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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXV, NO. 35 WASHINGTON, J. D. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1915 FEARLESS DEFENDER A. Man With a Conviction The Belgian Movement Endorsed The Most Conservative Minister in This City. A Christian and a Gentle man. Popular and Elopuent. the man Popular and Elopent. Kev. D. F. Rivers, pastor of Berean Baptist Church, is a man among the people and a Christian gentleman. He is one of he great ministers in this city who had the moral courage to encourage the Belgian Committee in its public reception to the Belgian sufferers. The Berean Baptist Church is beautifully situated at the Southeast corner of Eleventh and U streets, Northwest. Rev. Rivers is one of the most fearless preachers in the United States and for sixteen years he has been a fearless advocate of he doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man, and without the slightest reproach upon his character and reputation. He takes a broad view on all questions and as a humanitarian, he is beyond all doubt the most sympathetic. He is a most liberal man in every thing. He has helped all charities that have sought his aid. Will preach a sermon on missions the first Sunday night in February, at his church, Eleventh and U, at 7:30 o'clock, the free will offering to be turned over to the home of the "Home of the Friendless Girls," Sixth and Girard streets. This home is in dire need and all charity-loving people, race people, are asked to come and make an offering of from 25 cents and up, to this home, and hear this messenger of God deliver the word to his people. The service will be under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society, Charles F. W. Browne, president; Miss Helen Webb, secretary. Mrs. Julia M. Layton, the president of this home, has arranged for a quartette from the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church choir, of which her husband, Prof. John T. Layton, is director. A solo by Mrs Lucy A. Blagburn and a disc C. Summer Wormley will music by the Berean Cheerful seats. Here is an o show their real generosity by helping this home about to be sold. We promote all who come to hear this pulpit orator a grand treat. A man lost anywhere but in his pulpit. Now let us realize $150 for this worthy effort. We know that there are many who are praying for just such a home opportunity. No seats are to be given to any but charity loving and giving people. We now beg you to be present, for "If Israel is not gathered Jacob shall not lose his reward." HER TRIP TO CLEVELAND. Mrs. L. W. Cardozo's Descriptive Travel—What She Saw—A Graphic Description of a Trip from Washington to Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland, O., January 18. Special to The Bee. Perhaps just at this time a description of my trip from Washington to Cleveland, Ohio, via B. & O., will not come amiss, as many of my friends know of my absence, and in this way "I may hear from me thro the columns your valuable paper. First, as expected, I left Washington, Saturday, 10 A. M., arriving in Akron, (my first stop) 9:55 P. M., Eastern time, or 10:55. Western time. To say that I enjoyed my trip will but feebly exresse myself. As I sat gazing about this on one side and the other, brushing up higher and higher, every mile onward, brought awe, beauty, weatness and grandeur! All the handiwork of a Great God, I snow had fallen slightly some distance up, but the higher we came snow bounded. Snow capped mountains r the distance whose altitude was great. Trees laden heavily with snow and ice and the beautiful quiet flowing, river went its way with Western Mary. And Railway on one side and B. & Q. It the other. This river, the Potomac, of old be seen off and on, until a place taken Point of Rocks, Md. it began its ever panorship with the railroad, left which continues it is said, for one Kladred and fifty miles. We have as as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal railel with the railroad on South saw, however, only one boat drawn by horses at this point. The Civil War about this section was continuously occupied by both armies during year of 1864. For the first time I had a good idea of Harper's Ferry. That old song, so often heard and sung, "John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave," came to my mind, remembering also that here too was his tombstone. His old original homestead still remains, also occupied, in the aristocratic section of Akron. We arrive at Cumberland, Md., second largest city in Maryland, and largest in the mountains. Here I asked a passenger to drop some postals back to home folks. Leaving Cumberland the mountains grew in grandeur. I almost lost my breath in adoration of the beauty scenery around me—mountains, hills, valleys, snow and ice, greatness, grandeur, all combined with altitude; God's creation. My heart went out to Him who made me. This beauty about here could easily compare with some of the mountains I passed thro enroute to California. CIVILIZED, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? SO FAR AS I SEE, AMERICA BY HER DIRTY DEALINGS, WITH HER FELLOW-MAN IN COLOR, HAS PLACED HER SELF. IN PERSONS CONDITION, HANDING ON A SILK THREAD, BY THE SKIN OF HER TEETH, OVER INVISIBLE PITS OF HAIRS, SOME DAY THE THREAD IS OUGING. TO BREAK, CIVILIZED! BUIH! IF THERE EVER WAS A COUNTRY THAT NEEDS MISSIONARYS TIS THIS ONE I Saw a Price in the Daily Papers' Where the American People Objected to the Employment of You" Savages" in this European Warfare. You Had Better In a Civilized Country, and Get New Prints, in the Art of Civilization F. M. Gowan Four Color'd Citizens shot to death by a Georgia white mob, two men and two women. "It's a long lane that has no turn." We pass on thro West Virginia to a place called "Doe Gully," so-called be- "The Narrows." The hills on either side of the track are very precipitous. These cliffs are nearly one thousand feet high. All the time the cars are passing along they wind in and out. In many places the bed of the railroad had to be cut thro solid rock. This mountain was named after an old Shawnee Chief. It has been said that an Indian girl threw herself from its summit to the rocks below in her grief at her lover's death. Further on we come to a health resort called Hyndman, 1,100 feet above level of sea. Scenery is expressly grand. At a town called Bowman the railroad forms a complete horse-shoe, the heels of which are not more than two hundred feet apart. Greatest beauty yet is that seen going up to the new tunnel, called "Sand-patch," so-called because of the quarrel between two brothers over a large deposit of sand. So when the railroad was built the name was given to the station. The summit here attains to a height of greatest altitude. The summit of mountain above tide water is 2467 feet. Garret, Pa., I might make mention of, is so named after the former president of the B. & O. Going thro here about one and a half THE NEW YORK TIMES 1911 M. H. MR. JUSTICE FREDERICK L. SIDDONS The new Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After a hard fight he was vindicated and confirmed by the Senate. He is a Christian Judge, who believes in Equality of Citizenship. The new Associate Justice of the lumbla. After a hard fight he was vin He is a Christian Judge, who believes associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the hard fight he was vindicated and confirmed in Judge, who believes in Equality of Citizen feet. It's the confluence of three stream, Cassellman, Laurel Hill Creek and Youghiogheny. The township was named "Turkey Foot," because the confluence is formed into the shape of a turkey's foot. About here the scenery is picturesque, wild and mountainous. Passing on I noticed a sign which attracted the eye. (Ha! Ha!) It was that "Booze" was made here among the celebrated Alleghelies. Up the Cassellman River, Somerset County, large quantities of coal and coke are shipped to manufacturing cities. The Western Mountain Railroad, now on one side of river, the B. and O. on the other, shows a line of cars laden with this coal and coke. As I sat admired the mountains, trees laden with a weight of snow, my heart went out to the God who made me. Through the kindness of two ladies, and several times thro the conductor, I managed to find out about places and things as I travelled. At Confluence one of these ladies lived. She talked with me and through inquiring much about places as we went on, and by reading I also gathered valuable information. A sanitarium, "Maskleton" by name, sitting at the foot a mountain, judging by all appearances, would heal 1930 the Supreme Court of the District of Cohcicated and confirmed by the Senate. in Equality of Citizenship. any one going there. Restful and quiet. One of these ladies said that it was sad to think that they living in called the "City of Opportunities." It's a city of many hills, and in some respects resembled a Southern city. The houses are closely built, and nearly all are of frame, roofs covered with slate; spacious yards, shrubbery beautiful. Trees just now along the streets are covered with ice. Coasters seen on every side. "Sleigh bells ring, With a merry ching. As over the ice and snow they go. Gee up, gee ho, How swift they go Over the ice and drifts of snow." They have city water for usage, but all who own their homes may boast of good, healthful water from wells, most always 75 feet deep. Rent is not so high, but the high cost of living can be heard on all sides. As I have already stated, Akron is a city of opportunities, one which offers a variety of opportunities to all classes of men in their respective vocations. There are about 35 rubber shops, the largest of which are, the Goodrich Diamond Co., "Goodyear and Firestone Companies," Quaker Oats Co." etc. This latter one manufactures Rolled Oats, Puffed Rice, Corn, Wheat, Hominy Grits, flour, bran, feed for animals and fowls. THE NEW YORK TIMES THE NEW YORKER M. REV. D. F. RIVERS The gun is a cylinder about five feet long, twelve inches in diameter. It's portable, being on wheels, easily handled, yet very heavy. This gun is loaded with 70 pounds of wheat, sealed tight by driving a wedge between the lid and an end brace. After cooking in an oven for 35 minutes, under 180 pounds of steam pressure, it is drawn out into the bin where it is securely clamped on an automatic trip, when the brace is removed, and wedge, quickly unsealing it the high pressure instantly explodes the wheat, corn, or rice, whichever it may be. The sudden exposure to cold air is the secret of the puffing of the cereal. The raw grain makes four bushels of the puffed food. Every shot of 70 pounds grain nets the company about $18. When busy they make about 300 shots in one night. We were carried to another room and there saw the process of corn puffing. First, the corn is ground into real fine flour; the corn flour is moistened with water, then this dampened flour is slowly poured into a long rolling sieve, so starting at one end, by the time it rolls 20 feet to the other, it has formed into little balls, ranging in size from a pea to an acorn. These little balls of flour run down to the Sticks Closer to the Christian Religion. A Comparison of the Catholics to Others.—Mr. Cunningham's Defense. To the Editor of The Bee: Under the caption "Alleged Anti-Catholic Movement to Be Sifted," it is stated in a daily paper that a movement is declared to be in progress on the part of anti-Catholic societies and publications to drive Catholics out of public life, etc., etc. Now, we ask, in the name of justice, why such a movement should ever be thought of? We are not a Catholic, but the actions of the Catholics sometimes cause us to believe that those people stick closer to the teachings of our Lord Jesus, in that He said, "Little children, love one another as I have loved you" more than any of the Protestant Churches. For the Catholic Church dares to speak out against the wrongs done against the weaker race of people. During the great fight that was being made to disfranchise the colored voters in the State of Maryland not a single Church that we know of, or heard of, outside the Catholic Church (Priest) dared to raise up and condemn the wrongs done those inoffensive citizens of that State. But all of the rest of the Christian (?) Churches stood with heads bowed in blissful silence, thereby sanctioning the apostles of hell in their mad rush to rob the colored man and brother of his God-given rights to protect himself, by his ballot, against the enemies of his race and of the stars and stripes of the Union alike. All seems to run smoothly whenever a man who is a member of any other Church is spoken of for public office, but as soon as a man of the Catholic faith is mentioned the cry of "he's a Catholic!" "he's a Catholic, beware of him!" is heard among the hypocrites throughout all the land. And why this great howl against the Catholics? Guess it is because they seek the right faith and dare to pursue it. Soon after the inauguration of President Wilson to the Presidency we heard it noised around that his Secretary, Hon. Joseph P. Tumulty, was a Catholic. "And that," said then, would settle "white beaches," days ago we saw an account of the daily newspaper that Mr. Tumulty, more than any of his predecessors in the office of Secretary to the President, had a smile and a good word for every one that called at the White House to see him or the President. That's the kind of a man the country wants in office—one that doesn't think he's bigger than the people. And if he, then, is a true type of Catholics in public office let us hope that positions for Catholics in public office may ever be on the increase, instead of "driving them out of public life," as have been proposed by the anti-Catholic societies and publications. The Catholics have done a great many tilings for the uplift of our people, for which we'll ever feel grateful to them, and we would just as soon see a Catholic Priest in the White House as to see a Methodist Bishop there. The Church doesn't make the man of justice. It's the man that has the will power and the nerve to do justice to all mankind alike. And such men should always be in line and fully eligible for the Chief Magistracy of this glorious country and land of the free (?) in which we live. JOSEPH. C. CUNNINGHAM. next floor through pipes into a large revolving churn, nine feet in diameter, and cooked by steam, the temperature being about 300 degrees. After being put through various sieves, the smaller ones being reduced to about the size of a taploca grain, are used in the making of "Puffed Corn." These balls of simple corn flour are shot form guns the same way as rice or wheat. I trust that my letter will not prove too long a one, and if you can enjoy in part this way, that which I have seen, I will be happy again. "Until we meet again." I am your friend. Mrs. L. W. Cardoze. Washington, D. C. Where did you get that shirt, was the remark to Attorney A. W. Scott, to the guest of the Belgian ball last Friday evening, January 15th. O' remarked the lawyer, this is a tango shirt and it came from Robert Harlan the best place in town. What Harlan hasn't in stock is not worth calling for. THE I. B. P. O. E. W. Who Came to the Belgian Reception in a Body. One of the greatest demonstrations at the Belgian reception was the I. B. P. O. E. W., headed by Mr. I. Edward Wilson, Exalted Ruler of Morning Star Lodge. This is one of the crack organizations of the Elks. Mr. Wilson is dignified and reserved in his manner and a man in whom the organization has confidence. The Grand March, which started at 11:20 p. m., was headed by the exalted ruler and Attorney A. W. Scott, who is the legal advisor. This lodge has its own band and drum manager and the demonstration on last Friday night was something great. By the Sage of the Potomac. An incident occurred in a well known down town tonsorial parlor the other day that is worth entering in the mad-dog contest. A prominent white tonsorialist and his very prominent deeply brunette porter and shoe shiner, to come to the pith and gist and nub of the matter, were horrified beyond the power of mere words to portray, when, happening to glance up from their respective tasks they discovered a huge white bull dog, who had been idling about the shop in a rather suspicious manner, had suddenly seized the opportunity to contract hydrophobia, and was now dashing fither and yon. I admit the foregoing is a rather Everettsonian sentence, but the exigencies of the occasion requires it. But back to the mad-dog story. The dog was dashing hither and yon, foaming at the mouth with the utmost copiousness and profusion. 'The barber and his shoe shiner, who is popular in South Washington blind tiger circles, are both of rare poise and presence of mind, and they acted swiftly and surely in the emergency. The popular tonsorial artist proved the supremacy of the white race by reaching the lavatory booth first and rapidly closing the door behind him, while the prominent porter and shoeshiner, with scarcely less quick-wittedness and coolness gained at one prodigious bound the very apex of the back of a barber chair, where, preserving his equilibrium with no mean skill, and apparently prepared to leap higher if necessity demanded, he flourished a keen razor and breathed defiance. Mostly flourishing the keen razor. The picturesque tableau vivant, as Little Lord Faunteaurold would say, continued thus for some time, until at last the dog, by a herculean effort, succeeded in expelling from his great jaws the full cake of shaving soap which, through an advertisement, he had essayed to devour and which, as is now proved, had been solely responsible for his nervous dashing hither and yon, and for hydrophobia slavers and beslabberings as well. The prominent white tonsorialist and the very prominent porter and shoeshiner were inexpressably relieved at the turn of affairs, although keenly regretting the loss of the shaving soap. The tonsorialist felt it could not be used again, and was therefore a total loss, but the prominent porter and shoeshiner is said to have annunciated, as the brilliant correspondent of the Indianapolis Barber's Gazette would aver, he could see no reason why it could not be used, considering they had so many transient customers. I said the barber was white and the porter belonged to the one-eighth per cent race. But on second thought I am not prepared to say whetether one was an oxadized and one white, or whether both belonged to the Hunn League. Perhaps Bud Harris, if he fell into a reminiscent mood, might enlighten us. I dropped in a cafe conducted by a safron hued son of Ham the other day and observed a particularly laugh-engulfing spectacle. The very prudite and remonstant waiter ap proached a bevy of those chaming young crepe-de-chiners who were hastily lanching on pickled pigs feet in the elegantly appointed cafe, after having just finished doing a center rush at one of Goldenburg's bargain sales, at which they purchased nothing but experience. The waiter with great gusto and flourish started to open, for the three guests; a bottle of prime tomato catsup—about eight years old prime, observing, in his would involve no extra charge. As ill luck would have it, fermentation had set in that particular bottle of catsup about nine years previous. The cork suddenly flew out with the most prodigious pop, and the three fashionable intrimived, a la vassallined, coifures of the three winsome guests were exposed to a most effective enfilading fire of genuine left-over catsup. The three crepe-de-chiners were much put out by the contretemps, although the heat of their indignation was tempered some by the fact that the white coat of the pussy-footed waiter got the remainder of the bottle, which one of the crepe-de-chiners smeared him with. While I am working on cafes I might mention another delightful entry in the cafe-experience contest. Not in so very remote a period, I being in need of an invigorating vial of Faust, purchased myself the morning issue of the New York Journal and hied myself around to Gaskin's Waldorf-Astoria delux. Desiring to be insolated entirely, so that I might read without interruption, slipping over and anon the amber fluid, and after finishing reading, think, without molestation, about the greatest problem of the age—the Washington Colored School muddle, which, like the poor, we have with us always, I went to the floor, and secluded myself, as I thought, in one of those cozy-cornered curtain rooms of Aarons. The very genteel always-looking-for-a tip wafter, wearing a tuxedo, to harmonize with his complexion, brought me a bottle of delicious Faust, and a five cent cigar for which I paid ten cents, just in order to be liberal, doncherknow. Just as I got in one of those desirable and comfortable positions which makes it easy to read and pour out and drink your liquidating extracts, I overheard the following conversation in the adjoining apartment, which only a curtain intervened between: "I haven't saw you for several weeks. Where have you been?" The voice was unfamiliar, but there was no mistaking it to be the voice of one of those chick, vivacious and pungently odoriferous crepe-de-chiners who live south of the Avenue and west of Thirteenth street. "I've been awfully busy of late, though I tried to get you by phone several times." The voice rammed itself into my orifices as the voice of a very circum-spect gentleman whom I had frequently met at Bethel Literary scrambles, at various church sociables and prayer meetings. Still I doubted my orifices. Again the very much broiled chicken suggested: "I believe I could drink another one of them there sours, they is so luscious." I silolquized. But surely so circum- "Birdie, you can have as many as you want, or anything else you want," he replied, and with that touched the bell-for the walter. "That sounds like ——'s voice," spect a man as he would not meet a bird of passage here, and neither would he touch, taste or handle wine. The walter came. I listened for the order. Here it is: "Walter, bring the lady two sours at once, a package of Pall Malls, and bring me a couple of gin rickles and a package of Pall Malls." Ye Gods, I muffled to myself, that is his voice—him who makes temperance talks; of him who opposed Judge Terrell because he happened to see the Judge stop in Xander's to talk over music with Prof. Xander, of which both are infinitely fond, and here he is hittin' it up with some soul-mate. "Oh, Mr.——, you is so horribly extravagant when you are with me, but I suppose I must humor you and drink two more sours," she replied. Ah, no mistaking now, I heard her call his name. Will consistency ever get a fair show in this world, I mutted to myself, and while I was ruminating on the tendencies of the flesh and the devil, my thoughts were interrupted with a concussion—smack-smack-smack—and then she said: "Oh, Mr. ——, how lovely you can kiss." Cautiously getting down on the floor, I lifted up one corner of the partitioning curtain—just to make sure—peeled under, and there my eyes beheld this supposed (by those who don't know him) annulled, sanctified saint with sprouting angel wings and a halo about his dum-dum top piece, holding on his lap a bit of tabloid virtue from over the divide. And he a married man with grown up children—but the old fool is the biggest fool—and a high standing in church and society for his supposed many virtues. Every time I meet him I now want to say: "You d——n old hypocrit!" But if I did, then he would get on to who the Sage is, so I must hold my tongue. Some day, when Calvin releases me, I'll squeel on him. Prof. Miller is sure an "amoosin' cus." He surprises you with some of the sanest stunts, and then again he is liable, when you are not thinking, turn a freak trick. Recently he nominated Trotter for the Spingarn honor medal. What are the things the Boston alarm clock has done to merit this especial prize? He strewed a hall, once, with a very pungent nasal exciter called "red pepper" when Booker T. was speaking. For this he is entitled to the dishonor medal. He went over to the little old White House and hit Woody's segregation policy so hard that Woody yelled bloody murder. This was something meriting applause, and we "riz" up in our might and yelled "Hurrah for Trotter, he's the goods!" Everybody was doin' it. Doin' what? Why praising him. Before we got our breath he had capitalized his visit to the White House and went scurrying over the country speakin' on it at fifty-fifty. If he got that Spingarn medal, what guarantee has Prof. Miller he wouldn't nim it on his coat and start out charging 25 cents a peep? If Prof. Miller was a drinking man I think Wash Woods had mixed him up one of them there asphyxiated dopes called sundaes. And at that Old Race Adjustment is a pipin. This Belgian Relief Ball*proved one thing, and that is the old saying that "Lack counts once in awhile—brains count all the time." Take that committee that Chairman Wormley selected. A staff officer who stood four square to every wind that blew. My old friend, Dr. D. Webster Davis, says the world is full of Sampsons today. In every barbershop, he says, you can find them slaying institutions and individuals by the thousands, using Sampson's old weapon—that jawbone of a mule. There's where Admiral Wormley used his billiard ball and guarded his ship, for he walked into the head den of the Sampsons up on You street and nominated and appointed every barber in the shop on some committee or other. One funny thing about this shop. All the barbers are named Sammy. First Chair, Sammy Slick; Second Chair, Sammy Sitting Bull; Third Chair, Sammy Shakespeare (poet): Fourth Chair, Sammy the Fox (says about four words a day); Fifth Chair, Sammy New. Sitting Bull is some prohibitionist, too, believe me. Friday night I was in the shop about 5:56, getting a shave for the third time that evening, so I would look right at the shop and said: "Sammy Slick, the staff photographer of The Bee is out there ready to take a flash light of that decorated coal truck the Bears ordered to carry them to the ball." Sure enough, there was a 900-horsepower coal truck all decorated with flags and streamers before the door and Chase's 7-foot photographer with his machine, trying to get range. Sammy made a general exit from The Elite, and rushing up to the photographer, said: "Mr. Flashlight, you can hang here while I count three and a half, but on the stroke of four I GONA KNOCK YOU OFF." You will notice that The Beeaint carrying any picture labeled "Colored Americans Going to the Relief of Suffering Belgium in Coal Carfs." Sammy said he was on the committee and they couldn't pull off any rough stuff on that ball in his precinct, and they didn't. When Sammy Sitting Bull was with Green, he fell one day and broke a two dollar bill. They sent for the Emergency. The first thing the doctor did was to pass Sammy a flask and tell him to drink Sammy insisted on refusing, and the Dr. kicked him in the rubs, climbed on the ambulance and said: "Home James." Some prohibitionist. TO HELP SOUTHERN TEACHERS BRING THE SHOOL CLOSER TO THE FARM. With the object of helping rural teachers in the South to make their instruction of more practical value to farm children, and thereby increase the interest of these children in the common school branches, the educational specialists of the Department of Agriculture will shortly publish Department Bulletin No. 132. "Corre- lating Agriculture With the Public-School Subjects in the Southern States." The purpose of the bulletin is to supply teachers with methods of organizing agricultural clubs among their children, and to give them suggestive material whereby the facts and activities of farm life may be used effectively to vitalize and make of immediate use the school courses in arithmetic, language, nature study, history, geography, and drawing. The specialists believe that such a correlation can be made an effective agency in increasing the regularity and length of attendance of rural children, and by making school work a more direct means of teaching farm economy, will increase the readiness of rural parents to improve and support the local schools. Inasmuch as the correlation recommended is to be made effective largely through the establishment of children's clubs, the bulletin first gives the teacher complete details for the establishment and organization of juvenile clubs. The data supplied includes a sample constitution and by-laws, forms for necessary blanks, scores for racing the produces raised by the clubs, methods of awarding prizes, and details for developing school gardens, holding school exhibits, conducting practical work in seed selection, storing and testing. The bulletin then supplies outline courses for school or club work arranged in two groups, the first group showing how nature study and agriculture may be combined each school month with the public school studies of Grades 1 to 5; and the second group showing similar applications for Grades 6 to 8. This syllabus takes into careful consideration the difference in ages and interests of the pupils of the two groups. The purpose of the syllabus is to supply the teacher with practical problems in arm arithmetic and seasonal farm material to be used in language, history, geography, drawing, and nature study work, as a substitute for the un practical or remote problems and illustrations found in textbooks designed largely for city schools. The following is a sample outline or language lessons during the month of January in the lower grades: Conversations concerning the uses of fertilizers, the quantity required and for what crops, should be engaged in with the younger pupils. Oral and written accounts of visits to fertilizer plants, methods for distributing fertilizers, and metods of mixing should be required of the more advanced pupils of the group. Descriptions of fertilizer distributors, fertilizer mixing boxes, and the different brands of fertilizers should constitute work for the still more advanced pupils of this group. The drawing work would consist of outlines of fertilizer sacks, mixing boxes, horns tools used in the mixing of fertilizes, and sketches of improved fertilizer distributors. The arithmetic, following the same general plan, would deal largely with the number of sacks of fertilizer used and computation as to the amount of fertilizer and cost per acre or farm. The following month the work would be supplemented by practical observations of fertilizer mixing and application; visits to fertilizer factories or warehouses, etc. In February, the lessons would be based on seeds and seed testing, with practical work, in testing seeds, observation of orchards, pruning, etc. The same plan would be extended so as to take in more difficult subjects in Grades 6 to 8. For example, the lessons in arithmetic for Grades 6 to 8 for February would be based on the following outline: Problems on the value of selecting and testing seeds of the various crops should be developed for this month. Let the exercises involve the value of time spent in selecting and testing, the time spent in replanting, and the effect of untested seed on the stand and the ultimate yields. Let these exercises as nearly as possible be based on data gathered from the community. These processes may be multiplied to meet the needs of the different classes in the subject of arithmetic. Problems on the cost of spraying materials, the time spent in spraying, and the increased yield should be developed. Comparison should be made of the yields of sprayed and unsprayed trees, and problems developed on these as a basis. The value of sprays in prolonging the lives of plants should be estimated. The same plan is worked out for each month of a nine-month course, the bulletin covering the seasonal application of various farm processes in the South. The bulletin also includes material showing how to conduct practical work in selecting, storing, and testing seed, developing school gardens, arranging school exhibits, and preparing score cards for different agricultural products raised by children. The score cards, among other subjects, cover the following: bacon and lard hogs, cotton plant, corn, potatoes, tomatoes and apples; also butter, bread and jellies. The report closes with suggestive problems in arithmetic to indicate how the questions may be developed in the other subjects. The following indicates the practical correlation of these questions in arithmetic with the farm activities: Questions in Arithmetic for February 1. Spraying materials usually cost as follows: Lime. 1 cent per pound; copper sulphate. 10 cents per pound; Paris green. 30 cents per pound; arsenate of lead. 15 cents per pound; kerosene. 13 cents a gallon; hard soap. 10 cents per pound; lime-sulphur mixture. 15 cents per gallon. 2. Find the cost of the following formula: 5 pounds lime. 5 pounds copper sulphate. 50 gallons water. 3. Find the cost of the following formula: 2 gallions kerosene. 1 pound hard soap. 1 gallon water. 4. Find the cost of the following formula: 3 pounds arsenate of lead 50 gallons water. 5. If it takes three applications of 2 pounds of arsenate of lead and three lays' time, at $1.25 per day, to destroy the Colorado beetles on an acre of potatoes, how many bushels of potatoes at 50 cents per bushel, will be required to pay for the treatments? 6. A boy failed to select and test the vitality of his seed corn and secured only three-fourths of a regular stand. His yield was 60 bushels. What should it have been if his stand had been regular? 7. If two days had been required to select and test the corn seed in problem 6 and thereby secure a regular stand, what would have been the vault of the boy's time per day? 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The payment by Standard Life Insurance Company of Atlanta, Ga., of a two thousand dollar death claim in Pine Bluff, Ark., on January 4th, is a landmark in the history of Negro Life Insurance. The payment was made to Mrs. Artha Caver, widow of the late Lynch F. Caver, a prominent young business man of Pine Bluff. Mr. Caver was injured on December 17th, in a runaway accident while out driving, and died as a result of his injuries on Christmas Eve Day. Just five months before he was injured he had, at the solicitation of Mr. E. H. Carry, State Agency Director for the Standard at Little Rock, bought a policy of Two Thousand Dollars in Standard Life. Mr. Caver was only thirty-two years old, and had every reason to look forward to a ripe old age. He was in perfect physical condition, with a growing business and a happy family. The prompt payment of the claim by the Standard, which payment, was made the same day the death proof papers were received by them, is the best evidence of the soundness and stability of the Company, and makes history for the Negro insurance fraternity. It is a far cry from a sick benefit concern of $25 to $100, to a national organization like the Standard Life which can and does pay claims of from $1,000 to $5,000, and pay them without argument or delay. This Company is the only old line legal reserve life insurance company owned and operated by Negroes. While it is a pioneer in its field, it has back of it an ample capital, wide experience and capable management. It has a paid in capital of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, which is invested in Bonds and deposited with the State of Georgia for the protection of all its policyholders. During 1944, it was examined by the Insurance Department of Georgia and found to be in first-class condition. It underwent a very rigid inspection at the hands of the Texas Department. and was recently admitted to Texas with flying colors. Its rates, values, and policy forms were prepared by one of the best know actuaries in the country. It is operated by men who have been successful in their private business affairs and who brought to Standard Life the experience of years of careful business training. The whole race ought to get behind this institution which is destined to be a potent factor in the financial emancipation of our people and lend their efforts to make it succeed. The Company deserves the congratulations of our people everywhere for its splendid achievements in so short a time. It has over One Million and a Quarter in insurance in force, and operates in seven States, employing over three hundred people in the conduct of its business. NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. Furnished by the National Negro Business League. Two colored boys, James Jeter and Edward Allen, of Little Rock, Arkansas, joined the Savings Club of the Union Trust Company of that city and saved over $100.00 since January 7, 1914. These boys have a joint shoe-cleaning stand which they run after school hours. Aside from saving this money, they have bought their own clothes and schools books. The Civic Center Exposition Company, of Oakland, California, will have charge of some of the Negro exhibits at the Panama Exposition. Representatives of the leading colored educational institutions in the State of Virginia met in Richmond recently. Uniformity of standards and regulations was the basis of their deliberations. Andrew Irving is a member of the sales force of the Sharpe Furniture Company, of Naskville, Tennessee. The American Negro Academy held its eighteenth annual meeting in Washington, District of Columbia, last week. R. C. Houston of Dallas, Texas, has been appointed Treasurer of the Texas Grand Lodge of Masons to fill the unexpired term of the late Dr. W. T. Hughes. N. B. Dodson, editor of the Afro-American page of the American Press Association, has been elected president of the Sons of Virginia of Greater New York. Mrs. Odessa Warren Grey, of New York City, and one of the race's best known and most artistic mililners has moved into new and larger quarters at 2221 Seventh Avenue, Mrs. Grey is said to have a large patronage among Broadway actresses. The Page Shoe Store is a thriving Negro enterprise of Kansas City, Missouri. Annual Holiday ANNOUNCEMENT E. VOIK Manufacturing Jeweler and Dealer in Catholic Supplies 725 Seventh Street N. W., between G. and H. Established 1880. Telephone Main 2 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 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. 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 Everything in Good Wines, Whiskeys and Gins P. D. Washington THE TRAGEDY OF SAMSON THE STRONG Judges 13:8-16, 24, 25—Jan. 31. Samson Born a Nararite—His Birth Foretold—His Mission Foretold—The Value of a Mission—How He Judged Israel — Samson's Weakness — His Loyalty to God—Victory In Death. "Because, I pray there, and drink not wine nor strong drink."—Judges 13:4. H. I. Israelites who took a certain vow were styled Nazarites. No one should confound these people with the residents of Nazareth Jesus was a resident of Nazareth, but not a Nazarite The Nazarite vow was that spiritous liquor in every form should be avoided, and that the hair should not be cut. Samson from birth was under this vow, which, by the direction of the angel of the Lord, was adopted for him by his parents. In some sense the vow seems to have signified complete consecration to God and His service. Twice before Samson's birth, the angel of the Lord communicated with his parents to the intent that the mother's mind, especially, should be impressed with the importance of abstemiousness; and that her child should be born under a favorable A endowment doubledly his parents realized to what extent parents may give mental and physical The Angel Disappearing in the flame. what extent parents may give mental and physical strength to their children, and would be on the alert to endow their offspring favorably. According to Divine promise, Sampson was to be one of Israel's Judges—Deliverers. The need of deliverance is evident from the context. The Philippines resided to the southwest of Palestine. They were a warlike people, and very intelligent as respects manufacures. Their cunning is shown in that they not only disarmed the Israelites, but prohibited their making any iron implements or doing any kind of blacksmithing work. In this manner they held the Israelites in a species of peonage, exacting tribute of them. Samson's work for his people must not be measured by merely the amount of damage which he did to the Philistines as a warrior and as a strategist—setting fire to their wheat-fields by ingeniously using foxes for the purpose, etc. Doubtless his chief work was one of reviving the spirit of his people, who had become thoroughly hopeless under the oppression of their enemies. The lesson of what one could do when he devoted his life to delivering his people from their enemies must have been a great stimulus to patriotism and an encouragement to return to the Lord. Points to Be Remembered. We must not forget that the Jews were not Christians, and that the rules laid down by Jesus and the Apostle-fer Christians were not applicable to the Jews. According to the Scriptures Moses and the nation of Israel were a House of Servants (Hebrews 3:5, 6). They were promised Divine blessings in proportion as they served faithfully the Divine Law, which did not call upon them to be saints in the Christian sense of that word. Another difference between the Jew and the Christian is that the former was promised temporal blessings as a reward for faithfulness, while the latter is promised spiritual blessings with temporal adversities and trials of faith, patience, love and loyalty. Unless this distinction between the two Ages and the two Laws be borne in mind, we shall continually be in difficulty. According to the Law, Samson was rated as a very faithful servant of God. His faithfulness consisted in his loyalty to the Divine requirements and to Israel, God's covenanted people. His faith was continually manifested in all he did; and his life was used in serving his people. He is rated as an Ancient Worthy—Heb. 11:32, 39, 40. Samson was neither a Christian nor an example to Christians. In many respects he lived after the flesh, notwithstanding his noble self sacrifice in the Lord's service. We should remember, however, that he was never begotten of the Holy Spirit. Only since Pentecost, have any been begotten of the Spirit as "New Creatures in Christ." True, we read that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Samson: The Boy, Samson. ```markdown ``` but we are to bear in mind the wide distinction between spirit-begetting and the Spirit's mechanical operation upon the Prophets and other Ancient Worthies to move them to accomplish the Divine purposes. But Christians are to receive the Spirit of Adoption. A woman was Samson's undoing. He considered in her, and she betrayed him. While he slept, his deceitful friend cut off his hair, and then delivered him to his enemies. They gloated over him, put his eyes out, and kept him as a slave; grinding at the mills. But at a great feast, they brought him forth as a trophy. He stood between two immense pillars, which supported the roof of the great building; and with a prayer to God, he grasped these and pulled down the entire structure, doing more damage to the Philistines in the killing of their great men, and more therefore for the deliverance of his people. In that one act than in all the other experiences of his life. JamesH Winslow R'AD WEBB'S BIBLICAL WORKS OF THE BLACK MAN'S PART IN THE BIBLE. Jesus was a Black Man (or Negro) by blood. Webb's book and picture show it and prove it by the Bible. A picture 12x18 of Jesus with wooly hair and his holy angels at his second coming. And a book showing that Jesus was born out of the black tribe, according to Biblical history. This famous picture in colors and the Biblical book both for $1.50 postage prepaid. The following comment is upon the same, from the Seattle, Wash., Daily Times: The evidence submitted by Elder Webb tending to prove that the Saviour of mankind was a black those who, oppose the proposition upon their proof. Now that the chain of evidence presented by Mr. Webb seems so complete, it is strange that none of the delvers in the Biblical records have advanced the proposition before. Anglo-Saxon believes him or not Mr. Webb writes what he believes to be true about his race and their place in Biblical history. Combination of both books and pictures for $2.00 postage prepaid Send money order, express order or registered letter to Elder J. M. Webb, 3519 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Will submit terms to agents. Combination of both books and pictures for $2.00, postage prepaid. Send money order, express order, or registered letter to Elder J. M. Webb, 3519 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Will submit terms to agents. Real Hand Made Human Creole Hair FREE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK Duchess, Front View, $2.95 Duchess, Back View, $2.95 Sent to all who write. Latest styles. Largest wholesale importers and manufacturers of COLORED WOMEN'S HAIR "JEWEL" Straightening Comb, 50c. each "VICTOR" Straightening Comb, 75c. each "ELECTRIC" Straightening Comb, 20c. each "MAGIC" Heater, 50c. each "MAGIC" Straightening Comb, $1.00 each "MAGIC" Comb and Heater, $1.40 complete HAND MADE human hair goods is my specialty. The kind that will stand combing and redressing being HAND MADE enables me to guarantee perfect satisfaction on money refunded. For years I have stood the test My business being mostly wholesale, not only gives you prices lower than others but superior hair. LATEST STYLES always my aim. We sell Creole hair Goods, Wigs, Plates, Brushes, Puffs and Transformations. Hair in bulk. Hair Nets, Straightening Combs, and Hair Dresser Tools. Also toilet articles of worth and merit only, select from my long experience. I need word will bring my New Catalog FREE for the asking. PRINCESS, Park View, $3.24 Write Today, NOW Agents Wanted PRINCESS, Side View, $3.24 GEO CAY, 28 So. William St., New York City The wonderful results obtained by Dr. Palmer's Skin Whitener have caused serveral imitations Elder J. M. Webb. BOOK AND PICTURE Not only was Christ a Negro, but it seems that Solomon, who has been held up through all the ages as the personification of wisdom. had Ethiopian blood in his veins also. A new book entitled "The Black Man Was the Father of Civilization." This book defends its title exclusively by the Bible and therefore has nothing to fear. This book is illustrated with many pictures. Price, $1.00 by mail. The following comment is from the Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer: Elder J. M. Webb, evangelist of the Church of God, in his book describes the black man as the father of all civilization. He takes the Bible to show that the fathers of the church and all the great leaders, even the Greatest One, was black. Mr. Webb's work is able and thoughtful. Whether the Anglo-Saxon believes him or not, Mr. Webb writes what he believes to be true about his race and their place in Biblical history. Combination of both books and pictures for $2.00 postage prepaid, Send money order, express order or registered letter to Elder J. M. Webb, 3519 State Street, Chicago, Ill. Will submit terms to agents. books and pictures for $2.00, postage press order, or registered letter to Elder et, Chicago, Ill. Human Creole Hair EE FULLY GRATED LOOK Duchess. Beek view, $2.95 "WEL" Straightening Comb, 50c. each "ATOR" Straightening Comb, 75c. each "MAGIC" Heater, 50c. each "MAGIC" Comb and Heater, $1.40 complete Human hair goods is especially. The kind rubbing and redressing DE enables me to dissatisfaction money I have stood theeling mostly wholesome you prices lower superior hair. We sell Creole hair, Reticles, Duffs and hair in bulk, Hair Nets, and Hair Dresser articles of worth and from my long experi- will bring my New the asking. Agents Wanted PRINCESS. Side View, $3.24 O. William St., New York City 1914 Restaurant as the house of quality ce for ladies and gentlemen or dine ents served to our pntions are of vet Kind Penn. Ave. and D St. N. W. KINS PROP. THE HUMAN O FREE BEAUTIFULLY ASTRATED BOOK Duc COLORED WO "JEWEL" Straightening "VICTOR" Straightening each "MAGIC" Heater, and combing and redressing AND MADE enables me to perfect satisfaction or money For years I have stood the business being mostly whole- ly gives you of worth and but superior hair. STYLES, always my aim. Plats, Braids, Puffs and tations. Hair in bulk. Hair Nels, Ink Combs, and Hair Dresser from combs and from experti- card will bring my New REFOR the asking. AY, NOW Agents Wanted 28 So. 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BUSCHER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in CHOICE BEEF, LAMB and VEAL 539, 540, 511 Center Market Ninth Street Wing. Corned Beef a Specialty. Marketing Delivered Free. DEALER IN Fresh Fruits and Vegetables SALT MEATS Fine Line of Groceries, Imported Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco 1121 V Street N. W. THE NORTH END GROCERY CO. Phone North 4818. Optical work in all its branches. Your old glasses taken in exchange. It will pay you to see Dr. C. A. Miller, Graduate Optician, 1935 Eleventh Street Northwest. Phone N. 7437. FROM THE OLD UNTO THE NEW. I HAD IT DYED and my friends are mystified." Such is the innocent deception practiced by our patrons. We can effect transformation scientifically. No matter how flimsy or delicate the gown or laces they are safe in our most expert hands. Entrust us with your most exacting commissions for dyeing and dry cleaning. FOSTER'S DYE WORKS Offices: 11th and U Sts. Works: 1937-39 11th St. N. W. Our autos go everywhere. Our suburban service is unequalled. Phone North 2125-2126. SPECIAL NOTICE ARLINGTON POULTRY FARM, VA. Arlington Poultry and Egg Farm. Eggs, Chickens, at current market prices. Address orders to SAMUEL M. PIERRE, JR. Arlington, Va. ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 14th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Somebody with a conscience sent a one-dollar bill, unsigned, to the Treasury Department last week. He has started the Conscience Fund. Who will be the next? ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year in advance .. $2.00 Six months .. 1.00 Three months .. .50 Subscription monthly .. .20 CLAIM EVERYTHING Back in those early days, before the Australian ballot became a thing of perplexity, and when political astuteness and sagacity was determined by one's "rough-housing it" and claiming propensities, John C. Thompson, a now extinct Democratic manager, on election days, instructed his minions to "claim everything with confidence." The African exclusion amendment to the Immigration Bill was defeated in the House. Thereupon, immediately, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—a name of tremendous import, and likewise length, announced to a waiting public, "We did it." None of the thousands of unadvertised, unsung men and women of the race who beat the tom-tons of active opposition to the measure were given credit. Dr. Booker T. Washington, who, figuratively, burned up the telegraph wives in reaching friends, white and black, throughout the country to arouse them to activity against the bill was not even considered. "We" was a plural that included only the N. A. A. C. P. "We" wasn't even broad enough to include the Negro newspapers that immediately got busy to oppose the bill. "We" was a close corporation. The Bee recognizes, and highly commends, the very great work the N. A. A. C. P. did to assist in defeating this damnable measure, but The Bee is also aware that there were others. It would be well for some of the members of the N. A. A. C. P., in their exuberance over victory, to recall that down in the trenches there were allies, fighting with stubborn resistance the advance of the Congressional Anti-Negro Army, who, while saluting the N. A. A. C. P. flag, and honoring it, were fighting under another banner—but allies nevertheless. Come, gentlemen, don't be selfish, don't be so narrow as to claim all the honor. In a fight like that, when it is every black man's duty, (and every honest white man's too, for that matter,) to fall in line, and in a fight where every man does his duty, matters not to what organization he belongs, when victory finally comes remember, as Admiral Schulley said on a memorable occasion. "There's honor enough to go around." The "We" who defeated that damnable bill, or amendment, must include every one, high or low, who enlisted in the fight. OUR TEACHERS The public school teachers in this city are more abused and slandered than any other class of individuals. They are human, but from the abuse they receive from slanders, especially the females, you are led to believe that they are not what they are reported to be. This abuse against our teachers comes from persons who are not recognized by them or permitted to their society. A female teacher cannot be too careful and if they exercise care, they are criticised and accused of offences of which they are not guilty. The female teachers of Washington, to a great extent, are too hospitable for their own good. The Bee would suggest to the teachers of Washington and all other respectable females in this city, to be more careful about their associates and how they act while in society. Perhaps the most notorious and outrageous assertion that one would desire to hear was from a Negro at Howard University who attended a dance. Perhaps there were about fifty or a hundred at this dance. The Bee will not say whether they were boys or girls, but nevertheless, at the conclusion of each dance, couples would return to corners or rooms in the sight of others and chaperones, but the fastidious taste of one of the male guests could not relish such an exhibition. So disgusted he became until he had to throw it up to the lady and attempted to build a mountain out of a molchill. Young ladies in our public schools and universities have a great deal to encounter. The rearing of many of these students has been sadly neglected and when these come in contact with refinement and females who are trying to protect themselves from insults, the intruders become offended and seek to destroy the home and reputation of the female. There is too little commendation given to our women and especially the female public school teachers. No matter what a man does, he is seldom brought into the question. The bee doesn't mean that a female teacher should be given license to do wrong, but it does mean that many young female teachers are misrepresented. Let our teachers be protected. The 100,000 colored folk of Washington, D. C., are up in protest and in resolution denouncing the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company for using a bad looking picture of a colored men to advertise its wares. The Negro could stop all this sort of advertising if he had sense enough to protest in the pocket as well as in the mouth. Let him drink other beer or none and the pictures will fall off the boards. If ever The Dallas, Texas Express expressed the truth, it is found in an editorial excerpt from that paper, which The Bee reproduces this week. The colored people in this city can do more protesting than is in any other city in the country. There is more money in circulation among colored people in this city than in any other city in the United States. There is less race pride in this city than in any other city among colored people. The proof of The Bee is, we have but one shoe store in this city conducted by colored which doesn't draw one per cent of the colored trade in this city and at this store, every kind of a shoe can be purchased. Just think of it. There is one man who had to rise and fall before the colored consented to patronize him and today they are falling over each other to enter his theater. There is nothing that the colored people in this city can't accomplish if they would and spend a little money. We have in this city one men's furnishing store and certainly if two hundred colored men out of one hundred thousand colored people were regular patrons of this place, Mr. Hanlon would be compelled to employ help. Just think of it, not enough colored people patronize this place to enable Mr. Hanlon to employ additional help. It is not that his goods are not equal to any elsewhere. They are better and cheaper, as the goods themselves will testify. To tell colored people, especially those who drink beer, to cease drinking the beer of this objectionable sign would be like attempting to drive the water back from the Niagara Falls after it had fallen over the falls. The Bee would suggest to those who are protesting against this sign to have the colored preachers in their pulpits to denounce those who drink this beer. Turn the beer drinkers out of church. Tell the sweet-hearts of these beer drinkers to discard them. Purchase other brewers beer. Then you will do something and your work will be effective. Doesn't cost a cent to protest, but when a colored brother is called upon to spend his money he then demurs and fibs thousands of excuses. THE BELGIAN RECEPTION. Notwithstanding the mean and selfish jealousies of a few mean and designing individuals, the Belgian reception committees were successful in having a great reception for the benefit of the Belgian sufferers, at Convention hall. Friday evening, January 15th. The affair was both a success financially and socially; fully one thousand people attended, notwithstanding the assertion of a few barking dogs that one hundred people would not attend. Those colored people who attempted to knock and defeat this reception have their entire lives depending upon the white people for a living. What crime has this generation of Belgians committed against the natives of the Congo? What great enterprise has any colored man established alone! None. The knockers in this city were numerous, but did they defeat the object of the reception! By no means. Suppose that a few white people in the United States were opposed to the colored people, would that be a sufficient reason for all of them to refuse aid to a helpless number in distress? As a matter of fact, the Democratic South is opposed to the colored people, but everybody in the South is not against them. Those who endeavored to throw cold water on the Belgian reception failed. The St. Lukes' Herald also had an editorial criticizing those who took part in this Belgian movement. Those who opposed this reception failed to be given places of prominence and then they were convinced that those who were at the head of the general committee, although young, knew their business. Mr. Leon S. Wormley is no doubt the youngest man who has even taken up such an enterprise and his assistants were men and women of ability and character. The Bee is satisfied that many were disappointed as well as surprised to see such a large assembly of Washington's best citizens attending a humanitarian movement, notwithstanding the Nationality for whose benefit it was given. The time may come when the kickers may need the help of the friends of the distressed Belgians. The editor of The Bee doesn't belong to the so-called Christian hypocrite class and sham church goers. His religion is human treatment to the fallen lynchers excepted. SCHOOL CHANGES. The dissatisfaction of the people against the present management of the colored schools is about to be crystalized by the circulation of a petition in the interest of Prof. Thomas M. Gregory of Howard University. There is not a better qualified colored educator in this country than young Gregory. Prof. Hugh M. Brown is said to be an expert in vocational work. Either Gregory or Brown would be an honor to the public school system in this city. This school question hasn't been properly pre-Dr. Thurston knows of the dissatisfaction to the Board of Education in the schools and the dissatisfaction that manifested itself among the people. It is quite evident that the school question will have to be threshed out in Congress. Just whether Dr. Thurston would like to take a hold of the school situation is not definitely known. The friends of Dr. Montgomery are strong and numerous. The very best way to test the strength of the several persons mentioned is to hold a public meeting or to have the several churches give a public expression. Relative to Prof. Gregory of Howard University, or Prof. Kelly Miller either would fill the bill. Both are men of education and executive ability. The appointment of either would relieve the schools of embarrassment and the appointment of either would stop this contemptable Congressional investigation. There is no disguising the fact, the people are clamoring for a change in the school system. It has got to come, so it might as well to come now as at any other time. The Chief Justice and other members of the Supreme Court who appoint members of the Board of Education will see to it, that when the term of the members expire that strong men, white and black, will go on the board. There is a great demand for the return of Capt. James F. Oyster to the Board of Education. No man is more highly respected than Capt. Oyster by both white and colored teachers. No man is more respected, by the people than he is and no man has taken a greater interest in our schools. FLAT FEET Well, a colored man has passed the Police Surgeons and he didn't have flat feet or any other defects. The Bee understands that a white man also passed. The Bee would like to know whether he had flat feet. Why should there be any objection to flat feet applicants? The Bee has been contending for four or five years for the appointment of a colored man in the police department, but every time a colored man went before the examining board he was charged with having flat feet. This recent successful applicant was honorably discharged from the tenth cavalry, whose physical make up was beyond question. So perfectly built is this colored American no attempt would be made to turn him down on account of his feet on otherwise. SECRETARY BRYAN If a politician is disloyal to his friends he is damned and if he is loyal and works to take care of his supporters his acts are looked upon with suspicion. Any man, after he gets an office or is retained in office through the instrumentality of his friends should be commended. Secretary Bryan is one National Democrat who is loyal to his friends and does all in his power to see that they are given recognition. This is his only offense since he has been in the public eye and in power, to aid his friends. A man who betrays his friends is a traitor. The Bee would like to see more men like Mr. Bryan. BILLY SUNDAY. The only difference between Billy Sunday and Uncle Gardner's Lime Kiln Club is in his color. Blacken Billy Sunday's face, then you will have Brother Gardner. It has been said that one-half of the American people are fools, now it has been fully demonstrated. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH The letter of Mr. J. C. Cunningham in defense of the Catholic Church is timely. No Catholic ever leads or joins a mob to lynch Negroes. This can be said of other denominations? Answer? MR. HARDAWAY One of the most loyal race men in this country and a man who believes in Negro enterprises is Mr. Albert C. Hardaway. He is a man who reads much and The Bee congratulates him. Will some one inform The Bee just what the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people have done? It had no more to do with the defeat of the Immigration bill than Villa had creating war between Germany and the Allies and the sooner this organization ceases its slam agitation the better it will be for the Colored people. Dr. Lucy E. Mother will not be removed from the principalship of Normal School No. 2. Dr. Montgomery seems to be the favorite for Assistant Sperintendent of the Colored Schools. A petition is about to be circulated among the people to be presented to the Board of Education. Dr. C. W. Childs is to be commended for the stand he took against discrimination in the Colored schools. He is entitled to the plaudits of the people. He is working for the best interests of the Colored schools. Billy Sunday who came to Washington to save simmers and to convert Christians failed to say anything against lynching and race discrimination. God doesn't discriminate, why does Billy Sunday? The Belgian reception was a success notwithstanding the predictions of the kickers and knockers. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Mr. Frederick L. Siddons as one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. His appointment meets the approval of the citizens and bar. TEACHERS' BENEFIT ASSOCIATION Election of Officers - The Coming Entertainment The first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Teachers' Benefit and Annuity Association, for the year 1915, was held at the residence of Miss E. F. G. Merritt, president of the association. Minutes were read and adopted, officers installed and committees assigned. The most important business brought before the board was that of an entertainment to be given at the new auditorium, Eighth street, S. E., for the benefit of the Retirement fund of the T. B. A. A., Friday evening, February 12, 1915. On this occasion, Miss Lucy Brown, Washington's most artistic and graceful dancer, will give an exhibition of all the latest steps and lead all the dancing of the evening. Every citizen is earnestly requested to come and support this movement for the benefit of those noble teachers who have given their best efforts and entire life to the children of our race. A Retirement Fund means more efficiency in the school system; more efficiency means greater advantages to our children, and consequently, greater strength to our race and nation. The following officers were installed: E. F. G. Merritt, President; W. D. Nixon, First Vice President; H. B. Beason, Second Vice President; M. E. Burrell, Financial Secretary; E. D. Bletcher, Assistant Financial Secretary; C. E. Martin, Recording Secretary; A. L. Cornell, Treasurer. Board of Directors: M. V. Tibbs, E. F. Wilson, A. E. Thompson, G. S. Wormley, J. C. Payne, A. K. Savoy, S. D. Matthews, A. V. Saunders, O. Powell, M. Griffin, R. C. Wheeler, O. M. McDonald. Scottish Rite Masons Hold Memorial Services at 19th Street Baptist Church, Sunday Night, January 24th, 1915. The Scottish Rite Masons Memorial Service will be held Sunday night at 19th Street Baptist Church, in honor of the following members who have died during the year: Alex. S. Howard, 33d degree; Chas. H. Wright, 33d degree; Wm. H. Severn, 33d degree; and Wm. H. Myers, 33d degree. The following program will be rendered: Processional Hymn, Choir, Scripte Reading, Rev. J. N. Beaman, 33d degree; Prayer, Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D.; Exercises, Consistency Officers; Select Reading (Thanatopsis), S. S. Thompson, M. D., 33d degree; Solo Selected, Dr. S. C. Wormler, 33d degree; Oration (Life of Chas H. Wright, 33d degree) A. J. Smith, 33d degree; Solo Selected, Miss Nettle Murray; Oration (Life of H. Myers, 33d degree) Prof N. E. Weather- less, 33d degree; Violin Solo, Miss J. L. Harris; Select Reading, Miss B. Richardson; Oration (Life of Wm. H. Severson, 33 degree), James O. Bampfield, 33d degree; Solo Selected, Miss Charlotte Wallace; Oration (Life of Alex. Howard, 33d degree), S.' S. Thompson; M. D., 33d degree; Violin Solo, Mr. R. D. Carlton Dorsey. SYRACUSE LODGE, NO. 5, KNIGHTS OF G KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAAS. The third annual smoker of Syracuse Lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias, took place at True Reformers Hall, Friday evening, January 15. It was an enjoyable affair, Mr. Edward Janifer, chairman, acted as master of ceremonies in his usual dignified manner, he presided with precision. The following program was rendered: Opening Address by Grand Chan- cellier, John S. Johnson. 1. Song Harmony Quartette 2. Music Musica Trio 3. Recitation Geo. A. Smallwood 4. Song, Keystone Trio, Ed. Luckett, Tom Young and John Hill. 5. Athletic Sport 6. Violin Solo Armond Scott 7. Address On Organization, John Lewis 8. Song, Capt. Henderson, Pythlas Quartetto 9. Athletic Sport 10. Song, Keystone Trio, Ed. Luckett, Tom Young and John Hill 11. Cornet Solo Leader of Elks' Band, Prof. Willis, No. 40 n 12. Music Musica Trio 13. Address Dr. S. S. Thompson 14. Solo Joseph Wilson 15. Closing Song Harmony Quartette ESAW WINSLOW One of t the most competent and well known funeral directors In this city, who has recently gone into business for himself is Mr. Esaw Winslow. This young man has grown within the past two years. He first learned the business under his uncle James H. Winslow, one of the pioneer directors in this city. No citizens are better to the people than the Winslows. Esaw as he is best known, is a young man full of business and very gentlemanly in his manners and polite in his dealings with other people. There is one thing about Mr. Esaw Winslow, he is perfectly competent in his line of business and there is no doubt but that he is one among the leading funeral directors in this city. Call and inspect his chapel, 11th and You Streets, Northwest. Special Notice. Great revival in progress at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, 29th street West Washington A special evangelist is assisting the Pastor, Rev. W. C. Thompson. Scores are being converted. Hundreds are attending the meetings. Men's meeting Sunday 6:30 P. M. to 7:45 P. M. All men and boys invited. Preaching 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. by Rev. R. H. Sawyer. MANASSAS SCHOOL Mrs. Robert A. Jones, of the Manassas, Va., Industrial School, was introduced by Rev. M. W. Clair, of Ashby M. E. Church, last Sunday morning, and in a very neat address Mrs. Jones spoke of the need of the Manassas School and what the management was trying to do to raise enough money to pay off a $2,000 indebtedness on the School. At the conclusion of her address a collection of $9.26 was raised. She spoke at the Jerusalem Baptist Church Sunday evening, Rev. Geo. W. Harris, Pastor. MRS. LOGAN Mrs. John A. Logan will meet the entire committee at the residence of the chairman and secretary, Mrs. Leon S. Wormley and Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, 1937 13th street, Northwest, met Monday night at eight o'clock. The presentation address will be made by either Dr. Cabaniss, Judge Terrell, Mr. Leon S. Wormly or Mrs. Andrews. Also short one minute addresses will be made by other members of the committee. DETECTIVE CARROLL. Steubenville, O.. Jan'y 14. Special to the Bee. Sergeant Detective Robert L. Carroll, of Washington, D. C., is here. He is returning with Elenora W. Lampkins who is wanted as a fugitive from justice. She is is an important witness against an Italian named Sebastian Aguston, who is charged under the man act. Sergeant Carroll is greatly impressed with the plan. His treatment by the officials and others is greatly appreciated by him. He is a fine looking man is the impression of officials. Mrs. L. W. Cardozo is in Akron, Ohio, visiting friends. She is having a most delightful time. Mrs. Ella V. Clase Williams is in Abbeville, S. C., is suffering with an attack of rheumatism. The Washington Humane Society held its forty-sixth annual meeting in the gold room of the Shoreham Hotel last Monday afternoon. Bricks for the new M Street High School are being hauled from the Ocoquan work house as fast as the wagons can haul them from the District storage yard, foot of 19th street, southwest. The order just now received at the storage yards calls for 200,000 bricks for this school, but this is a very small proportion of the total bricks that will be used. Mrs. John A. Logan, was re-elected president of the board of incorporation of Garfield Memorial Hospital at their annual meeting last Monday. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well without a thought of fame.—Long-fellow. Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run half way to meet it. Let us do what honor demands. INNOCENT MAN HANGED. So Says Letter on Painter Case to Chief of Chicago Police. Chicago.—That an innocent man was executed here in 1894, when George H. Palmer was hanged for the murder of Alice Martin, is the statement made in a letter received by Chief of Police Gleason from a person signing himself "R. W. Baxter" of Buffalo, Sangamen county, Ill. The writer asked that Palter's relatives be found and promised to remove the stigma from the family. Palter's last words on the scaffold were a declaration that he was not guilty. Alice Martin, Palter's sweetheart, was beaten to death in 1891, and Palter was arrested one months later. After two years of fighting the prisoner was convicted and executed. On the scaffold he said: "If I killed Alice Martin, the girl I dearly loved, the woman I loved so much that I would almost commit any crime for her, I pray this minute, my last minute on earth, that the eternal God will put me into eternal hell." The condemned man raised his voice and continued: "Look here, gentlemen, if there is one man among you who is an American I say to him on his soul-on his soul, I say—see that the murderer of Alice Martin is found." The scaffold prayer was delivered by the Rev. A. P. Moerlyke, who said: "May he whom so many believe innocent of this crime join thee in everlasting life, for the sake, O Lord, of thy son Jesus Christ, our Lord." Gleason said he would take no steps in the matter except to look for Painter's relatives to make known to them Baxter's request. TOWN TURNS OUT TO PAN GOLD IN STREETS Sumner, Wash.—Excitement prevailed in Summer following the news of a "gold" strike made on Main street by Frank Kelly, an ex-Alaskan miner of nine years' experience. For several hours forty men and boys panned the mud in the gutter and proudly exhibited the "dust." Kelly staked out a twenty acre mining claim, including the heart of the city, and two hours later the claim was jumped by Jesse Childs. The local druggist, Bill Naysmith, who made a hasty nitric acid test of the glittering metal, pronounced it pure gold. Kelly was sweeping the sidewalk in front of the Kelly & Darr grocery on Main street when he saw bright specks the size of pin heads in the mud in the gutter. He hastily got a pie tin and panned some of the mud containing half a spoonful of the dust. Taking it to Naysmith, he was assured after acid examination it was real gold. Kelly then obtained a government mining claim blank and filled it out. The claim was named the D. & K. claim. The location was the regular twenty acres allowed by the government. The filed claim sheet was nailed to a two foot board that was placed upright between two bricks at the edge of the street. By this time, however, the report of the strike had gone out, and as Kelly went to mark the four corrugs of his claim others began to appear with pans of all descriptions. Brooms, shovels and all kinds of implements for collecting a pile of the valuable dirt were pressed into service. Tom Frye and several others ran to the fire house and brought out the fire hose. When this was turned on to sluice the street a number of the slower miners got a bath. Frye obtained a bottleful of the "gold" mixed with the black sand and boasted that it contained at least $200 worth. By 2 o'clock the street had been swept as clean as a billiard table, the first time it has been washed clean since it was laid, it was said. The metal was pronounced to be pyrites of iron, or "fool's gold" by Streeter Heall of Puyallup after more scopic and heated mirk acid tests. It was admitted by all, however, that it looked to be real gold, and being found in black sand was an added indication in its favor. The sand that fell on the streets was from gravel and sand wagons hauling it from a gravel bank near the Stuck river. Mayor Wants Municipal Church. Mayor Wants Municipal Church. San Bernardino, Cal.-Mayer J. W. Catclle issued a statement advocating the abolishment of all churches in the city and the building in their stead, by a bond issue, of a tabernacle seating more than 2,500 and the appointment of a municipal minister, who would administer the spiritual needs of San Bernardino. He also proposed the appointment of a municipal minister, who must perform all marriages and officiate at all funerals free; the prohibition by law of the soliciting of funds from congregations; the entire city to be members of the church, which would be maintained by municipal taxation. "Let us have only one good route to heaven and a municipal minister to point the way." concluded the mayor. Jeffre Doesn't Read Papers. Paris.—General Joffre, the French commander, has not read a newspaper since the war began, it is said, and the only thing in the way of letters he has written were brief notes to his wife and sister. The Week 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 Mr. Cleveland Haywood, of this city, was entertained at dinner last Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. A. Miller, of 1517 Fitzwater Street, Philadelphia. Miss Margaret Mahoney, a trained nurse of this city, is stationed at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York. A sermon will be preached by the Rev. W. H. Gaines, to Golden Star Lodge, No. 13. C. O. of G. S., and D. of S., Sunday, January 31. 1915, at 3 o'clock P. M., at the hall, First Street between D and Va. Avenue, Southwest. The Bean Brummel Society Club is being congratulated upon for the brilliant reception given them on New Year's night at 217 T Street. The club consists of Rolandus H. Cooper, president; Walter J. Taylor, vice president; Harry A. Dean, secretary; Ellis B. Wetherless, treasurer; Richard Tompkins, sergeant-at-arms, and Arthur Collins, Charles Dean, Chauncey Cooper, Alfred Lewis and Robert Carroll. A host of their many friends were present. Mrs. Ella Johnson, of 1153 8th St., Northwest, was taken suddenly ill on 7th Street last week and died on her way to the hospital. Miss Ella Eugenia Whitfield, a teacher in the National Training School, this city delivered an instructive and interesting address Tuesday evening, January 5, at the Union Baptist Church, Elizabeth, New Jersey. The dedicatory services at the New Liberty Baptist Church, Twenty-third Street, between H and Eye Streets, began Sunday. January 17, and will continue through Sunday, January 24. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church was interviewed by a Herald reporter for his opinion concerning Evangelist Billy Sunday coming here. Miss Bertha Ernestine Hanson, a teacher in the Morgan College Annex, Lynchburg, Va., and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hanson of this city, will be married in the early spring to Rev. Alex. A. Hector, S. T. B., pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Lynchburg, Va. Miss Anna V. Thompkins, daughter of the late Rev. Richard C. and Mary A. Thompkins, died last Friday morning at 3:15, January 15, at her residence, 1610 15th Street, Northwest. The funeral was held from the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Sunday, January 17, at 1 P. M. Mrs. Maria Brooks, of this city, was the guest last week of Mrs. Louise Brooks, of S. Garnet Street, Philadelphia. Mrs. Brooks also spent a few days in New York. By the will of the late Jas. F. J. Buddy, his personal property is given to his wife who is to have the use of the real estate for life. Then the real estate will be divided among the two daughters, Della H. and Zanobla M. Buddy. His mother will be cared for by his wife as is his wishes. The Emergency Pharmacy at 14S M Street, S. E., is owned by Dr. F. S. Phillips, formerly of 4th Street, Northwest; his new store is up-to-date and you find everything there that is kept in any first class drug store; it is also the agency for the Bee. Dr. S. M. Price, who has thoroughly recovered, is up and out again. He was attended by Dr. Holmes, of Arlington, Va. Mrs. Mary C. Martin, after a long spell of illness, is able to report for duty at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. She was under the professional care of Dr. A. M. Curtis. Maj. John H. Campbell died January 18, 3:15 p. m., at his home, 468 First street, S. W. His funeral was held from Zion Baptist Church. Thursday, 1 p. m., Rev. W. J. Howard officiating. Midnight services were held January 20, by the Jonathan Davis Consistory. No. 1, 32d Scottish Rite Masons. Jacob Henderson, preachers' steward in Galbraith A. M. E. Church, died at Georgetown University Hospital, at S o'clock. Monday evening. His funeral was held at his church, Thursday at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. W. D. Battle preached an able sermon, telling of great church work and his traits of character. The home of Mrs. Thomas E. Duaney was the scene of a very pretty marriage last Thursday evening. January 14, her daughter, Miss Essie E., becoming the bride of Mr George A. Ross, of Lewiston, Maine. The contracting parties are both native of Alexandria, Va. Mr. W. R. Jones, the instructor in the Vistana Private Dancing Class, which meets every Thursday evening in Room 10 of True Reformers Hall, report that the attendance is fine and much progress is being made in the new dances. Mr. Jones resides a 1726 11th street N. W. The officers are W. C. Chase, Jr., President, O. J. Burke, Vice President, and Miss Sadie White Secretary. SOUTH WASHINGTON NEWS. The Y. M. C. A. held its meeting last Sunday afternoon, at the Zion Baptist Church, F street, S. W. The meeting was a joint meeting of the association and the Men's Club of the Church. The object of the meeting was to establish a closer relationship between the Y. M. C. A. and the men of the Southwest section. Rev. M. F. Sydes, pastor of the St. Paul A. M. E. Church, delivered the principal address, the topic of which was "New Americanism." The address was inspiring and full of rich food for thought. Mr. Beckett, of the Y. M. C. A., followed the address with appropriate remarks, presenting the work of the association, and soliciting the attendance and co-operation of all the men present. Mr. O. W. McDonald, president of the Men's Club, presided. The success of the meeting was due largely to Mr. Samuel Middleton, who is affiliated with both organizations. Saint Paul A. M. E. C. E. Society was a brilliant scene last Sunday evening. Miss Taylor presided. Mr. Joseph Phigpen introduced Mr. C. B. Walker, of the Zion Baptist Church, who addressed the society on Committee Work. Mr. Tucker, the State Superintendent of the Allen League, encouraged the society for their good work. Miss Marie Madra was present. Miss Madora M. Moxley rendered a solo, which captured every one. Miss Ruh Sydes was successful in getting more points than Miss Mary Proctor. This feature of the program caused great enthusiasm. Mr. Earnest Moxley and Mr. Geo. W. Smallwood were appointed by the president for the race next month. Rev. M. F. Sydes will preach a special sermon Sunday morning, 11 o'clock, a. m., at Saint Paul, A. M. E. Church, Eighth street, between D and E, subject, "New Americanism." Sunday was a great day at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church and all services were highly spiritual and financial in spite of the down pour of rain. The Sunday School over which Mr. James Taylor presides had a splendid number at 9:30 and three persons joined. The school has taken on new life in the past six months. At 11 a. m., the pastor, Rev. R. A. Carroll, preached an excellent sermon from the subject, "God in an Earthquake." Much thought was given to this subject, and as he applied physics and medophysics to Biblical and Christian life, a full realization of the subject was witnessed. At 3:30, Rev. M. W. Clair, of Asbury, preached a masterful sermon on "Individual Responsibility," as only he could. To say that Dr. Clair preached, is enough to say to Washingtonians. At 7:30, p. m., Rev. Dr. Kyles, editor of the Quarterly Review of the A. M. E. Zion Church, now located in Winston, Saleh N. C., preached an excellent sermon from the first division Psalm. All day was a real gospel feast. Next Sunday will be a special service at, 3:30 in the interest of Sunday observance of the city. A special program has been arranged. CROOM, MD Rev. C. E. Nelson, pastor at Fairmont Heights, made a visit last Friday to the Croom public school, of which Miss M. E. Bruce is teacher, and delivered a very inspiring address to the pupils. Much credit is due Mr. Emery R. Cole, principal of Holly Grove school, for having organized a club to obtain a travelling library for this village Mr. Jas. E. Diggs, principal of Upper Mariboro school, spent the week end in Benedict, Md. Misses Mabel B. Williams, Mamie E. Bruce and Mr. Wm. H. Chew were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. E. Wilson, Upper Mariboro. Miss Mabel B. Williams, teacher of Croom Station school, was called home this week to attend the funeral of her brother. Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to her in dark hours of bereavement. WEST WASHINGTON. A Nine-Night Prayer and Carnival was opened on Tuesday evening for the benefit of Odd Fellows Home Association at Odd Fellows Hall, Mt.Pleasant. The attendance was large and very encouraging to the management of the Old Folks' Home. The Washington Patriarchs and Marching Club, in their brilliant uniforms, was the attracting feature of the gathering, and addresses by Mrs. Mary Barber opening the services. Mr. Jacob B. Alkens President, Mrs. A. B. Pander Secretary. Rev. R. H. Sawyer, of Newburn, S. C., the evangelist, is conducting very large meetings at Mt. Zlon M. E. Church. Many seekers and a score of converts. These meetings are to continue another week. All are invited The funeral of Mr. Robert Upsher took place Wednesday afternoon from the family residence, 2728 P street, and was largely attended. St. John Lodge of Moses and the Elder Man's Immediate Relief, of which he was a member, attended. Rev. M. W. Clair officiated, assisted by Rev. Amstead Jones, Rev. W. C. Thompson. Interment Mt. Zion Cemetery. Mrs. Lillie G. Williams, of 2459 P street is very ill, and grave doubts of her recovery, as she has weakened much on account of her long illness. - THEBELGIAN RECEPTION A Brilliant Gathering of Social Washington at Convention Hall—Notwithstanding the Knocks, Chairman Leon S. Wormley Used His Corps of Workers Successfully—Many Distinguished People Present—Mrs. Logan and a Host of Her Friends Occupy Seats in the Balcony—The Veteran Visitors Pleased. Notwithstanding the great opposition and the manifest prejudice of those who couldn't control and manage the great Charity Reception for the benefit of the Belgian sufferers, it was both a social and financial success. At the time when that great and good woman, Mrs. Logan, invited to her residence several renownable citi- A. Chairman of the General Committee of the Reception for the Belgian suffers. He was active, progressive and popular. Successful against all opposition to the movement. zens to talk over with them the propriety of a Charity Reception by the colored citizens for the benefit of the Belgian sufferers, many pledges were made to her by those present, but few stood steadfast in the ranks to bring the affair to a successful termination. Among those who deserve the greatest credit and commendation THE Chairman of the Finance Committee, A man of the people, who rendered invaluable services. His whole heart was in the movement. are Chairman Leon S. Wormley, a young man, a native of this city, and who has the respect and confidence of his people, who devoted much time and made many personal sacrifices. Judge H. Terrell took his personal [Name] JUDGE ROBERT H. TERRILL Chairman of the Executive Committee. Highly respected, constantly on the job in behalf of the suffering Belgians. Abuse, unjust criticisms failed to divert him from the cause. time and went from hall to hall and from organization to organization, and in this connection too much can not be said of Morning Star Elks of the World. They marched to Convention Hall with their own band and each member paid his admission fee. Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson and her esteemed husband, Mr. John B. Anderson, are entitled to the highest praise. Both of these well-known personages, who are making the Independent Order of St. Luke such a success, operated in the State of Maryland in behalf of the reception. Mr. Ferdinand Lee, an active member of the Finance Committee gave his time to make the affair a success. He deserves honorable mention. Dr. George W. Cabaniss, Chairman of the Finance Committee, and who handled the funds of the reception, is known to all Washington for his honesty and integrity. Dr. Sumner Wormley, who is re- M. MRS. BESSIE B. ANDERSON. Industrious and worked assiduously for the success of the reception. A woman of great executive ability, polished, eloquent and forcible speaker. garded as the most liberal member of any committee, was not only an active floor member, but he made himself useful everywhere. Mr. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., Chairman of the Printing Committee, furnished the circulars and tickets. When certain persons failed in their attempt to control everything, especially this committee, Chairman Wormley removed them from the general committee. And when those impediments got out of the way the affair went on smoothly. None of those disturbing elements were missed and whenever a rebel showed his head Chairman Wormley dicapitated him. CAPTAIN JOHN BUCK. Member of the Committee on Public Comfort, a man with a great record. As he appeared while a Captain THE MEMORIAL OF THE FATHER AND MOTHER OF THE FAMILY OF THE MIDDLE EAST COUNTY OF NEW YORK In the 48th Infantry, United States Volunteers. Capt. Buck rendered great service to the Belgium relief committee. HIS ONE-HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY. Mrs. Overton's Reception to Her Father a Brilliant Reception. Mrs. Thos. W. Overton's reception, January 17, in honor of his father, Spencer 'Oleeman's one-hundredth 1. Rev R. Alexander Carroll, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church, this city, is a real progressive pastor. He has fully met the demands of his people in his church work herp. Every interest of his church is carefully looked after by this young and progressive pastor. More than sixty persons have been added to the church since he came here less than a year ago. He has just closed a successful revival where many souls has been won for Christ and added to the church. He is clean and up-to-date and one of the preachers of whom the breath of suspicion has not blown across his brow. Born in Nottingham, Md., and was educated from birthday anniversary, was a 'brilliant success. The house was beautifully decorated with palms and cut flowers, the mantles were banked with pink roses and a center piece of pink THE rosebuds, numbering one hundred, made a beautiful specacle. Mrs. Overert received in pink satin and pearls, the two hundred or more guests that called. Assisting in the diningroom, where the guests drank grape juice to the health of Mr. Coleman were: Mrs. Carl Mason, in old rose satin and jet; Mrs. Daisy Alexander, in yellow charmeuse; Mrs. Wm. Peck, in green silk; Miss Gertrude Murphy, in blue satin and lace; Mrs. Mabel Carroll, in white satin; Mrs. Chas. Gibson, in gray velvet. Little Dorothy Carroll, the great grand daughter, received the guests by her great grandfather's side, after which a flashlight picture was taken of Mr. Coleman and Little Dorothy, his grand daughter. Among some of the guests were: Rev. and Mrs. Edgar Ricks; Mr. and Mrs. Archie Pinkett; Mrs. Virginia Tinney; Mrs. Lila McDaniels; Miss Anna Pettiford; Rev. and Mrs. Barton, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Cabantss; Mr. Harry Mickey; Rev. and Mrs. Andrew Hogan; Mr. A. J. Gaskins; Mr. Wm. Brown; J. E. Williams; Mrs. B. D. Boyd, and Mrs. Henry K. Freeman. MR. W. J. BLAKE. W I. Blake, from South Carolina, formerly a student of Brahndar Institute. Chester, S. C., and of Biddle University, of Charlotte, N. C., and of the Law Department of Howard University, now employed in the government service, one of the members of the financial committee, of the Belgium relief, having served as secretary to the sub-committee. Identified with fraternal and secret organizations of Washington, at present a trustee of Metropolitan A. M. E. Z. Church, D street, S. W., also assistant superintendent of Sunday School of said Church. The public schools of this city colored and white, will be represented by an exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. If a fellow is willing to appear less than he, is he is a great man. He that refuses to assist right, will be beaten by the right, and don't you forget it ```markdown ``` Morgan College was pastor of mother church of Zion at Newbern, N. C. was presiding elder, was pastor of his church at Carlisle, Pa., and has been E. Church last Sunday and preached Twenty-one years in the ministry and has made wonderful strides in that time. When the general conference meets to elect bishops it is well to keep your eye on this young progressive minister of the A. M. E. Zion Church. Rev. L. W. Kyle, of Newbern, N. C., occupied the pulpit of Galbraith A. M. a success wherever he has pastored, and eloquent sermon. Rev. Kyle was pastor at one time of Union Westly, this city. So Says Garner, Who Has Spent Years Studying Monkey Language. Studying Monkey Language. Los Angeles, Cal.—"There will come a day," says R. L. Garner, who tutored Materlnick in the ways of animals, "when all animal and bird life will become articulate. A dream? Cannot the bee teach us a higher communism—the quick, effective elimination of the unit and shirker? Cannot the birds tell us their secret of flying? Would we not like to know why the orole, the oven bird or castle building ant are so much better engineers than we?" Garner says he thinks the gorilla and chimpanzee more civilized than man because they are more monogamous. He spent twenty-five years studying these animals in the Kongo and after a vacation will return there. It is from the gorillas and chimpanzees, he says, that "will come the first twin cables from which scientists will hang a bridge on which man and his lesser brothers of the world will meet in oracular converse." OLD HOTEL FOR HOMELESS. St. Caroline's Court Once Was Social Favorita in Chicago. Chicago - St. Caroline's Court hotel, which forty years ago was the center of many of Chicago's social functions, will become a shelter for unemployed and homeless men. The famous hostelry is richly decorated in marble tiling and art work imported from France. Marble staircases, a rotunda with art glass windows, inladd wood and art work in the ballroom, still remain to recall the old time splendors of the structure. The use of the hotel has been granted to the Christian Industrial league, which plans to provide free lodging to as many men as safely can be accoun modated. Mattresses and blankets will be provided for $00. Shower baths also will be installed. Coffee and rolls will be given the men every morning without charge. The hotel will be maintained by funds given by charities. TEXAS GOVERNOR NOT A POLITICIAN Farmer-Banker Ferguson Promises a New Regime. Austin, Tex. - James E. Ferguson of Temple, banker and farmer, inaugurated governor on Jan. 19, is the first man to go direct from active business life into the office of chief executive of Texas. All of his predecessors had previously held political office of some kind. Governor Ferguson issued a statement in which he said he hoped to see more miles of railroad built in Texas in 1915 than in any previous year; the number of silos increased at least tenfold; more permanent highways built; a new record in the matter of immigration to the state; more hogs and cattle raised than ever before and a greatly increased yield of corn and other grain. There was not a hint of politics anywhere in the passage. Those intimately acquainted with the governor say his administration will be free from that species of politics which stirs up class antagonism; there will be no pitting of the farmers against the corporations. Having been a farmer all his life and a banker for many years, he wants these two interests to be friendly and co-operate. In his younger days he was a railroad laborer; and he helped to build many miles of track. During his campaign for governor he promised that he would not permit any liquor legislation, either pro or con, on that subject if he could prevent it. Since the election the higher courts have nullified the liquor laws in some essential particulars, and it is known that bills will be introduced dealing with the provisions thus voided, and the Prohibitionists claim a working minority in house houses. Lieutenant Governor W. P. Hobby of Beaumont, like Mr. Ferguson, never held public office and belongs to the conservative business element. He is owner and editor of the Beaumont Enterprise. SCIENTIST WHIPS POLECAT. Then University Gives Professor Two Weeks' Leave. Bethley, cat. T. C. Hine, professor of the chemistry department of the University of California, fought a hard battle with a patient in the library of the university recently. Victory put on the crown of the avian after he had bombarded his victims with some of the choice volumes of the university library's modern literature and followed up his strategy by tossing a hat box over the invader. A quantity of chloroform poured through a tiny hole in the box stopped the potent's activities. The professor has been given a two weeks' leave of absence. Objected to English Language. Brussels.-German officers dining in a restaurant showed displeasure whee two men near them conversed in English, and finally one officer announced the stranger would oblige. If they wouldn't talk in English, as it annoyed him. One of the English speaking men handed the German his card. It bore the name of Brand Whitlock, minister of the United States in Belgium. The German saluted and apologized. GRAND CHARITY RECEPTION. Continued from page 1. Mr. Alexander Henson, Jr., Miss Marion P. Shadd, Mr. Nevol H. Thomas, Dr. James T. Walker, Prof. W. S. Montgomery, Mr. R. W. Woodson, Mrs. Ferdinand D. Lee, Mrs. Lena S. Wormley, Miss G. B. Maxfield, Mr. Wm. H. Cower, Mr. G. Smith Wormley, Mrs. Laura Buck, Sergeant John Buck, and Mrs. Charles F. N. Brown, chairman of the refreshment committee. This committee deserves special mention and credit for the successful management of this part of the reception. He was highly commended by Judge Terrell, chairman of the Executive committee. Many Predictions Made. Many predictions had been made I. EDWAR Exalted Ruler of the I. B. P. C. his organization and band to the ATTORNEY Legal adviser of Morning Star demonstration at the Belgian rec the grand march with his little son. I. EDWARD WILSON. the I. B. P. O. E. W., who band to the Belgian reception. ATTORNEY A. W. SCOTT. Morning Star Lodge of the Belgian reception and the his little son. M. Exalted Ruler of the I. B. P. O. E. W., who brought 70 members of his organization and band to the Belgian reception. JOHN M. BURKE Legal adviser of Morning Star Lodge of the Elks that made such a demonstration at the Belgian reception and the man who participated in the grand march with his little son. THE NEW YORK TIMES MR. FERDINAND D. LEE. that not a hundred people would be present at the reception. But they were disappointed. The systematic attack of the enemy and these so-called charity colored people who always appeal to the white people for help for their social settlement were sadly disappointed. Their knocks didn't prevail them any results. By ten thirty o'clock there were fully seven hundred of the best known citizens of Washington present and by twelve o'clock fully one thousand people or more were present. The Elks were accompanied by their own band. Attorney A. W. Scott, attorney for this great organization, took part in the grand march, which was led by the Elks. Mrs. Logan and her friends occupied seats in the balcony while the grand D. WILSON. D. E. W., who brought 70 members of Belgian reception. A. W. SCOTT. Lodge of the Elks that made such exception and the man who participated in The National Religious Training School, Durham, N.C. The image shows a serene landscape with a calm lake in the foreground, surrounded by trees and a few buildings. The buildings appear to be residential or institutional, with a prominent clock tower on the right side. The overall atmosphere is peaceful and tranquil. 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. march, headed by the Elks, was in progress. It was a great demonstration. The gowns of many of the guests were gorgeous, and the full dress of the men added greatly to the occasion. J. P. B. MR. ANDREW J. THOMAS Chairman of the committee on music. The music selected by the committee was highly commended. The new dances were led by Mr. Sylvester Hemphill. Major Author Brooks and Judge Terrell were masters of cateringies and Mr. Slyvester Hemphill led the new dances. These gentlemen wore full dress and their appearance ad- M. H. He took an active part and worked hard to bring about success. His Chesterfieldian carriage at the reception was among those admired. ded to the occasion. Many of the dances were new and Prof. Hemphill knew his business. He was the monarch of all he surveyed. Those who didn't care to dance or had not sufficiently learned the new dances occupied seats in the side galaries. M. Active member of the Finance Committee. This member rendered valuable service. 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. CONSULT US FIRST TRIANGLE BOOK A 1109 Eye Street, North 1109 Eye Street, Northwest 3 One Step, I Wonder What Will William Tell 4 Two Step. Back to the Carolina You Love 5 Waltz ..... Violets 6 One Step. When Its Night Time in Burgundy 7 Trot ..... The Murray Walk 8 Waltz ..... Millicent 9 Two Step ..Blame it on the Blues 10 Trot ..I Want to Linger 11 Waltz ..... Cecile 11:20 P. M. 1 Grand March—Tipperyary Led by Chair. Leon Wormley 2 Waltz. 3 In the Heart of the City that Has No Heart Linotype Composition QUICKEST JOHN H. HARRIS MR. J. MORIA SAUNDERS. A member of the Finance Committee who took an active part in the success of the entertainment. 1 March .....The National Guard 2 Waltz .....The North Star 3 One Step 3 Maxixe ..... Dengozo 4 Tango ..... Just for Tonight 5 Waltz ..... Soul of the Rose 6 One Step..... Chinatown, My China 6 One Step, Chinatown, My Chinatown 7 Maxixe.....Croony Melody 8 One Step.....Jogo Blues 9 Trot.....Castle House Rag 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 There are special scholarships for in the Departments of Theology and The next Summer School and C For further information and cata & Herr and Eye Sts., N ABOUT YOUK Furniture Lee and Herrmann is the place house of its kind in the city he satisfied. This is will satisfy you. RST ALL KIN tion Ele GLE PRINT OK AND JOB PRINT social scholarships for deserving young men of Theology and Religious Training. Omer School and Chautauqua will open information and catalogue, address Herrma Sts., N. W. ALL KINDS OF PR ALL KINDS OF PRINTING PRINTING JOB PRINTING Northwest DR. MORSE'S Holiday Goods All Kinds of First C High Class Class Combs and Imported Perfumes. Don Candies, Ice Cream and So Prescriptions Compound Pharm JOHN . W. ORSE'S DRUG ST Holiday Goods on Exhibition Kinds of First Class Toilet Articles Class Combs and Brushes. D Perfumes. Domestic and Import Cream and Soda Water with Options Compounded by Reg Pharmacists JOHN . W. MORSE DR. MORSE'SDRUG STORE Holiday Goods on Exhibition 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 10 Waltz ..... Congratulations Honeymoon Columbian Orchestra, Sylvester Thomas, Director There was an intermission at 11 o'clock, at which time the Elks band rendered several classical pieces of music. This preceded the Grand March which took place at 11:20. The beautiful decorations in this vast hall were gorgeous. It was one of the best conducted affairs upon a large scale that has ever taken place in this city. The best of order was observed and the general remark that it surpassed many high class church receptions so far as order was concerned Dr. Childs and his madam were able to dance the new dances. The Major and the Judge, Brooks and Terrell were in evidence upon the floor. Mrs. Church Terrell is some dancer. She is light and graceful upon her feet. Mr. and Mrs. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., are some dancers. Mr. J. Maurice Saunders and Miss Braxton were graceful dancers. Attorney A. W. Scott preferred the BEST Beautiful Lounge Morris Chairs Writing Desk Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room suite, call after you have been elsewhere KINDS OF PRINTING Electric Power Presses NTING CO. PRINTING TERMS CASH Phone Main 7590 E'SDRUG STORE Goods on Exhibition First Class Toilet Articles Soaps and Brushes. Domestic and Domestic and Imported Soaps and Soda Water with Fruit Syrups Compounded by Registered Pharmacists N. W. MORSE Grand March. He didn't desire to spoil his new Tango. Prof. Montgomery and his two pretty girls occupied seats in the galleries. Sergeant John Buck and wife enjoyed the fun. Dr. John R. Francis, Jr., was too busy observing to join in the dances. Mr. Claudia Francis was very quiet. Mrs. Eva A. Chase, Miss Marion P. Shadd and others were quiet observers. Mr. Robert Harlow assumed a Chesterneidman air. He is a handsome man. matter where he may be. The genial Charlie Champ was in evidence in new dances. Those who refused to come and those who could have been there and failed and were not missed and neither were their presence denied. M. DR. C. SUMNER WORMLEY The most liberal man on any of the committees. He was active and untiring in his efforts to make the reception a success. He is known as Washington's "Good Fellow" and the Adonis of social Washington. Those who responded to the call in the ain of war sufferers, with Leon S. Wormley, chairman: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Judge Robert Terrell, Chairman Dr. C. W. Childs Alexander B. Henson. Walter Pinchback Hon. Wm. Calvin Chase, Sr. Dr. C. Sumner Wormley. Robert Harlan Mrs. Julia M. Layton J. B. Anderson John S. Johnson Lawyer A. W. Scott. Miss M. P. Shadd FINANCE COMMITTEE Dr. Geo. Cabaniss, Chairman Dr. Jas. T. Walker, Treasurer Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson Prof. W. S. Montgomery Ferdinand D. Lee R. W. Woodson W. J. Blake Mrs. F. D. Lee Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Miss Ida V. Plummer FLOOR COMMITTEE Dr. H. S. Pope, Chairman G. Sylvesta Davis Geo. C. Lee Francis Spriggs Warren Woodland W. G. Williams. PUBLIC COMFORT F. Preston Williams, Chairman W. S. Hall G. Smith Wormley RECEPTION COMMITTEE Major Arthur Brooks, Chairman Dr. A. J. Pride Miss G. B. Maxfield John S. George Wm. H. Cowan Miss-R. E. Bell REFRESHMENT COMMITTEE Charles F. N. Brown, Chairman Mrs. Laura Buck W. S. Duffield Mrs. Eliza Lyons Mrs. Sarah Barton Miss Eva Chase Mrs. Hattie Ewing Chas. Brown Anna F. Wallace W. W. Winfield. COMMITTEE ON PUBLICITY J. Finley Wilson, Chairman Alex. S. Richardson George H. Murray COMMITTEE ON ORDER Sgt. John Buck W. W. Hall Major James Walker Judge Hall PRINTING COMMITTEE Wm. Calvin Chase, Jr., Chairman P. Morris Murray COMMITTEE ON DECORATION. Mrs. W. Williams Mrs. W. Calvin Chase, Jr. Mrs. Franklin Childs Mrs. Leon S. Wormley The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, of Durham, North Carolina, has just closed its 1914 records with the following figures: Total business for the year, $400,000.00; increase over 1913 $50,000.00; amount paid to policy-holders, $200,000.00. The assessed value of colored people's property in Brooks County, Georgia, is $556,977.00. In the Dixie District of this county, an industrial school under Miss Lillie Gaines and the Simon Hill Baptist Church, under Rev. W. F. Tarver, have done much to develop habits of thrift and economy among the colored people. This year they have six (6) Corn and Tomato Clubs and have put up 3,900 jars and cans of these products. A pediment group will at last adorn the East front of the House of Representatives of the Capitol, which has been unadorned for more than fifty years. The group will be "Peace protecting Genius." by the sculptor, Paul Bartlett. "Mama, do you think it is true, as papa says, that teachers do not have to work as hard now as they did when he went to school?" "I expect it-is." "What do you suppose the reason is?" "The teachers of today do not have to teach your father." Much of the wisdom of the wise is reflected from the foolishness of the foolish. GIVING UP WHOLLY TO GOD'S WILL AND SERVICE Hungry Souls Ask For Bread of Life. Indigestible Stones and Fetid Errors Repel—Only the Bread From Heaven Truly Satisfies—God's True Message Delicious, Satisfying—Error Led to Error In Dark Ages—Discarding Errors, We Return to Simplicity, Truth. Louisville, Ky. January 17.—Pastor Russell preached here today at Macauley's Theater twice to splendid audiences. We report one of his able discourses from the text, "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, and your reasonable PASTOR RUSSELL service.—Romans 12:1. Speaking with great earnestness, the Pastor declared that he repeatedly meets with people inquiring for the Bread of Life. These seem to know that there is something radically wrong with the preaching of the nominal hurries. They tell that they are important for money; but that when they ask for soul-food they meet with vision and subterfuge from many of the great and learned, who appear to have lost sight of the Bible and heart-conversion. Or, on the other hand, they are me by the Salvation Army, with traditions as indigestible as a stone, to anybody of ordinary intelligence. They are told with all seriousness that God created our race, with knowledge and intention that nearly all of them would spend eternity in failure. They are told that to be saved from that awful fate they should become Salvationists, and storm the slums for Jesus. Their experiences remind one of Jesus' world respecting a father who, asked for bread, would give his son a stone; who asked for fish, would give him a serpent. The Pastor hoped that some of these hungry souls were present in his audience. He proposed to give them no human theories or speculations—nor would he compromise the Truth nor dodge the question. He would endeavor to make the way to God so plain that a wayfaring man need not err therein; and he would do this by presenting God's arrangement and quoting God's own Word. Where Eternal-Torture Error Leads. No doubt those who invented the theory of eternal torture thought that they were taking the proper steps to drive the whole human family to God. But, on the contrary, it seems to drive away from God and the Bible the most intelligent people of every land, who have naturally a more reasonable and just conception of the Creator than the one presented in the church creeds. Instinctively they are repelled with the thought that the Creator would pursue a course which would be beneath the most degraded. Undoubtedly the Bible is true in declaring such fallacies "doctrines of demons." c Timothy 4:11 From this Bible viewpoint we can see that it was a master stroke on the part of Satan and his subordinates to misrepresent the teachings of the Bible, so as to repel those who might be "feeling after God" and desiring to draw near to Him—Acts 17:27. Truth-telling Provokes the Clergy. To tell the truth to the people, even on so simple a subject, means the angering of the clergy: Why, do you ask? Because it proves them to be in the wrong, and proves that they have not been feeding the people with the Bread of Heaven. Instead of building up the House of God, the Church, they have been building meeting-houses—seeking for numbers and popularity rather than to instruct the people in God's Word. Remarkably few church members of any denomination know what they believe. They give evidence that, if Christians at all, they are the merest babes in Christ. None is able to judge another's heart, but all should be able to judge of each other's lives—fruits. "By their fruits ye shall know them," said the Master—Matthew 7:20. If the majority of Christians have the fruits of the Holy Spirit, they keep them hidden; and surely many of them manifest the fruits of the Evil Spirit—"anger, malice, hatred, envy, strife, bitterness, slander," etc. which the Apostles style works of the flesh and of the Devil.—Ephesians 4:31; Galatians 5:19-21; 1 John 3:8. We would not be misunderstood; we are not complaining that there are not nice people connected with all the churches. On the contrary, we compliment them on their education, their refinement, their wealth, their influence. Moreover, we compliment them on their humanitarian sympathes, as represented in hospitals, asylums and other benevolences. But all these things are shared evenly by people who are not members of churches. A participation in good works is by no means a proof that one is a Christian. A Christian is a person who has come into a very special relationship to God through Christ; and this relationship exists not in respect to education, wealth, color or sex. With the popularizing of Christianity came such a modification of teachings as invited all decent worldly people into the Church, and made them think that they were consecrated saints of God and heirs of the blessings promised in the Scriptures. By inference, rather than by direct statement, the theory has gone forth that the penalty for sin will be visited only upon those who neglect it, say, "God forgive me" a few moments before they die. Not withstanding the plain statements of the creeds, every funeral discourse lands the dead in Heaven, so far as the auditors can understand. A misinterpretation of the Savior's words to the dying thief is made the basis for his abundance. Let me say, then, with all kindness toward those who are deceiving themselves and others, that the vast majority of church members and of preachers are not Christians at all, according to the Bible standards. This does not mean that the Bible condemns them to eternal torment. Thank God, not! It does mean, however, that these self-deceived ones will have neither part nor lot in the wonderful blessing provided for God's elect Church. It means, further, that God's Church is separate from all human institutions; and that only saintly persons, regardless of denominational lines, are members of the true Church, "whose names are written in Heaven." Surrender Self—Sacrifice to God. According to the Bible, no human being is fit for Divine fellowship or eternal life. The reason is given that all are sinners. The explanation of the sin is that it was committed by Father Adam when he was perfect, in God's image; and that, out of God, the race deteriorated, passing imperfections of mind, morals and body from parent to child (Psalm 515a). Imperfect beings would be quite out of place amongst the perfect; and so long as imperfection continues, sin will continue, and with it, necessarily, sorrow, pain and death, sin's consequences. God declares His sympathy for the sinner, and that He has made provision for man's recovery from his present deparable state. Not only so, but a time has been set for the recovery; and the Bible tells us how it will be accomplished by Messiah and His Millennial Kingdom. We pray. "Thy Kingdom come," not with the thought that God will neglect His promise to establish that Kingdom, but by way of giving acknowledgment to the fact that that Kingdom is the hope of the world and of the Church. The Church's hope in the Kingdom is that of becoming sharers with Christ in the glory, honor and work of that Kingdom—for the blessing and uplifting of humanity out of sin and death. There is no attempt being made at the present time on God's part to convert the world. Few now hear the Gospel Message, and still fewer believe it. They are deluded by the Adversary into thinking that God has been trying to convert the world for six thousand years and has been making a miserable failure of it all along; and that whatever is done, we must do for ourselves. 'Thus has unbelief been cultivated, and trust in God and in the teachings of the Bible thrust aside. Nevertheless, this Lord declares, "My Word that has gone forth out of My mouth shall not return unto Me void; but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." (Isaiah 55:11). God's Word was sent forth to invite a very special class of humanity—a class loving righteousness and loving iniquity, weary and heavy laden with sin, ignorance and superstition, and desirous of coming back into harmony with God and being blessed of Him. For nearly nineteen centuries the Message has been going hither and thither, quietly, unostentatiously. The world and the nominal churches would say that it had accomplished nothing—that everything great had been accomplished by them. But we prefer to stand by the Bible and to recognize that God's conquered ones have indeed lifted up a light which the world has hated—a light on account of which they have frequently been put to death, or have had "their names cast out as evil," or have been boycotted, socially or otherwise. If their hopes were merely in the present life, these would be making a miserable failure of their opportunities. But not so; they are waiting for their reward in the future—at the Second Coming of Jesus—by a share in the First Resurrection. And even now their joy, peace and fellowship with God more than offset all their trials, difficulties and ostracism. Besides, "To them it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God," which to all others are parables and dark sayings, hard to be understood. Shepherd's Voice, "Come Unto Me." The trials and difficulties of life pressing many today are giving them a hearing ear for the Great Shepherd's words, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest." He does not say, "Go to the Lutheran Church; go to the Presbyterian Church; go to the Methodist Church; go to the Roman Catholic Church"; or "Go to any other Church"; He says, "Come unto Me." It is the privilege of whoever hears this Message to go immediately to the Lord, direct. True, he cannot go to the Heavenly Father direct; for as we read, "God heareth not sinners." But he can go to Jesus, because Him bath God set forth to be our Savior, our Redeemer. Thus Jesus said, "No man cometh unto the Father but by Me" (John 14:6). He did not say, "No man can come unto Me except through a preacher, or a priest, or a bishop, or a pope"—He made the way simple for whoever desires to come. But when we desire to come to the Father, and learn that we must come through Jesus, what shall we say to Him? We have only one alternative; namely, to ask Him upon what terms He will introduce us to the Heavenly Father, and thus bring us back from the condition of condemnation into the family of God. When we suggest that Jesus would raise conditions, the proposition seems astounding to some. They have somehow gotten the impression that the Heavenly Father and Jesus are in great distress because so few people desire to become members of the Church; and that they would be ready to receive anything and anybody on any terms, simply to have another name added. How absurd this is, when we come to think of it: We call to mind the teaching of the Master. He did not say, "So many of you as wish to hit the sawdust trail can go to Heaven." He did not say, "Seek to excite the people and get them to do something that they would not afterward fully understand and appreciate." He did the reverse; He said, "Sit down first and count the cost," before complying with the terms of discipleship. And so He still says to all who come to Him, "Sit down and count the cost." Do nothing rashly. Some of us can count more rapidly than others. Many of the poor ones who are weary and heavy-laden through sin are ready to say, "I know the cost of sin in my personal experiences. The cost of being disciples of Jesus cannot be greater than the cost of being rebels against the Divine Law." Such are frequently ready to decide quickly and take their stand firmly on the Lords side. Others are like the rich young man who came to Jesus, saying, "What good thing can I do that I may inherit eternal life? I have kept the Law from my youth up. What lack I yet?" -Matthew 19:16-20. There are few today like that young man, of whom we read, "Jesus, beholding him, loved him." And we may be sure that Jesus still loves those who are striving hard to live right, righteous lives. But this class has the harder struggle. They think they have done everything that they ought to do, or at least everything that the Lord would have them do. But Jesus says, No. To that young man He said, "Go sell what you hate, and give to the poor; and come, take up your cross and follow Me." Again He said, "If any man will be My disciple, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me, add where I am there shall My disciple be." To be a disciple of Christ is to be a follower, a pupil-one who walks as He walked. The proposition is self-denial, self-affection. It means giving one's self wholly to God, as in our text, "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service." No one need go far to make this conseeration. Each, at his own bedside, can give his little all to God, through Christ. How to Become a Christian It should not require long to count how much more we shall receive than we give. We give a condemned and dying existence: we give mental, moral and physical imperfections—we have no more except as our Savior, by imputing His merit, makes our sacrifice of value in God's sight. But in exchange we receive riches of grace in the present life—peace, joy, blessing of heart, which the world can neither give nor take away—and in the life to come, "glory, honor, and immortality" joint-heirship with our Savior in the Heavenly kingdom which shall dominate the world for the thousand years, for its blessing and uplift. Really, after counting the cost, there is a danger that we would feel so ashamed of the littleness of our offering that we would fear to come to the Lord with it. We gain courage to present our bodies only by a knowledge of the Lord's Word, and a realization of the mercy, and favor which has prompted His kind invitation for an exchange of something of little value for great things of inestimable value. But unless we take this very step, and definitely and positively enter into a contract with the Lord, we have neither part nor lot with Him. We are still of the world, however much we may try to pattern our lives after decent models and to avoid the grosser and the finer slims. The covenant with the Lord is the beginning, and to each covenanter comes "grace to help in every time of need"; as Jesus said, "Without Me ye can do nothing." But, says one. Surely this is not the only way of coming into God's family! Yea, we answer. It is the only way. "There is none other Name given under Heaven or amongst men whereby we must be saved" from our condition of condemnation, and be brought back into the family of God. Jesus Himself makes the distinctive terms that we must become His full disciples in order to have this blessed privilege of discipleship. Have you ever heard the limitations and obligations of the Christian so Scripturally defined before? Have not the facts been hidden from you by the clergy? Have they not rather sought to set aside the words of Jesus because they conflict with their theories? Is not this really why so many have been unable to find the satisfying "meat in due season" in the nominal churches? We believe it is; and we urge all-ministers, everybody-to return to the Bible's simplicity of a fully consecrated Church of Christ. His elect Bride class, and then a restitutionary blessing for mankind through Christ's Millennial Kingdom. The blessing upon the world will be earthly restitution to human nature, instead of a change to the Divine nature, as promised to the Church. All who refuse both the Call of the present time and the opportunity of the future Restitution will die the Second Death, which St. Peter describes as like that of the natural brute beast.—Acts 5:19-23; 2 Peter 2:12. 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 LandMark 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. GEORGE W. MURRAY, Second and D Streets Southwest. M. Hennessy 216 H WHO IS WHY NOT NEW DR Cor. 63d and [Chessa —which opened When you want dr stores sell, you can i.g. right quality sure by coming to WHY NOT DEAL AT THE NEW DRUG ST Cor. 63d and Eastern A [Chesapeake Junction] —which opened on APRIL 17 When you want drugs or anything stores sell, you can make assuran- ing right quality and right se- sure by coming to our store. —Begin trading here with the remaining a customer only so I RECEIVE COURTEOUS TREATMENT WHOLLY RELIABLE GOODS; FOLLOW YOU WANT, AND ARE SATISFIED PRICES. —This is a fair proposition. If acquainted with us ask your neig- ter yet ask your physician about M. Hennessy 216 Hinth Street. N. W. YOUR DRUG GIST Our Special Redm Bu 916 Illuminating Bar SHAMPOO DRUG A BEAUTIFUL HEAL have it if she will use the straighten the curliest he not injure the hair, bea is heated on our Alchebo Best on the market. Pri MAGIC SHAMPOO DRUG- GIST RECEIVE COURT WHOLLY RELIABLE YOU WANT, AND PRICES. This is a fair pr acquainted with us ter yet ask your pl Our Specialties: Best B Best B Redman's WHITE FRONT Butter, Eggs, Cheese Coffees Roasted on Specialties: Best Butter 30 c Best Eggs 30 cer Ilman's WHITE FRONT Mar Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Coffee Coffees Roasted on Premises 916 Louisiana Ave., Northwest Heating Bar THE MAGIC 139 IN LONG THE MAGIC AND HAIR SHAMPOO DRIER MEG CO MAILED SEND MONEY address all Minneapolis A BEAUTIFUL HEAD OF HAIR IS A LADY'S CRO have it if she will use the Magic. The Magic will dry t straighten the earliest head of hair. It will also stimulate not injure the hair, because it is never heated direct, but t is heated on our Alcohol Heater, or any other heater. W Best on the market. Price per box, $5c. Alcohol Heater, Write for literature to MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY. THE MAGIC 139 IN LONG THE MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER MAILED ANY WHERE IN POSTAGE PAY. SEND MONEY BY POST OFFICE. Address all letters to Magic Shampoo Minneapolis, Minn. ALL HEAD OF HAIR IS A LADY'S CROWNING GLORY.—A lady use the Magic. The Magic will dry the hair after a short client head of hair. It will also stimulate its growth. The Alcohol, because it is never heated direct, but takes its heat from the Alcohol Heater, or any other heater. We advise the use of Alcohol. Price per box, 50c. Alcohol Heater, price 50c. Liberal to Write for literature today. BAMPOO DRIER COMPANY. MINNEAPOLIS, ILL. 131 Resident B Esau Winslo General Direct 11th and You Streets Northwest HEATING BAR THE MAGIC 139 IN LONG SHAMPOO DRIER MEG CO 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 Aluminum Comb cannot injure the hair, because it is never heated direct, but takes its heat from the heating bar when is heated on our Alcohol Heater, or any other heater. We advise the use of Hayes' Tail Pomade, Best on the market. Price per box, 50c. Alcohol Heater, price 50c. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY. MINNEAPOLIS NORWEST Phone N. 5131 Resident Phone N. 2643 Esau Winslow Funeral Director 11th and You Streets Northwest Washington, D. C. Esau Wi Funeral D 11th and You Street Esau Winslow Funeral Director 11th and You Streets Northwest Washington D.C. Wellington Only S Only $60.00. Guaranty [Sold on Easy] $60.00. Guaranteed for 2 [Sold on Easy Terms A. J. Smith Agent Phone North 4017 IMITATION —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 Best Butter 30 cents Best Eggs 30 cents WHITE FRONT Market egs, Cheese and Coffee roasted on Premises THE MAGIC 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 Dripoe Drier Co., Minneapolis, Minn. not to individuals. IS A LADY'S CROWNING GLORY. And every lady can Magic will dry the hair after a shampoo or bath, and will also stimulate its growth. The Aluminium Comb can be directed direct, but takes its heat from the heating bar when other heater. We advise the use of Hayes' Hair Pomade. Alcohol Heater, price $50. Liberal terms to agents. Use for literature today. COMPANY. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA Winslow ral Director d You Streets Northwest Washington, D. C. The Ideal Christmas Gift WELLINGTON STANDARD VISIBLE TYPEWRITER: —Perfdct alignment, Easy Action and Wonderful Durability. Guaranteed for 2 years on Easy Terms Resident Phone N. 2643 Main Office 2550 14th St., N. W. B, F. Watts, Manager Phone Columbia 2984 Be. ie, 2 . ve ~ eee? a 7 7 se ge Christian Xander’s . Unrivaled Stock of . 35 Foreign and Domestic e e Whiskies HAVE NATIONAL FAME FOR QUALITY 909 7th St. No‘Beanch Houses Auto Deliveries to All Sections Your Credit Is Good - : 829 Seventh Street . Between H and I . Open Saturday Eveniugs Alterations Free A Week Youcan come here and’ get " the Newest and best in : > Pays The Bill © %en’s and Women’s Clothes —Without a Big and 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 7 $29 Seventh Street Between H and I = Butter Eggs and Cheese : Office Wholesale Depot. & Salesrooms 900 and 602 Penna. Ave. Washington, D. C. Square Stands, Center Market 5th &KSt, Market Riggs Mar ke Sule Agents The Celebrated Cow Brand Butter recognized, : Without an equal ee eee ee eeueqes«<=0=S$S$S00 0 aoa . . THE DETROIT . ‘ * WASHINGTON’S BEST CAFE . 33 IL St. N. E. j - Two blocks from Union Station. Best meals in the city for 15 and 20 cents. 3 = Regular meals and dessert 25. ° * Tee eream and homemade dessert and chicken dinner, 30c. Accommodations for traveling people. Steam heat. Sight seeing car for-hire. Phone Lin, 2959 . aA, W. Wood, Prop. | a eo a Wim. E. Bowie | oO PHONE, NORTH 7328 - Automodiles and Cabs For Hire Taxi . Touring : 1800 11th, STREET, N. W. a Phone Main 5697 ANTON FISCHER 7 Manufacturer of - Pure Tce Cream, Ices, Candies and Faney Cakes Plant: 523412S8t.S.W. . Washington, D. C. _ W.L. SMITH'S SKIN TONIC | _ For Chapped Hands and face and all Roughness of the Skin. This is a Great Skin Bleacher, beautifying and whitening the skin and clear- - ing the complexion. / * DR. W. L, SMITH Fourth and Elm Streets, Washington, D. C. 1FOR SALE—Beautiful Fur Coat on account of death of my wife: will send for inspection. Address R. 1. F., 915 West Trade St., Charlotte N.C. FUR COAT. FOR SALE—A woman's beautiful fur coat. Will send for Inspection at my expense. R. L, FOX, 915 West Trade St., Charlotte, N. C. We become innocent when we are unfortunate. Rey. Willbanks, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, has purchased a fine home at 26 G Street, Southwest, which he is occupying. Thé property is val. ued at $12,000, consists of 14, rooms, including a large banquet hall, 20 by 30 feet. The house is heated by steam. There is gas and electricity, and speaking tubes in each room. Memory is something that some: times enables us to remember the money we lend and forget the money we borrow. The United States will send out eleven surteying 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 of- fenders. Diet for “pellagra,” beans, peas, Jean meat, eggs.and milk. Pel- Jagra is not contagious, neither is it hereditary. “A train leaves New York,” sup- posed the teacher, “traveling 40 miles an hour. It is followed 30 minutes later by a train traveling $0 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 aisle vigorously wagging his hand. “Well, Willie,” sald the teacher. “At the hind end of the rear car, ma'am,” answered Willie. Senator Lane, of Oregon, has intro- duced 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. 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. 1 EGAL NOT'CES A. W. SCOTT AND W. C. MARTIN, ATTORNEYS, 7“ Supreme Court of the District of Co- lumbia. Holding Probate Court. No. 21,329, Administration. This is to Give Notice: « That the subscriber, of the District or Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Co- \umbia, Letters of administration on the estate of Louls Smith, late of the District of Columb!a, deceased. All persons having claims against the de- ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscrib: er, on or before the 23rd day of De- cember, A. D. 1915; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all bene fit of sald estate. Given under by hand this-38th day of December, 1914. : 7 JOHN C. STONE, . 110 H St. S. W. Attest: * 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, 21,250, Administration, This is to give notice: That the sub- seriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columdia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Will- iam A, Lanier, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons hav- ing claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally au- thenticated, 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. JOSEPHINE B, LANIER, 2010 Mass. Ave. 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 rea- sonable; $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 improve- ments, excellent condition; $23.50. Apply J. H. Mitchell, 1731 12th St. N. W. e 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, $3.00. Flats. 415 Irving St..N. W., 4 rooms and bath, perfect condition, $3.50. 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 Sth 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 cel- lar, bay window, modern bath. 36 Westminster St. N. W., 3 story press brick, bay window residence, 9 rooms, hall, furnace heat, all improve. ments. 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 .......0.¢000+- $14.50 315 Del. Ave. N. E., 6 rooms and. bath, la. heat ....-.........5 14.50 319 You St. N. W., 9 rooms and bath, Ia, heat .......s..000+5 22.50 319 Elm St. N. W., 6 rooms and + | bath fur, heat .............. 25.50 2419 Ga, Ave N, W.,6 rqoms and bath, la, heat .........0+2.+6 22.50 7i0 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 ..-cc.ccsessececses 2150 JABEZ LEE, . 609 F St. N. W. eee ee aes ate et Oe eae SAY WRITER » OF OUR DAY (Ife has won this title by repeat- edly 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 Editorials alone are well worth the cost of a year’s subserip. tion to the paper. DO NOT DELAY, BUT ACT NOW SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE ° Subseription one year, $1.00. Six months, 50 cents, : Three months, 40 cents. * Address, | NEGRO FARMER Tuskegee Institute, Ala. WANTED. A young lady to act as assistant man- ager, 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 thor- - oughly 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 certairity 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 ahd 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 aré Carpets, Rugs, or other styles of floor-coverings; Blankets, Comforts and all bed furnishings; Curtains and Draperies of all kinds; Heating and Cooking Stoves. : 5 .__ 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 yoods. 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 ex- clusively. 7 Peter Grog an | —— AND SONS CO. ——} : 817 to 823 Seventh St. , Ko 2 ee, Home Cafe LEE’S LUNCH ROOM 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 re- quested to come. Electric fans. 1231 E Street Northwest Phone Main 363!. a mg ° ° 9 ; Christian Xander’s | | Famous Family Brand Rye : Whisky 3 |. 75c a FULL QUART: Far Superior to many whiskies at much higher prices . . ONLY AT 909 Seventh Street, N. W. PHONE MAIN 274 7 . No Branch Houses Prompt Auto Deliveries bee eee REO ' 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, Flatu- lency, Pain in the Stomach, Water Brash, Acid Fermen- tation, Gaseous Accumula- tions and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. When taken into the Stomach it thoroughly di- gests the albuminous foods, and cures the indigestion, by_ resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natu- tal digestion is restored. W. L. SMITH, Druggist Fourth and Elm Sts. N. W. Washington, D. C. ‘ HARLAN'S ( =F" TORGERY SHOP |} Se -—Headquarters forj ra . the Famous a \ Brown Hose. . t s 4 pairs for $1.00, a I‘ \ : “ 1105 YOU STREET Le | NORTHWEST wrk 7 ' GOTO HOLMES’ HOTEL 333 Virginia Ave., S. W. Fineet Afro-American Accomo dations in the District European & American Plan Good Kooms and Lodging, 50c, 75c and $1.00. Comfortably heated by steam. Give usa Call JAMES OTTOWAY HOLMES, Prop Washington, D.C. Phone, Main 2315 Peroni eee. | Santyline Chemical Company ' . | * Manufacturers of Santyline Products | Insecticides, Germicides, Pine Oil Disinfectants, Phe- | " noline Disinfectants, Liquid Soap, Toilet Drip, : Sweeping Compound, Stock Dip. , 1219 You Street, Northwest | First Aid to Health Disinfectants , —Insures sanitation in Homes, Churches, Theatres, _ Colleges, Hospitals and all public places. Goods for — sale at the Laboratory, 1219 You St., and by repre- — sentatives. Demonstrations given and prices quoted - on application. Prompt and courteous service. ; : 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 pot $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. NOTICE. Persons who desire to express themselves through the columns of ‘The Bee must sign their names, es- pecially if they want the articles pub- Hished. Please remember this. THE BEE.