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IF ITS NEWS, ITS 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. 38 WASHINGTON: D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1914 NEGRES ORGANIZE Negroes Organize to Make Progress. Splendid Showing of Negroes. Woman Leads In Advance Work. Interesting Account of Race Progress In Fort Smith. (By Ralph W. Tyler.) FORT SMITH, ARK.—The westerner's idea of distance is far from harmonizing with an easterner's idea of it. If an eastern man should tell you that a certain town was so near he could look over his back fence and see it, you would surmise that certain town was fifteen or twenty miles away, an hour's ride on the trolly line. When a Fort Smithian informed me, prior to leaving for the far southwest, that "Muskogee is just beyond our back fence," I figured I could run from Muskogee to Fort Smith and back between a late breakfast and an early noon-day lunch. When I started to make the trip, however, I discovered the wide variance between "our and their" idea of distances, for it took just four hours to make the trip one way. Fort Smith is a delightfully located town, and for boulevards it comes nearer approaching Kansas City than any other municipality in this country. In Fort Smith, especially among the Negroes, one meets up with the traditional Arkansas hospitality and genuine good cheer. The Negroes of the town—rather I should say city, for it has all the airs and accomplishments of a city, have heretofore been-rather conservative, each working along individual lines, with an absence of that cooperative spirit which made "Made in England" a stenciled sentence on all boxes containing goods manufactured in Britain. A few weeks prior to my coming here, however, the Negroes caught the spirit of organization and cooperation which is sweeping over the country and formed a local Nogro Business League, electing that highly energetic and excellent physician, Dr. S. W. Harrison president, and enrolling thirty of the most progressive of the race as members at the start. In the light of what progress the race has made in this city without any business organization one cannot help but marvel at what the progress might have been had there been a live, forcible business league here all the while. There are eight thousand citizens here who are collated as Negroes, and these eight thousand own $200,000 worth of realty within the corporate limits of the city. At present there are nine Negro merchants here whose capital invested in their business aggregates $20,000. Including their realty holdings, money invested in business, and other personal possessions, the per capita wealth of the Negroes of this city will reach $45.60. This is not as high as noted in some other cities, perhaps, but it is most encouraging, and the per capita wealth of the whites here will not exceed it. The business in which members of the race here are represented are: groceries, furniture, real estate, undertaking, cafes, shoe repairing, barber shops, wood and coal yards. There are two Negro school buildings in this city in which sixteen colored teachers are employed, and ten colored churches, four of the Methodist denomination and six of the Baptist. Fort Smith has three colored physicians and one or two dentists, and these professional men in every way are the equal of their white brothers practicing the same professions. The four grocery stores, operated by Messrs. C. A. Conwell, W. B. Harrington, E. E. Trent and Harold Moore, if the eight thousand Negroes here will transfer their patronage to them in bulk, as they should, have a bright future, and they are well conducted so as to invite this patronage. Geo. H. Miller is the furniture man, and Messrs. Tillman and Williams are the men who conduct the coal yards, and Dr. Francis Miller is the dentist who enjoys the confidence of the race here. I found something here that was surprising, agreeably surprising, which only tends to prove that the business success of the race has been, is, and will be accelerated by our colored women. One of the most prominent, aggressively, and public spirited personages in this city is a woman—Mrs. M. Josenberger. She is one of the most capable and efficient business propositions I have ever met, and she takes a very active interest in every movement looking to race elevation. And specially is she active in promoting a real, verile business league. Mrs. Josenberger is perhaps the wealthiest, as well as most successful, colored person in this city, but modest and unostentatious with it all. Fort Smith offers excellent opportunities to the race, and under the inspiration of the newly organized local Business League the colored people here will doubtless register, this year, a much higher water mark of business success than in any previous year. Colored people here occupy some splendid homes, and the desire to possess a home appears to have seized even the humblest with the result that it is becoming almost a reflection for one not to own his or her home here. This too is a very encouraging sign, and proves that Fort Smith, like every other community I have visited, has taken to the teachings of Dr. Washington—accepted his advice to possess something. While here I met Prof. E O. Trent, a former schoolmate of mine in Columbus, Ohio. Prof. Trent has been a resident of this city for the past twenty-two or three years, and if the handsome residence in which he lives, and the block of houses down on the tax, duplicate as his, may be accepted as a criterion, his leaving Ohio to become an adopted son of Arkansas was not without its compensation. With such progressive race men as Doctors Harrison, Moore, Williams and Miller, and such enterprising business men as Messrs. George Miller, Chavous, Conwell, Harrington, Winston, Tillman, Trent, Hoyls, Black and others cooperating to minimize the individual efforts made at the expense of cooperative efforts, the future of the race in this city is indeed exceedingly promising. With its eight thousand Negro population, Fort Smith has neither a drug store owned and conducted by one of the race, or a Negro lawyer, and it would appear that one of each, at least, would prosper here. The colored population is so congested in at least one section of the city as to make this a fine opening for a colored drugstore, and the amount of legal work eight thousand people could supply, it seems, would make this city an admirable place for some bright, hustling colored attorney to locate. Fort Smith is large enough to supply city advantages, and small enough to make cooperation no difficult matter. I. C. CUNNINGHAM. Who Is He? Is His Abuse of the Ministry Beneficial to the Colored Race? He Without Sin Cast the First Stone. (By C. E. Queen.) There appeared in The Bee of February 21 an article flaying the preachers by J. C. Cunningham. He prescribes for them an entirely new line of work from that which the Bible gives them; condemns fine churches and suggests apartment stores as a substitute; calls ministers lazv pulpiteers and says they care for money only and not for the people. In the first place, the ministry is not improved by such general accusations against it; while, on the other hand, the public mind is prostituted. The way to correct any fault is to deal with specific cases. If one knows of particular cases he should deal with them. Any such case may be corrected without injury to the class, and without doing villainy to the reading public. To do otherwise is to put the ministry as a whole under suspicion. When men persist in representing the ministry as containing a great element of wrong, because there may be a few unworthy among them, the moral and religious growth of the race will be very slow and puny. A man does the public service, if not the only service of this kind, by pointing out one, two or a dozen lazy pulpiteers, as he calls them, than to say the majority are such but not all. No one would dare object to this. If he that is with sin did so, we would all assent to his guilt. Some say, through prejudice and without proof, that the race's standard of morals is very low. Such accusation as this article gives rise to foul charges, feeds the race with unwholesome thoughts and breeds a low estimate of the ministry and race alike. This must not be. The public ought to have a high regard for the ministry. And that high regard should not be antagonized or abused. The public must have noble, felicitous thoughts of the ministry or it cannot be helped by it. And that race or people that is not helped by its own ministry is not helped on very far in the ascent of morality and Christianity. Our youth must be taught to place confidence in their ministers. The young mind should not be arrested with general and frequent complaints about preachers. Neither should the mind of our youth be degraded to the standard of thought concerning the ministry as presented here above. And, too, the injustice is graver because the argument proves nothing. It is merely gossipy. The church and the ministry are the reservoir of Christian morality. The race is largely supplied from that source. Therefore, out of duty to all concerned, those who write on the subject of preachers should be fair enough to make it plain that the "water of life," coursing through this channel, will maintain health among us, morally and religiously. Though a few bacteria may yet remain, the cry of disease, disease needs not to be made. By the way, who is J. C. Cunningham? What is he doing? Building or destroying? Once a Republican, then a Democrat? Maybe a Progressive finally. Who is Cunningham? Bethel Literary and Historical Association. High School Night, Tuesday evening. March 10, 1914, 8 o'clock, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M Street between 15th and 16th Streets Northwest, Dr. I. N. Ross, pastor. An interesting musical and literary program will be rendered. You and your friends are cordially invited. Silver offering. S. M. Dudley, president, Miss A. D. Bell, secretary. March 17—The Clark Training School, Hon. George H. White. M. H. JUDGE DANIEL THEFW WRIGHT A victim of gross prejudice, who will vindicate himself, HIGHLY COMMENDED. Two Great Christian Workers, Forcible and Convincing—Rev. and Mrs. Daniel L. Reed. Rev. Daniel L. Reed, B. D., assisted by his very efficient and capable wife, closed last Friday night one of the most successful revivals in the history of our church. Mrs. Daniel L. Reed, the remarkable woman evangelist, delivered powerful and accept- REV. DANIEL L. REED A Successful Pastor and Evangelist table sermons for ten nights, holding her audience in breathless silence. Her discourses were the topics of South Washington, her sermons on "Naaman" and "Belshazzar" deserve special mentioning, while the theme "The Unturned Cake" was no less effective and instructive. Mrs. Reed is without doubt one of the ablest women evangelists among our people. You will only need to hear her to be convinced and converted to our conviction. Mrs. Reed is not only an expounder of Holy Writ, but indeed a great MRS. DANIEL L. REED. A Noted Singer and Evangelist. singer. In my judgment her singing excels her preaching. But few women are heaven endowed singers as she is. The Providence Baptist Church is highly pleased with the services of these God-sent servants, Rev. and Mrs. Reed. Over twenty-five have been added to the church. Baptizing, Sunday, March 8. So gratifying were their services to the Providence Baptist Church they were cheerfully given $36 for their ten nights service. Any church that wants a sound gospel evangelist to conduct a clean cut revival for them will find that in the person of Rev. and Mrs. Daniel L. Reed. They are more than equal to the emergency. Rev. Daniel L. Reed is the pastor of a prosperous church in Fredericksburg, Va. From the Providence Baptist Church, G Street between Third and Four-and-a-Half Streets, Southwest, Rev. Aquila Sayles, D. D., pastor, Walker Q. Reynolds, church clerk. EDITOR CHRIS J. PERRY Will Say This Week. For a number of years two men have been in the public eye. One working on distinctly practical lines, the other on theoretical lines. Up to date it is plain to see that the man who has been working on practical, common sense lines has accomplished infinitely more for our people than the fellow who has asked the people to see that he is paid a thousand dollars a year for his ideals. In order to put his practical thoughts into operation Dr. Washington established a little school away down in the black bell of Alabama, where taxes are low and land is cheap. And from that little school has grown the greatest school and industrial plant in United States, giving employment to hundreds of men and women graduates of the higher schools and shelter and training to millions of youths. And then seeming not perfectly satisfied and contented, he enters a larger world, in order to stimulate hope and encourage the heart of his fellows to enter the marts of commerce and business. On the other hand, Dr. DuBois, the idealist and theorist, believing he could not carry out his ideas alone, organized the Niagara movement. For a while his followers believed he could and would accomplish much. But as delegate after delegate attended the various sessions of the Niagara movement, and made appeals in vain to have some wrongs righted, those delegates learned to their dismay that the whole scheme was an iridescent dream. When the foxy DuBois observed, his project was tumbling down, he sought the aid of a few supposed well disposed white friends, and with their aid a society with a very long name was formed. And formed, too, to catch the hopeful among us in two ways. To join it and pay annual dues into its coffers so, as to be associated with white folks and to pay subscription to a pamphlet made up of clippings from other papers. Now, the white members said: "Du-Bois, if you can influence your people to sustain these two projects, we will pay you handsomely for making the bluff. You are a good talker. Now plunge in." To Booker T. Washingotn. The poem which follows was written by Dean L. B. R. Briggs, of Harvard University, Cambridge, and read by him before the students of Radcliffe College, of which he is President, in introducing Booker T. Washington before an audience of Radcliffe College students a few days ago: Born of a race enslaved, despised, and taunted. Quick in the burning bush God's voice to, know, Before the king the prophet stood undaunted, "The Lord hath spoken: let my people go." In cloud and fire Jehovah moved before him; He stretched his hand above the waters' bed. Though cleaving waves the God of Israel bore him. Where Pharaoh's mighty chariots sang as lead. Three thousand years: a free-born nation's morning Was black with gathering thunderclouds of woe; Once more unheeded rang the prophets warning: "The Lord hath spoken: let my people go." The God of Hosts our stubborn hearts confounded; He smote the waters with avenging hand; High in the heavens Jehovah's trumpet sounded; And the red Sea rolled wide across the land. On Horeb still the bush of God is burning; Still in the smoke and flame His sign we know; Still cries the prophet from the mount returning, "The Lord hath spoken: let my people go." "My people, bound in darkness and in terror, My people, child-like, trustful, patient, slow, Yoyering light, not grasping loom Yearning for light, yet groping long in error; Children of freedom, let my people go." Stretch forth thine hand, O prophet giant-hearted. Divide the waters of the rolling sea; Lead thou thine host amidst the billows parted, Till black shall stand with white, erect and free. L. B. R. Briggs. Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Press and The Bee. February 28, 1914. Hon. W. C. Chase, Editor The Bee, Washington, D. C. My Dear Sir: Your attention is called to the article in March Crisis, page 239. Please publish your comment on the support given that publication by the Negroes, which appeared in The Bee about January, 1911. At same time a pitiful appeal was made by the Crisis for this support, which it now claims to have always received. Hope you may have time to give this matter attention. I shall quote The Bee in full. Kindly see that your Bee is regularly sent. Hoping you are well, I am respectfully, CHAS. SUMNER SMITH ONLY CRANKS OPPOSE HIM Honest Men Have No Fear. Washington, D. C., March 3, 1914. Editor Washington Bee: It is observed that some one has sent to the New York Age a communication—anonymous to the extent that no one can tell from reading the communication the name of the silly and poorly educated person who wrote it—in which it is stated, interalia, that divers "friends" in Washington are very bitter against James Waters. According to the eternal fitness of things, I suppose I should "bibble," eh? Well, instead of that, I bubble. Very sincerely, JAMES C. WATERS, JR. 614 Seventeenth Street Northwest. PICTURE FOR YOUTH JUST A PICTURE, PERHAPS. PAINTED FOR THE GUIDANCE OF YOUTH. (By R. W. T.) Some years ago, let us suppose, there graduated from an eastern college a young man who had won signal honors as class orator. He came fresh from college with much book learning, the prestige of parental greatness, and with plaudits ringing in his ears, and openings for the application of his book learning awaiting him. A great institution extended him a call, an institution where the rugged, unsophisticated, honest and vice-untouched youth were striving for the rudiments of learning—for the fundamentals requisit for a robust, helpful future. His sojourn there was short, let us suppose. An institution of learning is never a place for dissembling, no place for the man who toys with the Truth as a subjugated antithesis of Falsehood. It is no place for the missionist, and neither is it a place for him who would leave behind many empty spirit fermenti vials as souvenirs of a taste. His labors in this institution, this vinyard of usefulness, shortened by his apparent unfitness for the work there cut out, let us suppose, his friends still hopeful for him, still loyal to the name he bore, sought and gained for him a position elsewhere, a position of responsibility, and at a greatly increased salary—sought and gained it for him in spite of his immature years and previous failure. In the new position let us assume he made many mistakes. Disloyalty to friends, dissembling with friends and foes alike, placing a premium on Falsehood and a discount on Truth creates discord, invigorates opposition and hampers usefulness. Despicable intrigue embroils friends, breaths distrust into cohorts who before had trusted, and gives to opposition an opportunity to suspend the keen blade of Demoscoles over one's head. Let me now picture a brilliant woman, the product of a great school, gifted of tongues and blessed with almost unprecedented energy, assisting to open up a new field for this scion of a great father, this oratorical wonder, this classic-trained youth. Let me picture how quickly his professed friendship and profuse gratitude for her kindness was changed into secret opposition. To her face, let us fancy, he was the essence of politeness—survive politeness, boring civility, but in the sanctum of his inner chamber, alone with the human checkers he moved across the boards, his tools and supplies, he calculates on her successor in power—on the successor of her who had helped him when help was most needed. Is this not a faithful likeness of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde? Is this not a replica of Judas Iscariot? With him, let us suppose, principle was ever and always retrospective rather than objective. With him, even the closest friends would admit, Truth was but mere fiction. And his enemies—those who had been the victims of his deceit and dissembling, protested that "the truth is not in him." Still there were new found friends to step into the breach made by the departure of previous friends who had grown wise to exigencies. Still his fawning flattery, his outward appearing sincerity his insidious form of bribery in the shape of social teas, the tender in dainty cut glass receptacles of the "red, red wine," attracted new moths to the flame that was sure to singe—still attracted some who hankered to be in "society" just in order to be "keeping up with the Joneses." Could the walls of his study speak probably—I say probably, those mute, imanimated objects might a tale of intrigue unfold as damnable as ever made odious the court of Henry VIII, only they were bloodless while those which marked the reign of Henry terminated in the flow of the red blood of life." However much this may be a fanciful picture, and however much through it may run the "jangle of the bells," it can be said that frequently pictures are painted from still or animated life, and that bells, if they "jangle out of tune" it is frequently because the music to which words are set is not rhapsodical. And then, too, in the "jangling of the bells," how frequently it can be said "what a world of solemn thought their monody compels-" It is possible, at some later date I will follow this "picture" with a continuation simply to impress upon budding youth that Truth and Honesty brings lasting comprehension, while falsehood, dissembling and despicable intrigue ultimately brings blasted hopes and deplorable ruin. If you miss getting The Bee you may miss an interesting chapter from the new book of Revelations. Miss Williams Appointed. Miss Virginia Williams, who took the music examination two weeks ago with others, was the successful candidate. She was recommended for appointment to the Board of Education last Wednesday and the recommendation was approved. FRISCO EXTENDS ROUSING WELCOME Pastor Russell's "Movies" Running From Coast to Coast. CHURCH TO BE EXALTED SOON Great Feast Then For Famished World—Mankind Starving For Message Which His "Movies" Supply, Reign of Sin and Death Nearing Conclusion—Kingdom of God Soon to Be Established—Introduced by "a Time of Trouble"—Overruled to Constitute a Channel of Blessing—Famished Hearts Crying For Love and Sympathy—They Shall Be Satisfied. PASIOR RUSSELL Sun Francisco, March 1.—Pastor Russell's Photodrama of Creation was introduced here today in the Valencia Theatre before crowds. The debut of these films here approaches a completion of a chain of Pastor Russell's Photodrama from Coast to Coast Boston, New York, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St Louis—Chicago and other places soon. The Valencia, which is one of the finest theatres in the West, will be, what might be called for the present, the home of the Pinoto-Drama on the Coast. The Drama will be produced daily, both afternoon and evening. Parts I. and II. were run today; parts III. and IV. next, and so on. The elite of the city were well represented. Reserved seats (which, by the way, are free to all these exhibitions, and no collections) were soon exhausted. It is unquestionably true that Pastor Russell has brought to the Const the finest collection of motion-pictures and slides ever shown here, and a long run will follow. About 15,000 people now attend the PhoTo-Drama or Creation daily. The Gospel is being prescheduled in a most enticing manner; a long-felt want is being supplied. In his syndicated sermon in the forenoon Pastor Russell's subject was quite appropriate—"A Great Feast for a Famished World." It is believed that his audience agreed. His text was: "And in this Mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat tithers." (Salah 23:6) He sold Throughout the prophetic Scriptures the word Mountain is used as the symbol of n kingdom. Earthly governments are represented as mountains and hills, while the Lord's Government is represented as being established "in the top of the mountains." It is this Mountain, or Kingdom of God, which is referred to in our text. It has not yet been established in the earth, and hence its blessed work has not yet been realized. We still properly pray, "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in Heaven." True, a beginning has been made. For more than eighteen centuries since our Lord's ascension and the bestowment of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the Church has been in process of selection, and the Church is sometimes styled the Kingdom, because its members when glorified will constitute the Kingdom class—the Bride—who will share with the Heavenly Bridegroom the Kingdom honors and services for the world. It is true, also, that our Lord is exalted a Prince and a Savior; and that shortly, at His Second Advent, He is to take to Himself His great power and reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. But He has not yet done this. He declared at His resurrection, "All power in Heaven and in earth is given unto Me." Yet He also in His last Message to the Church distinctly pointed out that the time for taking possession of His Kingdom was future; and that the time will surely come when He will take unto Himself His great power and reign, because the time to reign will then have come.—Revelation 11:17. More than this, the signs of the times, read in the light of the Lamp of Truth, the Word of God, seem clearly to indicate that the time is near at hand for the setting up of Christ's Kingdom. How glad we all should be! What rejoicing it should cause to the whole world of mankind, to know that the reign of Sin and Death is nearing its conclusion; that Satan, the Prince of this world, will shortly be bound for a thousand years, that he shall deceive the nations no more until its termination! How we should rejoice that "the night is far spent and the day is at hand"; that the Millennial Morning is already dawning; that the Sun of Righteousness is already rising, and that soon the whole earth will "be full of the knowledge of the glory of God, as the waters cover the great deep."—Habakkuk 2:14. A Feast In This Mountain. The bare announcement of the Kingdom of God would strike mankind variously in proportion as the character of the Kingdom and its work might be understood or misunderstood. Thus today to many the mention that the Kingdom of God is nigh at hand would carry the thought of "a wreck of matter and a crash of worlds." Not only our Second Advent friends believe, but the creeds of practically all denominations of Christians recite, that our Lord's Second Advent and the establishment of His Kingdom will signify to mankind the end of probation, the end of hope, and usher in to all except the elect few a great burning-day. Far too long we have allowed these traditions of men to becloud our judgment, to come between our hearts and the great blessings set forth in God's Word, and now due to the Church and to the world. It is very proper that those who are living in allenation from God, in wilful sin, should realize that the establishment of His Kingdom will mean a Reign of Righteousness which will be strictly opposed to their pernicious ways—opposed to every form of immorality, opposed to every form of injustice and infinity, opposed to every form of trickery, sham, and false pretense. But surely Christians who are seeking to live in harmony with the Divine Law of Love, for God, for the neighbor, for the brother, for enemies, have every reason to look forward to, to long for, to hope for the coming of the Lord's Kingdom as the most desirable thing to be imagined. Indeed, it is thus described in Bible language: "The desire of all nations shall come." -Haggal 2:7. However much the few favored by present conditions may be pleased to have things' remain as they are, the masses of mankind, if they were but converted from ignorance and superstition, and brought to a knowledge of the Truth as God's Word presents it, would be glad and rejoice in the salvation which is to come to the world through God's Kingdom. The god of this world hath blinded the eyes of understanding of mankind and put darkness for light, and under the terrors of the world's "doom's day" has obscured the glorious blessings which belong to the Day of the establishment of the Kingdom of the Lord.—2 Corinthians 4:4. True, the Kingdom of the Heavens will be introduced, the Scriptures tell us, by "a Time of Trouble such as never was" before and never will be afterward; a Time of Trouble which will involve all nations, and peoples, and kindreds, and tongues, and every part of the world; a Time of Trouble from which there will be no escape except for those who have made the Lord, even the Most High, their Refuge and Habitation (Psalm 91:9). But then, even that plowshare of trouble the Lord proposes shall be overruled so that it will constitute a channel of blessing to mankind, by preparing their hearts for the Message of Divine Love and Grace, centered in Christ and His redeeming work at Calvary. What Say the Scriptures? Turning from the ignorance, superstition, darkness and terrors of the Dark Ages, let us look still further into the inspired Word of God through the Apostles and Prophets. From these let us hear some description of the blessings which God purposes His Kingdom shall bring to our sin-cursed race. The Scriptures tell us that God has prepared a great feast for humanity; they intimate figuratively that mankind has been starving for the Message of Divine Grace—that billions of our race have gone down in ignorance and superstition, famished for lack of the Word of God. The Bread which came down from Heaven—the Message of Truth and Grace which our dear Pedeemer brought and exemplified—has indeed been supplied lavishly to some. Some of us have feasted upon the good things of our Father's Word and Plan. But the great mass of mankind have been so deaf and so blind that they see not, neither do they understand nor receive the grace of God, under present conditions. How glad we are that "all the blind eyes shall be opened, and all the deaf ears shall be unstopped" (Isalah 35:5), and that the whole world will thus be prepared for the true knowledge of God, whose goodness and loving kindness and tender mercies will undoubtedly have a softening and mellow effect upon hard hearts! Blessed the Hungry. There are many hungry hearts in the world. Many whose bodies are well nourished have famished hearts, which cry out for love and sympathy. He who reads the hearts, who knows what is in them, has prepared this feast which will surely satisfy every legitimate, righteous desire. Those who already are the Lord's people, and who have already feasted at the bountiful table spread for the Church, can approximate to some extent the bounty that will be spread before the world in this great feast foretold through the Prophet in our text. There will be several differences, however, between our present feast and that for the world. The present feast is merely a feast of promises which must be partaken of by the exercise of faith. The feast described in our text will be a very actual one. The realities of the blessing of Restitution—of health, of strength, mental, moral, and physical—will there be bountifully supplied, to be partaken of freely by all who appreciate them. Again, the present feast is a spiritual one, relating to a Heavenly Kingdom glory and honor—things not seen as yet, except by the eye of faith. To the contrary, the feast for the world, referred to in our text, will consist of earthly bounties and blessings, most tangible in kind as well as excellent in quality. All that was lost in Adam will be tendered to such as will accept the mercy. The Prophet in attempting to describe the bounties of that feast uses highly symbolic terms, and describes it as a "feast of fat things, full of mallow, of wines on the lees, well refined." Assuredly no language that we could uss could fully and properly set forth the riches of God's grace provided for the world of mankind under the ministration of His Kingdom. The earth shall yield her increase. streams shall break forth in the deserts, the wilderness shall blossom as the rose, the solitary place be made glad. -Isaiah 35. The Destructive Work. The Lord, after describing through the Prophet the feast of blessings and refreshments, portrays the destruction of things injurious to mankind, saying, "And He will destroy in this Mountain the face of the covering cast over all people—the veil that is spread over all nations." (Verse 7.) This veil is none other than the veil of ignorance and superstition which blinders mankind from seeing that the Creator is their Friend, that righteousness and truth are to their advantage, that the ways of the Lord are righteous altogether. The sunlight of the New Dispensation, the Reign of Righteousness, will scatter the clouds and darkness, the veil of Ignorance, and let into the hearts of mankind "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God," as it shines "in the face of Jesus Christ" our Lord. What a wonderful change! And how glad mankind will be, not only to have that feast prepared, but also to be rid of the darkness which would hinder them from appreciating it. Still More to Follow: The Prophet proceeds to describe further, saying, "He will swallow up death in victory." For several thousand years Death has had the victory, and the human family have swallowed up by it. The Scriptures designate the six thousand years of earth's history as the reign of Sin and Death. It is conservatively estimated that Death has swallowed up twenty thousand millions of humanity, and that ninety thousand are going to the tomb every day. The Lord tells us through the Prophet that with the establishment of His Kingdom will come a wonderful change; instead of Death continuing to swallow up the race, dying shall cease. None shall die then except for willful sin. How glorious a time that will be! All of our sorrows are more or less intimately associated with the reign of Sn and Death. How we may well rejoice in the New Dispensation which Divine Wisdom has planned, and which Divine Love will execute, for the release of our race from the dying process, permitting them to return to the liberty of the sons of God—freedom from death, freedom from sin! But even this is not enough. The Lord purposes not merely to restrain the power of death, so that it shall cease swallowing up our race, but additionally to "swallow up Death in victory." The tomb, which figuratively has engorged itself with twenty thousand millions, will be forced to disgorge, to release its victims. "All that age in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth." The salutely few, whose faithfulness God has already tested, will come forth to the perfection of life. The unsaintly masses, the majority of whom have never known God truly, will come forth to a resurrection, by trial, by judgment, by displine. Death itself shall be destroyed. St. Paul quotes from the Prophet Hosea, saying, "O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory?" He does not quote this as applicable now; for Sin, and Death still have their victory in the world. Millions are still slaves of Sin, and billions are still bound by the power of the tomb. St. Paul and the Prophet still point down to the glorious Millennial Kingdom (following the resurrection change of the Church), when all shall be brought to a knowledge of the Truth, and when all that are in the prison-house of Death shall come forth, because Jesus has redeemed every member of our race from the power of the tomb. "Wipe All Tears Away." We remember our Rejeeemer's tender words, "Come unto Me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) Those who have accepted His gracious invitation, and obtained from Him the rest of faith, have found that it has meant the cancellation of their troubles in a large degree. We, then, should be able to understand the next statement, in our context, "The Lord God will wipe away the tears from off all faces." It is the same Message given in Revelation, where the same Kingdom, under the figure of the New Jerusalem, is brought to our attention. The Heavenly Father will wipe away the tears, not directly, but indirectly, through His Son, the Redeemer. Tears are the marks of sorrow, pain, suffering; and the poetic statement that God Himself will wipe away the tears of minkind is a beautiful and forceful suggestion of how the Power of the Highest is shortly to be employed, not in the eternal torment of the world, but in its blessing, its uplifting, and the removal of its sorrows. When we remember that there are no tears in Heaven, and that the joys of that blessed state are because of its sliness, our hearts overflow with thanksgiving as we catch, in the poetic thought, the assurance that all sin, and all sorrow as the result of sin, and all tears and marks of sorrow, will forever pass away in that happy time. Let no one imagine that this signifies universal salvation. Other Scriptures show us that universal opportunity for salvation will be accorded, but that none except those who avail themselves of this opportunity by a hearty acceptance of the Divine arrangement, and a hearty obedience to the laws of the Kingdom, will get the great blessing of life everlasting. All others, wilful sinners, will be destroyed in the Second Death. CUSTER SURVIVOR LOSES HIS PLACE Change of Administration Has Deprived Him of His Position—Tells In a Most Interesting Manner of His Ride to Captain McDougal—Was Feared by Carolina Moonshiners. Asheville, N. C.—Changes in the internal revenue service made by the Wilson administration have retired from Uncle Sam's payroll one of the most picturesque figures in North Carolina, Daniel A. Kanlpe, a former revenue raider, who is said to be the only American survivor of the ill fated force under the immediate command of General George A. Custer. Mr. Kanlpe has the distinction of having carried the last order issued by Custer just previous to the massacre on the Little Big-Horn river in Montana in 1870. Mr. Kanple has retired to his home at Marloh, near Asheville, since the change of administration has deprived him of his place as a revenue raider, but his name is still a word to conjure with in the districts where corn liquor is made without paying tax to the United States government. As a raider Mr. Kanple was probably the most feared man in the Asheville district, one of the largest in the United States, and the same courage that sent him serenely on a mission through a country infested with hostile Indians has caused him to venture into dark corners of the mountains in search of illicit distillers. Kanique was born at Marion and was raised on a farm, but ran away from home at the age of nineteen to enlist in the army, walking across country to Lincolnton, where he enlisted in Company C, Seventh regiment, United States cavalry The company was commanded at the time by Captain V K. Hart. Before long the young man was promoted to a sergeanty and attached as a scout to the command of General George A. Custer in the campaign against the Sloux Indians under Chiefs. Sitting Bull and Rain In the Face. He was with Custer on the morning of June 25, 1576, at the Little Big Horn, when the Indians were begging to close in around the little band of American soldiers. "I had the fastest horse in the service," Sergeant Kaule says, "and he could single foot faster than most cavalry horses could run Captain dater Major Thomas H. McDougal, in command of Troop B. was about five miles away in charge of the pack train carrying our spare ammunition and rations. "General Custer ordered me to find Captain McDougal and tell him to bring up the pack train with all speed, as he (General Custer) believed that a great battle was about to be fought. With this last order of General Custer's I slipped away from camp on my horse, Yankee Mike, and after sneaking past a number of Indians and out running a bunch that discovered me and gave chase. I made my way to Captain McDougal's camp and delivered the order "We started at once to the relief of General Custer, but by that time he was surrounded by Indians, and it required two days of hard fighting to make our way across that five miles of territory. While I was gone and while we were fighting our way back to Custer's position Sitting Bull and Rain In the Face, with their 4,000 Sloux devils, surrounded his force and after a hard fight butchered them. "When our relief force reached the spot where the heroic Custer had made his last stand we found the bodies of my former comrades lying in twisted heaps. Just as they had fallen under the blows of the Indians. Some of them had mercifully been shot, but many more were lying with crushed and shapeless bodies and heads battered in by the war clubs of the Indians. "I had seen service before that, and I saw service afterward in the campaign against the Cheyennes in Nebraska, but I never saw a battle in which I thought the Indians were repaid for the massacre of General Custer and his heroic troopers. "Two other men escaped from the massacre, I think, a Crow Indian scout named Curley, who I have since learned is living in St. Louis and whose Indian costume probably helped him to slip away while the battle was raging, and an Italian trumpeter named Martine, who I have heard has been seen in Buffalo. How he managed to escape I have never been able to learn." Mr. Kanlpe after leaving the army secured a position as deputy internal revenue collector. His most cherished possessions are the old faded blue uniform which he wore on that memorable ride for Custer and the saber and pistol he carried as a member of the Seventh cavalry French Mint Obliges Gamblers Paris.—The mint has just put in circulation 30,000 gold hundred franc ($20) pieces for the special benefit of gambling houses, which desire this form of money, as easier to handle than notes. COXEY TO LEAD ARMY TO CAPITAL EXPECTS A MILLION IN LINE Asserta That There Are Five Hundred Thousand Unemployed In New York City Alone—Gives Out Secret of Cause of Crusade—Suffragette Division May Go Along. New York.—General Jacob S. Coxey, who in 1894 made a name for himself when he headed a mighty army of the unemployed who started from all sections of the country to march to Washington. is getting ready to repeat the performance, and if his plans don't miscarry the second Coxey's army will begin its advance on Washington on the morning of April 16. The day set is the general's sixtieth birthday, and his "On to Washington!" is to be his birthday gift to the nation. As in 1894, the army will "hike" by divisions and will represent all parts of the country, from points as far east as Boston, as far west as Seattle, as A. B. Photo by American Press Association GENERAL COXEY. far south as New Orleans and as far north as Detroit. The division that the commander in chief will personally lead will be assembled in Massillon, O., the home town of General Coxey. The general is now in New York making arrangements for a monster division of hapless men who he hopes will represent this city when the "army" assembles in front of the capitol at Washington and lays its grievances before the authorities. General Coxey is directing the organization of the New York division. It was here that he told about his plans and his hopes. If even a third of all the unemployed now in the United States, according to the figures submitted by the generalissmo of the whole outfit, manage to reach Washington it will mean that the capital city will be swamped with about 1,000,000 idle and penniless men. If all the unemployed went along, according to General Coxey, it would mean an army of between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000, and of this number about 500,000 would be from New York city. "We shall start from all sections of the country," said General Coxey, "and when we get to Washington it shall be the purpose of the leaders to impress upon the government that there is an army of the unemployed in this fair land of ours and that it is a mighty huge one at that. "Today there are between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 more unemployed in this country than a year ago, and something must be done, and that's why the army is being organized to march on Washington. The country will finance the undertaking, just as it did in 1894, the people in the towns and villages through which the various divisions will pass being counted upon to show their patriotism by providing food and shelter when needed, to the marchers. And the people will help, too, when they realize what it all means." At this point General Coxey let out a secret. It was the "why" of the whole great undertaking. A conspiracy, he said, had been entered into by the rich men of the country. "First of all," said General Coxey, "these conspirators wanted to have a certain sort of currency bill passed—a bill that would suit them to a t." And they got it, although they managed to make the people think they were against it. The bill as it passed was a Wall street measure pure and simple, and its passage disclosed to me the fact that President Wilson had turned against the people and was now with the Wall street crowd. "Secondly, the conspirators have a scheme to force the interstate commerce commission to grant a 5 per cent increase in freight rates. Thirdly, they began to give smaller orders for rail road equipment, closing many plants and compelling the others to reduce prices in order to get business. Th' threw thousands of men out of employment." DEATH FOR OPIUM SMOKING. Chinese Provincial Governors Decree the Extreme Penalty. London.-According to letters from Peking, the anti-opium governmental crusade is being waged with more severity than ever. The governors of various provinces have issued proclamations announcing the death penalty for smokers of opium. Although definite cases of execution for defiance of the law are rare, it is reported from Wuchang that a smoker among the soldiers of the garrison there was caught indulging in the habit, and after trial before a court made up of his comrades he was sentenced to immediate execution and was shot. President Yuan Shih Kai seems to have struck a popular note in his now celebrated anti-gambling mandate. The Shempao, an independent paper of Shanghai, praising the stand taken by the government in this and other matters of social and political importance, says: "Without first eradicating the evil habit of gambling in Peking, it would be futile to discuss politics or reforms. What the government has done was but what we expected it to do, otherwise it would have lost all standing ground." Richmond, Va.-A petition signed by many prominent persons of Carroll county will be presented soon to Governor Stuart asking him to pardon seventeen-year-old Friel Allen, the youngest member of the Hillsville clan, which in March of 1912 wiped out the Carroll county circuit court. The boy is serving an eighteen year term in the state penitentiary for the murder of W. M. Foster, commonwealth attorney, who was shot down in the courthouse. At the trial of Friel extinguating circumstances were shown and always there was doubt that he actually caused the death of Mr Foster. In fact, it now is believed that he would have been acquitted except that feeling at the time was at such a high pitch. During the term of Governor Mann unsuccessful efforts were made to have him commute the death sentences of Floyd and Claude Swanson Allen. The present governor then refrained from any comment on the movement and refused to take any part in the campaign. It is now declared that Friel did not actually kill the commonwealth attorney. At his trial Friel testified that he fired at only two persons—Court Clerk Good and Attorney Foster. The evidence offered tended to show that the commonwealth attorney already had received a mortal wound when he came within range of Friel's revolver. Because of this last fact the jury found him guilty of murder in the second decree. Friel was the most amenable to law of all the Allens. HUNTED 20 YEARS, IS CAUGHT. Moonshiner, Awaking From Sleep, Stares Into Pistols. Waldron, Ark.-John Dale, who for twenty years has defied revenue offi- cers in the western counties of Arkansas, was foind asleep in the woods near here and arrested by a United States marshal's posse on charges of operating an illicit still 'Dale lay asleep on his rifle at the foot of a tree. Awakened to find six guns pointed at him, he showed fight, but was soon overpowered. Dale's crude still and 200 gallons of liquor were confiscated and the operator put in jail. His whisky making device was of the portable kind generally known as a wildcat still. As early as ISH attempts were made to corner Dale, and scores of government officers, after trailing him for months in isolated regions of Scott and Polk counties, abandoned the chase. DEAD AIR MAN'S ROMANCE. Lieutenant Arthur Leaves His Fortune to Girl of Fourteen. London.—A romantic attachment to a girl of fourteen is disclosed by the will of the late Lieutenant Arthur, an army air man aged twenty-nine, who was killed at Montrose last May. The will, which was proved in the Dublin courts, leaves the whole of his fortune, £12,500, to Winslow Constance Ropner, daughter of a West Hartlepool shipbuilder and granddaughter of Sir Robert Ropner. On the dead body of the air man was found a miniature portrait of the girl, which he was in the habit of wearing on his breast. GETS $24 FROM AVIATOR. Vineland Farmer Recovers For Damages Done to Field. Bridgeton, N. J.-In the suit of James McCoy of Vineland against Avlator George A. Gray, which was tried in the county court here, Judge Tuller awarded McCoy $24 damages. The sum of $200 was asked. Mr. McCoy alleged that the avlator, in making two ascensions from his field on the Malaga plike for his exhibitions at the Millville park, damaged the crops to that amount. 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A. Ceruti, 105 F. New York Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. Box19, Station J, New York City Sample of Comb may be secured at The Bee office, where orders will be received and Comb promptly delivered. DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. THE RIGHT MOVE. Dr. Booker T. Washington Interested in the Race—Will Receive Attention, Making Improvement—Complaints Well Founded—Railroad Manage. Will Listen to the Complaints on Colored Citizens. Dr. Booker T. Washington Takes the Lead. Tuskegee, Ala., March 1. Editor of The Bee: Some months ago, I sent out marked copies to railway officials in every part of the South of an article written, for the Century Magazine in which I referred to the unjust treatment of colored people on railroads. In addition a letter was written, calling attention to the portion of the article marked. It might interest those of our people who are seeking to improve the bad conditions that exist on many railroads, to read some of the replies from these officials to these communications. In one case, for example, the president of the railroad had a copy of the "Century" article placed in the hands of every officer on his road. I am asking that you publish the extracts from these letters, because a little later on it is my purpose to urge our people to set aside one day in the year that might be called "Railroad Day" upon which throughout the country wherever conditions demand it. we can go to the officials of the railroads and speak to them about the bad conditions that exist with a view of our co-operating with these railroad officials in order to bring about better conditions. I think the extracts from these letters indicate that the railroad officials are now in a state of mind where in most cases they are willing to recognize the justice of our claim for better things; in fact, some of them have already acted. 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Black, Passenger Manager of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway System, wrote as fol- ```markdown ``` Ceruti, 105 F. Ne 19, Station J, New York may be secured at The Bee office. Comb promptly delivered. lows: "I am in receipt of your favor of the 8th inst., enclosing an article by yourself recently published in the 'Century' Magazine, which I have read with interest. You will, no doubt, he pleased to learn that the Santa Fe has already provided equipment for colored travel in conformity with the plan outlined in your article. At the present time 75 per cent of the coaches used in Oklahoma and Texas for colored people have two compartments, one being a smoking compartment and the other for men and women, and they have separate toilet facilities for each sex. As new cars are purchased, or present ones are converted, they will be of that type, and we expect before long to have all of our cars for colored traffic on the same plan." Complaints Were Published Mr. J. M. Parker, Receiver and General Manager, The Arkansas, Louisiana and Gulf Railway Company, says: "I have your favor with enclosure, being marked copy of an article which recently appeared in the Century Magazine. I shall take pleasure in reading this article, and from glancing through it, I am inclined to think that the statement that the Negro is not getting a square deal in the way of transportation facilities, is well-founded." Appreciates Colored Patronage. Mr. W. Coughlin, General Superintendent, Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company, wrote: "I have carefully read the article to which you have called special attention and in connection therewith wish to say that while, no doubt there is ground for complaint at times, an inclined to the opinion that as a whole the situation alluded to is improving. In fact, accommodations for white and colored passengers on our motor car trains are identical. On other trains there is not much difference, except in emergency cases, where it becomes necessary to use temporary equipment that was not intended for passenger trains, but such cars as are used for the handling of both white and colored passengers, as well as employees on freight trains. I assure you that our company appreciates the patronage of the colored people, and that it is our desire to do what we can consistently for their comfort and convenience while traveling on our road." Railways Not Philanthropists. Mr. W. B. Biddle, Receiver and Chief Traffic Officer of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, writes: "I have read yours of October 10th and the pamphlet enclosed with a great deal of interest. I am quite sure that there is a disposition on the part of the carriers to do anything that they properly can to improve the conditions of the colored race. The conditions under which the carriers are operating at this time are, in many respects, so burdensome as to have very little opportunity for the adoption of any philanthropic movements. I shall be very glad, however, to discuss this subject with the executive Directions.—First cleanse the scalp with Ceruti's Tar Shampoo, then oil the hair well with Ceruti's African Eureka Cream, remove the catch at the extreme end of the metallic frame of the comb, and take out rod, heat red hot, and replace same, the comb is then ready for use. Then comb the hair, letting the hair pass over the tube containing the rod, after inserting the rod in the tube. PRICE LIST Shampoo, 50 cents up. Transformations from $1.50 up. Pompadours from 25 cents up. Wigs from $3 up. Monthly treatments, $3. Ceruti's Skin Food, $1.50. Ceruti's African Eureka Cream, for the hair, 50 cents. Ceruti's Tar Shampoo, 25 cents. Ceruti's Scalp cleaner, $1.00. When ordering send sample of your own hair. Describe the article you want. New York Ave., Atlantic City, N. J. City where orders offers. Does Not Apply to Missouri Pacific. Mr. B. F. Bush, President of The Missouri Pacific Railway Company, states: "The conditions cited in the article are not applicable to the Missouri Pacific. It is a fact that separate cars are maintained on the St Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern for the Negroes, but my information is that they are cleanly kept and adequate to meet all demands. However, I thank you for bringing the matter to my attention." Are Making Improvements. Mr. N. M. Leach, Traffic Manager, The Texas & Pacific Railway Company, writes: "In recent times the T. & P. R'y has made some improvement in the service afforded our colored patrons, and we are making an effort to further improve this service. We have received a number of expressions of appreciation from our colored patrons in Louisiana and Texas. I have read 'all of your article with a great deal of interest." Given Careful Consideration Given Careful Consideration. Mr. W. G. Van Vleck, writing for the president, Mr. W. B. Scott, of the Sunset-Central Lines, says: "The matters referred to in your letter October 10th have been given very careful consideration by these Lines. A few months ago we installed in our Sunset Express all steel equipment and precisely the same character of car is used for colored as well as white passengers. Later on we did the same thing with Nos. 7 and 8, and still later Nos. 11 and 12. These cars are all-steel and all of the same kind. On the Central Lines North of Houston, trains 15, 16, 17 and 18, and on H. E. & W. T. trains 1 and 2 are similarly equipped. Local trains will be taken care of as fast as more equipment of this kind is available." Letter Forwarded to Mr. Coul Mr. George H. Taylor, Vice-President of the International and Great Northern Railway Company, writes as follows: "I have your letter of the 11th instant, addressed to Mr. Frank J. Gould, enclosing a copy of your article recently printed in 'The Century Magazine' entitled 'The Greatest Source of Dissatisfaction to the Negro in the South;' namely, Railway Travel conditions. I have forwarded your letter and its enclosures to Mr. Gould in France." Statement Entirely Right. Mr. J. E. Franklin, President of the San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad, replies as follows: "I think you are entirely right in what you say in the panthetion you enclose me. So far as this railroad is concerned, we are in a section of Texas where there is not much Negro travel, but we are giving the Negroes just as good accommodations as we are giving to the whites." Appreciates the Colored Travel. Appreciates the Colored Travel. Mr. J. C. Haile, General Passenger Agent of the Central of Georgia Railway Company whites: "Yours of recent date, with marked copy of an article which recently appeared in the Century Magazine, has been duly received. The same will be given consideration and I hope to write you further later. The management of this company appreciates the colored travel and we desire to handle it satisfactorily." Subject Receiving Attention. Mr. A. A. Matthews, Superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway System, says: "I have read with interest, your article entitled, 'Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance,' which you enclose with your letter of October 9th. The subject of better accommodation for Negro passengers is one that is receiving much thought by the railroads of the South and I think, as our lines are improved and better coaches are used, that the Negro will share in the benefit. As for the Texas Central except for a short distance, we very seldom handle Negro passengers, but when we do their compartment in our coaches is upholstered the same and receives the same care as the part provided for white passengers." Mr. C. B. Rhodes, General Passenger Agent of the Georgia, Southern & Florida Railway Company, replies as follows: "I wash to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 13th inst., enclosing marked copy of an article of yours which was recently printed in the Century Magazine, for which please accept my thanks." Will Look Carefully Into the Matter. Mr. Albert T. Perkins, President of the New Iberia and Northern Railroad Company, writes: "Your letter of October 8th with copy of article reprinted from Century Magazine was duly received, and I have read the article through with care and much interest. I have realized to some extent the situation as to railroad accommodations which you described, and hope I have been in- mental in some cases in better- certain features on various roads in Texas, Louisiana, etc., in which have been concerned. As to the Ne- beria and Northern Railroad, the passenger service is for the most pa- ven by large steel motor cars which the accommodations for white and blacks are equipped in identical the same manner. Your letter we have the effect of my examining wit some greater care the 'arrangement on several other railroads with which I am-connected; and I thank you fo- sending my article." Will Be Glad to Read It. Mr. C. H. Hix, President of the Norfolk Southern Railway Company says: "This is to acknowledge re- ceipt of yours of the 14th, with enclosure, which I will be glad to read." Policy Is to Improve Mr. W. W. Finley, President of the Southern Railway Company, states: "I have noted what you say as to the treatment of Negro travelers on railways in the South. The matter of accommodations for Negroes is one which has been having the attention of the management of this Company and it is our policy to improve those accommodations so far as it is practicable for us to do so." I am sure your readers will be interested in the above extracts and in those which are to follow next week. (Signed) BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, February 28, 1914 SUNDAY SCHOOL MOURNS FIDO Faithful Attendant For Ten Years Gets Flower Decked Coffin. Ashtabula, O.-Fido, the most faithful attendant at St. Peter's Episcopal Sunday school, was buried with honour in the front lawn of his home. Fido was a little black dog of obscure ancestry owned by Ward Cross. twelve years old, son of Dr. W. C. Cross. For ten years he had attended the Sunday school regularly and always brought a cent. He would enter the church with solemn air, trot down the alley to, the infant class and remain throughout the service without a bark or whine. He carried the coin in his mouth and never missed a session in ten years. Flowers covered his coffin, and children wept for their friend. PAYS HIS EARE WITH AN EGG. Obliging Hen In a Basket Saves Her -Owner a Five Mile Walk. Tarrytown, N. Y.—The thoughtfulness of a White Leghorn hen saved West Wood a five mile walk. Wood had the hen in a basket and was returning from White Plains. When he got on a trolley car he could not find his pocketbook. While searching his pockets he heard the hen cackle and, raising the cover, saw a newly laid egg. He explained to the conductor that he had lost his money and asked him to take the egg for the fare. The conductor willingly closed the bargain, saying fresh eggs were scarcer than nickels. Beet Four and One-half Feet Long. San Francisco.-Slixty-five pounds in weight, four and one-half feet in length and three and one-half feet in circumference are the measurements of the largest beet in this portion of California. J. J. Smith of San Lorenzo raised the beet, which is on exhibition in the State bank window in San Leandro with other chamber of commerce exhibits. Smith's beet bears a surprising resemblance to the carcass of a sheep. WEDDING BIDS OF NO USE. Girl Refuses to Mail Them—Why! Married In June. West Orange, N. J.—When Mr. and Mrs Silas A Mills received from the engravers a box of invitations to be sent out for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen Mills, to William Forsyth of Orange, the daughter began to blush. When her mother told her to address the envelopes the daughter blushed some more and said: "I don't think we will mail the invitations, mother." "I hope you don't think we will deliver them personally," retorted the mother. "But there is no use in fooling the folks," the young woman said. "We can save the money for the stamps, be cause Bill and I were married or June 18." The mother bore up bravely under the shock, but more than 200 friends and relatives will have to forego the pleasure of seeing Helen Mills and "Billy" Forsyth married on Thanksgiving eve. TO POLE BY AEROPLANE. Shackleton Will Have Sledges Drawn by Airship. London.—The keenest interest is felt in the news that Sir Ernest H. Shackleton, who already has written his name indelibly on the antarctic roll of fame, is about to lead another British expedition to the south pole. The main object of the expedition will be to cross the antarctic continent from sea to sea, making the south pole the halfway house on the great journey and thus at one stroke recover for Britain the prestige and place in polar exploration that were hers till four years ago. This will be the biggest polar journey yet attempted and will open up in the Weddell quadrant a vast unexplored region which is still blank on the map. It is notable that no attempt to reach the south pole has yet been made from Weddell sea, the point of departure for the new expedition, all other journeys having been made from Ross sea, on the other side. HER FIANCE HER BROTHER. Relationship Revealed In Strange Manner Stops Marriage. Greeley. Colo.-Just as they were leaving to procure a marriage license and have the nuptial knot tied by a justice of the peace Miss Mary Hardy, a homesteader near Buckingham, Weld county, discovered that Frank Cameron, a neighboring homesteader, to whom she was engaged, was her brother. Miss Hardy fainted, and it was some time before she could be revived. The discovery of the relationship between Miss Hardy and Cameron, the real name of both being Howard, was brought about through Cameron wearing for the first time in her presence a small gold ring with a peculiar button setting as a fob for his watch chain. "Where did you get that ring?" faltered Miss Hardy as she noticed and then inspected it. "My sister gave me that to remember her by the last time I saw her twenty-three years ago," answered Cameron. astonished at her agitation. "Then you are my brother!" exclaimed Miss Hardy and fainted. When Miss Hardy was revived she proved their relationship beyond all doubt by going to her jewel box and taking from it a silver coin bearing the date of her brother's birth and his initials, which he had engraved when a boy. It appears that the brother and sister were deserted in childhood by their parents and later were adopted in different families. MODERN ENOCH ARDEN. "Widow" Sues For Insurance Eight Years After His Disappearance. Aberdeen, Wash.—Dismissal of an action in the superior court for recovery of a $3,000 insurance policy brings to light the discovery that William I. Cogdill, formerly of Hoqualm cruiser, is alive, though his wife and friends believed him dead for eight years. In April, 1904, after bidding his wife and children farewell, Cogdill left Hoqualm on a cruising expedition to Oregon. From Oregon he wrote two letters to his wife, and in the latest he said he would be home in a few days. From that time until a few weeks ago, when he was found in a platinum mine in northern California, nothing was heard of him. His wife, after an exhaustive search, gave him up for dead. Since Cogdill's mysterious disappearance Mrs. Cogdill has supported herself and children by operating a boarding house in Hoquaim. She walted eight years and then sued for the insurance her husband had carried. NEW SCHEME TO KEEP HUSBANDS AT HOME Wife, Left Alone, Fakes Story of Battle With Intruder. Chestertown, Md.-The mystery surrounding what was supposed to have been an attack upon Mrs. Jesse Hurd while she was alone, in her home, a short distance from town, on a recent Saturday night was solved when Mrs. Hurd, who had stated that she had been assailed by a negro, but had driven him away by cutting his head and hands with a carving knife, broke down and confessed to State Attorney Vickers and Deputy Sheriff James Bolton that the whole thing was false and that she told the story to keep her husband at home at night. In her confession she said her husband was in the habit of leaving home every night after supper and not returning until late. So she killed a chicken and smelled the blood on the floor of the dining room and on the outside of the house to give him the impression that she had been attacked When the husband returned home about midnight on the night of the alleged assault his wife pretended to be in a terribly nervous condition and stated that she had been attacked by a negro. She showed her husband the carving knife and the blood stains on the floor and around the premises, and he notified the state attorney and the sheriff, who immediately began a search for the imaginary negro. The country and woods surrounding the house were scoured without result, and Detective Hogan was ordered here from Baltimore to unravel the mystery. Mrs. Hurd has the sympathy of all defenseless women who are left alone by inconsiderate husbands, but the officers will be shy of future like experiences. WEDDING FOLLOWS FUNERAL. Not Until Thirty Years Elapse Does Woman Feel Free to Marry. Detroit, Mich.—An engagement between Miss Belle Parry, an assistant principal in the Craft school, and Silas Hopkins that had extended for a period of thirty years was fulfilled in the marriage of the couple beside the casket of the bride's aged mother, Mrs Arabella Parry, the wedding ceremony following immediately the funeral services for the dead. Not till her parents no longer needed her was Miss Parry ready to reward her betrothed. Her father was laid to rest ten years ago, and Miss Parry devoted the years since then to the care of her mother, who had passed her ninety-fourth birthday when she died. STUDENTS EARN $109,604. Teach Foreigners English, Translate and Pose For Advertisements. Chicago. By posing for artists who draw advertisements, for men's clothing, by instructing classes of foreigners in English, by translating foreign correspondence for business houses and by various other means students at the University of Chicago, who are working their way through school, last year earned a total of $109,604, or an average of more than $83 each. The annual report of the employment bureau of the university gives figures showing that many of the students earned from $2 to $25 a day, according to their talent. However, most of the positions filled were as waiters, stenographers, salesmen and lancers. Nearly all of those assisted by the bureau were men. Of the 1,311 students employed only 117 were girls, who acted as tutors and companions to invalids. Half a dozen football players since the close of the season have been posing as artists' models at the rate of $2 an hour. Other students found positions as chauffeurs, clerks and cashiers in hotels, settlement teachers, solicitors and guards and motormen on the elevated railroads. FOOD SHE TOUCHES FATAL. Professor Chantemesse Reports on the Strange Case of a Pastry Cook. Paris.-According to Professor Andre Chantemesse, inspector general of the service of hygiene and a member of the Academy of Medicine, a woman pastry cook at Cholet, near Nantes, has been directly responsible in the last ten years for ten deaths and fully 100 serious illnesses. As a result of the investigation of deaths due to poisoned cream at a wedding feast in Cholet on Nov. 4, 1913, the professor concludes that the cook was a perfect instance of the rare phenomenon of a human microbe carrier, saturated with deadly bacilli. Further inquiries show that the same woman prepared the creams causing similar tragedies at Sulpicleres in 1002, at Saint-Macaire the same year and at other places in 1006 and 1911. Any food she touches, especially of a creamy nature, is almost certain to be impregnated with microbes of gas-tro-enteritis. Professor Chantemelieu was assisted by Drs. Pitcot, Rousseau and Rodriguez, who tested the theory on gulena pigs and obtained positive proof CITY A DEALER IN GROCERIES AT COST Municipal Store In Chicago Has Proved Big Success. Chicago.—Father Dearborn (that's the nickname for Chicago) has opened his "sales at cost" grocery for business. It is in a neighborhood where the winter cold and the lack of work have caused considerable distress. County Agent Meyers has been designated as store boss, and his head clerk is Douglas Cleary. An appropriation of $25,000 was made jointly by the city and county to relieve the immediate needs of the poor, and it was decided to open a city store where staple foods might be bought at cost. One hundred and twenty-five customers spent $130 on the first day. Only persons deemed in need of the benefits of the store are permitted to buy at the cost prices. Circulars were sent out to families whose names are on the list of the bureau of charities. These will be provided with cards, and those who wish to buy at the store will be asked to present the cards. The storekeeper, however, is permitted to use discretion if he considers applicants are worthy. Those who are without cards and are out of employment or in difficult circumstances because of illness are given a chance to register at the store and their cases investigated. Alderman James H. Lawley, who aided Mr. Meyers in planning the store, presented to the municipal markets commission at an afternoon meeting a graphic illustration of the part played by the cost of food in the average family's existence. It showed that almost half of the income "ple" was consumed at the family table. The computations made by Frederick Rex, municipal reference librarian, were based on the investigations of the Massachusetts commission on the cost of living. LET THE UNFIT DIE? Sir William Ramsay Thinks That Class is Coddled Too Much. London. At the annual dinner of the Institute of Sanitary Engineers Sir William Ramsay raised the question of whether the unit should be left to die. Sir William surprised the audience by asking whether it was right that people should be so coddled as they were. Where they were doing something to prolong the lives of the unit, would it not be better to let some of them die out? he asked. They insisted on children getting an education, he said, and they came to school starved. Then they had to give their breakfast, and they had to find books for them. Ultimately, he said, they would have to take over the children entirely. He added that he wondered where that sort of thing was going to end. THE BEE Published at 1109 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 MOSS BACK PROFESSORS. It is to be hoped that the professors and instructors in Howard University, who, thus far, have shirked their duty to students, race and country will follow the lead of Professors Cook, Moore, Dyson, Turner, Gregory and Locke, and support the National Association for the Advancement of Colorful People, where its work deserves it. This great organization, the modern Abolition Movement, is wielding a tremendous influence in moulding public opinion in this country in order that black men everywhere shall get a "square deal." It has aided in staying the hand of the National Government in the segregation issue; it has aroused the conscience of the Nation so that most of the leading journals are demanding justice for the Negro; and only recently it secured for the Negro a share of the national fund for agricultural extension work. The Negro should be able to look up to his educators, and especially those in the leading Negro universities in the land, for help, for light and leadership in this great crisis through which we are now passing. The highest service that an educator can render his students is to contribute in service toward making a more wholesome sentiment in this country so that they can have a better chance in the race of life. What will Mrs. La Follette, Oswald Garrison Villard, and the other noble spirits who are aiding us, think, when in the face of a new slavery, they see Negro educators in a great institution evading the greatest issue in America, and doing nothing to help make the Negro free. A teacher has a higher duty than imparting a few facts, and collecting money. The teachers of the city, the business and professional men and women, and even the young students of Howard whom these professors are paid to help, have responded nobly to the call, and in so doing they have aided the cause of freedom. The struggle has even made more certain the salaries of these professors. May they follow the example of Oberlin professors of ante-bellum days, who often left their classes in order to prevent the return of a run-away slave. We ask no such great sacrifice as these great souls made in the service to our fathers, but we do ask what a fitting sense of duty to students and race impels, namely, a contribution to the New Abolitionism. The Bee would suggest the organization for the advancement of colored people should be supported and let colored lawyers be employed when necessary to defend it. We have some of the best lawyers in the United States. DEMOCRACY A SHAM. When a Negro says that he is a Democrat, you can just bet that he is endeavoring to rob some Democratic Congressman's pockets. The most amusing donkey is the weekly X-Ray Democracy, published at Tokepa, Kans. This Negro editor claims to be a Negro Democrat. When the first number of his paper was published about 34 weeks ago, he endeavored to give his reasons for supporting the Democratic party. This thought did not intoxicate the brain of this editor until he was convinced that he could earn an easy dollar without working very hard for it. Negro Democracy in this country is sham, a mockery and a disgrace to present civilization. Those Negroes who supported the Democratic party in the last election The Bee is in receipt of letter from Mr. P. B. Young, president of The Guide Publishing Co. of Norfolk, Va., in which he says: "I am writing to call your attention to an editorial appearing in the March number of The Crisis, which I regard as a reflection upon the whole Negro Press. In as much as the press has been very kind and considerate to The Crisis I do not think that the colored newspapers ought to allow gratuitous insult to pass unnoticed." Mr. Young's letter is but similar to many received, protesting against the wholesale condemnation of the Negro Press by the vandyked-editor of The Crisis which, if it recognized appropriateness, ought to change its name to The Paste Pot and Shears. The editorial in The Crisis referred to says: "Some of the best of colored papers are so wretchedly careless in their use of the English language and sense of the value of words that witen they see English they are apt to mistake it for something else." Again it states "Few of the colored weekly papers have stood staunch for principle;" that they present but some of the facts and then but in a partial and incomplete way. If the English appearing in the colored weeklies is so wretched, why is it that The Crisis is practically made up of matter having appeared in these "wretchedly" edited weeklies? If but few of the colored weekly papers have stood staunch for principles, why is it The Crisis appropriates from their columns, without discrimination, and without giving credit, practically all the matter worth reading appearing in The Crisis? Daily and weekly newspapers, whether white or colored, are so intent upon giving the news, and the rush incident to gathering, assembling and printing the news is such they have not time to employ Harvardized English, and they are not able to pay $2,500 per annum to an editor whose name is the French for "wood" or "wooden" to take the time of one month to write a single editorial. According to the narrow, self-opinionated editor of The Crisis, John Mitchell's long years of service given to the race, as editor of The Planet has counted for nothing simply because his "English" did not square with the ideas of the editor of The Paste Pbt and Shears. The long published Indianapolis Freeman has rendered the race no service because possibly at some time, in a rush, a verb was split or hasty proof, reading precluded the correction of the use of the double superlative. According to arraignment of the Negro Press, by the author of The Souls of Black Folk, Christ Perry's excellent Philadelphia Tribune, the verile Chicago Defender, The Atlanta Independent, the splendid New York race journals, from the clean-cut Age to the most recent bidder for racial favor because of its bold stand for manhood rights—The News, have rendered the race no service because possibly, at some time, the singular "I" appeared instead of the plural "we." The Norfolk Guide, The Dallas Express, The Wagoner American, and many other race weeklies published in sections where it requires courage to speak out in defense of the race and in condemnation of the enemies of the race, and which publications have consistently done this for years, are of no service to the race because the "hired editor" in a small room of a New York office building, who appropriates their matter each month without crossing a "T" or dotting an "L," elects to say their English is some times bad, and assumes the arbitrary right to announce, according to his opinion, they have not stood staunch for principle. In short, the Negro Press, from Boston to Galveston, from the Atlantic to the Pacific is a failure has rendered the race no service, according to the opinion of the conceived one who draws $2,500 per annum for a liberal use of the paste pot and shears, and the writing of perhaps one Harvardized editorial a month. What meat doth this Caesar feed upon? What has been the achievements, along constructive lines, of this professional $2,500 per annum race solver that he should sweepingly condemn the Negro Press whose weekly defense of the race, year in and year out, made at a sacrifice, has made possible the very movement Mr. DuLois is contributing so much to disrupt? We pause for The Negro Press to reply. as Thebee stated prior to the election in November, 1912, that every Negro who declared for democracy had been paid in full, when he accepted money and gave a receipt for the game. Only one colored Democrat thus far, who didn't accept a cent from the National Democratic Campaign Committee has been appointed thus far and he to a small position not commensurate with his merit and ability. The so-called New Jersey Negro Democrat, headed by Albert B. Cosey, arrived in this city with a bunch of endorsements for Recorder of Deeds, and what is the result? Vardaman. Hoke Smith. Tillman and other Southern Democrats have declared that they will oppose the nomination of any Negro. What would their opposition amount to if the administration is sincere? The administration is able to confirm any man if his record is clean, notwithstanding this peanut opposition in the Senate. Grover Cleveland nominated so-called Negro Democrats under the very department of which Hoke Smith was secretary, a Recorder of Deeds in the person of Charles T. J. Taylor, from Kansas. Why didn't Hoke Smith oppose this appointment? He didn't resign from the Secretaryship of the Interior Department. Mr. Cleveland had prior to that appointment of Taylor for Recorder of Deeds nominated him minister to Bolivia. He also nominated this pet Negro Democrat minister to Liberia. He nominated so-called Negro Democrats to other important offices under both of his administrations, and the howl of white Democracy was as soft as a young kitten's cry. Every Negro Democratic nominee was confirmed. The South was in the saddle then, but the driver was a man of nerve and from the North. He was a positive character and the South knew it. Negro Democracy, so called, seeing as it does the hypocrisy of the party for which it has declared, ought to convince it that the Democratic party is a mockery and Negro Democracy is a sham. A PERSECUTED MAN. The entire press in this country should be a unit in defense of Judge Emory Spear, the persecuted judge who has never been derelict in his duty to depend that which is right and condemn that which is wrong. Much is due to this dis- tinguished jurist for the obliteration of that hellish peonage system of slavery in the South, and especially the State of Georgia, which has been the humiliation and partial destruction of the black man. Why has the colored press been so silent? Why should the defense of this friend of the colored man been fought by himself? Actuated as we are by no feeling of resentment against the South, but we are guided by a sense of justice so condemn this political persecution of a man who stood almost alone in defense of the black man in the South. Why not ask him if he needs the financial help of the race, which he has defended by his just and righteoulegal decisions. Why remain idle in a cause like this, when we know that many of his accusers are quasihusbands of colored mistresses. This is where the so-called organization for the Advance of the Colored People could play an important part. But why is it so silent? Judge Emory Spear is being investigated by a Democratic Congress, which sees but little in the advancement of colored Americans. What offense has Judge Spear committed? Nothing but to send to the penitentiary men who have fostered human slavery in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Shall these outrages continue in a Republic where liberty and the protection of life and property are suffered to reign? Conditions in this country are becoming tyrannical and brutal. Regard for law and order see no abatement. Crime is on the increase and murder of human beings have the indulsement of legislators and legislatures. The laws of our National Congress are national forces and oppressive to the people. Our government is weak and our foreign policies are made the laughing stock of the world. A judge who exercises an opinion of his own and sentences a violator of the law is subject to impeachment. Let the colored press of the country appeal to Congress to protect its friend and defender of human rights against Southern barbarity. Judge Spear is a persecuted man. LET THE PEOPLE RULE. One of the most remarkable meetings of the teachers of the public schools that has ever been held, was called by Assistant Superintendent Roscoe Bruce in the Assembly Hall of Summer School a week ago. The assistant superintendent always has his ear to the ground and he had heard of certain mutterings among the teaching corps against the so-called College Section of the Normal School No. 2. He decided that the wisest and best thing he could do was to invite all teachers who might be interested to confer with him upon the whole subject. The Conference was held. At least three hundred teachers of all shades of opinion were present. There was the freest give and take of opinion and complaint and argument. Every teacher spoke frankly and without reservation. Mr. Bruce said that the College Section was established in order "to enrich and envigorate the personnel" of teachers in the intermediate grades by the appointment thereto each year of "two or three young men and women of liberal education." The teachers did not question the motive of the authorities, but they contended that such appointments would block promotions from the primary department to the intermediate, creating "a dead line." The teachers expressly disclaimed any antagonism either to the school administration or to the college graduates; it was simply a question of whether it is wise to insist upon the appointment of the college graduates when the plan operates in fact to discourage the primary teachers. The upshot of the meeting was the statement by assistant superintendent that he deeply appreciated the candor and courtesy with which he had met and that he would formulate a recommendation to Superintendent Thurston which would meet the grievances of the teachers squarely and justly. A motion to have Mr. Bruce appoint a committee of five to confer with him upon the details of his recommendation was lost by an overwhelming majority, the feeling being that the assistant superintendent's sense of justice could be trusted once the facts were before him. The Blee congratulates Mr. Bruce upon thus frankly taking his teachers into his confidence. We agree with him in saying and feeling that the best way to adjust matters of this kind is by following the advice of Abraham Lincoln. "Come, let us reason together," and when we agree that a proposition is objectionable it should be eliminated. Let the College Section in our schools be abolished as we believe it will be. PROF. A. W. CRAIG For song reason the teachers in the M Street High School are constantly nagging Prof. A. W. Craig. The reason The Bee is informed is, that he doesn't cater to lily whitism, but believes in following the merit system regardless of the color of the pupil's skin or the curl of his hair. Why should this nagging be tolerated? Why should a worthy and competent teacher be harassed because he refuses to stoop to meanness? The Bee gives warning as to what will follow if this nagging continues. A hint to the wise should be sufficient. JUDGE WRIGHT The attack made upon Judge Daniel Thew Wright is cowardly and unwarranted. The charges come too late to be effective. Judge Wright has only done his duty, which time will show. And let other people's affairs alone. Spurious friends are many, staunch friends are few. The correspondents of all newspapers which will not accept R. Windy Thompson's fudge are pronounced by him "penny-a-liners," "irresponsible," etc. Case of sour grapes. Last week a Negro was lynched and burned in Mississippi, the week before one end of a rope was tied to the neck of one, and the other to a trestle, and he was made to jump from that trestle to death. That brutality, that taking of life without hearing or trial never caused Woodrow Wilson or William Jennings Bryan to even venture a remark. A white man, an English subject, was murdered last week in Mexico; and both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan are "stayin' up o' nights" planning proper punishment for the crime. They are beginning to sit up and take renewed notice of Col. Roosevelt. The nearer approaches the time for his return from South America, the more is the fear, among the standpatters that the strenuous Colonel will be a candidate for President in 1916. If he is, depend upon it that the rough rider will carry a large per cent of the Negro vote. And that he should be the Republican candidate, rather than the candidate of a third party, is by no means an improbability. Last November, The Bee carried a special from Muskogee, Okla., telling of little Sarah Rector's great wealth, how she was living, in a mere shack, and of the meager allowance her white guardian made for her out of the funds he handled for her. The article was copied extensively by newspapers throughout the country. In February The Crisis clipped it out, ran it in its columns, verbatim, without correcting the 'wretched English," and served it up to its readers as news. Three months after it appeared in the colored weekly papers The Crisis learns of it from the colored weekly papers. Public Men Ar.d Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) "Haw, haw, haw; ohch hee, hee, hee-haw." "Ah knewt wuz comin'!" "Yes sir." "Ah knewt it" "Dey lub de Littl' Lord but oh you College Section." "In de words of de Good Book: 'Dey has girded deir loins wid secrecy and petitions and gone fote, wid only a pebble like de littl' David, to do battle wid de mighty Goliah." "Yasir." "As Rev. Doc. Marshall would say: 'Dey has riz up in deir might en actualer bearded de lion in his den, you hear me what Ah say, in his den." "Yessir." "Ah hyah dut dey partitioned dat de said law was unjust, unfair, unkind, crook and abused; dat it wuz ex-constisctoinal, expostifac, as well as excoroshiati and darfo dey enjoined a divorce darfron." "Dem teachers and pedagogres suah mus' a had some moah untelligen, and brained lawyah fur to brief deir case; suttinly so." "Yessir." "You needner ack so ignorin'lak jes do, same as you doahn't hyah me en meak what Ah say doannh' affeck you none' tall. Is you heard dat dey's organizin' dese teachers en pegagogres--so, dat dey kin fureer perteck dey rights? Uraliah, it sho do look lak a revolution is jis over de hills fur your frenn' Littl' Lord. Uraliah; hit-- sho do. Yasir." Now jis "spose." "Mistah." Absay. "Mistah Snowball, youse a plumb fool. Shut your hail up on deahn't croak so much. Youse a plumb twenty-four carat fool. You suttily has exposed yoah ignance, failed to masticate dem legal apperations and committed perjury on de Holy writs to say nothin' "bout de countertit courage of your edicated high-brows. Ah' hit pears to me dat youse in' one mighty big word dere, dat Revolution. Jis a triple large fur you I'm' feard. Snowball. You know back yonder when dere wahn't no teachers en pedagogors of color, en no College Section either fur dat mattah, when Britishiser Cornwallis on de plains' o' Bunker Hill jis double all up wid shame en take his war-bonnet off en surrendal his swode to Gen. G. Washington, de same one dat chopped down de cherry tree, de world clapped deir han's en said; dey said: "Hurrah fur Gen. G. Washington en Crispus Attucks, "de revolution is ovah." "En, Snowball, you kin read in ev almanac en history-book in de wurl 'bout dat great war ny de Revolution. Twuz a revolution because de poor little raggedy Colonies beat. But, but on de contrary, you ignant simp, if Gen. G. Washington had a giv' his swode of Britishiser Cornwallis en said veal soft-like, jis like Shakespeare said le did when his papa come up on his wid de bloody hatchet. "Ah surred-dal' den dere wouldn't been no books about de War nu de Revolution: nor nothin' 'bout no hero. Gen. G. Washington. But dere would a-heen a lot ny books 'bout rebellion uv de 13 Colonies en 'bout traitor. G. Washington. Dat is to say revolution is revolution only whenever it succeeds in succeedin'; when it fails to succeed it is treason." "You bettah go slow on dat revolution bizness, Mistah Snowball." "Lemme 'splain to you 'bout dis bvah College Section done. "Some few years ago de Littl' Lord thought up de idee dat dere wuz entirely too many teachers comin' to school at nine en leavin' at prompt three o'clock, you know, signin' de payroll every mont' jis fur dat—en a heap o' yoah fren's is still doin' de same thing. Snowball—so he decided dat yed ought to he giv' some medicine to stimulant dem 'to do somein' or odder to keep deir blood from stagnatin en so dey wouldn't he drawin' dey monthly per entirely on false pretenses. Dis medicine consisted givin' some preference to College Graduates who had took one year in de Normal School, College de Luce. You see de Littl' Lord figered as how dat all of dem would den study en 'improve deir min's so dat dey all could get permotions. But he figered wrong. Dey wanted de promotions but it wuz entirely out uv keepin' wid deir dignity en too much trouble to study. So dey had a 'thusiasm meetin'; drawn up dat ap-postifacter petition en distributed them' broadcast over de land claimin' dat dey had had a cinch an' hadn't had fer to study all years; settin' fote dat dey had 'cepted de job wid de understandin' dat dey wouldn't hafter work; 'legin' dat it was imposed to all de law an' customer fur a un-white Washin'ton school-teacher to work an' study, an 'demandin', derefo, dat de said College Section Normal rule he expurgated fum de books o' reco'd!" "But, Uraliah, don't you think dey had a right to kick?" "Well, yes. No on de law; but on de lack uv results uv de law. It didn't perduce de kind an' caliber uv men an' women to leaven up de sleepin' mass. An' Ah say no matter how good a law may be it ain't no good 'tall if de good it does ain't a heap sight more dan, de bad it does. An Ah ventures to say dat de Littl. Lord had dis same hunch and wanted de law modified an 'derluded." "Well den whut's de kick about, Uraliah an' why is you so sore on de teachers? 'Membah Ah'll be a teacher myself some o' des days." "Veah likely, veah likely, Snowball, youse a big 'nough fool to be moz' anything. De part Ah don't lak is fur dem to be magnifyin' an' advertisin' an' airin' t难 troubles befo de white folks at dis veah perticuler time; cain't a bit o' good cum uv it, Snowball. Dey could gone 'bout dis thing in a more better way an' got more outen it. Now dey is liable to git jis what Ah got de las' Sat day night Ah went home broke. Whee-ee Ah 'membah dat jis as plain. Yessirree. Dey actions is cal'clated to make folks think dat dey is really fightin' de Littl' Lord when whut dey advertise is dat dey is fightin' de law dat is cal'clated to make em work for deir permotions. An' since its mo sentiment dan principle dat dey have de moh speerit is lible to run away wid dem and deyll end up by fighting mos' evry pusson uv color connected up wid de schools. Aw no. Sonny, not dat. Dey wouldn't pertested no law dat a white gemman had made. Nosirree. Dey live in de Ghetto an' ride in de Jim Crow because a white gemman made dem laws, and matchly dey mus' be all right. "But dey wuz veah brave to stand up in Summer Scholb en talk back to de Littl' Lord like dey did. wuzn't dey, Uraliah? "Dey wuz heroes, Snowball, heroes. Dat's jes whut Ah'm tellin' you. Dey wuz brave because dey wuz talkin' to a pusson uv color. Why if dat pusson uv color had, a suddenly turned to a white man de Hon. Mister Gillem would a swollered his hot potato, furget his little oration an 'gin up all his dreams o' Cicero an 'de law an 'Long Joe. well he couldn't a been much worse. Dey say ev'try body enjoyed de Hon: Mister Syphax's speech on slavery an 'mancipa-hum while de suffragettes harled up de usual amount uv thrills. Now all uv dem is struttn' round 'chest-like, jez fur all de wurl like dey had dug up Panama or single-handed captured Mister Senor Pancho Conancho Villa. "De Supervisors, how did dey higher in de plot, Uraliah? "Aw, dey wuz sort uv curtain pulkers. Ah reckon; near 'nough to enjoy de'show an' far 'nough erway to be out uv danger in case anything broke loose." But dis is my guess "bout de whole bloomin' bizness. dey hab refused to take de Epson Salts dat de Doctor perscribed to liven up de system but Ah' bet you he'll get 'em to take a dose of magnesium sulphate heptahydrate, en they'll take it en smack their mouths. Aw yes, Snowball, they is veah brave an' veah smart, too. Unveiling of Charteres. (Exchange.) The unveiling of the Charter of Minerva Lodge, No. 2, Loyal Knights and Ladies of Malachites of the World, took place in their lodge room the 3rd ipst. The ceremony was performed at the regular session, by the Supreme Governor, Dr. S. O. G. Johnson, while senior Don and Bro. Pacifico Melendez P. governor of this Province, did the unveiling. An address entitled "A Square Deal," was delivered by Past Supreme Governor A. G. Burkley. A banquet followed, attended by a few guests and a pleasant evening was spent. Mr. T. Hulbert Evan-proposed the toast of the President and the Republic of Panama in Spanish to which the Alcace responded. After several-other toasts the proceedings were brought to a close with the playing of the Panama National Anthem and the singing of the British National Anthem. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS. From China, supplants the Tango in France. It has only five steps, which is quite an advantage over the Tango seventy-two. It is described as a reaction against the indecency of the Argentine dances. The French Ministry of Marine has invited bids for raising the 1,000 brass guns which were on the seven warships which sank in the Bay Fort La Hogue, on the English Channel. in May, 1692. Old Bethel A. M. E. Church, on Saratoga Street, near Gay Street, in Baltimore, Md., has been sold for $9,900. The building was erected over sixty years ago. Little Sarah Rector, 10-year-old millionaire girl of Muskogee, Okla., has been sent to Tuskegee Institute and put under the personal care of Mrs. Booker T. Washington. A French engineer makes first trip in a hydro-aeroplane that weighs nearly five hundred tons. The big machine was built by Engineer Maurice Colliex with the aid of M. Janson. It carries two pilots, two mechanics, and enough gasoline and oil for 1,600 kilometers. Its first trip was near Friel on the Seine. Pope Pius X has made Rouen Cathedral in Paris a gift of a huge bell called "Jeanne d'Arce." It weighs 40,000 pounds. The hammer alone weighs 6,000 pounds. It is the largest bell in France. Howard Academy Wins The five representing academy of Howard University decisively defeated the much-talked-of Olympic Basket Ball Team, representing the Harrisburg, Pa., High School, by the score of 49 to 10. As a preliminary game the old guards, led by the former captain, Dr Husdon Oliver, Howard's greatest basket ball star, met a bad defeat at the hands of the crack varsity The score, 38 to 12, does not indicate how classy and hard-fought was the game. The "has been's" played a "cracker-jack" game, but lack of practice caused them to miss many shots; hence the one-sided score. The Week in Society You believe in drugs and medicines of quality. The best is none too good for your health. Every drug used in the compounding of your prescriptions should be selected with the sole aim of giving you health and service—the kind that your doctor knows to be good and safe. Give your doctor the greatest cooperation by taking your prescriptions to Board's Pharmacy, 1912% Fourteenth Street N.W. Miss Estelle Coffey, of this city, has returned from North Carolina, where she spent two pleasant months with relatives and friends. Mr. Richard Green, of the Treasury Department, has returned to his home from a trip with Secretary McAdoo and his party, which conducted the hearing on the new current system. The itinerary carried the party from Boston to San Francisco with the return covering the South through New Orleans, Atlanta and Richmond. Mr. William H. Wilkes, thirty-seven years a messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, died Sunday at his home, 1227 Twelfth Street Northwest, after an illness of several weeks. The students of the Law Department of Howard University have organized the Tau Delta Sigma and have taken fraternity quarters at 417 Tea Street. The president of the new fraternity is Robert Banks Crumpler, of Virginia. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who has been spending a time in Obelin, Ohio, where her two daughters, Mary and Phillis, are attending college, has returned to this city for a stay of about three weeks. Mrs. P. H. Carson, widow of the late Col. P. H. Carson, died Sunday night. March 1, after a short illness. Mr. A. E. T. Draper, of Tennessee, formerly clerk in the Pension Office, died Tuesday night of tuberculosis at Freedmen's Hospital. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton has been re-elected president of the People's Investment Company, which expects shortly to launch a colored department store at a convenient point on Seventh Street Northwest. Miss Jeanetta Williams has returned to her home in Harrisburg, Pa., after spending several months in this city. Mrs. E. E. Whitfield, of this city, and field secretary of the Women's Convention Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Cosey in Mound Bayou, Miss, last week. Mrs. Whitfield has covered the territory from the Gulf of Mexico to the hilltops of Maine. "High Brown" face powder is now all the rage. Buy the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 1912½ Fourteenth Street N. W. Miss Madlyn Simms, of 911 S Street Northwest, was the guest of Miss Maggie Dorsey, of A Street last week. Mrs. John Greiger, of New York, is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Douglass. Miss Florence Jackson, of The Bee, who has been quite sick, has returned to her desk. Mrs. Bessie Andrews, of St. Luke, is in the city. Dr. J. W. Morse is an up-to-date druggist and a progressive one at that. Mr. Morse is a great acquisition to his friends. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N.C. passed through the city for the West Wednesday evening. His uncle died and was buried last Sabbath and he leaves his brother. Dr. Charles, in a dangerous condition with an attack of appendicitis. DR. RIVERS HONORED. Testimonial and Reception to the Distinguished Pastor—Many Prominent Ministers Present—Musical and Literary Program a Feature. Rev. D. F. Rivers, pastor of the Berean Baptist Church, was tendered a reception and testimonial on the occasion of the sixteenth anniversary of his pastorate of that church. Tuesday evening. March 3. No man is better liked or appreciated. He is regarded a model of perfection as a pastor. He is a frank and practical speaker, free from deception, and demagogery, highly moral in his department and conduct, are only a few of the many high qualities that are in this divine. The testimonial was given under the auspices of the Volunteer Club of the church, of which Mrs. Waller P. Freeman is president. The guests of honor, who occupied seats upon the platform were: Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Rev. T. J. Brown, pastor of St. Luke's E. P. Church; Rev. Dixon, Rev. J. M. Waldron, pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church; N. Devvons, E. S. Webb, Boyd Parks, Burk Norman and Mr. W. Calvin Chase. The program was beautifully arranged and carried out with but two exceptions—Dr. C. Sumner Wormley and Prof. John Lemas were ill—which made it impossible for them to attend. The exercises opened with a prelude by Mr. Louis N. Brown, followed by a most eloquent invocation by Rev. K Milton Waldron. Mrs. Walter P. Freeman, president of the club, made the opening address, commending in the highest terms the many fine qualities of the pastor, Dr. Rivers, which brought, forth applause. The address was not only eloquent, but pointed and entertaining. Mrs. Freeman was tastefully dressed in a delicate shade of crepe de chine. Mrs. Semly rendered very sweetly a vocal solo. Mr. Thomas Heathman is quite an elocutionist and his two selections brought forth enthusiastic applause. applause. Miss Lucy Moten rendered very artistically a piano solo (Moszuwoski). Miss Alice Nelson rendered very acceptably a soprano solo. "My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair." Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., in a cornet solo (Utopia) brought forth enthusiastic applause. Mr. Emily J. Taylor recited very beautifully a selection. "Unawares." She was recalled. Miss Marie C. James, who never fails to please, was the queen of song. She was recalled, but she refused to repeat. This concluded the program, after which Dr. Rivers responded in a very feeling and appreciative address. He was followed by short addresses by the invited ministers present. During the delivery of these short addresses supper was being served by the Supper Committee, which was as follows: Mrs. R. W. Brown, chairman: Mrs. Florence Brodie, Mrs. Butts, Mrs. Worthington, Miss. Oris Winfield, Mrs. Marian Butler, Mrs. Mertis Freeman, and Mrs. Davis. Pianists—Prof. Harry Williams, Miss Jennie Williamson and Mrs. May Chavis. Officers—Mrs. Waller P. Freeman, president Mrs. Mary Scott, vice president: Miss Edna Lucas, secretary: Miss Willie Hewin, treasurer. The usher consisted of four young ladies—Miss Mamie Berry, Miss Edna Lucas, Miss Norman and Misses Hutchins. The testimonial was a deserving tribute to a worthy man. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. Despite the inclement weather Sunday School at the Second Baptist Church was well attended. Rev. George Hopkins, of Mt. Pleasant, Va., filled the pulpit at the morning service in the absence of Rev. G. W. Powell. The Christian Endeavor hour was successfully led by Messrs. Lewis and Russell Lee. Although the evening was stormy, the members and friends present took an active part in the meeting. Mr. Isaac Fitzhugh and daughter Alberta. of Washington, D. C., spent the week end here. Mrs. Grace Ford, who has been sick is improving slowly, to the gratification of her many relatives and friends. Mr. Talbert Thomas, of Washington. D. C. spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas, of Shreves Street. Mrs. William Henderson visited relatives and friends in Washington, D. C. Wednesday. Mr. George Mason, who has been sick with an attack of la gripe for a week or more, is much better at this writing. Mrs. William Carpenter spent Saturday in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Susie Allen made a trip to Leesburg, Va., Monday, on business, returning the same day. Rev. G. W. Powell has returned from a trip to Lincoln, Va. Mrs. Maggie Brown attended the funeral of Mr. William Saunders in Deanwood, D. C. Sunday last. The public school teachers, Misses Edna Lucas and Mary Cheney, attended the Virginia State Convention in Alexandria, Va., Thursday and Friday, of last week. Mr. Charles Henderson spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Henderson. Mrs. Chester Tinner spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, D.C., as the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Maggie Frye, of Swan St. N. W. Mrs. Annie Rumbles, who has been on the sick list for two weeks or more is now.convalescing. The male choir held its rehearsal at the residence of Mrs. William Marshall's Tuesday evening. ALEXANDRIA NEWS. The Negro Teachers' Association and School Improvement League of Virginia held their 26th annual convention at the Alfred Street Baptist Church Thursday and Friday, February 26 and 27. On Thursday afternoon the reports of the teachers were received and showed that much valuable work had been done, and much good achieved during the past year. Mr. E. A. Long, president of the association, entreated the teachers to continue the good work. Mr. T. C. Walker, the field agent. gave instructive and valuable aid. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction authorized that two days be spent by the teachers attending the meeting and same be counted as time spent teaching at school. Capt. W. H. Sweeney, Superintendent of Public Schools of Alexandria, delivered the welcome address in behalf of the City School Board, Mr. M. D. Hall, Superintendent of Public School of Fairfax County, made the welcome address in behalf of Fairfax County School Board, Mr. W. T. Hodges, Superintendent, Alexandria County School Board, made the address of welcome in behalf of his board, and Rev. Samuel B. Ross, president of the local league, delivered the address in behalf of the Colored School Improvement League of Alexandria, and Rev. Joseph Mitchel spoke in behalf of the churches of the city. Responses were made by Prof. A. J. Goode, for the State Association, and Rev. G. E. Read for the visitors. In an address by Prof. J. M. Gandy, at the afternoon session on Thursday, he explained at some length the importance of the work which is being done all over the State by the Negro Organization Society, and urged his hearers to become affiliated with the movement. On Thursday evening the program consisted of addresses by Prof. Roscoe C. Bruce, assistant superintendent of schools, Washington, D. C., the annual address by the president, Mr. E. A. Long, and musical numbers by the choir of Alfred Street Baptist Church, under the direction of Mr. Edgar J. Johnson. On Friday evening, Dean L. B. Moore, of Teachers' College, Howard University, delivered an inspiring address and Miss Celestine Lott, Miss Mary E. Dorsey, Master Ingersol Johnson, Master Russel Hackley, Messrs. P. H. Lumpkins, Edgar J. Johnson, W. I. Buekner, Walter Butler, Franklin Childs and others furnished the musical part of the program. A banquet was tendered the visitors by the local league and the citizens of Alexandria, following the program. The funeral of Mrs. Nora Douglas took place from Roberts Chapel M. E. Church on Sunday. The deceased was one of the oldest residents of the city, being about 100 years old. Though, in spite of her age, she was more agile, up to within two days of her death, than many 60 years her junior. During the forty-five years that Mrs. Douglas held her membership in Roberts Chapel she had done much great work. Not only by contributions, but by ardently working with various church clubs. When Mrs. Emma Credit's famous Excelsior Club was in its bloom Mrs. Douglas was always on hand and served as one of Mrs. Credit's principal "heutenants." She was actively engaged in church work almost to the day of her death. She leaves no near relatives. Rev. Joseph Wheeler officiated at the funeral, assisted by Rev. Jacquelin Strange and Exhorter Moses Simms. Interment was in Bethel Cemetery. Mrs. Fairfax Jackson continues ill at her home, 1008 N. Royal St. The Junior League and the Senior League will hold a joint meeting tomorrow at 4:30 P.M. under direction of their respective presidents, Mrs. Maggie Darnell Evans and Mr. Chas. T. Preston. HALLS HILL VA. Winter in the country has been very clearly demonstrated here since the 13th of February. Our first real snow fell, and since then the fields have remained snow-clad. Sunday a cold wave visited us, of severe winds and a snow storm, which caused great anxiety as well as damage to property. Mrs. Wilkerson's house was unroofed, a shutter was torn from a front window of Mr. T. W. Hyson's dwelling and the window broken in. The new addition to Mr. P. H. Lee's house was blown over and about forty trees were uprooted and blown down. Yet no one was injured. Calloway's Chapel M. E. Church had their regular services Sunday, Sunday School at 10 A. M., Rev. J. F. Williams preached at 11 o'clock from the Second chapter, fifth verse, of Revelations. The discourse was very edifying and well-prepared and highly enjoyed. The subject was Love, Rev. C. E. Queene, pastor in charge, was at Langley to fill his regular appointment there. Those on the sick list are Mr. Richard Mooney, Mrs. Sarah Hyson, Miss Ellen Onesty, Mr. Frank Hyson, Sr., Mr. Wm. Hungerford and Mrs. Mary Moten, being under the efficient care of Dr. C. T. Morten, whose qualifications are unquestionable. We are being honored with a trained nurse among us in the person of Miss Emma Carpenter. Glad to report Mr. John Webster able to resume his work again. Prof. D. B. Anderson is making great success with Sunday school work of Mt. Salvation Baptist Church, with the loyal support of Mrs. Marian Mooney. Rev. C. S. Coleman is pastor. MARLBORO, MD. Miss Cathern Lee, of Baltimore, is spending a few days with her grandparents and friends. Mr. Nelson Magruder is spending the winter with her mother, Mrs. Maria Magruder. Mr. Thomas Wood and Miss Mary Quander were quietly married Wednesday, 18th, 1914, by Rex. Father Di Paula. Mr. James and Allen Love, of Washington, spent Tuesday evening with friends in this town. The grand ball given by the Knights of St. John's band on Monday, February 23d, 1914, was a good success. Miss Susie. Lee spent Sunday evening and Monday with friends in Washington. The grand concert given by the Jolly Four on Tuesday, February 24th, 1914, was a good success Following was the program: The Grand March; prayer by the pastor, Rev. V. Carter; Star Spanglid Banner; Recitations by Miss Ada Satwhite, Miss Alma Johnson, Miss Mary Green, Miss Lillian Wilson, Why Can't You and I; Dialogue, Susie Curtis, Doc. MAJESTIC THEATRE Cut This Out and It Will Admit You to One First-class Performance. FRANK BROWN. : Manager. Johnny's Visit; Duae, Georgianna Scott; Recitation, Miss Mandy Bell; Piano Solo, Miss Annie Lee, Flower Song; Dialogue, Ada Satwhite, Trials of a School Teacher; Duet, Mr. Johnny Stevenson and company; Recitation, Miss Lucy Colbert; Recitation, Mrs. Julia Tolson; Piano Solo, Miss Cathern Lee, Beautiful Star of Heaven; Dialogue, Mrs. Nellie Swan, More Time Out; Solo, Miss Annie Lee. Down by the Old Mill Stream; Recitation, Mrs. Nellie Swan; Dialogue, Mrs. Cathern Sedgwick, Trip to California; Address by the Pastor; Chorus, Calvary. WEST WASHINGTON The members of Plymouth Congregation are conducting a very successful bazaar. It has been in progress for the last two weeks. The funeral of Mr. William Saunder, Sr., one of the pioneer citizens of Deanwood, D. C., took place on Sunday, March 1, at the Deanwood M. E. Church. The Women's Home Mission Society of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, held public exercises on Wednesday evening, and introduced a very interesting program of the International Home Mission. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Saturday Night Bible Class, under the direction of Rev. Arthur Randall, has increased in interest and in members. The Sunday School lesson is taught and the class is open to all teachers, male and female, interested in Sunday School work The Men's Meeting last Sunday was very enthusiastic and well attended. Secretary Porter, of Philadelphia, gave the men a spicy talk. Rev. W. H Jernigan lectured Wednesday evening, March 4, on "The Black Man's Fight Against Jim Crowism in Oklahoma." The members of the "Sure I Will Club" are being organized for the purpose of boosting the membership. The names of the members are posted on a big, red, white, and blue sign in the lobby, and are attracting much attention. Forty men have joined the club. One hundred are wanted. The fiscal year of the Y. M. C. A closes April 30. This second year has been a hard one financially, but the "Sure I Will" members are making every effort to close the year with a clean sheet, and with debts paid. They say that the Association must have, at least one thousand members, and that every man in Washington must join the Y. M. C. A. The monthly meeting of the Committee of Management will be held Tuesday night, March 3. The "Sure I Will Club" met Monday, March 2, at 6 o'clock p. m. Secretary Johnson addressed the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. Sunday evening. The Life Problem Club met Sunday, March 1. NATIONAL CAPITAL COUNCIL. Independent Order of St. Luke. The eighth anniversary of National Council No. 562, Independent Order of St. Luke, was celebrated last Tuesday evening at St. Luke Building. Thirteenth and U Streets. Many visitors from other councils were present. The Committee on Arrangements provided a very entertaining musical and literary program. Rev. Dr A. C. Garner, the district deputy; Mrs. Julia M. Layton, member of the Executive Committee of the R. W. Grand Council, past deputy. Mrs. B. B. Anderson and Rev. Wm. Walker made appropriate addresses. A quartette from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church sang several musical numbers. Mrs. A. L. Howe, the recording secretary of the Council, read a very interesting paper giving a brief history of the Council and the work and progress of the order. Lawyer W. Calvin Chase gave an unusual literary treat, taking a Shake-spearian role, which met with hearty applause, after which refreshments were served. Mr. F. D. Lee, chairman, of the Committee on Arrangements, was assisted by Mrs. Laura Capeheart, Frank Cole, J. S. White, Mrs. E. S. Lee and David Martin. Sunday Band Conterts at the Playhouse Beautiful. New Howard Theater, Seventh and T Streets Northwest, Andrew J. Thomas, manager. The 31st Concert by the Hoffman Concert Band, Elize S. Hoffman, conductor, given tomorrow, Sunday, March 8, at 4:15 P. M., at which time a grand Lenten program will be rendered. This series of popular concerts have proven to be the most successful ever inaugurated at the National Capital. An unrivaled corps of soloists and specialists. Five soloists. Mrs. Lucy Blagburn, soprano; E and James Miller, bell ringers; Ross Robinson, bass (tuba); Jacob H. Hopkins, premier cornetist; Miss Jewel Jenifer pianist. Together with the House of Thomas' Johnston's HAIR DRESSING THIS old, reliable preparation has been in constant use for years, and is considered a necessary toilet article in thousands of homes. It is guaranteed free from all injurious drugs or chemicals. 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A new book entitled "Man Was the Father of Tion." This book defends exclusively by the Bible. Elder J. M. Webb. BOOK AND PICTURE Jesus was a Black Man (or Negro) by blood. Webb's book and picture show it and prove it by the Bible. A picture 12x18 of Jesus with woply hair and his holy angels at his second coming. And a book showing that Jesus was born out of the black tribe, according to Biblical history. This famous picture in colors and the Biblical book both for $1.50 postage prepaid. The following comment is upon the same, from the Seattle, Wash., Daily Times: The evidence submitted by Elder Webb tending to prove that the Saviour of mankind was a black man seems to be sufficient to put those who oppose the proposition upon their proof. Now that the chain of evidence presented by Mr. Webb seems so complete, it is strange that none of the delvers in the Biblical records have advanced the proposition be- Singing School, under the direction of Mr. Joseph T. Newman, assisted by Mr. Joseph H. Carroll, tenor. Three beautiful hymns will be sung by those in the audience accompanied by quartettes and sextettes from the band. TUSKEGEE BENEFITED. Relatives of Millionaire to Carry Out Decedents Intentions. Lock Haven, Pa., Feb. 25. Although he died without a will, educational and charitable institutions in many parts of the country will receive substantial sums from the large estate left by the late Wilson D. Kistler, a millionaire banker of this city. A few days before Mr. Kistler's death, several weeks ago, he requested his attorney to draw up a will providing for the public bequests, but the banker died before the document was completed. His family announced last night that his wishes would be carried out. A local hospital will receive $30,000, and the Anna H. Ross Library, of Not only was Christ a Negro, but it seems that Solomon, who has been held up through all the ages as the personification of wisdom, had Ethiopian blood in his veins also. A new book entitled "The Black Man Was the Father of Civilization." This book defends its title exclusively by the Bible and therefore has nothing to fear. This book is illustrated with many pictures. Price, $1.00 by mail. The following comment is from the Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer: Elder J. M. Webb, evangelist of the Church of God, in his book describes the black man as the father of all civilization. He takes the Bible to show that the fathers of the church and all the great leaders, even the Greatest One, was black. Mr. Webb's work is able and thoughtful. Whether the Anglo-Saxon believes him or not, Mr. Webb writes what he believes to be true about his race and their place in Biblical history. Combination of both books and pictures for $2.00 postage prepaid. Send money order, express order or registered letter to Elder J. M. Webb. 3519 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Will submit terms to agents. Lock Haven, $20,000. Other gifts to public institutions were not made public, but it is understood large sums will be given the Tuskegee Institute and a school in Egypt. A number of other institutions in different parts of the United States will also benefit, it was said. The value of the estate is estimated at $6,000,000. Reception. A reception was held at the Y. M. C. A. Home. 429 T street. Friday. March 6, from 8 to 10 P. M. The program which was the feature of the evening consisted of recitations and piano and vocal solos. Light refreshments were served. The reception was under the auspices of the Entertainment Committee. Miss Florence J. Smith, chairman. There will be a series of entertainments given at the Home by this committee for the specific purpose of drawing the members closer together and increasing the interest felt in the work. All members and friends are cordially invited to attend these receptions. | TO CUT COTTON LOSSES. | --, s - . ~ . ° NAVY AVIATORS | oncom ws} National Religious Training Schoo PLAN SEA FLIGHT a year tothe cotton growers of the| SRR BEE STS Lieutenants Towers and Porte Gonfer With Wanamaker PATENT DECISION A FACTOR Men Who Will Endeavor to Win Hand- some Prizes That Have Been Offered Inspect Machine and Seek to Create Improvemente—Will Fly at Altitude of One Thousand Feet. New York.—Lleutenant John H Towers, U. 8. N., who has been men- tioned as the American aviator who probably will Sy the Rodman Wane- maker transatlantic fying boat with Lieutenant John Cyril Porte of Eng- Jand, held a conference with Mr. Wan- amaker and Glenn H. Curtiss, who is building the filer, After a conference with Mr. Wana- maker Mr. Curtiss took the two avia- tors to his factory at Hammondsport, N. ¥., where they went over the struc tural details of the machine. ,The Wright patent decision, which practically gives the Wright company A monopoly of the aeroplane industry in the United States, continues to be a source of great concern to those inter- ested in aviation. An official of the Aero Club of America sald that it was unlikely that the club would sanction any “ying event until after a definite decision as to royalties was reached by the Wright company. An associate of Glenn H. Curtiss, who was one of the defendants in the recent litigation, said that Mr. Curtiss would be willing to pay almost any ,royalty asked by the Wright company in order to be allowed to continue the manufacture of the fying boat be has perfected. . Henry Woodhouse, publisher of Fly- fing, delleves the Wrights will grant privileges to make, scil and fly ma- chines nnder reasonable royalties. “The logical policy of the Wrights from a fipancial point of view,” he jee. j ¥F . ry aes : Ae * ar So Ain y a ey ta | Bees oe ee ee 2m q Wer: x a. oe a Rhee Sy cea we Re eS 5 bait. «pleat oe FS aa oo Ce Photo by American Press Association. LIZUTENANT J. 0. PORTE. Said, “is to do what they can to de- velop the Industry by making their conditions as easy as possible.” It is expected that a definite decision about terms will be reached at a meet- ing of the Wright company to be held ia New York. The trip to New York of Lieutenant ‘Towers, who heads the navy aviation camp at Pensacola, Fla., was taken by members of the .\ero club to indicate that the navy department was inter- ested in the event und would not deny pernilssion for Lieutenant Towers to “make the sight s The Neutenant laughed at the talk that orerocean filers would lose thelr way. 2 By fying tow, at an altitude of not over 1,000 fect. he sald, the drift of an alr craft can be calculated almost as easily as the drift of an ocean Mner It ts done by what the sailors call “dead reckoning.” At 4,000 feet and above the sky line is lost in the mist. according to Lientenant Towers, se that it is even Impossible to see thr outlines of ships against it. Thus it would seem if Lieutenant Towers {s chosen to nuvigate the Wan amaker filer in the dicht for the Lord Northeliffe prize he will favor flying about 1,000 feet above sea level instead of 10.000 tect, as was at first thought most feasivle by Glenn I] Curtiss WEDDED IN QUARANTINE. Bride, Bridegroom, Rabbi and Wit hesses Wrapped In Antiseptics. Cincinnatl.—With the bride, bride groom, the rabbi and the witnesses Bwathed in antiseptic wrappings. Miss Theresa Pexser and -Milton Newman Were married,at the home of a friend of the couple ~The young woman {sn hospital nurse. The wedding date had been set, but Miss Peyser became ill with scarlet fever and was quarantined. Newman insisted that the wedding be carricd out as planned, and the board of health gare the necessary consent. A health officér and a nurse were thr only witnesses. Rabbi Jullan Morgen stern, the bride and bridezroom were wrapped from head to foot In antisen tle bandages. and immeviately after the ceremony the bride was taken te» hospital, She ts well on the rnd * 1 rovery. . Ss Tween TO CUT COTTON LOSSES. Farmers’ Gain $75,000,000 a Year by Standard Grades, Says Smith, Washington—A saving of $75.000.000 a year to the cotton growers of the south, It is estimated by Senator Smith of South Carolina, will result If the amendment he proposes to offer to the agricultural uppropristion bill ts adopted. He would appropriate about $1,000,000 to furnish, each shippine point in the south with a set of govern- Ment standard grades of cotton. to- gether with a set of samples showing the spinning value of each grade. so that hereafter producers of cotton might nof be decelved by buyers and by values arbitrarily fixed by cotton exchanges, Senator Smith received from the de- partment of agricniture the results of Sa 5 PERE t S) rs « ey ¥ oy ~ Z " , f Photo by American, Press Association. SENATOR FE. D. SMITH. its tests as to the different grades of cotton standardized by the govern- ment, the amount of waste in convert- ing a given number of bales into yarn, the actual strength of the yarn from each grade, the bleaching of cotton and yarn from each grade. and the cost and result of bleaching. Only the “tall grades” were tested. “Taking the whole findings,” sald Senator Smith, “on an average, the difference between the high grades and the low grades, as now quoted in the imarket, Is from $10 to $15 2 bale. As- suming the average crop at 15,000,000 bales, St 1s conservative to estimate one-half of the crop to be below mid- dling. Therefore you would have 7,500,000 bales below the middling grade, and, calculating that the farm- ers have lost, because of the lack of this knowledge. an average of $10 a bale, it would mean an annual loss to the cotton farmers of $75.000,000." ~ AMERICAN TO STUDY THE PLAGUES OF CHINA Sclentist to Make Medical Sur- ~ Vey Of Gelestlal Republic, Chicago.—A medical survey of Chi- na, the object of which will be to tind a way to prevent the frequent plagues in China and further to safeguard public health there, Is to be made by President Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago under the di- ection of the Rockefeller foundation. At a meeting of the board of direc- tors of the university President Jud- son was granted a leave of absence from March until October. This time. in company with’ Mrs. Judson and a medical expert not yet selected. Presi- dent Judson will spend in China gatb- ering data on the medical and surgt- cal profession there and obtaining in- formation relative to the methods used for protecting pubWc health. President Judson {s a trustee of the foundation. “There is no doubt the loss of life in China from lack of modern medical methods and sanitation is frightful.” sald Dr. Judson. “The members of the board of the Rockefeller foundation have received numerous reports on con- ditions in China. “They now want first hand informa- tion from a member of the board and so delegated me for the work. “I shall leave about the first of the month, although the date of departure has not been set definitely as yet. 1 expect to be gone about six months. We shall go by way of Europe, visit- ing a few of the principal cities. and then go by way of the Siberian rail- road to Peking. We expect to visit Practically all of the principal cities to China, although we shall not go much farther {nto the interior than Hankow. “From China we shall go to Japan. where we shall visit one or two points, and then return home by way of the Pacific.” WORKED SIX YEARS, GOT $5. Was Also Allowed a Shave and a Hair Cut at Sheep Shearing Time. Mason, Mich.—A story of six years" toll with a stable for his bedroom and $5 his salary for the entire period wax related by Arthur, Pomeroy, who his feturned to his father, a farmer in Gladwin county Pomeroy sald that for six years the only time ze had a haircut and shave was at sheep shear- {ng time once a year. Pomeroy disappeared six years ago, when he left his fathers farm for a trip to their old home In Oblo. He said he had gone to work for an Inghun county farmer, who had paid bim only §5 and held him there for six years ‘raining Schoo onal Religious Training s q ~ = 7 National Reli, a ts Ser eee _ oe . a aa ieee ~ hates Fe = Bape ee baleen a eee eS eB ee | a ee Picea eae tea oe : | a ti TE Sata OS ae ees st ce aes Se eer aos ; iid Pe coe oe aaecurs Sa ai ace oS r ar | Nis? ES SESE Re erres Whence Manet CG a eye ; bengien, iste aie eRe eRe eva es ee et pS ee ee e 3 ae Le ; an ES ee Rape Ges Ea “ . ere Eee i sa 4, a ‘ aE, ig Seti nai 2 me ae cp ee gra . : | Scena Sa, ort cacy tie od er sae lee co ee a Me ee PN eee care ee ee oe Tay oe at anette bee ey > ac: eee 3 “ers superior advan.ages for the trainmg of young men and womer +n 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. amersal Department. 4- Literary Department. | : ) 5. Department of Music. ere ES OS > een: . CLAIM T0 THRONE —- ——---——-- "4h, wn American Girl's Husband Also Barred From Grown, WEW PRETENDER APPEARS, mie Mees OF OBS VE WH Ex-Ruler’s Allowance—Manusi Car- vies Out the Wish cf His Father-in- , law, Who Feared Daughter Would Fall Into Hands of Mob. London.—Ex-King Manuel of Portu- gal will in future be compelled to get slong on his own resources, for King George, from whom he has received 900,000 annually since his dethrone ment, has cut him off. At the same timo the former ruler of Portugal loses the title of “king,” so far as official England is concerned. This has also been ordered by King George as the outcome of Manuel's renunciation of his claims to the throne of Portugal forever In favor of the Braganzas. ‘The claim to the throne falls upon Dom Miguel of Braganza: and under a % ” ee a SMe UT oY Ro 7 a Ee. oS “4 - , euoaien ae | ae . bos. a ee eee td er eee fae ee Bees Photo by Au: an Press Association. KING MANUEL. ordinary circumstances would devolve upon his sou, Prince Miguel and hus- band of the former Anita Stewart, who would: thereby receive the honorary Atle of “queen.” In view of the fact that Prince Miguel has married a wo- man not of royal birth, bis claim as Pretender has been set aside In favor of his younger brother, who is now geven years oll. Thus the hopes of Anita Stewart of becoming queen of Portugal are blasted forever. This niranse veut was adopted’ at a meeting of the Braggnzis in Vienna and followed the anmouncement to all the courts of Hue that Manuel had Tenounced his ciaus to the throne opon his war:i ete Brineess Augus- tine of Hohenze.. rn at yismaringen Manuel thereoy -aried ont the wish of his fatheri.diw. who refused to Bive his’danstter ui ler any other con- ditions. us he fetted that bloodsbed would accompany any attempt on Man vel’s part to regan his throne.and he did not wish his duuehter to rnn the risk of falling tute ths tow sof the mob. In 60 doing ag 6 ut himself off from the jure ar Kurz Chenze, who only recently teined the facts. The Official onter depriving: Manuel of bis title In Enztind stated that it was done ou “account of the internal con- ditions tn Lurtugal.”" THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL, House & Herrmann " (WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT YOUK ° _ Household Furniture ef all kinds and description, Houseand Herrmann. is the place te visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is - house hat will satisfy you. at fs well kfown that Manuel, through his apathy in regard to regain- ing his throne. bas lost the sympathy of King Alfonso of Spain and a host of royalists who would have been will- ing to follow his lead. These follow- ets will now flock to the standard of the Braganzas. There Is no reason to belleve that the new pretenders to the throne of Portugal will take any Gecisive steps in the near future, as ft 1s expected in many quarters that the republic of Portugal is nearing its end of Its own accord. Anita Stewart ts the daughter of William Rhinelander Stewart and was married to Prince Miguel of Braganra en Sept. 15, 1009. Her mother, efter her divorce, married the late John Henry Smith. Miguel was at the time o¢ the Portuguese revolution spoken of 8 a substitute for Manuel. SCHOOLS FAILURES.—HILL. Inaccuracy and Impracticability Are Chief Charges. St. Paul.—“Our common and high schools are dismal failures. Accuracy $s not taught in the schools, and accu- racy {s the main essential to success,” said James J, Hill at the annual ban- quet of the Northwestern Yale Alum- ni association. Continuing he said: “The time must come when public educational Institutions must be more practical. My first public ndvice to all schools would be to simplify the cum riculum by separating all ‘facts that are so’ from ‘facts that are not 30.’" \ colored school teacher, Mr. John- son of near Guthrie, Okla., recently refused an offer of $100,000 for a piece of land that did not cost him one-tenth of that amount. An oil weJi has been sunk on his land which yields him a royalty of $50°per day. Mrs. Ida A. Walker, president_ of the Missouri State Federation of Col- oreel Women's Clubs, is just as active in. fostering the commercial interest of her race in St. Joseph, her home, as she is in expanding the zone af usefulness of the Federation. 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W. : PHONE MAIN 4078 a Uptown Office: Phones North 2607-5 a eat nn ehtpttt (pbb sO CO OOObCOOR abbots hg os. cancne teh ile Reh? antics sate Aceatnrteweeclee cee es kB Reet oan ~ yo. FIABERNAC 5) ! NS piBLe-sTuDysON ON, THE FAITHFUL ARE WATCHFUL. Luke 12:35-48—March 8, “Blessed ore thowe ‘serrants, whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching,” ‘¥. sr. ODAY's Iesson opens with a parable. If, In a great house, the muster were about to bring home his bride, the servants would on that particular night be es- Peclally active, wakeful, on the alert to hear his knock and open instantly. wo Jesus’ followers should be on the alert for His Second Coming. The thought is that followers of Jesus should take thelr ideals of alert- ness from the extremest experience of earthly service. Jesus intimated that they might look for Him sooner than ae weer SOM saying that if He shall come in the second or the third ‘watch or whenever, blessed are those Servants found ready to récelve Him. Our Lord's Parow- sia ts described In today's lesson—His earliest manifesta- Hons of His Second Advent, The world will nelther soc tA | ata) ASS a {} i BA} “Behold, I Stand at the Doorr’ Him nor know of His presence; and His Church will know of Ils presence only by His “knock”—the fulfilment of prophecy. It will then be for the Watchfal ones to recognize this fulfil- ment, and promptly to acknowledge the Master’s presence. For such as receive Him He will make a feast. Out of the Divine Word He will bring things new and old, for refreshment and comfort. The Bible will become to them 4 new Book. Many Bible students believe that we are Ilving in this very time: and that each faithful follower of Jesus will be granted the privilege to participate in this feast, which many tell us they are now enjoying. The Great Teacher then intimates that Satan {fs master of the present or- der of earthly things; and that at His Second Coming Jesus will bind this strong” man, overturn present institu- tions and establish the long-promised Reign of Righteousness, This thorough transition will cause the great Time of ‘Trouble mentioned throughout the Bi- ble as closing this Gospel Age.—Daniel 12:1; Mark 13:8; Matthew 24:21. Jesus speaks of His Second Coming as thief-like. The thought is that He will be present for a time, unobserved by the world, known only to the Bride class, whont He will remove—chanzing: them from earthly nature to Heavenly Verse 40 instructs all the Lord's faith- ful followers to be ready for His pres- ence, to render up thelr accounts and experience their chanze. 9 ; “To Give Them Their Portion.” St Peter was-perplexed. Was this parable for the Apostles or for all? ‘The Lord did not answer him directly. but merely assured Lim that at the appropriate time the Lord would ap- point a steward over His Household, to give them food in dye season, This ts not very different from the Lord's usual’ method of dealing with His fam- ly. For Instance, St. Peter apparently ‘was 8 leader amongst the \postles, in opening the Pentecostal door, and later in opening the door to the Gentiles— preaching to Cornelius, the first Gen- tile convert. Later on, the Lori seems to have chosen St. Paul t6-be His par- ticular messenger to the Gentiles (Acts 9:15). Similarly Enoch, Abrabam, Moses, the Prophets, and others dur- ing this Gospel Age, seem to have een especially used of the Lord to draw His people's attention to His Word. ‘The Apostles, of course, had a special {nspiration which does not appertain to others of this Age since. The servant at the eiid of the Age, if faithful, would be especially blessed, and given general charge respecting the spiritual food for the Lord's faml ly—“meat In due season.” But if he abould prove unfaithfal, fail to recog- nize the Master's presence aid man!- fest an unkind spirit toward the Household, be would go Into outer darkness with the world, in utter igno- Fance of the times and seasons, etc. of ‘Ris Lord. ‘The Lord then explained a general principle of His dealings: namely, that wee Vaae knowing his Mas- ter’s will and not doing in harmony therewith, would receive stripes, punishments, trib- ulatfons, propor. tionate to his knowledge and op- portunity, “But any servant who ignorantly did things worthy of stripes would re- wake: -“eemrinibiac: € Eee E Brie aa Li Te Aas, Sf eG ph es QS ‘The Folthfut ore Found Watching. ately fewer stripes. “To whom much ts given, of him much Is required.” Our Golden Text. : The heart of this lesson Is found In ‘Verse 37. Those servants who in the earliest stages of their Lord’s Second Coming, the time of His Parousia, His presence, shall be found falthfully watching, will be informed respecting the time, as the Apostle points out.— ‘1 Thessalonians 5:18. The secrecy respecting the time and the manner of Jesus’ Second Coming will be a strong test. All overcharged with the cares of this life—business. pleasure, etc.—will be slow to hear the “tock.” and too much engrossed to give proper heed. “Watch ye ther fore!” s Secretary Houston Abolishes Body ‘That: Caused Wiley’s “Troubles! ‘Washington.—'The board of food and drag inspection In the department of agriculture, which often was the cen- ter of attack by Dr, Harvey W. Wiley, former chief chemist, has been abolish- od by Secretary Houston. , At the department of -agriculture it was said the board had been abolished in the Interest of efficency and econ. omy. Dr. Carl Alsberg, who succeeded Dr. Wiley as pure food chief, will de- elde the appeals that formerly went to the board. He will be assisted by Dr. B, L. Emerson of Boston. Dr. Wiley hotly attacked the pure food board in unmeasured *terms at various stages of bis administration, Geclaring Its operations hampered ad. ministration‘ of the spirit of the pure food law. Under the new plan the en. forcement of the pure food law will virtually be intrusted toone man. ‘That ‘was what Dr. Wiley contended for. Threa Kinds to Be Printed Un: der the New Law. Washington.—Designs for new paper money, to be issued under the currency act, have been prepared by experts of the bureau of engraving and print- ing for submission to John Skelton ‘Williams, This money way not be’ needed for months, but Director Ralph will have the designs ready within a few days, and as soon as Mr. Willlams bas se- cured the approval of Secretary Me- Adoo plates will be made and a few millions will be printed. There will be three kinds of new currency—oue for emergency purposes, succeeding the present but ‘never used emergency currency; one for federal reserve Uunks issued against United States bouds, with the circulation priv- flege, and the third one-year gold notes, to be issued to reserve banks against United States bonds, but not to have circulation privilege. These designs contemplate the pres- ent size of paper money, although the plan of the Taft administration for smailer bills may be reflected in fu. ture issues, ‘The law authorizes notes of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, Present designs would have the Sve dollar note bear the portrait of Lincoln, the teu dollar note that of Cleveland, the twenty dol- lar note that of Jefferson and the fifty dollar note that of Grang. Varled phases of buman activity are depicted on the backs of the notes. As Provided by law. currency, issued to Particular reserve banks will bear serial numbers ag distinguishing marks. $53 FROZEN IN ICE CAKE. Pocketbook Found by Cutter In Now Jersey Pond, Whippany. N. J —White cutting tee on a pond near Wk farm here Edwin Sanderson came across a biack object frozen into one of the squares of ce which he was hauling to bis store- house. After cutting away the Ice he found a purse containing $53 In bills and 48 cents In change. On u postal Inside, addressed to “Lillian Hot- man,” were the Ines: “Yours tll the ponds of bades freeze over and the little devils go skating.” Tt was signed “Charlie.” No one in this section knows “Lillian Hoffman,” and it 1s’ thought the pocketbook bad been carried down the Passale river and backed up in one of the streams here which feed Sanderson's pond. JOTTINGS BY THE way. “Acknowledgment that in one’s iveins flows the blood of the Chero- - kee. Sioux or Choctaw tribes is a claim to true American nobility. Not every American can boast of it. The | Chickasaw. Seminole and Creek, in- | cluded in the list of artisocratic civil- | ized tribes, are also considered to be the cream of Indian society.” This is what John Elfreth Wat- [kins says in The Sunday Star. And he quotes the claims of Mrs. James |S. Davenport, Mrs. William He Mur- ray. Miss Stella Carter, and Brother Gabe Parker's sisters to a considera- i infusion of Indian blood. Lo! the poor Indian. How long must we wait * before ladies of society will dispute their claims to an infusion of Negro blood? |1 am no prophet but I think T can indicate roughly just exactly when. It will be when the Negro, like the Indian, becomes a dying’ race. Death is so picturesque, don't you know | It will be when the Negro, like the Indian, has hecome so. ineffec- tual for the purposes of civilization that the Nation makes him its ward. Being a ward is so romantic, you know. Tt will he when the Negro, like the Indian, loses economic efficiency. A money-loving people is always so ap- preciative of a race that knows not the value of the dollar. | Jt will be when Judge Hewlett ex- changes his silk hat for a head-dress of feathers, when Bubonic Plague Drew sports a blanket instead_of a gray frock coat, when Doc Childs Yearns to drink firewater, when Kelly Miller spends his nights and days in sleep instead of philosophy, when the Little Lord moves from ' Columbia Road into a tepee, when Rev. Grimke | gives up praying and takes to incan- | tations. * Then and then only, will the ladies of society—the Davenports, the Mur- rays, the Parkers—begin to boast of their infusion of Negro blood! aa Where did Jim Walker get his rab- bit foot? I was talking to a relation of his the other day and said relation ForFUNERALS Kra Li Lerwit, fu : da S16 F,_ 722 Sth and Cent “Watt The A. LOFFLER S\USAGE& PROVISIONUO : - 100 Per Gent Pure Lard THe Necro Farmer Something New: Something Needed VOMELHINE LVEWS DOMETNINE LVeéedead A Paper That Helps People to Become Better Farmers is an Aid to the Church, the School and to the Secular and Relig- “ : ious Papers It has been decided to publish at Tuskegee Insti- tute Post Office, Every-Other-Week for the present, anational farm paper to be known as THE NEGRO FARMER. It will be published in the interest of Negro landowners, tenant farmers and of those who: employ Negro labor. There is no other strictly farm newspaper in the world devoted to the interest of Negro farmers, _ Many of the white farm newspapers enjoy huge circulations and there is no reason why a farm paper in the interest of Negroes should not’ prove equally successful, In fact, occupying an exclusive field it should enjoy a success far beyond that of the usual - farm publication. It is proposed to circulate this pa- per among the 2,000,000 black farmers of the United States. The paper will be-cight pages, of about the size of ‘*The Country Gentleman,” “DR. ROOKER T. WASHINGTON STATES: The Tuskegee Institute has no financial interest or control over this new publication, but some of the active officers of the institution. are interested in ite success and believe that it will nut_ only ac- - tomplish great good but will be 2 paying investment. The paper * inbatked by a strong qrganization and funds have been provided in advance to assure its publication, ‘Those ia active centtol of THE 4 NEGRO FARMER have my entire confidence and gond will, —BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. ; The success .of this project is assured because of the solid and sensible lines upon which it is being laid out. . All the capital stock has been subscribed for. The subscription price is $1.00 a year and Subscriptions and Ad- vertisements arc invited. Clubbing rates with important Negro news- papers will be arranged for on’a satisfactory basis. We are now ready to receive Sdbstriptions and Advertisements. The first issue of the paper will appear February first, 1914. | Address all communications to: . » TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA. sos : e related to me how Jim was jes’ born with that rabbit foot. His. great, great, great great granddaddie went out into a cullud cemetery one night; it was on de dark of the moon; you could head de ghosties whisper an scratch and fret an fume; presently a canny old rabbit he come hoppin an askippin ovah de tomb-stones. ovah ‘de skellikins, ovah de ghosties; heah he come a-hoppin an _a-skippin. Den, Jim's _great-to-the-5th-power daddic, he sot hesef, he, turned up he sleave, he shifted datar cud ov to- back he love so well, an—an—an he grabbed at dat rabbit, ketchin him by de lef hind foot in datar graveyari on de dark oy de moon. De ghos- ties dey run, de skellikins dey crawl- ed away, de tomb stones dey look solemn. An de po-rabbit—he cussed and cussed, he did. Disher rabbit left-hind-foot done been han down in Jim Walker's fam- ily from dat day to Jim's day. An Jim's relation tole me (an I believe it same as if a white man tole me) dat when de infant Jim ¢Smes into dis vale of tears, he come bearin in his infant arms de aforesaid rabbit hind-foot ketched on de dark of de moon, in a hardshell Baptist ceme- try. ‘So, you all kin see. why tis dat disher_Jim Walker kin do so many things~and get so few knocks; why he kin walk on eggs, bustin none; why he kin he ferocious without actin so as to hurt nobody’s feclins; how he kin hide hissem away when de rains an floods descen on de scrool systems: how he kin weep with them that weeps and rejoice with them what do rejoice; how he kin git votes from all parties at_all times— de Merrit party an de Gibbs Party, de Marshall’ party aswell as de Childs and de Harris; it's dat rabbit foot does sde worruk. Dat’s all. Blieve me. An Jim's a mighty fine ceo elCUKE!!UF).lCRT Se HOE a. teacher and a darn good fellow all the time. yt Did you read that copyrighted poctry of Richard A. Gilliam: Es- quire, LL. B.? Subject was “Moth- er.” For the sake of future literary historians, let me remark, that the poct's middle name is Ahvitus; some name, sho, ‘and some more poet. In fact, the full and complete entitle- ment of the said copyrighted effusion of the poetic Muse are, thusly: “Mother according to Abhvitus.” 1 have read and also re read some more this extraordinary poem; so have other folks: If Ahvitus had not put the great seal of the U. S. onghis ef- fusion, I should here and now trans- cribe the same; in the columns .of the one and only Bee, Ahvitus’s poet- ry would gct an everlasting life. But, trooly, I'm drefful_fraid uv thatar right of copy. I ain't much on law, not bein a LL. B., but I spose it's all right to quote one sad line from “Mother as Apostrophized by Ahvi- tus LL, D."; so here goes: “Mother was by God designed” * * Here my nerve gives out; the law gives me conniption fits. Another poté dwelleth in the same little red schoolhouse with Ahvitus: the second pote signs hissef, “A. G. K., A.D. F.”" On line and one only from this other pote I dare to quote: here she is—I mean, he is, for the subject is “Father.” si “Father was not left behind.” Then, the pote—the A. D. F. one— |goes on to tell how Father loves his familee so muchly that he lies, robs, cheats, steals, and goes to the pen for his beloveds. Ali of which goeth to show how true it is that if “Moth- er was by God designed,” “Father }was not left behind.” This race of ours is a grand race, ain’t it, now? Even dry legal study doth make poets of us all. aia | 5 “og ps ars, Te. : Sel rn ens fap T he meena Ba foe ee eo . a oa vo Spang al Typewriter eee ay : without 2 [el Serene ac || Mi ental ead 86 Speed Lge the SUR RON Limit ° po See py , ‘ 7 , ? iP * i w ‘ . a . LC. SMITH & Bros. * al e Typewriter BALL BEARING LONG WEAKING ¢ The popement of the LC. 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Besides showing all the lates designs of McCall Patterns, each issue ig brimful of sparkting abort stories and helpful information for women. feridiowy tele ede arains cea Fer teeees aay one of the celebraied McCall Patterns Lead all others fe a Hoa Mey eerie ees meet Spe ene Be McCALL'S MAGAZINE 236-246 W. 37th St, New York City Senet what Doc Amanda V. have promised to do when she lands? U street gos- sipers tell me that she has promised to release The Crusader from the dull tedium’ of schoolwork and dedicate him absolutely and entirely and with- out qualification to crusading—with- out remuneration!!f CHAS. H. HEMANS, ATTORNEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—No. 32319, Equity Doc. 70. Thornton Robinson, Plaintiff. vs. Ruth Robinson and Hughy Hines. Defendants. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the defendant, Ruth Robinson, on the grounds of adultery with the correspondent, Hughy Hines. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 21st day of January, 1914, ordered that the defendants Ruth Robinson and Hughy Hines 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 consecutive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and the Washington Bee, before said day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD, Justice. A true copy Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk By F. E. CUNNINGHAM, Assistant Clerk. L. MELENDEZ KING, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 20510, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Alex ander Payne, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof, legally anthenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 5th day of February. A.D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 5th day of February, 1914. JOHN H. FRANK. 1111 U Street N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Court. L. MELENDEZ KING, Attorney. FOUNTAIN PEYTON, ATTORNEY Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; Holding Probate Court.—No. 20,365, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Isaac Toliver, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 16th day of February, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 19th day of February, 1914. MAMIE E. TOLIVER, 1145 21st Street N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probat Court. FOUNTAIN PEYTON, Attorney. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Clara S. Farr, Plaintiff, vs. Maurice W. Farr and Mariah Beale alias Mrs. Farr, Co-respondents Defendants. No. 32421. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce on the ground o desertion and adultery. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 4th day of March, 1914, ordered that the defendants, Maurice W. Farr and Mariah Beale, alias Mrs. Farr, correspondents, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sunday 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. Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk, By F. E. CUNNINGHAM, Asst. Clerk. DEATH OF ALEX .HOWARD. A Large Funeral Last Sunday—Masons, Odd Fellows, and Other Benevolent Societies Turn Out. One of the largest and imposing funerals that have even taken place in the Zion Baptist Church, Southwest, Rev. W. J. Howard, pastor, was that of Mr. Alexander Howard, brother of Rev. Wm. J. Howard, Mr. Howard was a life long citizen of this city and a man of high standing among the masses, and several benevolent associations, namely, the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, etc. Long before 1 o'clock, the time for the service to begin, hundreds of people could not gain admittance to the church. Mr. Howard was married a few months ago to a Miss Grace Peeble. Mr. Alex. Howard was a good citizen and highly respected by all classes. The people in this city has not only lost a good man, but a worthy and progressive citizen. Mr. Julius Rosenwald, the notedilanthropist, has given $500 to Divident Hospital in Chicago, Ill. UNCLE SAM TO AID CHICKEN FARMERS Value of Chickens For Farmers and Others Pointed Out by Expert—Frequently Entire Family Is Clothed From Income Derived From Henhouse—Program Laid Out For Clubs. Washington.—In order to teach the value and importance of the poultry industry, the marketing of products and the caring for poultry and eggs, the animal husbandry division of the bureau of animal industry of the agricultural department advocates the forming of boys' and girls' poultry clubs. The plan is advanced by Harry M. Lamon, senior animal husbandman in poultry investigations, and the department has promised to co-operate with the clubs and send speakers to the meetings. Ever since the price of eggs went soaring with the cost of living the department has given scientific attention to the subject of eggs and poultry. For instance, it has been discovered that the loss due to the improper handling of eggs is enormous, extending into many millions of dollars annually. It is also an established fact that if the farmer, who is the largest producer of eggs, would take more care in selecting, grading and in marketing his produce he would receive a higher price than the average market price for eggs. On many farms throughout the country the money derived from the sale of poultry and eggs buys the groceries and clothing for the entire family. The money front this source may be substantially increased by establishing a private trade in eggs of good quality with hotels and restaurants. Mr. Lamon has outlined the organization of clubs. It is proposed that any boy or girl between ten and eleven years old can become a club member by signing the roll and agreeing to set at least one setting of thirteen eggs during the hatching season. Members are not to pay dues or assessments. "Throughout the year," says Mr. Lamon, "meetings should be held to discuss the different problems of poultry management. Whenever possible the department will have one of its specialists present to assist in such problems as may arise and to give information or demonstration in the selection of stock and candling. He will also assist in obtaining first class markets for the sale of poultry and eggs. Each country club should hold an exhibition at least once a year, preferably in connection with the country fair, at which a pair of the best chickens grown by each member should be placed on exhibition. These should compete for the regular prizes offered by the fair association. There should also be a special prize offered by the members of the poultry clubs. An exhibit of the best dozen eggs should also be made. It is also, in my opinion, imperative that each boy and girl shall agree to study the instructions of the department of agriculture." The program laid out is a sort of progressive one for the first four years of a club's existence, it being evidently figured that at the end of the four years the older members will have reached the age limit of membership and will be graduates par excellence in poultry raising and egg grading and handling. It is planned for the first year of membership that each member shall set at least three settings of eggs from pure bred stock and shall raise seven pullets and one cockerel. All hatchings must be completed by May 15. A composition on poultry management must be submitted to the agent in charge of club work. All meetings must be attended and accurate records kept and sent to the agent. During the second year each member shall be required to raise at least fifteen pure bred pullets and two cockerels. All hatching must be completed by May 10. A pair of birds and one dozen eggs from this stock shall be exhibited at the county or state fair. A composition upon some phase of the work must also be submitted to the agent in charge of club work. Twenty-five pure bred pullets and two cockerels must be raised in the third year, a composition must also be written and submitted and the same sized exhibit sent to the fair as during the second year. In this year May 1 must see the end of the hatching In the fourth year each member is required to raise at least thirty pure bred-pullets and three cockerels. The hatching and rearing of chickens, the condition of stock and cleanliness of coops and poultry buildings, the cost of producing eggs, accuracy and neatness of records, attendance at meetings, exhibits at fairs, and the written articles shall all be considered in the rating of members and awarding of prizes. Hannens on Pot of Gold. Oroville. Cal.—After having prospected for years along the Yuba river, with little return for his patient work. Frank Davidson has finally made a strike—in an old iron pot. He was walking on a sandbar when his foot struck the pot, which was half buried in gravel. With the impact a few grains of gold rolled out. Davidson scraped the pot and found dust worth $300. PROHIBITION UP AS A BIG ISSUE Plans of Temperance Advocates Stir Congress Leaders. GREAT WAVE IS NATIONAL Referendum to States For Constitutional Amendment Is Expected—Nine States Already Dry and Four More May Get Into Column This Year. Eighteen Are Half Dry. Washington.—The spread of prohibition sentiment in the United States in the past year has made a deep impression on leaders in congress. The events of that period when viewed in the light of the ambitious program that the temperance advocates have set for themselves in the immediate future are causing much serious thinking and some anxiety on the part of members of congress who look beyond their noses. In fact, many of the leaders in the national legislature believe that they already see the prohibition question looming as a national issue. They fear the time is near when a constitutional amendment providing for national prohibition will be submitted by congress to a referendum of the states. Such an amendment is now pending in both the house and the senate, and the promotion of it through congress is the accomplishment toward which all the anti-liquor forces are looking most hopefully. By many of the cleverest of the crusade leaders doubt is expressed whether the time is yet ripe for pushing the constitutional amendment resolution, or whether it would be better to continue to strengthen the A. Photo by American Press Association. SENATOR W. S. KENYON, A LEADING ADVOCATE OF PROHIBITION. foundations of the measure by bringing additional states more definitely into the prohibition column. But that the test eventually will come in congress and that the national legislators will be subjected to pressure such as they have seldom if ever experienced is the growing conviction in Washington. The fear is expressed by leaders of both parties that when the test does finally come congress will do as it did in two important instances last year when called on to pass-up the liquor question—dlsregard its own convictions and vote to appease public clamor. It has long been a matter of comment in Washington that the only way in which temperance legislation can be prevented in congress is by holding the bills in committee and by keeping them from the floor of the house or senate. When the average member of congress is face to face with the liquor question and a delegation of temperance advocates he may drink like a fish himself, but he will promptly record his vote in favor of the drys. That at least was the history of the two most important developments of the past year in congress. The passage of the Jones-Works' excise law for the District of Columbia and the enactment of the Webb-Kenyon law to prohibit the shipment of liquor into prohibition territory for sale were regarded by the temperance crusaders as red letter events on their last year's calendar. They were elated not only over what the laws might accomplish, but over the way in which their enactment demonstrated the hold of the antis upon the national legislature. The ease with which the passage of these laws was obtained has also left its impression on congress. Few members dared to oppose the measures in the open, and both went through by overwhelming votes, the Webb-Kenyon bill over the veto of President Taft. The opposition was confined chiefly to the committee rooms, but when the bills were pushed into the open members lined up quickly in favor of them. They believed this was the part of political wisdom. As the result of the passage of the Jones-Works bill the city of Washington now finds itself on Sundays as dry as a burnt bone. A club member cannot even get a drink in his own clubhouse on Sunday. GHRISTIAN XANDER'S Special FAMILY RYE WHISKEY 75c a quart 40c a pint 909 7th St. RAISE LA HOGUE HULKS. Relics of Battle In 1692 Said to Contain $1,000,000. Paris.—The French admiralty has invited tenders with a view of raising thirteen ships which were sunk by the English in 1692 off Cape de la Hogue. The hulks are reported to carry 1,804 guns and $1,000,000 in bullion. The battle of La Hogue was the result of Louis XIV's anger at the failure of his expedition sent to Ireland for the purpose of restoring James II. to the throne. In the battle the English fleet was composed of sixty-three vessels and the Dutch fleet of thirty-six vessels. Against this formidable combination Admiral Tourville sent fifty-one vessels. Just before the battle Tourville called a council of war, and all his officers opposed the idea of fighting the English. Tourville, however, showed them a written order of the king, and this decided the matter. The French were overwhelmingly defeated. Their vessels took refuge in different ports of Brittany and Normandy. Those which accompanied Tourville fled to La Hogue and Cherbourg, where, French history says, they were sunk rather than surrender them to the English. CIVILIZATION KILLS INDIANS. Choctaw Governor Finds They Don't Thrive on "Store Food." Washington.-The prediction that the full blooded American Indian will have disappeared in a half century was made here by Victor M. Locke, governor of the Choctaw nation, one of the five civilized tribes. He estimates that there are 100,000 full bloods living today. Governor Locke attributes the enormous death rate among the full blooded Indians in the last few years to pneumonia and other diseases of the lungs. "In recent years," Governor Locks sald, "instead of raising his own meats, vegetables and bread, as he did fifty years ago, the Indian has been obliged to eat the food purchased from stores by the government. Though this food is good, it seems to be impossible for the full blooded Indian to thrive on it. It is against his nature. Give the old Indian the opportunity to rove the plains again, let him hunt for his food, and he will continue to live for many years." DINNER BY PARCEL' POST. Weman Offers Complete Chicken Feast For Four. Boston.—A woman of Durham, Me. is advertising a cooked dinner of chicken, plum pudding, gravy, hard sauce cranberry sauce, mince pie, pumpkin pie and vegetables delivered any time by parcel post. She put a little advertisement in a local newspaper, and orders began to pour in upon her at once. She sends enough of all these good things for four people in one package. All that is necessary to prepare the dinner for the table is to warm it. Now Ready VARDAMAN UNMASKED A Defense of the Colored Race By J. Prof. H. E. Jordan, Of the University of Virginia. James K. Vardaman, of Mississippi, et ai., The Washington Bee. Address: The Washington Bee, 1109 Eye Street N. W. Washington, D. C. Or Dr. Geo. H. Richardson, 309 Eleventh Street N. E. Price: 15.cents per copy. Seven (7) copies for $1. HAIR VOLUM The Hair Dressing of quality and merit. For Men Women and Children Sold at all drug stores - 25c per box. Agents make big money handling our goods Write for terms and territory HAIR VIM CHEM. CO. 1234 You St., Wash., D. C. Mrs. Dikeman Begina Carpet For President-Wilson. Lee, Mass., Clara Dikeman of East Lee observed her ninety-second birthday by beginning a rug carpet she intends as a gift to President and Mrs. Wilson. She had the warp all in and has begun hammering into place the first rows of an elaborate "bit or miss" design. For fifty years she has been weaving on a hand loom, and her carpets have become celebrated. Summer residents buy all her product. She says the carpet for the president will have thirteen colors, thirteen being his lucky number. Hen Puta Up Great Bluff. Michigantown, Ind.—Robert Good night, cashler of the Michigantown bank, has a three-year-old buff bantam hen which has ever laid an egg, although she goes on the nest, comes on and cackles like the other bens. She sits regularly and has hatched and raised several broods of chickens from eggs of other bens. Pocket Billiards. Tel. Lin. 1059 HOTEL WEST European Plan Home Like Rooms ELLIOTT C. WEST, Prop. Sanitary Barber Shop, R. A. Nelson, Mgr. Visit Our Dining Room Finest Wines and Liquors 11 to 19 E Street N. W. Washington, D. C. THOMAS WALKER 1005 Maryland Ave. S. W., 10 rooms, all improvements, reduced to ..... $20.50 106 Benning Road, 6 rooms... 8.40 05 Benning Road, 7 rooms... 12.00 2654 15th St. N. W. 7 rooms... 17.50 2437 Ga. Ave. N. W., 6 rooms, hall, bath, Latrobe, range. Will be thor- oughly cleaned up; $20.50. 235 W St. N. W. 1115 N. J. Ave. S. E., 7 rooms and bath, $20. 330 Bryant St. N. W., 5 rooms, $12.50. 902 First Street S. W., 5 room brick, $11.50. 249 W St. N. W., 6 room brick, $15.50. THOMAS WALKER, 506 Fifth St. N. W. Phone M. 4662 For Sale—Three lots, 25x120 feet each corner Fifty-third and Dayton Strick Northeast, two blocks west of National Training School, $600. Address "N." Bee office. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, with or without board. Miss Hammond, 1111 Eye St. N. W Rcoms. Furnished rooms with heat, light, and plenty of hot water for a gentleman or two in a quiet family. 1622 Vermont Avenue N. W., City. 905 S Street Northwest, (colored). Neatly furnished rooms; reasonable f-28-2t For Sale. For sale, 4 acres, good trucking land and 145 bearing cherry trees; will sell all or part. Further particulars, call or write to 1145 Vermont Ct. N. W. Garage. m-7-1t 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. CULTIVATE YOUR HAIR Mine. C. J.-Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower For sale at the branch office— 1123 First Street Northwest. Dec. 13 tf Rooms by the Day or Week Meals at all Hours NEW HUDNELL American and European Plan FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS P. Dallas Washington, Proprietor Successor to Hudnell & Washington 107 Sixth Street Northwest Washington, D. C. Call Main 3322. The man who quickly spends his cash is apt to stay "short;" some go broke, and that's no joke, but there's facts, worth thinking over, why not know where to buy often a slightly used suit or overcoat at $3 to $10, passes a man to a better job, and we cater to the class who must save, and cash here buys, good and true value. One price. Justh's Old Stand, 619 D. Trade With the House That Trades With You. KIDWELL & TURNER FRESH—MEATS—SMOKED Poultry a Specialty 916 Louisiana Ave. Northwest Phone Main 228 WALTER G. OBANNON, WALTER G. OBANNON, Formerly the LAWYERS' CLUB, Is now an up-to-date Stag Saloon, where the best treatment and service will be given his patrons. 480 Louisiana Avenue Northwest. T. L. V. COAL CO Dealers in WOOD, COAL and ICE 1475 Church Street N. W Telephone North 2720 L. A. TOMLIN, Prop.