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VOL. XXXIV, NO. 47 Eloquent Speeches by Emi nent Men REV. I. N. ROSS AND WIFE RECEIVED AN OVATION A ROSE TO THE LIVING. Farewell Reception to Rev. and Mrs. I. N. Ross. Last Tuesday night the friends and admirers of Dr. I. N. and Mrs. Ross turned out in full force to pay tribute to the sterling worth of these two noble spirits who have given five years of valuable service to this community. By force of the polity of this church they have stayed the full limit of time. Dr. Ross and his amiable wife by their Christian lives have caused this community to admire, respect and love them. This community admires him as a man, trusts him as a sincere friend and loves and honors him as a scholarly minister and a faithful pastor. During these five years Rev. Ross has gone in and out amongst his members and into the homes of this great city and has so conducted himself and so lived the life, avoiding even the appearance of evil, that not even the ever wagging tongue of slander has assailed him. REV. I N ROSS Who Bids Farewell to the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, at a Great Reception Tendered in His Honor. Who Bids Farewell to the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, at a Great Reception Tendered in His Honor. Among the pastors of the various denominations he stands as a man of convictions. Mrs. Ross has been a great benefactor to the women in the community. She organized the District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, the Interdenominational Ministers' Wives, and Lend a Hand Association. She has not had time to be a society leader, but side by side with her husband and oftener without him she has gone into the alleys, into the homes of the most needy, and when the Red Light District was being disposed of, she was the first of her race to secure a permit and enter those houses where women of her race were. She, accompanied by Miss Emma Hall, teacher in our schools and a member of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, visited eleven of those houses. MRS. I. N. ROSS Wife of Dr. Ross, Who Was Eloquently Pictured as a Great Woman by Mr. J. M. Layton. The speeches were to be five and not over ten minutes. All but four of the speakers concluded in five minutes. Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of the A. M. E. Church Extension, set the pace as he was the first speaker. Following was the program: Dr. B. F. Watson. Prof. Wm. H. Richards, faculty of Howard University, and for over twenty years lecturer and counsellor of Bethel Literary and Historical Association Dr. C. H. Stepteau, presiding elder Potomac District. Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds. Mr. S. M. Dudley, president Bethel Literary and Historical Association. Mr. Calvin Chase, Editor of the Washington Bee. Mr. Louis Johnson, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Representatives of the Churches-Reverends M. W. Clair, B. F. Sides, F. J. Grimke, W. C. Brown, Joseph Lee, D. E. Wiseman, N. W McGowan Departments of the Church—Jas. Jackson, E. A. Patton, A. E. Middleton. Anna S. Payne, Dr. John T Layton, Solon Larry, Mrs. J. W. Hamilton, M. A. D. Madre. Representatives of the Women—Mesdames J. M. Layton, Eva Hood Smith. Presentation to Mrs. Ross of a gold pin, from the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of the District, which was organized by Mrs. Ross, by Mrs. Julia M. Layton, secretary of the Federation and president of the Home for Friendless Girls. Presentation on behalf of the church to Dr. and Mrs. Ross by Miss M. A. D. Madre, flowers by Mrs. Eva Hood Smith, Mrs. Sadie Wingard. A sumptuous repast was served in the lecture room. Officers of the Committee. M. A. D. Madre, general chairman Parthenia Woodson, vice chairman, Julia West Hamilton, chairman of Refreshments and General Service. Assistant Chairmen—Virginia Jeter and Amanda Bailey. Solon Larry, secretary. George Robinson, treasurer. The Bee would like to publish the names of the local ministers and their wives, but as they were legions and fear of omitting some he dare not mention any. The following guests from districts of the city attended the reception Bishop L. J. Coppin, of this Ducese. A. R. Cooper, First District; R N W Leak, Second District, Raligh, N C; J. T. Gibbons, Third District, Huntingdon, W. Va.; H. E. Stewart, Fourth District, Chicago, U I P Tolbert, Sixth District, Rockmart, Ga.; D. A. Christie, Seventh District, Orangeburg, S. C.; W. B. Lewis, Eighth District, Greenwood, Miss J. F. Guffin, Ninth District, Memphis, Tenn.; W. D. Miller, Tenth District, Houston, Texas; E. W. Wyrd, Fleventh District, Jacksonville, Fla. W H Jones, Twelfth District, Gurdon, Ark; A. W. Hackley, Fifteenth District, Toronto, Ont. My friends—I have no words fitting of expression with which to meet the appreciation and gratitude of one and all of you, not only for your substantial friendship but also for your unstinted support during my sojourn here in your midst. In leaving you I want you to think of me in connection with what I have tried to accomplish in your midst. I confess here tonight in this presence that in some respects I may have failed to reach to the utmost the goal of my entire ambition. My desire and my hope was to have filled this church with worshipers; my desire and my hope was to have received into this church not five or six hundred but many thousands of souls; my desire and my hope was not only to make each year more fruitful, but also to have reduced your financial burdens. I have nothing to complain of, I have nothing to boast of, and I am profoundly grateful to Almighty God for His blessings and for His concurrence and for His goodness. I am profoundly grateful also for your helpfulness, for your great charity and for your tangible love and devotion. I am not going to make a speech—the hour is too late for that—I am not going to attempt to make a long discourse. I have been talking in Washington, as you know, for five years already. But when I am gone, I want you all to think of me in connection with these feeble efforts I have made and which I have put forth in your midst, not only as a pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church at the Capital of the Nation; do not only associate me with the heights I have reached and attained, but also think of me as the barefoot boy standing on the south side of the Ohio River on a hot July day in 1861; standing there barefooted and coattless; standing there waiting for my father to get the permission to drive his wagon through the country through which he had been traveling for twenty-one days and nights from Tennessee, with his wife and ten children; standing there waiting until he could get permission to drive across the ferry and to be allowed to cross the river—fleeing as we were from the curse of prejudice and as victims of an inhuman injustice and heartlessness and from the enemies of the race—the victims of American slavery. There in that heartless formative period of my life I resolved, with God as my helper, I would endeavor in every way possible to show to the world the possibilities of my race and people, and that I would do this step by step on all essential lines, and with an eye single to the glory of God wherever I should go I then and there determined to live and die for the truth, for God's truth, to defend it, and to defend my race at all M. W. H. EX-PRESIDENT TAFT. Succeed the Late Robert C Ogden. Hampton, Va., April 28.-Hon. William H. Taft was elected president of the Hampton Institute Board of Trustees to succeed the late Robert C. Ogden, who had served for many years the cause of education through Hampton. Mr. Taft, at the forty-sixth anniversary exercises of Hampton Institute, presented to the trustees the candidates for certificates and academic diplomas. He declared that the Negroes should use the economic freedom that they have and work along an honest, industrious line. Dr. Samuel C. Mitchell, president of the Virginia Medical College in in that formative period of my life as a little barefoot boy holding on to the wagon of my father on that hot July day. But there was an inspiration back of it all and Mrs. Ross, whom you see here, was my guiding star—she who was also one of the emancipated by the pen of the immortal Lincoln—so I would have you think of her also as my guiding star. Think of her in connection with the weeks and months she spent as a humble nurse in the city of Cincinnati, in our humble home there, and where for five years I labored as a pastor, and where I declared before God that I would always preach an unadulterated God, and would always defend my race at every point of the way. Mrs. Ross, I repeat, was in all of this my guiding star. And now I want to thank you, my friends, for this distinctive recognition. I want to thank you one and all. I want to thank the presiding elder, and the other representatives of the Methodist Episcopal Church, together with the other denominations here represented, numbering over 800,000. I want to thank you all. I want to thank this large number of friends gathered here, and to say to each one of you, God bless you—God bless you all—and to the ladies—God bless you—you are all my friends—you are all my sweetheart's. God bless you, my friends. I shall always strive to do my part by you, wherever I am or wherever I may be sent, no matter where I go. And I thank you one and all for Mrs. Ross. At the close of Dr. Ross' remarks the entire assemblage rose in appreciation and as a token of esteem in his regard. THE COLORED AMERICANS ARE NOT WITHOUT FRIENDS. The Coming Meeting A Great Success. Chairman, Glen View, III. Baltimore, April 21.—One of the largest gatherings ever held in this country on the Negro question, will take place in this city on May 3rd, 4th and 5th, under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Distinguished social workers and publicists from all parts of the country will assemble here to discuss the problems growing out of the industrial and educational needs of the colored people, as well as those relating to segregation and discrimination. Both white and colored speakers are on the program. Among the former are Moorfield Storey of Boston, the President of the Association; Professor Jacques Loeb, a leading American biologist; Mrs. Robert La Follette, wife of the Senator from Wisconsin; Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington; ex-Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore; Mrs. Havelock Ellis, wife of the English scientist; Dr. Joel E. Spingart; and Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post. Richmond, delivered the "Robert C. Ogden Memorial Address." He paid a hearty tribute to the man who had an abiding faith in the common man, in the common school, and in public taxation as a means of improving economic and social conditions. "Gifts to the nation," an evening pageant, showing in picture and song the contributions of the Indian and the Negro to American life; a demonstration of Hampton's practical training for farm life, an automobile tour among "the schools in the background," a "pilgrimage" of Northern friends: Dr. Holl B. Frissell's annual report, principal on Hampton's vital relation to the public; an address by Mr. Taft on "The Mexican Question"—these were some of the interesting incidents of Hampton's anniversary. The conference opens on May 3rd with a message from His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons. The address by Professor Loeb, which is likely to attract widespread attention, on "The Theory of Racial Inferiority in the Light of Recent Biological Knowledge." Professor Loeb is said to be strongly opposed to some of the dogmatic assertions which have been made in the name of science, by Chamberlain and others, regarding the alleged superiority of the Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic stock. He speaks with more than ordinary authority on this subject as one of America's leading biologists and the head of the Rockefeller Institute for biological research. At the same session Mrs. La Follette will speak on "Golored Folk and Philanthropy," and addresses will be made by Dr. Howard Kelly, of Johns Hopkins University, Rev. R. W. Bagnall of Detroit, and others. On Monday there will be addresses by Dr. Katherine Bement Davis, of the Department of Correction of New York City, on "The Delinquent Colored Woman," Mr. Justin Carter of Harrisburg, Pa., on "Discrimination in the Professions;" Mrs. Havelock Ellis; Dr. Joel Spingarn; Archibald H. Grimke of Washington, D. C. The leading address on Monday evening will be one by Senator Wesley L. Jones on Agricultural Education. Southerners will take a significant part in the program. Chief among them will be Miss Adelene Moffatt, a Southern white woman who speaks on "The Southern Renaissance." Ex-attorney-General Charles J. Bonparte, of Baltimore, will speak on "Legal and Economic Equality" and there will be addresses by Attorney W. Ashbie Hawkins and the Rev. G. R. Waller, also of Baltimore. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, editor of "The Crisis," published by the Association, will preside at the afternoon session and Bishop Hurst, of Baltimore, at the evening session. The conference adjourns Tuesday night after an address by Oswald Garrison Villard on "Some Traitors to the South." One of the features of the conference will be the award of the Spingarn medal for "the highest or noblest achievement by a Negro man or woman during the year just past." This medal, which is given annually by Dr. Joel . Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the Association, will be awarded this year by a committee consisting of ex-President Taft, Oswald Garrison Villard, Dr. James H. Dillard, director of the Jeanes and Slater Funds; President John Hope, of Morehouse College, Atlanta, and Bishop Hurst, of Baltimore, who is chairman. REV. W. H. NELSON Returned to Israel—The Most Successful Minister That Has Ever Been to Israel. Rev. W. H. Nelson held his last quarterly conference two weeks ago and the entire board was highly pleased with his three months' work, and by a vote was unanimous for his return to Israel. The board stated that no man has given the satisfaction at Israel as he has during his three months stay there. Not only has Dr. Nelson been a successful money getter, but he has increased the membership of the Church. The congregation is increasing each Sabbath in attendance, and the church is alive in all of its departments. The membership expresses delight with his sermons delivered each Sabbath because they are able, eloquently, logical and instructive. Dr. Nelson returned to the city Monday from his annual conference, which was held at Newspery, Va. last week from the 22d to the 26th of April. The pastor has on hand plans to make great preparations during the present year. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION Supplementary report of an investigation made by Chamber of Commerce Committee (Buffalo, N. Y.). The Industrial Education and Vocational Guidance Bureau of the Chamber was appointed to investigate and report on industrial and vocational education in the cities throughout the United States. "As a delegate to the conference of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, it was made possible for your committee to call upon the U. S. Commissioner of Education and the Superintendent of Vocational Schools, as well as Representative Lever, in Washington. Your committee was well received. A visit to the technical schools showed what was found to be characteristic of all vocational schools heretofore visited, that is, they are generally over-equipped and under-taught, with the one exception of the Cardoza Training School. The technical school cost within $25,000 of a million. It can take care of 1,000 pupils, few, if any of them expecting to find employment in Washington, so that the great majority must leave home to make use of their training. It is a fine building equipped to the limit. Your committees cannot include that neither architectural beauty, sanitary, heating, lighting or ventilation perfection, nor elaborate equipment can be made to take the place of proficient teachers having a clearly defined object in view. The first step, therefore, to make eventual vocational training of lasting service to the people of our country, and our own city as well, is to go slow until we have not only produced thoroughly competent teachers but enough of them to teach all who seek vocational training so that they may be well taught. The exception to the general fault found with vocational schools., is, strange to say, the Cardoza School in Washington, D. C. This is a school for the training of colored boys and girls. This school is not over-equipped, and the pupils are well taught. The principal is a full-blooded Negro, Mr. Arthur C. Newman. All the teachers are Negroes. The work done is excellent. Mr. Newman is not only a man of fine address, but a master of his work, a thoroughly trained man capable of imparting his knowledge. Arthur F. Alberts is the instructor in the under-equipped machine shop. He served four years in the Washington navy yard, and has had an extended experience in the General Electric Works at Lynn, Massachusetts. In many places school surveys are being made or have been completed. Mr. Newman made his own survey. First, he knows his people and the opportunities for them in the working world, and he is fitting them to meet actual requirements by real work. One hour book, one hour manual, is his method. The principal of the Cardoza School—a Negro—has solved the problem of vocational training. It may be argued that his field is limited and his accomplishments correspondingly easy. The answer to this is that we who have greater opportunities, should have greater capacity for accomplishment and that if our field is greater and more complex, we, in our assumed superiority, should be equally able to cope with our own problems. To conclude, your committee suggests that the wasteful expenditure of money for elaborate equipment and buildings be stopped, and that, if the money must be expended, the difference between the total sum and the cost of adequate buildings and equipment be expended upon the training of teachers who may become eminently fitted to teach. But, first get the teachers, because the teacher is the school. While we are getting the teachers, it will be necessary to change our educational department so that the superintendents of education will become the appointees of an elected board of education, one for the common school and one for vocational industrial schools, for while this board should have control of all matters of education, the common and vocational schools should not be under one head. The board should be divided in such way that professional commercial and industrial considerations could each be fairly dealt with in all the schools. CONFIRMED 89 TO 24 Judge Robt. H. Terrell Wins THE BEST ENDORSED MAN IN THE COUNTRY An Excellent Record and Highly Commended by all Classes—Received a Great Ovation at the Municipal Court. The United States Senate, in executive session Thursday, April 23 confirmed the nomination of Judge Robert H. Terrell as one of the judges of the Municipal Court. No man has received a greater endorsement from the people of all classes than Judge Terrell. It was a long and stubborn fight. He was opposed by Southern Democrats led by James K. Vardaman in a bitter attack simply because he was a Negro. The record of Judge Terrell was so brilliant and satisfactory that the Southern Senators could not overcome it. The entire bar association, which is composed of the most brilliant lawyers in the country, the Judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and ninety per cent of the citizens in the District of Columbia, irrespective of color or nationality favored the nomination of Judge Robert H. Terrell. As Judge of the Municipal Court it has been claimed by the entire bar that he is the best and most competent judge. Judge Terrell is a graduate of Harvard University, Mass., and a graduate in law from Howard University, this city. standing at the head of his class. JUDGE ROBT H TERRELL Conferred by a Vote of 39 to 24. He is not only a brilliant lawyer, but an eloquent orator, who has the respect and confidence of all classes of people. He is also a lecturer in Howard University, in which capacity he is a success. The fight of the Southern Democrats against him was augmented by the opposition of a few personal enemies who went to the Senate and stated that Judge Terrell was a Democrat, and that he had circulated among the voters a sentiment against the Republican party. To these alleged charges Republican Senators branded as falsehoods, because the application of Judge Terrell showed that he was a Republican and affiliated with that party. To Democrats they would state something else which would have no weight whatever. The Democrats had but one view in mind, and that was Judge Terrell was a Negro. They lost sight of everything else. Many brilliant speeches were made by Northern Democrats and Republicans in his behalf. He was showered with congratulations when he made his appearance in the Municipal Court. Everybody was glad to see him. Professor Newman. The Vocational School under the directorship of Professor Newman, who has a profession and is doing good work. No man should be at the head of a vocational school who has neither a trade or an education. How can a man teach that which he does not know? Let the head of all vocational schools have a trade of some kind. To this end The Bee will aim and if the bill that is in anticipation is passed by Congress six persons who have no trade will be allowed to be at the head of a vocational school. ADMITTED TO COURT OF CLAIMS. On last Monday Attorneys William L. Houston and Shelby Davidson were admitted to practice before the Court of Claims of the United States upon motion of Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood. Mrs. Lockwood, it will be remembered, is the only woman who was ever admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Houston has just filed two cases in the United States Court of Claims for clients residing in the West. STORY OF THE BIBLE IN MOVING PICTURES Pastor Russell's. Drama Opens In Empire City of South. PASTOR HIMSELF PRESENT. Touching Film of Abraham's Sacrifice Furnished Text For Famous New Yorker's Discourse—Hearts Swelled and Eyes Moistened Under the Message From the Book—What Has Been Regarded as a Cruel Fanaticism Shown to Be a Divinely Beautiful Lesson on Things to Come. Atlanta, Ga., April 26.—Pastor Russell presented his famous Photo-Drama of Creation to a highly appreciative audience in the Atlanta Theatre today. The touching film of Abraham's great sacrifice furnished the basis of the Pastor's discourse. PASTOR RUSSELL Atlanta, Ga., April 26.—Pastor Russell presented his famous Photo-Drama of Creation to a highly appreciative audience in the Atlanta Theatre today. The touching film of Abraham's great sacrifice furnished the basis of the Pastor's discourse. Hearts filled and eyes became moist as the instructive message was delivered. What has been regarded by many as a cruel fanatism was pointed out by the famous New Yorker as Divinely arranged and as teaching a most beautiful and significant lesson respecting the sacrifice of the anti-typical Isaac—namely, Christ and "the Church, which is His Body." Pastor Russell's text was, "If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's Seed and heirs according to the Promise" (Galatians 3:20). The Pastor began by demonstrating from Scripture that God calls our present condition a cursed one, that mankind are under the curse of death, and that the only way by which the world can come under God's blessing is by the bringing in of a new condition. And so when God said to Abraham, "In thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed," He meant that this Seed would roll away the curse of death and roll in the blessing of life in the full sense upon humanity. Then the Pastor pointed out that the Logos left the Heavenly courts and became a human being—taking a lower nature than He had before—and was born of the stock of Abraham, in order to become the promised Seed which was to roll away the curse of death. He next showed why Jesus, according to the flesh, could not be Messiah, the promised Seed. Even in His perfection the Man Jesus could have done nothing more for the world than to guide many into happier conditions. He could not have been the great Deliverer who was to bless all the families of earth—the dead as well as the living. How Jesus Became the Messiah. The Pastor explained how Jesus became the Messiah when He was baptized of John at Jordan. He showed that the water baptism was only the symbol of the real baptism which took place there; and to support his claim he quoted the prophetic statement respecting Jesus, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O My God"—everything written in the Book. (Hebrews 10:5-9.) This statement means that our Lord, by becoming our Sacrifice, fulfilled the types and shadows of the Law Covenant—various things that were not commandments at all, but that were foreshadowed by the Jewish sacrifices. For instance, the type showed that before there could be an atonement for sin, the bullock of the sin-offering must first be offered. Our Lord came to be the antypathetic Sin-offering, to present His perfect human nature—that He had—to give Himself in God's service as a sacrifice. The speaker threw a new light on the Apostle's somewhat ambiguous statement, "He tesketh away the first, that He may establish the second," declaring that the correct thought is. He removes the type, that He may establish the anti-type. Our Lord came to set aside the type. This He did when He presented Himself a living Sacrifice at Jordan to do unreservedly the Father's will. This meant, primarily, our Lord's death, for mankind were under the death sentence pronounced upon their Father, Adam. Therefore, it was necessary that their Redeemer should taste death for mankind before He could have wherewith to satisfy the claims of Justice on Adam's behalf and ask for the release of Adam and his race. Next the Pastor explained that when our Lord cried on the cross, "It is finished!" He merely meant that His own personal work of the sacrifice of Himself was ended. Then came His resurrection and His manifestation to His disciples, that they might know that He had risen from the dead. He appeared and showed Himself under different conditions to prove two things: (1) That He was no longer dead; (2) That He was changed from what He had been before. The speaker dwelt at length upon our Lord's several manifestations after His resurrection. He pointed out that during the forty days before our Lord's ascension He showed Himself on a few minutes at a time, or perhaps in hour all, and He appeared and disappeared in a way that no one but a split being could do. As St. Peter declared, "He was put to seath in flesh, but quickened in spirit* —made alive a split being. Why Jesus Ascended on High. Our Lord's ascension, the Pastor affirmed, was another step in the Divine Plan for the salvation of the world. It was necessary, as St. Paul declared, that Jesus should appear in the presence of God and make presentation of His blood, the merit of His sacrifice, the value of His sacrificial death, that the Church might be justified through His merit, and that the Father might give the Church the benefit of the cleansing which our Lord had accomplished for that class. Many have not noticed that the Scriptures limit our Lord's work during the Gospel Age to the Church class which is being selected, or elected, from amongst mankind. By faith this class are reconciled to God through the blood of Christ. These have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous, and may draw near to God with good courage, having their hearts sprinkled from any consciousness of evil. The Pastor then showed that after Jesus had, ascended on High He was the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, who is to bless all the families of the earth. Primarily, He became the Seed of Abraham at Jordan, when He received the anointing and to a certain extent began the work of blessing. But when He had risen from the dead and had ascended to the Father He was the Perfected One, the complete Seed, so far as He Himself was concerned. The speaker went on to demonstrate from Scripture, however, that from the beginning God had purposed, not only that Jesus should be the great Savior and Blesser of the world, but that He should have a company of associates, who are to be sharers with Him in the great work of human uplift. These are the Gospel Church, and are to be given glory, honor and immortality in the First Resurrection. Thus they also will become members of Abraham's Spiritual Seed and share with Christ in His Millennial Kingdom. The speaker repeatedly quoted from Galatians 3, which he glaimed makes the matter very clear. The Development of the Church. Primarily, the Seed of Abraham, as God meant it, was the Spiritual Seed—Christ and the Church on the Divine plane. But there is another Seed of Abraham, according to the flesh—the Jews. These also will have a part in the work of blessing. This fact, the Pastor declared, is set forth in Genesis 22:16-18, where God told Abraham that his seed would be as the stars of heaven and as the sand of the seashore. The Pastor then explained how some from both Jews and Gentiles have constituted this Spiritual Seed of Abraham. He showed that Jesus, the perfect Man, gave Himself a Sacrifice, laying down His earthly rights; and that God begot Him to a higher nature. Being perfect, He needed no one to make good for Him. But with the Church it is different. Every member must come to Him as the Sin-offering the One who would cover their blemishes and imperfections, and represent them as their Advocate. The early Church were in the main of Jewish origin. These had found that they could not get everlasting life by keeping the Law. Therefore, as St Paul declared, they must' become dead to it and accept Christ as their Sin-offering, and consecrate themselves, that through His merit they might become members of the Anointed. The Gentiles never were under the Law Covenant, and therefore they came into Christ merely by the surrender of earthly things—presenting themselves living sacrifices, as did the Jews. In return for this complete consolation, those who thus present themselves by faith—whether Jew or Gentile—are begotten of the Holy Spirit to Heavenly hopes, alms and ambitions. Those who continue, faithful to their covenant of sacrifice until death will receive a place in that Body of Christ, which is the Church in glory. These walk by faith and not by sight. They develop the spirit of loyalty and obedience—loyalty to God, to righteousness and the brethren, and obedience to God and the Golden Rule. Of this Christ company Jesus was the Head of the Apostles were, the first members of the Body, and the faithful in Christ Jesus throughout the Gospel Age are members in particular. The Natural Seed of Abraham. The Pastor next discussed the descendants of Abraham through Isaac—the Jews. Briefly reviewing the history of that remarkable people, the speaker showed how God had blessed them in the past. Their trying experiences in Egypt, their journey through the wilderness en route to Canaan, and the signs and wonders which accompanied them, taught the people valuable lessons and strengthened their faith. For centuries they dwelt in the Promised Land under God's special care, sometimes chastised and sometimes blessed. But they never got the blessing sought under the terms of the Law Covenant—everlasting life. Their experiences, he pointed out, helped to develop in Israel a special class possessing the faith of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the Prophets, and others not so prominent. As yet, the speaker claimed, this class have received nothing but God's promise that they shall have "a better resurrection." This they will get, he asserted, after the entire Church of Christ shall have been completed; for God has ordained that in all things Christ shall have the pre-eminence After the Spiritual Seed of Abrahams shall have been glorified, then some thing will begin to be done for the natural seed. The Pastor then showed that this class of Ancient Worthies will have much advantage over the rest of the world. The Bible teaches that they will come up to human perfection it the resurrection, instead of coming up imperfect human beings, like the remainder of mankind. This constitutes their "better resurrection." The rest of the world will require centuries in which to attain human perfection. This Ancient Worthy class, the speaker stated, will be associated with the coming Kingdom of God, as our Lord declared, saying, "Ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God." (Luke 13:28.) Jesus will be on the Throne and the Church will be with Him; but they will be invisible to men. The world will see these Ancient Worthies, who will be perfect men—grand examples of the image of God in the flesh. They will constitute the earthly phase of the Kingdom, in that they will represent the invisible Heavenly Kingdom. How the Blessing Will Come. The Pastor then gave an outline of arrangements in the Kingdom of Messiah. The Spiritual Seed of Abraham will be in the glory of the Kingdom-spirit belongs, invisible to men. The natural seed of Abraham will be "Princes in all the earth" as Psalm 45 sets forth. When the Kingdom is set up, God's blessings will first go to all "israelites indeed." The first representatives will be the Ancient Worthies, with whom the speaker thinks all the promised earthly blessings will rest as representatives of Messiah on earth. Only by coming into relationship with this company will any get the full blessing of the Millennial Kingdom The Pastor illustrated in the case of the United States. There are certain privileges and blessings to be secured by getting citizenship here; and as a result people flock here from everywhere and become citizens, in order that they may enjoy these blessings and privileges. This, he declared, is exactly the picture given in the Scriptures. In the future all the world will press for citizenship in the nation of Israel. The term of citizenship there will be full surrender—unandonment of sin, consecration to God, faith and trust in Him, and loyalty and obedience to the great Messiahic Kingdom. The Pastor thinks that the Jews will be the first people to come into the Kingdom, for the reason that the offer to mankind will be more in line with what that people have been expecting for many centuries. The Promise was made to their ancestor Abraham about four thousand years ago that in his Seed all the families of the earth should be blessed. The Jew still has it in mind, the Pastor believes, that somehow Messiah and His Kingdom are coming, and that the blessing of Abraham is yet to come. The Jew does not know what to make of all that has been going on for the past eighteen hundred years, the speaker declared. He has been greatly puzzled to know why Lazarus should have been taken into Abraham's bosom as Abraham's child, and why he himself should seemingly be rejected, outcast and in trouble; but sgn his eyes will be opened. At the proper moment God will pour upon Israel the spirit of prayer and supplication, and they shall look upon Him whom they pierced, as the Prophet Zechariah foretold. (Zechariah 12:10). Then they will begin to see something of God's great Mystery—that it was necessary that mankind be redeemed before they could be restored. They will begin to get the key to the Dylvne Plan, which rests upon the Cross of Christ The next class to come into line with the Kingdom, the Pastor thinks, will be a class of Christian people that have been considerably misled and confused. As soon as these begin to get their eyes open a little, they will perceive that others have understood the Scriptures better than they have, and then they will begin to study. The Bible intimates that this will be their course—that the foolish virgins will get the oil and will finally come into harmony with God. Gradually the Message will spread until all nations will realize that the Kingdom of God has been established, and that by becoming Israelites they will get the blessings. To support this somewhat remarkable statement, the Pastor quoted several prophecies, among which was Zechariah 14:16-21. The speaker believes that by the end of the Millennial Age all evil-doers will have been destroyed and all the remainder of mankind will have become Abraham's seed—a great number, which no man can estimate. Then will come a trial to determine who are loyal at heart. Having demonstrated that they could be loyal during the favorable conditions of Christ's Messianic Kingdom, when every wrong act was punished and every good deed blessed, mankind will then be tried to see whether they will do right when left to themselves and the Kingdom withdrawn. Satan will be loosed for a little while. Then there will be opportunity for sin to prevail. The race of Adam, then perfect human beings, will be tested in order to determine whether they really love God and whether they are loyal to the principles of righteousness. Those who are found to be disloyal to truth and righteousness and God will be destroyed from amongst the people.—Acts 3:23; 2 Peter 2:12. In concluding his discourse, the Pastor declared that as the test at the end of the Millennial Age will be loyalty, even so this is the test upon Christian people today. The Lord desires not those who merely fear to do wrong, but those who love to do right and hate to do wrong. He claimed that there is only a little more time in which Christians will have the opportunity to develop character and to stand the test. All of those found worthy to walk with our Lord will be accepted as worthy of the best beyond the vell, and the door to the High Calling will be shut. Then will come the great tribulation mentioned in Revelation 7. out of which will gradually come the Great Company—all overcomers. Indeed, but not "more than conquerors." 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 Ismailovsky 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 welghed 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 R. Henaen, 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 Engle county, the carnotite is mixed with the silver ore in the underground veins. The pitchblende of Gilpin and Clear Creek counties has hitherto 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. Louis.—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 ministers 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 Opasum In Tree While Showing Skill With Clubs. Shaving Skin With Claws 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 struck it between the ear filling 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 634 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 majority 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 or understood to be the purpose of the bill, or the state 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 required, should at the outset be confined to those of the larger corporations of those having capital resources of $5,000,000 or more, and 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 of sales and profits among particular articles, names of customers, and other 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 such matters. During the Sherman act to allow a greater degree of cooperation 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 response to hundreds of queries that have been received. FRUIT TRADE DOUBLED. In Last Decade Imports Were $355, 000,000. Exports $220,000,000. $100,000,000, Exports $220,000,000. Washington.—Foreign trade of the United States in fruits and nuts practically doubled in value in the last decade, the total imports having been $355,000,000 and exports $220,000,000. Imports rose from $24,500,000 to $48,750,000 and exports from $19,750,000 to $33,750,000 in the period from 1903 to 1913. Figures made public by the department of commerce and labor show that imports of fruits and nuts for the first two months of 1914 aggregated over $6,000,000 in value, or 20 per cent more than those for a like period of last year, while exports amounted to $4,000,000 in value, or about 30 per cent less than a year ago. The sharp decrease in exports is accounted for by the shortage in the Pacific coast fruit crops in the past year. The domestic food supply, was supplemented last year by $22,000,000 worth of fruits and $16,000,000 worth of nuts from abroad and in addition.over $4,000,000 worth of fruits and nuts from Hawaii and $3,500,000 worth from Porto Rico. TWO TOES HIS FRAT FEE. Student Losses Them While Stealing a Qualifying Ride. Kansas City, Mo.-Cameron Reed of Cambridge, Mass., gave two toes as part of his initiation fee in a fraternity at the University of Missouri, where he is a sophomore. Reed, with three other students, came to Kansas City riding the brake beam in order to qualify for the fraternity. Only those who have traveled "a thousand miles without a cent" are eligible to membership. The students boarded the rods of a train to make their return trip to Columbia. Reed fell as the train started, and a wheel crushed his foot. He was taken to a hospital, and two of his toes were amputated. KEEPS HIS TREASURE IN A MARINE BANK Scorky Dives to Bottom of River When Funds Are Low. Washington.—Snorky checks checks on the First Submarine bank of southwest Washington. He indulges them with a file and wrench and cashes them with a cable. Snorky, known to his mother and two or three others as Edward Thomas, is sixty years old and is to the Seventh street wharves in Washington what a beach comber is to the water front at Apla. One day about a decade ago they were shunting freight cars down in the old Jersey yards by the gas works when a switch engine ran off a trestle and plunged into the eastern branch of the Potomac. The water is pretty deep at this spot, and securely embedded in the mud bottom of the river the engine reposed as peacefully as a Spanish galleon at the bottom of the Caribbean until Snorky came along. As a child Snorky had taken a liking to the water, so when the story of the submerged freight engine came to his ears he saw visions of wealth. Going to the point on the railroad trestle from which the engine was reported to have plunged, Snorky dived into the turbid Apacostin river, as the eastern branch is known, and started a submarine investigation. It took two or three dives to locate the engine, but Snorky eventually found it and made an inventory. He filed a claim with Neptune for the engine or such parts of it as he desired and returned to the surface to equip himself with such tools as he might need. Calling on the junk dealer, he made a dicker with that individual. The junkman agreed to advance tools if in return. Snorky would give him an initial option on all goods to be replevled from the deep. The covenant was made, and Snorky dived again. He plied file and wrench and screwdriver until he had detached the chokest and most easily obtainable portions of the engine. Then he attached a cable and rose to the surface. Standing on the trestle, he lauled away at the cable until there appeared the beautiful brass bell of the locomotive. This he disposed of profitably and earned his first reward from out the junk dealers' greasy cash drawer. Ever since he has sold the engine piece by piece to the dealer. MOVES HOUSE TO DIE HAPPY. Shifts it From Vermont to Massachusetts. Where it Formerly Was. Pittsfield, Mass. — Eleuzer Larabeo has moved his house from Vermont into Massachusetts because he was born in Massachusetts and wants to die in the old Bay State. When he built a home in Williams-town he supposed that he was in the state. Then government surveyors came along and changed the state boundary after he had paid taxes to Massachusetts for several years. Tarabeen then had a new cellar dug over in Massachusetts and moved his residence into the Bay State. The change cost him $1,000. Millions For Chewing Gum. Troy, N. Y.—Americans spent $0.000. 000 more for chewing gum last year than they did on foreign missions was the complaint made by Methodist ministers in conference her. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 20613 Administration Docket No. 20615 Administration Docket. Estate of Henry Madison, deceased. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Harry J. Williams, it is ordered this 25th day of March, A. D. 1914, that Lawrence Madison, William Madison, and Stella Madison and all others concerned, appeared in said Court on Friday, the 1st day of May, A. D. 1914, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and The Washington Bee once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. A. W. SCOTT, Attorney. C. S. Hill, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Col- umbia, Holding Probate Court.— No. 20567, Administration. This is to Give Notice. That the subscriber of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Amanda R. Bowen, late of the District of Columbia, deceased All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 17th day of February, A. D..1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 26th day of February, 1914. (Seal) CARROLL A. BROOKS, Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. C. S. WILL C. S. HILL, Attorney. Wm. I. Lee, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court.—No. 20680. Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of William Walker, late of the District of Columbia, deceased All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 13th day of April, A. D. 1915; otherwise, they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 13th day of April, 1914. (Seal) CARRIE WALKER, 1418 Swann Street N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court, WILLIAM L LEE Attorneys WILLIAM I. LEE, Attorney. C. S. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. No. 32,567, Equity Docket No. ... Adolphus Brooks, Plaintiff, vs. Janie Brooks, Defendant, John Wallace, Correspondent. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from Janie Brooks, defendant, naming John Wallace as correspondent on the ground if adultery. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 8th day of April, A. D. 1914, ordered that the defendant, Janie Brooks, and John Wallace, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default; provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter, and the Washington Bee, before said day. Joseph W. Stewart, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 19770. Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Winfield Carroll, otherwise known as Fielder Carroll, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 20th day of March, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 15th day of April, 1914. MARY CARROLL, 511 Second Street Southwest. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Mayor Lois Weber, of Universal City, Cal., is the only woman mayor in the world. Lowest Prices Best Work TRIANGLE PRINTING CO BOOK AND JOB PRINTING Specialty made of Constitutions and Pamphlets BUSINESS OFFICE and PLANT, 1109 EYE STREET. N. W. 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Editor of Sociologist Lectures on Literature. Howard University had a treat this evening in the form of an unusual lecture on "Recent Race Literature" by Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder of Philadelphia, Pa., and an authority upon matters pertaining to the history and social condition of the race. Dr. Wright stated that no period had been more productive of good books written by members of the race, and about them than the past twelve months. There has not only been a large increase in the number of books but also in their quality. He gave the following list of books which have appeared and were thought worthy of a place in his lecture. History of the American Negro, by Benjamin Brawley, A. M., Dean of Atlanta Baptist College, formerly Professor of English in Howard University, a volume handy and carefully written, and paragraphed, suitable for any one who wants a historical foundation for the knowledge of present-day conditions. The Negro in American History, by John W. Cromwell, Secretary of the American Negro Academy, Washington, D. C., a book of facts and biography designed not only for information in general, but also to acquaint the large group of Negro teachers and students in higher institutions with the lives of the great men and women of the race. Facts of the Reconstruction, by John Not only was Christ a Negro, but it seems that Solomon, who has been held up through all the ages as the personification of wisdom, had Ethiopian blood in his veins also. A new book entitled "The Black Man Was the Father of Civilization." This book defends its title exclusively by the Bible and therefore has nothing to fear. This book is illustrated with many pictures. Price, $1.00 by mail. The following comment is from the Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer: Elder J. M. Webb, evangelist of the Church of God, in his book describes the black man as the father of all civilization. He takes the Bible to show that the fathers of the church and all the great leaders, even the Greatest One, was black. Mr. Webb's work is able and thoughtful. Whether the Anglo-Saxon believes him or not, Mr. Webb writes what he believes to be true about his race and their place in Biblical history. Combination of both books and pictures for $2.00 postage prepaid. Send money order, express order or registered letter to Elder J. M. Webb, 3519 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Will submit terms to agents. R. Lynch, Major in the U. S. Army (retired) formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives of Mississippi, Member of Congress, temporary Chairman of Republican National Convention of 1884 and Fourth Auditor of the U. S. Treasury, a book full of new facts, and new interpretations, which every Negro should read. The African Abroad, in three volumes, two already published, by William H. Ferris, A. M., a graduate of Harvard and of Yale Universities. These two large volumes are full of fact and philosophy and contribution of credit to the author. It attempts to tell the story of the African abroad, that is, in other parts of the world, except Africa. Life of Morris Wright Cuney, by Mrs. Maude Cuney Hare. This biography of the great Texas Republican leader, one of the most brilliant and resourceful men of the race, is well told by his daughter and furnishes another illuminating source for those who would know of the early political activity of the Negro from the Negro's point of view. Masterpieces of Pulpit Eloquence, by Mrs. Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar, the widow of the late poet Paul L. Dunbar. This volume of fifty-one orations by forty-nine Negro orators will fill a long-felt want for rhetorical practice in Negro Schools, as well as for general reading. Complete Poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, recently issued by Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York, will be heartily welcomed by the admirers of the great poet. 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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. tinguished educator, and something of the methods by which she achieved her wonderful success. Industrial Conditions of Negroes in Pennsylvania, by R. R. Wright, Jr., an exhaustive study of the Negro as a worker, chiefly in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, published as part of the report of the Bureau of Animal Industrial Statistics of Pennsylvania. History of the A. M. E. Zion Church, by Bishop J. W. Hood, Senior Bishop. This is the second volume from the great churchman and like the first, a most useful study of one branch of the Negro Church. Handbook of Missions, by Rev. J. W. Rankin, D. D., Missionary Secretary of the A. M. E. Church. This is a notable advance in church literature and is designed to introduce the members of his church to the great problem of missions. Negro Year Book, by M. W. Work. This is the second year book and does much to make firm Professor Work's place as a statistician of merit. Beside the above books by Negroes, there have appeared the following by whites: The Strange Case of Eric Marotte, by John Irving Pearce, Jr., Chicago, a thrilling historical problem novel, based upon the life of a young man supposed to be a Negro, who suffered all indignities until found to be white. A book with a message. Hazel, by Mark White Ovington, author of "Half a Man," a story book especially designed for colored children, a bright idea. In Freedom's Birthplace, a study of the Negroes of Boston, by John Daniels and exhaustive study from a white man's point of view, of the history-and social conditions of the Negroes, with a chapter as to their future. 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Liberia, by Prof. Frederick Starr. of the University of Chicago, a book written from a sympathetic point of view, giving description, history and problems of the Negro Republic Pittsburgh Survey (in press), a description of the industrial conditions of Pittsburgh, having chapters on the Negro in Pittsburgh by Helen A. Tucker, of New York, and R. R. Wright, Jr., of Philadelphia. The Pittsburgh Survey is perhaps the most elaborate study of economic conditions ever conducted in an American city and will prove helpful to social workers. 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. EDWARD H. HILL, JR, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court, of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 20670, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber of the District fo Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Annie V. Winston, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 27th day of April, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 27th day of April, 1914. W.M. C. TAYLOR, Deputy Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. CHAS. S. WILLIAMS, ATTORNEY Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 20277, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Edward Columbus Younger, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 23d day of April, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 23d day of April, 1914. GEORGE L. YOUNGER, 1451 Q Street N. W. Seal. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Cohen Finley. Will Mr. Finley Wilson, the Editor of The Sun, call at The Bee office and bring the Editor the Terrell Silk Hat that he lost on a wager that Judge Terrell would not be confirmed? Judge Terrell has not only been confirmed, but he has been sworn in. NEW THE SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. NOT SOLD UNDER ANY OTHER NAME. HOME WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. If you purchase the NEW HOME you will have a life asset at the price you pay, and will not have an endless chain of repairs. Quality Considered it is the Cheapest in the end to buy. For sale by Gustave Oppenheimer, Cor. E and 8th Sts. N. W. Now Ready VARDAMAN UNMASKED A Defense of the Colored Race By A. Dr. George H. Richardson, M. D., L. L. D. A Reply to The Mulatto. By Prof. H. E. Jordan, Of the University of Virginia. James K. Vardaman, of Missis- sippi, et al. Published under the auspices of The Washington Bee. Address: The Washington Bee, 1109 Eye Street N. W. Washington, D. C. Or Dr. Geo. H. Richardson, 309 Eleventh Street N. E. Price: 15 cents per copy. Seven (7) copies for $1. THE BEE Published at 1130 E.ye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....5.00 Subscription monthly.....20 IS HE LOYAL? It has come to our knowledge that certain Democrats at the other end of the Avenue were discussing the propriety of sending the Negroes into Mexico and whether they could be trusted. In the first place, the Negro is patriotic under all conditions and circumstances. Thousands gave up their lives for freedom and the perpetuation of this Republic in the late Civil War. They were patriotic and loyal to this Republic in the Spanish-American War. The first war resulted in the return of their enemies and traducers to power and the overthrow of republican governments in the South and the re-enslavement politically of the Negro. The Spanish-American War resulted in a victory for this Republic, but the enactment of more drastic laws by those states which rebelled against this Union. Laws of segregation and gross discrimination are enacted against the colored American. If they should be called upon to invade Mexico, what then? Suppose Mexico says that the American Negro should enjoy all the rights and privileges that other citizens and nations enjoy and the Negro knows that he is being oppressed, what will be his attitude? That is the question that should occupy the minds of his oppressors in the South. Not that the Negro is disloyal or would refuse to enlist if the government should call for volunteers. The Negro wants freedom, physical and political, from whatever source it may come. He is disarmed by the South. In no Southern State is he permitted to carry arms for his own protection or for the protection of his wife and children. Mob rule reigns in every Southern State. He tandem submits to the laws prohibiting him from carrying arms, even in his schools or universities. His record will show that he has been harmless and a lawabiding citizen, notwithstanding so much oppressive legislation against him. The Negro is willing and ready to serve his government if his government is willing and ready to protect him. The Negro is told that this is no time-to express his grievances. Why, this is the hour and the day. If not, why not? In every war against this government, from the days of the Revolution to the Spanish-American War, the Negro has demonstrated his loyalty to this Republic. He has been the menial and the slave. He has been the "hewer of wood and the drawer of water," and what has been his reward? These sentiments are those entertained by every brave Negro in this country and not the coward. If the Negro is wanted in this fight, let him be led by one of his own and not by a white man. Make of his own race a general, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, corporals, etc. Let a black regiment invade Mexico under the command of a Negro general and let it be shown to the Southern cracker, who is defaming the Negro, that he is patriotic and loyal to a Republic which is too cowardly to protect him in his civil and political rights. Why doesn't Vardaman, Hoke Smith, Joseph Daniels and all of those Democrats in the Senate who voted for the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment resign and volunteer their services to the administration? Oh, no!! They could not make a record in the field, side by side with the Negro. They must remain within white marble walls and fire hot shots against an in- offensive colored race of people. These traducers of the Negro can better afford to remain a good distance from the firing line of hot shells and bullets. They know they can fire at the Negro in the presence of an admiring audience with their mouths than they can near the border of Mexico. If colored volunteers are wanted or needed let us be commanded by Negro generals and then the responsibility of a failure or success will be with the black regiments. The Negro is loyal, but he will not be longer oppressed. GRATITUDE: A grateful man is a successful man. Gratitude can only be found in a successful man or woman. A person who succeeds by the aid of others often shows his ingratitude when he thinks that he no longer needs the aid of those who elevate him. The most abused man in this country and the man who has been loyal and has done the most good for his fellow man is Mr. Ralph W. Tyler. There has never been a man in public office, except the late John Mercer Langston, who has served, been truer to his fellowman than Mr. Tyler. When he was the Auditor for the Navy he never failed to do everything in his power to elevate his fellowman. Mr. Tyler could always be depended on to do whatever he could in all and every department of the government to promote his people. But what thanks did he receive? The moment he was retired from office, those he served the most, were his most bitter enemies. Say what you please against him, his record will show that no man ever served his people better. He was manly and courageous and gave all to understand that he was the master of his office. His sole ambition was to elevate those who deserved it. As a newspaper writer his equals cannot be found. As a defender of his people he has no equals. He never writes under cover and neither is he a man who will betray his fellowman. He rendered greater service to the colored public schools in this city than any other colored American. Some day his enemies may see their error and render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's. The Bee is his uncompromising friend and it wants the world to know it. The Bee has nothing to regret for its defense of him, although he has never suggested by act or word that he deserved a line written in his defense, but it is well to remind those who would traduce him as national organizer of the Negro Business League no better man could have been selected, as his many correspondences will show. He is traveling throughout this country and informs his people what is being done among them, and if he is supported as he should, his good work will benefit itself. A GREAT WOMAN Mrs. De Nellotz, formerly Miss Cecelia Johnson, is widely known for her brilliant intellect and clever versatility, being frequently referred to as "one of the finest products of our High and Normal Schools." As a teacher in the grades, she became noted for her breadth of views, constant efforts for self-improvement and success in training the youthful mind. At the same time she gained enviable distinction as a scholar, especially in mathematics and languages, at Howard University. A zealous church worker, she was leader of the young people at Lincoln Temple, proving invaluable both by her wonderful personal magnetism and her splendid talent as public speaker and writer. Since Mrs. De Nellottz' marriage and subsequent widowhood she has had an unusual and varied experience as student, teacher and social worker. Comprehensive courses in Domestic Science at the School of Housekeeping, Boston; the Kansas State Agricultural College and the University of Chicago have given her thorough knowledge of her subject. Instructor of domestic science at Tuskegee, Lincoln Institute and Sedalia, Mo., High School, she supplements this training by ample experience. Many newspapers have published admiring testimonials to her mastery of her vocation; and social work at Douglas Center, Chicago, and other Social Settlements have brought her practical knowledge of the needs of the people, both employers and employees. Mrs. De Nellottz comes naturally by her unusual capableness. Her parents, who live in the pleasant little suburb of Kenilworth, are Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Johnson. Her father is a 'self-educated man, esteemed among the old residents here as a master mechanic of uncommon ability and worth, having designed and constructed a large number of houses in this city. Her mother is acknowledged an unsurpassed housekeeper and both are devout Christians of unblemished reputation. NEGRO INTELLIGENCE? When Senator Borah was invited to deliver an address to the intelligent colored people last Sunday afternoon at the Howard Theater, little djd he think that he would be insulted by so-called cultured and educated Negroes by having questions propounded to him. That was not the place or the occasion. The Tau Delta Sigma Fraternity is composed of highly educated and cultured young men who possess intelligence enough to know how to conduct themselves with decorum, and when this intelligent body of young men sent out invitations they didn't think that they had invited any one that did not know the rules of decency and decorum. Senator Borah will not blame their organization for the insult. Both of the disturbers are teachers in colored public schools in this city and they are supposed to be men of intelligence. But did they demonstrate any intelligence when they interrupted the speaker, who had been invited to address the people? The more education some colored people get the more they show their ignorance. PUBLIC MEETING The annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to be held in Baltimore Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, will be brought to a close in Washington Wednesday evening with a public meeting at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M Street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets Northwest. The speakers will be Judge Wendell Phillips Stafford, whose life honors the great name he bears; Senator Moses E. Clapp, who in his steadfast devotion to right and justice takes his place beside Charles Sumner, and Dr. Joel E. Springarn, who is devoting rare culture. fine scholarship and a portion of his wealth to the real freedom of a people whose humanity is not recognized. Rev. W. A. Taylor, of the Florida Avenue Baptist Church, will make the invocation and Rev. M. W. Clair; of the Asbury M. E. Church, will pronounce the benediction. GENERAL CUNNINGHAM. Our occasional correspondent, Mr. J. C. Cunningham, has suggested the name of a few colored newspaper men to go to Mexico and report the true conditions of affairs there. It is all right to talk war, but when you tell colored men to go to Mexico and face bullets, that is another question. The Bee has not heard of any colored soldiers being in Mexico or anywhere near there. Negroes are-not wanted in Mexico at present. They will not be needed until the Mexicans give the Yankees a threshing, like the Confederates threshed the Yankees in the South during the Civil War. Then the black Yankees will be needed. There is no necessity for the Negro to go where he is not wanted. See Brother Cunningham. You are a patriotic citizen at long range; why not you go to Mexico? You apparently want to show what you can do. Volunteer your services. You would make a fine looking general if nothing more. PROF. WEATHERLEE The Bee has refrained from mixing up in personal quarrels, but when it sees and reads unwarrantable attacks made upon worthy citizens, it has never hesitated to come to their defense. Mr. Nelson E. Weatherless is a gentleman and one of, if not the most, progressive Masons in this country. He is a highly cultured and educated man and a member of the legal profession. He was never known to betray his fellowman and neither would he be a party to demagogery. The Bee has every reason to believe that the Court of Appeals will set the verdict of the jury of the lower court aside. ALBERT B. COSEY FSO The colored supporters of President Wilson throughout the State of New Jersey are very anxious to see that Albert B. Cosey, Esq., one of the most prominent lawyers in the State, taken care of by the administration. There is not a more deserving man in the State of New Jersey. No colored man has sacrificed more for Mr. Wilson than Mr. Cosey has. He is a graduate of the law school of Howard University and today one of the leading legal practitioners in his State. His record is clean and above everything he has the ability. EDITOR OF THE SUN. Will the editor of the Sun kindly go to Brodts' and pay for a hat the Editor of The Bee has selected? The Editor of The Bee knew what he was talking about when he informed the editor of the Sun that Judge Terrell would be confirmed. You know, Bro. Finley, the hat was to come the next day after the confirmation of Judge Terrell. Come up or shut up. GROUNDLESS CHARGES. Elsewhere in The Bee this week will be new correspondence between Attorney R. R. Horner and Neyil Thomas. Mr. Thomas made some charges against Messrs. Hewlett and Horner, which are branded as false by Mr. Jackson, of Anacostia, D. C. The letters speak for themselves. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac.) Sunday afternoon I dropped in Gray and Gray's sodasized mint to get me a stomach wash, one of those cocola dopes what's the nearest to the real Chinese imported dope the government license will let them sell. While I was sitting at the table sipping my coacola a couple of chickens in slit skirts sat at another table getting next to five cents worth of glucose and starch, what's advertised as "the velvety kind." Altogether, I don't think they had one more than $8 worth of clothes, including a couple pairs of flesh colored hose through which peeped a couple pairs of bronzed legs what measured about four inches in circumference at the ankle and about seven inches at the calf. You know I said they had on slit skirts, and most of the slit skirts these "two-fors" wear show as much of the calf as the ankle, and that's what they wear for them. But I'm gettin' off, of my supply train. What I started out to "speal" about is these two chickens of brown-roasted kind, got to talkin' about vacations. One of them with a vitronized brick cast of countenance said she thought she would go to Atlantic City for July and August. The other said she was so "terribly" tired of Atlantic her summer in the Adirondacks. Then they fell to discussin' the togs they would buy to better at these resorts. I kinder felt like easin' over to the them that they had better spend the summer where they might get one or two drachms of brains, but I remember what Grant Lucas said to me a few years age—and Grant's a pretty wise old guy, if you let him tell it. Grant told me that "its always safest to let one of them there Temperance alley brunettes what's got a penchant for spreading red rouge over an anthracite cheek to speak to you first, cause if you confab with her without introduction, she might unintentionally introduce you to a line of Temperance alley jargon what would hurt your feelings, and she might introduce you to the Wade and Butcher her lover carries as a vest pocket ornament." As discretion is always a better part of my valor, I just listened to the Washington asylum talk of these two chickens, and sort of entre nouse repeated old Epicitus' charge to the Romans. There are times when the tongue is safest if kept cleaved to the roof of the mouth." Now speakin' about vacations, I gin' to hand this smooth bored advice to the dicties and near-dicties around this bailwick that there are tight times ahead, and as Washington didn't get no reginal bank you better be after saltin' down your coin. Some how this bunch of oxidized Hamites around here think they have got to borrow, beg or misappropriate in order to go away for the summer. It's got to be sort of a social badge to say you went way over to Atlantic to take your weekly bath There's all kinds of breakers ahead, let me whisper to you. First of July when the new appropriation bill starts to workin' there may be some missin' faces around the departments, and them there missin' faces may be of the charcoal variety. It's almost a cinch Woody's ax is goin' to fall on some charcoal necks. Then there ain't no one what can tell what may eventuate in the schools. Just seems this is one of those years when the Devil's liable to break loose at any time, and anywhere. So my advice is to cut out that there summer at Atlantic City and them other coast villages and pay your subscription to The Bee and spend your summer vacation whin' the Sage and the potpourri what Wm. Calvin dishes up the each week. You can may need the "price" for rent and coal next winter. It's goin' to be a mighty hard year for charcoal complexioned oddities, just take it from me, and ten per cent money will be twenty. Cassie Chadwick ain't goin' to Atlantic City this year, and if she has decided to cut out luxuries why you can. Now speakin' about Cassie reminds me that it don't pay, in the long run, to try to be to no "getrich-quick Wallingford" or to take a short cut to Easy street, cause some of these judges and juries is liable to flag you before you hit the home stretch. As Hershaw once hesitated to me "no use to hit the high finance trail with a pauporated filley." Hershaw, at times, gets off some chunks of wisdom what makes the biographer of old Bacon turn green with envy. There's been several slogans used in this old western hemisphere. In 1847 it was "Remember the Alamo." In 1863 it was "Remember Fort Pillow." In 1898 it was "Remember the Maine," now it's "Remember the fate of the gutta-percha complexioned Cassie. For further particulars, specifications, charts and drawin's, apply to Judge Wm. L. Houston. There was a lot of war talk around here in anthracite settlements, but none of it ever got to the point where any of these near-statesmen in sombre colors ever talked about raisin’ a regiment of chocolates to carry the flag into Mexico. Maj. Jim Walker thinks too much of his pearly teeth to nurse any desire to take his anthracite battalion across the Rio Grande to mix it up with Huerta’s greasy conscripts. Will Houston is too busy settin’ up pins to keep Ed. Morris and Hennie Slaughter from movin’ him off the Odd Fellow Supreme bench to even think of goin’ to Mexico. Armand Scott would enlist and leave Will Houston and Tom Jones here for nothin’. Freeman Murray wouldn't even go as a war correspondent, unless Booker T. went first to start an industrial “when the cruel war is over.” R. Wordy, alias R. Windy, is too busy followin’ that will o-wisp—a-tryin’ to smother The Bee—to even go as a war correspondent even with headquarters 400 miles from the front. And there aint a bug with a nut brown cast of countenance around these diggin’ what’s fired with enough enthusiasm to carry the flag whose folds don’t afford no protection to these ten million of chocolate bon bon buddies. And who can blame them? There will have to be some conscripting done before you can move these charcoal derelicts off of this reservation and encamp them down among the catcus, adobe huts, and illiterate denizens of Mexico. As R. Wordy several years ago sagley averred to me—what’s the use of speculatin’ on an abstract proposition with no concrete base just to be loquacious.” And he was right even if obtuse. THE SEAT OF WAR. "Send a Colored Man," Says Mr. Cunningham. "They All Would Run." To the Editor of The Bee: Now that a set war between the United States and Mexico seems to be inevitable, some colored writer should be sent there to get the real facts relative to the bravery that will be shown by the gallant colored soldiers. Let a colored man go there and gather facts so that he may be able to write a true history of the gallantry displayed by the daring colored soldiers. I say as we all know, histories of the past wars fail, utterly fail, to give the colored soldiers due credit for the brave deeds done on the battle field. We have a goodly number of competent writers from which some could be selected to send to the seat of war to gather up the facts so that a true history may be written and handed down to the little ones yet unborn to our race. 'Tisn't wise to sit down and depend on the white man to give out what the colored boys did. He will invariably keep back the most daring deeds done by the brave colored boys. A history of the American-Mexican War, when finished, telling of the 'valor of the colored soldiers would sell like hot cakes. Let The Bee send a representative there. Permit us to present the names of a few quill drivers from which The Bee or any paper, may select one that is fully competent to give the facts. Their names are as follows: The Sage of the Potomac, John E. Bruce (Bruce Grit), R. W. Thompson, Roscoe Simmons, John C. Dancy and Ralph W. Tyler. Any one of these nimble-footed gentlemen could outrun the bullets of the enemy and have time to stop and give a right good account of what really took place behind them. Try them. DR. CHAS. H. MARSHALL Thinks Superintendent Thurston Is the Best Superintendent the Schools Ever Had. Speaking to a representative of The Bee, Dr Charles H Marshall stated that Superintendent Thurston is the THE BROADWAY DR. CHARLES H MARSHALL A Member of the Board of Education. best superintendent of schools the District of Columbia has ever had. He has made good, and there is no doubt of his re-election and continuance in office. He believes in fair play and that he means to have. A Great Work. More than passing notice should be given to the beautiful scenery painted by W. D. Nixon and S. D. Milton, seen last week in the production of the Common Enemy by the Renaissance Players. The artistic work brought forth many expressions of praise from the vast audience. Especially delightful was the beautiful wood scene which seemed to stretch for miles along the picture-esque stream to the sun-lit mountains in the distance. The blending of the lights, marking the many changes from day to night, controlled by the skilful hand of Mr. A. C. Newmon, formed a picture long to be remembered by the vast audience D'Averille's house and its setting in Act III was a masterpiece and showed not only artistic handling, but a thorough knowledge of the mechanical trades necessary for the construction of a real mansion A striking in- stance of the ability of these two artists which probably passed unnoticed by a majority of the audience was the painted drop or Mary Woodward home, Act I, Scene 2, which gave the delusion of a house of considerable size stretching away from the observer toward the distant hills, but in reality was less than a half a curtain stretched straight across the stage. With Mr. Nathaniel Guy as interpreter of the lines of the story and Messrs. W. D. Nixon and S. D. Milton interpreter of the artistic representation of the story a remarkable combination of ability is formed. HONOR FOR JUDGE TERRELL Received a Great Ovation by Members of the Freshman Class. bers of the Freshman Class. Saturday evening at 8 p.m. April 25, 1914, the Freshman Law Class of Howard University gave Judge Terrell an ovation never to be forgotten by the Judge and the members of the class. As Judge Terrell came in the class room the whole class stood and cheered for ten moments. President Richardson called the class to order and introduced Vice President M. M. Harris, of Montgomery, Ala., who was chosen by the class to be the spokesman for the class on this great occasion. Harris spoke very briefly but caused a wild first of cheers when he told the class how Judge Terrell was forced to be recommended by the U. S. Attorney-General to the President of the United States. "Saying that the whole bar association indorsed him, also saying that he was the best judge on the bench." Harris also presented the Judge with a very large and handsome bouquet of flowers in behalf of the class. Judge Terrell answered Harris by paying a very high tribute to the Freshman Class. He also introduced the Assistant Attorney-General for the District of Columbia, in the season of Lawyer J. A. Cobb. Law Cobb delivered a very interes talk for fifteen moments. After some cheers for the Ju and Lawyer Cobb the class journed. It was a great incentive the coming young colored lawyer have in their presence two sucful colored lawyers who had been honored by the United States Government. COLORED LAWYERS. Judge Hewlett to Their Defense. National Benefit Association Repudiate Them. April 28th, 1914. Editor Bee, Dear Sir: I was not a little surprised to learn, a day or two ago, that the National Benefit Association, a colored organization with offices at 609 F St. N. W., has in its employ a white attorney, at a yearly salary, although many able colored lawyers rent offices from this organization in the same building, 609 F St. This Association holds meetings now and then boasts of its wealth, and does all in its power to induce the colored people to patronize it and then takes particular pains to argue, from its acts, that the race has not in Washington a colored lawyer qualified to attend to its business. The President of the organization is a colored doctor. It seems to me that here is work for the National Independent League and the Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This is, and will be, as long as continued, a standing disgrace to an organization that ought to represent the highest ideals of the race. Election of Officers Last Sunday morning in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Sunday school, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year and installed: Superintendent—E. A. Harrison. Assistant Superintendent—Richard W Turner. Secretary—L. M. Taylor. Secretary—I. M. Tayloy. Assistant Secretary—Miss Edith Brankley. Treasurer—Miss A. S. Payne. Pianist—Miss Anna Charity. Assistant Pianist—Miss Corinne Martin. Chorister-Dolan Xates. Supt Primary Dept.—Mrs. A. E. Waddleton. Secretary Primary Dept.—Mildred Taylor. Pianist, Primary Dept.—Florence Brooks. Librarian—Harrison Stewart. Assistants—Jesse Simms and Clifton Hardy. Universal regret was expressed at the enforced refusal of Mr. Lewis E. Johnson to accept a re-election as superintendent because of his duties as general secretary of the Twelfth Street Branch of the Y. M. C. A. interfered with a continuance of his very acceptable services as superintendent. The Royal Order of Jonavid. of America. Washington. D. C. The Royal Order of Jonavid of America, a fraternal society organized under the laws of the District of Columbia, and doing business exclusively among colored people, which has for its object the mutual protection for its members during sickness, aid for dependents after death, and help during financial distress, organized from among its members the Colossal Club on April 24, 1914, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Myers, 1816 4th St. N. W. for the purpose of procuring members for the Order and general social purposes. Among some of the persons who met to form the organization of the Club were: Mr. and Mrs. John H. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Mouzon, Miss Mary R. Martin, Mr. Travis P. Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Taylor, Miss Lula Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Marion F. Harris, and others. The following officers were chosen: Mr. Frederick S. Mouzon, President; Mrs. John H. Myers, Vice President; Miss Mary R. Martin, Secretary; Mr. Thomas G. Taylor, Treasurer. After the meeting of business, a pleasant time was spent in social discourses. REVENUE CUTTERS SAVE MANY LIVES Good Samaritans of the Seas Brave Hardships and Dangers. REVIEW OF YEAR'S WORK. Responded to One Hundred and Three Calls, Mostly Wireless Signals For Aid—Hundreds of Lives and Vast Amount of Property Rescued From Waters—Report of Winter's Toil. Washington.—The winter just closed has been the busiest for the revenue cutter service in its history. 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 Yumacraw. The Seneca was sent out from New York the middle of February to resume the north Atlantic ice patrol, which ELLSWORTH P. BERTIOLP, CHIEF OF REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. KELLSWORTH P. BERTHOLP, CHIEF OF REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE she undertook last year. She was joined recently by the Miami. 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 Fredda of New York, bound from Sabine Pass, Tex., for Baltimore, with a cargo of sulphur. The Fredda grounded three miles off False Cape, Va., in a heavy fog, Dec. 24. The Onondaga happened to be nearby and quickly reached the Fredda 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 rudder 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. Investigator Dige Up Records and Makes Public His Conclusions. Bellefontaine, O.—Anson Carter, a pioneer grocer of Bellefontaine, has been searching old records regarding the comparative cost of food products now and in the past and has reached this conclusion: "Aside from three things—butter, poultry and meat—prices of staple groceries in the bulk are not higher than they were twenty-five years ago. "A man and woman can go to housekeeping today in better manner for the same amount of money than a couple could a quarter of a century ago. It is the desire of the buying public to have so much prepared food and so many things done up in attractive packages that has increased the cost of living. "The average can of baked beans does not contain 2 cents' worth of beans, and a package of crackers contains but little more than four ounces. People are avoiding preparing food for themselves. *If people would continue to buy everything in the bulk at the grocery as they used to do and cook their food for themselves as they used to do there would not be a high cost of living problem." RENTED HEN STRIKES. Quits Laying, and Owner Has to Sue Neighbor For Rent. Sunbury, Pa.—When eggs touched 60 cents a dozen recently Philip Bradford of Sunbury discovered a new form of speculation. It was revealed in Squire Tlerney's court when Bradford brought suit against a neighbor to collect rental for a hen. Bradford has a lot of hens. Instead of collecting his eggs and selling them he rented out the fowls at 2 cents a day, the renter winning if the hens continued to lay properly. One of them was rented to James H. Snyder, but instead of laying she wanted to sit—and sit was all she did. When Bradford attempted to collect his rental Snyder refused to pay. Squire Tlerney gave judgment for 50 cents against Snyder. Washington.—Spo-Pe, the Indian man of mystery, an inmate of the criminal division of the Government Hospital For the Insane at Washington, has broken a silence of more than thirty-two years. Spo-Pe's self imposed disuse of his talking apparatus has continued ever since the first day of his incarceration at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, in 1882. Adjudged of unsound mind at the fort, he was sent to the government hospital in 1882. His silence was accepted by the army medical examiners as a convincing symptom of melancholia. The crime for which the Indian was imprisoned was the murder of a fur trader, an act of reprisal against the white race for the killing of his mother in one of the hostile interchanges between the United States troops and the Blackfoot Indians in 1879. It remained for Mrs. Malcolm Clark, one of a party of members of the Blackfoot tribe, herself a halfbreed, to reawaken Spo-Pe's slumbering vocal organs. Times without number during his incarceration efforts have been made to persuade Spo-Pe to talk. Not a syllable, not even a grunt, has the aged warrior volunteered. But when Mr. and Mrs. Clark, in company with James Perrine and Charles W. Buck, paid a visit to the insane hospital they explained to the superintendent that they had understood there was an Indian among the inmates. Mrs. Clark had Spo-Pe pointed out to her. With her husband she addressed him in the stilted but eloquent Indian tongue. Spo-Pe gave no indication that he understood. Then Mrs. Clark said to her friends, "Step back, let me whisper to him." She sat down beside the solemn red man and began a musical form of baby talk, "the language of little people," as the Indians call it. She crooned and crooned to the gray headed man until finally the stolled heart seemed to melt. "What is your name?" she said still. "What is your name?" she said, still in the infant dialect. "Spo-Pe," came from the lips of the stole. And for the first time since he entered the hospital Spo-Pe had broken his silence. Finding that his tongue would really perform its office, Spo-Pe's first question was: "Where is Three Bears?" Three Bears was a brother of the Indian who died in 1888. Since the breaking of the thirty-two years' silence Spo-Pe has expressed a willingness to discourse, but as the Blackfoot language is not universally known in the government hospital he finds considerable difficulty in obtaining companionship. Injury Restores Hearing. Loogooote. Ind.-Charles A. Bertrand, aged sixty-five, a harnessmaker, deaf fifteen years, met with a fortunate accident. He was stooping to pick a tool from the floor when a file fell from a bench and stuck in his ear. It was removed with difficulty. Soon afterward Bertrand found that his hearing had been restored. GROUNDLESS CHARGE. Neval H. Thomas Says Messrs. Horner and Hewlett are Officers and Have Done Nothing for the Advancement of the Negro. Denial by Chairman Jackson. District of Columbia Branch of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1940 11th St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Mar. 24th, 1914. My dear Mr. Jackson: Some time ago several gentlemen, Messrs. Horner, and F. H. M. Muray addressed your organization asking for a joint fund for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Independent Political League. I wish to state that this Association did not authorize them, nor does it want them to be asking for money in its name. These men contribute nothing to our great cause, but are constantly criticizing it. They are office seekers and politicians, and we are a group trying to secure the rights of 10,000,000 men. We are spending and being spent in this holy cause and we object to this attempt on the part of these people to ally themselves when appealing for funds. I am sending you under separate cover some literature I am sure will interest you. These men Horner and Murray, have given us a great deal of trouble in our efforts to keep them from "using" the N. A. A. C. P. Very truly yours. (Signed) NEVAL H. THOMAS. Washington. D. C. April 22d, 1914. To the District of Columbia Branch, To the District of Columbia Branch, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Ladies and Gentlemen; On March 25th I received a communication, from Mr. Neval Thomas, on the paper of your organization reflecting somewhat upon Mr. R. R. Horner and Mr. F. M. H. Murray, two very estimable gentlemen, who addressed our Citizens' Association, in Hillsdale, some months ago. I desire to say, in all fairness to the gentlemen named, that they took particular pains to inform us that they were there as representatives of the National Independent Political League, and when your Association was mentioned by the gentlemen they spoke in the highest terms, and most favorable manner of it; and further when our Organization, without request from them, voted to raise a sun of money to aid their Organization. these gentlemen very generously suggested that we divide whatever was raised with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and give them, The National Association, theirs first. I am sorry to see the spirit manifested in the communication I received. We are all striving in the same worthy cause, and should work in harmony. There is glory enough for all if glory is being sought. Some of the gentlemen who accompanied them have been working single-handed and alone in the interest of the race for over thirty years. These gentlemen may be politicians or office seekers, but I know they hold the interests of the race first, and would never attempt to use these organizations in furtherance of any ambition along such laudable lines. Would to God there were a hundred different organizations all striving to protect the manhood rights of our race, but all working in harmony. Yours truly, (Signed) A. F. JACKSON. Pres. Hillsdale Citizens' Association. R. R. Horner, Attorney and Coun- sellor at Law, Washington, D. C. April 27th, 1914 Your letter of the 25th, inst., to hand. I had hoped that after the meeting Friday night there would be an end to this very disagreeable subject. I said all I wanted to say in the meeting, and I was through with it. You can therefore intagine my surprise this morning when I read your letter setting forth the reasons for your spiteful attitude toward me, chief among which was my attitude toward you when I was on the school board, and my support of Dr. Waldron for President of the Association. Now Mr. Thomas, I was in hopes that you would avail yourself of the worst of a bad position and not open up this disagreeable matter again. In brief I desire only to comment on certain parts of your rather extraordinary letter. You say that I was grossly unfair to you when I disclaimed hostility to the Association, and charged you with hitting me in the back, and that the community in general think I am opposed to the Association. Pray tell me how you get that impression. Did you get that impression from the letter from the President of the Hillsdale Association in reply to the one you sent him? You charge me with contributing nothing to the Association, consult the books of the Association, and see if you can verify this statement. I think you will find that myself and wife contribute very freely to the Association, not only to this one but to others as well. If you will take the trouble to make this comparison I think you will find that you have made another blunder, added insult to injury, and made another statement which you cannot verify. You charge me with supporting Dr. Waldron; yes, I did commit this crime and it is none of your business. I have the same right to support him that you had to support Mr. Grimke. I desire to add that this reference to Dr. Waldron in your letter is entirely out of place, and if not repudiated by the Association, will be considered conclusive that we who supported Dr. Waldron are regarded as enemies by the Association. You ask me what I have done for the cause. I am too modest to answer this question, but if you will investigate my record that will be a better answer than I can give. You mention in your letter the fact that I am free to work for the race and that you are circumscribed from doing so by reason of the fact that you are House & Herrmann WHEN IN TOUCH GET YOUR Household Furniture of all kinds and description. Limit the man to visit. There is no other house of its kind in where the people can be satisfied. This house hat, will satisfy you. STRAIGHTEN YOU of all kinds and description. Leviathan Leviann 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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New Haven, Conn.-Just before the outbreak of the war with Mexico General Wood, commanding general of the krym, asserted that the United States needed a large reserve army, not for war, but to prevent war. General Wood originated the idea of students' camps of military instruction, and he was working up enthusiasm among collegians for the four camps which will be held this summer. He holds they will do much to develop officers for a volunteer army if needed. "There is a good reason for these camps," he said in addressing the Yale students. "The United States, always a great power, has recently become a world power in the broadest sense of the term. All sorts of new responsibilities are confronting us. We in the do not believe in a large standing my, but we are all of us believers in well prepared people—believers in it preparedness does not mean war, t that it means avoidance of war. We know that arbitration is very 'We know that arbitration is very active. Every soldier works for ar- POLICE American Press Association tion, just as every life saver on beach works for any apparatus or ce which will minimize the risk of ers. He is not going to shirk his to go into the storm when it as, but he is going to try to avoid unnecessary loss of life. We men responsible for the military mardness of the country—and I a preparedness in the technical we are doing all we can to get the atry ready. We know perfectly that the regular army is only a in the bucket and that when the ta is added you get but a slightly er drop. Consider that in the civil there were more than 2,000,000 in the army of the north and more a 1,600,000 in the army of the south then you will realize that our call 500,000 competent men is not a estimate. We don't want a large standing ity, but we want to see this idea worked out as in Switzerland, where bulk of the people have had a mili- 训 training without interfering with it economic or professional lives. is sums up what we want to do. No Jon has ever lived which allowed er people to do its work or its fight ing. It is all right to talk about arbitration, but there are certain vital questions which can never be arbitrated. They must be fought out. "In this country we must look to our volunteers in time of war. The great bulk of our fighting force comes from the people themselves. First comes the regular army, then the militia, but the greatest numbers and strength are from the volunteer forces. We can't take officers from the regular army and from the militia to direct these great numbers. We must instruct a volunteer officers' force in times of peace. "In these summer camps we will learn something not only of military art, but of military history. You learn something of military reserves. They are as important to the army as are substitutes in the football game when one of the regulars is injured. We must have men to build up organizations which can maintain the maximum strength. War at present is short and forceful. Two well organized forces meet, and the superiority is soon decided. "We look to young men all over the country to get straight ideas. Now, don't confuse with this idea any thought of militarism, for that to us means a large standing army, something which we do not want. We want a force sufficient for the needs of the day and to train by it a large reserve." BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDY ON "I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him. Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in thy sight."—Verse 15. THE setting of the parable of The Prodigial Son demonstrates the Master's object in giving it. He was seeking to show the Pharisees that their position respecting publicans and sinners was wrong. He here pointed out that this wrong attitude was likely to cost them their own share in the Kingdom. In the parable the father evidently represents God; and the sons represent the two general classes into which the Jewish nation had divided itself. The elder son class were those who sat in Moses' seat, professed loyalty to God, and outwardly endeavored to keep His Law. The younger son class were those who had misused their privileges as beneficiaries of the Divine promises and wasted their opportunities in self-gratification. This class of publicans and sinners felt their degradation, and longed to return to the Father's House. Spiritually ragged and hungry, they hesitated to go back. It was just such characters that Jesus especially encouraged to have confidence in the Father's willingness to receive those who came to Him penitently. The parable tells that some of this class returned to God, and because of their penitence were granted special manifestations of Divine favor. Application of the Parable. How grandly this parable illustrates the lengths, breadths, heights and depths of the Love of God! The best robe, shoes, etc., well represent God's provision through Christ for covering the imperfections of all who return to Him. The feast and the merrymaking well illustrate God's blessed promises, applicable to those accepted into God's family through the begetting of the Holy Spirit. This is the Marriage Feast of another parable.—Matthew 22:2-14; Isaiah 25:6-8. The Prodigal's Return. The Prodigal's Return. The elder brother was indeed bidden to the feast; but he was angry and refused to come, jealous that the father should receive the young spendthrift. The elder brother class did not show the right spirit for those for whom the Kingdom privileges were intended, all of whom must be meek, gentle, loving —copies of God's dear Son in their generous good will toward all desirous of coming to the Father. The Principle Applies Broadly. While this parable illustrated the two classes of Jews, the principle set forth applies generally. In the world there are noble characters, well-born and apparently the very ones to be chosen of God to be joint-heirs with His Son in the Kingdom. Nevertheless, the Scriptures make clear that not many such will be of the Kingdom class. (1 Corinthians 1:20-29.) This better class, represented by the elder brother, seem to feel that in contrast with the lower strata they are perfection itself: and that God would surely desire them. But all are sinners, whether they know it or not; and all should be honest enough to confess the fact. God requires this very honesty, this confession of our need, before Christ's merit can be imputed to us, covering our blemshes. God evidently wishes to have a class-honest-enough to acknowledge their own imperfections and unworthiness of His favors. Those who so confess He will bless with a knowledge of themselves and of His righteousness; whereas others, self-satisfied and unwilling to accept His grace in Christ or to confess their need of a covering for their blemshes, are not humble enough to be of the Kingdom class. Net Many Rich, Noble or Wise. Thus it comes that the majority of those who accept God's favor and become His children are from the younger brother class-not many rich, noble, learned or wise, but chiefly the poor of this world, rich in faith. They realize their wretched condition and their need of forgiveness and help; while frequently others who have lived more open lives do not recognize their need. A Perhaps no other parable has been so helpful to the poor and needy, the sluful and weak, who desire to return to the family of God. In this parable they see their own picture, and are encouraged. The Heavenly Father's character has been so misrepresented to them by the creeds of the Dark Ages that they fear Him and expect no kind reception from Him. As the proper thought of God's character reaches the poor and the deprived, they receive a suggestion of hope which assists many of them to full return and surrender to the God of all grace. The prodigal's declaration, "I will go to my father," represents what should be the attitude of all repentant ones—reliance upon the Heavenly Father's provision in Christ for forgiveness and their reception to His love and care, for their return to the fold and to harmony with God. OLDEST TWIN IS DEAD AT 95 His Brother, at Bedside, May Not Survive Shock. HAD LONG LIFE TOGETHER Last Family Reunion on Christmas Day Attended by Scores—They Were Both In Excellent Health Then—Remarkable Parallels In Life of Two Men—Each Had Eight Children. Babylon, N. Y.—Samuel Muncy, one of the oldest twins in the world, died at his home here in his ninety-sixth year. Samuel and his brother William were born on the old farm in Babylon on Christmas day, 1818, and lived there ever since. Last Christmas, when the twins celebrated their ninety-fifth birthday, there gathered about them at Samuel's home thirty of their many descendants, including sons and daughters, grandchild- Photo by American Press Association. THE MUNGY TWINS. dren and great-grandchildren. The twins sat side by side at the dinner table. On one side sat the children of Samuel and their children's children, and on the other sat the progeny of William. Samuel was not in the best of health then, and he grew weaker and weaker, until he succumbed. William was at his bedside, and it is feared that the shock of his brother's death will be more than he can endure. The two saw each other daily and the companionship of the two was keen. Both men were tall and stalwart. It was only until recently that they could not devote much time every day to some sort of labor. Together they took walks, and the friendship between the two was just as keen as when they went fishing or hunting together as boys. The two men were proud of their health and longevity. They attributed their long life to work in the open air and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco. They never gambled. Both were ardent Prohibitionists and argued hard for the cause. They voted for James G. Blaine for president, but since then they have been in the Prohibition party. The twins were descended from a long line of prosperous farmers. The farmhouse in West Babylon in which they were born is probably the oldest building on Long Island. The twins had two brothers and one sister, but they outlived them all by many years. The twins married about the same time. Samuel married Rebecca Samnis of Babylon when thirty years old and shortly afterward William married Mary E. Fleet of Brooklyn. They had been wildowers for many years. Both men were blessed with eight children each. Up to a few years ago four of Samuel's children and seven of William's were alive. Just how many descendants of the two are alive today it would be hard to calculate. At the time of their respective marriages each built a home for himself on the old Muncy farm. After the death of their wives the two went to live together, but they decided finally it would be better for Samuel to have his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Smith, with him, while William went to live with his son, Smith Muncy, nearby. The two men owned a great deal of property on Long Island. Both believed they would celebrate their one hundredth anniversary together, and they decided they did not want their children to wait for years to enjoy things, so they parceled out the property. There was some talk shortly before their last birthday of hiring a special car and sending them to Washington to see President Wilson, but the twins felt they were too old to make the trip, and the project was abandoned. CALL OUT FOR BACHELORS. Husbands Wanted For Sixty-five Widows Who Own Property. Syracuse, N. Y.—President F. M. Parsons of the village of Weedsport has sounded a clarion call for bachelors to come to his village and marry sixty-five widows who own property there. The town has too many widows, he says, adding that he knows sixty-five of them who would marry again. Somerville, Mass.—Adulterating sausages with sawdust was the charge on which a man was found guilty. Sentence was deferred to enable the judge to find a punishment to fit the crime. But Rich Virginian's Offer is Spurned by the Child's Mother. Washington. — According to women connected with the Florence Crittenton mission, which is having a baby exhibit here to help raise funds for a summer camp and hospital for babies, a wealthy man from Richmond, Va., offered to endow the mission with $500,000 if he was permitted to adopt a boy infant he had seen at the exhibit. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, national president of the Crittenton mission, said that the Richmond man told her that the boy, who is known as "Baby Frank," resembled a portrait of one of his ancestors. "Arrange for me to adopt him and I will have my lawyers draw up the papers turning over that amount of money to the mission at once," Mrs. Barrett quotes the man as saying. Mrs. Barrett said she told the man that the babies at the exhibit were not for sale and that she knew "Baby Frank's" mother would not consent to an adoption. In a statement Mrs. Barrett said that many persons who had visited the exhibit had remonstrated with the baby's mother because she refused to part with him. Almost all of them said, in substance, according to Mrs. Barrett: "They ought to think of the child and its future. This man is rich and can give the child every advantage." TO DRINK RUM 214 YEARS OLD That's What Wistar Institute's Directors Will Do in 1992. Philadelphia.—Jamalca rum 214 years old is promised to the directors of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy of the University of Pennsylvania at the centenary of the Institute. But the only directors who will be allowed to drink it will be, those who are in office in 1992, when a dinner will be arranged for them for the specific purpose of drinking the rum. The centenary of the institute will be in 1992. A bottle of Jamalca rum was left unopened in this city by British officers upon their evacuation of Philadelphia in the War of the Revolution, and its history since that time is recited upon a card tied to the neck. The card was written by Isaac Wistar, founder of the institute. Mr. Wistar inherited the bottle from his uncle, Franklin Jones. In 1894, two years after he founded the institute, he presented the bottle to the institute, with the request that it be held for the centenary celebration. The bottle is of green colored glass and holds about three pints. ADVOCATE NEW TIME RECKONING Revised Calendar Would Cause Easter to Fall on Fixed Date. Paris.—Recommendations by the international calendar commission at the meeting to be held in Berlin shortly by the International Association of Academies include the adoption of a perpetual calendar and a fixed, unchangeable date for Easter. The commission also advocates giving thirty-one days to June and September, thirty days to February and cutting down other months. The idea is to give to each month an equal number of working days, and it has been so arranged that the first, fifteenth or thirtieth of the month never falls on Sunday. So far as Easter is concerned, the commission will take no action unless it is sanctioned by the religious authorities. M. Lecolinte, director of the Royal Belgian conservatory, one of the men interested, says the warmest partisans of the proposed reform are not utopians, but practical men. They are, he says, financiers and business men. M. Lecolinte recalled that at a meeting of chambers of commerce the German delegates declared that German commerce lost millions of francs when Easter came in March. The two academic semesters, separated according to universal custom by Easter, are declared also to cause inconvenience in teaching, while spring vacations are apt to come during bad weather when Easter falls too soon. As to the actual division of the year, it is true, say those interested, that one is accustomed to the anomalles, but that it is nevertheless highly desirable to do away with them. BRIDAL HAT 59 YEARS OLD. Eler Wears It on Every Anniversary of His Wedding. Jamesburg, N. J.—When he was married fifty-nine years ago Matthew Eler, now eighty, promised his bride he would wear the silk hat he wore then on every anniversary of the wedding. Mrs. Eler died sixteen years ago. Eler wore the hat the other day. The hat is, a little less shiny than it was when Eler was a bridegroom of twenty-one, and it is slightly out of fashion. But he has kept it carefully and, with the exception of the year of Mrs. Eler's funeral, has worn it but once each year. Eler, who is one of the oldest pensioners on the relief fund of the Pennsylvania railroad, said that he hopes to wear the hat on many more anniversaries. "I bought it from John S. Stewart of New Brunswick, who died at the age of eighty-four two months ago," he said. "I remember the day well." VILLA LOVER OF FIGHTING BIRDS Offen Wagers $5,000 on Outcome of Chicken Fight. HIS GAMECOCKS ARE BEST Descended From These Bred by George Washington—Thinks Example Set In Cockpit Is Good For His Troops on Eve of Great Battle—Admires Their Unconquerable Nerve. Juarez, Mexico.—"I will fight this gamecock in the City of Mexico on the Fourth of July," said General Villa, as he exhibited a favorite fighting rooster to Mars Cassidy, the famous starter of race horses, who has handled the barrier at the Juarez race track over a hundred days a year since its organization five years ago. The gamecock in question had just won its twenty-fifth victory and was one of a shipment of forty-eight gamecocks which Villa had received from the breeding farm of Colonel S. J. Hester of Hester, S. C., who has been supplying the rebel chieftain with fighting birds for several years. "General Villa," said Mr. Cassidy, in telling of this incident, "is the most remarkable man I have ever known. I have met every revolutionary leader in northern Mexico. Many of them were highly educated, and the history of these continuous revolutions reveals the names of several great men, but Villa, a man of meager education, is, according to opinions held by eminent military men, the greatest organizer, the greatest fighter and the best loved [Image of a man in a military uniform with a high collar and a cap with a badge.] and worst feared man in the republic of Mexico. His followers idolize him, his fame is constantly spreading in Mexico, and recruits are joining his army at an enormous rate. "I have had ample opportunity to study the man, both at the race track and at the cockpit, where he freely mingled with his officers and men. His companions included Alfredo Madero, brother of the martyred president, who is interpreter for General Villa. It is generally believed that the expenses of the Villa campaign are being defrayed by the Madero family. "Villa is what might be called a natural born sportsman. He frequently wagered $5,000 gold on a favorite fighting cock. "I have won enough on this gamecock to defray the expenses of the army for two months," remarked General Villa as he handed me the picture of the bird referred to in his remark already quoted." General Villa receives a dozen gamecocks from his South Carolina breeder every week. These birds are moved with the military equipment in a special wagon. It contains twenty-eight separate coops and is drawn by a pair of mules. Before the commencement of a battle General Villa has gamecocks fought before his soldiers and urges them to emulate the heroic conduct of these feathered gladiators, as did the ancient warriors in the dim and distant past. One familiar with ancient history is forced to believe that this illiterate but able fighter in one respect at least resembles Themistocles, who introduced cock fighting into Athens after the Persian wars. The incident is thus related: "When the famous general was leading the Athenian army against the Persians he saw some cocks fighting, and he took occasion from this circumstance to animate his troops by observing to them: "These animals fight not for their gods or country, nor for the monuments of their ancestors, nor for glory, nor for freedom, nor for their children, but for the sake of victory and that one may not yield to the other,' and from this topic he inspired the Athenians."—Vide Aeilan. Var. Hlst. ii.c. 28. Church Installs a Band. Lancaster, O.-A new plan was put into effect in church circles in this city when the First Methodist Episcopal church engaged the Citizens' band to play at Sunday school. The band marched through Main street and took part in the musical program at the church prior to the opening of Sunday school. FARM WAGES OF $3,500,000,000 AGREEMENT MADE YEARS AGO Farmer Promised "Johnny" All the Money That Had His Name on It Now His Name Appears on All Banknotes—Thousands Printed Each Day at Washington. New York.—John Burke, United States treasurer, made a bargain nearly fifty years ago by which he was to be paid a bonus on his services for work done at that time, when there seemed little hope of its fulfillment. When Chester Ferry has fulfilled his part of the contract with Mr. Burke he will make the latter easily the richest 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 neighboring farmer and received for his pay the small sum of 50 cents a day. When the time came for his employer to pay him for his season's work Ferry said: "Johnny, I want you to know that what I can afford to give you now for your work I regard as insufficient pay. I am sure you will think that you have earned more, for you have been diligent and painstaking and have never complained. So while I can pay you only 50 cents a day for your time I'll agree to hand over to you in the future all the money you can show me with your name on it." "I accepted his proposition," says Mr. Burke, "but I gave it little consideration during the intervening years until the beginning of the present administration, 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 obligations." This is the letter in part: When we lived neighbors on adjoining farms in German township and I was a little mite of ten you frequently employed me in corn husking and corn planting times and on various other occasions for which services you paid me 50 cents a day. You will remember, however, that at the time of settlement you assured me that you were not certain that 50 cents was a sufficient remuneration for my services and that in addition to the payment of 50 cents a day you were to turn over to me all the money that you got with my name on it, which agreement was perfectly satisfactory to me and was duly accepted at the time. Fearing that you may have forgotten this obligation on account of lapse of time, I am calling your attention to it now, for of course I know that all that is necessary for me to do is simply to call your attention to it, that your part of the agreement will be faithfully kept. The bureau of engraving prints Mr. Burke's name on 1,080,000 notes of the United States currency a day. In addition to this vast daily increasing obligation on the part of the farmer, Mr. Burke has signed his name to a number of $10,000 certificates. At this rate the bureau of engraving prints currency bearing his name to the amount of $2,876,000 a day, which by the end of his term as treasurer will net him $3,500,000,000 should he be fortunate enough to realize upon his youthful investment. INCREASING POTATO CROP. Growers Pay Too Little Attention to the Seed They Use. Washington.-The American potato grower is charged with paying too little attention to the selection of seed potatoes by the department of agriculture 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 seed is conservatively estimated at not less than 10 per cent. Such an increase, based on the average production or the average production of the last five years, says the statement, would amount to over 34,000,000 bushels, having an approximate value of $21,000,000. Of the many causes which operate to produce a low average potato yield in the United States, it is pointed out, impure seed is an important one. European potato growers, especially 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 to Take One Is Apprehensive. Sandusky, O.—According to Sergeant S. N. Cooke of Cottage Mack, State Soldiers' home, a veteran from near Urbana, admitted the other day, sighed when ushered into the receiving barracks anteroom to await his turn in the barracks bath and remarked: "Well, I'm seventy-two years old, and this is going to be the first time I ever took a regular out and out bath." The old man made no effort to conceal a feeling that if he survived the first operation he might try it again according to Sergeant Cooke. Women Oppose Smoking. Portland, Ore.—Because they say cigar and cigarette smoke in the city hall and courthouse, where they go to register, makes them sick. Portland women have started a move for a city ordinance forbidding smoking in public buildings. 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 Steamer Angler Open for Charter for RIVER VIEW ANGLER The Excursion Boat Angler may now be chartered for excursions. Churches, Sunday Schools, Societies, and all other organizations. Apply at wharf or at 1259 Third St., N. W. Louis Jefferson, Manager MR. JAMES W. GRAY Removed to 636 D Street Northwest. Popular With the People—An Up-to-date House—Ladies and Gentlemen Served in Style. Mr. James W. Gray, popularly known as "Jerry Gray," whose place of business commanded a popular observation at 1313 E Street Northwest, has removed to 636 D Street Northwest. Mr. Gray is no doubt one of the best known and gentlemanly hosts in the United States. When you say that you are going to dine at Gray's that is enough to assure you that you are going to get the best in the market and cooked to your taste. Mr. Gray's New Place of business is in close proximity to all car lines. It is a building four stories high, with a large double salon dining room, newly renovated, and painted and large mirrors on either side and at both ends and electric lights. Back of the main dining room is a small dining room well fitted up and will probably accommodate a dozen couples. Back of this room is a well equipped and sanitary kitchen, with two up-to-date cooks. Upon the third and fourth floors are six beau- tifully furnished bed rooms. These rooms are for the accommodation of out-of-town male guests and no other. This house is strictly first-class, where husbands with their wives may be accommodated with meals in the public dining rooms. The first floor is the buffet and back of buffet is a row counter and 10-cent lunches secured. No lady-or gentleman need to hesitate coming to this up-to-date house. Mr. Gray means to see that his place is kept in first-class order. Parties and banquets will be served in the public dining rooms, which have been finished with costly flooring, furniture and beautiful curtains. The house is now doing business and all of Mr. Gray's friends and patrons are cordially invited to visit him and inspect the premises. The grand opening and reception will take place as soon as everything is completed. Full particulars will appear in The Bee. Don't fail to go to Gray's new place—636 D Street Northwest. By the will of the late Mrs. Eliza A. Henry, of Pennsylvania, home and foreign missions will be greatly benefited. A pension of $500 a year is provided for Fannie Crosby, the blind lymn composer. An Old and Respected Citizen Died in New York. Leaves Three Sons. Mr. George W. Thomas, for many years a resident of this city and late of New York city, died on Sunday, April 19, at 7.35 p. m., at the home of his son, Mr. John D. Thomas, 230 West 63d St., New York City. The funeral service for Mr. Thomas was held on Thursday, the 23d instant, in the beautiful funeral parlors of Mr. Wm. Chas. Perry, 2393 7th Ave., New York. The body was interred in Maple Grove cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Thomas had been a member of Simpson M. E. Church for several years and at the time of his death was a trustee of the church. Rev. W. S. Jackson, pastor of Simpson M. E. Church, paid an eloquent tribute to the deceased on last Sunday evening when the house was packed to hear this eulogy. Surviving Mr. Thomas are his wife, Katie Thomas, three sons, John D. and Arthur G. Thomas of New York City, and Noble N. Thomas, a clerk in the Recorder of Deed's office, this city. Palace Laundry. The Palace Laundry, 731-733 9th Street Northwest, is now a new building, under recent improvements 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. PRICE 25 CENTS KLOCZEWSKI & CO., Washington, D.C. Dear Sirs:—Will you kindly send me by Express C. O. D. a one-hal' dozen bottles of "Wellland'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. 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 Eye Street Northwest. 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. Mme. C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower For sale at the branch office— 1123 First Street Northwest. Dec. 13 tf HARRIS' New Blood Tonic FOR IMPURE BLOOD RHEUMATISM LIVER AND KIDNEY COMPLAINTS TONES UP THE STOMACH CURES INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION AND REMOVES THAT TIRED FEELING SOLD WITH A GUARANTEE MANUFACTURED BY HARRIS CHEMICAL CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. The Carletta Hair Dressing School—Special Department for Colored Pupils Teaching them in few weeks Hair Dressing, Manicuring, Chiropody and all branches of Beauty Culture. Mme. Carletta's specialty. Strathtening the Hair, bleaching the skin. Pupils entering the following week very low. Girls having experience tuition free for short time. Call for particulars. 705'8th Street, N. W. 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 Accomo- dations in the District 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 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. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS. At least three farms in England are devoted to the cultivation of butterflies and moths. So the Kansas city schools have shortened study days one hour! The latest in industry is the gathering and selling of acorns in Arkansas to supply eastern nursery firms with material for forest planting. The Colored Infantry Battalion of Pennsylvania, was the first troop to offer service to President Wilson in the event of war between Mexico and the United States. "The Columbus Independent" is the only Negro newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, and is edited by Floyd J. Snelson. Another Negro newspaper and the only one, has been started at St. Joseph, Mo.. Mrs. Ida Walker being the editor and proprietor. Both of these newcomers promise to be bright stars in the newspaper field. The "Signet" is the name of the new weekly newspaper which will make its appearance in Brooklyn on Friday, May 1. Herbert C. Miller will be its editor, and Charles A. Brown will be the business manager. The highest point in Nevada is Wheeler Peak, which, according to a chart published by the U. S. Geological Survey, is 13,055 feet above sea level. The average elevation of the state of Nevada is 5,500 feet. Only four states—Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico—are higher. Beautiful Furnishings For YOUR Home Have Bright and Attractive Surroundings If You Want a Contented Family If the children want to spend their evenings away from home is it partly your fault? Are you making the home surroundings as pleasant and attractive as you might? We will help you in this matter. You can make your home bright and cheerful—a place where your children will be happy—where you will be proud to invite your friends. Have nice furnishings, and don't be afraid to let the children use them and they'll stay at home. It will mean some expense, but we can make that easy for you—much easier than you think. Come in and talk it over with us. Tell us what you can spare each month—$5, $8 or $10, or perhaps only $1 each week—and let us show you how greatly we can make this add to your home comfort. Our furniture is handsome and reliable. Sleect what you like and have it charged, with easy weekly or monthly payments. There will be no notes to sign; no interest to pay. The plainly marked credit prices are as low as the best offers of cash stores, and we will sell you more goods for the same payments, or the same amount for smaller payments than any other firm in Washington. Peter Grogan and Sons Co., 817-823 7th St. Christian Xander's 353 Foreign and Domestic Wines and Distillates ESTABLISHED 1865 Largest and Most Select Stock in the Entire Country DELIVERIES TO ALL SECTIONS 909 Seventh Street No Branch Houses Phone Main 274 The Vian Correspondence School of Skorthand and Typewriting The Vian Correspondence School of Skorthand 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, Battle of Vera Cruz, the city captured by Admiral Fletcher, April 21, 1914. War with Spain began April 21, 1898. Resolution adopted by Congress April 25 declared that a "state of war has existed since April 21," the day Spain rejected McKinley's ultimatum. Mexican war began on April 24, 1846. The Civil war began April 14, 1861, with the fall of Fort Sumter. The Revolutionary war began April 19. Rev. S. C. Pixley died at Durban, Natal, South Africa, Feb. 21, at the age of 84 years. He went as a missionary to the Zulus in 1885, coming to America only three times during the 29 years. Mr. Pixley's name will always be associated with the first publication of the whole Bible in the Zulu language in 1883, as it fell to his lot to superintend the printing of it at that time by the American Bible Society. He is survived by one son and three daughters, one of whom lives in Africa. In the Negro theological seminary in Ugunda, Africa, the first ordination to the priesthood took place last year. The two Negro priests or- dained are Rev. Victor Wormerake and Rev. Basil Bunn. Cambridge, Mass., has had a colored man for the past thirty years as a member of the police department as a sergeant. He is F. Arthur Robinson. Raleigh, Tenn.—Aunt Maria Riley, one hundred and fourteen years old, formerly a slave in the family of Col. Jim Riley, is dead. Her oldest child was buried three days ago at the age of 89. Her youngest, a son, lives at the age of 62. There are 44 Chinese holidays, deducting this from 360 days, there are 316 working days, or one year according to the lunar calendar. The indications are, that Dr. W. Bruce Evans, former principal of the Armstrong Manual Training School, will be appointed principal of the Atlantic Avenue School, Atlantic City, N. J. Sunday, May 10th, at the New Howard Theater The Hoffman Band will have given thirty three (33) concerts at the Playhouse Beautiful. The Soloists announced include: Mr. Jacob E. Jones Baritone Mr. Ross Robinson Bass Tuba Mr. Louis N. Brown Pianist Chicago, Illinois. ```markdown ``` For Rent—By Thomas Wakler, Attorney. 106 Benning Road, 6 rooms... $8.40 105 Benning Road, 7 rooms... 12.00 2054 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 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 corner 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- or three competent young ladies, familiar with bookkeeping and pewriting. 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 Trade With the House That Trades With You. KIDWELL & TURNER FRESH—MEATS—SMOKED Poultry a Specialty Phone Main 228 916 Louisiana Ave Northwest Drives Malaria out of the System BABEK for Chills and Fever Keep it in Your Bed since Christmas For Sale by all Breggins