open switch at high speed. July 15, 1912, Stonington Junction. Conn., passenger train, three killed, four injured; collision due to defective signals. Aug. 8, 1912, Dorchester, Mass., five killed, sixteen injured; passenger train jumped track. Aug. 9, 1912, South Boston, passenger train, seven dead, forty injured; derailed. Oct. 3, 1912, Westport, Conn., Springfield express, nine killed, fifty injured; due to taking a crossover at a high rate of speed. Nov. 16, 1912, Green's Farms, Conn.. Merchants' limited, thirty-five injured; due to defective equipment. Nov. 17, 1912, Putnam, Conn., freight train, one killed, two injured; rear end collision. Feb. 22, 1013, Waterbury, Conn., pass sanger train, twenty-one-injured; rear and collision in a fog. June 12, 1013, Stamford, Conn., Boston express by way of Springfield, six killed and about a score injured; collision caused by ignoring signals and failure of air brakes to work. National Religious Training Schoo The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale background with no discernible features. Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. 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Address The State NORMAL Schoo The State NORMAL Schoo State Summer School for Teachers of Both Sexes. Fourteenth annual session will begin June 23d and continue five weeks. Board, Lodging and Tuition and fees, $14 for entire session. Thirty-two expert specialists compose Summer School Staff. Accommodations limited. Send $1 at once and reserve accommodations in advance. Address STATE SUMMER SCHOOL, Agricultural & Mechanical College, Greensboro, N. C. Agricultural & Mechanical College, Greensboro, N. C. Are Training For the Time When Wives Will Vote. Picture Rocks; Pa.—Asserting they were fearful lest the ballot will be granted to women and the husbands will have to do housework, the able-bodied men of this place have formed an organization known as the Men's Sewing Square. At their last meeting they brought sewing bags and their wives' stockings to mend and began the task of plying the needle in order to ascertain if darning was as hard as they had always been led to believe. The Rev. I. N. Earle, pastor of the Methodist church, who was elected chairman of the "square," presided, and some of the work that the men performed is declared by their wives to have been far better than they could have imagined. The men prepared a supper without women's aid, which, they say, they ate with relish and were all home before 11 o'clock. The "square" will meet once each week. ASKS JIM CROW CARS. Harrison Introduces Bill for Race Segregation in District of Columbia—Lawyers Discuss Ruling—Death of Civil Rights Act in Supreme Court Gives Rise to Proposed Legislation — Mississippi Representative Would Run Two Cars in Train or Partition Cars—Howard Has Similar Bill. Following Monday's decision of the United States Supreme Court, holding the "civil rights act" of 1875 to be unconstitutional in its application to the District of Columbia, Representative Byron P. Harrison, of Mississippi, yesterday introduced in the House a bill to provide "Jim Crow" cars for the District. Prominent. local lawyers—those who have made a specialty of constitutional law and others who have applied themselves to railway law—were busily engaged yesterday reviewing decisions which have been rendered in the famous cases brought under the "civil rights act" that caused the measure to be held unconstitutional as to the States many years ago. They were also refreshing their memories on points of common law, by which citizens are guaranteed certain rights. Decision Puzzles Lawyers. The object was to determine whether the Supreme Court, by erasing the old act of 1875, had made it possible to institute cars for the segregation of the races. None of the lawyers approached was willing to comment very freely on any possible effects of the court's decision, desir- VIRGINIA House & Herrmann of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that will satisfy you. ing first an opportunity to read the opinion, many copies of which were sought. Representative William S. Howard, of Georgia, who a few days ago introduced a bill providing the same end as that proposed by Representative Harrison, said that he did not think that the decision would have any influence upon his object. Mr. Howard, however, announced that he proposes to obtain the unanimous consent of the House within a few days to discuss at length his bill. He added that he had already received many assurances of support. The bill introduced by Representative Harrison provides that the accommodations shall be equal, but separate, and specifies that the traction companies must furnish, either two cars to a train, or must erect partitions in each car. TYREE'S Compound Syrup of Hyphosphites We claim for this preparation she the reliability insured by the use of pure chemicals, skilfully combined. 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Any time a "red top" is dissatisfied with his post he can go back to the cleaning gangs. FINDS WATCH LOST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS Timepiece Again Running After Having Been Buried. Menomonle, Wis.-Thirty-five years ago this spring Register of Deeds Alfred Halverson of St. Croix county, then a young man, became the possessor of his first watch, an open faced silver watch, with a heavy case. Young Halverson valued his new possession so high that he carried it with him at all times, even when he was plowing on his uncle's farm. He was heartbroken after plowing a few furrows one morning to find that the watch had slipped from his pocket and had been plowed under. With his cousin, Edward Halverson, he back plowed the furrows, cross plowed them and then combed the earth for hours in search of the precious timepiece, but in vain. Recently while plowing on the Star Prairie farm, Edward Halverson saw the plow turn something metallic out of the ground. He stopped and picked it up and found it was a silver watch. He at once thought of the one his cousin had lost thirty-five years ago, and although the fields had been changed, he discovered this was where he had helped look for the watch years ago. The thick crystal was broken, and the hinges were rusted, but he returned the old timepiece to its owner, and a jeweler to whom it was taken for repairs discovered that the works were free from dirt and rust and the adjustment still perfect. A little oil, a new pair of hinges, a new crystal, and the watch when wound started to run as though it had merely run down the night before. TRIES TO KISS THE JUDGE. Mexican Woman Seeks to Embrace California Magistrate. Los Angeles. — When Mrs. Ricardo Rivera, a Mexican woman, offered to kiss Superior Judge Monroe in gratitude for a gift of $2, which brought her and her husband together again, the magistrate blushed and directed an official to lead her from the courtroom. The husband was up on a charge of failure to provide. He promised to be good, and the court discharged him. Rivera informed the magistrate that he did not have sufficient funds to take his wife with him back to his job at Ontario, whereupon Judge Monroe handed him $2. Republic, Ark—Mrs. B. M. Lervoid of Republic has lost a remarkable nine-year-old hen which was hard to beat as an egg producer. During its lifetime the Biddy laid ninety dozen eggs, which, at 15 cents a dozen, means $13.50; each year raised 216 chicks, which at an average of 20 cents each, increased her earnings $43.20, or a total of $56.70. THE SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. If you purchase the NEW HOME you will have a life asset at the price you pay, and will not have an endless chain of repairs. Quality Considered it is the Cheapest in the end to buy. If you want a sewing machine, write for our latest catalogue before you purchase. The New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Miss. COON ADOPTS GUINEAS. Hatched In Kitchen Stove and Kept Warm by Pet. Monessin, Pa.-Smoke, a pet coon belonging to Franklin Sauter, has adopted a brood of young gulmeen hens that were hatched in the oven of Mrs. Sauter's sieve a few days ago. Local naturalists and woodsmen assert that this is the only instance on record where a coon is known to have overcome his natural instincts to kill all feathered creatures. Several months ago Sauter captured a young coon that had been pulled down and injured by the dogs. It soon became domesticated and' became a great net around the house. Sauter is also a breeder of guinea fowls, which are prone to leave their nests and sit in the fields and woodlands. Missing one several weeks ago, Sauter traced her to the fields and secured ten of her eggs, which were within a day's time of incubation. Not having an incubator, Sauter put the eggs in the oven of his stove; and when they hatched he placed the chicks in a box behind the store. He was greatly surprised in the morning to find the coon in the box "mothering" them NO WAGES FOR PORTERS. "Red Tops" on Pennsylvania Must Rely on Tips. Philadelphia...Some porters in Pennsylvania railroad stations do not get even $1 a month in wages, as Lotterybury Boyd testified that he did when pleading guilty in Pittsburgh of stealing $5 from a woman passenger. The porters in the Pennsylvania railroad stations, or "red tops," as they are called, are taken from the cleaning gangs. The men in the cleaning gangs get $40 to $45 a month. When more "red tops" are needed the station master goes to the cleaning gangs and says that he needs so many men, and the vacancies are filled by volunteers. At first the "red tops" receive no wage at all. They must live solely on tips. But after they have been in the service for some time they get $20 to $30 monthly. The purpose of the small wage is "to make them hustle," it is said. FLAG DAY EXERCISES The Douglass School Holds Exercises. June 14th was Flag Day at the Douglass School. One of the most sensible and eloquent speeches delivered was by Mr. Charles E. Lane, who spoke as follows: I have the honor to have been selected by the proper officers of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of the Potomac, as the representative of that patriotic organization, to address you on this occasion of your observance of the 136th anniversary of the adoption of the American flag. You are familiar with the original design of this our national ensign, which had its birth amid the terrible and bloody struggles for liberty of the valiant American revolutionists, and was adopted by a resolution passed by the Continental Congress June 14, 1777. This flag is emblematic of liberty, freedom of thought, freedom of speech and freedom of action—bounded only by the golden rule. It was under this flag that the United States became the asylum of the oppressed of all races from every nationality of the world. It was under this flag that our great and glorious union was preserved and slavery abolished. It was under this flag that this our country has become the greatest nation on earth. We American Negroes have as much at stake on and under this flag as any race or class of people on the American soil. Independent of and apart from our nativity, our right to life, liberty and protection in the pursuit of happiness is attested by hundreds of teeming deeds of valor and patriotism and scores of examples of decent citizenship. Pedro Alonzo, a Negro, accompanied Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to this continent. The life of Christus Attuck, a Negro, was freely given at the very threshold of the Revolution as part payment of the enormous cost of blood spilled for the liberty which every American enjoys today. He did not fight for liberty of the white, black, red, brown or yellow race, but liberty for the human race. The two hundred thousand Negro soldiers of the Civil War, under this flag that we honor and revere, the anniversary of the adoption of which we commemorate on the returning 14th day of every June, fought and bled and many of them died to protect this flag and give her more glory, to preserve the union of, all the states and perpetuate this Republic in which all of its citizens, of whatever race or color, might henceforth and forever breathe liberty at every breath and feel it at every pulsation of the heart in every fibre of their being. Our Colored volunteers and soldiers of the regular army acquitted themselves nobly during our war, with Spain. And you may rest assured that the safe and sane American citizen is now depending upon it that these deeds of bravery will be repeated by us in defense of our country whenever the opportunity presents itself. During the last half century we have produced a galaxy of eminent leaders whose achievements have expanded, strengthened, and fortified public opinion favorable to our cause—the deeds of Frederick Douglas, James B. Dudley, and Booker T. Washington being the most conspicuous, and, it may be said, productive of the best results. Thousands of the rank and file of our people have striven and are yet striving to emulate the exemplary deeds and accomplishments of these great men as evidenced by our progress in religion, education, business and industrial pursuits. These splendid examples of soldierly and civic endeavor and progress place us in the front rank of eligibles for the protection of our government under this our flag. Our status as loyal, patriotic citizens, as disclosed by history, is so enviable that we must at all hazards maintain our record, uphold unfurled our banner—the American flag—and cling closer and closer to our birthright—American citizenship. "Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who ne'er to himself hath said. 'This is my own, my native land?' The fact that some of our parents were subjected to involuntary servitude is the more reason why we should fully acquaint ourselves with the liberty that has come to us through Divine Providence. Aesop the fabulist, and Epictetus, one of the greatest philosophers of his day, were slaves who lived to become freemen. Aesop gave to the world lessons, each with a moral, which have lived two thousand years beyond the memory of his master, and Epictetus to posterity, philosophy, wisdom and splendid truths which have amazed the intellect of modern times. These men refused to submit to their lot in life, but rebelled against it—not in arms nor with complaints, but by throwing out to their times and to future times the light of superior intellect and superior moral force, and they live today in the great galaxy of immortals. If these bondmen attained to the heights I have just illustrated, to what dazzling heights may not we freemen reach by the aid of that great beacon light—American liberty. But, it will be observed, liberty, like education, is, but a tool and, as some of you understand, everything depends upon the workman who uses it. Liberty is fatal or life giving, according to the uses made of it. Each man has an inner consciousness that every other man is entitled to the same measure of liberty that he himself enjoys, and until he learns to act promptly and freely in accordance with the dictates of that inner consciousness, he is not worthy of the rights of a freeman. But when he shall have bowed and worshipped at the shrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man and learned the lesson of voluntary submission to the equal rights of others, he is then capable of the full enjoyment of that liberty suggested by the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by our National Constitution. This flag is typical of the law of liberty. The man who has not attained to governing himself is unfit to live under that law, and yet many of us do not understand even the first principles of that all-important law. Liberty is respect. Liberty is obedience to the promptings of unseared conscience, then liberty should not be proscribed but venerated and disseminated and all men made capable and worthy of it. And now we come to patriotism, the staff of the American flag and the cornerstone of liberty. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." Abraham Lincoln, our great and grand patron of liberty, said of that phrase: "This is the electric cord in the Declaration of Independence that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together." With this thought in mind the love of country, devotion to the land that bore us, will continue to press upon us as paramount to every secular notion in its claims on head, hand and heart. The idea I wish to coinvey is better illustrated by the more comprehensive words of Cicero: "Dear are parents, dear are children, dear are friends and relations; but all affections to all men are embraced in country alone." A true patriot will subject himself to the governing authority, the power that controls the destiny of his country and obey the laws of his land as long as they remain in force. This entails a hard duty where the government is corrupt and a majority of the people un-Christian, perverse and insatiable. In such circumstances one should do his utmost to spread the gospel of the Prince of Peace, which is above patriotism as intimated in these words of William Everett: "Love your country, honor her, live for her, and, if necessary die for her; but remember that whatever you would call right or wrong in another country is right and wrong for her and you, and that right and truth and love to man and allegiance to God are above all patriotism." We have many problems before us and their solution requires an abundance of wisdom, judgment and tact You may be able to assist materially in the solution of these problems if you have applied yourself to the teachings of this school as did Saul of Tarsus to the instructions of the great Hebrew perceptor, Gamaliel, I earnestly hope that you have advanced far enough in the scale of progression to realize just where we stand in this our American Republic with respect to our citizenship rights Our national laws make no discrimination in the rights of its citizens but we cannot hope to enjoy the ful fruition of these rights unless we cherish our liberty, honor our flag, and are filled with patriotic zeal serviceable to our country. Young men and women, boys and girls, in so far as you are void of patriotism, lacking in devotion to your country and its flag, or allow any other race to surpass you in these essential elements of American citizenship—to the same extent you will miss the mark of your high calling and disappoint your parents and teachers. I would that all men were like me with respect to race feeling. I have no race pride except esteem for the human race and I have absolutely no race prejudice. Prejudice of any kind is born of ignorance and its ravages can only be checked or dispelled by much wisdom and investigation. We should strive to enlighten the few ignorant, deluded degenerates who feign intolerance of our presence on the face of the earth and, as Booker Washington says, are endeavoring to keep us down in order to show their superiority by comparison. These people are much more in need of the missionary and the gospel of Christianity of our resentment and retaliation. We should be charitable with them and not permit them to interfere in any way with our duty to society and the civil authority. By our conduct we shall conquer we have not the power and we do not need to repel our traducers; but by our deportment, commonly called be havar, we can enlist in our cause scores of strong Christian white men who will marshal thousands to our rescue. With this powerful assistance back of our endeavor we will be able to silence and put to shame our enemies in every quarter of this Republic. In one of his noted sermon preached thirty-five years ago, Rev Crummell said: "When you are pleading for natural rights, when men are endeavoring to throw off the vote of opression, you may indeed imitate the action of the tiger, stiffer the sinews, summon up the blood." But a war against gross public sentiment, a contest with prejudice and repulsion, is a thing of a different kind and calls for a warfare of an opposite character. You cannot destroy caste with a ten-pounder. You cannot sweep away prejudice with a park of artillery!: * * * So it seems to me the greatest of all duties to get rid of all delusions upon this subject, and to learn to look at it in the light of hard, serious, long-continued painful, plodding work," and I believe that Dr. Crummell was right and the we may profit immeasurably by following his advice Our race has filled a great mission. It has felled the forests of our great Southland; built her railroads, constructed her water powers, made her fields blossom with the cotton and yield the riches of the corn, rice, to bacoo and other products of her soil. It has planted and garnered harvest that surpassed those of the great valley of the Nile. It has carried it burden with a stout heart and willing hands—with faith in God and an abiding faith in a better destiny. It has taken its place among the proudest and freest people of the earth. 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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 alienes, 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) JOB BARNARD J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By J. McKEE, Assistant Clerk. CAT IS GOOD ALARM CLOCK When Six o'Clock Whistle Blows Animal Awakens Master. Sharon, Pa.—Mark Moeller, a steel worker of near Farrell, would not trade his pet Maltese cat for the best alarm clock ever invented. He voucher for the story that within the last year, he has not once arrived late at his work, while before Tom came to the family circle he was frequently tardy. Moeller's cat wakens him every morning at 6 o'clock, and if he turns over for just a few more winks the feline begins clawing at the covers until Moeller arises. Moeller used to have an alarm clock Sometimes he would forget to wind it He would oversleep and arrive late a work. There is a whistle at a factory close by, and this always blows at o'clock. The cat knows when the whistle blows it is time for Moeller to arise and it jumps on the bed and stays there until the sleeper is aroused. The cat has been more reliable than the clock and has not missed awakening Moeller except Sundays for several months. TEETH IDENTIFY SKELETON. Dental Work Shows That Bones Be- long to Lost Girl. Albuquerque, N. M.-The finding of a woman's skeleton in lonely Los Huer- tas canyon, thirty miles from this city explains the disappearance on Nov. 14 1911, of Margaret Greb, twenty-two daughter of John Greb, a carpenter who afterward went insane over the loss of his daughter, while a brother contracted tuberculosis from exposure in the search and died. The girl started out for a walk in the sand hills, lost her way when nigh- fall, and, although the mountains and mesas were searched for a trace of her none was found. The skeleton, which was found stripped clean of flesh and clothing was identified by a gold filling in the teeth. Which Falls Quiloker? If one marble be snapped horizontally from the top of a table and another be dropped from the same height at the same instant, which reaches the floor first? This question is sent to the Scientific American by a correspondent, and the editor of that magazine answers it as follows: Sir Isaac Newton stated three laws of motion which from his time to the present have been universally accepted as true. The second law is, "A given force produces the same effect whether it acts upon a body at rest or in motion, whether it acts alone or together with other forces." You will see that the second part of this law covers the case of a ball dropped from a table and another ball shot horizontally from the same level at the same instant. The first ball falls by the force of gravity alone. The second ball has, as you say, two forces acting upon it. The ball obeys both forces at the same time. It falls as if gravity acted alone. It goes by the blow as if the blow acted alone. Both balli reach the floor at the same instant. Mr. Lewis Will Speak. The Baptist Ministers' Conference of Washington, D. C., and vicinity, has extended an invitation to John W. Lewis, president of Industrial Savings Bank of this city, to speak to them on Monday, June 30, at 1 o'clock, at Third Baptist Church, Fifth and Q Streets Northwest. Mr. Lewis is among the successful men of this city, and as a practical speaker is second to none of his race. Everybody who hears him will be well satisfied. Mr. Lewis is a practical as well as an eloquent talker. HAWTHORNE AIDS FELLOW CONVICTS Son of Famous Novelist a Cheerful Prisoner. LIKENS MENTO GREAT BOOKS New Humanity Urged by "Register 4435" In the Atlanta Federal Prison. Calls Fellow Criminals "Brothers" In His Latest Editorial—Refuses to See Callers at the Prison. Atlanta, Ga.—A new philosophy, full of humanity and understanding, has been born to Julian Hawthorne, son of the great novelist, since he became "register 4435," an inmate of the federal penitentiary here. The deepest human element appears in everything he has written for Good Words, the prison paper, and is creating for that journal a unique literary interest. The son of Nathaniel Hawthorne has turned "minister to the heart and conscience" of his fellow convicts. More than in anything else is this new found sentiment set forth in his prison poem, "Fool False," written to the men who night after night tramp ceaselessly back and forth in their eight foot cells. He has come to understand the power that drives them. "Brother, I know," is the refrain of the poem. A recent issue of the paper contains the beginning of a new department of which he will be conductor. He writes of books, prescribing a model course of reading made up of the choicest literature of all countries and of all time. Reverence for his father is implied in his selection of two books of Nathaniel Hawthorne's, "The Scarlet Letter" and "Our Old Home." But along with his essay on literature he wrote of another subject which has become more interesting to him, he says, since he became an inmate of the prison. "There is another and a greater library," he said in his column. "It is distributed among the ranks in pairs, with a shelf to each volume. Their binding is homogeneous—stout blue cloth on ordinary occasions, which on [Image of a man with a mustache and a hat.] JULIAN HAWTHORNE Sundays and holidays changes to a woolen fabric of darker hue. They bear titles on the front and back. “There is a sprinkling of the poetical element and a good deal of fiction, but each carries a historical and biographical index often illegible—stories of crime mingled with tragedies, or you find a farce or a comedy. “Moreover, these volumes grow, decay and die; chapters are added from time to time, but the title seldom ends happily. These are the books that God made—not always much to look at, but containing a great deal of human interest if you can get beneath the covers.” Hawthorne has shaken hands with "Dutchman, Dago, Yankee, Greek," to use the words of his great prison poem, and he calls them brothers in every thing he writes. With his fellow prisoners Hawthorne is all affability, but when visitors come he is ill and sees no one. His request made to Warden Moyer was that he be not known as Julian Hawthorne, the son of the great novelist and himself a prominent literary man, but merely as "register 4435." A reporter, presenting in writing a request for an interview, received from Hawthorne the following answer: "I must ask you to excuse me. Here I am, as you know, not a name, but a number. If anything I have written for Good Words has done good or has caused interest I am glad, but have nothing to say about it." The new Hawthorne who "knows," the minister to the conscience, is revealed in one paragraph which he wrote for Good Words. "Instead of feeding upon angry and revengeful thoughts," he said, "which corrode the heart that generates them, use the occasion to extirpate sinister tendencies and to invite impulses of generosity and good will. Look upon your prison term as an opportunity to repent of the evil in you that men know not of." In an editorial which he wrote for the paper is implied a justification of his own act which brought about his conviction. 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I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel, and mart, and palace—soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake—if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate. And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate. Condemned to failure, penury, and woe Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more." Following this with the statement that it was the inspiration of that little poem that led him to that land—the bald prairies of Dakota—then begins his story, by stating his birth place near the Ohio River about 30 miles above Cairo. A life of dull inertia and discontent. His advanced idea's brings about ostracism, and at the age of 16 he leaves to fight his battles in the big world of Opportunity. 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The love grows, but as a climax he sacrifices the love and returns to his race and marries the daughter of a minister, but is told that the minister is a dreadful rascal. Soon he begins to love his wife, but dislike her father, who is an enemy of Booker Washington and industrial education. This enmity became more distinct, the minister is cunning and deceitful, and finally secures his wife by coercion and takes her home. After two weeks the pioneer, not hearing from her journeys to Chicago, but is refused admittance, after hearing his wife cry for him in the back room, where she is locked up. Being refused admittance, he secures a young colored doctor and took him to the house to attend his wife. Both are refused admittance, and later when he called over the phone as to why they would not at least let the doctor enter, he is scolded for bringing "a nigger doctor" to the house; that he had never had a Negro doctor in his house. He returned sick and discouraged to his ranch. He met the Mennonites, who understood astronomy, and who told him the planet Jupiter was in a critical position, and that it would cause humidity, and that a terrible drouth would sweep over the land. The drouth came as predicted and all over the north country the drouth burnt everything in its wake. The air become suffocating with the smell of burning plants, and the country became dissipated from the effect. To the west thousands of homesteaders left and crossed the Missouri, headed for the East. For seven weeks the hot winds blew until the country became barren and stock died from starvation. At last the drouth was broken over the northern country and plant life began anew. The crops were harvested in the winter, but before they could be threshed a terrible winter set in and thousands of head of stock were frozen to death. Spring came beautiful and the pioneer threshed his crop. Then he journeyed cast again to try to secure his wife. The last chapter, entitled "And Satan Came Also," is pathetic and the end is sad, but the spirit of the pioneer lives. LIEUT. CARMOUCHE. The Michigander Speaks Out—Fearless Race Advocate Should Not Make Himself a Target. With the further use of the valuable columns of your Bee, the Afro-American newspaper that has never yet faltered or suppressed a truth concerning the wrongs of an oppressed people, be that oppression be that of the masses or of an individual. The Bee can, always be found with Chase at its head, where Wm. Lloyd Garrison stood, in the times of our race's greatest needs. In company with such a fearless expounder of truth, I want to further expose, as a volunteer veteran of the Spanish-American War, my further reasons and why the Afro-American should not again, unless a positive change of treatment is accorded the race in its just rights as an American citizen, go to war or fight for "Old Glory." Under existing conditions, no, most emphatically no, the Afro-American should not again voluntarily make himself a target for bullets and other death-dealing machines and victims of diseases which they are bound to encounter in time of war for a country and present form of government that plainly shows and tells them, too, that it does not care a continental cuss for them after the victories are won. "Colored" men, it is all to the contrary. You and I are only needed then and there; after it is all over; you can holler your lungs out for the sake of your race and no one will pay any attention to your howling. To the contrary, "the copperheads" and other enemies of the Afro-Americans make it their most particular business to deprive those who prove the most valuable in time of the coun- Dept. N. Editor The Rec: 23 Duane Street, New York City. try's greatest need to opportunities accorded others much less entitled than the Afro-American. In all of this mad rush of discrimination and oppression, the Afro-American veteran is no better considered in the stampede of oppressions than the most vulgar members of other races. It is a case where "all coons" look alike to our tormentors and oppressors. With all our race has assisted in accomplishing in time of war for this country, from the time of Chrispus Attucks in 1770 to our services in the Philippines in 1899, what forms of oppressions has not been perpetrated against us? If there is anything in a country that means something to its people, that thing is what is called patriotism. The patriots of any country—excepting the Afro-American of the United States—is the favored persons of the country and communities in which they live. In France, the Afro-French defenders of that nation are treated with the highest courtesies and respect due them. If France with her vast army of Frenchmen would have, in her country such a population of "colored" citizens, so patriotic as we are, and has been to this country, she would treat them entirely different. She would not treat them as brutes as we are treated here. In France such a race of fighters would be considered too valuable; they would be treated as human beings at all times, knowing full well, in case of necessity, how important they would be on the frontiers and in defense of Paris. Not so with Uncle Sam. The shoe does not pinch to that extent, but some day it might; then, what then? Simply pat "Sambo" on the back and tell him he is a good "nigger" and other gush? Well, if I had my say, "Sambo" would not budge an inch. Our race's treatment since the Spanish-American War is positive proof that we need not expect any better treatment. Then why be voluntary targets for bullets? Why should the "white" man expect from the Afro-American that which he would not do at the peril of his own life if so treated? Colored men of America, learn to be men, The white man stands so much abuse and no more. With him enough is enough. It should be so with us. At the price of any sacrifice, honorable sacrifice, let the Afro-American be a man. On July 4, 1898, I received from the Western Union Telegraph Company the following telegram: No. 8. Sent by B. Rec'd by — Check 55, paid Gov't. Received at 3:10 p. m., 7-4, 1898. Dated New Orleans, 4. To P. L. Carmouche, Donaldsonville, La. Please engage room for recruiting office and have ready platform scales for weighing. My surgeon will examine physically you and all your men. Seventy-five is the minimum for company. If you pass physical examination you will be first lieutenant (Page 3). W. P. Coleman is the captain already nominated. CRANE, Colonel. On July 5, 1898, I received the following letter of instruction: New Orleans, July 4, 1898. P. L. Carmouche. Dear Sir: Either I or my adjutant will go up to Donaldsonville tonight or tomorrow to organize and muster in the company you have been holding. Captain Edmunds, the mustering officer, will follow a day or two later to do the mustering. You will be the first lieutenant if you pass physical examination and I suppose you will, and you and your captain, W. P. Coleman, can decide on the man for second lieutenant if you have one available. W. P. Coleman has been nominated captain by the President and I assign him to the Donaldsonville company and I wish you would render him all the assistance you can in quickly getting company examined by the surgeon I will send with him. We want 82 men, if we can get them, but will accept any number less than that and over 50. 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Va., Monday, June 23. FOR RENT. 1903 Third Street Northwest. Three unfurnished rooms, 2d floor, suitable for light housekeeping. Terms reasonable. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. The "cost reducer" of this city is what we can claim to be. There are any number of men who save cash buying from us; this little out-of-the-way store is well and favorably known, as we have the finest grade of suits, slightly used, as low as $3, or tailored stock to save a $10 note or more. One price. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 614 D of 2 rooms. The expense of mustering in will be settled by the Government. My adjutant, Lieut. Wood, has received full instructions from me and he represents me in this matter. I am needed in my camp and cannot go and therefore send him. Note the facts. Both the telegram and letter of instruction from Col. Crane well specifies: "If you pass physical examination you will be first lieutenant." Shame on the government. I passed the physical examination without a blemish and the first time I knew what it was to have a headache or fevers or any physical ailment was in my services in Cuba in 1898. From a hardy "little" blacksmith in '98, I went to Cuba, came back a total wreck. What better proof would a white man need to show to "Uncle Sam" that he had gone into the service O. K. and that his present disabilities were of on from his services in the deadly Isle of Cuba? All of this information I am giving to the Afro-American is not intended for sympathy. My sympathies are buried in the carnage of oppressions, discriminations, assassinations and deprivations of "my people," the "colored" people, by a people who would not stand our oppressions of him no longer than it would take them time to correct it, or die in their attempt in doing so. I simply want to show the base ingratitude of "Uncle Sam" to a patriot of color. P. L. CARMOUCHE. 341 Erskine, Detroit, Michigan. June 23, 1913.