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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 Least- ing Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXV, NO. 21 WASHINGTON, I. D. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1914 A. WORTHY TRIBUTE TRIBUTE TO GEO. W. PITTS By the Springfield Daily Republican —Mr. Pitts Has Been for the Past Ten Years Confidential Clerk to Hon. George B. Cortelyou. On the editorial page of the Springfield, Mass., Daily Republican of October 7 appeared the following paragraph. Secretary Cortelyou's colored messenger referred to therein is George W. Pitts, at present confidential clerk to Mr. Cortelyou in the great offices of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York: "Those who have had business with the head of the State Department at any time within many years will agree that the promotion of "Eddie" Savoy, the colored messenger of succeeding Secretaries of State, is well made. There is a diplomat who has never erred by giving a caller anything less than his proper rank, and if a captain—or a plain civilian—was greeted as a colonel, and a colonel as a general, it is not on record that trouble ever came of it. But the smoothest diplomat of them all was the colored messenger whom George B. Cortelyou employed at the Post Office Department and then at the Treasury Department, who could fairly make a caller weep at what he knew must be Mr. Cortelyou's sorrow that the pressure of public business alone prevented him from giving the caller the whole afternoon—or any part of it." George Pitts' ability as a diplomat received the and test when Mr Cortelyou assumed the duties of Secre- WALTER WILLIAMS Prince of Dylan's—With Geo. B. Cortelyou. tary of the Treasury. Mr. Cortelyou succeeded Hon. Leslie M. Shaw at the Treasury. Secretary Shaw kept a breezy, wide-open office and saw every caller who applied for an interview. When Mr. Cortelyou took charge instructions went forth to "tighten up," and air-tight buffers were raised around the corridors, reception rooms, and personal offices of the Secretary of the Treasury, George Pitts was stationed outside the breastworks to stem the ourrish of those who had formerly had free range of the Secretary's Office, and there was not a grating sound or a jar from Mr. Cortelyou's arrival to his departure in March, 1909. But the staff of the Secretary's Office was hard hit when Mr. Cortelyou took Pitts to New York, for before Mr. MacVeagh's administration of the Treasury Department was over one-half of his official family was not speaking to the other half, and one of the assistant secretaries even went to the extent of giving out to the press an interview in which he stated that he had been for six weeks trying to see the Secretary on official business, but without avail. This official stated in the interview that his charge would be substantiated by other high officials of the Treasury, but the next day's mail at the Secretary's office was flooded with贴dvits from these higher officials denying the story of their dissatisfaction with conditions at the Treasury. And thus the wonderful, smooth-running machine installed by the firm of Cortelyou and Pitts was thrown out of gear by the MacVeagh staff. NEGROES IN THE U. S. Population, School Attendance and Illiteracy—Urban and Rural Distribution—The Negro in Agriculture. Mortality Statistics. A bulletin on Negroes in the United States will be issued at an early date by William J. Harris, Director of the Census. Department of Commerce, which will contain all the principal information obtained through the census regarding the number and distribution of the Negroes, their rate of increase, their sex and age distribution, and their marital condition. Figures for illiteracy and school attendance and the occupations of Negroes will also be presented, as well as data on Negroes in agriculture and on mortality among Negroes. This bulletin is pre- liminary to a detailed report on Negroes in the United States to be issued later, which will be a complete analytical presentation of the statistics concerning the Negroes. Negro Population of the United States. The bulletin will show that the number of Negroes in the United States (exclusive of outlying possessions) in 1910 was 9,827,763, and they formed 10.7 per cent of the total population. In 1900 the number of Negroes was 8,883,994, or 11.6 per cent of the total population of that date. The increase among the Negroes during the decade was 993,769, or 11.2 per cent, as compared with an increase of 20.8 per cent among the native whites and 30.7 per cent among the foreign-born whites. The growth of the Negro population results from their own natural increase, while the growth of the white population is accelerated by the great influx of immigrants and the high birth rate in immigrant families. Of the total number of Negroes in 1910 about one-fifth were reported as mulatto; that is, as having some white blood. The proportion that mulattoes formed of the total Negro population increased from 12 per cent in 1870 to 15.2 per cent in 1890, and to 20.9 per cent in 1910. Urban and Rural Distribution. Nearly three-fourths of the Negroes (7,138,534, or 72.6 per cent) were rural dwellers, while about one-fourth (2,689,229, or 27.4 per cent) lived in towns or cities of at least 2,500 inhabitants. The Negroes formed 14.5 per cent of the rural population of the United States, as compared with 6.3 per cent of the urban. In the Southern States the great majority of the Negroes lived in rural districts, while of the Negroes of the North and of the West a large proportion were city dwellers. Of a total of 2,953 counties in the United States there were only 110 in which there were no Negroes, and there were 33 counties in 1910, as compared with 55 counties in 1900, in which 75 per cent of the population was Negro. There were 263 counties in 1910 in which 50 per cent of the population was Negro. Sex and Age. In 1910 there were 4,855,881 Negro males in the United States, as compared with 4,941,882 Negro females, the number of males to 100 females that being 98.9, as compared with a ratio of 106 for the whites. The Negroes were the only race in the United States in which there were more females than males. The age distribution of the Necroes was as follows: All ages (includes persons of unknown age), 9,827,763; per cent distribution, 100. Under 5 years, 1,263,288; per cent distribution, 12.9. From 5 to 14 years, 2,401,810; per cent distribution, 24.4. From 15 to 24 years, 2,091,211; per cent distribution, 21.3. From 25 to 44 years, 2,638,178; per cent distribution, 26.8. From 45 to 64 years, 1,108,103; -per cent distribution, 11.3. From 65 years up. 294,124; per cent distribution, 3. v..fortNn'3.ffiyap bmw bmw bmw The age distribution of the Negroes does not differ materially from that of the native whites. The Negro males in the United States of voting age numbered 2,458,873 in 1910, and the Negro females of voting age numbered 2,427,742. School Attendance and Illiteracy. Of the Negroes 6 to 9 years of age, 458,954, or 49.34 per cent, were reported as having attended school during the school year 1909-10; of those 10 to 14 years of age, 791,905, or 68.6 per cent, were so reported; and of those 15 to 20 years of age, 338,750, or 26.5 per cent. In each age group the percentage of school attendance was much lower for the Negroes than for the whites. Of the total number of Negroes 10 years of age and over 2,227,731, or 30.4 per cent, were reported as illiterate; among the whites the percentage of illiteracy was 5, being 3 among native whites and 12.7 among the foreign-born whites. The percentage of illiteracy among Negroes decreased from 57.1 in 1890 to 44.5 in 1900, and to 30.4 in 1910. The Negro in Agriculture The Negro in Agriculture. The bulletin will contain information by states, and also by counties, about Negroes in agriculture. The total number of farms operated by Negroes in 1910 was 893,370; of this number, 218,972 were operated by their owners, 672,964 by tenants, and 1,434 by managers. The number of farms owned by Negroes increased by 31,175, or 16.6 per cent, between 1900 and 1910, and the number of Negro tenants increased by 113,700, or 20.8 per cent, during the decade. The total value of farm property operated by Negroes in 1910 was $1,144,181,000, as compared with $1499,941,000 in 1900, indicating that the value in agricultural property operated by Negroes increased considerably more than twofold during the decade. The statistics show that 1,806,727 Negro males and 1,050,849 Negro females were engaged in agriculture. Mortality Statistics. The forthcoming bulletin will contain for the first time a statement regarding mortality among the Negroes. All previous census publications have given statistics for the total colored population, in which was J. H. DR. BOOKER T. W\SHINGTON included the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, and other non-whites. The data will be shown for the registration area of the United States, which includes the registration states and certain selected cities. The death rate among Negroes in 1910 in this area was 25.5 per 1,000, showing a decrease as compared with the rate in 1900, which was 29.4, and the death rates for 1910 show many decreases, especially in the southern municipalities. REV. HOLLAND POWELL. Reception to the New Pastor—Installation of Rev. Holland Powell, D. D., LL.D., as Pastor. During forty-five years of existence Liberty Baptist Church has had three pastors—Rev. Edward Willis, Rev. Isaac Toliver, both of whom are dead, and Rev. Holland Powell, whom it called in July and installed the period of September 27th to October 6th. Beginning Sunday, September 27th, at 3:30 p.m., a series of sermons delivered by the pastors of various churches of the city, accompanied by their choirs and many of their members. The program included each evening, except Saturday, the 3rd instant. The week was a success financially and otherwise. Monday night, the 5th instant, found many worshippers present in a general union prayer meeting. The auditorium was beautifully decorated with giant rubber plants, pot flowers and many other combinations. "Old Glory" presented the stars and the stripes, making a lovely nucleus around which other things cling. The Banquet. Tuesday night, October 6th, the choir furnished the music. The pastors of the city and their wives were present. A short program was rendered in the main auditorium of the church, where the ministers vied with each other in expressions complimentary to the pastor-elect and to the church. The pastor, in well chosen words, touched briefly upon the mission of the church, the work of the minister, and the duty of the members. At the close of these remarks the audience remained seated while the ministers and their wives, led by the pastor and his wife, repaired to the Sunday School room down stairs, where the Committee on Arrangements had prepared "a table before me in the presence of mine enemies." The room had been converted into a veritable dining hall, the walls and columns of which were artistically decorated with a color scheme of orange-yellow and blue, and the interspace set with carnations. The brilliant Welsbach lights shining soft and mellow from above, poured forth their rays as the noonday sun and the hours passed rapidly. The table presented more the picture of a royal wedding than an ordinary church banquet. It was set up with pure white linens arranged in almost perfect order, studded with choice flowers and groaned, as it were, under the weight of well prepared and life-sustaining edibles. The writer has no hesitancy in stating that no caterer, of whatever fame, could have, other, things being equal, set up a banquet more economic and appropriate for the occasion. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS. You may come across a lot of things you cannot do; when you do, it is manly to say so; it is also manly to step aside and let them be done by somebody else. They can be done. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has at present thirty-two branches with a membership of 4,300. Cincinnati, Ohio—Lottie Adams, age 72, colored nurse, who had charge of the smallpox ward at the city hospital for twelve years, and who was dismissed for reasons of economy, will be replaced in her old position. No one else was willing to assume the duties connected with the position. William Carrathers, colored boy from Chicago, School 26, had the best child's garden in the city. He is in the seventh grade and is 13 years old. Doctors have decided that an electric shock kills a man, destroying the rhythm of the heartbeats and acting upon the lungs like an overdose of an anesthetic. A St. Louis man has invented an electrical apparatus to be attached to a locomotive fire box door, to record the times that a fireman shovels on coal. Mrs. Mamie Carter, cofed, wife of Mr. W. M. Carter, the patent medicine man, of Petersburg, Va., who was tried and acquitted several months ago of the alleged murder of "Dr." Cox, another patent medicine dealer, died on Friday night in the Central State Hospital. Her troubles on account of the affair unbalanced her mind. A young woman of a religious turn of mind wished to announce to a friend the birth of her firstborn child. She sent the following telegram: "Isaiah 9:6," which, being interpreted, reads: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." The friend, more literal and less familiar with the prophets, read the message and said to her husband: "Lillian has a boy, but why on earth did she name him Isaiah? He must be a healthy chap, though, for he weighs nine pounds and six ounces. Lewis K. Becks, of Los Angeles, Cal., is en route to this city, where he will enter Howard University. Mr. Becks was winner of one of the three scholarships awarded by the Southern California Alumni Association of Afro-American men and women. A tame wolf attacked and hit a 6-year-old child in Kansas City, a few days ago. After the animal tasted the child's blood it reverted to a wild state. Motorcycle Patrolman Downs shot the wolf. The fine old frigate Constellation, famed in the United States Navy for more than a century, shortly will visit Washington. The old ship was one of the exhibits at the Star Spangled Banner Centennial at Baltimore recently. In Norfolk guns and spars were installed to give her the appearance she had in her early days when her name spelled terror on the seas. In Russia some of the railroads are equipped with smoking cars for ladies. The hide of a cow produces about thirty-five pounds of leather, while that of a horse only about eighteen pounds. Gray horses live longer than those of any other color. Cream-colored steeds are usually delicate and much affected by warm weather. There is one colored fireman in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is John Wood- son and was appointed by Commissioner Adamson. He has been assigned to report for duty with Truck 106, at Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn. He was third on the Civil Service list. Kangaroo farming in Australia is an important industry. The hides are valuable and the tendons extremely fine indeed, they are the best known to surgeons for sewing up wounds, and especially for holding broken bones together, being much finer and tougher than catgut. DR. PHIL B. BROOKS Expert Marksman—Part of Skill Displayed Tuesday Night. Dr. Phil Broome Brooks is an expert marksman. He was a prominent figure as a guest at the American Theater last Tuesday night. After the show he repaired to the shooting gallery, 1220 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, and stood several cards upon end and took space about thirty or forty feet and displayed his skill as an expert marksman. He cut several cards in two to the wondering and surprising amazement of those who witnessed the exhibition. If there ever was a genial and so- ciable fellow and popular among all who know him, it is Dr. Phil Broome Brooks. The company repaired to Dade's Cate, among whom were Dr. S. G. Holmes, of Arlington, Va., and W. Calvin Chase, where an excellent repast was enjoyed. Miss Alice Crawford, the nightingale singer of this city, rendered several classic vocal selections, while Mr. Will Lane, one of Washington's most celebrated pianists, rendered several instrumental solos and also assisted Miss Crawford in her vocal renditions. Speaking of Dr. Brooks, he has one of the largest private libraries in this city. He has fully 8,000 volumes. As a literary man he is among the leading in the city. Bethel Literary Rev. R. W. Bagnall, of Detroit, Mich., will deliver the opening address of Bethel Literary and Historical Association Tuesday night, October 20, 1914, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church; M Street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets Northwest. This is the thirty-third year of its existence. Dr. Bagnall is one of the greatest orators and most fearless champions of the race. Everyone should hear him. Music by Junior choir of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Solo by W. I. Aiken, of Hampton Institute. Miss M. A. S. Madre, president; James Mston, secretary. THE OKLAHOMA JIM CROW Will Come Before the U. S. Supreme Court Next Week. The Oklahoma Jim Crow case will come up in the United States Supreme Court next week. Attorney Wm. Harrison, of Oklahoma City, the leading colored attorney in the Southwest, will represent complainant. Rev. W. H. Jernagin, of this city, and several other citizens of Oklahoma have made great sacrifices to bring this case to the Supreme Court. REVELATION OF A FULFILLED PROPHESY. Rev. W. H. Snyder Extends a Gra- cious Reproof to Americans. The same has been sent to the var- ious presidents, including the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, also the Congress of the United States, and every Governor in the States. This means so much to us as a people. The same may be purchased from 220 Sixth Street Northwest, northeast corner Fourth and N Streets Northwest, 432 N Street Northwest and 1816 Seventh Street Northwest. The Revelation. The vision of the revelation of fulfilled prophesy and implies a gracious reproof to America which means so much to us as a people. It can be had at various places at a nominal price-132 W Street Northwest, The Club, corner Fourth and N Street Northwest, 1816 Seventh Street Northwest, 220 Sixth Street Northwest. TUSKEGEE'S REPORT Dr. Washington's Annual Report—The Progress of the Institution—Want a $300,000 Endowment Fund. The annual report of the principal and trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, at Tuskegee, Ala., was made public today by Booker T. Washington. It shows progress in a number of lines. Especial attention is drawn to important permanent improvements which are now under construction and which will cost $274,612, of which $166,071 has been received or promised, leaving $108,540 yet to be obtained. Since the last meeting of the trustees $15,000 has been received from a friend with which to erect and equip a new laundry building, and $3,000 has been received from two friends in New York with which to build and equip a new canning factory. Ten memorial scholarships have been provided by another friend with a gift of $10,000. Legacies paid in part or in full during the year amounted to $36,417, and other legacies, notice of which have been received since the last report, amount to $56,018. Endowment Fund Total. The endowment fund of the institution now amounts to $1,942,112, although Dr. Washington states that at least $3,000,000 ought to be added to this fund in the form of a temporary or permanent endowment. A new hospital has been in operation for fifteen months, and has demonstrated its usefulness not only to the student body and teaching body, but to colored people in many parts of the South. Dr. Washington states in the report: "The disposition of colored people in all parts of the country to make contributions toward the support of the school is growing. The amount of such gifts is small and the cost of getting them is large; nevertheless, it is thought to be worth while in the direction of self-help. Needs Enumerated "Our needs are so many and varied it is difficult to single out any special ones, but our daily experience and observation convince us that the effectiveness of our work would be many times increased if we could secure the funds for a much needed new dormitory for boys to cost about $50,000, and a veterinary hospital to cost about $5,000. "Some of our other present and urgent needs are the following: Fifty dollars a year for annual scholarships for tuition for one student, the student himself providing for his own board and other personal expenses in labor and cash; $1,200 for permanent scholarships; money for operating expenses in any amounts, however small; $1,500 each for teachers' cottage; $40,000 for a building for religious purposes; $16,000 to complete the boys' trades building; $20,000 for a boys' dormitory and $50,000 for a girls' dormitory." ALEX. CROMWELL. What Has become of His Old Folks' Home. The Bee wants to know what has become of the Alexander Cromwell's Old Folks' Home. What has become of the funds collected from the St. Luke's Church members for a home? Ought not this matter be investigated? What has become of the Alexander Cromwell's Old Folks' Home? Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. The Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. W. H. Jernagin, is still progressing financially and spiritually. Needed improvements are being made, such as installing a steam plant and putting in a baptistery. Last Sunday was a great day, known as Family Day in the church, where each member was requested to get every member of their family to attend church with them and be seated together, while the pastor preached a special sermon to families. The Family Day was a great success. A great revival is now in progress and will last two weeks. Dr. A. R. Abbott, of Mississippi one of the greatest New Testament preachers of this age, will conduct the meeting. The Whitman Sisters The celebrated Whitman Sisters are at the American Theater this week. They are just as,good as ever. Every participant is a star. Their costumes are the prettiest worn on the American stage. They use up-to-date styles. They should be seen before they leave. SPECIAL The following examinations for positions of teachers or librarians in the colored schools will be held at the Franklin School Building commencing at 9 o'clock A. M., October 23-21; Dressmaking in Vocational Schools. October 30-31: Librarian in High and Normal Schools. October 30-31: Night High and Elementary Schools. October 30-31: Ungraded Classes (Incorrigible). E. L. THURSTON. Superintendent of Schools. POSTAL SAVINGS TO GAIN MILLIONS RAISES LIMIT OF DEPOSITS. Those Whe, Wish May Put $1,000 to Their Credit Instead of $500, as Heretofore—Only One-half of This Money Is Interest Bearing—Funds Are Always Redeposited by Government. Washington.—"All over the country, more especially in New York and other large cities, postmasters report that under existing law they turn away a much larger amount of money offered for deposit in the postal savings system than they are authorized to receive. Of the $45,000,000 now on deposit approximately $6,000,000 was turned over to the care of Uncle Sam by patrons of the New York postoffice. Under the provisions of the bill recently passed by the senate and house, postmasters will be in position to accept many deposits which they must now turn away. This should cause the deposits in the postal savings system to increase very rapidly." Alexander M. Dockery, third assistant postmaster general, who has general supervision of the postal savings system, made this statement, and said: "Patrons of the postal savings system must not be disappointed if they find that they are unable to deposit $1,000 immediately after the bill has received the approval of President Wilson. While the limit of deposits, which an individual may have in the system is increased from $500 to $1,000 by the bill, only $500 is interest bearing. Before any non-interest bearing deposits can be received the department must prepare and issue a new set of certificates and books. Work on these is be- ```markdown ``` ALEXANDER M. DOCKERY. ing rushed, however, and they will be ready for issue with the least possible delay. "When these new certificates are ready an individual may deposit $1,000 at one time, one-half of which will draw interest. Separate certificates will be issued for the interest bearing and non-interest bearing deposits, although both may be made at the same time. Meanwhile, immediately after the bill is signed and becomes law, the public will be notified through the press, and individuals may deposit as much as $500 at one time or enough more than they may now have on deposit to bring their interest bearing account up to the $500 limit. "While the new bill fixes the limit of individual accounts at $1,000, patrons of the system may purchase postal savings bonds with their savings every six months. For this purpose both the interest bearing and non-interest bearing deposits will be available. Postal savings bonds pay $2½ per cent. By turning their deposits into postal savings bonds every six months individual depositors may lay aside $2,000 a year if they care to do so and have the guarantee of the government behind it plus $2½ per cent interest. "While bankers opposed the enactment of the original postal savings law, they have come to realize that it is one of the best things that ever hap pened for them. As a rule, the money which is deposited in this system would not have reached the banks and would be kept out of circulation. Now it goes into the banks in the communities in which it is deposited, the banks paying 2½ per cent for its use, while the government pays the depositors 2 per cent. One reason for having $500 made noninterest bearing was the fact that it has been found that the one-half per cent paid by the banks for redeposits over and above 2 per cent paid to depositors does not quite pay the operating expenses of the system. "This will be a splendid thing for business at a time when money is needed. It will help the banks in small towns as well as in cities, since the money is redeposited as close as possible to the point where it is placed in the postoffice. This distribution of postal savings funds among the banks is absolutely free from favoritism. It is done automatically, and political pull does not count a particle." Canada Gets Most of Its Imported Foreign Goods From the United States. Washington.—What and how much the nations of the world bought from the United States before the outbreak of the war, as told by American counsular officers, are discussed in "Commercial Relations of the United States," a volume of 272 pages, just issued by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Four countries other than the United States offer each a market for over a $1,000,000,000 worth of foreign products annually—the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Netherlands. Great Britain bought $3,000,000,000 worth, about 20 per cent of which is from this country; Germany, $2,500,000,000, with 15 per cent from the United States; France, $1,500,000,000, of which 11 per cent is from the United States, and the Netherlands, an important center for the transshipment of foreign goods, nearly $1,500,000,000, in which American goods figure to the extent of about 10 per cent. Belgium's annual purchases fall just short of $1,000,000,000 in value, United States products supplying about 8 per cent, while Austria-Hungary, Italy, Canada, Russia, India, Australia, Argentina and Japan are next in order with imports ranging from $722,000,000 to about $300,000,000. These countries vary greatly in the proportion of their purchases from the United States, Canada taking 65 per cent and India 3 per cent. Brazil's imports exceed $308,000,000, only 15 per cent of which are from the United States, which takes 40 per cent of the Brazilian exports. WISCONSIN MEN STRIKE GOLD Find Mine In Colorado, and Ore Assays $190 a Ton. Steamboat Springs, Colo.—Gold ore assaying $100 per ton has been struck in the Royal Flush mine, at Hahn's Peak, in a vein from three and one-half to four feet in thickness and of a continuous length. The assays also show good values in silver and lead. The strike was made in a drift leading from the 1,540 foot funnel. The strike is being rapidly opened, a depth of forty feet already being reached. Several inches of almost virgin ore was found on the hanging wall, and this is being sacked for shipment. This mine is owned by a number of Wisconsin capitalists and is regarded as one of the richest in the Hahn's Peak territory. HIGH COST OF LUNCH Twenty Cents a Meal. Employees of Uncle Sam. Washington.—Director Ralph in solving the high cost of living for the 4,700 employees of the bureau of engraving and printing has arranged it so that these people get the best things in the market at the lowest possible cost. Twenty cents a meal is the average cost to each eater. Mr. Ralph is of the belief that the same system he has installed at the bureau can be instituted in the big cities in the event of a crisis, and there are many experts who back his views. Instead of the employees of the bureau bringing their lunches Mr. Ralph installed a lunch room, which is cooperatively owned by those who dine there. The 4,700 employees of the bureau were told of the new scheme before it was installed, so that it was through their co-operation that the present system was brought about. The men each put up $1 to start their lunch room. The women were taxed 50 cents, all who could afford it. And they merely loaned the money. In two months' time, when the system has been six months old, this money will be refunded. With the $2,500 subscribed in this manner Director Ralph set about installing on the top floor of the fine new bureau building a modern kitchen and dining room. He went to New York and purchased the dishes. Then he selected a good head cook, a first class steward, a man who knew how to buy in the open market. Director Ralph employed sixty other men to take care of the hungry. Any person connected with the bureau can have a first rate meal for 20 cents, or, if the diner feels extravagant, 25 cents may be expended. At present the prices are higher, it is said, than they will be. A cup of coffee now costs 5 cents. Eventually this will be brought down to 3 cents. But coffee, milk and tea are minor details. The main meal is the thing Here is a sample menu: Half fried chicken, mashed potatoes, sliced tomatoes and corn, bread and butter and ple. 20 cents. Corned beef and cabbage, mashed potatoes, beets, bread and butter and dessert. 20 cents. Gets a "Spectacled" Duck. San Francisco.—Information received here from Alaska says that Lord William Percy, naturalist and sportsman, who left San Francisco several months ago for a hunting trip in the arctic, has bagged a "spectacled" elder duck, which had been supposed to be extinct. Lord Percy crawled on his stomach for half a mile to get the bird, a male. HYPNOTIZED BY LIGHT. Couldn't Speak When Addressed, and Physician Worked For Hours. Los Angeles.-Rigid as a mummy, Louls A. Albright, a visitor from Canton, O., was found gazing into a necktie shop by the police early one morning. He was apparently held in a hypnotic trance by an electric globe revolving before a reflector of many colors and many facets. It was only after hours of work by surgeons at the receiving hospital that Albright was restored to full consciousness. Walking his beat, Patrolman Watson saw the man gazing intently into the window. Returning that way half an hour later, Mr. Albright held the same position. Telling himself that the stranger was a very deliberate "window shopper," the patrolman passed on. But when he came by the store a third time and saw that Albright had not budged he thought it time to investigate. "Pretty ties, sir," he suggested with due respect. He might have been talking to a rock. "Nice night, sir." ventured the patrolman once more. Again there was no response. Watson touched the window gazer. There was no movement. The ambulance was called. Mr. Albright was tipped into a stretcher and driven to the hospital. DREAMED BABY WAS DEAD. Cable Announces That It Was a True Vision. Toledo, O.—Kosman Boycheff, insurance man and graduate of a university in Bulgaria, received a telegram from Secretary of State Bryan that his daughter Helen had died in Bremen. The child was four years old. Mrs. Boycheff and two little daughters left three weeks ago to visit Bulgaria. They were detained in Bremen when war was declared. Boycheff cabled funds to them, but has no information as to their condition or the cause of his daughter's death. Just before he received the telegram from Secretary Bryan Boycheff told a business associate that he had dreamed the night before that his baby was dead. LIMBURGER CHEESE STILL ON THE MENUS LIMBURGER CHEESE STILL ON THE MENUS American Made Product Good and Plentiful Say Authorities rope, America can keep up the supply of limburger cheese, no matter if the allies draw and maintain an impenetrable cordon around the fatherland forever. The department of agriculture arises to assure a disheartened nation that Uncle Sam is equal to the task, and the fragrant product of the creamery may remain on the bills of fare throughout the land regardless of commerce destroying cruisers and the extraordinary demands of the imperial German commissariat. In an official bulletin the department has announced: "There is no reason why some of this deficiency cannot be made good, at home if the farmers, will furnish the milk." It is felt that this statement will prove at least enlightening, for it explains that limburger cheese is really made from milk. Then the bulletin continues: "All American cheeses rank, in the opinion of experts, fully as high as foreign cheeses of the same class. "One of the most striking instances of this is limburger cheese. In quality and price American cheese of the limburger type long ago drove its foreign rival out of the market. Very little foreign limburger has been imported into this country for many years. "Many consumers have clung to the belief that they were eating a foreign cheese. There is no reason at all why they should not now know that the American product is exactly as good as the foreign. Moreover, now that some of the more expensive types of foreign cheeses are not likely to reach us for a long time, the demand for domestic limburger should be greatly increased." The bulletin also relates that Swiss type cheeses of quality equal to the best of Gruyere and Swetzter have been made In the United States and are sold in competition with the foreign product. BOY'S RECORD CORN CROP. Aged Fifteen, He Gets Fifty Bushels an Acre on a Twenty Acre Plot. Courtland, Kan.—What an industrious boy can accomplish is aptly illustrated in the record of Henry Emery, the fifteen-year-old son of J. M. Emery, a farmer living on the Pitsenberger farm, near Courtland. During the past year he has raised twenty acres of corn on his father's farm, from which the young farmer expects to get a yield of fifty bushels per acre. First Canal Stowaway. San Francisco.—Bearing the distinction of being the first stowaway successfully to have negotiated the Panama canal. John Jaughan arrived in San Francisco on the new Admiral line steamship Admiral Schley. U. S. MAY BUILD WAR MOTORCARS PROVE EFFECTIVE IN EUROPE Congressman Insists That This Country Cannot-Afford to Overlook Value of New Engines of Warfare-Would Be Big Protection to Our Forces and Destructive to Enemy. Washington.-The general use of armored motorcars for war purposes in Europe and the valuable services that they are rendering have gripped the imagination of some congressmen. Representative D. R. Anthony of Kansas of the committee on military affairs said that he would introduce a bill for the purchase of armored automobiles for the United States army. Sentiment in favor of Mr. Anthony's proposal is said to have developed among other A Photo by American Press Association. e military committee, apitol there is a consid- that this government be without this unit it said Representative Antony, "there can be no doubt that any up to date army must be equipped with armored automobiles. The things that have been accomplished through their use in Europe have demonstrated that as engines of modern warfare they are indispensable. This is strikingly so in connection with all cavalry movements. Nobody can question the advantage of having fast moving vehicles which can carry fighting men and keep them impregnable to rifle fire. "I understand that one-of the arguments against the use of these cars in the United States is that our terrain, the lay of the land, is not suitable for their use. This, it seems to me, is an untenable objection. The country over the terrain of the United States does offer more obstacles than that of Europe because the present battlefields of Europe are a network of improved highways. But there are many areas where hostilities might take place in this country that are exactly suited to the use of the automobile. "It must be remembered that an armored car is not the ordinary touring car. It is not built, for instance, with pneumatic tires, and it can traverse open and rough country with facility. It can even go through the panel of a fence without being stopped, and it can do away with the efficiency of barbed wire fences, obstructions which our American troops encountered with such fatality in the Spanish war. "Properly equipped with a sufficiently low speed, the cars could climb steep hills, offering absolute protection to their occupants from rifle fire and ordinary machine gun shots, thus accomplishing a movement which would be impossible to cavalry and at the same time throwing a deadly fusillade into the enemy. "As life saving devices the armored automobiles seem to me to be the greatest war invention we have had for some time. In an armored, car four men can be transported at a high rate of speed to the point from which the attack seems to be made and can handle their rapid fire machine guns with practically no danger from hostile fire. It does not require much imagination to realize with what deadly efficiency 100 or 200 of these cars could operate against the enemy. They would be of prime importance in protecting a retreat, because they can be constructed so that their fire can be directed from either front or rear, and, being armored, they would form a sort of moving fortification, a screen behind which the retreating troops could operate. "The time may soon come when much of the military work done by the horse will be accomplished through the instrumentality of the armored car, for armored cars can pull greater weights than can horses and can hold positions which would be impossible for cavalry. When this time does arrive it would be a great mistake to have this country behind all others in such valuable and essential equipment." Father of Seventeen Thinks State Should Reward Him. Austin. Tex.-As a reward for having a family of seventeen children P. K. DeLany of Seguin, Guadalupe county, has requested the governor to give him and his wife and children an automobile to convey them to and from church and Sunday school, the church being seven miles from where they live. The request came in a letter received by the governor, and accompanying it was a picture of the family. DeLany writes: "Our family group is supposed to be one of the largest in the state, consisting of seventeen children (ten daughters, seven sons), one son-in-law, one granddaughter, father and mother. All are alive and healthy, without a mark or blemish. Fifteen of the children are at home and two are married—Mrs. John Anderson of Seguin and Mrs. Ross McCullough of Moore. We live seven miles from church and Sunday school. "Don't you think the state ought to appreciate us enough to give us an automobile to attend church and Sunday school? We hope for an early reply." Governor Colquitt answered, thanking DeLany for the great service he has rendered the state, but informed him that there was no appropriation for furnishing automobiles in recognition of such accomplishments. FASTS FOR FORTY-FIVE DAYS. Woman Loses Twenty-eight Pounds and Conquers Indigestion. Epokane. Wash.—Mrs. Boyd Culver, forty-one, of Eureka, Mont, has just completed a forty-five day fast. She came here suffering from chronic indigestion and started on the fast under the direction of Dr. Aubrey Dodson. During the forty-five day period Mrs. Culver ate nothing and drank nothing except water up to the last week, when she began taking small quantities of lemon and orange juice. She lost twenty-eight pounds during the period, dropping from 115 to 87. After a week of eating her weight increased to 105. She is entirely cured. KAISER'S SON WAS RAGGED, BUT POLITE Prince August Wilhelm Seen In Rheims by Nurse. Paris. A Ited Cross nurse, who has been at Khelms since the first shells fell, says the Germans behaved in the most correct manner on their entry into the place, when neither civil nor military authorities remained in the town. Many of the officers and men believed they were only fifteen miles from Paris. "One day," says the nurse, "a young officer whose uniform was tattered and extremely dirty asked me politely in the street, after saluting me, whether I could receive some wounded in my hospital. I replied that it was impossible as the place was already full and we were unable to feed those who were there. The officer thanked me. I saw him then go to a shop, where he made some purchases. He came out of the shop with his hands filled with sausages and other catables. The ragged young officer was Prince August Wilhelm, the kalser's fourth son. "The German general explained that the first bombardment was due to a misinterpretation of an order, given to the battery. "The Germans began to leave on Sept. 11, and the French arrived the next day. "On the day the cathedral was struck by the first shells we were compelled to empty the hospital. We transferred the injured during the night while there were two hours of quiet and installed them in champagne vaults. I had forty myself in one cellar. We were compelled to search for provisions during the day, and in this work five religious and three lay female nurses were killed. "Life in the vaults was terrible, and I fear it is still continuing. Tetnus and gangrene threatened each sufferer, and infection had to be fought every minute, which was most difficult, as many of the wounded were unable to move. Between 7 o'clock in the morning and 5 o'clock in the evening I counted 180 shells falling or passing immediately over us. The odor from the bursting shells made breathing sometimes impossible. The uproar was such that it was impossible to hear, and we were obliged to about into each other's ears. "A merchant of Rheims estimates the damage at 350,000,000 francs ($70,000,000)." Fifty-nine War Ministers In France. Paris.—The appointment of Theophile Delcasse as French minister of war makes the fifty-ninth change in that post in the last forty-three years—that is to say, since the establishment of the third republic. The record compares unfavorably with that of the German war office, which has had only six different chiefs since 1571, while during that same period Great Britain has had fourteen. Civilized Chippawas Show Fine Products of Their Industry. Bemidjl, Minn.-Two thousand persons, 500 of whom were whites, attended the big day of the Indian fair at Bed Lake which, according to Walter F. Dickens, superintendent of the agency, was not only a bewildering surprise to visitors, but probably was the first Indian fair ever held that was devoid of dances. "That is an achievement that must be looked upon with a good deal of hopefulness," said Superintendent Dickens, "because it shows as nothing else could the zeal of the Indians in demonstrating to their white brothers their ability to raise farm products and hold a fair excelling in exhibits from the soil as well as prize specimens of stock and household displays. There was no fire water nor dancing nor any of those other adjuncts thought necessary for an Indian celebration." Exhibits of grain grown by the Indians included specimens of oats, barley and wheat that would average twenty-five bushels to the acre and yellow dent corn fully matured. COWS DRILL LIKE SOLDIERS. Herd of Jerseys Do Squad Formations at Command. Connersville, Ind.—Forrest Haldwell, who lives near here, has taught a herd of sixteen Jersey cows to do squad right, squad left and other movements in military drill. Entering the lot at milking time, the young man will shout "Attention!" and the browsing bovines, becoming alert, stampede for a certain spot in the lot and line up in double ranks like a company of soldiers. When the trainer calls, "Squad right:" the cows swing into lines of four abreast and march to the stable, turning to the right or to the left as the drillmaster may direct. At the stable door the cattle mark time until the trainer gives the word for them to pass into the barn. WIFE OF LEPER CLINGS TO HIM UNTO THE END Wilkesbarre, Pa.-In one of the two homes which they own Joseph Norman, aged thirty-two, with his wife and two children, is shut completely off from the world. The wife and children are prisoners because they chose to risk leprosy to be with the afflicted husband and father, for experts have declared Norman to be a leper. Already the skin on his face bears unmistakable evidence of the dread malady. When convincing proof had been obtained that Norman was a leper the door of his home was opened for the escape of wife and children. Mrs. Norman was instructed to cut away from her husband forever. She left the house because she believed she must. Next day she took her little sons and with them went to the city officials and begged to be allowed to return. They endeavored to dissuade her. "I cannot live without my husband," she cried, falling on her knees. "I was happy as his sweetheart. I was happy when he made me his wife. I have been happy during the eleven years that we have lived together and struggled to lay aside a little money for the rainy day. My love has been fanned into a big flame by his goodness and his care of me. I became his wife for better or for worse. I have tried to be a kind, dutiful and loving wife. I have borne him children, whom we both love. "When doctors told me that he was a victim of leprosy I fully realized that it meant a life of exile for him. But I determined at once that his fate should be my fate, and as his wife it was my duty never to desert him 'until death do us part.' I thought that perhaps I might be allowed to live in exile with him, but I feared that the children would be taken from us. But, while my heart will break at separation from my children, I cannot see my husband go into exile alone. With him I will go." WEDS TO ESCAPE WOMEN. Widower Preacher Tells of Being Pursued by the Sisters. Zanesville. O.—Answering criticisms of his action in marrying a second time within a year after his first wife died, Rev. C. S. Holden, sixty, of the Market Street Baptist church, told trustees he was forced to it by women members of his congregation. The pastor explained that unmarried ministers are put in an embarrassing position; that some women were in the habit of squeezing his hand, many insisted on whispering endearments and one really proposed. Horse Dies In a Real Bed. Nelson, Ky.-Henry Grubbs, who lives on Harry Murphy's farm, about six miles from Bloomfield, purchased a horse from a traveler for $35. He turned the horse loose in the backyard and it walked around to the front. came in the front door, laid down on Grubbs' bed and died. His nose came just to the edge of the bed and its legs were bent at the knees, giving him a very humanlike appearance. The cause of the horse's death is unknown. Burleson Would Take In Western Hemisphere—Money Order Plans. Washington. - Postmaster General Burleson announced that he had under consideration a plan making the two cent rate for letter postage effective throughout the western hemisphere. In an official statement it was said: "A sacrifice of revenue would be involved, but strong arguments are advanced in behalf of the proposal. The change, it is contended, will go far toward permanently building up direct and frequent mail exchanges between all the countries of North and South America. The two cent rate now obtains between the United States and Great Britain, Mexico, Cuba, Canada and with Germany upon letters routed direct between German and United States ports. "In several of the larger South American ports Germany has practically a monopoly of the money order business. Between Germany and Brazil, for instance, a 'card order' postal money order system is in effect. It is a system not suitable for adoption in the United States, and Brazil has, heretofore, been unwilling to adopt a dual system. Difficulty in making remittances to and from Brazil and the United States has resulted." The post office department is actively co-operating to stimulate trade between the United States and South and Central America. Postmaster General Burleson issued an order directing the third assistant postmaster general to suggest immediately to the Latin-American countries with which the United States does not now transact money order business the desirability of concluding conventions for that purpose. These countries are Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Dutch Guinea, Paraguay, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama. The American postal service heretofore has reached other countries of South America by money orders issued through Belgium. But at the outset of the European war Belgium suspended its money order service. This cut off an important avenue of exchange, and that is regarded as an additional reason likely to influence the Latin-American countries to enter into money order conventions with the United States. Shippers and Packers Closely Watched by Government. Washington.Through the co-operation of the bureau of chemistry of the department of agriculture with the public health and marine hospital service and the bureau of fisheries a complete survey of the oyster beds of the United States is being made. The first year's work was completed last spring, and the three services are making plans for their campaign during the coming winter. An oyster map will show the location of every bad oyster bed in this country, but it will not be printed for general distribution. It will enable the agents of the bureau of fisheries to keep watch upon interstate shipments of oysters made from these polluted beds. Shipments to points within the state where they originate will not be inspected, but if it becomes known that oysters from a "bad" locality, in Chesapeake bay, for instance, are being shipped to a point in New York or elsewhere, samples of them will be tested and subjected to an analytic test. If the disease germs are found the shippers and packers will be prosecuted under the pure food and drugs act. The bacteriologists this winter will devote their attention to beds along the Atlantic coast. Chesapeake bay, to which their last winter's work was confined, will be resurveyed in suspicious localities found last year. The bureau of fisheries vessel Fish Hawk will carry four chemists on the inspection tour. Every oyster bed of commercial value is known, and the Fish Hawk will anchor over each one while the experts make their observations A few tongsful of oysters will be dredged from each bed, and samples of the water and mud along the bottom will be taken. These samples will be labeled as to locality and general river conditions and sent to Washington. The oysters will be sent to the public health service here, where chemists will make analyses for bacteria. The chemical condition of the water samples will be noted by the bureau scientists and will then be sent to the public health service for another examination as to their bacterial contents. FINGERS BLAZE IN A STORM Mountain Air, Charged With Electricity, Proves Prankish. Silver Lake. Ore. - In a thunderstorm at the base of Table mountain recently the air became so charged with electricity that persons who touched metal or dipped their hands in water received sharp shocks. Sparks and blue flame shot from the finger tips of housewives who attempted to pick up cooking utensils. Mrs. Florence Bass sustained a severe shock when her hand came in contact with a vessel on the cook stove. She then tried to lift something from a pan of water on the stove, and a second shock, more severe than the first, was the result. A blue blaze shot from the tips of her fingers with a report like the crack of a rifle. Specialty made of Constitutions and Pamphlets BUSINESS OFFICE and PLANT, 1109 EYE STREET. 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Both branches of Congress, the Executive, perhaps, everything and everybody is most passionately appealed to to "cat a pound of cotton," to "wear a pound of cotton," to dispense charity and emphasize magnimity, to display aristocracy and accentuate "quality" by an extravagant use of cotton—cotton for the baby and cotton for the lady, cotton for all and for everything. What is this cotton? Why, it's just cotton, plain cotton, a sort of thistledown planted by "niggers" who are graciously employed at the lowest conceivable wages for the longest conceivable flat's work. It will therefore be readily seen that, in itself, it is common stuff—a mere commodity, like garbage or fertilizer—but exchangeable into the "long green" by proper manipulation. Of course it is not popular among the "best people" of this country, but it has an immense sale among the heathen Chinese, the Indians, and when necessary, among Africans. And why should not it be? It is cultivated by a so-called inferior race and of course for inferior "colored races." What appreciation could they have for silks and linens—these non-Anglo-Saxons? But what talismanic influence does this common flower possess that it should excite such frantic demonstrations among that unapproachable element of the "pure white race" of this country? Why, the stuff itself is almost imponderable, yet it has caused more pressure to the square inch upon human happiness, enlightenment and the instinct for liberty than any one power, save that of color, prejudice, extensive famine or bloody war—indeed, it is responsible for more wars than one, and the story of its horrible tragedies would fill volumes. The blood and bitterness and brutality of the late Rebellion furnish incidents and thrilling situations for but a single act in its world-drama. Surely there must be something constructive about it or it would hardly appeal so powerfully to these superior beings, than whom there can be no purer, wiser or better, here or hereafter. No, there is nothing constructive about it. On the contrary, its most extensive patrons are the poorer classes, the neglected, the heathen, the outcast—it is a mark of an inferior, the badge of the pariah and an habiliment of the occupant of swaddling clothes; and when worn by the "better class" must bear the weight of silks and satins and woolen goods. Its usefulness does not extend to morals, religion, education, but too often tend to the destruction of human character and the debasement and ignominy of manhood and womanhood. Were the fibers of many trees and grasses substituted for cotton, there would be a tremendous falling off in moral deprivacy and an enhancement of the value of a fair day's labor, nay, far less misery and woe the world over, especially in the Southern section of our country. But while cotton plays so small a necessary part in the production of morals, education, happiness, it plays a powerful part in the economic situation at the South. It is par excellence, the best seller in the industrial market. From the standpoint of gain, this is always an absorbing consideration. Moreover, it is the staple of the South and manipulated with less labor-union interference than is any other commodity, wages, though a very important quantity to be considered, generally, being quite a negligible affair, considering the color, helplessness and unorganized condition of the labor involved. Cotton, therefore, is King with a big K, and an uncontested and apparently incontestable sceptre. Besides this, it constitutes the main source of the wealth of the greater part of the Southland. It enables the Southern gentleman to live on the fat of the land, to educate his family at Northern colleges, and to lord it mightily over the "poor white trash"; to come to Congress on the back of stolen representation, and when safely landed, to flaunt his self-asserted and ludicrously sustained "superiority" in the face of his Northern superiors, to disgust decent people with fishmonger exhibitions of bullyism and profanity. Verily, something must be done to keep the "mudsils of aristocracy" from falling to pieces. One would think that the salvation of cotton meant salvation or deliverance from eternal torment. It is declared to be the summum bonum, the sine qua non, the imperium in emperio—the everything, without which there is nothing, neither indeed can be. Millions of honest men and women are now suffering at the North, owing to the fateful passage of the recent tariff bill."Eat a bale of cotton." Even a "knotted and turbaned Turk" may truthfully badger with the people of this country about the un-American manner of dealing with the colored citizen. "Consume more cotton." The poor we have with us always—"Buy a cotton Tag." The high cost of living is steadily climbing—"Buy more Cotton." There is a plethora of corn, fruit and wheat, and prices are threatened, under the unerring impulse of the law of supply and demand; but—let them rot, the lower the price the better for the people—only wear plenty of cotton. Yea, cotton must be King, not only because it is cotton, but because without it, the South's occupation would be gone and the colored brother would be enabled to direct his efforts to other fields from which he might reasonably expect a more just and satisfactory meed of comfort, competency and independence. "Cotton, cotton, who will buy my cotton?" Unless the whole people rise up at the call of danger this erstwhile prosperous people and prosperous country will be forever banished from our midst and the terrified South may see with the eyes of Orlando Furioso that, And all the world grows madder day by day." NEGRO POLICEMEN It has been several years since a colored man has been appointed a member of the police force. Ever since the establishment of the police department colored men have been found competent to be appointed on the police force. Not since the retirement of ex-Commissioner Henry L. West, has a colored man been appointed on the police force except recently when Commissioner F. L. Siddons took the bit in his own mouth and appointed two colored detectives in the person of Beckley and Carroll, who are making good in their positions. What is the result now? There is always some kind of excuse to keep a colored man off the force. The two latest fads are flat feet and too tight across the chest. Now who ever heard of such a thing as flat feet. Nothing was ever heard of flat feet until Jack Johnson came in the limelight, and notwithstanding his flat feet, he is the greatest pugilist in the world over white men who have no flat feet according to the examinations made by the surgeon in the police department so to speak. Some few months ago Henry A. Booker, a porter on the railroad, took the examination for the police force.' The police surgeons after the examination reported that his heart was affected and he had flat feet, hence he was rejected. Mr. Booker no doubt exercised himself too much in making up beds in Pullman cars. He was treated for his heart and took another examination, and he was rejected for the same reason. He not being satisfied with the report of the police surgeons, he was re-examined by the eminent Dr.\R. T. J. Barber, who gave him the following certificate: Sept. 9: 1914. This certifies that I have this day examined Mr. Henry A. Booker, 67 Robert Booth, a strong, healthy young colored man took the examination for the police force, but he was rejected because his chest did not expand enough. If any one will look at this young fellow he would be accepted at once as a young man of fine physical health. At any rate, Mr. Booth had himself examined by one of the most qualified and competent physicians in the city, and below is what this physician says about him: "Telephone West 1204. Respectfully. The Bee would like to know who is correct, the police surgeons or the other two physicians? Flat feet and tight chest certainly should not be sufficient reasons for rejecting applicants. Why not place the examination of applicants for the police force under the Health Department, and The Bee is confident that flat feet and tight chests will cut no figure in the appointment of colored men on the force. MAN VS. WOMAN This city is famous for scandal mongers. A man is given license to do and act as he pleases. A woman is abused and condemned on suspicion. There are lots of moral false pretenders in this city and in society. Last week the scandal mongers looked for a sensation because certain rumors were circulated against certain well known people. If a woman is indiscreet enough to write a letter to a married man she must be crucified, while the man is commended and held up as the Lord's annointed. The Bee endorses the sentiment of the Sage this week because sham and religious false pretenders would rather read dirty than a clean religious article. It is only the false pretenders who claim to want a clean paper. The so-called clean paper that is demanded is never supported, and neither is it read by these false pretenders. If certain religious hypocrites would not peruse women they would not go wrong. A woman is human, while the man is more dangerous, to some extent than a wild cat. Read the history of society, in this city, and in every instance the man is to blame. The social vampires that come to this city have been the destroyers of our social circle. There have been men and, indeed, many exist today, who are social vulchers and seek to destroy the sacred home of women. If their advances are rejected they become the secret assassins of women. The traducers of woman's honor may be found among men who hold positions and by virtue of the positions held by these men, honest women are often compelled to sacrifice their honor. History shows this, and it cannot be refuted. The Dee has in its possession the undisputed record of men that does not show itself in the day, and these very men stand willing and ready to assassinate the character of these honest women. Conditions will rise shortly that will startle this community, and these priestly devils will be shown up in their true light and honest women will be given their just reward. It is true that women are human and young girls are easily persuaded, especially when they believe that they are obligated. Too much safe-guard cannot be placed around young girls in our normal school. It is not believed that it is wise to have male teachers in that school. Existing condition will bare out this declaration, and an investigation, if reports are true, would warrant cause the superintendent to hesitate placing men in that department. There is no reason, with a few changes, that we should not have a normal school equal to any in the United States. If it were left to The Bee no man should be permitted to teach females in our public schools, and more especially should they be permitted in our normal school under any circumstances or in any capacity. If a change should be made in our normal school, Prof. Hugh M. Brown is about the only man who is educationally and morally qualified to head that school. Prof. Brown has lived a spotless life and his education is the best that is in the market. While there is so much disagreement in our normal school among teachers, many of them refusing to obey orders, the pupils must necessarily suffer and Dr. Thurston should see to it that something is done. Men cannot of course teach young girls as. well as women. There are certain instructions that young ladies should have that would be in bad taste for males to give. A young girl in our normal school is in the bloom of virgin womanhood and the greatest care should be exercised. Man is immaculate in his own estimation, but the woman is damned. DIPLOMACY VS. HYPOCRISY It was Prince Tallyrand who said language was given to us to disguise our thoughts. The ability to cleverly conceal our own thoughts while craftily extracting the intentions of an adversary was at one time esteemed the triumph of the diplomat's art. Diplomacy in that aspect however, was properly an attribute only of the representatives of rulers, on whose caution and keenness often depended the fate of nations. In business, however, and even in modern diplomacy, straightforwardness and simple directness now are accounted as invaluable aids in intercourse between public men or in the transaction of ordinary business. Truthfulness does not always necessitate telling all one-knows, but it at least precludes the deliberate making a false impression either by suppression of fact or by the juggling of words. In the minds of many men diplomacy is a synonym for deceit; "a perfect diplomat" comes to mean a consummate hypocrite. The friends and satellites of certain public men admiringly praise their "wonderful diplomacy" when they in truth refer to their practised skill in lying. The greatest men of all ages, philosophers, statesmen, thinkers, geniuses, have been characterized by a downright sincerity of purpose and speech. No honest admiration is felt for the man however clever, who attains his purpose by a course of chicanery, deceit, dishonesty of action, or speech. Eventually he involves himself in a net-work of lies from which he cannot extricate himself. The glass of suavity and honeyed speech with which he adorns his empty pledges and professions soon serve only to disgust and repel those whom he would propitiate. Even when most sincere his good faith is doubted and his smiles fail to warn the hearts growing cold through his selfish policy. Honesty is the best policy, honesty in thought, in speech, in deed. Petty triumphs in outwitting-another or deluding a confiding soul are short-fived and act as boomerangs to later wound the gloating victor with the sting of faith betrayed and friends to enemies turned. "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." M STREET HIGH SCHOOL M STREET HIGH SCHOOL To those familiar with conditions at the M Street High School must realize that educational interests are being very greatly prejudiced by the absence of proper space accommodations. Our children are being practically packed in the school with hardly room to turn around. As for class-room facilities, it is something ludicrous, though a very serious matter. One cannot help smiling to see the poor pupils 'acrobating' for breathing room; and, all the same, it is a reflection on the fair name which Washington has long sustained for exceptional liberality when educational matters were being considered, that unfavorable criticism is possible. The fact that there is already an appropriation available quite sufficient to justify the Commissioners in selecting the site and insisting on progress, makes it important that the people get together and devise ways and means of inducing the proper authorities to make haste. When we come to consider the inestimable benefits to be derived from a high school education, it seems little short of criminal for any officer to minimize them by stickling on flimsy pretexts of inaccessibility, want of acceptability to certain individuals or communities, or of alleged "immatured plans and specifications." The money was gotten under pressure and at a time when there was a feeling somewhat inimical to our school interests. Now, under the influence of a better understanding, were we to use the money we have and find it necessary to have more, there seems highly probable that it would be readily forthcoming. Every day that the authorities fail to begin the work on the new M Street High School, there increases the danger of losing all, for the reason that European complications may so affect American affairs as to suspend liberality for school, pur- poses indefinitely. Let the high school be started and started now. Pray, Mr. Trustee, get busy. The man who is the assassin of a woman's character and reputation is a cowardly brute. The man who will brutally stab a woman's character in her absence is the most cowardly of all assassins. And the man who resorts to such means, you can depend on it, that his own wife or sister is treated with similar venom. No honest man would be guilty of such: It is the man whose raising has been below the degraded. He is too cowardly to face you, but he will attempt to make others believe that you are not what you seem. This is done to elevate others in whom he has a pecuniary interest and would sell out his best friend for the filthy lucre. Such individuals never succeed, but will meet an intimely death and die in disgrace. Elevate a mediocre to a position of honor and trust and it will not be long before he becomes society crazy and his end is the poor house. When a cowardly assassin of a woman's character and reputation declines to put his declarations in writing you can just bet that he is a dangerous character to society. Follow such a character to his home, watch him in his profession. When he prescribes for the sick, offer him a bribe and he will disgrace his own reputation to receive it. This midnight assassin's occupation is gone; watch The Bee's prediction, and in less than 48 hours what little reputation he had if he had any, will be no more. LOST TO JOURNALISM. Fred MacCracken has received word that Ralph W. Tyler, former Auditor of the Navy, and later National Organizer for the National Negro Business League, is likely to be lost to journalism. Mr. Tyler, according to MacCracken's letter, has become interested in a manufacturing establishment recently started in his home city, Columbus, Ohio, to which he returned last month. He has become associated with a very prominent and well-to-do former white co-laborer of his when he was on the staff of a white daily out there, in the manufacture of Varni-Shine, a bran new preparation for cleansing and polishing furniture; automobiles and all metal and interior woodwork, the factory now being in full operation. They have succeeded in having the use of Varni-Shine adopted exclusively by all the hospitals, garages and state offices and institutions at Columbus. It is said to be superior to anything of the kind on the market. Mr. Tyler, it is stated, is preparing to plan an advertising campaign, to be started shortly after the first of the year, in which the leading colored newspapers will be included. NICK CHILES Asks President to Set a Day to Pray for Lynchers! The following telegram was sent to President Wilson Tuesday evening: "Hon. Woodrow Wilson, White House, Washington, D. C. "Sir: The colored people obeyed your prayer proclamation last Sunday and we think it no more than fair that you name a day of prayer to stop the lynchings and other outrages that are heaped upon the colored Americans of these United States. They are the only ones who suffer abuses inflicted upon them by the so-called Christians. Believing you a Christian gentleman, you could not do less than to obey such a request. "Editor Topeka Plaindealer." Now The Bee has the greatest respect for its contemporary Nick Chiles, and would say that prayer is good in its place, but prayer will have no effect on a Southern cracker when a Negro is involved. The Negro must learn to use the shot gun some time when his home is invaded by lynchers. Again, presidential proclamations for prayers are for spectacular displays to national gallows. Now when the Turkish Ambassador incidentally called the attention of the hypocritical American press to the lynching of Negroes in this country it was too much of a pill for the administration to swallow. Get off your perch Nick, and cease begging the question. This is child's talk you are giving the American Negro. DR C W CHILDS. Dr. Creed W. Childs is one man who seems to study the interest of the colored schools. He is one man that exercises real manhood and does express what he believes to be right and just. He is no doubt one of the most competent members that has ever been a member of the Board of Education. He doesn't cater to any man for favors, and neither does he play the old slave Negro to curry favors. He is a man and the people who are interested in the public schools should feel proud of him. As an educator he is a success and a credit to the colored schools. IS IT FAIR? Is it fair to keep female teachers in the country? Why not send the men in the country? Further investigation of the incident referred to in last week's issue relative to the dissatisfaction existing among the colored female examiners at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, reveals facts which change the aspect of matters. A letter was transmitted to the Director, Mr. Ralph, complaining against the manner in which the charwomen insisted upon placing their brooms, buckets, mops in such a manner as to practically interfere with the comfort convenience of the examiners. The room is very narrow with a bench in the center which, under the circumstances, rendered it necessary for the examiners to arrange their toilets while standing. The letter to Mr. Ralph was not so much a protest as it was an explanation of actual conditions. There has been no assumption of superiority on the part of the examiners, but only an insistence upon an arrangement similar to which are provided for examiners of the other race. Mr. Ralph has expressed his belief that the arrangements were unfair to the examiners and is taking steps to correct them. If not inconsistent with official usage a copy of the letter will be published in full in our next issue. Mr. Ralph seems very considerate in this instance and all of the circumstances should be fairly vented. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac.) This town does like a scandal. Some people here just love to chew on a scandal. Most of those who are always prating about running a "clean" paper are the very ones who bring to the newspaper every scandal that is rumored, and never take a paper unless some one tips of to them that a newspaper is going to publish a nice, juicy sensation. The past fortnight there has been rumors of a scandal. The usual promoters and publishers and carriers of scandals have been just a bit backward about talking out in meeting about it. They are just afraid the scoundrel may not pass out according to their hopes and predictions, and some one might be jerked up for circulating false rumors. William Calvin, who runs The Bee for amusement, if you would take the trouble to go down to 1109 Eye Street, could show you a box full of anonymous letters he has received in the past ten or more years, telling about some rumored scandal on men and women he ought to publish. If William Calvin published all the scandal carted into his office there would not be room enough in The Bee for the heading, and lawyers in this town would be busy filing divorce cases. But the veteran pilot of The Bee shoves these scandal rumors in his desk just to keep for souvenirs to shup to the bunch of knowalls, who think they know it all, that there are more people here who do not want a "clean" paper than there is who really do want one, but wouldn't buy it if it was clean enough to be sold on the streets of Paradise. * , * Monday evening, while standing at You and Eleventh, the greatest gossip bailiwick this side, of a woman's card club, one of these' fellers who drops in the news-stand and steals a read of the colored papers on the counter to sell, was doing a lot of talking about this town needing a "clean" paper. I told Chase about it, and he turned to his books and showed where this fellow's name had been cut off of The Bee's mailing list because for two years he had received it weekly, but had never paid one red penny. * * Now, getting back to this rumored scandal about which men and women have been talking about in whispers, I tipped it off more than a month ago, but did not give days and dates, and street and number. I just tipped it off to see how many of these lovers of the "clean" would go scenting for it, and, bless my soul, every gossipping old maid and psalm-singing ruge on the town plat hit the trail same as a bloodhound scenting a fugitive slave. For myself, I think all scandals ought to be handled with kid-gloved hands. It's all right, mebbe, to hit the guilty parties with a sledge hammer and stab them with a stilletto, but there's the innocent members of the family who must suffer the most. And then again, you can't tell when a dunghill rooster is coming home to roost. The 'tables will turn, now and then, and the knocker get it in the neck. ** The average woman's card club is the greatest seat of gossip ever established. My bunch of silk and lace came home from a card club the other day, and she handed me out a line of gossip that would make Judas apply for the position of substitute. I said: "Dear, who told you all of this," and she said, "Mrs. So-and-So, and Mrs. Know-it-all." I like to see the women enjoy themselves, but they ought to soft pedal gossip. Old Doc Williston and he ain't old, either, according to his wife's birth record, is just as clean as a hound's tooth on this gossip business. You never hear Doc gossip about nobody, and you never hear him say an ill word about nobody nohow. McMul-(Continued to page 5.) The Week in Society Beauty, quantity and service combine to make Board's Drug Store at 1912% Fourteenth street one of the most attractive in Washington to a large number of patrons who seek the best in medicines, toilet articles and a superior quality of ice cream sodas. Remember the number, Board's Drug Store, $1912\frac{1}{2}$ 14th St. Mr. W. T. Soders, of 1326 Corcoran Street Northwest, has moved into his new home at Ballston, Va. Mrs. Rebecca Harris is visiting her son, Dr. C. O. Lee, of Fourth Street, Winston-Salem, N. C. Mr. W. H. Love, a recent graduate of the Medical Department of Howard University, received the sad intelligence Wednesday of the death of his sister, and left Wednesday night for Middleburg, Va., to attend the funeral. His local friends extend to him their deepest sympathy in this sore affliction. Mrs. Ware, of Lamont Street, is indisposed. Mrs. Katie Brooks, of Southwest Washington, has returned from a three weeks' vacation spent with relatives in Woodbury, Camden, Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith and Miss Josephine McGee were entertained last week by Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Greene, of Lynchburg, Va. Mrs. Douglas Dyson is home again after a pleasant visit to her husband and relatives in Buffalo, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Noble Brooks were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Lee, of Hudson Street, Buffalo, N. Y., last week. Mrs. Serena Edmonds spent last Sunday in Philadelphia, the guest of her sister, Miss Laura Robinson. Miss Ethel Slaten, of New Rochelle, New York, was tendered a farewell, reception last Monday evening at the home of her father, Rev. W. H. Slaten. Miss Slaten left the next morning for this city, where she will attend Miss Nannie Burroughs' school, Lincoln, D. C. Mr. James W. Cusbard, of this city, and Mrs. M. Sewell, of Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J., were quietly married at the Lafayette Church parsonage Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p. m., by the Rev. C. S. Freeman. Miss Shaw is home again after a pleasant visit to Miss Theresa Sinclair of Jersey City, N. J. Prof. John F. Hawkins, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, has returned from a three weeks' business trip, covering fourteen states. Miss Maria Jordan is seriously ill at her home. Miss Beverly is assistant principal at the Pocomoke, Md., city school. Mrs. Lena Writt-Woodson is visiting her father, John T. Writt, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Miss Marion Baxter, of Georgetown, S. C., passed through Richmond, en route to this city, where she enters Howard University. Mr. W. H. Brackett, of this city, is attending the fair—his usual custom—at Charlottesville, Va. Miss Mazelle Stewart left her home in Kentucky last week for this city, where she will enter Howard University. Miss Ufreema Loftin has been appointed a teacher in the Armistrong Manual Training School. John Gibbs, a medical student at Howard University, spent his vacation in New York. Miss Florence Redd is home after an enjoyable stay in New York and Connecticut. Attorney D. A. Ford was entertained at dinner Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Waddell, of West 131st Street, New York. Washington arrivals at Hotel Maceo, New York, are Mr. A. Williams and Harry Dortan. Mr. John Long has returned to his home in New Rochelle, New York, after a pleasant vacation spent in this city. Miss Isabella Thomas is the guest of relatives, the Davis, DeWitt place, New Rochelle, New York. The marriage of Mrs. Blanche Ward Byrd to the Rev. Dr. Floyd Grant Snelson; F: R. G. S., pastor of Mt. Vernon-Avenue A. M. E. Church of Columbus, Ohio, is announced to be solemnized quietly Wednesday, October 21, to be followed by an "at home" at their residence, 306 North Twenty-first Street, from 5 o'clock to 10 p. m. Then a three weeks' bridal trip to Chicago, St. Paul, Detroit, Cleveland and Niagara Falls. No cards have been issued. Rev. I. N. Ross will preach Wednesday evening, October 21 at metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Mr. Cornelius Scott, of Brooklyn, N. Y., brother of Mrs. Joseph H. Holmes, is in the city on a visit stopping at 525 Twenty-first Street Northwest. He will be in the city for at least a month. Mrs Annie Woods and little granddaughter, Annie Lee, accompanied by Mrs. Margaret Saunders, left the city Thursday morning on the 4:10 train for Memphis, Tenn., to visit Mrs. Woods, son-in-law and daughter. Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Rulax. They will remain until the first of December. Dr. Rulax is a graduate of Howard University, medical de- partment. Mrs. Rulax was Miss Isabelle Woods, a school teacher of this city. "High-Brown" face powder and toilet articles are now all the rage. Get the genuine at Board's Pharmacy, 1912 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Fourteenth Street. Mail orders filled, 252 and 50c. Mrs. J. M. Key, of 1822 Fourth Street Northwest, is convalescing. Mr. E. W. Harrison has moved from 1822 Fourth Street to 107 P Street. Messrs. E. A. Beck and Douglas Richardson, employees at the new city Post Office, were among the 19,000 who made the trip to New York Sunday. They report a pleasant trip. Interest is growing in the contest between the Young Ladies' and Young Men's Bible Class of Metropolitan A. M. E. Sunday School. Last Sunday the men made 1,375 points to 1,105 for the ladies, making the total to date 1,960 points for the men's class and 1,950 points for the ladies' class. Each new member counts fifty points and each visitor ten points. The men will have to hustle to stay ahead. The second annual get-together banquet by Metropolitan A. M. E. Sunday School will be held at the church Friday night. October 23. Quite a successful affair is anticipated. The Mercurian Club, at a meeting on Monday night, decided to hold a reception on Monday evening, November 30, at Odd Fellows' Hall. The affair will be unique by a series of innovations and novel decorations. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mr. Oliver Rogers, president; Thomas Robinson, vice president; Hamilton Jacobs, treasurer; Wm. H. Mason, financial secretary; Leon Turner, recording secretary. The John F. Cook Lodge No. 10, F. A. A. M., has entered the "jewel contest." The contest will be Tuesday evening, November 24. Wm. J. Monroe is master of John F. Cook Lodge. A reception was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Shumfert Inghram on Friday, the 9th inst., at the residence of the Misses Lee of 1224 You Street Northwest, by Messrs. L. Bunton, C. Terry, J. Henry and R. E. Wesley. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Baxter R. Leech, Misses Laura Jackson, Sadie White, Bertha, Nettie and Gertrude Smallwood, Bertha Cooper and Julia Turner; Messrs. R. Fort, J. C. Boyd, W. C. Chase, Jr., Robert Anderson, Misses Estelle and Lizie Lee. A representative audience was present last Sunday at the Asbury M. E. Church to listen to an interesting program under the auspices of the Epworth League. The program was composed of talent of the highest in the church. Mr. Thomas F. Lewis, 909 French Street Northwest, entertained last Thursday night the Board of Directors and officers of the Young Men's Protective League. The menu comprised all the delicacies of the season. Among those present who responded to toasts were: W. Stephen Fuller, Wm. B. Harris, Walter J. Singleton, Geo. L. Walton, Arthur F. Boston, Daniel Freeman, Wm. H. Johnson, Clarence O. Lewis, A. L. Jackson, C. D. Sidney, J. Arthur James, Wm. Moorman, A. Woodson, Jos. E. Washington, T. L. Pinn and Geo. E. Brown, "Auld Lung Synge" and "Dearest Memory" were sung, which closed the meeting. Everybody left highly gratified with the night spent. Everything is apparently quiet concerning the approaching election of the Y. M. P. L. Some of the lieutenants are seen around Fourteenth Street Northwest at night with their heads together. We wonder what's up? Miss Estelle Coffey, of this city, spent a delightful summer with her father in North Carolina and returned to the city September 9th en route for New York to attend the fall openings., Miss Coffey was beautifully entertained while in New York by her many friends and left on the 3rd for Boston. Mass., where she will spend two weeks, after which she will return to the District of Columbia for the winter. WEST WASHINGTON. The re-opening services at Mt. Zion M. E. Church occurred on Sunday morning and at the 11 o'clock exercises Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, D. D., delivered an interesting sermon to a large congregation. The Universal Club gave a complimentary reception on Tuesday evening. October 6, at Odd Fellow Hall, M Street, which was a very brilliant affair. The ladies were tastefully dressed and presented a beautiful appearance. The gentlemen were in full dress. The Monumental Orchestra furnished the music for the occasion. The ninth annual reception will take place Wednesday evening. November 4. The officers are: W. J. Abrams, president; Edward Holland, vice president; E. R. James, secretary; Daniel Freeman, treasurer A large number of persons left the city on Saturday on the excursion to New York and spent a delightful day in the big city. The visitors were kindly looked after by their many friends in New York. Many of the churches were occupied by them. A very beautiful luncheon was served at the residence of Mrs. Bessie Veseles, 160 West Thirty-sixth Street, among whom were Miss Dora Holmes of New York, Edward L. Walker, Esq., Jas. L. Turner, Jas. Hurd and Chas. F. F. Turner. A. Charity Dance The charity dance for the benefit of the Social Settlement at the New Auditorium, October 30th, will be one of the most brilliant events in the history of social Washington. Everybody should embrace the opportunity to attend this social event for the benefit of the Social Settlement. The Wording Smart Set Orchestra will furnish music. Mrs: R. C. Bruce and the Social Settlement Committee will have charge of the affair. Tickets of admission is 35 cents. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS Continued from page 4. len, who runs the little dug-out called "The Citizen's Barber Shop," is another one of those "all-for-Paradise" fellows who won't say nothing if he can't say a good word for a poor devil. And-Doc McGuire is another one of those "Aint-saying nothing" fellows who don't deal in gossip, but just plain drugs and soda. By the way, have you heard the rumor that Doc Board is figuring on signing up with the Benedicts next year? Well, it was tipped off to me at lodge last week by a fellow who got it from his wife, who had been out to a card party. The girl that lassoos Doc Board will certainly get a plum good one. I have often wondered why the girls allowed him to roam unhitched all these years. They say she's a high-brow, right on the verge of being near-yellow. MORTGAGE BURNING And Jubilee at the. Ebenezer M. E. Church, Fourth and D Streets Southeast, W. H. Dean, Pastor, From October 18 to 26. Sunday, October 18, at 11 a. m., sermon by Bishop Earl Cranston, D. D. At 3 p. m., sermon by Dr. W. T. Harris. Music by Mt. Zion M. E. Choir. At 7:30, sermon by the pastor to Columbia Aid Association. Monday, 8 p. m., Ministers' Night. Tuesday, 8 p. m., sermon by Dr. Alex. Dennis. Music by Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. Wednesday, 8 p. m., sermon by Dr. S. H. Brown. Music by St. Paul A. M. A. Church. Thursday, 8 p. m., sermon by Dr. E. W. S. Peck. Friday, 8 p. m., love feast. Coming. The Cliff Club, on November 11, at the Howard Theater. Progressive Whist. A progressive whist party was given Monday evening, October 5, by Miss Jennie Willjamson at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Cuney, 503 Florida Avenue Northwest, in honor of Mrs. Baker, of Houston, Texas. Those present were: Mrs. Coralie Cook and Mrs. Rollerfort, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. Mary Terrell, Mrs. E. C. Williams, Dr. Amanda Gray, Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. Milton Francis, Mrs. James Waring, Mrs. Bessie Haines, Mrs. Janie Booth, Mrs. Kelly Miller, Mrs Eula Grey, Mrs. Lena Hall, Mrs. Helen Irving, Mrs. Fortune, Dr. Eva Ross, Miss Tessa Lee, Miss Jessie Parks, Miss Edna Grey, Miss May Irwin, Miss Alice Nelson, Miss Blanche Wright, Miss Effie Simmons, Miss Eudora Mitchell. MEN WHO LOOK WELL. A. W. Scott * is now growing in flesh. Augustus W. Gray is a drawing card. Joseph H. Stewart is somewhat quiet nowadays. Attorney Hemmens is a Chesterfieldian lawyer. Thomas L. Jones continues to increase his law business. Primary Work. The order of the day at the Baptist Ministers' Conference, Monday, October 26, will be an address by Miss Sidney J. Davis, of Keokuk, Iowa, general missionary of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention. Subject, "The Primary Work of the Church." All are invited. George F. Collins, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 21108, Administration. This is to Give Notice. That the subscribers, of the District of Columbia, have obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Robert Jackson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers, legally authenticated, to the subscribers, on or before the 28th day of September, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded, from all benefit of said estate. Given under our hands this 28th day of September, 1914. WILLIAM J. HOWARD, 100 Massachusetts Ave. N. W. MINNIE E. JACKSON, 521 Third St. S. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk, of the Probate Court. GEORGE F. COLLINS, Attorney. RECENT SUCCESS A SURPRISE Much of the Attacking Power of the Dreadnought Discounted by Demonstrated Efficiency of Underwater Craft of British and German Navies. Expect Other Attacks. London—The submarine has demonstrated its power as a naval weapon. The 6th of September, 1914, will long, be remembered as the day when this modern underwater craft first proved its efficiency, for on that day one of the German flotilla sent the British scout cruiser Pathfinder to her door But success was not one sided, and before that day closed a boat of the U class of submarine incautiously exposed her conning tower in the midst of seven British warships and ere she could dive again her body was shattered and down she plunged like a broken bottle. However, to the strategist the sacrifice of the submarine was a bagatelle compared with the cruiser which one of her companions had previously destroyed. Seven days later the British scored in kind by way of retallation when the big submarine E-9 caught the German cruiser Hela unawares and sank her off Wilhelmshaven. But the German commanders of these new weapons of naval warfare were apparently inspired to still greater deeds of daring. In one-two-three order the kaiser's submarines nine days later sent three of England's armored cruisers to the bottom, and while the ships themselves were nearly obsolete as battle craft, the toll of life, amounting to more than 1,500 men, is a blow that must long be felt in the British navy, while it may gravely affect the morale of the entire service afloat. The German submarines have accomplished in fact the very thing for which they have been zealously and secretly practicing for a long time. According to the news accounts, the three cruisers Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue were sunk at a point north and west of the Hook of Holland, and if it is true it has great significance for the British fleet. Undoubtedly these German submarines have operated from a base at Helgoland. Now, Helgoland is approximately 250 miles north of the Hook of Holland, and this gives an idea of the working radius of the German boats, which must have fuel enough in store to carry them that distance and take them back to their base again. Some of these boats have a cruising radius at reduced surface speed of possibly 2,000 miles, but it must be remembered that in time of war they would probably make stretches of a run like that to the neighborhood of the coast of Holland below the surface of the sea. To do this they must have recourse to electrical propulsion, and that means that they must come to the surface again and recharge their batteries while using their oil motors. All of the German submarine flotilla are so called high sea boats, and most of them are of the latest design and thoroughly up to date. For them to escape the watchful eyes of the British destroyers and scouts and to get more than 200 miles away from Helgoland and right into the cruising field of the English fleet is evidence of the capacity of the kalser's submarines and the quality of the men in charge of them. If they can cover such a sea stretch what is to prevent their venturing further in a mood of desperate determination to deal their prime maritime foe a still heavier blow? The British public generally, not to mention most of his naval brethren, derided Sir Percy Scott recently when he said that the submarine had sounded the deathknell of the Dreadnought. And yet today some measure of the truth of his prophecy is apparent. True, the British submarines are probably quite the equal of the rival German boats, and England actually has a greater number of them. Already the king's navy has shown what its own boats of this sort can do, because it was by means of submarines that the British lured the Germans out from their refuge. However, the English have done little to obstruct their navigable waters in order that the nation's commerce and source of food supplies might not be interfered with. Accordingly England's defense is a mobile one and the burden falls upon her battle fleet, and it is this very force for which the German submarines are lying in wait and even going half way to meet. MAD HOG ATTACKS TWO BOYS. Gashed One With His Tusks, but Is Finally Conquered. Lawrence, Mich.-William Shepard, nineteen, is suffering from frightful gashes inflicted by an enraged hog that knocked him down in a field. Shepard and a younger brother were trying to drive the hog to a new field. It gave chase to the younger brother and in trying to save the lad, William fell. The hog turned upon him and gashed him with its tusks. 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NEW ORLEANS 0 BE RATLESS CITY ‘Health Otiers Drive Rodents From Their Abodes, PLAGUE STIRRED UNCLE sin Discovery of Disease In June Started Campaign Which Wac Waged Re- Jentiesely Until All Danger Had Pass- @d—Polson and Traps Are Used, and Docks Are Made Ratproof. New Orleans. —‘The federal govern- ment {s helping this city to rid Itself of rats, those carriers of the fleas that carry the bubonic plague. OnrJune 19 a case of bubonic plague was discovered here. A hurry call was sent to the public health service, and a strenuous campaign was started to stamp it out. The government was concerned in preventing its spread to other sections of the country. And the task 1s costing the government $27,000 a month. There are three kinds of rats, but the worst fs the Norwegian rat. He is the nomad of the rodent family, a militant brute that soon cleans out all others of Ils tribe. It is he who carries the fleas whose bite causes bu- bonfe plague. -\nd he carries it every- where. Plague 1s -thought to have reached New Orleans from the orient via Liverpool, which trades largely ‘with the east. ‘The rats are being exterminated with poison and witlrtraps. Several expert rodentologists were brought from San Francisco, and they have trapped as many as 7,724 rats In a single weet. ‘Thousands of rodents hare beer ex- amined for infected fleas, and in all 121 plague stricken rats have been found. About twenty-five cases of plague among humans have developed, with six deaths. No new cases have been reported among humans for some time, but infected rats-are constantly being trapped. A few days ago a Chi- nese restaurant was condemned and demdlshed, and In the process no fewer than thirteen rats bearing plague para- sites were found. ‘The fight has been going on since early June, and the situation is now well in hand. Various bodies planning to hoki conventions in New Orleans have been notified that the city is quite safe. But the battle is by no means over. The Norwegian rat is a hardy brute, and there is always danger of fresh outbreak. It ts a herculean Job to ratproof an ancient rabbit warren of a city Uke New Orleans. The clty has been di- Yided tnto districts, each under the charge of a doctor of the pulylic health service, and a surrey has been made of ench district, of all rat breeding or rat harboring places noted, and now they are cleaning up the place. Holes are being stopped up, buildings raised or lowered s0 that they clear the ground sufficiently to allow free circu Istion of air nnd sunshine or else hug ft too closely to afford shelter to the rodent, walls and foundations are be ing fixed to keep the rats from gettins through. Nuisances have been abated in over thousand places, and disin fectant and fumigation chemicals arc being ured Mberally. Standing gar bage, stable refuse and the like are anathema. Permits for keeping chick ens are being revoked, for chicken feed is a grent attracter of rats. The wharves and docks and the rail way freight yards are being gone over Every ship before leaving the port fumigated with sulphut or carbon mo noxide. An attempt fs being made t ratproof the wharves, but {t is only partially successful, for a really rat proof wharf must be almost entirely o concrete. * New Orleans being a great distribut ing center for freight for the west ant southwest, an enormous number o frelght cars must be inspected, rat proofed if necessary or fumigated. Ir ‘one week over 3,000 were inspected. 0 wh{ch seven were condemned. Infant mortality. particularly fron +Summer Lowel complaints and the like has fallen greatly since the beginntn; of’ the anti-plague crusade; so has th general death rate. ‘The federal public health service ba: more than 200 men engaged in th work here under the leadership of Dr Wiliam C. Rucker. Surgeon Genera Blue visited the city at the besiunin; to look the situation over. bringin; with him Dr. Creel, who stamped ou the plague at Porto Rico. SOUND AS A DOLLAR AT 105. Venerable Mississippian Has Strong Eyes and Good Teeth. , Jackson, Miss.—The New Albany Ga- sette has discovered a citizen of Union county, J. J. Terrs; who fs 105 years of age, reads without flasses. has sound teeth and appears good for sev- eral years to come. ‘Terry was born in Lawrence county. Ala..,Oct. 14, 1809. In September. 1910. he lost his wife. with whom he had Uved sixty-three years and who was the mother of nine clilldren. ‘Mr, Terry had a sister. who lved to the age of 108 years, and a brother ‘who was 102 when gathered to bis fa- thers. The old man canie to a picnic on horseback. sitting as strateht ox ‘an Indian. Tis hatr and beard ere long and snow white. TRAPPED A RESERVE SHIP. How a British Officer Caused the Shoutastrels Cantar. Ottawa, Ontarlo—A youpg naval officer belonging to the British cruiser Essex {s sald to Lave brought about the capture of sixty-eight German re- servists who are now in Halifax. When the Sontserrat, a Spanish steamer, was about to leave New York. the British oificer, who was there, was advised that it would be worth bis while to get on board the vessel. He obtained passage, and going aboard found the German reservists there. When the Montserrat was beyond the three mile limit the British cruiser Glory was sighted, and ‘the Essex officer went to the bow of the Montser- rat and began to signal with his arms. When the Germans realized what he was doing they seized him, but it was too late, for the lookout on the Glory had observed him. The Montserrat was held up, a British crew was put on board, and the Glory convoyed her into Halifax harbor. ~ The German reservists are now in Halifax jail. Some French reservists also were on board. They have been sent on thelr way. DOG GETS THE SHOW HABIT. Runaway Animal Found Trying to En- ter a Dog Show Cage. Seattle, Wash.—A cocker spaniel owned by Mrs. C. F. Johnson of Ever- ett hag acquired the dog show habit. After the exhibition of the Seattle Kennel club had closed Mrs. Johnson took her pet home from its box in the show. Next day she discovered that the dog'was missing and immediately not!- fled the police. Later she casually vis- ited the exhibition and, much ‘to her amazement, found her dog trying to get into one of the empty cages. ’ Health Officer Says We Need Closer Watch on Ships, New York—In his preliminary an- nual report; just sent to Governor Glynn, Dr. Joseph J, O'Connell, health officer of the port, says the revenue earned by his department for the Swelve months ended Sept. 30 is the jargest In the department's history, be ing $201,031.36. In the preceding year tt was $148440.35. The expenses of BE ah a, e f mat PT iat eS Me ees? tS Comer, oe * ‘i Photo by American Presg Association. the department this year. were $49,- 970.36, against $96,078.60 last year. In closing his report to the governor Dr. O'Connell says: “I feel it my duty to refer to the probable consequences of the deplorable war now being waged in Europe. This 1s a subject engaging the earnest attention of quarantine authorities all over the world. We are compelled by what we know of the pathological corollaries of war during all history to conclude that this vast and desperate struggle, involving 50 many nations and extending over s0 great an area, must bring In its wake some terrible epidemics. The concen- tration of the thought and power of civpized governments upon destructive ‘Measures, weakening the sanitary serv- ‘fee on the one hand and the conditions of war favoring the spread of disease on the other hand, bring us face to face with a situation extremely grave. | “Unfortunately these conditions are re-enforced by the malign consequences | of the recent Balkan war, which left | esstern Europe cholera stricken. The epidemic had not been stamped out in Europe when this new war began, and . the reports each day of cholera infec- tion in southenstern Europe and among | the troops engaged on the territory of (the Austro-Hungarian emplre grow "darker with malisn significance. |, Ut is the duty of those clurged with the protection of the public ‘health of this country and particularly with the protection of its greatest port to erect every safezunrd against what all this .fmplies, European nations are already taking steps In this direction. England ts organizing a special cholera corps and Italy has adopted stringent quar | antine mensures against all Austrian | and east Mediterranean ports.” The National Religious Training School, Durham, N.C. RSS eee : Ae PIE TOT ren ay e.5; MERE PR cae eae Ae Be Pe cen Be gr OO Fee ce ie ee eS a ie ee oe Aare cee: MM ll aR ps eaeeiaeaals || | ow MS. ce ke es :) ee fr me ia we, ave Serr A oe Coe aE en arene eee “ epee tc ose ga i Pee Eee te ee ae as 5 rn FS ee oe Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation: . 1, Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Mis- sionaries. . 2. Department of Theology. 3. ‘Commercial Department. . - SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS. Board of Education of the District of Columbia, Examination for License as Teacher of Dressmaking in the Vocational Schools—Women Only. —s 2 Office of the Board of Examiners, Colored Schools. Washington, D. C., Oct. 1, 1914. An examination for license as teacher of Dressmaking in the O Street’ Vocational School of the Dis- trict of Columbia will be condacted by the Board of Examiners for Col- cored Schools on Friday and Satur- day, October 23 and 24, 1914, com- mencing at 9 o'clock a.m. at Frank- lin School. An oral and practical ex- amination will be given at the call of the Board of Examiners. . A. Each candidate must be a grad- uate of an accredited high school or have equivalent academic training. B, Each candidate must have had satisfactory training of at least one year in this special field or the equiv- alent. # «C. All candidates must pass writ- ten and oral examinations in the fol- lowing subjects: Majors: Theory and Practice, in- cluding (a) Textiles, (b) Drafting, Cutting and Fitting, (c) Design and Drawing, (d) Practical Demonstra- tion. ‘ Minors: English; Arithmetic, Prin- ciples of Education with special ref- erence to Dressmaking, Methods of instruction and supervision with, spe- cial reference to Dressmaking. = D, An oral examjnation is held tc cnable_ the examiners to estimate the candidate's general fitness for the po- ‘sition of teacher and will include his experience, personality, resourceful ness, record as a student and teacher etc. E. The examiners will inform al persons who submit on applicatior bianks not later than October 19 1914 (when all applications for this examination must ibe in this office) statement of their qualifications un. der A and B, F., Unless an application is re newed within one year fiom the date of the receipt of the same it will be considered withdrawn. G, All candidates must presen evidence of good moral character an certificates of physical fitness mad by a physician of the Health Depart ment may be required’ from each can didate. H. The salary for -teacher Dressmaking, in the elementar: schools is ‘as follows: First year $650, and’an annual increment of $23 I, Names of successful candidate will be placed uyon an cligible lis in-accordance with the rating ob tained in the written and oral exam inations. Nominations are mad: from such lists in the order of stand ing. F Eligibility established as a re Jsult of this examination holds fo two years. me |} K. The oral examination will no be considered unless the appligan makes at least 40 out of 60 credit in his written and practical examina tions. The examination in its en Jtirety will not be’ considered unles Jthe candidate makes at least 70 pe J cent in written and oral English, rec Jord as a teacher, personality. |} L. The oral examination for out of-town candidates will be held o {the second day of the examination {for all otliers at the call of the Boar Jof Examiners. |" M. No marks are carried forwar | from one cxamination to anothe: The entire examination must b J taken at onc time. . ‘| oN. The examination will be i }promptly at the time stated, and | person who is late may not be a |] lowed to enter the examination roon Note—There is now only one va | cancy in this position. . | (Signed) E. L. THURSTON, Superitttendent of School | ALH. GLENN, . : Sceretary, Board of Examiners. BOARD OF EDUCATION , OF the District of Columbia—Exam- ination for License as Librarian in the High and Normal Schools.” Office of the Board of Examiners, Colored Schools, Washington, D. C., Oct. 1, 1914. An examination for the position of Librarian in the Normal School and High Schools of the District of Co- lumbia will be conducted by the Board of Examiners for Colored Schools on Friday and Saturday, Oc- tober 30 and 31, 1914, commencing at 9 o'clock, at Franklin School. An ‘oral and practical examination will 7th and Eye Sts., N. W WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT YOUK S* Beautiful Sounges eu Morris Chairs Writing Doses s, Household Feurniture Music Boxes ° Beis of all kinds and description, Houseand Herrmann is the place] ie Bedsteads and sattrosses to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city If you want a first-class Bed-roon where the people can be satisfied. This is suste, call after you have house hat will satisfy you. deen heewhere ; i . US Toa, 4 . main Baul tt as Yr |Sekar Tales | j ‘ Bawne = _. Fe 5 Prnding, Sepanstiatt Eel tes Ee SSeS wubb ‘ Pe ana ste, Tot tent Be toppt Su Srparote Tel SaparateTe. be given at the calt of the Board of Examiners. ‘A. Each candidate must be a grad: uate of an accredited high school ot have equivalent academic training. B. All candidates must pass 2 written examination embracing the following subjects: 1, Library Science, consisting o! questions on library economy, includ. ing cataloguing, classification, book ordering, loan systems, reference works and bibliography, especially the bibliographies of high and norma! school subjects. 2. High school and normal schoo library methods and management. 3. Knowledge of books as regards selection by the librarian and use by pupils: (a) Reference books; (b) other books. 4. Theme on some special phase o library work in relation to high o normal school pupils. (Theme to bi selected by the applicant.) C. An oral examination is held te enable the examiners to estimate thi candidate's general fitness for the po sition and will include “his education experience, personality, resourceful ness, etc. D. The examiners will inform al persons who submit on applicatio blanks not later than | October 2¢ 1914 (when all applications for thi examination must be in this office) ; statement of their qualifications un der A. E. Unless an application is re newed within one year from the dat of the receipt of the same it will b [considered withdrawn, F. All candidates must _ presen evidence of good moral, characte: and certificates of physical fitnes made by a physician of the Healt Department may be required fror KEEP UP THE FIGHT On Federal Segregation—The N. I. - P, L. Delegation Checked It, but Segregation Must Be Undone—Con- tribute to the Fund to Send Another Delegation to See the President. “We advise that another delegation be sent to President Wilson to ascer- tain whether he will climinate Federal Segregation’’—From the address to the country of the National Indepen- dent Equal Rights League at the sev- nth ‘annual meeting in New York ity. A committee consisting of _Presi- dent Byron Gunner, National Organ- izer R. C. Ransom, Corresponding Secretary’ W. M. Trotter, Recording Secretary J. L. Johnson and Treasurer 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. G. Department of Literary Training. x i 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 . Be nner en EE AE aaa $ Drugs Cigarsand Tobacco eW0: 9 : Phillips’ Pharmacy F.S. Phillips Prop. Toilet Articles ty Perfumes, Etc. Go to Phillips Pharmacy 913 4th St. for fresh drugs and have your Prescriptions Carefully Compounded by aregistered Phar- macist of 15 years experience ~ . Phone Main 3103 9135 4th Street: Northwest 3 each candidate. * G. The basic salary for the posir tion of Librarian in the high and nor- mal schools is $600 per annum, with an annual longevity increase of $253, and may be increased from time to time, for efficient service to $900, H. The names of the successful candidates will be placed upon an cli- gible list in accordance with the rat- ing obtained in the written and oral examinations. Nominations are made Irom such lists in the order of stand- ing. * I. Eligihility established as a re- sult of this examination holds for two years. J. The oral examination will not be considered unless the applicant makes at least 40 out of 60 credits in his written examination. The ex- amination in its entirety will not be considered unless the candidate Jmakes at least 70 per cent (a) in written and oral English, (b) record as librarian, etc. (c) personality. K. The oral examination for out- of-town candidates will be held on the second day of the examination. Thomas Walker were appointed to raise funds for the expense of the del- egation to Washington. This com- mittee desires to have the heaping early jn October. It may take two trips to secure the audience. Hence, citizens all over the country should send donations to President Byron Gunner, Hilburn, N. Y., to Secretary W. M. Trotter, 49 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., or Treasurer Thomas Walker, 506 Fifth Street Northwest, Washing- ton, D. C. . Toilet segregation, the most insult- ing times, still exists in the Treasuty and Post’ Office Departments, as the following diagram shows: J. Q. Adams, St. Paul, Minn..,.$1.00 A Friend, Chicago, Hl..,...--+, 1.00 Mrs. Newman Silverman, N. Y. GE ccennccscasewsecscassns 60 For all others it will be held at the call of the Board of Examiners. L. No marks are carried forward from one examination to another. ‘The entire examination must’ be taken at one time, M. The examination will bégin promptly at the time stated. and per- sons who are late may not be allowed to enter the-examination room. (Signed) - E. L. THURSTON, Superintendent of Schools. A. H, GLENN, E Secretary, Board of Examiners. Pocket Billiards. Tel. Lin. 1059 HOTEL WEST European Plan » Home Like Rooms ‘ ELLIOTT C. WEST, Prop. Sanitary Barber Shop, R A. Nelson, Mgr. Visit Our Dining Room | Finest Wines and Liquors 11 to 19 E Street N. W. Washington, D. C. —————— COLUMBUS LUNCH One Block from Union Station.. Home-made Pies. Cakes, Pud- dings, Ete. J. A. Pruitt, Prop. 638 North Capitol Street -__ All Baked in Our Own Ovens, Steaks, Chops, Roasts, Etc., and Dairy Lunch Dishes. Good: Coffee our Specialty. = 628 North Capitol St. NW. SUSTAINS HALL ASSOCIATION Notwithstanding Now St. Lukes Have Stock. We, the members of the Board of Directors of the St. Lukes Hall As- sociation of Washington, D. C.. while «regretting the publication of some matters in a recent issue of The Bee inimical to the best interests of our work as St. Lukes in the District of Columbia wish to thank you for the frank and fearless disavowal of the same. The affairs of our asso- ciation are open for the inspection of any worthy investigator. Thus jar we have served our constituency well and solicit the continued confidence so generally given us. Again we thank you and express every confi- dence in our secretary-treasurer, Mr3. Bessie B. Anderson, and president, Dr, A. C. Garner., (Signed): Mrs. Sarah A. Barton, M. M. Peace, John H. Tubman, Reu- ben H. Tyler, Mrs. Ferdinand D, Lee, Cornelius W. Robinson. Louis A. Alexander, Mrs. Rebecca J. Tay- lor, Mrs. Lucy Rose, T. H. Norman. Witnesses: Zeph P. Moore and Thos. E. Barton, Sr. STARVING FOR THE BREAD OF LIFE "Blessed Are They. That Hunger After Righteousness." THE POWER OF GOD'S WORD A 'Famine In the Land—Many Hearts Crying Out For a Living and True God—Faint For Want, of Spiritual Food—Table of Divine Provision Well Filled—The Bread and the Water of Life—A Satisfying Portion. October 11.—Today Pastor Russell chose for his text the words, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." (Amos Sall.) He PASTOR RUSSELL Today this prophecy is fulfilled in our midst! Notwithstanding the fact that during the past century Bibles have been printed and circulated amongst the people by the million, and notwithstanding the fact that education has become so general that rich and poor, old and young, have the ability to read the Word of God, nevertheless we are in the midst of the very famine which the Prophet specifies. It seems almost incredible that we should be famishing now with Bibles in our homes, when our saintly forefathers did not famish, although their education was limited. The secret lies in the fact that increasing intelligence on every hand has awakened our reasoning faculties along religious lines, and the result is the gnawing of hunger in our hearts. Both heart and flesh cry out for a living and true God—a God greater than ourselves—more just, more powerful, more loving. Realizing our own impotency, we feel more and more our need of the Friend whose love is closer than a brother's. Consequently we cannot find in the Scriptures the rest, the refreshment and the comfort which our forefathers derived therefrom. Consequently the young men and the purest of heart in the world are repelled by the religion of the past. They are hungry for the Truth, thirsty for the refreshment which they need. Intellectually, many are looking, wandering, from sea to sea, desiring the Bread of Life. Scanning the creeds of all denominations, they find these practically alike as respects theories of eternal reprobation and damnation for all except the Elect, the salently few. They grow faint for want of spiritual food and drink. They even look to the heathen world, and examine the Theosophy of India, the Buddhism of Japan and the Confucianism of China, seeking for some satisfying portion of Truth. In some respects these are like the prodigal son-far from home. They perceive the swish content with the husks of business, money, pleasure and politics; but their spiritual longings cannot be satisfied with the husks which the "swine" eat. Because of their interest in spiritual things they are thought peculiar. They are misunderstood by their best earthly friends. In their wandering along the highways of science and world-religion they must surely learn that they will get no satisfaction from those sources. The Table of Divine Provision. Ho, all ye that hunger for Truth, come ye! There is an abundance for us all in our Heavenly Father's wonderful provision—In the Bible. Deserting all the creeds and traditions of men, let us gather at our Heavenly Father's Board as His family, as His children. Let us prove the truthfulness of his declaration that "Like as a father pitifeth his children, so the Lord pitifeth them that reverence Him." Let us seek and find the satisfying portion. Let us satisfy our longings at the table of Divine provision. Mark the words of the Lord and consider how truthful they are—"Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled." It is this Truth-hungry class whom we address. We know their heart-longings; for we have had the same experience. We know the satisfaction which they crave; for we have received it and are therefore doubly glad to hand forth the Bread and the Water of Life to those who desire it. There are many who are ready to serve the appetites of those who long for pleasure—ball games, society fetes, chess, travel, etc. Against these, we have not one word to say. It is not our thought that they are en route to eternal torment; hence we do not frantically beset them or annoy them. Let them have their pleasure. Let them wait for the time to come when something may occur in their experiences which will put them into the class of the broken-hearted and contrite of spirit, something which will cause them to feel after God, if happly they might find Him as a satisfying portion. In harmony with the Master's directions, it is our aim to "blind up the broken-hearted and to comfort those that mourn," to tell them of the oil of joy which the Lord is willing to be stow for their spirit of heartiness and sorrow for sin. (Isaiah 61:1-3.) As the Master expressed no reproof of those engaged in any sort of moral reform, even asceticism, so it is with us. We desire to oppose no one who is doing any good work, whether or not he follows with us in every particular. There are so many engaged in doing evil works, and so few engaged in doing good, that not one of the latter class can be spared from the ranks of the service of righteousness. As the Master did not give his time to temperance reform or to social reform or to political reform, but gave it to the instruction of the people in the doctrines of the Word of God, so let us be intent to follow His example in this matter, not "teaching for" doctrines the precepts of men," but the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever—expounding, to the people the scriptures and assisting them to see the length and the breadth and height and depth of their meaning. The Disciple Not Above His Lord. Nevertheless, as the religious teachers of the Master's day hated Jesus and His disciples for this cause, "because they taught the people," and as they persecuted the Master and His followers because they did not walk in the beaten paths of their day, so we may expect that the Scribes, the Pharisees and the Doctors of the Law today will be grieved because the people are taught, because the light of the knowledge of the glory of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ is presented to the people as an incentive to love and obedience, instead of the doctrine of eternal torment. It matters not that all the educated ministers today well know, and would not for a moment deny, their disbelief in the doctrine of eternal torment, ifross questioned. Nevertheless, many of them hate us and oppose us because we show the people the true interpretations of the Word of God and lift before the eyes of their understanding a God of Love, just, merciful, righteous altogether, and fully capable both in Wisdom and Power to work out all the glorious designs which He "purposed in Himself before the foundation of the world." (1) They perceive that the teaching of the doctrines of purgatory and eternal torment has not had a sanctifying influence upon mankind in all the sixteen centuries in which these doctrines have been preached. But they fear that to deny these doctrines now would only make a bad matter worse. They fear that if the Gospel of the Love of God and the fact that the Bible does not teach eternal torment for any were generally made known, the effect upon the world would be to increase its wickedness, to make life and property less secure and to fill the world with blasphemies still more than now. (2) They fear also that a certain amount of discredit would come to themselves because, knowing that the Bible does not teach eternal torment, according to the Hebrew and Greek original, they secreted the knowledge from the people. They fear that this would forever discredit them with their hearers. Hence they still lend their influence outwardly to the doctrine of eternal torture, which they do not believe, and feel angry towards us because we teach the people the truth upon the subject, which they know will bring to them hundreds of questions difficult to answer or to dodge. God's Love Constrains Us. We ask you, dear fellow Christians. Were you constrained to become children of God and to render to the Lord the homage and obedience of your lives through fear or through love? We are not asking you whether you never have feared; but what brought you to the point of consecrating your life to God? Surely it was not fear! We are aware, of course, that there is a proper, godly fear, reverence; and that the Scriptures declare it—"The fear [reverence] of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Psalm 111:10). But this is not the fear of eternal torment, which tends to drive out love. How could we love or esteem or truly worship a God who purposed the eternal torment of His creatures from before their creation! We could give you many proofs of the power of love over the human heart, in contrast with the ungodly fear of the error. God says to us in so many words, "Their fear toward Me is taught by the precept of men." (Isalah 20:13.) As an illustration: Some years ago at a Bible Students Convention in Ohio a well-dressed gentleman in attendance told me of how his heart had been touched with our presentation of the "Love Divine, All Love Excelling." He said, "For years I have been a member of the Presbyterian Church without being really a Christian at all. Occasionally I went on sprees, sometimes I gambled and drank, etc. Not until I received a knowledge of the true character of God as set forth in your 'STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES' did my heart ever come to the proper attitude of surrender to the Lord. Then I was glad to give Him my little all, and wished that it was more." The next day, as I was passing from the hotel to the auditorium to conduct a question meeting, this gentleman put a slip of paper into my hand. Supposing that it contained a question, I thrust it into my coat pocket. On the platform I drew it forth as one of the questions to be answered, and to my astonishment I found it to be a check for one thousand dollars. The man had not been asked to contribute even one cent; but the love of God had captivated his heart and had gotten control—not only of it, but of his pocket-book and all. He wished to show the Lord his appreciation of the Love Divine, the length, the breadth, the height and the depth of which he now comprehended as never before. The Power of God's Word. The Power of God's Word. Another case: Several years ago I met with a Convention of Bible Students in Chattanooga. While there, a gentleman introduced himself, saying that he was from Mississippi and that he had become deeply interested in our presentations of the harmony of the Word of God. He said in substance, "I will not attempt to tell you how wicked a man I was before I got your literature. My dear wife here, an earnest Methodist, said to me, 'John, John, you will surely go to Hell!' I replied to her, 'Mary, I know it!' I know it! And, Mary, I am determined to deserve all that I get. I am not going to Hell for nothing.' "One of your trusts came to my desk in my store. I read it and perceived that it was different from anything I had ever understood respecting the teachings of the Bible; for it seemed more rational and more God-like! I sent to you for various Bible Students' Helps. The result is that the Love of God has constrained me, has conquered me, in a way that the doctrines of devilish torments could not influence me. Now I see the true teaching of the Word of God; I can honor Him, worship Him, and take pleasure in laying down my life in His service. I have made a full 'consecration of everything I possess.' "For a time I see you a fifty-dollar check every month; but, Brother Russell, it was in the nature of conscience money. At that time the most profitable feature of my more trade was the sale of liquor to the Mississippi negroes. As the grace of God more and more filled my heart to overflowing, it brought me to see that I must love my neighbor as myself and do injury to none, and those checks stopped. I ceased to deal in liquor, and have devoted my whole life to the service of God and of my fellow-men." Three murderers confined in the Ohio State Penitentiary had from childhood been trained in the doctrine of eternal torment by different denominations; and yet these men had committed murder. Under the providence of God, these men received some of our literature—"STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES"—and were cut to the heart when they learned of the Love of God, as expressed in the Divine Plan of the Ages. This knowledge made such a change in the hearts and the lives of these three murderers that the prison-keepers took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus and had learned of Him. By and by they were patrolled, and today two of them are preaching the Gospel of the Love of God, seeking to bring their fellow-men out of, the condition of darkness and sin into the glorious sunlight of Divine Love and Truth. Let Us Acknowledge the Truth. Let Us Acknowledge the Truth. Having tried the Gospel of Fear and Damnation and Torture for the past sixteen centuries, and having seen that under this teaching there are more blasphemy and general wickedness in Christendom than even in the heathen world, should we not decide that it is due time to give the true Bread and Water of Life to the hungry and thirsty ones who, for lack of it, are searching the earth over, and many of whom are falling into Higher Criticism and other delusions peculiar to our day? With shame of face we must all acknowledge that "we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and there is no health in us." The proper thing for us to do, dear Christian friends, is to get down upon our knees before the Lord and in contrition of heart acknowledge that we have wrought no deliverance in the earth (Isaiah 20:18); that our sectarian differences are our shame; that the ignorance in which we have all been respecting the Word of God is humiliating. When once the eyes of our understanding are opened, we can comprehend as never before the harmony of God's Message from Genesis to the Revelation. Daily the Word of God becomes more precious to us. More and more we realize that it is our duty to fly to the assistance of our dear brethren in Christ and to call upon them to join us in a determined stand for God and His Word of Truth. We must show them that our God has been dishonored by misrepresentations of His character and of the real teachings of His Word. We must point them to the fact that the Bible does not teach that all mankind except the Elect will be consigned to an eternity of torture at the hands of demons. We must also show them that the Election of the Church during this Gospel Age does not mean injury to the non-elect; but that on the contrary it is the Divine purpose that the elect salants with the great Redeemer shall constitute God's Kringdom, which will blind Satan, put down sin, banish ignorance, error and superstition, and uplift mankind by resurrection processes to all that was lost in Eden by Adam's disobedience, but secured for him and all his race through the great transaction accomplished on Calvary All mankind shall yet see that the Divine Purpose shall be accomplished; that the Word which has gone forth out of Jehovah's mouth shall prosper in the thing whereunto He sent it. In concluding his discourse, the Pastor declared that as the test at the end of the Millennial Age will be loyalty, even so this is the test upon Christian people today. The Lord desires not those who merely fear to do wrong, but those who love to do right and hate to do wrong. He claimed that there is only a little more time in which Christians will have the opportunity to develop character and to stand the test. BIBLE STUDIO ON WHY GETHSEMAN'S AGONY? Mark 14:32-42—Oct. 18. "Watch and proy, that ye enter not into temptation."—Matthew 25:12. FOLLOWING the institution of the Memorial Supper, Jesus and His disciples sang a hymn, and then went out of the city to the Mount' of Olives—a distance of perhaps a mile. Apparently several important lessons were given the disciples en route. See John 15-17. Jesus was seeking to 'impress upon His disciples the fact that they were entering a great crisis. He quoted the prophecy, "I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered." (Zeddiah 13.7.) He said plainly that as a result they would all be offended—stumbed, amazed. The thing they were not expecting would occur. St. Peter, confident of his devotion to the Lord, declared that this would not be true in his case—that even though it should be true of all the others, he was ready to die with the Master Jesus still insisted that St. Peter was in great danger. He trusted too much to his desh, not looking to God and prayerfully watching against temptation. Indeed, all the disciples joined in the same remonstrance against Jesus' accusation. How little they knew what trials would come upon them! "Sorrowful Even Unto Death." Arrived at the Garden, Jesus left eight Apostles near the entrance to watch, to be on guard against something of which Jesus knew, but which to them seemed most improbable. Accustomed to retire early, they fell asleep, instead of watching and praying. Meantime, the Master went further into the shades with Peter, James and John. Wishing to be alone in His communion with the Father, Jesus went a stone's throw farther into the shades by Himself. Time and again, in His agony, He came seeking human sympathy, only to find His dearest ones asleep. He trod the winepress of grief alone.—Isaiah 63:3. The feeling of loneliness, home-sickness, friendlessness, which suddenly came upon the Savior, continued for some time; for He petitioned the Father three times that this hour might pass from Him, this terrible depression which was breaking His heart St. Luke, who was a physician, tells that the Master's distress was so great that it brought on a bloody sweat ```markdown ``` How shall we explain the Master's great distress in antiposition of His own death, of which He had foreknowledge and of which He had told His disciples, assu- He would rise from His disciples, assuring them also that He would rise from the dead: To appreciate this question and its proper answer, we must remember how different was the Master from all the rematuder of mankind. A death sentence rests upon all the world Jesus had divested Himself of His nature on the spirit plane, exchanging it for the human nature; because man had shunned and because in the Ditine arrangement He was to die, the Just for the unjust, as man's Redemption price. This was the Father's will concerning Him. Daily He was laying down His life, in doing God's will and in serving humanity. Now He had come to the great elmax. No Advocate For the Master. The Father had promised that if our Lord was faithful in performing the work given Him to do, He would be raised from the dead by Divine Power to the spirit plane and to a still higher station than He had before. He doubted neither the Father's faithfulness nor the Divine Power. The only question was, Had He done the Divine will absolutely, in a spirit pleasing to the Father, and could He, would He, pass through the experiences of the next few hours with proper courage, faith and obedience, or would He fall and lose His all in death? Should the Master fall, there was none to make good for Him. His failure meant everlasting death, as well as loss of the great privilege of uplift- ing humanity from sin and death conditions through the Messianic Kingdom. In a word, the Master's personal, eternal life was in the balances that night in Gethsemani. ```markdown ``` No wonder He wished that if possible He might be spared from the Jesus in Gethsemane, spared from the special tribulations and horrible experiences just before Him! To One so full of love and loyalty to the Father such experiences would be terrible—that He should be considered a blasphemer of God, should be crucified as a malefactor! What a terrible experience to one of His refinement and nobility! Apparently this ignominy was what Jesus prayed might away. He knew that He had come into the world to die; for only by His death could the death penalty against humanity be removed. 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The structure is to be a six-story front and eight-story rear, pressed brick and stone, and occupying a space 60 by 110 feet. The building will be modern in every respect; the plan calling for a theater on the first floor with a seating capacity ranging from 600 to 900, and the top floors will be used as offices for the lodges and for private interests. The contract calls for the completion of the building in ten and one-half months and the building is located in one of the most popular business sections of the city for the colored people, being situated between the colored branch Y. M. C. A. and the Western Colored Branch Library, and just two squares from the Union Station. J. Lubrie Hill's Darktown Follies of 1915, in the burlesque musical comedy, "My Friend from Kentucky," and featuring such well known stars as Abbie Mitchell, Evon Robinson, Will Brown, Julius Glenn and others, are playing to crowded houses at each performance the past week at Schubert's Masonic Theater in this city. Harper and Gilliam are such well known stars that it would be unfair to not mention them, and their work is especially good this season. The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are continuing their fight on the segregation ordinance, and in conjunction with other colored attorneys who are fighting the ordinance independent of the Association, have tried two cases in the IS YOUR ve. 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GER Manufacturer of Harness A Saddles, Whips, Satchels. 641 Louisiana Harness and Trunks Repaired Phone M J. P. GERMUILLER Manufacturer of and Dealer In W. C. Martin, Attorney. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.—No. 32,704, Equity · Docket No. 71. Joseph H. Sanford. Plaintiff, vs. Adrienne Maude Sanford and James Williams. Defendants. The object of this suit is to obtain an absolute divorce from the defendant, Adrienne Maude Sanford, on the ground of adultery. On motion of the plaintiff, it is this 7th day of October. A. D. 1914, ordered that the defendant, Adrienne Maude Sanford and co-respondent, James Williams, cause their appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; provided, a copy of this order be published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter and the Washington Bee before said day. By the court: (Seal) WALTER I. McCOY, Justice. True copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG. Clerk. By J. A. C. PALMER. Assistant. Clerk. The summer's gone, but, after all, I'm quite content that it is fall; There's something bracing in the air That drives away all thoughts of care And lifts before my eyes the haze Between the nows and yesterdays. Perhaps—but what's the use to dream— Things never are just what they seem. —Chicago Defender. WHITE FRONT MARKET N. T. Redman, Manager GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS 916 Louisiana Avenue N. W. Washington, D. C. For Friday and Saturday Best Butter, 30c. Best Eggs, 28c. Best Coffee, 25c. Washington, D. C. Fall Facial Massage, Scalp Treat- and compounding of facial creams. and Hair Tonics. Ventilation a Sage Hair Tonics—Tar and Sage. les cannot be surpassed for grow- and preventing premature gray human hair good always on sale. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED 935 R Street, N. W. MUILLER of and Dealer In Ind Trunks Horse Clothing Etc., Ftc. Avenue, N. W. FROM THE OLD UNTO THE NEW I HAD IT DYED and my friends are mystified." Such is the innocent deception practiced by our patrons. We can effect transformation scientifically. No matter how flimsy or delicate the gown or laces they are safe in our most expert hands. Entrust us with your most exacting commissions for dyeing and dry cleaning. FOSTER'S DYE WORKS Offices: 11th and U Sts. Works: 1937-39 11th St. N. W. Our autos go everywhere. Our suburban service is unequalled. Phone North 2125-2126. T. W. DUNWORTH 1002 Pennsylvania Ave. N. W. WINES AND LIQUORS The Most Central Place in the City Phone Main 6329 Gaskin's Dinners If you have never enjoyed one of Gaskin's 30c dinners from 5 to 7 o'clock P. M., you should do so at once. No other place in the city has the reputation of serving such a dinner. Sweet music during the hours of dinner. AARON J. GASKIN, 320 Eighth Street Northwest. Phone North 4017 hington D C Would Amend Postal Savings Bank Law to Meet Demands. Washington.—One of the bills now in congress that are being held up by the press of business due largely to the war in Europe and that are of peculiar interest to all sections of the country is the bill to amend the postal savings bank law. At present the bill is in conference, and when it will come out can only be conjectured. Alexander M. Dockery, third assistant postmaster general, who has taken great interest in the measure, had this to say about it recently, but that was before the war clouds broke in Europe and when the prospects of a speedy passage into law were brighter than now: "With the final passage of this bill that depositors may put in $1,000 at one time I anticipate a big jump in the total deposits under this system. The deposits now aggregate approximately $43,000,000." Under existing laws persons can deposit not more than $100 in any one month and are limited to a deposit of $000. TO SELL PEACE BUTTONS. Boy Scouts to Have Charge of Circulating Petitions. Cleveland, O. - "America Wants World Peace" is the inscription on small buttons circulated by Boy Scouts of America. Thomas D. West, promoter of the sane Fourth movement and instigator of the peace badge which the members of the Cleveland Woman's club have been making in their club rooms, decided to use buttons instead of the ribbon badges to create world peace sentiment. The ribbon badges are changed from the form of a cross into a rosette on which the button will be plined. These are sold to women, while the men are solicited with the undecorated button. In addition to the sale of buttons, Mr. West is also pressing the boy scouts into the service of circulating petitions deploring the European war. Mr. West will have the petitions circulated throughout the United States. Washington.-The value of the output of recoverable gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc from mines in California in 1913, according to Charles G. Yale of the United States geological survey, was $26,312,480, an increase of $428,543 over the 1912 production. All the metals except zinc showed an increased yield, although the ore treated was less in quantity, and there were fewer mines reporting a production than in 1912. The total recoverable value of gold from California in 1013 was $20,406,958, of which the deep mines produced $11,570,781, or 50.7 per cent. The total increase in the gold production was $693,480. of which $502,960 was in the yield from deep mines. The gold production was larger than in any other year except one since 1804. This great output was due entirely to the operations of the dredging companies and the larger deep mines, as the number of mines operated in 1013 was 245 less than in 1012. Of the gold recovered from placer mines the gold dredges reported $8,090,294, which was nearly 92 per cent of the total state yield in 1913. Since the commencement of gold dredging in California, fifteen years ago, the gold recovered from this source has amounted to $63,505,485. Most of this large yield has been derived from ground which could not have been mined profitably under any of the old methods of gravel mining. The 410 deep mines sold or treated 2,495,938 tons of ore, a decrease of 145,539 tons compared with 1912. Most of the siliceous ore, which amounted to 2,031,429 tons, was treated at gold and silver mills, yielding an average recovery of $5.01 a ton in gold and silver. The 448,430 tons of copper had a recoverable value of $1.84 a ton in gold and silver and $11.74 in copper. The 14,267 tons of lead ore treated had a recoverable value of $11.25 in gold and silver and $23.11 for all metals. The zinc ore shipped in 1913 amounted to 1,823 tons, which was considerably less than in 1912. RESTORE PRISONERS' RATING System of Leniency Works Well in United States Army Prison. Leavenworth, Kan.-Forty-one prisoners at the United States military prison have been restored to the colors under the system now in vogue at the institution. The latest general prisoner to be "graduated" from the disciplinary battalion is Arthur Gaa, who was serving a short term on a charge of desertion. The new system of restoring minor offenders back to duty, providing they desire to erase the black mark against them and save the disgrace of dishonorable discharge, is proving a success in every way. Bristol. Tenn.-Fifteen marriages in three days is the record of the Rev. A. H. Burroughs of the Bristol Gretna Green. He married five couples of young elopers from Virginia in one day, four with one ceremony. He has married nearly 5,000 couples. 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The policy is to give all possible help who take pride in their homes, early to young married couples, amount of terms is made unusually fall stock is ready. You'll find and patterns very attractive, and we need those genuine values in which the pride and comfort. Peter Grogan AND SONS CO. 117 to 823 Seventh St. Xander's Stock of Design and Domestic Whiskies NAME FOR QUALITY phone Main 274 to Branch Houses A score of reasons for coming to us when you are ready to buy furniture will boil down into these few facts: that our goods are thoroughly reliable and may be depended upon for years of satisfactory service. that our plainly marked prices are as low or lower than you will find elsewhere for equal values. that we will grant such liberal terms on an open account that you can afford such qualities as you want. Our policy is to give all possible help to those who take pride in their homes, and particularly to young married couples the arrangement of terms is made unusually easy. 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