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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 VOL. XXXIV, NO. 20 WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1913 MARYLAND ELECTION REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES For Prince George's County. For United States Senator Vote for One. THOMAS PARRAN. For Comptroller of the Treasury Vote for One. OLIVER METZEROTT For Clerk of the Court of Appeals Vote for One. AUGUSTUS M. DENHARD For State Senator. Vote for One. FRANCIS S. CARMODY. For Members House of Delegates Vote for Four. FRANCIS W. HILL. ROBERT H. HUGHES. HENRY CLAY PORTER. WM. RANDOLPH SMALL- WOOD. For Register'of Wills. Vote for One. CLAUDE G. McKEE. For Sheriff. Vote for One. JAMES A. SWEENEY. For County Commissioners. Vote for Two. CASSIUS W. CRANDALL W. EUGENE PYLES. For Road Director—First Road District—Vote for One. GEORGE P. BEWLEY. For Road Director—Second Road District—Vote for One. For Road Director—Third Road District—Vote for One. SAMUEL J. OWENS. For Road Director—Fourth Road District—Vote for One ARTHUR B. DULEY. ELECTION DAY Tuesday, November 4, 1913. RACE SEGREGATION. The Greatest Meeting in the History of This City—Colored Americans Protest Against Race Discrimination by the Government—A Diabolic Democratic Policy Is Condemned—Thousands Turned Away. No doubt that the monster mass meeting that was called to assemble in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church last Monday night was the greatest that has ever taken place in this city. Long before 7 o'clock four thousand people had assembled in this great edifice and twice as many on the outside of the church clamoring for admittance. The doors had to be closed and it taxed the entire force of the Metropolitan police to keep the crowd back. Notwithstanding this great rush, it was a most orderly meeting. There were all kinds of people who responded to the call of the National Organization for the Advancement of the Colored People. Never before in the history of Washington have the citizens manifested such an interest. The white people who believe in fair play also clamored for admittance to demonstrate their disapproval of the segregation policy of this administration. So great was the crowd that Mr. Villard was forced to appear on the outside of the church and address the vast assembly of the people. Those who addressed the gathering were Justice W. P. Stafford of the District Supreme Court, Ex-Senator Henry W. Blair, Oswald Garrison Villard, of New York, chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People; Archibald H. Grimke, Rev. John Haynes Holmes and Rev. Walter H. Brooks. Reads Letter From McAdoo. Mr. Villard read a letter from Secretary McAdoo, in which the latter denied that segregation was being practiced. Declaring the charge was "an unjust and mischievous exaggeration," Mr. McAdoo wrote that some time ago he and the President, "from a desire to be just and generous with the Negro race," had planned to appoint a Negro Register of the Treasury, under whom all the colored employees should be placed. Opposition in the Senate to the confirmation of Adam E. Patterson, the Negro selected for the office, had caused the plan to fall through. "I do not care so much for any injustice that your speech may do me," said the Secretary, "but I do for the wrong it inflicts on the President. than whom no truer, nobler and braver soldier in the cause of humanity has appeared since the death of Lincoln." He added that in his opinion the speech of Mr. Villard, "containing so much that is misleading, does infinite harm to the Negro race." At the conclusion of the address, a resolution was passed expressing abhorrence at the practice of segregation in the departments and entering a vigorous protest against it. Copies were ordered sent to President Wilson and to Secretary McAdoo of the Treasury Department. Justice Stafford Fears Result Justice Stanford Fears Result. Justice Stafford, when called upon, declared he had not come to the meeting to deliver a speech. He said that anything he said on the subject at this time might be misconstrued. Further, declaring his reasons for not wanting to make an expression, he said that some of the matters which were being considered at the meeting might in the course of events come up for decision in his court, and it would be unwise for him to make a declaration at this time. He did say, however, that if segregation was allowed on account of race there was no telling where it would lead to in the future; segregation might be done on account of many things, even including religion. Declaring that the association with which he is identified was not primarily concerned with the extent to which the Wilson administration had practiced segregation, Mr. Villard said. Peril in First Step Peril in First Step. "It is against the whole principle of segregation that it takes its stand. Here, as in many another question it is the first step that counts. Let a precedent be established and who shall say what the outcome will be, to what lengths despotic officials will take their way by means of discrimination, intimidation by above-board or underhand methods? Why shall prophesy to what extent this caste idea may not be developed in the decades to come? This phase of it ought to appeal to every supporter of the Woodrow Wilson administration. Every administration that comes into power in Washington, whether it be good or bad, must expect to encounter an enormous amount of criticism. The more virile the government, the more determined it is to put, through reforms on behalf of the whole people and to strike at intrenched privilege, the more certain it is to be criticised and to have its motives questioned and assailed. This has been particularly true of the Wilson administration. "How short-sighted it was, then, for it to have raised this issue of segregation at this time, or for that matter at any time! Did it not have troubles enough with Mexico, with the Philippines, with the currency problems — with a hundred-odd things? It is admitted that there were no serious protests from the white employees in the Washington departments. The adoption of the policy was merely an expression of the innate prejudice of the southern portion of the administration. At the outset of his career as President therefore, Mr. Wilson has, from a politician's point of view, most wrongly and needlessly antagonized one-ninth of the population of this country and its white, sympathizers. He has alienated thousands of colored voters in pivotal states. Confidence in President. Confidence in President. "I have known the present President of the United States personally for approximately twenty years, and I take this opportunity to say that, mistaken as I know him to be in this matter, I have complete respect for the sincerity of his motives, just as I believe that at heart he really desires to do something big and fine for the colored people before he leaves office. He has proved himself in many respects—in nearly every respect—a noble and inspired leader with rare political intuition. But his philosophy here is wrong, his democracy gravely at fault." Mr. Villard then entered upon a attack of the policy of segregation, making suggestions as to where it might lead, and even taking up the question of segregation which had been attempted in various cities and states. "But," he continued, "the folly of raising this issue does not stop there. It differs but very little from the one which rent the Union. The great struggle which convulsed the United States was, in its simplest terms, nothing else than the attempt of an aristocracy of cotton and land to create two classes of human beings in this country, the slaves and the free. They were willing to sacrifice the Union and everything else to this end. Those who in this day and generation are seeking to establish two classes of citizens, the disfranchised and the enfranchised, to say that there shall be two kinds of government employees—as does Mr. McAdoo's cabinet associate—they are on the high road to convulsing anew this land of liberty, which will never know peace and quiet as long as there are discriminations among its citizens. Upon their heads will be the responsibility of forcing the issue and not upon ours. I have personally been appealed to by high authority to do my best to keep the colored people in "cool and just equi- WASHINGTON, D.C..SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1913 M. B. FRANCIS S. CARMODY. Republican Candidate for the State Senate-A Man of the People. poise." Advises Peaceful Rebellion. "It is, beyond me to influence them much in this direction, but I would not if I could. On the contrary, I shall lose no opportunity to preach the doctrine of peaceful rebellion and revolution against any discrimination of any kind. whether it be against Jew or Christian, colored or white, Chinese or Japanese. I have said peaceful rebellion. Let me emphasize that anew. The colored man or woman who would at this juncture resort to force or violence would do the race an infinite amount of harm; not only at this juncture, but at every juncture. Let the others throw the stones, use the pistols, and pile the fagots around human victims. It is for the Negroes to be the Christians, to let the blood guilt rest upon the race that boasts its superiority. "I am all the more strengthened to make my protest now because of the fact that through voice and pen I have long been an ardent supporter and champion of President Wilson; when he was president of Princeton I fought on his side in his battles at Princeton University, also when he was in Trenton I supported him; and in the presidential campaign which resulted in his election, I voted for him. All the greater responsibility is upon me. I take it, to use what influence with the administration I may have, if any, to set it right when it goes-wrong—when it allies itself with the forces of reaction, when it wittingly or unwittingly puts itself on the side of every torturer, of every oppressor, of every perpetrator of racial injustice in the South or the North. If that he treason, make the most of it." THE FOLK SONG SINGERS Of the Washington Conservatory of Music a Great Success in Baltimore and New York. The Conservatory Folk Song Singers, twenty-five in number, under the direction of Will Marian Cook, appeared before large and enthusiastic audiences in Baltimore and the Emancipation celebration in New York in a program of Negro music. The chorus was pronounced excellent in tone, interpretation and shading. Most of the program was composed of compositions by Will Marian Cook. "Oh, Yes" and "I'm Troubled in Mind," the first choruses ever developed upon Negro melodies, were enthusiastically received and enclosed the chorus was ably supported by the following soloists: Mr. William Speights, teacher of voice in the Conservatory: Miss Abbie Mitchell. Miss Lottie Wallace, Miss Lillian Evans, Mr. Harry Nugent, Mr. H. Grant, pianist. The necessity of developing one's own music and the work of the school was presented by the president, Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshall The members of the chorus were as follows: Miss Lillian Evans, Miss Manie Simmons, Miss Estelle Collier, Mrs. Henry Grant, Miss Lottie Wallace, Miss Wilkes. Miss Anne Johnston, Mrs. Blagburn, Miss Georgia Sheffy, Miss Miriam Wormlev. Mr. Harry Nugent, Mr. Scott Mayo. Mr. Williams, Mr. Savoy, Mr. Earnest Amos, Mr. Ralph Amos, Mr. Jas Cowan, Miss Nettie Murry, Miss Annie Murdock and Mr. Amos, and Mr Henry Grant, pianist. Wm. M. Cook was the musical genius of the affair GIVEN TESTIMONIAL Manager Andrew J. Thomas to Be Honored by the People for His Excellent Work the Entire Week of Thanksgiving—The Most Brilliant Afair in the Social Circle of the City. Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, manager of Howard Theater, is to be tendered a testimonial by the citizens of this city for his success as manager of the Howard Theater and the efforts he has put forth in giving the people of this city an up-to-date playhouse. The entire management of the Howard Theater is under the supervision and control of Mr. Thomas and there is no doubt that he has done everything in his power to please the people. Since the theater has been under his entire management and control Mr. Thomas has made every effort to please. For this reason the people, The Bee and the those whose names appear in a letter, which is to follow, thought that he should be given an expression of their esteem and approval. The following correspondence will explain itself: Washington, D. C., Oct. 28. W. Calvin Chase, Editor Washington Bee; Thomas L. Jones, Mrs. Harriet Gibb Marshall, J. A. Cobb, E. M. Hewlett and others. Dear Sirs and Madame: Your letter of the 20th inst., in which you and the citizens of Washington tender me a testimonial, received. Words fail me in expressing my appreciation of the token of approval of my effort to cater to the amusement-loving public of Washington. If at times I have failed in meeting the expectations of my patrons, it has not. I assure you, been through a lack of zeal and effort on my part. This expression of approval is gratifying beyond expression. It will inspire me to greater efforts, knowing full well that my efforts to give clean, moral and instructive productions will meet with the approval of the public in the future as it has in the past. Your request for a week in which the civic, religious, educational and fraternal organizations can express their approval, will be convenient for me. Thanksgiving week Trusting this will be satisfactory to you and the friends interested in the affair, and thanking you for your kind consideration. I am yours truly, ANDREW J. THOMAS, Manager Howard Theater. Washington, D. C., Sept. 29. Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, Howard Theater Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: For a number of years the colored citizens of this city have talked about and have endeavored to erect a first-class theater for their own amusement, but to some extent they have failed. It was no fault of theirs, however, because the many enterprises that have been attempted have failed, thus losing confidence in those who have taken the initiative to consummate such enterprises. Having watched your efforts, notwithstanding the many adverse criticisms, to make the theater, of which you are the lessee, a success, and having succeeded thus far in giving the people of this city a playhouse worthy of the capitol of the nation for their accommodation and your efforts to please in every particular, warrant the undersigned to tender you a testimonial beginning the week of the second anniversary, as sole lessee of Howard Theater, which you have so successfully conducted. This suggestion comes from your fellow citizens, as an evidence of their confidence in you and your deserving efforts to make them self-reliant. Whatever suggestions you desire to make tending to make the occasion a memorable one kindly advise us if our tender meets with your approval, and permit us to subscribe ourselves Gratuity yours, (Signed) Wm. Calvin Chase, Thos. L. Jones, Emanuel M. Hewlett, Armond W. Scott, W. C. Martin, J. M. Rice, Chas. S. Williams, Royal A. Hughes, James A. Cobb, Augustin W. Gray, J. Louis Taylor, Benjamin L. Gaskins, Zeph. P. Moore, J. C. Napier, Harriet Gibbs Marshall, James F. Armstrong, F. H. M. Murray, Wellington A. Adams, James F. Bundy, Joseph H. Stewart, Jabez Lee, W. D. Johnson, F. W. Cheek, Samuel M. Pierre, M. D., Chas. L. Barnes. WANTS DR: DAVIDSON. Pittsburgh Board Is After District School Head—But He May Not Agree to Go—Offer Still Somewhat in Doubt, and He Cannot Decide Finally Until He Gets. It—Likes Duties Here Well—Would Succeed Supt. Heeter, Who Was Recently Dismissed From the Office. Pittsburgh, Oct. 28.—The next superintendent of Pittsburgh schools will be William Mehard Davidson, for the past two years superintendent of the public schools in Washington, D. C., unless the Board of Education members change their minds. Prof. Davidson was superintendent at Omaha from 1994 until his acceptance of the Washington position. A resolution was offered by Mrs. Alice E. Carmalt in the board meeting today for the naming of a committee of three to report on the selection of a superintendent to succeed S. L. Heeter, who was deposed. This selection will take place just before the end of November. It was determined to choose an educator outside of Pittsburgh, and Prof. Davidson was suggested as the best man available. The members of the board have not committed themselves publicly to the choice of Prof. Davidson, but it is known that he has been virtually decided upon. Davidson Has No Offer. Dr. William M. Davidson, superintendent of the public schools of this city, said last night that he had heard nothing of the Pittsburgh matter: "I have had no offer made me," said Dr Davidson. "I have been in the Washington schools for several years, and like them very much. I do not believe that I will change." Members of the Board of Education, when informed of the matter, united in the statement that it was absurd. They declared that should Dr. Davidson leave the local schools it would be a calamity. DR. ABBOTT ILL. One of the First Surgeons of the Freedman's Hospital. Chicago, Ill., Oct. 23. Doctor A. R. Abbott, No. 662 Broadview Avenue, Toronto, Ont., is lying in a critical condition, following an operation for appendicitis on the 10th inst. Doctor Abbott is in his 77th year, and while for many years he has not engaged in the practice of medicine, he has always been actively engaged in a movement devoted to social and civil progress. He was commissioned a lieutenant during the war, and was one of the first surgeons connected with the establishment of the Freedman's Hospital. Baptist Association. The General Baptist Association of the District of Columbia and vicinity will convene in Zion Baptist Church, F. Street, between Third and Fourand-one-half Streets Southwest, November 5, 6 and 7, and closing the following Sunday. November 9, with a big mass meeting at 3 p.m., held in the same church, Rev. W. J. Howard, pastor. Rev. M. W. D. Norman will be the moderator and J. Harvey Randolph secretary. THE OUTLOOK'BRIGHT THE OUTLOOK'BRIGHT Outlook Bright for Republicans—The Entire Republican Ticket in Prince George's County Will Be Elected—Colored Republicans Are United. Brandywine, Md. Your correspondent has been particularly interested in the Republican ticket in Prince George's County. It is believed that the entire Republican ticket in this county will be elected. The popularity of the Republican ticket is steadily growing. Mr. Francis S. Carmody and the entire county ticket is strong and there is every reason that they will win. The big meeting that is to be held at Capitol Heights Saturday night will decide which way the county will go. There is every reason to believe that a large Democratic vote will be pooled for the ticket. Your correspondent will leave, for several counties, and tomorrow you shall hear from him again. The ballot is a trick one and every colored Republican should be on the alert. By no means should the voters mistake the legislative ticket. This ticket is important. KENTUCKY NEWS. By Al. A. Andrews. Louisville: Ky., Oct. 27. Messrs. G. G. Young, W. H. Easley, H. W. Wallace, O. D. Duff, Dr. J. A. C. Lattimore. Lawyer W. H. Wright, and several other gentlemen from Louisville, went to Frankfort last Friday evening to attend the banquet given as a testimonial to Dr. E. E. Underwood, upon his selection by the Baltimore Convention of Pythians as the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals of the Knights of Pythias. Upon their return to Louisville the party reported a very representative gathering of Pythians from all over the State, as well as a jolly good time, and a well conducted affair. The Pythians of Louisville consider it a signally well deserved honor in the selection of Dr. Underwood for that high position among the Knights in the United States, but are making no secret of the fact that they are coveting still higher honors for the Pythians of this State at the next convention. The Y. M. C. A. has just closed a successful week of evangelistic campaign, conducted by Dr. Robert E. Jones, of New Orleans, La., assisted by men of local renown, in evangelistic work. The meetings were a little interfered with by the inclement weather, which lasted all during the meetings, though the attendance was very good, notwithstanding. Mr. John Smiley conducted the singing, which was rendered by a chorus of 100 male voices, being drafted from the choirs. of the different local churches. The meetings were conducted partly at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church and partly at the Y. M. C. A. building, which adjoins the church. The State Grand Board of Managers of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of Mysterious Ten met last week at the U. B. F. Hall at Ninth and Magazine Streets, it being their first meeting since the adjournment of the Grand Lodge at Georgetown last August. Those in attendance were Dr. W. H. Ballard, of Lexington, State Grand Master; H. C. Russell, E. W. Glass, E. B. Davis, W. H. Humphrey, L. R. Diggs, W. Januarv, Junius Perkins, and others. The Kentucky State Association of Teachers in the Colored Schools will hold a meeting in Louisville November 12, 13, 14. Provision has been made for a display of school children's work in connection with the meeting. A thorough inspection of the city schools will be made by the visitors. The executive committee of the organization will submit plans whereby the body of colored teachers will be enabled to become an active factor in all movements to better conditions among colored people. The sessions of the convention will be held at Quinn Chapel, and a large attendance is expected. The local committee is sparing no pains to adequately care for those attending. There has been a decided falling off in the attendance at the public colored night schools, in comparison with that of last year, and those in charge of the schools are at a loss to account for it, in view of the fact that the last year was by far the most successful year of the venture. The corps of teachers has been reduced, by one-half, and even more in some of the schools, and the hopes of the director that as the year advanced the attendance would increase are not being realized as fast as was hoped. The Louisville Columbian carries an editorial in last weeks issue deploring the fact, and a determined effort is being made by the prominent colored people to stimulate some interest in the night schools, fearing that next year the experiment may be acknowledged a failure, and the schools closed altogether. Thomas L. Jones. Attorney Thomas L. Jones, the silver-tongued orator and lawyer, has been invited to deliver several speeches in Prince George's County, Md. Mr. Jones is a good campaign speaker. RESCUED FROM CURSE OF GOD WANING POWER OF GREEDS. God's Curse Not What We Supposed. The Rescue Differs Also—The Curse We Imagined—The Curse Mentioned In the Bible—A Just Penalty, Not a Devilish One—It Could Not Be Worse. The Limit of God's Law—Jesus the Rescuer—The Preparation Is Ample. Results Sure—As Foretold In Bible. Brooklyn, N. Y. Oct. 26. — We report one of Pastor Russell's sermons of today from the text, "There shall be no more curse." (Revelation 22:3.) He said: PASTOR RUSSELL We are emerging from a horrible nightmare of delusion. The shackles of superstition are break- PASIOR RUSSELL shackles of superstition are breaking from our minds. Our forefathers, under the threat that to doubt the creed meant to be damned, feared to think for themselves. Satan helped not only to make our creeds, but to manacle us to them by direful threats. Well may we praise God for the dawning light of the New Day, which is bringing us blessings of a spiritual kind, even as it is showering upon us temporal advantages such as the world never before knew. Freedom to think transcends all physical liberties. Truly "the liberty wherewith Christ makes free" is the great boon of God to man. In proportion as it has been received there is joy; otherwise there is discontent, grooming, pain. God's curse, as set forth by the creeds, consigns the whole world to eternal torture, except as any should be so fortunate as to hear of the Savior, and to respond and to be favorably enforced for saintship. In our irrational dread we stopped not to question the authority of those who made the creeds. It was asserted that they were a condensed statement of the Bible-teachings, prepared by very holy and very learned men; and that it would be dangerous for any to attempt to understand the Bible without the aid of the especially ordained apostolic bishops. But that day has gone. Education has become more general. Contradiction amongst the apostolic bishops has demonstrated that they are fallible—that none of them were inspired, as were the twelve "Apostles of the Lamb," whom Jesus appointed to be the twelve foundations of the Church of the New Jerusalem. Back Now to the Bible. Satan, perceiving the crumbling influence of creeds and the tendency to return to the Bible, has invaded all the institutions of learning. He has captured nearly all the professors. Claiming to be an angel of light and leader toward the Truth, he has been poisoning their minds with Higher Criticism and Evolution. By this master stroke he has accomplished in these last thirty years ten thousand times more than Voltaire and Ingersoll ever hoped to accomplish. Nevertheless, the Divine arrangement will not be frustrated, although worldly wisdom has captured the worldly-wise, as the Bible foretold. (Isaiah 20:14.) Liberty of mind has brought to Bible students an opportunity and a willingness to study the Scriptures without creed spectacles. And they are being blessed. A light is going forth to the ends of the earth—a truer light, from the Word of God. The Curse of God. Instead of God's curse being eternal torture, from which only a handful would be rescued by the Savior, Bible students now see that the Bible distinctly tells that "the wages of sin is death"—that capital punishment with the Almighty is precisely what it is with the most intelligent of His creatures.—Rom. 5:12; 6:23. The record throughout the Bible is the same as the statement with which it begins. There we are told that the Almighty declared the curse in these words, "Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife [been disobedient], accursed is the ground for thy sake, * * therns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; * * * in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground whence thou wast taken; for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." This fully accords with the Divine Law as elsewhere recorded in the Bible: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." The curse is a heavy one. Under it our race has been going down to the prison-house of death for six thousand years, a "groaning creation," as the Apostle declares. Every century our chains of sin have grown heavier, our mental, moral and physical-powers have grown weaker, until now the average length of human life is only thirty-six years whereas Father Adam was able to stand up under the curse for nine hundred and thirty years. The dying has attacked us in various ways. Our insane asylums tell us of some who have died mentally. Our prisons tell us of others who have died morally. Our hospitals tell us of oth ers dying physically. Yea, all of our aches, disappointments and trials tell us that the curse of God upon us is severe, although it is just. "No More Curse." The statement of our text is of itself a contradiction of the eternal torment theories. A similar contradiction is the declaration of the Lord through the Prophet that Sheol [Hades, the tomb] shall be destroyed. (Hosea 13:14.) These comforting promises apply to all men. All go down to Sheol, Hades, the tomb. All are under the curse; and the destruction of Sheol clearly signifies the release of humanity from dying conditions and from the tomb. In other words, these two declarations are the equivalents of the promise of the Bible that "there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust." But let no one suppose that the destruction of Sicilow will be an instantaneous work. The curse of death has been upon our race for Six great Days of a thousand years each. God's proposition in the Bible is that in the Seventh Day, the Day of Christ, also a thousand years long, the curse shall be gradually removed. Not until the close of Messlah's thousand-year Reign will there be no more curse. Not until then will Sheol, Hades, the tomb, have been destroyed. The peign of Sin and Death and their ravages upon our race are matters of history. The Reign of Christ, the Reign of righteousness, the Reign of life, the uplifting of humanity, are matters of prophecy. Those who believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of Jehovah may well rest their faith implicitly upon these prophetic assurances. Those whose faith in the Bible has been undermined by the Adversary's work along the lines of Higher Criticism are without chart or rudder on a sea of doubt. They know not God and have no message from Him. Their guesses would naturally be as widely different as their brains. The Context Wesley's Favorite. John Wesley came into prominence at a time when the teachings of John Calvin had saturated theology. Less logical than Brother Calvin, Wesley had a more tender heart. He could not answer Calvin's position, which was fortified by numerous texts telling about "the Elect," "the very Elect," and the necessity of making one's calling and election sure. Wesley's loving soul especially rebelled against the thought that the non-elect should have been predestinated to their fate before the world was created. He could not dispute Calvin's logic, yet he felt that it was an aspersion against the Divine character, which made God to appear Satanic in the extreme. While agreeing with Calvin that all except the saintly would be everlastingly tortured, Wesley claimed that even if God foreknew the number of the unsaintly and had forecordained their torture, there must have been some option left with them. He ransacked the Bible to find some proof-text supporting this theory. He found and especially rejoiced in the verses preceding our text. They pictured the New Jerusalem—the Messianic Kingdom in its glory. They show a river of the Water of Life proceeding from the Throne of the New Jerusalem. A little further down in the same chapter, the blessed declaration is made that in that glorious time of the future the Spirit, and the Bride shall say, Come, and he that is athirst may come, and whosoever will may take of the waters of life freely—Rey, 22:1:3, 17. "Ab," said Brother Wesley, "that tells of free grace!" He perceived that these things belong to the Truth. He trusted that the time would come when the Church would conquer the world with the Gospel Message, and when these prophecies would be fulfilled, and there would be no more curse. We perceive now that both of these brethren, Calvin and Wesley, had grasped precious truths; and that these merely needed to be harmonized, in order to give us the full truth on the subject of God's purposes. Brother Calvin was quite right that only the Elect are to be saved during this Gospel Age. Brother Wesley was equally right that eventually Free Grace will prevail. "And every creature, bond and free, Will hall the glorious Jubilee." The connecting links are furnished us in the Scripture which tells that before Messiah's Kingdom may be established, the Church must be completed and glorified. The Election then ended, Free Grace will begin. The Election appertains to the "Church of the First-born," and wisely guards that only copies of God's dear Son shall be associates with Him in His Kingdom and share its glories. There Is No-Bride Now. Bible students should note carefully that the Church during this Gospel Age is not classed as the Bride of Christ. Hear St. Paul: "I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." (2 Corinthians 11:2). Hear what Jesus says to His Betrothed: "I will come again, and receive you unto Myself." - John 14:3. Note the parabolic picture Jesus gives of the end of this Age. (Matthew 25:1:13.) In it He likens the faithful, betrothed ones to wise virgins, who will enter in with the Bridegroom to the marriage. He informs us that then the door to that position of honor will be shut. The number of the Elect will be complete. Note again that this marriage, or union, of the chaste virgin Church, the wise virgins, to the Heavenly Bridegroom, is declared to be in the end of this Age, when "His Wife shall have made herself ready." Note the prophetic picture of the marriage of the Lamb, and the introduc- Let us note that, the river of the Water of Life will flow from the Throne, and let us remember that the Throne of Messiah has not yet been established in the earth. Let us remember Jesus' words to the effect that there is now river of the Water of Life, but that each one of the Lord's faithful, begotten of the Holy Spirit, has in his own heart and experiences "a well of water, springing up within him unto everlasting life." These various considerations assure us that not to the present, but to the future, belongs this prophecy of Free Grace. After the Church shall have become the Bride, after the Kingdom, symbolically represented by the New Jerusalem, shall have come down unto earth, then the Water of Life shall flow from it. Then the Spirit and the Bride shall say, Come; and for a thousand years "whosoever will may come, and take of the Water of Life freely." This is but another way to tell of the removal of the curse. Prepared From of Old. We are not to think that because our eyes were blinded by the Adversary's dust for centuries that these things indicate a change in the Divine Program. Nay, He who sits upon the Throne of the Universe has from the very first had all the plans and arrangements before Him perfectly, and has been causing all things to work together according to the counsel of His own will. Even from the beginning, in His purpose He had arranged for "the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world" by the sacrifice of Himself. The sacrifice was made necessary to demonstrate the enormity of sin, and the length, breadth, height and depth of Divine Mercy and Love. After four thousand years of sin and death, God sent His Son to die, to become the Redeemer of men, that He might become their King and Deliverer. God might have waited to the full end of the thousand years before sending His Son to redeem men, had it not been for His purpose to gather from all nations a number to be the elect Spiritual Seed of Abraham, associates with His Son in His great Kingdom work of human uplift. As it was, everything was accurately timed. In due time He sent His Son to redeem man. In due time, also, He will send His Son to dispense the blessings secured by His sacrifice—Acts 3:19-21 Meantime, the Election of the Church—the saintly Little Flock, all tried, tested, proven in their loyalty to God, even unto death—has been almost accomplished. We are already in the Day of His Preparation. (Nahum 2:3) He is pouring out blessings on the minds of men and is quickening human understanding. The result is that the world has taken on new beauty, fresh energy. Crossing Into Millennial Age. A spring time of Divine favor and refreshment is here, as foretold. But the blossoming deserts, answering to the irrigation streams and to the artesian springs; the railroads and the telegraphs, bringing together the ends of the earth; the printing presses, causing knowledge to increase and awakening the whole world—all these things are blessings so great as to astound us. One week of life now has almost as much possibility in it as a year had a century ago. Evidently we are just crossing from the Gospel Age to the Millennial Age. With the death and translation of the last member of the Church, the Gospel Age will have fully ended, and the Millennial Age will have been fully inaugurated. Oh, how immense is the thought that we are living in the most wonderful epoch of the world's history—that stupendous changes are at hand! The Prince of Darkness is about to be completely dethroned, and bound for a thousand years. The Prince Light, our 'tedeemer, is about to take His great war and reign. Blessings already beginning to be poured out, will go on increasing until "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge the glory of God, as the waters cover the great deep," and "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess, to the glory of God." As the curcuma first upon the earth itself, so it is first rolling away from the earth. Already the wilderness blossoming as a rose. Already new types of grain, vegetables and fruits are being brought to perfection, and are yielding phenomenally. Shortly the lifting of the curse will extend to humanity. With the knowledge God will come a knowledge of the blessed opportunities which Messiah's Kingdom will afford to all who desire to return to the Father's House. More and more the willing and obedient will be blessed. Not only will the shackles drop from their minds, but also from their various powers. By the close of the Millennium the grooming creation will have been freed from the bondage to sin and death. All the former things of sin and death shall have passed away. The final penalty of the Second Death will be executed upon all not found worthy of everlasting life under that most favorable opportunity. What a glorious triumph that will be, when every creature in Heaven and earth and under the earth shall be heard saying, Praise, glory, honor, dominion and might be unto Him that sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb, forever! (Revelation 5:13). What a glorious condition will then obtain when there shall be no more crying, no more sighing, no more dying, for all the former things of sin and death shall have passed away! Ah! He that sitteth upon the Throne saith, "Behold, I make all things new!" Glad we are that our great Messiah is about to overthrow sin and evil, about to establish righteousness on a permanent and overlasting foundation! "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways."-James I. S. tween God and the Gentiles were discontinued. Before that time, men of faith in God were recognized by Him; for instance, Abraham, Job, Melchizedek and Balaam, the central figure of today's lesson. Balaam lived on the Euphrates. He was known far and wide as an oracle. The king of Moab perceived that Israel conquered all with whom they battled, and feared them, although they had not molested Moab, After conferring with the ruler of Midian, King Balak sent four hundred miles to get Balaam to come to curse Israel, and offered a considerable reward. Balaam inquired of the Lord whethr to go on this mission. The reply was, No; Israel was blessed of the Lord, not cursed. Balaam gave the decision, and the messengers returned. King Balak then sent messengers of King Balaak had higher station, intimating higher rewards. Balaam knew the mind of the Lord on the subject, but coveted the rewards of un righteousness. In response to his second inquiry, he obtained permission to go. THE TROPHIES It was on this journey that Balaam was reproved journey that Bn. The Messengers Belamam was reproved by his ass. An angel of the Lord stood in a narrow place where the ass, seeing him, could not pass. The ass, being beaten, remonstrated. Even this did not stop Balaam's money lust. Received by King Balak with honor, Balaam directed that altars be built and sacrifices offered to God. He would have a form of godliness, even while desiring to do contrary to the Divine will, which he already knew. Then he began his prophecy, which was really a blessing, the words being Divinely inspired. As St. Peter wrote, "Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit"—2 Pet. 1:21. The disappointed king took the Prophet to another viewpoint, and urged the curse of at least this much of Israel. Altars were built again, and sacrifices offered. Again the hoped-for curse did not come. The angry king insisted, and led the Prophet to another standpoint. Again the results were blessings upon Israel. A Double-Minded Man. Balaam's double-mindedness was abundantly manifested by his course. He wished to speak the Lord's word, and also to have riches and honor. Right and wrong, God's way and the way of riches—both were before him. He chose neither, but tried to have both.—2 Peter 2:15, 16. Alas, how many in every age have had the Balaam spirit! Jesus warned against this spirit, saying, "We cannot serve God and mammon." How many have found the Master's words true! How many have found that God rejects those who regard iniquity in their hearts; and who, if they would not serve it, at least would love its rewards! Let us remember that God looketh on the heart. If, overtaken in a fault, Balaam had started on the journey, hoping to gain the evil reward, he should have been thoroughly aroused by the incident of the ass. Even an ass knew better than to attempt to go contrary to the Higher Power. Evidently humanity's greater reasoning power and courage may be disadvantageously used. Balaam's heart was wrong. The professed man of God grovelled in the mire of sin in his desire to obtain wealth. He said to King Balak. The only way to bring a curse upon Israel would be by tempting them to disobey God. King Balak communicated with the Midianites and urged that their wives and daughters should apparently fall in love with some of the Israelites, and introduce them to Midian's sensuous religious rites. God Permitted the Lesson. The scheme was successful. Some of the Israelites were attracted to adultery and idol-worship. Forthwith a plague started among the Israelites, according to the terms of their Covenant. Then, under Divine direction, Moses called for an army out of the tribes, and completely wiped out Midian as a nation, including Balaam, who evidently remained to oversee the inquisitous work. ```markdown ``` In His last message to the Church, our glorified Redeemer foretold that The Double-Minded fied Redeemer Prophet. foretold that some of His followers would imitate Balaam, and, for enthily advantage, put a stumbling-block in the path of the brethren. The intimation is that the harlotry and false worship would be on a higher plane than that which stumbled Israel—as everything in this Christian Dispensation is antitypical. Revelation 2:14. Several passages in Balaam's prophecy are striking. Every nation which has dealt harshly with Israel has received chastisement. The Sceptre did rise out of Israel. Messiah is of Jacob's posterity, according to the flesh. ARMY SQUIRRELS SAGACIOUS. Tom and Jerry Benefit by Soldiers Training at Springfield, Mass. Springfield, Mass.—Tom and Jerry, two squirrels that have made the United States armory grounds their abode for three years, are the most accomplished squirrels in America, according to the soldiers who spend many hours in training the animals. The squirrels are present, rain or shine, when the morning and evening guns are fired, may be found at the entrance of the barracks punctually at each mess and in other ways demonstrate their acumen. Jerry's bushy tail is missing as a result of standing a few feet from the muzzle of a fieldpiece when the sunset gun was fired. The rush of air bowled Jerry over and over, and when he regained his equilibrium his caudal appendage was gone. Jerry still attends the eventide ceremony, but takes a position at a respectful distance and gives Tom a warning nudge if his mate is too venturesome. CHILD ROUTS·MOSQUITOES. Builds Fire Under Horses to Drive Away the Pests. Sheldon, N. D.-The three-year-old son of Martin Thompson observed that his parents drove away the mosquitoes by means of a snudge and that the closer his parents stayed to it the more effective it proved. He noticed also that the horses in the barn were being pestered by the insects. So he gathered large armfuls of hay and placed one under each horse. Then he lighted the hay and stood back to see the rout of the mosquitoes and the horses' look of gratitude. When the members of the family arrived the barn was beyond saving and several of the horses had met death in the flames. The child escaped injury. "CRACK SHOT" GLASSES. Men Who Guaranteed to Make Markasmen With Spectacles Indicated. St. Louis, Mo. — "Wearing these glasses will enable you to shoot the smallest bird from the tallest tree on a hazy morning." This statement contained in a circular was one of the causes of a federal indictment against Morris and Harry Goldman, who faced trial. They sold 200,000 pairs of the glasses a year, it is stated. The spectacles cost them 23 cents apiece. They guaranteed, the government alleges, that the use of the glasses would make any one a crack shot. THIEF IS DETECTIVE IN HIS OWN CASE Fugitive Works Hard Trying to Capture Himself. Oklahoma City, Okla. — Despite a written confession of a $28,000 theft, made with the hope of obtaining immunity, William R. 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Officials Have Clew In Chinese Book Just Found. Washington. On the basis of unofficial reports from Chicago concerning the discovery there of a "Chinese black book" containing a list of agencies for the sale of opium in various cities, marginal notes in Chinese characters and records of Chinese alleged to have been smuggled into the United States, federal officials started on the trail of what they suspect to be an organization of opium sellers, Chinese smugglers and white slavers. Immigration Commissioner Camnnetti directed the Chicago immigration officials to get in touch with the Chicago police, who have possession of the Chinese black book, and obtain all the information regarding the case, with a view to ascertaining whether the Chinese exclusion laws have been violated by smuggling orientals over an "underground road" from Canada. The chix immigration inspector at Chicago is Dr. Percy L. 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WILLIAMS Director of the Vocal Department of the Washington Conservatory of Music the past two seasons, has opened a Studio at 1041 9th Street N. W. 1944 9th Street N. W. Voice Culture. French and Italian Terms for lessons on application ARMADA TO SAIL THROUGH CANAL All Nations Expected to Join In Celebration. 160 SHIPS MAY BE IN FLEET First Representatives of Other Governments Will Assemble at Hampton Roads—After President Reviews Vessels They Will Go to San Francisco. Four Days to Go Through Canal. Washington.—Anchored in Hampton Roads early in 1915 will be the greatest international fleet ever gathered in American waters, assembled in answer to the invitation of the United States government to celebrate the completion of the Panama canal by making a voyage to the Pacific through the new waterway. The precise number of vessels which will lie in the famous roadstead is not yet known to the officers of the navy department in charge of the arrangements for rendezvous, as so far there have been no formal responses received to the invitations dispatched by the state department to all of the nations of the world. Some of the nations with great navies may be represented by squadrons of four or more warships, others by only one or two, and some of the countries practically without navies including vessels of the first class will be represented only in the personnel of their legations and commissions to the Panama-Pacific exposition. The formal invitation of the United States was dispatched to all the diplomatic officers of the United States ```markdown ``` © 1913, by American Press Association. BLOWING UP OF CUCAIACHA SLIDE IN CULLEBRA CUT. abroad by Secretary Bryan. It recited the fact that in the navy appropriation act of 1911 the president was authorized and requested in extending his invitation to foreign nations to participate in the exposition also to invite "their representatives and their fleets to assemble at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and from thence come to the city of Washington, there to be formally welcomed by the president." The president also is to go to Hampton Roads to review the assembled fleets as they start on their voyage to San Francisco. It is expected that the American invitation will meet with general acceptance, and the result will be the gathering of a fleet of perhaps seventy-five or a hundred warships of the best type, for the reason that slow and antiquated vessels would be unable to keep pace with the rest of the fleet in the cruise from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate. The international fleet will probably be under command of an American vice admiral, in all likelihood Cameron McR. Winslow, for it is expected that congress, which has authorized the assembly, will make provision for this new grade rather than have the American commander outranked by some foreign naval officer. The ceremonies at Hampton Roads and the time required for a visit to Washington by the foreign visitors will consume about a week or ten days, and then, headed by the American fleet, probably with the super-Dreadnought New York at the right of the column, the great armada will take its way southward for Colon. It is estimated that about four days will be required to pass the fleet through the locks and the canal and about twice that length of time will suffice to replenish the coal bunkers before they resume their cruise. All Pupils Are Kellys. Milton, Ore.-The North Fork school, a few miles above Milton, is probably one of the strangest in the country. The school is attended by seven pupils, and they are all the children of one family. Mr. and Mrs. H. Kelly. Miss Helen Narkaus has been engaged this year to teach the school. STUDIES PRISON FROM THE INSIDE TREATED JUST AS A CONVICT Gets the Same Fare and Dons Regular Prison Clothes—Is Bathed as He Enters and Assigned to Cell—Will Determine Effects of Prison Life on Mind. Auburn, N. Y.—Emulating the example of Governor Hunt of Arizona, who in March, 1912, had himself locked up with convicts to share their experience of prison life. Thomas Mott Osborne, chairman of the state commission for prison reform, has entered Auburn prison and is serving a self-imposed sentence for the purpose of studying the effect of discipline, food, labor and the general prison system on a convict's mind. Mr. Osborne entered the prison as any new convict would do, went J. through the routine, such as being taken for a bath, a session with the prison barber and prison tailor, and went through the same grind as a convicted felon. In reply to a question he said he was ready to "take all his medicine" and would not balk at the dungeon should his conduct at any time justify his incarceration there. The results of the study are to be embodied in a report to be made by the commission that is studying prison reform with a view to legislation next year: Chairman Osborne spoke to the convicts in chapel and said in part: "As chairman of the commission on prison reform appointed by Governor Spilzer the superintendent of prisons and Warden Rattigan have kindly given me permission to carry out a plan to determine the psychological effect of the prison system on the prisoners. If sympathy and understanding from a vivid personal experience are desirable to studying, say, some foreign country, they are even more necessary in the case of a group of men set apart by society such as this prison community. For in your cases the conditions under which you live are more unnatural and less easy for most persons to grasp than those of a foreign country. "Moreover, most of the books that have been written about you by so called 'penologists' are written largely from the outside standpoint and with so little intelligent sympathy and vital understanding that few are of real value. They seem to be based on the assumption that the prisoner is not a human being like the rest of us, but is a strange sort of animal called a 'criminal,' wholly different in his instincts, feelings and actions from the rest of mankind. "I want to find out whether our prison system is unintelligent; whether it files in the face of all common sense and human nature, as I think it does; whether, guided by sympathy and experience, we cannot find something far better to take its place, as I believe we can. "I am coming here to learn what I can at first hand. In the court of conscience I have been found guilty of having lived many years indifferent to and ignorant of what has been going on behind these walls and have been sentenced to a short term at hard labor in Auburn prison. I expect to begin serving my sentence this week and am coming here to live your life, to be housed, clothed, fed, treated in all respects like one of you. I want to see for myself exactly what your life is like—not as viewed from the outside in, but from the inside out." No Rent Fek Thirty Years. Columbus, India John Zimmerman, seventy-nine, known popularly, as John Cinnamon, is dead here in a home he had occupied for thirty years without paying a cent of rental. Francis T. Crump, a capitalist, owner of the building, recently called on Zimmerman and mentioned the matter of rent, with the result Zimmerman said he had just repaired the roof and would call the rent bill squared. Crump received the bill. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... .20 MARYLAND ELECTION. It is the duty of every patriotic citizen in Prince George's County, Maryland, to go to the polls Tuesday, November FOURTH and vote the entire ticket that appears upon the front page of The Bee. Every candidate is a man who believes in EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW. It is therefore important to the colored voters especially to see that this entire ticket is elected; especially is it important to the colored people, because they will receive better school facilities. They owe it to their children, who are blooming into manhood and womanhood. The record and history of the Republican party have been so established and instilled into the minds of the people that it is impossible to eradicate them. The great public school system and liberal appropriations for schools are due to the Republican party. The great Southern colored educators today leave their homes and appeal to the philanthropists in the North for assistance. The colored Southern children are indebted to the good Northern people for liberal gifts for education. It is, therefore, important that good men, men who believe in equality before the law, should be elected to office. This the platform upon which the Republican candidates in Prince George's County, Maryland, will stand. It is hoped that no intelligent voter will permit himself to be deceived or allow himself to be purchased in this crisis. The time is at hand for every intelligent citizen to vote right. Existing conditions should teach and convince the people of this country, irrespective of party affiliation, that good and sound men should be elected to the Legislature. If a Democratic Legislature is elected in Maryland, when will these nefarious and corrupt measures end? Democratic Legislatures are too busy segregating colored citizens and passing "Jim Crow" car laws to adopt laws to protect human life and property. The colored man is a citizen and a taxpayer. He is loyal to the flag and the Republic, and willing and ready at all times to obey the call of his country to defend it against a foreign or domestic foe. But, yet he is subjected to laws that are enacted to degrade and humiliate him. He is not permitted to enjoy the fruits of his labors or his property. He is told that he has purchased after having toiled unceasingly day by day and year by year. Thousands of good white people in the State of Maryland have come to the rescue and defense of their colored fellow citizens and thousands have endeavored to humiliate and degrade him. The good, however, have outnumbered the enemies. The colored people of this country and the State of Maryland especially are facing a crisis. They are facing an enemy who means destruction to their civil and political rights. They are facing an enemy who says that they shall not enjoy the land upon which they live and their labors have purchased. The election of a Republican Legislature means equality before the law. The election of the entire State ticket means better school and road facilities. This ticket means the perpetuation of their human rights. It means peace and happiness among the races. It means a peaceful enjoyment of their civil and political rights. It means better school facilities for the children, white and black. It means better roads and a peaceful enjoyment of every right to which a human being is entitled. THE mass meeting of citizens held in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church last Monday night was an indication of the feeling of the people against the action of the administration for its segregation policy. The people have come to the conclusion that the Constitution of the United States is made for all the people and not for the few. The people must act and teach the Democratic party and its administration that the colored Americans are part of this Republic and that they helped to make it what it is. Why should a government inaugurate a diabolical and notorious segregation order against a body of people who have been true and loyal to the Republic? Mr. Villard told the story, Mr. Justice Stafford, who b lieves in the enforcement of the Constitution and laws of the country, could not refrain from expressing himself in a judicial manner which leaves us to infer that he did not endorse the action of the Administration. What has come over this Administration? What offense has the colored man committed that would warrant the administration to inaugurate a segregation policy? The Secretary of the Treasury, in a letter to Mr. Villard, declared that no segregation exists in his department. Is this true? Why were colored men directed to separate toilets, and when the order was given to remove the objectionable signs, why were these colored employees informed that they were expected to continue to use separate toilets? Didn't Ex-Register J. C. Napier go to the Secretary of the Treasury and assistant, Mr. Williams, from the South, to discuss the segregation order that was given? What was Mr. Napier told by the assistant secretary? Didn't Mr. Napier refuse to issue the order of segregation, and didn't he tender his resignation to the President? Was not Mr. Napiers resignation the result of this segregation order of the administration? Mr. Wilson is responsible for the policy of his administration. Is it ordained for the Democratic party to control this government? It has it not shown its inability to control this government? Its sole desire is to humiliate the colored citizen. All important questions and measures are but minor considerations. The Negro question seems to occupy the time of this administration. Protection of human life is a secondary consideration of the administration. "FAIR PLAY TO ALL." This is the caption of a printed circular that has been received at this office from Mr. Alfred B. Cosey, of Newark, N. J., an alleged Negro Democrat. Of all the bombast, rot and hypocrisy, The Bee has never before had the disgust to read. If Mr. Cosey is of the opinion that such rot will get him an office, he is mistaken. The Bee hopes he is not mistaken. In speaking of colored men holding office, in this city, he says: "Positions Held by Negroes at Washington. "A great deal has been said by some of the colored voters about appointing men of other races to places under the National Government, formerly held by colored citizens. Have you forgotten that the places held by Messrs. Lewis, of Massachusetts, Tyler of Ohio, McKinley of the District of Columbia, Cobb of the District of Columbia, were given the colored people by the Republican party, with a view of 'covering up the Brownville affair of ex-President Roosevelt and the segregating and eliminating Southern policy of ex-President Taft? In other words, all of these places were given with a string, and were never intended as permanent. The ministership to Hayti is not lost to the colored race. The present temporary appointment will in a short time be discontinued, and the place returned to a member of the colored race. The Register of the Treasury is not lost to the colored race, as I am advised the gentleman now holding it is in a large measure identified with the colored race." Mr. Cosey would have the world believe that the Indian Register of the Treasury is identified with the colored race. Cosey doesn't know what he is talking about. In the first place Mr. Roosevelt had nothing to do with the appointment of Mr. Lewis. Mr. Cobb had nothing to do with the Brownsville incident, and none of the foregoing appointments had any connection with the Brownsville incident. The Brownsville incident had died away long before McKinley, Cobb or Lewis were appointed, and when Mr. Taft made the appointments, they had no string to them. NO SEGREGATION NO SEGREGATION. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. McAdoo, declares that colored employees in his department are not segregated. If there is no segregation in the Treasury Department, those colored men who were told to use separate toilets are liars, and the white chiefs who directed the colored clerks to use them are telling the truth. If the administration is honest, and it has a disposition, as it declared, to give Negro Democrats office, let the colored Republicans now holding office remain. Why was the resignation of Ex-Register J. C. Napier accepted and an Indian nominated for his place and confirmed? Mr. Napier was a Republican and not an offensive partisan. Why didn't the Administration allow him to remain? A Negro who says that he is a Democrat is a liar and the truth is as foreign to him as the Atlantic is to the Pacific. A Negro who says, under present conditions, that he is a Democrat is insane and is not responsible for his utterances and the sooner he is caged the better it will be for other innocent and irresponsible animals running at large, without visible means of support, Vardaman has declared that no Negro shall be confirmed for a presidential office. Liberia is the only exception this Democrat makes. When the slave was emancipated the poor white man was emancipated also. The poor white man, being in the majority at the time of the slaves' emancipation, puts him in control of the government today. The aristocratic slaveholder held the poor white man down and deemed his slave too good to associate with his poor white neighbor. The poor white man is now getting even with the cultured colored man. If there is any doubt of colored employees not being segregated, all that is necessary is for the doubting Thomases to take a peep in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Post Office Department under Burleson, and the Treasury Department under McAdoo. * It is the policy of this Administration to segregate and humiliate the colored American. HARMONY CEMETERY We congratulate all persons interested in Columbian Harmony Cemetery upon the new era of progress which has at last forced its way into the heads of those in control of the cemetery. We use the word "forced" advisedly, for The Bee has persistently kept its readers informed of the obsolete methods of doing business, and the tendency on the part of some of the members to look upon their trusteeship as personal ownership. In the matter of title to the cemetery grounds matters are shaping themselves so that in no distant day the Court will be called upon to render a judicial decision. The board of trustees, as constituted, are a self-perpetuating body. When a vacancy occurs a person is named from the inside to fill it. Through this closed-door and star-chamber proceeding none other than those favorable to the ring ever gets a chance to enter the charmed circle. The board of trustees are in three constituent parts, to-wit: "Barnacles," who clogs the wheels of progress; "Deferentials," who backed in, and are delighted to be servitors to the newly rich, and "Progressives," who stand for developing and beautifying the grounds, also for a closer relation with lot-holders and others whose money supports the cemetery. The resignation of Mr. Henry Johnson, who is allied with the "Barnacles," as president, and the election of one of Washington's oldest citizens, Mr. John A. Simms, Sr., "Progressive," as his successor, is a signal triumph for The Bee, and is indicative of other changes in the administration of the affairs of the cemetery for which we have contended. MANAGER THOMAS A few weeks ago The Bee suggested a testimonial to Manager Andrew J. Thomas, of the Howard Theater. The people readily responded to The Bee's suggestion and addressed Mr. Thomas a letter which will be seen in another column of this week's Bee. The Bee is always willing and ready to compliment and support merit. There has been no time, since Mr. Thomas has had charge of the Howard Theater, when he has refused to liberally extend his hand to support charity or some laudable enterprise. He has given his theater on many occasions free to many of our benevolent and charitable institutions. He has endeavored to give the people an up-to-date theater. If he has at any time been disappointed in the productions, he should not be blamed. No man is perfect. One thing about Manager Thomas: his efforts have been to cater to the people. The order at this theater should be commended, and at no time since he has been, the sole lessee has there been the slightest disturbance. With such a record The Bee, as well as the people, will show their appreciation and esteem by tendering to him a testimonial, which will occupy the entire Thanksgiving Week, beginning November 24th. This will be known and designated as Andrew J. Thomas Testimonial week by the citizens of Washington. All musical and benevolent associations each night, beginning November 24, will be designated as representing some enterprise, society or profession. The Bee firmly believes that this will be the greatest event in the history of Washington. See particulars next week. Now, they want to take Dr. Davidson from our schools, who has made such an excellent superintendent. Certainly we don't want any more changes in the superintendency of our schools. Since the appointment of Dr. Davidson the public schools have been placed upon a high basis. NEW IUVENILE COURT. Judge Latimer, of the Juvenile Court, is making every effort to impress Congress of the importance of a new Juvenile Court. Judge Latimer is right. The people are in need of an up-to-date court for the coming youth. Let the people petition Congress. Democratic Sentiment From the Atlantic City Advocate "TURN THE AFRICAN TREE CLIMBERS OUT" Go down to the pension office and take out the Africans. Then go down to the War and Navy Building and take those black sons of coconut region, who sit there with big brown drops of sweat coming out of their foreheads, kick them out * * * turn this brood of African tree climbers out to earn a living on the farms and in the fields.—Congressman. Roddenberry (Democrat) of Georgia, in a speech in House of Representatives, April 10, 1912. GRANTING SUFFRAGE A CRIME. "The granting of the right of suffrage to the Negroes, en masse, was a crime and blunder. Take away the suffrage from the Negroes as it is disallowed to other of our 'colored' citizens."—Bishop T. F. Gailor, of Tennessee. GRO WILL BE LYNCHED. "I how is the white man going to control the government? The way we do it is to pass laws to fit the white man and make the other people (Negroes) come to them * * * If it is necessary every Negro in the State will be lynched; it will be done to maintain white supremacy. * * * The Fifteenth Amendment ought to be wiped out. We all agree on that; then why don't we do it?—Ex-Governor James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, now U. S. Senator-elect. "Mississippi is governed by white men, although the majority of the population is composed of Negroes. The Negro cuts no figure in our politics.—Ex-Governor Noel of Mississippi." INTELLIGENT NEGRO DIS TURBING INFLUENCE "The uneducated Negro is a good Negro; he is contented to occupy the natural status of his race, the position of inferiority. The educated and intelligent Negro, who wants to vote, is a disturbing and threatening influence. We don't want him down here; let him go. North. I favor, and if elected will urge with all my power, the elimination of the Negro from politics."—Hoke Smith, United States Senator from Georgia. SENATOR TILLMAN'S BOAST. "I know nothing about other States, but I acknowledge openly and boldly in the sight of God that we did our level best to keep every Negro in our State from voting. We stuffed ballot boxes, we shot Negroes; we are not ashamed of it.'—Senator Tillman in the United States Senate. BRYAN ON "BROTHER- HOOD." "The white man in the South has disfranchised the Negro in self-protection; and there is not a Republican in the North who would not have done the same thing under the same circumstances. The white men of the South are determined that the Negro will and shall be disfranchised everywhere it is necessary to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of carpet-bag rule."—William Jennings Bryan in speech at New York in 1908. Republican Sentiment DISHONOR HIM IS TO DIS "Ceasing to be a slave, the former victim has become not only a man but a citizen, admitted alike within the pale of humanity and within the pale of citizenship. As a man he is entitled to all the rights of man, as a citizen he becomes a member of our common household, with equality as the prevailing law. No longer an African, he is an American; no longer a slave, he is common part of a republic, owing to it patriotic allegiance in return for protection of equal Jaws. Insult him is to insult an American citizen. Dishonor him is to dishonor the Republic itself. Our rights are his rights; our equality his equality; our privileges and immunities are his great freehold."—Charles Sumner: INSPIRED BY LINCOLN'S TOMB "I am glad to be at the home of the martyred President. His name is an inspiration and a holy one to all lovers of liberty the world over. He saved the Union. He liberated a race—a race which he once said ought to be free because there might come a time when these black men could keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. If any vindication of that act or of that prophecy were needed, it was found when those brave black men ascended the hill of San Juan in Cuba and charged the enemy at El Caney (great applause). They vindicated their own title to liberty on that field and with our other brave soldiers gave the priceless gift of liberty to another suffering race."—President McKinley at Lincoln's tomb, Springfield, Illinois, October 15, 1898. "I know the burdens you have to bear. I can understand the disadvantages under which you labor. I know of your sufferings, mental and otherwise, and humiliations—I can understand what they are and how hard they are to bear, but I want you to know that there are a lot of good people in this world who sympathize deeply with you and are anxious to help you in your hard course."—From speech of President Taft at Georgia Industrial School, Savannah, Ga., May 1; 1912. SIGN AT ONCE. The Bee calls the attention of its readers to the segregation petition which appears in this week's issue of The Bee, and requests every reader of The Bee, and every citizen who sees it to sign it and return it to the secretary of the Anti-Segregation Delegates, 1733, Seventh Street Northwest. Don't delay. Traitors retreat when boldly they are confronted. A Call to the St. Lukes. All the members are welcome to the councils, officers and members of the Independent Order of St. Luke in this District of Columbia and vicinity. You are invited to attend a Grand Installation Fellowship service of the Independent Order of St. Luke at Plymouth Congregational Church, corner of Seventeenth and P Streets Northwest, Washington, D. C. Wednesday, November 5th, 1913, at 8 oclock P. M. The deputies-effect will be installed by Past Deputies O. T. Taylor and Mrs. B. B. Anderson. Messrs. Alex S. Richardson, H. E. Barnett and Mrs. Julia M. Layton will speak. Dr. James T. Walker, Past R. W. Grand Chief, will preside. The work for the year will be outlined. By all means attend this meeting. All St. Lukes welcome. Marshals, Mrs. O. T. Taylor and Mrs. Olivia Pryor. A. C. GARNER, Deputy Elect. JULIA H. HAYES, Associated Deputy Elect. Bethel Literary and Historical Asso- "The Organic Agglutination of Our Representative Forces, the Only Solution" is the subject of an address that will be delivered by Dr. A. D. Holder, a native of Haiti, at Metropolitan Church, Tuesday evening, November, at 8 o'clock. During this address Dr. Holder will discuss Haiti's attitude toward colored diplomatic representatives from the United States. Public Men Ard Things (By the Sage of the Potomac) Talking about ideas, Bob Pelham has some of the brightest ideas what ever culminated under the fur of an Ethiopian. But Bob is so headstrong he just naturally aint going to follow no guy with a thimble full of brains or who has a grafting inclination. There is only one thing Bob ain't sane on and that's baseball. When it comes to baseball he's a bug, one of the loudest out of St. Elizabeth, and he knows the record of every 'discard what played in the sage brush leagues. But the fellow's top piece is full of brain bacilli, running over with bright ideas, and it is sure sad that a fellow of Bob's ability has to worry along in a $1,200 position alongside of mushrooms he can give cards and spades and then beat out without turning a handspring. Now, talking about Bob, I happened into young Bob Harlan's miscellaneous establishment Monday, and a small-bored guy was handing Bob Pelham a few disjointed blows, while talking with another soft-shell crab. I just sat there and had my number tens polished and listened to the song and dance. I don't know what they had against Bob, but I imagined at some time he had spoken his mind to the small-bored individual, and Bob can do that to the queen's taste. Now, this small-bored reflection of a cinder said Bob Pelham blowed in here from Michigan and wanted to run everything he tied up to, and then he relieved himself of a lot more yellow jaundice talk. I just itched to bust in with a defense of the Michigander, but the two fellows' were in harmony in their opinion, of young old Bob Pelham, and their size was too Jack Johnsonian for me, and I just had to muse to myself—if you crabs had just one dram of Bob's brain hidden away in your thought generators you would be handing him a few assorted encomiums rather than knocks. Let me hand you this straight Sheepshead Bay tip—never plav Bob Pelham for a mistake in life. He may he an insulated wire, but he's mighty live at that. \*\*\* I promised myself I would not let R. Wordy's name creep into this column for a year after last week but he's carrying on so about William Calvin springing a benefit for that live wire. Andrew Thomas, that I just have to, on request of many admirers, say that a fellow who carries around passes in his pocket for a ten twenty show, and parades down the aisles like he owned the Howard and the adjoining 'buildings, and who's been a benefit recipient himself ever since he was old enough to eat out of people's hands, ain't got no business knocking a feller what's trying to push another feller along. Why don't R. Wordy stop his knocks and get right down to business. There would do this he would be a hanged up creature, for he ain't half bad at that. Let Calvin boost Andy Thomas if he wants to. *** Now, talking about knocking. Arthur Gray said to me once, while I was standing at his counter squandering five cents for one of his syncopated grape juices, that no feller can get very far on the knocking train; that the terminal station was only a few minutes from the starting point. You know there is a whole lot of philosophy tied up in Arthur's gray matter, which even his wife will admit to you, if you ask her. I have often thought of this bon not of wisdom passed over the counter by Arthur S. Gray, Phd, expert stenographer, average dancer, etc. There has been too much knocking around these diggings. A lot of two-by-fours have spent a lot of time knocking big rafters, and figuring on how they can climb into fame through somebody's back window. McMullen once soft-pedaled to me the wisdom that a lot of fellers can differentiate between knocking and honest crisifism. Mac just moves along, getting his, and handing out no knocks for anybody. While walking over You Street Sunday I met four persons of anthracite persuasion, and every one of them had not talked to me two minutes before they were handing a nice roasted knock for somebody. Now, speaking about knocks reminds me that one saffron-hued individual claimed that the protests against toilet room segregation was licking. He was one of these endowed fellers. Now, an endowed feller is one who is always panthelanding somebody for a loan. And I noticed when I went over to the Treasury Building recently to see a feller in the building who owes me a five-spot since last Christmas that they are still rushing the anthracites down in those segregated toilet rooms. Some day some feller with a whole lot of nerve, and more don't-care about him, will go up against a couple or three highballs and then meander over to the Treasury Building and just defy the authorities to put him on a toilet room reserved for whites. I heard, sub rosa, Monday, that they are getting ready to fire a broadside into the segregation policy of the Wilson-MeAdoo-Williams combination from the Senate chamber, and that when the shot is fired it will be heard around the world. Big man up there on the hill is loading up for it. Time some one was, 'cause Ham is getting freet and impatient like, as George Cook would say when some one insinuates that Howard ain't the biggest and best. You know George loves old Howard like Mary loved her lamb, and you just can't separate him from it. Mighty good man to have around the institution, too, let me promise you. O. W. Wright. Mr. O. W. Wright, who has a stand in the O Street Market, deals in all kinds of fresh meats. This is no doubt one of the best and un-to-date meat merchants in the city. Don't fail to call and inspect his goods. The Week in Society Seasons may come and seasons may go, but each one brings a crowd of discriminating customers to Board's Pharmacy at 1912% Fourteenth Street Northwest, for the best drugs, remedies, candies and toilet articles at moderate prices, and the finest service in Ice Cream Sodas and delicious drinks the year round. Miss Sarah N. Merlwether, a member of the faculty of Howard University gave a most interesting account of the World's Student Federation of Christian Movements which was held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y., this past summer, before the students of the above-naved institution, Tuesday night. Miss Anita Berry, of this city, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Booth, in Media, Pa., spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. R. H. Shipley, in Anacostia. Mrs. Preston C. Stone and her sister, Mrs. Harry Williams, returned to their homes in Philadelphia Saturday. They have been visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mathews and their sister, Mrs. Clarence Gray. Miss Maggie Wilson, of Eleventh Street Northwest, has left the city for New York. During her stay in that city she will attend the National Emancipation Exposition. Mr. Will Marion Cook is in this city supervising the rehearsals of the "Festival of Negro Music," soon to be held under the auspices of the Conservatory of Music. The Washington Orchestra, forty musicians, Mr. H. A. Williams, director, has decided on December 28 as the date for their first concert at the Howard Theatre. Mrs. Carolyn Montgomery has returned to her home in McKeesport, Pa., after having had a delightful stay in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Baker, who have been visiting relatives here, have returned to their home in Pittsburgh. Mr. G. W. Derham, of Pittsburgh, has been the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Lewis, of this city. Extensive improvements are being made to the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Anacostia. There is to be added a library, pastors study and pool. Mrs. Charles R. Douglass left the city this week; for Philadelphia and New York. In New York she will be the guest of Mrs. Gregory. She will be away two weeks. Mr. Miles C. Maxfield, who is under the special care of Dr. W. A. Warfield at the Freedmen's Hospital, will be able to be carried to his home next week. Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter left for Boston, Mass., last week, but will return next week to have the delegates to wait on the President next week. Buy drugs and medicines at Board's, 1012½ 14th St. N. W. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berryman entertained at tea last evening, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Warwick and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ruffin. Mr. and Mrs. Berryman are second to none as entertainers. Miss Addie Thornton, of Vermont Avenue Northwest, died at the G. P. O. Tuesday. Major George W. Ford, of Springfield, Ill., was in the city a few days en route to the Fiftieth Emancipation Celebration in New York, where he has been commissioned by Governor Diune to represent the State of Illinois. He was the guest of his sister, Mrs. H. B. Quander, of Georgia Avenue, while passing through to and from New York. He left Thursday for Springfield, Ill., where he is superintendent of the National Cemetery of that State. Mrs. Sophia Bell has returned to the capital after a three weeks visit to her niece in Savannah, Ga. She will remain here during the winter. Dr. W. J. Howard, after having made an extensive tour of the East, has returned to this city. Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Blaghburn have moved from Nichols Avenue, Anacostia, to 26 Fifth Street Northeast. Mrs. Lucy A. Blagburn, of the Metropolitan A.' M. E. choir, returned home Monday from Baltimore and New York, where she sang with the Washington Conservatory of Music Concert Folk Company. Miss Ada Thornton, who died quite suddenly last week at the Government Printing Office, was a member of the Third Baptist Church, Rev. James H. Lee, pastor. Mr. M. C. Maxfield, who was seriously injured while attending duties at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Department, while improving, is still at the Freedmens Hospital. Mrs. James H. Lee, who is still sick at Columbus, Ga., hopes to be home by Thanksgiving. "High Brown" Face Powder and toilet articles are now all the rage. Buy the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 1012½ 14th St. N. W. Mrs. Miller Entertains. Mrs. Julia Miller, of 40 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, entertained in honor of Miss M. A: Anderson, of New York City, Monday evening, October 20 last. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Jas. C. McHenry, of Cincinnati; Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Queen, of Newark, N. J.; Mr. Jas. Thomas, of Seneca, Md.; Rev. R. V. Brooks, of Newport News, Va.; Miss Manie Tate, Mrs. L. H. Bulls, Mr. Wm. H. Garnett, Mr. E. B. B. West, Miss Annie Lord, Mrs. A. B. Lamb, Mr. G. Brady, Miss S. Freeman, Mrs. R. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. T. Miller, Mr. Wm. Anderson, and Mr. William Freeman, who acted also as toastmaster. WEST WASHINGTON. The funeral services of Rev. Eli Howard were held Sunday afternoon from the Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O Street Northwest, and was largely attended. He was the local elder of the church and a member of Western Star Lodge No. 55, of A. I. O. of Moses, the members of which attended. Resolutions of condolence were read. The sermon of his own selection, 106 Psalm, 7 verse, was preached by W. D. Naylor, the pastor, which was eloquently delivered. Interment took place in Payne's Cemetery. The funeral of Mrs. Carter, the wife of Mr. Horace Carter, whose death occurred in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Thursday, took place Monday from Mt. Zion M. E. Church. The Minerva Household of Ruth, of which she was a member, attended in a body. Rev. W. C. Thompson officiated, assisted by Rev. Geo. Jacobs. Interment in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Old Folks' Day will be very appropriately observed on Sunday at M. Zion M. E. Church. The several church committees have arranged to serve the old members meals during the day, who will be carried to the church in carriages by the stewards. Rev. W. C. Thompson has prepared an excellent program. He will also deliver the annual sermon. All are invited. Quite a surprise party was tendered Dr. Chas. H. Marshall, a member of the Board of Education and a prominent resident of West Washington, in honor of his seventeenth wedding anniversary by a few of his friends at his home, 2710 P Street Northwest, on Thursday evening. Mrs. Marshall, Messrs. Flavus Lucas and Geo. A. Parker and others had well planned what proved to be a most enjoyable evening—especially to the Doctor. Among the guests were the Misses Hallie Queen, Pearlie and Manie Lewis, Orville Stevens, Alma Thomas, Sallie Fisher and M. G. Daniels, Messrs. John H. Williams, Jay Clifford, Ferdinand Amos, Seyv. Savoy, D. H. Smith and Prof. Clyde McDuffey. Music and toasts by all were the features of the evening. Speeches by Dr. Marshall, Prof. McDuffey and Master Herbert Marshall were cordially received. Mr. Geo. A. Parker acted as toastmaster. The Doctor was presented with a stick pin as a token of esteem. A social hour reception was tendered the choir of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street, on Thursday under the auspices of the Committee on Music and others. The choir, under the leadership of Mr. Emanuel Jones, with Mrs. Mary Barnes, who was recently elected as organist, rendered a very excellent musical program upon the occasion. Addresses were made by Rev. W. C. Thompson, Dr. Samuel M. Pierce, Mr. S. G. Harris, Mr. Thornton Rhodes and others, concluding with remarks by the chairman of the Music Committee, Mr. Jas. L. Turner, who invited the choir and their friends into the lecture room, where refreshments were served and a pleasant time was spent by all. The Semper Paratus Democratic Club, under the direction of Mrs. L. Naylor, rendered a beautiful drama entitled "Hiawatha," an Indian entertainment, at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O Street Northwest, Tuesday evening, October 18. The characters represented were very creditably presented and enjoyed by a large audience. Mr. Jas. L. Turner has resigned the position of news editor of the Mt. Zion Review. FAIRMCUNT HEIGHTS. Before the First Presbyterian Church of Fairmount Heights was built the congregation worshipped in the home of Mrs. Quander, and a debt for rental of same has been standing, much to the embarrassment of the present church officers; so Mrs. Charlotte Marshall, proprietress of our best and largest store, conceived and consummated a plan for liquidating this debt. She solicited donations of flour from the merchants with whom she deals amounting to a barrel and raffled it off at twenty-five cents a chance. When these had been disposed of. have an entertainment at the Public Hall (use of which was donated by Mr. M. Charity), at which time Mrs. Emma Norris, a worthy elderly lady, was the fortunate recipient of the barrel of flour, and the committee netted sufficient funds to entirely pay off this rental debt, to donate a small amount to the widow of the late John W. Medley and then to turn in three dollars to the church rally. Too much credit cannot be given Mrs. Marshall and her aids for thus relieving the church officers of a troublesome and embarrassing debt. Recently Mrs. Norris met with quite a serious accident. Her finger caught in a closed door and it was fractured so much that it had to be amputated. The workers of the Baptist Church gave a concert Friday night, October 17. It was under the management of Mrs. Thomas R. Lloyd. On the same night the Presbyterian Church workers gave a concert. Rev. W. H. Waites and his workers gave a concert Thursday night, October 23. The arrangements have been completed to begin the construction of the Tabernacle Baptist Church of Burrville, D. C. The work may be deterred on account of illness. Mr. Gordon, one of the oldest inhabitants of Burrville, died the past week. Hon. Frank O. Smith, Congressman from the Fifth Maryland District, spoke at Capitol Heights October 23; also several other gentlemen, including Hon. W. F. Holmead, who is a candidate for the Maryland Senate. All the candidates pledged themselves to use all honorable means to secure at least twenty thousand dollars with which to erect a much needed school house at Capitol Heights. The school house is a great necessity. The property of all the citizens, white and colored, will be levied against to secure this large amount of money. The colored citizens of Prince George's County and the State of Maryland are willing to share their part of the burden to build the Capitol Heights school the same as they did to build the Mt. Pleasant, Baden and the many other modern brick school houses in the county and State; also they have not shirked their share of the burden of $600,000 which was placed upon them to build the State Normal School No. 1. All they want is equal protection of the law. All they want is that, when the necessity requires it, and the people in Fairmount Heights ask for $15,000 to build a modern school house, for the authorities and the citizens of the county and State to assume the responsibility with equally as good grace. Revival services are going on at the M. E. Church. They are proving a great success. Some little time ago Miss Lillian Knight, one of the original members of the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church Sunday School, confessed the hope in Christ. She worked her way from a pupil to teacher, and organist in the Sunday School and afterward organist for the church. Last Tuesday night she came into to full membership of the church, surrounded by a large number of rejoicing friends and relatives.. The exercises were profound and impressive. Rev. Owen C. Sprague, the pastor, was in charge and did himself and the church great honor. Rev. Dr. E. S. Williams, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md.; one of our former neighbors, passed through October 28. He has just closed a revival in which one hundred and fifty souls, found the Lord. One hundred and thirty connected themselves with the above named church. Rev. Catlet, a pastor of one of the city Baptist Churches, is doin a great work among his people. He intends to build a new church during nest year ALEXANDRIA NEWS. The funeral services of Mr. Clarence H. Madella were held at Roberts Chapel M. E. Church Tuesday, October 28 at 3 p.m. The deceased was born in Alexandria, Va., August 22, 1867. He was the youngest of seven children born to Anna and Richard Madella, four of whom, Mrs. Anna, Cooper, Miss Maggie M. Cornelius and John R. C. Madella, survive him. He was a most active church worker, having joined Roberts' Chapel about twenty-four years ago, and during the time he has been affiliated he has served as Sunday School teacher, Sunday School superintendent, president of Epworth League, trustee, steward and class leader. Though a young man, Mr. Madella has acquired considerable real estate in Virginia, and, too, without resorting to any form of speculative chic-anery. The accumulation of property seemed not to be his real purpose in life, however. This is shown by the persistent efforts he made for an education that would enable him to launch out in the world as a teacher of real worth. After graduating from Howard University with high honors May 29, 1889, he went to Florida and taught school there for a few years. He resigned the position there to accept an appointment at Randall School as instructor in woodwork. Next he was sent to Stevens School, and in 1900 he was given the position of wood turner in Armstrong Manual Training School, Washington, D. C., where he was associated with Mr James Hill, who had formerly been one of his instructors at Howard. Mr. Madella was next made an assistant director of Manual Training in Armstrong, which position he held until last year, when he was given a class in physics. Mr. Madella was married to Miss Florence E. Davis October 26, 1910. No children survive. The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Joseph Wheeler, assisted by Rev. John Colhert, of Falls Church, Va., (a former pastor); Rev W. C. Thompson, of Mt. Zion M. E Church, Washington, D. C.; Rev Jacquelin Strange, of the A. M. E. Conference; Rev. J. D. Henderson, of Third Baptist, Church, and Rev Woods, of Ebenezer Baptist Church the pallbearers were Messrs. W. T S. Jackson, Charles W. Preston Richard Diggs, Willis Madden, Wm B. Dulaney, Leonard Dogans and Garnet Wilkerson. Interment was made in Bethel Cemetery. The entertainment given by the Piano Club of Roberts' Chapel, at Odd Fellows' Hall, on Friday evening, was an elaborate affair and the committee deserves much praise when we take in consideration the fact that it was worked up in such a comparatively short time. A large crowd attended the recital given under the auspices of Meade P. E. Chapel at Christ Church Parish Hall on Thursday night. Mr. Tibbs will always find a large and appreciative audience whenever he returns to Alexandria. Mr. Rhodie Wilson, who died suddenly Sunday morning, was buried Tuesday. Rev. S. M. Johnson officiated. Mr. Andrew Curry, who has been ill with typhoid, fever, is somewhat improved. Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Truatt and Miss Lillian Truatt were in the city Sunday, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Berry. Mr. Truatt is looking fine. His friends are all glad to see that the Lord has spared him to labor with us longer. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. Sunday was Communion Day at Galloway M. E. Church and there was an unusually large gathering, and an excellent sermon by Rev. Colbert, the pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Jackson, of Washington, D. C., addressed the Epworth League in the afternoon. Mrs. Mary Carpenter has returned home from a few weeks' visit in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Bessie Rumbles had as a Sunday guest Mrs. Henrietta Washington. The Sabbath School of Galloway is still in good condition, new pupils being added to the roll. Four young teachers of Washington, D. C., have purchased one of the finest farm and investment properties in northern Virginia. The estate was formerly owned by Captain Isaac Norman, a former resident of Ohio, who is considered one of the most prominent Negro farmers of the race. A bearing orchard of over 700 fruit trees in the pink of condition, two artesian wells, four dug wells, a twelve-room house, and the largest chestnut trees in the State are a part of the favorable features. The farm was the seat of the headquarters of the staff and pick of the troops encamped at Camp Alger during the Spanish War period. A crop of twenty-five acres of corn and many acres of hay and oats were raised on the place this year prior to the sale. The farm has an elevation of over 500 feet above the level of Pennsylvania Avenue, and on a clear day the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia can be seen eighty-five miles away. The farm is located just beyond the village of Falls Church and adjoining the estate of Dr. Niel Graham, of Washington. The teachers who bought the property intend to spend, with their families, part of each summer on the farm and will work with intent of improving the site. Miss Anna Henderson, who has just completed a course in manicuring, hair dressing and facial massage, has her card printed and is ready for work. Good luck to her. The Second Baptist Church Fair closes Wednesday night, October 29. Mr. Burr Lee has returned from his short visit to Pittsburgh, Pa. VIENNA NEWS NOTES. Mr. A. W. Miner shucked eleven barrels of corn off three-fourth acre of fine land for this seasons harvest. Mr. Miner is one of the foremost practical farmers of the community. His industrious wife has two ducks laying three eggs a day. One of the ducks is laying two eggs a day. Mrs. Daisy Myers is going to Washington, D. C. for the winter. Mr. Joseph A. Miner, who has been off on his leave for the past eight days, has returned to the public building to resume his work. The Sons of Liberty had an entertainment at O. F. Hall on Wednesday night, the 22d inst., and were assisted by sub-lodges. There was a crowded house and the event was a grand-success. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Miner, treasurer and Mr. J. A. Miner, the grand secretary of the grand lodge, were present; also Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Burless, L. L. Miner and others from Vienna. Public school is doing well. The enrollment is increasing daily, so that soon another teacher will be needed. On the 24th inst. the pupils' rhetoricals were carried out, despite the downpour of rain, in a very pleasing manner. Interest in this direction is growing. The Fairfax County Teachers' Association for Colored Teachers hold their meeting the first of the year at 10 o'clock Friday morning. The school house has been presented, through Mrs. W. A. West and the ladies who assisted her, with window shades, and that adds to the appearance of 'the room nicely. Thanks, ladies. Rev. Burrell, of Tacoma Park, Md., officiated at Union Baptist Church Sunday. Prof. H. L. Mills is doing nicely with his Golden Cross Society. Madame E. L. Bruce 1228 You Street Northwest Open for engagements for singing in churches, concerts and private or public concerts. Her selections are high-class. Address 1228 You Street Northwest. CONCERT OF NEGRO MUSIC Composed and Rendered Exclusively by COLORED MUSICIANS Ye Old Plantation Melodies. Syncopated Rhymes. Tango Tunes. MALE CHORUS OF SIXTY NATIONAL Emancipation EXPOSITION In New York City October 22d-October 31st, 1913, at the 12th Regiment Armory, One-Half Block From Broadway, at 62d Street Fourteen classes of exhibits including African Industries, Health and Physique, Labor and House Service, Trades and Business, Agriculture, Professions, Education, Religion and Women and Social Uplift. SIR The most complete exposition of Negro Progress ever made. A historical pageant October 23, 25, 28 and 30, with 250 actors in full costume and orchestra music composed especially for the occasion by Major Charles Young, of the United States Army, and others. For further information address the Emancipation Commission, Corner 7th Avenue and 131st Street, New York City. (Cut This Out of Paper.) National Petition Against Jim-Crow and Color Segregation by the Federal Government. Sign Name and Address and Mail to Secretary Anti Segregation Delegation, 1733 Seventh Street Northwest, Washington, D. C., Not Later Than November 3. (Petitions to Be Presented to President Wilson November 6.) To the President of the United States, Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Washington, D. C. Sir: This is to certify that we, the undersigned, are surprised and alarmed that under your administration there should be any rules made by members of your cabinet to segregate employees of the national government by race or color. We protest against this as plainly a public degradation, and insufferable injury to colored Americans, the establishment of caste in this free Republic. We petition you to reverse, prevent and forbid any such-movement by your bureau chiefs, in accord with your promise of fair, friendly, just and Christian treatment of your colored fellow-citizens. (Sign on one side only; don't sign for others.) N. B.—By pasting on sheet of paper any number of names can be put on, to be used in churches, lodges, etc. TAKING CARE OF THOMAS EDISON His Thoughtful Wife Equal to This Big Task. HE WILL OBEY NO ONE ELSE Frequently He Works For Twenty Hours Without Ceasing, and Then He Sleeps as Long—Takes Little Exercise and Does Not Eat His Meals Regularly—Enjoys Automobile Rides. West Orange, N. J.—Thomas A. Edison is sixty-six. If he were to die now it would be difficult to estimate the loss to humanity. He has given it the lightning's flash for its tool. He has taken the very soul of harmony and imprisoned it for its toy. Every day, every night, he works in his laboratory out in those quiet, encircling hills, literally the wizard of the new world. Loss of time or strength to him is loss to civilization. Disturb him, worry him, divert his mind and you may scatter a swarm of thoughts P 1913, by American Press Association. MR. AND MRS. THOMAS A. EDISON, that are forming into one big idea, one great working principle that will make life safer and happier for children. And that is what the round of life means to Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. She is the one "boss" that the wizard obeys. They call her "the missus" down at the big graystone works in West Orange. Every man in the place knows she is the only person he ever minds. And they know, too, that if his life is prolonged and preserved for the good of the world it is because there stands beside him this quiet, handsome, steely nerved woman with the little smile uncurrying her lips. Mrs. Edison is of medium height and rather plump. Her hair is brown and waves back from her face girlishly. "How do we take care of Mr. Edison?" she answered. "Well, first of all, he needs quiet. We all guard him against any noise or confusion or interruptions. When he is home here he needs perfect rest. Sometimes he stays down at the laboratory for twenty hours at a stretch and longer without sleep, but when he does come home he will lie down and fall asleep as easily as a child and perhaps sleep straight through for twenty hours without waking. So the house must always be quiet for him. "No, he has no regular habits." She answered this with a little smile and shook her head. "No regular habits at all-no regular time for rising, no regular diet; nothing like that. He has been called a vegetarian, but he eats wild game and beef and lamb-only they must be well cooked. "Exercise? Not what other people call exercise. You see, he is on his feet down at the works all day. That is enough exercise, he thinks, so he does hardly any walking outdoors, but he loves his garden, and motoring is his favorite recreation. We have our ride together in my car every day. I am just going down for him now. We ride for two hours before dinner, and he looks forward to it, for I never let him forget that he must be ready when I come for him." Mrs. Edison is the woman at the switch that regulates the current of his life. Sacramento, Cal.-Fifty-two of eighty-five convict applicants at Folsom prison have been granted paroles by the state board of prison directors. A new policy of awarding paroles was decided on. Hereafter a careful study of character, temperament and the conduct of each applicant will be made and awards made upon the basis of general average. WEDDING BIDS OF NO USE. Girl Refuses to Mail Them—Why! Married In June. West Orange, N. J.—When Mr. and Mrs Silas A. Mills received from the engravers a box of invitations to be sent out for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen Mills, to William Forsyth of Orange, the daughter began to blush. When her mother told her to address the envelopes the daughter blushed some more and said: "I don't think we will mail the invitations, mother." "I hope you don't think we will deliver them personally," retorted the mother. "But there is no use in fooling the folks," the young woman said. "We can save the money for the stamps, because Bill and I were married on June 18." The mother bore up bravely under the shock, but more than 200 friends and relatives will have to forego the pleasure of seeing Helen Mills and "Billy" Forsyth married on Thanksgiving eve. DENIES SNOBBERY IN NAVY. Officer Who Rose From Ranks Praises 'His Treatment. Washington.-Lieutenant-D. Lyons of the navy, who reached his present commissioned grade from the ranks, has written a letter to the 'secretary of the navy denying charges which have been made of snobbery in the navy and that graduates of the Naval academy were disposed to look down on nongraduates and discriminate against them. Lieutenant Lyons has had twenty-seven years' experience as an enlisted man, warrant and commissioned officer, and he says that such charges are unjust and untrue. He declares that other men who have come from the ranks, with whom he has discussed the subject, feel the same way. MUSIC HALTS MARRIAGE Bridegroom Overcome on Hearing "Marching Through Georgia." Kalamazoo, Mich.-During the marriage ceremony which united John Dean, seventy years old and a veteran of the civil war, and Mrs. Nancy E. Marks, a native of Alabama, a band passed by the courthouse, where the ceremony was being performed, playing "Marching Through Georgia." As soon as the old man recognized the air a thousand memories seemingly flashed through his memory, and he was so overcome with emotion that it was necessary to stop the ceremony. After the band had passed beyond hearing the reading of the marriage rows was concluded by Judge Falling. Kingston, Mo.—After twenty years of gossip, theorizing and discussion regarding the disappearance of the family of James, McMillan, one time probate judge of Caldwell, county, the officials of the county are to take steps to trace their present whereabouts in the hope of disposing of farm and town property owned by them and upon which taxes have been left unpaid since they disappeared. The property is now deserted and has been long regarded as haunted. The dropping out of sight of Judge McMillan and the subsequent disappearance of his family at various times provide mystery that has never been solved. Having the county courthouse one or two big, the judge, at that time serving his third term in the probate court, and reputed one of the wealthiest men in the county, stopped to talk with his most intimate friend, Thomas Laidlaw. "I think that I will go back to Scotland some day, Tom," he said. "I am fifty-five years old and have been away a long time, but I have honestly grown homesick." He and Laidlaw parted a few moments later, and Judge McMillan was never seen again by his family or any one in the county. He did not leave by the nearest railroad spur, it was found, nor had he hired any vehicle to take him from Kingston. For a time Mrs. McMillan lived quietly. She received no word from her husband, and Inquiries in Scotland proved that he had not been seen there and that no word from him had ever been received by his relatives there. About three years after Judge McMillan's disappearance James and George, his two sons, spent a day about their usual haunts and at night disappeared. They had no baggage of any kind and were dressed in their working clothes. No word has ever been received from them since. Two years passed after the boys had disappeared when handbills were circulated stating that Mrs. McMillan would sell all of her belongings for cash. The sales were held at the different homes owned by her, and then she and her three daughters disappeared as had the father and sons. The real estate belonging to the family had not been disposed of, and no provision was ever made for its sale. Crepe on Girl's Door. Garfield, N. J.-Jilted, a man here nalled crape on the girl's front door and was arrested. National Religious Training Schoo The image shows a serene village scene with a calm river in the foreground, surrounded by lush greenery and a few buildings. The sky is overcast, suggesting a cool or cloudy day. 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. Test Eyes of Beggar Who "Rubbered" When Wearer of Gown Passed. When Wearer of Gown Passed. Limn, O.—Scientific inquiry into the normal condition of the eyes of Thomas Kern, a begging "blind" man, has been ordered by Mayor Shook, following the alleged development in municipal court that Kern found little optical impediment in discerning the form of a woman in'a diaphanous gown at an interurban depot. With a "Please Help the Blind" sign plinned across the front of his coat, darkened glasses over his eyes and a tin, cup resting in his hands, Kern sat at the depot, an object of pity until, as the woman passed, he dropped his cup, snatched away his glasses, took a long "rubber" and then started to resume his pose, when'a policeman arrested him. "Turn No Hungry Man Away," Said. Dying Millionaire. San Francisco, Cal.—"Turn no hungry man away from the Parrott home." On his deathbed John Parrott, a multimillionaire clubman of Hillsborough, solemnly laid the injunction on his wife that all who should come hungry to the house in the stately and ornate park which is one of the beauty spots of Hillsborough should receive food and shelter. That was in 1834, and since that time more than 300,000 tramps and wanderers and adventurers have received succor from Mrs. Parrott, who has held her husband's dying wish as a sacred trust. At one time twenty-five tramps were fed at the Parrott home. There is a porch at the back of the huge kitchen attached to the mansion which is used as the hoboes' dining room. There they may have hot meals in abundant quantity and of the best quality. For years Mrs. Parrott employed a special chef to cook for her wayfaring guests. She puts aside a large monthly allowance in her budget of household expenses to provide for them. They also are permitted to camp on the grounds, and sometimes fifty to a hundred men are gathered there. 78 GIRLS PROPOSE TO HIM. Heir to $25,000 a Year, Now a Cobbler, Defers Choice, However. Brunswick, Ga.-Attracted by the story of Van Allan, a newspaper man who, after spending his first yearly allowance of $25,000, is now living the humble life of a cobbler, by which means he hopes to save enough money to get to Birmingham, where he will receive another allowance of $25,000 in February, seventy-eight girls have written letters to Allan proposing marriage. Allan came to Brunswick on his "uppers." He had been previously living a life of ease. He received a bequest of $25,000 a year for the remainder of his life, but his remittance falls due in February. He has not yet chosen his life partner. 120 YEARS TOO OLD TO WED. Register of Deeds In North Carolina Refuses Man Seventh License. Raleigh, N. C.-Declaring his age of 120 years too great for marriage, the register of deeds of Bladen county declined to give Joseph McIntyre his seventh marriage license. Mr. McIntyre has buried six wives, all of whom lived with him until death. The register declined to issue a license on the ground that the applicant was too old to take care of his prospective bride, who gave her age as eighty. She has been married four times. The couple walked two miles to the town to ask for a license. House & Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts., N. W of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that; will satisfy you. BAN TEMPERANCE BOYS. Abstainers Expelled From an Old University In Germany. Greifswald, Germany.-The expulsion of some students from Greifswald university because of their total abstinence principles has caused a sensation here. The university is one of the oldest in Germany, having been founded in 1450. The students, numbering about 1,000, were called together in June to attend a typical "beer evening" in celebration of the emperor's jubilee. Several abstainers protested and were reprimanded by the officials, who said the protest was an "incitement to action against academic customs." One of the abstainers criticised the reprimand and was sentenced to three days' confinement in the university duhgeon. Further protests led to even more drastic steps, and two of the students were expelled. RECALLS MOLLY PITCHER. Mrs. Samuel Sipe, 101 Years Old, Was Friend of Monmouth Heroine. Carlisle, Pa.—Mrs. Samuel Slpe, who was a child friend of Molly Pitcher and a resident of Carlisle for ninety-four years, celebrated her one hundred and first birthday here. Mrs. Slpe vividly recalls history spanning a century and is in possession of all her faculties. She recalls Molly Pitcher, the heroine of Monmouth, and refutes the assertion that she is buried in any other place than Carlisle, where memorials have been placed over the woman's grave. Mrs. Slpe was born in Switzerland in 1812 and came to Carlisle when she was eight years old, when this place was but the hunting ground for settlers in the Cumberland valley. $10,000 FOR KISSES. Young Ladies Sell Them to Furnish a Hospital. Salem, O.—Twenty thousand mascu line lips pressed those of six fair members of prominent families in a scheme whereby $20,000 was raised toward a fund to endow Salem hospital through the dispensing of women's kisses at $1 each. Men, young and old, stood in line to enjoy the osculatory performance. All the women were single. One married woman, seeking to do her part, compromised by shaking hands at 25 cents a shake. One of the victims, her husband; she charged $2 for the privilege publicly of closing his fingers over hers. Go To HOLMES' HOTEL 333 Virginia Ave. S. 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Philadelphia.—Bettina and Borneo, the orang outangs which had been educated by Dr. William Henry Furness of Wallingford so that they would pronounce simple words, are dead. By constant teaching Dr. Furness had hoped to demonstrate through education that the orang outangs really were the "missing link," capable of sustaining thought and doing almost everything of which a human being is capable. Borneo was eight years old, and Bettina was four, and both were as highly educated as children of the same age. Each knew the alphabet perfectly and could plik it out on lettered blocks. Borneo also could pronounce such words as "cup" and "papa," and Dr. Furness declares that his orang outangs were proving gradually that they were capable of human reasoning. He valued the orang outangs at $50, 000. THREE CAWS FOR JIMCROWI He's Not So Black as Painted, Agriculture Experts Find. That the crow is not as black as he is painted is the conclusion reached by experts of the department of agriculture who have examined several thousand craws of the desplised bird. An error was made ten years ago, the investigators declare, in spreading broadcast n, warning against "old jimcrow." A report announces that the crow does more, good than harm; he eats more pests than crops. His one besetting sin is devouring the eggs and young of other birds, but the contents of his craw prove that about nineteenth of his food consists of insects and other crop destroying creatures. "Don't be too hard on the crow that squawks about your farm," is the advice given by the department of agriculture to the farmer. TO EUROPE WITHOUT A CENT. Harvard Man Sails to Make a Living There on Ten Dollar Wager. Cambridge, Mass.—Charles E. Morris of Brooklyn, a Harvard junior, is bound to Europe with an empty pocketbook on a wager of $10, according to college friends, who say that he sailed on the steamer Laconia and expects to stay several months abroad, depending on his own efforts for a livelihood. "For 2 cents I'd work my way across to Europe," Morris is said to have told classmates a few days ago. One of them offered to bet, $10 that Morris would not go, and the wager was accepted. IMPROVEMENTS BIG PHILIPPINE PROBLEM Washington—The continuation of the policy adopted by the present government in the Philippine Islands of building extensive public improvements throughout the islands, schoolhouses, roads, bridges, municipal markets, water systems, ferries and lighting plants, is one of the problems which the advocates of immediate independence are finding difficulty in solving. The present government, through the bureau of public works, has established public improvements throughout the islands contributing to a marked extent to the prosperity which they now enjoy. These vary in cost from $250 to $250,000, and 80 per cent of them are constructed by the administration itself, private contractors refusing to submit bids on the hazardous undertakings. "The smallest number of active projects in any one of the regularly organized provinces inhabited by the Christianized Filipinos on April 1, 1913," says a statement of the bureau of insular affairs of the war department. "was three and the largest thirty-two. "Nearly one-half the total number was connected with road and bridge improvements. The list included ninety-six new schoolhouses and thirty-four municipal markets, public buildings, water systems, parks, ferries, an electric light plant and two telephone systems. "It has been said that, although current expenses have been cut to provide money for public works, it will take twenty-five years at the present rate to bring about the highway improvements needed today. These roads, the best of them being fully equal to any park roads in the United States, have been one of the great factors in the very marked increase of prosperity during the last few years. Hundreds of communities are in urgent need of schoolhouses, for which no funds are available, and it will necessarily be several years at the present rate of construction before the schools are at all generally housed in permanent buildings. Locomotive an Assault Weapon. Chicago.-William Newell, an engineer, was arrested charged with assaulting Cornellus Reagan, fourteen, with a switch engine. The boy was struck by the pilot and seriously hurt. It is the first charge of the kind ever entered in Chicago police records. The locomotive is termed a "deadly weapon." THE EXPULSION OF THE "WHITE" MAN'S THEORIES The Injustice to the Colored American. Editor, The Bee: In regards to the theoretical inferiority of that American citizen some people, colored and white—insist to call "Xegro" we need not delve into the minute details of science to reach a definite conclusion to prove that it is as false as theory could possibly make it. Yes, by the common law of nature. All men are created equals is not a theory. It is a fact, a suppressed living fact, in America, of course—which cannot be measured nor obliterated by the white man's injustices, prejudices, theories and superstitions. Not unless the white man, with all of his knowledge and philosophy—most particularly that class of whites who hates a colored person in his very soul — contemplates the wholesale slaughter of the colored race in America or the United States without a word of warning—then I must say that, that class of whites are blind indeed when they do not see and know too, that they are, by their propagation of hatery to us, propagating into the very depths of our conscience, the best race of revolutionists or anarchists that the tyrants of the world has ever produced in ancient or will ever produce in our modern times. Yes, that class of whites are densely ignorant of the capabilities of the sponglike assimilations of things in the conscience and soul of the colored person. Why! he is Human! He can feel, he can think, he can eat, he can drink, he can hate, he can love. He lives, he dies. He does all the things that nature intended. Now then, from the very facts that we have found the human in all ages and stages of our slumbering, all of our slumbering thoughts to perfections, awakening the real life of the human being as it must be or, exist according to our creation, does not go to show that it is a theory, to the contrary, the propagators power to electrify, goes to show the perfect? things in our creation. Nothing which can be reflected or conveyed to our conscience and soul in relation to man's existence can be theory. In other words, we cannot truthfully theorize with facts, be they visible or invisible or be they crushed or hidden, the results remain that they are facts and not theories. the tyrants, in all stages of man's existence, used force to crush facts. It was the weaklings who found an avenue of escape through theory and governmental policy. If not for force, the tyrant, there would not be any need for theory; theory, like all governmental policies, are both fallacious which interferes with facts, used by, and propagated for, the benefits of tyrants. No better proof of that assertion can be found than in the conditions which obtain in the government and country we live in. By theorizing the "white" man finds his best weapon to crush truths; but he can not kill nor destroy, nor can he obliterate their existence. They are the undying perfections in the human soul and conscience. The flesh of man at any time be made a slave to the tyrants' will, but never can a slave be made of his soul or conscience by a thousand of tyrants. I regard the things we call "Our Ideals" in the very nature of their existence it is pure mockery to charge their existence to theory. The rights of man, no "black" man, no "white" man, no "yellow" or "red" man, simply the rights of man, are non-theoretical, never was, and never will be, force to the contrary notwithstanding. Is that theory? Or, we may express ourselves thus: In regard to the things which in the very nature of them belong to the human family. Our ideals are non-theoretical; they are the jewels of our truths and the power to assimilate them through propagation in whatever form are our living proof of their truthfulness and positive existence in the soul and conscience of the "black" or the sole and conscience of the "white" man alike. Be that propagation—better known by the term electrification—be through the agency of anarchism, socialism or the revolutionist propaganda, their ends would, under existing prejudices and religious discriminations, "justly justify their means. As a "colored" man, after my many years of painful contact with our surroundings, of discriminations, oppressions, vilifications and all forms of dark human assassinations of "colored" persons in the United States, the supposed home of the free and land of the braves, I do not hesitate to say, that I have reached the above conclusions. You may call it by whatever name you will or like, there are three to choose from. Still, I would say, either one of them fits perfectly with your damnable injustices, religious prejudices and theories, vicious and cowardly Christian assassinations in every form of the docile race, "The Negro?" I would further say; since it is true that necessity proves that she is the mother of all inventions, then why not "The Negro?" be the adopted child of anarchism, socialism or revolutionism? Oh, you"would say, horrors! murder! horrors! But do you not know that it is purity, humanity, love and gentility that are the only weapons that can truly and effectively be used to enslave a man's soul and conscience? Be that soul and conscience he that of a "colored" man's or of a "white" man's? There is no theory about that, is there? A man's conscience is the only true weapon he possesses for his well being and proper defense, all other weapons are of secondary importance. It is a strange but yet the most undeniable fact that the present demands of "Christianity" is slavery in its most vilest forms. Present conditions to the Afro-American is as bitter, if not more, and as cruel as the slavery of the past. Our intelligence is bound to make us feel so, all opinions to the contrary notwithstanding. Thus, my opinion of Christianity is, it is a complete failure, and in order that its demands for the future be of a higher and nobler institution and purpose, it will be necessary to completely change the present disorder of things. Not unless Christianity, composed of a few forms of religious worship, can prove to the "colored" persons of the coming generation in this country that Christianity was capable of and intended for a better and higher purpose than what the past and present conditions of prejudices and human discriminations conveys to our conscience I do not hesitate to predict that they will repudiate and completely eradicate and obliterate every stitch of it from their enlightened conscience by considering it a false and most selfish and even cruel propagation of theory ever used by the "white" man to keep the "colored" race in the United States, as a whole, from studying his real self. Not unless there be a complete change in the "white" man's opinion of himself done by purging the fifth of prejudice from his or their soul and conscience, that race of persons known by the word "Negro" will some day wake up to give very much trouble. Because, no race, oppressed, is capable of forever considering and admitting the theoretical superiority of any man's creation because they will sooner or later learn that it is no proof of his, the "black" man's, inferiority, nor of the "white" man's superiority. Make no further mistakes. If your "Christian" (?) is as pure as you say it is, of which I deny most fully, then admit that the "black" man is a human as capable as any, who will in time demand—yes, demand—his or their equal share of life. Do not forget that the soul and conscience of the "black" race filled to its very depths with the living proofs of his equal creation, is reflected in his arts of music, his poetry, his arts in science in his oratory, in his bravery and interpidity and in their unheard of capability of not completely becoming a race of prostitutes when the most vicious and violent forms of it was injected into their sires for two hundred and forty-four long years in a cruel slavery. Yes, it can easily be said that that human being termed "The Negro" (?) is a living and most undeniable proof—not as a "Negro"—that all men was and are created equals. Is all of this theory? P. L. CARMOUCHE. Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Waters Makes a Few Observations. October 25, 1913. Editor, Washington Bee: Referring to your recent remarks on the half-nelson outfit now in control of the affairs of the Medical Department of Howard University, which remarks I read with great interest, I beg to offer some paragraphs quoted from a letter received a short time ago from a Howardite who has just been licensed to practice dentistry in the State of New Jersey. Among other things my correspondent sought to tell me something of his experience before the Dental Examining Board. The most trying feature of the test seems to have been the swaging of a plate, all gold or silver, with gum suction teeth. This is a requirement of the boards of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and the work must be done in the presence of the Board. "My class, 07," says the Doctor, "had a swage plate of German silver with vulcanite attachment. This attaching the teeth with vulcanite rubber is far easier than "gum section." With all my love for Alma Mater and free from any knocking, I think the following should be required at Howard: "1. Swage plate, full upper, with gum section teeth. A more thorough training in handling the blow-pipe. "2. A practical knowledge of the administration of anaesthetics, such as nitrous oxide and oxygen someeforine, etc. The theory is al right, but Jersey requires her men to actually give anaesthetics before the board. Not a single-member of my class gave an anaesthetic during the entire year (senior)." "3. Orthodontia. A more thorough training in the correction of the irregularities of teeth and their appliances. This subject has long since been neglected in Howard and has been commented on by members of the Jersey Board. I recommend the teaching of the Angle System as well as the Jackson System, which was taught to my class. "4. Last but by no means least, a competent laboratory man should be in charge and present at all hours of instruction. This, to my mind, is most important. In my time, and I am told that it is so now, the demonstrator acted in a dual capacity, both in the Infirmary and in the Laboratory at the same time. One can see that no instructor can do justice to the student by running to and from the laboratory to the operating chair, with a class of any size. "NEXT. Stop appointing recent graduates to such important chairs as Dental Pathology and Dental Anatomy. Retain such men as Dr. Howland and Dr. Brown, and others who not only bear weight in the profession but give tone to the school. To my mind such a man as Dr. Sumner Wormley should be retained at all hazards as head of the Infirmary. This man has done more to perfect the present high standing of the Infirmary than any three men the Dental Department has ever had. "Physical Diagnosis to Dental students should be given more consideration. To be able to examine the heart and take the pulse before the administration of an anaesthetic is very important. "Porcelain Work. A practical knowledge of the "body," "biscuit bake," etc., should be given, together with the theory. Ingredients such as "gum frits," "titanium oxide," and coloring matter as well as the metals used in the manufacture of porcelain teeth, etc. "Requirements for Entrance. Enforce the entrance requirements given in the catalog, and don't allow students coming from the South with diplomas and certificates as big as barn doors to enter and hold back men from Jersey because you think they might take one of the tough boards. Make the requirements the same for all men. This I get from a very prominent practitioner, an alumnus, here in New Jersey, and have every reason to believe it is true." The foregoing, Mr. Editor, tells its own story. If all these things were needed in 1907, what must be the conditions in the Dental School now? Dr. Wormley is no longer head of the Infirmary. Why? Why did he stick through all the years of drudgery and then get out when things were at their best—a "best" which he himself was most instrumental in effecting? Things became so disagreeable that Dr. Wormley could no longer honorably remain. Why? Who was so fat and infernally dictatorial as to make a man referred to in the words used above relative to Dr. Wormley (words most aptly chosen) feel that he would rather get out than endure the contumely of some bone-head whom everybody thought was a lion until he brayed? There's a reason. Fordham Medical College had a shake-up which landed the entire faculty out on the bricks—and Fordham still lives, bigger and better than 'ever before. I vouchsafe no opinion as to the extent of the needed shape-up at Howard, but surely a shape-up is needed, and it cannot come too soon. If it doesn't come pretty soon, then—Good-bye, Medical Department. That's all. JAMES C. WATERS, JR. DELIBERATE PERSECUTION. (Boston Daily Advertiser, Oct. 17.) We believe that the people of New England have not only the right, but a duty, to protest against the policy of deliberate persecution of colored employees of the national government, at Washington. In effect the word has gone forth that Negroes who are now working for the nation, in some of the executive departments at Washington, must either get out of the city and go to remote employment, or they must resign. In any case, they will not be allowed to work in the same buildings with white clerks, at the national capital. These colored men have behaved themselves. They are good clerks, efficient workers, model employees, in every way. But, because the pigment of their skin may be darker than that of their fellow clerks, they must give up either their homes or their government employment. This is carrying into national affairs the old grudges and the narrow prejudices of Southern life, with a vengeance. It is not a proper method of national policy, in any sense. It is the resurrection of a selfish, provincial, indefensible race issue, and its deliberate injection into national executive departments is without the shadow of excuse. It is mean, it is selfish, it is cruel, it is brutal. But it seems to be the deliberate policy of members c. President Wilson's cabinet. As to the facts themselves, there seems to be little dispute. The matter is one of common knowledge at Washington: The colored workers in the Postoffice Department have had their significant warning. They are to be transferred to remote assignments, unless meanwhile they make a virtue of necessity, and offer their resignations. At the department itself, it is claimed that the new move is not inspired by any race hatreds, but is wholly in the interest of economy; but an "economy" which makes a clean sweep of the colored employees, and leaves the whites undisturbed, rather implies an "economy" chiefly with the truth. It is plain enough, now, that because the chief leaders of the Democratic administration are Southern Democrats, they have resolved to fasten their favorite "Jim Crow" policy upon the nation. In the South, today, the "Jim Crow" policy implies that all colored men shall be treated as lepers. If each colored man or woman in the South were forced to carry a bell, and to shout "Unclean, unclean," there would be little greater segregation than that which already exists. Among white men and women, in public places, the colored man or colored woman is just as much of an outcast, a pariah, as if a dark skin were actually recognized today as a mark of the leper. When one harks back to the story of fifty years ago, here in New England; when one recalls what agonized effort and what tremendous crucifixion of self were reached, at that time, that the old order should change, and that human slavery should not longer be a blot on the fame of this republic, it is not a fair question, today, whether the sublime renunciation of every selfish consideration for the good of humanity, as shown a half century ago by the people of this section, was all in vain? If the "South is in the saddle," if the officers of the President's cabinet can permit a policy of intentional race discrimination, within the Washington departments, -must the people of New England keep silent about it? We believe that there are still some millions of people of the North, whose memories hark back to the dreadful tragedies, the awful suffering of the Civil War period; and we believe that there are many determined men, many intelligent women, in this section who cannot read of these tragedies in the lives of the colored employees of the government at Washington, with unstirred pulse, or cool indifference. To these home-loving people at Washington, themselves the children of former slaves, this new policy of the Wilson administration comes with all the force of a great tragedy. It is not to be supposed that they have the sturdy self-reliance of the Anglo-Saxon. To them, the demand to sever all home ties and to go to some remote place means almost the sacrifice of every hope in life. Yet, if they refuse to be driven forth, they must give up their only known source or means of employment. This should not be a party issue. It should not be a race issue. 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