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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 A LEADER REMOVED The Great Negro Leader of New York Colored Democracy Removed—No Cause Assigned, Simply the Democratic Internal Revenue Collector Wanted His Place—One Among the Few Colored Democratic Leaders Who Refused Money From the Democratic Committee. Mr. Ralph E. Langston, the son of the late John M. Langston, at one time a member of Congress and United States Minister to Haytyl, has been removed from his position in the Internal Revenue Office as Deputy Collector. Mr. Langston is one of the most polished and gentlemanly Americans in the United States. He has always supported the New York Democracy, and the first Negro Democrat in New ork to organize a Wilson Democratic Club. He is one of the few Negro Democrats who refused a money consideration from the National or local Democratic financial committee, but at all times contributed his own money. It was Secretary McAdoo who appointed Mr. Langston to the position from which he has been removed. It is not behevel that the Secretary will endorse the action of the newly appointed Internal Revenue Collector. In speaking of the dismissal of Mr. Langston, the New York News of May 20th instant says as follows: "Consternation Created in Ranks of Colored Men Now in Civil Service Employment by Progressive and Unceasing Assaults of Southern President's Local Leaders—Talk of Walter's Appointment Pooh-poohed. "That the Woodrow Wilson administration will stop its wholesale dismissal of colored men from the Government service, whether Republican or Democratic, only when not one of them can boast that he holds a representative position, seems to be borne out by the proceedings of the last few days. Since the forced resignation of Collector Chas. W. Anderson from the office of Collector of Internal Revenue, most of the colored people holding responsible and representative positions in the New York districts have either been dismissed or demoted. Three colored gaugers, it is announced, will walk the plank on the first of the coming month. The colored inspectors still in the revenue service within the last few weeks are others among those who have been either dismissed or transferred. A colored woman who held a responsible stenographic position and rated as deputy revenue collector has been handed her resignation. On last Saturday Ralph W. Langston, for many years one of the pillars of local colored Democracy, who was appointed to his position as deputy collector by the Wilson administration a little over a year ago, was put out of office. It is said that Mr. Langston was notified some time previously that his resignation, to take effect on June 15, would be acceptable. To this Mr. Langston is said to have demurred Palling to send in his resignation, he was summarily ousted, it is stated. The rumor is persistent in certain quarters that Bishop Alexander Walters could have the appointment of Recorder of Deeds if he wished it. It was further stated that he was going to take it, since his friend, Lawyer Albert Cosey, of New Jersey, has been recently disbarred and could not take it. Those in position to know say that Mr. Wilson would not appoint any colored man to office if he figure there was a chance of his being confirmed. Peter J. Smith, the other colored man appointed by the Wilson administration to a deputy position in Boston, is also said to be expecting his dismissal at any time." JUDGE SHEDS LIGHT ON BANK- RUPTIC PETITION. Robert H. Terrell Says Failure of Stock Company Rendered Step Necessary. Dally Herald, May 22. Daily Herald, May 22 Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the Municipal Court, who filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the District Supreme Court on Thursday, has also filed a statement explaining his action. Judge Terrell placed his lia bilities at $13,491 and his assets at $67.50. He says in explanation: "The judgment and many of the claims listed in this schedule grow out of suits against me as a former stockholder in an incorporated joint stock company known as the Capital Saving Bank,' which closed its doors in November, 1902, and for whose failure I was in no way morally responsible. "The judgments are now nearly 12 years old, and under the statute would soon be outlawed. Some of the owners of them threaten to renew them against me by further action in court, and an attachment has already been sued out on one of them. "I am one of the few stockholders of the Capital Savings Bank who have not up to this time relieved them of this burden by taking advantage of the bankruptcy act. Under the conditions which now threaten me and because of my inability to meet these judgments and claims in full I am now compelled to fill this petition." Attorney Ridout said that Judge Terrell properly should have filed the bankruptcy petition twelve years ago, but that he had refused to because he was "too proud." Among the creditors listed by Judge Terrell as having unsecured claims are John C. Norman, surviving executor of Chas. F. Murray, $2,880; Zion Baptist Church, $1,402; Andrew J. Wilson $544; William L. Tignor, $455; Jane Harris, $555; and the Frederick Douglass Relief Association, $500 Among the liabilities secured by promissory notes Judge Terrell listed the United States Trust Company as having three notes aggregating $835, American National Bank a note for $410, and the Commercial National Bank a note for $247. As assets Judge Terrell says he has $5 cash on hand and $62.50 due him. FLORIDA JUSTICE. Still the Villain Pursues Him—Colored Lawyers Barred From Practice—The Democratic South. To the Editor of The Bee. Watchman, tell us of the night—what its signs of promises are! It seems that the would-be destroyers of this great Republic are determined to gain in peace all that they lost in the War of the Rebellion against the Stars and Stripes of the Union in the trying days of '61-'65. Now comes the State of Florida, flaunting her brazen laws in the face of the liberal law defying the (damm) Constitution of the United States, which guarantees equal rights to every American citizen, to the effect that no Negro lawyers shall be permitted to practice before the courts in that State. She passes her unjust, uncivilized, un-Christian, and un-American laws denying to American citizens their God-given rights, and asks the preservers of the Union "What are you going to do about it?" This glorious country is going from bad to worse at a very rapid gait; and one need not be a very close observer to see it. Florida, and her sister States, say to the North and West. "We understand the Negro better than you do; so you just keep your mouths shut while we enact laws compelling him to pay a first-class fare on our railroads for a second or third class accommodation." The North and West sat quietly down and acquiesced with all this unjust treatment of the Colored brother and citizen. Seeing that that took wonderfully well with those who confess to be friends of the Colored brother, they, the enemies of the Colored race, knowing the Colored race even better than they (they Colored race) know themselves, made a second request. This time they said to the North and West, "As stated before, we understand the Negro better than you do. So we will disfranchise him; we will continue to burden him with heavy taxes; but deny him all the rights which are guaranteed to him by the (damn) Constitution, for this is a white man's country, and we have a right to do as we please, regardless of the wishes of God, man, or the devil." To this the above sections of this country bowed their heads in humble obedience to their demands. Now comes Florida with her laws—which she knows to be a strict violation of the (damn) Constitution of the United States—forbidding Negro lawyers to practice before the Courts in that State. Wonder did they forget the Negro doctors. If there ever was a time when a voice from the Chief Magistrate of this country should be heard, it is now—to-day! The good people of the State of Florida must feel themselves humiliated before the civilized world—even before savage Mexico—to be represented by such men as those who are members of their State Legislature. Shame on Florida! Shame on the good people and pulpit that don't rise up in a body and condemn such crying wrong as is being done against their weaker, law-abiding neighbors. Have they lost their sense of duty to their fellowman? The sun of prejudice seems to be rising higher and higher every day. But may God forbid its setting in a sea of flame and blood. White man of Florida, thou hast a dreadful account to render at the judgment day; and no race or nation of people need dread a heavier doom! Christianity at the North and throughout this country should be aroused. Literature should lift her voice against the unjust treatment of the Colored citizens of this country. That Florida Legislature has sown her field of prejudice, oppression, humiliation, and hatred against ten [Image of a man in profile, wearing a suit and tie, with a serious expression. The background is dark and indistinct.] While he had charge of the Police Departm out saw that Colored applicants had a square deal Flat feet applicants were unknown to this democratic Commissioner. There would be a new examining board if he were Commissioner or a new Chief of Police millions of loyal friends of the white people, and of the Stars and Stripes of this country allike, forgetting the fact that God (whose warnings they disregard) has declared that "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap!" May they reap a full harvest! A SUCCESSFUL MAN. Many Speak' Well of His Worth— Special Gift and an Adept in His Line of Business—Highly Complimented by Those for Whom He Has Served. Born in Charlestown, W. Va., Thomas' D. Tucker was the youngest of 12 children of Samuel and Rena Tucker. Young Tucker left Charlestown when he was 19 years of age. After attending the public schools of that city he migrated to Baltimore, and from there to Harrisburg, Pa., and to York, and finally landed in Washington, D. C. Mr. Tucker worked at old jobs around hotels and cafes until he accepted a position as steward of the "Dumbarton Club" of West Washington, where he remained for 16 years. He took charge of the club when it was in its infancy, and succeeded in working it up to be one of the finest clubs south of New York City. He resigned Feb. 1, 1915. Since he resigned he has been besieged with orders from private parties and clubs to serve them. He has just returned from Mount Vernon, Va., catering to the wants and wishes of the "Regents" who has been in session there for the last 12 days. The "Regents" have in former years, on "Governors' Day," engaged the services of Demonet. The manager in charge consulted Mr. MR. THOMAS TUCKER. The Man Who Made Himself. Tucker in regards to this "Governors' Day" service," and asked him dhc he think he could "deliver the goods." Mr. Tucker said, "If you will allow me to make out my list of things wanted, I will make good." This he readily agreed, and Tucker made good. Mr. Tucker was ably assisted by Mr. Shad Brown as his second, Mr. C. Wash Wood, Mr. Robert Lucas, and others. After the luncheon was over on "Governor's Day," Mr. Tucker was heartily congratulated in person for his services by Chief Justice White of the U. S. Supreme Court, Governor Warfield of Maryland, Governor Stewart of Virginia, Senator Martin of Virginia, and Mr. H. H. Dodge, the manager, and the Regents at large. Every waiter received a compensation besides the count given them for their services. It is remored that Mr. Tuckis manifold service. Mr. Tucker has been asked by the management to consider his services engaged for all future meetings of the "Regents." Mr. Tucker leaves June 1st for New Haven, Conn., where he will have charge of the New Haven County Club as the steward at a salary of $1,200 per year. Thompson, Cooper and Thompson Three of America's Greatest Singers Three of the greatest singers upon the American stage today are De Kover Thompson, Opal Cooper and Creighton Thompson. They are at the Howard this week and have made the greatest hit of any singers that have been to this theater. They are not only singers but they are composers also. Their singing was up-to-date and from the continuous applause they received was an evidence of the appreciation of the vast audience that heard them this week. DR. GEO. W. CABANISS. Who is Being Urged for the Board of Education—Popular with, Masses Many citizens who are interested in the welfare and success of the colored schools in this city, have presented the name of Dr. Geo. W. Cabaniss to the judges of the Supreme Court for the Board of Education. There is no physician in this city who has the confidence and respect of the people more than Dr. Cabaniss. He is a public spirited citizen, who has always taken a deep interest in the advancement and progress of the colored schools. There is no man in this city who is any more interested in the colored schools than Dr. Cabantas. There is no citizen more worthy of recognition than he is. Whatever he undertakes he does well. AGAINST FRED MORTON. Manassas Industrial School Meetings of Protest Against His Appointment—Trustee Meeting Monday Night. One of the trustees of the Manassas Industrial School called at the Bee office Tuesday afternoon and thanked the Editor for the Editorial protest against the appointment of Fred. Mor- ton and the removal of Prof. Decatur. This trustees, who is a very prominent man in his state and has all interest in the success of the Manassas Industrial School, among other things, said as follows: "I want to thank you for your Editorial against the removal of Prof. Decatur, principal of the Manassas Industrial School. I came all the way from Virginia to thank you. I want to say, it is true that the City of Washington, District of Columbia, is largely represented in that school, but in the faculty only. That not over a dozen pupils from the District of Columbia attend the school and when they come they don't remain very long. A meeting of the trustees of the Manassas Industrial School will meet next Monday at Manassas to protest against the appointment of Mr. Morton. The Tide Water Ministers' Union at Bristow, Va., will meet this week, and the Helping Hand Club at Ocoquan, Va., will also meet and protest against this appointment. The Bee was informed that the appointment of Mr. Morton was made by the Executive Committee. It will be seen, said the trustee, that the people of Manassas will not indorse this appointment and they will also let those who put him there know that they do not represent the sentiment of the people in the State. I want to thank The Bee for its disapproval of this appointment. Mr. Decatur gave entire satisfaction and the reason that his resignation was asked for, that he changed the system of accounts and demanded to know what was being done by the Executive Committee in its accounts and otherwise. That he should know everything concerning the school as principal, or know nothing. That one set of accounts should not be kept in New York and another in Virginia. There is to be a lively time next week in old Virginia. Prof. Decatur has been made assistant superintendent in the public schools of Indiana. He is one of the most brilliant educators in the United States. Judge Terrell in Virginia Judge Terrell in Virginia. Martinsville, Va., May 17. Special to the Washington Bee. The principal address at the commencement exercises of the Martinsville Christian Institute was delivered before an immense audience of both white and colored people here in the Globe Theater, Monday evening. May'rell coming was a nine-days wonder to both races of our somewhat provincial little city, and we still have difficulty now and then to convince some doubtful one that the Judge is anything more than some Washington Police Court magistrate. But on the whole, Mr. Terrell's commanding presence, his charming personality, and his splendid, scholarly address made an impression as profound on the minds of this community as was ever made by any public man, white or black, who ever visited this section of Virginia. ASCENSION SERVICES ASCENSION SERVICES. The Knights Templar of the D. C. celebrated their annual Ascension observances at Shiloh Baptist Church, L Street northwest, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Streets. Thursday, May 13-15. The Knights assembled at the asylum, Fifth street and Virginia avenue southeast at 6:30 P. M., under the auspices of Henderson Commandery. No. 2, assisted by Simon, No. 1, Gethsemane, No. 3, and Mt. Calvary, No. 4. K. T. The procession was formed under the direction of E. L. Webster, Gr. Captain General, and led by the Howard's Military and Elk bands proceeded to the church, where the services were conducted. The music by the choir was rendered with sweetness, and met the approval of the large audience present. Rev. E. R. Ricks. a Sir Knight, preached the sermon, giving the history, meaning, and greatness of knighthood. It was a festive occasion, and the Sir Knights responded to the call in great numbers. Too much praise cannot be given the efficient committee who made the affair a success. This committee consisted of P. E. C. Jas. N Aden, chairman; P. E. C. James A Payne, secretary; P. E. C. H. Lancaster, P. E. C. B. V. Fisher, Sirs John W. Stockton, R. K. Washington and J. H. Hawkins, who left no stone unturned. The E. C.'s represented were: A. F. Clark, No. 1; C. W. Hale, No. 2; P. W. Frisble, No. 3; Joseph Miner No. 4. JOHN P. DAVIS, Gr. Com. SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES. Among those mentioned as applicants for the board of education are: Rev. Mitchell, Dr. Dumas, W. L. Houston, Dr. Geo. W. Cabaniss, Aaron Russell, Jr., Aaron Russell, sr., John H. Palmer and several others. MINISTERS CALL ON DR. THURSTON. Also the Judges of the Supreme Court. The Ministers' Union called to see Dr. Thurston this week, and requested an investigation in the Bruce incident and his activity in the interest of Rev. O. L. Mitchell as a member of the Board of Education. This same delegation called to see Chairman Blair and the judges of the Supreme Court. Dr. Thurston, it is said, intimated if the delegation had any charges they would be investigated. The chairman of the delegation, it is said, informed Dr. Thurston it was for him to call for an investigation. SCHOOL SITUATION THE SCHOOL SITUATION MORE ACUTE THAN EVER. R. W. Thompson in the Indianapolis Freeman. Now that the automobile accident, in which Assistant Superintendent Roscoe Conkling Bruce and his secretary and three ladies figured prominently, has ceased to fill the popular mind to a large extent, the problem of what to do brings order out of chaos in the colored public schools again becomes the burning issue of the hour. The situation, for reasons that will appeal to the understanding of everyone familiar with certain inside facts, has grown more acute than ever within the past two weeks. Mr. Bruce and his supporters on the Board are standing pat, in spite of the practically unanimous feeling throughout the community that there ought to be a change—and that without delay. Charges? There’s the rub! It is one of the peculiarities of the celebrated case that it is difficult to single out one definite “charge” against the Bruce regime that would stick if brought to a court martial; but there is, as has often been stated in the public prints here, a general dissatisfaction with the methods employed by Mr. Bruce in handling the schools, a general lack of confidence in his administrative ability, a general feeling of uncertainty and unrest that saps the vitality of the educational system of the entire District and destroys the efficiency of all connected with the work of intellectual uplift among the 100,000 souls. Before the esprit de corps in the school system can be properly re-established, a different atmosphere must be generated, say the masses. Ministers, and professional classes, teachers, pupils and the patrons generally have lost confidence in the disposition of the existing forces to grant a “square deal,” and they insist that a change be made, with the hope that something better may turn up, since the situation cannot become much worse. The Board of Education is familiar with the popular uprising, but a majority, about five out of nine, choose to ignore the complaints of the masses and fall to respond to their practically united demand for relief. The hope of or three members who retire July 1, the Justices of the Supreme Court will be careful to choose, persons who will hearen unto the voice of the substantial colored citizens and give them a Board that will make the changes necessary to a satisfactory direction of our educational interests. Sober-minded colored leaders do not disguise their fear that nothing of a definite character can be—accomplished in this fight, unless the forces opposed to the present school administration “get together” and map out a program. The Bruce machine, with its immense patronage, is well oiled, they say. The influential families all have relatives and friends in the schools, and they hesitate to act adversely, for fear their kinfolks may “lose out:” dangerous “kickers” are pacified by a certain “blarney” that the Machinavellian assistant superintendent knows so well how to hand out—and there you are—as one of server put it the other day. Men of real class are slow to announce themselves as willing to take place on the Road, as it is a thankless job. Educators in Washington and elsewhere are backward about signifying a willingness to accept the office of Assistant Superintendent, because of the divisions in local sentiments and the decline in to go where trouble may await them, particularly if they are doing well in their present place. All these things add to the difficult in reaching a solution of the school problem of the District. In the meantime the solons of the race have their "thinking-caps" on and are watchfully waiting developments. A public mass meeting is talked of, to give an opportunity for a public expression of views annot the situation. The papers are calling for an investigation by the Board of Education as to the circumstances surrounding the unfortunate accident on the Maryland road, as well as certain alleged irregularities in the marking of examination papers, the keeping of records and in appointments, transfers and promotions, and the failure to promote where merit would suggest advancement. The school situation is decidedly acute, and grows more so with the passing of each day. "What will the harvest be?" BACK TO THE SURGEONS. BACK TO THE SURGEONS Major Pullman, Chief of Police, has ordered Mr. Tillman back to the surgeons, who had previously passed when Judge Siddons was Commissioner, but turned down under his successor. Mr. Brownlow, by the police surgeons, has been ordered back for an examination. The Bee was confident that Commissioner Brownlow and Major Pullman would see that justice is done this worthy colored applicant for the police force. When Judge Siddons recommended Mr. Tillman for appointment it was one of the most pleasing acts of his official career as Commissioner. It was his last official act, and his friends, admirers and colored people intended to hand it down to posterity. It is the wish of The Bee that the last official act of Judge Siddons in behalf of a worthy colored man be carried out. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac). Coming over New Jersey Avenue Monday afternoon I was just both amused and flabergasted on hearing a bunch of what I took for M Street High School kiddies singing a ditty that sure does cause one to moralize. A boy and a girl became an improvised a duet and sang, to rag time music, the following words: "Say we take a little run In my little Ford for some fun O'er Maryland roads to Relay, What do you say, what do you say?" Then the rest of the bunch joined in this chorus: "Oh, 'twill be exquisit, A night time visit, If the tires don't blow, So folks at home will know." I had to laugh, as I tagged behind at a safe distance, at the gusto with which these kiddies sang, and let me promise you that the tune was infections, and the boys and girls who were doing the singing seemed so full of rollicking fund. But a second thought went skimming through my dome piece, and it was this: Ain't there something radically wrong with things when high school students make up a ditty what has a close connection with a late unpleasantness? I tell you when students reach that point where they can ridicule teachers, because teachers have given them an open chance, for open ridicule, some one better get the hook and just hook a few out of the ranks, and I don't mean book students out, either. Now, this just leads me to Brother Calvin's claim that Rector Mitchell of St. Mary's Church is being groomed by the gentleman who ran a "Relay" handcap in a Ford, and Jim Cobb. Just why Jim continues to think he is destined to always mix in this school affair when he ain't even got so much as a wife, let alone children to attend school, rets past my understanding. Course, I guess he feels that he just has, to stand by Little Lord Fauntelroy for social privileges, if for nothing else, but I ain't got nothing to do with that. If an invitation from up on Columbia Road is worth everlasting blind fealty, course Jimmie Cobb is the best judge. But what I started out to whisper is that I do wish Mr. Mitchell hadn't got into this School Board race. He is an awfully nice, pious little minister, and getting on the School Board can't bring him one thimble full of credit or prestige. On the other hand, it will be sure to handcap him, as it has handicapped every chocolate drop that fell for the honor. My advice for Mr. Mitchell is don't fall for the "con" stuff the Ford chauf for and Jim Cobb may be handing you; just figure that you got a fine little congregation what appreciates you now, and there ain't no use getting in bed by getting on that there School Board. During all these years what I've beer footrotting around this berg I've learned that any time a bunch starts out to push a fellow for mem the chestnuts out of the fire, or they have got some axe to grind, or both And it's a safe gamble, that when ever the Ford chaufer backs a fellow or a lady for a school board member he's doing it to use that fellow or that lady. Bat alnt the day never going to arrive when an Assistant Superintendent of Schools will stay out of this business of making School Board members' From all the rumors that are floating about this berg, and from the storehouse of facts that is soon to be tapped, it would strike me that some few people what are temporarily residing in glass bungalows would be pretty seclusive and reclusive, and not appear on dress parade, tooting the ensignia of office with a lot of gusto. Yes, my dear Mr. Mitchell, if you will take the advice of a fellow whose been around these diggings ever since Dorsey Fultz cluded the police, you will stay out of this School Board free-for-all race, and confine your energy and influence in the immediate vicinity of Twenty-third Street Northwest, where you are doing a lot of good for the neglected of the black ghetto. Do you catch my idea, Dr. Mitchell? And Bill Houston has weighed into this Board race, with the Hon. J. C. Napier in his corner. I guess Houston wants to blot out, that solar-plexus blow Armond Scott handed him when he ran before. Houston landed that time all right, and a swell time was given him by the fellow what expected to use him, and then, low and behold, Richard Achilles Horner took a train for Chicago, with a few memorandas written down by Armond Scott, another one of them there "fearless and relentless" kind; and when he got back, why Houston just took his pen in hand and wrote the Judges he didn't want the darnd old place now, and they just could hand the empty honor over to some other soft gay what would be easily asphyxated by Little Lord Fauntleroy. Then your Uncle Calvin trotted out a follower of Eucalapus, wearing a pair of gallways, a la chimpanzee, and shoved him on to the board. And he's been, wondering ever since why he done it, and swearin' if the god of Braham will forgive him this once he will never go up in an areoplane again in search of a filler. And would you be surprised if I told you a whole lot of people are wondering why dr. Dumas was left at the post by his erstwhile good friend who use to "drap" around to his house every whirlpole to eat his good grub and drink his rare old vintage. Let me tell you, brothers and sisters, I know a certain party what would dump the author of the Psalms if he thought it would just help him a little. He never played fair with nobody now, this certain party I'm talkin' about, and some day Jim Cobb, who is still pluggin' along under this Democratic administration, will wake up, and examining his cards, asked: "Who dealt me this hand?" And then there will be a sort of chorus reply: "Why, a certain party dealt you the hand." Now, speaking about hands reminds me that somebody sent a quiry to the Sage this week, addressed care of The Bee, which is proper, asking what is a "dead-man's hand." It has been some few days since I mussed up in a poker game. Fact is, I've not communed with a poker party since the Pen and Pencil Club went out of date. But from what I've learned, there have been the usual quiet draws being played in back parlor and studies along ever since, and some of the "queens of society" have been enjoying it as a side line, along with a few packages of cigarettes. "How do I know?" you ask. Why, say folks, if I told you all I know this town would be engulfed in scandal and overflowed with gossip. But now for answering this guy's quiry as to a "dead-man's hand." The dead-man's hand is just as various as the climate and eleventh and around over S, and back to Thirteenth Street. In every community there is a different version of this poker hand. Down in the swamps of the South—anywhere down there 'ceptin' at Tuskegee, where they play nothing but croquet, jacks and sevens is a favorite. Down in Marse Henri Watterson's State, where they make all grades of spirits fermenti used as syrups by Ann Gaskins, they figure on queens and eights being a sort of a dead-man's hand. But generally speaking, from Goldfield, Nevada, to Ramsey's cultured town up there on Massachusetts Bay, aces and eights is figured as the sure-enough dead-man's hand. I remember I held it once again a school teacher (won't call his name cause since then, he like me, has quit flirting with old Madame Draw Poker), and what he did to me was a plenty with his little old straights. I've always had an aversion for this here dead-man's hand ever since. Yes, sir; it depends on where you come from. Down in Shreveport, La, they use to figure on jacks and sevens being a dead-man's hand, and I guess they do yet for all I know. But speakin' about "dead-man's hand" if Jim Cobb and the chauffer has handed Mr. Mitchell a lot of dill-pickle talk about how useful he can be to this community if he once lands on the school board they sure have dealt him a "dead-man's hand," and he will wake up to find it out to, when he gets all set in the game, and the chauffer gives word to take the limit off and play it to the skiles. Yes sir Mr. Mitchell is the finest little minister what ever blew into this berg—sort of reminds me of a plone, he so full of beautiful goodness, but if he picks up that dead-man's hand what Cobb and the Assistant has dealt him he sure will lose his religion, and you know it takes a whole lot to cause a fellow to lose either the Episcopal or Baptist brand of religion. The difference between the two is that if you once get into the Baptist Church you are a Baptist till you die, and if you once land inside of the Episcopal breworkss there aint nothing that can throw you outside. And at that, this Episcopal Church, and especially the little church over which Mr. Mitchell presides, is doing a work that must shame a lot of other whites denunciations man's hand Jim and the chauffer dealt you. Let Houston play his'n if he wants to, that's none of your communion. I have just made a skedule of my debts, and find that I owe umpleen dollars and steen cents, and in order to let my creditors do the worrying, I guess I'll file just a petition in bankruptcy, like a number of other officials in a savings bank of dreadful memory. Don't tell me it ain't, for it is, a badge of distinction, popularity, and prestige to live in luxury, and then when the butcher, the baker, the tailor and the washerwoman come around for their pittance give them the ha ha, and say, "Why, you inconsiderate thing, do you suppose I can pay you? Why, you foolish virgin, I'm going into bankruptcy" The colony of Capitol Savings Bank officials who have hit the bankruptcy trail increases. Who's next? Washington has at last rot a real live Y. M. C. A. Prof. W. H. I. J. K. Beckett is the fuse that was needed to make our 12th Street machine run at top speed, as was intended. The old-timers have returned to the fold—Henry Chase is getting ready to give them some more money—and the newcomers are in to stay. Some of the new ones stick closer than Holmes at the night desk. This anniversary week has been a roarer. They had a bowling tournament that started Saturday night. Basement was jammed. The highrow bowlers—the fellows that won't let the scorer mark anything but strikes and spares—announced that it would be an example of the survival of the superlor. Survival of the superlor—get that. Old Thomas Brackett Reed settled the fate of that high-sounding phrase when he proved that the natural history maxim of the survival of the fittest was right. Reed said, "Take the Bull of Bashan and a little salt water shrimp. We are all agreed that the Bull of Bashan is the superior. Well, drop the Bull of Bashan and the little shrimp into the mighty ocean, and I'll put my money on the shrimp." Well, that's what happened in the bowling tournament. The shrimp had a walkover. Three prizes were awarded, and two of them went to bantams—Morton Crump and Wilson Evans—Crump first, Samson Thompson second, and Wilson Evans third. Yarborough, Lawson, Henry, Bundy, Watson, Otey, Thompson, and the other highbrows are still retreating. What puzzles me is how Thompson lucked out, as he has been the highest of the highbrows. On Sunday they had a shocking meeting. My brother-in-law from Louisa, Virginia, is visiting me, and to get rid of him I said go around to the Y. M. C. A., knowing that he would jump all over me for handing him a lemon. Another case of fools rush in where angels fear to tread. He said the meeting was worth $5. He said Rev. Walter Brooks talked like Frederick Douglass and himself all in one, and the meeting was ideal. Now, here's where he woke me up. Said he: "Who is this here 'Rastus Molen and that there Jeff. Coage?' I asked him what was the matter, had (Continued to page 4.) MONEY MIXUP IF AMERICA FIGHTS SITUATION IS COMPLICATED Forty-eight German Ships In American Waters Would Have to Flee or Be Seized—This Country Would Probably Give Them a Chance to Get Away and Land Where They Could. Washington.—The precise legal status of many hundreds of millions, perhaps of billions, of property in this country and others would be brought into question if the United. States were to become involved in the war in Europe. Vast properties in the United States of European owner-hip would be liable to confiscation. Great properties, though much less in aggregate value, owned by Americans in Europe would be in the same position. American corporations would not be permitted, it is as read, to pay dividends on securities held by citizens of the countries with which the United States was at war. The German ships now interned in this country would be under the necessity of leaving American waters at the risk of being captured on the high seas or else being confiscated in the ports where they are now held. In all the history of warfare there has probably never been so complicated a financial situation in international relationship as that which would ensue between the United States and Germany if the two countries by any chance should engage in hostilities. Germans have long been large investors in the United States, particularly in securities of railroad and industrial corporations. It is now pretty well known that these investments were to a considerable degree liquidated in the last year before the war began. During that period Germany was systematically turning its investments into forms most available for quick use, and the conversion was made so skillfully and quietly that the world of business did not fully realize what was afoot until the war had actually broken out. Consequently it is impossible at all accurately to appraise German holdings, however that they are the largest in railroad securities, their in industrials and finally in real estate and miscellaneous forms of property. On the other hand, American property interests in Germany are larger than is generally understood, because in recent years a number of American industrials have been forced to establish plants in Germany. It was estimated that $2,000,000,000 worth of various alien owned investments in both countries would be fuvolved if the two countries should go to war. What would be their standing? This question is decidedly important to people on both sides who have such holdings. But it is easier answered than the next one. With the two countries at war unnaturalized Germans in this country would become, before the law, "allen enemies." No matter how loyal to this country or how determined that their conduct toward and in their adopted country should be exemplary, that would be their legal position. This class of people own great aggregates of property in this country, and to involve them in any general conflagration measures would be so farreaching in their effects that it is recognized as quite impossible that any such would be undertaken. The declaration of war between two countries has the effect, under long established international practice, of suspending, but not wiping out, debts of a state or its citizens to the citizens of another state. The reasons are manifest. In the first place, to pay debts to a foreign state during war would be to furnish the slaves of war to the enemy. In the second place, if the debtor declined to pay, there would be no chance to enforce collection, because the debtor, an enemy alien, would have no access to the country's courts to enforce payment. The forty-eight German vessels integrated in this country, appraised as worth nearly $200,000,000, are in a peculiar status. Interned here because the United States is a mutte-friend, they would suddenly be found to be in the complete power of a new enemy. It is explained that the peculiar obligation which the United States has assumed toward them raises questions not before breached—whether it would be violating a very special and unusual faith to appropriate the ships now if this country and Germany were at war. The procedure which the authorities believe correct would be to notify the vessels that they must leave American territorial waters and to give them a fair chance to do so. After that they would be liable to seizure by American war vessels or by the vessels of American allies. Or, if the Germans preferred, they could decline to leave, the United States government could take possession of and formally confiscate the vessels and let the whole business be settled after the war's end. Kansan Wanted a Market and Breton Became It. Colby, Kan.—Because he raised 150, 000 bushels of wheat in 1014 and neede- d a place to market it without a long haul Ben Foster, a large fandowner, built a town of his own. He erected an elevator, lumber yard, coal yard and store; also residences for his em- ployees. He named the town Breton, and now it is getting away from his first idea. Other people are moving there, and Foster is in a good way to become the proprietor of a thriving country town. He refuses to sell the lots, but rents them on long leases. WATCHING THE SITUATION. Chairmen of Committees on Foreign Relations Hold Important Posts. Relations Hold Important Posts. Washington—In the event of a controversy between this country and any foreign power Senator Stone and Congressman Flood will be two of the most important members of congress. They are chairmen of the committees on foreign relations, in the senate and house of representatives, respectively. All international matters of any great importance are handled through these M. H. B. and of course congress will be called to meet if developments make this necessary. Both Senator Stone and Congressman Flood have Leen in Washington a great part of the time since President Wilson addressed his drastic note to Germany and are in close touch with all developments. HONEYMOONERS WALK ACROSS THE COUNTRY Harrisburg, Pa.—Journeys across the continent twice on foot within a period of two years marked the unique honeymoon trip taken by Mr. and Mrs. John Broxman, who live near here. In the twenty-four months that they have been away the young married couple have traversed the parched sands of the semitropical countries of the south, the fertile valleys of the middle west and the rugged mountain paths of the far western states. They are happy and have returned to their home without reporting a mishap. In making their long journey on foot Mr. and Mrs. Broxman have won both fame and fortune, for not only were they cordially welcomed in all the towns and cities through which they passed, but as the result of their long hike they have been presented with a large sum of money by a brother-in-law of Mrs. Broxman in California, and henceforth they will make their home on a farm which has been purchased by the bridegroom near Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. Broxman were married two years ago and had planned to spend their honeymoon quietly in the cast. But Mrs. Broxman's brother-in-law in Santa Anna, Cal., told them that he would present them with a substantial sum of money if they would take as their honeymoon trip a "stroll" from Harrisburg to California and back again. They decided to try to win the prize held out to them, so immediately after the wedding ceremony was performed they started on their long hike. Pet Collie a Hero. Wallace. Ida.—Were dogs entitled to receive medals a six-month-old Scotch collie owned by Horace Langdon would be entitled to recommendation for such honor. The cabin occupied by Langdon and Charles Bare was destroyed by fire. Langdon was roused by the dog frantically clawing and scratching his neck and shoulders. He hastily broke a window and, grasping the dog, jumped outside and awakened Bare, who slept in an adjoining room. AID BELGIANS ON A BUSINESS BASIS Elaborate Financial System Gets the Best Results. ORGANIZED BY AMERICANS. Commission Will Have Provided Foodstuffs to the Value of $65,000,000 by Middle of August—Profit Made in Cheap Bread—Belgians Have Done a Lot of Work Themselves. London.—The American commission for relief in Belgium will have provided foodstuffs to the value of about $65,000,000 for the Belgian people by the middle of August. Charitable contributions from America will have amounted to about $5,000,000 and from other quarters of the world approximately the same total. The great bulk of the food supplies, representing the remaining $55,000,000, is being provided indirectly by the Belgian people themselves. This is made possible by the elaborate financial machinery set up by the commission, enabling the Belgians to utilize their own energies and resources. Fully 75 per cent of the Belgian people are being supplied with food by the commission without recourse to charity. One result of the commission's operations is that bread is now cheaper in Belgium than in London. When the commission was formed last October, under the chairmanship of Herbert Clark Hoover, it was estimated that the total imports required to keep the population of Belgium alive would amount in value to about 500,000,000 before the next harvest. The rise in the price of foodstuffs increased the necessary amount to $65,000,000. The greatest problem in this connection was involved in the fact that foodstuffs sold in Belgium to those who still had resources were paid for in paper. The entire metallic currency disappeared early in the war, and national bank notes were so scarce that many communes were printing paper issues of their own. This paper money had no value outside of Belgium, and in any event to have exported it would have denuded the country of currency. But unless this money were turned into gold it would be necessary for the commission to find in the outside world an out of the question. At the outset, therefore, the commission began to devise a method for effecting the exchange of these local currency obligations into gold. Negotiations were opened with the belligerent governments for permission to set up a form of exchange whereby persons or institutions abroad owing money in Belgium should turn over to the commission the amount due in sterling or dollars. The commission undertook to pay their debts for them in Belgium out of paper money which it received from the sale of foodstuffs. The belligerent nations agreed to this after long negotiations, and there was thus set up a form of exchange. The commission is today the only institution which is doing a systematic banking business across enemy lines. By degrees the commission has extended this exchange department of its organization, which has come to be the lifeblood of the structure. It has induced many well to do Belgians to pledge their credit for money handed over to the commission in gold, which in turn is paid to them in Belgium in paper. The commission also has advanced money to the communal governments, taking their obligations therefor, and by pledging these obligations abroad has obtained further resources. The communes have been enabled in this manner to procure money to pay communal officers, to maintain the schools and keep up municipal works, thus enabling the Belgians to carry on the details of civil government and saving the country from the danger of numbic conditions. One phase of these operations arose in connection with a number of Belgian concerns, which, while they had resources abroad, had exhausted their local resources in payment of workmen or in disbursements to depositors. A form of hardship had grown up through the inability of such concerns to make good their obligations to the public, and persons who had believed themselves well to do were being forced to the bread lines through inability to draw money due them. Through the operations of the commission these concerns were enabled to hand over in London and New York funds they possessed abroad, and the commission in turn delivered paper money received from the sale of food. Thus the sale of credit was reestablished, and many thousands of persons were saved from the bread line. Before this machinery was set up practically the whole population was dependent on the world's charity, paper money being of no avail. The initial appeals of the commission, therefore, were made on behalf of the 7,000,000 of people. With the success of these financial efforts, however, all of the people still able to pay for their food were made self dependent, and the appeals of the commission for charitable contributions were reduced to those made on behalf of the absolutely desirite. Girl, Given Away Because of Poverty, Now Knows Parents. Lacrosse. Wis.-Hazel "West," fifteen-year-old girl, who was taken away from Fred West, her foster father, by Judge Brindley because he had niecled her, has found her mother in a woman she has known all her life as a dear friend. Mrs. Fred Green, the mother, appeared before Judge Brindley and told the remarkable story of how she had given Hazel to the Wests when she was a baby because of her inability to care for the baby. A mysterious telephone call to the Home of the Friendless, where Judge Brindley placed Hazel, effected the reunion of mother and daughter. The message said that if Hazel would come to one of the downtown stores she would be given a heavy coat. Hazel went downtown alone and did not come back. Investigation revealed her at the home of Mrs. Green, who had met her in the store and told her the story of her parentage. In explaining the case to the judge Mrs. Green said: "I was the mother of another child when Hazel was born, and we were too poor to care for both of them, and at Mrs. West's urgent plea I let them take her. "Not a week has passed since that I have not seen her. The Wests were better able to care for her than I, and I have been happy in the thought that she was being brought up in the right way. But since Mrs. West's death I have been worried, and now that she has been taken away from West I intend to keep her." Mrs. Green is the wife of a railroad engineer. Hazel's father is dead. SAYS WOMEN DRINK MORE. Fight Against Liquor Stronger Except With Them, Says Bennet. Philadelphia.—In an address at the aftfthe anniversary celebration of the National Temperance union ex-Congressman William S. Bennet of New York, after describing the progress made by the foes of drink, said: "The case of the girls and women constitutes the one point in which there has been retrogression. It is my observation that there is much more drinking among women than there was twenty years ago. As men are giving up the habit, women are drinking to a greater extent than they used to do." Mr. Bennett said that in 1870 virtually every state was under the inquence of the liquor interests, but that now only two, one eastern and one western, are so influenced. "Drinking has decreased in New York. Now the men who refrain from drinking at a banquet are in the majority. Few men drink during their business hours." BRITISH WOMAN WINS HIGH MILITARY HONOR Freed From Jail, She Builds Hospital For Wounded. London. Though Britain flung her into durance vile before the war, it is dozing its cap to Miss Louisa Garrett Anderson, who now holds authority equal to that of a major in the British army. Her work has to do with great things for the wounded. She had been jailed for a suffrage demonstration, and in the early weeks of the war she and the British government felt naturally shy of one another. Her first hospital was opened under French authority. The shyness having been dispelled, the war office asked Miss Garrett Anderson to come home and make a hospital in London. Out of her own resourcefulness, experience and initiative she is making her hospital. It has 700 beds. It is to be in working order in record time. The family record is an extraordinary one. Her mother, Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, was one of the first of women doctors. She began her medical studies in 1890, and though the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians refused to admit her to their examinations, she obtained a license to practice from the Society of Apothecaries in 1865. Paris had fewer prejudices than London, and, passing the medical examinations of its university, she received her M. D. degree. Later on, when England realized that she was not to be denied, honors were not lacking, and her daughter's degree is a London one. After a long career in London Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson retired to her native town of Aldsburgh and was elected mayor. NEWSPAPER IN AN EGG. -Clergyman's Wife Finds News Item Wrapped Around Yoke. Sedalia. Mo.-That a hen may swallow a news item and live to immortalize the digested information in an egg memoranda was shown when Mrs. J. A. Jared, wife of a clergyman, who corroborated their sensational breakfast, wrecked a bolled one and read the truth, or at least read the truth as near as a newspaper ever gets it. The fragment of newspaper, about a yoke and a half wide, was wrapped around the egg under the shell instead of the usual thin white shawl that protects the white of the egg in most instances. Mrs. Jared carefully removed the newspaper and found that every letter on it was readable and in fairly good English. The Week in Society Have your prescriptions filled at Board's Drug Store, 1912 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest and insure your health by getting the best in drugs and medicines of the highest grade. Your doctor knows this. To assure prompt service call up Telephone N. 2221, when a messenger boy will be at your disposal for both Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Harris entertained at a whist party, assisted by her sister, at their residence, 1633 Fourth street northwest, in honor of Miss Cora Beander, who is leaving the city for Jamestown, R. I. The honored guests were: Mesdames Sarah Tate, Bertie Gillmore, Manile Marshall, Ida Young, Theresa Chase, Margaret Hebron, Sailie Edmonds, Misses Pearl Murray, Maggie Wilkins, and Messrs. William Chage, Robert Chase, Elwood G. Hubert, S. H. Gray, Samuel Hebron, Nelson Edmond, Mr. Eattition and Mr. Smith Mrs. Abbie Syfax Grinnage of this city, is visiting Mrs. O. E. Vennings and Miss M. A. Montrel, of Philadelphia. Dr. A. H. Ray, of Salisbury, N. C., is in the city for a possible stay of three weeks. It is rumored Miss Agnes Davis and Dr. Fred Durer will be married June 15. Mr. Linwood Trueheart and Miss Florence Davis were quietly married by Rev. F. A. C. Bennett, pastor of Calvary P. E. Church, last week. Miss Cormora Carter, who has been teaching in Elizabeth City, N. C., left for her home in this city, 2041 Fifth street, last Friday. Miss Ella Thompson, of Philadelphia, spend last Sunday in this city. Miss Towels, of this city, will spend the summer with her sister, Mrs. E. Goodman, of Haddonfield, N. J. Mr. R. W. Thompson, of this city, was a visitor in New York City, last week. Moy Mai, a Chinaman, who conducts a restaurant at Eighth street and Florida avenue, was sentenced to a term of six months in jail for throwing hot water and red pepper in a Colored woman's face, last week. Mrs. Bessie Barber, of Indianapolis, has finished a term in music at Howard University. Miss Christine Buse, of this city, is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. S. Ross, of Pearl street, Burlington, New Jersey. Miss Clara M. Oliver, the well known pianist of the S. H. Dudley Theater will left the city yesterday to spend her vacation with her parents in Mohawk.N.Y Mrs. Fannie Wallace, of Petersburg, Va., who has been spending the winter in this city with her daughter. Mrs. W. J. Parnell, has returned home. Mr. William Robinson, brother of Mr. George A. Robinson, of Harvard street, is very sick. Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Oglesby, of T street, have moved to 1617 V street. Miss Mary Good left Saturday for a few days' stay in Suffolk, Va. Rev. W. D. Miller, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. Church, of Waco, Tex., has returned from a business trip in this city. Sergt. Miller, of Knoxville, Tenn., will be married to Miss Mary B. Rawler, of this city, July 15. Little Miss Antoinette Washington, 7 years old, of Southeast Washington, seems to be endowed with a stage ability. She dances, sings, and speaks fluently, which promises for her a bright future. Mr. Thomas D. Tucker has returned to this city from Mt. Vernon, Va., where he has been for several days. He is looking well and enjoying good health. John W. Lewis, president of the Industrial Savings Bank, returned to this city, Tuesday, after a trip through North Carolina and Virginia, stopping off at Richmond for a while. Mrs. Ruth Davis, of Baltimore, spent the week end visiting friends. She motored home Tuesday. Rev. Logan Johnson has returned to the city from the Methodist conference which was held in the Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, of Richmond, Va., arrived in the city Wednesday afternoon to attend the meeting of the tents. Mr. Richard A. Dandridge, a member of Hiram Lodge No. 4. F. A. A. M., died at his residence, 1643 Fourth street northwest, on Saturday, May 22, at 4:30 p. m. Funeral was from fermont Avenue Baptist church on Tuesday, May 25th, at 2 p. m. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, Clara, a son, Wilbur, two brothers, Abraham and Eugene and a host of friends. Mr. George Plummer, Jr., of 1643 Thirteenth street northwest, went to the Freedmen's Hospital Tuesday afternoon, pending an operation for appendicitis. A musical recital was given Wednesday night by the ushers of Liberty Baptist church. Twenty-third street between H and I streets. The entertainment opened with singing, led by Mr. J. E. Olden; prayer by Mr. Gardiner; saxophone solo by J. E. Olden; duet by Misses Estelle Curtis and Mattie Gordon. Miss Harriet Author, pianist; saxophone solo by J. E. Olden; "Resignation." Caro Roma; piano solo by M. Sylvester Diggs. : The ushers were Messrs. Brent, Smott, Judkins and Chapman, Rev. H. Powell, pastor. Miss Rosa Barman of 2009. Twelfth street left the city Tuesday morning for Asbury Park where she expects to remain till October. On her return she will be found at the above address. Miss Edith Seymore of 1301 Wallach Place northwest will spend a week at her home in Chester, Pa. SMITH-OLIVER. Mr. Turner Smith of this city and Miss May Oliver, formerly of Richmond, Va., were married on May S by Rev. Gordon. The ceremony took took place at the parsonage, and was witnessed by a few personal friends. They left for a ten days' visit to Philadelphia and Atlantic City. N. J. They will be at home to their friends after May 30—1723 S northwest. Mr. Smith is one of the largest contractors in kalsomiming, plastering, and cement work in the city, employing six or eight men yearly. THE EXILE. The new play written by Prof. E. C. Williams of the High School is full of merit and the people should not fail to go and see it. Mr. Nathaniel Guy, Mr. Knowl and Mrs. Taylor are the principals. If you have not secured your tickets you should do so at once. It is an original drama written especially for Mr. Guy. REV. JACKSON HONORED. A Deserving Pastor Tendered a Reception by His People. The officers and members of Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, on last Thursday night, tendered a grand reception to their devoted and esteemed pastor, Rev. Walter S. Jackson, as an expression of their appreciation for his return to them for the seventh year. Mr. William Clements, chairman of the reception committee, and the loyal and faithful members of Simpson assisting him, deserve great credit for this excellent reception. Everything was served in first-class style, and all who were present enjoyed a toothsome repast. Among the head waiters were: Thomas Williams, Cornellus Berry, Archibald Thomas, H. B. Smith, and Harry Thomas, with their female assistants, all being handsomely dressed for the occasion. A violin solo was excellently rendered by Dr. Porter, of Burville, D.C. Among the speakers of the evening were Rev. Dr. W. A. C. Hughes, Dist. Supt.; Rev. Thompson, Rev. T. H. Brooks, Rev. Love, Rev. M. D. Harley, Rev. W. H. Dean, and Rev. E. B. Gordon. The welcome address to the pastor on behalf of the church and friends, delivered by Clarence M. DeVelle, is said to be unexcelled. Mr. DeVelle, in his wonderful address, gave a full and complete history of the church and surroundings from the time Rev Jackson first entered up to the present time, the beginning of his seventh year pastorate. He also told of the ingathering of many souls, the improvement made to the church, and also the purchasing of the new parsonage, which stands next door to the church, a monument to growing efforts and struggles of Rev. Jackson during the closing months of last Conference year. The pastor in his speech said he could not find words to express his appreciation to his faithful and loyal friends, who have made things pleasant and happy for him from the time he first came up to this present night. And this reception, the greatest ever witnessed by him, makes him feel more like pressing on the upward way. There is no minister in this city better liked and appreciated more than Rev. Jackson. He is an honest and upright man, who does his duty as he sees it. The Bee wishes him continued success. FALLS CHURCH NOTES. Mrs. Edwin Henderson entertained her sewing, class Friday evening last. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Wilder Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. John Wright, Mrs. Bessie Butler and Mrs. J. H. Meriweather of Washington, D. C. The Mothers' Progressive Council held their meeting at the residence of Mrs. Henry Taylor Tuesday evening. The Ministers and Deacons' Union of Northern Virginia will hold their meeting at the Second Baptist church this Saturday and Sunday. Miss Frances Simmons who is on the sick list is improving slowly under the professional care of Dr. Hugh Gray. A surprise party was given Mr. J. Everett Thomas Thursday last in honor of his birthday. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. George Gorham, Mr. and Mrs. Malvin Tinner, Mr. and Mrs. William Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Luvernis Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thomas and Mrs. J. Everett Thomas. A very pleasant evening was spent by all. Mrs. William Lee who has been ill is now convalescing. Mr. Morris Honesty. of Pittsfield. Mass, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. George Hunter. Mrs. Foley and son of Philadelphia have returned home after a pleasant stay with Rev. and Mrs. G. W. Powell. Mrs. Georgia Monday of Martinsburg, West Va., was the guest of her niece, Mrs. Dora Simmons, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Luvernis Lee. ALEXANDRIA NEWS On Friday evening, May 21st, the Elks' Minstrels, under the efficient direction of Mr. Herbert I. Lucas, played to one of the finest and most appreciative audiences that ever filled the Opera House. It has been many years since the best class of people have shown the appreciation for a local organization as was shown Mr. Lucas and his well-trained performers. The singing far surpassed anything that has been heard at the Opera House in recent years, and the costumes and stage settings were magnificent. It might also be added with propriety that the costumes, worn by the ladies in the audience were quite as beautiful as those worn at grand opera performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The first part was exceptionally interesting from start to finish, and Overture and Grand Finale by the company were arranged and rendered better than could be rendered by many good road shows. The incidental solo work and jokes, all of which were effectively rendered, were by Wm. H. Rose, Irving Hicks, Callie Lewis, Charles Fortune, Bathus Bailey, Phillip Evans, Clay Smith, Arthur Hayden, John King and Rozler Frazier. Other members included in the work of the first part were Henry Clark, Lloyd Black, Augustus White, John Jackson, Courtland Willis, Aaron Gaskins, Thos. Mitchell and Chas. Jones. Mr. John Pritchett was the interlocutor, and, with his Chesterfieldian manner, far surpassed many whom are doing that line of work for a livelihood. In the second part Smith and King proved themselves to be a real team of entertainers. The singing specialty by Mr. Arthur Hayden was of a high order, and the Elks' Quartette, which is 'composed of Smith, Lewis, Frazier and Willis, took many encores. The dancing specialty by Jones and Smith was exceptionally good. The second part was concluded with a comedy sketch, entitled "Uncle Eph's Return." This was a barrel of fun, which was well "mixed up" by King, Evans, Jones and the company, and was a scream from start to finish. Too much credit cannot be given Mr. Lucas for this phenomenal work. MISS JESSE WORMLEY Miss Jesse Wormley, who was injured in an automobile wreck with Assistant Superintendent R. C. Bruce, Mrs. Servis and Mrs. Anderson and Fred Morton, April 21, reported to the Normal School, Thursday morning. THE EXILE. The Exile will be witnessed by one of the most representative audiences ever seen in Washington. The costumes are said to be the richest ever worn by one of our companies, the scenery is beautiful, and the music exceptionally good. The play itself is a romantic drama based on Italian court life in the latter part of the 15th century. It is full of action and interest, and has many thrills. This is a great play. It shows the genius of a scholar. All Washington will turn out this Saturday evening at Howard Theatre. WEST WASHINGTON The Eldermen's Recruiting Committee, with Mr. Charles H. Turner as chairman, has added more than one hundred new members to the Association, which is to be augmented by a like number at their next meeting. The annual election of officers took place on Thursday night, and the following were elected for the ensuing year: Mr. Geo W. Stewart, President; Dr. J. H. Montgomery, First Vice-President; Wm. F. Munday, 2nd Vice-President; J. C. Burrell, Recording Secretary; Jas. F. Alston, Financial Secretary; Rev. J. A. Richardson, Chaplain; Fred Clark, Marshall. Board of Directors: Chas H. Turner, Chairman; R. K. Washington, Grant Wilson, W. A. J. Brown, and Charles H. Brown. Rev. Charles P. Comer was the visiting pastor at First Baptist Church on Sunday, and preached to large audiences during the morning and evening services. Rev. Comer was presented with a purse at the close of the evening services, and was congratulated, he being one of the number of graduates of theology of Howard University on Thursday evening. The Sunday School of Mt. Zlon M. E. Church rendered a very interesting May Musical on Friday evening, which was liberally patronized and the programme delightfully executed. Rev. and Mrs. Ricks and little daughter are now visiting friends in Roanoke, Va. It is said that the call recently, to pastor a large congregation in Virginia is still impressed upon him, which he has not accepted, but will soon determine whether he will accept the call of the Roanoke congregation. Mr. John Berry, the venerable sexton of the Gay street Baptist Church, who was stricken suddenly ill a few days ago, is now much improved. THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY. In report of the 25th marriage anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Hayes at their residence last week on Twenty-second street northwest, in speaking of the singular coincidence, said: That the anniversary of Mrs. Joseph H. Holmes fell on the same night, in honor of which she wore her wedding dress, made thirty-nine years ago. A MUSICAL SUCCESS. The Amateur Singing and Dramatic Club covered themselves with laurels last Sunday afternoon at the Providence Baptist Church in their Sacred Song Services. The chorus work was exceptionally good and the solos well rendered. Especial mention should be made of the female quartet and chorus --- DETROIT CAFE 33 H Street, Northeast Two Blocks from Union Station Meals, 15c.,20c, and 25c. GOOD SERVICE. Accommodation for Travellers. MRS. BERTIE WOOD, Proprietress. JUSTII'S OLD STAND It's what our trade say that makes it so. We buy the class of stock that men will buy quickly and making a square profit, we can afford to sell low, perhaps lower than you generally pay. It's a safe say-so and a call here convinces and draws more trade. The slightly used suits, $3 to $10, are trade bringers, as it's cash saved to men who can use the saving. One price. Justh's Old Stand, 619 D. GENERAL HOUSE REPAIRING. House Painting BUILDING SUPPLIES Wall Paper, Paste and Glue Oil, Paint and Glass Tin, Gutters, Spouting and Stove Piping. Second Hand Tin for Sale. Tinning and Repairing. HARDWARE Motar, Lime, Sand, Cement, Union Finish, Plaster Paris, Gypsine, Terra Cotta Pipes, Building Papers and Dry Colours, etc. THE DURABLE Ready Mixed Paint and Varnish Stain, Prepared. J. JOS. CATLOTH 308 41-2 St. S. W. Washington, D. C. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION. To Whom it May Concern: This is to give notice that the partnership between Charles F. Wood and the undersigned who did business as grocers at 721 12th St., N.E., under the firm name of "Wood Bros.," was dissolved May 1, 1914, and that all bills due the late firm should be paid to the said Charles F. Wood who is responsible for all claims against it. C. M. WOOLF & CO., Inc. Wholesale and Retail FARM SUPPLIES 1005 B St. N. W. Wash., D. C. m.13-8t. work. This club is certainly making a permanent place for itself in the city, and Miss Nickens, the directress and accompanist deserves great credit for her untiring efforts to present at each appearance of the club the best in secular and sacred music. Invocation, Pastor. Full chorus, "Geibel." "Patriotic Song." "Duet, selections from "Incarnation," Mrs. Turner and Mr. Taylor. Male quartet, Parks, Messrs. Robinson, Brown, Pryor, Kemp. Full chorus, Rossinl, "God of Israel." Solo, "Oh! Divine Redeemer," Gounod, Miss Hattie White. Full chorus, Bischoff, "The Lord is My Shepherd." Solo, "Caro Roma," Mr. L. Minor. Male chorus, H. Johnson, "Our Prayer." Solo, "Ave Maria," Millard, Mrs. Lottie Gibbons. Solo and chorus, "Holy City," Mr. Robinson and Club. Male Chorus, "Trust in God." Solo, Hosanna, Mr. J. Taylor. Full chorus, Smleton, "Wings of a Dove." Silver offering. THE HOWARD THEATER. A Gay Week for Society—A Brilliant Turnout. Manager Andrew J. Thomas and his associates had all Washington last week and Monday evening was a record breaking night. The supper show Sunday afternoon and the performance last Monday night brought out all Washington. Never in the history of this great playhouse has such brilliant audiences greeted the daily and evening performances. House Manager Byers has a remarkable memory, his presentation of the week's performance without notes are as entertaining at times as the pictures. The show opened Monday night with the two Freemans, George and Annie. They are character artists. Gaston and Brown, Gallie and Mabelle, were very clever. The pictures were the latest and up to date. Sherlock Holmes on Monday night held the audience spellbound. Manager Thomas certainly gives your money's worth. The audience on Monday night was the most distinguished that has ever been in the theater. Thompson, Cooper and Thompson brought down the house. They are musical geniuses. These supper shows should not be missed. This time parents should send their children. The new Howard Theater program is quite an acquisition. The orchestra at this theater is up to date and, its leader knows his business. The musical numbers this week have been new and catchy, "My Little Girl." "Over the Hills Mary," and the "Music Box Ray." Attend the Supper Show and night performances. Rev. Wallace Honored Rev. Wanlace Honored. Philadelphia, May 25, 1915.—More than a. thousand men and women swarmed the Wesley A. M. E. Z. Church edifice, 15th and Lombard streets, on Monday evening, May 17, to pay their respects to the Rev. P. A. Wallace, D. D., and wife, the occasion being his seventh anniversary as pastor of that church, which culminated into a grand reception given Howard Dental Parlors Advice, extracting and teeth cleaned free when work is ordered. We employ no students. Magnificent Costumes Fine Scenery, Beautiful Music Howard Den 700 Tea Street, N. W. 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Sold by all good druggists. by the members and their friends under the direction of Mrs. Louisa Flood, chairlady; Mrs. Rosa Ashton, Secretary; and Mrs. Mary Anderson, Treasurer. It was one of the most representative church functions held in this city this season. Rev. Wallace has entwined himself not alone around the hearts of his congregation, but around everyone, because he is a man of his people, in close touch with their institutions and tendencies. The characters of many men have been marred by selfish ambition, vanity, caprice, and cruelty; many were men of public virtues and private vices; but Rev. Wallace is the very embodiment of calm wisdom and self-ruling will, speaking and acting with sympathetic moderation for the sake of truth and justice without personal ambition or maleficent passion, hence this joyful occasion. The programme as rendered was: Organ Voluntary, by A. A. Bowie; prayer, Rev. Levin Gattis; solo; addresses by Mr. John Daniels, Mr. R. T. Greenleaf, Rev. A. R. Robinson, Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Rev. C. C. Dunlap, Hon. George H. White, Miss Edna Westbury, Hon. John C. Dancy, Rev. John W. Lee, Rev. George R. White, Rev. Butler, Mrs. Stitz, Rev. Cornell, P. H. Edwards, G. Grant Williams, Hon. Harry Bass, Rev. H. Porter, after which came the presentation of $161 and a suit of clothes to the pastor by different committees connected with the church. Rev. Paris Arthur Wallace, D. D., responded in a happy vein, thanking many friends for courtesies extended and for their loyal support during the year just passed, after which everyone repaired to the large and airy lecture room, where a one repast was served, which was en- THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMEN'S SCHOOL A Satisfied Patient. parlors in the city operated vital Surgeons. THE TEETH OF NERVOUS CHILDREN. Always Present. RICES—EASY TERMS. WORK AT LOWEST PRICES. TEETH EXTRACTED BY EXTS. uned free when work is ordered. no students. HARRIS TRADE MARK ASP NEWBLOODTONICS REGISTERED joyed by all. Howard Girls Win Basketball Game. The Howard University Girls Basketball team defeated the Normal School No. 2 last Friday night in the gym of the Normal School at the athletic exhibit. The score stood 11 to 9 at the end of the first half in favor of the Normal School, but in the second half Capt. Lane and her warriors led on by the Howard spirit came back strong and defeated the Normal girls by a score of 27 to 22. The features of the game were the shooting of M. Lane, M. Jorden and E. Prout. J. Pride and L. Hall played well for the Normal School, and G. Hill, A. Coleman and K. Murphy did good work for Howard. The line-up: Howard. Positions Normal M. Lane (Cap.) r.f. M. Jordan (Cap.) E. Prout l.f. J. Pride K. Murphy c. L. Hall G. Hill r.c.g. E. Evans K. Jernagin l.c.g. A. Turner A. Coleman r.g. O. Robinson G. Walker l.g. M. Williams Substitute—C. Johnson for A. Turner. MR. J. HADLEY DOYAL This well-known citizen addressed the people at St. Augustine Church last Friday evening. His address contained sound doctrine to the Colored Catholics. WARE'S SHOE STORE If you want first class shoes for the summer go at once to Ware's, 11th and You streets northwest. This is the only up to date colored shoe store in the city. Consult the lady saleswoman. She HOUSTON AIDING FARMERS' WIVES Extension Work Is Now Conducted on Broad Scale. WOMEN TAUGHT EFFICIENCY Value of Home Conveniences Demonstrated by Agents of Department of Agriculture—Data Show Amount Spent and Outline the Visible Results—Work Is Just Started. Washington.—Secretary of Agriculture Houston is going to try to solve the problem of unrest among country women by improving their condition. "The chief objections of women to country life," according to a statement issued by the department, "are usually the generally small returns from farming, the drudgery of farm work and the social isolation. "Data taken from the records of the department and relating exclusively to work of this kind in the thirty-three northern and western states show the following distribution of funds: For meetings and movable schools, at which demonstrations are given in cooking, sewing, household conveniences and for the organization of women's clubs to study home economies, $81,555; for canning clubs to teach girls and women how to prevent many of the wastes of the farm by canning and preserving fruits, vegetables and meats by cheap and rapid commercial processes, $56,197. for county agents who help farmers and their wives to PETER H. Photo by Amer an Pr. Association increase the net income of the farm and thus make possible the introduction of labor saving conveniences and other improvements. N.427.312. *Extension work designed to be fundamentally helpful to farm women seems to include within its scope certain matters, as follows: "First.—Plans to increase the net income of the farm. Farm women need more money for home purposes. The purchase of home conveniences, the installation of water, sewerage, lighting and heating systems, kitchen and other conveniences and the bringing of literature and music into the home are, in the majority of country homes, dependent upon greater net profits in farming. Knowledge of these conveniences and other desirable things is good, but money to buy these desirable things is a vital necessity if country life is to be made as acceptable to women as town life. "Second.—Plans to teach and demonstrate efficiency in farm home management. These include such matters as wholesome food properly prepared and served in adequate supply and variety throughout the year, the care of the home and the family linen and wardrobe, the care and management of children and sometimes the handling of certain farm enterprises like poultry and eggs, milk and butter, the garden, small fruits, etc. Efficiency in farm home management contemplates the maximum of accomplishment with the minimum of effort to the end that the farm family may find satisfaction and contentment in the home and that the time of the farm woman may be conserved. "Think.—Plant for leisure and development. The farm woman needs time for reading, self development, child teaching, social life and recreation "In the development of home economics demonstration work there needs to be kept in mind the point of view that the problems of country women must chiefly be solved by country women. The county agent movement in some sections of the north and west started out primarily as a city man's movement, but it has succeeded in exact proportion as the farmers of the county have taken hold of the work and made it their own." Monument Set Up For Ape Summit, N. J.-The grave of a pet monkey which was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Humphreys of New York and was buried here a short time ago on the estate of Mr. Humphreys mother, Mrs. T. St. John Gaffney, 1 now marked with a handsome headstone. TORPEDOES MOVE AT A RAPID RATE Forty Knot Missile Probably Hit and Sunk the Lusitania. DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVICE Extreme Range of a Torpedo Is 4,000 Yards, but at 1,000 Yards It Is Much More Effective-Varies In Length From Fourteen to Nineteen Feet and Has Machinery For Guidance. New York.-The German torpedo or torpedoes that destroyed the Lusitania were fired at a range of not more than 1,000 yards, and the torpedoes themselves probably traveled at a speed in excess of forty knots. The submarine or submarines from which the weapons were discharged were submerged not more than fifteen feet, and they had plenty of time to get the exact range before the torpedoes were discharged. Furthermore, the torpedo- were of the most modern and powerful type and of the highest possible speed. That is the opinion of many of the American officers, all of whom have closely followed the German submarine activities since the underwater war was started by the Germans several months ago: The extreme range of a torpedo, it was explained by these officers, is about 4,000 yards, but the evidence to be had indicates that all the German submarine work is being done at short range, perhaps less than 1,000 yards. At the lesser range the speed of the torpedo is greater and the aim correspondingly more accurate. At the 4,000 yard range the speed of a modern torpedo should be between twenty-seven and thirty knots, at 3,000 yards about thirty-two knots and at 2,000 yards between thirty-three and thirty-six knots. At lesser ranges the speed may vary from thirty-five to forty knots. One of the American officers stated that in Charles W. Domville-Fife's book, entitled "Submarine Engineering of Today," there is a chapter on "The Life of a Torpedo," which describes in understandable language and in a correct way these terrible missiles of war. "A first class battleship takes the best part of three years to build and may cost anything from $5,000,000 upward," the author writes. "This ponderous ship of war can be sent to the bottom of the sea in but a few minutes if struck by a torpedo. The modern torpedo varies in length from fourteen to nineteen feet and weighs up to half a ton. It has an extreme range of 4,000 yards. The blunt nose or 'war head,' as it is called, is the business end of the torpedo and contains the dry and wet guncotton and the fulminate of mercury necessary for the explosion. Behind the explosive head is the air chamber to hold the compressed air by which motive power is furnished. Then we come to the search chamber or 'brain' of the weapon, which contains most marvelous mechanism for directing and controlling the machine. Next comes the engine room and, at the tail of the torpedo, the buoyancy chamber. Every one of these little peculiarities indulged in by the torpedo is noted in the history sheet and referred to before the weapon is again fired. By this means all the slight defects can be allowed for and a much more accurate aim obtained. It is the duty of the torpedo lieutenant to make up all the 'history sheets' on a vessel, and he may be almost looked upon as a schoolmaster with a lot of small children to understand and manage. Sometimes, but not often during trials, a torpedo is lost. Perhaps days afterward the truant turis up, either washed ashore or towed in by some fishermen after having torn their nets to pieces. "A small chamber in the torpedo carries compressed air. This helps to sink it to the required depth after it has entered the water. This air, escaping from the chamber by means of a regulating valve, drives the engine at a high rate of speed, which is almost uniform throughout the trip from the tube to the target. The engines turn two screw propellers at the tail of the torpedo. These revolve on the same axis, but in opposite direction, the object being to give stability to the weapon. "The steering is effected by vertical rudders, which keep the torpedo in the required direction, while the proper depth in the water—usually from ten to fourteen feet—is maintained by horizontal rudders. The torpedo is kept submerged by means of the balance chamber and is controlled in its steering by the wonderful instrument known as the gyroscope. "So marvelous is its mechanism that in favorable circumstances a torpedo well aimed may be depended upon to strike within a yard or two of the spot aimed at. Briefly described, the gyroscope is a rotating wheel which automatically controls the torpedo's course. "The method of firing a torpedo is very much like that of discharging a gun. It is expelled from a torpedo tube by compressed air. Upon reaching the water the torpedo is driven by its screws in the required direction. The missile is guided by a very ingenious invention called a 'torpedo director'. This is a little brass instrument fitted with 'sights' like a gun. When the rights are allowed on the enemy the officer in charge presses a key, and electricity causes the discharge." 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 buildings. The sky is overcast, and the overall atmosphere is peaceful. 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. ```markdown ``` 2. Department of Theology. 3. Commercial Department. Armstrong Manual Training, 74 points. M Street High School, 62 points. Elementary School Championships. Mott School, 53 points Cook School, 40 points. Birney School, 37 points. Bruce School, 25 points. Logan School, 9 points. Vocational School, 6 points. Randall School, 4 points. The annual field and track games of the elementary and high schools were victorious for Armstrong School in the high school class and for Mott School of the Eleventh Division Athletic League in the elementary school class. The meet and relays were interesting and full of surprises. Armstrong was superior in the senior running events. M Street was superior in the junior track and field events. There would have been a drawn event, but four of the track men of M Street were disqualified by the scholarship ratings. Mott and Cook Schools ran neck and neck throughout the meet, Birney and Bruce seesawing for second. In the sprints Mott School won three out of four starts. In the Senior High School Meet, the winners were Parker, Duckett, West and Smith. Thornton landed two firsts in the Juniors. Brooks, Parker and Diggs. were the top men in the field events. Armstrong has two bids on the Captain Walter H. Loving All-Round Trophy in the High Schools, as this school won football and track championships. M Street basket ball championship with the competitive drill and baseball yet to be decided. Summary. High School events: 100 yard dash, senior, won by A. Parker, A. T. H. S.; second, Better, A. T. H. S.; third, Duckett, A. T. H. S.; fourth, Stewart, M Street. 220 yard dash, senior, won by Duckett, A. T. H.'S.; second, West, A. T. H. S.; third, Stewart, M Street; fourth, Cooper, M Street. 880 yard dash, won by Smith, A. T. H. S.; second; Taylor, A. T. H. S. third, Lewis, A. T. H. S.; fourth, Contee, M Street. One mile run, won by Smith, A. T. H. S.; second, Contee, M Street third, R. Taylor, A. T. H. S.; fourth, Hamilton, A. T. H. S. Low hurdle race, won by Duckett, A. T. H. S.; second, Contee, M Street; third, Wood, M Street; fourth, Parker, A. T. H. S. 100 yard dash, junior, won by Thornton, M Street; second, McKenney, M Street; third, Larry, M Street; fourth, Woodyard, M Street. 220 yard dash, junior, won by Thornton, M Street; second, Larry, M Street; third, Burke, A. T. H. S.; fourth, Woodyard, M Street. One mile relay, won by A. T. H. S. (Duckett, Taylor, Parker, Better). Running high jump, won by Brooks, M Street; second, McEntree, A. T. H. S.; third, Parker, A. T. H. S.; fourth, Hill, A. T. H. S. Running broad jump, won by Parker, A. T. H. S.; second, Diggs, M Street; third, Brooks, M Street; fourth, Hill, A. T. H. S. 12 pound shot put, won by Diggs, M Street; second, Brooks, M Street; third, Miles, M Street; fourth, Brent, A. T. H. S. Elementary School events: 50 yard dash, 80 pound class, won by Mayo, Mott; second, Lee, Cook; third, Cobb, Mott; fourth, Chapman, Birney. 60 yard dash, 95 pound class, won by Kline, Bruce; Bumbry, Birney, second; third, King, Cook; fourth, Prue, Birney. 70 yard dash, 115 pound class, won by Peterson, Mott; Winters, Cook, second; third, Jones, Mott; fourth, Corbett, Birney. 100' yard dash, unlimited weight class, won by Kleser, Mott; Johnson, Bruce, second; third, Purkin, Cook; fourth, Brown, Vocational. 360 yard relay race, won by Birney; second, Mott; third, Cook; fourth, Randall. 440 yard relay race, won by Logan; second, Mott; third, Cook. 440 yard relay race, won by Birney; second, mott; third, Randall; fourth, Logan. 880 yard relay race, won by Cook; second, Logan; third, Vocational; fourth, Bruce. 8 pound shot put, 115 pound class, won by Hawkins, Birney; second, Lewis,' Mott; third, Johnson, Cook. 12 pound shot put, unlimited weight class, won by Proctor, Bruce; second, Maxwell, Mott; third, Gibson, Mott; House & Herrmann 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. 1109 Eye Street, Northwest Linotype Composition TRIANGL BOOK QUICKEST 1109 Eye Street, Nor fourth. Chatman. Randall. Running high jump, 80 pound class, won by Lee, Cook; second, Campbell, Birney; third, Hansbrough, - Cook; fourth, Jones, Birney. Running high jump, 95 pound class won by Robinson, Mott; second, Henderson, Birney; third, Diamond, Bruce. Running High Jump, unlimited weight, class won by Proctor, Cook; second, Buchannan, Vocational; third, Dean, Cook; fourth, Hopkins, Cook. Running broad jump, 80 pound class, won by Cobb, Mott; second, Roy, Birney; third, Powell, Bruce; fourth, Jones, Birney. Running broad jump, 95 pound class, won by King, Bruce; second, Hughes, Birney; third, Slaughter, Bruce; fourth, Carter, Mott. Running broad jump, 115 pound class, won by Wright, Mott; second, Arnold, Cook; third, Dixon, Birney; fourth, Winters, Cook. CHILDS CLOUT CHASES CHINESE. Colored Catcher Clinches Close Contest Causing Chaotic Climax— Wilberforce, O., May 24. After battling eight innings in a vain effort to get anything that looked like a run. Wilberforce stuck gamely in the fight Monday afternoon, sprung a batting rally in the last half of ninth and produced enough runs to overcome an early lead and defeat the fast Chinese University team, of Hawali, 4-3. After the first tally of the game had been pushed across by a pinch hitter, Childs, the big colored receiver of the green and yellow came to the bat in the ninth inning with two sacks occupied and drove one of Bo's fast curves out of the lot for a home run. Four runs came across the pan in this last frame and the greatest game that had ever been played on the Wilberforce lot had been won. It was a sensational close of a most wonderful game. Two of the best pitchers that have ever faced each other for many a day in this vicinity were on the mound, but Bo, the yellow twirler, with faultless support of the phenomenal variety had the edge on Simpson, the Wilberforce hurler, who saw his efforts wasted several times by wobbles of the defence. Chinese .....0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0—3 Wilberforce .....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4—4 Summary—Stolen bases, Chin, Simpson; Sacrifice hits, Gaines; two base hits, Lal, Lee, Merrett, Dickerson; Home run, Childs; Struck out, by Bo 9 by Simpson 7; Base on balls, off Bo 2, off Simpson 1; Time 1:30. 4. Literary Department. 5. Department of Music. 6. Department of Literary Training. 7. Department of Industries. 8. Extension Home Classes. There are special scholarships for deserving young men and women in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open July 3, 1914 For further information and catalogue, address ALL KINDS OF PRINTING Lessons taught in Manicuring, Facial Massage, Scalp Treatment, Instantaneous Bleaching and compounding of facial creams, manufacturing of Hair Goods and Hair Tonics. Ventilation a specialty. Madame Smith's Wonderful Sage Hair Tonics—Tar and Sage Tonics. Hair Tonics and Pomades cannot be surpassed for growing the hair, making it soft, fluffy and preventing premature gray hair. A large assortment of choice human hair good always on sale. Day and evening classes. BEST Northwest MRS. AGNE The FOUNTAIN of YOU is now open for Y Lessons taught in Manicuring ment, Instantaneous Bleaching manufacturing of Hair Goods a specialty. Madame Smith's Wonderful Tonics. Hair Tonics and Poma ing the hair, making it soft, fluffy hair. A large assortment of choice Day and evening classes. WRITE OR CALL MAIL Mme. A. J. Smith Washington, D. C. AGENTS The women of Java chew betel nuts, which discolors the teeth, giving them the look of black varnish. Latest definition for miser—A man that eats mice. Found murdered in bed with his brains busted out—a chinch. A saloonkeeper said to an old friend: "Well, I see you've been to that temperance meeting and put your last nickel in the collection, and now --- Training. les. ses. ships for deserving young men and women, ology and Religious Training. and Chautauqua will open July 3, 1914 and catalogue, address rrmann , N. W Beautiful Lounges Morris Chairs Writing Desks Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room suite, call after you have been elsewhere KINDS OF PRINTING Electric Power Presses NTING CO. PRINTING TERMS CASH Phone Main 7590 NES J. SMITH YOUTH Beauty Culture School for Young Colored Girls Securing, Facial Massage, Scalp Treatment and compounding of facial creams, foods and Hair Tonics. Ventilation a Powerful Sage Hair Tonics—Tar and Sage. Pomades cannot be surpassed for growt, fluffy and preventing premature gray choice human hair good always on sale. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED 935 R Street, N. W. Phone North 4017 ENTS WANTED you've got to walk home." "Yes," replied the old friend, "and many a time I've given you my last nickel and couldn't walk home." "Plan as if you are going to live forever, and work as if you were going to die to-morrow." Appear to know only this—never to fail nor fall—Epictetus. Twenty-five jitneys made their appearance in this city last Friday. THE CITY OF DAVID-- THE CITY OF GOD 2 Samuel 6 11 19; Psalm 24—May 30. Jerusalem the New Capital—God's Presence Desired—The Ark to Be Brought—Uzzah Slain—Obed-Edom Blessed—The Lesson Learned—The Ark Properly Brought. "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the House of Jehovah."—Psalm 122:1. GUIDED by Divine providence, King David captured Jerusalem, for centuries an impreg- GUIDED by Divine providence, King David captured Jerusalem, for centuries an impregnable fortress held by the Jebusites, and made it the capital of Israel. One of his first acts was to provide himself a palace befitting the dignity of the nation. To this end he obtained from King Hiram of Tyre material and skilled craftsmen. Then King David prepared to transfer the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. King Saul had removed the Tabernacle from Nob to Gibeah, but the Ark had not been in the Tabernacle for a long time. Ell's wicked sons had taken it into battle; and it was captured by the Phillistines, who received chastisements from the Lord until they returned it to Kirjath-jearim. There it remained for seventy years. A Great Lesson in Reverence. Inteat upon honoring God, King David had nevertheless neglected to study the Divine Law regulating the Ark and its movements. The Divine direction was that the priests should cover the Ark in a particular manner, and that the Levites should bear it upon their shoulders. Neglecting these instructions, the king had a new cart made, drawn by oxen. But this was not God's way: a lesson of reverence for the Ark, symbol of God's character and His Mercy-Seat, must be given. The appropriate time came when the oxen, drawing the cart over a smooth, sloping surface, tilted it a little. Uzzah attempted to steady the Ark, and was immediately smitten dead with lightning. This evidence of Divine displeasure terminated the festivities; and the Ark was delivered to the home of Obed-Edom the Levite. The people thus learned reverence—a lesson seemingly much needed today. Irreverence manifested by the world does not astound us so much as does irreverence manifested by those professedly the Lord's consecrated people. Irreverence of manner, jokes on religious things or on Scripture, etc., are surely injurious to the individual and to his influence with others. The Ark at Obed-Eldon's home brought blessings that attracted King David's attention. Again his heart longed that Jerusalem should be the city of God, the Ark and the Sheklinah Glory-light indicating the Divine presence. When King David was again ready to bring up the Ark, he used the Divinely directed method. Besides thousands of warriors and multitudes of people, there were musicians, who joyfully manifested appreciation of the great event; and the Lerites chanted responsively a Psalm which King David composed for the occasion—Psalm 24. The king himself joined in this manifestation of delight, and danced before the Ark. As the procession neared Jerusalem, it was met by the women, of the city with rejoicing. At their head should have been Michael, King David's wife. On his return home she reproved him sharply for his manifestations of joy. The king reminded her that the Lord had taken the kingdom from her father, and had given it to him. Apparently the proud woman was thereafter left to herself, the bare mention being made that she was thenceforth childless. The Psalm Was Prophetic. As the Ark represented Christ, so the bringing of the Ark into Jerusalem corresponds to our receiving Christ. 'All such realize that "the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof"—that every good and perfect gift cometh down from the Father through the Son. The world and all dwelling therein are subjects of those blessings. A God is founding His New Order of thinns amidst seas of discontent—the restless masses. He invites us to ascend into His Holy Hill, His Kingdom, and to be established in His Holy Place—the spiritual Divine nature. None can be of this class except on condition of pure heart and clean hands—righteous living to the best of his ability. These are all expected to swear allegiance to God. Jesus was the first of these Covenanters; and the Church must walk in His steps, if they would be with Him in His Kingdom. These must not lift up their soul to falsehood nor swear deceitfully. God will require all that they have covenanted. Only such will receive His blessing and righteousness imputed through Christ. Then follows the declaration that the Children of Israel are those who seek the Lord, and who request that the King of Glory come in. We still await His entrance. He declares that He shall be revealed to the world in flaming fire—"a Time of Trouble." Then quickly His mighty power will deliver from Satan, sin and death. JAMES H. WINSLOW Near Falls Church, Va. James H FUNERAL James H. Dabney FUNERAL DIRECTOR CARRIAGES FOR HIRE Moved from 1132 3rd Street, to 227 K St Cor. 3rd and K Streets, N. W Phone Main 8275 Moved from 1132 3rd Street, to 227 K Street, N.W. Cor. 3rd and K Streets, N. W. Phone N. 5131 Resident P Esau Winslo Funeral Direct 11th and You Streets Northwest Washington, D. C. Capital City The Coming Republican Club. An Executive Committee of organized in this city and it is comp B. L. Gaskins, A. W. Scott, Harry Moss, Thomas L. Jones, L. M. K. From this committee twenty be organized throughout the city. be selected and on or about May will be established. This will be the most repre- that has ever been organized in the bership will not be less than three. All names for membership m mittee on the following blank: CAPITAL CITY H WASHING To the Executive Committee of Washington, D. C.: Gentlemen: Kindly enroll my name as a m Name ... Address ... District ... Fill out the foregoing blank mittee, 1109 Eye St. N. W. The Coming Republican Club.—A Club of Legal Talent to Support the Party. An Executive Committee of a District Republican Club is organized in this city and it is composed of Attorneys W. Calvin Chase. B. L. Gaskins, A. W. Scott, Harry L. Tignor, J. M. Ricks, John W. Moss, Thomas L. Jones, L. M. King and others. From this committee twenty-two district Republican Clubs will be organized throughout the city. A suite of three or four rooms will be selected and on or about May 1 or 15th Republican headquarters will be established. This will be the most representative Colored Republican Club that has ever been organized in the District of Columbia. Its membership will not be less than three thousand. All names for membership must be sent to the Executive Committee on the following blank: To the Executive Committee of the Capital City Republican Club, Washington, D. C.: Gentlemen: Kindly enroll my name as a member of your Club. Name ... Address ... District ... Fill out the foregoing blank and mail it to the Executive Committee, 1109 Eye St. N. W. PARAGRAPHIC. Don't add yesterday's burden to that of to-morrow. Yesterday is past; to-morrow may never come. Prof. Mason Hawkins, principal of the Colored High School, Baltimore, has been awarded a patent, upon'an improved music cabinet for player piano music rolls. This invention accommodates the maximum number of music rolls, and is so constructed as to form a sectional cabinet. There are trays for the rolls, each of different diameter, for holding the rolls on the tray. A sliding music roll-holder is also in evidence. Prof. Hawkins is a graduate of Harvard University, A. B. and A. M. degree from Columbia University, New York. He has been principal since November, 1909. Agree with thine adversary quickly. Capt. Walter H. Loving, conductor of the Constabulary Band, stationed at San Francisco, California, during the Panama-Pacific Exposition, has been forced by ill health to go to Fort Baynard, N. M., for treatment. The Colored schools of Henrico County, Va., observed their seventh year of exhibit in industrial work, under the direction of Mrs. Virginia Randolph, supervising industrial teacher. The work consisted of various specimens of hand work made by the pupils. The schools of this county have gotten together. Henry Mock, of Mingo Junction, Ohio, has invented a fender which, when attached to a ship, can be telescoped or detached at will. The fender has five features—mine destroyer, locater, and life-saver from sinking or burning vessels, fender for reefs and rocks, fender for icebergs, and lighterage for freight. Secretary Daniels is giving Mr. Mock consideration concerning the fender. Montgomery, Mo.—Mrs. Savala Vandeveer, who has lived in Montgomery for 86 years, is the possessor of the ax with which Abraham Lincoln split rails while working for William Smith, a relative of Mrs. Vandeveer. Mrs. Vandeveer cherishes the relic, and declined to permit it to be exhibited at the World's Fair at Chicago. There is no success without loyalty. The man who is disloyal to his superior, to his profession, or to his country is disloyal to himself, and to all that is good in him.—Col. Geo. W. Goethals. A clothes-brush has been invented with a reservoir on the back to hold any desired fluid, which flows through two tufts of bristles at one end. Mrs. Chas. W. Scrutchin, wife of Attorney Scrutchin, of Bemidjl, Minn., has succeeded in having the "Clans- All Work First Class Phone North 814 ```markdown ``` S. Dabney DIRECTOR FOR HIRE street, to 227 K Street, N.W. Streets, N. W. Main 8275 Resident Phone N. 2643 Vinslow Director Republican Club A Club of Legal Talent to Support Party. A District Republican Club is orposed of Attorneys W. Calvin Chase. Gary L. Tignor, J. M. Ricks, John W. King and others. Two district Republican Clubs will A suite of three or four rooms will 1 or 15th Republican headquarters Presentative Colored Republican Club The District of Columbia. Its meme thousand. Must be sent to the Executive Com REPUBLICAN CLUB of BUTTON, D. C. Washington, D.C., 1915. the Capital City Republican Club, member of your Club. and mail it to the Executive Com- man," by Tom Dixon, removed from the Public Library. The library board is composed entirely of white women. Minnesota is pleased to be among States to give the persistent Tom Dixon a knockout blow. Hon. Charles W. Anderson, lately returned from the office of Collector of Internal Revenue, was given a testimonial last week. Prominent men of both races were present. The Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co. will have to pay the award of $25,000 won by Rachel J. Fields, a colored woman of Chester, Pa., who fell while getting off a train. The company appealed for a new trial, which was refused. Three white men of Ark, W. R. 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JARBOE Fruit and Vegetables Stands 301 to 306, Center Market m.13-6t. . SEWING MACHINE OF QUALITY. Samuel M. Pierre, Jr. Arlington, Va. THE BEE Published at 1109 Eye St. N. W., Washington, .D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C., as second-class mall matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. JUDGE TERRELL'S BANK- RUPTORY PETITION The filing of a voluntary petition in bankruptcy by Judge Robert II. Terrell, of the District Municipal Court, like many other things, has its angles. The Judge places his debts at $13,491.58 and his assets at $62.50. The accuracy of arriving at the amount of the debts and assets, including 58 cents, for debts, and 50 cents for assets, displays a methodicalness, and absolute care with figures which must commend the Judge, broadly speaking. The reason for filing the petition is given that an attempt was about to be made to revive judgments growing out of the failure of the old, defunct Capitol Savings Bank, in which failure, because of the criminal carelessness of some of the officers, and peculiations of others, thousands of dollars of credulous and confiding poor colored depositors were lost. It would be interesting to learn just what proportion of the Judge's debts covered judgments arising out of the failure of the Capital Savings Bank, and what proportion have been contracted since Judge Terrell assumed the ermine of a Municipal Judge. As is well known, bankruptcy absolves one from his just, as well as his unjust debts. As a Municipal Judge, Judge Terrell is almost daily called upon to decide as between a debtor and a creditor, and the fact that a judge, who is so called upon to decide, voluntarily seeks to absolve himself from debts raises the question, in some people's mind, as to whether he is competent to render decisions holding other litigants to the payments of just and reasonable debts. The Bee will not attempt to pass judgment upon this question raised, but reserves the right, as a conservator of the people, to make announcement that such a question is raised in the minds of novices. Judge Terrell, perhaps, is only jointly responsible, as an officer of that defunct bank, for judgments assessed against him, and perhaps ought not to be held individually responsible for them all. But if debts contracted since the failure of that regretable financial institution, by the Judge, are included in his citation of debts it does not appear just that he should seek to be absolved from them and continue to render decisions holding debtors appearing in his court responsible for their debts. Judge Terrell has served near three full terms as Municipal Judge, and it does appear to many that he ought to have been able to live within his means on the salary received. It was reported a couple years or so that even the judgments, against him growing out of the failure of the Capitol Savings Bank might have been settled for the paltry sum of $150, and further that the one colored man most largely responsible for his appointment the first time offered to advance the sum necessary to secure a settlement, but the Judge promised that he himself would satisfy the judgments, in some manner, before the time rolled round for a third appointment. It is recalled that Attorney General Wickersham, or the Taft administration, seriously doubted the propriety of reappointing the Judge with the judgment standing against him, and finally only consented after the strongest possible pressure was brought to bear by Dr. Washington, Ralph W. Tyler, James A. Cobb and others including the editor of The Bee who supported him, and believed that some arrangement would be made to satisfy judgments growing out of the failure of the bank The Bee does not declare it is true that more recent debts contracted have been included in his schedule of debts, but does assert that any debts contracted since he became judge aught not, in all justice and fairness, be included in any schedule of debts from which the Judge might seek to be set free. A just debt is an obligation of honor, and doubly so with a magistrate who daily renders decisions holding debtors to the payment of their just debts. ORATORY OF THE·GULLIBLES. From the time the Freedmen's Savings Bank was established the colored population in the United States was honored by gullible oratory. That is, every month or so some kind of colored enterprise would spring up, ostensibly in the interest of the colored masses. The gullible orators have been more pronounced within the past and present year, so much so that it has almost become a moral crime for the 100,000 colored people in this city to carry their trade to other stores, or deposit their money in other banks except the colored banks, or colored preachers, lawyers, doctors and all other kind of colored business and professional men and women patronize imminent white firms. Now, what do we see? These same gullibles who have bled and died for money's sake in defending the colored masses, preaching to the colored masses for money to build churches, or money to go off on a summer vacation; the colored business man who has been living on the hard earned money of the colored masses have no more use for those papers published in their interest and have pushed their enterprises at greater prices and long winded promises are considered to be nothing in comparison with the great papers that publish their imperfections and imaginary wrongs and publish to the world their shortcomings. If the four colored publications are not worth considering these patriotic gullibles should cease asking favors: they should pay for their church "puffs" and everything else. Just think of it, $4 per inch; $35 is the lowest for space and $400 per page. Look out for the special segregated edition containing the gullibles and before the year is out The Bee suggests that they will be "rotten egged" if they again appeal for aid. MANASSAS SCHOOL The article that appeared in a local paper sometime ago commenting on the appointment of Mr. Fred Morton to the principalship of the Manassas Industrial School, stated that a large number of the students were from this city. There never was a more flagrant misrepresentation made. A majority of the faculty, it is true, is from this city. The class of 1898 shows that there was one student from this city; 1899 shows three students from this city; 1901 shows two students from this city; 1902 shows five students from this city; 1903 shows one student; 1904, two; 1905, one; 1906, none from this city; 1907, two students; 1908, three students; 1909, one student; 1910, two; 1911, none from this city; 1912, two from this city; 1913-1914, five from this city. All the other students from 1908 to 1914 are from the State of Virginia. There are four members of the trustee board from this city; seven from Virginia, six from New York, one from Chaney, Pa.; one from Cleveland, O., and one from Mt. Clair, New York. The united opposition of the Virginian members has developed, besides the citizens in the State, as will be seen by the number of meetings that will be held before the meeting of the trustee board next Monday, the day of the commencement. There is no appointment that has given greater dissatisfaction. : NEGRO DEMOCRACY. The New York colored Democracy was jolted last week to such an extent that the black Tammany Tigers didn't know whether they were invaded by the king of the forest or an earthquake. Their colored leader, Mr. Ralph E. Langston, a born gentleman and leader of the colored Democrats and an appointee of Secretary McAdoo, and two others were discharged from the Internal Revenue Office. Mr. Langston was the first colored Democrat to line up for Mr. Wilson. He was the first man to organize a Wilson and Marshall Democratic club and one among the first to ally himself with the New York Democracy. He has been an ardent supporter of the administration and, indeed, among one of the most loyal ally of the present administration while others allied themselves with the anti-administration Democratic adherents of Tammany. If such a man gets the knife what colored ally of the administration is safe? What may the antis in the Democratic party expect? It was just last week The Bee called the attention of its readers to the fair manner in which some of the colored men in the Treasury Department had been treated. MR. COBB. The Bee has from time to time spoken of Assistant United States Attorney James A. Cobb, Esq. He has fully-demonstrated his ability to the satisfaction of his superiors and has won their confidence and respect. The race should feel proud of him and the excellent record he has made since his appointment to that office. There is no official more highly respected by the entire bar. If the people really knew the work he is doing in the United States Attorney's office they would compliment the former and present United States attorneys for retaining in office a man with such an exalted record. He is loyal to his people no matter what others may think of him. He is honest and conscientious and is not the man to resort to petty measures. THE PEOPLE—DR. MOTEN THEIR POPULAR IDOL It is quite evident that the people are for Dr. Lucy Moten and they will know the secret of the malicious fight against her. The judges of the supreme court will not appoint a man as the successor of Dr. Charles H. Marshall who is mixed up with the opposition. She is the popular idol of the people. GLITTERING GENERALITIES GLEITING GENERALITIES There seems to be a weakness among some people in business, who seem to be pursuing glittering generalities. It is a weakness with some people to look upon that which sparkles whether it has any merit or not. This will be shown when the segregated publication makes its appearance next month. This city is full of gullible colored individuals who are forever pursuing glittering generalities. PRESIDENT WILSON INVITED. Rev. Norman Heads a Delegation to the White House. The White House. Rev. M. W. D. Norman, D.D, pastor Metropolitan Baptist church and president of the General Baptist Association of Washington and vicinity, and Rev. S. Geriah Lampkins, D.D., pastor of McKinley Memorial Baptist church and president of the Tuxedo Industrial Institute, called at the White Wednesday to invite President Wilson to attend a patriotic mass meeting and memorial exercises to be held in Convention Hall, Fifth and K streets northwest, at 3 p. m. Sunday, May 30th, in honor and memory of the late martyred President William McKinley. While the meeting will be under the auspices McKinley Memorial church, the only congregation at the national capital named for the late beloved President William McKinley, it will be non-sectarian and for all the people without regard to race or color. It is thought more than likely the President will honor the memory of his predecessor with his presence and a few remarks. The United States Marine Band, Professor Santelman director, has been asked to furnish music for the occasion. The members of the President's cabinet have been invited to attend also. Governor Frank B. Willis of Ohio, Dr. Booker T. Washington, Dr. Alexander Wilbanks and Hon. Harry Cummings of Baltimore will be among the other speakers. Doors will be open from 2 to 7 p.m. There will be no admission fee but a silver offering at the door. The officers and members of the Grand Army Posts, the Spanish-American war veterans, all churches and civic organizations and the public generally are invited to attend. HOWARD ALUMNI Some man is needed at the head of Howard University General Alumni Association who can put some life and spirit into it and make it a real asset to the University. Up to this time the association has only been a tool in the hands of certain of its officers to further their own ends. A great deal of talk has been done 95 to what it intends to do, but almost nothing of a practical nature has even been attempted by the present officers. The association is certainly in need of officers who are alive and who have no axes to grind and who will have the initiative to attempt something real and practical and who will feel that a greater responsibility rests upon them than that of meeting and talking and eating. Let the Howard men get together as do the alumni of other colleges and in a small way establish some scholarships or prize or help in some other tangible way. Then they will be carrying on real alumni work. NEGRO TEACHER GETS PATENT: Mason A. Hawkins Inventor of Improved Music Cabinet. From the Baltimore Sun. Mason A. Hawkins, principal of the Colored High School, has just been awarded a patent upon an improved music cabinet for player piano music rolls. The current issue of the Selen- tific American describes the invention as follows: "This invention provides for accommodating the maximum number of music rolls in a given space; embodies the novel elements in a form constituting units of a sectional cabinet; provides trays for the music rolls, each adapted to hold a series of rolls and accommodate rolls of different diameters, provides for holding the rolls of a series in pallet orderly arrangement on the trays, and provides a sliding music roll holder, and at a door at is front, together with connecting means for actuating the door to the movements of the sliding holder." Principal Hawkins holds the bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University, and the master of arts degree from Columbia University, New York. He has been connected with the local Colored High School since September, 1901, and has held the principalship since November, 1909. The latest benefaction of Mother Katherine Drexel to the Negroes of this country is the purchase of the Crescent City University of New Orleans for the purpose of making it a scientific and domestic training college for colored girls. That her generosity is fully appreciated by the Negro race is clear from an open letter addressed to her by a representative colored writer and published in the Morning Star. Among other things, the writer says: If there is such a thing as the Negro Problem, I am more and more convinced that it can not be solved except through the instrumentality of the Holy Catholic Church. You, dear Mother Katherine, are a most powerful factor in solving this most perplexing problem. It is with tears of profound gratitude and respect that I thank you for bringing the light of faith to so many of my race. You have, dear Mother, reached down from your lofty height to lift up the poor unfortunate children, and prepare them for battle in the tempestuous sea of life, fortified with the oars of religion and education, which will make them true men and women, and an honor to the Church and the communities in which they live. Of cognate interest is the following extract from an editorial in The Age, a leading Negro periodical of New York. The editor is discussing the growth of Catholicism as disclosed in the statistics of the Official Catholic Directory: These figures will alarm a great many good people, who will see in them the ultimate downfall of the Republic and a lot of other dire disasters. For our part, we should like to see more of the Catholic spirit instilled into our great Protestant and other denominations. The Catholic Church in this country is that religious body in which wealth, social distinction, class and race count for the least. The humblest, poorest, and most ignorant immigrant entering New York can go into the great cathedral on Fifth Avenue and feel that he is welcome. * * * It is almost impossible to think of a Catholic priest preaching race discrimination, or urging his congregation to lynch some body. If all the great Christian organizations in this country had the religious and moral courage openly to disapprove the injustice, lawlessness, and cruelty which the Negro has to suffer, those sins and crimes would soon be stopped. Public Men And Things Continued From Page 2 Erastus prayed, 'cause 'Rastus can make the Black Billy Sunday or the white Billy Sunday look like a mosquito beside an American eagle when it comes to praying, and I thought perhaps Brother Molan had turned 'em on for a few minutes. "Naw," brother-in-law said, "Mr. Molan sang." O,'I said, "I see your mistaken; that was John T. Layton. Molen looks very much like him in every way; that's who it was." "No," says brother-in-law, "cause he was the most impudent preacher I ever saw, and asked particular who he was, and—" "O that was Molen all right," says I. "When Erastus was attached to the office of the Secretary of the Navy or the Treasury, one of his bosses (he was a new man) said to him, 'Erastus, I think my shoes need a shine,' and 'Ras went back, 'If you are talking to me I think you need a keeper. Your head must be troubling you." O, yes, that was Erastus Molen he was talking about, all right. My brother-in-law continued, "Mr. Molen sang 'O Promise Me' backward, presenting at the same time a life-size portrait of the splendid citizen, Henry Chase, who gave his check for $500 while the highbrows were subscribing 13 million dollars, some of them, and the Secretary told of a deficit of $1,200. Nobody moved. This made a man in the audience so mad that he got up and figured out how, much each doctor would have to pay in, not subscribe. This caused Doctor Cabinniss to fall in a trance, raising great excitement. Doctor Board tried to bring him to, but failed. Then this here Mr. Coage said, 'I am familiar with the history of this case,' and said, 'I will extract a quarter from the doctor's vault pocket. Doctor came right out of his trance is this fellow Coage a surgeon?" asked brother-in-law. "You can search me," was all I could respond. Beckett is going to get that twelve hundred Once Beckett got in the wrong column and talked about the deficit of twelve thousand, but after what Molen had said about Chase, that audience would have raised the twelve thousand if I hadn't been for that fellow that tried to kill them doctors. Y. M. B. C. The Y.M.B.C. of Metropolitan A. M.E. Sunday School gave their spring social Friday evening, May 21, at the home of Mr. E. S. Heywood, 1528 10th street northwest. It was largely at- tended' and proved to be quite an enjoyable afternoon. The following program was rendered: Poem, "Some Class," Mr. W. E. Todd; reading, Mr. S. Z. C. Westerfield; remarks, Mrs. A. E. Waddleton, Mr. W. M. J. Beckett; instrumental solo, Mrs. G. W. Jackson; remarks by Mr. G. W. Jackson, Mr. E. W. Harrison and Mr. E. S. Heywood, president of the class; two-minute talks were made by members of the Young Ladies' and Young Men's classes; solo, Mrs. C. M. J. Key. Mr. M. J. Key, ex-teacher, as master of ceremonies. GETTING $ ^{7} $ READY FOR COMMENCEMENT. Closing a Most Successful Year at the National Training School for Women and Girls. The National Training, School is closing the most successful year in the history of its existence. The Institution has been crowded since October, and splendid work has been done. Many new friends, white and colored, have been made. Two new departments—printing and gardening—have been added. People from all over the country visit the school and marvel not only at the progress, but at the order and cleanliness. Miss Burroughs says that the people of Washington have been most loyal to her in this work, and it is rather comforting to note this fact, and to congratulate Washington upon knowing a good thing when it is convinced that it is possible for a member of the race to do something big. The Commencement week opens with the baccalaurate sermon by Rev. E. W. Moore, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., Sunday, May 30th, at 3:30. Dr. Moore is a great preacher, and the friends of the school are invited to hear him. Thursday and Friday are the big days. From 12 M. to 10 P. M. Thursday, will be the Annual Exhibition, Tree Planting, and Class Exercises, closing at night with a Musicale. Friday afternoon, at 5:30. Dr. A. C. Powell, D. D., of New York, one of the foremost orators and preachers of this country, will deliver the address. Class representatives will speak, and the school will give us the usual musical treat. The Bee hopes that everybody will go to the Hill and continue to back up this splendid work, which, as Commissor Macfarland says, "is a credit to Washington and a concrete lesson in race possibility." AMONG THE LAWYERS. AMONG THE LAWYERS. Attorneys Williams had a murder case this week. Attorney Jones has been quite fill. Attorney A. W. Scott left for Springfield, Mass., Monday afternoon. Attorney B. J. Gaskins is busy. Attorney W. C. Martin is thinking about joining the army of benedicts. Attorney Beckett left for Baltimore, Md., where he has important cases. Negroes Lead In Virginia State Board Examination. The Virginia Medical State Board held its fall examination December 15, 1915. There were 36 applicants, 31 white and 5 colored. Douglas B. Johnson, of Petersburg, Va., made the highest average, with Hugh M. Gray, of Washington. D. C., and Arlington, Va., running a close second. Dr. Johnson spent three years at Howard Medical School and one year at the University of Vermont, graduating with honors in 1914. A few days ago Dr. Johnson received a letter from the agent of a large steamboat company at Norfolk, offering him a nice salary as surgeon on one of their steamers, running from Norfolk to Liverpool, Eng. Dr. Johnson has it under consideration. FOR MR. BRUCE'S PLACE. Among the Educators Spoken of as the Supervisor of Mr. Rioux the Successors of Mr. Bruce. Prof. W. S. Montgomery, Prof. E. C. Williams, Prof. Thomas M. Gregory of Howard University, Prof. James T. Walker. When Prof. Montgomery was introduced to the Mu-So-Lit Club last week the applause was long and loud. He is the most popular man in the schools today. Mrs. Mary E. Jones, wife of Attorney Thomas L. Jones, has gone to North Carolina to attend the musical exercises which her daughter. Miss Clarice, will conduct. Wilberforce University's Goal. Wilberforce University's goal The combined normal and industrial department at Wilberforce University, Ohio, after a careful examination by the State Supervisors of Normal Schools into the work and standards, has been placed upon the list of approved normal schools, thus the graduates of this department will be entitled to a State teacher's certificate without examination, and after 24 months of successful teaching are entitled to a life certificate without examination. WEEK OF JUBILEE. Israel C. M. E. Church Doing Good Work Under Rev. N. W. Clark. Rev. N. W. Clark, the new pastor at Israel C. M. E. church, is doing good work. From Sunday, May 30th, Monday, June 7th, there will be a week of jubilee. Many distinguished ministers have been booked to speak during the week's jubilee. Many of the churches will participate. RECEIVED A JOLT. A member of the bar called to see the Chief Justice this week in the interest of a certain candidate and the very moment this Chesterfieldian member of the bar started off with his speech extolling the virtues of his candidate for the board of education, the Chief Justice informed him under no consideration would he consider his candidate. This was a jolt. THE FASHION PLATE. THE FASHION PLACE The fashion plate store is the Togery shop, Seventh street near Tea street, Mr. Robert Harlan, manager and proprietor. You should not fall to visit this fashion plate establishment. Say that you read the notice in The Bee. Found on Slab Just Turned Over Ariar Fifty Years. Columbia, Conn.—Needing a flat stone for repairs that he was making, Edward Phillips pried up one which for over fifty years had been used as a stepping stone near the farmhouse back door. To his surprise he saw on the reverse side, in fairly plain letters, the inscription: In memory of Emily, daughter of Mr Joseph and Mrs. Eunice Smith, who died April 15, 1814, aged six months and fifteen. Best, thou, sweet slumberer, in the peaceful grave: Ehort was thy life; forgotten soon shall be. Except the few who, drowned in sorrow's way. With painful pleasure still remember . . . thee. Nobody knows where the stone had been used or where it came from. Mr. Phillips' father bought the house over fifty years ago and the stone was at the back door then for a stepping stone. It is five feet long and nearly two feet wide. LAST SHOT OF CIVIL WAR. Woman Asked Police to See if Old Gun Was Loaded—It Was. New York—The "last shot of the civil war" was fired recently in a courtroom. It came from a gun which had been hanging for years on a wall in the home of the late Willard H. Hodgson. The musket had been carried in the war of the rebellion by Mr. Hodgson's father. Mr. Hodgson's sister was preparing to move to another house, but was afraid to take down the old musket. She called in Lieutenant Henry Brown of the Flatbush police station and turned the gun over to him. He took it around to the station house and showed it to Attendant Patrick O'Loughlin of the Flatbush court, which is in the same building. Standing in the corridor O'Loughlin pointed the gun at the floor and pulled the trigger. The old war musket was heavily loaded, and there was a report which startled the police reserves and the people in the courtroom. Helm of Kentucky Would Go After South American Trade. Washington. — Representative Helm of Kentucky has a plan to establish a national bank at Ancon, in the Panama canal zone, with branches elsewhere in that country. He would call it the Pan-American bank and give it a capital stock of $25,000,000, divided into shares of par value of $100 each. Just before congress adjourned Mr. Helm introduced a bill to incorporate the Pan-American bank, and when the Sixty-fourth congress convenes he will press it for action. "The commercial tieup resulting from the European war has convinced every thinking man in this country that foreign trade is a vital element in our domestic prosperity and that the continents of North and South America have greater identity of interests than was ever realized before," said Mr. Helm. "There never was a time when opportunity was knocking so loud at our doors. The commerce and business of a continent are within our grasp. The manufacturing enterprises in Central and South America are very limited, and it is to this matter that I wish the attention of the country could be directed. "Few, if any, of the republics to the south of us have the means of transporting or delivering their products to any other country. Under existing conditions nearly all the trade of Central and South America flows across the Atlantic. It ought to be flowing from North America to Central and South America. "About the only means of creating commercial and business relations are banking facilities, transportation, press bureau and mercantile agents. Under the federal reserve act a bank with $1,000,000 capital in the United States can establish a branch bank in any of the countries in Central or South America. This provision, in my opinion, does not meet the conditions. What we need is a bank of sufficient proportions and magnitude and importance and prestige to handle the business of the continent. "The government of the canal zone is going to be just as stable and steady as the government of the United States. If we establish a bank on the canal zone it becomes identified with the locality. Our government is behind it. That guarantees confidence and makes it a sure go. The governments to the south of us would be inspired with confidence in the institution." REV. DR. SYDES: TO SPEAK. REV. DR. SYDES TO SPEAK. Commemorative Services in honor of our dead heroes and Installation Exercises will be held under the auspices of the Men's Club of Zion Baptist Church at the church, F street between Third and Four and a half streets southwest. Monday evening, May 31, 1915, at 8 p. M. Sermon by Rev. Marion F. Sydes, D.D., former pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. Church. Special music by Glee Club of the Armstrong Technical High School. An invitation is extended to the Army and Navy Union No. 9 and all kindred organizations. The public is invited. Admission free. TWO PENTECOSTS TWO SALVATIONS The Holy Spirit to Be Poured Out Upon All Flesh. The Divine Plan Provides Two Distinct Salvations—The First Pentecost—Its Blessings For the Church Exclusively. Its Work Nearly Completed—The Second Pentecost—Its Blessings For the World In General—Coming Through the Messianic Kingdom. Operating Through Israel Restored. A Thousand Years of Blessing. San Antonio, Texas, May 23. Pastor Russell spoke here today on the text, "And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh." (Joel 228.) He said in part: PASTOR RUSSELL The Prophet Joel mentions two distinct outpourings of the Holy Spirit. One of these, upon the servants and the handmaidens, found its fulfilment at Pentecost; and during the more than eighteen centuries since then, God's spiritual blessing has been with all the footstep followers of Jesus—all of God's servants and handmaidens. If we see this feature of the prophecy fulfilled, it becomes a guarantee to believers that the remainder of the same prophecy will have fulfilment in God's due time. The remainder of the prophecy declares that afterward—after those days during which the Holy Spirit has been outpoured upon the Church, upon the "servants and handmaidens"—will come God's time for pouring out His Spirit upon all the world of mankind. After These Days—Messiah's Kingdom. After These Days—Messiah's Kingdom. St. Peter's explanation of the Pentecostal blessing, "This is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel," should not be taken to mean that what was witnessed in the upper room on the Day of Pentecost, nearly nineteen centuries ago, completely fulfilled the Prophet Joel's predictions. (Acts 2:14-40.) No Bible student would dispute that the fulfilment of the prophecy began at Pentecost, with the early Church, and has been in process of fulfilment during all the centuries since. It is as true today as it was then, that the blessing of the Holy Spirit is granted to all of God's servants and handmaidens; and the remainder of the prophecy will be fulfilled with equal accuracy in due time. After these days of the Gospel Age—after these days of the outpouring of the Spirit upon God's servants and handmaidens—will come the glorious epoch of Messiah's Kingdom, in and through which God will pour out upon the world of mankind a great blessing of enlightenment and uplift from the sin and death conditions which now prevail. It will be to the accomplishment of this end that Satan shall be bound for a thousand years; and the darkness which now covers the earth, and the gross darkness which now blinds the heathen, will be chased away by the glorious "Sun of Righteousness with healing in His Beams"—Mal. 4:2 Thus will be inaugurated the glorious Day of Messiah, a thousand years long. Thus the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will fill the whole earth. Thus every tongue shall be brought to confess and every knee to bow to Messiah as the great Representative of Jehovah and His righteousness.—Isalah 11:9; Phillipians 2.9-11. Abraham's Spiritual Seed First. Abraham of old typified Jehovah and Isaac typified Messiah, born not after the flesh, but after the Spirit—by a special Divide interposition—according to the promise of God. Of this antitypical Isaac class Jesus is the Head, the Forerunner of the Church, as well as the world's Redeemer. The Body of Messiah is composed of a saintly few, according to the Scriptures, gathered primarily from the Jews, but being completed by additions from every people, nation, kindred and tongue. These all, St. Paul tells us, will be character-copies of God's dear Son, our Redeemer and Head. This the Apostle declares is Divine predestination.—Romans S.20, 30; Gal. 4:23; S.3, 16, 29. This Church class, or Messiah class, is variously referred to in the prophecies, as well as in the New Testament, as the brethren of Jesus and as sons of God. Of them the Prophet David writes, "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High; but ye shall all die like men, and fall like One of the princes." (Psalm S2:6.7.) These all die like men in the estimation of the world; for, as St. John declares, the world knoweth them not, even as it knew not their Master. (1 John 3:1.) As the world did not recognize that the life of Jesus was laid down sacrificially, neither is it aware that the followers of Jesus, a little handful, down through the Gospel Age, have likewise through His merit presented their bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God.—Romans 12:1. Abraham's Natural Seed Next. tions, sects and denominations, Divine favor will again, return to the natural seed of Abraham. As the Jew was granted the first opportunity or privilege of becoming the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, he will likewise have the first opportunity to participate in the blessing which will then come to the whole world of mankind. "To the Jew first" is the Divine order in respect to both of these blessings. To this agree the words of the Apostle Paul. After telling of the Divine election of the Church, the salutary few of both Jews and Gentiles, the Apostle adds, "I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant concerning this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part [only not perpetual] is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." When the full, elect Spiritual Seed shall have been gathered, shall have been completed from amongst the Gentiles, then all Natural Israel shall be saved from their blindness and their outcast condition.—Romans 11:25-29. St. Paul points out that as Israel's stumbling was directly foretold through the Prophet (Isaiah 9:22), so also through the Prophets God has foretold their blessing later on—that they shall be the first to be blessed under the glorious Spiritual Messiah of many members. Thus it is written, "There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." Here Zion is pictured as a mother whose offspring Is The Messiah. Looking again at the type, we see that Abraham represented Jehovah, and that his wife Sarah represented the great Covenant through which Messiah was to be developed. "In thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed"; "If ye be Christians, then are ye Abraham's Seed and heirs according to the Promise."—Rosannus 11:9:11; Genesis 22:17, IS; Galatians 3:8, 16:29. It has required more than eighteen centuries to give birth to this great Deliverer. Jesus was the Head; and the Church, developed during this Gospel A. c., will be the Body. Jesus was "the First-born from the dead"; and the Church, its members, will be His brethren, shirers in His rule on the Heavenly plan; for is He not declared to be "the First-born among many brethren?" (Romans 5:220). The First or Chief Resurrection will bring all these sons of God to the plane of glory, honor and Immortality—born from the dead. Then the goat Deliverer will be fully born, and ready to begin His great work of blessing all the nations—Israel being the first of these. "My Spirit Upon All Flesh." St. Peter declares that it was the glorified Jesus who received the Holy Spirit of the Father and poured it out upon the Church at Pentecost. (Acts 233.) That blessing came to the Church because of their coming into harmony with the Father's arrangement through the Son. The receiving of the Split there marked the recipients as sons of God. The later Pentecostal blessing upon the world will have points of similarity as well as points of difference. The blessing will come through the great Messiah as a result of the satisfaction which He will make for the sins of the whole world by applying to the race the merits of His sacrifice. Thus He will seal the New Law Covenant with Israel, and then with the world through Israel. (Jeremiah 31:31-34: The great Messiah of glory will be the Mediator of that New Covenant; and the foundation of that New Covenant will be the "better sacrifices" offered by this Mediator, as the antitypical High Priest. - Hebrews 9:19:23. The Pentecostal blessing then to come upon the world will not be upon the terms of their sacrificing their earthly rights to attain Heavenly blessing and spiritual sonship. On the contrary, its requirements will be a conscription to obedience of the Divine Law; and its reward will be earthly Restitution to the perfection of human nature and to the enjoyment of all the blessings originally given to Adam, but forfeited by his disobedience. "They shall build houses and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof," and "long enjoy the work of their hands." (Isaiah 65:21, 22.) This is the Divine promise, applicable to mankind, but not to the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, the Church, the Kingdom class, who must all be changed; for "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God."1 Corinthians 15:50. As Jacob was a son of Abraham, not directly, but through Isaac, so also those blessed under Messiah's Relign will be children of God, not directly, but through Messiah. Thus it is written of Messiah, "He shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty One, the Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father" — the Father, or Life-giver, to the restored world of mankind. (Isaiah 9:6, 7.) The life which He laid down in sacrifice—the earthly life—is that which He will give to all the willing and obedient of Adam's race during His Messianic Kingdom—to be theirs forever. It is in this sense that He will be the Everlasting Father—the Father who gives everlasting life, which Adam failed to give. Messiah Himself will have no need for the earthly life which He laid down; for as a reward for His obedience the Heavenly Father has given Him the higher life—the Divine nature. The Fathers to Be Princes. From of old Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, etc. were called the fathers, not only because of their relationship to the Jewish nation, but particularly because Messiah was to come as their offspring—"the Seed of Abraham," "of the stem of Jesse." "the Offspring of David"; and so Jesus was born of this very lineage. But His exaltation by the Father to the spirit plane, and the fact that HIs earthly rights am down in sierraice are to go to Adam and all of his race who will accept the same on the Divine terms, puts Jesus in the position of Father, Lifegiver, to the world, including Abraham, David, etc. They must all obtain everlasting life through Him, and hence will be HIs children. Thus the Prophet David wrote of the future, "Instead of Thy fathers shall be Thy children, whom Thou mayest make princes in all the earth." (Psalm 45:16.) Those fathers who are to be princes are already declared to have been pleasing to God. They attested their loyalty by a faith which worked in harmony with HIs will through the limitations of a fallen nature. The Fathers' "Better Resurrection." On account of this the fathers are already declared to be worthy of a "better resurrection" than the remainder of mankind—but not so glorious a resurrection as will be granted to the Church. Their resurrection will be to the perfection of human nature—mental, moral and physical. Thus they will stand before mankind as samples of human perfection, to which standard, all the race may attain by obedience, if they will, during the thousand years of Messiah's Reign. Those Ancient Worthies (Hebrews 11) will not only be illustrations of human perfection, but princes, or rulers, in all the earth. They will be the outward and visible representatives of the invisible Messiah—the agents through whom the Word of the Lord will go forth. As it is written, "Out of Zion [the Spiritual Kingdom] shall go forth the Law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem"—the earthly manifestation of the Kingdom amongst men.—Isaiah 2:3. As a result of the second outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the Prophet Joel declares, according to our Common Version, "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." A preferred translation of this heretofore obscure passage reads, "Your young men [In that New Dispensation] will see with clear vision what your Ancients dreamed of and related in parables." This vision of glory will be the Reign of Righteousness and the Pentecostal blessing accompanying it, upon the willing and obedient, every one of whom shall be brought to clear knowledge and full opportunity for salvation. Order of the Blessing. The order of the blessing is stated. It will come upon all flesh after those days, but upon the servants and the handmaidens in those days. The days mentioned evidently refer to this Gospel Age—from Pentecost to the Second Coming of Christ. During this period, now nearly nineteen centuries, God's Holy Spirit has been granted to His faithful ones, and to these alone. Only the fully consecrated have been accepted of the Lord as living sacrifices; and only such have been begotten of the Holy Spirit, that they may be New Creatures in Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:17.) During all this time the world has been unrecognized, so far as the Holy Spirit is concerned. Indeed, after Pentecost the Apostle John went still further and declared, "The whole world leth in the Wicked One." The only action of the Holy Spirit has been, as in the case of Felix, to "reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." (John 16:7-11; Acts 21:25). Our text declares, however, that the time is coming when the world will receive a share of the great Divine blessing which was fully assured by the death of Christ. But its time of favor will be "after those days"—after this Gospel Age shall have come to an end; after the New Dispensation shall have begun. "To the Jew First." Only Jews received the first Pentecostal blessing. For three and one-half years thereafter the Gentiles were excluded, in harmony with a Divine promise made to the Jewish nation. Then came the time for a similar privilege to be extended to the Gentiles. I rejoice with you today, fellow-students of the Word of God, that this great gift of God is still obtainable, that the time has not yet fully come when the door of opportunity to this High Calling must close. Close it will, so soon as the full number of the Elect shall have been completed. Thank God that another door will then open! the door of Restitution to human perfection and earthly life; grand beyond the power of description. Then God's Holy Spirit—holy power—will through Christ be outpoured upon all flesh—upon all mankind. Messiah will inaugurate the New Dispensation by sealing with Israel the New Covenant in His blood; as through the Apostle Paul the Lord declares, "This Is My Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes; but as touching the Election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes."—Romans 11:27, 28. This outpouring of the Holy Spirit is not merely for Israel, nor is God's blessing merely upon Abraham's natural seed outside of the Church class. It will include all of every nation desirous of coming into accord with God, after they shall have come to a clear knowledge of the Truth. All nations shall be privileged to enter into and enjoy Israel's great Covenant, by becoming children of Abraham through faith. After all rejectors of God's grace shall have been destroyed in the Second Death, the world of mankind will constitute the promised "seed of Abraham," whose number shall be as the sands of the seashore, even as the spirit-begotten ones of this Gospel Age are likened to the stars of heaven. Thenceforth every creature in Heaven and on earth will accalm honor to Him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb forever. Worcester (Mass.) Scientist Declares Unhappy Marriages Need Not Exist. Boston—Incompatibility in marriage is soon to be a thing of the past, according to Dr. Max Baff, the Worcester scientist and former fellow in psychology at Clark university, who announces that he has discovered how to measure temperament. With nothing more than a tape measure, he says, it is possible to find one's affinity and be positively sure that one is marrying the right man or woman. Dr. Baff has had under observation Massachusetts' best known bachelor, Governor David I. Walsh. He recently announced the kind of a wife the governor should find in order to be assured of perfect happiness. Here are the specifications, the result of scientific observance: She must be from five feet three inches to five feet six inches tall. She must weigh from 141 to 146 pounds. She must be tactful. She must be cheerful at all times, especially before breakfast. She must be sympathetic. She must be ambitious. She must be able to sing. It is essential that she have a mezzo- soprano voice. FAVORS STUDENT CAMPS. Secretary Garrison Will Ask Congress For Appropriations. Washington.-Secretary of War Garrison has not abandoned plans for the establishment of camps for the military instruction of college and university students. Comptroller of the Treasury Downey has ruled that there was no warrant for the expenditure of government funds for regular officers and troops at such camps. A reconsideration has been asked by Secretary Garrison, and if this is unfavorable the secretary will urge legislation by congress authorizing appropriations. GERMANS CONTINUE TO BUY AMERICAN HORSES How They Send Them Home Is a Deep Mystery to Dealers. Lincoln, Neb.—Representatives of all of the principal nations at war in Europe are combing the west for horses for the armies. Several of the horse buyers bear titles; the majority of them are men who have been at the head of great establishments in Belgium and France, which formerly supplied America with draft horse stallions. One who was recently in Lincoln was paid $2 a day and expenses for his work. Before the war he drew $10,000 a year as manager of a great breeding stable in Normandy. How the few German buyers get their purchases through is a mystery, and they refuse to elucidate. They make it plain that that is their own business, and they keep on buying. Some of the largest dealers in this section have been asked to bld on 25,000 head shipment for the German government payable by drafts on New York. In the beginning speculators and business men jumped into the game, taking large contracts or subcontracts. The ruling prices for the grades desired were $150 and $175, subject to inspection, which was very rigid, and a large portion of each shipment was rejected. Rather than carry these back to the west the dealers sold them at the points of shipment for what they could get. That there are horse traders in Europe and dealers with sharp eyeteeth was proved by the fact that a number of these rejected animals were shipped to Europe, the purchasers being government agents, who took this means of showing American dealers some tricks in horse buying, purchasing in the gulse of contractors who desired the animals for the northwest. The fact that the greater part of the supply in the west has already been purchased or is in the hands of speculators, holding for the raise they feel certain will come with a continuance of the war, has led to a letting down of the inspection bars. Hundreds of animals that formerly would have not received a second look are now going through. The stable boys say that the fat ones are given the preference. White and gray horses are taboo because they are shining marks on the battlefield. The one thing the buyers are particular about is the wind. They require swift galloping for a block or two before the inspector decides. 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And every body can have it if she will use the Magic. The Magic will dry the hair after a shampoo or bath, and straighten the curlest 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 which is heated on our Alcohol Heater, or any other heater. We advise the use of Hayes' Hair Ponies. Best on the market. Price per box, $5e. Alcohol Heater, price $60e. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER COMPANY, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA large assortment of Easter Articles, Faney Soaps, Candies, Perfumes. All shades of Egg Dyes and toilet goods of every kind. The Easter Lily Soap that perfumes the house is here. 316 41-2 St. S. W. Cor. 41-2 and E St. B. W. CULTIVATE YOUR HAIR MME. G. J. WALKER'S WONDER GROWERS 50, Tetter Salve, Hair Grower, 50 cents per Temple Salve, 35 cents per box. The Branch Office where the goods are on and some of Mme. 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Special excursion will be run to Charlottesville and return _ via Southern- railway, Monday, May 31st, offering best facilities at low- est east for those desiring to attend unveiling of monument to Dr. W. P. Gibbons, Charlottesville, Va., Monday, May 31st, L p.m. Round trip fare $2.50. Special fast train leaves Washington $ a. m., return- ing leave Charlottesville same date, 7:50 p. m. Everybody invited. For details sve Rev. W. H. Jernagin, pastor Mt. Carmel Baptist church. . FOR RENT—To Colored tenant, six room frame, water, at 2506 Anancostia, $14.00. GER. Ringgold, 7th and Mass. ave. n.w. Phone M. 560. m-24-1t FOR RENT. Two large nicely furnished or un- furnished rooms, Hot and cold water; bath. 1519 Ttinst. N. EL m-22-4t - FOR ILIRE. 5-passenger touring car. Expert driver. $2.00 per hour. Special terms to. let by the day, week or month. Immediate service. Phone AL 5975 or N 98 after 6 p. m. Girth: 66 the Nation. New York, May 21, 1915.—Mayor ‘Thompson of Chicago has unqualified. ly refused to allow the exhibition of the photo play, “The Birth of a Na- tion,” founded on Dixon's “Clansman,” in this decision disagreeing with the former Mayor who, through his Secre- tary, Charles C. Fitzmorris, had issued a permit to strow the film at the Il. Unols Theatre beginning May 1. The film was reported to have been ap- proved by Mrs. Harrison, the wife of the former Mayor, and his Secretary, who witnessed an advance perform- ance. Later press accounts quoted Mrs. Harrison as denying that she had ever approved the play on the grounds that as a Southern woman she would naturally be opposed to pictures which tended to arouse racial feeling. In connection with this action of the Mayor of Chicago, it is interesting to recall that after seeing the play in New York, Miss Jane Addams, of the Hull House, denounced it as a per nicious caricature of the Negro race and as a distortion of history, at the Combines the restful quiet of the country and seashore with the gaicties of a great city. Only a few minutes’ ‘ride by train separates New York City from this delightful spot Hotel Lincoln is within three minutes* walk of the Beach, where , there is boating, bathing and fishing; 26 magnificently appointed rooms, single or en suite. Every conveni- ence to sult the most exacting, * Excellent Cuisine, Mod- erate Rates, Best of Serv. ice. For information, write Cc. A. BRECKENRIDGE, Proprietor : 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. same time expressing the hope that the film would be suppressed. Colored people of Ohio, who have been successful in preventing the ex- hibition of the photo play; “The_Nig- ger,” haye united in a protest to the Ohio Board of Censors and to the Goy- ernor against “The Birth of a Nation,” and it is reported that the film cannot be shown in that State. z The play is now running in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston. Wherever it has been shown it has aroused opposition. In New York the National Board of Censorship split in their disagreement over it and the Chairman, Mr. Frederic C. Howe, who is also Commissioner of Immigra- tion, resigned. As a result of the agita- tion in Boston, a series of bills have been introduced into the Legislature, and the fight is now centered around one which would give the power of censorship to the Mayor, Chief of Po- lice, and the Chief Magistrate, The opponents of “The Birth of a Nation” are secking to have this bill amended by making a majority instead of a unanimous vote necessary for a deci- sion. In all these cities the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Col- ored People has been active. It first heard of the play through its branch in Los Angeles, Cal. In New York it | brought the play to the attention of the National Board of Censorshiy awhich apparently, up to that time, ha¢ been unaware of its real nature. Ir San Francisco and Boston it ha: fought the play through local branche: and to the Chicago Bratich of the As sociation is due the credit of leading the agitation against the play in tha city. | The opponents of “The Birth of : | Nation” win their fight in Boston, an the Censorship with their amendmen was signed by Governor Walsh to-da: at 1.30 p. m Ware's Bargain House. The only colored shce store and bargain house in this city is at the corner of Eleventh and You streets northwest. Don’t fail to go today and purchase a pair of shoes from the up-’ to-date shoe store. | Miss Green will greet the ladies and Mr. Ware will greet everybody. Any kind of shoe you want may be found at this store. The Toggery Shop. Now, if you want first-class men's and boys’ goods you should not fail to patronize Harlan's Toggery shop, Seventh near Tenth streets northwest. Now is the time to call at the fashion- plate establishment. 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