Washington Bee

IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXV, NO. 34 WASHINGTON, I. D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915 EX-SENATOR GREEN EX-STATE SENATOR JOHN P. GREEN. His Report to the 2,000 Citizens of Ohio Who Sent Him to Washington. 1st Day—Jan. 5th. Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1914. 1. Race to make train. Last rubber. 2. Pleasant trip. 3. As the crow files, to office of-W. Calybi Chase, Esq. 4. Office of Cong. W. J. Buckley. His secretary. Mr. John D. Hill. 5. Congressman W. J. Buckley: "Will vote against whole bill; has no idea the amendment will pass the House." Makes date to introduce me to Judge Burnett, of Alabama, author of the bill. 6. Meet Senator Theodore E. Burton, his prominence. Saved nation many millions of dollars. Reception cordial; what he said; calls up secretary of Governor Willis and arranges an immediate meet for me. 7. I meet Governor-Elect Willis; his urbanity and evident interest; fears many will vote for the bill; anti-Negro amendment non-obstante; to carry the literary test. What I told him; he suggests a parliamentary way to save the bill and eliminate the Anti-Negro Amendment. 8. I send him Congressional Record with Question answered. 9. I see Mr. Gordon; positively opposed to the Amendment and the Bill; friend of the Negro race. Wednesday, Jan. 6th. 1. I write to Chairman Henry Taylor. 2. I meet Congressman Crosser; kindly received; well treated; he is opposed to whole Bill, on account of literacy test; will vote against it. Will work against Anti-Negro Amendment, not because it concerns colored men only, but because of two citations in our Resolutions, "God is no respecter of persons," and, because it conflicts with the Declaration of Independence, "All men created equal." 3. Call on secretary of Senator Atlee Pomerene; he makes a date for me to meet Senator at 2 P. M. 4. Call again on Congressman Bulkley; Mr. Hill, his secretary, gives the Congressional Record containing valuable information as to the Bill, and the Anti-Negro Amendment. 5. Congressman Bulkley accompanies me, in person, to call on Judge Burnett, or Alabama, the author of the Bill, and introduces me to him. Judge Burnett is short, stockily built and somewhat grey; quite ordinary in appearance; dressed as I was. Judge Burnett, although a rank southerner, received me just as one gentleman would receive another gentleman; we indulged in a little good-natured reparte; he told me he was opposed to the Anti-Negro Amendment and that he would fight it on the floor of the House. Most Valuable of My Calls Most valuable of my calls. 6. At 2 o'clock P. M. met Senator Atlee Pomerene, in the "Marble Room" of the Senate; kindly but quite formally received; said he was a friend of the Negro; had always been; associated with one or more of them in college; used to assist a Negro in getting his lessons; there are some "bad Negroes," who injure and retard the whole race; make enemies for the race. Met the old veteran Congressman General Sherwood, of Toledo; talked with him through an ear trumpet; made him hear; he said he had always been the friend of the Negro, was still his friend and would do all he could to kill the Anti-Negro Amendment. 7. Talked with newspaper men and various men of influence; Hon. W. Calvin Chase, editor of the Washington Bee; Mr. N. G. Robinson, of the House barber shop; Mr. Daniel Murray; Librarian of Congress; Rev. Garner, and Wilson of the Eagle. 8. Found that my coming had stimulated Editor Chase, Rev. M. W. D. Norman, President of the Baptist Ministers' Meeting of Washington; Rev. A. C. Garner, delegate from the Washington Ministers' Interdenominational Union; W. H. Dean, President of the M. E. Ministers' Meeting of Washington; E. E. Ricks, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of West Washington; Ketley Miller, Dean of Howard University, and S. H. Stepteau to formulate a Protest to present to Congress. "Better late than never." January 8th, 1915. 1. Went to office of The Bee; found there a beautiful letter to me from Mr. Jas. A. Willis, "Jim the Petman." I hardly know which I admire most, the beautiful penmanship of Mr. Willis or the elegant language in which he clothed his message to me; prior to this Mr. Willis, at much pains and some expense, had prepared and mailed to me an engrossed copy of the resolutions written by me and unanimously adopted by our mass meeting. It is a "thing of beauty and joy forever." I shall frame, it nicely and hand it down to posterity as an evidence of the skill and patriotic love of his race, by Mr. Willis. 2. I next went to the offices of the White House. There, without any trouble, I saw one of the secretaries to the President. I was informed that the President was preparing to leave Washington and had no time to receive callers, but that the copy of our resolutions which I presented to him would be brought to the attention of the President should the con- ingency occur which they related to. He further sald the President was receiying on an average twenty-five letters and from fifty to a hundred telegrams in opposition to the Anti-Negro Bill; that if the occasion required them they would be classified and a brief made of them for the inspection of the President if he wished to consult it. 3. I next went to the gallery of the House of Representatives. On my way there I hailed some gentlemen whom I saw going there too. I thought they were members and intended to ask their assistance in defeating the Amendment, but they, like me, were only visitors. In the gallery of the House I could hear very well; "Champ Clark," the Speaker of the House, is a very ablman for the place, and has a voice which can be easily heard in all parts of the House. As soon as the Journal was read after a little preliminary work was disposed of, the Immigration Bill was taken up for consideration. The Bill carrles many—some fifty or more—amendments, but the one I was principally interested in was Amendment Number 18, found on page 8, of the Amended Bill. The contested amendments were taken up one by one, and disposed of with little debate, until Number 18 was reached. Then came the "tug of war." The hated amendment read as follows: "After four months from the approval of this Act, in addition to the aliens who are now excluded from admission into the United States, the following persons shall also be excluded from admission thereto, to wit: All members of the African or black race." It was interesting to note how just and noble some of the members could be in their remarks, and how little, narrow and mean some of the others could be. Two Representatives from Louisiana were particularly forceful and bit THE DRIFTING OF AMERICAN ter against the Negro race, but diction was pure and their language free from vulgarity. There was one Representative from Texas, however, whose remarks betrayed ignorance, hate and vulgarity. His every reference to the colored citizens of Texas was niggers, and he used it much more frequently than was necessary. That man will regret that speech on his "detested land if he doesn't do 'works meet for repentance,' the goblins will surely get him. Mr. Madden, the able champion of the rights of the Negro on the floor of the House, covered himself with glory, and Mr. Mann also showed his manhood and patriotism. Both of these gentlemen hall from Illinois, the home of Abraham Lincoln, and they are fit successors to the robe of that great and good man. There was a member from Massachusetts who was both able and effective against the Amendment. I must get his name for I must in the future watch him grow. I was most desirous to hear what Judge Burnett, author of the bill and chairman of the Committee would say about the bill; for Judge Burnett halls from Alabama, where Negroes are all but in the majority. The judge had promised me that he would oppose the amendment, on the floor of the House—he had been conceded twenty minutes of time; but, had, generously, given portions of it, from one to five minutes, to other members, who were fighting it. At last, he arose, to close the debate; and to my great joy, in a clear forcible manner and in good strong English, he flayed it alive—he literally took the skin off of it. His most telling argument was, that it was uncalled for, and that if the bill were loaded with it, it would be debeated in its entirety. It was easily seen, after Judge Burnett had spoken, that the hateful amendment was doomed. There were two principal and most telling arguments used against the amendment; first, religious, that it was in conflict with the Law of God and the Christian Religion; and secondly that, if it were not 'defeated; it would kill the bill. The Declaration of Independence was also referred to, the opening sentence of 'which declares that "all men are created equal." One argument used by me, if I may be allowed to state it, was that the Negro vote, while it is potent in the Northern states, is not the only vote to be reckoned with; for there are many thousands of white voters, who believe in justice and fair play, who will never help elect a man to Congress who is inhumane and unjust. This argument always made the Representative look at me, when I addressed it to him. Need I say more? The roll was called: the result was announced: yeas 252, nays 75. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will towards man. I rushed out of the gallery to the nearest telegraph office and on the wings of the lightning, sent the good word to our good chairman and the rest of our people. I should mention, perhaps, that at times, I became so jubilant in the gallery, and applauded so loudly that the aged doorkeeper came to me and warned me that I was breaking the rule of the House, with reference thereto I of course, after the second warning, discretely desisted. One very important result of that remarkable vote which was cast in the Nation's House, at Washington on the 7th instant, must not be overlooked: it afforded an opportunity to WASHINGTON, J. D.C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915 M. the colored Americans to measure the sentiment of the American people towards them; and proves that the overwhelming sentiment of the people is just and friendly towards them. Thank my own people of Cleveland and Northern Ohio, for the great compliment conferred on me, throughout this transaction; it will be to me one of the dearest remembrances of my life, which I shall carry down to my grave with me, that, in a time of great peril to the good name, honor and future wellbeing of the colored race o. this country, I was chosen and sent to the Nations Capital, to serve them to the best of my ability, in my declining days. All of which is respectfully submitted; nection with an exclusive Colored Hospital in the south. Dr. Ed. Gray, who is now Athletic Instructor at Wilberforce University, and who will be readily remembered for the work he did on the Basket and Foot Ball teams of Howard University while he was in school there, was a visitor in this City during the holidays. Dr. Gray ran down to pay a visit to his old College chums, Prof. Henry F. Nixon of the local High School faculty, Dr. Horace Morris and Lawyer Al. A. Andrews; all of whom are making their homes in this city. Mr. Andrews entertained Dr. Gray at a Stag dinher while here. Mrs. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss, of Indianapolis, was the guest of her and Miss S. Paulling Secretary, warded to either promptly acknowledge it given through Washington Free, all of uplift of human progress of our gro girls are stretched hands, tones, come and good board save turn us out with ing or friends. Not from across at our door. Wraging on the ot of poverty, dire of this side among manly. ATTORNEY HARRISON. A Warm Reception in Louisville, Ky.— Social and Other News. Louisville, Ky.. Jan. 11th, 1915. (By Al. A. Andrews) (Jby Al. A. Andrews) Judge William Harrison, who recently appeared before the United States Supreme Court to argue the constitutionality of the Oklahoma (Coates) Law, was a visitor in this City on the 7th and 8th inst., and delivered an address before a crowded house at Calvary Baptist Church, on the evening of the 8th. Judge Harrison was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Parrish. In his address Judge Harrison briefly reviewed the case that he carried to the Supreme Court and commented upon the Court's decision in the matter, but refused, when asked, to comment upon the criticism of his conduct which appeared in a recent issued of the Crisis. Judge Harrison spent several hours while here in conference with Law;yers W. H. Wrights and Al. A. Andrews who are prosecuting cases in the local Courts to test the validity of the Segregation Act in this city, and freely exchanged views with the local attorneys. The Judge went from here to Nashville and thence to Memphis and Little Rock before returning to his home. The Colored Republican League met in its annual session in this City on Dec. 28th, 1914, to discuss the outlook for the ensuing campaign. In view of the fact that the delegates from this State to the next National Republican Convention will be nominated by primary, and because the present registration show that there are almost twice as many colored as there are white republicans who will be eligible to vote in the 1915 primary election, the convention went on record as unanimously favoring that the colored republicans of this district demand that one of the district delegates be a Colored Man, in addition to having the usual representation from the State-at-Large as was in vogue under the old convention system of electing delegates. It is probable that Dr. W. T. Merchant, secretary of the 5th district colored republican league, will be the man chosen as the district delegate to the National convention. The new $18,000 building of the Red Cross Sanitarium is rapidly nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy about the 1st of March. The building will be modern in every respect and will be one of the finest and most up-to-date buildings in con- nection with an exclusive Colored Hospital in the south. Dr. Ed. Gray, who is now Athletic Instructor at Wilberforce University, and who will be readily remembered for his work in did the Basket and Foot Ball teams of Howard University while he was in school there, was a visitor in this City during the holidays. Dr. Gray ran down to pay a visit to his old College clums. Prof. Henry F. Nixon of the local High School faculty, Dr. Horace Morris and Lawyer Al. A. Andrews; all of whom are making their homes in this city. Mr. Andrews entertained Dr. Gray at a Stag dinher while here. Mrs. Dr. Sumner A. Furniss, of Indianapolis, was the guest of her mother, Mrs. Wilhelmenta Morris, during the holidays. Prof. William S. C. Peyton, formerly Principal of the Lincoln Public School has been promoted to the vacancy caused by the recent death of Prof. Samuel B. Taylor, Sr., to the Principalship of the Fred. Douglas public school. Prof. Wm. Jackson, of the Paducah high school succeeds Prof. Peyton at Lincoln. The local branch of the' National Association for the Advancement of Colored people is making some efforts to have either Prof. Kelly Miller, of Washington, or Wm. Monroe Trotter, of Boston, come to this city within the near future and address a public mass meeting for the purpose of stimulating interest in the fight against the Segregation ordinance now pending in the local courts. THE HOME FOR FRIENDLESS NE- GRO GIRLS. This Home was organized in 1883, and from that date, until now hundreds of girls have been taken in, cared for, sent to school, and good useful women have been made of them. The late Mrs. Caroline Taylor, the founder and, who devoted years of service in the upbuild and maintenance, of this organization, lost her life in consequence thereof a few years ago. The Board of Managers purchased two buildings, 2533 and 2531 6th street, corner of Girard, N. W, and made one cozy Home of the same. They paid $2,000.00 on the building and have now an outstanding debt of $1,700.00. They are now making an earnest appeal to their many friends, the Sabbath Schools, Young People's Meetings, Organizations and Churches to help them meet a note, which was over due, and the holder gave until Tuesday, January 12, to pay the same or the property would flaunt a red flag. But he has now by persuasion consented to give them ten days longer. They appeal to you again to help them out. It means that if they do not raise the amount of note overdue, to not only lose what they have already paid out, to turn into the street their present little tots and deprive others of having a comfortable home. If we can save the friendless girls of our race, as the Florence Crittenden Mission, the House of Mercy, the several orphan asylums of the other race, etc., we wont have to have it flaunted in our faces that the Girls' Reform School is packed with Negro girls, Occoquan filled with Negro women and our city jail inmates largely Negroes. "Save the girls and the women are safe," Mrs. Julia Mason Layton is president, and Miss S. Paulina Robb corresponding Secretary. Contributions forwarded to either of these will be promptly acknowledged, and due credit given through the columns of The Washington Bee, and our other splendid papers, all of which stand for the uplift of humanity and the onward progress of our race. Friendless Negro girls are standing with outstretched hands, pleading in mute tones, come and help us. Help our good board save our Home. Don't turn us out without food, fuel, clothing or friends. The cry comes to us, not from across the waters, but right at our door. War, yes cruel war, is waging on the other side, but the war of poverty, dire distress is waging on this side among our people. The wife of a-noted General of the Civil War is pleading for suffering humanity on the one side. The woman of our race who has given her life without a penny's contribution- is making the plea for the Friendless Girls on this side. Will you help her and her splendid corps of workers? We feel the Home will be saved. INTERDENOMINATIONAL CHAR- ITY ASSOCIATION! The Woman's Interdenominational Charity Association, which rendered such practical assistance to the needy during the severe winter months last year by dispensing bread and soup to those who applied at any of the nine stations conducted in the different sections of our city, will reopen their stations in February. Medical missions will be conducted in connection with this work during the coming season. Mr. W. H. J. Beckett, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., invited the Association to bring to the attention of the Sunday afternoon meeting the scope of the work, and on Sunday afternoon, January 17, at 6 o'clock, the John Wesley A. M. E. Z. Church has arranged a meeting for the Association, at which Mrs. Florence Randolph, a noted evangelist of Jersey City, will speak. Last year the Association distributed 6,000 pints of soup to the poor during the months of February and March, in addition to providing articles of wearing apparel, fuel, etc. The clergy of the city have heartily cooperated in this movement. Practical and helpful lectures were given by Dr. Lucy E. Moten, Principal of Normal School No. 2, Miss M. Helen Adams and Miss Julla Mason Layton. DR. RICHARDSON'S NEPHEW KILLED. Met With an Accident Getting From a Car. Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 11. On his arrival home from Washington, D. C., where he had been to present a petition to Congress from the citizens of Ohio, against the passage of the Immigration Bill, Arthur Richardson, nephew of Dr. Geo. H. Richardson, of Washington, and step-son of ex-State Senator John P. Green, of Cleveland, in alighting from a street car, Friday evening, was struck by an automobile. His left leg was broken, his left eye fearfully injured and his skull fractured. THE BEE. Subscribe for The Bee and have it sent to your home. It is the greatest defender of human rights in the United States. DRIFTING OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION To the Editor:— After reading the doing of the present session of Congress, and seeing by their actions, that they have lost their heads, it occurs to me that there is much ado over nothing, or that there is an idea that they will be strangely hurled from their places. To me, it is an apparent fright on the part of those representative gentlemen who now desire to prevent "the immigration of the Colored" brother to this country—I use this term, quite adversely, because we are bretheren; for "of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth" and I see no reason why one brother, who is fortunate enough to possess real civilization, should bring a blot on that civilization by destroying the rights of his less favored brother. If civilization is "the act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; the state of being refined in manners from the grossness of savage life and improved in arts and learning" then, those of the better class (?) should understand that they are their brother's keeper, and are morally, as well as legally responsible for their civil and political rights of all who are less favored than themselves. If civilization means civil and political equality between man and man that makes his rights and privileges and immunities inviolable and sacred in the eyes and hearts of his fellowman, whatever may be his nationality, language, color or texture of his hair; then, the passage of the bill prohibiting the imigration of the Negro to this country is a blot on civilization, and if this country stands for such an enactment, then the whole thing is an impeachment of moral rights and a travesty on the religion of Jesus Christ. Why is it that when we were rude, rough and uncivilized, they sought us, and bore all of our expenses to this country as special guest and now, these very NORTHERNERS who then gave us this privileged citizens, and permitted initiative citizenship stand today against man other inviolates you can learn of the Christ. are supposed to represent. I cannot believe that in all of this ranting, the howling about the Negro coming to this country, as that is the only man struck at, that these representatives really know what they are doing. They need not fear us. We are the most loyal race on the face of the earth. We are planing no war against them. There is no anarchistic ideas manifesting itself among us. We are loyal to the flag if it doesn't protect us. We stand for that for which our fathers fought, bled and died. We would like to know what does all of this mean! One thing satisfies me, however, and that is—we have a way out. In this I appeal to the Churches to call upon God as did our fathers in the days of physical and political slavery. Let us get together as Christians and stop frequenting theatres, balls, dance halls and other places of amusements so much with that mimicking spirit after the other race. Let us get closer to GOD and we will give us our rightful place in this country, but not until we look rightfully to him for that which is due, will we ever rise above the wave of political and moral strife that comes down to us from those in whom we have all these years confided. R. ALEXANDER CARROLL, Pastor Metropolitain A. M. E. Zion Chureh TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. Local Teachers Join National Federation. At the meeting of the Teachers' Association last Tuesday evening at the Y. M. C. A., it was voted to accept the invitation to affiliate with the League of Teachers' Associations in America, with headquarters at Minneapolis, Minn. The following committees were announced in furtherance of the interests of the organization: Committee on inculcating Thrift in Children, Jos. E. Johnson, G. H. Murray and Miss Mary Cromwell; Committee on School Problems, E. H. Lawson, Misses M. Tancil, Nellie Dyson, Otella Cromwell and W. P. Montgomery; Committee on Membership, J. C. Wright, Misses E. A. Chase and K. U. Alexander, R. B. Greene and Benj. Washington; Committee on Entertainments, Misses M. L. Washington, Vastil Burley and A. L. Cornell, Dr. C. G. Woodson, G. Smith Wormley and B. Hartgrove. One hundred and thirty-nine members paid their annual dues. The editorial from the Educational Review of November, 1914, announcing the interests of teachers throughout the country, where pension laws have been passed, in the need for similar laws in the District of Columbia, was favorably received. The Association put itself in record as favoring the wider use of the school plant, despite the extra tax upon the teachers' time and energy. An address was announced by Dr. C. G. Woodson, on "Education of the Negro prior to 1860, at the M St. High School, at 3:30 on a date to be approved by the Assistant Superintendent, Mr. Bruce. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS By the Sage of the Potomac. Say what you want to agin this berg, but there is a whole lot of undiscovered wisdom that's floating around to Aaron Gaskin's dug-out, to ralled. The other evening I dropped around to Aaron Gaskin's bug-out, to eat a bite, and to whet my whistle, and at the table across from me sat four members of the Ham League who, from appearances, didn't look as if they had more than a thimble full of gray matter. They got to discuss various affairs, from the Belgian hare ball to the school disputes, and then back again, and finally they began discussing Teddy Roosevelt's hobby—race suicide. One of them, with a forehead that began at his eyebrows, and ran back to a point at the top of his head—looked exactly like a triangle, talked as if there was some class about him. I listened mighty close, cause I got interested in his easy way of expressing himself. Here's how he sized up race suicide, and I commend his argument to a lot of my friends around here who have never made a start in that multiplying business the good book speaks about. Said this mahogany-complexioned member of the Ham League: "There's been a whole lot of suggestions about relieving poverty and helping the fellows what's out of work, but let me tell you the trouble is there is an over-population. All your doggoned charity ain't raised the almond-yed "Chink" or the Hindoo. Why? Because life is so common and labor is so cheap that famines must follow as sure as you are a chocolate bon bon. In over-populated countries labor is always low, and hard to get. In France, where they aint stuck on big families, and the death rate runs the birth rate a merry chase, you don't hear of hard times, only semi-occasionally. An absurd optimism (that sounded awfully strong to me) based on superstition has encouraged propagation in this country, and especially among the oxidized assortment of cast-offs, until life is too cheap to be sacred. It is easy for an overfed and over-nourished moralist like Teddy to advise us poor devils to breed labor for the fortunate classes, but the true moralist and humanitarian would prefer a France to a China, and a proud fellow would prefer race suicide to starvation. You know old John Randolph, when he came to cash in his checks, sald: "Thank God I aint got no children to become hewers of wood and drawers of water after I'm salted down in mother earth," or something to that effect. History, you can read it proves that over-population always means war and famines. It's only by reducing the birth rate that poor devils can hope for a ray of sunshine. We tarred people have too many children, that's why we are so hard up and that's why so many of our boys and girls go to the bad—they don't have a chance to make good—to many of them." The bug continued on in that strain for an hour, just handed out a line of smooth argument in favor of race-suicide. I'd give a nice lobster lunch if a few of my married friends what alnt got no numberances to handle-cap them had been along to applaud and approve this line of talk. And I would have given four dollars in Confederate money if Will Davis, Sum Wormley, Jim Cobb and Nev Thomas had been there and heard it, cause both or all of them would have said: "Talk that-a-way fellow." Now he wasn't far wrong when he said that over-population was causing hard times. There is too many fellows for one job, and not enough jobs for all. Now this here Belgian Relief ball has hit snags largely cause there was too many who wanted to shine, and there wasn't enough shining places to go around. Course, as I said before, on a similar occasion, them three Belgians sure did indulge and amuse themselves cutting off heads, arms and legs, and other parts of bodies of the poor blacks down in the Congos, and the trouble they are having may be retribution, and all that, but the ball would perhaps got by without much clashing if there hadn't been so many dinges around here for the shining, and money places on committees. If there had been room to take care of all of the push as head of the committee on arrangements, and room to take care of all who wanted to handle the money, there perhaps would not have been so much kicking, even if them there Belgians did make the Congo natives drink blood some years ago. Course if we could have provided a place for everybody what wanted to handle the coin there wouldn't have been anything left to send over to Brussells, it would have been a case of "brussell's sprouts." I haven't said anything on the school question lately, and ain't going to say anything on the subject now, but I just want to break it to you gently that if some folks don't lay low and quit agitating there sure will be a hot old time in town. Mr. Thurston may have his little list all made out, and he may already have determined on what he is going to do, and from what I learn, through keyholes and on street corners, and down at Gaskins' and around at Del Washington's supplement to Jim Gray's, there's something in the air, and something is going to drap mighty soon what will be worster than a northerer. Now as I said in the onset, I ain't going to peep about the school muddle, and I ain't going to say a word that will harm nobody nohow, no time, but I've got a hunch that something is doing, that Mr. Thurston has got his little list, and some will be missed if—'I'll stop right with that there "if." for fear I get too far off the log. These here school matters has been talked about too much in print anyhow. Little Lord Fontenroy may be feeling shaky, and then again he may not. Ed. Williams may succeed him as Assistant Superintendent, and then agin he mount, not cause you know there's many a slip tixt cup and lip. Can Ed. Williams bring order out of chaos? That's the question, and you sure will find a lot of the bunch here on both sides. Jim Cobb, sort of a dandy mediator, may think he can, and then Cobb may be satisfied with present conditions. He's a friend to both, and must sorter walk spanish. They may move Dr. Lucy Moton over on the long-leave list and then again the brilliant lady may checkmate the scheme. But as I said I don't propose to be drawn into this school night, and therefore aint going to have a thing to say about it. There's been some idle frame-ups around here about Mrs. Mary Church Terrell becoming an oxidized Ellen Flagg, and getting the job of bossing the schools. That may be, and then again it mount not be. If I was a betting man, and I alnt, ceptin' in a little game of draw, I'd lay four-bits again Del Washington's hospitality that Ellen Flagg will be a mummified saint fourteen hundred years before the school becomes terrellized. And yet I don't know a thing about the whole smearcase; alnt never talked with nobody, and nobody has ever talked with me, not even Bill Chase, and what he don't know about schools alnt worth knowing by even Capt. Oyster. As I said in the beginning, and again I repeat, I alnt not going to push over any school talk, but I just want to remind you, before closing, that there is a hen on, and when she comes off somebody will be cackling, some will be crowing and some will be on their way to the barnyard for the last time. Now you can draw your own conclusions, but take it from me, there is something doing, and when the "doing" is announced it will be one of them there weather surprises—expecting sunshine and got a blizzard. That's all this week, thank you. By jimminey, I've got in the habit of dropping around to Aaron Gaskins' about three times a week here of late. That fellow Aaron is one more swell guy—just a prince, he is. Runs a place like a white man runs his'n. Aint got no rough talk for Sam and scientific talk for Luther—just the same kettle of fish for every man. There's class to him, and it's a pleasure to drop in and break bread with him. Now Aaron, for this little line of mush, it's up to you to open a blue ribbon the next time I drop in. Get me? You can just hand mine to Chase, Aaron. Forget to tell you he takes gin. Progress in the Higher Education of the Negro. The war-drum beats no longer. The battle flag has been furled. The merry war between the perfervid advocates of industrial and higher education of the Negro has ended. The irreconcilables have become reconciled and would fail forget the folly of their former frenzy. Some dozen or so years ago, the writer appeared before a Boston audience and presented two briefs, pointing out the relative sphere and function of the two types of education in the general scheme of racial uplift. I stated that there was no just grounds for conflict or controversy between the advocates and promoters of industrial and higher education, but that they were both complementary factors of a common product; that Hampton and Howard, Fisk and Tuskegee should live on terms of good neighborhood and cheerful cooperation, as co-workers in the same vineyard of service; and that the relative importance of the two types of education was merely a matter of ratio and proportion, and should never be made an issue of fundamental controversy. It is interesting now to recall the vials of righteous wrath that were poured upon my defenseless head because of this judicious attitude. How I, a professor in the leading institution of the higher learning, could advocate, excuse, or justify industrial training, was more than the bepuzzled understanding of the over-zealous belligerents could comprehend. Of course, such terms as "cowards," "straddled," "trimmer" and even "tratitor," were freely applied. The free and limited indulgence in denunciation and epithats is a very pleasant help to those who are burdened with a plethora of passion and paucity of logic. It is so much easier to call names than to answer argument, that the impassioned controversialists are prone to assume omniscience without taking the pains to acquire intelligence. They indulge in all sorts of extravagant assertions and verbal maledictions as to the fate of the higher education and the doom of the colored race. We are told, with all the assurance of infallible dogma, that the triumph of Hampton meant the downfall of Howard, and that if Tuskegee succeeded Fisk must fail. On the other hand, the industrial advocates were resorting to ridicule and irony, the easiest avenues of approach to the interest and attention of the unthinking and the unsympathetic. The devotees of the higher education were called impractical doctrinaries who, with fatuotous philosophy, were leading their race away from the field of actual opportunity into the fairy-like domain of impotent culture. I have recently had occasion to review my own contributions to the literature of this subject through the channels of such publications as the Transcript, Forum and the Educational Review. I am satisfied almost to the point of surprise at the sanity and soundness of judgment which I strove to maintain mildt the heat of that irrational controversy. All right-minded students of the subject stand in nineteen fourteen where I stood in nineteen four. Both types of education are now fully recognized and appreciated in their proper place and proportion. A far reaching understanding will always triumph over evanescent passion. The General Education Board has just made an allotment of over $700,000 to Negro schools, assigning one-fourth of this amount to institutions of the higher learning. The barren issue of a discredited controversy is recalled only to emphasize the solidity of the basis upon which all right-hearted and right-minded Americans stand today. Let now the wasted energy and misguided enthusiasm die with the decade in which it was born, while all press forward to the mark and the high calling whereonto we are called. For the past twenty-four years I have been professor in the College of Arts and Sciences in Howard University, Washington, D. C. During the last seven, years I have been dean and executive head of that department. For wellnigh a quarter of a century I have devoted my chief energies to the uplift of my race through the instrumentality of the higher education. My collateral contributions, by way of books, public documents, magazine articles, pamphlets, lectures, circulars and leaflets have the present situation of the Negro had the same end in view. I have assumed it to be my mission to point out to colored youth, and at the time to interpret to the white race, the meaning, mission and practical value of the higher education in its application to race. I can speak, therefore, on this subject, with fullness of conviction and out of an abundant experience. As illustrative of the almost amazing growth of the higher education during the last ten years, I will cite the case of the College of Arts and Sciences of Howard University. Since assuming leadership of this department seven years ago, I have exceptional opportunity to note the advancement of the higher education and its bearing upon the general progress of the race. In 1907 there were 75 pupils enrolled in this College; in 1914 there were 313, the enrollment more than quadrupling itself in seven years. Not only this, but the applicants came better prepared, the faculty and facilities have been increased and strengthened, and the student body is imbued with firmer purpose and a finer enthusiasm to uphold and exemplify college ideals. The Freshman class of 1914 numbers 144, the entrants coming from 50 high schools, academies and colleges. A large portion of these came from high schools and academies in the North and West where there is no scholastic separation of the races. There are now some forty graduates of this College pursuing their professional studies in Theology, Law, Medicine and Engineering in the different professional schools of Howard University. In addition to these a goodly number are prosecuting their professional studies in larger universities of the country, including such institutions as Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, University of Chicago, North Western University, Boston University, Drew Theological Seminary, Rochester Theological Seminary, General Theological Seminary, McCormick Theological Seminary. The last graduating class contained forty-nine members. This constitutes the largest number of Negro men and women to receive the baccalaureate degree in purely academic subjects in one year from a single institution within record time, if not within all time. The distribution of these graduates among the several pursuits and callings of life furnishes a sufficient answer to the sneering query: "What can the educated Negro do?" Of these 49 graduates, 14 entered at once upon the work of teaching in colleges and higher schools; 13 are pursuing the study of medicine; 4 are preparing for the ministry in Northern theological seminaries; 3 are preparing for the profession of law; 2 for engineering; 2 have entered upon business careers as bookkeepers; 6 are pursuing graduate studies in different universities; while the other 6 are at work to earn sufficient money to enter upon their chosen profession next year. I keep in my office a list of all the graduates of this department and their occupations. Almost without exception they are serving their race in the high places of intellectual, moral, social, spiritual and practical leadership. The advancement of the College reacts immediately upon the standards of the professional departments and pushes up the standard and enriches the life of the whole University. The rapid growth of the higher education at Howard University is but typical of what has taken place in every well-ordered college for colored youth. The rapid growth in general intelligence of the people and the increasing standards of professional schools demand a corresponding advancement in the colleges. At the present time applicants for admission to any well ordered medical school must present part or all of a preliminary collegiate training. We can easily predict the time when like requirements will be exacted of applicants for degrees in law or theology. In the very near future every colored youth, as every white youth, who aspires to serve his people on the high plane of professional service, must needs pass through the Samarla of a college education. Several suggestions grow out of this discussion: 1. Every colored youth who possesses the ability and ambition to serve his race on the high level of intellectual, moral and social leadership and who is able to secure the means, should prepare himself for this high calling, just as the wisdom of the ages has demonstrated that it is necessary for white youth to prepare themselves for like functions, through the instrumentality of a college education. Let each individual get the best knowledge and give the best service. 2. Colored colleges calculated to do competent work of that grade should make a self-justifying appeal to the philanthropy and statesmanship of the nation. 3. Colored men of means should see the necessity of contributing liberally to the support of the institutions wherein their sons and daughters are to be prepared for their highest usefulness in the world. KELLY MILLER. THE EUROPEAN WAR Undreamed of passions have burst forth devouring the lands that patient hands have beautified and made fertile, and centuries have stocked with art treasures. To the entire world the war has come as a complete surprise because they have not read our book (690 pages—cloth) telling that just such conditions would exist, only to be followed by the still greater devastation of anarchy. The first edition came from the press in 1897. Of vaster interest and importance is its promise of better things in store for this earth, when the wrath of nations has run its course. Send thirty-four cents in stamps (with this coupon) to cover postage, to The Temple, No. 28 W, Srd St., New York City, and receive a copy promptly. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.—Shakespeare. ATTENDS HIS OWN FUNERAL Mountaineer at His Request Carried to Evangelist's Meeting. Huntington, W. Va.-From the Cumberland mountains of Pike county, eastern Kentucky, comes the story of an old mountaineer who attended his own funeral services, being carried to the log cabin meeting house to listen to the words of the evangelist who travels through the mountains. Jud Maerson, a typical mountaineer, living in one of the wildest sections, some distance from Elkhorn City, became ill and feared no funeral services would follow his death. Therefore when the exhorter made his periodical trip through the hills he requested that his funeral be held. The day was appointed, and the mountain people for miles around flocked to the log cabin church. Maerson, who had been falling fast, was much improved on the day of the funeral and was carried to the church. The obsequies, as is often the case in the mountains, were made a gala occasion, after the services an old fashioned dance being held. MARKET NATURE'S WONDERS. Twin Butternuts and "Ladies' Tresses" Among the Oddities. Harrisburg, Pa.-Daniel Stouffer, a Cumberland county farmer, living near Enola, exhibited some curiosities at the Verbeke street market in the way of butternuts. He gathered three bushels of the nuts in the mountain and found among them a number of twin nuts, the shells being fastened together for about an inch at one end and then widely separating. In heart shape. Mr. Stouffer has also gathered some fine hazelnuts, which are quite rare in this vicinity. Dr. John II. Fager was made happy recently over a find he made in the same market of specimens of a native orchid, "hadles' tresses," or "twisted stalk." This is one of about sixty native orchids of the state and difficult to find. Dr. Fager says "one might wander about for hours and secure only half a dozen stalks, and here they are, from Fishing Creek valley, in nosegays of fifty or more, for a cent a bunch." Berlin.—A German artillerist writing from France, tells of the death of a French aviator who was brought down by German gunners. "Today I saw a French aviator brought down by our guns," he said. "The French filers had been growing bolder and bolder, especially in reconnoitering behind our front, and so we concealed a half battery of howitzers in a village about four miles to the rear in order to teach them a lesson. Things happened as we expected. By 8 o'clock in the morning there came an aeroplane, sailing along with the greatest assurance in the world. The guns at the front were not permitted to fire, and after passing them the aviator, thinking all danger past, kept coming lower and lower, reaching finally a level of only about 1,000 feet. Not suspecting that he would encounter German artillery so far in the rear he came within easy shooting distance for our gunners in the village. "Suddenly two shots were heard, and two little white clouds were observed in the air not far from the aeroplane. The aviator remained virtually at the same spot until he was almost enveloped by the next two cloudlets. One shot exploded just in front of him, the other just behind him. Our men had got their range very quickly. "The next two shots, fired almost simultaneously, settled its fate. The first one cut off a wing smoothly; the other was a square hit, and the apparatus was scattered to the four winds. I have not seen such a beautiful shot in the whole war. The gun pointer who fired it had already distinguished himself on several occasions, and he won the iron cross. The fragments of this airplane were picked up afterward from a wide range of ground, but of the aviator only a few bits were found." JOFFRE TO BE AN "IMMORTAL" Count de Mun's Seat In Academy Reserved For Commander. Paris. - L'Opinion announces that there will be no competition for the vacancy among the "immortals" caused by the death of Count Albert de Mun, as the academy has decided to reserve the vacancy for General Joffre, the commander in chief of the French forces. The forty members of the French academy constituting the "immortals" include at present two famous military commanders. General de Freyclinet, who has filled many high positions in the government, and General Lyautey, who completed the conquest of Morocco for France. Woman Is Missouri Judge. Woman is Missouri Judge. Jefferson City, Mo. - Miss Frances Hopkins, daughter of Probate Judge Louis II. Hopkins of Clay county, who died recently, succeeded her parent and has the distinction of being the first woman to hold such a position in Missouri. Miss Hopkins was appointed by Governor Major. Annual Holiday ANNOUNCEMENT E. VOIGT Manufacturing Jeweler and Dealer in Catholic Supplies 725 Seventh Street N. W., between G. and H. Established 1880. Telephone Main 243 We are entering upon another Christmas Season, full of determination to achieve greater success than ever before—full of determination to serve our old as well as new customers better than ever before, and determined to place our goods before the Public at the lowest possible profit consistent with good workmanship. You will be pleased with our Christmas line. It contains many new items—designs that are absolutely new, entirely different from lines offered you by other jewelers, and every article exactly as represented, backed by a reputation of thirty-one years' honest trading. Select your Christmas. Presents now, and have them delivered when wanted. Experienced and polite clerks to attend to your wants, all of which will receive prompt attention. Promptness means a whole lot, especially at the busy season of Christmas. ENGRAVING FREE OF CHARGE DIAMONDS Put Your Money in Diamonds—No Better Invest DIAMONDS mean money, and the best kind of constantly increasing in value. Why waste valuable time experimenting with I out trouble or loss of time you can secure from us s for class—obtainable anywhere. This is a question or assertion. Examine the various grades of Diamonds we carry vinced that we stand without a peer among our co Ladies' Diamond Rings, $5.00 to $150.00. Ladies' Diamond Broaches, $5.50 to $1,000.00. Put Your Money in Diamonds—No Better Investment Today DIAMONDS mean money, and the best kind of money, for they are constantly increasing in value. Why waste valuable time experimenting with Diamonds, when without trouble or loss of time you can secure from us the best goods—class for class—obtainable anywhere. This is a question of fact, not a theory or assertion. Examine the various grades of Diamonds we carry in stock, and be convinced that we stand without a peer among our competitors. Ladies' Diamond Rings, $5.00 to $150.00. Ladies' Diamond Broaches, $5.50 to $1,000.00. Diamond Earrings, $15.00 to $500.00. Diamond Scarf Pins, $7.00 up. Diamond Suff Buttons, $7.00 up. Diamond Studs, $10.00 up. We have Ladies' Handsome Diamond Rings, hunting, which we are selling at $30.00. This will be present for Christmas. Every stone a ball of fir We Have Been Manufacturers of Wedding Rings, All Sizes and Styles in Stock. We would suggest g. the latest style. HARLAN'S Toggery Sh A Full Line of Gents', Ladies' and Children's Wear 1105-1107 U St. N. W. Washington We have Ladies' Handsome Diamond Rings, set in Tiffany Mounting, which we are selling at $30.00. This will make an appropriate present for Christmas. Every stone a ball of fire. We Have Been Manufacturers of Wedding Rings for 30 Years. All Sizes and Styles in Stock. We would suggest the Tiffany plain Ring. The latest style. HARLAN'S Toggery Shop Laundry Agency. CULTIVATE YOUR HAIR USING MME. C. J. WALKER'S WONDERFUL HAIR Shampoo, Tetter Salve, Hair Grower, 50 cents per Temple Salve, 35 cents per box. All at the Branch Office where the goods are on sale, and some of Mme. Walker's best agents, who will treat you concerning it. Wonderful results guaranteed with six weeks' treatment in the Office 1123 First Street Northwest. Mrs. A. Manager. Phone, Lincoln 916Y. COLONIAL WINE everything in Good Wines Whiskeys Price from 25c to $2.00 r. 9th and D Sts. N. W. P. D. Washington CULTIVATE YOUR HAIR BY USING MME. C. J. WALKER'S WONDERFUL HAIR GROWERS Shampoo, Tetter Salve, Hair Grower, 50 cents per box, each. Temple Salve, 35 cents per box. Call at the Branch Office where the goods are on sale, and there you will find some of Mme. Walker's best agents, who will treat your scalp and advise you concerning it. Wonderful results guaranteed with six weeks' treatment if used as directed Branche Office 1123 First Street Northwest. Mrs: Annie Thompson, Manager. Phone, Lincoln 916Y. Price from 25c to $2.00 a Quart Cor. 9th and D Sts. N. W. Phone Main 2188 P. D. Washington 636 D Street, N. W. Formerly Grays ONE OF THE MOST UP TO DATE PLACES REGULAR LUNCH AT 12 N. D SH OYSTERS AND ALL KINDS OF GAM ONE OF THE MOST UP TO DATE PLACES IN THE CITY THE BEE Published at 1109 E.J. St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1860 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance...$2.00 Six months...1.00 Three months...50 Subscription monthly...20 THE-FAULT NOT OURS. The Bureau of Education cites some very interesting statistics, showing that of the children between the ages of ten and fourteen years, there are today but fifteen out of every thousand who cannot read and write. A study of the relative interest in the matter of rendering "literate" the above-named class in the states North and South turns out to be highly instructive and suggestive. In the statement before us, the number of illiterates per thousand in each of all the states is not given; but quite enough to bring out a fair approximation of the interest manifested North and South. The number of illiterates in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana, taken together, shows an average illiteracy of 72.4 per thousand, the lowest being 50 and the highest 115. Those in Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Montana, Oregon, Vermont and Idaho show an average illiteracy of 1.85 per thousand, one state having 4, three states 2, and three states 1 per thousand children of the aforesaid age. To the casual observer these figures tell a very sad story: but deeper inquiry will unfold a tale adder still That any seven states in the North should surpass an equal number in the South in the endeavor to lift children out of the depths of illiteracy, to the extent as shown by the above figures, is no less than a gross reflection upon the governments of the latter states In palliation of this condition it is not infrequently heard from the loss. There are many persons alive today, who would make the earth better were they sleeping in the dust. There are others whose death would mean not only a loss, but a distinct shock, an irreparable happening, leaving an unfilled void in the human family. There are those we call friends, who are acquaintances only. A friend is one of the rarest gifts which heaven vouchsafes a man. A friend is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty and life to the dying. In the past the Negroes' friends were many and powerful; today they are few and weak. Unselfish friendship for the Negro is so rare, that that kind of friendship has become conspicuous by its almost entire absence. But there died at Red Wing, Minn., on Christmas day of last year, whose kind words, good deeds and lifelong interest in the Negro, marked her as pre-eminently not only as a friend of the oppressed Negro, but also as the friend of every human being in suffering, sorrow, distress and misfortune who needed her aid, sympathy and influence. This woman was Mrs. Julia Bullard, Nelson, teacher, preacher, lecturer, editor—dying at the age of 72 years, and who gave her entire life to the service of God and the needs of man, blind as to his color, race, nation and creed. Believing that God was not a respecter of persons, and that He "made of one blood all nations of men fortodwell on the face of the earth." This belief she crystalized into deeds, and by so doing erected in the hearts of her many pupils and friends a living monument as enduring as those of bronze and stone. Teaching in Tennessee, Mrs. Nelson had among her many pupils our now distinguished townman, Prof. W. H. Richards, of the Howard University Law School. The pupil strengthened with the years. She saw in him the making of a man and most diligently encouraged him to make the best of his opportunities. How well he responded to her wishes and filled her high ideals of his character and ability is testified, not alone by the enviable position which Prof. Richards now holds as an educator, but also by the last clause in the will of Mrs. Nelson, which read as follows: "I bequeath all the rest and residue of my estate to William H. Richards, who has cheered my lonely life with that love and sympathy that have caused me to look upon him as a son." Prof. Richards was not so fortunate as to reach the bedside of Mrs. Nelson before she died, but as the executor and one of the legatees, he will receive about $20,000. The Bee joins in with the many friends of Prof. Richards in congratulating him upon this merited good fortune. IS HE A COWARD? IS HE A COWARD? Whatever faults Dr. Booker T. Washington may have, whatever some people may think of him and criticise his Negro policy, he has certainly demonstrated his manhood and loyalty towards the colored Americans in this notorious piece of legislation that was recently passed by the Senate. The Bee, on this occasion, as it has on all occasions, was the first journal to denounce this piece of legislation and the colored members of the local bar were the first to go to the Capitol and enter their protest against the passage, by the House of Representatives, of the African clause that was inserted in the bill and condemn those Republican senators who voted for its passage. Of course. The Bee didn't expect any more from the Democratic South and those Democrats who are, and have been inimical to the progress of colored Americans. Dr. Booker T. Washington is doing more material work for the advancement of colored Americans today than any other representative of the colored race, except loyal and fearless race journals. Is Dr. Washington a coward? Certainly his many acts in defense of the colored race don't show that he is a coward or disloyal to his people. There are thousands of colored men who will attempt to pull down, and a very few who will suggest a remedy for the betterment of the colored American race. It is quite evident that the colored people have loyal and true white friends in this and other countries. It is true that thousands of strong and influential white citizens, in this country, will see that justice is accorded a race of people who is forever loyal and patriotic to the flag. In speaking of Dr. Washington, there is no colored American in this country, with but a few exceptions, is doing what he is doing to advance his people. North Carolina, or rather such men as Dr. Dudley and Dr. Shepard are doing their share, but the latter is strug- gling harder than any, because many of his competitors are jealous of his rapid success. It has been a marvel to the world how Dr. Shepard succeeds against the knife of those who should come to his assistance. The Bee cannot be ungrateful to its friends and neither will it be a party to scheming and faithless advocates of Negro advancement. If you cannot help a man in an institution, there is no reason to join with the enemy to pull him or it down. The treacherous man or woman has no place among honest people. The deceptive man, who plays hot and cold, should be thrown aside. Why shouldn't the colored race stand with other races for the uplift of humanity? The ten millions of colored Americans in this country know that they don't stand alone in their struggle for racial progress and advancement. They are aware that the few traitors and ingrates in the white race don't represent the honest and loyal sentiment of that race. The colored Americans have and continue to advance, notwithstanding the impediments thrown before them, and prove to the millions of loyal whites that the colored race is bound to rise. Is Dr. Booker T. Washington a Is Dr. Booker T. Washington a coward, is the question? WASHINGTON, DUBOIS AND TROTTER. Our esteemed contemporary, The Chicago Defender, suggests it would be a fine thing, and the proper thing, considering the trend of anti-Negro sentiment, if these three men could work together in harmony—work with but one aim, the betterment of the race. The three men are as different, each from the other, as an unclouded summer's morn in Florida is from a howling winter's night in Greenland. Dr. Washington has always, however, evinced a desire, and willingness, to work with any one who wants to work for the race. This cannot truthfully be said of the other two, though we would not deny that both of the other two, in their own peculiar way, mean to work for the race. The Defender suggests that there ought to be some common ground upon which all three might stand. We agree, and that common ground is security of rights. We think the trouble is that the last two named, while working for race ostensibly, and in reality, evinced too much of a desire to work against the Doctor. The Doctor peculiarly set in some of his convictions, firm in his purpose to work out the problem along the line on which he first started, hesitates to abandon his convictions merely to adopt the policies of another. "If I am right, I will succeed; if I am wrong, I will fail; if they are right they will succeed, if we are both wrong we will both fail," has been a sort of proverb with him, and so glueing himself to his work, to his plans and policies he continues, neither dismused by criticism or hesitated by assaults. Washington is not an agitator, he is a constructive worker. Dubois is not a constructive worker; he is a theorist. Trotter is neither—he is an agitator pure and simple. The condition the race finds itself in today, with anti-race sentiment spreading—coming up from the far South to pollute the North, East, and even far West, argues the need of the constructive, the theorist, and the agitator, but, as The Defender states, there ought to be some common ground upon which all three might stand. There is too much division in the race to successfully meet the advancing allies—Discrimination, Restriction and Segregation. We ought to have corps commanders, brigade commanders regimental colonels, battalion majors, company captains and lieutenants, all working harmoniously. The trouble appears to be that we have too many of lieutenant caliber who pose as major of battalions; too many of major caliber who would assume brigade and corps leadership; too many of only sufficient capacity to be corporals who attempt to assume the duties of commander in chief. The Bee is not now, never has been, in complete accord with Dr. Washing: is not now, never has been in complete accord with Dr. Washington's policy from its genesis to its revelation, but we know that between its Alpha, and Omega there is so much good, and it has, redefined to such great benefit for the race, we can overlook the trifles with which we do not agree, and pull or the big essentials the fundamentals with which we do agree and approve. Yes there ought to be a common ground upon which the three might stand. The times dictates this, the people in the trenches—the black folk, want, and insist that they come together. Who will volunteer to fix a place for these three envoys to assemble to talk peace terms, and who will volunteer to send out the invitation, guaranteeing each that the others will positively be present? He or they who do this successfully will be nearly as great as either of the three. OUR SCHOOLS It is to be regretted that there is so much discontent in the colored public schools. It would seem to The Bee that Dr. Thurston has been in the schools long enough to eradicate the evils that continue to exist in our schools. The Bee is in possession of complaints against our school management and questions are being asked what shall the teachers do to be relieved from this continual harrassing If such discontentment exists in the white school it doesn't show itself. There are all kinds of rumors in circulation and even now, The Bee has before it a letter, unsigned, to the effect that a Miss Kirklin in the High School is to succeed Dr. Lucy E. Morton. Such a rumor cannot be true. Certainly the people of this city will not endorse the transfer of Miss Kirklin to Normal School No. 2. The time has come for our colored teachers to be given a rest from attacks and unjust treatment: They don't know when they are safe. They don't know the hour when some one inaugurates a diabolical scheme against them. If they appeal to the Board of Education they get no redress. Has Dr. Morten been guilty of any act that would warrant her removal or transfer? Hasn't she conduct in the Normal School been one of the highest integrity? Is she the teacher upon whom the ax of decapitation shall fall? Has she been the disturbing factor in Normal School No. 2? Has she been given an opportunity to present her side? Nothing short of a Congressional investigation will put our colored school system upon an equitable basis and protectors to so many of our teachers. The Bee has been opposed to a Congressional investigation, but what must the teachers do? Their very lives are worked out of them. These defenceless educators of the colored youth see no happiness or contentment of mind. It is a continual "nag, nag, nag." If this rumored removal of Dr. Morten is true, the people will resent it and The Bee speaking for the 100,000 colored people in this city, will not stand for the appointment of Miss Kirklin in Normal School No. 2. and good and sufficient reasons will be given. It is not believed, if the rumor is true, the more sensible members of the Board of Education will confirm any recommendation in this direction. The people will resent it if true. NEEDS OF THE SCHOOLS. What the colored schools of Washington have long needed, and sadly so, has been an executive head who possessed sufficient backbone to say "No." and "Yes," when either one of these answers appeared right and proper. A firm stand may make enemies, but a vassalating course, catering first to this one, then to another, and flattering both with the assurance that you are for both, in the end makes the greatest number of enemies, and creates the greatest amount of discord. In the gossip about town many names have been suggested to succeed Mr. Bruce, in the event a change is made in the position of Assistant Superintendent. The name of E. C. Williams, Principal of the M Street high school has been suggested. Without expressing a preference, and while recognizing Prof. Williams' ability along certain lines, the Bee is moved to the opinion that his connection with, friendship for, and harmonious working with the present Assistant Superintendent, if a change was made, would handicap him not a little, and would have the same indecision, the same charges of favoritism of certain factions that has marked the history of the colored schools for the past several years. What is needed is a strong man who is not afraid to take the middle of the road as between existing factions, and to recognize in it on matter in which faction it is found, and one who will assume that the public schools were established for the pupils, and not for this or that set of favorites. The Bee relies upon Superintendent Thurston to bring order out of chaos, whether that be by amicably adjusting differences without making a change, or making a change in some existing heads. But the schools must experience some kind of a change to secure proper descipline. PROHIBITION. The greatest hypocrites in the country are the advocates of Pro- hibition. How many measures more important than the abolition of sale of liquor? The men who wear dresses and the women who wear pants should be placed side by side in a corn field. Human rights are more important to humanity than prohibition. These anti-saloon advocates are more dangerous to society than any other class of individuals. Take the colored citizens in the South who are robbed of their civil and political rights. Which is the more dangerous to progress and society? Whiskey or murder with the shot gun and the denial of the rights and the liberties of the people? It is as easy to abolish the sale of liquor as it is to eliminate every demi mond in the city of Washington. Those people who don't want to drink liquor should not attempt to stop others from drinking or attempt to take from those who believe in personal liberty. If a national prohibition bill passes Congress, or a prohibition amendment passes Congress, liquor will then become a luxury and only the rich will be able to secure the beverage. If the so-called Prohibition party would see that the Constitution of the United States was enforced, then The Bee would have some faith in the prohibition advocates. SLANDER OUR TEACHERS. Every time a colored hotel or a sporting house is raided by the police department there is always some viscous slanderer who circulates a report that many teachers in our schools were caught. This is a most vicious act. Some few weeks ago a hotel south of Pennsylvania avenue was raided and about eighteen couples were arrested and carried to the police court. Some of the couples were husbands and wives. Soon thereafter, so information reaches The Bee, some students, and, it is said, a male teacher at Howard University, circulated a report that a young teacher had been caught in this raid. The Editor of The Bee is well acquainted with the lady and was present at the police court when several of those caught in the raid forfeited their collateral, and he knows that the teacher in question knows nothing about this hotel and neither was she caught in any raid. This teacher has placed the matter in the hands of an attorney and these slanderers have been requested to prove their alleged slanderous allegation. If the allegations made by the defamers of this young lady is not substantiated they will be prosecuted under section 818 of the Code of laws of the District of Columbia. No young ladies' reputation and good name is safe. It has been the desire and practice of these slanderers to destroy the good name of many of our teachers. The teachers in our public schools are above suspicion. They have conducted themselves in an orderly and lady-like manner; and these slanders of our teachers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. A REFLECTION Now, Congress failed to pass the Immigration bill prohibiting African Negroes form coming into America, it has passed a bill prohibiting Negroes from marrying white women. These men in Congress have less confidence in their women than colored men have. Will some one kindly explain how a colored man can force a white woman to marry him? Those who voted for the passage of that bill certainly have but little confidence in their women, that a law must be passed, prohibiting their women from marrying colored men. An amendment should be added to that bill making it a crime for whitenes for having illegal association with colored women. When the red light district was in operation the moment a southern Congressman landed in town he wanted to know where to find a colored sporting house. Many a one has been escorted to Mahogany Hall and the Croole Inn. It is almost dangerous now for a good looking colored girl or a colored lady to walk the streets of Washington without being insulted by some white man, who criticises a good looking colored girl in the day time and ready to devour her at night. All southern Democrats are not alike, but all of them will openly vote for segregation, miscognition and racial discrimination when they are watched. The good American white women are not afraid of the colored man. Why should Congress pass such a bill which is nothing less than a reflection on the good white women in this country? No colored man would dare to force himself in the company of white people and neither would any sensible colored man dare to make or suggest love to any white woman. The colored Americans, with but few exceptions, want social equality. It is only the half white colored man and woman who are ashamed of their race. Love, like water, will find its level. BIG HEADS. It doesn't take a small man or woman very long to get a "big head" or such a head that it becomes necessary to have hats made to order. Then again there are some people in authority who imagine that they own the positions over which they have charge and those who place them in those positions have no jurisdiction over them whatsoever. It doesn't take a colored gentleman (?) any longer than it does a white gentleman (?) to get a "swelled head." The former individual is more bombastic than the latter. The latter is more tyrannical, more especially a poor white man. With but one exception, the holdover white Republicans in office come from a common birth. They can't help from showing their inferiority of birth. The cultured and highly educated white man or woman knows that an inferior person will not intrude or attempt to force his way where he doesn't belong. "HELP ME CASSIUS " "HELP ME CASSIUS. 'Help me Cassius or I sink.' This will be the cry of traitors before long. It will be then too late. No liar can succeed, no man, no matter how great he may be, can succeed in life who attempts to defame the good name of an innocent woman, and more especially when the man himself is as corrupt as "Leopard spots" are thick. A man or woman who is so deceived with crime should be careful how he defames the good name of woman. It is always the guilty man or woman who seems to see so much filth in the house of his neighbors. Something will fall shortly and then we shall seen what we shall see. PROF GRANT LUGAS PROF. GRANT LUCAS. The election of Prof. M. Grant Lucas, as president of the Mu-So-Lit Club, placed another gentleman and a polished scholar at the head of that organization as the successor of another gentleman. The Bee congratulates the organization and Prof. Lucas. SIX WEEKS AGO The only conversation the Editor of the Bee had with the Assistant Superintendent of Schools was about six weeks ago, when he had Mr. Bruce and Dr. Marshal to confront a statement alleged to have been made by Dr. Marshal. Any statements to the contrary are untrue. There are breakers ahead. HIS REPORT. It is rumored that Dr. Thurston has made certain recommendations to the Board of Education. What will be the next step for Congress to take? The colored man seems to be an eye sore to this Democratic Congress. It is a wonder that these Southern Congressmen are able to sleep for thinking of the colored man. If The Bee could only beat it into the thick heads of those Southern Congressmen that the colored man doesn't want social equality, perhaps they would be at ease. Prof. L. M. Hershaw is one of the best informed educators in this country. He is reliable and honest. Editor J. Finley Wilson of the Eagle is forging to the front. The Bee wishes him success. He is one man who is able to enjoy a joke. The people will give their public expression on this school question. If Mr. Thurston will guarantee protection to the teacher in the colored schools they will give their honest expression. Will he give such guarantee! Correspondent R. W. Thompson has now another thought on the school question. His expressions today are different from those exposed some time ago. Will Mr. Thompson inform The Bee when he changed his religious opinion? The Bee is a friend to the teachers in our public schools and shall see that their rights are protected. If there is to be war, let it come. It is better to settle the school question now than some future time. A woman's honor shall be defended against the attacks of slanderers and defamers. "Do you believe that there is a higher power?" My dear sir, "I married her." The Week in Society Have your prescriptions filled at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest and insure your health by getting the best in drugs and medicines of the highest grade. Your doctor knows this. To assure prompt service call up Telephone N. 2221, when a messenger boy will be at your disposal for both A family party in the form of a surprise birthday dinner was given by Mrs. Alice M. Holmes, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Nellie Butler, 1624 O street Northwest, last Friday evening. January Sth., in honor of their mother, Mrs. Mary J. Williams, of Baltimore, Md., who is spending the winter there. Another daughter, Mrs. Fannie Jackson, was also present. The family consisted of four generations, the fourth being represented by the three little great grandsons, Masters Jackson and George Robinson and Little Bily Jones. The relatives and a few of their intimate friends partook of an appetizing dinner precisely at 6 o'clock. Everybody had a "good time." Mrs. Williams' two daughters from Philadelphia and three sons from Chicago, were unable to be present. The Auxiliary of the Prudence Cran-dall Association, of which Miss Valerie Chase is President, gave their first dance last Friday night, January 5th, at the Southeast Auditorium. It was well attended. Mrs. Frances Watson, wife of Dr. B. F. Watson, Secretary of the A. M. E. Church Extension, died after a long illness, last Saturday evening, January 9. The funeral was held from the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Wednesday, the 13th, at noon. Mrs. C. H. Stepteau, wife of Rev. Stepteau, of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, who has been very ill, is improving. Metropolitan A. M. E. Church is in the midst of a great revival. Come out. The Blaine Invincible Republican Club met last Sunday. The organization is again on the increase. No deceased members reported as having died during the year just ended. Constantine Webster has resumed his studies at the University of Pittsburg, after spending the holidays at his home in this city. Miss Lola M. Ruffin, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Lee during the Xmas holidays, left Monday for Nashville, Tenn., where she teaches in the State Normal school. She was greatly entertained while here. Miss Grace Howard, of this city, was married December 3, 1914, to Mr. James Butler, of Providence, R. I. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Johnson, of this city, have been spending a few days in Atlantic City, the guest of Mrs. Hopkins, of North Tennessee Ave. Miss Mary Tyler, of this city, is spending the week-end in Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis, of twenty of their friends at a whist party last Wednesday evening, with music and refreshments. Miss Lottie Martin, a student of Howard University, is visiting her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Martin, of Baltimore, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin, of You St., had as their guest during the holidays Mrs. Mamie Bruce, of Prestman St., Baltimore, Md. Miss Ella Lewis and Mr. Haywood Goode were entertained at dinner by Mrs. J. Edward Smith, of Baltimore, last Sunday. Misses Mabel Edwards and Grace King, spent a few days in Baltimore recently, visiting their many friends. Dr. S. M. Pierre, who has been ill for some time at his Arlington, Va., home, is able to be out again. Thomas Richardson, of New Jersey, spent a pleasant vacation with his parents, of 1923 L street. Miss Caroline Wilson, of the Indiana Avenue school, Atlantic City, spent the holidays with her mother, of 925 T street. Mr. and Mrs. George Diggs, of this city, have returned to their home, after a pleasant visit to Mr. and Mrs. Hay Morton, of Atlantic City. Miss Deatrice Childs has returned "to the shore" after spending the holidays with her father, Dr. C. W. Childs. Dr. and Mrs. James F. Lawson, of this city, have become residents of Chicago. Ill. Mrs. Lawson was formerly Miss Lulu Love. Miss Elmora Curtis has returned to the city after a delightful visit to her mother, in Chicago. Dr. S. C. Downing, a graduate of the Howard Medical School, was recently awarded the first prize, $25.00 in gold, by the New York Medical Journal, for the best essay on "The Treatment of Alcoholic Cirrhosis of the Liver." Dr. W. C. Simmons, the well-known druggist, formerly of 20th and K streets, has moved to 21st and L streets. Give him a call. Washington friends will be interested in the announcement of the marriage of Miss Anita Constantia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis T Lomack, of Washington, D. C., and Mr. James Telfera Robinson of Wilmington, N. C. The marriage was performed by the Rector of St. Phillips P. E. Church at the home of the bride 127 West 133th St., New York City in the presence of a select company The bride is a graduate of the high school of this city and of the Vienna Ladies' Talloring Institute of New York. A wedding breakfast was teneder the party by Mrs. Wm. R. Taylor, whose home has been the bride's residence during her stay in New York. After January 22, 1915. Mr and Mrs. Robinson will be pleased to see their friends at 2311 Seventh Ave New York City. Mr. Chas. H. Lasiter and Mrs. Henderson, of 1157 17th St. N. W., entertained a number of visiting friends at dinner last Saturday evening, January 2. Covers were laid for eight and a gorgeous seven-course dinner was served thereon, consisting of grape fruit, consomme, fish, roast chicken, salad, ice cream and cake, dill tasse. Those present besides the host and Mrs. Henderson were Misses Emma J. Smith, Pearl and Louise Gander, Mrs. Lucy A. Lassiter, Miss Anna S. Payne, Mr. S. Z. C. Westfield, Mr. H. Mishaw. Dr. and Mrs. Giles are in the city, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jumper, of 911 S street. They will be pleased to see their many friends. Miss Eva Harvey, who has been quite ill for some time, is able to resume her duties in school. She is still under the care of the doctor. Mr. Joseph Houston, of Boston, Mass., and a clerk in the Boston, Mass., Postoffice, is in the city. Miss Irene Middleton, cashier of the Hawthaw Theatre, who has been to New York, Harrisburg, Pa., and Baltimore, Md., has returned to her work after a delightful trip. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Delaney, of Atlantic City, N. J., have returned to their home after a very pleasant visit to Mr. Delaney's parents, of 909 R St. Miss Minna Wade, who has been quite ill at home, is out again. Mr. M. C. Maxfield addressed the Sabbath school of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church last Sabbath morning, and made a good impression on the children. Miss Alice Harris has returned to Frederick, Md., after being highly entertained by Miss E. G. Henry, of this city. ANNOUNCEMENT. Cards of announcement were issued last week by Mr. and Mrs. Octavious Williams, of Le Droit Park, announcing the marriage of their daughter, Vivian Estelle, to Harry Leroy Pelham, Sept. 9th, 1914, as a communication from the clerk James E. White-selly, of the Wild Wood, N. J., Court, addressed to the relatives of the bride, confirm. It says in part: Wildwood. N. J. "Replying to your communication in reference to the marriage license of Harry Leroy Pelham and Vivian Estelle Williams, would state I find that license was issued to the above couple, Sept. 9th, 1914. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. H. A. Ivory, who is pastor of the colored church in Wildwood. N. J., in the presence of witnesses. Both the bride and groom are members of highly respected and well-known families. Mrs. Vivian Pelham was a graduate of the High and Normal school of this city, and was numbered among our most successful teachers. Mr. Pelham is pursuing a course in medicine at Howard University after which he will begin the practice of his profession. The Bee wishes Mr. and Mrs. Pelham a successful married life. GRAND MASTER MORRIS A Banquet in His Honor Saturday Ninth. A large gathering of Odd Fellows and many other well known citizens as guests assembled in Odd Fellows hall last Saturday evening, the occasion being a banquet in honor of Grand Master Morris and others. Wm. I. Lee was master of ceremonies. Speeches were delivered by many of the visiting Odd Fellows, including Grand Master Morris, Rev. Jones of Mississippi, Armond W. Scott, Editor Slaughter, Messrs. John C. Davey, J. W. Lyons and others. MU-SO-LIT CLUB HOLDS STIRRING MEETING. M. Grant Lucas Elected President—Other Officers Chosen—Resolutions Honoring James F. Bundy. The Mu-so-lit Club held its tenth annual meeting last. Friday night in the Y. M. C. A. Building for the purpose of electing officers. Annual reports were read and adopted and incidentally a discussion arose over what had been and what had not been done during the past year. Mr. M. Grant Lucas, was nominated by Prof. Kelly Miller. His opponent was Walter J. Singleton. Mr. Singleton was nominated by Mr. L. M. Hershaw. It was a close fight to the finish. Mr. Lucas won on the first ballot. It was the first time in the history of the club that the official ballot was introduced for electing a president. It was the first time there had been so animated a contest. Immediately after the results of the ballot were reported by the tellers, Messers. Cobb and Pelham, the defeated candidate, Mr. Singleton, arose and congratulated the president-elect and pledged his support during the administration and moved that the election be made unanimous. A recess was then taken, refreshments 1 were served and a general good-time ensued. The full roster of officers chosen consisted of M. Grant Lucas, president; P. A. Byron, vice president; J. LeCount Chestnut, recording secretary; R. W. Thompson, corresponding secretary; A. Mercer Daniels, financial secretary; J. W. Clifford, treasurer; executive committee; E. H. Lawson, A. C. Newman, Kelly Miller, Robert H. Terrell, R. A. Pelham, G. Luther Sadgwar and Haley G. Douglass. The club decided to arrange for a celebration of Frederick Doughlass' birthday next month and to celebrate its decennial anniversary with a social function later in the year. The Resolutions President Lucas startled the club members with the preparedness with which he proceeded to do business. His first act was to appoint, with the consent of the club, a committee to draft resolutions honoring the memory of the late James F. Bundy, which committee immediately withdrew and returned in five minutes with a typewritten copy. The resolutions expressed appreciation of the fact that the Supreme Court of the District had adjourned as a tribute to Mr. Bundy. Resolved.—That as a distinguished citizen and tax-payer, as a former member of the Board of Education or the District of Columbia, as a member of the District bar and a successful practicing attorney, as secretary and treasurer of Howard University Law School, as a devoted husband and loving father, and as a true and loyal friend, he stands preeminently as a character worthy of emulation. Resolved.—That we recognize and appreciate the noble spirit shown by the Supreme Court of the District, in adjourning Criminal Court No. 1 in honor of the late Mr. Bundy. Resolved—That a copy of these resolutions be made a part of the records of this club and further, that a copy be sent to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and to the late Mr. Bundys family. Death of John D. Magruder. Mr. John D. Magruder, a well known citizen and bricklayer, died Wednesday, January 6, after an illness of four days with pneumonia at his residence, 1728 Seventeenth street N.W. Funeral service was held Sunday afternoon from Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O street N.W., and was largely attended. He was a member of the Young Men's Immediate Association, and the Columbia Aid Association. Messrs. Alexander Brooks and Wm. H. Johnson, presidents respectively, who attended in a body. Solos were rendered by Mrs. Maude T. Bowman, Butler and Charles Lee. Rev. W. D. Naylor officiated, assisted by Revs. W. C. Thompson and H. Harris. Many floral offerings were presented. The funeral was directed by E. James & Bro. Interment in Mt. Zion Cemetery. The Epworth League of Mt. Zion M. E. Church was largely attended Sunday afternoon and enjoyed a very interesting program of musical and literary exercises. Mrs. Louisa Brown discussed the topic lesson, and Mrs. R. A. Jones, a solicitor of the Manassas Industrial School, delivered a very timely and interesting address. Music by Ephworth Orchestra, Miss B. Watts, V. B. Fisher, and John Ricks, Mr. Jas. L. Turner presiding. The league will present an interesting program every Sunday afternoon. All are invited. Rev. Wm. H. Galines delivered two interesting addresses this week before a large audience at Hagerstown, Md., and received many congratulations by those present. The Sunday School of Mt. Zion M. E. Church is to be addressed on Sun- day morning by the Superintendent, Mr. George W. Taylor, on his recent travels. All are invited. Rev. E. E. Ricks, of the First Baptist Church, is conducting a very successful revival at the church on Dunbarton avenue. Rev. W. D. Naylor of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church is having a very successful year with the congregations of which he is pastor, and says the membership are co-operating with him in raising his conference collection in liquidating the church debt. He preaches a special sermon on Sunday morning and invites all to be present. Mrs. R. A. Jones, of Thoroughfare, Va., arrived in the city this week and addressed the Mt. Zion Ephworth League last Sunday afternoon. NOTED WHITE SPEAKER TOURING WEST IN INTEREST OF COLORED PEOPLE On Wednesday night, January 13, Dr. J. E. Spingarn, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will make an address in Springfield, O., on the Negro and his place in American Democracy, in the North Street A. M. E. Church, Rev. J. S. Jackson, pastor. The next morning at 10 o'clock Dr. Spingarn will address the students of Wittenberg College. On the night of the 14th he will be in Dayton, where he will speak in the Y. M. C. A. Hall. At noon on the 15th he will address the students of Wilberforce University. The chairman of the committee arranging the meeting in Springfield, O., is Rev. J. S. Jackson. The Committee includes the following: Revs. R. T. Frye, R. J. Fleming, H. Everett, E. Burton, T. A. Green, F. A. Boswell, E. W. S. Hammond, George W. Jackson, J. E. Courtney, and Mr. Charles E. Frye. In Dayton Mr. J. C. Farrow is Chairman of the Committee, which includes the following: C. D. Higgins, Bradford Aldridge, J. H. Rives, Dr. B. A. Rose, Dr. L. H. Cox, and Rev. E. E. Thompson. Co-operating with this Committee is the Greater Dayton Association. Dr. Spingarn addressed a series of mass meetings in Pittsburgh on January 10 and 11, where his speeches aroused widespread interest. He spoke in the First Unitarian Church, the Bethel A. M. E. Church, the St James M. E. Church, and also made addresses to the Hungry Club, the chief forum of the city, to the Ministerial Union and to the students of the Sociology Department of Pittsburg University. Everywhere he was received with enthusiasm. After leaving Dayton Mr. Spingarn will speak in Cincinnati and Toledo, Springfield, Ill.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Des Molnes, Ia.; Omaha, Neb.; Minneapolis and St. Paul, ending his trip in Buffalo, N. Y. In all of these cities a mass meeting has been arranged, in churches, before chambers of commerce, boards of trade and other representative organizations. In the public libraries interesting exhibits have been arranged of books by and about Negroes. These collections include the works of W. E. B. Du Bols, Charlee W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Stanley Braithwaite, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, Phyllis Wheatley, as well as books by foreign Negroes, including Dumas, pere and fils, Pushkin and certain Spanish-American writers. In addition there are works by white American Abolitionists and anti-slavery writers, and a selection of books about Negro life and on the Negro Problem. These public displays are proving a real service to American democracy by bringing forcibly to the attention of white people the literary achievements of the colored race. Ohio. Special to the Washington Bee:— Hon. Edward C. Turner, Attorney General elect of the State, has announced the appointment of Attorney Thomas E. Greene, of Youngstown, Ohio, as Assistant Attorney General in his office. Mr. Greene is a prominent colored attorney of the State. He was born in Naugutuck, Conn., March 19, 1882. He graduated from the Public and High School of Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1912 he entered the Case School of Applied Science where he spent two years, after which he entered the Western Reserve Law School, graduating from there in 1907. While at Case and Reserve Colleges, he distinguished himself as a wonderful foot ball player. He successfully passed the bar examination before the Supreme Court of the State and entered upon the practice of law in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1908 he was elected Enrolling Clerk of the Ohio Senate, where he served for two years. Mr. Greene will enter upon his duties at once. This is another evidence that the colored people of the State will be recognized in a substantial way under the administration of Governor elect Frank B. Willis. The incoming administration fully realizes the solid support given the republican ticket, by the colored voters of the State, in the recent campaign. Hon. Thomas W. Fleming, the only colored member of the Republican State Executive Committee, and other leaders among the race in Ohio, feel confident that the race will be well taken care of, in the way of appointments, under Governor Willis' administration. They are all elated over the appointment of Attorney-Greene, to such an important post in the Attorney General's office, for it is a fitting recognition to the legal fraternity among the colored people of the State. SCORES LYNCHERS In Caustic Statement Takes Alabama Lynchers to Task—The Brave and Courageous Guerrers and Courrageous Governor. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 7, 1915—Declaring that the men composing the mob, which early on the morning of January 4th, took two negro prisoners from the Elmore County jail and shot them to death, had brought reproach upon the State, and that such men never hesitate to bring the blush of shame to every honest and patriotic citizen of Alabama, Governor O'Neal, last night said that all of the power of the executive office as long as he is Governor, will be brought to bear EASTERN TIME FOR CHICAGO. Traders Favor Gaining an Hour, but Railroads Oppose It. Chicago.—There is widespread discussion here among bankers, stockbrokers, traders in wheat, corn and provisions on the board of trade, merchants and business men generally, over a proposal to change Chicago time from central to eastern time, thus conforming to New York time. Bankers and brokers, most of whom have dealings in New York, almost unanimously favor the change, but there is a wide divergence of opinion among other business men, and the railroads are solidly allied against It. The question was discussed at a special luncheon given by the Chicago Association of Commerce. About a year ago Cincinnati discussed the subject of changing to eastern time and decided against it. On the other hand, Cleveland operates on both eastern and central time. Detroit is said to have varying time schedules. Spokane recently abandoned an attempt to move its clocks ahead one hour to mountain time. A special committee of the American Railway association, after canvassing forty-two railroads operating SG,448 miles of road in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, found forty roads opposed to any change in the time system. HAD EIGHT SETS OF TWINS. They Were Consecutive In Birth and Boy and Girl In Each. Coswell, N. C.-Squire Robert L. Mitchell, who visited his old home near Ridgerville recently, brought back a bit of rare news. The wife of West Graves, a Negro of that section, has just presented her husband with the eighth consecutive set of twins. The young couple have been married about thirteen years, the knot having been tied by Squire Mitchell when he was a justice of the peace. A remarkable circumstance thereof is the fact that in each set of twins was a boy and a girl. There are eight children living, one of each set having died. "BROKE" HIS WRIST TO GET BIG DAMAGES Many Dollars Collected From Various Claim Agents. Minneapolis wrist bone hood was t ward Mills, netted him finally caused his downfall, however, and he will serve an indeterminate sentence in the Stillwater penitentiary as the result of sentence by Judge W. C. Leary, before whom he pleaded "guilty" to a charge of attempted grand larceny on complaint of Ralph Wellington, claim agent of the Duluth Street Railway company. All that Mills had done to separate $2,000 from railroads, street railway companies and merchants within the last year has been to fall prostrate over a suit case in the alba or any obstacle on the sidewalk, gasp for breath and allow his left hand to hang lhp from the wrist. Six rides has be taken in ambulances, six fair nurses have smiled at him as the color slowly returned to his face. Five claim agents have drawn checks against their companies, and as many times has Mills pocketed the same. Among the recent settlements made with Mills, according to his story in court, are: June 27, 1913, Great Northern, $125. Sept. 5, 1913, Great Northern, $250. Dec. 20, 1913, Northern Pacific, $1,200 May 6, 1911, Kennedy Bros., $400. Sept. 7, 1914, St. Paul Street Railway company, $250. "I have been in just one wreck," Mills told Judge Leary. "That was March 13, 1905, at Fond du Lac, WI. I was brakenman on the old Wisconsin Central. My left wrist was broken. About a year ago I thought I could use that injury to collect damages from others. At Dudhul got a fellow with a suit case to get on the street car, and when the car was rounding a curve I fell over the suit case. I complained that my wrist was hurt. They took me to a hospital. Later I came to Minneapolis and met the claim agent at the West hotel. It was only a few days afterward that I was arrested." PRIVATE KILLED SEVEN MEN. Brave English Soldier Awarded Highest Honor In Gift of Country. London The Victoria cross has been bestowed on Private George Wilson Second battalion Highland Light Infantry, for "most conspicuous gallantry near Verneuil in attacking a hostile machine gun" The official announcement describing Private Wilson's gallantry says: "He was accompanied by only one man. When the latter was killed he went on alone and shot the officer and six men who were working the gun, which he captured." Arrival of Shells Announced. Paris—In the Gazette de la Transee, published in the battle lines of the French army, is the request that "soldiers having exercised the profession of hotel managers, ushers or hall porters announce the arrival of German shells in the encampment." In establishing the guilt and guaranteeing the punishment of the lynchers. The Executive announced that he had as quickly as possible ordered a special session, of the Circuit Court in Elmore Co. to make inquiry into the lynching. Every possible effort will be made to bring the guilty parties to justice, he declared. The Negroes were lynched on suspicion, said the Governor, adding that there was not sufficient evidence for any jury to have found them guilty of participating in the assassination of R. A. Stillwell, in connection with which crime they were being held. "These Negroes were lynched on suspicion, and so far as I am informed there was not sufficient evidence on which any jury would have convicted them for the crime of which they were charged. They were charged with the murder of one R. A. Stillwell, and were in the custody of the law, and they were awaiting their trial." "There was absolutely no justification for this lynching. If those who were executed by the mob were guilty, speedy trials could have been secured and their guilt established under the due and orderly processes of the law. Those who have undertaken to perform the function of judge, jury, and executioner have brought meriting reproach upon our State. The history of every state in the union shows that mob or lynch law does not check, but only increases crime. There is absolutely no justification for lynch law in Alabama. Must Have Protection. Must Have Protection. "It is folly for us to expect these from other, States or countries to locate in Alabama until we can assure every person within our domains of the just and equal protection of the law. If the sheriff connived at the commission of this crime I am powerless to punish him by impeachment because his term of office will expire in a few days. This dastardly crime, committed just upon the eve of the assembling of the State Legislature accentuates the importance of their taking such measures as may be necessary to make the lynching impossible in Alabama. The men who lead mobs are generally those who have no respect for law or authority, who are cowardly, unwilling to face real danger, and yet by their lawless acts, do not hesitate to bring the blush of shame to every honest and patriotic citizen of the State. "The people of Alabama must understand that their protection comes not from a mob of cowardly lynchers, influenced by passion or prejudice, but only from the majestic supremacy of the law under which alone their rights of person or property can be protected. "I am gratified to know that the enlightened public sentiment of the State no longer tolerates mob or lynch law. If crimes are committed they can be punished by the courts and the administration of justice should not be entrusted to a band of cowardly miscreants, who are willing, in order to gratify their prejudice or passions, to bring ruin and confusion to the State." A PROTEST. WHEREAS—Anheuser-Busch have placed life-size pictures on the billboards throughout the streets of our National Capital to advertise their business; and WHEREAS—This great Brewing Enterprise does a business as extensive as our national area, and consequently must have placed such pictures throughout our country; and WHEREAS—These burlesque pictures are of the worst specimen conceivable of Negro American in form, feature, dress and environment; and WHEREAS—This great business concern has departed from its custom of selecting the most eminent Caucasian Americans to advertise their products and have resorted to portraying the worst specimens of Negro Americans; and WHEREAS-Such pictures are impressing white Americans that in spite of the Negro's contact with a civilization that is highly cultural, he is still gross in physique, savage in feature, antiquated in dress and degenerate in home life and will, if constantly kept before the Negro American make him despise himself for no other reason than that the American people scorn and bellttle men who have committed the crime of having been born black instead of white. BE IT RESOLVED: 1. That we, the representatives of 100,000 Americans of the National Capital, in mass meeting assembled at Zion Baptist Church, December 21st, 1914, earnestly protest against the defamation of Negro life by such caricatures displayed at any place and in any way whatsoever; and 2. That we urge Anheuser-Busch to withdraw, immediately from view everywhere, all of these burlesques and parodies that do nothing more than hold the Negro up to ridicule and contempt. Respectfully, The Protest Committee: Rev. E. E. Ricks, Chairman. Rev. M. F. Sydes, D. D. Rev. Arthur Randall, D. D. Rev. J. M. Waldron, D. D. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, A. M. Secretary. WHITE SUFFRAGIST LEAVES LARGE FORTUNE TO HER FORMER PUPIL Red Wing, Minn., Jan. 7—By the will of Mrs. Julla B. Nelson, a national figure in the cause of woman suffrage and temperance, Prof. William K. Richards, librarian and instructor in international law, of the Howard Law School, Washington, becomes heir to a fortune, the bulk of which is estimated to be worth $20,000. Following the Civil War Mrs. Nelson met and became interested in young Richards, then a bright little lad of unusual promise, and educated him. Mrs. Nelson's will says: "I bequeath to my former pupil"—after her sister and niece have been provided for and bequests of $200 each have been made to two suffrage associations—"all the rest and residue to William Richards, who has cheered my lonely life, with sympathy and affection as a son should render his mother." The news reached Prof. Richards of the serious nature of Mrs. Nelson's illness and he started for her home, at once. He attended the funeral and the will was later made public. About Him Gravitate 200 Officers Assisted by Others—All Labor Day and Night, With Little Rest—Idleness is Never Displayed Among the Machine-like Clerical Force. Paris.—"War in its grim reality has upset all the ideas which we had of its aspect," says Frantz-Relchel, who in the Figaro gives a pen picture of General Joffre and his staff at work at the headquarters of the French army. "Le G. Q. G.," abbreviation for "grand quartier general," is what the headquarters of the generalissimo is called. "For each army the headquarters is anywhere from seven to twelve kilometers behind the firing line, while for the entire field army the great headquarters is from SO to 100 kilometers away. Great headquarters is the mysterious center from which comes nothing but what is duly authorized. To go there, to see those who, grouped about the chief, are associated, however little, in the work of the brain that thinks for all; to approach that corner of France where are brought by telegraph or telephone the results of every hour, from where leave the orders which inspire the movements of that immense and many jointed body, the army, is the dream of all, the privilege of a few. "But the great headquarters where the generalissimo works—the man who assumes the superb but crushing responsibility of the life of France—is far different from what one would imagine it. When one has viewed it, with all its installations, the impression that one gets is of a gigantic manufactory where in offices filled with work everybody tolls with order and method at the accomplishment of tasks well understood. "The great headquarters of the French army was in a little town at a goodly distance from the trenches, shifting whenever the occasion required it." "The town it occupied presented no uncommon sight—a commercial town, with humdrum streets, which were in times of peace animated by its population concerned in two industries, the repairs of material of the Eastern railroad and the manufacture of woolen goods. "About General Joffre gravitate 200 officers, assisted by an army of secretaries. These men collaborate at three services—that of the general staff properly, the service of the rear, and the service of the railroads—all placed under the orders of three officers who are the immediate associates of the generalissimo. The three services are installed in three school buildings. Day and night the staff is at work attending to the thou and one exigencies of the front, where 2,000,000 men are deployed along a stretch of 500 kilometers. "In these offices, from which are sent out the orders commanding the thunder of the guns, the rattle of small arms, the pandemonium of regiments hurled forward in clamoring assault, there is a silence absolute, impressive. They are working without noise, without respite. The only sounds are the clattering of typewriters and the ringing of telephone bells. One has the sensation of passing through the offices of a great industry, where every one, animated by duty and held by strong discipline, works faithfully at his appointed task. Heads are not lifted as one passes. Such order, such application gives one a feeling not of hope, but of confidence that the fluctuations of the battlefield cannot shake. The faces reflect confidence and faith. "All this is the work of General Joffre, inquariable administrator, eminent strategist, admirable chief, who by his own example and the influence he wields has brought all his subordinates into the path of duty well done. "An indefatigable worker, his great headquarters is run like a piece of well oiled machinery. The generalissimo himself follows a strict routine. He rises at 5 o'clock and has a light breakfast of coffee and rolls; then he visits the three service chiefs, works with them, hearing or reading reports, sanctioning solutions adopted; after that, before luncheon, he takes a walk on foot, during which he works out in his brain plans for the action of the allied armies. The walk over, the generalissimo returns to his house, where he has luncheon. "Every three or four days the generalissimo goes on a tour of inspection in his automobile. He visits each of his armies in turn, confers with their chiefs, chats with the soldiers. His chauffeurs are two of the most famous racers in France, Boillot and Rigal. General Joffre likes to take naps while his automobile is flying along. He says it induces a most restful sleep. "Plain and good, just in rewards as in punishment, he is respected, esteemed, adored by all. Obeying nothing but military necessities, he chooses his men, leaving to each one his initiative. Insensible to eulogy, indifferent to criticism, a general of duty, he has conquered the admiration of the entire world." HOW CROWN PRINCE ESCAPED Close Call Kaiser's Son Had With French Dragoons. Paris.—Details of the German crown prince's escape from French dragoons after the Marne defeat were given by a French civilian who, disregarding the prohibitive placards, succeeded in making the trip on a bicycle to within four miles of the German trenches on the western fringe of the Argonne forest. Before the battle of the Marne the prince was at St. Menchould for about a week, with the princess. He occupied a chateau belonging to a rich drug manufacturer, M. Geraudel, who gained considerable notoriety here some years ago by trying to get a huge poster advertising a cough specific attached to the Eifel tower. When the Germans retreated the crown prince and princess retired to the small village of Montfaucon, in the Argonne, where they lived for some days in a large house which previously had been prepared for him. Learning of this, the French made a furious dash on Montfauncon, which they surrounded with a regiment of dragoons and captured several hundred Germans, but the royal party had flown. The raiders found a new subterranean passage 800 yards long connecting the house with a byroad at the farther side of a small wood. There, according to natives, a motor was always waiting during the prince's stay. It is further asserted even this would not have saved him from capture if the mayor of Montfauncon had not run to warn him when the French entered the village. For this treachery the mayor subsequently paid with his life. ODD NEEDS OF SENATORS. Pitchforks, Gargling Oil, Liniment Headache Cure, on Expense List. Washington.—The annual report of the secretary of the senate carries some items of expenditures that seem odd for such an august body. On the list of disbursements are these items: Two pitchforks, one scoop shovel and forty-eight horseshoes. Under "medicines and lotions" are one bottle of gargling oil, one bottle of illumination, one bottle of balsam, one pound of powdered resin, five pounds of salts, five pounds of hoarhound drops, two bottles of headache cure, two dozen seidlitz powders, one pound soda mint tablets and nine packages of snuff. One exhaust header stuffing nut cost 70 cents. A local hardware concern was paid $7.65 for cleaning and adjusting revolvers. BRITISH SEEK ARMS IN COTTON BY X RAY Bales From America to Germany First Photographed. New York. -The war in Europe has brought to light many innovations, but none more interesting than the taking of X ray photographs of bales of cotton to discover contraband of war possibly concealed therein. X ray experts with a big powerful machine are taking photograph after photograph of bales of cotton on pliers in this city. Cotton amounting to 10,000 bales was all photographed before being loaded into the hold of the steamer City of Macon of the Savannah line for Bremen, the first cargo for that port to leave New York since the war started. Cotton is not contraband of war, and the City of Macon, flying the American flag, will be allowed to proceed to Bremen without interference from the British. But the British, who have command of the sea, are extremely cautious these times. It occurred to the consul general in New York, Sir Courtenay W. Bennett, that cannons, guns or other contraband might be concealed in the cotton for delivery to the German army or navy. Obviously it would be impracticable to open any of the bales and go through the cotton for contraband. The idea of taking X ray photographs was suggested. Officials of the British government, passing along the immense plies of cotton bales on the plier, directed steve dores to drag out a bale here and there. Each bale so selected was photographed, with the idea that solid substances concealed in the cotton would show. The X ray did not detect any contraband in the first batch of bales examined. REUNITE MOTHER AND GIRL. Adopted Parents Give Up Seventeen-year-old, Sought Eleven Years. Ashtabula, O.-To live with her mother, whom she has not seen in eleven years. Elizabeth Wallace, seventeen, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Wilder of Jefferson, left here in company with her stepfather, William H. Spelcher, for Stoyestown, Pa. When she was five years old Elizabeth's father died, and her mother, who was ill, had to put the child in a home in Alliance, O. When she regained her health the child had been adopted, but she was never able to learn by whom. When she became older the girl longed for her mother and wrote hundreds of letters to all parts of the state in search of her. Her mother finally located her in Jefferson high school, and Mr. Wilder, her second husband, same for her. The National Religious Training School, Durham, N.C. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text or details. It appears to be a grayscale sketch of a rural landscape with buildings and trees. Offers superior advantages for the training of young men and women in many departments of work. The following Departments are in successful operation: 1. Department of Religious Training. This department is intended especially for the training of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Missionaries. 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. Letter Regarding the Amendment. The following letter with regard to the amendment incorporated into the Immigration Bill by the United States Senate last week has been sent by Dr. Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, to the Atlanta Constitution and other newspapers throughout the country: Editor Atlanta Constitution: Through your newspaper I desire to appeal to the America Congress and to the people of the United States in favor of fair play and justice in connection with the Immigration Bill now pending before the United States Senate which by amendment excludes from coming into this country any person of African descent. 1. The bill, in my opinion, is unjust, unreasonable and unnecessary. It is unnecessary because only a few thousand people of African descent enter this country annually. Practically all of those that do come are mainly from the West Indies and almost none from the continent of Africa. It is evident that many of those who come into this country do not remain permanently, but I find, according to the census of 1910, there were in the United States only 40,319 Negroes who were foreign born and only 473 of these had come from Africa. 2. The bill puts an unnecessary slight upon colored people by classing them with alien criminals. 3. The bill in its present form would seem to prohibit citizens from he Republic of Liberia Cuba and Halta and also Porto Rico and Santo Domingo entering this country, thus placing an unnecessary hardship upon these smaller countries which would not be done in my opinion, if they were stronger. It seems to me that the strength or weakness of the nation should not constitute our sense of justice toward that nation, but the weaker the nation, the more we ought to be sure that no injustice is done. 4. In a personal conversation with a high officer of the Panama Canal Commission he told me that the services of the Jamalca Negro were invaluable in bullying the Panama Canal. Now that we are celebrating the completion of this great canal, it seems most unjust and unreasonable that the people who contributed in so large a measure toward the completion of the canal should be slapped in the face and told that they cannot enter this country even when they meet the requirements of our government. 5. The passing of this bill will stir up racial strife and accomplish no practical purpose. 6. An investigation will show that the colored people who have come to this country from the West Indian Islands and from other foreign countries have proven as a whole to be a lawabiding, intelligent, industrious class. They have never become anarchists, or as a class given trouble to the government. Let me repeat, then, it is unfair at this time when we are all striving to bring about racial harmony and peace to raise a question which is calculated to stir up needless strife, and I cannot feel that the best people in the South where the bulk of the colored people live approve the passage of any such bill. Lastly, the passing of such an unjust law will cripple the missionary and educational work which we are trying to do in Africa and elsewhere. For a number of years some of the brightest young people from Africa and elsewhere have been coming to this country to receive training to fit them to go back and help their people, and this they have done in an effective manner. All this, I understand, will be stopped by the passing of this law. This measure is not political or sectional, and I hope that all people will see the justice of asking Congress to refrain from perpetrating this unjust act upon my race. Certainly we have enough to contend with already without having this additional handicap and discouragement placed in our pathway. (Signed.) Julia B. Nelson, Friend, Teacher, Missionary, Writer, Counsellor and Lecturer Laid to Rest. Redwing Dally Republican, Dec. 30, 1914. Mrs. Julia B. Nelson, of Red Wing, who was most loyal and self-sacrificing at all times, ever ready to work for the right, a pioneer in the cause of suffrage for women and a fearless worker for this cause before it enjoyed the popularity which it now possesses. Many of the strongest movements for the betterment of conditions surrounding women and children have been started or fostered by her during their infancy, when the public did not see or understand the magnitude or need for this great work, and her ef- House & Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts., N. W of all kinds and description, House and Herrmann is the place to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city where the people can be satisfied. This is house hat will satisfy you. forts for the uplift of humanity. "Her girdle was a girdle of righteousness and her shield was a shield of faith. She lived to see the principles for which she stood, become popular; to see them grow from a band of women to a large vast army striving for that which is righteous and holy. She lived to see the scientific world declare alcohol to be poison and to realize that the question of the abolishment of liquor was not only a local issue but a state and national measure." she said. Julia B. Nelson was largely her own executor. She has been giving all of her life. She has helped hundreds of men, women and children. She believed in the race and was a great force for their defense, never afraid of censorship, always expressing and standing by her convictions. She remained true to the last. She gave all—all that she had, for the uplift of humanity. Her time, her money, her counsel, yea her very life. And at the end wrote her memorial to the Negro legal profession, where it will never die. She showed her confidence, painted it on the never dying canvas of time and wrote thereon for all the whole wide world to see these words: "I appoint Wm. H. Richards, my pupil, who has cheered my lonely years as a son, executor of my estate." This is personal tribute to race, showing her confidence to the last. How hard to have you go just now when the race needs you so much. The memorial to James F. Bundy by Bethel Literary and Historical Association at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church-last Tuesday night was most timely. All classes of the Negro population were out to do honor to his memory for the upright and useful life. It was a most fitting expression of the very high esteem in which he was held. The audience was most appreciative and listened to every number with rapt attention. Miss M. A. D. Madre, the President, announced the numbers. Among those on the program were Dr. W. S. Montgomery, whose subject was "The Man." He treated it in a scholarly and sympathetic manner. Mrs. F. W. Taylor spoke of his Christian and social life and his tenderness as son, husband and father. Mr. Thomas A. Johnson, a friend for 25 years, told of the manfold acts of kindness to the law students and to humanity in general. Mr. Thomas Walker dwelt at length on his many excellencies and the devotedness with which he espoused the principles for right, truth and justice, giving to each man, great or small, his service alike. Prof. Wm. V. Tunnell, his classmate at Howard University, spoke of his relation with that institution and drew a graphic picture of Mr. Bundy as a student with a vision of the larger life. Resolutions were read from the senior law class and Howard University Faculty by Jesse D. Locker, of Cincinnati, Ohio. All these addresses were par excellent and left nothing to be added. There were musical contributions by Miss Julia R. Bush, Miss Charlotte Wallace, Miss Mary Europe, Prof. Wm. Braston and an original vocal composition by Prof. Wellington Adams which gave a charm to the exercises. Rev. D. E. Wlseman, classmate of Mr. Bundy, pronounced the benediction. Miss Madre worked untiringly and with success in getting up the program for the memorial. She said the suggestion of holding up this beautiful life while the facts were fresh came from Prof. Wm. H. Richards, The wisdom of it was shown in the splendid audience. It seemed that Heaven itself favored it, for the night was ideal. The Bee congratulates Prof. Richards on the suggestion and the President for acting so readily, also the excellent set of officers and the strong Advisory Board for the service they 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. 6. Department of Literary Training. 7. Department of Industries. 8. Extension Home Classes. There are special scholarships for deserving young men and women in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open July 3, 1914. For further information and catalogue, address All Kinds of First Class Toilet Articles High Class Class Combs and Brushes. Domestic and Imported Perfumes. Domestic and Imported Soaps Candies, Ice Cream and Soda Water with Fruit Syrups Prescriptions Compounded by Registered Pharmacists JOHN W. MORSE 1904 L Street, Northwest Wellington Only $60.00. Guaranty [Sold on Easy T A, J. Smith Agent Phone North 4017 are rendering the race and the country. Let me pledge anew for 1915 my support. Officers. Miss M. A. D. Madre, President, 2227 Cleveland Ave. N. W., Washington, D. C.; Mr. A. S. Pinkett, First Vice-President; Mr. Sylvester McLaurin, Second Vice-President; Mr. James F. Alston, Recording Secretary; Miss Parthenia Woodson, Corresponding Secretary; Miss J. R. Bush, Treasurer; Prof. William H. Richards, LL. B., Lecturer and Counsellor; Miss A. D. Bell, Librarian; Mr. Clarence Allen, Marshal; Dr. C. H. Stepteau, Chaplain and Pastor. PARAGRAPHIC. Ordinary lump starch pounded makes a very good silver polish. Rub it on with a wet cloth, leaving it until dry, then polish with shamols. "God watches our every action. He will give us strength if we pray. Though our reward be slow in coming, it will surely come some day." Two colored lawyers were elected to office in Kansas white votes. They Beautiful Lounger Morris Chairs Writing Desks Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room suite, call after you have been elsewhere DRUG STORE iss on Exhibition Class Toilet Articles and Brushes. Domestic and domestic and Imported Soaps oda Water with Fruit Syrups bounded by Registered nacists V. MORSE et, Northwest The Ideal Christmas A WELLINGTON Perfdct alignment, Easy Action and Wonderful Durability. Guaranteed for 2 years Easy Terms Main Office 2550 14th St., N. W. B. F. Watts, Manager Phone Columbia 2984 are Hon. W. L. Sayers, County Attorney, this is his second term. The progressives elected Hon. Samuel Cary, attorney of Logan County. There has been invented a watch with the hours marked by raised dots and dashes—for he blind—so that it can be read by the sense of touch. The school of experience is not a "pay-as-you-enter" institution, but collections are always made somewhere along the line. (Woman in car sitting next to man who is smoking cigarette.) "Sir! If you were my husband I would give you poison." He—"Madam, if you were my wife I'd take it myself." "There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. Every one must depend upon himself for contentment; if upon anything else or others he is bound for disappointment. WORLD-WIDE AUTOGRACY IS COMING AND NEAR It Will Be an Exclusive and Aristocratic Monarchy. Pastor Russell Describes the Fifth Universal Empire of Earth—The Reign of Sin and Death Shall Be Overthrown. Humanity Will Be Uplifted From Ignorance and Superstition—Calling the Elect the Work of the Gospel Age. The Future Royal Family—Instructed and Polished For Their Exaltation. Messiah's Kingdom a Theocracy. New York City, Jan. 3.-Pastor Russell addressed a large audience tonght at the New York City Temple, W 63d St. and Broadway. His text was, "For He must reign, till He bath put all ene- mies under His feet." (1 Cori- inthus 15:25.) He sold in part: PASTOR RUSSELL Many of us have learned to appreciate a republic form of government as the very highest type of civil administration. I trust that I am not one whit behind the most patriotic of you in my appreciation of the great Government of these United States, which many of us believe is the noblest that has yet risen amongst men. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches that Messiah's Reign will be that of a monarchy; and not only so, but that it will be a very exclusive and aristocratic monarchy. Additionally, it will be most autocratic—theocratic; for the will of its subjects will not be consulted in the slightest particular. At first, in alarm, we are ready to say. Would not that be a most dangerous condition of things? Could any royal family, however noble and generous, be entrusted with such autocratic power without fear of its being misused for the enslavement of the people, for the aggrandizement of the rulers? Have we not learned this in the history of the past six thousand years? Do we not see the necessity for curtailing and controlling the powers of kings and governors? Are we not more and more brought to realize the necessity that the people shall rule, whether in Congress or in Parliament, in Doumas or in Chambers of Denuties? Yes, yes, my dear friends, I heartily accede to all this; but when I shall describe to you the nature of the Kingdom that is to be established, and its personnel, all your fears will assuredly flee, and you will rejoice exceedingly that the Divine arrangement is what it is in respect to the theocratic Kingdom shortly to be established and to take over the government of the world. Scripturally it is described as the Fifth Universal Empire of earth. I remind you of the Divinely inspired dream of King Nebuchadnezzar, as interpreted by the Prophet, Daniel. It was of an image majestic, grand. The head of the image was Nebuchadnezzar's own kingdom at Babylon, the first to rule over the earth. Next, represented in the breast and the arms of silver, came Medo-Persla, the second Universal Empire of earth, the conqueror of Babylon. Next, represented in the belly and thighs of the image, came Grecia, the third Universal Empire of earth, which conquered Medo-Persla. Next, represented in the legs of iron, came Rome, the fourth Universal Empire, conqueror of Greece. There are to be no more until Messiah's Kingdom; it will be the fifth. Meantime, we have had two attempts at a fifth monarchy, both unsuccessful. One of these attempts was by the Papacy, the other was that of Napocon I. During this time the present divisions, which resulted from the breaking up of the Roman Empire, are represented by the feet of the image, with their ten toes. Smiting the Image's Feet. The prophecy declares (Daniel 2:44) that in the days of these kings, represented by the toes of the image, the God of Heaven will set up a Kingdom, which shall subdue all kingdoms and which shall never be overthrown. It shall be given to the people, saints, the Most High God, and they shall be the Kingdom and possess it for ever, even forever and ever." (Dan. 7:18, 27:1 In the picture God's kingdom is symbolically represented as a great stone, hewn from the mountain without hands — supernaturally. It shall smile the image in its feet; and forthwith "the iron, the brass, the silver and the gold shall become like the chaff of a threshing floor, and the wind shall carry it away"; but the Mountain shall increase until "it shall fill the whole earth." Thus in a figure, or symbol, God pictures things now shortly to come to pass. This crushing of the feet of the image was to come in the end of the Age, and would be the preparatory step to the establishment of Messiah's Kingdom. So long as these governments would be here, they and Messiah's Kingdom could not co-operate. The Gentile powers are based on selfishness and coercion; Christ's Kingdom will be based on justice, love, mercy under the Prince of Peace. The present terrible war is not the great Time of Trouble in the fullest sense of the word, but merely its forerunner. The great Time of Trouble of the Scriptures will be brought on by anarchy—the general uprising of the people: "Every man's hand against his neighbor, no peace to him that goeth out or to him that cometh in." (Zechariah 8:10; 14:13.) Our thought is that this great war will weaken the nations, cripple the world financially, discredit the rulers, and thus open the way for anarchy. Rome and Constantinople stand for, represent, the two legs of the image which King Nebuchadnezzar saw; for be it remembered that each in turn was the Roman Capital and representative of the image. We are certainly justified in watching with considerable interest the present war and what it may be leading to in the way of involving all the ten kingdoms represented in this prophecy. But that is not the special point of interest in my subject; rather, I am discussing the character of Messlah's Kingdom, which is to rule the world, overthrow Sin and Death, and uplift humanity, from ignorance, superstition, sin, weakness and death. The declaration is that Messlah shall reign until He shall have put down all insubordination, and that the last enemy to be destroyed will be death—1 Cor. 15:25, 20. This is the Kingdom for which the Master Himself taught His followers to pray. Nothing slight or insignificant will be the outcome of that glorious Messlantic Reign of a thousand years. At its very beginning Satan will be bound, with all that this signifies—the repression of evil and darkness. For a thousand years the Sun of Righteousness shall pour forth the light of truth and grace upon our poor, fallen race until the knowledge of God's glory shall fill the whole earth as the waters cover the great deep. Eventually all wilful opponents of that Kingdom will die the Second Death, from which there will be no rebuilption, no recovery. But meantime, of the willing and obedient will be rising, not only from the tomb, but also, of all the weaknesses and frailties of the present time, up, up, up, to the fumess of perfection of life, although they will not live again in this perfect sense until the thousand years shall be finished. With the close of the Reign of Righteousness, after it shall have accomplished its work of delivering the groaning creation from the bondage of corruption, sin and death, Messiah will abdicate the Throne; as it is written, "He will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, that He may be all in all." - I Cor. 15:24. No More Sighing, Crying, Dying. What a glorious triumph that will be when every creature in Heaven and earth, and under the earth, shall be heard saying. Praise, glory, honor, dominion and might be unto Him that sitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lathb, forever! (Revelation 5:13.) What a glorious condition will then obtain when there shall be no more crying, no more sighing, no more dying; for all the former things shall have passed away! Ah, He that sitteth upon the Throne said, "Behold; I make all things new!" Glad we are that our great Messiah is about to overthrow sin and evil, about to establish righteousness on a permanent and everlasting foundation, which will insure that to all eternity God's will shall be done as perfectly on earth as done in Heaven. I ask you to consider candidly—you need not reply—Is there a kingdom in the world today that in your judgment still represents a Divine government amongst men? Is there a perfect government, is there a single spot in all the earth where God's will is done as it is done in Heaven? You are conversant with history. You know the bloody record which marks its pages. You know that so-called Christian Europe has been drenched with blood more than any other part of the world. You know that the cause of wrong has triumphed as often or oftener than the cause of right. You know that today these kingdoms... Europe, styled kingdoms of God, are destroying one another. You know that great guns, great battleships and monster torpedoes, etc., such as the world has never known before, have been prepared by these various nations for use, either aggressively or defensively, against one another, while they all claim to be Christ's kingdoms. Is this logical? Is this rational? Most assuredly not! We must go to the Bible for true information on this subject. It tells us that these kingsdoms are not the kingsdoms of God, but "kingdoms of this world." It tells us that Satan is the Prince of this world (John 14:30; Ephesians 2:2); that he is "the god of this world," "that now worketh in the hearts of the children of disobedience"—so much more numerous than the children of obedience that he through them holds the world's control. But with equal clearness the Bible declares the Divine Power and mastery over Satan—that he and his reign of Sin and Death are permitted of God for a limited time and for a special purpose. The testimony tells us that when the due time shall come Messiah shall take His great power and reign, and then Satan shall be bound and all the forces of sin and darkness be restrained. That the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in its beams to flood the earth with the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. "The Election Hath Obtained It." Come with me and take a cursory view of God's great work thus far accomplished. For more than two thousand years God gave no clear intimation of what He intended to do for the fallen race. Then He made a statement to Abraham, so clear, so explicit, that St. Paul declares that it was a statement of the Gospel in advance. God said to Abraham, I purpose to bless the world. This could only mean, I purpose to relieve them of the curse of death which came upon them through Adam's sin. God added to Abraham, This blessing which I will bring to all the families of the earth will come through your posterity—"In thee and in thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." God's due time for bringing this blessing was still future; the blessing could not come until Messiah should come; but meantime God gave to the natural seed of Abraham, through Moses, the Law Covenant, which offered them eternal life and an inheritance in the Kingdom if they could keep the Law. Of course, they could not keep the Law; for it was the measure of a perfect man's ability, and alas! like the remainder of the world the Israelites were imperfect—slimners. Nevertheless the offer and their attempt to keep the Law brought them great uplift of heart, so that when Jesus came to them a considerable number were ready to receive Him, did receive Him; and He received them. They became sons of God, through the begetting of the Holy Spirit, at Pentecost and afterward. These were the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, begotten of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Himself being the Head. Israel had been hoping for a share in Messiah's Kingdom; and St. Paul explains, "Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the Election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded." The blinded Israelites are still cast aside, but not forever. The Divine blessing shall come to Natural Israel just as soon as Spiritual Israel shall be completed.—Rom. 11:25-34. The Kingdom Suffereth Violence. What did the Election obtain? Of what did the faithful "Ismellites indeed" become helms by accepting Jesus and by the Pentecostal blessing? We answer that they became identified with Messiah's Kingdom and helms, or inheritors, of the glorious Promise made to Abraham, that in this Kingdom all the families of the earth should be blessed. But now note that there were not a sufficient number of Jews found worthy to complete the Kingdom class. The Kingdom therefore could not be inaugurated then. God had foreseen this and through the Prophet had promised that some would be gathered from the Gentiles to complete this Kingdom class. The entire work of the Gospel Age has been the calling of this "elect" class for the Kingdom. If we have rightly viewed the matter, the foreordained number will soon have been found, the election will be at an end, the accepted will be glorified as the Kingdom, and Messiah's Reign of Righteousness will begin. But notice now the course of all belonging to the Kingdom class, throughout this Age. They are not reigning with Christ, but suffering with Christ. Jesus explained this; they are indeed of the Royal Family, because begotten of the Holy Spirit; they are indeed the Kingdom class, because they are affiliated with the great King; but they have not yet entered into their glory. They will do so only by the power of the First Resurrection. Thus it is written. "We must all be changed," because "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God." Our Lord Himself was the Pattern, the Forerunner of all these. After His consecration and His begetting of the Holy Spirit. He was tested unto death, even the death of the cross, before He experienced His glorious resurrection change and ascended and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High. Similarly all of His followers, after consecration, must be tested, their loyalty must be proven, before they can share with Him in "His Resurrection." Partly for the testing of these, their development takes place in a time when Satan is the Prince of this world, and when his power is permitted to be exercised against them as it was exercised against their Lord. The message to these is, "The Kingdom suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." As our Lord suffered violence from the Prince of this world, so will His followers; for "the disciple is not above his Lord." His promise to His followers is, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." - Revelation 2:10. "The World Knoweth Us Not." So then we perceive that God's Kingdom class, the followers of Jesus, have been suffering violence, just as did their Leader, for righteousness' sake. That the persecutors had not known and done their evil work intentionally, St. Peter intimates when he says to the Jews, "I wot that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers; for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Prince of Life." Hence, in due time their blindness shall be turned away, and they will look upon Him whom they pierced and mourn (Zechariah 12:10); and God will pour upon them the spirit of prayer and supplication, and forgive them and make the experience profitable to as many as shall prove willing. Meantime, for eighteen centuries, the Scriptures declare, "The world knoweth us not, even as it knew Him not." God's saintly ones have not been generally the great, the influential, either in church or state, Just as Jesus and the Apostles were not in their day. Nevertheless, the Lord knoweth them that are His. Scattered here and there, during the past eighteen centuries, He has been dealing with them, preparing them, polishing them, fitting them as jewels. And He tells us that at our Lord's Second Coming He will make up His jewels-- they will constitute the Kingdom class; for if we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him." I am sure you will agree with me that those whom the Lord has been so carefully selecting, instructing and polishing in the School of Christ, who have been so effectively pollished with the trials and disciplines of evil, will be the very class above all others to whom the glorious dominion of earth may well be entrusted without fear. Only those thoroughly loyal to God and to principle will be in that class. GIDEON, THE MAN OF GOOD COURAGE GIDEON, THE MAN OF GOOD COURAGE Judges 6:11-40—Jan. 17. A Logical Man—A Strong Character. Too Humble For Self-Confidence. Faith After Proof—Hospitality Rewarded—Daring and Doing For God. Faith Growing Seeks Fresh Proofs. "Blessed is the man whom Thou choosest."— Psalm 65:4. LTHOUGH the Scriptures tell us that not many rich, wise and strong are chosen of the Lord for His work, we may be sure that this is not that they would be unacceptable, but because their wisdom, riches, strength, usually make them too self-confident and not sufficiently reliant on the Lord. To Gideon, a stalwart young Israelite, the angel of the Lord was sent with a message. His salutation was, "The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor." With excellent logic Gideon replied, "Why, if the Lord be with us, hath all this befallen us? and where be all His miracles, of which our fathers told us?" The Midianites and other nomadic people of the East, discerning that Canaan was very far. The Midiantites a people of the East, naan was very fertile, repeatedly invaded it, confiscating much of the product of the land. On this very occasion Gideon was threshing out a few sheaves of wheat, fearing to have a customary threshing, lest the Midiantites should rob them. Gideon's Gift received as a sacrifice. not there to discuss theology, but to inspire Gideon and to make him the Lord's messenger in Israel's deliverance. The man's humility shines out in his protest that his family was one of the poorer of Manasseh, and that he himself was inferior to his brethren. But the angel replied, "Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man." When we remember the Divine promise to defend Israel and to protect their interests, which were all earthly, we should also remember that this protection was dependent upon their maintenance of heart-loyalty and faithfulness to God. The Lord had assured them in advance that if they wandered into idolatry He would bring upon them various adversities—their enemies should reap their crops, etc. Thus we may know the answer to Glideon's question. The Israelites had not been faithful to their Covenant, made with God through their Mediator Moses at Mt. Sinai. A proof of this unfaithfulness is found in our lesson. Gideon's father was caretaker of the groves of Baal and Ashtaroth. Their images were apparently on his property. These groves were large posts, significant of honor, erected near the image. Here was the secret of Israel's subjection to the Midianites. Gideon's Great Courage Manifested. The night following, the Lord made a further revelation to Gideon, instructing him to destroy the idols upon the property, to overthrow the altar of Baal and to build an altar to Jehovah, to kill one of his father's bullocks and to make therewith a burnt offering unto the Lord, using for the purpose the wooden pole, or "groove," which formerly did honor to Baal. The work was accomplished in the night; for his father, his brethren and the villagers would have stoutly resisted, had they known of the work. Gideon was very courageous when he knew that he had been called of the Lord. Conviction that our work is of Divine authority is a power in any heart. This is part of the lack today-lack of faith in God and failure to recognize a mission that is of God. Much of the preaching, praying and good endeavors are, therefore, formalistic. From such we turn away, as St. Paul directed. 2 Timothy 3:5. BREAKFAST When the villagers traced the matter to Glideon, they called upon his father to deliver him to death; but the father wisely inquired whether a god of mighty power would need to be defended. If Baal could not defend himself, he Israel. The argu The Seven Tears' old Bullock a sacrificed to Jehorah. The Seven Years' old Bullock a sacrifice to Jehorah. to be defended. If Baal could not defend himself, he could not defend Israel. The argument was potent. Meantime Gideon sent messengers to the various tribes, and thirty thousand volunteers responded to give battle to the Midianites. Further Proofs of Divine Favor Asked by Gideon. As fresh evidence that he was doing the Divine will, Gideon requested of the Lord that a wool fleece laid out all night might be thoroughly wet with dew, while the ground about it might be dry. The Lord granted the proof. Then Gideon reversed the test, and asked that the ground might be wet with dew and the fleece be dry. This also was granted. But it would not be proper for us to make similar tests. We have the Scriptures—records of God's favor and of the Lord Jesus. The Lord would have us walk by faith in the lessons already taught, and not by sights and signs of our own times. When one goes in South Washington, the first name he nears and the person who is talked about is Dr. Geo. W. Murray, the old Land-Mark Druggist, at the corner of Second and D Streets, S. W. You don't have to leave South Washington for toilet articles or anything in the line of drugs. His perfumes are first-class. His soaps are unsurpassed. His cigars cannot be excelled. His soda and ice cream unsurpassed. When you call say that you read of him in The Bee. M. Hennessy 216 Hinth Street. N. W. Our Specialties: Best Butter 30 cents Best Eggs 30 cents Redman's WHITE FRONT Market Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Coffee Coffees Roasted on Premises 916 Louisiana Ave., Northwest HOTTING BAR TRIM MAGIC 15 IN LONG THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER MAILED ANY WHERE IN U.S.$100 POSTAGE PAID SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE MONEY ORDER Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Drier Co., Minneapolis. Minn. not to individuals. A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF HAIR IS A LADY'S CROWNING GLORY. And every lady can have it if she will use the Magic. The Magic will dry the hair after a shampoo or bath, and straighten the earliest head of hair. It will also stimulate its growth. The Alumalum Comb cannot injure the hair, because it is never heated direct, but takes its heat from the heating bar when is heated on our Alchobol Heater, or any other heater. We advise the use of Kayser' Lale Pomade. Best on the market. Price per box, $6. Alcohol heater, price $6. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY. MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA YOUR DRUG- GIST Our Special Redm But Cu 916 G. T Dressed B Club Houses, Res ly De 904, Heating Bar SHAMPOO DRE BEAUTIFUL HEA have it if she will use the straighten the curlest hea not failure the hair, becau is heated on our Alcohol Best on the market. Pric MAGIC SHAMPOO Phone N. 5131 Es Fun GEORGE W. MURRAY, Second and D Streets Southwest. ROSE GIN OSE IN IMITATION by 216 Hinth Street. N. W. WHY NOT DEAL AT THE NEW DRUG STORE for. 63d and Eastern Avenue [Chesapeake Junction] which opened on APRIL 1, 1914—you want drugs or anything that drug sell, you can make assurance of secur-ight quality and right service doubly coming to our store. In trading here with the intention of being a customer only so long as you live COURTEOUS TREATMENT; GET LILY RELIABLE GOODS; FIND WHAT WANT, AND ARE SATISFIED WITH DES. It is a fair proposition. If you are not interested with us ask your neighbor, or bet-ask your physician about us. IMITATION WHY NOT DEAL NEW DRUG Cor. 63d and East [Chesapeake Jun —which opened on APP When you want drugs or an stores sell, you can make a ing right quality and right sure by coming to our store —Begin trading here with remaining a customer only. RECEIVE COURTEOUS TR WHOLLY RELIABLE GOOD YOU WANT, AND ARE S PRICES. —This is a fair proposition acquainted with us ask you ter yet ask your physician —which opened on APRIL 1, 1914— When you want drugs or anything that drug stores sell, you can make assurance of securing right quality and right service doubly sure by coming to our store. Begin trading here with the intention of remaining a customer only so long as you RECEIVE COURTEOUS TREATMENT; GET WHOLLY RELIABLE GOODS; FIND WHAT YOU WANT, AND ARE SATISFIED WITH PRICES. This is a fair proposition. If you are not acquainted with us ask your neighbor, or better yet ask your physician about us. H. EDGAR LEWIS Formerly with Tyree and Co. Telephone Connections specialties: Best Butter 30 cents Best Eggs 30 cents man's WHITE Market Best Butter 30 cents Best Eggs 30 cents WHITE Market HAVE NATIONAL FAME FOR QUALITY 909 7th St. Phone Main 274 No Branch Houses Auto Deliveries to All Sections Your Credit Is Good DODEK'S 829 Seventh' Street Between H and I Open Saturday Evenings Alterat $1 A Week Pays The Bill Without a Big and and Inco Latest style Coats, Suits, Baln Your Credit is Good for any DODE 829 Seventh Street JAMES F. Butler Eggs Office Wholesale D 900 and 602 Pcnna. A Square Stands, Center Market 5 Sole Agents The Celebrated Without a WARE'S SHOES. recent reception a few days ago a lady who was stylishly dressed by pair of shoes. She another lady friend used her shoes. These the lady, were pur- Ware, 11th and You t. Now if you want Without a Big and Inconvenient Outlay of Money. Latest style Coats, Suits, Balmacaans at very lowest prices Your Credit is Good for any Amount. No Red Tape. DODEK'S 900 and 602 Pcnna. Ave. Washington, D. C. Square Stands, Center Market 5th & KSt. Market Riggs Marke Sole Agents The Celebrated Cow Brand Butter recognized Without an equal that is the marked Call at Ware's shoe store, 11th and You streets Northwest. His shoes cannot be surpassed. KING DIVORCED. John L. King was divorced from his wife, Edna King, January 12. Mr. Justice McCory signed the decree. Attorney Jabez Lee represented the plaintiff and Augustus W. Gray the defendant. Dr. W. S. Richardson, owner of the two drug stores 328 $ \frac{4}{12} $ and corner of $ \frac{4}{12} $ and F streets S. W. and 14th and R N. W., this city, is perhaps one of the best known men in the drug business in this country, having for years been an officer in the National Drug Association. He has visited every section of the United States in the interests of the National Drug Exchange and is still doing business for the general public. His stores are noted for selling pure drugs, and he will have none other. As a friend to the colored race, that goes without saying. As to that, he is a friend to all races, as the many poor of this city will testify. He has helped many to establish a drug business in this city, without proclaiming the fact from the housetops. There is one young physician making good in his practice in this city and who owes his start in the profession to Dr. Richardson. Such benefactors as Dr. Richardson have always succeeded and grown in the public estimation. Allen Endeavor League Work at St. Paul A. M. E. Church. Last Sunday evening marks an epoch in the League work of St. Paul A. M. E. Church. One of the most interesting and interested gatherings assembled in the auditorium of the Church promptly at 6:30. Mrs. S. L. Jennifer, in the presiding chair, led on the host of Christian workers. Mr. Henry Lassiter was principal speaker of the evening. Miss Jewel Jennifer presided at the plano. Miss Ruth Sydes, who is engaged in a League working contest versus Mrs. Mary Proctor, made the opening address. Mucic, both vocal and instrumental, interspersed the excellent speeches, to the Christian delight of all present. Prof. Wm. Jennifer, the Chairman of the "Good Literature Committee," presented the League with fifty copies of late Christian periodicals. The finale and benediction seemed to have come too soon to the interested workers and visitors. Miss Matie Throckmorton is President of the League. FAIRMONT HEIGHTS NEWS. An up-to-date drug store has been opened in the immediate vicinity of Fairmont Heights by Dr. Edgar H. Lewis, at 63rd Street and Eastern Avenue N. E., or Chesapeake Junction. Dr. Lewis is polite and accommodating to all who enter his store. His drugs are fresh; his prescriptions carefully compounded; his prices are You can come here and get the Newest and best in Men's and Women's Clothes convenient Outlay of Money. macaans at very lowest prices by Amount. No Red Tape. EK'S Between H. and I T. OYSTER s and Cheese Depot. & Salesrooms Ave. Washington, D. C. 5th & KSt. Market Riggs Marke Cow Brand Butter recognized in equal the same as the city drug stores and in many instances cheaper than you will find elsewhere. The people of Fairmont Heights are truly blessed in having such an up-to-date and well equipped drug store in their midst. Expression of Thanks and Appreciation. Rev. B. F. Watson and family desire, to give expression of their thanks and appreciation for marks of kindness and attention shown Mrs. Watson during her long period of illness, also for expressions of sympathy and condolence tendered on occasion of her death. Mrs. Annie Summers, of Harrisburg, Pa., the mother of Rev. H. H. Summers, of Akron, is very low. Rev. Summers will leave for home in a few days. A very successful revival is in progress at the Second Baptist Church, of which Rev. R. A. Jones is pastor, Rev. Smith, of Shiloh Baptist Church, Cleveland, is conducting it. Bethel A. M. E. Church was well attended Sunday evening. A splendid sermon was preached by Rev. H. H. Sumner, on the subject "The Troubler of Israel." Public boxing, that is, prize fights, have become a craze in Akron. The Ministerial Alliance backed by the Churches is bitterly opposing them. The Mayor has determined to continue them. He may find that public opinion is stronger than individual obstinacy. The United States will send out eleven surveying parties to investigate the mineral resources of Alaska. The British Museum has the oldest known specimens of writing and they are of Chinese origin. Dr. Goldberger, the great United States expert, says, "All the medicines in the world cannot cure 'pellagra,' as it is caused by improper diet." So it can be cured by proper diet. Starchy foods and fat are the principal offenders. Diet for "pellagra," beans, peas, lean meat; eggs and milk. Pellagra is not contagious, neither is it hereditary. "A train leaves New York," supposed the teacher, "traveling 40 miles an hour. It is followed 30 minutes later by a train traveling 80 miles an hour. At what point will the second train run into the first?" The class seemed at a loss, that is, all except Willie Green, who was standing in the alsle vigorously wagging his hand. "Well, Willie," said the teacher. "At the hind end of the rear car, ma'am," answered Willie. Senator Lane, of Oregon, has introduced an amendment to the Postoffice Appropriation Bill providing that $200,000 due the estate of deceased colored soldiers, sailors and marines of the civil war now in the Treasury, be used to build a National Home in this city for aged and infirm colored people and working girls. This money will be under the supervision of the Postmaster General. Alterations Free A. W. GRAY AND W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEYS. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration on the estate of Louis Smith, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 23rd day of December, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under by hand this 38th day of December, 1914. JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court A. W. SCOTT AND W. C. MARTIN, Attorneys. ZEPH P. MOORE, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court. No. 21,350, Administration. This is to give notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columdia, Letters of Administration on the estate of William A. Lanier, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 7th day of January, A. D., 1916; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefits of said estate. Given under my hand this 7th day of January, 1915. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. ZEPH P. MOORE, Attorney. WANTED-A lady wants a number of men to board. Terms very reasonable; $10.00 per month. Inquire at the office of The Bee. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—1823 4th St. N. W., six rooms and bath, modern improvements, excellent condition; $23.50. Apply J. H. Mitchell, 1731 12th St. N. W. J. 2, 9. 16 Houses for Rent by Thomas Walker, Attorney. 3100 Warder St. N. W., 3 rooms and bath, $10.50. 106 Benning Rd., 6 rooms, $8.00. Flats. 415 Irving St. N. W., 4 rooms and bath, perfect condition, $8.50. 415 Irving St. N. W., 4 rooms and bath, perfect condition, $8.50. 106 Prespect St. N. E., 6 rooms, in good condition, $12.50. 725 12th St. N. E., 6 rooms, bath, la-trobe, range, hot and cold water, $20.50. 1809 5th St. N. W., 5 rooms, water in kitchen, $16.50. FOR SALE. 271 N St. N. W., 3 story brick and stone residence, 8 rooms, hall, dry cellar, bay window, modern bath. 36 Westminster St. N. W., 3 story press brick, bay window residence, 9 rooms, hall, furnace heat, all improvements. THOMAS WALKER, Attorney, Ph. M. 4662 506 5th St. N. W. FOR RENT. The following houses: 317 Del. Ave. N. E., 6 rooms and bath, la. heat ..... $14.50 315 Del. Ave. N. E., 6 rooms and bath, la. heat ..... 14.50 319 You St. N. W., 9 rooms and bath, la. heat ..... 22.50 319 Elm St. N. W., 6 rooms and bath fur. heat ..... 25.50 2419 Ga. Ave N. W., 6 rooms and bath, la. heat ..... 22.50 770 Morton St. N. W., 6 rooms and bath, la. heat ..... 20.50 812 Barry Place N. W., 5 rooms and water in yard ..... 13.50 774 Morton St. N. W., 6 rooms and bath, la. heat, lot 20x120 feet deep ..... 21.50 JABEZ LEE, 609 F St. N. W. ISAAC FISHER THE MOST CELEBRATED ESSAY WRITER OF OUR DAY (He has won this title by repeatedly out-writing and out-thinking some of the best writers of all races in America.) Has Been Writing for the White Race But Is Now Writing for the Colored Race in THE NEGRO FARMER Tuskegee Institute, Ala. His Editorjals alone are well worth the cost of a year's subscription to the paper. DO NOT DELAY, BUT ACT NOW SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE Subscription one year, $1.00. Six months, 50 cents. Three months, 40 cents. Address, NEGRO FARMER Tuskegee Institute, Ala. WANTED. WANTED. A young lady to act as assistant manager, who has knowledge of type writing. A good position for the proper person. Apply Bee Office, 1109 Eye Street N. W. The Best Goods at the Best Prices and The Most Reasonable Terms Every person who starts out to buy Furniture has just these objects in view. They form the buying problem. Now consider how thoroughly and satisfactorily we solve this problem for you. No goods can be more reliable than the lines we have sold and tested for years. In case of any dissatisfaction you can always come back to us with absolute certainty that the matter will be adjusted to your satisfaction. Prices here are marked in figures you can read. There's no greater protection for you—no better proof that we are giving the greatest amount of actual value. We're glad to have you know just what we ask, and to have you make comparisons with the very best to be found elsewhere. Our selling policy has always been to consider the individual case of the customer in the matter of terms, and to arrange these in the most helpful way. We charge your purchases at the plainly marked prices and accept your promise to pay a certain amount each week or month. No notes are required and no interest is added. Your buying and paying problems are solved here—made easy for you because we actually carry out our promises to help. It's a thing for young married couples, in particular, to remember. Goods in which you're most likely to be interested right now are Carpets, Rugs, or other styles of floor-coverings; Blankets, Comforts and all bed furnishings; Curtains and Draperies of all kinds; Heating and Cooking Stoves. Remember that we save you from $4 to $6 in the cost of covering a floor of ordinary size by making, lining, and laying the Carpet free, and no charge is made for the two or three yards that may be wasted in cutting to match figures. Of the other seasonable goods mentioned above we carry large and attractive lines, giving you the opportunity to buy, on credit, at prices as low or lower than those of stores handling such goods exclusively. 817 to 823 Seventh St. FIRST ALL KINDS ition Elec GLE PRINT OK AND JOB PRINT BEST Northwest GO TO CONSULT US FIRST Linotype Composition TRIANGLE BOOK A TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING 1109 Eye Street, North 1109 Eye Street, Northwest 11th and U Steets, N. W., QUICKEST WILLIAM H. DAVIS, Pharmacist. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. It all depends on how it strikes the man of moderate means, to buy in a small store like this as to pick out a mercantile palace and pay more, and that's how it is when we can buy low and sell good new pants $1.50 to $3. We do it, save the customer 25 per cent, same way with slightly used overcoats $3 to $10. One price. Justh's Old stand, 619 D. SUBURBAN TRAINING SCHOOL Boarding for boys under 16 years Thorough training in industrial work and in graded school work Telephone- Lincoln 2400 O.F.N.Madden, Supt Corner Stanton & Douglass Rd., Anacostia, D.C. For Chapped Hands and face and all Roughness of the Skin. This is a Great Skin Bleacher, beautifying and whitening the skin and clearing the complexion. DR. W. L. SMITH Fourth and Elm Streets Washington, D. C. NOTICE. Persons who desire to express themselves through the columns of The Bee must sign their names, especially if they want the articles published. Please remember this. THE BEE. ALL KINDS OF PRINTING BEST GO TO HOLMES' HOTEL 333 Virginia Ave., S. W. Fineest Afro-American Accomo dations in the District European & American Plan Good Rooms and Lodging, 50c, 75c and $1.00. Comfortably heated by steam. Give us a Call JAMES OTTOWAY HOLMES, Prop Washington, D.C. Phone, Main 2315 T. W. DUNWORTH 1002 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. WINES AND LIQUORS The Most Central Place in the City Phone Main 6329 Hot Rolls, 7 to 8:30 A. M. Hot Bread, 4 to 5:30 P. M. Everything Made of the Best. THE BOARDWALK HOME BAKERY Cakes and Pies Baked to Order Salads of all kinds served for Home or Parties The Reliable Dispenser W. S. DUFFIELD 1111 U Street N. W. CHAS. H. JAVINS & SONS Dealers in Fresh Fish, Oysters, Terrapin, Poultry, Game, Etc. Center Market, B Street Wing. Phone Main 4480. Oyster House, 930 C Street N. W. Your Credit Is Good DODEK'S 829 Seventh Street Between H and I. ```markdown ``` Electric Power Presses NTING CO. PRINTING TERMS CASH Phone Main 6165-W Come and Learn How to Make Your Own Clothes Graduation After Completion of Course. Other Courses if Desired. Terms Reasonable. MISS R. E. BELL LADIES TAILOR 1111 Eye Street Northwest Washington, D. C. Home Cafe Geo. H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W. Meals 15c and 25c MEALS AT ALL HOURS It is an up-to-date Lunch Room It is the Sanitary Lunch Room where you and your family are r quested to come. Electric fans. 1231 E Street Northwest Phone Main 3631. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDIGESTION CURE This remedy will relieve and cure all forms of Indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heart burn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency, Pain in the Stomach, Water Brash, Acid Fermentation, Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. When taken into the Stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous foods, and cures the indigestion, by resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. W. L. SMITH, Druggist Fourth and Elm Sts. N. W. Washington, D. C.