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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE THE NEGROES OF TOPEKA Facts About Negroes of Topeka and the Success They are Making in Business (By Ralph W. Tyler) Topeka, Kan.—In my perambulations over the country, seeking information respecting the status of the race in the business world, I have not, as it might be suspected, confined my visits exclusively to the South, although that is a most interesting field for exploration, study and exploitation. I have visited sections in the East where many of the race study Greek and Latin, with no expectation of ever using a Greek hieroglyphic or ever tracing the Latin derivative of an Anglacized word. I have visited the Middle West, where the hurry chase for the "almighty dollar" precluded any rest, and I have visited out here in the Sun Flower State, the state an Ingalls made famous by his matchless eloquence, and a "Sockless' Jerry Simpson essayed to turn back its clock of progress with his wild, rustic theories. When I came to Topeka, I admit, I was not prepared to believe that the Negro in this section was making such splendid strides forward in the business world I find evidenced on every hand. The success the race is achieving out here in a business way furnishes a denial to the statement that it absolutely requires obstinate discrimination and segregation to usher the race into the business world. Out here in Topeka the Negro votes, his vote is counted, and he has been honored with responsible and lucrative offices. Out here his homes are not segregated, and he has a pretty fair chance to "mix with the populace on terms of intimacy without restriction." They have a strong Local Business League here in Topeka, and in all my travels I have noted that wherever there exists a strong, active business league there we find the race making wonderfully rapid progress along business lines. While here I met, and was the guest of, Mr. John M. Wright, whose name and high standing is the pride of Topekans, white as well as black, and who is a man that has been uniting in his efforts to push Topeka Negroes to the fore in business, and in every other honorable way. There are forty-two lines of business activities in which the Negro is actively represented in this city, and fifteen trades and six professions in which he is engaged. Although Topeka has a Negro population of but 5,000, the race here has $155,000 invested in business enterprises, and owns $700,000 worth of real estate. Kansas is a great farming State, and I find the Negro farmer out here keeps pace with the white farmer. There are one hundred successful Negro farmers and twenty Negro gardeners whose cultivated acres are either within the city corporate limits or so close thereto as to make them Topekans. There are seven Negro physicians, one dentist, two pharmacists, five lawyers, three trained nurses, and thirty teachers who make up this far western capital's Negro professional class. Here I find, as I did in many places in the South, our women are crowding into the business world and competing most successfully with the men. Mrs. John M. Wright manages, and with marked success, too, a theatre; Miss Leia Thompson is a successful baker, Mr. C. M. Ray conducts a chiropody parlor, Mrs. Elsie Clark leads in the millinery business, and Mrs. Guy manages an insurance office. Out here I find the bill poster is a Negro, John Spotts, that Ed. J. Bass is a florist, that J. M. Allen is a boilermaker, and these are lines of activity in which one seldom finds men of the race. There is a pretty fair recognition, out here, of the "brother in black" in the distribution of political spoils as is shown by the fact that the city gives employment to thirty, the county four, the State to fifteen, and the Federal Government to eight. It was really encouraging, and even a revelation, to find the race represented in so many trades here where competition is keen, and the dominant race, numerically, greatly exceeds the Negro. Topeka boasts, and very properly, too, of one Negro baker, one blacksmith, one boiler maker, one cabinet maker, nineteen carpenters, seventeen chauffeurs, two electricians, two glaziers, one harness maker, two hand and two steam laundries, two stereotypers, three shoe repairers, two second-hand goods stores, seven plumbers, two merchant tailors, five job printers, four newspapers, one photographer, one picture framer, three flour, feed and grain dealers, three hotels, eight painters, two paving and sewer contractors, three cigar stands, twelve brick and stone contractors, three dressmakers, twelve dyers and cleaners, two confectioners, two life insurance companies, five cafes, five coal and wood dealers, six ladies' tailors, twelve music teachers, twelve grocers, and several other trades and business are represented by the race. The public schools of Topeka are most admirably conducted, perfect harmony prevailing, and both pupils and teachers intelligently, and enthusiastically responding to the demand for more and better education for the race. Prof. John Harrison, a former Ohioan, is making great success here as principal of the high school, and the Board of Education has given him a fine, modern, fireproof building. Prof. Roundtree, principal of one of the graded schools, is just as enthusiastically and intelligently equipping Negro boys and girls for advancement. Frequently one forms an opinion of the occupants of a home by the character of the books the library contains, and frequently one judges a town by the character of the homes he finds. One is at once impressed with the neat, tasty, and beautiful homes he finds here owned and occupied by members of our race. These homes tell the story of progress being made by the race out here in Topeka. And the interior arrangement of these homes bespeak the quiet refinement of their occupants. I met, here, the irrespressible Nick Chiles, editor and sole owner of The Plaindaler. Mr. Chiles is one Negro newspaper owner, at least, who is the living evidence that a Negro newspaper can be made to pay. The Plaindaler has one of the most complete newspaper plants of any Negro publication in the country, and is located in its own commodious building on the main street. The editor and owner also possesses, in fee simple, and without incumbrances, a beautiful city home and a fine farm just out from the city, along with other oids and ends that represent money made, and incidentally saved, in publishing a Negro newspaper. The Apex Theatre, on the main street, in the very heart of the business district, is a pretty and finely appointed Negro enterprise which Mrs. Wright manages. Some years ago, in a national convention, a rural delegate arose and, waving his arms wildly, startled the convention with "What's the matter with Kansas?" "She's all right" cane the chorus response. If some one should inquire of me "What's the matter with the Negroes of Topeka" I would promptly and enthusiastically respond, and because of the personal knowledge I have of them, and because of the progress I have witnessed among them, "They are all right." And I would add: "Wish they had many imitators in other cities." A Kansas Negro does not have to remain here to register success, for, follow a Kansas Negro where you will, in that congested metropolis on the Hudson to the Nation's Capital, where undue leisure and kaliedoscopic administrations make for business sterility and suave dissembling, or down where Governor Colquit's fifteen rangers, in their humorously spectacular patrol of the Texas border, became a nightmare to a "watching and waiting" foreign policy, and you will find he is wooing and winning success. And those coming to Topeka become innoculated with this virus from success everywhere prevalent here. VOL. XXXV,NO. 1 THE NEGROES PUSHING RAPIDLY THE NEKAS KANSAS CAPITOL PROOF THAT THE TIVE TO BUSINESS Facts About Negroes of Topeka Making it (By Ralph Topeka, Kan.—In my perambulation respecting the status of the race, might be suspected, confined my visit that is a most interesting field for me have visited sections in the East with Latin, with no expectation of ever using the Latin derivative of an Anglae West, where the hurry chase for the and I have visited out here in the Smade famous by his matchless eloquey essayed to turn back its clock of when I came to Topeka, I admit, I Negro in this section was making such success world I find evidenced on every out here in a business way furnish absolutely requires obstinate discrimination race into the business world. Out vote is counted, and he has been offices. Out here his homes are not chance to "mix with the populace on our They have a strong Local Business travels I have noted that wherever a league there we find the race making less lines. While here I met, and whose name and high standing is the black, and who is a man that has been Negroes to the fore in business, and are forty-two lines of business active represented in this city, and fifteen traengaged. Although Topeka has a Negro population $155,000 invested in business-enterprise estate. Kansas is a great farming State here keeps pace with the white farmers Negro farmers and twenty Negroes either within the city corporate limits Topekans. There are seven Negro five lawyers, three trained nurses, and far western capital's Negro profession places in the South, our women are competing most successfully with them and with marked success, too, a theatrical baker, Mr. C. M. Ray conducts a chic in the millinery business, and Mrs. G. Here I find the bill poster is a Negro florist, that J. M. Allen is a boiler which one seldom finds men of the race. There is a pretty fair recognition, the distribution of political spoils as in employment to thirty, the county government to eight. It was really find the race represented in so many and the dominant race, numerically, boasts, and very properly, too, of one boiler maker, one cabinet maker, nine two electricians, two glaziers, one laundries, two stereotypers, three shear stores, seven plumbers, two merchant papers, one photographer, one picture dealers, three hotels, eight painters, two cigar stands, twelve brick and stone dyers and cleaners, two confectioners cafes, five coal and wood dealers, six twelve grocers, and several other trade race. The public schools of Topeka are not many prevailing, and both pupils andally responding to the demand for me Prof. John Harrison, a former Ohio capital of the high school, and the Boa modern, fireproof building. Prof. Row schools, is just as enthusiastically and girls for advancement. Frequently one forms an opinion of actor of the books the library contains by the character of the homes he finds neat, tasty, and beautiful homes he finishes of our race. These homes tell the race out here in Topeka. And the bespeak the quiet refinement of their impressive Nick Chiles, editor and sole is one Negro newspaper owner, at lee Negro newspaper can be made to pay, complete newspaper plants of any Neg located in its own commodious build and owner also possesses, in fee simply fultiful home and a fine farm just out and ends that represent money made, a Negro newspaper. The Apex The heart of the business district, is a preface which Mrs. Wright manages. Some years ago, in a national conversation his arms wildly, startled the conv Kansas?" "She's all right" came the inquire of me "What's the matter promptly and enthusiastically response edge I have of them, and because of them." "They are all right." And I wow tators in other cities. A Kansas Negro does not have to rent a Kansas Negro where you will, in the son to the Nation's Capital, where institutions make for business sterility a Governor Colquit's fifteen rangers, in the Texas border, became a nighttime policy, and you will find he is wowing to Topeka become innoculate where prevalent here. Ministers' Union. The 'Washington Ministers' Union, rev. A. C. Garner, president, closed its sessions for the summer of 1914, last Monday at the Y. M. C. A. The meeting was informal. Personal experiences and anecdotes were plentiful and the ministers present were in good spirits. Rev. Dr. J. E. Moortland gave some interesting experiences of Y. M. C. A. pilgrimages hither and yon: Rev. Drs. W. H. Brooks and L. E. B. Rosser contributed some valuable information on anthropology. Dr. F. J. Grimke gave a fresh story of the prize-taking class—about a breacher. Rev. D. E. Wiseman inhaled in reminiscences. Dr. Brooks made the closing prayer. This Union is the oldest and most representative preachers meetings in the United States. It was founded by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Crummell and had an unbroken history of more than thirty-three years—a generation. The meeting was adjourned to meet October 5, 1914. MOUNTAIN VIEW HOTEL Mr. Martin's Opening June 20. Mr. W. W. Martin begs leave to announce the opening of Mountain View Summer Resort, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., June 20, 1914. A big dinner will be served to the excursionists Sunday, June 14. The Mountain View House 'bus will meet all guests at the station and convey them to the hotel. M. H. Will Be the Next Appoint Him. JUSTICE BARNARD HEARS EN-COMIUMS FROM ASSOCIATES OF BENCH AND BAR. His Years of Service Subject of Addresses. Member of District Supreme Court Makes Farewell Address—Receives Token of Esteem. Having completed his "three score years and ten," Justice Job Barnard took leave Monday of his associates on the bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, where he has served for fifteen years. The justice also bade farewell to the members of the bar, who had crowded the largest courtroom at the city hall to hear his last announcement from the bench. Justice Thomas H. Anderson, who becomes the senior justice by reason of the retirement of Justice Barnard, voiced on behalf of the bench the deep regret experienced by the court, because of the determination of Justice Barnard to sever relations with his associates and to retire to private life. Justice Anderson also told of his personal regret for the loss of the very friendly association of Justice Barnard. The members of the bar, many of whom are indebted to Justice Barnard for aid and advice while he practiced law here for a quarter of a century before his elevation to the bench, showed their appreciation of his ability, kindly consideration and universal courtesy, both as a lawyer and a judge, by presenting to him a handsome silver service suitably inscribed. Speaks for Members of the Bar. After the presentation had been made, Attorney R. Ross Perry on behalf of the bar told the retiring justice of the very high regard entertained for him by those who had experienced the good fortune to know him as a friend, brother lawyer and impartial judge. The retirement of Justice Barnard, the lawyer said, was a source of personal sorrow to the members of the bar, although they appreciated that his untiring devotion to duty during the past fifteen years fully merited the right to lay aside the burdens of the judicial position and to spend his remaining years free from the cares of office. District Commissioner Siddons spoke on behalf of the municipal authorities, expressing the esteem in which Justice Barnard is held at the District Building. "The Commissioners feel," he said, in part, "that you have more than measured up to their view of the important part that the justices of this court play in the municipal activities of the District." Mrs. Barnard, wife of the retiring justice, and a number of lady friends occupied the jury box. The three sons of Justice Barnard, two.of whom are members of the bar, were also present. The silver service presented to Justice Barnard was purchased with a fund to which every member of the bar, white and colored, male and female, contributed. It bears the inscription "Testimonial presented to Mr. Justice Job Barnard by the bar of the District of Columbia upon his retirement from the Supreme Court of the District, June 8, 1914." The service comprises a tea set of five pieces and kettle, a waiter, water pitcher and tray and a set of three comports. Each piece is three-quarter engraved. Farewell Address. "As clerk, lawyer and judge," said Justice Barnard, in his farewell address. "I have been going in and out of this courthouse day by day for forty-one years; and when I leave today and the habit is broken, I shall feel its loss keenly. If I should consult my feelings alone, while in my present health and strength, I would hesitate to say farewell; but when I consider the case in the light of the law and all the circumstances, my judgment compels me to decide upon retiring." After discussing the law providing for retirement of judges, Justice Barnard said: "Believing this law to be a wise one, and that Congress did not enact it merely in the interest of the judge, but more especially in the interest of the court and the people. I feel it my duty to comply with the invitation and thus to make way for a younger man." JUDGE JOB BARNARD "The Noblest Roman of Them All." He Retires with the Love and Conidence of His Fellow Citizens. Justice Anderson in concluding his remarks expressed the regret of the justices at the retirement of their associate, said: "As your brethren of the bench, between whom and yourself there has always existed the warmest friendship, we beg to express to you our deep regret at your retirement from this court, in which you have so long presided with honor and distinction. "We recognize in fullest measure the great value of your work as a jurist, your unyielding devotion to the highest ideals of your profession, your deep concern for the honor and dignity of the court, the singleness of purpose with which you have sought to do equal and exact justice, and the conspicuous ability and care with which you have uniformly administered your high office. "When a long and busy life has been crowned with success, and he who has achieved this distinction has so lived and labored as to deserve the praise and gratitude of his fellows, the honor that is due him should not be reserved as a mere tribute to his memory, but should find appropriate expression while the man himself can hear the plaudits of his fellows and feel the warm impulse of their appreciation and affection. "While this is not the time, nor is it the place, for undue praise, it is eminently fitting that we here pause to pay just tribute to the personal and official character of the retiring justice, and appropriate to ourselves for our own good and the good of others the lessons of his well-spent life." Tribute of Friendship. With voice faltering from emotion, Attorney E. Ross Perry, one of the leaders of the bar and a personal friend of Justice Barnard for more than forty years, made the presentation speech, and told the retiring justice of the place he holds in the love and veneration of the bar. Mr. Perry paid a glowing tribute to the jurist as a soldier, judge and man. He referred to the stolidity of the Americans, especially those of Anglo-Saxon origin, but suggested that now and then some occasion arises which pierces this coldness and indifference and the American becomes as emotional as the one born under the southern skies. "The farewell to the beloved justice was such an event," Mr. Perry said. The speaker referred to the number of letters received from members of the bar inclosing contributions to the fund for a testimonial to the justice. He especially referred to a letter from a colored lawyer, who, in sending a check for $2, expressed his regret at not being able to make a large contribution, but declared his heart went with the contribution. Another instance of a remarkable contribution, Mr. Perry stated, was when a lawyer who had met with reverses asked permission to contribute only 25 cents, saying he could spare no more. Mr. Perry eulogized this contributor as the "only giver of them all." His quarter represented himself and the privation made. His was the higher favor than that given to the rich man who cannot give in the same sense, the orator declared. The speaker first told of the character of Justice Barnard as a soldier and, referring to Gettysburg, declared that the boys in blue were then the friends of Justice Barnard and those in gray were his foes. But today the survivors of both sides are his associates and friends. As a judge, said Mr. Perry, Justice Barnard was "safe and sane and possessed the supreme wisdom of common sense." As a man, the speaker said, Justice Barnard is happy in his church life and with his, family and has won the admiration of all. In conclusion Mr. Perry said the justice had earned the right to rest in the 'twilight of his life. "May this twilight be long and sweet," was the final hope expressed by the speaker. Represents the Commissioners. Commissioner Siddons said: "I have been delegated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to record the official esteem of the authorities of the District, who realize how large a part this court plays in municipal activities in this District. It is in the power of the court to aid greatly the efforts of the Commissioners, who also realize the possibility that such aid might be withheld. It is the duty of the court to point out error if error has been committed, and to correct these errors. But this should be done with judicial impartiality, not in carping criticism, but with judicial firmness. When no error has been committed, that fact should also be pointed out from the bench. "The Commissioners feel, Justice Barnard, that you have more than measured up to these requirements." The Commissioner then added his personal regret at the retirement of Justice Barnard. FOR PLAYGROUNDS BENEFIT Public School Children Give Physical Training Exhibition. Before a large assemblage of parents, friends, fellow-pupils and teachers, more than 5,000 children of the colored public schools Tuesday afternoon-gave a physical training exhibition for the benefit of the school playgrounds, at the American League Ball Park. Miss Anita Turner, assistant director of physical training, was in charge. Ring games, folk dances, drills and exercises with and without apparatus were included in the program. Every grade from the first to the eighth, inclusive, was represented, and practically every school of the four colored divisions had representatives on the field. Pupils of each division were marked as a distinctive division by ribbons and other decorations. Each grade had some special exercise to give. None was more enthusiastically received, however, than the winding of the Maypoles by the youngsters of the third grades. All of the features seemed to entertain. Majestic Theater The Griffin Sisters, this week at the Majestic, were more than entertaining. The crowds are on the increase nightly. Billy Harper, Joel Sims; Miss Daisy Brown, Bradford and Jeanneette are all good. Miss Daisy Brown is one of the most fascinating dancers upon the stage. The play this week was the "Two Crooks." It is full of fun and merriment. The Griffin Sisters, Joe Simms and Billy Harper are the principal participants. The choruses are excellent. The Majestic is on the popular ascendency. Don't fail to attend this week and next week especially. June 8, 1914. Mr. Eugene Jones, formerly a high school teacher in this city, but now assistant director of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, of New York City, was a recent visitor in the city and guest of Mrs. and Miss Clark, of 1511 W. Chestnut St. Mrs. and Miss Clark are the mother and sister of Mr. John Clark, an associate of Mr. Jones in the social work in New York. Mr. Jones renewed many old and cherished acquaintances while here. The Segregation Ordinance is still upon the municipal statute books, but the colored people have not ceased their efforts to rid the city legislation of such an obnoxious measure. The present scheme is to have the measure tested in the State Courts by the colored lawyers of Louisville, and attorneys and clients are sanguine of success. Funds are now being raised in all the local colored churches to prosecute the fight in the courts, and on to the United States Supreme Court, if need be. There are some few skeptical heads, who denominate themselves "Race leaders" who are clamoring for the employment of white lawyers, but the indications are that public sentiment will sweep them aside, and the ultimate victory will be a great achievement for the Negro race brought about through the efforts of Negro lawyers. Dr. Chas, W. Dorsey, of Cleveland, Ohio, a Dental graduate of Howard University, is in the city to take the Kentucky dental examination, with the intention of practicing in Louisville. Dr. Dorsey is the guest of Lawyer Al. A. Andrews, an old college chum. Only two colored men are taking the examination. Dr. Theopolis, Brock, from Chicago College of Dentistry being the other one, and indications are that both colored men will pass the board with creditable marks Dr. Dorsey is going to return to Cleveland for the summer, but expects to open up his office in Louisville during the early fall. The Central (colored) High School Athletic Association held its first annual Track and Field Meet at Manual High School Park, on May 30th, and a large and representative crowd was present. The contest was promoted through the efforts of Prof H. F. Nixon, who was a stellar athlete while in Howard University, and was one of the trib who made up the greatest back field ever gotten together on the Howard University Varsity football team. The purpose is to make the Track and Field Meet an annual event, and the favor with which it was received assures it of success in the future. All the contestants showed that they had been well trained, and some very good marks were hung up during the meet. Central High School with forty points showed the way to the Una Voce Club in the events among the Seniors, and Western School was victor over Eastern in the Junior events. Madame C. J. Walker, of Indianapolis, Ind., was the recent guest of Miss Lula Flint, of 1425 West Madison Street. Madame Walker was the recipient of many social honors while in the city. Mr. Will Morris, of Indianapolis, Ind., was also a recent guest in the city, being the guest of his mother at 1934 West Magazine Street. The "Josephine" furnished apartment house, at 623 West Walnut Street, recently opened by Mrs. Josephine Wright, provides the best equipped place of its kind ever run in Louisville for the accommodation of local and visiting guests. Visitors in Louisville have always complained that they could find no respectable public place among the Negroes where they could be accommodated, and the Josephine has set at rest all fears along that line. Out-of-town people visiting this city will find all the comforts of modern life at the Josephine, and the prices surprisingly reasonable, too. $5,000 Robbery 'A $2,000 robbery case that the daily papers seem to give the credit to the white detective was the fine work of the two colored detectives, Beckley and Claudell. These two men are making good, notwithstanding the veiled jealousy of certain white officers and one or two colored officers included. All these men want is a show, and Commissioner Siddon made one mistake when he appointed them. It is hoped that Commissioner Siddons will see to it that a few colored officers are appointed on the force. The Bee would suggest a new Board of Examiners. There is a village in Normandy called O. Two Chinese towns are named respectively Y and U. There is a river Y in Holland and one of the bays of the Zuyder Dee bears the same brief name. France has a river and Sweden a town by the name of A. The seven wonders of the world are: Aeroplane, 150,188 votes; wireless telegraphy, 38,385; radium, 4,159; locomotive, 3,094; grafting of human tissues, 3,078; diphtheria serum, 2,015; dynamo, 1,098. A SURE FOUNDATION THE WORD OF GOD BASIS OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH Many Losing Faith In the Bible as the Word of God—Cause of This Great "Falling Away"—The Light of Today In Conflict With the Darkness of the Past—Difference Between Faith and Credulity—Basis of Confidence In the Bible—Proofs of Its Inspiration. Proofs That It Is Not Man-Made—A Firm Foundation For Full Assurance. June 7.—The Photo-Drama of Creation, which is being exhibited throughout the United States, is awakening new interest in the Bible. Many who have seen the Photo-Drama have expressed their satisfaction with its beautiful presentation of the June 7.—The Photo-Drama of Creation, which is being exhibited throughout the United States, is awakening new interest in the Bible. Many who have seen the Photo-Drama have expressed their satisfaction with its beautiful presentation of the prominent features of Scripture and with its clear explanation of some points which long have puzzled critical people. Whoever sees it thereby obtains a grasp upon the Bible as a whole. The public are certainly grateful to Pastor Russell, through whose instrumentality this wonderful work of art is being exhibited free. Today the Pastor's text was, "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth."-2 Timothy 2:15. We are all sadly aware that not many of the people of God have the full assurance of faith mentioned in the Scriptures, the speaker said. Indeed, we must all admit that the great majority are losing, not only their faith, but also the foundation of faith. For years the great tendon have been u by undermining belw While they do not upon faith itself, wth that faith may have grand quality of el the Scriptures instr they proceed to do t of work that Rob Thomas Palne trie undermine confider the Word of God. the very basis of a ```markdown ``` After we have what have we left belief? 'We have r Higher Criticism this means that t... of reasoning along these lines many would conclude that the Bible is merely a collection of choice pieces of ancient Jewish literature, written by men who really knew less than do we. The Pastor then demonstrated that those who reject the Bible as the Word of God have no other foundation for whatever faith they may possess than the guess of this or that man, or of themselves. He pointed out the well-known fact that all men are more or less imperfect in judgment; and that if men were to picture God there would be as many different styles of God as there are different persons. The speaker illustrated his point by calling attention to the numerous creeds formulated during the Dark Ages and to the different kinds of Gods those different creeds have pictured. The noblest minds of that time were deceived into worshiping the worst kind of images that could be made. He declared that while the heathen nations were making their ugly idols out of wood, stone, clay or metal, the nations of Christendom were printing atrocious descriptions of God the like of which could not be moulded out of clay or fashioned out of anything else. He was not finding fault with our forefathers, but with the real instigator of the creedal misrepresentations of the Almighty. As St. Paul declares, "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them." The Cause of the Falling Away: The Cause of the Falling Away. Then the Pastor showed that the eyes of many Christians are not wide open for the same reason that St. Paul gave the Corinthian Church. The god of this world has fastened the bandages so tightly that it is with difficulty that any get the eyes of their understanding open. Again, St. Paul foretells that in the end of this Age "many shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons." The Pastor declared that we have come to the time when many have denied the faith and others are denying it—good people, intelligent people, ministers of the Gospel in the various pulpits, professors, theologians, college presidents—confessing that they have lost the basis of their faith. We are not to suppose for even a moment that these people who are falling away from the faith are wicked. On the contrary, they are well-intentioned many of them fine people. But they have gotten under a delusion. In the light of the New Dispensation the delusions of the past are coming up constantly for criticism. Indeed, so great is the conflict between the light of the of God, be nees. Man drinking an and sln men the real God he is sure t so made that Notwithat years of falling, there is in every man's brain, unless he be an idiot, the quality of reverence, which impels him to desire to worship his Creator. But, according to St. Paul's argument in his letter to the Romans, although man was created perfect, there came a time in the history of the fallen race when men were unwilling longer to retain God in their minds; and then the Almighty gave them over to reprobate minds, to do improper things, and to sink lower and lower in degradation. Then it was that the "doctrines of demons" were inculcated into the human mind, so as to keep men in ignorance, darkness and superstition. The god of this world blinds the minds of those who believe not-blinds them by these various false doctrines which once God's people believed. The Pastor then gave the two views of the Almighty which once obtained in the thoughts of many Christians. One side of our minds, as it were, pictured God as the great representative of Satanic energy, bent upon destroying nearly all the creatures whom He had brought into the world. The other side, somehow, imagined Him as kind, loving and merciful. But we did not know how to balance these two sides. Fortunately for us, however, we got the devilish side subordinated, and thought of God as loving, and by going to Him daily in prayer we tried to forget the devilish part. The whole world has been more or less in this condition. But, thank God! said the Pastor, we are in the time when the path of the just is shining more and more unto the perfect Day. That Day is now so near that we can almost see its dawn. In a little while the Church of Christ will have been fully gathered—out of every people, nation, kindred and tongue, out of all denominations. The Pastor then explained how the consecrated people of God may have full assurance of faith. In His Word God tells us that by nature we were children of wrath even as others; that Christ tasted death for the whole world; and that by and by He will give human life, restitution life, to all who will receive it; but that meantime the call is for those who will separate themselves from the world and be "a peculiar people, zealous of good works"—of everything that is God's will—and ready to lay down their lives in doing that will. Those who know that such is the teaching of Scripture have a good basis for faith. Those who have during the thousand years of the Reign of Christ. To the consecrated the Father has fulfilled His promise by giving them a measure of HIs Holy Spirit. Lest any should misapprehend his meaning, the Pastor explained that the Holy Spirit is not now manifested in the same way that it was in the early Church. At that time it was manifested in a miraculous way—with outward evidences, such as tongues, miracles of healing, etc., attesting that those who received these gifts were acceptable to God as members of His Church and had been begotten of the Holy Spirit. But after the Church had been established, there was no further need of such manifestations. Throughout the remainder of the Gospel Age the Holy Spirit has manifested itself only by the fruits of righteousness—meekness, gentleness, patience, brotherly kindness—love. When the miraculous gifts ceased, these fruits and graces of the Spirit continued. The Pastor concluded with an exhortation that the people of God see to it that they daily grow in grace and in knowledge, becoming more and more like the Lord Jesus in character. Our Lord said that every tree is known by its fruits. Are we bearing good fruit? he asked. Are we having more and more fellowship with God and with our Lord Jesus? Are we getting into deeper and broader sympathy with all of the Household of Faith? Are we coming more and more into sympathy with the poor world in its fallen condition, and with every-good effort to help them up out of such condition? If so, then we have evidence not only that we have believed in the right Book and in the true God, but that we are the children of God and heirs—Joint-heirs with Jesus Christ our Lord. We shall be tested as to our willingness to suffer with our Lord. This does not mean suffering for wrong-doing; for St. Peter reminds us that a Christian who suffers as a busybody in other men's affairs is not suffering for Christ's sake. Perhaps one-half of the suffering in the world and in the Church results from busybodying. But the people of God are not to suffer as evil-doers. They may be misrepresented as evil-doers, but such suffering is not for evil-doing, even if they be so blamed. But "if any man suffer, let him suffer as a Christian." The speaker reminded his hearers that Jesus Himself was accused of being an evil-doer, a blasphemer, an Injurious person; and so were the Apostles—all their persecutions were on that score. But what the Apostle Peter says is that if you suffer let it be for something right that you have done, in harmony with your covenant, with God, in harmony with God's Word and will. Those who suffer as Christians should rejoice therein; for the Spirit of God and of glory rests on all such, and they may have full assurance of faith. Gospel and the varkness of the creeds that people "see stars," so to speak, and are so astonished that they do not know what to think. Next the Pastor demonstrated that the great difficulty with people who are losing their confidence in the Bible as the Word of God is that they are not familiar with its contents. Many are still holding to the Scriptures in a blind way, hoping against hope that they may not lose their faith. They are afraid to read and afraid to think, lest they lose the very small amount of faith which they possess. If only such know it, they never really have had a well established faith. Faith Versus Credulity. The Pastor proceeded to point out the difference between the faith and that which is often misnamed faith, but which in reality is credulity. The faith commended in the Scriptures is that which relates to things which God has promised. Our forefathers, he declared, had too much confidence in men. They swallowed the creeds of the Dark Ages; and the more absurd the proposition, the more faith they thought they had. They should have asked, "Where has God declared such things?" He maintains that we should accept by faith only what the Lord has assured us of in His Word. We have made a great mistake as to what faith really is, be thinks. Faith must have a basis, and that basis must have some intelligent presentation. To believe in the Bible as the Word of God merely because our parents did so is not faith at all; heathen peoples do just as well as that—they believe as their parents did, without investigation. But to have faith in the Bible we must have proof that it is of God; and to have that evidence we must understand the Word. The Pastor holds that most people are so perplexed that they do not know what to believe. And yet, he declared, at this very time when Higher Criticism is undermining the foundation of all faith, and when many intelligent people are afraid, to think along Scriptural lines, Bible students are finding the Word of God to be the most wonderful Book in all the world. God's Plan for human salvation was never so well understood as just now, in the midst of all the turmilu in the denominations, in the great institutions of learning and in the world. Proofs That the Bible Is Inspired. The Pastor then discussed some of the so-called findings of Higher Criticism—that Moses did not write the Pentateuch, nor Isaiah the greater part he prophecy which bears his name. These critics, he declared, are try to prove something by the outside the Bible. Their so-called findings believes to be a matter of mere swork, although, as some of them very bright men, they put up an argument in some things. They is saith the Prophet 1 isil did not write the book which is his name-or if he did, that it filled before the Christian ern, withstanding Jesus' assertion to contrary. The Pastor, like all reasoning Christian people, relies upon the internal evidence of the Bible that it is the Word of God. That internal evidence cannot be doubted. The Old Testament prophecies and the teachings of the Lord and the Apostles so interlock and depend one upon the other that no human being could possibly have thought out the great Plan therein found. All the way from Genesis to Revelation the parts so co-ordinate and fit together that one great, harmonious Plan of the Ages is the result. Another strong proof of the inspiration of the Bible is furnished in present-day conditions, which were foretold by the Prophets thousands of years ago. Bible Not Man-Made. Then the speaker considered some of the objections to the Bible usually brought forward by infidels. He showed that it is a weak argument indeed which credits priests and knaves with writing the Sacred Book. If Catholics had made the Bible, they would naturally have put into it many things which are not there; for instance, they would have told about the Mass, about Purgatory, hell-fire and eternal torment, of which there is nothing said; they would also have intimated that we should use beads and images in worship; they would have had something about the immaculate conception of the Virgin, and about St. Peter's being the first none, etc. If, on the other hand, Presbyterians had written the Bible, they would have put in a great deal about Hell, about elect and non-elect infants, etc. Methodists would have left out all about Election-making one's calling and election sure, the Very Elect, etc.-for they do not know what to do with these texts. Our Calvinistic friends would have left out the texts about free grace; for these do not fit with their ideas of election. All these denominations would have inserted something in regard to "the trinity;" for they all hold that this doctrine is the very essence of faith, although it is not mentioned even once in the Bible! The Pastor's conclusion is that clearly the denominations did not make the Bible From its own standpoint, the speaker continued, the Bible is very simple and fully explains itself. He did not wish to be misunderstood as "poking fun" at the denominations; for he realizes that these dear people mean well, and he loves all who love the Lord. But he believes that the whole world is greatly injured by the false conceptions of God's character handed down from the Dark Ages, and that many people are going after sin today who would. If they had a right knowledge Full Assurance of Faith. A TRIBUTE TO THE NEGRO WOMAN. From "Fifty Years of Emancipation." (From the Colored Alabamian.) By William Pickens And yet again, some people say that Harriet Beecher Stowe exaggerated cruelty in the character of Legree, while here we stand fifty years after in the midst of barbariities which Mrs. Stowe did not even impute to Legree. And when we say that innocent black women have even in our time been chained to trees with lighted pine piled round their bodies, after having their fingers cut off joint for joint and gimlets bored into their breasts and jerked out; and that they have been shot and burned for even timidly and passively defending their own virtue,—when we say this, let us both hope and pray that our postery will be so innocent of such outrages and so incredulous of such stories that they will likewise call us a liar! Their disbelief will do them credit; it may be a sign of their own civilization. And, is there any creature upon whose head the perils of this unnatural situation have fallen more than on any other? Yes,—the Negro woman. For two hundred and fifty years she was absolutely without protection, and for the last fifty years, if protected, she has been protected sometimes at the cost and always at the peril of the life of the male member of her household. Is there a record anywhere else in human history that wife, sister, mother, bore such a burden borne so well—and lost no more? Endowed with all the affections of her race and denied all the tenderness of her sex, for the first two hundred and fifty years her life was one incessant travail. But out of her original vitality of womanhood and motherhood she has for fifty years of partial freedom cheerfully supplied the sinews of her keeping. Virtue is a thing that is tried and proven, not a thing that is protected and innocent. Therefore the most virtuous creature in the United States of America is the virtuous Negro woman. Her resisting and enduring powers are of the highest order. In this she is a prototype and prophecy of what her race is to be if it will overcome. Her character is often assailed in fact and her reputation more often assailed in slander. But those of us who know the Negro race know that the virtuous Colored woman's name is legion and that her ranks are increasing. It seems almost absurd to feel the necessity of saying so—but the boldness of the slander elicits the defense. This woman has honored her sex by proving the virtue of womanhood as few groups of women in the history of the world have ever had the privilege of proving it. The worst elements of both races have been her pursuing enemy and she has run the gauntlet of the double fire and delivered the destiny of a race. INCOME TAX COLLECTING I FROM INSIDE iderson Tells of Solving lem at Custom House. e Advice Regarding New Law. Urges Certified Checks for Payment Due Tuesday, June 30. New York City, June 7. Collecting the income tax at the New York Custom House has been "making bricks with an unusually small tale of straw," as expressed yesterday in the quaint and cheerful phrase of Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue. That the Collector and his clerical staff have had to do a great deal of work with an insufficient force of employees is what the phrase means. When the time to collect the income tax came recently Anderson found he had no special staff at all to do the work. The income tax collecting work is practically all attended to in one month. The Collector didn't want to put the Government to the expense of supporting a special income tax collecting staff all the year round for just four weeks' work. On the other hand, he couldn't engage a temporary force for the single month's work, because some of the temporary employees might have divulged the confidential business information the big business men of the town gave in describing their incomes. Anderson ended by working his regular cashier department overtime and by taking on temporary employees for jobs in which J. A. L. C. they could learn no secrets. * Pay by Certified Check. Anderson issued a special personal appeal to all the income tax payers of this district yesterday. The collector begs to remind them that the safest and most satisfactory way to pay the tax is by a certified check. An uncertified check isn't legal and will be returned. Cash will be received; but the collector's cashier department is too overworked to issue receipts immediately. * "Checks must be certified, however, in order to prevent future complexities. Some persons, who came here recently to pay their income tax, thought we were discourteous in making them have their checks certi- No use hunting around for good things to eat and drink. What it takes to satisfy your hunger and thirst we have IT. Our Cafe is a quiet and attractive place for Ladies and Gentlemen to lunch and dine. Serving Luncheons, Dinners and Banquets Our Specialty. Highest grade of food and Liquid Refreshments served to our patrons. THE OLD TAND Where you find the newest Beverage to order from the freshest viands of has passed the test of the best eppe LOUIS P. COS 1312 Park Aven MADRE'S PARK, E OPEN FOR PICNICS, LAWN MEET This park has a spacious pavilion dining accommodation, basket-ball It is beautifully lighted by electric cars to bring patrons to the city. Take cars marked Berwyn, River get off at gate. Where you find the newest Beverages of the Season. Meals cooked to order from the freshest viands of the market. Our midday lunch has passed the test of the best encircures. MADRE'S PARK, Eckington, D. C. OPEN FOR PICNICS, LAWN FETES AND ALL OPEN-AIR MEETINGS. This park has a spacious pavilion 50x50, a floor as smooth as glass, dining accommodation, basket-ball facilities, excellent water, swings. It is beautifully lighted by electricity. Cars to the gates and special cars to bring patrons to the city. Take cars marked Berwyn, Riverdale, Laurel or District Line and get off at gate. FOR TERMS, DATES, ETC., SEE MANAGER, MISS M. A. D. MADRE, 2227 CLEVELAND STREET, N. W. fied. We merely did this because it was law. The taxpayers can give cash or a post office order. But a certified check is best of all because it is a receipt in itself. Check Best Receipt. "It is the taxpayer's very best evidence in case he subsequently sues in the courts for a refund. Our limited cashier department, too, cannot possibly send out receipts as rapidly as payments are made; so the certified check method of payment is the most satisfactory both to us and to the taxpayer. "Certified checks for payment of income taxes in this district have been coming to the Custom House at the rate of from 500 to 1,00 a day," Anderson said. About nine-tenths of the income taxpayers are paying by certified check. Income taxpayers who persist in trying to pay by uncertified checks may get into a lot of trouble at the end of this month. All income taxpayers who don't pay by June 30 will be subject to the 5 per cent income tax penalty. Will Enforce Penalty. Taxpayers who send in uncertified checks at the last minute may not have time to have them certified before July 1. The 5 per cent income tax penalty will be collected sternly from them. The Collector's office will remain open June 30 until 5 p. m., instead of 4.30 p. m., in order to receive belated taxes. "We are pretty much up to date now, in spite of our short-handed cashier facilities," Anderson said, "and I don't think many people in this district are going to he delinquent in paying their income tax, from the way things look now. The 5 per cent penalty is too heavy, especially when an additional one per cent a month is added on. An informal and unofficial school of instruction has had to be conducted at the Custom House to explain to income taxpayers just how much they should pay under the new law, Anderson said. The school was so successful that many of the income-taxpayers were enabled to compute their incomes and estimate their tax without employing accountants or lawyers. Hazy to lawyers, Too. More advice has been given to lawyers than any one else. Anderson said. They wanted to know, not what the law itself was, but how the Treasury Department was going to interpret it. The most notable and learned lawyers—and not the young ones—wanted the most information. "Few serious complaints about the principles involved in the law have been made to us," said the collector. "Some of the complaints have been ludicrous. A surprising number of business men complained that they hadn't kept books or accounts for forty years and that it was an outrage to make them begin doing this now. We told them that they need merely keep sufficient accounts to show their incomes. They swore brave Spanish oaths. Finally we told them that if they would buy books we would show them how to keep them. We actually made good on this offer in some cases, and were rewarded by having the business men come back to us later to say they had never known so much about their business as they had since bookkeeping methods were installed." Income Tax Secrets. (From the New York Press.) To organize and conduct the work of collecting the first annual income tax for the big and wealthy New York district is a man-sized job. Internal Revenue Collector Charles W. Anderson, though short-handed, has set this brand-new piece of Government machinery moving with few serious complaints, and, so far, with none of the ugly scandals that would come from divulging big business secrets by temporarily engaged and uncontrollable Government employees. Lest some leak concerning the incomes of the district's business men or corporations should occur, Collector Anderson, when the additional temporary work of collecting the income tax was imposed upon his bureau, refused to engage outside help for his regular cashier department, believing he could count upon his permanent men alone to keep the income tax secrets of the district's big business. The short-handedness of the Collector's overworked cashier department has made the issuing of re- Phone M. 1033. ages of the Season. Meals cooked of the market. Our midday lunch picures. STLEY, PROP. nue Northwest. Eckington, D. C. FETES AND ALL OPEN-AIR WINGS. In 50x50, a floor as smooth as glass, facilities, excellent water, swings. City. Cars to the gates and special erdale, Laurel or District Line and ceipts for income taxes a somewhat tardy process. Many income-tax payers are critical and irritated. But it is much better that Collector Anderson's bureau should be slow in issuing receipts than that uncontrolled persons temporarily employed should get an opportunity to misuse some large taxpayer's business secrets. THE WASHINGTON BEE Next to the Ablest Journal in the City—What the Anniversary Issue Will Contain. 1st. A history of the progress of the colored citizens of Washington. 2d. The old citizens and what they stood for, to include the colored society of Washington since 1856. 3d. The establishment of Negro banks and why they failed. 4th. A history of the famous Lotus Club and its members. 4th. Colored office holders from the days of the late Frederick Douglass to the present time. 5th. Past and present Negro leadership and what it stands for. A comparison of past and present Negro leadership. 6th. Negro Journalism in the District of Columbia and why it failed. The editors and what they stood for. 7th. Our public schools, past and present. 8th. Negro Democracy and what it is. What it accomplished and what it lost. 9th. Brief history of reconstruction. 10th. District Militia from the days of Major C. A. Fleetwood to the present time. 11th. History of the 16th day of April celebration, the double parade and the Cleveland order and the part The Bee played in it. 12th. Colored lawyers, their success and failure. Who they were and who they are now. 12th. Race discrimination and what brought it about. 13th. Colored physicians, their rise and fall. Who they were and who they are. 14th. Frederick Douglass and John M. Langston compared. B. K. Bruce and his great personality. James Hill, John R. Lynch, Robert B. Elliot and others. 15th. Booker T. Washington, Dr. James E. Shepard, Dr. J. B. Dudley, three of the race's great educators. What they have done and what they are doing for the uplift of the Negro. 16th. The National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People. What it stands for, what it has and has not accomplished. 17th. The Democratic South and the colored American. 18th. The disloyalty of the so-called Black Cabinet with but one exception. 19th. Treachery, deception and demagogery, social, religious and political exposed. This special anniversary edition will be issued on or about June 15th next. Those who wish to advertise in this number are requested to send in their matter as soon as possible. 20th. The coming Odd Fellows B. M. C. and the great secret that led to the defeat of Benjamin Davis at Atlanta. Fifty thousand copies will be issued. Address, W. CALVIN CHASE, 1109 Eye Street Northwest Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. 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. Court. CHAS. S. WILLIAMS, Attorney. THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 20010, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration C. T. A. on the estate of Maria A. Comstead, 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 30th day of April, A. D. 1915, otherwise they may be law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 30th day of April, 1914. DAISY C. SMITH, 7028 Lamont St. N. W. Seal. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills of the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. THGS WALKER That the subscribers, of the District of Columbia, have obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration on the estate of David L. Lewis alias J. D. Lewis, 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 subscribers, on or before the 5th day of May, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under our hands this 5th day of May. 1914. JOHN M. GEORGE, 338 Indiana Avenue N. W. AUGUSTUS W. GRAY. 609 F Street N. W. (Seal) Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court. AUGUSTUS W. GRAY, Attorney. NOT EXPECTED IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the Indianapolis Freeman.) It is given out that the Army and Navy Department at Washington has issued an order that no colored man should be accepted for either branch of the service. This sounds rather silly taking it that the race question has influenced the decision. We are proceeding on the theory that the order was really given, and as we have reason to believe. The order and the expressions of Negroes, those who insist that they will not fight Mexico, are of a kind. Both are silly enough. We are fully aware of the meaning of the Negroes who thus express themselves, but such expressions puts us further from the goal of our ambition—total citizenship. We hope that our country will not find it necessary to war with Mexico. But in the event we have no right to question the wisdom of the ordering, at least, to the extent of hesitancy. Our country permits free speech. We can oppose the war in our arguments, but this opposition is not meant to thwart the will of the powers that be by open rebellion. At this noonday of civilization highly civilized countries do not thoughtlessly plunge their peoples into war. We concede the ministers of our affairs wisdom and understanding. To rebel against the majority opinion is no part of the plans of advanced peoples. England is battling with its Specialty made of Constitutions and Pamphlets BUSINESS OFFICE and PLANT, 1109 EYE STREET. N. W. PHONE MAIN 4078 ... Heating Bar TIP MAGIC IS 9 IN LONG SHAMPOO DRIER MEG CO THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER MAILED ARY WHERE IN U.S.$100 POSTAGE PAID SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY GROUER Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minn. not to individuals. A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF HAIR IS A LADY'S CROWNING GLORY.—And every lady can have it if she will use the Magic. 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Webb's book and picture show it and prove it by the Bible. A picture 12x18 of Jesus with wooly hair and his holy angels at his second coming. And a book showing that Jesus was born out of the black tribe, according to Biblical history. This famous picture in colors and the Biblical book both for $1.50 postage prepaid. The following comment is upon the same, from the Seattle, Wash., Daily Times: The evidence submitted by Elder Webb tending to prove that the Saviour of mankind was a black those who oppose the proposition upon their proof. Now that the chain of evidence presented by Mr. Webb seems so complete, it is strange that none of the delvers in the Biblical records have advanced the proposition before. Will submit terms to agents. County of Ulster, refusing to sacrifice a governmental tenet, as peculiar as the condition is. In our own country it is pretty nearly the same. Negroes are "standing out from the war" because they are poorly treated as citizens. We are with them in a manner, as a further protest against civil wrongs. But when the gong of war sounds, should it sound—God forbid that it should—it is our duty to stand up with the country. Its disaster is the disaster of all. Its shame our shame. Many a man has been done to "death" by the courts, robbed of his means and pauperized until his "third" generation, and still he is a good patriot. The Negro's case is something similar. The integrity of the nation is to be preserved in order that we continue to enjoy what we do. We mutter because of civil wrongs and which is right; but we should not get away from the fact that the Negroes in America are a blessed people, by contrast. And if we will consider everything in the light of things with men as they concern nations one is not much out of the way to say that we are a "chosen" people. This has in mind the opportunities to do and to be. We say without a fear of successful contradiction, that the American Negro's opportunity in every way of progress is unlimited. We are prodigal with our opportunities pitching them to the "swine." as if were. Our citizenship is our one serious trouble. But whatever be the cause, thinking it be owing to the expressions of the Negroes heard and seen in print, the authorities should be in 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. better business than making faces at the race. We are not to be dealt with wholesale, but individually. What one, two or half dozen individuals may say is not to be set down as the sentiment of the entire race. The authorities are doing less than their duty, or exceeding it when drawing lines on any class of people who are citizens because of the nationality. The government is not a thing of sets of men. It stands for all or it stands for nothing. It may endure in spite of the fact that it stands for nothing, but like individuals, unless a change of heart comes about it will strike a snag some of these times. It is against the religions we embrace that wrong should forever triumph. The Negroes are citizens. ALLEN CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR A Great Meeting Last Sunday. The Allen Christian Endeavor Society of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church held an unusually interesting meeting last Sunday evening, May 31, at 6 o'clock. It was the occasion of a missionary service and in charge of the chairman of that committee, Miss Bella Smith. After opening with devotional exercises, led by the mistress of ceremonies, the scripture lesson was read by the president of the society. Topic for discussion was "Converted Souls" and is found in Malachi 3:7-12, and was discussed by the pastor, Rev. C. H. Stepteau, who gave some very interesting points and food for thought. 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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. II. Coleman, 1522 12th St. N. W. Hours 4 to 7 P. M. Electric lights over entire grounds and new station for passengers, thus avoiding ferry across the creek. For terms and further particulars call or drop a postal to Jas. II. Coleman, 1522 12th St. N. W. Hours 4 to 7 P. M. King's Business," which was rendered in honor of the distinguished guest of the evening. Qwing to the absence of Miss L. Lawson, of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Society, who was scheduled to introduce the speakers, that part of the program was taken by the chairman of the Missionary Committee. In a short, plain and fitting speech Miss Smith introduced to the audience Miss Victoria Booth-Cliibborn, granddaughter of the late General William Booth, who was the founder of the Salvation Army. Miss Booth-Cliibborn and her mother are here in America for a few days and are evangelists for the continent of Europe. They recently held very successful sessions in London and France. Miss Cliibborn is quite an enthusiastic and forceful speaker, having a magnetic personality, which held her audience spell-bound until the final words fell from her lips. Converted in Paris at the age of 12, while listening to one of her mother's lectures, she has since been actively engaged in slum work abroad. She related some interesting incidents which took place during their stay in Paris, showing that even at the present time there is opposition to the spreading of the gospel of our Lord and Saviour. She told how one of their converts died a martyr to the cause of Christianity. Among many other things she emphasized the fact that a bad temper in a Christian man or woman is inexcusable, for when God comes into our hearts and cleanses them, His glory is sufficient to take away all sins, and if that besetting sin, namely, an evil temper, still remains, then we need to go to the mourning bench again and ask for faith and strength to remove it. Miss Clibborn further went on to say that education would not save, wealth would not save, culture would no save, good manners would not ELECTRIC PARK rutes ride from city, on the W. B. is magnificently located on high ed on three sides by salt water, large pavillion, flying horses. the historic scenery, and boats for people. lands and new station for passen- the creek. ulars call or drop a postal to Jas. Hours 4 to 7 P. M. save, and that nothing but the re- ligion of our blessed Master would save us from our sins. For except as we become as little children we shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. After an eloquent and soul-stirring address lasting over a period of forty-five minutes, Miss Clibborn was presented with a handsome bouquet of roses, given to her by the members of the Intermediate C. E. Society. The regular collection of the evening was taken and then a substantial offering was given to Miss Clibborn. She also received fifteen or twenty yearly subscriptions to a journal published by her mother and herself. A large attendance was present and all declared themselves to have been wonderfully benefited by the lecture of the evening. Several other societies of the District were represented and the gathering was somewhat a union meeting. A small boy sitting next to a very haughty lady in a crowded omnibus kept on sniffing in a most annoying manner. At last the lady could hear it no longer, and turned to the lad "Boy, have you got a handkerchief?" she demanded. The small boy looked at her for a few seconds, and then in a dignified tone came the answer: "Yes I have, but I don't lend it to strangers." London.—Out of 750 English girl candidates for the beauty chorus at the Empire only nine were selected, and they were only "passable," according to Manager Butt. The custom of a West African tribe living on the banks of the Beune River is, any man who desires to marry must first submit to a flogging. The bridegroom-elect is placed in the center of a ring of men, who strike at him with leather thongs. He must maintain an ex- Legal Notices Thomas Walker, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Holding Probate Court—No. 20765, Administration Docket. Estate of Alice J. Scott, Deceased. Application having been made herein in probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters Testamentary on said estate, by Creed W. Childs, it is ordered this 3rd day of June. A. D. 1914, that Samuel Lockett, Dillard Lockett, Sidnor Lockett and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Tuesday, the 14th day of July, 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. Attest. (Seal) JAMES TANNER. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. THOMAS WALKER, Attorney. Zeph Moore, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 30854, Administration Docket. Estate of Margaret Brown, Deceased. Application having been made herein in probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters Testamentary on said estate, by Mary E. Brock, it is ordered this 3rd day of June. A. D. 1014, that John Brown, Sr., John Brown, Jr., and Margaret Brown, only heirs at law and next of kin of the said Margaret Brown, deceased, and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Tuesday, the 14th day of July, A. D. 1014, 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 "Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD, Justice. Attest: (Seal) JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. ZERH MOORE, Attorney VARDAMAN UNMASKED A Defense of the Colored Race By Prof. H. E. Jordan, Of the University of Virginia. James K. Vardaman, of Mississippi, et ai., Published under the auspices of The Washington Bee. Address: The Washington Bee, 1109 Eye Street N. W. Washington, D. C. Or Dr. Geo. H. 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The Bee is creditably informed that the new city post- master knows nothing about .the employees of his office or the sub- station from which the colored men were discharged. The hold- over Republicans, The Bee is told that many of these hold-over Re- publicans in the government depart- ments are more or as‘much inimical to the colored employees as_ the Democrats, The colored printers in the Government Printing Office inform The Bee that conditions there are better under Democratic rule than it was. under the Repub- Tican understropper. They make no reflection on ex-Public Printes Donnelly, because they claim _ he was not responsible for the treach- ery of his understmnner Mr Donnelly left too m But the present Put appointed a human have some respect employees. It is about all of the Re stroppers who hay to colored employe moved, with but The Bee makes tl gestion to the city is from Texas. to inclined to believe that the new city postmaster is so inimical to the colored employees as existing con- ditions would ‘indicate. Those col- ored men who have been dismissed are meh of intelligence and highest culture, and, therefore, the _utter- most consideration should be given to their cases. * The Bee, ventures to ask the city postmaster whether he approved the wholesale dismissal of .colored men in his office? ‘The Bee wants to know wheth- er the new city postmaster favored the methods resorted to by these Republican hold-overs? A few of the ridiculous methods that have been resorted to certainly could not be approved by the city postmaster. , About three years ago a colored collector of letters missed a box; a few days ago he was called upon to answer a rule to show cause why he should not be dismissed. Now this alleged offense happened over three Years ago, and if the offense had been criminal the rule to show cause is rather remote aud accord- ing to the principles of law, the so- called offense is barred by the stat- ute of limitation. His answer to the tule was not sufficient or convinc- ing enough, hence the colored car- rier was removed. . Another individual's pay was re- duced from $1.200 to $1,000 be- cause of some minor offense. An- other colored clerk has been asked to show cause why he should not be removed, because three years ago he failed to pass a cértain examina- tiou, and was transferred to an- other section or division in which he is now making good and has made good since his transfer there years ago. Now. this colored clerk was neither asked to show cause nor dismissed then, but a few days ago he was asked to show cause why he should not be reduced or dismissed for an alleged offense committed three years ago. but is making good now. If the attention of the President was called to this race discrimina- tion his plea would pe that it is news to him. And “then what? The attention of Texas Burleson would be called to it and he would SOCIAL SERVICE. An analysis of social structure, as expressed in our local. colcret! population, will reveal elements and groups very similar in ch ol acteristics to those found among races in general, and correspond ; ing resemblance in their movement toward the higher forms and usages of ever-progressing civilized life. As a general Proposition, this will hardly be questioned. That this similarity has not given place to perfect correspondence may be attributable, not to a dif- ference or modification of inherent powers, but rather to environ- ment. The treatment brought to bear on the colored people dif. fers, in point of elevating and expansive force, from that applied to other groups of our local, complex population. As a conse- quence, there exists an appreciable numerical preponderance in the lower social grades among colored people over that found in corresponding grades among white Americans. In other words, while the number of superior grade colored people bears about the same relation to the mass of colored people that the like grade among the whites bears to the white mass, yet, there seems to be a decreasing upward tendency among the so-called “middle class of colored people, and an augmentation of the lowest class, out of all proportion to that we find among the whites. This'is a fact; and no mincing of words can alter it. To be sure, the colored peo- ple are not, primarily, to be blamed for this; the directing and molding forces are manipulated under the impulsion of vile, pow- erful and inveterate race and color-prejudice, fostered and incor- porated into social regulation and public opinion. by the white ma- jority. Hence, the retrograde tendency ig not inherent, but arti- ficially induced, and can be corrected or restrained by the applica- tion of judicious means. Social and industrial ostracism, segrewa- tion, jimcrowism, race denationalization and enforced apathy and idleness—sentiments and practices inculcated and exemplified in white homes, justified-by white courts of justice and winked at and even encouraged in white so-called Christian temples—are largely responsible for the threatened abnormal increase in our social sub- stratum. To offset or overcome the forces at work against a nor- mal race-development, seems a Herculean, if not a hopeless, task. In any other country on the face of the globe the task of breaking down prejudice would be easier. It may be said of all Europe | what Emerson said“of England: “English history is aristocratic, | with the doors open. Who has courage ang faculty Iet him come Jin.’ But, in the United States “the shadow’d livery: of the bur- |nished sun” constitutes a bar to social, civil, political and indus- trial recognition, even when accompanied with proofs of excep- | tional spiritual, moral and intellectual excetlence. Whether this ‘| ordeal is to be interminable, time only will determine. Of one | fact we may be assured’: the scope and intensity of social service | must be actuated by the principle of affording the greatest- good. |to the greatest number; and directed against the downward _ten- Jdencies to be discovered among the middle class, rather ‘than ‘|against the “fallen,” or-slum class; because the former can cer- "| tainly be corrected, while the lateer are problems “dire and doubt- 1 ful: and because vigorous action as:to the former will bring more ‘tcertain and satisfactory returns. The senseless waste of time and *} monéy and heart-yearnings in the vain attempt to reclaim a few ‘|hundred slum-dwellers, chronic law-breakers and wilifl paupers, | should give way toa well-planned, vigorous and intelligently prose- | cuted propaganda among those thousands who are not yet fallen ‘land who could be wholly and permanently reclaimed by that stimu- ‘lius to manly and:womanly endeavor which is constantly being "| practically wasted upon a hopeless and well-nigh irreclaimable hu- "|manity. “If a militant socfal-service movement is to be,of any “| effective, far-reaching or permanent results, it must accommodate to actual conditions, deal in a practical manner and with »s capable of responding to treatment. . It has been remarked ose observers and_inyestigators that social service should fol- - closely in the wake of the school system, as its adjunct. There iundred of homes, so-called, in our city which are unfit for the le of school children whose moral, mental and economic hori- + is being broadened and clevated under the benign intluences see-school discipline. It is to those “homes” that social service ald direct its main efforts. To appreciate this, it is only neces- r to recall the scenes, familiar to the ordinary observer, of dol girls and school boys, congregating or loitering on street ners, at unseemly hours of the night, engaged in all sorts of ‘stionable conversation: and behavior. Nor are these scenes {| confined to small boys and girls, for-pupils of our High Schools are "often seen under circumstances which reflect no honorable credit on : themselves or upon the schools they attend. Of course, these do "| not constitute any very large proportion of the vast body of pupils, _| but they are entirely too numerous and too menacing. “And when i} it is remembered that, unlike other. races, we are judged, not by _| the majority of our good people, but by the minority of our bad ones ‘| (and treated accordingly), the importance of directing social ser- | Nice to the homes and conduct of wayward school children, becomes at once apparent. To be sure, the “slums” should not be neg- , lected, for wherever reformation teyposaible, social service should ji lirect its purifying influence. But tthe “slums” are, in the main, jj institutional, professional, as it wefe, and where reformation is difficult, doubtful, expensive and sbcially unremunerative. ‘The | Slums may be much sooner and mord effectually abolished by iim- | iting or cutting off facilities for reinforcement than by ignoring .{ the downward tenddncies of the middle-class. Cut off the means "}of growth, and the slums must eventually disappear. The thing ,| to do is to indyce people to avoid the slums, rather than direct the -| main effort toward redeeming that preventable. yet increasing men- .] ace. Let social workers consult with the teachers, touching the tendencies of pupils and-the moral and sanitary conditions sur- 1] Founding pupils’ homes. Let them divide their forces and assign |] Specific duties to be performed within a given area‘to each division. | Lect the slogan be:'“Save our boys and girls.” This may not be | Yorue, but it is the only sure way of wiping out the slums, of .| promoting the upward tendency of the middle class, and of disarm- ,} ug the enemies of the race who are constantly discrediting the Kool reece avhich a surely being realized gf our excellent free- -|say that he has nothing for colored} quest for the removal of the pre say that he has nothing for colored employees to do. 7 Every Southern Democrat in office is more or less against the longer retention of colored men in office. There are a few “tick-spittles” among the colored people who would make the world believe that the Democratic administration is friendly to the colored people. Not since the emancipation of the col- ored race, has there ever been so much discrimination and prejttdice and race discrimination. SENATOR HOKE SMITH. Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia. has requested the President to re- move the present Recorder of Deeds and appoint a_white man. What has Hoke Smith to do with our local offices? If the people in this city have not requested a change, what has he to do with it? Hasn't he as much as he can do, to attend to the offices in his State and permit the people in this city ‘to attend to their our affairs? , The people in this city have made no re- quest for the removal of the pres- ent incumbent. . The Democrats in this city have been given all of the best positions in the office, any way. What more do they want? Tf the present incumbent is removed, no other colored man can be confirmed if nominated. It is only a matter of having a colored man in the office any way, and since there are no Negro Democrats in heart, one col- ored man is as good as another, hence what differerice does it make? There is no race of people in the world that would stand what the American cqlored man stands. The Bee said last week: What the col- ored race needs is a Villa to teach Hoke Smith, Vardaman and all Southern quisi statesmen a lesson. Why doesn’t Hoke Smitli, Varda- man and others volunteer to lead a Southern army into Mexico? Why not show their bravery by going directly in front of that’ army? They would then be styléd heroes. There has been no Southern heroes since the death of Lee. It is hard to find a Southern hero now. There are heroes who attack the colored face in the South and in fact throughout the country. No other hero comes from the South now, And those who have distinguished themselves in attacking the colored race generally die from their ef- forts at oratory and not with a gun in defense of their country. It is true that the Democrats want everything in sight. Under Repub- lican rule more white Democrats were appointed and promoted than Republicans. ; Now let Hoke Smith recruit an army of Southern crackers and in- vade Mexico. SECRETARY OF NEGROES. “The records are often as impor- tant as the deeds,” Phocion is said to have remarked to the blundering afd blustering son of Chabrias, who praised the pen, but loved the sword and did nothing much with either. So they are; in instances fresh in the minds of many the rec- ords weigh in worth with the deeds, Negroes have always been long on orators and leaders, many of such lately aiming to keep in coat-tail pulling of Booker T., but they have woefully lacked men who knew the importance for present use and fu- ture reference of the faithful scroll. Lowbeit, there is one among peo- ple of color whose striking career involves the letter and the word as transmitted into history. Perhaps the only born secretary that the country has is Emmett J. Scott, of Texas and Tuskegee, for we have it that he loves, the soil of great Cu- ney still, Tuskegee stands for efficiency, energy, effort, plus self-respect. A visit to Tuskegee discloses two wonders, possibly three, maybe four; but these stand forth, the awe-inspiring genius of Washing- ton and the intellectual skill behin¢ the wonderful, sleepless efficiency of Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee and of Negroes. Dr Washington possesses an all-seeing eye; Mr. Scott comes along with the ‘all-touching hand, for nothing passes—nothing in statescraft, ir education, in economics, in admin- istration—that his faithful pen doe: not dignify into a_ correct - recor¢ punctuated only with the marks of truth. “Sce Mr. Scott’—that is the word there. That is to say, go to go to; and locate what is true ir faith or fact. Mr. Scott was once a Texas edi tor, He has run the lists of secre tarial sanctuaries. Let -us note them: private secretary to the late N. Wright Cuney; secretary o Tuskegee Institute; secretary of the Tuskegee Board of Trustees ; secre tary of the International Confer ence on the Negro; secretary of th Tuskegee Negro Conference; sec retary of the National Negro Busi ness League, and secretary te Booker T. Washington. And ther is not a chair he docs not grac with ease and fill with _ excellin labor. In the cabinet of the tru leadership of Negro ascendency here—Emmett J. Scott;—here is th secretary! . IUDGE BARNARD. The retirement of Mr. Justice Barnard from the Supreme Court Bench of the District of Columbia, is to he regretted, not only by the bar, but by the colored American race of this country. Not only did he have the respect, confidence and love of all the people, irrespective of color or condition, but he was one among the noblest humanitari- ans of theage. He knew the people who have been and are now strug- gling for an independence, for free- dom and citizenship. This was evi- denced in the great speech of Mr, Ross Perry, who delivered the fare- well address of the gréat jurist The touching reference of Mr. Perry to the two colored members ‘of the bar who contributed all they had as an evidence of their esteem, love and admiration, caused solemn silence in ‘that vast assembly of legal minds. No occasion coul¢ have been a greater reminder of the utterance of that great Roman when he said “Nations may look and say to thg world this was 2 man.” The Bee is lost, for honey to dis- tribute over the many noble senti ments and profound acts of human- ity that will be handed down to posterity and in brilliant light wil he emblazoned on the scroll of fame “The Noblest Roman of Them All.” He was the same to all men and all conditions. He knew no man by the color of his skin. He expound: ed the Jaw as he saw it, without fear or favor, which was the great characteristic of a great man. The Bee, on behalf of the colored people and the colored bar, extends to Mr. Ross Perry, its thanks and gratitude. . NOT SURPRISING, Again the House has decided to consider favorably a plan for the retirement of clerks in the Execu- tive Departments; likewise of the practically worn-out teachers of our PAS EAA OSE ETS public schools. We suppose the Teason given is the depleted state of public exchequer, a plea always forthcoming- when the respective constituencies of several members of Congress are not directly con- cerned. Yet Copgress can find the reasons and the means for piling up a prodigious appropriation for dredging dried-up creeks, public buildings and what not, galore. But we need not be surprised so long as the Democrats are in power; but must wait patiently for that glo rious time, which will surely come, when the government will be re- entrusted to the direction of the Re publican party. Until then, no re- lief to any part of our commor country need be expected, except tc the South, where cotton,. tobacé< and rice are the only interest: which cay obtain consideration. OTIFRYV> If the schools were kept busy at legitimate school work up to the close of the school year, it is certain that educational interests would be better subserved and the patrons given less cause for complaint. Work-on the accessions, such as making out inventories, taking stock of old and new books and the like, ought to be postponed until the close of the school term. It is admitted that our teachers are hard- worked and need rest, but it would seem proper to have regard to the interests of the public, which has a right to fair service for fair pay. It would not materially hurt mat- ters, if teachers were required te do this statistical or record-work, after their strictly pedagogical du- ties have terminated. If tHe school: are practically closed on or before June Ist, why not so order it? , MORE ATTENDANCE © ORFICER. It is to be hoped that the Board of Education may be successful in securing one or more additional at- tendance officers for service during the next school year. The present attendance officer, Mrs. Ida G. Richardson, has done excellent work and deserves .the highest commendation; but there is ample work for at least three such officers, and it is sincerely hoped that Con- gress will see fit to provide them. ‘Moreover. the salary of the present truant officer is not at all commen- surate with the amount and quality of the work she is called upon to do, and does with eminent satisfac- tion. . People who will insist on throw- ing stones will be besmeared. People who are clean don't have to call attention to their cleanliness or virtues. Their vir- tuous acts speak for themselves and their cleanliness can he seen. The Bee needs no man or woman's indorsement; it speaks for itself. . PUBLIG MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac.) The banquet to -Judge_ Terre, served one purpose at feast. The com- mittee in charge shot full of holes the idea of giving a swell menu for $150, Heretofore banquet commit- tees have figured hard ‘how to furnish terrapin, Smithfield ham, extra lamb chops with green peas, candied sweet potatoes, relishes, two kinds of wine, Black coffee, Rochefort, ice cream and ten cent cigars at $1.50. The Terrell banquet proved that those who pay $1.50 for admission, can’ be satisfied with punch a la plenty, a suspicion of cream and a suggestion of cake, In this period of “high cost of living” the committee for the ‘Terrell ban- quet has rendered the public a dis- tinct service. By the time another banquet is given to the Judge it is possible. .with proper progression_ in economy, a menu consisting: of antici- pation. expectation and imagination twill be perfectly satisfactory. Ran- duets area superfluous luxury at best, and there is no reason in padding the ill of fare just because a few are willing to pay the price for entrance into society. Economy is the watch- word now in and out of Congress. .s Hard time is given by some hache- lors for not entéring into a matri- monial state. Washington has an end- ese list_of bachelors, . Some, likely. some_possible, and some impossible. Jim Cobb was expected to have mar- Hed at the becinning of the Taft term. but the Shreveport boy appears to be no nearer to the light that at- tracts so many moths than he was when they handed him his diploma at Howard There is some class about Cobb. He has a girl for various oc- casions, but they. run from a creamy white to fascinating brown, -He has a favorite for recherche affairs, one for college affairs, and one for church sociabless and two or three just to drop in on. for_a few moments “fa- <hionable cal." One of the mast pon lar bachelors in Washington is Jim Cobb. and one of the most desirable catches. Tut like a rich heiress. Jim's afraid some woman will want to mar- ry pim for his money. Perish the thoueht, Jin. Dick Henderson is one of those con- firmed hachelors who wauld make a good catch for the girl that desires fentle cures.a anice hare tik inst sho : ty. Dick iso wus plod- der: <8 much, kee is money years without visiting the municipal building for a permit to support a woman. Dick just permits them to go on worrying while he attends to his own business. tet Dr. Sumner Wormley might have got married a dozen or more times and had an opportunity to secure that many divorces, if he had wanted to. The Doctor, by all odds the, best look. ing and most affable bachetor in the city, is never seen-with a young wo- mani except at a dance, and then the ones he is scen with are such as some other fellows brought there ina taxi. Early in his career Dr. Wormley be- came imbued with the idea that his first duty was to his mother, that girls were but incidents in a fellow's life, and consequently Doc. has been the’ jolly bachelor and “prince of good fellows” to advertise the town. sae | Dr. Will Davis is another one of those beautiful catches. Dr. Will has more clear money from handling pat- ent medicines, cough syrups and 100 Per cent profit toilet preparations than any fellow in the berg. Dr. Will was never what you might cali a_spend- thrift even when he was at Howard. He has always been a quiet, saving Sort of'a fellow that believed in treat- ing himself and allowing everybody else the same privilege. He never sent bouquets or threw bon mots to girls even when at school. Dr. Will has no one to look affer now but himself, and he has saved up enough to look after himself and some fanei- ful creation in ruffles, if he desired, but he just plugs ‘away. in the same old way, taking care of himself. and giving the girls an unromantic smile. If they could get Dr. Will away from his store for an hour or two some girl, with good wifely qual- ‘ifications, might ensnare him. But there is not one chance in a thou- |sand that he will ever leave his store until James calls to-get lim with that Jautomobile deceased carriage. \nd we are all hoping that day will never come. |, Dr. Napper is-another one of those long-standing bachelors whose bank account is large enough to support a wife and five or six offspring But |Doc. is so busy establishing drug stores, buying real estate. and increas: | ing his bank deposits he even forrets to attend social affairs, Doc. figures | s0 close on expenditures, it is claimed, | he has figured out where a wife would |be an unnecessary luxury. and that Jie has become so set in his ways ne || might be a burden to a dashing blond Jor 'a stanning brunette. Doc., like |the other bachelors, is still this side Jof his prime, and he can remain a | bachelor for a number of years, and still be regarded as a good catch. A '| bachelor as long as he bas the dough. ‘|is always a good catch for the girl {who ain't got it. - e4# | The most talked-of thing in connec- tion with Judge Terrell’s banquet, out- {side the reception to Mrs. Cook, was | the presence of Prof. Geo. W. Cook, |the Major Domo and General Super: intendent of Howard University. People at the Cook party hunched each other, raised their eyebrows in | sort of inquisitory. manner when they saw the Judge and his wife walk in, and some who had known of the long time feud existing, could not ‘|believe their eyes. The coming to- "| gether of the Cooks and the Terrell. [has been the talk of the town, and ,|everybody i wondering who consti- *|tuted the A. B. C. Mediators that -|fetched them together. Discussing the lying’down of the lion and the -|lamb, Chase said that he liked such | exhibitions of get-together, and that “|he had encouraged harmony ever singe Ne had established The Bee. Chase said that he was running The ‘| Bee simply in the interest of har- mony, and just as- soon as ail factions harmonized in. Washington_he was going to cease publishing The Bee T ought to remind the public, however | that there is no immediate danger 0 ;| The Bee not appearing next week for 5} this reason. r aye -| Nearly everybody is getting an au hltomobile. If you haven't. got vne Dl there is no chance for you to be in. V cluded in the “ex-clusive circle.” ant |no chance for you to get your name lin the Black Blue Book.” There 1 1 no excuse for any one not owning at y| automobile now on the terms offered (}a promissory note down and the bal flance, in monthly installments to sut |the purchaser. If you don’t to estab lish a reputation for being extrava -| gant by buying a new car, why you -|can find a lot of “nearly new,” an r/“only used a few months” cars tha S!have done service for residents ir "| Massachusetts and the, Avenue of the -|Presidents.:" These you can get a i! your own, terms and at your cwr | price. I made the first payment dowr +|Iast week-on a 1912 Cadillac that ha: ¢}been done over with 1914 paint ani | varnish, and I expect to give somé | of the nabobs a show for their post “|tion in a few weeks. Besides bers Bon i & lew Weeks. Resides being ‘BP. p—! decled not to go on my vacation until after July 1st. There is too much liable to happen on that date, and’ I ain't going «to take no chances in taking leave when they are gunning for us Negro employees in the departments. Tf I don’t get a demote or a request for my resigning signature July 1st, I will feel more like taking a vacation and a rest. I am going to stick right on my job, and “go south” with every spare dime out of my bi-monthly stipend I can These democrats are just awfully hard after we sons of Ham. The Week in Society "You will have a soda or a sundae, won't you, dear?" "Sure, if you go to Board's Pharmacy, at 1912½, Fourteenth Street. The sodas there are so pure and delicious and the service is first-class." The place "Where everybody meets everybody else." Mrs. Mitchell, wife of Dr. John W. Mitchell of 817 T street northwest, is seriously ill at her home. Miss Dorthea Francis, daughter of Mrs. Bettie G. and the late Dr. John R. Francis, is critically ill at her home 1102 Ninth street northwest. Drs. Warfield and Wilder are in attendance. The nurses in charge are Misses Ethel Minor and Lulu Williamson, graduates of Freedmen's Hospital, Class 1014. Mr. Paul I. Butler has resumed his work at the Government Printing office, having been duly sworn in Saturday, June 6, 1914. He resigned nearly a year ago on account of ill health. His many friends congratulate him. Mr. William H. Meyers, grand secretary of F. A. A. M. of the District of Columbia, died at his home, 308 Third street southwest, Sunday, June 7, 1914 at 12.30 a.m. He was buried Tuesday, June 9. at 1 o'clock, from Israel C. M. E. Church. Dr. Ulysses Houston, who has been very ill, is now able to be out again. Rev. James H. Lee is now living with his daughter in Columbia street northwest. Don't fail to visit Phillip Pharmacy when in the vicinity of 913 Fourth street northwest. Miss Clarice Jones has returned to the city for a vacation. Miss Jones has been in the South all the winter. Mrs. Mayer and little daughter Edna, has returned to Atlanta, Ga., on account of the illness of her father. Mrs. Mary Booker and little son, Marion, and Mrs. Whiteing, were among the visitors to Manassas, Va., last week. Mr. Thomas Brown, who has been ill at his home, 60 N street, is now convalescent. Mr. Joseph Douglass and wife are not on a touring trip according to reports. Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson of this city was very effective in the addresses which he delivered recently in Delaware. Miss Ida Jenkins, and Mrs. M. V. Mulliner, have not gotten on to the Prof. L. M. Hershaw gave a report of his recent trip through the South, at Plymouth Congregational Church last Sunday night: Always an interesting and helpful speaker, Mr. Hershaw was unusually forceful last Sunday night. He spoke himself at Atlanta University. He visited Tuskegee and said it was stupendous. He was struck by the rapid changes taking place in the South—the people are coming by leaps and bounds along material lines. They are still behind in independence of judgment and aggressiveness along civic lines. A good-sized audience heard Mr. Hershaw. Miss Rosa Wilkinson is the guest of her sister, Mrs. G. E. Cannon, Jersey City, N. J. Miss Irna Howard is visiting in Richmond, the guest of Miss Gwendola Brown, 318 W. Leigh street. Mr. H. C. Johnson visited Leesburg last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wess Walker have returned to their country home, Leesburg, Va., for the summer. Mr. Wellington Adams, the poet, visited Richmond, and spoke at the devotionals of the Grand United Order of True Reformers last Saturday. Mr. J. L. Morris, Liberian Secretary of Treasury, accompanied by Consul Lyon. attended Howard University Commencement. Miss Edwina Taylor of this city, was the guest of Mrs. R. L. Vann of Monticello street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Reuben T. Hayes is visiting his sister. Mrs. Favor in Pittsburgh, Pa. "High-Brown" face powder and toilet articles are now all the rage. Get the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 1912% Fourteenth Street. Mail orders filled, 25c and 50c. Mr. J. W. Hill is visiting in Springfield, Mass. Miss Bertha Church has just returned from a short visit to friends in Philadelphia, Pa. The Alumni Address of Howard University was delivered by W. Justin Carter of Harrisburg, Pa. Messrs. Claude and Clifton Johnson have returned to their home in Mobile, Ala., after a very successful term at Howard University. Mr and Mrs. Dawkins of Richmond, Va., have become residents of this city. Miss Vera Washington left for her home in Minneapolis after a successful term at National Training School for Girls. Mr Melvin J. Chisum, editor of "The Colored Man," Baltimore, Md., was the guest of Judge Robert H. Terrell last Monday. While dining at "Gray's" Judge Terrell and Editor Chisum were visited by Dr. W. Bruce Evans, Atty. Armond W. Scott, Mr. John Brooks of New York, Atty. Mendez King. and Jessie Powell, the florist. Mr. Chas. V. Richy, the inventor, left for New York City last Wednesday morning. On Monday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Mouzon, 1819 Fourth Street Northwest, a delightful function took place. This was a reception tendered by three sisters, Mrs. Sarah Mouzon, Mrs. Lillian Estelle Morris and Mrs. Emma Paul in honor of their uncle, Mr. D. K. Toliver, of New York City, who has been visiting them since May 30 (Decoration Day) and who will return home Wednesday, June 10. The table was bountiful laden with salads, fruits and desserts of various kinds. The party was entertained during the evening with music by the clever little 10-year-old pianist, V. Louise Byrd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Byrd and niece of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Harrison, of 1822 Fourth Street Northwest. Besides those mentioned above, the following were present: Mr. and Mrs. John H. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. J. Poindexter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Grimes, Mrs. Seabrooks, Mesdanes Helen Carter, Maud Cooper, Annie Robinson, Lula McCalister, Cora Deale, Misses Susie and Alice Bolden, Phoebe Brown, Marie Kelley, Hattie Freeman, Ophelia Morris, Victoria Campbell, Julia Morris, Messrs. Cowan, Chas. McKenney, Chas. Jenkins, Frances D. Miller, Dr. C. A. Gray, Mr. Dunmore, Masters Robert, Paul and Ralph L. Mouzon. Miss Bessie E. Gibson, one of Washington's leading superintendents and accomplished musicians, has just returned from the Voorhees Normal School, Denmark, S. C., where she has been directress of music for the past two years. Miss Gibson has just appeared in song recital in Columbia and Spartansburg, S. C. Miss G. B. Maxfield spent the 30th in Atlantic City. She had a most enjoyable time. Mr. Albert A. Andrews, attorney-at-law and special correspondent at Louisville, Ky., of The Bec, will visit this city next week. Dr. Samuel M. Pierre has removed his residence from 2124 L Street Northwest, to his sister, Mrs. Lola Pierre Lee, Arlington, Va. He still retains an office at the former address 2124 L Street Northwest Mrs. A. W. Claphan, of Camden, N. J. was entertained at lunchcon last Wednesday by Mrs. J. D. Baltimore. Those present were: Mrs. Edgar Beckley, Mrs. W. H. Butcher, Mrs. Lassiter, Mrs. Darie Freeman, Mrs. Allen Deans and Mrs. S. D. Milton. Lawyer and Mrs. John H. Myers of 1816 Fourth street northwest, entertained a few friends Thursday evening, June 4, 1914, in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Davenport of New Jersey, Mrs. and Miss Mamie Hope of New Haven, Conn. Dr. Davenport is a graduate of the Dental Department of Howard University, and Miss Hope is a graduate of the Washington Conservatory of Music. The guests present were: Mrs. Frederick S. Mouzan, and her sister, Mrs. Norris; Dr. E. Y. Strawn, Mr. Rounsville, Miss Lillian Lott, and others. The evening was pleasantly spent in "songs and music" until a late hour. Refreshments were served. Mrs. and Miss Hope left for their home in Connecticut early Friday morning. Dr. and Mrs. Davenport left for their home Saturday. Lawyer Myers has recently been very sick. His many friends are glad to see him out again. Mrs. Mary Walker, of 1212 Connecticut Avenue, has left the city for the mountains of Virginia. She and her nice, Mrs. Mamie King, are at Montville, Va. Miss Lillian Alexander Day, of Greensboro, N. C., and Mr. Charles P. Ford; of this city, were married in the former city on last Wednesday. They will be at home after June 17, at 1832 Third Street Northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Russell gave a birthday party in honor of the 18th anniversary of their granddaughter, Miss Hattie Erma Russell, last Saturday, at 1217 S Street Northwest. Class Reunion The Class of '13 of the Washington Normal School No. 2, held its First Annual Reunion in Room 10, True Reformers Hall, on the evening of June 3, 1914, from 8 to 12 p.m. The hall was beautifully decorated and the ladies were handsomely gowned. Professors Colburn and Webb rendered highly efficient service: so much so that it was with regret that the strains of "Home, Sweet Home" were heard. The class officers are Ainsworth S. Rucker, president; Grace L. Newman, vice president; Marietta Kirby, secretary; Dorothy M. Waring, treasurer. Many members of the class and friends were present. The guests included Dr. and Mrs. Creed W. Childs, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Thomas, Mr. W. T. S. Jackson, Miss Clara Shippen, Miss Lola Johnson, Mrs. L. L. Newman, Misses don, Golden McKenzie, Maud Allen, May Turner, Parthena Piles, Media Fitzhugh, Rosa Mosby, Natalie McGinnes, Elsie Newman, Ethel Hutchins, Florence Parnell, Bertha Smallwood, Florence M. Barker, Claudia Brandon, Ruth Jackson, E. A. Alexander, Josephine Brown, Marguerite Ferguson, Margaret Lindsey, D. Hutchins, Mrs. Georgia Tucker; Messrs. James Monroe, Joseph Settlers, John Love, W. Seuce, Linwood Roger, Preslay, R. Brandon, Seymour, Carwell, Sylvester, Campbell, Otis Fairax, W. Calvin Chase, Jr., Lewin Nebbinger, Butler, and many others. The class wishes to thank Messrs. P. Gaines, W. Savoy and J. Settles for their excellent service and spirit. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS The first quarterly conference of the Fairmount Heights M. E. Church was held Tuesday night, June 9, 1914. Rev. Dr. Hughes presiding, Among the distinguished visitors 'attending the conference were Mrs. Mary B. Hughes, of 217 T street northwest, the good wife of Rev. Hughes, and Miss Daisy Reed, of 400 U Street northwest, Washington, D. C. The conference reports showed wonderful progress made since the sitting of the Annual Conference. Rev. C. C. Nelson is an ideal pastor and is making good. After the adjournment of the session, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, the District Superintendent, left for Baltimore, Md., on important official business. The Parent-Teachers' Association extended or supplemented the school term one month and a half. That body raised by subscription and otherwise, one hundred and fifty dollars. The picnic given by the Association, which was held in Pine Grove June 1, was a success both socially and financially. All deserve great credit for the faithful efforts put forth. So far Mr. Wm. Trent, Mr. Wm. B. Coles and Mr. R. D. Mullens, have the community heat on gardening. The population here is growing quite rapidly. Rev. C. C. Nelson is kept quite busy christening the new arrivals. Rev. Hunter takes it out in praying over them. However, all the pastors are busy. Mr. Richard Johnson is quite a successful cattle dealer, and he is a thorough-going citizen. A singing band has been organized here with Brother Morton as the father. Dr. W. W. Jones was elected Noble Grand of the Homebuilders' Lodge of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Fairmount Heights, Md. Dr. Jones is a progressive citizen. Mr. B. T. Montgomery, residing in Anacostia, has opened a grocery store at Fifty-eighth and C streets northeast, East Deanwood Heights, D. C. He also handles a line of the colored newspapers. Call on him for the Washington Bee, the leading weekly in Washington, D. C. WEST WASHINGTON The ladies of the Heliotrope Circle gave a very successful charity entertainment on Thursday evening for the benefit of several needy families which was very creditable to them. The circle was entertained on Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Smith of No. 2459 P street northwest, and enjoyed a very pleasant evening. Among those present were: Mrs. Anna Boyd, Mrs. Martha Howard, Miss Ellen Harris, Mr. M. Thomas, Mrs. L. G. Williams, Mrs. L. Palmer, Mr. R. Whorten, Mrs. Bertha Williams, Miss M. Morgan, Mrs. Alice Carroll, Miss D. Carroll, L. N. Harris and Mrs. Jas. L. Turner. Death of Expressman Mann Death or Expressman Mann Mr. Richard W. Mann, a very popular business man, died on Tuesday, June 2, at his residence on M street northwest, and was buried Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were held from the Walker Memorial Baptist Church, of which he was a member, being one of the founders of the church, and was the trusty treasurer since its organization. During his life Mr. Mann had the acquaintance of many prominent white families, who showed their high appreciation by sending many floral tributes. The deacons and trustees presented a large anchor, the Independent Club, broken reel; the chancel being filled with flowers from sorrowing friends. Resolutions were read by Miss Marion Morgan, Mrs. Holmes and Mr. Samuel Lacey. Rev. Gordan delivered a very touching sermon in honor of the deceased and was assisted by Rev. W. J. Howard, Rev. Garner, Rev. Norman, Rev. Beamon, Rev. Jarvis and others. The Crispus Attuck Relief Association, of which he was a charter member, attended and was represented by Jos. N. Manning, Jas. L. Turner, W. L. Sanford, W. S. Fuller, Jas. Payne, E. W. Turner and Alex. F. Trimble, officers. Interment at Woodland Cemetery. Mrs. Johnson of New York city, is here on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hewlett. Mr. Robert H. Tyler, a well-known teacher of Hamilton (County and Leesburg, Va., was paralyzed a few days ago and is quite ill. TENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Brilliant Gathering of Society to Honor Mr. and Mrs. Johnson or Mr. J. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Johnson, of 1011 S street northwest, observed their tenth wedding anniversary Monday evening, June 1, by receiving some of their friends at a reception in their home. Those assisting Mr. and Mrs. Johnson in receiving were Mrs. C. H. Marshall, Mrs. U. W. Hall, Mrs. Sadie Holly, Mrs. J. C. Dowling and Mrs. J. E. Moorland. Mrs. Johnson carried a bouquet of pink rosebuds and the house was decorated with pink and white peonies and carnations. Among those present were: Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clifford, Mr. and Mrs. Benj Washington, Mr. U. W. Hall, Dr. A. C. Gray and Mrs. A. M. Gray, Dr. S. LeCount Cook, Mrs. F. C. Robinson, Miss Sadie Merriweather, Miss Lulu Mayer, Attorney and Mrs. T. J. Calloway, Attorney J. A. Cobb, Misses Pearl and Louise Denny, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Woodson, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Williams, Dr. C. H. Marshall, Attorney John D. Drake, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. J. Beckett, Mr. L. M. Yarborough, Mr. Wm. Speights, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Cabinism, Dr. and Mrs. J. Hayden Johnson, the Misses Harriet and Estelle Collier, Mrs. Lewis Collier, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Knowles Cooper, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Warfield, Mrs. Lorraine Europe, Miss Mary L. Europe, Mr. Geo. A. Robinson, Miss R. E. Orme, Judge and Mrs. Robt. H. Terrell, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bruce, Mrs. Chas. I. West. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Scurlock, Miss Ida Washington, Mr. M. S. Koonce, Mr. L. R. Mehlinger, Mr. J. F. N. Wilkinson, Mr. S. Middleton, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Black, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Childs, Mr. E. J. Morton, David J. Dixson, Mr. Curtis, Lieut. Fowler, Mr. Jay Clifford, Mr. Clifford Wrenn and Mr. J. O. Collins. ANNUAL MUSICAL Dr. Danniels' Great Success. Fourteenth Annual Musical of the pupils of the Daniels School of Music at Zion Baptist Church. F street between Third and Four-and-a-half Streets southwest, Monday evening, June 8, was attended by a large and appreciative audience. Pupils were assisted by the Clinkscale and Tyler Female Chorus. Rev. Walter H. Brooks delivered an address and presented gold medals. Those receiving gold medals were: Anna B. Jackson, Pearl Minor Eventine, M. Winters and Florence S. Matthews. The following pupils contributed to the program: Dorothy M. Robinson, Grace M. Pate, Beatrice Walker, Alice E. Shaed, Alma M. Naylor, Gladys E. Giles, Helen L. Sparks, Ruth M. Sparks, Heywood S. Sparks, Elsie A. Dobbins, Hope A. Gray, Jeanette M. Tyler, Mary W. Wright, Bernice A. Carson, Ethel L. Jackson, Alice Y. Naylor, Clyde N. Jones, Myrtle F. Burr, Marie A. Hillery, Margaret C. Smith, Mary E. Roye, Marion O. Dishman and Marie A. Brown. Ushers: Ella L. Crump, Ida M. Reese, Josephine K. Battle, Bertha B. Gaines, Emma F. Crump, Ola Scott, Catharine E. Minor, Clara R. Hawkins. Decorators: Louise E. Brown, Mary E. Thomas, Rachael C. Warren, Mary E. Ricky, Lucy A. Medley. FALLS CHURCH NOTES A lawn party was held Tuesday evening on the lawn of Mrs. Newton Thomas. Everyone present enjoyed an evening of pleasure. Mr. and Mrs. William Carpenter had as their guest Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Boyman of Washington, D. C. Falls Church was well represented at the competitive drill held Friday at the American League Park. Mr. James Lee and Mrs. Louis Lee of Washington, D. C., spent Sunday here visiting friends. Mrs. Wilber Strother spent Wednesday in Washington, D. C. Mr. S. Luvernus Lee and Miss Edna Oldrick were married Wednesday evening by Rev. G. W. Powell. Miss Sarah Meriwether of Washington, D. C., was the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. B. Heiderson Sunday, Mrs. Robert Lee, who has just returned after having undergone a successful operation at Freedmen's Hospital, is at the home of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. John Barnett. Miss Sarah Ball returned home Tuesday after having spent a pleasant stay with friends in Washington, D. C. The Mothers' Progressive Council held its meeting at the residence of the president, Mrs. Susie Campbell, Tuesday evening. Mr. Newton Dixon lett recently for Bethlehem, Pa. Mrs. Edwin B. Henderson and Master Edwin attended the exhibition of Physical Culture in the Public Schools Tuesday afternoon, which was held at the American League Park, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ida Stevens and her son Lawrence, will leave Friday for Boston, Mass. Miss Mary Dorsey and Miss Tillie Lebrant of Baltimore, attended the commencement exercises of Howard University, Wednesday, June 3, 1914. Miss Maggie Dorsey of A street southeast, had as her guest since Friday, her sister, Miss Mary Dorsey of Baltimore, and the Misses Lillian Webster and Kate Archer. Quite a number of friends called Sunday. Theywere: Mesdames Banks from Atlanta, Ga.; Toyer Booth, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mahoney. Misses Simms, Adams, Campher, Tippett. Messrs, Toyer, Ceruti of New York, Stewart, Cole and Smith of Baltimore. THEY HONORED HIM Rev. Oscar Leiber Mitchell, M. A., Was Taught a Reservation Was tendered a Reception. Last Monday night beautiful St. Mary's Chapel on Twenty-third street between G and H streets northwest was the scene of a fine gathering of the members and friends of Rev. Mr. Mitchell, vicar of St. Mary's. The occasion was the twentieth anniversary of Mr. Mitchell's pastorate. St. Mary's has become one of the best-equipped plants for institutional church work among the colored people in the United States. For this distinction no one is more responsible than Rev. Mr. Mitchell. The Ladies' Guild of St. Mary's with Mrs. Brown as president and Mrs. McGwin as chairman of the reception committee, gave the rector or vicar, this magnificent testimonial for his twenty years of faithful services. Mr. Cedric Francis was open-air toastmaster, also post prandial chairman, for the rain ran us indoors and we all ate before the program was resumed. Rev. T. J. Brown, Rev. Mr. Douse, Dr. A. C. Garner, Dr. D. E. Wiseman, Dr. C. W. Childs, Prof. Sterling N. Brown and Dr. W. V. Tunnel spoke words of commendation. The Ladies' Guild through its president, made the best speech of the evening without saying a word. Her speech was an act—she placed in the vicar's hand $150 in gold. The vicar responded feelingly in a speech that was given in two parts; one outdoors and one indoors, but both equally good. It would be unnecessary to name the many distinguished guests present. They made St. Luke's P. E. Church begs to announce that they will give their Seventh Annual Excursion to River View Thursday, June 18, 1914. Music by Dawson's Orchestra. Steamer Angler will leave her wharf, Seventh and N Streets Southwest, promptly at 10 A. M., 2 P. M. and 7 P. M. Round trip, 25 cents. a brilliant assemblage in spite of the weltering heat. The service of viands by the young ladies was a part, of the evening's exercises that must come in for praise. Rev. O. L. Mitchell is a very worthy man. He is doing a necessary and a helpful work. He is honorable, but humble; he is cultured but sympathetic; he is dignified, but earnest. He has built twenty years of his life in a Washington religious organization and time alone can accurately estimate his worth, but the Ladies' Guild of St. Mary's expresses it in gold. TRIBUTE TO THE COLORED ATTORNEY R. Ross Perry Distinguishes Himself. An unusual scene was witnessed in Criminal Court No. 1 on Monday last on the retirement of Justice Job Barnard. 'Every member of the bar who could gain admission was present, and all of the judges of the court, to pay a tribute of admiration and respect, and express their regret at his retirement. Seldom does it fall to the lot of man to witness a scene where every expression from bench and bar comes direct from the heart. R. Ross Perry, Esq., one of the oldest, ablest, and most respected members of the bar, spoke on behalf of the bar and paid a most glowing tribute to the retiring justice. He also spoke in feeling terms of one member of the bar who had lately met with financial reverses, but who insisted upon contributing the last twenty-five cents he had to spare towards the testimonial. This man, said Mr. Perry, has contributed more than any other, because it was the Widow's Mite. It was what he needed for food and clothing. The man who has plenty and gives, really gives nothing. He then read two or three touching letters that accompanied contributions. He read one from a colored lawyer in which he enclosed $2 and said "he wished he could spare more, but it comes from the heart, and the members of my race are sorry that Judge Barnard is to retire." This, said Mr. Perry, I consider a higher tribute than the man who gave the Widow's Mite, a whole race regrets your departure. We all know what a difficult task it is for us to succeed under the most favorable circumstances, but these people have, in addition, to contend with the mean prejudice of caste. When a race feels this way, it shows, Judge Barnard, that you have treated them fairly, been just towards them, that you have treated them kindly. They ask no favors, but justice, and have received it from you. MR. ADAMS RETURNED Brilliant Reception and Ovation. Wellington Adams, a rising colored poet, has just completed a two-weeks' tour of Virginia, meeting with splendid success. The following is a brief account of the trip Fredericksburg, Va. Recital before a good-sized audience at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Rev. Daniel L. Reed, Pastor. Mrs. D. L. Reed rendered several vocal numbers. Richmond Va During a four hours' stay, recited at the Reformers' Hall before the U. O. T. R. office force and other visitors. Introduced by G. W. Secretary M. Ronselle in eloquent speech. Editor James W. Poe of the "Reformer," and several others paid a high tribute to the work of Mr. Adams, who received an ovation. Petersburg, Va. Was greeted by a splendid audience at Oak Street A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev James P. Foote, A. B. Rastor, Miss M. Jordan, pianist; Miss G. Wilson, soprano, and Miss M. A. Mattox and Mme. Edna Brown, sopranos, served creditably on the program, Mr. R. R. Maxwell, Jr., associate editor of "Colored Virginian," introduced Mr. Adams to many leading citizens; among them: Mrs. M. H. Madison, Miss Georgia Robinson, Miss Lobelia Washington, Miss Virginia M. Brown, Rev Dr. E. E. Wheeler, pastor of the Colored Episcopal Church. Lynchburg, Va. Mr. Adams appeared at the Jackson Street M. E. Church, and Eighth Street Baptist Church. Among prominent citizens met were: S. G. Payne, Rev Rudock, Mrs. C. C. Berry, organist Jackson Street Church; Miss V. M. Cabell, public school teacher; Mrs. L. F. Clements, Rev L. O. Lewis, Pastor Eighth Street Baptist Church; Miss Minnie Pugh, Miss Frances Roberts, Prof. Tolliver, U. S. A., Mr. Daniel Butler, K. M. Pittis, M. D. Dr. Chambers, Dr. Thomas Stevens and others. Danville. Va. Recited at the Presbyterian High School of Board of Missions for Freedmen, Presbyterian Church, U. S.A., Rev. Wm. E. Carr, superintendent; Prof. J. T. Page, principal; Mrs. W. E. Carr, lady principal. Rev. Carr is also pastor of Holbrooke Street Presbyterian Church, value $8,000. Rev. Carr told Mr. Adams of an interesting incident happening way back in the '70s, at Long Branch, N. J. about Editor W. Calvin Chase. He said that Mr. Chase was one of the shrewdest baseball pitchers to be found at that time. He played against him with the Metropolitan Hotel team, and Chase was with the West End Hotel team. Chase cleaned up for them because they couldn't hit him, as the score attests, 21 to 3. Mr. Chase used the "square pitch," a style of using the "use before the BARNARD'S COMPLEXION CREAM BARNARD'S COMPLEXION CREAM AND SOAP. Are the best beauty aids. 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LUCY LEE, 5 Plain Street, Elmhurst, N. Y. COLEMAN PARK Open for the Season. Don't fail to read the advertisement of Coleman Summer Park, seen elsewhere in this week's Bee. This is one of the most delightful resorts in this city. Don't fail to select your dates. coming of modern deliveries in the game, and he was feared by all the boys and all believed him to be a wonderful pitcher. Rev. Carr is a graduate of Lincoln and Mrs. C.rr of Howard. Mr. Adams met Mr. R. H. Allen, an architect, Miss Kate Taylor and Natalie Taylor, public school teachers; Mr. J. R. Wilson, worth several thousands, whose monthly rentals amount to $250, owns five stores, his home and about seventy vacant lots; Attorney W. P. Allen, Mr. W. J. Simon, Miss Bessie Cheney. Dr. T. W. Hardy, Dr. C. V. Caldwell, Mr. W. H. Jones, worth about $80,000, employs twelve persons, has bought out eight white men who tried to run him out of business, conducts a restaurant, grocery and bakery; Mr. S. D. Mills, former postmaster at Almargo, Va. Culpeper, Va. Recited at First Baptist Church, Rev. Wm. J. Madden, before a very refined looking audience. Met Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Eliza Payne, trained nurse, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y. and others. Summary. Mr. Adams received a grand reception everywhere he went and his recital of his own poems and music made such a profound impression that he was re-dated in all the places visited. Three colored and one white newspaper commented on his work most favorably as the rising colored poet of the race. By Edwin B. Henderson. Lieutenant West A. Hamilton, of the First Separate Battalion, D. C. N. G., is first of all a willing worker in many good movements. He is a teacher in the Lucretia Mott School, but his sphere of useful work extends far beyond the confines of this institution. As a guardsman he has worked from the ranks. He was the chief promoter of a very creditable athletic performance within the guard hall this past winter and now is busily arranging for a pretentious outdoor set of games for guardsmen to be held on the Howard Playground on June 20th. Patriotism is much marked in his speech and loyalty to country and friends is a striking characteristic. "West is a good mixer—none of your "high falutin'," unbending airs about him in the presence of the most abject of our brethren. He is ambitious, yet does not overrate himself or abilities. I cannot ascribe much athletic ability to "West," but as a promoter and athletic worker, the annals of the Public Schools Athletic League, the records of National Guard sport and Mott School games bear much supporting evidence. On June 10 the Public Schools Athletic League will hold its annual field and track games on the Cardoza Playground in southwest Washington. The beautiful Evening Star trophy will be awarded to the winner of the meet, and will to a large degree depend on numbers entered rather than to the performance of a small group of stars. This is the first time that the meet has been held in the southwest and it is hoped by the committee that it will encourage participation in track athletics by larger numbers of boys than ever be fore. Two eleventh division schools have won the championship in the two previous years of competition but this time Birney School is going to make effort to land this honor. The events of the day are to be as follows: For boys under 80 pounds in weight, a 50-yard dash, a running high jump, a running broad jump and a 360-yard relay race. The 95-pound class offers competition in the following events: Sixty-yard dash, running high jump, running broad jump, and 440-yard relay race. The boys under 115 pounds in weight will compete in a 70-yards dash, running broad jump, 8-pound shot-put, and a 440-yard relay race. Boys of unlimited weight will take part in a 100 yards race, running high jump, 12-pound shot-put and 880-yard relay race. The Cardoza Playground possesses the best track in town for elementary school boys and will give splendid opportunity for fast work. All entries must be in by June 3. ALL-HIGH BASEBALL TEAM. By Edwin B. Henderson, Chairman of High School Games Committee. Player. School. Conates, 1b M Street Collins, 2b C. H. S. Gravos, s. s. A. M. T. S. Parks, '3b C. H. S. Odell, r. f. M Street Taylor, l. f. C. H. S. Smith, c. f. C. H. S. Walker, c. C. H. S. Horad, p. C. H. S. Miles, p. M Street In the series just finished, the boys of the local high schools played the best ball that has ever been seen in these series of games. Commercial High School again won the championship. For three years this honor has gone to the Business High lads. The team from that school was easily the superior of their rivals and it was with little, trouble that they lauded the top honor. One game was lost and this was due largely to a weaker team being presented to the opponents. M Street and Armstrong fought out for second place and M Street lauded on the second rung. Coach Samuel Compton, of Commercial, is to be congratulated for his work in turning out such an aggregation of players. Armstrong's team was not able to get together except in spots, and in critical moments they would go to pieces. M Street lost largely due to lack of team-work and too much changing about of players. The above mentioned players have been chosen for consistent work in all of the games played, and this choice has been made due entirely to the records as compiled by the official scorer and where records were inadequate, the writer's opinion was given. Coates, of M Street, was superior to any of the other players on the initial sack, but none of the players here were up to the form of past season holders of the bag. Swann, of business, was able to get on base many times, but could not negotiate hits. Collins was truly one of the stellar performers in the series, and it was largely due to his team work and timely batting that the stenographers were able to show the edge on the other teams. In the short-stop position we have a hard choice to make. Turner and Graves are close in their abilities, but Graves was the better sticker, and the more aggressive of the two, and yet Turner was slightly better than Graves in fielding. Captain Parks, of Commercial, was not as good as in past years. However, he was better than others in the series in fielding and base running of those playing on third base. The outfield was not strong. Steady, consistent playing marked the efforts of the three players above named and yet their efforts were only mediocre. Odell was the best of the right garden guardians, while Smith and Taylor, of Commercial, were good. Walker of Commercial deserves especial credit for aggressiveness of the kind that helps the team, and out of his natural sphere as a pitcher he capably filled the breach as a catcher and his prowess with the willow made him formidable. Horad and Miles were the pitchers, par excellence. Horad's excellent work brought results, and yet Miles could have won with a stronger team behind him. JOHN PURROY MITCHELL Campaign Committee, Harlem Headquarters, 12 West 133rd Street, New York City, N. Y. Robert Lewis Waring, Chairman; I. H. Porter, Secretary; J. W. Harris, Treasurer. Mr. President: The following is submitted for your information and consideration: The leaders of the Progressive party, National, State and County, have gotten together for the purpose of organizing a National Auxiliary to the National Committee of the above party composed of Negroes with headquarters in New York City. This movement is forwarded by George W. Perkins, Theodore Douglas Robinson, chairman of the State Executive Committee, Francis W. Bird, chairman of the New York County Committee, and others, all Progressive leaders, and the scheme is gathering strength every moment. Their principal argument is based on the apparent determination of your administration to ignore any and all Negro Democrats who seek national recognition. The presentation of this argument is having a telling effect upon the voting Negro Democrats to the Progressive party unless something is done in the immediate future to off-set it. We, who have fought hard Democratic battles, in the face of criticism and ostracism, now find ourselves without a leg upon which to stand, after our assertions in past campaigns, that the Democratic party would be as liberal to us in Federal patronage as any other party has been. In view of existing conditions, what are we to do? What can we say? Are we to slink out of sight, beaten by those for whom we battled? What position can we now take in the coming elections, when we are asked, what recognition has the Democratic party accorded us for our loyalty? Can we again say, the Democratic party will be as liberal in the future as the other parties have been in the past? To be sure, the Democratic party has recognized the Negro! By retaining Negro Republicans in office! Anderson, of New York; Terrell and Cobb, of Washington, D. C.; Johnson, of Washington, D. C., and Georgia, all of whom stumped the country in an endeavor to defeat the Wilson and Marshall ticket! In the last mayoralty campaign in this city Mr. Mitchell was not a favorite with the Negroes generally, but those of us who craved honest government fought his battles at our expense, and we are still awaiting recognition. What Is in Store for the Honest Negro Democrat? The following are your words: "Whatever position I may hold it is my firm purpose to test every man by these questions: What did you do? How did you vote? With whom did you co-operate, and where did you stand? And no explanation will change the record for me." In answer to those questions for myself, and thousands of other Negro Democrats, I will say: First, I fought for the Democratic party. Second, I voted a straight Democratic ticket. Third, I co-operated with the Democratic National Committee through Judge Robert S. Hudspeth, Jersey City, N. J., and Bishop Alexander Walters, New York City, N. Y., and I stood with both feet on the Democratic platform and no explanation can change my record nor that of other good Negro Democrats. Bishop Alexander Walters brought us this message from you: "I have always been friendly to the Negroes' interests, and I assure you that in case of my election, the Negroes of the country have nothing to fear from me. I will give them a square deal." All any Negro asks is to be awarded according to his ability and his deed—to be given a "square deal." This takes us back to the object of this writing. Are we Negroes being given a "square deal?" I claim not. Not in any sense of the word. We are being held up to the world about as the old Negro in the South was, who thought he could say, "Hello, Tom," to the newly elected mayor, the day after election, and who was asked, "Nigger, don't you know the election is over?" The humiliation of the Negro Democrat at this time can only be felt by those of us who had faith in the big promises that were made us and who worked and acted accordingly. I feel that a great wrong is being done us—not because promises are not being kept—but that we are being studiously ignored; because men of another party, who reiterated upon the stump, that no Negro Democrats would be he given federal offices and are being kept in office seemingly as a reward for those utterances! I am writing these facts not as complaints, but as obstacles which we Negro Democrats seek to overcome. I am a candidate for office. My application is on file in the Department of Justice and has been since December 3, 1913. The position which I seek is one within the gift of the Attorney General and does not require the "consent" of the United States Senate. I am herewith calling your attention to the above facts and asking that I together with other honest Negro Democrats, he given a "square deal" at your hands, as "no explanation at your hands, as "no explanation at change the record for me" (us). I have the honor to remain respectfully yours. ROBERT LEWIS WARING. In India there is a tree known as the "burning tree." It imparts the same sensation as a burn when it comes in contact with the flesh. The National Religious Training School, Durham, N.C. The image shows a snowy landscape with a large building in the center, surrounded by trees and a road. The sky is dark, indicating it might be nighttime. Offers superior advantages for the training of in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful 1. Department of Religious Training. This especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for HSIONaries. 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New York Ave. Atlantic City, N.J. into reality. There was a quiet freedom and case that made the occasion unique in southern college life. Closing the festivities, came the Alumni banquet and then the president's reception. The banquet brought representatives from the oldest class—the class of 1874—who presented a large sum of money to the university. One lady of the class of '84 gave a dollar for every year she had been out; one graduate of '94 gave $150 and $700 was given in various small gifts by graduates. Atlanta University thinks it has the most loyal body of graduates in the world, because they show their appreciation in this way every year. Philadelphia, Pa., June 2. The ninety-eighth annual conference of the African M. E. Church, which closed its session in Reading on Monday under the supervision of Bishop Tyree, made the following appointments for this district: W. W. Davis, presiding elder, Bethel; Rev. C. C. Dunlap, Zion; Rev. I. U. Ringgold. Mount Olivet; J. M. Palmer, Germantown. Rev. C. H. Fariera, Emanuel; Rev. E. H. Norris, Disney; Rev. E. D. Brown, Norristown; Rev. W. B. Williams; Bristol; Rev. C. V. Monk, Lamotte; Rev. H. D. Brown, Lancaster; R. H. Shirley, Norwood; Rev. J. D. Johnson. Bryn-Mawr; Rev. W. J. Oliver, Langhorne; Rev. R. H. Wright, Wayne; J. O. Mackall, Devon; Rev. L. H. Watkins, Ardmore; Rev. C. H. Satchell, Yardley; Rev. A. W. Flamer, Middletown; Rev. A. M. Buckley, Holmesburg; Rev. A. J. Smith. Mount Pisgah; Rev. H. Y. Arnett, Wards; Rev. J. R. Reed, Arnett Mission; Rev. G. W. Caulh. Frankford; Rev. William Stewart, Allen; Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, Union; Rev. H. H. Cooper, Elmwood; Rev. E. D. Chester, Morris Brown; Rev. E. Byrd, Darby; Rev. J. C. V. Burbage, Parchall; Rev. Frank Bradley, St. Luke's Mission; Rev. W. C. Lively. The Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference which adjourned in York. Pa., on Monday, May 25, will meet next year in Wesley, A. M. E. Z. Church, this city. Appointments made were: Rev. E. H. Gerry, presiding elder, Wesley; Rev. P. A. Wallace, Varick Institutional Temple; Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Walters; Rev. 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. A PRAYER. Nor skies be bright; But Lord, I ask that I may be Above all sin and more like Thee And sometimes through the darkness I do not ask for lighter work; Give me a heart that will not shirk Its lead to heart I do not ask that flowers grow Around my path and at my door. Their fragrance brings Their fragrance bring But all through life's perplexing way Still guide me on from day to day And never let me go astray, And through the shadows, broken supplications, Tremble and falter, coming up to Thee. Gavest Thou the strength to do the work assigned us. And faith enough to clearly see the way? So troubled and confused our hearts seem growing, Father, Thy children know not how to pray. Whether for faith to see the light for shining. Or greater strength to bravely bear our load, Or strength to fail and falter till we fall beneath, Or faith to walk the dark, uncertain road. Stay by us now, in this our hour of trial, Strengthen and bless where seest Thou the need; And in Thy pastures, green with life Ethy, Dear Shepherd, let Thy hungry children feed. HOW MUCH? How much of fire would it take To burn away the guilt within? How many tears of blood to wash The thought away that made me sip. How much of Thy just, awful wrath To crush the soul that dares to fall? If bitterness for sin atoms. If butteriness for sil atoms. How deep must he the cup of gall? How much of all to clear the stain Left dark red by the spoiler's touch? Of bitterness and fire and pain. All, all that cleans, Q Lord, how much? Commencement Atlanta University. The forty-fifth commencement exercises in Atlanta University last week were the most finished, from every point of view, in the history of the university. The graduating class numbered forty, young men and young women of unusual promise. The most important features of the week were as follows: First, came the Nineteenth Annual Conference upon the subject of "The Negro and Crime." This conference is the most widely known conference in the world on Negro problems. Its investigations, representing the largest body of scientific data collected by any conference in the world on Negro problems, have found their way into practically every first-class library abroad as well as in this country. This year's investigation was into the lives of a large number of men who are now actually in prison and the results as set forth were truly startling. Next, came the commencement address by Rev. George L. Paine, of New Haven, Conn., the son of the late Robert Treat Paine, of Boston. The orator was a worthy successor of the long line of orators like Dr. Philip Moxom, Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, Dr. Frank B. Sanborn and many others who have honored the commencement stage in Atlanta University. One of the most enjoyable features of commencement was the game festival by the Normal students of the Oglethorpe Practice School. The games had the beautiful setting of the large grove of the campus. There fully two thousand students and spectators sat on the hillsides and looked down upon a scene that seemed to be fairyland transformed Sample of Comb may be secured at The Bee office, where orders will be received and Comb promptly delivered. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS. 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. 6. Department of Literary Training. 7. Department of Industries. 8. Extension Home Classes. There are special scholarships for deserving young men and women, in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open July 3, 1914. For further information and catalogue, address A Comb, $3.00 Comb, $3.00 Ceruti, 105 N. 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Mr. Frank Pierce, 60 years old, an elevator operator at the Fells Building, 514 Ludlow Street, was crushed to death on Tuesday afternoon in the freight elevator when a packing case fell upon him. Persons who heard his cries found the elevator at a standstill near the second floor. On the floor of the elevator lay Pierce. On top of him was the box. He died in a few minutes after his rescue. Miss Annie Mae Vann, representing "The Norfolk Journal and Guide." is in the city for a few weeks' rest, a guest of Dr. Burwell. Mrs. Elizabeth Swift Shippen, of 1431 Spruce Street, who died recently leaving an estate valued at $2,000,000, left $,000 in her will to the Home of St. Michael and All Angels for Crippled Colored Children. Mrs. James T. Howard and Mrs. R. Wellsley were the winners of the Howard cup of the Philadelphia Duplicate Whist Club, leading all others by three points for the season. 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BUT PROGRESS IS RAPID. Brantleo Laws Requiring Sufficient Life-boats and Advent of Wireless Telegraphy Have Not Entirely Eliminated the Dangers—Heroic Rescues as the Empress of Ireland Sank. Montreal—The sinking of the Empress of Ireland, crack transatlantic fiber of the Canadian Pacific line, by the coal laden collier Storstad in the St. Lawrence river almost in right of the shore tands to prove that one intrusts himself to the fates when boarding a vessel. Although in no other direction has such notable progress been made in recent years, no human hand has been able to make travel at sea absolutely safe. The perfection of the wireless, the improvement of revenue cutter service and drastic laws requiring ample and seaworthy lifeboats have eliminated many of the dangers lurking in the path of the great ocean going vessels. But we still have the elements to contend with, and these can never be conquered. When the Titanic sank with its fearful toll of life it was the elements that caused the disaster. The iceberg freed from winter quarters by the spring's sun broke away and brought death to the hundreds. The dense fog on the St. Lawrence, prohibiting the captains of the Empress of Ireland and the Storstad from seeing ten feet ahead, meant death to 1,000 persons. The inquiry now under way will reveal that one man was perhaps more at fault than the other, but it cannot place the blame for the disaster on the shoulders of any one man. It was caused by the weather conditions-by the elements. Following in the wake of the disaster many pathetic stories are told of brave rescues and intense suffering. Two participants in the tragedy of the burning of the Volturno at sea last A. 1914, by American Press Association. CAPTAIN KENDALL OF EMPRESS OF IRELAND. year are survivors also of the wreck of the Empress of Ireland. One of them was J. H. Price, an ordinary seaman on the Ireland, who while serving last year on the Devonian plunged overboard and saved a woman passenger of the Volturno. The other man was a pantryman on the Ireland, John Cope, who was one of those saved from the Volturno. Robert W. Crellen, a bronzed miner from Silverstone, B. C., swam for over an hour with a golden haired little girl of eight on his back. "And when will mamma and Evelyn get here?" the little girl asked when she arrived in Quebec. Mr. Crellen had not yet told her that her mother and small sister had lacked strong arms to support them in the ice water and had died there. They were Mrs. Sabina Barber, a widow, and her daughter, Evelyn, three years old. The little girl who was saved was Florence Barber, eight years old. With Crellen and William Barry of Silverstone they were going on a holiday trip to England. They occupied rooms near one another in the second cabin. All of them got on deck together. This is Mr. Crellen's account of what happened: "A great hole was in one side of the ship, and she listed over so far that it was only with the greatest difficulty that we could get them all up the companionway. We got to the rail and stood there. I held Florence, and Mrs Barber held her little sister. "Then as the ship listed we climbed over the rail and walked cautiously down the ship's side to the water's edge, trying to avoid falling into the porthole. Just as we reached the water's edge the ship gave a tremor that was terrible. We knew it was all over. I saw Mrs Harber and her child tottering toward the water and reaching out their hands to me. I tried to get them, but I couldn't reach them, and that's the last I saw of them." CHEATED OF HIS REVENGE. Georgian Had Traveled 2,000 Miles to Learn Intended Victim Was Dead. El Paso, Tex.—There might have been a tragedy here if William Berry, an aged Georgian, had not found upon his arrival that a man he had come nearly 2,000 miles to kill had been killed five years ago. Berry, trembling with anger and disappointment, told his story to the police and returned to his Georgia home. Nine years ago in Oklahoma, he said, Bill Harrell had testified against him in a perjury case growing out of Berry having witnessed the killing of two men over a land grabbing dispute. Berry says he was sent to the penitentiary on Harrell's testimony, his family was scattered, his farm lost and health wrecked. He was four years in the penitentiary, he said, and for the past five years had been reunitiing his family and home ties, nursing all the while a determination to some day kill Harrell, who, he had learned, had reached El Paso. Five years ago Harrell attacked an El Paso newspaper publisher, J. F. Mitchim, and Mitchim killed him. Berry knew nothing of Harrell having been killed until he reached El Paso. RUNAWAY HOGS ARE "WILD." Farmers Can Make Them Pork Only by Shooting. Ben, Ark—G. B. Lewis, a farmer living near this place, killed two wild hogs which ran away from his place in 1910. The hogs were not full grown when they left and went away to the range, since when all efforts to get them had been futile until recently, when he found them in the forest and shot them at a distance of about 100 yards. He has three more hogs that are also in the forest. The hogs go in bunches in the woods and are as hard to find and kill as a deer. They are afraid of men and will run from them, but have no fear of dogs and will attack them. The two hogs killed by Lewis dressed about 200 pounds each. MEXICO LOSING ITS WEALTH IN REVOLT MEXICO LOSING ITS WEALTH IN REVOLT Statistics Show Need of a Stable Government. Washington. -- Consul Theodore C. Hamm sends to the department of commerce from Durango a striking array of facts showing the necessity for ending the Mexican revolution and reestablishing a stable form of government in that republic. For example, the state of Durango in 1913 was favored with abundant and seasonable rains, insuring fine crops of all staple farm products under ordinary conditions, but not more than two-thirds of the usual acreage was planted, and not more than 10 per cent of the crops planted were gathered by the rightful owners of the land, the remalnder being appropriated for military purposes or harvested by others than the rightful owners on account of lawless conditions. Of Chile peppers, for instance, the export was only $4.000 as against $50,000 to $75,000 in normal years. The cotton yield, says the consul, was phenomenal in the famous Laguna district of eastern Durango and southwestern Coahuila, along the Nagas river—120,000 bales, worth $8,500,000. Half the crop is still in the warehouses at Torreon, and the other half was shipped to the United States at a sacrifice instead of being sent, as ordinarily, to the cotton factories in southern Mexico. The exports to the United States from Durango in the last year were $2,254,000 as against $9,731,000 in 1912. The railways to the gulf have not been in operation in 1914, and all trade is paralyzed. Torreon in times of peace is a busy interior manufacturing city, like Syracuse, N. Y., or Paterson, N. J. In the city of Mazatlan, state of Sinaloa, on the Pacific, United States Consul W. E. Alger reports, the exports to the United States in 1013 fell off almost $900,000, or 20 per cent. Eggs are now selling there at 7 cents aplece, milk at 30 cents a quart, fuel at four and five times the usual price and all other articles in proportion. Two of the three banks have closed, and all business is suspended. 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Baltimore, principal, and his worthy assistants, the Misses Beatrice Thomas and Emma Holmes. The rendition of the program reflected great credit upon the participants. A great display of individuality was the crowning feature both in vocal, instrumental and the musical poem recited by a young lady from Arlington. Va. Mr. W. P. Hyson, master of ceremonies; Mr. Edward Gray, pianist. Harrison's Park was opened up for the season, Friday, May 20. Calloway M. E. Church held memorial services Saturday, May 30. The rain came up in time to prevent many anxious ones from being present. A musical program was rendered by the Junior Choir. At the close Mr. Lewis was greeted by all present while standing in a rising vote of thanks for his presence. Mr. T. W. Hyson, master of ceremonies. Rev. C. E. Queene, pastor, gave the benediction. Children's Day will be here second Children's Day will be here. second Sunday in June. Sunday in June. Miss Bessie West is very ill at her home in Cherrydale. Miss Virginia Hill is much improved. Mr. Russel Smith, who passed a very delicate operation at the Freedmen's Hospital a few weeks ago, is at home and was present at church Sun- Telephone Connections Sunday being the fifth Sunday, was used in special services: S. S. Missionary services at 3 o'clock for stewards. Bro. J. F. Williams, the local preacher here, preached at 11 o'clock from the third verse, 15th chapter, I. Corinthians, in which the witness of the spirit was made manifest. Thursday evening we were honored by having with us Mr. J. H. Lewis, the president of the bank in Washington. Twelfth and U streets, distinguished for being the only one there owned and controlled by the Colored people. He delivered a most excellent address, the subject of which was "Systematic Training, Especially on Commercial Lines." ALEXANDRIA NEWS The colored Catholics of Alexandria and vicinity have arranged with Rev. Father Chas. Hannigan, the well-known missionary, to come to this city on the fourth Sunday in each month, beginning June 28, 1914, and explain the Catholic religion. These meetings will be held principally for the benefit of non-catholics and Mr. John F. Parker, No. 810 Columbus street, has been requested by the Reverend Father Hannigan to arrange for a question box and, Mr. Parker will gladly receive at his address on North Columbus street, any questions pertaining to the Catholic Church and requests that the same be sent prior to June 14, so that they may be carefully studied prior to the first meeting, which will be held as aforesaid on Sunday, June 28, at Sodality Lyceum Hall on Duke street near Royal. Rev. Dr. Austin of Staunton, Va., filled the pulpit at Alfred Street Baptist Church at the morning, afternoon and evening services on Sunday last. Rev. Dr. Austin is an eloquent and instructive preacher; and should he accept the pastorate of the Alfred Street Baptist Church he will undoubtedly prove a valuable asset to a city that is much in need of more preachers, more teachers more schools and fewer churches. The city is much in need of good preachers for we have an abundance of the other kind. Miss Martha E. Buckner is arranging a program for the Children's Day services which will be held at Roberts Chapel M. E. Church on next Sunday evening, June 14, at 8 p. m. Mr. P. H. Limpkins and Miss Laura M. Dorsey are teaching the songs and recitations. Rev. M. McKeen preached a sermon to the Elks at Shiloh Baptist Church on Sunday last. Mr. Henry C. Brooks of South Orange, N. J., was in the city Sunday, the guest of his mother, Mrs. Mary F. Brooks. Messrs. Frank Simmons and Courtland Gaines have opened an ice cream parlor and soda water fountain at the corner of Royal and Wolfe streets. The establishment will be conducted in a strictly first-class and up-to-date manner. The Sunday School of Roberts Chapel M. E. Church will give an excursion to beautiful River View, Md., on Tuesday, June 30. PLATONICS. Glaucus: Plato, it appears that certain Greeks have come to grief through ignorance of the ancient law of the divine right of descendants of kingly house to rule. Or so great Socrates doth cite an illustrious example to "point a moral and adorn a tale." What dost thou think of this "divine right" prerogative? Plato: Glaucus, our revered Socrates did wisely speak though there be many bushels of chaff in his discourse to sift, through ere this seed of wisdom is found. Glaucus: How now, methought the calm philosopher himself did scoff at the belief that the nobility are by right the governing class? What hath caused this seeming contradiction? Did he not ever protest against the denial of places of honor to the hoi polloi? Plato: Alas, Glaucus, learned Socrates did ever hold to the "divine right to rule" a pernicious doctrine until lately an obscure soldier of the legion did wrest in equal combat a princely prize from one of the court favorites of the emperor amid the plaudits of the assembled multitude. Yea, great was the lineage and numerous the battle trophies of the vanquished knight, yet right nobly did the plebian win the crown. But yet the emperor was loath to award the prize to one not of princely blood but that he feared the wrath of the assembly. Glaucus: What then did the august one do? Foreswear his plighted word? Plato: Nay, Glaucus, too wisely is our great potentate to thus invite rebellion. But he did beg old Socrates to discourse to the people on the folly of common folks' aspiring to high places. Wisely did he argue that the greatest leaders from the ranks came slowly step by step, mounting the ladder of greatness round after round, learning the lesson of obedience before presuming to command. It was, I say, a wise and telling speech. Glaucus: But. Plato, did not our great emperor himself assume the reins of government when but yet a youth by virtue of his noble lineage? Did not he serve but a few short years as governor in the provinces where he was much harassed by wild barbarians ere he was called to assume the sceptre here in Athens? Platp: Yea, well thou rememberest, Glaucus, but, lest we be found guilty of treason and conspiracy, let us cease our converse and repair to the oracle, to seek from thence the answers to these puzzling questions. Didst hear of the establishment of a new crime, lese majestic, for which dire punishments are threatened? There be spies on every hand to bear to court the first faint mutterings of discontent, and lo, the iron heel doth crush the daring fool. Let us go hence, one now approaches, whom late at the emperor's banquet to the conquering Persian Satrap was seen fawning and cringing beside the royal couch. The seductive charms of the hetairi have led many a noble youth to ruin. The largest rubber tree stands in the Brazilian territory of Acre, on the frontier of Bolivia. Its stem is 27 feet 2-7-10 inches in circumference at the base. For 120 days every year this colossus gives 22 pounds of rubber a day. This brings in $2,160 a year or a fair interest on about $50,000 to its owners, a family of seven Seringueiros. A Chicago woman physician has married an undertaker. It is excellent to keep the business right in the family. AMERICA'S MOST DARING AIR MAN NOW HE STARTED FLYING Aviator Only Twenty-five Years Old Has Looped the Loop, Flown Upside Down, Flown Wing Over Wing, Stead His Machines on Its Head and Then on Its Tail Without Mishap. Hempstead, N. Y.—It is never a bad say for flying, according to Charles F. Niles, the most reckless aviator in America today. He has held spellbound as he looped the loop and turned somersaults in midair while a sixty mile an hour gale was blowing. "It was as easy as rolling off a log." he said simply. "All you have to do is to go up and take a chance." Here in one short sentence you have his philosophy of life. And because he has always been willing to take a chance "Do Anything" Niles, or "Take a Chance" Niles, as he is called by his intimates, is recognized as the most daring aviator in America. Although he has been flying less than eighteen months, Niles has already looped the loop, flown upside down, flown wing over wing, stood his machine on its head and then on its tail ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. CHARLES V. NILES in midair without mishap. Moreover, he has repeated these surprising feats no less than four times over Hempstead plains. His only serious accident took place one afternoon when his motor stopped before he had risen seventy feet off the ground. The result was a fractured nose and a partially wrecked machine. But his willingness to "take a chance" was not injured. Lincoln Beachy has looped the loop in midair, but flying wing over wing had never been accomplished successfully until Niles did it last month. It is the most spectacular flying stunt that has ever been seen either in this country or abroad. Less than two years ago this young aviator—he is only twenty-five years old—was in the automobile business with his brother in Rochester, N. Y. his native town. It was not a very exciting life. He was not in the racing game, but simply selling cars, and he looked around for something more interesting. Then an advertisement caught his eye—an advertisement for a school of aviation announcing that the art of flying was taught in ten lessons. Instantly Niles made up his mind to be an aviator. Within a week he presented himself at the school and declared his intention of becoming a pupil. "Then," said Niles, "the instructor at the school explained that it often required more than ten lessons at $10 each to learn how to fly and that the advertisement was not to be taken too literally, but I handed him $100, told him I'd take ten lessons and that if I could not fly at the end of that time I'd bring suit against him for fraudulent advertising. "But I didn't have to bring a suit of any kind against the school," he added. "At the end of the seventh lesson I was making circles in the air. And before I finished the course I was able to do more stunts and make better landings than my instructor. In fact, I was offered a position as a professional aviator before my tenth lesson." Niles' few months with the company were replete with adventures. One day he decided to go after the endurance record. He was up in the air four hours and thirty-five minutes, when the crank shaft broke. Fortunately he was nearly 10,000 feet above the city so he was able to glide down to safety. His special work at the factory was to try out new planes and engines—certainly as hazardous an occupation as the most adventurous person could wish for. But no risks seemed too great for him. "If a machine looks good to me on the ground I'm willing to take a chance with it in the air," said Niles as he prepared for his second flight after looping the loop "I'm afraid of only one thing—the collapsing of my machine while I'm flying." COULDN'T BE WORSE. Verily, "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument" who insists that, with any degree of assurance or reason, he can support the present Administration or justify allegiance to the Democratic party. This assertion is absolutely without limit, excepting, possibly, that rennant of Belielites who are bent on all the mischief that the most refined diabolism can invent and contribute toward the disruption of society and the entailment of misery and failure on mankind in general. The Administration, or more strictly, that part of it which seems to hold the reins, born of Southern prejudice, and bent on destroying every vestige of the precious results of the Civil War—expresses about all the cheese-paring, cheap-Johnism, self-imposed-mud-sill aristocracy and false economy, to be found in this country or elsewhere. This is particularly true of the economy of personal means, if we are to regard the President's example set at Arlington as a measure; for when the rain came up while he was speaking, that illustrious exemplar deliberately turned his silk "dice-box" up-side down to prevent the rain from disfiguring that precious article; and upon leaving the grounds tenderly and economically placed the same dear thing under his coat. We have seen some Presidents stand in all sorts of weather, with silk hat well poised, cephalically, and ruthlessly exposed, unmindful of the threatened loss. But it is what the Administration has done and is doing in a public way, about which citizens generally are concerned. If what we see in the papers and hear on every hand can be relied upon as a marker, the whole country is going from bad to worse, in-so-much-so that decent Democrats are already, or fast becoming, discouraged, disgusted and dismayed. The idle are multiplying, business is depressed almost intolerably, and the state of the National finances, it is said—owing to free-trade legislation and general uncertainty among monied and general industrial interests—seem such as to necessitate the usual Democratic bond issue, to maintain the fiscal budget. Added to this, the favoritism shown toward the South, in Federal appointments, has had the effect to cause Northern Democrats to wish 1916 nearer at hand than it is. Of course, all other parties, and branches thereof, are heartily sick and disgusted with the Administration. As to the colored voters, it is safe to say that all are convinced that the present Administration is a delusion and a snare. Of course, there are a few colored folks who lack the moral courage to admit the truth, and who are now posing as political prophets and prognosticating better times long before the close of this Administration; and point to the confirmation of Judge Terrell, as a foretaste of their prophecies. But everybody knows that it was the firm stand taken by Republican Senators, coupled with the fact that, during the Mexican embroglio was no time to strike an unexceptionable colored man, that put the cabosh on Tillman, Vardeman, Hoke Smith and their ilk. Yet, the tribe of colored Democratic apologists, and limber-legged, supple-kneed aspirants for office is fast fading away, soon to vanish, only "to leave a track behind." Contemplating the presence of the existing Administration, we are constrained to exclaim, in the language of the "Immortal Bard," in "The Tempest," "Hell is empty and all the devils are here-" Verily, "He draweth out the staple of his argument" who assurance or reason, he can support justify allegiance to the Democrat, lately without limit, excepting, po- who are bent on all the mischiefs can invent and contribute toward entailment of misery and failure of administration, or more strictly, that the reins, born of Southern prejudice of the precious results of the cheese-paring, cheap-Johnism, self-false economy, to be found in this particularly true of the economy of the President's example set at All the rain came up while he was deliberately turned his silk "dicie the rain from disfiguring that bring the grounds tenderly and ecting under his coat. We have sorts of weather, with silk hat we lessly exposed, unmindful of the Administration has done and which citizens generally are comp papers and hear on every hand can whole country is going from bad cent Democrats are already, or gusted and dismayed. The idle pressed almost intolerably, and that it is said—owing to free-trade lea- among monied and general industry necessitate the usual Democratic budget. Added to this, the fave in Federal appointments, has hadocrats to wish 1916 nearer at hand parties, and branches thereof, are the Administration. As to the coall are convinced that the present a snare. Of course, there are a moral courage to admit the truth, lital prophets and prognosticate close of this Administration; and Terrell, as a foretaste of their pro- that it was the firm stand taken with the fact that, during the M strike an unexceptionable colored man, Vardeman, Hoke Smith a colored Democratic apologists, aspirants for office is fast fading leave a track behind." Contemplate Administration, we are constrain the "Immortal Bard," in "The T the devils are here-" ROBERT T. DOUGLASS DEAD A Distinguished Young Man Passes Away, Leaves Wife and Three Children. Robert T. Douglass, one of the best-known and one of the most popular young men in this city, died suddenly at the residence of his father last Monday. Mr. Douglass has not been thoroughly well for a number of years. About four years ago he underwent an operation for kidney trouble from which operation he apparently recovered and even surprised his doctors; and for four years he has been improving but not entirely well. He was suddenly taken ill last week and carried to the Freedmen's Hospital, but too sick to be operated on, and had to be brought back home, where he died. Mr. Douglass was a man who had a large circle of friends, who held him in high esteem. He was buried from the home of his father and mother Wednesday. Rev. Rivers conducted the services. He leaves a most amiable wife and three children. Appointed Interne. Dr. Arthur McKinny, a graduate from the medical department of Howard University, who took the examination, with the entire medical class for an interne, was among the successful candidates and has been notified by the Department of the Interior to report for duty October first. Dr. McKinny was one of the brightest students in his class. clue as to who robbed them of about clue as to who robbed them of about $200 worth of clothing. June Events. June 3—Jefferson Davis' Birthday. June 14—Flag day. June 17—Bunker Hill day. June 21—Longest day in the year. June 22—Summer begins. Gone to Harper's Ferry. Mr. W. W. Martin left the city for Harper's Ferry. Va., Wednesday, where he will make preparation for the opening of his house June 20. Mr. Martin has put in new large bath tubs and made several other improvements for the accommodation of his guests. Albert B. Cosey, Esq. of New Jersey, from all reports and reliable information, will be named for Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. Mr. Cosey is well known in this city and a man highly respected by the people. The announcement is made that on account of the many engagements the band is filling there will be no concert by Hoffman's Band at the new Howard Theater tomorrow, Sunday, June 14. Watch the columns of The Bee for notice of future concerts. This splendid body of musicians was heard to advantage at the commencement at Howard University and the High School Cadet Drill, besides the Public School Folk Song Exhibitions. Sophomore Kills Himself Juan Sanchez, twenty-three years old, a sophomore at Howard University, while at 547 Florida Avenue Northwest, shot himself in the forehead and died in the auto patrol of the Eighth precinct on the way to Emergency Hospital. The coroner was notified. A very enthusiastic meeting of the members of the Hampton Institute June Events. Albert B. Cosey. Hoffman's Band. thread of his verbosity finer than he insists that, with any degree of support the present Administration or public party. This assertion is abspossibly, that remnant of Belieites of that the most refined diabolism is the disruption of society and the mankind in general. The Adopt part of it which seems to hold notice, and bent on destroying every Civil War—expresses about all the self-imposed-mud-sill aristocracy and country or elsewhere. This is parapersonal means, if we are to regard Burlington as a measure; for when speaking, that illustrious exemplar "e-box" up-side down to prevent precious article; and upon leavonomically placed the same dear seen some Presidents stand in all well poised, cephalically, and ruthfully threatened loss. But it is what is doing in a public way, about unceremed. If what we see in the man can be relied upon as a marker, the word to worse, in-so-much-so that fast becoming, discouraged, dislike are multiplying, business is deceive state of the National finances, legislation and general uncertainty industrial interests—seem such as to bond issue, to maintain the fiscal morism shown toward the South, the effect to cause Northern Demand than it is. Of course, all other heartily sick and disgusted with colored voters, it is safe to say that Administration is a delusion and few colored folks who lack the man, and who are now posing as posing better times long before the point to the confirmation of Judge Prophecies. But everybody knows that by Republican Senators, coupled Mexican embroglio was no time to man, that put the cabosh on Tilland their ilk. Yet, the tribe of men and limber-legged, supple-kneed away, soon to vanish, only "to lating the presence of the existing need to exclaim, in the language of Tempest," "Hell is empty and all Alumni Association of Washington, D. C., was held Sunday evening, June 7, at the residence of Mr. Ferdinand D. Lee, president of the association, who spoke of the reunion of the Hampton graduates which will take place July 15th, at Hampton Institute, at which time a permanent scholarship fund of $2,000 would be raised, and placed in the hands of the executive committee and the faculty, to assist the poor and worthy students. Letters from Major R. R. MoTen, and Capt. Allen Washington, urging a liberal contribution and attendance upon the reunion were read. The following members subscribed to the fund: Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Price, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pollard, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Theo Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Lee, Miss Mary Boothe, Mr. Chas. Tabh, Miss W. G. Burke, Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Gwathney, Mr. Thos. G. Penn and Mr. Engene Bigham. At the conclusion of the meeting the members repaired to the dining room an enjoyed cool refreshments and short talks by Mr. R. J. Pollard, Miss Mary Boothe, Dr. P. W. Price, Mrs. D. H. Evans and Dr. A. J. Gwathney. A committee was authorized to solicit subscriptions from absent members. Quite a few registered for the trip to Hampton July 15. Mr. Lee conveyed to the members a vote of thanks tendered by the Executive Board of the Home for Friendless Girls, for their efforts and interest in the raising of over $100 on Tag Day, April 16, and lecture at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, for the benefit of the Home. Ottumwa, Iowa. Two very prominent, intellectual widows wish to correspond with two well-educated gentlemen. Object, matrimony. MRS. WYATT SMITH, 134 E. Main Street. MRS. CLARA CRAWFORD. MADRES' PARK. This beautiful park situated at Eckington, D. C., has been beautified and ready for picnics and lawn fetes. It has the prettiest and largest dance pavilion of any park in the city. Apply to Miss Madre, 227 Cleveland Street N. W. In Diehl's "Life of Beethoven is the great composer's own story of how he became deaf: "I was writing an opera. I had to deal with a very tiresome and capricious tenor. I had already written two great arias to the same words, neither of which pleased him, and also a third which he did not care for the first time he tried it, although he took it away with him. I was thanking heaven I had done with him and had begun to settle myself to something else which I had laid aside. I had hardly worked at it half an hour before I heard a knock at the door, which I recognized as that of my tenor. I sprang up from my table in such a rage that as the man came into the room I flung myself upon the floor, as they do, on the stage (here he threw up his arms and gesticulated in illustration), but I fell upon my hands. When I got up I found I was deaf, and from that moment I have remained so. The doctor said I injured the nerve." The part of the President's address in his speech at the funeral of the young Americans who were killed in the taking of Vera Cruz, which caused the most comment, was this paragraph: "We have gone down to Mexico to serve mankind if we can find out the way. We do not want Husbands Wanted CULTIVATE YOUR HAIR Mme. C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower For sale at the branch office— 1123 First Street Northwest. Dec. 13 tf SUMMER BOARDERS — THE DENNIS HOUSE. The Dennis House will open the first day of June to daily, weekly and monthly summer boarders. The resort is situated on the Chesapeake Bay, Anne Arundel County, Md. There are many pleasures to be had—fishing, bathing and other summer amusements. For further information write to Mrs. Joshua M. Dennis, Shady Side P. O., Anne Arundel County, Md. CHARLES A.NITZEL Phone Main 4599. Manufacturer of BROOMS. 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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. Fir Sale-Three Iots, 25x120 feet each corner Fifty-third and Dayton Strc Northeast, two blocks west of National Training School, $60m. Address "N." Bee office. Fnrnished Rooms for gentlemen, with or without Board 1316 Wallach Place, N. W. ROOMS FOR RENT. Single or in suites, of 2, 3 or 4 rooms. 1506 R Street Northwest. For Rent. Furnished room for gentlemen; gas and bath. Moderate prices. 444 P Street Northwest. FOR RENT—ROOMS. Two nicely furnished rooms, with hot and cold water bath. 1802 Twelfth Street Northwest. FOR RENT. Beautifully furnished front room for rent. All improvements. 905 S Street Northwest. FOR SALE Large and Beautiful Lots, Only $125. If you want to purchase a large and beautiful lot—a lot upon which to build a house, and only 20 minutes ride on the electric car from New York Avenue and Fifteenth street northwest, call or write at once. LOTS, $125. Address: Miss Elizabeth Shaw, 1613 Thirteenth street northwest. Trade With the House That Trades With You. KIDWELL & TURNER FRESH—MEATS—SMOKED Poultry a Specialty Phone Main 228 916. Louisiana Ave Northwest Open Sundays 7 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. LEE'S LUNCH ROOM Geo. H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W. Meals 15c and 25c. Washington. D. C.