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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, FEBRUARY 3, 1917 VOL. XXXVII, NO. 36 NATIONAL ADVANCE MENT OF COL- ORED PEOPLE Proposed by John R. Bates, N.A.A. C. P. Whereas: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a non-partisan organization, and have for its purport the advancement of colored people morally, socially, economically and politically throughout the United States; and, Whereas: The said association has already accomplished immense benefit along these lines by placing the Negro's true moral, social, economic and political status before the American people; and by attacking through the courts and public sentiment laws intended to hinder his progress along these lines; and by energetically combating attempts to pass laws designed to further degrade and humiliate the Negro; and, Whereas: The District Columbia Branch, of said association, has awakened to a new appreciation of the benefit derived from uniform and unitee efforts, and feels keenly the need of closer co-operation among the colored people of this community for the common good; and to the end of bettering their moral, social, economic and political conditions; tical conditions. Resolved. That a special invitation be, and is hereby, extended to the organizations named below, to send one or more of its members to join the District. Columbia Branch, of said association, and to sit in and attend its meetings as their representative or representatives, and demonstrate to the rest of the country that popular achievement through representative efforts is a possibility amongst the Neighbors in the District Columbia: groves in the District. 1. All Churches, Church Clubs, and other Church societies, of whatever denomination. 2. All Civic, and other associations, including Citizens; Teachers; Bar and Medical 3. All Schools, including University Colleges. ties and 4. All Newspapers, Magazines and comic publications. other publications. 5. All Labor organizations, including Porters; Janitors; Drivers; Street Cleaners; and all other unions. 6. All military organizations, including the regular *Army* and Navy, the District Columbia Mililtia; High School Cadets; Soldiers' Home; and all other military societies and organizations. 7. All other orders; clubs; societies and such other organizations, having a membership of ten or more not specifically mentioned herein, and, Resolved, That: President is hereby imposed to appoint committees, or operate in each section of the Army to personally visit each of the organizations named above and leave a copy of these resolutions. May President.—The National Association for the Advancement of Color. People, is a non-partisan and democratic organization, formed about six years ago. Its aim being to advance the colored people throughout the United-States, along moral, social, economic and political lines; and its success has been wonderful in that direction. This Association, to my mind, has already accomplished more towards bettering the Negro's condition in this country than all other organizations combined. This within itself is sufficient answer to all of its critics; this is especially true Mr. President, when you consider that four years of its work was under a Democratic Administration; and I don't believe that I am exaggerating when I say if the last four years of this association's life had of been under a Republican Administration, that partly would have been retained in power last November. The success of this association was due largely to the fact that its members first made up their mind; issued their statement; passed their resolution; and then followed up with definite actions. This is what this branch will be called upon to do if you approve these resolutions now before you; no good whatever will animate from them unless you translate your appro val into definite actions, by launching a vigorous campaign to accomplish the ends sought. "The National Association is acting wisely in establishing local branches throughout the country, and leaving to each branch to manage its local affairs in it own way; and at the same time giving them voice, through their chosen representative, in the management of the mother movement. Therefore, these resolutions, if approved by you, will only be an indorsement of the fundamental principles of the first order. So it will readily occur to you why the word "SPECIAL" is used in connection with these propositions. Mr. President, in framing these resolutions I made them broad enough to include all. I want to see every organization of whatever character, creed or color, having a membership of ten or more, represented here in this local branch; so when our leader speaks, he will be speaking as the representative of all the Negroes in this District, backed up by a united community; then, and only then, will we ever get local and national heed. This being the National Capitol and the seat of the Government; with its splendid educational system—said to be the best in the country where separate schools are maintained -Howard University, with its efficient staff, takes first place in higher education of Negro youths. I understand there are students from nearly every state in the union and many foreign countries attending this institution of learning; and Washington, with its unlimited facilities for re-search, should produce men capable of accomplishing anything within the ran of human possibility. ge. Notwithstanding all these advantages for acquiring letter and knowledge, we are forced to admit that we utterly helpless when it comes to conducting a popular local movement. No one yet has been found who can unite the people in this community for a common cause; with "Jim Crow" anti-marriage and segregation laws all staring us in the face in this District, and yet, one by one, we sally quietly on with the old familiar argument: "They can't do it." When could these laws have been put forth with stronger force than forty-five years, ago, and when was so little heard of them as then? And what need is there for them now, and when was the agitation greater than to day? Mr. President, the doors of all branch have always been open to us; we are simply removing the hinges as an additional guard that they can never be closed. If those who really want to be better the Negro's condition in this community, will come here and join this branch they will tender a great service; if we are wong they should, stop criticism and come and join us and show us a better way; they don't have to convince me, I am old-fashioned enough to follow the crowd. What we need here more than anything else is men in the ordinary avenues of life—the plain ordinary everyday man—men who are tasting the real bitters of life as well as those who are enjoying the sweets. I fear the breaking up of this branch by inactions of its members, and I warn you that the President can very on this work alone, and find ways and land to strengthen this locality and make it truly representative; our duty does not stop at passing resolutions we must translate them into definite actions. If we cannot, or are unwilling to execute a resolution, then we should never vote for one and permit it to pass this body. I would rather see these resolutions defeated than to win a lazy or questionable victory, that means absolutely nothing. But if you reject these propositions you must show us a better way for if you do not I don't know how we are to keep alive that civic pride and that civic energy—that interest which all citizens should have in those local movements of which each is a component part if we take from them those responsibilities which rest upon them in the discharge of their duties that pertain to matters essentially local. If there is one thing that may be said in every sense to be of local concern, in divalized by the people, it is the manner of conducting a popular local movement. Mr. President, after the people have ceased to have the intelligence and the patriotism and the pride, to conduct a popular local movement in a proper way, protected from fraud, and corruption and dishonesty, how long would a government in the hands last? It is true that we should move with caution, but we are not likely to liberty, and we should not hesitate, to do as all other lovers of liberty have deal with the question that confronts us with, that intelligence and wisdom which God gives to each particular age, up through which moves the great leavening power of righteous progress. A GREAT INSURANCE COMPANY. Insurance In Force over Eight Million Dollars. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association of Durham, N. C., a Most-Successful Year. For the benefit of the public. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association submits the following information taken from its annual report for 1916 to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of North Carolina. $66,660.00 Insurance in force $25,299,640 Gross collections for 1916 $501,198.43 Ledger assets $207,652.26 Gross assets $243,411.75 0 SENATOR MOSES E. CLAPP Of Minnesota in Whose Honor a Public Reception Will Be Held FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9 In the METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH Total admitted assets (non-ledger) Indies of Eureka City Monastery at Mt. orots ledger) 2282.964.40 Zion M. E. Church toled the gone in SURPLUS $23,591.30 SURGEONS The year 1916 has been the most successful in the history of the institution. The company is successfully operating in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and the District of Columbia. Application has been made to enter the State of Virginia during the present year. The Company has recently purchased and will place on deposit with the State Treasurer of Virginia $10,000.00 in Virginia Bonds. $100,000.00 in North Carolina, and $20,000.00 in South Carolina Bonds, and other securities are now on deposit with the Insurance Commissioners of North Carolina and South Carolina respectively. Point of Distinction. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association has the distinction of having more policies in force in North Carolina than any other company, regardless of race and color. It has 18 year's experience and is very prompt in the payment of all claims. institutions in It excels all similar institutions in giving employment to men and women of the race. IT HAS NO STOCK URBANITIES. DIABLITIES. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association is the LARGEST AND MOST SUBSTANTIAL NEGRO INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE WORLD. GRANFEATHER CLAUSE. GRAN Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 29.—Spanish War Veterans last night at the regular meeting of Benjamin Wright Camp, after installing their new officers, discussed the pending bill in the State Legislature granting partial suffrage to women in Tennessee. It was almost the unanimous view that some plan should be adopted regarding the possible heavy vote by negro women. The following resolution was finally passed by a unanimous vote and will be sent to the members of the Shelby delegation today: "Resolved, That Benjamin Wright Camp No. 3, United Spanish-American War Veterans, Provisional Division of Tennessee, earnestly recommends that something resembling the 'grandfather clause' with reference to male voters in other states be incorporated in the present suffrage law in Tennessee with reference to women voters before its final passage. for its most "Resolved further, in justice to all American soldiers who are required to pay poll taxes before voting. That all others who may be admitted to the franchise also be required to pay poll "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Tennessee Legislature and copies furnished to the press. the press. "E. A. PASSINO, "Commander Benjamin Wright Camp No. 3 U. S. W. V. Provisional Division of Tennessee. "Adopted. unanimously. Jan. 23, 1917, after full discussion." West Washington. Alexander B. Henson, who was in charge of the funeral obsequiols of Mrs. Isabella Busey, a member of the Indiana of Erica Moore Monday at Mr. Zion M. E. Church tolled the gone in the funeral ceremonies of the society, while the Exalted Ruler Bundy recited the venera and was stricken at the grave of the dead, woman shortly after and died before medical attention could reach him: The funeral of Mr. Spencer Coleman whose death occurred on Thursday, Jan. 24, 1916, at his residence, Payton Station, Arlington, Va, took place Sunday afternoon from the First Baptist Church, Dumbarton avenue northwest. Mr. Payton was born in 1815 and was 102 years and some months old at his death. He lived in his beautiful cottage home, Virginia. His devoted daughter, Mrs. Mary Overton, who was ill, was unable to attend the services. His grand-daughter Mrs. Mabel Carroll, acted in her mother's absence. The funeral was largely attended. Rev. Jas. L. Pinnoffi, assisted by Revs. B. Bottas and C. N. Pryor, Miss Mary Pryor sang a solo, "Calvary." Many floral tributes. Interment at Harmony Cemetery. Death of a Prominent Lady Elk. Mrs. Isabelle Busey, a very highly esteemed member of Forest. Temle No. 9, I. B. P. O. Daughters of Elks, died on Friday, January 27, 'at her residence, 920 Twenty-sixth street northwest. Funeral services held Monday afternoon from Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth street northwest. Resolutions were read by Mrs. Susie Dunne and a very imposing, in a solo, "Face to Face," by Eugene Hewlett. Rev. D. D. Turpean officiated, assisted by Rev B. T. Perkins. Many floral offerings interment in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Arrangements have been completed for an unique Men's Day services at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Twenty-ninth street, on Sunday, February 11, 1917. One hundred men will in a grand chorus under the direction of the pastor, Rev. D. DoWitt Turpean, leading a Persson at each service; Prof. Lewis Brown, organist, Special invitation to all men during these meetings, at which time an interesting program will be renamed. derea. The Epworth League of Mt. Zion M. E. Church was largely attended Sunday. After the discussion of the lesson wjoic a very interesting liter- eray program was rendered. Those who took part were, in M. L. Thompson, Miss Martha J. aderson, select reading; Miss Louise Hawk- kins, piano solo; Mr. Louis Myers, solo; Mrs. Ella Merritt, presiding; Miss I. Turpean, pianist Personal. Mrs. M. A. Madison, of 912 T street northwest, who was recently a patient at Freedman's Hospital, is now convalescent, although not able to perform the duties of printer's assist- ant, has been temporarily transfer- ed to lighter work by the assistant director, Mr. Frank Ferguson, until recuperation, which is much appre- sioned for many friends. clated by Mrs. Pannis, Smothers, of 1516 Twentwelfth-et, who has been seriously ill, now considered out of danger, is speedily recovering. Mr. Freddie Pryor, who was seriously assaulted by several young ruf- flans, for whom warrants have been obtained, is much improved and will not lose his eyesight from the injury received. Mr. H. Redmen has been elected delegate for the annual thanksgiving services of the Odd Fellows by Union Light Lodge, 1965, G. U. O. of O. F. Editor Wm. Calvin Chase was an interested observer at the morning service of Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Sunday and enjoyed the eloquent sermon of Rev. D. D. Turpean, the pastor of the church. Bee agency: A. T. Pride Pharmacy, Twenty-eighth and P street north-west. THE FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL. Missouri Has a Candidate for Warfield's Place—Dr. Wm. J. Tompkins Recommended by the Legislature. House of Representatives 49 General Assembly. To His Excellency, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mr. President: I am instructed by the House of Representatives of the Forty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Missouri, inform you that the following Resolution was read and applauded, at the regular session held this date: BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of Missouri, that it endorse and approve the application addressed to the President of the United States, requesting the appointment of Dr. Wm. J. Tompkins, of Kansas City, Missouri, as Surgeon-in-Chief for the Freedmen's Hospital at Washington, D. C. Very respectfully, R. E. L. MARRS, Chief Clerk. DRAKE WATSON, Speaker. MISS BORROUGHS OFFERS A BIG AT THE FOLK FESTIVAL. The bringing of two of the greatest people in the music world is just a part of the Folk Festival. Mme, Patti Brown will charm Washington, and our own Clarence will draw the bow with the skill of the master that he is. On Tuesday night, all Washington will be out to cheerits local "stars." This will be an "All Local Star Night." The best that we have will be on the bill that night. Who they are and what they can do, will be seen and heard the second night of the Festival. Wednesday night will be another big night: for us because Mme. Brown and Mr. White will again contribute most of the numbers. The climax of the evening will be reached in a "Fashion Show," in which the prettiest women in Washington will be seen in the prettiest gowns. Thursday night is National Training School night. The students from the school have just earned their diplomas and performing and the programme is full and rich. What would a great, Musicale amount to without a great climax? Friday night, will be the climax, and a great one. Roscoe Conklin Simmons, by far the most eloquent and captivating speaker in the Fraternal world, will be the speaker. Roscoe is a matchless man on the platform, and every member of the Pythian organization will be glad the men their noted young, man's element. The patriotic music will be sung by the students of the School at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Friday night will be the night of nights. WISDOM OF SOLOMON. The deceptive man or woman meet his waterloo. Pretended friendship to enable one to accomplish a purpose comes to an untimely end. Never attenempt to poison a friend to enable you to steal the heart of his spouse. The life of the poisoner will soon reach his limit. A deceptive spouse must sooner or later realize that it is too late to repent. Happiness can only be found in the true heart. Love is sincere and cannot be turned by deception. The thief cannot look you in the face and neither can a guilty friend. A woman's honesty cannot help from exposing malicious motives and acts. After one has accomplished a mean act by betraying a friend, he will die like Lucifer. Conscience makes cowards of all; traitors retreat when boldly they are confronted. THE INTERSECT ART CLUB THE INTERSEA Met Friday, January 26, 1917 at the residence of Mrs. Wm. Beckett, 2015 Thirteenth street. After a very interesting business session, delicious refreshments of cream and cake were reserved. Those present were Mesdames. Boyd, Beckett, Green, Harrison, Haywood, Jumner, Kevs, Myers, Parker, Reed and Thornton. THE INAUGURAL COMMITTEE Chairman Howard Calls His Committee together Committe Making Excellent Progress. Report. The operations of the auxiliary perfecting arrangements for the comfort of visitors to the second inaugural of Honorable Woodrow Wilson and the Honorable Thomas Riley Marshall from January 15th to 31st, inclusive, may be stated as follows: A. Headquarters. 1816 Twelfth street northwest, opened January 15. E. Several practical meetings held. The response to correspondence is highly encouraging and much interest is being aroused. With the exception of printing, postage and rent of headquarters, all other work has been entirely voluntary. The stenographic work has been especially creditable. Messrs. H. N. Nelson, F. J. Talbert and Harry A. Walker have had charge of this phase of the work, performing their service at the end of their daily occupations with a degree of exactness and enthusiasm that is inspiring. The headquarters for the above period have been opened in the evening from seven to nine-thirty o'clock. The expenditures have been very small and made strictly upon the authorization of the executive committee. Thus far only pledges have been received. The chairman of the executive committee, Mr. Jas. H. W. Howard, and the secretary, Mr. Swann, having supplied what funds was actually necessary to expedite the work. We have direct communications with many visitors from several states who are liaising to attend the inaugural. THOMAS WALLACE SWANN, Secretary. There will be a special meeting held in the assembly room of the X. M. C. A Tuesday evening, February 6, 1917, which will be addressed by Mrs. James H. Boggs and other members of the inaugural committee. You are cordially invited to attend. I am obliged by your courteous invitation received this p. m., and will be glad to accept and do what I can to aid in the project at hand. Please advise me further. Washington, D. C., Jan. 16, 1917. Dear, Howard: Thanks for your invitation to accept the chairmanship of the general reception committee of the Auxiliary inaugural Committee to Entertain Colored Visitors, etc. Talked with our mutual friend Swanni last night), who doubtless has fully advised you as to my attitude in the matter. The Chairmanship is too heavy for me. Shall take pleasure in co-operating with any one you may select, and particularly with Mr. Walter J. Simgleton, Dr. A. M. Curtis, George W. Cook or Dr. Ed Williston. Either you or Tom had better take end of it up personally and I will join in on the organization of the Committee. Thanking you again, I am, Yours, etc. CHAS. E. HALL. Prominent People Accepted. Jan. 15, 1917. My dear Mr. Howard: All right. Use me in any way you see fit. Very truly yours, R. H. TERRELL. M. M. Nor. Sch. Jan. 25, 1917. My dear Sir: I very much appreciate the honor, inviting me to become a member of your committee. My time is so fully occupied that I cannot accept. Wishing you success, Yours truly, LUCY E. MOTEN. Auxiliary Inaugural Committee, Dear Sirs: We consent with pleasure to serve as a member of the Auxiliary. Inaugural Committee. Mr. J. H. W. Howard, Chairman Executive Committee Auxiliary, Inaugural Committee, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Howard: I beg to acknowledge your invitation to a 18 for me to serve as member of the Auxiliary Inaugur- Committee. Both in my capacity as a citizen of the District of Columbia and as an officer in the public schools, I accept this invitation with much pleasure, and shall be happy to render whatever service may be needed. Very respectfully yours, ROSCOE C. BRUCE, Assistant Superintendent of Schools. 1. BLOOD RELATIONSHIP. I would that I might take up the insight into the intricacies of creation of offspring, which modern biological investigation is gradually acquiring. Suffice it to say, that the human ovum contains microscopic elements, sufficiently numerous to carry all man's physical structures from remote generations, and that the ovaries of each normal female contains at her birth 32,000 ovules. Not only are all men literally brothers, when we consider the teeming millions who have lived and died in the lines of our ancestry on this relatively small sphere, but in those people who are shut off from interrelations with other races, for any considerable period of time, the dominance of certain selected physical structures become so pronounced as to be modified and overthrown, later, only with much interbreeding with dissimilar peoples, carried over a long period of time. Dr. W. E. Chancellor and H. K. Pearson (of Oxford) have shown that among the so-called white races the scape of procreation is passing rapidly from the colonizing races, who must interbreed as they migrate, and is now in the hands of the low, broad-headed Slavic types, whose fecundity is as pronounced as their civilization is different and localized. In Europe today, the problem is not a race problem of a dark race and a fair race, on a resourceful soil, in a not too thickly populated region, as in America, but it is the problem of subsistence, an economic problem among fair races themselves, of varying degrees of fecundity, and an exhausted region of relatively dense population. In fact, we are witnessing a tribal warfare, between white people, similar in operation to the tribal warfare in Africa, occurring for centuries, between those who spent their surplus from reproduction in physical combat with those who had accumulated ivory, cattle, and grain in an agricultural civilization, at the expense of physical surplus but with a gain in spiritual. Wherever you find men, there you find them distributed through time and space in nomadic, or pastoral, or agrarian, or agricultural, or industrial, or economic phases of civilization, with the laws, customs, and habits of those civilizations of their transitions. And wherever you find different or transition states of those civilizations in contact, or separated by geographic or language barriers, there you find conflicts and wars, first of the customs, then of the civilizations themselves. Sometimes one, then again another of the factors herein mentioned preserve one civilization and destroy another or modify both; only to repeat the conflict, at a later time in another or in the same place. It is no mere chance that sees the wars of Europe recurring on the same battlefields among descendants of the same peoples. History does not repeat itself, for history is a record of what has been and can, therefore, not be again, but human nature alters slowly, if at all, and similar circumstances produce similar results under similar conditions. Today, in the United States, and in British South Africa, segregation is legislative political conflict of different racial types, customs, and mores, just as lynching, murder, and incineration are brutal atavistic conflicts of those same racial types in their undeveloped and primitive forms. Breed a race and it hates, combines, and fights against others; civilize it and it oppresses others; educate it and it exploits them; Christianize it and it and it civilizes and educates the subdominant, people; humanize it, by ideas and interest, through laws and institutions, and it cooperates with the weakest and elevates the lowest, for it recognizes, the solidarity of mankind in opposition to relentless nature, and it understands the intrinsic value of the golden rule and the fundamental verities of the Sermon on the Mount. "The struggle of civilized man against uncivilized man and against nature. produces a certain partial solidarity of humanity, which involves a prohibition against any individual group or community wasting the resources of mankind." The Grammar of Science; by Karl Pearson. The mother, minister, merchant, physician, lawyer, artisan, educator, teacher—all are society's agents today for a new society tomorrow. Each must vitalize his influence, all must cooperate. Our race has been solidified by the first factor—blood relationship. Like the Hebrows, who were marked by physical peculiarities which revealed their common ancestry, so the Negro is marked by numerous physical peculiarities in contrast with the fairer peoples of the world. Indeed, so fixed are these physical peculiarities that a minute trace of Negro ancestry is discernible to the expert in hundreds of thousands of those who deem themselves 'fair; and who, to all intents and purposes, consciously and unconsciously, identify with the fairer races and enjoy all their privileges and immunities. What we must say now is, "There are 10,000,000 identifiable colored people in the United States"—not 10,000,000 Negroes. No one can or will know how many Negroes there are. A conservative estimate of 25,000,000 would probably fall short of the actual number of those who have a discernible trace of African ancestry. An incident force falling on dissimilar elements separates them, and African blood or African ancestry is such an incident force when mixed with the composite inheritance of European white ancestry of many stocks; hence the persistence of African physical peculiarities and the slow progress in brightening up, despite the interbreeding which always results from racial contact. The next factor in race solidarity is the effect of environment. In an epoch-making book recently issued—"Climate and Civilization" by Hunt ingdon, the Geographer of Yale University, he has produced what is destined to become a new Origin of Species. Surely the agnostic and the free-thinker today must acknowledge the operation of a superior intelligence behind the transfer of the African from Africa to a soil, climate, and aspect of nature but slightly different from his ancestral land, and the existence in that new region at the time of that transfer of a need and a call for just the type of crude and untrained reaction, with physical endurance such as the African newcomer could contribute. The late Professor Goldwin Smith, of Canada, declared that the importation of the African into America was a calamitous error as well as a flagrant crime, and I challenged him to prove he is wiser than the Creator by demonstrating that earlier redistributions of men in space and time had not been at one time similarly regarded. Professor Huntingdon shows both conclusively and suggestively that the removal of a people indigenous to a warm and enervating climate, into a cooler one, or a higher altitude, releases pent-up energy and spells achievement. The erection of the Egyptian pyramids, by the people whose monuments show them in all possible reclining attitudes, is now to be accounted for in the release of pent-up power of African slaves from the interior, when brought nearer to the coast, when he brought nearer to the lassitude and accompanying oppression of Egypt, energy and restlessness, which ended in their migration. The migration of the Negro northward in the summer of 1916 is not the first such response of a down-trodden people to its oppressors. Again has Pharoah been told to "Let my people go," and they cross to the promised land of freedom and opportunity, in the north, over a sea, this time red with the blood of countless thousands of Europe's men, women, and children. For 275 years, the Negro has been privileged to solidify by breeding,working, and accumulating a surplus in body, mind, and goods, in an environment, and gradually migrating from an environment just like his native environment as to prevent his destruction in the adjustment, and just enough different from it to demand a possible change in his reactions to meet the change in types of civilization. Coming to America before the conflict of pastoral, agricultural, industrial civilizations in this country with their ideas, customs, and laws the Negro was privileged to participate in their development and in the conflict. From that conflict in 1865 he emerged but little more dazed than were its principals, and he has been slowly adjusting himself to the transition. Today he can make most of the reactions though not comprehending the ideas underlying the movements. His accumulation has been physical, not psychical, hence his great resistance and his retarded literacy. Indeed, it accounts for his frequent misuse of literacy and points to the wisdom of a general education in which words and ideas, accompany acts, performances, and labor, rather than a system which is largely symbolic. Literacy is essential to social integration, and the providential instruction in the language of the Bible, dealing as it does with parables from pastoral agrarian life of an oppressed but selected people has proven another means of both unifying the Negroes as a race and emancipating them into the freedom of human social intercourse. CLEVELAND'S SON AN ORATOR Makes One of Principal Speeches at Laying of Cornstone. Princeton, N. J.—Richard Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland and a sophomore, was one of the principal speakers at the laying of the cornerstone-of Princeton's new $500,000 dining hall. In behalf of the under classman of the university he thanked the trustees and donors of the new structure. The structure will be known as Madison hall, after President Madison, class of 1771. In his dedication address President Hibben said the trustees had named the quadrangle, which the new structure completes, the Rüssle Sage hall, in compliment to Mrs. Russell Sage, through whose generosity most of the buildings that inclose it were made possible. On the Hunting Trail at Ninety-two Jacks Mountain, Pa.-John Gantz, ninety-two years old, is entitled to be entered in the list of old sportsmen. It is said that Gantz has killed more game native to Pennsylvania than any other man in the state. He has killed thousands of wild turkeys in his time. Mr. Gantz is looking forward to good shooting this season. SHAD SIGN OF MILD WINTER. Caught in Lower Hudson For First Time in Thirty Years Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.—Shad were caught in the Hudson river for the first time in thirty years at this season of the year. The fishing experts say that it is an infallible sign of an open winter. John H. Lange, professional fisherman, caught the shad in the gill nets he had set in the running tideway for striped bass. Lavinus D. Hill, a recognized authority on fishing, said that shad usually went south to warmer waters in the fall, and when caught in the lower Hudson thirty years ago the weather was so mild that the river was open for navigation all through the winter. Busy Man Offers $1,000 For Wife. New York.-Too busy to play the role of sutor himself, Albert F. Shore, a business man, has commissioned a friend to find him a wife. If the friend succeeds before Christmas in discovering a girl about twenty-four years old, either blond or brunette, but studious and not a social butterfly, he will receive $1,000. And if he has not succeeded at that time then any person may earn the $1,000 by producing a suitable bride. Shore is thirty-four years old. He is of medium height dark complexion and dark, oval hair. THE STATELY ELK. It is the Most Beautiful of Our Remaining Wild Animals. Now that the wild animals survive only in a few preserves the elk is the most interesting as it is the most beautiful of our remaining wild animals. In this day of Americanism it would be a fine thing if this typical American animal should come to be known by his Indian name of wapiti. The wapiti is the largest of the red deer family and closely resembles his smaller brother, the European stag. The wapiti is not properly an elk, as the European elk is more closely allied to the American moose. The wapiti is now numerous only in the states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, though nearly 4,000 head are thought to remain in Colorado, and considerable numbers are scattered through western Canada. The Campfire Club of America and other organizations and individuals are working for its preservation. The favorite home of the elk is the Yellowstone National park, where he has no rifle to fear and where cougars, coyotes and timber wolves are kept under control. In the park and its vicinity are probably 50,000 head, distributed in two main herds. During the summer months the elk live high up in the mountains, generally at an elevation of 8,000 to 11,000 feet. The grassy plateaus offer an ideal summer range. Even on the wooded sides of the highest ravines there are parklike glades where the elk late in the afternoons come out to feed. It is difficult to imagine a more beautiful sight, than is then afforded by these stately and graceful animals. Although their number in the park may sometimes reach as high as 60,000 head, it is rare for visitors to see a single specimen. Visitors are taken in stages around a regular route arranged for viewing the natural phenomena of that great outdoor museum. The elk dislite to be pursued by tourists with cameras and keep away from the stage routes. If visitors would leave the highways of the park and seek out its byways, either on foot or by pack and saddle trips, they would have a marvelous opportunity to study the greatest exhibit which survivals of our mountain wild life—not only the elk, but mountain sheep, deer, beaver and many other animals. WICKED WEAPONS. Tribleir Knives Wielded by the Natives of Hindustan. The weapon common to every part of Hindustan, so as to deserve the name of the national arm, is the "katar." This is a broad, two edged dagger, the hit of which is formed something like an H. the hand grasping the crossbar, which is generally double, while the side bars extend on each side of the wrist. Some katars are made with five blades which unite into one, but by squeezing together the crossbars the blades diverge like the fingers of a hand when the thrust has been given. Other katars are made in sets of two or even three, of diminishing sizes, the blades of the larger being hollow and forming sheaths for the smaller. Some of the southern Indian kattars known as "death givers" are immense weapons, nearly two feet long in the blade, and the hilts are a mass of fantastic scrollwork and mythological monsters, the cobra with expanded hood figuring largely. There are also the "bich'hwa," or scorpion's sting, a doubly curved dagger; the "khanair," a larger form of the same, and the "poshhalz," or hunting knife. But none of these elaborate weapons has about it the terribly "businesslike" look of the Khyber knife ("chikur"), with its ponderous single edged, tapering blade and plain torty hilt—Chambers' Journal. --- MRS. DUNBAR TELLS STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST POET. Tuesday night's great meeting of the District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs made two distinct and memorable contributions to the history of these times. One was the life story of Paul Laurance. Dunbar as told by his mother Mrs. Matilda S. Dunbar. The other, was the graphic recital of the horrors of the massacre at Carcelarz; Mexico, by Sergeant Dally Farrer, one of the few survivors of that shocking tragedy. For the conception of this meeting and the accurate and speedy execution of its many details, the public is indebted to Miss Marie A. D. Madre, the energetic, painstaking and constructive president of the District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; a civic force second to none in this community, judged by work actually accomplished. LINCOLN TEMPLE PACKED TO THE DOORS Lincoln Temple was packed as never before with a crush of representative people, anxious to hear Mrs. Dunbar. M. A. S. Pinkett, president of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, through whose courtesy the Federation held its special session, opens the proceedings and surrendered the gavel to Miss Marie A. D. Madre; who served as mistress of ceremonies for the evening. She introduced Mrs. Dunbar in a speech that touched the high-water mark of dignified eulogy of mother and son and visibly affected her hearers, many of whom were personal friends and neighbors of the deceased poet. Noting the presence of numerous white persons in the audience, Miss Madre referred felicitously to the universality of Dunbar's muse. "He was not the poet of the colored people," she declared, nor was he the poet of the white people. He was the poet of all the people. He sang for humanity. He stirred the soul of all nations. His sentiments make for a larger and nobler life for mankind and will endure for all Eternity." THE CAFE GREETINGS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL (INC.) offers an excellent opportunity for the woman who desires to enter the he business world, by taking up a COURSE in BEAUTY CULTURE. Nobody nowadays can say, "I Have no Chance." There are and always will be new lines with each woman whether she will be one of those to create and take advantage of the opportunities that THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL OFFERS. We teach the following courses—Hair Dressing, Facial Massage, Manicuring, Scalp-Treatment, Instantaneous-Bleaching, Electric-Treatment for the Face and Scalp. There is a constant demand for THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S GRADUATES. THE ABILITY TO USE AND CREATE OPPORTUNITY DEPENDS UPON INDIVIDUAL VALUE, and value depends on training and training depends on earnest, well-directed effort to increase skill. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S branches are aught from five dollars up. COME IN AND REGISTER. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. MRS. DUNBAR TELLS LIFE STORY OF HER SON PAUL. Mrs. Dunbar, hale and hearty and remarkably well-preserved, was greeted with an ovation and the Chauautua salute as she came forward to speak. Though far past the half-century mark, Mother Dunbar is not old-looking; nor is she lacking in activity. She is good-humored, easygoing and readily adaptable to any surroundings. She speaks fluently and uses excellent language, although her educational opportunities were limited in her youth. Contact and experience and a natural quickness of perception have aided her to overcome the handicaps of meager book-learning. In simple phrase, and a quiet eloquence all her own, Mrs, Dunbar told the life story of her beloved boy. Dark spots were lighted up with unaffected humor, stories illustrative of his peculiarities of temperament and inordinate ambition to rise, were fitted into her recital in a happy manner. Step by step she traced his evolution from the post of elevator conductor in a Dayton office building, where he scribbed verse between "ups and downs" to his later honorable estate as a poet of world wide fame, an author of quality, a playwright of no mean ability and composed of lyrics for operas that have delighted thousands. Young Dunbar made many staunch friends, but it appears that three of them, William Dean Howells, the celebrated editor of the Atlantic Monthly, Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington stood out prominently as the men who helped him most signally at critical stages in his struggles for the heights. The poet, while yet a young man in point of years, died of tuberculosis a few years ago at his home in Dayton. The last days of Dunbar were spent with his mother, and his gradual passing was marked by a patience that was sublime and beautiful. His courage was admirable and his fortitude amid suffering stamped him as the possessor of a depth of character and a faith in Divinity that revealed a real man. He received many callers and finally the end came, peacefully and calmly. "Rest after the sight" came to him as he had asked. An imposing stone and tablet marks his grave in the family plot in the Dayton cemetery. He gave much of himself to the world and his books adorn the libraries of the greatest. For a number of years Dunbar was a resident of Washington and was attached to the Congressional Library. He was in the Haitian Building with Frederick Douglass at the World's Fair in Chicago, in 1893, when Mr. Douglass served as Haiti's Commissioner-General. THE TRAGEDY AT CARRIZAL. A notable feature was the appearance and address of Sergeant Dally Farror, a battle-scarred veteran of the 10th Cavalry, United States Army, the flower of Uncle Sam's military establishment. Farror is one of the few survivors of the historic massacre at Carrizal, where several of the troops of the Cavalry under the gallant Capt. Boyd met practical annihilation at the hands of ambushed Mexicans, who slaughtered the Americans as they, dashed across an open plain. Sergeant Farror gave a graphic recital of the terrible details and described how he and a few comrades managed to straggle back to the Texan border and rejoined their freinds. His shattered wrist gave mute but convincing testimony of his active participation in that memorable conflict. He has been appointed to a position in the War Department in this city and will make his home here. This was his first public speech and he acquitted himself with great credit. A PURSE FOR MRS. DUBAR AS DO NOT ACCO Sold by druggists, for 25c, postpaid. F Fred Palmer's Skin V Pharmacy, Atlanta, C SOLD BY ALL THE P M. C. G NO. ONE, 7TH AND K STREET NO. TWO, S. W. COR. 7TH A NO. THREE, 2002 14TH STRE NO. FOUR, 7TH AND M STRE Others who spoke briefly were La-Vant Dodge, professor emeritus of Greek and Science, Berca College, Ky., former junior, vice-commander, Grand Army of the Republic, George Topham, a prominent F street business man, Rev. Holland Powell, Rev. C. H. Stepteau, George Little, and Julia Mason Layton. The latter elaborated on the work of the Women's Federation of the District. The record showed that the Federation had in the past year distributed over $500 among worthy charities and had donated $250 toward the Anti-Lynching Fund. Mrs. Holland Powell, speaking for the Federation, presented Mrs. Dunbairn with a purse of $25.00 as a testimonial of its veneration and, respect, and as a small help towards defraying her expenses to Chicago where she has gone for a visit to relatives. While here Mrs. Dunbairn attended the dedication ceremonies of the Dunbairn High School, named in honor of her son, and of which fact she feels a pardonable --- DR. 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Mrs. Louis Doulgast, local host of Mrs. Dunba occupied a seat on the platform. Delightful music was rendered I the choir of Asbury M. E. Church Under the direction of Mr. R. V Johnson these talented artists sang they had never sung before and t choir's rendition of the exetet fro "Lucia," was superb. Mrs. Essie Jvis presided at the piano. Besides Mr. A. S. Pinkett, valu assistance was given Miss Madre Miss Lulu Brown, Mrs. Florer Burges, Mrs. Grace Lucas Thompson Mrs. Sadie Wingard, Mr. D. D. Rog and the officers of Lincoln Tem Congregational Church. The meeting was a grand one fr every point of view—and is conce to have been one of the very held in connection with the time- hored Bethel Literary and Histor Association. The Women's Federat has established itself anew as a ling factor, in the civic life of nation's capital. doanny ONTur Sport Gets:A ILirtiN Tar Nick Or TIME. The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOE, Durham, N. C. wy fi, ‘President, James E. Shepherd, Durhem,.N. C. : ae . AUS TR TMH Bit Si ER ee Sere: EAA es eee eo tae See ae! eae Sane ee . Dee SE Sc Set a ENE, ee ere er te a CE Oi ae genes ee ee Ce oo see. ee a | Pe i iw rae is Re Eas sens SOE Reo: oa oe. a pe os ne ae oe eres Pee eres ce Be earch tienen PAS Ge hee Doe Oo IES ae acoees PPI ete ERG gee hay. saa a Bo eee PG es << a ! a oe Teer Se ro. as Oe ee ee ee ee nae ae pee le ee peso Sr Uae aie hae oe ae 26 ta. ete Boots | Ie oe ee eee ise ke Pe teenth | RO URES iad PORE alle tanga Bee i tana | a eS pe ee ec ea Eee Ve ane PERT nome, Pe esa ene = es Fi axe ee a ee borer Se ieee RO egy OM ia pweges ANU Guage aya ot ; rs bs ae aah bics Le Eee ee ae ener 1 pe Me Oe me ee ey ay ee Nets css eae ee EE LSE Oa i as oe ee ong ee eee ee essen pa ae eae. BO go? ese rae MSL _ “I cordially commend’ the’ school’s interest and needs to“all wlio believe in the . Negro race and in our obligation to help promote ‘its intellectual, mofal and religious : uplift.?’—Rev. Dr. Charles H. 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One year in advance . . . $2.00 Six months . . . 1.00 Three months . . . . 50 Subscription monthly . . . 20 OUR COLORED CITIZENS. There are thousands of colored people in this city who are very enthusiastic over public demonstrations, especially when the white people foot all the bills. Indeed, many colored people who were prominent in emancipation day parades, seldom ever contributed to those parades but would invariably appeal to the white people for contributions to enable them to celebrate their own freedom. The colored brother is seldom in the contributing van, not even when they see their own decrepid suffering for the want of proper nourishments. The only commendable thing that has ever been done thus far by certain colored representatives is the interest they have shown in preparing for the inauguration of President Wilson. Certain colored republicans who fought, denounced and condemned every principle in the platform of the democratic party are attempting to take from those colored men who supported the democratic presidential candidate, the honor of assisting in their inauguration. The Bee takes this opportunity of commending suicemen as Bishop Alex. Walters, Thomas. W. Swann, James H. Howard, deputyUnited States Marshal, for the new departure of defraying their own expenses without holding out their mits to the white inaugural committee for one hundred and fifty dollars to enable them to set up a colored side show. The real committee of the people will not accept a dollar from the white committee. This is an evidence of the loyalty of colored democrats to assist in the inaugural ceremonies of the men whom they assisted in electing The Bee is informed that certain enthusiastic colored men who cried themselves dry, called to see Chairman Harper several weeks ago, and demanded that they be appointed on certain committees or given recognition. Not one individual had contributed a penny to the inaugural committee of which Mr. Harper is chairman. These colored graft seekers should have been kicked out of his office. The Bee takes this opportunity to inform the colored people who will come to this city to witness the inauguration of reelection of President Wilson and Vice President Marshal, that the real people will see to their entertainment and reception. They are in no wise public spirited. Hundreds of their fellows were in need during these cold winter months and what did colored society do? Give balls, soires, card parties, evening receptions and amusements. How many contributed to charity? If our good white citizens would do the with-holding act, tight pockets and closed fists would come open. Since segregation has become so prevalent in this city some of the race pride individuals have opened their eyes and realized the importance of patronizing their theaters and drug stores. These are about all, with the exception of our only department store, to which they can lay claim. The so-called kid-glove individual is just as big a fool today as he was in years gone by. A PUBLIC RECEPTION TO SENATOR_CLAPP. A public reception to say goodbye to Senator Moses E. Clapp on the completion of sixteen years service in the United State Senate will be held Friday evening, February 9, at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on M. St. between It is, accordingly, most fitting and becoming, that our people should seek opportunity to testify to the high esteem in which they undoubtedly hold this sincere champion of their right as human beings. if we are to have friends we must show ourselves friendly. We are sure the community will contribute such numbers to the meeting to be held on the evening of the 9th of Feb. as will completely fill the Metropolitan Church, and to Senator Clapp that his efforts have been in behalf of a people who know their rights and love their friends. It is intended to present the senator a set of engrossed resolutions, and their will be several address 3, one of which will be by Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington. The District of Columbia Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its annual meet-last Friday evening at the Y. M. C. A. building on Twelfth Street between S and T. The annual reports of the officers showed the branch to be in a healthy condition. The present officers were all reelected as follows: President, Archibald H. Grimke; Secretary, W. B. Hartgrove; Treasurer, Garnet C. Wilkerson; members of the Executive Committee, L. M. Hershaw, and Miss E. C. Hunter. THE COLORED LEADER. A race of people of ten millions, in a republic that boasts of its liberality and humanitarianism, failing to receive protection under the constitution by which the republic is governed, and without a leader. The Association for the Advancement of Colored People comes nearer being the real exponent of the rights of colored Americans than any other American body politic. Du Bois is a real man. He is the natural, born genius of American manhood. He is no trimmer and neither is he an apologist. Colored Americans will not be led by colored Americans. They must have a white man to speak for them. Colored leadership is a faerce. It is selfish, arrogant and deceptive. Place a colored man in a position of authority and he soon becomes the willing tool and slave of the white man. He caters to fallacies of his superiors to the detriment of his people. The Bee knows of examples in this city. The moment a colored man is willing to be the willing tool of his superio in authority, he is a good "nigger" in the eyes of that authority. Colored leadership in the United States is a farce. It sleeps when it should be awake. It is the worm that never turns so long as it is not disturbed in its passage of crawling and so lazy it is, if it were stepped upon it would be crushed out of existence. The Bee wants to call the attention of its readers to the resolutions and address of Mr. John R. Bates, before the National Association for the Advancement of colored people. Now, here is an enthusiastic colored American, who loves his people. His address is sensible and if this association had ten thousand members on the order of Mr. Bates, colored leadership would be above par. NORTH CAROLINA. MUTUAL. Elsewhere in The Bee will be seen and real with interest the financial report of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, at Durham, N. C. The manager of this great company is C. C. Spaulding, one of the greatest insurance managers in the United States. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association is one of the richest companies in the United States managed and financed by colored Americans. Don't fail to read the report. MARRIED TEACHERS THIRTY years ago The Bee advocated the propriety of female teachers in the public schools marrying. No male teacher should be allowed to teach in our High and Normal schools. COMMISSIONER BROWNLOW. There is a report in circulation that Commissioner Louis.Brownlow is to go higher up. There is no public official in the United States any more respected than Mr. Brownlow. If the people were given the right to vote and he should be named for any executive office, The Bee is confident that he is one man who would receive the votes of the people, irrespective of color or condition. JAMES H. HAYES It seems strange to pronounce the words "James H. Hayes is dead," and yet such is the solemn fact. Last Sunday afternoon James H. Hayes breathed his last at his residence 1307 T St., N. W. He was fifty eight years old, and had lead a career that attracted the attention of people in a large section of the country. He possessed oratorical talents of no mean order, and was particularly effective in speaking to popular audiences: THE LIQUOR QUESTION. Why not submit the liquor question to the people of the District of Columbia? If the people vote dry then Congress ought to act and not until then. OUR TEACHERS The Bee has great confidence in the president of the board of education. Why certain damaging allegations which are in the hands of the school authorities are not investigated The Bee would like to know. Is favoritism in our colored schools to be continued? The German note to the United States will hold the wrold for a while. The United States must come up or shut up. Colored Americans who have been butchered for centuries will have a respite now and the jim crow laws in the south will not have a chance to enforced. This is the beginning and the end. Colored republicans monopolizing the honor due colored democrats. The people will entertain their own friends without the assistance of Mr. Harper. Elected Attorney for the Elks. Elected Attorney for the Elks. Charles S. Williams, Esq., a member of the local bar, has been elected attorney for the Columbia lodge of Elks, for the Ancient city lodge of Maryland. THE PARAMOUNTS Friday night was a gala one for the members and guests of this club. The young ladies, so beautifully attired, were in keeping with the well groomed young gentlemen who sought them to trip the light fantastic. Space will not permit the names of the guests. Messrs. D. Lloyd Wycks, president; Wm. C. Magruder, vice president; Julian Early, treasurer; Geo. G. Jenkins, business manager; Jos. Settlers, secretary, and Dr. Henry Hardy, sergeant-at-arms. See next week's issue. THE YOUNG MEN'S CLUB OF ST. LUKE'S CHURCH. The Young Men's Club of St. Luke's P. T. Church rendered an interesting program in the Parish Hall of their church Friday, February 2, 1917. Mr. Wm. Carter, Jr., rendered very beautifully a solo, of Dry Those Tears," which was beautifully recorded. Mr. Carter is a musical genius of pro-ability. The entertainment was a successful one. FLORIDA AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH. There is to be a big sensation in the Floridia Avenue Baptist Church in a few days. R. DeReef Miller. According to reports from-Florida and the East Coast business at the southern resorts is increasing daily. Mr. McClan of Philadelphia is in charge of the dining rooms-of the Royal Ponciana and has a very competent set of officers under his charge, and a crew of well trained colored waiters which the Flagler hotels have with the touring and traveling public. Mr. Lewis T. Thomas, manager of the Capital City Clerf Club of this city, has resumed his position this season at Pine Hurst, N.C. Numbered among his musicians at Pine Hurst is Beasley, Harvey's popular drummer. BHJ Jones has succeeded Mr. Beasley at the drum at Harvey's during his absence. The Capital City Clerf Club is making great progress in Washington and has become very popular with the drum as well as colored patrons. The "Thatchers" band John Mayo at 1516 Thirteenth street northwest for the members of the Ebbitt Cafe Orchestra will be long-remembered. Senators McCumber of North/Dakota and Nelson of Minnesota made a very surprising fling at the hotel keepers of Washington last week in regards to the raising of rates for the inaugural period. It shows that these gentlemen are not very familiar with the hotel business; it's wear and tear, and high market rices, extra help, etc., or they would not have tried to make such an impression upon the American people. The National Hotel has had the honor of serving as its guest last week a real Indian bride Plenty Moors of the Crow Indian Reservation Montana. The team of "Joyner and Bayton" are now connected with the Pullman Dining Car Co., between Richmond and Jacksonville. Mr. Oswell Dixon of St. George Hotel, New York City, was at "The Doves" last Tuesday evening and witted Broadway's latest success in the novelty dance, and music "Pray That the Lights Will Go Out." M.S. C. L. MASON ENTERTAINED BY DAUGHTERS. A tea was given by Mrs. Caroline L. Mason of 922 T street, by her daughters in honor of her $22 birthday, when she was the recipient of several tokens. Man's Will In One Line. Seattle. Wash.—Continuing a single sentence, "I will my property to I. N. Hazlett, No. 222NZ First avenue," the shortest will on record here has been dled in the superior court. The instrument was drawn by A. J. Keller, who died June 15 from injuries received when he was killed by a horse. The doctors at the hospital where Keller was taken told him he had but a short time to live, so Keller, using a single small sheet of yellow scratch paper, wrote his last will and testament in a firm hand and then died. Baby Chokes to Death on Candy. Chicago—Anthony Junior, the eight een-months-old son of Anthony Tell, choked to death on a stick of candy at the home of his parents on the south side. His six-year-old sister and given him the candy, which lodged in his throat and brought death before medical aid could be summoned. Qucer Eskimo Custom. A traveler among the Eskimos of northern Alaska tells of a custom that reveals an old mixture of superstition and practical shrewdness. When a child is born its parents give it the name of the last person who died in that village, partly in the belief that the spirit of the dead person leaves the grave and enters the child and partly in the expectation that the relatives of the dead person will contribute to its support. Doiling Alive. The last instance of boiling to death took place in Persia in 1800. The offender was guilty of stealing state revenues and was put into a large children of cold water, which was slowly heated to the boiling point. His bones were distributed as a warring presence the provincial tax collectors. Walking is Work Putnam—Did you walk to work yesterday? Halsey—Yes, and the wind blew off my bar, which landed in an auto, which did not stop; my eyes were bled with dust, and I bumped into a man I owned $10. Hereafter I follow no more health tips.—Brooklyn Standard Union. The British Cabinet It is the inexible unwritten rule of the British cabinet that no member of the cabinet shall take any note or record of its decisions except the prime minister, and he does so solely for the purpose of sending his written report to the king. Vincent Astor, Frederick Vanderbilt and others In the Organization. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—Warren Delano of Barrytown, Colonel Archibald Rogers of Hyde Park, Tracy Dows of Rhinebeck, Herman Livingston of Greendale and Thomas Hunt of Clermont, as directors, a certificate of the incorporation of the Upper Hudson Protective society. The purpose of the society is to guard country estates of wealthy New York men against burglars. Among the leaders in the society are Vincent Astor, Robert P. Huntington, Frederick Vanderbilt, William B. Dinsmore and John I. Roosevelt. Arrangements have been made to engage detectives and watchmen. The formation of the society is the result of the burglaries last spring, which culminated in the killing of a burglar on Astor's estate by detectives. Most of the wealthy residents of the county have placed their silverware in safe deposit vaults and are using plate. The society will "co-operate, with local, county and state officials" to enforce law and offer rewards for the arrest of criminals. BOY SIX YEARS OLD IS MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY Child With Unusual Mental Powers Discovered In Findlay (O.) School. Findlay, O.—A child wonder, with unusual mental powers, has been discovered in the first grade. West State street school by Miss Helen Gaskill, the teacher. He is Master Roy Fork, aged six, son of F. L. Fork, well driller, residing on Franklin avenue. While bright in all his school work, the youngster is a prodigy in mathematics. He knows the calendar by heart and, although given the most severe question with regard to days and dates, never makes a mistake. If you tell him your age he can tell in a second the year you were born, and if you give him the date of your birthday and ask him what day of the week it comes on he replies at once, correctly and without fall. His ability cannot be attributed to mental telepathy, for in many instances he tells the day of dates in last year's calendar, which, when you look them up, you find are right. Although not customary to teach children the months and abbreviations of months, Roy had them mastered when he went to kindergarten, and the remarkable feature is that he was never taught. He is also lightning fast in problems which deal with addition and subtraction of the calendar, and catch questions are easily solved. LEPERS IN REVOLT. They Refused to Leave Havana Hospital For Another Home. Havana: The lepers of San Lazaro hospital revolted when the officers of their institution tried to transfer them to Mariel, and it was several hours before they agreed to leave. When the inmates raised a flag saying they would be removed only by violence the health officers hesitated, having heard rumors that the 174, lepers had arms and would use them. After a promise had been given that they would be removed to a new hospital now being built as soon as it is finished the lepers entered the ambulances prepared for them, many of them weeping as they went. There is a report that more than twenty of them escaped from San Lazaro during the parley. GIRLS. HERE'S JULIA! He Wants a Wife, but Name Bars Him at Home. Boston-A. Julia Shepard, a prosperous farmer of Derry, N. II., is unable to find a wife at home because of his middle name, so he has come to Massachusetts to look for one. Recently he was "looking them over" in Holyoke. "I am twenty-seven years old, am making good money and wish to have a real home." he said to a reporter there. "If there is a girl who is looking for a man like me I would be glad to have her write to me." HER 105TH BIRTHDAY FEAST. Mrs. Bennett Entertains Three Generations For the Holidays. New York—Mrs. Alice Bennett, who celebrated the hundred and fifth anniversary of her birth in her home in Brooklyn recently was somewhat tired, but not so much that she did not celebrate Christmas. She carried out her daily routine of life and then had dinner with her son and daughter, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. All except her daughter live out of town and were her guests in Brooklyn over the holidays. County Jail Empty. Jefferson City, Mo.—There is not a prisoner in the Cole jail. The last prisoner was discharged recently. According to the records of the jail, this is the first time in seventy-five years that it has been without an occupant. As a rule there are from five to twenty-five prisoners in the jail, and at this time of year it usually is filled. SEEKS CROESUS' WEALTH. Professor Butler Will Dig For Treasure Buried in Sardis. Peckskill, N. X.-Croesus, king of Lydia and the world's first great financier, escorted a committee of his subjects through his palace one afternoon in February, 77, and after the committee had looked at Croesus' heaps of gold one of the visitors, the first muckraker evidently, said it was wicked that any one should have so much wealth and that something was going to happen. It did. Half an hour later most of the big mountain overhanging Sardis buried the city, and when the earth-quake was over Croesus' wealth was buried below mining depth. Professor Howard Butler of the department of art and archaeology in Princeton university announced that he was going over to Asia Minor very soon to resurrect the buried treasure. In 1900 Professor Butler headed an expedition to Sardis, and, though he found only bronze statues, his excavations were of great scientific worth. His decision to return was made following the receipt of a message at his home in Croton Falls sent by Consult George Horton at Smyrna, which asserted that Professor Butler's old excavations were unharmed notwithstanding war operations. HE "MINES" MUSHROOMS. Expert Uses Deserted Coal Mine at Farm With Success. Morgantown, W. Va.—The queenel the place selected for a mushroom garden the finer, it seems, is the growth of this popular table delicacy. The last word in a mushroom farm, however, is such a garden placed in the depths of a deserted coal mine hundreds of feet below the ground. Not far from Morgantown, there is located this old coal mine, known as the Pittsburgh coal seam, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Theodore F. Imbach, an assistant in the state agricultural experimenting station at Morgantown, obtained a permit from the owners of the property. He encamped on the first level and made chemical analysis of the rocky soil. He found it was rich in moisture and its constituents exactly those needed by edible fungi for their quickest and most luxurious growth. He therefore started a mushroom farm and found the spot was ideal for his purpose. This "mushroom mine" makes large shipments weekly to the city markets. HELPING THE IMMIGRANT. Los Angeles Plans Methods of Practical Assistance. Los Angeles, Cal. — Fifty thousand clubwomen of Los Angeles are co-operating with the Federal Immigration Commission and the school board in initiating new standards of education for the foreign population. Instead of teaching the allen patriotic hymns he will be instructed how to call a doctor in an emergency, talk to the corner policeman and similar usages. The first step will be the opening of eighteen night schools for the foreign population. The general movement is the outgrowth of a social survey made of the city under the direction of the State Commission on Immigration and Housing, the first scientific analysis of the kind made by a western city in this country. The new night schools will be maintained the year round. WHITE MICE SET FIRE. But Then They Give Alarm by Scampering Over Sleepers. New York. — Some practical joker turned loose twelve white mice in a Brooklyn store. As a result there was a fire. Twelve families were hurried to the street, and one man was nearly suffocated. The first floor is occupied by James Riggsby, a clear dealer. He slept in the rear of the store. When the mice, scampering across beds, awoke sleepsmen women screamed and ran into the halls. Somebody outside heard the yelling and summoned a policeman. It was then the fire was discovered. Riggsby was found unconscious. He was revived by Dr. Harper of the Brooklyn hospital. The fire did $500 damage. The police believe mice guawed a box of matches in the cigar store. COLONEL HAS A FIRE TRUCK. New Apparatus Allays Oyster Bay's Fear of Incendiaries. Oyster Bay, N. Y.-Fear of incendiarism which has filled the residents of this section for the last few months resulted in the putting into service by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and other wealthy men of a modern fire truck. The machine is guaranteed to make the steep run up Sagamore Hill in record time, and the new apparatus gives Oyster Bay the best fire protection on Long Island outside of Brooklyn. There have been many disastrous fires on the estates of residents of the north shore recently. Among those who joined Colonel Roosevelt in contributing toward the new fire truck were W. R. Coe, C. K. G. Billings, J. Stuart, Blackton, Colgate Hoyt and Mortimer L. Schiff. And Still Eggs Are High. Charleston, W. Va.-Elosie is the name of a Rhode Island Red hon owned by L. P. White, a farmer of Birch Run, Kanawa county. She has laid an egg every day for two months, each of which is much larger than the ordinary egg. The last and largest of these measured eight and one-half inches the long way around and seven inches in the other largest circumference. Elosie is less than one year old. The Week in Society Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Watkins entertained a party of friends Friday, January 19th ulto in honor of Miss Ethel Collins, a niece of Mrs. Watkins, one of debutants of last autumn, whose engagement was announced to Mr. Percey Williams of this city. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Colbert, formerly of Columbia, S. C., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown; Mr. and Mrs. Mickens, Mr. and Mrs. Whitlock, of Richmond, Va., Mrs. Anna Colbert, Geo. Harris, J. Collins, Vernon L. Talbert, Miss Southern, Miss Green, of Boston, Mass., Messrs. Syphax, B. B. Owings and Queen Collins and Queen. A church entertainment was given by Mrs. Rosa Aller, 43 Pierce street northwest, Monday evening for the benefit of Antloch Baptist Church. Rev. Peter Aller is pastor and he is doing church. There was many musical selections rendered. Among some of those present were Miss Irene Brown, John Roland, Mrs. Ada Payne, Mr. Julius Williams, Mrs. Martha Berkley, Rev. Wycher, Rev. Benjamin F. Jack, W. Calvin Chase and others. soh W. Mrs. Borkley rendered very beau- tiful, vocal solo. tifully a vocal solo. Mrs. Mary A. Lee, wife of Cicero A. Lee of the Post Office Dept., has been confined to her bed for several days. She is some better at this writing, however, and The Bee hopes that she will be out within a few days. she will be out when Miss M. E. Jenifer, 1167 Sixth street northeast, entertained a few friends from Norfolk, Va., last week. Sunday she was the guest of Mrs. Allen of Baltimore, Md. Dr. W. L. Smith is having great success with his indigestion cure. The demand for his medicine is marvelous. Mr. Thomas Swan has been indisposed for two weeks with a severe cold. Mrs. Whitfield-Jackson and daughter, Mrs Louise Jaackson, of 1919 L street northwest, arrived at San Juan, Rico, safe and sound. Porto Rico, safe and safe Mr. and Mrs. C. Hundley of T street entertained last Sunday. Miss Ethel Parker of Third street northwest after a delightful stay at her parents' home in Norfolk, Va., returned to the city last week, much ben- ented. The Willing Worker Club of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church are doing commendable work. Their efforts have succored many needy families. the many friends of the late-Lawyer Jas. H. Hayes were much grieved and shocked at the news of his death. Mr. Hayes had a host of friends here who condole with his widow, mother and son. The deceased was taken to Richmond, his old home, for interment. $316 Mrs. Jas. H. Montgomery, or so Twelfth street northeast, who was quite indisposed last week with a touch of the la grippe, is able to be out again. out again. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Butler of Hunter Station, Arlington, Va., had as dinner guests on Sunday, January 21, 1917. Dr. J. C. Williams and Mr. H. Teagle King of this city, and Miss Rosa B. Whipps of Chariottesville, Va. Mr. and Mrs. H. Cyril Irving, of Hunter's Station, Arlington, Va., brother-in-law and sister of Miss Helen Butler, entertained at supper Thursday, January 25, 1917, Misses Katherine E. Irving, Helen Butler, Messrs. Horace Dean and H. Teagle King. Mr. Vernon Hicks, accompanied by Miss W. Coleman, entertained at a beautiful seven course dinner, Mr. H. Teagle King and Miss Helen Butler on January 24, 1917. After the dinner the party returned to the residence of Miss Coleman, 1530 T street northwest, where an interesting musical was rendered by Messrs. Hicks and King. The annual Mardi Gras under the auspices of the Colored Women's Christian Association promises to be a grand and enjoyable affair. The public should encourage the efforts of these noble women who are doing such a great work. Miss Nora L, Gibson entertained Thursday evening at whist. Mrs. Lucy Blagburn left the city Tuesday for Richmond, Va., to accompany the bereaved family of the late Atty James H. Hayes. Mrs. Wendell Smith, of Jersey City, N. J., formerly Miss Evelyn Barker, popular in social as well as school circles quite a few years ago, will be in the city Sunday. February 4th, as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Cole, 1928 Fifteenth street northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Mayo of West View, Va., are expected to spend inaugural week with their daughters, Mrs. F. Cole and Miss Rebecca Mayo, of 715 Gresham street northwest. Miss Minnie Summer is spending a two-weeks' stay with her parents. Mrs. Lizzie, Scott Jones of 944 S street northwest is confined to her bed stick with her glove. sick with a fever. Mrs. Ella Dorem Howard, wife of Mr. James H. Howard, is ill at her home. Her illness was brought on by being overtaxed during her husband's illness. liness. Mr. Richard Pleasant of Philadelphia, Pa., is in the city on a vacation. He is stopping with friends. Miss Lillie Clark of this city spent a few days in Columbus, S. C., and then she went to Atlanta, Ga. Sunday with her daughter in Annapolis, Md. Miss Agnes A. Adams is not able to leave her, room at vet. Games and dancing were enjoyed until 11 o'clock at which hour all repaired to the dining room in which a table laden with good things, far too many to enumerate, had been set, and "feasted" to their hearts content. The affair was a pronounced success. Mr. M. M. Taylor, of Anacostia, has retired from U. S. Navy. His friends are glad to see him. Mrs. Middleton, 338 C street, S. W. is confined to her home. Miss Ross Whitney, 201 D street, S. W. is slowly improving. Rev. J. H. Callis is having great success at Metropolitan A. M. E. Zlon Church. Many additions to his congregation. Mr. W. H. Shelton, 416 3rd street, S. W. is improving. Mr. Edward Netson, 900 E street, S. W. is still on the sick list. Mr. Geo. Newman, C street, S. W. is confined to his home on account of illness. Mr. Nelson Newman, 1432 S street, N. W. is on the sick list. Friends hope for his early recovery. Miss Ada E. Chestnut, 303 L street, N. W. has been confined to the house-for several weeks on account of a severe cold. She is much better, and expected to be out soon. Dr. W. W. Jones, 58th street, N. E. met with an accident last Tuesday, while cranking his machine. His right arm was painfully injured. The Doctor, for several days, has been busy answering phone inquiries about his condition. He is out at this writing, to the gratification of his many friends. Mrs. Mason, of the Mid City Theatre and hair culturist went to Richmond, Va., last week on business, and returned this week. Mrs Josephine Hern, and Mrs. E. W. Bundy, spent the week end in Baltimore, Md., the guests of Mrs. George H. Holland. Mrs G. B. Campbell, 304 Tea street, N. W. is able to be out, and resume her duties in the Public Schools. Mme E. Azalia Hackley, following her release from the New York hospital, spent a week at the home of Dr. Lyman' Abbott, at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. She was shown many social courtesies and was under the patronage of the Deaconesses of St. George P. E. Church, and a similar official from St. Bartholomew's, Mme' Hackley is expected here for a folk-song festival as soon as she is able to resume work. Miss Marle A.D. Madre, LL.B., LL. M., made a hasty business trip to New York City, last week. While there she called on Mme E. Azalia Hackley, who was confined at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital with a serious affliction of the ear. Mr. William H. Lacey, of the Capitol restaurant, has returned from a pleasant trip to New York City. Mrs. Mary Gray has been ill at her home. 24 Defree street, N. W. Her sister, Mrs. Still, of Philadelphia, Pa., was called to her bedside. Miss Lynch has returned to her school duties after being absent a few days with LaGrippie. Miss Dalla Bunday, the talented daughter of Mrs. Lottie Bundy and the late James F. Bundy, who has been ill at her home, 403 O street, N. W. is now getting on nicely. Mrs. H. E. Toppen has returned from Atlantic City, and is with her son, Wesley T. Toppen, at 1207 Watter street, S. E. Mrs. Annie Bent of 69 N street N. W., entertained a few friends from Baltimore last Wednesday from 1 to 3 o'clock, P. M. Mrs. M. E. Washington, a relative of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Maxfield, who is visiting in this city from Proctor, Vt., has been indisposed since her arrival here. Miss M. Hillman, a teacher in the Manual Training School, has been quite sick at her home, 63 N street, N. W. Miss Laura May Taylor, the accomplished daughter of Mrs. Fannie Ware Taylor, of Tea street, has been confined to her home, with LaGripe. Miss Lucy Shaw, who has been ill for some time, was able to resume her school duties last week. Mr. Leroy Wilkins, proprietor of "Leroy's" at 5th avenue and 13th street, New York City, spent the week here, the guest of Mr. Sherman Mason, manager of the Mid-City Theatre. The Howard Theatre is to have a female orchestra, beginning next Monday night. The present-Howard orchestra will remain intact and hold itself in readiness for entertainments, day and night. The leader is Prof. Edward Minor. This talented aggregation has rendered faithful service for a number of years at the Howard and it is with deep regret that the public parts with them. Prof. Minor can be reached at 43 Hanover place, N. W. Miss Marlon Kemp, of Philadelphia, spent a few days in the city this week, en route homeward, from Wheeling, W. V. She was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby J. Davidson, 1911 13th street, N. W. Manager A. J. Thomas is in New York City this week, digging up a bunch of attractions for forthcoming engagements at the Howard. The town would like to see such note worthy artists as Griffin Sisters, the Whitman Sisters, Miss Lottie Grady, Browne and DeMont, Miller and Lyles, Irvin Miller and Esther Bigeon, King & Gee, String Beans, The Byron Brothers, Billy King and others on the stage at the Howard The Federation of Colored Women's Club of the District, Miss Marie A. D. Madrie, president is making a strenuous appeal for the relief of the Frederick Douglass Home. Mr. James H.; W. Howard, deputy U. S. Marshall, is out, after a severe attack of La Grippe. Prof. Charles H. Moore, of Greensboro, N. C., state supervisor of colored rural schools of North Carolina, is expected in hte city next week. Prof. L. M. Hershaw more than held his own in the recent joint debate with Rev. Walter H. Brooks on nation-wide prohibition. Miss Vivian Lucile Thompson, of 1223 S street, N. W., spent last Saturday in Baltimore. Mr. W. T. Menard, of New York City, was arecent visitor to the Capital. Mr. Menard was for many years an attache of the Government Printing Office. The Stove League of Baseball Boosters and Knocers are preparing to give S. H. Dudley a big "send-off" when he comes here in march with Dave Marlon's "World of Frolic." Lieut E. R. Gailthers, the president, is well pleased with the acquisition of Short-Stop Crane, and is of the opinion that, Clar Griffith will have a pennant contender this year. Mr. W. H. C. Brown is in Florida for his health. The Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund Committee will hold an important meeting tonight at its headquarters, 704 T street, N. W. Mr. Henry Lassiter is chairman of the committee, and is putting in some active work for the cause of Tuskegee Institute. Miss Marjorie Sipp, the vaudeville favorite, ran down last week from New York City to visit her mother, who has been quite ill. Miss Sipp was the house guest of Miss Gertrude Collins, 2035 8th street, N. W. Dr. J. Burnett Clark, formerly supervisor of the schools of this city, is now located at Springfield, Mo., and is prospering in business. Mr. C. C. Snaulding, vice-president and general manager of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, Durham, N. C., is to pay an inspection visit here in a few days. His annual report, to be made public this month, shows that the North Carolina Mutual has collected during the current year $501,000 and placed $0,000 to the credit of the company in assets. Nearly $1,000,000 worth of ordinary life insurance was written during the year. 1917 bids fair to collapse even this brilliant record saves Mr. Snaulding in a letter to, a Washington friend. A complimentary birthday dinner for Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback is talked of. The "Old Roman" merits all the consideration, this generation can show him. Let the dinner be a "hummer." Mme. Anita Paffi Brown, the Chicago prima donna, will reach the city about the 8th of February, and will be in charge of Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, of the National Training School for Women and Girls. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis still satourneth in New York City, giving dramatic recitals. Tuesday Evening Club The Tuesday Evening Club of Social Workers, was organized November 1914, the outcome of a call made by Dr. Clara Smith for the coming together of all social workers. The organization was incorporated December 1915. Since then the Club has been active working largely in three avenues. The objects of this body are: 1st. To study social conditions in general, but particularly those effecting the Negro in the District of Columbia. 2nd. To promote social welfare, establish and maintain a home for delinquent colored girls and in short, to bring about a closer relationship between all who are interested in the social activities carried on in this city. The Club has a floating membership of about one hundred (100), and we take this opportunity to extend a cordial invitation to all who are interested and want to join. The first avenue through which we work is the Court or Rescue Committee. This committee connotes with the courts and lands whatever assistance it can for the child's best THE BIG MUSICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON. THE BIG MUSICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON. THE WEEKLY NEWS The National Training School for Women and Girls will present Anita Patti Brown, the prima donna coloratura, and Clarence Cameron White, the favorite violin soloist, together with an aggregation of well known artists, in their Mid-Winter Folk Festival at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, February 12th to 16th. Each evening will be the best. Something entirely different is on the bill for each of the five nights. Tickets, season, $2.00, transferable and entitles the holder to a reserved seat. Reserved seats, 50; general, 25 and 35. On sale at drug, stores, or call Lincoln 1777. Proceeds to aid in the erection of the much needed Trades Hall. Don't miss the festival of the season. HIAWATHA THEATER 2008 11th St. N. W. First Class Pictures and Good Music One of the Most Popular Theaters in the City Come and Spend Two Hours of Solid Comfort and Pleasure 1223 Seventh Street Between M and N Streets N. W. The only colored theater on Seventh Street That Runs High-Class Photo Plays and Vaudeville. Price Adults, 10 cents; Children, 5 Cents SHERMAN MASON, Manager CARTER LOCKHART, Assist- ant Manager. THE LEADER Ladies' Coats, $2.98 up; Boys' Suits and Overcoats $1.98 up; Skirts 98c to $8.00; Furs at reasonable prices. We carry a full line of Men's and Women's and Childrens' furnishings. Phone North 5542 1250 7th St. N. W. interests, and finds work for unfortunate girls. The maintenance committee has the care of a girl, who came to them through the rescue committee, that would be in a Reform School, but for this committee. The Club has had jurisdiction for two years. She is happily located in a good school and will complete her work this. June—a credit to herself, and the Club $ ^{b} $ The Industrial Home Committee has just closed a camaign netting ($500.00) Five Hundred Dollars. This is a small amount to what should have been raised, and what must be raised if we are to establish the home that is such a crying need in the District of Columbia for OUR unfortunate girls. It is our purpose to establish a home for delinquent colored girls in the Suburbs of Washington, where such girls may be accommodated and properly trained. We therefore, solicit the patronage, and support of all who feel for his weaker sisters care. MINOR NORMAL SCHOOL. 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JAVINS & SONS Dealers in Fresh Fish, Oysters, Terrapin, Poultry, Game, Etc CENTER MARKET, B STREET WING Oyster House, 930 C Street N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. KATZ MARKET 9th FLORIDA AVE. N. W. The Cheapest in the City Everything Fresh Daily Two Stores in One res in One --- a-rusn ```markdown ``` tr EL pr st its AGENTS OUTFIT 1 Haiti Grower, 1 Temple Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Pressing Oil, 1 Face Cream and direction for selling. 25c Extra for Postage Phone Main 8649 Will promote a Full Growth of Hair. Will also Restore the strength Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If your Hair is Dry and Wiry, Try EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER MISS E. CARTER Washington, D. C. Special Notice To introduce our work, hair food and toilet preparations, we have decided to make special reduced rates for the Holidays. Any person bringing coupon below to our parlors can receive any treatment of the hair face, hands, feet for half price, and also get a reduction on any article in our store. We are putting in a new complete line of toilet articles and notions which we are sure will suit the taste and convenience of all ladies, and we are also offering a special lady's maid course which consists of shampooing, manicuring, plain facial massage, hand, arm molding for $2.00. Come in with your coupon and get ready to enter the January class. Any information given free and willingly. This offer begins November 20th, 1916, to February 1st, 1917, Open from 9 a. m. to 9:30 p. m. Cut along dotted lines MONOGRAM Fine Old Whiskey A. Blend Bottled by M. HENNESSY 216 Ninth St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Once Had Fortune of $300,000. Died by Own Hand. HELD ON TO HIS $1,200 JOB. Saved Money, Got Few Tips on Operations In Wall Street From Wealthy Residents Along Route and Then Turned His Attention to Real Estate, but Lost All In Speculation. New York—Strange hands are delivering the mail along East Seventy-second street to the doormen in the fine homes close to Fifth avenue, to the trim maids in the houses farther east, to the maids of all work in the homes not far from Third avenue and to the occupants of the tenement houses "the other side" of the elevated road. For "Old Man" Henry is dead, the victim of his own act, and no longer will he peer over his silver rimmed spectacles to welcome the new baby in the tenement, to exchange greetings with the nurseryalds farther west or to swap joking comments with all that knew him. For thirty-five years he had delivered mall, for twenty years along that one route, and his spry figure, trim white beard and twinkling blue eyes were known even to the children. Not everybody on his route knew, however, that Martin L. Henry, the $1,200 a year letter carrier, was one of the wealthiest men in Uncle Sam's mail service. Long years of careful saving and investment in real estate which increased rapidly in value gave him a fortune reputed to be $300,000. Henry lived in an attractive house at 1048 Bathgate avenue, the Bronx, which he owned. Last June he was injured in a fall, but he soon returned to his work again. But since then, according to his son, Martin L. Henry, Jr., the father's mind seemed to be somewhat affected and mild delusions beset him. Mr. Henry was sixty-five years old. He saved his money and got a few tips on operations in Wall street from wealthy residents along his route. He made money speculating in stocks, but soon abandoned this field for increasing his income and turned to the real estate field. Lots in the Bronx were then selling for a few hundred dollars each, and he bought all he could of them. When he came to sell them later he profited to the extent of several times his original capital and then bought more lots farther out in the Bronx. He sold some of those at good profit and then improved what was left, putting up apartment houses that gave him a handsome income. Some of his income he put out in mortgages. Recently he lost all his fortune in Wall street speculation. Wall street speculation. For many years his friends thought that he was only holding his job as a letter carrier in the hope that the government would soon pass a law which would enable him to retire on a pension, for they could not believe that the $1,200 a year was any inducement for him to work. FAMOUS BUCK WOUNDED. Deer That Has Evaded Hunters For Years Maimed. Newport, Pa.—"Old Barney," a buck of at least fifteen spikes, who has been seen by hunters in the Seven Mountains of Miflin county every year for the past decade, has been wounded by W. H. Kepner of this place. For years it has been the particular desire of deer hunters in Miflin county to get a shot at "Old Barney," but until recently he was never caught napping. Kepner's shot did not bring down "Old Barney," although onlookers say that he was hard hit and that they would not be surprised to find the animal dead in the mountains. HONEY FOR FAMILY. Farmer Gets It From Side of House Where Bees Put It. Junction City, Kan.—When Dick Goggin, a farmer residing east of this city, wants a little honey for his morning buckwheat cakes he steps out of the front door of his home, prizes a board from the side of the house and extracts the amount he desires. Several years ago a swarm of bees selected the air space under the weather boarding for a home, entering through a small knothole. Other swarms followed and now supply more than enough honey for the family's demands. FINDS RING IN TOBACCO Rancher. Will Return It to Kentucky Girl Who Lost It. Marysville, Cal.-Miss Mayme Peetz of Louisville, Ky., employed in a tobacco factory, will recover a diamond engagement ring that slipped from her finger and was discovered recently by Jerome Hayes, a Sutter county (Cal.) ranchman, when he bit into a plug of tobacco. The story of Hayes' fund was carried in the press dispatches. Miss Peetz saw the item and wrote to the postmaster here describing the ring, and Hayes will return it. Electric Fans For Fowl. California, Mo.-The birds in a poultry plant here are real high flyers. They have one convenience that no monarch could have enjoyed fifty years ago. That convenience is electric fans. Running water has also been installed in the large feeding station of the plant. HIS CONSIDERATE WIFE. It Is Too Bad That We Can't Hear Her Side of the Story. She never abuses us to outsiders. When she is talking to other women she pretends that she doesn't care for the things she actually needs. the things. "I am ashamed," she says to us. "I am ashamed for them to know how you treat me. No other man would allow his wife to wear the clothes that I have to wear. Other men tell their wives to buy things, but if I waited for you to tell me to buy something for myself I wouldn't have a new dress between now and doomsday. "And yet I tell people that you urge me to buy things. I know I will have to answer for it, but I do it on account of the children. I don't want them to be humiliated by growing up in a community where people know how their mother is treated. Yes, that is all I have heard since I married—debt, debts, debts. I don't know what in the world you would find to talk about if you were out of debt. you were here. "I could write to my people to get money to buy the things I need, but I am ashamed to let them know what you are. No, you can't see it—you can't see anything. "I just wish you would point to one thing I have bought this season—just point to one thing I have bought. Oh, yes, that suit—that suit is all you can think about. I guess you wish I hadn't bought it. I guess you wish I didn't have anything at all to wear. have anything “Yes, I bought a pair of eight dollar shoes, but did you want me to go bare- footed? You wouldn't care if I did. If there were any shame in you, you wouldn't treat me the way you do. "What about that hat? Yes, that's what I say—what about it? Ought I to have gone without a hat? That is just the way you always are—when I try to say a word about anything you call attention to everything I ever have bought. It hurts you so much for me to buy anything that you never quit thinking about it—never quit wishing I had done without. There isn't another woman"— —Claude Collan in Fort Worth Star Telegram. BRITON AND TURK. A Surprise, a Fair Fight and the Way the Battle Ended. There is a story of Gallipoli that deals with a fight in the open and exhibits the "unspeakable" Turk as a fair and worthy enemy. This is the story: A young English officer, doing observation work alone, was suddenly confronted by a Turkish officer, similarly engaged. The Turk was as surprised as the Briton, but came forward, revolver in hand. The Englishman had no revolver. He stood his ground, his hands in the large pockets of his tunic. Seeing that his adversary was unarmed, the Turk, much to the surprise of the Briton, threw down his gun and put up his fists in approved prize ring style. The Englishman put himself on guard, and the next moment the Turk flung himself upon him, and the pair began to fight desperately. The men were about the same age the same weight and had equal knowledge of the art of boxing. They fought without stopping for about ten minutes. By that time each was fairly exhausted, and they paused for a brief rest, only to continue their little private accounting when they had found their breath. Round after round the fight went on, while out in the gulf of Saros the ships fired automatically, and back of each of them the field artillery thundered. Neither seemed to be able to get any decisive advantage over the other, and at last Turk and Englishman rolled over on the ground and laughed and laughed. Just then the Englishman's hand touched something. It was the Turk's pistol. He picked it up and handed it to his enemy. The two young men shook hands, and each returned to his own lines.-New York Post. Slinnen Day In Holland. There is a curious festival called slipper day celebrated in Holland. Slipper day in the Netherlands is the one day in the year in which the Dutchwoman claims superiority over her husband. On that day she rules him to her heart's content, and he generally obeys good humorely enough—that is, unless she is one of those ladies not unknown in Holland or in any other country who aspire to complete rule over their unhappy partners throughout the year. Impertinence. Mr. Todgers—Why have you sent Maria, the servant girl, away so suddenly? You told me yesterday that she was the best girl you ever had. Mrs. Todgers—She's an impertinent hussy. I wanted to borrow her rubbers, and she said she was afraid I couldn't get them on.—Exchange. Family Treasures. "What's the trouble in the house-hold?" "Mother gave away all of father's old clothes, and he retaliated." "As to how?"" "By throwing away all her old medicine bottles."-Philadelphia Bulletin. Gentle Influence. "Do you think going into politics impor- tant, mania, dissonance?" prove a man's disposition: "As a rule," replied Miss Cayenne, "he is obliged to look pleasant at least often enough to have his picture-taken for campaign posters." — Washington Star. The Way He Took It. Kindly Landlady (to the new boarder)—How did you find your bed, Mr. Inlate? Mr. Inlate (taken aback)—Oh, dash it, ma'am, I was not as bad as that!—London Tit-Bits. Rich Girl to Become Noted Former Prisoner's Bride. Tulsa, Okla. — Albert T. Patrick, wealthy oil man, who was sentenced three times to die in Sing. Sing prison on a murder charge, announced here his engagement to Miss. Mildred West, daughter of a Tulsa oil operator. They will be married in June. Albert T. Patrick was pardoned by Governor Dix of New York on Nov. 28, 1012, after ten years in prison, following his conviction for the murder of William Marsh Rice, a Texas millionaire, in New York city. He was the chief beneficiary under the will of Rice. Sentenced to die three times, the legal fight he made for freedom was one of the most remarkable in the criminal annals of the country. When Patrick was convicted in March, 1902, Mrs. Addie M. Francis, to whom he was engaged, proved her faith in him by marrying him in the Tombs prison in New York. She worked tirelessly from that time until he was freed to interest prominent men in his behalf, and her brother, John T. Milliken of St. Louis, spent a fortune to gain Patrick's liberty. For ten years Mrs. Patrick lived within sight of the walls of Sing Sing that she could be near her husband and comfort him. The day after he was pardoned they began their long delayed honeymoon, going first to St. Louis and later to Tulsa. A year later Mrs. Patrick, worn out by years of nervous strain, died. Department of Education Holds Student Cannot Be Made to Admit Wrong Trenton, N. J.—Pupils cannot be compelled to apologize to their teacher, according to a ruling of the state department of education. The decision is a victory for Edward Boyd, a sixth grade grammar school pupil in Bergenfield, accused of disrespect to his teacher, Miss Gertrude Morton. He refused to apologize. The board of education ordered him dismissed until he should make the amends the teacher demanded. According to Assistant State Commissioner of Education John Enright, teachers or boards of education cannot make a rule providing for the enforcement of an apology. There is abundant authority for a board of education to suspend a pupil if there is good cause, he said. The error of the Bergenfeld board was in suspending young Boyd indefinitely. If the suspension was made for a definite time the state department would uphold it. Pupils should be suspended for defiance of authority and bad conduct, but temporary dismissals should be based upon the primary cause and not because of the refusal of a pupil to apologize. Young Boyd had been out of school since November 21. Believing he has been punished sufficiently, the assistant commissioner ordered him reinstated in his class. FEET IN EDUCATIONAL TEST. Pedometer on Fair Co-Ed' Ankles to Regulate Their Marks. Madison, Wis.—University of Wisconsin girl students in the domestic economy course will henceforth earn high marks for "shop work" with their feet. This is the newest wrinkle in pedagogy. The men in the engineering course have their shop or laboratory work in the university shops. The girls in domestic economy have their shop work in a home cottage, and the test of their efficiency in their practice work is the pedometer. The girl who does her work with the fewest steps is given class markings accordingly. The university, meanwhile, is experimenting to learn how many miles a woman walks daily in her kitchen work. BABY ESCAPES TRAIN. It Passes Nearly Over Her, but She Is Only Slightly Hurt. Des Molines, la. While playing on a railway right of way the two-year-old daughter of Mrs. G. O. Mills fell sprawling in the middle of the track, and half the length of a passenger train passed over her before it could be brought to a stop. The train crew rushed to the spot where the child was lying, expecting to find her, badly mangled body. Blood was streaming from the infant's face, but on being rushed to the hospital it was discovered that a slight flesh wound on the left cheek was the only injury she sustained. Cate Keen Mariner Awake. Cats Keep Mariner Awake. Aberdeen, Wash.-A story of three steepless nights at sea caused by the howling of eleven cats is told by Captain O. Johnson of the steamer Grays Harbor, which arrived recently with an assortment of stowaway felines. He has been trying without success to get rid of the cats since his arrival here, but every time he succeeds in getting them ashore they find their way back to the ship. 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 A HOLIDAY GIFTS WARE'S DEPARTMENT STORE --- HOLI WARE'S The only Department Store th 183 Phone North 2751 HOTEL WORK A SPECIALTY J. K. ROESSLER Merchant Tailor Reparing, Aletring, Scouring and Dyeing 1755 L Street N. W. Washington, D. C. Open Day and Night Livery and Chapel JOHN T. STEWART Undertaker and Embalmer 30 H Street N. E. Washington, D. C. Phone Lincoln 3718 SPECIAL NOTICES. Information is requested for the whereabouts of Judia, Maria, Eliza and Mary Washington, daughters of Charles Washington, and sisters, Nancy and Adeline Washington, who last resided in Cobneck, Md. Information leading to the whereabouts of the foregoing persons will be greatly appreciated by ANNA C. MARSHALL, 1313 Q St. N. W. One thousand agents wanted. Good money made. We want agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25c per box—one 25c box proves its value. Any person that will use a 25c box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25c for full size box. If you wish to be an agent send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr. Northern Branch, 13 Clark St, Evanston, Ill. Persons in the South can get their THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr., P. O. DAY GIRL DEPARTMENT that appeals to the masses. 52 14TH St. N. Haston, Ill. E. O. Box 812 South can get their goods three days GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812, Green Y GIFT APARTMENT STO to the masses. Call before H St. N. W. Persons in the South can get their goods three days earlier by writing THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, N. C. WONDERFUL MEDICINE. For all billious and nervous diseases, best blood, stomach, liver and kidney tonic on earth. Sick headache, con- spiration, wind and pain in stomach. Disordered liver and kidneys. Impure blood, bolls, pimples, impaired digestion, etc. It is marvelous in its effect on the stomach, enabling it to obtain from the food taken the elements neces- sary to create flesh and muscle tissue, bone structure, and pure, rich, red blood. It contains no mercury or other mineral substances, which are injurious to the system. Tones up the Stomach, relieves indigestion and removes that tired feeling. HARRIS CHEMICAL COMPANY, Washington, D. C. Sold by all good draggists. ington, D. C. al good druggists. Telephone Main 4471 Shoe Designer CHIRSH'S HOE STOE Designers and HIRSH'S SHOE STORE Shoe Designers and Builders 1026-1028 SEVENTH STREET, NORTHWEST Washington's Fastest Growing Shoe House GIFTS T STORE Call before going downtown V. HARRIS TRADE MARK ASP NEW BLOODTONICS REGISTERED SH'S STORE THOMAS L. JONES, ATTORNEY. Filed January 24, 1917—J. R. Young, Clerk—In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding an Equity Term—Rosa Hamlett, Plaintiff, vs. Morton Hamlett, Defendant—Equity No. 34,849—Order of Publication. The object of this suit is to obtain for the plaintiff a decree of absolute divorce against the defendant, Norton Hamlett, on the grounds of adultery and cruel treatment. On motion of the plaintiff, it is, this 24th day of January, A. D. 1917, ordered that the defendant, Norton Hamlett, cause his appearance to be entered herein on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, after the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. Provided a copy of this order is published once a week for three successive weeks in the Washington Law Reporter and in the Washington Bee newspaper before said day. WILLIAM HITZ, Associate Justice. A True Copy. Test: J. R. YOUNG, Clerk. By F. E. CUNNINGHAM, Assistant Clerk. DRUG STORE FOR SALE. For sale centrally located in the hearts of 30 or 40 thousand people. A bargain for an enterprising pharmacist. Full line of tock of every description, drugs,etc. Owner retiring from retail business to manufacturing drugs, are the reasons for offering for sale a good paying drug store. Address box T. The Bee office, 1109 I Street, N. W. KATZ'S MARKET -is the cheapest store in the Ninth and Florida Ave. Northwest Groceries delivered free DR. W. L. 'SMITH'S INDIGESTION REMEDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of Indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency, Pain in the -Stomach, Water Brash, Acid Fermentation, Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. When taken in the Stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous foods, relieves the indigestion, by resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. DIRECTIONS Take a teaspoonful in a little water after meals or when suffering. Repeat in an hour if necessary. W. L. SMITH, Druggist. 723 Florida Ave., N. W. Washington, D. C. A PRINTER WANTED. WANTED at The Bee Office—A printer; one who knows the business. Write or call, 1109 Eye Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. JUSTHS' OLD STAND: Our suits are trade makers. Think of buying brand new goods that some tailor could not deliver, the original price ranged from about $15.00 to $35. Well we sell at about half and it means a good grade suit and see the cash-you save. Is it any wonder we keep busy? JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D. PARAGRAPHIC NOTES. Dr. DuBois of the Crisis is out of danger. There is no leak in the bag of the chief of police. The hearing on Shepards dry bill is set for next Tuesday. Prohibitionists in the United States do more to prevent the sale of liquor than they do in protecting human rights. Commissioner Louis Brownlow is to go higher up. He has made a good Commissioner. He knows his business. The people in this city are making a strong demand for the restoration of the right of suffrage in the District of Columbia. If Congress restored the Electric franchise to the people in the District of Columbia, hundreds of so-called white republicans would be weighed in the balance and found wanting. Manager Andrew J. Thomas is in New York on important business in connection with his playhouse. Colored republicans in the District of Columbia, who were active in an attempt to defeat the last presidential democratic ticket, want to take the lead in inaugurating it. The new republican national committeeman for the District of Columbia will have a hard road to travel when he calls the statesmen to vote. Alfred Gonzales of Costa Rica is asking the United States for intervention. There is some likelihood of allowing the people in this city to vote on the Shepards bill. Send for The Bee when you want the news. WOMAN NAMED AS CLERK TO SENATE COMMITTEE Miss Simpson Will Handle Treaties With Foreign Governments. Washington. - Miss Jessie L. Simpson became the first woman to hold the position of clerk to a senate committee when Senator Stone appointed her to that post for the senate committee on foreign relations, to succeed W. R. Hollister, who resigned several weeks ago to become assistant secretary of the Democratic national committee. Miss Simpson becomes at the same time Senator Stone's secretary. She was formerly assistant clerk. Miss Simpson's new position is in many ways the most responsible of all senate clerkships, as she will be in intimate touch with the work of the committee, which has more confidential and secret matters intrusted to its care than any other. In her hands will be treaties with foreign governments pending before the senate and much other information of a delicate nature. Miss Simpson was born in Illinois, but has lived in St. Louis most of her life. Senator Stone brought her to Washington after she had shown unusual executive capacity in the Champ Clark headquarters in the preconvention presidential contest in 1912. She will be the second highest paid woman in the government service, as her salary of $3,000 a year is exceeded only by that of Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the children's bureau of the department of labor, who receives $5,000. SEE PELLAGRA PERIL IN HIGH COST OF FOOD United States Public Health Service Fears Effect of Uribalanced Diets. Washington.—Fear that high food prices, by unbalancing diets may lead to a wider prevalence of pellagra in the United States during the year is expressed in a bulletin issued by the public health service. "As a result of government researches," says the bulletin, "it was found that pellagra is produced by an insufficient, poorly balanced diet. The application of this knowledge greatly reduced pellagra during 1916 as compared with previous years. It is feared; however, that pellagra may increase in 1917 by reason of an increase in food cost out of proportion to the prosperity now enjoyed by this country. The high cost of living has served to bring about a reduction in the amount of milk, meat, eggs, beans and peas consumed, all of which are pellagra prophylactics. In effecting economies the general public should bear in mind the importance of a properly balanced diet." Almost $5,000,000,000 was the aggregate value of all crops of the country last year. The exact value was set at $8,934,587,000, an increase of $2,105,980,000 over the value of the 1915 crops and $2,867,206,000 over the average of the years 1910 to 1914. WRONG AT BOTH ENDS. Legge's Hair Too Red For His Girl Fast Too Flat For Uncle Sam. Chicago.—His hair is red, and his feet are flat, and therefore neither husband nor hero may he become. A girl turned down Albert P. Legge of Waukegon, Ill., because of his crimson top piece, and this brought about such a condition of disconsolation that he betook himself to the recruiting station of the United States marine corps in this city and offered himself as a fighting man. The surgeon had no fault to find with his red hair, but when he got to the other end of Legge—his feet—he said officially: "You have been standing on them too much. The arches of your feet are too low to withstand service hiking." TO MAKE HENS LAY. People More Interested In Eggs Than Freight Rates, Says Mr. Sunny. Milwaukee.-Government ownership of hens was declared to be more timely than federal ownership of railroads, telephone and telegraph systems and other utilities by B. E. Sunny, president of the Chicago Telephone company, in an address in the University club. "The average person is more interested in the price of eggs than he is in the regulation of freight rates or the telephone or other utilities," declared Mr. Sunny. IT COSTS MONEY NOW TO TALK TO DOCTORS New York.—A new schedule of physicians' fees showing consistent advances is recommended by the Bronx County Medical society. Hereafter no free medical advice will be given over the telephone. Conversation with a physician over the wire on non-medical topics is permitted, but if the question, for instance, of the baby's latest ailment is injected a bill for $1 will be forthcoming. If the physician is called to attend one member of a family and some one casually inquires about, the symptoms of another member an extra charge will be made. --- COMIC OPERA CENS. Quotations From Gilbert's Works That Will Live Long. Not the comedians of pieridan nor even the tragedies of Shakespeare are more easily first in their respective classes than are the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas in theirs. In all human probability they never will be equaled, and the best of them have something of that quality "not for a day, but for all time," which wars against obsolescence and leads to their constant revival even as "Hamlee" and "Macbeth," "The Rivals" and "The School For Scandal" and Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" are constantly revived. Even should the stage in time to come know them no more they would not be dead, for, besides adding immeasurably to the innocent gayety of the English speaking nations and to their treasury of enduring songs, the operas have enriched the stock of household sayings. From "Phanfore" we have "What? Never!" and the response "Hardly ever," "his sisters, his cousins and his aunts," "in spite of all temptations to belong to other nations." "You're exceedingly polite, and I think it only right to return the compliment," "O joy. O rapture unforesceu!" "Never mind the why and wherefore" and "Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever." From "Princess Ida" come "Man is Nature's sole mistake" and "such a disagreeable man!" From "The Pirates of Penzance" we have learned that "také one consideration with another," "a policeman's lot is not a happy one." From "Iolanthe" come "Said I to myself, said I." "did nothing in particular and did it very well" and that perfect specimen of the inverted truism: Hearts just as pure and fair; To "Patience" are due "a most intense young man," "ultra poetical, superaesthetical," and "there will be too much of me." But perhaps the best known of all Gilbertisms and the one that comes oftenest to the lips is that refrain in "The Mikado" that almost sums up the whole science of an enlightened penology, "Let the punishment fit the crime." A wiser jest was never penned. From "The Mikado" also comes "He's got 'em on the list, they'll none of 'em be missed," "Here's a pretty state of things!" "Here's a pretty how-de-do!" "the flowers that bloom in the spring," "something lingering, with boiling oil in it," "three little maids from school," "a source of innocent merriment" and "He's going to marry Yum-Yum."—Philadelphia Ledger. Secret of the Baked Potato Occasionally a restaurant or a system of railroad dining cars becomes famous for its baked potatoes. At the San Francisco exposition several college girls operated an establishment at which the baked potato was the piece de resistance and cost 50 cents. All these successes have been based on a simple little trick. A potato should be larded before being baked, so as to fill up the porous skin and retain the full flavor. It is necessary to cover only the skin with a little lard, bacon grease or butter to accomplish the end. A potato so treated and baked just the proper length of time, usually three-quarters of an hour, will surpass a potato cooked in any other way. It must always be broken open immediately upon being taken from the oven, so that the steam may escape.—New York Sun. To Polish Silver. To make a good silver polish mix together one-half ounce of fine salt, one-half ounce of powdered alum and one-half ounce of common cream of tartar. Put them in a large porcelain pitcher and pour on two quarts of water and stir until entirely dissolved. Now transfer the mixture to clean bottles and cork tightly. Before using shake well. Pour a little of the liquid out into a bowl and wash the silver, all over with it, using an old linen cloth. Let it stand for ten or fifteen minutes and rub off dry with a buckskin. The silver will look like new.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Indispensable Men In "Things I Remember" Sidney Whitman tells among his recollections how on one occasion James Gordon Bennett cabled from Paris to New York ordering the discharge of a member of the staff. The manager replied asking him to "reconsider the matter, as the employee In question was indispensable. "Discharge every indispensable man on the paper," was Mr. Bennett's reply. "I myself am not indispensable." "He's been named in a suit." "What! I thought him to be a most exemplary person!" "He is; he's bought some expensive clothes, and his tailor sewed the name inside the coat pocket."—Buffalo Express. A Single One Did Well Enough. Mrs. H. 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