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VOL. XXXIV; NO. 21 DAVIDSON RESIGNS Head of the Public Schools Unanimous Choice of the Board of Education—Accepts Call to Pittsburgh, Pa.-His Retirement of the District Public Schools to Be Regretted—His Successor Not Yet Decided Upon. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 4.—Dr. William Mehard Davidson, Superintendent of Schools of Washington, D. C., was today elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Pittsburgh for a term of four years, at a salary of $9,000 a year. Dr. Davidson was chosen unanimously by the Board of Education. He succeeds S. L. Heeter, who came here a few years ago from St. Paul, Minn., and was recently removed on charges of alleged immorality. Dr. Davidson Accepts Offer Dr. Davidson Accepts Offer. Dr. Davidson has accepted the offer of the Pittsburgh Board of Education, to become Superintendent there on condition that the Washington Board of Education releases him. If the local board should refuse he will remain in his present position, despite the fact that it will mean a material loss to him. The acceptance was given late last night, when G. W. Gerwig, secretary of the Pittsburgh Board of Education, called Dr. Davidson by long-distance telephone and informed him of his unanimous election to the office yesterday by the Pittsburgh board. Mr. Gerwig said that official notice of the election had been mailed. He asked that Dr. Davidson tell him whether he would accept the position. Dr. Davidson accepted. Board Members Astonished. Members of the Board of Education, when informed that Dr. Davidson had accepted the offer, were astonished. They said they had thought of no candidate for the position, that they had hoped Dr. Davidson would decide to remain in Washington, and that they were at a loss to say just what they would do. A board meeting may be called for today. Consideration of Dr. Davidson's request to be released will be the first matter to be taken up. It is regarded as likely that the answer will accord with his wishes. The question of his successor then will be promptly taken up. Among those whose names have been suggested are Assistant Superintendent Ernest L. Thurston, Principals Davis and Wilson, and Carroll G. Pearse, president of the Milwaukee-Normal School. Uncertain About Successor. Members of the board, when informed last night of Dr. Davidson's decision, expressed themselves as follows: Henry P. Blair, President—I have not given the matter of Dr. Davidson's successor one moment's consideration. Until he informs me that he has officially accepted the position I refuse to discuss the matter. We shall secure the best man that we can. E. H. Daniel, Vice President—We have not considered the matter of a successor to Dr. Davidson. We are too stunned at the calamity to realize it fully. Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes—I don't know what to do. A successor to Dr. Davidson has not been discussed by the board. The subject has been avoided. Mrs. Edith Kingman Kern—I can say nothing but that I regret Dr. Davidson's leaving us more than I can tell. Mrs. Caroline Harris—The board has not taken up the matter of a successor to Dr. Davidson. Suggests Principal Wilson for Place. Dr. C. W. Childs—I sincerely regret that Dr. Davidson is to leave us. Emory Wilson is a good man, and would make a useful man in any position. J. B. Larner—I regret that Dr. Davidson is to leave us. Emory Wilson, Dr. Small, and Allan Davis are all good men. They are well trained. I do not believe that we will have to go out of town to find a superintendent. Dr. C. H. Marshall—I do not believe that we will have to go out of town to secure a successor for Dr. Davidson. Emory Wilson and Dr. Small are both good men. The loss of Dr. Davidson will cripple us for a while, but I believe that matters will work out all right. Representative Aswell, former Superintendent of Louisiana Public Schools—Dr. Davidson's loss will be felt by the District and by the country at large. His leaving Washington is a reflection on the District of Columbia, Congress, and the country at large. He should have been given a salary so large as to make it worth his while to stay here. Conrad H. Syme, Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia—For Dr. Davidson to leave the public schools of Washington will be a calamity. He is one of our foremost educators. That he is worth a larger salary is self-evident. Pittsburgh appreciates this fact. When the news of Dr. Davidson's prospective appointment was made public for the first time in The Post several days ago Commissioner Siddons wrote the superintendent a let- ter pleading for him to remain in Washington. Salary Increase Held Unlikely. Before last night's announcement, the general, opinion among the members of the Board of Education was that it would be impossible to secure an increase in salary for the superintendent from Congress. The last recommendation made for an increase, in the salary of the position by the board specified that the salary be fixed at $7,500. This was cut to $6,000 by Congress, the figure the superintendent has been receiving. Last year when the board started again to ask for an increase, Dr.Davidson protested against the recommendation and stated that he believed it useless to ask for more money. Sentiment in Congress to throw the entire burden of the school system on the District is growing rapidly, in the opinion of many of the members of the Board of Education. "OUT OF ONE BLOOD CREATED ED GOD ALL NATIONS." "Afro-American Strong in Faith in the Hebrew's God," Said Rev. A. J. Carey in His Speech at the Mass Meeting at Chicago Asking Justice for the Jew. Rev. A. J. Carey, pastor of the Institutional Church, Chicago, was selected by the committee in charge as the proper man in Chicago to represent the Afro-American people at the mass meeting held Sunday afternoon at Cohen's Grand Opera House to protest against the action of the Russian government in prosecuting one Mendell Beilis, a Jew of Kiev, charged with "ritual murder" Dr Carey's address was received with great applause and at the request of the chairman he went to an overflow meeting at the Garrick Theatre, where he delivered the address a second time, the Jewish audience applauding him to the echo. Dr. Carey said in part: It was the Nazarene who declared: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Nineteen centuries have passed, but the philosophy, the wisdom of this sublime utterance have not been challenged unto this day. The trouble, then, in Russia, as in America—in fact, in every land where the weak are oppressed by the strong, where the helpless are persecuted by the powerful—is that men "love darkness rather than light" and prefer to grope their ways through the quagmires of ignorance, superstition and sin, wherein are bred the foul diseases of prejudice, race hatred and national crime. The purpose and end of this meeting as I see it is to awaken the national conscience, yea, the conscience of Christendom to the awfulness and horror of that condition which permits the brutal Russian to conjure up a false and iniquious charge and murder hundreds and thousands of innocent and inoffensive Jews. I speak as a representative of a race ten millions strong in this country, a race that knows what suffering, persecution and misrepresentation mean. A race, Mr. Chairman, which is fitted by reason of the things we have suffered to sympathize with the Jews of Russia today as no other people in this presence can. And we rejoice that as a natural sequence there will go out from this meeting a mighty influence that will not cease to be felt until all men the world over shall learn the truth declared by Paul upon Mars Hill that, "Out of one blood God created all nations to dwell (together) upon the face of the earth." The race to which I belong may not be strong in wealth, nor strong in the things the world calls great, but we are strong in our faith in the Hebrew's God, aye in the Hebrew himself. We do not believe that the Hebrew race could produce "Beilis, the ritual murderer," than could the sweet-throated nightingale produce as her offspring the blood-thirsty tiger. The charge is false. The Russian Jew, timorous, fearful and God-loving, is incapable of ritual murder. This is not a question of the Jew simply, nor of the Czar and the Russian. It is humanity's question. It is Christianity's problem. Will enlightened humanity, will twentieth-century Christianity rise to the dignity of the occasion, meet the demands of the hour and settle once for all the question that neither Russia nor America shall find countenance among Christian people unless full opportunity and a fair chance are accorded to all who swear allegiance to their country's flag? To this end I pledge the hearty sympathy and co-operation of the 10,000,000 of my people—Christians—people who are living up to the light of Christianity as best they understand it, striving by earnest endeavor to prove themselves in every way worthy of citizenship in this cosmopolitan republic. And I pledge you that our efforts will not end nor will our co-operation with all good men and every good cause cease until the conquering forces of righteousness and truth shall "march forth clear as the sun, fair as the moon, as terrible as an army with banners and there shall be none to hurt or harm in all God's holy mountain." The following was taken from the Daily Jewish Courier, of Chicago, Monday, October 19, and is a correct translation: DR. WM. DAVIDSON Resigns from the Superintendency of, the Public Schools. The Man Who Has the Confidence and Respect of the People. "Then came the Reverend Doctor Carey, the colored pastor of the Institutional Church and social center. He was greatly affected by the stories of Jewish suffering in barbarous Russia, and with tears streaming down his cheeks, he made a masterful address in which he compared his race with the Jewish people and said that the colored people were the only ones present who could really sympathize with the Jews. He said his people were strong in their faith in the Hebrew God and in the Hebrew himself, and he pledged the sympathy and moral support of his race, 10,000,000 strong, in the fight the Jews are making for justice in the land of the Czar." DREAM OF LOWER PRICES Fading—Free Meat Fails to Cut the Cost of Living So Far as the Average Consumer Can Notice It. From New Haven (Conn.) Register. It is a beautiful dream which many have dreamed this summer, under the soporific influence of Democratic tariff talk. Why, it was the simplest thing on earth. Remove all tariffs from the necessaries of life markets to the products of the world, and the worlds' great supply would rush in in such quantities as to bring prices down to low levels. So they tried it on meat. That's on the free list now. But before that happened a cargo of Argentine beef had come in. Though it had to pay the tariff, it should sell in our mar- ```markdown ``` [Image of a man seated in an ornate chair, dressed in formal attire with a suit and tie. He is holding a book or document in his left hand.] DR: S. L. CORROTHERS Will Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Church. Will Begin Tomorrow and Continue to December. kets at least as low as any native beef. It didn't. It was enough higher than the home article to more than make up the difference of the tariff. That may have served the kind mission, pityearing us for the blow which now comes from no less an authority than the Department of Agriculture, now equipped with the wisdom of democratic statesmanship. The gist of it is that the removal of our tariff can't alter the fact that the rest of the world has use for the rest of the world's beef, and will take it. We shall get no extra supply because we let it in free. Again we face a condition instead of a theory. This may serve to set even believers in democratic theory to thinking. If this is true of beef, of how many other articles of food supply is it true? If the dream of cheaper foodstuffs is defective in this respect, may it not be in others? Its bright colors begin to fade already. In many essential schedules, the new tariff is based on the supposition that removal of duty will serve to counterbalance all the forces which increase cost of product. Now, whether this proves untrue because there is no supply available that removal of tariff will induce to come in, or because the duty is a very inconsequential element in the cost, the result is to be that our national revenue will be reduced, without materially lightening the burden of the consumer. Meanwhile, the men who pay the income tax provided to make up for this shrinkage in r ```markdown ``` the whole burden without any compensation at all. And those who don't pay the income tax are likely to "get theirs" through reduction in or loss of wages caused by the depressing effect of the new tariff on certain industries. MR. AND MRS. NAPIER. Citizens of Tennessee Honor Them—Big Demonstration to Two Worthy Persons. (From Nashville Tenn. Union.) No greater ovation, no bigger demonstration and no more fervent reception has ever been given two citizens of Nashville on their return to their home town than was accorded by some of Nashville's energetic citizens to J. C. Napier, ex-Register of the Treasury, and his wife, Mrs. J. C. Napier, Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock when they returned from Washington to take up their residence in Nashville once more. Headed by Nashville's energetic citizens, the Napier party was met at the Union Station by a special committee and a brass band. The committee had arranged for automobiles, carriages and private conveyances. Ex-Councilman S. P. Harris, Dr. J. B. Singleton, president of the People's Savings Bank and Trust Company; Dr. C. H. Clark, pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church; Prof. J. D. Crenshaw, editor of the National Baptist Union-Review; R. H. Boyd, president of the One Cent Savings Bank; Mr. C. N. Langston, Dr. J. A. Napier, Mr. Henry A. Boyd, Mr. Lorenzo E. Johnson, Rev. N. H. Pius, D. D., Rev. W. S. Ellington, D. D., Dr. J. T. Phillips, representing the Nashville Boosters' Club; W. H. McGavock, Oscar Sawyer, A. T. Johnson, John Campbell, Walter Clark, Jos. Johnson, J. B. Wilson, O. Jennings, Luke Buntin, Adrain Webb, Wm. McKissack, John Brown, Grant Clark, D. Barry, Louis K. Thomas, L. Landers, J. B. Boyd, P. Petway, G. Davis, H. Floyd, Wm. Franklin, C. Campbell, T. B. Boyd, S. Stratton, J. Boyd, A. Boyd and G. M. West constituted the big citizens' committee. Among the ladies who met Mrs. Napier were Mesdames R. H. Boyd, A. E. Hall, H. A. Boyd, Lorena C. Taylor, M. V. Tittle, Chas. H. Thorn, Joia Uirreña, Misses Eleanor A. Dale, Mary A. Dunson, Sarah Bosworth, Mattie L. Williams, Henrietta Campbell, Georgia Holman, Nellie E. King, Katie Boyd, Leola Bright and Lena T. Jackson. While Mr. and Mrs. Napier were being escorted from the train to the Union Station platform the National Baptist Brass Band played national airs and as soon as they reached the landing the large crowd gave a new yell composed for the occasion by Miss Nellie E. King, after which began the hand-shaking and congratulations. It was plainly evident that the Negroes of Nashville were in full sympathy and hearty accord with the manly stand taken by the ex-Register of the Treasury when he refused to sign a segregation order that, to his way of thinking, was humiliating to his people. His casting aside of ten thousand dollars (which would have been his salary for the two remaining years of his unexpired term) in their behalf was fully repaid by the great, big demonstration made at so early an hour in the morning. The honorees and concourse of people, led by the committee, passed through the Union Station and were placed in waiting automobiles and open carriages. A line of march was formed, headed by Captain J. H. Kelly, Jr., in full military uniform, mounted on a gray steed, which led them through the heart of the city. The procession moved east on Broadway to Eighth Avenue North, then north on Eighth Avenue to Church Street, east on Church Street to Fifth Avenue, north on Fifth Avenue to Cedar Street, east on Cedar Street to the public square, across the public square to Locust, west on Locust to Third Avenue, north on Third Avenue to Jefferson Street, west on Jefferson to Twelfth Avenue, south on Twelfth Avenue to the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Langston, where the procession stopped and a short address was made by Rev. R. H. Bloyd in presenting and welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Napier back to Nashville. He declared that no braver act by a truer member and more loyal representative of the race had ever been done for the people who were making good in every walk of life. Mr. and Mrs. Napier responded in chosen language. The band then played and the people dispersed to their respective homes. Among those who contributed carriages and automobiles were W. H. McGavock & Company. A. N. Johnson Undertaking Establishment, National Baptist Publishing Board, Presston Taylor & Company, Dr. C. H. Clark, Dr. J. B. Singleton, Mr. C. N. Langston, Mr. Lovell Landers, Dr. R. H. Boyd and Mr. Henry A. Boyd. A parade through the business section of Nashville before breakfast created the most profound impression. The streets were thronged with people and the word was soon passed down and went flying in front of the people that Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Napier had returned. It resembled hero and heroine returning triumphantly unto their own and to their home. Get ready for the Thomas testimonial by the citizens of Washington. RACE SEGREGATION RACE SEGREGATION MOVE TO SEGREGATE RACES At the Capital—Washington Citizens Write to Mayor Preston for a Copy of Local Ordinance. Baltimore, Md., Oct.-Following the lead taken by Baltimore certain residents of the District of Columbia are preparing to inaugurate a race segregation movement in the city of Washington. Information to this effect is embodied in two letters received by Mayor Preston today, in both of which the writers ask for copies of the local segregation ordinance. One of the letters was written by William Ramsey, a jeweler at 1318 F Street Northwest, who says: Will Make Fight Similar to Local One. "We are impressed in Washington with your efforts to segregate the homes of the white and colored population, and intend to make a fight in the same direction. "If you will send me a copy of your laws, which I understand were approved by the Supreme Court, you will greatly oblige many a sufferer in the capital city." E. J. Totten, a real estate dealer, is the writer of the other letter. He likewise asks for a copy of the ordinance passed by the City Council and "sustained by your Supreme Court." The mistake both of these writers make is in assuming that the Court of Appeals has approved the new segregation law. The new measure, it will be recalled, was drafted in an effort to meet the objections pointed out by the court to the West measure, but, so far, has not been passed upon by any of the courts. TYLER BANQUETTED. Negro Business League Entertains the National Organizer. Indianapolis. Ind.—A fine banquet was pulled, off here last Friday night at the Y. M. C. A., tendered by the colored business men of this city, to Ralph W. Tyler. The local business league, which has been inactive, has been revived and reorganized, and the greatest possible interest is now manifested in league work. The Colored Y. M. C. A. has tendered the use of a room in the handsome Y. M. C. A. building to the league in which to hold monthly meetings without charge. Among the speakers at the banquet, in addition to Mr. Tyler, were George L. Knox, editor of The Freeman; A. C. Manning, editor of The World; Attorneys Lott, Brokenburr and Ransome, Secretary Taylor of the Y. M. C. A., Walter Hodge, Doctors Ward, Armstead and Perkins, and others. The most representative among the colored business men of the city were in attendance at the banquet. During his stay here Mr. Tyler was shown every courtesy by the colored men of the city. It looks now as if Indianapolis will have a strong, active Negro Business League. Madame Walker, the hair culturist, left last Saturday for New York in her touring car, where she will take passage today for Kingston, Jamaica, expecting to spend the winter in Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. A fine reception was given by the madame last Saturday afternoon at her beautiful home, to take leave, of her many friends here, prior to sailing. The madame will take her touring car with her to the West Indies. Rev. Clair, of Washington, D. C., was here last week in attendance on the National Methodist (M. E.) meeting. Dr. R. E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate of New Orleans, delivered a masterful address before the Colored Y. M. C. A. last Sunday. Indianapolis is a great business center for Negro business men and manufacturers. Afro-American Folk Songs. Under the auspices, and in the interest of the Washington Conservatory of Music, a society has been formed for the development and perpetuation of Afro-American folk songs. This society will make its initial appearance in Washington on Friday evening, November 21, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church with a chorus of twenty-five voices, including the following soloists: Miss C. M. Wallace, Mrs. Lucy Blagburn, Miss Lillian Evans, Miss Mamie Simmons, Messrs. E. R. Amos and Harry Nugent. They will be assisted by two soloists, Miss Abbie Mitchell, of New York, and Mr. William Speights, director of the Voice Department at the Conservatory. Mr. Will Marion Cook, director, and Mr. H. L. Grant, accompanist. The program will show the progress of the Afro-American singer from the old spirituals of the slave, to the more highly developed works of such colored composers as Coler idge-Taylor, Burleigh, Johnson, White and others, and finally his study and grasp upon the masterpieces of musical literature. A rare musical treat is offered those who desire to avail themselves of this opportunity to hear these splendidly trained singers. Tickets may be secured at the Conservatory. FATAL AMBITION NOBLE AMBITION Ambition a Prime Necessity to a Successful Life. Its True Import—Two Notable Examples In the Bible of Right and Wrong Ambitions—A Glorious Life and Prospect Ruined by Wrong Ambitions—In Contrast, Another Glorious Life Enhanced In Eternal Glory by Following Right Ambitions—The Lesson to the Church of Christ—Incidental Lessons to All and to Angels. PASTOR RUSSELL Washington, D.C., November 2— Of Pastor Russell's two discourses here today we report the one on "Ambitions Noble and Ignoble." He took for his text Philippians 2:6, 7, but corrected the translation, declaring that he had the support of scholarship in rendering it thus: "Who, being in the form of God, did not meditate a usurpation to be on an equality with God, but [contrariwise] made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant." He said: Whoever has no ambition has not properly begun to live. Ambition implies appreciation of the value of life—a weighing of prospects and possibilities—a decision, and a fixed determination of will. Parents and teachers should aim to lift before the mental vision of the young noble ideals, and to assist them in determining what they would copy and which goal they will bend life's energies to reach. To such parents and teachers many of those successful in life refer in-terms of endearment, declaring how much they owe to the encouragement of ideals and ambitions to which these assisted them. Many Woe-Begone Faces. character and to give that many billion; or that low and trivial sit. In a crowd less than a hundred faces and their an ideal, an aming it. In other our poor, fallen race lack the very mannspring of life. This lack of proper ambition not only makes life a drudgery instead of a pleasure, but it is a menace to our social fabric. According to the Bible, it is this nine-tenths of the human family, without lawful ambitions, that will be anarchists, striving to pull down the structure of civilization in a kind of blind fury—the awakening of an ambition which, knowing not how to vent itself, will bring trouble upon all. Worldly Ambitious Profitable. It is the ambitious tenth of humanity that cause the wheels of progress to turn. Their ambitions are keeping their own minds actively occupied and are giving employment to the remainder of men. The ambitious mechanic hopes to become an inventor and to rise in the social scale. The ambitious clerk strives for success, hoping to become a successful merchant. The successful merchants, princes and captains of industry take pride in building up vast enterprises, in the erection of monumental edifices, in the construction of great bridges, tunnels, etc. Others have ambitions along professional lines. There is a general tendency among the ambitionless to view these successful people harshly, to think of their ambitions as purely selfish, giving no credit to the pleasure of an exercise of ambition which the majority cannot appreciate because they have none themselves. Centrary Thoughts Should Prevail. Contrary Thoughts Should Prevail. Men with ambition leading on to genius should be admired, appreciated; and it should be remembered that they have helped mankind in general to larger conceptions of life and to wider possibilities. I grant, indeed, the necessity for legislation in restraining the rich, and especially trusts and combinations of brain and money which might endanger the liberties and property of the masses. But let us never forget how much we owe to the ambitious men whom we seek to restrain from power to crush those of less ambition and less capacity, who are more or less dependent upon them. As proving that some of our successful men were moved by ambition rather than love of money, we note the fact that, having accumulated vast fortunes, some are directing their energies in expending the money in the endowment of colleges, the building of libraries, the financing of political and medical investigations for public ween. Whether their judgment and ours agree as respects the wisdom of their benefactions is another matter. They have a right to exercise their own judgments in the use of money which came to them through the exercise of their own brains and ambitions. We can surely agree that a beautiful library building becomes an incentive for the erection of other beautiful buildings, even though comparatively few of the public make use of the books therein and prefer the trashy kind. Perhaps some good may also result from the endowment of great colleges, even though they are doing more than anything else to undermine faith in the personal God of the Bible, and thus bistering the great day of anarchy by destroying faith and hope in Messiah's promised Kingdom, which are an offset to the trials and difficulties of the present life. And if to you or me should come the thought of how much more wisely we could use the money, let us check the thought, remembering that God has not entrusted it to us, and that all our time and thought may be more wisely used in connection with our own stewardship of what talent, influence and money we do possess. The Lesson of Our Text. We should remember that our text, and indeed the entire Bible, is addressed to the Church of Christ—to those who have left the world, who have given their all to the Lord, acceptable through Christ, and who are intent upon knowing and doing God's will. The world is left by the Lord to try out its own ambitions, to realize eventually that these result in disappointment. It is when we experience the disappointment of our own plans and ambitions that we are truly prepared to look to the Lord. In our text the Apostle does not specify Satan in contrast with Jesus; yet we may read between the lines that He had in mind the opposite course pursued by Lucifer, who became Satan, and the Logos, who became Christ. The Scriptural record is that Lucifer was one of the highest and most glorious spirit beings—a cherub. But a sinful ambition took possession of him. Instead of the righteous ambition to serve and honor his Creator, he thought that if he had an empire of his own he could improve upon the Divine order of things. —Isaiah 14: 12-15. This ambition ultimately led Lucifer to carry out the program in connection with mankind. Thenceforth he was known as Satan, God's Adversary, "the Prince of this world, which now worketh in the hearts of the children of disobedience." According to the Bible, Satan has been permitted to have a certain amount of liberty, to show what the evil course would be and what its evil results. But according to the Bible he is soon to be restrained for a thousand years, while Messiah's Kingdom will break the shackles of sin and death, and give all the fullest opportunity to return to harmony with God and to attain everlasting life. Ultimately, Satan is to be destroyed together with all who have latter meditated no such usurpation of Divine authority as Lucifer aimed to obtain. On the contrary, He was the very personification of loving obeilence and self-abnegation. Instead of meditating a usurpation to make Himself equal to the Father, He declared. "My Father is greater than F"; "My Father is greater than all"; "I delight to do Thy will, O My God."—John 14:28; 10:29; Psalm 40:8. As in due time Satan found opportunity for manifesting his ambition, so in due time the Logos found opportunity for manifesting His humility and loving obedience. Man's fall brought the opportunity—the need of a Redeemer. As it was man who was condemned to death, so the redemption of Adam and his race must be accomplished by the death of a man. The death of bulls and goats could be only typical. Neither would an angel be a corresponding price. Hence the Divine proposal to the Logos—that If He would become a man, taking the sinner's nature, but not participating in the sinner's weakness or sin, He might thus be the Redeemer of men and accomplish the Divine will. Attached to this proposal was the promise that so great a manifestation of love, loyalty and obedience to the Father would receive a great reward—an exultation to the Divine nature, glory, honor and immortality. Thus Jesus declared that for His faithfulness He had been rewarded by His Father with a place in His Throne.—Revelation 3:21. The Lesson of Humility. St. Paul was seeking to impress the lesson of humility, as the context shows. Jesus exemplified in His own course of humility the ambition to be and to do just what would be pleasing to the Heavenly Father, not meditating for an instant to grasp Divine glory and honor, and association with the Father in His Throne. He did God's will at the cost of His life—even the death of the cross. And behold God's wonderful grace! He who sought not to usurp the Throne, but who humbled Himself, has been exalted to the right hand of God! What an exemplification of the teachings of God's Word! Did not God declare, "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall"? He permitted Satan to be an illustration of just such a result; and this illustration is forceful in its application to all. "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." The Apostle points out that the Heavenly Father, who so highly rewarded our Savior's loving obedience, has made a similar proposition to those whom He is calling during this Age to become associates with His Son. If we become dead to the world and lay down our lives in obedience to the Father's will, as Jesus did, we shall share His Throne, as He has promised. tified by faith in our Redeemer's sacrifice, presenting our bodies living sacrifices, and faithfully persevering in the narrow way, we shall "make our calling and election sure." "Every Knee Shall Bow." The Apostle (V. 10) declares that our Master's exaltation, as a result of His humility, is so great that all eventually must recognize Him as Lord of all. Unto Him, every knee shall bow of the Heavenly and the earthly families. Already the angels acknowledge Him. As we read, the Father saith, "Let all the angels of God worship [acknowledge] Him." The bowing of earth will come later. The work of the entire thousand years of Messiah's Reign will be for the uplifting of mankind from sin and death. Whom the Son will make free will be free indeed. But all those made free will know, that their release is due to the great sacrifice which Jesus accomplished in the carrying out of the Divine Plan. And all will know that the Redeemer has been honored of the Father and exalted to the chief place. And those reaching perfection will be glad to bow the knee to Him and to confess Him with their tongues. The Father Is Excepted. We are not to gather from these statements that Jesus, in any sense of the word, will take the place, the glory, the honor, of the Father. Jehovah God declares, "I give not My glory to another." (Isaiah 42:8). St. Paul explains that although Jesus will be hailed as Lord of all, nevertheless it is manifest that He is excepted who puts all things thus in subjection to the Son. St. Paul emphasizes this by telling us (1 Corinthians 15:27, 28) that it will be the Father's Power that will bring everything in subjection to the Son; and that when the Son, in carrying out the Father's gracious plans, shall have put all things in obedience to Himself, then shall He deliver up the Kingdom to the Father, that the Father may be all in all. Truly the Divine Program, as stated in the Bible, is beautiful and wonderful. It illustrates to us elements of the Divine Character that we never could have appreciated except as man's fall into sin and death gave opportunity for the exercise of Divine Wisdom, Justice, Love and Power. Had there been no sin, no death, there would have been no opportunity for God to manifest His Justice in dealing with the sinner, no opportunity to manifest His Love for the world in proviling that they should be rescued from the power of sin and death. Neither would there have been an opportunity for demonstrating Satan's disloyalty and whereunto it would lead. Neither would there have been an opportunity for testing the Only Begotten of the father, and demonstrating the depth of His love and loyalty even unto the death of the cross, unless sin had been ermitted. Neither would there have been an opportunity for God to show His generosity in dealing with the Logos, in His high exaltation to the Divine nature and glory. There would have been no opportunity to show the length, breadth, height and depth of the Love of God in lifting the Church from the horrible pit and miry clay of sin and death, justifying them freely through the merit of Christ's sacrifice, inviting them to share in His glory, honor and immortality, and finally bringing the Elect to participation in the Divine nature, and in the great work of Messiah.-Rev. 2:10, 26.27. Room For Boundless Ambition. Room For Boundless Ambition. In view of what we have seen of the Divine arrangement there surely is room for the exercise of the most boundless ambition imaginable amongst the blest with the hearing ear and the Gospel Message. It would be a great ambition to strive to become kings or queens of the kingdoms of the world. It would be a great ambition to hope to become judges, senators, or the President of the United States. But such great ambitions would be as nothing when compared with that set before believers of God's Word—the ambition to be received by the great Creator as sons, partakers of the Divine nature (2 Peter 14), heirs of God, and Joint-heirs with Jesus Christ our Lord, to a Heavenly inheritance and Kingdom everlasting. If any one wants a grand ambition, here is one worth dying for! Indeed, it can be attained only by dying. First must come the death of the will as respects earthly alms, projects, ambitions, etc. Then gradually must come the transformed mind, which rejoices to die daily and to suffer with Christ. If so be that we may be also glorified with him. (Romans 8:17.) This is the ambition necessary to make true, loyal soldiers of the Cross, willing to endure hardness in the Cause of the Captain of their Salvation, and to lay down life in the service of the King of kings. A Grand Rush For It: One might suppose that such a Message would find millions anxious and willing to lay hold upon its terms. But no! only a few have faith—and without faith they cannot be pleasing to God. Some have a little faith and render a little obedience, take some steps, refrain from certain sins and seek to walk hand in hand with the Lord—and with mammon. But these make a mistake. There is no promise of joint-heirship with the Savior except by a full cutting loose from the world and by a vital union with God through Christ. "He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear." He that hath a humble heart of obedience, let him lay hold of the promise and attain the greatest of all ambitions. As for others, let them choose the noblest ambitions of which they are capable, assured that in proportion as they are honest and loyal they shall eventually be blessed under Mestiah's Kingdom. "It is good not to cat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth." -Romanus 14:21 -Illegolt. HIS lesson makes, perhaps, the strongest appeal of anything in the Bible in favor of total abstinence from intoxicating liquors. True, it is addressed only to Christians, as is the entire New Testament. Nevertheless, many can appreciate the argument; and to such it will appeal along the lines of the Golden Rule. The rule for Christian living, as taught and exemplified by the Master, is far more exacting than the Golden Rule, which is applicable to all men. Christ's followers are, of course, subject to the Golden Rule; but they voluntarily place themselves under a far more stringent rule. Their Covenant with the Lord is that in doing His will—in doing righteousness—they will ever stand ready to sacrifice even life. This is what the Apostle meant when he declared that Christ pleased not Himself, but pleased the Father. "None of Us Liveth to Himself." As for the world, they both live and die to themselves. Their own personal As for the world die to themselves, interests stand first with them. Only to Christ and the Church could these words apply; for none others have entered into such a Covenant of self-renunciation, giving up present interests in exchange for a promise of a spiritual life hereafter. In the resurre NO THE WORLD LIFE Giving Up Presents Interests. These are to live to the Lord—to do His will and not their own, to serve Him and not self, to lay down their lives in fighting against sin. When these die, they die unto the Lord in the sense that every member of the Body of Christ must die to the flesh before the entire Body can be glorified. The Apostle proceeds to show that all judgment is vested in the Redeemer. Each member of the Church must ultimately stand the inspection of the Head of the Church. Loyalty to the Head of the Church will eventually bring membership in the glorious Church beyond the veil. Let Us. Then, Judges Ourselves. The Apostle's argument is, that instead of judging fellow-members of the consecrated Body of Christ, we should be full of sympathy for them. We do not know thoroughly their trials and difficulties. Our keen sense of justice should find its principal exercise in self-criticism and in watchfulness not to do anything that would stumble a brother or discourage him or cause him to fall away from the faith. How many find it easy to excuse self, while they are very critical respecting other's shortcomings! Our Lord warned His people against such an attitude, saying, "With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged." If you are hypercritical and wish to measure others up to the full standard of perfection, the Lord will properly measure you by that high standard. The Lord does not wish His people to think lightly of weaknesses and failures. He is, on the contrary, setting a high standard of love, sympathy and kindness. Love is the principal thing, in God's sight. "Nothing Unclean of Itself." While the Jew was forbidden the use of swine, rabbits, oysters, etc., these restrictions were tests of his obedience to God; just as the forbidden fruit was thereafter unclean to Adam and Eve. The Apothese's argument is that to the Jew who died to all hope of attaining eternal life through the Law Covenant and who became united to Christ, the restrictions of the Law Covenant would no longer be blinding. And, of course, to the Gentile, who never was under the Law Covenant, its restrictions would have no application when he accepted Christ. But if any man's reasoning faculties were so twisted that he thought him thought himself under obligations, he would be responsible according to his judgment. To violate his conscience would mean that he had willingly committed sin; for he would be wrong in doing what he, thought to be wrong, how, ever harmless the matter might be in itself. tions, he would be responsible according to his judgment. To violate his conscience would mean that he had willingly committed sin; for he would be wrong in doing what he, thought to be wrong, how ever harmless the matter might be in itself. The brother who is strong mentally, morally and physically, should gladly abstain from whatever would stumble another. Should we not be glad to lay down our lives for the brethren? If so, should we not be ready to abstain from using trifling liberties for our weaker brother's sake, for whom Christ died? This is a strong argument. Rather preserve others from temptation too strong for them by faithfully abstaining from everything, that might appear evil in others' sight, however right it might be in your own sight, and however correct your own judgment of the Divine Law on the subject. The advantages connected with membership in God's Kingdom consist rather in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit enjoyed by probationary members of the Kingdom class. ARMY SQUIRRELS SAGACIOUS 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, accordi- tong to the soldiers who spend many hours in training the animals. The squirrels are present, rain or shine, when the morning and evening gus 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 sun set 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 att- tends 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 Avoy 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 smudge 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 mos- quitoes 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 Marks- men With Spectacles Indicted. men with spectacles included. 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 aplace. 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 Fogitive 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. McBrine, formerly warrant clerk under the state auditor, has started a term in the penitentiary. McBrine promised to implicate men "higher up," but in the opinion of the prosecutor he failed to do this and was advised to plead guilty and accept punishment. McBrine for nineteen months traveled through Europe and America working as a detective for Scotland Yard and various detective agencies. His last detective work was in New York city. Often during his work he came upon pictures of himself and descriptions of the man wanted for a $28,000 theft in Oklahoma, and in each case he went to work earnestly seemingly on the case and made suggestions to his superiors as to the way the fugitive should be captured. Most of the time McBrine was in communication with his wife in Guthrie, and after returning to New York he received letters from her urging him to surrender to the authorities. Finally he decided to come back to Oklahoma. He telegraphed to the attorney general that he was ready to return, and detectives for the state brought him back. SAYS MARS SIGNALS US. Flashes as if From Powerful Lamp Noted by Astronomer. Geneva, Switzerland.—M. Le Coutre, a distinguished astronomer of Geneva, is the latest scientist to arrive at the conclusion that the inhabitants of the planet Mars are signaling to the earth. During observations which lasted seventeen days the astronomer remarked a series of luminous apparitions of a bluish white color like the light of a powerful electric arc lamp. These illuminations, which usually lasted some seconds, were observed on several different nights. Successful Boy Farmer. Jollet, Ill.—Werner Krelmer, the nineteen-year-old son of J. F. Krelmer, a farmer of Jackson township. Will county, recently purchased a 100 acre farm for $40,000, all of which he has realized himself from his share of the profits of his father's farm. The lad is a student of scientific agriculture and has taken a long course of home study from the University of Illinois. He has increased the earnings of the farm 40 per cent. ASKS GERMANY TO HALT NAVAL PLANS Churchill Proposes Cessation of Building Battleships. WOULD BELIEVE TAXPAYERS Suggests That Germany and England Build No Vessels For One Year—Believes That Smaller Nations Would Follow Example of Greater Powers. Situation in Europe Is Now Clearing. London.—Winston Churchill, the first lord of the admiralty, in behalf of the English government has made a specific offer to Germany of a year's "naval holiday," wherein both nations would agree to halt the construction of battleships. Wildspread Interest was aroused by the proposal, and much significance is attached to the offer, which was made while he was discussing the naval expenditures of $375,000,000 a year and warning the nation of the inevitably heavy increase in armaments if the rivalry continued. The pth of his speech was contained in this paragraph: "Now, we say in all friendship and sincerity to our great neighbor, Germany: If you will put off beginning to build your two ships for twelve months we will put off in absolute good faith the building of our four ships for exactly the same period." If Great Britain and Germany took the lead, Mr. Churchill added, there was a good prospect of success in getting other powers to agree to a naval holiday, thus relieving the taxpayers of a burden of millions of dollars. Mr. Churchill first advocated a naval holiday on March 20 when he was speaking in the house of commons on the naval estimates, but Germany did not accept his offer. "The proposal I put forward in the name of the British government for a naval holiday is quite simple," he said. WILLIAM H. WINSTON CHURCHILL. "Next year, apart from the Canadian ships or their equivalent and apart from anything that may be required by any development in the Mediterranean, we shall lay down four great ships to Germany's two. Now, we say to Germany, 'If you will put off beginning to build your two ships for twelve months we will put off in absolute good faith the building of our four ships for exactly the same period.' Mr. Churchill then expressed the opinion that If Great Britain and Germany took the lead all the other great countries would follow suit, and they would all be Just as great and as sound as if they had built the ships at present projected. If Austria and Italy did not build, the obligation, he said, would be removed from France and Great Britain, and the fact that the triple alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) was building no ships would make the proposal possible without the slightest danger or risk. The first lord then added: "Isn't it likely that so great and memorable an event would produce an effect on the naval construction of the United States and Japan? Scores of millions would be rescued for the progress of mankind." Mr. Churchill added: "That is the proposal I make for the year 1914 or, if that year is thought be too near, for 1915." 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Immigration Commissioner Camnetti 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 chief immigration inspector at Chicago is Dr. Percy L. Prentis, who was in New York on detail as a member of the special board investigating food conditions at Ellis island. The special agents of the customs service will also look into the matter, as they are interested in violations of the opium law, while the immigration authorities are more particularly concerned with the allegations of smuggling of Chinese into the country. Any evidence of violations of the Mann white slave law will be turned over to the department of justice. MAY CUT LOW LIVING RATE. Tewanda (Pa.) Girl Will Try to Live on Less Than 50 Cents Weekly On Less Than a Century Weekly. Ithaca, N. Y.-The fifty cents a week rate for food set last spring by Miss Clara Loewus of Towanda, Pa., is in danger. The young woman who made it by living for twenty weeks on $10 is going out to break it this fall, according to word received in the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, in which she is a student. She has written that she not only will live at the rate she established last spring, but that she will try to cut under it by a few cents. Her experiments in dietetics will be watched by the house economics department in Cornell university. BECOMES FATHER AT 88. Mountainer's Son, Sixty-one. Finds a Young Brother When He Calls Young Brother When He Calls Spartanburg, S. C.—O. P. Grant, who lives in the mountains north of here, has become a father, at the age of eighty-eight. When his son, L. M. Grant, sixty-one years old, called at the family home he found his father sitting on the front porch coddling a tiny baby. Aged Mr. Grant proudly introduced the infant as his youngest son. Must Learn Psalm In Jail Pueblo, Colo.—Municipal Judge Crossman has issued a number of unusual sentences, but he established a record for odd decisions when he sentenced T. W. Nicholls, a labor agent, to remain in jail until he had committed to memory the Twenty-third Psalm. MR. HARRY A. WILLIAMS Director of the Vocal Department of the Washington Conservatory of Music the past two seasons, has opened a Studio at 1944 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 CUCARACHA SLIDE IN CULEBRA 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 Narkans has been engaged this year to teach the school. STUDIES PRISON FROM THE INSIDE Osborne Serves Self Inflicted Term For Purpose. 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 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 Sulzer 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 For Thirty Years. Columbus, Ind.-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. | yy». poo ee Published . . s at tog Eye St. N. W., Washington, . D.C, . Ww. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Extered at the Post Office at Wash- ~ ington, D. C, as second-class . mail matter. - “ESTABLISHED 188. ws! .TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Que copy per year"in advance. ..$2.00 Six months ....ssecccocccsccees 1.00 Three months .-.....cccseeeee -50 Subscription mouthly ...-..-2.4. 20 DR. DAVIDSON. _ dt as to be regretted that Dr. Davidson, the efficient superin- tendent of the public schdols will retire by virtue of another ap- pointment to the public schools of Pittsburg, Pa. There has never been a man at the head of the public schools of this city who has been esteemed and ‘appre- ciated as Dr. Davidson has since he came here. His whole desire has been to advance the interest of the schools and protect the teachers. The teachers’ found in ‘Dr, Davidson a friend, and the public schools a man of the high- est ideals. The Bee agrees with Dr. C. H. Marshall, that it is not necessary to go outside of the District of Columbia to select a successor to Dr. Davidson. Give some one of the efficient supervis- ing principals an opportunity and The Bee is.confident that his new successor will be able to take up the management of the schools where Dr. Davidson left off. Let the Board of Education consider the timely suggestion of Dr. Mar: shall, a member of the Board o! Education, and select a local man Dr. Davidson, here is our hand We regret your leaving us. Yot "are an honest, noble and a Chris tian gentleman who is bound te succeed wherever you go. Yor have treated the teachers in, out schools, irrespective of color ot condition, as American citizens You have obeyed the letter of the law, and-when you leave, you have the confidence, love and re spect of your fellow citizens. You have been one man to lis- ten to and weigh the evidence of both sides on all questions that have come before you, and your decisions have never been appeal- ed from. . DR. SHEPARD. If there ever was an educator who deserves the support and en- couragement of the people, it is Dr. James E. Shepard, of Dur- ham, N. C..The latest report is that he is in the West meeting ‘with great succéss. His new doc- trine of education seems to be taking hold upon the American people. Everywhere he goes in the Wet he is meeting with an ovation. He has done in three years what no five or ten men could do in ten years. He is en- titled to the support of the people, not only in his state, but through- out the country. He has success- fully overcome the attacks of his enemies and those who have been too selfish to help him. His peo- ple in his state and city and the officers of his school are loyally supporting him, and from all in dications, he will be in the leac within a very few years, notwith standing the side stabs that hav: been given him. a OUR BUSINESS LEAGUE. The local branch of the Wash: ington Business League is mak- ing a record. Next week, Mr Daniel Freeman, its president, will hold a mecting in the Met- ropolitan Church. ‘This local or- ganization is making a good rec- ord, and Mr, Freeman deserves credit for its success and the peo- ple, or those in business should do everything in their power to make the organization strong and efficient. The colored business men and women are getting to: gether, which they should do, if they want to succeed. Support our Business League. +’ DEMOCRATS WIN. . The recent election demonstrat ed the fact that the action of the administration is endorsed. In & OSRANGE ME ANS VANE. The present Administration presents a spectack —.ique, to say the least, in the political history of this nation. At no time'since the Declaration of Independence has there been an executive body or a President who has manifested, apparently, less regard for the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuits of happigess— the-denial of which by Great Britain constituted the source of ‘bitter complaints, persistent opposition, fratricidal war, and which’ re- sulted in Colonidl independence—than has Waodrow Wilson. This cannot be gainsaid, if the colored people are:to be reckoned as a part of'the American body-politic and invested with the Constitutional tight of citizenship. It need not be said that the colored people do not enjoy liberty, either personal, civil or political; for that is all too patent, since liberty presupposes a state of mental tranquility based upon a sense of perfect security. And how can a sense of security obtain, when the tide of prejudice and proscription is run- ning fast and high against us, and the strong arm of the Executive, though calmly and legally invoked to stay the impending deluge of injustice and tyranny, refuses to endeavor to quell the storm or to close the floodgates for our protection? What becomes of the right of the colored people to the full enjoyment of their property and of the results of.their own toil, when they are restricted both as to acquisition and alienation and are compelled to patronize the high- est market for the poorest returns, to labor at a discount and pur- thase at a premium, if at all? And what protection is there fo life itself, when the colored people bear all forms of insult and degrada- tion and Negro-baiting and, if the spirit of indignation or defense or retaliation is shown on their part, are hunted like wolves or treated like dogs? As a matter of fact, under the stress of times present, there exists such a state of anarchy as respects the rights of colored citizens, as would shame the most fanatic Jew-baiting Muscovite or “unspeakable” Turk. And all is due to the do-hothing policy, or at least the pernicious activity‘of the present Administra- tion, in so far as some of the most influential executive officers are concerned. Mr. Wilson’s addresses are laden to the limit with preachments about morality, morality—ad nauseum. Pray, what is morality if it be not the practice of simple justice? And what is justice but the actualization of the doctrine, “Do not to another what you do,not wish to be done to yourself”? And what does Mr. Wil- son do when he returns to the White House? Asleep, indifferent, or at least inactive, while the cardinal Constitusional rights are being denied the coloréd people, the President adds insult to injury by denying a right which Congress, by the First Amendment of the Constitution—which the President has sworn to support and defend —is prohibited from doing, nantely, the right of petition. Freedom of speech and of the press, the right of the people peacefully to as- semble and to petition to the Government for a redress of griev- ances are among the most sacred and dearly bought bulwarks of a free and enlightened people. Yet,.when a body, representing the most respectable, cultured and law-abiding in the land, petition, or even seck to exercise the right to do so, such body is told that “The President is devoting his entire time and attention just now to the legislative program and he is confining his engagements entirely £0 members of Congress, who wish ta discuss official business”! In -other words, he has no-time to consider petitions for the-redress of grievances, notwithstanding Congress is prohibited from ignoring” them, and tlie Executive is sworn to execute laws which may grow out of them; but evidently deems it a sacred duty “just now” to confer only with members of Congress who may wish to discuss official business. The understanding on this point seems to be mel- lifluously cordial between these co-ordinate branches. But this is not the only time that the majority in Congress, aided by an execu- tive, sought to strangle petitions and to hobble the champions of the petitioners. Nor'do we fail to remember that the said petitions sought to be ignored were in behalf of the same race which the | President seems now called upon to ignore. At that time, the feel- ing was bitter, the contest hot; but the champions of freedom won, | and the prayers of a suffering race were heard by the God of nations; '| although rivers of blood and mountains of treasure had to be sacri- | ficed in order that right and truth and justice might prevail. So | will it be with this latest manifestion of oppression, this denial of | the sacred right of petition. The sacrifice of blood and tredsure '|may not follow—we pray that no such dire calamity may ever again Jovertake this nation; but if there be any conscience or sense of shame remaining in the héarts of the American people, the time is not far distant when the brutal treatment now being shown an in- | offensive, striving and loyal class of Americans will be looked back upon as constituting the most disgraceful blot that ever tarnished | the escutcheon of the nation. The President might possibly find time enough to suspend the rules of the Yellowstone Reservation to allow a proscribed pet dog to accompany its mistress through the park, but “just now” he cannot waste time in receiving a delegation of the colored race—the educators! “Massachusetts the legislature went Republican, and in New York Tammany was destroyed; Maryland went Democratic, as well as Virginia. There were few gains made by the Republicans, which, no doubt, will stimulate their ambition by next fall. a eee eee er ea Had the whité Republicans in Prince George’s County done their ‘whole duty the entire Republican ticket would have been elected. The only colored men, if any at all to vote the Democratic ticket, were those who worked upon the farms of the white Democratic bosses to whom these poor igno- rant colored men are indebted and under financial obligations. THOMAS TESTIMONIAL. The people in this city who have accepted Mr, Thomas’ hos- pitalities will show their appre- ciation and the esteem they have for him and the efforts he is put- ting forth to give the -people an up-to-date playhouse. The entire week from November 29 will be donated to this testimonial. Ev- éry citizen, organization and pro- fession will show their apprecia- tion. RACE SEGREGATION... And now, it is stated that Wm. Ramsey, a jeweler in this city, has written to the mayor of Balti- more, Md., for a copy of the seg- regation ordinance so that he and others may make a move in this city to segregate the colored peo- ple. In another column of The Bee will be read with interest an excerpt from a Baltimore, Md., paper. . BUSINESS MEN. Special meeting of the*business men will take place at the Metro- politan Church Tuesday night, November 23d . All business men and women should be present., VARDAMAN. * ; Dr. Geo, H. Richardson’s Mas- terly Argument. . The reply of Dr. Geo. H. Rich- ardson to James K? Vardaman and others will be ready for cir- culation next week. “No one should be without this great de- fense of the Negro race. The price will be 15 cents per copy or seven for one dollar. Don’t delay in ordering. The Bee, 1109 Eye Street Northwest, or Dr. Geo. H. Rich- ardson, 309 Eleventh Street N. E., Washington, D, C. VIEWS OF THE EDITORS. = |Newspaper Owners Who Are in Close Touch with Farmers and In- ‘| dustrial Workers Tell Tariff Truths. . (“American Economist.) Make way for the new tariff. Pret- ty soon the woods will be full of Democrats explaining why it failed to bring the economic millennium many of them promised—Troy (N. Y.) Times. The last Democratic tariff bill was declared by the then President, a Democrat, to be an act of perfidy and dishonor. This one: is worse—Pitts- burgh Gazette-Times. With so many goods on the free list, our Democratic friends cannot [deny that, so far as this enormous ag- gregate of American products is con- cerned, their measure is a free-trade act, and the country will have am- ple opportunity before the next elec- tion to learn whether Republicans or Democrats have been right on the question of protection of American labor and American capital invested in American industries—Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. _ Look here, Mr. Democrat; if more goods are going to come from abroad. as a result of the Underwood-Wilson tariff, don’t that mean that more American money is going abroad? And what will bring that good cash back?—Moravian Falls (N. C.) Yel- low Jacket. ° The new tariff bill is the slit skirt for Miss Democracy.—Denver Herald. Mr. Underwood says the consumer will.not begin to feel the etfect of low duties for a month. Will the con- sumer be the only one to feel the ef- fect?—Louisiana (Mo.) News. The protest made by some foreign nations against the 5 per cent dis- count on goods brought in American ships is said to have so impressed the Democratic administration at Wash- ington that the repeal of the pro- vision is favored. > Yet the tariff bill was passed not only with full under. standing of the meaning of that sec. tion, but with the avowed purpose o! helping American shipping. On what ground can repeal be urged? The new law has opened wide the door to for: eign products. Is it the inténtion tc inflict further injury to American in- dustry?—Troy (N. Y.) Times. Well, the new tariff bill is on the books. Now let's see what effect it will have on the high cost of living! —Memphis (Mo.) Reveille. Under the new tariff bill the woo! of the northern sheep raiser has nc protection. But there is a good stif duty on the hair of the Angora goa which his Texas brother produces. I pays to live down in the South un. der the present administration. — Johnstown (P2.) Leader. THE SIGH. | By Geneva Laurelus. T have felt the lash of the whip of the past, As it stung with a venom swift; \nd plied its strokes*o'er my mem- ory, And the veil of the past did lift . Ever and anon it lashed steadily, To steep in despair was its lot: But even as my very soul grew sick, Yet I respaired me not, -\t the end, ah! weary and forlorn, T did not sigh. T have felt the peace of a soul at rest, Of the future all rosy and bright; The clouds of mistakes receded, Not one regret to blight. No vain wish’ for yesterdays to live over, = No worries for tomorrows to be; Only a heart full of fondest hopes, Ever in lightest glee. Yes, at the end as the moments fy, I do sigh. AND THOU ART YET UNFOUND By Genesa Laurelus, Tho’ day after day and night after night, I seek an unknown thou, Before whose eyes with promise true, My (or mine?) head in love I'd * bow; Yet still I long with longing sore, The depths of my possible love to “| sound; With sighs but half acknowledged, And thou are yet unfound. * = i T long to suffer for thee, tho’ un- known, « To blend my soul with thine: To ‘own thy heart’s love and thine alone, . ‘ And in return give mite. To share thy sorrows, give thee my joys, Surmounted by love's own mound: That will stand the storms of always, And thou art yet unfound, That when life's sun begun? to fade, My love would stronger grow: With the glories past, of the peace to come, That our hearts of hearts should know. And should I enter the unknown first, My love I'd leave thy life to sur- round; To shield thee from life's tempting paths, . And thou are yet unfound, Miss Moten Commended. : Denton, Texas, October 31. Editor The Bee. A friend gave me a_copy of The Bee, date October 25. The communi- cation hy Mr. L. E. Moten to Presi- dent Wilson was read with pleasure and enlightment. ‘Continue to remind the President of his duties toward our Negro brothers. His motto is justice, nothing but justice. Can a man of his noble gifts, a peerless man wha is no respecter of persons, pre- varicate?_It seems impossible. Thus in due time, when the stormy days about free raw material, free every- thing, are over, he will direct his thoughts toward much higher thi gs —that is, of making free men—and it is plain that that means the Negro race, which at present has about or little to say as in days of slavery. Keep‘on asking for the loaf—the Fa- ther will rise and give it. Yours for the betterment of Negro brothers. RAYMOND VERMMONT, Priest. WOOD REMOVED. Tammany Negro Boss Removed—He Reaped What He Sowed. New York City, November 3. Robert Wood, Boss Murphy’s man Friday and the Negro Tammany bos« who was the cause of the removal of Ralph E. Langston, but who was at last victorious, has been removed. Wood is the Negro Tammany boss who dictated all Negro Democratic appointments in New York among the Tammany Negro Democrats. He is the most egotistical individual ‘that ever came down the pike and the most arrogant chap that ever led Tammany Negro Democrats. Nobody is shedding any tears at the removal of Wood. ———_— The free list will be suspended the entire week of the Thomas testimo- nial. TTR ublic Men Aed Things T got a little question I want to eropound to Judge Pugh. I am one fof those “Sundowns.” There are shree of us what board at a regula- tion hash house. We want to know what's the legal penalty, if “any, for hanging a man what impersonates a cook, If the fellow what cooks at our hash house was a real cook we would know what steps to take to make his hanging legal and formal. But the fact that he is not a cook has added complications ‘what pudzle. There has been a great deal of specu. lation among us as to just what this gook's regular work im life has been. Some think he is a boilermaker by trade, one thinks he was a detective, while another thinks he was a driver of a garbage wagon. We are willing to concede that a real cook should be placed at 2 disadvantage in our hash house. Naturally when we pay $y per for board we expect our landlord to clear $3 per. We expect him to serve adulterated oleomargine, or “olie” as we affectionately call it on account of its Swedish blond comptexion, for butter, and we expect him to serve nux vomica for coffee, adulterated carbolic for tea, and canned milk wa- tered in the same proportion that William Jennings -wanted the silver specie. “Some of the boys think the other food served is collected from the city garbage cans. As [ say, we expect all these things. We kick about them among ourselves just in the spirit of all. boarders more te gratify a penchant for the expression of ‘satire than to give vent to indig. nation. eye Under these conditions a real cook would have small opportunity to dis. play his art. But-this cook of ours is the limit, and we are addressing this open communication to Judge Pugh to find out what is the penalty for hanging a miscarriaged cook. We hope the Judge will tell us quickly for fear the fires of resentment which are slowly smouldering in our bosom: will suddenly burn to flame and we will hang this imposter without re. gard for the formalities which woul: make the act. legal. Dancy woul: never complain. John can go uy against anything from a possom to a coon anywhere and any place. eet Say, ain't Bill Houston got one more pair of long legs? I saw him striding over You Street the other evening. and each step seemed tc cover three yards. If Bill had been split just one-tenth of a inch more, the thing he wears.for a neck would serve as something for his trouser bands to-go around. T’ve often thought how in the world is Henry Slaughter ever going to stop a fellow what's got the legs that Bill Houston's got. Henry hassa pair of legs that are just about one inch long gnough to keep his body from sweep- ing in the dust as he walks. Speak- ing about these two fellows, just re- minds me that about a year ago they were like Siamese twins, and now when they meet they, neither one of them. can remember the words, “good morning, “or Hello, Old Sport.” Take it from me, these anthracite fraterni- ties what's got a lot of brotherly love signs, grips and pass-words hold more growtch to the square inch than did the Harlypot Brothers for the Ignaz quartette back in the days when old Pluto used to speel. I wish some one would stact-a get-together movement around this berg. Old Captain Divide has been doing business long cnouch. Thomas’ Testimonial. Manager Andrew J. Thomas to Be Honored by the People for His Excellent Work the Entire Week of Thanksgiving—The Most Bril- liant Affair in the Social Circle of the City. Mant Auair in the social Circle of the City. 7 Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, manacer of Howard Theater, is to be tendered a testimonial by the citizens of this city for his success as manager o! 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 How- ard 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 beer under his entire management and control Mr. Thomas has made every ¢ffort 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 shoyld be given -an expression of their esteem and approvah The following cor- respondence will explain itself: ate Rosen Boss Ses oe 233 a oe LG Sota ee oF, eo ee la aa bi fy < res. tevasih. 4 ae +, i eee 2 an 7 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 bphapedeee thee eee ee. Many -Rterprises that have been attempt- d.have failed, thus losing confidence 1 those who have taken the initia~ ive to consummate such enterprises. Having watched your efforts, note vithstanding the many adverse criti- ‘isms, to make the theater, of which you are the lessee, a success, and hay- ‘ng succeeded thus far in giving the people of this city a playhouse wor- thy of the capitol of the nation for their accommodation and your ef- forts 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 de- Serving efforts to make them self. reliant, Whatever suggestions you desire to make tending to make the occasion a memorable one kindly adyise us if our tender meets with your approval, and permit_us to subscribe ourselves Gratefully yours, * (Signed) Wm. Calvin Chase, Thos. L. Jones, Emanuel M. Hewlitt, Ar- mond 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 Na- Dier, Harriet Gibbs Marshall, James F. Armstrong, Fo H. M Murray, Wellington A. Adams, James F. Bundy, Joseph H. Stewart, Jabee Lee, W- D. Johnson, F. W: Cheek, Samuel M, Pierre, M. D., Chas. L. Barnes. The following additional names have been added to the Thomas tes- {imonial: Dr. A. M. Curtis and wife, Mr. Daniel Freeman, J. T. C. New. some, Wm. H. Thomas. Washington, D. C.. Oct. 28, W. Calvin ee Editor Washington Bee; Thoms L. Jones, Mrs. Har- Het Gibb Marshall, J. A. Cobb, E. M. Hewlett and others, Dear Sirs and Madame: Your let- ter of the zoth inst., in which you and the citizens * of Washington tender me a testimonial, received. Words fail me in expressing my apprecia- tion 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 Jack of zeal and effort on my part. This expression of approval is. pratt. fying beyond expression. Tt will in- spire 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 éx- Press their approval, will be conve: nient 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. THOMAS TESTIMONIAL. Meeting of the Subscribers—Others Join*to Honor the Manager. », The people of this city will show their appreciation of Mr. Thomas for his efforts to give them an up-to-date amusement house and his many lib- eral acts of kindness in giving his the- ater for kindness. Some of the best and leading citizens in this city have joined the mavement first suggested by The Bee to give Mr. Thomas a testimonial. The committee is ar- ranging a complete program, which will be presented to the patrons in a few days. - ALLEN C. E. NOTES. The Allen CE. Society met.at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on last Sunday, November 2, at 6 p. m., and held a ‘very enjoyable session. It was a consecration meeting and each of the members took part and helped to make it a glorious service for the Master. Just before the testimonies given by the Endeavorers, a very ef- fective and touching devotional exer- ise was conducted by the president, Miss Anna Payne, After which the topic for the evening was announced jas follows: “The Ideal Christian, His Heavenly Helper.” Heb. 13:5-15. As the names of the various members were called each one rose and conse- crated himself or herself anew. Many of them told how the Heavenly Helper had aided them in the past, how He was aiding them at the pres- ent time and how they expected Him to aid them in the future. By way of response, some gave verbal testi- monies, some a verse from the Holy Scriptures, and still others a verse from some favorite song which ex- pressed their sentiments. The meeting seemed to be on fire with the spirit from on high and that same enthusiasm and earnestness which has characterized all of the pre- vious gatherings was evident in a double portion on last Sunday at the consecration meeting. Each one de- clared it to be a splendid, spiritual success. : As a part of* the extension work which is to be conducted this year, the society appointed three of its members to go to Bladensburg and assist the president at that place to build up the Endeavor Society. Those assigned to go were Miss Christine Carter, Mr. S. M. Gilbert. Mr. M. J. Key. ‘The meeting is to be held at the ahove named suburb on Sunday, November 9. : The subject for next Sunday is “Christian Home Life” and the exer- cises' will be conducted by the social committee. A special. prosram has been arranged and one and all are extended a most cordial invitation to be present and take part in the ser- vices. 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 tn-to- date meat merchants in the city. Don’t fail to call and inspect his goods. . Secure your tickets now for the Thomas testimonial. =i (TRF 5 eee) 7 Si a gl me Yecle ant OAR M Bae, cool’ es aUee oe . : Mec VSS A Sr TIN AA, ; a aan | ine NG We teenth Street Northwest, for the best drugs, remedies, candies and toilet Srticles at moderate prices, and the Anest service in Ice Cream ‘Sodas and delicious drinks the year round: | Mrs. W. A. Taylor, of Boston, Mass, has returned home after a week's visit here and Philadelphia, Miss Laura Reese is being ‘highly entertained in Philadelphia by her cousin, Mrs. Jessie Johnson, of Berks Street : ° Mr. C. C. Curtis is visiting relatives and friends in Louisville, Ry. R, V. Peyton attended the furieral gf, Res, DOW! Davis, of Richmond, a. Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Carter are visiting relatives in New York. Mrs. Uenry Baker left the city last week to join her busband in New York, who is exhibiting at the expo- sition. Mrs, W. A. Hughes spent Saturday and Sunday in Baltimore, the guest of her parents. Miss Anita Jones and Rachel Con- way, teachers’ from ‘St. Paul, Minn, are in the city. visiting friends. ‘Mr. W. H. ‘Thompson. inspector of Richmond Benefit Insurance Com- pany, is in the city on business. Mts, Leila Amos Pendleton ap- peared before “an enthusiastic audi ence at Nauck, Va, Wednesday even- ing in selected readings from her re- cently published hook, “A Narrative Of the “Negro” Inthe discussion which followed the reading Mrs. Pen- Uleton was hailed as the first Negro woman historian, and. several copies of the book were subscribed for. Mrs, Pendleton has accepted ‘invitations to give readings in southera and western States during the coming winter. Ol the meeting Wednesday evening Miss Ella Boston was chairman, and_the speaker Was introduced by Mrs. Julia Collier, “Vocal. selections were ‘ren- dered by Mr. Chas. Thompson, Mes. Nelson and Biss Branham. Charlie West, of 41. Ivy Street - Southeast, employe of the United States Senate anf ardent worker of A. K. Manning Lodge No. 2361, G. U. 0. of O. Fs has heen confined to his bed for nearly four weeks, but i now convalescing and able to be about his room. On Friday, October 31, 1013, Miss Anna, D. Beil ave a Hallowe'en Birthday party in honor of hec niece Daisy Celestine Athelda at her resi dence, 1832 Filth, Street Northwest ‘The guests were Misses R, Gray. Mann, G. Wells, M.. Thomas, Mf West, M. Bryant, M._Webh. ‘B | Blackiston, I. Parker, E. Palmer 8. Skinker, "E. Brooks. A. Tay: lor, E. Lightfoot, S. Lightfoot. M Eleazer, FE. Horatd, Bi, Simms, E Turner, H. Barker, A. West, R Cas well, R, Howard, F. Green, F. Mid + dleton, M. Hayes, E. Thompson. F Wayman, H. Webb, Messrs. A. Rus sell, Hi. Marshall, A. Hayes, A. War ips. R Naylor, W. Hall C Beckley E. Jones, A. Jones, N. Miller, H Giark, T. Wood, T. Cupid, C. Lomax V._Lucas, E. Bailey and Pr Lewis, Buy drugs and medicines at Board's 912% 14th St. N. We Mrs. Mattie Orme. of | this city who is teaching at St. Michaels, Md. was here Saturday and Sunday. ‘Attorney Jabez Lee. a popular an successful lawyer of this city, spen lage Sunday in Charlottesville, Va. <M. Holmes, of this city, was : xisitor in Charlottesville, Va a fen davs last week. Mrs. Kennerly and her grandson Eugene, Jr. spent Sunday in Raitt more with her daughter, Mrs. M. E Rhodes and family. Lawyer John A. fluff, of Knoxville Tenn, is in this city on professions business Miss Ethel Mae Swanne, of 143¢ Swann Street Northwest. left. Mon day for Waco, Texas, where she wil spend the winter, the guest of Mis Mamie Vandavelle, Mr. Charles H. Howe, who has jus recqvered from a recent. operation Teft for Salisbury. N.C. Saturday tc join his wife, accompanied by his yon inlaw, Mr. Chas. E. Robinson. Sr Howe’ found Mrs, Howe somewha improved. Mr. Chas. E. Robinson has returne to. Washington. Mr. John M.D. Wilson, of 9407 Street Northwest, was buried “fron ‘Asbury M. E- Church Monday, ‘No vember 3.. Mr. Wilson’ was ohe 6 the old residents of Washington, com ing to the city. during the war T 1873 he established a barber busines which he conducted until his death The undertaker, Mr. David Martin, 0 o19 French Street. conducted the’ fi Reral with great credit to Rimselé. ‘Mrs. Davis, the mother of | Afr Frank E, Davis and Win. H. Davi one of the best known women in thi city and a most lovable mother, wa buried from her late residence, 200 Eleventh Street Northwest, last Tue: day. afternoon. Her funeral was a tended by a large circle of friends. “High Brown” Face Powder an a arene Sete ee Eereees ae ‘Masquerade Party. Friday evening, October 31, was the oceasion of a most delightful masquerade party at_ the home of Mrs. Beatrice Chase Farley, of 1828 K Street Northwest. The decorations were beautifully suggestive of the season. In the wide doors grotesque little jack-o'-lanterns hung, from the chandeliers black and yellow crepe paper was festooned. Banked up about the fireplaces were bunches of gorgeous autumn leaves, while roses and chrysanthemums Were displayed here and there about the rooms. . At midnight everyone masked. The gentlemen selected their partners and Tepaired to the dining room, where they were served from vegetable: which had been cleverly and unique- ly wrought into recepiacles for de licious salads, cooling beverages, lus: cious fruits and delectable ices. Just before leaving the dining room. the “Fate™ cake was cut. Some of those masked ‘were Mis: Annie Catlett, Indian maid; Mis: Chase, ““Sunbonnet Sues" Miss Worthington... Spanish girl; Hattie Washington, “Jack-o'-Lantern;” Mrs Farley, A Lady of the Harem;” Miss Butlers, maid of 1776: Dr.’ Lynn “Death;” Mr, McKinney, _ street cleaner; Mr. Freeman, “Merry Jes ter” Mr. Riles, priest; Mr. Jones “Sporty Girl.” Misses Wylie, Gra. ham, Erancena, Miner, Butler, Worm ley, Spriggs, ands Messrs. Turner Seymour, King, Burke, Green, Worth ington and Dabney were also appro priately masked. ¥ Candy boxes with absurd little jack o’lanterns on them were the favor: |for the ladies, and for the men there were jack-o'-lantern buttonniers. | WEST WASHINGTON. EE AE NE a SR SS SES SES A WEST WASHINGTON. The annual Old Folks’ Day service was appropriately observed on Sun- day at Mt. Zion M.E. Church, Twen- ty-ninth Street Northwest. More than thirty of the older members were brought to the church in carriages donated by Mr. George Wise and ‘Mr. James, and after the morning service were given dinner by a com- mittee of ‘ladies and_ gentlemen, which, was partaken of with much pleastire and joy. 7 Woman's Day will be the services at Mt. Zion, Sunday morning the twentieth anniversary of the Ladies ‘Aid Society will be celebrated, Pro: gram, 6 a,_m, Prayer and praise ser- Vices by Mesdames Eliza North anc Smith, 11a. m. Sermon by Rev. Mrs, Nelson, of Baltimore. Md. Solo by Miss Martha Harris, Mrs. Jennic Locke, president; Miss Pearl Dixon, secretary; Rev. W. C. Thompson ‘The Sunday School of the Firs Baptist Church paid a friendly visi to Ebenezer A. M. E. School on Sun day morning and listened to an ad- dress and special sermon hy Mr. Jos N. Lawson and N. G. Mitchell, “the superintendents. respectively. “The Grand Order of St. Luke So ciety and subordinate branches of this jurisdiction will have theif annua sermon preached to them on Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street by Rev. W. C. Thompson. | Death of Wm. H. T. Spencer. The funerat of Mr. Wm. Spencer, a resident of Anacostia, whose sud- den' death occurred on Thursday, Oc- tober 18, took place on Sunday after- noon from the Bethlehem Baptist Church, Anacostia, and was largely attended. He was a member of Wan- dering Pilgrim Lodge, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, and a recent employe of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The services at_the church were very impressive. Rev. Jos. Matthews officiated, assisted by Rev. J. McCauley, of Brentwood, Md. Nrs, Georgia’ A. Hamilton sang a solo, “Face to Face.” Resolutions were read by: Mr. N. Talaferro and Mr. Jas. L. Turner,“who also “deliv- ered ‘a poem entitled “The Odd Fel- Tows' Burial.” Many floral offerings were presented, including the “Gates Ajar,” by the associates of, the bu- ircau, Interment in Payne Cemetery: } —— ENON es { FAIRMCUNT HEIGHTS. & EOF ee SE Mrs. Laura Nichols, “assisted by the Senior Class of the M. Street High School, through its representa- lives, Miss Louise Marshall.and Miss Emma Payne, gave Miss Lillian Knight a beautiful surprise party on Tuesday night, November 4. The ta- ble was nicely’ decorated to taste. A well prepared program was rendered and consisted of solos and songs. Af- ter the program, ice cream and cake were served, “After refreshments jawere served, “Miss Marshall, on the ‘part of the-class of 1914, presented ee ee ee Re Mee a fruit; also a bunch of nice flowers, Mr. R. S. Nichols presented a box of fine candy and a handsome purse on the part of friends. Miss Knight re- ceived the gifts with many thanks. ‘Those present were: Miss L. Knight, Mrs. A. Nichols, Mrs, Pearl K. Fouwvilli, Mrs, A, D. Washington, Mrs. A. J. Ware, Mrs, Boozer, brs. Briscoe, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Tolls, Mrs, Payne, Mrs. Mary Johnson, Mrs. Cora ' Snowden, Miss Louise Marshall, Miss Emma Payne, Miss Alberta Snowden, Mrs. Laura Nich- ols, Mrs. Berdette Boozer, Miss Ge- neva Bryant, Miss Victoria Floyd, Mrs, Coalman, Mrs. Hart, Miss Inez Davis, Miss’ Bertie Queen, Mr. James F. Armstrong and Mr. R. S. Nich- ols. ‘The officers of the Senior Class of the M Street High School are: Mr, Norvell Barnett, president;, Miss Dorothy Pelham, ‘vice president; Miss A, Cook, secretary, and Miss Mary Gibson, ‘treasurer. [Miss Lillian Knight is a member of the Senior Class of the M Street High, School, but on account of seri- ous illness she was unable to join her class in September. Rey, L._E, B, Rosser. the pastor of Miles C. M. &. Church, Washing- ton, D. C, is doing excellent work. He has the great missionary spirit. Hevis ever ready to assist in Chris- tian uplift when the opportunity pre- sents itself. Mr. Thomas Walker, one of the leading members of the Washington, D. C, bar, is doing a successful busi- ness.’ Being thoroughly upright and honest to’ all his clients. he enjoys their full faith and confidence. “Hon, W. C. Chase, attorney-at-law and editor of the’Washington Bee. is a, great benefactor and friend of the Negro. race. ‘Through his paper, which is a well and clean edited pub- lication, he fights and wins many battles for the race. Mr. Albert G. Hardaway, of Mont- gomery, Ala., but now employed in one of the departments, at Washing ton, D. C, and Mrs. Naney Harda- way Sagers, of the sbove named place and Buffalo, X. Y., visited Mr. and Mrs, James’ F, Armstrong at Fairmount Heights Sunday, Novem: ber 2. They are the brother and sis. | ter-in-law of the late Charles O. Har. |ris, who was the most highly hon: Jored United States Government of- ficial in the Post Office at Montgom: éry, Ala, There was a grand masquerade hop | given at the Fairmount Heights pub: lic hall October 31, given by the Gob: Jlins of the Northeast, County, Citi zens’ Association. The hall” was Jcrowded with a happy set, all of Jwhom enjoyed the time of theis lives. The officers of the associa tion are: Dr. W. W. Jones, presi dent: Homer Mec. vice president: € JH. Westley, recording secretary: J |B. Westley, treasurer: C.J, Nixon sergeant-at-arms; Rey. S, Strother corresponding secretary; W._ T }Chapman, chairman Executive Com: | mittee, F || The services at the M. E. Churcl || were well attended. At 11a. m, Rev 10. C. Sprague preached a very force ful se#mon. The choir _sang well, a: usual, The Sunday School, unde the management of Messrs.” Jame: | A. Campbell and Arthur Briscoe, i: Jholding its own. They are arrang Jing a campaign for the further de ‘velopment of the school. All indica {tions show that the work of the M }E. Church in all its branches is o1 ||the upward march. :] Rev. W. W. McCarty and the Pres -|byterian Church are doing a grea Jwork, the influence of which is be iJing felt all over the community What is true of this church is als jJirue of the M. E. and Baptis :|Churcli’s here. We see the grea Spirit of Christ in most all the de -|liberations and gatherings held. -| At this time the teachers and th I) public school are progressing, nicel .|fr is to be regretted. that the teach ‘Jing force.can not be increased at thi :|time in proportion to the growth o .|the number of pupils. There wa -|some talk of increasing the numbe t{of teachers, but the proposition ha t{so far failed. MS 3 FALLS CHURCH NOTES. } ee ee The Second Baptist Sunday -School met in regular session, having an ex- cellent lesson exposition given by Bro, Dixon, of Alexandria, Va. The Young Men's Furnace Club is in active service with Mr, Robert Ford as chairman. The tea party on Wednesday night ‘at the residence of Bro. Otis was given by said club for the benefit of the Second Baptist Church furnace. Mr. Ed. Neal and wife came home from Mt. Vernon on Saturday even- ing, November 1, Bro. Neal holds his job at Mt. Vernon’ well, Mrs. Neal expressed herself as highly pleased with her trip up the river of the steamer Charles McAlister. Bro. Neal will spend a week at home. Bro, Frank Marshall, a trustee of the Second Baptist Church, and_his wife, Mrs. Bessie Marshall, one of the members of the choir-of that church, are well pleased with The Bee. They have just’ completed up-to-date im- provements on their home, a neat and pleasant place “on the hill.” Services at the Third Baptist Church were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Bowser, during the day. Rev Bowser is a minister of force and is making good in his charge here and elsewhere. : We are glad to note that Sister Le- na Dixon is able to attend to her lafiairs again after a slight indisposi- tion. The fair at the Second Baptist Church closed in a bright’ wave o} success, and the Mothers’ Progressive League deserves great credit for it A brilliant “Old Folks’” concert was the ending. The presentation to the two official boards of the church, Sis ter Lena Dixon says, will be made Sunday night, November 9. : . Mrs. Martha I. Talbert, of Wash ington, D. C., paid her sister, Mrs Lena Dixon, a flying visit. Friday. . The Young People's meeting is hav. ing intefesting sessions every Sun day evening. Mrs. Fannie Thomas i: 7 . Qo, . © #6 evan af he at ne ee. emee man of the Program committee, Mr, Newton Dixon has left Taun- ton, Mass.,-for Providence, R. 1, and is very apt to spend the winter there. He wishes to be remembered to his many friends. Mrs, Thomas Miller, who has been very ill, is now out again, ‘Miss Fannie Simmons spent Satur- day frening with her parents here. Mr. Percy Taylor, who has been with us all the fall,’has returned to his duties in Washington. The public schools were closed here on Friday on account of a meet- ing of the Fairfax County Teachers? Association at the school in Vienna, 2. The hunting season started Satur- day and quite a few went out for game. : Since the fair started.it has been noted that Miss Edna Ourick is quite an addition to our musical talent. Mr. William Odrick, Mr. Charley Henderson, Mr. Millard Pearson and family, all of Washington, D. C., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs, John Rum- bles Sunday. Mr. James Payne, of Herndon, Va. was the guest of Mr. and Mrs, V. S. Allen Sunday, Galloway Sunday School was very well attended Sunday morning and had as_a very welcome visitor Prof. O. G. Grandetson, who addressed the school. : Sunday afternoon Rev. Dixon, of Washington, D. C, preached a ser- mon to the Wood and Coal Club of Galloway Church. “The church was well filled. Rev. “Bowser, Rev. Por- ter and Mrs, MeDower, the mission- ary evangelist, were also present. The music was rendered by the Sec- Jond Baptist choir. |. The Epworth “League was very largely attended and beautiful _ad- dresses were given by Rev. John Bar- nett and Mjs. Lena Dixon: GA very Jinteresting Program was -rendered |The league was visited by Mr. Stew: Jart. of Washington, D. C.. and two Jother gentlemen whose names the |}reporter failed to learn, The league is indeed growing more and more in: teresting each Sunday and the presi ‘dent, Mr. J. B. Tinner, is doing all Jin his power to keep up the interest |The day closed with .a sermon al {night by Rev. Porter, of Washington {who preached to a good sized con: |ereration. So ended a busy day fo Galloway. e | "The wedding of Miss Francis Tin: ner and Mr. Charlie Coats, whiel |took place at Galloway Chapel ot | Thursday night, October 30, was on of the most beautiful affairs’ ever wit |nessed, The church was most beau ‘{tifully decorated from entrance tc altar, even the aisles were: carpetec | with white, The entire front of the | church was one mass of flowers, mos ‘|heautifully arranged. The decor s|Jtions were of potted plants, cu ‘flowers, and evergreens, A larg ‘Jwhite Bell was fastened to the fron ‘Jchande¥er. The ceremony was per formed \by Rev. J. W. Colbert, as | sisted by Rev. G. W. Powell, pasto .Jof the Second Baptist. Church. Th “bride wore white satin and carrie s| white roses The veil was beautifull ‘| draped and fastened with lillies of th s|valley. The bride was attended by | little MISS Margaret Richards and Su -Jsan ‘Alexandra acted as Mower girl -|They carried baskets of white chrys -Janthemums tied with white ribbor -|The maid of honor was Miss Emm i|Tinner, sister of the bride. She wor blue satin and carried white and pin -|flowers, The bride was given awa tlat the altar by her brother. Mr. J. E -|Tinner. The groom and his atten¢ -Jants ail wore full dress suits. Th >}wedding march was played by, M t}/F. J. Newman, The church” wa t icrowded to overflowing. Many gues! -|from Washington, Pittsburgh’ an other places were present, The deco: {ations of the house were in keepin .| with those at the church, In spite « -|the immense crowd at the house, e s|ery one was well Served with’ ic f| cream and cake and wine. The pre s|ents were many and beautiful, amon r| which was Str. s| Mr. Lewis Richards, of Pittsfiel Mass., is the-guest of his father, M Dan Richards. &|° Mr. Cregg, of Philadelphia, Pa., w: |the week-end guest of Mr. and Mr a|J. B, Tinner. . €|" Miss Emma Tinner, of Philadelphi | was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charl Tinner. She returned to her hon 1 Sunday evening. -|+ Mrs, Lewis Summerall spent Su y |day in Washington, Great care and attivity is bein; manifested here among the people of this section at this season of year by gathering in and storing away their produce for use during the winter season, When nature will close in up- on them'and they can enjoy the fruits of their labor. The trees and plants that are heavily clothed with their beautiful foliage of every hue, is nat- urally arranged so as to harmonize without, causing any’ confusion of color. This gives occasion for nat- ural lessons in decoration. These will, however, soon be disrobed and apparently die, yet only to await the command of the Master, Who, in- deed, rules the universe, and at the appointed time will reappear in the glorious mantle, each time seeming more beautiful than before. Hence, we ask, who can doubt the resurrec- tion? . During, the week very little was done socially, since at present in ru- ral districts the people are otherwise engaged. Rev. C. E. Queene is holding re- vival services “at Gunnell’s Chapel, Langley, Va. “Sunday ‘morning, Sunday School, ag usual at 10 o'clock, Walter P. Hysa, superintendent. Rev. J. F. Williams, local preacher “here, preached a very carnest sermon; sub- ject, “The Unchangeableness of Christ.” At8 o'clock Rev. Grant Con- tee, of Washington, D. C, preached a very enthusiastic sermon from Heb. 13:8, “The Oneness of Christ.” Mt Salvation Baptist Church, Rev. C. H. Coleman. pastor, was present with his people and preached at rr o'clock and at night, and indeed it always seems to be much to the joy of this pastor and congr .* we each other Se Meee Se Te ; (Cut ‘This Ont of Paper.) : COLORED CITIZENS’ PETITION. : National Petition Against Jim-Crow and Color Segregation by the Federal "Government. Sign Name and Address and Mail to Secretary Anti Segregation Delega- tion, 1733 Seventh Street Northwest, Washington, D. Ce Not Later Than Noveniber 3. (Petitions to Be Presented to President Wilson Novem ber 6) : To the President of the United States, Hon. Woodrow Wilson, Washingr ton, D. €. i 2 . Sit: Ths is to certify that we, the undersigned, are surprised and alarmed that ander your administration there should be any rules made by members of your cabinet to segregate employees. of the national govern ment by race dr color. . Wie protest against this as plainly a public degrada- tion, and insufferable iny-ry to colored Americans, the establishment of caste in this fee Republic. "We petition you to reverse, prevent and forbid an, stich movement by your bureau chiels, in accord with your promise of fair, friendly, just and Christian treatment of your colored fellow-citizens. Sieg'on one side only: don't sign for others) Aiddeeny ssesaveuvosvecees se Sesntsagpaon sere NTransenanneaserennsteenssts ndaeas sitteegteeseeeeseareeceseeceeceeeessnrsesneeeeseeeteceeceaeee ane Address donesinse see sauwavegsedusaunsacs nasil coseueacoscnaoneyeessvalt N. B—By pasting on sheet of paper any number of names can be put 0 to be used in churches, lodges, etc. Panos The Sunday School seems to be in prosperous condition under the man- agement of Mrs. M. Mooney during the illness ‘of the ‘superintendent, Deacon Wm. Hungerford, who is steadily improving, though’ yet_un- able to walk because of a paralytic stroke several weeks ago, causing the loss of speech and the use of one-half portion of the body. He is still under treatment of Dr. E, T. Moten. Dr. Moten has heen engaged in the treat- iment of serious operations since locat- ing here. among whom is Mrs. Nan- nic Gillam, who underwent a serious illness in ‘the Freedmen’s Hospital. We are glad to see her home again. Mz, and Mrs. Jj WW, Bryant made a flying visit to Philadélphia Sunday on business and returned Monday night. - Several houses are being built in Hight View Park. : The. day school enrollment is still increasing, the number at present be- ing 136._ Prof. Baltimore is, principal. ‘The Silver Star Club will give a grand concert here November 20, which will be the season's opening. G. W. Ferguson is president, Miss Annita Hyson secretary, and C. Hy- son treasurer. Cottage Park, which ig one of our most beautiful and attractive places in connection with Hall’s Hill, has won the admiration of many passers- by. jt is owned and. controlled by our qwn. people. There -are many modern homes in Gottage Park. Most of the, property is owned by Mr. Rob- ert Smith and he is building “many modern homes, giving opportunity to persons whor wish fo locate them- felves there One of these beautiful homes|has recently been occupied by Mr. aild Mrs. \. H. Scott. Mrs., Effie Jones, who has been spending some time in Philadelphia has returned and is stopping with he |sister, Mrs. Elma Dosey, of Cottag | Park. : Mr,-and Mrs. Hosea Jackson wen! to Vienna Sunday and Spent the da} |with his father, who has been sic for some time. | Mrs. Hill, who had been here ver Ji, returned to her home in Nes 1] York, and recently died. ATHLETIC SPORT. Rodyism Passing Away—Newspaver: > Supporting the Sports. Each year finds our athletic pro- gram more varied: and in manage- ment and conduct ‘approaching the standard set by ‘the larger organiza tions of the country. Just now foot- ball has the center of the stage. There is a world of difference be- tween games of nowadays and games ‘of yesterday, among our colored teams. It is seldom that games are played, with spectators swarming like ees about the players and more sel- dom do we see mob rule on the gridiron. The players aré coached fo engage in clean sport, the student body is trained to orderly procedure in rooting and cheering, and good sportsmanship. is the order of the day. Our colleges have at last_be- gun to learn to trust in the official capacity and judgment of members of the same race of the players in the games. Rodyism is passing. Our status will soon demand greater con- sideration from authorities in this fine about the country upon the merits in the: case. Our newspapers are beginning to feel the need of game and athletic reports to gain Circulation among red-blooded men and boys in the communities. While not as much proportionate space is given to athletics as is done by lead- ing daily press, yet it is encouraging to find attempts to increase this live interest everywhere among us. “Morgan College played Baltimore High School team a o to o game in Baltimore Friday in the Monumental city. M Street High School will play in Manassas Saturday.. Storer in Washington on the 13th, Baltimore High School at a later date, an¢ Armstrong on the 24th. Armstrong plays Storer on the 7th here in Washington, Manassas ard Baltimore at later dates.. Lincoln University. and_ Hampton engage in their classic at Lincoln or Saturday the 8th, while Shaw anc Howard meet here in Washington On the t4th Hampton and Howarc fight out their battle on Hampton's grounds and Howard travels to Rich- mond the next day. Lincoln and Howard will again delight the pa- trons of the sport on Thanksgiving Day in Washington. 2 ‘At each of the three colored higl schools the students have selectec officers of the Athletic Associatior for the year and the Games Commit tee has been’ chosen. For years ath letics have been conducted upon wu inguilicient sum of money, + every effort is being made this ir 30 clear away. back indebtedness ; ‘Linérease the funds in the treas- fes of the several school organiza- | ons. For the second year a stu- ‘cnt membership has heen planned ‘and a campaign has been inaug- | rated to secure a full student mem- | ership, Each section in the three thigh schools is endeavoring to raise jmembership percentage to. 100, per cent, and-a spirited contest is on be- tree the sections of the three schools. Armstrong Manual Train- ing School anu Commercial High School began last Thursday, while M Street began Friday. Already, under the influence of student man- agement. students have begun to join in large numbers. Each week a standing of all sections will be an- nounced. Officers and members of the Games Committee of the high school athletic associations dre as follows: (,jitmstiong | Manual Training School—President, William Bowie; vice president; Rena Burrell; secre- tary, Thomas Johnson; assistant treasurers, Catherine Short and Mat- thew Taylor; treasurer, Mr. Hart- grove; representatives from the vari- us years, Nathaniel Bacon, Percy Conrad, Eleanor Newman, Ira Warf; faculty’ representatives, "Miss Lee, Miss Campbell, Mrs. "McAdoo, Messrs. Cowan, Clifford and Hender- son, - M Street High School—President, Thomas Dent; vice president, Ethei Evans; secretary, | Mary | Gibson; treasurer, Mr. Joseph, Allen; assist- ant treasurers, Dorothy, Pelham and Arthur Payne; representatives. from the classes, Lena Payre, Gladys Tig- \nor, Oscar’ Randall, Norvell Barnett; faculty “representatives, Miss M. ‘| Perry, Miss T. Lee, Miss M. Kirk- ‘|Iand, "Messrs. Morton, Douglass and | Henderson. Zs || Commercial High School—Presi- {dent, John Tatum; vice president, '|Virginia Robinson; secretary, Wal- |ter Searcy; treasurer, Mr.’ D. B. '|Thompson; assistant “treasurers, '|Edith Basey. AValter Jackson; class representatives, Pauline Minor. Vic- tor Thompson, Clarence Fletcher, Cecil Butler: faculty representatives, ,| Dr. H. L. Bailey, S. E. Compton, E. B. Henderson, Misses JE. Brooks and M. O. EH. Williamson. DR. S. L. CORROTHERS Golden Jubilee to Begin Sunday— Meeting With Great Success—Pop- ular With the People. : Rev. Sylvester L. Corrothers, pas- tor of Galbraith A. M. E.’ Zion Church, will begin next Sunday with his golden jubilee. It will be one of the greatest events in the history of this ancient structure. Dr. Corroth- ers is the first and only minister in the history of that church,-who has ever been a success. Galbraith Church is known far and wide. Its popularity has been due to the untiring efforts of Dr. Corrothers. ; During the services of the golden jubilee some of the best known and most able divines in this country will take Sark. .Galgraith A. M. E. Zion Church, Sixth Street between L and M Streets Northwest, is now celebrating its twelfth anniversary under the pasto- rate of Sylvester L. Corrothers, This is the first time in a hundred years that so long a pastorate has ‘been served in any one of the chief, pulpits of the Zion connection, and in view of past tappenings the entire church is praying that it may be a prophetic and prosperous year. ‘The membership and friends of the city are asked to contribute to the fund being raised to meet the obliga tions against the church. The. anni versary will close on the evening of December 3d, at which time the offi- cers of the church will tender the pastor a reception, the occasion being his. goth birthday. ‘Sunday morning, November oth, the subject of the sermon will be “The, Propaganda in Zion.” | THE TESTIMONIAL ‘The Greatest in the History of All } ‘Washington. | The Thomas testimonial, which was mentioned in "The Bee last week, will no doubt be the greatest in the history of all Washington. Some of the,best local stores in this city have voldnteered their services for the week of Thanksgiving. Mr. Thomas will be convinced what all-Washinig- ton thinks of him. Galbraith Church. 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 humanly. 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, enclosing 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 THE FATHER 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, steady 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, be cause 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 Bridgroom 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 vows was concluded by Judge Falling. Kingston, Mo.—After twenty years of goosep, 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 provides a mystery that has never been solved. Having the county courthouse one ev' 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 Laldaw. "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 homeclck." He and Laldlaw 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.-Jlited, a man here nailed crape on the girl's front door and was arrested. National Religious Training Schoo THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING CORPORATION 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 Witness of Stuart Reed When Wearer of Gown Passed. Lima, 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 pinned 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. HAVEN FOR TRAMPS HAS FED 300,000 MEN "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 1884, and since that time more than 300,000 tramps and wanders 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, New a Cobhair: Dafnacha Cicha. 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 1456. 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 dungeon. 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 Menmouth Hereina. Carlisle, Pa.—Mrs. Samuel Sipe, 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. Sipe 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. Sipe 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 masculine 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. 6. Department of Literary Training 7. 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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 desplied bird. An error was made ten years ago, the investigators declare, in spreading broadcast a warning against "old jimcrow." A report announces that the crow does more good than harm; he eats more peats 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 Laconla 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. Washington. The continuation of the policy adopted by the present government in the Phillippe 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 Fillipinos 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." STORIES OF GOLD FROM ALASKA Women Brave Hardships of the Frozen Desert—Motto, "We Should Worry," Expected That Fully Three Hundred of the Three Thousand New Settlers Will Spend Winter In Klondike. Seattle.—Word came out of Alaska on July 19 last that a new and startlingly rich gold strike had been made on the extreme upper reaches of the Tänana, a strike which might rival the Klondike in importance. The new region was referred to as the Shushanna, though the geographies call the river Chisana, pronouncing the "ch" soft. The Seattle newspapers and the news gathering agencies adopted the word Shushanna, however, and by that name the region is now known. This new camp lies northwest of the famous Bonanza copper mine at Kennecott, the terminus of the Copper river and Northwestern railroad, and is reached by a very difficult, hazardous and trying trail over Scolai pass, 125 miles from the rail line. It can be reached by way of Dawson and by way of White Horse and White river, as well as via Cordova and the Copper river railroad. The three routes offer little choice in the matter of freedom from hardship. Immediately following the news of the strike a stampede for the new diggings began. Most of those who went were seasoned prospectors and veterans of the north country. The number might aggregate 3,000. The number who actually reached the camp cannot have exceeded 2,000. Only 300 will winter there. Pay has been found on Bonanza, Little El Dorado, Gold Run and Snow Gulch. These streams are all tributaries of Wilson and Johnson creeks, two of the main sources of the Shushanna or Chisana river. The Chisana and Nabesna are the sources of the Tanana. The James claims yielded about 400 ounces of gold up to August last and the Whitham claims about 100 ounces. The total for the district for the season is probably in excess of $50,000, a small yield, yet most promising when it is considered that no one had more than a length or two of sluice boxes and but little water. The gravel is shallow up around the discovery claims and the gold coarse. Down the creeks the gravel deposits are deeper, and only the surface is thawed. There is but little wood near the scene of the discoveries, and, as steam plants will not be available until transportation is extended to the region, no frozen ground can even be prospected this winter. Discovery was made in June last by W. E.' James, who had spent fifteen years on the headwaters of White, Shushanna and Nabesna rivers prospecting for quartz. Wonderful deposits of copper exist on all these streams, and both the Copper river and White Pass railroads have made extensive reconnol-sances and surveys in this region. Henry Bratnoher and his agents have been active there also. It was copper and not the possibility of gold placers which attracted prospectors to the Shushanna region. Another man hunting the red metal was Carl Whitham. He was the second locater on the new placer field. He did not get started quite so early as James and did not make so good a showing, the James ground yielding about $20,000 this season, while Whitham took out only $10,000. Other producing claims were worked by Fletcher Hamshaw and Joe McLennon. It was an Indian who told James that gold existed on the Shushanna creeks, high up above timber line. James verified the report, and he and his partner were soon taking out the yellow metal. It was not an uncommon day's work with three men and two lengths of sluice box to wash up $1,000. A piece of ground two feet deep, eighty feet long and sixteen feet wide yielded 35S ounces of eighteen dollar gold, or more than $6,000. It was this phenomenal richness which started stampeders from all parts of Alaska to the scene, making one of the most interesting rushes of recent years. The trail requires ten days for experienced mushers to negotiate from the end of the railroad to the scene of the strike. Mrs. Grace Bostwick, who, with her daughter, was the first woman over the trail, writes of life in the new camp. She says: "One lives close to nature, for that is certainly all one has to live close to. Nerves are unknown, and livers are not objects of suspicion. Health stops at every campfire to call out greetings. The worries of outside life slip away. Bit by bit, very naturally, one drops into the Slwash way of existence—a warm bed (of hemlock boughs on the ground), three good meals a day, plenty of wood for the campfire. Men are unshaved; every one is dirty. Skins are blackened by the sun and by the smoke of the fire. Sleeping close to the fire, many of the men's garments are half burned away. 'We should worry,' they say, and that is camp philosophy." A. DOUBLE LEGACY. One-Bequest a Lost Treasure of Gold and of Pearls. Boston-A search for treasure in southern waters will shortly be undertaken by Roland P. Kelley, a Harvard junior, in compliance with the terms of the will of his grandfather, T. L. Kelley. The will provided that young Kelley should have the savings of his grandfather's fifty years of trading as a ship master in the far east on condition that before his twenty-first birthday he should attempt to locate pearl fisheries in an estuary of the Amazon river and two uncharted islands in the Pacific. These islands, according to the will, were found by the old mariner to contain a large amount of gold and were discovered when he was in search of fresh water on one of his voyages. The pearls were seen on another voyage. The elder Kelley made several attempts to organize expeditions to unknown islands, but was unsuccessful. $1,500,000 FOR PEACHES. Ozark Crop of 2,000 Cars Brings Good Prices. Springfield, Mo.—Carload shipments of Elbera peaches from the Ozark region, practically have closed. A few scattering cars will be moved, but the bulk of the tremendous crop has been harvested. Fully 90 per cent of the shipments found a market at points east of the Mississippi river. One railroad has handled over 1,300 cars of peaches, and the consignments over other roads in the peach belt bring the total output to more than 2,000 cars. It is estimated that the fruit brought $1,500,000 to the growers. TO EUROPE ON STRETCHER. Polish Boy, With Broken Back, to Return to the Fatherland. St. Paul.—That he may see his mother and home in the fatherland once more Mike Wasuck, a nineteen-year-old Polish boy, suffering from a broken back and limbs, left for Warsaw. The lad will make the long trip on a stretcher, accompanied by Miss Lydia Keller, superintendent of a hospital where he has been for the last thirteen months. The boy was injured on Aug. 14, 1912, in a railway yard when a pile of lumber toppled upon him. In a suit for damages he received $13,000. TO LEARN SECRETS OF MYSTERY ISLE German Explorer Plans to Fly Over New Guinea. TO LEARN SECRETS OF MYSTERY ISLE German Explorer Plans to Fly Over New Guinea. Berlin.-Lieutenant Paul Graetz of the German army plans to explore the island of New Guinea by means of an airship. The cost of equipping his expedition is estimated at $750,000, and capitalists in Germany, Holland and England are being asked to interest themselves in the project. A semirigid balloon of the Parseval type is to be used, and it will be constructed at Malu, on the coast of New Guinea. From that place, as a gas and supply station, flights will be made over the island, and it will be mapped, and its opportunities for commercial exploitation will be studied from points of vantage in midair. The Island of New Guinea, which lies north of Australia and is separated therefrom by the strait of Torres, contains one of the few large unexplored areas on the globe. Great Britain claims one portion of the island, and Holland claims the other portion, but neither nation has done more than settle and develop the rich plains near the coasts. In the interior are wild tribes of savage head hunting Papuans, who have the reputation of eating one another and devouring every white man they can capture. In the interior are mountains, some of which rise 10,000 feet and are snow capped. The climate on the New Guinea plains is tropical. Kangaroos abound, but there are few wild beasts. A British and Dutch expedition attempted to explore the interior of New Guinea last year. They lost one of their number to the cannibals, and another of the party was killed by polsoned arrows. They scaled one lofty mountain. TRACE SHIP LOST IN 1788. Wreck of French Exploration Vessel Found in Pacific. Paris.—Some wreckage found burled with sand on the island of Vanikoro, in the Pacific, is supposed to be the remains of the Boussole, the vessel of the French explorer Laperouse, which趴led on a voyage of discovery in the Pacific in 1788 and never returned. An expedition which was sent out under Admiral d'Entrecasteaux to search for Laperouse found no trace of the vessel, but the admiral always believed she was lost among the Santa Cruse group of islands. Vanikoro is one of these islands. Scalded to Death In His Bath. Cleveland, O.-Henry W. Judd, a wealthy retired business man and director in several local corporations, was called to death in his bathtub. His body was found by his wife on her return from church. All Who Get $3,000 or Over a Year Taxable. WILL PUNISH ALL DODGERS. Government Requires That All of the Returns Be Made Under Oath—Extent of the Law Is Broad—All Who Are Liable and Fail to Make Payment Will Be Fined. Washington.—It now behooves all those with an income of more than $3,000 a year to lay a hand upon a furrowed brow and try to find out how they are going to pay the income tax to government and what will happen to them if they do not. Representative Cordell Hull of Tennessee, who framed the income tax bill, issued a statement intended to help the taxable persons, and the internal revenue bureau of the treasury department is already at work on a set of instructions which will be issued later. In the first place, the law about to go into effect includes within its scope all citizens of the United States residing at home or abroad, all persons living in the United States though not citizens thereof and all net incomes from property and business owned or carried on in the United States by aliens. In every case a deduction of $3,000 is allowed-for living expenses. In the case of a husband who is living with his wife or a wife who is living with her husband an additional $1,000 exemption is allowed, so that all told a married person is entitled to an exemption of $4,000. Only one $4,000 deduction, however, is to be allowed from the aggregate income of both husband and wife. Till the Smoke Rose. In the third century there was an emperor of Japan who, mounting to the summit of a hill during a period of hard times and poor crops, observed that no smoke was rising from the clusted cottages in the valleys below him. The villagers could not afford fire; besides, most of them had no food to cook. He surveyed the scene thoughtfully and, descending, gave orders to remit all taxes for a period of three years. Before the time was over his palace fell into decay and parts of it into ruin; the rain came through the roof, and more than once he was drenched as he slept. But he made no complaint. At the end of three years he climbed the hill once more. Everywhere, from more numerous cottages, blue spirals drifted upward to the sky. He smiled as he descended, and the taxes were restored. But it was not with tax money that the palace was repaired, since the grateful people raised the needed sum as a thank offer—Youth's Companion. The Supercritic Provost Hawkins of Oriel college, Oxford, declares the Right Hon. W. G. E. Russell in "Edward King, Sixteenth Bishop of Lincoln," was never happy unless he could find some fault to criticise in the undergraduates who came before him. Among other things, the record of chapel attendance was always on his table and referred to for praise or blame. One day when King, who was an Oriel man and who seemed to have been a happy combination of George Herbert and Saint Francis de Sales, was before him the provost consulted the record. "I observe, Mr. King," said he, "that you have never missed a single chapel, morning or evening, during the whole term." He paused, but instead of a word of praise, which might reasonably have been expected, he continued severely: "I must warn you, Mr. King, that even too regular attendance at chapel may degenerate into formalism." SUCCESSFUL MEN. Invitation to Colored Business Men to Speak at Tuskegee. Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 23.—The Executive Council of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute has decided to invite a representative group of successful colored business men throughout the country to visit Tuskegee Institute during the school year 1913-14 for the purpose of speaking to the student body. In each case the persons invited are asked to speak upon the particular line of business activity in which they are engaged, the purpose being to give the students direct contact with Negro men and women who have succeeded in various business directions. 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MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Mme. L. C. Parrish HAIR CULTURING, MANICURING AND SCALP TREATMENT THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMEN'S HOLIDAY Largest Manufacturer of Hair Preparations in Boston. Largest Importer of Pure Human Hair. We manufacture all other kinds of Tole. Articles—Hand Made, Natural Looking Wigs, Switches, Braids, Puffs, etc. Free Catalogue. Perrish's Never Fall Hair Food is absolutely one of the best hair preparations on the market. It stops the hair from Splitting at the ends and falling out. It will make your Hair Grow. It is praised by people in all sections of the country. Send 10 cents for a sample jar. Agents wanted. Write for terms. Mme. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Phone 888 R Tremont. Mention this paper when writing. 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Phone 888 R Tremont. Mention this paper when writing. Mr. A. N. Johnson, Nashville, Tenn. Contractors—Mr. J. H. Blodgett, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mr. B. L. Windham, Birmingham, Ala.; Mr. R. E. Pharrow, Atlanta, Ga.; Mr. H. W. Strickland, Birmingham, Ala. cago, Ill. Real Estate—Mr. Brockton, Mass.; Mr. New York City. Harnessmaking—Mr. Montgomery, Ala. Later it is proposed successful colored men Grocers--Mr. James S. Hardwick, Springfield, Mo. Bakers-Mr. W. A. Wallace, Chi- The Typewriter without a Speed Limit & BROS. writer LONG WEARING with permits the carriage te it so instantaneously that no all bearing type bars, a car- rals, a capital shift key requir- re, a combined one-motion with spaces one, two or three the lightest possible carriage that makes all day speed inary printing point, back space keys, and takes the hands from with accuracy in the literature today. S. TYPEWRITER CO. Business: SYRACUSE, N.Y., U. S. A. Principal Cities G. St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Winslow MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER HAIR STRAIGHTENER LED ANY WHERE IN U.S.$100 POSTAGE PAID MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. eapolis, Minn. not to individuals. B CROWNING GLORY.—And every lady can dry the hair after a shampoo or bath, and amulate its growth. The Aluminium Comb en- but takes its heat from the heating bar which er. We advise the use of Hyles Lint Pomade caterer, price $60. Liberal terms to agents. future today. Y. MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA NOT SOLD UNDER ANY OTHER NAME. HOME WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. If you purchase the NEW HOME you will have a life asset at the price you pay, and will not have a endless chain of repairs. Quality Considered it is the Cheapest in the end to buy. If you want a sewing machine, write for our latest catalogue before you purchase. The New Home Sewing Machine Co. Orange, Mass. For sale by Gustave Oppen- heimer, Cor. E and 8th Sts. N. W. McCall's Magazine and McCall Patterns For Women Have More Friends than any other magazine or patterns. McCall's is the reliable Fashion Guide monthly in one million one hundred thousand homes. Besides showing all the latest designs of McCall Patterns, each issue is brimful of sparkling short stories and helpful information for women. Save Money and Keep in Style by subscribing for McCall's Magazine at once. Costs only so cents a year, including any one of the celebrated McCall Patterns free. McCall Patterns Lead all others in style, fit, simplicity, comfort and style, and do the best for all McCall Patterns than any other two makes combined. None higher than 15 cents. Buy from your dealer, or by mail from McCALL'S MAGAZINE 236-246 W. 37th St., New York City Norm-Sample Copy, Franklin College and Pallium College Inst., on request. cago, Ill. Real Estate—Mr. Watt Terry, Brockton, Mass.; Mr. P. A. Payton, New York City. Harnessmaking—Mr. J. H. Façain, Montgomery, Ala. Later it is proposed to invite other successful colored men and women; but for the present year the above list represents those who have been invited to speak to the student body. THE BEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. cago. Ill. AREPLY TO THe MULATTO y. Prof. H. Jordan, of the University of Virginia, James K. Varda- man, et al., Published in The Popular Science Monthly for June, 1913—Published Under the Auspices of he Washington Bee, by Dr. Geo. H. Richard- son, M.D., L.L. D. This great pamphlet will be ready for circulation next week. 15 cents per copy, 7 copies for one dollar. 7 Address Dr. Geo, H. Richard son, 309 Eleventh St. N. E., or The Washington Bee, 1109 Ey: Street Northwest, Washington D.C, 7 Write for one at once, é St. Lukes, ss St. Luke’s, at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth and O Streets, West Washington, Sunday night, November 9, at 8 o'clock. Rev. W. C Thompson, pastor, will preach the sermon, Fine music. All St. Lukes urged to be present. : A.C. GARNER, x Deputy. JULIA H, HAYES, . . Associate Deputy. Bethel Literary and Historical Association. Rev. Dr. T. J. Moppins, who is re- garded as ore of the ablest ministers in the Zion connection will discuss “The Sociological Outlook,” Tuesday evening, November 11, at Metropoli- tan A, M. E, Church, Music will be rendered bv the choir of Union Wesley Church. A. D. POWELL . Dealer in | Coal, Wood and Ice. | Having purchased the business of Mr. James Winslow, I am now pre- pared to supply, his former patrons and the public in general with best grades of Coal and Wood, and at moderate prices. Prompt and relia- Dle* service can always be assured, and a trial order is invited. Phone North 413. . Fresh Fish and Oysters, Adjoining the Coal Office has also been opened a stand where the pub- lic can secure fresh fish and oysters. Our oysters are shucked daily on the premises and can be obtained by the pint, quart or gallon. Special attention given to supply- ‘ing oysters for church festivals, ban- quets, etc. Family trade a specialty. Remember the Location, 1200 R Street N. W. Phone, N. 413. Mr. Taylor’ in the West. Ex-Auditor Ralph W. Tyler, nation- al organizer of the National Negro Business League, addressed the local Negro Business League in St. Louis, Mo., last Monday evening. This is one of the largest Negro Business Leagues in the United States. . Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, presi- dent of the National Training School for Women and Girls, is compelled to rent additional quarters for her girls. The school is overcrowded. Many distinguished persons will participate in the Thomas testimo- nial. . Richard's reply to, Vardaman is al- most ready to come from the press. FOR RENT _ THOMAS WALKER. 3108 Sherman Ave. N. Wa 9 rooms, all improvements.$25.00 1005 Maryland Ave. S. W.,. 10 : rooms, all improvements. 25.00 + 41 Patterson St. N. E, 6 rooms. all improvements. 18.50 1045 47th St. Deanwood, D.C., + 3 rooms and porch...... 7-00 105 Benning Road, D. C, 6 rooms, large yard....... 8.40 Sheriff Road, Deanwood, D. C., 4 rooms and 5 acres of ground ..e..reeeeees+ 8.00 Stanton Road, Anacostia, D.C, 8 rooms....--.+.+- 12.00 zoo, Nichols Ave., Anacostia, D. C., 7 rooms.........+- 16.50 2047 gth St. N. W., 5 rooms.. 17.50 THOMAS WALKER 560 Fifth Street Northwest. Amos Takes Charge of Choral The South Washington Choral So- ciety was organized at the Colored Social Settlement Sunday, November zd. Rev. VanLoo, vicar of St. Mo- nica’s Church, is president of the as- sociation. Mr. Wm. L. Washington, head worker at the Social Settlement, is secretary. The Choral Society will meet_week- ly at the Settlement every Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Competent musicians will teach and conduct the singing. South Washington has 2 great deal of talent along musica lines and here is an opportunity. tc cultivate it. Let us all Iearn to sins and sing right. Mri Ernest R. Amos has been se lected as the director. Mr. Amos i regarded by musical critics as a mu sician of rare talent. ‘ The Democratic administration, | having been convinced that a Demo- cratic Senate will not confirm a Ne- gro Democrat, has decided to allow Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson to re- ‘main. Negro Democrats claim that they will be satisfied if Col. Johnson is retained. The Washington Orchestra, forty musicians, Mr. H. A. Williams, direc- tor, has decided on December 28 as the date for their first concert at the Howard Theatre. The sale of patrons’ tickets will be- gin about December 1. The colored vote wgs solid for Mr Carmody. Only a few colored trai- tors. } Uc be dd = ey > Supreme Ca: o . . lumbia, Holding P> - : Estate of Jane Lowry, > No. 9403, Administration Docket Application having been made here- in for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters of administration sum testa- mento annexo on. said estate, by Thomas A, Cox, it is ordered this 3ist day of October, A. D. 1913, that James Cox, Nancy Brown, alias Nan- cy Bailey, William Cox, Rebecca Harden, Lizzie Cargile, Atma Wil- liams, ‘alias Eleanor Williams, Jose-, phize Johnson, —— Robertson, — ‘obertson, —— Robertson and Jo- seph Wickliffe, and all others con- cerned, appear in said Court on Mon- day, the 29th day of December, A. D 1913, at to o'clock a. m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be peblished in the “Washington Law eporter” and The Washington Bee once in cach of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD, Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Pro- bate Court. L. MELENDEZ KING and WM. I. LEE, . Attorneys. Death of Mrs. Brooks. Mrs. Laura Broome Brooks, wife of Rev. J. Henry Brooks and a high- ly respected, deeply loved resident of this city, died Sunday, November 2, at her, residence, 509 Florida Avenue Northwest. The funeral was held Wednesday, November 5, at her residence. Her husband and three children, Dr. Phil Brown, Mable E. and Mrs. Bertie Brooks-Lewis, survive her. The family and relatives have the sympathy of their hosts of friends. Tuskegee Institute. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Oct. 30.—Tuskegee Institute, in the first contest of the year, October 18, regis- tered thirty-eight points against Clark University of Atlanta, and on the fol- lowing Saturday, October 25. over- whelmed the football squad from Morris Brown University with a 45 to o score. Not once has Tuskegee been scored against. Tuskegee has not in recent years started her gridiron adventures under happier auspices, and from every an- gle there are indications of a remark- ably successful season. The first real test of the team, however, will be on Wednesday, No- vember §, when the team will meet! the Talladega College eleven in Birm- ingham. On November 15, on the Tuskegee Institute field, will be played the most hard-fought contes seen in recent years when the dough ty Tuskegee squad tackles the Atlan ta Baptist (Morehouse) College, o Atlanta, Ga. This game ‘will withou a doubt be a large factor in decidin; who shall claim the Southern cham pionship. On Thanksgiving Day th team, under the direction of Coac! Gordon R. Thomas, will go to Nash ville to meet. the Fisk Universit: team for the final game of the season Guest of the Training School. The District Union, composed o! the white church of this city, was the guest of the National Training Schoo! for Women and _ Girls at Lincolr Heights Wednesday, November 5 from 2 to 5 o'clock p. m. BUSINESS MEN’S NIGHT. Bethel Literary and Historical Asso- ciation Tuesday Evening, November * 25, 1913. « ,. You are requested to attend a meet. ing of the Commercial and Profes. ‘sional business men and women Tues: day evening, November 25, at §& o'clock, Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M Street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets Northwest. The purpose of this meeting is aimed tc ‘cement the active power of the com. mercial and professional and public in raising a higher standard and bet ter understanding among the colorec People of the District. There will be several prominent speakers of the practical type, along with the fine mu: sical program. Don't fail to com« out'and help us. Wait. a ie Wait, there is time to answer blackguards, Wait, and see what fools some peo- ple made themselves. ven oa. jait and see the animal kill “him- self. Wait. and don’t be worried at jabs; they are harmless to what The Bec has in its possession. Wait. and sce “those who laugh last. It is not the first shot that in: jures you, > Wait, and don't doubt The Bee’: ability to satisfy the monkey mind Tt Is Amusing To see a monkey climb a tree. To sce Jackson turn a somersaul: To see bogus newspaper corre spondents play fool. The. Bee Would Like to Know What_ is the National Busine: Men's Press Association doing. | .If a real National Press Associ: -|tion is not in order. -| If John Mitchell, Jr., is not amon |the great editors in the South. -|_ What got it into the head of Ti {| Fortune that he could lecture. 1} Tf The Age will join a real pre: association. r| If Trotter isn’t got them all | .| guessing. The Colored Inventor. This is the caption of a twelve-page pamphlet by Mr. Henry E. Baker, As- ‘sistant Examiner in the United States Pension Office, This. twelve-page pamphlet gives in detail 4 large num- ber of inventions of the colored © WO GROWS HAIR i Pe rae DANDRUFF 4 QUINASOAP <a | inne F< wl | os QUINACOMB FR. 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The present pamphlet is very useful and should be read by every one. * THE NATION'S WARD. (Advocate, Wilmington, N, C.) At the triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church a mass meeting was held on the night of October oth in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, under the auspi- ces of the American Church Institute for Negroes. Bishop Nelson of Atlanta made “a plea for the Nation’s Ward" in. the following: “An immeasurable wrong was done,” said Bishop Nelson, “when the ballot was given to the people untrained for citizenship. He needs a vitalizing religion. He needs educa- tion but not so much of the sort which we have beenstrying to give him—the arts and sciences, the clas- sics and romances, languages and music and theology. He. needs in- struction in honor, righteousness thrift, truth and purity more than he needs the ballot.” In addition to the above, Bishor Gailor, of Tennessec laments thusly: “But ‘there is another side to the picture. The moral progress of the Negro has not at all been propor. tionate ‘to his progress in book carn ing and ability to acquire property More than any thing else in the worlc the Negro needs religion.” . From Bishop Nelson’s caption yot would be led to expect an addres: upon some phase of the American In dian. He is the only ‘Ward of the Nation we know anything about. Th Nation schools him, clothes him anc gives him lartd and tries in every wa} to instil into his unwilling mind the elements of American civilization But what has the Nation given th Negro? What, in return for his un requited toil of centuries? He is th veritable fulfillment of .the scriptura prophecy “from him that hath not.’ The good Bishop would train the Ne gro for citizenship which is daily de nied him, The gift of ballot whict “he seemeth to have" is deeply de | plored as an awful crime. Dear Bish op, dry those tears, he hasn’t got it— because his grandfather didn’t hav it, that’s the only reason, And do no lament so grievously over the science: Jand languages and arts and classic and music and theology you hav: Jgiven him. You have never give him much of this sort of education ‘}you are giving him less now. '| , He does need “instruction in honot {righteousness, thrift. truth and_nuri '|ty,” perhaps, more than he needs th ballot—but the Anglo-Saxon who bar ters his honor in Wall Street and i ,|gigantic trusts and monopolies, wh forfeits his righteousness by wicke ‘land unjust laws, who thrives upan th thrift of the unfortunate, who rept "|diates the great truth of the Brother hood of man, and who stains the pt “|rity of the Nation by his Whit Slave trade and his “black slave” it +|dulgences—he is hardly the instructe elto when the Negro would paturall turn in his extremity. The Negro t! h} Ward of the Nation?—Rather, tu | Nation’s outcast—Prof. W. B. Cri _|tenden. FOR RENT. HIGH CLASS APARTMENTS . The Minerva ; 1838 Fourth Street Northwest. Ideal Location | First-class resideritial sections ona pleasant street close to three car lines. ‘ Attractive Building Up-to-date in every respect, jani- tor service, heat, hot water in abundance. PERFECT CONDITION. Being thoroughly renovated; quick tenant can select decorations, Reasonable Rents Five and six rooms, $29 and $30. Agents SHANNON & LUCHS Renting Service 733 Fourteenth St, N. W. M. 2345 M. 2345 Consumption Can Be Cured WE HAVE THE REMEDY Dr. Brown's New Consumptior Remedy cures Coughs, Colds. | Hoarseness, La . . Grippe, Pleuras; Pneumonia. Con- - sumption and all : Diseases [of the } tespiratory or- gans . | Drug trade sup- plied by Groover- | Stewart Drug Co ° Jacksonville Fla. For sale by retail .at all the leading drug stores, or write * Magnolia Remedy Co., St. Augustine, la, U.S. A. Box 734 ee ms : * For Rent. For sent—By Thomas Walker, a splendid house, 9 rooms and bath and hall. All modern conveniences, in- cluding staticnary wash tubs; all clean and in gocd repair for $23 per month. Thomas Walker, 506 Fifth Street Northwest. O-25-3t For Sale. ‘ For Sale—Three lots, 25x120 feet each, corner Fifty-third and Dayton Streets Northeast, two blocks west of National Training School, $600. Address “N,”*Bee office. . _ - OEE Mrs. M, Harvey — Clinkscales, teacher of the pianoforte. Terms rea- sonable. For further | information call or write, 1232 Linden Street Northeast. S-27-4t Open from 6:30 a. m. to 8 p.m. Open Sundays 7 a..m. to 6:15 p.m. . LEE’S LUNCH ROOM -Geo, H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W. Meals 15¢ and 25¢. Washington, D. C. 1 Phone Col. 185 Edward L. Scott, LL.B. Public Auditor and Accountant Auditing accounts of individuals, so- cieties and cerporationsa specially 728 Girard Street, N. W. Se gaol aaa | Wordy. Messenger Wordy Thompson- says the people in.this city are more in need of a decent weekly than a daily. The Bee will look after its defamers in a few days. Dont’- worry, Wordy ,will be pressing bricks for Walker en Cleaning, Altering, Dyeing, Re- Pairing. JOHN F. HARKUM CO., TAILORS, 2012 Tenth Street N. W. | Ladies’ Skirts made to ordet from $2.00 up. Coat Suits, $10.00 _ Fit or no pay. _ ‘| HAIR @' IY GAL A Delightfully Perfumed Hair Pomade PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR COLORED PEOPLE HIS old, reliable preparation has been in constant use for years, Tena is considered a necessary toilet article in thousands of homes. It is guaranteed free from all injurious drugs or chemicals. JOHNSTON’S HAIR DRESSING makes harsh, stubborn, kinky curly hair soft, pliant and glossy, enables you to comb with ease and to do it up in.any style consistent with its length. It is perfectly Safe and Harmless. * By supplying the needed oils directly to the roots of the hair, JOHNSTON’S HAIR DRESSING tones up, invigorates and nour- ishes the scalp, stops the hair from falling out, increases its growth and prevents the hair from splitting and breaking off at the ends’ and gives the hair new life and vigor. : JOHNSTON’S HAIR DRESSING removes Dandruff, cures Tetter, Itching and Sealing of the Scalp, etc. . There is nothing experimental about JounsTon’s Hair DRESSING ithas been thoroughly tested and endorsed by thousands of satis- fied users. Try a box and be convinced that it does all and more than what we claim for it. ) JOHNSTON'S HAIR DRESSING is put Up ia fesnce square FOR’SALE AT ALL DRUG STORES IN WASHINGTON. VALUABLE COUPON IN EVERY PACKACE. ————— el 9 : Real Colored People’s Hair we SES: “ - Uwe. = Weare the largest Imjorter and ae Manufacturer in this line. Plaits, we RE my Wigs, Pomps, Puffs, Braids and Sma Transformations in stock or to =~] Sf order. All our goods guaranteed ra) Fy a to stand combing and washing and F to hold the color and crimp. All a > shades matched, none too difficult. q Mixed gray our specialty. ’ Send 2c for catalogue. Straight- ening combs and toilet articles our specialty. The Only and Old Re- a liable. Mme. BAUM’S HAIR EMPORIUM ee 7 486 8th Avc. New York City Mail Orders Promptly Attend-ed to. Py ‘ SS eee THE MODERN PRESSING CLUB CO. ~ . 1905 Seventh Street Northwest (Near Tea.) - Phone North 5548. . PRESSING, DYEING, CLEANING, ALTERING, REPAIRING Men’s List. a = Ladies’ List. Suits Sponged & Pressed... .25 Suits Sponged & Pressed... .5o “Dry Cleaned ........ 50 “ Cleaned & Pressed... .75 up “ Steam Cleaned ....... .75 Skirts Cleaned ......... Soup . All oo Called for and Delivered. One Coat and Two Pairs of Pants Sponged and Pressed, (called for and delivered) each week, for $1.00 per month. 3 O. K. WILLIAMS, Mgr. LOU COSTLEY’S ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Is nos open for Ladies and Gentlemen, with all the nicest Chinese Dishes, prepared by an expert Chinese Chef. You cam be served with Chop Suey and Yokomen and all the other Chinese Delicacies. Yokomen . . cencecccccccccccccsccccccccccscccsscssccscs ofO Gal Soo Min ..cccscsccsccsccccccesccccevecececsccsssvecs 28 7 Gai Yong On cccscccsssccscccscevesecseesedsscecsvevsees: 950 4 Chop Sucy .......--ceeeeereessreccceeecccecsccceewsssees 25 Chicken Chop Suey ...ccccccccccccccssecccnccctscesecess ofS Pepper’ Steak . crccorssecsesesesiavesecscevcssveccssvveoae: 25 . Mr, “Bud” Minor will entertain with Music. , ror. ay . 3312 Pennsylvania Avenue - - - - - + = + Northwesr W'The Aoricultural and Mechanical Colltce " The Agricultural and Mechanical Collece '_ Established and Maintained by the governments of North Carolina, and of the United States. Open all the year round. For males only. Board, Lodging and Tuition, $7.00 per month. Strong Faculty. Excellent equipment. Successful graduates. Fall term begins September 1, 1913 | Write today for accommodations or for catalog. JAS. B. DUDLEY, President, < A. & M. College, Greensboro, N. C. aw =m om a. Ff 7 + 3 Land for Sale. Buy land now at very low rates. Glenarden Heights offers all one could wish in rich, level land, pure water and convenience to cars. Only 3c minutes ride from Washington. Twelve lots for sale 50x130 feet at $115 each. Clear deed. Don’t hesitate. For further partic- ulars to see Miss Elizabeth Shaw, 1613 Thirteenth Street Northwest. Madame E. L. Bruce 1228 Vou 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. | JUSTH’S OLD STAND. There are prizes to be had and the wise man of limited means looks for them. Here, we buy so as to give value. If it’s a fine slightly used overcoat, $3 to $10 or a pair of new pants, $2 to $3, or a new pair of shoes, suit case, hat, etc, there’s a cash saving. One price. JUSTH’S OLD STAND, 619 D St. © z > Madam Walker. The Madam C. J. Walker pre- parations on sale at 1337 Wallach Place Northwest, between’ Thir- teenth and Fourteenth, T and U.