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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper That's THE BEE NEGROES PROGRESS NEGROES PROGRESSING. Down in Jackson Miss., Own More Than a Million Dollar's Worth of Real Estate—Great City for Lawyers. Jackson, Miss.—This state has more big able negroes to the square yard than any other state in the union, and this city has a greater number of above the average negroes than any city of its size in the country. This state sent the first negro to the United States Senate, it is the only state that has sent two negroes to the Senate, Revels and Bruce, and the only state that has ever sent a negro to the Senate. Among the big Mississippiians who are either dead or have passed from the stage of action, are Revels, Bruce, Lynch, Hill and Lampton. Governor Pinchback only missed being born in Mississippi by a few hours, and some of his life was spent in the delta state. Because of the highly colored reports sent North regarding lynchings in this state, the people of the north regard Mississippi as a hopeless area for the race. If you should come to the state, and especially to this city, see the wonderful progress being made by the race here, note the feeling existing between the two races, observe the fine residences and splendid business establishments owned and controlled by negroes you would at once conclude that the traditional habit of the negro-haiting white is not taken so seriously by these negroes down here. There are twelve more lynchings in this city, race and all its excellently well. PETER H. BURGESS Whatever a law or lawyer can succeed it is a fair advertisement for a locality as one offering opportunities to the race. Wherever you find an even dozen negro lawyers registering a high mark of success you have the proof of opportunities for race development. These men down here are not professional race-solvers, they are quiet, consistent, earnest solvers of the problem. Of the 22,000 population of this city 13,560—more than half, are negroes who have $350,000 invested in business enterprises and who pay taxes on One Million Dollar's worth of real estate. Men like L. K. Atwood and W. A. Scott who have developed, respectively a successful bank and a successful insurance, company, and able attorneys, second to none, like Perry W. Howard, W. J. Latham and S. A. Beadle who are constantly engaged in every line of thought and action to improve the race; and a successful physician, druggist and lawyer like S. D. Redmond whose holdings exceed the half hundred thousand mark, and a virile editor like E. B. Topp are alone sufficient to develop an oasis in any desert. I have been to few places where I was so much impressed with the helpful activity, wealth-producing ability and intelligence, on the part of our race as here in Jackson. I predict that negroes, in the next quarter of a century, will own more than seventy-five per cent of the farm acreage in this state, and more than forty per cent of the city property, and will more than split even with the white man in the control of business. Race prejudice in this state is now more largely because of the wonderful, rapid material and educational advancement of the race than because of inborn race hatred. The success these negroes have achieved in the face of the most active and virulent race discrimination in itself argues for the ultimate dethronement of race discrimination. No legislation and no prescription or restriction can stop these Mississippi negroes. This city is the headquarters of one old line insurance company operated by negroes, and several mutual companies, all of which are successful. Pharmacy, bakeries; groceries, contracting, banking, printing and tailoring are a few of the business activities in which the race is engaged here. There are two negro public schools here with a corps of twenty-five teachers, and Campbell College of which Dr. W. T. Vernon is president. Twelve churches gives some indication that the moral and spiritual man is not at all neglected. And the churches, as a rule, are splendid edifices, well attended, and with an educated ministry. It is estimated, and I investigated to make sure, that the negroes in this city have $300,000 on deposit in the banks here. This, with the value of their real estate and personal property gives the negroes of Jackson a per capita wealth of $129. As a Frenchman would say, "that is magnificent," and especially so when you stop to reflect that Mississippi, as a state, has perhaps done more to estop negro progress than any other state. Really there is nothing but progress here, encouraging, inspiring progress, and such men and women like W. A. Scott, L. K. Atwood, S. D. Redmond, Perry W. Howard, D. W. Turner, R. J. Johnson, G. F. Frazier, E. B. Topp, W. J. Latham, S. A. Beadle, H. T. Risher, James Boyd, Mrs. Lucile Miller, Cora McLain, Mrs. W. J. Wade, V. L. Reuben and others are the ones who are leading in this upbuilding of a race in this city and state. I was much impressed with the orderly manner in which all negro business enterprises are conducted here, and the amount of energy, intelligence and personal service injected in each and all of them. The negroes of the north need not lose any sleep over the future of the race in this section, if the progress shown in this city is typical of the progress being made throughout the south. Jackson is a regular bee hive, filled with working bees—no drones. Here you find the negro pushing, not whining. A recent accession to Jackson is Dr. W. T. Vernon, former Register of the United States Treasury. Dr Vernon as the new president of Campbell College, is making a great success here, and is highly esteemed by all. Although a far westerner, by birth, and education, he has adapted himself to conditions here with such ease and effectiveness as to suggest to the unknowing that he is a southerner to the manor born. He is achieving splendid success down here, and it was fortunate for Campbell College that it secured him as president. But his success is such that the students and faculty, and community here labor under the fear that he may be called hence to some wider educational field. BRANCH AT LOUISVILLE, KY. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—Important News Notes. (By Al. H. Andrews.) Louisville, Ky., March 21. The National Association for the advancement of Colored People is endeavoring to establish a branch association in Louisville, for which purpose a meeting was held on last Tuesday night at the Western branch of the Colored Library. Probably on account of the inclement weather, only a small crowd was present. Dr. R. B. Scott was chosen as temporary chairman and Prof. Wm. L. Evans was chosen as secretary. A committee was appointed to take up the question of adopting a constitution for the association, and a copy of the Boston's association was read with a view towards learning just what was needed. And also a committee was appointed to inquire into such measures pending before the people on the question of race segregation. Another meeting was called for the 17th inst., at which time it is hoped to have a large crowd present. The regular Sunday afternoon men's meeting at the local branch of the Y. M. C. A., is still drawing large attendance, and Secretary Bullock is providing a program at each meeting that is worthy of even a better attendance. On the 13th inst., the speaker of the afternoon meeting was Hon. H. Rufus 'White, of Huntington. W. Va., a representative of the Anti-Saloon League, and his subject was "The Evils of Intemperance." Mr. White is a very able speaker, and is converting people to the temperance cause. He is now making a tour of the State under the direction of the Anti-Saloon League. Mrs. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Ala., is in the city in the interests of the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and delivered an address at the Zion Baptist Church on last Sunday evening. A good crowd of both men and women was out to hear Mrs. Washington, and it is likely that the meeting will stimulate interest in women's clubs in this State. The Revision Committee, of the City Council, to which the proposed amended Segregation Ordinance was referred for consideration before presenting it to the City Council, held a public meeting to hear arguments for and against the proposed ordinance, in the council chamber on Wednesday, March 18th, 1914, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Interest in the proposed measure has been wide spread, as nothing so radical has been attempted in the way of municipal legislation ever before in the history of this city. City Attorney Clayton Beckley stated the purpose of the measure, which was read to the crowd assembled, after which it was turned over to the public for discussion. The Revision Committee stating that the purpose of the meeting was to gain information as to whether such a measure was wanted in the city or not. Patrick Savage, a focal white lawyer, who makes most of his money off cases representing Negroes, was M. W. H. the principal speaker to support the measure, and he was assisted in his advocacy of the adoption of the measure by a Mr. Dowling, and several other speeches were made on the affirmative side of the question. The negative side was ably represented by such notable colored men as Hon. Wm. H. Steward, editor of the American Baptist; Rev. C. H. Parrish, of the Calvary Baptist Church; Rev. C. E. Allen, of the Knox Presbyterian Church; Lawyer N. R. Harper, and Prof. A. E. Mezek, Mr. J. D. Wright (white), of the Real Estate Exchange, also spoke against the adoption of the measure, and was supported by many other white men present. Many questions were addressed to the speaker from both sides, and the general impression, seemed to be that the Negative side had made a very creditable showing. Whether the Revision Committee will, report the measure favorably, or not is now a matter of pure conjecture, as they gave no indication one way or another. delicate and probably have tuberosis. The mother formerly did dry work but can no longer do so it is not safe for people to send clothes to her house. The more former employer, and his church doing all they can to help but in addition to that, they will need $ per month. Will you not publish these in your paper and call upon readers to lend a hand? If each one would give a little would be a great help to this citation, which knows no color, nor creed and whose burdens are most heavier than they can bear. All contributions should be seen 1923 H Street Northwest and will promptly acknowledged, both by receipt and through the paper. Yours truly. MRS. WILL C. BARNS Member Ways and Means Committee ALABAMA SAVINGS BANK The South is Progressing Not standing Race Prejudice. Will the Colored People Help This Worthy Cause. Washington, D. C., March 22, 1911. Editor Bee: As a member of the Ways and Means committee. Associated Charities, can I not enlist your interest in an unfortunate colored family which the association is endeavoring to help? The father, a young man who was always a steady, hard-working man has broken down and is now in the Tuberculosis Hospital. This leaves a wife and six children practically penniless. Four of the children are THE NEW YORK TIMES THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, NEED $39. delicate and probably have tuberculosis. The mother formerly did laundry work but can no longer do so as it is not safe for people to send their clothes to her house. The man's former employer, and his church are doing all they can to help but in addition to that, they will need $39.00 per month. Will you not publish these facts in your paper and call upon your readers to lend a hand? If each one would give a little it would be a great help to this association, which knows no color, race, nor creed and whose burdens are almost heavier than they can bear. All contributions should be sent to 923 H Street Northwest and will be promptly acknowledged, both by receipt and through the paper. Yours truly. MRS. WILL C. BARNS. Member Ways and Means Committee. The South is Progressing Notwithstanding Race Prejudice. Birmingham, Ala., March 23. J. O. Diffay, one of the most prominent, negro business men in the South, proprietor of Diffay's barber shop, which is conceded to be the finest negro barber shop in the country, was made acting president of the Alabama Penny Savings-Bank Friday night by the board of directors, and Dr. W. R. Pettiford, president for twenty-five years and founder of the institution was granted an indefinite leave from duty on account of his health. Together with Dr. Pettiford, B. H. Hudson, cashier and Peter F. Clarks, assistant cashier, Mr. Diffay established this bank twenty-five years 10 ago, and has been a member of the board of directors since that day. He is actively in charge of affairs now, carrying out the duties of president like a veteran at the job. The friends of the institution have been congratulating him on his elevation at the hands of his colleague once it became apparent that such a step was necessary. Dr. Pettiford is confined to his bed and has been for some time, but his physicians give out encouraging news is to his condition. The Alabama Penny Savings Bank, one of the oldest and steepest of negro banks, has branches in Montgomery, Selma and Anniston. DR. C. W. CHILDS Making a Model School Official Man With a Great Individuality. Dr. Creed W. Childs, a member of the Board of Education, is one of the most valuable members of that board. Dr. Childs is a great acquisition to the public schools. He is ready at all times to defend their interest and uphold the dignity of the teachers. He knows how to present the needs of the colored schools to the Congress of the United States. He watches the schools with a keen interest [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. what his shorts he has any. A shorts he made in half or the committees of which he is a member demonstrated his fitness. While he is not a lawyer, he has a legal mind. THE MAJESTIC THEATER. The drama to be given by the Renaissance Players at Majestic Theater April 18, 1914, is said to be the strongest play of its kind ever presented to a Washington audience. The dramatic situations are particularly striking. Artistic success is assured when we mention among others the names of Nathaniel Guy, who starred last year in the Merchant of Venice as Shylock, and Emily Janee Taylor, the talented actress who made such a pronounced impression as Portia. Among the thirty or more taking part in this drama are Mesdames Edna Gray, Adelaide Wormley Cardoza, Emma Lee Williams and Jesse Janee. To properly stage this production Messrs. W. D. Nixon and S. D. Milton, instructors in drawing at the M Street High School, pioneer scenic artists, have designed and painted all scenery necessary to the play. JUDGE ROBERT H TERRELL Reported Favorably by the Judiciary Committee. Extraordinary—Harper's Ferry to Be Opened Again for the People. Mr. W. W. Martin, who so successfully conducted Storer College, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., for summer boarders last year, begs leave to announce to his many friends and last year's patrons that he will in addition to those conveniences be had last year, will add the splendid new stone building known as London Heights. Further information will be given later on. GIVEN AN OVATION GIVEN AN OVATION The West is Electrified by His Effusions—Escorted to the Greatest Hotel in Los Angeles, Cal.-Speaking Day and Night—the Most Triumphant Tour of His Career. Los Angeles. Cal., March 23 When Doctor Booker T. Washington, the famous Tuskogee educator reached Los Angeles last week to begin his two weeks stay in Southern California, he was met at the Santa Fe station upon the arrival of the California Limited by a delegation of educators and prominent citizens headed by Doctor John Willis Baer, president of Occidental College, Los Angeles. Doctor Washington was carried to the Alexandria Hotel, the famous Los Angeles Hostelry, where he found that rooms had been reserved for him and which were literally filled with flowers which had been sent to the hotel by prominent colored people and various colored organizations. All of these California engagements have been arranged for by Dr. John Willis Baer; the first engagement arranged for him was at the First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, Sunday morning, March 5th Roverend Turk, pastor. The afternoon of that same day in the First Methodist Church, of Los Angeles, he spoke to a mass meeting in the interest of the colored M M C A. The one in charge before Mr. T. A. Green, Secretary, 831 San Pedro Street, Los Angeles. On Tuesday the 10th, he spoke at the first school auditorium in Pasadena. Lecture given under the auspices of Boom College of Technology, Institute, the one in charge being Instant A. B. Scherer, Pasadena On Wednesday, March the 11th, he is looted at Pomona College, which is looted at Claremont, the one in charge being President James A. H. Larsell. Thursday night, March 12th he spoke at a banquet given in his honor at the Hotel Virginia, Long Leah This banquet is always an important function in connection with the State Y. M. C. A. convention. He one in charge of the arrangements was Secretary Sprunger, of the Y. M. C. A. of Los Angeles. Dr. Washington spoke at Pasadena again on Sunday afternoon, March 15th, at four o'clock in the first Presbyterian Church, the pastor being Dr. Robert Freeman. Tuesday, March 17th, he was at Redlands, being in charge of the meeting. Friday morning he was the guest of the Friday Morning Club. Mrs. Seward Simons, South Pasadena, was the hostess upon the occasion. On Sunday, March 22nd, he was at Riverside, the one in charge being Frank Miller, proprietor of the Mission Inn. The first address in the auditorium of the Occidental College was attended by more than three thousand teachers, high school students and prominent educators of California, so states the Los Angeles Tribune; the Los Angeles Times estimated the attendance at four thousand. Students were present from thirty-three high schools from Southern California, as well as representatives from Occidental and Los Angeles Junior Colleges. Nearly all of the Los Angeles newspapers carried photographs of Dr. Washington and have quoted at length from his various addresses: At the First Congregational Church, the Occidental College and other places where he has appeared and spoken, the colored citizens have with the leading white educators prominent business men to every possible courtesy to the Tuscan and to make his visit to fruitful importance. Mr R. C. Owens, the well known real estate operator, invited a group of the most prominent colored men of Southern California to meet Dr. Washington at his home at a private recreation all of these men expressed most enthusiastically, their approval of Doctor Washington's address at the First Congregational Church (white) and at Occidental College. His address in the interest of the colored Y. M. C. A. brought together one of the largest audiences of colored people ever assembled in these parts. This meeting was held in the First M. E. Church, the largest white Methodist church in the city, which was literally packed from chancel rail to sidewalk; hundreds were unable to gain admission. A notable courtesy was shown Doctor Washington here last week when the eighteen city and county judges invited him to have a correctional conference with them. He was also invited by one of the judges to sit with him on the bench during one of the court sessions, but so far, Doctor Washington has not been able to take advantage of this invitation. Doctor Washington's tour of southern California has proven to be veritable triumph among both whites and blacks. The Kingdom Go to the Majestic Theater next week and see the "King of the Kingdom." It is the greatest farce that was ever presented to the people of his city. Secure your seats now. Box office now open. CHRIST'S COMING WORLD'S END 1914 THE BIBLE MISUNDERSTOOD Canadian Minister Quoted—"The Earth Abideth Forever—Christ Will Not Come Again as a Man, According to the Bible—Pastor Russell Believes 1914 Marks a Great Change of Dispensation—Christ's Parousia Precedes His Epiphania. March 22—The widely known Pastor Russell, whose great and free PHOTO - DRAMA OF CREATION is being set before the people daily in many large cities, and everywhere arousing enthusiasm for God, religion and the Bible, chose for his text today. "Thus it PASTOR RUSSELL March 22—The widely known Pastor Russell, whose great and free PHOTO-DRAMA OF CREATION is being set before the people daily in many large cities, and everywhere arousing enthusiasm for God, religion and the Bible, chose for his text today, "Thus it shall be in the coming [Parousia—presence] of the Son of Man; they shall be eating, drinking, planting and marrying, and know not." (Matthew 24:37, 38.) He said in part: I was proused in the selection of my text for today by reading an extract from the sermon of a Canadian minister delivered recently. In it he declared that 1914 would witness the Second Coning of Christ, etc. His statement allowed the inference that he holds the view common to nearly all the creeds; namely, that the earth is to be burned up and the human race blotted out; and that, incidentally, Christ will come a second time, to see that none of the Church are included in the destruction. Mistakes of' Dark Ages Being Corrected. To my understanding, all such expectations are wholly unscriptural, untrue, misleading, and hindrances to a right understanding of the Bible. They belong to the Dark Ages, when public teachers seemed to lose all appreciation of poetic language, figurative language, mental imagery. They belong to the time when Christ's references to Gehenna Fire, which burned outside the wall of Jerusalem, were understood to mean an eternity of torture for all except the saintly few. They belong to the time when Jesus' words respecting the cutting off of the right hand and the plucking out of a right eye were misunderstood, and taken literally. St. Peter's words are generally urged to be the foundation for the theory that the world will be destroyed by literal fire at the Second Coming of Christ, when the heavens shall be on fire, the earth also and the things therein shall be burned up (2 Peter 8:10). A literal interpretation here overlooks the fact that St. Peter, speaking of the very same time, in Acts 8:19-21, declares that Times of Restitution and blessing—not times of world-burning—will follow the Second Coming of Jesus. It also overlooks the fact that St. Peter and the other Apostles, as well as the Master, frequently used the word fire in a symbolic sense, to represent tribulation. Thus St. Peter, addressing the Church, says, "Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial that shall try you." St. Paul says that the fire of that Day shall try the work of every man [the Church], of what sort it is. Those who have built with gold, silver, precious stones [the promises of God's Word], shall be fire-proof in that Day; while those who have built with the wood, hay and stubble of human tradition—I higher Criticism, Human Evolution, etc.—will find their faith structure amenable to the fire; and they will suffer the loss of faith and have tribulations accordingly. Yet, the Apostle explains, such will themselves be saved, but these very fiery trials will destroy their misconceptions. They will be saved because, in spite of their errors, they built their faith upon Christ—1 Corinthians 3:11-15. The Apothec, however, urged that all should build with gold, silver and precious stones - characteristics which would enable them to pass through the fire of that Day unscathed - "more than conquerors." Similarly, Jesus referred to a testing of faith, by the figure of a flood, telling that those who built upon the sand would suffer loss, but that those who built upon the Rock would be safe. All these Scriptures, however, these references, to fiery trials, gte, belong to the end of the Age-not the end of the world. "The Earth Abideth Forever." "The Earth Abideth Forever." The Bible teaches that in God's great Plan He has provided various epochs, or ages, each for the accomplishment of its own special work; as for instance, the Jewish Age with its work, and the Gospel Age with its work, to be followed by the Millennial Age and its still different work. The Bible declares that "the earth abideth forever" (Ecclesiastes 1:4); that "God created it not in vain; He formed it to be inhabited." (Isaiah 45:18). The earth has never yet been inhabited. There are immense tracts of country still unoccupied. The Divine Plan for the earth has not yet reached consummation. It will require the thousand years of Messiah's glorious Kingdom Power to bring the world out of present sin and death conditions, and into the glorious conditions of Millennial blessings and Restitution, of which, the Scriptures so frequently speak, and which St. Peter declares God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy Prophets. So then, the basis for thinking of the end of the world, now or ever, is purely a misunderstanding, due largely to the fact that our English translation uses the word world where it would more properly have used the word Age, Epoch, or order of things. In a word, the present order of things, of which the Scriptures declare Satan is the prince, or ruler, is not to be perpetual; it is to pass away. A new order of things, under the control of Messiah, the Prince of Light, is to take the place of the present reign of the Prince of Darkness. A reign of righteousness and life is to succeed the present reign of sin and death, according to St. Psul. -Romans 5:17, 21. Christ's Second Coming. The Bible everywhere represents that Christ left a Heavenly glory when He came to earth nearly nineteen centuries ago. "The Logos was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Bible explains that the necessity for this humiliation, this leaving the glory and taking a bondman's form, lay in the fact that God had pronounced a death sentence upon man, which mankind were paying and from which they could not be released unless some one would become their redeemer and meet the penalty for them—a death penalty, not an eternal torment penalty, of which the Scriptures know nothing. The Bible nowhere tells that Jesus took the human nature to keep it forever, and to return with it to Heaven, where it would be completely out of order and out of place. The Bible teaches, on the contrary, that "tissue and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 15:50); and that Jesus was made flesh merely "that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man" (Hebrews 2:9); and that after doing this work He would "ascend up where He was before" (John 6:02). St. Paul assures us that this, the Divine Program, has been carried out. After telling of our Lord's obedience to the Father's will in humbling Himself to death, even the death of the cross, he adds, "God hath highly exalted Him"—"far above angels, principalities and powers."—Philippians 2:5-11; Ephesians 1:20-23. The Master declared plainly, "Yet a little while, and the world shall see Me no more"; but He promised that He should be seen by His followers. St. John declares, "We shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is." (1 John 3:2). We read: "Every eye shall see Him"; but this, to be in harmony with the other Scriptures, must refer to the eyes of understanding. The Bible declares that eyes of human understanding are blinded now by error and sin, but that shortly all the blind eyes shall be opened. Then all will see Messiah and His Kingdom with the eye of faith, as the Church now see Jesus, the crown of life, and the things which the natural eye hath not seen. Parousia—Presence; Epiphania—Manjifestation. Our English word coming is used to translate several very different Greek words. One of these is Parousia, which means presence, and is used in referring to the first stage of the Lord's Second Advent. He will be invisibly present. For a time none but the saintly few whose eyes of understanding are anointed through the Word and the Spirit will realize His Parousia. His presence, while all things earthly will continue as they have been—buying, selling, building, marrying, etc. Then, later on, will come the Epiphania; that is to say, the revelation, or manifestation, of the present One. This will not be a manifestation in the flesh, but in a great Time of Trouble, symbolically represented as fire, as when we read, "He shall be revealed in faming fire, taking vengeance."—2 Thess. 1:7-10 To my understanding, the Bible teaches that Jesus has been present in the world since 1874. In other words, His Second Advent then began. The wonderful progress in the world since then Bible students thus explain; the wonderful blessing upon them and their study of the Bible they interpret in harmony with this. They understand the Bible to teach that this Parousia will continue for a thousand years; but that the Epiphania, or manifestation to the world, will be due in forty years from the time the Presence began. For this reason they are looking very interestedly to see what the present year may bring forth. And do we not see everywhere signs of unrest, a time of trouble brewing? It looks as though this year would mark the beginning of the "faming fire" of judgments upon the world which will mark the closing of this Age and the inauguration of the New Dispensation of Messiah's Kingdom, when "justice shall be laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet," and when the ignorance, superstition and darkness which so long have hindered us will begin to be broken. The transition may be painful, yet it will be blessed, marking the overthrow of Satan's empire and reign of sin and death and the inauguration of Messiah's Kingdom and its Reign of rightousness and life eternal. Eating, Drinking, Planting and Build- ing. Our Lord, in describing His Second Presence, clearly indicated that it would be unnoticed by the world until the cataclysm of trouble should come. Thus He likened the earlier days of His presence to that period before the Flood, when the world, unconscious of the impending catastrophe, continued to build, eat and drink as usual, and knew not. So, says the Master, it will be in the end of this Age. Eating drinking, building, planting and marrying will proceed as usual; and the world will not know that they are in the presence of the Son of Man. The great Day of Trouble, noted throughout the Scriptures as "the Time of Trouble such as never was since there was a nation," will come upon them suddenly—St. Paul says like the pangs of a woman in child-birth. A New Dispensation and new order of things is about to be born, and this great trouble is merely incidental to that birth. St. Paul refers to the matter, saying, "Yourselves know perfectly, brethren, that the Day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the night. For when they [the world] shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that Day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all children of the light, children of the Day."-1 Thessalonians 5:1-6. Change a Cause For Rejoicing. "The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower." The trouble will be an awful one, but we believe not of great length. The Bible everywhere tells of the glorious results that will follow, when the shackles of darkness, sin and error shall be broken, and when all the spiritual powers surrounding mankind will be good and helpful, as in contrast with those of the wicked spirits now operating through mediums, by charivoyant and chalraudient powers, to ensnare, to deceive, to bewilder, mankind. The fact that our Lord appeared in seven different flesh-forms on various occasions after His resurrection does not contradict other plain statements. Rather, we see that such appearances resembled the appearances of angels in the flesh, to communicate some good message from God to men. Had Jesus not materialized and appeared to His disciples, what proof would they or we ever had had respecting His resurrection? And would not the fact that He saw them for a few moments and then vanished tend to prove to them that He was no longer a flesh being, but a spirit being, who had merely appeared to them for a special purpose? St. Paul declares that he saw the Lord last, and not as a man, but as a spirit being, whose brightness was above that of the sun; and It injured his eyesight; for our Lord was not veiled in the flesh, as when He appeared to the disciples during the forty days. The Christ who is to come a second time, then, is not the Jesus of the flesh, but the glorified Jesus, who in nature and glory is far above the angels—of the Divine nature. "This Same Jesus—Shall Come Again." When Jesus ascended, two angels appeared to the disciples, saying, "This same Jesus, whom ye have seen go into Heaven, shall so come again in like manner as ye have seen Him go." In the past many of us have misunderstood this statement—not scrutinizing it carefully enough. Assuredly it would be the same Jesus that would come again—the same One who died for us, the same One who left the glory for us before He was born the Babe of Bethlehem. In all His changes He remains the same personality, as He declared: "I am He that is, and was, and is to come." The angels did not say, however. He will come again in the flesh, or materialized, as you have seen Him go away. Their message related to the manner of His going and the manner of His coming. What was there special about the manner of His going away that would correspond to the manner of His coming again? Many things! He went away quietly, secretly, unknown to the world, unknown to any except His disciples. In like manner has been His Parousia—silently, quietly, unknown to the world, not known to any except His disciples. Surely, if we are right in saying that His Parousia began in 1574, the manner would correspond with the manner of His going. He did not come with glorious hosts, blaring trumpets, etc. but as a "thief in the night." If we have the correct date and chronology, Gentle Times will end this year—1014. What of it? We do not surely know. Our expectation is that the active rule of Messiah will begin about the time of the ending of the lease of power to the Gentiles. Our expectation, true or false, is that there will be wonderful manifestations of Divine judgments against all unrighteousness, and that this will mean the breaking up of many institutions of the present time. If not all. Some Scriptures seem to indicate that this will mean world-wide anarchy, not all beginning at the same moment, nor ending at the same time, but beginning and gradually spreading the world around. The further intimation is that this trouble will eventually prove a blessing to humanity, melting their hearts in the Day of Trouble, teaching them more of sympathy for one another, breaking the power of superstition, wealth, ignorance, etc.—preparing them for the glorious Reign of Messiah's Kingdom. CUSTER SURVIVOR LOSES HIS PLACE Daniel A. Kanipe Was Bearer of Famous Message. FORMERLY REVENUE RAIDER 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 1876. Mr. Kanlie has retired to his home at Marlon, 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. Kanlie 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. Kanlie was born at Marton 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 Sioux Indians under Chiefs Sitting Bull and Raln In the Face. He was with Custer on the morning of June 25, 1876, at the Little Big Horn, when the Indians were beginning to close in around the little band of American soldiers. "I had the fastest horse in the service." Sergeant Kauipe 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 snaking past a number of Indians and outrunning 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 herole 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 heroe 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. Kanple 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 Parkls. 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. SEEK SLAYER IN AN EYE. Photograph of Retina Expected Show His Image. Aurora, Ill.—Yielding to persons who have faith in the old superstition, the authorities here have photographed the eye of Theresa Hollander. State Attorney Tyer admitted this, saying that it was the belief of many that the retina of a murdered person retained the image of the murderer. Miss Hollander was beaten to death in a cemetery here a week ago. The picture was taken after a suggestion of an oculist, who asserted with emphasis that the retina of the stain girl's eye would show the last object before her conscious vision. The photograph was made the day after the murder as the body was being cared for at a local undertaker's. The authorities rather feared they would be ridiculed for this effort, but were anxious to leave nothing undone to get evidence, so went through the performance, holding every actor in the scene to the most profound secrecy. TANGOED IN HIS FREEZER. Butcher, Locked In, Also Tried Jigs, Hilo Yiwa Furniture, the Music Butcher, Locked In, Also Tried Jig, His Yells Furnishing the Music. Mount Pleasant, Pa.—Locked in his own meat freezer for three hours, William Melago, a butcher, declares that he owes his life to the tango, which he danced continuously to keep from freezing. When Melago stepped into his freezer he forgot to turn off the check on the automatic lock. The door clicked into place, and he was a prisoner. His cries and pounding failed to attract attention, and, realizing that he would freeze to death unless he indulged in some exercise, Melago, who can dance, began to double shuffle to the accompaniment of his yells for help. It grew cooler, and he varied his exercise by an Irish jig. But this was fatiguing, and he slowed into the tango, paying special attention to the dip. According to his story, he kept on the move for nearly three hours, when his wife finally heard the noise and released him. HENS HUNGRY AND NOT ON A STRIKE Birds and Squirrels Had Been Stealing Their Food. Canterbury, Comm.—Conrad A. Gehrke is speaking to his blooded hems again after three weeks of strained relations. Mr. Gehrke decided to spend a part of the winter at his country place, bought the hems and after the first heavy fall of snow came to the conclusion that they recognized him as a novice and were simply cheating him out of good food. He gave them three times as much feed as he had read that they deserved and yet he found them every day apparently wild with hunger, trying to eat the wire of their coop. He quit treating them as companions and served their food each day with a great show of violence. Then the whole matter was explained. He went out to the coop early in the morning and found that the hens had company. In the yard were a dozen squirrels and a half hundred birds, including quail, bluejays and smaller birds. These hungry, callers were eating ravenously of everything that remained, while the fresh egg producers of the farm stood back sullenly and without any show of enthusiasm regarded the callers. The birds and squirrels retreated when Mr. Gehrke came toward the coop, but returned the moment he turned his back. He threw a great mass of feed out for the hens and almost apologized to them for his late conduct toward them. When the snow came in this section ring neck peasants, ruffled grouse and even crows have taken up positions near hen yards in the hope of getting enough food to sustain them. At one place a flock of quail numbering more than fifty has taken to feeding in a pliggen, where the service is not of the best, but food in plenty is to be found. BULLDOG A LIFE SAVER. Pulls Covers From Its Master When the Bedroom Is In Flames. Minneapolis.- To the watchfulness of the pet bulldog of C. C. Smith Edward Cox probably owes his life. Cox, who keeps Mr. Smith's dog, was awakened in the night by cold. The dog had pulled all the covers from the bed and was scratching frantically at Cox's arm. Cox awoke to find the interior of the room in flames, and he and the dog rushed out. Firemen were summoned, and they extinguished the fire, which had destroyed the bedclothes, the dog's bed of rags on a chair and some curtains and burned a hole in the floor. SAVE MINER AFTER A WEEK. One of Two Entombed Lived on Dinner Pail Contents and Seepage. Seattle.-Mike Davasonick, one of two coal miners entombed by a cave-in in the Cannon mine of the Pacific Coal company at Franklin, was rescued alive after seven days. Though he was weak from lack of food, the mine physician said he probably would soon reover normal strength. Davasonick lived for a week on the contents of his dinner pail and water from seepage. FEDERAL LAW TO CURB DRUG HABIT EXONERATESTHEPHYSICIANS Clergyman Declares Cocaine Can Be Bought as Easily as Ice Cream and Asserts That All States Should Have Uniform Laws—Tells of Effect of Drug on Victims. New York.—"There is only one way to put an end to the cocaine traffic in the United States, and that is to pass a comprehensive federal law which will regulate the sale not only of the harmful and obnoxious cocaine, but all drugs and narcotics that have vitiating qualities," said the Rev. James B. Curry of St. James' Roman Catholic church when asked for his views on the war on habit forming drugs. Father Curry became interested in the fight on cocaine nine years ago, and he has been fighting it ever since. He is familiar with every phase of the matter. "It is a matter that the federal government must deal with sooner or later," be said. "The widespread use of drugs, which is ruining the lives of thousands of men and women in this country and, most important of all, lives of thousands of boys and girls, makes it incumbent on the officials in Washington to take cognizance of this serious matter. The time for procrastination is past, and we must get quick action. "No individual state can successfully combat the evil. For instance, if New York state passes a drastic law regulating the sale of drugs it will be a simple matter for unscrupulous sellers of the drug to obtain their supply in New Jersey or another state." "On some sides I have heard physicians of this city criticised for filling prescriptions which enable the bearers to obtain supplies of cocaine. Reputable physicians are striving to lessen this evil to the best of their ability. "I do think the wholesale drug houses are responsible for the spread of this evil. As an example of how easy it is to obtain cocaine and other harmful drugs from wholesale houses, an acquaintance of mine recently informed me that he could get as much of the drug as he wanted without an order from a physician or anybody else. I was so surprised that I requested him to make the effort. "He made out a list and mailed it to a drug house and asked for prices. Included in the list was cocaine. In a few days he received the list with the prices filled in, and, checking off some of the drugs, including cocaine, he remailed the list. No long after that the goods were delivered, and the cocaine was in the order. It was no easy as buying ice cream. "It was in 1906 that I first took up the cudgels against the sellers of cocaine. I noticed sailors drifting over from the flowery and patronizing a certain drugstist. Before entering the store these men seemed to be downhearted and despondent, but coming out their manner had undergone a change. They appeared to be animated and gleeled, cut up capers and seemed pleased with everything in general." "I saw one of them sell cocaine one day. I succeeded in obtaining some of the drug and sent it to the board of health for analysis. It was found to be 99.50 percent cocaine. Subsequently the drugstreet was forced to close up. "Laws that exist are not comprehensive enough. Some new drug springs up from time to time, and the present laws do not affect its sale. I propose that a law be passed that will cover not only the drugs now regulated, but also new drugs that may come into existence. A law can be so worded as to embrace the new drugs, and there will be no need for further legislation along that line. "Some persons have asked me where the cocaine habit originally came from. It is a hard question to answer, but I really think that it came from the West Indies. I imagine that the negative help on ships from the West Indies brought the habit to New York years ago." MAKES MARRIAGE EASIER. Bill In French Parliament Will, if Passed, Remove Much Red Tape. Parks. A bill was presented in the senate which if passed will greatly modify the existing marriage regu- tions. At present the complicated legal papers required, time absorbed and fees charged tend to make marriage unpopular among the poor. It is generally admitted that this condition is responsible for the en- gious number of "free unions." The new bill eliminates various formalities and tends to make matrimony easy in the twentieth century, when, as the bill states, "one has less and less time to do anything, even to marry." Treat Smallpox by Phone. Rockford, Ill.-To prevent the spread of smallpox Rockford doctors are treating pest patients by telephone. This condition came about when two physicians who had smallpox client-refused to continue treating because they could not carry the practice. Other doctors adopt the method. UNCLE SAM'S MEN EASY FOR SHARKS Money Lenders Near Capitol Charge Excessive Interest. CLERKS ARE EXTRAVAGANT. Aggregate Loans Estimated at $500,000, and the Average Interest 150 Per Cent, or $750,000—Law of Congress Evaded by Money Lenders Moving Across Potomac to Virginia. Washington.—Of all the shady interests which are carried on by government employees in every department the "loan shark" evil is said to be the worst. For years department heads and bureau chiefs have failed to stamp out the class of men who carry on the business among their associates of lending small sums at excessively large rates of interest. In the office of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia are filed at the present time no less than fifty distinct charges of "Toan sharking," the offenders including professional money lenders. In a preliminary statement recently given out Assistant District Attorney Given said that no less than 1,000 complaints of violation of the loan shark law have been received from persons who requested that their names be not made public. A little over a year ago congress enacted a drastic law against "loan sharking." The interest rates which had formerly ranged from 50 per cent to 300 per cent a year, were cut to 1 per cent a month. For a time it was believed that the business in Washington was dead. Then the money lenders put their heads together and several of the professionals who maintained offices in the downtown section of the city tried the first evasion of the law. It is about twelve city blocks from the western edge of the downtown district to the Virginia side of the Potomac river. Within fifteen feet of the high water mark on the Virginia side of the river two or three of the lenders built offices and hung out three balls. An interurban electric line gave easy access to and from the city. Signs giving notice of the change of location were displayed before their downtown Washington offices and several other shops bore signs of a change of residence to Alexandria, Va., five miles down the Potomac. Thus by co-operation among the money lenders the entire professional "loan shark" business of Washington was moved to Virginia, with the exception of the "amateur" money lenders in the government departments. This, the police found, is the thing that the district attorney's office is determined to stamp out. It is said that a negro messenger in the treasury department accumulated over $50,000 during his thirty-five years of service through loaning small sums at excessive rates of interest. One of the money lenders established between his Washington office and his office on the Virginia shore a half hour automobile livery service for clients in downtown Washington, across Potomac park and the Highway bridge into Virginia. It proved too expensive, however. Washington, filled with residents whose homes are elsewhere, has probably the most apathetic civic conscience in the world. Its population is nearly as cosmopolitan as that of Atlantic City, and there is a spirit of rivalry as to dress and "front" in the very municipal atmosphere. A man with a government position has a prestige in his home community that few other positions of employment confer. The incumbent thinks he must live up to it by aping the dress and manners of the idle rich. The messenger with a salary of $600 or $700 a year alms to dress like his superior, the clerk. He does not want the public to think he is a mere messenger. The clerk would be a division chief, and he aspires to dress the part. He goes the messenger one better by allowing himself to be drawn into the ultra atmosphere of petty social affairs in Washington, which rarely get him anywhere. The division chief likes to be mistaken for an assistant secretary. And thus the merry game goes on. HEARS LAST RITES BY PHONE. Telephone Enables Dying Man to Attend Wife's Funeral. Patetson, N. J. — Ex-Judge James Inglis, confined to his bed by pneumonia, heard by telephone the funeral services conducted over the body of his wife in the parlor below. A bell-like transmitter was installed in the parlor, and wires led upstairs to the room where Judge Inglis lay. When the Rev. Davis Stewart Hamilton, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, began the service a receiver was lifted to Judge Inglis' ear and was kept there until the last word was spoken. Operate For Old Dog Bite. New York.-Physicians have found it necessary to operate on Miss Ella F. Hobby for an infection of the left leg caused by a dog bite fourteen years ago. She has undergone twelve operations. It is believed the last will cure her, as two inches of the diseased bone were removed. Teets on New Ship Shook Teeth In Mouths of Her Crew. Boston.—With rubber pads between teeth and cotton stuffed into their ears to ease the jar, the crew of the new Argentine Dreadnought Rivadavia stood on tiptoe while twelve twelve-inch guns and six six-inch ones were fired In one broadside from the port side of the giant fighter. Just to show that she could do it and still float—that was the condition of her acceptance by the Argentine government. The Rivadavla survived the test and the builders said that every requirement was fulfilled. The Dreadnought was somewhat shaken and some glass was broken, in spite of special copper shutters, but the structure stood firm and another test salvo was fired for good measure. The Rivadavla is called the heaviest ordnance warship afloat. She will carry 1,300 men and cost $11,000,000. SAY HE ATE THE CHECK. Accused Man Is Nevertheless Bound Over to Grand Jury. Portland, Ore.-Although he ate the documentary evidence against him while on the witness stand in full view of court attaches and spectators, according to officials, Samuel Matheson, a Seattle contractor, was bound over to the grand jury by Municipal Judge Stevenson on a charge of passing a bad check for $35. Matheson, while testifying in his own behalf, asked to be allowed to examine the check, retaining it while being questioned. He was noticed holding his handkerchief to his mouth, and court attaches sald his jaws were busily woking. Later, when the prosecution called for the check, the prisoner declared he did not have it. A search failed to reveal the slip. PAST IS FORGOTTEN BY EXILED QUEEN Natalie of Servia Presents Country With Mementos. Berlin.—Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia has decided to forgive and forget her tragic history in the country where her unhappy married life was passed and where her son, King Alexander, and his spouse were assassinated. She has turned over 27,000 acres to the Belgrade university, a valuable collection of arms made by King Milan and King ```markdown ``` NATALIE, EX-QUEEN OF SERVIA. Alexander to the National museum and the libraries of her husband and her son to the Academy of Science at the Servian capital. Natalie became the wife of King Milan of Servia in 1875 at the age of sixteen. Her son, the ill fated Alexander, was born a year later, but by that time she and her husband were scarcely on speaking terms owing to his dissolute life. They separated in 1886 and Natalie went to Wiesbaden with her son. Two years later Milan succeeded in getting possession of Alexander and induced the metropolitan to grant him a divorce. This divorce was later declared illegal. Milan abdicated in 1889 in favor of Prince Alexander. Queen Natalle, who thereupon returned to Servia, was forced to go into exile in 1891, but in 1894 both she and her husband returned in triumph to Belgrade and they were apparently reconciled. Their triumph, however, was short lived. The hand of Russia was seen in Servian politics under the sway of Alexander, who drove his father into exile, and Queen Natalle again left the country, never to return. The tragic death of Alexander and Queen Draga followed in 1902 and Peter Karageorgevitch was called to the throne, the Ohrenvitch dynasty being extinct. Milan had died in Vienna in 1901. Child's Prayer Answered. Saglnaw, Mich.—"Dear Lord, tell mamma we are in the trunk, and tell her to come quick." Mary Hart, eight years old, made this prayer when she and her brother, Leon, aged six years, found themselves trapped in a trunk into which they had climbed. Their mother, Mrs Michael Hart, felt impelled to look in the trunk in an unused upstairs bedroom. Both children were unconscious, but were revived. UNEMPLOYED GET WORK ON FARMS Following Recommendations by Governor Glynn of New York, Labor Bureau Sends Jobless Men to Farmers, Who Find Great Difficulty In Obtaining Laborers. Albany, N. Y.-In his efforts to solve the problem of providing labor for the vast army of unemployed men in New York and in order to set an example for other cities where similar industrial conditions exist Governor Glynn and his investigators have hit upon a novel scheme and one which, it is hoped, will in a measure solve the vexing question. Investigators for the state get into communication with farmers who need farm hands. Their expenses are paid to the farms, and the men accept jobs that pay from $20 to $35 per month, including board. This was the first practical application of Governor Glynn's plan of solving the problem of unemployment in the cities and meeting the unprecedented demand for labor in the rural districts. Two car loads were shipped first under the direction of C. W. Larmon, deputy state commissioner of P. B. Photo by American Press Association. C. W. LABMON. agriculture, in charge of the state's labor bureau, and it is expected that they will be followed by many more before the supply in New York city is exhausted. The farmers round about Fonda, N. Y., were on hand to offer the men jobs as soon as they arrived. A part of the courthouse was set aside to accommodate the influx of farmers and job hunters, and the local grangers made all the other arrangements for the bringing together of the men who want work and the men who want workers. Two or three of those who started are married men, and they were permitted to take their wives with them, as there is opportunity for women to get work on the farm as house workers. "I have every reason to believe that this plan will succeed," said Larmon. "Most of these men are honest men very eager for work. The vagrants and the perennial out-of-works don't care to go out into the country to work on a farm. Of course, I am not egotistical enough to think that this is going immediately to remedy the whole unemployment question in New York, but even if we only send up state 4,000 or 5,000 men it will help. "Just as the supply of laborers is greater in the city this year than ever before the demand for laborers in the country is greater than in any year I can remember. As soon as the laborers arrive in these places they will be met by an agent from the department of agriculture and they will be at work a few hours later. We are sending, naturally, only such men as we are satisfied will make good on the farm. "What we are doing in the majority of cases is simply correcting the fault the men made when they drifted to the city. We are carrying them back again from where they started and, contrary to a prevalent belief that they won't want to go, they are enthusiastic about it. "The department feels humiliated to see eggs, meats and all the farm products coming in from the Argentine and even from countries as remote as Siberia. There is no reason why there should be such a falling off in agricultural production. During the past year there has been a decrease of 45,000 in the number of cows kept in New York state. This example is typical." Eagle Comes to Town. Pittsburgh.—An eagle perched on the window sill at the office of John Burrell, general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines in Union station. When S. J. McDonald, a clerk, tried to capture it the eagle cut his hands with its beak until he was forced to release it and let it fly away. GENERAL SELECTS HIS COFFIN John P. Taylor, In Good Health, Makes Funeral Plans. Philadelphia.—General John P. Taylor, a civil war veteran and member of the Gettysburg battlefield commission, although apparently in good health, is making advanced preparations for his funeral. He has placed an order for a solid bronze coffin to be cast from old cannon, and a vault has been sunk in the private Taylor burrying grounds on his estate, near Reedsville, Pa. The general plans to have this covered by a big granite block to be surmounted by a bronze statue of himself. The firm which obtained the contract for the coffin has been instructed to ship it, to a Lewistown undertaker to be held until needed for the execution of the contract he holds for the burial of the veteran. General Taylor despite his eighty-six years is still robust and enjoys a horseback ride almost daily. He is a member of the National Monument club and a former commander of the Legion of Honor. CAN'T KEEP OUT OF JAIL. Of His 29 Years Almost 20 Have Been Passed In Prison. Topeka, Kan.—Arthur Patton, who in his twenty-nine years has had only nine years of freedom, is in jail charged with stealing wagon wheels. Patton when nine years old was sent to the reform school for petty thievery. He was paroled, but had been free less than a week when arrested for stealing food from a home in Osage City. After finishing his expired sentence in the reformatory he returned to Osage City, where he was arrested for burglary and sent to prison. Last summer Governor Hodges paroled Patton from the penitentiary on the ground that he had never had a chance. He was given a job in a packing house. He had worked hard and conscientiously until his recent arrest. RHODES MEN FROM U. S. HAVE BEST YEAR Five Firsts In Jurisprudence Help Record of 1913 Oxford, England.—The annual report of the Rhodes trust shows that the American scholars during 1913 had a better scholarship record than in any year since the system was started. The whole number of Rhodes scholars in residence during the year was 175. Altogether the Rhodes system now represents about an eighteenth part of the whole student body. Only three Rhodes scholars are working merely for a pass degree. Most of them are out of honors, and on the whole they seem to be standing the test of Oxford standards well except in classics. Only one first was obtained in classics, and this was by an American from the Pacific coast. In the other departments the scholars held their own. In jurisprudence they gained five firsts out of seven awarded. The question of what becomes of the Rhodes scholars after their many years of study is answered in the report: More than one-fourth of the 431 Rhodes men who have been graduated from Oxford since the system was started have kept on with education as their life work. About 100 have turned to law, nearly fifty have gone into the civil service of the British empire, the United States or Germany; twenty-five have become physicians, eleighteen have gone into business, eleighteen have turned to the church and a small group is divided among journalism, agriculture and science. SELECTS GRAVE AND DIES. Pennsylvanian Had Premonition That End Was Near. Grove City, Pa.-M. E. Vogan of Erle, a former resident of this place, dropped dead a few minutes after he had selected the site for his grave. While Vogan lived here several years ago his daughter died. Since then he had visited her grave from time to time. One evening he took Jack Ewing, the sexton with him and, pointing out a spot beside his daughter's grave, said, "Ewing, I have a premonition that I'm going to die, and I want you to bury me right there." Vogan then left the cemetery, walked 500 yards and fell dead from heart disease. He was buried beside his daughter. MOLASSES. STICKS A SHIP. Too Cold to Run, Vessel Can't Unload and Loses Charter. Boston.-The proverbial slowness of cold molasses has been demonstrated again. As a result the tramp steamer Ixla has lost a charter. She is a tanker equipped to discharge a full cargo in two days and arrived here two weeks ago with 500,000 gallons of molasses. The cold wave thickened the molasses. Pipes were clogged, pumps made of little use, and the Ixla's crew worked two weeks instead of two days to discharge the freight. South Boston, Va.-E. B. Craddock of Chester Springs, Va., has been raising mule footed hogs in quantities for four years. He sells them for a big price. They are said to be immune from cholera, but this is disputed. PILOTS FOR SHIPS THROUGH CANAL CAPTAINS MUST ABDIGATE Official Pilot Will Be Deputy on Every Vessel That Passes—Engines Will Be Locked With Special Device From Entrance to Exit—To Furnish Supplies at Mouth. Colon,-Panama.-That the Panama canal will not only be ready for commercial shipping in July, but so safe as to be "fool proof" from a sailor's point of view, is the assurance by Captain Hugh Rodman, U. S. N., who will have entire charge of all the details of putting shipping through. According to Captain Rodman, the meteorological conditions are more favorable for shipping at the entrances of the Panama canal than at almost any other port in the world of anything like the importance of Colon and Balboa. At Colon the completion of one breakwater and the far advance of another give a still water entrance to the canal. The aids to navigation through Gatun lake have been made so clear that, as he believes, captains will find the passage through, day or night, as safe and easy as a walk down Broadway and the Culebra cut passage as safe as any large river. All vessels entering the canal will have a canal pilot, who will take the ship to an anchorage, from which she may not move without permission of Captain Rodman or one of his port captains, conveyed officially through the pilot. All the officials who visit ships must report to Captain Rodman as head of the department of canal operation. As soon as the quarantine officer releases a ship one of the other canal officials will go on board. As soon as a ship moves toward the canal its wireless and all signal arrangements will be under the immedi- C CAPTAIN HUGH RODMAN. ate control of the canal authorities, represented by the canal pilot. In addition to the wireless and the international code signal systems each pilot will have with him certain "shape" signals. At three commanding points on the line canal signal stations have been provided, so that from one of them every ship will be practically in sight during its entire passage. The engines of a ship will be turned over to the canal authorities the moment the vessel ties up to the approach wall of the canal locks. The engines will immediately be locked by the canal officials by means of a steel chain and a sealing device. This lock will be under the constant watch of a canal guard and an engineer of the ship until after leaving the locks, when its removal is ordered by the canal pilot on board. The pilots have been selected by Captain Rodman, and for three months he has been instructing and training them. Four of them are from the canals of the great lakes, men who have had experience taking the large ore ships through the Sault Ste. Marle canal. With these will be associated a number of picked men who are thoroughly familiar, with conditions at the Panama canal. At the Pacific entrance to the canal Captain Rodman says, ships will find no tide interference whatever and an abundance of anchorage room. When a vessel notifies the canal authorities in advance of its arrival as to what supplies are needed they will be put on board in the quickest possible time. The law authorizing the furnishing of supplies to shipping at cost is interpreted here to include the making of repairs at cost, and this also will be done. Captain Rodman graduated in 1880, and all except six years of his service since has been at sea. He has been around the world five times and has commanded ships in nearly every big port in the world. It was Rodman whom Admiral Dewey sent to demand the surrender of the Spanish batteries on Corregidor Island, outside of Manila bay, and later those at Subig bay. 心 OFFICIALLY HE WAS A GIRL Cambridge Boy Gets the Family Doctor to Fix the City's Books. Boston.-After being registered for sixteen years as a girl in the city clerk's office at Cambridge, Frederick Melanson of that city forced the clerk to correct the official birth registration book. The boy wanted to go to work and applied for the necessary birth certificate. At city hall a clerk searched through the files and said, "The only Melanson we have in that year is a girl born to J. A. and Bertha Melanson." "That's me," said Fred. "I can't take your word for it," said the clerk. Frederick hustled to the office of the family physician, Dr. Lancaster, and brought him to the clerk's office. "I remember perfectly the day he was born," said the doctor and took the required oath to this. The clerk's book now reads, "Frederick Melanson, boy, born April 30, 1898." GIRL WANDERS IN SLEEP. Kalamazoo Miss Awakens In the Streets of Battle Creek. Battle Creek, Mich.-Walking in the streets of Battle Creek and asking a policeman where she was, Miss Myrtle Green of Kalamazoo, fourteen years old, was taken home by Captain Putnam and County Agent Thayer of her home city, ending a search that had been instituted by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Green. The theory is that the girl, in a somnambulistic state, boarded an interurban car at night and came as far as her money took her, to Urbundale, then walked to this city. The girl comes of a good family, and when last seen in Kalamazoo was on her way to church. She seemed dazed when found here, but recovered her senses later. New York.-Tobacco smoking causes a decrease of 10.5 per cent in mental efficiency, according to a series of experiments by Dr. A. D. Bush. There was a series of 120 tests on each of fifteen men in several different psychic fields. The subjects volunteering for the experiments all were medical students ranging in age from twenty-one to thirty-two years, of varying previous experience, from the farm laborer to the lifelong student, of divergent mental capacity, from the failure to the honor student and of differing habits as to tobacco addiction. The subjects were attendants at the University of Vermont, where Professor Bush is an instructor in physiology. Among his findings are: The greatest actual loss was in the field of imagery, 22 per cent. The three greatest losses were in the fields of imagery, perception and association. The greatest loss in these experiments occurred with cigarettes. Nicotine was found in the distillates of all tobacco tested. Nicotine was not found in the smoke of any tobacco except that of cigarettes, and then only in traces. Pyridine was found in the smoke of all tobaccos tested. Pyridine is one of the decomposition products of nicotine, the latter being almost twenty-two times as poisonous as pyridine, so far as its action on the human body is concerned. This was the first extensive investigation of the mental effect of smoking. The recent tests at Columbia university and elsewhere were chiefly for the physical effects on students in athletic training. HARVARD LEADS IN CONGRESS. Has Forty Representatives There, While Yale Has Only Ten. Cambridge, Mass.—Harvard university takes all the honors in representation in the Sixty-third congress, with Yale running a poor second and Princeton in third place. There are seventeen graduates of Harvard in the house of representatives, many of whom are from Massachusetts, and there are twenty-three Harvard alumni in the senate. The total Harvard representation is forty. Yale, which is runner up in the collegiate political competition, has a total of ten, with five alumni in the house and five in the senate. Princeton, with a graduate in the chief magistrate's chair, has two graduates in the house and two in the senate. MAY WAR ON CATS. Extermination Is Asked by a Game Protective Association. Tacoma, Wash. - The domestic cat is doomed if the recommendations adopted by the Pierre county branch of the Washington State Game Protective and Propagation association, at its annual meeting at the Tacoma hotel, is adopted by the Pierre county game commission. War on tabby was declared because she has turned out to be an enemy of game and a destroyer of wildlife. The association requests the commission to offer a small bounty for each domestic cat killed to further extermination. 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...5.0 Subscription monthly...20 A NEW OIL AND GAS COMPANY ORGANIZED. The Adams' Oil, Gas and Development Company, a corporation which has just recently been granted a charter under the Oklahoma laws to generally deal in all phases of the development of the oil and gas industry of Oklahoma, will, through the columns of next week's issue of The Bee, come forth with an elaborate and feasible scheme as regards that company and its future movements and activities in developing the oil and gas industry, in which the people of this city will be given an opportunity to subscribe for a limited amount of the stock of that company, and thus be privileged to share in the rich and profitable returns which seem almost assured for it. It should be stated in this connection that this company has complied with all the legal requirements in its organization, which, of course, is one of the most essential requisites for any business enterprise, and the personnel of it is comprised of wide-awake and honest business men, in whose hands you need have no fear as to wise economical and profitable management. The contemplated head of this enterprise, as we understand it, is to be a gentleman, after whom the company takes its name—a gentleman, whose competency and integrity are without question. He has given considerable time and thought to the development of the oil and gas industry of this country, and that, together with the fact that his present daily employment of long standing as clerk in the fuel department of the Navy, which has made a specialty of fuel oil purchases for several years for the naval service for use ashore and afloat, has thrown him in direct touch with all phases of the oil and gas industry of this country, make it possible for us to predict a phenomenal success for this company. We know Oklahoma to be the greatest area of high-grade producing oil in the world, which is certainly saying nothing little for that state and as it is necessary for any operating oil and gas company doing business in any state to be in possession of suitable lands in suitable quantities and varied localities, which have a prospective mineral value, it will no doubt be pleasing to the general public to know that this company now owns some of the best oil and gas lands in Oklahoma, and it is these lands that will form the basis for the company's oil and gas operations. Millions of dollars worth of liquid gold (crude oil) are being released in Oklahoma from the bowels of the earth yearly, as you can calculate from the present output of 225,000 barrels per day; and the government statistics show the risk to be small compare with almost every other line of industry. It will, therefore, pay those who are looking for a safe, sound and profitable investment to read the last page of next week's issue of "The Bee" and lose no time in securing a share in the company's holdings, which we understand will be very limited. NEGRO DEMOCRACY. What is in a name? A name in a community of good citizens carries with it influence and standing. But what is in the name of "Negro Democracy?" It is not a joke; a slander upon a race which is now being oppressed? Negro democracy means a set of insane and disgruntled individuals who are after the "filthy lucre" and whose principles are corrupt Negro democracy is a misnomer and its membership consists of willing debaucherers, who are as purchasable as bad whiskey from speak-easies on a Sabbath morning, before breakfast and after dinner. Negro democracy in its strictest sense represents a degeneration of Negro civilization and good citizenship. Negro democracy consists of a class of insane travelers after they have been liberated. Negro democracy is an insane dream or a nightmare that controls the brain of certain Negroes before their minds become intoxicated by the use of Democratic money. Only one object or one thought permeates the brain of this class of individuals. The more you abuse and ill-treat them the stronger they love you. They are incapable of discerning right from wrong. They believe that ill treatment means stronger love. So insane do they become that they leave their friends and flock to their enemies. This generation of lunatics is more dangerous to the republic than any other class of individuals. If you kick them away from your door they will return with a resolution of thanks. The foregoing are only a few of the peculiar characteristics of Negro democracy. If the Republican party has done nothing more for the Negro than to liberate them, it has done its duty. But has it done more? The Republican party is a party of progress. It believes in equality of citizenship; it has given to the Negro race a liberal education; the Republican party gave the Negro the right to vote and enabled him to accumulate property. It has permitted the wives, daughters, mothers and sisters of these individuals to breathe the air of freedom and independence. In view of the great record of the Republican party no one but an insane Negro could betray it. Some will argue that a Negro has the same right to support the principles of the Democratic party as a white man. By no means. Charges of administration never affect a white man in his vote. He may become financially embarrassed but, not otherwise. His citizenship is in "status quo." If there is one of these insane Negroes, who has sufficiently recovered his senses to tell the people what he has galned in supporting the Democratic party, or what the country has gained. The Bee will gladly give him space. The country never was in such a condition as it is today. In no part of this country can you go and find a dozen people satisfied with conditions. Certainly so-called Negro democrats are not satisfied, because they have been disappointed in securing what has been near and dear to them—office. BLACK AND WHITE The Bee respectfully calls the attention of Dr. Washington's letter in The Outlook to Mr. James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, and let him read it and he will readily see why there is so much ignorance in the South. No doubt the further you go South the more ignorance you will encounter. Is it not surprising how any people are able to suc- ceed? Ought not the Sooth, especially the state of Alabama, be ashamed. It not such figures a disgrace upon the state of Alabama? It can be seen that the colored people in the South have a great deal to encounter. What remedy would our Northern colored educators suggest? Can DuBois give a remedy? Will the teachings of DuBois help these illiterates in Alabama, or Dr. Washington's school? Shall we tell them to read Harvardized DuBois' Routine of Manhood rights or Tuskogee's practical educational book mill? Will DuBois so-called manhood fault-finding doctrine help Alabama or Tuskogee. "National Religious Training School at Durham, Dr. Dudley's school at Greensboro, Ferguson's and William's Academy at Abbeville, S. C., solve the problem? These schools are doing something practical. The article in The Outlook is worth reading. JUDGE TERRELL No better compliment could have been paid to a colored American than the one that Attorney General McReynolds paid Judge Robert H. Terrell, who was renominated by President Wilson as the only holdover judge of the Municipal Court. The attorney general informed the Senate that Judge Terrell was the most competent judge upon the bench of that court. What better compliment could have been given? What did the opposition of a few disgruntled negroes amount to, who were candidates for the place themselves? The best evidence of the high esteem in which Judge Terrell is held by the members of the bar and the judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, is what they all said to the Department of Justice concerning him. He was the best endorsed man at the Department of Justice and his sponsor was one of the eminent an influential members of the local bar and a Democrat. There was no way for the administration to get behind the endorsements of Hoke Smith, James K. Vardaman and all other members of this Southern oligarchy could not defeat him. The most surprising thing that struck "The Bee" was the opposition of Senator Root of New York, Why should he vote against Judge Terrell in the committee? Senator Root is a Republican and those negroes who have been loyal to the party expected better things from him. Will the Senator from New York explain why he voted with Democrats in the committee against making a favorable report on the nomination of Judge Terrell? Senator Root is about to retire from the Senate and perhaps he wanted to make a record like our ancient friend ex-Judge Bundy, who advocated segregation of the races just prior to the expiration of his term as judge of the Municipal Court. This coupe did not catch Attorney General McReynolds. The retirement of Mr. Bundy certainly did please "The Bee" as well as colored members of the local bar. One thing about the Democratic administration, it is onto trimmers and apologists and no man need think that he is making any headway with the administration by abusing the negro. The administration will not compromise itself with the enemy of the Negro. THE SADDLED SOUTH Will some philoopher explain why the South is so inimical against the Negro? Has the Negro done anything or is he doing anything to the detriment of the South? Vardaman of Mississippi pretends to be a friend to the colored race and in the same breath he attempts to strike it down or put it out of existence. The Negro must look to the Republican and conservative Democratic north, east and west for the enforcement of his constitutional rights. The South is in the saddle and the rider, who is the South is a careless and unrelenting brutal rider. This inurance must last three more years and then a change is bound to come. The Southern riders will be thrown so completely from their horses that the incident will be a memorable occasion. Then the American people, regardless of color or nationality, will witness such a change that stars will give light at noontime. The Democratic South is upon its last legs. The real hard times have not been felt as yet. They are coming. The South will witness another destitute period worse than the one that occurred during the Civil War. More lives will be claimed in defending the wives and children of those who are now oppressing the innocent blacks. A war with a foreign country has got to come. The South will receive the greatest injury. This prediction of The Bee may sound like a fairy tale, but watch events. The Vardamans, the Hoke Smiths, the Williams and all other conscientious statesmen will witness and experience the sailldest scene in the entire history of the South. The Negro will not raise his hand to harm his oppressors, but will express his sympathy for them. The Negro sees no reason why his prayers should cease and turn to the shotgun. The prayers of the righteous will preyail. VOCATIONAL COOKING The leading women of the city are deeply interested in the success of the classes in cooking in the Vocational Schools. Many inquiries about the course are being daily made, the Housekeepers' Alliance being especially interested in this effort to train efficient workers in a trade that employs the large majority of our self-supporting girls. Many worthy girls desiring to take the course are hindered by the necessity for securing a livelihood while pursuing the course, co-operation of interested housekeepers with the teacher of the Vocational Schools ways could be arranged by which these girls could get this necessary training. It is to be hoped that the various welfare and social organizations of women take this matter up for discussion and immediate investigation. The Bee would suggest to the school authorities the importance of having this subject pushed extensively in our schools. There is eligible applicant and a competent one at that should be appointed before Congress asks why she is not appointed. There is no reason why this appointment is delayed longer. HELPING NEGRO PRESS Ralph Tyler has projected a plan, which if it goes through, will bring to the Negro newspapers a lot of good advertising of a big white concern they have never had before. This is what The Bee calls helping the Negro newspapers. A big white firm which does heavy advertising and with whom Mr. Tyler is personally acquainted has been urged in its next appropriation for advertising to set aside a part for Negro newspapers. Mr. Tyler guarantees that good results will follow. Last year this firm spent over eight hundred thousand dollars for advertising, none of which found its way into Negro newspapers. The Bee hopes, as other Negro newspapers hope, that he will be successful. A FALSEHOOD. The correspondent of The Age from this city tells an infamous lie if he says that anyone connected with our public schools is the Sage of the Potomac, or that any article that has appeared in The Bee complimentary to any school official ever enlisted in the schools or was written by any school official or that any school official has anything to do directly or indirectly with any matter that appears in this paper. The Bee believes that a well laid conspiracy exists among certain enemies of the school officials who ought to be taught a lesson. A few transfers would discipline these obstructionists. And who 'twas threw that brick? Factions better be getting together mighty soon. Colored candidates for member of board of education are active: The Indianapolis Freeman carried an editorial last week thanking Wilton for segregation and his refusal to appoint Negro office holders. It started nowhere and ended the same place. Wonder if Editor Knox saw that queer labored editorial before it appeared? Prof. Kelly Miller's article on race segregation and discrimination written for The Star was a fine article and an unanswerable one. It was written in that clean-cut, incisive style of his, leaving nothing unsaid. In everything he does Prof. Miller shows his worth to Howard University and to the race. The Negro press from the lakes to the gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, raked Dr. DuBois fore and aft for his tactless editorial in which he assailed the Negro press. His tactless blunder has greatly injured The Crisis, and the only way to restore confidence in it is to get a new editor. DuBois ought to resign. Trial Sermon. Rev. Thomas Henderson preached his trial sermon last Wednesday evening at Howard University. He made a great effort and there is no doubt that he will be a ministerial success. Public Men And Things (By the Sage of the Potomac.) I notice that the Rev. J. Milton Waldron just don't like this column, and thinks it is all wrong. One swallow never makes a summer, and one Waldron doesn't stand for the entire public. I may have poked a little fun at the good bundle of Baptist faith, 'cause he took his pen in hand and indicted a few letters to government employees requesting a dollar per head, and I may have eased over to him a little good natured line or two that some of his political claims looked to me like driftwood floating around old Cape Hatteras when her capeship was a foaming and raging, but I never got up in no meeting and said the blond-haired ecclesiast was a "good-for-nothinger." I'm just here to add a little humor to the Weekly Sting, and now and then sprinkle just a suspicion of acid into my sayings to attract attention. Any time the general public votes I'm a nuisance I sure can withdraw gracefully, 'cause all I gets for my services is a weekly promissory note from William Calvin, some bouquets from a lot of Bee readers, and a rap, and then from the gentleman of the cloth what Fortune said "looks like a white man and talks like a nigger." I was readin' 'bout the battle of Leuctra, which was pulled off about 371 years before that "born in a manger" affair, and I got next to the dope that after old bone-head Chembrotus held his last council the officers done drunk so much wine that they just got inspired. Now, I'm just easin' this juicy information over to the blond-haired ecclesiast that I done drunk in so much complimentary stuff handed out to the sage that It's got inspired with the notion that the public sort of looks for me each week, and unless they start a votin' contest and vote me out, I'm goin' to do business at the same old stand for a few weeks longer, even if the emigrant from Florida and the discard from Indiana, R. Windy, do insist on handin' out that line of junk old Epictetus once handed out 'bout "He who now vilifies, then admires." I'll wager one of Doc Sum Wormley's gold crowns against one of Doe Cherry's painless extractions that Rev. J. Milton reads me regularly each week, and I know R. Windy—and he's a mighty clever chap at that, would-rather miss one of Bob Allen's "mornin' mornin'" than miss me each week. \*\*\* Say do you know that little hesitation-waltz creature out from there some place in Ohio, Nev. Thomas, is some more saver? Well, Nev has been bluffin' some ancient and modern history through the billiard ball heads of M Street students for 'hout ten years in this man's town, and while some of his pals have been comforting them there "ten per centers" Nev's been buying dirt, bricks and mortar, and helpin' Washington banks to increase their surplus. Now if Nev can do this, I can't see for this bloomin' life of mine why others don't do it. Nev may have a little hesitation waltz in his figures of speech, but 'take it from me, there ain't no hesitation in his top piece. There's just two thing's Nev's got a mania for; holdin' on to his cheek and fightin' for that association with an elongated name. He's just almost nutty on the association, so nutty that he will actually go down in his jeans and dig up the coin for it. And let me promise you that any time Nev separates himself from some of his coin he sure is interested. I like his enthusiasm, and I like his crazy idea of plantin' his pennies so they will grow into dollars, and putin' a little more dirt on the tax duplicate to his credit. I was talkin' to him last week, and he opened up on that elongated association work, and the way that boy did rattle it off was good for Amey. No use in jugglin' the dope. if it hadn't been for, old hesitation Thomas this here alphabetic association would have been Walldronized, and that three thousand simolions what took an excursion up to New York would be nestlin' here in Washington just inactive like. If some of these anthracites teachers what spends their salary thirty days before they gets it, and then finds they are fifty or a hundred in debt more than they drawn down when they gets it, will pattern after old Hesitation, they will be on easy street when the superannuation day rolls round. Nev. is some more bird of a saver. Sometimes I just get the inspiration that some place back in the history of his family some of them there Rothschilds ancestors formed a connection for some of his prehistoric ancestors, and Nev. just inherited the Jew's regard for a dollar. Speakin' 'hout Nev. Hesitation Thomas reminds me there is a bunch of extravagant anthracites in this town. I dropped into Jim Gray's the other evenin' thinkin' it was Monday, and I saw a callow youth who makes about ten dollars a week, orderin' champagne with just all the abandonment of Hoch der Kaiser. He just thought he was shinin', and back home I'll bet a blind robbin agin a sow's foot his wife, or mother or sister or children was livin' on imagination and hope. Just somehow these kin folks of ourn can't help but imitatin' the Belmonts and the Vanderbilts when they ought to he imitatin' Isaac Josnosky down there on Seventh Street who lives in two rooms and does business in both. Doc Williston once sampled this dope out to me in Doc. Will Davis' pill factory: "You know these race of yours in reality, and mine ostensibly, just likes to live today so they will want tomorrow. They get's a whole lot of enjoyment out of wantin' and a mighty little satisfaction out of havin'!" You know Doc Williston is a philosopher as well as a physician, and ever now and then he hands out a crate of wisdom what's a nearkin to the dope old Bacon used to hand out. --- Speakin' 'bout Doc. Will Davis, I drapped in his store tother day, and Doc. Frank, his brother, told me Will had actually worked himself up with a nuff. enthusiasm to take a vacation, and that he was now somewhere in the vicinity of the New York subways. Any time Doc. Will Davis packs his little portmanteau and hustles out of town, you can just prepare for an eclipse of the moon, an earthquake or a flood. 'cause it's so unusual. 'Bout once a year he eases himself down town, incog, and walks over to see if the White House is still standing, and then meanders back to 11th and You satisfied. He does everything by telephone. Telephones his deposits to the bank even. If Doc. hits the "Great White Way" trail up there in New York and meets up with one of those soul mates with a tango stride and a hesitation smile, he might make up his mind to stay 'bout ten days reducin' the interest on his principle. Otherwise he might blow in any day and grab up his mortar and pestle and begin compoundin' those medicin stuffs what brings in a hundred per cent profit. Somebody started the rumor that Doc. had gone off and got married. Take it from me that Doc. Will Davis ain't no soft Mark Antony that some Cleopatra can smudge, up so close that she will get his goat. Doc is bomb proof in this marriage business. LARGE MEETING Of Citizens of Garfield, D. C., at Emanuel Baptist Church—Work of Rev. Jesse A. Taylor—Volunteer Probation Officer of the Police Court of the D. C. Highly Commended by Prominent Speakers and Financial Aid Given Him. Sunday afternoon last a well attended meeting of the citizens of Garfield, D. C., was held at the Emanuel Baptist Church under the auspices of a committee of ladies who have organized to assist Rev. Jesse A. Taylor, pastor of the church, in his work as probation officer of the Police Court of the District of Columbia. The committee is composed of Miss E. B. Adams, Mrs. H. S. Henry and Mrs. A. W. Carroll. After singing by the Junior Choir, Scripture reading by Rev. Taylor and prayer by Rev. Richard H. Beverly, Miss Adams, who presided, introduced Mr. A. W. Carroll, ex-president of the Garfield Citizens' Association, who stated the object of the meeting. He was followed in a short but pointed address by Attorney W. H. Lewis, Jr., secretary of said association. By special invitation Attorney W. C. Martin was present and delivered the principal address of the occasion. Brief but appropriate addresses were made by Mrs. J. M. Ricks, of the Ricks Foundation, and Messrs. H. S. Henry, G. D. Petus, M. C. Wingfield, and H. Hodge. Solos were rendered by Mrs. Jane Caldwell and Miss Marbel Coates. Benediction by Rev. Warster, pastor of Allen A. M. E. Church. In the addresses unstinted eulogy was given Rev. Taylor for his good work as volunteer probation officer and the speakers emphasized the necessity of having some willing and competent person to look after those who are brought before the police court for minor offenses. A nice sum of money was collected and presented to Rev. Taylor to assist him in his probation work. GRAND UNION Emancipation Celebration April 17. At the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Friday evening, April 17, under the auspices of the Hampton Institute Alumni Association and the Advisory Board and members of the Home for Friendless Girls, a joint committee, representing the Alumni Association and the Home for Friendless Girls, have set apart April 16, the District of Columbia Emancipation Day, as Tag Day for the Home. Two thousand tags will be distributed in the interest of the Home. The committee held a meeting at the residence of Mr. F. D. Lee Thursday evening, March 26, and agreed to canvass the entire city, and will endeavor to tag all places of business and all societies in which our people are connected. The Baptist Ministers' Conference, in their meeting last Monday, endorsed the movements and pledged their support and tagged their churches. On Friday night, April 17, the Emancipation meeting will take place in the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Rev. Chas. S. Morris, of Norfolk, Va., will be the principal speaker. The committee asks the assistance of all citizens. We believe the cause merits your support. MRS. EMMA V. KENNEY. Fred Douglass Home. A friend of mine, in New Jersey, has inquired of me if the trustees of the Douglas home has authorized the sale of Fred Douglas buttons for the purpose of paying off the mortgage on the property. Thousands are being sold in that State. Without being in possession of the facts, I informed him I believed it was a fraud. Find out if the trustees are raising money in this manner and if not so authorize The Bee has a duty to perform and knows how to do it. GEO. C. SMITH. Mr. Archibald Grimke is the authorized party from whom you may obtain the information you desire.—Ed. Misses Theresa Lee and Lillian Evans promise that the Spanish and other dances to be seen April 18, 1914, at Majestic Theater, in the three-act drama to be given by the Renaissance Players will be worth the full price of admission. Prof. Ernst Amos, whose sweet tenor has electrified the public, has charge of the singers who appear in "The Common Enemy," to be presented by the Renaissance players. Striking electrical effects are promised for the play by Prof. A. C. Newman, principal of the Cardoza vocational school, who is in charge of the artistic lighting. 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. Dr. Samuel M. Pierre of 2024 L Street, is ill in bed under the care of Dr. Gill, who says that he will be able to be out shortly. Miss Elizabeth Mossell of the primary department of the Lincoln school in Illinois, has accepted a position in the East St. Louis schools. Miss Corinne Quivers of this city, has succeeded Miss Mossell. Miss Quivers is a normal school graduate and has taught in her home state and this city. Mr. Peter M. Torrence has returned to this city after visiting his aunt, Mrs. C. M. Stafford in Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Smith, mother of Mrs. George Beckley is sick at her residence 1926 New Hampshire avenue. Mrs. Jas. W. Jackson, who was operated on at Freedman's Hospital is improving rapidly. Mrs. G. Emoner Carter representing "The Peoples' Publication Society," 216 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., visited The Bee office Saturday. Mrs. Carrie Adams, of Harlan Street, Philadelphia, Pa., who was visiting in this city, has returned to her home. Misses Ethel and Ruth Coles, of S. Graham Street, Charlotte, N. C., left their home last week to come to this city to live with their father. Mrs. K. G. Seabrook has arrived in this city from Virginia. Mrs. Seabrook was caterer in the family of the late President Wm. McKinley until his demise. She was the only colored caterer to that family in the White House. Mrs. S. W. Brown, of Berryville, Va., who has been ailing most of the winter is much better. Miss Bertha John of this city is helping her through. Howard University's debate with Fisk University will take place on Howard's campus April 2. Miss Edith Wells, of Baltimore, Md., was in this city two weeks ago, the house guest of her cousin, miss Filmore, on S Street. Mrs. Edmonds, mother of Hattie and Mary Edmonds, is ill at her residence, 3434 Rock Creek Road, with pneumonia. Alphonso Woodson remains ill at his house on S Street. G. M. Dickens, a member of the senior class, Teachers' College, of Howard University, recently received an appointment in the Government Printing Office. Miss Ethel Marchant was baptized at St. Luke's Church Monday night. "High Brown" face powder is now all the rage. Buy the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 1912½ Fourteenth Street N. W. Mr. and Mrs. Albert F. Johnson, of 1405 Twenty-ninth Street Northwest, Washington, entertained at dinner last Sunday Misses Eliza Gordon, Ella Bolden of Albemarle County, Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. Swan and Mr. W. Calvin Chase. The dinner was served artistically in courses by Mrs. Johnson, who is a No. 1 hostess. Misses Bolden and Gordon left for Philadelphia. Pa. Monday noon, where they will remain a few days. From there they will go to Jenkins-town. Pa., where they will stay several months before returning to their home in Virginia. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS Last Wednesday night Mr. Richard Tilghman gave a smoker to his friends at his beautiful home on White Avenue. No pains were spared to make the occasion one of joy and pleasure. The friends from far and near came at the invitation of Mr. Tilghman, who, when it comes to entertaining gentlemen is in a class to himself. In the preparation of this bountiful repast could be seen the skillful hand of his devoted wife. Indeed it was a feast of the quality of which is seldom equaled. If any left hungry or thirsty it was his fault, for all were made welcome, and the table fairly groaned under the weight good things. Chicken salad, tea biscuits, potato salad, potted ham and cheese sandwiches. International punch, egg-nog, salted nuts, wine, cigars and cigarettes—song and speeches to the host closed the evening of enjoyment. Those to meet the host were Geo. Johnson, Dr. J. A. Porter, Dr. W. W. Jones, Chas. E. Payne, Stewart M. Lucas, A. L. Washington, W. C. Jones, W. C. Jackson, J. J. Gardner, W. C. Crouse, Dr. Frank Cardoza, Eugene Silence, John H. Paynter, C. Fonsville, Henry Ross, J. S. Johnson, and John R. Stratton, of New York. Col. Stewart M. Lewis is among the active citizens of this vicinity. Dr. Cardoza and wife are two of the most active members in the Presbyterian Church. The Citizens' Progressive Association is doing good work for the community. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. Sunday was a busy day at the Galloway Chapel, beginning with Sunday School at the usual hour. Rev. Colbert preached an excellent sermon preceding the Lord's Supper. The Epworth League hour was well attended, the speaker for the evening being Attorney Moncure of East Falls Church, after which a literary and musical program was rendered. Remarks were made by Rev. Colbert, Rev. Barnett, Capt. I. F. Norman and Mr. J. B. Tinner. Mrs. William Thomas visited Mrs. Boyd and Mrs. Lee, of Kennilworth, D. C., Sunday. The male choir under the leadership of Mr. J. Everett Thomas will make its initial appearance Sunday night, March 29. All are invited to be present. An evening of pleasure was spent at an Apron and Tie social given at the residence of Mrs. Frank Marshall's Wednesday last. The social was given under the auspices of the Mothers' Progressive Council. The affair was well attended and proved to be a success in every way. A surprise party was given Mr. Otis Wade Friday night in honor of his thirty-second birthday. The night being blustering, there was not as many out as was expected, but everyone present fully enjoyed themselves. The menu consisted of potato salad, olives, chicken sandwiches, cake, peach ice cream, candy, fruit and coffee. Mr. George Low, superintendent of the Second Baptist Sunday School, and Miss Grace Ambrose, secretary, attended the Sunday School Union, which was held at Vienna, Va.. Sunday. Mrs. G. W. Powell, who has been ill, is recovering slowly to the gratification of her many friends. Miss Agnes P. Lee, of Washington, D. C., spent Wednesday visiting relatives and friends here. Mr. Henry Tarver, who has been with us all winter, left Friday for Taunton, Mass. Mrs. Louis Lee, of Washington, D. C., spent Saturday and Sunday with her sister. Miss Madeline Newsome. Mrs. George Rumbles and Miss Edna Artwick spent Monday in Washington, D. C. The many friends of Mrs. Flora Newman are sorry to hear of her illness and hope she may recover shortly. Miss Essie Tyree, who has been ill, is now convalescent. Misses Mamie and Katie Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. George Rumbles and Miss Annie E. Henderson were callers on Miss Tyree Sunday. Messrs. Claude Talbert and Richard Mathews, of Washington. D. C., spent Tuesday with Mr. Albert Simmons. HALLS HILL, VA. Monday evening, March 16, the people here entertained at Summer School building by a company from the city. The occasion was a concert given for the benefit of the M. E. Church for benevolent cause. There was a large attendance and everybody was highly pleased. The program was well rendered. Sunday being the fourth Sunday, was regular communion day at Mt. Salvation Baptist Church and found Rev. C. S. Coleman present, as is customary, in his pulpit and was met by a splendid attendance of worshipful members and friends. Many visiting friends here present, including several from the city. The testimonials were sincere and spirited, after which communion was served and the day was concluded by a soul-reviving sermon by the pastor. There was several inches of snow fell during Saturday night, which the morning made more beautiful as the flakes as they fell were accompanied with the warm rays of the sun, and it soon passed away. Regardless of these results to pedestrians Sunday School met at 11:30. Rev. C. E. Queene, pastor Calloway Chapel, preached to a fairly good congregation. At 4:30 p. m. this church was honored with a service given by the good people of Ivy City. Rev. Tolson, local preacher from, there, gave a well prepared sermon and was accompanied by the choir. Mr. J. C. Johnson, leader, and Mr. W. Brown, superintendent of Sunday School. Thus the day was well soent. The collection was lifted by Mrs. Fannie Gibson. The Epworth League tonic was one of very deep consideration and was discussed freely and all were made to feel the power of prayer. The general rules of the church were read and commented on by the pastor. Mr. Tennyson left Saturday for a trio in New York. Mrs. Bennett is having a new house built in place of the one burned last fall. Mr. J. J. Carpenter is architect. Mrs. Emma Carpenter wishes to express her gratitude to the neighbors and friends for the interest shown her during the past, since within two years or little more having been visited by much illness, in the family, her daughter died and left two small children and an invalid husband to care for. The people have been faithful at all times to comfort the inmates of this home; for although having the material necessities of life, there is always a place for human sympathy. Mr. Louis Randolph, the son-in-law, was a patient sufferer here for a long time and was a member of several organizations and of the Baptist Church and was only confined to his bed a few days and under treatment of Dr. E. T. Morten. When early Saturday morning the angel of death came in and bore him away to heaven, since he always exemplified the Christian life and none but an angel of God could endure with such a spirit as his. Announcement Mrs. Eleanor Arnette of 1005 S St. wishes to announce the marriage of her daughter, Elizabeth Lee Arnette of this city, to Dr. Chas. A. Miller of St. Paul, Minn., on March 18, 1914. Dr. Miller will continue his optical practice at 1005 S Street Northwest. Big Crowds Greet the Smart Set. Manager Andrew J. Thomas is always giving the theater goers something new. This has been a gay week at the Howard Theater. The star participants are: Salem Tutt Whitney, and J. Homer Tutt. These are the stars. The Smart Set is a great company and the play is "The Wrong Mr. President," is full of fun, mirth and music. Every player is an artist of the highest class. The singing, dances and especially the tango should be seen and heard. The costumes are tasty, stylish and beautiful. There is no company before the public that is any better appreciated than Smart Set. Manager Thomas and his able corps of assistants are certainly pleasing the Washington theater goers. Manager Byers said to a Bee representative that it is the best advertisement that the house has had for some time. The Tango dance was one of the great attractive features in the show. Act I. Opening chorus—Tourists We Are Company. Ginger Springs—Invalid's Dance—Al Strauder and Male Chorus. No! No Not Me!—Comedy Duo—S. Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt. Caroline—Song and Dance—Nina and Ethel Marshall with Female Octette. Smart Set Real Rag—Maybelle and Babe Brown with Chorus. Those Days of Long Ago—Frank Jackson and Male Octette. Land of Love—Spanish Love Song—Blanche Thompson and Chorus. Jes' Can't Help It. I Was Born That Way—J. Homer Tutt and Chorus. Some Sweet Day—Russell Smith. Assisted by Ora Dunlop, Alice Russell, Goldie Chapelle and Hattie Akers. Who Is This That Comes Intruding?—Finale—Ensemble. Everybody wait for the Tango! Act II. Opening Chorus—Welcome to Society—Company. We'll Dance Tonight—El Tango Duet—Blanche Thompson and Russell Smith. Something's Wrong—Salem Tutt Whitney. This Short Life Is But a Dream— Ensemble. For Our Country—Song and Drill —Company. Ragtime Evolution—Introducing El Tango, the Bunny Hug, Texas Tommy and other dances by the famous Brown Sisters, Maybelle and Babe, J. Homer Tutt and Blanche Thompson, Salem Tutt Whitney and Hattie Akers. Tango—Finale—Trevor L. Corwell. Introducing Solo, Quartette, Sex- tette and Ensemble. TEACHERS ORGANIZE About Three Hundred Teachers Elect Officers. Officers were elected and final organization of the new Association of Teachers of the Colored Children of the District of Columbia was completed at a meeting held at the colored Y. M. C. A. Tuesday evening. A rough draft of the constitution was prepared, and 350 teachers were taken in as charter members. Officers are as follows: President, R. A. Gillem; vice president, Miss Mary Cromwell, of the secondary department; recording secretary, Miss Helen Moore, of the primary department; corresponding secretary, Miss Julia H. Smith, of the primary department; treasurer, Dr. Mildred Gibbs, principal of the Stevens School, and executive committee, R. A. Gillem, president ex officio; Miss Mary L. Powell, kindergarten department; Eugene Clark, intermediate department; Miss Endora Mitchell, primary department; Mrs. Carrie Syphax Watson, vocational department; Miss Jessie Fauset, secondary department. and Charles M. Thomas, Normal School No. 2. What's the matter with the present Senior Medical Class at Howard? It seems to be a bad case of misfits in the offices. Less class spirit, less loyalty to the Alma Mater and her faculty, less activity for the good of the class and the institution of which it is a part has seldom been seen in the class which usually sets the pace on the hill socially and fraternally. But what can you expect of a class saddled with a president ('left-over from another class) who because of personal spite against a school official flatly refuses to call a meeting to resent published and unwarranted attacks upon members of the faculty? And further, when such matters are finally handled by the undergraduates, calls a meeting of his followers (also lef-overs) to have them justify and uphold his course? Is that the spirit of MAJESTIC THEATRE Ninth and Pennsylvania Ave N.W. THE KINGDOM. WASHINGTON COLORED SOCIETY. The most sensational and farcial comedy ever featured to theater- goers. loyalty which worthy students are proud to ensure toward the school which sends them forth into the world? What a pity that the really splendid men who are the actual class of 1914 must, because of numerical minority, be embarrassed and hampered by narrow-minded inefficiency in office! Baptist Ministers The Baptist Ministers' Union held its regular Monday session at Zion Baptist Church. Rev. J. A. Brown, D. D., president; Rev. J. I. Loving, D. D., secretary. After devotional exercises by Dr. J. T. Clark, reports of work done on the Lord's day which showed progress. Among the churches twenty-five or more ministers were present and quite a number of visitors. The order of the day was an address by Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson. She spoke in the interest of the Order of St. Luke. She said that at some day the great St. Luke Society expects to give a carnival and that several choirs of the city will sing. The churches are invited. The deputy, Mrs. Anderson, will have a Tag day. She desires the co-operation of all the churches. The Union by resolution endorsed the efforts of Mrs. Anderson in the undertaking proposed Dr. Cheek of South Carolina, who is assisting Dr. Jernigan in a revival effort, was present and made some helpful remarks. Bethel Literary and Historical Association. On Tuesday evening, March 31, 1914, at 8 o'clock, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M Street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets Northwest. Dr. I. N. Ross, pastor, an address will be delivered by Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins, of Baltimore, Md., under the auspices of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, on the subject. "The Struggle for Land and Property." There will be solos by Miss Beating, L. Chase and Miss Julia R. Bush, S. M Dudley, president; Miss A. D. Bell, secretary. April 7. Sunday School night. You and your friends are cordially invited. Eastern Star Grand Chapter. The Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, assisted by the Subordinate chapters, held memorial exercises in the Masonic Temple, Monday evening, March 23 The program was quite interesting. Eulogies were delivered by Hattie J. McIntosh in memory of the late Ann V. Thomas. Clare S. Brooks, in memory of the late Mrs. Sarah Landrick. Solos by Hattie Contie Eulogy, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1. Susan Jefferies and Mary I. Miller eulogy Queen of Sheba Chapter No. 1, late Henrietta Ray, Mamie E. Marshall; eulogy Gethsemane Chapter No. 4. Sistr Laura Fortune and Susan Snowden, Mary E. Taylor; eulogy Miriam Chapter No. 8. Sister Alice Holiday, Mary Lee Howard; eulogy Prince Hall Chapter No. 12, Sister Maud Dillworth, Eva B. Lueas, P. G. M.; eulogy Electra Chapter No. 14, Brother Lloyd Monroe, Joseph Minor. "Nearer, My God, to Thee" was beautifully rendered by the chapters. 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The whole house is reserved Tickets 25c. 35c. 50c. 75c Boxes 75c and $1.00 Concert HOW GIRL'S FAITH SAVED JENNINGS Candidate For Governor of Oklahoma Former Convict. TURNING POINT IN HIS LIFE Ten Years Ago High School Girl Smiled Confident Trust Into Eyes of Desperate Man Just Released From Prison—Now He Explains That Her Belief Turned Tide of His Life. Oklahoma City, Okla.—Once an outlaw, train robber and convict, Al Jennings is now one of the leading candidates for governor of this state. But that is another story. This is how he was made to lift his head and see something bright in the future. A girl of sixteen was traveling across the state with her grandparents. She was a high school student of Edwardsville, Ind., and carried about a pretty safe map of human nature in her own little head. Her grandfather met Al Jennings in the smoking car. Alice Warder, the high school girl, thought that Jennings looked really nice in spite of the fact that his face was seamed and marred with a thousand wrinkles. His smile, however, was like the smile of all humanity. And there was ineradicable dignity in his five feet five inches. He said his name was Mr. Jennings and he had been talking to Alice's grandfather of train robbers. Mr. Jennings knew everything in the world there was to know about train robbers. He described them in glaring detail in the light of his intimate knowledge. Alice Warder had never in her life spent a more thrilling two hours. It was dark and Mr. Jennings was still talking. Alice's grandfather drew ```markdown ``` AL JENNINGS. his wife to another seat, leaving Alice to drink in more adventures. "Miss Warder, I have deceived you a little bit. I guess. I talked as if I had only heard of these holdups from other people or maybe read about them. The fact is I planned every one. I am a train robber myself. Got sent up for it. I am just out of the Leavenworth prison. "I thought I'd tell you about it so you wouldn't think I had imposed on you. I'm through lying. Never did lie except when I had to. There is mighty little difference between acting a lie to a girl like you and telling one. I am going to tell your grandfather about it in a minute." Suddenly Alice, with her knowledge of human nature—this girl believer in the innate goodness of bad men—had an impulse that the man who witnessed it has never forgotten. He says now it had a great deal to do with changing the drift of his life, then black with defeat. Alice Warder, her eyes shining, stretched out her hands and cried: "I don't care about your past—I don't care a bit—so long as your future's all right." Five minutes more and the two parted. The ex-convict went on riding in the smoking car toward a future of which until that night he thought usually with cynical contempt. The man and the girl with hopeful eyes did not meet again for ten years. Now she is Mrs. L. O. McLean of Pittsburgh. Recently the maid ushered a caller into Mrs. McLean's library. And without other warning a well dressed little man, his face very lined and his hair very red, stood before her. "Al Jennings!" "Alice Warder." It was the first time they had met in ten years. Both had many stories to tell during the four hours conversation. AUTO WHEEL DOES DAMAGE. After Wrecking Kitchen It Sets House on Fire. South Norwalk, Conn.—The wheel of a large automobile, said to have been going a mile a minute, went through the pantry window of Mrs. Isabelle Seymour's home here, sending dishes in all directions. Then it entered the kitchen, knocked the stove to pieces and set the house on fire. Next it hit the other side of the house, which stopped it. The wheel, which welghed more than 100 pounds, was broken from the automobile of William Ricker of New York as it was coming down steep Armory hill. 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SNOW ENTOMBS FOUR IN TENT Hunting Party In West Forced to Dig Fifty Foot Tunnel. Reno, Nev.—Marooned by a twelve foot fall of snow, R. D. Hawley, an eastern banker, and three companions on a hunting trip were forced to spend a week in a tent on one of the peaks of the Peavine mountain range. The snowstorm was so severe that the men were obliged to remain in their tent until their provisions ran out. They then dug a tunnel fifty feet long and succeeded in killing some game. One of the party fell and sprained his knee. Mountain lions prowled about the tent and once even penetrated into the tunnel, but were driven away. APPEAL BY TILLMAN ABOLISHES SMOKING Washington.—There will be no more smoking behind closed doors when the senate is in secret session nor in the secret party caucus room. The fragrant Havana will be put away voluntarily by the senators, at least so long as Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina is one of their members. This was decided by a unanimous vote. 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Ceruti's African Eureka Cream. for the hair, 50 cents. Ceruti's Tar Shampoo, 25 cents. Cerun'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' here orders AN & SONS CO. AN & SONS CO. South St. N. W. WHAT DOTH JEHOVAH REQUIRE? Matthew 7:24-29—March 29. "What doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?"—Vicah 6.8. JESUS sought to impress upon His hearers that it was not sufficient to hear that a Kingdom of God was coming to bring blessings to the world, and that a Kingdom class was being called to be Messiah's joint-heirs in that Kingdom. Action would be necessary on their part if they would attain this high privilege which God had granted them. Jesus gave an illustration, saying that those who heard His Message and obeyed it would be like a wise man who built upon the rock, where rains would not wash away the foundation. The storms of life and the great crisis, death, are sure to come. Amidst these trials there will be calmness, security and confidence for such obeyed it would be like a wise man who built upon the rock, where rains would not wash away the foundation. The storms of life and the great crisis, death, are sure to come. Amidst these trials there will be calmness, security and confidence for such as have accepted the Lord's arrangement and have walked to the best of their ability in Jesus' footsteps. "The Rock of Christ Jesus." "Other Foundation Can No Man Lay." On the other hand, Jesus Intimated that many who heard His words and expressed great appreciation of them, would fall to take the proper steps to attain the glorious Kingdom privileges which He presented. They would allow custom, habit, love of pleasure, love of ease, the spirit of the world, to hinder them, from making full devotion of themselves to God. Such did not build their faith upon the proper foundation. Perhaps some built upon the Law, and thought to commend themselves to God by their own endeavors, without the imputation of Christ's merit. Such would be greatly mistaken. Other foundation can no man lay than that which God has laid—Jesus Christ. His death is our redemption-price; and His appearance in glory as our Advocate is to make good our unintentional shortcomings. With all such, the day of trial will surely come; and their faith structure, being without proper foundation, will give way. They will suffer loss of all their hopes. This, however, does not signify, as many once supposed, that they will go to eternal torment. Evidently nearly all Christians, misled by the creeds of the Dark Ages, have read into God's Word things which it does not contain. The Apostle Paul used a similar illustration. Those building upon that foundation with the gold, silver and precious stones of Divine Truth—developing faith and character in harmony with the Divine requirements—will suffer no loss in the great trial day at the end of this Age. But others who build with the wood, hay and stubble of human tradition and self-compacency, will have their entire faith structure consumed. - 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 Nevertheless the Apostle tells us that even these, if they have built upon Christ, will themselves be saved, yet so as by fire. They will be what is termed a tribulation class, described in Revelation 7:14-17. The class building with gold, silver and precious stones, will be a Little Flock, a Royal Priesthood. But the class building upon the Rock without proper materials will be the Great company, the antitype of the Levites. They will serve God through the priestly class. "The People Were Astonished." No wonder the people were astonished at such doctrines as Jesus set forth! His teachings had a positiveness quite different from the speculations and wonderings of the scribes and Pharisees. So it is always with the Truth. Wherever there is confusion and mystery, we may be sure that there is error and ignorance. Hence the necessity that all who preach Christ should have the anointing, or ordination to preach, which God alone gives through the begetting of the Holy Spirit. Our Golden Text. The Prophet Micah addressed our Golden Text to the people of Israel, and therefore his message was given from the standpoint of the Law. Nevertheless no Jew ever fulfilled the Law except Jesus, because all except Him were fallen and imperfect. He alone was "holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from slumers." A During Messlab's Millennial Kingdom, this same Law given to Israel "Saved so as by Phr." this same Law given to Israel through Moses will be given to the whole world of mankind through Messiah. The requirements will be to do justice, to love kindness, to walk humbly with God. The reason why Messiah's ministration of this Law will be a success, while Moses' ministration was a failure so far as bringing any one to perfection was concerned, is that Messiah's Kingdom will be fully prepared and authorized to forgive sinners and to help them back to the image and likeness of God, originally represented in Father Adam. The right to thus forgive sin and lift the sinner out of degradation, belongs to Messiah, by virtue of His sacrifice. TO ATTEMPT OCEAN FLIGHT. Allen, Sent Out of Russia, to Fly an American Flag. Mineola, N. X.-Since Abram Raygorodsky, a graduate of the Farman flying school in Paris, announced his intention of trying for Lord Nothcliffe's prize of $50,000 for a flight in an aeroplane across the Atlantic many have sought the hangar at the aviation field, where Raygorodsky said he would construct his machine. According to his meager description, the craft he has in mind would be a P. Photo by Amer.can Press Association. ABRAM RAYGORODSKY. gigantic affair with two propellers, a tremendous spread of wings and four 200 horsepower motors. He now has a machine which he has been experimenting with at Mineola, keeping his hand in the game until he can fulfill his desire to carry an American flag across the Atlantic in an aeroplane. And Raygorodsky says he will carry an American flag, as he came to this country following an edict of the Russian government that he could not fly in that country because he is a Jew. GIRLS' COLLEGES AID RACE DEGENERACY Professor Johnson Says He Can Prove This by Statistics. Washington.--That women's colleges, from the viewpoint of eugenics, contribute toward the degeneracy of the race and ought to be abolished is the conclusion of Dr. Roswell H. Johnson, professor of biology in the University of Pittsburgh, after a careful investigation. His figures show that women's colleges discourage girls from marrying. Professor Johnson believes the time is coming when all women's colleges must be converted into coeducational institutions, and he suggests that for the present the anti-eugenic influence of the colleges might be mitigated through the substitution of men and women for teachers. Professor Johnson sets forth the results of his investigation in the current issue of the Journal of Heredity, the official organ of the American Genetic association. He has collected data in regard to Wellesley college which are significant. Professor Johnson says: "Taking the Wellesley graduates of the classes of 1905 to 1912 inclusive, it was found that 19.1 per cent of them were already married in the fall of 1912, when the facts were collected. But for those whose scholarship was sufficiently high to entitle them to membership in the honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, the ratio of marriage to that of those who did not make this society was at 15 to 19. In other words, high scholarship in college women is. In this case at least, not found to be an aid to marriage, while with the normal schoolgirl- the opposite is the case. "In this same tabulation it was found that the alumnae of Wellesley college who were members of the Phl Beta Kappa had an average of .065 of a child each, whilst the rate for the girls who had not retained the same distinction in scholarship was .055. "The ominousness of this declining marriage rate is aggravated by the low birth rate. Only the earliest classes, with one or two exceptions, have enough children to reproduce the class." REPENTS HIS HORSE THEFT. Religiously Influenced, Is Trying to Repay the Loser. Williston, N. D.-J. J. Mayer, who five years ago hired a horse from Boyd Bros. of this city, failing to return with it, has been converted and wants to settle. In a letter from Kellogg, Ida., to Sheriff Olson, Mayer explains the circumstances surrounding his theft. Mayer engaged the horse, riding eight or ten miles west of Williston, where he traded it for another animal, continuing westward. Now Mayer believes the horse was found by its right owners' and seeks to settle with the injured third person. But it so happens that Boyd Bros. never found their horse, and they submitted to Mayer a proposition of settlement. FLOWERS ForFUNERALS The A. LOFFLER SAUSAGE&PROVISIONCO THE NEGRO FARMER Something New: Something Needed A Paper That Helps People to Become Better Farmers is an Aid to the Church, the School and to the Secular and Religious Papers It has been decided to publish at Tuskegee Institute Post Office, Every-Other-Week for the present, a national 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 paper among the 2,000,000 black farmers of the United States. The paper will be eight pages, of about the size of "The Country Gentleman." DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON STATES: The Tuskegee Institute has n this new publication,but some o are interested in its success and complish great good but will be is backed by a strong organization advace to assure its publication NEGRO FARMER have my en The success of this project sensible lines upon which it is be 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 its success and believe that it will not only accomplish great good but will be a paying investment. The paper is backed by a strong organization and funds have been provided in advance to assure its publication. Those in active control of THE NEGRO FARMER have my entire confidence and good 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 vertisements are invited. Clubbing papers will be arranged for on a ready to receive Subscriptions and The first issue of the paper Address all communications to: THE NEGR TUSKEGEE IN The subscription price is $1.00 a year and Subscriptions and Advertisements are invited. Clubbing rates with important Negro newspapers will be arranged for on a satisfactory basis. We are now ready to receive Subscriptions and Advertisements. The first issue of the paper will appear February first, 1914. Address all communications to: 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 honors 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 aisle 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 FARE 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. o financial interest or control over the active officers of the institution believe that it will not only ac- e a paying investment. The paper in and funds have been provided in Those in active control of THE tire confidence and good will. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. is assured because of the solid and ing laid out. 00 a year and Subscriptions and Ad- g rates with important Negro news- satisfactory basis. We are now Advertisements. will appear February first, 1914. O FARMER INSTITUTE, ALA. SNAKE AS AID IN ROBBERY. Brooks Had Half Starved Python to Frighten Hotel Guests. Munlch.—Two international crooks were arrested at a hotel here for a peculiar attempt at robbery. The men had a half starved python with which it is alleged they intended to stampede the guests by turning it loose in the corridor. They figured that the excitement which would follow would enable them to ransack the rooms of guests. Their hopes apparently focused on jewelry worth $125,000 which belonged to an English visitor 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 held 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. About July 1 the Negroes of Savanah. Ga., will be in possession of the best appointed public libraries in the country. Mr. Andrew Carngrove gave $12,000 for the erection. 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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. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. L. MELENDEZ KING, 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 of 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 Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and the Washington Bee, before said day. WENDELL STAFFORD, Justice. A true copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By F. E. CUNNINGHAM, Asst. Clerk. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 20626, 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 Alexander P. Howard, 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 March, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefits of said estate. Given under my hand this 16th day of March, 1914. WILLIAM J. HOWARD. 100 Massachusetts Ave. N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. W. C. MARTIN. JAMES F. BUNDY, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 20009, 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 Mary L. Scott, 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 17th day of March, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 17th day of March, 1914. NELSON E. WEATHERLESS. 2402 Georgia Avenue N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. JAS. F. BUNDY. Attorney. A. W. SCOTT, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court— No. 20613 Administration Docket No. 20613 Administration Docket. Estate of Henry Madison, deceased. Application having been made hereon for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Harry J. Williams, it is ordered this 25th day of March, A. D. 1914, that Lawrence Madison, William Madison, and Stella Madison and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Friday, the 1st day of May, A. D. 1914, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and The Washington Bee once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD, Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. A. W. 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Agnes J. Smith. All mail orders promptly filled. PETER M. Addition to saved people. Live where you can monthly payments. Raise your own you have the right to vote, incor- elect your own officers. in the District Line on the W. B. & these advantages and more. per month. No interest, no taxes. nland Park Improvement Co. vest.. PUBLICAL WORKS OF PART IN THE BIBLE. 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. and pictures for $2.00, postage order, or registered letter to Elder Chicago, Ill. GHRISTIAN XANDER'S Special FAMILY RYE WHISKEY 75c a quart 40c a pint 909 7th St. FURNITURE FACTS. There is no store in Washington underselling our prices and giving you a value that will equal what we offer. No matter what the inducements elsewhere may be made to appear, we will sell you reliable furniture at prices and on such terms that you must come here in justice to yourself. If you wish a long-time account we will sell you more goods for the same payments, or the same amount of goods on smaller payments than any other firm in the city. This thoroughly covers the question as to where you can buy furniture to the best advantage. Peter Grogan & Sons Co.. 817 to 823 7th St. N. W. GEM LUNCH ROOM. We take pleasure in announcing to the public that the Gem Lunch Room, situated at 1848 Seventh Street Northwest is now under new management and you are cordially invited to call and be convinced that the Gem Lunch Room is an up-to-date and first-class place where meals are served in first-class order. The new management respectfully solicits the patronage of those who are looking for an up-to-date, polite, prompt service and a square meal. As a race, we either rise or fall together, hence we should take an interest in patronizing each other and endeavor to push on to success. Perfect sanitary surroundings and fresh and pure food will always greet the eyes of all patrons, which appear to improve the appetite. The prices are reasonable and what you don't see when you call ask for it. THE GEM LUNCH ROOM. 1848 Seventh Street N. W. T. L. V. COAL CO. Dealers in WOOD. COAL and ICE 1475 Church Street N. W. Telephone North 2720 L. A. TOMLIN, Prop. 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. Phone North 2119 From cleaning and dying of a baby's bib. To the making of a little boy's sailor: For the neatest work at a reasonable Price: Simpson is the Tailor. 1839 L Street Northwest. Now Ready Now Ready VARDAMAN UNMASKED A Defense of the Colored Race H. Dr. George H. Richardson, M. D., L. L. D. A Reply to The Mulatto. By Prof. H. E. Jordan, Of the University of Virginia. James K. Vardaman, of Mississippi, et al., Published under the auspices of 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 VIM TRADE MARK 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. Men Admire Women with Beautiful Hair! NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING will make you proud of your hair It is unsurpassed for making harsh, kinky and stubborn hair—soft, glossy and luxurious. It not only beautifies the hair—but also keeps it in good condition. Price, 25 and 50 Cents Everywhere NELSON MFG. CO., RICHMOND, VA. A CARD TO THE PUBLIC From the District of Columbia Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The recent campaign of the D. C. Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to raise funds for the purposes of the Association has met with phenomenal success. Just because the effort has been so successful, the Executive Committee of the D. C. Branch thinks it wise not to call too continuously upon its constituency for money. Therefore, notice is hereby given that persons desiring to give entertainments to raise funds for the Association must communicate their intention to the Executive Committee and be duly authorized before proceeding to sell tickets or to make any public announcement looking toward the collection of funds in the name of the Association. This action will not only prevent the overtaxing of those generously inclined, but it will also prevent any events from occurring on conflicting dates or in such rapid succession as to mutually hinder financial success. CHARLOTTE E. HUNTER, Chairman Executive Committee, 1515 P Street Northwest. H. B. HARTGROVE, Secretary 1314 Corcoran Street Northwest. 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. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. 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. 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. Trade With the House That Trades With You. KIDWELL & TURNER FRESH—MEATS—SMOKED Poultry a Specialty 916 Louisiana Ave. Northwest Phone Main 228 DIED. Mr. J. Morgan Phillips, brother of Dr. Fred S. and Dr. Walter Phillips and Henry Phillips, died suddenly Wednesday. Mr. Howard Williams, an old citizen and formerly a leader in society, was buried from the James Bros. chapel Wednesday afternoon. FOR RENT BY THOMAS WALKER. 1905 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. THOMAS WALKER, 506 Fifth St. N. W. Phone M. 4662 For Sale. Fir Sale—Three lots, 25x120 feet each corner Fifty-third and Dayton Strict Northeast, two blocks west of National Training School, $600. Address "N." Bee office. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, with or without board. Miss Hammond, 111 Eye St. N. W. Rooms. 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 For Rent. Room for rent for 1426 S St. N. W. Fine location; large and comfortable; reasonable, to right parties. WANTED EMPLOYMENT. By a young country girl—as chambermaid, kitchen maid, waitress or general house help; some experience, very willing to learn. Good reference; wages reasonable. Apply Young Women's Christian Association, northwest corner Fifth and T Streets Northwest. E. H. Phone North 113 M The Citizen Tailoring Co. Suits made to order from $15.00 up. Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing, Remodeling. All-work guaranteed, called for and delivered. 1405 T Street N. W. CLEMONS and CARTY CULTIVATE YOUR HAIR. Mme. 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.