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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 FIGHT FOR OLD GLORY Patriotism of the Negro—Does It Pay for the Colored Man to Fight? Editor The Bee In my two previous articles in the Bee—June 14 and June 28—I did not fail in dealing with the question of the Afro-American fighting for "Old Glory" to make myself plainly understood on those reasons and why the Afro-American should not again fight or make himself a target in time of war for "Old Glory." To further illustrate those reasons and why from the standpoint of one who feels to think capable of giving advice, serious advice, to "our people" on this question, I want to give more facts concerning my personal experience which caused me to change front, to array myself against an institution, or form of government of oppression which should be repugnant to the ten or more millions of Afro-American persons in this or of this country, and if the Afro-American is not a coward in his own behalf, that is to say, too cowardly to show or resent in a determined way by his bravery to dare act in his own defense against oppressions, he would not hesitate to take the stand I have taken to show his resentment, dissatisfaction, hatred and not willing to let, as is generally the weakness of our people, "the vengeance of God to settle those oppressive differences." It is time that the Afro-American get clear away from all of this sentimental rot. Christianity in the kingdom of Uncle Sam has done nothing but to make, for the several generations of Afro-Americans which has followed since his first coming to the United States, it a perfect hell in every conceivable way for him and his kind. All of which goes to show that the white man, with few exceptions, who has taught the Afro-American through his religion all of this rot, does not rely upon it one second as destructive to him in the afterafter, in his dealing with the Afro-American. If the white man really believed for one brief moment that all of this "God and Christ doctrine" was true, this country in which we live, so filled with churches, would be in reality the land of the free and a garden of paradise for the Afro-American as well as for any of the other races who dwell in it. Get bold, colored men; get bold! Wake up; free yourselves from your slumbers; take a long and serious look at your surroundings and you will readily see the picture of hell on earth which confronts you in "Uncle Sam's" kingdom, in which you live and made so by very class of people, too, who tells you that "Christianity" is a true doctrine of Christ. All of this in, a certain way pertains to our reasons and why the Afro-American should not—notwithstanding the facts that we are here in the United States—do any more fighting for "Old Glory." In the Bee of June 28th, to show the unjust attitude, lack of appreciation, injustice and imposition of this government towards its colored defenders through its representatives, I made public the telegram and letter of instruction of July 4, 1898, from Col. Chas. J. Crane, Ninth U. S. V. Infantry, which no doubt would be final evidence in determining the claim for an original disability pension of a white S. A. W. V. with any of the departments of pensions. To further show the duplicity of the government towards its colored defenders since that war, these letters of 1898 show my determination to do my full share of duty towards "Old Glory," at any price or sacrifice, in the deadly Isle of Cuba. These letters tell their own stories as to whether or not an Afro-American of that disposition was or was not honest or dishonest in his dealings with the government. I do not propose to allow such an injustice so flagrant to me as a colored man to remain silent, fearing to kill forever my chances for a pension. I would sooner sacrifice it and the chances of ever getting it than to keep my people in ignorance of the injustice of it all. Donaldsonville, La., Feb. 26, 1898. Hon. R. A. Alger, Esq., Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: After carefully considering the situation of these United States and a possibility of a declaration of war between the United States and Spain, I deem it advisable to offer my services and those of 250 colored Americans on short notice in the defense of our country, at home or abroad. Yours lovingly, P. L. CARMOUCHE. Donaldsonville, La., Feb. 28, 1898. M. J. Foster, Esq., Governor of Louisiana. Hon. Sir: After carefully considering the situation of these United States, and a possibility of a declaration of war between the United States and Spain, I deem it advisable to offer my services and those of 250 colored Louisianians, of Ascension Parish, on short notice, in defense of our country at home or abroad. Yours lovally. P. L. CARMOUCHE. Donaldsonville, La., March 11, 1898. Hon. Murph J. Foster, Governor of State of Louisiana. Hon. Sir: The position assumed by the United States on the 'Cuban question caused me, as a loyal son of Louisiana, on the 28th of February, to tender to the honorable Governor of our State, my services and those of 250 colored Louisianaans. Failing to receive an answer, I am at a loss to know whether my letter reached you. Trusting to hear from you soon, I am loyally yours, 'P. L. CARMOUCHE. Donaldsonville, L., March 17, 1898. Hon. R. A. Alger, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Hon. Sir: After carefully considering the position assumed by the United States on the Cuban question and the horrors of the battleship Maine, I, as a loyal son of these United States, on February 26 tendered to the Secretary of War, the Hon. R. A. Alger, my services and those of 250 colored Americans from the State of Louisiana, Parish of Ascension, on short notice, in defense of our country, at home or abroad. Failing to hear from you, I am at a loss to know if my letter reached you. Trusting to hear from you soon, I am loyally yours. P. L. CARMOUCHE For the benefit of those of our people who are interested in war, I feel grateful to the Washington Bee for the privilege of making public this injustice of the government through such an Afro-American paper as The Bee, fearless in every particular in matters pertaining to the good of the race. If Editor Chase permits, there is more to be written concerning this which I think will be as interesting, concerning this question of fighting for "Old Glory." P. L. CARMOUCHE, 341 Erskine, Detroit, Mich. GALBRAITH A. M. E. Church Election of Officers. On Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock p. m. Galbraith Church held a members' meeting which was largely attended by both young and old members. There was a feeling of good fellowship and Christianity among those present, and the meeting progressed without a rupture. The members expressed their desires and intentions for the ensuing year, and all pledged themselves to support the pastor and the officials of the church. The secretary, George C. Schurlock, made a report on the financial condition of the church, which was gratifying and showed that the trustees and the leaders under the guidance of the pastor had made an enviable record. It would have been well for some of the enemies and gossipers belonging to this great part of Zion to have been present that they may have bowed their heads in shame and closed their mouths until they had verified their suspicions. It can be said of the Reverend Dr. S. L. Corrothers, that he stands among the first of Zion ministers, and his record as a minister of the gospel and pastor of Galbraith Church speaks for itself and compares favorable to the records made by many of the bishops. Besides standing well in church affairs, Dr. S. L. Corrothers, not like some other of the ministers, has made himself heard and felt in civic affairs, and has the confidence and respect of the good thinking people of the District of Columbia; hence, his return to Galbraith was not only demanded by the nineteenth vote of the members and entire official board of the church, but by many prominent men and women, white and colored. The church under its present trustee board and the leaders and this stalwart, "Fighting Bob" bids fair to lead all other Zion churches. The only new addition to the trustee board was that of one of its most zealous members in the person of Mr. Augustus W. Gray, formerly of the firm of Hughes & Gray, and a prominent lawyer of this city, who is also making an excellent record as an attorney of rare ability. Mr. Gray controls a lucrative practice, having been associated in and conducted many prominent cases before the courts. Mr. Gray is located at 609 F Street Northwest and is now special counsel for the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, F. A. A. M., of the District of Columbia, and the Master Masons' Association and a member of other organizations here in the District, and it is expected this brilliant and conservative addition will make for Galbraith the success she deserves. The following were unanimously elected: Augustus W. Gray, chairman; George C. Schurlock, secretary; Henry Smith, treasurer; James A. Davis, Carles H. Lively, Arthur Sparrow, Benjamin Williams, Fred Lipscomb, and H. J. Bolton, all of whom are well known to the public and the members of Zion. MISS BURROUGHS RETURNED Her Successful Pittsburg Trip. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Girls, has just returned to this city from Pittsburg, Pa., where she has been on business in connection with her great school. Miss Burroughs received a great ovation while in Pittsburg, and her addresses, from all reports, were highly commendable. In Negroes' Plans for Celebration—Wigwam's Attempts to Use Emancipation Commission to Land Jobs for Henchmen Are Spiked—Sulzer's Appointee Stops Payment on Checks—Also, as Result of Scrap, Commission Has No Home Except the Street. Special to The Bee. New York, July 2.—The well known dove of peace yesterday gave up that part of its job, which pertains to the affairs of the special commission of nine colored men appointed by Gov. Sulzer to make arrangements for the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Here are two of the ways in which the dove had its feathers ruffled yesterday: First—John Henry Taylor, editor of the New York Pilot, a paper devoted to the interests of Negroes in this city, accompanied by his attorney, Louis A. Leavelle, of 174 West One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street, served notice on the Fifth Avenue Bank that John Henry Taylor was the vice-chairman of the commission, and that there would be trouble if the bank cashed any more requisitions not signed by him. Second—The headquarters of the commission was changed from its temporary site in the Victoria to a point between the curb and the car tracks in One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street near Lenox Avenue. The exact location of the headquarters was determined yesterday by traffic policemen as the exigencies of traffic suggested. How Trouble Started. The trouble arose over the question of the vice-chairmanship of the commission. When Gov. Sulzer first appointed the commission of nine he named Robert N. Wood as chairman and Sumner H. Lark as vice-chairman. Soon afterward Lark resigned to accept the position of director general of the anniversary celebration which is to be held in October. Wood, chairman of the commission, is an employee in the City Water Department and Charles Francis Murphy's first lieutenant in political matters pertaining to the Negroes of New York. After Lark resigned there was a meeting of the commission at which James D. Carr, a Tammany man and an assistant corporation counsel, was declared vice-chairman. But in the meantime Taylor had received from Albany a pasteboard cylinder which contained a document which looks like a college diploma, duly signed by Gov. Sulzer and naming him as the member of the commission to take the place of Lark. Taylor said yesterday that he considered he had been appointed vice-chairman by the Governor, as the latter's personal representative to see to it that Tammany did not make of the commission and the celebration a piece of Tammany politics. So yesterday Taylor and his attorney, armed with the certificate of appointment, called at the Fifth Avenue Bank, where the State Comptroller had deposited 2,500 to the credit of the commission, and served notice. They also called on Deputy State Comptroller Wallace S. Fraser and presented the certificate. Mr. Fraser said that was enough for him, and that he would not honor any more requisitions against the $25,000 fund appropriated for the celebration, unless they were signed by Wood and Taylor. Wood-Carr Faction. The Wood-Carr faction had wanted to establish the headquarters of the commission in the quarters of the United Colored Democracy at 122 West One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Street. This is the Tammany organization of Negroes. Objection was made and other quarters were engaged near Lenox Avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street. A check was written by Wood and Carr, but before it reached the bank Taylor and Attorney had served notice on the bank that the requisitions of Wood and Carr were not legal. Therefore, the headquarters are now in the street. "Wood and Carr are trying to use this celebration for the purpose of giving jobs to Tammany heelers," said Taylor. "The colored race throughout the country is interested in it and Tammany should not be allowed to use it to its selfish advantage. I am a Democrat, but there should be no politics in an occasion which is designed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The bill under which the $25,000 appropriation was made specified that the event should indicate the industrial, educational and religious progress of the colored race since the Emancipation Proclamation was made. "Some of the commission have suggested sending to Africa for a Negro who knows all abouts ants. I don't see what this has to do with the progress of the race since the emancipation. At any rate, I am vice-chairman of the commission by specific appointment of the Governor and shall continue to keep the funds tied up until politics are eliminated from the work of the commission. I cannot see for the life of me why Charles Murphy should turn this celebration into a political affair." THE BEE A LIAR Says Messenger Demoted Thompson. How He Has Regarded The Bee. R. W. Thompson, the transferred and demoted messenger in the Treasury Department, sent the following to the Detroit, Mich., Informer: "I should judge from a paragraph in a recent issue of The Informer that you have been placing credence in the misleading statement in The Bee that I have been demoted—or failed of promotion. Nothing of the kind—and you can bank upon anything you see in The Bee about me as being a lie made out of whole cloth. As stated in The Freeman. I have made a change voluntarily in the Treasury Department, which is better suited to my abilities and which offers a more favorable opportunity for promotion. I have charge of a special work in the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and find it very congenial. It would scarcely be possible for a greater number of misstatements to have appeared in any article of the same length than those embraced in The Bee's brochure concerning me two or three weeks ago—and this article is of a piece with others—all calculated to cast ridicule upon me and to force some sort of a political declaration from me. I have said nothing on the subject, and shall say nothing. There is no reason why I should, as no emergency has arisen that would make any announcement from me pertinent. I am afraid ost of you take The Bee too seriously. And further, do not get the notion in your head that no other paper can thrive here. The people would welcome with open arms a journal that stands for the best thought and aspirations of the race. "R. W. THOMPSON." The foregoing is the opinion of R. Wordy Thompson, of The Bee, and having such an opinion this colored messenger has sent so much rot to this paper that much of it is now dead in our pigeon hole. The following are but a few of the endearing notes that he has sent the editor which have accompanied his rejected manuscripts: "Bro. Chase: Run the athletic report of Y. M. C. A. "Col. Chase: I hope you will get this in time for this week. T." Now, it can be seen that as long as he can use The Bee it is O. K., but the moment The Bee stated that he was unfit to be president of the National Press Association he declares that nothing is true that appears in The Bee. Every paper to which he has been connected has died an ignominious death. For ten years or more, while he was connected with The Colored American, he was attacking The Bee and its editor. The Colored American had the support of the entire country, while The Bee had its opposition. The Bee has struggled against all kinds of treachery, denagogy and political tricksters and has never yet lost its stinger. It has been extremely friendly to R. Wordy, when he has been giving it the knife. R. Wordy got control of the National Union and it died, and if the readers of The Bee will peruse its columns they will find attacks upon its editor. The Bee dedicates the following sentiment to Mr. Thompson: "These watchful eyes shall not have needful rest until death has closed the in a glorious grave or fortune given me measure of revenge." NEED BACKBONES "As Rigid As Steel," So Says Booker T. Washington, Jr., in An Address at Fiske—Splendid Address Delivered at Fiske by a Son Who Will Follow in the Footsteps of a Great Father. Nashville, Tenn.—The commencement week's program of "dear old Fiske" was replete with many fine and instructive addresses, and among them was the "Tree Oration" delivered by Booker T. Washington, Jr., member of this year's graduating class. Booker Jr. proved that he has inherited much of his illustrious father's ability, and, his course, while here at Fiske, has also demonstrated that he has marked out a course, set a high mark to reach, and is determined to perpetuate the name of his distinguished father. Speaking to the class of 1913, of which he was a bright member, this young scion of the great Tuskegeean, whose name and deeds are world-wide, gave utterance in part to the following: "Members of the Class of 1913: "We have arrived at the threshold of new duties. The question which confronts each one of us as we gather around this tree is how shall we put into practice the manifold theories which we have accumulated here at Fiske. Upon this campus we have labored long and hard to gain efficiency for our life work; we realize that the work needs Christian men and women to perform the work of to-day, and we realize that these same men and women must be efficient if they are to accomplish anything worth while. In this democratic country, liberty is given us provided we use it and do not abuse it. Even so, Fisk University has given us an education to use for the benefit of our followers and not for our own fish pleasures. In this world of achievement where obstacles are numerous and are apt* to present themselves at any time and in varied forms, we need backbones as rigid as steel. We need wills strong enough to assert themselves and urge us on to realization of set purposes and high ideals. To help all who need to be enlightened is to be our desire. Our strength will be measured by what we intended. "The hackberry tree, when mature, is described as being 'characterized by a strong trunk with bold vertical ridges carrying a crown distinguished by its muscular branches spreading and reaching upward as if to invite additional burdens, others pointing earthward as if in humble recognition of its earthy origin, while its roots express themselves as muscular outgrowths grasping the earth as if for added anchorage." "If this tree is to stand for what the members of the class of 1913 are to be, we may understand that answering to the call of humanity we are to stand upright with our arms stretched outward and upward in the support of humanity. Our spirits must be humble, not forgetting the source from which we have risen. Our hearts are to be full of faith and hope showing the spirit of love in which our lives are anchored. As we go out from this institution let this be our aim." Moria Saunders. The appointment of Mr. Moria Saunders, principal of the Cardozo Vocational School, is a recognition of a faithful secretary to the assistant superintendent of schools, Mr. R. C. Bruce. Mr. Saunders was born and reared in this city, and educated in the public schools. For a number of years he has been the confidential secretary to Mr. Bruce. The vocational schools are becoming to be educational necessities in this country. No city offers greater inducements and opportunities to the colored youth than the recently established vocational schools. A practical education is given the colored youth, both male and female. There is no young man better appreciated or respected than Mr. Saunders. The Cariloza Vocational School teaches many trades to the youth, both male and female, and there is no doubt that Principal Newman, who is at the head-of all the vocational schools, will be an everlasting benefit to colored children in the city, and with Mr. Saunders as his assistant, there is no doubt of his success. DR. S. L. CORROTHERS. His Twelfth Year at Galbraith— Strong Race Advocate Sunday, July 13, at 11 A. M., Dr. Corrothers, who is now entering upon his twelfth year at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, will deliver a special sermon upon the subject, "The Duty of the Negro Minister With Reference to the Race Segregation, Jim Crowism and the General Attempt to Destroy Our Civil Rights." Every patriotic race loving man and woman in the city of Washington ought to feel under obligations to Dr. Corrothers, because of the manly stand he has always taken in defense of his people. When it comes to the rights of the Negro, Corrothers has always rung true. Not since the days of Frederick Douglas, has there lived at the Capital a man, who has stood up and fought more bravely for the rights of the people than this distinguished man. The manly Negroes of Washington city should give him a great audience next Sunday morning. Galbraith Church today is one of the best known Negro churches in the country, and some of our most brilliant and useful citizens are to be found in its membership. Following this special sermon on the part of Dr. Corrothers, an effort will be made to arouse the Negroes in behalf of their civil rights throughout the Nation. The Bee extends congratulation to Bishop Walters for having returned Dr. Corrothers to this city for the twelfth time, and it wishes for him a year of unparalleled success. DEVOTED TO GENERALINTEREST Ralph W. Tyler, the national organizer of the Negro Business League, is meeting with success. Lieut. Loren H. Call, U. S. A., of 1448 Newton Street Northwest, a graduate of the Washington high school, was killed north of Texas from a fall of his aero-plane. The arrival of Mr. Patterson, the candidate for Register of the Treasury, has gotten the politicians guessing. Rev. L. C. Moore, the leader of the colored Democrats, has succeeded in having Mr. Nelson, one of his supporters, appointed to a position in the Capitol. Gen Armando Riva, chief of the national police, was shot and severely wounded during a fight in Habana, July 7th. The fight was the result of a raid. Sergeant G. H. Dawson, a member of the police force, committed suicide Monday, July 7, by inhaling gas. He was in poor health. Ten police women have been named by Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, Ill. They will be assigned to bathing beaches and parks. The civil service commission of Chicago will arrange for a physical examination. A blind man in Fort Worth, Texas, came very near being run over by a street car when a female voice gently called to him, which saved him. The woman led him to safety, and after a five months' search he found the woman and married her. She was married and didn't get along with her husband. The blind man secured a lawyer and got a divorce. Miss Silvia Pankhurst, the London sailing-tie, was arrested in London July 7th, because she disobeyed a court summons. Several other suffragettes were arrested for exciting a riot. Ten young men of Niagara Falls and Lasalle, N. Y., belonging to prominent families, were drowned in Lake Erie July 7th, while sailing. Col. John A. Joyce favors an appropriation to care for Gray veterans. Senator Works, of California, favors the appointment of a commission to which all applications for office shall be filed, and the report of the commission be submitted to the President. No member of Congress shall recommend any one for office. Ex-President Roosevelt, accompanied by his sons, have gone to Arizona. The party will remain six weeks. Miss Dorothea Bateman, who inherited $500,000, is working on a dairy farm. She loves the farm. Bishop Alexander Walters is in California. For the present he has eschewed politics. The Haytian and Liberian missions will be filled shortly. A PUBLIC APOLOGY. Charles L. Barnes Retracts His Charges Against Mr. L. Offord and Publicly Apologizes for Uttering Malicious, Libelous and Untruthful Falsehoods. Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: In the May 31, 1913 issue of the "Detroit Informer" there appeared over my signature, an attack upon the moral character, and good name of William L. Offord, with the intention of humiliating, and injuring him politically and socially among his friends and acquaintances, and all others who know him. The issue referred to, received a wide circulation in Washington, D. C., and realizing the great and irreparable injury done him; and confessing that the allegations made were false and absolutely devoid of the elements of truth, I am making this statement in the columns of The Bee, in my sincere effort to do all in my power to remove any stigma placed upon him by the attack, which was made during a moment of anger, due to a fancied wrong, which I thought he had done me. In addition to being a retraction in full, I also intend that this shall be a public apology to Mr. Offord, of whom I personally know nothing that would impeach his claim to honor and respectability, as a man. MISS BRODIE Miss Mary A. Brodie desires the public to know that "Just for a Kiss" is not arranged by Mr. Wellington A. Adams, as previously published in The Bee. WOULD AVOID ALL LABOR DISPUTES Industrial Peace Chief Aim of Secretary Wilson. "Capital and Labor Are Partners, and Each Should Have Voices 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, 1902, 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 Sixtieth, 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 J. said. "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 newer 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 fear 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 in boring 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 fell low 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 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 bring capital and labor together upon a just basis." CRAZY WOODPECKERS, THESE. Falling to Find Acorns, They Gather Pebbles For Food. San Francisco.-The woodpeckers on Sonoma county are suffering from a mild sort of insanity, according to an erudite document issued by the Museu um of Vertebrate Zoology of the Uni- versity of California. The document says: "The reason why California wood peckers in the vicinity of Sonoma mountain should have stored pebbles instead of the customary acorns is a mystery. "We know that instinct works as au- tomatically as an alarm clock. In the failure of an acorn crop it would seen possible that the woodpecker might in intensively 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 touching 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 PCOR CRIPPLE WALK 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 sometimes creep in and share one's bed. Revelling in the thought, he thrust his right leg deeper under the covers. Then something that stung like a hot needle pierced his ankle. "I spung 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 was asked. "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 Roosevelt's Suit. Washington. Praise of Secretary Bryan for "the courage of his convictions" in refusing to serve wine at an 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 libel 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," unreading 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 TO STUDY CREDIT NEEDS. 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 [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit]. 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 ex-travagant 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 governmental agencies for the doing of the actual work. The government, however, has facilities for collecting, tabulating and spreading information which neither individual farmers nor group 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 at 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 whole some 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 chick en hens, two sow hogs and a 32 caller 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 home stead 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 Malne 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 rejoiling now. For the tabiold booze drummer has come to Maine and is doing a rushing business in condensed drinks of all kinds, from plain whiskey to cocktail and from beer to glu 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 tabiold drinks, while a great many men who just must have their whiskey 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 or 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 blites 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 Czynsky of Prospect avenue, West Springfield, is the owner of a cat with a barelip, which whistles with the facility of a schoolboy, but cannot mew or at least, never has mewed. Czynsky 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 that would prove a treasure to a maker of catgut violin strings. 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 1.35 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.-Pollicewomen-two o'them, the first in the history of Newport- have been assigned to patrol the beach. Each of the "sister cops." Miss Mimie Smith and Miss Janet Buchapan, 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 "slater cops" were appointed an 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 porpoises suddenly appeared and began to frolic with the bathers. All except Miss Nathan died 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 Linger 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." Takes Sand For Stomach. Washington.-Julian Emmons, door-keeper of the house of representatives, sixty-five years of age, able and hearty, swallows a teaspoonful of sand after each meal He never leaves home in the morning without a vial of course 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 mall. The letter had been intrusted to a comrade, M. E. Richards of Pottstown, Pa., to mail and was never sent. Recently Mr. Richards died, and the letter, sealed and stamped, was found among some old papers Russell died about five years ago. CANNOT SLEEP ON BED. Twenty Years In Cell Unfits Paroled 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 $50,000 stolen by Charles Savage from a mail 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 Gardiner of Ottawa is in Edmonton outfitting 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 Kiondike. 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 Vernulillon, 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. Ram Grows Oat Crop. 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 more the crop to the rain. CREED IDOLS OF CHRISTENDOM. More Horrible Than Idols of Heathendom, Says Pastor Russell. THE BIBLE VERSUS GREEDS. The Bible Opposed to All Idols—God Must Be Known to Be Appreciated and Truly Worshiped—Misunderstandings of the Divine Plan Have Confused Us—Ignorance the Mother of Superstition—The Morning Dawns. The Shadows Flee—True Knowledge of God Will Soon Fill the Earth and Carry Blessings to All. Madison, WI.. July 6—THE INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION has been holding a convention here for eight days, closing today. It has had a large attendance of Bible Students from all parts, and amongst them many able speak- Madison, WI. July 6.—THE INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION has been holding a convention here for eight days, closing today. It has had a large attendance of Bible Students from all parts, and amongst them many able speakers. Pastor Russell was one of the speakers of today, and his vast audience was evidently much in sympathy with his utterances. He took for his text the words, "The Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort."—2 Corinthians 1:3. In his opening remarks, the Pastor stated that when in India, China and Japan last year, he was forcibly struck with the intelligence of many among these peoples. He visited their idol temples for the purpose of noticing the degree of reverence exhibited and the status of worshipers. He was favourably impressed; many seemed sincere, absolutely unmindful of any other matter than their own worship. He made inquiry as to what importance was attached to the idol. Was it regarded as the god, or merely a reminder of their god? He was assured of the latter—that the idol itself was known to be of metal, or stone, or wood, and was used merely as a reminder of their god. In much the same way that Catholies use the crucifix—not as worshiping the image or the picture, but merely having these before the mind to assist in fixing reverence and the spirit of worship. Our Greed Idola Worse. At first, said Pastor Russell, I felt disposed to chide the heathen for the horrible features which they give their images. I said to myself, Why do they not make graceful, beautiful idols instead of horrible ones? But a little reflection brought me shame and confusion. I said to myself, Look at the creeds, the idols, the images of God, set up in Christendom. We have not attempted to picture our Deity in wood or stone or mineral, but we have written out a description of His character—our Christian creeds. These creeds stand before our mental eyes with exactly the same hideous features that the tangible idol has before the natural eye of the heathens. Each different creed shows a slightly different image of God, but they are all horrible. They all picture God as a most atrocious character, more hideous by far than are any of the idols of heathendom. How could anybody carve, or cast, or model, a mute image, or idol, that would speak such horrible things as all of our creeds portray by description? Where is the artist who could picture a God deliberating upon the creation of the human family, and be before beginning HIs work planning and arranging a great place called Hell (and some say another called Purgatory), creating fire-proof devils to man these, laying up fuel for use therein through all eternity, and then starting the human race with procreative powers, with the foreknowledge that thousands of millions would spend eternity in these horror chambers! Who could picture or model an image representing a God who would, after preparing such a place, inject new life and vigor into the poor sufferers so as to prevent their ever dying—so as to ensure that they must live everlastingly under those horrible conditions! No heathen was ever capable of such an imagination; and hence none was ever able to picture such a God, either in clay, or stone, or metal, or wood, or with the pen. It remained for the most cultured and civilized peoples of the world, who had enjoyed most of God's flavors and blessings and enlightenment, to misunderstand Him most, to misrepresent Him worst, and carry those misrepresentations to the heathen. The Heathen Know It. Too. Missionaries have indeed reached a few people and brought them under a measure of Christian influence, but their number is small; so also their intelligence. Like some true Christians here, they have a reverence for God sadly encumbered with error. The more intelligent classes are agnostics Christianity, so-called, has led them to doubt their own religions, but it has not given them anything in their stead. When some of the higher caste natives learned that my preaching was different from that of the missionaries, and that it presented a God of Love, and an ultimate opportunity to all mankind to come into harmony with Him. the matter spread among them. Committees were sent to me to inquire if I could not stay longer, assuring me of audiences of the higher caste natives. They explained that as much as they appreciated the intelligence of the white man and his Christian religion they could not receive it because it pictured. God so terrible and so unjust as to be repugnant to their minds. Why, said they, our gods, and our religion, teach us to be kind, even to dumb brutes, and to cause them no Necessary palm. How, then, could we worship the God of the missionaries? They tell us that He has consigned our forefathers from the remotest generation to everlasting torture because they did not believe in Jesus, whose name is the only name by which any can be saved. We cannot believe in so unjust a God. The slightest degree of justice would have obligated Him to send our forefathers the Message in no uncertain terms. I felt it obligatory to apologize, not only for myself, but for all, Christendom. We said, We Christians have erred. We neglected our Bible, and thus brought on the Dark Ages. Since then we have been trying to get near to the light as the days go by, and some of us have made a little more progress than others. I am preaching, the God of the Bible, "the God of all grace, the Father of mercles," whose name is Love. We said, Certain parables and symbolic phrases have been misunderstood misapplied, mistranslated; and thus while we had the best of intention, the great Adversary, Satan, has kept Christendom considerably in the dark and has led us to picture in our creed a God who is fierce, unjust, unloving unwise, and who is using His Power contrary to every principle of rightousness. Now the dawn of the New Age is about upon us. The thousand years of Christ's Reign is shortly to begin. God is getting ready for it to send blessings of every kind. We said, further, We are in the Day of the Lord's preparation, and It faithful people are finding a better light shining on the Bible, and are gradually coming to a better understanding of it. Cling to the Bible! We are endeavoring to arrange so that yourselves and all people who are hungering for a God of Righteousness, Justice, Wisdom and Love may get a view of what the Bible really teaches Missionaries Oppose the Truth. I am sorry to say that although the missionaries are free to confess that the conversion of the world is an absurd proposition, they are not ready for the Bible teaching on the subject. Although they know there are twice as many heathen today as there were one century ago, they are bound, fettered by their creeds. True, they are seeking federation, co-operation; but the co-operation includes only those who are collaboring to get the heathen to cast away his graven and molten images, and to take instead a written creed image that is worse. Of course, few of the missionaries believe in these creed idols themselves; but they were sent to foreign lands to put these fetters upon the poor heathens, and they are not at liberty to do otherwise. One would think that even then they would rejoice to have somebody else proclaim the Message of a God of Love and one chance of salvation to every member of Adam's race. But they do not; they oppose our teachings at every step. We cannot read their hearts; we must therefore imagine some of them are still fettered by the ignorance and superstition of the Dark Ages and are thoroughly conscientious in their eneavor to put these fetters on others. Others, we must assume, feel their responsibility in respect to the reports they will make to the home Boards of Foreign Missions. Their reports in the past have been colored to the very limb it to show progress and to encourage contributions to the missionary funds. The very thought brings terror, that any of their followers would get more light, more knowledge of God, and thus cease to be counted in as worshipers at the shrine of the creed idol. Apparently for the past few yearsmissionary activity has been chiefly with the native children. Apparently very little religious information is being imparted. If only the missionaries had read the Bible to the people, many more in heathen lands would know about Messiah's Kingdom and appreate the import of the prayer. "The Kingdom come: Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in Heaven." Good Tidings to Every Nation. My visit to foreign lands was not a pleasure jaunt, but strictly in the interest of the true Gospel, of which the angels sang—"Good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people." I had heard reports which led me to believe that there were sincere people in heathendom who were feeling after the true God. If haply they might find Him. I believe that God wishes us to carry the Message to these. I have far greater interest in such, whether at home or abroad, than in the vast majority of people, who are utterly careless, utterly indifferent, utterly faithless, and who do not wish to find God or to know Him. Christ's Millennial Kingdom will deal with all such, and open their eyes of understanding, and through chastisements develop the peace of God in all who will. The present Age is merely for the electing of those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Findling such in heathendom I, as president of the INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, promptly took the necessary steps to sending the Gospel of God's Love and Justice and Wisdom and Power all over heathendom—by the printed page. Our Association has had sermons translated into the languages of Japan and Korea, and into the principal languages of China, and into the skr'pia cipal languages of India, and millions of these are in the hands of the people. Considerable fresh interest in Christianity has been aroused. People in those lands who had begun to doubt everything religious have begun to take courage, and to think and study their Bibles. If the missionaries could but catch the same spirit, what a blessing opportunity would be theirs! But, alas, not many of them are so inclined! Very generally they seem to be bitter, hostile, slainderous, doing everything in their power to oppose the light, even as Jesus declared that the darkness has always hated the light, because the light makes manifest, or shows up the darkness.—John 3:19-21. How to Know God. Jesus said, "This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." He knew we could not come into personal touch with the Almighty. He knew that we could learn respecting Him only through the Bible, as He said, "Sanctify them through Thy Truth. Thy Word is Truth." There is a difference between knowing about God and knowing God. The beginning of faith is to believe that there is a great Supreme Creator. It is another step to learn that He is wise and powerful, as indicated in the great Universe that He has made, and in our human organization with its wonderful powers for thought and action. Truly "There is a God- All Nature speaks!" At first it may occur to some that knowledge of God simply means to come to know that there is a God, and that He has provided a Savior, His Only Begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. But the knowledge of God means far more than this. To the advanced and developing Christian it signifies an intimate acquaintance with the Father and with the Son—a knowledge of "the mind of Christ," which is a full and clear representation of the Father's mind. We grow in this knowledge by the study of the Word of God, by discerning through that Word the principles which govern the Divine conduct—as to how Divine Wisdom, Justice, Love and Power operate. These are progressive studies. Something may be learned along this line on the very first day of our Christian experience; but the end of the first year should show considerable progress in the knowledge of the Divine mind; and so to the end of the Christian's course. It is only as we realize something of the greatness and the perfection of the Divine character that we are properly able to estimate our own littleness and imperfection. Only as we see the beauties of His gracious character can we become intimately acquainted with God, with His graces and virtues. Then we come to investigate the more subtle qualities of the Divine Being, His Justice and Love. Who can imagine a real God who is devoid of Justice, devoid of Love? So surely as it is true that no human being could be really great without the qualities of justice and love, so surely is it true that there could be no real and great God without the same qualities. Wisdom and Power without Justice and Love would picture to us a demon, and not a God. But what can we know respecting God's Justice and Love? We answer that there are two ways of ascertaining: The first way is to wait and see how His plans and arrangements will ultimately carried out. If it is true of humanity that "by their fruits ye shall know them," the same must be true of the Almighty—by His fruits. His workmanship, finally completed. He may be known to be either good or bad, just or unjust, loving or vicious. The other way of knowing the Divine character. in advance of the finished work of God, would be along the lines of faith; and faith, in order to be intelligent, must have some basis or foundation. The Bible is God's Message, to those who have the ears and eyes of faith. In it He tells us in advance what he purposes to do; and from what we thus hear we must determine whether He is just, loving and good, or whether worse than ourselves. If the creed idols which we have been worshiping truly represent God, then the consummation of His Plan will be awful in the extreme—enough to make all creation shudder. It would mean thousands of millions in everlasting torture without the slightest hope of any glory coming to God, or of any good coming to the sufferers or to any body else. The only purpose to be served by such torture would be the satisfaction of a devilish disposition to witness the torture of others. Is that creed idol which we have worshiped a real picture of the God of the Bible? We know that it is not. The God of the Bible on the contrary declares, that He has permitted the Reign of Sin and Death, which is entirely just. He tells us that from among the sinners He will first gather out a salutary handful to be associates with their Savor and to participate with Him as members of His cabinet, or Kingdom, for the administration of the world's affairs, to lift humanity up out of sin and degradation and death back to human perfection, and ultimately to destroy all of those who prefer sin when they shall be brought to a full appreciation of it. The outcome of this Divine Plan of the Bible shows us a reclaimed humanity in a world-wide Eden, blessed with a knowledge of God, and with experiences which will make them happy to all eternity. Our Lord tells us that then God's will shall be done on earth, even as now it is done in Heaven; and that there will be no more sighing, crying and dying on earth, even as there is none in Heaven; and that every creature in Heaven and on earth will everlastingly praise the Creator and the Redeemer. Halleluja, such a Savior! Halleluja, such a God! KEEPBABESCLEAN WARNING ISSUED Bulletin Tells Why Babies Cry, Get Sick and Die—Common Sense Essential—Communities Wipe Out Infant Mortality to Large Extent. Washington.—The children's bureau of the department of labor has prepared a comprehensive bulletin devoted to babies. It is the first general contribution that Miss Julia Lathrop and her assistants have made to the government's educational publications. It tells all about babies and their troubles—why they cry and get sick and die. And then it tells what a relatively simple thing it would be to reduce the great procession of little white colts if mothers would only use common sense and keep their babies clean. It points out the tremendous strides that have been made in New York and ```markdown ``` MISS JULIA LATHEROP. Philadelphia since communities have been making concerted efforts to wipe out the causes of infant mortality. Here is one of the opening paragraphs: "The efforts of city health officials have resulted in the last ten years in reducing the general death rate in cities below that of the rural districts and villages. Babies, die of diseases which to a large extent are preventable, and when welfare work is directed toward saving their lives the response is immediate and decided. In certain large cities, such as New York and Philadelphia, the result of systematic baby saving' campaigns have been shown in a reduction of between 30 and 40 per cent in the deaths of children under two years in the warl-where the work was concentrated." The bulletin complains of shortage of funds, and it commends the motto of the New York health department "Public health is purchasable; within natural limitations a community can determine its own death rate." Here are some of the principles laid down for raising babies: The baby nursed by its mother has approximately ten times the chances to live that a bottle fed baby has. Clean milk is fundamentally necessary. Cities should not tolerate the sale of "dipped" or "loose" milk. The billletin continues: "The ideal is, nothing short of clean milk for everybody. But the need for the prompt remedy of bad milk conditions is more urgent in its relations to the welfare of babies than to that of adults, since dirty milk is largely responsible for the occurrence of diarrhea and enteritis, the most frequent causes of death among infants. The remedy lies in the intelligent and effective inspection of farms, the means of transportation and the shops where milk is sold." The bulletin advocates the establishment of municipal milk stations such as are now maintained in some cities "The milk station," it says, "is simply a room sufficiently large to accommodate the patrons and equipped with a large ice box, a desk, some chair and a table. An ordinary store is suitable for a station, and sometimes a schoolroom may be used for the purpose. The station is usually under charge of a nurse, and a physician is in attendance at stated hours. "More attention should be given to the prenatal care of mothers. Mundipalities are just beginning to awaken to the importance of this sort of work and to understand that much of the waste of infant life is due to causes that were operative before the baby was born. Some cities have a special maternity nurse, who gives all her time to these cases; other cities direct the general nurses to take charge of them." To Wed Schoolmate Hero Milwaukee. Wla. - A romance of youthful days in the Milwaukee public schools was told when Clara Keller of Frederickaburg. Tex., came north to wed her old schoolmate, who as a boy ten years old pulled her from under the feet of a runaway team as they were playing near a school. The hero is Harry Murphy of Joliet, N. D DOG GUARDS DEAD MATE. Companion Run Down by Car and Had to Be Shot. Kansas City.—For twelve hours a Newfoundland dog stood guard over the body of a bird dog run over the other evening by a street car at Independence and Indiana avenues. The bird dog was so badly hurt Policeman Lasley had to kill it. When a wagon was driven up in the morning to take the dog's body the Newfoundland was still standing watch. Considerable coaxing and sharp commands had to be used before the men could go near the shot. The two dogs have been seen together frequently by persons living in the neighborhood. The Newfoundland was close by when the car ran over its mate. Immediately after the police man shot the injured animal the other dog took up the watch. When the officer attempted to go near the dog's body the Newfoundland resisted. Rather than disturb this "grieving companion" Policeman Lasley allowed the remainder to lie all night on the street corner JURY BOX BENEATH TREE. Justice, Ejected From City, Hall, Holds Court on Lawn. St. Louis—With his desk under a big oak tree and the jury box arranged under another tree near by, Justice Frank Ford of Upper Alton held court in the yard of the town lot in Upper Alton. Justice Ford was ejected from the Village hall several days ago by the city officials, who allege that he is holding office illegally and has no right to city quarters. Ford had a child abandonment case to try, and he arranged everything outside under the tree, where his desk and law books still remain, just as they were piled outside by the police who ejected him. Twice little showers caused judge jury and witnesses to run to the near by store. FIND MARKS OF AX ON PETRIFIED TREE It May Be Prehistoric Men Made and Used Tool. Great Falls, Mont.—Going to prove that men inhabited this part of the world in prehistoric times and even then used axes and showed judgment in felling trees. Solomon Abbott of Shelby, north of this city, has developed startling evidence in this section. Not far from the Sullivan ranch and near the junction of Cut Bank creek and Two Medicine creek there is a butte, probably 450 or 500 feet above the surrounding country and about seven miles of circumference. It has cut banks so steep at every point that they are impassable for cattle and horses and at but one point is a fence needed to keep the animals on top of the butte The butte is absolutely devoid of timber, but at one time on the summit there grew a fine straight pine tree two feet in diameter and not short of 80 to 100 feet high. This is proved by the fact that the tree now lies full length on the ground, cut into two foot lengths, the ax marks discernible in every cut of the wood, which is now petrified. To fell the tree uphill, as was done it had to be chopped on the side to ward which it was to fall almost entirely, and the petrified stump shows that this was done. Every one of the cuts, which blint of commercial purposes for the wood, gives indisputable evidence of the woodman's ax. Abbott is a pioneer and is believed to have been the first white man to have climbed to the top of the butt. He found the petrified tree just as it today, and the wonder is in what age was the tree cut and what sort of people did it and with what sort of anny CONVICT IS NOW A LORD. Will Succeed to Title and Large Estates on Release: Leavenworth, Kan. - A telegram has been received at the federal prison and announcing that Convict Fred Grey, by the death of an elder brother in England, would succeed to a title and a large estate. He will become Lord Frederico Grey and will leave for England to assume his honors on his release from the federal prison. Grey was received at the federal prison last fall from Texas, where he had been convicted for using the mails to defraud. He has been the black sheep of his family, having spent most of his time since 1902 in penal institutions of this country. JAIL HARVARD MAN AS SPY Franzen Mistaken For German Secret Agent In Milan. Cambridge. Masa.-Walter Franzen of St Paul, a Harvard junior who left college a few, months ago for Europe has recently been released from imprisonment in Italy, after being accused of being a notorious German spy. He was arrested in Milan in mistaken for Franz Walther, a German secret agent, whose home is in St. Paul Hesse Cassel Franzen was tried by the military authorities at the Milan fortress and spent a week in a dungeon before the American consul had him released. HEART MAY STOP BEATING. Physician Says Ten Minute Interruption Is Not Dangerous. Paris.—The following very interesting statements, some of which are conidered striking by the leading lights of French umedical science, were made by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research, New York, at his first official lecture at the Paul Beajon hospital. Dr. Carrel announced that he was now able to operate in the chest cavity with as much ease and safety as in the abdomen. "It is now a simple cut," he said, "and we open the thorax and operate upon the lungs, heart and aorta as we treat the kidneys and the interines. We now know also just how much the brain, the spinal cord and the heart can stand as regards the temporary anesthetics required by operations. "The heart suffers very little interrupted circulation as long as it is taken that it has enough oxygen and it may be stopped for five or even ten minutes without danger, while in the spinal marrow the circulation may be stopped as long as twenty minutes." "For the brain, however, four minutes is the limit of safety, and after five it is very difficult to restore normal conditions." A huge field of work remained, be said in conclusion, to be done as regards operations upon the human heart, and the study of these was of the greatest possible importance. This was especially true of surgery for aneurysms and the shrinking of the aorta or pulmonary arteries. OLD POLITICAL FEUD OFFICIALLY ENDED Tillman and Gonzales Reco ciled, Even After Bloodshed. Columbia, S. C.—When United States Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina recently consented to the confirmation by the senate of President Wilson's appointment of William E. Gonzales, editor of the Columbia (S. C.) State, as minister to Cuba a famous political and personal feud of twenty-four years' standing in South Carolina came to an official end. The Tillman and Gonzales families have been bitter enemies, and the Palmetto State has been the scene of many heated battles fought by able leaders on both sides. On one occasion the differences were augmented by bloodshed The Gonzales brothers—three of them—were exponents of views of the old aristocratic element—the ex slave owners and wealthy planters who could trace their ancestors back hundreds of years and who composed the society element and the financial backbone of the state. Senator Tillman in his vigorous and stirring campaign for governor of South Carolina in the early nineties was victorious over this opposition. He was elected United States senator and has served his state in this capacity for the past sixteen years. James Tillman, a nephew of the senator, was elected lieutenant governor. Later he was a candidate for governor. The Gonzales' sight on the Tillman had never let up—many stinging and rebuking editorials were published in their paper. James Tillman was defeated. Shortly after the election he met N. G. Gonzales, at that time editor of the paper, on the streets of Columbia and shot him dead. He subsequently was acquitted. A monument now stands in Columbia honoring the memory of N. G. Gonzales. On this it is recorded that Gonzales was "murdered" near the spot where the monument stands. Jim Tillman, as he was generally known, was later retired from politics. He became ill with tuberculosis. The climate of the west failed to cause an improvement in his condition, and he returned to his native state. In the meantime he had quarreled with his uncle, and the breach was an open one. The last days of Jim Tillman were spent in a lonely little cottage at Ashville, N. C., and he died there about a year ago. The bitter campaign of 1912 against Cole L. Blease came on in South Carolina in August, 1912. For the first time Tillman and Gonzales were on the same side, both favoring the election of the opponent of Blease. This tended to bring the two factions closer terms. The fact that Senator Tillman permitted the senate to confirm the appointment of Mr. Gonzales as minister to Cuba officially ends the struggle of twenty years, marked by continual and able fighting on both sides, and, even by bloodshed. SOCKLESS MAN IS DIVORCED Wife Says She Washed. His Face and Hands Daily. Chicago. Because her husband was too lazy to wash his face and would not wear socks unless she put them on him. Mrs. Jesse Wood of East Eighth street. Paterson, has obtained divorce. According to Mrs. Wood, her husband, James G., was the personification of laziness. She endured him for five years. She testified that Wood refused to work. He developed a great desire to sleep during the day. Then she says, he became so lazy he would not take a bath. Rather than invite criticism she washed his hands and face daily and put on his socks. He was ablebodied, but his wife says he was just naturally "tired." ame ee, El ne Be we THE BE iy : Published . at : t103 Eye St. N. W., Washington BC Ww. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered atthe Post-Office at Wash- .- ington, D. C, as second-class mail matter. * LSTABLISHED 1880, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Que copy per year in advance...$2.0c Six MOMIHS ..ssececeseeeeesecee HO Three months .-cessecesseseees oS _ Subscription mouthly ....eeecce0 2 -DOLLY VARDA (N) MAN BRAGS AGAIN. on a recent sunday issue OF the. WWasiington feraid there appeared a Delated installment of hog-wash from the over-wrought imagina- tion of J. K. Vardaman, self-ordained Supreme Dictator of the American Conscience and the Destinies of Races and Nations; also Exalted Mouthpiece, representing the refinement, Christianity, mag- nanimity and chivalry of the South before the Parliament of the world.” With just what feclings toward. this phenomenal excrescence the colored people perused the aforesaid dope—whether they were of disgust, indignation or anger, such as might be inspired upon reflecting upon the conduct of an idiot, a scoundrel or a fool—we may with some degree of certainty imagine; but there is no peg on which to hang a doubt when estimating their feelings touching the attitude of a journal which deliberately publishes sensational trash which can have no other effect than to stir up race antagonisms and hatred, to shiock and outrage common decency and td afford encour- agement and comfort to those restless and mischievous tempers, cold hearts, abject spirits, consuming prejudices and abounding ignorance which characterize the enemies of just. and orderly government. But who is this Vardaman? Briefly, notwithstanding “the gleam- ing light of his ferocious eyes and countenance,” so truly described by his interviewer, Vardaman is not so terrible as he appears, in his face; for he says that “By close economy and strict‘attention to bus- iness, I hope to enjoy the mental tranquility which doubtless creeps into the soul of the man who can say ‘anyway, I have bread and but- ter enough for the next three months to come.’” Here may be found a gauge by which to determine the “moral and spiritual illu- mination of the man! The strict attention to business for the sake of enjoying the mental tranquility consequent upon the certainty of bread and butter for the period of three months, may not strike the better class of American$ as particularly satisfying, but it is the cor- rectly stated position of the “mean whites,” more euphoniously clas- sified as “hilly-billics,” who infest Mississippi, of whom Vardaman is a legitimate and faithful exponent. His truly representative character is further emphasized tin’his display of physical bravery and magnimity when, after having received two bullets in his shirt from the weapon of a’ white compatriot; he, with “an unreliable in- strument” killed Ihis man by so arranging the perforations that “the six bullets made a circle on his breast-bone.” What is this prodigy going to do? By unscrupulous laxity and versatility in the choice of means, he is to pose as a great revolutionist and organizer, to shake the foundations of society and remodel it after his own hallucina- tions. He proposes to constitute the colored people into an undistin- guishable herd of serfs by instituting jim crow cars on all lines, horse, steam and electric, short and long, throughout the country, by eliminating all colored people henceforth and forever from pol- itics, by the segregation of “colored persons” who have clerkships or exectitive positions in the departments of the government, and-by wiping out of the constitution of the fifteenth amendments Thus, this marplat would seem to desire to make metics of the entire col- ored race, aliens to the land of our birth, to place our mothers, our wives and our sisters in the most favorable positions for the perpe- tration of wholesale libertinism and the subversion of domestic peace and happiness. And to carry his justification of the use of fraud and force in the suppression of our manhood rights to a logical con- clusion, we may easily believe that wicked man would justify a prac- tice, mentioned. by Plutarch concerning the treatment of Helots “of detailing a number of Spartan citizens for the purpose of assassinat- ing such of them as were considered formidable.” And this infer- ence is strengthened when we reflect on the .bare-faced confession of this “fire-brand” who says, after parading his authority before a mob by drawing a revolver and exclaiming “I'll shoot the first man who lays hands on that nigger,” he jocularly concludes that the “nigger was tricd and acquitted, though he ought to have-been hanged on general principles because he was a bad and worthless | fellow.” By the application of the same rule of cruelty and injustice |“‘on general principles,” many of the most intelligent, cultured and || progressive colored men and women of the South have been driven | North because they were declared by the “mean whites” as “danger- Jous niggers,” albeit, their only offense was a desire for civil and | political liberties, and their hatred of and opposition to oppression. "| It seems that the habit of Southern cruelty and injustice toward col- Jored people has now become a madnegs and that thwarted by per- | jured witnesses, packed juries and corrupt brow-beating judges, the | striving race must stem the current ofa whole breed of Neroes. | Caligulas and Domitians, in its desperate determined and praise- ‘|worthy struggle, for moral and intellectual advancement, at every }turn encountering the same mendacity, the same treachery and the |] same effrontery from the enemy. 3 ‘ | Vardaman protests that he is “the best friend the Negroes have }in the United States, opinion to the contrary notwithstanding,” and | asserts that he agrees with the immortal Lincoln with respect to the | Negro. Shades of Ananias!! Bur as an arch enemy of the regime ‘}of law and order Vardaman stands pre-eminent. On the subject of '|the right of colored citizens to the elective franchise he says “The | Negro has the right. We admit the right, and we admit that we have taken it away by devices of our own.’ Here he implicates others of his ilk, who must constitute a majority of active voters in the South, else such infamy could-not have been evoked, justified or ‘| demanded by the laws of Southern States. Yet in the face and in :] spite of all this, the race has already passed far beyond the Nadir of ‘| national taste, morality and adaptability, and are surely and steadily -| approaching the zenith. But Vardaman is not content to. confine his venom to the colored race. In a manner peculiar to all blustering cowards and braggards, he seeks to strike at the North with the | colored people as his shield and bulwark. It is to the Yankee, the |New England people-and their descendants who have eversbeen our friends amid all our trials and persecutions, and to whom every ;| manly colored man has looked for moral and substantial encourage- |] ment, when necessary, and which has been generously supplied, that Vhe attributes the cause of human slavery in this country, He says |“The Negro has troubled us ever since New England dealers sold s| Africans to Southern planters.” Now, presuming a modicum of his- ‘| torical knowledge, thé very mildest that can be said of this statement l}is that it is a willful anachronism. Let us see. Prior to the adop- -| tion of the constitution, or soon after it the entire North either abol- rlished slavery or adopted measures for its gradual abdlition, bezin- -|ning with Vermont in 1777 and ending with New Jersey in 1804. -| Outside of the original thirteen states there were but two Southern SENGER. In the Treasury Department is a messenger who goes by the name of R. W. Thompson. For the past few years, due to the support and insistance of friends, whe has enjoyed a salary of $900 per annum, while at the same time posing as a “national cor- respondent” censuring the friends) who aided kim, and sending off a lot of political rot to newspapers. ~ When the Democrats came into power they removed him from the door of the Assistant Secretary, where he stood to open and shut the door after the entrance or egress of visitors and employes, to a similar place in the Architect's Office at a lower ' salary. This’ man Thompson, who poses also as president of the National Negro Press Associa- tion, recently wrote a letter to the Detroit Informer bitterly as- sailing this newspaper. Why does he assail The Bee? Simply because this newspaper con- signed to the waste basket the stale rot he sent each week, and simply because The Bee insists that the president of the National Negro Press Association should be a representative man, a_pub- lisher in fact, The Bee believes the man who performs the work of a common government laborer or messenger is performing hon- est and honorable labor, but it has no use for the man who, while performing such labor, con- siders himself above the other men holding like positions, and who trigs to leave the impression that he is a “high” official of the government. R. W. Thompson and his matter has been repudi- ated time and time again by this newsmiper. We refuse to pub- lish his offerings of news, which are nothing but stale matter or “puffs” for which he gets pay and tries to work Negro newspa- pers to publish for nothing. Thompson came here a Demo- crat: he duickly switched, at the psychological moment, to the Re- publicans. under whom he bet- tered his condition, in the way of salary, and in addition asked and received campaign funds. When Wilson was elected, he. with all the dexterity of a chameleon, tried to again change His polities and get back into the Democratic -fold. But the Democrats, wise to the fact that the only Negra Democrat is the one who gets pay, re‘used to fall for his quick conversion. and so reduced and transferred him. ‘The Bee re- spectiully calls upon Secretary McAdoo. ot the Treasury De partment, to either silence the va porings of this quick-changins messenger against reputable race-interested Negro _newspa pers, or separate him from th service. If necessary we will fil charges against him with thi Civil Service Commission, backe up by cl.ppings ot his writings i whicti he severely condemned th party under which he is now try ing fo, serve as a Democrat- since November 5th. R. W.. Thompson, best know: as “R. Wordy Thompson,” bet “ter pull himself in a dark hole c The Bee will carry the fight up t the Secretary and lay bare hi - past. The Bee gives him thi final. warning. And The Be calls unon the Secretary of th Treasury to keep this fellow i his rightful and appropriat place. The Notional Religions Training School at Durham, N. C. under the su- pervision af Dr. James E. Shepard, is progrescine nicely. important local and state offices, considering his elective force at the time, he was a negligible quantity. There were of course, colored officials; but where positions of responsibility. were held by colored men, such officers displayed as much wisdom, magnimity, executive and ‘administrative ability and honesty as now being shown by the average “‘mean white” official. The fact is that the colored ‘citizen begged his former master to accept the issues of war in good faith and take the helm of State; but he refused to do so. The master class has long since ‘regretted their course and still regret it; for they are now. overwhelmed and submerged by.a horde of low-breeds, whose ignorance, license and madness are a disgrace to American civilization, as humiliating to the Southern gentleman as subversive of the rights, liberty and’ happiness of colored people. If govern- ment at the South was unsuccessful, during the seventies, the fault was primarily due to the insociance of the aristocracy and in the main to the white man. As to Vardaman’s talk about liberty, the fruits of toil and protection from the mob for the colored people, it makes us wonder if he has not some mixture in him, for he talks like some colored folks who are just white enough to enable them to “pass,” and in doing so damn colored people generally, yet retaining sufficiently of the “blameless strain” to cause them to occasionally “forget themselves and temporarily manifest truly human traits. Let us pray long and fervently that men like Bryan and others |who represent the very best that can be found in the Democratic ‘party may influence the administration to restrain the rabid ungodii- ‘ness of stich as Vardaman and encourage and vigorously apply senti- ‘ments which constitute the test of practical Christianity and are ‘epitomized in the dictrine of the “Brotherhood of man and the Fath- erhood of God.” Dublic Men Ard Things a ee Oe ee poe I ‘see my old Esculapius friend, Bruce Evans, has gone and done write a card to The Star demanding to know what charges the School Board has got corned up against him, Eruce hits right out from the shoul- der, and sort of intimates tht he's ready for to hear them there secret charges, and that he may cough up a little himself. I hear a bunch of blackbirds discussing it' Sunday morn_ ing on the way ‘home from Brother Grimke’s edifice of sanctimony. The bunch of wholesale gossipers was about evenly. divided for and against the white-haired principal what was put on the toboggan slide a few months ago, I listened pretty close- ly, and discovered that the old fel- low is getting a little sympathy now, and sentiment which was all demo- cratically against him some time ago 3 veneering around to him. One gen- Ueman and a couple of ‘ladies what nave always sort of sided with the Columbian Road chauffeur, just gave ‘him kiniption fits, and said they had vegun to think ‘there had been a “trame-up” on old White Top. I ain't no Father Confessor, so Bruce ain't never told me his tale of woe, and Rosece ain't never took me into hus confidence to tell me his side of the journey. They may have’ the goods on old White Top and he may ave sme canned goods on them for all I know. I only know that if this achool rumpus is started on another annual run in the Theatre de Nig this year there will be some interesting ‘evelopments and other heads will drop into the tureen, and Roscoe's may be one of them for, all 1 knows. 've been getting some mighty inter- ‘sting inside dope of late, coming hrough brunette avenues and over lackville telegraph wires, and from shat I learn 2 storm is brewing. My adv.ce is to Roscoe that he work that touring car over time this summer and keep every seat occupied. Now, sccording tq this dope I heard Sun- | ‘ay morning. the Columbian Road chauffeur won't have the fighting yang behind bim he has always had One’ tady in the bunch said Ros, had toyed with their loyalty, just didn't act square with ‘em, and they had all gone fishing and left him to man- aye and fight his own campaign, and they sorter of suspected that without the aid of old, seasoned campaigners he'd have a rough time of it. Horner ain't never going to let up on. the fejuvinated Assistant Superintendent; Mrs, Harris is right where she has always been, and figety Dan Murray is rummaging the Congressional Library fer facts against Rosco, And now Old White Top is threatening to open up a new keg of nails, and plug a iresh watermellon. Poor Rosco, and [ really feel for him, will be up against a strong combination with no gattling suns or seige guns mounted on his fortress to keep off the invaders. eat Some one arcund to the Y. M. C. A. Sunday said that Rosco had made 3 lank movement _on his enemies b3 employing Jay Clifford as his secre tary, Yeu know this Clifford boy was for a long time secretary to old Whit Top when he ran the destinies o \rmstrong School of Aeroplanes Now it’s figured that this former sec retary to old White Top knows a fey things an him, and he will feel obli zated to hand it up to his new bos ho will just file it away in his ar -chives and spring it on B. Evans i he gets too gay this fall and winter. | Joverheard one Smithsonian relic say early last week that “that’s thi -mr othest play that smooth Rosco ha ever, played. “He's just cornered thi evidence and can now lay back an snap his fingers at the Vermont Ave nue unpracticed follower of Escula pits” Another fellow. one of thos moss agate escapes from*confinemen who occupied the other side of th table, replied: “Well, I don’t think T never was much on this trying t ork confidential men for stuff o: heif former employers. This her -| tuthall, who gave out a lot of dop on the Manufacturers’ Associatior ‘28 a squealer, and no decent sort o f Iks stands for coughing up what yor ct in confidence while in anothe man's employ The trouble with Ros -o Bruce is he thinks he’s playin; smoother game | than Billie Hopk hen in fact he's playing a bumme game than Doc Gaskin plays whe he is tired out. I don't know whethe young Clifford has anything on ol White Top or no, and don't knox whether he would hand it over to th late Mississippi Senator's derelict o no, but T can build you a leanin tower of Piso if I would cough up 0 the fellow what gave me my start i lifé ‘even to please the boss of th factory. The Columbian Road Chau! feur can do more bungling pertorm | Elizabeth.” | I just listened to the confab and jremarked to myself: “Gee, ain’t this interesting?” . aye Course, I figure that Rosca has just figured he has lost some of his steer- ing committee; that others of them have solved his curved ball, and oth- ers just got tired of being used by a fellow what's liable to take uo with the houhd just, as soon as he stops barking, so he's going to build up his trenches, plant his cannons, and erect his wireless outht all by his lonesome before the cruel war opens up in the fall. Now I have it straight as the crow flies that they are going to open up on that Columbian Road diplomat next fall, and even Doc. Marshall, who ain't never been overly Bruce-inclined, may vote a few times with Mrs. Harris, and Doc Childs, who is always for Creed first, and his family second, and the other prison- crs last, can't be counted on to singe his fingers pulling “other people's chestnuts out of the fire. Nap Mar- shall, who some times gets danger- ously near the philosopher's line, told a bunch of agates last winter that the ‘crowd what was standing behind Ros- jco like,a stone wall would break and waver just as soon as they discov- ered that he wouldn't stand hitched to friends. I don't know a thing about that prediction, and ain't got no dictagraph to confirm that Little Lord Fauntelroy has gone back on friends, but from what I heard Jim Cob whisper out at Howard’ on Commencement Day, I kinder felt that the Booker T. crowd has craw- fished on the Assistant Superinten- dent: Be that as it may, I hope for the | interest | of, the schools there won't be nothing’ started, and that old White Top’s veiled threat con- tained in his Star article was just a feeler. at All my friends” are preparing to move off to summer resorts and leave me in this sweltering town alone. The anthracite denizens of this berg will go away in the sum- mer. They hit the “loan sharks,” they hit their friends, and some of them borrow on their jewelry and household furniture just to say "I'm going to spend the summer at the seaside,” or up in the ‘mountains. This.going away and paying ten dol- lars a week for a little stuffy room decorated with chinck bugs and a chorus of mosquitoes just to be in society, may come under the head of pleastire, but not, for me. Last sum- mer one anthracite touched me for the price of a get-away ticket and I ain't never been paid back yet. If I had a four-leaf clover who insisted she had to spend the summer-at the seaside showing her calves, or up in the mountains- among mint _ beds while I drove somebody’s delivery wagon all summer, I'll bet you 2 fiappe sour against ‘a moth bali she’ haye to look for another home when she returned in the early fall. And if 1 had a daughter what felt there was no existing unless she blew over to Asbury Park, Cape May or Atlan. tic City just to’ wear an abbreviated bathing suit all day and making goo: goo eyes at a lot of soft-shell crabs Who work in ,the summer hotels, she sure would get her chair-warmer fanned when she returned to he: papa’s vine and fig tree. I think i is one more awful mistake to le! young women—single women—go off to these fast summer resorts tha ain't no more than “rooming” houses and I know a lot of divorce case: that have had their beginning ove in these summer resorts where wives get mixed up with a lot of rapid firing soldiers of fortune and filibus tering scouts. Better buy you a fev | street car tickets and take a ride ou to the Zoo every evening and sav | your repiitations. : BELATED NEWS. Our Harper’s Ferry notes for last week camé too late for publi- cation. They appear this week. The editor will visit Harper's Ferry tomorrow mofning and see who is who. Mr. W. H. Martin has extended us an invitation to ‘be his guest, which has been ac- cepted. a ———— “MERRIFIELD, VA.. NEWS. Rev. B. J. Askew conducted an af- ternoon sérvice at the First Baptist Church at this point Sunday. ‘We were pleased to meet our friend and brother, Mr, J. L. Terry, at, his home Sunday with his hand, which was hurt some time sirice, much im- proved, Mr. and Mrs, Terry are very hospitable and friendly. . ‘On account of church meeting, be- ing held instead on Tyesday night, and other business matters command- ing. his immediate attention, Pastor ‘Askew has postponed his anniversary ‘Mr. Hal. Philips is quite an earnest worker in church, lodge and business. He is an ardent supporter of The ec. Mr. Robert Bradley was at home Sunday. He reads The Bee and as- sures us of his interest in the same. We are glad to note the success of Mr. CV. Hyson. He, too, is an earnest worker. -Quite a number expect to attend the Lv and D. of Liberty meeting Suriday at Mr. Pleasant. VIENNA. VA. NEWwe tee CL BRE at the Union Baptist Church a concert given under the auspices of Y. P. W. W. Society was most successfully performed and a neat little sum realized. Though there was threatening weather, thos causing late gathering, the program was well rendered, and anyone com ing in at any time during the exercises would have been very pleasingly ene tertained. The music was all’ well sung, and the entertainment in the comic part, with Mr. Charles Brooks as “Miss “Belle” and “Aunt Annie,” and Mr. Daniel Burless, comedian, 25 “Uncle Joe,” was well received’ by the audience. They played their parte well. The chorus and quartette sing: ing, ‘with Mrs. Grace Borgus, Mrs. Harper, Miss Nannie Miner, Miss Ora Williams, sopranos: Mrs. A. W. Mic ner and Mrs. Lulu Berless, altos; Prof. H. L. Millis and Mr. Chas. Brooks, tenors; Messrs. A. W. Miner, Andrew Miner and Daniel Rerless, basses, was very good. Refreshments were served, and thus a delightful evening passed off. On Sunday Pastor Matthews was with his flock at First. Baptist. Church for the day. It was Communion Day and services were held at 11 o'clock a. m. and at night, besides a glorious meeting of the Sunday School in the afternoon. Pastor Matthews was with the Sunday School and filled the lessén period with spiritual inspirae tion as he gave out question and comment on “The Child Moses Saved From Death.” Plans were laid for a grand Sunday School rally on the fourth Sunday in this month. All look forward to that day with inter- est. Quite a number of young peo ple from the city and the vicinity round about were in attendance ‘This is really a fine and progressive Sun day School and bids fair to enter fields of higher and grander religious endeavor, At Union Baptist Church the ¥. P.W.W Society held its usinl meet- ing of interest. The church will be- gin its open-air gospel meetings on the third Sunday in this month. con- tinuing until the third Sunday in Au- gust, having as its object the ingath- ering of souls to the Master's fold and ‘raising funds to complete. its beautiful edifice. On Sunday morning at 10 o'clock this church will organize its Sunday Schoot department. All are invited to come and partake,. for this is a pleasant place to be. it is on Pleas- ant Street. ; There was quite a surprise party given to Mrs. D. W. Burless and Mrs. E, C. Minor on Friday, July 4. ‘The following happy friends from. Wash- ington, as well as those from Vienna, were among the number: Madame Tane Noble, Mr. and Mrs Thomas, Miss Marie’ West, Miss Adell Noble, Prof, Clinton, Mr. and Mrs |W. H. Lewis, Mrs, Delapau, and Mr. Wil- liam Harrod. . Mr Josenh Jackson and Miss T. Douglass. of Washington, De C., were cuests of Mr_and Mrs. Edward Jack- son on the sth of July. Miss Florence West, of East Woodford, and Rev. Joe Matthews, of Washington, D.C, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Teshena, PAIRFAX NOTES. Miss Emma Horton and sister, Mrs. Bessie Payne were the guests of her fies Mrs, James Hunter Friday jast. A very large crowd from Fairfax attended the picnic of the Wise Monks Club Friday, July 4, at Five Oaks, and had a most enjoyable time. * In spite of the extreme dry weather Mr. James Hunter has been able to enjoy some few vegetables irom his garden such as beans, onions, cab- bage and beets. ts Rey. De Vaughn, of Washington, D.C, preached 2 ‘soul-stirring ‘sere mon at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church last Sunday night. i Mrs. Adaline Davis, cf South Caro~ Jina, was the guest of Mr. and Srs. James Hunter on Sunday evening last. Her many friends were very ghd to see her back and looking so well. Mr, Harry Jackson was the guest of Miss Bertie Horton Sunday even- ing last: also Mr. Foster Grooms, who rendered some fine selections on the piano and all spent an enjoyable evening Miss Blanche L. Comic, a graduate of the Manassas Industrial School, who has a lucrative position ar Long Island, N. Y., is visiting her parents for a week or ten days. Mrs Wm: Davis, of | Northfork, Va., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs S. T Gibson. Mrs. Thomas Reeds and son, of Washington, D. C, were the week- end guests of her parents, Mr and Mrs. John S. Andrews The Sunday School is in Prosper- ous condition. Last Sunday being the first lesson of the third quarter, each class did well on the lesson assigned them. We should make special men- Vion of Master Jos. S. Payne, af the Junior Class, who correctly ons:vered every question that Rev. DeVauzha asked concerning “The Child Moses.” Mr. and Mrs. Hezekiah Dorsey, Sr., celebrated their forty-fifth anniver- sary at the residence of their son, Mr. H. Dorsey, Jr, at Cottage Park, Hall’s Hill, Va.’ The house was beau- tifully decorated. The guests were received by Mrs. Dorsey, Jr. assisted by hez sister, Mrs. Jones. Among the her sister, Mrs. Jones. Among. the honored dmests was Mr and Mrs. Sanford, of Waskington, D.C After the rendition of a musical program the guests were escorted to the din- ing room, where they were Served a bountiful repast. They were the re- cipients of many handsome presents, May they live long to enjoy many more blessings. The Week in Society From one of the most beautiful sanitary and down-to-the-minute soda fountains in Washington, the W. L. Board Pharmacy, successor to Board & McGuier, at 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest, is dispensing to large crowds delicious soda drinks and ice cream dainties. They could not improve their sodas, so they improved their fountain. The highest quality in everything is the motto of this store. Quality and good service you will always find at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest. Mr. Charles Wesley, a recent graduate of Yale University, will teach at Howard University the coming school term. Lawrence L. Johnson, of Indianapolis, Ind., is playing at the Howard Theater this week. Mrs. Emily V. White, of this city, spent Sunday with her brother in Charleston S. C. Mr. George Jones, of this city, is visiting relatives in Knoxville, Tenn. Miss Grace Walker, of Denver, Col., a graduate of Howard University, will marry Mr. C. Creighton Thompson September 15, 1913. Mme. Rosalie Tyler and Mr. Ginwood, the Hawaiian duos, of Chicago, Ill., will spend a few weeks in this city. Mrs. Martha A. Hughes, of Richmond, Va., while visiting Mrs. M. L. Smallwood, of 3303 Sherman Avenue Northwest, was taken seriously sick and has been under the care of Dr. Tyler for five weeks. Mrs. Alta B. Hayes is on the sick list. Mrs. Kate Brown, of West Hoffman Street, was in Washington this week looking after some business matters. Mr. Charles Stokes, of this city, attended a reception given in honor of Mrs. Robert Tinner, of Philadelphia, who was leaving for Portsmouth, Va., to visit friends and for the benefit of her health. Mr. Rufus P. Mitchell, of Detroit, Mich., will call on his brother the middle of July. Mrs. N. Skinner, of this city, attended a dinner party given by Mr. George Brown, of Detroit, Mich. Miss Lulu Taylor, of this city, leaves for Heathsville, Va., July 15. Mrs. Percy D. Spence and nephew, Master E. Roger Woodyard, of 2354 Sixth Street left the city Thursday for Somerset Beach, Va., where they will remain until the first week in August. Miss Willie May Smith, of 1736 New York Avenue, left the city Monday to attend Cheny Summer School, where she will prepare to take up her work next fall as the model teacher Normal School at Barrier, Md. Miss G. B. Maxfield, accompanied by her mother, Misses Williams and Speaks, were in Ocean City, N. J., Atlantic City, N. J., last week. They visited Philadelphia and took a few side trips to Washington Park, a sail on the Delaware and many other interesting points. Prof. J. Baltimore and wife are at Woodstock, Va., where they will remain until September 15th. They are having an enjoyable time. Mrs. M. C. Maxfield and daughter will return to Atlantic City about August 26th. Attorney R. R. Horner and wife will leave the city for the North next week. Dr J. H. Coleman spent last week in Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. J. C. Dancy, Jr., was in Atlantic City last week. Mrs. A. P. Albert, of 1951 Third St. Northwest, has returned from Philadelphia, where she attended the funeral of her brother-in-law, the late Andrew J. Jones, of 2129 Fitzwater Street, on July 3. Mrs. Carrie Massie, of Xenia, Ohio, is here looking after the interest of her son, a student of Howard University, who is now confined to his bed in Freedman's Hospital. Miss Carrie B. Burton, assistant secretary of Howard University, and her mother Mrs. Price, went to Port Deposit, Md. Saturday, Mrs. Price will remain until the first of August. Ralph W Tyler stopped off in this city with his family Sunday'en route to the West from New York. He left Monday, stopping at Pittsburg Tuesday, where a banquet was given in his honor. Mr Jesse Foster, Mr. Wm. E. Bowie and Dr. J. H. Coleman were in Atlantic City, N. J., last week. Mr. Foster returned to the city Monday, after having spent an enjoyable time. Mrs Mary E. Jones, wife of Attorney T. L. Jones, will leave for the East in a few days. Mrs. Louise Alston Burleigh, who though studying abroad is scoring a success to crowded houses, almost nightly as Princess Red Feather. Beside the great native ability of Miss Alston she has improved wonderfully with study, so that now she is prepared to offer the best that is in her, which places her among the stars of the American and European stage. She has many engagements for next year in America, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. Her book on Dialect Poems is now in the bands of the publisher. It will appear next winter under the title of Echoes from the Southland. Major Charles R. Douglass, wife and family, have gone to their beautiful cottage on the Bay. This is one of the most popular resorts in Ann Arundel. The prize given by the Humane Society for the best composition written by any seventh or eighth grade pupil in the schools on Kindness to Animals, was awarded to Ruth Watson Vaden, of Brentwood, Md., who is a pupil of the eighth grade class of the Alfred Jones School. Miss Eugenia Hart is at home again after a most successful year's work in domestic art and science at her school in Annapolis, Md. Mrs. Hart and Miss Carrie attended the closing exercises of her school. Miss Hart received a promotion on the excellence of the work done by her. Miss Minnie Price is assisting Dr. Washington on the Cardoza play grounds in the Southwest, much to the gratification of her many friends. Her work ranks among that of the best teachers of playground work. Misses Nettie Murray and Edith Meriweather, of this city, were the guests of Mrs. Edwin B. Henderson Tuesday at her home in Falls Church, Va. Miss Anita J. Turner, of this city, is visiting friends in Hollidayburg, Pa. Miss Emma L. Lucas, of 1909 Thirteenth Street Northwest, left the city recently to be the guest of her aunt in Providence, R. I. Misses Mary O. Chaney and Edna A. Lucas, of this city, left for Chaney, Pa., where they will take a summer course at the Chaney Institute. Miss Zenobia Chew, of this city, left recently for Asbury Park, N. J. Mr. Clarence Wormley and children will spend the summer in Cape May. Master Theodore Rivers, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is spending the summer with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Judson Malvin. Mrs. Jennie Brown Fawler is spending the summer with friends in Kentucky. The funeral of Miss Doris McAdoo, who died in Asheville, N. C., took place in this city from the residence of her mother. Mrs. Jane Freeman Booth is spending a few weeks in the country. Mrs. Mattie Coates and little son, Maurice, are spending their vacation in the mountains of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Lewis spent a few days in Baltimore last week. a few days in Baltimore last week. The friends of Mr. Armand D. Taylor were shocked to learn of his sudden death in Johnston, Pa., on July 5, 1913. His funeral took place from the Campbell undertaking parlors on July 9, 1913. Rev. Clair, of Asbury M. E. Church, officiated. He was the son of Mrs. Mary Taylor, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa., and the brother of Mr. Thornton D. Taylor, and Mrs. Laura Tyler, of Cincinnati, Ohio. The floral tributes were beautiful and numerous. Miss Bessie Barnwell, of this city, was married to Dr. M. Braithwaite, of Kansas City, Mo. Miss Addie Stokes, of Richmond, Va., was married to Dr. Nailer, of this city, last week. Miss Phoebe Forrest and Mr. Joseph Radly were married in Rockville, Md., last month. Dr. Gailes died at his home last week. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church has sent Rev. W. H. Jernagin, D. D., the much esteemed pastor, off on a month's vacation in the West. Some of the places he will visit are St. Louis, Mo., where he will preach; Kansas City, Topeka, Kan., Guthrie, Okla., Oklahoma City, his former home, where he will spend two weeks with his old associates, and thence to Denver, Col. Mrs. Florence C. Williams, née Chapman, of Raleigh, N. C., is spending her summer with her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bundy. Mrs. Williams looks just as well today as she did when she was Miss Chapman. Mr. A. E. Patterson, of Muskogee, Okla., arrived in the city this week. He is one of the leading lawyers in the West. Reports are that he is to be appointed to a presidential office he paid. The Rev. office a visit. It is cool at Robinson Cottage, Port Conway, Va. For information address Mrs. Fannie Robinson, Dogue Post Office, King County, Va. WEST. WASHINGTON. --- The executive committee of C. E. Society of the First Baptist Church, corner Twenty-seventh Street and Dumbarton Avenue, held a special meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gee, 130 Twenty-second Street Northwest, Monday night, June 30. The president, Mr. Geo A. Parker, presided. The routine business was dispensed with after which the general working basis of the society was discussed. The remarks of the various members was very inspiring. The chairmen of the different committees present were Miss Mary S. Walker, Prayer Meeting; Miss Mary Brewer, Whatsoever; Miss Sadie John- son, Good Literature; Miss Hattie Williams, Lookout; Mrs. Emma Starke, Relief; Mrs. Carrie Bell, Flower; Mrs. Aramita Harod, Financial; Mr. Edward Chevis, Social; Prof. Chas. Lane, Musical; Mr. H. B. Gee, Information. Mr. Geo. A. Parker, president; Mrs. Lillian F. Mitchell, vice-president; Miss M. A. Minor, secretary; Mrs. Fannie Bailey, treasurer. The president expressed his high appreciation of the loyal support given him by the executive committee during the past administration. There being no further business the meeting adjourned. The committee partook of a nice collation, which at that time was very refreshing. Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor of the First Baptist Church, has arranged for special talks for Sunday evenings during the month of July, to be illustrated by powerful stereopicon views and special music. All are invited. Rev. W. C. Thompson, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, preached very interesting sermons Sunday morning and evening to large congregations, at which time the recent rally was increased to $1,500. The Senior Choir is now being supplemented by the Junior Choir under the leadership of Mr. Leroy Gaskins while they are enjoying the usual annual leave of the months of July and August. The members of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O Street Northwest, are now engaged in a grand rally and nightly meetings are being held and addressed by prominent speakers, with interesting program. Rev. W. Naylor, pastor. Eulogized Their Dead. Young Men's Protective League held memorial exercises Tuesday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall in honor of ten members of their association who died during the past year, as follows: Albert Butler, C. W. Stewart, Wm. Payne, Floyd Brown, Earnest Wright, Wm. H. Arnold, Henry Johnson, Geo. W. Evans, Wm. H. Scott and Geo. Gibson. Addresses were made by Jas. L. Turner, A. F. Lewis, Daniel Freeman, Geo. L. Walton, W. Stephen Fuller and Henry Davis, who were personal acquaintances of the deceased members. The exercises were closed by singing "Nearer, My God to Thee." Thompson-Day. A very pretty marriage was solemnized on Wednesday evening, June 23, at the parsonage of Ebbenzer M. E. Church Fourth and D Streets Northeast. The contracting parties were Miss F. A. L. Day and Mr. Harry Thompson. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. H. Dean and was witnessed by a few relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are residing at 1409 D Street Northeast. Personal. Mrs. Bradford, of Alexander, Va., was in Washington on Sunday visiting friends and attended divine service at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. Mr. Julius Crusor, recently of this place, but now of New York, was the guest of his brother, Mr. James Crusor, of East Deanwood, and was tendered a reception. Among those present were Mr. Chas. H. Turner, Frank Crusor, Mr. W. Crusor, Mrs. Mary L. Green and Mrs. James Crusor. Mrs. R. Milton, of 1919 Sixth Street Northwest, and her two little daughters have left for a month's sojourn to Norfolk, Va., and Portsmouth, Va. There was on Tuesday, July 1st, a lawn party given on the lawn of the M. E. Church by Class No. 3, of which Mr. Charles Tinner is leader. Quite a large gathering was present. Proceeds for the benefit of the above named church. On account of the illness of her brother, Mrs. Rosa Stribling left very suddenly Monday for Staunton, Va. It is hoped by her many friends that she may find her brother much improved and that she may have a pleasant visit. We are glad to see Mrs. Robert Ford out again after an illness of a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Allen entertained quite a number of little men and little misses with fireworks on July 4th. Rev. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Willie-Richards, Mrs. Emma Scott and Mr. John Rumbles were present to enjoy the fun with the little folks. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Tinner's family game a reunion picnic on the lawn July 4th, which was a day of pleasure. The table was spread about 6 o'clock p. m. for supper. A number of friends spent the evening of pleasure with them. Mother and father were indeed happy to have their children and grandchildren around. Mr. Cyrus Stribbling, Mr. Chas. Summerall, Mr. and Mrs. Rumbles, Mrs. B. Chew, Mr. Oscar Coleman, of Pittsfield, Mass.; Messrs. Bennie Brent, Charles Coats, Albert Honesty, S. Fish and A. G. Murry were the guests of the evening, after which the party was entertained by the shooting of fireworks. There was quite an interesting ball game Friday, July 4, between the Falls Church team and Chesterbrook, the score being 10 to 8 in favor of Falls Church. Quite a large crowd was present to witness the game. Mrs. Lizzie Peyton spent Sunday with friends in Washington. Mrs. Lena Dixon spent Saturday and Sunday in Baltimore visiting friends. She returned in time for the evening service at Second Baptist Church. Sunday at Second Baptist Church witnessed a good Sunday School service in the morning. At 12 o'clock Pastor Powell, accompanied by a nice crowd of members and friends, including members of the choir, went down to Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. The weather was fine and thus there was a pleasant day for the occasion. At night for the 8 o'clock service the literary meeting of young people, under the leadership of Mrs. Lena Dixon, president, and Mrs. Fannie Thomas, of the Program Committee, carried out a most excellent program. These meetings are well attended and are growing more and more interesting. At Galloway M. E. Chapel Sunday morning the Sabbath School was, as usual, largely attended and very interesting. Little Master Caryl Tyler was present from Washington, D. C., and took his old accustomed place in Class No. 3. We were very glad indeed to welcome as a visitor Prof. Henderson, who gave a very instructive talk on the lesson. Mr. James A. Turner conducted, the 11 o'clock service in the absence of the pastor. Rev. Colbert was back at night and preached to a fair-sized congregation a very instructive and interesting sermon. HALL'S HILL, VA. Wednesday, July 2. There was a sermon preached to Manassas Tribe by Rev. T. P. Thomas, of Washington, D. C., in which we were all made to see and feel our duty first to God, then to ourselves as a race, thereby combining religion and business. The discourse was very, inspiring. There was a very large number in attendance and all were highly pleased. July, 4 was a grand day here. A great many friends were entertained on private lawns and at 2:30 a very lively game of baseball was played between the Alexandrians and the winning team of this place. In the evening a grand entertainment was enjoyed in Harrison's Park. Music by Willis' Band from the city, concluding with a prize voting contest. The contestants were Mrs. Ella Harrod, of Washington, and Mrs. Cora Deskins, Mrs. Deskins, being the successful one, and although there was a general thoroughfare all day and until late at night with plenty of fireworks displayed. There was no need for an officer's race, and pleasure filled the program. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dorsey, Jr., entertained several ladies and gentlemen with a grand chicken dinner. Later on all joined in the picnic at the park in company with Mrs. Effie Jones, who is spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. Alma Dorsey, at Cottage Park, who also entertained Miss Jackson and friend. Miss Emma Carpenter, who has been for the past year in Baltimore preparing for trained nurse, is at nome on vacation. We are all glad to have her with us and wish her much success, and we say to others, "Go thou and do likewise." We were honored with the presence of Mrs. M. Jackson and Mrs. L. Gonzolis in our church service last evening from Washington—old ladies of culture, formerly of Fairfax County. Sunday morning there was a fairly good attendance at Sunday School. The lesson was one that would gain the interest of the most stupid. All seemed to be greatly interested in its teaching. We were disappointed again, as we all hoped to have Rev. E. E. Ricks to preach to Judah's Tribe. Rev. C. E. Queen, captain, filled the place with usual propriety and it was done very acceptably. A large attendance and collection was accorded. This section has indeed taken on new life and things are moving on in peace and harmony. Although we are surrounded by a heavy mist, we know there is light ahead, for surely He that rules the universe has all things in His hands. Let us do our part in the battle of life—watch, work and pray. Some day we'll understand. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. The Sunday schools of the Baptist Church of Deanwood, the Deanwood M. E. Church, the First Presbyterian Church of Fairmount Heights, and the First Baptist Church of North Fairmount Heights, gave a union picnic in the Pine Grove here Friday, July 4, 1993. Hundreds of young hearts were made glad by the refreshments and outing given. All night of the same day the above named churches co-operated in a picnic which netted quite a handsome amount to each. Mr. C. H. Fonville, the chairman of arrangements, and his committee were successful in the undertaking. The Contee A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday school gave their annual outing on the spacious grounds of Miss Alice R. Silence. They too enjoyed quite a pleasant day. Mr. Joseph J. Woodward, of Huntsville, Md., one of the trustees of the public school here, gave an old fashion country picnic on the park of St. Ambrose, July 4, 1913. He furnished sports of almost every kind, and the large numbers gathered were happy. Mrs. L. C. Moore, of 810 F Street Northwest, is spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Mordecai Harris, at Huntsville, Md. There was a men's meeting at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday, July 6, at 3 P. M. The exercises consisted of songs, addresses and recitations. Addresses were made by Messrs. Peter R. Lee, P. C. Reed, W. m. B. Bruce, K. L. Burton and Ernest C. Dickerson, Mr. David W. Utz, Mr. Arthur E. Briscoe, Mr. R. S. Nichols, and Mr. Wm. Tabbs rendered special selections. Mr. Henry E. Dunn was master of ceremonies. While it was a men's meeting it was gotten up by Mrs. N. H. Simms, one of the progressive church workers here. Rev. W. W. McCary, the pastor of the church, addressed the meeting and delivered the benediction. Several citizens, including Messrs. M. Charity, R. A. Tilghman, A. E. Briscoe, W. B. Makel, and all the men owning teams here, are engaged in building a cement abutment bridge on Fairmount Avenue. This will be one of the most permanent improvements made on the streets and roads. Rev. Allen H. Strother went to Arlington, a., s. Sunday, July 6. Mrs. Elizabeth Morton purchased RIGHT ON THE BEACH The Bay Shore Hotel. Open from, May to October. The best summer hotel with the most delightful surroundings. Situated on Chesapeake Bay, right on the beach, three miles from Fortress Monroe, Virginia. A charming location, a fine and safe bathing beach and good fishing. Thirty-two bedrooms, spacious parlors, broad piazzas and a large pavilion. Our patrons will be delighted with "Dear old Bay Shore" enlarged and beautified. Address: The Bay Shore Hotel Company, P. O. Box 364, Hampton, Virginia, J. Henry Robinson, Manager. Good trolley car service between the hotel and Hampton. Forress Monroe and Newport News. Excursions! Picnics! To Escape Heat of City Go to ADAMS' ELECTRIC PARK. West Annapolis, Md., 90 minutes' ride from Washington, Baltimore, and Annapolis Electric Railroad, full Park of 10 acres is magnificently located on high Annapolis. Surrounded on three sides by salt water, for stant cool breezes, large pavilion, flying horses, swings, crabbing, fishing, &c. All Societies, Organizations, Clubs, and Select Exec should secure at once dates for a day's outing at this shady Park, near historic Annapolis. "Lawn tennis court" Boarding by day or week," and also new Dining forty persons. Electric lights over the entire grounds. For terms and further particulars see J. H. Coleman Twelfth Street Northwest, 5 to 7 P. M., or W. C. Martin D Street Northwest, from 9 A. M., to 4 P. M. The SOUTH ARLINGTON CEMETERY C Has employed one of the leading surveyors and enlist and lay out avenues, lanes and circles on its beautiful in Alexandria Co., Va., for an up-to-date Cemeterial people. The plots for graves are three feet wide long, allowing ample room for the largest grave. On overlooking Potomac River and the Capital City, the beautiful and ideal place for a cemetery within me Washington, D. C. It will be enclosed by an iron fence will be a mortuary Chapel, where funeral services of the body put in the vault when desired. A superior adjoining the Cemetery, who will have charge, protect the place and care for the graves of those Each plot has a walk. The leading colored citizens of Washington have need of a desirable place to bury their loved ones, which not be liable to be disturbed by the onward march by the opening of streets and the building of houses seen one graveyard after another dug up and the departed, when there were no friends to take charge thrown on the dump. This horrible thing is not laid South Arlington Cemetery, as it is out of the juris District and the Arlington National Cemetery would be to be removed, but the United States will never be removed or disturbed. South Arlington is sure to beautiful and desirable cemetery and without doubt it will enhance in value. For a time each plot will be $12.00 on installments at rate of five cents a week. After one dollar is paid on each grave, a contract was started on the installment or weekly plan, and after desired to pay up in full on one or more plots, which is not in arrears, 15 per cent: will be taken off on balterments not allowed until the plot is paid for in full family can have as many plots for graves as desired illy should have a lot. There is no expense to a lot, taxes on graves, so when you pay for a lot it is better, for you have to pay on insurance all your life, weeks in arrears, it is lapsed and you lose all. Take Falls Church Electric Line, red car, at Tewkesbury Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, and get out at Sign boards will direct you to South Arlington C twelve minutes walk. Fare, one street car ticket each way. For all information, apply to ride from Washington on the Electric Railroad. This beautifully located on high ground near sites by salt water, fine shade, con- ing horses, swings and boats for os, and Select Excursion Parties day's outing at this cool, breezy, "Lawn tennis courts." also new Dining Room, seating the entire grounds. see J. H. Coleman, agent, 1522 M., or W. C. Martin, Room 5, 503 to 4 P. M. CEMETERY Corporation We surveyors and engineers to plat les on its beautiful tract of land up-to-date Cemetery for Colored, three feet wide and eight feet largest grave. On high ground, the Capital City, this is the most cemetery within many miles of bound by an iron fence, and there funeral services can be held, or desired. A superintendent lives he have charge, dig graves and the graves of those who desire it. Washington have foreseen the their loved ones, where they would be onward march of the city building of houses. They have dug up and the bones of the lands to take charge, dug up and able thing is not liable to occur in out of the jurisdiction of the Cemetery would be just as li- states will never allow that to be lington is sure to be the most and without doubt lots and graves each plot will be $10.00 cash, or five cents a week on each plot. grave, a contract will be given if likely plan, and afterwards if it is for more plots, when the account be taken off on balance due. In- t is paid for in full. Lots for a graves as desired. Every fam- ourexpense to a lot, as there is no for a lot it is better than insur- ance all your life; then if a few you lose all. e, red car, at Twelfth Street and and get out at Clark Station. South Arlington Cemetery, only street car ticket and five cents apply to West Annapolis, Md., 90 minutes' ride from Washington on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad. This beautiful Park of 10 acres is magnificently located on high ground near Annapolis. Surrounded on three sides by salt water, fine shade, constant cool breezes, large pavilion, flying horses, swings and boats for crabbing, fishing, &c. "Boarding by day or week," and also new Dining Room, seating forty persons. Electric lights over the entire grounds. For terms and further particulars see J. H. Coleman, agent, 1522 Twelfth Street Northwest, 5 to 7 P. M., or W. C. Martin, Room 5, 503 D Street Northwest, from 9 A. M., to 4 P. M. The SOUTH ARLINGTON CEMETERY Corporation The SOUTH ARLINGTON CEMETERY Corporation Has employed one of the leading surveyors and engineers to plat and lay out avenues, lanes and circles on its beautiful tract of land in Alexandria Co., Va., for an up-to-date Cemetery for Colored people. The plots for graves are three feet wide and eight feet long, allowing ample room for the largest grave. On high ground, overlooking Potomac River and the Capital City, this is the most beautiful and ideal place for a cemetery within many miles of Washington, D. C. It will be enclosed by an iron fence, and there will be a mortuary Chapel, where funeral services can be held, or the body put in the vault when desired. A superintendent lives adjoining the Cemetery, who will have charge, dig graves and protect the place and care for the graves of those who desire it. Each plot has a walk. The leading colored citizens of Washington have foreseen the need of a desirable place to bury their loved ones, where they would not be liable to be disturbed by the onward march of the city by the opening of streets and the building of houses. They have seen one graveyard after another dug up and the bones of the departed, when there were no friends to take charge, dug up and thrown on the dump. This horrible thing is not liable to occur in South Arlington Cemetery, as it is out of the jurisdiction of the District and the Arlington National Cemetery would be just as liable to be removed, but the United States will never allow that to be removed or disturbed. South Arlington is sure to be the most beautiful and desirable cemetery and without doubt lots and graves will enhance in value. For a time each plot will be $10.00 cash, or $12.00 on installments at rate of five cents a week on each plot. After one dollar is paid on each grave, a contract will be given if started on the installment or weekly plan, and afterwards if it is desired to pay up in full on one or more plots, when the account is not in arrears, 15 per cent: will be taken off on balance due. Interments not allowed until the plot is paid for in full. Lots for a family can have as many plots for graves as desired. Every family should have a lot. There is no expense to a lot, as there is no taxes on graves, so when you pay for a lot it is better than insurance, for you have to pay on insurance all your life; then if a few weeks in arrears, it is lapsed and you lose all. Take Falls Church Electric Line, red car, at Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, and get out at Clark Station. Sign boards will direct you to South Arlington Cemetery, only twelve minutes walk. Fare, one street car ticket and five cents each way. For all information, apply to ROBERT H. COWARD, Manager, Room 10, No. 306 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Thursday, July 3rd, Miriam Chapter No. 8, O. E. S., held its regular meeting. After regular order of business the third degree was conferred upon about nine candidates, five of whom were added to Miriam Chapter, while the others will be enrolled upon the membership books of Datcher, Electa, Queen Esther and Queen of Sheba Chapters. Past Grand Patron Thomas Tasco did the work; This chapter is called off until the first Thursday in September. The Wisteria Club of Queen of Sheba Chapter gave a picnic at Green Willow Park Thursday, July 3d. Miss Marietta Price is the president of this group. With such an earnest worker as Miss Price, assisted by the able co-workers who constitute her group, we expect nothing but success. One of the most up-to-date hotels in Atlantic City and conducted upon high basis with every appointment that any hotel in the country possesses is the Wrights Hotel. This hotel is conducted by a woman who knows her business. home on Maryland Avenue, North Fairmount Heights. Mr. and Mrs. Sulcer, of Oklahoma, were out a few days ago and anticipate buying a home here. Hon. Ralph W. Tyler has agreed to assist the community in organizing a business league. All Negro men and women who wish to develop Fairmount Heights along business lines will be invited to attend the meeting, which will be held as soon as the date can be fixed. Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury, has kindly consented to visit Fairmount Heights and aid the community in any way he can along business lines. HARPER'S FERRY NOTES. Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Tuesday was a very hot day at the Ferry, but every one/slept well at night. After a few days rest Miss M. E. Cromwell left for her work at Columbian, N. Y. Miss Vesthi, Turley left after a week's rest, but will be back for the month of August. Miss Daisy Ball says "I cannot leave these mountain breezes yet." Mrs. W. A. Warfield and two children are doing fine. Among the guests who have recently registered at Storer College are: Dr. and Mrs. Wilder, and Mrs. Wilder, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. C. Syphax and their two children, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Montgomery, and their two children, Miss Helen C. Harris, daughter of Mrs. Harris; Lawyer and Mrs. Louis G. Gregory Mrs. Jennie Freeman Booth arrives Saturday morning. Everything is fine here, and from the surroundings the place has taken on an aspect of a real summer resort. Mrs. Gregory, wife of Lawyer L. G. Gregory, has taken a cottage. Mrs. Daniel Murray was visited at her cottage last week and by husband and son. Since our last letter the following Eastern Star Notes. Wrights Hotel. DROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDY ON MOSES, THE GOODLY CHILD. Exodus 1:22-2:10 July 6. Whom receiveth one such little child in My name, receiveth Me." - Matthew 18:5. JOSEPH was the Grand Vizier of Egypt for eighty years—dying at the age of one hundred and ten years. Surely the Israelites suffered no oppression during that time. Shortly thereafter, however, another Pharaoh came into power who "knew not Joseph"—who ignored his services to Egypt and the tentative covenant with the Israelites. This Pharaoh is supposed to have been Rameses II., a hard-hearted, selfish despot. This Pharaoh perceived that the Israelites were multiplying much more rapidly than were the Egyptians. Therefore he considered them a menace. At first they had been viewed as A man is digging a hole in the ground. a protection, because Goshen lay eastward, and an invading army would encounter the Israelites first. Egypt's only antagonist in those days was Assyria. When the Israelites would outnumber the Egyptians, an invading army might bribe them, and thus the rule of the Pharaohs be overthrown. To meet this contingency, various expedients were tried. First, an edict compelled the Israelites to perform arduous labors, which it was hoped would undermine their strength. On the contrary, they seemed to flourish increasingly with every burden. The next repressive measure was the edict that every male child of the Israelites should be strangled at birth. But this command was disregarded, the midwives claiming that they arrived too late. The final resort was the royal edict that the Israelites must drown every new-born male infant. Failure to do this was made a punishable crime. It was under these conditions that Moses was born. The account indicates that both his parents were plous, and hence we are not surprised that the babe "was a goodly child"—beautiful. Comparatively few parents realize that where children are otherwise than "goodly"—graceful in feature and character—a responsibility for the defects rests upon them. We do not mean that any human pair could bring forth absolutely perfect children. "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?"—Job 14:4. What we mean is that as careful breeding affects the form, features and character of the lower animals, and improves both fruit and flowers, so also it is potent in respect to humanity. Parents have in their own control the most wonderful power whereby to influence the character and form of their children before birth, and not to be ignored after birth—the power of the mind. Were this law of nature clearly recognized by intelligent, conscientious, people, what a change would speedily be effected!* Go-operating With God's Providences. Cooperating With God Provides. Doubtless Moses' parents thought how to advance the plan which proved so successful in saving his life. They knew that the Egyptian princess resorted to a certain secluded spot on the Nile for her bath, presumed to have been part of a religious ceremony. A little basket was woven of bulrushes, and made watertight with pitch. The babe was placed therein, and at a proper time was left near the spot visited by the princess. Moses' little sister Miriam stood near, ready to suggest the bringing of a nurse. It is quite possible that the princess perceived the ruse, and merely co-operated, believing that the child might as well have the mother's care. Aided and Protected. How much there is of wonderful romance in this story! Think of the leadings of Divine providence in this case! One day the Child Moses is a danger in his parents' home. At any moment his presence might be discovered, and he would be killed. Possibly his parents would also be put to death for disobeying the royal edict. The next day, through Divine providence, ents' home. At any moment his presence might be discovered, and he would be killed Possibly his parents would also be put to death for disobeying the royal edict. The next day, through Divine prov The Princess Anda Mo-idence, the child sees, is back in the same home, and his mother paid by the princess for caring for him. It is assumed that the child was weaned at the age of four years. Then he was claimed by the princess as her own. He was given the name Moses, of which Professor Sayce says: "The Greek form of the Hebrew Mosheh-Moyes—is derived by Josephus from the Coptic (ancient Egyptian) Mo (water) and uses (saved out of it). In other words, the princess made a pun of the name, as though she had said: 'This is my son, because I brought him forth—out of the water.'" Truly, we never know when Divine Wisdom is working human woof into the Divine web, or plan. God's people are ever to remember that He is "working all things according to the counsel of His own will." While using human instrumentalities, God nevertheless respects the human will, and merely co-operates with it. And who ever most zealously co-operates with God receives proportionately the larger share of the Divine blessing. This simple lesson, received into good and honest hearts, gives us greater faith in God 13TH WRECK ON NEW HAVEN ROAD 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, 1912, 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- M. H. Photo © by American Press Association. PRESIDENT MELLEN OF NEW HAVEN AND VIEW OF LATEST WRECK. tiquated 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, Clinton, 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, 1913, Waterbury, Conn., passenger train, twenty-one injured; rear end collission in a fog. 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Denver.—There is probably no person in Denver who is able to start at the Union depot, traverse every street between there and Broadway, with Fourteenth street as the western limit and Nineteenth street as the eastern, and stop without a mistake or a change of mind at every mail box in that area, but a horse, aged fifteen, yclept Bees, knows the hundreds of mail boxes and knows them so well that she can find them on the darkest of nights, with a blizzard, a rainstorm or a ninety mile wind occupying all available space. Bess is the property of Frank Monroe, a mail collector. She has grown aged in the service of Uncle Sam's mail department. In the twelve years of her service as assistant mail collector for the aforementioned route she has missed only seven days, none of those in the last year. It is the boast of her master that a substitute mail collector can be placed on the route for the first time and learn with the mail without the aid of any guide other than the sagacious Bess. As her master climbs into the wagon after gathering the mail from one box Bess heads directly for the next one, be it around the corner, across the street or down the block, and she never misses a box. Moreover, until the mail is in the rear of the wagon and she hears her master's voice, she will not leave the spot. Bess, says her master, intends to remain a government employee for many years yet. Except for the fact that she spends most of the day sleeping in her stall until time to go on duty at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, she exhibits no signs of advanced age. REPAYS FRIEND HE ROBBED. But Net Until Twenty-six Years Have Passed By. Louisville.-The stricken conscience of an aged man in Germany was responsible for the return of German bank notes amounting to nearly $1,000 American money to Nicholas Wermelstar of this city, who was robbed of that amount at his old home in Metz. THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL House & Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts., N. W Household of all kinds and description, House to visit. There is no other where the people can house that will RMAL Schoo Teachers of Both Sexes. begin June 23d and continue five d fees, $14 for entire session. impose Summer School Staff. and $1 at once and reserve accom- 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. College, Greensboro, N. C. Germany, twenty-six years ago. The letter inclosing the notes was dated March 10, 1913, the anniversary of the theft, and was unsigned. Although the writer referred to himself as a "trusted friend who betrayed the confidence of your household." Mr. Wermelster declared he was unable to Identify him. Which Falls Quicker? 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: Bir 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 balls reach the floor at the same instant. Turkish dignitaries comport themselves toward European representatives how otherwise than some of them formerly did. Sir Henry Layard tells an imusing encounter between Charles Allson, then chief interpreter at the British embassy, and the grand visier, so whom Sir Stratford Canning had sent him on important business. In the middle of a discussion the Turk rose from his seat and said his prayers on a carpet spread by an attendant, concluding with the curse on all Christians very emphatically uttered, and going through the motion of spitting over his right and left shoulders in abhorrence. Allson was equal to the occasion. Presently he, too, left off business to pray in a corner, doing it in Turkish and invoking curses on all followers of Islam. To the scandalised Pasha he explained that Christians also had their religious duties, and he had no doubt the formal curses of their prayers meant as little as the Mohammadan's. ing men and women operation This department is A. and Y. W. C. A. and for Home and 6. Department 7. Department 8. 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We advise the use of Ease'x Eair Pomade. Best on the market. Price per box, $e. Alcohol Heater, price $e. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY. MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA "The job of the "red top" is looked upon by the other cleaners as a "gen cleman's job," and there is usually rivalry for the places. Any time a "red top" is dissatisfied with his post he can go back to the cleaning gang. FINDS WATCH LOST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS Timepiece Again Running After Having Been Buried. Menomonie, Wils.—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 highly 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 ed 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 ad justment 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 court room. 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 $14.20, or a total of $56.70. NEW THE SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. NOT SOLD UNDER ANY OTHER NAME. HOME WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. 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. Use New Home Sewing Machine Co., Orange, Mn. COON ADOPTS GUINEAS. Matched In Kitchen Stove and Kept Warm by Pet. Monessin, Pa.-Smoke, a pet coon belonging to Franklin Sauter, has adopted a brood of young gulnea hems that were batched in the oven of Mrs. Sauter's stove 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 pet 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 stove. 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. Philladeiphia -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 mild. PLANSTO IMPROVE POSTAL SERVICE Burleson Making Efforts to Increase Efficiency. OFFICIAL STATEMENT MADE Reviewes Measures Adopted or Contemplated—What Is Being Done With $600,000 Emergency Appropriation—Bettering Railway, Mail and Parcel Service. Washington.—Many improvements in the postal service have been made since Postmaster General Burleson took hold, succeeding Mr. Hitchcock. In a recent statement issued from the postmaster general's office the conditions as they were found when he took hold are reviewed, and plans to meet the emergency which confronts the service are outlined. Among the improvements which have tended to increase the efficiency of the service is the addition of about 1,000 clerks and 500 letter carriers at various offices throughout the country. Approximately $1,000,000 has been authorized for temporary clerk hire and $500,000 for city letter carriers. Such unusual financial demands made it necessary for the postmaster general to go to congress early in May for an emergency appropriation. The sum of $600,000 was granted and an additional $300,000 was appropriated for temporary clerk hire and a like amount for temporary carriers. Mr. Burleson points out that on March 5 there were 2,200 vacant postmasterships of presidential grade and some 300 have become vacant since. There were 4,500 fourth class postmasterships vacant on March 5. These vacancies are being rapidly filled as the result of civil service examinations. Mr. Burleson's statement continues: "Within the last sixty days 488 petitions for rural delivery routes have been disposed of, resulting in the establishment of 203 routes, involving an annual expenditure for maintenance of approximately $100,000. By the establishment of these new routes and the extension of old routes more, than A. B. Photo © by American Press Association. POSTMASTER GENERAL BURLESON. 200,000 people are now receiving their mall at their doors instead of at remote postoffices. "In pursuance of the policy of expe diting the delivery of mall the postmas ter general has ordered the discontinuance of the back stamping of all ordi nary mall which heretofore has delayed its delivery anywhere from twenty minutes to one-half hour. An investi gation of the conditions shows that the slight benefits from back stamping were far outweighed by the advantages that would be gained to the public by its discontinuance and hence the prompt forward step by the department. "The parcel post regulations have been modified so as to permit the delivery to the addressee, without additional charge, of matter reaching the office of address with improper stamps affixed. "By an arrangement made with the Canadian postal service the rates of postage on Sunday editions of daily newspapers mailed to subscribers in Canada, who also are subscribers to the week day editions, has been fixed at 1 cent a pound or fraction thereof instead of at 1 cent for four ounces or fraction, as formerly. "Many of the changes which Postmaster General Burleson has put into effect have to do largely with the internal workings of the department, but their effect will be felt throughout the entire service. "A number of experienced officers of the department are now employed in the field studying conditions with a view to recommending remedies wherever defects in methods may be discovered. "It is Postmaster General Burleson's desire and earnest endeavor to establish in the interest of economy and efficiency uniform methods and practices throughout the entire service and to direct postmasters to the best way of administering the postal facilities." SEEKING KIDD'S TREASURE Inspiration From Fortune Teller Leads Rivers in Quest. Oregon City, Ore.-Declaring that he has received an inspiration from a gypsy fortune teller which will lead him to discover the famous treasure of Captain Kidd, which has been sought for centuries. I. W. Rivers, a prominent Willamette rancher, will start from this city in about two weeks for the Oregon coast. Rivers states that several years ago while he and his wife were visiting at The Oaks they consulted a fortune teller, who told them that they would discover the treasure. She stated that it would be found in a cave in a rock which is a prominent feature of the coast scenery near Nestucca-beach. Last year Rivers and his wife went to the beach and found the cave, which is marked by a cross and a horse shoe. Inside the cave, according to the fortune teller, they were to find the fortune at the end of a log. The log was found by Rivers, but he dug at the wrong end of it and so did not get the fortune. This, according to the fortune teller, is just as he would do, for she said he would have to make two trips before he would get the fortune. He is now trying to get capital to finance the scheme. AT 81 WALKS FIVE MILES. Makes Long Trip on Foot to Dance Bunny Hug. White River Junction, Vt.—Although he is eighty-one years old, Dann Burbank of Barnard walked five miles to attend an old folk ball here. Mr. Burbank did not learn to dance until he was seventy-six years old. Now he likes it better than anything else in the world. "I never saw the tango or the bunny bug danced." Mr. Burbank told a reporter, "but old as I am I would like to give them just one whirl. "I don't think there is any harm in dancing or attending dances any more than there is in attending church. I know there is a lot said about dancing, and the idea is that it is immoral, but I don't see it that way. I think there is a lot of enjoyment obtained, and it makes you feel that you are not on the shelf of old age. I love to dance, and I am now realizing what I missed by not learning before. I don't know just what started me." DOCTOR HELD FOR CRUELTY TO DOGS Girl Testifies That Machine Was Used to Break Backs. Philadelphia.—Dr. J E. Sweet, assistant professor of surgical research of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, was held in $400 ball for court here by Magistrate Haggerty on a charge made by the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Cruelty to dogs in the vivisection and experimental labor tories of the university was alleged Miss Henrietta Ford Ogden, rie testified that every Friday for months she had crawled through hole in a fence so that she could go entrance to the kennels of the university and obtain evidence. Miss Ogden identified the back breaking machine, which she alleged is used the laboratories to crush out the flies of dogs. The machine is best described as diminutive gallows. A heavy weight is operated on ropes and leys so that it will descend with sufficient force to break the backbone any animal held beneath it. Magistrate Haggerty at this is said: "We realize the right of university to perform necessary mal experiments, but there is not too severe for a person who would vise or use such an apparatus as it is almost incredible to believe a civilized human being would use apparatus of this sort. It is an infernal machine." Samuel S. Geyer, formerly in charge of the university kennels, said the members of the faculty ordre the surgeons to remove all evidence of cruelty to animals when the lifeature was acting on the vicious bill. He declared that after the measure was defeated and after the data had passed the practices were refuted. CORNELL MEN'S EARNINGS 1,069 Make $184,906, 32 Per Cent of College Expenses Ithaca, N. Y. 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O., Elks of the World, that has in full charge the arrangements of the coming Elks' convention, that will meet in this city in August next, from the 60th to the 30th, announced after its weekly meeting on Tuesday evening last that it was making preparations for the largest convention held in the history of the colored Elks. The committee is preparing for the entertainment of more than fifteen thousand Elks, including the many friends and visitors who will come here because of the convention. It is estimated more than thirty thousand visitors will come here for the week's festivities. Bay State Hotel Offers Cup. The feature of the convention this year that is expected to bring the largest crowd to the shore during the stay of the world's Elks is the grand parade of the marching clubs, which will be held on Thursday, the 8th of August, and at which time it is expected more than one hundred marching clubs will be in the line of march. Most of the organizations from distant points have already secured accommodations for their members and others are making reservations through the grand organizer, J. Finley Wilson, of Baltimore, Md., who is in the city this week attending to official business in interest of the Grand order. The committee has made arrangements to offer many prizes to the clubs and bands that will participate in the parade and it is expected the rivalry for the cups and cash prizes will be keen. At the last meeting of the Convention Committee the proprietors of the Bay State Hotel, this city, Messrs. Hardy and Ottery, donated to the committee a silver loving cup standing more than twenty inches high, to be given to the club coming the longest distance with the largest delegation. This cup will be one of the most, costly offered this year. Other business firms have made donations of money and the local Elks will offer a gold purse to the club bringing the largest number in the marching club. There will also be a prize for the best band in the line of march. The climax of the festivities provided for the visiting delegations, however, is the grand ball and reception and Elks' reunion that will be held on the Million Dollar Pier that has been secured especially for the purpose. The pier will be thrown open to the visitors at 6 o'clock in the evening, when every attraction, the net hauls, skating rink picture shows, theatre, Greek Temple Hippodrome and every other attraction on the world's greatest pier, will provide entertainment for the delegates and friends. The grand bal will be held in the evening at 6 o'clock in the largest and finest balroom in America. Committee Announces Program. Chairman Silas Hipkins, of the Convention Committee, and Chairman B. G. Fitzgerald, of the Committee on Arrangements, after the last meeting of the joint committees announced the following general program during the week of the convention: Sunday, August 24th. On Sunday, the 24th, the local Elks and the many delegates to the convention will hold the annual convention sermon, which will be preached at St. James A. M. E. Church by the Rev. W. George Avant, of New Berne, N. C., the grand chaplain of the order. The Rev. H. P. Anderson, of this city, will also assist in this annual sermon, and the committee has provided for a joint choir of fifty voices to render special music for the occasion. Monday, the 25th. On Monday the local lodge will keep open house all day at the. Elks' Home for the reception of the delegates as they arrive in the city. Arrangements have been made to have representatives of the local order meet all trains to assist the delegates in reaching the hotels and cottages where accommodations have been provided. In the evening at 8:30 a public session of the Grand Lodge will be held in Fitzgerald's Auditorium, at which time the Hon. Wm. Riddle, mayor of Atlantic City, will welcome the convention on behalf of the city. Many more prominent city officials have promised to attend this session of the convention. First Session, Tuesday Morning. The first session of the Grand Lodge and Grand Temple will be held on Tuesday morning, and the Entertainment Committee has provided for sight-seeing, bathing and rolling-chair parties in the afternoon. In the evening the delegates and friends will be the guests of the Ladies' Auxiliary, who will hold a reception at the Elks' Home. Second Session, Wednesday. The second session of the Grand Lodge and Grand Temple will be held on Wednesday morning and in the afternoon there will be an outing at Longport by the trolley line along the ocean front. There will also be a trip to the famous Elephant Hotel. In the evening at 9 o'clock the Ocean Temple will tender a reception at the Elks' Home to the visiting delegates. Thursday, Gale Day. Thursday, Gala Day. Thursday will be the gala day of the convention, for it is expected the Grand Session will adjourn at noon in order to give the delegates ample time to make arrangement to join the marching clubs for the grand parade that is scheduled to start at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. This parade will be over the principal streets of the city and will end at the famous Inlet Park, where will be held the Annual Field Day. In the evening all Elks will assemble for the Annual Reunion and the grand ball and reception, which will be held in the grand ball room of Young's Million Dollar Pier. The ball room floor of this magnificent pier will accommodate five thousand dancers with absolute comfort and it is predicted this will be the largest-reception in the history of the lodge. Last Session and Banquet Last Session and Banquet. The last session of the Grand Lodge and Temple will be held on Friday morning. On account of the election of the grand officers it is expected this session will last quite all day. And in the evening at 8:30 the visiting delegations and the grand officers will be tendered the annual grand banquet, which will be given in Fitzgerald's Auditorium Cafe. This will mark the close of the fourteenth annual session of the Grand Lodge of the I. B. P. O. Elks of the World. ATLANTIC CITY. Madame Ceiuti, the First Hair Culturist in the United States—The First to Introduce Hair Culture. First to introduce One of the most progressive business women in Atlantic City is Madame G. A. Ceiuti, the first person in the United States to cultivate the hair of colored people. She is known throughout the United States. She first established her business in Washington, D. C., about fourteen or fifteen years ago. She has traveled extensively throughout the country and introduced her hair culture and famous comb, which cannot be duplicated. Madam Ceiuti has just returned from the South, where she has been for some time, and opened hair parlors at 105 N. New York Avenue, Atlantic City, N. J. She has a very accom- plished assistant in the person of Miss Viola Webster. This young lady is a great help to the business, and The Bee correspondent knows from the run that is being made at their place, which opened July 3, their success is assured. Wildwood, N. J., July 8. To the Editor of The Bee. To the average resident of the National Capitol I suppose no other place is as attractive as is Washington, D. C., during the fall, when the foliage is changing its varied hues, the winter when old King Cold reigns with despotic will, or the spring when birds, trees and flowers join in the gladson songs of the resurrection. It is to the seashore, the mountain retreats and the country that even enthusiastic Washingtonians look and actually strive to reach during the hot summer months. Many of them seek a cool spot like Wildwood, N. J., because of the many advantages it offers, one of which is the Brunswick Inn, which is located within a stone's throw of the majestic ocean, or, as the poet says, "Old ocean—centuries old, twice as strong and uncontrolled." Away from the hateful fly and the too affectionate mosquito and the heat which haunts during the day and lingers uninvited through the night. To get away from such vexations God has furnished humanity with the breezes of the ocean and man, working in conjunction with his Creator, secures the comfortable places along the beech in order to house the jaded, city dweller. Those who have visited Wildwood and have been guests at the Brunswick Inn say that it is a dream of life and a joy forever. Good soft beds, fine meals, plenty of towels—in fact, plenty of everything, except heat, flies and mosquitoes, or other disturbing travellers of the night. If you want to find these you must go elsewhere. If you are looking for a haven of rest, just write to Mrs. Boswell, Brunswick Inn, Wildwood, N. J., VISITOR BUSINESS LEAGUE Business, League, on to Philadelphia! The local Business League of the District of Columbia will be represented at the National Negro Business League Convention, of which Dr. Booker T. Washington is president, will convene in Philadelphia August 22 to 26, inclusive. This meeting of the colored business men of the country is expected to be the largest and grandest which has met in years. The city of Philadelphia has thrown open its doors to visiting delegates and friends. The District branch will have a special car. The Pennsylvania road has promised to fit up one of its finest steel coaches for the Washington contingent. Rates have been reduced to one and one-third fare for the round trip ticket, good for ten to fifteen days, so that delegates can visit many other surrounding vicinities. Trains will leave Union Station Tuesday morning, August 19th at 9:45, so secure your ticket in time. For further information see or call Daniel Freeman, 1833 Fourteenth Street Northwest, or Dr. J. P. H. Coleman, secretary. Business League will meet Monday, July 14. Y. M. C. A Building, Twelfth Street Northwest. Come to the meeting. Business League Sunday, July 13, in all of the churches in the District. the business men and women of the city are very thankful to Baptists and Methodist conferences of the city for their kind disposition toward the commercial and business activity of the struggling business colored men and women of the city. We well know that they come within the closer touch with the greater number of the people and can help in a great measure in training—the minds of mothers and fathers, boys and girls to devote some of their time to commercial and business activity. The ministers of the city voted in this conference to set apart Sunday, July 13, as the day for which they did in their sermon called the attention of the people, the necessity of devoting a part of their time to the business and co-operative side of life, also shows just how their energies and power of life is divided, how strong we could be along all lines, as they today reflect the product of the future. Big league meeting Monday, July 14, Y. M. C. A. building, Twelfth Street Northwest. You are invited to be present. Rev. Willis. Rev. James E. Willis, the aggressive and eloquent pastor of Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, has much to feel-proud over. He has paid off the entire church indebtedness and has a surplus of over $2,000 in bank. He has collected over $15,000 in two years and has added over 800 people to his church. 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I directions with If Miss Brodie not be known as well with me, so the firm and gets I am their rep-ell accept my rece- they are within arise. Successfully. ANDREWS. I LAYTON IN D. ed by special de- to come to the went, accom-ance G. Fletcher of his son, Mr. estimable wife. Fletcher is one of who are making-to-date grocery, wagon and goes gets orders, etc. men and women and turn up some-thing. Mrs. Lay-organized a St. to be an excel-dependent Order dayton help them A NEW OUT THIRTY DAYS—THIRD EDGE NARATIVE OF THE YEAR BY A NEGRO In these chapters, as told by himself car porter who was discontented; that to become more than just "George." or to be a "cog in the wheel" was the grow up with the country" was the first. What followed this advent makes a thrilling tale of homestead development human interest, and a strange outcome of conquest. Des Moines Register and Leader: should prove an inspiration to young Western Laborer: "A revelation." Lincoln Daily Star: "A big story Sloux City Tribune: "Does not save the problem of each and every individ-311 pages, 16 full-page illustrations. the publishers. $1.50 postpaid. "That human interest" is what make "Conquest," out now only thirty days, interest all the way through this unprattention until the last page is turned. Write today for the agency in you plan for securing as many as fifty book Liberal commission. WOOD Industrial Sa- 2006 Eleventh Have you a bank account? If r-ever think that it's not what you e- not know that if you depend upon make much headway? Did you friends are plentiful while you are know when you get down sick, feel friends will desert you? Why not begin a savings account Bank today, when one dollar will 3 per cent on your savings; it guar-protection of any other bank. It U. S. Treasury. It is convenient Eleventh Street Northwest, just ab-Saturdays, 9 to 1 and 6 to 9 P. M. Phone No. THE ESMI Madame G. A. Ceruti, 105 P. New York Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Box 19, Station J, New York City Sample of Comb may be secured at The Bee office, where orders will be received and Comb promptly delivered. all expenses. Rev. Willis will go to Jerusalem. The Bee will have a full history of his life work and his trip abroad next week. A NEW H A statement appeared in your valuable paper on the first page of last week's issue, apparently inspired by Miss Mary A. Brodie, as regards her song entitled "Just for a Kiss," which disclaims the writer as "arranger" of her song. I therefore offer this statement for fear some may misconstrue its meaning: Miss Brodie is the composer of above-named song. She submitted it to me as the representative of the Howley Music Company, of New York City. I accepted it for the firm because I believed the number possessed merit, with the understanding that the 'music and wording' be arranged properly or acceptably and made singable. She-assented to same, otherwise I should not have accepted the song as 'it was originally written. The publisher covered whatever else was omitted. I was not the original arranger, but I did accept it for rearrangement. Of course the company is responsible for the number. I act according to their direction with each number submitted. If Miss Brodie desires that I should not be known as the "arranger," it is well with me, so long as she deals with the firm and gets a "square deal." But, I am their representative, and they will accept my recommendations so far as they are within keeping with the enterprise. MRS. JULIA MASON LAYTON IN DEMAND. Mrs. Layton was called by special delivery a short while ago to come to Martinsburg, W. Va. She went, accompanied by Mr. Laurence G. Fletcher. They were the guests of his son, Mr. Percy Fletcher and his estimable wife. By the way, Mr. P. Fletcher is one of Washington's boys who are making good. He has an up-to-date grocery. He takes his horse and wagon and goes to the rural districts, gets orders, etc. That is what our young men and women want to do. Go out and turn up something and then do something. Mrs. Layton and Mr. Fletcher organized a St. Luke club that bids fair to be an excellent council. The Ancient and Independent Order of Moses had Mrs. Layton help them out in a financial rally at their new home, "The Auditorium," Eighth Street Southeast, a few days ago. The rally was under the auspices of West Washington, Miss Sadie Gaskins in charge. Nearly two hundred dollars was realized toward the payment of their new hall. Oysters and Clams. Wholesale a ROBERT T. settlement of Wil- heard of Mrs. to make a "Red The Neighborhood Settlement of Wilmington, Del., having heard of Mrs. Layton, and wanting to make a "Red Letter Day" for their rally in order to pay off their building indebtedness, wrote Mrs. Layton and asked if she would help them. As usual "without money or price" Mrs. Layton said yes. 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Sloux City Tribune: "Does not savor so much of 'Negro problem,' but the problem of each and every individual." 311 pages, 16 full-page illustrations. On sale at all book stores or from the publishers. $1.50 postpaid. "That human interest" is what makes "best seller," and that is why the "Conquest," out now only thirty days, is in the second edition. The human interest all the way through this unpretentious narrative holds the reader's attention until the last page is turned. Write today for the agency in your community and find out our easy plan for securing as many as fifty books with thirty days to pay for them. Liberal commission. 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. OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE. Hams. Wholesale and Retail. Mes ROBERT T. MURRAY, Oysters and Clams. Wholesale and Retail. Meals at all Hours. 600 T St. N. W., cor Florida Ave. Miss Cecelia Cannon, Degree Chief, and the other officers and members of this popular council. A splendid audience welcomed the city friends. Rev. Harris assisted by Rev. Naylor, former pastor, conducted devotional exercises and extended a hearty welcome to all. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, past deputy of ceremonies. Miss C. Cannon, in her usual effective manner, on behalf of the council, opened the services with a most excellent paper. The choir of the church did splendid service. Mrs. R. H. Shipley, of Anacostia, rendered one of her soul-sirring solos. Mrs. Alice Grice Henry gave a most practical paper on "Race Unity." The trio, by Prof. John L. Layton, Mrs. C. C. Smith, accompanist, Miss Bess Gibson and Mr. Lomack, was excellent, as usual, for these folks know how to sing and what to sing, and carried the house by storm. It was worth a trip to Garfield to hear them. Azara Council feels their program would not be complete without nized the merits of this master musician and conferred the degree, Azara Council felt that they ought always honor his Dept. N. 23 Duane Street, New York City. OWN HAIR DIRECTIONS.—First cleanse the scalp with Ceruti's Tar Shampoo, then oil the hair well with Ceruti's African Eureka Cream, remove the catch at the extreme end of the metallic frame of the comb, and take out rod, heat red hot, and replace same, the comb is then ready for use. Then comb the hair, letting the hair pass over the tube containing the rod, after inserting the rod in the tube. PRICE LIST Shampooing, 50 cents up. Transformations from $1.50 up. Pompadours from 25 cents up. Wigs from $3 up. Monthly treatments, $3. Ceruti's Skin Food, $1.50. Ceruti's African Eureka Cream, for the hair, 50 cents. Ceruti's Tar Shampoo, 25 cents. Ceruri's Scalp cleaner, $1.00. When ordering send sample of your own hair. Describe the article you want. NEW BOOK EDITION ORDERED—THE GREAT YEAR, "THE CONQUEST," NEGRO PIONEER. Imself, as the story of a young sleeping man that is, he possessed energy—a desire." To have a part in American progress the big idea. 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It is under the supervision of the sent to all car lines, located at 2006 at above You. Banking hours, 9 to 5. M. No orth 436. SMERALDA le and Retail. Meals at all Hours. T. MURRAY, proprietor. Proprietor. alma mater and gave him his full title of Doctor of Music. Madame Blagburn, one of Washington's sweetest warblers was present, and though gifted as she is, is ever ready to lend a hand, and surely to her favorite order, St. Luke—warbled forth, accompanied by her accomplished daughter. All wished the music would, continue. Miss Madre never made a better address in her life. She was a masterpiece on "Race Pride." Among the good friends present were Mrs. Mary Douglass and daughter, Miss Moxley, Mrs. Marshall, and many others, too numerous to mention. For Sale. For Sale—Three lots, 25x120 feet each, corner Fifty-third and Dayton Streets Northeast, two blocks west of National Training School, $600, Address "N," Bee office. Well Known Citizen Dead Well Known Citizen Dead. Mrs. Robert Booker and Mrs. Gaskins, two of the oldest citizens, died this week at their late residence. Washington, D. C. For Sale. 25c full quart Of exquisite taste and unrivaled quality Only at 909 7th St. No branch stores THE S.L. KIDNEY, BLADDER, LIVER AND BOWEL REMEDY. By its direct action on the Kidneys and Bladder, relieves those important parts of the human system of Diseases of the Urinary Organs, such as Inflammation of the Kidneys, Pain in Back, Cystitis, Catarrh of the Bladder, and by its mild laxative properties acting on the Liver and Stomach, our remedy is especially helpful in relieving Billiousness, Constipation and kindred troubles. It is pleasant, palatable, and can be given to children. Price, 50c. TYREE & CO. 15th and H Sts. N. E. Open All Night. Where you change the cars for Chesapeake Junction and Kenilworth. Room and Board. Room and board for two desirable parties, with private family. 1613 Seventeenth Street Northwest, city. J. 13—1t FOR RENT 1903 Third Street Northwest. Three unfurnished rooms, 2d floor, suitable for light housekeeping. Terms rea- sonable. Nicely furnisheb front room with private family. 943 R St., N.W. Music. Beginners in piano accepted. MISS IRENE PADGETT. 1904 6th St. N.W. Wanted. Three young women for a string orchestra in hotel concert hall. Those who can sing preferred. Also three neat waitresses of light complexion; must be over twenty years of age. Season from middle of June until October. For further particulars address at once. M. A. JACOBS, 334 North Tennessee Avenue. J-7-3t Atlantic City, N. J. Notice. Notice is hereby given that the election of officers of the W. N. C. A. will take place the first Tuesday night in July, at the Home for Friendless Girls, corner 6th and Girard Streets. By order of President, Dr. A. V. Gray, Jessie E. Neill, Secretatry. SUMMER BOARDERS. Room and board during the summen months. Gentlemen preferred. Mrs. W. M. Pen, 61st and C Streets Northeast, Deanwood, D. C. HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA. Mr. W. W. Martin announces the opening of Storer, College, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., Monday, June 23. THE. BRUNSWICK INN 116 E. Rio Grande Ave., Holly Beach, N. J. Now open for guests, within 5 minutes of the beach and 3 minutes of P. R. R Station. Write for terms. Mrs. C. E. Boswell, Prop. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. In a general way our trade is with men of moderate means who know quality and see values, at the same time buying at a cash down saving figure. Sure to do it. We have a large stock slightly used. Suits, $3 to $10; besides fine new pants, $2 to $3. Shoes, 50c to $2.50. Pays to buy here and save cash. One price. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 614 D. COME AND SPEND YOUR VACATION at THE WEBB'S HOUSE on the Romantic Rappahannock River, close by the Urbanna wharf, where daily steamers ply to Baltimore and Fredericksburg. Delightful excursions of fishing and sailing. 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