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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. 9 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1913 Has Rights—Vardaman Brays—The Worm Will Turn. Mr. Editor I thank you ever so much for your kind indulgence in giving me space in your valuable paper of last week. Speaking about The Bee, no sane man will deny that The Bee is doing work for us in this the most critical period of the race. It is my aim to do all I can in my power to assist you in your earnest work. Let the good work go on. * * * In a nation like ours, composed of people from many countries and different races, all claiming the rights of citizenship, the question of impartial justice to all concerns everyone of us, there being no privileged class under our form of government, which guarantees to all American citizens—black, white, red or yellow—equal political and legal rights. No State law is valid which violates the requirements of the Federal Constitution and no local custom can excuse such violation. The Constitution places the black man on the same footing before the law as the white man. The black man has the same right to vote and hold office, the same claim to legal protection when he is in the right, and is subject to the same legal penalties when in the wrong. Some people do not understand the meaning of political equality; hence, there is always a scare in the matter about social equality. Before closing on this social phase, let me say that there never was a question so much discussed that has so little in it, except it may be the invention of perpetual motion. It gives no trouble to either race when let alone. People of good sense, good breeding, a fair education, whose ancestors have not the most minute particle of Negro blood permeating in their veins are always willing to let this problem alone. It is a dangerous problem when confronted, and it would do well for meddling some people to let it alone. The truth is, nobody is called on to have social relations with any save as it may suit him individually. This is not a public question and can not be regulated by legislation; but if one reads the daily papers, he would imagine that all the deceyery, all the education, all the intelligence are to be found in the craniums of Vardaman, of Mississippi, and simpleton Newland, the man who has been in Congress for over ten years, and did not have sense enough to be heard upon any public question, until he found the real thing, the Negro problem. Why should there be a Negro question any more than there should be a Jew or an Irish or a German question? Time was when there was a political organization in opposition to foreigners as such, but this soon passed away and then the wonder was how it gained such force and lasted so long as it did. This same Negro question will, it is hoped the American people will consider this matter less frantically, with a disposition to give to the Negroes, who are here to stay, and to stay for sure, at least to be here as long as the white man, despite the vaporing of such idiots as Vardaman and Newland, a square deal and a helping hand in their efforts to improve their condition. This is an obligation not only as Christians, but as men and citizens living in a civilized world or country. Is it possible, is it credible, is it comprehensible, is it conceivable, is it true, alas! that Vardaman has made a protest against the confirmation of Patterson, one of the worthy Negro Democrats of the present administration? Is this the same Vardaman who was once Governor of the State of Mississippi and made the following assertion, that education has dehumanized the Negro, and made him more criminal? If this is the same fellow, his argument is so contemptible, that one feels unnecessary to debate with a vulture. When a man has the hardihood to give utterance to such a statement, as the above, it shows clearly that he is afraid of the black man's ability to do. Surely no educated man would jeopardize his reputation for veracity, faithness and common sense by fathering a proposition that runs counter to the world's whole history and experience. What is education? Is it that which draws forth, which disciplines the intellect, and the heart? Can that make any man a criminal? Can it dehumanize him? Surely not. The white men in the South, and such men as Vardaman and Newland, of Mississippi, are against the Negro because they are afraid of him; not because the Negro is such a bad man, but because the Negro's man's children are children of force, vitality and aggressiveness in their make-up. The white man is afraid of the Negro because he thinks the Negro will get ahead of him. Every well-thinking man knows the Negro's ability, his fast learning habits of study and he knows how and when to study, which are of great importance to him. As a rule, Negro children lack home training; they do not have access to daily papers, magazine; or books, like most white children. As a rule, subjects of importance and interest are not discussed in the family circle, and on account of these drawbacks the Negro student in college and elsewhere labors under great disadvantages. If this is true, then why should not the white man in the South be afraid of him? The writer of this letter is not at all discouraged in the least; he believes the Negroes will be some day given these privileges that are hidden from them now. By and by they will have an organization, and when such organization is procured the white man will have to invent new scientific methods to get ahead of his less fortunate cousins. To substantiate his villainous attack on the Negro, Vardaman has quoted the late Abraham Lincoln in support of his damnable and slanderous attack. Listen to this blatant, cruel-hearted biped: "I think that the defeat of this appointment of a Negro is of more importance than the passage of the tariff bill and the enactment of currency legislation. It rises like a mountain peak above the other questions of the day. I shall use every effort to defeat the confirmation. Every Senator from the South I have spoken to on the subject has expressed his intention of opposing the confirmation." Think of this, dear reader, the greatest country on this globe, a man, merely a citizen of this country, only having the right to cast one vote upon any question before the Senate or even elsewhere should assume or allure to himself all the power, all the rights and even all the education of the United States Senate. It shows that Mr. Vardaman came to the Senate with no other views than to get even with the Negro, just think of it, the world over today is looking upon the American people for relief with regard to the high cost of living, and the men in Congress are doing what they can to show the world that America will lead the van of the world's progress. But here sits an ignorant jackass that calls itself Vardaman, and tells the people that the question of Negroism rises like a mountain peak above other questions of the day. Now (since he is so woefully distressed about this Negro question, upon which he expended so much of his peculiar genius, and which continually rises before him in his vision like the gory ghost of Banquo, before the eyes of the people, I will assist him in the matter by asking, who, by the way, is Vardaman, and has he ever accomplished or contributed to the world's progress that we should be mindful of him and his pharaicaial pretenses? But surely the Senator has forgotten that nations and races, as well as individuals, rise to the limit of their greatness only through hardships and adversity. The proud, fair-haired, blue-eyed Anglo-Saxon who stands today at the summit of human achievement, human ingenuity and human skill by reason of the fact that the Anglo-Saxon race has been an aggressive and absorbing one, penetrating all climes and stealing or appropriating the good things of all other races, including more or less of their languages, can read the chronicles of his ancestors and learn that only a few generations ago he was a savage warrior of the worst type that ever paraded the earth. Does he not know that by stealing and appropriating another man's goods one is likely to grow rich quicker in the world's goods than one who has striven to be honest in all things? If the Senator does not know this, let me tell him, that he need not worry about social equality; his State is the hotbed of amalgamation, the blending together of the Negro and the white races. Had it not been, Senator, for the pernicious habit of your plethere would have been no half-breeds in this country; you robbed the Negro of his blood; you robbed the Indian of his; and in order to cover up your damnable propensity, you are now calling for help to keep the Negro down. Make a law while you are in Congress that will make it a violation of the Federal law, that if a white man is found in the house of a Negro woman he will be punished for a crime'called social equality to the extent that he goes to the Federal prison. Mr. Editor, the weather is so hot that I am afraid to write more now. Thanking you in advance, and believe me, yours, First Lawyer to Win Case Under the Mew, Ernie Law Armond W. Scott, of counsel for eleven men and women who were arrested on the afternoon of July 20 by the officers of the Ninth Precinct, charged with having violated the excise-law, which seeks to prohibit any association of persons from collectively procuring whisky or beer for the purpose of distributing it among each other, were brought to trial Wednesday, July 23, and discharged from custody by Judge James L. Pugh, by reason of a legal question raised by their counsel, Armond W. Scott, in their behalf, in which he claimed that they could not be held even if the proof showed that they were found drinking at the time of their arrest. During the trial Lawyer Scott, thinking that the case would perhaps go to the Court of Appeals, called in his stenographer, Miss Alice G. Martin, who made a stenographical report of the testimony of witnesses produced by the government. Lawyer Armond Wendall Scott was heartily congratulated upon his able and skillful management of the case. He is one of the most prominent and successful lawyers of Washington. He is one of whom Wilmington, N. C., should feel proud, and one of whom Washington proudly boasts. THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN ATTORNEY FOUNTAIN PEYTON Leader. Among the Local Colored Democrat and a Leading Member of the Bar, Doesn't Favor the Segregation of the Races. ATTORNEY FOUNTAIN PEYTON Leader. Among the Local Colored Democrat and a Leading Member of the Bar, Doesn't Favor the Segregation of the Races. NEGRO IN ATLANTA By Ralph W. Tyler. ATLANTA, GA.—There are two cities in the South contesting for the supremacy in Disix land, and they are Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. The next federal census will undoubtedly show one or the other the largest city in all southland. In both the Negro population forms one-third of the total population, and the next ten year's record, made by each, in population, wealth and commercial progress, must, in no small way, be contributed to by this one-third population. And were it not for the progress that was made during the past decade by this one-third population in each city both would have failed to have made the wonderful strides already recorded. Birmingham surrounded by an almost inexhaustible deposit of iron ore, coal and limestone, making it the Pittsburg of the South, depends upon its Negro population largely for taking the mineral deposits from the earth and later developing it from the crude form to a marketable product of usefulness. The town, which city aims to the gateway for all that region that depends upon, largely, to make her busy industries hum. The white man, most largely, of course, furnishes the money in both cities, but the Negro furnishes the brawn, without which wealth is nothing. In the South increase population is largely due to births instead of to foreign immigration as in the North and West. The Negroes oppose "race suicide" with a prolific birth rate. The whites endorse "race suicide" with a small average of births to the family. This makes for, or rather must make for a better recognition of the Negro in Atlanta and Birmingham. A Negro stranger within the gates of Atlanta is first shown through Peter and Decatur streets, where the Negro flourishes as not since the day of his forefathers in far off Africa, and then he is whisked out to the "intellectual center," to the University of Atlanta, Atlanta Baptist University, Clark University, Spellman Seminary and Morris Brown College and then to Piedmont street, Ridge avenue, North Boulevard and some of the other avenues on which are located beautiful homes of Negroes. The exploiting of the first is to show the contrast between stationary and advancement; to prepare one for the unrolling before one's eyes the wonderful advancement of the Negro. Since the regrettable, and hoped to be forgot, Atlanta riot. Negro progress has been accelerated by a better consideration of them on the part of the whites. The best whites, in no small degree, appear to be trying to wipe out that awful blot in Atlanta's record by according the Negro a fairer chance to make good. That he is making good is evidenced by the beautiful homes, the successful Negro business enterprises, the high-class Negro Professional men, and the crowded Negro universities which make Atlanta the "Athens of America." The Odd Fellows Temple alone stands as a monument to race progress in Atlanta. In no city in the country has the race such a magnificent building or such a revenue-producing investment. Not content to stop here, the Negro Odd Fellows here are preparing to erect a $50,000 auditorium adjoining, and make Auburn Avenue and that vicinity the Negro business center of Atlanta. The money for this auditorium is in hand —fifty thousand dollars on deposit in the bank. Ben J. Davis, the most advertised, perhaps the most decried, and paradoxically, one of the most useful men in this section, has done much to advance the Negroes of Atlanta. Even those who disagree with him, even those who despise him, admit that he is a wonderful organizer, a wonderful producer of good for the race, and a man who has really done things in Atlanta. But Mr. Davis is not alone, for Henry A. Rucker, quiet and astute, Dr. William Penn, R. E. Pharro, Dr. T. H. Slater, Dr. Butler, Dr. Johnson, H. L. L. Perry, G. M. Howell, Dr. Henkell, John Herden, Contractor Hamilton and a number of others whom I could mention have helped largely, earnestly and enthusiastically to put Atlanta on the Negro commercial map and to force better consideration at the hands of the whites. And her ministers, and those self-sacrificing, high-purposed, intellectually strong professors here in the Negro educational institutions which make Atlanta famous have helped, amazingly, to purify the moral and religious atmosphere of Atlanta, and make it one of the fairest and most progressive cities in the land. There is much wealth among the Negroes of Atlanta, much individual wealth and much collective wealth. It is a city of homes; for there are, perhaps, more Negroes owning their own homes in Atlanta than in any other city of her size. I made diligent inquiry as to the collective wealth of Negroes in Atlanta, and to my astonishment discovered that it mounts up to thirty millions of dollars. Wonderful evidence of progress! In Atlanta the Negro has been the pioneer in the insurance business. Three large companies, doing an enormous business, harmoniously compete for supremacy. The Georgia Mutual is the oldest, and it recently evolved from a mutual to a stock company, with splendid assets and a most efficient corps of officers. Then there is the Atlanta Mutual, with Mr. Hernden, the Negro Croes of Georgia as the guiding star and the Standard with its one hundred thousand dollar paid-up capital which the quiet, careful H. E. Perry propels through the mazes of insurance intricacies with marvelous success. A visit to Atlanta immediately dispels that discouragement one contracts when he reads of the many restrictions that senatorial trinity of anti-race sentiment are constantly planning for the race in the North as well as the South, and it nerves one up with the assurance that progress like that made by the Negroes of Atlanta will out-maneuver and succeed over any obstacles 'which enemies may lay across the race's path. One cannot visit Atlanta and come away after meeting Dr. Dwelle-Howell without being impressed with the wonderful influence exerted, and the wonderful good this talented and skilled woman physician is performing. Her visits to the humble homes of the poor are like angel visitations and the charm she, radiates in the circles of her equals is uplifting. The Negroes of Atlanta have spelled progress with capital letters, and with them co-operation has become an italized slogan. DR. SHEPARD'S SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL The Durham Summer School Well Attended—Prof. Kelly Miller in Evidence—The Black Race Received An Ovation. Durham, N. C., July. 28. The class room work and the interesting features of the summer school and chautaqua of the National Religious Training School that closed last Sunday are effective agencies in causing an awakening of race consciousness and development. Dr. W. Y. Capman, the great pulpititer, staunch advocate of the "Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man," renowned lecturer and scholar, of Newark, N. J. lectured during the week. Dr. Kelly Miller, the uncompromising defender of his people, one of the most brilliant scholars, authors and sociologists of his age, gave a series of lectures during the week which mide these events of the school potent factors in the ascendance of the Afro-American folk. His lecture on the subject of "Out of the House of Bondage" gave his appreciative audience a comprehensive grasp on some facts essential for race uplift. He said, in discussing some of the phases of the effects of slavery upon the Negro: "It is not necessary to say that the Negro's religion is imperfect. People of imperfect development cannot have perfect accomplishments in any department of human excellence, Christianity found the Negro in his humble and lowly estate, and appealing to his nature, just as he was, without one plea. Ignorance didn't instantaneously give way to knowledge; corruption didn't at once put on corruption, nor did grossness immediately clothe itself with decorum and dignity of life." Among the other strong, and pertinent utterances were: "But the embracement of religion has been the chief factor in the progress of the Negro race on this continent, and represents the highest gain that has come to it out of three centuries of contact with the western world. This is the strongest tie that binds the Negro in the ennobling bond of spiritual kinship, to the fellowship of humanity. "Another inimitable quality which developed out of the Negro's nature was manifested in the 'black mammy.' We search in vain the records of the human race for like indications of altruistic endowment and wealth of material affection." "Among the other prominent speakers doing the week were the eloquent Dr. Chas. S. Morris, the well known reformer and apostle of foreign missionary activities and pastor of the Bank Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, Va., and Rev. S. S. Bost, rector of the white P. E. Church, Durham. Last Sunday night President Shepard, of the institution, made one of his eloquent and short addresses and it certainly brought new hope and inspiration to his very appreciative audience, especially when he exclaimed that the indebidedness of the school has so diminished that a new light was dawning and that the debt is lower now than at any period in the history of the institution. He emphasized that at this period, in order to continue this great work and accentuate the cause of the race, he desired the same interest and support of all friends that are interested in a work of racial uplift. The fall term of the school will begin October 1 with an excellent faculty. The summer school and chautauqua for 1914 will begin June 18 and the features will not be surpassed by similar movements. The summer school and chautauqua was a success and the class room was par excellent. A diploma was awarded to Rev. H. L. Johnson, of Washington, North Carolina, for his completion of studies in the theological department and degree of bachelor of theology was conferred upon him. Miss Mamie Clegg, of Durham, was awarded a diploma for the completion of her studies in the commercial department. EASTERN STAR NOTES. The Grand Chapter held its second quarter meeting Wednesday, July 23rd. The main purpose of this meeting was the consideration of a much-discussed ritualistic change. A special committee consisting of Mrs. Mary Parker, P. G. M., Miss Janie L. Cox, P. G. M., Mr. Wm. Baltimore, P. G., Dr. Wm. Wells, A. G. P., and Miss V. Thompkins, P. M., had been assigned this specific work at a previous meeting. They submitted their report to the Grand Chapter and it was accepted and adopted without a dissenting voice. The meeting was certainly largely attended. Dr. S. S. Thompson, P. P., and Deputy of Valley of Scottish Rite Masonry of the District, thanked the members of the Grand Chapter for their support given him on the occasion of the Fifty-seventh Anniversary celebration of the Scottish Rite Masons. Mr. Thomas Tascoe, P. P., as chairman of the committee, reported on the new chapter that had been set up in West Virginia. The grand matron, Miss Eva Lucas, and the president of the Eastern Star Home Association, Mr. Jos. Minor, invited the members to accompany them on a visit to the ground of this prospective home. The trip will be made Sunday, July 27. Mrs. Lucy Stewart, assistant grand conductress and president of the Mt. Calvary Ladies' Auxiliary, extended an invitation for their picnic at Green Willow Park, Wednesday, August 6. Announcement was also made of an entertainment to be given by the Getkisemene Auxiliary in the early part of August, at the residence of Mrs. Miller, on Vermont Avenue. Jack Jackson is to fight Carpentier or Plazer in Paris. DEVOTED TO GENERAL INTEREST Andrew Carnegie has promised $10,000 to Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., if the school will raise a like amount. Several colored men have been appointed to places in the New York police force. Mohammedanism is rapidly increasing in Portuguese East Africa. By invitation of the Harvard Union Dr. Böbker T. Washington will be one of the lecturers next year_at Harvard University. Thirty-five Negro prisoners were burned to death when the Okley convict farm near Jackson, Miss., caught on fire. The cause of the fire is unknown. Celored men of Nashville, Tenn., are planning to found on a 5,000-acre estate a model city in which preachers are to be chosen by popular election and to receive the same salary as policemen. No rivalry among denominations is to be permitted and no liquor is to be sold or given away. In a Common Pleas Court decision Judge A. C. Risinger, of Eaton, Ohio, allowed a perpetual injunction order restraining the colored organization known as the Improved Bennevolent and Protection Order of Elks of the World from making further use of the name of "Elks" or any designated or emblematic possessions of the white B. P. O. E. in the State of Ohio. This country's production of lead during last year was 480,864 net tons, a decrease of more than 6,000 tons over the previous year. It is said that Congress is trying to pass a bill called the "Aluminium Bill." This is to reduce the cost of dressing, as ladies' hats and shoes can be made of this material and will last a lifetime. The diamond necklace which belonged to Jack Johnson's former wife was sold for $2,160 at public auction. The necklace was bought in London by Jack Johnson and cost $1,950. A furniture museum is being organized in London for the benefit of furniture designers and builders. A memorial tablet will be erected in Blockley, Pa., in honor of Miss Bruce, a colored girl, for her excellent ability as a nurse and comforter. Mrs. Elizabeth Watts, 85 years old, has saved enough money by scrubbing to buy a two-hundred-dollar coffin, as she does not wish to be buried in a pine box, so keeps the collin in her room under the picture of her husband, who died about twenty years ago. Tombistones in New England cemetery have holes chiseled into the slabs or monument. In this is the picture of the one whose grave is beneath. The most powerful lightship in the world, with a 40,100 candle power light, has been placed in Mersey Bay. Booker T. Washington has discovered an encouraging reduction in lynching records. Two true cases of "mirror writing" have been discovered among pupils of public schools in Cleveland. One is a boy, age 6, who entered the school in September; the other a girl, age 11, who entered the public school three years ago. In writing they hold the pencil in their left hands and write from right to left, every letter and word reversed. The parcel post stamps will no longer be used, as the Postoffice Department has discontinued to print them. It has recently been ruled that ordinary postage stamps could be used to pay parcels postage. This was done for convenience. As many deaths are due to the accidental taking of poisonous tablets in Chicago, Alderman W. O'Nance has offered an ordinance requiring that all such tablets be coffin-shaped. Gold 2,500 years old was recently found at Eberswelde, a little town about an hour's journey north of Berlin, Germany, in an earthenware vessel. Seventy-eight articles made of massive gold, consisting of bracelets, drinking cups, rings, etc., have been found. A 16-year-old girl, weighing 327 pounds, was kidnapped at Galesburg, Ill. It is thought the girl was kidnapped by a show. Senator Poindexter, of this city, introduced a bill into the Senate providing that natives who are citizens of the island of Porto Rico become citizens of the United States. BACHELORS LEAD IN CRIME 3 TO Unmarried Criminals Far Outnumber Married Ones. 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 780 convictions of married men in general sessions and in the criminal branch of the supreme court and that there were 2,063 convictions of unmarried men. There were 66 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 rome time led a bride to the altar 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 8,293 were between fifteen and twenty years. Among the women two-thirds 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 1904 to 2,200 in 1912. 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 6,651 actions during the year. There were 3,023 convictions in general sessions and the supreme court, of which 2,383 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 3,991 years. The longest sentences were for burglary in the first degree. There has been a gradual increase in the length of sentences imposed since 1004, 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 Wege 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 person's 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 Tree Hutchinson, Kan.-Because the apples are so thick on the trees in the big Reno county orchards gangs 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 Chinner stopped a case in the superior court while he caught a mouse. The dog is a fox terrier and was in court with his master. The sight of a fat mouse was too much. Court officials aided him, and the case was rescued. OFFERS BODY FOR SALE. Convict Fears Family Will Claim Is After Death Comes. Savannah, Ga.-Hatred of his family, prompted Thomas A. McCollough, a convict on the Monroe county chain gang, to advertise his body for sale to the highest bidder. His advertisement reads: For Sale.-To the highest bidders for cash. I offer my body, which is six feet high, weight 175 pounds, is large frame, well proportioned, forty years of age and Caucasian race. I have a sentence of eighteen years for killing a negro in Griffin in 1911 and have no prospects, no hopes and no friends; hence, being in bad health, I am asking this proposition. Any one wishing to consummate a trade address Thomas A. McCollough, box 271, care Monroe county convict camp. Self sworn never again to have anything to do with his relatives, he is now in mortal fear that his body after death will be turned over to them for burial. This fear has been increased by the physician's statement that he is suffering from heart disease and has not long to live. The money which his body would bring is a secondary matter to the convict. His one real desire is that death shall not stop the breach between himself and his family. MILLIONAIRE DAY WORKER. Yale Man Puts In Long Hours at Rubber Factory. Boston—Dinner pall in hand, young Ellisha S. Converse, Yale student and a millionaire son of a multimillionaire, steps from his Beacon street home into a costly automobile, drives over to a Malden rubber shoe factory and tolls nine hours in a room where the temperature is hardly ever less than 100 degrees. This happens every weekday. Young Converse is determined to learn his father's business from top to bottom, but instead of beginning at the top he has begun at the bottom. The father is Colonel Harry E. Converse of Marlon, rubber manufacturer and prominent yachtsmaker. Sometimes young Converse has to handle redhot heels which he puts on the rubber shoes. He swings big shears, too, with which he cuts off the corners of the heels. All in all, his work at his bench in the heel room is considered a pretty hot job. Washington.—According to Van H. Manning, assistant to the director of the United States bureau of mines, experts of the bureau have given a noteworthy demonstration of scientific conservation of natural resources that has resulted in a saving of 150,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas daily in Oklahoma. This gas is estimated as worth $27,500, or $13,000,000 a year. The two employees of the bureau of mines who are credited with having accomplished this result are A. J. Pollard of Bakersfield, Cal., and A. G. Heggen of Pittsburgh. They are regularly attached to the bureau as oil experts. They were sent to Oklahoma by Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the bureau. It was estimated at the time Pollard and Heggen entered the Oklahoma field that every day 250,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas, worth $2,500, was being wasted. That meant a loss of $23,000,000 a year. Operators and drillers were skeptical of the assertion of the two experts that they could prevent waste by a certain system of drilling, but, according to Mr. Manning, they have reached the conclusion that the experts were right and are making preparations to stop the waste. "CONSCIENCE FUND" SLUMP. Receipts For Fiscal Year Only $2,814, Lowest Since 1901. Washington. — Uncle Sam's "conscience fund" received in the twelve months ended June 30 last only $2,814.44, the lowest amount for any one year since 1901 and comparable with a hundred year average of $4,200. In the last 100 years the government has received conscience contributions aggregating $434,615.69. The fund was established in President Madison's administration in 1811, when the first contribution of $5 was received. The largest amount ever received in one year was $35,868 in 1902, and the greatest individual contribution, $18,669.60, was made to the collector of customs In New York more than a decade ago by an unknown. ICEBERGS REAL TERRORS. Captains Who Were on Patrol Duty Issue Timely Warnings. Washington.—Icebergs are the real terrors of the sea, giving no warning of their approach in thick weather, and the only rational course for a navigator to adopt when his ship is in a fog in their vicinity is to stop and wait for the haze to lift. This, in effect, is the burden of the reports of Captains C. E. Johnston and A. S. Gamble of the cutters Seneca and Miami, which from April to July patrolled the transatlantic lane of travel to prevent a repetition of the Titanic disaster. "The only safe way to navigate in regions of icebergs," warned Captain Johnston. "is to stop during thick weather and to run very slowly on dark nights." 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. Griever Lent of this place, was knocked down by a rooster, and her brother Victor, one year her senior, who went to tier rescue, had one eye picked out and the other one seriously injured. Mabel had gone to collect eggs in the hennery when the rooster, a large Plymouth Rock, pounced on her and bore her to the ground. The rooster's lacerated 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. Dànville, 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 handicap 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 $500 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 mills 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 tight 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 Tutwiler, noted for her work for prison reform in the south, sent a message of indorsement, 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 mine 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 coal 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 from 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's, 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 wove more than seventy-five years ago. Mrs. Frances L. Founds, ninety-three years old, was buried at Foutty'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 murders Mr. McClaughry is a son of Warden McClaughry of the federal penitentiary here and has charge of the bureau of criminal identification at the penitentiary. Moore went to the penitentiary at Jefferson City after being found guilty of the murder of his mother and grand mother, Mrs. Mary Wilson and Mrs. George Moore, at Columbus, Mo., in December last year. Moore, on trial said he had made a study of famous murders, including the Crippen case in England. AN UNUSUAL MORTGAGE. Farmer Puts Up Chickens, Hogs and Revolver as Security. Washington, Ga.—There was placed on record in the office of the clerk of Wilkes county what is considered the most unusual mortgage ever recorded in this or any other county. The security named in the recorded instrument consists of the following valuable property—to wit: "Nine chicken hens, two sow hogs and a 32 caliber pistol." The amount of the debt thus secured is $23, and it is provided that if the obligation is not met at maturity the property mentioned therein shall be sold at public outcry. All homestead exemption rights are waived by the maker of the mortgage. The question is being asked, "Does this mortgage emphasize the increasing value of the 'hog and hominy' propaganda, or is it but another indication of the extreme stringency in the land about which so much has been said and written—which?" Bangor, Me.-A Maine sheriff might find a barrel of beer or even a jug of whisky, but he can't find a beer lozenge or a cocktail tablet, and over that glad fact the thirsty of this state are rejoicing now. For the tabloid booze drummer has come to Maine and is doing a rushing business in condensed drinks of all kinds, from plain whisky to cocktails and from beer to gin fizzes. The drummer carries a considerable stock of the tablets with him for immediate demands and arranges for further and unlimited supplies by mall. Many bars in Bangor, Lewiston and Portland are selling tabloid drinks, while a great many men who just must have their whisky or beer when they want it have obtained their own supplies and make their liquor at home while they wait, and the wait is not long. Nobody here knows anything about the constituent elements of the tablets, but nobody cares so long as they produce something that looks and tastes like liquor. The tablets come in little paper boxes or glass bottles of a dozen each and the price varies. A small phial of one kind of tablets, costing 13 cents dissolved in a gallon of water, with other ingredients costing 50 cents makes a gallon of what passes for whisky - total cost, 63 cents. It is not whisky that would appeal to a con noisseur, for it burns and blites all the way down, but is as near to whisky as a good many people are able to get in some parts of Maine, and it "goes." WHISTLING CAT HAS HARELIP. Animal Never Has Mewed, but Is Musical Prodigy. Springfield, Mass.—Stanislaus Czynszky of Prospect avenue, West Springfield, is the owner of a cat with a harelip, which whistles with the yell 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 Lava 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 1-3/4 part of a pound. Mrs. Alexander found an egg with a soft shell, which crushed in when she picked it up, and inside was the small egg, perfect in shape and with a hard shell. 11th Born to 11th of 11th. Lawrenceburg, Ind. - An eleventh daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Silas W. Jackson of Miller township. Mrs. Jackson is the eleventh daughter of an eleventh daughter of a family in which there were no boys. The new arrival welged nearly ten pounds and is thriving. GENERAL CHANGES IN POSTALSYSTEM CARRY HEAVIER PACKAGES. Maximum Weight to Be Twenty Pounds—Postmaster General Expects Eventually to Make It a Hundred Pounds—Government Buys Autos For Delivery Purposes. Washington.—Plans for the extension, improvement and reduction in rates of the parcel post were announced by Postmaster General Burleson. The changes, which are to become effective on Aug. 15, include an increase from eleven pounds to twenty pounds in the maximum weight of parcels; a material reduction in the postage rates in the first and second zones, the abandonment of the parcel post map as a means of computing rates and the substitution for it of a rate chart individualized to every postoffice in the United States. The plans contemplate the purchase of a large number of automobiles to be used exclusively for the delivery of parcel post matter. While for the present the maximum weight limit of twenty pounds and the reduction in rates will apply only to PETER the first and second zones, from any given postoffice-a distance of about 150 miles—the changes directed constitute the first long step toward a universal extension of the system and a general reduction in the rate of postage on parcel matter. "It is my expectation and belief," said the postmaster general, "that eventually—and it may be fifteen or twenty years—the postal service will handle practically all of the small package transportation business in the United States. The maximum weight limit, extended now from eleven to twenty pounds, I expect to see increased to 100 pounds, and experience may demonstrate the practicability of handling the parcel business at even lower rates than we now propose. "In the making of extensions and reductions of rates it is necessary for us to proceed with caution, so as to afford ample opportunity to prepare for the increased business. For that reason we have made the changes proposed apply only to the first and second zones. I appreciate fully the sentiment for an increase in the weight limit and a reduction in rates to all zones, but it is necessary for us in a sense to feel our way." ONE SQUIRREL DID IT ALL. Brought Out Police and Lured Two Men Near Death. Atlantic City, N. J.-Two men were nearly fatally shocked, police reserves were called out and business temporarily suspended in the center of the city because of the antics of a gray squirrel which escaped from a store, climbed a telegraph pole and then walked over a mile of wire along the main thoroughfare of the city. The two men had a close call when they climbed poles and tried to capture the squirrel. Thereafter a squad of police followed its trail to keep others from climbing the poles. At night the squirrel camped on a pole on the board walk. Next day he was electrocuted while endeavoring to go back over the route he covered. Hard Cider In Cistern. Bonner Springs, Kan.—The discovery of a clistern filled with hard elder on a farm near Bonner Springs has solved a mystery that has baffled the law officers of Wyandotte county for more than a year. Frequent complaints had been filed with the prosecuting attorney that many men and boys in this vicinity were being ruined by strong drink, but the utmost vigilance failed to disclose the source of liquor supply. The clistern was found by one of the prosecutor's assistants, disgulsed as a farm hand. The farmer who owned the clistern was enjoined from, selling or making elder, and the clistern and its contents were destroyed. CANNOT SLEEP ON BED. Twenty Years In Cell Unfita Paroled Convict For Real Bed. Topeka, Kan.—Morgan Wright, sent to prison in 1893 from Cowley county for complicity in the murder of a constable and released on parole by Governor Hodges, found that a free bed was so soft he was unable to sleep his first night out of prison. Wright came to Topeka to thank the governor. He is on his way to see his father in Shawnee, Okla., and then will go to California to begin life anew. "I didn't sleep well last night," said Wright to the governor. "It was the first real bed I have slept in for nearly twenty years. "When I left the prison yesterday I didn't know which way to turn or what to do. It was all so new and strange to me. Every one seemed so busy and in such a hurry that I can't quite understand it. Even the school children rushed along the street. But I think if the world is such a busy place that there must be some place for me, and I am going to try to find it." STREET STREWN WITH BILLS. Thought to Be Robber's Plunder by Government Officials. Leavenworth, Kan.-Three postoffice inspectors have begun an investigation of the finding of hundreds of dollars in gold certificates believed to be a portion of $50,000 stolen by Charles Savage from a mall truck in the Union station in Kansas City five years ago. Developments show that persons have been finding the certificates, mostly of the $20 denomination, for a month and have kept the matter secret. It is estimated that at least $1,000 has been picked up in gutters, vacant lots and back yards. All the money was discovered within a radius of eight blocks of the home of a relative of Charles Savage at whose house he stopped before his arrest. One theory of the investigators is that the money was concealed in a tree and dislodged by recent high winds. UNEXPLORED REGION MAY BE A BONANZA Indications That Upper Hayes River Is Rich In Gold. Edmonton, Alberta. — George Gardner of Ottawa is in Edmonton outfitting for a trek over the trail of romance to the Upper Hayes river district to prospect a gold claim located by a man he believes to have been his uncle on the bank of the Peace river in 1808, during the rush to the Yukon, when this city was made the starting point of the overland trail to the 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 Idians, 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. Barn 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. THE WINDS AND WAVES OBEY HIM Acts of Jesus as Well as Words Parabolic. PASTOR RUSSELL ON THE SEA The Storm on Galilee Furnishes Text For a Discourse—The Tempest as a Type and the Master and His Disciples as Types—Few of Jesus' Parables Explained to His Apostles—A Blessing In Disguise—Galm After Storm—A New Morning Dawns. Aboard "The Empress of Ireland," on the Atlantic, July 27. "There arose a great tempest in the sea, * * * but He was asleep. And His disciples awoke Him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. * * * Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the PASTOR RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calin"—Matthew 8:23-26. The Bible informs us that all of Jesus' teachings were parabolic. The Master explained the significance of some of His actions and words to His disciples, saying, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to all outsiders these things are spoken in parables and dark sayings, that hearing they might hear and not understand." Jesus did not explain all of His dark sayings even to His Apostles. Indeed, very few of His parables were explained. On the contrary. He said, "When the Spirit of Truth is come [the Holy Spirit—at Pentecost and after]. He shall guide you into all Truth, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have spoken unto you." On another occasion of similar import, He said, "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." Thus we see that it has been possible for all the followers of Jesus since Pentecost to understand the Master's teachin. In a way that His earliest followers could not understand them. The reason for this is plain. It was not expedient that the natural Jews or other natural men should understand clearly the Divine Plan. For them to understand would have meant that, in many instances God's plans might have miscarried. As, for instance, St. Peter informs us that if the rulers of the Jews had known, they would not have crucified the Prince of Life. But only by the crucifixion of Jesus could the Divine Plan be carried out, and therefore it was hidden from those for whom it was not intended. Nor was there any injustice in this; rather it was a blessing in disguise for them: If they had done the same things under full light and knowledge, their guilt would have been many fold greater. They are not, therefore, to be punished according to their deeds entirely, but according to the measure of light and knowledge which they possessed, which was very limited. And the same principle obtains in respect to the whole world from then, until now—little light, little responsibility; more light, more responsibility. He that knew the Master's will and did it not, will have many stripes; he that knew not the Master's will and did things worthy of stripes, shall be punished with few stripes. On the contrary, those who are begotten of the Holy Spirit, and thus accepted as God's people, into God's family, have the highest responsibility, because they have the greatest knowledge. They, and they alone, could possibly commit the sin unto death, as St. Paul explains in Hebrews 6:1-6, and 10:26, When the Scriptures declare, "The wise shall understand," the reference is to those who are especially enlightened by the Lord through the Holy Spirit and through the deeper understanding which they gain respecting the true meaning of God's Word. On the contrary, we have the assurance also that "none of the wicked shall understand." St. Paul explains the situation to us, saying, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, rea, the deep things of God." Here, then, is the secret of demarcation between the Church and the world. The former have the begetting of the Holy Spirit to a new nature, and with that begetting go privileges and opportunities of knowledge of God and of His plans, purposely secreted from all others not spirit-begotten. Hence, in all our attempts to spread the knowledge of God, we should remember to impress the thought that only the outlines of the Divine character and plan may be clearly discerned and appreciated by those not spirit-begotten. All who desire to go on unto perfection, and to grow in grace and knowledge and character, should be informed that the second step after the primary study is consecration. Those who will not consecrate will not have the privilege of looking deeply into and discerning clearly the lengths and breadths and heights and depths of the Divine character and plan. This also is for their good—a wise provision of God's love. For any having come unto the begetting of the Holy Spirit can have no further claim with the world upon God's general provision for human Restitution Their hope must be on the spirit plane. Begotten of the Spirit, they, must develop and be born of the Spirit in the resurrection, in order to have life eternal at all. Spiritual Lessons For the Spiritual Household. There is a precious lesson in this miracle for all of the Lord's followers. We also have need of faith and of tests of that faith. Our daily experiences since we became the Lord's followers have been guided and guarded apparently by the Power unseen, to the intent that as pupils in the School of Christ, we may all be taught of Him and develop more and more the graces of the Spirit, particularly more faith. How important this item of faith is we probably cannot fully appreciate now. It seems to be the one thing which the Lord especially seeks in those now called to be His followers. "Without faith it is impossible to please Him." "With faith 'all things are possible'" "According to thy faith be it unto thee." Proper faith, of course, is meant, not credulity, not reliance upon the words of men, but implicit faith in the Lord for all that He has promised to them who love Him supremely—Hebrews 11:6; Mark 9:23. So important a grace must of necessity require many lessons for its proper development, and therefore we find that in our Individual experiences as Christians we have those corresponding to the experiences of the Apostles, as recorded in this lesson. How suddenly the Adversary may at times bring against us a whirlwind of temptation or of opposition or of persecution! How overcast, how dark, our sky seems at such times! How the waves of adversity or of affliction have almost overwhelmed us! And how the Lord has seemed asleep, heedless of our distress! Such experiences are tests of faith. If our faith be strong, we would keep on with our proper endeavors to adjust matters, corresponding to the efforts of the Apostles to keep the ship afloat, but with implicit faith in the Lord's promise that "all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." So according to our faith shall we be able to rejoice even in tribulation. Not that we enjoy the sufferings; but we enjoy the thought which faith attaches to them—that these are only light afflictions, intended to "work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."—Romans 8:28; 2 Corinthians 4:17. The Boat and the Storm In Antitype. We may regard the incidents of our lesson from a typical viewpoint. Thus the boat would seem to be the Gospel Dispensation, or God's provision for carrying Messiah and His followers to the other side. The Master asleep would seem to prefigure the apparent indifference of the Lord, the Head of the Church, to the storms of persecution and suffering assailing His Church. The disciples awakening Him would seem to imply the prayers of the Church throughout the Age, crying unto the Lord, "Carest Thou not that we perish?" What a tempestuous storm broke upon the Lord's people after Jesus had gone from them! Persecutions from the Jews, then from the Gentiles, followed one another until the entire history of the true Church has been marked by severe trials, disciplines, testings of patience and of faith. Many a time have the Lord's people wondered at the amount of affliction and opposition from the world, the flesh and the Devil that their glorified Head permits to come upon them. Verily, it seemed as though He were asleep, as though He cared not for their welfare. The storm on the Sea of Gallilee may have arisen in some ordinary way, for aught we know to the contrary. It must have been a very severe storm; for the disciples were expert, experienced fishermen. We might reason that surely God would not specially raise up such a storm; and that if He had Jesus would have submitted to it, and would not have worked contrary to the Divine arrangement. On the other hand, we might reason that, since Satan is Scripturally termed the "Prince of the power of the air," it would be quite in line with his disposition to seek to destroy Jesus and the Church, represented by the Apostles. He might have thought thus to nip in the bud the Divine arrangement which Jesus had outlined; namely, His crucifixion in fulfilment of the Scriptures. At all events, Jesus when awakened did not hesitate to use the power He possessed from the Father to quell the storm—to turn aside the mischievous designs of Satan. We read that when awakened, Jesus first reproved His disciples for insufficiency of faith, as manifested in their doubling that with Him present with them they would be entirely safe from all powers of wind and water and the Adversary. Then He rebuked the storm, and it quickly subsided; and there was a great calm. What could these things mean antitypically? What lesson could we gain from them along spiritual lines? The lesson is that the storms of life which have beset God's people throughout this Gospel Age have undoubtedly been chiefly under the administration of the Evil One. He was unsuccessful as respects the Lord, whose faith triumphed, loyal unto death'. Satan has since tried, however, to wage a bitter warfare against the followers of Jesus, through persecution, slender, mlsrepresentation and falsehood. But in all of these he has only fulfilled the Lord's prediction, saying, 'Marvel not if the world hate you; ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own. But now ye are not of the world, because I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hateth you." Throughout the Gospel Age it has been sought to keep the Church pure by keeping the world out of it, even though wave after wave sought to fill the boat with the undesirable qualities and to swamp it. Throughout the Age it was the proper course for the Church to realize that the Lord was with her in all her antlctions, even as He had promised, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the Age." Remembering this, the Lord's brethren should have had full confidence, nothing doubting. The extremity of the disciples in calling upon the Lord for aid seems to imply that at the close of this Age there will be a special stress upon all the followers of Jesus, causing them to cry out for deliverance from the overwhelming powers of the Adversary. Then the Master will seem to awaken, as though He had not previously noted the condition of affairs. Then He will arise, and bid the storm to cease; and there will be a great calm. Storm of Trouble is Near. Bible students are more and more convinced that the great storm of trouble upon the Church is very near. Of just what character it will be we need not try to prophesy. We are to remember, however, that the majority of the storms upon the Church have come from professed people of God, rather than from the world. It was the Scribes, and Pharisees and Doctors of the Law that really crucified Jesus. It was they who excited the mob to cry out, "Crucify Him!". Release unto us Barabbas! They, and not Pilate, were responsible for Jesus' death; they, and not the Roman soldiers, really crucified Him; as St. Peter declares, "Ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; and killed the Prince of Life."-Acts 3:14, 15. Our expectation would be that similarly the Body of Christ, the Church, in the end of this Age will have its most trying experiences, not from the world, but from professed brethren. Do we not indeed see a preparation along these very lines at the present time? The formation of Church Federation has indeed a sincere and innocent look, but is not this really a disguise? Is not the purpose and object of the Federation rather to fortify and defend sectarianism and to hinder any one outside their own pale of influence from letting shine any light of Truth upon God's Word? Should we not expect really that when the Federation shall gain the measure of political influence and power that the symbolic book of Revelation indicates will be the case, then those holding a simple faith in God and in His Word, and striving to walk in the narrow way and to uphold the banner of God's Love, will be evily spoken of, misrepresented, traduced, slandered, "roasted," and eventually blistered from any part in the Master's service? Our consolation is in the thought that when this shall have been accomplished, the chiselling and polishing and glorification of the Church, the Body of Christ, His betrothed Bride, will have been completed. "Blessed and holy are all those who have part in the First Resurrection. On such the Second Death hath no power, but they shall be priests unto God and Messiah, and shall reign with Him a thousand years."—Revelation 20:6. Next, the World's Prelubulation. The Lord seems to indicate that His special Royal Priesthood will be perfected on the Heavenly plane before the world's tribulation shall break upon it in fullest fury. We read, "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those tiffs coming on the world, and to, stand before the Son of Man." True, the escaping of the world's trouble may be in the sense of being enabled to live above it on a higher plane, as not affected by it, but we think not. We believe that the Church will have passed into glory before the culmination of the world's Day of Wrath, just as at the First Advent all the Jews who were Israelites fideed, we believe, were called out into the new Depensation before the wrath of God came upon their House from the social and political quarter. But no matter! The Lord's will be done, whether His people will be with the world in the midst of the world's trouble, and yet be protected from that trouble by virtue of their ease of mind, or whether they shall be first delivered before the trouble comes. Other Scriptures seem to indicate that the Church will have something to do with the authorizing of the trouble of the Day of Wrath, saying, "This honor have all His saints, to execute the judgments written, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of tron." In any event, the Lord's people will be quite content, knowing that all things are working together for their good, and ultimately for the glory of our Heavenly Father and of Him who redeemed us through His own precious blood. Soon the time will come for the Lord to arise and say to the raging elements, "Peace; be still!" Then will follow a great calm, the great rest from the Evil One for a thousand years, during which he shall be bound, that he may "deceive the nations no more until the thousand years are fulfilled." Then will come the eternal rest of heart to all who are now in the ship with the Lord, and who will then have the blessed opportunity to be collaborors with Him in the great and glorious work of blessing the world. "He leaves us not when the storm is high. And we have safety, for He is nigh. Can that be trouble, which He doth share? Oh, rest in peace, for the Lord both care. TAKE CHARLTON TO ITALY FOR TRIAL Fight Against Extradition Occasioned International Interest and Threatened to Embroil This Country With Italy—Long Fight at Last Ended. New York—Porter Chariton, the young American who killed his bride in their villa at Lake Como, Italy, in June, 1910, and who for three years has successfully fought extradition, has been turned over to the Italian government and will be tried for his crime. In the Hudson county jail at Jersey City Chariton was under espionage which was relaxed neither day nor night in the fear that he might try to take his own life rather than face a living death in an Italian dungeon. He had no visitors save his de- J. PORTER CHARLTON. voted father, Paul Charlton, former United States judge at Porto Rico; his mother and brother and his counsel. The crime for which Charlton must now stand trial created worldwide attention because of his grewsome setting and the prominence of the slayer's family. The light against extradition occasioned international interest and at one time threatened to emboll this country with Italy. Porter Charlton was a New York bank clerk when he met Mrs. Neville H. Castle, a divorcee and daughter of Henry H. Scott, a San Francisco coal merchant. The wooing of Charlton was ardent and rapid, with the result that the couple were secretly married in Wilmington, Del., in April, 1910. A few days later they sent announcements to their friends and then sailed for Europe on their honeymoon. Letters received by Captain Scott, attached to the coast artillery at Fort Myer, led to the belief that the couple were happy and peaceably enjoying themselves. On the morning of June 10 the body of Mrs. Charlton was found by fishermen in a trunk in Lake Como not far from the villa the pair had occupied. An investigation was started by the police of Cernobbio, and a Russian named Constantine Isolatopol was arrested. When the authorities searched for Charlton he had disappeared. It was at first believed Charlton had met death defending his wife's honor, and the ink was searched for his body. Then it was learned from the proprietor of the Hotel Suisse at Cernoblob that a couple had frequently appeared there and registered as Mr and Mrs. Potter. They had often quarreled, and on several occasions the woman had been seen weeping. Once the guests heard shrieks, and the proprietor found Mrs. Charlton hidden in a closet. Later her husband dragged her to the street, and the proprietor asked the pair to leave his hotel. These stories turned suspicion upon Charlton, and the police of the entire world were asked to arrest him on sight. None of the detectives assigned to the case was more indefatigable than Captain Scott. He swore to be revenged and obtained a leave of absence. Scott thought his brother-in-law might be on the Deutschland and was on band when she docked. No trace of Charlton was found, and he strolled over to the Princess Irene. He had never seen the object of his quest, but a man on the pler answered his description, and he caused his arrest. He had arrived, under an assumed name, but admitted his identity when his own name was found stitched inside his laundry bag. He then seemed glad that the strain was over. At police headquarters he made a written confession, in which he said that, while his wife was "the best woman in the world," they often quarreled over trivial matters, and she would call him foul names. The night of the murder she went into a temper, and in a daze he struck her with a mallet he had been using to straighten out the leg of a couch. He then placed the mallet and body in a trunk, dragged the trunk from the villa to a small pler and threw it into Lake Como. FINDS HEARSE AT STATION Woman Supposed to Be Dead Changes Plans For Funeral. Bellefontaine, O. - When Mrs. George W. Carr of Yellow Springs alighted from a train at West Liberty recently she was surprised to see a hearse, an undertaker and carriages, one being occupied by her mother and a clergy man, awaiting her coming. She found she was supposed to have died and that the hearse was to take her body to West Liberty cemetery. A mistake in a telegram was the cause. Mrs. Carr's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Shumate, received a telegram saying Mrs. Carr had died Monday night and that the body would arrive at West Liberty. Mrs. Shumate had received a letter previously in which Mrs. Carr said she would visit her mother, Mrs. Shumate was prostrated when the supposed death message came. Her husband died suddenly a year ago, and her son passed away without warning recently, and she supposed her last remaining child was also dead. When Mrs. Carr stepped from the train alive and well there was a pathetic reunion. Many friends of Mrs. Carr were also at the depot, for the village newspaper had published a column: obituary notice. PORCUPINE TO BE DISPLAYED Another of Perry's Ships Discovered and Fitted Up. Cleveland.-The Porcupine, another vessel of the fleet which, under Commodore Perry, defeated the British fleet in the battle of Lake Erie in the war of 1812, has been discovered and is being repaired to take, part in the centennial celebrations of Perry's victory. Raised from the shore of the lake eight years ago and hauled ashore by Charles G. Bolthouse, the Porcupine is being refitted by Mr. Bolthouse and his cousin, B. J. Renners of Cleveland. After the battle of Lake Erie the Porcupine was used in the government revenue service on the great lakes until 1830, when she was sold at auction to Senator Ferry of Michigan. Senator Ferry rebuilt the boat and used her in the lumber trade until 1847. Unit for further use, the Porcupine was turned adrift and later floated into the harbor of Grand River, Mich., and sunk. CHARMED BY MUSIC SNAKE FREES VICTIM Wrapped Around Man, It Loosens Coils as Girl Plays. Punxsutawney, Pa.-With the coils of a python twenty-five feet long tightening gradually around his body, James Harve Stenger, manager for a carnival company, escaped being crushed to death only through the power of music to soothe the reptile after the efforts of six men had failed to dislodge it. Mr. Stenger was superintending the unloading of a box of snakes when the python escaped. For an instant the reptile seemed to be dazed, and as Mr. Stenger took a stick and tried to push it through a door into a big glass case the snake turned like a flash. In an instant the python entwined itself around Mr. Stenger, plunging his arms to his sides. Six men went to Mr. Stenger's aid and attempted to pull the snake from his body. The folds of the big reptile, however, only drew closer, and Mr. Stenger was on the verge of a collapse when Mile, La Boneto, who owns the reptile, appeared with a flagcolet between her lips. Stationing herself near the snake, she began to play a low, welded melody, at the same time swaying her body to and fro gently. Raising its head, the python began to sway in rhythm with the player and the music, and gradually loosening its folds from Mr. Stenger, it collared on the ground with its head swinging from side to side. Slowly approaching the snake, Mile, La Boneto, still playing gently, forced it into the glass cage. In the meantime Mr. Stenger, who had tooppled over unconscious when released from the folds of the snake, was revived and found to be uninjured. MAN DROWNED BY FISH. Tries to Swim River Carrying Forty Pounds of Them. Newton, N. J.-Harry C. Pitman, eleighteen years old, was drowned in trying to swim the Paulinskill river with a catch of forty pounds of all kinds of fish strung about his neck. He went down in the whirlpool near the Stillwater bridge, while friends who thought his cries for help were in fun hugged at him. They answered his second frantic cry, but too late. Pitman went spearing fish with Edward Huff of Hardwick township, by whom he was employed, and Lester Huff, brother of Edward. They had good luck, and at 2:30 o'clock decided they had enough to "call it a night." Pitman suggested that they swim back and started first. - Sheds Too Naila Burningly. Sheets Toe Nails Biennial. Bedford, Ind. J.-W. Mundy of this city sheds the nails from his toes every two years, and this has occurred since he was a child. When asked to see his foot, Mr Mundy bared his left foot and showed the old nails, barely hanging to the toes, and the new nails growing under the old ones. HEART MAY STOP BEATING. Physician Says Ten Minute Interruption Is Not Dangerous Paris.-The following very interesting statements, some of which are considered striking by the leading lights of French medical science, were made by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research, New York, at his first official lecture at the Paul Beaujon hospital. Dr. Carrel announced that he was now able to operate in the chest, cavity with as much ease and safety as in the abdomen. "It is now a simple cut," he said, "and we open the thorax and operate upon the lungs, heart and aorta as we treat the kidneys and the intestines. We now know also just how much the brain, the spinal cord and the heart can stand as regards the temporary anaesthetics required by operations. "The heart suffers very little from interrupted circulation as long as care is taken that it has enough oxygen, and it may be stopped for five or even ten minutes without danger, while in the spinal marrow the circulation may be stopped as long as twenty minutes." For the brain, however, four minutes is the limit of safety, and after it is very difficult to restore normal conditions. A huge field of work remained, he said in conclusion, to be done as regards operations upon the human heart, and the study of these was of the greatest possible importance. This was especially true of surgery for aneurisms and the shrinking of the aorta or pulmonary arteries. Columbia, S. C.—When United States Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman of South Carolina recently consented to the confirmation by the senate of President Wilson's appointment of William E. Gonzales, editor of the Columbia (S. C.) State, as minister to Cuba a famous political and personal feud of twenty-four years' standing in South Carolina came to an official end. The Tillman and Gonzales families have been bitter enemies, and the Palmetto State has been the scene of many heated battles fought by able leaders on both sides. On one occasion the differences were augmented by bloodshed. The Gonzales brothers—three of them—were exponents of views of the old aristocratic element—the exslave owners and wealthy planters who could trace their ancestors back hundreds of years and who composed the society element and the financial backbone of the state. Senator Tillman in his vigorous and stirring campaign for governor of South Carolina in the early ninies was victorious over this opposition. He was elected United States senator 'and has served his state in this capacity for the past sixteen years. James Tillman, a nephew of the senator, was elected lieutenant governor. Later he was a candidate for governor. The Gonzales' fight on the Tillman had never let up—many stinging and rebuking editorials were published in their paper James Tillman was defeated. Shortly after the election he met N. G. Gonzales, at that time editor of the paper, on the streets of Columbia and shot him dead. He subsequently was acquitted. A monument now stands in Columbia honoring the memory of N. G. Gonzales. On this it is recorded that Gonzales was "murdered" near the spot where the monument stands. --- Jim Tillman, as he was generally known, was later retired from politics. He became ill with tuberculosis. The climate of the west failed to cause an improvement in his condition, and he returned to his native state. In the meantime he had quarreled with his uncle, and the breach was an open one. The last days of Jim Tillman were spent in a lonely little cottage at Ashville, N. C., and he died there about a year ago. The bitter campaign of 1912 against Cole L. Blease came on in South Carolina in August, 1912. For the first time Tillman and Gonzales were on the same side, both favoring the election of the opponent of Blease. This tended to bring the two factions on closer terms. The fact that Senator Tillman permitted the senate to confirm the appointment of Mr. Gonzales as minister to Cuba officially ends the struggle of twenty years, marked by a continual and able fighting on both sides, and even by bloodshed. SOCKLESS MAN IS DIVORCED. Wife Says She Washed His Face and Hands Daily. Chicago. Because her husband was too lazy to wash his face and would not wear socks unless she put them on him. Mrs. Jessie Wood of East Eight eighth street. Paterson, has obtained a divorce. According to Mrs. Wood, her husband, James G., was the personification of laziness. She endured him for five years. She testified that Wood refused to work. He developed a great desire to sleep during the day. Then she says, he became so lazy he would not take a bath. Rather than invite criticism she washed his hands and face daily and put on his socks. He was ablebodied, but his wife says he was just naturally "tired." simmer nee TTF“! 7 Published ‘ at toy Eye St. N. W., Washington, 8 De”, W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR —— Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C, as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS ‘OF SUBSCRIPTION. | Que copy per year in advance. ..$2.00 Six months vesseresssoseeeeeaeee 2.00 Three months -vseeseeesnsvees 50 Subscription monthly sesecasvees 20 WHAT'S IN A NAME? 44 rose by any other name will smell just as sweet.” Character- izing colored Americans as being unfit to associate with white peo- ple doesn't make it so, when con- ditions prove just to the contrary. Taking the vote from colored Americans in violation of law doesn’t demonstrate the justice of the act, neither will it continue to exist. It is only a question of a short time before the oppressors of the colored man will mect their waterloo. God in good time will certainly attend to the tongue of Vardaman, Hoke ‘Smith and all other traducers of colored Amer- icans. % There is no cause for alarm on the part-of colored Americans. ‘The Japanese have been charac- terized as being unfit to hold land in this country, and yet they have demonstrated their superi- ority over the white race in the Japanese-Russian war. The Jews -have been ostracised by this great white race and have been charac- terized as neing inferior to this so-called white American race, but today the Jews control the commercial world. Calling a man a thief because you don’t like him, doesn’t make him a_ thief. The colored Americans are able to do what the white man can do and the only differences are the color of his skin and the curl of his hair, Nothing more and noth- ing Jess. The South has forced the North to eat crow, and with- ‘out a protest the North must con- tinue to cat crow without a pro- test and so far as the colored American is concerned he will eat no more crow and the South will see, and he may be called every- thing but the right thing, and he ds still an Amencan citizen, HARMONY CEMETERY. The enhanced value of the ground occupied by the Colum- bian Harmony Cenietery, by rea- song the encroachment of city improvements, has created quite an awakening interest in the minds of the lot holders. This was made manifest last week at a meeting of quite a number of lot holders, held in the business of- fice of The Bee. The SAvisory committee created at a previous mecting, submitted several points of observation leading to the bet-| ter government of the affairs of ‘the society. It was the unani-| mous opinion of those: presen that the office of superintendent, secretary «ind_treasurer, should: be separated. The ditties of these consolidated offices are performed by John H. Cook. a $1,400 clerk in the Pension Office, who re- ‘eeives from the society in addi- tion, $600 for his services, mak- ing a total salary of $2,000 per year. The general expression favored a division of the work, and have it done by those not in the government service. as it was unfair for government employees to monopolize the few opportu- nities offered ‘less favored and competent persons, Attention was called to a rumor in circula- tion that the cemetery grounds were private property, and that lot holders had_no vested title to “the ground paid for by them— they having only a lessce’s claim, as shown by the yeceipt given “them. This important matter together with several others were referred to the Advisory Commit- tee for examination and report. ‘The question of lot holders, aside from a favored iew, having a vote for trustees and voice in the man- agement of the cemetery was temporarily passed over. AND BURTON TOO? It is said when Senator Burton, TINITY DAY. it every other discouraging obstacie placed in our pathway has failed to unite the race and the leaders of the race, tnis segregation order put into effect in the departments of the government her at Washington ought to unit us in a grim determination.to force fair treatment for thefrace. Although the race has made wonderful advancement along educational and material lines, prejudice and discriminations, because of our color, has increased. The bourbon South, learning nothing and forgetting nothing, maintains socie- ties in nearly: all the’ populous Northern cities. to propagate anti- race sentiment. The South finds the race disunited, and unpre; pared to withstand its encroachments upon our rights. The bour- bons of the South are pressing us back—back to some Thermopole where we must either make a last bold, and triumphant stand or go over the precipice—lost in the gorge of ostracism. Some of us have stormed the very citadel of heaven with prayers, asking the Mighty Jehovah to arrest the hurtful opposition, but, apparently, a deaf ear has been turned to us, if there be a:God who watches over the humble and the needy. There are no great men today in the Congress of the United States thundering against oppression of the race, but there are a number who are almost daily villifying the race. The daily press emphasizes this vilification’ with scare headlines, while denying us small space in which ‘to defend our- selves. And we tremble for fear some poor, ignorant man of the race, brooding over restrictions and stolen rights, will imitate the action—the awful, horrible crime of some crazed white assassin and plunge the race into tears, And will, by his awful, insane act, inaugurate a saturnalia of crime. And if such come to pass who will be responsible? Why Senator Vardaman, Senator Tillman, and a few small implacable foes whose daily attacks upon the race, whose demand for segregation and more restrictions made some poor Negro an irresponsible being. We warn these anti-race men, these bourbon enemies of the race, these segregationists, to have a care, less they go too far—less they produce a crazed anarchist. We call upon all high-purpose, sin- cere race men to combine, forgetting their ‘petty differences and their selfish ambitions, burying all these in “the grave of forgot,” and over same erect the monument of unity. Let us come together for weal. The day of dissension and discord was yesterday. To- day, and tomorrow must be Unity Day if the race hopes to weather this fearful storm of discrimination and segregation, Fifty years ‘of freedom, fifty years of progress—at the high noon Of our advance ‘we are met by three ruffians—Discrimination, Segregation and Re- striction. 2 HAS THE COLORED: MAN BEEN A FOOL? The character of the colored men who have allied themselves with the Democratic patty don’t belong to that class of colored Americans that counts for anything. The colored clement that is supporting the Democratic party is for revenue only. With but a few exceptions, every alleged colored Democrat who supported the Democratic party in the last election received from the Demo- cratic Finance Committce certain amounts of money. An individ- ual who heads a certain alleged national negro independent or- ganization admitted that he had been given $3,500 to be used as campaign expenses. This individual refused to move until he was given money and no one is better acquainted with the cir- cumstances than the only alleged colored Democrat in the city, Rev. L. C. Moore, who tells the story. Rey. Moore relates a won- derful story. It is stated upon good and unquestionable authority that, with ‘But a few exceptions, every alleged colored Democrat was paid for his services to the Democratic party. If this state- ment be true, the Democratic party is in nd way indebted to these Judases to the Republican party and the colored race. There are a few fools who continue.to advocate the principles of the Demo- cratic party. In the face of so much discrimination and base treatment, ‘The Bee wonders how a colored person with an ounce of sense can afford to continue his adherence to the Democratic party. of Ohio, was approached to take some step to prevent the enforce- ment of the segregation order in the Treasury Department, he curtly replied it would be use- less. Senator Burton, without attempting to try, declirfes to as- sist’ his Negro constituents in Ohio on the grounds it would be useless. Useless why? Because he is in sympathy with it or be- cause he is indifferent to it? Use- less because he feels he cannot interest Northern Senators, Re- publicans and Democrats in .our just contention for rights clearly ours, or what? Had the old’ abo- litionists replied to our appeals back in the fifties and sixties that it would be useless, we would still, perhaps, be in bondage. In- difference to our cause and our rights evinced by Senator Burton, on the part of others, may help the croaking Vardaman and the paralized Tillman to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment. Tht*Ne- ero voters in Ohio have loyally supported Senator Burton every time he has been a candidate. Is this their reward? We hope the Senator will reconsider. Our esteemed contemporary, | the Dallas Express, in an edito- rial last week, spoke in very com-| plimentary terms of our good iriend, Mr. W. Sidney Pittman. 1f there is one commendable characteristic in Mr. Pittman, it is not hard to find. He never de- serts a friend,. but he certainly dislikes false’ pretenders. The Bee, in common with the Dallas Express, knows that Mr. Pittman wears no man’s collar, and his sweet little wife is a jewel and a noble woman, who is a great help to her husband, Mrs. Pittman is entitled to as much praise and commendation as her husband, and, if our esteemed contempo- rary has ever visited the home of Mr, Pittman and enjoyed one of his good dinners, he will say that the wife is as great as the hus- band. The Bee congratulates both, and reproduces the excerpt from the Dallas Express. NEW REGISTER. The daily press would have the country believe that the local Democrats are opposed to the con- firmation .of Mr.. Patterson, who NVIR. PITTMAN. NEW REGISTER. has been named by the President for Register of the ‘Treasury Vardamah, and’ perhaps a few Southern Democrats, may be op- posed to this nomination. Presi- dent Wilson ought to teach old Vardaman a lesson and? give him to understand that the war is over, Perhaps Vardaman may not know it. Having been reared and born in Mississippi, a long distance from civilization, and has now come among. civilized people, it is “not surprising to The Bee to sce him oppose the confirmation of Mr, Patterson. The Bee is of the opinion that President Wilson will insist 6n the confirmation of Mr. Patter- son, and it is hoped that he will give the South to understand that the war is over and there are no more slaves in this country, Var- daman to the contrary notwith- standing. : Let the Senate confirm Mr. Patterson. DR. JAMES E. SIIEPARD. Our Durham, WN. C., correspon- derit shows this week that the National Religious Training School, at Durham, N. C., has just closed its summer school, which was the most successful in the history of that great religious institution. This great southern educator has been successful in placing his institution upon a solid foundation, notwithstanding ‘the many hardships that have confronted him, There is no young man in the country, who is more entitled to the plaudits and encouragement that Dr. James E. Shepard. The time is not far off when Durham, N. C., and Greensboro, N. C., will be among the foremost educational centers of the South. The color- ed people of Durham, N. C;, arc to be ¢ongratu'ated for the en- couragement arid support they have given this school. Messrs. Spaulding, Merrick and — others who are among the most progres- sive business men in the South. ‘Their credit stands pre-eminen' among the financiers in the South. . Long live Dr. Shepard and his great work among his people. COMMISSIONER NEWMAN. . The cowardly fight that certain defeated local Democrats are making upon Commissioner New- man will be fruitless. Mr. New- man isa worthy successor of ex- Commissioner Rudolph. A than of the people, who doesn’t re- quire frills and a barrel of red tape to see him. He is not a sham, but a man who should be supported by the people. He is dignified, pleasant, and a man in whom the people will impose con- fidence. The opposition ‘to him comes from Haysceds and non- progressive individuals in whom the people have no confidence. THE INDEPENDENT LEAGUE. The president of the so-called Independent Political League, which is composed of about five members, has issued a_ circular letter resigning from that defunct organization. There .never was anything to it'in the beginning. Judge Hewlett laid it bare when he forced? this president to admit that he was a candidate for the office of Recorder of Deeds, which he had no earthly show of getting. | VARDAMAN TO THINK. Has the reeent storm been se- vere enough for Vardaman and the so-called fair-play association to cease thinking of and abusing colored Americans? If not, Var- daman and his associates. may wake up one of these bright mornings and find the- hand of God resting upon them. , The Bee continues to pray for them. The prayers of the rightcous are bound. to prevail. LITTLE STORIES OF SUCCESS. No. 2—Roberts, the Baker Man. Have you ever been to Boley? If you have not, you have, of course, ieard of this prosperous town out in Oklahoma. It has some three thou- sand inhabitants, all Negrocs. This is an up-to-date town. It has banks, first-class dry goods stores, drug stores, groceries, cotton gins, steam laundries, bottling works, paved side- walks, electric lights and a telephone system. It is on thy main line of a railfoad. The ticketagent, telegraph operator and other persons connected with the business of the railway in Boley are colored. It has been often said that no con- siderable number of Negroes could live together without disorder, strife and lawlessness. Boley is the refuta- tion of this slander. “It is the uni- versal testimony of the white travel- ing salesman that Boley is one of the most orderly towns in Oklahoma, In fact, the town has no nced for con- stables and police officers. 7 ‘One of the seasons why Boley is such an orderly, prosperous town is because of the character of the peo- ple who have settled there, Caughey W. Roberts, the subject. of this skétch, is a fine example of the class of people who are making Boley fa- mots and dethonstrating to the world that Negroes can build up a prosper- otis and. orderly community. Kob- erts Tuns the leading bakery im the town. He is us to date in the con- ducting of his business and is one of the most progressive business men in that progressive town, The net pro- fits from his business Amount to from $1,200 to $1,300 annually. In addi- tion to doing what he can to make his business a success, he is also ac- tively engayed in church and Sunday Schpol work and in other activities which make for the moral uplift of his community, Roberts attributes much of his sucs cess to the hustling spirit of work and of thoroughness which he ac- quired while a student at Tuskegee Institute. “In doing what he can for the general improvement of the com- munity, he says he is only carrying out the “Tuskegee Idea.” His home ‘was originally at Valdosta, Ga, but after his graduation in 1906 he fol- lowed Horace Grecley’s advice and went west to grow up with the coun- try. : : Although he has been in “business but a few years, he has accumulated considerable property in Boley, Taft, Clearview and other Oklahoma towns. The success of Roberts in the bakery business is an example of what can be done along this fine in all parts of the South. “In this field Negroes have an opportunity much greater than they had in the field ca- tering twenty to fifty years ago in the Northern cities. Just as long as there are people in the world, just so long -must they be fed. There will always be a demdnd for bakeries. In the Sottth in the next few years there is going to be a greater demand than ever for them. Here is the op- portunity for him who will take ad- vantage of it; : Caughey \W. Roberts’ success in the bakery business -also demonstrates the value of learning one of the.many trades which are taught at Tuskegee Institute? If he had, not learned a trade he might now, instead of hav- ing a business netting him from $1,200 to $1,500 a year, be a day Ja- borer earning only three or four hun- dred dollars a year. HARPER FERRY NOTES. Since our last letter we note the following arrivals: Regulars—Miss Emma Patterson, ‘Mrs. Cora Peters, Miss Emma Pe- ters, Mr. A, M. Peters, Miss Helen F, Jones, Miss F, Willard Hall, all of Washington, D. C. Weekend arrivals: Dr. W. L Board, the Fourteenth Street popula pharmacist? Dr. I."A. Boyd, Y. M. C. AY Washington, ‘D. C.; Prof. Herber Myers, Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. Jos. W. Piles, Mr. WC.’ Evans, Sr. Mr. M §. Koonce. Mr. John H. Cook, Mr Cecil H. Butler, Jr. Mr. R. B, Pe ters, Dr. C. C. Frey, Miss Ruth, Pi ber all of Washington, D.C. ‘- Public Men And Things . My Dear Chase: ‘It was not my intention to puncture my, vacation with any disjointed effusions to The Weekly Sting, but on receiving my Bee today I" observed your society reporter had me spending my. vaca- tion at Atlantic City. Since it has become fashionable to write you let~ fers, correcting the repertorial say- ings of your staff (see exhibit Offord in last issue), I thought I would write and correct you. Iam not at Atlan- tic City. I am down here at Buck- row Beach, Va., the real simon pure, unaffected, ‘undisturbed by white men, Negro summer resort. It's cheaper here-than at Atlantic City, and with one whose pocketbook isso under- size, “cheaper” is a charming word. There have been several Washing. tonians down here. Doc. Sumner Wormley has been here. Doc. and I drank. one or two “diplomatic” high- balls together with one or two other toothpullers. And let me murmur softly to you, Doc. surely did leave a wake of toying maidens behind him here. These Stuart charcoal lozzen- gers what, ‘promenade in’ Buckrow cach with slit skirts, just thought Doe. was the finest thing that was ever offered an apple by some Eve. I certainly am enjoying myself here. Got a nice little hall room for $2.50 per week, and with using my conver- sational powers to advantage and re- hearsing a lot of Judge Terrell's pre- served stories, I find that for about $2.50 more I can get by cach week, thus making my board, room, wash- ing and “extras” only cost me $5 per week. Now, I can't beat that much down at Ogonquin, I have worked this summer vacation down to a sci- ence. A lot of hams in Washington borrow, beg, and—well, just get money ‘some way to go to Atlantic City, Cape May and those other re- sorts built for white people and Jews. I have figured it out that Buckrow Beach is the “primeval” resort for a charcoal lozzenger. Down here you find nothing but blacks, browns and high vallers, no white folks mixed in “a-tall,” and the result is one can really ‘enjoy himself or herself. You know down at these big white folks" resorts you are liable to pass some swell partridge from Connecticut or Massachusetts Avenue whose second- hand dress you bought and are wear- ing, and that makes your feathers fall, “Down here you can wear all the’ second-hand dresses, “coateses and panteses” you want to, and you will never meet the pullet or the rooster you bought them from. This, I tell you, is a real Negro resort. The only thing lacking to fully impress you with this fact is that there are no razors here. Just “high-toned cul- lud folks” come here—the class Xhat's willing to pay three or four dollars per for a room. tat But, speaking about Doc. Sumner Worntley, he stirs did have some time down here. ‘The ladies called him the “fade-away ball.” You know Doc. would hand them a lot of neutralized con, let them see one of those “two- for-five” smiles of his, and then he would fade away. I heard one bal- sam -blossom remarked, to a coal- passer on the Jowa just ‘as Doc. was leaving the dining room: “Ob, ain't he serumptuously neat and animated- ly handsome?” When I heard this, this jargon of words, I gave the or- der to the ‘waiter to send enough dope to my room to send me to sleep “immejitly.” ‘The slit-skirt lozzenger who thus spoke I learned was a belle from over on the left bank of the Dan River, and when home makes .a grand living taking in “washin’ & plain sewin’.” Doc, sure did make one more it with her. And let me tell you she was no slouch in looks. She hada complexion what was a cross between a Vérnonized appeal to Caesar and 2 Walter Pinchback, hue, and this would bring her in about Lewis Johnson's class. She had love- ly locks: some of them were bought at the pound rate, and some had been hair-vimized to a dead straightness. Her form, so much as could see, and T saw nearly all-when she went in bathing, ‘cause her bathing full dress suite. was limited to 25 cents, was a regular “primeval” form. She had a real pretty face. But, oh, them there feet and them there hands! Doc. will tell you all about them. They were certainly a la Virginian. Ask Doe? sat I just notice, by the papers that Vardaman, whose dreams are always disturbed by visions of Negro fetuses, says he aitl't going to let Patterson, that man_ from Oklahoma, be con- firmed. Some one pointed Patterson out to me before I left Washington. They also told me that he makes $25,000 a year out of applt orchards and his law practice. Now, T know that to be a fact. Only a fellow who makes $25,000 or $50,000 a year would hang around Washington begging for 1 $3,000 job. Bnt Patterson's got about as much chance of being con- firmed as Doc. Sumner Wormley has of marrying that * Dan River belle ih ths Gan consent. ‘The whale down and promised to pay $t a week for sixty-four weeks. I use to own. ‘one of them $25,000 apple orchards myself. Some one asked Patterson what he thought of the segregation order in the Treasury Department, and he replied that he was “not in Position to state my position.” Now, any fellow what ain't in position to state his position on a matter that hits his race such a solar-plexus blow ‘as this segregation business -does, ain't never goin’ to be in a position to be worth 2 continental damn to his race. And that goes for Sweeney or Patterson either. Course, I think Patterson is sort of a fluke lying around here stalling for a job which, when he gets it, will force hint to use toilet room lobeled “for niggers and dogs only.” but at the same time I ain't got no defense for that “nigger- hating wart from Mississippi,” who can't talk nothing but the ‘Negro question. I don’t think Patterson gught to be opposed for confirmation Just because he is one of Mrs. Ann’s children. Giles Jackson, who knows a few'things that nobody knows, told, me yesterday that he had the straight tip ‘that both the Virginia Senators would vote against Patterson if his Sonfirmation ever came to a vote. Giles intimated also that if Woody had sent in his name he could have been confirmed. Tom Skelton, who is here from Oklahoma, and claims to be on intimate terms with Sena- tor Owens, says Owens never vill agree to. vote for Patterson, and that cooks his goose.” Skelton,” however, said Patterson was all right, and a very clever little gentleman and de- served the appointment for the work he had done for the Democratic party. “Why,” Said Skelton, “the Democratic’ party disfranchised us out in Oklahoma. We ain't got no more vote than a cockroach has a liver, and yet Patterson stumped the State for the Democrats, Now, a fel- low what's got that nerve ought to get something. Skelton is a strap- Ping big piece of anthracite from Ok- lahoma ‘who is stopping here for a few days after visiting his old folks a few. miles back of Richmond. He's a half brother to the coal-passer what’s been making goo-goo eyes at the Dan River belle what's incapaci- tated with admiration for Doc. Sum Wormley. T'll be here for two weeks more, if a friend of mine sends me that $15 he borrowed from me for the inauguration week. Otherwise, Fil be back on the Avenue de Nig (You Street) and the Rialto (Fourteenth Strect) and the Bois ‘de Colonge. (Seventh Street) mighty quick, if not sooner. Yours. for $3.00. THE SAGE. PITTMAN WEARS NO COLLAR. From Dallas (Texas) Express. The career of H, Sidney Pittman, the rising young architect of Dallas, who is charged with the responsibil ity of erecting the Pythian State Temple and other manimoth struc- turés in Texas is a type of the “since de war colored man whom we can well afford to encourage. He has cast his lot in Texas. bringing here his most interesting family and had the good fortune to locate in Dallas. His wife is the only daughter of Booker T. Washington, and because of this fact persons not in a position to know are taking it for granted that Mr. Washington's irifluence is making Mr. Pittman’s wonderful success possible. The’ Daltas, Express docs not share in this erroneous opinion, It knows Mr, Pittman to be a man of merit and worth and “demands for him credit for his accomplishments on his own account. Those who have come in contact witht him, who have had an opportunity to observe his fierce discretion, his consummate judgment, his wonderful reserve and his prodigious energy are convinced that Mr. Pittman is not a pert of the weight which Mr. Washington has to carry. Whether Mr. Washington would carry a man of the indepen- dence and aggressiveness of Mr. Pitt- man is a question which we would decide in the negative. without seri- ous deliberation. He is not a man of the Washington type, or rather-not a man of the type which would ask of the Wizard his influence, and there is no record ofeMfr, Washington hav- ing ever offered his services without solicitation. The Dallas Express Kives expression to these views be- cause it believes in every tub stand- ing on its bottom, and even more it believes in the tubs which have such standing being given due credit for so doing. A FREE OFFER Ina Great Effort to Raise a Fund to pay off Debt on the Douglass Home. Generous Friend Offers New York Prop- ‘erty to Successful Contestant. ‘The Frederick Douglass Memorial acd His- totieal Assoelation has Inangaratedamovement toraiye sufficient fends to) pay af the mortgage on the home and provide fads to put the howe ofthelate. and iustrfous Dourlaerin excelfent Shape. The residence on Cedar Hilly at Washe ington, with ail the faraitare, bouls, curios, es, Belonging! to Stra! Douglassy andi with (3 fiteen acres of land witbinten minutes ridaon Street eats to the White House, was, bequetted tothe race to be maintained (oreverss a mee mortal andas' retreat where all migbE go, with out charge, and enjoy ieand eversihing which ‘once, was ihe property of that great apostle of ficelome Abwrteske ange over the home, which the trastees fot years hiave Been trying tS Pay off “Forlackoffcads, the beautifahyhistor Raioldhomets rapiily falling lato decay: Tt moni bea lasting diterace were thishowe ts Gitinothe hands ofthe whlteman, or wereits Saluable furniture, books, papers, works of att and curfos collected by Mes Douglass to become lost throuzh decay because the race he labored. sp bard to make frcelacked suficlentrespectanil Feverence for bis memory to pay off thedebt on tht" home and: pur la repaie the historicatold mansion. We cai atention to the adverbae Bent, appearing in another part oftais uewsps~ Patgiering to New York bnilding Hots abso= ftely fre to the twoppersons scuding Inthe fate fat amber ofcoupors. Weare men and wor fea, boys and girls tomnter thizcontest aad as sisttoraise the necessary fund to pry off the ortgagconthe home of our Great Douglass Startiaat once, and begin collecting coupons, Forwarding thera to this newspaper cach week pecompanted by Srecents for cach couprn sent fay Here isan opportuaity tosccare a valuable Teiwhich maybe worth scveral thousands dol Ist5 to youta’a short time, for New: York teal estate Inereases 10 value amaziogly Gast, and at fhcssmetime you will belp raise the fond re Qguired topreserve the bomeot that iltastrious Hosea, shoderiok Deugiacse The Weeksin Society Everybody is now going to Board's Pharmacy at 1912'14th 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. Miss Jennie Cornell, of this city, will be the guest of the Misses Mary, Joe and Hettie Monroe in Pittsburgh, Pa., during their stay in the city. Misses Ermina Tucker, Edna Ross and Master Harold Kirk have returned to Martinsburg after a visit at Mrs. Scott's. Mrs. Rebecca Branch left Newport News, Va., Saturday for her home in this city. Miss Eva M. Skinner, of Baltimore, Md., visited her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Brown, of this city. Tuesday. Mr. John N. Johnson, of Leesburg, Va., will spend some time in this city, where he is employed. Mr. Wm. Henderson, of Hamlet, N. C., is in the city for a few days. Mrs. Lotta E. McFarland, of Chicago, is in this city en route to Newark, N. J., New York and Pittsburgh, where she has relatives. Prof. Kelly Miller and F. H. M. Murray were among the callers at the Reformer office this week, Durham, N. C. Mrs. Laura Henderson, of Chicago, entertained Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, president of the National Baptist Training School, of this city. The party then enjoyed an automobile trip through the residential district of the south side. Mrs. Celia Brooks has returned home after a delightful stay of thirty days in Detroit. Mich., with her daughter, Mrs. W. B. Curtis. On the eve of her departure she was tendered a delightful five-course supper by Mr. and Mrs. John Lucas and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Davis. The evening was spent with much success. H. M. Sparks, of Howard University, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clay, of Detroit, Mich., will leave for home Saturday. Mr. Fred O'Bryant, of Montgomery, Ala., left last week to accept a government position here. Mrs. Amy Day left the city last week to join her many friends at Hotel Dale, Cape May. Mrs. Lewis E. Johnson, wife of the secretary of the Twelfth Street Branch Y. M. C. A., this city, who has been in Cleveland and Columbus for the last six weeks visiting her parents and relatives, has returned home. Mrs. Johnson was entertained while away by Mrs. Walter B. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Early, Miss Willa Shook and others. Mrs. Church, of Memphis, Tenn., is in this city visiting her mother. Miss Ella R. Jones, the manager of the great Foster Dye Works, and no doubt one of the most accomplished and progressive business young women in the city, will leave for Viewtown, Va., next week, the guest of Mrs. Green. She will remain several weeks. Miss Marie E. Hellman, niece of Mr. Dallas Washington, accompanied by her uncle, left the city last week for an extended eastern trip, visiting Saratoga, Long Branch, Cape May, Atlantic City, New York and will end their vacation by going to Buckrow Beach, the great Bay Shore Hotel. Attorney A. W. Scott, wife and son will leave for Atlantic City, N. J., next month. Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Mason left today for Atlantic City, where they will visit friends. On their return they will visit relatives in Philadelphia. Miss Mary L. Stevenson, of Keysville, Va., will be the guest of her cousin, Miss Jessie C. Mason, in Wylie Street Northwest, during the month of August. Miss Nellie G. Ford is spending a pleasant vacation with relatives and friends in Boston. On her return she will spend a few days in New York City. Miss Delia Caskey, of Richmond, Va., is enjoying her visit here. Mrs. Mabel Bruce Jeter is visiting relatives and friends in Newport, R. I. Miss Rebecca Ware is spending her vacation at Oak Grove, Va. Miss Chloe K. Dade is enjoying her stay at Southampton, L. I. Mrs. H. J. Davis is the guest of her parents in Vineland, N. J. Misses Mollie Murray and Daisy Gibson are enjoying their stay at Asbury Park, N. J. Miss R. B. Lane is visiting friends in Midland, Va. Miss Florence R. Letcher is summering at Asbury Park, N. J. Mr. A. V. Thornton is spending his vacation in Beverly, Mass. Mr. O. C. Thornton is spending his vacation at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Laura F. Peterson, who has been ill, is convalescent. Mrs. A. Nichols is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Ruby Smith, in Wildwood, N. J. Mr. J. Edmond Hall is in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. D. J. Cooper is in Providence, R. I. Buy your drugs, medicines and toilet articles at Board's, 1912% 14th Street. Guaranteed satisfaction in quality and price. Miss Norma E. Boyd is enjoying her stay in Jersey City. Dr. J. E. Duer is spending the sum- Dr. J. F. Dyer is spending the summer it Buffalo, N. Y. Miss I. Johnson, of Pittsburgh, Pa. spent a few days, here last week. spent a few days here last week. Messrs. R. W. Stuart and A. B. Rawlings were over from Baltimore last week. Mrs. Jennie Swan Blackwell, whose husband owns the leading bakery at Good Hope, has been appointed post- mistress. With her natural business tact and sticktuitiveness her success is assured. The people of Good Hope are much pleased with the choice. Miss I. I. Saunders and Miss Selina are summering at Hamilton, Va. Dr. W. S. Montgomery and family are at Harper's Ferry, where he and his wife spent their honeymoon. Prof. R. C. Bruce is still in town, where he will remain until the middle of August. Mr. Moria Saunders is attending one of our summer schools, where he is better preparing himself for his work in the fall. Mrs. B. G. Francis was in the city last week, but has gone to her home on the bay again. Miss Love Perry and Mrs. Tyson are summering at Arundel-on-the-Bay. The Y. M. C. A. is still in session at Highland Beach. Mr. L. M. Hershaw, of this city, was a visitor to the Guardian office in Boston, Mass. He is in the city to attend the meeting of the trustees of the Atlanta University. Mrs. Anna L. Green, the popular hostess, entertains at a musical, to which a large company is asked. On Friday evening, July 25, Mrs. Green's reception rooms were the scene of a brilliant competitive piano recital between her son, Master William Green, and Master Richard Jenifer, pupils of Hayward W. Goode. Their selections were varied and interesting. Both showed marked musical abilities, playing all of their numbers well. On the vote of those present the first prize (given by their instructor) was awarded to Master Richard Jenifer, whose smooth and expressive playing evinced very careful and painstaking practice. At the conclusion of the program the guests retired to the dining room, where ices and cool, delicious delicacies were served in great quantities. Mrs. Howard, whose roof was blown off by the recent storm and who was ill at her home, 1207 Eye Street Northwest, was taken to the residence of Miss Manie Thomas, 1113 Eye Street Northwest, Wednesday afternoon, where she is now under the care of a physician. Dr. Amanda Gray, who has been quite ill, is able to be up and out again. Dr. Minnie Crew, of the firm of Gray & Gray, has gone on her vacation. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, the greatest female orator and educator in this country, has issued an appeal to the people for aid for her school. Every patriotic citizen should send a contribution to her for coal, which will be needed this winter to keep her young girls warm. Green Willow Park, the place; Friday, August 8, the time; Oldest Inhabitants, the people. Join the Oldest Inhabitants August 8 in a good old-fashioned family picnic. Gates open 10 a.m. The first annual outing of the Oldest Inhabitants' Association, (Colored) of the District of Columbia, August 8, at Green Willow Park. Good music. Dancing. A country dinner for 25c. Spend the day with the Oldest Inhabitants August 8 at Green Willow Park. ALEXANDRIA NOTES. The funeral services of Mr. Wm. Frazier, who was drowned at the Y. M. C. A. Building, Washington, D. C., Tuesday, July 22, were held at Roberts Chapel, M. E. Church, on Thursday, July 24, at 3 p.m. Services were conducted by Rev. E. F. Eggleston, pastor of the Thirteenth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J., of which the deceased was a member and officer, assisted by Rev. Joseph Wheeler, pastor of Roberts Chapel. A brief address was made by Mr. Lewis E. Johnson, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Washington. The deceased was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Frazer, of Newark, N. I. Elizabeth, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Griffin Brooks, whose death occurred at the home of her parents on Queen Street, Saturday last, was buried Monday at 11 a. m. Services were conducted by Rey, D. G. Henderson, pastor of the Third Baptist Church. Funeral services over the remains of the late Mrs. Sophia Hayes, who died at her residence on South Royal Street Thursday, were held at Wheatly's Chapel Saturday at 11 a.m. Rev. Jacquelin Strange conducted the services. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Davis, and children, of Hempstead, Long Island, are the guests of Mr. Davis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis, of South Asaph Street. Miss Irene Randolph was the week-end guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Colbert Falls Church, Va. Mrs. Laura Arnold, who has been sick during the past week, is improving. Repairs are being rapidly made on the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burke, which was damaged by fire Sunday, July 20. Mr. F. H. M. Murray has returned from a trip to Durham, N. C., where he visited the National Religious Training School. Mrs. Katie Ages Brown, of Washington, D. C, who has been visiting friends in Alexandria, has left for Newport and New Bedford, Mass. On her return home she will visit Miss Carrie Sumby, of Philadelphia, formerly of Alexandria. Mr. Daniel Hopkins was buried from Wheatley Chapel Thursday. Dr. Raymond H. Murray spent a few hours in the city this week. ```markdown ``` The congregation of Mt. Zion M. E. Church are holding outdoor meetings every Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the brotherhood of the church, and on last Sunday a very largely attended meeting was held in Congress Street Alley and Cherry Hill, Rev. W. C. Thompson officiating. The third anniversary services of of Blue Ridge Lodge No. 8,500, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, of Merrifield, Va., will be celebrated Sunday afternoon, August 10. at 3 o'clock p. m. Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate, and there will be an address by Mr. James L. Turner, ex-grand director of District Grand Lodge No. 20, Washington, D. C. A very large and appreciative audience greeted the Rev. W. C. Thompson on Tuesday evening and listened to his lecture on his recent trip to Niagara Falls, which was highly interesting. The trustees of the church received a very neat sum in their treasury from the proceeds. Mrs. Anna Johnson, nee Hewlett, of 988 Morris Avenue, The Bronx, N. Y., is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hewlett, of 24 P Street Northwest. Dr. Samuel M. Pirre, Dr. Daniel Smith and Mr. Samuel Harris are among the new membership, of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street. Miss Nellie Hurbert is enjoying her school vacation in New York City. Mr. Jos. C. Beckett has returned to the city after a two-weeks visit among the western cities. Rev. Sheaf, of the Seventh Day Adventists' Church, has erected a very mammoth tent on Twenty-second Street Northwest, near M, where a very large concourse of people, are attending nightly, attracted by the excellent music and discourse. The singing of Elder Sheaf is one of the main features of the meeting. A very pretty birthday party was given on Wednesday evening, at which time the playmates of Miss Lucille Turner gathered at 2507 P Street and enjoyed a pleasant evening in birthday rhymes and songs, croquet and other amusement. Many nice little presents were received and light refreshment was served. Among those present were Misses M. F. Williams, M. Johnson, Esther Turner, E. Tucker, Jas. H. Turner, Fletcher Turner, Alonza Turner and Charlie Turner. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. The Sunday School of Galloway M. E. Chapel is still in a prosperous condition and keeps a good attendance. Class No. 2 yet holds the banner. The usual discussion of the lesson was omitted because of this Sunday being Communion Day. It will be continued next Sunday. The service in the morning was well attended and a most feeling sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Colbert, after which followed the administration of the Lord's Supper, Rev. Barnett assisting. The night sermon was preached from Gal. 2:20 to a fair-sized congregation, and communion was administered. The collection was good. With a satisfactory attendance, good collection and pleasant spirit, Sunday School at Second Baptist Church opened up a grand day of service. The 11 o'clock service had an overflowing congregation. Rev. Pinkett, with his choir and congregation from Mt. Pleasant, had charge of this service, closing it with a good collection. The 3 o'clock service was a bright and cheerful one. The pastor, with choir and congregation from Seminary conducted this service. These people came up from the Seminary in a large automobile touring car. At the close of the service there was a crowning collection for the day thus far spent. Although the night was warm and oppressive, the service at this hour was full of interest, all being anxious to hear the total for the day; and when it was announced that $250.88 was the total for the rally, great joy prevailed and there was a general expression of feeling that the Lord has blessed us. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Powell, presided at this hour. On Tuesday night of last week there were lawn parties given at the residences of Mr. James Turner and Mr. L. L. Lee. Both parties were successful and well attended. Quite a large crowd went from this point to Manassas on Thursday, the 24th inst., and report a very pleasant trip. Little Miss Teressa, the daughter of Rev. W. B. Carroll, of Washington, D. C., is spending a few weeks with Mrs. G. W. Thomas. There have been organized two teams of baseball—a "Methödist" and a "Baptist," and the first game played by them came off on the 28th inst. and resulted in a score of 12 to 4 in favor of the "Baptist." Mrs. T. W. Hyson and son, Claude, were in Falls Church Sunday. Miss Irene Randolph, of Alexandria, was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Colbert from Saturday until Monday. Miss Viola E. Henderson, of 741 Kenyon Street Northwest, spent several days of last week at Falls Church, the guest of Miss Annie E. Henderson. Mrs. Elizabeth Collins and granddaughter, Marion Sabbs, are enjoying a pleasant stay in Falls Church, as the guest of Mrs. Louise Henderson Miss Alberta Shaw, of Anacostia, D. C., spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. Cora Denny. Miss Viola E. Henderson, of Washing (D. C., has returned home after spending the week-end as the guest of Miss Annie E. Henderson. Misses Grace Tanner, Fannie Simmons and Mrs. Abraham Chew, Guy Tinner, Floyd Evans, Clinton Nickens, and Herbert Diggs were callers on Miss Annie E. Henderson Sunday. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. On invitation of James F. Armstrong, Hon. James C. Napier, the Register of the U. S. Treasury and chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League of the United States, Hon. Ralph W. Tyler, Ex-Auditor for the Navy Department and national organizer of the National League, Mr. Daniel Freeman, president of the Local League, Washington, D. C., and several friends were at the public hall and spoke to a large crowd of the citizens. They told of the many benefits resulting from co-operation and advising one with another upon business matters throughout the South and elsewhere, and they tried to encourage the citizens here to organize a local league and encourage Negro business enterprises. Miss Chase and Miss Bell, teachers of the city schools, and Mr. Wm. Sulcer also were present and occupied seats upon the stage. Rev. Owen C. Sprague, pastor of the Fairmont Heights M. E. Church, preached for Rev. E. S. Williams, D. D., pastor of Ashury M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md., Sunday, July 27, at 11 a.m. The stewards and trustees of the M. E. Church are making great arrangements for their first annual picnic, which will be in the Pine Grove Park August 18. Rev. W. H. Waites closed his camp meeting last Sunday night. Miss Lillian Knight is very ill. She is suffering a relapse. Rev. Ernest S. Williams is on the menu. Mr. R. S. Nichols, the superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School and chairman of the School Trustee Board, sang a solo before a large audience Monday night, July 28. He won the hearty congratulations of all those present. He will take a tendays vacation in Atlantic City on Thursday, July 31. Mrs. Jennie Trotter, of Mississippi, arrived here a few days ago accompanied by a son and a daughter, all of whom will make their homes with Mr. S. J. Trotter, on Noel Street. Rev. F. J. Grimke preached for Rev. W. W. McCary July 27. Captain J C. Daley, of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia and in charge of the Ninth Precinct, has thoroughly demonstrated his high character and ability as an officer of the law. While he does not allow the interests of the public to suffer, yet all his acts are tempered with justice and mercy dealing justly to all classes and conditions of the citizens under his jurisdiction. Lawyer J. Louis Taylor, who has just returned from an extended trip to Jacksonville, Florida, Troy and Montgomery, Ala., was here Monday. He spoke at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church while at Montgomery. He reports the colored people as getting along wonderfully in business, which includes contracting and building, banking and business of every description. VIENNA, VA., NEWS. The Children's Rally Day services at First Baptist Church were fine. There were two services—2:30 p. m. and 8 o'clock p. m. At the afternoon services the children opened with a flag exercise and drill under the lead of Bro. Wm. Carter. The decorations for the occasion were elaborate and very pretty. The church, as usual on such occasions, was filled to overflowing. Quite a large crowd came down from Fairfax Courthouse, as well as others who came from different points elsewhere. Mrs. Payne, the efficient secretary of the Sunday School, had charge of the program and conducted it in a very becoming manner. Superintendent Neal showed a happy countenance as he overlooked and directed his Sunday School on so bright an occasion as this. The welcome address by little Miss Mildred Ross was well recited. Of course, the singing by the school was up to the standard before set by them. The solos by Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Ora, from Fairfax Courthouse, were good. Mrs. Rosie Dean and Mrs. Janie Henderson sang most beautifully "Plant Roses." A dialogue by Misses Marie West, Catherine Williams, Almira Carter, Frances Jackson, Corinne Brown, Hannah Jackson and Mabel Henderson made a very good impression, as well as the one by Misses Mabel Henderson, Helen and Amy Harrard. At the night service Pastor Matthews came out and delivered a powerful sermon on "Suffer Little Children to Come Into Me and Forbid Them Not." Again there was a crowded house, and at close of service a good collection for the day was announced. Services during the day at the Union Baptist Church, where the open-air gospel meetings are being held, were kept for the regular hours set for them. Pastor Beadman preached an eloquent and instructive ser- 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. Excursions! Picnics! Excursions! Picnics! To Escape Heat of City, Go to ADAMS' ELECTRIC PARK. 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 24 RIDDLE BUILDING. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. mon in the morning from the text, "And the people had a mind to work." Rev. Peterson, of Cartersville, delivered a forceful sermon at 3 o'clock p.m. and Rev. E. M. Burrell, of Takoma Park, preached at night. The Young People's Society held a very interesting meeting at 5:30 p.m. This meeting occurred after the Rally Day exercises at First Baptist Church. Quite a number came over from there and helped this branch of Christ's vineyard a great deal. There was a nice crowd of visitors out from the city, among whom were Pastor Beaman's father, brother and wife, with her mother, Mrs. Brown. It was a grand day. Mr. Edmund Chivers, of 1226 Twenty-fifth Street Northwest, Washington, D. C., made a flying visit to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Thomas. Mr. Chivers is now rejoicing over the advent of a boy into his family. The little visitor came on Wednesday, July 17. Miss Daisy Weedon, of Washington, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Miner Saturday and Sunday. Special rally for the fourth Sunday in September at the Union Baptist Church. Donations or contributions are being subscribed in sums ranging from 50c to $5.00. Mr. Fred Chivers, of Washington, an employee at the District Building there, is out to assist his brother-in-law, Mr. Clinton Thomas, in building a large hen house to accommodate his growing chicken business, he being engaged in raising a great number of choice breeds. Madam Sloan, who was the guest of Mrs. Borgus, gave a delightful recital at First Baptist Church Friday night, to an appreciative audience. This prima donna has wonderful vocal powers, and her rich soprano voice is under perfect control at all times. Mme. Sloan paid Vienna a high tribute, being very much impressed with the progressive element in our town. She made special comment on the beautiful homes of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. West, and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Patterson. Mr. Eugene Allen was the dinner guest of Mr. Albert Henderson Sunday. Mr. Allen, who now resides at Bennings, was a former resident here. Miss Elsie Jackson, who was so critically ill, passed a successful operation for appendicitis in the Alexan- publicity Bureau, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. dria Hospital. At last report she was rapidly convalescing. Vienna boasts of some wide-awake small boys, as well as large boys. Three boys, Lorton McComb, Edward Williams and Maury Williams, aged 14, 9 and 8 respectively, being son, grandson and ward of Mrs. Laura Williams, dug a well and reached a good flow of icy cold water. These boys deserve credit. Their only tools were a hoe, a spade and a tin water pail to take out the dirt with. Mr. Charles Brooks, whose illness was mentioned last week, is still confined to his bed. Colored Maccabees Install Officers. King Solomon's Tent No. 1, Modern Maccabees of North America, colored, recently had an installation of officers by Supreme Deputy Sir Knight George W. Davis at its usual meeting place, 708 O Street Northwest. Officers were installed as follows: A. J. Williams, commander; Bradley Gant, lieutenant commander; William H. Newman, past commander; Joseph Bell, prelate; H. A. Green, master of arms; Grace Clark, first maid of guards; Julia sweetney, second maid of guards; Lucy Smith, sergeant; Elizabeth Davis, finance keeper; Cecelia McKall, recorder; Abbie Pinkney, financial recorder; Victoria Stevenson, examiner, and John Perry, sentinel. McAdoo Stands Pat on Patterson Nomination. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo is standing pat on Adam E. Patterson, colored, for Register of the Treasury, and he will continue to do so. Should Patterson's nomination be defeated in the Senate by Senator Vardaman and others, or if his name is withdrawn by the President, it will not be through any act of the Secretary, according to a definite and decided statement at the Treasury today. Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, who is said to be sponsor for Patterson, an Oklahoman, pushed Patterson's claims with the President today, and it is expected that later in the afternoon the Senator will have a conference with Secretary McAdoo. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDY ON MOSES CALLED TO SERVICE. Exodus 3:1-14.—July 20. "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."—Matthew 5:3. MOSES was forty years old when he fled from Pharaoh, discouraged. He was eighty years old when God called him to be leader of Israel. The first forty years were an ordinary schooling; the last forty, a special schooling in meekness. He was now ready for service at exactly the time when God wished to use him. So thoroughly discouraged had he become that he who was so ready to lead the hosts of Israel without a special Divine commission was now so distrustful of himself that even when called of God he apologized, pleading his unfitness, etc. He did not realize that he had only then become fit. Moses was tending Jethro's flocks, and perhaps con- Moses was ten and perhaps considering how wise it was that forty years before he had been unsuccessful in arousing his brethren to flee from Egypt. He could now see, in the light of maturer years, what a herculean task he oldering how wise it was that forty years before he had been unsuccessful in arousing his brethren to flee from Egypt. He could now see, in the light of maturer years, what a herculean task he would have had as their leader. He could better understand the difficulties that would have attended his people in the wilderness journey and also in attempting to take possession of the land of Canaan. Quite possibly he philosophized that people unfitted to be delivered were wise in remaining in bondage. The Burning Bush Consumed Not. Thus meditating, while his flocks pastured on the mountainside, Moses caught sight of something most unusual. A bush was afire, yet it was not consumed. Moses approached the bush to investigate. From it came a voice, declaring the phenomenon to be a manifestation of God's presence and power. Moses obeyed the command to take off his sandals, for it was holy ground, by reason of the presence of the Angel of the Lord. Moses then covered his face in reverence, while he listened to the Divine message. The statement, "I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob," brought to this instructed man of God a clear understanding of what was signified by his experience. By it God reminded him of the Covenant which He had made with Abraham, and renewed with Isaac, and confirmed to Jacob for an everlasting covenant. Thus Moses learned that God's time had come for the deliverance of Israel and for their attainment of the Land of Promise—Cannan. If Moses had ever wondered whether God really cared for the Israelites and why He had permitted them to be oppressed by the Egyptians, he now had God's own assurance that He did care, and that He had a purpose in withholding so long. The Lord's explanation closed with an invitation to Moses to be His servant and messenger to Pharaoh, calling upon him to liberate the captive Israelites. "Certainly I Will Be With Thee." Then Moses, who forty years before was full of confidence and courage, and ready to lead the Israelites, but who now was lacking in self-confidence, replied to the Lord, "Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" This meant, I am a failure; with all the educational advantages that I had, I am fit for nothing better than to be a sheep-tender. God's reply was: "Surely I will be with thee." I shall not expect you to do it yourself. I realize that it is a mighty work. By way of emphasis, the Lord declared that not only should Moses lead the people forth, but they should worship God in that very mountain. Moses, remembering his previous failure, was cautious. He inquired what response he should make if the Israelites should inquire which God had sent him. The Divine response was that God's name is, "I AM THAT I AM"—the self-existent One. But Moses was so distrustful of himself that he urged "I am that I am." should make if the Israelites should inquire which God had sent him. The Divine response was that God's name is, "I AM THAT I AM"—the self-existent One. But Moses was so distrustful of himself that he urged that the Egyptians would not let the people go, and that the Israelites themselves would not believe that God had really appeared to Moses. Answering these objections, the Lord gave Moses certain signs, convincing him that he was talking to the Omnipotent, and assured him that these signs would convince the Israelites, and also the Egyptians. So meek was Moses that although he fully believed the Lord and trusted His power, he could not feel competent to do this great work. Humility, lack of self-confidence, meekness, had be come so pronounced in him that he prayed that, even if he should be used, some one else might be the spokesman. God heard his request and granted that he should have his brother Aaron for a companion and mouthpiece before Pharaoh. Humility is a quality most essential to all Christians who would be used of the Lord. Let us say with the poet. I'll be what You want me to be. OLD FLIRTATION BY FRENCH DUKE Troubles of Orleans Family Recall an Escapade. COUNT WAS SCANDALIZED. Young Frenchmen In America Visited Pretty Viriginia Girls, Causing Head o' House of Bourbon Much Mortification—How Flirtation Started. Richmond, Va.-Recent cablegrams from Brussels setting forth the escapades of the Duke of Orleans and the duchess' suit for separation recall an incident in his career In Richmond twenty years ago. One bright spring morning in 1893 something of a furor was created among the passengers on the little river steamer that piled between Norfolk and Richmond when they learned the identity of three distinguished personages aboard. They were traveling incog, but some one recognized them as the Count of Paris, his son, the Duke of Orleans, and his nephew, Prince Henry of Orleans. The elder had come over to revisit battlefields on and near the James river, where he had figured in 1862 when on the staff, with his brother, of General McClellan of the Union army. The count was revising his book on civil war and desired a fresh view of locale and atmosphere. They had visited Yorktown and Williamsburg, in which battles he had taken part, and the itinerary was THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF ORLEANS. to take them to Galnes' Mills and Fair Oaks, where he had fought gallantly. His son and his nephew were handsome, dashing young fellows, who had seen service and hunted tigers in India. The old count pointed out and expatiated on interesting places along the historic route, scenes of notable engagements in which he had figured thirty years before, and became so absorbed in the memories that he did not discover the keener interest manifested by the young noblemen in two pretty sisters of Richmond, one a blond and the other a brunette, vivacious and fond of admiration. Misses Ophelia and Louise Bullington betrayed sufficient interest to embolden young Evan Chesterman, a feature writer, to offer to introduce them. Not just then, though; the old count was watching the youngsters with rigorous solicitude. He was stern, proud, a stickler for etiquette, never forgetting that he was undisputed head of the house of Bourbon. Before the boat reached Richmond, however, the plans were arranged by Chesterman for the party to call on the girls at home that evening. Weary from travel, the count was easily persuaded to retire early and was tucked away. His room at the old Lexington hotel was across the hall from that of the duke and prince. Nine o'clock found him snoring, while a cab with drawn curtains was hurrying the party of three to spend the evening with the beauty sisters. Both the young noblemen spoke good English, and a jolly party it was, with clever stories and love songs dashed off in a glass of wine and the price of adventure. When the party returned at midnight the count awoke to learn the truth, and things were blue around the hotel. Catching them speaking into their rooms, he thundered his censure and threatened . dishonest the duke for so far forgetting himself as to visit strange women out of his station and start gossip. "Picture the horrid American newspapers out with your escapades in ghastly headlines!" he growled.. "Ugh! I'm most shocked and mortified. And you, sir, heir and head of the great house of Bourbon!" 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Denver.—There is probably no person in Denver who is able to start at the Union depot, traverse every street between there and Broadway, with Fourteenth street as the western limit and Nineteenth street as the eastern, and stop without a mistake or a change of mind at every mail box in that area, but a horse, aged fifteen, yeled Bees, knows the hundreds of mail boxes and knows them so well that she can find them on the darkest of nights, with a bilzzard, a rainstorm or a ninety mile wind occupying all available space. Bess is the property of Frank Monroe, a mall collector. She has grown aged in the service of Uncle Sam's mall department. In the twelve years of her service as assistant mall collector for the aforementioned route she has missed only seven days, none of these in the last year. "It is the boast of her master that a substitute mail collector can be placed on the route for the first time and turn with the mail without the aid of any guide other than the sagacious Bess. As her master climbs into the wagon after gathering the mail from one box Bess heads directly for the next one, be it around the corner, across the street or down the block, and she never misses a box. Moreover, until the mail is in the rear of the wagon and she hears her master's voice, she will not leave the spot. Bess, says her master, intends to remain a government employee for many years yet. Except for the fact that she spends most of the day sleeping in her stall until time to go on duty at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, she exhibits no signs of advanced age. REPAYS FRIEND HE ROBBED. But Not Until Twenty-six Years Have Passed By. Louisville.-The stricken conscience of an aged man in Germany was responsible for the return of German bank notes amounting to nearly $1,000 American money to Nicholas Wermelster of this city, who was robbed of that amount at his old home in Metz. THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL training of young men and women e in successful operation. Training. 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If one marble be snapped horizontally from the top of a table and another be dropped from the same height at the same instant, which reaches the floor first? This question is sent to the Scientific American by a correspondent, and the editor of that magazine answers it as follows: Sir Isaac Newton stated three laws of motion which from his time to the present have been universally accepted as true. The second law is, "A given force produces the same effect whether it acts upon a body at rest or in motion, whether it acts alone or together with other forces." You will see that the second part of this law covers the case of a ball dropped from a table and another ball shot horizontally from the same level at the same instant. The first ball falls by the force of gravity alone. The second ball has, as you say, two forces acting upon it. The ball obeys both forces at the same time. It falls as if gravity acted alone. It goes by the blow as if the blow acted alone. Both balls reach the floor at the same instant. Turkish dignitaries comport themselves toward European representatives how otherwise than some of them formerly did. Sir Henry Layard tells an amusing encounter between Charles Allison, then chief interpreter at the British embassy, and the grand vizier, so whom Sir Stratford Canning had sent him on important business. In the middle of a discussion the Turk rose from his seat and said his prayers on a carpet spread by an attendant, concluding with the curse on all Christians very emphatically uttered, and going through the motion of spitting over his right and left shoulders in abhorrence. Allison was equal to the occasion. Presently he, too, left off business to pray in a corner, doing it in Turkish and invoking curses on all followers of Islam. To the scandalized Pasha he explained that Christians also had their religious duties, and he had no doubt the formal curse of their prayers meant as little as the Mohammedan's. nURHAM, N. 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The actual taking effect of the Child Doomed, but Mother Fought Off Death For Ten Days. Los Angeles, Cal.-Determined that her baby boy should live, though three physicians declared he could not, Mrs. J. H. Spaulding of Oklahoma City kept the spark of life aglow for ten days by artificial respiration produced by her own lips. It is the most remarkable case of artificial respiration on record. Everet, Spaulding was born six weeks ago, but soon after birth was seized with an affection of the heart. Three physicians declared the child could not live forty-eight hours. The mother, who is a native of California, resolved to bring the child to Los Angeles. On the way, in a Pullman berth, the father reached over and felt the baby's body. It was cold. He aroused the mother, who, finding that the heart had ceased beating, placed her lips over the mouth of the child, exhausted the air in its lungs and allowed fresh air to pour back. This process continued for several minutes revived the baby. 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Pescadero, Cal.-Two gun shots failed to stop the onward course of a buck, and the huntsman, Walter T. Thompson, was injured when he was thrown to the ground and plonked under the carcass of the deer. Thompson was standing near the top of a ridge awaiting the approach of the deer. A buck weighing 160 pounds bounded over the ridge, chased by the dogs, and Thompson fired at fifty yards. The buck did not stop, and at ten yards the hunter fired again. Before he could step aside the buck had rushed into him. Otto Parker pulled the carcass off his companion's body. SPURNS $10,000 FOR GIRL. Farmer's Son Refuses to Collect Prize For Giving Her Up. Sioux Falls, la.—An offer of $10,000 if he would give up the girl he loved and enlist in the United States navy apparently has been refused by Charles Jason, son of a wealthy rancher near Niobrora, Neb. The older Jason left a check for $10,000 at the recruiting station here to be turned over to his son the moment he enlisted. The son said he would think it over, but he has failed to return. He is believed to have gone to St. Paul, where his sweetheart lives. Never Wore a Hat; Is a Hundred. Somerset, Pa.—Mrs. Mattle Crise, who became 100 years old recently, has always lived in the same place, and in her 100 years never saw a railroad train, street car or a telephone. She never wore a hat, a knitted hood taking its place. LAST APPEAL FOR VETERAN. Retiring Warden Urges Pardon of Eighty-two-year-old Soldier. Leavenworth, Kan.-Before turning over the state penitentiary to J. D. Botkin, his successor, Warden W. W. Coddin made a last appeal to Governor Hodges recommending that David Truax, the oldest prisoner at the institution, be pardoned. Truax is eighty-two years old and is called "Daddy" by the other prisoners. Truax shot and killed John Lee, a comrade, and wounded William Lutz, members of the Soldiers' home at Dodge City, in 1905 for having taken a bottle of liquor out of his pocket. He was convicted and sentenced to serve twelve years. He has now served eight years. Truax receives a pension of $20 a month, which he sends to his crippled wife. WOMAN A HOUSE WRECKER. Works Beside Husband—Says Strength Is the Test of Equality. Merrimac, Mass.-Mrs. Willard W. Chase, mother of five children, is now a full tiledged housewrecker, having been taken into partnership by her husband. She goes out to work with her husband every day and performs the labor of tearing down houses with the vigor of an average man. "It's a grand thing for these women to be interested in educational things and take up civic problems," said Mrs. Chase. "But if women really want to get anywhere it's high time they began to show that they are capable of doing the same sort of physical work that the men do." WEDDING CAUSE OF FAMILY ROW Son of General Grant Was Secretly Married. May Disinherit Sons and Daughters Because They Refuse to Attend Wedding Dinner—Only One Child There. Start Immediately on Bridal Trip Around the World. San Diego, Cal.-U. S. Grant, Jr., son of the famous general, and Mrs. America Will, who claims descent from the hidalgos who discovered and settled California, have been married. The ceremony took place at the home of Justice Puterbaugh, a police court Judge and an old friend of Mr. Grant, without premeditation on the part of either Mr. or Mrs. Grant. The announcement of the wedding was made at a dinner. The dinner was a disappointment in a way. Many old friends of Mr. Grant refused to attend, and the only child of the aged bridegroom present was U. S. Grant 4th, a junior at Harvard. Friends and relatives of Mr. Grant have been bitter in their opposition to this his second marriage, and have pleaded with him not to wed again. His grown son, Chaffee Grant, and his three daughters refused to recognize their mother-in-law. As a consequence, [Image of a man with a beard and mustache, wearing a suit and a bow tie.] Photo by American Press Association. U. S. GRANT, JR. It is asserted that Mr. Grant has decided to cut off his children in his will unless they change their minds and show some recognition of the second Mrs. Grant. The children, on the other hand, declare that they will stand firm in their attitude toward Mrs. Will. It is reported that Chaffee Grant has engaged an attorney and purposes to take the matter into court. The couple sailed immediately for Sydney, Australia, and from there go to Cape Town, thence into the interior of Africa. From the Cape country they sail for Buenos Alres. The latter part of the trip has not been definitely decided. They will return to San Diego, however, in time for the Panama-Pacific exposition in 1915. This will make a bridal tour of a year and a half. Mr. Grant stated that there was to be no effort to follow the line of travel of his father, General Grant, in his famous tour of the world. TROUT EATS FROM HAND. Sunbeam, Pet of the Hatchery, Is Fond of Being Stroked. Estes Park, Colo.—"Sunbeam," the pet speckled trout in the fish hatchery at Estes Park, has just recovered from an indisposition caused by stomach trouble or rheumatism and is again able to take his place as the only pet trout in captivity. The fish, now a three-year-old and about eleven inches long, is as good an example of gentle and loving trouthood as it is possible to find. Fed from the hand from the time he was hatched, he feels insulted now unless his food is given to him in that way. He is very fond of being stroked and petted and will swim around and rub himself against a person's hand whenever a chance is given him. HEN IS NURSING SORROW. She's Pheasant's Foster Mother, Not Knowing What They'll Do. Pitman, N. J.-A. a brood of English pheasant fledglings is thriving in the barnyard of Harry Landers, between this place and Richwood, with a hen for their foster mother. She had been on the eggs only a day when the strange looking chicks popped out. That broke all her hatching records. Landers found the nest of eggs in his grainfield a few days ago. He was startled by a flutter of wings as the whirring knives of his machine passed over the hidden nest. 'The frightened mother pheasant flew to the sover of a wood. She did not return, and Landers determined a more commonplace bird should take her place. HELD FOR ASSULT ON YOUNG SISTER Mrs. Mary Jane Tatum Said to Have Kicked and Beat Her. ACGUSED WOMAN WEALTHY. Because Independent Girl Refused to Marry Rich New Yorker She Alleged She Was Attacked and Beaten—Admitted Writing Letters, Later Branding Them False. Andes, N. Y.—Mrs. Mary Jane Tatum, wife of John C. Tatum, a wealthy cotton broker living at Great Neck, N. Y., was held for the Delaware county grand jury on the charge that she assaulted her twenty-three-year-old sister, Miss Kathryn MacArthur here because Miss MacArthur would not marry Frederick W. Peters, son of a wealthy New York manufacturer. The ball demanded, $2,000, was immediately furnished, and the case will W MISS. JOHN C. TATUM be heard at the October meeting of the jury. The charge is second degree assa ault, punishable by five years in prison or a fine of $1,000 or both. Mrs. Tatum wanted her sister to marry her wealthy friend, Mr. Peters, but the independent young woman was just as resolute in her determination not to marry him, and persuasion on the part of Mrs. Tatum and her husband was of no avail. It is alleged by the prosecution that when Miss MacArthur was a guest in her sister's home and after she had made known her intentions of refusing to marry Peters during a scene in the bedroom of the married sister that Mrs. Tatum pummeled, kicked and otherwise abused her younger sister, finally ordering her from her home. She left immediately and went to the home of friends. When the preliminary hearing was held here Miss MacArthur came to court. She was accompanied by her father, his second wife and their counsel. It was shown at the hearing that Miss MacArthur had written a letter to the father of young Peters signifying her intention of announcing her engagement shortly. She testified at the trial that she dictated that letter to her brother-in-law, Mr. Tatum, and that the statements it contained were false. During the hearing it was shown that the young woman was a great admirer of Dr. Frederick W. Mason of Great Neck, a married man with several children. 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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. Atlantic City to Entertain Elks' Convention—Preparation Nearing Completion. Atlantic City, N. J., July 29—The Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Grand Lodge I. B. P. O., Elks of the World, held in Atlantic City August 26th to 29th inclusive, will bring to the city one of the largest Negro conventions ever held in this, the greatest convention city in the world. The local lodge of Elks, Lighthouse No. 9, is making every preparation, to make the stay of the visiting delegation, and the host of friends who will come enjoyable in every particular. Every detail is being looked after to insure comfort to the host who will come here. Hon. Wm. Riddle, Mayor of Atlantic City, will make the address of welcome to the Grand Lodge on behalf of the city, and Senator Walter E. Edge will address the body on the behalf of the State of New Jersey. Many more prominent officials have accepted invitations to attend the public session. Whereas, the convention proper does not begin until the 26th, still visitors will begin arriving here the Saturday previous, and on Sunday at St. James A. M. E. Church the Rev. George Avant, Grand Chaplain of the Order, will preach the annual sermon, which will set in motion the machinery of the Elks' Fourteenth Annual Grand Lodge Convention. It is expected that many marching clubs will be in line on the day of the grand parade. August 28, when many prizes and cups will be offered by the local lodge and business men. The Annual Field Day, held at the famous Inlet Park, will be one of the greatest attractions of the visitors' stay here. Many noted colored athletes have been secured to take part in the many events of the day. Will Be Entertained Lavishly. The local order, the Ladies' Temple, the Auxiliary and the different citizen's committees are making preparation to entertain the visitors lavishly. The thoroughfares of Negro business men will be decorated with bunting, symbolic of Elkdom. Grand receptions have been arranged for the GALBRAIN Great Rally Tomorrow, Sunday—To the Church—Public Mass Meeting Fail to Attend. SEGREG President Wilson Says Chiefs of Faw Information has reached The Bee stated to a prominent New Yorker, believer in equality of leadership, the all national and local colored Dem races in the departments. Attorney Fountain Peyton, who who spent his money and did not Committee, said to the Editor of The not and does not favor the segrega No Negro Democrat, from The Race. Self-constituted leaders amo GALBRAITH RALLY. Great Rally Tomorrow, Sunday—The Greatest Time in the History of the Church—Public Mass Meeting Friday Week, August 8th—Don't Fail to Attend. President Wilson Says Chiefs of Departments and Negro Democrats Favor It. Information has reached The Bee to the effect that President Wilson stated to a prominent New Yorker, who supported him and who is a firm believer in equality of leadership, that all the chiefs of the division and all national and local colored Democrats favor the segregation of the races in the departments. Attorney Fountain Peyton, who was the only local colored Democrat who spent his money and did not receive a cent from the Democratic Committee, said to the Editor of The Bee Thursday morning that he did not and does not favor the segregation of the races. No Negro Democrat, from The Bee's standpoint, represents the colored race. Self-constituted leaders among Negroes don't represent the race. STEAMER ANGLER. The steamer Angler has been to Mr. William Lewis, of Baltimore trips to Christfield, Havre-de-Ge Annapolis, and carrying record- 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. ANDLER 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. 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. By order of the Court: JAMES TANNER Register of Wills. THE ELKS. visitors, by both the Temple and the Auxiliary, and other fraternal bodies will keep "open house" to receive such of their fraternities who may come here. Citizens and fraternities are uniting to make this convention the grandest in the history of the order. The climax of the convention and of the visitors' sojourn, will come on the evening of August 28 when Elks and friends from all over the country and many islands of the seas will assemble at the grand ball and reunion. This undoubtedly will eclipse anything of the kind the Elks ever held. The ball will take place in the famous ball rooms of Young's Million Dollar Pier, the most famous in the world. At 12 o'clock the grand march will be led by Grand Exalted Ruler Harry Pace, Memphis, Tenn. Arrangements are nearing completion with the trunk lines to run excursions for the day of the parade and ball out of Washington, New York and Philadelphia. This will bring thousands of visitors to the shore for the occasion. FAIRFAX NOTES. Mrs. Martha Weaver, of Washington, D. C., is visiting her brother, Mr. Henry Neal. Mr. Robert Payne and family spent a pleasant day last Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Payne, Sr., at Chantilly, Md. Mr. S. S. Harris, of Bull Run, a graduate from the Manassas Industrial School, is erecting a new house for Mrs. Harriet Felton on her lot, recently purchased in the West End Subdivision. Mr. W. O'Neal reports an increased number on the sick list this week, and also makes special mention of Master Horace Moriety, who had the misfortune last Saturday to be kicked by a horse, breaking his leg, while delivering goods. At this writing he is progressing nicely under the care of Dr. W. P. Monkce Mr. James Hunter and family, Miss Bertie Harton and Mrs. Willie Gaskins spent a pleasant day with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harton, of Chantilly, Va. Rev. M. D. Williams, pastor of M. H. Calvary Baptist Church and moderator of the Northern Virginia Baptist Association, is improving nicely and we hope to see him out again soon. A SPLENDID MOVEMENT. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Galbraith Church under the association known as the Promoters of Good Citizenship, on Thursday evening, July 24, for the purpose of urging Afro-Americans to come together and help to build up a strong, united and independent race and to consider the advisability of a movement looking to the establishment of a line of vehicles owned and operated by the members of our race. The officers of this organization are: Miss R. E. Bell, president; Mr. W. J. Conway, secretary; Mrs. Claire, treasurer. The address of the evening was made by Rev. S. L. Corrothers, who seems to be the pioneer in all great movements for the betterment of the race. This is the first movement of the kind in this city and it is hoped that it will reach every place where our people are to be found. METROPOLITAN BAPTIST Church—Eloquent Sermon Sunday- Annual Report—Great Progress. Notwithstanding the severe warm weather last Sunday morning, Rev. Norman of the Metropolitan Baptist Church was greeted with a large congregation. It was one of the most eloquent and logical sermons that this distinguished pastor has ever delivered since he has been pastor of this church. Rev. Best read the scripture lesson and the singing by the choir added greatly to the occasion. There is not a more impressive minister in the pulpit than Rev. The Greatest Time in the History of Testing Friday Week, August 8th—Don't REGATION. Departments and Negro Democrats favor It. Bee to the effect that President Wilson who supported him and who is a firm that all the chiefs of the division and democrats favor the segregation of the Bee was the only local colored Democrat that receive a cent from the Democratic The Bee Thursday morning that he did dilation of the races. 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A HEAVY MORTGAGE rests upon the beautiful home of the late Frederick Douglass. The money to lift this mortgage, and to make improvements necessary to perpetuate this home as a Historical Place and retreat free to all negroes, when in this city, must be raised this year. In this Year the 50th Anniversary of Our Freedom It Should be Raised Race Pride and Reverence for the Name of the Great Douglass Calls upon You to Help rests upon the beautiful home of the late Frederick Douglass. The money to lift this mortgage, and to make improvements necessary to perpetuate this home as a Historical Place and retreat free to all negroes, when in this city, must be raised this year. 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The money to lift this state this home as a Historical be raised this year. Dom It Should be Raised glass Calls upon You to Help BUILDING lots in New York to son sending in the great- DERICK DOUGLASS HOME OOPEN TO ALL MARY IS TO CUT OUT THE COU ASSEMENT AND MAIL OR DELIVER THE EDITOR OF THIS PAPER, ACC CENTS FOR EACH COUPON TEST THE NAMES OF THOSE AND THE NUMBER EACH HAS PRESSED WEEKLY IN THIS NEWS OR DATE AFTER SEPTEMBER COUPONS EACH WEEK, HAVING OF EACH WEEK. COUPONS AT THE CLOSE OF THE TIME OF ALL ENCUMBRANCES. OF COUPONS WILL BE GIVEN AFTER YOU GET THE DEED, AND PAY IN CASH FOUR TIMES COUPONS AND GIRLS. Not later than Tuesday of next week See that your name and address is written plainly. Also see that five cents is sent in for each coupon. Where you send in a number of coupons at a time, you can send amount to cover all. For instance if you send in twenty coupons, enclose one dollar to cover them all. New York building lot Free Savings Bank with Street, N. W. If not, why haven't you? Did you earn but what you save? Do you Christian Xander's SWEET CATAWBA 25c full quart Of exquisite taste and unrivaled quality Only at 909 7th St. No branch stores THE S.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 Sta. N. E. Open All Night. Where you change the cars for Chesapeake 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. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 614 D. 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. Böswell, Prop. COME AND SPEND YOUR WEEKS' OR MONTH'S VACATION at THE WEBB'S HOUSE 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-28-4t BOARDERS WANTED. Mrs. Delia Howard wishes boarders during the summer vacation, offering first-class table board; fine water; large and sunshine rooms; music and tennis; shady and spacious lawns. P. O. Upperville, Va. Stations, Rectortown and Bluemont. Va. 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. Madre's Park. August 4—Midnight Pleasure Club. August 6—Emergency Club. Trinity Baptist Church, Ivy City. August 7—Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. Dawson Orchestra, Dawson, director. August 8—Municipal Orchestra, Silver Star Orchestra, Abe Danridge, director. August 11—Yale Pleasure Club. August 12—Union Picnic, I. O. of St. Luke. Municipal Orchestra, Edward Minor, director. August 13—Brentwood Band, P. H. Hopkins, director. August 15—General Staff and Uniform Rank Knights of Pythiás. Manhattan Orchestra, Mr. Blakey, director. August 18—Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Curton Club. August 19—Ebenezer A. M. E. Sunday School. Imperial Orchestra. August 20—Brentwood Band. August 21—Union Wesley Sunday School and Church. Orchestra and music. August 22—Second Baptist Church and Sunday School. Monumental Orchestra, Chas. Hamilton, director. August 25—M. M. Pleasure Club. August 26—Carnation Tent. Municipal Orchestra. August 27—Brentwood Band and Orchestra. August 28—Union of Clubs. Monumental Orchestra. August 29—The Original Plumbers' Lahor Union No. r of District of Columbia. Silver Star' Orchestra. Sunday Services at Central Park by Rev. P. P. Thomas. Sundays—Central M. E. Church. Three services each Sunday.. Rev. T. P. Thomas, pastor.