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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXIV, NO. 46 WASHINGTON, I. D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914 MR. JUSTICE GOULD Respondence to a Resolution of the Bar Association] Delivers An Address Before the Bar Association in Commemoration of the Death of His Friend. Justice Gould: Mr. Chairman, Brethren of the Bench and Bar, I could have wished that another had been chosen to second the resolutions which have so aptly and accurately stated the worth of the late Chief Justice. He was my friend, a friend of many years standing, and the few words that I shall say of him today will be from the personal standpoint. I first met him in the Court of Appeals in the State of Maryland, twenty years ago. He was arguing a case preceding the one in which I was interested. I was so charmed by the manner of his argument and the presence of the man that when the court adjourned and Judge McSherry, from my own circuit, beckoned me into the consultation room, I asked who the lawyer was. I never will forget McSherry's rather jocular remark: "You are both black Republicans, and you ought to know each other." He added: "He is one of the brightest lawyers of Maryland." He sent for him and introduced me to him; and that day began a friendship which continued without a break until his untimely taking off. After he was elected Attorney-General in 1895, I met him frequently while I was in the Legislature. I went into the District Attorney's Office in 1898, and he came on the bench here in 1899, holding, as we all remember, the Criminal Court for a long time, during which I prosecuted many cases before him. The lines of our lives ran together. We were members of the same club. We were interested in the same law school. We lunched together almost daily. We walked together. We talked together; and I think I can say that our intimacy was such that it would be inappropriate for me to speak of him from any except from the personal standpoint. The Romans had a maxim—"De mortuus nihil nisi bonum." A man speaking of Judge Clabaugh does not need the refuge of that kindly admonition, because I think there is no enemy, if he had one, who could speak aught save good of him. Certainly no friend could say other than good of him. There were two dominant features of his character, that grew upon me and impressed me as our friendship ripened. The first was his absolute love of justice. I have heard him say, as he administered the solemn oath of office to other judges, "that they would administer justice without respect of person and do equal right to the poor and to the rich," that he never spoke those words without a thrill of the responsibility which was upon him as a judge. In 1881, I remember, accident threw me with a celebrated statesman who had just returned from the funeral of Matt Carpenter, and I remember, as a young man, the impression that Senator Conkling's statement in regard to Carpenter made upon my mind. He was discussing the wonderful legal ability of the dead Senator, and he used this expression: "As the waterfowl seeks the water, as the spark flies upward, so his mind always sought logic." To paraphrase that I should say of the late Chief Justice that his mind instinctively sought out and tried to administer justice. The other characteristic that was so dominant and which was so well known that it seems hardly necessary to refer to it was the purity of his mind and of his life, the one following necessarily as a consequence of the other. He was an absolutely pure-minded man, and his conduct, as I say, followed the instincts and the bent of his mind. I never heard an impure word from him. I never heard him utter an impure thought. It was instinctive with him. He could not do otherwise, and, being so constituted, leading the life he did was a simple thing for him. A number of years ago an Attorney General of the United States made the statement that there were few tests more severe than those which were imposed upon the capacity and character of a judge who sat in a court of first instance and general jurisdiction. He has to pass upon questions of the admission of evidence with no opportunity for consultation and very little opportunity for consideration. He has to be ready to pass upon questions of fact on motions that are made. He has to hold the scales of justice equal between contending parties where passions are often aroused and where important interests are involved, without the privilege of conference with associates. He has to act quickly, readily. He has to listen, and yet not listen so long as to obstruct the business of the court. His duties are delicate and his every act and utterances have to undergo the scrutiny of the bar and of the people; and I think the greatest tribute that could be paid to Chief Justice Clabaugh is to say that he discharged the duties of a nisi prius judge with absolute impartiality and fidelity to the oath which he took. There are many sides of his life as to which others will speak. The poise of the man on every occasion, the balance in which he held himself, the knowledge of his capacity and its limitations, all were strangely characteristic of the nature which he possessed. I hesitate to repeat this incident, because it is so liable to misconstruction. There was a vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States, and there was a discussion as to the appointee. I heard the Chief Justice say that under no circumstances would he accept an appointment on the Supreme Court of the United States. We laughed. He said: "I mean that in all sincerity. I know that I have not the capacity to fill that high office." I say that was said with the sincerity of a man who had learned the great lesson of knowing himself and knowing his ability, his capacity and his limitations. He was absolutely true to the standard which he had erected for himself. Just a word as to his courage. The man who, at the head of his regiment, charging the enemy amid the crash of shot and shell, the flag flying over him, gives his life for his country, is a hero. The man who rushes into the burning building and saves a life is a hero. Here was a man who, for several years, knew that he was stricken with a fatal malady, knew it from the advice of several of the most learned physicians in this country. Day after day and night after night he followed his chosen work without ostentation, without evasion, without trying to spare himself, sitting constantly face to face with death and knowing that his days were numbered, and outside of a very limited number of his close personal friends, his physical condition was not known and not even suspected. He was advised to save himself, to spare himself, to give up certain of his work. His answer was that he preferred to work out his life as he had started and to meet death in the harness. In thinking of him, I recall the words of Mary Antony over the dead Brutus: "His 'Je was gentle,' and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!' Mr. Chairman, I second the adoption of the resolution. FUNERAL SERVICES Of Mr. Thomas H. Wright—Attorney General Sends Letter—Impressive Ceremonies. The funeral services of Mr. Thomas H. Wright were held at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on Friday, April 17, 1914, at 1 o'clock. Dr. I. N. Ross, the pastor of the church, conducted the services, which were simple and impressive, assisted by Dr. Walt Dr. H. Brooks, Dr. William J. Howard and Dr. L. M. Beckett. The services were opened with "Shall We Meet Beyond the River," song by the Metropolitan vested choir, under the direction of Prof. J. T. Layton, followed with the reading of the Scriptures by Dr. Howard. Dr. Brooks offered a consoling and fervent prayer, followed with "Lead Kindly Light" by the choir. After reading a brief sketch of the life of Mr. Wright by the family, which appeared in the last issue of The Bee, Dr. Ross very eloquently spoke in part as follows: "Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." John 11:25-26. These are the most mysterious, illuminating and inspiring truths in all God's inspired word of truth. Mysterious, yes, who can understand them in their entirety. Second, illuminating because they reflect a ray of light upon that mysterious something which we call death, which is inexplicable when viewed in connection with an immortal soul, from a human standpoint. Third, inspiring if accepting by faith. The eminent Apostle Paul said, "If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable." But thank God he also said, "I know if this earthly house of my tabernacle were dissolved I have a building, an house not made with hands but eternal in the heavens." This was the faith and hope of our brother whose voice has been hushed in death. Our friend, Thomas H. Wright, is not dead, but sleepeth. While yonder splendid Odd Fellows' Hall stands, it will be a reminder of his inventive genius, courage and unfaltering faith in God and in his race. Yes, when the tooth of time shall have gnawed away the stone, bricks and mortar of that magnificent structure, he will still live in the hearts of a grateful people. As the splendid work of education proceeds through the ages to come he will be remembered as at one time having been connected with the branch of human uplift and development, in the District of Columbia While Bethel Literary and Histori- M. W. H. CAPTAIN JAMES F OY$TER cal Association continues her work of culture and refinement, he will live in her memory. While the. Department of Justice in connection with this the greatest republic under the sun exists, Thos. H. Wright will live and his forty-five years of continuous service will stand as an incentive to his success in office. While historic Metropolitan A. M. E. Church stands as a monument to the faith, sacrifice and devotion of the mothers and fathers. Thomas H. Wright will be remembered. As an infant mother in his painted mother's arms, from whom he inherited a deep religious spirit, yes not only as an infant member but as a pupil in Sunday School, teacher and superintendent; in the church as leader, steward and trustee. And as he said to me a few days before his death, when reviewing his associations, with the church, "I have been everything but preacher in the church and as his last tangible act of devotion to the church he put his hand under his pillow, took out his purse and handed me three one-dollar bills and said, "One dollar for dollar money, one dollar to my class for my pastor, and one dollar to the trus- THE NEW PRESIDENT. The Rev. Dr. Sterling N. Brown, recently retired from the pastorate of the Lincoln Temple Church this city, and now full professor in the Howard University School of Theology, was elected President of the National Convention of Congregational Workers Among Colored People, held in this city during the past week. It was a deserved compliment for one who has served long and well his denomination. Dr. Brown has been an ordained minister for nearly thirty years, he has pastored in this city as but few others have done. It is fair to say that there are but few men of his race with a clearer sense of duty, a sounder judgment at crucial moments; or of more determined purpose in a stand once taken for what he believes to be right. You might as well attempt to move, a mountain as to try to drive him from a well [Name not visible] REV. STERLING N. BRU N. The New President. tees for my church." Then folding his hands upon his breast he said: "Doctor, it is all right, whatever God may do; my business is in pretty fair shape and as to my soul, that is all right, I trust. Yes, my mother brought me up in the church; she helped to clean the bricks from Union Bethel to build Metropolitan. I believe in God's word and trust Him for His grace." "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." To the family, weep not as those that have no hope. Husband, father, brother, and he it friend, is not dead but sleepep until the resurrection, when he shall come forth to a glorious immortality of everlasting life and eternal felicity. Dr. Howard referred briefly, but appropriately, to Mr. Wright's labors for the advancement of Odd Fellowship in the District of Columbia, and for the general uplift of the community at large. A solo, "I Want to Go There, Don't You," feelingly sung by Dr. Beckett, concluded the services at the church. Interment was at Woodlawn Cemetery, and the last rites were performed by Mount Olive Lodge No. grounded conviction. He is gentle and kindly disposed, but positive and thoroughly businesslike in all his actions. It is this that has made him the unusual force that he is in this community. He is not only an excellent preacher, but a real leader of men and forces. People have always loved to hear him preach, and he has never wanted for an audience. From the time he began to preach as a boy, to the present he has been instrumental in winning men to the better life. Howard University is already beginning to realize anew his positive force and farseeing optimism. The National Convention of Congregational Workers Among Colored People has in its body some of the leading educators of both races, and there was abundant material for selecting a leader. The Convention made no mistake in making Dr. Brown its President. They may reasonably expect from him a constructive administration. 1333, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, in which Mr. Wright had held active membership for more than forty years. The following beautiful floral tributes were received to the very great comfort of the family: Design of red roses and white lilacs, Attorney General J. C. McReynolds; cross of roses, lilies and carnations, Court of Claims Bureau, Department of Justice; cluster of pink carnations, William A. Diuguid; wreath of pink roses, lilies and pink hyacinths, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Magnett and daughter, New Bedford, Mass.; cluster of white and red roses, Jacob Holmes; wreath of lilies, American Beauties and jasmines, by H. J. Moore, A. E. Charity, R. C. Norwood, C. C. Thomas and M. E. Gibbs; cluster of American Beauty roses, W. Calvin Chase; wreath, roses and carnations, Metropolitan A. M. E. Sunday School; design, three links, violets and sweet peas, Board of Directors, Hall Association; cluster of roses, M. V. Chapman; cluster of white carnations, Sewing Circle; cluster of white carnations, grandson, Ralph C. Wright. Among the letters of sympathy received are the following: My Dear Mrs. Wright: I have received with sincere regret the news of the death of your husband, Thos. H. Wright, who has been for more than forty-three years a trusted and faithful employee of this department. He has always been commended for his ability and integrity, and he leaves an enviable record for efficient and conscientious service. I know how fruitless it is to attempt to persuade you from your grief of so great a loss, but I trust that a realization of a life well spent may be comforting to you. My Dear Mr. J. C. Wright: A few hours before your letter came I had read in the Journal of the death of your father, Mr. Thomas H. Wright. I am indeed sorry to know that he is no longer with us. My old friends of long ago—and he was one—grew fewer year by year. The Odd Fellows everywhere have lost an honest, outspoken champion of right. A perfect gentleman at all times who dared to stand for right. I shall always remember him as such. I am sorry he is dead—sorry Bro. Wright is dead. To you and the family I extend my sympathy. Very truly yours. very young. (Signed) EDW. H. MORRIS, Grandmaster Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Chicago. Resolutions were received from the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, the Household of Ruth, the Wilberforcians, and other organizations. WHO'S WHO IN ATHLETICS. "Matt" has but lately bloomed as a flower in the garden of workers. He lays no claim to athletic prowess and looks like anything but an athlete. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree at Howard University, he landed quietly in the Armstrong Manual Training School and taught chemistry. Without shock to himself or the institution he later migrated to M Street High School. Gradually he was swept into the athletic pool and is now the big "Fish." When Coach Douglass, Coach Menard, Coach McDuffie, or Coach Therese Lee want money support or permission granted, "Matt" is called on. He has just finished pulling the strings on a school luncheon purse that netted $90 for spring athletics. "Matt" is many sided. As Junior Warden of Eureka Lodge, F. A. A. M.; member of the High School Games Committee of the P. S. A. L.; and member of the Executive Committee of the "S. I. W." of the Y. M. C. A., he is a main squeeze. His greatest athletic feats are those performed incidental to his piscatorial pursuits as an academic Izaak Walton after bass along the pools of the upper Potomac or fishing by the silent recesses of the Susquehanna. One of the most successful luncheons held in M Street High School took place at the beginning of the Easter holidays and netted $90 to help finance spring athletics. Students and teachers loyally supported the luncheon, but it was so largely successful due to the special efforts of Messrs. Morton and Douglass and Misses Kirkland and Perry. The first game of the high school series is to take place this week between M Street and Armstrong. The H. S. G. C has secured the services of Mr. J. F. N. Wilkinson as umpire, which makes certain ideal games. The elementary school series of championship games is on. For three weeks the teams of the D. A. L. No. 11 will contest on the Howard Playground for the championship of the eleventh division. When the various division championships have been decided, the four division winners will meet for a series to decide the best of the school teams of the city. Chairman Hunter has also announced arrangements for the track championship of the Elementary schools. 35TH ANNIVERSARY The Bee will be 35 Years Old June Second PREPARATION TO CELEBRATE AND ENLARGE. SEMI- WEEKLY AFTER 2D A Great Race Paper—Need of a Great Paper at the Nation's Capital—The Bee to Celebrate. June 2, 1914, The Washington Bee will enter upon its thirty-fourth year. Those who have lived in the city know that The Bee has had a struggle, but it has succeeded against all comers. It will be the desire of the management to make its anniversary number the greatest in its history and to that end it is desired to publish fifty thousand copies. It will be a mammoth edition of a great paper and all who desire to advertise in this edition will be visited or written to in a few days. No enterprise will be slighted, no person of merit will be overlooked. It will be a history of the rise and progress of the colored Americans in this country. A comparison of the past and present day leadership. Address The Bee Publishing Co., 1109 Eye Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. REV. ROSS TO LEAVE. A Great Man to Leave Us—Popular With the People. This is the fifth year of Dr. Ross' administration as pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church in the capital of the nation, and the entire community regrets that he must leave now. He has stayed the full limit of time allowed by his great church. That he has deported himself as a Christian gentleman no one will deny. He has been pastor, counsellor, friend and an uncompromising leader of his people. When he believes he is right he will stand like the rock of Gibraltar if he has to stand alone. He gives preferment to no man on account of faith ties, but recognizes all men as brothers. The Bee compliments Bishop L. J. Coppin on this splendid appointment and wishes it were possible to return him to this community again. Resolutions were passed by the Baptist Ministers' Union setting forth the splendid work done by him since his sojourn here. The Sunday School, Christian Endeavor, stewards, stewardesses, trustees, officers of Bethel Literary and every department of the church have endorsed him and pray that some way may he opened for his return. He is conspicuous for his exalted character and the blameless life he has lived in this city. His robust intellect and fearlessness, his magnetism and oratorical gifts, his helpfulness in city in so many ways and his devotion to the church and his race. CHANGE IN SCHOOL BOARD. Successors to Mrs. Harris Numerous. Many Good Women in the Field. The people will demand a change in the Board of Education in the person of Mrs. A. H. Harris, is quite evident from the large number of persons who will be urged for the place. Among the strong women who are being urged are Mrs. Pendleton, a highly educated and cultured woman, also an authoress of a history of the colored race. Many of her books are used in the schools in different parts of the United States. Mrs. A. F. Hilyer, also a woman of refinement and culture. Mrs. Geo. F. Cook, a woman of great education and refinement. Dr. Amandy Gray is also being urged. Dr. Gray is one of the most popular women in this city. Mrs. Mary E. Jones is also being mentioned. Mrs. Jones is one of the most cultured women in this city and highly educated. The appointment of any of the foregoing would be satisfactory to the people. Rev. Carroll. Rev. Richard Carroll, of Columbia, S. C.; arrived in the city Monday evening from the East, where he had been on a lecturing trip. He was the guest of Mrs. Smith, wife of the late Bishop J. W. Smith. He was invited to several dinners while here, but his many business engagements prevented him from accepting every invitation. He left on the 5:30 train for Abbeville, S. C., where is is booked to speak Friday on the occasion of the Emancipation celebration. PROF. WEATHERLESS Loses Judgment for $250—Will Probably Appeal. The jury in Circuit Court No. 2, Judge Anderson presiding, rendered a verdict against Prof. N. E. Weatherless in favor of Mr. L. C. Bailly for $250 and costs. The verdict was a surprise to all. It is understood that his attorneys, Messrs. A. A. Burney and A. G. Gray, will appeal the case. CHURCH "A ROYAL DIADEM" Pastor Russell Personally Conducted Opening Exhibitions—In Discourse He Outlined Divine Purpose In. Calling the Church—"A Peculiar People" "Not Many Rich"—"Not Many Learned"—"Not Many Noble"—Chiefly "the Poor of This World"—"Rich In Faith"—Heart Condition the Basis of Selection—Cutting, Polishing and Mounting the Jewels—God's Workmanship to Be Manifested—Lessons to Angels—Lessons to Mankind. PASTOR RUSSELL Providence, R. I., April 19.—Pastor Russell personally conducted the opening exhibitions of his now famous Photo-Drama of Creation at the Colonial. Theatre here today. It was given out that there is a chain of these Dramas now ex- tending from coast to coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. Today's attendance was estimated at 40,000. Pastor Russell's discourse was based on the text: "Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God." (Isalah 62:3.) He said: God has provided a salvation for the world in the next Age. But the call of this Gospel Age is something unique—separate and apart from the salvation of mankind. During this Age God has been gathering out of the world some of those who have a hearing of faith and a response of heart. These He calls His peculiar treasure, His jewels. In our text He declares that this class shall be a royal diadem in the hand of their God—not on His head, as if an added glory, but in His hand, representative of power. In His Power Jehovah will show forth the Church; and by thus manifesting what He has been able to do with the Church. He will show forth His own praises, in that He will reveal features of His glorious character which have never before been exhibited. What a blessed thing will be for those who shall be the jewels and who will reflect the glory of the Infinite One who designed this diadem! The permission of sin has given opportunity for God to develop His great Plan for the eradication of evil. He could easily have prevented Satan from bringing sin into the Universe. He did not, however, exercise His Power to restrain Satan; for He foresaw the glorious results which He will eventually accomplish through the permission of evil. For the same reason He did not interfere when Satan tempted our first parents, but permitted the whole race of mankind to be born into the world in an imperfect and sinful condition. He could have arranged otherwise, but He foresaw that He could work out still more glorious purposes by letting matters take their own course for a time. "The Wages of Sin Is Death." The Bible declares that all transgression of the Divine Law is sin, and that all sin is punishable with the same penalty—death. Thus Adam's disobedience in eating the forbidden fruit brought upon him the curse of death, which by the laws of heredity he has transmitted to his posterity—the human race. (Romans 5:12, 19.) Although men may multiply the transgressions, they cannot increase the penalty; for the Divine Law has only one penalty for sin—death. But Divine Mercy arranged for human redemption by providing that Jesus should pay the penalty for Adam's sin. This He did when He offered Himself and died, "the Just for the unjust." The unofferted life of Jesus, as a corresponding price for the forfeited life of Adam, guaranteed the cancellation of Adam's penalty. Adam's deliverance will mean the deliverance of all humanity, the removal of the sentence for Original Sin from every member of Adam's race. Then the Messianic Kingdom will be inaugurated for the very purpose of helping mankind out of the sin and death conditions resulting from the fall of our first parents. God could have associated with our Redeemer some of the angelic host to assist in blessing humanity during the thousand years of the Messianic Kingdom; but He purposed to select from amongst mankind some to be sharers with His Son in the great work of uplifting the world from sin, degradation and death. For this reason a call went forth for a Church class—for those who would separate themselves from the world, take up their cross and follow Jesus. This class is to be a peculiar treasure; they are a people that will be privileged to show forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into His marvelous light.—1 Peter 2:9. "Zealous of Good Works." For nearly nineteen centuries God has been gathering this people from various nations, kindreds and tongues "The Lord knoweth them that are His"; and He is giving needed assistance to each one who is sincere in heart and carnely seeking to know God. These, the Apostle declares, are "a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Their good works are not the building of hospitals, asylums, schools and colleges, although they rejoice that the world has the inclination to do these things. The Church engages in the same kind of good works that our Lord engaged in at His First Advent. The Scriptures assert that He "went about doing good." In line with this statement is the Apostle's injunction that the Church "do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the Household of Falth"—Galatians 6:10. Blessed Your Eyes, For They See. The Household of Faith includes all who are trusting in the precious blood of Christ for their redemption. These the Church will serve on every occasion. The greatest possible good that can be done will be that of serving them with the Truth. The Glad Tidings of great joy which shall be to all people is the very best Message that can be brought to any one—not only speaking peace through the blood of Jesus, but also inspiring the glorious hope of joint-heirship with Christ in the Messianic Kingdom. The Bible tells us that the time is coming when all the blind eyes shall be opened and all the deaf ears shall be unstopped. That time is during the next Age. Meantime, God is doing a wonderful work. He is gathering here and there the saintly ones—those who have an ear to hear His call. Of this class our Lord said, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear." In gathering this special class, God is looking, not at the outward appearance, but at the heart. He desires those whose hearts are right. This does not mean, as once we thought, that all whom God does not select, or elect, are to be thrown to devils and roasted to all eternity. What a change comes over everything when we realize that God is not premeditated evil against even those who may be His enemies through wicked works, but is merely calling out a class now which He will use later to assist the Redeemer in blessing all the families of the earth!-Galatians 3:16, 29. The Scriptures declare that in choosing this special class, the Church, God is calling "not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble," but "the poor of this world, rich in faith"—those whom the world would consider the mean things, the weak, the ignoble. The Bible tells us that the rich have plenty to satisfy their hearts and therefore do not feel their need. It is the same with the intellectual. They rather look down upon the average human being, and say that poor people do not know any better than to believe the story of the fall of man and all the rest of the Bible stories. Thus in what they think is wisdom they ignore the Word of God, in which His whole Plan for man's recovery from degradation, sin and death is shown as connected with the story of Adam and Eve, their fall and the redemption effected by the death of Jesus on Calvary. Whoever leaves out this part of the Bible loses the connecting link, and cannot perceive the Plan of God for man's salvation. Therefore the wise according to the course of this world cannot understand the Divine Program. The libile says that not many noble are called. One may be poor and uneducated, and yet have a very noble mind. This class know that they are morally above the average. Therefore they often have a self-satisfied feeling which does not permit them to recognize that they are sinners. And so they are not ready to see that they and all other human beings need a Savior. "Ye Are His Wörkmanship." Those whom God has accepted and forgiven through the blood of 'His Son, our Redeemer, are no longer under the former sentence of sin. These still have weaknesses of the flesh and are striving against them, although they may never be as successful as some other persons who were better born. But the Heavenly Father knows to what extent each is striving against sin, seeking to put down the old nature. Others may misjudge us; but He knows us. Of this class the Apostle Paul says, "It is God that worketh in you both to will and to do His good pleasure." He has given us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these working in us, showing us the course to take and the result of faithfulness, we may gradually attain the Divine nature. This is the consummation, and comes to us by Divine Power—"changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." Whether we shall be granted that glorious change depends upon the zeal with which we love righteousness, and hate infliqu, and seek to do the will of God. No matter how mean this class may have been according to nature, the transforming work of the Holy Spirit goes on in their hearts; and they become noble characters. Although they may never be able to control their flesh so that they will seem as noble as some of the world, yet the nobility of heart is what God is looking for. If in the heart He sees true nobility—loyalty to Him, to righteousness, to truth, to the brethren—then they have the evidence that they are His, and that His providences are working together for their good. In some respects the Lord's work in this class resembles that of a lapidary. The lapidary will not pick up cobble stones or ordinary pieces of quartz and put them on the wheel for polishing, although these stones lie about everywhere. But a real jewel he puts on the wheel. So it is with the Lord's jewels. If you as His child find that the cutting process goes on in your life, it is because the Lord loves you; and all the trials and difficulties that He sees best to bring upon you are purposeed to prepare you to be a jewel for mounting in His glorious diadem. When God accepts any one and begets him with the Holy Spirit, that one is a jewel in the rough, and needs cutting and polishing. Each needs the skill of the great Master Workman in order to be properly shaped and prepared to show forth the glory of God. Just as a diamond properly cut will radiate the glories of the sunlight, so God's jewels will show forth His praises. After each is cut and polished he is laid aside until the great Laplandy is ready to mount the jewels. This is the First Resurrection. Then all these jewels will be mounted in fine gold—symbolic of the Divine nature—and placed in the glorious diadem which is to be in the hand of our God. God Glorified In the Church. Since the experiences through which the Church has been passing throughout the Gospel Age are all working out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, let us take them thankfully, joyfully, gladly, realizing that our Heavenly Father knows better than we do what we need; and that He has promised that His grace will be sufficient, that He will not permit us to be tempted above what we are able to bear, but will with the temptation provide a way of escape. This is the message that we would leave with you today—that the Church is in the Lord's hands, and that He is preparing each individual member to be a jewel in His royal Diadem. When this piece of workmanship is finished, He will show it to the angels as the basis of one of the greatest lessons they have ever had. The angels who remained loyal to God have never known sin in the sense of experiencing it personally. They have always been holy, happy, obedient to Him. They have seen how the redemption of mankind manifests God's Love; and His willingness to exalt those of mankind who are obedient to Him now will be a further lesson to them. In that Day, when they shall see how the Lord's blessing has eventually brought the Church to glory, the angels of God will all rejoice, even though the Church will be on a still higher plane than they—far above angels, principalities and powers, and Joint-heil with her Lord. The angels are in full harmony with God, and therefore will be ready to sing praises, as the Scriptures set forth, saying, "At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in Heaven and things in earth." When the Bride shall be glorified with her Bridegroom all the angelic hosts will bow the knee; for the Church will be on the highest plane of existence, associated with her Lord. Whoever of the angelic hosts are loyal to the Father and to the Son will also be loyal to the Bride, the Lainb's Wife. in that glorious Kingdom. "Born In Zion." The Psalmist foretells that "of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her; and the Highest Himself shall establish her." (Psalm 8:5.5) Zion represents the Kingdom in glory. The Church in her glorified condition will be Zion, and every faithful saint of God will be born in her. According to the flesh, the Lord's people were be gotten and born; according to the Spirit they have been beaten again. But until they experience their change from earthly to Heavenly nature they are not born again. This second birth, the spirit birth, is the First Resurrection. We have the begetting of the Spirit now, but the process is not yet completed: when it is, we shall be born again. Then the record will be made that this one and that one was born in her, born in Zion In due time the world will get the record. Then they will get the explanation of what they cannot now understand. They will perceive that the Church class were once blinded like the rest of mankind, but that they had their eyes opened in advance of the others, and were loyal to what God showed them and were blessed. Then they will reason that if God would do this for the Church, He will be willing also to bless their own efforts—though not in the same way that He has blessed the Church. The Bible clearly indicates that our Heavenly Father purposes to make known to the world just who they are that have made their calling and election sure to a place in the Body of Christ. As the world of mankind come to realize that the peculiar people whom they could not understand, even though they recognized that these were honest and faithful to the principles of righteousness—were the Body of Christ in the flesh, they will think, The same gracious Heavenly Father that rewarded the Church, and took them to the Heavenly plane, is now dealing with us through them, in Messiah's glorious Kingdom; and He will give us the blessings which He has promised us—restitution to human perfection. If we are willing and obedient to His instructions. Then the world will thank God for His wonderful Plan of salvation. For nearly nineteen centuries the work of sealing and preparing the jewel class has been in progress. Now the Scriptures indicate that the time has come for the mounting of these cut and polished jewels. The end of the Gospel Age is upon us. Hence if we would be amongst the acceptable jewels we have need to display great diligence and to co-operate with the great Lapidary, that the shaping and polishing of our hearts, our wills, may be perfected quickly; and that we may be ready to be placed in that Royal Diadem which shall eternally reflect the glory of the One who designed the great Plan of the Ages, to the praise of His great and holy name. TRAVEL 620 MILES ON SKIS. Russian Soldiers Cover Distance In Twenty-three Days. St. Petersburg:The three officers and sixty-four noncommissioned officers and men of the Ismaliowsky Guards regiment, who have reached Tsarskoe Selo from Archangel on skis have accomplished a remarkably fine performance, having covered the distance of more than 620 miles in twenty-three days. Most of the country traversed was hilly and thickly wooded. The wind had cleared away most of the snow over a considerable stretch and intermittent thaws impeded the progress of the party. On two occasions packs of wolves hovered around the skiers. In some of the remoter districts the appearance of the skiers caused much excitement among the peasants, some of whom took them for a band of escaped convicts. Others believed that that were the advance guard of a foreign army invading Russia, and in several villages the children ran away and hid themselves in the woods. The greatest difficulty experienced by the party was in the transport of provisions and reserve skis. These were carried on horseback, but numerous relays of horses had to be requisitioned. The equipment of the men weighed about twenty pounds. GIRL IS A CANDIDATE. Oregon Woman Wants to Be County * Treasurer—Her Platform. Astoria, Ore. — Though two women have thus far declared their intention to run for county offices, only one has filed. Miss Kate Kelly, scarcely out of her teens, daughter of William Kelly, who is expected to file for the nomination of state senator on the Democratic ticket, filed her petition with the county clerk, announcing her candidacy for county treasurer. Miss Kelly two years ago managed her father's campaign for councilman. Kelly lost by twelve votes, though he was running against an experienced politician and did not enter the race until the last minute. In her platform she says, "If I am nominated and elected I will during my term of office perform the duties of such office faithfully and with due regard to the interests of all the people of Clatson county." As her policy she declared for "honesty, efficiency and economy, prompt and courteous treatment to all." Mary McRae is circulating a petition for county clerk on the Democratic ticket. RADIUM ORE VEINS IN SILVER MINES "Enough to Supply the World," Says Commissioner. Denver.—"Colorado has enough radium bearing ore to supply the world," says Thomas It. Henaden, state commissioner of mines, in announcing that carnotite has been found in considerable quantities in the silver ores of Eagle county, in the western part of the state. "If you had told me a month ago that carnotite and silver could be found together I probably would have laughed at you," he said. "But it certainly is mixed with the silver in the Eagle ores. Of a shipment of twenty-five tons of ore recently made, five tons were carnotite. "The shipment gave eight-tenths of 1 per cent of uranium, from which radium is extracted. It is probable that if the carnotite ore had been shipped by itself without mixture, it would have shown 4 per cent uranium." The discovery is the first of carnotite in veins underground. The carnotite which has been located in Montrose and other counties composing what is known as the "radium field" has all been on the surface. In Eaglen county the carnotite is mixed with the silver ore in the underground veins. The pitchblende of Gilpin and Clear Creek counties has litherto been the only underground radium bearing ore found in the state. A report in regard to the number of radium claims located in Montross county states that ninety-seven have been located in the county this year in comparison with 105 in 1913. Up to Dec. 31, 1913, there had been in all 196 claims filed in the county. 90 YEARS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL. And Paxton Never Missed It Once In Sixty-four Years. St. Louls.—A state wide contest for continuous Sunday school attendance was won by William McClung Paxton, ninety-four years old, of Platte City, Mo., who produced certificates from masters and others to prove that for sixty-four years he has not missed a Sunday. He has been attending Sunday school for ninety years, but there was a break in his record just prior to 1850. GOLF RECORD IN JERSEY. Youth Kids Opossum In Tree While Showing Skill With Clubs. West Orange, N. J.-In the rear of his mother's home, on top of First mountain. James Tolley was surprising his friends by his skill with his golf clubs. Tolley drove one ball high among a patch of trees and heard a strange sound. Looking aloft, he saw an animal tumbling to the ground. It was an opossum. The ball snuck it between the earth, killing it. BILL REFERRED TO TRADE BODIES Initiated by Chamber of Commerce of United States on Report of a Special Committee—Voting to Be For or Against Seven Recommendations. Result to Be Made Public. Washington. — A referendum relative to the proposed interstate trade commission bill recently reported into the house of representatives by the committee on Interstate and foreign commerce was initiated by the chamber of commerce of the United States of America. It goes to the 43 commercial organizations in forty-seven states, and the votes of these organizations, when recorded, will be made public. The referendum is based on the report of a special committee composed of two business men. The committee presents its recommendations in such form that the membership of each organization is enabled to express its opinions by voting for or against the various proposals. The seven definite recommendations to be supported or rejected are: That there be created an interstate trade commission of at least five members, appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate, not more than a mere man of whom shall be of the same political party. That jurisdiction of the commission in conducting investigation extend to all corporations engaged in interstate or foreign commerce except such as are amenable to the interstate commerce commission. (It has not been judicially determined whether or not banks are engaged in interstate commerce, but it is not understood to be the case. The interstate trade commission to include banks among the corporations placed within the jurisdiction of the commission.) That the commission should not now be given authority to advise applicants concerning the legality of proposed contracts, combinations, etc., under the Sherman act. That the annual reports of corporations, if they are not the outlaws be confined to those of the corporations (say, to those having capital resources of $5,000,000 or more or to those having an annual income of $2,500,000) and to such other classes of corporations as the commission may officially determine. That in the annual reports made to the commission corporations ought not to be required to disclose trade processes, shop costs, classification fees, profit profits, publication articles, names of customers or other like private information. That the publication of facts obtained by the commission be confined to such as are to the public interest. That congress should direct the commission to investigate and report to congress at the earliest practicable date on the advisability of amending the Sherman act to allow a greater degree of co-operation in the conduct and for the protection of the foreign trade. In suggesting that the membership of the commission should be composed of five members rather than three as proposed in the present house bill, the committee argues that since a large proportion of interstate business of importance is now transacted by corporations the duties of the commission will be so important that so small a membership as three is inadequate. The committee also concludes that a commission may earn a greater degree of popular confidence for nonpartisanship and impartiality than a departmental official can hope to attain. The committee also is convinced that the larger commission would provide for different points of view and opportunity for the inclusion of business experience. The committee believes that there should be no discrimination as to the kinds of corporations with which the commission deals, since such a limitation might develop a suspicion of favoritism. It says, "Neither size nor any other arbitrary standard of classification is a sure criterion of lawfulness or unlawfulness under the antitrust acts or under any other laws." The committee is convinced that the general jurisdiction of the commission should not extend to persons and partnerships, giving this reason: "As a matter of business judgment, individuals and partnerships as such will not engage in interstate or foreign trade on a scale sufficiently large as to have the potentiality of effecting a restraint of trade or creating a monopoly. Before their business assumes a character or a volume that creates possibilities of illegality under the antitrust acts they are under a practical necessity of adopting the corporate form with its limited liability and other advantages." BIG SUFFRAGE RALLY. Resolution to Be Adopted Sent Out In 20,000 Circular Letters. Washington—Twenty thousand circular letters, containing the wording of the resolution to be adopted at the nation wide demonstrations, were sent throughout the country, urging suffragists to call upon congress to pass the Bristow-Mondell resolution giving women the right to vote. A copy of the resolution that is to be adopted at the demonstrations is to be sent to every member of the senate and house. The letters were sent out from the headquarters of the Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage here in respose to hundreds of queries that have been received. FARM TO CONSUMER PLAN. Senate Bill to Create Clearing House to Distribute Products. Washington.—Senator Borah of Idaho introduced a bill to create a national clearing house for the grading and distribution of all the farm products of the country, the idea being to eliminate the middlemen and put the producers in immediate touch with the retail market. The clearing house would be under the management of a board of fifteen directors chosen by agricultural subdivisions of the country for terms of five years. It would draw its strength from county associations consisting of not fewer than fifty farmers each. The national association regulations would fix in detail provisions for packing, purifying, grading, shipping, selling and delivering farm products. The county associations would be made by PETER H. Photo by American Press Association. SENATOR DOHAN. individual contracts sole selling agents for the surplus products of the farms of their members. Fowers would be given to the board of directors to build, lease or purchase mills, ice factories, cold storage plants, printing presses, slaughter houses, telephone and telegraph lines, railroad and wagon roads, automobiles and airships. The association with the consent of the federal government would be authorized to issue bonds. It could also create capital stock out of its surplus earnings and could lend money to members of county associations. SOLDIER IN LOVE, WANTS DISCHARGE Fears He Will Be Too Far Away From Girl He Adores. Lafayette, La. — One year more to serve in the United States army and probably in the Philippines. Emile Martin, three years a soldier, is pleading to be released from further service in order that he may be near Miss Jeanne Olivier, formerly of the city. Four years ago Emile Martin took his diploma from the University of Paris into his pocket and came to America. He was of French aristocracy, and the bottom of the family coffers had been scraped to provide Emile with an education. Emile joined the United States army when he failed to find work. From regiment to regiment he was shifted, until one day he found himself in Texas City, one of the thousands of soldiers drearily waiting for something to happen in Mexico. In Texas City he be miss Olivier who is of an old creole family of Louisiana. She and her family moved to Galveston, Tex. Now Emile learns he is to be sent to the Philippines. He has been granted leave of absence and is now in Lafayette, the birthplace of his bride, appealing to influential citizens in and about this city to sign his petition to Congressman Broussard, who is asked to use his influence with the government in releasing him. GETS NEW TEETH AT 88. Connecticut Woman Wants Rubber Ring to Cut Third. Somers, Conn. - Mrs. Eughemia L. Loughlin, eighty-eight years old, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. George W. Green of Hazardville, was assured by a dentist that her swollen gums soreness of which tempted her to get a teething ring, presaged a new set of molars. Mrs. Loughlin says her first teeth never amounted to much, but with her second set she could masticate tough steaks until twenty years ago. Already she has cut three lower teeth and the upper set are due in a week or so. Rat Carries Bells on Feet. Harrison, Ark.—A large rat to which some boys had tied tiny bells caused a panic in a picture show here. The women in the audience forgot all about the love some which were being shown and clambered upon the chairs. THE BEE Published at Published 1180 Eye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months...1.00 Three months...50 Subscription monthly...20 MEXICO President Wilson has been given power by Congress to use the army and Navy to force Huerta to salute the American flag. Did the United States have any right in Mexico in the first place? The Mexican people had a row among themselves and why not allow them to settle it without the intervention of this government. This government is always ready and willing to take pu other people's troubles, but it can never remedy what these southern crackers are doing to unoffending colored Americans. The Democratic administration with all of its registration laws and "Jim Crow" legislation will not need the assistance of colored Americans in Mexico. White men will not want to fight beside a black man. The brave Mississippi Vardaman and the gallant Hoke Smith of Georgia will not consent for Negroes to fight the Mexicans. Negroes have no grievance against the Mexicans, neither the rebels nor Federals. They have not invaded the territory of Negroes. The Bee has heard of no Negro Mexican being killed, why then should American Negroes go where they are not wanted. Vardaman, Tillman, Hoke Smith, and other Southern patriots will tell the American Negroes that this is a white man's war and Negroes have nothing to do with it. This is one time American Negroes will not go where they are not wanted. GREAT STATESMAN. There are some great statesmen in the South and many great orators. These great orators and statesmen are never heard or brought into evidence or the public eye until they make attacks upon inoffensive colored folk. Many of them have exhausted their mental vitality by their great oratorical efforts in their unholy attacks until they die an untimely death. The valor of these men has been so great that history will be unable to parallel it. Those who have passed to the way beyond and left a mark behind them are: Governor of Maryland, Raynor of Maryland, Roddenberry of Georgia, and others. Those who are now filling their places and whose memory will be recorded in history are such men as Hoke Smith, Tillman, Vardaman, John Skelton Williams and others. They too will pass away to the great beyond after they have exhausted their vitality on the inoffensive colored Americans. It is now fashionable for these Southern statesmen (?) to attack the colored Americans, and strange as it is they are never known or heard from until their names appear in public print attacking colored Americans You can either make a record or break a record on the Negro American. NEGRO MASONRY Negro Masonry, like all other Negro enterprises, will have a squabble. One Negro Mason has sued another because he said that the other said he was not a Mason; that he made the statement on what the other fellow said himself. Suppose he did or didn't say it. Why should a brother Mason be sued for it? Prof. Weatherless has been a target for his enemies ever since he has been grandmaster of the order. He adopted a scheme to build a hall and many in the order want to prevent him. He has done more for the order than all of his accusers and defamers combined. He ranks above the average man in Masonic orders. He was the most progressive grand- master that has ever been at the head of the Masonic organization. SENATOR BORAH. Elsewhere in The Bee will be read with interest an excerpt from the speech of Senator Wm. E. Borah, of Idaho, on the occasion of the fifty-second anniversary celebration held April 16 in the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. Rev. Simond P. W. Drew presided and delivered a most sensible address. Senator Borah, as The Bee said at the time he was misquoted, that he was a friend to the colored Americans. There is no man in this country who is any more friendly to the colored people than this gentleman. The Negro doesn't want so much office as he does his civil and political rights. Senator Borah always knows what he is talking about. CAPT. L. F. OYSTER The people are very much in need of a good man on the Board of Education like Capt. James F. Oyster. He is one man who is an idol among the teachers, irrespective of color, in the public schools. The Bee would like to see him again at the head of our Board of Education. He is a man who can be approached by the most humble citizen. It is regretted that he ever retired. If there is to be a vacancy this year it is hoped that Capt. Oyster will be appointed. A man who is honest will be able at any time to command the respect, confidence and support of the people. FALSE GODS. There are good as well as bad ministers. There are truthful ministers as well as liars. There is the ministerial politician as well as the libertine in the pulpit. There is the minister who denounces intemperance, and at the same time drinks all the rum they can possibly get, and every woman who will be seduced by them. The most dangerous minister is the liar and seducer of women. It is easier and more beneficial to tell the truth than it is to tell a lie. There are some men in this world who seek false gods and glittering genealities. The Weatherless verdict was a surprise. Prof. Weatherless is more "sinned against than sinning." The colored lawyers should get together. Join in and help the 35th anniversary of The Bee a great success. The Bee doesn't ask favors from fakers or interlopers. A new broom sweeps clean, if the straws are strong enough. The Bee leads and all others follow. Many distinguished people called on The Bee this week. If you want results advertise in The Bee. The Elks are preparing to give our friend A. W. Scott a great ovation. The colored citizens of Atlantic City are making a fight for a colored principal of their high school. Dr. Ross The Bee regrets that Rev. I. N. Ross will leave us. He is one man who has a clean record and a gentleman of the highest integrity. Dr. Ross, The Bee sees in you great elements of true manhood. We hope that another as good will be sent to us. Suit for Slander Becomes Interesting—Big and Little Masons First Testify—Warfield for Baily. In Circuit Court No. 2, Mr. Justice Anderson presiding, there is a fight royal between Prof. N. E. Weatherless and Sam C. Bailey. Mr. Bailey has sued Prof. Weatherless because he, Weatherless, stated on an occasion that Mr. Baily was not a Mason. Mr. Baily wants several thousand dollars for this. Prof. Weatherless is represented by A. A. Birney, formerly U. S. Attorney, and A. W. Gray, and Mr. Baily it represented by John Ridout and Joseph H. Stewart. Among those who have testified for or against the defendant or plaintiff are many well known Masons. The case has gone to the jury, and the greatest interest is being manifested. Public School Exercises. Drill day, which will be the greatest in the history of the public schools, will take place Friday, June 5th. Joint commencement of the schools will take place Monday evening, June 15th, in Convention Hall. Senator Clapp will be the orator of the occasion. Commencement of the Normal School No. 2 will take place Friday, June 12th. Wm. Claxton will deliver the address. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac.) It sure does seem like this year is one of those times what old Diogenes called "the perspiration of malevolent conditions," cause everybody seems to be agin' everybody else. If things don't settle down to something like normal in this here bailiwick a Hatian revolution will look like a mosquito disturbance aside of the revolution among the dicties around this here berg. I ain't agin' the fellow what repells an attack, but I sure am agin' the guy what starts trouble then blows out the lights. If there ever was a time when these anthracites around here ought to josie up together, and kinder get on intimate terms with one another, and sort of handle the loving cup till it just got soiled from usage this here is sure the time. I'm goin' to give these lumps of coal around this diggin' the hunch that if they don't lay down their arms, get on their peaceful clothes; and begin coaxin' old Miss Harmony to come in out of the cold there will be a whole lot of algebraic signs for the unknown quantity around here huggin' the delusive hope for the millenium to move over from Paradise and squat down here in this forlorn bailiwick. There ain't no place on earth where there are so many educated misfits as there are here in Washington, and nowhere on this terre firma where misfits are so riled up, and a rebellin' agin' one another except down in that country where Villa and Huerta are trying to corner the sightin' market. The love of peace is done had all her tail feathers pulled out, and she ain't got a full wing left to flap. Every time she attempts to light some one shoos her away, and the poor thing, according to the last report I got, was camping somewhere out around Bennings waitin' for the storm to blow over. Now, speakin' 'bout revolutions, reminds me that this here school fightin' what's an annual reoccurrence gets nobody no interest on the investment. An investment what pays no interest is one of those contraptions what Wadsworth said was a "withering gale." You know old Henry Wadsworth done writ some sensible stuff in his life, and that "withering gale" pronouncement of his is a good runnin' mate for Booker T.'s "you can't keep a fellow down in the gutter unless you camp down there with him." Speakin' 'bout Booker T. reminds me, after all, he's the wisest charcoal lozzerg what is identified with this mongrel race of ours. It don't matter how much you hurl anathemas again' his top piece, he just goes along close-mouth like editin' his list of millionaires, preachin' race co-operation, and forgittin' to sass back. Now, there ain't no use in Prof. Dubois, Freeman Murray or even Monrorian Trotter startin' no argument with him cause he won't answer back. Now that's the way to keep peace down to a minimum basis, and make the other fellow walk the floor at night, or as Mullin once said, "Make 'em fowl out." Speakin', 'bout Freeman Murray, I notice he ain't so gay 'bout his writin' as he used to be. Sure it is that this Democratic administration what has a predilection for Moving Ham off a good nest has took all the sanfroid out of some of these anthracite newspaper writers, and they just keep rivin' politics a wide berth. Freeman Murray, who use to dish up a lot of hog jokes what he called news, and R Wordy, who use to palm off a lot of guess work as political facts just got to that point where, if they write at all, just write a lot of "sasassity" stuff, just a lot of terrapin supper aftermath. Well. I don't blame them With the stringency in the money market, and the necessity of having to cross over the Potomac into Alexandria, or go over to Baltimore to negotiate a ten per cent loan, there ain't no fellow what wants to let go of a job what's keepin' the wolf from the door. My advice to the boys is just to keep on writin' wind stuff 'bout nothin' but lodge affairs and ice cream sociables, and thereby hang on to your jobs till Teddy comes pokin' in through the next election. Speakin' 'bout Teddy pokin' his head in through the next election reminds me that I got next to a little dope down at the Court House the other day that just set me to guessin'. I heard that Ralph Tyler, who mysteriously disappeared from Washington a few weeks ago to take up a continuation of them there tourin' of States, is armed with recommendation, secret letters, firsthand advice and all that kind of authority what puts him next to the Teddy procession when it comes out of the Brazilian forests and starts burning up the grass on the prairies of this old country. They done told me, and "a white man done told me" too, that that fellow what use to audit navy accounts is on the inside of what is to happen, and there ain't no way of headin' him off when the millennium rolls around. Take it from me there is a hen on the nest, and she will begin to cackle pretty soon, and that Mr. Wise Guy from out there where the Ohio River overflows her banks is on to the size of the eggs, and the number the hen will lay. I got it pretty straight, and I didn't get it from no anthracite either, that there is a whole lot of things stirrin', combinations are being made, mergers are bein' formed, and interlocking directors bein' elected what will turn up a combination in a few months what will startle this old country in a few months, and that the hero of San Juan is sure down for another run. Yes, sir, there is a hen on the nest, and old Mr. Ex-auditor who is floatin' around through the country I hearn is hitchin' up teams in preparation for the races. There's goin' to be some doins at next election, and right here in Washington they are formin' alliances—them there big fellows down at the Capitol, gettin' ready for the big circus. Down at the Capitol in the cloak room of the Senate last Monday, a great big political man from the middle west in talkin' to a big guy from the east said that you better look out for Teddy in 1916, and that if he started he would spread like a prairie fire. He told this and a certain messenger down there done heard it. It just keep your peepers on the bug from Ohio whats floatin' round through the country, chasin' all through the South and West,' cause I hear he ain't in it for his health alone. He's done hear somethin', done been told somethin', and done been hooked up to somethin' I'm thinkin'. Well all I got to say is if Teddy will back this segregation administration off the boards, just give us Teddy as soon as you please. And I'm thinkin' he's the old guy what we can shove over into the White House to hand Woody his passport. I ain't, no prophet, but I would be willin' to bet one of Walter Pinchback's pool tables again that pool table of Jim Neol's that Teddy is a better than a two to one shot for the 1916 handicap, if what I hear rumminat' around among some of these Congressmen goes for the real dope. And William Calvin, I'm told, has also got the hunch, and that's why you ain't hearin' him write no editorials pickin' some other candidate. Wait till you hear from the Brazilian forest tourist, and then get your trunk packed to join the Teddy boomers. EMANCIPATION AT COSMOPOLITAN, Great Men and Women Speak—Senator Borah Explains. He Received a Great Ovation. Mr. Davis Applauded and Commended by Senator Borah. Singing, etc. Those who spoke at the Cosmopolitan Church last Thursday evening, the occasion being the celebration of the fifty-second anniversary of the emancipation of the slaves of the District of Columbia, were: Senator Wm E. Borah of Idaho, Representative Sanford Kirkpatrick of Iowa, Mrs. Helen A. Davis, president of the National Sentinel Organization. Rev. Wiseman offered an invocation. After which the Trinidad Baptist Sunday School, Rev. Hawkins, pastor, sang "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." Rev. Simon Drew presided and made a short address in which he said the negroes would not gain much headway materially, until they had acquired a business acumen. He emphasized the fact, that they were badly in need of department stores and that they must have them. "We have the money but we need the push; and the push must first start from the negro's own efforts." (Vigorously applauded.) He then introduced Mrs. Helen A. Davis, president of the National Sentinel; she was greeted with applause. She gave a brief history of her organization, and outlined its objects and after discussing the present civil and political status of the race, she gave a history of slavery replete with incidents of a thrilling nature. She said in part: "There is no doubt that the condition of slavery has existed for a time away back of that which records the A REV SIMON P W DREW President of the Great Emancipation Meeting. first events in history; and that slaves almost exclusively, until the last few centuries, were not members of the Negro race. In this fact should the hearts of those four people who have trod the wine press of affliction sorrow, and thraldom, be buoyed up with hope. She said Abraham, the founder of the Hebrew race, was the first slave owner and quoted passages from the Bible to substantiate her claim. She closed by saying all nations which held slaves, the last of which was the great Roman empire, which constituted, at that time, all of the then known world, had fallen by reason of its or their sins. And all other nations that deal cruelty, oppression and death to their subjects will meet with the same terrible punishment. There is a God in Heaven, and He concerns Himself in the affairs of men. The vials of His wrath will in His own good time, be poured out upon a people, who countenance such iniquities." Prof. Wright then rendered a very impressive solo. Senator Wm. E. Borah was next introduced. He prefaced his address as follows: "I have listened to a most excellent address which was ably delivered by the speaker who preceded me, Mrs. Helen A. Davis; and I have been informed. I endorse all that she has said. I wish to say, however, to you and to her, that you must not hold the South alone, responsible for the plight you are in today, because there are those of the North, many of whom could help you in remedying conditions, and who will not, by reason of their prejudices." "He advised the Negro that the time is come when he is sufficiently developed, intellectually and educationally, to think and to act indepen- THE WEEKLY NEWS dently in political matters and in all that concerns the affairs of his race He advised them to vote for principles as will effect the Negroes's best interests, and not for parties or men. It will go far towards gaining sentiment that will pronounce the race's fitness for franchise. It will go far to disprove the idea that it is still in its infancy of capableness to form plans for future progress and government, independently, as has been declared by not a few people. Only yourselves can solve the problem we can only help. conclusive p bestowed title anusement ination. A st the eyes and in the morn cheat some o inside the te is theirs, for esque line v miles long. Two perfo two o'clock eight o'clock circus entra J. B. SENATOR WM E. BORAH OF IDAHO Who Believes in Equality of Citizenship—A Defender of the Constitutional Rights of the Negro. "I have been criticized by some people for stating that I thought the party in power directly after the emancipation of the slaves made a mistake by giving the Negro the right to vote." "I am glad of an opportunity here to-night to make plain to you what I did say and also to make plain to you my reasons for the remarks." "I did say it was a mistake to have given the Negro the right to vote, and this was prompted by no other than the friendliest interest I have always entertained for them and continue to entertain for them. My reason for saying so is because of the total ignorance of them as to the laws governing this country, which at that time made him unfit for such a gigantic responsibility as that which has been assumed by a race of people who have been governing for thousands of years." He commended the progress of the race and admitted its "capability of absorbing the highest civilization" (as Mrs. Davis had previously asserted) by saying "No other race of people had made so remarkable advancement in so short a time." He implored the Negro to shun liquor, live highly moral lives, acquire property and eventually he would enter into his own. "The Star Spangled Banner" was nicely rendered by the three Sunday schools, namely, the Trinidad Baptist, taking the lead, Miss Annie Brown, superintendent, directing the music, and others joining in the choruses were the N. E. Baptist and the Mt. Horeb and the Cosmopolitan. Representative Sandford Kirkpatrick was next introduced. He took for his subject "The Land of Hog and Hominy." After giving out a few jokes on the subject in question, which, by the way; referred to the Southerner and his peculiar characteristics and good nature, which was very amusing, he betook himself to speaking feelingly of the Negro and his struggles. He knew the Negro needed help and he was going to do what he had always done to help him. He backed up his assertion by saying that the program was worth admission fee and all those who had not paid to enter should pay before leaving, "So I shall pay mine now." He did so by putting five dollars on the table. A good collection was the result. Rev. Drew donated a part of the collection to the National Sentinel, on the part of the church. Benediction by Rev. Wiseman. A vote of thanks was given to the visiting talent, including the speakers and the invited guests were importuned to join in the repast with the old ex-slaves, which was accepted, and all were filled with information and good cheer. PERFORMANCE SCORNS COMPARISON The first of the advertising cars which herald the coming of the Barnum and Bailey circus reached this city today, and miraculously, window and wall blossomed into thrilling lithographic splendor of parade and performance. Arthur E. Diggs, long an out-of-doors publicity specialist, is in charge of the car, and his corps of twenty-five experts illuminated city and country for miles distant with the glowing colors of the circus poster. The "Greatest Show on Earth" will exhibit here and promise is given of conclusive proof that the popularly bestowed title of the big traveling amusement institution is no exaggeration. A street parade will gladden the eyes and hearts of young and old in the morning. Cruel fortune may cheat some of the raptures to be had inside the tents, but the street parade is theirs, for it's free. The picture-esque line will stretch nearly three miles long. Two performances will be given, at two o'clock in the afternoon and at eight o'clock at night. The spacious circus entrances will open for the crowds an hour earlier to permit observation of the 110-cage menagerie. Forty elephants, a double herd of camels, four giraffes, a rhinoceros and a hippopotamus are among the collection of rare, costly and curious animals. Barnum and Bailey have ransacked the entire world for areneic celebrities, and below and aloft, they give assurance, this season's performance is the most painstaking and diversified in the long history of the undertaking. "The Wizard Prince of Arabia," a stunningly stupendous pageantic spectacle, succeeds "Cleopatra," which elicited enconiums as the prelude to the circus' arenic tournament here two years ago. Barnum and Bailey regard it as the crowning triumph of a career that has been crowded with splendid and spectacle successes. The production enlistes the services of 1,250 persons, and introduces a ballet and singing chorus of 400 girls. Participating are forty gorgeously caparisoned elephants, 37 beautifully bedecked camels, team of royal, carddrawing sacred cattle and cavalcades of richly accounted horses. A colossally unique innovation in sight and sound and one unprecedented in dramatic presentations is a march around the hippodrome course of 350 persons playing music, the largest body of instrumentalists ever assembled for professional purposes. Five hundred men and women, boys and girls, the pick and pride of the world's celebrities are, required to complete the circus' programme of athletic events. Senator Procter The late Senator Proctor of Vermont was a man of high ideals. He always had great admiration for the [Illustration of a man with a long beard and a suit]. industrious American citizen. His noble wife is a remarkable woman and full of humanity. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of August 24, 1912. by the Act of August 24, 1912. of The Washington Bee, published weekly at Washington City Post Office, for April, 1914. Editor, Wm. Calvin Chase, 1109 Eye Street Northwest. Managing Editor, Wm. Calvin Chase, 1108 Eye Street Northwest. Business Manager, Nettie Jones, 1109 Eye Street Northwest. Publisher, Wm. Calvin Chase, 1109 Eye Street Northwest. Owner, Wm. Calvin Chase. Known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: S. M. Price. Average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above. (Seal) JNO. T. C. NEWSOM. My commission expires June 5, 1916. The Renaissance Players. Miss Theresa Lee directed the Spanish and other dances. Miss Lee is an expert in fancy dances. Prof. Arthur C. Newman, the instigator of vocational training in the public schools and one of the most accom- plished electricians in this city, had charge of the electrical effects. Everett Lee, brother of Wm. E. Elizabeth M., and Estelle Lee, was buried Monday, April 20, from his late residence, 1224 You Street Northwest, after an illness of more than two months. The Week in Society The signs of the opening of spring season are nowhere better indicated than at Board's Pharmacy, at 1912$^{1}$ Fourteenth Street Northwest, the popular gathering place of throngs of the season's happiest and gayest for the most delicious ice cream sodas and refreshing drinks. Ever "the place where everybody meets everybody else." 1912$^{2}$ Fourteenth Street. Miss Clotill M. Houston, one of Washington's best teachers, spent the Easter holidays in Atlantic City. Miss Houston was the guest of Lawyer and Mrs. I. H. Nutter, and was the recipient of much social attention. Mrs. Rosa Scott spent Sunday at the residence of her brother, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sedgewick. The graduating exercises of the Training School for Nurses, Freedman's Hospital, will take place Tuesday, May 5, 1914, from the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel, at which time fourteen nurses will receive diplomas. Dr. W. H. H. Butler, pastor of St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Washington, Pa., was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. P. A. Scott, of Elm Street, during his stay here while attending the conference of the Financial Board of the A. M. E. Church. Miss Nettie Langston, and Miss Ethel Evans, spent Easter holidays in Baltimore, the guests of Miss Fannie Williams, of Lanyale Street. Messrs. Earl Hyman, Ralph Green, Raymond Savoy, Robt. Douglas and Mr. John Williams, of Lincoln University, were visitors during the Easter holidays, the guests of Miss Fannie Williams, of Lanval Street, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Helen Johnson was the guest of her mother last week, Mrs. Annie Batson, of 118 N. Schroeder Street, Baltimore, Md. Miss Laura Parker, of this city, and Dr. L. U. Goine, a leading physician, of Birmingham, Ala., were happily married last Friday evening. Mrs. John P. Atkenson, of 209 10th Street Southeast, left Easter Monday for Apollo, Pa., to visit her mother, Mrs. L. James. The A. M. E. Conference will meet at Annapolis, Md., April 30th, 1914. Mr. Percy R. Fletcher, one of our Washington boys, is doing a thriving business, owner of the finest grocery store in Martinsburg, W. Va. Miss M. Davis, of Bakerfield, Cal., a trained nurse from this city, is attending the nurses' convention in Los Angeles, Cal., and is being royally entertained. The graduating exercises of the Training School for Nurses of the Freedmen's Hospital, will be held in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel May 5th, at 8 o'clock. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., passed through the city last week, en route for New York City. Buy the highest grade drugs, medicines and toilet articles at Board's Pharmacy, 1912½ Fourteenth Street. Satisfaction, or your money back. Mr. J. A. White, of this city, one of the most progressive business men there is, was married last week to Miss Edith Shepard at her home in Alexandria, Va., by Rev. Mitchell, pastor of Episcopal Church. Miss Shepard very pleasant young lady and will no doubt be a great help to her husband. A reception was held after the marriage ceremony, to which a large number of her friends attended. It was one of the prettiest marriages that has ever been held in Alexandria, Va. The Chantleer Social Club has announced its complimentary reception for April 28 at Odd Fellows' Hall. Cards of admission only. Mrs. James H. Lee, wife of Rev. James H. Lee, has taken a serious relapse. From last report she had rallied. Mrs. Calloway, of New York City, spent a very pleasant time visiting friends during Easter week. Miss Estelle Cossey has moved to 1009 Eleventh Street, with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Howe. A Pretty Home Wedding The marriage of Miss Theresa Althea Baltimore, daughter of Mrs. Dorothea F. and the late lamented A. Baltimore, to Mr. Lewis H. Brooks, of Danville, Va., took place on Wednesday, April 15, 1914, at 7 o'clock P. M., at 71 G Street Southwest. Rev. Wm. J. Howard, pastor of Zion Baptist Church, officiated in the presence of relatives and friends. The room where the ceremony was performed was tastily decorated with palms and flowers. The bride, who was given in marriage by her brother, Mr. Wm. A. Baltimore, wore a beautiful gown of white crepe meteor, with silk shadow lace, pearl and rhinestone ornaments, and an illusion veil held in place by real orange, blossoms from her Florida home. She carried an immense bouquet of bride roses. The bridesmaid, Miss Elenora Mason, was becoming attired in a pale pink crepe meteor gown trimmed in lace. She carried a large bouquet of pink roses. Mrs. Baltimore, the bride's mother, assisted in receiving, wearing a gown of gray silk with a bunch of white roses on the corsage. Mr. Cates, of Danville, was best man, and Mr. Jas. W. Peters, of New York, a brother of the groom, was also in attendance. The groom was attired in conventional black. The bridal party entered to the strains of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," played by Mr. Edward M. Syphax. After the ceremony was performed the happy couple and friends entered the dining room, where a magnificent table was spread. A beautiful fourlayer wedding cake was the central decoration. The reception was served by Mr. Joseph Henson. The presents were numerous and useful. The gift of the bride's mother was a handsome case of silver knives, forks, tablespoons and teaspoons. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks left on the 10:45 p.m. train for Danville, Va. The bride was attired in a stylish navy blue traveling suit with jaunty hat to match. A reception was held Monday, April 20, 1914, at 245 Holbrook Street, Danville, Va., their future home. JACKSON-BROWN MARRIAGE. Miss Florence Jackson, Society Writer on The Bee, to Be Married. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Jackson, of 3505 Grand Avenue Northwest, have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Florence Geneva, to Mr. Everett Lorenzo Brown, both of this city. Miss Jackson, prior to a week ago, was connected with The Bee as social and brief writer, in which capacity she was a most accomplished acquisition. Mr. Brown is employed at Blue Plains and one of the most competent young men there. Miss Jackson is the daughter of Mr. James W. Jackson, one of the most trusted employees at the Government Printing Office. The marriage reception will be held at 3505 Grand Avenue Northwest from 8 to 10:30 p. m. The Chanticleer Club The Chanticleer Social Club wish to announce their complimentary reception on Tuesday, April 28, 1914, at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1606 M Street Northwest. Monumental orchestra. Cards of admission only. Officers—Wm. A. Brown, president; Wm. T. Reeder, vice president; J. Edward Ellington, financial secretary; Joseph E. Walker, recording secretary; Ralph A. Webster, treasurer; Turner S. Lyles, chaplain; Henry L. Lyles, sergeant-at-arms. Members—Wm. A. Brown, Wm. T. Reeder, J. Edw. Ellington, Jos. E. Walker, Ralph A. Webster, Turner S. Lyles, Henry L. Lyles, Philip L. Brown, Theodore M. Saunders and Geo. E. Patterson. REV. WISEMAN HONORED. Presented With Purse and Parchment for Kindness to Students. Rev. D. E. Wiseman, pastor of the Church of Our Redeemer, Lutheran, was presented with a purse Monday evening by West Indians, South and Central Americans—mostly students of the Howard University—for his many years of helpfulness to students and others far away from their native homes. A parchment inscribed with the names of the contributors, both at home and abroad, was presented to the pastor by Rev. Dr. J. C. Van Loo, master of ceremonies. Brief addresses were made by A. F. Hillyer, a trustee of Howard University; Dr. J. C. McNeill, secretary of the Medical School, and Robert A. Pelham of the Howard Park Citizens' Association, of which the minister is a member. Choral music was furnished by the choir. Solos were sung by Miss Maggie Jefferson and Harrison Wright. The meeting was well attended. WEST WASHINGTON. Turner-Bowman. A very pretty marriage was solemnized on Thursday evening. April 16, 1914, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Turner, 2812 Dumbarton Avenue Northwest. The contracting parties were their daughter, Miss Maude L. Turner and Mr. Archie Bowman. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. C. Thompson. The wedding march was played by Miss Getta Lee and was witnessed by many of the happy couple's friends. Many valuable and useful presents were received. Miss Mabel Turner, sister of the bride, was the maid of honor and Mr. Eugene Toney was the best man. A delightful reception followed, where all of the guests were served. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman will reside at 1530 Thirty-second Street Northwest. A visit to the First Baptist school would enthuse any Sabbath School worker as on Sunday morning last the interest manifested by the teachers and pupils of the school is worthy of the good name of which it bears. The review lessons were intelligently recited, with excellent singing. The school was addressed by Mr. Jas. L. Turner, in which he congratulated the school on the excellent decorum and marked attention which makes it one of the best Sunday Schools in the West End of 200 members. Mrs. Jas. N. Lawson is the superintendent: Mrs. Lillian F. Mitchell, secretary; Miss Leema Hewlett, pianist; Rev. E. E. Ricks, pastor. Miss Wilhelmina Watts received the members of the Mothers' Auxiliary Club of Mt. Zion M. E. Church and their friends Sunday evening, from 6 to 7 o'clock p. m. The Vested Choir of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth Street, will render by special request a sacred song of service on Sunday afternoon, at 8 o'clock. Prof. J. E. Jones, the leader, has arranged for the occasion a very select program. Miss Emeline Thomas will be the soloist. Miss Desiro Clark, contralto; Miss Mary Barnes, organist. President Wright of the Odd Fellows' Hall Association. Buried. The funeral of Mr. Thos. H. Wright, whose death was announced in our last week's issue, took place on Friday afternoon from Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M Street, and was largely attended by many prominent members of the order. Rev. I. N. Ross, D. D., delivered a very touching eulogy. Rev. Wm. J. Howard, Rev. Walter H. Brooks and Rev. M. L. Beckett assisted in the solemn services. A solo by Rev. Beckett, "Don't You Want to Go," was very impressively sung and caused many in the audience to weep. District Grandmaster Wm. I. Lee, Geo. Cook, deputy of masters, Ex-Grandmaster David Warner, James L. Turner and many others were in attendance in honor of their deceased president. The following acted as pallbearers: Samuel Watson, Jos. Manning, J. W. Cromwell, Chas. Hall, Daniel Williams and P. F. Brown. Attorney General Reynolds sent a very eloquent letter of tribute in honor of the deceased, which was read. HALLS HILL VA The fire department that was organized here and was reported some time ago, became a little inactive for lack of means, etc., is making an attempt to wake up with the spring time and is endeavoring to obtain funds for a fire alarm system. Matters generally through this section are very harmonious. Many buildings are being erected, and improvements made along lines of spiritual work; there we look for a great harvest. The members of Calloways Chapel M. E. Church are highly gratified to have their pastor, Rev. C. E. Queen, returned for another year. Sunday school met at 9:30 and had a large attendance. The lessons were well taught and questions answered with intelligence. At 11 o'clock Rev. W. H. Reid, a student at the Howard University, preached a very helpful sermon. Subject, "The Unseen Friend." The Rising Sun Tabernacle Order of Moses, celebrated their seventh thanksgiving service in Calloway M. E. Church. The church was crowded and were indeed honored with the sermon by the pastor from the text found in Numbers, 11th chapter, 17th verse: "And I will come down and talk with you there." In this life and character of Moses was set forth and a personal application made. It is hoped to have the desired effect. Tuesday evening the Woman's H. M. Society met at the parsonage and had a very pleasant meeting, and plans are being made for greater activity. Mrs. N. Ferguson president, Mrs. S. T. Hyson, secretary. We regret here to report the death of Miss Ellen Onesty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Onesty, who has been at home ill for several weeks, but seemed to be improving and took frequent walks. Her friends had hoped for her recovery. Sunday morning she dressed and was seated in the buggy for a drive, when suddenly she was attacked by a cough and the first and fatal hemorrhage was the result which in a very few minutes her life was ended, being borne from the vehicle to a couch in the parlor of her home, quietly passed into rest in the presence of Dr. E T. Moten, her parents and friends. She was a Christian, and a member of Mt. Salvation Baptist Church. Rev. C. S. Coleman, pastor. "Twenty Minutes In Hell." The most sensational play that has ever been put upon the stage is the one at the Majestic, "Twenty Minutes In Hell." Manager Frank Brown plays the leading role. Madame Brown, Billy Dement and others participate. The show this week is first class. Miss Louise Broughton and Mr. Brown are making a great hit. Miss Broughton is doing well. Emmett Anthony is a great fun maker in this new play. Miss'Ruby Harris is studying Lady Anne, and will no doubt make a great hit in the Duke of Gloucester. ANACOSTIA NEWS. By request of Rev. M. H. Davis of Campbell A. M. E. Chureh, I submit the following news for publication in your paper: On Thursday, April 16, 1914, the Law Students of the Senior Class of Howard University gave a Mock Trial at Campbell A. M. E. Church for the benefit of said church and was attended by a very large crowd. The case on trial was a suit for $25,000.00 as a result of a breach of promise to Katy Fainheart by Hezekiah Doo-little. Messrs. Thompson and Drury were the Plaintiff's Attorneys; and Messrs. Johnson and Buckner for the Defendant. The boys acquitted themselves well and received quite an ovation. The jury brought in a verdict after five minutes' deliberation for the full amount. After the trial the ladies of the Club known as "The Sons and Daughters of Campbell" gave the participants a collation. Judge Coleman presided and H. M. Daniels was Clerk of Court. On Friday, April 17, 1914, Emancipation Day was observed at Douglass Hall, under the auspices of an organization committee for a permanent Literary Society in Anacostia composed of the following members: Mr. B. T. Montgomery, chairman; Miss Nettie Wills, Mr. U. J. Banks. Miss Edna Brown, Lawyer Tignor, C. W., and Dr. R. H. Shipley. The choir of Campbell A. M. E. Church rendered a splendid program, Mr. J. Arthur Davis, A. B., LL B., author of "Reformation and Unity," gave an able address on "The Freedman's Religion and its Antipathy." Rev. M. H. Davis spoke on the "New Emancipation." Rev. C. H. Parker spoke very pointedly on "The Future of Our Race." A very large crowd was in attendance and the program received great applause. The people of Hillsdale are cultivating every available piece of land perhaps to solve the Height of the Cost of Living. Rev. M. H. Davis goes to the General Conference next week. All who know him wish his return as he is a very able minister. The Bee is on sale at Dr. Shipley's drug store. A Farewell. A farewell reception to Rev. I. N. Ross, pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Tuesday night, April 28, at 8 o'clock sharp, at the church. The public is invited to come and say goodbye. Free. A Box Party. Mrs. S. Holly gave a box party in honor of Mrs. Cornelius Stewart Winnipeg, Canada, Monday g. April 20, at Howard Theater. After the performance Mrs. Holly invited the gentlemen to meet the ladies at lunch and dance at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. U. W. Hall, 1940 Eleventh Street Northwest. Those present were: Judge and Mrs. Terrell, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bruce, Dr. and Mrs. Curtis, Dr. and Mrs. Dowling, Dr. and Mrs. A. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. U. W. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Bismark Pinchback, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pinchback, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Williams, Madames B. K. Bruce, Birch and Lincoln Johnson, C. Stewart, C. I. West, Ella Perry, G. Young, Messrs. Cobb, Neval Thomas, J. Clifford, Yarborough; Willis Mitchell. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS Frances Granderson, a colored woman, was qualified as a notary public for Elizabeth City County, Va., although the first colored woman to hold such a commission in this county, she was a notary in Richmond prior to this time. An order issuing from this city states both the Negro infantry and cavalry regiments are full at this time. A colored applicant in Logansport, Ind., has been rejected therefore. Unusual, but one playground in New York City, occupies a site that is valued at $1,800,000. The N. Y. News says a company with capital stock authorized at $500,000 has been formed to trade in Africa.. It is named the African Union Co. The company controls the mahogany trees on 4,900 square miles of Gold territory, estimated to number over 100,000 trees, the value of which is several millions of dollars. The main office of the company is in Brooklyn, N. Y. The oldest encyclopedia in existence is Pliny's "Natural History," consisting of 37 books and 2,493 chapters, treating on cosmography, astronomy, meteorology, geography, geology, botany, medicine, the arts and pretty nearly every other department of human thought known at that time. Pliny died 79 A.D. He collected his work in his leisure time while he was engaged in public affairs. His work was a very high authority in those days. Ashville, N. C., March 18th. Taz Rogers, a colored woodcutter, working near Greensboro, fell across a stump this morning while at work. He arose, picked up his ax and worked all day, only to fall dead that evening, on arriving at home. According to the coroner's examination he had worked all day with a broken neck. This case is supposed to be without precedent. Glad the colored Masons have decided to have a Masonic Temple of their own. Seven lodges have purchased the two houses at 204-206 131st Street New York, for $15,000. The Temple will be ready for occupancy in the Fall. George Andrews, of Bethel, Texas, a colored farmer, is worth $100,000. He is probably the only Negro stock holder and director of a white bank (the First National bank) at Bells, Texas. The colored people of Nashville, Tenn., started out in a ten days' campaign to raise $30,000 for a new Y. M. C. A. home, when the ten days ended $33,470.35 had been raised. John M. Green, head usher in St. Louis Union Station, has resigned after having had saved $10,000 in tips in the past ten years. The Russian empire comprises more than 25 languages and nationalities within its confines. Of its 163,000,000 population, less than 10,000,000 have never heard a gospel sermon. Granite is the parent rock from which all the rocks have been derived. It is the best rock of the world, being from two to ten times as thick as the united thickness of all other rocks. Granite is the lowest rock in the world's crust. Tuskegee institute was opened July 4, 1881, in a rented church, a mere shanty, with 30 pupils and one teacher. From then to now has been a marvelous work. A master mind is at the back. Japan has so much mountain land that only one-sixth of its land area is cultivated. Gov. Mayer, of St. Joseph, Mo., has appointed the board for the school for incorrigible Negro girls. All the members are white. The school will be located at Tipton. "Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty" Wednesday Evening, May 6, 1914, at 8 o'clock Following the annual conference of the Association which meets in Baltimore May 4th and 5th. SPEAKERS: Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford Senator Moses E. Clapp Prof. Joel E. Spingarn WHO IS YOUR DRUG-GIST? NEW Cor. 6. —which will when you will stores sell, ing right qu sure by comi— —Begin trade remaining a RECEIVE O WHOLLY R YOU WANT PRICES. —This is a f acquainted w ter yet ask y ANNOUNCE A Rising Colored The public is cordially invited and recitals, in dialect and language, lo poet whom the "Evening Star" refer of Washington," supported by Miss Howard University, and Miss Fanny mentas as follows: —At Tuesday, Colored Y. M. C. A., 12th, near T the "Ricks Foundation" (Home for Friday, Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. W. A. Taylor, pastor; auspices Mamie Banks, president, Mrs. W. A. Monday, Mt. Horeb Baptist Church, N. E. the "Star of Bethlehem Club." Mrs. Friday, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, The pastor; auspices of the "Willing Wor Mrs. Jernagin, vice president. Mr. Adams is arranging for app Wilmington, Del., and Norfolk, Va. General admission 15c; tickets on Mr. Adams' book of poems, en will be sold at each engagement th will receive a per centage on each book purchased of the author at 1200 U. F and 12th Sts. N. W. It is receiving SPECIAL NOTICE Mr. Adams' latest music compos Walls," an eight-page sacred song of by the publishers not later than May should not fail to get a copy of the song. Publishers price, 75c. WHY NOT DEAL AT THE NEW DRUG STORE Cor. 63d and Eastern Avenue (Chesapeake Junction) —which will open about APRIL When you want drugs or anything stores sell, you can make assurance ing right quality and right service by coming to our store. —Begin trading here with the in- remaining a customer only so lately. RECEIVE COURTEOUS TREATMENT WHOLLY RELIABLE GOODS; FIND YOU WANT, AND ARE SATISFYED PRICES. —This is a fair proposition. If you acquainted with us ask your neigh- ter yet ask your physician about us. H. EDGAR LEWIS Formerly with Tyree and Telephone 6 The forces of wrong, injustice and slavery are tireless. It, therefore, behooves those who believe in right, justice and freedom to offer ceaseless protest by every orderly, lawful and civilized method. WHY NOT DEAL AT THE NEW DRUG STORE Cor. 63d and Eastern Avenue, (Chesapeake Junction) —which will open about APRIL 1, 1914— When you want drugs or anything that drug stores sell, you can make assurance of securing right quality and right service doubly sure by coming to our store. —Begin trading here with the intention of remaining a customer only so long as you RECEIVE COURTEOUS TREATMENT; GET WHOLLY RELIABLE GOODS; FIND WHAT YOU WANT, AND ARE SATISFIED WITH PRICES. —This is a fair proposition. If you are not acquainted with us ask your neighbor, or better yet ask your physician about us. H. EDGAR LEWIS Formerly with Tyree and Co. Telephone Connections ANNOUNCEMENT. A Rising Colored Poet In Recital. Music is cordially invited to attend the following dialect and language, by Wellington Adams, at the "Evening Star" refers to as the "Paul Lawson," supported by Miss Olive Mae Wells, soprano, university, and Miss Fanny Lewis, in violin selection. —April— Tuesday, April 21st. M. C. A., 12th, near T Streets N. W., auspices of foundation" (Home for Unfortunate Colored Girl) Friday, April 24th. Avenue Baptist Church, Florida Avenue and Bob Taylor, pastor; auspices of the "Girls Sunshine" president, Mrs. W. A. Taylor, manager. Monday, April 27th. Baptist Church, N. E., Rev. J. T. Clarke, pastor, Bethlehem Club." Mrs. Hicks, president. Friday, May 1st. Avel Baptist Church, Third and I Sts. N. W., presidents of the "Willing Workers Club." G. Washington vice president. Music is arranging for appearances in Baltimore, Dell, and Norfolk, Va., during the month of May. Mission 15c; tickets on sale at the churches. Music book of poems, entitled "Lyrics of an H" at each engagement through the club members. Upper centeage on each book sold. The book other the author at 1200 U Street Northwest, or of N. W. It is receiving very favorable commendation. SPECIAL NOTICE TO MUSIC LOVERS. Music's latest music composition entitled "In the High-pit page sacred song of great drawing powers, others not later than May 1st. Soloists and singers to get a copy of this beautiful and soul-inducing price, 75c. The public is cordially invited to attend the following engagements and recitals, in dialect and language, by Wellington Adams, a rising colored poet whom the "Evening Star" refers to as the "Paul Lawrence Dunbar of Washington," supported by Miss Olive Mae Wells, soprano soloist of Howard University, and Miss Fanny Lewis, in violin selections. Engagements as follows: —April— Tuesday, April 21st. Colored Y. M. C. A., 12th, near T Streets N. W., auspices and benefit of the "Ricks Foundation" (Home for Unfortunate Colored Girls). Friday, April 24th. Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Florida Avenue and Bohrer Sts. N. W., Rev. W. A. Taylor, pastor; auspices of the "Girls Sunshine Club," Miss Mamle Banks, president, Mrs. W. A. Taylor, manager. Monday, April 27th. Mt. Horeb Baptist Church, N. E., Rev. J. T. Clarke, pastor; auspices of the "Star of Bethlehem Club." Mrs. Hicks, president. Friday, May 1st. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Third and I Sts. N. W., Rev. Jernagin, pastor; auspices of the "Willing Workers Club," G. Washington, president, Mrs. Jernagin, vice president. Mr. Adams is arranging for appearances in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., and Norfolk, Va., during the month of May. General admission 15c; tickets on the schedule. Mr. Adams' book of poems, entitled "Lyrics of an Humble Birth," will be sold at each engagement through the club members, as the club will receive a per centage on each book sold. The book otherwise may be purchased of the author at 1200 U Street Northwest, or of "Brentano's." F and 12th Sts. N. W. It is receiving very favorable comment. SPECIAL NOTICE TO MUSIC LOVERS. Mr. Adams' latest music composition entitled "In the City of Jasper Walls," an eight-page sacred song of great drawing powers, will be ready by the publishers not later than May 1st. Sploists and singers in general should not fail to get a copy of this beautiful and soul-inspiring sacred song. Publishers price, 75c. COLEMAN PARK Don't fail to read the advertisement of Coleman Summer Park, seen elsewhere in this week's Bee. This is one of the most delightful resorts in this city. Don't fail to select your dates. BABEK for Chills and Fever Keep 11ft Tour Medi- cal Chefs Few Sales by all Drugstores DOES YOUR HEAD ACHE? TRY LIFT FOR HEADACHE It's. liquid—Pleasant to Take. Effects immediate. Good to Prevent Sick Headaches and Nervous Headaches. 10c and 25c. Ask for a Dose at the Fountain. KLOCZEWSKI'S & CO., 701 G Street Northwest Pure Drugs and Chemicals. Prescriptions Compounded only by registered and reliable pharmacists. Perfumes and Toilet Articles. Satisfaction or money refunded. --- WHY NOT DEAL AT THE DRUG STORE 3rd and Eastern Avenue, (Chesapeake Junction) I open about APRIL 1, 1914— ant drugs or anything that drug you can make assurance of secur- ility and right service doubly long to our store. Being here with the intention of customer only so long as you SOURTEOUS TREATMENT; GET RELIABLE GOODS; FIND WHAT AND ARE SATISFIED WITH air proposition. If you are not with us ask your neighbor, or bet- our physician about us. E. EDGAR LEWIS Early with Tyree and Co. Telephone Connections INCEMENT. And Poet In Recital. To attend the following engagements by Wellington Adams, a rising colored to as the "Paul Lawrence Dunbar Olive Mae Wells, soprano soloist of Lewis, in violin selections. Engage- April April 21st. (Streets N. W., auspices and benefit of Unfortunate Colored Girls). April 24th. Florida Avenue and Bohrer Sts. N. W., of the "Girls Sunshine Club," Miss Taylor, manager. April 27th. Rev. J. T. Clarke, pastor; auspices of Hicks, president. May 1st. Gird and I Sts. N. W., Rev. Jernagin, Kers Club," G. Washington, president, occurances in Baltimore, Philadelphia, during the month of May. Sale at the chitches. Titled "Lyrics of an Humble Birth," rough the club members, as the club book sold. The book otherwise may be Street Northwest, or of "Brentano's," very favorable comment. CO MUSIC LOVERS. Edition entitled "In the City of Jasper great drawing powers, will be ready 1st. Sploists and singers in general is beautiful and soul-inspiring sacred BARNARD'S COMPLEXION CREAM BARNARD'S COMPLEXION CREAM AND SOAP Are the best beauty aids. 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During the winter cruising season beginning Dec. 1 and ending March 31 its little fleet has rendered assistance to nearly 1,000 persons and to several million dollars' worth of cargo and vessels. The cruising fleet was distributed as follows; At Eastport, Me., the Woodbury; at Portland, Me., the Androscoggin; at Boston, the Gresham; at Wood's Hole, Mass., the Acushnet; at New York, the Itasca; at Baltimore and in the Chesapeake bay, the Apache; at Norfolk, the Onondaga; at Wilmington, N. C., the Yamacraw. The Seneca was sent out from New York the middle of February to resume the north. Atlantic ice patrol, which [Image of a man in a military uniform]. KILLSWORTH P. BENTHOLP, CHIEF OF REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. she undertook last year. She was joined recently by the MiamiI. Their season will not end until about the 1st of June. These boats by an international agreement are making the patrol for the benefit of European nations as well as the United States. The first report to reach the treasury department is from the Onondaga, Captain B. M. Chiswell commanding. The Onondaga got the heaviest of the work, stood out to sea almost constantly, running into Norfolk only for coal. She patrolled over 200 miles of coast, from Cape Hatteras to the Delaware breakwater, where she met the Itasca, cruising out from New York. Frequently the trim little cutter was sent out hard under forced draft, nearly always in a raging storm and sometimes in a blinding blizzard or fog, in answer to wireless S. O. S. calls. Under forced draft she made from eighteen to nineteen knots. The Onondaga has a displacement of 936 tons, 205 feet length and 32 feet beam and a draft of 13 feet 6 inches. She carries four six-pounder rapid fire guns and has a complement of nine officers and sixty-three men. Captain Chiswell describes his work, day by day, of assisting eleven vessels, having on board 283 passengers. The vessels were valued at $1,004,000, and the cargoes $744,000. Three derelicts and the wreck of the Monroe were destroyed. The most valuable vessel assisted by the Onondaga was the American steamer Freida of New York, bound from Sabine Pass, Tex., for Baltimore, with a cargo of sulphur. The Freida grounded three miles of False Cape, Va., in a heavy fog, Dec. 24. The Onondaga happened to be nearby and quickly-reached the Freida and ran out a hawser and hauled her off. The schooner Augusta W. Snow was thrice reported in distress by as many passing steamers. The cutter, after thirty-two hours' search, found her helpless in a rough sea, with her ruder about to drop off, and towed her into Hampton Roads Jan. 7. On Jan. 15 the Onondaga was summoned to quell a mutiny on the barge Scully, off Sewall Point. An armed boat's crew boarded the barge, heard testimony on both sides and arrested the ringleader. On Jan. 25 she rescued the schooner Adam Wilson, which had sunk off Buckroe Beach, Va. The captain with his crew got away in a boat, but he was compelled to leave $2,600 in cash behind. The cutter righted the schooner and towed her into Hampton Roads, and the skipper recovered the money. On Jan. 26, while cruising off Cape Hatteras, the Onondaga was summoned by wireless to aid the schooner Warren Adams, in danger of being dashed ashore in a heavy gale. Within twenty minutes the cutter was alongside and towed her 120 miles to Hampton Roads. Many other stories of valuable service are told SPRING FEVER BULLETIN OUT. Rules For Diet and Dress to Counteract Lassitude. New York.—A list of instructions for the fighting of spring fever was issued by the Young Men's Christian association in a health bulletin for members. It urges first of all that "neither gin rickeys and highballs nor beer should be used as a cure for spring fever," adding that neither medicine nor alcoholic drinks of any kind can cure that malady. The real cause of the general lassitude of office folk these days, the bulletin asserts, is the clogging up of the body with food beyond the amount necessary to supply the proper amount of heat units. The bulletin urges the observation of these health rules: "Eat lightly. The body doesn't need the amount of food that it does in winter. "Exercise regularly. Help nature by training down. "The man with the paunch may look prosperous, but it's dollars to doughnuts he'd feel better without the abdominal hump. "Dress for the season. Discard your heavy winter clothing, but do it gradually. "Breathe in plenty of fresh air to wash the blood and help carry off waste. "Most people experience a distaste for fat foods at this season. It is a good thing. Shun fat foods. Your body doesn't need them. "Eat plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits. A tasty salad is more beneficial than steak." CAT SWIMS RIVER TWICE. Seemingly Lonesome When Owner Is Absent For a Few Days. Denver—Braving the waters of the Grand river rather than stay on a ranch-alone, Murphy, a Maltese tomcat belonging to Ad Hockett, a wealthy rancher of Dotsero, Colo., swam a mille when he was left on the ranch while Hockett went to Glenwood Springs on a business trip. The day after Hockett left his ranch Murphy went to the river bank, where he sat for an hour and then swam the stream to the opposite side, where he sought company at a neighboring ranch. Four days later, when Hockett returned and found Murphy missing, he began a search for his mascot. Standing on the river bank, he saw his cat swimming back. When Murphy reached the shore he jumped on his master's shoulder. At the point where Murphy swam the river the stream is treacherous, and several men have been swept down the stream by the swift current. Bears Signatures of Those Who Fought Behind Cotton Bales. New Orleans.—Interest in the slumbering cotton bale theory of the battle of New Orleans has been aroused by the finding of a water color picture map of the original battle plan in an abandoned trunk in the cellar of a hotel. Little is known about the drawing or the other contents of the trunk, which has remained unnoticed for years in a dark corner. Five veterans of the battle had added their signatures to the remarkable map to attest the fact that it is a true representation of the battle plan as made under the direction of Andrew Jackson by his military engineer, H. Lacotte. It shows a line of cotton bales, which a marginal note says was 1,000 feet long, with a prolongment extending 600 feet into the woods. Some historians deny the story about the use of cotton bales. The five veterans who say they fought behind cotton bales were Joseph St. Cyr, Jean Lamonthe, P. M. Laplice, Charles Raymond and Jear Gervals. Pen pictures of these men appear in the footnotes. A full view of the Chalmette field is given, and the veteran draftsmen have set forth the placing of the different commands and the plan of attack and defense. It is thought the map and the trunk in which it was found were the property of a former patron of the hotel who took "French leave." EXILE DIED IN 104TH YEAR. Baron de Turckheim Was an Intimate Friend of Chopin. Montreux, Switzerland.—Baron Ferdinand de Turckheim, a French Alsatian exile since the Prussian conquest died here in his one hundred and fourth year. He was an intimate friend of Chopin and celebrated his one hundred and third birthday on March 31 by playing some manuscript pieces presented to him by the composer. Baroness de Turckheim, who was born in 1819 and to whom he was married in 1843, is still living and was at her husband's bedside when he died Girl Poisona Two Wolves. Mountain Home, Ark.-Miss Anna Adams, daughter of E. E. Adams of Big Flat, poisoned two wolves a few nights ago that had killed a goat for her the day before. She put poison in the carcass, and next morning when she went out to see the results there were two black timber wolves stretched out dead. The larger of the pal weighed eighty-four pounds. National Religious Training Schoo THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRADITION Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation. 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. PARAGRAPHIC NOTES: Steamer Washingtonian struck a 600 pound 10 foot turtle in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the biggest turtle any member of the crew has even seen. The birthday of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the great Negro Poet, was celebrated in Chicago, March 18. We are hoping the time will soon come when his Birth will be celebrated all over the country. The Negro town of Mount Bayou, Miss, is very much alive. A colored woman presides as postmistress of the post office. The progress made is shown by the receipts from March 1912 to March 1913. Money orders issued, $67,776.22; fees, $539.40; on postal accounts, 3,607.44; sale of stamps, $3,337.51; from newspapers, $41.88; box rents, $227.50. Certificates amounting to $343 were issued in the postal savings department. Washington has at last awakened to the necessity of establishing business enterprises and patronizing race establishments; $20,000 in the last two years has been invested in business in You Street alone, from Ninth to Fourteenth Streets. Printing shops, cafes, tailor shops, drug stores, barber shops, cleaning and dyeing, haberdashery, picture framing, shoe store, jewelry store, millinery store, cigar stand, and photograph parlors are some of the investments which now line You Street. The Industrial Savings Bank recently established in this city was lately examined by the Government Bank Examiner and complimented by him on its excellent condition. Hon. Ralph W. Tyler is doing a great work of uplift, in his tour of the South and West as national organizer for the National Negro Business League. He has greatly impressed our people with the necessity of being organized along all lines in order to accomplish the best results. Negro makes highest average. An average of 99.66 per cent was recently made by a Negro clerk, C. A. Palmer, in the Norfolk, Va., post office. A Cincinnati, O., white woman, who recently died, is said to have left $500,000 for the industrial wealth of the Negro. She was led to do this by the appeal of her washerwoman. A Negro is a person of African blood (much or little) about whom men of England descent tell only half the truth, and because of whom they do not act with frankness and sanity, either toward the Negro or to one another—in a word, about whom they easily lose their common sense, their usual good judgment, and even their powers of accurate observation. The Negro in América, therefore, is a form of insanity that overtakes white men.—Walter H. Page, Ambassador to England. Mothers from all the civilized countries of the world will meet in this city April 22 to 27 to attend the third international congress on the welfare of the child. The Mutual Savings Bank of Portsmouth, Va., a colored institution, is doing a thriving business. the trolley cars in Hazelton, Pa., were operated April 9th for the first time since January, 1914, when the trolley employees went on a strike. Mrs. Alice M. Dunbar is president of the Woman's Suffrage Club, organized by colored women of Wilmington, Del. The editor of the Literary Digest, Mr. William Seaver Wood, is a Methodist layman. President Poincare, of Paris, instead of taking a dog out with him has a cat, Siamese breed, that follows him around. He detests dogs, his reason being that they suggest hunting, and hunting, he claims, is slaughter. One million Bibles were bought the first six months of this year by Chinese. The Okmulgee colored schools were ordered closed, but Prof. W. H. Ford, principal of the colored schools there, refused to obey orders, contending THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL House & Herrmann of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house hat will satisfy you. 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Ceruti, the world's renowned Hair Cultivist, Demonstrator and Authority on Human Hair, was awarded the Bronze Medal at the Jamestown Exposition, 1907, for skill in hair work. Madame G. A. Box Sample of Comb may will be received and C that the teachers hold contracts issued by the city board of education; that, although the fund is low they are to stay.open as long as the white schools do. It is thought that the matter will be adjusted. Fanny Crosby, the noted and most popular hymn writer, who has been blind since she was but a few weeks old, was ninety-four years old March 24. Miss Lillian V. DeShields will leave Babylon, N. Y., this week for this city to attend the Passover of her church. J. G. Groves and his eight sons, of Eudora, Kan., own a 500-acre farm. He is known as the Negro potato king. Last year the output of his farm was fifty-five thousand bushels of potatoes. THE VACANT CHAIR. Dedicated to Miss Mattie R. Bowen, by Rev. L. C. Moore. The voice we can no more hear, For the earth has hidden the face. The vacant chair is here in sight, But the one we loved has gone, To the plains of everlasting light, And left us in this world to moan. When a calm breeze presses our head And a voice invisible began to speak, Think of the one that's gone, not dead, But walking one the golden street. The vacant chair is a reminder Wait dear one for we are coming, To see you on that peaceful shore, It may be eve or in the morning, We soon will meet to part no more AMONG THE LAWYERS. Attorney L. M. King has removed There are special scholarships for deserving young men women, in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The next Summer School, and Chautauqua will open July 3, 1912. For further information and catalogue, address PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD. & Her and Eye Sts., N BT ABOUT YOUR Furniture House and Herrmann is the place r house of its kind in the city n be satisfied. This is will satisfy you. TEN YOUR A Comb, $3.00 Ceruti, 105 F. New x19, Station J, New YorkC may be secured at The Bee office, wh Comb promptly delivered. from 1111 You Street Northwest to Sixth and Louisiana Avenue North- west. Two large spacious office rooms. Attorney Joseph H. Stewart has removed from 509 F Street North- west to larger rooms in the Lewis Building, Sixth and Louisiana Avenue Northwest. Attorney A. W. Gray has removed from the third to the second floor at 600 F Street Northwest. Rooms farmerly occupied by the late Attorney W. L. Pollard. Attorney Thomas L. Jones is thinking about going to Bermuda Island some time soon. Attorney Harry Cumming arrived in the city from Baltimore, Md., Monday. He is looking fine. Assistant United States Attorney James A. Colb is being complimented on all sides on his good work in the United States Attorney's office. Attorney Thomas Walker is one of the most successful civil lawyers at the bar. Attorney John E. Collins thinks much and says little. Attorney W. L. 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So- ciety turned out in all of its beauty and brilliancy, The gowns warn by many of the ladies were equal to those worn by the ladies who display- ed them upon the stage in The Ren- naissance Players. The boxes and orchestra were scenes of beauty, re- finement and culture. Mrs._ Curtis occupied a conspicuous position in one of the upper boxes, while many others showed to an advantage in the lower boxes. Dr. Curtis, Correspon- dent Thompson and wife, Assistant Superintendent of Schools Roscoe C. Bruce and wife, Dr. John R. Francis, Jr., and wife, Miss Gonevia B. Max- field, Miss ‘Ethel Marchant, Miss Blennie Bruce, Miss Brooks, were among those who occupied box seats. ‘Among those conspicuous in the or- chestra were Mr. Wm. H. Bruce, Miss Nettie Jones, Mrs. Daniel Freeman and wife, Misses Ada_and Virginia Williams, Prof. J. D. Baltimore and wife, Mrs. Phillips and son, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Brooks, Prof. Geo. W. Cook and wife, Dr. Milton Francis, Prof. Glenn and hundreds of others. ‘The'scenery was painted by Messrs. W. D. Nixon and S. D. Milton. 11 ws the work of master artists, The former was the stage manager and the latter was business manager. Mrs. Laura B. Glenn was the make- up artist as well as the costume de- signer. The play was most interesting an¢ dramatic. Special mention and credit must be-given to Mr. Nathanjel Guy. He is ‘a_most finished artist and if he continues he will rank with some o} the greatest actors of this age. Hi: death scene in the last act was mos! natural, Philip D'Arville, “The Com mon Enemy.” Mr. Albert G. Knor! showed to a greater effect in Ac HII, Scene 2. He was quite natural ir this act and scene, more so than it any other part of his acting. He ha: a most excellent voice, but has no the art of portraying a scheming vil lain. He will improve with age an Practice, Miss Adelaide Wormlcy Cardozo as Julia Spring, demonstrated hersel as a most finished artist She wa natural ‘and entertaining. She wil sah 3 3 a ae Pa ex.4 % we PS igae equal-any American lady upon the Mr, Andrew Adze. in search of a wife, Mr. G. Etienne, Duurloo. cre- ated merriment and ‘applause. Only in one iustance did he falter, but be= fore the audience discovered it, he was himself. So slight, it.was, that it was not detected. Mrs. Emily Janefer Taylot, as Mary Woodward, Mile's sweetheart, assumed this char- acter like a finished artist. She read her lines correctly and distinctly. She entered upon her work with such a natural air, perfectly imbyed_ with her character. A little change in her mouth expression would add greatly to her impersonation. Mr. Walter S. Hanna as Stephen, valet to. D*Arville, was fair. Mr. Willis M. Menard as Trevanior could have thrown more life in his defense of Mary Woodward in the revelry scene, when Mary Woodward ap- pealed for help and assistance from any of the: revelers. His liegiining was fame and his climax awkward. ‘Mr. J. R. Carter Cook, with a lit- tle more study could have shone with brilliancy. His _ pleadings to Mary was not sufficiently sympa- thetic. The eye expression was not or an ae F stsee ae * ES an aaa ee cess : ca eee a moe : = a cals cB eres “A. hae eS: se eas . 8 eo ec ss a s sympathetic cnough. He will improve with age and study. On a whole he did well. 7 Master Athos Barrington Guy is a Tittle wonder. | He electrified that ‘vast audience to a deafening applause. Miss Edna Gray, as Mrs. Stapleton, was very good. Miss Gray never falls to please. She destroyed, to an extent, the effect of her rebuke to her neice, Mary Woodward, when she tried and could not suppress a smile. This perhaps was only no- ticed by the writer. Miss Lillian Evans’ make-up was faultless. She was the prettiest fe- male upon the stage, and one of the qnost graceful. Her Spanish dance was good, but in her solo, her voice Yas not strong enough to enable those in the extreme rear to hear with satisfaction. She is unassum- ing, as well as the personification of dignity., an Miss Catherine Davidge in the mandolin solo, was appreciated. Mr, E. Clayton Terry, in song, was not received with enthusiasm. Mr. John Percival Taylor and Miss Louise Antoinette Guy in the Hesi- tation waltz and Fish waltz were perfection. Both of these artists, with thore in the Tango, cannot be surpassed. | The Play, “The Common Enemy,” an Adaptation, The plot hinges about the life and being of one Philip D’Arville, whose sojourn in the North has accomplish- ed nothing save a heightened desire for the beautiful girls seen through- out the cities and towns. Michael Erle, a harmless idiot, who has been deprived of reason through the villianies of D'Arville, is a pic- turesque figure of the play, every line of which, is but a thread leading to the development of a plot teaching a lesson wholesome in its conception and design. The conscienceless D'Arville goes ‘to the extent of inviting to his home many of his servants’ friends to have them celebrate with him his latest ad- venture. These self-styled guests en- tertain the master of the mansion with songs, music and dancing. The beautiful singing, the grace and thythm of the dancing captivates his imagination completely. In the meantime, the relatives of the girl have been informed of her supposed clopement with D’Arville. The shame is keenly felt by those at home and on her arrival, after the escape from her persecutor, she is promptly refused its protecting shel- ter. D'Arville, with ‘fiendish _ tenacity, seeks her even there and is all but successful, when in her utter despair, | Mary calls for Michael Erle, the only witness to her abduction. ‘The cry | of a woman in danger recalls his | scattered senses and, rushing in, saves ] the situation. In placing the “Common. Enemy” | before the public Mr. Guy “has at. | tempted to please the public regard. Hiess of what his personal ambitions | might be. This “Adaptation” when "| presented will be the first romantic {drama attempted by our people. Tf accepted, it will pave the way for plays of the same style acted by the +] greatest actors of the times, and, yet, | allow those of us who possess tatent, | portray the emotions and higher as: '| pirations of those whom we are prone to see in caracaturé only. . ‘The Players, Philip D'Arville, “The Common Enemy"—Albert G. Knorl. Michael Erle, a harmless idiot— " Nathaniel Guy. : \ "Miles Melville, in fove with Mary— JR. Contee Cook. Andrew Adze, in search of a wife— G Etienne Duurloo. {_ Stephen, valet to D'Arville—Wealter Hanna. ; Trevanion—Willis M. Menard. Chico, Mary's little brother—Atho: | Barrington Guy. , Mary Woodward, Miles’ sweetheart —Emily Janefer Taylor. Julia’ Spring, Mary’s cousin fron Boston—Adelaide Wormley Cardoza | Mrs. Stapleton—Edna Guy. Revelers, dancers, singers, market .| people, villagers. ete—Ruth Grim -|shaw, Jesse Janefer, Tearl Lewis -| Marjorie Bailey. Louise — Antoinett >| Guy, John ‘Percival Taylor, Benjamir | Hunton, J. R. Contee Cook, Marjori t] Wormley, Helen Moore, Rachel E -|Guy, Jewel Janefer. Mayme Sim | mons, z Special Features. 1} _Somw and Spanish Dance—Lillia ¢| Evans. * a} Mandolin—Catherine Davidge. 1) Song—E. Clayton Terry. r| Hesitation Waltz and Fish Waltz y| John Percival Taylor. Louise Antoi nette Guy. 5 ‘Associated Players. :| Zeta Dyson, Rosa Coleman, Em i]ma Lee Williams, Minnie Wilson e| Ray Farley, Agnes Davis, Vasht y| Turley, Chas. Ferguson, Robert An -|derson, Harriet “Edmonds, Enol | McDaniels, Scottrosa Montgomery s| Edith Wright Tancil, Marguerit .| Ferguson, Mable Jackson. -| On behalf of The Rennaissanc e] Players, Mr. E. Clayton Terry ex o|tended their thanks to Manage -| Frank Brown, of the Majestic theate tjand informed that great audienc that Mr. Brown had done a#~in hi: -| power to make their play a succes: j| and, he would ask that the peopl give him their patronage and encour {}agement. This was received witl loud applause. On a whole these players desery the highest praise, regardless’ of th characters or’ positions cach held Everybody worked in ‘unity and de cision, which is an evidence what col ored American talent .can do if- a1 A GREAT EFFORT AND A LONG FIGHT. 5 Correspondence Between the Attor- ney and Department of Justice. In the issve of The Bee of date of December 21, 1912, the editor, under the caption, “Is "Norman Guilty.” published an article. He did this af- ter a thorough examination of the record of the trial of this man’s cause, in company with James H. Smith, at2 torney for Norman. The Bee became decply interested in Norman's case after reading this record, and strongly impressed by the zeal nianifested by, Mr. Smith in the justice of his client's cause. We tried by personal effort to get word to—or speech with, the then President Taft —for we believed that could we ap- prise nim of the facts in Norman's case, clemency would be at once granted him. We believed this, by the broad exercise of justice which had been shown by President Taft, all through his entire administration. But our efforts were futile The pa- pers filed and pleas made, for speech with the President, went to the At- torney General. From him to the Pardon Attorncy, and there rested. city, as-his attorney, else he might still be locked within the prison walls of Leavenworth, instead of breathing the free air of liberty, in the District of Columbia, as he is now doing to- day. ‘This lawyer espoused this man’s cause in 1904 under President Roose- velt’s administration, and filed an ap- plication for clemency. The papers were referred to the Trial Judge and Prosecuting Attorney and they re- ported adversely. No further action was taken. Mr. Smith renewed his application for Norman's pardon un- der President Taft's administration, and he sought the Trial Judge and |. Prosecuting Attorney, to let him! have speech and file a brief with them before they had reached any conclu- sion, in or on the renewed applica- tion of Lawrence Norman for pardon. Promising that he would use nothing in his presentation, but the evidence adduced by the Government in Nor- man’s trial. This they consented to do, and he made his presentation of this case before these gentlemen. On the ist of September, 1911, Judge Anderson notified Norman's attorney that he had on that day recommen- ded favorably this man’s application for pardon and on the same day Judge Gould (who was prosecuting fattorney at the trial) did the same. Notwithstanding the fact, that both trial judge and prosetuting attorney had favorably recommended Nor- man’s pardon—this case was adverse- ly reported by Pardon Attorney and clemency denied. ‘Mr. Smith wrote ex-President Taft a letter April 15, 1913, calling his at- tention to the case of Lawrence Nor- man, apprising him of the facts in it, and stated in his letter “that had he, Judge Taft, been advised of the facts, that he never could, not never would, | have denied him clemency. On April 17, 1913, ex-President | Taft replied as follows: “William H. Taft, New Haven, Conn. . April iz, 1913. My Dear Mr. Smith: : I have your letter of April 15. I |am very sorry you think I have done any injustice to Norman. The case Jis one that I recollect. not much | about, in the number of cases I had | to pass on, but the present Attorney General and the present President are | men who are within the reach of rea- | son, and I doubt not will respond | should you bring the matter before | thein and convince them of the injus- | tice yourclaim to have been donc || Norman, Sincerely yours, (Signed) WM, H. TAFT.” James H. Smith again renewed his {efforts for Norman’s liberty under the present administration, In_ the | carly part of the month of July, 1913, he received the following described | letter and circular: : R. W, McClaughry, | ‘ Warden. - Department of Justice, - : United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, ‘Kansas, June 28, 1913, | Mr. James H. Smith, Att'y at Law, Ant th St. N. W.. Washington : D.C Dear Sir: : | Lhave read your fetter of June 7th .| to Lawrence Norman, (No. 6133) whe is serving a life sentence for niurder 1] know nothing about the facts in .| this case, whether he is guilty or not Jand if guilty, whether there are any :| extenuating circumstances in his case {but Ido know that Lawrence Nor -| than has rendered service to the Gov: {ernment as a prisoner that it is en: ‘| tirely proper in my opinion, for th Government to take it into considera: tion and in deciding upon his quali 1| ties as a prisoner and allowing it te weigh heavily ‘in the direction o granting him such clemency as may materially shorten his sentence, an¢ -| restore him to society. Therefore, | -|have felt warranted in leaving be hind me, as I retire from this service my convictions in his case, to he -| placed before the authorities who may .{ he called upon-to consider him fo i] clemency. -| I have thought the best plat 1] would he for me to send this state "| ment to yourself, as Norman's ator {| ney, in order that you may be th representative to urge his release. | s| believe that Norman’ has learned th -| lesson of his life; that punishmen: r|itas had a reformatory effect upor r|hhim and that his natural disposition 2|to be faithful and honest, having | been tested in one or two emergen , | cies, has won the victory for his man :| hood and that,.unless he should fal -| by example’ or evil influences of a1 ;| extraordinary character, his after lif will be one that will secure for hin | the commendation of his fellow cit >| izens. és "|. He is an excellent workman in hi -|.line, and unless he falls under drink - | will’ have no. difficulty in commandin; ;| wages sufficient to keep him. de Waele See Department of Justice, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, June 28, 1913. To Whom It May Cincefn: ‘On retiring from the charge of this penitentiary, I desire to leave on rec- ord this testimonial to the faithful- ness and fidelity of Lawrence Nor man, (No. 6133), who is now serv- ing a life sentence. He was received here July 4, 1903, by transfer from Moundsyille,’ West Virginia, penitentiary, having ‘served in that institution since December 5, 1902. He was sent originally from Washington, D. C., for murder. After his arrival at this penitentiary he was for a time troublesome and on the 2ist of February, 1910, was Punished for disorderly conduct, re ising to eat food given him, and talking in an insolent and insubordi- nate manner. He was given four days solitary confinement. I had a tong tas with fim after this punish- ment, and he seemed to come to the conclusion that he would turn over a new leaf. Since that occasion I have had to speak to him but once, and then for smoking out of the regular order. < In 1913 he was the prisoner chiefly depended upon at the Boiler House by the Chief Engineer, having served as a “trusty” since September 2, 1910. The explosion of a steam pipe one night left the power house, except for Norman's services, helpless. He stood in the fire and’ smoke imper- illing his own safety, and kept boil ers properly served, thus preventing great trouble and possibly great dis- aster to the entire plant of the peni- tentiary until the Chief Engineer could be brought from shis home in the city to look after ‘the boilers. After he, the Chief Engineer, had reached here, his chief dependence for gaining control of the sitiation was Norman. Since that time on one or two occasions Norman has been re- lied upon in case of emergency when his services were of untold value in preventing serious harm to the steam plant, and wherever placed he has done his duty with the utmost care and faithfulness. A man, who serving a life sentence and amid the depressing influence of such a sentence in such a place, will show fidelity and courage and devo- tion to the interest of the Govern- ment, has surely something in him that will warrant the Government. in giving his case very close attention and very complete consideration. His course has caused me to notice him carefully, and I am of the opinion that. the conduct shown by this pris- oner will warrant the Government in setting the date of his parole at an garligr date tan fifteen years provi ded by the law, and if necessary, to fecilitate his release by pardon, ‘be: cause a man showing such qualities may be depended upon to live the life of 2 good citizen after such encour. agement. Respectfully, - (Signed) R. W, McGLAUGHRY, Warden, U.S.P. Armed with .these papers, Mr. Smith renewed his efforts for Nor- man’s liberty. He sought the assist. ance of Mr. Henry E. Davis to get these papers to the personal attention of the Attorney General, which wa: gladly done. On March 11th, 1914 the Department of Justice telegraph: ed to the warden of Leavenworth prison to release Norman at once He was released from this prison af ter all of these years of ‘servitude with buta $5 bill in his pocket—a pris on suit of clothes on his back and < ticket to Washington to begin. life— | de novo. He is here now. Sough | and obtained work as an engincer it |a business house in this district anc is making good. The editor and pro prictor of this paper has becom stronely impressed with the fact after his experience in this case: Tha’ the Federal Government badly need a Beard of Pardons as in most of th States. That such vast power shoul not rest in the hands of one subordi | nate officer of the Government. Thi Vardon Attorney, which is the prac tical result, under the present sys | tem. Washington.—Designs for new paper money, tu be issued under the currency act, have been prepared by experts of the bureat of engraving and print- fog for submission to John Skelton ‘Williams. ‘This money may, not,be needed tor montlis, but Director Ralph will have tho desizns ready within a few days, and as soon as Mr. Williams has se cured the approval of Secretary Mc- Adoo plates will be made and a few millions will be printed. There will be three kinds of new currency—ove for emergency purposes, suceceiling tle present but never used emergency currency; one for federal reserve banks fssued against United Btates bonds, with the circulation priv: Alege, and the third one-year gold notes, to be Issued to reserve banks ngainst United States bonds, but not to have elreulation privileze. ‘These desizns contemplate the pres- ent size vf paper moncs, although the plan of the Taft adwinistration for smaller bills may be reflected in fu: ture issues. ‘The law authorizes notes of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100, Present designs would bave the five dollar note bear the portrait of Lincoln, the ten dollar note that of Cleveland, the twenty dol: lar note that of Jefferson and the fifty dollar note that of Grant Varled phases of human activity are depicted on the backs of the notes. As provided by law, currency issued to particular reserve banks will beat serial numbers ag distinguishing marks. $53 FROZEN IN ICE CAKE. Pocketbook Found by Cutter In New Jersey Pond. ‘Whippany, N. J.—While cutting ice on a pond near his farm here Edwin Sanderson came across a black object frozen Into one of the squares of ice which he was hauling to bis store house. After cutting away the ice he found a purse containing $53 In bills and 48 cents In change. Oa a postal Inside, addressed to “Lillian off man,” were the lines: “Yours till the ponds of bades freeze over and the little derils go skating.” It was signed “Charlle." No one in this section knows “Lillian Hoffman," and {t 1s thought the pocketbook bad been carried down the Passale river and backed up iu oue of the streams here which feed Sanderson's pond. Upen Sundays 7 a. m. to 6:15 p.m LEE’S LUNCH ROOM Geo, H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W. seis ise and om Washington, D. C, PROPOSE CHANGES IN CONSTITUTION Most of ie Forty Areva Promptly Rejected. SUFFRAGE 1s IW THE LEAD, Liquor, Judiciary, Monopoly and Elec- | tions Affected by the Bills—Doolittle Has Plan For Recall of Judicial Do- cisions by Legislatures — Theorists Ride Hobbies. Wasblogton.—The agitation tn con- gtess for the passage of a resolution submitting to the states an equal suf- frage amendwent to the federal const tution bas directed attention to the many attempts that are being made to change or supplement (he fundamental low of the land. Every now and then a resolution of this character ts drop- ped into the hopper in concress, but it snot until the entire batch ts collected find 1ald out in reviei that one ts tm-| pressed. with thelr real significance. There have been periods of unrest and agitation before, but never bas such a varlety of chanxes been pro- posed to congress ns now. Many offi- clals in Washington even would be surprised to learn that there are forty resolutions pending before congress providing for changes in the federal constitution. ‘The amenders want to change almost eversthing—the executive, legislative ‘and, judicial departments of the gov- ernment—and they want to write fnto the fundamental law also a good many ‘things that cannot be {uterfered with by any-part of the government. They want to settle things for all tlme, and the strange feature is that many of the proposed changes were-considered by the fathers and rejected as out of har. mony with ‘the sebeme of government which thes were seeking to establish. _ Of-all the propositions of this charac- ‘ter now hefore congress that of Repre- ‘sentative Doolittle of Kansas {s prob- ably the most unique. He proposes to amend article 5 of the federal constitu- ton, He has a method for the recall of Ju- dicial decisions by referendum to the state legislatures and not to the peo ple. Mr, Doolittle {s 2 Democrat and a direct descendant of the first colonial governor of Virginia. Representative Lafferty, Democrat, from Orezon, suggests an amendment by which proposed amendments to the constitution may be submitted to the states by a majority vote of the two housés of congress and be ratified by two-thirds of the states. Representative Hardwick of Georgia Proposes the repeal of the Sfteenth amendment stn all after the frst sen- tence in the fourteenth amendment, so that all he would have remain of those two celebrated amendments would be the declaration that “all persons born or nuturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof ate citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.” Another group of proposed constitu tlonal amendments ts directed at the courts. [Representative Cullop, Demo. erat, from Indiana, proposes that all judzés of the supreme court of the United States shall be elected at a presidential cleetfon, four of .whom shall serve for four years and five for eight years, After that first election the term of the Judges shall be elght years. The court shall elect a chief justice, clerk and marshal, and their terms shall be four years, Representative Hull of ‘Tennessee proposes to amend the constitution and give congress power to abolish any in ferlor court of the United States and to remore any judges of such courts by two-thirds vote of both bouses, Representative Raker of California, Democrat, proposes an amendment thal the judiclal power‘of the United States shall not be construed to extend to an3 sult In law or equity commenced o1 prosecuted against ahy state by citl | zens of another statd or by citizens or subjects of a forelgn state or by reason | of the eltizenship of any corporation. ‘Mr. Kaker wants to keep the Japa- nese question out of the United State: courts and leave that whole question to California. Representative Nelson of Wisconsin Republican, wants an amendment giv. ing congress the power to define, pre vent and suppress monopolies, com: binations and ugreements In restraint of trade. Representative Edmonds, a tepub Hean from Philndelphia, suggests that Congress be empowered to establish uniform laws of marriage and divorce and provide penalties for violation of the same, Representative Peters, a Democrat of Massachusetts. proposes to-give con gress the power to regulate the busi | ness or commerce of Insurance through j oat the United States and Its terri tories and possessions. FARM WAGES OF $3,500,000,000 United Stats Treasurer burke Due This Amount Now. ° AGREEMENT MADE YEARS AGO Farmer Promised “Johnny” All the Money That Had His Name on It Now His Name Appears on All Bank- notes—Thousands Printed Each Day at Washington. New York.—John Burke, United States treasurer, made a bargain near- ly Atty years ago by which be was to be pafd a bonus om his services for work done at that time, when there seemed little hope of its fuldiiment. ‘When Chester Ferry has fulfilled his part of the contract with Mr. Burke ho will make the latter easily the rich- est man in the world, says the Tribune of this city. Burke hired out when a boy not yet ten years old to husk corn for a neigh- boring farmer and recelved for his pay the small sum of 50 cents a day. ‘When the time came for bls employer ‘to pay him for bis season's work Ferry sald: “Johnny, 1 want you to know that what I can afford to give you now for your work I regard as Insufficient pay. Tam sure you will think that you have earned more, for you have been dlll- gent and painstaking and have never complained. So while I cau pay you | only 50 cents a day for your time I'l agree to hand over to you In the future all the money you can show me with | your name on it.” é | “I accepted his proposition,” says Ae. Batis, “boty gare litte can- alderation during’the intervening years until the beginning of the present ad- ministration, when I became treasurer of the United States. ‘Then the episode came to mind, and I have written to Mr. Ferry, reminding him of his obli- gations.” ‘This Is the letter In part: When we lived neighbors on adjoining farms in German township and T was & ttle mite of ten you frequently em= ployed me in corn husking and corn plant- Ing times and on vartous other occasions for Which services you paid me 6) cents day. You will remember, however, that | at the tIme of settlement you assured mo that you were not certain that 2 cents Was a suMcient remuneration for my serv- [rages eatin fe ar of % cents a day you were to turn over , tome all the money tha you got with my | name on it, which agreeinent was perfect- | ly satisfactory to mo and was duly nc- cepted at the time | Fearing that you may have forgotten this obligation ‘on account of lapse of thne, T am calling your attention to It | now; for of course I, know that alt that Ie I necessary for ine to do Is simply to eall | your attention to it, that your part of the Agreement will be falthfuily Kept. ‘The bureau of engraving prints Mr. Burke's name on 1,080,000 notes of the | United States currency u day. In add tion to this vast daily Inereasiug obll- gation on the part of the farmer, Mr. Burke has signed his uame to a num: ber of $10,000 certificates. _ Mt this rate the Inreau of engraving | brlnts currency ectring hits name to the | amount of $2876,000 a day, while by | the end of his ter as treasurer will net lilm $3,500,000,000 should he be for- tunate enough to realize upon bis | youthful Investment. INCREASING .POTATO CROP. Growers Pay Too Little Attention to ‘Ges Good Thaw thes Washington.—The American potato’ frower Is charged with paying too lt-. tle attention to the selection of secd potatoes by the department of agricul ture In a statement declaring that by the use of high grade seed the returns from the crop would be increased by many millions of dollars. ‘The Increase that might be expected from the use of high grade sced fs con- servatively estimated at not less than 10 per cent. Such an Incrense, based on the average production or the aver- age produgtion of the last five years, says the statement, would amount to ‘over 34,000,000 bushels, havin an ap- ‘proximate value of $21,000,000. Of the many causes which operate to produce a low average putato yield In the United States, it is pointed out, Im- pure seed {s an important one. Euro- pean potato growers, espetially those of Great Britain and Germany, pay the strictest attention to the quality of the seed used. FIRST FULL BATH WHEN 72. Civil War Vet Ordered ta Take One Is Aporehensive. Sandusky, O.—Accordivg to Sergeant S. N. Cooke of Cottage Mack, State Soldiers’ home, a veteran from neat Urbana, admitted the other day, sighed when usheted Into the receiving bar- racks anteroom to await bis turn to the barracks bath and remarked; “Well, I'm seventy-two years old, and this 1s golng to be the first time I ever took a regular out and out bath.” ‘The old man made no effort to con- ceal a feeling that if he survived the first operation he might try It again accordlag to Sergeant Cooke. Women Oppose Smoking. Portland, Ore—Because they say cigar and cigarette smoke In the city ball and courthouse, where they go to register, makes them sick, Portland women have started a move for a city ordinance forbidding smoking in pub- Ie bulldings. Wanted 10,000 Men, Women and Children to take HARRIS NEW BLOOD TONIC It Will do the Rest 50 cents per Bottle HARRIS CHEMICAL COMPANY and All Leading Drug Stores Third and F Streets, Southwest Serial No. 4396 THE ONLY PLACE OPEN FOR EXCURSIONS AND PICNICS This Season. ADAM'S ELECTRIC West Annapolis, Md., 90 minutes ride from city and A. Electric Railroad. This beautiful park of 10 acres is magnificently ground near Annapolis, surrounded on three sides fine shade, constant cool breezes, large pavillion, swings, steam launches for seeing the historic scenery crabbing, fishing, etc. ELECTRIC PARK minutes ride from city, on the W. B. res is magnificently located on high sided on three sides by salt water, s, large pavillion, flying horses, the historic scenery, and boats for ) people. bounds and new station for passen- the creek. ulars call or drop a postal to Jas. Hours 4 to 7 P. M. ADAM'S ELECTRIC PARK West Annapolis, Md., 90 minutes ride from city, on the W. B. and A. Electric Railroad. This beautiful park of 10 acres is magnificently located on high ground near Annapolis, surrounded on three sides by salt water, fine shade, constant cool breezes, large pavillion, flying horses, swings, steam launches for seeing the historic scenery, and boats for crabbing, fishing, etc. New dining room seating 40 people. Electric lights over entire grounds and new station for passengers, thus avoiding ferry across the creek. For terms and further particulars call or drop a postal to Jas. H. Coleman, 1522 12th St. N. W. Hours 4 to 7 P. M. Electric lights over entire grounds and new station for passengers, thus avoiding ferry across the creek. For terms and further particulars call or drop a postal to Jas. H. Coleman, 1522 12th St. N. W. Hours 4 to 7 P. M. Feel of Corpse Revives Him. Elwood City, Pa. — When Ed Williams, a negro, who was thought dead, revived, stretched his arms and touched a nearby corpse he "came to life" suddenly. With a yell he sprang from a stretcher on which he had been placed and raced down the street with only a sheet as a covering. Among the Lawyers. Attorney A. W. Scott is among the active and progressive members of the bar. Attorney C. S. Williams is very successful and appreciative member of the bar. Attorney Royal Hughes is a level-headed man and a jolly good fellow. Attorney W. I. Lee is a man of ability and level-headed individual. Police to Stop All Swearing. Cleveland, O.-The police of this city have been ordered to halt all persons heard swearing and scold them. MARLBORO, MD. Miss Helen Diggs, of Washington, D. C., spent the Easter holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Diggs. URGES NEW LAW FOR INSANE Miss Mary Diggs, of Washington, D.C., is visiting at Hills, Md. Allenist Tells of Peculiar Cases Among Women. Miss Georgia Pinkney, of Washington, D. C., spent Easter Sunday and Monday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pinkney. Baltimore. — Emphasizing what he terms the mistaken impression that exists among physicians and the general public concerning the treatment of "borderland," "acute" or "chronic" stages of insanity, Dr. D. K. Henderson believes that the only way to treat such patients is to have them legally committed to an institution by two physicians. Miss Harriet Spriggs, of Baltimore, is spending a few days with friends near Upper Marlboro. Miss Rosa Johnson, of Washington, D. C., spent Easter Sunday an Monday with her mother, Mrs. Matida Johnson. Mr. Henry Ennis died at the home of his daughter Thursday, April 1914. Dr. Henderson cites cases where patients have defeated scientific treatment at the clinic by refusing to cooperate with the doctors. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shilds and little daughter spent Sunday with the parents near this town. Mrs. Hattie Crag and little daughter, of Deanwood, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willian Curtis. Out of the 238 cases recorded as having been treated at the hospital between May 1 and Dec. 31, 1913, there have been patients from all walks of life. Dr. Henderson tells of one patient, a married woman, thirty years old, who was obsessed with the idea that she could not breathe enough fresh air. She talked freely of her complaints to the other patients. At times she would take a long, deep breath and sigh. "When I breathe it does not seem to satisfy me." She refused to eat anything but cracked ice and milk. She refused to co-operate with the treatment and was discharged. Mr. Isiah Harraday, of Baltimore motored here and spent Sunday wit Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sedgewich Palace Laundry The Palace Laundry, 731-733 91' Street Northwest, is now a new building, under recent improvement just completed, it is one of the best conducted laundries in the city. The work is up to the highest standard and at the same time cheaper than any other in the city. You leave your laundry in the morning and get it the same evening at the Palace Laundry. VISION MAKES HIM CONFESS. PRICE 25 CENTS. PRICE 25 CENTS. KLOCZEWSKI & CO., Washington. D. C. Son of Wealthy Family Tells of Having Forced Father's Name. Dear Sirs:—Will you kindly send me by Express C. O. D. a one-half dozen bottles of "Welland's Lift." It is the best thing I ever used for Headaches, and I am telling all my friends about it, and of course as I am unable to get it around this part of the country, will consider it a great favor if you will send it. Thanking you in advance, I am, Yours very truly, MARTIN SEMON, care of Taxi Girls Co. Next week Empire Theatre, Toledo, Ohio. Denver.—A vision of his dead mother, who pointed an accusing finger at him in his dreams, was responsible for Philip F. Perna, eighteen years old, surrendering himself to the Denver police and confessing to the forgery of his father's name on a check for $400. Perna claims to be the son of a wealthy Philadelphia building contractor. He entered police headquarters and asked to be locked up. He says he forged the check last September, and his conscience has troubled him since the deed throughout his six months' flight. Wanted-A Woman. Wanted, a clean, settled woman, to make her home with a colored family. Light house work and a home. Write Box P, care of The Bee, 1109 Eve Street Northwest. Perna says his father's name is Joseph Perna and that the family home is in Philadelphia. He estimates his father's youth at about $500,000. "I went to bed," Perna said, "and my mother seemed to stand over me. She didn't say anything. She just pointed her finger at me, and her face bore a look of unspeakable contempt. I jumped up and screamed and covered my eyes with my hands. Miss Grayce LeCook, of New York, who made a hit in "Old Man Boy," played at the Howard and Majestic Theatre, is expected in this city soon. CULTIVATE YOUR HAIR. "Finally I ran out of doors and walked miles. I knew the vision would come back unless I cleared myself in her eyes. So I decided to give myself up." Mme. C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower For sale at the branch office 1123 First Street Northwest. Dec. 13 tf Mayor Lois Weber, of Universal City, Cal., is the only woman mayor in the world. Hartus' New Blood Tottie FOR IMPURE BLOOD RHEUMATISM LIVER AND KIDNEY COMPLAINTS TOMES UP THE STOMACH CURES INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION AND REMOYES THAT TIRED FEELING 99LD WITH A GUARANTEE MANUFACTURED BY MARRAS CHEMICAL CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. GHRISTIAN XANDER'S Special FAMILY RYE WHISKEY 75c a quart 40c a pint 909 7th St. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. Make an effort to save cash when you buy and the cost of high living will not bother so much. Every working man should know this store, as we sell low, such as $1.50 to $3 for new pants, worth coming for, and new tailored suits, $8 to $18, cost double, besides there's slightly used suits low as $3, and that is low. One price. Justh's Old Stand. 619 D. ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917,14th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. GO TO HOLMES' HOTEL 333 Virginia Ave., S. W. Fineest Afro-American Accomodations in the District European & American Plan Good Rooms and Lodging, 50c, 75c and $1.00. Comfortably heated by steam. Give us a Call JAMES OTTOWAY HOLMES, Prop Washington, D. C. Phone, Main 2315 Wireless and the Panama Canal the Greatest, Germans Think. Berlin.-The Berliner Lokalanzelger, the big popular daily which has just passed out of the hands of its founder, August Scherl, into the control of a syndicate supposed to represent the kaiser's government, has been holding a symposium of its readers on the seven modern wonders of the world. Prizes have been awarded to eight persons, who are agreed that the following are the seven chief wonders of the twentieth century: Wireless telegraphy, the Panama canal, the dirigible airship, the flying machine, radium, the cinematograph and the Imperator. Wireless and the Panama canal were Wireless and the Panama canal were the favorites among the voters. "ENGLISH DEFORMS MOUTH." Asserts Users Look Like "Measly Rabbit"—Praises German. London.—Lord Ashbourne, whose father was a Tory lord chancellor of Ireland, but who himself is an advanced Nationalist and who always dresses in ancient Irish kilts, speaking at a recent Gaelic league meeting, declared that the continuous speaking of English deformed the mouth. As a result, he said, Englishmen have thin, prominent lips, long front teeth and the general appearance of a measly rabbit. The German language is strong and vigorous, but English is in a state of rottenness, weakness, decay. WALTER G. OBANNON, Formerly the LAWYERS' CLUB. Is now an up-to-date Stag Saloon, where the best treatment and service will be given his patrons. 480 Louisiana Avenue Northwest. Handsome Furniture Home comfort is the fondest hope of every woman. As a girl she may dream of elegance and luxury, but a few years of married life will teach her that home comfort and attractive home surroundings will work wonders in bringing harmony and happiness into everyday life. Wealth is not a requisite to this end, nor even any considerable amount of ready money. We make home comfort possible for people of very moderate means. Just come into our great home-furnishing store and let us show you how economically all that is necessary can be bought from us. Let us explain our method of selling to prove that you can best afford to buy according to principles that we have spent years in perfecting. We want to give you home comfort. We want to give you every bit of value that your money can possibly buy. We want to arrange an account so that you can have all the goods desired at once. And we will arrange to make that account payable at such intervals and in such amounts as will suit your circumstances. Our prices are not fixed according to our estimate of the customer. You needn't ask a price here—read it for yourself on the tag—make your selections without a word about when or how you wish to pay. When your buying is completed we'll arrange the account to your satisfaction, without notes or interest. You may also feel absolutely certain that whatever we sell to you will give satisfactory service, for our personal guarantee means that everything must be right after you have given the test of actual use. Peter Grogan and Sons Co., 817-823 7th St. Mrs. Agnes J. Smith Hair Emporium and Beauty Culture School Mrs. Agnes J. Smith Hair Emporium and Beauty Culture School Manufacturers of Wigs, Braids, Bangs, Stemless Braids, Wavy Front Pieces, Crimpy and Wavy Hair. Combings Made Up. A choice and a large selection of the latest styles of hair goods. A large assortment of various kinds and quality of raw hair. All kinds of hair dressers' tools. We teach you to compound hair tonics and facial creams. We teach you to manufacture all kinds of hair goods. We teach you the rare art of ventilating the hair. Individual, practical instructions by Mme. Agnes J. Smith. All mail orders promptly filled. MME. AGNES J. SMITH, 935 R Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Agents Wanted. Phone. North 4017. The Fifteenth Annual Session For Colored Teachers of bot- AGRICULTURAL and MECHAN- will begin June 24, 1714, and o —In addition to the regular work, and has been arranged, in which will appea- guished white and colored educators in —Board and lodging for the entire so- per subject unless other arrangements are —Limited accommodations. Send $1 a For further information write at once to James B. Dudley, President A. & M. College The Vian Correspondence S and. Typewrit Do You Want to Increase Your Weekly Ca Time While Holding Your Pres If so, send a stamped envelope for inform- tunities afforded for becoming an expert taking the correspondence course at the Vian prises the best ideas gained from a ten y Reporter in the Illinois Courts. Diplomas the course. For terms, etc, address SEVENTH Annual Session of the SUMMER For Colored Teachers of both Sexes at the NATURAL and MECHANICAL CO. Greenwich will begin June 24, 1714, and continue five w ton to the regular work, an attractive le arranged, in which will appear some of the site and colored educators in the country. All lodging for the entire session $12.00 unless other arrangements have been made accommodations. Send $1 and have room information write at once to James B. Dudley, President or D. J. Jord A. & M. College, Greensboro Correspondence School of S and Typewriting Want to Increase Your Weekly Capacity 50 per c one While Holding Your Present Employment in a stamped envelope for information regarding need for becoming an expert stenographer or correspondence course at the Vian School. The best ideas gained from a ten years' experience in the Illinois Courts. Diplomas furnished on For terms, etc, address SUMMER SCHOOL Teachers of both Sexes at the MECHANICAL COLLEGE Greensboro, N. C. 1714, and continue five weeks Your work, an attractive lecture course which will appear some of the most disting- ucators in the country. The entire session $12.00 Tuition 250 arrangements have been made. Send $1 and have room reserved write at once to by, President or D. J. Jordan, Director & M. College, Greensboro, N. C. Indence School of Shorthand Typewriting Your Weekly Capacity 50 per cent in a Sho- ring Your Present Employment? Ope for information regarding the oppo- ing an expert stenographer or reporter be- cause at the Vian School. The course com- from a ten years' experience as a Coun- s. Diplomas furnished on completion of address will begin June 24, 1714, and continue five weeks In addition to the regular work, an attractive lecture course has been arranged, in which will appear some of the most distinguished white and colored educators in the country. Board and lodging for the entire session $12.00 Tuition 25c —Board and lodging for the entire session $12.00 Tuition 25c per subject unless other arrangements have been made. —Limited accommodations. Send $1 and have room reserved For further information write at once to James B. Dudley, President or D. J. Jordan, Director, A. & M. College, Greensboro, N. C. The Vian Correspondence School of Shorthand and Typewriting The Vian Correspondence School of Shorthand and Typewriting Do You Want to Increase Your Weekly Capacity 50 per cent in a Short Time While Holding Your Present Employment? If so, send a stamped envelope for information regarding the opportunities afforded for becoming an expert stenographer or reporter by taking the correspondence course at the Vian School. The course comprises the best ideas gained from a ten years' experience as a Court Reporter in the Illinois Courts. Diplomas furnished on completion of the course. For terms, etc, address VIAN CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL, Suite 18-143 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. ic Theatre Majestic ajestic Thea Majestic Theatre Browne and Demont, Lillyn and Billy are still holding fort at the Majestic Theatre; this week they have roles with Emmett Anthony presenting 20 Minutes in Hell. They are now in their ninth week, and are as successful now as they were in their initial engagement. at the COLLEGE Greensboro, N. C. five weeks the lecture course the most disting entry. 000 Tuition 250 made. room reserved Nordan, Director Boro, N. C. of Shorthand per cent in a Short payment? harding the oppor- er or reporter by The course com- promise as a Court on completion of SOL, Chicago, Illinois. For Rent-By Thomas Wakler, Attorney. 106 Benning Road, 6 rooms... $8.40 105 Benning Road, 7 rooms... 12.00 2654 15th St. N. W., 7 rooms... 16.50 2532 15th St. N. W., rooms... 10.50 249 W St.N.W., 6 rooms, brick 15.50 245 W St.N.W., 6 rooms, brick 15.50 1115 N.J.Ave., N.W. 7 rooms,bath 20.00 330 Bryant St. N. W., 5 rooms 10.50 906 1st St. S.W., 5 rooms, brick 11.50 Jefferson Street, Lincoln, D. C., 2 rooms and sum- mer kitchen 5.00 Burrville, D. C., (near Burville School) 5 rooms and large garden 10.00 1804 Vermont Ave. N. W., 10 rooms and bath..... 1706 17th St. N. W., 12 rooms and bath, hot water heat. This house will be repa- pered and painted to suit any reliable tenant 35.00 THOMAS WALKER, Attorney-at-Law, 506 Fifth Street Northwest, Phone Main 4662. For Sale—Three lots, 25x120 feet each inner Fifty-third and Dayton Strc Northeast, two blocks west of National Training School, $600. Address "N," Bee office. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, with or without board. Miss Hammond, 1111 Eye St. N. W. WANTED—Near car line, nice room for refined couple; light house- keeping, bath, etc. Address 234, P Street Northwest. Wanted—Two Girls. Wanted—Two or three competent young ladies, familiar with bookkeeping and typewriting. Address Box C, Bee Omce, or call in person between the hours of 11 and 11:30 A.M., 1109 Eye street Northwest. Liberal salary to the right parties. Phone North 143 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 HARDY 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. Trade With the House That Trades With You. KIDWELL & TURNER FRESH-MEATS-SMOKED Poultry-a Specialty Phone. Main 228 916 Louisiana Ave Northwest