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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. 25 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913 SUPT.BRUCE SPEAKS SUPT.BRUCE SPEAKS Remarks of Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Chairman of the Annual Meeting of the Colored Social Settlement, November 24, 1913, in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Washington, D. C. We assemble here tonight for a twofold purpose. We would commemorate the services which the late President of the Board of Trustees of the Colored Social Settlement, Dr. John R. Francis, rendered the Capital of the Nation through his administration of the affairs of the Settlement. And we would register our solemn determination and pledge to support to the full extent of our abilities this instrumentality for social service now so endeared to us by that rare personality. In the education of youth there are no resources of moral training so vital as the concrete examples of serviceable men and gifted women. The Roman schoolmasters grasped this truth; and the uses to which they put Plutarch's Lives show how in this fundamental aspect their practice kept pace with their theory. The Greek heroes were demigods; their exploits could not possibly make so intimate and potent an appeal to the mind and heart of the Greek schoolboy as did the careers of actual men to the Roman. It is easier to respond to the courage, the sense of justice, the magnanimity, the devotion of an actual man who but yesterday walked the streets of our city than to imitate the sanctities of the shadowy saint of a thousand years ago. Through the processes of the American public school, our children and youth are deeply impressed with the careers and the services of Washington and Lincoln, Webster and Phillips, Grant and Sherman, Whittier and Longfellow and Lowell. All this is well and good. But, the principle should be pressed, a step further. Can it be that all the generals, all the statesmen, all the men of letters were white men? Is there not danger that our colored children and youth will be overwhelmed with what I may call the prestige of the white man? What about Toussaint L.Overture? Was he not a great soldier? What about him who was at once the Byron and the Edgar Allen Poe of Russia? Was not Pushkin himself fully qualified to ride in a Jim Crow car? If Dumas, father or son, lived in Baltimore today, would he not be restrained by the courts from moving into a white block? What of Coleridge Taylor? Of Paul Laurence Dunbar? And what of Frederick Douglass? I say that unless our schools utilize for educational purposes the careers MR. ROSCOE C. BRUCE Who Delivered an Able Address, Introducing the Secretary of State, Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan. MR. ROSCOE C. BRUCE Who Delivered an Able Address, Introducing the Secretary of State, Hen. Wm. Jennings Bryan. and personalities of colored men and women, as well as of white, our children will be overwhelmed by the prestige of the white man and their own initiative imparted. Civilization (thank-God!), is neither white nor black; and our children should be trained to a knowledge and a due appreciation of all the makers and the sustainers of civilization. It is true that for my boy there is something of inspiration, something I would not have him lose, in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi. But there are some modern saints who bear a more intimate relation to his experience; I certainly would not have his life untouched by the spirit of Alexander Crummell. Our schools must not shut their eyes to the very educational material best fitted to develop in our children race pride, self-confidence, a spirit of brave and noble emulation. It is with these ideas in mind that I say the personality of John R. Francis is an educational resource. It was but yesterday that he walked and talked among us. We saw him but yesterday working and planning and attaining. The wise and kindly physician was but yesterday ministering to the sick of our household. But yesterday we noted some token of his devotion to his family and the traditions of his hearthstone. At the height of his health and prosperity, and despite a full measure of service already rendered to our public schools as a member of the Board of Education and to the interests of higher education as a member of the Board of Trustees of Howard University—but yesterday we saw Doctor Francis turn the ripened wisdom of his years, his splendid energies, his immense personal influence to the humble cause of The Colored Social Settlement What an inspiration that act of his to the development of public spirit in our youth! We do well to gather here in commemoration of such a man. But, we are here to do something more. We are here to register our solemn determination to support The Settlement to the full extent of our abilities. This great community, with its 300,000 souls, is no mere collection of disparate human units; it is an organic whole. Rich and poor, white and black, we are all bound together for good or ill. Tuberculosis in the alley means tuberculosis on the avenue. Bestiality anywhere in this entire community is a threat to the welfare of us all. Is South Washington grievously in need of the facilities of modern municipal hygiene and sanitation? Is premature death (due to insatiable conditions, to lack of hygienic knowledge and habits, and to downright poverty) terribly prevalent among the masses of the colored people who live in the streets as well as among the 10,000 who inhabit the alleys? Are saloons permitted to invade colored residential districts? Are houses of prostitution allowed to flaunt themselves before the homes and the schools of the colored people? Are the wages of cooks, washer-women, and laborers dissipated in exorbitant rents and in preposterous prices for such necessities as coal? Are the housewives failing through lack of proper knowledge and skill to secure reasonable nutritive values out of the foods which they purchase so dearly? Are the homes of the humble without the inspiration of intelligence and taste and proper standards of comfort and efficiency 'Have hard-working mothers no day nursery in which to leave their babies during the long day of labor? Is the improply evicted tenant at an immuse disadvantage in maintainir his legal rights as against the landlord with his well-paid attorney? Are colored men and women arrested for absolutely trivial causes when a word of warning would suffice, and then thrown into court without proper legal protection? Is it not vital to a community as large as this to provide employment bureaus where the honor of the poor country girl is a sacred thing?—employment bureaus of the modern type to collate opportunities for employment and to offer them conscientiously and systematically to the seekers for work in accordance with their talents? If crime is not committed when men and women aimlessly loak, is it not essential for a well-ordered community to provide wholesome recreation for those of its people who cannot provide for themselves? If the saloon is the only club the poor man has, must we not provide another club and a safety? To these questions can any good citizens be disposed to answer with that other, "Am I my brother's keeper?" I would have you remember that cleanliness, decency, a well-ordered life in Goat Alley are not without advantage to Connecticut Avenue. Immorality has its myraid unseen germs no less than smallpox; the homes of the good are no safer from the one than the homes of the healthy from the other. Every influence that tends to impair the energies of body or mind, to disintegrate the morals, to embitter the hearts, to impoverish the lives, of any section of the city's population—every such influence lowers the level of life throughout the community. Against every such tendency the whole community must fight as one man. For such warfare there is no better instrumentality than The Colored Social Settlement. Of course, The Settlement makes no pretense to be the sufficient solvent for all the conditions and problems I have suggested. It is simply a center about which many and various efforts for social uplift are organized. It is an instrumentality ready to our hands. There is not one of these problems in which The Settlement is not seriously and helpfully interested. The truth is, that if The Settlement were nothing more than a center of ideals, a beacon of light in the social darkness, it would be of incalculable service. We are operating an excuse for a day nursery simply because we have not money enough for the equipment and operation of the real thing. We could open the much-needed employment bureau if our resources were large enough to justify the assumption of the financial risk involved, in addition to the many we now bear. We now offer the poor man or woman caught in the entanglements of the law sound advice and other help, but, we ought to have funds for the establishment and maintenance of a full-fledged legal-aid bureau. Through our men's civic club we have aroused the people to the ravages of the saoon and to the unspeakable menace of the house of ill fame. We and our O BISHOP ALEXAS DPK WALTERS Who Will Speak Next Monday Night at True Reformers' Hall. He Will Reply to Mr. O. G. Villard. True Reformers' Hall, 12th and You. good friends and helpers are forever calling attention to the municipal neglect of South Washington, and we have earned the right to rejoice in the social programme to which the present Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia with the approval of President Wilson, stand committed. We are now making a search for friends willing to equip our household arts department decently and to provide adequately for the expenses of maintenance; for, we have seen how the collector of weekly savings inevitably brings into the homes of the people better standards of living, and we know from experience of other cities, as well as from our own, that the ministrations (that word is not inappropriate) of the visiting cook prove incalculably greater Will you help us to increase the efficiency of each of the services already established? Will you help us to add the much-needed additional services? Will you help to relieve us of the burden of debt, some $1,000 for our building? Will you help to provide us with the three thousand dollars required each year for our rent expenses? Your tears will show your sympathy for the people; your cash will enable The Social Settlement actually to help them. The work that our ideal citizen, Doctor Francis, took up with so fine a spirit and carried on with such success must be continued by you and me. It a a mere privilege to operate in an enterprise as well as a sacre inherent from The colored people will win in reasing respect for themselves larger in the degree that we help one and other. We are not so prosperous as our Jewish fellow-citizens; but we are growing each year in wealth well as in culture, and we should each year do more than ever before to promote the well-being of the less happily circumstanced groups of our own people. If we will but do our part our white friends (and their name I am persuaded, is leion) will be the more encouraged to do theirs. MADAME BRUCE The Sacred Concert Given By Madame E. L. Bruce—The Famous Oklahoma Nightingale, Prima Donna (Soprano). At the First Baptist Church, Dumbarton Avenue, N. W., on the evening of November 31st, was one of the most soul-stirring song services ever held in that church. Several young men stood up to be prayed for. The singing seemed to be an inspiration Mme. Bruce's wonderful voice was at its best, going from classic to jubilee selections, with a beauty and sweetness of tone and quality that charmed all present. We are indeed grateful to have such a grand woman in our midst to help make our service such a success. The Rev Ricke has a very large and appreciating congregation, who are in perfect accord with his work. Mrs. Daisy Gross was, as usual, a very sympathetic accompanist. Announcement—Season 1913-1914 Second Season of Popular Monthly Public Concerts by "The Hoffman lard concerts will be held on the evening of Sunday, December 14, 1913 at the New Howard Theater, Seventh and T Streets Northwest, Andrew J Thomas, Manager. Concert begins at 11:55 P. M. sharp. Solistist—Mme Luner Plain prano; Mr. Edward Howard, cornetist; Mr. Louis Brown, pianist. THE TESTIMONIAL A Week's Testimonial to Andrew J. Thomas—Floquent Sperches By A. W. Scott and Dr. C. W. Childs. Grand Finale Monday Night. Notwithstanding one man's objections to the testimonial to Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, the entire week, beginning Monday, November 25th and ending Monday, December 1, the affair was a most brilliant success. The climax was last Monday evening, when standing room was at a premium. It was no doubt the largest crowd that has even been in the Howard Theater. After the presentation of the first part of the program, there was an intermission of twenty minutes. About two minutes' intermission was had to enable the Citizens' Committee to arrange for the presentation of a loving cup that stood three feet high. In the center of the stage, hidden from the view of the vast audience, were seated W. Calvin Chase, editor of The Bee, who inaugurated the testimonial. Attorney A. W. Scott, Dr. C. W. Childs, and to his left Andrew J. Thomas. The curtain was drawn and in the center of the group was a massive Loving Cup, with the following inscription engraved thereon: "From the Citizens of the District of Columbia to Andrew J. Thomas, Howard Theater, December 1st, 1913." Mr. Chase arose and stated the object of the occasion, and why Mr. Thomas was thus honored by the people of Washington, and introduced Attorney A. W. Scott, one of the most eloquent speakers in this country, and the most eloquent lawyer at the local bar. Mr. Scott delivered a most brilliant address. His address electrified the vast audience to such an extent that the very walls of the theater almost trembled with enthusiasm. Among other things he said: Mr. Thomas, ladies and gentlemen: It is absolutely unnecessary to attempt to make a lengthy speech upon this occasion, because, the unqualified loyalty and support of you, by the citizens of the District of Columbia, during the past two or three years, in developing and maintaining the great- est Negro playhouse in the world, is sufficient and adequate evidence of their appreciation of your worth and work in your success of this splendid enterprise. But, in expressing the appreciation of the citizens of the District of Columbia of you upon this occasion, I would be derelict in my duty, if I failed to say a word of commendation of the splendid man, who made this occasion possible. A man who has always fought valiantly for the maintenance of the rights of his oppressed race, a man who believes in young men, a man who is always willing to push forward the young men of the race, a man who has always been ready and willing to encourage and advertise the efforts and successes of those, who had the right stuff in them, and who had the determination to make a success in life. I refer to that irrepressible character, that man who for more than thirty years has edited and managed the most successful Negro paper in America, the Honorable William Calvin Chase, Editor of the Washington Bee. Be it credit to the one hundred thousand Negro citizens of this community, there was but one dissenting voice raised against the efforts of the one, who has made this occasion a howling success tonight, and that dissenting voice came from one, who is so insignificant, that the rustling of his editorial wings, would not bring consternation even to a fly. Sir, when it became noised abroad a few years ago that you had secured a ten year lease upon this playhouse, consternation reigned supreme. The pessimists began to predict nothing but failure for you, they characterized you as a dreamer and a fanatic; but imbued with the spirit of William Lloyd Garrison, who once said: "I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat, a single inch— And I will be heard." And I will be heard. You pushed forward this splendid enterprise, until today, the Negroes of Washington have a play-house, to which they can nightly go, and be entertained as well and as satisfactorily as they could be at any other play house in the District of Columbia. This Loving Cup represents the combined and concentrated admiration and esteem of the thousands and thousands of parrons of the District of Columbia, who believe in you, and feel that you are fully deserving of this slight token of their appreciation. You have exemplified the combined elements of pluck, push, perseverance and brains, and for all the years to come, you will stand as a living example for aspiring youth. I therefore present you this Loving Cup, not for its intrinsic value, but for what it represents. May you cherish it as long as you live, and may it ever be a source of inspiration to you, to inspire you on to greater and grander achievements. Let me leave with you as your life's motto these fitting lines: "Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crow-bars; loose the hull But only crow-bars loose the bull dog's lip; Small as he looks, the jaw never yields. Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields." The next speaker was Dr. C. W Childs. Dr. Childs is always an acceptable speaker. He paid most eloquent tribute to Mr. Thomas and assured him that the people were with him and would give him their support. He also paid a tribute to The Bee for suggesting such a compliment to Mr. Thomas, and he readily responded when he was asked, and so would every patriotic citizen, because Mr. Thomas has made it possible for the colored citizens to have a place of their own where they may be seated without being segregated and feel like American citizens. All classes are treated alike at this theater, and all that the management asks is to treat him as he endeavors to treat you. The concluding address was made by Mr. Thomas, who was introduced by Mr. Chase as the man of the hour. He received a great ovation when he was presented as the man of the hour, and said in part, most eloquently and pointed, the following: Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen and Citizens: Sooner or later there comes to every man dreams of ambition. They may be covered with the sloth of habit, or with a pretense of humility; they may come only in dim, shadowy visions, that feeds the eye, like the glories of an ocean sun rise; but, you may be sure they will come, even before one is aware, the bold adventurous Goddess, whose name is Ambition, and whose dower is fame, will be toying with the feeble heart. And she pushes her ventures with a bold hand; she makes the timid strong, and the weak valient. As a boy, I had visions of making a name for myself in the business world. I realized that honesty, and steadfastness of purpose were the requisites necessary to success. At times I have been discouraged, but never doubtful of ultimately reaching the goal for which I have been striving—Success. To night, words fail me in expressing my true appreciation of, this testimonial of my feeble efforts in the catering to the amusement loving public to Washington. This Loving Cup, this beautiful token of your love and an preciation, will be ever treasured by (Continued to page 5.) 50TH CELEBRATION 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. BETHEL LITERARY. A Brilliant Program Tuesday Night. One of the most brilliant and entertaining programs was presented at the Bethel Literary Society last Tuesday night. President Dudley, one of the most popular and competent presidents the literary society has ever had presented Mr. J. Francis Lee, of Harrisburg, Pa., in select reading of original poems. The audience was classic as well as large, and the entire program was artistically carried out. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., rendered very artistically a cornet solo. He was accompanied by his sister, Miss Beatriz L. Chase, the most accomplished pianist in the city.' HOLY! HOLY! HOLY! LORD OF HOSTS Knowledge of God's Character Shall Yet Fill the Earth. The Pastor's Special Thanksgiving. Character Is Known by Plans and Works—Holiness Not an Empty Title—He That Doeth, Righteousness Is Righteous—He That Plans and Does Holy Things Is Holy—God Has Been Slandered—In Bible Language Blasphemed—Evil Plans Attributed to Him—Satan, the Deceiver, to Blame—Doctrines of Devils Were Worked Into Our Creeds In the Dark Ages to Turn Us From God and the Bible—Clearer Light Shining. New York, Nov. 20. Pastor Russell spoke here twice today. We report one of his themes, from the text, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth shall be full of His glory." (Isaiah 6:2). He spoke without notes as usual, saying in part: PASTOR RUSSELL New York, Nov. 20.—Fastor Russell spoke here twice today. We report one of his themes, from the text. "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth shall be full of His glory." (Isalah 6:2). He spoke without notes as usual, saying in part: Since shortly after the Second Century the Christian Church has been gradually led into a total mis conception of the Divine character as manifested in the Divine attitude toward humanity. Little by little heathenish doctrines respecting an eternity of torture for all except the saintly, favored few, were preached. Gradually men with fervent spirit enlarged upon the errors until today the most horrible descriptions of the Almighty God are printed in Christian publications, creeds, commentaries, etc. No heathen people have ever pictured their god in so devilish a light. Ugly, fierce, devilish, though their idols be, they cannot compare with the Satanic descriptions which Christians in the creeds of the Dark Ages have given of the God of all Grace and Father of Mercies.—I Corinthians 1:3. The noblest and best people in Christendom have abandoned the horrible teachings of their fathers, and are more and more worshiping the God of Love, the Fountain of blessings. But the world still judges our God by our printed misrepresentations of Him. In heathen lands, the missionaries are more blinded, perhaps, than ministers in the home land. The rein of orthodoxy is more tightly drawn on them. No wonder they can make little impression on the heathen, who openly declare that they could not worship so unjust and vicious a God as the missionaries present—a God who has already sentenced their forefathers to everlasting torture, because of their ignorance of Jesus, in whose name alone is salvation! It appears to me, therefore, that to whatever extent any intelligent Christian today gives open or secret support to these slanderous, blasphemous statements, of the creeds he is responsible. Nor does it seem to be sufficient that either a Christian or a congregation here and there should privately disown these doctrines. Denomination al names stand as representative of the doctrines which led to the formation of these denominations. Would not the only honorable way of rectifying matters now be either as denominations, publicly, openly and in round terms, to repudiate the slanders of the Delly; or, since this would be tedious work, should not each individual set himself straight by as public a withdrawal from such creeds as was his endorsement in joining? The latter surely is the surest and quickest method of rectifying the difficulty. Moreover, it is the right method; for the Bible never authorized any one to or organize various sects and parties. The Bible recognizes only the one Church of Christ—"The Church of the First-born, written in Heaven." Every one who has accepted Christ and his Savior and consecrated his life to be a footstep follower of Jesus—all such, begotten of the Holy Spirit, are members of the one true Church. Their names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and they have the promise that they will be granted abundant entrance into His Kingdom in the First Resurrection—If they abide faithful, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." Seducing Spirits—Doctrines of Devils. Let me not be misunderstood. I am not charging that these blasphemous doctrines were intentionally brought in to misrepresent God or to deceive the Church or the world. I prefer to take the Apostle Paul's explanation. He wrote prophetically, "I fear, best by any means, as the serpent beguiled. Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." (C Corinthians 11:3.) This is exactly what has happened. The Church of Christ has been beguiled by earthly favors, not only into a wrong attitude toward the kingdoms of this world, but, as St. Paul declares, from the simplicity of the Truth into a mass of confusing and blasphemous error. First came the beguiling of the bishops into thinking that they were successors to The Twelve Apostles and equally inspired authorities and mouthpieces of Christ. Thus the doctrine of Apostolic Succession was gradually established. Jesus prophesied of these, describing them as false apostles, "which say they are apostles and are not," but do lie. (Revelation 2:2.) As the bishops received credit as being living Apostles, the inspired words of Jesus and The Twelve Apostles whom He appointed took second place, and with the masses Bible study ceased as wholly unnecessary. Upon this foundation, the great Adversary built, item by item, the terrible doctrines of purgatory and of eternal torture. When finally, in the Sixteenth Century, the Bible again began to be consulted, Satan so worked matters that some of our forefathers retained the Hell of indescribable torture for all except the elect few—repudiating because not Scriptural the only ameliorating feature—the purgatorial theory. Their eyes blinded with the errors of fourteen centuries of no Bible study—the errors of human theories and doctrines of demons—can we wonder that the enlightenment of the past three centuries has come very slowly? Even when we were getting free from the errors, Satan, our wily foe, entrapped our forefathers into the making of creeds, and thus hindered further progress out of the darkness into the light, for which we all cry out. "Lead, Kindly Light, Amid the Encircling Gloom!" The seducing spirits mentioned by St. Paul are surely none others than the fallen angels, of whom Satan is the chief, or "prince of devils." As St. Paul suggests, there is a similarity between the deception of the Church and the original deception of Mother Eve. Eve was beguiled into believing that God's threat, "Dying thou shalt die," could not be true. The serpent declared, "Ye shall not surely die." Thus deceived by the serpent's lie, Mother Eve was ensnared and led her husband and our race into death. And now note the parallel. The seducing spirits, the fallen angels, have sought to perpetuate in the Church the very same falsehood which missed Mother Eve. And they have succeeded. By visions, dreams, tipping tables, trance mediums, claustraudent powers, mesmeric powers, hypnotic powers, they have deceived the Christian Church, even as they had previously deceived the heathen. Into thinking that the dead are really alive. Upon that foundation they have built the doctrine of the tortures of Hell and Purgatory, and subsequently, doctrines of masses and prayers for the deliverance of the dead from Purgatory, and doctrines respecting God's having foreordained and prelestimated all except the Elect to eternal anguish. The Pastor's Thanksgiving. On Thursday last, when my heart went out to God in special thanksgiving for all the merces of life, I gave Him special thanks that gradually the eyes of my understanding are opening, enabling me to see Him in the glorious light of His great, loving Plan of Salvation for the church and for the world. My thanks for all temporal merces and blessings were dwarfed as the anthem of my soul went up and I repeated the text of today, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Hosts!" Ah! It is a blessed thought that God has already made provision that Messiah's Kingdom shall be established that Satan shall be bound and shall deceive men no more; and that, Instead of the darkness of ignorance and superstition, the glorious light of God's goodness shall shine forth, causing the earth to be filled with His praises! With great patience God has permitted His plans and His character to be misrepresented and traduced. Yet we can see a wisdom in this; for eventually, when all the blind eyes shall be opened and all the deaf ears shall be unstopped, when all the delusions of the past—the hobgoblins of seducing spirits and the doctrines of devils—shall have gone, the Lord's precious character and loving provision for our fallen race will stand forth in glorious radiance. Whom to Know Is Life. The Savior declares, "This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent." (John 17:3). Evidently He meant by this that whoever would have an intimate acquaintance with God must be received again into God's family; that those who do not come back into God's family will never know Him in the true sense of the word—be able to appreciate the glories of His grand character—His Justice, His Wisdom, His Power and His Love. Such knowledge is imparted only to those brought into the family and made partakers of God's Spirit. In the present time only a very few of our fallen race are able to take the steps which lead to this intense, deep knowledge of Jehovah. The great mass of mankind are blinded by ignorance, superstition and the weaknesses of their fallen nature. But God is not content that merely the elect Church shall have this knowledge of Him and this opportunity for everlasting life. His glorious purposes encompass the world of mankind. His Divine arrangement is two-fold: first, that "all the blind eyes shall be opened and all the deaf ears shall be unstopped"; second, that "the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together" and that "the knowledge of God's glory shall fill the whole earth, as the waters cover the great deep." A Grand Halleluiah Chorus. We may be sure that when the true enlightenment shall reach humanity the real character of the Heavenly Father will be manifested, and there will be a hallelujah chorus on earth which will rival the Heavenly acclaim of "Glory to God in the Highest." It is not for us to say that all, or even the majority of the human family, enlightened and set free from the bondage to Sin and Death, will become the willing servants of God, righteousness and Truth. We cannot judge from our own experiences. We must remember that God recognizes human free agency, the will; and that He seeketh only to worship Him as worship Him in spirit and in truth. The Scriptures make clear that only those who shall learn to love righteousness and to hate pliquity, evil—in the present time as members of the elect Church, or in the future Age as restored humanity—only such will be judged worthy of life by the Great Judge. Any sympathy with sin, after having known of its bitter, fruits, and after having been recovered from the curse, will be a crime—an evidence of failure to learn the great lessons of seven thousand years—lessons of the exceeding sinfulness of sin—lessons of God's Justice in punishing sin—lessons in God's Mercy in providing forgiveness for our sins and release from them and from their penalty—lessons in the humility of our Redeemer—lessons in the cost of recovery from Sin and Death. Whoever, after all these lessons, would still be sympathetic with sin, would, according to the Bible, be unworthy of everlasting life. For the Scriptures assure us that death is the penalty for sin, that the soul that sinn must die, and that the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, which will be given only to those wise enough and loyal enough to use it in accord with the great Creator's regulations and laws, framed for the benefit of His creatures and for the glory of His name. "Have Patience, Brethren." Those whose eyes of understanding are gradually opening to see the real glory of Jehovah's character as reflected in His great Plan of the Age may well have patience with others who see not as yet. The fact that our own eyes were so long in opening, the fact that we were as honest and sincere before as we are now, should lead us to assume that the same conditions apply to our brethren, professed people of God, everywhere. Moreover, we are not to be judges one of another. Proclaiming the Truth in as nearly as possible the Bible words, we are to be content to deliver our Message and to leave to the Lord the results. It is ours to point out the horrible confusion into which the Lord's people got during the Dark Ages, and which justified the Lord in calling the nominal church Babylon. It is ours to point out the Message of the Lord, saying, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen [from Divine favor]! Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Whoever sees that the entire nominal church system of all denominations is the Babylon referred to by the Lord has the responsibility of the Lord's Message without any urging on our part. Whoever sees the blasphemy of the Holy Name sees that misrepresentation of the Divine Plan, making the world drunk with the wine of false doctrine, has been amongst the crimes of Babylon, and should wish forthwith to come out of her, to share no longer in her misrepresentation, however much blended with forms of holiness. Whoever, after seeing the real character of Babylon and the horrible work which Satan has deluded her into doing, still has sympathy with her and with her work and with her blasphemies and distortions of the Truth—such persons deserve to share in the confusion that is shortly to come to Babylon when she shall fall as a great millstone into the sea. "Light is sown for the righteous; Truth for the upright in heart." Those who do not receive the Truth as meat in due season have reason to fear that they do not belong to the class decribed by the Prophet as the righteous and as the upright in heart. Honesty seems to be a quality which the Lord holds in very high esteem. The dishonest in word or conduct or in their thoughts are an abomination to Him, and should not expect to receive special favor or light or knowledge. We may well imagine that the entire Millennial Age will be one grand Thanksgiving Day, in which the numbers who will praise God will be continually increasing as more and more they awaken from the tomb. As their eyes shall see and their ears shall hear of the grace and love of God, every tongue will confess, while every knee will bow, not only to Jesus the Redeemer, but to the gracious Creator, who formed the Plan which the Millennium will execute. Praise to God in Heaven and Earth. The Master gives assurance that ultimately there will be no place where curses and blasphemies will be heard—no place where rebels against God and His goodness will remain. All such willful, intelligent slimmers will finally be destroyed in the Second Death. Then will come the grand anthem of the Universe: "Every creature in Heaven, and in earth, heard I saying, Praise, glory, honor, dominion and might be unto Him who sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb forever." That will be the glorious Day mentioned by our Master in His prayer, "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in Heaven." And because God's will shall be as completely done on earth as in Heaven, therefore sin, sorrow, sickness, pain and death will no longer be conditions on earth, even as they are not conditions in Heaven. Thus will be fulfilled the Master's words, that there shall be no more dying, crying, sighing, for all the former things shall have passed away. He that sits upon the Throne shall have made all things new, and thus in His Messianic Kingdom God will have wiped away all tears from off all faces. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE·STUDY·ON "All things are possible to him that believeth." - Mark 9:23. TERICHO was a walled city about five miles from the Jordan. Although the city was small, its wall was a necessity, owing to frequent incursions from Syria and Egypt; for it was on one of the main lines of travel. The Lord's decree respecting all the cities of Canaan was that they were devoted—cherem. The Israelites were not led into Canaan to pillage. They were to be executioners of the Divine decree against the peoples of Canaan, each city of which was the center of a little principality. According to his tory, they were continually at war with each other, and atrociously corrupt, after the manner of the Sodomites. They were to be destroyed as no longer advantageous to themselves or others. A woman is being beaten by a man. In the great prison house of Captain of the Lord's Sheok, the tomb, the sleeping wait for the more favorable, time of, Messiah's Kingdom, and the release from sin and degradation promised to all mankind through Abraham's Seed: "In thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." Captain of the Lord's Host. After crossing Jordan, the Israelites encamped midway between the river and Jericho, that city having shut its gates, expecting a long siege. Joshua was aware that the first place of attack would be Jericho, but evidently not aware of the character of the battle. Reconnellering near Jericho, he met an armed soldier, and at once inquired whether he was friend or foe. The answer was that he was Captain of the Lord's host. An angel had been commissioned to materialize as a human and to communicate to Joshua the Divine plan for the capture of Jericho. Joshua immediately put it into execution. Every day there was a solemn procession around the doomed city. First went a military escort from the various tribes. Next followed a company of priests blowing rams' horns. Then came a rear guard—presumably warriors. In harmony with the explicit directions not a voice was heard, not a shout. Everything was most funeral, except the blowing of the rams' horns. These solemn processions encompassed Jerloho once each day for six days. Then on the seventh day they went about the city seven times, the last time vociferously shouting—the seven priests constantly blowing the rams' horns. When they had made the seventh circuit, they stopped in front of the city, still blowing. Forthwith the wall crumbled and fell. The translation of our Common Version, "down flat," seems too strong properly to represent the original. The wall fell immediately in front of the Ark of the Covenant. But the account tells that the portion of the wall where Rahab's house was built did not fall. The wall fell to such an extent that Israel's soldiers could easily accomplish the work of destruction. Quite probably an earthquake tremor, under Divine supervision, caused the fall of the wall in front of the Israelites. It does not seem impossible that God thus intervened to carry out HIs own purposes. Professor Wright declares, "The mediate cause of the fall of the wall was some subterranean earthquake, which shook down the walls of the part of the city where the men were standing, or undermined them so that they sank. This is easily possible in that region of earthquakes. "The record is that at the appointed time the walls fell; and we are free to believe that the catastrophe was connected with an earthquake, which was made to synchronize with the final blasts of the rams' horns. In the light of history and geological conditions of this region, the story bears every mark of being a genuine and authentic account of an event so remarkable that it could not have been modified by tradition without rendering it fantastic and incredible." Typical Significance of the Event. The six days of quiet marching around Jericho with nothing accomplished except the witnessing, represent the six great Days of the larger Week — each a thousand years long. During the world's history, Sin has been entrenched and impregnable. The Lord's people have merely witnessed against it blowing the The Wall Crumbled and Fell. ```markdown ``` trumpets—giving forth the Message that ultimately Sin shall be destroyed. but ultimately sin shall be destroyed. But little has come of the witnessing. We are waiting for the great Seventh Day—the thousand years of Messiah's Reign. In it the citadel of evil will be surrounded seven times, or completely. The shout of victory will go up and the strong walls of sin and error, of Satan's falsehood, of human deception, will fall. Satan shall be bound for a thousand years. Ultimately every evil thing and all who love sin will be forever destroyed in the Second Death. TRYING TO REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING ISSUES GOOD GOOK BOOK. Secretary Houston and Assistant Secretary Galloway Prominently Identified With Intelligent and Persevering Efforts to Stop Waste In Food—Book Contains Money Saving Recipes. Washington—That the expense for food is one of the most serious problems confronting the American people today is being recognized by the United States government in a most practical way. The work of finding a remedy, begun several years ago by the department of agriculture, through its food research laboratory, is being carried on enthusiastically and forcefully by the present administration. Under the direction of Secretary of Agriculture David K. Houston and Dr. Beverly T. Galloway, the assistant secretary, whose long and excellent service in the department has been invaluable. One of the reasons for the high cost of food, in the opinion of the department, is the lack of knowledge of the average housewife about the actual cost and value of meat. The results of a careful investigation by competent persons into the use of meat in American homes have been summarized in a valuable booklet, the P. title of which is "Economical Use of Meat in the Home." This thirty page pamphlet is virtually a cookbook. It contains more than fifty economical, practical recipes for meat dishes. The book is published in this booklet, "Economical Use of Meat in the Home," are unlike those in any other publication in that they are prepared with the one main idea of getting the greatest value out of the materials used at the least expense and pain. With this booklet on her kitchen table any careful housewife can make tremendous cuts in the cost of living. Secretary of Agriculture Houston believes the reports of his department as contained in the farmers' bulletins to be of tremendous value as an aid to the public in meeting the problem of the high cost of living and has devoted much of his time to securing their widespread circulation. The food research laboratory investigators subjected every known, edible meat to a most careful scrutiny and as an introduction to the fifty recipes the booklet contains furnish an analytical table showing the fuel value per pound of the various meats. There is also a chapter devoted to the "Proportion of Different Cuts and Their Relation to Meat Prices," the "Texture and Flavor of Meat" and a most important chapter which deals with "Reducing the Expense For Meat in the Diet." Long before the department of agriculture undertook the publishing of this booklet the scientists in the food research laboratories connected with the department had carried on a series of experiments as to the relative nutritive value and ease and thoroughness of digestion of the different kinds and cuts of meat. the relative losses sustained when meat of different kinds is cooked in various ways, the proportion of meat used in American homes and similar questions. The wide-pread interest displayed throughout the country and particularly in the farming districts in these experiments finally induced the department of agriculture to publish the results of these experiments, together with economical recipes. The meat booklet was prepared by C. F. Langworthy, expert in charge of nutrition investigations in the food research laboratories, aided by Miss Caroline L. Hunt, who has had wide experience in the study of scientific and practical problems of nutrition. The recipes before being included were, with few exceptions, studied experimentally by Miss Hunt. FIND RING LOST 19 YEARS. New Orleans--Nineteen years ago Mrs. L. A. A. Gaal shook her wedding ring off her finger while cleaning tea leaves out of a teapot on the rear porch of her home. The little band of gold, which her husband had placed on her finger, five years before, fell out in the grass, and search by a dozen neighbors and by Mr. and Mrs. Gaal for hours failed to reveal a trace of it. A few afternoons ago it was found, at the very spot lost, by a daughter, Miss Viola, who was but three weeks old when the ring disappeared in the weeds. "It's now treasured beyond anything in the world," said Mr. Gaal, with the happiness of a child over a new toy. "The ring is just as pretty and shiny as it ever was. Its long slumber in the ground has not hurt it a bit. "My daughter was digging antichokes when she turned up the ring with a spadeful of dirt. She brought it to me, and I was a proud man to slip it on to the third finger of my wife's left hand for the second time." WELL, BUT IN BED 55 YEARS Mile. Lecaux's Refusal to Leave Her Couch is Unexplained. Paris-Mile. Lecaux, who has for seventy-five years been living in the environs of Paris and in perfectly good health, has remained abed for fifty-five years. The reason is unknown. Some say it is hypochondria, others assign life affairs as the cause; but, be that as it may, in 1858 she made her decision. A caller in investigating the case was shown into a white room containing a bed in a wooden alcove closed by white curtains like a squirreler. The family objected to the visit, saying that she was in bad humor, and her authoritative voice, strong and healthy, gave evidence of the fact. She then ordered dinner-radishes, mutton and black coffee. Several doctors who have visited her report that her digestion is admirable. Her limbs are only slightly feeble from disuse. STOLEN AS A BOY NOW FINDS HOME After 14 Years Youth Returns to Mother's Aunt. Seattle, Wash.-John James Hurley who was kidnapped fourteen years ago speeded back to his mother, sisters and brothers at Punxsutawney, Pa., his identification having been fully established by the Seattle police and those of his old home town. John James, as he was known until a few days ago, was stolen from his mother at Punxsutawney when he was six years old. He always has believed that his kidnapper was his father. He knew the man as Hurley. The mother in Pennsylvania has kept up a search for the boy, and John James, remembering coal mines and Pennsylvania and a town the name of which was so odd he could never bring it from his childhood memories, also has striven to establish his identity. Since having been cast off five years ago by the man who stole him he has been boy sending letters to the police of various towns in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Emma Floefer, who had a boarding house in a Washington number camp where John James worked, heard his story and, having lived in western Pennsylvania, she advised him to write to Punxsutawney. He did two weeks ago and an answer came from Chief of Police Palmer and one from the mother. Through the exchange of letters John James' identity has been fully established. John James thinks that the first town to which he was taken after he was stolen was Chicago. His kidnapper, who was a coal miner, then took him to Belt. Mont. Later they went to Helena, Mont., and back again to Crescent, Pa., where the boy was placed in school. CHILD HAD NO BRAIN. Lived to Age of Four Years Without That Organ. Berlin.-A German medical journal reports the curious case of a child born without a brain which in spite of this handicap lived to the age of almost four years. At the autopsy it was found that both the cerebrum and cerebellum, the so called "big" and "little" brain, were completely lacking, only the medulla oblongata being present. This little knot of brain tissue at the base of the main brain, which in fishes forms the sole brain, was able here to control the functions of the body necessary to a bare existence, but nothing more. The child lay in a state of coma, with contracted arms and almost motionless, during its whole existence. It was impossible to obtain the slightest mental reaction. Fastest Box Maker Dayton, Ore.-Wills Bellows is believed here to be the fastest apple box maker in the northwest. In a season his average is 600 daily. In La Grande, Ore., he broke a record, manufacturing 7,000 boxes in ten and a half days. On another occasion he made 610 boxes daily for fifty-eight days. 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M.—The fading of 1 woman's skeleton in lonely Los Huer tas canyon, thirty miles from this city explains the disappearance on Nov. 14 1911, of Margaret Greb, twenty-two Gaughter of John Greb, a carpenter who afterward went insane over the Joss of bis daughter, while a brother contracted tuberculosis from exposur in the eearch and died, The girl xturted out for a walk in.th sand hills. lost her way when nizh fell, and. althouzh the mountains an’ mesas Were searched for a trace of her fone war found. The skeleton, “which was fount stripped clean of Sesh and clothing was {dentitied by a’ gold filing in tb teeth. Open from 6:30 a. m, to 8 p.m. Open Sundays 7 a. m. to 6:15 p.m. LEE’S LUNCH ROOM Geo. H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W. Meals t5¢ and src. Washington, D. C. Cleaning, Altering, Dyeing, Re- pairing. : JOHN F. HARKUM CO,, TAILORS, 2012 Tenth Street N. W. _ Ladies’ Skirts made to order from $2.00 up. Coat Suits, $10.00. 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The secretary announc- ed that he would ask congress imme- diately to provide chaplains and wel~ fare secretaries proportionate to the navy’s personnel. Twenty-four chaplains, he said, are all that the government now provides to look after the religious welfare of the uavy's 67,000 men, the number of chaplulns not baving been increased since 1842, when the personnel of the navy numbered only 12,000 men. The secretary added that more than seventy-five Important ships in the nary have no religious leader attached, while the marine corps, with an enlist- ment of 10,226 men, has not a single chaplain to look after the spiritual de- velopment of Its personnel. CHILDREN WORK IN MILLS. 104 Per Cent of Employees In Cotton Mills Under Sixteen Years Old. Washingtou.—Of the 387,771 persons employed in the cotton goods industry in 1909 {n the United States, 39,306, or 10.4 per cent, were children under slx- teen years of uge 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 In- dustry produced $628,391,813 worth of goods. The cost of materials totaled $371,000.470, and the totat’paid in sal- aries and wages was $147.270,003. There was an Increase of the previ- fous census of 25.5 per cent In the number of plants, and the total capl- tal invested In the industry in 1909 was $$22.227.529, an Increase of 76 per cent over 1890. MODERN RIP AWAKES | FROM 9 YEARS’ SLEEP Like the Van Winkle of Irving, He Finds Many Changes, Tarrytown, N. ¥.—A living Rip Van Winkle, awakening from nine years of oblivion to find old friends dead and his children grown to manhood, walks, be- wildered. in the streets-of hfs home town, In that very Sleepy Hollow coun- try 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 seelng 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 grave- stones in Sleepy Mollow cemetery. But Levs’s is not a mournful awak- ening. There are scores of bis -old cronies alive and reJofcing In his re- covery. He remembers them all. He remembers everything that happencd ‘up to nine yearn 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 wax Infected that be be- came fll. Ie recovered physically, but made himself a hermit fn his home. When he went out. at long Intervals, The passed his friends withont recogni- ton. PRISONERS TO-KEEP NAMES. Number System and Lettered Uni- * forms Abolished at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.—As a result of the ef- forts of Warden Moyer. which have met with the approval of the depart- ment of justice, prisoners at the At- lanta penitentiary hereafter will be known by names Instead of numbers, and their untforms no longer will bear the letters “UG. S. P.,” branding them gs United States prisoners. Announcement of this radica] de parture from prison custom was made by Good Words, the. paper which Is edited and published In the peniten- tary. While each prisoner’s clothing will bear his rezistration number, it will be for identitication only and wilt be conceafed from sight. . REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE Mrs, Phillips of New York Was Wed- ded Last December. ~ Wilmington. Cel.—Mrs. Edith Stos- gon Phillips of 102 West Forty-first street. New York. called the Rev. George L.. Wolfe by telephone and aak- ed him to unnounce ber marriage op Dec. 18 lant to Wallace B. Phillips. ‘The couple were wedded here by Bir. Wolfe. ® “Wasn't your marriage published at the time?” the preacher asked. “No,” was the answer. The woman would not give her rea- eon for desiring the belated announce ment. She sald her hustand was from Greensboro, N. —. THE BEE Published at tiog Eye St. N. W., Washington D. C. W. 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 DO IT NOW. Congress has again met in regular session. Considerations, purely material, such as those of the tariff, the relations of capital and labor, initiative, referendum and recall, and subjects of like character, which have but little or nothing to do with the great questions of human rights, will doubtless absorb all the time and energies of the political party now in power. Not only this, but jimcrowism, segregation and disfranchisement have come to be regarded as "local issues" to such a degree that many of the most ardent exponents of the Republican party scarcely, if ever, publicly denounce, or even refer to them. Hence, favorable expressions upon these subjects have become matters of personal privilege rather than political duty; and the average politician finds his time so much engrossed in the consideration and performance of political duties affecting only the purely material, that none is left to devote to what he has come to consider unprofitable speculation in unpopular ism. Such is the unvar- sitation of the National , and such the attitude of the leaders of the party thful and effective allies ing been. In the absence ed legislators of our own seems imperatively needEADER. The required leader must have character. a good, a great character—a sublime manifestation of the will, acting under the influence of truth, justice and reason. He is reliable, truthful. He dares to endure and to suffer for truth and duty—he has moral courage. Like Luther, he would disdain to disavow his honest convictions, would neither lie nor equivocate, but would exclaim, under whatever pressure, "Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders; Got helfe mir." He never stoops to revenge, he never pouts when harsh, cruel and unjust things are said about him. He is a great student. He believes in education—the right kind of education. He realizes that intellectual culture has no necessary reference to purity of character, though accomplishments in art and the sciences should by no means be neglected, but that largeness of mind, depth and purity of thought, appreciation of the lofty, tact, energy, love of truth, amiability and charity, are the legitimate objects of proper education. He knows that our condition as slaves resulted from a want of education, together with those correlative adjuncts and influences which give proper character to manhood. He knows that the trials endured, the terrible burdens borne, the blood and tears shed by our race, were the indirect result of our ignorance. He sees that the ostracism we have encountered, the huge barriers which have stood in our way and which seem to have been spoken into existence especially to impede our progress, the bitter opposition of legislatures, the licensed opposition of the courts, the hate of our former masters and the doubtful support of our political friends—during the period which characterized our initiation into the man-creating mysteries of Americanship—were also the result of our ignorance. He knows that the unbounded credulity we have manifested, the undue observance of and lack of appropriate provision against, the terrible under-current which had been forced beneath the surface by the weight of a new element at the South, but which was none the less active, united and persistent, naturally destined to produce a bitter contest for supremacy and which in fact eventually over- threw the organized and legitimate representatives of republican government, defied the National authority and at last couched under, the very Goddess of Liberty and invoked her sympathy and support, in order that the subjugation of the colored people might be complete—were largely due to our ignorance. The true leader knows that the supreme idleness with which we have been drifting along the tide of popular sentiment, without attempting to affect it, the readiness with which we have listened to incompetent and selfish would-be or manufactured leaders, and our failure to make affiliations of a character most suitable to our proper development—a failure which has operated to cast us high and dry upon the dangerous reefs of political caprice—have also been the result of our ignorance. He knows that the absence of union, of combination put in operation and governed by honesty and capacity, is the result of the ignorance of our people with regard to the duties which devolve upon us as useful citizens. In a word, our duly qualified leader sees that the reason why we are in the breech and are being ridden over rough-shod by the enemy, is largely because we have not possessed the ladders of knowledge and the battering-knans of true manliness. This leader will point out the way whereby the race may obtain an education which will teach us how to work, as well as how to merely think; how to build up, as well as how to tear down; how to handle the pick, the plow, the axe, the hoe, the throttle, and the compass, as well as how to wield the pen; how to practice religion and ethics, as well as to discuss them; and how to protect our homes from the encroachments of scandal and gossip, as well as how to procure, protect and preserve our political and civil rights. Verily, the man or woman who really possesses the force of character, the constructive and administrative genius to arouse our race to the proper quality and degree of interest and to lead them safely through these troubled times, can find no more opportune occasion or surer passport to fame than the present. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. There was published in the Evening Star on Thanksgiving Day the substance of resolutions passed by the Evangelical Ministers' Alliance protesting against the president attending the Pan-American mass which is held in St. Patrick's Catholic Church. Resolutions of similar purport had previously been passed by various organizations of white clergymen. These resolutions are nothing more nor less than exhibitions of religious narrowness, intolerance and prejudice. We are sorry to see Negro clergymen, members of a race which is the victim of race prejudice, engaging in the practice of religious prejudice, which is every whit as mean and contemptible as race prejudice, and that, too, at a time when every element of the race is, or should be, arraved against color prejudice. The Catholic Church is no more a menace to political and civil liberty than other religious sects, and so far as colored men are concerned, they enjoy more real civil and political liberty in Catholic countries, than in the Southern States, in which the Catholic Church has scarcely any foothold at all. The Southern States are almost entirely Protestant in population. Mr. Tillman is a Protestant; Mr. Vardaman is a Protestant; Senator Hoke Smith is a Protestant; Mr. Aswell is a Protestant; McAdoo and Burleson, the departmental segregationists, are Protestants. Every man who has brought forth a segregation, proposition is a Protestant, whether cabinet officer or member of Congress. On the other hand, under the leadership of Cardinal Gibbons disfranchisement has been twice defeated at the polls in Maryland. The most distinguished Catholic layman in the country, former Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, is opposed to segregation and is cooperating with the forces opposed to segregation. The three American cardinals are opposed to segregation. In Louisiana the archbishop of New Orleans, when appealed to by greedy planters to stop Catholic priests from exposing injustice to their parishioners of color, refused to do so, saying that it was the duty of a priest to cry out against injustice when he thought it existed. We have had here in Washington great processions of Protestants from which Negroes were vigorously excluded. It would be difficult to name any great Catholic procession in which Negroes have not been present, and not at the end of the line, either. Taken all in all, the attitude of the Negro clergy as exemplified in these resolutions is unfortunate, unwise and unjust, and not in keeping with the spirit and requirements of the hour. It is an action that is to be deeply deplored. The resolutions are somewhat discounted by the fact that Dr. J. Milton Waldron was the chairman of the committee which brought them to the Alliance. Dr. Waldron's notoriously materialistic conception of things, as exemplified by his conduct in politics, religion and philanthropy, would not lead one to conclude that those resolutions represented in any real sense the sentiment of thoughtful Negroes, on that they were dictated by an unalloyed motive of disinterestedness. We may express the hope that Negro clergymen will not hereafter engage in the gentle pastime of hailing Catholics. SECRETARY BRYAN. Those persons who attended the memorial meeting for the late Dr. John R. Francis at the Metropolitan Church last Monday must have been somewhat disappointed if they expected to hear the Honorable William Jennings Bryan say something on the vital question of the day. It's strange about these diplomats. They can talk to an audience for an hour and when they have finished one begins to ask himself the question: "Did he touch the point which I had in mind?" In this matter of being able to address an audience of people upon a question without committing one's self. Secretary Bryan is an adent. The Secretary has delivered Chautauqua lectures and others over the entire country. His talks have been not only a revelation to the people, but have been filled with some of the best thoughts ever delivered from a public platform. His manner of bringing into his talks selections from the Scripture is a style peculiarly his own. a close scrutiny of his lectures bring forth the fact that he has dom, if ever, touched politics a administration affairs. Perhaps is too early in the game for members of the party to show whi way the wind blows. And, at the meeting Monda Mr. Bryan simply would not go away from eulogizing the life, character and noble deeds of Dr. Francis. Each time that he waxed warm, the part of the audience which expected him suddenly to branch off onto the subject neares their hearts, to say nothing of the close proximity to their minds, must have been keenly disappointed when they found the Secretary of State still memorializing Dr. Francis. But, there would seem to be no fear of where Mr. Bryan stands on the vital question, if rumors be true. He WOODROW (would row), but he can't. Speaking of Chautauqua, they say that Secretary Bryan is the man who put the tauq (talk) in Chautauqua. ATTORNEY SCOTT. The Bee and its Editor have always endeavored to serve the people and those who are meritorious. The presence of Mr. Scott at the closing exercises of the Thomas testimonial last Monday night was no disappointment, but an agreeable surprise and appreciation of the people. This distinguished orator is always ready and willing to serve a cause of merit and a friend who is true and faithful. He not only demonstrated it last Monday night, when at the last hour, without preparation or notice, filled a position that few men could have filled who may have had time to embrace an occasion and an opportunity that would have made him immortal. Dr. C. W. Childs is always ready and willing to do his duty. His address will be immortal and when posterity opens its book of fame, the name of Dr. Childs will be emblazoned on the scroll of fame. Mr. Thomas made a most eloquent and pointed address. Not only is he thankful to the high tribute that was paid him, but the citizens of this city, regardless of color or condition, demonstrated their appreciation, esteem and gratitude. NEGRO DEOMCRATS There are a few men who have supported the Democratic party who are entitled to some recognition, namely, James A. Ross, Chas. L. Barnes, Fountain Peyton and a few others. It seems that men who have played hot and cold are receiving more consideration than many of those faithful colored Democratic allies. Why should the so-called Washington correspondent of the alleged news bureau, R. W. Thompson, ask to be retained under a Democratic administration when he was so active during the last Republican campaign in the interest of the Republican party? Let him resign and let his place be filled by one of the faithful. Mr. Thompson's writings and political articles that he sent out through his bureau and under his own name would make interesting reading at this time. DIDN'T WORK The T. B. A. A., who borrowed the brains of the T. E. R. F. C. and then didn't know how to use it, will be minus of its head at the next meeting. The principal of the Bannaka has his eyes on Mott, so the rumor floats, but as yet the Mott principal is in good health. The T. E. R. F. C. intends to distribute the money it collected and will no doubt maintain its organization to help retired teachers. This organization is progressive and knows how to handle itself. The Bee would suggest that it keep away from the T. B. A. A. because its ancient methods will retard the progress of any progressive organization. If the T. B. A. A. would select a new head, get rid of the leeches and drones and then consolidate with the T. E. R. F. C., perhaps a strong organization would materialize. WHO WILL LEAD? Editor of The Bee: Through the columns of your spicy paper I wish to attract the attention of my people and remind them that nothing can be accomplished without a true leader, one who is fearless, honest and cautious. God will not liberate a race that has no leader. We must select a leader and do so at once. We must forget division and jealousy. We must feel each other's care and the burden of every Negro, high or low, rich or poor. Let us have harmony of action. If we all lead confusion comes and nothing will be accomplished. I will admit that leaders are born, not made; but we must find one and blazing quick, for God is waiting for us to do our duty. to-a did. ellish et us God follorty way tons way ody into to ins are ons the tey ke that the sons of Ham shall stretch forth their wings and triumph in victory over every foe. God also declares the bottom rail shall come on top and the top rail go to the bottom. Let us pray that our treatment is a blessing in disguise. If so, it is unjust and seasoned with jealous passion. Therefore, our hearts are sick waiting for men to select a leader to blaze the way and save the rights of an humble, down-trodden, peaceful race, but I will appeal to the women to come and help select a leader for the race. The men have been tried. We cannot wait longer. The men run too fast. Fashions and hashtagless prevent the women from running when the battle is hot. Therefore, we need you now. It makes no difference to us about your dress. Come and help us now. Our way is cloudy. God said first shall be last, and last shall be first. The darkest hour is just before the break of day. Will you come? The men are not jealous now, they are frightened to death. Please come. We know your great value in the past. We are now in hades and cannot tell where the Devil will land us. Will you help us? We love you for what you have done, but past blessings don't suffice. Just help us out of this, and we will call you blessed. We are not nervous but we are awfully shaky because we let our opportunity pass us by and we are unable to check the tide of segregation and discrimination that's flooding our pathway. We will help you in the house as we never did before if you will come out and help us to get back our rights and liberty. God save our women and shake the men. REV. L. C. MOORE. 810 F St. N. W BUSINESS LEAGUE NIGHT. Our Great Kelly Miller Addressed the Business Men and Women of the District—Subject, "What Commercial Development Means to the Negro Race." It was Business League Night at Bethel Literary Tuesday, November 25, under the auspices of the Local Branch of the Business League of the District. The church was crowded and all seemed to be benefited after hearing the many instructive and material addresses by many who snook. The meeting was called to order by Mr. S. M. Dudley, president of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. Prayer by Rev. A. C. Garner. The meeting was then turned over to Mr. Daniel Freeman, president of the local League of the District, who explained the object of the Business League was to encourage the colored people to go into business and assist those, who are in business and aim to raise a higher commercial standard for the race in general. Dr. W. H. Davis, official stenographer for the National League, read letters from Dr Booker T. Washington, Hon. J. C. Napier, Prof. Geo W. Cook, Mr. Geo M. Oyster and Commissioner Cuno Rudolph, who regret that they could not be present on account of pressing engagements. Dr. Davis also explained to hearers how much good the National League s doing all over the country to uplift and instill into the Negro commercial and business confidence. The crowning address was delivered by Prof Kelly Miller, dean of Arts and Sciences of the College Department of Howard University. His theme was "What Commercial Development Means to the Negro Race." The speaker electrified his audience so that he was continually interrupted by constant applause. One or two strong points in his address was to inquire how much energy does the Negro exert to supply the exigencies and substance of the movement of a community. He further stated that the Jews and Italians are quick to see the emergency and need for a store, cook shop, laundry or any other thing THE which is needed in the community. He also stated that the Negro is fast forgetting how to supply the house service and the things which, go to make a home what it ought to be. He further states that if all of the government positions were taken from the Negro we would find 90 per cent of the people would have to seek the most menial positions in life. He advised that, along with their education, we should give the children some commercial knowledge. Other addresses were made as follows: Mr. R. L. Pendleton, "The Value of Public Credit"; Mr. R. L. Ware, "Boot and Shoe Merchant"; Mrs. Hattie Gibbs Marshall, of the Conservatory of music, "Cause and Foundation of the Existing Conditions." Dr. R. U. Brown read a fine paper on "The Success of the National Benefit Association. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton spoke on the subject of the proposed department store, and of the work Mr. B. T. Montgomery, of the Good Work League, is doing in the District. Music was furnished by the Plymouth C. Church, Miss Edna Gordon directress. The lateness of the hour prevented a good many others from speaking. MAKING GOOD In the Shoe Business—How One Man Is Helping to Solve the Industrial Problem of the Race. One of the most attractive business places conducted by a member of the colored race is the well-equipped shoe store at the corner of U and Eleventh Streets Northwest. The artistically dressed windows, with their array of beautiful, stylish, high-class footwear, lures many a pass-erbly to feast his eyes upon their tempting display, who is unaware of the fact that the evidently wideawake proprietor is a young colored man. But a visit to the store will reveal to the person interested in the welfare of the race the gratifying fact that here among us a quiet, unassuming man, without the boosting of the press or the assistance of cooperative organizations, without public booming or fantastic advertising schemes, has established in modern, well stock, wisely managed shoe store that, after but six months of existence, is on a paying basis, with a prospect of developing into a splendid business. The proprietor, Mr. Richard T. Ware, is a native of Washington, educated in the public schools of the city and a young man whose career has been most exemplary, an illustration of the advantages of early training in sobriety of conduct, honesty and sincerity of heart, thrift and industry in the management of life and consideration and courtesy to all men at all times. To those who know this quiet, modest, well-mannered gentleman, news of his success in business will be no surprise, for he has always shown himself to be a level-headed, shrewd man of affairs as well as a citizen actively concerned in movements designed to materially benefit the race. He is vice president of the Business Men's League and a valued and helpful member of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church. Mr Ware is among the thinkers of the race who believe that its future progress must be based upon its commercial and industrial development. He has shared the shame of us who see utter economic dependence of the colored American upon his white brother, and the moral and social deterioration of our young people through lack of varied industries in which they might find employment. Accordingly, this store is the outcome of his determination to invest a part of his capital, the result of years of careful saving and wise investment in real estate, in some business which might eventually help to answer the question, "Where shall we find employment for our graduates of business and trade schools?" Mr. Ware has as head clerk and saleswoman in his store Miss Elmira Green, whose affability, knowledge of the business and interest in the success of the enterprise contributes not a little to the growing popularity of the store. One of the methods by which Mr. Ware hopes to interest the public in his business and at the same time cultivate thrift and an appreciation of the value of money among our people is the establishment of Ware's Easy-Method Shoe Club, by which members can apply small sums saved from time to time to the purchase of shoes. The well nown /business' integrity, love of air dealing, and absolute personal reliability of the man behind the scheme has induced many to take advantage of this novel method of buying. The 60,000 colored people of Washington, spend annually, at the lowest estimate, over $300,000 for shoes alone. Think what even one-third of this sum, spent with colored merchants, would add to the well-being of the race! Instead of, as at present, increasing the income of white men who refuse to employ a single colored sales person, it would support a dozen first-class shoe stores which would give pleasant remunerative employment to about one hundred colored people. With these facts in mind we urge the colored people of the District to reverse the opinion of the whites. voiced in a recent number of The Survey, that a colored man can only succeed in business when at least 60 per cent of his patrons are white. Make this business and all others conducted by the race a SUCCESS, and prove that we do not deserve to be classed as "wards" of the white race. RIVAL CELEBRATION FAILS. Attempt. of Private Persons to Project Unofficial Celebration of Half Century of Freedom Fails Ignominiously—Official Commission Appointed by Governor Dunne Issues Letter Warning Public Not to Get the Commission Authorized by the Legislature Mixed With a Private Affair Which Advertises Tango and Lame Duck Dances. (Special to The Bee.) Chicago, D Last June the Legislature of the State of Illinois made an appropriation of $25,000 to provide for a suitable celebration of the "Half Century of Freedom" and Governor Dunne was authorized to appoint a Commission to arrange for the holding of a celebration and exposition. The Commission appointed by the Governor of Illinois consists of: Rt. Rev. Samuel Fellows, D. D., President. Mrs. Susan Lawrence Joergen-Dahl, Vice President. Maj. George W. Ford, Treasurer Rev. A. J. Carey, A. M. D. D., Ph. D., Pastor Institutional Church. Hon. John Dailey, member of the Legislature. Hon. R. R. Jackson, member of the Legislature. Hon. W. Duff Piercy, member of the Legislature. Hon. Medill McCormick, Member of the Legislature. Beauregard F: Moseley, a Chicago lawyer, attended to move heaven and earth to be appointed a member of the Commission and because Governor Dunne did not see fit to make the appointment. Mr. Moseley became very indignant and organized a rival association. It was the intention of the promoters to provide money necessary for the move by giving entertainments and soliciting from the public. Mone been provided by appropriatie the official celebration, and of the rival scheme was bound to and it came down with a dull The promoters advertised the project would be launched TI giving night with a grand ball Seventh Regiment Armory. The announcements stated that there would be 100 tango, lame duck and Brazilian dancers. There were to be speeches by some of the most prominent people in the political and social uplift world. The leaders of Caucasian Chicago society resplendant with diamonds were to loll in the boxes while a long string of patrons and patronesses and other in Afro-American high society were to go through the intricacies of the grand march. Only one of the persons advertised to appear came to the hall and he did not remain long. There were not more than one hundred people in the immense hall, including the committees and the band. At 11 o'clock the Eighth Regiment Band packed its instruments and were demanding its pay when the janitor put out the lights. Sons of Veterans A Committee of Frederick Douglass Post, No. 21, Dept of the Postomac, G. A. R., consisting of Comrades Edward G. Brooks, Alexander Oglesby, Thos. J. Jones, James W. Butcher, Beni F. Davis, C. A. Fleetwood, and Charles R. Douglass, ex-officio, have issued a strong call for a meeting of all sons of the colored veterans, of the army and navy, of the late war of the rebellion, to meet at their post room at the Grand Army Hall, 1412 Pennsylvania avenue, on Monday evening next, Dec. 8th inst., at 8 P. M. sharp, to discuss ways and means of establishing a first-class live and wide-awake camp of Sons of Veterans. Attention is called to the fact that the old soldiers themselves are rapidly passing away, and in a few years now the last one will have passed from earth, and that if their sons have any love and respect for the fathers to whom they owe their very existence they should come and band themselves together to keep green the memory of their glorious deeds and sacrifices for patriotism. Every old soldier and sailor and every son of either is urged to do their best to get every son in the District to be present. What the People Would Like to See. A local man for the schools. The colored assistant of schools control the colored schools. Dr. C. W. Childs supported in his good work. Dr. Charles H. Marshall continues to advocate a local man for the schools. John F. Costello United States Marshal. Nelson E. Weatherless promoted to a higher position: M. T. Clinkscales given a chance. The Ricks foundation a success and supported. Jesse Foster the greatest dyer in the city. Electric lights on the You Street boulevard. The Citizens' barber shop congratulated on its new acquisition. The Week Jir 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. The Ministerial Alliance of Washington elected in their regular monthly meeting last Monday the following officers to serve one year: Rev. W. C. Thompson, secretary; Rev. Austin Randall, assistant secretary; Rev. M. F. Sydes, reporter, and Rev. L. M. Beckett, treasurer. Executive committee: Revs. A. C. Garner, F. J. Grimke, J. C. Scott, I. N. Ross, W. S. Jackson, E. E. Ricks, D. E. Wiseman, O. L. Mitchell and W. C. Brown. The Abyssinian Trio, of Detroit, left Saturday for this city. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Beverly, of 1326 Wallach Place Northwest, left Wednesday evening to visit their parents in Houston, Texas. They will also visit relatives and friends in Chicago, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo., before returning home, about January 1. A large delegation of alumni of Howard and Lincoln Universities, together with many friends, left Atlantic City and Philadelphia Wednesday night for the game Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Joseph H. B. Evans, son of Dr. W. Brute Evans, is seriously ill in St. Louis, where he has been teaching this year. Mme. Anita Patti Brown, the well known prima donna, has arrived in Kingston, Jamaica. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, of Chicago, Ill., formerly surgeon-in-chief of Freedmens Hospital, in this city, and founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, has recently been made a fel- American College of Sur- is the only Afro-Ameri- itaff of the new $1,000,000 Hospital. nce Brooks, of Philadel- lent several days in this k. n.E. Slowe, of Philadel- vill ill in this city. nce G. Jackson, of Geor- spent Thanksgiving in Whittman, Md., as the guest of Rev. and Mrs A. F. Ennels, Miss Jackson taught school at Whittman last year and was very popular with the parents and patrons as well as the pnils. Mrs. Josephine Young and son, George, of 1309 Stiles Street, Philadelphia, Pa., spent Thanksgiving in this city. Mrs. Mary White, of Lombard Street, Philadelphia, Pa., the chief cashier of the People's Saving Bank, spent Thanksgiving in this city. Miss Mary Williamson has returned to the city after spending several days in Philadelphia, Pa., with friends. Mr. Walter Coleman, of this city, spent several days in Philadelphia, Pa., last week. Buy drugs and medicines at Board's, 10124 14th St. N. W. Mrs. Julia Perry, of 605 Lanvale Street, made a flying trip to Orange, Va., to bring little Miss Edna Thomas back to Baltimore with her. On her return trip Mrs. Perry paid a visit to Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Singleton, of this city. Miss Maud Ridley, of Media, Pa., is visiting her cousin, Miss Valerie E. P. Chase, of 778 Harvard Street Northwest. Dr. Henry L. Gowens, of Philadelphia, made a flying trip to this city Sunday to visit his father. Miss Lottie Gee, of the sister team of King and Gee, was married recently to Mr. William H. Kyer, musical director of the Auditorium Theater, in Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. C. Alexander Wright, of this city, is visiting in Charlotte, N. C. Miss Harriet Wheaten, of West Chester, Pa., and Miss Maud Lane of Baltimore, Md., were the guests of Miss Parnell, of 2003 Thirteenth Street, N. W., for Thanksgiving holiday. They returned home after a pleasant stay of five days. Miss Parnell wishes to thank her friends who made it so pleasant for them. Dr. Wright, of this city, was a very distinguished visitor in Charlotte, N. C., last week. Mrs. Joshua A. Harmon, of Aberdeen, Miss., is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Ryce, at 2254 Twelfth Street Northwest. Mrs. E. A Duffield Wedlake, arrived in the city two weeks ago and is停着 at the Conservatory of Music, 002 T Street Northwest. "High Brown" Face Powder and toilet articles are now all the rage. Buy the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 10125 14th St. N. W The successor to Mr. W. H. Harris has been decided on by the Supreme Court. She is a woman of remarkable ability. Miss Annie Louise Lucus is developing into a first-class writer. Register C. L. Canier will be in the city shortly. Mr. John H. Berry, of the Law Class of 1913, of Howard University, who has been spending his time in Boston, Mass., since graduation, will arrive in this city next week to take the local bar examination which will be held December 18, 19 and 20. Mr. Matthew W. Buffick, attorney-at-law of Atlanta, Ga., who was a famous end on the football team, at Dartmouth College several years ago and later the head coach of Massachusetts Agricultural College, was in the city on Thanksgiving Day to officiate at the Lincoln-Howard game. While here he was the guest of Mr. Chas. P. Ford, of 1904 Third Street Northwest. The fund pledged for the erection of the Rescue Home for Colored Girls was materially increased last Sunday night at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. Rev. J. E. Willis, the pastor, headed the list of donors and his officers and members pledged liberally. Rev. Randolph, of Mt. Moriah Church, was kind enough to allow Mrs. Ricks to solicit subscribers to the building fund, at his morning service. Many pledged to raise different amounts by the first week in February, when all the money pledged will be turned over to the treasurer, Mrs. B; K. Bruce, at a public meeting. Rev. Ross, of Metropolitan Methodist Church, has consented to allow Mrs. Ricks or a representative of her cause to bring the work before his congregation on the second Sunday morning of this month. WEST WASHINGTON. The parsonage committee of Mt. Zion M. E. Church gave a very successful oyster supper at the church on Wednesday evening. The Heliotrope Circle met on Tuesday evening at the residence of Mrs Alice Carroll, 1513 Twenty-sixth street Northwest, and after the regular meeting a very interesting musical and literary program was introduced after which refreshments were served Among those present were Mrs. Anna Boyd, Mrs. Alice Harris, Mrs. Maggie Thomas, Mrs. Lavina Palmer, Mrs Hermon Morgan, Mrs. R. Foster, Mrs. Lillie G. Williams and Mrs. Alice Carroll. Mrs. H. Morgan, the hostess of the evening, made it very pleasant for the guests in attendance. Crispus Attucks Relief Association Annual Election of Officers. Annual Election of Officers. The Cripps Attucks Relief Association, one of the most prominent fraternal associations of this city, at their annual meeting on Monday evening elected the following officers for the year: Joseph Manning, president; Jas. L. Turner, first vice-president; Wm. E. L. Sanford, second vice-president; Wm. Stephen Fuller, third vice president; Jas. C. Buolls, recording secretary; Jas. A. Payne, financial secretary; Wm. L. D. Wilkinson, assistant financial secretary; Edward W. Turner, treasurer; Alex. F. Trimble, sergeant-at-arms; Hilward L. Lee, assistant; Horace E. Barnett. Board of Directors—Dr. Henry L. Bailey, chairman; Geo. L. Walton, secretary; W J. Singleton, B. W. Smith, John C. Dancy, L. M. Hershaw, Richard N. Nugent, Baldwin R. Sydnor. FAIRMCUNT HEIGHTS. Prof. J. Thomas Williams, A. B. and Mr. James F. Armstrong, L.L. B. visited the Fairmount Heights school Wednesday, November 26. They found Miss N. J. Wilks and her assistant teachers doing good work. Mr. Williams is the supervisor of the colored schools of Prince George's County, Md., and Mr. Armstrong is the chairman of the local board of district school trustees. They left in the afternoon to visit the Brentwood school. The National Benefit Association celebrated its fifteenth anniversary at its Home Office, 600 F Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., November 26. Many professional and business men and women of that city spoke. After the speaking the guests were invited down stairs where they partook of a very fine dinner. A number of the citizens met at the Public Hall Friday, November 28, for the purpose of discussing ways and means of organizing a local branch of the National Benefit Association. The meeting was called to order by Rev. W. W. McCary, of the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the executive committee of the local branch in Washington, D. C. Mr. M. Charity donated the use of the hall. Mr. A. D. Washington, L.L. B., member of the Washington, D. C., bar, was elected president. He appointed a committee to report plans for permanent organization. anniversary of the ded- Fairmunt Heights M egan Monday night, De- Former pastor Wm. H. whose administration the was erected, preached a very cive and forceful sermon. Many ters and friends greeted him. services will end Sunday Dece- 7, with an all day meeting. West Alexander Hamilton, of city was married in New York ty Wednesday, November 26th, to ss Marcelitte Camilla Newton, of at city. They will reside at 413 T treet Northwest. Mr. Joseph Boston, of Baltimore, was in the city Thanksgiving Day. lawyer J. T. Sanders, of Charlotte, C. is making a ten-day visit in this city. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. A reception was given on Friday night, 22d inst., at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taylor, complimentary to those assisted in the "Old Folks' Concert," given at the close of the church fair recently conducted by the Mothers' Progressive Council of the Second Baptist Church for the benefit of said church. It was a grand social affair for this village. The husbands of "The Mothers" were especially invited, and the Falls Church Quartette was also included in the compliment. Mrs. Susie Campbell, the president of "The Mothers," deserves great credit for her earnest work. On Sunday night, the 16th inst., this very helpful part of the church gave to the church, through its trustee and deacon boards, the neat sum of $50. Among those present at the reception from Galloway Chapel M. E. Church may be mentioned Rev. Barnett, Mrs. Susie Allen, Mr. and Chas. L. Sumnerall, Mr. ar Malvin, Tinner and Mrs Ford. The council is good in gathering the y of the community for struction in the ways Mr. Amos H. Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Frap sick at his paren' he will soon re The publ Thanksgiving exercises. pupils er Mr. r have r ter a in wit. Mrs. spent last week H. Merriwe. Northwest. Mrs. Alice Willin guest of Mrs. Ida Th. Mrs. Hattie J. Lee. ton. D. C. was a Sunu. Mf. and Mrs. Douglass N West End. Mr. C. D. Scott is again a, with her mother after a few visit to her home in the southern , tion of the State. HALLS HILL, VA. Tuesday evening, Nov. 25, there was a beautiful drama given at Calloway's M. E. Church by a dramatic club of West Washington, Mrs. W. C. Thompson, directress. The play was classical in every way, and rendered with much propriety, and it was enjoyable in every way. The proceeds was for the benefit of the church. Sunday morning there was a fair attendance at Sunday School. The session was conducted with care. Mr. O. E. Felder taught the Bible class in a very scolarly manner. The Rev D. B. Brown, of Washington, being scheduled to preach here at 11 o'clock came in time for Sunday School and made the lesson application with precision and zeal, after which we were favored by this same divine with a very excellent sermon, who used for his text "If God be for us who can be against us." Romans S, 31 Rev C. E. Queene, pastor, not present, being compelled to fill his engagement at Laugley, however, was on hand to see his congregation at the night service. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague, of Floris, Herndon. Va., is visiting friends in this section, and at present is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hyson. She is a great favorite in the family and an only aunt of Mrs. Hyson. Much significance is attached to her visit. The Sunday School here has in hand their Christmas exercises, and are preparing for a grand affair. The Silver Club of Halls Hill will give a concert, Thursday, December 11 at Galloway M. E. Church, Falls Church, Va., and a very elaborate program is being put in readiness. We look for a full house. The entertainment is classical in every way. Proceeds for the church there. Mt. Salvation Baptist Church is in a prosperous condition under the masterate of their very worthy leader, Rev C. H. Coleman. We are glad to note that Mrs. Sarah Morgan is at home again after undergoing a very painful operation at the Freedman's Hospital. Mr. Wm. Hungerford is slowly improving under the treatment of our resident physician and surgeon, Dr. E. T. Morten. All of our sick are improving. The Testimonial (Continued from page 1.) me. It will mark an enoch in life, from which I gained renewed courage, to strive until the goal is reached. I can not close my remarks without thanking Mt. Calvin W Chase, for the success he has made of this testimonial. And, when the sun of life gently sinks into the purple twilight. I shall look back upon this night; as one of the happiest in my journey through life. I thank you. At the conclusion of the performance in which Mr. S. W. Dudley was the star, the Loving Cup was inspected by hundreds of the audience, who locked to the private office door of Mr. Thomas and took a look at his gift from the citizens of Washington. The following letter and Subscribers was presented to Mr. Thomas with the Loving Cup: A LOVING CUP. Full List of Subscribers. Washington, D. C., Dece 1, 1913. To Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, Lessee and Manager of the Howard Theater. Dear Sir: Your fellow citizens of the District of Columbia, appreciating your efforts to give them a theater and amusements which they have enjoyed and also recognizing the hardship under which you have gone to make your enterprise a success, we present to you this Loving Cup as a small token of their esteem and appreciation and sincerely hope that you may reach the diadem of your ambition. Yours sincerely, Nelson E. Weatherless, 2206 Georgia Ave. N. W. Miles C. Maxfield, 1220 First St. N. W. L. M. Hershaw, 1460 T. St. S. W. Moria Saunders, O St. Vocational School. Harry L. Tignor, 541 Florida Ave. N. W. Miss Eva A. Chase, 1109 Eye St. N. W Charles H. Marshall, Maryland, 2710 P St. N. W. W. C. Martin, 503 D St. N. W. J. A. White, 216 Ninth St. N. W. J. T. C. Newcom, 1015 New York Ave. N. W. Thomas L. Jones, 1901 Vermont Ave. N. W. James A. Cobb, 609 F St. N. W. Jabez Lee, 609 F St. N. W. Roscoe C. Bruce, 1327 Columbia Road. L. M. King, 1111 You St. N. W Thomas Beckett, 1837 Fourth St. N. W. C. S. Williams, 1623 Corcoran St. W. M. Ricks, 411 Sixth St. N. W. F. Bundy, 411 O St. N. W. 'ughes, 609 F St. N. W. skins, 504 E St. N. W. &' Bros., Nineteenth and L. W. W. Gray, 609 F St. N. W charles S. Hill, 609 F St. N. W James W. Gray, 1313 E St. N. W James C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn. O. D. Morris, 1015 Eleventh St. N. W. W. A. Adams, 1111 You St. N. W. J. C. Bruce, 1909 Second St. N. W. S. M. Dudley, 1316 S St. N. W. Samuel Middleton, 400 B St. S. E. Perri W. Frihy, 503 D St. N. W. C. W. Childs, Maryland 1911, L St. Arles A. Tlomas, 1018 Third St. as Brown, 69 N St. N. W. T. Brooks, 412 T St. N. W Blake, 505 S St. N. W. de, 1216 Pennsylvania I. M. D., 1901 Elev- Johnson, Recorder D., 1512 S. St. Seventh St. Eye St. N. W 99 Eye St. N. W. J. Lo 11105 You St. N. W. John R. 1s, Jr., Ninth and S Sts N. W. O. E. Granderson. Falls Church. Va. Daniel Freeman. 1833 Fourteenth St. N. W. Miss G. B. Maxfield, 1220 First Street Northwest. Charles L. Barnes, 1022 You Street Northwest. ELKS AND PYTHIANS With Their Own Band They Honored Mr. Thomas. The Elks of the World and Pythians paid a handsome tribute to Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, last Friday night, when 100 accompanied by their band marched from their headquarters to the Howard Theater and occupied reserved seats, thus showing their appreciation and esteem to a man who is catering to the comforts and pleasures of the people. The address of Attorney Armond W. Scott, the legal representative of the Elks, was one that will be long remembered. Attorney Scott is always ready to speak at any time, and on any subject. His little son Armond W. Scott, Jr., who is never happy unless he is by his father's side. On this occasion this little fellow hung on his father's legs while he was delivering his famous speech, representing the Elks. General Clay Smith, one of the most distinguished men in the city, and who commands attention wherever he goes, was the next speaker. He too said that his organization as well as the people would support the Howard Theater and show Mr. Thomas that the people appreciate his efforts. Attorney John E. Collins, who is an interesting and logical talker, made a most timely address. He stood like a statesman, while the words flowed eloquently from his mouth. The Cup. The cup was made and the insertions placed thereon by Mr. E Voight, the well known jeweler and manufacturer. The Editor of The Bee and several others will accompany Attorney A.W. Scott to Baltimore, Md., tomorrow afternoon. After his speech a reception will be given him and 100 specially invited friends. ALLEN C. E. NOTES. The Allen Christian Endeavor Society held an unusually interesting session Sunday evening. November 16, at 6 o'clock, at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Although the weather was bad, the lecture room Devotional exercises were conducted by the chairman of the prayer meeting, Mr. Andrew J. Williams, Jr. Following the illustrated lecture, "A Drunkard's Career" was given by Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Rev. Brooks began by emphasizing domestic happiness as the greatest of earthly happiness. Soon the father or husband is led into the temptations of this world and oh! what a great sorrow comes to loving hearts by the introduction of the first of these evils. The rum shop is substituted for the home, and the man no longer a sane being, loses his reason by the use of rum. He gave several concrete examples of his personal knowledge and one in particular of a man in good standing in the community allowing degradation to so control him as to break his poor wife's heart and to send his children to the orphan asylum. Then he said: "When men are all down and out, money gone, then friends are gone. No one hates to see them worse than the rum seller—that is his gratitude." The individual has reached the point where he must have money with which to buy liquor, and now he will steal and even commit murder. Very soon he is so affected that he sees all kinds of things—a horrible life he leads—when mania potu gets control of him. No more has he one moment's peace on earth and he is only relieved of this awful misery by death. Forsaken—an outcast—he is left alone to die. So pathetic was the lecturer that there was scarcely a person who was not moved to tears. The views were impressive and Dr Brooks added to that a most earnest appeal that young men would be wise never to begin and that young women should not tempt the young men by offering the first glass. After the various slides were explained, these hymns bearing on the topics were sung by the congregation: "Almost Persuaded," "Rescue the Perishing," "Yield Not to Temptation" and "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." The slides of "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now," were next shown, while Miss Christine Garter feeling rendered this old but beautiful temperance poem. Following, Mr. Dewett Wilson sang as the slides were shown the "Wandering Boy." Washington, D. C., Nov. 25. The Allen Christian Endeavor Society met at Metropolitan 'A. M. E. Church last Sunday evening, November 23, at 6 oclock, and held a very interesting and enjoyable Thanksgiving service. The leader for the meeting was Mr. Webster Elkins, and the mistress of ceremonies, Miss Alberta Williams. The following well prepared program was rendered: Song, "Come Ye Thankful People, Come," Hymnal. Prayer, "Past Mercies," Miss Rebecca Thompson. Prayer, "Present Mercies," Mrs. I. N. Ross. Prayer, "Future Mercies," Mrs. A. J. Williams. Grace to make use of God's gifts. Scriptural Lesson. Ps. 100 1-5. Mr. Slade. Solo, Mi's Laura Lucas. Psalm 23, by the congr Address, Mr. M. J. Key. Male quartette, "The Sanctuary," Messrs. Brooks, Elkins, Yates and Amos. Piano solo, "The Last Hope" (Gottschalk). Miss Florence Brooks. Solo, "Love, Love, Love My Soul." Solo, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" (Morsell), Mr. Stanley Brooks. (Morsell). Mr. Stanley Brooks. Song, "Faith Is the Victory," Hymnal. Male quartette, "Come Unto Me," Lansing. Piano solo, "I'm Troubled in Mind" (Coleridge Taylor). Mrs. E. Welch Amos. Male quartette, "God Is Our Refuge." General participation, "One Thing for Which I Am Thankful," led by the President. Piano solo, "Steal Away" (Coleridge Taylor). Mrs. E. Welch Amos. Next Sunday the topic for the evening will be, "Our Church at Work for Our Country." A special program has been prepared and a cordial invitation is extended to one and all to be present and participate in the exercises for that occasion. Miss Belle Smith gave a temperance recitation, after which these exercises closed with "Bringing in the Sheaves." After a welcome to all who were present and the regular announcements by the president, Miss Anna S. Payne, the meeting closed with singing the "Mizpah." Too much cannot be said of Mrs. A. M Lucas, chairman of the Temperance Committee, for such an excellent program. LYNCHBURG, VA., NOTES. During the week of November 10-15 the reporter visited. Lynchburg. The progress of the race in this little city of hills is remarkable. The culture and refinement for which the city is noted seems to be in full bloom. One of the most striking features of the trip was the visit to the Virginia Theological Seminary and College. This flourishing institution is a perfect example of what the colored Baptists of Virginia are doing for themselves. There are about four hundred students in attendance at the school and under the leadership of Dr. R. C. Woods' and a corps of competent teachers, the work is in excellent condition. Much improvement has been made in the school recently and a lovely new dormitory for the girls is in process of construction. That part of the city in which the college is situated is steadily growing. Among the recent additions to the "Hill" may be mentioned the homes of Professor S. H Clark and Professor R. C. Scott. These two magnificent residences are really a crowning beauty to Bedford Avenue. We also found among the select circle on the Hill Prof. Samuel Deer, a graduate of the Washington High School, and also of Boudoin College. Prof. Dreer is on the faculty at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College and is making himself a place in the hearts of the people. Among the business people who are helping raise the financial standard, we will mention the shirt-factory conducted by the famous Ashburn Bros., the groceries of Mr. A. Humbles, Mrs. Wm. Chiggel and Mrs. Anderson. These worthy people are not keeping candy shops, but real up-to-date groceries. We look forward to this section of Lynchburg as becoming a famous section for the homes of prominent colored people. Being an alumnus of the school, we feel as though we tread on holy ground when we ascend the hill. The Methodist School, "Morgan College Annex, is also doing nicely. VIENNA, VA., NOTES. Quite an interesting revival has been in progress during the past three weeks at First Baptist Church here, conducted by Rev. Miner, of Washington, D. C. A small number have professed religion and much interest manifested by a large number of seekers. Rev. J. N. Beaman, pastor of Union Baptist Church, officiated Sunday, the fourth Sunday being one of the regular church days. Mrs. Sarah Monroe and her daughter, Miss Rose Monroe, spent three weeks visiting her son, W. P. Monroe, at Patterson, N. J., and her brother, M. M. Snowden; in New York. She reports a grand time. Public school is doing nicely, with a crowded school room daily. The pupils are looking forward to a pleasing Xmas exercise and are studying hard to make good marks so that "Ole Santy" will be pleased with them. The Odd Fellows' lodge here observed Thanksgiving with their usual annual banquet. Mrs. Daniel Burless spent Sunday with friends and relatives in the city. The house was packed to overflowing at the First Baptist Church on Sunday night. COLORED SUFFRAGIST. Madam Harriet A. Lee the Only Colored Female Suffragist Present. There is one woman in this country who has the respect and confidence of a white female constituency, and her name is Mrs. Harriet A. Lee, of Harrisburg, Pa., who was elected by a white constituency a national delegate. Mrs. Lee is the wife of Rev. I. S. Lee, one of the best known pastors in this country. Mrs. Lee was a Miss Duffield, also an intellectual woman of national reputation. Mrs. M. Cary Thomas, in recognizing an association of colored women that named an assistant for her, writes the following letter to M. November 13th, 1913. Mrs. Harriet A. Lee, 1112 Rebecca-Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Pa. My Dear Mrs. Lee: I was quite surprised, in running through a pile-of my mail, to find a letter from you stating that you had named a suffrage club for me. I want to thank you for the honor you and your association have con- fered upon me, and I shall be very happy to have my name associated with a club of colored women. If there are women in the world who should organize and who should have the help which suffrage can give, it is the colored women. You certainly have everything against you in the world of service, not only your race but your sex, and those of us who have sex against us have quite enough to overcome, so we can sympathize with you who have the additional prejudice of people against your color. I am looking forward to the time when men and women will be recognized for their value and not for their race, and when a deed that is done, or a task that is performed, shall be acknowledged because of its service to the world rather than by the sex of the person who does it. Fountain Peyton, Esq. Mr. Fountain Peyton, one of the leading members of the bar. The Bee has been informed, will receive an appointment, and very shortly, from the President. Mr. Peyton is popular among the white and colored members of the bar. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. Why do we buy such immense quantities? Well, there's a fine chance to sell and make a profit, and so it goes. When we talk of slightly used overcoats at $3 to $10 they are here and worth the cash. Same applies to new pants, $1.50 to $3, and they are selling, and that's the main thing. One price. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D. 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, weighed slightly more than 1,600 grams. This is about 300 grams heavier than the brain of an average man. The Katsura brain weighed 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 M. 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: Turgeneff, Russian novelist, seventy-one ounces. Dr. Abercromble, Scotch physician, sixty-three ounces. 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. Imbeciles' 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 boarded. 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 or 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 ballist's 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 Matthew. 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." 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, 1,112,908,828; Brooklyn, 521,233,913; Bronx, 74,711,453; Queens, 47,467,014; Richmond, 13,578,068. 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. Davenport, Ia.—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 bridesmaid, 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. Rat Short Circuits Current. Argos, Ind.—The charred body of a rat explained the reason for the sudden going 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 1. 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. STUDENTS BURN HISTORIES. Indignant Georgians Destroy Copies as Band Plays "Dixie." Waleska, Ga.—With the band playing "Dixie" the students Reinhardt college, numbering nearly 400, gathered on the campus and made a bonfire of every copy of a history of the United States which had been prescribed in the curriculum. The book was prepared by a northern historian, and the students allege that the writer is unfair to the south and unduly partial to the north, especially in dealing with the civil war. In the history Harriet Beecher Stowe is praised and Jefferson Davis is declared to have been a man of small mental caliber and also a traitor. The character of some of the leading southern generals also is attacked. It is alleged that there are even insinuations against General Robert E. Lee. Reinhardt college is under the auspices of the Southern Methodist church. It is coeducational and is the largest educational institution in north Georgia. STRUNG UP TWENTY DAYS. Prison Warden Uses Harsh Means to Stop Drug Smuggling. Jefferson City/Mo.-Stone Willie, the St. Louis convict who underwent punishment "strung up" in the "rings" at the state penitentiary for twenty days for refusing to tell the source of whisky found in his possession, told Warden D. C. McChung before the hour when he was again to be strung up that he got the whisky from a Jackson county negro named Wright, who is serving seven years for robbery. Wright, who was a trusty, was sent to the punishment cells and strung up in the "rings" to compel him to tell where he obtained the liquor. Willie was permitted to go back to his own cell. During the past few months a large amount of heroin has been brought into the penitentiary, and Warden McClung believes a plant for smuggling drugs has been established. Inspector Faurot Perfects Great Weapon For Detectives. New York. Under the direction of Inspector Joseph A. Faurot, chief of New York city's detective bureau, the finger print system of identifying criminals has been almost perfected, and in this manner identification of criminals becomes a simple matter when J. House & Herrmann of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house that will satisfy you. Finger prints are divided into four classes, known as "loops," "arches," "swoles" and "composites." It takes an expert but an instant to classify the prints. These are all kept on file at police headquarters in large cities, and immediately after some crime is committed the detectives try to obtain the finger prints of the criminal. These are taken to the headquarters for comparison. Along with the prints there are kept descriptions of the criminals and in many instances photographs. Thus, once the print is obtained, identification becomes a simple matter if the record is on file. To bring out the prints and make the lines clear certain chemicals are used. The faltenst marks can be made to show clearly upon any object. This system was inaugurated by Inspector Faout, and he has developed it so that it is now considered one of the best weapons in the hands of the detectives. DANCING TANGO, LOSES EYE. Man Has Sight Destroyed by Quill In Hat of His Partner. Asheville, N. C.-For the pleasure of dancing the tango Brent Laitimer of Greenville, S. C., paid the price of one eye, the sight being destroyed by a quill in the hat of the young woman with whom he was dancing. In making a turn the quill swept in behind his glasses, cutting the ball of the eye. Physicians announced that the sight of his right eye is destroyed. Limit For Women and Girls Under New Pennsylvania Law. Harrisburg, Pa.—Pennsylvania's new woman's employment law is now in effect. The limit of hours of labor for women and girls is fifty-four a week, except in the home and on the farm. The new law prohibits the employment of women or girls for more than six consecutive days and not more than ten hours in any one day. Forty-five minutes must be allowed for the midday meal and a rest period of the same length after continuous employment for six hours. Night employment is limited to telephone operators over eighteen and to managers, superintendents, clerks and stenographers. The department of labor and industry, Commissioner Jackson says, will be reasonable and work to bring about the conditions required by the statute without entailing unnecessary hardship. The law will cause many changes in industrial and mercantile establishments. Its applicability to theatrical people will be worked out after advice from the attorney general's department. CLUBHOUSE FOR SERVANTS. Mistresses Provide a Place For Them to Receive Their "Steadies." 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Lowest Prices Best Work TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING Electric Power Presses Linotype Composition Specialty made of Constitutions and Pamphlets BUSINESS OFFICE and PLANT, 1109 EYE STREET. N. W. PHONE MAIN 4078 Upham Office Phone North 2042-y Member of Expedition Tells of Fight With. Flies. NO WORD FROM THE LEADER Karluk, Bearing Discoverer, Beyond Telegraphic Communication — Fears For Safety of Party Entertained by Scientists—Thrilling Story of Hardships in the Far North. Seattle, Wash.—John Munro, with the Stefansson exploration party, in a letter just received here, describes the voyage of the Karluk from Port Clarence until the party became icebound for the first time forty miles from Point-Barrow, the extreme northern edge of Alaska. The letter is dated Point Barrow, Aug. 15. The Karluk now is beyond telegraphic communication. The ship had to wait at Port Clarence twelve days for Photo by American Press Association. VILHJALMUU STEPANSSON. he arrival of the gasoline, schooner Sachs, which carried Stefansson, and the Alaska, another schooner, aptain Bartlett, who was anxious to ress on, waited till the Sachs caught p to her, took off one of the party nd set off at full speed. After that day, July 29, the two ships parted company, and when Mr. Munro wrote nothing had been seen of the Sachs. The following day some very bad weather was struck, so severe that in thirty-six hours the Karluk logged eighteen miles. Some of the time, although she was steaming at full speed, the wind and sea were driving her backward. When, the weather moderated a little Captain Bartlett reached the land, and on the evening of July 30. Point Hope was reached. On Aug. 10 the Karluk left Point Hope and with a fair wind made good time until the evening when ice was sighted between ice cape and Cape Belcher. The vessel steamed alongside the ice to the latter point, but found it impossible to get through. She steamed alongside the ice all night, and next morning, Aug. 2, turned and, seeing an opening, made a dash for it. "Unfortunately," writes Mr. Munro. "the ice closed in on us about forty miles from Point Barrow after us fighting our way that far." On Aug. 3, upon finding that there were no signs of getting out at all, Stefausson decided to walk to Point Barrow, accompanied by Dr. McKay. The day Mr. Munro wrote his letter, Aug. 5, the Karluk was still held in the grip of the ice. The temperature then was 31 degrees below zero, with a strong wind blowing off shore. Finally the Karlkul reached Point Barrow and then proceeded, being reported off Flaxman island on Aug. 14. Fears may be held in certain circles for the safety of the party, but the ship is now beyond telegraphic communication, and mails arrive very slowly. If the Karlkul had been jammed to pieces in the ice some of the members of the party probably would have been saved, marine men point out, and had she foundered the Mary Sachs would doubtless have reported the news before this. NEEDLE IN STOMACH. X Ray Shows Presence, but Girl Can't Remember Swallowing It. Baltimore. - With a large needle lodged in her stomach Miss Fannie Rubin, a salesgirl, lies at St. Joseph's hospital in a serious condition. She was taken there suffering intense pain and unable to retain food. The girl has no recollection of having swallowed the needle. As she grew weaker and the palms became keener the X ray was resorted to. This showed a large needle lodged diagonally. Surgeons are powerless to relieve her except to deaden the pain with oplates. Abba Annulment of Marriage to Man Who Went Insane San Francisco.—A tragic final chapter has been written to the romantic elopement of Jack Breckenridge and Miss Adelalde Murphy, which stirred social circles in many cities ten years ago. Mrs. Breckenridge has instituted proceedings of annulment of marriage because of the incurable insanity of her husband. Jack Breckenridge, scion of noted California families, is watched by keepers in Paris. His wife, after arranging with her attorney here for the filing of annulment proceedings, left several days ago for Philadelphia. The marriage of Breckenridge to "Sallie" Murphy, as she was known by her friends, took the relatives and acquaintances of the couple by surprise. On the honeymoon trip to Paris the blight of liberty touched the mind of the young husband and all the efforts of the best physicists in Europe failed to cure him. For ten years he has remained there. Mrs. Breckenridge recently brought the young son of the marriage, John Breckenridge, Jr., to San Francisco to be with his grandmother, and with her concurrence, the annulment proceedings are now under way here and In Paris. PENSIONED AFTER 23 YEARS. Poor Man Awarded $30 a Month and Receives $3,000 Back Pay. Atchison, Kan.-Frank Ferris, seventy-nine years old, who served during the civil war in the Third regiment, Missouri infantry, applied for a pension in 1890, but because he could not produce his discharge papers his application was denied. The adjutant general of Missouri recently in going through the records kept in that office discovered the dates of both the mustering in and discharge of Ferris. Ferris has received notification from Washington that the pension will be allowed. He will receive $30 a month and back pay for twenty-three years at the rate of $12 a month, or more than $3,000 in all. Ferris is a carpenter and a poor PARROT CALLS ROLL IN SCHOOLROOM PARROT CALLS ROLL IN SCHOOLROOM Pupils Always on Time to Hear "Professor Tom." Brenham, Tex.-Miss Dotothy Booker, a schoolmistress of twenty years, has solved the problem of having pupils in the rural districts attend school on time for the morning roll call. Miss Booker has trained a pet parrot to call the roll. Professor Tom, as he has been called since he began his duties, is an interesting bird to the pupils, and they all arrive on time to hear him call their names. There is not a pupil in the Independence school who could be made to believe that Professor Tom does not know them by sight as well as by name. Miss Booker when she accepted the school at Independence, near Brenham, a year ago was bothered by the pupils not arriving on time, especially during the rainy season. She immediately began to plan to overcome this, but was unsuccessful for a time. Some months ago a trained parrot was sent her by a friend who was touring South America. Fortunately the parrot had been owned by English speaking people. No sooner did the young schoolmistress see the bird than she evolved the idea of training it. At first she did not have much success, but diligent efforts brought the reward. When the process of training was first under way the bird was allowed to sit upon a perch in the schoolroom and listen to the teacher call the roll. He was allowed to do this for two weeks and at first always was removed from the room immediately after the roll call. Soon he was trying to call the roll with the teacher and in a short time was able to do so by himself, as he found his efforts were always rewarded with soda crackers. After the bird first had the roll memorized it would persist in answering the "present" or "absent" after the pupils, but was soon broken of this habit. Now he sits, dignified, on his perch and interrogates in his nasal tones. "Willie Jones?" or whatever the name might be and looks to see if the teacher marks the said young Jones "present" or "absent," according to the response of the pupil. 20 MILES ON RUNAWAY CAR Brakeman Keeps Lantern Swinging For Danger Warning. Medford, Ore.—Clinging to the roof of a runaway Southern Pacific freight car, J. F. Fowler, brakeman, dashed through the Medford yards at a seventy-five mile an hour gait at night, pluckily swinging his lantern to give what warning he could of his meteor-like approach. The car traveled twenty miles over the main line from Ashland to Gold Hill without accident, rounding several sharp curves and finally stopping on a long ascent. The operator at Ashland gave warning of its coming, and a freight train was side tracked barely in time to escape the car. Its first twelve miles were covered in eleven minutes. Daniels. Plans to 'Establish Tailoring Outfit at Charleson Yard. Washington. In line with his policy of utilizing navy stations and yards in the south, where large expenditures have been made for buildings. Secretary Daniels has decided to establish at the Charleston navy yard a manufacturing plant for the production of such parts of marine and naval militia uniforms that can be economically made there. The secretary has made a thorough investigation of the cost of making such articles on contract or in the open market and finds that the government can effect a large saving by doing the work itself.' Labor conditions and the proximity to southern cotton mills, promise more than ordinary economy in a plant at Charleston, and the money is available to install the machinery required. The plan accords with the secretary's determination to ask congress for as little money as possible for buildings at navy yards and shore stations. Mr. Daniels said that the new shops at Charleston would not curtail operations in the shops at New York or Philadelphia. SLOT MACHINES REMAIN. Can't Prevent Sale of Stamps at More Than Their Value. Washington—The postoffice department has no authority to discontinue the sale of postage stamps through slot machines maintained in hotel lobbles, drug stores, newsstands or other places of business. This was the decision reached by the postmaster general after receiving complaints against the sale of stamps in this manner. The machines sell four one-cent or two two-cent stamps for a nickel, making a profit to the merchant of a cent on each transaction. Many indignant citizens wrote to the postoffice department denouncing this as extortion. Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery said that while there is a law prohibiting the sale of stamps at more than their face value it applies only to postmasters and their employees, and the government has no jurisdiction over stamp vending machines located elsewhere than on post-office premises. Waterbury, Conn. — Physicians are puzzled over the case of John Lippke, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lippke, who at three years old smokes daily three cigars. The child, according to his parents, has been smoking since he was a year old, and all attempts to break him of the habit have failed. The physicians declare they have never heard of a parallel case. Consumption of more than 1,000 cigars a year is not his only accomplishment, for in addition this infant relishes a pipe and cigarettes. The boy's father is a machinist in one of the local factories and an inveterate smoker. About two years ago, according to Mrs. Lippke, her baby found a lighted cigar on a table and picked it up. He placed it between what few teeth he had and puffed vigorously, as he had seen his father do many times. His mother took the weed away from him, but the baby cried so hard that she finally gave it back to him. After that, according to the parents, the boy had to have his smoke every day, in addition to an occasional cigarette and a pull at a pipe. Even in the case of a boy fifteen years old, physicians declare, the habit would have a serious effect on his health, yet this child of three seems to thrive on the weed. CANARY BY PARCEL POST. Against Rules Woe Songster Taken Safely to Destination. Seattle. — Local postal employees were treated to a surprise recently at finding in the parcel post mail, marked "fragile," a canary. The tiny songster was sent from Mount Vernon by parcel post and special delivery for a resident of Capitol hill and gave no sign of not enjoying its imprisonment in Uncle Sam's mall until preparations were made for sending it on the last leg of its journey. Then it had the flutters so badly that the parcel post clerk was about ready to hurl himself through the window until he peered through the air holes of the container to find that he had a wee canary. Although the sending of live birds through the parcel post is not permitted, the canary was safely delivered to its new owner the next day. Birdshot Kills a Bear Owosso, Mich.-C. D. Bell and Calvin Bentley are back from Roscommon county with a 150 pound bear which they killed with bird shot. The men were hunting small game and came on the bear unexpectedly. Both opened fire as the bear charged. Bell retreated behind a tree, whereupon the bear turned his attention to Bentley. He was but a few feet away when one of the birdshot penetrated the bear's eye to the brain, and it dropped dead. BILL DESIGNED TO AID FARMERS GO-OPERATION IS NEEDED. Best Features of Credit System as Studied Abroad Will Be Utilized Here—Report of American Commission Which Investigated Conditions Will Soon Be Made Public. Washington. The report of the American commission in Europe, which went abroad to investigate agricultural conditions with a view to improving the status of the American farmer and reducing the cost of living to the American consumer, will soon be ready for the press. The committee appointed to prepare the report is here as work now. Senator F. M. Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, is very much interested in the information gathered by the commission in England, France, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary and other countries. He will study the questions of co-operative enterprises as they relate to the farmer and present to congress a bill that may help the producer get more for his crops and at the same time greatly reduce the cost of living. He would reduce the interest on money to farmers and extend the time to loans. "I am convinced that we must change our system of marketing farm products before we reduce the cost of living," said Senator Simmons. "I do O. not believe that there is any scarcity of eggs now, yet in some cities the consumer is paying 75 cents a dozen for them. On my farm in North Carolina we put in eight acres of Irish potatoes last spring. We got just enough out of the potatoes grown to pay for the fertilizer used on them. We got nothing for the labor. We were told that the markets were glutted. The truth is those potatoes were bought by speculators, put in storage and are now being sold in small lots at fancy prices. The same sort of conditions as to eggs and potatoes are true in the case of other farm products. In one locality the market may be glutted, while in another it is short. "I shall study carefully the report of the American commission in Europe and try to formulate a bill that will remedy present conditions. Being a farmer myself—a truck farmer at that—I can speak for the producer." John Sprunt Hill of North Carolina and New York was a member of the American commission in Europe. He has seen and talked with a number of congressmen about the investigations made in Europe. "On our investigating tour in Europe we met the farmers on their farms and examined their co-operative enterprises and secured a tremendous volume of very valuable testimony. "If the farmers of America will practice co-operation they will sell their products for 25 per cent more than they get for them now by offering better stuff in better condition and in a direct instead of a roundabout way and at the same time reduce the cost of living to the average man. "Our farmers have not learned how to industrialize agriculture. They have not learned how to produce twenty-eight bushels of wheat upon one acre instead of two acres so that the other acre can be used for pasturing live stock: to produce a bale of cotton on one acre and thereby gain an acre or more for clover "The most of the talk about overproduction of farm products in this country is tommyrot. The best of everything will sell. The Irish farmers, we learned on our trip, have stopped talking politics and gone to capturing markets. In the face of worldwide competition they have captured the London market for Irish beef, Irish butter, Irish bacon and Irish eggs. At a hotel here I was served Irish bacon. "Our farmers must learn the value of organized community effort, of team work applied to the business of farming, credit co-operative production and co-operative marketing." ```markdown ``` L. C. SMITH & BROS. Typewriter The escapement of the L. C. Smith permits the carriage to get away from the last printing point so instantaneously that no speed of operation is too rapid. 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Hallie Steward, Plaintiff, vs. Edward Steward et al., Defendant.—No. 32,228, Equity Doc. 70. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the defendant, Edward Steward on the grounds of adultery with the co-defendant, Rosa Fitch. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 3rd day of December, 1913, ordered that the defendants, Edward Steward and Rosa Fitch, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and the Washington Bee before said day. A true copy—Test: J. R. Young, Clerk. By F. E. CUNNINGHAM, Assistant Clerk. NATIONAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION CELEBRATES FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY. Men and Women of Note Sing Its Praises—Thousands Have Confidence in It—Stands for Human Uplift. That the National Benefit Association of our city, an institution of business integrity, solid and sound purposes, is the richest, and at the same time, the standard Negro insurance company in this country, was demonstrated beyond cavil during the week of its recent national 15th anniversary celebration. This commemorative ceremonial commenced Sunday at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, where her pastor, Dr. I. N. Ross, preached a splendid sermon to the organization before a vast throng-Heretofore, a sermon to insurance men was a thing unheard of. The fact that its founders and officers have built it up from tenant of a single $5.00 per month office room in 1898 to landlord of $50,000.00 worth of paid for, improved real estate; owner of $103,500.00 in gilt edge bonds, $50,000.00 of which is deposited with the state for the permanent protection of all the policy holders (and it was the first to place on deposit, a sum equal to this amount); depositor with a cash balance of $12,000.00; a business worth $50,000.00, including a constantly enlarging plant of 50 clerks, 700 agents and 150,000 policy holders in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia—is a great work; but the dependable and trustworthy hold they have upon the affections of the people is due to their human service rendered untold thousands. J. H. H. Like, the company itself, standing upon an upright, solid and progressive foundation, the officers in the very hour of its Thanksgiving anniversary triumph called a conference at the Home Office, of some of the ablest leaders and thinkers of the race in the nation's capital to consider and formulate plans to stimulate the commercial, industrial and business initiative, energy and enterprise of the 100,000 colored citizens of Washington. For th occasion, the interior and exterior of the building were profusely and effectively decorated with American flags and bunting, while flowers adorned every fitting place and appropriate mottoes graced the walls. One could almost imagine himself treading the congressional halls of one of the Negro republics, Hayti or Liberia. The speakers for the occasion could easily measure up in ability with the representatives or any race in whatever avenue of activity. They and the subjects they discussed were as follows: "The Relation of the Church to Business Activities of the Race." rell, Prof. Velson E. Weather eHon. H. P. Slaughter, Miss Nannie H Burroughs and a host of others too numerous to mention. Excellent music was rendered by talent of the organization. They proudly pointed to the fact that the secretary of the National Benefit Association, Mr. S. W. Rutherford, with his able cohorts, officers, agents and clerks, had accomplished a most significant Thanksgiving achievement by immeasurably aiding in the emancipation of the Negro from business bondage and placing him upon the business map of the country, not only by the successful establishment of the company, a veritable monument to indominatable pluck and perseverance; but by teaching the lesson of thrift and inspiring that hope. Owing to the wide field his efforts have covered and the work he has wrought, some of the speakers stamped him our foremost financier, a leader the equal of Douglas or Langston. The practical results of the conference were: NATIONAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION BUILDING Encouragement to those willing to do; an understanding of one another; a concrete lesson in the power of getting together—organization and co-operation; increased confidence in Negro enterprises. Many good seeds were sown which are destined to spring up, ripen and materialize into those things which go to make and sustain a race. As a result of this meeting, a new movement of very great value is already in process of formation. In the banquet room which was tastefully decorated, were tables well laden with suitable delicacies that were enjoyed by all. But here by far, the greater interest centered on the birthday cake which bore the following lettering: "15th Birthday—N. B. A. 1898-1913." Around it were 15 burning candles, each a little taller than the other below it, signifying how high the company had carried its beacon light each year and a ladder containing 15 rounds which was the cue for the entire agency force to sing "We are Climbing Jacob's Ladder." Very interesting and unique souvenirs were presented to all. With the giving of the two N. B. A. slogans: "Forward! Keeping Everlastingly At It Brings Success!" and "Efficiency, Power and Progress Means Success." a period was placed at this portion of the great anniversary celebration of the Gibraltar of Negro Insurance Companies. One of the friends of the organization, George A. Douglas, Esq., Counsellor-at-Law, Newark, N. J., wrote as follows: "It would give me great pleasure to come to Washington to meet with the men who have done such heroic work in building a Negro insurance company on a safe and sound basis. I trust that at your next 15th anniversary, you will hold the same relation to our race in integrity, financial responsibility and character as the Prudential Insurance Company holds to the white race." "The Journal of Commerce and Finance of Philadelphia," one of the leading financial magazines of the country, recently wrote a very favorable editorial with reference to the company. Time will only allow us to quote the following from that article: "Patrons of the National Benefit Association in this city, speak of it commendatorially, as an institution that does a conservative and successful business, and behind which are men of the strongest and commercial character; and this same character, in a sense, has been imparted to the Association. Philadelphia of all classes are slow to act; but they are able to discriminate between that which is unfair, and that which is first rate proposition, like the contract of the National Benefit Association, unexcelled in its stipulations, broad in its protection and which gives confidence to the policy holders." The National Benefit Association was largely brought to its present pinnacle of development upon the shoulders and by the efforts of its agents. While the nature of the business has not allowed the officers to pay them as much as they would like, yet there are no diligent ones among them who go hungry and ragged. Every agent is not only responsible for all he collects, but for every mark he makes. This sense of responsibility has served to teach the untaught in business methods; to make the careless careful; to broaden his views upon life by personal contact and to respect himself more as being somebody in his community. They are taught one of the surest wavs of moving ahead is to acquire the capacity for self-judgment and self-reformation, etc. In the com- THE CHILD AND THE SPRITE Oh! come Christmas Sprite Take me home with thee; To your land of enchantment, And great mystery. To Christmas tree garden We'll go dear Sprite; There are things in my mind That are not clear, quite, Then to the Palace Of old Santa dear; Such a jolly, kind fellow His voice I would hear. I'd like to just ask him, This, dear Sprite, How he reaches us all, That very same night. "Dear child," said the Sprite, "If you go with me, You might lose the love Of your beautiful tree." "For the moment, you enter Within our gate. An Ogre called Wisdom. Conducts you to Fate." Remain as you are, Little child in your hed, While the Xmas Sprite's wand Wafts' dreams to your head. And Santa will come, With the wonderful tree, Because you have faith In his great mystery. —Anna Louise. 1208 S St. N. W. Madame Bruce. Mme. S. L. Bruce is open for sacred and classical engagements. Terms reasonable. Call or address 1228 You Street. Attorney Scott. Attorney Armond W. Scott will speak in Baltimore, Md., next Sunday evening. Quite a number of his friends will accompany him to the Monumental City. A full report of his coming address will appear in The Bee. Special Notice. Board of Education of the District of Columbia 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. Glenn, secretary of the Board of Examiners for Colored Schools. WILLIAM M. DAVIDSON, Superintendent of Public Schools. THE CALIFORNIA FRUIT & DELICATESSEN CO A. H. Underdown, Manager, 1226 You Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Phone, North 864. Estimates for serving Weddings, Receptions, Dinner and Tea Parties cheerfully given. Dainty China; Silverware, Glassware. Tables and Chairs for rent. 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 can always be assured, and a trial order is invited. Phone North 413. Fresh Fish and Oysters. Adjoining the Coal Office has also been opened a stand where the public can secure fresh fish and oysters. Our oysters are shucked daily on the premises and can be obtained by the pint, quart or gallon. Special attention given to supplying oysters for church festivals, banquets, etc. Family trade a specialty. Remember the Location Remember the Location. 1200 R Street N. W. Phone, N. 413. 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. This great pamphlet will be ready for circulation next week. 15 cents per copy, 7 copies for one dollar. Address Dr. Geo. H. Richardson, 309 Eleventh St. N. E., or The Washington Bee, 1109 Eye Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. Write for one at once. M. SREET HIGH SCHOOL WINS. Again M Street High School football team came out on top in the annual gridiron clash with the Armstrong Manual Training School team, and the score was 12 to 6. Both teams suffered damaging losses by reason of scholarship ratings and the resultant loss of players. M Street was without the services of Halfback Brown; full back, Bell, end, Porter; guard, Samuels; and center rush. Poindexter; while Armstrong lost Tinner and Johnson, but the floss of Johnson was an immeasurable one to Armstrong. A stiff wind prevailed for three periods of the game, and worked alternately in favor of both teams. The game began with M Street kicking off to Armstrong. After testing Armstrongs line, M Street kicked Armstrong's ball from the street's goal, and after repeated firing at line plunging William "Briicklev" Smith dropped back and booted the ball squarely between the M Street uprights and over the bar for a score Again with the wind, Armstrong lifted the ball far into Armstrong's territory and worked the ball after a poor punt by Randall to M Street's 20 yard line when the period ended. With one down to spare W. "Brickley" Smith again essayed a drop kick and still his percentage of 1,000 failed to budge, this time in the teeth of the wind. Now it was M Street's time with the wind. Fred Randall sent the ball across Armstrong's goal line, and Duckett ran it back five yards instead of getting the sure 20 yards from touch back. Tech vainly attempted to rush but was held and had to kick. Smith dropped back but Diggs of M Street dashed through the line and blocked the kick, falling upon the ball behind the goal line for a touchdown. Randall failed at goal. M Street for a second kick off favored with the wind, launched the ball into Armstrong's territory. Line charging failed to gain for the Orange and Blue and a punt gave the M Street the ball on her opponent's thirty-five yard line. Nicholas on a delayed pass made two first downs, but offside plays and Bowie's sturdy defense held the M Street team for downs on the fifteen yard line. When Smith tried to kick, the ball rose up and was carried by the wind-back of the goal line where Randall, of M Street fell on it for the second touchdown. The half ended with the ball on Armstrong's 20 yard line. The second half was featured by some splendid play but no scoring. The game had been won and lost. Nicholas carrying a delayed pass off Randall's tackle when Armstrong's second line of defense had been drawn over by the fake proved a consistent ground gaining play. Diggs, Brooks and Brent were noticeable by their line charging and defense. Armstrong's triple pass winding up with a forward pass as an excellent play and had it been started earlier Armstrong would have fared better. Tech's defense backed up heavily by Bowie and Smith crumpled up M Street's backs in their attempt to buck line. It was the evident belief of all that had Armstrong elected to play an open game the Tech team might have fared better. The Line Up. Armstrong Position M. Street F. Smith .L. E. E. Johnson Walter Smith L. T. Diggs Spriggs L. G. Brooks Thomas C. Bowie Smothers R. G. Marshall Brent R. T. F. Randall, Capt. Paige R. E. O. Randall Duckett L. H. Tyler Wm. Smith R. H. Nicholas W. Bowie, Capt. F. B. Lacy Washington Q. B. Dent Summary. Touchdowns—Randall, Diggs. Goals from the field—Wm. Smith, 2. Time of quarters—12 minutes. Referee—Mr. Savoy. Umpire—Mr. Robinson. Linesman—Mr. Beckett. CHATTANOOGA NOW NEARER THE ORIENT Tennessee River Made Navigable the Year Round. 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 Tennessee 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 via 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. 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