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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE BUSINESS LEAGUE BUSINESS LEAGUE Declaration of Principles, Etc. Special to The Bee. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 23.—The National Negro Business League closed its three days' session yesterday afternoon, and a banquet, the most brilliant in the history of Philadelphia, followed last evening, with an excursion down the Delaware and a visit to League Island today, Dr. Booker T. Washington was re-elected president for the fourteenth consecutive time unanimously. The only new men to be elected were those to fill vacancies which existed, and these were Dr. Samuel Elbert, of Wilmington, Del, and Dr. A. B. Jackson, of Philadelphia, members of the Executive Committee, and Ernest Tidrington, of Indianapolis, and Chas. H. Brooks, of Philadelphia, vice presidents, and A. C. Perdue, of Oklahoma, transportation agent. The league adjourned, to meet next year in Muskogee, Okla. Before adjourned, the following declaration and resolutions were adopted without a dissenting voice: Declarations of National Negro Business League "The National Negro Business League, representing twelve State leagues, 600 local leagues and 3,000 Negro business and professional men in all parts of the United States, take this occasion of our fourteenth annual meeting to call the attention of the people of America and of the world to the substantial progress of the Negro race in these first fifty years of its freedom. Starting fifty years ago with a population of 4,500,000, of whom 3,960,000 were slaves, we number today more than 10,000,000 free people—a nation, within a nation, separate in its peculiar racial interests, but inextricably interwoven with all other races and peoples in all that concerns the progress and welfare of our common country. Starting half a century ago, without experience, without education, and without property, we today own and pay taxes on 20,000,000 acres of land, an area as large as the State of South Carolina; we own and control 100 insurance companies, 300 drug stores, 64 banks, 450 newspapers and more than 20,000 other businesses of various kinds—and the total wealth of American Negroes in land, homes, schools, churches and other forms of property amounts to more than $700,000,000. In submitting this brief record of our material progress, we do not overlook the advance made in other directions. Fifty years ago more than 90 per cent. of the race was wholly illiterate. Today more than 70 per cent. can both read and write. We submit that no other race people, starting so low, has, within so short a time, risen so high. As proof of this assertion, we call attention to the fact that at the end of fifty years of freedom, not more than 30 per cent. of the Russian serfs were able to read and write, and the amount of property owned by Russian peasants today, measured per capita, is not more than half that owned by American Negroes. In view of all these facts, we believe we are justified in calling upon our people to lift up their heads, and look forward and upward, confident that the future has more and better things in store for us than has the past, and that if we continue to justify the hopes of those who believe in us, we will steadily increase the number of our friends among all races in this country. In urging our people to struggle on and up, we do not overlook the special difficulties and discouragements which beset us, nor the wrongs, and injustices we sometimes suffer, but we have learned in fifty years something of the road we have to travel and we trust in our ability to travel it in the future, as in the past, patiently, persistently and cheerfully, until we have gained for our race the position to which our value and usefulness in the community entitles us. "This organization wishes in an especial degree to express its deep and lasting gratitude to the colored press for its constant, unselfish and generous support. As we have said many times in the past, without the help and encouragement, free of cost, which it is constantly receiving from the colored press it would have been impossible for the association to have reached its present point of usefulness and power. "This association wishes to express its pride and satisfaction in having connected with it as allied bodies all the other organizations which hold up the hands of the Business League. These allied organizations, include the Undertaker's Association, the Bankers' Association, Bar Association and the Press Association. It is the policy of the association to give its endorsement and encouragement to these allied bodies in every way possible. "Resolved, That the thanks of the National Negro Business League be and are hereby extended to the officers and members of the Philadelphia Negro Business League; to the city officials, business men and citizens, regardless of color, for the splendid arrangements made providing for the meetings and entertainment of the national body, and its affiliating organizations. "Resolved. That especial thanks are herein extended to the honorable members of the city council, to the officers and Committee on Arrange- ments of the Local League marks of the Local League. Resolved That our especial thanks be returned to John Wanamaker and the attaches of his store for the very great honor shown the league in receiving the body at the Wanamaker store, and for the splendid address delivered to the assembled delegates by Mr. Wanamaker." BUSINESS LEAGUE. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 22. The Washington delegates made a fine showing, at the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the National Business League, which was the finest in the history of the organization. The District contingent traveled over the Pennsylvania Railroad in a special coach, provided by the company. It was composed of twenty-eight regular delegates and about fifty friends. The District delegates were decorated with the Washington badge and the official emblems of the national body. Many of the members secured life membership. Among the Washington contingent were: Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Napier, Mrs. Tyler, Dr. and Mrs. Dumas, Dr. and Mrs. Cabanis, Dr. Gwathney, Mrs. A. J. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Lee, Rev. Simpson, Mrs. Coleman, Messrs. R. T. Ware, J. S. Johnson, T. H. Watts, J. W. Lewis, Montgomery, and many others who will be mentioned in the next issue. President Daniel Freeman did honor to himself and the Washington delegates. He spoke of the daily growth and activities of the Washington business men and women, both commercially and professionally. He spoke of the wealth and refinement in the District of Columbia; he also said that the influence of the so-called leaders and imaginary class is fast fading away, and that the District Negro is beginning to learn practical sense. Addresses were also made by J. W. Lewis on "Banking and Industrial Labor." and R. T. Ware, boot and shoe dealer, and Dr. Cabanis, physician. Most of the party is now taking advantage of the ocean breeze at Atlantic City. FELT IN THE SOUTH. Last Colored Man in North Carolina Dismissed—No Hope for Colored Democracy. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 23.—It is being evidenced every day that the Democratic party has made an issue of the race question until conditions are acute and the colored man, especially in the South, has a slim chance for respectable recognition, even if he perchanced to be a Democrat. Every day affairs so shape themselves that the hope of the Negro Democrat is long being deferred and the hypocrisy, phariseism of the party that is working for the ultimate proscription of the Negro has finally put the last Negro in North Carolina holding an important federal position out of office, and in no uncertain tones tried to impress upon every Negro that his color is a badge of inferiority and the pitiless execution of the Negro must continue, be he North or South. That the Negro is not to be recognized as a full-fledged citizen is being strikingly emphasized in many sections of the country by the very men that the Democratic party is kept in power in the South. This week the new Collector of Internal Revenue for this district, J. W. Bailey, who had just been appointed by President Wilson, has taken full charge of the office here and his first act of importance was to temporarily recommission all the white men in the office, regardless of their political affiliation, and absolutely refused to recommission Col. James H. Young, Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. This was done simply and solely because the colonel was a Negro. This is proven conclusively because he had an important position and his co-workers for years were recommissioned until the curtain goes up and the spectators will see the role being enacted by the adherents of policies that have proven detrimental to the fellow who has enjoyed a full dinner pail for a number of years. Col. Young has a nation-wide distinction and for 37 years has been Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue and had charge of all the reports of the stamp deputies and making monthly and quarterly reports of the office. He is regarded, because of his efficiency and faithfulness and mastering of every detail of his work, as among the best that are in the service. This has been acknowledged in Washington as well as in this State. He has been retained to give his successor instruction. The Democratic press is rejoicing over the removal of the colonel because for the last twenty years he has caused the Democratic party in his section of the country more trouble than anything else. He has not conducted himself to the detriment of his party or race and his opponents concede that he is a represented character. He has represented this county for two terms in the State Legislature and that time there were 2000 more white voters than there were colored voters. He held offices of vital import, with the exception of the two administrations of Ex-President Cleveland, but he always managed to get back when the J. B. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Republican party gets into power republican party gets into power. Colonel is a powerful leaven in the activities of the better element of the race for true development. He is grand endowment secretary of the F. A. and A. M., of the jurisdiction of North Carolina; just elected district grand master at Greensboro of the G. U. O. of O. F., of this State; chairman of the Finance Committee of the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Pythians; president of the Interdenominational Sunday School Convention of this State, and he is affiliated with many other movements and recognized as the Negro's leader in North Carolina. He will be heard from in the future in the defense of the rights of his people which the Democratic party seemingly disregards as citizens. He has opened a well appointed suite of offices in the Masonic Temple, this city, where he will conduct insurance and real estate business. MEETING OF WOMEN. Mrs. Helen Davis and a Corps of Assistants Plead for Race Unity. At a mass meeting held last Monday night, August 25, at the Ebenezer Church in conjunction with Mt. Jezereel Baptist Church, under the auspices of the National Sentinel, an organization effected, and Mrs. Georgie Miller, a very able and indefeatable worker for her race, was unanimously elected chairman. Among the speakers was Mrs. Estelle Jordan, who made an eloquent plea for unity of women in the support of the work; among other things she said "Only good things come from the East." Rev. Brown temporarily pastor in charge of the church, also made impressive and encouraging remarks concerning the work; he promised to be one of its staunch supporters. The attendance was both large and appreciative, and a most liberal donation was made toward the support of a field delegate for the work. Mrs. Helen A. Davis, president of the National Sentinel, presided, and after stating the object of the meeting and after outlining the work to be done by the organization, she impressed upon the audience the fact "That the importance of events in history are not measured by their magnitude, but by their final results." "It wasn't the mere fighting of Tousant Louverture, the great Hatian liberator, that won for him the historical notice; it was his victories that finally led to the freedom of his people, henceforth. It may take years to accomplish the results of this undertaking, but let us be patient, persevering and energetic ever; and we will succeed. We can not fail, for God is our captain, loyalty is our him." At the mass meeting held at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church, Southwest, last Monday night. Aug. 18, an organization was effected, known as the National Sentinel Auxiliary. No. 1. Mrs. Rosa McNeill was elected chairman; she is known as a worker, loyal to her people and a power for uplift in the section where she resides. Southwest. She is also a prominent member of St Paul's Church. Mrs. E. Wilson, secretary, and Mrs. Rosa Brown, treasurer; thus she is surrounded by an able corps of assistants. Rev. Hill, ex-pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. Zion Church, and Mr. Samuel Jones and Mr. J. Adams, spoke during the evening. Mrs. Helen A. Davis, who presided at the meeting, stated the object of it and outlined the work to be done, after which she read some newspaper clippings which made plain the startling condition of affairs that confront the Negro of this country, that necessitated such a movement. She ex- horted her hearers to patronize (to the exclusion of those which are inimical to our welfare as citizens of this country), only the newspapers that stand by us and fearlessly and boldly defend our rights. The foremost among them all is The Bee, whose editor has for the past thirty years been ever on the watch to guard us from the attacks of the foe, and next in order is the Star, which has ever been friendly disposed to the Negro. While the audience was not a capacity house, it was composed of some of the 1st thinkers and able people of the Southwest. This meeting was held under the auspices of the National Sentinel, of which Mrs. Helen A. Davis is president. W. W. Scott, Head of the Emancipation Commission in Western Pennsylvania "Jim-Crowed" at Theater Onward by One of Pittsburgh Political Leaders. Scott and Friends Importuned Not to Make Case Political Issue—May Prosecute Hebrew Manager. Walter W. Scott, director of Exhibits and head of the Emancipation Office in Western Pennsylvania, with offices at 1317-19 Wylie Avenue, Pittsburgh, was arrested last Monday night for refusing to be "jim-crowed" at a small theater in the famous Soho District of the Smoky City. The owners of the property have long since made a very comfortable fortune from the patronage they have received from Negroes in this section of the city. After hearing of the incident, it is alleged that the Johnny Elmore crowd plead with Mr. Scott and his friends not to make a political issue out of this matter, and said that they rented the theater to a Jew and according to the lease they had no power to say how he should run the play house. Director Scott gave the following statement to a reporter Tuesday morning: "I feel some statement is due my family, friends and the race. On Monday, August 18, I went into a Nickelodeon, on the Elmore property on Center Avenue near Soho St., and without being offered assistance of an usher, found my seat. A few seconds later some one tapped me on the shoulder and ordered me to the "Jim-Crow" section. I quietly refused to change, and was arrested. Because this man says he has a place for colored people, and you must sit there if he tells you to,' said city officer No. 862. Of course this ridiculous charge was quickly changed to "Disorderly Conduct," but after a trial lasting two minutes I was discharged. "Naturally I dislike this sort of notoriety, but I bring it to the public to direct attention to these facts: "1. If one colored man can be insulted, 'Jim-Crowed' and then falsely arrested, as in the above instance, without protection of our law—how do you know but what you, or your wife or your mother will be the next one to be insulted, 'Jim-Crowed' and falsely arrested. 'Because this white man says you must do thus and so.' "2. This being the case, I appeal to my friends and co-workers to give this matter of the rapidly growing local discrimination serious attention, and not rest, until like the Negroes of New York State, we cause laws to be made that will brand as crimes the humiliations that are daily being heaped upon our people in the play houses, restaurants, etc., of this city. "Further. I wish to express the deep regret that my work calls me away from the city, permanently, thus making unpracticable the prosecution of such a good case against the management of the theater in question. I wish to thank my many friends in the Fifth Ward for volunteering to raise a fund for the purpose of pushing suit, and to assure them that if conditions of my work within the next few weeks makes prosecution possible, I will gladly battle with them in a cause that I believe is not personal, not political, but racial." The Negroes of the city are highly incensed over this incident, and many say that things will be adjusted at the polls in November. COLORED EMPLOYES. From the Indianapolis News. We are in entire sympathy with the vigorous, but respectful protest of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People against the present policy of segregating colored employees in the departments at Washington. Whatever the different States may do, the federal government can not properly discriminate among its employees. It professes to be a government of all the people; its cost is paid by all the people; and its battles have been fought by all the people. If we are going to have Democracy in this country we shall have to make up our minds that we can have it only on the condition that all citizens be subjected to the same political treatment. A democracy for white men alone is no democracy. It seems to us that there is great force in the following appeal to the President: "For the lowly of all classes you have lifted up your voice and not in vain. Shall ten millions of our citizens say that their civic liberties and rights are not safe in your hands? To ask the question is to answer it. They desire a 'New Freedom,' too Mr. President, yet they include in that term nothing else than the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution under which they believe they should be protected from persecution based upon a physical quality with which divine Providence has enclosed them. They ask, therefore that you, born of a great section which prides itself on its chivalry toward the humble and the weak prevent a gross injustice which is an injustice none the less because it was actuated in some quarters by a genuine desire to aid those now discriminated against." It really does not seem to us that we ought, in the departments at Washington, to follow the Jim Crow precedent that prevails in certain of the States. If the colored men and women working for the government are not fit for their positions they should be discharged. Segregation behind screens and closed doors ought not to be thought of. We understand that the policy is defended "on the ground that by giving certain 'bursees or sections wholly to colored employees they are thereby rendered safer in possession of their offices and less likely to be ousted or discriminated against." This does not strike us as an honest defense. It is rather an afterthought. What is sought by such men as Vardaman is segregation, not in the interest of the black people, but for the "protection" of the white. Nor is there any need to make the colored clerks "safer" in their positions; for they are absolutely safe already—if they are fit—as long as there is an honest enforcement of the Civil law. The practice is bad, both in itself and as a precedent. "How long will it be," the protestors asks, "before the hateful epithets of 'nigger' and 'Jim Crow' are openly applied to these sections?" No great while, we should say. As it is now there is held out to these people "only the prospect of mere subordinate routine service without the stimulus of advancement to high office by merit, a right deemed inviolable for all white natives as for the children of the foreign born, of Italians, French and Russians, Jews, and Christians who are now entering the government service." The federal government, at least, ought to rise above such prejudices. It surely ought not to place one obstacle in the way of the advancement of any of its citizens. Unless we are prepared to take this stand we should quit talking about democracy. SENATE WILL ACT. Senator Moses E. Clapp in Defense of Colored Americans—Editor Chase Furnishes Information. Washington, D. C., Aug. 25 Hon. Moses E. Clapp, United States Senate. My Dear Sir: Replying to your telephone message of Saturday, June 23 relative to the segregation of the colored race in the Post Office Department and one or two of the other departments of the government, I desire to state briefly: First, that the segregation of the races does exist in the Post Office Department, in that colored employees are compelled to use separate toilets set apart especially for them. Also colored clerks in the government Post Office Department are segregated. These colored employees will not voluntarily appear before your committee, because their positions would be in jeopardy. Second, The order of segregation in the Treasury Department is, that the colored employees are directed to use toilets set apart especially for them. That order of segregation was issued about two weeks ago. And colored employees, both women and men, were directed to use separate The treaty between the United States and Japan expired August 23. Proi. W. M. Flinders Petrie, the celebrated Egyptologist, claims that our alphabet originated from the Phoenicians. The alphabetic signs are 7,000 years old. It is said that colored soldiers are well liked and very popular in France. Negroes in the Southern States are proprietors of ten thousand general stores, three hundred pharmacies and fifty-seven banking institutions. Warning has been sent to all postmasters to exercise care to deliver letters containing pension vouchers only to the persons addressed. Tennessee has entered the list of states having consolidated country schools. Order of segregation continues in force in Treasury Department. The Negro Business League meeting was a success. It was the largest in the history of the organization. Superintendent Roscoe C. Bruce is steadily growing in the popular favor of the people. The colored schools have never been in such good condition as are now. Architect W. Sidney Pittman, who is now in Dallas, Texas, with his accomplished wife and children, is no doubt honored by the people of the State. Ex-President Roosevelt agrees to have a reunion of the Regulars and Progressives provided his policies are adopted. When she refused to kiss her husband goodbye before he ended his life, Thomas Keen shot and seriously injured his wife. The benedicts demonstrated their superiority over the bachelors in a game of baseball Monday at Marshall Hall. Commissioner Oliver P. Newman is not at all disturbed about the activity of the so-called Fair Play humbug. The citizens of this city are in favor of the elective franchise. Taxation without representation is unconstitutional. Jack Johnson was cheered when he entered a variety theater in London Monday night. Mr. Daniel Freeman and his local delegation made a great showing in Philadelphia last week. Mr. Freeman deserves credit. The Republicans of New York may nominate Gaynor for Mayor. They claim that he has given New York a clean administration. toilets. Over the door of these two toilets read as follows: "For Colored Men Only; For Colored Women Only." About a week ago by some mysterious order, from whence it came no one seems to know, directing that the name from these two toilets be erased. The colored employees presume that the prior order of segregation had been revoked, hence they began to use, the regular toilets or those before the order of segregation went into effect. Two or three of these colored employees, after having gone into these toilets, were called in by the chief or some one in the Treasury Department and given to understand that the order of segregation previously issued had not been revoked, and that the colored employees were expected to use the separate toilets just the same. I herewith inclose exhibit A. a copy of the order which was ordered to be read to the colored employees in the Treasury Department. A summon issued to any of the colored employees in the Treasury and Post Office Departments or the office of supervising architect will no doubt verify circular marked exhibit A. Very truly yours. WM. CALVIN CHASE. Exhibit A. Treasury Department. Office of the Supervising Architect. August 21, 1913 To Superintendents and Chiefs of Divisions, Office Supervising Architect. Gentlemen: Referring to notice of July 15 last, to the effect that toilet rooms for the exclusive use of colored employees have been provided in the northeast corner, basement floor, of the Treasury Building, you are advised that information has just been received from the Chief Clerk's Office to the effect that said order is still in force. Please notify any of the employees of your respective divisions who may be affected thereby. ACTING EXECUTIVE OFFICER Colored People's Outing CHAUTAUQUA LINCOLN On the Wash., Balt., and Annapolis Electric Railroad MD. Monday, August 18, Maryland and Washington Business League Reception to Delegates of the National Negro Business League. Base Ball Game between Business Men. Maryland Dinner, Water Melon Day. Tuesday. August 19. Sunday School Congress Tuesday, August 19, Sunday School Congress Maryland and Washington Sunday School Unions, First Baptist Church (Baltimore). Egg Hunt, Potato Races, Maryland Dinner, Cantaloupes. Wednesday, August 20, Sunday School Congress Maryland and Washington Sunday School Unions, Congregational Churches (Washington). Inter-City Base Ball Game. Maryland Dinner, Sweet Potatoes. Thursday, August 21, Church Convention, all Denominations Sharon Baptist Church (Baltimore), Ebenezer M. E. Church (Washington), Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church (Washington). Preachers' Croquet Contests. Maryland Dinner, Chicken Pot Pie. Friday, August 22, Church Convention, all Denominations Israel C. M. E. Church (Washington), St. Paul's A. M. E. Church (Washington), Walker Memorial Baptist Church (Washington). Maryland Dinner, Plenty to Eat. Saturday, August 23, Laborers' and Mechanics' Day Congress on Health and Hygiene, Crispus Attucks Relief Association, Young Men's Protective League. Base Ball Game between Doctors of Washington and Doctors of Baltimore. Everything Good to Eat. Sunday, August 24, Camp Meeting, Corner Stone Laying Metropolitan A. M. E. Church (Washington), Bethel A. M. E. Church (Baltimore). Maryland Dinner, Grandmother Cabbage. Monday, August 25, Secret Societies' Day Masonic Union Picnic (Maryland and District of Columbia), Odd Fellows Conclave (Maryland and District of Columbia). Addresses by the Grand Masters. Maryland Chicken Dinner, Water Melons. Tuesday, August 26, Reception to Knights of Pythias Delegates Banneker Relief Association, Young Men's Immediate Relief. Addresses by Distinguished Knights. Big Dinner, Melons, Corn, etc. Wednesday, August 27, Woman's Day. Addresses by Leading Women Social and Missionary Clubs of Baltimore and Washington. Old-Fashioned Quilting Contest. Enon Baptist Church (Baltimore), Psalmist Baptist Church (Baltimore). Chicken Pie, Apple Dumplings, etc. Thursday, August 28, Family Picnic Day Beneficial Societies Outing, Reception to St. Luke's Convention, Ebenezer A. M. E. Church (Baltimore). Maryland Dinner, Homemade Pies. Friday, August 29, Family Picnic Day Beneficial Societies, Reception to True Reformers' Grand Fountains, St. John's M. E. Church (Baltimore). Cross Roads Prize Spelling Match, Athletic Games, and Races. Maryland Dinner, Chicken Pot Pie. Saturday, August 30, Everybody's Day Address by Hon. Moses E. Clapp. United States Senator from Minnesota. Barbecued Ox and Pig. Plenty of Everything to Eat. Sunday, August 31, Camp Meeting, Farewell Day Young Men's Christian Associations. Young Women's Christian Associations. Chicken Dinner, Water Melon Feast. EXTRA! Sunday, September 7, Booker T. Washington will speak at Lincoln at 10:30 A. M. Old-Fashioned Basket Dinner. Refreshments for those who do not bring baskets. RAILROAD FARES AND SCHEDULES Round Trip Tickets from Washington to Lincoln, including admission to the grounds will be sold for 50 cents. Get tickets at W. B. & A. Electric Stations, 14th and New York Avenue, N. W., or 15th and II Streets, N. E. The tickets will be good on all local trains as follows: 6:00, 6:45, 8:55, 10:55, A. M., 12:55, 2:55, 3:55, 4:55, 5:55, 7:00, 9:05, etc., P. M., and returning at all hours. Round Trip Tickets from Baltimore to Lincoln, including admission to the grounds will be sold for $1.00 Get tickets at W. B. & A. Electric Station, Liberty and Fayette Streets, Baltimore. Tickets good on special trains leaving Baltimore at 10 A. M. and 3 P. M. Meals and Refreshments at reasonable prices No Liquors Sold or Permitted on Grounds WATCH THE DAILY PRESS FOR PROGRAM Bishop JOHN HURST HARRY T. PRATT J. H. BLACKWELL Admission, with Admission, without Meals and No Liquors Soon WATCH CHARLESTON HAS BIGGEST TEN-CENT STORE. Only One of Its Kind in America— $20, wo Raised by Dollar Subscriptions—Building Four Stories— Twenty-five Young Men and Women Given Work. From the Chicago Defender. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 2.—What is reported to be one of the largest commercial ventures of the race in the COMMITTEE Prof. D. S. S. GOODLOE Rev. THOS. J. CALLOWAY GARNE Rev. L. G. JORDAN JOHN CARRINGTON L. DAVIS railroad ticket coupons out coupons and Refreshments at reasonable old or Permitted on Grounds THE DAILY PRESS FOR PRO Southland is a four-story ten-cent race. This is the outgrowth of a small company that starfed years ago and by dollar subscriptions raised twenty thousand dollars. Recently they have enlarged their space and are now covering four floors. It is patronized by both races and gives employment to twenty-five members of our race and to two white girls, who have been employed in other ten-cent stores. These white girls act as managers in different departments. The store is well kept store owned and operated by the and the grade of merchandise that is sold is equal to any for the money. It is not only the largest but the only one of its kind in America. It proves to the world that if the race would unite throughout the United States they would be successful. One of its kind could be made to pay in any of the large Northern cities, namely, New York and Chicago. There is a vast field in the latter city, and as the young men and women are denied a place to work in the stores of the other race, it would give employment to the otherwise idle. Urges Senate to Prohibit Importation of Plumage. FLAYS "IGNORANT" WOMEN Feather Trade and Those Who Insist on Wearing Plumes and Aigrets Share In Abuse—Points Out Laws of Germany and Lauds Them. Senator George P. McLean of Connecticut, author of the bill to protect migratory game birds, strongly urged the senate to adopt the house provision of the tariff bill prohibiting the importation of the plumage of birds. He attacked the feather trade and denounced the "ignorant women" who insist upon plumes and aigrets in following the dictates of fashion. Senator McLean pictured the wanton destruction of birds at the nest season, the widespread dearth of birds that are enemies to insects and other pests that destroy crops and the killing of game wardens who tried to protect the feathered tribes. "The plumage trade," he declared, "has left behind it a trail of savage [Image of a man in a suit with a mustache]. SENATOR GEORGE P. M'LEAN. ernelty and civilized greed and cunning, and nothing whatever to commend it except the blood money it has collected from ignorant women. I say ignorant women because no woman worthy of the name will encourage this trade once she understands her responsibility for it. "Referring to Germany's protest, he said that Germany for many years by imperial act had prohibited the killing of useful and beautiful birds. "Upon what ground and with what grace do the German merchants ask us to find a market for their contraband goods?" he asked. He quoted Dr. Field, Massachusetts game commissioner, in reply to the criticism that the bill would encourage the destruction of American birds. Dr. Field appeared before a congressional committee and said he had prosecuted seventy-five milliners for selling the plumage of native birds, and in every instance the dealer asserted he could not tell the native from the foreign plumage when it was received from the dealer. "It was found in these cases that all manner of beautiful American birds were killed and their plumage sent to Berlin, London or Paris and there mounted and returned to this country as foreign plumage. How easy, in these circumstances, for the traders who appeared before the finance committee to swear they never deal in American birds. And how clear it is that only by the strictest guard over our imports can we prevent the cunning dealers from stealing our birds and selling them back to us as foreign birds. "It is contended by the trade that the enactment of this law will throw out of employment those now engaged in it. The savages who do the killing scarcely will excite our sympathy. As for the milliners, there is ample proof that the trade will be quickly diverted to artificial lines, which will multiply tenfold the labor now required to mount the natural plumes. "The plea that the feathers of game birds should be admitted is easily answered. Game birds are and will be imported with their feathers on, and this law will in no way affect the trade in game birds. Where the plumage of game birds is imported it is taken in the nesting season and the bodies of the birds are thrown away. The tons of plarmigan wings recently imported from Russia meant the slaughter in the spring of tens of thousands of game birds for their wings only. "As long as birds' feathers are worth their weight in gold the birds that happen to produce them will be hunted to the uttermost parts of the earth. Nearly all the civilized nations prohibit the killing of plumage and insectivorous birds by treaty or law, or both, but there is still a vast field unguarded where the bird pirate can ply his trade as long as the highly civilized nations furnish a market for his victims. "This senate passed a resolution this session inviting the president to negotiate conventions with foreign nations for the protection of birds—not our birds, not game birds, not migatory birds, not song or insectivorous birds, but birds the avi fauna of the world." GOES CRAZY AT OPERATION. Surgeon Suddenly Loses Mind and Patient Is Killed. Cincinnati, O.—A distressing story was told in probate court by the wife of Dr. William R. Dabney, a Marletta physician, before he was committed to Longview hospital upon the application of his wife. Mrs. Dabney told the court physician that the first signs of mental trouble were exhibited by her husband while he was performing a surgical operation in a Marletta hospital. He slashed right and left with his operating knife, and employees of the hospital had to take him in charge. The patient, she said, was the unfortunate victim of his sudden madness and was killed. The wife said that she took her husband to Canada, hoping that rest would restore his reason. But he did not get much better and was brought to Cincinnati a short time ago. BRAVEST OF CHICAGO'S FORCE Patrolman McDermott Wins Harrison and Tree Medal. Chicago.-Patrolman James M. McDermott was officially declared the bravest of the force when the civil service commission awarded him the Harrison and Tree medal for 1012. This is the highest honor that can be given to a policeman by the city. McDerinott arrested a murderer who had crawled beneath a house and threatened to shoot any one who came after him. The policeman pried off some boards at the bottom of the building and squeezed his way in the darkness to where the criminal lay. As he advanced, the man twice pulled the trigger of his revolver, but the cartridges failed to explode. The mechanism of the weapon had become clogged by dirt. The commission decided that this was the bravest deed of the year / PONIES TRAINED TO EAT MATES' FLESH Dlre Hardships Experienced In Crossing Greenland. Copenhagen. The story told by Captain Koch, a Danish explorer, of the crossing of Greenland in company with three hardy companions shows that the dangers and hardships to be encountered on the great inland ice field have not decreased since Peary and Nansen journeyed over a part of the same wastes. The Danish leader and his three companions, Dr. Wagener, a German; Larsen, a sailor, and Sigurdson, a native of Leckland, were reduced during their journey to eating a pet dog, the only animal left After landing on July 24, 1912, the first mishap encountered was the loss of some ponies. Soon after that their motorboat disappeared through the thin ice, and the explorers had to wait until near the end of September before the ice was thick enough to bear their glides and horses. When they were ready to start Dr. Wagener fell and broke a rib. The expedition was ten miles east of Queen Louise Land Oct. 12 and went into winter quarters. Because folder was short all the ponies were killed except five, which were trained to eat the flesh of their brothers. During a sledging trip Captain Koch fell forty feet into a crevasse, breaking his right leg. He was helpless in the hut throughout the winter in a temperature generally 50 degrees below zero. On April 20, this year, the four men broke camp and with five sleighs, each drawn by a pony, started on their 750 mile march to the west coast. For forty days blizzards raged. The ponies became snow blind and so exhausted that three were killed. Then, with the night, temperature 30 below zero, the sun's rays burned the skin from the men's faces until they looked like raw beef. On July 15 they tried to push on to the coast, which was now visible, but they were so exhausted from hunger, cold and wet they could scarcely move. The only chance for life was to kill the pet dog, which had tramped with them about 800 miles. This was done, and the flesh was cooked and eaten. BUILDS 15 OCEAN STEAMSHIPS Royal Maji Company to Spend $30,000,-000 For New Vessels. Tacoma, Wash. - The Royal Maji Steam Packet company is building seven 15,000 ton freight and passenger steamships, costing $1,500,000 each, for service between Europe and Puget sound via the orient. This announcement was recently made by H. J. Martyn Nash, American representative of the company, with headquarters at New York. The first vessel will leave London for Tacoma Nov. 22. After the Panama canal is opened the steamships will return to Europe via Panama and New York. For the West Indies and South American service Mr. Nash says the company is building eight triple screw steamships, costing nearly $20,000,000. Joker Ships Twenty-four Live Snakes. Othello, Wash.—One of the strangest shipments ever sent from here consisted of a box containing two dozen snakes, billed to Mitchell, S. D. The snakes are all small and harmless. The shipment is intended as a joke upon the consignee. SEEKING BEST FARM SYSTEM Report on Those of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota. Washington—Dr. Thomas N. Carver, head of the rural organization service, department of agriculture, has reported to Secretary Houston that he had found the farmers in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota about as well organized and as prosperous as any in the world. Dr. Carver is studying co-operative systems in practice in the northwest, with a view to recommending the best ideas in use there to farmers in other parts of the country. Since the start of the rural organization service, a few months ago, intensive studies have been going on in Minnesota into every phase of the farm life there, social moral and economic. "Our principal work," said Dr. Carver recently, "will be to find out where the best possible farming conditions prevail and what causes are responsible for this success and then to get farmers elsewhere to adopt similar methods with the hope that equally good results will follow." BANKING BY MAIL. ALSO. Announced In Connection With Extension of Parcel Post. Washington. — Postmaster General Burleson announced that on Aug. 15, the same date as that on which the extension of the parcel post is effective, the "banking by mail" feature becomes a part of the postal savings system. This innovation will enable depositors living in remote districts to avail themselves of the system. In the matter of the parcel post, Mr. Burleson announced that after Aug. 15 the weight limit on packages is placed at twenty pounds and that a reduction in charges was ordered for local delivery from 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound to 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional two pounds or fraction thereof. For delivery in the first zone the rate will be reduced from 5 cents for the first and 3 cents for each additional pound to 5 cents and 1 cent; for the second zone the rate will be cut from 6 cents and 4 cents to 5 cents and 1 cent for each additional pound. In Some Instances Rates Will Be Lower Than by Malls. Washington. - The interstate commerce commission has ordered the express companies to lower their rates, improve their service and modify their practices and systems of accounts. The order issued by the commission radically lowers the rates on express packages under fifty pounds. The reductions, which range from 10 to 60 per cent, with an average of 15 per cent, will cost the companies $26,000,000, or nearly 16 per cent of their gross revenue. It is estimated. The new rates become effective Oct. 15 and continue for two years. It is believed that it will require two years to try out the proposed schedules. In making the order Commissioner Marble said the report and order lay the following requirements upon the express companies: The adoption of the block system of stating rates; the establishment of a uniform classification; the publication of a joint directory of express stations; the publication jointly of the pick up and delivery limits at each station; the adoption of revised rules and regulations. Under the present method of compiling tariffs 900,000,000 separate rates are published by the express companies. Under the block system the number is reduced to 650,000. The United States is to be divided into 950 blocks, averaging 2,500 square miles to the block. The most important change is in the modification of the present graduated scale of parcel rates. The 100 pound rates for short distances have either been but slightly reduced or have been left unchanged. For long distances the 100 pound rates have been somewhat reduced. MRS. EATON'S TRIAL SET. Must Face Jury Oct. 13 For Murder of Admiral. Greenfield, Mass.-Chief Justice Alken of the superior court has ordered that the trial of Mrs. Jennie May Eaton, for the murder of her husband, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton, be called at Plymouth on Oct. 13. Mrs. Eaton was arrested twelve days after the admiral died from poisoning at their home in Assinippi, on March 8. With the exception of two brief appearances in court she has since been in jail at Plymouth. Mrs. Eaton is accused of having placed poison in coffee and other food prepared for the admiral. Drowns In a Milk Can Fond du Lac. Wls. - Death by drowning in a milk can that contained only four inches of water was the fate of Norman, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schumacher of Calumetville The child's chair, standing at the side of the milk can, guided the grandmother when she sought the missing child, who had fallen headforemost into the receptacle and was dead. FEELING AFTER THE GOD OF LOVE Divine Character Misrepresented by the Greeds. DARKNESS GOVERS EARTH. Pastor Russell Thrilla Believers and Skeptics by His Picture of the True God—The Pastor's Early Teaching of Hell—He became a Skeptic—His Recovery of More Than He Lost—God's Wisdom, Justice, Love and Power. Soul Satisfaction in None Other. Glasgow, Scotland, Aug. 24—Pastor Russell preached today from the text, "God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him might not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16. PASTOR RUSSELL The Pastor declared that the doctrine of total depravity is totally wrong. The likeness of God, which was perfect in Father Adam, still persists in some degree in all of Adam's children, sadly fallen though they be. Indeed, no one is so fallen as not to have a reasonable conception of his own debasement, a feeling that he is justly out of touch with his Creator, and worthy of some kind of punishment. In every human breast there is also a sentiment of pity, and a feeling of the need of Divine pity. But just there serious errors, received from our forefathers in the Dark Ages, bar the way and discourage those who desire to return to fellowship with their Creator. Many Christians are benevolent, sympathetic, ready to lend a helping hand and to give a word of encouragement. Many are ready to help the unfortunate, to sing them songs of God's love and sympathy and pity. But these helps are discounted by the great central thought supported by all the various creeds called orthodox; namely, that God is indeed very angry with humanity, and busily engaged in sending nearly every member of our race to an eternity of torture—ninety thousand every twenty-four hours being the present schedule. Creeds Drive Away From God. While the Christian forgets the atrocious misrepresentations of the Dyline character given by the creeds, and remembers chiefly the loving words of encouragement given in the Bible, it is not so with the sinner, who has not yet tasted that the Lord is gracious. His thoughts revert to the fact that he is a sinner, and to the teaching that eternal torment is his doom. If he can live for an awhile a decent life, he begins to hope that he may escape the threatened torture; but when he falls again into trespasses and sins, he strives to forget everything, and especially 'God' and the future torture of which he has been told. He escapes best from all religious thought in the bar-room, at the gambling table, and in general surrender to sin. He has a fear of God which he seldom confesses, and which he belies with his profanity. He is miserable in the presence of the pure, the holy, and fears the Bible. Well did Satan know how to turn the hearts and minds of humanity away from God and from the Bible! With what cunning did he introduce these wicked misrepresentations of God's character into the creeds of Christian people during the Dark Ages! St. Paul gauges the matter properly in the words, "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of those who believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the Image of God, should shine unto them."—2 Corinthians 4:4. Even in the blessed twilight of the Apostolic times, when the Church was guarded from Satan's delusions, St. Paul realized that comparatively few of the brethren had a clear insight into the love of God. Hence his prayer: "I pray God for you, that the eyes of your understanding being opened, ye may know what is the hope of your calling, that ye may be able to comprehend with all saints the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know the Love of God, which passeth all understanding." If this knowledge of the Love of God is the great need of Christians, if their eyes of understanding can only partially appreciate, oh, what is the need of the poor world, thoroughly blinded by Satan and unable to see anything? How Can We Be Otherwise Than Indignant? And let us not forget that Satan has used Christian tongues and Christian pens to do this blinding of the world. The Message of God's Love in the Bible is clear, plain, beautiful. The misrepresentations and contradictions of that Love by our forefathers, as represented in the breeds, evidently was the inspiration of Satan, as the Apostle declares. Not only so, but our Adversary was assisted by his corps of fallen angels, as St. Paul again declares that some give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.—1 Timothy 4:1. We owe it to ourselves, to our families and to the world in general to utterly destroy these blasphemous mis- representations of God's Character and Plan. Since our eyes are gradually opening to see the real situation, how can we be otherwise than indignant and jealous for the honor of our God and for the influence of His Truth amongst our fellowmen. The Pastor's Personal Experience. I speak from experience, so that I have had the experience of living an alien, a stranger from God, that I have had the experience of losing my God. The child of believing pure its and incoordinated along Calvibar lines to believe that only the Elect a handful, would ever reach glory, and that all the remaining non-elect would reach a perdition of torment. I was accustomed to thinking of myself as one of the Elect, and appreciating the Love of God, which had provided for the salvation of the Elect. As a boy of seventeen, a member of the Y. M. C. A., I engaged, as did other members at that time, in what we called Gospel prechening—not realizing the meaning of the word Gospel—that it signifies "good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people." Like the others, I exhorted and threatened, pictured Hell, and shook my hearers over it. Then came sober thought. Reason began to assert itself over superstition. I inquired of myself. Where is this Hell which you preach? And what do you really know about it? Confessing my own ignorance on the subject, I went to my teachers and elders, and was amazed to find that they knew no more about it than myself. I stopped preaching, and began to think and to examine the creeds. I found that the differences between them were trivial; they all had the one foundation of Heavenly salvation for the saintly few, and eternal torture for the thousands of millions in heathen and in Christian lands. The more I investigated, the more I felt sure a great mistake had been made; that a real God could not have such a plan; such an arrangement as our creeds declared. I threw them all away; and thinking the Bible the basis for them all, I threw it after the creeds. Soul-Hunger For God. Harfing once known God as my Heavenly Father, I could find no soul rest without Him. My soul hungered for His love and care. I still held to the great fact that our Universe has an intelligent, personal Creator. His Wisdom and Power were before me on every starry night. My studies in anatomy convinced me that I myself, all humanity, yea, every creature, is fearfully and wonderfully made. The more I studied, the more I became convinced that the eye could never have come by chance, could not have been evolved by a nature god; and so with every other function of my body—the muscles, the nerves, and the power to move in response to the mere thinking, willing. I worshipped the God of Wisdom and Power, and sought to know more of Him, confident that I would find Him good. Left to the resources of my own brain, I asked, Could others and myself possess, as gifts of our Creator, the qualities of Justice and Love, which we esteem the very highest, and yet that Creator Himself be destitute of these? The answer of my mind was, Surely, as He that formed the eye can see, He that gave humanity the qualities of Justice and Love, must possess these qualities in infinite measure. Thus I beheld with the eyes of my understanding the great God of the Universe, infinite in His Wisdom, in His Power, in His Justice, in His Love. I worshiped again, rejoiced that I could have confidence in my God, and realize that He had made neither the world nor our race in vain—that He had some wise, just, loving purpose in connection with our creation. Intelligent People Most Thoroughly Seduced. My next thought was, Would not a just and loving God be pleased to make known His purposes to His creatures who desired to know and do His will? The answer of my mind was, that I might confidently seek God's Message. Thinking that I had already sufficiently examined the Bible, I turned my attention to heathen religions, only to find them less-rational in some respects than my own. Evidently the most intelligent peoples of the world have been the most thoroughly seduced by Satan and his "doctrines of demona," into believing the most horrible things respecting the Creator and His purpose toward His human creatures. Finally, I resolved on a fresh study of the Bible, assuring myself first that my colored spectacles and those of my friends were thoroughly broken, and my mind entirely untrammeled. Not without stumbling and difficulties did the Lord gradually lead me to clearer and yet clearer light upon His word, until I found that the basis of all difficulty lay in our following Satan's lie, "Ye shall not surely die." From that time the entire Bible gradually became illuminated, beautiful, grand, harmonious! Now, beloved hearers, it stands pre-eminent before my mind as the Word of God. Realizing this, I use my reason freely within the limits of its declarations, but never outside of its authority. Mankind Need to Be Encouraged—Not Browbeaten. No pen can tell the peace and joy and blessing that a clear knowledge of the true God has brought into my own heart and life. "It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do." I am seeking no further. There is nothing more to be desired—except to get this wonderful Story more clearly before my mind and to appreciate more and more the Divine Character, as illustrated by the Divine Plan, which God is gradually working out for the blessing, first of the Church, and afterwards for the world. Can you wonder that I have sympathy for honest steepers, who like myself have lost their way, and sympathy, too, for the great mass of mankind, who have never known God! Perhaps I can appreciate better than some others of the Lord's people what it means to be "without God and without hope in the world"—how lonesome, how solitary the way, how almless the wandering, how bitter the disappointments that find no solace in hope of a better day! I am persuaded that mankind need more to be instructed and encouraged than to be brow-beaten, threatened, alarmed. At any rate, the de reasing church attendance, in spite of operatic music and sensational topics, proves that the masses of the people refuse longer to be scared into the Heavenward road by threats of eternal torment. And do not all Christian ministers to some extent discern this? Is not this the reason some of them give for discontinuing to preach the creeds of a darker time? Is not this the reason that, in defiance of the creeds, and in contradiction thereof, every funeral service is a white-washing affair to make out that the deceased is a saint and gone to Heaven, even if his life has been discreditable, and he has never made even a profession of Christianity? Such hypocrisies—holding one standard and preaching another—are bringing Christianity into reproach. Fraud is the word which in the conception of many fits their own formalism and that of others. They recognize the Apostolic picture of our times, "Having a form of godliness, but denying its power."—2 Timothy 3.5. The Love of Our Text The entire Bible tells us of God's Love and Sympathy. Only a few texts twisted, mistranslated, or interpolated during the Dark Ages, even seemingly contradict the great statement that God is Love—the very essence and embodiment of this grandest of all elements of character. Our text is one of these loving tributes to the Heavenly Father's mercy and grace. It is one, therefore, which especially appeals to the worldly, the unmindful Christian and the repentant sinner—"God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Yet see how we have twisted this good Word of God to make out of it something evil. We seized upon the word perish, knowing well that it signifies to destroy, to annihilate, to render lifeless. Satan persuaded us that such a penalty would not sufficiently terrify, and not rapidly enough fill the rolls of church membership. He induced our forefathers, through the "doctrines of demons," to say that perish here means the reverse of what it means in ordinary conversation—that it means to go to endless woe, to be met by fire-proof devils, and be confined to all eternity in horrible sufferings. Well did Satan succeed in deceiving us until we did not even think of questioning his lies and absurdities. If any one suggested that perish means to destroy, the Adversary would stir up persecution, and brand such a one a heretic. If the heretic asked how any one could be tortured forever in fire and not be consumed, he was denounced as both a fool and a knave for not appreciating the fact that God could inject life into the poor sufferer for the millions upon millions of years of eternity. How foolish we were! How stupid not to see the origin of such nonsense—not to perceive the simplicity of God's Word that the penalty upon sinners was to perish—not to see that God sent His Son to redeem man from his perishing condition, and to open up for Adam and all his race a way to life—everlasting life! Quite true, this life can come only through the Life-giver, the Redeemer. Quite true, none can receive it in ignorance, and comparatively few see with the eyes of their understanding or hear with the ears of their understanding the Message of grace in the present time. But God's provision through Christ is a resurrection for the dead—not only the just, who now by faith are justified, but also the unjust, who are still allens, foreigners, strangers from God. "The Gospel of the Kingdom." Thus it is that by Divine arrangement none can now understand the Divine Plan for human salvation from perishing, except as they come to understand respecting the Kingdom—that God has promised that the Redeemer, who purchased the world by His sacrifice, shall become the world's Great High Priest, Prophet, and King, and for a thousand years grant to Adam and his family the blessed opportunity of knowing and accepting the Divine terms whereby they may be saved from perishing, from death -whereby they may be fully resurrected, raised up, out of the present sin and death conditions to the fulness of life attainable at the end of Messiah's Reign. It is only in ideal to this great Plan of the world's salvation that the Church is now called in advance to walk by faith in the footsteps of the Redeemer and to become His Bride and Joint-heir in the Heavenly Kingdom. The great work of Christ is for the world, the blessing of all the families of the earth, by the resurrection work of the thousand years of His Messianic Kingdom. This is the great hope the world needs, which thrills the hearts of all who hear it. And although their eyes and ears of understanding be still hindered by Satan, the Divine promise is, that in the coming Messianic Day, when the shadows of the dark night of sin are past, all the blind eyes shall be opened, all the deaf ears shall be unstopped, and the knowledge of the glory of God shall fill the whole world, and be a Message of Hope to every creature. MUCH INTEREST IN SULZER HEARING SEN. WAGNER WILL PRESIDE Court of Impeachment Consists of Members of State Senate and Court of Appeals—Two-thirds Vote Necessary to Remove Sulzer Permanently. Albany, N. Y.-Not only the state of New York, but the entire Union as well, is eagerly awaiting the beginning of the impeachment trial of William Sulzer, which starts on Sept. 18. The accused will face the high court of impeachment on charges brought by the lower house of the state legislature. The hearing will be staged in the senate chamber of the state capitol at Albany. This will mark the first time a governor of an American state has faced impeachment proceedings since the year 1876, when Adelbert Ames, then governor of Mississippi, was impeached. Ames resigned before his trial, thus bringing the proceedings to an abrupt termination. State Senator Robert F. Wagner, president pro tempore of the senate, who became president of the senate when Lieutenant Governor Martin H. Glynn was automatically promoted to the position of acting governor by reason of the charges against Sulzer, will preside at the impeachment trial of the man who was chosen chief execu- THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD Photo of Wagner, © 1913, by American Press Association. SENATOR WAGNER, WHO WILL PRESIDE AT IMPREACHMENT TRIAL, AND STATE CAPITOL AT ALBANY. tive of the state of New York. The court that will say whether or not Sulzer will be restored to the position or shall be convicted of the charges will consist of the state senate and members of the court of appeals. In order to impeach a governor it is necessary to have a two-thirds vote of the court. There shall be no appeal from the decision of the high court of impeachment, and this tribunal's decision will be absolutely final. At the trial the accused governor will appear in person with his counsel and will try to disprove the charges brought against him by the legislature. If the charges be sustained and the governor is permanently removed from office then the acting governor, who in this instance is Mr. Glynn, will continue to act as governor until the next election. Whether or not Mrs. Sulzer, wife of the accused, will appear in person as a witness at the trial is a question that is attracting wide interest here. It is recalled that just prior to the time a vote was taken in the assembly on the impeachment motion the wife of the governor issued a statement claiming to be responsible for the alleged deals in Wall street stocks and endeavored to shoulder the blame. It is likely that she will take the stand at the trial of her husband and repeat this statement to the court of impeachment. Five of the most widely known lawyers in the east—former Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, former Judge D-Cady Herrick, former State Senator Harvey D. Hillman of Binghamton, N. Y., and former Judge Irving G. Vann of the court of appeals and former State Senator James J. Gay Gordon of Philadelphia—are attorneys for Sulzer. Besides these noted counsel Mr. Sulzer will have among his advisers former Judge Arnold and Louis Marshall. To match the legal talent retained by Sulzer the board of managers appointed by the assembly has employed as counsel John B. Stanchfield, Edgar T. Brackett, William Trayers Jerome and Eugene Lamb, Richards. In addition to this strong array of talent Acting Governor Glynn is also to be advised by ex-Judge Edwin Countryman and P. C. Dugn. SHIRKING HORSE CURED. Rolled Down a Bank and Then Decided She Was Not Sick. St. Louis.—Nellie a delivery horse of Clayton, either is a nu expert dissembler or her alliments are such that they battle veterinary surgeons. After a vacation of three weeks she pulled the light delivery wagon willingly until she was about to be taken over the route again in the evening, when she lay down on the ground and groomed. Dr. C. A. Newton, a veterinary, worked with the animal two hours, took her temperature and looked for symptoms of various alliments, but found none. He declared Nellie was "stilling," but she refused to get up. Several spectators then helped roll the horse down a small embankment. This aroused Nellie's anger, and she jumped up and kicked her heels about the barn lot. Her owner, William Echopeker, a grocer, announced that Nellie's vacation will not be extended. Nellie was once a polo pony. One of her specialties has been to pretend to be lame in order to get a holiday or extended vacation. Sometimes the limp was in the left hind foot, and occasionally it shifted to the right hind foot. On each occasion a veterinary said the animal was in good health. POISON:FAILS TO KILL Woman Takes Dose Which Would Kill a Hundred Persons. St. Louis.—Edward Fisher, a photographer, and Mrs. Carrie DuBols, who weighs 300 pounds, both bichloride of mercury patients, were treated successfully by a method that St. Louis physicians now believe is an absolute cure for mercurial poisoning. The two, who are neighbors, but have never met, have expressed mutual interest in one another's condition. Mrs. DuBols said that it was the reading of Mr. Fisher's condition in the newspapers that prompted her to swallow more than 110 grains of the poison. This is an amount, physicians say, sufficient to kill more than 100 men, but Dr. Maurice Thompson and Dr. Walter Harrall predict that she will recover, after the application of hot water bottles and electric globes and the injection of saline solution or sodium carbonate every three hours. NO MORE FLYING FOR ME, SAYS REID Aviator Hearkens to Mother's Plea to Stay on Ground. Atlantic City N. J.-Viewing the total wreck of his $0,000 hydroaeroplane as it lay upon the beach at the inlet. Marshall Earle Reid, well known aviator, who for two years has furnished thrills at shore resorts and elsewhere, said. "I am through with flying for good. I'll consider myself lucky in this tumble and call it square. If there is anything exciting in the game that I have not tried out in the two years of my career as an aviator I shall leave it for some one else to tackle. For me it is no more playing the bird man. I do not exactly regret having been in the business, for I have made $12,000. "My mother has urged me time and again to stop flying. I think she knows better than I do myself that the money is not worth it. My other relatives have joined in pleading with me also. I guess I'll heed this call now. "One thing I am thankful for, and this is that no human life has been laid as a sacrifice to my experiments in aviation. It was a close call, they tell me, but here I am, and mighty lucky. I think, to be here. Anyway, I'll take the tumble as a friendly hint to seek some other means of livelihood. So it's me for the dry and solid land hereafter." Reid was reminded of his mother's desire that he should quit aviation by the loss of a ring that his mother gave him. Work Done by London Health Officers to Guard Against Plague. London.-In the annual report just issued of Dr. Herbert Williams, medical officer of health for the port of London, Dr. Williams says that 745.634 rats were destroyed in the port of London from February, 1901, to January, 1912. During 1912 1,310 rats were examined, but only thirteen were found to be affected with plague. Plague from rats is caught through the rat flea, which, after having lived on an infected rat, makes its way to a man and bites him, thus Inoculating him with plague. MARRIES HIS ACCUSER. Weds Woman Who Says He Stole $2,000 From Her. Butte. Mont.- William F. Morrison, accused by Mrs. Louise Tum, a widow, of having stolen $2,000 from her, together with some diamonds, married the complaining witness after he had been brought back from Tampa, Fla., by the officers. This action took the prosecuting staff off its feet, and the indignation of the officers knew no bounds. For month they have been tracking Morrison. Under the Montana statutes a wife cannot appear against her husband and there is nothing left but to dismiss the case. GOETHALS AT 1915 FAIR. Canal Builder Will Head Engineering Congress at Exposition. San Francisco.—Colonel George W. Goethals, U. S. N., whose engineering genius is bringing the Panama canal into being, is to take part in the Panama-Pacific International exposition, which is to be held in this city in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the great project. Colonel Goethals, who is chairman of the isthmus canal commission and chief engineer of the Panama canal, has accepted the honorary presidency of the international engineering congress, which will be held in connection with the exposition from Sept. 20 to 25, 1915. The congress, it is promised by its promoters, will be the most notable in the history of engineering. The exposition officials have communicated with some 80,000 engineers in all parts of the world with a view of having them visit San Francisco in 1915. The congress will be conducted under the combined auspices of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. PIGEON FLIES 1,000 MILES. Record Time of 28 Hours and 30 Minutes Established. Pittsburgh, Pa.—One thousand miles, air line distance, between Abilene, Tex., and Fort Wayne, Ind., in 26 hours, 30 minutes and 6 seconds actual flying time was the remarkable flight of a homing pigeon belonging to O. Anderson of Fort Wayne. The records, sent to President Carney of the American Racing Pigeon union in this city for verification, were officially announced. Forty-seven birds contested in the race from the Texas city, and the record made by Mr. Anderson's bird is a world's mark. The second bird to arrive in Fort Wayne from Abilene belonged to J. Schilling. It had been on the road 36 hours, 51 minutes and 47 seconds actual flying time. The speed of Mr. Anderson's bird averaged more than thirty-eight miles an hour. TO TRAIN GIRLS IN OPEN AIR SEVEN YEARS Eleven Years to Determine Outcome of New Experiment. Philadelphia.—A Philadelphia college will this fall give the students the first chance that has ever been offered by an educational institution in America for instruction that will tend to make girls physically perfect above everything else. According to the dean of the college, it will take eleven years to ascertain whether the plan is going to prove a success. They will take twenty young girls as nearly perfection physically as they can get and ranging between ten and twelve years of age and train them for seven years in elementary subjects and bring them up as women should be educated. The girls will be trained in the open all the time, they will have all kinds of physical exercises and outdoor life, and when they leave they will have not only a perfect physical condition to aid them, but they will have learned all the rudiments of English. Latin, French and German, to solve simple and original algebraic problems, to draw, to model, to appreciate pictures, to interpret music by rhythmic movements and to express musical impressions by dancing. DEATH SENTENCE FOR DOG. Passed on it by Judge For Having Bitten Little Girl. Chicago. -A dog has been sentenced to death by Municipal Judge David Sullivan in the South Chicago court. The animal belongs to Michael Ronaine, who was arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct on complaint of Mrs. Anna McMannon. She charged that the dog had bitten her daughter Virginia, eight years old, and that Ronaine refused to turn over the animal to the dog pound. "I'll give up the dog whenever the police demand it." Ronaine told the judge. "All right," replied the court, "the police are ordered to take the animal to the dog pound, and I sentence the dog to be shot and killed there." FINE TO GIVE OR TAKE TIPS. Waiters Urged St. Louis Council to Pass the Ordinance. St Louis. The city council has passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to give or receive a tip in a hotel or restaurant. A fine of from $10 to $50 may be levied for each offense. Half of the fine is to be given to the police informant of violation of the anti-tipping ordinance. The measure was passed without opposition following a public hearing in which scores of waiters attributed the local hotel employees' strike to low wages resulting from the tipping practice. Accused of an Old Staying Tampa, Fla.—A man giving his name as W. T. Blackerby is under arrest at Kissimmee, charged with the murder of his wife and four other persons in Santa Clarra, Cal., seventeen years ago. THE BEE Entered at the Post Office at. Wasb ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... 20 OUR GOVERNMENT OUR GOVERNMENT. When a government in which all the people, regardless of color or conditions, are supposed to be free and equal, discriminates against certain citizens on account of color. The Bee is of the opinion that the people should rise en mass and show such a government that no unconstitutional act shall operate to the detriment of one against another. By what authority of law or custom has the present Democratic administration to discriminate against a citizen on account of his color? Is Democratic Christianity a mockery or a sham? Does the President of the United States practice the Christianity that he professes? How long will colored Americans endure present conditions and oppression? Must he continue to tamely submit, without a protest or retaliation? Has the North, East and West submitted to the whims of the Southern oligarchy? Is one bird of this country to dictate and rule the other two thirds? What has become of Northern-valor and patriotism? The time is now for the colored American to show to the world whether he is a charger or a pig; whether he is a serf or a citizen. It is the poor white South that is causing this unrest. It is the man and woman who have lost all social standing in the South, but who hope to gain social recognition by degrading the blacks who are their social and intellectual superiors, notwithstanding these discriminatory laws. The black man may be barred from all public places of amusement, but that doesn't lessen his social standing among other sensible and superior nations. The colored Americans may be forced to ride in "jim-crow" cars on a stump of inferiority to the poor whites. That will be no indication of their inferiority. It is because the poor whites are clothed with the law and the power over the weak. Fifty years of freedom has caused that old monster, jealousy, to permeate the heart of those who were born and reared inferior to the blacks. The American government, so far as protecting the rights of all the people is concerned, is a sham. Southern sentiment controls the masses, and is evidenced by the action of the Democratic administration. Wherever a Southern man is in control, there you will find race discrimination. Dogs and cats are given greater consideration than colored Americans who have been loyal to the flag and patriotic in every particular. NEGRO DEMOCRACY NEGRO DEMOCRACY. It is a well established fact that the Democratic administration has sounded the death knell to Negro Democracy. When A. L. Patterson left this city he gave up all hopes either for himself or his colored Democratic colleagues. Mr. Patterson was forced to withdraw. Both Senators from his State would not dare to urge his confirmation, under pain of political death. The Haytian Minister is a white man from Missouri, who is the confidential representative of the Democratic administration. The colored Republic of Hayti will have but little faith in this white representative. Negro Democracy, as The Bee-declared long before the election of Mr. Wilson, would receive the black eye under the Democratic administration. If there is any colored man who has the narrow idea that the office of Recorder of Deeds will be a colored man; he is utterly mistaken. Mark The Bee's prediction. He will be a white man, and those who are of the opinion that any one of the many colored candidates will succeed Mr. Henry Lincoln Johnson they will be sadly disappointed. So-called Negro Democrats are like rats in a burning ship. They don't know whether to remain on board and burn up or jump overboard and drown. "They are between the devil and the deep blue sea." There is a deal between a certain colored Democratic Representative and an Indian man to make an outsider Liberian Minister. The local and national colored Democratic organization will kick and every member in both organizations has declared war against the new Richmond who has entered the field. Colored Democracy is lost to the world. Mr. Patterson has no more hopes. He is the most disappointed man in the colored Democratic party. Those who saw the colored Democrats after the election of a Democratic president, will testify that they, the colored Democrats, have changed in their looks. The Bee, it will be remembered, stated, when the finance committee of the Democratic party paid off colored Democrats for services rendered in the last campaign, took their receipts in full payment of all demands against the Democratic party. At the time Mr. Patterson was nominated, one local Democrat said, now what will Negro Republicans say? Why, said one, he will never be confirmed. Nothing has been, said since by this local colored Democrat. A GREAT MEETING. A GREAT MEETING. The fourteenth annual meeting of the National Negro Business League, which convened in Philadelphia last week, will go down in history-as the greatest gathering of Negroes held since those days when our fathers were wont to agitate the freedom of the race. At Philadelphia last week were men who had accomplished great things. They were not the noisy street corner proclaimers, but the silent doers. They came, or rather went to Philadelphia without signs, grip or password; without rituals, regalias or emblem. They constituted an organization formed for the purpose of building up mercantile and commercial establishments; making farming pay, and advancing in the professions. They left an impression upon Philadelphia which will revive that old Quaker spirit of fairness towards the brother in black. They left an impression upon the Negroes in Philadelphia which must make for unity and progress. When Dr. Booker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League fourteen years ago, at Boston, a far too large per cent of Negroes ridiculed it, made light of it. Their ridicule did not disturb or dissuade him. He kept plugging away, continued to preach business. Each year the attendance at the Business League increased and the ridiculing contingent became beautifully less. Last week two thousand Negroes, haling from every section of the country, responded to the call assembling the National Negro Business League in the City of Brotherly Love. The effect of this meeting will be reported at the meeting a year hence in the number of new industries established by Negroes, in the number of Negroes making good in the professions. It is proper that we should mention the splendid showing the local league of Washington made at this meeting, and the high compliment which Dr. Washington paid Mr. Daniel Freeman, when he announced before that great audience assembled, that Mr. Freemah was head of one of the best local leagues which held membership in the national body. STILL SEGREGATING. The conscience of the Treasury Department officials stricken by the fierce criticism of the public press of the infamous seregation signs, and being without law to uphold them, the "For Colored" signs were removed from the Treasury Department. At the same time, however, these Democratic, Negro-hating officials were determined that their idol—segregation—should not be destroyed, so a formal order was issued, appearing elsewhere in this newspaper, notifying division heads that the order of July 15th, last, designating toilet rooms in the basement for the exclusive use of Negro employees was still in full force and effect. When the news went out that the insulting "For Colored" sign had been removed Negroes here and throughout the country believed that they had won the battle for a square deal, and that henceforth there would be no discrimination, in the use of toilet rooms, because of color. But this dream was short lived. The order went out that segregation was in effect, must be subscribed to, with or without the jim-crow sims. Now what will be the next move of the ten millions of Negroes? Will they stand for this order? Will the employees of the Treasury Department continue to use jim-crow toilet rooms? Or will they, as American citizens, free-born and free-armed protest against it, protest by refusing to be jim-crowed? Who, among the more than two thousand Negro employees in the Treasury Department, has the nerve, the manliness, and the true American Spirit to refuse, absolutely refuse to be segregated in the basement? Senator Clapp started a fight in your behalf, now will you dissuade him from contesting this segregation movement by meekly submitting to being jim-crowed? Be men and refuse. HARMONY CEMETERY HARMONY CEMETERY. The antiquated business methods, as shown by the advisory committee of the trustees for Harmony Cemetery, is a reflection not only upon the trustees, but upon the people they represent. The fact that one man, John H. Cook, a $1,400 clerk in the Pension Office, holds the three most important positions, to-wit: superintendent-secretary and treasurer (with a salary attachment of $600 per annum) in the society, is ample justification for a thorough investigation by Congress, into the business management and other collateral matters connected with Harmony Cemetery. Mr. Cook orders the work, superintends and pesses upon it, pays the bills and enters the transaction, as secretary, upon the records before being presented to the body, which has four regular meetings a year! As superintendent. Mr. Cook employs, without submitting the names to the board, all employees, save the assistant superintendent, Mr. Shorter: as treasurer he pays them their salary, and dismisses them at pleasure, without any action of the board. To what extent his influence and power reaches it was shown that a most competent clerk was summarily removed by him and his nephew given a job, at $1.50 per day, to remove surplus blades of grass growing between stones in the cemetery grounds. The committee intend tracing the $30,000 paid by the railway company for right of way through the cemetery grounds. REAL EDITORS Reference is, from time to time, made of the number of newspapers published by Negroes—said to be 300 to 400. The influence which these publications exercise is said to be considerable, and it is further stated that these publications are better, both as to matter and manner, than those of a quarter century ago. However that may be, it is certain that the editors and proprietors of the Negro papers of today are lacking in the aggressiveness and organizing spirit of the older men of former years. Twenty-five and thirty years ago there was a real Negro National Press Association. It had a membership composed of real editors and owners. It met annually, elected officers who were editors and proprietors of newspapers. It exercised a unifying and wholesome influence in politics, education and general progress. What have we today? A fake organization which is not able to "tote its own skillet," at the head of which is a man who does not own a share of stock, or a dollar of interest in a single living publication: a man who, under the guise of conducting a "bureau," to send out news from the National Capital, does not even discharge that function efficiently. During the last three months there has been going on here in Washington a scheme to caste proscription as a part of government policy that can only be compared to the fugitive slave bill of 1850, and yet this "bureau" this head of an alleged "National Press Association," has not sent out a line concerning it. What a farce! What a travesty on journalism! What an imposition on the public! How ridiculous must appear the papers which from week to week publish his nauseating hogwash, and miserable flapdoode! How long will Negro newspaper owners circulate such stuff, or be parties to such imposture? How long will Negro newspaper owners consent to allow themselves to be represented before the country by an alleged association whose head is neither an editor nor a proprietor? If Negro editors continue to submit to such conditions, they will lend point to the accusation of Vardaman that the Negro is an "unmoral being" not knowing right from wrong. The Bee suggests that the real editors and owners of newspapers organize a press association, which, if it has not the wealth, will have a genuine organization after the manner of the Associated Press. Every officer, every director of the Associated Press, is either an editor, owner or stockholder of a newspaper. Let us stop deceiving the public, stop practicing imposture, stop supporting fakers and pretenders. Let us have a real, sure enough press association. Let us begin now to consider the matter and have a meeting for organization next spring or summer. The Bee will be glad to hear from the real editors and proprietors on this proposition. Public Men Ar.d Thing Public Men Ar.d Thing (By the Sage of the Potomac.) Imagination is a funny thing. If ever it gets a strangle hold on you there ain't no antidote for it. Now, there's Doc. Sumner Wormley. Doc all the time imagines he's got a delicate stomach and a heart that loses about two beats in every time it beats four. And when he sees a funeral profession going out to Harmony he imagines old Gabe is going to root his horn for him to get ready to lie the next victim. Now, the Sage of Doc. has got a cast iron stomach. There ain't no more the matter with Doc's stomach than there is with a copper vat. It will stand anything from a grape to a gin ricky. And as far as his heart, why he's been salving partridges around here and elsewhere ever since Hector was a pup, and there ain't no woman that has yet got his govt. When a fine looking chap like Doc. Sumner Wormley, and one what can dress so as to be able to stroll out Connecticut Avenue on Easter without attracting any special attention, and can hand a "she-male" all the bull con ever manufactured, and who has got a practice that pays him several thousand a year, runs into his fortieth year without getting snared by some partridge. I'm telling you there ain't a frazzling thing the matter with his heart. And yet Doc. Wormley imagines his stomach is going to give out next week and his heart is going to stop thumping the week following. Doc just imagines these. Then take John Dancy. After you have treated John four or five times in succession to lemonade, grape juice, Cocola and other light drinks, he gets up and tells you he's got to go to a meeting of the A. M. E. Zion Hospital Board. Now John imagines he has returned the compliment several times. He ain't aware he hasn't come across with old reciprocation. And John's imagination has netted him about forty thousand dollars. Now, Judge Terrell imagines old Piercement done left "him the major portion of his wealth." He imagines that he'll be a judge on the salary roll for an hundred years, and he, too, imagines he's got a baby stomach, and is always taking some peptonized tablets to save his stomach. If there ever was a stomach made of Carnegie and Bethlehem steel rolled together, Judge Terrell's got the only one in captivity. Why, Judge could eat glass and never feel no ill effects, and he could drink four glasses of syngonated grape juice in succession without it ever touching the lining of his bread basket. Yet Judge imagines he's got the weakest stomach ever set inside of a man, and he also imagines his hair will come back. Glennie Hughes imagines he's old Cicerio, Cato, Xenophane and all those old-time fellows what used to harrange Dago societies. Glennie will back you up in a corner on Fourteenth Street and hand you a line of words that are about as reasonable as a hull pup five years old, and imagines he's saying something. Tom Jones imagines he's losing money every day he appears in Police Court, and tells you so—imagines he ought to be a great corporation lawyer with offices in the Flatiron Building in New York. And you can't disabuse his mind of this vagary. Kelly Miller imagines he's next for president of Howard, and that George and Louie are unanimously for him. If you should knock Kelly down with a two-ton granite, and bury him four feet beneath the tide he would continue to imagine he'll be president of Howard some day, and that Georgia Cook and Louie Moore will eat out of his hands three times a day, and carry his market basket every market day. Doc. Will Davis imagines he leaves his store for five hours each day and takes a spin around Rock Creek Park, and runs over to New York two or three times a month. Bruce Evans imagines that the Board of Education's going to take note of his protests, re-elect him principal and all that kind of rot, and you couldn't knock the idea, or rather imagination, out of his head with a Slo Gin or a mallet. Rosco Bruce imagines that some day they, this Negroid public in Washington, will one day quit him, that is stop knocking him, and that life will be one long sweet song from Mendelssohn, Verdi or one of those other music makers. And although you may show him that they will warm up to him some day, abandon all fight on him, yet you can't make him believe this knocking him in Washington is one of those long drawn-out songs. Now, imagination is a funny thing. Everybody is bothered with it sometime in the year. Now, I imagine that Chase is paying me every week; for writing this junk, and I imagine that R. Wordy is using up his annual leave saying nice things about me. And nothing you could offer me, in the shape of Jim Gray's meals with New Willard prices, could ever make me believe that Chase ain't paid me as much as a red herring or that R. Wordy, who also must use the prefix "ex" since the Press Association declined to tolerate him as president for another year, is writing letters to all his newspapers praising him up as a likely candidate for Secretary of the Treasury. Now, this imagination is a right funny proposition, and sometimes I scratch myself to see if I am living and to ascertain if imagination ain't got me hungswabbled. POST-DISPATCH'S MISSOURI PRIZE GOES TO NEGRO. Young Alabama Teacher Is a Graduate of Booker Washington's Tuskegee Normal—Fisher Tells How He Gathered Data for Composition—He Read Many Books on Missouri Before He Began Preparation of His Chart By Isaac Fisher. East Lake Station, Birmingham, Ala. There' there is a picture and a question which have followed me from early years, when I first became a student of the Scriptures. That picture is that of the weak-willed Pilate, examining in his judgment hall the humble but unafraid Jesus, and trying to and some means by which he might release his prisoner, and yet do nothing to shorten his own tenure of office as Governor of Judea. The question is the one which burst, almost involuntarily, from the lips of the Governor when Jesus said: "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth." At the word "truth" Pilate, the politician, was changed on the instant to Pilate, the judge, truco to the spirit of the judicial office, one of whose functions is to get "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," and he asked his prisoner the direct question "What is truth?" To me, as a result of having read that story, the question of questions for all persons in approaching a given inquiry has continually seemed to be Judge Pilate's query to Jesus; indeed, on some special stationery which I often use when I am writing to persons for information, there is printed at the top of the sheet the words: "In the presence of all problems, the student must ask: 'What is truth?'" In seeking for the "Ten Best Reasons Why Persons Should Come to Missouri," I asked myself, first: "What is the truth about Missouri?" Finding Truth His Specialty Every person possesses, or thinks he has, some special trait of which he is proud, however modestly he may try to conceal his pride in the fact. I fear I am no exception to this rule. My "special "weakness" is a belief that I can get the truth about any subject which comes before me for examination, if the truth exists in written or printed form and is accessible to the public. I knew the truth could be had about Missouri, and I set out to get it, and the following documents, by their agreement on certain things, convinced me that I had the truth: 1. (a) The Official Industrial and Shippers' Directory for 1910-11. (b) Missouri Lands. (c) Opportunity Bulletin. All published by the Missouri Pacifie Railway. 2. The Missouri Red Book for 1912, compiled by the State Bureau of Labor Statistics—Austin Biggs, Commissioner. (No more important publication issues from a Missouri State department than this book. It is a mine of industrial information.) 3. Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. (The last word about the State's agricultural interests.) 4. (a) In the Heart of Missouri. (b) Along Rock Island Lines (c) The Southwest Trail. (Published by the Rock Island Railway Company.) 5. Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Missouri Bureau of Mines, Mining and Mine Inspection. (The final word on the Stale's Mining Industries.) 6. United States Education Report for 1911. 7. Abstract of United States Census for 1910. 8. United States Census Report on Religious Bodies. 1906. 9. Comparative Study of Public School Systems. Published by the Russell Sage Foundation. 10. The New York World Almanac for 1913 11. The International Encyclopedia. Selecting the Essentials. Selecting lessons from Missouri I now found that I had too much truth about Missouri, if that were possible; and I saw at once that I must have a law, fundamental and of universal appeal, by which to reject non-essentials and select reasons worth while. Any student of American institutions and government knows that there is no instrument which contains sentiments dearer to the people of the United States than the Declaration of Independence, and so I made my rule, subordinating all of my apparently necessary information to the major "ten reasons" which seemed to me to cover every class of persons who might wish information about Missouri, and, lo, the work was done. LITTLE STORIES OF SUCCESS. Number 5. The School That Edward Built. In the Arabian Nights and in other stories we read of palaces and of cities being built by magic in a single night. The true stories of how many of the Negro schools have been built in the South are no less wonderful than these fairy tales. Such a story is that of the school that Edward built. In 1893, William J. Edwards graduated from Tuskegee Institute. The following year, with lots of faith, fifty cents and three students he established, in a log cabin, at his home in Wilcox County, Alabama, the Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute. There was no elaborate prospectus showing what the school hoped to be, but down there in one of the most benighted of the black belt counties of Alabama, Edwards started in a crude way to minister to the needs of the people among whom he was reared. Here he has labored until the present time. Instead of the log cabin, there is now a school plant worth about $100,000. It consists of 1,000 acres of land and 21 buildings. Instead of three pupils there are now some four hundred, and the faculty has increased from one teacher to thirty-five. There are fifteen industries taught in the school. They are blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, carpentry, sawmilling, brick-making, brick-masonry, painting, printing, general farming, truck gardening, dairying, cooking, sewing, laundering and basketry. The school is accomplishing the object for which it was started, that is, to help the people of the community. When it was first established all the land owned by the colored people in the vicinity amounted to only about 20 acres. Now within a radius of ten miles they own more than 10,000 acres in farms ranging from 20 to 500 acres. The one room log cabins in which the people lived when the school was first started, have been replaced by cottages with from two to five rooms, public school houses and church buildings, of which there were none, have been built. Through the Black Belt Improvement Society, the Farmer's Conference, the Agricultural Demonstration work and the rural school work, the influence of the school has been extended to every part of the county. Snow Hill has sent out something like 700 young men and women who are now working in Wilcox and other counties as farmers, carpenters, blacksmiths, printers, seamstresses, teachers, etc. There are three off-shoots of the Snow-Hill Institute. John Thomas, who graduated from there in 1901, established in a section of Wilcox county, where education is badly needed, Hopewell Manual Training School. Another graduate, Emanuel M. Brown, has established at Richmond, in Dallas County, Alabama, the Streed Manual Training School. The plant consists of four buildings and 30 acres of land. There are about 250 students enrolled. At Laurinburg, N. C., Emanuel D. McDuffie, another graduate of Snow Hill, established in 1904, the Laurinburg Normal and Industrial Institute. Thus, within twenty years after graduating from Tuskegee Institute, William J. Edwards has built up from a small beginning in a one room log cabin, an institution that is a monument to himself and a potent force in the general uplift of the Negroes of the South. VIENNA, VA, NEWS Things took on new life in Vienna during the week past. Sunday at both churches was a day of interest. Rev. E. M. Burrell supplied for Rev. J. N. Beaunan at Union Baptist. Rev. Beaunan has a vacation until the fourth Sunday in September. Services were resumed inside the church and were attended by the Spirit throughout the day. At the night services several indicated their desire to become Christians. The Sunday School hour at the First Baptist Church was a happy one. Besides good lessons, revival singing and the usual spirited service, all were pleased to enter into the preparation and arrangements for a grand Sunday School picnic which will be held, at Huntington's Grove about a mile and a half south of the school on Thursday, the 28th inst. A number of our good Christian workers attended the Northern Baptist Association which met in its thirty-sixth annual session at Front Royal, Va., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 19, 20 and 21. Among those who attended were Mr. John Monroe, delegate from the First Baptist Church; Mr. William H. Neal, superintendent of Sunday School; Mrs. Jennie Mills, Mrs. Millie Whales. Miss Lucy Carter and Miss Janie Carter. All were pleasantly surprised to see Rev. M. D. Williams present, who has successfully filled the position of moderator in the association for more than thirty years. Rev. Williams was taken seriously ill while delivering a sermon at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Fairfax, Va., in the early summer, and remained in a serious condition for several weeks. We hope he will be restored to good health again. Mr. Earnest Dobson and Miss Nellie Carter, of Hunter's Mill, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Dean. Mr. and Mrs. J. Perry Harrod, of East Woodford, are rejoicing over the arrival of a little daughter. Mr. Harrod was a former resident of Vienna. The Girls' Rosebud club met at the residence of Mrs. Borgus Thursday afternoon. There was an encouraging number present. The president, Miss Ora Williams, presided and appeared thoroughly acquainted with the spirit of the organization. With an opening chorus and the Lord's Prayer repeated in concert, business was then disposed of and a carefully prepared literary program rendered. Miss Arena Monroe recited beautifully and won applause. Miss Minnie Taylor gave a Bible reading. Miss Sarah Monroe read a splendid paper, as also did Miss Gertrude Carter and Miss Nannie Miner. Quite a neat sum rests with the treasurer, Miss Alice Williams A story-writing contest by the Seniors will be a feature of the next meeting. This organization is in no wise connected with the Wise Monks' Club, as has been anonymously reported. The public has been nicely served all the summer by the faithful service of Miss Rose Carter at her place of business, dispensing a select quality of ice cream, soft drinks, lunches and confections, with a future intention of adding tobacco and cigars. Meals at all Hours. Open from 6:30 a. m. to 8 p. m. Open:Sundays 7 a. m. to 15 p. m. LEE'S LUNCH ROOM For Rent. 428 Elm St. N. W., 6 rooms and all M. L., $20.50, reduced from $22.50. Will be papered throughout. For Ren. For rent, in a beautiful modern home, four rooms as a flat or separately furnished or unfurnished for light housekeeping. 1852 Third Street Northwest. A Good Opportunity. For Rent—Store and dwelling; corner of Eleventh and C Streets Southeast. Rent cheap. For Sale. For Sale—Three lots, 25x120 feet each, corner Fifty-third and Dayton Streets Northeast, two blocks west of National Training School, $600. Address "N," Bee office. If the people want a great race paper, subscribe for The Bee. Have it sent to your home. The Weekkin Society Everybody is now going to Board's Pharmacy at 19121/14th 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. Ex-Judge L. M. Hewett, who has been spending some time on the shores of the Chesapeake, returned to the city this week much improved by his trip. M. Moria Sanders, who has been to New York at the Pratts Institute, has returned to the city. Dr. Charles H. Marshall and family are still at their summer home in Maryland. Mr. Robert R. Colbert and wife are at the Cottage Arundel on the Bay. Mr. Robert R. Colbert and wife are at the Cottage Arundel on the Bay. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Boyd, of New York City, who are visiting in the city, are stopping at 1308 Half Street Southeast. They are having a delightful time. Attorney M. T. Chicks and wife are sick at their home, 1230 Linden Street Northeast. Both seem to be improving. Miss Beatrice L. Chase, who has been in Richmond, Va., in attendance at the St. Luke's Convention, returned to the city this week. Miss Chase had a most enjoyable time. Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson is confined to his home with a slight attack of malarial fever. Mrs. Roberts is expected to leave the city for the South in a few days. Prof. and Mrs. J. A. Baltimore will not return to the city until September. They are having a delightful time. Miss Burk, the cousin of the Misses Burk, in T Street Northwest, is in the city, in the guests of their cousins. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Burke, of Grand Park, entertained at luncheon in honor of Mrs. Develin Johnson and Miss Johnson, of Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, August 19. Mrs. Wm. T. Burke, Miss Kate Taylor and Miss Maude L. Burke were also present. Mr. M. W. Wilkinson; of New York, is spending his vacation in the city with his mother. Miss Teresa Sinclair, of Jersey City, N. J., accompanied by her father, Mr. Stephen R. Sinclair, is visiting relatives in the city. Misses Annie Brown and Sallie Shephard, of this city, are the guests of Miss Sadie Parham, of Jersey City, N. J., for a few weeks. Mrs. M. A. West, of Jersey City, has improved greatly since her visit to this city. Misses Mae McLevish and Maude Smith, of Charleston, S. C., accompanied by their aunt, Mrs. Mary England, left on the excursion for the Capital city last week. Mrs. Mary Mason and daughter, Bertie, who are spending a while at Corona, L. I., were the guests last Thursday of Mrs. and Miss White, to Grant Avenue. Mrs. Jennie Mercer, of this city, is visiting Mrs. Martin Bowden, of Utica, N. Y., Mrs. J. T. Grey is also a guest of Mrs. Bowden. Miss Anna Charity and Miss Helen J. Moore are spending the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Eccles, of New Robelle, N. Y. Miss Inez Johnson, of this city, is spending the summer in Keswick. While visiting Charlotte, Va., on Wednesday she was a caller at the Messenger office. Mr. McKinley Broaddus is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Broaddus, of Hamburg, Va. Mr. John W. Goodwin, of Baltimore, Md., is spending several days here visiting friends. Mrs. Jessie Clay, of Detroit, Mich., will visit relatives and friends in this city after spending some time in the South. Lawyer Thos. Walker, of this city, has just returned home after making a flying trip to Atlantic City, N. J., Saturday. He was highly welcomed and entertained by his friends while there. Mesdames Suella Waldon and Ella Williams, of Indianapolis, Md. stopped over in the city Friday and Saturday, en route to the Supreme Lodge. They will also visit New York and Atlantic City, returning Monday for Baltimore. Miss Pauline Mullen, of 1502 Kingman Place Northwest, will spend the rest of her school vacation in Frederick, Md. Miss Mary E. Diggs has just returned from a pleasant visit to Leesburg, Va., the guest of Miss Ione Robinson. Messrs. John Cook, Stantley Cook and Walter Turner were visiting, in Hamilton and Leesburg, Va., recently. They returned home Sunday and report a very pleasant time. Mrs. Sarah Graham and her daughter, Mrs. Etta Mullen, have moved to their beautiful home. 1502 Kingman Place Northwest. After a very pleasant sojourn in Philadelphia and Atlantic City, Mr. and Mrs. George Wadkin, of 22 Defrees Street Northwest, have returned to the city. Miss Ione Robinson, of Leesburg, Va., is visiting Miss Mary Diggs, of Georgia Avenue Northwest. Miss Jessie C. Mason is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Jordan, in New York City. Buy your drugs, medicines and toilet articles at Board's, 1912% 14th Street. Guaranteed satisfaction in quality and price. Miss Nellie G. Ford has returned to the city after a pleasant vacation in Boston, New York and Atlantic City. Mrs. I. C. Freeman entertained at supper yesterday evening in honor of Miss Mary L. Stephenson, of Keysville, Va. Mrs. Lydia Watson and Mrs. Perry, of Montello Avenue, are visiting in Atlantic City. Mrs. Jennie Flemings has returned after a pleasant stay in Chicago, Ill., visiting her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson, and relatives in Harrisburg. Mr. Chas. P. Ford is visiting in Boston. Mr. Earnest O. Dickerson is visiting in New York City and Boston. Miss Mary Martin has returned to this city after a pleasant stay in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Miss Charlotte Jackson, of Richmond, Va., is the guest of her cousins, Mrs. Kibble and the Misses Kibble, of Thirteenth Street Northeast. Miss Elaine W. Tancil is enjoying her stay in Richmond, Va. Miss Marie L. Dade is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Bessie L. Dade, in Corona, L. I. Mrs. Marja B: Wood has returned home after a pleasant stay in Chicago and Detroit. Mr. Arthur French spent a few days in Richmond, Va., this week. Mr. French is now visiting friends in New York City. Lawyer Chas. S. Hill is spending his vacation in Philadelphia; New York and Atlantic City. Mr. William H. Mason is spending his vacation in Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Dr. and Mrs. Logan sailed for Jamaica this week. Mr. John R. Pinkett and Miss Mary G. Holcombe were united in holy wedlock last Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Pinkett left immediately, for Kansas City, where they will reside in the future. They are well known among Washingtonians. Miss Mary Mason is enjoying her stay at Ocean City, Md. Mrs. Chas. W. Mason, of 1452 N Street Northwest, has returned, much benefited in health, after five weeks spent with Mrs. Andrew Scott, at Lucasville, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ford, of 1408 Corecoran Street Northwest, have returned home, having spent a very pleasant visit to their friends and relatives in Marshall, Va. Miss Mattie Wilkins, daughter of Dr. J. H. Wilkins, of Victoria, Texas, left last week for New-York, en route to this city. Dr. D. A. Smith, P. W. Kinchen, Mesdames Cora M. Allen, T. E. Smith, of Shreveport, La., are attending the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias. They are en route here and other Eastern cities. C. H. Rutherford, of this city, made a passing visit to James Campbell, of Jamaica, N. Y., last Sunday. Mrs. Emma L. Green, wife of Dr. H. M. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Williams and Miss Dollie Warren, a school teacher, all of Knoxville, Tenn., are the guests of Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Garner, to whom Mrs. Green and Mrs. Williams are related. They are among Tennessee's most prosperous people, and are the recipients of much attention from former Tennesseeans residing here and other friends of Dr. and Mrs. Garner. Such visitors are always agreeable to Washington people. Miss Nellie Shaffer, of Cumberland, Md., is visiting friends in this city, en route to Los Angeles, Cal., where she will reside. Mr. Raymond Fowler, of Louisville, Ky., is spending some time in this city. His wife and three sons are visiting friends in New York. Emma B. Tinner, of Falls Church, Va., is spending her vacation in Atlantic City. Mr. Percy Delaney Williams, of 230 P Street Northwest, who is visiting in Braddock Heights, Md., assisted by Miss Loraine Chaney, of Baltimore, and Misses Olive Reid and Sherly Montgomery, students of Storer College, entertained the guests of the Braddock Hotel last Sunday evening with a sacred concert. Mrs. Julia Craig is spending two weeks of pleasure in Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Fannie Hamilton, of 422 L Street Northwest, is spending her vacation in New York and Boston, Mass. Mr. Jose Foster left the city for his summer home in Virginia this week. He will be gone for three weeks. Miss Ella Jones, manager of the Foster Dye Works, has returned to the city after a pleasant trip to Virginia. Mrs. Wm. H. Mayes, of the Pension Office, is on leave. Mrs. Mary P. Pierre and little Mary are both ill at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Green. Dr. Pierre and D. Gill returned to the city Sunday evening. The Bee should be in everybody's home. Let the ministers urge their congregations to subscribe for The Bee at once. A PLEASING SURPRISE. Absent Sixty Years Before Brother and Sister Meet—A Happy Meeting. Mr. Nathaniel Bowie, of 1642 Tenth Street Northwest, an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for more than thirty years, was most agreeably surprised by a visit from his sister, Mrs. Eliza Chilous, of Montgomery, Ala., and her son Walton. Mrs. Chilous has not seen her brother, Mr. Bowie, for sixty years. Mr. Bowie and his sister, Mrs. Chilous, are now in Baltimore, visiting another sister, Mrs. Susan Thompson, whom Mrs. Chilous has not seen for seventy years. This separation of brother and sister was caused by the terrible effects of slavery. The happy reunion finds them in a fair condition of health, and comfortably situated materially. Mr. Bowie is the father of Mr. William A. Bowie, of this city, who is the cashier of the Industrial Savings Bank, Washington, D. C. May God's richest blessings rest upon this brother and sisters, and may they live many years to cheer and comfort each other in their declining years. Mr. Joseph H. Wallace, one of Alexandria's most prominent and prosperous business men, was quietly married to Mrs. Jennie Virginia Triplett, widow of the late John Triplett. Mr. Wallace is prominent among the Elks' fraternity, having held all the most important offices in the local lodge. He and his bride have been the recipients of many beautiful and useful presents from their host of friends. The couple are spending an extended honeymoon in New York, Philadelphia and points on the Jersey coast, including the Elks' Annual Convention in Atlantic City, August 26 to 30. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Rich entertained on Saturday evening in honor of Messrs. Wm. Rennix and Charles Hudson, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. F. H. M. Murray is visiting in Philadelphia for a short while. Mrs. Luke Raines is quite ill at her home on South Fairfax Street. Mrs. Alice Colbert has gone to Carlisle, Pa., to visit her brother, Samuel Jackson. Mr. Douglas R. Carter, the contractor, and his able corps of workmen and the tinners have succeeded in replacing the roof which was blown off by the recent storm. Mr. Chas. W. Preston is in Richmond, a Roberts Chapel delegate to the District Conference which is in session there. Mr. Wm. Rennix is the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Henry Boyd. Mr. and Mrs. John Prichett are in Atlantic City. The Columbia Club announces a reception at Odd Fellows Hall Thursday, September 25. Give your subscription to The Bee to our correspondent, Richard H. Brooks. WEST WASHINGTON. ODD FELLOWS' DOINGS. M. V. P. Jas L. Turner Announces Candidacy for District Grand Master. The announcement of Mr. Jas. L. Turner as candidate for the District Grand Master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows has been hailed with delight by his many fraternal friends, who would be pleased of his success at the next meeting of the District Grand Lodge, and in view of the fact that the lodge in Georgetown has never had the honor of such a representative, it would be a matter of fraternal recognition to them in their candidate, Mr. Jas. L. Turner, who has been an ardent Odd Fellow for more than thirty years, and is a member of Union Light Lodge, 1965, and is now Second Chief Veteran of the Veterans' Association, ex-Grand Director, and has been in the council of many, gatherers. He attended the Past Grand Master Council Conclave at Norfolk, Va., 1866, and was honored with office, and at a recent banquet, created much mirth on a poem dedicated to Grand Master E. H. Morris, entitled "Our Morris Chair." The Odd Fellows Hall Association was organized by him, he being the first president and served for a number of years. As a fraternal man he is highly respected, and is now the first vice-president of the Young Men's Protective League, and Crispus Attucks Relief Association. The people knowing of his ability and fitness as a citizen, he was honored as a delegate in the National Republican Convention at Chicago, June 21, 1904, heartily endorse his candidacy, and if elected would show appreciation of his long, and faithful service as a member, of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. A very representative gathering of members of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows met and were agreeably entertained on Wednesday evening at 1522 Twelfth Street Northwest, where a heart to heart conference was held as to the best method of increasing the interest of the Order in the District of Columbia, both numerically and financially. The three hall associations were praised for the work accomplished. Mr. Wm. C. Martin, one of the Masters of the Order, presided, and gave his well-known views of the Order. Mr. W. H. Gorder was the secretary. At the close of the meeting ex-Grand Master Jas. H. Coleman invited those present to enjoy the hospitalities of the committee. The Potomac District of the A. M. E. Sunday School, of the Baltimore Annual Conference has just closed a very helpful meeting, convened at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O Street Northwest, Rev. W. D. Naylor, pastor. Three sessions were held daily, August 21-22, which consisted of discussing very interesting topics, some of which were "Soul Winning," "The Two Oars of Temperance Reform," "Cradle Roll," etc. Special music under the leadership of Rev. L. M. Beckett and Mrs. Leake, pianist. The election of officers and installation concluded the convention. Rev. C. Harold Stepham, presiding elder. A new church organization has been formed under the Christian and Missionary Alliance by Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bowles, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, on Twenty-eighth Street, between O and P Streets Northwest. Special services are held each evening and Sunday. A delightful song of praise is one of the main features of the meetings. All are invited. Mrs. Rhodia Blackwell, the daughter of Mrs. Barbara Shelton and the late Edward Shelton, died on Friday took place Monday afternoon from Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O Street, and was largely attended. Many floral offerings were presented. Rev. U. S. Leeper and Rev. W. D. Naylor officiated. Mrs. Mary Lyles and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lyles have gone to Culpepper, Va., for two weeks. Mrs. Ethel Peebles and Miss Lucy Lewis are enjoying a pleasant visit at Purcelville, Va. Mrs. Grace Brown and children have gone to Brook, Va., to be lately joined by her husband, Mr. George Brown. They are enjoying a vacation. Mr. William Brown, of 2809 M Street Northwest, died Monday at Garfield Hospital after a short illness. The deceased was a well known carpenter in this section, working for many of the most prominent families. He was a member of Widow Sons Lodge No. 7. F. A. A. M., and the Elder Men's Immediate Relief Association and president of the Baptist Union Burial Society. He leaves a devoted wife, Mrs. Mildred Brown, and grandson, Hurbert C. Brown, and other relatives. His funeral took place Thursday afternoon from the First Baptist Church, of Dumbarton Avenue, Rev. Edgar E. Ricks officiating. Interment in Baptist Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carpenter and children, of 1924 Sixth Street Northwest, has returned from a two-weeks visit to Warrington, Va. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Gates, 1324 G Street Northeast, on Thursday, August 21, and left a baby boy. Mother and son are improving, to the joy of the happy father. Mrs. David Martin, of this city, who has been spending the summer at Saratoga, is now in New York for a few days and will return home Monday, September 8. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. On Wednesday Mrs. Nettie Ford, in company with Mrs. Bessie Rumbles, left 'for Edwardsville, Va., where they will spend some weeks visiting Mrs. Ford's sister. On Thursday there was a very successful lawn party given at the residence of Miss Frances Tinner. There was a large gathering. Mrs. John Denny, one of our oldest and respected citizens, died Wednesday night and was buried Friday evening from the Second Baptist Church. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Powell, assisted by Rev. Colbert and Rev. Barnett. A large family and many friends mourn his loss. We are very sorry to announce the death of Mrs. Ida Newsome, who died at Freedmen's Hospital Sunday, August 24. Her illness was of only five days' duration. Sunday School at Galloway A. M. E. Church was one of great satisfaction. As usual, there was good attendance and a better collection. The morning service was conducted by Rev. Colbert, who preached a very feeling sermon to a large, congregation. The collection was very good, which was followed by the baptism of one baby and the administration of the Lord's Supper. Mrs. Virginia Jackson was a visitor to the morning service. Mrs. Addie Jones was out from Washington. She was also a very welcome visitor. At night Rev. Colbert preached again to an overflowing congregation. Sunday School at the Second Baptist Church is well attended. The Sunday School Progressive League resumes the night service in the absence of Rev. Powell. Madame Carver expects to open up her Industrial School about October 2. She will teach cooking, sewing and other industrial training. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. Miss Arabella Aster, of Washington, D. C., and Harper's Ferry. W. Va., and Miss Georgia O'Neil, of the former place, are spending their vacation here. Rev. J. W. Hardesty, who has charge of the Ashbury M. E. Church, Annapolis, during the illness of the pastor, and many friends went 'to Washington, D. C., on an excursion Tuesday, August 26. Many of the party stopped off at Chesapeake Junction or the District Line and visited Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest S. Williams at Fairmount Heights. Among those stopping over were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Turner, Mrs. Georgia Boston, Mrs. Carrie Hardesty, Mrs. Emma Hardesty, Miss Lillian Warren, Mrs. Alice Warren, Mrs. Florence Hall, Mrs. Catharine Brown, Miss Rachel Wilson Mrs. Mary Scott, Mrs. Elizabeth Dorsey, Mr. Samuel Hall, Mrs. Irene Johnson, Mrs. Rachel Price, Miss Viola King, Miss Margaret Hall, Miss Charlotte Hall, Miss Eleanor Bias, Mrs. Margaret Dorsey. Mr. Tabbs, of Fairmount Heights, is working up a literary treat in the interest of the Tabernacle Baptist ESTEISIHU The Agricultural and Established and Maintained Carolina, and of the United States. Open all the year round. For r Tuition, $7.00 per month. Strong Successful graduates. Fall term Write today for accommodations of JAS. A. & THE MODERN PRE 1905 Seventh Street No The Agricultural and Mechanical College Established and Maintained by the governments of North Carolina, and of the United States. Open all the year round. For males only. Board, Lodging and Tuition, $7.00 per month. Strong Faculty. Excellent equipment. Successful graduates. Fall term begins September 1, 1913. Write today for accommodations or for catalog. 1905 Seventh Street Northwest (Near Tea.) Phone North 5548. PRESSING, DYEING, CLEANING, ALTERING, REPAIRING Men's List. Ladies' List. Suits Sponged & Pressed... .25 Suits Sponged & Pressed... .50 " Dry Cleaned ..... .50 " Cleaned & Pressed... .75 up " Steam Cleaned ..... .75 Skirts Cleaned ..... .50 up Suits Sponged & Pressed... .25 Suits Sponged & Pressed... .50 " Dry Cleaned ..... .50 " Cleaned & Pressed... .75 up " Steam Cleaned ..... .75 Skirts Cleaned ..... .50 up All Goods Called for and Delivered. One Coat and Two Pairs of Pants Sponged and Pressed, (called for and delivered) each week, for $1.00 per month. O. K. WILLIAMS, Mgr. One Coat and Two Pairs of Pants Sponged and Pressed, (called for and delivered) each week, for $1.00 per month. Church, Burrville, D. C. This exercise will be held at the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church September 16. The pastor and trustees of said M. E. Church granted the use of their church free of charge. The literary and musical concert given at, the M. E. Church Friday night, August 15, by Mrs. D. W. Utz and Mrs. W. W. Jones was a huge success. Great credit for the success is due Mrs. David W. Utz, Mrs.' W. W. Jones, Mrs. Julia M. Layton, Mrs. Addie B. Mullins, Mrs. Lavinia Briscoe, Mrs. Bryan, Mrs. M. H. Simms, Miss Maud Johnson, Miss Ethel Howard, Mr. W. A. Brooks, Mr. R. D. Mullins, Mr. Ayers, Mr. A. B. Sprague, Mr. A. E. Briscoe, Mr. Green, Mr. J. A. Campbell, Mr. Robert S. Nichols and several others. The sentiment is that this was one of the greatest and most successful effort ever achieved in Fairmount Heights. 'The piano for the occasion was furnished by Mrs. Ada Armstrong. the picnic given by the official board of the M. E. Church here was quite a success, notwithstanding four other engagements of the kind given in this community on the same night. Mrs. A. J. Ware, Mrs. Blanche Lewis, Miss Lillian Knight and Mr. Wm. B. Coles are still on the sick list, but somewhat improved. Rev. Dr. E. S. Williams is rapidly improving. He will most probably be able to resume his pastoral duties at Asbury M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md., on Sunday, September 1. The new parsonage there will be ready for occupancy at that time. Mrs. M. J. Williams has proven herself to be an excellent raiser of chickens. She has the finest chicken farm in this section. Mrs. Emma Williams, of Washington, D. C., is spending her summer vacation with Mrs. Norris, of Fairmount Heights. Mrs. Dischet is still stopping with her daughter, Mrs. Georgie Silence, on White Avenue. Which sounds the better: Senator Wm. F. Holmead or Senator Francis S. Carmody? Both sound good to us. Which shall it be? Sunday, August 17, was Women's Day at the First Baptist Church here. The trustees of said church were made able and they paid quite a sum on their obligations August 18. The Parents-Teachers' Association of the Fairmount Heights School will be held September 2 at the public school house. The trustees of the public school here have passed an order to hold regular monthly meetings of the board on the first Tuesday evenings of each month from 7 o'clock sharp to 8 o'clock sharp. All persons having business with said board are respectfully requested to submit the same in writing for hearing at the monthly meeting. HALL'S HILL, VA. For the week ending there has been a general fall in the temperature, which would indicate an early fall. Calloway's Chapel Sunday School was well attended. The assistant superintendent being in charge, after supplying the classes with proper teachers, took charge of the Juniors. The lessons were well taught and there seems to be an increasing amount of interest among the Sunday School workers. New pupils are being added and made to feel at home. The lesson was very largely commented on by Mr. E. A. Felder, a young man who has been a resident here for the past year and rendered great service to this department. Bro. J. F. Williams preached at rr o'clock and also at night. The services were well attended and enjoyed. Mt. Salvation Baptist Church had their usual fourth Sunday communion service with testimonials and evangelical work. Rev. C. S. Coleman was present, after having been given a vacation for a few weeks, and was here to serve his people. We were all glad to meet him in his accus- NATIONAL·EXPOSITION Of the Progress of the Negro Race In the CITY OF NEW YORK October 22-31, 1913 For information, address the Headquarters of the Commission, 2217 Seventh Avenue, New York City. and Mechanical College tained by the governments of North States. For males only. Board, Lodging and Strong Faculty. Excellent equipment. 11 term begins September 1, 1913. tions or for catalog. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President, A. & M. College, Greensboro, N. C. N PRESSING CLUB CO. Street Northwest (Near Tea.) Ladies' List. .25 Suits Sponged & Pressed...50 .50 " Cleaned & Pressed...75 up .75 Skirts Cleaned .....50 up O. K. WILLIAMS, Mgr. tomed place and attitude. The Sunday School is in a prosperous condition under the direction of Mr. Wm. Hungerford and his assjstant, Mrs. Marian Moorey. Visitors to our village during the week were Rev. R. J. Fleming and daughter, Miss Daisy, of Springfield, Ohio. He is the pastor of the Baptist Church of that place and has come to look up relatives, some of whom he has never seen. Others he has not seen for more than forty years. He is now visiting his niece Mrs. Ella Bryant. Their first meeting will go to his sister at Leesburg, Mrs. Nancy Langford, having located them through inquiries. He will return with his daughter in time for her to re-enter school, this being her third year in the High School in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. James Buckner, of Louisville, Ky., recently admitted to the bar in Washington, a young man of marked ability, dined with us Friday evening. Mr. W. B. Joy, of Washington, D. C., and Miss Margaret Jones, of Atlanta, Ga., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hyson Sunday. After having visited our church and serving dinner, they went for a drive and were amazed to find themselves living so near so beautiful a-plaçe and yet so far. Mrs. Hattie Wilson, with her two children, Master Frank and Miss Clara, is spending several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sherlie Snowden. Master Howard E. Wright is visiting his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson and Mrs. Priscilla Payne will leave here tomorrow to attend the District Conference in Richmond, Va., to convene the 26th inst. The Sunday Schools of Hall's Hill, Langley, and Falls Church will give a union picnic at the Zoo on September 4. MERRIFIELD NOTES. The G. U. O. of S. and D. of L. celebrated their ninth anniversary on Sunday, August 24. A very able sermon was preached to the lodge by Rev. A. Jones, of Washington. The meeting was well attended by the various orders and friends. The occasion was an enjoyable one. Mrs. Alice Harper has as her guests this week the Misses Alice and Virginia Ashby, of the Seminary. Miss Hannah Stone has returned from Boston, where she has been visiting her brother for the past month. Miss Watson, of Alexandria, is visiting Mrs. Terry for a few days. Mrs. Woodland and family have returned from St. Mary's, Md., where they have been visiting. Messrs. Peyton Fairfax and Frank Coates were the guests of their parents Sunday. GLASCOE COTTAGE, MIDLAND, VA. NEWS ITEMS. Miss Anna S. Payne, president of the Allen C. E. League, of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., is spending her vacation at the Glascoe Cottage, Midland, Va. The new arrivals are Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Harris, 1229 W Street Northwest, Washington. D. C., and Mr. Andrew Payne, of the Treasury Department. Mr. Tyler Returned. Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, national organizer, Negro Business League, after a successful gathering of" his league in Philadelphia, Pa., last week, returned to the city Monday in the best of health, and gives a glowing account of the reception and work of that national body. There is nothing doing for Negro Democracy. O! What great expectations colored Democrats looked for after the November election! BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDY ON THE MANNA FROM HEAVEN. Exodus 16:2-15—Aug. 24: "Jesus said unto them, I am the Brood of Life."—John 6:25. REALIZING both their deliverance from bondage and the Divine providence exercised in their behalf in the overthrow of the Egyptian army, the Israelites were joyful. Moses composed a beautiful poem, which the men chanted after him. The women, under the leadership of Miriam, Moses' sister, took their timbrels, or tambourines, and joined in a chorus, their bodies swaying and their feet moving rhythmically in a dance. Singing songs of praise constitutes one of the most profitable methods of worship. But surely they are acceptable to God only as they truly represent the heart sentiments. We fear, alas, that many hymns, like many prayers, never go higher than the heads of the offerers; indeed, we have sometimes Gathering men feared that careless, irreverent singing might really be resented by the Lord as profanity—taking His holy name in vain. If so, the results would be the very reverse of a blessing, in proportion as the singer comprehended the impley of his course. Bitter Waters. Then an Oasis. The journey toward the Land of Promise began. At length, they came to an oasis, where there was an abundance of bitter, or brackish, water. The disappointment was great. The people murmured against Moses for bringing them from the land of plenty to die in the wilderness. The Lord's Wisdom guided Moses to a certain kind of tree, which, put into the water, made it sweet and palatable. Moses explained that in murmuring against him they really murmured against God; for he was merely God's agent. A further journey brought them to Ellim, a delightful spot, where they were refreshed. The Scriptures explain that God had a special purpose in this leading of Natural Israel. He was teaching them helpful lessons which, rightly received, would prepare them, through faith and obedience, for Canaan. The lesson to Spiritual Israel is still more important. If Natural Israel needed heart development and faith as a preparation for the earthly Canaan, how much more do Spiritual Israelites require for the Heavenly Canaan! Can we wonder that God permits trials of faith and patience—"bitter waters"? Any saint of God may have tears in the trying experiences of the narrow way, but none is excusable for murmuring. "It Is What?"—It Is Manna. When the Israelites murmured against God and Moses, His mouthpiece and servant, it was because of unsufficient faith. Those who truly believed in the Providence which had preserved them from the plagues of Egypt, and had brought them through the Red Sea, would reason that God would not leave them to starve in the wilderness. But the majority evidently murmured through unbelief. So it is today. As St. Paul declares, "All men have not faith." We do not blame them for this. Evidently birth, early training and larger experiences give some a great advantage, so far as this Age is concerned; for God has ordained that the Message now is for those who have the ear of faith. Whoever has the hearing ear and can exercise faith has a blessed opportunity of making his calling and election sure under the call of the Gospel Age. We thank God that His Word teaches of a coming Age, wherein Messiah will bless with precious opportunities those not having the hearing ear and responsive heart in this Age, and that in the Millennial Age all blind eyes shall be opened and all deaf ears unstopped. That night God sent a great quantity of quail. One account of this wonder- ful supply has been criticised by some agnostics who thought it to mean that quail covered the ground to the depth of nearly five feet. The explanation is that quail, flying across the Gulf of Suez, in weariness flew close to the ground captured. Jesus Next morning the ground was covered with whitish particles, a little larger than mustard seed and tasting like honey wafers. This was to be their daily supply. It required gathering and preparation; and this gave them employment, without which they would have been unhappy. Jesus declared that the manna given in the wilderness typified Himself, the true Bread. As Natural Israel would have perished without food, so Spiritual Israel would not have sufficient strength for the journey without Heaven only Food. Jesus gave Himself the title of The Truth. Whoever therefore eats of this Bread from Heaven partakes of the Truth. Only by par taking largely, daily, of our Lord's merits and His gracious arrangements for us can we become strong in Him, and enter the spiritual Canaan.—John 17:17. OFFERS BODY FOR Convict Fears Family Will Claim It After Death Comes. Savannah, Ga.—Hatred of his family prompted Thomas A. McCallough, 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 bidder 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 1831 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 51, 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 pail in hand, young Elisha 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 yachtsman. 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 aspetry hot job. STOP HUGE WASTE OF NATURAL GAS STOP HUGE WASTE OF NATURAL GAS U. S. Experts Make Saving of $13,000,000 a Year. 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 $37,500, 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 Heggren entered the Oklahoma field that every day 250,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas, worth $62,500, 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, $18,689.60, 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." National Religious Training Schoo This is a blank image with no text or graphics. Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. BACHELORS LEAD IN CRIME 3 TO Unmarried Criminals Far Outnumber Married Ones. THREE-FOURTHS UNDER 30. Statistics Show That Married Men Attempt Suicide More Frequently Than Unmarried Ones—Single Women Criminals More Numerous. New York.—Many more unmarried than married men commit crimes, according to the report of Henry D. Sayer, chief clerk of the district attorney's office. The report shows that in 1912 there were 789 convictions of married men in general sessions and in the criminal branch of the supreme court and that there were 2,068 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 18,406 convictions of unmarried men, while among men who had at some 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 ever seventy who last year were convicted of any crime. Out of 28,079 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 1904, when the average was four years and six months. The most frequent crime was grand larceny, with 600 convictions. 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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 Trace. 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.—Leelle 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 added him, and the case was renamed Rivalry In Prayer: 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. 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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 spurs 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. Danville, Ill.-A board of arbitration in the case of a machinist, Charles Chick, against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad, under the compensation law, has decided that a man can pursue beauty and obtain damages for loss of it. Chick was struck in the eye by a piece of steel last September when at work. 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Captain Frank S White of Birmingham., former chairman of the Democratic state executive committee and for years general counsel of the mine workers of Alabame, 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 no body 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. M. J. 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Navy Department Will Submit Questions to 2,000 Educators Washington.-Whether the entrance examinations for the Naval academy are so rigid as to be virtually prohibitive, is a question the navy department is to leave to the decision of a jury of 2,000 educators. It has just become known that the department, stung by repeated charges that the examinations were unfair and illogical, had determined to submit the matter to 2,000 high school principals and college professors in every part of the United States. Rear Admiral Victor Blue has already ordered printed 2,500 copies of the latest examination paper, and these will soon be sent broadcast. Accompanying each copy will be a series of queries, which when answered by the educators are calculated to settle for good the controversy over the "stiffness" of the examinations. Here are the leading questions the educators are asked to answer: "Is the examination too difficult for the ordinary high school student in his third year?" "Pick out the questions which seem improper in an examination for entrance to the Naval academy." "How long should each examination require?" Charges have been made in congress that the examination is so difficult and unusual that it serves to bar the average youth from the service. Figures have been produced for the purpose of showing that fewer than one-half of the aspirants pass it. DRIED CANTALOUPE NOW. Discovery Will Turn to Profit Millions of Wasted Small Ones. Los Angeles, Cal.-With the perfection of experiments now going on California will give to the world another luscious dried fruit—the dried cantaloupe. They will turn into profit some of the millions of small cantaloupes left in the fields every year. Thomas D. McCall of El Centro accidentally discovered the fine qualities of the dried article. McCall had dumped a great heap of cantaloupes to one side, several breaking open. These dried and threw out such a fine aroma that McCall was attracted and tasted them. They were excellent, and now cantaloupe growers are drying all of their small melons. The dried variety is said to have a much finer flavor than the fresh fruit. BOY GYPSIES STOLE 17 YEARS AGO FOUND Knew Only His Name Was Fred Before Identification. Watertown, N. Y.-Frederick Brosseau, twenty-four, who was kidnapped by gypsies nearly seventeen years ago, has been restored to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Brosseau of Sissonville, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., who had long mourned him as dead. On Oct. 14, 1896, young Brosseau left home to meet his father at the edge of the village. That was the last seen of the boy in Sissonville. About a week ago a young man deserted from a band of gypsies in the Canadian wilds and took refuge with the monks of Oka, whose isolated monastery is forty miles from Montreal. He could remember nothing of his history previous to becoming a member of the band, except that he had been called Fred and that his former home was in northern New York. The presence of the wanderer was reported by the monks to the Montreal police, and an aunt of the young man recognized his picture in a newspaper. The parents were notified and went to Montreal, where they positively identified Brosseau by a birthmark. He is being detained by the police as a witness against some of the gypsies who are under arrest charged with kidnaping. WILSON TO TRAVEL IN FALL. Mobile and Buffalo Already Tentatively on President's Itinerary Washington. President Wilson has accepted the invitation to attend the meeting of the southern commercial congress in Mobile, Ala., Oct. 27. If congress has not adjourned before that date the meeting will be postponed to suit the president's convenience. If business will permit President Wilson will attend the national encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans, to be held in Buffalo, Sept. 3-6. The invitation was presented by a committee consisting of Senators Fall and Hughes and Jere A. Costello, John Lyman Smith, G. E. Rausch and John W. Mitchell, past commanders of the department of the Potomac. GOLD FAMINE IN GERMANY. Shortage Brings Crisis Near and Government Departments Are, Warned. London.-The shortage of gold in Germany is rapidly assuming the proportions of a crisis. The government is steadily engaged in increasing gold reserves in readiness, it is said, for possible war or an economic crisis. The imperial and Prussian administrations, and notably those of the postoffice department, have been invited to retain all the gold they receive and pay out only paper money. ANOTHER TITLE FOR MAY YOHE Song Said to Have Won Back Lord Hope's Love. RECONCILIATION IN SIGHT. "Honey, Ma Honey," Was Song Which Touched Her Former Husband—Fortune Has Taken Many Peculiar Turns For This Beautiful Woman. London.—Rumors that Lord Francis Hope may rewed his former wife, May Yohe, are current. Lord Hope visited the London Opera House, where Miss Yohe is appearing. The former Lady Hope was in excellent voice and sang "Honey, Ma Honey," that she often sang to her husband during their life together. Lord Francis is said to have been touched by the song. Overtures for a reconciliation, it is said, have been made through Lord Francis' brother, the Duke of Newcastle, and the duke's lawyer, Mr. Isitt, husband of Adeline Gence. Fortune has taken many turns for May Yohe. She was at the height of success when she was married to Lord Francis Hope in 1893. She was the most celebrated actress of three continents, young and beautiful. Her marriage was a turning point. In the twenty years since then she has run the gamut of misfortune. May Yohe started her career in a church choir near Philadelphia and THE LADY OF THE ROAD MAY YORK, WHO, IT IS SAID, MAY BE REMED TO LORD FRANCIS HOPE. soon went on the stage. She became a favorite and had many sultors. She chose Lord Francis Hope. 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All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 6th day of August, A. D. 1914; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 6th day of August, 1913. (Sixth AMBROSE F. GASKINS) Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Cleik of the Probate Court. Attorneys. THOMAS L. JONES, ATTOR- NEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding an equity court.—In Equity, No. 31911. John Harris, Complainant, vs. Emma W. Harris, Defendant, and Joseph Smith, Co-respondent. Order of Publication. The object of this suit is to secure for the complainant, John Harris, an absolute divorce from the bond of marriage between him and the defendant, Emma W. Harris, because of her adultery with Joseph Smith. On motion of the complainant, it is this, the 9th day of August, A. D. 1913, ordered that the defendant, Emma W. Harris, cause her appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth (40) day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays occurring after the date of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for Three (3) successive weeks before said time in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee. (Seal) JOB BARNARD, Associate Justice. A true copy. THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. Estate of Mary S. Harding, Deceased.-No. 19,871. Administration Docket 47. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters Testamentary on said estate, by James H. Brown, it is ordered this 19th day of August, A. D. 1913, that the unknown heirs and next of kin of said Mary S. Harding and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Monday, the 29th day of September, A. D. 1913, at to o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and the "Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day- (Seal) JOB BARNARD, Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. THOMAS WALKER, Attorney. many mountains which long enjoyed a reputation of being absolutely unimitable are now considered as almost ordinary excursions. The Matthorn for many years repulsed men who were among the foremost mountaineers of the day. Professor Tynall and Edward Whymper were follosed on more than a dozen occasions. But on July 15, 1865, with Lord Francis Douglas, Hudson and Hadow, Mr Whymper eventually reached the summit, and it was in descending that the fatal slip occurred which cost the lives of his three English companions and well as of Michel Croz, one of the most competent of Swiss guides. Nowadays the peak is constantly ascended (with the help of guides) by tourists who have no pretense to be mountaineers at all—Dundee Advertiser. Queerest Town In England The most curious town in England is Northwich. There is not a straight street nor, in fact, a straight house in the place. Every part of it has the appearance of an earthquake. Northwich is the center of the salt industry in Cheshire, England. On nearly all sides of the town are big salt works, with their engines pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine every week. At a depth of some 200 or 300 feet are immense subterranean lakes of brine, and as the contents of these are pumped and pumped away the upper crust of earth is correspondingly weakened, and the result is an occasional subsidence. These subsidences have a "pulling" effect on the nearest buildings, and they are drawn all ways and give the town an extremely dislipated appearance. THE BEE The Bee is the oldest and the leading political journal edited by colored men in the United States, notwithstanding the personal directory of Mr. Boyd, secretary of the Conglomerated Colored Press Association. The Colored Press-Association was largely attended last week in Philadelphia, Pa. James L. Turner is being urged for district grandmaster of the Odd Fellows. LAND RUSH DRAWS HUNDREDS Ten Thousand Acres to Be Opened at Dodge City, Kan. Dodge City, Kan. With a company of state militia present to prevent enactment of violent scenes that characterized land opening in early days, a run for government land was arranged from this place. The prizes are the pick of 10,000 acres of government land in Hamilton county. Several hundred prospective settlers were present early, looking over government maps and picking out spots they think most desirable. The horse, hero of earlier openings, seems to have been succeeded by motorcycles and motorcars, although some of the new homeseekers declare their mounts are more reliable because of possible breakdowns of the motor vehicles. At a given signal the settlers are allowed to start from the border of the reservation. First come, first served, is the rule, and the men with the speediest methods of transportation get the choice land. The land set aside for settlement is a part of the government forest reserve set apart by congress a number of years ago. The government's experiment in trying to grow trees there has not proved successful, and 10,000 acres of the reservation is to be given back to the county for agricultural purposes. LOCOMOTIVE SINKS SHIP. Crashed Into Vessel as She Was Decking at Camden, N. J. Camden, N. J.—Probably in no place except Camden could a collision between a locomotive and a schooner occur. Navigation on Cooper's creek has been paralyzed nearly a week, however, by just such an accident. The vessel, the Alexis, from Milford, Del., was raised from the bottom of the stream by the Craemer Wrecking company after she had caused great inconvenience and considerable loss to Philadelphia tug and barge owners by blocking traffic. The Alexis came up the Delaware river carrying a cargo of salt hay. She anchored in the stream to wait a discharging berth and finally was ordered to Cooper's creek. Her deck load was stacked up so high that the helmsman could not see, and when she, was docking near Federal street a locomotive running on a side track at the Camden Iron works crashed into the bowsprit, causing her to sink. New York—Francis B. Sayre, who is to marry in November Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, second daughter of President Wilson, has decided to accept the place of assistant to President Harry A. Garfield of Williams college. He will begin his new work in February of next year. Mr. Sayre will not resign his place as head of the abandonment bureau in District Attorney Whitman's office until the latter part of November, just before his marriage to Miss Wilson. After the honeymoon trip Mr. Sayre and his bride will go to Williamstown, where they will make their home. The place at Williams college which Mr. Sayre will take was offered to him nearly a year ago. The office is new and, according to Mr. Sayre, will be largely what he makes it. His duties for the first six months will be to assist President Garfield in the shaping of the administrative policy of the college. He will study social conditions among the students and will visit various cities to keep in touch with the alumni. He will also visit preparatory schools and interest prospective college students in Williams. Mr. Sayre is a graduate of Williams of the class of 1909. His desire to serve his alma mater had great weight with him in his consideration of President Garfield's order. President Garfield was a member of the faculty of Princeton university when President Wilson was its head. FLIES 1,030 MILES IN A DAY. French Aviator Makes Paris-Portugal Trip to Win Cup. Paris. — Eugene Gilbert, a French aviator, flew from Paris to the town of Pejabo, on the Portuguese frontier, a distance of 1,090 miles, in an effort to win the Pommery cup. The prize is awarded semiannually to the air man who makes the longest flight across country from sunrise to sunset on one day, during which he may stop as often as he wishes to replenish fuel. Gilbert beat the record of 875 miles, made by Marcel G. Brindejonc des Moulnals, when he flew from Paris to Warsaw. Gilbert left Paris at 4:45 o'clock and made a seven hour nonstop flight to Vittoria, in Spain, where he landed. Ascending again at 1 p. m., he headed for Portugal and at 8 o'clock descended at Pejabo. WORKS IN 220 DEGREES OF HEAT Tonganoxie, Kan.—In a baker's oven 220 degrees hot, working in one minute shifts, Henry Toburen, a Tonganoxie baker, put in four hours one day repairing his oven. He was moved, in and out on a board by an employee. He believes 100 degrees in the shade cool weather. STRAIGHTEN YOUR OWN HAIR Madame G. A. Ceruti, 105 F. New York Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Box19, Station J, New Yo City Sample of Comb may be secured at The Bee office, where orders will be received and Comb promptly delivered. ABSOLUTELYFREE TWO BUILDING LOTS IN NEW YORK To be Given to the Person Sending in the Greatest Number of Coupons for THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS HOME The home of the late, illustrious Frederick Douglass with its fifteen acres of land, beautifully situated on Cedar Hill, overlooking Washington, D.C., was bequeathed to the negroes of this country. It is the desire of the Trustees of that Home to make it a Mecca and Shrine for the negroes of this country, the same as Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, is preserved as a Mecca and Shrine for all. 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 CONTEST WILL BE CLOSED ON A LATER DATE AFTER SEPTEMBER CONTESTANTS MUST SEND IN THEIR COUPONS EACH WEEK, HAVING THEM IN NOT LATER THAN TUESDAY OF EACH WEEK. TO THE ONE HAVING THE LARGEST NUMBER OF COUPONS AT THE CLOSE OF THE CONTEST, LOT VALUED THE HIGHEST WILL BE GIVEN FREE OF ALL ENCUMBRANCES. TO THE ONE SENDING IN THE NEXT LARGEST NUMBER OF COUPONS WILL BE GIVEN LOT NEXT IN VALUE. A PROBABLE PURCHASER, IN CASE YOU WISH TO SELL AFTER YOU GET THE DEED, STANDS READY TO TAKE AN OPTION TO BUY BOTH LOTS AND PAY IN CASH FOUR TIMES THE ORIGINAL COST OF THE LOTS FOUR YEARS AGO. BEGIN TO-DAY TO COLLECT COUPONS AND GET A VALUABLE LOT FREE. ANY ONE CAN ENTER CONTEST; WOMEN, MEN, BOYS AND GIRLS. Cut out the following coupon and mail or send to this newspaper not later than Tuesday of next week (COUPON) FREDERICK DOUGLASS HOME COUPON Now Get Busy Right Away and secure a valuable New York building lot Free Most women realize that beauty is largely a matter of beautiful hair and now that science has placed within the reach of all, an instrument that is a deadly weapon to all scalp diseases, any woman may easily and quickly gain a head of beautiful hair by using this wonderful hair dryer and cultivator comb. This great invention is scientifically manufactured of highly magnified steel, and never fail to cleanse the scalp of all unnatural matter and impurities. The use of the comb, besides ridding the scalp of dandruff and dirt, destroys the germs that cause all the trouble. It promotes the circulation of blood on the scalp. It cultivates the roots and produces a new growth of long, luxurious, soft and glossy hair. NOTE.-Madam G. A. Coruti, the world's renowned Hair Culturist, Demonstrator and Authority on Human Hair, was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Jamestown Exposition, 1907, for skill in hair work. Madame G. A. C. Box19, Sample of Comb may will be received and Co ABSOL TWO BUILDI To be Given to the ber of Coupons for The home of the late, illustrious fully situated on Cedar Hill, over of this country. It is the desire Shrine for the negroes of this co Washington, is preserved as a M A H rests upon the beautiful home of mortgage, and to make improven Place and retreat free to all negro In this Year the 50th Ann Race Pride and Reverence for ```markdown ``` FREDERICK DOUGLASS. CONTEST WILL CONTEST AND THEM IN NO TO THE ONE. HAVING THE CONTEST, LOT VALUED THE HIGH TO THE ONE SENDING IN THE LOT NEXT IN VALUE. A PROBABLE PURCHASER, IN STANDS READY TO TAKE AN OFFER THE ORIGINAL COST OF THE LOT. BEGIN THE AND GET A VALUABLE LOT FROM ANY ONE CAN ENTER CONTENT. Cut out the following coupon and mail (COUPON) FREDERICK DOUGLASS Name..... Address..... City, State, Street or ENCLOSED FOR THIS CO Coupon cut from the... Now Get Busy Right Away a Washington. — Postmaster General Burlson is called upon to solve many riddles. The latest is a quarrel between young women patrons of the postoffice in a thriving western town and a woman clerk. The row was brought to Mr. Burlson's attention by the following letter: Dear Sir—The girl in the postoffice here reads us girls cards and tells us what is in them. Also this girl has a bea, her man standing at the window spoiling all the time. Wish you would look into it and change, for we are very sick of her. Farmers cannot get to the window after their mail. I remain. US GIRLS OF DOG AIDS STRANDED AUTO. Runs Twenty-five Miles With Note and Brings Relief, to Athletes. Wilmington. Del.—The Christiana Athletic club's auto bus broke down on a country road near Middletown. Del., twenty-five miles south of here. A note asking for help was tled to the club's dog, and the animal was told to go home. The dog started on a run and made the journey to Wilmington in two hours, arriving at the clubhouse exhausted. A relief bus got to the stranded ball players in another hour. Some colored people would rather support a paper that abuses them than to support a paper that defends them. If a suitable and acceptable white man can be found, he will be sent to Liberia, a colored Republic indeed and in fact. A Cumb. $3.00 hair. S. Ceruti, 105 N. New ex19, Station J, New Yo< city b may be secured at The Bee office, wh and Comb promptly delivered. LUTELY BUILDING LOTS INN the Person Sending in the C s for THE FREDERICK DOUGC torious Frederick Douglass with its fif l, overlooking Washington, D.C., was desire of the Trustees of that Home this country, the same as Mount Vern as Mecca and Shrine for all. i, 105 N. New York Ave., J, New York City at The Bee office, where orders only delivered. TELYFREE LOTS IN NEW YO Sending in the Greatest Num REDERICK DOUGLASS HOME Douglass with its fifteen acres of land Washington, D.C., was bequeathed to the justices of that Home to make it a M same as Mount Vernon, the home hrine for all. A HEAVY MORTGAGE Some of the late Frederick Douglass. Improvements necessary to perpetuate the Negroes, when in this city, must be re Anniversary of Our Freedom for the Name of the Great Douglass Frederick Douglass. The money to assure to perpetuate this home as a in this city, must be raised this year. Y of Our Freedom It Should be of the Great Douglass Call upon You. A GENEROUS FRIEND has donated two building be given to the person the rest number of FREDERIC COUPONS. CONTEST OPEN ALL THAT IS NECESSARY IS PON IN THIS ADVERTISEMENT EACH WEEK TO THE ED COMPANIED BY FIVE CENTS SENT. DURING THIS CONTEST SENDING IN COUPONS, AND SENT IN WILL BE PUBLISHED PAPER. TEST WILL BE CLOSED ON A LATER DAY. STANTS MUST SEND IN THEIR COUPON IN NOT LATER THAN TUESDAY OF EARLY THE LARGEST NUMBER OF COUPONS THE HIGHEST WILL BE GIVEN FREE OF COUPON IN THE NEXT LARGEST NUMBER OF COUPON. IN CASE YOU WISH TO SELL AFTER AN OPTION TO BUY BOTH LOTS AND PLEASE THE LOTS FOUR YEARS AGO. BEGIN TO-DAY TO COLLECT COUPONS NOT FREE. CONTEST; WOMEN, MEN, BOYS AND GIRLS AND mail or send to this newspaper not later (COUPON) UNGLASS HOME COUPON Street or P. O. Box Number THIS COUPON—FIVE CENTS way and secure a valuable New York DONATED two building lots in New even to the person sending in the number of FREDERICK DOUGLAS COUPONS. INTEST OPEN TO WHAT IS NECESSARY IS TO CUT OUT THE IN THIS ADVERTISEMENT AND MAIL EACH WEEK TO THE EDITOR OF THIS P ANIED BY FIVE CENTS FOR EACH ING THIS CONTEST THE NAMES OF ING IN COUPONS, AND THE NUMBER OF WILL BE PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE OR. OUSED ON A LATER DATE AFTER SEPT END IN THEIR COUPONS EACH WEEK THAN TUESDAY OF EACH WEEK. NUMBER OF COUPONS AT THE CLOSE ILL BE GIVEN FREE OF ALL ENCUMBRA LARGEST NUMBER OF COUPONS WILL JU WISH TO SELL AFTER YOU GET THE BUY BOTH LOTS AND PAY IN CASH FOUR YEARS AGO. O COLLECT COUPONS EN, MEN, BOYS AND GIRLS. To this newspaper not later than Tuesday of has donated two building lots in New York to be given to the person sending in the greatest number of FREDERICK DOUGLASS HOME COUPONS. CONTEST OPEN TO ALL CONTEST OPEN TO ALL ALL THAT IS NECESSARY IS TO CUT OUT THE COUPON IN THIS ADVERTISEMENT AND MAIL OR DELIVER EACH WEEK TO THE EDITOR OF THIS PAPER, ACCOMPANIED BY FIVE CENTS FOR EACH COUPON SENT. DURING THIS CONTEST THE NAMES OF THOSE SENDING IN COUPONS, AND THE NUMBER EACH HAS SENT IN WILL BE PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THIS NEWSPAPER. a valuable New York building strial Savings Industrial Savings Bank 2006 Eleventh Street, N.W. Have you a bank account? If not, why haven't you ever think that it's not what you earn but what you not know that if you depend upon your salary alone make much headway? Did you ever stop to the friends are plentiful while you are young and active know when you get down sick, feeble and old with friends will desert you? Why not begin a savings account with the Indu Bank today, when one dollar will open an account 3 per cent on your savings; it guarantees the deposit protection of any other bank. It is under the super U. S. Treasury. It is convenient to all car lines, Eleventh Street Northwest, just above You. Banking Saturdays, 9 to 1 and 6 to 9 P. M. at bank account? If not, why haven't you it it's not what you earn but what you it if you depend upon your salary along headway? Did you ever stop to the entiful while you are young and active you get down sick, feeble and old with desert you? begin a savings account with the Indu when one dollar will open an account your savings; it guarantees the deposit any other bank. It is under the supe ry. It is convenient to all car lines, I let Northwest, just above You. Banking o 1 and 6 to 9 P. M. Have you a bank account? If not, why haven't you? Did you ever think that it's not what you earn but what you save? Do you not know that if you depend upon your salary alone you will not make much headway? Did you ever stop to think that your friends are plentiful while you are young and active? Do you not know when you get down sick, feeble and old with nothing, your friends will desert you? Why not begin a savings account with the Industrial Savings Bank today, when one dollar will open an account. It pays you 3 per cent on your savings; it guarantees the depositors the same protection of any other bank. It is under the supervision of the U. S. Treasury. It is convenient to all car lines, located at 2006 Eleventh Street Northwest, just above You. Banking hours, 9 to 5. Saturdays, 9 to 1 and 6 to 9 P. M. Phone Noorth 436. THE ESMERALDA OYSTER AND CH Oysters and Clams. Wholesale and ROBERT T. M. Propriet OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE. Clams. Wholesale and Retail. Meals ROBERT T. MURRAY, Proprietor. Oysters and Clams. Wholesale and Retail. Meals at all Hours. 600 T St. N. W., cor Florida Ave. Lud Chambers Deal. Luddington K. Chambers was buried from his late residence on Twelfth Street Northwest Wednesday afternoon. He was a member of the Young Men's Protective League. DIRECTIONS.—First cleanse the scalp with Ceruti's Tar Shampoo, then oil the hair well with Ceruti's African Eureka Cream, remove the catch at the extreme end of the metallic frame of the comb, and take out rod, heat red hot, and replace same, the comb is then ready for use. Then comb the hair, letting the hair pass over the tube containing the rod, after inserting the rod in the tube. PRICE LIST Shampooing, 50 cents up. Transformations from $1.50 up. Pompadours from 25 cents up. Wigs from $3 up. Monthly treatments, $3. Ceruti's Skin' Food, $1.50. Ceruti's African Eureka Cream, for the hair, 50 cents. Ceruti's Tar Shampoo, 25 cents. Ceruri's Scalp cleaner, $1.00. When ordering send sample of your own hair. Describe the article you want. NEW YORK AVE., Atlantic City, N. J. e, where orders YFREE NEW YORK The Greatest Num- DUGLASS HOME is fifteen acres of land, beauti- was bequeathed to the negroes home to make it a Mecca and Vernon, the home of George GE s. The money to lift this be this home as a Historical be raised this year. From It Should be Raised Class Calls upon You to Help BUILDING lots in New York to bonn sending in the great- ERICK DOUGLASS HOME OOPEN TO ALL RY IS TO CUT OUT THE COU SEMENT AND MAIL OR DELI- VE EDITOR OF THIS PAPER, AC- CENTS FOR EACH COUPON TEST THE NAMES OF THOSE AND THE NUMBER EACH HAS ASHED WEEKLY IN THIS NEWS OR DATE AFTER SEPTEMBER COUPONS EACH WEEK, HAVING OF EACH WEEK. COUPONS AT THE CLOSE OF THE DATE OF ALL ENCUMBRANCES. OF COUPOONS WILL BE GIVEN AFTER YOU GET THE DEED, AND PAY IN CASH FOUR TIMES COUPONS AND GIRLS. 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 If not, why haven't you? Did you earn but what you save? Do you upon your salary alone you will not you ever stop to think that your are young and active? Do you not feeble and old with nothing, your account with the Industrial Savings will open an account. It pays you guarantees the depositors the same. It is under the supervision of thent to all car lines, located at 2006 above You. Banking hours, 9 to 5. I. CHOP HOUSE. e and Retail. Meals at all Hours. T. MURRAY, prietor. Three building lots, 25x120, corner 53d and Dayton, Northeast, two blocks east National Training School for colored Girls and Women. Enquire "N," Bee office. Washington, D. C. $1.50 and $2.00 per gal Only at 909 7th St. No branch stores THE S.L. KIDNEY, BLADDER, LIVER AND BOWEL REMEDY. 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The Ministers' Alliance met with the Zion Baptist Church on Monday evening, the 18th. Dr. A. Wilbanks preached an able sermon. He took for his subject the optimistic side of our people as a race; scriptural text, 2 Kings 6:16. Collection, $26.21. On Sunday, the 24th, at 11 a.m., Rev. Wm. D. White, lately called to Calvary Baptist Church, of Ithaca, N. Y., preached for us a splendid sermon. At 3 p. m. Dr. W. H. Jernagen, of the Mt. Carmel Church, preached for us. He is the first Baptist minister that ever brought his congregation with him during our fifteen years' church experience in Deanewood. Deacon Washington brought in his large touring car twenty-six persons, besides a host of members that came on the cars, and the Doctor with his family in his new auto made quite a pleasing scene. Deacon Blagburn, of said church, who is our leading grocer, deserves great credit for this grand treat to Zion. They left with us $13.25. At 8 p. m. the pastor preached, at which time the Pastors' Relief Club presented the pastor through its president, Mrs. Emma Johnson, a grand suit of clothes—a splendid token of respect for this little band of Christians. Of course, Pastor Broadus was all smiles, especially when he was told that a hat and pair of shoes were to follow. The day's collection closed with $30.55. Tuesday the pastor and delegates leave for Baltimore to attend the convention. Prof. E. Brown is improving. Mrs. Toliver, of 4 Fourth Street, is better. Deacon Stokes is out again. Mrs. Lydia Procter paid us a visit on V Street Northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Bro. Ferdinand Moss, of Zion Baptist Church, Philadelphia, paid us a visit. Mrs. L. J. Broadus has gone to Virginia to spend ten days. The General Order of Moses had their annual sermon at the First Baptist church at 3 p. m. Sunday last. Dr. Randall is pushing to the front with his good people. Mrs. Bettes has returned to Philadelphia. A FREE OFFER In a Great Effort to Raise a Fund to pay off Debt on the Douglass Home. Generous Friend Offers New York Property to Successful Contestant. The Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association has inaugurated a movement to raise sufficient funds to pay off the mortgage on the home and provide funds to put the home of the late, and illustrations Douglass in excellent condition, in the library, in the museum, in the living room, with all the furniture, books, curio-ete, belonging to Mr. Douglass, and with its fifteen acres of land within ten minutes ride on street cars to the White House, was bequeathed to the race to be maintained forever as a memorial and as a tretreat where all might go, with the promise that the race will be once was the property of that great spool of freedom. A mortgage hangs over the home, the trustees for years have been trying to pay off. For lack of funds, the beautiful, historical old homes is rapidly falling into decay. It was the property of the white man, or wereits valuable furniture, books, papers, works of art and curios collected by Mr. Douglass to become lost through decay because the race he labored so hard to make free lacked sufficient respect and reverence for his memory to pay off the debt on his property. We call attention to the advertisement, appearing in another part of this newspaper offering two New York building lots absolutely free to the two persons sending in the largest number of coupons. We urge men and women to buy houses and buy land in the necessary fund to pay off the mortgage on the home of our Great Douglass Start in at once, and begin collecting coupons, forwarding them to this newspaper each week accompanied by five cents for each coupon sent in. We may be worth several thousand dollars to you in a short time, for New York real estate increases in value amazingly fast, and at the same time you will help raise the fund required to preserve the home of that illustrious Negro, Frederick Douglass.