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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 WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY AUGUST 5, 916 A BUSINESS WOMAN MRS. HALEY. St. Louis Business Woman Visits East—Delivers Strong and Inspiring Address—Launches a Deserving Business—Makes a Host of Friends. Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, second recording secretary of the National Association of Colored Women and the manufacturer of the celebrated Victoria Hair Grower, was in Washington a few days in the interest of her business. While in Washington Mrs. Haley sustained her reputation as a髯er lecturer and an accomplished onitor of no mean ability when through the courtesy of Miss M. A. D. Madre she delivered an address at the J. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon, July 30, and Sunday night at Campbell A. M. E. Church, Anacostia, D. C. the church of Rev. Davis, Bishop W. H. Beckett's son-in-law. Mrs. Davis, Bishop Beckett's daughter, is quite a club woman. Mrs. Fannie Shipley, who is treasurer of one of the largest clubs of the District Federation, was instrumental in having the Federation meeting in Anacostia Monday night, July 31, Mrs. Haley made a most effective address at the musical recital of Mrs. Nannie L. War's pupils. That beautiful church was well filled with pupils, parents and patrons. The people of Ebenezes under the leadership of Rev. Wm. H. Dean support everything given at that church. children. Miss Marie A. D. Madre presented the two gold medals to Helen Day and Junetta Smith who, have completed the fifth grade in music. the bth grade. Mrs. Haley was applauded enthusiastically at each meeting. Mrs. Haley, one of the most prominent women of the race, is a resident of St. Louis, Mo., where for twenty years she has played an important part in educational and social, matters and has always been found in the front ranks of every movement for race betterment and human uplift and is the leader of the suffrage movement among the colored women of Missouri. She also bears the distinction of being a member of the first and only State Commission of Missouri composed entirely of Negroes which was appointed by former Governor Herbert S. Hadley to purchase ground and erect a building to be known as a state Industrial School for Negro Girls. This commission bought the site at Tipton, Mo., where the school has now been completed open. and is. After twenty years of public service as a public school teacher, club, social and fraternal worker, and having come in contact with countless groups of people, making observation as to the need of scientific hygiene, Mrs. Haley, after ten years of research, travel and study, feels justified in coming before the public with a definite notion of scientific hygiene as to the face, hands and body, and is serving to the public the "Victoria System of Beauty Culture," especially inviting your patronage for "Victoria Hair Grower" which has been used for ten years and has absolutely given the best results and is positively a hair grower that grows hair. The many positions of honor and trust that have been held by Mrs. Haley are sufficient recommendations as to her honesty, fair dealing and business associate. Among other things Mrs. Haley has been superintendent of St. Paul Sunday School at St. Louis; is now state superintendent of Allen Leagues of Missouri; is Past Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter Order Eastern Star of Missouri; second vice president of the State Federation of Colored Women, and second recording secretary of the National Association of Colored Women. of Colored While in the East Mrs. Haley will attend the bi-ennial meeting of the National Association of Colored Women at Baltimore, the State Federation meeting of Pennsylvania Women's Clubs, as well as visit some of the watering places. FLORDIA AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH Opposition to Pastor Taylor continues To Grow.-The Resignation Of Miss Tollier and the Removal Of Prof. Harris Continues to be a Thorne In the Hearts Of the Faithful Workers.-What A Representative of the Church stated to a Bee Representative. Represent. The resignation of Miss. Toliver as superintendent of the Florida ave. Baptist Sunday School continues to increase the opposition to longer retention of Rev. W. A. Taylor.as pastor of the church. Miss Toliver was a favorite and had won the hearts not only of the children in the Sabbath school and of the parents as well. She had the love of the church at heart and rather than see a split in the church and Sabbath school, she decided to resign. But, her resignation doesn't seem to have stayed the dissatisfaction and the seeming coming split in the church, is the cause that the pastor doesn't resign. It is stated by a prominent member of the church to the Bee that he knows more than what he will state, but at the proper time he intends to show his hand. In all probability this member who stands high in the church, may return to his first love and return to the Vermont avenue Baptist church. He already expressed his regret for leaving the church of his first love. Every indication shows that he will return to the Vermont avenue Baptist church. This member makes a remarkable statement to the Bee. This member vouches for what appeared in the Bee some time ago and stated it would have been impossible for the pastor and the superintendant to agree, or respond to each other and it was a question whether the pastor or the superintendent went, and to prevent a split at present, Miss Toliver resigned. A lively time is anticipated at the past church meeting and from what the representative of the church stated to the Bee, a change is bound to take place at a meeting of the Baptist ministers. Rev. Taylor denounced The Bee, but, he had no authority to misquote the Baptist Conference or ministers who had under discussion some other matter and not the Florida Avenue Baptist church or the pastor. MASS MEETING. The District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs invites every Woman's Club and the entire public to be present at a mass meeting Sunday, August 6, 1916, at 4 o'clock p.m., at Metropolitan Baptist Church, R street between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets northwest. Mrs. M. W. D. Norman, chairman, Speakers: M. I. N. Ross, Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham, Mrs. M. R. Peterson, Mrs. Susie Robb Sanders, mastor. Rev. W. D. F. Music, W. Frances Emma Watson Club Michaela Smith, Smith, director. Solos Mrs, Lucy Blagburn, Miss Alberta Williams. HOWARD THEATRE Notwithstanding the heat, a large crowd greeted the players at the Howard this week. "The Third Degree" the offering for the closing play of the season, proving to be one of the best yet presented and was, highly appreciated. The story-hinges on the methods of, the police in obtaining what purports to be a confession to a homicide but what in reality was a suicide. After putting the suspect "Jeffries, Jr." through a seven hour "third degree" he is so influenced by the apparently hypnotic power of the police captain that he repeats the captain's words of confession. He has married a girl beneath his social position, and thereby incurs parental displeasure. The girl is severely snubbed. The proud parents, rather than have their name mixed up with a scandal, refused to publicly help their son, his wife, with untiring patience, implores Richard Brewster a famous lawyer, to take the case and finally wins him over. After digesting various reports, relative to the case, he takes up the defense and clears the boy, but not until the young wife as sumes the guilt of the mother-in-law who wag in the room just before the suicide and for whom the police have been looking. A separation of the young couple is prevented by "Brewster" and they live happy ever after (we sunnose). Mrs. Anderson, as the young wife, showed marked ability as an emotional actress, and if she continues to improve at the same rate will rank with the best actresses on the stage—not confining this to colored. Her delinia of the pictures of despair, new born hope and of determination held the audience in closest sympathy. She is not yet perfect but she typifies the hope that has so long dwelt in the hearts of the colored people of Washington—that we might see our people intelligently interpret the higher classes of plays. Mr. Kirkpatrick as "Brewster" improves with each new performance. His stage demeanor is very good and his portrayal of the character shows that he has the making of an actor of the first rank. Mr. Muse, the Police Captain was as usual very good. He knows his business and always pictures the character he represents with intelligence. Mr. Knorl, one of the home boys made his debut and received his mead of applause on his first appearance. He did not have the opportunity to shine as he no doubt will later. Our other home boy Mr. Lane pleased with his cockney or Irish. All the parts were well taken and contributed to make the play a pleasing performance. The orchestra also played their part well. TRIBUTE TO TROOPERS Representative Walsh Principal Speaker at Services Held in Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. Tribute to the soldiers who died in the fight at Carrizal was paid at a memorial meeting held at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon at 4 P. M. Representative Joseph Walsh of Massachusetts was the principal speaker. Remarks also were made by a number of colored citizens, including Rev. S. P. W. Drew, who arranged for the meeting; Rev. W. H. V. B. Taylor, Rev. Leroy Fraziers, Rev. J. J. Higgs and Rev. W. R. Winston. A musical program was given under the direction of W. N. Brown, choirs from the Third Baptist and Cosmopolitan Baptist churches taking part. Ms. Welch's Address: Mr. Walsh's Address: "Theirs was the spirit of true Americanism," said Representative Walsh in speaking of the men who fell in defense of the United States flag. "Patriotism such as they displayed is a complete answer to those who would libel their countrymen. Their MRS. VICTORIA CLAY HALEY conduct should awaken an appreciation of the devotion of men of that race to our flag. "While, we are all earnest in our hope that war may not a necessary evil, to be endured in order to preserve the rights of our country or its citizens, it is a glorious fact that we have in our midst men who only a few short years ago were in bondage, but who today are showing the path and setting the pace which lead to treest patriotism. "All honor to the heroes of Carrizal, and may the memory of their'unselfish devotion be ever preserved in memory." Honor also was paid the memories of the late B. H. Warner, James H. Winslow, Dr. James H. Lee, Dr. Robert Johnson, Dr. George W. Lee and Dr. Booker T. Washington. HOTEL DALE Following are guests at Hotel Dale Coro May, N. J. Cape May, M. J. K. Alexander, Catherine Madalene Alexander, Catherine Green, Wm. J. Draper, Grant E. Gregor, Zanella Fleming, Manie Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Roland, C. B. Lawrence, Miss K. Harris, J. B. Johnson, Miss Fannie Gross, Dr. Janifer, J. Gray, Mrs. F. A. Harris, N. L. Johnson, Vict. Latimore, all of Philadelphia. Edison H. Gaines, Orange, Va.; Mrs. Willietta Mimms, Mr. J. B. Nelson of New York. Jno. N. Goin, Washington, D. C.; Paul Morris Boston, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holmes, Ardmore, Pa.; Mr. Morris Crabb, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Jas. C. Fraser, Wildwood, N. J.; Wm. C. Price Penelo, N. C. REJECTED BY ALL PARTIES. REJECTED B The Washington Herald, under the caption "Rejected by All Parties" gives this opinion of the movement for national prohibition: The one issue that has made the most noise in Washington in the last two years is not mentioned in the platform of any of the political parties which have held national conventions in the last two weeks. This is prohibition by amending the Federal Constitution. The republican convention last week heard the advocates of this great issue and ignored their arguments. The progressive convention discussed it on the floor for several hours and then rejected it by a vote of 5 to 1. The democratic convention at St. Louis heard but did not heed the admonition of those who want the Constitution amended so as to make the people sober; and last, but not least, the prohibition convention at Indianapolis denounced the plan not an aid to temperance. The delegates to these four conventions were elected by the people in the various Congressional districts, throughout the country, and they represented the political aspirations of the people. This prohibition question has been discussed throughout the country, and it has been insisted here in Washington that the people; regardless of party, demanded such legislation by Congress; but there was no command sent by the people to their party convention for a declaration in favor of national prohibition. UNION COMMUNION SERVICE, DAY, AUGH SUNDAY Union 3:30 p. m. Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. Mt. Gilead, Rev. Thomas Taylor; St. John, Rev. U. B. Johnson; 10th street, Rev. Alexander Willam; Vermont avenue. Rev. Willis; Salem, Rev. L. D. Robinson; Third, Rev. Cushinberry, Acting Pastor. ing Pastor; All pastors and churches are re- quested to take part. S I P. sermon to Jonathan Lodgé N.Y. S. K. of Notice A reception will be tendered to Dr. S. P. W. Drew, at 8 P. M., August 9, in honor of his most valuable work in having Congressman Albert Johnson to introduce a bill in Congress to authorize the government to bring home and bury in Arkansas the colored soil diers. Free dinner will be served at National Negro Congress August 8th, 9th and 10th. Musical program by a choir of 100 voices under the direction of Prof. Wm. Slater of Vermont Avenue Baptist church at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N street between Ninth and Tenth streets. Committee of Arrangements—Rev. E. Williams, chairman; Bishop J. J. Higgs, vice president; Rev. Leroy Frazier, treasurer; Rev. W. R. Winston, secretary. A CARD OF THANKS. A CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. J. Anderson Taylor of 1515 Corcoran street northwest, wife of Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, extends her thanks to her many friends and those of her husband for the surprise tendered by the Baptist Ministers' Conference of this city. Rev. Taylor, who is pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, has been quite ill for ten months or more and he conference of which he is an active member and co-worker, showed its appreciation by tendering this grand surprise. He was when health and strength prevailed one of the most active ministers in the ministry, doing his Master's bidding, holding high the banner of Jesus, and calling souls to Christ. His work was not limited to home but spread over foreign mission fields and his race in general. He has raised thousands of dollars for that cause. But now that he is unable to fill his station in life and mingle with his fellowmen, the ministers, with the assistance of their congregations, members and friends, succeeded in getting together a liberal purse of $5.50 and presented him and his wife for which she heartily thanks the ministers and all who so kindly contributed; also Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson. ANNIE E. TAYLOR. 1515 Corcoran St. N. W. Visitors to The Bee Office. Hon. Isaiah T. Montgomery of Mound Bayou. Miss., alternate delegate to the republican national convention; Mr. Eugene P. Booz, treasurer of the republican committee, third Congressional District of Mississippi, and Mr. Oscar A. Ryce of this city. IN MEMORIAM: In memory of John Gray Bayard Williams of Washington, D. C., who died in his 22nd year, July 31st, 1915 My son gone? Yes, but not forever This is all that can be said; They have laid him on the hill top In the "City of the Dead." God's will be done at all times, In Heaven and on Earth; Mundane dissolution— Initiate Celestial Birth. WEST WASHINGTON. Death of Miss Arabella Beason. Funeral services were held over the remains of Miss Arabella Beason, whose death occurred Thursday, July 27, 1916, at the home of her sister. Mrs. Olie Green, Jessup, Md., where she was residing in the hope of recovery. The funeral was largely attended. She was a kindergarten teacher of the public school of whom representatives of the kindergarten club the Teachers Benefit and Annuity Association was present. Miss Violet Ferguson read the resolutions from the church class, No. 7. Miss Virginia V. Williams sang a solo with great sympathy of feeling and impression. Rev. D. De Witt Turpain delivered a very eloquent eulogy, "Blessed Are They Die in the Lord," in a beautiful description of the eagle soaring aloft. He contrasted the deceased as sailing up into the portals of glory. Rev. M. W. Clair. Rev. J. N. Beaman and Rev. J. Barnett assisted in the ceremony. Many floral offerings were presented Among them were from Washington Kindergarten Club, The Teachers Benefit Association and Class No. 7, and Sunday School. The pallbearers were W. W. Walker, Wm. Andrick, S. B. Brown E. Jasper, H. U. Bell and F. Johnson. Interment in Mt. Zion Cemetery, A. James & Bro. funeral directors. The improvement of the Odd Fellow Home, a beautiful site on Dumbarton avenue, and Twenty-eight street northwest, is now nearing completion and is attracting much attention. The members are heartily supporting the committee who expect to have it thoroughly completed and occupied before the meeting of the B. M. C. gathering in September, for which extensive preparations are being made by the Order of the District. Mr. James Coleman is the general chairman. Rev. Charles Conner will have charge of the services at First Baptist Church, Dumbarton avenue northwest, Sunday during the day and will administer the Holy Communion at 8 o'clock. The congregation of Mt. Zion M. E. Church is to be favored with a sermon at 11 o'clock by Rev. Conner September 20, 1916, during the vacation of Rev. Turpean. Rev. Jas. Garefield, the newly elected pastor of the First Baptist Church, was installed on Monday evening with interesting exercises. Rev. Davis of Orange, Va., delivered the sermon. Rev. J. I. Loving was the master of ceremonies. Many visiting ministers. Refreshments were served at the close of the exercises by a committee of ladies of the church. Personal. Rev. W. W. Gaines and Mr. Charles Beason of Charlestown, W. Va. were visitors here this week. The funeral of Miss Ester L. Turner, whose death occurred Sunday, July 30, 1916, took place Wednesday afternoon from Ebenezer, A. M. E. Church, O street northwest, and was largely attended. Miss Turner was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turner, a devoted grand daughter of Mr. Jas. L. Turner, our correspondent. Many floral offerings, among them presented was a large cluster of roses. Resolutions were read by Miss Estella Herod and L. Coates, a poem by Miss Daisy Smith and solo by Mrs. Mamie Woody. Rev. W. O. Green delivered a very touching, and strong appeal to the many young people present. She was a member of the Sunday Schol and choir, who attended the services. Interment in Union Cemetery, Conduit Road. Prof. J. D. Baltimore, and his wife, Mrs. Jeannette E., left the city for Opequar, Va., where they will spend several weeks and from there they will go to Atlantic City and wind up in Saratoga, N. Y. Dr. J. E. Shepard, Prof. W. G. Pearson and J. S. Spaulding of Durham, N. C., will pass through this city next enroute for Saratoga, N. Y. A. W. Scott, Esq., was entertained by the Elks of Philadelphia, Pa., last week, where he was visiting. SMART SET. Contrary to reports the Smart Set Co. headed by Whitney and Thutt the well known comedians, will go on tour the coming season opening early in September. Many features will be added, and the play rewritten, while a complete change in the management has been made, J. Martin Free having severed his connection with the Smart Set, and has been succeeded by T. L. Corwell who was manager of this company for many seasons, but on account of illness was compelled to not travel last season, while the advance will be in charge of H. D. Collins many seasons, with various colored organizations including Black Path, Dandy Dixie Minstrels, Down in Dixie Minstrels, Jolly John Larkins, and Kelley's Colored 40. RADIO VA DASHES Mr. Peter Dade is indisposed this week and is at home from Bureau of Enragging duties, under care of Dr. Albert Johnson, the popular physician of Alexandria, Va. Miss Pearl Smith, a nurse at Freedman's Hospital, and niece of Mrs. Peter Dade, with other nurses, the Misses Pearl Wallace and Josephine Strother and Miss Coburn, were visitors at the elegant and pleasant home of Mrs. Peter Dade on Tuesday, July 25. They spent a pleasant day, having a lively time, and went home in Mrs. Dade's automobile much delighted with their day's outing. We were sorry to find Mrs. Castor not in her accustomed place at her store, her husband reporting her ill at home. They have a nice business location near Radio. AMUSEMENTS. The Howard Theater will undergo repairs shortly. The Mid City Theater is one of the attractions in the city. The District Employee's benefit association at Green Willow Park, Anacostia, D. C. Saturday, August, 5th. The Oldest Inhabitants at Green Willow Park, Friday, August, 18th. CONVENTIONS Foreign Mission Convention August 27th, at Shaw Baptist. Church, Baltimore, Md. Colored Womens Convention in Baltimore, Md. Aug..8th to 11th. Miss Nora Mader, President. PRINCE GEORGE'S PRINCE GEORGE'S Prof. James F. Armstrong Reappolated—He Defeats All Combinations and Political Deals—List of Teachers Appointed—Special Teachers Appointed. Special to The Bee. Upper Marlborough, Md., August 1, 1916. There was a very important meeting of the Prince George's County Board of Education held here today. Quite a long list of items was passed upon. Among other questions settled, the colored supervisor of colored schools question was finally settled. There were quite a number of applicants, for the supervisorship. Among those applying for the place were: Professor James F. Armstrong, the present supervisor, for re-appointment; Rev. Wn. H. Addison of Fairmount Heights, Md.; Mrs. Samuel Barlow of the District of Columbia, and Mr. George A. Paterson of Fairmount Heights, Md. The school board after giving due and earnest consideration to all the applicants and taking under consideration the faithful service rendered by Prof. James F. Armstrong during the past two years, voted unanimously to reappoint Prof. Armstrong as supervisor, for the next ensuing two years. It goes without saying that the professor was a happy man. When seen by the Bee representative, he said if possible to do so, he shall do more in the interest of the school in the future. The following teachers were appointed to teach in the Prince George's county school, beginning September 14, 1916. The teachers named are advised to notify the supervisor immediately if they will or will not accept appointment. His summer address is Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. The teachers are as follows: Principals of three or more teacher schools: U. Justine Wilkes, M. F. Wigginton and J. E. Diggs. Other principals: Mary C. Briscoe, Mamie B. Mcntosh, George G. Waters, Matilda F. Giscoe, Mae F. Turner, R. Alberta Henry, J. T. Hill, Gertrude Moxley, E. V. Carter, Mabel B. Williams, Emory R. Cole, Goldie Banks, Mary H. Smith, L. Ella Crouse, Wm. Culver, Dr. Wm. L. Watkins, Florence B. Burroughs, Josephine R. Amos, Marion Ray, H. E. Talferaion, Margaret T. Briscoe, Florence Scott, Mamie E. Proctor, Bhandina-Smith, Bessie J. Ray, Mary E. Wallace, M. Anita Berry, Florence L. Moon, Sadie Q. Charity, Mamie L. Brown, Frances M. Gant, Daisy B. Pierce and Edythe C. Wade. Assistant Teachers. Edna A. Lucas, F. M. Hunt, Agnes A. Adams, E. H. Grice, Josephine Bryant Jessio W. Dyson, Ollie R. Kibble, Mamye V. Brown, Estelle Lee, Marie Plummer, Lillian M. Dashield, Cora L. Hawkins and Esther McLendon. Special Industrial Teachers. Hattie DeVille and James A. Campbell New Appointments. Edna A. Lucas, Agnes A. Adains, Mayme V. Brown, Esther McLendon, E. V. Carder, Goldle Banks and B. J. Ray. In conversation with Professor Armstrong, the supervisor, it developed that he is of the opinion that with the force named above working enthusiastically and loyally for the education and proper training of the children in Prince George's County the result will be marvelous. He expressed a desire for the co-operation of all good citizens in the educational work of the Country. RACE CONGRESS Widespread interest is being shown in the proposal made by Rev. Byron Gunner, President of the National Equal Rights League, that the Colored people hold a national race Congress, and get together on their civil and political rights and disabilities. In the tentative call, Rev. Gunner, from Hillburn, N. Y., advises that this get-together meeting be held within 60 days at some central location in the North. The Secretary of the League, William Monroe Trotter, joins in urging the Congress and asks leaders in each community to form Equal Rights committees and arrange meetings to send representation. An exchange of views on the project is invited. The secretary's address, being 27 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. IVY CIEY BEAMS. Sunday School at Trinity Baptist Church was very interesting and largely attended. There was an all-day meeting, this being rally day, with Pastor, Rev E. T. Lewis, in the morning service preaching from the 2nd Corinthians on the subject, "Relationship Between the Church and God." The congregation was highly edified by the delivery of this sermon. At the afternoon 3 o'clock service the rally took place. Rev J. I. Loving preached from 1st Corinthians, on subject "Ownership." Text. "Ye are not your own." Collection fifty-three dollars. There was a fervent spiritual service at night. Pastor Lewis is in the nearts of his people. Mt. Vernon M. E. Church closed their rally last Sunday. A great effort and effective work was done. Dr. Withrow has reason to be proud PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Petomac.) If any one can tell the difference between a porpoise and a whale, I wish they would send the explanation to the Sage. Now look at my two friends Thompson and Singleton, after they have ascended the steps of their respective departments and 'let me have your opinion. To look at them both, I have often imagined that they could start a submarine on the tissue paper order my friend. Singleton is a good entertainer, especial after he has concluded several glasses, not eye glasses because his eyes are perfect, when he is asleep. As president of the Mu-So-Lit Club, he would not exchange for the presidency of the United States. If you don't believe me ask R. Wardy, I will wager a pint of peanuts against a rotten pineapple that R. Wardy would rather be a member of the Mu-So-Lit Club than a fill patron, to Howard Theatre. He must spend lots of money for admission, because he occupies his same two seats whenever he feels like it. My friend Andrew Thomas regards him a liberal patron who never minds walking in whenever he feels like it. The Hiawata compels all of its patron to purchase tickets in advance and don't you forget it, that they are deposited in the box. Speaking of R. $ ^{0} $ Wardy, he refuses to patronize any theatre that he hasn't the privilege of walking in when he feel like it. He has just got a habit of walking pass the ticket receiver whenever he gets ready. He is a handsome figure, he thinks, just watch how he shouts across from his seat in Howard, after the curtain falls and the lights go up. Now, look at me he says, what do you think of me and my new Palm Beach, cut in the latest fashion. Don't you know everybody likes Charlie Hall and Bob Pelham. They are two of the brainst individuals in the Mu-So-Lit Club. I have often wondered why the Mu-So-Lit doesn't give an outing. I wonder why some of the statesmen imagine that they must be consulted. There is to be some stable cleaning at Tuskegee. I would advise my friends to hold their opinion on the recent Moton incident and allow the truth to be told. There is a "nigger" in the wood pile. I don't want to say very much at present; but just wait a few months and you will be satisfied when the truth is told. I never like to discuss the color question but, there is more color prejudice among some colored people than there is among some whites. It will be interesting reading when I tell you the entire story. "All that glitters is not gold." If you don't know, then just watch the next move in the school, it is a toss up between Prof. Hugh M. Brown and Prof. Montgomery. Either will suit me as well as the others. If anybody is the opinion that Lord Fauntier is safe he is mistaken. Exit two more members of the board of Education next year. Their leaving will not prevent the coming changes this year. Dr. Thurston means to have harmony in the schools. Our Normal school, will undergo some changes and take it from me the principle of the colored Normal school will be principle. I told my friend childs that he would play with the fire until he got his fingers burnt. Did you hear my friend Peyton at the Normal school? You missed a treat. This is the last year for the reign of the school ring. My friend Peyton sounded the 1 If you don't think a successor will be named to succeed the present Surgeon-in-Chief of the Freedman Hospital just watch events. Have you ever known of a prediction made by my friend Big Bill Chase that didn't come true? MISSIONARY CONVENTION Jackson, Miss, July 22.—The Mississippi General Missionary Convention which has been in session here during the week, by unanimous vote, withdrew the hand of fellowship from the Rev. E. P. Jones of Vicksburg, and Dr. G. W. Gayles of Greenville, declaring them disorderly and with conduct unbecoming, a gospel minister. Dr. Jones is known the county over as "Mississippi Jones," especially in secret societies where he has labored for a number of years. Last Tuesday Revs. Gayles and Jones led out 18 other ministers from the convention and organized another Baptist State convention. This was in keeping with the spirit exhibited in Chicago last September. In the new organization he was assisted by Dr. R. H. Boyd of Nashville, and C. H. Clarks of the same place. Many of the ministers returned and begged pardon. The Baptists of the state declared that they could not afford to follow Dr. Jones. He had but few followers in his new move. The convention voted to stand by Dr. E. C. Morris and the National Baptist convention. Dr. Joseph A. Booker delivered an address. He is secretary of the Home Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention. Dr. J. B. Green also spoke, as did Dr. Sutton E. Griggs. The next session will be held in Clarksdale. A GREAT DEMONSTRATION. Kansas City, Missouri—T. J. Elliott, the dry goods merchant of Mukogee, Oklahoma, has written to the representatives of the Kansas City Negro Business League, advising that an overland trip will be made from Oklahoma to Kansas City, by some one hundred or more persons in some thirty or more automobiles. All the automobiles, to be used in connection with this trip are owned by Oklahoma business men and their wives. It will be a notable demonstration of negro business success when these breezy Oklahomaans roll into Kansas City in their own motor cars. LOWER CALIFORNIA. Rugged and Barren, It Was Once a Land of Fable and Adventure. Lower California, once a land of fable, romance and thrilling adventure, is one of the most sparsely settled regions of the Mexican republic. It has an area corresponding in size to that of the Atlantic coast peninsula of Florida, but nearly 700 miles more coastline owing to its extreme length of 760 miles. Florida has more than fourteen times as many people. Varying in width from thirty to 150 miles. Lower California is a rugged, barren strip of land, with a mountainous backbone largely of volcanic origin. For nearly 200 years after its discovery by the Spaniards it was thought to be an island. The southern portion of the peninsula has some rain, but the northern section is dry and acid, producing cereals, tobacco, grapes, cassava and sugar, came only after being thoroughly irrigated. The mineral resources are valuable and varied. Gold, silver, lead, copper, salt, gypsum, turquoises, opals and garnets are profitably mined. The silver mines of La Paz were worked by the Jesuits as early as 1700, three years after the famous padre, Salvatierra, established the first permanent Spanish settlement in the land. The magnificent Magdalena bay, on whose protected waters, forty miles long and twelve miles wide, the Pacific fleets of the American navy have conducted their target practice in recent years, was discovered by Francisco de Ulloa in 1539 while on a voyage of exploration seeking the pearls and gold of the "Amazons." Lower California has two capitals—La Ensenada, with a population of 2,000, sixty-five miles by sea from San Diego, Cal., and La Paz, with 5,500 people, many of whom earn a livelihood from the port's pearl fisheries, which are among the most important in the world. In addition to its pearl oysters the waters of Lower California yield sponges, tortoises, sperm and gray back whales, while in the bayous and river months of the east coast many alligators are to be found. GIFT OF THE GAB. Why Stephenson Thought There Was No Power to Equal It. When George Stephenson, the perfector of the locomotive, was visiting the seat of Sir Robert Peel at Drayton on one occasion, says the writer of "Famous British Engineers," there happened he present Dr. Buckland, the scientist, and Sir William Follett, the famous advocate. Stephenson discussed with Dr. Buckland one of his favorite theories as to the formation of coal and, though undoubtedly in the right, was ultimately vanquished by the arguments and oratory of the doctor, who was a better master of tongue fence than himself. Next morning while pondering over his defeat in the solitude of the garden he was accosted by Sir William Follett and considered to that gentleman the story of his failure. Sir William, acquainted with the details of the matter in dispute, agreed to take up the case and soon afterward attacked Dr. Buckland on the subject. A long discussion ensued, in which the man of law completely silenced the man of science, who was at last convicted to own himself vanquished. Sir Robert Peek, highly amused at this example of "tit for tat," then turned to the inventor and inquired, with a laugh: "And what do you say on this matter, Mr. Stephenson?" "Why," he replied. "I will only say this—that of all the powers above and under the earth there seems to me no power equal to the gift of the gab." Never Was "Unian John". Of the objects whose name is derived from the diminutive of John the union jack cannot claim to be one. In the days of chivalry the knights and men-at-arms wore a surcoat, or "jacque," as it was called, bearing the emblem, either of their nationality or of the lord to, whose service they were swop. Gradually the word was transferred to the banner which was carried before the army, and this use of the word still survives today in the name of the British national flag and also that of the small flagpole at the bow of a ship known as the "jackstaff."—London Chronicle. You have two sets of muscles—the outer ones, which you can feel, and the inner ones, which are your lungs, heart, stomach and other internal organs. The outer ones are conveniences for performing actions. The inner ones are your life—the "fate" which makes you happy, or depressed, powerful or weak, useful or the contrary. These inner muscles require training, just like any other muscles, by intelligently directed exercise. Had an Instance "Youth enjoys many things that manhood dislikes." "Oh. I don't know. That's a platitude. Cite an instance." "Well, when I was about sixteen years old I thought that slaying was fun."—Kansas City Journal. Philadelphia's Boast. Philadelphia was the first place and remains the only place in America where a first class battleship can be built and equipped from keel to armor and fifteen inch guns without going beyond a state border for the materials. Philadelphia Ledger. Whoever lives true life will love true love.—Mrs. Browning. HE WHO WROTE IT He Was a Clerk In the Continental Congress When That Immortal Document Was Adopted and Was Also the Finest Writer In the Country. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson, of course; every one knows that. But who held the pen and formed the letters on the great piece of parchment that the members of the Continental congress signed? It is one of the largest official papers in existence—one skim of parchment nearly three feet long and more than two feet wide. The writing is nearly twice the normal size and is unusually handsome and clear. The secretary who was ordered to promulgate the work was Charles Thomson, a man of high character, who had been the principal of a school at New Castle, Del., and an active patriot. The first congress chose him as secretary in 1774, and he held the office until the Continental congress passed out of existence on March 2, 1789. During all those fifteen years it was only on rare occasions that any other hand than his wrote in the journal. in 1775 and 1770 was Timothy Matlack, who died at Holmesburg, Pa., in 1820, when he was ninety-nine years of age. To carry out the order of the congress that the Declaration be proclaimed, Thomson needed more than a score of copies, for he had to send it to every one of the states and to the army. So, to save time, he did not attempt to have any copies written off with the pen, but sent the original draft, which the congress had passed, to the official printer, John Dunlap. The following morning the printed copies were in Thomson's hands. They were printed on one-side of the paper on large sheets eighteen inches long and fourteen and a half inches wide in the form known as broadsides. It was from one of those copies that Philadelphia first heard the Declaration read, and it was one of them that became the official copy, for Thomson had not copied the Declaration even into the journal of the congress before he gave it to the printer; but when he wrote the journal for July 4 he left a blank space for the Declaration, and the next day, with two wafers of red wax; he fastened in the printed broadside. I have said that sometimes an entry was made in the journal of the congress by another hand than Thomson's. The first of those occasions was on June 12, 1775, when Timothy Mattack recorded a resolution to set aside a day for fasting and prayer to avert the desolating calamities that seemed to be impending. Mattack had been appointed a clerk in Thomson's office on May 15, and five days later, on May 20, he wrote out the most important document that the congress had issued up to that time—the commission to George Washington to be commander in chief of the American army. The identification of the penmanship of the commission with that of the entry in the journal and of both with an autograph letter of Mattack's that is among the papers of the Continental congress is certain. Probably there was not at that time a man in the country who was Matlack's equal as a penman. Fortunately, Matlack was still a clerk in Thomson's office when the Declaration of Independence was ordered to be engrassed for final signature, and the task of copying it was assigned to him. He copied from the printed broadside. That is clearly shown by the heading of the broadside, "In Congress, July 4, 1776," which is reproduced in the written Declaration in the same form of lettering. A few years ago some of the officials in the library of congress, who knew that Matlack was the best penman employed by Thomson, made a comparison of General Washington's commission, which was known to have been written by him, with the Declaration. The first peculiar letter in the commission is the capital "N" in New Hampshire, and we find its counterpart in "Nature's" in the second line of the body of the Declaration. The graceful flourish at the top of the "T" in the word "To" in the commission is repeated in the second of the sentences beginning "That" in the Declaration. In the word "offer" in the commission there is a marked peculiarity in the double "f." The first "f" is made like the old fashioned long "s." It appears in the word "effect" in the Declaration then in "suffer" and "sufferable." That is the most noteworthy peculiarity in Matlack's writing. The capital "D" in the commission and in the last line of the Declaration, the capital "E" in the commission and in the word "British" in the Declaration, the whole word "Congress" in both documents—those and other details established beyond a doubt that the writer of the great Declaration was Timothy Matlack. In 1824, when John Quincy Adams was secretary of state, a skilled engraver, William J. Stone, made a copperplate facsimile of the Declaration. That is the only one that has ever been made. It was distributed by order of congress and is familiar to us all. It is a perfect reproduction in every particle of the original document and is a fine specimen, of the engraver's art—Gallard Hunt in Youth's Companion. THE LABORATORY 935 R Street, N. W. The only electrical hair, face and skin culturist in the city. Every electrical appliance that is used in connection with the face, hair and skin may be seen at this school. MOTION PICTURES IN BRAZIL They Have Some Curious Rules in the Theaters That Show Them. South America is fast becoming a paradise for the motion picture theater, but some curious rules prevail. For example, the best motion picture theaters in Rio de Janeiro do not allow patrons to drop in or out at will. A film is advertised to begin at a certain hour of the afternoon or evening. At the appointed time doors are closed, or in most cases a heavy, and highly decorated curtain is dropped, and the show in the auditorium begins its functions. A rather novel arrangement, also noted in other Brazilian cities, is the waiting lobby immediately in front of the entrance proper. After purchasing a ticket the patron enters the lobby or corridor, takes a comfortable seat and waits until the termination of the first section of the play, the time of which may be a few minutes or half an hour. While waiting one may listen to the band of music, which may be heard equally well by those within the lobby or in the audience. At times the crowds become congested and all the lobby seats are occupied. In such cases the ticket seller withholds further admissions, and the crowd remains upon the street, but the brilliant electric lights (if night), and the music of the band continue to swell the number of waiting patrons. The night is the most popular hour for the crowds, as at that time the whole family turns out, and every one who can afford an automobile presses it into service. At one of the best motion pictures in Buenos Aires a writer counted more than 200 machines drawn up in lines awaiting the closing of only an average attraction. The hour was near midnight, and about as much ceremony was observed as if the finest opera company had been the star performers. -Argonaut. A ROMANCE OF BAGDAD. Peculiar Story of Nazim Pasha and ar Armenian Beauty. A remarkable tale of Nazim Pasha the commander in chief of the Turkish armies against Bulgaria in the Balkan war, is told by Sir William Willcocks K. C. M. (1., in an article in Blackwood's Magazine: "After Nazim Pasha became wall of Bagdad there lived in one of the best houses in the place an Armenian girl of eighteen, who was very pretty, very wealthy and an orphan. All the young Armenians in the Turkish empire were eager sulters for her hand, but she would have none of them. The wall invited her to his palace and told her that in her unprotected condition she might get into trouble, but that if she were to marry a countryman of hers in his household she would have both a sterling husband and his own protection. She accepted, but on reaching her home sent the nazim word that she preferred remaining single." "You shall remain single for life! said the wall, and put a cord of soldiers round her house, which prevented her from leaving it. "She escaped to the French convent one day, dressed as a French nun, and the cordon of soldiers moved to her new residence. After some delay she escaped as a French monk, took refuge on Lynch's boat, and sailed for Basra under the British flag. Boats full of soldiers surrounded the steamer at Basra, but the girl ran across the deck; jumped into the Russian consul's boat and took refuge under the Russian flag. The consul saw her safely on to the British India steamer, and she descended at Bashire, in Persia. "Not many months afterward Nazim Pasha himself was deposed and ordered to return to Constantinople. He returned there finally and was, as we all know, murdered by the Young Turks." Milo Was a Glutton. Miló, the famous athlete of ancient Greece, born 520 B. C., was victor at both the Olympic and Pythian games for six times in succession. On one occasion he ran four miles with an ox on his shoulder, killed the animal with a blow of his fist and then ate the entire carcass in one day. 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One year in advance.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....50 Subscription monthly.....20 HIS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE Hon. Charles E. Hughes, republican nominee for the presidency, in his long speech of acceptance, discusses many questions but nowhere in that speech does he refer to the ten millions of loyal blacks in the United States who are oppressed and denied the rights of citizenship. Nowhere in that speech does he refer to his faithful allies who have stood by the republican party from the day that the shackles were taken from their limbs. He deals with every national question of importance, and the Mexican policy of the present administration in particular. He speaks of the massacres of American citizens in Mexico, but passes amnoticed the many hundred colored Americans lynched and burned at the stake under the firmy pretext of outrages upon women. He says nothing of the bloody murder of the American soldiers in the Tenth Cavalry who were led to slaughter by American military blunders. Will Mr. Hughes be as cold towards the colored Americans if he is elected, as he is in his speech of acceptance? What hope, therefore, has the colored American under the next administration should it come into power? Does the record of Mr. Hughes show that he ever considered the claims of the colored voters while governor of New York? The Bee would advise the so-called colored representatives of the race to exact from the republican candidate some kind of promise or consideration. Don't allow the apologists to visit him; don't allow the trimmers to express the wishes of the oppressed and disfranchised colored Americans, but send men whose citizenship must be paramount to that of office seeking. The last republican administration showed a lack of leadership among colored Americans with but one exception. There was but one colored American that was entitled to the claim of leadership, but who has been given no credit or consideration by those who have been benefited and prospered, as long as the party remained in power. This is the hour for the colored American to speak. This is the hour to eliminate all cowardly leadership. Let the trimmer, the apologist and the coward be relegated to political oblivion. If there have been any representatives of the race invited to the councils of the party, The Bee has not been advised, but it does know, that hundreds are waiting to be invited to come to the table, if nothing more than to pick up the crumbs. If there ever was a time for true leadership it is now. President Wilson has an excellent opportunity to set himself right with the colored Americans, if he cares for their votes. In the absence of any reference to the civil and political rights of the colored Americans, in the absence of any condemnation of lynching in any shape by the republican nominee, have made the colored voters suspicious as to the policy of Mr. Hughes towards lynching, should he be elected. In his reference to "woman suffrage," Mr. Hughes is quoted as saying: "I indorse the declaration in the platform in favor of woman suffrage." Why didn't he add: I also condemn the unjustifiable lynching and burning at the stake innocent and unoffending colored Americans who have been loyal to the flag from the days of the American revolution up to the present time! Why couldn't he have said: "I also express sympathy for the cowardly killing of some of the best soldiers in the American army by Mexican bandits." He could have gone further and expressed his gratitude at the readiness of the colored man to enlist in defense of his country, notwithstanding the manner in which he is, and has been, treated. It would seem to The Bee that human rights should have been the basis of his address of acceptance. Just think of it. Ten millions, or more of American citizens passed by unnoticed. President Wilson, show your hand, and let the colored American know where you stand, because this is the hour for an honest expression of convictions and your intentions. SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, FIRE SESSION, H. R. 17, 183. In the House of Representatives, July 27, 1916. Mr. Caraway introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed. A bill to prevent, the enlistment of negroes in the military service of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that hereafter there shall not be enlisted or re-enlisted in the military service of the United State, either in the army or navy, any person of the negro or colored race. Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Thaddens Caroway represents the first district in Congress of Arkansas. Looking through the Congressional Record for his record, The Bee finds that he has none. Just how he secured his election to Congress The Bee must infer that his constituency possessed no more sense than he possesses. It is not known just when this celebrated(?) statesman(?) was elected to Congress to represent such a powerful constituency. Caroway must do something to excite his constituency and to impress the people in his district that he really amounts to something. His first celebrated bill, which will be read at the head of this comment, was offered in the House of Representatives a few days ago, which will be interesting reading to the readers of The Bee. All great(?) legislative measures against colored people have been introduced by would be statesmen. The Bee would suggest to the readers of The Bee to digest what this great(?) statesman means. So far as enlisting colored men for the army is concerned, history shows that they make greater soldiers and better fighters than any white man in the army. History also shows that it was the colored soldiers who won the war of the late rebellion, which has caused the eternal enmity of the southern confederacy, and the development of cowardice on the part of the federal government to protect the colored American in his civil and political rights. Some democrat always "cuts a hog" and embarrasses the rank and file of the democratic party. If every colored man in this country felt like some colored men we know, there would not be a colored American in the army of the United States. The Bee is confident that the time will soon come when every able bodied colored man in this country will be needed and his enemies will be to glad to get him. Certainly there is no colored officer that would make the blunder that was made at Mexico a few weeks ago. Would it not be in order for this modern statesman to have all officers on the order of the late Mr. Boyd examined? Had a colored officer made such a blunder, not only would every colored officer been dismissed, but the entire colored company would have been dismissed. Who is Carway? The Records doesn't show but one thing and that is, an Arkansas democrat without a record. There are men in this country who have been political failures and official nonentities. The Bee has said time and again that under the Roosevelt and Taft administrations there was only two men in office who had any manhood about them, and Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, then auditor for the Navy, was one of them. He was the master of his office and embraced every opportunity to assist the colored clerks and other employees under him, and to the surprise of The Bee, he was the first man to be knocked by blacklegs and "blatherskirts." He never lost an opportunity to assist worthy colored men and women, whether under him or in some other department. No gentleman will attack Mr. Tyler. No man will go to his face and tell him that he is unworthy of consideration. His record, as an official and as a journalist, speaks for itself and his defamers will be looked after at the proper time. DISTRICT NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN. Is it the intention of the national republican committee to take the advice of the republicans who have kept the republican party alive in this city, in the appointment of a national committeeman for the District of Columbia? Just now the field is full of local candidates. Just why ex-Senator Scott of West Virginia should apply for this place, when he has no claims whatever on local republicans and neither has he ever contributed to local politics under any circumstances. The Bee, as well as many of the local republicans, favor the appointment of Mr. John W. Conner, a true blue republican and a man who will be of some value to the republican party and the national committee. Mr. Conner has been of benefit to the party. party. ALL THINK ALIKE Every colored republican in this country has his thoughts, and nineteenth of them think as the editor of The Bee: Where does Mr. Hughes stand on the negro questions, to-wit: Lynching, official recognition in the event of his election, Jim Crowism, and a few other important questions that tend to humiliate the colored American? Let us send a committee to him. MAJOR JAMES E. WALKER Elsewhere in this week's issue of The Bee will be seen a letter from Major James E. Walker to the Editor. No one has any more respect on esteem for this most noble soldier than the editor of this paper and when the editorial was published commenting on the personnel of the committee to arrange for the benefit of the wives and families of the soldiers in the First Separate Battalion, who are manly and loyal enough to leave their wives, sweethearts and babies to protect a country that will not protect them, the editor took exceptions, because the committee contains a number of figure heads and of no benefit to any cause and who never attend meetings of a public character unless they figure above everybody else. Now, if the editor of The Bee's most respected friend will take the trouble to dissect a few members of the committee, he will be convinced that they have never contributed anything to the uplift of this committee but have been an impediment. The Bee merely suggested the names of persons who, indeed, would be a benefit to any cause of the character suggested by the wives of our soldiers. When The Bee named such persons as Rev. Norman, Rev. Jarvis, Rev. Howard, Rev. Garner, Rev. Waldron, Rev. Pope, Rev. Rivers, Rev. Clair, Rev. Clark, Rev. Powell, Rev. Stepteau, F. D. Lee, Mr. Smith and many others who would be of material benefit, it was anxious to see the wives of our soldiers realize some benefit. But because Mrs. A. and B. are wives of Mr. A. and B., who have never been any benefit to the common people or any cause, is the best evidence that the committee should have enlisted a few of the names suggested by The Bee. What has this committee done up to date? Standing around on a dress parade, posing for a beauty show or a movie. All that has been done thus far for the soldiers, and without any movie or being on a dress parade, has been done by our good townman, Mr. Andrew J. Thomas. Not only has he given his theater free of all cost, but he has contributed liberally his money. How many of the committee has contributed one cent out of his own pocket? The editor hopes that his distinguished friend, Major Walker, in whom he has so much confidence and for whom he has so much respect, understands his position: The editor means no reflection on the committee and neither will he impede the progress of such a worthy cause. Mrs. Isabella Jackson and the two Misses Wood of Prince George county, Md., paid a visit to their uncle, Mr. Henry Wood, here last Sunday. They were also entertained by their aunt, Mrs. Susan Terrell, here. Mrs. Terrell is one of the energetic members of Rebecca Circle, and a foremost member of the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Sarah J. Thompson will leave for Atlantic City for a few days' visit on Saturday, the 5th inst. Mrs. Winifred Staunton was taken very ill Sunday and was removed to the Georgetown University Hospital Monday. We wish her a speedy recovery. The North Star Lodge G. U. O. of Sons and Daughters of Liberty will have their annual sermon preached Sunday by Rev. Theodore Williams at First Baptist Church, Rosslyn, Va., pastored by Rev. Wm. A. Carter. Mr. Jesse Flemming, superintendent of First Baptist Sunday School, has organized for annual S. S. rally, first Sunday in September with a boys and girls' contest, with all the men of the church on the boys' side, and all the ladies of the church on the girls' side. A lively campaign is now on. Who's going to take the prize? That is the question. Bro. Flemming says the boys must win. Well, there's the great Rebecca Circle to go up against. Bro. superintendent. "CHARGE OF THE TENTH CAVALRY." To The Bee, July 31st, 1916. (A tribute to the officers and troopers of the famous Tenth Cavalry U. S. A., who fell in battle at Carrizal, Mexico, June, 1916) Beyond our border line went forth with pride, Black troopers brave, beneath their flag unfurf'd; Unheedful of the dangers lurking round, Unmindful save of duty 'neath its curls. Led on by Captain, gallant in command, And followed ne'er the less by gallant souls; Received firm orders, onward where to go, And ONWARD went, tho' hell oppress'd their blows. Across the misty plains, dusk-hidden, gone, Beyond horizon thick of cactus bril'er; O'er hill and dale, cross endless empty streams, They bravely plodded on, to do or die. "Halt, Men!" rang out upon the evening air, "The enemy, the enemy is there;" Pointing beyond, they paused with silent stare, Their time was come to venture and to dare. And dare they did aft' parlance brief and curt, With rare determination they deed; Charged on with vengeance beaming from their eyes, Into a trap of death where bleeding, died. With song upon their lips (tense drawn before), And laughter bold (as on a "skylak" gay). These black boys fought like demons in a cage, To keep "Old Glory" floating thro' the fray. Brave captain and his "aide" soon felt the blow Of lead, fast shower'd o' their ranks from foe, With vile effect and wounded there they fell, Yea, one by one, and two by two, and more. Tho' perch'd not vict'ry on their un-crown'd head, Surely From duty's path tho' leading to the grave. Heroes, today! Thou brave "Tenth Cavalry." With Captain "game," now sleeping "neath the sod; Let glory be, where glory's want to go As glory did, where gallant souls have trod *Mrs. Gertrude Moore, of Chicago, Ill., who is a guest of Lawyer and Mrs. G. W. Milford at 471 Florida avenue northwest, is visiting the national capital for a week before going to the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs at Baltimore. Md. She will return home, visiting Philadelphia, Atlantic City, New York city, Providence, Boston and Detroit en route. REV. NORMAN. The largest congregation that has ever been in the Metropolitan Baptist Church greeted Rev. M. W. D. Norman last Sunday morning. It was one of the greatest sermons that has ever been delivered by this well-known pulpit orator and lecturer. Standing room was at a premium. BLADENSBURG ROAD, D. C., RAYS. At Nash Memorial Bathschool School last Sunday, July 30, the Cradle Roll Department, under the wife of the pastor of the church, Mrs. L. A. Warner, with only five little "cradles" the banner for the largest collection of the classes, bringing up for report one dollar. The pastor himself had the largest class in school and thought because of numbers his class would keep the banner. But the little ones took it away from him, so Pastor Carter says, "Wherefore let him that thinkketh he standdeth take heed lest he fall." Hurrah! for the Cradle Roll Department. The pastor's class brought in seventy-five cents, and the third class thirty or more cents. On the 10th of this month the S. S. will go to Lincoln Park, Maryland; also the church will accompany them. Everything will be nicely conducted out there. Lawyer T. J. Calloway and other prominent speakers will address the assembly that day. The little fellows are happy in anticipation of their outing. ARLINGTON, VA., POINTS. The regular Sunday morning services at Mt. Olive Baptist Church were well attended. The sermon by Rev. Lee was inspiring, and the singing good, a good many visitors being in the congregation. The church is preparing to receive the Baptist Ministers' Council of the District of Columbia and vicinity who will hold their closing session of the season here on Monday, August 7. The Sunday School was well attended and all enjoyed a feast of Foreign Mission Convention 20TH ANNUAL MEETING OF LOTT CAREY BAPTIST FOR EIGN MISSION CONVENTION. Will convene at Sharon Baptist Church of Baltimore, Stricker and Presstman streets, N. W. Baltimore, August 27th, 10 A. M., Wednesday before first Sunday in September, 1916. Because of the high cost of living, delegates will be charged $1.00 per day paid when they register, and assigned homes by cards where they will stop during the Convention's session. The dollar will include meals served at the church and pay for lodging. The indications are that more delegates will be present than at any previous annual meeting of the Convention. The pastor, officers and members will do everything they can to make the delegates stay while in Baltimore pleasant. Delegates will add to their comfort by informing the pastor they will attend the Convention, on or before August 20th, 1916. Address the pastor, Rev. W. M. Alexander, D. D., 1625 Druit Hill Avenue, Baltimore, S. J. Mosby, church clerk. "WHERE YOUR PATRONAGE IS APPRECIATED" BOARD'S DRUG STORE 1912% 14th STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. THAT'S THE PLACE QUALITY SERVICE SATISFACTION Mrs. Pearl M. Fields and Miss Maggie Thomas were elected delegates to the Northern Virginia Baptist Sunday School Convention which will hold the annual session at the Fortax Theological Seminary the day and Friday, August 3rd and 4th. Preparations are now under way for the 6th annual Sunday School picnic by the Arlington Baptist S. S. Union, the latter part of August. Sunday July 30 was Memorial Day at M. Olive at which time the members rendered their tribute of love and esteem to the noble veterans who have passed to their great reward, during the 40 years existence of this church. The services were under the supervision of the Deacon Board, Rev. A. H. Holmes, Wm. Jackson, Chaywood Holmes, A. Green, Arthur Spence, Festus Pollard, and James Hart, Rev. J. H. Lee, Pastor. Misses Emma Holmes, Virgie Pollard, and Edith Holmes who are visiting the city, spent last Wednesday Evening with their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ball. FALLS CHURCH, VA., NOTES: Mrs. F. E. Summerall, now of Pittsfield, Mass., is well and likes her new field of labor very much. She wishes to be remembered to her many friends. Rev. Geo. D. Young, pastor of Galloway M. E. Chapel here, is seriously ill at Freedman's Hospital. His flock and many friends pray for his recovery. Mrs. R. W. Stribbling will spend a vacational period at her-old home at Staunton, Va. May she have a pleasant stay. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ford and Mrs. M. J. Richards were Sunday visitors to Washington, D. C., last Sunday. They attended Rev. M. W. D. Norman's church and heard a splendid sermon delivered by this noted pastor. Mrs. Annie Morton of Washington, D. C., and Miss Myrtle Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio, spent the day Monday, July 31, with Mrs. Bessie Rummells. Mrs. Morton is an aunt, and Miss Johnson a cousin of Mrs. Rummells, who is now recovering from a severe illness of two weeks. She is under the care of Dr. Grey. The parsonage committee of Galloway M. E. Church gave a lawn party at Mr. Geo. Hunter's Tuesday night last. A pleasant evening. Mr. Lewis Jackson of Fairfax Courthouse, Va., made a flying trip to Falls Church, Va., and Washington, D. C., in the interest of the Odd Fellows' Lodge of Fairfax Courthouse. Mrs. Jennie Miller is on the sick list; also Mr. Bunn Lee's little daughter, Beatrice. Mrs. Lena V. Dixon addressed Eureka Lodge, G. U. O. of O. F., No. 9,601, at Clifton Va., on July 15. This was the first anniversary of the lodge and a successful meeting. A Household under name of "Star of Hope." No. 4,552, was established here with thirty-three members: Mrs. Dixon's subject was "Great Importance of Fraternal Organizations to a Community." She is Deputy Supervisor of the Northern Virginia district for the Household. Rev. G. W. Powell, D.D., pastor of Second Baptist Church here, and about twenty of his church members attended the great S. S. rally at Mt. Salvation Baptist Church, Hall's Hill, Va., last Sunday where Rev. Powell preached. The Chesterbrook Church choir rendered the music. It was a boys' and girls' contest, and the amount raised was one hundred and twenty-five. dollars, twenty-five. cents. The boys raised $52, and some cents, and the girls $73 and some cents. The meeting, was largely attended. W S JUSTH. Everybody gets a square deal and full value for every dollar spent, in this store. A man in moderate circumstancees appreciates this, and that's the class of trade we have; they must make the cash buy most, and some buy a good grade, slightly used suit low as $5; some pay more. MID CITY THEATER. The pictures-at the Mid City Theater this week were up-to-date and entertaining. It is to see so many remarkable cars on the outside of the theater while mothers and nurses are able to enjoy the pictures unmolested. This is an evidence of the family character of this amusement house which is considered one of the finest in this city. The pictures shown at this theater are not seen in any other house in this city. Mr. Sherman Mason is the preacher. Take your children and your hobbies to the mild summer theater. MANAGER MASON Leaves for New York This Week. Mr. Sherman Mosse, the interim- manager of the Old City Theater, will leave for New York City next week to attend the marriage of his niece Miss Alma Towns, to Mr. Arthur Jones. The marriage will take place Tuesday, August 15th, at 453 Lenox avenue. Join the Royal Knights of King David. SUMMER BOARDERS. ROCK PIONT. Wanted—A few children to board for the summer from 4 to 12 years of age. Location near salt water; terms reasonable. Apply to Mrs. Rosetta Bell, Rock Point, Prince Geo. Co., Md. The Grand Colored Boarding House at Shady Side. This beautiful place is situated near the Chesapeake Bay, where fine bathing, fishing and all other pleasures can be had. The Dennis House can be easily reached by steamer, or the "The Steamer Shady Side" which makes two trips a day from Annapolis, Md. Rates $6.00 per week for adults, and children accordin to age. For further information, write to MRS. JOSHUA M. DENNIS, Shady Side P. O., A. C. Co., Md. WARE'S DEPARTMENT STORE Religious Badges, all kinds of secret and benevolent order. Emblems, etc. Any kind of badge made to order. Y. N. 00E Call and inspect our new line of shoes for ladies, gentlemen and children. Men's goods in all styles. Straw hats. Ladies underwear. 1832 14th st. N.W. The Week in Society Jastic City. Bishop Alexander Walters, senior prelate of the A. M. E. Zion Church, is recovering from illness due to overwork. He has received messages from all over the country. Mrs. Peggy Lee of Augusta, Ga., was entertained by Miss Ruth Berry while in this city. Mr. J. Clifford was seen on the board walk in Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. John Cheek of this city spent the week-end in Philadelphia, the guests of their sister, Mrs. Fields. Mr. Leonard Dabney is spending the summer at North Hatley, Quebec, and before his return to this city will visit Montreal, Canada, Boston and New York. Mrs. Mary McKenney Cooper and baby son left to spend a few weeks in the country with relatives and friends. Miss Blanche Beane of 603 Y street northwest entertained the following friends Friday, July 28; Misses Corolyne Wilson, Rachel Tolson, Lillian Davis and Marle Osman, Messra, S. Savoy, James Braton, Tolson, Clarence Holmes and Mr. and Mrs. Will Walters. Mrs. Anna Green, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Clara Lee, of 1757 S street northwest, left with her little daughter, Rena, for Detroit, Mich., Friday. Rev. B. F. Jackson left the city Saturday, July 29, for Baltimore, Md., where he remained till Wednesday, then he left for Pittsburgh, Pa. Rev. Peter Arter will leave for Osage, Va., next month where he is booked for several sermons. THE DISTRICT EMPLOYES' H Will Give FIFTH ANNUAL At GREEN WILLOW PARK Saturday, August 5, 1916 The Committee Desires to State Tha Plans to Make This Picnic On of the Sea COMMITTEE ON AR W. J. Smith, Chairman; J. Mitchel F. Webster, E. C. Allen, J. Hui Jos. A. Jackson, A. Willson, W. Music by the Monumental Orchestra Admission 15 Cents In Case of Rain, Ne $3 to the Person Selling 100 or $2 to the Person Selling the Ne $1 to the Person Selling the Ne OFFICE President, A. T. Lewis; Vice President Secretary, J. A. Jackson; Record Assistant Recording Secretary, Hurd; Sergenat-at-arms, E. W. J. Sm A-la-Carte by a popular caterer. Music by the MONUME PROF CHAS ADMISSION 25 CENTS, Children GATES DANCING U Warm weather suggests cold, fruity sundaes, ice cream sodas and other delicious cold beverages, and these suggest Board's Drug Store at 1912% Fourteenth street, the ever popular place "where everybody meets everybody else," for the best quality of these healthful warm weather comforts Mr. George G. Jenkins, Jr., of 1910 Fifteenth street, spent several days in Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Aline Sheffey, daughter of Mrs. Laura A. Sheffey of Oakdale street, Le Droif Park, has returned to the family home after a delightful scholastic year. Miss Sheffey ranks as one of the most efficient public school teachers of New Jersey. school. Mr. Wilson Gray of the Treasury Department spent Sunday at Bennings, D. C., with his cousin, Mr. Robeniks. ert B. Jenkins Mr. W. A. Brown, president of the "Chanticleers," is spending the sum- mer at Spring Lake, N. J. mer at Mrs. Margurite Lacey, the popular June bride, is spending the summer with relatives and friends at her home fleton, Va. Mr. Samuel P. Dickerson is now spending his vacation with his family at 922 Tea street northwest. Mr. Daniel Rollins of 46 L street northwest is out again after being under an operation at Garfield Hospitl pital. Miss Theresita Childs of Richmond, Va., is spending several days in Washington, the guest of Miss E. C. Jack- Hoffman's Band made a big success at Eureka Park last Monday evening at their annual Summer night Festival. Mr. G. Henry Lewis will introduce New York's latest dance craze, "The Paw Waw," at the Wizard's Carnival, Eureka Park, August ninth, with two orchestras. locat Mr. Montgomery Gregory is visiting Newark, N. J. Miss Carolyn Williams of Uniontown, Ala., is spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. C. W. Banton, st. 1826. Eleventh street northwest. Prof. J. Henry Lewis is at Ridley Hotel in Atlantic City, N. J., having motored there from his farm at Colonial Beach, Va. Rev. C. H. Stepteau is to preach Sunday afternoon at Paradise Grove, Md. Mrs. Bernard L. Bowen and family of this city stopped for a while at Cumberland, en route to Chicago, Ill. Miss Lucile Evans, who has been the guest of Mrs. and Miss Myers of Phoebus, Va., has returned to the city. The Tri-State Dental Convention met and adjourned at Hampton, Va. One feature of the year's meeting was the conferring of life membership to Dr. A. J. Gwathney of this city. The same officers were retained for the next ensuing year, which are Dr. Ferguson, president, Richmond, Va..; Dr. Wormley of this city, second vice president. president. Mrs. Leon Wormley and little daughter. Elizabeth, are spending the week-end in Baltimore as the guests of Mrs. Ada Butler of Druid Hill avenue. Mrs. C. M. Webber of Columbus, S. C., is in the city; she expects to remain two weeks. Mrs. Wm. Williams of this city is visiting her parents in Atlanta, Ga. Already she has been entertained by several of her girlhood friends. several of her business. Mrs. Joseph Lee of Boston. Mass. is spending the summer in this city with her mother. Miss Jeannette Carter is in New York city on business. Rev. J. W. Pope, acting pastor of Second Baptist Church, was indisposed last week. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund F. Snyder, who have been visiting friends in this city, have returned to their home in Boston. Mass. Mrs. Dolly Smith Jennings and daughter, Dorothy Vaughn, of Chicago, H. is visiting in this city. Miss Theresita B. Chiles of Richmond, Va., is the guest of friends in this city. Mrs. J. B. Loftiens and little daughter. Ruthie, have gone to North Carolina to spend the summer. Mrs. Wilbur Huskins of this city made a flying trip to Asbury Park. N.J. N. J. Mrs. Nelson Freeman of this city arrived last Sunday in Bay Shore, L. 1. Mrs. John Jones of Jersey City, N. J., gave a luncheon in honor of her cousins, Rev. and Mrs. Walter H. Brooks, of this city, while they were waiting there. visiting the Mrs. Cleo Davis Walker of Cleveland. Ohio, has returned to the city after a pleasant visit in this city. Mrs. Marshall, of this city, who is visiting in Cleveland, Ohio, was entertained by Mrs. J. E. Trimble of Detroit avenue last Friday. Detroit. Mr. John C. Dancy will soon have from the press his new book, "The Life of J. C. Price." Dr. Macontosh, of Chattnooga, Tenn., who has been taking a post course at the Freedman's Hospital, made a flying visit to Philadelphia. He was entertained by a number of friends while there. Mr. Bismark Pinchback is expected to attend the Daffodils Dance in At- Miss Eva A. Chase, accompanied by Miss Rachel Bell, left the city last week for Tye River, Va., to sojourn until September on the farm of Atty, N. T. Goldsberg and wife, Mrs. Lulie S. Chase Goldsberg, sister of Miss Eva A. Chase. Mrs. L. B. Spriggs of 1748 Oregon avenue has left the city to visit her son, daughter and grandson who are in the Navy Station at Newport, R. I. She will return in September. Rev. M. D. Willis, D.D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fairmount, W. Va., is in the city for a few days. Rev. Willis is well known throughout West Virginia, being a member of the executive board, ex-president of the Bible School convention; and vice president of the Mt. Zion Baptist Association. He is contemplating building a beautiful home in Deanwood, D. C. At GREEN WILLOW PARK, ANACOSTIA, D. C. Saturday, August 5, 1916 Gates Open 3 to 12 P. M. The Committee Desires to State That They Have Made Elaborate Plans to Make This Picnic One of the Most Enjoyable of the Season W. J. Smith, Chairman; J. Mitchell, V. Chairman; H. Goodrich, F. Webster, E. C. Allen, J. Hurd, J. Dugan, C. B. Amos, Jos. A. Jackson, A. Willson, Wm. Coleman, J. H. Butler Music by the Monumental Orchestra, Prof Charles Hamilton, Dir. Admission 15 Cents REFRESHMENTS President, A. T. Lewis; Vice President, W. F. Honesty; Financial Secretary, J. A. Jackson; Recording Secretary; E. Wingard; Assistant Recording Secretary, R. Hughes; Chaplain, J. Hurd; Sergenat-at-arms, E. W. Jones; Treasurer, W. J. Smith Fourth Annual Picnic Given by the OLDEST INHABITANTS ASSOCIATION Of Washington, D. C., (Colored) AT GREEN WILLOW PARK, Anacostia, D. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18TH, 1916 Every effort will be made for the W. A. Prater, Chairma enjoyment of all. Cox, Secretary; J. Shepard; Levi Collins; Dennis Tinney, Chas. Boston, J. W. Taylor, D. L Bruce, Perry R. cas, J. R. Bell, H. L. Williamson, C. W. Cri ters, Harry Neal, R. Harry Prater, J. T. Payne, Dr. C. S. Wor Stewart, J. Ed. Hall, Maitre de Danse, Ge Come early and spend the day and evening. Swings, Croquet and other amusements FREE OF CHARGE. A-la-Carte by a popular caterer. son. Music by the MONUMENTAL ORCHESTRA, PROF CHAS. HAMILTON, Dir. ADMISSION 25 CENTS, Children Under Twelve Years, Ten Cents GATES OPEN 2 P. M. DANCING UNTIL 11:30 P. M. MID CITY THEATER. "SHADOWED. BY THE DEVIL." The first and only three-reel feature drama in the history of moving pictures enacted entirely by colored cast. The story is based on three entirely different characters. Never has been anything like this show in D. C. AUGUST 8th and 9th. The 18th B. M. C., Fifth bi-annual session of the Grand Household of Ruth, Past Grand Master's Council and Grand Patriarchio of the great United Order of Odd Pellows of America. The committee will present the picture B. M. C. of 1914 meeting in Boston on August 10th. Half of the receipts goes to the committee. Adults 10c, children under 12 years, 5c. Mrs. Leo P. Hawkins and her four children have just returned to the city after a pleasant stay in Charlottesville, Va. They were the guests of Mrs. Frank Jackson... Rev. J. A. Taylor, D.D., pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, is still quite ill at his home, 1515 Corcoran street northwest. Joseph Settlers of 403 E street northeast is very ill at his home. Mrs Clara Carter will leave the city soon for her summer vacation which she expects to spend in Asbury Park, N. J. Mr. D. Hughes of New York passed through the city enroute to Florida, while in the city he was the guest of Mr. Geo. A. Carter. Mrs. M. W. King formerly of this city but now a resident of Los Angeles, Cal., was in the city this week. Miss Lou Smith a teacher of the public school is spending her vacation in Hampton, Va. Little Marselle Drew the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Drew who has been quite ill for several weeks with typhoid fever, has improved to such an extent that her attending physician, Dr. S. M. Pierre, has hopes of her recovery. The Fifth Separate Battalion Relief Association will announce, "Pay Day" August 17th, for the benefit of the families of the soldiers. Mrs. Sadie F. Boyde, Chairman. Prof. James F. Armstrong was in the city last week on important business, having taken a vacation for two days from the Pennsylvania University, where he is pursuing special duties. Mrs. Mary Jones, of 1901 Vermont avenue, will go to Atlantic City either today or next week to remain some time. From there she will visit her daughter, Mrs. Georgia Tucker, who will join her husband in New York City, where he is in the law business. Mrs. N. B. Hightower, sister of the Thomas brothers, is now at 1107 W. Ashly street, Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Georgia Tucker and little daughter and grand child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Jones will leave for New York city today to join her husband who is in New York city. Miss Ruth Moon is a very prepossessing lady of Pasadena, Cal.; she is visiting Miss Clarice Jones at ANNUAL PICNIC PARK, ANACOSTIA, D. C. Gates Open 3 to 12 P. M. That They Have Made Elaborate One of the Most Enjoyable Season ARRANGEMENTS Mitehell, V. Chairman; H. Goodrich, H. Hurd, J. Dugan, C.B. Amos, Wm. Coleman, J. H. Butler Instra, Prof Charles Hamilton, Dir. REFRESHMENTS Next Open Date 10 or more Tickets Next Highest Number Next Highest Number FICERS: President, W. F. Honesty; Financial Recording Secretary; E. Wingard; Tary, R. Hughes; Chaplain, J. Bis, E. W. Jones; Treasurer, F. Smith V. A. Prater, Chairman; Thos. W. Cox, Secretary; J. A. Payne, J. Shepard, Levl Collins, T. W. Short, Dennis Tinney, Chas. Pierce, A. F. Boston, J. W. Taylor, A. L. Brown, D. L Bruce, Perry Riley, G. B. Lucas, J. R. Bell, H. L. Ross, H. D. Williamson, C. W. Cropp, R. B. Peters, Harry Neal, R. H. Wells, J. Harry Prater, J. T. Turner, S. Payne, Dr. C. S. Wormley, Geo. W. Stewart, J. Ed. Hall, John Atkinson, Maitre de Danse, Geo. Q. Griffith Col. Arthur Brooks, Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, Judge Robt. Terrell, W. Calvin Chase, Chas. E. Brooks, Sec Stannard, Robt. Brown, Irving Jackson DUMENTAL ORCHESTRA, BAS. HAMILTON, Dir. Children Under Twelve Years, Ten Cents TES OPEN 2 P. M. NG UNTIL 11:30 P. M. THE HOWARD THEATRE 7th and Tea Street, N. W. Andrew J. Thomas Co. Prop. EXTRAORDINARY: Our good Shoe for the three weeks as first day Geek August Quality Amusement Presents GHOST BREAK By PAUL DICKEY CHARACTERS Andrew W. Bishop II. L. Pryor el, Geo. E. Brown ing Prince, Chas. Taylor Walter Robinson S. Hudfield Geo. Vincent Rusty Snow, Jarv Don Robledo, Soldi Hotel Porter Dolores, the Innke Nita, the Princess Gasper SNYOPS1S Manhattan Hotel; N. Y. 5 o'Clock A; M. Hard the Lusitania, the same morning. Segura, Spain. Even-ing. The Same Night. DIRECTORA. C. WINN QUAL MATINEES: TUES., THURS., S PLAYS WILL RUN AT 8 O'CLOCK E DERFUL PHOTOPLAYS. SUMMER PRICES, 10c., 15c.; 25c. Real Knights David State Fraternal Organization ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY: Our good Shows will continue each week and we will not close for the three weaks as first announced. Week August 7 "The GHOST BREAKER" Princess Marie Theresa of Aragon, Warren Jarvis of Kentucky...Andrew W. L. Carlos, Duke of Alva...H. L. House Detective, Manhattan Hotel, Geo. E. L. Mardoo, Messenger to the Missing Prince, Chas. T. Pedro. the Innkeeper...Walter Ro- Maximo...S. H. Steward.on the Lusitania...Geo. V. ACT 1.—A room in the Manhattan H. ACT 2.—A Cabin on Board the Lusit ACT 3.—An Old Tavern, Segura, Spa ACT 4.—The Castle. The Same Nigh DR. USUAL MATH OUR SPECIAL PHOTOPLAYS WI AND ENJOY THESE WONDERFUL SUMMER The Royal Knights of King D NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS CAN DUPLICA- ZATION IS 20 YEARS, AND USUALLY —THEN THE INEVITABLE FAILURE. B AFFECTED BY SUCH INFLUENCES, AND OF LIFE, ITS STABILITY AND RELIABIL Princess Marie Theresa of Aragon, Warren Jarvis of Kentueky...Andrew W. Bishop Carlos, Duke of Alva.....H. L. Pryor House Detective, Manhattan Hotel, Geo. E. Brown Mardoo, Messenger to the Missing Prince, Pedro, the Innkeeper . . . Walter Robinson Nita, the Princess' Maid . . . Mattie Wikes Maximo . . . S. Hudfield Gasper . . . Fred Moore Steward on the Lusitania . . . Geo. Vincent SNYOPSIS ACT 1.—A room in the Manhattan Hotel; N. Y. 5 o'Clock A. M. ACT 2.—A Cabin on Board the Lusitania, the same morning. ACT 3.—An Old Tavern, Segura, Spain. Even-ing. ACT 4.—The Castle. The Same Night. DIRECTORA. C. WINN USUAL MATINEES: TUES., THURS., SAT. OUR SPECIAL PHOTOPLAYS WILL RUN AT 8 O'CLOCK EACH NIGHT. COME EARLY AND ENJOY THESE WONDERFUL PHOTOPLAYS. The Royal Knights of King David B OF KING DAVID HAS AN UNBLEMISHED ON DUPLICATE THIS RECORD. THE USE USUALLY IT IS 20 YEARS OF INTERNAL FAILURE. BUT THE ROYAL KNIGHTS OF ENCIES, AND TO THEIR UTTER ABSENCE AND RELIABILITY. INTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS IS, AFTER ALL, FINANCIAL POLICY OF THE ROYAL KNIGHTS OF ENCIES, WITH THE RESULT THAT IT HAS NO CASH IS ON DEPOSIT WITH INSURANCE. EVENTUALLY— OF THE LODGES NOW, BEING ORGANIZED WHY NOT NOW? ERS OR RELIABLE LODGE WORKERS ARE PARSON or H. Ed Scribe 124 D, D. C. MEMBERS WANTED THE ROYAL KNIGHTS OF KING DAVID HAS AN UNBLEMISHED RECORD OF 33 YEARS. Few NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS CAN DUPLICATE THIS RECORD. THE USUAL LIFE OF A NEGRO ORGANIZATION IS 20 YEARS, AND USUALLY IT IS 20 YEARS OF INTERNAL STRIFE AND MISMANAGEMENT —THEN THE INEVITABLE FAILURE. BUT THE ROYAL KNIGHTS OF KING DAVID HAS NEVER BEEN AFFECTED BY SUCH INFLUENCES, AND TO THEIR UTTER ABSENCE IT OWES ITS UNUSUAL LENGTH OF LIFE. ITS STABILITY AND RELIABILITY. RELIABILITY OF FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS IS, AFTER ALL, A QUESTION OF SOUND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. THE FINANCIAL POLICY OF THE ROYAL KNIGHTS OF KING DAVID HAS BEEN SAFE, SOUND AND SANE, WITH THE RESULT THAT IT HAS ACCUMULATED THE RESOURCES OF $25,000, OF WHICH $10,000 CASH IS ON DEPOSIT WITH INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS. RELIABILITY OF FRATERNAL ORG CIAL MANAGEMENT. THE FINA NCIAN BEEN SAFE, SOUND AND SANE, WITH OF $25,000, OF WHICH $10,000 CASH IS O YOU WILL JOIN ONE OF THE LO PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS OR RE WITH W. G. PEARSON PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS OR RELIABLE LODGE WORKERS ARE INVITED TO CORRESPOND WITH Supreme Grand Scribe Washington, D. C. MISS ADAMS RETURNS Miss Agnes A. Adams the newly appointed teacher in the Fairmount --- A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS Old Reliable 1901 Vermont ave northwest Miss Clarice Jones who has been in the city since the closing of the school, continues to be a musical attraction. Miss Kate B. Chase is to be married to Mr. Carl Speigler next week. Third Anniversary. Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. George J. Benjamin, Jr. of 1014 Rhode Island Ave. N. W. celebrated their third anniversary wedding Monday evening July 24, 1916. They received many beautiful gifts and congratulations. Among those present were Miss Cliffie Hill; Mrs. Carrie Lomax; Mr. and Mrs. Haywood. HOFFMAN BAND. More than 3,000 people attended the Summertnight's Festival given by the Hoffman Band at Eureka Park Monday night. The festival is given an- By PAUL DICKEY & CHARLES W. GODDARD CHARACTERS Miss Inez Clough Bishop Rusty Snow, Jarvis' Servant.....Will A. Cook Pryor Don Robledo, Soldier of Fortune; J. Francis Mores Brown Hotel Porter .....Fred Cummings Dolores, the Innkeeper's Daughter, Carlotta Freeman Nita, the Princess' Maid..... Mattie Wikes Gasper ..... Fred Moore pointed teacher in the Fairmount Join the Royal Knights of King David. nually and is known as Hoffman Band Day. The main features are a splendid musical programme together with a genuine country dinner. Future bookings for this fine musical body are Manassas Horse Show, August 18 and 19; Elks at Philadelphia, August 22; B. M. C. G. U. O. of O. F., September 14. THE STENOGRAPHERS Gave their annual picnic at Green Willow Park on Saturday evening, July 29, with Columbia Orchestra in the day and Dr. Pery Society Orchestra at night. The younger set turned out in large numbers. Members of the club are Alonzo J. Collins, Joseph Wilson, Emanuel Robinson and Howard Contee. 1205 Tea Street, N. W. Durham, N.C. Heights public schools, who has been teaching methods in reading, and games for primary grades in the summer Normal at the Virginia Union University, has returned to the city. From all reports to the Bee she has given entire satisfaction. Her work is highly commended by the teachers who attended, and the faculty of the institute. The report that this lady's flancee visited her while at the school is absolutely untrue. Her vacation is for higher ideals and she wants this distinctly understood. Miss Adams will, before she resumes her duties in Fairmont Heights School, take a trip to Niagara Falls this month. Story of Old Baldy, One of the Most Famous Horses in History. The head of one of the most famous horses in history hangs mounted, on a shield in the headquarters of George M. Meade post in Philadelphia. It is that of Old Baldy, General Meade's mount in the operations of the armies of the Potomac and Virginia. The horse was raised in the west and was brought cast by Colonel E. D. Baker of Oregon, who was killed at Ball's Bluff on Oct. 21, 1861. General Meade bought him in Washington for $150. The horse was wounded in the nose by a piece of shell at the battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, but was not put out of service. He served at Dranesville, Mechanicsville, Galines Mills and Groverton and was wounded again at the second battle of Bull Run, on Aug. 30, 1862, when he was shot through a blind leg. Two weeks later he was ridden at the battle of South Mountain, and on Sept. 17 he was shot through the neck at the battle of Antietam and was abandoned, apparently dying. He was afterward found by General Meade's servant browsing on the battlefield. He had recovered sufficiently to serve General Meade in the October and November campaign to Falmouth. In 1853 he was at Chancellorsville during the first three days of May and at Gettysburg on July 1, 2 and 3. He was shot through the ribs on July 2. He was in three other engagements that year, and in 1861 he was in the Wilderness calpaup at Sylvania, North Anna Creek, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and several other places where there was hard fighting. At the end of the war he was taken to General Mende's country place near Philadelphia, where he remained seven years. He was led in the great parade in Philadelphia on Dec. 16, 1879, in honor of General Grant's return from his tour of the world. He was later given to John J. Davis of Jenkintown, who cured for him until it became necessary to kill him because he became too feeble to stand. This was on Dec. 16, 1882. He survived his famous master about ten years:—Philadelphia Ledger. DEFOE IN THE PILLORY. When the Famous Writer Was Both Punjished and Applauded. The whipping post had as its companion 100 years or more ago, not in this country, but in England, the pillory. This punishment was ended by an act of the British parliament, dated June 80, 1837. Perhaps the most famous sufferer at the pillory was a man who has delighted millions of English speaking boys and girls and many older persons by his book, "Robinson Crusoe," which was the precursor of juvenile books as we now know them. This sufferer was Daniel Defoe, who was not only a writer of entrancing fiction, but famous as a keen political pamphleteer. In 1703, in the reign of Queen Anne, there came from his hand "a scandalous and seditional pamphlet," entitled "The Shortest Way With the Dissenters." A reward of 150 was offered by the government for the author, and, rather than that his printer and publisher should suffer in his stead, Defoe gave himself up and was sentenced to be pilloried three times. On July 29 of that year the daring satirist stood unabashed on the pillory in Cheapside. The punishment was repeated two days afterward in the Temple, where a sympathizing crowd flung garlands instead of garbage at the stout heart pamphleteer, drank his health with loud acclaim and sang his "Hymn to the Pillory." In this hymn occur these lines: Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals to the times; Are at a loss to find his guilt Water Colors Pigments have been used from the earliest times and are now used by all savages for decorative purposes. But the paint used in Babylon and Nineveh and in Pompeii was composed of pigments mixed not with oil, but with water to which had been added a little glue, egg albumen or perhaps sometimes casein, which is albuminous matter from milk or the gluten from cereal grains. Glue, however, which was well known to the ancient Egyptians, was the most used binding material. Such paints are now known as fresco paints or water colors. Not All Her Fault. The new maid was untidy, and the mistress bore with her patientity at first. But on the third day she placed a very unclean dinner plate on the table, and patience broke down. "Really, Harriet, you might at least see that the plates are clean." "Well, mum." Harriet rejoined, "I owns to them thumb marks, but that dried mustard was there afore I come." —London Tit-Bits. Not Through the Root "We lost our cook yesterday by the gasoline route." "Do you mean that she poured it on the kitchen fire?" "No. Another family lured her away by offering her the use of a fine motor-car." Boston Transcript. Whereupon Pa Grunted. "Would you marry pa if you had it to do all over again?" "Yes, my dear, I would, but I think I'd collect all the fine gifts he promised me first."—Detroit Free Press. Coming. "Have you any unantimity in your family, Mrs. Jobs?" "Not yet, ma'am, but we'll ketch it. We get everything that's a-goin."—Philadelphia Bulletin. FOOLING MARK TWAIN. An Autograph Joke That Was 'Sprung Upon the Humorist. George W. Cable had been giving readings from his wonderful Creole stories and had visited Mark Twain in Hartford. While there he had been taken down with the mumps, and it was during his convalescence that the plan for a combined reading tour had been made. This was early in the year; the tour was to begin in the autumn. Cable, having quite recovered in the meantime, conceived a plan to repay Mark Twain's hospitality. It was to be an April fool—a great complimentary joke. A few days before the first of the month he had a "private and confidential" circular letter printed and mailed it to 150 of Mark Twain's friends and admirers in Boston, New York and elsewhere asking that they send the humorist a letter to arrive April 1 requesting his autograph It would seem, that each one receiving this letter must have responded to it, for on the morning of April 1 I am immense pile of letters was unloaded on Mark Twain's table. He did not know what to make of it, and Mrs. Clemens, who was party to the joke, slyly watched results. They were the most absurd requests for autographs ever written. He was fooled and mystified at first, then, realizing the nature and magnitude of the joke, he entered into it fully—delighted, of course, for it was really a fine compliment. Some of the letters asked for autographs by the yard, some by the pound. Some commanded him to sit down and copy a few chapters from "The Innocents Abroad." Others asked that his autograph be attached to a check. John Hay requested that he copy a hymn, a few hundred lines of Young's "Night, Thoughts," etc., and added: "I want my boy to form a taste for serious and elevated poetry, and it will add considerable commercial value to have it in your handwriting." Altergether the reading of the letters gave Mark Twain a delightful day.—Albert Bigelow Palme in St. Nicholas. SLEEPING NEAR DEATH. Naps That Might Have Landed Those Who Took Them In Eternity. A short time ago a man was discovered in his lunch hour fast asleep on a plank. His arms were hanging down, one on each side of the board, which was about a foot wide. He was snoring gloriously and quite careless, whether awake or asleep, that if he turned over, for greater comfort he would "tumble out of bed" 120 feet, for that plank was part of the scaffolding erected for the repair of a church spire! A similar disregard, for danger was reported lately during the erection of some electrical works. One of the men engaged on the tall chimney, missing his mate at the lunch hour, went up the half finished chimney to find him. He discovered him fast asleep on a narrow ledge of brick inside the shaft, a fall from which meant a drop of eighty feet. On one occasion a circus arrived in a certain town not a hundred miles from London at an early hour after a long journey and a performance the previous night. As a consequence few of the company got any sleep. That day there was the usual procession and the afternoon performance. The lion tamer had had a very rough time because of the illness of one of his beasts. The evening performance arrived, and this man had to pretend to go to sleep with his head on the body of a couchant lion, finishing up the performance by springing up and putting his head in another lion's mouth. But when the jumping up time came a gentle snore was heard. The man was fast asleep with his head pillowed on a lion!-London Globe. Military Rifles Remodeled. Military Hires Remodeled. Nations with large armies were often loath to discard their old weapons and frequently altered existing models to bring them up to date. Thus we note that England converted her old muzzle loading Enfields in 1854 and 1866 to use the Snider action with a metallic cartridge-case. In 1886 Austria adopted the Mannlicher 433 caliber with a straight pull bolt action and a box magazine, loading from a steel clip. Two years later the caliber was reduced to 315, using black powder. The sights of these rifles were regraduated in 1850 on the adoption of smokeless powder.—Outing. Eagle and Snake. The eagle will dive upon a snake whenever it gets the chance. The eagle usually swoops upon its prey, seizes it by the tail, bears it aloft and lets it fall. It never attacks it when coiled, but first drives it to flight by screams and the beating of its wings. The snake is either killed or stunned by the fall, whereupon the eagle carefully cuts off the head and devours the body, which is usually very fat. Under Obligation. "That man Jones backed me into a corner last night and kept me there two hours telling me the bright things his two-year-old boy has said." "Gosh! You must owe Jones an awful lot of money if you'll stand for that!" -St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Contrary to Precedent. "The speaker seems to be an unusually modest man." "What makes you think so?" "He makes all his promises in the first person plural and all his excuses in the first person singular."—Birmingham Age-Herald. A Specialist. "Mary, have you cemented the handle on the water pitcher you dropped yesterday" "Well, mum, I started to, but I dropped the cement bottle."—Puck. A RECORD VOYAGE When the Savannah Crossed the Atlantic to England. She Was the First Steamship to Dare the Hazardous Trip, and This Exhibition of Yankee Ingenuity Aroused the Wonder of All Europe. The honor of first navigating the sea with a steamer belongs to an American, Colonel John Stevens of New York. Transatlantic steam navigation was long discussed before any one combining sufficient skill with courage and a spirit of adventure made the bold attempt. The London Times in its issue of May 11, 1819, thus announced the expected event: "Great Experiment.—A new steam vessel of 300 tons has been built in New York for the express purpose of carrying passengers across the Atlantic. She is to come to Liverpool direct." On the very day that this brief notice appeared the vessel referred to was visited by the president of the United States and sult and made a short trial trip previous to her departure on the hazardous voyage. This steamer, named the Savannah, the first that crossed any of the oceans, was built at the city of New York by Francis Fletcher for Daniel Dodd. She was launched on the 23d of August, 1818. She could carry only seventy-five tons of coal and twenty-five cords of wood. The Savannah sailed from the city of Savannah, Ga., on the 25th of May, 1819, bound for St. Petersburg, via Liverpool. She reached the latter port on the 20th of June, having used steam eighteen days out of the twenty-six, and thus demonstrated the feasibility of transatlantic steam navigation. As the Savannah approached Cape Clear, on the southern coast of Ireland, and smoke was seen to issue from her it was at first supposed that a sailing vessel, was on fire, and one of the king's cutters was dispatched to her relief. But great was their wonder at their inability, with all sail in a fast vessel, to come up with a ship under bare poles. After several shots were fired from the cutter the engine was stopped and the surprise of her crew at the mistake they had made, as well as their curiosity to see the singular Yankee craft, can be easily imagined. They asked permission to go on board and were much gratified by the inspection of this "naval novelty." Upon approaching Liverpool hundreds of people came off in boats to see the Savannah. On approaching the city the shipping pliers and roofs, of houses were thronged with persons cheering the adventurous craft. Several naval officers, noblemen and merchants from London came down to visit the boat and were very curious to ascertain her speed, destination and other particulars. During the sojourn of the Savannah at Liverpool the British public regarded the boat with suspicion, and the newspapers of the day suggested the idea that "this steam operation may be in some manner connected with the ambitious views of the United States." One journal, recalling the fact that Jerome Bonaparte had offered a large reward to any one who would succeed in rescuing his brother Napoleon from St. Helena, surmised that the Savannah had this undertaking in view. The Savannah remained twenty-five days at Liverpool and sailed for St. Petersburg on July 23, "getting under way with steam" and "a large fleet of vessels in company." The boat touched en route at Copenhagen, where it exited great curiosity, and also at Stockholm, where she was visited, by the royal family. On the 5th of September the steamer left Stockholm. On the 9th she reached Kronstadt, having used steam the whole passage, and a few days later reached St. Petersburg. Here the vessel "was visited by the Russian lord high admiral, Mareus de Trays, and other distinguished military and naval officers, who also tested her superior qualities by a trip to Kronstadt. The Savannah remained at St. Petersburg until Oct. 10 and then set sail on her "oward voyage "in company with about eight sail of shipping." She arrived at Savannah on Tuesday, Nov. 30, and shortly afterward was taken to the navy yard at Washington. The subsequent history of the Savannah can be told in a few words. On account of the great fire in Savannah her owners were compelled to sell her, and she was purchased to run as a packet between that city and New York, whither she was bound when she was lost on the south side of Long Island.—Philadelphia Press. Securing a Prisoner A sheriff, amused by the crowd which follows when a prisoner is taken along a public thoroughfare handcuffed to a policeman, devised a simple way of handcuffing a prisoner so that he can be taken through a crowd without every one being aware that he is really in shackles. Instead of locking the prisoner to the officer, the prisoner is handcuffed to a heavily laden suitcase, which he is required to carry. The suitcase is filled with bricks and weighs from twenty to fifty pounds, making escape very difficult—Detroit Free Press. He is sometimes slave who should be master and sometimes master who should be slave. Cicero. 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. HALL'S HILL, VA., JULY 30, 1916. For a time we have failed to send you our Mt. Salvation Baptist Church Sunday School and community dohos. At this time we are rejoicing over the outcome of the Day's Rally; a contest between the boys and girls and we would like to have our many friends rejoice with us through your paper. At the last sound of the bell last Sunday at 2:30 p. m., quite a number was present; Mr. Frederic Ewell, the Supt. of the Sunday School announced a regret for the absence of Mr. H. Ball, Supt. of Mt. Oliver Sunday School, as master of ceremonies. Instead, Mr. Nathaniel Jones, treasurer of Mt. Salvation Sunday school, was introduced.After, a few appropriate remarks Mr. Jones introduced Mr. Hall, Supt. of Chester Brook Sunday school with his choir for a selection. They rendered excellent services the whole of the evening. A pleasing solo was also rendered by Miss Rena Bennet. Invocation was given by Mr. Hunter of Falls Church. Address of welcome Miss Lillian Elliot, who earnestly bade all welcome with a' request to help the girls; response by Mr. Brown; welcome in behalf of the church by the Pastor, Rev. J. D. Fortune; response by Mr. Thomas of Crestor Church, D. D. of the Rev. G. V. Brown; D. D. of Second Baptist Church, Falls Church Va., who had been invited on this occasion was introduced. The sermon was all it could have been expected to be and met the approval of all present, even the most severe critics. The subject was "Building." Rev. Powell really put up an up-to-date, strong earthly temple. He stopped not here, but raised it far above the sun, moon and stars. Speaking of its capacity, its quality, and lastly its indwelling power, he was praised as a great and powerful discussion. At the end of the sermon a most forwent prayer was offered by Rev. Green, pastor of Mt. Zion-Baptist Church, Arlington, Va. Now came the time for Rev. Powell to contest assisted by Mrs. Powell and several of the Sunday School scholars of Falls Church. The Arlington Sunday School Union was well represented. Rev. Green of Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday School, Arlington, Va., Mr. H. Hall of Mt. Olive, Arlington, Va., Miss Page, fo St. John, Arlington, Va., Rev. Carter, pastor of 1st Baptist Church, Rosslyn and a host of friends from each Sunday School with many visitors taxed the seating capacity of the church, yet they were easily handled by the six ladies appointed by Mrs. Susie Ewell, the Pres. of the Ladies Usher Board. The first table was presided over by Mr. Frederick Ewell, Supt. of the Sunday School; Mr. Nathaniel Jones, Treasurer, Mr. George Brown, Supt. of Mt. Zion and Mr. Jessie Fleming, Supt. of First Baptist Church Sunday, School Rosslyn, Va. The second table was in charge of Mrs. Marion Mooney an Ex-Supt. Mrs. Katie Spriggs, Asst. Supt. and her sister, Luretta Lewis. The boys and their assistants earnestly and rapidly pleaded with the congregation for help. They succeeded in raising $6.50 at the bible altogether, from harrods, gleaners to entertainments they realized $52.00 At the second table with Miss Page, of Arlington, as secretary of the union, assisted by Mrs. Peters of Rosslyn, $7.51 was raised from the congregation. Altogether, from donkey parties, baby contests; moving pictures and regular contributions the ladies of this table were able to raise $73.25. All silent in their seats, waited anxiously to hear Rev. Powell announce the results of "Our Great Rally Day." He very, nicely told of the efforts the boys had put forth; but the plain truth he knew. For the boys, dollars were only $2. The girls all along liked this plan. Children and act the man; but we at all times did say, if you beat you won't play. Hurrah for the fun. OVER 20,000 HAVE ADOPTED THE NEW IDEA "Pressing and training the Hair while you sleep" G.A. MORGAN'S HAIR REFINER Before After 110 Why be untidy about your hair when it can be avoided? G. A. Morgan's Hair Refinizer helps you keep your hair in place and make a complete change in your appearance within fifteen minutes. PRICE LIST OF G. A. MORGAN'S HAIR PREPARATIONS Hair Refinizer $1.00 Refinizer $2.50 Hair Pressing Night Cap (Special Summer and Winter Weights) $1.00 in ordering please mail remittance to THE G. A. MORGAN HAIR REFINISHING CO. 5204 Harlem Avenue N. E., CLEVELAND, OH Promer Attention Given Mail Orders. Incorporated 1914 The battle is fought, the victory won You can see we are alive, For we have $73.25. COLORED NATIONAL GUARDS' PICNIC On last Saturday evening Washington's colored society turned out en masse to a picnic given for the benefit of the wives and families of the members of the District National Guard who were recently sent on military duty at the border. Nearly one thousand people attended. All kinds of Palm Beach suits were worn by the gentlemen, and the ladies were adorned in flush colored sport sweaters, awning shirt waists and skirts tipped off with sport hats. Never before in the history of Eureka Park, Anacostia, ever witnessed such braided and jelly set as was there, responding to the call of the wives of the National Guard. Charles Hamilton's Monumental Orchestra played with great vim, while hundreds of swittering dancers tried to dance on the over-crowded pavilion. MISTAKEN. Headquarters First Separate Battalion, D. C. O. M. Mr. W. Calyln Chase, Washington' Bee, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Chase: In your issue of July 15, a copy of which I have before me, I note with much regret your editorial relative to the Relief Committee representing the interests of the men of this bat- tallion. It is very painful to the officers of this command, as this com- tee is composed of their wives and at our instigation, as we felt morally it was our duty to make provision for the men who so willingly answered the call under our command. These ladies felt that the task was a huge one, but relied on the public spirited citizens of the District to assist them in a duty which they could not reasonably refuse. With us it seems to be a question of relief to the needy families of the soldiers who are at the front, and not a question of who is on the committee. Certainly there is room enough for all. In behalf of the officers of this command I request that the false impression given by your editorial be corrected. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comment on Men and Women—Baby of Ne- Philadelphia, Pa—The Main Line Citizens' Association of Philadelphia and other organizations interested in welfare work there conducted a baby week campaign last March that was a great benefit to the surrounding Beautiful Lounges Morris Chairs Writing Dens Music Boxes Beds Fine Bedsteads and Mattresses If you want a first-class Bed-room suite, call after you have been elsewhere communities. One of its features was the beginning of a "baby improvement" contest that was to last, and did, for several months. The results were announced on Saturday by the committee that carried on the work. It seemed a good idea to those interested to go around yesterday and ask the mothers of the winners how they managed things, under the advice of a doctor and a visiting nurse, so that their children showed so much improvement in two or three months. Heading the list of winners was William Johnson of 714 Brooks street, Bryn Mawr. Seated on the porch was a woman, smiling proudly, when questioned, over her baby and a $10 prize. She said her name was Mrs. Silas Johnson and the name of the award was William. He showed, the investigators said, he ought to win a prize. He is as healthy and happy a little colder joy as ever heard a crooning lulaby and Mrs. Johnson are colored people. She so proud of their record in cleaning in their house so well and in making William so healthy that the doctors judged him worthy of first award. In another house several squares away, was Ethel Cattell, white, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Cattell, who are the parents of four girls and two boys, winner of the, second prize. Her that, John Smith, another $5 prize winner, was under the observation at 40 Presbyterian avenue. Mrs. William Smith, holding office in her lap, had two girls and two boys seated in chairs beside her. Smiths are also colored people, thus two of the winners, the first and third are colored babies. Home Cafe LEE'S LUNCH ROOM Geo. H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W. Meals 15c and 25c MEALS AT ALL HOURS It is an up-to-date Lunch Room. It is the Sanitary Lunch Room where you and your family are requested to come. Electric fans. 1231 E Street Northwest Phone Main 8681. HAVE ADOPTED NEW IDEA The Hair while you sleep" HAIR REFINER CAPE MAY, N. J. This magnificent hotel, located in the heart of the most beautiful seashore resort in the world; replete with every modern improvement, superlative in construction, appointments, service and refined patronage. Orchestra daily, gara ge, bath houses, tennis, etc., on premises. Special attention give n to ladies and children. Send for booklet. E. W. DALE. Owner. CUSTOMS IN LIBERIA. A Land Where Mothers Teach Their Young to Bite and Slap. An amusing incident is related by Amanda Smith in her experiences as a missionary in Liberia. In attempting to gather the little children together for a day school she made a chart of a few of the letters of the alphabet and hung it upon a tree. Needing a pointer, she picked up a stick and, approaching the chart to teach, was surprised to see all her children running away pellmell. They knew nothing about the use of the pointer, but believed that the stick meant a heating. "A stick is put into children's hands here almost as soon as they can crawl, and they are taught to beat instead of to put. The mother is pleased when her babe learns to glap her and bite her, and she continues the battle for his sake. This means no disrespect. He is learning to be a warrior-is learning to be brave. At times I have been bitten hard by these warrior-like ones because they misunderstand my European ways. But no child ever attempted to bite me a second time. My reception of his act was so different from that of his parents that he didn't care to continue the battle. "Fear often prevents a ready response to our efforts to carry on school work among these children," she continues. "In one village it took three years to persuade the people to let their children come to school. 'No,' they said, 'our children must not learn the white man's art. If they know such things they will be taken for soldiers by the government.' "Again, superstition holds the children back. If a boy or girl who comes to school gets sick or dies the whole school breaks up. Is not that proof enough that our gods are angry? the parents ask. Then the missionary must win the children back again. "Very interesting are the schools under native teachers. Often lacking the proper supplies, pupils have to write their lessons on fresh banana leaves with a whitted stick to take the place of pen and penholder and the juice of a wild tomato plant for ink. Banana leaves shrivel up in a day, and the lessons cannot be preserved unless they are constantly rewritten. A bench serves as both seat and table. When the pupils write their lessons they kneel on the ground and use the bench for a desk."—New York Evening Sun. Queer Story of a Battleship. Great Story of a Battleship. Queen Story of a Battleship, two traps vast scale, that it becomes, protegess. vast scale that it becomes grotesque. The Russian representative of a foreign shipbuilding concern told of a battleship which he personally designed for the Russian government in 1905. The plans were accepted, the steel contracted for, an army of workingmen assembled at Odessa and in the course of time it was reported that the battleship was ready for launching. The governor of the province personally broke a champagne bottle, over her bow, and a mouth later she put to sea on her trial trip. Then news came that the battleship had sunk somewhere in the Black sea. Some one was suspicious. An investigation was ordered, and it developed that the battleship had never been built at all. —Metropolitan Magazine. A Wonderful Bore. The most wonderful boring apparatus in the world is possessed by the great lechmueon fly. It is composed of three black filaments, all extremely fragile, no larger or stiffer than a horsehair and about five inches long. These fit together with grooves and glide easily along their entire length. The three when fitted together are no larger in diameter than a small needle and so flexible that a slight breath of air will bend them. Yet with this remarkable instrument its owner can bore three or four inches into the hardest wood. This tool is possessed only by the female and is her ovipositor, or egg laying apparatus. Boring, which takes hours to accomplish, is for the purpose of laying one egg. The President's Oath The oath of office taken by the incoming president of the United States is the shortest and the simplest required of any ruler on earth. It is prescribed by the constitution and is as follows: "I do solenly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and, to the best of my ability, protect, preserve and defend the constitution of the United States." LEO S. OSMAN, Manufacturer of Tu-ra-he Indian Wigwam Brand Herb Remedies, Toilet Preparations, Electrical Appliances, Ete.-Dealer in Rare Roots, Herbs, Plants, Barks and Blossoms. YOU ARE INVITED TO CALL WE HAVE SOME, VERY HELPFUL GOODS FOR YOU. WE SELL THEM AT VERY LOW PRICE. THE VISIT WILL BENEFIT YOU. A large bottle of Herbal Good Health Medicine, $1.00. Root and Herb Tablets for constipation and indigestion, 10c and 25c. Tablets for gassy sour stomach, 10c. Lozenges for dry husky throat, 5c and 10c. Bathing Mixture, 10c. Herb Mixture to make a laxative and Blood Purifying drink or tea, 10c and 25c. Healing Syrup for cough and throat troubles, 15c. Liniment for pains and aches, 15c. 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Phone, Main. 4480 THE GREATEST THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD 1 Corinthians 13.—August 6. God-Likeness In the Heart, In the Tongue, In the Hands, In the Thoughts—Love the Essence of the Divine Character—Different Kinds of Love—The Spectrum of Love Reveals the Characteristics Essential to Membership in Christ's Glorified Body. "Now ablth faith, hope, love, the three, and the greatest of those is love."—Verse 15. LOVE is a quality beyond the power of man to describe. The best that we can do is to describe its conduct. Those who possess this quality can appreciate it, but cannot explain it; for it is God-Likeness in the heart, tongue, hands, thoughts, permitting all the human attributes and seeking to control them. There are different kinds of love, however, and the Apostle is not speaking of general affection, but of that particular kind of particular kind of love which belongs to God and to the New Creation, begotten of Him. There is an animal love, such as the brute creation exercise toward their young — a love which frequently leads to the sacrifice of life itself in its devotion. This love which belongs to God and to the New Creation, begotten of Him. There is an animal love, such as the brute creation exercise toward their young—a love which frequently leads to the sacrifice of life itself in its devotion. This kind of love inheres in the natural man. It is more or less selfish; for it will even rob others to lavish good things upon those it favors. But this is not the love which the Apostle describes, nor is he addressing the natural man. He addresses the New Creation, and informs them that the natural man cannot appreciate that which he presents. In order to have a clear comprehension of this love and a hearty acceptance of it as the rule of life, we must be begotten from Above. The "More Excellent Way." St. Paul has been gradually leading the minds of his readers up to a higher appreciation of their blessings. In the chapter preceding today's Study he calls attention to the various "gifts of the Spirit" conferred upon the early Church for its establishment and development. He closes with the exhortation that while esteeming these gifts, each member of the Church should corct earnestly the superior ones. Then he adds, "Yet I show you a more excellent way"—something still better than those gifts of the Holy Spirit. Our Study pertains to this more excellent ambition; namely, the acquisition and development of the spirit of love. With the early Church the gifts of the Spirit took the place of blessings which we now enjoy. They had no Bibles, no helps to Bible study. Therefore they needed the miraculous gifts to draw them together to consider the Lord's Message and to edify one another—until the books of the New Testament had accumulated. After the death of the Apostles and the consequent cessation of the miraculous gifts, these Divine providences of the written Word were quite sufficient, as St. Paul sets forth in our lesson. Boldly the Apostle presents a great truth, more and more recognized amongst Christian people everywhere, in proportion to their development in the character likeness of their Redeemer. He declares that neither knowledge, wisdom, talents nor gifts of any kind are the things to be sought above all else, but that love should be the most highly esteemed. God is Love. Therefore whoever would be pleasing to Him must develop this disposition: for according to the Divine Law no one will ever have the Divine approval and life everlasting without the full establishment of this Divine quality in the heart, in the character. To those who have never studied out the constituents of love, the Apostle's suggestions will seem like a revelation. He enumerates nine component parts: (1) Patience—"Love suffereth long"; (2) Kindness—and is klud"; (3) Generosity—"Love enwilth not"; (4) Humility—"Love vaunteth not itself, is not nuffed up"; (5) Courtesy—"Doth not behave itself unseemly"; (6) Unselfishness—"Seeketh not her own"; (7) Good Temper—"Is not easily provoked"; (8) Gillelessness—"Thinketh no evil"; (9) Honesty—"Jekoelketh not in Iniquity, but rejoeketh in the Truth." If every member of the human race were perfect in these qualities, what a wonderful world this would be! However, it would be useless to chide others because, like ourselves, they are not perfect in love. The Scriptural key to the situation is the fact that the race was shaped in iniquity, in sin did Mother Eve conceive them (Psalm this would be! However, it would be useless to chide others because, like ourselves, they are not perfect in love. The Scriptural key to the situation is the fact that the race was shaken in iniquity, in sin did Mother Eve conceive them (Psalm 51:5; Genesis 3:20.) The calamity of death has injured the world mentally, morally and physically. For this reason the Bible does not address the natural man; for his mind is so sodden with selfishness (that his eye or jiry and ear of sympathy are almost closed. The Scriptures address those who through faith in the blood of Christ have made a full consecration of themselves to God, have been begotten of His Holy Spirit and thus become New Creatures. These, as children of God, must develop in knowledge and character, thus to be made fit for a share with their Redeemer in His Kingdom: JEHOVAH'S WAY ALONE GIVES LIFE World Going the Wrong Way—Most of Them Unknowingly—Why They Are So Deceived—The Broad Way to Destruction—Present Narrow Way to Life—Future Highway of Holiness. The Ransomed of the Lord to Go Up Thereon—Necessity For Vigilance to Those In the Narrow Way. Norfolk, Va., July 30.—Pastor Russell spoke today before the I. B. S. A. Convention in session here. His text was, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death."—Proverbs 14:12. PASTOR RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL The Pastor dem- constrated from Scripture that for the past six thousand years the Adamic race have been going down the Broad Road that leads to destruction—not eternal torment. This road was opened by "one man's disobedience," and all mankind were started downward to death, led onward by their perverted tastes and deluded by the great Adversary. Not until the Gospel Age was "a way of escape" brought to view. This new way was opened by our Lord Jesus, who called it the Narrow Way that leads to life. With this Age the Narrow Way will close; and then the third way will be opened up—the Highway of Holiness, over which all of Adam's posterity may pass to human perfection and everlasting life. Whoever refuses to go up thereon will go down into the Second Death—everlasting destruction.—Matthew 7:13, 14; Isaiah 35:8; Acts 3:23. My text, the speaker declared, applies to the world in general. It is not necessary to suppose that all mankind are hypocritical, doing the wrong thing intentionally; but rather that the ways of the world are the ways which they think right. To them their course seems to be the proper one. Nevertheless they are in the wrong way. Doubtless the majority of people, if they knew the right way, would prefer to walk in it. The Scriptures, reveal the secret of human inability, to discern the right way. When God created mankind representatively in Father Adam, Adam had no doubt about the right way. When he transgressed, he was not deceived into thinking that he was taking the right course. (1 Timothy 2:14). Mother Eve had disobeyed God, and therefore had come under Divine condemnation to death; and Adam preferred to die with her rather than to live without her. He chose the wrong way under the delusive idea that it was preferable, although he knew that he was disobeying God. With Adam's children, however, it is different. Having been born since his transgression, all the race have been born in sin, shaped in infinity, with imperfect minds and judgment. The great Adversary, who led astray our first parents, still deceives and misleads the world, putting darkness for light; and in their fallen condition mankind are unable to withstand him. World Blinded by Satan—Few See. Looking over the world, we see sixteen hundred millions of people, nearly all of whom are blind to the real character of God. Very few understand the right way of the Lord. Naturally the question arises, Is there any hope for them? Despite all the efforts made by God's people to show them the Love of God, the majority, of mankind go their own way—the way that seems right to them. All have been born under more or less adverse conditions; and the vast majority follow on in this way in which they were born. This is the Broad Way leading to destruction. Some of us, by the grace of God, have left this Broad Way, and have entered into the Narrow Way. Feeling the need of a mightier than human friend to guide and instruct us, we crel unto the Lord; and He guided us into, the way of life and salvation. All of His people have learned that of themselves they do not know much. Therefore they have come to Him for guidance, have entered His family under His terms, and are striving to walk in the footsteps of Jesus. This way, which our Redeemer opened for the Church, is the Narrow Way which leads to immortality. Its end has now nearly been reached; for the Church is almost completed. As soon as this Narrow Way has been closed, a third way will be opened, as a further result, of our Redeemer's death. This will be called the Highway of Holiness, leading to human perfection and everlasting life-on the earthly plane. All mankind—the dead as well as the living—will be privileged to go up this way, if they will. Every obstruction will be removed from their path; and every assistance will be granted to encourage them in the good way, back to all that was lost for the race when Adam fell from Divine favor through disobience. When mankind see the difference between the Lord's way and Satan's way, doubtless the vast majority will be gud to walk in the Good Way. Whoever refuses to take the Lord's way will ultimately go down into the Second Death—utter destruction. 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Bien Jolie NO-10-10-10 BRASSIERES put the bust back where it belongs, prevent the fall of the bust and allow the muscles to biase, eliminate the danger of dragging muscles and confine the flesh of the shoulder giving a graceful line to the entire upper body. They are the smallest and the most versatile props, eliminate the danger in all materials and styles. Cress Back, Hook Front, Surprise, Bandan, etc. Boned with "Walton," the rustless but beautiful arm and leg. Have your bust down now you Bien Jolie Brassieres, if not stocked, we will gladly send him, prepaid, samples to show you. BENJAMIN & JOHNES 51 Wargen Street Newark, N. J 1 A Call to All Colored Women's Clubs of the District of Columbia. A law was made at the last biennial convention at Wilberforce, Ohio, that all clubs not then members of The National would have to come in through the State organization. Convention in Baltimore August 8 to 11. The District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs invites every club to join. No charge for joining the District. Ten cents a year for each person makes you a member of The National. Special registration meetings Monday, July 23, and 31 at Y. M. C. A., Twelfth street between S and T streets northwest, from 8 to 10 P. M., and at the Public Mass Meetings. OFFICERS—Mrs. I. N. Ross, Founder and Honorary President; Miss M. A. D. Madre, President; Mrs. Susie Fountain, First Vice President; Mrs. Addie R. Clarke, Second Vice President; Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, Secretary and Head of Junivile Court.; Mrs. C. H. Stepeau, Treasurer; Mrs. Georgia Miller, Organizer. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS—Legislature, Miss Anna Payne; Young Women's Work, Miss Mary L. Mason; Household Economics, Mrs. Davis; Industrial Work, Mrs. M. R. Peterson; Music, Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham; Orphans, Mrs. Eva Hood Smith; Hospitals, Mrs. Mary Sewall; Children, Mrs. L. C. Brent; Temperance, Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson; Mothers Meetings, Mrs. Mary Arnold; Women's Day, Mrs. L. M. Simms; Community Work, Mrs. Fannie Shipley; Press, Mrs. Grace Lucas Thompson; Religious Work, Mrs. Wm. Dean; Public Posters and Prints, Dr. J. P. H. Coleman; Patriotism, Mrs. Julia West Hamilton; Humane, Mrs. Emma V. Kenney; Charities, Mrs. F. D. Lee; Hygiene, Miss Mary Jones. Mrs. Davis, Industrial Work; Mrs.M. R. Peterson, Music, Parent-Teachers' Association, Miss Eva A. Chase, Mrs.M. W. D. Norman; suffrage, Mrs. Gabrielle; Charities, Mrs. F. D. Lee; hygiene, Miss Marjorie Jones; business, Mrs. Suele Robb Saunders. PERRIE W. FRISBY, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Holding Probate Court—No. 22,813, Administration, This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of James H. Lee, late of the district of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 7th day of July, A. D. 1917; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 7th day of July, 1916. WALKER J. ROBINSON, 1723 5th St. N. W. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. P. W. FRISBY, Attorney. WILLIAM C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 22,747, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscribers of the District of Columbia have obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Landonia C. White, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscribers, on or before the 13th day of July, A. D. 1917; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under our hands this 13th day of July, 1916. ROBERT L. PENDLETON, 1216 You St. N. W. LELIA A. PENDLETON, 1216 You St. N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. WILLIAM C. MARTIN, Attorney. NEWS NOTES HERE AND THERE. Mrs. A. E. Carver's Home Industrial Institute for Motherless Children at Falls Church, Va., is getting on splendidly, she reports. Their annual educational meeting on Friday, August 25, promises to be an interesting affair. Mrs. Carver is a very energetic and earnest worker, succeeding in her enterprise admirably. Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Young People's meeting northeast, last Sunday evening was an inspiring one. With Mr. S. S. Brooks, president; Mr. H. B. Buchanan, chaplain; Mrs. Maggie Iverson, vice president; Miss Letitia Smith, secretary, and Miss Mary Howard, treasurer, this society is well supported. There was a nice instrumental solo played by a small girl. There is both piano and organ in this church. Rev. Downs is pastor. HOTEL NEWS. J. On Thursday evening August 3, the Waiters of the Bluffs Hotel at Bayhead, N. J., gave a Preparedness Ball at Point Pleasant, the nearest wide open town to the hotel. Circulars were sent out broadcast over the coast. At the ball Thursday night was many persons from Asbury Park and many of the smaller seashore towns were at Arnold's Hall with the waiters from Bayhead. The officers of the Bluffs Hotel Waiters Club consist of Milton F. Green, John Creig and John Brown all of whom are from Washington. Ten discharged employees of a hotel in Texas played a very clever trick on the public spirited colored citizens of a small town in the state according to a story told recently in Washington, after work was not available, and the country was in mourning for the members of the 10th Cavalry who were caused to suffer greatly at Carrizal in Mexico. The clever imposters after dressing in rags, went through the town limping on sticks telling a bitter story of hardship and battle with the Mexicans. The sympathetic colored folks fell to the stories without any further identification. The fatted calf was practically killed in their honor, and they were wined and dined as Carrizal Heroes. Just as plans were completed to give a big public demonstration in honor of the supposed heroes, one of the number was arrested for being a deserter, by a officer of the American troops. At the trial in order to clear himself of the charge, he told his story of how he and his comrades had never been enlisted, and were discharged from a nearby hotel. When this news reached the ears of the host the town police had a hard time rushing the imposters to jail, as the irated members of their race had at this time lost all patriotism and dignity, and were ready to wreak vengeance on their offenders. A "BIT" OF MONEY. The Use of the Term to Designate a Small Coin Is Very Old. There is more than one theory as to the origin of the term "two bits" and its multiples of "four bits," etc., as applied to money. But according to a writer in the New York Sun the use of the word "bit" in the sense of a small coin is very ancient. The "Colonial Records of Pennsylvania" aver that at a council held at Philadelphia "ye 24th of the 8th month, 1683." under the presidency of Wm. Penn, Prop. and Gov." The Gov. telleth Ch. Pickering & Saml. Buckley of their abuse to ye Governt in Quoning of Spanish Bits and Boston money to the Great Damage and abuse to ye Subjects thereof..... They confess they have put out some of these new bits.... and in three other parts of the report of said council, the word "bitt" occurs again. But as a matter of fact for whole generations before that time a "bit" or "bitt" was as common a synonym for a small coin in the slang of thieves in England as were the variants "boung," "bung" and "pung" for a purse. In 1607 Thomas Decker said in his "Jests to Make Merle." If they once knew where the bung and bit is- And further back in 1592 Harman in his "Defence of Coneycatching" said: Some would venture all the byte in their bung at dice. What the real origin of the slangy "bit" is does not appear to be known, but it seems plausible that it is nothing more than the common every day "bit" in the sense of something small. Not So Easy as It Seemed. Twelve persons decided to lunch together every day and agreed not to sit twice in the same order. One of the number, a mathematician, surprised his associates by informing them that their decision meant that one and one third million years must elapse before they would again be seated in the original order. Two men can sit together only in two different ways, three in six ways, four in twenty-four, five in 120, six in 720, seven in 5,040, eight in 40,320, nine in 362,888, ten in 3,628,800, eleven in 29,916,800 and twelve in 479,100,600—Buch für Alle. Cost of Discovering America. The discovery of America cost a little more than $7,000, at least so say some documents that were found in the archives of Genoa. These documents give the value of Columbus' fleet as $3,000. The great admiral was paid a salary of $300 a year, the two captains who accompanied him received a salary of $200 each, and the members of the crew were paid at the rate of $2.50 a month each.—American Boy. Her First Day in Church. The two trustees in the church took up the collection in the middle alse, then began in front again and worked the side alses. "I should think," whispered the small girl to her father. "they would have four waiters, one for each alse."—Newark News. Courage What one needs to cultivate is a tenacity of purpose that will not quail nor turn aside, a courage that in emergencies dares to separate from the crowd, that never recognizes defeat. One Way to View it. "Distance lends enchantment to the view,' some poet says." "That's right. At any rate it's easier to admire a girl when she's well off."—Boston Transcript. DR. PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER 25c Postpaid Whitens and Clears dark or brown skin. Bleaches sallow or dark complexion, causing it to grow whiter. Get the original Dr. Palmer's Skin Whitener. Do not accept imitations. Sold by druggists or sent direct postpaid anywhere in the United States for 25c. Remember the name, Dr. Palmer's Skin Whitener. 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