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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXIV, NO. 24 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1913 THE TESTIMONIAL The Thomas testimonial last Wednesday night was edified by excellent speeches by Prof. N. E. Weatherless, who electrified the audience. He spoke on behalf of the masses. Prof. L. M. Hershaw spoke on behalf of the Crispus Attucks, and Mr. M. D. Morris spoke on behalf of the Good Samaritans. ADDRESS By Nelson E. Weatherless, Grandmaster F. A. A. M., D. C., Howard Theater, Tuesday, November 25- Thomas Brothers Testimonial. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am, indeed, glad to be here tonight. It is one of those rare occasions when I am not ashamed of my race or of how it looks and acts in comparison with others. Oh, for the presence here tonight of a Tillman, a Vardaman, a Blease, a Smith—a whole Democratic Congress—to behold the beauty, splendor, and convincing evidence of general intelligence and culture presented by this magnificent audience before me. This splendid audience makes up into the prettiest boquet I ever saw. Look at it! Every color of the rainbow present—from the fairest lily to the darkest rose of delicate hue!! Yonder I see a pure white lily of the valley; over there, a rose of Sharon; here, a touch-me-not of Virginia; and in the center, the Belle of the Georgia plains. The picture is enough to call down the gods from the summit of Olympus and marry them off to the daughters of men. I come here tonight to bring to the Thomas' Brothers the hearty greetings of the finest body of men and women on earth, namely, the Masonic Fraternity and the Honored Ladies of the Order of the Eastern Star of the District of Columbia—who represent not only all the fraternal bodies of the world but the best blood, brains and culture among men. I come to bring them these greetings because it is a duty we owe not only to them and our race but humanity at large. A few years ago these young men were unknown to Honor and unsung by Fame. But tonight, in the business world, they stand erect upon the highest pinnacle of both. They have clearly demonstrated by what they have done and how they have done it. "That Honor and Shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there the honor lies." Unlike the average young man among us, they have found themselves, discovered their talents early in life, have seen their duty, and then with Spartan-like zeal have done it. They heard the passionate appeal of their race for a clean, up-to-date house of amusement here on this beautiful site; they hardened not their hearts but responded with alacrity, giving to us, by their devotion to duty and consecration to service, one of the best theaters in all Washington. In this they have set an example worthy of emulation of every man, woman, and child, no matter what may be his profession, race or creed. I want to thank these young men personally from the very bottom of my heart for their magnificent contribution to my knowledge of the possibilities of my race, and, as Grand Master of Masons for the District of Columbia, and further as representative tonight of all the allied fraternal bodies of Washington City, I want to thank them for what they have clearly demonstrated we are able to accomplish when we present to the world a united front. Every example like theirs is helpful and hopeful and deserves public commendation like this testimonial. It develops in every one of us the spirit of self-respect and self-reliance, and proves that— "Fleecy locks and dark complexion. Do not alter Nature's claim;" But success and lasting honor. Come to Black and White the same. Go on, then, young men, you have chosen well; On in your conquest bold; Make hearts rise and swell; as the tides, let them tell Of the pleasures your patrons behold. We believe in you, for we know you are true To the race you represent; And in our land will stand, 'gainst the sky ever blue For Truth, Clean Sport—Improvement. Cicero once said that no man can command success. That power, he implied, belongs to the gods. But my friends, every man or group of men, can do what is more; he can deserve success. Judging by the results obtained as considered in connection with the difficulties surmounted, these young men have done both—namely, deserved and achieved success. According to Cicero, this feat almost takes them out of the class of ordinary beings and puts them into a class all by themselves. Let it be so. I rejoice that an evidence of superior power for social uplift has been found in the heart of Africa itself and that these young men, have proven their worth to their race, our community, and the nation by their works. And friends, after all, "WORKS" is a just measure of men, races, and nations, and will, more and more, be made the standard of our rewards. You know the story of the "barren fig tree." It stood out in the vineyard, intercepting sunshine, depleting the soil, and removing moisture from the heart of air. The owner came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then he said to the dresser "Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this tree, and find none: Cut it down; why cumberth it the ground?" We are born into a society that is rich in its legacy of social inheritance Whether we enter it with or against our will makes no difference in the final analysis. We must obey its laws and respect its sentiment. Society expects us to be fruitful trees. If, after years of cultivation and nourishment, the owner of the vineyard comes along and finds us barren, using up sunshine we cannot create and destroying nourishment we cannot or do not replace, what will this owner of our destiny say, what only can he say, what must he say, what will he say? "Cut it down. Why cumbereth this barren tree the ground?" I am indeed glad to see that the lives of these young men have been not like the barren fig tree, shutting out sunshine and robbing its environment of nourishment and food; but like a green bay tree, growing on the banks—the fertile banks—of a peaceful stream, bearing in its season a bountiful harvest of luscious fruit, and whose leaves have served as a balm for the healing of the nation. What these young men have done in their chosen profession is proof most positive of what others may do in their lines of work. Pluck, Patience and Perseverance will win quite all the battles of life. I. venture the assertion that if we should, analyze the business character of these young men and should flash the analysis on yonder canvass, its chief characteristics would appear as these three virtues. Friends, they'll win every time. Search history. Study the lesson it would have you learn, and you will find that all its great characters will be found to rest on this powerful triumvirate. I, therefore, beseech each and every one of you to cultivate the acquaintance of these three P's, imbibe their spirit, and acquire their worth. Friends, let me say to you tonight, and, through you, to every colored man in America, that I shall never despair of the ultimate destiny of my race in our republic, so long as it can produce such men as these. Indeed, I see my race, in its production of such men as these, not in Africa because our forefathers fought no great battles there; not on isles out in the sea, because as a race we do not desire to settle there; but I see it right here in our own dear America, which has been washed and redeemed by our own heart's richest and reddest blood. I see it here, standing side by side with other races of our own fair land, fighting the battles of our common destiny, and carving its name as high as others on the solid gibraltic rock of fame. Indeed, I see it here, clutching with fingers of steel the generous folds of our national flag—Old Glory, if you please—Old Glory, whose bars of white represent to me and to you the purity of our noble womanhood, whose bars of red typify the rivers of blood which have flowed as freely and copiously from the veins of black men in every war of American Independence and Freedom as from the veins of white men, and whose field of blue represents the untarnished and unsullied patriotism of my race in this land—I say I see my race, not yonder, but here, clutching with fingers of steel Old Glory's folds, and, with iron arms, hurling it aloft to catch every breeze in fair freedom's land. Friends, the inspiration of this vision I see comes to me directly from the life, character, and public service of these young men whom we honor tonight. Long may they live to fight the good fight and to keep the faith. Had I the voice of a thousand tongues, and every tongue was a thousand harps, and every harp could play a thousand tunes, I would not cease to sing their praises, until the highland and the lowland, the mountaintops and valleys, have caught up the sweet refrain and sent it reverberating down the ages like a rich grand scroll of music. NEGROES PERSECUTED. Be Not Deceived—Rev. Corrothers Commended—Great Women, Etc. Editor The Bee: Because of the unjust persecution that's being heaped upon our race by the so-called superior race, I had thought to endeavor to say something along that line, taking for my seubject: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also real," etc. But I went to my church, Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, this morning, which has for its pastor the much noted Rev. S. L. Corrothers, D. D., and there listened to an earnest and most eloquent address from the lips of one of the greatest women of our race. I refer to Mrs. Julia Mason Layton. I am sure I haven't language at my command to express my thoughts relative to this great "woman." And here is our hand Mrs. Layton, to all that you have said and done and is still doing, for the uplift of the colored race. Mrs. Layton is building for herself a monument which shall stand even when the Finger of Time shall have effaced the record of man. May heaven's richest blessings ever rest upon this great woman., I can but wipe away the tears from my eyes while penning these lines, when I think of how our race is being knocked about and kicked about, some by the unjust white people simply because God has WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1913 1930 The brilliant teacher and scholar who speaks on behalf of the Masonic fraternity at the Thomas testimonial Tuesday evening) November 25. seen fit to make our skin dark. We too often wait until a good man or woman is dead before we discover and make mention of their good deeds. They should be told of their usefulness to suffering humanity while they are alive and can heart it. Good words spoken of them in life might cause them to remain with us, if only a few hours, longer. There is a work for us all to do. The fight seems to be one to impede the progress of the colored race in this country. And there is no power on earth, whether for good or bad, that can't be checked by good women. There was a move on the part of their enemies to destroy all of the Jews at one time. But Queen Esther was informed of the thing, and she called her people to pray. And she said that she was going before the King in behalf of her people. Said she: "I am going before the King. If I perish I perish." And she went, with good results. During all this disfranchisement, segregation and intended humiliation of the colored race we have kept silent the greatest power we have—and that's our women! The white women are stirring this and other countries from center to circumference in behalf of woman suffrage. These women are making themselves felt wherever they go. Now, what we want is to send out our women to the end that we may have less "human suffering." The suffrage women agitators have carried The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale image with no discernible content. 1 1 MR. ANDREW J. THOMAS, their fight before Congress, and, lastly, to the White House. Now let the suffering women agitators get busy and do likewise. Let us remind you, dear co-sufferers, that there is much work to be done if we would be successful in overcoming the efforts that's being made to humiliate and intimidate us as a race. We say there is work to be done and we should even keep in mind the true little song: "Work, for the night is coming," etc. Yes, work, work! It won't do to let this thing rest here. Remember that every opportunity thrown away relative to striking a blow at the wrongs done our race means a great loss to us. And we would suggest that at least two delegates, made up of the most intelligent women of our race, be appointed by the people of every State, with the District of Columbia thrown in for good measure, to bring this great race question before the President of the United States. In making such appointments we know of none more befitting to be among them than Mrs. Julia Layton, Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, of Chicago, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. George W. Clinton, of North Carolina; the Misses Sarah Janifer and Nannie Burroughs, of the District of Columbia, etc. Such an array of intelligent colored ladies would give the Chief Magistrate of this glorious country some idea of the great race of people who are being 1. insulted, for no just cause whatever, by both their enemies and the enemies of the Stars and Stripes alike. The colored people of this country, if you please; are getting tired of being recognized as citizens for a day only (the day of election) and a fight to the finish for an everyday citizenship is on. And let us take for out motto: "Work for the night is coming," etc. MEMORIAL SERVICES In Honor of Dr. John R. Francis—Secretary of State Bryan Eulogizes the Eminent Physician—Assistant Superintendent Bruce Presides and Makes a Brilliant Address. One of the finest meetings ever held in this city took place on Monday evening when the trustees of the Colored Social Settlement House held a memorial meeting in the Metropolitan Church for the late Dr. John R. Francis. Never before has man been so memorialized, never before has man been so eulogized, never before has man been revered as was Dr. Francis at this meeting. Men of high official station and men of less higher positions combined to pay tribute to the deeds of human kindness and sympathy which Dr. Francis practiced in his life. Honorable William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, stated, through his address, that the meeting was not a memorial for the dead, but a memorial for the living, the life and acts of Dr. Francis, he said, was a living example, a memorial to those who THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK now enjoy this life: Dr. Francis, the speaker said, was not to be admired because of his excellent physical appearance alone, he was not to be admired because of the excellent mind which that excellent- physical body contained, but, he said, Dr. Francis' name is culogized here tonight because of the great, big, sympathetic heart which was contained in his body. Without that sort of a heart, the Secretary said, Dr. Francis' life would have meant nothing to us, would have meant nothing to the great masses to which his efforts appealed in the Social Settlement work Mr. Bryan said that Dr. Francis was not a great man because of his excellent mind and his excellent physical body, but that he was great because of the service he rendered suffering humanity. "Service," he said, "is the true measure of greatness and happiness." Continuing, he said: "The man who gives himself over to the service of the body and to the service of the mind sooner or later becomes tired; but the man who gives himself over to the service of the heart, which in turn gives service to the community, is truly useful." He maintained that man has the wrong idea of the term "greatness." "The great lesson to be learned from the life of Dr. Francis," he said, "is that every human being has it within his power to serve those around about him. Dr. Francis' life was interesting because he attempted to make others happier and better. His was a life of service. He did not expect to become the beneficiary of his efforts—his was a service of love. And, now that he is gone from us, we 50TH CELEBRATION Fifty years of freedom and an educational rally for Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C., Monday night, December 8, 1913, at 8 P. M., True Reformers' Hall. The Girls' Dormitory of this college was recently burned, and an organized effort has been instituted to raise $50,000 (fifty thousand dollars) to rebuild it, that Zion may contribute her part in building the Womanhood of the Race. The fiftieth anniversary of the freedom of the American Negro will be fittingly celebrated, and thanks to Almighty God, and as a token of our appreciation for His benefit, we are rallying to raise fifty thousand dollars for education. The orator of the occasion will be Bishop Alexander Walters, D. D. The following named gentlemen have been invited to bring greetings from their denominations and professions, viz: A. M. E. Church—Dr. I. N. Ross. Baptist Church—Dr. M. W. D. Norman. M. E. Church—Dr. M. W. Clair. C. M. E. Church—Dr. G. T. Long. Presbyterian Church—Dr. F. J. Grimke. Congregational Church—Rev. L. B. Moore. Howard University—Prof. Kelly Miller. W. Calvin Chase. Livingston College—Hon. J. C. Dancy. Lutheran Church—Dr. Wiseman. Profession of Law—Judge R. H. Terrell. Profession of Medicine—Dr. W. A. Warfield. Committee—Rev. S. L. Corrothers, chairman; Rev. Geo. M. Oliver, treasurer; Rev. W. C. Brown, Rev. Logan Johnson, Rev. J. Sulla Cooper, Rev. Geo. L. White, secretary. Doors open, 7:30 P. M. Admission free. can pay back to him the benefits which he would not accept in his life among us." Dr. William M. Davidson, Superintendent of Schools, eulogized the life and character of Dr. Francis and emphasized the strong personality, portly presence, and intellect of the deceased. It was through Dr. Francis' personal invitation, he said, that he became an honorary member of the Social Settlement. Assistant Superintendent Bruce, president of the Board of Trustees of the Social Settlement, presided. Mr. Bruce delivered what the concensus of opinion places as the best paper he has ever read before a Washington audience. He said in part: Excellent addresses were delivered by Prof. Geo. W. Cook, of Howard University: Major R. R. Moten, of Hampton Institute, and W. L. Washington, of the Social Settlement. The musical program was excellently rendered by Miss Lola Johnson, Miss Charlotte Wallace and Dr. Sumner Wormley. The numbers were loudly applauded. After subscriptions were received benediction was pronounced by Rev. John Van Schaick. A LOVING CUP To Be Presented to Manager Thomas Sunday Night. The testimonial to Manager Andrew J. Thomas will come to a close Monday night, when a loving cup two feet high will be presented to him on the part of the citizens and profession of this city. The presentation speeches will be made by Attorney Thomas L. Jones and Dr. C. W. Childs. At the conclusion of the presentation Manager Thomas will make a response. UNGRATEFUL ALL THE HUMAN RACE "O Come, Let Us Give Thanks Unto the Lord; For He Is Good!" DIVINE MERGY ENDURETH. Ingratitude a Sin and a Shame—All Should Render Praise—Though Not All May Pray—The Difference. Causes For Thankfulness—Why So Few Respond—Causes of Ingratitude and Discontent—Dumb Brutes More Grateful—The Remedy. Indianapolis, 1d, November 23. —Pastor Russell gave two addresses here today. We report the one from the text, "O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good! for His mercy endureth forever!" (Psalm 136:1.) The pastor said in part: PASTOR RUSSELL PISTOR RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL said in part: Ingratitude is one of the least excusable sins. But alas, it is everywhere manifested. Rich and poor, learned and ignorant, appear to be growing in the spirit of ingratitude, unthankfulness, discontent, murmuring. And all this is in the face of the greatest blessings that the world has ever known. With the dawning of the New Era God seems to be opening His hand and showering blessings everywhere. "He openeth His hand and satisfies every living thing"—except rebellious man. The more blessings coming to man, the more intelligence he attains, the less he seems to recognize the Fountain, the Source, of his favors. It seems paradoxical, but yet it is true, that the day of the greatest favors the world has ever known is the day of the greatest ingratitude and discontent. Lessons From the Brutes. The brute creation look up to man as their god—and properly so; for this is the Divine arrangement, that man should be the god to beasts, fish and fowl. Man is in the likeness of his Creator, who is the God of the Universe. With what shame do we realize that the ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib, yet man ignores his Maker, and seems bent upon forgetting Him! There is a reason for all this. The formation of the human brain shows us that reverence and gratitude to God would be the natural disposition of humanity. The organs of veneration, worship, spirituality, lie at the apex of the human constitution. In nothing therefore could man, rightly guided, find so much pleasure, peace and satisfaction as in the recognition of his God and the acknowledgment of obligation to Him. Why, then, the aversion to God, the endeavor to forget Him? the ignoring of His blessings and mercles, and the attempt to account for them all as matters of chance, operations of nature? Why is it that the family dog exhibits more of the spirit of loyalty, reverence, obedience and confidence in his master than man, with a higher intellect and capability, exercises toward the God of all grace, the Father of Mercles?-2 Corinthians 1:3. "An Enemy Has Done This." Our Lord in the parable of the Wheat and the Tares declares that He sowed good seed-pure Truth, intended to bring forth true, loyal children of God, children of the Kingdom. He tells us also when the Apostles had fallen asleep in death the enemy, Satan, oversaw the wheat-field with tare seed-false doctrines. St. Paul designated these "doctrines of devils." (1 Timothy 4:1.) In due time the tare seed brought forth in the Church a terrible crop of demon doctrines, which have gone forth to the whole world to misrepresent God and His purposes. Undoubtedly it is these doctrines of demons that have gotten their hold in our minds from childhood's hours, which have effected such a poisonous influence upon humanity as to drive the masses away from God—some in fear, some in disgust, some in total unbelief. Is it any wonder that intelligent people should try to convince themselves that there is no such God as the creeds have represented? It is not strange. It really is to their credit that they refuse to worship a being pictured in the creeds as far worse than the most deprived human being that ever was born. It is no wonder that men try to disbelieve in a God who, they are told, had plotted the eternal torture of the race long before He created it, and has made every preparation for human torture to all eternity! Is it any wonder that the world repudiates the Bible and desires to repudiate it, since Christians tell us that the Bible is the authority for all the atrocious theories respecting the Almighty's purposes? We need not wonder. We are merely reaping in the present unbelief and discontent the results of the false doctrines handed down to us, and believed by us to be the Word of God, without the proper exercise of our heads or hearts to prove these and to see that they are doctrines of devils, wholly separate from and contrary to the teaching of God's Word. Hia Text and Context Notice how contrary our text is to everything we have been taught respecting the Heavenly Father. It gives us the true basis for things—an appreciation of God's goodness: "O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good!". Then follows the assurance that Divine mercy endureth forever. Ab! this is the merciful God which our souls have hungered after! When St. Paul declared that the heatken were feeling after, God that they might find Him, it was this true God whose mercy endureth forever that they were feeling after. And when we presented to them a horrible misrepresentation, showing Him to be the instigator of eternal torture for all our race, this blasphemy has served to turn their hearts from Him and from the Bible. It is high time that we realized the terrible mistake we made. It is high time that we began to preach the Message of our text, "Hils mercy endureth forever." This expression respecting the endlessness of Divine Mercy is repeated twenty-five times in this one Psalm alone. And yet we as Christians have denied this statement, and have declared instead that God's mercy is only for the Elect; that the thousands of millions of heathendom and other hundreds of millions in Christendom will have no mercy. Knowing that the majority of minds are darkened through sin, ignorance, and superstition; knowing that the Apostle declares that Satan has blinded the minds of all unbelievers; knowing that the Lord through the Apostles and the Prophets has declared that the coming Age of Messiah's Kingdom is the time when all the deaf cars will be unstopped and the blinded eyes opened, and that the glory of the Lord shall cover the whole earth—in spite of all this we have cried out to the world that there will be no mercy for them beyond the grave, that God's mercy does not endure forever, but merely for the time we call the present life. Why do we thus contradict the Almighty? What motive is there behind this? In seeking to restrict the grace of God to the present unfavorable time of blindness and darkness, we have had the encouragement of Satan, and the visions, messages and dreams caused by the fallen angels. St. Paul pictured our day exactly, saying, "Many shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils." Tell the Truth—Shame the Devil. It is time for all who love the Lord and the Bible to get straight themselves and then to help others. It is time that the world knew what real cause it has for gratitude to God and for contentment with the blessings now being enjoyed. It is time to tell them that the death of Christ is to be the full offset of the sin of Adam, and that the death penalty of Adam's sin is to be fully lifted. It is time to tell them that during Messiah's Reign of a thousand years the world will rise again out of sin and death to righteousness and life everlasting—the reversal of the present reign of Sin and Death. It is time to tell them that God in deed has been electing, or selecting, saintly ones, but not to the injury of the non-elect; that the work of the Elect, in association with Jesus for a thousand years, will be the blessing of all the families of the earth—the non-elect. It is time to tell the world that the Bible hell is the tomb, Sheol, Hades; that from it all will be redeemed and will have opportunity for resurrection to perfection of life everlasting; and that only the wilfully wicked will die the Second Death, symbolically illustrated by Gehenna. It is time to tell them that all—both good and bad, rich and poor—have been going to the Bible hell, the tomb; and that the First Resurrection will be constituted only of the saintly, the Church, who are to be associated with Christ in His Kingdom—Revelation 20:6. It is time to tell them that none except those begotten of the Holy Spirit since Pentecost will ever reach the Heavenly condition and share the Divine nature. It is time to tell them that God's blessed provision for Adam and the remainder of his race is Restitution—restoration to human perfection from which they fell, and to a world-wide Eden—God's footstool made glorious. It is time to tell them that all the thorns, thistles, trials, difficulties, sorrows and tears of the past six thousand*years are part of the penalty. "Dying, thou shalt die." It is time to tell them that God during Messiah's Kingdom, by uplifting the race, will wipe away the tears from all faces. It is time to let them know that He is indeed a God whose mercy endureth forever; and that although His mercy is as yet extended only to the Church and to Natural Israel, eventually in the coming Age it shall extend to every member of the race for which Christ died. On This Basis Thankfulness. On the basis of this knowledge of God, knowledge of why sorrow and death prevail, the world would be ready to acknowledge the grace of God, His boundless mercy, and willing and glad to give thanks to Him. We make a sharp distinction between the privilege of prayer and thanksgiving. All who appreciate God's goodness may offer worship in the sense of thanks, acknowledgment, appreciation. Prayer is a wholly different matter. None have the privilege of prayer with the assurance it will be heard except those who approach God through the great Advocate whom He has appointed. And none can approach through this Advocate except in the terms that they become His disciples, and take up their cross and follow Him. Thus the number privileged to approach the Throne of Heavenly Grace and obtain help in time of need is limited to the Church of Christ. These have special guidance in all their affairs, because they have come into the family of God. But even those who are allens and strangers may pay homage in the presence of the great King—just as only the citizens of a country may have the ballot or other privileges of citizenship, but the foreligner may uncover his head, hall the ruler and acknowledge blessings enjoyed, even though he has not become a citizen and does not enjoy the privileges of the ballot, etc. Thanksgiving Day. A beautiful and appropriate custom prevails in the United States—the setting apart of the last Thursday in each November as a day of special thanksgiving to God for the harvest bounties and all the blessings of the year past. With the majority it has deteriorated into a mere formalism—a holiday. The cause of this is the growth of unbelief, and unbelief has grown with higher education; for the educated, repelled by the false pictures of the Almighty, have turned from the God of the Bible and from any conception of a personal God, and are instructing the flower of the rising generation in infidelity, unbelief in the Bible—we might almost say, in atheism. This is the key to the situation. The only way back to God, to faith, contentment, thanksgiving, is through the dissemination of the knowledge of the glory of God, that he is a God of Love, that His mercy endureth forever, that He has only begun His salvation in the gathering of the Church, and that eventually it shall extend to every creature, during Messiah's Thousand-Year Reign. Let us not wait for denominational movement, which will never come. Let us each feel a personal responsibility. Let each one who receives the blessing "show forth the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light." Let each one who appreciates the true basis of thankfulness report the Message of the Kingdom to others, that they, too, may be blessed. The Bible, however, does not lead us to hope for any such condition at the present time. On the contrary, it tells that the present unbelief and discontent will increase, and will involve the entire world in a Time of Trouble, the climax of which will be anarchy. "Hia Mercy Endureth Forever." However, the Bible proceeds to tell that in man's extremity, when faith shall have largely fed from the world, when discontent shall have burst into anarchy, when the present social fabric shall have collapsed, then God will, nevertheless, be merciful; for His mercy endureth forever. God's mercy will then be manifested in the prompt establishment of the Messianic Kingdom. Man's extremity will be God's opportunity for showing forth His great mercy and love; for He loved the world when they were yet sinners.—Romans 5:8. Let Us Be Thankful. If our hearts have not been overcome by the tidal waves of unbelief sweeping over the world, it is a cause for gratitude to God, and for a resolution that, by His grace, we will seek to know Him better, appreciate Him more, and increase our thankfulness. If we have a faith that recognizes Divine providence, especially in the affairs of the Church, and also in the affairs of the world, let us be grateful, and let us remember that faith can be cultivated or can be dwarfed. With the disciples of old let us pray, "Lord, increase our faith"; and let us use the means the Lord has provided for the increase of our faith. Let us note in God's Word the fulfilments of His promises and the application of the Scriptures to our own personal experiences. Let us grow in appreciation of the truths of the Bible, in increased energy in the study of the Bible and in the application of its Message to our own hearts. Let us also grow in increased thankfulness and effort to show forth the praises of the Lord and to assist others out of darkness into the light which we ourselves are more and more enjoying. While we are not to think of God in the way we do of man, that He would be similarly hurt or pleased or offended or happified, nevertheless we know that man was made in God's image. We are justified, therefore, in assuming that as we would appreciate thankfulness, gratitude, in the heart of those who are sharers of our bounties—our children or our servants or our dumb animals—so God is surely pleased with those who are appreciative of His goodness, who think upon His favors and who make acknowledgment of them, who seek to show forth His praises to others and who by faith are trusting Him even where they cannot trace Him. O Give Thanks to God! My hope is that not only the audience I am now addressing will have a very happy and appreciative Thanksgiving Day on Thursday next, but that the same blessing may extend to all of the larger congregation which I address weekly through the public press. Even if but a few shall be made more thankful to God for His mercies, that few, I am sure, will be made more happy themselves, more pleasing to God. And if they be not already of His consecrated people, I am sure that the gratitude arising from their hearts in sweet incense to our Maker will react upon themselves favorably and help them to that condition of heart and mind in which they might become holy and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ—Romans 12:1. HOW ISRAEL CROSSSED JORDAN ISRAEL 3-14 Nov 30. "Fear thou not; for I am with thee."—Isaiah 11:10. UNDER Divine direction the hosts of Israel removed to the Jordan River three days in advance of the time appointed for the crossing. The Jordan, as usual at this season, was overflowing its banks. Ordinarily about ninety feet wide, it is supposed to have been about five hundred feet wide at this time. The Canaanites in general, and Jericho in particular, although expecting an cho in particular, a invasion, would not expect it when the river was impassible and bridges little known. The Israelites, too, must have had various opportunities for exercising faith or doubt in respect to crossing. The fact that nothing is said respecting doubts, invasion, would not expect it when the river was impassible and bridges little known. The Israelites, too, must have had various opportunities for exercising faith or doubt in respect to crossing. The fact that nothing is said respecting doubts, fears or murmurings implies that their wilderness experiences had taught them valuable lessons of faith in God and trust in Divine appointments. The crossing day came, Joshua, by Divine instruction, directed the priests to bear the Ark of the Covenant and to go before the people. As their feet touched the water, it began to recede and they to advance, until finally they stood in the middle of the river bed, still bearing the Ark, representing the Divine promise under which they had left Egypt and were hoping for grand results. The hosts of Israel, lining the banks of the Jordan for miles, crossed over from Moab to Cannan. Twelve large stones, representing the twelve tribes, were taken from the river bed and ploned on the shore as a monument of God's aid, while twelve stones from the shore were placed in the river as a similar memorial. Finally the priests followed the people to the Cannan shore. Shortly thereafter the waters began to return to the river bed. How the Miracle Was Done. The fact that we may know with considerable certainty just how this miracle was performed should not in the least detract from its value. With God nothing is a miracle, since He is able to accomplish His will in every respect. Many things are miracles simply because we do not understand the Divine processes. The growth of even a blade of grass is something wholly beyond our power, and in a general way beyond our comprehension as a process. The account tells plainly enough that the heaping up of the waters was in the direction of Adam. This place has been located with considerable certainty by Prof. Wright as seventeen miles above Jericho, on the Jordan. There the waters became in a heap, or lake, the Professor assures us, by reason of a landslide which choked the narrow passage in the river, where there were steep banks. The character of the soil in that vicinity would be favorable to the blocking of the narrow channel of the Jordan there by the slipping of the bill sides. Indeed, history tells that a similar slide took place in that vicinity in A. D. 1267, damming up the Jordan for several hours and leaving the river bed below quite dry, the waters draining off to the Dead Sea. Prof. Wright says, "So striking is this conformity of facts to conditions indicated in the Biblical account that geologists can find but little difficulty in believing the written record. At the same time the written record is so precise itself and free from fantastic elements that the literary criticle cannot well consider it anything but the unvarnished tale of an eye-witness." The marvel of the story is that the Divine marching orders were so tinned as to suit the circumstances and conditions exactly. Entering Into Canaan Rest. Canaan Jew. St. Paul, in Heilung, gives us the suggestion, that Israel's 455.8, gives us t Israel's entrance into Canaan under Joshua's leadership typified the Church's entrance into the rest of faith and special privilege under the leadership of the antitypical Joshua —Jesus. ```markdown ``` The Israelites had, rest from their wilderness journeys. It was a wonderful The Hosts of Israel journeying. It was a wonderful change for them, yet it was not the full, realization of all that God had promised them. That condition will be attained only in Eden itself, as the result of Messiah's glorious Restitution work. Following the Apostle's lead, we perceive that Israel's experiences up to the time when Moses died represented the Law Dispensation, which ended at the Cross. The Gospel'Dispensation, beginning at Pentecost, is typified by the crossing of Jordan and taking possession of the land. The storming of the cities of Canaan typified the warfare of the New Creature begotten of the Holy Spirit against the desires, the weaknesses and the depravities of the flesh. Each believer is called upon to exercise faith and cross over Jordan, in the sense of beginning a new life of devotion to God, a life of warfare against sin and the entrenched weaknesses in his own body. MEXICAN WOMEN SHARE HORRORS PROVIDE FOOD FOR TROOPS Their Patience and Endurance Win High Praise—Take Lives In Their Hands as Spies—Seldom Has World Seen Such an Example of Love and Devotion as They Display. Eagle Pass, Tex.—The horrors of the civil strife in Mexico are shared herolically by the women—the wives and daughters of the poor ragged soldiers of both forces. Their enforced part in the warfare has been going on for the last three years. They are the foragers and in that capacity are the advance guard of the army and do all the menial work in campmaking. While they seldom take part in the actual fighting, their hardships are far greater than those of the men. The patience and devotion of the women of the poorer class of the Mexicans are astonishing. Even the provisional government of Mexico gave semiofficial recognition to women and children as being important adjuncts of the regular fighting forces. The first definite knowledge that the noncombatants in Piedras Negras, situated just across the Rio Grande, had that the federalists were about to take possession of the town recently was when a train arrived from the south, pulling several freight cars filled with women and children. They had been sent on ahead to forage for food and have dinner ready for the hungry horde of soldiers who arrived an hour or two later. The women dumped their bundles of dirty clothing, cooking utensils and other portable property from the cars, and in a few minutes an open square near the railroad had been picked out for a camp site for the soldiers. Bar-legged, half chad children, boys and girls, runging in age from four to twelve years, rustled around, and in a short time they had the campfires going. In the meantime the women were foraging through the town for food. Here and there a stray pig would be found wandering along the street. The women would give chase, and his fate would soon be settled. If a cow fell into their hands, so much the better. Each woman works for her own particular mess, if it may so be called. It usually consists of her husband and perhaps another relative or two. There is much rivalry between the women in preparing meals for their respective patrons. When the repast was over the men and the children lay flat upon the ground and enjoyed a delightful slesta, while the women busied themselves with other duties. The uncomplaining women are often forced to perform services of the most dangerous and painful character. They have marched hundreds of miles through the cistern covered desert, carrying their smaller children and pots and pans upon their backs, while their older offspring trotted by their sides. When the son of one of these women reaches the age of twelve he is given a gun and becomes a soldier. Soldom has the world seen such an example of devotion to men as is shown by these women. To be sure, these poor creatures are densely ignorant and have little knowledge of even the ordinary comforts of life, but their hearts are filled with deep love for the nomadic home and fireside, despite its humble surroundings. In the freight cars that are used to transport, the federal as well as the Constitutionall-t troops from place to place over the country the women and children are crowded together like so many sheep and cattle. Often they are made to ride in flat cars which are uncovered. In these unsheltered cars the ruln pours down upon them. The women frequently are sent out on scout duty and to discover the plans of the enemy. Only occasionally does a performance of this kind come to public notice. A notable instance occurred just before the recent fall of Torreon. General Trucy Aubert of the federalis was anxious to learn the strength of the Constitutionalists. He needed all of his own officers and personal staff, and he did not care to intrust the important mission of learning the actual strength of the Constitutionalists to any man in the ranks of his troops. He mentioned his need to Senorita Lomesa Bordaz, an ardent supporter of the government cause and daughter of a former banker of Torreon. She volunteered to make a trip through the constitutionalist lines and visit their different camps. Disignised as an old woman of the peon class, Miss Bordaz set out on the back of a burro and for ten days traveled from place to place in the valley, visiting many rebel camps. At night she slept 'upon the ground. Upon her return to Torreon she made a complete report to General Aubert, which showed that more than 6,000 constitutionalists were within striking distance of the town. For the small force of federals to have remained in Torreon would have meant their utter destruction. The town 'was therefore evacuated by them. PLANS FEDERAL UNIVERSITY. Dr. James to Ask Congress For an Appropriation of $500.000. Urbana, Ill.-The establishment of one great institution of learning for students from all sections of the United States on the order of the universities of Berlin and Paris I: the plan of Dr. Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois. Dr. James is now at work on a bill which will be introduced at the next session of congress providing for such a school. It would be located in Washington, and rates of tuition would be arranged so that it would be a great J. DR. EDWARD J. JAMES. democratic school, where the son of the poor man would have equal rights with the wealthy. It is proposed in the bill, now being framed, that the college should be governed by a board of trustees selected by the president of the United States, and it would be under the control of congress to a greater or less extent. An advisory board consisting of one delegate from each state in the Union would meet and form a definite policy for the institution. An appropriation of $500,000 to cover the cost of preliminary arrangements and other details will be embodied in the bill which Dr. James is now preparing. Such an idea as this has never been attempted in this country, although abroad the large universities, which get their students from all over the countries, have proved most successful. The progress of the bill in congress and the efforts of the Illinois teacher will be watched with marked interest in all sections of the United States. FOR YEARS THOUGHT HIMSELF AN ORPHAN Recently Found Mother Living and Reunion Followed. Minneapolis, Minn.—A meeting of a mother and son who had thought each other dead for nineteen years took place when Charles Hatch, twenty-three years old, stepped off a train at Bemdjil, Minn. into the arms of his mother. For nineteen years the Hatch boy has wandered around in state institutions in Minnesota and Illinois, with no knowledge of his parentage. Placed in the state home in Owatonna, Minn., when he was four years old, after he had seemingly been left an orphan in Minneapolis, Hatch grew up in the belief that his parents were dead. When he was fourteen years old he left the home and worked for various farmers in southern Minnesota and later wandered to Illinois. Some weeks ago he was taken sick with typhoid fever and placed in a county hospital at Edwardville, Ill. Here the officials started to search for the young man's relatives. They learned he had a brother at the school for the feeble minded at Faribault, Minn. A letter from that institution stated that the brother had died. It was suggested that the Minneapolis Associated Charities might know the mother. Hatch was brought to Minneapolis, and for the last four weeks the Associated Charities has made a search for his mother. J. J. O'Connor, secretary of the organization, learned his mother had remarried and was living on a farm near Remiddl. A telegram was sent her, and she at once forwarded money and a railroad ticket for her son. SPOONERS' SEAT WALKED. The "Overturned Boat" Was a Six Hun dred Pound Sleeping Turtle. Charleston, S. C.—A young couple strolling on Sullivan's island became fatigued. Why not sit on that overturned boa over there? They did. But the "boat" moved. She shrieked, and the "boat" moved faster. It was a 600 pound turtle asleep on the beach. The turtle carried six men to the water. In its nest were found 200 eggs. Spooning couples on Sullivan's island now sit on the ground. 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Mr. Kenelly, who is barely twenty years old, comes from Columbia, Marion county, Miss. When he went to Mississippi A. and M. college at the beginning of the year's term they barred him from football practice because the team quit the field in a body when he came out for "scrimmage work." "Why, if a man tackles him he will fall halfway to the goal," argued the team. The coach, not wishing to take any undue advantage of opponents like that, decided that Kenelly could not play. So when he left to go home again because they barred him from playing he took a day coach and sat up all night. "What's the use of paying for a sleeper when they don't make the berths long enough for me to get into?" he said. He is having trouble obtaining work too. "My height is against me," he said. Whenever Kenelly goes into a tailor shop in Columbia they get down the longest piece of cloth and start unwinding it. "Yes, I was about the average size until I was seventeen years old, and then I go a good start and kept on growing." Barney Lewis, who, it is alleged, robbed a Northeastern train about a year ago, came from the same county as Kenelly. "He isn't a small man either," said the giant. "I tell you they don't grow small in that county." WRITES UPSIDE DOWN. Boy, Normal Otherwise, Sings and Figures Backward. Huntington. W. Va.—Russell Bakor, eight, has been attending school for two years and makes all his letters and figures upside down. He writes from left to right and sings his low notes high and his high notes low. Dr. C. M. Hawes, accompanied by Dr. Lindsey Vinson, specialist in children's diseases, spent hours with the child endeavoring to find exactly what was wrong, but they confess themselves mystified. The only explanation they attempt is that the boy's mind and sight are as a camera's eye in which everything looks upside down. The boy is perfectly normal and has no other defects. 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The secretary added that more than seventy-five important ships in the navy have no religious leader attached, while the marine corps, with an enlistment of 10,226 men, has not a single chaplain to look after the spiritual development of its personnel. CHILDREN WORK IN MILLS. 10.4 Per Cent of Employees In Cotton Mills Under Sixteen Years Old. Washington.—Of the 387,771 persons employed in the cotton goods Industry in 1000 in the United States. 39,306, or 10.4 per cent, were children under sixteen years of age and half of them girls, according to a final report of the census bureau. Alabama. North and South Carolina employ 19 per cent of children and Massachusetts 5.7 per cent. These children worked on an average of from fifty-four to sixty hours a week. The 1,324 establishments in the industry produced $628,391,813 worth of goods. The cost of materials totaled $371,000,470, and the total paid in salaries and wages was $147,270,903. There was an increase of the previous census of 25.5 per cent in the number of plants, and the total capital invested in the industry in 1900 was $822,237,529, an increase of 70 per cent over 1800. MODERN RIP AWAKES FROM 9 YEARS' SLEEP Like the Van Winkle of Irving. He Finds Many Changes. Tarrytown, N. Y.—A living Rip Van Winkle, awakening from nine years of oblivion to find old friends dead and his children grown to manhood, walks, bewildered, in the streets of his home town, in that very Sleepy Hollow country of which Irving, author of Rip, wrote many tales. He is Hyman Levy, long a leading merchant in Tarrytown before the "sleep" of years began. It was a mental cloud that shrouded him and made him almost as one dead to his friends. Now, with tottering step, but clear seeing eyes, he has come slowly back from the mysterious wilderness of lost memory. He sees new faces that are somehow old—the faces of the children who are men and women now. He seeks the haunts of former friends to find them held by strangers. Many that he knew are now but names upon the gravestones in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. But Levy's is not a mournful awakening. There are scores of his old cronies alive and rejoicing in his recovery. He remembers them all. He remembers everything that happened up to nine years ago. These nine years are an utter blank. At the height of his business career he worried so much over a scratch on his leg which was infected that he became ill. He recovered physically, but made himself a hermit in his home. When he went out, at long intervals, he passed his friends without recognition. PRISONERS TO KEEP NAMES. Number System and Lettered Uniforms Abolished at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.—As a result of the efforts of Warden Moger, which have met with the approval of the department of justice, prisoners at the Atlanta penitentiary hereafter will be known by names instead of numbers, and their uniforms no longer will bear the letters "U. S. P." branding them as United States prisoners. Announcement of this radical departure from prison custom was made by Good Worlds, the paper which is edited and published in the penitentiary. While each prisoner's clothing will bear his registration number, it will be for identification only and will be concealed from sight. REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE Mrs. Phillips of New York Was Wedded Last December. Wilmington, Del.-Mrs. Edith Slosson Phillips of 102 West Forty-first street. New York, called the Rev. George L. Wolfe by telephone and asked him to announce her marriage on Dec. 18 last to "Wallace B. Phillips. The couple were wedded here by Mr. Wolfe. "Wasn't your marriage published at the time?" the preacher asked. "No," was the answer. The woman would not give her reason for desiring the belated announcement. She said her husband was from Greensboro, N. C. THE BEE Published at 1100 Eye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... .20 DAY OF SMALL THINGS. At the recent meeting at M St. High School, the ardent efforts of Mr. J. A. Payne, principal of the Banneker School, and Miss M. L. Jordan, principal of the Payne School, to have and control the money now in the hands of the T. E. R. F. C., a full report of which will appear in the next issue of this paper, has caused many to ask the question if they too share with the salaried people of the T. B. A. A. The day of small selfish minds is over, and are things of the past. This is the day of broadmindedness, and the schools of Washington are full of these kind of people who should come to the front and crush out forever such actions as have characterized the acts of some who have outlived their usefulness—and who act as separaters rather than unifiers of the teaching body. Every recent act of the teaching body, except those of these people and a few others who place themselves in opposition to every worthy cause unless they are at the head, has been for the teaching body to get together and work in harmony as is shown by the great unity that characterized the Teachers' Emergency Retirement Committee. Let the broader thinking class of teachers come to the front and crush out this evil which has so long existed in our schools through the efforts of those who have outlived their usefulness by their narrowness and selfishness. Go with them to their work shops and what do you find there? Gilded words and gifts of gab for the one and nothing more. O yes, one thing more; a long list of police court cases either for teachers or pupils who receive almost daily invitations to aid in the support of the courts either financially or otherwise. For the other we find the leader of the pack of hounds, Jaysee, busy at his daily characteristic work of hounding innocent superior victims either for their ultimate destruction or to rise on their ruins to higher positions in the schools to which he is not entitled. In one of his escapades while snarling and barking, he even attempted the destruction of a dignified co-worker, who had helped in the past to make as much or little of him as he is now, while this gentleman was discharging his official duties in a meeting. This new tax upon the teachers for the T. B. A. A. by its 83 members of Class 2, should not be similarly used as that of the money they now handle: to pay salaried officers and private fuel bills. If this be the case the purpose for which the money is contributed will be defeated and the ones for whom it is intended will never receive it. This explains why at the end of 20 years of existence this body is unable to pension its members because the officers have been enjoying the benefits. If some one had not shown them the way they would be twenty more years. THE PEOPLE RESPONDED. The people royally responded to the call of The Bee to tender to Mr. Andrew J. Thomas a testimonial. The Bee congratulates itself as well as to tender its thanks and gratitude to the people for making it possible to present to Mr. Thomas next Monday night a silver loving cup, that stands two feet and a half high from its base. This cup will be presented by Dr. C. W. Childs and Attorney Thomas L. Jones next Monday evening at the theater. The attempt a blackguard made to discourage the people not to respond to the request of The Bee failed. In no contest, since its existence, has The Bee failed. The people have always been with it. The people have always supported The Bee in all worthy causes, and at all times have renegades failed to defeat it. The Bee suggested this testimonial as an encouragement to this young man. He is a young man who has succeeded against all odds, and he has given to all the people, irrespective of color or condition, a theater in which all may feel that they are American citizens. Mr. Thomas is making possible for young ladies and young men, old ladies and old men, to enjoy an evening of pleasure. He is eliminating Jim Crowism which confronts the colored people today. Visit the Howard Theater, if you please, on almost any occasion and witness superior beauty and intellect, seated as all other American citizens. Every effort has been tried to make this theater a success, and it seems that Mr. Thomas is the only man thus far who has succeeded. Then why should he not be encouraged? Why should not the colored people show their appreciation? The Bee is liberal enough to open its columns to any class of citizens to do as it has done, help the young man if you can. Let everybody come out Monday night and listen to two brilliant speeches and see the loving cup. QUISI KITCHEN CABINET. This city is the asylum for flim-flammers. It is the dumping ground of social outcasts or individuals, both men and women, who have no standing at their own homes. These social outcasts come to the city by being the body guards or seryants of the more fortunate, and their first thought is how to control things socially. The Bee is correctly informed that at least two of the men who were black balled didn't authorize any one to use their names or to present them to this dependent office bread and butter brigade. How could this quisi kitchen organization exist were the members kicked out of the government? The Bee would advise the gentlemen in this flim-flamming organization to withdraw at once. One gentleman was black balled because he defeated a certain individual for the presidency of a certain organization. One was black balled because he was a more popular singer than those who black balled him. One because he is at the head of a great institution and has made it a success. He had no knowledge that his name would be presented, and then again it was presented without his authority. If this peanut, quisi social flunky organization had any financial standing perhaps some one would be made to show his cash. But, being without visible means of support financially, makes it an impossible organization. The idea of a set of irresponsible Negroes setting themselves up as social judges of reputable men. Nineteenth of them haven't a cent 48 hours after pay day. REORGANIZATION Reorganization and Invesigation Imperative for the Success of This Movement. When The Bee representative learned of the pack of organized hounds or money sharks in pursuit of the control of the money that had been contributed by the teaching body for the pensioning of the recently retired teachers, it could divine no other reason than there were selfish motives behind it. Hence they proceeded to investigate. As a result of this, it would suggest first of all, a reorganization of that body. Secondly—That it be officered by people of brain who know how to think out their own problems and not falsify and steal the plans thought out by others and pretend that they are theirs. Thirdly. That an inquiry should be made of the body of teachers to find out if they have authorized the officers of the T. B. A. A., to pay salaries to its officers, who are already receiving them from the schools, and to pay for the gas and light of private dwellings when there are so many school buildings open to them free, of charge. Fourthly. That a reason be asked of this body as to why these items do not appear on the reports sent out to the teachers. NO LONGER THE FOOL. The colored American, or the sensible ones, are no longer the fool to glittering genealities. The sophistry of the politicians and would-be patriotic statesmen has not the influencing persuasion on the colored voter. The North must be taught a lesson. It must either protect the colored American in their civil and political rights or it must join with their enemies in the South and adopt unconstitutional measures of disfranchisement. The colored man is either a citizen or nobody. He is either entitled to protection in his civil and political rights or he is a political nonenity under our constitution. Let the colored voters in the North serve notice on those who pretend to be their friends that that they must be protected in their rights. The idea of advocating cutting down Southern representation to meet the requirements of the Constitution is preposterous as well as ridiculous. Every legislative enactment depriving the colored man South of his constitutional rights is a violation of our constitution. The State rights doctrine is all well enough when it doesn't come in conflict with the constitution of the United States. WHY? A correspondent writes to The Bee this week but is too cowardly to sign his name to his communication. If he does, periaps, the managers of the National Benefit Association would cause him to spend a little money defending himself. The National Benefit Association is doing a good work, and more so than the scoundrels who would attempt to degrade it would do well if he took a pick and shovel and go to work. You can always tell the character of the person who is too cowardly to sign his name to an attack. The Bee has no apology to make for its conduct. THE RICKS FOUNDATION. Because we cannot succeed, is no reason that others cannot. For years certain individuals have made efforts to establish homes for girls. None thus far has ever succeeded. From present indications it will be a success. Mr. J. M. Ricks presided at the last meeting and is the president. NEXT WEEK Read a full account of the Thomas testimonial in The Bee next week with a list of the subscribers to the loving cup. HAITI THE BEAUTIFUL A Nation With a History. Editor The Bee: The most beautiful—yes, beyond a doubt—the most beautiful piece of history made possible by the tyranny and depurity of a white man handed down to posterity, particularly on this side of the continent—America—was the history of Haiti, made so by the martyrdom of its President, Tussaint L'Overture, the soldier, statesman and martyr. It is of record that Najoleon Bonaparte had a remorse of conscience for what he had done to L'Overture. If so, 'tis well that it were so; because, as a Frenchman, he must have realized the importance of the history he had made possible for a race of persons whom he had no moral right to consider incapable, he made the greatest mistake in not considering them his equals, who had not only proven their equality, but had proven themselves, according to the great and most eminent Wendell Phillips, to be the superiors of all. All honor(?) to Bonaparte for his wickedness because all of which did put the finishing touches to complete that most wonderful history in our piercing imagination. Is it not possible that Bonaparte regretted, in reality, his hatery of L'Overture, after he really realized while in solitude at St. Helena, the historical greatness of it all, in the martyrdom of this most wonderful by nature, colored man? Sure he did. His wickedness toward Tussaint was proof enough of his inferiority, of which it took his own just undoing as a tyrant, by an outraged people, to fully cause him to think, but it was too late. The martyrdom of L'Overture had accomplished that piece of history of which no doubt the proud Frenchman regrets to this very day, because of its importance and greatness as well, as a guide post to the unborn generations of persons of color as an undeniable proof, at least, of the equality of men, black or colored men, as well as white men. It is a poor excuse indeed to say that the "hot blood" of the Haitians* is proof of their inferiority, and which causes their numerous revolutions. It seems to me, as a mixed Afro-American Frenchman to be all to the contrary. Their hot bloodedness is a most positive proof of an equality. Thousands of such noble creatures as L'Overture—although it is said he was a direct descendant of an African King—existed and do now exist in the section of the country. "The climate is responsible for the hot-headedness of its inhabitants?" what has climate to do with the intrepidity of men? It was and is to this very day, tyranny and oppression. One thing positive which climatic latitudes has nothing to do with is the creation by whatever power unknown to us created such persons as L'Overture, and of which the United States has its full quota of such colored men. Nature, it seems, provided man with those refined instincts, and the black or col- fried men fall heir to his share. To know them as some of us-know ourselves; knows that climates and latitudes in so far as the Haitian and Afro-American is concerned is a poor excuse indeed to give as a reason of or for the sensitiveness of our nature by creation. Our keen sense of justice and every thing pertaining thereto is as fine, and refined as any human ever created, Such was, and is to this very day, the cause of Haitie's troubles To many men with a sensitive nature with that class of persons the least thing which in their estimation is not of the highest degree honorable is liable at any time to cause an uproar. This is the reason why the Republic of Haiti finds itself in turmoil so frequently. Another thing which climatic conditions has nothing in common. It, is the rascality and depravity so common among a certain kind of white person in the United States in politics and other things they considered and do consider a badge of respectability and honor. Not so—notwithstanding some opinions to the contrary—in Haiti, their education by nature and scholarship is all to the contrary Honor has a real value with them. The price of its disregard is not by far a badge of honor or applause; it is an execution by death or exile, a badge of disgrace and dishonor. That's the French of it, notwithstanding the treachery and dishonorable act of Bonaparte towards L'Overture and his people. The GREAT Wendell Phillips was not a fanatic in his oratory when he crowned L'Overture as the greatest of them all; he was perfectly sane; he knew by the power of his inspiration that it was so. Now then, since it was made so by our own Phillips, to be the greatest piece of the world's history written on the greatness of the African descendants in America, so beautiful and so complete. Let us, all of us, Haitians and Afro-Americans, descendants of such greatness, glory and rejoice in the manner and method applied by Napoleon Bonaparte to produce it because it could not have been so beautiful without the martyrdom of Tussaint L'Overture. You may think me a fanatic if I say the United States is not the geographical limit, or bar to its African descent inhabitants in their determination to again make history repeat itself, but he is. Not unless his fetters of oppression are relieved, his history in the United States will be made as beautiful as the history of Haiti. He will, as true as nature, produce an L'Overture. Climatic latitudes nor scientific longitudes do not control the destinies of man or nations. The examples are numerous, Haiti's is one of the best. Do not cowar. The product is here. What is to lie will be, in spite of it all. CARMOUCHI. Detroit, Michigan. GREAT OVATION And Brilliant Receptions Tendered Ralph W. Tyler While in Muskogee. (From the Muskogee Voice.) It was Thursday night, November 13, when Hon. Ralph W. Tyler reached Muskogee. He was met at the station by a large crowd and Mr. T. J. Elliott. President of the Negro Business League of Oklahoma, Lawyer R. E. Stewart, chairman of the Executive Committee, and Mr. E. D. Nickens, State organizer. The big seven-passenger touring machine of Mr. J. H Escoe, with young Escoe at the wheel, conducted the party to the home of Prof. and Mrs. A. C. Perdue for supper, after which he soon had the distinguished guest happily domiciled in the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Elliott. The next morning at 10:30 the Reception Committee, consisting of Prof. C. B. Bryant, Rev. R. N. Perrin and ye Editor, after a ride in the big touring car with Mr. Tyler, found ourselves in the chapel of the Manual Training High School. Elaborate preparations had been made here for the reception of Mr Tyler. Ovation after ovation greeted him. Teachers and students all wore the portrait bearing a sketch of the speaker Madame Clark, teacher, of music, had the school to sing to the delight of Mr. Tyler. Principal Bryant presented Madame Clarke as an old acquaintance of Mr. Tyler, who introduced the speaker. The speech was well received and made a deep impression upon the students. After a visit to class rooms and inspecting the work, at 12:15 we were escorted to the dining room, where all things were in readiness. Here we were served to a most splendid dinner prepared by the girls of the Domestic Science department. Mrs. N. P. Green, teacher of domestic science, had the management here and received the praise of both visitors and faculty. Prof. Grissom. Principal of Dunbar School, was a special guest at the table. The next visit was at Dunbar, where we found all rooms awaiting our arrival. Langston, under the leadership of Prof. Z. J. Nevels, received us and then came Douglass, THE LEGEND OF THE WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN DR. S. L. CORROTHERS Who will celebrate the fifthieth anniversary next week. Great preparations-are being made. DR. S. L. CORROTHERS Who will celebrate the fifthieth anniversary next week. Great preparations-are being made. with Prof. Smith as principal. with Simon as principal. The machine next found its way up North Second Street and the following business places were visited: Creek Grocery Co., Love Building, Robert's Building, People's Undertaking Company, Excelsior Laundry, Adam's Dry Goods and Millinery Store, Elliott's Gents' and Furnishing Departments, St. Luke's Drug Store, Peerless Drug Store, People's Bank and Trust Company, Economy Drug Store, Nicken's Job Printing Plant, Home Undertaking Company, Escoe Insurance Company and several residences. At 4 p. m. Rev. R. N. Perrin, Messrs. T. J. Elliott, A. W. Marshall, J. H. Escoe, Hon. A. G. W. Sango and the Editor sat down to a sumptuous repast consisting of several courses served by Mrs. T. J. Elliott, the hostess, and an adept in the culinary art. At 7:30 p. m. Mr. Tyler was driven to the First Baptist Church and was greeted by a packed house. Here he was introduced by Mr. Clark, editor of the Wagoner American. The address of Mr. Tyler was a plain, practical, common-sense talk, urging the Negroes to take care of their own enterprises and many other things helpful as a race. Seated on the platform were the Executive Committee and pastors of the city. After the address, Lawyer Stewart, chairman of the meeting, gave the people an opportunity to purchase certificates of membership in the League, Mr. Nickens, the author of the unique idea, managing the same, and Judge Sango lifted a collection of $12. The Twentieth Century of the First Baptist Church served supper a la mode in honor of the Business Men's League and their guest. Mr. Tyler is at present the national organizer of the Business League and will fill engagements in the State for several days. His stay in Muskogee has been most pleasant in every way. Last Sunday at 7 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Clark, 616 South Third Street, served supper in honor of Mr. Tyler. The following named persons were invited to dine with the national organizer: Rev. R. N. Perrin, Messrs. T. J. Elliott, E. D. Nickens, Attorneys Stewart, Scott Brown, Prof. C. B. Bryant, Smith Perdue and Messrs. J. H. Escoe and W. P. Green, Prof. Grissom and the editor of the Ministerial Voice, Rev E. Arlington Wilson, and Rev. R. N. Perrin. The same welcome and ovation tendered Mr. Tyler awaits him in every town in the State of Oklahoma. GOES TO LIBERIA. Gives up a Good Business—Letter and Telegram Speak for Themselves. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 18, 1913. To the Editor of the Washington Bee, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Some days ago I received the inclosed telegram from Secretary Bryan, dated November 11th. I wired my acceptance and received the second message dated November 17th. I shall leave here November 24th for Washington, and probably leave there for Monrovia about December 1st. I have only recently opened a real estate office here—September 1st—with a partner. A. W. Naylor, who will continue the business alone for a while. I am a graduate from the Scientific Department of Wilberforce University, having received my B. S. degree last June. While at that institute I was connected with the Military Department and was captain of Company "B" the last two years. My record at Wilberforce has made my present appointment possible. My home is in Springfield, Ill., 30 years of age, saw four years' service in the Philippines, a short time in Cuba, have traveled over our entire Western country and spent a year in Honolulu, Guam, Japan and the Chinese Coast. I shall try to make the best of my opportunity and shall be glad to furnish you with an article concerning my work and the country, from time to time. Very truly yours, W. H. YORK. Washington, D. C., Nov. 11. William York, 3719 State Street. Your name has been mentioned by Major Chas. Young, military attache at Monrovia; for position of lieutenant in Liberian frontier forces, salary one thousand two hundred dollars per year, guar- 3710 State Street. anteed by General Receiver of Customs. Will you accept position? Communicate with this department promptly, as Liberian Government wishes to make appointment without delay. Washington, D. C., Nov. 17. William H. York. 3719 South State Street, Chicago. Your telegram of November twelfth, you may call at Department as soon as convenient on your way to Monrovia for purpose of signing contract and securing your transportation. (From the Paul Quinn Weekly.) Dr. J. M. Vandavill, dentist, has just opened a dental parlor on Austin Street opposite Sanger Bros. Dr. Vandavill, and unless we say James you'll hardly know of whom we speak, is a Waco young man who has so far made good. James graduated from our high school and then continued his studies at Paul Quinn; from there he spent three years at Wiley, where he was a member of the faculty while pursuing his studies. Musically speaking, he put Wiley on the map, for it was his violin recitals at the State teachers' meetings that gave Wiley such prominence. After leaving Wiley he entered Howard University, Washington, D. C., to study dentistry. Out of a class of 102, only twenty-one graduated and our James stood at the head of the class. His office is complete, being furnished with the very latest Columbia Ideal hydraulic chair and sanitary leather upholstery. Attached to the chair is a revolving sanitary cuspidor. The entire furnishing must be seen to be appreciated. In school crown and bridge work were made a specialty. Those who have had teeth, treated pronounce Dr. Vandavill one of the best ever. NORMAL SCHOOL PRINCIPAL Indorses Honest Efforts. Dear Fellow Colleagues: I very much regret my inability to be with you this afternoon on the occasion of the presentation of the report of the Emergency Fund Committee. I indorse most heartily every point recommended. It seems to me most unfortunate that the T. B. A. A. should ever have sent the "now famous letter" recommending that they distribute a fund which they had no hand in collecting or even suggesting. The T. B. A. A. has been organized for fifteen years—ample time to have at least planned so as to have met the present emergency; but since they have not, it seems presumptive and exceeding bad taste to desire to distribute, what another's brain devised and successfully carried out. Im Miss Chase, as chairman of Emergency Committee, possessed sufficient brain to suggest and executive power to do, she certainly does not need any one outside of her committee to distribute. The teaching corps showed their confidence in the ability and unselfish, sympathetic motive when they so generally contributed. We collected $14.44 from all divisions and all departments of the system, as the formal reports show. Another year they may see their way clear to improve upon the present noble plan of niding our less fortunate teachers who have been permanently retired. No one will rejoice more at their success than the present Emergency Committee. But it will be wise to wait until they give proof of their ability to improve upon present plans. The amount in hand cannot now be diverted legally nor ethically. The Emergency Fund Committee collected and should be allowed the honor of distributing. Armstrong Alumni Association. Members of the Armstrong Alumni Association held their second regular meeting in the gymnasium of the school Friday evening, November 21. A large number of graduates were present and the prospects are very bright for a successful year's work. Business matters of importance were settled and plans arranged for the winter reunion, December 26. W. J. BRYAN Secretary of State. The Week in Society Seasons may come and seasons may go, but each one brings a crowd of discriminating customers to Board's Pharmacy at 1912½ Fourteenth Street Northwest, for the best drugs, remedies, candies and toilet articles at moderate prices, and the finest service in Ice Cream Sodas and delicious drinks the year round. Drs. S. C. Calloway, Cowan, Carpenter and Messrs. Garvin and Goggins, of Howard University, visited the business section of Richmond, Va. Dr. Joseph Cabiness, of this city, spent last week in Richmond, Va., visiting friends. Miss Dora Jackson, of Stellton, Pa., was in the city Thursday, November 20th, to see her sister, Miss Lucy Jackson, married to Mr. Jacob Perry, of Norfolk, Va. Mr. C. H. Pierce, of this city, has been spending a few days in Providence, R. I., as the guest of his brother, Mr. A. Pierce. Mrs. G. D. B. Gordon (nee Miss Arsine Elizabeth Jones) leaves this city about the middle of December for Kingston, Jamaica, with her husband, Dr. Gordon. Mrs. Gordon for the past three years has been a clerk and stenographer at Freedman's Hospital. Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Lofton and children were in Philadelphia, Pa., last week. Dr. French Tyson, a long time a star on the Howard University football team, is putting in some good work as coach for the Biddle football team. Counsellor Napolean Bonaparte Marshall, well known in this city, has been admitted to the bar of New York City. Assistant Superintendent Roscoe Conkling Bruce made a very fine speech last Sunday afternoon at a special meeting of the Baptist Young People's Union at the Second Baptist Church. Dr. James Vandavelle and Miss Ethel Swann, of this city, were quietly married at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jones in Waco, Texas, last week. The Misses Arnold, Cooke, Price, Spaulding and Tyler, of the Teachers' Training School, at Cheyney, Pa., will spend their Thanksgiving holidays in Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Mattie Bowen, of 961 Florida Avenue Northwest, is very ill at her residence with pneumonia. Buy drugs and medicines at Board's, 1012% 14th St. N. W. Mrs. John H. Scott and Mrs. Almira Jones, mother and sister of Mrs. Jennie Conner, passed through the city last week on their way to Greensboro, N. C. After spending part of the winter in Greensboro Mrs. Scott, on her return to her home in Oberlin, Ohio, will spend some time here with her daughter, Mrs. Conner. Miss Mary L. Gaines, daughter of the late Bishop W. J. Gaines, of Atlanta, Ga., who has been visiting in New York and Baltimore, passed through Washington Saturday on return to Atlanta, and during the stopover was the guest of Mrs. L. M. Hershaw. Miss Cassie Davidge and Miss Fay McKeene Hershaw were the star performers in a musical concert at Harrisburg, Pa., last night. Miss Hershaw was the accompanist for Miss Davidge, who is the artist par excellence of the mandolin. Miss Hershaw also contributed a number of piano solos. Mrs. R. W. Henderson, formerly a resident of Cleveland Avenue, but now residing at 2011 Fourth Street Northwest, had to be carried to the Homeopathic Hospital and have her leg amputated. Mrs. Henderson has been removed to her home, where she is doing well. "High Brown" Face Powder and toilet articles are now all the rage. Buy the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 1012½ 14th St. N. W. MISS GRAHAM Goes Abroad—She Is Given a Surprise Party and a Handkerchief Shower. The home of Mrs. Blanche Graham-Parks, 2442 Nichols Avenue Southeast, was the scene of a very delightful surprise party and handkerchief shower for her sister, Miss Ethel K. Graham, who is a very pleasing and fascinating young lady, and who sails Saturday, November 20, for Cuba and Bermuda. Those present were: Misses Florence Jackson, Lee Shippen, Carrie Shippen, Valerie Chase, Beatrice Chase, Pauline Graham, Mrs. Parks, Mrs. M. C. Gray, Mrs. A. E. Graham; Messrs. W. Goins Jones, O. Cooper, V. Talbert, N. Brooks, G. Freeman, Johnson, J. W. Parker and J. T. Parks. Miss Graham received many beautiful handkerchiefs. Among the most beautiful were those from Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Sr., who was unable to attend. With dancing, songs and other amusements and a delicious spread the evening was delightfully spent. Mr. J. W. Parker was toastmaster for the evening. Miss Graham made a brief and spicy farewell talk. --- The song service announced for Sunday evening at Mt. Zion M. E. Church by the Vested Choir has been unavoidably postponed until a later date. A good bazaar at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, under the auspices of the trustee board, will begin Thursday, December 4, to December 16, inclusive. Special program of amusement each evening. On Thursday evening the Orpheus Dramatic Company will render "Esther,'the Beautiful Queen," a sacred cantata in five acts. The choruses are enchanting and will be sung by an excellent cast of well trained voices. Annual Women's Day services will be had at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Q Street between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Streets Northwest, on Sunday, November 30. Excellent programs have been arranged for the services during the day. Among those taking part are: Mrs. M. P. Hill, of Baltimore; Mrs. R. McCheeks; Mrs. A. L. Welch, president of W. M. M. Society, and Mrs. A. E. Waddleton, Rev. W. D. Naylor, pastor; Mrs. M. M. Naylor, president. The union Thanksgiving service held by Ebenezer A. M. E. Church and Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Thursday was largely attended as conducted by the Rev. W. D. Naylor and Rey. W. C. Thompson, pastor of the church. The Sabbath Schools of this section are engaged in visiting one another during the month of November with much interest and success in the school, Messrs. Jos. N. Lawson, Harry Thompson and I. N. Mitchell are the superintendents, respectively. Doing Among the Odd Fellows. Potomac Lodge No. 802 entertained Traveling Pilgrims' Lodge, G. U. O. of O. F., of Anacostia, on Wednesday evening at their Twenty-eighth street lodge rooms. The former lodge organized the visiting lodge over thirty years ago, which is one of the most promising lodges in this jurisdiction. Addresses were made by Chas. Brown, W. Triplett, W. Wills, N. Talliaferro, John W. Lee, T. E. Rhodes, A. Bruce, Jas, L. Turner and others. Wm. H. Gaines delivered a very scholarly address of welcome. At the close of the meeting Jeremiah Sissells invited the guests to the banquet hall, where supper and refreshments were served. The Odd Fellows' Veterans' Association held memorial exercises on Sunday afternoon at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church in honor of seventeen members who had died during the year of 1912 and 1913. The culogies were delivered by Wm. B. Harris, W. H. Gordon, Geo. R. Rhone, Henry Braxton, Robert D. Lockley, Geo. W. Parker and I. W. Scott. Music was rendered by the church choir. Mr. Harris, director, Jacob B. Askins was the master of ceremonies. Western Star Lodge No. 1380 had their annual sermon, preached Sunday evening at Union Wesley A. M. E. Church. The lodge was accompanied by the Queen Sheba Household of Ruth, and a large number of visiting members of the order. Rev. Oliver delivered a very eloquent sermon. The choir, under the leadership of Mr. John W. White, rendered the musical program. FAIRMCUNT HEIGHTS. Hon. Frederick Sasscer Worthy of Greater Consideration and Higher Salary. The school population for both the white and colored schools of Prince George's County, Maryland, has increased enormously in the last few years. Although Superintendent Frederick Sasscer has done much and been praised accordingly, still there has been no raise in his salary. It would be wise not only to provide Superintendent Sasscer with an assistant, but increase his salary so per cent. An assistant superintendent for the colored schools would prove very beneficial. Rev. O. C. Sprague, pastor of the M. E. Church, held a very impressive service Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. He read and discussed the general rules of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Alph B. Jones, the wife of Dr. W. W. Jones, became a full member of the church amid great thanksgiving and praise. She was extended the right hand of fellowship and welcomed to all the benefits of the church. Mrs. George Shuneate and Mr. R. North League, lead by Mr. J. A. Campbell, the president of the literary. There was an unusual large number present, all taking part in the exercises. Among those present were: Rev. Tolson, of Ivy City; Mrs. Addie B. Williams and Mr. Dawson, of Fairmount Heights, and many others. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, of Chappell Avenue, worshiped at the M. E. Church last Sunday. The membership and the congregation of the M. E. Church continues to increase. The senior class of the M Street High School turned out in a body at the funeral of the late Miss Lillian Gertrude Knight. Miss Justine Wilkes, principal of the Fairmont Heights School, while on her way to school November 19, became suddenly ill. Miss Florence Hunt substituted for her. Mr. James F. Armstrong has a great bargain in a six-room dwelling house for sale. Mr. Thomas Henderson has been promoted to the office of clerkship in the War Department. Mr. Robert H. Burns, who has been watchman at the Window Building, Treasury Department, was promoted and placed in charge of the sub-clerical force of the office of the Auditor for the War Department. James Armstrong is a member of the Commercial High School Athletic Association for the year 1913-1914. Mr. and Mrs. Sager spent Sunday, November 23, in Fairmont Heights. Revival services are being conducted at the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches here this week. Hon. James L. Baity, auditor, and Dr. J. E. Woulding, assistant, and chief clerk for the War Department, are excellent governmental officials. Mr. Nathaniel King, of South Carolina, arrived at Fairmont Heights Tuesday. November 25, and is stopping with his sister, Mrs. A. J. Ware. HALL'S HILL, VA. Sunday being the fourth Sunday, Mt. Salvation Baptist Church had their regular all-day, meeting at 11 o'clock. Rev. C. H. Coleman, the pastor in charge, preached a very hearty and well prepared sermon and used for his text, "Go into My vineyard and work." Sunday School at 2 o'clock, with good attendance. At 4 o'clock a large audience assembled and engaged in the testimonial meeting, concluding with the Holy Communion. At 8 o'clock this same divine entertained a very large audience with a very excellent sermon. Calloway's Chapel M. E. Church services, were well attended during the day at 10 o'clock. Sunday School was opened with most of the officers present at their posts, eager to serve their classes, W. R. Hyson, superintendent. At 11 o'clock preaching by the pastor, Rev. C. E. Queene, who also served his people at 8 p. m. and used for his text 1 Psalm 57: "Fret not yourselves because of evil doers." The subject was very appropriately applied, as, indeed. Rev. Queene is a spiritual educator. At 3 o'clock Purity Tent No. 184 had their annual sermon preached by Rev. Sister Matilda Frye, of Anacostia, from the text, "He is risen." This society is made up entirely of women Much good is being accomplished by them. Epworth League Sunday was highly stimulated Sunday at 7 o'clock when Mrs. Clara Snowden rendered a most excellent paper on "Thankfulness." A poem was rendered by Mrs. Nellie Ferguson on "Clear the Way." Good music and lively discussions followed. Mr. Chas. Chinn, president. Thursday evening, November 20, the Silver Star Club here gave a concert at Summer School House and a splendid program was followed to the letter, which reflects great credit on the young people here. Mr. Guy W. Ferguson, president; Miss Anita Hyson, secretary; E. V. Ferguson, directress. The envelope system is being highly indorsed by Calloway's M. E. Church here. Howard Meets Defeat. Howard Meets Defeat. Howard University's football team, conqueror of all for the past five years, met the sting of defeat at Hampton on Friday, administered by the Institute's balanced and well drilled eleven. The score, 8 to 6, shows the type of play, but is a poor indication of the appearances of the teams. Hampton's sturdy line not only was able to hold on the defense, but kept Howard's backfield men with the exception of Brice from gaining ground. For three years "Bullet" Slaughter has been defeating Hampton, Lincoln and Shaw by his famous criss-cross play from a delayed and covered pass, but there was nothing doing for Mr. Slaughter in this game. Two or three times it was tried, but after long across the field runs the Bullet met Gayle or some other Hampton player for a down. Brice showed way above his teammates, and his cool deliberate passes forward, true to the mark, and ground gaining runs off tackles and skirting the ends did more for Howard than all other plays together. Slaughter also did excellent work and scored the touchdown credited to Howard. Bender, as usual, excelled in the department of kicking, and except for a few stage-fright moments showed brain work of no ordinary kind. Gayle was in the game all the time. He did good aggressive work for Hampton, but his one particular function performed well was in stopping the much feared Gilmore from being on the receiving end of many successful forward passes. Flint, Oliver, and Jamison proved too formidable for the tackles of Howard, and the three reeled off many a first down besides plunging nearer the center of the line. Hampton's defense was weak on stopping forward passes and solving Brice's fakes. Early in the first period, Howard's center backed up near his own goal, on sending the ball back for a kick threw over the kicker's head, who fell on the ball for first score of the game, a safety, bringing two points to Hampton's team. The game, through the next two periods results in advance of the ball by straight football on the part of Hampton and a return from danger by resort- ing to open playing a d forward p... on the part of Howard. With five minutes to play, aided by a penalty for holding, Brice threw ticow to Slaughter in the end zone for the first touchdown. When time began again, Hampton rushed the ball steadily up the field and being held for downs kicked to Howard, who returned the kick badly, the ball passing out of bounds on the thirty-five yard line. Again Hampton's machine carried the ball to within striking distance, but Howard held and with one down to spare Bender signalled for a drop kick formation from where he threw the ball to Johnson in the end zone, which carried the score two points above that of Howard. Touchdowns — Slaughter, Johnson. Safety—Gould. Referee—G. C. Wilkinson. Umpire—M. P. Robinson. Linesman—E. B. Henderson. THE AFRO-AMERICAN FOLK SONGS CONCERT. One of the most enjoyable musical programs that has been presented to the public for some time was that of the Society for the Development and Perfection of Afro-American Folk Songs, under the direction of Will Marion Cook at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on Friday evening of last week, under the auspices of the Washington Conservatory of Music. The audience was composed of the most prominent and select people of the city from both races, there being a large percentage of leading white people, artists and persons who are lovers of music of a high character, and are capable of differentiating between the purely classical, the semiclassical and the "rag time," and detecting in an instant the finer points in harmony and musical technique. Nothing but expressions of the highest approval have been heard from those present. We thought we had Will Cook placed, as to the rank he takes among the musicians of prominence, but he seems to be in a class by himself, especially so in the composing of folk song music. His songs are a pleasing departure from the old plantation songs, and while not purely classical, are a happy medium between the two classes, with some of the closest and most beautiful harmony (strictly his own) that one seldom hears, and only such an audience as was present on this occasion could appreciate their true artistic value. His "Oh, Yes," "Rain Song," "Swing Along" and his masterpiece, "Exhortation" (the sermon of a Negro deacon) were humorous, delightful melodies, and a prompt response by the chorus to every move of the baton wielded by the director, elicited such wonderful effects that the audience was almost wild with applause. Other numbers rendered were "My-Lady Chloa" (African lore song) and "De Coppah Moon" (male choruses), "Troubled in Mind," by Coleridge Taylor, "Lover's Lane," and two original Negro folk songs, "Steal Away" and "Nobody Knows." Mr. Ernest R. Amos, who assisted Mr. Cook as director, deserves the highest commendation for his skillful manner and the good results he obtained in the numbers he directed. Miss Abbie, Mitchell, the principal soloists of the occasion, made a great impression upon the audience by her excellent work. Her attractive stage manner, her clear, sweet and true upper tones, her splendid interpretation, and the case with which she uses her voice manifests a training which has placed her among the first rank of artists. Her voice, while not large, is capable of wide range, and her tones are ever true and clear. She rendered Coleridge Taylor's "Spring Song" and several other numbers very effectively. Miss Charlotte Wallace rendered a two-part number, "Since You Went Away," by Rosamond Johnson, and "Eleanore," by Coleridge Taylor, in an exceptionally creditable manner. She has a remarkable mezzo-soprano voice. Her tones are beautifully resonant and her singing always pleases. Mr. Harry Nugent won his way into the hearts of the audience in the rendition of "I Hear You Calling Me," by Marshall, being compelled to respond to an encore. Mr. Nugent has a tenor voice of good quality, and is capable of great possibilities. Mr. Henry Lee Grant did some very fine work at the piano as an accompanist, and his pianoforte solo, Mendelssohn's "Rondo" Capriceo was rendered in such an artistic manner, with such fine technique, that he delighted the audience and very pleasingly responded to an encore. We learn that Mrs. Marshall, the president of the Conservatory, has been using her efforts for some years to make the development and perpetuation of Negro folk songs a part of the work of the Conservatory, and she is to be commended for succeeding in getting Mr. Cook to take up this work and present the public with the results of their brief efforts, showing what possibilities there are for development along this line. NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS As Furnished by the National Negro Business League. Tim E. Owsley, proprietor of the Crown Garden Theater at Indianapolis, is doing a business which justifies a weekly pay roll of $400 for help and talent. Mr. J. Francis Lee, Poet. Reader and Lecturer, who will appear before the Bethel Literary and Historical Ass'n, Tuesday, Dec. 2 Buckner and Brent, colored men, conduct what is acknowledged to be one of the very best grocery stores in Hopkinsville, Ky., and have a large white patronage. L. S. Williams, one of St. Louis' successful colored undertakers, has recently branched out in the monument business and in addition to furnishing funeral service can now supply patrons with grave stones from the simple kind to the costly marble or granite monuments, all made in his establishment. One of the largest and most successful printing establishments conducted by a colored man is the one owned and conducted by C. K. Robinson, at St. Louis, Mo. The Home Protective Association, an insurance company with headquarters in Hannibal, Mo., organized and operated by colored men, is doing an excellent business throughout the entire state of Missouri: "The Silver Grill" is the name of a large and finely equipped cafe recently established in St. Louis for high-grade colored patronage. The fact that its business is excellent shows that colored people appreciate high-class service when given by a colored man. Madam Walker, of Indianapolis, the hair cultist, recently sailed for Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti to introduce her hair preparation. Madam Walker will spend the winter in these countries. Mitchell Fountain Ink Eraser Company is a new concern launched by G. W. Mitchell, a Negro of Chicago. Mr. Mitchell has invented a new fluid which quickly erases ink, and which is used in a fountain similar to the ordinary fountain pen. Heretofore ink erasing preparations consisted of two fluids, which had to be applied separately. The Mitchell invention revolutionizes erasing fluids. He has capitalized his company at $50,000. One big white firm offered him $25,000 for his patent but he declined it. The Acme Steam Laundry, a colored enterprise at St. Louis, employs forty men and women, all colored. The plant is equipped with all the latest laundry machinery, and is doing a fine business. In addition to its colored patronage it enjoys a large white patronage: W. C. Gordon, the pioneer undertaker at St. Louis, did at $54,000 business, last year, that is, his receipts amounted to that much. His real estate operations also netted him handsomely. Mr. Gordon is rated the most successful and wealthiest Negro in St. Louis. Starting some seventeen years ago with a capital of not more than $300, by attention to his business and honest dealing, he has now reached a point where the earnings from his business and investments amount to $20,000 per annum. The fine three-story U. B. F. building at Hannibal, Mo., has reduced its indebtedness down to $1,600. The lower floor is occupied by a well stocked grocery and an up-to-date pharmacy, both colored enterprises. Flias Ryan, a colored tile contractor of Lexington, Ky., does the largest volume of business in his line in that city, getting practically all the large contracts both for laying the tile and setting cabinet mantels. The National Jacket Company, which manufactures white duck jackets, trousers, butchers' frocks and waitresses' aprons, is a Negro enterprise that is doing a splendid business, employing a number of young colored men and women. The company is located at Indianapolis and Martin Brothers are the proprietors. Poro College, of St. Louis, a school for teaching hair culture, and manufacturing hair preparations, occupies a magnificent large stone building in one of the most desirable parts of the city. An expert going over the books found the receipts from the sale of hair preparations and agents' fees total from $100 to $150 per day. Mrs. A. M. Pope-Turnbo, a colored woman, is the proprietor. The Cadets. The Cadets under the command of Lieut. Milfrey Tucker, assembled in Israel Baptist Church last Sunday, November 23. Major C. M. Long called the assembly to order and Sergeant Washington called the roll. Privates Oliver, Crutcher, Edwards, James and Johnson read the Bible. Private Charles Carter read a paper entitled "Our Object." Rev. Burk read a passage from 2 Rom. and took for his text St. John 15:13. The sermon was very interesting and instructive. CITIZENS OF ANACOSTIA Indorse Elizabeth Ricks' Foundation —Elder Lewis C. Sheafe Conducts Great Meeting for Rescue Home Movement. A representative gathering of the citizens of Anacostia turned out to greet Elder Lewis C. Sheafe at Douglass Hall, Anacostia, on last Sunday, when the elder delivered his wonderful address, on "Belshazzar's Feast." The meeting was in the interest of the Elizabeth Ricks Foundation, and the need of such'a rescue movement was strongly urged by Elder Sheafe, Captain W. T. Anderson, of the Eleventh Police Precinct, and others. A committee consisting of Mr. Geo. W. Mason, a public-spirited citizen and' well known undertaker of Anacostia, chairman; Mr. Charles E. Howard and Miss Howard, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Liverpool, and Attorney C. W. Tignor welcomed the elder to Anacostia and occupied seats on the platform. Following Elder Sheafe's stirring appeal for the establishment of this rescue work, subscriptions were pledged by Captain W. T. Anderson, Mr George W. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. W H. Liverpool, Mr. Charles E. Howard, Attorney C. W. Tignor, Mr. Charles W. Edelin, Mrs. Fanny J. Shipley, Mr. and Mrs. R. U. Wilkinson, Mrs. Shippen, Mr. W. H. West, Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, Mrs. Rebecca Colen, Mr. George Colen, Sr. Mr. J. H. Smallwood, Mrs. Charles W. Scott, Mrs. Etta W. Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. James Jenkins, Miss Lena Smith, Mrs. S. B. Moxley, Mr. A. A. Moxlev, Miss M. E. Hite, and Mr. Edward D. Johnson. Every good citizen should be interested in this worthy work and contribute liberally. Special Notice. Board of Education of the District of Columbia, Franklin School Building. November 25, 1913. Examinations will be held December 22 and 23, 1913, by the Board of Examiners for the colored schools, to create eligible lists in the following subjects: Accounting and finance, commercial geography, commercial law, stenography and typewriting, drawing, biology, applied electricity, civics and economics, Latin, Spanish in the High Schools; education, psychology in the Normal School; cooking and millinery in the Vocational Schools. Circulars stating the conditions and the scope of the examinations may be had on request of A. H. Glehn, secretary of the Board of Examiners for Colored Schools. WILLIAM M. DAVIDSON, Superintendent of Public Schools Brotherhood of St. Andrew. the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the United States will be celebrated in St. Luke's P. E. Church and the diocese of Washington, Sunday, November 30, at 11 o'clock a.m. A special sermon by the Rev. T. J. Brown Rector on the life of St. Andrew and the history of the organization. Hymn No. 143 will be sung by the Vested Choir and congregation PRINCE KATSURA'S BRAIN HEAVY ONE TOTAL WEIGHT 1,600 GRAMS Brain of Average Man Weighs Fifty Ounces—Imbeciles' Brains Very Heavy—Japanese Died of Cancer and Willed His Body to Scientists For Examination and Experiment. Tokyo.—Dr. Nagayo's examination of the body of the late Prince Katsura discloses that the brain of that great Japanese statesman, who died Oct. 10, welghed slightly more than 1,600 grams. This is about 300 grams heavier than the brain of an average man. The Katsura brain welghed about 51.44 ounces. It was a little lighter than that of Bismarck. The examination by Dr. Nagayo showed that Prince Katsura died of cancer, which had spread from his stomach to his liver. He was president of a Japanese society devoted to the MILITARY OFFICER PRINCE KATSURA study of cancer, and he was dissected in accordance with his own request. The widow was present at the post-mortem. The surgeons addressed the spirit of the dead prince before and after the operation. The brain weights of famous men have been as follows: Turgenleff, Russian novelist, seventy-one ounces. Dr. Abercromble, Scotch physician, sixty-three ounces. General B. F. Butler, American soldier, sixty-two ounces. Thackeray, novelist; Cuvier, naturalist; Jeffreys, English judge, fifty-four to fifty-eight and six-tenths ounces. Napoleon, Daniel Webster, Agassiz, American naturalist, fifty to fifty-three and six-tenths ounces. Average man (estimated by Dr. Austin Flint of New York in his "Physiology"), fifty and two-tenths ounces. Average boy of seven, forty-five and nine-tenths ounces. Leon Gambetta, great French statesman, forty and nine-tenths ounces. Imbeccles' brains may weigh over seventy ounces. One such, a Russian, had a brain of seventy-eight ounces. BONDS OF RECLUSE FOUND. Are Contained In Small Safe In the Rear of Pawnshop. Fort Scott, Kan.-More than $60,000 in government bonds and other securities was found in the small room of a pawnshop in the negro district of this city, where Thomas Lahey, a recluse, lived many years. Lahey dropped dead the other day. He was known to own thirty-three cheap dwellings and had no patience with the talk of the high cost of living, boasting that he was living on $1.50 a week. His brother, John Lahey of Arma, Kan., retained a lawyer and together they broke into the safe. Another brother of Lahey lives somewhere in California, and three sisters, whose addresses are unknown, lived in Pennsylvania when last heard from. Search is now being made for a large amount of gold Lahey is supposed to have hoarded. LOST . HORSE TURNS WILD. Animal Astray In the Woods For Months Shy as a Deer. Ishpeming, Mich.-Clarence Dawson and Bert Walker. Ishpeming men, have recovered a horse that had broken away from them in the wilderness twenty miles from the city early last spring, when they were on a fishing trip. A homesteader saw the horse a few days ago and notified the owners. The horse was as wild as a deer and was corraled with difficulty. The men had never expected to see the animal again. They believed it had been devoured by wolves of had strayed many miles from the district. HOLDS COURT BY PHONE. With Receiver at Ear Judge Asks Questions and Gives Order. Denver.—A rap of the bailiffs gavel, followed by a loud "Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye!" brought a number of spectators to a halt in the first division of the district court. Court attaches assumed their accustomed places, and the first judgeless court ever held in Denver was in session. Judge J. E. Little, eighty miles away, was presiding. He was giving orders to the division clerk, Lynton Hubbard, over the long distance telephone from Colorado Springs. "Hello?" greeted his honor. "Is the court in session?" "The court is in session, your honor," replied Clerk Hubbard. "Take this message and enter it on the docket," said Judge Little. "The judgment in the case of Charles Miercourt against Charles and Blanche M. Snyder is set aside. The finding of the court is that the judgment was not regularly obtained. You may adjourn now." The judgment against the Snyders, amounting to $1,730, was awarded by a jury over which Judge Little presided last May. The judgment was set aside on the showing made by Snyder that he had not been officially notified concerning the date of the trial and the case was allowed to go by default. NAME WOMEN IMMORTALS. Five Illustrious Females on List Prepared by Professor Matthews. Chicago. — Professor Brander Matthews at the American Academy of Arts and Letters named five Americans who, he says, are eligible as "immortals." They are Ida M. Tarbell, research; Mary Wilkins Freeman, fiction; Edith Wharton, fiction; Mary Cassatt, painting, and Margaret Deland, fiction. "There are other women who might obviously be eligible," added Mr. Matthews, "but these five came first to my mind. "I want to put you right on the question of the admission of women to the 'immortals.' It has not been discussed at this session of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, because no woman has been proposed for membership. The subject has not come up officially for ten years, since the admission of Julla Ward Howe. "The five come to mind as women about whom there could be no question of worthiness, but I believe it would be advisable for them to start an 'immortals' of their own." 1,769,889,284 RODE ON NEW YORK CARS Greatness of City Illustrated by Statistics. 1,769,889,284 RODE ON NEW YORK CARS Greatness of City Illustrated by Statistics. New York.—Professor Supan of Gotha, whose annual "Bevolkerung der Erde" is accounted the authority on such statistics, last year estimated the population of the world at 1,623,300,000. During the year which ended June 30 last the ground, underground and overground transportation lines of New York carried more passengers by 146,589,284 than this total, tables made public by the public service commission giving the number of passengers as 1,769,889,284. By boroughs the traffic was distributed as follows: Manhattan, 1,112,008,828; Brooklyn, 521,233,913; Bronx, 74,711,453; Queens, 47,467,014; Richmond, 13,578,006. The year's increase for the city was 90,074,580, which is almost equal to the population of the United States. The figures for the subway and elevated lines in Manhattan are regarded by the engineers of the commission as being the most significant in the new tables. For the first time the subway carried more passengers than the elevated lines. Its total being 327,471,510—more than 1,000,000 each working day. The elevated lines carried 306,845,006, a gain of only 2,574,165, while the subway gained 24,497,654. During the year ending June 30, 1912, the "L" exceeded the subway by 1,296,985. BRIDE'S WEIGHT, IS 560. While Bridegroom Only Tips the Scales at 133 Pounds. Daveuport. In.-Hundreds attended the marriage of A. L. Woollett, weight 133 pounds, of Ornsby, Wis., and Miss Ama Gene Bare, weight 500 pounds, of Olympia, Wash., the bride being the heaviest woman in the west. Miss Bergina Delhoyo was bridesmald, while acting as best man was James Boyd. Both contracting parties are with a carnival company, but have been acquainted for sixteen years. They attended school together. The ceremony was performed by Deputy Treasurer C.-C. Gibson, formerly a minister of the Church of Christ. A handsome silver service was given to the bride by members of the carnival company following the marriage. Argos, Ind.-The charred body of a rat explained the reason for the sudden go out of electric lights here. Argos gets its current from Rochester, south, in Fulton county, and lights there were affected. The rat's body formed a short circuit that played havoc with the lighting system. National Religious Training Schoo THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL 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. KENTUCKY STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. November 15, 1913. The Kentucky State (colored) Teachers' Association was in annual session in Louisville on November 12, 13, 14, and the city was filled with visiting teachers. More than 150 teachers from different parts of the State were in attendance at what was probably the largest and most representative gathering of colored educators ever assembled in this Commonwealth. Practically every city and town was represented, and in the cities where any considerable number of teachers wished to attend the convention, the State Board of Education granted permission to close the schools for the three days the Association convened. The convention convened twice daily, afternoon and evening, which sessions were devoted to the discussion of pedagogic principles; the comparison of methods; the formulation of systems, and the like. The assemblage was given the appearance of national character by the presence of many prominent educators from other parts of the United States. The time intervening between the sessions of the convention was spent in visiting the public school system in this city; with a visit to the State University; the Blind School; in many private entertainments, and the convention was closed with a reception to the visiting teachers at the colored Y. M. C. A. on Friday evening. Among the persons who addressed the convention were such well known educators as Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University, Washington, D. C.; G. W. Saffell, principal of the Shelbyville, Ky. schools and a well known Odd Fellow; Dr. Sutton E. Griggs, of Memphis, Tenn., a renowned writer and lecturer on the race problem; Dr. E. O. Holland, superintendent of the Louisville Public Schools; Hon. Barksdale Hamlett, State superintendent of public instruction, and many others equally well known. All the sessions of the convention were held at Quinn Chapel, A. M. E. Church. Dr. Horace Morris, who has been doing some work at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, preparatory to taking the medical examination in Kentucky has returned to Louisville, where he will enter the next ensuing examinations, which are to be held in December. The colored physicians here had intended tendering Dr. Morris a banquet welcoming him as one of their number, but the project has been postponed, at Dr. Morris request until after the examinations are held. The local chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity gave a banquet to Prof. Kelly Miller, following the adjournment of the convention of the Teachers Association on Thursday evening, November 13, at the residence of Lee L. Brown. Only a few guests other than members of the chapter were present, and everybody was called upon to make a short speech. Dr. "Lum" Johnson, proprietor of the Alpha Pharmacy, was toastmaster, and kept the crowd in an uproar with his witty and original introductions. Hardin Tolbert, newspaper correspondent of Frankfort, Ky., representing the American Press Association, the United Press syndicate, the Indianapolis Freeman, New York Age, Crisis, and other leading publications, was in Louisville to report the doings of the Teachers' Association. Mr. Tolbert is probably the only Negro newspaper correspondent who makes his livelihood entirely out of the revenue from corresponding for newspapers and magazines. Lawyer Al. A. Andrews will go to Glasglow, Ky., on the 18th inst., to conduct the defense in the trial of Commonwealth of Kentucky vs Henry Everett, charged with murder. The lawyer was in Glasgow last month, but succeeded in having the trial postponed until this term of court. CHIEF NUTTER IN PITTSBURG Makes His First Official Visit. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 17. The annual Thanksgiving services of the I. B. P. O. E. of W. met Sunday, November 16, 1913, at the St. James A. M. E. Church. The Grand Exalted Ruler, T. 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Chattanooga.—Completion of the lock and dam at Hale's bar, near this city, marks one important step by the government in its plan of making the Tennesee river navigable all the year. It presages the time when there will be an uninterrupted navigation between all points on the Tennessee, Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and also between this section and the orient vla the Panama canal. The great project at Hale's bar, thirty miles below Chattanooga, includes a lock built by the government and a dam and powerhouse erected by the Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power company. Many serious obstacles to navigation have been forever obliterated by increase in depth of water for many miles above the dam. The project is peculiar in that it is the first instance where a private company was permitted to construct a dam across a navigable river, where river improvement and power development have been combined. The work has been done under supervision of the secretary of war. The lock at the opposite end of the dam from the powerhouse is built against a rock bluff and has a clear width of sixty feet. It is about 300 feet long inside the gates. The lower gates are fifty-nine feet high. Each gate weighs 129 tons. The dam is 1,200 feet long; average height, fifty-two feet; eleven feet four inches wide at the top and from fifty-seven to sixty-four feet wide at the bottom, according to depth of foundation. The power house is sixty-six feet wide and 333 feet long. It contains fourteen turbine units, each capable of delivering 5,220 horsepower or a total of 73,500. The power from this station will be carried to Chattanooga at 40,000 volts over, 175 steel transmission towers, the line crossing the winding Tennessee river twice in order to maintain a straight course. A substation in the city, not far from the river bank, has equipment to step down the current for the various uses to which it will be pit. CAT SAVES A THEATER. Awakens Actor as Flames Devour the Scenery. Ithaca, N. Y.-Pinky, the Lyceum theater, pet cat, saved that large play house from destruction and also saved the life of George Williamson, who was asleep in one of the dressing rooms. Williamson, was sleeping soundly when the cat, which is admired by local theater goers, began pawing his face. Its persistence finally caused Williamson to awake. Williamson saw flames near the dressing room. They gained headway so that he could not put them out with the fire extinguisher, and he called out the fire department. About $1,000 worth of scenery was damaged. November 10, 1913. To the Editor: "There is music in all things save the braying of an ass." This truism is as apt today as it was when it was uttered in Congress many years ago. If anything more were needed to demonstrate this fact the lamented(?) Roddenberry, of Georgia, (requiescat in pace), uttered the last word. The antics of Aswell, therefore, may be regarded either as amplification or surplusage, take your choice. Aswell, of Louisiana. Now let's see. Under his remarkable extension of remarks' as published in the Congressional Record of November 1st, on the subject of "Race Segregation," this queer southron is put down as J. B. Aswell. Just what those initials stand for deponent saith not, but the loudness and dissonance of his bellowing lend a strong presumption of the correctness of the belief that his middle initial stands for "Bull." Aswell's antics might have amounted to a very good illustration of the ancient (if not honorable) game of pot and kettle were it not for the fact that he declared that Mr. Villard and other friends of TRUTH in America did not know what they were talking about. The reason Aswell's antics fail in this behalf is because it is' Aswell himself whose mouth gives utterance to the peregrinations of a discorded mentality; What Aswell knows about the Negro problem will fill a thimble; what he doesn't know about the Negro question will fill an ocean. Aswell says the "mulattoes and half breeds" one meets in the North do not represent the colored people. Whom do they represent—Aswell and other pale faces? I wonder, for they might, you know: "You never can tell, Sir, you never can tell. For fear some one might go "looney" trying to find out just whom the mulattoes really do represent, I will suggest that they might represent that Negro woman in Virginia whose father was an "F, F. V." and whose self brother (also an "F, F. V.") was the father of her children. The clafl this Virginia Negro woman is leion and nowhere so numerous as in ouisiana—whence cometh the nole(2)? Aswell. Aswell says that if Villard would come into the "black belt" of the eathen South—where Negroes have the same(?) educational advantages the whites—he would find that would take him ten years to arrive he conclusions he now holds apropo he "brother in black." Now, isn't his naive? Reminds one of the thince of whom Bret Harte wrote his smile, it will be recalled, wildlike and bland, like Aswell reasoning. If Mr. Villard would ave at his present conclusions at the end of ten years spent in the South and this too unon the authority of former superintendent of education in New Orleans, then it is a safe bet that his conclusions are right just as they are, and he has accomplished all ready what Aswell admits he would accomplish after ten years spent in the inferno of southernism. But more. Aswell says the real Negro lives down in the backwoods of Louisiana and other Southern States, and he bases the whole weight of his argument on what he claims to be the fact that the colored people one sees up this way are not like those he is used to seeing down in "Bani." If we humor Aswell a bit and allow him to have his argument just for the fun of it, even so he utterly fails to justify race segregation in the Federal Departments at Washington, and that—yes, actually that, is what Aswell attempted to do. Assuming that the real Negro lives down in the black belt, and these colored people in Washington (and in cities further north) do not represent the real Negro, then why segregate the colored people in Washington? Why segregate those in Baltimore? Poor Aswell. I regard him as a very funny man—who besides being funny, is a friend of the Negro race (don't let anybody laugh at this, because J. B. B. said he was our friend)—and yet I feel sorry for him. The trouble is he's out of place; he's not in his element. He should seek other parts. In a land where all the people were pigmies Aswell would be a giant. In a land, where the populace comprised nothing but a few women and many children, Aswell would be considered a man. In a land where the people were all "oyster-heads," where all the learned men were ninecompoops and the Emperor was a clown, Aswell (the Negro's friend) would be Garter King at Arms. JAMES C WATERS, JR. Washington, D. C., Nov. 10, 1013 A COWARDLY ATTACK. Washington, D. C., Nov. 13. Editor The Bee: Some months ago, when Mr. Fred R. Moore, of the New York Age, was a visitor at a meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club I was one of those who was permitted to extend him a welcome and listen with interest to what he had to say. At the meeting of the same club last Friday evening, Mr. Moore was not present, but his New York Age was there, for I myself brought it. Those whose just indignation has been aroused by the rot published in the last issue of the Age can understand why there was no welcome in the Mu-So-Lit Club Friday night, either for Moore or his queer sheet, and they can also appreciate why I should feel impelled to send Mr. Moore such a letter as follows: November 15, 1913. Editor, New York Age. New York, New York Sir: I wish to enter a vigorous protest against the gratuitous insult which you have seen fit to offer to Mr. Villard, Mr. Story and other white persons who are friends of the Negro race and who have identified themselves with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. That your slavish worship of the self-effacement ideal for the Negro should have led you to the length of publishing that miserable screed, supposed to be special correspondence from Boston, is almost beyond belief. Yet you not only published it but gave it the leading position on the front page. What you hope to gain by thus insulting not only those referred to above, but thousands of your weekly readers, is more than I can see. Of course it was not in your power to control the product of the small mind from which flowed the drivel herein referred to, but it was in your power to cast into the junk heap where it belonged so much of that product as come to you in the form of an insulting screed. The fact that you did not destroy it, but published it with special honors instead, places you in a most regrettable light, for by that act, in my humble judgment, you have played, like Adam Patterson, the sturgeon, into the hands of "Hoax" Smith, "Bull" Aswell, "Cyclops" Ben Tillman, "Woolhat" Cole Please, and the skull-buster governor of South Crackerlina, and other enemies of the Negro race. The same issue which carries the article mentioned above carries also an editorial under the caption, "Segregation in North Carolina." In this editorial you commend Prof Moore for speaking out against segregation in his State; you summon the members of the race to make expressions of appreciation for the efforts of the white friends the race has—and Heaven knows they are few enough—and you end by calling on all of us to "swat the enemy and stand by the friend." Yet in your front page performance you swat the friend and stand by the enemy, and you do it in a manner which makes the average time-server look like a dugout on Regatta Day. What a pity. We would think that a newspaper carrying such an editorial as I have just mentioned would publish in the same issue, on its front page, a whole column of balderdash in which the writer attempts to discredit the efforts being made in our behalf by some of the staunchest white friends the race has, and this on the "suiide" ground that these people, or some of them, employ white stenographers. This is the stuff you give front page pace, to the tune of one column. Suppose these gentlemen employed to one at all, but accomplished their work by means of machines? Would it be up to the beneficiaries of that work to set up a howl that the service was unworthy because accomplished by machines? This is the first time I have seen the motives of a public spirited or kindly disposed man impugned on account of the color of his stenographer's skin—and his howl comes from a colored man I wonder what will come next. We would think that the newspaper which carried the editorial referred to above would give special prominence to an article reading in part as follows: "It should be reiterated that while the Wilson administration is in favor of putting Negro clerks off in a corner to themselves, nevertheless it does give them a chance to earn a living." To quote the words of the New York Age, printed in this same issue of November 13, 1913, apropos the Ross case at Nebraska University—"What rot." Here we are treated to the delectable(?) spectacle of a Negro saying through the columns of a Negro weekly newspaper—supposed to be race's leading newspaper—the very things which the Southern negrophobes have attempted to use as an answer to the thousands of protests which have flooded Washington from all over the country since segregation was instituted by the Wilson administration. I had thought that Adam Patterson—may his tribe decrease—was the last word along the line of "Jim Crüw" Negroes, but the New York Age outfit has gone him one better. The enemies of the Negro race present a solid front. They stand as one man in their determination to knife the race at every opportunity. One of the things they count on to help them, too, is that fact that within the ranks of the Negro race are men who will at all times do their utmost to frustrate every plan set afoot for the advancement of their own people. It is humiliating to have to admit this, but it is true. I must say, however, that not until now did I dream that the editor of the New York Age was one of these miserable marplots. Suppose, just for argument's sake alone, that Trotter and others did make a mistake in the last campaign? Is this any time to be shooting at Trotter? A Southern Congressman recently declared that he was against all Negroes holding any positions of any sort whatever under the government, and it made no difference to him whether they were Democrats. Republicans, Socialists, what not, "they were niggers and he was again all niggers." Thus we have the case as it actually is with the white man—he shoots at the whole race—but the New York Age deyotes another column, on the front page, in the same issue as the screed mentioned above, to shooting at Trotter and other colored men. The matter which you have prepared for the enemy in your last issue of the Age will serve for many a day as clubs with which to smite every Negro head that dares lift itself above the level of the time server. If that is what you had in mind when you handed it to the compositors, then no doubt you will be richly rewarded by seeing it quoted ad libitum—also ad nauseam—in the Atlanta Constitution and other anti-Negro newspapers, as well as in "extensions of remarks" a la Aswell in the Congressional Record. I recall Mr. Bumble, the Beadle. It was he who upon being told that the law made every man master of his own house declared, "If the law says that, the law is a hass." There can be little or no doubt that the New York Age has stultified itself by this latest "stunt" and that from now on it must be regarded as what Mr. Bumble said the law was, "a hass." Very sincerely, JAMES C. WATERS, JR. 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Administration Docket. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters of administration sum testamento annexo on said estate, by Thomas A3 Cox, it is ordered this 31st day of October, A. D. 1913, that James Cox, Nancy Brown, alias Nancy Bailey, William Cox, Rebecca Harden, Lizzie Cargile, Alma Williams, alias Eleanor Williams, Josephine Johnson, — Robertson, — Robertson, — Robertson and Joseph Wickliffe, and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Monday, the 29th day of December, A. D. 1913, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and The Washington Bee once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD. Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Fronate Court. L. MELENDEZ KING and WM. I. LEE, Attorneys. FOUNTAIN PEYTON, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 20- 336. Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Richard L. Gaines, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 19th day of November, A. D., 1914; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 19th day of November, 1913. ROBERT M. C. WHITE. 1450 N Street N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER. "Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. FOUNTAIN PEYTON. Attorney. Death of Mr. Merritt. Mr. John Merritt, the father of Miss Emma F. G. Merritt, Mrs. Gertie Merritt Payne, Robert and John Merritt, Jr., died at the residence of his daughter, 1630 Tenth Street Northwest, last Saturday and was buried last Monday afternoon. Rev. A. C. Garner and Rev. McCary officiated. Interment was at Harmony. Mr. Merritt has been a resident of this city for a number of years and was respected by all who knew him. He was a faithful husband and a good father. Archie Lewis Dead. Mr. Archie Lewis, a citizen of this city and a messenger in the Supreme Court, was buried from his late residence on M Street Northwest last week. Mr. Lewis had the respect and confidence of the entire bench and bar of that distinguished court. Rev. Toliver Dead. Rev. Toliver, formerly pastor of Liberty Baptist Church and a man well known in the Baptist connection, was buried from his church last week. Rev. Toliver was a man of great determination and his death was not a surprise, because he had been failing in health for a number of years. Mrs. John F. Cook, the widow of the late John F. Cook, died at her residence in this city last week. In Memoriam. Sacred to the memory of my dear husband, Dr. Leroy H. Harris, who departed this life one year ago today at his residence, 301 Eleventh Street Northeast. "A few more years shall roll, A few more seasons come. And we shall be with those that rest A sleep within the tomb." By his wife, Willie May Harris, druggist, corner Third and F Streets Southwest. "Loved in life, remembered in death." By his mother and father; Martha and James Harris, and mother-in-law, Ellen Jackson Scott. NEGROES ROBBED. Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 22—In no State in the Union have Negroes been robbed, actually robbed with impunity and openly as in this State, and today white men are worth millions who have built up their fortunes by thievery. Practically all the rich oil fields in this State were originally the property of Negroes. When the restrictions, preventing the sale of freedmen's lands was removed by Congress in 1908 it was the signal for wholesale robbery of these freedmen's lands, and the white guardians of Negro minors sold their guardian wards' lands, for a mere pittance and in turn shared in the fortunes made from oil found on the lands sold. Sarah Rector, the little Negro girl just out from Muskogee, whose income from her oil lands amounts to more than a thousand dollars, a day, lives in a little log shack, and wears the cheapest kinds of clothes, and is given but a meager Attorncy Thos. L. Jones, who will present the cup to Dr. Thomas education by her white guardian, who doles out for her support but a few dollars each month. Today her income, with but perhaps a third of her land developed, amounts to $1,030 per day from oil product alone. This is increased by the money being loaned out at a good rate of interest, making her income nearly $400,000 per annum. The white guardian receives 2 per cent fee for handling her property, and the little Negro girl, although rich as Croesus, lives in a log shanty, has but the commonest fare and illy-made clothes. If she were a white child her guardian would see that she lived in a manner beitting her income, and was receiving the best education. Her riches only serve to enrich whites—only serve to enable whites to live in luxury while she lives in poverty, or next door to poverty. Only this week a decision was handed down in the courts of this State in the case of Adam Doyle, an old Negro 90 years of age, who is insane and whose lands, worth many millions for the oil on them, were disposed of, which practically and clearly robbed him. His present guardian brought suit to recover his valuable lands on the ground that he was insane, which he is, and not competent to make a deed or contract. Rich white oil companies are now in possession of his lands, worth many millions, having secured them from him for a mere song, because he was too unbalanced in mind to know what he was doing when he signed them away. The decision given in the case was that "he is a man of unsound mind, but capable of some understanding." This queer decision legalizes the robbery of this old Negro, and gives to the soulless white individuals and corporations which secured his lands under deeds and contracts which he as an insane man signed. Oklahoma has many bright Negro men and women, some brilliant and strong attorneys, but they cannot become guardian of the Negro minors who possess rich oil, coal and farming lands, because no bond they could get would be accepted by the courts, and because "it is so arranged" they cannot secure proper bond. Sarah Rector, the little Negro girl whose income approximates $400,000 per annum, has a white guardian, and her parents are ignorant, so ignorant they have no conception whatever of the amount of her income, and no inclination to insist upon a good education and befitting comforts for her, so little Sarah easily becomes the prey of white men. If the "grandfather" clause is found unconstitutional in this State, and the Negro secures his franchise back again, the robbery of Negroes by unprincipled whites will be stopped, and perhaps some of the disposed riches of Negro minors will be returned to them by due process of law. Millions upon millions have been actually stolen from Negro freedmen of this State—taken from them by fraud. MEETING Of the Grand Chapter of Kappa Alpha Nu at Indianapolis, Ind., Will Be Most Notable Gathering of Negro College Men Ever Held in the United States. Special to The Bee. Vincennes, Ind., Nov. 23.-The coming meeting of the Grand Chapter of Kappa Alpha Nu in Indianapolis, Ind., will be the most notable gathering of Negro college men that ever assembled in the United States. Representatives from most of the big colleges of the country will be present. The meeting will be held during the Christmas holidays on the 30th and 31st of December, in the new Y. M. C. A. building, that has recently been erected in Indianapolis. The officers of the Grand Chapter are: Grand Polemarch, E. W. Diggs, of the University of Indiana; Earl B Dickerson, professor of English at Tuskegee Institute; Grand Keeper of Records, John M. Lee, of the University of Pennsylvania; Grand Strategus, Byron K. Armstrong, of Columbia University; Grand Lieutenant Strategus, William J. Prince, of the University of Illinois; Director of Athletics, W. Ellis Stewart, of Indiana University, and General Re- porter, Julius Morgan, of Purdue University. The Board of Directors are: E. D. Alexander, Irven Armstrong, Henry T. Asher, of the University of Indiana, and H. L. Burnam, of the University of Illinois. Several important matters will come up for consideration at this meeting, among which will be the matter of deciding whether charters shall be granted to two or three colleges in the South. The Grand Chapter will also be called upon to decide whether a charter should be granted to a group of West Indian students who are attending Cambridge University in England. The new magazine which is now issued by Kappa Alpha Nu is attracting wide attention in college circles. This is the first publication of this kind that has ever been issued by any group of Negro college men. The rapid growth of the organization made it necessary that some efficient means of communication among the officers, members and alumni be provided. It was with a view of meeting this need that the magazine was launched. Kappa Alpha Nu was the first Negro Greek Letter College to Fraternity to be incorporated. It is now an efficient force in molding wide-awake, alert, manly Negro college men. The meeting will close with a brilliant banquet, at which time there will be toasts by some of the most prominent members and alumni of the organization. A Manly Letter. Office of the Knights and Ladies of the Malachites of the World, 1111 You Street Northwest, Washington, Nov. 24, 1913. W. Calvin Chase, Chairman of the Thomas Testimonial, 1109 Eye Street Northwest. Dear Sir: Your communication requesting my remittance for a loving cup to be presented Mr. Andrew Thomas in the Thomas Testimonial received and contents noted. In remitting this dollar I do so with a consciousness that compels respect and admiration for the man who made it possible for Negroes in Washington to have a self-respectable place of amusement of their own without a "peanut-gallery," a "pit-pen" or a "jim-crow annex" for a class of citizens of color. This movement is deserving and no doubt will be the means of stimulating other colored citizens of means and influence, to give our people clean and up-to-date places of amusement and other establishments that are much needed in this city. The man behind this testimonial also deserves great credit, in that it manifests an appreciative spirit for things deserving. W. Calvin Chase always takes the lead in matters of import to our race and he deserves the "glad hand" for the initiative in this monstrous affair—the first of its kind in the history of Washington. Personally, we are too pleased to be of service in the matter. With thanks, beg to remain, respectfully yours. WELLINGTON A. ADAMS. District Deputy. ISLA T. S. NEIL. Secretary. MUST RESIGN. R. W. Thompson Will Be Asked to Resign. R. W. Thompson, messenger in the Treasury Department, and a member of the Mu-So-Lit Club, will be asked to resign, and if he refuses to comply with the request of the organization he will be put out. Series of Talks Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Nov. 15. The first of the series of talks to be given by successful Negro business men and women before Tuskegee Institute's students, was inaugurated by Mr. George W. Franklin, of Chattanooga, Tenn., president of the National Negro Undertakers' Association, this week. Mr. Franklin reached Tuskegee Saturday evening, November 8th, and beginning Monday morning was kept busy speaking before (1) the young men of the blacksmithing division, (2) the young men of the wheelwright division, (3) the young men of the blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, painting and carriage trimming divisions, and (4) before the A-Middle students, post-graduate students and officers and teachers of the Institute. three talks dealt with the details of Mr. Franklin's work. cDUCTS in connection with his unkng business, a blacksmith shop, a cedwright shop and a carriage paint- and trimming department as well. story of the success of Mr. Franklin has won proved most helpful to the students, and it is evident that this idea of bringing successful business men and women before the students at Tuskegee is bound to have great educative value. Tuskegees New Building. Two friends in New York City have just provided the money with which to erect and equip an up-to-date building at the Tuskegee Institute to be used for the purpose of canning products of the institution and teaching students the latest and best methods of canning all kinds of garden and farm products. 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 clustered cottages in the valleys below him. The villagers could not afford fires; beeldes, most of them had no food to cook. He surveyed the some 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 fix money that the palace was repaired, since the grateful people raised the needed sum as a thank offering—Youth's Companion. The Supercritic Provost Hawkins of Oriel college, Oxford, declares the Right Hon. W. G. H. 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." "I must warn you, Mr. King, that even too regular attendance at chapel may degenerate into formalism." WEDDING BIDS OF NO USE. Girl Refuses to Mail Them—Why! Married In June. West Orange, N. J.—When Mr. and Mrs Silas A Mills received from the engravers a box of invitations to be sent out for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen Mills, to William Forsyth of Orange, the daughter began to blush. When her mother told her to address the envelopes the daughter blushed some more and said: "I don't think we will mail the invitations, mother." "I hope you don't think we will deliver them personally," retorted the mother. "But there is no use in fooling the folks," the young woman said. "We can save the money for the stamps, because Bill and I were married on June 18." The mother bore up bravely under the shock, but more than 200 friends and relatives will have to forego the pleasure of seeing Helen Mills and "Billy" Forsyth married on Thanksgiving eve. DENIES SNOBBERY IN NAVY. Officer Who Rose From Ranks Praises His Treatment. Washington.—Lieutenant D. Lyons of the navy, who reached his present commissioned grade from the ranks, has written a letter to the secretary of the navy denying charges which have been made of snobbery in the navy and that graduates of the Naval academy were disposed to look down on nongraduates and discriminate against them. Lieutenant Lyons has had twenty-seven years' experience as an enlisted man, warrant and commissioned officer, and he says that such charges are unjust and untrue. He declares that other men who have come from the ranks, with whom he has discussed the subject, feel the same way. A REPLY TO THE MULATTO By Prof. H. Jordan, of the University of Virginia, James K. Vardaman, et al., Published in The Popular Science Monthly for June, 1913—Published Under the Auspices of he-Washington Bee, by Dr. Geo. H. Richardson, M.D., L.L. D. 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Agents SHANNON & LUCHS Renting Service 713 Fourteenth St. N. W. M. 2345 M. 2345 FOR RENT THOMAS WALKER 3108 Sherman Ave. N. W., 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..... 7.00 106 Benning Road, D. C., 6 rooms, large yard..... 8.40 Sheriff Road, Deanwood, D. C., 4 rooms and 5 acres of ground ..... 8.00 Stanton Road, Anacostia, D. C., 8 rooms..... 12.00 700 Nichols Ave., Anacostia, D. C., 7 rooms..... 16.50 2047 9th St. N. W., 5 rooms..... 17.50 2654 15th St. N. W., 6 rooms, $17.50 per month. THOMAS WALKER 506 Fifth Street N. W For Rent. For rent—By Thomas Walker, a splendid house, 9 rooms and bath and hall. All modern conveniences, including stationary wash tubs; all clean and in good repair for $25 per month. Thomas Walker, 506 Fifth Street Northwest. O-25-tt 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. 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 30 minutes ride from Washington. Twelve lots for sale 50x150 feet at $115 each. Clear deed. Don't hesitate. For further particulars to see Miss Elizabeth Shaw, 1613 Thirteenth Street Northwest. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, with or without board. Miss Hammond, 1111 Eye St. N. W. Having purchased the business of Mr. James Winslow, I am now prepared to supply his former patrons and the public in general with best grades of Coal and Wood, and at moderate prices. -Prompt and reliable service tan always be assured, and a trial order is invited. Phone North 413. Fresh Fish and Oysters. 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