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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. Congressional Library. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXIV, NO. 8 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY JULY 26, 1913 DRIVE OUT NEGROES DRIVE OUT NEGROES Desperate Spirit Among Blacks in Washington—Color Line Drawn in The Departments — Self-Respecting Negroes Feel the Discrimination Keenly—Desperate in Their Submission — Wilson's Campaign Assurances Disregarded. WASHINGTON, July 22—Ralph W. Tyler, former auditor of the Navy Department, today attacked the Wilson Administration vigorously for its proposed policy of segregation of the white- and colored races in the Departments at Washington. Alleging that John Skelton Williams, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, had already inaugurated such a policy in the Treasury Department, and intimating that self-respecting Negroes in that Department feel the action deeply, Tyler said: "The attitude of the Wilson Administration toward my race is very much like the attitude of a big boy who is always picking on the boy smaller than himself, but who is afraid to touch the boy of his own size. Mr. Williams and his superiors would not have dared to segregate the Italians, Jews, or even the Japanese, who may be in the Government service. This insult offered to any other race would have provoked sturdy opposition and dire results if executed in spite of protests against it. "During the last campaign, President Wilson and his political managers were quite solicitous about the Negro vote. They had Bishop Walters located in New York trying to secure the Negro vote for Wilson, and they had the Rev. J. Milton Waldron, with headquarters in Washington dispensing a large sum in an attempt to capture the Negro vote RALPH W. TYLER "It appears that if the Negro was important enough for Mr. Wilson and his committee to try to secure his vote, he ought to be important enough to get a fair deal at the hands of the men who sought his vote. And Mr. Wilson, writing to a Presbyterian minister, Dr. Grimke, shortly after his election, assured the Negro that he would have nothing to regret from his administration that he was to put as much 'Christianity' in his administration as possible. If this unjust, humiliating discrimination of faithful, intelligent Negro employees is 'Christianity', then Negroes will pray for the pagan brand. "There is absolutely no necessity for segregating the Negro employees in the Treasury Department except to offer them an insult, except to incite resentment, and except to appease the appeals of a few fabled antracie individuals whose prejudices blind them, to justice, and who lack sufficient confidence in their own mental power to measure arms with their Congressional equals in the discussion of economic problems, but must lug in the Negro question as their only stock in trade. It was discouraging, oppressive restrictions that gave France her Robespierre and her Danton, and drove the oppressed under the red banner to the Commune. It has been discouraging, oppressive restrictions that have made red-handed Nihilists of the most humble Jeys in Russia. Because the Negro has always worn the yoke of the peaceful, burden-bearing ox, is no assurance to Mr. Williams or his superiors that the Negro will forever continue submissive to all insults, indignities and restrictions. "Why does this administration vent its spleen against Japan on my race? Why does it dodge Japan's blows and swing hard on my race? Simply on the score of the big Lully who picks on the small boy, but will take insults from the boy of his own size. Some day these cowardly segregationists will awake to find the worm has turned." Mr. Tyler, said he had discovered a "driven-at-bay" spirit among his people as a result of their political experiences in pursuit of a policy of submission, and that the question among them is: "How far must we be driven just for peace?"—(From the New York Evening Post of Monday, July 21.) DEFENDS HIS RACE. Indignant Wrath—Defamation of Colored Americans. Mr. Editor: It makes one's boil with indignant wrath and inspires one with eternal enmity to every traducor of the Negro race when we read such mean and contemptible utterances as fell from the lips of Vardaman, Hoke Smith and men of their ilk. Such allegations and conclusions as these are so pusillanimous and mean that I often wonder whether they come from a heart blackened with prejudice, or from a head having a vacuum where brains ought to be. Such utterances as these ought to drive us together; it should make race unity imperative. Race unity is the basis of national or racial progress, elevation and supremacy. Every nation or race possessing it has written bright pages in the world's civilization, every nation devoid of it has been cut down, and blotted either from the map of the world's activities or swept from the face of the earth. It was by clannishness and eternal union that the Normans under feudal England held the Saxons for many years under the iron heel of oppression and subjection, and the Saxons emulating the homogeneity displayed by the Normans broke their shackles and entered the arena of life and has since set the world a noble example of the rewards of racial unity. By becoming their financial forces and resources the Jews have become the money lenders of the world and the intimates and friends of kings and queens. They may be outraged, maltreated and even slaughtered here and there, but a people so conservative and uniting their forces so splendidly for their common welfare cannot permanently be kept back and wronged. The word "Saxon" once brought forth derision, jeers, epithets and declarations of inferiority, but today the literature of this people is read in every land; its commerce fills every market, and its arms are all conquering. Why? Because the Anglo-Saxon race is the most compact and the best united race that treads the earth. If the Negro race would rise, if it desires to solve the many problems confronting it, it must pattern after the most triumphant race that walks the earth. It must close up the rauks, it must come close together, it must be able to concentrate its forces along all lines. Lack of union has been our besetting sin, and made us the prey of those who would mislead and in the end destroy us. From the foundation of this government our presence in America has been a subject of intense discussion, but at no time so much as now. Not only are we discussed; we have been made the target of dangerous and alarming forces—forces that not only imperil our present and future, but ennace the safety, if not the very cornerstone of the government itself. Divided, we can accomplish nothing. It behoves us therefore to stand together and present our case and our claims to live, and to a man's chance to the sober second thought, and to the heart and conscience of the nation. Let us come together in business, and by standing by each other open up avenues for our boys and girls in order that they may grow up contented, happy and useful citizens. Let us come together educationally and religiously, and stimulate movements whose prosperity minister to the higher wants of man, and prepare for all the obligations of life and citizenship. Let us encourage the Negro newspaper, the Negro doctor, lawyer, mechanic and artisan to the end that they may learn thereby that we are men with men's aims and purposes. In union there is strength, success and growth; in division, failure, weakness, death. Then let us unite, as we must if we would climb the steep and trying mountain of excellence and racial strength. Mr. Editor, I trust that you will publish these few hints in your next issue, and if they are suitable to your readers, and if it is your desire, I shall be glad from 'time to time to give you a few lines of what the poor Negro is undergoing each week in the departments of the government. Yours for the race. SALIENT THE BEE. Editor Calvin W. Chase: My Dear Sir: I have been a constant reader, for over twenty years, of your valuable and interesting paper—the "irrepressible Bee"—one of the greatest levers in the uplifting and upbuilding of the race, but the publication of The Bee was never before as valuable as it is today, when we are undergoing such a critical period as this. You deserve merited applause for the work in which you are engaged; it is a hard work, too much for any one man just at this present time. The want of The Bee is essential; there never was a time in the history of the race where the demand for a strong weekly or daily paper is more pressing than now. Let us then put our shoulders to the wheel and support The Bee as we never did before. It is the only organ that gives the news to us, and it is bold, frank in its editors, in consequence of which it is always in C THE GREAT ODD FELLOWS BUILDING, ATLANTA, GA COLORED MEN. hot water on account of its frankness. Speaking then about our own publication, we noticed with deep regret the evident desire on the part of many of the daily papers to steer clear of all questions that will in any way show up the full standard of our morals; we have also noticed with regret how our mothers, wives, sisters are being spoken of through their columns without even the slightest vindication from those who are in a manner better able than we are to make a denial of the grave charges. In view of these facts, and as citizens as we are, believing that the proper recognition of us must come through our demand for respect for our women, equal with that demanded by white men for their women, it becomes necessary, then, for us as men and women of this unfortunate and in some respects a helpless people to commence at once with one mind, one heart and with one solid purpose to support The Bee and give to the editor such assistance that will enable him to send forward a better paper, a stronger paper, a paper with a larger circulation so that its influence will be more felt by those who are opposed to us. Now, as union is strength, and without union it is impossible in matters so vital to our citizenship to listlessly live in hope that our rights will be preserved apart from our own efforts and means, let us do our part with whole-heartedness, casting our burdens upon Him who careth for us all. "God helps those who help themselves" should be the watchword in this critical moment. NEGRO SEGREGATION. The Daily Press Not Favorable—Herald Refused to Publish Letter. The Editor of The Bee sent a letter to the Washington Herald in reply to the many segregation bills that have been introduced in the Democratic Congress against the colored citizens of Washington. The managing editor of the Washington Herald wrote the editor as follows: Washington, D. C., June 16, 1913. Mr. William Calvin Chase, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I thank you for submitting for publication your communication on the subject of segregation of colored people, but I regret to advise that it is not available for publication, and I therefore return it. Yours truly. F. T. CODRINGTON, Managing Editor. Segregation of Colored Americans. To the Editor of the Washington Herald. There have been several bills introduced in Congress, tending to se- gregate the colored people, in street cars and the government service. The most recent measure was introduced by Representative Thompson, of Oklahoma. If you will examine the record and pedigree of every Senator and Representative who has introduced "Jim Crow" measures you will see that they came from the lower and poorer element of white people. The cultured white man and woman have no race prejudice, or very little. Examine, if you please, the cultured class of white people in the Northwest or those who have been educated in polite society and you will be convinced that their reasoning faculties are different from the ordinary white people. They know that a colored person, with any degree of intelligence, will not attempt to force himself where he is not wanted. Compare, if you please, the status of the poor white classes, with the colored and the educated classes of the colored people, characterized by the poor whites as Negroes, and you will see that they compare favorably with the cultured white spoken of in the foregoing paragraph of this letter. As I stated, examine the pedigree of the people who are intro- during these Jim Crow measures in Congress against colored Americans. Every Democratic measure that has been introduced in Congress has been to degrade the colored people and, failing to impede their progress in disfranchising them, their enemies have resorted to other means and more humiliating measures. The colored Americans are part of this country. They have fought and died to uphold the flag, while those who are holding the reins of the government have endeavored to destroy the republic, flag and Union. I am not surprised at the action of the Democratic party. I predicted its attitude in an issue of my paper, The Bee, during the campaign in the summer and fall of 1912, while the so-called colored Democrats, for revenue only, identified themselves with the Democratic party under the pretext of bettering their condition and the people they misrepresented. If Negro Democracy is not a fit subject for a lunacy commission, who is? In the face of these discriminatory measures, against their people and their continued alliance and adherence to Democracy, should certainly convince the Democratic party that it has allied with it a class of lunatics. These same colored men have denounced the Republican party for one-tenth less of which the Democratic party is guilty. Southern Representatives, in both branches of Congress, who become intoxicated weekly with color prejudices and hyena spasms, make them say things for which they are not responsible, to appease and allay the disease which has taken such a hold upon the Southern people. There is a difference between Northern and Southern Democracy. Northern Democracy sees no harm in colored people holding office. This the Southern Democracy cannot stand, because the antebellum instinct has not been as yet purged from their hearts and brains. The colored Americans will not admit his inferiority to the Southern white cracker and neither will he tamely submit to these frequent congressional discriminating measures aimed at colored Americans notwithstanding the doty and childish utterances of Vardaman, Tillman, Hoke Smith, Johnson, Simnus and other congressional failures. WM. CALVIN CHASE. July 17, 1913. The Fraternal Crisis. From the Dallas, Texas, Express. From the Dallas, Texas, Express. The fraternal organizations in the State are face to face with the new law which seeks to govern beneficiary insurance societies and lodges in Texas. The more we study the law, the more we are convinced that the law should be evaded and not followed; that is to say, it is the course of wisdom to so change the methods of doing business that they will through exemption escape the vigor of the law. The spirit of a just government never intended to destroy an organization under the guise or in the effort to protect it, and just exactly this thing will happen if the Negro fraternal bodies undertake to operate under the new law. The penalties for failures to properly track the law mark its worst features. The immense cost of merely preparing the printed matter necessary to the intricate book-keeping entail a burden of expense on a small organization which will make its operation impossible. The colossal actuarial cost approaches the point of confiscation. These are some of the awful drawbacks which justify the lodge managers in the effort to so arrange their business as to work their exemption. The Dallas Express sends out this warning and it were well enough to heed it. The Negro Democrat. From Dallas, Texas, Express. From Dallas, Texas, Express. The Negro Democrat has ceased to exist in the land. His silly mouthings in derogation of the Republican party constitute the saddest page in the history of the race since the days of freedom. The elevation of the Democratic party to national control has proven a blessing in giving a rude setback to the gang of pirates of colored hue, who were willing to sell their birthright for a mess of pottage. Woodrow Wilson, unlike Grover Cleveland, is in line with his party in his treatment of the Negro. He believes that work other than holding office should fill the measure of the ambition of the Negro, and if his measure after work is not full, in all likelihood, during his administration at least, the empty spot will fill an aching void which the Democratic party will never fill. DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST The janitor at the Colored Y. M. C. A. was found drowned in the swimming pool Tuesday morning. Commissioners Newman and Siddons will not make many changes in their offices. James A. Lightfoot and Attorney Nutter, of Atlantic City, N. J., are regarded to be the leading citizens in the State. They are thorough race representatives. The jury in Judge Gould's Court Tuesday afternoon rendered a verdict that Mrs. Prall was sane. Trade throughout South China is at a standstill. Dispatches show that it has been paralyzed on account of the revolt. Ex-President Roosevelt will be nominated as the Republican stand- ard bearer in 1916. So remarked a New York politician a few days ago. From thirty-five to fifty prisoners were trapped in a cage at Jackson, Miss., Monday night. It was impossible for them to escape. the retirement of colored teachers in the public schools is causing a great deal of comment. Embassador W. L. Wilson has left Cuba for the United States. He will report direct to the President! Walter Johnson, the famous National pitcher, is to be given a silver cup. Home Rulers have threatened to carry the case of Commissioner Newman to court. Rev. Dr. Schick, pastor of Grace Reform Church, of which Ex-President Roosevelt was a member, died Tuesday night. There was no element of lunacy in the case against Dr. John R. Francis, Jr. It was a case for the civil courts. The B. M. C. of Odd Fellows will meet in Boston, Mass. Recorder Harry Lincoln Johnson is spoken of for grand master. Daniel Freeman, president of the local Negro Business League, hopes to carry a large delegation from this city to Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. W. Sidney Pittman is working with success in Texas. Mrs. Pittman has become a favorite. Attorney A. W. Scott won the first case under the new excise law. The arrest of thirteen men on charges of jointly purchasing liquor were discharged in the Police Court Wednesday. Judge Pugh decided that it must be proven who actually purchased the liquor. A colored man hung thirty-eight minutes and after he was cut down he lived three hours. The people became suspicious and refused to call a physician. There is a popular sentiment for the establishment of a school for the blind in this city. Postmaster Burleson has been asked by Congress to explain his recent post office order. WALDRON TO RESIGN. Rev. J. Milton Waldron, who was removed from the presidency of the organization known as the Advancement of Colored People, and who has about five members in the so-called National Independent . Political League, has decided to resign. All of the leading members in the organization have resigned. Rev. Waldron has decided to follow his church work, because he is a failure as a politician. He has been convinced that he cannot be Recorder of Deeds. Commissioner Newman has been visited by a few so-called colored Democrats. Negro Business League. Philadelphia, Pa., July 19.—John Wanamaker, the greatest merchant prince in America, has arranged to entertain delegates in attendance to the coming meeting of the National Negro Business League in the Egyptian Hall of his Philadelphia store, at 5 o'clock, Thursday, August 21, 1913. This is an honor never before extended any body of colored people. Mr. Armstrong The Bee stated jokingly last week that Mr. James Armstrong had been a Progressive and a Democrat. Mr. Armstrong has been a race advocate and nothing more and he is doing more for the people of Fairmount Heights than any citizen there. BACHELORS LEAD IN CRIME 3 TO THREE-FOURTHS UNDER 30. Statistics Show That Married Men Attempt Suicide More Frequently Than Unmarried Ones—Single Women Criminals More Numerous. New York.—Many more unmarried than married men commit crimes, according to the report of Henry D. Sayer, chief clerk of the district attorney's office. The report shows that in 1912 there were 789 convictions of married men in general sessions and in the criminal branch of the supreme court and that there were 2,008 convictions of unmarried men. There were 96 convictions of married women and 100 convictions of unmarried women. Records show that in the last nine years there have been 18,400 convictions of unmarried men, while among men who had at some time led a bride to the attar there were but 7,670 convictions. The unmarried men excel in almost every crime on the calendar. The most notable exception is in the case of attempted suicide. Last year the ratio was three married men to one unmarried. The report also shows that about three-fourths of the men who are brought into court are under thirty years of age. Of the 2,857 men convicted last year 940 were under the age of twenty and 1,278 were between twenty-one and thirty years old. After the age of thirty the ratio gradually decreases, there being but five men over seventy who last year were convicted of any crime. Out of 26,079 persons convicted in the last nine years 11,052 were between the ages of twenty-one and thirty and 8,281 were between fifteen and twenty years. Among the women two thrids of those convicted were under thirty. It is also apparent from the report that in the last nine years there has been a gradual increase in the number of young men of criminal tendencies, the number of convictions of male criminals under the age of thirty having increased from 1,700 in 1804 to 2,200 in 1012. On the other hand, the number of convictions of men over the age of thirty has remained about stationary. The report shows that the office disposed of 6,051 actions during the year. There were 3,023 convictions in general sessions and the supreme court, of which 2,283 were upon pleas of guilty and 640 upon verdicts after trial. There were 321 trials that resulted in acquittal. There were more convictions for murder in the first degree than in any other year in the history of the county. Thirteen persons were convicted of first degree murder, while the highest number appearing in the records of other years is eight. It is also worthy of note that for the first time on record in this county four men were jointly tried and each found guilty of murder in the first degree. The average sentence imposed was five years and six months, and the total state prison terms amounted to 3091 years. The longest sentences were for burglary in the first degree. There has been a gradual increase in the length of sentences imposed since 1904, when the average was four years and six months. The most frequent crime was grand larceny, with 600 convictions. Next came burglary, with 492 convictions. READING BRAIN OF DEAD MAN? Believed Thoughts Were Visible. Strange Request In Will. Cambridge, Mass. Scientists in the Harvard Medical school are trying to read the brain of the late Dr. Maurice Howe Richardson, ex member of faculty of that institution. The examinations are being conducted secretly in the neuropathological department and under the direction of Dr E E. Southard. Dr Richardson was a firm believer that thoughts made definite lines in the brain and the present examination is being conducted in accordance with his wishes as expressed in his will. He believed that a persons thoughts were recorded and were at the time of thinking visible on the outer walls of the cerebrum. He held that if these lines were read and the seat of the thought located it would make it possible to correct defects in the brain by surgical operations. Overladen Apple Trees. Hutchinson, Kan Because the apples are so thick on the trees in the big Reno county orchards games of men are being hired to go through the orchards and knock green apples from the trees. This is necessary, the fruit growers explain, to prevent the boughs from breaking down under the weight of the growing fruit. Dog Stops Court Case. Walla Walla, Wash.—Leslie G. Korkman's dog Chinupi stopped a case in the superior court while he canght a mouse. The dog is a fox terrier and was in court with his master. The sight of a fat inouse was too much. Court officials added him, and the case was resumed. 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 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California. The document says: "The reason why California woodpeckers in the vicinity of Sonoma mountain should have stored pebbles instead of the customary acorns is a mystery. "We know that instinct works as automatically as an alarm clock. In the failure of an acorn crop it would seem possible that the woodpecker might instinctively have stored some other available kind of food, but to have chosen stones instead of some sort of food carries the anology too far "It seems as though any bird with the intelligence of the California woodpecker which would make the same mistake ought to be classed as insane" PASTORS ADOPT EUGENICS. Won't Perform Marriages For the Physically Unfit. Lynn. Mass.-The Protestant clergymen here (Methodist, Episcopal, Congregationalists and Baptists) have resolved individually to take a stand for the physical fitness of applicants for marriage, and they are to meet to concentrate their energies in behalf of the protection of society. The Rev. C. Thurston Chase of the Central Congregational church, the pioneer in the movement, said: "I have performed my last marriage ceremony in which it will not be necessary for the couple to furnish certificates vouching for their physical fitness. "I maintain that a minister should refuse to perform the marriage ceremony when he thinks it should not be performed." WASP STING MAKES POOR CRIPPLE WALK Feels "Hot Needle" Pierce His Ankle and Runs. St. Louis.—Charles Wightman, deputy county clerk at Clayton, told how he had just been able to walk without crutches for the first time in thirty eight of the forty-two years of his life. He fell when he was four years old and injured both legs permanently. He said that a neighbor had told him a snake story just before he went to bed. It was a tale of a black snake ever so many feet long and an incredible number of inches thick, which the neighbor had said he had killed. Charles woke up in the morning with the story still in mind. He thought how comfortable it was to live in a country where one could sleep in peace instead of in one of those countries where, he had beard, snakes some times creep in and share one's bed. Reveling in the thought, he thrust his right leg deeper under the covers. Then something that stung like a hot needle pierced his ankle. "I sprang out of bed and ran and stumbled twelve feet across the room," he said. "It was the first time I had taken so many steps unassisted since I was a baby." "And was it really a snake?" he 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 Pattern Approves Roosevelt's Suit. Washington. - Praise of Secretar Bryan for "the courage of his convictions" in refusing to serve wine at a dinner he gave recently to the diplomatic corps was given by Secretar 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 like 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," unloading 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. I. 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. ROOSTER INJURES BOY. One Eye Picked Out as He Tried to Protect Sister. South Norwalk, Conn. Mabel, the four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grileyer Lent of this place, was knocked down by a rooster, and her brother Victor, one year her senior, who went to her rescue, had one eye picked out and the other one seriously injured. Mabel had gone to collect eggs in the bennery when the rooster, a large Plymouth stock, poured on her and bore her to the ground. The roosters spurs bared her arms and legs, and she cried out in pain. Had she not held her arm over her face she might have fared the same as did her brother Her screams brought Victor to her side. He attempted to fight the rooster, only to be knocked down and seriously injured. The children's parents hurried to the scene. The father chopped off the head of the rooster and threw him in the river. Physicians hope to save Victor's right eye, but the left is gone entirely. MAN MAY HAVE BEAUTY. Board of Arbitration Gives Damages For Loss of it Danville, Ill.- A board of arbitration in the case of a machinist, Charles Chick, against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad, under the compensation law, has decided that a man can possess beauty and obtain damages for loss of it. Chick was struck in the eye by a piece of steel last September when at work. The pupil was destroyed, and he asked damages for loss of time, for the bandage by reason of loss of the eye and loss of beauty. The railway company claimed that a man does not possess such a thing as beauty, but the board decided Chick's appearance had been damaged $200 and that he suffered $200 more in damages to his eye and in loss of time. The board was comprised of five attorneys named by the court and was headed by Arthur Hall, famous University of Illinois football coach. Birmingham, Ala.—With the purpose of taking all of the thousands of Alabama convicts out of the mines, number milia and turpentine camps a state wide movement to abolish the obnoxious lease system is in progress, participated in by the best element of citizenship in the state. At a great mass meeting addresses were made picturing the greed, graft and cruelty of the system, and announcement was made that it would be a fight to a finish between the state's humanitarian spirit on the one side and corporations and professional politicians on the other. The spirit of the movement was embodied in the question "Shall we send the man who has served his sentence back home a better citizen or drive him to slavery and criminal mania?" Instances were cited where men had been sentenced to long terms at mine labor for shooting craps, neglecting to work on the roads and stealing rides on trains. Mrs. Julia Tutwiller, noted for her work for prison reform in the south, sent a message of indulgence, in which she pleaded for night schools for convicts, humane hygienic conditions and other reforms tending to make the life of the man in stripes endurable. An executive committee was appointed to carry the fight into all of the sixty-seven counties of the state and pave the way for a deciding battle in the next legislature. Captain Frank S White of Birmingham, former chairman of the Democratic state executive committee and for years general counsel of the nine workers of Alabama, was made chairman of the committee. Twenty other representative men of influence throughout the state will help in a whirlwind campaign. In addition each county will have a strong committee. For years there has been talk of ugly treatment of the convicts in the mines, lumber camps and turpentine mills. In half a dozen or more explosions in mines within a few years a hundred or more convicts had been killed. But nobody seemed to worry over their fate The state leases about a thousand convicts to several large coal mining and lumber industries and nets it over half a million dollars a year after feeding, clothing and guarding the men. An average of thirty dollars a month is paid to the state. Each convict is required to do a certain task. Pearl In Oyster Cocktail. Chicago Mrs. M. J. Anderson, wife of an attorney, while in the midst of an oyster cocktail found a pearl. It was taken to a jeweler, polished and appraised at $1,200. "And to think," said Mrs. Anderson, "I thought it to be a piece of oyster shell and was going to reprove the waiter." Seventy-five-year-old Dress Shroud. Findlay, O. Dressed in a homespun dress which she wore more than seventy five years ago, Mrs Frances L. Founds, ninety three years old, was buried at Founty's Landing, W. Va. Mrs. Founds was married twice, and the wore this dress on each occasion. 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 pententiary 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 murderer Mr. McClaughry is a son of Warden McClaughry of the federal penitentiary here and has charge of the bureau of criminal identification at the penitentiary. Moore went to the penitentiary at Jefferson City after being found guilty of the murder of his mother and grandmother, Mrs. Mary Wilson and Mrs. George Moore, at Columbus, Mo., in December last year. Moore, on trial, said he had made a study of famous murders, including the Crippen case in England. AN UNUSUAL MORTGAGE. Farmer Puts Up Chickens, Hogs and Revolver as Security. Washington, Ga.—There was placed on record in the office of the clerk of Wilkes county what is considered the most unusual mortgage ever recorded in this or any other county. The security named in the recorded instrument consists of the following valuable property—to wit: "Nine chicken hens, two sow hogs and a 32 caliber pistol." The amount of the debt thus secured is $23, and it is provided that if the obligation is not met at maturity the property mentioned therein shall be sold at public outcry. All 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 Maline sheriff might find a barrel of beer or even a jug of whisky, but he can't find a beer lozenges or a cocktail tablet, and over that glad fact the thirsty of this state are rejoicing now. For the tabloid booze drummer has come to Maine and is doing a rushing business in condensed drinks of all kinds, from plain whiskey to cocktails and from beer to gin fizzes. The drummer carries a considerable stock of the tablets with him for immediate demands and arranges for further and unlimited supplies by mail. Many bars in Bangor, Lewiston and Portland are selling tabloid drinks, while a great many men who just must have their 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 taste like liquor. The tablets come in little paper boxes or glass bottles of a dozen each and the price varies. A small phal of one kind of tablets, costing 13 cents dissolved in a gallon of water, with other ingredients costing 50 cents makes a gallon of what passes for whisky—total cost, 63 cents. It is not whisky that would appeal to a connoisseur, for it burns and bites all the way down, but is as near to whisky as a good many people are able to get in some parts of Maine, and it "goes." WHISTLING CAT HAS HARELIP Animal Never Has Mewed, but Is Musical Prodigy. Springfield, Mass.—Stanislaus Czynszky of Prospect avenue, West Springfield, is the owner of a cat with a harelip, which whistles with the facILITY of a schoolboy, but cannot mew or, at least, never has mewed. Czynszky is inclined to believe that no animal in its normal state of mind would whistle, but is loath to do away with the cat, which, he says, attracts more attention than any other member of the family and is regarded as a musical prodigy. Neighbors have suggested that the cat would probe a treasure to a maker of catgut violin strings. Hen Lays Tiniest of Eggs. Vancouver. Wash—An egg weighing but fifteen grains, laid by a real live hen, is the property of Mrs. Harvey Alexander of this city The egg, about half the size of a hazelnut, is but 1-3/8 part of a pound. Mrs. Alexander found an egg with a soft shell, which crushed in when she ploked 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 Minnie Smith and Miss Janet Buchanan, carried a parnsol 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 "sister cops" were appointed at the request of the Civic league, and it is planned to have them patrol the beach, giving special attention to women in distress. RIDES ON A PORPOISE. Young Bather So Frightened That She Faints In Water. Venice, Cal.-A ride on the back of a huge playful porpoise caused Miss Violet Nathan of Minneapolis to have hysterics while in bathing. While a large number of bathers were enjoying the surf near Maler Pier avenue a school of porpoises suddenly appeared and began to frolic with the bathers. All except Miss Nathan tied 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 hostel. The bird had often balanced himself on one leg before because it pleased him to do so, but on this occasion he was compelled to. The other leg had been amputated by a surgical operation. Bobby, who is allowed the freedom of the room and is seldom in his cage, had been hopping about the floor when a domestic, not seeing him, pushed a chair against him. One of his feet was mashed, and the leg was broken. In such cases it is usual to destroy the bird. But Mrs., Walker was attached to Bobby because he often sat on her finger or perched on her shoulder, so Dr. Frederick W. Shaffer, a veterinary, was called into consultation. He arrived with a case of instruments and promised to save Bobby's life. With a hypodermic syringe he injected cocaine into the broken leg just above the place where the feathers begin and then cut off the limb with a pair of bone shears. RENOUNCES WEDDING FEES. Pastor Says They're Graft and Should Be Abolished. Chicago.-The Rev. Almer Pennewell, pastor of the Euclid Avenue Episcopal church of Oak Park, has announced that hereafter he will not accept fees for marriages because they are "graft" and as such should be abolished. "If the church insists that marriage is a rite that belongs to it," he said. "then the church should make marriages free to all. "The minister who does not need a fee should be ashamed to take it, and a church whose minister needs the fee should be ashamed and immediately raise his salary. No minister should be forced to stand at a wedding with his open hand behind him." 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 coarse sand. He says he was troubled constantly with sour stomach, heartburn, indigestion and kindred lills until he started the "sand cure." Now he asserts that he is never troubled at all, relishes 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 Unfitte Paroled Convict For Real Bed. Topeka, Kan.—Morgan Wright, sent to prison in 1833 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 mall truck in the Union station in Kansas City five years ago. Developments show that persons have been finding the certificates, mostly of the $20 denomination, for a month and have kept the matter secret. It is estimated that at least $1,000 has been picked up in gutters, vacant lots and back yards. All the money was discovered within a radius of eight blocks of the home of a relative of Charles Savage at whose house he stopped before his arrest. One theory of the investigators is that the money was concealed in a tree and dislodged by recent high wipds. Indications That Upper Hayes River Is Rich In Gold. Edmonton, Alberta. — George Gardiner of Ottawa is in Edmonton outfitting for a trek over the trail of romance to the Upper Hays 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 1809, during the rush to the Yukon, when this city was made the starting point of the overland trail to the Klondike. The story told here by Gardiner is that during the Klondike rush three prospectors went into the Hayes river country, which, except for a small part along the river near Vermillion, 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 ladians, 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 move the crop to the rain. , ‘ be : Pi oneness: N : a —— ee ——— jcemer, to show forth = qrshing. that nothing micbt daturb | So Nges, no matter Sow Hupopult KEC FINDS HEARSE AT STATION.| HEART MAY STOP BEATING. “WOE 10 YOu RICH” "| Sod these are looking or thelr biew:| His cause In the sight of men—no nist Weman Supposed to Be Dead Changes! physician Saye Ten Minute Interrus- and these are looking for thelr Bies"| ter how foolish it way cause them to pian No BED 1 an Saye Ten Hinata I 19 | Fecere of tha tndcute by the Word| APPeE tn the eres of thow who are Bellefoutoine, U, When Mre, Georzel ~ party —The following very tnteres* “BI ESSED YE POOR rererse of that fndicated by blinded to the Lord's arrangements. C TRIAL ee, Maer ater | | Baik g ery tateret - i é ig sittemwents, some of . of Gon. 3 This porerty and sarritice does ot the Min tras ar wot Cimerty recur BE wTACeENtE rome of wht wre co Jesix prophetically foreknew and} oun (he “aisine up of gable seat: frm ru at nt Liberty rv | dete aig ty the feelings foretold the crisis of the Jewhnb nation.| ents und ingh dents: but it means — [ts aes surest tw om 8 nears, an of French wedlea eclence, wer mindy Philosophy Of These, HB ton ‘he irscites Indeed. a, whom] te Dilan OF thene Tat, te, tate Deere ty tee for aida eter | BY-DE, Alexis Carl of the Bockefeit te Heng | wero ello" "Then the ation wan} ee Lows verve. Cr the ennort and. YOUNG AMBTICAN FAGES TRIM, Ssrn!Stintnereesnc she rosea Heettte For Allen) Research. Sen . was no allie advancement of His Mesaixe of Truth, . the Gad Sopot ta navecaied aid i t Kaster’s Words, Is SHOWN | riven over to tteelt. ‘The Divine Band| for tae blessing of mankind ulong the In an Italian Dungeon fiat theghentce ne to tke ter bua | PAU! Benwlon bospltal |S which had gulded it xafely In the past] tines whieh tlie Word Indicates. . OR ag eee nee ences er etme supaamced® that bei by Pastor Russell let go the rudder: und human paxsion| ‘This sucritice or surrender, does not = 2 tits Sees enn hel BM able to operate fm the chet ci y fi acemuplixhed the wreck in the anarchy] mean thut honor of then will be dixen- coer ur i se en | HM a8 och ease and safety af _ Shieh overthrew the nation in A. D.|teemed thereafter: for jt will always HOW HE MURDERED WIFE,| Sein’ ssemnnct scott ieceen [2 anen, It snow aap xt” 7 70. Shnltarly. we may understand that! be true that "a sood name Is ruther to it */faring Mee Curr wad sed Mommy) #840 “wndTve open the thorex and o>). fre the Wace and the Blessings Pres-| now bas come the Hurrest of thle| be chown thaa gent rlehes.” It means a se rat yaaa ez | ete eg te ues ert and wt ent,or Future?—God ts Very Rich.| Gospel Aze: that now God Ix gathering| that worldly remtation will be held detingd. Gaceuan casa OEE LS tse teat the kldoeys aod the Inte Many of God's Servants In the Past|.His Elect: nnd that as soon as this| secondary to the Lord, the Truth, and] Fight, Againet Extradition Occasioned| MIN tre tte tae SFE lowe now alia fast Bow Were Rich—Why Classify 2t All?| Work shall have been accomplished. the | gervice for the Lord's eause, so thut| Internationat Interest and Theeaten- nec" at] Bch era el ol bt | ' trast Rich and Poor?=What | Aiminite’s Hand which has held in| whatever honor of wien they may Pos] ed to Embrot frie Country With) she wontd visit ner mother. Mrs. Sbn- anaesthetics require@ by opert Mee eon the Poor? Riches of | Check thé powers of human passion un-| rene will he turned sme ‘wisely. ded. as Maly—beng Fignt at Last Ended [imate wax prosttated when the sup | FF anaesthe 9 Blessings Have the Riches of | Hl_now, will release Its hold. prudently as possible Into the channels femed death tusanze came, Her ine. | HOR 5 iste Eduction De These all ing Wo AM wreck thats pereetg themeelves.| bleh will glorify the Lord and honor) |New York Porter Chariton, thal Pome aa stems at sear ago, ana], o7ue Reve suifers very, Uttin fe Education, Do These All Bring Woes? | seitt sereck thelr prevent civilization, | Hiv Messe, temurdiée of the fact young Auwnican who ktited pis Bride! Porson pase sarag whthont wnenlng tnterrpted clreu ation as long a9 <. Poverty of Education and Earthly! as the rich of Jeans’ day suffered most} that so ustnz {t will gradually consume | jp their villa at Lake Como, Italy, in recently. and she anpposed her inst re | mie at It a eo Bs 6 oe Goods and Earthly Fame, Do These! keenly in their tlme of trouble, so the| tt: for the world knows hot the follow: ) June, HU. ut who tor three sears] Ferently. and she suphowwd er inet Fe | oa te nay be stopped for five oF ete: All Insure Blessings? CORES METIE Ati ise Sait encase Sak 4 tics Sota | een. nl Zincestee caccnee: mez BB demmcce Ei Spin Wee nce to gameens Wen th Benet ees eee Asheville, N. C.. July 20.—A large summer Conven- tion of the IxreR. NATIONAL BIBLE Srupests Assoct- atiox Is being held bere, with students of all ages attending. and giving evers evidence of growth in grace and knowledze of the Scriptures. The B23 = Boe ae =f Mes? sf as (PASTOR, RUSSELL} knowledze of the . Scriptures. The program calls for four discourses dally for eizht days Amongst the speakers are some noted Bible students, Pastor Russell wus one of the speakers of to- day. We report bis uddress, from the text, “Woe nnto you thut are rich! for Ye have received sour consolation, * * * And He lifted up His eres on His dis- ciples, and sald, Blessed be ye poor: for yoars is the Kingdom of God."— Luke 6244.29, Think aot, my dear brethren, said the Pastor, that my address is intended to atir up class animosity. The tribula- tions and disappointments of life come, not through heeding the Divine Mes- sage, but through neglecting it. Al- though net rich myself. 1 can sympa: thize with the rich In thelr position. as ‘well as with the pour in theirs. God, Himself very rich, is able to sympa- thize with both the poor and thé rich; fo is the Suvior, who, being rich, for our sakew became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich In the trucst sense of that word. Some of God's faithful servants In the past were very rich—Abrabam, for instance. Nevertheless, the Lord fore? warned us that not many rich, great, learned, or mixhty would receive the highest blessing promiséd during this Age. On the coutrary. recipients of the greatest fator will be chiefly the poor of thi» world, rich In faith. ‘These will be heirs of the Kingdom. ‘The Master evidently intended to in- elude riches of every kind—learning, Intuence, honor of men, etc, as well ts Goanclal wealth. ‘This-view broad- ens the text to sicnify that all who DOW possess Rreut privileges and bless- ings abore the average of mankind will, by these blessings, be more or less hindered from obtaininz the best things of God's favor. and more or less subject te woes. We are not to take the views of the Carker days, and to suppose that the Mastef meant that the rich’ at death would be thrown Into everlasting tor- ture. The woes of the Bible, on the contrary. apply to the present Ife. The rich, the influential, the learned, the great, nddressed by the Master fn the words of our tert, were living, in the close of the Jewish Age, but te- alized ft not. And we might have no decasion whatever to apply our tert to- das, but might consider ft as already tulfilled In the past. except for the fact that the Jewish nation and its expe- Hlences at that time typified the Gos- pel Church and the experiences of Christendom In our day. Wrath to the Uttermost Upon the Jews, St. Paul. refercing to the same woes _ which Jesus predicted, but living near the clove of the Jewish Age, when the Woes were being poured out, declared. Wrath bas come upon this, people to the uttermost—that all things written In the Law and the Propbets concera- {oz thom should be fulfilled. (1 Thes- salonians 2:16. If all the woes pur- powed of God upon the Israclites in the conclusinn of their Age were fulfilled as St. Pant declares. then none of those swoes belonz to the future: . That woes and tribulations are asso- rated with the present Ife for bott the rich and the poor {s undebatable All acknowledge these woes. But the most terrible forebodings are associates with Imaginary, woes of the future If —quite contrary te the Scripture teach Ings. If we must speak of tribula tons in the present life. In order to bi falthful to our commission. we ar glad to be able to set aside and nullif; the nightmare of the Dark Ages re spectinz eternal torment for any. The Jews, whom Jesus addressed He declared “knew not the tlme o their visitation.” ‘They realized no that they were living {n the end o thelr Are. and that a great settlemen of matters was abant to take place Similarly, we are now living In the en of this Gospel Aze—dnother great set tlement day .in the Divine arrange ment. The Intellectuaily. political ,socially and Gnancially rich at ths ‘time, addressed by our Lord, were ver self-satisicd, vers prosperous, an Jooked for the Messtanfe Kingdom { an opposite direction from that whic Jeeus taught, So today. the intelle tual and the rich In various ways ar yatisfied aos never before, and merel ‘Su ese afl oEINE Ter tee ee jugs and prosperfty In a direction the reverse of that {adicated by the Word of God, Jesus prophetically foreknew and foretuld the crisis of the Jewlsh nation. Hix Méssize gathered out of that na- tion the “Israelites Indeed. In whom was no fille ‘Then the nution was riven over to Itxelf.. The Divine Band which had gufded it xafely In the past ‘let go the rudder: und buman paxslon accomplished the wreck in the anarchy “which overthrew the nation in A. D. 70. Shinttarly, we may understand that ‘Row bas come the Hurrest of this Gospel Age: that now God Ix gathering -His Elect: and that as soon as this work shall have heen accomplished, the Almizhty’s Hand which has held in check thé powers of human passion up- tl now, will release Its hold, Then mankind, left to themselves will wreck their present civilization. As the rich of Jeans* day suffered most | keenly in their tlme of trouble, so the Tich will suffer most keenly ti the time of trouble now near. Thank God, how- ever, that these woes, both upon the Jews and upon Christendom today, are Rot woes of eternal torment! Compensations In Nature, Who has not been struck with Na- ture's compensations? The rich, the learned. the favored, have trials and difficulties, perplesities, cares, donbts and fears, which the poor, the unlearn- ed. know nathing about. The clerk, the mechanic and the laborer may fin- ish thelr toil under certain hours and be care free. while the employer often faces perplexinz problems which hin- der sleep and undermine bealth. . In matters of grace the same rule to some extent. prevails. The rich have more on which to set their hearts, More fo occupy their time, more to cul- tivate self-will, more opportunity for self-gratification, more riches for which to be responsible. more education by which, under present.conditions, errors are more likely to be gained than truth. The rich in influence have more to di- vert them and to cultivate their pride. The naturally noble, contrasting them- selves with thelr Inferior nelrhbors, are Inclined to resent the {dea that they are sinners, and as much depend- ent upon the Lord's grace as the bum- blest and the meanest of thelr fellows. No Pactiality With God. We are not to understund that God is partial to the poor, the mean, the illiterate, the Ignoble. The Scriptures assure us that God {fs impartial. All other conditions Ueing equal, riches, {honor nobilits of character, would make the possessors more esteemed in God's sight. Rut other conditions are not equal. During this Age God fs choosing a special class, He puts faith first. then meekness, gentleness. patience, brotherly kindness and love, in thelr order. Apparently the life experiences of the poor and Izngble are as favorable, or more sv, than the conditions of the rich and the talented. All of thelr es- periences tend to develop faith, while those of the rich tend rather to de- Yelop self-reliance, selfassurance. The experiences of the poor and Ignorant tend to develop meekness, teachable- Ress, whereas the experiences of the Jearned ted naturally toward self-con- celt. The experiences of the great in dealing with subordinates tend to be- | Bet arrosance’ ‘and — selfassurance: { Whereas If. they become disciples of Christ, those qualities are serious hand. fcaps and interferences, Thus we see why not many rich, wise, great and noble are amongst those upon whom the Gospel Message takes serious ef- fect. Not only have the poor many advantazes In respect to hearing and obtaining the Gospel Message: but thelr beinz more numerous than the rich would be another reason why they would predominate among the Lord's elect class 7 | Not All Poor Are Blessed, | Our test, however, does not refer to Poor people in general, but to a specta! | eines of poor “Blessed be ye poor: | for yours is the Kingdom of God.’ | Sanie:poor, tnstend of bela drawn ts | God by their poverty, cultivate a spir it of anger, mallee, hatred, strife, anc are thus not only embittered tn spirit | but have their fares turned in the op | posite direction from the one in whict God's blessings come. Alas, bowtruc | this ts today? The class described by Jesus as “ye poor Is composed of those who ar | bungeriny after righteousness, anc who have approached the Fountain o || Blessing, the Almizhty, and have beet recelved as children of God, The poo! ee ee, ok ee a ee ae Se ice of their Redcemer, to show forth His praises, no matter bow mnpopular His cause in the sight of men—no mat- ter how foolish it may cause them to appear In the eyex of those who are blinded to the Lord's arrangements. This poverty and sarritice does not meun the giving up of nuble sentl- ments und high fdeals: but it means the bringing of these Ideals, etc., Into the Lord's nervice, for the support and, advancement of His Mexsixe of Truth, for the blessing of mankind ulong the Mnes which Hix Word Indicates. This sacrifice. or surrender. does not mean that houor of men will be dixea- teemed thereafter: for jt will always be true that "a good name fs rather to be chosen than great riches." It means, that worldly reputation will be beld secondary to the Lord, the Truth, and service for the Lord's cause, so that whatever honor of men they may pos- sess will be turned as wisely ind! as prudently as posalbte Into the channels whieh will glorify the Lord and honor Hix Mesixe, regurdiéss of the fact that so using it will gradually consume It: for the world knows not the follow: ers of Jesus, even as it knew Him not, and appreciates not the true honor which cometh from Above, but merely the honor which fy of men, Worldly Wisdom Vs, Heavenly Wis- dom. The Scriptures distinctly point out that there’ ure two Kinds of wisdom, radically opposed to each other—the earthly wisdom and the Heavenly Wis- dom, ‘The Wisdom of this world ts foolishness with God, and the Wisdom of God Is foolishness with this world. This means that there are two differ- ent ways of vlewinz nenrly everything. The world's viewpoint ignores the fu- ture beyond the grave, ives for the Present, thinks for the present, strives for the present. ‘The Heavenly Wis- dom looks ciilefy beyond the grave, for thut eternal condition which God declares mar be attained by all obe- dient to im, from this viewpoint the things of the present are tempo- tary. transitory, fickle, uncertain, Io comparison with the future blessings. St. Paul declares of these that they are not worthy tu be compared with the fature glory to be revealed In the Lord's peuple.—Romans 8:18, . Those who follow the earthly wis- dom are subject to the fralltles and Imperfections of the human mind with which ther were born—born in_ sin, misshapen tn iniquity. “In sin did my mother conceive me." More than this. they are to n large degree susceptible to the evil influence of Satan and the fallen angels, and the “doctrines of demons” with which these seek to en- snare and mislead all who bave not put themselves under Divine protec: tlon by becoming disciples of Jesus. This includes the great majority of humanity, of whom the Apostle de clares that the god of this world bath blinded the minds of all those who be- Mere not, lest the glorious light of God's goodness, shining In the face of Jesus Christ. should shine into thelr hearts.—2 Corinthlans 4:4, Of these azain the Scriptures de- clare, “The whole world Heth in the Wieked One" Not Intentionally and knowingly. but igorantly, through de pravity and deception, they are servants of sin. Their only hope les ‘in the promise of God that eventually the time will ‘come when Messiah shal take IIlx great power, exalt Hi: Chureh, and institute a rule of right eousness in the world, which will bind Satan and break the shackles of iguo rance and supetstition, and bring In ¢ clear kuowledge of God and the ‘rath . Meantime. many in the world ar considerably swayed by the spirit o} Satan—anger, matice, hatred. envy strife. When ¢ircumstances are favors ble, these evil qualities are not brongh into activity; but under otber elreum stances, no evil work Is too vile. if 1 will mluister to their selfish propenst Hes. Thus today we see paople uo naturally bad. in the seuse of prefer ring evil to zood, but deluded and with out Diviue guidance, and thus ready t do unythiug and everything, unde stress of uvcessity, for the mainte nance of the present order of things Not knowing of God's Plan, und uo having the Wisdom from on High, the; are not waiting for Messiah's ‘King dom, but ate bent upon attaining thei own ends. in harmony with their ow theories, According to the Bible testimony these uri {he ones who are about t bring upen the world the great time o trouble, the like of which uever wa sluce there was a nation, (Dantel 12:1. TAKE GHARLTONTO ITALY FCR TRIAL Young American Fates Term _ In an Italian Dungeon, HOW HE MURDERED. WIFE New York Porter Chariton, the young Awericau who killed ply bride ib their villa at Lake Como, Italy, to dune, WIV, aud who tor three sears Das suecesstuly tought extnidition, nas been turned over to the Jtulinn govern: Ment env Wil be tried tor his crime. In the Hudson county Jult at derses City Chariton was under explonage which ax reltsed neither day wor night Jo the tear thit be faleht try to take nfs own fe rather than face a ving death tn ap ftaliap dun. geon He bad ov vistors suve his de cee . pens. ees an i ae Pe Be et, ae ear Be i Se aD ; ee Ronee 2 ¥ a S HES ty OTS Fae “ae ay ee ry & oe 3 : oer ; ce Ps ‘3 wr Fics ms ee B “of NS 4 Se pe BGA Janes s RECUR [So ee PURTER CHARLTON Yoted father, Paul Charlton, former United States judge at Porto Rico: bis mother aud brother and bls counsel. . ‘The erie tof which Charitou must Dow auicd tral erested worldwide ate tention beenuse of tis grewsome set- ting und the prominence of the slayer's faintly, ‘The tight against extradition occusianed Internutional Interest and at one Yue threatened to embrell this: country with ftaly. a Porter Chuslton was a New York bank cierk when he niet Mrs. Neville B, Castle, «di corcee and daughter of Hepry i Scot, a San Pranciseg coal merchant, ‘Ihe wooing of Charlton was ardent aud rapid, with the result that the couple were secretly married In Wilnington, 221. to Aprit, 1910 A few dnys miter (he, sent announcements to thelr friends and then salled for Eu- rope on their hovesmioon. Letters re- celsed by Captain Scott, attached to the coast artillery ut Fort Myer, led to the belle? tut the-couple were happy. and peucentiy enjoying themselves. | On the Worn.ag of June 10 the body of Mrs. Chariton was found by tsher- ep ina trunk in Lake Como not tar ‘trom the villa the pulr had occupted. Ao Investigation was started py the police of Cerpubbie, and i Russian Bamed Constantine Ispolntott was ar- rested. When the anthorities searched for Charlton be bad dixappeared. It was at tirde believed Chariton bad met death déteoding his wife's honor and the like was searched for bis bods. ‘Then if was Jearned from the proprietor of the Hotel Suisse at Cer- Fnobbiv tbat x couple had frequently appeared there nud registered as Mr | and Mrs. Potter. They bad often ' quurteled, sind ob several oceasiuns the | rou bad been seen weeping. Ouce the guests Heard shrleks, and the pro Prietor found Mrs, Charltun bidden In a clowt. Later ber pusband dragged ber tu the vtreet, aud the proprietor asked the pair to teave bis hotel. ‘These stories turned suspicion upon Chariton, und the police of the entire world were asked to arrest nim op sight. Noue of the detectives assigned to the cnse wus more indefatigable than Captain Scott. He swore to be revenged und obtained a leave of ab sence. Scott thought bls brother-In law inight be on the Deutschtand and was op bund when she docked. No trace of Chariton was found, and be strulled over to the Prinzess [rene. He had never seen the ubject of his quest, Dut n man on the pler answered bis description. und he erased bis ar- rest. He had arrived under an as- sumed name, put admitted, bis Identity when his uwn name was found stitch ed Inside ‘nix tanndry bag. He then beemed slad that the strain was over. At pollee headquarters be made a Lwritten confession, in which! be sald that, white sis wite wns “the best wo- mao In Ue world.’ they often quar. reled over trivial matters, and sbe would cuit mim font names. ‘The night of the siurder sBe sent into a temper, and i 4 dive he xtruck Der with a mallet be tad been using to straighten out the lez of 4 conch, He then placed the mallet and beds in a trunk, drag. ged the trunk from the ctila te a small Pler aud threw it tuts Lake Como, FINDS HEARSE AT STATION. Plans For Fureral. Bellefontaine, U. When Mrs, Georze W. Care or Velfuw pprings atighted from 4 trang at Wet Liberty recently abe Was surprised to sie a Dye, an Ondertuker aut enrriages, one velig occupied My ber inother snd a clergy bun, awaiting fer comin. She found rhe way Supposed to nave dial and thal theghearne was 10 Uke ner Dedy to West Laberts cemetery, A mlstuke in a tewzntin was the canse, “Mrs, Carr's mother, Mrs, Eliza det Shumate, received a telegram: easing Mr Carr tid died Mondis night and that the beds we .td arrive at West Liberty. Mrs Shanuate bad received a letter Previously in which Mrs Carr sald ahe would visit ner mother. Mrs. Sbu- Tate wus prostrated when the sup Posed death message came. Her bns- band died suddemy a sear ago, and ber ‘kon passed nwngs without warning recently, and she supposed her inst re maining child was also dead. When Mrs. Carr stepped front the train allve and well there was a prtbetic reunion. Mang friends of Mra. Carr were also at the.depot, for the village newsnaper had published a column obltuary no tee. PORCUPINE TO BE DISPLAYED Another of Perry's Ships Discovered and Fitted Up. Cleveland - ‘The Porcupine. another Vessel of the fleet which, under Com- modore ferry, defeated the, British fleet {n the battle of Lake Erle tn the war of I812, lias been discovered and fs being repalred to take part in the centennial celebrations of Perry's vic- tory Ratyed from the shore of the lake eight years ago aud hauted ashore by Charles G Bolthouse, the Poreapine ts beinz refitted by Mr Bolthonse and bis cousin, 8 J, Itenners of Cleveland. After the battle of Lake Erle the Porcupine was used In the government Tevenie <erviee on the great Inkes until 1830, when sbe was sold at auc- tfun to Senntor Ferry of Michigan. Senator Ferre rebutit the boat and used her in the lumber trade until 1847 Unfit for further use, the Porcu- pine was turned adrift and later soat- ed Inta the harbor of Grand iver, Mich, and sunk. CHARMED BY MUSIC, SNAKE FREES VICTIM Wrapped Around Man, It Loos- ens Coils as Girl Plays, Punssntawney, Pa.—With the coils of a python titenty tive feet Jong tightening zraduatly aronnd bis body. Jones Hace Sténzer, tnanager for a carnival ecompahy. esraped being crushed to death only through the power of mnusw7te soothe the reptile Aflet the efturts Ot six wen bad failed to diodzett | Mr Stenger wns superintending the noloading ot at (tox of snakes wbep the gwihon esedpd For ao Instant the reptite seemed to be dazed: and as Mr. Stehger rogk a stick and tried to pusb It throngh a door into a big glass case the snake turned tke a flash, In an Ivstaut the python entwined Itself around Mr Stenger, pluning bis arms to his sides : Six men went to Mr. Stenger's ald and fttempted to pull the snake from bis ‘bods. The fatds of the big reptile. boweser. oni drew closer, and Sir Stenger was on the serze of a collapse when Mite La Roneto, who owns the reptile, appeared with w tiageolet be tween hee tps 4 . Statfoning herself near the snake, ane began te play tow, weird aielody, at the same time swaying her beds te and fro gently Ralsing ite head. the python bezan to stay in chethm with the plaser and the maste, and, gradu, ally loosening {te folds from Mtr Stencer. 11 coiled on the gronnd with {ts head <winginz from Ide to side. lowly approaching the snake, Mle La Roneto till pliving gently, forced ‘ft Into the glass eage In the mean time Mr Stencer, who bad tonpley over mneoneclons when released, from the folds ot the snake, was revived and found to be uninjured. MAN DROWNED BY FISH. Tries to Swim River Carrying Forty Pounds ot Them. Newton, N J- Harry C. Pitman, eighteon senrs old, was drowned In trying to swim the Paullnskit river sith a eaten of forty pounds of all Kinds of fish strung about his neck He went down In the whiripoot near the Stillwater bridge, white friends who thought bls cries for betp were In fon tauzhed at him ‘They answered hia gevend frantic ery. Dut too tnte. Pitman went spearing fish witb Ed ward Hott ot Hnedwick township, oF whom he wa< emploved, and Lester Hut, brother of Edward Phes nad good luck, and at 2.30 o'clock deelded thes had enough to Seal ita night” Pitman suczestedt that they swim back and started ttre Sheds Toe Nails Brennially. Bedford. Ind JW. Munds of, thts city sheds the units trom nis toes es éry two seurs, and this has occurred since be wasn child When asked to see his foot, Mr Mundy bared nis left fSot and showed the old nails, barely hanginz to the toes, and the oew nals rowing ander the u!d ones, HEART MAY STOP BEATING. Physician Says Ten Minute Interrus- Gen is Not Danceruie Paris.—The following very Interes+ ing stntewents. some of which are cow aldered striking by the leading light: of French wedical selence, were mute by Dr. Alexis Curkél of the Bockefellet Institute For Medical Research, New York, at bls Srst official lecture at the Paul Beaujon bospital = Dr. Carrel announced’ that be wa: now able to operate in the chest cavity with as ciuch ease and safety as tn the abdomen. “It is now a‘simple cat.” le aald, “und“we open the thorax and up erate upon the lungs, heart and aorts As we treat the kidneys and the Inte« tines, We uow know also just bow much the brain, the spinal cord and the heart can stand as regards the tempo rary anaesthetics requireg by oper tions. “The heart suffers very Nth fir Interrupted circulation as long as z_~ is taken that It bas enough, oxyeew and It may be stopped for five or ever: ten minutes without danger, while th. the spinal marrow the circulation my be stopped ay long as twenty minutes “For the brain. bowever, four mtn utes ty the-Ilmit of safety, and afte: five It Is very ditiicult to restore norn:t conditions.” a A huge eld of work remained. tn safd In concJusion, to be done as re gards operations upon the bumar heart, and the study of these was +/ the greatest possible importance. This was especially true of surgery for aneurisms and the shrinking of the aorta or pulmonary arteries. OLD POLITICAL FEUD OFFICIALLY ENDED Tillman and Gonzales Recor. tiled, Even After Bloodshed. Columbia, S. C.—When United States Senator Benjamin ityan Tillman of South Carolina recently consented t+ the confirmatton by the senate of Prem {dent Wilson's appointment of Willluin B. Gonzales, editor of the Columbis (S. GC.) .State; as minister to Cuba n f mous political and personal feud of twenty-four years’ standing in Sout: Carolina cume to an official end. The ‘Tillman und Gonzales families have deen bitter enemies, nnd the Palmerte State has been the scene of many hrs" ed battles fought by able leaders wn both sides On one ocension the differ ences were nuginented by bloodshed ‘The Gonzales brothers—three _ot them—were exponents of views uf the old uristocrutte element—the ex slave owners und wealthy planters w'e could trace their ancestors back buat dreds of years and who composed tie soclety element and the financial baci, bone of the state. Senator Tillmaw ti his vigorous and stirring campaign for governor of South Carollna in the ear ly nineties was victorlous over thls op positiun. He was elected United States senator nnd his served his state fn thls capacity for the past sixteen years. James ‘Tillman, a nephew of the ee ator, was elected Heutenant governor Later he was a candidate for governur The Gonzales’ tight on the Tillmans had never tet up—many stinging und rebukinz editorials were published in their paper James Tillman was de feated Shortly after the election he met N. G Gonzales, at that time edi- tor of the paper. om the streets of Colambia and shot him dead. He sut+ sequently was nequitted. A monument now st:nds In Columbla honoring the memory of N. G. Gonzales. On this it fs recorded that Gonzales was “mur dered” near the spot where the monn ment stands. . Jim Tillman, as he ‘was generally known, was later retired from polities He became {It with tuberculosis The climate «if the west falled to cause nm Improvement In his condition, and fiw returned to bis native state. In the meantime he bad qunrreled with ‘ih ancle, anil the breach was an open on The last dass of Jim Tillman were spent In lonely Ittle cottage at Aste ville, N.C. and he dled there abort a year nzo ‘The bitter campaign of 1912 against Cole 1. Meaxe came on In South Care Mina, In Ancust, 1912 For the first time Tillman and Gonzales were on the same side, both favoring the el tion of the upponent of Blease. ‘Thiv tended to bring the two factions 1 closer terms ‘The fact that Senatw- Tillman permitted the senate to con firm the nppointment of Mr. Gonzal~ as minister to Cnba officially ends th struczle of twenty years, marked by » continnal and able Sghting on both ides and, even by bloodshed. SOCKLESS MAN IS DIVORCES. Wife Says She Washed His Face 2rs Hands Daily. Chicaxu.—Mecause her husband wa< too Iazy te wasb bis face and would not wear socks unless she put them on him, Mrs. Jessie Wood of East Elct~ eenth street. Paterson, bas obtained divorce. 7 According to Sirs. Wood,. ber bu« band, James G.. was the personifi-» ton of Inziness She endured him for five years, Ste testifed that Wooil r~. fused to work fle developed a cr<it® desire to sleep dering the day. Theo she sass, he heeame so lazy be waht not take a bath Rather than Intite criticism sn~ wasbed his hands and face dally ntrl put on his socks fle was ablebodled. but bis wife says he was Just naturat- ly “tre.” THE BEE Published at 1109, Eye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months ...1.00 Three months ....50 Subscription monthly ...20 THE VIRGINIAN. A celebrated play quite popular a few seasons back was entitled "The Virginian," in which Dustin Farnham greatly added to his histrionic reputation. "The Virginian," however, of whom we write, is quite another gentleman—that is to say, quite another personality, for the term gentleman, as defined by a leading authority is: "A man of education, high principles, courtesy and kindness; a man of honor." If "the Virginian" of whom we write comes within this description we have not been apprised of that fact, hence we prefer to refer to him as a "personality." His name is John Skelton Williams, and he is at present one of the Assistant Secretaries of the United States Treasury Department—a Virginian by birth, rearing and tradition. The traditional Virginian is a Bourbon and everybody will readily recall what Napoleon said about the Bourbons: "They learn nothing, they forget nothing." Mr. Williams apparently does not know that the year 1913 is not the year 1863—that the colored citizen of 1913 is quite a different factor, from the slave just on the eve of his emancipation. The frantic efforts he has been making to establish "Jim Crow" regulations in the Treasury Department—a building belonging to the people of the United States, shows his Bourbon characteristics—his inability to forget the past or to face the future with a full comprehension of the fact that the colored man is now a citizen and no longer a slave. Senator Robert M. LaFollette in his magazine some months ago,paid his respects to this Virginian from the angle of an honest white man looking to the good of his country and showed his financial affiliations with the "sinister interests," and we desire to call the attention of the President to his activities of this Bourbon in using his official position to oppress colored men and women under him in the Treasury; Department and to demand his removal. By subtle, devious and uncertain ways an order has been issued in the Treasury Department establishing there the same institution with which this Virginian is acquainted in Richmond—separate toilets for colored ladies and for colored men. And we propose to see whether there is sufficient law, and respect for the equality of all before the law in United States Government buildings to enable us to get rid of this disgraceful persecution and the man responsible for it. The black man who was wounded at Petersburg and who bears upon his body the scars of battle received in defense of the Union, will find out before long that while this Bourbon may put his impious touch upon him for the present, it will not be for long. MORE SEGREGATION The employees of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving have been segregated. When the order came this week there was one white chief who demurred and said that the colored and white women were getting along nicely. But, when one higher up called and informed the white chief that his white and colored employees had to be separated, the chief reluctantly went to his colored employees and told them that he was compelled to separate them. This segregation in this "BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM." Hardly had President Wilson taken his oath of office before there sprang up in this city a Negro baiting organization, calling itself "The Democratic Fair Play Association." Representatives of this association sought to cast discredit upon the administration of those departmental bureaus presided over by colored men. The local press was besieged by this hate-born organization, in its frantic efforts to create sentiment for the segregation of all the colored employees in the executive departments of the government. By day and by night labored the members of this mis-named club of moral deformities, appealing to the basest passion in the bosom of Democratic members of Congress, urging them in any way possible to humiliate the colored employees of the government. These moral lepers continued their hell-born labors until the Washington Herald in two ably written news articles traced the personal histories of the founders, which did not look good in print and drove them out of business. Since then Mr. Joseph E. Ralph, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, doubtless in his efforts to hold on under a Democratic administration has employed the great powers of his office by forcing every young colored lady in his bureau to occupy a separate lunch table, while he has segregated them in every way that it is possible for him to do. Next in order came Auditor Kram—Auditor of the Postoffice Department, who ordered all of the colored employees in his office in the future to use separate toilets. Certain gentlemen who attempted to discover the author of this infamous order were told that it emanated from Postmaster General Burleson, who had supreme control over the building in which Mr. Kram's office is located. A protest was made that the Postmaster General had no authority to order clerks in the Treasury Department to conform to such a regulation, and just here John Skeleton Williams, of Richmond, Virginia, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, assumed responsibility for the order. A month or so having elapsed and no general upheaval having resulted, it was thought that public sentiment either approved these discriminatory insults, or was indifferent; hence, on July 14 Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury Department issued an order of a similar kind to be applied to the colored clerks in all branches of the Treasury Department in the city of Washington. If one should enter the main building of the Treasury Department now there would be seen printed in black letters on the glass panel of a door, "For colored men only," and just opposite, "For colored women only." In this building there are not more than five or six colored ladies, yet they, too, have been oppressed and terrorized by this reactionary Tennessee, who claims that he looks very much like Abraham Lincoln, and who is rather proud of his resemblance to the Great Emancipator. The question which now arises is, shall we submit to these outrages without a vigorous effort to overthrow them? If we do submit they will spread all over this city just as they are now spreading in every department over which a Southern white man has power. Another question arises: is not a federal statute being violated which prohibits officials of the government from oppressing those over whom they exercise administrative power? Mr. Woodrow Wilson last winter in reply to a letter written him by a prominent colored clergyman in this city, said: "I intend to treat every man like a Christian gentleman." A simple and lofty sentiment, but the question arises, will he get busy with his Christian virtues? "By their fruits ye shall know them." A VIOLATION OF LAW. If the government violates and disregards the Constitution of the United States, why should it prosecute persons for more heinous offenses? What right has the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an order segregating a certain class of its employees? Is not the colored citizen an American who is born and reared in this country? This race prejudice comes from the South. Why is the South so much opposed to the colored man? The Bee-will admit that all classes of colored Americans are no more perfect than all classes of white citizens. The colored American is part of this government; why then, should he be discriminated against? The colored soldier gave up life and property to defend the flag. He has always been ready and willing to do as much to protect this country as the white man. His loyalty and bravery have never been questioned, but on the contrary he has been commended. Our own Major C. A. Fleetwood holds a medal for bravery. He fought to uphold this flag and perpetuate this Union. There are thousands of old colored veterans living today. Recognizing the loyalty and valor of these veterans, why then, should this government say that these old soldiers are unfit to be treated as American citizens? Why should they be set aside in one corner of the government which they assisted in saving, while those who attempted to destroy the Union be permitted to enjoy all the rights and privileges of this republic? The time has come for the colored Americans to rise and assert their independence. We are told that we should go slow. Why so? Every nationality has a country but the colored Americans. They have a country to which they can look with pride and admiration. The South is jealous of the colored man's progress and advancement. Of course there are a few honorable exceptions, and the traducers of the black man will yet live to see his rise, notwithstanding these segregation laws. If the government violates and disrespects the United States, why should it prosecute offenses? What right has the Secession issue an order segregating, a certain clerk not the colored citizen an American who country? This race prejudice comes from South so much opposed to the colored man that all classes of colored Americans are classes of white citizens. The colored man government; why then, should he be discolored soldier gave up life and property has always been ready and willing to do country as the white man. His loyalty been questioned, but on the contrary Our own Major C. A. Fleetwood holds fought to uphold this flag and perpetual thousands of old colored veterans living loyalty and valor of these veterans, why ment say that these old soldiers are unfit citizens? Why should they be set aside enrmment which they assisted in saving, w to destroy the Union be permitted to enjleges of this republic? The time has colonists to rise and assert their independent should go slow. Why so? Every nation the colored Americans. They have a look with pride and admiration. The Spored man's progress and advancement. Honorable exceptions, and the traducers live to see his rise, notwithstanding these. NO HOPE FOR NEGRO DAY The Democratic party has no faith in co-leaders in the Democratic party scorn the colored Democrats so-called. What can co-colored man with a grain of sense can a party that is denying him of his civil life after theinauguration of President Wilson colored Democracy filed a list of candidates the President. These candidates have no whatever. Many of them had to borrow homes. The only places that have been crats have been menials. Charles L. Bar only place of any consequence, and Mr. to do the menial work that went with a found out Mr. Barnes was told that he co- and hold this place. If his place was co- yet been given to alleged colored Democ colored Democrats to expects? ment violates and disregards the law, why should it prosecute person that right has the Secretary of Agriculture, a certain class of citizen an American who is born since prejudice comes from the Society supposed to the colored man? The colored Americans are no more citizens. The colored Americans then, should he be discriminative, give up life and property to deprived and willing to do as much white man. His loyalty and bravery but on the contrary he has C. A. Fleetwood holds a medal, this flag and perpetuate this colored veterans living today, of these veterans, why then, so these old soldiers are unfit to be tried they be set aside in one they assisted in saving, while the nation be permitted to enjoy all the public? The time has come for assent their independence. Why? Why so? Every nationality of Americans. They have a country and admiration. The South is less and advancement. Of councils, and the traducers of the laws, notwithstanding these secretes. OPE FOR NEGRO DEMOCRATIC party has no faith in colored democratic party scorn the idea so-called. What can colored D with a grain of sense can give any him of his civil and political of President Wilson the easy filed a list of candidates with these candidates have received of them had to borrow money in places that have been given materials. Charles L. Barnes was consequence, and Mr. Barnes was work that went with his job Barnes was told that he couldn't face. If his place was considered alleged colored Democrats, what was to expects? NO HOPE FOR NEGRO DEMOCRACY. The Democratic party has no faith in colored Democracy. Many leaders in the Democratic party scorn the idea of recognizing colored Democrats so-called. What can colored Democrats hope for? No colored man with a grain of sense can give aid and comfort to a party that is denying him of his civil and political rights. Soon after the inauguration of President Wilson the so-called leaders of colored Democracy filed a list of candidates with the secretary to the President. These candidates have received no encouragement whatever. Many of them had to borrow money to return to their homes. The only places that have been given to so-called Democrats have been menials. Charles L. Barnes was appointed to the only place of any consequence, and Mr. Barnes hired another man to do the menial work that went with his job. When this was found out Mr. Barnes was told that he couldn't play the gentleman and hold this place. If his place was considered the best that has yet been given to alleged colored Democrats, what is the so-called colored Democrats to expects? Bureau was inaugurated under the Taft administration by the director of the Bureau. The Democratic administration is doing no more than what Republicans inaugurated. If colored Americans, in the several departments, would appeal to the conscience of this country conditions would be changed. Take a poor white man, elevate him to a chieftain, he forgets himself. Every well dressed and cultured colored American is distasteful to his eyes, and from that moment he attempts to prove that he is inferior to him. Segregating colored disregards the Constitution of prosecute persons for more heinous Secretary of the Treasury to main class of its employees? Is man who is born and reared in this class from the South. Why is the colored man? The Bee-will admit man are no more perfect than all colored American is part of this race be discriminated against? The property to defend the flag. He is to do as much to protect this loyalty and bravery have never arbitrary he has been commended. He holds a medal for bravery. He perpetuate this Union. There are living today. Recognizing the why, then, should this govern unfit to be treated as American aside in one corner of the government, while those who attempted to enjoy all the rights and privilages come for the colored Dependence. We are told that wevy nationality has a country but live a country to which they can The South is jealous of the colient. Of course there are a few educators of the black man will yet beg these segregation laws. PRO DEMOCRACY. With in colored Democracy. Many born the idea of recognizing colored Democrats hope for? sense can give aid and comfort to civil and political rights. Soon Wilson the so-called leaders of candidates with the secretary to have received no encouragement borrow money to return to their been given to so-called Demo-L. Barnes was appointed to the old Mr. Barnes hired another man with his job. When this was not he couldn't play the gentleman was considered the best that has Democrats, what is the so-called Americans will not make them inferior to those who may have the power to segregate. The Bee knows that the colored American is inferior to no one. President Wilson is responsible for this gross injustice to the Negro. He is a Christian. If this is the kind of Christianity that he possesses The Bee doesn't want to realize his unchristian spirit. The fact of the matter is certain Democrats are saying that the Negro is a fool for having supported them; that no Negro is a Democrat and they know it. RETIREMENT OF TEACHERS. Neither the Republican nor Democratic Congress had enough sympathy for the faithful teachers in our public schools to pass a measure to retire those who have given their entire life to the education of the youth. Information reaches this office to the effect that a number of teachers, white and colored, will be recommended for perpetual retirement. It will be remembered that many of our teachers have been faithful to the cause of education, and when there was no money to pay them in days gone by they gave their service free. The colored members of the Board of Education should see to it that there are many so-called live teachers in our schools who have lost their usefulness and for the good of the schools they should be removed. Would it not be an admirable act on the part of the superintendents to examine many of these supervisors and principals who are in the habit of marking down good teachers? Is it not a fact that at least two of the colored supervisors in our colored schools should be retired, not only on account of age, but for other causes? One of the best educators in our schools today is Prof. Nelson E. Weatherless. The Bee would suggest that the case of Miss Mattie E. Bowen be looked into. Information has come to The Bee, notwithstanding Miss Bowen's recent illness, her school has been as good as any in her grade. This is what the teachers in the building say. Miss Bowen should not be retired. She has given the best portion of her life to the schools, and her race. She has done more for the uplift of humanity than any of those who have marked her poor. Mrs. Harris, Drs. Childs and Marshall, do your duty. Ralph W. Tyler, national organizer for the National Negro Business League, returned this week from a trip through West Virginia. He will remain in the city for a week or ten days, after which he will leave for the East for an indefinite' stay. The Sage is off on his annual vacation to Atlantic City On his return he will resume his interesting column "Public Men and Things" in The Bee. Don't miss getting a copy of The Bee each week, because his stay will only depend on his purse, and he is likely to resume at any time. NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINE LEAGUE The Local Negro Business League of Philadelphia has issued a splendidly printed program outlining its plans for the entertainment of the hundreds of delegates, who are expected to attend the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League to be held there Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 20, 21, and 22. The Common Council of Philadelphia has appropriated five thousand dollars toward the expenses of entertaining the League. All of the meetings of the League are to be held in Musical Fund Hall, Locus Street, above Eighth, except the Wednesday evening session, which will be held in the Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets. This particular meeting will be addressed by Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg and President Booker T. Washington. John Wanamaker, the merchant prince, has been invited by the Philadelphia League to be present and extend greetings on the same evening. The general outline of the official program follows: Wednesday morning, August 20, session at 10 o'clock in Musical Fund Hall. Locust Street, above Eighth. Wednesday evening session, at 8 o'clock, in the Academy of Music, southwest corner Broad and Locust Streets. Thursday morning, August 21, session 10 o'clock. Thursday afternoon, August 21, Industrial Street Parade, 3 to 5 o'clock. Thursday afternoon, August 21, automobile trip around city, 2 to 5 o'clock. Thursday afternoon, August 21, Hon. John Wanamaker will entertain delegates in the Egyptian Hall of the Great Wanamaker Store, at 5 o'clock. Thursday evening session 8 o'clock. Friday morning, August 22, session, 10 o'clock. Friday afternoon, recess. Friday afternoon, banquet and reception to be tendered members of the League at Horticultural Hall, at 9 o'clock. Saturday afternoon, August 23, 1 to 7 o'clock, a steamboat excursion down, then up the Delaware River to Burlington Island Park will be given in honor of the delegates. Every detail requisite to make this an unexcelled event has been arranged by the committee in charge. The steamer will accommodate 2,600 persons. Delegates intending to be present are urged to send notice of such intention at once to the chairman of the Committee on Homes, Mr. John W. Harris, League Headquarters, 1438-40 Lombard Street, Philadelphia. The Committee on Arrangements has secured rooms in the Baltimore House, 1438-40 Lombard Street, for Convention Headquarters, and mail intended.for delegates may be sent to this address. Delegates are urged to perfect arrangements for Pullman or tourist car parties whereby the journey may be made to Philadelphia in comfort and in congenial form. Delegates intending to be present are urged to send advance enrollment of two dollars ($2) at once to Emmett J. Scott, Corresponding Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, who will furnish any additional information that may be needed or desired. ATLANTA'S MONUMENT. Progress of the Southern Colored Man—The Great Odd Fellows' Building. By Booker T. Washington, Principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. Atlanta, Ga., July 19. A few months ago the Negro Odd Fellows of Georgia dedicated in Atlanta their $100,000 brick building. Passing through Atlanta not long ago I was urged to visit this structure; for its fame as a landmark in Negro progress had already come to me from many sources. In every way I found that this building represented the rapid upward march of the colored people, of Atlanta and of Georgia at large. Negro ambition conceived the vision, Negro brains devised the plans, Negro money paid for the brick and mortar and Negro hands and brains placed the building there. It is worth a trip to Atlanta for any colored man. to see this building. He cannot go inside without feeling inspired with a new and enlarged confidence in his race. Fifty years ago had any man predicted that the Negroes of Atlanta would have erected such a building, he would have been considered a fit subject for an insane asylum. No person who has not been inside of this building can imagine what fine appointments it has. Its tile floors, marble counters, fine elevator service, its corridors ten feet wide, faced with Georgia marble to a height of ten feet, its marble columns, its two big 100 horse-power steam engines, its splendid electric lighting system, all conspire to overwhelm one with the bigness of the conception and execution yet so rare among colored people. Fifty years ago it is doubtful if there was a set of Negroes in the whole world who could do what the contractor, Mr. R. E. Pharrow, has done in constructing such a monument of Negro progress. But the building is not there merely as a monument, though when it comes to inspiration I doubt if it does not serve a better purpose than most structures erected to such ends. It is there serving in a most remarkable and unefficient capacity. It houses nearly all the larger Negro businesses in the city, thus giving the Negroes of Atlanta a business center and the Negro business men direct contact with men of his calling. Here on the first floor are located the Negro bank, a tailor shop, a barber shop, a cafe and two soda fountains. Forty-two offices on the second and third floors are occupied by lawyers, doctors, real estate and insurance men, while the fifth and sixth floors are given over to lodge meetings; more than fifty lodges, I am told, are accommodated in these rooms five nights each week. In other words, the building thus serving as a center, is not a dead weight, but a paying proposition. Therein were those who planned and agitated such a structure long-headed. They saw how useful such a building would be and what profit it would bring. Practically every room in the building is rented and is bringing in a handsome income. The stores on the first floor yield a rent of $2,740 per year, the forty-two offices $6,510, the lodge rooms $3,300, making in all a rent yield of $12,550—11 per cent on the $100,000 investment. On one of the floors of this building—I think it is the third—are located the rooms of the Atlanta Independent, the Georgia, and to a large degree United States spokesman for Negro Odd Fellows. The editor of the Independent, Mr. Benjamin J. Davis, is in connection with the Odd Fellows Building to be envied and congratulated. Long before the foundation of such a structure was laid, or a site chosen, Mr. Davis, week after week and month after month, devoted his columns to the subject of an Odd Fellows building, and when it was once begun his enthusiasm, ingenuity and courage kept hope and assurance in the breasts of all. I think Mr. Davis and his co-workers do not realize what a great service they have done. They point to it with pride, because it is in Atlanta, but such a structure belongs rather to the whole race. And as the real beauty and use of the building become better known the whole race will eagerly come forward and offer Mr. Davis and his co-workers a vote of thanks. THE SAGE TAKEN TO TASK. Mr. Offord's Tart Reply. Sage of the Potomac, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I regret that I am unable to address you other than by your nom de plume; however, that will answer my purpose. Your contribution to The Bee of July 19th, in which you mention my name as having figured in a fight, etc., has just been brought to my attention. The story in the main is but the creation of your prolific imagination, and does you great credit as a humorist, and while I believe your writings flow from a spirit of humor, free from any desire to injure anyone, I am constrained to say that I am sorry that your intelligence and usual good judgment did not prevent you from associating my name with such an affair at this time. The article may have been intended as a joke, but a critical public does not always share the writer's humor. My recent trip to Washington, as you may know, was to demand a public retraction and an apology from one who had libelled me, and I did not leave until that was done. Same was published in The Bee, and it seems inconceivable that you would indorse the acts of the guilty party to the extent of making him appear a "hero" in your article, which would only have the effect of robbing me of the benefits 'that should come to me through the publication of the retraction and apology a week before. I am a young man, trying to prepare myself for a useful life, and foremost among my ambitions is to have the respect of everyone. My only mistake, possibly was, that I allowed myself to be used in Washington by "posers" too long, some of whom have passed the noon merian of life many years ago, and who now, fearing that they are being relevated to the innocuous desuetude politically, are vengaged in the villainous work of character assassins. I hope you will not take offense, because of this note, but you understand that a thing left unsaid at a particular time can do more good than volumes written afterwards, by way of explanation. The whole affair has caused me a deal of worry, and to date I am out more money than anyone else involved, and I don't think I deserved this, your latest "joke." Respectfully yours, WM. L. OFFORD, 1737 Christian Street, Philadelphia, Pa. No. 1—The Man Who Failed Back in the days when the cooking for the students at Tuskegee was done out of doors in pots and the principal entrance requirement was a "desire to make something of himself", a young man, Jaillous Perdue, came there to get an education. He was financially poor and intellectually dull. Examinations he could not pass. After struggling along for several years and accumulating a lot of examination failures, he decided to quit school, go out to work and help educate his sisters. Although he had failed in his literary subjects, he had nevertheless got an education in how to use his hands. He had learned to be a carpenter. Out in the world he went and began to work at this trade. As soon as he had earned a little money he placed three of his sisters in school at Tuskegee, and with the help of his brother, Augustus, who had graduated there, paid their expenses, of two of them for three years and of one for four years. In the meantime Jailouls had succeeded at his trade, and gone into business for himself at Montgomery, Alabama, as a contractor and builder. Here also he was successful and did millions of dollars worth of work. No job was too small or too large for him to make a bid on. If he did not have a contract of his own, he was not above working for some other contractor, and as a result he was always busy. He has superintended the construction of some of the largest buildings in Montgomery. Among the buildings the erection of which he has superintended are the Exchange Hotel, at a cost of $150,000; the First Baptist Church, at a cost of $175,000; the First National Bank Building, at a cost of $350,000, and the Bell Building, at a cost of $450,000. Mr. Perdue also assisted as foreman or assistant foreman in erecting many of the important buildings at Tuskegee Institute, such as the Principal's House, the Chapel, the Library, Rockefeller Hall, the Academic Building, and the Millbank Agricultural Building. It is hardly necessary to say in passing that Mr. Perdue has accumulated property or that he owns a good house in Montgomery, for in these progressive days every black man in the South with any foresight is investing some part of his earnings in property. The most interesting and somewhat remarkable thing about the career of Mr. Perdue and the greatest measure of his success is that he is now a member of the faculty at Tuskegee Institute. Twenty-three years after he had left there a literary failure he was invited to come back as an instructor in carpentry. Thus it was that the man who failed succeeded and returned to the scene of his failure a success. THE DIFFERENCE Ella Wheeler Wilcox. To the coal black maid, The white man said, You must yield your honor to me: For I am king of everything; Aye, king of land and sea. Now a beast or a bird mates but with its kind, Yet a man will follow the lust of his mind. The pitiless skies Heard the black girl's cries. And men turned an ear of stone. For the good God gave to the king his slave. And the world should let them alone. And why should it talk of the white man's sin When the black girl's child has tawny skin? The black man said, To the snow-white maid: You must yield to my brutal will. I am morally blind, And I hate your kind, And I know how to throttle and kill; I have no brains, but my sinews are strong, With the grudge of a hundred years of wrong. The white girl's cry arose wide and high, It hurt the ears of the world, Then blind and stark, Out into the dark, A blundering soul was hurled. For a woman's honor all men will fight, And avenge her wrongs—if her skin be white. The Week in Society Everybody is now going to Board's Pharmacy at 1912½ 14th Street. Cooling breezes and colder soda—so delicious, so snappy, tasty and pleasing, make existence here a pleasure, regardless of outside summer heat. Highest grade drugs and medicines at Board's, the 14th Street Pharmacy. Mrs. Sadie Freeman Boyd, wife of Dr. Benjamin Boyd, of 501 Florida Avenue, is in Atlantic City for two weeks. Thence to Waterbury, Conn., stopping a few days in New York City on her return home. Miss Inez Duvall was married to Mr. Morton Crump at 225 De Kolb Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Miss Jessie Duvall to Dr. W. E. Grey at home, 318 Fern Street, Thomasville, Ga. Cal. Lyvers, of Milwaukee, Wis., is in this city and he intends to enter the national home for the old soldiers. Mr. H. Clarence Henderson, having successfully finished as Freshman at Howard University, is spending the vacation months on the shores of the picturesque Lake Champlain, in New York. Mr. Joseph Curtis is the guest of Mrs. Rosa Avis, Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. W. H. Fox, of Newport News, Va., has returned home after a visit in this city. Miss Bertha Mae Fitts, a former graduate of Howard University, is taking a summer course at the N. R. T. School, Durham, N. C. Mr. Thomas L. Robinson visited his brother and sister Sunday in Leesburg, Va. Rev. Richardson, of this city, the great moving picture show man, entertained the people of Leesburg, Va., Monday night. S. H. Giles and Henry Baston, of this city, are spending the summer in Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Carrie Alexander, of Louisville, Ky., is taking a summer course at Howard University. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, A. M., president of the National Training School of this city, is the guest of Mrs. W. E. Brown in North Senate Avenue during the State Missionary Convention, at Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Frank Blackwell, of this city, is spending the summer at the New Wright's Hotel, Atlantic City. Mr. Earnest Ballou has returned to his home in Providence, R. I. Mr. David Allen is visiting his mother in Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Annie Brown is spending the summer at Hotel Washington, Chicago, Ill. Dr. Creed W. Childs, the newly-appointed member of the Board of Education, was the principal speaker at a recent meeting of the Home and School Association of the Alexander Crummell School at Ivy City, Ind. Misses Vivian Thompson, Mary Chancy, Valerie Chase, Maria Montgomery and Edna Lucas have gone to the Institute for Colored Youths at Cheyney, Pa., to take advanced work in the summer school there. Miss Anna E. Leigh, of this city, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Emily Hill, of Richmond, Va. Misses Maude A. Plummer and Ethelyne L. Plummer left Wednesday for Wilmington, Del., where they will spend the summer. Mr. H. C. Tyson was in Greensboro, N. C., Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Wyche and their little daughters; Fannie and Mabel, are spending the summer at Halls Hill, Va, the guest of their sister, Mrs. Mabel H. Lee. Mrs. Annie Morris, who has been confined with illness at Georgetown University Hospital, is slowly convalescing The Sunday School at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church was highly entertained last Sunday by a literary and musical program rendered by Miss A. M. Brodie's class. Mrs. Geo. F. Collins, wife of Attorney Geo. F. Collins, Misses Anna and Elizabeth Howard, her sisters, are summering at Barboursville, Va., the guests of their grandmother, Mrs. Albert Brown. The young ladies are having a most delightful time. They will remain all the summer. The members of the Ladies' Pansy Club of Haven M. E. Church were entertained at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Green, 1237 Walter Place Southeast, July 18th. Those present were: Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Barnes, Mrs. and Miss Atkinson, Mr. Frederick Thomas, Mr. E. Thomas, the Misses Edna and Gladas Thomas, Mr. Frederick Turner, Mrs. Nathan Typton and Mr. Haywood W. Goode. The evening was spent in social chats, vocal and instrumental solos, after which a dainty repast was served. Mrs. Ransom, of Old Point Comfort, and daughter, Mrs. Josie Smith, are in the city, the guests of Mrs. Sidney, Mrs. Ransom's sister, 920 Twenty-fourth Street Northwest. Lawyer J. M. Ricks, with wife and little daughter, Emma, left Washington this week to spend a month at Atlantic City, N. J. They are stopping with Mr. George Payne, of Baltic Avenue, one of the most prominent and wealthy colored men of that place. Buy your drugs. $^4$medicines and toilet articles at Board's, 1912 $^{1/2}$ 14th Street. Guaranteed satisfaction in quality and price. The funeral services of Mrs. Daisy Gillam, who died Wednesday 'morning, were held from Shiloh Baptist Church at 3 p. m. Friday. Services were conducted by her former pastor, Rev. H. H. Waring. The deceased was a member of Naomi Household of Ruth and the Silver Leaf Benevolent Association. She is survived by one small child, husband, mother and a sister. Mrs. W. H. Skinner and her children are visiting her mother in Pittsburg, Pa. Miss Laura M. Dorsey spent several days with friends at Fredericksburg, Va., last week. Miss Eva L. Stokes and Messrs. Robert L. Adkins and B. F. Watson spent Sunday at Fredericksburg. Mrs. Lucinda Tate continues to improve. Mrs. Frank Holland, of Lincoln, Md., was in the city last week. Mr. and Mrs. Fairfax Jackson will spend the next three weeks in Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hopkins are both very ill at their home on South Washington Street. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Webster were the guests of their mother Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Wills is improving slowly. Miss Essie Green, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Green, was quietly married to Mr. Julius Johnson at the home of the bride's parents Wednesday evening. Rev. Moore, of Beulah Baptist Church, performed the ceremony. Mr. Brooks, the Alexandria, Va., correspondent, is authorized to receive moneys and subscriptions for The Bee and, receipt for the same. Any favors shown him will be appreciated. WEST WASHINGTON. Rev. W. C. Thompson, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street Northwest, will deliver his special lecture Tuesday, July 29, at the church on the subject, "Niagara Falls," which he visited last year. The Ebenezer A. M. E. Sunday School gave their annual outing Thursday at Madras Park and was a delightful gathering. Music was furnished by Silver Star Orchestra. Rev. Naylor is the pastor and Mr. N. G. Mitchel superintendent. The pastor, Rev. W. C. Thompson, and a goodly number of members of Mt. Zion M. E. Church attended divine services Sunday afternoon in the M. E. Church, Halls Hill, Va. (Rev. C. E. Queene, pastor), who are having a grand rally. A large collection was realized upon the occasion. A very enjoyable trolley ride was given by the Stewards and Home Missionary Society of Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Thursday to Laurel, Md. The funeral of Miss Georgie Ferguson, a very estimable young lady, whose death occurred on Monday, from the First Baptist Church and was largely attended. The members of Early Rose Society of Moses, of which she belonged, attended in a body. Many floral offerings were presented. Rev. E. E. Ricks officiated. Miss. R. E. Diggs, who is teaching in Philadelphia, Pa., spent several weeks here and left for Lovington, Va. Miss Mamie Simmons, a recently graduated nurse from Freedmen's Hospital, has gone to Philadelphia, Pa., for a vacation Miss Sadie Williams, of 2505 P Street Northwest, a teacher in our public schools, is now spending her vacation in Chicago, Ill., at the home of Mrs. Sarah Morgan, 3208 South Park Avenue. Mr. Wm. Ballard, of 2516 P Street, is now convalescent from a recent illness. He is the competent recording steward of Mt. Zion Church. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. On Monday night of last week there began a series of open-air concerts on the lawn of Mr. Newton Thomas Quite a large gathering was present each night. This concert and medicine sale lasted through the entire week. On Thursday night, July 17, Prof. Richatdson showed at the M. E. Church a very interesting show of the flood. There were many present; also a good number coming up from Mt. Pleasant. On Thursday, July 17, three wagon- loads of pleasure seekers went from this place to Chesterbrook to attend the picnic and ball game. The game was between Falls Church and Chesterbrook, ending in favor of the Falls Church team. A good crowd went from here on Friday night of last week to Merrifield to attend the concert given at that place by Madam Sloan. They report her to be one of the most wonderful singers they have ever witnessed. Sunday was a busy day at Galloway M. E. Chapel. Sunday School was held at the usual hour and largely attended. After the lessons were over A. G. Murry reviewed the school. Both teachers and pupils entered heartily into answering the questions, which was satisfactorily and correctly done. After the collection was taken it was noticed that Class No. 2 had been the banner class for five successive Sundays. As Rev. Colbert was absent there was no morning service. In the afternoon the Sons and Daughters of Liberty turned out when Rev. Armstead Preached to a very large gathering. The church choir rendered the music. Some of the visiting lodges were Seminary, Merrifield, Halls Hill, and other places also were represented. The collection was $12.20. The Sunday School at Second Baptist Church was well attended. It is reported that there was the largest attendance of the year, Mrs. Georgia Taylor's class having twenty-three pupils present. The morning service was conducted by Rev. Pinkett, of Mt. Pleasant, for Rev. Powell, the pastor, who went to Alexandria. Rev. Pinkett was assisted by an associate who preached the morning sermon. Pastor Powell returned for the night service and preached, as usual, a soulstirring sermon. The Progressive Sunday School Literary League at Second Baptist Church was opened by its president, Sister Lena Dixon, and the program was well rendered, after which there was an address by Mrs. Susie Campbell, and a very encouraging talk by Rev. Dr. Powell. We are sorry to report the death of the infant daughter of Mr. Emory Jones. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Granville Parker extend to them their heartfelt sympathy in the loss of one of their twin babies, which died on Thursday, of last week. After a season of illness Rev. Bowser was able to fill his pulpit at the Third Baptist Church on Sunday morning, and at night the oulpit was filled by other ministers, among whom was a lady speaker. Thus a very pleasant Sabbath closed at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Newman, of 2000 Fourteenth Street Northwest, Washington, D. C., spent the night of Friday, July 18, with his mother at West End. This was the night of the Merrifield concert. The West End Club continues to give pleasant social evening entertainments in the interest of the grand rally to take place at Second Baptist Church Sunday, July 27. It is reported that those recently given at residences of Mrs. Elizabeth Gibson and Mrs. Mayme Nelson were largely patronized. Mrs. James H. Merriweather, of 1211 S Street Northwest, Washington, D. C., spent three days of last week with her daughter, Mrs. E. B. Henderson, at Falls Church, Va. Prof. E. B. Henderson, besides being an athletic instructor, is also a first-class farmer and carpenter. He has already cut his first crop of oats and has as fine a field of corn as any progressive farmer around. He is now engaged in building a barn. Mr. Abraham Chew, of Washington, spent Sunday with his aunt, Mrs. Henderson, of Falls Church. Mrs.' Bert Taylor and daughter, Miss Francis, of Leesburg, Va., spent the Sunday afternoon pleasantly at the residence of Mrs. Gorhuns. Her son, Fred Taylor, Jr., from Washington, D. C., also called at the same time to see his mother. FAIRMCUNT HEIGHTS. The Sunday School Board of the M. E. Church gave the children an outing and picnic Friday, July 18. There were eighty-five children in attendance. Mrs. D. W. Utz, Mrs. W. W. Jones and a company of ladies and gentlemen have associated themselves together as the helpers of the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church and are now in training for a great musical and literary treat. Rev. R. F. Coates, pastor at Woodville, Md., preached at the M. E. Church Sunday night, July 20. Rev. E. S. Williams, pastor of the M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md., is confined at Freedmen's Hospital. An operation was performed Wednesday, July 23, at 10 o'clock. Rev. W. H. Addison, a local preacher in the M. E. Church here, has moved into his new six-room house on Chappel Avenue, near the Presbyterian Church and the Public Hall. Mrs. L. E. Crouse and several ladies are preparing to give an outing for the benefit of Camp Pleasant. Would that a greater number of good women take such interest in the poor and less fortunate. "For as much as ye have done it unto the least of mine, ye have done it unto Me." The First Presbyterian Church, Rev. W. Wallace McCary, pastor, was crowded last Sunday morning to hear the Rev. Dr. Pezavia O'Connell, whose text was "Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in Thy holy hill?" (Psalm 151:1) Miss Nora Barnes, who has for several weeks sojourned in Baltimore, is home visiting relatives and friends. Rev. Owen C. Sprague preached at Jones' Chapel July 20, at 3 o'clock. Dr. Laura A. Killingsworth, who has opened an office in Fairmount Heights, was out Tuesday and will return again Friday. Miss Alice R. Silence is yet on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woolfalk, of Virginia, have bought land of Mr. Wm. G. Silence and are planning to build a six-room house in the near future. Mrs. Ducket, the mother of Mrs. Georgia Silence, is visiting her daughter and son-in-law. She worshiped at the M. E. Church last Sunday. Mrs. Pearl Jackson, of 66 West 140th Street, New York City, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lucy V. Brown, White Avenue and the District Boulevard. Aid Camp Pleasant. There is much work to be done. A meeting will be held at the Fairmount Heights Presbyterian Church next Monday, the 28th, at which time the question, "What Has the Negro Accomplished Since Emancipation," will be answered by men in the business world. Among the speakers will be Messrs. John W. Lewis, Zeph Moore, John Paynter and Logan Johnson. VIENNA, VA., NEWS. Beyond any doubt no more pleasant place along the whole line of the electric road from Washington, D.C. to Blue Mont, Va., can be found for the one desirous of religious entertainment and help, and those seeking quiet summering, than Vienna, lovely Vienna, Va. This is a beautiful country village, having delightful climate, good, cool water, excellent homes, and churches full of activity in regular church, Sunday School and Young People's services. Last Sunday both First Baptist and Union Baptist Churches drew interested congregations. During the day there were five services held at Union Baptist Church—10 o'clock a.m., Sunday School; 11 o'clock a.m., church service; 3 o'clock p.m., church service; 5:30 o'clock p.m., Young People's meeting, and 8 o'clock night service. The pastor, Rev. J. N. Beamer, preached in the morning. Rev. Dr. E. B. Gordon, pastor of Walker Memorial' Baptist Church in Washington, D. C., came out on a hurried trip and preached to a fair-sized gathering, returning immediately thereafter to his own congregation, and then followed a strong Y. P. W. W. Society meeting in which quite a number of young people took part. But the crowning feature of the day was the night service, when Rev. Barber, a white minister friend of Pastor Beaman, and who is a great revivalist among his own people, came out and delivered a soul-reaching sermon, teeming with illustration, abounding in earnest appeal to all, both converted and unconverted, now and then driving home a point by easily singing a revival song, in which he showed excellent control of voice, taking as his text, Mark 5:31, "Who touched me?" But listen! There was a special choir of twenty-five voices—Misses Nannie Miner, Mary Mills, Sarah Monroe, Rosa Monroe, M. Allen, Gertrude Carter, Alia Carter, Jane Tate, Grace Taylor, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Spain, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Oro Cook, Mrs. Page, Mrs. Lulu Burless, Mrs. A. W. Miner; Messrs. Chas. Bronaugh, Lester Harris, John Harris, John Taylor, Douglas Brown, Andrew Miner, David-Honesty, Deacon A. W. Miner and Mr. Daniel Burless. Besides, Prof. H. L. Mills lent his good tenor while "Reporter" did what he could under the circumstances. Rev. Barber used this choir, too, leading them at times into most joyful, but well-ordered singing. There was a large gathering which remained until its close. During the week these open-air meetings are having Revs. Powell, Posey and Peterson to preach. The Sunday School hour at First Baptist Church had a large and enthusiastic gathering in its 3 o'clock p. m. service. They are busily engaged in rehearsing for their grand rally Sunday, July 27, afternoon and night. It will do any soul good to be in this Sunday School. Look out for the rally report. Miss Anna Carter, of Bethesda Park, Md., spent Sunday here visiting relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Miner. Mr. Charles Brooks, whose illness was mentioned in last week's news, is still very ill. The palatial residence of Mr. A. W Miner, being recently painted, occupies quite a conspicuous position among the residences on "Windsor Heights." The work is also a visible recommendation for Mr. J. A. Miner as decorator and painter, who performed and directed on the job while on his annual leave. We regret to report the sudden illness of Miss Elsie Jackson, who was sent to the hospital for operation Sunday. Mrs. Grace Borgus was a little indisposed during the past week, but is now improving. Mrs. Susie G. Lamkins, the wife of Rev. S. Geriah Lamkins, was recently A called to Hampton, Va., on account of the illness of her father, Captain James Fitchett. HARPER'S FERRY NOTES. The Mountain View resort is full to overflowing with pleasure seekers. The new arrivals are: Mr. Chas. M. 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. The hotel has just been greatly improved by the addition of several bedrooms, baths, porches and an up-to-date kitchen. Our patrons will be delighted with "Dear old Bay Shore" enlarged and beautified. No restless nights here, for the breezes blow while you sleep. Terms moderate. 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. Press Monroe and Newport News. 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. All Societies, Organizations, Clubs, and Select Excursion Parties should secure at once dates for a day's outing at this cool, breezy, shady Park, near historic Annapolis. "Lawn tennis courts." "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. COME TO ATLANTIC CITY For the Elks' 14th ANNUAL CONVENTION I. B. P. O. Elks of the world HELD AUGUST 26th to 30th, 1913 Atlantic City, the Play Ground of America. The World's Greatest Seashore Resort. One of the Finest Bathing Beaches in the World. Unlimited attractions. Most hospitable citizens. Bathing, Fishing and Sailing. The Finest Boardwalk in the World. Trains every hour. One hour to Philadelphia. Two and one-half hours to New York. ASK MR. LIGHTFOOT Chairman Elks' Publicity Bureau, 24 RIDDLE: BUILDING, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Wilder, Mr. gH. W. Harris, Master Allen Grymes, Mr. John C. Nalle and Mrs. Nalle, Mrs. Cora Fisher, Miss Sallie Fisher, Mrs. C. W. Harris (member of Board of Education of Washington, D. C.), Capt. W. D. Edwards, U. S. A. (retired), Mr. John E. Syphax, Mr. R. B. Peters, Mr. Geo. M. Herriot, Dr. G. H. Benjamin, druggist, Dr. J. R. Wilder, Mrs. Lillian Brooks, Mr. M. K. King, Mrs. Bertha King and Mrs. Lulie Cook and two children, all of Washington, D. C. HALLS HILL, VA. Wednesday evening Rev. W. A. Jones, of Washington, preached at Calloway M. E. Church to one of the Tribes a very interesting sermon, this being the last of the series of sermons. A large number was present and great interest was manifested. The collection was good. Mrs. Mary Jackson, captain. Sunday, July 20, Rally Day services were held all day, beginning with Sunday School at 9:30 with fairly good attendance. Rev. W. H. Barnes preached at 11 o'clock, the subject being "A Well Equipped Soldier." The text was from Rom. 6. The church was well filled and every heart was made to the great need of preparation for whatever service they may be called to. Collection for the morning was $50. At 3:30 o'clock a large crowd was in waiting to hear Rev. W. C. Thompson, of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., who came with his usual manner of promptness and dignity, bringing with him his junior choir and a large number of his congregation, including the regular church organist, Prof. Louis Brown, and Mr. Leroy Gaskins, leader of the junior choir. Among the distinguished ones were Mrs. Maggie Thomas, Mrs. Louise Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Fairfax, Mr. and Mrs. Henson Wanes, Mrs. Jennie Locke, Mrs. Wm. H. Gaines, and many others whom we were glad to have present with us. Rev. Thompson is well known in this work. To know him is to love him. The collection was $75. At 8:30, o'clock the church was filled to overflowing, and Rev. Colbert, pastor, of Falls Church, preached a most excellent sermon that was a blessing to all present and a connecting link with the two others of the day. Brothers Jas L. L. Turner and Albert Murray accompanied their pastor. The Tribes who have been wandering through the wilderness for one month and eight days, made their returns, bringing with them $452.66. Will report each one later. Rev. C. E. Queen is a broad-hearted, stirring Christian, and has broken all past records as a financier, he only having been with this people about ninety days, and so far we think that God had a hand in it too. The parsonage was graced Sunday with some of many visitors and father and sister of Mrs. Queene. Rev. C. H. Coleman, pastor of Mt. Salvation Baptist Church and his good people, have been loyal to the cause of this struggle and have stood side by side and indeed there is a growing spirit of unity with the people of this section. The Sabbath schools will unite in an excursion to Manassas Thursday, the 24th. The services were dispensed with in the Baptist Church Sunday night, so that the congregation might be free to attend the services at the Methodist Church, which was heartily appreciated. Mrs. Annie Jackson, who has been ill for the past two weeks, is able to be out again. Miss Viola Hyson and Mrs. Viola Points are in Asbury Park. We wish for them a pleasant stay and safe return. MADRE'S PARK. Everyone should avail themselves of the fine piences next week at this park. July 22—District Employees, Monumental Orchestra. July 21—Ebenezer A. M. E. Church and Sunday school, N. G. Mitchell, superintendent. Imperial Orchestra. July 25—People's Congregational Church, Musical Organization, Silver Star Orchestra. Park open from 12 noon till 11:30 P. M. Divorced. Arthur Jackson and Estelle Jackson, who were married here in June, 1912, have been divorced, and the wife restored to her maiden name of Estelle Kennedy. Divorced James H Winslow UNDERTAKER AND EMBLAMER ALL WORK FIRST CLASS. 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Price per box, $5c. Alcohol Heater, price $5c. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY. MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA MARY AND HER DAD Taken from Photo recieved on San Juan Hill, Cuba, September 1898. At the time when I was not expected to recover from sickness. Cut of family. P. L. C. FOUGHT FOR OLD GLORY. cension Parish. How the Colored American Left Family and Home in Defense of His Country, Only to Receive Ostracism, Rebuke and Injustice at the Hands of the Government, for Which He Risked His Life—The Colored American's Loyalty in the Hour of Need. Have written two letters to Hon Alger on the situation, one dated February 26 and the other March 18 Failing to hear from him, I deem it advisable to write to you. Permit me to congratulate you upon your judgment on present question. Yours truly. P. L. CARMOUCHE. The above cut was taken from a photo I received on San Juan Hill, at the very time when I was down on my cot sick and not expecting to live, from the verdict of the doctors. I make no exceptions. In 1898 no man, colored or white, was more determined than I, notwithstanding the facts that Secretary of War R. A. Alger and Governor M. J. Foster of Louisiana continued to purposely ignore my letters to them tendering my services with that of 250 colored men, and the further fact that I was personally acquainted as a resident of Louisiana, with all of the injustices, oppressive injustices, trials and tribulations given us colored citizens of the South—to go to Cuba or anywhere else to fight, to die for "Old Glory". My appeals to the colored people to prepare to defend the dignity of the flag of the United States was intense, genuine to the very core of patriotism. My good and kind wife with three beautiful small girls (as the above picture shows), a dear old mother and two kind sisters and a well established business of horseshoeing did not deter me in doing what I thought was my duty to do in our war of '98. To do or die in the attempt for the dignity of "Old Glory" was my sole object. I did not rest on my point of appeal for recognition, not until the following letter to our martyred President, Major McKinley, brought results. Donaldsonville, La., April 21, 1898. Hon. William McKinley, President of the United States, Washington, D.C. Carefully considering the situation of the United States and the advantage claimed for the colored troops to invade Cuba, caused me to offer to the President my services and those of 250 colored men From As- Mr. Editor: cension Parish. Have written two letters to Hon. Alger on the situation, one dated February 26 and the other March 18. Failing to hear from him, I deem it advisable to write to you. Permit me to congratulate you upon your judgment on present question. Yours truly, P. L. CARMOUCHE. Here Is the Answer or Result. Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., April 25, 1898. Mr. P. L. Carmouche, Donaldsonville, La. Dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st instant, addressed to the President, tendering the services of yourself and 250 colored men, and to inform you that what you say in this connection has been noted. By the President's direction your communication has been forwarded to the Secretary of War for consideration and further reply. Very truly yours. JOHN ADDISON PORTER, Secretary to the President. The Picayune, of New Orleans, La., came out with an editorial comment on May 15, 1898, which was very distasteful to me, which induced me to write the following letter to the Picayune: Donaldsonville, La., May 16, 1898. Editor Picayune: Your article, "Immune Troops for the Tropics," in yesterday's Picayune, has been read in these parts with much surprise. The colored patriots around here have been so anxious to "get into the military service of the United States that, even without any kind of encouragement from the authorities, they have enlisted enough men for two companies from this parish alone. Neither the hot sun, dangerous contagious diseases of the tropics, nor the terrible deadly bullets of the Spaniards have been of any dread. They are as willing to make sacrifices for the honor of the American flag as any of the favored volunteers who have already been accepted. But "Sambo" is not permitted to take up his place in the front rank of those who are patriotic. He must wait, and he is waiting, anxiously waiting, to be bidden* to step up and take his post of duty. There will never be any need to have draft made on them around here; they are volunteers. Please use the influence of the venerable Picayune to get the authorities to permit the colored patriots to serve the country in the war. Very respectfully, P. L. CARMOUCHE. With an honorable discharge as First Lieutenant for faithfulness and zealousness for services in Cuba, and all sorts of documents too numerous for newspaper publication, to and from, to show my loyalty, devotion, gratitude, and integrity in this most unpleasant and even outrageous affair between me and the government, I am fearless in my denunciation of its foul treatment of me in my claim for a hard and justly-earned pension. The following affidavit from Lieutenant John F. Dunchie, M. D., the doctor; sent by Col. Crane, with Captain Praigue W. Coleman to Donaldsonville, La., to do the physical examination of me and the men I was holding to be mustered in the Ninth U. S. V. I., tells its own story: "That he has known P. L. Carmouche since 1898 and that he examined said P. L. Carmouche and others (physically) for the purpose of determining their fitness for admission to the Ninth Regiment of U. S. V. I., then being organized at New Orleans, La. He further declares that if any of the applicants for admission to the regiment had any physical disabilities a note was made of same by examiner and said note or memoranda were placed in the keeping of the regimental Adjutant daily. He further declares that said P. L. Carmouche passed the physical examination and was commissioned a First Lieutenant in regiment. Also that said John F. Dunchie, M. D., was an Assistant Surgeon of the regiment and that to his positive knowledge said P. L. Carmouche was ill while camped on San Juan Hill and also while camped near San Louis, Cuba. He further declares that during the first several months of the regiment's existence the Regimental Hospital records were not properly kept, and that the said P. L. Carmouche was sick when the hospital records were not properly kept, if kept at all. No further interest, etc. (Signed) JOHN F. DUNCHIE, M. D. JOHN P. DEAN. I did not go to war in defense of my country's flag in '98 against Spain for the purpose of drawing a pension. At that time I did not have the question 'of a pension to think about. My whole heart and soul was concentrated on "Remember the Maine" and the parts which I then thought and considered was the just and proper duty of me and my race—was the paramount issues with me. It was after I came back home an invalid, from the effects of typhoid and yellow fever and other disabilities encountered in Cuba, and my inability to properly care for my family on account of those disabilities, which prevented me from following my usual vocations of blacksmithing and horse-shoeing, I gave consideration to a pension. With malice, it seems to me, the Pension Department has, in every conceivable way, ignored my title to it. Dr. John F. Dunchie's evidence plainly swears that "the Regimental Hospital records were not properly kept and that said P. L. Carmouche was sick when the hospital records were not properly kept, if kept at all." This is not the only instance when I have been made to suffer this "no record properly kept, if kept at all" by the malice of the Pension Commissioners. There were no records kept of my physical examination made by Dr. John F. Dunchie himself at the examination of me and my men at Donaldsonville, La., July 5 or 6, 1898. Is it now just? Is it now fair? Is it now proper for the government to deprive me of my pension because of no records were kept of the very things which involves my title to a pension? Dr. Dunchie's affidavit is not the only one of such kind of affidavits on file in the Pension Bureau; at least a dozen or more of such affidavits are on file, all of which, in connection with my special services for the success of "Old Glory" in '98, would give five white veterans at least their pensions. Make no further mistakes, colored men, in regards to all of this "beneficient" treatment from this government "of ours" when it comes to the Afro-American and his justly won rights. After it is all over, "Old Glory" is far from being glory. It gives us h—— and lots of fury, too. That's what! In connection with all of this, there are other subjects pertaining to my dealing with "Uncle Sam" that should be made a part of this public expose of the crooked deal I received from the hands of the government, through those entrusted with the proper settlement of its affairs. Whether or not it pertains to peace or war, there is a certain well defined intention, plan or arrangement by which the Afro-American, good or bad, is liable to be made to feel its force and effect at any time from "Old Glory." P. L. CARMOUCHE. 341 Erskine, District, Mich. Are Training For the Time When Wives Will Vote. Picture Rocks, Pn.—Asserting they were fearful lest the ballot will be granted to women and the husbands will have to do homework, the able-bodied men of this place have formed an organization known as the Men's Sewing Square. At their last meeting they brought sewing bags and their wives' stockings to mend and began the task of plying the needle in order to ascertain if darning was as hard as they had always been led to believe. 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, L. 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, Dana Bur- bank of Barnard walked five miles to attend an old folk ball here. Mr. Bur- bank 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 hug danced." Mr. Burbank told a re- porter, "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." 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 laboratories of the university was alleged. Miss Henrietta Ford Ogden, rich, testified that every Friday for six months she had crawled through a hole in a fence so that she could gain entrance to the kennels of the university and obtain evidence. Miss Ogden identified the back breaking machine, which she alleged is used in the laboratories to crush out the lives of dogs. The machine is best described as a diminutive gallows. 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Agents wanted. Write for terms. Mme. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Phone 888 R Tremont. Mention this paper when writing. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Holding Probate Court. In re Estate of Caroline S. Shamwell, Deceased. No. 6864. Administration. Order. Upon consideration of the petition of Charles H. Shamwell, and it appearing that the said petitioner has been appointed as administrator d. b. n. c. t. a with the power to sell real estate in the above entitled cause, and that the said Charles H. Shamwell, in his capacity as administrator d. b. n. c. t. a., with power to sell as aforesaid, has received an offer from Nellie B. Shamwell to buy certain parcels of land described on the books of assessment and taxation of the District of Columbia as parcels 87-164 and 87-165 for the price of $250.00, to be paid in cash, and it appearing that by order of Court, passed January 21, 1913, the acceptance of said offer was authorized, and that the said property was thereafter accordingly sold for $250.00 for cash by the said Charles H. Shamwell to Nellie B. Shamwell, it is therefore ORDERED that the said sale be ratified and confirmed by the Court, unless cause to the contrary be shown before the 18th day of August, 1913, provided a copy of this order be published in each of three successive issues of the Washington Law Reporter and The Washington Bee, prior to the expiration of said period. By order of the Court: A true copy. (Seal) ASHLEY M. GOULD, Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills. HALL'S HILL, VA. Calloway Chapel M. E. Church. Rev. C. E. Queene, pastor, with his official board and body of loyal members, is proceeding to carry out their plans for the grand rally July 20. The object is to liquidate the longstanding indebtedness on the church. There was a sermon preached to Zebunon's Tribe last Wednesday evening by the pastor. Mrs. E. J. Williams, captain. Although the day was very rainy, there was a very good attendance and collection accordingly. Sunday School was well attended. Several visitors were present and the lessons were conducted with much interest. We are planning for great things in the future. This being our monthly communion day, we had preaching at 11 o'clock by the pastor. The sermion was one of which no one could listen to without being inspired and feeling the essentials of Christianity. Sacrament was administered with several uniting with the church, after which the two schools of this place joined, having had a previous invitation to attend Children's Day at Chesterbrook, and were heartily received and entertained there with a solendid program. The Sunday School of Langley, Va., and the one from Odderich's Corner, making a union of five schools each, were given a prominent part. The house was crowded and many were unable to be accommodated inside. This is one of the most beautiful locations, and churches around, with a very broad-minded man from one of the most progressive families of this section, namely, Mr. Henry Hall, superintendent, Rev. Shelton Miller, pastor. Miss Phoebe Hall, organist. Collection, about $14. Reverends C. E. Quecene and J. F. Williams accompanied us there and returned in good time to meet the brotherhood at home. At 8 o'clock we were highly favored with a sermon by our well beloved and highly esteemed ex-pastor, Rev. C. S. Harper, who preached to one of the tribes. H. Dorsey, Sr., captain. There seems to be unusual enthusiasm manifested at each service, and instead of the finances detracting, it appears to strengthen spiritually as well. A large audience greeted Rev. Harper and this collection exceeded all the former. Several others joined the church, after which Rev. Harper assisted in the sacrament, being continued from the morning. Everything shows evidence of a bright future, for every cloud has its silver lining. Miss Cora Ferguson was served a very pretty supper by her cousin, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Scott, of Washington, D. C., in company with Miss May Ferguson, her husband's sister. Miss Sarah Morgan and Mrs. Cora M. Ferguson left Monday, July 14, for Atlantic City. Many friends went with them to bid them goodby. Miss Annie Jackson, who has been ill for more than a week, is much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Wyche and their two daughters, Fanny Alice and Mabel Alberta, are spending the summer with Mrs. Mabel Lee, sister of Mrs. Wyche. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Mayo have taken the handsome house of Mrs. Susie Hicks for the summer. Rev. W. C. Brown, pastor of John Wesley Church, Washington, D. C., and Miss Fisher spent a lovely day with Mesdames Lee and Wyche. The second Sunday at Mt. Salvation Church found Rev. C. H. Coleman in his usual place and preached an eloquent sermon from Genesis 28:12. Rev. Richardson was present and gave the morning prayer with much zeal. His visit was very enjoyable. He will also lecture here Friday night on the Dayton, Ohio, flood. Deacon Fred Ewald, captain of Judas Tribe, is preparing for a week's meeting beginning the second Sunday in August to secure necessary funds for this church. Rev. Wm. Hungerford, superintendent of this Sunday School, with Mrs. Marion Mooney, assistant, accompanied their school to Chesterbrook last Sunday, it being Children's Day there. They returned and at 8 o'clock listened to a very well prepared sermon by our pastor from Job 3:17. This section is alive with visitors. Mrs. Clinton Thomas has for her summer guest her mother, Mrs. Fannie Shirley, of Herndon, Va. Dr. Lucas and wife visited his mother, Mrs. Thomas, and spent the day Sunday. Mr. Walter Smith and family, of Herndon, is here for a day or two visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lewis, her brother. We are glad to note that little Corinne Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Jones, has recovered from her illness. FRANCE TO USE Black Troops in National Army—Tremendous Enthusiasm Over Paris Review Foreshadows Change in Policy. Paris, July 19.—The whole of France went fairly wild this week over her gallant soldiers. For many years no sights have been seen here like those at the review, when a million people, flaming with enthusiasm, watched the French troops and dark warriors from the colonies march past the President. Shouts of delight and satisfaction rent the air as the great crowd noted the discipline and dash which marked the movements. As usual, the artillery and cavalry, the sailors and the St. Cyr Cadets, with their brilliant rivals of the Polytechnic School, seemed the especial favorites, but the chief tributes went this year to the black soldiers from the coast of Africa, the yellow troopers of Tonkin and Annam and the brown Madagascar levies. New French Army Policy. Each appearance in the streets of the colonial braves, particularly the men of Senegal, has been the signal for enthusiastic transports. The world will have to take note of this revival of the French military spirit; Germany, no doubt, has already drawn conclusions from the scenes of this week. It was not impulse only that led President Poincare to kiss the flag he presented to one dusky regiment; his action had a deep and special meaning. In the opinion of good judges, it foreshadowed the set purpose of the government to make the colonial troops in the future part and parcel of the French European forces. What Frets Germany. Should this be done, France may expect loud protests from beyond the Rhine. France will again be charged with barbarism. But what will fret the Germans most—much more than the idea of having some day to encounter these savage foes—will be the fact that by this addition of black troops France may, in part at least, make good the lack of numbers due to her low annual birth rate. Red Letter Day. Last Sunday was a red letter day at the Florida Avenue · Baptist Church, it being its first anniversary and the first baptizing took place in the church at 1:30 P. M., at which time eleven were immersed and twenty-four were given the right hand of fellowship. This brings the membership up in the neighborhood of nine hundred. One year ago, it had twenty-two members; today it is forty times twenty-two. One year ago it had no house of worship, and had only $180 in the treasury; today it has a $25,000 edifice and has paid $2,500 on the principal debt, and also kept up interest installments and made over a thousand dollars worth of improvements in and about the building and still has a snug little sum in the bank. Rev. W. A. Taylor, D. D., is one of the ablest ministers of the gospel in this city. He is thoroughly trained. He pursued courses of study at Rankin Richard Institute, the State Normal School and Shaw University, all in the State of North Carolina. He held the principalship of Hertford Academy, Hertford, N. C., and the Association School, Greenville, N. C., eight and seven years respectively, having been elected to the former in 1894 and served, until 1902 and was elected to the latter in 1902 and served until 1909, when he resigned to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, Newport News, Va., which charge he gave up, to come to Washington to labor in his present field. Mrs. Louise Davis Lee, wife of Attorney Jabez Lee and sister of Dr. Geo. W. Davis, of Freedmen's Hospital, was baptized and fellowshipped into the Florida Avenue Baptist Church Sunday. RESOLUTION OF CONFIDENCE From the A. & M. College Faculty. Whereas it has pleased an all-wise and beneficent Providence to remove from among us Mrs. Annie Dudley, the mother of our friend and President, Doctor J. B. Dudley, who departed this life at the home of her distinguished son on the evening of July 16th, 1913, in the eighty-seventh year of her age, and Whereas she was a woman of a remarkable personality, a true friend, a loving mother and a consistent Christian, and Whereas the influence of her life has been far reaching and helpful in its effects upon those who have been associated with her as well as through the life and labors of the children whom she has given to the world, therefore Be it Resolved, That while we, the members of the A. & M. College Faculty, how in humble submission to the will of Him who is too wise to err and too good to be unkind, we would hereby signify our gratitude for the example of her life and our sympathy for the bereaved and sense of personal loss in her taking away. Resolver further, That a page in the minute book of the faculty be inscribed to her memory and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and to the public press Respectfully submitted, D. J. JORDAN, A. D. WATKINS, F. D. BLUFORD, J. H. BLUFORD, Committee. STRAIGHTEN YOUR OWN HAIR Most women realize that beauty is largely a matter of beautiful hair and now that science has placed within the reach of all, an instrument that is a deadly weapon to all scalp diseases, any woman may easily and quickly gain a head of beautiful hair by using this wonderful hair dryer and cultivator comb. This great invention is scientifically manufactured of highly magnified steel, and never fail to cleanse the scalp of all unnatural matter and impurities. The use of the comb, besides ridding the scalp of dandruff and dirt, destroys the germs that cause all the trouble. It promotes the circulation of blood on the scalp. It cultivates the roots and produces a new growth of long, luxurious, soft and glossy hair. NOUZ.-Madam G. A. Ceruti, the world's renowned Hair Culturist, Demonstrator and Authority on Human Hair, was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Jamestown Exposition, 1907, for skill in hair work. Madame G. A. Box Sample of Comb will be received and Industrial Sa 2006 Eleventh Have you a bank account? If n ever think that it's not what you ea 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 acco Bank today, when one dollar will 3 per cent on your savings; it gua 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 Noo Sample of Comb may be secured at The Bee office, where orders will be received and Comb promptly delivered. 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. THE ESMERALDA OYSTER AND C Oysters and Clams. Wholesale a ROBERT T. Propri Oysters and Clams. Wholesale and Retail. Meals at all Hours. ROBERT T. MURRAY. 600 T St. N. W., cor Florida Ave. STEAMER ANGLER. The steamer Angler has been co to Mr. William Lewis, of Baltimore trips to Christfield, Havre-de-Grau Annapolis, and carrying record-b Upon her return about August trip down the Potomac River and ters, telephone Main 247, Main 5 ent Steamboat and Barge Co., W The steamer Angler has been chartered for a term of ten days to Mr. William Lewis, of Baltimore, from which port she is making trips to Christfield, Havre-de-Grace, Clayborne, Ocean City, and Annapolis, and carrying record-breaking crowds. HANGLER Upon her return about August first, she will resume her daily trip down the Potomac River and to Washington Park. For charters, telephone Main 247, Main 5329, or call at offices. Independent Steamboat and Barge Co., Water and N Streets Southwest. SWIMMING POOL VICTIM. Drowning of William A. Frazier Possibly Due to An Attack of Indigestion. William A. Frazier, colored janitor at the Colored Y. M. C. A. Building at 1816 Twelfth Street Northwest, was drowned in the swimming pool shortly before noon. When found the body was resting on the bottom of the pool under several feet of water, and when brought out it was found that life had been extinct probably for hours. Charles and P. J. Houston, brothers, and Eugene Davidson, the boys who found the body of Frazier, had been in the water only a few minutes when they stumbled over the body. Scrambling out, the boys called for help, and others in the building at the time brought the body from the water. Dr. A. M. Curtis, responding to a hurry call, found that efforts to resuscitate the dead man would be unavailing. In the excitement attending the discovery a call was sent in for Emergency Hospital ambulance, Dr. Newhouse responding with the pulmotor, but finding no use for it. Frazier was seen about the building as latexus 8 o'clock this morning and Dr. Newhouse suggested that he had probably had an attack of indigestion, to which it is said he was subject, following breakfast, and had fallen in the pool and drowned. The fact that the water is only a few feet deep supports Dr. Newhouse's theory. Race Discrimination. A mass meeting will be held at Brown's Memorial Church, corner Fourteenth and B Streets Northeast, ```markdown ``` Ceruti, 105 N. New 119, Station J, New York C may be secured at The Bee office, Comb promptly delivered. Savings Bank Street, N. W. not, why haven't you? Did you learn but what you save? Do you your salary alone you will not ever stop to think that your young and active? Do you not debele and old with nothing, your count with the Industrial Savings. open an account. It pays you guarantees the depositors the same is under the supervision of the to all car lines, located at 2006 love You. Banking hours, 9 to 5. North 436. ERALDA CHOP HOUSE. and Retail. Meals at all Hours. MURRAY, etor. chartered for a term of ten days, from which port she is making place, Clayborne, Ocean City, and breaking crowds. first, she will resume her daily to Washington Park. For char- 329, or call at offices. Independ- Water and N Streets Southwest. next Tuesday evening, July 29, for the purpose of protesting against the cruel and unjust treatment of the Negro citizens of this country. An appeal will be made through various mediums, to all lovers of justice and liberty to help bring about a satisfactory adjustment of affairs in this country. Mrs. Helen A. Davis, the prime mover in this affair has extended an invitation to all women who are able speakers and race workers to be present and assist in lending their power to further the cause. The time has come, she says, when we must throw aside all petty jealousies and personal grievances and ring true, to a cause that without their hearty co-operation, thousands, yes millions of home will be deprived of the blessings of liberty and justice, will be exposed to the fury of the rabble as has been and is today going on in some particular parts of this country." The rostrum will be reserved for women, while all are invited to be present as, it is intended for both sexes. When we are children we brag about our parents. When we get to be young men and young women we brag about ourselves. When we become older we brag about our children. Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.—Fuller. Cardinal Gibbons celebrated the 79th anniversary of his birth in Baltimore. Md., Wednesday. morning. He received many letters of congratulation. Proprietor. Washington, D. C. Brag. 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Canton, O.—An ironclad agreement, backed by bonds pledging a $700 farm and $700 in cash put up by Ladd repective fathers, promises to insure the wedded bliss of Miss Elizabeth Boldi, seventeen years, and Caslan Bartt, Jr. twenty, of Youngstown. The young people themselves have no doubt in their minds that they will get along together. They have sworn eternal love to each other and declare that the agreement and the bonds are entirely superfluous. But the parents, noting the increase of divorce and the fact that there are many pitfalls for the feet of unwary married young people, decided to do all they could in a legal way to make the marriage knot so tight that it can never be untied. By the terms of the agreement Bartt's father promises that his son will never loaf, gamble, drink, play pool or dance with any young woman other than his wife. He pledges a $700 farm. The bride's father has deposited a cash bond of $700 with a bank that his daughter will make a model wife, will not goosip, run around with other men and will cook to the husband's satisfaction. BEER MAKES MAN BARK. Victim of His Own Imagination, Fearing Attack of Rabies. Ann Arbor, Mich.-George McGowan, formerly of Dansville, N. Y., who suffered with rabies last March, but, according to a newspaper clipping found in a pocket, was cured at Albany, drank a glass of beer and later awoke the neighborhood in the vicinity of his room by harking and yelping. Investigating, the citizens found McGowan on all fours, alternately biting at the table leg and snapping at any one who came his way. A physician and three policemen overpowered the man and took him to a hospital. Specialists in rabies declared the case was not one of hydrophobia, but bysteria; that the man lived in constant fear of rabies and was the victim of his own imagination. They ascribed the attack to the effect of the beer. McGowan is now comfortable and will recover. Never blow in a mule ear. Stoneham, Colo.—Barney Benson had heard that the way to cure a mule of balking was to blow in its ear. He tried the remedy and is now at a hospital in Sterling with both Java broken and several teeth missing. The mule did not take kindly to the "gentle tephys" playing in its ears and as a rebuke landed both beaks on Benson's law. NO WAGES FOR PORTERS. "Red Tops" on Pennsylvania Must Rely on Tips. Philadelphia.—Some porters in Pennsylvania railroad stations do not get even $1 a month in wages, as Lotterbury 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 valid. "Do you wish to increase your present income? Send for particulars of a clean, legitimate business. Our specialty is a big seller. Address NOVELTY. 88 West 134th Street, New York City." Christian Xander's SWEET CATAWBA 25c full quart Of exquisite taste and unrivaled quality Only at 909 7th St. No branch stores THE & L. KIDNEY, BLAUDER, 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 Chessapeake Junction and Kenilworth. 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. SUMMER BOARDERS 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. COME AND SPEND YOUR WEEKS' OR MONTH'S VACATION at THE WEBB'S HOUSE on the on the Romantic Rappahannock River, close by the Urbanna wharf, where daily steamers ply to Baltimore and Fredericksburg. Delightful excursions of fishing and sailing. Parties are made daily on the bosom, of the most beautiful river in the State. For further information address J. H. Webb, Urbanna, Va. j-28-4 BOARDERS WANTED Mrs. Delia Howard wishes boarders during the summer vacation, offering first-class table board; fine water; large and sunshiny rooms; music and tennis; shady and spacious lawns. P. O. Upperville, Va. Stations, Rectortown and Bluemont, Va. 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. An Opportunity for Homes Robt.H. Smith Subdivision An Opportunity for Homes—Robert H. Smith Subdivision. The most beautiful little village and the best class of colored people in the suburbs of the National Capital, close to the Old Dominion Electric Line, practically one fare. High ground from any point of view where health is assured. In a section that is rapidly increasing in value. Lots can now be purchased at small cash payments with terms to suit. Small monthly payments will be arranged as may be desirable. Houses built according to prescribed plans. For information enquire at 521 Tenth Halls Hill, Va., Mapelwood Station Street Northwest, City. For Rent Four large, beautifully lighted rooms. Furnished and unfurnished. 1342 Corcoran Street Northwest. For Rent. Neatly furnished second-story front room, suitable for two men. 2342 Champlain Street Northwest. I-26-11 For Rent Part of desirable house, for housekeeping, to a desirable family. For information inquire at 1120 New Hampshire Ave. N. H.