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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 Excellent Speeches by Leading Citizens and Lawyers—Meeting of Executive Committee of United Colored Republican Club. The executive committee of the United Colored Republican Club of the District of Columbia met Monday evening at Winslow's Hall, corner Twelfth and R streets northwest, and effected an organization with W. Calvin Chase, editor of The Washington Bee, as chairman, Sheiby Davidson, Esq., assistant Dr. Samuel M. Pierre, assistant secretary, and Mr. J. T. C. Newsom, treasurer. The twenty-two districts were represented in supporting the candidacy of Senator John W. Weeks, of Mass., and resolutions were passed calling upon the various delegates to send men instructed to vote first, last and always for the nomination of Senator Weeks. Mr. Chase spoke of the claims of Senator Weeks for the support of the colored republicans not only here, but throughout the country, and stated that if he is supported by the colored vote it will not only evidence our appreciation for his strong and manly stand for the race but will show that we are alive to the real situation of giving to the country a man who can be depended on for a leader. Plans were outlined for a mass meeting of the various delegates at Grand Army Hall for February 2, and a committee on arrangements and speakers appointed as follows: Perri W. Frisby, chairman; C. S. Williams, C. A. Berkley, Dr. Holmes and Dr. W. L. Smith, with the president and secretary as ex-officio members. From those who were present and who had been identified with politics in the District for a long time it was said to have been one of the most harmonious gatherings of its kind and was down-to working order in a very short time, wasting no time. The next meeting will be held at the same place Monday, January 24, and when every district is expected to be represented and some excellent speakers are expected. Other speakers were heard, among whom were C. S. Williams, Esq., Dr. W. L. Smith, Dr. Holmes, Mr. Berkley, Dr. S. M. Pierre, and Mr. Shelby J. Davidson, the secretary, who said in part, that the condition confronting the colored voters throughout the country made it necessary that we do not wait until the convention at Chicago, June 7, shall have spoken in the matter of a candidate but that he, the colored voter, should see to it that he went into the field and selected a man who was, in the first place fitted for the presidency of the United States, and secondly that he should be a man of such broad guage that if elected he would know no distinction of race, color or condition, and would give equal and exact justice to all men. Such a man is said to be found in Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, and if the colored man is wise, he will see to it that this is his candidate and that at the primaries every colored vote cast for Senator John W. Weeks means one vote for prosperity, equal political rights and manhood privileges in the use of the ballot. For a long time the colored voter has waited to be led and as a consequence when led, those who lead, know that he has no choice and when the results are known he is treated accordingly. In the coming campaign the colored voter should see to it that his choice shall be made known before the convention and every effort put forward to make his choice the choice of the nation, it is, in this way that as a political factor he will rise from a serf in politics to a peer. The endorsement of W. Calvin Chase as delegate to Chicago was voiced as the choice of many districts and clubs are now being formed to see that he is elected. Of course, men can always be found when there is something to run for, but in the case of Mr. Chase's-candidacy, he is to the forefront at all times and has supported the Republican party when there was no hope of gain or reward. As an old line republican, he has the ear of the party managers and if selected to go to Chicago, will need not be coached for the great game but is able from his abundant experience to coach and see that his fellow citizens are given a square deal and a fair show. The people of Washington know that given those who are the enemies of Mr. Chase, the credit of standing square and if it is mainly which has made those who wish to be known as his enemies; the truth hurts and these enemies have had the truth told on them. But all of this aside, the best man for the place and one who will look after our interests. The early election here will give an opportunity for the supporters of Senator John W. Weeks to get into the states and be on hand for the primaries. The colored press of the country is to be enlisted in the campaign of making Senator John W. Weeks our people's choice. Let us for once see our duty to our friend. The race has few friends and we can keep those only be seeking to serve and let them know when the time comes that we are alive to their interests. Now is the time. Let every colored man do his duty towards Senator John W. Weeks; the race expects it. LIEUT. JOSEPH H. MARTIN Returns from Africa. After a stay of three years in the interior of Liberia on the Anglo-French boundaries, Lieut. Joseph H. Martin has returned to Washington. Lieut. Martin accompanied Major Young to Africa to assist him in building roads and organizing a regiment in Liberia. Martin was a lieutenant in the Liberian army had 341 men under his command. For eleven months he was acting military governor for the east section of Liberia. He has made a splendid record and distinguished himself by quelling an insurrection of natives by burning thirty towns. Lieut. Martin is a product of the Washington schools, being a graduate of the M Street High School and Howard University. He received his military training in the high school cadet organization and the National Guards. Martin's experiences in the backwoods of Liberia have been varied and many. He has brought home five trunks of curios. While there he made an extensive study of the customs, legends, and folk lore of the native African, and has compiled some valuable and interesting information. BOY SCOUTS. Boys of Satterlee, Troops No. 500, 501, and 502, accompanied by Scout Masters A. L. Hill, N. F. Hewey, I. Chas, Hill and A. H. Underdown, attended Missionary Day exercises at Epiphany Church on Sunday afternoon, January 16, 1916, and enjoyed a very impressive service. On Sunday evening, January 16, 1916, the Champlain St. Boy Scouts, accompanied by some of the boys from Satterlee, troops No. 500, 501 and 502 and Scout Master N. F. Henry and Assistant Scout Masters Chas. Butler and James Merritt attended Galbraith A. M. E. Z. Church, and were extended a cordial welcome by Rev. W. D. Battle. Scoutmaster Henry gave an interesting talk on "The Big Brother and the Boy Scout." See next week's issue for account of our concert. On Monday evening, January 17, 1916, a number of Scouts from Satterlee troops No. 500, 501 and 502, with Scoutmaster N. F. Henry, visited Rev. Wiseman's church where the troops from Mott. Dlaygrimma, under Mr. Underdown, was holding its meeting. They have a fine bunch and are anxious to become first-class scouts. THE HAND-PICKED LEADER. Rev. Hart Commends The Bee. Station H., Box 248, R. F. D. 3. January 18, 1916. My Dear Mr. Chase: You will find enclosed check for another year's subscription for The Bee. Please pardon the long delay in sending this in. It is always a pleasure for me to say a word in behalf of The Bee and its fearless champion for human rights, regardless of race. I want to especially commend you for the timely editorial in last week's issue of The Bee, entitled "A Hand-Picked Leader." I only wish every colored man who looks on with complacency, would read this editorial. The Outlook has betrayed the white man's weakness in his matter. For it is characteristic of him, to "put up his own medicine," and chuck it down our throats, whether we want it or not. He is doing this every day in national and state affairs. It does seem to me that those who are to be led should at least have a voice in saying who shall lead them. I consider it as nothing less than a piece of impertinence on the part of any white man or set of white men who would undertake to choose a leader for ten millions of people, without giving them an opportunity to have a word about it. Give them to understand that we will choose our own leaders in every thing we go at. Do you think the Irish in this country or in England would stand for such dictation? Let us rise up as one man and nip this kind of thing in the bud. For the quicker the white man is made to know that we are not wards of the nation, but citizens, and therefore entitled to the same respect as every other citizen, the better it will be for all parties concerned. I am always suspicious of anything the average white man does or says for my "best interest." I share the opinion of an anti-bellum colored man, who said: "Whenever you sees white man pull off his coat and gives it to a darky, dar's a hole in dat coat somewhat." Major Moton, the elect principal of the famous Tuskegee Institute, should have the support and encouragement of every man, woman and child in his new line of work for the upift of the colored race. But I am sure he has more sense than The Outlook credits him with, to expect that this position entitles him to be the leader of the colored race. First let the Major demonstrate his ability to lead and be willing to submit his work and qualifications to the scrutiny of those whom he is to lead, and let them say whether or not he will be accepted as the leader. For not until then are we willing to accept him or any one else as our leader. Mr. Editor, it is a dangerous precedent, to have the principal of Tuskegee Institute feel that the position within itself gives him the right to leadership of the colored race. Let the white man who insists on choosing for us a leader, and the colored man who aspires to this great place, understand that the great-thinking, educated, cultured colored man will ac- Who made it possible for the republicans in the District of Columbia to have a vote in the Republican National Convention. His re-election is demanded by a majority of republican voters in this city. [Picture of a man in a dark suit with a white shirt and a black cravat, holding a book in his left hand.] cept no one as leader who does not advocate and agitate for an unlimited and unrestricted sphere in which to operate, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Please pardon this lengthy communication. With best wishes for success in championing the cause of our race, I am Itsespectfully yours, ROBERT A. HART, Pastor Mt. Zion M. E. Church, 'Linden, Md. NEW DIRECTON. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ment or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its annual meeting in New York on January 3d, and elected ten directors, the only new one being Bishop Hurst Berger. The Association now has thirty-three branches all over the country, and nearly 10,000 members, and has never been in a better position than it is now. The chairman of the board of directors, Dr. J. E. Spingarn; the treasurer, Mr. Oswald Garrison; Villard; the secretary, Miss Mary Childs Nerney; and the director of Publications and Research, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, read their annual reports, which will be printed later in The Crisis. Shortly after the annual meeting the board of directors met and elected the following officers for the year: Moorfield Storey, president; J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board; Oswald Garrison Villard, treasurer; Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, director of Publications and Research; vicepresidents, John Haynes Holmes, Oswald Garrison Villard, E. M. Holland, Archibald H. Grimko, Mary White Ovington, Garnett R. Weller. The resignation of Miss Nerney as secretary was accepted with regret and Miss Ovington was appointed acting secretary until a permanent successor could be found. With the exception of Miss Nerney all the officers are the same as last year. THE DUNBAR ASSOCIATION. Mrs. H. A. Davis Made a Great Fight. At a meeting of the Dunbar Association, I was directed to extend its thanks to you for timely suggestions and sentiments created by you in presenting the claims of this association to the honorable commissioners of the District of Columbia in naming the new colored high school for the famous poet whose name this association honors. Long live The Bee and its editor, Sincerely yours, MRS. H. A. DAVIS. The editor is too modest in taking all of the honors. Mrs. Davis was the lady who secured at least a thousand endorsements of colored people, after a suggestion made by The Bee, appealing to the commissioners to name the new high school The Dunbar. Letters continue to come to The Bee; several appear in The Bee this week which were crowded out last week. These letters show the trend of sentiment against the name that was suggested by the board of education. Ed. MRS. LIZZIE JONES DEAD. Mrs. Lizzie Jones, wife of the late Taylor, Jones, and daughter of Daniel and Nina Barber, was born in Rappahannock county, Va. After an illness of three years and eleven months, which she patiently bore with suffering and Christian fortitude, died Monday, January 17, 1916, at 5:30 a. m., leaving behind her, two daughters, Mrs. Nora B. Richardson, Miss on bate, Mrs. Nora B. Richardson, Mrs. Clementine Jones, a son, Mr. Hernand B. Jones, a teacher in the public schools; a son-in-law, Dr. Reginald G. Richardson, besides a number of relatives and a host of friends. Funeral was held from Third Baptist Church, Fifth and Q streets northwest, Wednesday, January 19, 1916, at 2:30 p. m., Rev. Hus H. Lee, pastor, and Rev. Charles Cushingberry, assistant pastor. Appropriateologies and service, with remarks by Rev. Emory Smith, pastor of Lincoln Temple Church, and solos by Mrs. Thompson and Miss Bailey. Interment at Harmony Cemetery. The Chanticleer Social Club. The complimentary reception of the Chanticleer Social Club will take place Wednesday evening, January 26, from eight to one a. m., at Odd Fellows, 1606 M street northwest. THAT DANCE Many Disgusted—Cautistic Citizens of the Society Dance—Education of the Feet—And of the Brains. Old man Darwin, in his work respecting the origin of man, must have been correct in his theories, and it must be true that many of the instincts of our forest and jungle forefathers are surging through our veins, if we are to be judged by the actions of some of the supposedly more intelligent folks of the Capital City who attend "Dansantes" with great regularity. As per the conduct of certain elite citizens of Washington, D. C., especially those who are authorities (?) on dancing the Maxike tango, etc., our memories must still instinctively revert, through the bones of our ancestors to the days when toms-and cymbals held full sway among fantastic (?) dancers, and when garbled beings chirped and chattered, meaninglessly, to each other, while nearby, the fumes of a stealing kettle of bones and tankage tickled their nostrils. And why does the writer conclude, as above stated? Simply for the reason that at a society ball given on Friday, January 14th, many of the participants therein, among whom were numbered a few of the aspirant-leaders of our race, found that they could not dance, could not keep time, and could not express their sentiments afoot because there were no thumping tom-toms, which, today, in the dance orchestra, and in the sense of this article, are known as drums, to bring out the rythm in their feet. I think some of these people imagined they were rivals of the Castles, Maud Allen, or Isadore Duncan, and to hear them talk of the fantastic art, one would think they were instructors in an Egyptian "Dancery," but alas and alack, without the toot of a steamboat whistle, the crash of a cymbal, the rag-time clanging of gongs, and the jangle of all those other accompaniments, from which the modern drummer brings out sounds in a manner so much like the tom-tom beater of three or four-hundred years ago, many of the society dancers of Washington on the night aforesaid were simply paralyzed. Their feet refused to become educated, and their brains refused to excuse even an act of God which prevented the appearance of the official tom-tom beater (drummer) of the evening. And here is, where the education of the brains comes in, for if certain of their people had stopped to think twice and then said nothing, they would have realized that even the modern tom-tom beater (drummer) is not immune from the acts of God, and if they had still hoped to rival the Castles and the rest of the dancing illuminaries, they should have realized that music is still music, and that any good orchestra could still render music without a tom-tom beater—but, "Give me that drum," "all other ground is sinking sand." " music is not music—in fact, music is abnormally without that tom-tom," in effect, say some of our Washington dancers. Poor old Darwin—he tried hard to make people believe that monkey is the legitimate ancestor of man, and, if he had brought a committee (not necessarily a body of scientists) to the reformers' Hall on Friday last, the power of the truth of his theory would have been almost conclusive. But what's the use—as mournful Ham-BEE 12 let must have thought when he said "To be or not to be—that is the question," and the answer comes back from some of the dance folk of D. C. "Not to be." Noah Webster says: "Education comprehends all that series of instruction, and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the tempo, and form the manners and habits of individuals so as to fit them for usefulness in their future stations." KARL F. PHILLIPS, Washington, D. C. January 17, 1916: BETHEL LITERARY A the representative audience assembled last night at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, to hear an address on "France in the Present War," by Mrs. Ida Gibbs Hunt of St. Etienne, France. The president, Miss M. A. D. Madre, presented the speaker in the following manner: A member of one of our old and distinguished families, the daughter of the late Judge Gibbs, whose service to the country is a matter of history, the speaker represents the highest collegiate training, is uncompromising in principle and stands for the highest ideals of American womanhood. Amid great applause Mrs. Gibbs stepped to the front and gave a most graphic description of the conditions in France at the beginning of the war. She held her audience in rapt attention for over three quarters of an hour. She traced the work of the French women in the hospitals, and as Red Cross nurses, of the cheerfulness of the soldiers, of the absence of color prejudice, of the premotions that the colored soldiers have received. The paper was interesting from beginning to end. Among those who took part in the discussion were Mrs. Carrie Clifford, Prof. L. M. Hershaw, Attorney Joseph H. Stewart and Judge Robert H. Terrell. Music was furnished by the E. Azalia Hackley Chorus, Mrs. James H. Marshall, president; Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, director; Solos, Miss Margarrett Jefferson, who has a rich contralto voice which showed the training received in her three years' study at the Conservatory of Music. Mr. Frank Williams sang three of his own selections. Mr. Williams is one of the best song writers of the race. His rendition of "Jessamine," and "Lonesome in the Cabin," should be in every home. Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, who is an efficient musician, presided at the piano. Mrs. Addie R. Clark of Clark Training School was out with her girls. She is to be congratulated in keeping them in touch with the highest ideals. The Bee congratulates the president on this splendid program as it has been forced to do on others. There is one thing certain: Should President Wilson run for a second term the votes that the members of our race would give him, taking the entire country over, would not make a Jersey mosquito humpbacked to carry. There are a great many things that can be said about us, but it cannot truthfully said that we are ignorant enough to let the same flame scorch us twice. Usually it dawns on us when we have enough of a thing and no amount of persuasion can change our minds. Our President has made a record in the matter of race discrimination that has never been equaled and perhaps never will. In his speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1914, he said he would set up no barrier against any particular people and that he would treat one race the same as he did another, and all during his candidacy for president he gave assurance that he would not discriminate. Notwithstanding these assurances of support of the principles of equality before the law and in government affairs, great discrimination has been practiced not only in the departments over which the President has direct control, but also in appointments that are made by the President himself. Under Republican administration the policy was pursued of appointing a colored man to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation, death or expiration of term of a man of our race. How this policy has been carried out under Democratic administration need not be recited here. It was a case of "turn the rascals out" with a vengeance. There always comes that day of reckoning, and while the Democrats boastfully claim they do not want, nor would they have, the Negro vote, without it they will bite the dust forever. We have nothing to lose and all to gain by throwing our support with any other party—Progressive, Prohibition or Republican; and let it be said to our credit, we have learned the lesson well the Democrats have taught us—have graduated from their school never to return. The few who may stick to the enemy deserve the ill treatment that is accorded them. When the representation of the South is cut, as it will be, according to the actual voting population, the voice of this "solid section" will be so feeble that it will not be heard above the Mason and Dixon line. It is up to us to sit in the saddle patiently, but alert, and ready to dig in the spurs and start at a second's notice. There is something worth while in store for us, and we must get it before the store closes. Making Good. This week Attorney Charles S. Williams, who is making a record at the bar, will defend one of the most celebrated murder cases that has ever been tried in the criminal court of the District of Columbia. NOTICE G. W. Tolson is agent for Booker T. Washington's book, on his life's work. Address 3481% Vance, street southwest. J-15-18 PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac.) (By the Sage of the Potomac.) Ask Jim Cobb what part of a chicken he likes best and he'll tell you, right off the hat. If you doubt that beauty is only skin deep, just kiss a real coal-black baby in the dark and see how good she tastes. A certain T street lady is so unreasonable that she flew into a rage the other day when she found a bill for a typewriter ribbon in her hubby's pocket. Tom Clark thought Bocaccio Decameron was the hotest stuff for a bachelor's apartment ever printed, until Damaged Goods came to the front. Doc Sum Wormley says that lots of his acquaintances have had to work over time ever since they were married just because they made one mistake with their heart. He is keeping his eyes on the gentleman from Anapolis, who makes frequent visits to Chevy Chase. Robert Allen says that the trouble with these ankle-length pantalettes some women are wearing is that you can't tell whether a girl is bow-legged or just knock-kneed. Armond. Scott says that Dad's beer bottles take up so much room in Mam's refrigerator that their aint no room for the milk bottles. Tom Jones says some lawyers here may have more practice than he has, but accordin' to his book, "The Art of Romancing" they aint got it. Aaron Gasken says there are some fifth ribs that would rather have truck horse ankles and their own hips than have, shapely ankles and a flat, stove in chest, and that he is a chest connoiser. Dr. Phil Brooks says you can holler about rheumatism, pneumonia, and "T. B. R." all you please, but as long as legs is legs, the doctors can keep the girls from wearin' their skirts higher and higher, and their hose thinner and thinner. L. M. King says that a fellow of his artistic temperament prefers very low-necked gowns for women to these high-bodice creations that show nothing but the dress material. Tom Beckett says after he gets through turning over a "page" or two in the book of recollections he always recalls a female acquaintance of his whose face gets thinner as her complexion gets thicker. Doc. Will Davis says that single-cussedness may have its moments of isolation and disconsolation, but it beats this thing of watchin' your wife when some certain other fellow is around town. John Golns says that while he may not be a fin de sciele judge of women's lingerie, he's a past master in judgin' what some lingerie covers, and that only by street observation. Doc. Ed. Williston says that any North Carolinian that aint an admirer of a beautiful female form, just aint from North Carolina nohow. John Dancy says he's viewing this country-wide - prohibition - agitation with alarm. Not because he does not favor it, but because of the pleasure it will deny many friends in settin' 'em up to him. Prof. Kelly Miller says that the difference between a Suffergett and a Suffergee is not apparently, plain to him, for the reason there was no differentia made by women when they opened up criticism of his essay. Prof. George Cook says some statesmen note on being able to control an occupant of the White House; some men love to be church Warricks and make and control bishops; some like one thing and some another, but for him, just give him control of a college proxy; and he'll be in a job for life. Doe. Warfield says that there has been four dozen smoked herrings that have log-rolled for his job, but as long as he continues to draw the salary he don't propose to abate their enthusiasm for log-rolling. Rosco Bruce says, recalling the old sayin', "it's a long time between drinks," that while at one time he believed Doc. Bruce Evans the last say is a disciplinarian, just as soon as he found a fellow that could serve his purposes better he beheld a miracle. Jesse Foster says that while he's on the committee to make, arrangements for the election to elect a delegate to the Republican National Convention, the proposes to be fair and square with all candidates even if he has to put Chase over. Doc. Creed Childs says that being a member of the board of education has so many drawbacks and pitfalls that you must excuse him if he fell into a few of the trenches tryn' to serve Rosco. Ed. Williams says the best way for him to succeed Rosco C. is to beat it down the path of friendship for both the pros and antis, and keep on good terms with Rosco. Bill Houston, says that his friendship is as strong as steel for the entire human, family, until he observes Armond Scott coming in the other direction, in close consultation with Richard Horner. Dell Washington says he accounts for his liberality because of his having entertained such distinguished guests like Judge Terrell and John Dancy, and that ever since then he can't help but blow his receipts on everybody that enters his door. On second thought, Dell says his liberality is largely a dream. Doc. Curtis says Doc. Williston sint got nothin' on him as an automobile speed merchant, for the records of the company will show he's been directed to proceed to police court, under normal sail, as often as Doc. Williston, and there aint nothin' to this talk about Doc. Williston bein' the fastest chauffer. Armond Scott says that Dr. Curtis is a diplomat and a silent philosopher when it comes to reasoning. THE FIRST MURDER. By Henry H. Mason. Who was the first murderer? Answer. Cain. Search the 'Scripture and' read all that is written. John 5:39. Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, whoseover committ- eth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abldebt not in the house for ever: But the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make, you free ye shall be free indeed. I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but Ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. I speak that, which I have seen with my father: And ye do that which ye have seen with your father. John 8:34-38, 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning; and JOHN H. HARRIS Tell it not Gath, publish it not in the street of Askelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice; lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 2d Samuel 1:20. abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: For he is a liar and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth ye believe me not. Verse 45. So the Jews can remember that their fathers were in bondage, and miraculously delivered. Heb. 8:3-11. 巴 MRS. MASON. Sing O barren; thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith, the Lord; Luke 17:26; Isaiah 54:1:16; Galations 4:25:30. Now the days are drawing near, For all to cease despising. The house of Jacob to see my light. Gentiles see my rising. Isaiah 60: 1. 22 For darkness soot will cover earth, Believe for it is written, Isaiah 6, 5, 17; 66, 5, 22. And pave the way for the peaceful birth To those who have long been smitten. Now let the college man come up With all of his college history. And drink his selfish ignorance up As the Lord reveals this mystery. For it is his hand that leadeth me To make known in this city That the bondswoman shall not be heir with free. her with tree. None worthy in this city: Among the Gentiles and the Jews, I am strictly here forbidden For their daughters are not fit to use To open this mystery hidden. Jere- milid 16:2. Now soon the Babylonish town With plagues will soon be smitten. The proud looks of man come down, As all will find is written. Isaiah 2: 18:20 12. 22. Judah will sing the lovely song. That he have a strong city. Isaiah 26.1 For walls and bulwarks will be strong Built by the God of pity. Jeremiah 31;31-34. And he who sets his nest on high. Like Lucifer will come down. For they shall see, eye to eye. Where the Lord will bring again ZION, Isaiah 52:8 ZION. Isaiah 62:8. Let him look now on those he robbed in a lying constitution. Isaiah 14:12, 32. And the multitudinous number mowed To make all retribution. Ezek. 33; 14, 15. Now let the Jews turn to John, 8th chapter, and see the folly of their forefathers' argument. And the Gentiles behold the image of the beast born on February 22nd; this same date was to be observed, and was observed by young and old, great and small. For seeing that I am being called through Isaac, Rom. 9:7-13, is nothing short of the promise made, which the men of God and followers of Jesus, Christ taught always that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was the God of all nations. And Abraham blessed all nations by mysterious ways that the most high had revealed to him to do. Let the president study well the lesson sent to him 10 days ago; and take all masonic pins and badges of any and all rabbinic secret pledges and sign, and have them beaten well to make good plowshares and pruning hooks. For secret things belong to God. Deuter. 29;29. And as it is written, the heir of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the free. Galations 4:30. But Christ through His blood made us free. John, 8;35:36. Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help. Isaiah 3:1- 19. BAD MORALS. Certain Motion Pictures a Menace to Good Morals—Colored Speakers Favor Picture Restraint—Rev. Waldron, Dr. Garner and Prof. Chas. M. Thomas Appear Before Congressional Committee. In a group of 200 people from all parts of the country, who appeared before committee hearing arguments respectful a Federal Motion Picture Commission, Washington was represented by Rev. J. Milton Waldron, who represented the Colored Baptist Ministers' Alliance of Maryland, Virginia and the District; Rev. A. C. Garner, who represented the local executive committee of the N. A. C. P., and Chas. M. Thomas, who was delegated by Dr. Lucy Moten of our Normal School, to speak for her in favor of such a commission. Dr. Waldron described many of the pictures as unfit for his wife and certainly subversive of public morals as well as calculated to instill a spirit of lawlessness. Dr. Garner took the position that the pictures were the poor man's amusement and that their influence would be most pronounced upon the lowest classes, hence they should be unquestionably above suspicion, while Prof. Thomas expressed himself in favor of the bill because he considered legislation and education as our improvement agencies of widest scope, with the picture play as the most modern educational agency, thus giving the nation an opportunity to improve social conditions at one stroke through control of the pictures. Many distinguished white women spoke against the present laxity in motion picture display and deprecated their influence upon sacred ideals. The motion picture producers defended their freedom with arguments which were frequently punctured by members of the committee who asked pointed and determining questions. In addition to his oral presentation, Prof. Thomas filed the following discussion of the question of Federal Control of Motion Picture publication. June 16, 1916. In re Report No. 1411, 63d Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives, U. S. Federal Motion Picture Commission. To the Chairman. Dear Sir: In addition to the protest which I was privileged to file last night, personally against the uncontrolled publication of motion pictures, permit me to say that I do not subscribe to the idea that the motion pictures of today are responsible for suggestion to criminality, but on the contrary, by showing that wrong is victorious never, they act as a deterrent. In my work as a teacher of psychology, I have made a careful study of the motion pictures and have urged my students to do the same, with points of observation outlined for them. From that work I have been able to trace an increased confidence in the general similarity of human nature and its average of morality. It can be seen that even an audience of colored children of the lowest social stratum appreciate the courage, loyalty and devotion to duty on the battlefield, and are prepared for they break out in uncontrolled applause when he mounts his horse and rides away with his posses in pursuit of the outlaw or criminal. The picture makers er sometimes in instances where, they hold policemen up to ridicule and show aged people as criminals, just as they are known to err when they stress the details of marital infidelity, such as I witnessed in a film by William Fox, with Robert Mantell as the wronged husband whose wife was shown in the complete abandon of passion for the nephew of the aged husband; and as they show in, "The Price of Folly," now running in this city, with display bills indicating that an unclothed girl was being abused by a child while an aged admirer clanged a diamond bracelet around her ankle in the presence of her jealousy angry young lover. In another display bill of the same film play, the aged couple is shown with faces distorted by horror, while the man holds a keen pointed dagger. As a lawyer, I object to every restraint of personal liberty, not conducive to the general welfare; but the massiveness of the picture play as a social influence has not been considered by those who would leave it unrestrained. More potent than any social influence, and almost as powerful in its economic relations as railroads, it is better to control the activity in its infancy than to wait until it becomes more powerful in its ramifications. The idea of censorship is naturally repulsive to an American, but there is an alternative in a National Board of Examiners, or of Copyright, with power to refuse all pictures which convey these ideas which careful and expert opinion shall decide to be subversive of public morals and inimical to general welfare. No one act to retard, but every aid to the perfection and highest good of the motion picture is our plea. In refutation to a statement made in the afternoon hearing, Prof. Thomas said it was not true that a book was as impressive as a picture play, or as suggestive, in that it required experience to image the words and apperceive the ideas of a book, while the more restricted experience felt the suggestive power of vivid motion pictures. Being so greatly interested in the welfare of my people and the perpetuation of the names of those who have accomplished anything for the race, I can no longer resist an impelling force that urges the name of a worthy man in whose honor the present new school building be christened. A careful observation has revealed to me the fact that the present school buildings of the District are divided in three classes, viz: Presidents of the United States: well-known men, THE CAFE The only electrical hair face and skin culturist in the city. 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This man was one of the three free colored men, who in 1807, inaugurated a school for colored children in the southeast section of this city, which was the inception of the present excellent system of schools for colored youths with only a few improvements. These men were George Bell, Nicholas Franklin and Moses Liverpool. George Bell is honored with the Bell School, and was also successful in having one named for his brother-in-law, John F. Cook, who was also a pioneer colored reformer in the District in whose honor the school cannot be discredited. Nicholas Franklin is honored, and there is only one left of the trio whose name is not perpetuated by the generations following. It is, in my mind, a very befitting record and sign of recognition of good work done if this honorable body would name the present school building for the late Moses Liverpool. In this you will inhance the interest of a great race and oblige the 100,000 Negroes of the District of Columbia. Yours for race achievement, R. ALEXANDER CARROLL, Pastor Metropolitan A. M. E. Zlon Church. D Street, S. W., City. JAMES F. BUNDY HIGH SCHOOL. Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, '16. Lawyer Calvin Chase, Editor of The Bee, Dear Sir. On reading your very interesting paper, The Bee, I find that suggestions are in order for the naming of the new college high school. I beg to suggest a man who I know was a great friend of yours, also a lover of humanity, and promoter of his race along every walk of life, especially intellectually; a resident of Washington, D. C. I speak of the late James F. Bundy. Yours, G. W. WILLIAMS. THE DOUGLASS SCHOOL. Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, 1916. Mr. W. Calvin Chase. Editor of The Bee, City. Dear Sir: I have noted with interest the articles in The Bee in regard to naming the new high school. Is there any thing in a name? 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I earnestly recommend the name of Frederick Douglass. True, there is a school named after him, but that can be easily changed. Only a small per cent. of the school population passes through the present Douglass School and to the majority of the boys and girls it means as much as the Douglass Home to the race. Heard of by many, seen by few, the memory of Douglass deserves more than a dinky school house and while this is an age of monumenting (excuse coining of word) and we have the opportunity to erect a monument without cost, let us befittingly bestow recognition upon the sacred memory of Douglass by naming our great new high school for him. No better name or more inspiring one could be chosen. By all means let it be the Frederick Douglass High School. 1101 Que St., N. W. PARKD HAIR CROWER MISS PRETTYPEACH AND THE WILLIBOYS. THE NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. C. President James E. Shepherd, Box 466, Dnrham, N. C. 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The persistency with which H. C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland Gazette, has fought colored men through his personally owned, personally conducted, and for personal self, newspaper, and the success that has attended every man whom he has fought, has inclined colored men, when ambitions to succeed, to first make sure they have Smith's opposition, for his opposition always presages success, and his support always argues failure. During the life of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, the Gazette's editor fought him in a most venomous manner, even pursuing him with savage criticism after the great race representative had been called to his reward. And yet, whenever Dr. Washington spoke in Cleveland, there was no auditorium large enough to hold the throng of admirers that crowded to hear him. He has opposed John P. Green bitterly for years, yet has never made a dent in Mr. Green's standing. He bitterly assailed W. H. Clifford, and yet Mr. Clifford was able to serve his county two terms in the State legislature, and secure other political preferment. He, at times, could hardly succeed in coining words to express his bitter enmity for George A. Myers, yet Mr. Myers succeeded in every endeavor he undertook, in spite of Editor Smith's opposition. He roundly roasted Ralph Tyler, and yet Tyler was the first of his race in Ohio to be given a presidential office by any president, and the highest office at that. He most cautiously criticised and opposed Charley Cottrill, and still Cottrill was appointed to a high office by President Taft in Honolulu. He pursued Thomas W. Fleming bitterly, and yet Fleming, in the face of that opposition, has twice been elected to the city council, and had an appointment at the hands of an Ohio governor. He opposed the late Henry Eubanks, although Eubanks was elected to the state legislature in spite of him. He has opposed, frequently with unreasonable vitility, every colored man in and out of Ohio that has achieved success, and merely, it appears, because of his inordinate selfishness and jealousy; and yet these men, one and all, have achieved success, and were able to merely smile at the impotency of the Gazette's influence, and note with satisfaction its waning circulation. The paramount duty of an editor of a colored newspaper is to conduct his paper in the interest of the advancement of the race, not for the purpose of attempting to belittle colored men who are doing something, and who are honestly aspiring. It ought to occur to Editor Smith, by this time, in view of the failure to pierce a hole in the armor of those he fights, that his opposition to colored men who aim to rise is merely a case of "love's labor lost." The Gazette might be a powerful factor for the race, not only in Ohio, but throughout the country, if its editor would only cut out his bitter criticism of other colored men, and his weekly bombastic praise of himself. But perhaps it is now too late for the leopard to change his spots. The Gazette is the only colored newspaper published in the country that devotes weekly space to sensure of other colored men and praising its own editor. And self-praise, it has been sagely said, is frequently "half scandal." The Bee hopes that its Cleveland contemporary will, this year of 1916, enter the fold of the boosters, and withdraw from the field of knockers. The ill success that has attended Editor Smith to dethrone colored men who have fought their way up into the esteem of the race, reminds us of Don Sancho Panchez' futile attempt to charge the huge windmill with a mere spar while seated astride a donkey, so graphically described in Don Quixoto. CANDIDATES During these four years of democratic rule, and the enforcement of "Jim Crow" car legislation and departmental segregation and discrimination, not a word was spoken by any of these aspirants for conventionhonorsorraised their voice in defense of the oppressed colored Americans. Strange as it may seem, but nevertheless a fact. Now comes, these near-statesmen from out their holes and almost demand that the suffrages of the colored vote be given to them. The Bee is informed that there are two ambitious individuals, one a colored doctor and the other a contractor, have from four to five thousand dollars to spend for convention honors. If these gentlemen are of the opinion that their filthy lucre will not be greedily taken and equally accepted, then The Bee will forfeit its contention, that it should be recognized in preference to all others. Now, let us reflect for a moment. From all newspapers reports there are up to date six candidates for delegates and there are more to be heard from. Some who have been practicing fraud all their lives are now crying for a fair and honest count. Why shouldn't they be given an honest count when they ask for it. If they saw their own ballots counted before their own eyes, they would receive a paralytic stroke that would be disastrous to the future welfare. The meeting of the colored republican clubs, by the report that appears in the Bee this week, is an evidence of the character of men who are taking an active part in local politics. This club is composed of men of the highest integrity, and their ability can not be questioned. The club by the middle of next month will have a membership of several thousands. Their first meeting will be held next month, at which time its ticket will be launched, and then the near statesmen will take notice. Let the band play. THE DUNBAR SCHOOL THE DUNBAR SCHOOL. The Bee extends its congratulations as well as its thanks to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for naming the new Colored High School in honor of the late Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Commissioners didn't listen to the appeals of other negro codfish aristocracy which has been such a menace to the colored schools in this city and an impediment to the success and advancement of the colored people. The entire colored population in the United States, or wherever the name of Paul Laurence Dunbar is known, will appreciate the act of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. When the Bee called upon the people to request the Commissioners to name the new Colored High School for the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Dr. John R. Francis, Prof. James M. Gregory or Mattie E. Bowen, Mrs. H. A. Davis, the president of the Dunbar Association in this city, rolled up her sleeve and went to work. She worked incessantly in the churches, among the people, for her favorite admirer. The Bee suggested four names to the Commissioners, but the request for Dunbar was overwhelming. They came from all over the country. The people in this city, led by Mrs. Davis, poured communications and petitions into the Commissioners. Commissioner Newman, who is no autocrat but a man who will listen to the people, remarked to one delegation that called in the interest of the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar, that he would give every name consideration the people wanted. The people are thankful, and they hope that the Commissioners will recognize the merits of a few colored policemen. There are one hundred thousand colored people in this city, and not a colored policeman has been appointed since the retirement of Judge Siddons. The Bee has the highest respect for the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. It believes that the colored people will yet receive recognition from the present Board of Commissioners. DIDN'T ASK CONGRESS. When the little black republic of Haiti got into a fight among themselves and shot up the town without injury to any foreigner, and more particularly United States citizens, this government didn't wait to ask why these Haitians were fighting among themselves, but Uncle Sam just rolled up his pantaloons and waded to the Haitian shores and deliberately took charge of every custom house that could be found, and shot down those poor, innocent black Haitians because they asked this government for an explanation. Noy, there are Villa and Carranza who have been butchering each other and people of other nations, and particularly the United States, and yet there has been nothing done. The only thing that this government has asked from the Mexican government is to let us alone. O! if there were Mexicans in Haiti, also in the South. Everywhere there is brutality against the oppressed. DIRECTOR RALPH There is oge man in the government service who knows how to be fair to everybody—democrats, republicans, socialists, and every other kind of individual. A change in the administration has made no change in him, in so far as doing his duty as official and his humanitarian acts and fairness towards those under him. WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DEAD. Richard Shaw, 37 Years Steward at Senate Restaurant, and One of the Best Known Citizens, is Dead. During the past week death occurred to one of the most distinguished colored stewards in the country, in the person of Richard Shaw, for 37 years steward at the Senate Restaurant. Shaw was one of the most popular and influential men in the city. His greatest aim was to please and give service. At his funeral on last Tuesday, January 18, the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on M street, was filled not only by members of his family and hundreds of colored friends, but by many senators and congressmen paying their last tribute of respect to their beloved servant and friend. "THE PLAYERS." By I. Gustavus R. Ford. I think it's time for me to take my pen. And bid the blight of sorrow conde- scend. And 'neath earth's quivering scenes sustain. The fragments of the player's broken strain. Although these players pass like twi- light beams. Unnoticed sometimes, yet to me it seems. That their very souls take to the Eagle's wings. And 'mid creation's classic realms they sing. From shore to shore beneath the airy dome. Where hatred bids these chords to ne'er roam. Heavenward they turn, and 'neath their toll and pain. Their hands attempt to play these notes again. Dark was the morning when the harp begun. To murmur o'er the breeze—though there are none To which the presence of the torrent's spray. E'er dared to stay to bliss their feeble way. These players are, if I must call them so, The Hamite race—whose splendors I adore, Who first awoke beneath the pagan's night, The sacred keys for truth's eternal light. Through ages past, uncurbed by all control, Where mystery ploughed, and needful wants e'er stole, They gave to glory's earlier age, Immortal truth's that lie—though not on page. Though years have passed, they come in golden dreams. From oblivion, lit. by memory's gleams. And. o'er the heaven's noiseless breeze, They sing their song, by Heaven's all-wise decrees. Thus on the quivering wind is told The story of Nature's commoners, who yet unfold. Their sacred music—most worthy of the free. But prejudice e'er says that this can't be. Muse of my heart—melodious race, Sound high your accents, blot each sadder grace, And though, to stranger ears your notes give pain. Still sing and bid your people rise again. 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After all, despite his cynical disregard of his wife's marital rights, she had aided him in maintaining the place in the social world to which he had been born. If gonded beyond endurance, she laid bare to the world the tale of his indeluctibles—and worse—she could do irreparable damage to his reputation. Had he any friendships which could stand the strain? Could a man such as he was have any real friends? In an instant, with the incalculable rapidity of thought, his mind ran over the list of acquaintances. At the end of the list came Strickland. Strickland!- His thoughts swung back to Joan sitting, scorful and indignant, before him. It was plain to the man of the world that now he had "gone the limit." But little more was needed to force his wife over the precipice to which their steps had been converging for years. He knew her well enough to realize that, her resolution to divorce him once taken, she would not turn back from the bitter road, whitherever it led. Not even the thought of the children, so much dearer to her than to him, would deter her, he knew. Plainly he saw that the conjugal affairs of the Trasks had reached a crisis and he must avert it. His words were conciliatory: "Look here, Joan, what's the use of kicking up a row? That divorce idea is all nonsense. There's no reason why we can't go on together." "No. I'm through with you," she said. "I've forgiven you a dozen times, and it's been the same thing over again." There was no sign of weakening in her tone. He knew now that he could not afford to argue with her further. It must be as a supplant he must approach her. The woman who had yielded to his will all these years, had condoned his offenses "for the sake of the children" and for the sake of appearances before the world, revealed herself at last as willing to be the mistress of her own fate. More strongly than before the desirability—may, the necessity—of conciliating her impressed itself upon him. He pleaded with her, rising from his chair, going over to her and bending over her. "Make this the last time," he begged. "What do you want me to do?" CHAPTER VI. His Last Night on Earth. OR a moment the light of re- turning hope burned in the eyes of Joan Trask. "I want you"—she began, but the memory of the bitter years, of the long succession of broken promises and vows, stretching back to the time when the man before her had taken upon himself the solemn obligation to "love, cherish and honor," clouded her face again. "No," she said dully. "It's no use. It'll be just the same as ever." "I tell you it won't." he said. "What more do you want? I give you my word. I know that I've broken it be- fore, but this time I'm in earnest." There was solemnity in her tone as she said: "Gerald, if I do this it is the last time." It was with genuine relief that he exclaimed: "Good! We'll begin all over again." He kissed her. Oh, trusting heart of womanhood! She took his words, at their face value and returned the kiss. But there was still misgiving in her mind that was not stilled by the wild, glad beating of her heart. "Gerald!" she said. "you'll keep your word?" "I've said so," was his reply. "Then promise me that you'll break off with this woman." "What woman?" "The one who called up." "Oh, pshaw!" he said. "There's nothing in that. You're wrong. You've misjudged me this time." They kissed again. With a parting good night Trask switched off the lights in the library, and the two went to their respective rooms. Such was the last talk of Gerald and Joan Trask. The woman went to her room with the joyous hope that she had regained her husband as he was in the first few months of their wedded life. She had reclaimed him! And the stars sang to her as she peered from the window of her room, and the voices of the city, stilled in the night, spoke only of the happiness that was to come to her at last after years. table and glides to where the hesitant figure of the woman stands. Before she can give voice to the words of inquiry on her lips he has sprung upon her, strangling her as he envelops her head in the scarf. He forces her to the floor, but as he does so another man enters the room at the rear. It is Robert Strickland, come to the home of his "friend" for a purpose. In his hand is something, bright and strange of shape. The man who is choking Mrs. Trask hears him and looks up, desisting from his terrible work. Joan is too far gone to scream, however. He has succeeded A He Aims His Revolver at Trask and Fires. in his aim of silencing her. But as Strickland enters the room, the strangler glides off to one side and leaves the newcomer looking down in bewilderment at the figure of Mrs. Trask on the floor. Then, for the second time on this fateful night, the telephone bell rings. A moment more and Gerald Trask in his shirt sleeves stumbles into the dark room. With one hand he reaches for the telephone receiver, with the other he switches on the electric light. His eyes are turned from the other two occupants of the room, and he does not know of their presence. Mrs. Trask cannot call to her husband, for she has but little breath left. Besides, her eyes are fixed in fascination on the revolver which Strickland has pointed at her. And Strickland, dazed by the sudden glare of light, seems bowled over by the sight of the woman lying on the floor. The voice of Trask breaks the silence. "Hello! Yes, this is Trask. Is that you, May?" The words galvanize Strickland into action. He rises from the crouching position he has assumed, aims his revolver at Trask and dres. The shot rouses Joan, and she screams. The two sounds are almost merged, and they startle Trask, so that he drops the receiver and turns in time to see whence his fate has descended upon him. His last earthly utterance is: "Strickland!" And with that Robert Strickland fires again. It is the end of earth for Gerald Trask, for the bullet lodges in his heart. From the rear of the room rushes in Stanley Glover, bearing in his hand a heavy stick. He dashes at Strickland, and the stick falls heavily on the slay. A er's uplifted right arm. With a groan Strickland drops to the floor, the revolver falling from his hand. And then Joan Trask, widowed by the shot, staggers to her feet and screams: "My God, he's killed Geraldi!" It is Glover who takes command of the situation. Standing guard over the fallen Strickland, he urges the meaning woman to telephone to a doctor. So ran the story of the widow of the slain man. It was not told connectedly, but had to be elicited by the questioning, at times insistent, but at all times considerate and gentle, of the district attorney. It was his duty to bring out the facts, to invoke justice upon the man who had invaded his friend's home at night and had shot him down. The fact of the shooting by Strickland was established by the testimony of Mrs. Trask. Trask lay in his grave, and Strickland had done the shooting. It was not denied. Had he not been willing to plead guilty? Had he not be in open court protested against the continuance of the legal proceedings, which might send him to the electric chair, asking only that his little girl—his Dors—be spared the ordeal of the witness chair? Throughout the appearance of John Trask on the witness stand her testimony had been followed with the closest attention by judge and jury, by counsel for both sides and by the throng in the courtroom. It made the deepest of impressions. Especially when the money was mentioned, $10,000 in cash, a large sum to the great majority of the audience. It was no tieable that Mrs. Trask's audience leaned forward in their chairs. Here, it seemed to their minds, as the district attorney had asserted in his opening address to the jury, might be found sufficient motive for murder: Strickland's financial difficulties, settled so short a time before the shooting, if really settled at all; his eagerness to pay in cash; his possession of the combination to the safe; his dramatic appearance in the Trask home only a short time after he had seen Trask in his own home; the elusive accomplice, who had disappeared—all pointed, in the minds of the hearers of Mrs. Trask's testimony, to willful, deliberate murder, only to be explained in the chair of death. Having told her story of the shooting itself, Mrs. Trask was retained in the witness chair to tell of the subsequent happenings in her home on the fatal night and to undergo cross examination by the attorney for the defense. A few minutes after the shooting the police arrived, she said, but her husband was dead by that time. He died instantly, the doctor said. "Now, Mrs. Trask, did you observe the safe before the police arrived?" asked District Attorney Gray. "Yes; the safe was opened." "Did you notice if any of the contents were missing?" "Yes, sir; the $10,000 were gone." "That's all, Mrs. Trask." And Mr. Gray turned to David Arbuckle, chief counsel for the defense, with, "You may cross examine the witness." Then the district attorney, his militant air giving way to a relaxation that told of relief and satisfaction with his witness, settled back in his chair to watch the proceedings closely. He was a faithful prosecuting officer, intent on safeguarding the rights of his client, "the people of the state of New York." It was now the turn of the defense. "Mrs. Trask," said Arbuckle, rising, "did you recognize your assailant, the man who opened the safe?" "No," replied the witness. "He came upon me so quickly. And the room was in total darkness." "Are you sure that no one but Mr. Trask knew the combination of the safe?" Was there a momentary pause by the witness? Did it enter her mind for a brief fraction of a second that the question and answer would be marked "important" in the minds of the jury? The answer came, "Mr. Strickland knew it." "I move to strike out the answer as not responsive," said Arbuckle. With that the district attorney sprang to his feet. The point made by Arbuckle was too important to be permitted to go challenged to the jury. "I—your honor," he exclaimed. In the cold, quiet manner which marked him throughout the case Judge Dinsmore made his rulling. "The motion is denied." "I respectfully except," said Arbuckle, and he turned again to the witness. "Mrs. Trask, did any words pass between Strickland and your assailant?" "I can't be sure. There was a ringing in my ears. He almost straugled me." "But to the best of your knowledge they did not speak to each other?" "I can't say one way or the other." Dropping this line of questioning and taking up another, Arbuckle asked the witness: "Mrs. Trask, do you know who May is?" Up to this point the manner of the witness had been calm. She had suffered much in the months which had intervened between the killing of her husband and the trial of his assailant, and the first fire of her grief and shock had burned down. With the loving kindness of a good woman she had forgiven the offenses of the caring husband who lay in the grave. He had wronged and insulted her grievously, and no effort of the will could erase the memory of his wrongdoing, but he was dead now, and she was not a woman to carry even justified anger beyond the grave. But now— The simple question of the attorney aroused her. Her lips tightened and her eyesashed as she answered with emphasis: "NO. SIR. I DO NOT." This ended her testimony. Both Gray and Arbuckle signified that she was not to be questioned further, and she stepped down from the stand. At this point there was a slight hitch in the trial of Robert Strickland. District Attorney Gray called for Dr. Morgan, but he was not at hand. Explaining to Judge Djinnmore that Dr. Morgan was the physician who examined Mr. Trask's body and that Dr. Morgan had said he might be detained, the district attorney asked and obtained permission to call Stanley Glover to the witness stand. From a waiting room entered, in response to a call from an attendant, the dapper young man who had been the private secretary of Gerald Trask. He had been present on the fatal night, and he was conversant with all or nearly all of the details of the case. It was he who had taken the money from Trask for deposit in the safe where it had The Week in Society Your physician wishes your prescriptions filled properly from the freshest, purest drugs obtainable, that he may be more certain of the best results. Make certain of these conditions by taking your prescriptions to Board's drug store, 1912 1-2 14th street northwest. Costs no more than elsewhere. On Sunday, January 16, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hill of 416 First street northwest entertained at dinner from 3:30 to 7, at which the following were present: Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lee of P street northwest, Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt of 80 Myrtle street northeast, Mr. and Mrs. Delocho of 501 Thirteenth street southeast, Mrs. Clark of 734 Fifteenth street northwest, and Miss Julia Smith of Calahan street northeast. Mrs. Wendell Smith, of Jersey City, formerly the beautiful and talented Miss Evelyn Barker of this city, spent Sunday last, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Cole, 1828 Fifteenth street northwest. Mrs. Jennie Brown and Miss Halle Brown, of Tea street, Le Droit Park, have as their house guest, Mrs. Justin Brown, of Montreal, Canada, the former's daughter-in-law. Mrs. Brown is being royally received and entered. Miss Julia Seamers of 214 Elm street, who has had a severe attack of la gripe, is convalescing. Miss Enola G. Nundley, who has been residing in Philadelphia, was called to the city on account of the illness of her sister, Miss Susie B. Hundley, 1445 Que street. Mr. George Abbott of the College department of Howard University was in New York a few days ago. Mr. Wilson R. Gray has been quite indisposed for the past week. Misses Adeleine and Lucy Shaw, Mrs. Helen Rogers and Richard Shaw, Jr., have the tender sympathy of their friends in the sad demise of their noble father, the late Mr. Richard Shaw, Sr. A farewell lunch party in honor of Mrs. Alexander Walters, wife of the celebrated A. M. E. prelate, was tendered by Mrs. W. H. Roach. The occasion was made one of unusual celebrity and style, owing to the fact that Mrs. Walters will leave shortly for the Republic of Haytl. The bishop will not accompany her just at the present time. Mrs. Ethyl Spriggs, who has been ill with the gripe, is now able to be up again. Dr. S. S. Thompson has been elected president of the Howard University Alumni Association. Miss Estelle A. Lee, of Boston, Mass., who was called here to attend the funeral of her brother, returned home last week. Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Atlanta, Ga., passed through the city last week. Mrs. Rosa Davis Whiting returned to her home in Cleveland, Ohio, last week, after spending the holidays in this city as the guest of J. W. Wormley and W. H. Clifford families. Mr. Mortimer Smith of New York city is now connected with the National Benefit Insurance Co., of this city. Mrs. M. E. Washington, of Protort, Vt., a relative of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Maxfield, is now in the city and will remain for a month or so. Mr. Nelson Freeman has returned to his home in Bayshore, L. I., after a pleasant visit to friends in this city. Mrs. Bertha E. Hector, wife of Rev. A. A. Hector, of Baltimore, Md., is visiting her relatives in this city. Mrs. Rachel A. Thomas entertained Mrs. Julia Leadbach while in Philadelphia at her residence, 4023 Ludlow street. Mrs. Mary Fleming Peterson, of Chicago, Ill., who has been the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Fleming, has returned to her home. Miss Cora J. Beander entertained at a whist party, assisted by her niece, Miss Harriet E. Beander, at her residence, 330 Elm street northwest, in honor of Mr. Wm. H. Youngblood, of Augusta, Ga., who was here on a visit. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Edmond, Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Taylor, Mr. Jerry Gant, Mr. Howard Thomas and Mrs. Sorrel, Mrs. Johnson. Miss Ada E. Chestnut of 313 L street northwest has returned home after spending a most delightful time at Cape May, N. J., and Philadelphia. The members of Galbraith church organized a Helping Hand this week. Miss Grace Adson, president; John Mudd, vice president; Miss Ada Randolph, secretary; Mrs. Mamie Leonard, curator, and Miss Emma Valdez chapel. Miss Pearl Adams of Howard University visited Baltimore. Md., last week. Mrs. Pet Henderson, wife of Dr. Henderson, of New York city, who has been the guest of her mother and sisters, Mrs. Corwallis, Miss Ollie and Mrs. Esther Young, has returned to her home after having spent a delightful vacation. Miss Flossie M. Hunt, who has been quite ill at her home, has returned to her school in Fairmount Heights. Mrs. Herman Jenkins, of Warren- Mrs. Herman Jenkins of Warrenton. Va. arrived in Washington Fri- day at 7:30 p. m., in company with Mrs. Hermald L. Steward. They were met at the Union Station by Mr. H. L. Steward and the party boarded a car and went directly to Miss Emily Austin's, 1819 Vermont avenue, where a supper was served. Those at the table were Mesdames H. Jenkins, H. Steward and M. Steward, Messrs. H. Steward, Charles Howell and J. E. Olelin. Refreshments were served by Miss Austin, assisted by Miss Beulah Washington. After supper the party left on the 10:55 train for Lincoln, Md. On Sunday, January 16, a dinner was given at the residence of Mrs. M. E. Steward by Mrs. H. L. Steward in honor of Mrs. H. Jenkins. After dinner the party was entertained by Mr. Steward and his wife. Mr. Steward rendered the following solos: "Hold Thou My Hand," "Farewell to Thee," and "A Little Bit of Heaven—Shure They Call It Ireland." He was accompanied by Mrs. Steward. Mrs. Steward also sang and played several beautiful solos. A grand song service was held Sunday at the residence of Mr. Holland at Lincoln, Md. The service was opened by Mrs. Rev. Dr. Seaton. The programme was as follows: Solo, Mr. Caloway, "Scattering Seeds, of Kindness." Duett, Mrs. Hatton and Mrs. Holland, "Does Jesus Care." Solo, Miss Edna Allen, "Speak to Me, Jesus." Quartette, Mrs. Hattan and Mrs. Holland, Mr. Caloway and Mr. Dayvis, "God Will Take Care of You." Solo, Mrs. Simpson, Quartette, Mrs. Seaton and Mrs. Johnson, and Mr. Hatton and Davis. Solo by Mrs. Davis. Miss Caroline Caloway pianist, assisted by Miss Dora E. Allen. Mr. William Lacey, jr., has returned from New York city, where has been the recipient of many social functions. Bill is of great assistance to his father, who is the present steward at the Senate Restaurant. Great preparations are being made by the members of the popular Doves Dancing Class, Inc., who will present to the Washington public a new dance feature at the "Hatchet Dance," on Washington's Birthday, Feb. 22, 1916, matinee and night. 200 souvenirs are to be given away. A special patron rate has been made to the club of St. Syrtean Davis, Chateau A. Dodson and Leonard A. Tate are members. Mrs. Sadie A. Miller has been on the sick list for the past week at her new residence, 909 Twelfth street northwest, under the care of Dr. Peter Marshall, Murray. The "Chanticleer Social Club" is planning to give a big complimentary dance to their patrons and friends on Wednesday evening, January 26, at Odd Fellows' Hall. The officers and members of this club are all jolly good fellows and very popular in social circles. The officers are: William A. Brown, president; Judge W. Hall, vice president; William T. Reeder, fin. sec'y; Theodore M. S. Saunders, rec. sec'y; Ralph A. Webster, treasurer; Turner S. Lyles, chaplain; Henry L. Lyles, sergeant-at-arms, Mr. and Mrs. Leon D. Mitchell gave a farewell luncheon at their residence, 408 S. Capitol street, as a farewell token to his friends before leaving for Palm Beach, Fla. Among the guests present were Mr. John Lacey, Geo. Sembley, W. H. Brown, Luther D. Boyd, and several others. Prof. L. B. Moore of Howard University will address the Y. M. C. A. of Baltimore, Md., Sunday evening. His subject will be: "The man that sold himself to Satar." Mrs. Charles H. Slaughter is quite ill at her residence. Mr. William Douglass of 1021 18th street northwest, is at the Garfield Hospital. He has the gripe. Mr. Blunt of 1767 Oregon avenue has gone to Palm Beach, Fla., where he will remain the entire winter. Miss Grace Gibbs of this city has been appointed the musical directress of St. Phillip's Normal and Industrial School of San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Whipps, wife of Dr. Whipps, who has been ill at Freedman's Hospital, has returned to her home, 30 N street northwest. Mrs. Fisher, wife of Lawyer Fisher, who has been ill with la gripe, is convalescent. Miss Anita Martin of New York, formerly of this city, is visiting her mother here. She is the house guest of her aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Curtis, 2146 Newport place northwest. Invitations are out announcing the complimentary reception of "The Chanticleer Social Club," Wednesday evening, January 28, from 8 p. m. to 1 a. m., at Odd Fellows' Hall. Mrs. Thomas Simmons of Pisgah, Md., was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn of Good Hope, D. C. for a week-end trip. Her time was pleasantly spent in motor trips about Washington and vicinity. Mr. Raymond B. Thomas of this city, a graduate of Howard University, Dental College, class of 1915, has successfully passed the recent District Dental Board examination, and will soon enter the practice of his profession. Major-Charles Young was in town last week, the guest of Dr. W. L. Board. Dr. W. L. Board has just issued a fine calendar. It has on it a very pretty face of one of the Le Droit Park belles. Recent Deaths Miss Alberta Tyler, a highly and much esteemed young woman, died very suddenly on. Wednesday, January 19. She was the daughter of Mrs. Mary Tyler and the late Charles Tyler. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the residence of her sister, Mrs. Aviana Ferguson, 2021 M street, and was largely attended. The Young Ladies' Protective League of which she was a member were in attendance. Many floral tributes were presented. Rev. Richard Thompson officiated, assisted by Rev. Richard Green. The pall bearers were Messrs. Joe Todd, William Henson, Raymond Walston, Manuel Oden, Bennie Moore and Charlie Smith. Interment, Harmony Cemetery. Mrs. Robert H. Tyler, a life-long resident of this place and for a number of years a public school teacher of Leesburg, Va., and Hamilton county, died on Monday, he having been paralized for two years. Funeral services were held at the M. E. Church, under the auspices of the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a member, Wednesday afternoon. Interment, Leesburg, Va. Mrs. Hannah Beason, an old citizen of Georgetown, died on Tuesday morning at the residence, 1433 S street northwest. Funeral service was held Friday afternoon from Mt. Zion M. E. Church of which a full account will appear in our next issue. The circulated rumor that Rev. Jas. R. L. Diggs, recently elected pastor of the First Babist Church, was about to decline the appointment is without foundation, according to the information of the church clerk, Mr. Jos. E. Smothers, who states that the pastor would displace the acting pastor, Rev. Wormley, in March of this year. The A. O. of Moses Williams Tabernacle celebrated its annual anniversary Sunday evening at the service of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. The pastor, Rev. Richard Green, delivered a very pleasing sermon to the Order; a large number being present. The Bee Agency is at Pride's Pharmacy, Twenty-eighth and P streets northwest. CHURCH NOTICES. Notice—Big day at Mt. Zion M. E. Church Sunday, 23rd. Rev. W. C. Thompson, pastor. Rev. N. M. Carroll, D.D., former pastor, will preach at 11 a. m. All invited. The Third Quarterly meeting of Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society will be held at Galbraith Church, Sixth street, between L and M streets, all day Thursday, January 27, 1916. Missionary workers of all denominations are cordially invited. Dinner and supper served: Mrs. Ida V. Smith, general treasurer, Miss Sarah J. Janifer, A. M. District president; Miss Mary L. Mason, District secretary of Young Ladies; Miss Florence B. Wye, District superintendent, Buds of Promise. Literary program at night. The Missionary Quilt will be awarded by Mrs. A. Waddleton to the local president who receives the highest number of votes over $10. Admission free. The Mt. Carmel Baptist church is in a great revival. Dr. N. W. Brown of New York, the great pastor evangelist, is assisting Pastor Jernagin. Great crowds flocks to hear him. A great mass meeting by New England Baptist convention (Maine to Virginia) at Washington, D. C. February 9, 1916, 2 and 8 p.m. at Florida avenue Bantist church, near Seventh street northwest, under the auspices of Committee on State of Country of New England Baptist Convention. Great Men's Meeting at Mt. Carmel Baptist church, Third and I streets northwest, Sunday, January 23, 1916, at 3 p. m. Rev. W. W. Brown, D. D., the great soul winner of New York, will speak on "God's Masterpiece." Good singing by some of the best male quartets in Washington. Every man and boy welcome.—W. H. Neragin, Minister. Bethel Literary, Tuesday night, January 25, 1916: Prof. W. S. Cornell, of Grand Caymanian, British West Indies." The Great War; Its Real Cause and Sure Effect." Bethel Literary, February 1. 1911. Teachers' Memorial Night. February, Dean William Plekens. February 15. Christian Endeavor Night. ADMITTED TO THE BAR. Howard Graduates are Successful. Of the hundred and twenty-seven candidates recently examined for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, seventy-four were successful, and took the oath as attorneyvs on Wednesday, January 19, 1916. William H. Dennis, chairman of the Board of Examiners, announced the result of the examination to the 'court', sitting in general term, and moved the admission of the new lawyers. Chief Justice Covington welcomed the embryo members of the bar, and cautioned them as to their conduct as officers of the court. Two of the successful applicants, Mr. Charles S. Cunev and Mr. F. Morris Murray, are graduates of the Howard University Law School. Mr. Murray finished his course last June, and then made special preparation for the test. Mr. Cunev received his degree in 1909, and is a member of the class which boasts of the fact that it has more members licensed to practice in the District of Columbia than any class that ever left Howard. The members of that class admitted here, in the order of their admission, are Attorneys Harry L. Tienor, Henri Shields, Sylvester L. McLaurin, Hunter H. Cardwell, John D. Drake, William E. Lilly, Elwood G. Hubert, Samuel M. Dudley, and Charles S. Cuney. All of these passed the examination at their first attempt. COP THOUGHT IT "GOAT." But Elks Club Steps at Natchez, Miss, Harbored Real Possum. Natcher, Miss.—While patrolling his beat on Franklin street Policeman Ed Gahan saw a mysterious animal on the steps of the Elks club. The cop, thinking that the "goat" had escaped, executed a flanking and enveloping movement and captured the animal. Believing it was the official "goat," the officer had prepared for desperate resistance, but immediate surrender was made. He found that he had captured a possum of enormous size. The possum was placed under arrest, taken to the station house and a charge of prowling entered against him. Not being able to explain his presence in the heart of the city and especially at the Elks club, the possum was condemned to execution and fell into the clutches of the colored janitor of the city hall. TREED BLACK CAT. Hunters Thought It Possum and Waited All Night. Saylersville, Ky.—Recently J. S. Adams with his two sons, Carl and Bundy, went opossum hunting. They started about 0 o'clock, and about 12 o'clock his wife began to get uneasy, and still they did not come. home. Next morning she went out and got the neighbors to make a search for them, and while she was getting breakfast she looked up the hill and saw them coming. When his wife asked him what had delayed him he said: "We were on the hill when the dog made a dive into the underbrush and then treed something. We went to the tree and thought it was a coon, and we lay down on the leaves and went to sleep. The next morning we saw that we had treed a big black cat instead of a coon." "LITTLE PIPES" PLENTY. But "Soup" Ran Low—Slang of Wet Goods Drummer. Drumright, Okla.—In the code of the whisky peddlers and runners throughout the oil fields "big pipe" means quart bottles of whisky, and "little pipe" means pints. Beer is called "soup" when telegrams are sent or when it is ordered by telephone. The code was revealed when a dealer at Witt ordered by telephone from Waurika and got the wrong man on the wire. "I have plenty of 'big pipe.'" he said; "but I am entirely out of 'little pipe,' and you may send along some 'soup.'" The man who received the message made inquiries and learned that the order was for whisky and beer in the code. FARMER FINDS GOOD BUSINESS IN SKUNKS Allentown, Pa.—A unique enterprise in Lehigh county is the skunk farm of Solomon Hausman, near Bittner's corner, in Lowhill township. A vigorous man of forty, Mr. Hausman looks more like a successful country doctor than a farmer and in addition to being a successful agriculturist is a prosperous dealer in skins. One of his cherished possessions is a valuable overcoat made of racoon skins which he himself shot or trapped. The growing scarcity of furs and their rapid increase in price were Mr. Hausman's motives in making the experiment of a skunk farm, cut out of ten acres, of his estate. Last year he killed sixty skunks for market, but this year expects about 400. He has been successful in bringing them around to the desired color and believes that by another year he will have 90 per cent of them pure black. The blacks are the most valuable, their skins at present commanding $3 each, while those striped or mixed with white are quoted at $1.50 and less. The skunk farm is not a picturesque place, consisting chiefly of holes in the ground, with boxes here and there for houses. There is but one litter a year, which runs from eight to ten kittens. In December the fur bearers are ready for slaughter. The skunks must be fed once a day, and Mr. Hausman has discovered that the food they like best and on which they thrive best is boiled potatoes. QUAIL IN POULTRY YARD. Delaware Farmer Finds Fourteen, Who Make Themselves at Home. Bridgeville, Del.—Henry Savage, a Nanticoke, Hundred farmer, has a covey of quail and has become so attached to them that they will be spared from the hunter's gun, and he intends making a business of raising them for the market. Recently Savage went out into his poultry yard and was astonished to find fourteen quail feeding with his chickens. At night they went in the poultry house and huddled in a corner, while the chickens took their accustomed roosts. Eagle a Mascot In Navy. Norfolk, Va.—A live American eagle has been added to the zoological collection of the navy. It is the only eagle in the navy and is the mascot of the crew of the battleship New Hampshire. The eagle was trapped by members of the crew in Dismal swamp. "WHERE YOUR PATRONAGE IS APPRECIATED" BOARD'S DRUG STORE 1912 1/2 14th STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. THAT'S THE PLACE QUALITY SERVICE SATISFACTION According to regulations issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Dining Car Department, finger bowls will be used only by requests of the diners, this order to take effect on the first of February. The Pennsylvania is following the lead in this matter, from many hotels in the west, which have already eliminated the finger bowl from the regular service. The City Hotel at Frederick, Md., is on record for having two head waiters die within one month; the first death occurred when Fred Barron, a former head waiter here at the old Riggs House and the Montrose, was in charge; Barron died on the 20th of November while in charge of the dining room. His successor died suddenly on last Christmas Day. Walter Trumhall, in the New York World, makes just a few passing remarks about the baseball magnates deciding to return. In the language of Trumhall, here it is: "The baseball committees are to re-convince in this city on January 19. How can New York ever make itself worthy of the honor? We are told that the magnates, sad but firm, decided to leave this city for Cincinnati because there they have been so abused and misunderstood. A shudder of consternation shook Manhattan isle like an earthquake. It was pitiful; bartenders and waiters moaned in their sleep. Even the environs felt the depression. The lights in White Plains were turned out at 9 o'clock and the night life of Yonkers lacked its usual sparkle and spontaneity." Mr. Alexander Clerkson, formerly with Harvey's and Ebbitt Cafe, is at present "swing man" for the Atlantic Coast Line dining car department. It is very gratifying to note that several very prominent hotel and restaurant men have been appointed to the Executive Committee of the United Colored Republican Club of the District recently. Fred. Wieneke, assistant steward and floor walker at the New Ebbitt, is now doing well at the New Willard Hotel in the steward's department. James Gray, Sr., who has been slick all winter, is now out, again and well enough to resume his duties at the Royal Panciana at Palm Beach, this season. He will leave the city accompanied by his two sons and a crew of waiters on Saturday morning, January 22. Among the crew will be Leon D. Mitchell, our "East Coast Representative," who will contribute hotel news weekly to this newspaper. Capt. Lawrence Henderson, morning captain for many years at the Ebbitt, when asked concerning having charge of a dining room for the winter season in Florida, declared that it was all a rumor that he desired stopped. R. B. Lewis has been transferred from the night force at the Ebbitt to the "Gold Room." John Mayo, head waiter at the Wilson Cafe, is making good with a very select crew of colored waiters. Mayo opened the cafe on the beginning of the New Year. Under the proprietor, Joseph Tyroller, William Oakum is second man and Geo. Dinsmore is secretary. HAS "THE RARE SENSE." St. Paul Dog Anticipates the Wishes of Its Master. St. Paul.—A dog that anticipates the wishes of its master is boasted of by A. M. Paulson, 1016 Marshall avenue. The latest achievement of the animal was brought about when Mrs. Paulson was recovering the pantry shelves with newspapers. The dog watched while papers were cut and fitted to the shelves. Suddenly it made a dash out of the kitchen door and over the fence. In about five minutes it returned with a newspaper in its mouth. Nail In Cow's Heart. Martins Ferry, O.—A valuable Guernsey cow owned by N. S. Donner, after an illness of two years, is dead. An autopsy showed that a nail caused death. The polut of the nail was protruding through the central valve of the heart, and the tissue around it showed little irritation. John D. Orders Watchdogs Tarrytown, N. Y., John D. Rockefeller has issued orders to all tenants on his estate to purchase first class watchdogs. Two of the tenants bought fox terriers, paying $20 for each. Mr. Rockefeller has agreed to reimburse them. He is taking this means as an added protection to his estate. NEW TICKETS. Freedman's Hospital Candidate. The fight for delegate is growing interesting. There have been several new tickets spring up within the last few days. Dr. Williston of the Freedman's Hospital, and Mr. Wardman are new newly admitted in polities, at Brisbane and Dr. Price in the northeast. Dr. Marshall and Finley Wilson have been eliminated as delegates. Several more tickets will be sprung in a few days. Just why Freedman's Hospital should be brought into politics. The Bee is unable to explain. Physicians employed under government should attend to their duties. Poro College, St. Louis, Mo. Poro College was the scene of Christmas festivities. The home of Prof. and Mrs. Malone was, as usual, thrown open to friends and the out of town visitors. Congratulations are still coming in to the proprietors on the $5,000 gift to the Y. M. C. A. FREE FREE—50c. Bottle Cocoa Nut Oil Shampoo—FREE. Buy a 25c jar Barnard's Complexion Cream, the guaranteed remedy for rough skin and pimples, and receive absolutely free a 50 cent bottle of Barnard's Cocoanut Oil Shampoo. Present this at any of our stores. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE: Main Store, 7th and K northwest. a-o-2-ff. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S LIFE IN BOOK FORM NOW READY Dr. Washington wrote his life; it is well illustrated, showing him on the way to school; the first time a history from the cradle to the grave; it reads like a romance. This is the best book of Dr. Washington's. The publishers, Mulkinin-Jenkins Co., Warder Bldg., Washington, D. C., are also publishing a life-size picture. Anyone wishing an agency can get outfits of both for 15 cents. Agents now selling. Please call or write. i-22-3t. NEW LAURELS Won by Prof. Adams at the Musicale. An appreciative audience was present at John Wesley Zion Church last Monday evening at the first monthly series of musicals and lectures of the National Federation of Choirs and Musicians. Madam Gabrielle Pelham amended an address and Mr. R. Carlton Dorssey violinist, and the Corda Club, Miss Fraser director, gave satisfaction, judging by the spontaneous applause. Miss Maggie Jefferson, contralto solist, Miss Jewel Jenifer of the Washington Conservatory of Music, and Mr. John M. Johnson, violinist of the Washington Concert Orchestra, swayed the audience with their wonderful renditions, and Miss Bell Freeman of the John Wesley choir sang a beautiful selection. Everyone went away highly pleased, praising the efforts of the organization. WOMENS' CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. By Edwin B. Henderson. Under the leadership of Mrs. Julia McAdoo, a member of the board of directors of the Young Women's Christian Association, the recitative and athletic work of the Association has received a tremendous boost. Nearly 70 ladies have joined. Prominent among them is the girls' basketball team. This group consist of many players who in former years have starred on the courts of this and many other cities. The most prominent are the Misses Skinner, Miss Isadore Kenny, Miss Helen Gordon, Miss Sylvia Piper, Mrs. Miriam Wormley Lewis, Miss Jennie Connell and Miss Ruth Gray. Messrs. Beckett and Henderson, physical directors, have volunteered to help in furtherance of the aims of the organization. Mr. Beckett, directs gymnastic dancing, and the writer conducts games. The gymnasiums of the Y. M. C. A., and the Armstrong Manual Training School have been granted for use by the authorities in charge. Entry blanks for the Indian Meet at Convention Hall have been sent to all of the schools, colleges and clubs in this part of the country. Gold, silver and bronze medals have been secured from Dieleges and Clust and other trophies have been donated. Athletes in New York, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Richmond are planning to enter the events. At Howard University many of the various classes and college societies are arranging relay races. Every indication points to a most successful meet. REPUBLICANS, WE WANT A SQUARE DEAL From the Detroit Leader. Senator Cummins will not do our race any real justice, in his idea of cutting down the Southern delegation. Evidence shows that the Southern white politician would be satisfied with much smaller power if he enjoyed that power alone. Justice demands that the black man of the South should receive a franchise without any restrictions. Why is it that the Northern republican cannot stand for right and justice in this matter of policies relative to the Southern Negro? No such remedy is attempted with any other big issue in this country. The idea of trying to assist one class of people at the expense of another. It is not American, it is not good republicanism. We want, full right of franchise, we want to be unmolested by the Southern people in the enjoyment of that franchise. If this is a country for, by and of the people, we want a republican party to give us legislation that will bring about the same benefits, the same privileges that are enjoyed by any other class of Americans. Dierct primary, tariff, state rights, foreign policies, and every other ism or clam under the sun is dealt with in no manner like that of the Negro and his vote in the South. Is the republican statesman going backward? Is this the same party of '65? Is this the party of Lincoln; Grant and Rossevelt—the party of Right? These are questions that the Northern colored republican wants to know. We of the North will not be satisfied until our people are treated free and equal throughout the entire South. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ATHLETIC LEAQUE. By Edwin B. Henderson, Secretary Public Scold Athletic League. All star heavy-weight Elementary School Basketball Team: Massey, forward, Stevens; Keasley, forward, Cook; Brown, center, Jones; Stewart, guard, Stevens; Dean, captain, guard, Cook. All star heavy-weight Elementary School Basketball Team: C. Parker, captain, forward, Stevens; E. Douglass, forward, Garnet; Whitney, center, Stevens; Jones, guard, Stevens; Baker, guard, Garnet. There was but one big surprise in the basketball of the season in the elementary schools series; that was the upset of the heavyweight machine of Stevens by the Cook school aggregation in a nip and tuck struggle by a 14 to 13 tally. There was no upheaval or surprise in the outcome of the lightweight series after the kiddies from the Twenty-first Street School won out in the Division games, for the marvellous work of the one Cornelius Parker made it impossible for any of the other contenders to hope for much as long as he was on the scene. More interesting than any of the championship battles for the city title were two games with the Division Athletic League championships at stake. These occurred when Stevens' heavyweight downed Garrison after a mighty contention and the overthrow of Banneker by Jones school in the same weight class for the title in the 12th division. The Tenth and Eleventh will be known as famous for the superior calibre of the machines turned out each year. We cannot too highly praise those teachers and groups of teachers who lend their efforts to the encouragement of athletics for the boys and girls of their schools and divisions. This effort, in proportion as it is employed, results rather frequently in championships or close competitors, things very pleasing to the athlete and his institution. Regular, year after year, competition creates tradition that always makes for winning teams. The Twelfth and Thirteenth division teams have many handicaps to overcome to forge to the front, chief of which is a lack of basketball environment. Were the basketball courts of the high schools and the clubs situated nearer to the schools of these divisions there would more than likely be a bigger interest and keener sport. As it is the splendid work of the teachers and principals of these divisions is relied on almost entirely to infuse an interest in the game. One factor never lacking in the games played by Cook and Stevens school, and in some others, is the support of the teachers and pupils at the game. Many other schools fight for victory in an atmosphere of polar conditions due to almost no cheering and enthusing support from the galleries. The officials used in the games this year were very good and their work deserves the best commendation. Among those who rendered efficient service were Messrs. Beckett and Wheeler of the Branch Y. M. C. A., and Thomas Johnson, a student of the Commercial High School. This young man received a support and attention in his administration of the game seldom accorded one of so immature an age. The above named players have been selected for qualities that would make them a place on any of the teams of the League. It is very noticeable to followers of the sport that among those chosen there seems to be not one who shows a tendency to play the player and not the ball. But one of those chosen suffered from the penalty of banishment from the game because of the commission of four personal fouls, and his forced exodus, a costly one to his team, was more as a result of bad breaks in the game than wrong doing on his part. Parker of the lightweight teams was in a class all by himself. Unhampered by comparison, with his brother who last year starred with him on the same team, this boy, Cornellus Parker, moved about the courts this year as the main performer in his class. E. Douglass of Garnet was an exceptional little player but suffered somewhat by virtue of being so much lighter than other players in his class. Baker of the same school, a heady, deliberate player, loses somewhat by ultra conservatism during the game, but is a master of form. On the heavyweight team Massey is a superior individual but a little short on team work, while Stewart of his team is all one could wish for. Dean is an ideal guard in all departments. Keasley of Cook, and Brown of Jones are both good. Chairman Hunter of the Games Committee in charge of the series and his co-workers should be proud of the record of the season, one that has not been marred by bickering or unsportsmanly conduct, but full of benefit to worker and player. Elementary Schools' Basketball Series —Cook and Stevens Win. Cook School for the first time in some years annexed the city championship in the elementary schools heavyweight basketball series on Friday night in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium by defeating the heavyweight team of Stevens School in a close game. The score was 14 to 13, and was tied many times during the game. Stevens outplayed Cook school during the first half of the game, but after suffering the loss of one Massey, the team seemed to lose heart and the Cook boys gained perceptibly in strength afterwards with the result as stated. Dean and Keasley and Massey and Stewart were the chief performers under the glare of the spot light. The Stevens junior quint which in a game before had decided the lightweight battle in their favor played an exhibition game with the runner-up in their series but easily downed this Garnet School team by the score of 16 to 2. After the game Dr. Childs, of the Board of Education, and an honorary president of the league, who had been invited to attend, made an address complimenting the boys upon their gameness and sportsmanship. Prof. Garnet Wilkinson, principal of the Armstrong Manual Training-School, presented the E. C. Williams' trophy to the lightweight champions, Stevens School, and the J. V. Mulligan placque to the heavyweight champ. Ware's Dept. Ladies Furnishings 1832 WARE'S DEPARTMENT 1832 Fourteenth Street Full Line of Standard Make- Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings Caps and Ch Earnestly Solic Real Values Ware's Shoe JAMES H. UNDERTAKEN All Work First Class Phone North 814 Near Fall James H. FUNERAL CARRIAGE Moved from 1132 3rd St Cor. 3rd and Phone THOS. R. DEAR Wood, Coa Office and Yard: 3rd a Wares Dept Store Ladies Furnishings Gents Furnishings 1832-14 N.W. WARE'S DEPARTMENT STORE 1832 Fourteenth Street N. W., Near T Street. Full Line of Standard Makes of Shoes for the Whole Family Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing, Hoisery and Rubber Goods, Hats, Caps and Children's Wear Earnestly Solicits Your Patronage Real Values Ware's Shoes Wear Well Honest Prices JAMES H. WINSLOW James H. Dabney FUNERAL DIRECTOR Moved from 1132 3rd Street, to 227 K Street, N.W. Cor. 3rd and K Streets, N. W. Wood, Coal and Coke Office and Yard: 3rd and K Streets, North west 【Day Phone, Main 6693 ons Cook School, with appropriate remarks. For the first time Howard University has become party to the management of an indoor meet in this city, and the dual management promises to be productive of one of the finest exhibitions and sets of games ever held under colored management in the southland. For weeks the joint games committee, consisting of Howard University athletic authorities and representatives of the Public Schools Athletic League of the city schools, have been working night and day perfecting plans for the gigantic carnival of athletic sports which will be held in this city on the 25th day of February in the Convention Hall arena. It has been estimated that the amount necessary to stage the event will approximate $1,000. Entry blanks will be out this week and will be spread among the colleges and clubs and schools about this section of the country. Many of the big colleges and clubs have signified their intention to be present in competition. Lincoln University will meet Howard University on the basket ball court in a game that will meet the approval of the thrill-seekers. For the Public School Athletic League kiddles in the elementary schools, there will be two fifty yard sprints for 80 pound and unlimited weight classes and four relay races, All Goods Delivered phone North 4926 DepartMENT STORE Set N. W., Near T Street. S of Shoes for the Whole Family Hoisery and Rubber Goods, Hats, Children's Wear Hits Your Patronage S Wear Well Honest Prices WINSLOW R AND EMBALMER Terms Most Reasonable Residence 49 1) s Church, Va. M. Dabney DIRECTOR S FOR HIRE Street, to 227 K Street, N.W. K Streets, N. W. Main 8273 R. CLARK TOLER IN Coke and Coke and K Streets, Northwest one in each of the four weight classes. High and Secondary school boys will compete in a 50 yard dash, a fifty yard hurdle race, 300 yard novice race, 440 yard race, one-half mile race and a relay race. Collegiate entrants will meet in 50-yd dash, mile race, and relay race for the college championship. For the club and individual amateur athlete, there are arranged, a 50 yard dash, fifty yard hurdle race, one mile race, 440 yard race and relay races. The meet is sanctioned by the South Atlantic Association of the A. A. J. Home Cafe LEE'S LUNCH ROOM Geo. H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W. Meals 15c and 25c MEALS AT ALL HOUsTS It is an up-to-date Lunch Room. It is the Sanitary Lunch Room where you and your family are re- quested to come. Electric fans. 1231 E Street Northwest 1231 E Street Northwest Phone Main 3631. Open from 7 to 10 Daily Sundays until 1 P.M. CONSULT US FIRST ALL KINDS OF PRINTING Linotype Composition Electric Power Presses TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING QUICKEST BEST TERMS CASH 1109 Eye Street, Northwest Phone Main 7590 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. JOOD LUCK, HAPPINESS, DVANCEMENT GOOD CHANGES ARE SURE TO COME TO YOU. THERE ARE GREAT GOOD TIMES AHEAD. PREPARE FORGOOD HEALTH AND GOOD APPEARANCE AND GOOD LUCK WILL SMILE UPON YOU. 1916 IS A LUCKY YEAR FOR YOU. TU-RA-HE herb mixture to make a tea or medicine, sample free (also by mail) package 25c. TU-RA-HE liquid medicine, good for what ails you $1.00. TU-RA-HE herb tablets for constipation, indigestion, liver and kidneys 10c and 25c. TU-RA-HE tablets for sour, gassy stomach 10c. TU-RA-HE liniment 15c. TU-RA-HE cough syrup 15c. TU-RA-HE lozenges 10c. TU-RA-HE foothelp powder 10c. TU-RA-HE pine tar ointment 10c. TU-RA-HE perfume 10c; 15c, and 25. TU-RA-HE face powder 10c. TU-RA-HE scalp and hair pomade 10c TU-RA-HE talcum powder 10c. TU-RA-HE face vegetal cream 10c. TU-RA-HE herb 1 inhaler 10c. TU-RA-HE health candy, horechound, wild cherry, sassafras and spearmint, 5c a bag. TU-RA-HE Zulu mascot, kids, movable hands and feet only 5c. TU-RA-HE Indian dolls 25c. TU-RA-HE revolvers, must be seen to be appreciated, 25c. Florida sweet sugar cane, 5c and 10c. A large variety of rare healing herbs and roots, minerals; quartz, stones and pyrites. INDIAN WIGWAM HERB REMEDY ESTABLISHMENT, 1728 7th t. N. W., between R and S sts., W shington, D. C NEW HOME "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. Purchase the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life asset at the price you pay for your workmanship and best quality of material laures life-long services at minkum mourn. Insist on having the "NEW HOME." GUSTAVE OPPENHEIM 800 E Street Northwest. Phone, Main 4480 Beautiful Lounges Morris Chairs Writing Dumbo Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room uite, call after you have been elsewhere Howard Dental Parl ntal Parlors Howard Dental Parlors A up to date dental parlors in the by Colored Dental Surgeons. CLISTS IN TREATING THE TEETH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Lady Attendant Always Present. NO PAIN—NO HIGH PRICES—EASY TO BROWN AND BRIDGE WORK AT LOWS MINISTERED AND TEETH EXTRACT PERTS. extracting and teeth cleaned free when work We employ no students. Satisfied Patient. parlors in the city operated vital Surgeons. THE TEETH OF NERVOUS CHILDREN. Always Present. PRICES—EASY TERMS. WORK AT LOWEST PRICES. TEETH EXTRACTED BY EXTS. used free when work is ordered. no students. The only up to date dental parlors in the city operated by Colored Dental Surgeons. SPECIALISTS IN TREATING THE TEETH OF NERVOUS WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Lady Attendant Always Present. NO PAIN—NO HIGH PRICES—EASY TERMS. GOLD CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK AT LOWEST PRICES. GAS ADMINISTERED AND TEETH EXTRACTED BY EXPERTS. Advice, extracting and teeth cleaned free when work is ordered. We employ no students. D Royal Knights of King Gives $100.00 for 25c a month and Organizers needed in all states. Write W.'G. Pearson, Durham, N. of King Davia or 25c a month paid in all states. Good pay in, Durham, N. C. The Royal Knights of King Davia Gives $100.00 for 25c a month Agents and Organizers needed in all states. Good pay Write W.'G. Pearson, Durham, N. C. THE ROYAL ORDER OF JONAVID OF AMERICA. INCORPORATED, AND DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, OFFERS TO THE PUBLIC A COMBINATION POLICY OF HEALTH, ACCIDENT, OLD AGE ANNUITY, AND DEATH BENEFITS FOR THE SAME PREMIUM. FOR ONE DOLLAR PER MONTH DUES GIVE $6.00 PER WEEK FOR SICKNESS, $6.00 PER WEEK FOR ACCIDENT, A SUM GRADED TO $750.00 FOR PERMANENT DISABILITY, $50.00 PER MONTH AS AN OLD AGE ANNUITY; A DEATH BENEFIT GRADED TO $1,000.00. DEPUTIES AND ORGANIZERS WANTED. CALL N. 5966 OR 1516 FOURTH STREET NORTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D. Q. By the Dukes of New York. Information comes to The Bee that Messrs. J. B. and B. N. Duke of New York have promised Mr. J. R. Hawkins, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, a donation of $12,500 for Kittrell College, Kittrell, N. C., provided the school authorities will raise a like amount of $12,500 from other sources. This information has been communicated to the Bishop of the Second Episcopal District and the trustees of the institution and they are now devising plans for a campaign for the purpose of raising the required amount to secure this condition of donation. This shows that it is still possible to interest others in making large donations to help maintain our schools if we go about it in the right way. The Dukes have shown great interest in the colored people from time to time and have repeatedly expressed their confidence in and appreciation of Mr. Hawkins as an educator and a man of good business judgment. When Mr. Hawkins was president of Kittrell College, Mr. Washington Duke, the father of Messrs. J. B. and B. N. Duke, took him into his confidence and told him of his desires to do a little something for the school and the poor preachers of the two Conferences in North Carolina. At the suggestion of Mr. Hawkins, $5,000.00 was at that time donated as a special fund to be invested for the benefit of the superanuated and missionary preachers of the North Carolina and Western North Carolina Conferences and $5,000.00 was given outright to Kittrell College. The $5,000.00 for the preachers was turned over to a special board of trustees created for that purpose and properly invested and at the annual sitting of each of these conferences the interest from this fund is duly reported. The $5,000.00 for the school was put into the hands of the trustees of the school and used in helping to erect the splendid new dormitory for girls which has been completed and named Duke Memorial Hall. This offer of $12,500 is to help pay off the remaining indebtedness of this new building. The Bee extends its thanks to the Dukes. LYNCHING BEES ARE BAD POLITICS From Elizabeth, North Carolina, Independent (White). Georgia, the "Cracker State," is again in the limelight. A white overseer named Villipigue, was killed near Blakely, Georgia, according to reports, and three negroes, Grandison Goalsby and his two sons, Mike and Ulysses, were charged with the crime. Posses of white men were instantly organized and the bloodthirsty Georgians went on the warpath like so many wild American Indians or Australian headhunters. Newspaper reports credited these posses with having killed seven negroes in one day. Negroes were run away from their homes and negro property was ruthlessly destroyed. Where the mob found a Negro lodge hall, there a conflagration was started. Four Negro meeting houses were burned to the ground in a day. In one neighborhood the negroes tore down their own property to spare it from the torch of the white fiends. Knowing those Georgians as I do, I know they are prepared to tell you the most remarkable tales to justify their conduct. And after they have stated their case I'll wager that it will not outweigh one asthmatic hurrah in hell. The murder of this overseer, Mr. Villipigne, may have been as brutal as the murder of Mary Phagan. The evidence against the Goolsby negroes may have been impachable, but no mob could have had an excuse to have taken the law into their own hands in the case of these negroes, and the ruthless murder of other negroes and the destruction of the property of innocent negroes was so horribly unjust as to make the blood of a fish boil with indignation. I shudder when I think of the price the white race must some day pay for its sins against colored peoples. The day of reckoning is coming, it must come, and it may be nearer at hand than the more far-seeing suspect. There are probably more than ten million negroes in the United States. Under the vicious leadership of intellectual brutes like Thomas Dixon and Thomas Watson, the troglodytes population of the Southern States has made these ten million, or more negroes hate the country in which they are forced to live, but in which they are denied the rights of citizenship. The average negro is docile, patient, kind and polite. He knows his place, he keeps his place, and pows and smiles when he meets a white man. But deep down in the heart of every black man is a arvulous knowledge of all the insults and abuses and infamies heaped upon him by men who would not for a moment pass as his superiors if their kins were not white. The negro realizes his inferiority of numbers and its lack of organization and leadership. Weekly he takes the humble place assigned to him and tries to be happy, light-hearted and content. But its heart is heavy, his soul oppressed, its vision is blurred by the welling springs of grief within, and he can not ove and respect the great white race. If we do not find a better way of dealing with the negro, if we do not put down the wild mobs of barbarians in the South who kick and, cuff and turn and lynch black men upon the lightest provocation we are going to come day lose one of our best friends, and just at a time when we shall need him most. In Europe to-day the geography and politics of more than half the world are being reshaped. When the smoke if the last battle has cleared away and the last skull has been turned into the trenches we are going to see a great readjustment and new alliances, England, the United States, and the south American Republicans already have a pretty good understanding, and be big diplomats and financiers of England and the two Americas are preparing a great Anglo-American Alliance. The object of this alliance will be ostensibly for mutual protec- tion and defense, but at the bottom of it all is Business, seeking to capture and hold the world's markets. Off against this alliance may be another great alliance, an alliance of China, Japan and Russia, to protect their own markets from the Anglo-American invasion. Under our present system another war must follow, as night must follow day, and in less than a decade we may expect to behold the colored races of the world, under the leadership of Japan, at war against the great white race. And then the white people of the south will begin to pay the price of their brutal mistreatment of the negro. Colored people are colored people, whether their skin be red, yellow, brown or black, and when the great color line is drawn on a worldwide battlefield there will be no Jim Crow divisions on the white side of the line. It is not a bare possibility that the race that has been our best servant may some day be converted into our most aggravating foe by reason of our inhumanities and stupidities. Instead of worrying about how to get rid of the negro, it may be high time for us to plan to hold his friendship and his sympathies. Before the Japanese problem is finally settled, we may find better use for the negro than a lynching bee. REV. I. N. ROSS. I sit alone tonight meditating in the study of the parsonage of old historic Ebenezer Church. I am the last Quartette of Ross Brothers, all ministers of African Methodist parents and pursuits. From their ashes on the altar of our great connection, the spirit voices, of my brothers, whose entire lives were herocally given up to build our Zion, come to my spirit with counsel. And my mother who gave four sons to the Christian ministry to advance Negroes into independent church life; and who also gave six other souls to the service of African Methodism, joins our communion of spirits. She and my sainted brothers continue in the spirit as they did in the flesh, to point me forward in service upon souls. And voices of the living break upon and interpret those of the dead. They come in pleading script from all parts of African Methodism. They ask: "Do you still stand for election to the holy office of bishop? If so, let us know. I was with you in 1912, and you are yet my choice. I have no reason to change. I will work and write for you. We need you on the Bench." In addition to these inquiries the Ohio Conference which I joined 25 years ago, in its last session, instructed its delegates, if any bishops are elected to use every honorable means to have me exalted to that high office. The distinguished bishop who presided over that conference, baptized me in 1876. Now the historic Baltimore Conference in which I now serve, elected me on the first ballot, one of its delegates, with the definite understanding of my aspirations and the attitude towards me of eminent clergymen and laymen throughout the connection. The General Conference of 1912 set a precedent. It gave me, in no way having voice or vote in it, throughout the solemn issue of electing bishops, 196 votes. And the loyal Sons of Allen who cast their votes for me until the great contest ended, then surrounded me and congratulated me upon the strength which came and held to me. And there they pledged themselves, "By the help of God, we will elect you in 1916, if your life is spared." I sincerely confess that these spiritual, physical, and personal actions profoundly affect me. "Thus I find myself urged to make this statement to my loyal friends and beloved church by a chain of unavoidable events—the plighted faith of 196 pillars of our great temple, the filial action of my mother conference, the loving endorsement of my present conference, and the exhortations of my sainted dead. To loyal and self-sacrifice friends is my first word. My best efforts will never prove how heartily thankful I am to them. God bless them! He alone can fully reward their noble natures. Never shall I betray their confidence in me. And to my more than spiritual mother, African Methodism, I declare my life a whole burnt offering on thy altar! In the depths and over the plains I have ever done thy will. I am still thy soulful slave. I will serve thee on the heights with same loss of my life for thy gain, as ever I did. Use me up to work thy weal! So I send the language of my life to every African Methodist that is bent on building our Zion better. Let my heart speak to his heart. Thus will he, know my life and judge my fitness to forward African Methodism. LAUGHS NEARLY TWO HOURS. Negress Who Sees Fat Man Chase Hat Has to Have Morphine. Kansas City, Mo. - Betsy Green, a stout negro woman, stood beside a big fat man at Iverson station here when down the street fitted a puff of wind and neatly removed the fat man's hat and sent it sailing up Central avenue. Every one smiled as the fat man gave chase as best his avidrupois would permit. Betsy laughed. When Betsy had laughed for an hour and forty-five minutes without being able to stop an ambulance surgeon stopped it with a dose of morphine. SNAKE PLAYS. PICKPOCKET. Steals. Farmer's Watch From Vest Hung on Tree. Sunbury, Pa.—Overheated while cuttin wood on his farm at Killiney Grove, Charles R. Johnson hung his vest on a sapling. When he put on his vest his watch was missing. Later Johnson found a big black snake and killed it. A suspicious lump protruded from its stomach. Johnson cut the snake 'open, and his watch rolled out undamaged. The farmer, has nailed the snake, six feet four inches in length, to his barn as an affidavit to doubting friends. THE LORD JESUS AS.A YOKEFELLOW "Come Unto Me, All Yo That Labor and Aro Heavy-Laden." Self-Surrender Absolutely Essential to Discipleship — Advantages of the Poor—The Course of the Church of Christ and That of the World Contrasted — Jesus' Attitude Toward Honest Doubters — Blessedness of Yoke-Fellowship With Christ. Louisville, Ky. January 16.—I pastor Russell spoke here today from Matthew 11:28-30: "** Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, ** for My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." A. H. We are to remember that these words were PASTOR RUSSELL member that these words were addressed to the Jews, the speaker declared. The class invited to discipleship were not so much those who labored and were heavy-laden physically, but those who were burdened mentally and morally. The Jews had striven for centuries to keep the Law, the terms of which were, "He that doeth these things shall live by them." (Leviticus 18.5.) But still they were dying; and they knew that if they had kept their part of the Law Covenant. God would have given them life. The Pastor illustrated this point by referring to the rich young ruler who came to Jesus. (Matthew 10:16-24.) The young man, a noble character, was sturdy hard to keep the Law. The thought which our Lord presented to him was this: "If you are burdened with trying to keep the Law perfectly, and see that you cannot gain lasting life. I will show you the only way by which any can get that life. Cease from your own works, and accept through Me, as God's gift, the forgiveness of the sins which you could not avoid. Then renounce all things earthly, and become My disciple." We can readily see how riches of property, bonds, learning, knowledge, experience, honor of men, social standing—wealth in any form—would hinder the majority from becoming followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is but one set of terms under which any may come to Him. Whoever does not wish to accept these terms may wait for the less honorable opportunities of the next Age. The Call of the Gospel Age is unique. Some learn of it; fewer accept it; still fewer prove faithful to the end. But God's Plan for the world is a Restitution of all that was lost in Adam. The Church Vs. the World. Then the speaker contrasted the course of the Church with that of the world. During this Gospel Age whoever walks in Jesus' footsteps must walk, contrary to the spirit of the world. Yet this class are the happiest people on earth, although the world, their own desist and the Devil are opposed to them. Satan pays more attention to them than to any other people. There is no need of his giving special attention to those who are asleep. But whoever is walking up and getting his eyes open will be beset with persecution, worldly inducements, everything to oppose his way. But if this class retain their love, faith and obedience, God will turn the opposition into a blessing. Our Lord foretold exactly what would come to His faithful followers: "They shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake." (Matthew 5:10-12). St. Paul also declared, "All that will live godly in Christ, Jesus shall suffer persecution." (2 Timothy 3:12). But there, is an exceeding great reward for following Christ, for doing God's will under present unfavorable conditions.—2 Tim. 2:11, 12; Romans 8:17. The Pastor then explained in detail how we become yoke-followers with our Lord. To those who are striving hard to do right, God sends a special Message, inviting them to a share in Christ's sacrifice. But before they can be accepted as joint-sacrificers, their bliemishes must be covered with Jesus' merit imputed to them. This justification is by faith. God will not justify those who cannot believe. But He furnishes sufficient evidence to assist honest doubters; for some can believe more easily than others. "Those, who have thus presented themselves to God, through the imputed merit of Christ's sacrifice, and have been begotten of the Holy Spirit, have assumed Christ's yoke. Our Lord Jesus puts Himself into the yoke with the one who becomes His disciple. He assumes the weight of the load for those who are closely yoked with Him. "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the Age." is His promise. Although we are now in the very end of the Age, yet the Age will not fully close, until the last member of the Church is proven; and all the way the Lord will will with His disciples as a true Yoke-fellow. A very reasonable service is that which the Master requires of His followers. If He will be our Yoke-fellow, we cannot fall. Then wherever He leads, let us follow—"through evil report and good report, through honor and dishonor," through pain and loss. Plus we shall finally enter into His rest—the Kingdom beyond the vell, THE SONS OF GOD Divine Sonship Lost by Adam—Jews a House of Servants—Christ a Son. Head of the House of Sons—Evidences of Spirit-Begetting—Predestination of the Elect—To What Elected. "For as many as are set by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." Verse 11. TODAY we have another wonderful lesson from the inspired Apostle Paul. It points out time the Called is a New Creation, begotten of the Holy Spirit and now being gestated for the resurrection birth to the spirit plane. There is no more important lesson than this. According to the Bible, Adam was created a son of God—in the image of God and only a little lower than the angels. (Isaiah 8:5). When Adam slimmed, his relationship with God was forfeited. Forthwink; he was a sinner under the sentence which God had foretold—not an eternal torment sentence, but a death sentence, accompanied with mental, moral and physical degeneracy. After Adam's time there were no human sons of God—until Jesus. The Jews, received by the Lord under the Law Covenant, never understood themselves to be sons of God. Instead, they threatened to stone Jesus because He declared Himself a Son of God.—Heb. 3:5, 6; John 10:31-36. St. Paul declares that no natural man can fully appreciate the deep things of the Bible: for God has had them so written that only the spirit-begotten can comprehend them. (1 Corinthians 2:14). The Church is a company of regenerated beings. Once they were members of the Adamite race, and through things of the tribe; for God has had them so written that only the spirit-begotten can comprehend them. (1 Corinthians 2:14.) The Church is a company of regenerated belongs. Once they were members of the Adamic race, and through sin "were children of wrath, even as others." (Ephesians 2:3.) But now they have accepted Jesus as their Redeemer, and the sacrifice of His life as the Atonement-price for their sins. When they accept the invitation to become Jesus' followers, He becomes their Advocate with the Father. By the Divine arrangement His meritorious sacrifice is applicable to them as a covering for sins past and imperfections future. This arrangement affords them opportunity to be accepted of the Father and begotten of the Holy Spirit, and eventually to attain joint-heirship with Christ in the Kingdom. These regenerated, spirit-begotten children of God are not yet perfected; but if they continue, in the School of Christ, the faithful will eventually reach perfection on the spirit plane as Sons of God, led by the Spirit. These, on Scriptural authority, exercising faith, are enabled to call upon God as their Father—"Abba, Father." Through the Word and their own experiences these receive the witness of the Spirit of God that they are His children, joint-heirs with Jesus—the grand perfection being dependent upon their suffering with Him. These have no obligation to the flesh; for they are New Creatures. These are no longer to live after the flesh, but in harmony with the Spirit of God as revealed to them through His Word. In their weakness and ignorance these New Creatures might ask uniss. But God would not deal with them according to their imperfect asking. He would accept the spirit of their request. The groomings and desires of our spirits, our inlaws, will be accepted of the Lord as instead of our imperfect utterances in prayer. Explanation of the Gospel Call. Verses 28:31 declare that God has a special purpose in the special High Calling of this Gospel Age. Other Scriptures show that this Call is to joint-heirship with Jesus in His Messianic Kingdom, which is shortly to bless all mankind. To get a suitable class to be the teachers, rulers and judges of the world in the future has been the object of this Gospel Call. Jesus, the Head of the Church, was the first to respond and has been glori- fled. His followers, called during the Gospel Age, will be similarly blessed of God—glorified on the spirit plane, if faithful. A Our Study concludes with an explanation of God's Call. God foreknew, purposed in advance, to have Priested to Suffer, advance, to have such a Church as the Apostle describes, to accomplish the work mentioned. But to be of that predestinated and glorified class, certain things were necessary; namely, all accounted worthy of a share in the Kingdom must be copies of God's dear Son—in heart, in character, and like Him also, in their resurrection, spirit, beings. This is a glorious predestination, assuring us that God will have none others in the Kingdom than those who are character-likenesses of His Son Jesus. Those called had brought to their attention this glorious opportunity. But before they could accept, they must first be justified through repentance and acceptance of Jesus as their Redeemer. Then they were glorified—by being begotten of God's Holy Spirit and brought into His family as joint-heirs with Jesus, privileged to suffer for the Truth and to be glorified in connection with the Kingdom. 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Lafayette, Ind.—Without even having seen each other, love came to Ella Reeves of Lafayette and Frank J. Wagner of Terre Haute, and still without ever looking into each other's eyes they were quietly married here recently by Thomas Bridges, justice of the peace. Both are blind and have been so from birth. Wagner is a piano tuner. He came here on a visit, met Miss Reeves and fell in love with her voice. He made the trip here for his marriage without assistance, and the blind husband and wife, after a short stay here, will journey alone to Terre Haute for residence. CO-ED'S HUBBY WAS "MADE TO ORDER" Evranston, Ill.-Mrs. Howard Osborn, college bride of Northwest university, always said if she married at all she'd marry a model man. Having no respect for what modern civilization is producing in the way of manly perfection, she proceeded to model a man after her own liking. Result: She's now the bride of a handsome young collegian, first in athletics, first in scholarship, first in the hearts of his fellow students at Northwestern. The college bride's plan has Mrs. E. H. Harriman's million dollar scheme for perfecting the human race beaten by a whole generation. Mrs. Harriman's perfect man will not arrive until 1980; Mrs. Osborn's is a 1915 model. And he owes his model character not to science, but to romance. When Osborn came from Coldwater, Mich. to Northwestern university to "work his way through college" the first co-ed he became interested in was Mildred Lamke. Mildred didn't knit him a rose colored tie, nor did she embroider college pennants for him, but she did take a great interest in his diet, in his manner of living and his plan of study. The very first present she gave him—three days after their first meeting—was this set of rules: Rise at 6 in the morning. Cold shower bath and exercise every morning. Breakfast on dry toast and coffee. 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Born in Tennesse, reared in Ohio, and following his life's work in the leading cities of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and the District of Columbia, the subject of this sketch has had a wide experience which has left its influence over a large section of this country. Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross was born January 22, 1856, in Hawkins county, East Tennessee. In 1861 his parents moved to Green county, Ohio, with ten children. His father was a sturdy, painstaking, thrifty farmer, a man of sobriety and integrity. His mother was a woman of strong personality and Christian plenty. Four of the five sons of the Christian parents became ministers of the A. M. E. Church, giving to said church the best of their lives. Three of the brothers have finished their course on earth and have gone on to claim their reward in heaven. The Rev. W. P. Ross was founder of, the Divinity High School, now Edward Waters College, of Jacksonville, Els. The Rev. I. N. Ross is the youngest and only surviving member of the well known quartette of "Ross" preachers. He received his early school training his home town, Bowersville. His early life, like that of most farmers' sons, was spent in work on the farm, when he was not in school. On January 1, 1879, he was married to Miss Mary Robinson Fletcher of Elizabethtown, Harding county, Ky. Mrs. Ross has been of great help to her husband in all his work. Six children, four of whom are living, blessed this union. The oldest son is a practicing physiclar in Cincinnati. The oldest daughter, who is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, is a teacher in the public schools there. The youngest daughter, who is a graduate of the Teachers' College of Howard University, Washington, D.C., is a kindergarten teacher in Cincinnati; and the youngest son, of the Physical Culture Department of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., is a Professor of Physical Culture in the public schools of Cincinnati. Therefore, Rev. Ross and family look upon Cincinnati as their home. Rev. Ross' career as a minister extends over a wide area, having over thirty-one years in the itineracy of the A.M. E. Church. His first charge was in Ohio, whence he 'was transferred' to Pennsylvania, again to Ohio, next to Georgia, and then to the District of Columbia; in all of which places he has held the leading charges, being at the present pastor of the Connectional Metropolitan of the District of Columbia. The above shows that Dr. Ross is not only local but connectional in all his service and work for the Church. The Following Tells its Own Story: Dr. Ross joined the Ohio Conference in 1880 and spent 25 years in the Third Episcopal District without any intermission or without missing an appointment, pastoring the following churches: Oberlin Mission, O.; St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Washington, Pa.; Oil City and Titusville Circuit, Pennsylvania; Brown's Chapel, Allegheny City, and Wiley Avenue A. M. E. Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Warren Chapel, Toledo, Ohio; St. Paul's Church, Columbus, Ohio, where he entertained the General Conference in 1900; 5 years at Allen Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio; 3 years and 6 months at Big Bethel, Atlanta, Georgia, and 2 years and 9 months at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., his present pastorate. All of these churches have been financially and spiritually quickened and improved. Some of them were relieved of their heavy indebtedness. Most prominent among those relieved were Brown's Chapel, Allegheny City, where a mortgage debt of $3,858.00, of 27 years standing was entirely lifted and the mortgage burned. A sinking fund was created at Wiley Avenue A. M. E. Church for the building of a new church. A new site was purchased at Titusville. The church was moved from a back street to one of the main streets of the town. screens. Brown's Chapel, Oil City, was made new; and the entire indebtedness of these churches was paid off. The church at Toledo was paid entirely out of debt. The indebtedness of St. Paul's Church was changed and arranged so as to make it practical to meet the obligations as they came due and the church at Cinchnattal was improved and remodeled on the interior, completely from top to bottom, fitted up with all modern appliances—lindies' rest room, kindergarten department, King's Messenger department—at an expense of several hundred dollars which was paid off as the work advanced. At Big Bethel Church, Atlanta, Ga., his work as pastor was marked all the way with consecration and seriousness; thousands of dollars were paid on the indebtedness; the basement which had been untouched from the time of the erection of the church, was put in excellent condition for regular use, electric lights were installed throughout the church; the auditorium was frescoed and renovated and the interior remodeled. His work at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church stands up to the present in bold. He has installed steam heat and made other needed improvements on the interior and exterior of the church; reduced its bonded debt, $2,000, and greatly increased the congregation. a glance at the above career also shows that Dr. Ross has steadily climbed upward from a mission to the heights of African Methodism. He has left each church which he has served in better condition than when he took charge. He has been honored by the church in many ways. He has been a delegate to the General Conference each time it has met for the last twenty years, he has been a trustee of Wilberforce University for more than twenty years, and is now elected permanently to that position. This university has conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1903. Dr. Ross has traveled extensively over the country, keeping in touch with all that goes to extend the kingdom of African Methodism. He has always made his influence felt in every community in which he has lived, identifying himself with all that tends to the uplift of humanity, irrespective of race or creed. His record of continued success and constant progressiveness has marked hits as a man of ability and power. The following list mentions some to be shown when you come to buy. I ciently familiar with qualities to make Your purchases will be charged as th The following list mentions some of the particularly attractive values in our stock. There are a great many more to be shown when you come to buy. Every article is price-marked in figures you can read, and we hope you are sufficiently familiar with qualities to make an actual comparison of our offerings and prices with those of other stores. Your purchases will be charged as the goods are marked, with small weekly or monthly payments. MAHOGANY CHAIR, frame of solid mahogany, wing sides—seat, back and sides of cane—substantial, and a very pleasing design. 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BOOK SHELVES of quarter sawed, highly polished golden oak, large size, four adjustable shelves. Reduced from $10.00 to $7.50 than 3,500 souls into the church. Even in fashion-fettered Washington, D. C. he has turned Sunday's most formal service into a camp meeting scene by his evangelistic fervor. He preaches living sermons to living men. Spiritual results often instantly reward his Wesleyan zeal. Parish mastery is another of his virtues. He has so dealt with the difficulties which have ever faced him on every charge as to maintain peace and to move his people to progress. Not only has he added members to his churches, but he has also led them into larger work and unity and spirit. Shining in other prominent ways he has not been without achievement in all problems of church finance. At Washington, Pa., he cancelled the first and second mortgages on St. Paul's church. At Allegheyn City, Pa., he paid off the mortgage of $3858 of 37 years' standing on Browns Chapel. At Titusville, Pa., he purchased a lot on a prominent thoroughfare, moved the church from a back street to the new site, and paid up the entire debts of the church. At Wiley avenue church, Pittsburg, Pa., he created a sinking fund for a new church. At Toledo, Ohio, he liquidated the entire debt on Warren's chapel. And at his other charges he has never left a debt as large as he found it. He is not a dogmatist, yet he is unexcelled as a denominalist. Isaac Nelson Ross is a solid volume of African Methodism. He is to Richard Allen, the founder, and to Daniel Alexander Patite, the developer of education for negroes, what Isaiah was to Elijah the reformer and to Elisha the reform administrator of Israel. Much in the strivings of negroes on Wesleyan lines would still be low and meaningless had not Dr. Ross made their every struggle lucid and majestic. By declaring their deeds "acts of apostles," he shows himself both a prophet and philosopher. Seeing what his sires had done and how his compatriots now work, he is confident that God has been, is now, and will be in his people to their joyous knowledge and more joyous utterance. But Dr. Ross is more than an eminent preacher. He is also an intense adherent and advocate of negro organization and enterprise. He is prominent in fraternal circles, and is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, St. Luke's, Knights and Daughters of Labor, Eastern Star and Good Samaritans. He belongs to several charitable institutions. He is a life member of the trustee board of Wilberforce University. He serves Kittrell College as a trustee. He is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And he has encouraged any effort-promising to unite negroes for their own leadership and benefit. Being a part Small Weekly or Monthly Payments. REV. ISAAC NELSON ROSS. (By Arthur G. C. Randall, A.B., B.D.) Standing on the edge of a passing century of organized church life among negroes, and looking hopefully to the cycle of years coming before it, members of the African Methodist Episcopal church seek for its leadership a man made in its image and vibrant with its spirit. Numbers of members of that church earnestly believe that Rev. Isaac Nelson Ross, Doctor of Divinity, is the man raised up by God to place in a position of largest service to his race and church. Many important reasons lead them to this conviction. I give briefly a few of them: Because he has been most faithful in securing the present power and praise of African Methodism. Because his life is the product of African principles: Because he is an expert of her organization. Because of his vision of her future. Because he is a prophet of the whole race. Because of the situation of our church and race in the world. Because of his Christlikeness. Because of his devotion to his family. Finally, because of the strength it will bring to all negro causes. will bring to all negro causes. Time and the length of this paper limit us to the brief discussion of the first reason. Thirty-five years in the trenches is the length of service. From February 27, 1867, when he was converted, until now, he has been a constant worker. There is not a place from layman to presiding elder which Dr. Ross has not filled in this period: He has never been marked nor missed an annual conference, nor failed in an appointment. The maker of such a record is also made by it. Never could he become flabby in the highest episcopal office. Being the product of yim and vision, he would become more than ever the factor energizing every charge in his diocese by his personal presence upon it. His actions in visiting uninvited the smallest missionary stations near his brilliant metropolitan charges are convincing prophecies of such a course. He has succeeded unusually as a metropolitan puliteer, as a soul winner, as a debt destroyer, as a denominationalist, and a church developer. What has placed the missionary preacher who discoursed to a congregation of seven souls 5 years ago into a pulitist where, to-day more than 100 times seven souls hang breathlessly upon his plea? Is it not because he forges human hopes into every note capable of thrilling every heart? The torrents of his tongue gain the best of toil. Every effort of his matchless eloquence is most always to win souls to Christ. He has taken more GROGAN'S 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street N. W. "DUO-FOLD" SUITE, with all over upholstery of brown Spanish imperial leather. The bed is an attractive piece of furniture for a living room, having the appearance of a handsome davenport when folded up in the daytime. It is fitted with a fine comfortable mattress. 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He both declared and demonstrated that no ecology of humanity's champion, Sumner, was wise which did not cling to his spirit in that very hour. Hear his own words: words. "They are to-day threatening not only Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama with 'jim-crowism' and segration, but also the capital of the nation. O! heaven, hear! and O! earth, heed! I come to you in the name of outraged humanity, in the name of an oppressed people, in the interest of 100,000 souls in the capital of the nation. Will you permit yourselves to 'jim-crowed' and segrated? I have ascended the mountain and said to God as Moses said, 'Unless you go up with me, unless you deliver my people, blot out my name.'" MATTRESSES, either one or two piece, finest quality pure white layer felt, imperial edge, full size. Former price $18.50, now $15.00 MATTRESSES, pure elastic felt; weight, 45 lbs.; will not lump or flatten. 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KLEIN'S RAPID SHOE RE- PAIR CO: 736 14th Street northwest; Phone Main 988. 714 Ninth street northwest. Phone Main 7172. Open day and night—Livery and Chapel—Prompt Services JOHN T. STEWART Undertaker and Embalmer 30 H Street N. E. Phone Lin. 3718 Wash. D. C. THE ACME DRUG STORE Clair & Clair, Props. N. J. Ave. & L St., N. W. Washington, D. C. j8-12t JUSTH'S OLD STAND Money and the need of it are the things that bother the average worker, and that's why a many do their buying here, and it's no wonder when you see how the cash is saved clear on every deal. See what a $5 bill will buy in a good slightly used suit and worth more. One price. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D. lived the life which is without reproach. Standing as he does in the full blossom of his powers, the question comes of itself. Shall his church which has developed him get the largest use of his ripened powers? African Methodism enters a new era of institutional life. It must protest all denial of brotherhood and draw out our race qualities for the world's good. It must represent more fully than ever before the negro in the councils of the races. To succeed in its new century with its vital tasks our Zion needs a man made in her image and vibrant with her spirit. Isaac Nelson Ross is the MAN. Give him a seat with the chief pastors of African Methodism.