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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917 VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 17 THE ORPHAN'S HOME THE ORPHAN'S HOME Rev. Terry Rev. George T. Terry, better known as the orphan boy preacher, has purchased an orphan home for orphan children. During these hard war times with the high cost of living, Counting out the first ten dollar gold coins, Rev. Terry has made and is still making great sacrifices in the cause of the Gospel ministry and for fallen humanity. He has received the hearty cooperation and encouragement from such men as Judge R. H. Terrell Editor Chase of the Bee REV. GEORGE T. TERRY, Head of Colored Orphans' Home. Lawyer Thomas J. Jones, Perry Frisby, Lawyer Edmond Hill, Jr., Doc C. W. Childs, T. Hardy, Todd, Prof. J. Kelly Miller, W. F. Hommer, Doc. Harry S. Clark, Theodore L. Baker, attorney at law, Charles T. Beck, Captain, Metropolitan Police Department, Judge E. M. Hewlett, Rev. R. B. Robinson, Doc. H. W. Freeman, Daniel Freeman, Philip M. Brown, James W. McNell; Bishop J. J. Higgs, and Henry J. Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor. Mr. Gompers is furnishing the home with the cornerstone for the dedication. Home bought July 23, 1917, 2107 Howard ct., LeDroit Park N. W. Home incorporated July 6, 1916. Cornerstone laying and dedication fifth Sunday in September at 3 p.m. We just received our instruments from New York and on this day Terry Orphan Home band will render music. We kindly thank our friends for their liberal contributions. Please mail to Rev. George T. Terry, president and founder, 2107 Howard ct. LeDroit Park N. W. Howard C. Visitors welcome Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and all Holidays from 3 to 5. Phone 5326J. WEST WASHINGTON. Rev. D. D. Turpan, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church has returned from his vacation and occupied his pulpit Sunday morning at 3 o'clock. He and many members and officers were visitors at the Langley, Va., M. E. Church where he delivered the sermon in honor of the fifty-fifth anniversary of the church. Mt. Zion M. E. Church will enter into and celebrate one hundred and one year anniversary from September 30 to October 28. Interesting program. All are invited. Rev. Jas. Pinn, the eloquent pastor of the First Baptist Church, is not arranging for a grand fall rally. The membership of his church has increased since his pastorate and all of the organizations reported encouragement. ment. Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, O street N. W., has taken on new life for the fall meetings under the pastorate of the energetic young pastor, Rev. R. A. Green, who is very popular with his congregation who are cooperating with him for a successful year. Personal Dr. A. J. Pride and his estimable wife have returned from a pleasant vacation. Messrs. Charles H. and Jas. L. Turner are enjoying their annual leave from the Bureau and Engraving and Printing where they have been employed, for a number of years. pove M. Wm. W. Walker, after a very extended trip, much benefited in health, has returned to his successful emphasis. The Bee agency is at the Prides Pharmacy; 28th and P Streets, N. W. WEST WASHINGTON. 40th Annual Session of the Right Worthy National Grand Lodge of New York and of Moores. the A. I. O. of Moose. The session convened Tuesday morning at 12 o'clock at the Odd Fellow New Hall, 28th and Dunbarton avenue northwest. The large number of delegates from Pittsburgh, Pa., Maryland, Virginia, Richmond and adjacent districts, including the District of Columbia, were in attendance. Mr. Jos. A. Munneryl, the Grand Master, presided. The opening hymn, All Hall the Power of Jesus Name, was cheerfully rendered. Rev. Grant Contee, Master of Ceremonies. Welcome address, Mr. George Gaskins, response, Mr. Geo. F. Fisher, Pittsburgh, Pa. On behalf of the Juveniles Master Norman Brooks; response Miss Mabel Burris, address, H. Clinton, attorney at law; five-minute address; visiting delegates; welcome of the citizens by Mr. Jas. L. Turner. At eight o'clock in the evening a grand banquet was tendered the Grand Master, his cabinet and visiting delegates. Among the prominent persons seated at the table were Mrs. Alice Parker, M. G. S. N. G. of Ruth; Mrs. A. Saunders, Dr. Jackson, Grand Master of Masons; Chas. S. Hill, ex-Grand Master Odd Fellows; Dr. Chas. H. Marshall, Revs. Dean, Clair, Turpeau, Green, Plinn, Wm. O. Davis, attorney at law, and Jas. L. Turner of the Bee staff. The session concluded last Friday morning and from the present indication Grand Master Jas. A. Munneryl will be reelected. It was said that the gathering was the best of the Moose session. Mr. Thornton Rhodes was chairman of local committee. The joint entertainment of the Lodges and Household of Ruth on Monday evening at the Odd Fellows New Hall was a success. The proceeds were for re-furnishing the lodge rooms and banquet hall. New chairs have a ready been installed and the entainment will be observed monthly by the committee. Fairmount Heights, Burville, Dean- wood, D. C. Mrs. D. W. Utz had as guest in her Fairmont Heights-home her mother-in-law, Mrs. Lucy E. White, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who returned home after a three weeks' stay. The mother-in-law of Dr. James E. Porter, after spending a short while here, returned to her southern home in Mississippi Sunday night, September 9, fully renewed in health. The Race Congress. The National Race Congress of the United States will meet in its second annual session at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., May 2, and 4, 1917. October 3 and 4. Every phase of the race condition in this country will be discussed, including the East St. Louis, the Chester, Pa., riots and the immigration of the colored people north. Twenty-one states were represented in the last congress. The officers of the congress are appealing to race- loving people in every state to see to it that they are represented in October. The colored people are aroused in this country as never before and many of the prominent men of the race will be present. be present. The churches, ministers' conferences, fraternal organizations, business organizations and all other organizations within the race that have for their object the uplift of our people, are requested to send a representative to this congress. Any race-loving man or woman is also invited. (Race papers please copy.) Miss Shepard to Be Married. Durham, N. C. Sept. 20. Invitations have been issued by Mrs. Hattie C. Shepard for the marriage of her daughter, Bennen Lois, to Dr. Charles William Kerr, in the White Rock Baptist Church, Saturday evening, September 29, at 8 o'clock. Reception from 8:30 to 10:30. At home after October 2, 431a Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass. Miss Shepard is one of the most accomplished young ladies in the South. Harry S. Cummings. From the Baltimore, Md., News. Harry S. Cummings, one of the leading members of his race in this city, a capable lawyer and member of the First Branch City Council, who died last night, demonstrated what the negro can accomplish by work and intelligent application. It was creditable to his sound judgment and tact that the first negro to take his seat in an elective body in Maryland, he bore himself so as to win, the respect and liking of his associates. He was well treated. Though never lukewarm in the cause of his own people, he knew instinctively how to conduct himself in a southern city. He made few enemies. Placed in a position where it was easy to arouse race prejudices, he took the wiser path and found that it paid both for himself and for his race. It was a difficult task, and the manner in which it was carried out deserves recognition. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, 921 Westminster st., n. w., between 9th and 10th and S and T sts—longue rooms, gas and heat; reasonable. Patriotic Meeting. Hampden An evoking patriotic meeting was held in the National Soldiers' Home, Hampton, Va., Sunday September 16, under the auspices of the National Memorial Association of Washington, D. C. General Jos. S. Smith, governor of the home president, and after being introduced by W. S. Wilson manager, paid a high compliment to the colored soldiers of the civil war. The home band rendered music appropriate to the occasion. Messrs. J. Thomas Hewin and Ferdinand D. Lee, of Richmond, Va., and Washington, D. C., respectively, de- Ivered excellent speeches, setting forth the great need of a national monument in commemoration of the valor, patriotism and suffering of the colored soldiers and the part they played in all of the wars of our country. Brown-Magruder. Attorney Rivers I. Brown, one of our younger members of the local bar, was wedded on last Wednesday to Miss Molis Magruder, one of our popular school teachers, by Rev. Otis. The groom is a graduate of Howard University and a product of our public schools. He is the son of the late Henry I. Brown, who was deputy U. S. marshal, Southern District Alabama, for many years and subsequently a clerk in the auditor's office, Post Office Department, and Mrs. Matilda Brown of this city. Brown, or this The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Magruder, one of the most respectful families of townstown. Georgetown. After a short honeymoon, Mr. and Mrs. Brown will begin housekeeping in 9th Street. PRESIDENT REPLIES TO POPE'S PROPOSALS. "DECLARATION FOR WORLD DE- MOCRACY" A MASTERPIECE. Entente Demands Turks Be Driven from Europe—World Wants Them Driven from Holy Land—Bible Is Against Turks. Bv H A Clarke The Pope's concrete peace proposals recently submitted to the leaders of the belligerent peoples was preceded by a special plea for America to take early action toward securing peace in Europe, in April. 1915. Prior to this, in January, 1915, the Pope also made a supreme effort to devise some plan for peace for the warring nations of Europe. Both the plea and the effort ultimately failed. In addition hereto, the Pope enjoined prayers for peace the world over, May 7, 1917. President Wilson's admirable, masterful and conclusive "Declaration for World Democracy," in reply to the Pope's peace proposals, has been promulgated at what he considers the psychological moment and the opportunity time. Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview published by Edward S. Van Zile, in the Sunday Star, January 28, 1917, headed "Has the Great War Proven Christianity a Failure," in part, said: "It is a demonstrable fact that paganism has always made for war and Christianity for peace. There was the most efficient and unprincipled conqueror Titus, who in the year 70 A.D. captured and partially destroyed Jerusalem. The details of his methods as warrior and victor are frightful. Gibbon asserts that the siege of Jerusalem resulted in the annihilation of nearly a million Jews. Large numbers of them were brutally mass sacred and thousands of them expatriated to Rome, to adorn the triumphal ceremonies attending the re-creation of Titus to that city. There is not the least doubt that both the Pope and the Cardinal are irreconcilably opposed to the Turks. bry opposes. Among the proposals submitted by the Pope, no reference whatever was made, to the all-important Turkish question, although it was included in the Entente's demands as a basis for peace, in reply to President Wilson's note sounding the Allies on peace terms, dated December 19, 1916. The demands, in part, are as follows: "The restoration of Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro with indemnities; the evacuation of the invaded territories of France, Russia and Roumania with joint reparation; the reorganization of Europe guaranteed by a stable regime and founded upon the respected nationalities and the full liberty and security of all great small nations; the restitution of provinces or territories wrested in past from the Allies, that is, Alsace-Lorraine and the Italian Tylol; the liberation of Italians, Slavs, Roumlans and Zoech Slavs from foreign domination, and the enfranchisement of populations subject to the bloody tyranny of the Turks and the expulsion from Europe of the Ottoman empire, which has proved itself so radically alien to western civilization." While Russia's claim to Constantinople is not specifically mentioned, the above clause is probably considered to mean the replacement of Turkey by Russia in Constantinople, in accordance with the desire, wish and hope of the Emperor, Peter the Great who died in 1725, as expressed in his last will and testament, which is, in part: "Russia shall take every possible means of gaining Constantinople and the Indies (for he who rule there will be the true sovereign of the world). world. The Washington Post of January 14, 1917, in an editorial headed "If the Turk Should Triumph," in part, stat- ed: "The Musleman has never lost the hope of regaining the glorious land of Spain. What will be the boundary of the enlarged Turkish dominions in Europe, in case of victory? Are Spain and northern Africa to be placed again under the crescent, and Greece be made the white slave of Turkey. The Allies have declared that the expulsion of the Turk from Europe is "one of the objects which they seek by continuing the war." They have made it plain that until this object and others are attained the war will go on. The civilized world cannot be brought to sympathize with any alliance which must have for one of its objects the triumph of the Turk over Christian nations. If necessary, Christian nations will organize another Armada and fight another Lepanto. Mohammedans as well as Christians revolt against the Turk. The race that has debased and defiled Persia, Arabia and Palestine and made a slaughter house out of southeastern Europe must be thrust out. Mankind, with out regard to religion, has determined that the Turk must go. Tens of millions of Christians hope that this war will not end until Jerusalem and all the sacred spots of the Holy Land have been redeemed." GAL 8—BEE f f f f f The Evening Star of August 14, 1917, in an editorial headed "The Pope's Peace Proposal," in part stated: "It is to be noted that no mention is made of the Turkish question, and this leads to the suggestion that in the eyes of the Vatican the future of the Moslem in Europe is not to be determined by the peace settlement which he hopes to bring about by his intervention:" The Evening Star of August 15, 1917, in an editorial headed "An Impossible Peace Plan," in part stated: "But for the sake of * * * * the slaughtered Christians in the Turkish lands, let it be a refusal to make peace with, Germany upon such terms" as proposed by the Pope. Now that the cause of democracy against autocracy has been so ably championed by President Wilson, let us hope that he will lead the vanguard for God, for Christ, for Christianity and for the Cross against the Turk, the friend of flends, against paganism and against the crescent, thereby resulting in saving Palestine, the Glorious Holy Mountain and Jerusalem for Christianity. These requests are not to be ignored, side-tracked and relegated into oblivion. They cannot and must not be, at the termination of this world's greatest cataclysm, "Humanity's Super-War." Whether Turkey is to remain in Europe and massacre Christians and dominate Palestine and Jerusalem in Asia, is equally as important as any of the other questions involved in this conflict. Whether the Cross is to supplant the crescent and Christianity is to prevail over paganism, at the conclusion of this crisis is the all-absorbing question. All eyes are turned with interest toward Turkey and eventually the prophecy of Daniel 11:44-45 and Daniel 12:1 will be fulfilled. The 44th verse is: "But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away." The 45th verse is: "And he shall plant the tabernacle of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him." The first verse is: "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the child of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every on that shall be found written in the book." Luke 21:20. It is: "An when ye shall see Jerusalem com passed with armles, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." H. A. CLARKE, 306 N. Y. Ave., N. W. Washington, D. C. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. New York, N. Y.—That the distilling of whisky must cease, but that the distillers will be allowed to produce alcohol for medicinal and industrial purposes is a piece of news well calculated to hearten the dispels of total abstinence. But the second thought, in this as in other cases sounder than the first, causes fearsome apprehension as to the medicinal and industrial uses to which this alcohol will be put. That it will enter more largely than ever into the concoction of patent medicines cannot be doubted. The elimination of whisky will give a decided impetus to the sale of the various "bitters" and "tonics" and "sovereign remedies" which have ruined the stomachs of so many professed teetotallers in the rural districts. The consumption of these nostrums, especially in prohibition state, has always been enormous, and the lills that they are warranted to cure unlimited. When no disease is to be combated they are consumed under the pretense that they "tone up the system" or "purify the blood." That whisky often becomes a tyrant is admitted by every one except its slaves. In this connection we may remember that in the forum scene in "Julus Caesar" a citizen fears that a worse tyrant than the one murdered may come in the latter's place. Whisky Goes Out of Business. Chicago, Ill.—Victory in a fight which had been waged unceasingly, for the past twenty years by the Heart newspapers became complete last week when the Federal law for bidding, the manufacture of whisky and other distilled liquors went into effect. Accepting the inevitable only after spending fortunes in an effort to avert it, and resorting to every possible trick and subterfuge to postpone the day of reckoning; the Whisky Trust capitulated and went out of business an hour before midnight. By powerful cartoons, forceful editorials and by the mobilizing of thousands of moral leaders and millions of citizens in the campaign, the Hearst papers carried the fight to Congress. Seeing at last the handwriting on the wall, the whisky manufacturers waged a determined fight for the passage of a law which would forbid the manufacture of beer and light wines. Success would have placed an enormous premium on the 300,000,000 gallons of whisky in bond by putting the country on a whisky basis. The fight to end the destructive of whisky in this country was begun by the Hearst newspapers twenty years ago. From New York to San Francisco all the growing influence of the chain of newspapers was brought to bear against the whisky traffic. The whisky men attempted coercion by withdrawing advertising. Color Lines to Be Ignored in Army. That color lines are, to be ignored in the assignment of colored troops in the drafting section of the national army has been revealed in a general order issued from the War Department, indicating the department's intention to apportion the above troops evenly where possible in all cantonments. The order provides that in every cantonment there shall be one colored infantry regiment where sufficient personnel is available. Protests have been made against quartering colored troops in certain parts of the South, but no modification has been made. The order is taken as an indication of what the War Department will do in disposing of similar regiments in National Guard encampments. Whiskey and Its Alternative. They attempted bribery by offering more advertising. They attacked the persistent champion of true temperance in devious ways and determined fashion, and when they failed to check the steady, patient, intelligent hammoring against the whisky traf- COLLEGE GIRLS PARK GUIDES Accompany Camping Parties and Talk About Nature. Estes Park, Colo.—Women "nature guards" is the latest innovation in the administration of America's national parks. The guards are cultured college girls, whose duty it is to accompany camping parties through the great natural playgrounds and give interesting talks on the trees and flowers as well as the birds and animals of the region. Any camper may obtain the services of these girl teachers of nature lore for a nominal charge. The first park to have such guards is the Rocky Mountain National park, of which Estes Park village is the principal gateway. Four young women already have passed the rigid federal examinations and have been appointed by Supervisor L. C. Way of the park. They have been swamped with applications for their services. Row of Fourteen Fights Bull. Boy of Fourteen. Chardon, O.-Spain, land of toreadors, should hear of Albert Hosmer, fourteen, of Parkman. As a bullfighter Hosmer has just made a record without weapons. but weighed. A bull owned by the boy's father charged Albert as he sought to feed the animal an apple. He grasped the bell ring of the maddened animal and leaped squarely on the bull's back. Roaring and snorting the bull ran wildly around the lot. Then the animal stopped suddenly and Albert was hurled to the ground. Albert ran his fingers into the bull's nostrils and gripped tight. The bull fell to its knees. The boy let go, dashed to the fence and was on the other side before the bull charged. THE 54TH ANNIVERSARY In Grand Central Park, Halls Hill, Va. Halls Hill, Va., Sept. 20. The Emancipation Club of Halls Hill, Va., will celebrate the 54th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in Grand Central Park Monday September 24. MISS MARIE A. LUCAS MISS MARIE A. LUCAS Late President, Woman's Auxiliary, Northern Virginia Baptist Association. There is a silent sadness in the one hundred Baptist Churches of the Northern Virginia Baptist Association, on account of the sudden death of Mrs. Marle H. Lucas, the president of the Woman's Department. Mrs. Lucas attended the last session of our Association at Manassas and was reelected to succeed herself as president of the Woman's Auxili- Before we delegates could return to our churches with echoes of that fortieth anniversary meeting of the Association at Manassas, in which Mrs. Lucas took so prominent a part, the shocking news that she had died suddenly in Philadelphia flashed throughout the state and, like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, struck terror and the keenest sorrow to the hearts of her many associates and friends. Mrs. Lucas was the daughter of the late Henry L. Holmes and Mrs. Emma Holmes of Arlington, Va., and the sister of Dr. S. G. and Miss Emma B. Holmes. She was married ten years ago to Dr. Malcum M. Lucas, M.D., a prominent physician of Washington, D.C. On August 27th, Mrs. Lucas, in company with her husband, motored to Philadelphia to attend the National Medical Association and on Thursday, August 30th, she died there. Her remains were shipped to Washington and lay in state at her home until September 2. MRS. MARIE C. LUCAS, A Distinguished Citizen, Passes Away The funeral was preached by Rev. J. D. Pair at the St. John's Baptist Church, Arlington, Va. He was assisted by Revs. Joseph Matthews and W. J. Howard, and Revs. Christlon, French, Carter and Riley. Miss Annie Payne sang a beautiful solo. Hundreds of people came to the home and church to do honor to this splendid and much beloved young woman, who had been so suddenly snatched away from the activities of this life. this life. Special services were held by the orders of the Eastern Star and The Household of Ruth. Resolutions of condolence were read on behalf of her church, by Miss Carrie Minor and on behalf of her Sunday School and Woman's Missionary Circle, by Miss Ella Thompson. Miss Adaline Penn of Manassas, Va., read resolutions from the Northern Virginia Baptist Association and Mr. Geo. Jackson presented resolutions from the Bottom Club of Washington City. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. beautiful. Mrs. Lucas was buried in the family-plot at the Odd Fellows Cemetary. Arlington, Va. Arlington, Undertakers James Brothers had charge of the funeral. A Member of the Association. Announcement. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Oram announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Anna Marle, to Mr. Hayward Blake. The ceremony will take place October 17, Asbury M. E. Church, 7 P. M. FALLS CHURCH, VA., NOTES. Labor Day at Falls Church, Va., was the grandest occasion ever celebrated in the place. The Odd Fellows an H. H. of Ruth raised from this all-day entertainment $121.47, and after all expenses were paid turned into their treasury $67.58. The "Goshen Band," of Gaithersburg, Md., with Mr. Hart man, musical director, furnished the stirring brass band music that brought out the people from Gaithersburg, Md Rockville, Tennallytown, Vienna and the surrounding country. "The hill was covered with people, the largest crowd ever gathered at this point Mrs. Lena Dixon, the general manager and Mrs. Fannie Thomas, M. N. G. o the Household of Ruth, are great; pleased with results obtained on this memorable occasion. The orator o the day was Mr. D. B. Anderson, who delivered a most creditable address Seminary baseball team carried off the prize. At the twentieth anniversary of the pastorate of Rev. S. M. Johnson, of Oak Grove Baptist Church, Herndon Va., Thursday night, September 13 Mrs. Lena V. Dixon addressed the Women's Auxiliary of the church on the subject; "Woman's Place in the Present World War." She carried her audience in a storm of applause by her well made speech. Mrs. M. E. Carpenter rendered most charmingly the solo, "Outside the Heavenly Gates." The banquet served by the Women's Auxiliary was fine. Rev. Johnson was overwhelmed with joy. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ford Thursday, September 6. Mr. Randolph Posey made a flying trip to his father and mother in Harrisburg, Pa., September 15, returning home on the 16th. The work of the Carver Industrial School has been delayed on account of the illness of Mr. Raymond Carver, founder of the institution. It was the intention of Madam Carver to have had by now fully in operation the laundry and bakery departments of the school. Notice of resumption of the work will be made in due time. The birthday party of Miss Helen Irene Stewart took place. Friday evening, September 7, at residence of Mrs. M. E. Carpenter. Hosts of young people were present to do honor to the little lady. It was Miss Helen's sixteenth anniversary birthday party, the presents being many and the occasion a joyous one. The pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Rev. G. W. Powell, D. D., is again at home after his vacation, with an awakening to duty call to all the departments of the church. The Mothers' Progressive Council of the Second Baptist Church opened their series of entertainments with a musicale. Mrs. Mamle Myles and daughter, of Washington, D. C., are spending a week's vacation with Mrs. Myles' brother, Mr. Wilbur Strother. The funeral of Mrs. Thomas, wife of Mr. Samuel Thomas, took place Sunday, September 16, from the residence. Little Miss Lucinda Thomas has returned home from the Children's Hospital at Washington, D. C., having been operated on there, and is now getting along nicely. Mrs. Lulu C. G. Dennie has returned to lier home here after a delightful visit to her sister, Mrs. Annie L. Cave, of Orange, Va., and to her mother at Charlottesville, Va. Queen Esther Household of Ruth, 917, G. U. O. of O. F., held their twenty-fourth annual sermon of thanksgiving at Galloway M. E. Church, of which the Rev. Julius C. Johnson, Jr., is pastor, Sunday, September 16, rendering a literary program before the well delivered sermon by the pastor, (1) Solo, Mrs. Lillie Marshall; livered sermon by the pastor, as foll (2) remarks, Mrs. Susie Campbell, president of the Mother's Progressive Council; (3) solo, Mrs. Rose Stribling; (4) paper, by Mrs. Mary Richards; (5) sermon by Rev. J. C. Johnson, which was powerful and soulstirring. Mrs. Lena V. Dixon, mistress of ceremonies. Mrs. Fannie Thomas, M. N. G. Collection. $14. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lee have returned home from their vacational visit at Luray, Va. Rev. W. R. Manly, the beloved pastor of First Baptist Church at Merrifield, after a rally day service in his church and filling an engagement to preach at night in the Oak Grove Baptist Church, Sunday, September 16, at Herndon, Va. Spent the day, Monday, the 17th, visiting in the home of Rev. Dr. G. W. Powell. Dr. Powell is a counseling father and Rev. Manly a young warrior in the gospel. Look out! Mrs. Ethel Preston, of Jeanette, Pa., arrived Sunday morning, September 16, to visit her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Marshall. Mrs. Preston has her little daughter, Miss Romain, with her. Miss Nellie Ford is recovering from a two weeks' illness. The Rev. Hamilton Bowser, pastor of the Third Baptist Church at this trioeSHo, bmw bmw bmw bmw bm point, after his summer vacation, returned to hold his communion service for Sunday, September 16. He preached an effective communion sermon and is now looking forward to a year of improvement among his people. The public school will open here Monday, October 1, and preparations to that effect are being made. A year of earnest educational work is looked forward to. COLUMBIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Its Fall and Winter Opening—Prof. Williams Speaks. The Columbia Conservatory, Wellington A. Adams, president, located at 1911 Ninth street northwest, held the opening exercises of the 1917-18 term on last Monday evening, September 17, with a capacity house in attendance. A reception was held during the afternoon hours with service to visiting friends of light delicacies. At eight o'clock the regular opening was observed with a splendid address on "Music" by Prof. E. C. Williams, Librarian of Howard University. The address was replete with brilliant thoughts and valuable suggestions and information to the A There's no stock in Washington wherein qualities are more thoroughly reliable—in either the lowpriced or the expensive values. No stock will give you a better opportunity for pleasing selections. No house will quote you lower prices for goods that may be depended upon for long years of satisfactory service. No other firm in America is so considerate in arranging small weekly or monthly payments to correspond with the circumstances of each individual customer. 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Among the visitors noted were Editor W. Calvin Chase, Miss Medora Moxley, Mrs. S. Wormley and A. Lewis of Nashville, Tenn. The committee transformed the studio into a flower garden presenting one of the most attractive scenes to he had, among them are Misses Addie Whittingham, Wilhelmina Craig, Geneva Holmes, W. R. Dudley, Lucy Johnson and Mrs. M. Freeman. The affair closed with a social dance, everybody leaving well pleased in the attendance. 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. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDIGESTION PEMFDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of Indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency, Pain in the Stomach, Water Brash, Acid Fermentation; Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. 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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. HENRY LASSITER, 1215 17th St., N. W. Attest: W. C. TAYLOR, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. CHARLES P. FORD, Attorney. Wm. O. Davis, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 23984, Administration. That the subscriber of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration on the estate of Octavia Morgan, 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-6th day of September, A. D. 1918; otherwise they may, by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 6th day of September, 1917. Collins S. Morgan, 2033 K St. N. W. Attest: WM. C. TAYLOR. Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. WM. O. DAVIS, Attorney The Drug Store 4½ 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. No Other Place Your Own —For Real Comfort a The home is the foundati natural instinct of man and Living in a boarding house o In your own home, around y the privacy and comfort not Let us help you furnish a ho you can take the same person your own appearance—a hom proud to entertain your fri convenient credit terms pay just to suit your convenien igan & Sons 223 Seventh Street N. W. EFFICIER ---need the fullest in all of their faculti On Credit Your Own Home For Real Comfort and Happiness The home is the foundation of civilization. It is the natural instinct of man and woman to crave a home. Living in a boarding house or a family hotel is artificial. 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The field appears to be empty, and there are no visible buildings or people. The sky is dark, suggesting it might be nighttime. "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. A HIGH STANDARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT has now been We aim also to create a better qualified ministry. 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The most questions of universal damnation, predestination, purgatory, and backsliding we are still wrestling with, it is true, but we see no early prospect of solving them. We devote a part of our Sundays to the contemplation of such subjects, and beyond that we leave them to our worthy pastors. We are very much interested in the life of this mundane sphere. True, this life is very brief for each individual and therefore of relatively small importance; yet we are links in a long chain of existence, and that chain is relatively permanent. So are our family, our race, our nation links in that chain. We love our kin, we cultivate pride in our race, we want our nation to surpass all others. This is the order of our preperence in love for arthly beings. And so we are intensely interested in things of this world. the things of this world. Of course we perform our duty to our family; of course we are loyal to our nation. It is a very simple matter to be loyal to both these. But our love for and duty to our race gives us more concern than all other questions outside of broad winning. In earthly matters most, men have but two loves—love for nearkin and love for the nation, which is identical with race. The colored man has also a third love, or should have, and that is love of race. We use the word "love" here in the broad sense of preponderance of interest. We have made this long preface to what we are coming to because we intend to have much more to say on the subject from time to time in the future. Compared to other classes of people in the United States, the colored people sustain a peculiar relation to the Christian church, as that church also sustains a peculiar relation to the colored people. The reason is plain. There was a time when religion offered a suffering and sad people their only solace. "Flee away to Jesus" was the natural impulse. A vast population of people, sensitive, sentimental, imaginative, full of hope and faith, burned to the cross. They still cling to the cross. A result has been a vast consolidation, or rather a number of vast consolidations, of the people in which the church is the center. This phenomenon has persisted and grown even after the probable original cause—the curse of slavery—ceased to exist. For while bond slavery ceased fifty years ago, certain forms of industrial slavery have continued. trial slavery Today the church is the main social center of the colored people no less than it is the place of worship. It is the principal point of contact. There people most often meet one another, there they knew one another best. Next to the churches in this regard come the secret societies and beneficial organizations. They are all admirable points of social contact. Proposition 1: A man owes a duty to God; he also owes a duty to himself and his fellow man in this life. Proposition 2: The great need of the colored man today is the improvement of his industrial and economic status, which are but elements of his general social status. status. Proposition 3: The colored man can make rapid improvement in his industrial and economic status in by co-operation. only by cooperation Position 4: The church can be made a powerful instrument for improving the industrial and economic status of the colored people. THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL HILFIGER COMPANY Mr. Thos. J. Calloway, 1403 New York avenue N. W., in a circular letter to the stockholders of that company, dated September 14, 1917, makes what is practically an announcement of the final dissolution of that corporation. He also notifies the stockholders of his readiness to turn over to them a sum equal to 65 per centum of the par value of the shares of stock as the surrender value of the shares. This is less than the stockholders had expected to get in view, of the porter announcement that the receivers would be able to pay "dollar for dollar." No detailed statement of accountancy accompanies the notice. However, the trustee states: "The amount of money for distribution would have been larger but for the fact that it proved necessary to enter suit and collect through a court judgment from the Masonic Hall Building Association, involving long and desperate litigation. Assuming that this announcement of the transfer is a correct statement of the money account and explanation of the long delay, we take occasion to congratulate the trustee and the investors upon this outcome of the business of the defunct Lincoln Memorial Building Association. It is a rare thing in the history of colored co-operative business concerns for business of this nature to wound up in an orderly way. Only recently The Bee printed a complaint that after the lapse of so many years no report of the liquidation had been made to the stockholders, who gave powers of attorney. We fear we were premature in printing that implied criticism. The Lincoln Memorial Building Association would have succeeded but for the extravagance of the officers in printing and advertising. There was too much overhead expense. So far as we know, there was no violation of trust or irregularity of any sort. Let us profit by the experience of this co-operative venture. Let the failure not discourage us from future similar ventures. FRANCIS S. CARMODY. FRANCIS S. CARMODY. The defeat of Mr. Francis'S. Carmody for the State Central Committee was a blunder on the part of the republican party in Prince George's Co., Md. Mr. Carmody is the most loyal active and progressive reppbill can in the State of Maryland. Let him be named as the next republican congressional nominee. All hall the next republican Congressman. OUR GIRLS. Teach your daughters that envy is a vice, and jealousy and unkind criticism are immoralities certain to destroy the noblest characters. We warn our sons from the gaming-table and the wine-cup, with loud voices; but too many of us sit silent while our daughters contract habits of malicious speaking and envious criticisms, which are as great evils in society today as intemperance or gambling. MISS SARAH J. TAYLOR Telephone Main 1012 PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS. PRESIDENT OF THE PATIOTES By the Sage of the Potomac. Speaking about silent functions, I never in all of my life seen so much silence on the segregation question in the Capitol galories. Just think of it! And not a protest have I heard from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or from any Republican Senator or representative in Congress. If the law making body of our nation permits discrimination right in its sight, what kind of a nation must we be defending? But do you know that the colored man is fighting for a real democracy alongside the white man and yet segregatin is being practiced in the building in which the lawmaking body of the nation sits. I have heard but one protest and that came from Judge Hewlett, who may receive his reward some day. There is some talk of selecting a colored assistant prosecuting attorney. It is quite likely that Charles W. Williams, of the local box, may be the lucky man. He is the least objective and at the same time he is manly. I have never heard him abuse a fellow lawyer or talk about one. He is like my good friend, Joseph H. Stewart. Both know that the white lawyers are not their god as many colored members of the bar show in practice, when they end one when in trouble or when you try a ten dollar civil case, and house a white lawyer associated with them. I was discussing my good friend, President Lewis, a few days ago. You must give it to him no matter how he walks and how loud he talks. He is the president of bank and many who laughed at him when he declared that he would start a bank are now making application to him. Of course, President Lewis can be seen very often standing at a there sunrise, standing at the monument that seemed to be handed down to posterior. Have you ever seen President Lewis soilquizizing? If you want to see a Napoleon pose, tak your stand at Foster's corner and watch that Napoleon post of President John W. Lewis. The weather never deters that pose. No kind of weather can change the time of the pose. Not only is he the president of the Industrial Savings Bank, but he keeps his Napoleon eyes on the cash, so if there is a slump or a shortage in the cash he will be dead certain that it didn't voluntarily. Andrew J. Thomas is giving theater goers some vaudievel. It is high-class and he knows how to get the stuff. He is doing his own booking, which surposes all booking that has heretofera held this playhouse down. Everybody is pleased and wants to know why Andrew did not begin this business earlier. He is some kind of theater manager and don't you doubt it. I understand Vinson will return to the city next month. You may take it from me that he has learned some sense. He is not looking for looks now. He is looking for fame, and the only way he can find or it get it is to select himmate possessing all the qualities of an Angle. In fact he has decided to take his time, and if he will take the advice of Sage he will remain a bachelor some years to come. Girlsurry for style now and the boys know it. There is no more life in married life, so remarked a six weeks benedict a few days ago. Some keep warm as long as the weather keeps moderate, but just wait until a cold wave strikes one of these gay bachelors and then another song is practiced. Speaking about married life is like a game of craps. When you think you have them, you have lot them. The Colored Lawyers' Association has decided to resume business as soon as another smoker is pulled off. Colored lawyers like all other individuals. They soon get tired. The doctors seem to pull together and have much success. There are too many statesmen among colored lawyers. All of them want to lead. The present lawyers' association was founded upon a motive sprinkled with jealousy and vindictiveness. Attorney I. M. King, Thomas L. Jones and others thought it would be a good thing to organize the colored bar. A meeting was called and soon the organizers began to lay wires and to day the wire-pullers have impeded its progress. I understand that a select bar association of 20 will be organized and before the disorganizers are admitted somebody will know it. A good bar association should be or organized. There is no reason why lawyers should not get together, just the same as doctors. There is to be another paper started to fill a long-felt want. It will be named the Clouds' and this is to by the skies. We have had the Moon, Sun, Horizon and the Eagle. Now we are' to have the Clouds and Skies. Why not publish Heaven and then go to Hell. Colored newspaper advertisers have selected every imaginable name that is in the English vocabulary and just when the names will end the Bee is unable to state. The pulpit has been turned to newsstand, 'which is sacrilegion to a minister wants his congregation to read the puff on him' should advise his people to purchase the paper from a legitimate and bona fide news stand. A minister threatened to boycott the Bee some time ago. Through his association the Bee never sold better. 'wish some enterprising minister would continue to hammer against the Bee. Don't you know that it is unwise to speak ill of a person. Speak well of your neighbors and you will succeed. SATURDAY SERMONS BY UNUS And he played on a harp of a thousand strings." Some time ago the editor of the Bee made some comments on a local movement among our folks to form a society for the study of art. I thought the editor was a bit sarcastic. No doubt the editor was right, as he usually is. A public folly or unworthy financial scheme must be well disguised to escape his eagle eye. But I am disposed to be charitable about that art scheme. The expression, "I am nisunderstood," is often attributed to unhappy ladies who get themselves into a diplomatic tangle. Maybe the promoters of the art society were misunderstood. Quite natural; they were rather too secretive. Or, rather, the rumor as to their object was very broad and very vague. I suppose the editor thought he saw a ludicrousness in the situation from colored people in Washington own this fact, viz., a population of 125,000 colored people in Washington own themselves not exceeding 5,000 dwellings houses. They probably rent from white hindlords as many as 20,000 additional houses. In all the houses they own and rent there are probably not over 5,000 bath tubs. A great many have inadequate plumbing and other sanitary equipments. In rural districts a similar situation of 125,000 people would be nothing unusual or particularly discreditable. But in a crowded city it is a serious matter. Oh, yes, a great many of our local colored-people own or live in fine houses equipped with sanitary and artistic plumbing. But how many? I suppose it is some of these fortunate people who went to form an art club. It is very commendable of any group of persons to want to study art. It is natural for refined people to want to know something about the old masters, the Barbizon school, and all the other modern schools of painting and sculpture. But such a study is of the nature of dilletanism. It is the occupation of a class of people who have accomplished all of the substantial things of life. There is no question in my mind that the subject of art is a very important one for the colored people in America. But the art that should first command their attention is of a very practical sort. It is utilitarian. It relates to the person or body. It relates to the household. It relates the home surroundings, and includes landscape architecture and landscape gardening. These are matters of art that should command the attention of our people. They are a present practical need. need. It is the duty of our educated and refined people to give early attention to these matters in the interest of the entire race class. In this sermon I have opportunity to give only a brief hint of what I mean. 1. The care and adornment of the person. By reason of certain physical differences from the white races, the colored people have need to adopt and perfect certain special practices and forms of art not in too slavish imitation of those of the whites. It is hardly necessary to say that the first essential is scrupulous bodily cleanliness. The daily bath is to be commended. Fidelity in the clothing is the next essential—not fashionable cuts, but cleanliness. These suggest the bath tub and the laundry tub. We need more houses with bath tubs. We need many steam laundries and clothes cleaning establishments. These are important subjects, and I intend to give special talks about them in the near future. Races of people having special physical characteristics of color or physiognomy, or induced by special climatic conditions, usually adopt styles of dress comfortable to their special types of beauty. They have regressed to the "color scheme," as the dress call it; to styles of form and to utility. The whole may be summed up as harmony. It would be ludicrous for the Siberian to adopt the dress of the Somogambian, and vice versa. It is, as absurd, for our American people to attempt to imitate the styles and fashions of their white neighbors without some regard to "the eternal fitness of things." Nature has made nearly everything beautiful in its own way, of itself, including all races of men. Any of them are ugly and only by reason of some artificial ideal. An ideal in art is usually a form of prejudice. Both are closely associated with fashion. It is plain to the most superficial observer that many transitory fashions have no foundation in reason. This is because they are based on nonetheless the fundamental canons of art. It is also true that very many permanent fashions have not much more foundation in reason. Again, with that school of philosophy who hold that the true foundation of art is utility; that the art should conform (a) necessity; (b) to convenience, and that it should reluctantly conform to accidental circumstances. Must I speak more plainly? I am almost afraid to do it. But I venture the general advice to our women and men: God has made you as beautiful as any other race. Aim to dress in harmony with His work. 2. Art in the household. This is no special form of art for our people. It relates to sanitation, convenience and beauty. In this the main thing to be impressed on our people are these: (a) Get the 'essentials' cost; (b) postpone the 'essentials' as an unwise extravagance. If you must rent that you live in, try to get the man that is running water and bath tub. Then cut out all other extravagances and save money to 'buy a modest house of your own.' 3. Home surroundings. These are usually comprised under the term landscape architecture, which includes landscape gardening. It also includes certain forms of ornamentation which are neither architecture nor gardening. Housepainting is the term that perhaps best suggests what I mean, or any use of the paint brush. Of all the uses of art 1 sometimes think our people are deficient in these—architecture, gardening and use of painting. We should be in the selection, color and arrangement of "ornaments" on the front lawn. The outward surroundings of home are most important. Often they are the only index of what is inside. They are a mark of the taste and culture of the inmate. When I look at many front lawns where attempts at ornamentation are made—a jumble of forms and colors, of odd pots and cans and boxes—I am always tempted to quote Byron's line, "Usurpers on the throne of taste!" Here are some thoughts for those colored people who are enthusied with a love of art. To them I would paraphrase the familiar words of the philosopher: Look downward, not upward; look inward, not outward; and lend a hand. Samuel Longhorn. Samuel Langhorn, of Chicago, on arriving in the city in company with Boody Anderson, stopped at the Casiano Barber Shop, New Jersey Avenue and N Streets, N. W., Gordon Brown, proprietor, where a host of admirers gave him a cordial welcome. He was in the best of health and in fine trim for the bout-at Ardmore, Md., Monday night, September 16, 1917. After a special tonsorial service, he warmly expressed his appreciation of the excellent service of the management. Mrs. Alice J. Carroll, of this city, is visiting Philadelphia for two Miss Mary Norris, of $13-$28 Street, has returned to the city after visiting relatives in Newark, N. J., and New York, City. Mrs. Lucinda S. Chase Goldaberg, of Tye River, Va., will visit the city next month and be the guest of his sisters, the Misses Chase. Miss Emma Allen, of Newport News, Va., is visiting friends in this city. Miss Mary L. Gardner spent a few days in this city. She is proprietress of Stag Hotel, Newport News, Va. Miss Janie Green has returned to her home in Boston, Mass., after a pleasant stay in this city. Her friends regret to lose such a good Mr. Ohaeze New York Mr. Ohaeze will visit this city, New York and Philadelphia. SEAPLANES' WORK Planes Will Do Sixty Days' Sled Work In Ten Hours, Declares Explorer of Frozen North—Balloons Not Likely to Be Successful Because of Wind. New York. — A vision of new and mighty fields to conquer shone from the narrowed eyes of Donald B. MacMillan, who returned to New York after four years' leadership of the Crocker Land expedition, as he prophesied that sea- planes would solve the mysteries of the frozen north. "I think we are the last expedition to use dog sleds," said Mr. MacMillan. He was talking at the American Museum of Natural History. Bronzed by arctic winds and thinned to whipcord by constant hardship, Mr. MacMillan is back in civilization to show the scientists of the American museum, the American Geographical society and the University of Illinois what he has discovered in the polar regions and to deny the existence of Crocker Land. Waiting in a special car at Weehawken are 400 boxes of rare skins, exceedingly rare eggs, minerals, birds, relica, records and other articles gath- PETER H. Photo by American Press Association. DONALD B. MAC MILLAN. ered in forty-eight months of difficult work. Only three or four months of each year were available to the expedition, since daylight and the Arctic summers fill only that period. Mr. MacMillan said explorers must remain nine months practically idle to accomplish twelve months' work. "But with seaphones," he said, "we can do between breakfast and dinner the things that now take sixty-four days with dogs. The use of a seaphane in one summer can result in finding what took us four years to discover." Mr. MacMillan added that seaplanes would probably be more desirable than airplanes, since in the summer the ice fields are covered with pools of water. If the ice was clear airplanes might prove adaptable. He does not think balloons will be successful, since they must depend on the winds. "How fast can aeroplanes travel nowadays?" Mr. MacMillan asked his questioners. questioners. He opened his eyes wide with astonishment when he learned for the first time that the latest army machines can do from 125 to 150 miles an hour. "That's the answer to polar work," he announced, and he looked off the window as if he expected to see a line of airplan.s. MAYOR USES FIST. Quickly Puts a Stop to Some Pro-German Talk. Sheboygan Falls, Mich.—Mayor Boldt stopped the mouth of a pro-German with his fist here some time ago. "He had been talking about American ships having no rights," the mayor said, "and I mentioned the fact that no nation had a right to disregard the American flag on the seas. The man, a tannery employee, made a most insulting and unrepeatable remark about the flag as I turned away. I asked him if he meant the American flag. He said he did, and I punched him in the face." Manning McKinnon, Civil war veteran and ploneer, had occasion to apply the same treatment to another man. Both men bore German names. When Joel Marched Away, Hooray! New York.-Joel, lived at Ausable Forks, a dot in New York. He enlisted in the navy, and when he left home to join his company the whole town turned out to honor their hero. James Rogers gave him $50, and George Chaboon came across with a $100 liberty bond, while the gang at the sawmill where Joel worked presented him with a wrist watch having an illuminated dial. The Keeesville Harmony band played patriotic selections, the one train a day stayed a few minutes longer, the pretty girls kissed the jack tar, and a pleasant time was had by all. Old Hen Still Laying. Findlay, O.-Fifteen years ago Adam Stouffel purchased a Plymouth Rock ben from Frank T. Patterson. Now, the same ben, to the age of nineteen years, Stouffel says, is laying eggs with the rest of his rock, and there are no indications that he is going to quit. HER PUPPIES AND LEAPS FROM SHIP Wonderful Extent of Mother Love Shown by a Yorkshire Terrier. An Atlantic Port.-The wonderful extent of the mother love of a dog was shown in a striking manner by Fannie, a Yorkshire terrier, the mascot of the steamship Navajo, a Standard Oil tanker, abandoned afire at sea. Fannie was the mother of six cute little puppies. Her devotion to her family had been commented upon by the officers and crew of the Navajo. They said they never had witnessed so much motherly care bestowed by a dog. When the vessel blazed up and the lifeboats were being lowered Fannie was seen running about carrying two of the puppies between her teeth. She finally put them down in what she must have considered a place of safety and ran to bring her other puppies there. there. By the time she arrived with the second consignment she found the fire approaching dangerously near her loved sea. When she, discovered the fire drawing nearer and nearer in a rapidly decreasing circle she appeared to become crazed with anguish and excitement. Howling piteously, she licked the face of each of the puppies and then leaped into the sea. heaped into the case of suicide," said Third Officer Edward Schafer. The pupilles were rescued by the crew. NAVY GOOD PLACE TO SAVE, FIGURES SHOW On Every Ship There Is a Bank For Exclusive Use of Service's Economical Men. Great Lakes, Ill. The phrase "spends his money like a sailor" is fast becoming obsolete, for the modern bluejacket generally comes out of the service with a rounder bank account than that of his civilian brother. With the recent increase of pay in the navy, savings in the ships' banks have increased enormously. The gospel of saving is preached continuously in the navy and with effect At the Great Lakes naval training station, where 12,000 jackals are in training, representing the lowest rank and correspondingly the smallest paid body of men in the navy, nearly $25,000 has been deposited to their account. The amount is not surprisingly large, but considering that the average sailor has been at the station for only a little more than a month, shows that they have caught the spirit. Civilian banks adjacent to the training station also carry considerable savings accounts of the men. At the training station, as on every ship in the navy, there is a bank for the exclusive use of the men, in which they can deposit their savings, which draw 4 per cent interest. Such deposits are required to remain in the bank for the period of the bluejacket's enlistment, and it is not uncommon for the sailor to come from his cruise with a good sum set aside for a rainy day. Of course there are no rainy days in the navy, as the bluejacket is cared for in sickness and is always sure of his job as long as he behaves himself, but many who leave the service find this financial backing comes in handily. There is no small number of men in the service who boast bank accounts and investments that would make a civilian considered "well off". in his community. IMAGINED HIMSELF DEAD. Lovesick Youth Almost Succeeds In Taking His Life. Los Angeles, Cal.-Records for keen imagination were shattered in the case of Edward Corrigan, who almost succeeded in killing himself with thought. Corrigan is a young engineer and had been going with a girl with whom he quarreled. "The end will come in a couple of hours," he said in sepulchral tones. Shortly after he was found in bed in a comatose condition, and when folks entered his room he asked for a priest to administer the last rites. Police Surgeon Zurb made a minute examination and thought Corrigan had taken polson. His eyes were dilated, and his outward condition indicated polsonous symptoms. Treatment applied caused Dr. Zurb and other experts called in to believe the case was one of self hypnotism caused by mental depression. When Corrigan returned to his senses in the hospital he broke out in tears, saying he was despondent over his broken love affair. Old Coin a Puzzle. Philadelphia.-A peculiar gold coin, dated 1806, and about the size of a $5 gold piece has been received by Receiving Teller Keifer at the subtreasure. The gold in the coin is nearly red. It bears the head of the Goddess of Liberty. It is not the product of any government mint and must have been colled by a private concern. The gold is of a higher grade and weighs more than that of the $5 gold pieces now in circulation. Skull Flattened Bullet. Atlanta, Ga.-Harriet Owing, a nine-year-old negro girl, would be safe at the front without a steel helmet. Hospital doctors extracted a bullet from her forehead which had not penetrated the skull. The bullet was a 22 and was smashed perfectly flat. It had been a stray shot. The girl at once returned to her home. The Week in Society The most prosperous season in twelve years, is the report that comes from Board's Drug Store at 1912 1-2 Fourteenth street northwest. The reason for the ever increasing popularity of this firm consists in satisfactory service. They dispense only fresh, pure and reliable drugs, medicines and household essentials. They carry a line of goods that are always dependable, efficacious and absolutely trustworthy. Quality before everything else is the motto at Board's Drug Store from ice cream to physician's prescriptions. Mr. Samuel Jefferson has returned to the city after a delightful vacation with friends and relatives. Miss Marion Walters has been one of the new appointees at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Miss Elsie Richards, of Georgetown, is now one of the members of the Bee force. Mrs. Hattle Tibbs Terrell is now one of the northwest local hair dressers and gives scalp treatments. The visitors at 19th Street Baptist Church will be glad when the well trained choir members return from their vacations. Miss M. I. Walters, recently connected with the Bee and a very accomplished clerk, was appointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing this week. Miss Walters has just returned from a two weeks' vacation at McLean, Va. She is succeeded by Miss E. H. Richards, who bids fair to become a journalist. Miss Martha A. Ailer has been appointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. She is making a good record already. Col. S. M. Lewis, of the Bee, went to Baltimore, Md., this week on business. Rev. Pair is one of the most active preachers in the city. Dr. James E. Shepard passed through the city for Richmond, Va., last week. He will accompany Judge J. C. Pritchard on an eastern trip in the interest of nis school at Durham, N. C. Miss Julia R. Bush has returned to the city looking well. Miss M. A. Green, of the Bee, will be away for a few days on business. She is a valuable acquisition to the Bee. Mrs. Rev. Mary E. Taylor, world's greatest evangelist of Yonkers, N. Y. will be at Galbraith A. M. E. Z. Church, October 7, 3 P. M. Rev. Mary Taylor is well known in church work as one of the most inspiring divines in the connection. She will be at Galbraith A. M. E. Z. in the city. Mrs. Martha Ricks has just returned from a six weeks' visit to her son, Rev. E. E. Ricks, now pastoring at Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Daisy Welch of Phoebus, Va., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ricks. Rt. Em. Grand Commander John P. Davis is paying his annual visit to the several commanderies. Simon No. 1 gave him a great reception. The officers were elected unanimously. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Janifer are spending a few days with Mrs. Atkinson, 148 North Wanamaker street, Philadelphia, Pa. Miss Blaundina D. Lewis, who has been visiting relatives at 2218 11th Street, N. W., left Saturday morning for Hartford, Conn., where she is attending school. Miss Elizabeth Robinson has returned to the city after spending several weeks in Atlantic City and Baltimore. While in Baltimore she was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Mary Brown and family. Mr. Luther D. Boyd, of the War Department, spent the week-end in Baltimore last week. Messrs. Harris and Wilson, of the New Ebbitt, is improving at Freedmen's Hospital. Dr. O. E. Johnson, the popular chiropopist, has removed her office from 1338 R Street to 633 Tea Street, N. W., opposite Howard Theater. Mr. J. H. Mayo was a visitor from Lynchburg, Va., is on a visit to his family, 1224 R Street, N. W. RETURN OF THE SMITHS. Madame Agnes J. Smith, the well known hair culturest of 935 R street northwest after a delightful time in the East, returned to the city last week. Madame Mary M. Smith, whose beauty parlors are unsurpassed at 905 You street northwest, and who motored to New York and other eastern cities, returned to the city Tuesday. The two noted women have return- Misses Tulip Cook, Rosena Lacy and Thelma Adams are doing commendable work at the Bureau of Envixing. Mrs. Sadle B. Jenkins, 1511 T street northwest was recently appointed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and is assigned in the blindery. Rev. and Mrs. Bernard Batts have returned to the city and are located at the Cameron after spending a delightful summer, at their country Home in Deanwood, where they were host and hostess to several social ga- The marriage of MissCarlene Wilson of 940 T street northwest to Dr. Edward Gray is one of the social events of the season. Both contracting parties are well known here, where they have a wide circle of friends. The Ladies Drill Team of Auxiliary No. 64 gave a Display Drill at the picnic given by the ladies of the church of Incarnation, Deanwood, D. C., Wednesday evening, the 12 inst, on the church lawn. Proceeds for the benefit of said church. Those participating were Captain A. Dent, president; Mrs. E. Henson, V. President; L. Barnes, recording secretary; C. Young, Financial Secretary; I. Johnson, treasurer; E. Dent. MDmes. M. Chapman, C. Dorsey, L. Weems, M. C. Brown, M. Brown, A. Diggs, Misses W. Hawkins, G. Greenfield and C. Butler. The president, Mrs. Emma Henson, deserves great praise for her untiring efforts as head of this useful organization. Mr. Richard J. Watson of Key West, Fla., is now in the city, visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Watson was formerly of this city and well known here, where he has a large circle of friends. The block party conducted by the great social and church worker, Mrs. Emma Cabaniss, of 1523 S street,N. W., proceeds for the benefit of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, was a marked success. Mrs. Amanda Williams of S street, N. W., is quite indisposed at this writing. Miss Elizabeth Taylor of Sixth street, N. W., daughter of Professor and Mrs. W. A. Taylor, of Manassas Institute, received an appointment at the Bureau of Engraving. Professor and Mrs. J. D. Baltimore, of 1435 S street, have returned to the city, after a delightful vacation. Mrs. Edward Williston and daughters, of S street, have returned to the city, after a very delightful stay in New York, N. Y., visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Jeanette Brooks of Montello avenue, returned to the city delighted with her trip. Mrs. Lucy Scott, of 1521 S street, N. W., has returned to the city, after an extended northern trip. Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Jasper, 1439 S street, N. W., left the city for New York and Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Martha Huntington Montgomry, of 816 Twelfth street, N. E., returned to the city, after a delightful stay in Blackstone, Va., visiting relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Johnson were receiving the best wishes of their many friends. The contracting parties are well known here, being members of prominent families. Mrs. Johnson was formerly Miss Glorie Sewall. Mrs. Belle Harris, of 1434 Swann street, N.W., left Saturday in company with her son, Mr. Gargeld Harris, to visit hed raaughter, Mrs. John P. Turner, of 1302 South Eighteenth street, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Ernest Williams of Annapolis, Md., was in the city last week, the guest of his friend, Dr. W. A. Hughes, of 1090 Third street, N. W. Mrs. H. D. Dismukes, of 1330 W street, N. W., was recently appointed in the Bureau of Engraving. Mrs. Dismukes was Miss Annie L, Lee, formerly of Montgomery, Ala. MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT. Mrs. J. B. Payne announces the marriage of her son, Mr. Edwar B. Payne and Miss Lillian V. Shackelford, Saturday, September 8th, 1917. The ceremony was performed at the parsonage of St. Luke's Episcopal Church by Rev. Brown. The bride was handsomely gowned in white crepe dechine. The happy couple left the city for a visit to Philadelphia, New York City and Albany, N. Y. At home, 1713 15th st. northwest to friends after October 1, 1917. SEASON'S RE-OPENING The First class and well equipped restaurant known as Pratt's Restaurant, 522 Druid Hill Avenue. Oyster Season now open. Oysters served in all styles. Now open for the season. Menu contains everything of the season. Special dinner at 6 P. M. Open from 9 A. M. to 2 A. M. Music Studio. Miss Edna Gordon will reopen her music studio September 22nd. For further information, phone or call at 1329 Wallach pl nw. FALLS CHURCH. Mrs. ohn R. Francis and family, Mrs. Wormley, and Mrs. Edith Fleet- wood of Washington, D. C., visited Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Henderson and family Sunday last while motoring through Falls Church. Misses Marie Oron, Leona Shanklin and Helen Raymond of Washington, D. C., spent a delightful day Sunday last as the guests of Miss Annie E. Henderson of Falls Church, Va. Colored Department of Food Adminis- tratin Plans for Big Work Ahead. Prof. A. U. Craig is a very busy man in Washington for the past week. He has appointed Mr. C. H. Johnson a local hotel and restaurant man. THE WOMEN'S HERITAGE Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, of Chicago, Ill., was the first person to visit East St. Louis after the riot and held the first protest meeting, July 2, 1917. She will be in Washington September 24th at Metropolitan A. M. E. church, M'street between 15th and 16th streets northwest. Rev Carlton M. Tanner, Pastor The committee's work will include several trips in the state of Maryland and Virginia in order to push as far as possible the work of the department throughout the country. Rev. Jackson in Philadelphia. Rev. B. F. Jackson, assistant pastor of the Trinidad Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., made a ying trip to Philadelphia, Pa., Saturday, September 15, where he had some very urgent matters to transact. He remained over until Monday. Sunday, September 16, at 11 o'clock A. M., he preached a soul-stirring sermon at the Bethel Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. C. C. Scott pastor. He selected for his text Hebrews 11:1 and his subject "Saving Faith." Rev. aJckson is one of our strong young men in the ministry and the people of Philadelphia heard him with pleasure as he told them of the riches of God. Rev. Dr. Scott is busily engaged in formulating plans for his $1,500 fall rally. His people are with him and they are doing a commendable work. Rev. Scott has a large heart and he is 'one of the best preachers in Philadelphia. At 8 o'clock P. M. Rev. Jackson worshipped at the Great Baptist Tabernacle, of which Rev. Dr. J. W. Robinson is the honored pastor. Dr. Robinson is doing a great work in Philadelphia and he should be highly commended by every lover of the race. Rev. Robinson pastors one of the largest Baptist churches in the country, but one good thing about this that he is his brother's keeper. man of God is, he has not forgotten man of God is he has not forgotten that he is his brother's keeper. May God help these worthy people as they are laboring strenuously for the propagation of the kingdom of Christ. His Prediction. Rev. Wm. Snyder, the prophet who predicted the many upheavals in this country, which the Washington Post, The Bee and other papers published some time ago in this city and makes further predictions that dangerous times are coming but those who live through them will prosper, and those who live through these times will see good times hereafter and justice will be given every man and woman. A BRILLIANT MARRIAGE. Robinson—Clark Wedded. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Robinson, of 2521 Sixth street northwest, was the scene of a very pretty wedding last Saturday afternoon, September 15th, 1917, where their oldest daughter, Miss Mary Iola Robinson became the bride of Mr. Walter Louis Clark, son of Rev. and Mrs. George V. Clark of Cleveland, Ohio. The parlor was very prettily decorated with ferns and cut flowers. Miss Dorothy Hill Robinson, sister of the bride, very prettily gowned in white satin, carrying American beauty roses, was maid of honor and Miss Coddie Hill, dressed becomingly in Georgette crepe and also carrying American beauty roses, was brides' maid. The bride, escorted by her father, and preceded by her attendants, enterd th parlor where the groom with his best man, Mr. W. Arvey Wood, of Hartford, Conn., was waiting. The wedding march was played by Mrs. Adelaide Green of Baltimore, Md. The ceremony was performed by the Rv. Emory B. Smith, pastor of Lincoln. Congrational Temple, of which the bride was an active member, she being a member of the choir and also a teacher in the Sunday School. The groom is quite a progressive and energetic young man and very popular in literary and social circles at his home in Cleveland. The bride's dress was of Georgette crepe with tulle veil and orange blossome; her bouquet was of bride's roses and her only ornament a string of pearls. Following the ceremony the newly married couple received the congratulations of their relatives and friends. The bride is the granddaughter of Mr. James H. Hill of the Armstrong Manual Training High School. After partaking of refreshments the happy bride and bridegroom amid a shower of rice and confetti, left on a late train for their future home in Cleveland, Ohio. The presents were numerous and useful. We wish them much success and happiness in their new home. Rev. J. D. Pair has accepted an invitation to preach at the First Baptist Church, Manassas, Va., Sunday, September 23rd. The HOWARD THEATRE The Silent Witness Greater than "Within the Law" or "Madame X". All Star Cast Including the following Artists: Cleo Desmond, Carletta Freeman, Elizabeth Williams, Ophelia Mush, Clarence Muse Andrew Bishoh, Albert Knorl, Chas. Moore, David Brisbane, Aurthur Ray, Al Suthern, H. L. Pryor, Fred Hogan. Night Prices: 25c, 35c, 50c Matinee: All Seats 25c Next Week—Jules Vernon—Twenty Leagues Under Sea Combine six-dollar quality with eight-dollar style and have made a bi hit with many men—right off the reel. FIVE DOLLAR SHOES OF REAL MERIT! No easy accomplishment these days—and took mighty close figuring—but here they are! You'll like 'em. They'll give a surprisingly good account of themselves in wear—and they're sure to make our Men's Department more talked about this fall than ever before! The TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. Wanted at The Bee office a printer; a lady to do special correspondence and story writer. Mr. Rutherford. Mason, of this city, is visiting his brother-in-law, Mr. Charles Lancaster, in New York City. Mrs. Charles Lancaster, of New York City, will visit Baltimore and this city for two weeks. She will be the guest of her mother. Rev. B. H. Hodge, of Madison, N. J., spent Sunday in this city. Misses Isabell Diggs, Mary West and C. Vivian Carter were guests at a doll party in New York City. Mrs. Daniel Tibbs; of. 158 23rd Street, has returned to the city after two weeks' stay in Hampton, Va. Mrs. Anna Berryman, of this city, is visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Minor, of New York City. Miss Maud Connor, of New York City, is here taking a course at Howard University. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Frank, of New York City, gave a four-course luncheon in honor of Mrs. L. Smith, of this city. Mr. Wm. S. Maize, of Rahway, N. J., is here taking a course at Howard University. Rev. W. M. Nix, singing evangelist of Chicago, Ill., has been visiting friends in Longview, Texas, is leaving for this city. Mrs. M. Gordon and granddaughter of this city are the guests of her sister, Mrs. Camfon, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. John Gatlin, who has been at 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 hich 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. 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Wednesday. Dr. Burwell was well known in the athletic circles here, being a graduate of the Armstrong Manual Training School. His Washington friends are proud of his success. Mr. Edward Gilbert, of this city, is visiting his cousin, Samuel Hart, of Providence, R. I. Rev. Cornelius S. Jones is visiting his parents in Galveston, Texas, companion. Mr. and Mrs.' J. W. Webster, of this city, are visiting in Riverton, N. J. Rev. O. L. Mitchell, vicar of St. Marys P. E. Chapel, has returned to the city after a pleasant vacation. Miss Helen Mondy, a teacher in the public schools of Atlantic City, who has been visiting her sister, Miss Bertha Monday, returned to Atlantic City Tuesday. Lawyer and Mrs. John H. Myers, of 1816 4th Street, N. W., and M. F. I have made a bi hit with accomplishment these days— nt of themselves in wear—and out this fall than ever before! 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Order of Jonavid of America, to the citizens of that town, as they have recently received if returned from a long touring trip through Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. They NTING CO. $5 BABIES CARED FOR Children of Soldiers Are Looked After at Creche. FOUR NATIONS REPRESENTED. Home For Convalescent Bablee Under Two Years Old Open All the Year Around—Founded by First General Secretary of Charity Organization Society of New York. New York.—If your daddy had gone away to war to fight for his country, and you were something under two years old, and mother wasn't sure where the next mug of bread and milk was coming from, and like as not mother wasn't even there to worry about it at all, wouldn't you think it was pretty hard lines for a young soldier just starting out in the battle of life? You would. 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J., the town that nestles under the Palisades opposite One Hundred and Thirtieth street, four or five years back remembers that creche, because it stood on the river road there for many years after its foundation by Charles D. Kellogg, first general secretary of the Charity Organization society of New York city, who first established it beside the site of the statue of Liberty and called it Bartholdi Creche. There it had averaged 6,000 to 10,000 visits of mothers with children in a summer. In the fifteen years or more it stood at Edgewater the creche averaged 12,000 visits a summer from mothers and children from the crowded tenement districts of New York. Removed now to a beautifully rolling and well wooded site of six and a quarter acres, at Broad, and Van Nostrand avenues, on the outskirts of Englewood, the creche occupies the unique position of being the only home for convalescent babies under two years old in and about New York city that is open the year round. And in its effort to do its bit by giving preference to the babies of soldiers the creche does not stop at American babies, but cares for the babies of allied fighters as well, at least four nations being represented among the twenty babies now there — America, France, Russia and Italy. Adopt a Baby Wolf. Bochester, N. Y.—The Proper brothers, who live on a farm six miles west of Naples, in Ontario county, found a baby gray wolf in a hollow log in a piece of woods on their farm. They took the little creature, whose eyes were not yet open, to the house and are making an effort to raise it on a bottle. A search is being made for the rest of the wolf family. GIVES CORK LEG AS SECURITY FOR LOAN Rakeigh, N. C.—A chattel mortgage has been recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Durham county, N. C., in which a $50 loan was made and an artificial leg taken as security. The leg was valued at $100, and R. O. Hverett, a Durham lawyer, declares it his intention of reconveying the property to himself unless the mortgagor redeems the claim. The loan was obtained to purchase the cork leg, and the debt is to be paid within fifty-two weeks. TO FEED UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS IN TEXAS Dealers' Planning to Deliver 4,395,000 Pounds of Potatoes. Fort Sam Houston, Tex.—An enormous quantity of foodstuffs will be required to feed the thousands of soldiers who are soon to be stationed in different military posts and camps in Texas. This is shown by the quantity of potatoes and onions upon which bids have just been received at the chief quartermaster's office here. These bids do not include the supplying of the new national guard camps, but are only for the troops at Fort Sam Houston and on the Mexican border. They call for the delivery during September and October of 4,395,000 pounds of potatoes and 540,500 pounds of onions. The potatoes and onions must be delivered during September and October. The potatoes will be distributed as follows: Fort Sam Houston, 4,000,000 pounds; Brownsville, 75,000; Corpus Christi, 40,000; Del Rio, 45,000; Eagle Pass, 100,000; McAllen, 40,000; Mercedes, 35,000; Sam Fordyce, 30,000, and San Benito, 30,000. The onions will be distributed: To Fort Sam Houston, 500,000 pounds; Brownsville, 10,000; Corpus Christi, 5,000; Del Rio, 6,500; Eagle Pass, 10,000; McAllen, 5,000; Mercedes, 5,000; Sam Fordyce, 4,000, and San Benito, 4,000. SEES THE END OF WAR IN A YEAR AT MOST British Officer Thinks It May Come This Winter, Due to Germans' Hunger. New York.—On a British liner which arrived at an American port from England were six men, headed by Sir Stephenson Kent, who will assist Lord Northheliffe's mission here. A British officer who arrived on the liner and who requested that his name be not mentioned said that a majority of the British officers in France believed that if the war does not end this winter it will within a year. His impression, as well as that of most of the other officers on the western front, was that increasing hunger among the Germans, with a combination of another winter and numerous blows, would surely bring about the end of the struggle. He also spoke of the American export embargo as one of the strongest weapons of the war. As to the aerial side of the war, he said that aviators are wanted more than machines right now and that this country could do nothing better than to train fliers and send them abroad. Lieutenant Ernest Hargett of Washington, an officer in the British army who served two years at the front, came to this country to join the American forces. Lieutenant, S. LaM. Metcalfe, a Canadian who served in the Boer war as well as the present one, also was a passenger. He has two medals, one of which he won by capturing a German machine gun crew. HUNDRED CANDLES ON CAKE. Aged Man Celebrates His Birthday With Family. Wauseon, O.-Luchus Palmer Taylor, Fulton county's oldest man, has celebrated his one hundredth birthday at his home in Pike township, near Winameg. At noon there was a Taylor family birthday basket dinner, with a huge cake bearing 100 candies. In the afternoon friends and neighbors were received by the aged gentleman, who still has a very accurate memory, has a fairly strong voice and is able to walk about. Mr. Taylor made a few reminiscent remarks. He was born in Buckland township, Franklin county, Mass., Aug. 18, 1817, and came to Fulton county, O., seventy-four years ago, establishing a farm in the wilderness on which he has ever since resided. He raised a large family, was one of the founders of the first Fulton county fair and gave two sons to the country in the civil war. SHOOTING RANGE ATOP HOTEL Reof of New York Hostelry to Have Rifle Club Next Winter. New York'—The roof of a well known hotel is going to be converted into a shooting range next winter, with a club that is to be composed of men, women, boys and girls to do the shooting. Since the war came to America nearly everybody wants to learn how to shoot, and the keepers of rifle galleries have been coining money. Miss Martha Maynard is to have charge of the new organization, and Miss June Haughton, who is a world famous shot, will supervise the actual firing. An architect has been directed to convert the roof into an English shooting ground and lodge, with provision against any possible danger from stray shots. Fox Dog Comes Back Oscada, Mich.—Bill Biggerstaff's pet fox dog has returned. The last Bill saw of the dog was in December, when he started a fox. He never was known to return without the fox before, sometimes being out as long as a week. But this time he came back in a baggage carate, with a note from a man near Grand Marais, 250 miles away, who found the dog there starving two weeks ago. Bill will send the dog out this winter after the same fox. Promptness Neatness Politeness High Class Work, Reasonable Prices Life-like Features Restored Free Funeral Parlor PETER SATIN WHITENER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY ALLOWED ON ALL CITIES JOB555 MAIN ST. CO. ATLANTA, GA SATIN WHITENER CARRIER STREET, ATLANTA, GA www.peter-satin-whitener.com 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. No.9 Jan. 17, 1917 Jacobs Pharmacy Co. Atlanta, Ga. Geneva, N.Y. As I have used your Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin, Whitener and like it very much I am enclosing 250 in stamps for which please send me another box. It is a long ways too send, but I know that you get just what I ask for. 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Act on this advice—If your dealer does not keep them, just cut out this ad, paste it to a postal card, put your name and address on it with the name of your dealer and mail it to us. We will send him completes at once and advise him of your request. BEST [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. et, Northwest AL SERVICE CORPORATION. Reasonabl Prices Lady Attendant Residence Phone N. 1213 HARRY 8, CUMMINGS BURIED. ‘Mayor Attends Funeral of Colored . City Councilman. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 11.—The fu- neral of Harry S, Cummings, the only colored City Councilman’ and perhaps the most influential negro in Baitl- more, took place at 2 o'clock yester- day afternoon from the Metropclitan Methodist Episcopal Church and was one of the most largely attended ever held from:there.. From noon to 2 o'clock the body lay in state in the church, and a constant stream of colored persons passed by the coffin to. get a farewell glimpse. Mayor Preston. and members of both branches of the City Council assem- bled at the Cummings “home, 1318 Druid Hill avenue, and went in a. body to the place of worship. The ministers taking part in the service were the Revs. L. Z. Johnson, -R. W. 8. Thomas, W. H.. Weaver, Dr. J. L, Spencer, Dr.. Ernest Lyon. and “M. J. “Naylor. The honorary pall- bearers were former Lieut, Gov. A. B. 8. Pinchback, of Louisiana; Judge Ter- rell, of Washington; Charles. Simms, J. C. Dancey, Wallace L. Smith, James Hughes, Dr. 0. D. Jones, Albert Jones and B, Forrester. 5 ‘The active pallbearers included Wil- lam Houston, of Washington; James Young, Dr. William T. Carr, Harry 'T. Pratt, H. Grafton Brown, George Sfd- dons; George .McMechan, Robert Turner, Dr. A. M. Curtis and John. W. Outlaw, all colored. Burial was in Mount ‘Auburn Cemetery. Resolutions of regret : have ‘been’ passed by the- Baltimore Colored Bar Association, Maryland Association of the Colored Clind, Society’ of Public Waiters, Colored Young Men's ‘Chris- tian Association, Colored Fresh Air and Empty Stocking Circle, United Or- der of Odd Fellows, Seventh Ward Republican Club, Maryland Federation of Colored Women’s. Clubs and the Order of Elks. 2 | ‘The City Council reassembled at 5 o'clock after {ls summer recess .and adjourned until next Tuesday out of respect to Cummings’ memory. There ‘will be no meeting Monday because it will be the beginning of the Jewish New Year. | On ‘motion of Daniel C. Joseph, of the Fourteenth Ward, the: seat and desk occupied by Cummings will be draped.in black for 15 days. : The Criminal. and the Orphans’ courts also adjourned as a mark of respect,’ Cummings having been a lawyer. In the Criminal Court the an- nouncement of the death and the mo- tion to adjourn were made by State's Attorney William F. Broening, the mo- tion being seconded by Assistante State’s Attorney Horton 8. Smith and Harry W. Nice. In the Orphans’ Court the annourice- ment and the motion were made by: Ashby W. Hawkins, colored, the mo- tion being seconded by Henry J. Broening, a brother of the:State’s At- torney. ‘William F. O'Conor, Superintendent of Public Buildings, bad the fiag at the City Hall placed at half-mast, and he was among the city officials-who. attended the funeral. Dean Pickens: Tells Why. the Negro * Leaves the South.: ‘The cause 1s complex and. many. angled, not simple and categorical. Perhaps the greatest element in all this’ causation is the Jim Crow Car. It is worse than lynching; lynching occasionally kills one man, the Jim Crow Car perpetually tortures ten thousand. * . T am’ writing on board a Jim Crow Car from Little Rock, Ark., toward St. Louls, Mo—a horrible night ride. The colored: women have one end of a smoker, separated from smok- ing white men by ‘a partition that rises only part of.the way. from the floor toward the, ceiling of the car. ‘All of the smoke and fumes, and some of the daths, come over. Some of ‘these colored people have already ‘gpent two nights in this same car- end, coming all the way from the low- er side ‘of: Texas, From them the name of the train must sound very ‘much like frony; it is "The Sunshine “Special.” ee -"Just. behind us isa chair car ‘for white people, where they can stretch out and Test with sanitary napkins ‘under. their heads. They have patd exactly ithe.same “first class” fares paid by these colored. passengers. Phe ‘colored’ passengers sit on straight-backed seats filled with the dust and grime.of heglect. Ali of these colored people are wishing, and some of them giving audible. expres- sion to the wish, to reach Poplar Bluff; the first stop in Missouri, so ‘that they can go back into that chaiy .ear and out of the squalor and dis- comfort of this’ car-end.’ And some of these colored men are in the serv- ice of the United. States, summoned from the far corners of Texas to Newport News, Va., to be trained to fight “for democracy in Europe; -and because they travel practically all of ,the way through southern: territory they must sit up for three nights and days, without change of clothing or a pite ‘of warm food,—certainly a good preparation for trench warfare... Then, “Why does the Negro leave yee, South?” indeed. You ‘would, eel @ large part,of the answer if you could be on this train, in this Jim Crow Car, and share for a night the Jonging of these people, to reach the Mne that divides Missguri. from \Ar- kansas, ‘or any. other part of “the line” that separates Dixie from the rest of creation! : __. WM. PICKENS, Morgan’ College, Baltimore, Md. News Notes ‘Here and There, ~ ‘fhe Baptist Ministers’ Council :of ‘washington, D. C., held their opening session Monday, September 17, at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N street; tween Ninth ‘and Tenth, pastored by Rev. 8. P. W. Drew. A very good meeting—the “preachers’ : experience -meeting’—it was, with Rev. M. W. D. ‘Norman, D. D., présiding. ‘The sermon “by Rev. J. L. D. Holloman, pastor of ‘Becond Baptist. Church, on “Sowing ‘and. Reaping,” was a splendid one, ‘Sringing forth expressions, many of ; endable words from the pastors. ere were several visiting ministers nge will be held during the incom- troduced, from Boston, Jersey, Ok- ma and other points.” The meet- Ing year at their regular meeting; placd Metropolitan Baptiat, on R& street,-between 12th and 13th streets N. W., pastored by Dr. Norman. - ‘The mass meeting held at. Florida ‘Avenue Baptist Church Monday night ‘September 17, at which Rev. Dr. B. F Riley, a white friend. of the race and author of “The White. Man’s Burden,” was the speaker, was well attended A number of his books were sold and collection of $25 for the speaker showed the great interest manifested. Rev. W. H. Jérnagin, D. D.,. of this city, and Rev. C. I. Buchanan, of Ok Ishoma, presided. - . Miss Violet Chase, of M Street, re- turned to Trenton, N. J., Sunday, Sep- tember 9, to resume her work as as: sistant. principal in Lincoln public school of that city. Miss Chase has been holding this position four years. She spent four weeks of her summer vacation with her mother, Mrs. Etta ‘Chase. _ At Mt: Moriah Baptist Chureh, 2nd and N Streets S, W., Rev. J. H. Ran- dolph, D; D.; pastor, a great revival is in progress with Rev. S. L. Johnson, of. Boydton, Va., evangelist, preaching forceful sermons. -Good singing and earnest revival work. All are wel- gome.to the services. . _-Mr, Jacob Townsend, who has been Stationed in New York City, will re- turn. to his home, 1219 Walter Street. Owing to the continued iliness of Mrs, Townsend it was necessary for him to be transferred here. Mr, Benjamin Pinn’s many friends are proud of the real estate business bral cele gan gaping a Reape Pe The Lafayette Theatre Will Open It’s Fail Season’ Next Week With “The - “8ilent Witness,” The Latest Broad- | way ‘Success. To inaugurate the. second fall sea- son ‘the ‘Quality Amusement Corpor- ation has selected last year’s Broad- way Success, “The Silent Witness” (hailed as the greatest dramatic tri- umph since ‘Madam X,’) which. ran at the Longacre and Fulton Theatres till way into the’ summer. “The Silent Witness,” by Otto Hauerbach, 1s a gripping drama in three acts and prologue.. The story centers in. the fate of an impulsive boy, Bug Morgan, who,-to avenge an insult to bis*mother, strikes a young blackguard’ who has sneered at her and—as bimeelf fancles—kills bim. .-Bud’s father, now the prosecuting ‘counsel of a mid-western. state, :who ‘(ignoring hs telationship to the pris- oner) finds himself charged with the duty of getting at the ‘facts in the suipposed murder case. ‘While making investigations he’ is confronted—after many years—with his old sweetheart, from whose lips he hears Bid is his own son. _ ‘The assistant district attorney, who is working to convict Bud and gain a-reputation for himself, not knowing he.is the son of his boss, affords a wonderful dramatic climax. It would spoil a pleasant evening to tell the whole «story. Go and see it. | What the New York Critics Say: “Scored a big success."”—Evening Sun. é “Never failing heart throbs.” Times. . “Gennine emotional . tugs.”—Even- ing Mail. 3 - “A Theatrical ‘ ‘Thriller."—Evening Post. - * ‘ “Strong and: interesting.”—Bvening Journal. 7 Roslyn, Va. Dots. . ‘ ‘Sunday, September 9, was com: ‘munion” Sunday with the First, Bap- ‘tist Church here, The Sunday School at 2p. m. had’ few visitors, -athong whom: was Mr. Shélton, who taught most. acceptably. the’ Sunday School lesson. At the communion service the pastor, Rey. W. A. Carter, was assist- ed by a number. of ministerial breth- ren, pastors, Rev. James E: Green and ©._A. DeVaughn among the number. 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Mrs, Renaztfoc- ney was put on trial here for ono of the Lomb murders, and her :busband, Thomas, and. Warren K. Billings are ‘under: sentence of death and life im- prisenment respectively for murder, growing out of the explosion. - Berkman, now éerving two years in the féderal prison at Atlanta, Ga., for conspiracy to defeat the draft law: in New York city, with the aid of Emma Goldman, also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, published an anarebist paper called the Blast about the time of the explosion.- 2 * District Attorney Fickert said efforts will be made. to bring Berkman here for trial before the expiration of his ‘geintence. REMOVES MEN’S HATS. - Patriotic Young Woman Member of Band Adopts Forcible Methods. ‘Defiance, O.—Miss June Spelser, a member of the Girls’ band of Deflance, took an unusual method fo teach re- spect for the national anthem to an andience at Florida the other evening. The band was -playing “The Star Spangled Banner” in a street ‘in Flori- da when Miss Speiser noticed that the men in the audience did not remove their hats. She put down her horn in the middle of the gelection, walked toward the audience and removed the hat. from the bead of the first man she’ met. Several others were treated to the same dose, and finally all-hats came off, and thero was great applause fo. the patriotic Uttle lady, who is sixteen years of age. Mans of Hid: Sits and Bice: Hutchinson, Kan.~One Hutchinson swine raiser, .L. B. Griffeth, is pattiot- fe to the Imit. All of his hogs are red, white and blue. He bas Duroc Reds, Chester Whites and the new breed of blue hogs, known to breeders as the Sapphires.. Griffeth, who ts nicknamed Red for obvious reasons, declares that there ts nothing blue about him, although he-fs-sb »ping in corn at $1.65 a bushel. to feed ‘to his red, white and blue bogs. ~ TH: S. Ve get ie “Tfor | my wife Ko” 5 \ (free) Nee == “ay =a |. 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Chesapeake Station DRUGS, SODA WATER, CIGARS . + Phone Linsoln 3136 i WENT TWO MILES ALONE ~ , WITH HIS “LEG BROKEN Rancher talured by Fall Showa Game: ness Getting to Neighbor's Cabin, Laramie, Wyo.—An idea of the game- ness of some of Wyoming's ranchers was gained recently with'the arrival in Laramie of Bob Holcombe, 4 rancher in the Sand creek country, who went eighteen hours with’a broken leg and no medical aid. 7 He crawled one mile on his hands and knees with a broken leg drageing after him, He made another mile on improvised crutchgs made out of a one| inch plank and them put on his own| splints with a broken, up cracker box and five empty flour backs, Holcombe was working a bunch of cattle about four miles from his ranch and two miles from the nearest house. The horse he was riding elipped and tell on Holcombe's right leg, It snapped between the knee and ankle. Knowing, there was no help within two: miles, the gameness of the man asserted itself. Suffering excruclating pain, he crawled-on ‘his hands ‘and knees for a nile, where he had noticed @ one inch plank, With the ald of a Knife he broke this plank lengthwise and, putting one piece under each arm, . used them as crutches: and traveled a mile to the cabin of a friend. . Here.he broke up a cracker box and with his knife whittled out'somie rough splints. With the ald of five flour sacks he bound on the splints. The friend then telephoned to a neighbor for a.car and brought the injured man to the city. HOVEL, MANY YEARS AGO PREDICTED A WORLD WAR old World May Be So Depopu- lated and ‘Impoverished That “It. Will Never Recover. . '. Basel, Switzerlaad.—Nearly thirty. years ago, in 1888,'a novel was pub- Ushed in Lelpzig under the title “Bur- ya.” In this book the following propbe- eles appear: " + “In 1904 the first clash between west- ern and’ castern ‘countries will ‘take place. : “In 1912 the Balkaiis will be drenched with blood and the corpses of hundreds of. thousands of slain men will cover the battlefields, From this bloody strug- glo the most fearful war of all history will develop. The entire civilized world and even savage tribes will be drawn into the horrible conflagration, which will turd all Europe into a howling wilderness in threo years, The war will continue until all of the belligerents aro ‘exhnusted ‘and the armies in.the field rebel against the awful slaughter, Tt will end with a general uprising of the masses. “fhe revolution will start in. one of the largest-countries-engaged 4 the war and bring horrors which may make thosé of the French revolit-’ tion appear like ebiid’s play. Within.a ‘few mouths:the revolution will’ spread over all Europe, and-when ft ends the old world will be depopulated and so impoverished that It may never be able to recover.” i, The first two of these prophecies have come true, and the third one ia partly. fulfilled, In 1904 the war be- tween Russian and Japan started, and: 1012 brought the first Balkan -war, which was followed, at once by the sec- ond. From these struggles the present horrible world war developed, "Almost the entire. world is fighting. Revolution has overturned the government of Rus- ela. Will the general revolution, the horrid climax predicted by the writer, also come? HONOR FOR ONE REDHEAD. . Member of the Association. Alexandria,. ind.—A, Ife membership in the National Association of Red- heads probably will be voted to Dr. Marlon Leroy Burton, presldent of the University of ‘Minnesota, a: redhead, when the orgdnization meets in Indfan- apolis, ~ fa * ‘The Minnesota educator worked in a ‘drug store in Mintieapolis twenty-five yeara ago, delivering packages at a salary of $6.0 weck, To'his friends he was known as“‘Redbead”. and “Brick, top.” Now he receives $10,000 annual- ly as tho head of the state university. Plans for the annual meeting of the Bedhead society in August will be: made in a stort time. » | Virgin Islands Postal Orden, j Washington. — Postmaster. General: Burleson has issued an order making: the domestic postage rates and con-! ditions applicable to mail exchanged between the Virgin Isiands,- formerly known as the Danish West Indies, and the United States. 1 ) GETS LETTER MAILED , SIXTEEN YEARS AGO > — » Salem, Ore.—Sixteen years on » its way a letter bas just reached » BE, M. Crotson of Salem, Ore., > from J. Sutton Burns of _Boone- » ville, Mo. Mr. Burns bad crossed , the plains in 1840 with Mr. Cro! » son's parents, and the son wrote the pioneer in 1910, He had giv- » en him up for dead until the let- » ter came, . It had apparently been . lying eomewhere In the hands of » the postoflice department. SOUTHERNAIDSOCIETY of Va.,Inc. 527 North Second Street, Richmond, Va. SELLS INSURANCE THAT PROTECTS Then why not select the best that is to be had, a policy that pays every week with SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY of Va., Inc? Also owning and operating the Va. Beneficial and Insurance Co., Inc., at Norfolk, Va. Read a few testimonials from the thousands that are on file in home office at Richmond, Va. --- --- Of all investments that of insurance is the safest, because it pays at the crucial moment—it is not subject to the money market or the rise and fall of stocks and bonds; but pays promptly upon the death of each policy-holder. Insurance that covers the whole field of life's emergencies in one policy. Sickness, Accident and death, and perpetual in payments for disabilities. --- $5.50 PER WEEK PAID FROM DEC. 9, 1915 TO JUNE 2, 1916. $210.00 DEATH, CLAIM PAID PROMPTLY Winchester, No. January 27, 1917 We highly recommend the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., the only company that pays you as long as you are sick, and for any disease that you have. Through their superintendent, Mr. Henry C. Baker, we have received Two Hundred and Ten Dollars, ($210.00); the full amount due us in settlement of the death claim of our beloved mother, the late Mrs. Mary Ford. Her weekly sick benefits of $5.50 were also promptly paid to us each and every consecutive week during her long illness from December 9, 1915 to June 2, 1916. No one should fail to insure with the Southern Aid Society. With pride and gratitude, MARY A. BARRETT, OLLIE FORD, JUNIUS FORD, FRED FORD, GODFREY FORD. PROMPTLY PAID. Camp Grove, Danville, Va., Feb. 2, 1917 Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen:—Please accept our sincere thanks for your kind and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Mr. Wm. Watkins, during his long illness and on account of which you paid $100.00 in sick benefits; also for your prompt payment of his death claim of $250.00. Your company leads all others. I will not fall to recommend the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., to each and every one. I hope that 1917 will add 10,000 to your membership. Respectfully yours, MRS. JENNIE WATKINS. Witness: Geneva Chaney. Then why not select the best that is to be hailed Va., Inc? Also owning and operating the testimonials from the厚 PAID 178 WEEKS' SICK BENEFITS WITHOUT INTERRUPTION AMOUNTING TO $529.75. 2315 Green St., Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917 Southern Ald Society of Va., Inc. Richmond, Va. Gentlemen:—I wish to express my thanks to you for the kindness shown me during the long illness of my son, Howard Lewter, who is insured with your Society under policy No. 96,885. He was sick for 178 weeks, (from Dec. 1913 to May 1917.) During this period of illness you paid to him, cash in hand $529.75 Your superintendent and agents paid these weekly sick claims each and every week, promptly, cheerfully and without a complaint. Your is the only insurance company I ever heard of issuing a perpetual paying sick and accident policy; that is, paying for each and every week of sickness until death. I willingly recommend the Southern Ald Society to any one who wishes to join a company that really insures perpetually against sickness and accidents. Sincerely and gratefully, (Mrs.) FANNIE WALTON. PAID $503.75 SICK BENEFITS ON 10c. POLICY AND $35.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY. POLICY NO. 447 ON MARY F. ANDERSON. Farrington, Hanover Co., Va., R. F. D. No. 1, Box 41. To The Southern Aid Society of Va. (Inc. Mr. W. A. Jordan, Supt. Dear Friends: I thank you now much for me and I hope the Dear Friends:—I thank you very much for the check you sent me and I hope the Lord will ever bless and prosper you and the Society. From Yours Sincerely, Mrs. JAS. F. A. JOHNSON. PAID $200.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY, AFTER PAYING SICK CLAIMS OF HUSBAND PROMPTLY EACH WEEK DURING LONG ILLNESS. 267—8th Ave., N. W., Roanoke, Va., Dec. 4, 1916. Southern Aid Society, Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: I feel that too much cannot be said in praise of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia for its very prompt and courteous way in which it has transacted business during my husband's long illness. I am glad to register my high regards for the dignity and efficiency as seen in your Roanoke office. Since my husband first reported sick your district office paid him promptly until his death November 30, 1916, and on December 4, 1916, paid the death claim of $200.00. I gladly recommend the Southern Aid Society for its promptness and efficiency. I am very truly your, MRS. VAN LUCAS. MRS LELIA V. JAMES, 1104 CHAFFIN ST., RICHMOND, VA WAS PAID EACH WEEK FOR SIX MONTHS FROM DEC. 6, 1916, TO JUNE 6, 1917. TOTAL SICK BENEFITS DRAWN DURING SIX AND ONE-HALF YEARS MEMBERSHIP, $217.50 DEATH CLAIM PAID $500.00, MAKING TOTAL PAYMENTS OF $717.50 PREMIUMS PAID TO SOCIETY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS AND EIGHTY CENTS. Richmond, Va., July 2, 1917, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that my wife, Mrs. Lelia V. James, 1104 Chaffin Street was a member of Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., for six and one-half years, during this time, she was sick on several occasions, and --- 1907 Southern Aid Building, Richmond, Va. MILENIA SARITICAL CENTER UNIVERSITY VA. BEN. & IMS CO. BUILDING Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co.'s Building, Norfolk, Va. whenever she reported her illness to the Society she received her sick does promptly. Her last illness extended from the latter part of November 1916 to June 1917. The Society sent her money to her bedside each week from Dec. 6, 1916 to June 6, 1917, and at her death paid over to me the Death Claim of $500.00. I take great pleasure in recommending the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., to anyone who wants a sure policy of protection all through life. FOR INSURANCE THAT PROTECTS THE INSURED EVERY WEEK-OF LIFE, AND THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS AFTER DEATH, TAKE OUT A POLICY IN SOUTHERN-AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA, INC. HOME OFFICE: 527 N. 2ND ST., RICHMOND, ```markdown ``` --- Payments made on a perpetual paying Sickness, Accident and death insurance policy are merely the acculating of assets for your future use. Carrying Fire Insurance is prudence, but it is an expense item Health and Life Insurance is a necessity and the payments are but a saving account. Your building may never burn, but all must take sick, get injured or die! --- SICK TWO YEARS, DREW $300.00 SICK BENEFITS AND THE FULL DEATH CLAIM. Farmyille, Va., April 26, 1917 Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., 527 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: I take this opportunity of expressing to you my sincere thanks for the kind treatment given to my brother during his long illness. I also want to thank your agent, Mr. Jackson Glaze, who was so business-like in his dealings with him and his family. My brother, Ben Woodson, was sick in his last illness nearly two years, and according to your policy he was paid each and every week during the whole period. He received about $300.00 in Sick Benefits. Notwithstanding this fact, we received the full amount of his death claim. I therefore take great pleasure in recommending to the general public, the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., and that its policy is superior to all others I know of. AUGUSTUS WOODSON. Witness: P. W. Moore, Jackson Glaze. 222 Railroad Ave., Franklin, Va., Aug. 24, 1915. Southern Ald Society, Gentlemen!—I take very great pleasure in writing you to thank you for the promptness in paying the death claim of my wife, Mrs. Lizzie Jenkins, who died Aug. 13, 1915. You lost no time in paying my claim, for as soon as my claim reached the home office your check for $500.00, in full settlement, was given to me by your superintendent, Mr. W. R. Thomas. The Southern Ald Society is second to none in this country. I wish you continued success in your good work. week with SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY of ice Co., Inc., at Norfolk, Va. Read a few e office at Richmond, Va. PAID MOTHER SICK BENEFITS FOR NINE MONTHS. AND $250.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY. Southern Aid Society, Petersburg District. 912 Rome Street, Petersburg, Va., Oct. 18, 1916. Southern Aid Society, Petersburg District. Gentlemen: I wish to express many thanks for the promptness in paying my payment of the death claim of $250.00. PAIR 20 WEEKS' SICK BENEFIT AMOUNTING TO $87.00 AND THE DEATH CLAIM ON $65.00 PROMPTLY. 1020 Palmer Street. Portsmouth. Va., May 30, 1917. 1020/Palmer Street, Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., 527 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen:—On behalf of myself and children I wish to thank you for your very courteous and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Edward Garland, policy No. 93247, who was slick for twenty weeks consecutively from January to May, prior to his death. Paying him during that illness $87.00 in weekly sick benefits and the death claim of $65.00 promptly without any deductions. In all my dealings with your superintendent and agents, I was shown every courtesy that could be desired. $500.00 DR. THOS. A. STEVENS' DEATH CLAIM. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc. Richmond, Va. Gentlemen:—Kindly accept my sincere thanks for your check of $500.00 in full payment of death claim of my husband, Dr. Thos. A. Stevens, who died February 6, 1917. The above named check was delivered to me Thursday, Feb. 8, 1917, by your superIntendent, Mr. R. D. Burton. I shall always speak in the highest terms of your company; and pray God's blessings upon the work. Respectfully, MRS. THOS. A. STEVENS. VA. DISTRICT OFFICES OR AGENCIES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: A. D. Price.....President Edward Stewart.....First Vice-President Jas. T. Carter.....Second Vice-President B. A. Cephas.....Third Vice-President Thos. M. Crump.....Secretary, Manager B. L. Jordan, Assistant Secretary, Manager and Auditor Walter E. Baker.....Treasurer W. A. Jordan, A. Washington, Chas. N. Jackson, W. E. Randolph. J. T. P. Cross, General Manager, Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co., 526 Queen St., Norfolk, Va.