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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Congressional Librar. Hington's Best and Lead Negro Newspaper That's THE BEE VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 14 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1917 NOW IT'S HOUSTON NOW IT'S HOUSTON From the Buffalo Express, N. Y. There are, of course, two side to the story of the outbreak at Houston, and apparently no one would go far wrong who denounced both sides with all possible vigor. Since the negro's plainly must bear the chief burden of the public condition, they are not so efficient to justify soldiers in riotously using their arms against civilians, civil officers and fellow soldiers, a word or two on their side may be fair to start with. This 24th infantry is one of the oldest negro regiment in the army, it was organized soon after the close of the Civil War and it has a splendid record of service in the Indian wars and the Philippines. Some years ago a portion of it was stationed here at Fort Porter. No more orderly soldiers ever were quartered there, Since war was declared against Germany, many of the regiments of the regular army have been split up, the well trained men formig the skeletons of new regiments, which are filled by recruits. We do not know whether this was done with the 14th infantry, but such an infusion of new and ill disciplined men might explain in part the Houston out-break. In general, however, the attitude of the Southern white man is intensely provocative toward the negro soldier. For that matter, a considerable element among the people of Texas showed a mean and unpatriotic spirit even toward the white soldiers who went down there to protect them last summer—at least, when they were not officers. A good many hard stories sent home by the boys regarding extortion, society sobbery and other evidences of an extremely self centered and narrow minded disposition. The negro soldier, however, has always been a special object of antipathy to the more ignorant of the Southern whites. The negro soldier feels himself a man and expects to be treated like a man. He knows that he is doing a patriotic service and that, negro troops have fine records, and he very reasonably feels that white men should show some decent recognition of the fact. The Southern white man as a rule demands of the negro the attitude of a servant. Negroes who accept this position and keep sober and orderly are commonly treated in a more friendly and familiar manner by the Southern than by the Northern: The mere fact that a negro wears a uniform, carries a gun and stands fearlessly erect with shoulders back and eyes to the front gives him to the prejudiced white man the air of an upstart. Some such development of this antipathy of the white man resentment of the negro is undoubtedly seen in the Houston outbreak. Until the Spanish war negro regulars never had been, sent, into the South. Although they were then on their way to the front in Cuba, the attitude of the Southern white was generally unfriendly, and organizations which had served for years in the West without ever being involved in trouble had many difficulties. President Roosevelt attempted the policy of refusing to reconcile the Southern antipathy to negro soldiers. The Brownsville incident resulted, and Roosevelt made it worse by judging the soldiers and punishing them unreasonably and without even a certainty that they were guilty. Dent Wilson has similarly attempted to more the Southern prejudice though appears to harbor a good deal of it himself so far as negroes in general are concerned. His experiment has brought on the Houston outrage. Before the war is over we shall all be praising negro troops as heartily as we did after the Spanish war. Meanwhile, cannot patriotism afford a common ground on which white and black citizens of a common country can stand? HOWARD THEATRE HOWARD THEATRE. The Smarter Set company opened the season at the Howard theatre this week with the acclaimed "People," the latest production of S. T. Whitney and J. H. Tutt. The play is a sort of panorama of the life of the Negro from the days in Africa to the present time, interspersed with tuneful melodies and the usual creditable production with many bright and snappy lines and is elaborately staged. The scene portraying the slave ship with its cargo of human freight and the brutality of those in charge, together with the rendition of several old time hymns familiarly and proudly the negro, leads to touch of pathos to the prods. Tutt's rendition of an ode to a soldier "Somewhere in France" was well done and loudly applauded. Mr. Whitney maintains his high reputation as a comedian above the average and his poem, "My People," given, in part on the program, is a very creditable effort and is worthy of a place in literature of the negro. The leading singer, Miss Lena Roberts and Miss Daisy Martin gave good account of themselves and Miss Artie won an encore for her fine dancing. With a beatful buoet of flowers by her Washington admirers, Space permits a mention of a few of her deserving mention, but the work of Misses Estelle Cash, Emma Jackson and Therese West stood out prominently. The modern ances were well executed and ap- plauded. The male quartette, as usual, came for a good reception: The ela orate costumes were the product of Miss Jennie Hillman, who has come to be quite famous for the wardrobes she has furnished the leading white companies. Of the women were the company and a few friends were the guests of Manager Thomas at supper, which proved to be an enjoyable affair. MISS FLORENCE M. HUNT. First Colored Female to be Appointed to The Surgeon, General's Office. After a successful competitive examination for a clerkship, and whose average as a typewriter and accountant was one hundred, Miss Florence M. Hunt, a most accomplished and successful teacher, was appointed to a clerkship in the Surgeon General's Office of the War Department. Miss Hunt entered upon her duties Monday morning, was treated with the greatest consideration by the Chief and Employee in the office. This is an evidence that the administration has given female colored applicants more consideration than the former republican administration. Colored young women who passed the civil service examination for this same department have never been able to have a peep in. Miss Hunt is not only a refined and educated young woman, but she is a progressive one, and her appointment is highly appreciated by the colored people of this country. The Bee congratulates the administration for the liberal consideration that it is giving colored applicants and especially in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, under the direction of that matchless and competent director, Mr. J. L. Ralph. O, TEACH US WHEN TO LAUGH AND APPLAUD. The applause at the 6 o'clock morning prayer services, when the chairman stated that she was going to start a campaign to educate the white and colored people. That the link was to be drawn closer between the white and colored women and the breach wider between the colored woman and white man. Those who applauded showed their ignorance. As good as the best of them. The Bee would suggest the keeping of these girls, who are sent here to school off the streets selling tags, etc. A fine opportunity for men to make engagements for future dates. Safeguard those under your supervision before you reform the world. M. R. B. Bruce, wife of B Bishop R. B. Bruce of Charlotte, N C, is the guest of Mrs. Addie R. Clance, Mrs. Bruce was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Federation of Colored Women's Cubs at August 28, 1917. Her subject was "The Colored Woman's Opportunity." The address was inspiring and practicable. Mr. J. N. Ross, wife of Bishop Ross, the organizer of the Federation, gave a brief resume of the work, it's origin and growth. Miss Madre, Mrs. Layton and Mrs. Marlon Butler made remarks. Refreshments were served at the close. Mrs. Bruce and Madame Clarke left Friday for Harper's Ferry. LINCOLN. MD. Mrs. Lash, an evangelist, who is a candidate for Africa, preached an eloquent sermon at the Bethel A. M. E. church at Lincoln, Md., Sunday evening. Her text was St. John, 14th chapter, 8th verse. All at Lincoln were out to hear her. A very good collection was given. Rev. W. G. Parks and wife, of Philadelphia, and Miss Lizzie Ramey, of Clarksville, Tenn., who spent several weeks at Lincoln Cottage, as the guests of Mrs. Carrie Johnson, have returned to their respective homes. Mr. Hermond LsSteward and wife, of Steward College, have returned after a delightful visit at Warrenton, Va., the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Jenkins, the parents of the bride. Mrs. Richard Jones, of 455 Fla. ave., northwest, visited Mrs. Carrie Johnson Sunday and had a pleasant time. Nathaniel Johnson, of Calverton, Va., and Lewis Johnson, of Washington, brothers of Mrs. Mellissa Steward, paid her a visit Sunday, p. m. Rev. Parks has brought two lots in Lincoln, Md., and Miss Ramey, his sister-in-law, 'one. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Seaton entertained Monday evening, August 20. Those present were Rev. and Mrs. W. G. Parks, Miss Lizzie Ramey and Mrs. Carrie Johnson. An eloquence neapass was served, at 9 o'clock, upon a beautifully decorated table. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, NEWS. (By W. Henry Green) Mrs. J. B. Kent, of Bridgesport, Cherokee, guest of Mrs. R. L. Kent, 185. Ford, at 100. Mrs. S. C. Mathews is visiting relatives and friends in Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Helen Herndon and Mrs. Mae Lee motored to Buffalo and Nisagra Falls last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Adams, of Morton street entertained a number of friends last Friday evening in honor of Miss Dean Johnson, of Washington, D. C. Mrs. C. M. Van Buren and daughter, visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander, the farm Scottsville. Mr. and Mrs. Janet Stirling, trained at dinner Wednesday, Mrs. R. L. Kent and daughter, Mrs. W. Henry Green. M. B. CAPTAIN JAMES F. OYSTER The People's Choice for Commissioner The Allegle Club held their outing at Coburg, Ont., Canada, last Wednesday. Miss Viola Van Buren is visiting the Misses Ida and Nellie Brown in Schenutady, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. John White and infant daughter of Niagara Falls were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Wrigle, St. K street. Mrs. Mrs. Horseman and Mrs. O. C. Adams entertained the Fornightly Sewing Circle at Highland Park last Thursday afternoon. After a few served. Rev. E. D. W. Jones, of A. M. E. Zion church, preached morning and evening to a large and appreciative congregation, last Sunday. Ruth Naimi White infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John White of Niagara Falls, was baptised at the morning service. Collection for the day was $36.65. The service at Mt. Olive Baptist church were largely attended last Sunday. Rev. Batchelor, pastor, preached at both services. The B. Y. P. U., at 6:30 o'clock. Miss Mary Keyes, leader of Group Four rendered an excellent program which was high-energy and congregational. Seems easy to juggle, so I spent underwent an operation on the throat and is much improved at this writing. The tent services held and H Sts., N. E., by Baptist Church of which J. Hawkins is pastor, interesting. They have on for a month at its pr and will continue for it several blocks further on church. Strong sermons have been from time to time. On Aug. 28, 2014, Thomas most powerful and infirm on "The Power of a Industrial Workers, a fraternization was in attendance vest Workers" Club a and raised a nice collection L. Wyche of Mt. H. church was also present couragement to the church enjoyed a nite ride Monday night. A everybody take notice undertaking of Rev. build a church in Trinity him. A large crowd of Baptist city by boat to attend of the Mt. Bethel Baptist to convene an operation in the King Va. on Monday afternoon. The association closed. HOTEL DALE Guests at Hotel Date August 26 1917. Dr. and Mrs B. G. Walker, Mr and Mrs, B. E. Walker, Mr. Robt, Pierce, Mrs. L. B. Beal, Mrs. Roddy, Prof. A. H. Small, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Dean, J. B. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Lennon, Dr. Stanford, A. T. Lee and wife, Miss Evelyn Crawford, Walter Truer, Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Menton, Miss H. V. Edwards, W. W. Coleman, A. W. H. Peterson, Sol Hatchett, Richard Tolbert, Cornell Dobson, Mrs. Indana Williams, Ethel Albert, and Dr. H. M. Rogers. New York. W. M. Hugh, Mr. and Mrs. A. Trenfield, Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Miller, Mrs H. J. Butler Flushing Miss. Helen P. Coines, mr. anw Mrs. A. Green, Miss Cora L. Evans, Dr. M. A. Mackley, Miss Easter Carter. Baltimore. Baltimore. Dr. Cecil Floster, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Ridley. Washington. J. H. Maxwell, Edith Fleetwood, Miss Julia Smith, Fairfax Brown. Dr. F. P. Lyten, Pine Bluff, Ark. A. Oscar Savin, Chesapeake, Md. Dr. and Mrs. A. Harrold and daughter, Miss Adams, Ardmore, Pa., Walter H. Smith, Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. R. E. Blakey, Mt. Clair, N. J. Mrs. Virgil M. Scott, Eyanaton, III, Miss Jennie Patterson, Johnstown, Pa., Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Braywood, Elimira Braywood, Elkton, Natelle I. Cornish, Camden, N. J., Mrs. Wm. Cheek, Camden, Miss Maud R. Clarke, West Point, Va. Miss Martin Murrick, Durham, N. C., Theo Sullivan, Toledo, O., Miss Julia Fountain, Wildwood, and H. M. Brown, Pittsburg, Pa. NEWS NOTES HERE AND THERE. On Sunday, August 26, Mr. Walter Payne and wife, Mrs. Ella Payne, entertained as "dinner guests" in their delightful mountain home of Bluemont, Va., a number of Washington D. C., friends among whom may be mentioned, Mr. Henry Trayyham, Mr. Frank Scipio, Mrs. R. Redman and Mrs. Scipio. Mrs. Redman cousin of Mrs. Payne was enjoyed the occasion as it was the first time in 18 years she had visited this part of her old home. Quite a large crowd of city people attended the camp meeting services at the "Emancipation grounds" near Hamilton, Va., Sunday, August 26. The tent services held near 16th and H. Sts., N. E., by the Trinidad Baptist Church of which Rev. Dr. R. J. Hawkins is pastor, have been very interesting. They have been going on for a month at its present location and will continue for 15 days more, several blocks further out nearer the church. Strong sermons have been delivered from time to time. On Sunday night Aug. 26, Rev. Thomas preached a most powerful and interesting sermon on "The Power of a Name." The Industrial Workers, a fraternal organization was in attendance. The "Harvest Workers" Club also attended and raised a nice collection. Rev. N. L. Wyche of Mt. Horob Baptist church was also present and gave encouragement to the work. The church enjoyed a nice automobile. The Monday night, Aug. 27. Let everybody take notice of this noble undertaking of Rev. Hawkins' to build a church in Trinidad and help him. A large crowd of Baptists left the city by boat to attend the sessions of the Mt. Bethel Baptist Association, to convene with the "Little Ark" Baptist church in King George Co., Va., on Monday afternoon, Aug. 27. The Association closed on the 31st. Rev. Dr. I. L. Thomas, District Superintendent of the Washington, D. C., M. E. Conference, and wife, spent their vacation in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Evans near "Munson Hill Nursery Falls Church," Va. Rev. Thomas will again soon take up the work of his Summer Conferences. He has 38 pastors under him. Miss Helen Parker, daughter of Mr. J. E. Parker, 1622, 15th St. N.W., returned to Washington, D. C., for a few days, having visited, her aunt at Catlett, Va., and has now gone to her old home, for a months' stay to visit her brother, Mr. John Clark and sisters of Stafford Courthouse, Va., and will return. in time for school at St. Anna Academy where she has been a private pupil for some years. Upon his arrival at the 40th Anniversary session of the Northern Va. Baptist Association convened in First Baptist church, Manassas, Va., Thursday morning August 23, Rev. J. N. Beaman, B. T. was immediately selected to teach the o'clock session at the great Tabernacle. Rev. Beaman preached to a congregation in filled the large auditorium a most eloquent and effective sermon which was well received. Rev. Beaman is a rising minister of great promise. This session of the Association was the largest attended session in years, Rev. M. D. Williams, DD, who has been the Moderator of this Association for 40 years, though in very feeble condition, was present, having Rev. Dr. S. M. Johnson and M. S. Strother to do the work of conducting the business of this great organization. Prof. A. T. Shirley, "the best Association secretary of the State," was present and as ever very busy. The weather turned rainy and stormy but the morning and afternoon sessions were carried out in full. As soon as "The Bee" man, Mr. Granderson, was discovered seated in the church, Dr. O. H. Wood, that might preacher of the gospel at Alexanderia, Va., was sent by that "Father in Israel." Rev. D. S. M. Johnson, the Moderator in the chair, to escort "The Bee" man to the front of the church. "The Bee Man" said something that seemed to "get" the folks; for before leaving in the afternoon his services at the organ for both the morning and afternoon sessions had been rendered, with soulful congregations singing a accompaniment, and he had no more "Bees" with which to gather and dispense honey left. The sermon on "Christian Baptism" in the morning session by Rev. Frey was a spendid Doctrinal one. The afternoon session of the Women's Auxiliary was a beautiful expression of song, poems and essays read, recitation delivered, as well as business carried out with quickness system and a good financial report. Truly this was a great session of a great Virginia Baptist organization, Northern Va., was there in full. On Wednesday afternoon, August 22 and going well into the evening, a recognition council, called to recognize the new church, St. Mark Baptist at 7th and K Sts. S. E., of which Rev. Augustus Mann is pastor, assembled at that place and organized for purpose state with Rev. Dr. A. Sayles, Moderator, and G. G. Granderson, secretary. About 47 G. C. ministers offered their services represented and composed the council. It was indeed a model session. Things went through smoothly and a spiritual feast was had. After adopting minutes of the organization council held on August 3rd this council appointe, a program committee which reported the following program which was carried out with much favor and effectiveness— 1. Hymn, Rev. James Lindsay. 2. Scripture, Rev. James A. Jackson, 3. Prayer, Rev. James L. Garfield 4. Hymn, Rev. H. W. Pierce, 6. Sermon, Rev. Charles Fox, 6. Recognition Prayer, Rev. Jenner, 7. Presentation of Bible, Rev. Dent, 8. Charge to the church, Rev. A. Sayles, DD. 9. Hand of Fellowship, Rev. R. Johnson. 10. Collection, Deson Amos Hart and Rev. J. J. Johnson. HOTEL NEWS Captain John Mayo has resigned his position as captain in the gold room at the New Ebbitt to accept the position of head waiter at the Virginian Hotel, Lynchburg, Va. Mr. W. E. Scott succeeds him in the Gold Roor. Mr. Sidney H. Coleman has returned to the city and reported for duty in the Dutch Room after attending the mineral of his sister, Miss Maha Coleman in Lynchburg, Va. James T. Coleman, for many years linenet at the New Ebbitt has resigned to accept a position at the Grafton Hotel, this city. Mr. Coleman leaves a good record for faithful and fatheing service. Mr. Gus Gumpere, who has served as room clerk at the Ebbitt for about ten years, has been appointed manager after the resignation of Mr. James Runicimel. Special to The Bee. Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 31.—After many weeks of slumber, quaint old Brooklyn was wide awake tonight attending the picnic of the Kismit Club, at Columbia Park. Hundreds of New Yorkers were over to greet the Kismites, formerly the St. Augustines Club, at their second picnic of the season, which was a great success. The membership of the Kismites is made up of many of Brooklyn's Colored Business-Smiths and is connected with St. Augustines P. E. church, of which Rev. Geo. Frazier Miller, D.D., has been rector for 25 years. BUREAU NOTES. The Bureau Saturday Afternoon socials had a very delightful gathering on Saturday, August 18th, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Williams, 1305 5th street, northwest. A special program of music and games were the main features in the program. The hostesses of the splendidly laden tables were Miss Stella. Covington, of N. Y. and Mrs. Estella Epps, of this city. Refreshments were served in abundance. Among those present were: Miss Susie Parker, Mrs. Miles, Miss Dolle Morris, Mrs. Maude Harper, Miss Settles, Miss Othella Williams, Mrs. B. Johnson, Miss F. Davis, Mrs. Shelma Adams, Miss A. Hancock, Miss Sutton, Miss Gladis Cave, Mrs. Dick, Miss E. Grayson, Miss L. Wilb, Messrs. John W. Boston, L. Graves, Charles Payn, Richmond Milton, Teagle King, Waverley Francis, Wm. Hunter, S. Covington, Benj. Jackson and Jas, L. Turner. Miss Susie Parker has returned to received a promotion. Mrs. Mamie Layn (nec) Buckett was appointed as printer's assistant in Sec. 13 last week. Miss Shelta Covington has left for New or enjoy her annual leave, accompanied by her two brothers: Mrs. E. Covington, of Benmillsville, S. E. and Mr. F. S. Covington, of Fort Avinzo, who were here on a visit in the Capital city. The Bureau Relief Association meets Sunday at Y. M. C. A. building, 13th street northwest. MADAME SMITH'S NEW PLACE. Handsome Parlors at 905 U Street, Northwest Madame M. M. Smith, one of the best-known hair culturists in the United States and whose place of business was at 9024 U. street, northwest, has moved to 905 U. street, northwest, one of the most commodious establishments in the city. Madame Smith has fitted up her beauty parlors to meet the needs of her patrons who call them are always welcome they call. Don't fail to pay her a visit and be convinced. She has the reputation of being one of the most pleasing and progressive business women in the city. AT PRINCE GEORGE AT PRINCE GEORGE PRINCE GEORGE, CO. SCHOOLS. Many of the Best Teachers have Left — Miss Florence W. Hunt Wine in a Competitive Examination — The First and only Colored Lady to be Appointed in the Surgeon General Office. The Prince George County colored public schools have had the reputation of having some of the best teachers in the State of Maryland and equal to any in the city of Washington. Indeed almost all are the productions of the Washington schools. Among the most prominent and most successful and competent teachers have resigned and gone into the government service. Prominent among those are Miss Florence W. Hunt who, after having entered the competitive examination for a clerkship, was appointed in the Surgeon General's office, War Department. For accuracy and ability she was rated one hundred which is a black eye to those in Prince George county who have been abusing, however since she has been teaching in those public schools. Miss Hunt is highly educated young lady and no doubt one of the best teachers in the Fairmount Heights school. Miss Grace Turner, another competent teacher and a lady of refinement, has been appointed in the Government Office. Miss Olie Kibble, a production of the Washington schools, and also a teacher in the Prince George's Co., schools at Mariboro, has been appointed on the Play Grounds as an assistant director. She is also of a positive character and a lady of discrimination and popular with the masses. Miss Alberta Johnson, a graduate of the Washington Normal school and a teacher at the Fairmount Heights, Md., schools, has been appointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Miss Agnes A. Adams, a teacher in the Fairmount Heights, schools, has been appointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Miss Adams is also a more educated young teachers in Prince George. The Bee extends its congratulations, to these worthy educators who have been relieved of their burdens. MEETING. There will be a meeting of the Commercial Study Club, Tuesday evening, 8 p. m., September 4th at the Y. M. C. A. on 12th street. This Club has been organized to make a special study of commerce and to encourage mercing activities, if found feasible, among our people. It is a new step in the right direction. The public is invited to be present. PEACE BAPTIST CHURCH The Peace Baptist church, 1338 H street, northeast, organized by members, withdrew from the Mt. Horeb church, has been duly recognized and endorsed by the northern Virginia Association which is composed of 102 churches of Washington and Virginia. Fifteen pastors of these churches belong to the Minister's Conference, of Washington. Smarter Set Company and Employees of Howard Theatre Entertained. After the performance of the Smarter Set Company Monday night the troupe and employees of the Theatre were given a treat by the proprietor Mr. Andrew J. Thomas. The stage was decorated artistically and a table set where all could be seated. Mr. Thomas made a brief address in behalf of the company and their good work, also his intentions to make Howard Theatre a place for the people to be entertained, with clean and instructive plays. He also spoke of the commercial side of theatre life and his desire for the colored race to have a circuit of Theatres and produce the best of talent and be successful as other theatres that do not desire your patronage. The address was responded to by Lawyer Collins, who advised the company to stick by their leaders and do all they can to make the company a success. Ferguson, the theatrical critic, gave helpful points as to improvement and elimination of the numbers. The table was blessed by Mr. Salem Whitney. The menu consisted of salmon salad, stuffed olives, sardines, sandwiches, kippered herring, hot turnover rolls and ginger ale. After dinner cigars, and cigarettes Mr. Whitney and Caldwell expressed their appreciation as to the use of the Theatre for their rehearsals. The Company and Employees tendered a vote of thanks to Mr. Thomas for their treat. A Well-Known Citizen Gone. Within the past few months, death has claimed many of our old and prominent citizens. In the death of Mr. Wm. H. Payne, his family lost a faithful and loving father the community, a noble and christian citizen. "No longer far from rest Iream, And search in vain for bliss, My soul is satisfied at home, The Lord my portion is." His devoted and loving children have the deep sympathy of their many friends. "Largest Credit Jewelers in the World" Vacation Jewelry No Payment Now We're Willing to Wait Until You Return From Your Vacation Our Annual Vacation Sales are greatly appreciated because of the opportunity to buy without using a dollar of ready cash. Come here and select whatever you wish in the way of jewelry. We'll deliver the goods into your possession at once—you can have all the pleasure of wearing them while away on your vacation, and the first payment need not be made until after you've returned. No house in the country is more dependable in the matter of qualities, and these Special Vacation Terms are granted without adding a penny to our regular low prices. 50c a Week On Any Purchase Amounting to $25 or Less $1.00 Weekly on $25 to $50 $1.50 Weekly on $50 to $75 $2.00 Weekly on $75 to $100 Larger Amounts in the Same Proportion Payments may be made monthly or semi-monthly, if desired. Men's Wrist Watches, $4.25 Reliable timepieces—a necessity for the soldier and a great convenience for the civilian. FOOD CONSERVATION HOLDS KEY TO VICTORY OVER FOREIGN FOE. Ringing Message on the Negro's Responsibility for the Winning of the War For Liberty and Humanity—Danielle Freeman's Timely Talk the "Stand-Out Feature of Chattanooga Meeting of National Negro Business League. ness League. According to authentic reports the "stand-out" feature of the recent meeting of the National Negro Business League at Chatanooga, Tenn., was the impressive presentation of the subject of "Food Conservation" brought to the attention of the League and its thousands of followers by Mr. Daniel Freeman, a well-known photographer of this city, and for a number of years president of the local branch of the National Negro Business League. gro Business The general government recognized the value of the Negro's help in this important work of food conservation by sending Mr. Freeman to the Chattanooga conference of the business chieftains of the race as the special representative of the Food administration, under the direction of Mr. Herbert C. Hoover and Dr. Ray L. Wilbur, to lay the matter properly before the colored people of the entire country. The wisdom of the selection of Mr. Freeman was amply demonstrated by the able address delivered by him at the Friday afternoon session of the Business League and the rapt attention which it commanded at the hand of the audience, which crowded the commodious Lyric Theatre to its doors. Mr. Freeman's personal success as a commercial force gave him warrant to speak with authority, and his widespread influence in the financial, fraternal and educational circles of the nation's capital, as well as the official status conferred by the federal government, gave his utterance the weight demanded by the acute situation that confronts the country at this time. Mr. Freeman has just returned from the Chattanooga conference bubbling over with enthusiasm for the cause which carried him there, and reports that the meeting ranked with the very best the Business League has held in any section of the country since its formation by. the late Booker T. Washington in Boston in 1900. Mr. Freeman is a pioneer in the work of the League, and from the outset has been regarded by the founder the natural leader and official spokesman for the colored commercial interests of the nation's capital. nation's capital Food Conservation Holds Key To Over Germany. Bringing patriotism down to stubborn facts, Mr. Freemun, without recourse to oratorial flourish, and in simple, straightforward and convincing language, pointed out that the conservation of food holds the key to victory of America over Germany, and illustrated in his own original way the countless channels in which the colored people of the Republic from the wealthiest to the humblest, could be of vital assistance to his native land and to the allies in this titanic struggle, for world democracy. Mr. Freeman, after analyzing necessity for the full use of every resource for the winning of this battle for liberty, impressed upon his hearers that the real object of the food administration was to try to organize all the people of the United States in the conservation of food-stuff. He stressed and particularized the fact that food conservation clubs should be arranged for among the colored people in school, churches, business fraternities, commercial and women's clubs, and stated plainly that there was something that the humblest Neo-ro could do. gro could do. The Negro's Responsibility In the War Crimes "With the shortage of food abroad, with the partial failure of transportation, the shortage of labor, and the present abnormal world conditions facing us upon every land, each of us Mr. Freeman. "As a tenth part of the American body politic, the colored people must do our share in the world of conserving the food supply for the relief of our country and aid of our allies across the sea. We can do this if we save and do not waste. It will require our careful thought three times a day. Not only we eat careful the products of the day, but we must preserve the perishables and fruits that are now so abundant. Soldiers cannot fight unless they are fed." Business League Pledges Moral Support to Campaign. Mr. Freeman lured a systematic campaign against, gophers, rats. mice and insects, and declared that the unescapable question was "Will each do his duty?" The call was an impressive one and Mr. Freeman's graphic analysis of the, plan and its method of application, provoked a discussion in which all of the speakers and questioners evinced an anxiety to know just how to proceed and the agencies through which they could work to the best advantage. Resolutions were adopted unanimously pledging the moral support of the members of the league and pleading with the negroes of the country, men, women and children—to, obey the behest of the government in this matter. Food conservation is patriotism—and it is self-protection. Mr. Freeman's constructive activities in the cause do not end with his special detail to Chattanooga. He will continue to work with a general committee, formed by the Hoover Commission, to organize and conduct a food conservation campaign among the 10,000,000 colored citizens of the Republic. Mr. Freeman has made an auspicious opening for the cause and he is to be congratulated upon the intelligent, aggressive and productive service re rendered the nation and the race at the Chattanooga conference of the National Negro Business League. Martinsburg's Union Picnic a Grand Success—Over Six Hundred People On The Ground—and not a Single Cross-word Passed. Thursday, August 16th was ushered in cloudy, rainy and gloomy, but this didn't cast any gloom or dampen the the going determination of about 400 Martinburg's best and enthusiastic and Union and loyal citizens who lined up at 8:52 A. M. to catch the train to Schenandoah Junction, and the Aglekhny's Grove. Mr. Jno. Agleibny has always been very friendly to the colored people, I believe he is said to be one of the founders of Store College, and yet a trustee of that very excellent institution. The Union Picnic has, been going to Harpers Ferry and to Store College for the past thirty years till now, being prevented on this year for lack of transportion during these war times. This friend and trustee of one of our schools came to our assistance donated this grove, and was among the first to sample our ample supply of ice cream. Rev. A. L. Jenkins came up from Harpers Ferry bringing many of his friends and members; Rev. F. E. Yates came down from Charlestown accompanied by Rev. C. D. Wainswright, M. D. and a host of his friends. The following towns and cities were well represented by teachers; doctors, lawyers and some very substantial farmers: Martinsburg: Prof. Fred R. Ramer, W. Corsey, Dr. Geo Baylis, M. D.; Kearnoyville: Jas. McDaniel a very prosperous farmer came down in his automobile: Dr. R. McDaniel, M. D. of Union Town; Prof. Jas. Walker, farmer and teacher, from Enwood; Bro. Chas William from Shepherd's Town, and teachers from other places: Miss L. Robinson, E. Shepherd from Douglas Grove, and Miss Amelia McDaniel from Johnson Town. A delightful day was spent, a typical Sunday School' Union Plicnic inaugurated.. Dancing was eliminated. Martinsburg Cornet Band furnished the music but no pavillion was built. "Religion ne'r was designed to make our pleasures less." Cut the frolicking and enjoy ourselves in serving. God. Nobody got mad because you danced too much with my lady friend; nobody-wanted to fight because he was full of cheap liquor. Everybody did certainly enjoy the day. Thus says the writer; when I was a boy such meetings, picnics or campmeetings the people went in steer carts, wagons balling into the grounds amid the braying of mules but on this occasion the tooting of automobile horns for the most part our own machines. Note the vast improvements and wonderful progress; Forty years from now I shall not be surprised ed should I be here, to see the picnics light down gracefully out of the sky amidst the furry of aeroplane wings. I was quite amused when one old sister on reaching the grove and casting a quick glance to the left and then to the right: "Umph! this is not the same grove we used to come for to have our camp meetings; de last time I was here about forty years ago they had a pig roasting, cross sticks. She didn't see the same pig, she didn't see those same sticks, " this isn't the same place oh no". same One member of the Dudley choir Mr. Chas. Newton, had his right leg and foot badly mashed. The church choir, extend sympathy. Mrs. Daisy Taylor accompanied by her little daughter. Queeny, left last week for Philadelphia to spend their vacation. In the absence of Rev. S. R. Hughes pastor of the M. E. church, Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Dudley Baptist church officiated at the funeral of Master Frederick Davis, the grandson of Steward Jackson. The president, Jas. Hutton, together with the aid of Rev. J. T. Reid, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church; Trip Cromwell; J. F. Carter deserves great credit for handling the plonic so successfully. The gate keepers: J. L. Carter, Dr. Baylis and Brother Williams; those at the pop-stand, Sisters Bridget Berryman, and Fannie Turner; those serving at the lunch table; Sisters Blakey, Ross, Julia Cromwell, Martha Lee and Miss West dispensed $c$ cream while sister Ford perfumed the air with the smell of Java. Sister Stella McDonald and Mr. McDonald were kept busy checking baskets and babies. All did their work well. The good time and joylality netted the handsome sum of about $200 which is to be divided among the three churchqs: Dudley, Mt. Zion, and Ebenezer. Mr. Geo. Jenkins, of Washington, D.C., spent a short vacation with his sister the wife of the Dudley pastor Edward T. Johnson, and Clayborn Johnson left to spend his vacation with Ellen B. Jenkins, Washington, D.C. Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Dudlcy, has been quite slick since he returned to the city. He is recuperating very ruddy now. Words for a fitting close of an epoch making week for Martinsburg and Union once, Union twice, and Union forever. ANACOSTIA, D. C., NEWS. The Exhibition of the Community Canning Center of Anacostia was held at the Birney School, August 21, 1917. The exercise began at 8.10 p.m., and the speakers addressed the audience on Food Conservation. Mr. E. L. Thurston, Superintendent of Schools, Mr. R. C. Bruce, Asst. Supt., Miss Mary W. Thurston, Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, Board Member and Prof Garnet C. Wilkinson were unable to be present. Miss Emma V. Smith, chairman presided and introduced the following speakers. Miss Landrum. Agricultural Dept. Mr. J. C. Bruce, Supv. Prin., Mrs. Lulia W. Shaw, Asst Director of Domestic Science, Miss Grace Johnson, Instructor, Mr. H. R. Queenan, Pres. of Parent Teachers Association, Mr. C. W. Tignor Pres, Barry Farm Improvement Association. An instrumental selection was rendered by Miss Thelma Smith and Mrs. Anne Murdock sang a solo. This center was opened July 5 and has been regularly attended by a class of 35 enthusiastic members working faithfully under the guidance of Miss Grace Johnson, an efficient instructor. The secretary, Miss M. E. Hite read a report of products canned, peas, beans, chicken, kale, cabbage, eggplant, beets, squash, plums, pears, pickled peaches, preserved damsons, graps jelly, corn, bordeaux sauce, soup combination, onions, asparagus, cherries. The total amount of pints canned is 496. These were arranged on tables in the rear of the room and made an interesting display. Many persons donated products to the Non-Sectarian Home and under instruction received from Miss E. V. Smith the Boy's Club of Birney School canned a large amount of vegetables which were donated to the Domestic Science Dept. Their product came from the school graden on the river front. Knights of Pythias Poughkeepsie, N. Y., August 24. The fifteenth biennial session of the Knights Supreme Lodge of Pythias and the Supreme Court of Calanthe was held here last week. The session was practically open Sunday night when Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, of Brooklyn, N. Y., preached the biennial sermon at the A. M. E. Zlon. Church. The business sessions of the Supreme Lodge was held in the Knights of Columbus Institute Hall, Supreme Chancellor W. Ashleigh Hawkins, of Baltimore, presiding. The women will meet in the G. A. R. Hall, Supreme Worthy Councilor Jennie Ross, of Baltimore, presiding. Mayor Wilbur is expected to deliver an address of welcome Monday afternoon, after which a parade of the Uniform Rank will take place, Maj.Gen. W. Spencer Carpenter presiding. The Uniform Rank will meet next Wednesday. LOTT CAREY BAPSTIST FOREIGN MISSION. Richmond, Va., August 24—The twenty-first annual session of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, beginning Wednesday. Rev. W. H. Stokes was the entertaining pastor. Dr. C. S. Brown, of Winton, N.C. delivered his annual address as president of the convention on the afternoon of the opening day. Reports will also be made by Rev. W. M. Alexander, of Baltimore, the corresponding secretary, and other officials. The woman's auxiliary met Thursday. Dr. A. M. Moore, of Raleigh, told of the Haitian work and Rev. Abraham Tyler stated his thirty-seven years' experience as a missionary in Liberia. Dr. Ernest Lyon made a plea for Liberia. The report of the committee on state of the country was made Friday night, and racial discriminations and mob violence was sharply attacked. Baltimore, August 24.—The funeral of John Henry Smith, one of the best known of the older residents of Baltimore, was held at his late home, 2143 Drulid Hill avenue. The deceased was a clerk in the local Postoffice for more than 30 years, restigning a decade ago. A widow and six children survive. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL (INC.) offers an excellent opportunity for the woman who desires to enter the 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. 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HE WALKS MILES TO ENLIST IN CAVALRY National Guardsman, Broke, Couldn't Arrange For His Final Discharge. San Antonio, Tex.—Grover C. Weems, twenty-one years of age, a member of Company M, Second Florida regiment of the national guard, reached San Antonio the other day on foot, having walked all the way from Miami, Fla., to secure his final discharge from the militia and join the regular army. He walked, he said, because he wanted to transfer to the regular army, was broke and couldn't arrange for his final discharge from the company without coming here. He was arrested four times on the road—at Monroe, La.; at Jewett, Tex.; near Gulfport, Miss., and at Pascagoula, La. While he wore his national guard uniform, he was arrested twice on suspicion that he had deserted. He was arrested twice for failure to register. He was released each time after showing that he was a member of Company M, Second Florida infantry, mustered out March 17 and held in reserve. He had the misfortune to be arrested once at Jewett, Tex., while stopping there to visit a young lady to whose father he was persona non grata. The people along the way, he said, treated him right. He was well fed and frequently given a lift by auto-fists. SOLDIER RISKS LIFE, WINS NURSE AS BRIDE New York.-His heroism in rushing into a burning building and extinguishing the blaze may result in causing Leo Heck, member of Company H, Seventy-first regiment, national guard, to undergo an operation at Bellevue hospital, but it also brought him a bride. The girl in the case is Miss Helen Maud Lymer, a nurse, of Toronto. They were married at Hamilton, Ontario. Heck was in a military camp up state when he saw a fire in a big dwelling house. While he was fighting the blaze in the third story the floor gave way and he fell to the floor below. He was taken to a hospital near by, where Miss Lymer, who was employed there, was assigned to nurse him. Before he left the hospital the patient and his nurse had fallen in love. Heck recently came to Bellevue hospital on furlough to consult doctors and was told that an operation probably would be necessary. While awaiting an X ray examination he learned that his fiancee had gone to Hamilton to serve as nurse in a hospital for wounded British soldiers Heck left for Hamilton on the first train, and the pair were married by the Rev. W. B. Figle of the Hamilton Baptist church. Heck has returned here for the X ray examination. COWBELLS SAVE CHERRIES. Farmer Rigged a Water Wheel on Wife's Churn to Ring Them. Redding, Cal.-W. A. Bull of Igo hns saved his big cherry crop with cowbells operated by a waterwheel. Bull has an orchard up South Fork creek. His cherries ripened, but as fast as they matured birds picked them off. Bull rigged up some ordinary scarecrows. They did well enough for a day or so, or until the wise birds detected the fraud. As a last resort Bull tied several cowbells in the treetops and to the tinklers attached 'strings', which he jerked from his front porch. The cowbells' jangling scared the birds away all right and bid-fair to save the cherry crop, but Bull got tired of jerking the strings all day long. Now, he has a water wheel that runs his wife's churn. So Bull attached the strings to the churn dasher. As the water wheel went its rounds the churn dasher bobbed up, and down, and the cowbells kept up their jangling in the treetops all day long. The birds were scared away effectually, and Bull saved his cherry crop. COAL MINE IN BACK YARD. This Man Doesn't Have to Worry About Next Winter's Prices. Roanoke, Va.—With the promise of winter coal being around $10 a ton, how would you like to have a coal mine right in your back yard? That's what P. H. Rover of Bluefield has just discovered. Mr. Rover's back yard runs north in the same way that north appeared to the little boy at school—toward the top of the page—or it is just a mountainside. A coal seam had been discovered on the opposite side of the ridge, and Mr. Rover thought it would be worth investigating on his side. But little digging was needed to reveal the seam, which was four feet in thickness. Old Man Climbs Windmill. Hiawata, Kan.-Though Henry Adams of this city is eighty-two years old he doesn't have to call in help when a little something goes wrong with his windmill. Recently he climbed to the top of a forty foot windmill and made some needed repairs. "JOE" OF THE MUSICAL HABIT ISE GOT AN MUSICAL VOICE MISS YOU HAVE SUCH A NICE WAY OF SPEAKIN ILL ENGAGE YOU BEDELIA... BEDELIAH SURE YOURE A REGULAR MUSIC BOX YOUSE IS MA CREOLE BELL WHATS THAT? IT IS ME SELF THAT CAN'T STAND MUSIC WHEN MISTAH SHAKESPEAR COMES TO TOWN GRACIOUS SAKES I CAN'T KEEP MY FEET STILL EVERY DAY LL BE SUNDAY BYE AND BYE WOW! CUT ME LOOSE MISTAH JOHNSIN FO ISE DA COOM WID DA MUSICAL HABIT 364 International Cartoon Co., N. Y. The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. President, James E. Shepherd, Durham, N. C. THE STUDENTS' SCHOOL "I cordially commend the school' interest and needs to all who believe in the Negro race and in our obligation to help promote its intellectual, moral and religious uplift."—Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, New York City. IT IS MORE THAN A MERE SCHOOL—IT IS A COMMUNITY OF SERVICE AND UPLIFT Its influence is destined to be felt in all sections of the country in improved Negro community life wherever our trained workers locate. Settlement workers, missionaries for home and foreign mission fields, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. secretaries and district nurses receive a comprehensive grasp of their studies under a Wellesley graduate and experienced co-workers and actual every-day practice through the school's SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. 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C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year in advance ..... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... 50 Subscription - monthly ..... 20 LEADERS. There was never a time in the last fifty years when the colored race in America was more in need of able leaders. There was a time, about half a century ago when our civil rights were undetermined. At that time men like Frederick Douglass were in the lead. They performed the work of leaders as well as it was possible. All glory to their names. We should erect monuments to colored leaders of that period. We have well-nigh forgotten what they have done for us. How many can recall the names of three or four of them off hand? And in making the list do not omit the names of our good white friends of that period. They were among our own leaders. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner are the names of our most prominent friends in Congress. Then came the period of the political experiment, lasting on the average in the Southern states about ten years. It brought to the front some dozen conspicuous colored politicians, members of Congress. Their work speaks for itself. Then came the period of the colored political manager. There was at least one in every Southern state. The most of them were federal office holders. Some of them made a gallant fight to preserve our political franchise and our civil rights. Some of them were men without ability or statesmanship. The history of that period is yet to be written by a competent colored historian. All of the colored leadership of the last fifty years has been political. When we cast up the ledger and note ultimate results, there is little that we can claim to our credit. It was just natural that the period in question should develop colored political leaders. It was unnatural, certainly not logical, that it produced no other kind. Nearly forty years after the Civil War we heard a new voice crying in the wilderness. It was the voice of Booker T. Washington. The slogan sounded like "Business." But so far as results went it was only a voice. So far as we can see, it bore no fruit. "Acta, non verba" (actions, words) is a sound maxim. Moses did not lead his people out of Egypt by mere talking. He put himself at their head and showed them the way. Joshua did not complete the work of Moses by mere talking. He was a warrior, a man in the saddle. He was a man with a big stick. Wanted, a great colored leader! Wanted, several great colored leaders! They must recognize that the colored period is in a new era. The needs are peculiar. They are economic needs. Fame will be their reward. They may even gain some wealth by their labors. But it will be fully another generation before the generality of the colored race begin to show signs of riches by reason of the leadership of these new leaders. What we most need now as a class is a number of business experts in every community. Call them business-smiths. Let us train them up. Let us encourage and support them. We ought to have a National Commercial Exchange with branches in every colored center. Every one of these exchanges should be a practical business college. The Nationl Commercial Exchange could well afford to employ at the start several competent experts to travel, advise and set up business enterprises in many communities. These are the kind of leaders we most need to day. A. CLEAN SHEET After many years of use and pure defense so to speak and after a brain has become infoxicated by too much praise and notoriety, the agitators of a new propaganda have just concluded that they should start a clean paper. The record of the Bee has been to clean up filth and have clean surroundings. People who advocate cleanliness ought themselves to be clean. Will the record of shun it. The only time the Bee fails to be clean is when it either attempts to hide or turn up filth. See and it never stings until its hive is either turned over or disturbed in some way. Be careful how you distrust the stinger of The Bee. The East St. Louis massacre was the most damable in the history of the world. The colored American should not despair. The time will come when he will be able to breathe the air of freedom. The Bee is the people's defender, regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation. Three fourths of the best and most competent colored teachers in Prince George's County, Maryland, have resigned. Dr. W. Willis Jones of East Deanwood is one of the best and most active physicians who practice in the state of Maryland. The Bee would like to know what the teachers chosen in Prince George's County, Md., think about now? Three-fourths of the best teachers have been appointed in the government. Who is the more competent to judge of the ability of persons who have passed high examinations the medical supervisor or the civil service commission? The sooner small persons are placed where they belong the better it will be for the advancement of education. COLORED STATISTICS. We are often amazed and charged at the meagerness of the statistics complied and available concerning the industry and commerce of the colored race in the United States. Lately we have had particular need of some approximate data about the business life of the colored people of Washington. It is not to be had. Nobody ever compiled it. Nobody ever took any interest in the subject. If the colored people are to do anything notable as a class in business, they must first know "where they are at." A ship cannot navigate without a compass. A considerable body of statistics is a necessary adjunct to the business of the colored people as a class. We should have for the colored people a National Statistical Association. In each city and town whose main work is to amplify the local statistics. The Association should get in touch with the Bureau of the Census, and should assist that bureau. Dr. DuBois is a good man to organize the National Statistical Association He has had much experience in statistical work. THE HOUSTON BIOT. Some troops of the 24th Infantry (colored) were stationed at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, recently. They had been ordered there. It is to be assumed that their presence there was necessary. Certainly the colored soldiers had no option in the matter. These colored soldiers were systematically insulted and harassed by the local police. Individuals were assaulted or arrested on frivolous grounds. They were called "niggers" and at every turn were hustled and jostled. At last came the straw that the camel's back. At last the worm turned. On the night of August 23, according to reports some hundred or more of these colored soldiers took up their guns and hit back. They killed a number of the scoundrels who had been systematically annoying them. We make no apology for them. True, they violated the civil law. True, they violated the military law, and were for the time in a state of technical mutiny. But there is a higher law. HIT OUT. In the last six months we have said much about the necessity of the colored peoples' going in more for business. We are not through. Incidentally we have advocated the establishing in Washington of a colored board of trade to bear the name Commercial Exchange or some similar name. We are informed that the parties who are work- ing on this scheme have the plans drawn up and will be ready to launch the enterprise about Sept. or at the resumption of the fall business season. Many of our substantial citizens are now absent from the city on their vacation. The main essential to better colored progress in Washington is to organize. We have more talented and earnest colored people here than any other city. We have all the conditions for business success. We have had much experience in a small way, including the experience of some failures. Failures are not an unmixed evil. They teach valuable lessons. All classes of men have their failures. The first thing for us to do here in Washington is to hit out—hit out in many small ways, hit out in a few bigways, hit out all together. Let us hit out. THE N. A. A. C. P. We are very anxious to see the N. A. A. C. P., enlarge its scope of usefulness so as to take in industry and commerce. These interests go hand in hand with human rights. What are rights without bread to eat, houses to live in, clothes to wear, and some simple luxuries? Let us have our political rights, but also the rational means to enjoy them. PROF. KELLY MILLER. Our good friend, Prof. Kelly Miller has written an open letter to the President. Prof. Miller is nothing if not interesting. We commend his letter. It will do no harm, it may do some good. Professor Miller tells the President that the colored man has no seat in the councils of the nation and no voice in the direction of its affairs. This is substantially true. Prof. Miller is a deep student of politics. He has written extensively on the Negro as a politician. We hope he is master of the subject, in fact we believe it. Hence, anything he says and does in the political arena is of interest. MENIAL LABOR The grand jury of St. Clair Co., Ill., ment the East St. Louis Riot, in condemning the spirit of intolerance towards the colored race, said in substance: "The negroes are necessary to do our mental labor." We have no objection to this statement. All menial labor is honorable. We want as much of it to do as we can get. By menial labor the colored people have redeemed America from a state of wilderness. We intend to go on. But we give notice to our white friends and neighbors that, while we are, willing to do the menial labor and do it in the best manner, we want ample reward for it. And we intend to do something else besides. "SATURDAY SERMONS" SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 Hereafter the Saturday Sermons by Unus will appear in column one of page two of the Bee. We hope our readers will like the Saturday Sermons. If any reader does not, like anything Unus says in any sermon, he is invited to write us and say so. If the letter is of interest we will print it. This is one pulpit to which the hearers will be entitled to talk back. Keep an eye on Unus. If he preaches any false doctrine we want to know it. SAGE OF THE POTOMAC. The, "Sage of the Potomac," who writes for us weekly on "Public Men and Things," is one of our closest students and thinkers. He is a very modest man, and refrains from telling all he knows. We are constantly urging him to speak out on different matters. Do not overlook the articles of the Sage, or you will miss something good. RADIO, VA., DASHES Miss Elna Lewis, sister of Mrs. Frank Dade, was entertained at a social given by Mrs. Virginia McMillan at her beautiful ice-cream parlor, Tuesday evening, Aug. 14. Covers were laid for nine—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dade, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dade, and Mrs. Virginia McMillan, Miss Edna Lewis and Dorothy Dade, and Mrs. Virginia McMillan having a very enjoyable evening. Miss Lewis returned home to attend school at Hampton Institute, Va. She had a delightful time here during her two-weeks vacation. Mrs. Grace Butler spent Saturday and Sunday, also Monday, Aug. 11, 12th and 13th, with her aunt at Mt. Pleasant, Loudon County, Va., and enjoyed her short stay very much. Rev. Dr. James E. Green, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church at East Arlington, Va., spent an enjoyable week, August 20-24, visiting his old home in Va. He returned in time to conduct interesting services, Sunday and in time to attend the Mt. Bethel Baptist Association. SATURDAYS SERMONS BY UNUS The best talkers are the best listeners. The duty of paying attention to what other people say is a fundamental law of the social code. You may be able to startle by your wit, move by your pathos and thrill by your eloquence, but this will not save you from being frequently a positive annoyance, unless you have what Sidney Smith described in a laquacious gentleman—a few flashes of silence. A requisite element of agreeable conversation is that it be unrestrained, and to accomplish this result you must inspire confidence in your discretion. Strive by all means to avoid the reputation of a tatler. Never repeat to a soul a syllable that was not intended for repetition. Make it a point of personal pride to be reserved on that subject. Many take, or pretend to take, offense at the caution, "Do not repeat this." It is often a very wise and proper caution. Few seem to be aware of the advantages that are to be derived from having the reputation of never repeating anything that is told them. Bear constantly in mind that one secret of success in conversation lies not so much in knowing what to say, but what to avoid saying. Be careful of the teeth, the mouth and the tongue. Keep them immaculate, if you would please and succeed as a conversationalist. Also, the hair and dress should be within the average limits of the fashion of the day. There should be nothing to detract the eye of the listener, or divert his attention from the expression of the speaker or from his words. Our people have particular reason to have a care to these little points, for obvious reasons, but to dress over fine or gaudily or bizarre, is equally fatal. Never say anything unpleasant when it can by any possibility be avoided. It is to be regretted that witty satire and keen retorts are so general relished by bystanders. You may be sure they are not usually relished by the person at whom the shaft is directed. Many persons seem to be under the impression that without sarcasm, social intercourse must of necessity be dull. Many believe that all wit must cut as well as shine. Remember what John Randolph said of the brilliant and witty Clay when he compared him to a rotten mackerel in the moonlight: "He stinks as he shines, and shines as he stinks." Beware of censuring. There are persons who seldom talk without blaming some one, or carping, grumbling or disapproving. The faults of others are as their very breath. They seem to be forever looking down. One might imagine that in all their lives they had never associated with, or met a decent or reputable human being. Do not hesitate to indulge in compliments at times, if they are in the least deserved. The spirit of a compliment is the expression of something agreeable to another person. It is, therefore, absurd to broadly condemn it, as some do, since the whole art of pleasing is more or less that of complimenting. The most benevolent or generous act to an equal loses much of its value if utterly devoid of compliment. A compliment is that delicate homage by which we imply that certain excellencies or merits in another have made upon us a something more than superficial impression. In every one you can find something to praise. In conversation make as few references to yourself as possible. I know a certain very worthy and successful man who never talks about himself or his own people or affairs, unless it is necessary. Beware of giving the slightest indication that you habitually realize your own merit. The basis of true politeness is kindness. Be polite in conversation. All politeness should, if possible, be real and from the heart. If you constantly strive to reason away your prejudices against people, you will be polite. Most of our dislikes have little foundation. A large proportion of them spring from idle gossip, from fancied sidelights, or from trails of our temper that we could very easily forgive. Politeness includes "polish, elegance, ease and gracefulness of manner, united with desire to please others, and a careful attention to their wants and wishes." It is well to be able to tell a good story, but it is better to avoid the reputation of being a professed storyteller. The same is true as regards repeating anecdotes, puns, quotations and other kinds of a more formal style of wit. He who aims at conversing well must avoid a hobby. Above all, I do not counsel the continual reptition of only one or two stories. Never ask a question, unless necessary, to which a reluctant answer may be anticipated. I do not refer merely to questions to satisfy idle curiosity, but rather to a form in which some persons shape much of their conversation. For example: instead of remarking that the weather is fine, Mr. Smith asks if the weather is not fine? or Mr. Jones asks, "What do you think of Miss Smith's dress?" Do not take liberties in conventions. Some go in the principles: "Brass is better than gold"; "Nothing venture nothing have"; "Nothing is given without the asking." The practical meaning of all this is, that the modesty of others may be invaded and the ordinary, observances of society freely violated, whenever it suits the pleasure of any one to do, especially if he can by tact or luck escape punishment. In society or before a third person, earnest argument should be avoided. To prove yourself in the right is to show that another is in the wrong. It is ill-bred to do this before wilt. "Agree with thine adversary quickly!" For a man or wine of intellect to seriously argue a point with one of inferior mind, experience or culture is ridiculous. Let men realize the place of women in conversation. From the days when all the intellect of Greece gathered around Aspasia, we find that when conversation has at any time been raised in any country or capital nesses, and it is courteous to avoid it, so far as possible, at any time. to a high degree of culture, and exerted a decided influence on the spirit of the age; it has owed its development in a degree to women. The best part of Lord Chesterfield's, wit and polish was derived, as he tells us, from assiduously frequenting the society of ladies. Avoid disagreeable subject in miscellaneous conversation. "Nice persons frequently have nasty ideas," said Dr. Johnson. He was not referring to immoral or indecent subjects; talk about the details of your toilet, or your dyspepsia or your liver complaint. Do not dwell at great length on some horror of a lynching or other painful phase of the race question; Assume that others also read the papers. Avoid as far as possible, the horrors, give them only when encouraged by all present. One should avoid in conversation certain forms of ambiguous wit. Of this nature is the figure known as the paradox. It should be used with caution. Examples: "Nothing lies so much as facts, unless it be figures." "There is no fool like a wise fool." "Men who are willing to die for their country are generally careful to avoid the first ditch." While the paradox is sometimes witty, and should be reserved for humorous argument, it is not of first class importance in conversation. It is often a form of shallow wit. It may often amount to an offensive impressive. In conversation it is essential to avoid selfishness in trifles; it is necessary to make small sacrifices. The world is rapidly losing all respect for that un甘加且 and uncouth Puritanism that in its excess of zeal for grace, lost all sight of the graces CLARKE TRAINING SCHOOL 1600 Thirteenth Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. Once: the home of the Chilean Legation MRS. ADDIE R. CLARKE, Manager A WORD TO WOMEN Learn Dressmaking and 'Millinery the Easy Way. Are you aware that there is a growing demand for Dressmakers, Hair Dressers and Seamstresses, and the demand is far greater than the supply? Well it is a fact. To overcome this we are offering to all who wish to learn Dressmaking, Plain-sewing, Hair Dressing and Millinery a special inducement. Now if you are anxious to fit yourselves for the work of life and real usefulness; sleeze this opportunity, DECIDE NOW, never mind what obstacles you may have to overcome, WE WILL HELP YOU in every way we can. You may write us in 'the fullest confidence and rest assured that whatever advice we give will be based on the sincere desire to help you. MRS. CLARKE has had twenty-five years experience in teaching dress-making, cutting and fitting, designing, blending. And has so simplified the art that the average women can learn in this school in from six to nine months and be as efficient as one would in any other place in a three year course. We have positive proof of this, for we have many of our graduates now making from nine to fifteen dollars per week in this city and many other parts of the country, also others are teaching in some of our best institutes. Hairdressing. The Hairdressing department is under the supervision of one of the most accomplished Hairdressers. Music. Elementary music is another branch taught. Those desiring to take the higher course can do so—Excellent teachers. Work Plentiful. All sorts of employment furnished to those seeking the same through the Mode Employment Bureau, in the same Building. A Long Felt Need Met. Strangers coming to Washington, D. C., need not any longer wonder as to where they may stop or secure any information—Just call up North 1955 or call at 1600 13th Street N. W., corner of 13th and Q and the Bureau of Information, under the Supervision the of Colored Women's Clubs of the District of Columbia, located in the Clarke Training School Building will furnish the same; information sought through the mail, it will be gladly furnished. MISS MARIE A. D; MADRE, LL. B, MRS JULIA MASIA KAYTON FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS. The funeral of Mr. William Brooks and his four children, who were killed last Sunday by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, while automobiling near Mariborough, was held at Stewalf undertaking establishment, 52 H street, northwest, Wednesday evening, August 29, at 8 o'clock, p. m. The Rev. Dr. Chestnut, pastor of the M. E. church at Fairmount Heights, officiated. The chapel was filled with, friends from Fairmount Heights, and from the city. Hundreds of sympathizing persons were forced to stand outside. The whole of Fairmount Heights mourns the loss of one of its most worthy residents. Nothing like such a calamity ever fell to the lot of anyone as this at this writing. But three of seven children of Mr. Brooks and mother remain. The remains of the father and four children were entered at the family burying grounds just below Mariborough on Tuesday evening. (By the Sage of the Potomac.) It is a nice thing to stand off and see other people work. We imagine that it is an easy proposition and we start in to teach the other fellow what we imagine we know and can do. For fifty years the colored people in this city took it into their heads that they wanted a theatre and they had been thinking along the theatrical lines for fifty years and a few years ago a few so-called moneyed men allowed themselves to be hoodwinked into organizing a stock company. My good friend, Mr. W. Sidney Pittman, who was then sailing on the name of his father-in-law, Dr. Booker T. Washington, was made president while the white man conducted the business and received pay. Several thousand dollars were collected, of which the white man received the best portion. It was but a short time when the corporation lost its bearing and the stock holders began to look for a dividend. They have been looking and waiting ever since its organization. Brother Nelson. E. Weatherless and Mr. John C. Dorsey, two brainy individuals and more honest than their enemies will give them credit conceived an idea how the money would be saved and have their money refunded. Brother Weatherless and Brother Dorsey had their heads together and before many more moons dollar for dollar will be turned over to the share holders in this would-be theatre building. John C. Dorsey has his ways but no one can ever say that he practiced dishonesty. His record for honesty is above reproach. Brother Weatherless is a man of great thought and ability. The Masonic fraternity was never placed upon a better memorial and financial footing as it was when Brother Weatherless was Grand Master. The pulsans crowd took it into their heads that a two cent individual was better than gold. So they laid aside the gold-brick and put a two cent individual in its place. It has been going down ever since. There are no files on Prof. Weatherless. He is a man and they all know it. No organization could be ashamed of him. He can meet all comers. His oratory is perfect. His intellect is equal to the greatest and far surpasses those who fought him. The Washington Masons were on the map when Prof. Weatherless was Grand Master. Well, don't you know there are that some colored churches that have been affected with the "Colorphritis." Don't you know that many of those religious hypocritics have declared that some colored churches that have church in mourning. What is the world coming to? Just to think—when so-called Christian worshipers declare against a preacher because a man is black. It is a fact. This mostly attains among two Baptist churches in this city who are divided on the color of a preacher's color. If there ever was a time for the better thinking people to come in and control, it is now. Now is the time for Satin to step in and claim these hypocritics. If a preacher's color is to be a bar to his election to these particular Baptist churches, the sage would suggest that those white colored people be allowed to support the pastor. There is as much color prejudice among certain classes of Colored people as there is among the Southern cracker. This class of Colored people could not be the associates of the poor white trash in the South. Both imagine that they are better than the other. The blue-bloods of the South never think of the color of a person's skin. and it is the bastardly class among Colored people who create much color prejudice. Then there is another class known as the exiles from other citizens who have no standing at home and who generally come to the city to obtain a standing. Many of this class of people have been leading lights in the Washington Colored society. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and hundreds of young girls ruined by this class of people. There are some good people in this city who attend to their own business and don't allow the color of their skin intoxicate their brain. I attended the picnic of the Oldest Inhabitants lost week. For beauty and refinement I saw them there. These yearly gatherings bring out some of Washington's best people, not the shams, but the real people. If you want to see the real people of Washington the Oldest Inhabitants have got them. I want to congratulate President Eugene Brooks, John H. Payter, Mr. Muse and others. I saw the groom-to-be, my genial friend, Jerome A. Johnson, best known as "Jerry." The boys call him "Jerry" for short. Then there was the Adonis of the flock, Dr. Summer Wormley, who was in the ace of his glory, too timid to approach the tender sex for fear of being intoxicated by their charms. He is a good looker at such gatherings. I am an admirer of this Adonis of the social circle. ROSSLYN, VA. DOTS Mrs. Ainle J. Anderson left on her summer vacation, Tuesday, Aug. 21, to visit her husbands parents. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of Nelson Co., Va., and expects to spend a few days in Lynchburg, Va., before returning home. Mrs. N. J. Cornwell left Saturday, Aug. 25, to spend her vacation at Asbury Park, N. J. Mrs. Sarah J. Thomson, owing to illness, could not go to Atlantic City. Miss. Magdaline Flemming has gone to spend a few days with her cousin, Mrs. Bessie Watkins in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Jane Jackson accompanied Mrs. Cornwell to the Union Station, Washington, D. C., as that lady left for Asbury Park, N. J. Miss Sarah Peterson, Jr., is visiting her uncle on her summer vacation, in Pennsylvania. She will return in time to take up her studies in the high schools of Washington. Miss Peterson is quite an active worker at Sunday School, Young People's Meetings and general church work. ow Sag Otis eer i Fae a0 cle) a a es iy iby ee — OTR . ‘ Ty “ANN : . x = i en. : A “Broken through all previous records this seagon in the sale of soda water and ice cream soda is a fact we are pleased .to“tell our patrons,” declares BOARD'S DRUG STORH at 1912% J4th Street, N. W: This. shows that the public appreciates a refreshing, {nvigorating and ‘ wholesome ° bever- age; When you feel tired and languid there is nothing that will restore your vitality and spirits as a glass of cold, sparkling. soda water or a sundae with that: luscious, rich fruity flavor served at Board’s Drug Store on Fourteenth Street. Fl with that: lusctous, rich fruity flavo served at Board’s Drug Store oz Fourteenth Street. ¢ - A big delegation .of Baltimore left Cleveland, Ohig., ‘Friday morning where they will boost this city as the next meeting place for the Grand Lodge. : John W. Rich visited the Officers’ training Gamp at Des Molnes, In; this week. = ‘Wiliam 'N. Garratt, of this city, was reelected grand master of the Fish- erman of Galilea at thelr session “in Asbury Park, N. J., lact week. Rey. James A. Wright, of Hartford, Conn. Was in the city this week vislt- ing relatives. - g Mr, George G. Jenkins Jr, of 1443 S street has returned to the city’ ofter a delightful trip to Martinsburg, ‘W. Va., visiting Rev. and Mrs. Edward T. Jobnson, the latter his sister.“ Mr. and Mrs. Jno, Brown of Norfolk, Va., are now in the city the guests of ‘Mrs. Brown's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Albert, 1951-Third St. N. W. Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss Ella Albert of this city. Mrs, Octavia Wéddiigton has. re- turned home after a very delightful stag of six weeks visiting relatives and friends in Richmond and Amelia, Va. Mr. and Mrs. George Murray of Sec- ond St. S. W. ate elated over a new arrival—George Jr. : Mrs. Lucy Duke of Norfolk, Va. is visiting her mother, Mrs.. Anne, Short- er of 1610 V St. N. W. Mr. James Churchill of 1417 S$ St. N. W. in, company with Mr. Lewis Adams left the city for Atlantic City, N.J. : G Masters Edward T. Jr. and Clat- borne C. Johnson the little sons of. Rey. 5... Johnson of Martinsburg, W. Va., are in the city visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George G. Jenkins Sr. of 1443 S St. Ni W. ~ ‘Mrs. Edith Merriweather-Washing- ton formerly of this city but now of Tuskegee, Ala, is: visiting her mother. Mrs. Jas. "Merriweather of S St. N. W. Mra, Martha Gray daughter of the late Mr. Harvey W.. Gtay and Mrs. Martha Gray of Arlington, Va., well known in. Washington, received an Appointment in the Bureau of Eugrav- ing and Printing last week. Mr. Noble Weddington returned to the city ofter a delightful trip'to Char- lotte, N.C. visiting relatives and friends. .-Mr. Weddington was highly entertained while: there. ‘Mr. Jas, W. Cusperd formerly.of this city is visiting his sister, Mrs. Emma Cabanise, Mrs. Amelia Cusperd and Mrs, Clayton Bannister. Mr. Cusperd hailing from an old and well known family is being extensively entertain- ed while here by many of his old friends. Mr. and Mrs, Wilson A. Evan’ and Uttle daughter, Grace Louise of Gres- ham St, N. W. motored to Baltimore, ‘Md. and Wilmington, Del., two’ weeks ago. "Mr. and.Mrs. Jos. Parker and. little son Joseph Snowden Parker, arp. the guests of Mrs. Parker’s sisters, Mrs, Maichiah Charity, of, Fairmount, Md. Miss Mary Quander and Mrs. Robert Jenkins. * ‘Mrs. M. Woodson'and daughter, Miss Parthenia Woodson of 1217 ‘Tea St. N. W. are spending a-delighttul time in| Atlantic City. ‘The death of Mr. Caleb Beam, who for over forty years: was an attache of the court of General Sessions and Common Pleas of Chester, S- C. oc- curred ‘Thursday, Aug. 6, 1917. Mr. Beam was a highly jrespected citizen and an exemplary Christian. The de- ceased Was a man of rare fidelity to duty and deep religious convictions. Rev. T. H. Ayers conducted the funer- al services assisted by Rev. A. McLees and Rev. L. Featherstone. Many coun- ty officials and white friends attended the services. He leaves to mourn their joss, Mrs. Mamle J. McAuley, of ‘Tea St. N. W. Washington, D.'C., and Mrs, Martha H. Bohler of Chester, S.C. ‘Miss Irene. B. ,Taylor of Anderson, g. C, who has been the guest of her brother, Mr. J. Afchibald ‘Taylor, of 1110% You Street, Northwest, for sev- eral weeks; expects to return to her home ‘the latter part.of the month. Miss Taylor {8 a graduate of ‘Clark University 08 and for several years has been teaching in the public schools of Anderson, and ‘will ‘resume ber duties at te opening of school in Sept. Yamong the other out of town visi- tors to the city is the Misses Maude and Routh Hill, Florence Shorter, Florence Bearden and Julia Allen of Atlanta, Ga. and Miss Mayme Palmar f whom are spending a pleasant vaca- Hon in the: Capital City. . Miss Maude Hilly, and | Miss Shorter aro well known: residents of Atlanta, Miss Hill being a graduate of Clark University '07 and Miss Shorter is a graduate of Atlanta University ‘14, Pe of these young tadies are teact {ing in t®e public schools of Atlante | Where they will resume thelr duties a: the opening: of school in September.’ « ‘Misses Ruth Hill, Florence Bearder and Julia“Allen returned to Atlante ‘Thurs, Misses Hill and Bearden ‘wit take the Teacher's: examination’ pre paratory - to taking —_ position: in the Atlanta Public schools, both be ing graduates of Clark University ‘16 Miss Julia Allen, the very accomplieh: ed musician with a sweet melodious voice, will reenter Clark University this Fall where she is now a student., Miss ‘Maymo Palmer,” the populei Marletta Georgia teacher amd gradu ate of ClarkUniversity '12 will soon re jturn to that city to resume: her, dutte: iin the public schools. The Misses Maude and Ruth Hill and Florence Shorter, {8 the guests of Miss ‘Tayloi and her brother during thelr'stay. ‘Miss Mamie Mason, a popular teacher ‘in’ the - tity schools. of Birmingham, Ala, was a visitor in our city.for a few days. She was the guest of Mr. ‘and’ Mra. A. F. Reed, of 127 S street northwest. ‘ Miss Nellio Warner + of Atlanta, Ga., is yisiting Miss Sarah Turner, daughter’ of Rev. C.. M. Tanner the popular pastor of Metropoltan’.A, M. B. Chureh: : aces Hebecta and. Tae ‘Thornton, Pittsburg, Pa., are visiting, Mr. and Mrs. ‘A, M. Thornton, 1413 17th St. Mrs. -E, ‘W. Harrison,’ of 1101 Que St.'N. W. who has been out of the city since Aug. 4, will return Thurs- day, September 6. % The Potomac District S. S., Con: yerition ‘held an interesting gather- ing recently at Ebenezer -A: M. E. Church 28th and ON. W., M.-J. Keg was re-elected Dist. Supt, Miss Ruth Brinkly, See. and-Mrs. A. B. Waddle- ton, chafrihan of the Execiitive’ Com- mittee. | Progress -reported along all ines. j Rev. P. J. Jordan. presfding, elder. Rev, and Mrs Jernagin left Mon- day afternoon accompained. by their daughter Rosable to attend the Mt. Bethel Association at Mathias . Point, Va. A Mr. and Mrs. Agton Ficklitig goes to Atlantic City, next Tuesday, where they will spend ithe’ heated turn they will remain at the Sea Shore for some time, Douglass Fickling, son of Aston Fickling has been appointed letter carrier. Mrs. L. Smith, of Washington, D. ©., 4s visiting friends in Troy, N. ¥. Mrs, Anna Brown (mother) ” of this city is quite ill_at the Pleasant Cottage, Saratoga Springs, Nv Y. ‘Mrs. Bell and daughter, wife of Dr. Bell, who has been ‘visiting in Wash- ington have returned to- their, home in Philadlephia. ‘Miss Lola Johnson of this city is in Scranton, Pa., the guest of Miss Amy Dorsey. Miss Guy, of this city is visiting her mother in Providence, R. I, who is quite sick. Miss. Benjamin and Normal Sewell, of this city are-the guest of Mrs, Matilda White and ‘daughter | in Staunton, Va, Mrs. Mary A. Parker, of this eity was the guest of Mrs, Bell Gider, of Binghamton, N. Y. Miss Marie L.-James, of this ‘city is stopping ‘with Mrs. Alberta Martin in Ithaca, N. Y. Mr. Daniel A. Blue, of Buffalo, N. ¥. is in this city. : Mrs. Letcher, of this city will spend three Weeks in Detroit, Mich, : Mr. and Mra. J, T Bilis and family and two brothers of this city motored to, Atlantic City, during the past week, Miss Beatrice Turner, of McLean, Va., is visiting relatives here. . Miss Josie Ashton, of this. city is visiting Her brother, P.. Ashton, . of Jersey City, New Jersey. ‘Miss Maude Smallwood, of this city is visiting friends in Jersey City. Mrs. Gertrude’ Shelsey, of 2305 M St. will leave: the city to attend Ma- Jam’ Walkers, convention in Phila. Mra Shelsey is one of the noted hair iressers here and uses the Madam Walkers system with much success. Miss Helen G. Hatreton and Miss Ella Wesley who have been spending heir vacation at Niagara Falls and Sattle Creek, Michigan, are now in In- Manapolis Indiania. Dr. and’ Mrs. W. L. Board of the Zoard Pharpiacy on{ Fourteenth St, | re having delightful visit at Buck- | 08 Beach, Va. : Mrs. Jennie Brown, of Anacostia, D. 7, {8 visiting her sister in Chicago il. | Dr. Jas. B. Agerey ,of Salisbury, | v.C,, Misses Nell McKenzie and Ma— el “Jenkins, of Greensboro, N. C:, are]! lsitors in the elty, the guests of Dr.| nd: Mrs. Edward Ancrum on T treet. : Miss Florence M, Carter, who ar- ived in the city last Friday, from | Richmond, Va., left last Tuesday for | ner home, in Pittsburgh, Pa. She | vas: accompanied by Mrs. Ada’ Ste- renson, algo of Pittaburgh, Pa. Mr. C. F. Holmes, assistant. super: |) ntendent of the N.C. Mutual and |: provident. Insurance Company, {s mastMine ble eeonchin «4 On. the guest of Mrs, 8. J. Taylor, 128 F street; northwest. ‘Miss. Homoselle Racks, formerly connected with The Bee, and one of the,, brightest young ladies in the last’ week. Sho is not sériously in- jured. Sho is not confined to her bed, however. ~ Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Byers, -who went on a ten days trip to New York and Atlantic City after apending a most enjoyable: time, returned to the city Monday. Prof. Jesse Lawson,’ after a’ ten days vistt to his home in Plainfield, N.J., bas returned to the city. °° Rev. J. A: Johnson, wite and two children of Martinsburg, W. Va., ate the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, parents of his wife on S street north- west. = = | Mrs. John °R. Francis, Jr and children are in Averdel onthe bay. The doctor motored there last week. Attorney. Thomas L. Jones bas pur- chased himself a handsome . touring car:of the 1917 model. It is a. Dort. He ‘will motor to the sea shore with his family Lebor Day. ‘Miss “Martha “C, “Alter, who -has been the guest of his grand parents, in Orange, Va., returned to the city, accompanied by her ittio sister, Vic: torfa. . Me. W, Calvin, Chase, Jr who was a delegate to the St. Luke's convention to the city last’ Friday evening. “ Mr. W.: H. Smrllwood, who was. taken ill some time -ago, is up and out again, Prof. J. D. Baltimore and wife are in the country and from there they will visit the sea shore. Dr. and Mrs. Samuel W: Pierce, of 2124 L street northwest, made a flying trip to the sea shore the last of this week. ‘Mr. M, C. Mcxfleld’ is on the sec- ond ‘edition of the Colored American as a Citizen. Doctors Otho Peters, McKinney Houston,’’ Miss Carrie. Wilson ‘and James MéKinney ‘have formed an auto party and will motor to Atlantic City. They will spend two weeks touring New York before. returning to. the city. < " Miss Fay ‘Hershiaw, a Kindergarten teacher in the public ‘schools of Princeton, New Jersey, and who has been attending the summer school of Columbia University, “studying ad- vanced kindergarten work, is at'home, 2215 13th -street,. northwest for a few days with her father and mother be- fore returning to Princeton, to open school,. September 4: Mr. and Mrs, John B: Boardley have returned ‘to Washington after a pleasant trip visiting hfs mother and father, Mr. and Mrg.-Aaron Boardloy, West Friendshrip, Md. : Mr: and Mrs. J. W. Cusbard: have returned to Jersey City after a very pleasant visit to his sisters, Mrs. 5. Sabaniss and Mrs. Bannister. On ,Sunday, August 26, Rev. J.D. Pair ‘preached for the Shiloh. Bap- ist church in the absence of: Rey. J. M. Walden, the preacher, Mr. Frank L. DeMan, of 739 Gres- am Pl, has returned from his, home n San Antonio, Texas, for the funer || 1 of‘ his mother.” « ‘Miss Mamie Gaimes, of 1511 10 St. | {. W;, is spending her vacation visit: |’ rig different cities in Va. i} -My. John R. Gelgsby, of thie Govern- nent Printing Office,’ is enjoying a leasant vacation in Haywood, Va. |' Atty, Morris Murray spent a few jays, in Phila,, ‘Pa, in. professional |” usiness, ‘ . Mrs,’ Baker, of 58 St, N. E.,; spent delightful week while visiting her oni. in Phila. Pa, 2 1 Miss Taleta Burnside, 418 You St.,J I. W., entertained a few of her many |{ riends. last Saturday evening. The’ vening was epjoyably spent in ‘play-|! Wg cards’and’ dancing, after which a| jainty repast was served. 3 Mr. Frank -L. DeMan, was the guest t Hon. Geo. W. Ellis and Atty, Rich-|, rd EB. Westbrook during his visit in hfcago, Ill. : r Mrs. Alzeno B. Hodd, and Uttle}t augliter Mildréd, gre visiting Rich-|t nond, Va., and other sections ‘of the | a tate. ° t Robt. H. Holley, of the Census |< jureau’ in contemplating a trip td var- ous cities in the state of Texas on|t fficial business. . t A number of soctety events have |. een planned in honor of Miss Augusta | t illis, of San Antonio, Texas, who’ is | isiting her brother Mr. Leonard Bilis | t f this city. * 1 Mrs. Minta B, Simmons of the Cam- ron Apartments will’ leave the ‘city | é aturday for a short stay in Atlantic | { ity, N.Y. fe 1 Mr. W. D. Evans and Mr. Alfred | land have just returned’ to the city ter a delightful stay in Atlantic |< ity. i r Miss Della Johnson, of 1248 20 St. F We is spending g brief stay in New § ork, Mr. Erastus Molen, of the Treasury | © epartmenit has returned to the city |& ter the funeral of his brother in eorgia. tp Mr, Andréw Thomas of the Trea-|®! iry Deparment, is spending his vaca: |" . . 7ta and Tea Streets. Northwest’ 2 Andrew J. 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A GRAND LAWN FETE, To be given. on the beautiful lawn of the Clark Training School and headquarters of Federation of Color- ed Women’s Clubs—1600 13th street, northwest, corner of 18th and G Streets, = « “Monday night, September 17, 1917. Under auspices of’ Local Federa- tion. . : Speclal program froni 7 to "9 p. m. —Admission, 10 cents. —— Mrs, Ida Wells Barnett, of Chicago, Ill, was first persor. to visit East St. Louis after: the’ rlot and held the first protest. meeting, July 2, 1917. She will be in Washington Septem- ber ith at Metropolitan A. M. E. church) M street between 16th and 16th streets, northwest. * ‘Rev, Carlton M. Taimer, pastor. children, passed through the city on their way north to spend thelr: vaca- tion: While here thoy were visitors at the Bee office, Mrs, Johnson was fomerly Miss Florine: Jenkins of this city. : Mrs. Bittle Woodward, of 339. Mar’ tin St, Atlanta, Ga., is ‘visiting rela- tives in the elty., ot |. Mr:.Cjcere A. Lee and little daugh- ter Helen‘Beatrice, of 430 Pea St: lett over the Southern 'R. R. on Thursday the 16th inst for his old home Plain Dealing, La. Mr. Lee is’ making this trip to. look after his land near which ofl has been found and for which there {s a ready market, value are increasing daily and prospects are bright. : "Mis Blanche and Ruth McDaniel, of Pittsburg aré visiting friends and relatives in Orange, Va., and this city. Mrs. Hugene Letcher, Mrs, Lillian Golds and Miss Jennie’ Dowsing, of this-clty are gest of Mrs. Jobn Favor, of South Sjde, Pittsburg. They are enroute to Detroit. . : ‘W. H. Davis, stenographer in the De- partment of Commerce of this city spent Wednesday in Pittsburg .return- ing home from “Nashville, Tenn. where he.attendéd the Business Mens Leagues Mrs. W. B. Praithier and daughter, of'this éity are spending their vaca- tion. jn Phila. the guest- of Mrs, Praithier’s brother. a - Mrs. Richard Barlow, has returned from Phila, where she spent three. weeks with her son. She will ‘leave in a few days for her home in Tarlors N.C. x Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, the lead- ing tennis players of this -city, are visiting friends in Phila. for a few weeks Mr. and Mré, Roscoe, C. Bruce and Mrs, Blanche K. Bruce: pass. through Phila. oni thejr way East, ‘Miss Dancy daughter of Hon. John Dancy,exrecorder of Deeds ' returned to the clty after several weeks vaca- tion in -Phila: : It {s rumored that John Dancy,. Jr., will soon be marrieq in New York City. John {s well known among the young set and {s now secretary of the Urbian League in Phila. ‘Mrs. Martha. James ‘has returatd trom Norfolk, Va., she will visit Atlan- tic City and New York later, :Mrs, Joseph White, of Chester, Pa, ig spending her vacation in Washing- ton. * ‘ ‘Miss Catherine Allen who has been ; Madame Walker’s : Goods | | : We have the ‘exclusive Ww holésale ea Agency for ; a h . : | Madame Walker’s’ Preparations _ | : Wholesale and Retail : . : os AGENTS SUPPLIED ; Peoples Drug Store - Agency “7th & M; N..W. . . “Se PEOPLE WHO NEED GLASSES—SHOULD WEAR GLASSES. You all. know what the Block Optical Co. means in the optical world. - Few concerns have made the studies they have. . Naturally, there’s a reason. . . ‘We want to-prove it to you. Therefore, take advantage of the following: i Good at Block Optical. Co—737 7th &t., Ni W.- _ This coupon brought. by. a member of’one family entitles them to an examination and a reduction of $2.00 on any pair of glasses. so BLOCK OPTICAL CO. | at . : | Exclusive: Optometrists and Opticians _ 737 Seventh Street N. W. ' Four Doors From H Street _ Broken lenses duplicated without the Prescription. - Artificial eyes, * i visiting her parents in: Bristol, Pa., will return to Washington soon. James E. Smith, of this city is stop- ping jn Chicago. Miss Josie Ashton, of this city, fs visiting -her brother, P. Ashton in Jersey City. Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Marlow and son accompanied by Miss Jeanette ‘Brown are in Washington. . ‘Miss Maude Smallwood of this city is visiting Mr.’and Mrs. Jones in Jer- sey City. * ‘Mrs. W. A. Taylor, of this city spent last Sunday in Norfolk as the-guest of Mr. H. T, Shields. : . Miss Loulse Pree, of this city 1 ‘visiting ‘her. mother in Newport News, Va.” ad, Mr. ang Mra. Richard, Jr. have re turned to 'Buckroe, Va. Mr. and Mra, Hughes, of this city, are in Toano, Va. : ‘Mrs. D. ©. Harrjs, of Boston., has returned home after visiting relatives in Washington, D. C. Mr. Clifton Luckett 1s here from Pennsylvania visiting his parents, in al i McLean, Va. -Mrs. Graco’ Pryor made a fiying trip here to see her parents in Mo Lean, Va. . MOTORED TO NEW YORK. Madame Smith and“Ladies Left for New York Saturday Night. quadame -M. M. Smith, the” wall known ‘hair culturist,. accompanted by. Mrs. Powell and Chase, left the’ olty last Saturday. evening “and motored to New York city. Tt was a most de- | Menteur trip. After their arrival in New ‘York the ladies. were royally entertained: They will return to the city this wees. ‘They will motor to Atlantte City also. * Z : { NOTICE. ‘whine puational. Race Congross of, which Rev. W. H. Jernagin is pree- ident will meet in this. city in its Second Annual Seeston;- Oct, 8 4, 1917. Watch for the Official An- nouncement in next issue. —- | Fine Patriotic Spirit Is Shown In Our Island. Training Camp For Officers' Reserve Corps Will Have About 200 Who Will Get Commissions as First and Second Lieutenants—Officers From the United States and Native Regiment. San Juan, P. R.—The training camp for the Porto Rico contingent of the officers' reserve corps opened with 200 candidates in attendance. These applicants will be trained by officers sent from the States and by some of the officers of the Porto Rico regiment who have been called from the canal zone for the purpose. It is presumed that the officers who come from the States will remain to serve; with the national army brigade which Porto Rico is expected to furnish. This brigade will number 7,000. Most of the applicants at the insular training camp will receive commissions as first or second Lieutenants, a few gaining higher rank. The course of instruction will be identical with that of the camps in the States and will last three months. The candidates will enlist for that period, at the same time agreeing to take whatever commissions may be offered them. The commission calls for an enlistment of five years, unless sooner discharged by the war department, though M. B. ARTHUR YAGER, GOVERNOR OF PORTO NICO. active service will be only for the duration of the war. The men will receive $100 a month and 75 cents a day for food allowance, shelter and clothing, though it is suggested that the work will be facilitated if they buy their own uniforms before the camp opens. Of the candidates thus far accepted twenty-five are confluent Americans, with Porto Rico as their legal residence. The others are native Porto Blicaus. Colonel Townshend reported to Arthur Yager, governor of the island, that he is much pleased with the general fitness of the accepted candidates, and he expects to see a fine lot of officers graduated. He has toured the entire island to examine applicants, thus insuring selection by an experienced officer. The camp site at Cayey, where Henry barracks are located, is considered the best in the island for the purpose. The location is high and healthful, and the barracks have ample room to accommodate the student officers. The sandy soil of the camp grounds quickly absorbs the rainfall, making drilling at all times possible. There is no doubt that through the selective draft a fine brigade will be obtained. Adjutant General John A. Wilson, exhibiting a letter received by him a day or two ago, said, "There will be no trouble in inscription as long as this kind of spirit is shown." The letter from Mayaguez, signed by four young men, read: "Signed below you will find the names of we four young men who, full of love for the nation that has built the general welfare of our beloved island and ground of being citizens of the greatest nation in the world, are willing to contribute, even with our lives, to the defense of the kingdom of democracy in the world and do hereby ask you to include our names in the first recruiting to take place." RISKED U BOAT FOR PIG. Germans Got Porker, but Barely Escaoped Destroyer's Shell. An Atlantic Port—A desire for the luxury of pork chops and other savory attributes of the pig inspired the commander of a German submarine on June 29 off the Azores to risk his boat to make a fine, squealing porker a prisoner of war. The pig belonged to the Norwegian sailing ship Siran, and the men of the submarine chased it around the deck several times before they captured it and bore it squealing to the submarine. An enemy destroyer had been sighted bearing down on the submarine, and she got below the surface just in time to avoid a shell that struck close to the spot where she had taken the pig prisoner. The destroyer took aboard the crew of the Siras, which had been destroyed by bombs, and they arrived at an American port. OVER 2,000,000 AT WORK ON BRITISH MUNITIONS Churchill Says Army Is No Longer Tapping Stored Up Resources of the National Energy. London.—Colonel Winston Churchill, minister of munitions, has begun the reorganization of the British munitions department. In a statement he says the department is now employing 2,000,000 persons and the headquarters staff 13,500 and that it is controlling an expenditure of between £600,000,000 and £700,000,000 a year. Colonel Churchill says the work the department has done has made the British armies "the best equipped and most formidable" armed in Europe." "But," the minister adds, "after these great efforts and in the fourth year of the war we no longer are tapping stored up resources of the national energy or mobilizing. We are applying them for the first time to the war. The magnitude of the effort and achievement approximates continually the limits of possibility. Already in many directions the frontiers are in sight, and it is necessary therefore not simply to expand, but to go back over the ground already covered and by thrifty and harmonious methods glean a further re-enforcement of war power." For this purpose, Colnnel Churchill says, it has been decided to form the fifty departments of the ministry into ten groups, each to be presided over by an experienced officer of the ministry, who will constitute a council, the functions of which will be similar to those of the army council. BURGLAR SPY SAT IN DUMA TWO YEARS Petrograd—Revelatous of the commission of inquiry into abuses of the former government show that for two years there sat in the duma as a respected, influential member, a burglar, police spy, informer and organizer of crime. This member was the prominent Socialist, Roman Malinowsky, friend and protege of the notorious Lenine, whose attempts to overthrow the provisional government are making such a stir. Mallnowsky's career, according to the commission, began with pocket picking and burglary, for which in Moscow he was many times convicted. Fifteen years ago Mallnowsky decided to enter politics and became associated with the semi-revolutionary Socialist party, to whom his criminal record was unknown. He showed such revolutionary fervor that he rapidly advanced and became a friend of Nikolai Lenin, who was then living in exile abroad. In 1910, the commission discovered, Malinowky began to co-operate with the okhiruna, or police security department, using his position with the revolutionaries in order to obtain facts. His plan was to spay and egg on his comrades into demonstrations and political crimes and then betray them. He was taken on at first at $25 a month, but soon so distinguished himself as spy and informer that he was promoted and was sent abroad by the police to watch and incite emigrant revolutionaries. He still kept Lenine's confidence, and this enabled him to carry out his police work efficiently. For two years Malinowsky steadily rose in favor both of the revolutionaries and of the police. In May, 1912, he was elected duma member. Both revolutionaries and police, unknown to one another, rejoiced. Malinowsky became so valuable that his salary from the police was raised to $250 a month. This, with his salary as duma member, gave him an income of $5,000 a year. He drew continued praise for his admirable revolutionary work as duma member and reported everything to the security department. His speeches were carefully prepared in advance. Some were written by Lenine, and all were submitted before delivery to the police. The inquiry commission found corrected drafts of the speeches in the police offices. ```markdown ``` U. 8. HAS AIR, MOTOR THAT BEATS 'EM ALL Experts of the army, navy and other branches of the government who have been working night and day to perfect the most powerful airplane motor ever devised have succeeded. The, liberty motor has stood the test. It is an adaptation on a magnified scale of the principles underlying other motors, but is so constructed that it develops a greater horsepower in a lighter mechanism than anything here-tofore used. The mechanism is being guarded with the greatest secrecy. All that can be said is the motor has proved that it can drive an airplane faster than one was ever driven before. As speed is the vital requisite to supremacy of the air, the importance of the new motor is apparent. Its construction is so simple that the parts can be standardized with relative ease, so that duplicates may be turned out by the thousands in automobile shops. THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS High Class Work, Reasonable Prices Life-like Features Restored Free Funeral Parlor WISCONSIN WINTONER 422-333-6666 WINTONER 422-333-6666 WINTONER 422-333-6666 MONTVILLE, MN 55401 422-333-6666 MONTVILLE, MN 55401 422-333-6666 WINTONER 422-333-6666 DR.FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER Whitens dark or brown skin. Bleaches and clears sallow complexions, removes all blemishes and causes the skin to grow whiter. See that you get the genuine. As I have used your Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin. Whitener and like them in enclosing 256 instamps for which please send me another box. It is a long ways too send, but I know that I will get just what I ask for. Very often I ask the Dugges here for one thing and I know that he will say take this, it is just as good what you want. I want the genuine Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener, so send to you for it. DO NOT ACCEPT IMITATIONS Sold by druglabs or sent direct, for $25 postpaid. Write JACOBS 'PHARMACY, Atlanta, Ga. Falmer's Skin Whitener may be be purchased in all the People's Drug stores, as follows: Main 4119, People's Drug Store, Store 1, 7th and K N. W. Main 5671, Store 1, 7th and K N. W. Main 5670, Store 1, 7th and K N. W. Main 900, Store 2, S. W. Cor. 7th and 1. N. W. Main 3140, Store 3, 2002 14th N. W. North 3228 Store 3, 2002 14th N. W. North 2398, Store 4, 7th and M N. W. Lincoln 3496, Store 5, 8th and H N. E. Lincoln 2789, Store 5, N. E. Cor. 8th H N. E. THE BEE Is the paper that should be in every home in the city. It is the people's paper. Read The Bee if you want all the news. Open Day and Night Livery and Chapel JOHN T. STEWART Undertaker and Embalmer 33 U Street N. E. Washington, D. C. Phone Lincoln 3718 Phone North 2751 Promptness --- QUICKEST BES 1109 Eye Street, Northwest MAKING HIGH EXPLOSIVES Dangers of Poisoning to Which the Workers Are Exposed. The making of modern munitions of war has brought into prominence several types of industrial diseases hitherto almost unknown. One of the most troublesome of these is that commonly known as "T. N. T. poisoning," due to exposure to the fumes of tri-nitro-toluol or to the inhalation of dust generated in mixing certain high explosives of which it forms a constituent. Unusual drowsiness, frontal headache and eczema are the first symptoms of T. N. T. poisoning, and workers so affected are promptly given some other occupation, when the symptoms quickly disappear. Less dangerous, but very troublesome, is tetryl poisoning. Manipulation of this explosive produces a light dust, which gets into the mouth, nose and eyes and sets up a painful soreness, accompanied by headache, nausea and an almost intolerable itching. Curiously enough, individuals vary very considerably in their susceptibility to tetryl poisoning. Some workers are not all affected by it or only in a very slight degree, while others can hardly enter a room in which it is being handled without suffering severely. Luckily tetryl poisoning does not endanger life, nor are the symptoms in any case so severe as those due to T. N. T. poisoning. Tetryl possesses the annoying property, however, of staining the skin and hair yellow, but means have been found of largely counteracting this if the workers care to avail themselves of them. Other industrial diseases of a similar nature more or less prevalent in munition works are due to handling fulminate of mercury, to exposure to the fumes of a substance known as tetrachlorethane, to inhalation of various other noxious fumes and dust generated in the workshops by the different processes carried on there and also from lead poisoning. Yet another danger the munition worker is exposed to is acute poisoning due to the accidental escape of nitrous fumes into the work places. Many of these cases are apt to terminate fatally, for the gas is extremely toxic. Weekly. tness Politeness Northwest Frazier Graduate FUNERA EMBA THE BROOKLYN PRESS 723 Tea St Polite and Efficient Service Open Day and Night Phone N. 7796 W. Thigpen, Manager HOME OF THE PEOPLE'S FU HOME OF THE PEOPLE'S FUNERAL SERVICE CORPORATION. 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Much More Than Your Money's Worth The Original Economy Fabrics Silverbloom, St. Nicholas and Golden Glow for skirts, dresses and coats for all seasons wear, Honey Cloth 52/54 in. wide, 8½ to 9 pairs size of our handy wear suits, coasts, skirts, etc. Exquisite pattern, permanent finish, you for durability and fast colors. You will feel dressed up all the time if you wear these goods. For sale by leading retailers. LESHER, WHITMAN & CO., Inc., 891 Broadway, New York. P. B. Act on this advice. - If your dealer does not keep them, just cut out this ad, paste it to a card, put your name and address on it with the envelope, and mail it to us. We will send him samples at once and advise him of your request. BEST Phone Main 7590 Bundy CALL DIRECTOR LMER A. B. et, Northwest Reasonabl Prices Lady Attendant Residence Phone N. 1213 , Manager GENERAL SERVICE CORPORATION. It Has Been Found Difficult to Supply War Need. Tired Women Are Wanted, and a National Census of Nurses Has Been Undertaken to Get an Idea of Who's Who—Inducements Being Made to College Women. New York.—Meeting what, even in peace time, would be a shortage in the number of trained nurses and public health nurses needed in this country at a time when the Red Cross had enrolled 12,000 nurses for services abroad is the gigantic task which the committee on nursing of the general medical board of the Council of National Defense is undertaking. Thousands of other nurses must go. Miss Adeladele M. Nutting, formerly superintendent of nurses and principal of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Training school, now director of nursing, and health at Teachers' college, is chairman of this committee. Acting with her are Jane A. Delano, chairman of the national committee on Red Cross nursing service; Julia C. M. JULIA C. LATHROP, DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL CHILDREN'S BUREAU. Lathrop, director of the federal children's bureau; Miss Lillian D. Wald of Henry street settlement, Dr. Winford S. Smith, superintendent of Johns Hopkins hospital; Dr. S. S. Goldwater, superintendent of Mount Sinai hospital; Dr. Hermann Biggs, state commissioner of health; Dr. C. E. A. Winslow and Miss Ella P. Crandall, secretary, of the National Organization For Public Health Nursing, who is acting as secretary of the emergency organization. The committee already has undertaken a national census of nurses to learn the number of trained, and untrained ones and those with special experience in administration, teaching, public health and preventive work, industrial nursing, etc. It is thought that there are about 200,000 trained nurses in the country, of whom perhaps four-fifths are engaged in private nursing. So far the nurses going abroad have contained a high proportion of those skilled in administrative work, and it is hoped to draw in the future largely upon the private nurses, of whom the number, relatively speaking, is plentiful. The most important work of the committee will be, to increase the supply of nurses greatly and promptly. Training schools throughout the country are being urged to offer special courses to women graduates of colleges and universities to fit them for special work. In many cases credit for an academic year is given to women who have had scientific courses in universities and colleges. The plans of the committee for an educational campaign to induce educated women to enter the nursing profession have been aldered materially by a contribution of $5,000 from Mrs. Felix Warburg. While no general appeal is being made, it is hoped that several other generous persons may aid the spread of the committee's work by other donations. SCOUTS ARE BEST BOYS. Steady Decline in Delinquency is Due to Outdoor Life. Minneapolis, Minn.-The boy scout movement has caused a steady decline in delinquency, according to the statement of E. F. Waite, district judge of this city, who was one of the organizers of the movement here seven years ago and since that time has been particularly interested in the activities of the organization. He pointed out that in spite of the increase in population there has been a noticeable decrease in the cases of delinquency which are reported among boys of the scout age and declared there is every reason to believe that the romance and outdoor life of the boy scout are the underlying reasons for the decrease. McAster, Okla.-Just because he unstrusted a railroad John F. Dunham walked thirty-five miles to reach another time on his journey to enlist. When Dunham reached here he was noodles and coatless.: He made his journey in three days. ALASKA TO SUPPLY PLATINUM Discovery of Precious Metal Arouses Government. Washington.—Discovery of platinum in Alaska by Dr. Herschel O. Parker of New York and others has aroused government agencies to the greatest activity in the hope of finding sufficient quantities of the precious metal to meet the war needs of the allies. Four government experts have been assigned to study the Alaskan situation and report if the discoveries may replenish the platinum supply cut off recently by the virtual cessation of activities in the Ural mountain mines, the source of the world's greatest supply. Intensive operations would follow a favorable report, for the true condition, it is declared, cannot be determined before next year, by which time the present short supply will be almost exhausted. Professor Parker has reported finding platinum in quantity in gravel of the Kahillin river during gold placer drilling. Alaskan gold miners also have reported platinum. Between ten and twelve ounces of the precious metal were discovered in Alaska last year, and this small amount was sufficient to stimulate further prospecting this year. War uses of platinum include the making of sulphuric acid and the completion of contact points of the ignition system of aeroplanes, automobiles and telephone, and telegraph instruments. So acute is the world shortage that the price has advanced from $45 to $105 an ounce since the beginning of the war. Seven hundred and fifty troy ounces constitute the largest annual production of platinum in the United States, while Russia, before the opening of the war, produced as much as 800,000 in a year. 43 YEARS OF LIFE IN JAIL. When Old Man Returned to Home Town No One Knew Him. Owensboro, Ky.-After forty-three years spent in the Arkansas penitentiary at Little Rock Joseph F. Jones has returned here to pick up the thread of life that was broken when he was sent to prison. When a young man Jones went to Arkansas to work on a farm. He met and loved the daughter of the farmer who employed him. The girl had another admirer, who was the son of a wealthy farmer. He did not relish the intrusion, quarreled with Jones and fought a knife duel with him at the gate of the girl's home. When the fight ended Jones' rival was dead. After a basty trial Jones was convicted of murder in the first degree and sent to prison for life. After forty-three years his case was laid before the governor. A pardon was granted. Old Man Jones walked out of the prison. The girl for whom he had fought had never married, but she had long since been dead. Penniless Jones walked from Little Rock to Owensboro. No one remembered him. He is a stranger in his own home town. NAVAL RESERVE FORMED. Admiral Cowles to Organize Boys and Men Not In Draft. Bridgeport, Conn.-Under the direction of Rear Admiral William C. Cowles, retired, volunteer boys not yet of draft age and registered young men not called in the first quota of the national army will be formed into a reserve for the United States navy. Men equipped with naval knowledge have been selected to instruct in navigation, piloting, signaling and other accomplishments of a sailor. The recruits will be called for in every seaport town of Connecticut. America's shipbuilding plan, Rear Admiral Cowles thinks, will soon create a great demand for navy recruits. If he can send trained young men into the breach the rear admiral believes he will be achieving his "bit" as a retired officer. Rear Admiral Cowles is chairman of the military and naval committee of the Connecticut Council of Defense and naval aid on the staff of Governor Holcomb. ```markdown ``` HINTS FOR THE CITIZEN SOLDIERS [Issued by the war department.] There are some simple rules of eating and living which all of us should follow regularly. They will be especially helpful to you if you put them into practice in preparing for camp life. Perhaps the most important of these is to use no alcohol of any kind. If you have been in the habit of smoking immoderately cut down; get your wind, your nerves and your digestion into the best possible condition. Eat and drink moderately. Chew your food well. It is advisable, however, to drink a great deal of cool (not cold) water between meals. Don't eat between meals. Keep away from soda fountains and soft drink stands. Learn to enjoy simple, nourishing food. Accustom yourself to regular hours for sleeping, eating and all natural functions. Don't "take a last fling." It may land you in the hospital. At the best it will probably bring you into camp in an unfit condition to take up your new duties with profit and enjoyment. There are strenuous days ahead of you, and it will be good sense on your part to make reasonable preparation for them. RISK OF FIGHTING MAN NOT AS GREAT AS IMAGINED Only One Man In Fifteen Is Killed and One Out of 500 Loses Limb—95 Per Cent of Wounded Recover. Washington.—That the deadly risk of the fighting man is not nearly so great as is popularly imagined is the belief of marine corps officials here who have compiled statistics covering the allied losses in the war. A careful estimate shows that only one man in fifteen is killed and one out of 500 loses a limb. Recent reports from French and British hospitals show that about 95 per cent recover from wounds, while about 90 per cent are able to return to the firing line. While the marine corps officials hold unbiased views in regard to the expected casualties among their own troops in France, it is pointed out that the "soldiers of the sea" recently engaged in warfare in Haiti suffered less than 1 per cent losses. These were sustained while covering a wide terrain, fighting from house to house and capturing and holding small redoubts taken one by one from the enemy. This method of warfare is said to be rapidly superseding the trench system on the western front. Italian Now Great Because He Cut Off Peace Deputy's Facial Adornment. Rome.—The fashionable crowd at the cafe in the Corso Umberto were gazing up at the huge screen on the building opposite, where pictures of celebrities—Sonnino, Joffre, Wilson, Lloyd George—were being thrown on the screen. It is the chief diversion these hot afternoons. Joffre was popular, and Wilson bad his admirers. Then came a picture of a man with a great beard. This caused tremendous laughter. But the climax of approval came when the picture of a thin faced man with a workman's cap on his head was thrown on the screen. There was a huge ovation for this strange face. "And who is the man with the beard?" asked the American visitor. "Why, that is Maffle. Is it possible you don't know Maffle?" "And who is the man in the workman's cap?" "That is the carpenter Tordelli. You don't mean to say you haven't heard of Tordelli! They are the great Italian characters of the day." Maffle is a member of the Italian chamber of deputies who made a speech in favor of peace, saying it was really not to Italy's interest to carry on the war. Tordelli was for war and felt that the peace speech must be rebuked. He accordingly waylaid Maffle on the tramway as he came from the chamber. Maffle had an enormous beard, which was his pride and best known characteristic. As Maffle stepped on the car Tordelli deftly operated a pair of scissors before the surprised deputy knew what was happening. Then, with a shock of beard in his hand, Tordelli disappeared, while Maffle was left beardless. Tordelli was arrested, and his trial soon began. All Rome became interested. The question of peace and war divided sentiment into two camps. All Italy awaited the fate of the carpenter. He produced the board at the trial, and it was duly entered by the court as an exhibit. Thereupon Maffie applied for the return of the beard, but the court held it had been separated from him and was now in possession of the state. Tordelli suddenly became a popular hero as defender of the war. SHE TRAVELS LIKE A CITY. Sixteen Servants and Ninety-six Trunks Part of Senorita's Equipment. New York—Eight staterooms. Ten house servants. One chauffeur, one tutor, one valet, two maids and one automobile. When Senorita Francisca M. Diaz set out from Cuba she took almost everything and everybody portable, including her brother, Manuel Diaz; her sister, Mrs. C. D. de Fuentes, and the two children of Mrs. Fuentes. They arrived at an Atlantic port aboard an American steamship, whence they came to New York before leaving for the White mountains. Meanwhile, they said, they would try to crowd into twenty-two rooms at a hotel here. The senorita is the daughter of Manuel Luciano Diaz, Cuban copper king. HIS STOMACH A MUSEUM. Padlock, Chain, Nails and Hooks Among Articles Swallowed. Philadelphia.—More than 450 pieces of metal, weighing three and a half pounds and including nails, screws, tacks and safety pins, were found in Joseph Quinlin's stomach when he was operated upon for gallstones at the Philadelphia hospital. In addition, 250 gallstones were removed. Among the other articles found were a small padlock with a three inch chain, a cigar cutter, tenpenny nails, thirty-four spoon handles, one dozen safety pins, forty pieces of type and the same number of lead slugs, two three-inch hooks for screen doors and several American medals, coins and badges. Dr. E. L. Ellason of the hospital staff, who operated on Quinlin, said he was ld probably survive. House and Herrmann 7th and Eye Sts. HAIR Mistle ST. LOUIS FOR DANDRU SCALP; GIVEN AND A THIS STYLE PRINT PORO 3100 Pine St. THE EAST IN We Made It Good It Made Us Famous Poro Colle FORMULATED 1900 1900 PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs. Amelia Furubis 2 Masons ST. 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Will also Restore the strength Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If your Hair is Dry and Wiry, Try EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Falling Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp or any Hair trouble, we want you to try a jar of EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER. The remedy contains medical proprieties that go to the roots of the Hair, stimulates the skin, helping nature to do its work. Leaves the hair soft and silky, with a balm of a thousand flowers. The remedy for Heavy and Beautiful Black also restores Gray Hair to its Natural be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. at by Mail, 50c; 10c extra for Postage S. D. Lyons, Gen. Agt., 314 East Second St. Oklahoma City, Okla. GET IT FROM YOUR DEALER OR FROM US. Every reader of this paper may secure THE: $5. DURHAM DUPLEX DOMINO RAZOR FOR ```markdown ``` TERROR OF TANKS British Monsters Send Deadly Fire Into Germans. CAPTURE MANY PRISONERS. Queer War Machines Even Crossed Ypres Canal In Their Drive on the Enemy Positions In Flanders. Strength of the Giant Turtles Creates Amazement. With the British Armies In the Field. British tanks so bedaubed with mud and slime from Flanders quagmires that they look like moving mountains are spreading terror among the Germans. The gigantic mud turtles lumber and creep though the logs, spitting red flames from their mud incrusted guns and creating panic wherever they operate. One lone tank reported recently the capture of 600 Germans near St. Julien. While wallowing along toward the enemy line the monster encountered one of its kind stopped by a direct hit from a German anti-tank gun. The uninjured tank charged the gun and literally mashed it out of commission. Eight Germans were captured here and turned back to the advancing British infantry. The same tank, creeping along, aided in the capture of Ponmern redoubt and Pommern castle. It crossed the deep cut marking the redoubt and sent word back that it was clear of the enemy. Meanwhile another tank crashed its way through the castle defenses, while the Germans fled, precipitately. Advancing infantry found the defenders massed in the redoubt position which the first tank had cleared. More tanks were summoned. Four slid roaring over the redoubt and took it instanter, the Germans surrendering. All prisoners frankly confessed their panic at the steel monsters. Crossing of the Ypres canal by these tanks—under constant shell fire and gas clouds—was one of the great feats of the war. But the secret of how it was done will not be told until the war is over. The monstrous strength of the giant turtles creates constant amazement. One tank encountered a huge motor-lorry stuck in a ditch. It stopped and obligingly hitched the front axles on a big chain. Then it lumbered ahead. There was a crash and yells of dismay from the lorry driver. The tank had pulled out the front wheels, the motor and part of the chassis. One other tank, running without lights, crashed into a railway engine, knocking it off the track. The tank's crew, not a bit dismayed, promptly went over and pushed the engine back on the rails again, sending it off puffing contentedly. British Tommies have named the monsters curiously. One encounters such names as Gog, Arladne, Beelzeub, Bloodstone, Black Arrow, Ballyhackle, Coquette, Crusader and Gondoller. BIRD BURNS FARMER'S BARN. Flies With Blazing Twig Into the Hayloft. Middle River, Minn.—Fire destroyed the barn of William Huff, a farmer living nine miles south of here. Mr. Huff declared that the fire was caused by a bird which carried a twig, one end of which was aglow, into the hayloft. Not far from the barn a brush fire was burning. The nesting bird carried a twig which had been burning in the brush fire, but which was thought to have blown away from the immediate vicinity of the fire, to the barn. Mr. Huff, who was working in the barnyard, said he thought he saw a slight trail of smoke as the bird flew past him, but did not investigate. In a few moments the barn was afire. Two valuable horses were burned and the building destroyed. CORK LEG BARS RECRUIT. Oklahoma Farmer Walks Fifty Miles In Effort to Enlist. Muskogee, Okla.-Believing that the use of a cork leg should not prevent him from serving his country, John Franklin walked more than fifty miles from a farm near Wilburton to this city to apply for enlistment in the United States marine corps. Franklin had spent two months plowing the fields previous to his long walk and supported himself on the hike by working at odd jobs along the way. He surprised the marine corps medical examiner by walking without the slightest sign of lameness. Although Franklin expressed the opinion that his cork leg should be considered a handy life preserver in case of submarine attack, he was not accepted. Eagle to Scream Defiance at Germans Helena, Mont.-When the boys of the Second Montana "go over the top" in Flanders or on the Russian front a live Montana eagle will go with them, screaming defiance to Germans. The liberty bird is the property of Private L. P. Sanregren of the headquarters company, who enlisted from Malta, and it is now hailed as the headquarters company's mascot. Private Sanregren has named it "Uncle Sam." Widowed Three Times in Eight Years. Laurel, Del.-Mrs. William H. Beach, forty-four, has been made a widow three times in eight years. Her first husband was drowned. The second, H. Collins Marvil, died in Cambridge (Md.) hospital eighteen months ago, and the last died in Mardella, Md., a few days ago. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 23,952, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of, the District of Columbia, Letters of administration c. t. a. on the estate of Andrew J. Laster, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of August, A. D. 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 28th day of August, 1917. W. C. TAYLOR, Deputy. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. CHARLES P. FORD, Attorney. YOU CAN HAVE LONG STRAIGHT HAIR If Anxious to Improve Your Hair and General Appearance Read This Carefully There are so many so-called hair growers on the market a large munber of high are nothing more than perfumed grease, it is no wonder people get discouraged and lose faith in all hair tonics. In deciding on what to use on your scalp be sure and get a remedy of, proven merit. Seeby's Quinade is a highly medicated pomade that has stood the test of time. It is the invention of a New York chemist and is made under the personal supervision of a licensed, pharmacist of many years' experience. Quinade stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, causing a natural growth of long hair. It makes the hair soft, smooth and glossy, and easy to put up in the style desired. To get the best results from the use of Quinade the scalp should be shampooed at regular intervals with Seeby's Quinascap. Quinascap is made entirely out of vegetable oils, principally coconut oil, and contains no animal fat of any kind. It lathers very freely and is a thorough cleanser. Quinascap leaves the hair soft and fluffy, and imparts a refreshing feeling to the scalp, unequalled by any other shampoo. Do not accept any substitute, but insist on getting Seeby's Quinade and Seeby's Quinascap asking for them by the full name. If your druggist or dealer does not stock these two articles, ask him to obtain them for you from his wholesaler. The price is 25c each Write to Seeby's Drug Co., 79 East 130th street, New York City, for sample, mentioning the name of this paper. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES. Quinade and Quinascap are sold at all of the People's Drug Stores, as follows: Store No. 1. 7th and K Sts. N. W. Store No. 2. 7th and E Sts. N. W. Store No. 3. 14th and You Sts. N. W. Store No. 4. 7th and M Sts. N. W. Store No. 5. 8th and H Sts. N. B. DIAMONDS WATCHES ON CREDIT Economy lies in purchasing a good watch at a low price. Here is the watch, 15 jewel Q 16 size Rockford watches that will pass railroad inspection, only $25. Terms $1.00 down, 50 per week. This is an unparalleled bargain in a 15 jewel movement, adjusted in five positions, double stratagold filled case. Guaranteed 25 years. Ralph E. Evans, with Castelberg's National Jewelry Co., 935 Penn. Ave., N. W. A postal will bring sample direct to your home. JUSTH'S OLD STAND The full success of this business is due to our trade sticking to us. They get full big value and some buy new and slightly used suit cases from us at $1.00 to $4.00 and go off and have a good time besides there's sightly used suits at $5.00 and new pants at $1.00 to $3.00 to save a lot of cash.—Justh's Old Stand, 619 D Street. FOR SALE. Fairmont Heights. Seven room cottage Garden Spot on Clark ave. or 61st st. For Information, Mrs. P. Thomas, 1902 Druld Hill Ave., Baltimore, Md. FOR RENT. A fine store suitable for any kind of business 1107½ Eye street northwest. A good business center. Furnished rooms by the day, week or month. Transient accommodations a speciality. 128 F street northwest, Washington, D. C. One block from Union Station telephone Franklin 1514-w. A HUGE NAVY YARD Proposed to Increase Force by 1,500 Men. HUNDREDS ALREADY ADDED Secretary Daniels' Recommendation For $7,500,000, Contemplates Building and Machinery, and Large Number of Experts Is Expected to Be Called For If Money Is Granted. Washington.—This city's greatly augmented number of government employees since the beginning of war preparations is to be still further added to should congress grant an appropriation for $7,500,000 asked for by Secretary Daniels to increase the capacity of the naval gun factory at the Washington navy yard. While the immediate need of this appropriation is for buildings, and machinery, the necessary men to operate the machines will be required in due time, and it is estimated that from 1,000 to 1,500 expert machinists will be added to the present force. To date more than 500 men have been added to the force at the Washington navy yard since the United States declared a state of war to exist between this country and Germany, and Secretary Daniels' request for a larger gun factory means that a much larger force of men will be needed here. Guns, mounts, torpedoes, mines, telescopes, sights, optical instruments and miscellaneous ordnance supplies are to be made at this gun factory in large numbers. The proposed work includes the construction of a six story machine shop for mines, mounts and torpedoes, a five story pattern and wood working shop, an extension to the power plant, a new brass foundry, an extension of the steel forging plant, an optical shop, range finding towers, administration buildings, quarters for enlisted personnel under instruction and the extension of the yard service system to supply adequately these new structures. Buildings are estimated to cost $5,000,000 and equipment needed will amount to $2,500,000. Daniels Discusses Plan. Discussing his recommendation for the appropriation, Secretary Daniels said: "The naval gun factory, possessing as it does a complete organization and a large working force, is readily adapted to increasing its facilities for delivery of guns, mounts and other munitions. To develop any other source is not only expensive, but involves a matter of long delay. It is therefore considered to the best interests of the government to increase at once the capacity of the Washington navy yard." LOCKED DOG IN TOWER. He Stopped the Clock, and There Was No Time. Rome, Ga.—The big city clock in the 600 foot tower on College hill here was stopped by a dog. When City Timekeeper Williamson went to wind the clock two days before, as he does every week, a dog followed him on the winding stairway, and when the timekeeper left he did not notice that he had locked the dog in the clock when he closed the door that leads to it. For two days, without water or food, the dog whined and barked 600 feet above the city, but of course was not heard. Then people of the city looking at the clock saw that it had stopped, and some one notified the timekeeper, who went to see what was the matter. He saw the dog lying against the big pendulum, snarling savagely. A policeman brought the animal safely to earth. It was almost starved by its two days' fast, but has recovered. DRAFT NUMBERS TO BE SOLD. Red Cross Will Get Proceds From Sale of Souvenire. Washington—The original numbers used in drawing the new national army have been turned over to the Red Cross by Provost. Marshal General Crowder for sale as souvenirs, the proceeds to be turned into the Red Cross fund. The first eight numbers and the last one, however, will be put back in the bowl and placed in Independence hall, Philadelphia, beside the Liberty bell. The bowl has been donated for this purpose by its owner, Charles R. Morris, a veteran war department clerk. FAMILY IN SCHOOLHOUSE. Could Not Rent Any Other Place and So Moved In. Smith Center, Kan.-In nearly every town in northwest Kansas an overcrowded condition prevails, and many families are unable to find homes to rent. So acute became the lack of houses to rent in this city that a newly arrived family, after importing the school board, was allowed to begin housekeeping in one of the six rooms of the schoolhouse. Now other families seek the same privilege, and the school board may have to yield. Relica of Old Indian Cama. Pierre, S. D.-Between four and eight feet under the surface of the ground C. O. Deland has found pumpkin seeds in good condition, also a place of pumpkin rind and evidence of an Indian camp at least 100 years old. The soil was windblown and it required many decades to cover the relics. The Indians of the period indicated were agriculturists, not warriors, like the later Sloux. THE NEW YORK TIMES Two classes of people, in particular, should not invest a dollar in homefurnishings until they have visited our store and learned what we will offer them in the way of values, prices and credit privileges. Ours is only one of many houses granting credit, but we believe that we are more considerate in arranging the terms of an account than any other house in America. For this reason young married couples and the thousands of people who have lately come to Washington to enter government employ should come to us. We realize their very many other expenses in establishing a home and do everything in our power to make its furnishing as easy as possible. Peter Grogan & Sons Co. 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street N. W. WEST WASHINGTON. Death of John T. Turner. Mr. John T. Turner, fraternal church man and Stevedoor, died suddenly Thursday, August 23, at her residence, 926 25th street, northwest. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from Union Wesley A. M. E. Zlon church, 23rd street, northwest, and was largely attended. He was a member of Widow's Son Lodge No. 7, F. A. A. M., Henderson Commendery No. 2 and the Oldest Inhabitants Association. Rev. T. J. Moppen, the pastor, delivered a most eloquent and befitting sermon. Subject—"There is no Night, etc." Euologies were made by Mrs. Mary F. Honesty, in behalf of Class No. 8, and Mr. J. S. George for Widow's Son Lodge. The solo "Mystic River" was solemly rendered by Mrs. Mary L. Honesty. The following ministers assisted in the ceremonies: Rev. S. T. Fisher, of N. C.; Rev. Wm. A. Carter, of Va., and Prof. Agery, of Livington University. Many floral offerings were received. A widow, Mrs. Margaret Turner, and a son, Mr. John L. Turner, of Cleveland O., who arrived too late to attend the obsequies services. Interment vault, Harmony, Cemetery. Mr. John W. Hurd, formerly an old citizen of Georgetown and for many years a resident of Pittsburgh, Va., died last week in the home of his son, Walter Hurd, 612 Taft ave. Funeral services were held from Warren M. E. church, where his remains laid in state viewed by thousands, of citizens, white and colored. The Order of Odd Fellows and many fraternal societies attended the funeral. Sev. D. DeWitt Tuopean, pastor of M. E. church, has returned from a vacation and will occupy the pulpit tomorrow. Those of our customers returning from vacations will find The Bee at Agency Prides Pharmacy, 28th and P streets and 2507 P street. The Drug Store $4\frac{1}{2}$ and F sts s.w. owned by Dr. W. S. Richardson who needs no introduction to the people of South West Washington, is one of the neatest and up-to-date Drug Stores in that section stocked with everything in the Drug line, and this neat Drug Store can be bought and at a reasonable price. Dr. Richardson can be seen at his uptown store 14th and R. N. W. Katz's big grocery store-1644. Montelle, Ave. N. E., is attracting new customers every day. It is one of the best grocery stores in the North East. Everything strictly fresh and at prices to meet the high cost of living, people living in that section don't have to go to Market. This store is really a small Market; deal with Kats. RICHARDSONS' DRUG STORE 41/2 AND F ST., S. W. Everything here that is found in any first-class Drug Store. Prescriptions promptly filled. RICHARDSONS' PURE STORE, 41% & F St., W. SHAMPOOING, MANICURING HAIR DRESSING Facial Massage, Scalp, Treatment Toilet Preparations and Hair Goods Are of Superior Quality May be purchased at the parlors. TOILET PREPARATIONS No inferior goods are manufactured by this firm Call Now—Parlor MRS. MARY M. SMITH 905 You Street, N. W. SPECIAL NOTICES. Do You Want Work? If you do we can find it for you. We have openings' all of the time for cooks, waitresses and general housework. Call and see us. We will place you in the best position.—The Clark Employment Agency, 1600 13th street northwest. KARL F. BRODT ALEXANDER G. BRODT Our $2.00 Derbies and Soft Hats Have No Equal ARE OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD "From Maker To Wearer" FACTORY AND SALESROOM 419 11TH STREET, N. W. PHONE MAIN 2481 BRANCH 503-5 9TH STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. REPAIRING NEATLY DONE KATZ' MARKETS. Two Stores in One Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. and the Great NORTHEAST GROCERY, 1644 Montello Avenue N. E. Goods Delivered Free H. KATZ AND CO. Is the Cheapest Store in the City Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. Lincoln 4940 SERVICE THAT SATISFIES. J. T. Newman.—The Haircutter is now re-established in South Washington, and will be pleased to serve all of his friends and former Patrons at 405 $ 4 \frac{1}{2} $ St., S. W. BLICK BROTHERS BLICK BROTHERS The best place in this city to purchase coal is Blick Brothers, 8th and Fla. ave northwest. Send in a deposit now. One of the most reliable firms in this city. If you want to see a line of automobiles, stand at the corner of 19th and L streets northwest and watch the quick movement of Dr. J. W. Morse, dispensing cream and soda to the dozens of automobile parties lined up. To cease hearing a babbler is the surest way to make him hold his tongue. It brings you comfort and happiness. It enables you to buy the best qualities and pay in such a way that you can afford them. Your credit is of the greatest value here. In every instance we consider the individual circumstances of the customer and arrange for small weekly or monthly payments that will suit their convenience. We require no notes and charge no interest. This form of helpful credit enables one to afford the best and the most economical. We have earned a reputation for carrying only the most reliable goods; comparison will show you that our prices are as low and in many cases lower than you can find elsewhere; and time will prove to you that our furniture and carpets and rugs give all the service that could possibly be expected from them. The Clarke Training School 1600 13TH STREET NORTHWEST 13TH AND QUE STS. ENTRANCE PHONE N. 1955 Mrs. Addie Clarke begs to announce two very helpful courses to be inaugurated at her Training S now open for registration. PHONE N.1955 die Clarke begs to announce two very tries to be inaugurated at her Training S registration. Mrs. Addie Clarke begs to announce two very attractive and helpful courses to be inaugurated at her Training School. Books now open for registration. DRESSMAKING AND MILLINERY Plain Sewing, Children's Clos Evening Garments a specialty, in ing Wraps. Material furnished Morning and Evening Class while training if so desired. wing, Children's Clothes, Ladies' Tailoring ments a specialty, including the most el- gant Material furnished free for millinery. and Evening Classes. Work furnished ing if so desired. Plain Sewing, Children's Clothes, Ladies' Tailoring; Street and Evening Garments a specialty, including the most elaborate Evening Wraps. Material furnished free for millinery. Morning and Evening Classes. Work furnished for students while training if so desired. A. T. BRONAUGH, Pharmacist S. W. COR 7TH and P STS. Prescriptions Filled Promptly Patronize AGENTS FOR A Preparations, Soaps, Bleach, H BRONAUGH.— Agents for Temple Grower and Glossine; A Hair Dressing and Powder. R 7TH and P STS. N. W., WASHINGTON ions Filled Promptly. All the Leading Patronize This Store AGENTS FOR ALL HIGH BROWN Uses, Soaps, Bleach, Hair Perfumes and F BUGH.— Agents for Grower, Shampoo, Water and Glossine; Agents for Fred Palme ing and Powder. AGENTS FOR ALL HIGH BROWN Preparations, Soaps, Bleach, Hair Perfumes and Face Powder. BRONAUGH.— Agents for Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, Temple Grower and Glossine; Agents for Fred Palmer's Whitener, Hair Dressing and Powder. BRONAUGHS, 7th and P STA. N. W. BLICK BROTHERS BUY YOUR COAL FROM BLICK BROTHERS BLICK BROTHERS BUY YOUR COAL FROM BLICK BROTHERS 8TH AND FLORIDA AVE. N. W. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDIGESTION REMEDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of Indigestion, Catarrch 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. 801 Florida Avenue N. W. Where you may purchase the genuine article. Washington, D. C. Bington, D. C. announce two very attractive and ed at her Training School. Books lothes, Ladies' Tailoring; Street and including the most elaborate Evenfree for millinery. tes. Work furnished for students N. W., WASHINGTON, D. O. All the Leading Physicians This Store ALL HIGH BROWN Hair Perfumes and Face Powder. Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, agents for Fred Palmer's Whitener, ROTHERS COAL FROM ROTHERS A RELIABLE PHARMACIST is the one you can always depend upon to use no substitutes, but compound prescriptions from pure and fresh drugs, with accuracy and care. The real test of a drug store's capabilities is its prescription department, and ours is perfect. We fill your physician's prescriptions to the letter and no mistake is possible. PLUMMER'S PHARMACY ROBT. F. PLUMMER, Prop Accuracy, Service, Quality A. D. S. Remedies V/o Pay Particular Attention to Our Prescription Department Telephone Your Wants Phones, Main 4094, Main 5381 $01 H. St. Cor. 3rd St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Advertisement.