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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 GIVEN TESTIMONIAL TESTIMONIAL TO REV. M. W. D. NORMIAN, D. D., LL. D. PASTOR OF METROPOLITAN BAPSTIST CHURCH, R. STREET, BETWEEN 12TH AND 13TH STREETS, N. W., WEDNESDAY. EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917. On Wednesday evening, September 19, around the hour of 8 o'clock p. m., and extending long, into night, the members and friends of the famed Metropolitan Baptist Church, R. Street, between 12th and 13th Streets, N. W., the auspices of the Helping Hand Club of the church, with Mrs. Marcellina S. Williams, widow of the late R. F. Williams, as General Manager, assisted by Mrs. Lucy West, general secretary in honor of their girl, who is also president of the Baptist City Ministers' Conference of Washington, D. C., the Rev. M. W. D. Norman, D. D., LL. D. The main purpose of this occasion was to show appreciation to this worthy minister of the Gospel by his members and friends while living by giving flowers, presents, and words of praise to the Rev. Norman. A program of vocal and instrumental solos and choruses, was rendered in which deserving of special mention may be reported Dr. Summer Wormley, Prof. Battley, Mrs. Emma Lee Williams, and the Bible Class Chorus conducted by Prof. William Williams and Miss Etta Johnson. Miss Daisy Wylie was at her best in her address of welcome. There were several presentations. Mrs. M. S. Williams, the General Manager of the entertainment, with a very appropriate address presented the doctor with a beautiful library lamp. Several little girls gave honor to the doctor by presenting him with flowers in abundance. A basket of flowers was presented to Mrs. M. W. D. Norman by Miss M. Harrod. The lady ushers, Mrs. Lucy West, Chairman, made a most beautiful appearance, gowned as follows: Mrs. Lucy West, pink crepe de chine, heavily embroidered; Mrs. L. Sanford, white silk; Mrs. Evelyn Winfield, cream colored satin; Mrs. Blanche Riely, steel colored silk with trimming; Miss Ethel Fitzhugh, sky-blue silk with trimming; Miss Clara Horad, embroidered white robe; Miss Louise Bradley, cream colored satin; Miss B. Edwards, cream colored voile; Miss Susie Thomas, white crepe de chine. Dr. John Hayden Johnson, of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, was toastmaster of the evening at the banquet which was served by several young men waiters in full dress, with: Mr. M. Johnson head waiter. The table was most beautifully and artistically decorated in flowers, red, white, and blue ribbons extending from a charming table centepiece to each plate, refreshments in abundance being served to the honored guests of the doctor. Too much praise can not be given Mrs. Marcellina S. Williams, Mrs. Lucy West, and the hosts of friends and members following in this sort of demonstration of respect, honor and love within the race for such ability and worthy leaders as the Rev. Dr. M. W. D. Norman. A GREAT DAY AT SIMPSON M. E. CHURCH. SOUL-STERING SERMON AND A FULL COUNTRY DINNER Special all-day, Evangelistic Services were held last Sunday at the Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, Sherman and Florida Avenuees, N. W., above W Street. The pastor, Rev. W. S. Jackson, at 11 a.m. prescheduled a soul-sitting sermon from Gen. 28-15, subject, "God's Presence," followed by a fervent song and praise service led by Brothers F. C. Jackson, Edward Powell, William Clements, Alexander Hall, G. W. Taylor and Henderson Brooks. At 2 p. m. a great gast was set for the inner man. Rev. Jackson, who is a wide awake pastor, always looking out for the welfare of the people, had arranged to serve an old-fashioned country dinner to the patrons for 25 cents with the following committee: Mrs. Rose A. Jackson, Chairman; Mrs. Mary T. Hall, Mrs. Carrie Thompson, Miss Florence Webster, Mrs. Nannie White, Mrs. Georgia Combachoner, Mrs. Rosa Mosby, Mrs. Annie Robinson, Mrs. Gert Mertude Booker, Miss Sarah Dennison and Mrs. Rosa M. Armstrong. The mona consisted of ham, spring lamb, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, baked corn pudding, scalloped tomatoes, cabbages with country bacon, string beans, ice tea, apple pie and ice cream, each person being liberally served. The following distinguished persons graced the occasion with their presence and support and recommended that since it was an annual affair they heartily endorsed its continuance: Mrs. Dr. I. L. Thomas, wife of our distinguished District Superintendent; Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Jackson, Mrs. Ellen Boston, of Baltimore, Md., of the distinguished Ed. Chase, Md., of the distinguished ed. "Washington Bee." All were highly elated over the feasts for the soul in the services and for the body through the dinner served on the church lawn under a large canvass tent. The following patrons that helped to make the event a success were: Mrs. Carlo Thompson, Mr. Thomas Mullon, Mr. and Mrs. James White, Mrs. Eliza Jackson, C. M. DeVille, Eg; Mrs. Maria Brown; Miss Hagar Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Taylor, Mrs. Lilah Johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth Golden, Mr. and Mrs. Engene Samuels, Rev. J. S. Armstrong, Mr. H. G. Fulton, Mr. William Clementa, Miss Gertrude Booker, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Powell, Mrs. Cecelia Matthews, Mr. Alfred Hughes, Jr.; Mrs. Elaine Hughes, Mr. William Howard, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Jones, Mrs. Florence Web- ster, Mr. and Mrs, F. C. Jackson, Mrs. Georgia, Combachauer, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Chase, Jr.; Jr. Joseph Marshall, Mrs. Rosa Mosby, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Jackson, Dr. and Mrs. I. L. Thomas, Mrs. Rosa M. Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Brooks, Miss Clara Saunders, Mrs. Burtha Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hall, Mrs. Lily Goodwin, Mrs. Dora Slaughter, Mrs. Louisa Snowden, Mrs. Annie Robinson, Mrs. Norma Tinney. The day's services were closed by a very strong and helpful sermon at 8.00 p. m. by the pastor, subject, "One Salvation," Acts 4:12. Total collection for the day, $27.11. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Scott and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Porter were present at the crowded evening services. A. NUMBER OF THINGS. One curious reader having searched his, Bible concordance, writes to inquire where I got my text, "And he played on a harp of a thousand strings." He can't find it in the Bible. Neither did I. I did not mean to take a text from the Holy Scriptures. The Bee is not in competition with the church, and it might seem sacrilegious for an unordained layman like me to take his text from the Holy writ. Our text is a part of the text of an imaginary sermon supposed to have been preached near Natchee, Miss., by an Indiana trader and floatamoon, who was an exhorter, over half a century ago. The full text of that famous sermon, which was widely published and read about that period was, "And he played on a harp of a thousand strings; the spirits of jest men made perfect." That sermon was chiefly remarkable for the earnestness and assurance of the exhorter, for its great discursiveness (because it was a great sermon), and for the great number of interesting topics that it covered. It is not a long sermon, and, if Editor Chase lets me, I will give it from this pulpit before long. The dealers will then be better able to judge of the appropriateness of my standing text. CAMMBS. I often think of that saying somewhere about feeding from the crumbs that drop from the rich man's table. Crumbs are the poor man's opportunity. The colored people as a class are poor people. They are exceedingly poor, measured by the present day standards. But while they are poor as to accumulated wealth, they are not so poor as to opportunity. The rich man, the great builder of business, the great operator, can not give much attention to small odds and ends. Many odds and ends, trifles to him, he must ignore and neglect. These are the crumbs, these are the poor man's opportunity, these are the logical basis of the poor man's fortune. Let our folks not dispise its crumbs—the second-hand house, the second-hand motor car, the second-hand bicycle, the second-hand cart, the cast off overcoat or hat. Some very well-to-do have learned this secret and act upon it. I sometimes meet them at Jusiti's Old Man. I shall never forget that fine investment a friend of mine made in shabby looking frame house in a coming neighborhood. It was a good strong house, but wanted a coat of paint and a bath tub. Everybody also dispised it. It looked mean in comparison to some fine mansions near by. My friend bought it for $2,500, $500 cash; spent $500 for alterations, and paint. The place now rents for $420 a year, and this lot is valued now at $10,000. But I have not given the whole reason. The original lot was too narrow for a mansion site, and hence did not interest a rich man seeking a building site. There was adjoining a vacant lot also too narrow for a mansion site. My friend bided his time and bought the vacant lot. The two lots separate was of no particular value; now combined they are of great tactical value. Here were two crumbs in real estate which rich men despised or overlooked. A poor man picked them up. In less than four years, combined, they were worth three times their cost. VAOANT LOTS. Be slow to invest money in vacant lots. Usually it is a very bad business. Often they decrease in value, or if they increase in value, the rate is seldom over 5 per cent a year. They bring in no rental returns. They are hard to sell. Here are two good rules about buying vacant lots: (1) Buy only about when you are ready to build. (2) Buy sometimes to round out or improve a place you already have own. (3) Do not be too readily attracted by a building prospect. Poor men should seldom build houses. A house already built can often be had at about one-half the cost. Remember oid man Grammer's motto: "Fools build houses and wise men buy them." Of course Mr. Grammer's rule does not apply to experienced builders or to those who operate on a large scale. ABLINGTON VA NOTES AACRINGTON, VA., NOTES. The Acorn Club of the St. John's Baptist Sunday School had its initial meeting on Saturday night, September 22d, at some of Mr. and Mrs. Tate, of Nauck, Va. The school past was served. This club, organized by one of the classes in the Sunday School, has been noted for its promotion of the social side of the work, and it has also contributed materially to the success of the Sunday School. Those present were: Misses Virginia Johnson, Ella Thompson, Mary Stewart, Mamie Thompson, Natalie Herbert, Emma Beailey, Mary Oliver, Selena Ward, and Mrs. Jeanette Carson, Mrs. Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. William Tate, Mr. Noble N. Thomas, Park C, Syphax, William Syphax, Melvin Jones, Murray Richardson, Clarence Farrar, and Mr. Carson. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily pixelated background. REV. M. W. D. NORMAN THE ORPHAN'S HOME Rev. Terry's Good Work. 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 REV. GEORGE T. TERRY, Head of Color Orphane Home. 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, 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. McNeill, 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. Visitors welcome Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and all Holidays from 3 to 5. Phone 5326-J. 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., October 3 and 4, 1917. 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 raceloving 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. 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.) REV. M. W. D. NORMAN, Ch. Ex. Com., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, Nat'l Organizer, Washington, D. C. REV. W. A. TAYLOR. Cor. Sec'y, Washington, D. C. REV. W. H. JERNAGIN, Pres. 430 Q St. N. W. Wash. D. C. REV. WM. ALEXANDER, Sec'y. REV. J. C. AUSTIN, -Washington, D. C. Chr. Sp'l, Com. of the Baptist Jubilee Convention of Va., Pitts, Pa. EX-COLLECTOR CHARLES W. AND DERSON. HONORED BY ENGLISH NOBILITY—LETTER SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. From the Rt. Hon. Lord Davenport To Hon. Charles W. Anderson. To Governor Place, S. W. LONDON, Envoy August 25, 1917. My dear Mr. Anderson; I am sending this letter to a list of twenty-five of my warm American friends, upon which list your name holds a very high place, repesting them to assist me in a most worthy cause. I have been selected as chairman of a Special Appeal Committee, consisting of the Duke of Sutherland; Lord Inverclyde; Lord Incaphease; Sir Kenneth Anderson; Earl Brassay; Sir Arthur Cary-Wright; Sir George Dashwood; Sir Dyce Duckworth; Sir William Bennett; Sir W. H. Lever; Lord Pirkle; Lord Southwark; Col. Sir Robert Williams and others, to raise funds for the Seamans's Hospital at Greenwich. For nearly a hundred years this hospital has cared for seamen, and many of you of countrymen have there and relief from hardship and friendliness in a strange country. Unfortunately our efforts are severely handicapped by lack of funds, and the stress of war has added to the difficulty as well as the necessity, of providing increased accommodations and more aids. tific equipment. Lifts, isolation wards, a modern electrical department and nurses quarters are essential parts of every institution of this kind, but they are still lacking at Greenwich. Our efforts to remedy this lamentable state of affairs have met with a generous response on this side of the Atlantic, as well as in Canada, and I am confident there will be less ready desire to help in the United States, our last and greatest ally, where sympathy and generosity towards deserving causes have been so often manifested. Hoping your are still performing the high duties of Collector of Internal Finance, I am, sir Yours faithfully, DEVENPORT. Hon. Charles W. Anderson. FINANCIAL. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE INDUSTRIAL SAVINGS BANK. At Washington, in the District of Columbia, at the close of business September 11, 1917. RESOURCES. $ 1: a Loans and discounts (except those shown on b and c), $13,555.85. 2. Overdrafts, secured and unsecured, #5.84. 3. b U. S. bonds on hand (par value): Liberty bonds, $2,00; total U. S. bonds, $2,000. 4. a Bonds, securities, etc., including premium on same, $22,328.57. 6. Banking house, $28,632.36. 7. Furniture and fixtures, $1,569.16. 9. a Due from national banks, $2,537.54; b Due from banks other than national, $18,532.80; total, $21,070.84. 10. Exchanges for clearing house, $147.25. 12. Cash in vault, $1,742.57. 14. Other assets: Current expenses int, and taxes paid, $1,499.72; undivided profits, $1,323.01; $166.71; total, $91, 218.65. LIABILITIES. 15. Capital stock-paid in $,8,076. 16. Surplus fund, $952; demand deposits (deposits payable within 30 days). 21. Individual deposits subject to check, $62,100.65. 23. Certified checks. $90. Total demand deposits, items 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 28, $2,69.065 36. Liabilities other than those above stated, deferred payments on banking house, $20,000. Total liabilities $91,218.65. District of Columbia, City of Washington, ss: I, JOHN W. LEWIS, President of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. JOHN W. LEWIS, President. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of September, 1917. (Seal.) WM. R. R do LASHHUTT, Notary Public, D. C. Correct—Attest: Wm. A. Bowie, Wm. H. Ricks, John H. Sims, Logan Johnson, Directors. IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH. DUDLEY AND THOMAS STILL DOING BUSINESS. To the readers of these columns no doubt you have read of the cancellation of the Dudley Theatrical Enterprises' relationship of business with Andrew J. Thomas, the sterling manager of the Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C. We wish to state that we are still dong business and have adjusted all past differences and are going after bigger and better things than ever. In the future you will so some startling antagisms that further verify the above headline, where there is unity there is strength. When a ship is at sea during a storm the captain and the mate differ in opinion as to the safe arrival of the ship to its destination. But when the two agree everything lands safe, and this is the way these two business men look at business and have agreed to do business in the future as they have in the past and even on a larger scale. We sincerely hope that all colored business men will follow in their footsteps. "In unity there is strength." From the office of the S. H. Dudley Theatrical Enterprise. Signed: S. H. Dudley, Andrew J. Thomas. GREAT MEETING MONDAY, SEPT TEMBER 17TH AT 11 A.M. TEMBER 19TH AT 1.2.4. The Baptist Ministers Conference of Washington and Vicinity, Dr. M. W. D. Norman, President and pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church, Dr. I. L. Loving Secretary, held its opening session at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N Street, between Ninth and 10th Streets Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets, N. W., Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor. It was one of the largest sessions in its history. Dr. S. P. W. Drew was called upon by Dr. Norman to deliver the welcome address to the Conference. Dr. Drew took occasion to say he considered it a great pleasure and honor to welcome the Association to his church, realizing that the ministers were the direct messengers of the people, and when the ministers get together all of the people would undoubtedly be together and the world would be saved for Christ. He admonished the brethren for a closer fellowship. Dr. W. D. Jarvis responded to Dr. Drew's address. MHS Mrs. Mason Layton will deliver one of her spirited addresses at Israel C. M. E. Church, First and B Streets, S. W. next Sunday at 8 p. m. MRS. MARIE A. LUGAS 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. Marie 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 Auxiliary. 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- LUCAS, A Distinguished Citizen, Passes Away The funeral was preached by Rev. J. D. Fair at the St. John's Baptist Church, Arilington, Va. He was assisted by Revs. Joseph Matthews and W. J. Howard, and Revs. Christon, French, Carter and Riley. Miss Annie Rayne 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. 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 Elia 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. Mrs. Lucas was buried in the family plot at the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Undertakers James Brothers had charge of the funeral. A Member of the Association. ATTORNEY C. S. WILLIAMS. Baltimore, MD. Attorney Charles S. Williams, of the Washington, D. C., bar, has been retained as counsel for Snowden M. Williams, was in the city this week on business. He is regarded as one of the brightest young men in the country. He will have some political work this fall. Attorney and Editor W. Calvin Chase, of the Washington Bee, accompanied him to the city Thursday. Both attended the Republican State Convention. DEATH OF MR. GASKING The funeral services of Mr. James H. C. Gaskins were held at Zion Baptist Church Tuesday, September 25th, at 1 o'clock p. m. Mr. Gaskins was one of Washington's thrifty old citizens, having been a merchant for many years in the southeast. He was deacon of Zion Baptist Church, an Odd Fellow and a useful citizen of the community in which he resided. Mr. Gaskins was survived by a wife, two sons and a grand-daughter. Joseph I. Bailey and Co., undertakers, had charge of the funeral. The floral tributes were many and beautiful. ANDREW J. THOMAS Mr. Andrew J. Thomas and Mr. S. H. Dudley have joined hands again. Both men are enterprising and valuable acquisitions to society. DEVOTES·A "PERFECT" MAN TO AIR-CORPS Abernethy Graded by Muensterberg as 100 Per Cent Mentally. Boston.—Thomas James Abernethy of West Pembroke, Me., whom the late Professor Muensterberg found to be mentally perfect, is one of 900 New England candidates selected for instruction as aviators. He heads the list, but it is arranged alphabetically. The man with the 100 per cent brain selected by the professor will now learn the best methods of fighting in the air against the country which sent Professor Muensterberg to Harvard. Abernethy had planned to enter business with his father at West Pembroke. After the test, Abernethy said: "Professor Muensterberg told me several times that I had a good mind, but that I was lazy and should do better in my classes. He said I couldn't earn my salt as a salesman, but recommended my entering the canning business." The tests were made on 340 men who attended the professor's classes in psychology. Problem of Aiding Our Disabled Soldiers Is Discussed by Therapeutic Experts. New York.—The problem of finding occupations for American soldiers who will return from the war permanently, crippled forms the chief topic of discussion at the first annual meeting of the National Society For the Promotion of Occupational Therapy, held at the Russell Sage Foundation building. Dr. W. R. Dunton, attached to the staff of the Sheppard and Enoch Fratt hospital in Maryland, declared that immediate steps should be taken by the government to meet a situation fraught with serious economic and social difficulties after the invalid soldiers begin to return from the front. According to Dr. Dunton, the problem was one which concerned the community as much as the government. It was highly important, he said, to plan a system of vocational education whereby crippled soldiers while in the convalescent hospitals might be taught to make themselves useful with occupations to which they could adapt, themselves with proper instructions, despite their physical disabilities. Certain forms of arts craft, such as cabinet making, designing and wicker work, were mentioned by Dr. Dunton as being suitable for the purpose. Work of this kind, he said, could be done by cripples even if they were confined to a chair, and, of course, with much greater success after they were well enough to command freedom of movement. "For instance," declared Dr. Dunton, "there certainly will be many men in the army who will have had some training as carpenters. Granted that a carpenter has both his legs taken off by a shell, there is no reason why he could not very casily be taught to do a kind of light carpentering with his hands which would have a real commercial value and yet require no undue exertion, if it's nothing more than building bird cages." STEEL FROM HIS LEG. Patient Thinks He Got It in the San Francisco Earthquake. Philadelphia, Pa.—Bernard Hughes, an inmate of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Eighteenth and Jefferson streets, felt a sharp pain in his right ankle the other day, and later physicians extracted a piece of steel two inches long and one-eighth of an inch-thick. Hughes, who is seventy years old, told hospital attaches he believed he had "picked up" the piece of steel as a souvenir of the San Francisco earthquake. "During the first heavy shock," he said, "I remember I was struck in the right ankle by something. Guess the steel must have entered my leg then. It gave me little pain, and I paid no more attention to it until it began hurting." NEW PRECAUTION BY FRANCE. Citizens Warned Not to Give Picture Cards to Prisoners. Paris. — The French government is alive to the fact that on many occasions the Germans have tried to procure postcards representing views of the coasts of France, her ships, mutilation factories and cities which could be bombed by airships. The government has just warned citizens not to comply with requests from German prisoners in France for these illustrated postcards, since the requests are probably inspired by the German authorities. It is also suggested that no such postcards be sent into neutral countries maintaining friendly relations with Germany. Keep Cool to Study Well. Boston.—Coal saving not only as a matter of economy, but in the interests of the health of pupils and teachers, is urged upon the principals of Boston schools in a circular which the superintendent of schools, Franklin B. Dyer, has distributed. He says that "fresh air and cool temperatures are favorable to study as well as healthful, as long as the temperature does not fall below 60 degrees." FAREWELL TO MRS. ANDERSON. A USEFUL CITIZEN LEAVES FOR WEST AFTER MANY YEARS OF USEFULNESS IN THIS CITY AND ELSEWHERE—HIS GRACEFUL PRESENCE WILL BE MISSED To the Editor of THE WASHINGTON BEE Dr. John B. Anderson, formerly of this city, but now permanently located in Butte, Mont., where he has a lucrative practice, spent a week with his family. The doctor, after disposing of many urgent and pressing business engagements, left last Thursday for Butte. He was D accompanied by his beautiful and be loved, wife, Mrs. Bessio B. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson, who has been in public life in this city for the past twenty years, has enshrined herself into the hearts of, entire Washington. The city has lost one of its most useful citizens. The numerous friends who went to Union Station to bade her goodbye, did so with tear-stained eyes and sad hearts. All who were fortunate to know her could not help but love her. We can only say for Mrs. Anderson, in the language of the poet, "Absence is the tombstone of true affection." She was a woman who could have sailed under false colors, but was prouder of the African blood that flows through her veins than she was of the Caucasian. NATIONAL Durham, N. C. Everything is spic and span at the Training School in this city, ready for the re-opening of the school on Wednesday, October 3. This institution now has a high standard college department which bids fair to become a great power in the educational life of the race, especially in this section of the South. The theological and other departments will continue to serve those who strive by effort and ambition to fit themselves to reader efficient service in their chosen line. The influence of the school is already widely felt on account of the splendid work of its graduates and students scattered in the various urban and rural communities. The school is meeting the needs of the public in many helpful ways. It prepares settlement workers, missionaries for the home and foreign fields, and secretaries for the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. work. Under the tutelage of Wellesley College graduate, students taking the course in nurse training receive a comprehensive grasp of the work expected of them when they finish their course. In speaking of the worthiness of the institution recently, Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst of New York, said: "I cordially commend the school's needs and interest to all who believe in the Negro race and in our obligation to help promote its intellectual, moral and religious uplift." Mr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the National Training School, has built it up from a small plant to a large corporation, splendidly equipped to serve the young men and women of our race, who in turn must surely minister to the needs of the masses of the race, helping up from a weak and halting position to a stronger and more intellectual sphere of life. Dr. J. Hynden Johnson, of the Board of Education, will deliver an address at Israel C. M. E. Church, First and B Streets, S. W. Monday, October 1, at 8 p. m. on "Woman's Duty in the Crusade Against Tuberculosis." THE 54TH ANNIVERSARY. GRAND CENTRAL PARK AT HALLS HILL A SKENE OF PATRIOTIS—ATTORNEYS W. CALVIN CHASE AND CHARLES S. WILLIAMS THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS—JOHNSON'S Celebrated JUVENILE BAND RECEIVES AN OVATION—MRS. T. N. AUSTIN ELECTRIES THE AUDIENCE Halls IIII, Va., Sept. 24th. In the Grand Central Park, the old historic spot of the Southern Confederacy, where the Union soldiers were kept from invasion, now the property of Mr. O. E. Harrison, the citizens of this section who now own the property that was once in the possession of the masters and mistresses of the ex-slaves held the 54th anniversary celebration of Emancipation proclamation, was this day a scene of joy and patriotism. The committee on arrangements which was as follows prepared a most entertaining program: Committee of Arrangements.—T. W Hyson, President; Mrs. Nellie Ferguson, Vice President; Dr. E. T. Morton, Secretary; Mrs. Carrie Carrington, Treasurer; Rev. Julius C. Johnson, Mr. D. B Anderson, Mr. Robert Nickerson, Mr. Godfroy Carrington, Mr. R. E. Ferguson, Mrs. Sarah Hyson, Mrs. Clara V. Snowdon, Mrs. Edith Chim, Mrs. Emma Williams, Mrs. Sarah Morgan, Mrs. Laurieta Lewis, Mrs. Mrs. Nickerson, Mrs. Lottio M孝 Mrs. Louis Bolden. Mrs. T. N. Austin Music Benediction Benediction Rev. T. N. Austin The celebrated Johnson and Fisher's Juvenile Orchestra is composed of juvenile boys, who have been well trained under the direction of Messrs. Johnson and Fisher, two expert musicians. Mr. Johnson, who is known for his musical ability, demonstrated ability through his well trained Juveniles. The smallest Juvenile is about four feet high and who can execute a cornet or any well trained musician. Prof. Fisher was the director on this occasion, and the many musical renditions by this band were loudly applauded at every number. Both Messrs. Johnson and Fisher were highly complimented by Mrs. Nellie Forguson in a neat little speech, who defined the use of the term huge as applied to her people. She gave a most amusing incident-which brought enthusiastic applause from the vast audience. THE JUVENILE ORCHIESTRA is composed of the following officers and members: Daniel Broshin, captain; William Fisher, lieutenant; Raymond Coleman, sergeant; Vandy Fisher director; A. S. Johnson, business manager. MEMBERS. Enhmery Wright, Francis Gibson, Daniel Doy, Leonard Richardson, James Richardson, Charles Terner, Claude Tarrott, Earl Bailey, Charles Boyd, Clifford Jackson, Reginald Wright, Walter Grisby and Elmer Smith. Owing to the late hour of starting the exercises, the afternoon and evening program was consolidated. The master of ceremonies, Mrs. Hyson, in produced Rev. J. D. Fortune who offered prayer, who was followed by Attorney Charles S. Williams, of the Washington bar, who delivered a most-classic, eloquent and entertaining speech. He was followed by Mrs. Lucretia Lewis, who recited an original poem entitled "The Colored Soldier." It was well delivered. She was followed by Attorney and Editor W. Calvin Chase, of the Washington Bec. Mrs. T. N. Austin, formerly Miss Bessie McKenny, of Washington, now the wife of Rev. T. N. Austin, who recited with remarkable effect and enthusiasm two selections from Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poems. Mrs. Austin is a fine elocutionist and her rendition of these two poems elicited the wildest applause. At the conclusion of the exercises many musical selections were rendered by the orchestra. At a late hour the Washington contingent left in the automobile of Dr. Morton who is the leading physician in this section of the country and one of the most progressive citizens. Mrs. Moton was formerly a school teacher and is now a valuable citizen in this county. Mesdames Lewis and Ferguson are leaders among the females here and two very progressive citizens. 2. Y, M, C, A, NOTES. There are many signs of new life around the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. The new secretary, Mr. Ravis, seems to have brought with him a new brand of ginger. Many men are taking full membership privileges in the Y. M. C. A. The annual fee is nominal. Mr. Davis giving special attention to the formation of gymnastic clubs or classes for business men. The hours will be from 8 to 9:30 p. m. Two pool tables have been set up in the north wing of the parlor as an experiment. It is the hope of the management to establish a first-class cafeteria in the Y. M. C. A. at no distant day. The prices will be kept down near the cost linet. Mr. L. U. Gibson is the new physical director. Mr. Gibson comes to Washington after four years experience as director in the Cincinnati Y. M. C. A. Mr. W. R. Williams is the boys' work director. M. Williams is well known is Washington, and much is expected of him in handling the boys of our community. Several old fellows are trying to form a class for physical exercises—to get rid of certain kinds of stiffness. SENATOR VARDAMAN IN A NEW LIGHT THE WASHINGTON (D. C. ) BEE of the 5th instructor devoted a leader to one of Senator Vardaman's exhibitions of mental perversity if we may not say plainly, mental ailment. The shot was fired at the wrong mark. The impossible—outre in mental attitude is not accountable at all (to God or to man) for what he says or what he does, but the miscarriage of polities that would keep a mad man up in the seat of authority instead of a sanitarium, is responsible morally both to God and to man, and against that THE Bee has a just claim for redress and for relief. And all this is not said in anger nor is it an attempted repayment in kind. A mad man is never to be reasoned with, much less complained of, or railed at. Mr. Vardaman is the puppet of an obsession whose impulsion he cannot resist—cannot sidestep. The Meddler defies any authority to produce a single one of Mr. Vardman's, set speeches that thickly beprinkled through and through and through with signs and seals of para noia fixed idea, brute animal fright—instead of human fear based on rational grounds, total insensibility to the canons of personal dignity and mad anxiety to strike down that which has no existence but in omnations of a fevered brain—Henry Clay Gray, in The Meddler, Waxahachie, Texas. [The Editor of THE BEE not being an alionist, is not ready to adopt Mr. Gray's opinion of the senator. We prefer to take the ground that the senator is sane and should be held accountable for his words and acts.] SATURDAY SERMONS. MR. J. C. CUNNINGHAM MAKES OBSERVATIONS. The Saturday sermons by Usun, are pretty instructive. But why not call this divine "Dr." Usun? He will certainly fail to draw the crowd he wants if the usual D. D. is not prefixed to his name. Then, too, the good Dr. Usun shouldn't stick too close to the one subject—and he played on a harp of a thousand strings' etc., etc. But maybe that, on account of the war, sermons have "gone up" and Dr. Usun finds it very necessary to use economy in giving out his harp of a thousand string, etc. But there is another, great and true minister of the Gospel among us whom I feel called upon to say just a few words in his behalf. And that scholarly and Christian gentleman, the Rev. Louis C Shafea. This gentleman needs no introduction or recommendation at my hands. No, he is too well known for that. But as his good works will close here in Washington, where he has been holding "tent meetings" for the past two months, to-morrow (Sunday) night, and will leave Washington to commence teaching school and preaching the Gospel of Christin Jacksonville, Florida, I wish to say that Washington's lost is Jacksonville, Florida's gain. To the people of Jacksonville, Florida, believe me when I say that one of the best pulpit orators and teachers the colored race has ever produced is coming among you. And I will say to you—as the Master said of John—"Hear ye him!" The great crowds that have been attending the "tent meetings" at Tenth and V Streets, N. W., whither they assembled in search of the bread of life, will miss this good man and his loving wife, Mrs. Sheafe. The Rev. Mr. Sheafe will preach his farewell sermon tomorrow (Sunday) night. Will you be there? Heavenly blessings will come to get within a block of the tent. May Heaven's richest blessings over attend the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Sheafe and their loving little daughter. REV. F. H. COOK, D. D., Ph. D, B. D, LL. D., EDITOR OF HERALD, PASTOR THE SHILOH B. C. LITTLE ROCK ARK. SPEAKS. OUT FOR THE RIK. ARK, SPEAKS OUT FOR THE BEE. To the Editor OF THE WASHINGTON BEE. Please allow space to say a word about the above paper and its Editor. I was in deed astonished when I read in the columns of THE BEE that some one said that they wanted a more cleaner sheet than THE BEE, or or something of the sort. Anything whatever said wrong about THE BEE, or its able Editor calls our attention. Permit me to say as one who has had THE BEE on our exchange list for more than ten years, that is one of the best papers that comes into the office, out of the five humbled that comes each week. It is a paper that does not fail to cry out whenever there is anything wrong committed to or against, the race, or when there is any one to be condemned for their wrongs, let him be whoever he or she may be. We command THE BEE for the manly stand it has taken in the fight for race advancement. Let THE BEE have more support, as a number of us need from the race, and there will not be anything to complain about. The very ones who complain-generally are the very ones in the columns free of charge, and that is the way they help to run the paper. When they come to pay for they-find excuses; but THE BEE has a record. No paper stands before the public with a the BEE has made a fight in and out of the city, that others would not dare to have made any mention of. It has taken up National issues and discussed them from A to Z and got results. Its Editor is a fearless man, and one of his own conviction; a lawyer of ability, one who has stood his ground at all times when others were afraid to open their mouths or to write one word of disapproval for the sake of office. This Editor has cried out and let the world take notice. Shall this man, with the paper which has stood for fair treatment to the race be scorned, and not a single man or woman dare speak out for it? There is no use to talk about another paper, when you don't support this one. Why not give this one the right kind of support and you are not getting what you want, you can demand EFFI ---need the in all of thei EFFICIENT MEN ---need the fullest competency in all of their faculties, of which good eyesight is probably the most important. Poor eyesight, while it is a common failing, is by law of compensation also the most easily corrected of any of the senses' deficiencies. Why go through life with this handicap? Why let deficient vision hamper your progress and business success? Why let eyestrain give you headaches and upset your nervous system when we can correct your vision so completely and at such a trifling expense? If you do not need glasses we'll tell you so and you owe us nothing. If you need glasses only for reading or close work we'll diagnose your case competently and correctly, and the price will be consistent with first-class service. And we'll supply a d we supply, whether they Should you prefer se ject to his verification. BLOCK Exclus 737 7th St SERVICE THAT SATISFIES. And we'll supply a definite degree of becomingness and refinement in the glasses we supply, whether they be eyeglasses, spectacles or bifocals. Should you prefer seeing an oculist we will welcome his prescriptions—Glasses subject to his verification. BLOCK OPTICAL COMPANY Exclusive Optometrists and Opticians 737 7th Street N.W. FOUR DOORS FROM H STREET J. T. Newman.-The Haircutter is now re-established in South Washington, and will be pleased to serve all of his friends and former Patrons at 405 $4\%$ St. S. W. A fine store suitable for any kind of business 1107½ Eye street northwest. A good business center. it, this is the way to do things ther are enough half-fed Editors among the Negroes, just hanging on; a lot of hot air, but no pay. Hon. Calvin Chase is one of the race's staunches supporters, and one that should be commended, for he is a man of no mean ability. The columns of THE BEE are always open to its many readers and exchanges both at home and abroad. He never refuses to put in what you send to him, if it is worth the space. Of course some is refused as in all other papers, white or black, because there is nothing to it; there is nothing in it that the race can get out of it. Now let the writer say to you who are kicking and wanting: another paper in the Capital City, pay up what you owe THE BEE and get behind the Editor of THE BEE with you influence and your money and give it the right kind of support and you will see more news, but no better. You may see less mistakes. I am sure you will not see any better editorials for there are none. You might see more, but it will mean the same thing. Do not be alarmed, Brother Chase, all fair-minded people are with you in this great work you have rendered to the race by giving them one of the best papers in the country. We who est of pleasure hunting it, when the time comes for it to be in my office. I am yours for THE WASHINGTON BEE, and its Editor. Dear Editor let me congratulate you upon that able write up, about the Hon. Pat Harrison of Gulf Port, Miss. I do not know why it is that such man just do nothing but continue to stir up strife at every opportunity they get. Why with this country now involved in this world's war, when every citizen called upon to play his part be he white or black, such men are in Congress cannot be seen, only by offering some kind of resolutions to debar the Negro they had better get their eyes on the country, for while they are stirring strife and race hatred against the Negro, why some other country will be running off with their goods. Every white man in this country should have sense, enough or decent enough to let well enough do. The Negro is seeking to be let alone. Some of these would-be Congressmen will wake up, one of the mornings and find themselves in another prison, by some other Nation. The Negro is the most loyal race on earth, and can be depended upon more than any other will not betray his trust, but has always stood by his colors, when a number of these race haters were unborn, comes in time to hate the hand that give them bread. Let me warn them now the day is not far away when the Negro will, at the bar of universal justice, right will prevail. Yours for peace and a united country in the land of the free and home of the brave, let him be whatever color he or she may be: F. H. Cook. If you want to see a line of automobiles, stand at the corner of 19th and L streets northwest and watch the quick movement of Dr. J. W. Morse, dispensing cream and soda to the dozens of automobile parties lined up. 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. RICHARDSONS' DRUG STORE 414, AND E. ST. W. 4½ AND F ST., . W. Everything here that is found in any first-class Drug Store. Prescriptions promptly filled. RICH- ARDSONS' PURE STORE, 4½ & F St., . W. To cease hearing a babbler is the surest way to make him hold his tongue. competency es, of which BLICK BROTHERS LEGAL NOTICES. CHARLES P. FORD, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 23,952, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration c. t. a. on the estate of Andrew J. Laster, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of August, A. D. 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 28th day of August, 1917. HENRY LASSITER. 1215 17th St., N. W. Attest: W. C. TAYLOR, Deputy Register of Willis for the District of Columbia, Clark 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. 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 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. Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDIGESTION BEMEDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency, Pain in the Stomach, Water Brash, Acid Fermentation, Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. When taken in the Stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous foods, relieves the indigestion, by reeling and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. DIRECTIONS Take a teapotful in a little water after meals or when suffering. Repeat in an hour if necessary. W. L. SMITH, Druggist. 801. Florida Avenue N. W. Where you may purchase the genuine article. Washington, D. C. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. The full success of this business is due to our trade sticking to us. They get full big value and some buy new and slightly used suit cases from us at $1.00 to $4.00 and go off and have a good time besides there's slightly used suits at $5.00 and new pants at $1.00 to $3.00 to save a lot of cash.—Justh's Old Stand, 619 D Street mu RRMrisrer STREPLIVELW wr. The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. President, James E. Shepherd, Durham, N.°C, . . Seba ee ini is Po. sa'hn PPR aah REE Th Be Aaa etl ee AR eT EAL cet Ne D 0 Sc HO Sr Coca a Ree e CORKS Tr ns GRY SEER Ey aA aOR OOS UNS Oot ORO A GR . ee ener eee oO ees oe RE OER See aN ee ee ee pe i Oa ee ee ee ae ee ae Se ee ee eg ek a eee St ce OS ee oe ee) ie ee ee 6 ok eG ere ar rm ag : i iY a sche ae ea a Rey, fe sn = ae eo aia ‘i ae : . x EagR CoP OO TI ornate cana a 5 Sane SAE: ae Rene ee a eS ogee | eee Be tastes tiie ceca Ca RO eee oe ey ee es be. 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A. secretaries and distfict nurses receive a coiiprehensive grasp of cheir studies’ under a Wellesley graduate atid “experienced .co-workers and| acttial- every-day practice: through-,the, school’s SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. 4 ‘ ane 5 A-HIGH STANDARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT has now been established. > We.aim also to créaté a better. qualified -ministry.. . i ‘Saat, Industrial training, ‘advanced lit ry branches,’ business szhool.. Thirty-two acres; ten modern, buldihgs; heathful locatior. * . We can accommodate e few' more earnest, ambitious studenta. 5 . Communities Zequiring social workérs should write us. . : NEXT SCHOOL:TERM OPENS OCT. 4, 1916, ‘ Sas < For eatalog and detailed information, addreas: nas St ‘ oe PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD . NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL ©. (He. = : ‘ DURHAM, N. C. mA aoa once ease, LEE : AcHaNeed “ ‘ gla el Rr AS a Meee 5 Lge Ad wc ppitis G aN af ae eS ee yy GFZ Pes 3 ; ae (+ ntatnononst Cortes Co, 4 ¥ 176 | LES \ Seek Yul 2 Sarai h H008.! 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Use it faithfully and prevent baldness and:at the same time make your hair beautiful; lustrous and strong. ‘Try one bottle. ‘Ask your druggist. You can test ED,’ PINAUD’S by sending 10c. to our ‘American Offices fora litle bottle. Note how pure and fragrant it is. io Parfumerie ED, PINAUD, Dept. M. ° 9° ED. PINAUD BLDG. ‘ss New York ee gee ee | Onyx?’ @ Hosier i ¥ y Yo i | You Get GOOD Value at (ANY Price—Silkj Lisle or Cotton 28c to $5.00 per pait : | | Emery-Beers Company, tn. a i WHOLESALE ‘ 1653-161 EAST 24eh ST. NEW YORK i ro tt tet ett Ph th tee eC Oe be ee ACT EL TE LT Te}? ee ee ee Pete th ef) Te that brings in no revenue, and would own miscellaneous real estate worth $2,500,000, which would earn interest yearly $150,000. Not considering the value of the property used for purposes of worship, the difference in wealth for any single year is $6,120,000. This really is the difference between nothing and something. Published at 190 Eve St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 nothing and something Think this over and correct our figures if wrong. Next week we say what we think our church congregations ought to do in money matters. Figure out the difference between the wealth of these congregations by the one plan and their wealth by the other. By the one plan (the now existing plan) they have an equity of $3,000,000 in church property that brings in no revenue; they owe a debt of $2,000,000, and they pay an annual interest of $120,000. By the other plan they would own outright church property worth $2,500,000 The Bee TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year in advance.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....60 Subscription monthly.....20 CHURCHES AS SOCIAL CENTERS. An article in a recent issue of the Sunday New York Times gave an interesting survey of the commercial and general business progress of the colored people in New York City. Among other things it stated that some of the church congregations are largeinvestors in miscellaneous real estate. Here is a valuable hint for colored church congregations everywhere. We hope those in Washington will take note. We were recently informed by an intelligent member of one of our an intelligent member of one of our largest Washington churches that that is now out of debt. The congregation (Baptist) has a large and attractive edifice. Knowing that that same congregation is mow in in the midst of a big money-raising campaign—rally, they call it—I asked ththis man for what purpose the special drive is being made to raise funds. He was unable to tell me he did not know. me; he did not. Most church congregations manage, apparently by design, to keep permanently in debt, and the pastors and trustees are continually at the poor members for money—now to pay for the ground and the old edifice, now to erect a palatial new edifice, now to make an extension, now to build a tower, now to buy a parsonage. Let us pause. We hold that every church congregation for whose existence there is an adequate reason should have an ample edifice for worship and a pastorate. But the money spent by the colored people for churches should bear some reasonable proportion to the wealth of the congregations. Fine church buildings are can expensive vanity. As economic factors they are a heavy box and burden on the poo, rmasses. They bring back no direct money return to the people whatever. For example say that our local colored population has $5,000,000 invested in church property all paid for (which is not the case). That same money invested in miscellaneous profitable business ways would fetch at least 6 per cent, or $300,000 a year. As a matter of fact, the greater part of the $5,000,000 has not been paid and constitutes a debt. If the combined church debt for colored churches is nearly one-half, say $2,000,000 that means that the people are paying $120,000 a year in interest alone. Now, we contend that the amount in church property that our people are attempting to own is about twice as much as necessary, both as to seating capacity and quality of buildings. So, if they undertook to own only one-half as much, valued at $2,000,000, they would be not only free of debt to the extent of $2,000,000 but also free of annual interest charge of $120,000. Now, if these same congregations had twelve years ago undertaken to buy miscellaneous real estate to the value of $2,500,000 to be rented out at about the date of.6 per cent a year, the chances are that all this miscellaneous real estate would now be paid for. LINCOLN MEMORIAL BUILDING COMPANY. Last week we stated, as a matter of news, that the receivers of the Lincoln Memorial Building Company had finally wound up the affairs of that defunct corporation, declaring a restitution to the stockholders of 65 per ent. That is to say, a person owning a paid up share of $100 is entitled to receive back $65, and one owning a $10 share $6.50. This exclusive of all fees of the receivers, the trustees and attorneys. tees and attorneys. Several stockholders have informed us that, being under the impression that the stock was worthless, they dstroyed their certificates of stock several years ago. It will be remembered that the corporation went into liquidation some years ago, and that since that time not a single report of any sort has been made by the receivers to the stockholders. Many people hold old shares of stock presumed to be worthless; for example, the stock of the Alpha Insurance Company. It is often a serious problem how long such shares of doubtful value should be held and not destroyed. We are asked by these parties who have destroyed their shares of Lincoln Memorial stock what course they pursue to collect. Our answer is, make a formal demand in writing for your money. State the facts truthfully, and offer to file with the trustees an affidavit that you have not sole nor hypothecated the stock. Of course, it would not be economical to go into the equity court for a very small claim, but a number of persons in like situation could combine in a single petition. All persons in the same situation are invited to inform THE BEE. But we do not apprehend that any person in the situation mentioned will experience any trouble whatever in collecting his money. It is unconceivable. COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE INCORPARATED. The Commercial Exchange of Washington, D. C., the establishment of which THE BEE has been been advocating for several months past has been incorporated. It is chartered under the laws of Congress as embodied in Sub-Chapter III, Chapter 18, of the Code of the District of Columbia. It is thereof chartered as a "beneficial" (that is, public spirited and elememorary) society, and will have very ample powers and privileges, enabling it to exercise a very wide function for public improvement and beneficial work. We print a copy of the certificate of incorporation (charter) on another page of this issue. another step. This is the first important legal step in the direction aimed at, and the work so far seems good. We await with interest the announcement of the first Board of Governors, which the four incorators are empowered to select. On the wisdom of that Board will depend the framing of solid set of bylaws, and the selection of able and unselfish executive officers who have and breadth equal to an occasion so rare and opportune in our local history. The toryal offices of the Commercial xchange are at 1216 You Street, northwest. The offices are open every evening, from 7 to 9 o'clock. The promoters are desirous of assistance and suggestions. All interested in the success of the move should call and give a word of cheer and bit of advice. OUR BANK. The report of president John W. Lewis, of the Industrial Savings Bank, shows that the bank is in a healthy financial condition, which commands the confidence and support of the people. Elsewhere in this week's BEE will be seen and read with interest. read with interest. The BEE congratulates the officers of the bank and wishes it continued success and prosperity. ANNOUNCEMENT. Dr. B. G. M. Robinson, of this city, and Miss Josephine M. Russell, of Fredricksburg, Va., were married in Alexandria, Va., January 27, 1916, by Bov Powell, pastor of the Alfred, Street Bapist Church. At home, 721 13th Street Northeast, after October 1, 1917. METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH M St., between 15th and 16th St., N. W. Tuesday night, October 2nd, 1917, at 8 o'clock Departed this life September 26th, 1917, at his residence, 471 Florida Avenue, N.W., Attorney George W, Milford. iFuneral held Sunday from Shiloh Baptist Church, 17th and L Streets, N. W., Sunday, September 30, at 3 P. M. Relatives and friends invited. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS. (By the Sage of the Potomac) I am more than pleased with the management of the Toward Theater. If you had attended the performance last Monday night, you would have seen the cream of Washington out. I had to occupy a box because Manager Thomas doesn't give out free tickets on Monday night, and I was too late to get an orchestra chair. He was in his glory Monday night; too busy to even attend at those who admired him most. He is one good man, remarked a pretty blonde. "Who, Andrew?!" said her friend next to him. "Well, search me, you can never tell when he is going or when he is coming. He has a smile that will not come off. Have you noticed his vandaville shows?" "Oh," said the brunette, "there are some class to them now." "Did you see the bride and groom," remarked Miss Tender Feeling. "Now, you want to know who she is. If you will consult house-manager Byers, and he will tell you. He is authentic on names and blonds of whatever kind or class." Vinson will return next month and for the first time he will tell you what it is to be untid. He wrote a friend, yes his best friend, his mother and he told her of his happiness. He always followed his mother's teachings, with but one exception, and he thought it best to consult Andrew. You know that Andrew is the father of the flock. He is some provider and don't you forget it. He will keep both homes; he well can't help it. He has a heavy responsibility, and when you talk to him about managing he might as well to try and train an elephant with with a mule teacher. He is too busily engaged. Prof. Kelly Miller will have something to say on the training camp. There are two men in the United States who are capable of being president of Howard University, and they are Dr. Shepard of Durham, N. C., and Prof. Kelly Miller. I want you to consider what I am saying. Rev. W. H. Jernagin has issued a call for his race Congress. Editor Trotter has been heard from, but what was done at his meeting I don't know. I didn't have time to attend. In speaking about bank presidents, I want to tell you all that the president of the Industrial Savings Bank is going some. 'You must give it to him,' remarked Jesse H. Foster. Of course, president Lewis has his eyes on the peoples' money and cashier Bowie is equally as watchful. My good old friend Jerome A. Johnson was married two weeks ago. He boarded an electric car and went to Annapolis, Md. He wanted to get away from the inquisitive eyes. He spent the honeymoon among the guns of the Navy where he would be well protected. By the way, Jerry used to dance out at the picnic of the oldest inhabitants. Jerry kept his eyes wide open and he didn't object when his apple pie took it into her head that a spin around the floor would do her good. Jerry has always been a young man, although he has been a traveler for a number of years. He is just as young to-day ashe was several years ago. Grand-Exalted Ruler E. G. Bundy is thinking strongly of naming Attorney Flommings, of Cleveland, Ohio, as the next National Grand Exalted Ruler. Bundy is a great factor in the Elks. My friend Thomas L. Jones has learned how to run a machine. It is amusing to see Jones blow his horn just before he arrives at a crossing or when he is about to turn a corner. He believes in safety first. He gets out of his car, looks around the corner to see what is in his way. He then returns and starts. He has much business at the jail. He was hoasting to his good friend, C. S. Williams, a few days ago the length of time it took him to get to the jail. "Oh!!" Thomas said, adjusting his cuffs, that it took him just one hour and 59 minutes to drive himself to the District hotel. He is one man who believes in safety. Dr. Napper has decided to become a benefict. He is of the opinion that it is about time to secure a companion before the return of officers from the reserve camp. Doctor declares that pickens are good and now is his time to select the choice of his youth. select Dr. U. G. Daniels, the medical Chesterfield of the West End, reminds me of the medical diplomat, Dr. John W. Morse. Both men generally attend to their own business, and by so doing they will have all of the world’s goods they want. There are a few drafted men who regret that they did not marry several years ago. It is too late now. REV. WM. J. HOWARD RDV. WM. J. HOWARD Among the progressive ministers in this city is Rev. William J. Howard. REV. PETER AILEN REV. PETER AIDEN The Antioch Baptist Church, of which Rev. Peter Allen is pastor, was crowded last Sunday evening. He took for his subject temperance. His address was an attack on intemperance. He was interesting throughout the delivery of his address. Since the removal of the church to its new quarters, 128 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., it is progressing nicely. GREAT WORLD WIDE EVANGELIS-TC CAMPAIGN TIC CAMPAIGN. Commencing Sunday, October 6th, will be held at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets, N W., under the auspices of the National Eyangelistic Ministers' Alliance of America. The great Western Evangelist, Dr. O. S. Sims, pastor of Rodmond Street Baptist Church, one of the Largest Colored Churches of Pittsburgh, Pa., will preach. DEATH NOTICE [Image of a person with a neutral expression] IDA WELLS BARNETT The one uncompromising and unyielding race advocate, was the first person to visit East St. Louis after the race riot and hold the first protest meeting July 3rd, 1917. July 3rd Hear this great woman who has done more than any other woman for race uplift and who because of publishing unjust lynchings twenty-five years ago had to flee from the South. She has never ceased to fight with voice and pen. voice and pen. Meeting under auspices of Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of the District of Columbia. Seats Free. Mrs. Bruce, the wife of Bishop Bruce, of the A. M. E. Zion church, has returned home. Mrs. Bruce was the recipient of many social and literary functions while in Washington. Dinners, receptions, automobile drives were among them. She was the guest of Mrs. Addie B. Clarke. R. Clarke Mrs. Clarke is a charming hostess and her friends are legions. Madam W. O. Taylor, of Boston, Mass., is visiting relatives and friends to the city. in the Miss Melissa and Miss Ruth Thomas at home after spending six weeks in Burwyn, Md., with Prof. and Mrs. Woodford. ford. Mr. John W. Lavall, of Charleston, N. C., is now in the city. He has entered the ministry. tered the ministry. Dr. Isabella Vandervall, of 71 Ashland Avenue, East Orange, N. J., is spending a couple of weeks here. Dr. Vandervall in private life is Mrs. W. R. R. Granger, Jr., wife of Dr. W. R. R. Granger, internte at Freedman's Hospital. Mr. James R. Bell, of 407 O Street, N. W., who has been ill several weeks, is convalescent to his many friends' delight. He will soon resume his duties at the Post Office department. Mrs. Charles Scott, formerly of the Charlottesville Messenger force, now a student at the Dunbun High School, was a visitor of Charlottesville, Va., Thursday. A bill to make lynching and the prevention of race migration between States a Federal offense in the same class with counterfeiting will soon be introduced in Congress. The measure has been brought here by Mayor Curley, of Boston, and is said to have been drawn by William H. Lewis, former assistant United States Attorney General. (Exchange) Mr. J. R. Bell, 409 O Street, northwest, who has been ill for several weeks, is recovering from a serious operation, under the professional care of Drs. H. W. Freeman and J. E. H. Taylor. Mrs. Bell was highly commended by the physicians in charge for the splendid nursing as well as Mr. Bell's sisters, Mrs. C. B. Byrd and Mrs. E. B. Holmes. Attorney L. M. King is in Columbia, S. C., on professional business. Mrs. S. J. Taylor, of 128 F Street, northwest, who has been quite ill, is improving. Mr. Jerome A. Johnson, formerly president of the Oldest Inhabitants Association was married last week to Miss Sewell, a well-known and accomplished young lady of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. THE NATIONAL RACE CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 3rd AND 4th, 1917. The following live and practical subjects will be discussed by some of the leading men and able speakers of the Race. Ration 1. "How to Make the Negro Vote in the North Effective for Racial Uplift." 2. "The Negro and Labor Conditions in the North." MR. AND MRS. WALTER LACEY VISIT WASHINGTON. Among the hundreds of visitors to the city to spend their vacation with friends and relatives: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lacey of Culpepe County, Va. The Lacey's have quite a settlement in Washington. There are four brothers with families, all of whom are progresive young men, housekeeping in different sections of the city. While Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lacey were here they had the pleasure of being the house-guests of each brother for one week. One week was spent with Mr. and Mrs. Lacey and family, one with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lacey; also a week with Mr. John T. Lacey and family, last but by far not the least and long remembered visit was the week spent with the newly weeds, Mr. and Mrs. William Lacey, of 2305 G Street, N. W. FOR RENT Room with hard and cold baths, gas and electric lights, telephone service Mon only. No students need apply. 297 R. Street. N. W. SEAPLANES' WORK They Will Solve Arctic Mysteries. Says MacMillan. 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 seaplanes 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 Musical Natural History. seum of Natl. 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 Crooker Land. Waiting in a special car at Weehawken are 400 boxes of rare skins, exceedingly rare eggs, minerals, birds, relics, records and other articles gath PETER H. Photo by American Press Association. DONALD B. MAG 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. push twelve above. "But with seaplanes," he said, "we can do between breakfast and dinner the things that now take sliky-four days with dogs. The use of a seaplane 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 provide adaptable. He does not think balloons will be successful, since they not depend on the winds. must depend on the "How fast can aeroplanes travel nowadays?" Mr. MacMillan asked his questioners. He opened his eyes wide with astonishment when he learned for the first time that the latest army machines can form 125 to 150 miles an hour. do from 125 to 150 "That's the answer to polar work," he announced, and he looked out 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.-Mayer Boldt stopped the mouth of a pro-German with his 6st here some time ago. with the task. "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 pioneer, had occasion to apply the same treatment to another man. Both 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 Chahoon 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 Keeserville Harmony, band played patriotic selections, the one train a day stayed a few minutes long, the pretty girls kissed the jack tar and a pleasant time was had by all. Old Hen Still Laying. Old Hewlett Findlay, O.- Fifteen years ago Adam Stouffe purchased a Plymouth Rock ben from Frank T. Patterson. Now, the same ben, in the age of nineteen years, Stouffe says, says laying eggs with the rest of his flock, and there are no indications that she is going to quit. THE JUNIOR CHOIR METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH WILL CLOSE THE SUMMER WORK WITH SONG SERVICE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1917. At 8 P. M. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1ST, 1917 At 8 P. M. A MUSICAL SKETCH "The Truth Potion" AND A PATRIOTIC SKETCH "The Birth of Old Glory" MUSIO STUDIO. Miss Edna T. Gordon will reopen her music studio September 22nd. For further informa- tion, phone or call at 1329 Wallach Place, N. W. WEST WASHINGTON The one hundred and first anniversary of Mt. Zion M. E. Church 29th Street, N. W. will be celebrated from September 30 to October 28, 1917. A very unique program has been arranged. Every evening, three choruses of fifty voices of women, men, boys, and girls, respectively, W. W. Lucas, D. D., the intimidate and nation-famed preacher, will deliver special lectures during the event. Rev. D. DoWill Turpeau, pas- Men's day and talent rally at Liberty Bantist Church, 23rd Street, between H and I Streets, N. W., Sunday, September 30, under auspices of the Men's League at 11 o'clock. Sermon by Dr. H. Powell, address by Mr. James Sowell. At 3 o'clock address by Rev. H. Callis. 'Music by male chorus of Asbury at 7.30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. C. P. Comer, address by Mr. T. Sodors. Dr. Lee A. Gill master of ceremonies. LEE Circle H of the First Baptist Church on Wednesday of last week had a rally and listened to a very instructive sermon by Rev. C. P. Comer. PERSONAL Rev. William H. Gaines, who was seriously injured a few weeks ago in an automobile accident, is considered out of danger and will recover from the injury. "The cheapest thing in all the world is just a simple smile. And yet there's nothing dearer and it's never out of style. You can make the pathway smoother for some poor struggling friend. When the struggle seems the hardest, help him reach some happy end. If you'll just keep asmiling in a natural, friendly way. And a smiling debt pays interest, and it's the easiest one to pay. Smile on him who struggles hardest and gets the least reward: It will help to smooth the wrinkles and the fight won't seem so hard. A smile will bring the sunshine where the clouds have been before. And to give a smile is pleasure, to remove a cloud is more. It's cheap enough and good enough, so don't show any greed. But deal it out with lavish hand to every race and creed. It's within the reach of everyone of this whole human race. It makes you feel much younger and it beautifies the face. You needn't hide it in a sock or put it away on ice. No matter how you serve it, it's always good and nice. It pays the biggest interest and was never known to fail. You can use it in the poorhouse, the palace or the jail. The more you give the more you have, it's an everlasting spring: You can carry it on your journey, on the ground or on the wing. The more you carry the lighter it is, so carry a good supply. For it keeps in every climate, the low lands or the high. Just think of all the pleasure, the happiness and joy. A radiant, happy face will bring to your only girl or boy. If you bestow it on the mother when she's laden down with care. It will stop the little silver streak that's mingled with her hair. And the father sure will not object if you sometimes smile on him. It will make the old man younger and fill him full of vim. So smile and just keep smiling on all the friends you meet: It's the bone, the flesh and marrow, it's the bread and it's the meat. For the rich man if he lacks it is as poor as can be. While the painter who enjoys it. is happy, gay and free. Dr. Alexander Sinclair, of Hampton, Dr. is in the city, stopping at the Y. M. C. A. He left Wednesday evening for his home. Miss Margaret Lemon is recovering after a very successful operation. Her many friends are delighted over her convalescence. Mrs. M. W. Monoco, wife of the Rev. Monoco, of Brown Memorial A. M. E. Church, in company with Miss Idella Batty, spent a few days in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Fannie Robinson-Smith passed through the city enroute to Annetta, Va., to attend the funeral services for her brother-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Carter, of Florida Avenue, N. W., spent the weekend in Maryland at Marshall Place, the country seat of Dr. Charles H. Marshall, of this city. The Paramounts will entertain at a "Sunset Dance" next week. Mr. Joseph Lawson, of 415 14th Street, N. E., has returned after a very pleasant vacation. O liberty sawmill him with minated my band the one sites long- jack tar, my all. Miss Marguerite Goines, of Kansas Mo., spent several days with her aunt, Mrs. Annie E. Waddleton, 1547 Church Street, N. W. Miss Goines has been traveling extensively since leaving her home. Misses Alice and Rachel Waddleton accompanied her as far as Baltimore. Mrs. Pauline Tucker-Drake was recently appointed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mrs. Mamie Wines, of 207 E. High Street, Richmond, Va., was the guest of Miss Edna A. Lucas, of 1909 Thirteenth Street, N. W. Miss Marguerite Goines, of Kansas, Mo., was the honor guest at several teas and luncheons tendered by her many friends here. 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. and Mrs. William O. Murray and family, including Miss Thelma, Mr. Weaver and Miss Marion, visited Mrs. M. E. Stewart at her home in Lincoln, Md., and spent the entire day enjoying themselves eating and drinking, with music. Miss Thelma played some beautiful selections and Miss Marion attended to the graphonola. All left on the 6 o'clock train for their home in Washington, D. C. Madam Taylor is teaching the system and demonstrating hair treatment at the Clarke's Training School, 1600 13th Street, N. W., corner 13th and Que. 100 treatments Free. Come early and secure one. Mrs. Emma S. Rose, acting dean of the School of Liberal Arts and directress of the Academy of the Frelinghuysen University, has resigned the position as chairman of employment for the Woman WageEarners Association. Miss Green, of the Bee, who has been ill for several days, has returned and resumed her duties as manager. Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, of Chicago, Ill., was honored with a packed house last Monday night at Asbury Church. She is to organize anti-lynching leagues throughout the country. Mrs. N. E. Weatherless, who was injured in an automobile accident, is improving. Messrs. Andrew J. Thomas and S. H. Dudley have joined hands again. Miss Ella Sweet, a native of Racine, Wisconsin, has accepted an appointment in the government service in this city. Mr. Bryant Williams, of Florida, has entered Howard University to take up dentistry. Lawyer Baker, of this city, is in Gary. Lawyer Baker, of this city, is in Gary. Indiana. Mrs. A. J. Webster had to leave the city for La. Plata, Md., owing to the illness of her sister, Mrs. Newman. Mrs. Margaret Baker has returned to the city after a pleasant visit to Wildwood, N. J. wood, N. J. Miss Fredericka Busch has returned to the city. She has been visiting her sister, Rudolph, N. J. ter in Burlington, Rev. C. M. Tanner, of this city, spent the week end in Philadelphia visiting his father, Bishop Tanner, Misses Anna and Edna McLean, of Philadelphia, are spending their vacation in this city and Virginia. They have for home October 1. Miss A. Blitz, Philadelphia, visit to Philadelphia, has returned to the city. Miss Alberta Richards, a school teacher in this city, has been the house guest of Mrs. Harris, of Philadelphi, Pa. of Mrs. Bairns, a graduate from Augnatus M. Wood, a graduate from the city schools, is holding a responsible acting in Detroit, Michigan. position in Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Mary Barnett, of this city, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Alise Jackson, William, N. Y. of Hillburn, Miss Mary A. West, who has been guest of Miss Alycia Lucas during the summer has returned to the city to enter of University. Howard U. Driiggins, of Corning, N. Y. Mrs. A. T. Driiggins, of Corning, N. Y. two weeks in this city. spent several weeks Miss Geneva Cannon, of Rochester, N. Y., has entered the Dunbar High School of this city, Messas. William Thomas and P. Allston, of Hartford, Conn., have returned to this city to enter Howard University. Mrs. Cetta Watts, of this city, is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. James of Scranton, Pa. Foster, Sr. b. Misses Sherley Alexander, Gertrude Johnson, and Theodore Brown, of Mumford, N. Y., are in this city attending schools here. the schools here. Mr. J. W. Key motored to this city from Pomonkey, Md. Mr. Ernest Dyson, of Pomonkey, Md., visited this city Saturday. Mr. Apelton Swan passed through the city on his way home in Pomonkey, Md., to visit his mother, who is very ill. Mrs. Mary Datcher and daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Spencer, motored to this city from Md. It is reported that Mrs. Charles H. Anderson has retired from the Quality Amusement Co. as the leading Jady Miss Cleo Desmond now has the leading role, filling the place admirably. Miss Desmond not only pleases the audience, but her wardrobe cannot be surpassed. She is the greatest female actress upon the stage to-day. Good in part she assumes. The Ladies Drill Team of Auxiliary No. 64 gave a Display Drill at the pic- Street. A bountiful dinner was served hastens. nic 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; L. 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 uniting efforts as head of this useful organization. ganization. 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. marked success. Mrs. Amanda Williams of S street. N. W., is quite indisposed at this writ ing. 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 Training. of Engraving. Professor and Mrs. J. D. Baltimore, of 1435 S street, have returned to the city after a delightful vacation. city, after a delightful stay in New York, N. Y., visiting relatives and friends. 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. friends. Mrs. Jeanette Brooks of Montellic avenue, returned to the city delighted with her trip. with her trip Mrs. Lucy Scott, of 1521 S street, N. W., has returned to the city, after extended northern trip. an extended northern tr. Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses Jasper, 1439 S Street, N. W., left the city for New York and Atlantic City, N. J. York and Athens Mrs. Martha Huntington Montgomery, of 816 Twelfth street, N. E., returned to the city, after a delightful stay in Blackstone, Va., visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. and Mrs. Jerome Johnson were relieving 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. formerly miss Mrs. Belle Harris, of 1434 Swann street, N.W., left Saturday in company with her, Mr. Gargeld Harris, to visit her daughter, Mrs. John P. Turner, of 1302 South Eighteenth street, Philadelphia Pa. Philadelphia, Dr. Ernest Williams of Annapolis, Md., was in the city last week, the guest of his friend, Dr. W. A. Hughes, at street N. W. of 1909 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. ROCHESTER, N, Y., NEWS. By W. Henry Green, Correspondent. September 24.—Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Allon of 153 Atkinson Street announces the engagement of their daughter, Miss Ruth Allen to Mr. Raymond Price of this city. The Intermediate C. E Society held a social evening at the A. M. E. Zion's Church. At the said event the election of officers was as follows: President, Miss Viola Van Buren; vice-president, Mr. Hosea Mitchell; treasurer, Miss Marie Jefferson; secretary, Miss Margaret Clayburn; librarian, Mr. James Jarvis 115. The officers of Zion Sunday School which was recently elected as follows: Superintendent, A. S. Jamason; assistant superintendent, W. Henry Green; secretary, Miss Katharin Beard; assistant secretary, Miss Viola Van Buren; treasurer, Mrs. G. H. Wright; superintendent of Infant Department, Miss Nettie Bennett and Miss Carrie Boles; superintendent of Cradle Roll, Mrs. H. Hart; superintent of Home Department, Miss Susie Kelley; librarian, Mr. Hosea Mitchell; chorister, N. Henry Green; pianist, Emily Bennett; assistant pianist, Mrs. N. Henry Green. Mr. W. L. Pierce arrived in the city for a few days. from Lake George, en- tire to Hot Springs, Va. route to Hot Springs, The funeral services of Mrs. Martha E. Bonds Humphrey was held from A. M. Zion Church Monday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock and the remains were taken to Marenzo, N. Y., for burial in their family lot. She is survived by a husband, John C. Humphry, one daughter, Sarah Bonds, two sons, Edward and Francis Bonds. Rev. E. D. W Jones officiated. Floral tributes were many. Rev. T. Loyd Hickman has received a commission as a Y. M. C...A. secretary, with destination either in France or East Africa to work among colored people. Miss Margaret Clayburn and Miss Bessie Wells tendered a surprise party to Miss Marion Cottons in honor of her birthday last Thursday evening at the home of William Murray, 54 Furlong Street. Music and games were the diversion of the evening. Miss Cottons was the recipient of many birthday tokens. Mrs. Dempsey Curtis and Mrs. Franklin Bundy entertained the Fortnightly Sewing Circle last Thursday afternoon at the home of the former, 110 Cypress The venerable David S. Cincore, preached at Zion Church last Sunday morning and the evening the missionary societies had charge of the program which consisted of instrumental and vocal solos, papers and speeches from members of the different societies, after which a special collection was taken for Home and foreign missions. The collection for the day was $50.21. Two persons joined the church at the morning service. The Mississippi Club On Thursday night, October 4th, at 8:30 o'clock the Mississippi State Club will be called to order in the main auditorium of the Young Men,s Christian Association Building, on 12th Street, near T N. W. for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year. Every Mississippian is respect fully inviteb to be present on this occasion. This invitation is extendeb to the families of Mississippians as well. The doors will be open for new members immediately preceding the electian. This organization is a distinct credit to the State. According to the treasurer's report, its bank account is larger than at any time withiu the last ten years. The present officers are Sylvester L. McLaurin, President; F. S. Reid, 1st Vice President; W. Tomms, 2nd Vice President; H. Bell, Secretary; J. I. Bryant, Assistant Secretary; Mrs. D. Mc Kinney, Treasurer; J. M. H. Young, Librarian; Mr. Dixon, Financial Secretary; T. H. Hampton, Chaplain, all of whom are expected to make their final reports October 4. Althouge no definite slate has been made out it is generally conceded that Mr. J. I. Bryant will be elected President. Samuel Langford Samuel Langford, of Chicago, on arriving in the city in company with Boody Anderson, stopped at the Casiand 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 tensorial service, he warmly expressed his appreciation of the excellent service of the management. 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. WIFE $20, TYPIST $1,000. Man's Will Asks That Employee Wear His Diamond Ring. New York--By the terms of a will filed in the surrogate's court and dated April 21, 1914, George De Wolf Deans, who was an agent for the New York Central railroad and lived at 327 Edgecombe avenue, his wife, Gertrude F. Deans, is to receive "the sum of $20 and no more." It is stipulated that the bequest be paid sixty days after his death. The second clause in the will reads: "I give and bequeath to my faithful friend and stenographer," Margaret Dorothee, Klingel, $1,000, to be paid within sixty days after my death, and my large diamond ring, which I sometimes wear, begging her to have same made in a ring and wear in remembrance of me." The entire residue of the estate is left to his "devoted," loved friend and nurse," Mary Susan Hill, who is likewise named as executrix of the instrument, without bond. The testator directs that his remains be cremated and that the ashes be placed in a silver jar the value of which is not to exceed $100. CALLS WOMEN BEST LIARS. Lies Do Not Show on Faces; Men Give Themselves Away. Omaha.—"Women are better liars than men, but God bless them just the same," said Police Magistrate J. M. Fitzgerald of the Omaha police court. "Women come into this court and lie right along under oath. Their lies do not show on their faces either, but I can tell they are lying because their stories contradict those of reliable witnesses. nesses. "When men lie they hesitate, turn red, swallow, etc. One can tell they're living just by watching their faces. "But you can't tell it on a woman. They lie outrageously and stick to their stories in the face of everything. They know just the right time to deviate from the truth too. Their lives always count in the outcome of their trials—if they are believed. Men haven't the same knack at the art that women police court characters have." SEASON'S RE-OPENING SEASON'S RE-OPENING The First class and well equipped restaurant known as Pratt's Restaurant, 522 Druld 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. .Howard Theatre. 7th and Tea Streets, N. W. Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Co., Props. big Monday, with a Special Matinee Universal Film Corporation presents "20,000 Leagues Under the Dramatic Achievement in Moving Pictures of the Williamson Bros. See Submarine on display 25c Matinee: All Seats 15c Next Week—Big Musical Comedy Madame Walker's Good We have the exclusive Agency for Madame Walker's Wholesale and AGENTS SUPP Peoples Drug Store - Agency LET'S HIT! AN UP-TO-DATE CAFE Open Day and Night Entire Week Starting Monday, with a Special Matinee Saturday 2:30 The Universal Film Corporation presents Jules Vernes "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" The World's Greatest Dramatic Achievement in Moving Pictures. Photographed at the Bottom of the Ocean by the Williamson Bros. See Submarine on display in lobby of theatre Riley Made Sure Men He Recommended Were Fighters. Chicago.—Tom Riley of West Fifteenth street was told at the recruiting station that he was too old to fight, although he begged for an opportunity to enlist "I guess I'm too old to fight," he said, as he twisted his guarled and bony hands, "but maybe I can send ye some likely lads. Whin they comes in, cap, and tell ye ther're frm Tom Riley, take me wor-rd they'll be all right." That was one day recently. Since then more than twenty-five huskies have come in, saying they were "recruited" by Tom Riley. Barring black eyes and bruised faces, they were ideal recrumbs and were gladly accepted. Old Tom himself appeared again at the station and was informed that all of his recruits had been accepted. RIANGLE PRIN The TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. Night Prices: 15c,25c Reserved Seats Now Selling LINCOLN'S HOME PATRIOTIC. Birthplace of the Immortal "Rail Splitter" Makes Draft Record. Frankfort, Ky.-Larue county, Ky., the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, has made the record of furnishing every man drafted for the national army without a single claim for exemption and without a single rejection for disability. This fact was established through a communication received by Representative Ben Johnson (Dem.) of Kentucky, in whose district Larue county is located. Mr. Johnson says that the county was called upon to furnish 132 men under the draft. The men were all registered, all appeared before the exemption boards for examination, none claimed exemption from any cause, although some of them were entitled to make such claims because of dependent families. "I believe that this wonderful showing will be unparalleled in the history of the draft," said Mr. Johnson. BOY PREDICTS WAR'S END. Dles Three Days After Telling Prophecy to Parents. Marshfield, Wis.—In a letter received by Miss Anna Urbanus from her sister in Reform, Ala., she tells of a queer case of a child, aged seven, which has a bearing on the present war. Up to date the child never spoke a word until one day when the mother broke a dish the child exclaimed. "You broke one dish!" dish. Then he was again mute. The father then broke a dish to see if the child would speak again, and this time he said, "Two dishes are broke." sad, A doctor decided to break a dish also. The child exclaimed, "Three dishes are broken and I am going to die in three days, and the war will end in three months." three months. The boy died on the third day, and, according to the letter, the citizens of Reform are eagerly awaiting for the three months to elapse. River Takes Tribute of a Life a Year. Tucson, Ariz.—Superstition of long time residents of Steamboat Springs, Colo., said to be founded on a legend of the Ute Indians, that the Yampa river claims a victim every year, is indorsed, so "old timers" say, by two drownings in that stream in the recent freshet. The Indians believed the spirit who ruled the swift and treacherous stream demanded a human life annually and because of this are said never to have made an effort to save the first member of their race who was caught by it each year. Snake In Hen's Nest. Smith Center, Kan.—When Will Reddinger reached into a sitting hen's nest recently he received an especially hard rap on his hand that caused it to bleed profusely. Reddinger blamed the hen and irately reached in after her, then broke the standing high jump record when he came in contact with a big bull snake. Upon being killed it was found to measure five feet in length. The sitting hen and her eggs are missing. FISTS TESTED RECRUITS. Matinee: All Seats 15c Children 10c Next Week—Big Musical Comedy—Dr. Beans From Boston Madame Walker's Goods We have the exclusive Wholesale Agency for All Kinds of of Game and Oysters in Season Hot and Cold Lunches for Travellers Convenient to All Leading Theatres. Unsurpassed Service Mr. Robert L. Pratt Pratt's Restuarant at Paca Street Transient Boarding and Lodging to Select People Phone, Mt. Vernon 6402 Opposite Smith's Hotel BALTIMORE, MD. PRINTER WANTED. Wanted at The Bee office a printer; a lady to do special correspondence and story writer. WM. HAHN'S & CO'S. This famous shoe company has been in the shoe business over forty years in this city, and is known to most of the colored people of Washington, of whom they have been some of the best friends the race has. Coming again this season with the latest styles in men, women's and children's shoes, and as usual with the best quality of shoes, and at prices that can not be equalled for the same quality of shoe. What colored child in Washington doesn't know where one of the three stores of Hahn & Oa., 7th and K St, N. W., or 1914.Pa. Ave, N. W., or 233 Pa. Ave, S. E. Any of these stores are household words to thousands of the race that patronize these stores. There's no drawing the color-line in Hahn's Shoe Store, no cast-off goods shown you; you are not asked to wait when you are first. All are treated alike; no favorites at Hahn's stores. This shoe company has always contributed to the charitw and the uplift of the race. No one knows what they have done for the race better than the many women and men who have charge of part of the race's welfare. Let us buy from the friends of the race. 7th & M, N. W. 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 number of hich are not 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. Seebys Quinade is a highly medicated pomade that has stood the test of time. It is the invention of a New York chemist and is made under the personal supervision of a licensed pharmacist of many years' experience. Quinade stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, causing a natural growth of long hair. It makes the hair soft, smooth and glossy, and easy to put up in the style desired. To get the best results from the use of Quinade the scalp should be shampooed at regular intervals with Seeby's Quinasoap. Quinasoap is made entirely out of vegetable oils, principally coconut oil, and contains no animal fat of any kind. It lathers very freely and is a thorough cleanser. Quinasoap leaves the hair soft and fluffy, and imparts a refreshing feeling to the scalp, unequalled by any other shampoo. Do not accept any substitute, but insist on getting Seeby's Quinaseap and Seeby's Quinasoap asking for them by the full name. If your druggist or dealer does not stock these two articles, ask him to obtain them for you from his wholesaler. The price is 25c each Write to Seeby's Drug Co., 79 East 130th street, New York City, for sample, mentioning the name of this paper. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES. Quinase and Quinasoap are sold at all of the People's Drug Stores, as follows: follows. Store No. 1. 7th and K Sts. N. W. Store No. 2. 7th and H Sts. N. W. Store No. 3. 14th and You Sts. N. W Store No. 4. 7th and M Sts. N. W Store No. 5. 8th and H Sts. N. W COLORED HELP WANTED. 300 Young Women. 300 Girl. 300 Young Men. Kids. 200 Boys. for all kinds of work in the department stores in this city. Positions secured FREE. Apply at WHITE CROSS AS- SOCIATION, Dr. S. P. W.-Drew, Presi- dent, 1317 Corcoran Street, N. W. 10:30 p.m. No Office hours, 9 a. m. to 5p.m. No Office hours, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. No charge gor positions, or at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N Street; between Ninth and Tenth Streets. and Teeth Streets. Children of Soldiers Are Looked After at Creche. FOUR NATIONS REPRESENTED. Home For Convalescent Babies 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. And, while you might not frame it up in just those words, you would open your mouth and your lungs and let the whole crowded, hot, smell filled tenement which constituted your world know about how miserable you were, even if you were a soldier's baby and supposed to be brave. That is just why, out over the Hudson and away beyond the beautiful, broad sweep of the Englewood Country club golf links on the western slope of the Pallsades, the Memorial Home of the Edgewater Creche is today endearing to open its hospitable doors to take in and care for the little children and babies of soldiers, sailors and of women who could thus be released for THE CHILDREN'S CENTER CHILDREN AT EDGEWATER CRECHE. war work, in addition to the usual groups of poor mothers and little ones sent there by social workers. Any one who passed along Edgewater, N. 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 0,000 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. Rochester, 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 Raleigh, 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. Everett, 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 dept is to be paid within fifty-two weeks. 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 549,500 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 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 Northcliffe'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.-Lucius 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 hüge cake bearing 100 candles. 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 rife 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 car crate, 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. William M. Davis UNDERTAKR AND EMBALMER High Class Work, Reasonable Prices Life-like Features Restored Free Funeral Parlor 2053 Ga. Ave.N.W. Phone North 4068 PAINTERS SKIN WHITENER CARVES LEFTS WASH BALSAM WASH SUPP ALBUM WASH SUPP JOHNSON PRINCE CO. ATLANTA, OK PAINTERS SKIN WHITENER CARVES LEFTS WASH BALSAM WASH SUPP ALBUM WASH SUPP DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER Whitens dark or brown skin. Bleaches and clears sallow complexions, removes all blamishes and causes the skin to grow whiter. See that you get the genuine. No.9 Jan. 17, 1917 Jacobs Pharmacy Co. Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen: 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 will get just what I ask for. Very often I ask the Druggist here for some things and if they haven't got it they will may take this, it is just as good as what you want. I want the genuine Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener, so send to you for it. DO NOT ACCEPT IMMITATIONS Sold by druggist or sent direct, for $25, postpaid. Write JACOB'S PHARMACY, Atlanta, Georgia. Palmor's Skin Whitener may be purchased in all the People's Drug stores, as follows: Main 4119, People's Drug Store, Store 1, 7th and K N. W. Main 5671, Store 1, 7th and K N. W. Main 5670, Store 1, 7th and K N. W. Main 900, Store 2, S. W. Cor. 7th and N. W. Main 3140, Store 3, 2002 14th N. W. North 3228, Store 3, 2002 14th N. W. North 2398, Store 4, 7th and M N. W. Lincoln 3496, Store 5, 8th and H N. E. Lincoln 2789, Store 5, N. E. Cor. 8th H N. E. THE BEE Is the paper that should be in every home in the city. It is the people's paper. Read The Bee you want all the news. Open Day and Night Livery and Chapel JOHN T. STEWART, Undertaker and Embalmer. 30 H Street, Northeast. Main 1124 Washington, D. C. Promptness ```markdown ``` TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. 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To guarantee ample fuel for army and navy needs and for the legitimate requirements of motorcar users the national automobile organizations have begun their "Save Gasoline" campaign among garages, dealers and owners. In his announcement Van H. Manning, director of the bureau of mines, says it is estimated the United States army will need 350,000,000 gallons of gasoline for airplanes, trucks, tractors, etc. The N. A. O. C. is calling upon all manufacturers in the country and upon about 27,000 dealers, 24,000 garages and 13,000 repair shops to help in the movement to save gasoline. It has prepared a placard to be hung on the 1930 VAN H. MANNING. walls of service stations, garages and supply stations urging users to economize in the consumption of gasoline in the following ways: First.—Do not use gasoline for washing or cleaning—use kerosene to cut the grease. Second.—Do not spill gasoline or let drip when filling—it is dangerous and wasteful. Third.—Do not expose gasoline to air—it evaporates rapidly and is dangerous. Fourth.—Do not allow engine to run when car is standing. Cars are fitted with self starters, and it is good for the battery to be used frequently. Fifth.—Have carburettors adjusted to use leanest mixture possible—a lean mixture avoids carbon deposit. Sixth.—See that piston rings fit tight and cylinders hold compression well. Leakage of compression causes loss. Seventh.—Stop all gasoline leakage. Form the habit of shutting off gasoline at the tank or feed pipes. Eighth.—See that all bearings run freely and are well lubricated. Friction consumes power and wastes gas. Ninth.—Protect the radiator in cold weather. A cold engine is hard to start and is short in power. Tenth.—Keep tires fully inflated. Soft tires consume power. Eleventh.—Do not drive at excessive speed. Power consumption increases at a faster rate than speed. Every car has a definite speed at which it operates with maximum fuel economy. Twelfth.—Change gears rather than climb hills with wide open throttle. It saves car and gas. Thirteenthi.—Do not use cars needlessly or aimlessly. By exercise of forethought a number of errands can be combined so that one trip to town or elsewhere will do as well as two. Fourteenth.—Reduce the amount of riding for mère pleasure by shortening such trips or cutting down their frequency. The government is not contemplating any drastic action to compel car users to give up riding, and if there is a general and concerted effort to save gasoline it is believed there will be ample to meet all reasonable requirements. POTATOES AND TOMATOES. Grafting Process Brings Both on Same Vine. Scranton, Pa.—Joseph M. Stephenson, secretary of the Agriculture Preparedness league of this country, which has been encouraging the farmers here to plant increased acreage this year owing to the war, has succeeded in growing tomatoes and potatoes on the same vine. Early in the spring Mr. Stephenson took five healthy tomato plants and a like number of potato plants and grafted them. The hybrid plants thrived, and to date thirty fine large ripe tomatoes have been picked from one of the plants, while investigation of the root of the same plant revealed a cluster of fine potatoes. Next season Mr. Stephenson declares that he will have plants for sale to all that care to try them, arguing that double crops on the same ground are better than a rotation of crops. MAROONED ON ISLAND. Says He Lived For a Long Time Upon Water. Cody, Wyo.-David Grootch, a stenographer of Jonesboro, Ark., who was found on a small island in the Shoshone river, near here, by Undersheriff Walter Barber, told a weird story of having been marooned for twenty-two days on the island within sight of a wagon road, over which people were constantly travelling. During this time, he said, his only nourishment was water. Grootch said he had been working on a ranch near here and came to Cody for a visit. He set out for a walk toward the river when his memory left him. When he regained consciousness he found himself on the island, 200 rods below a wagon bridge. He could not swim, and the current was too swift for him to wade. Finally, Grootch said, he became so weak he could not stand and lay helpless in the underbrush until a passerby saw him. BEDROOMS FOR GRANARIES. A Bumper Crop Makes This Move Necessary. Neodosha, Kan.-Wilson county will produce an enormous wheat crop this year if the early returns from the harvest are any indication for the county as a whole, and they probably are, as the condition of the crop at threshing time was about the same over the county. William Rankin, one of the largest growers, will thresh more than 10,000 bushels, and others will do nearly as well. On the farm of Mrs. Dora Long the yield was 7,500 bushels, and after the barn and outbuildings were filled two bedrooms in the farmhouse were used to store the grain. Many reports are coming in of yields of from forty to forty-four bushels to the acre, which is an exceptional crop for this county, and at prevailing prices this year's wheat crop means thousands of dollars more than ever before. Oats are yielding from ninety to ninety-five bushels to the acre. NEED WEATHER·FORECASTER General Pershing Will Be Glad to Place One In France. Washington.—If any one can find a competent weather prophet General Pershing will be glad to place him among the fighting forces in France, according to word received at the war department. General George O. Squier, chief of the signal corps, told of Pershing's need for a meteorological expert in testifying before the house appropriations committee. "We have learned to our surprise," said General Squier, "that there are certain new and highly scientific branches of war being developed in France; and the signal service is called on to develop them here. "General Pershing has decided he must have some one to forecast the weather, and the signal corps must develop that man. He must also have the special equipment which the French and British armies use for weather forecasting." "DID MY BEST FOR IRELAND." William Redmond Leaves Statement of His Purpose In Fighting. London. — William H. K. Redmond, brother of John Redmond, the Irish leader, who was killed in action in Belgium, left the following statement in the care of his solicitor in Ireland, dated December, 1916. "If I die abroad I will give my wife my last thought and love and ask her to pray that we meet hereafter. I shall die a true Irish Catholic, humbly hoping for the mercy of God through the intercession of His blessed mother, whose help I have ever invoked all through life. "I should like all of my friends in Ireland to know that in joining the Irish brigade and going to France I sincerely believed, as all the Irish soldiers do, that I was doing my best for the welfare of Ireland in every way." INDIANA WOOD IN FRANCE. Used There In Aeroplanes and to Make Gun Stocks. Noblesville, Ind.—Airplanes, the wooden part of which are made from walnut trees from Hamilton county, are flying over the battlefields of France, and gun stocks made from the same kind of wood cut from the same territory are in the hands of the British who are fighting on the western front. D. I. Neher, who operates a sawmill in this city, is filling an order for the British government for walnut timber. The contract calls for thirty carloads, and all the lumber is to be used in the manufacture of airplanes and gun stocks. Neher has contracted with A. L. Pursel for 25,000 feet of walnut timber in a strip of woodland in the vicinity of Nora. It brought the top price, $6.50 a hundred feet. Digging Up morse and maroon. Scranton, Pa.-Archie Reeves and Burgess Richards of Lansford, Pa. were arguing as to the merits of their respective countries. "Ah, weel," said Archie, "they tore down an auld castle in Scotland recently and found many wires under it; which shows that the telegraph was known there hundreds of years ago." "Ah, ah," said Burgess Richards. "They tore down an old castle in Wales quite recently, and, mind you, there were no wires found under it, which shows that they knew all about wireless telegraphy in Wales hundreds of years ago." (2) THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL (INC.) offers an excellent opportunity for the woman who desires to enter the business world, by taking up a course in BEAUTY CULTURE. Nobody nowadays can say, "I have no chance." There are and always will be new lines with each woman whether she will be one of those to create and take advantage of the opportunities that THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL OFFERS. 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Stoking the engines far down below sea level, where they cannot possibly escape if the ship is torpedoed; serving as mess boys, cabin boys, common sailors; no glory, very often not even a uniform to advertise what they are—doing their bit without the glimmer of a hope of reward. That is why the Seamen's Church institute of New York, which nightly harbors 500 of these seamen in its big building at 25 South street, is making a strenuous effort to give them a good time while ashore. And as the most of them are in such terror of the dangers of the land that they won't venture from the water front unattended, a rubberneck trip through the wilds of New York was deemed the thing that would hit the spot. The first one came off recently. George B. Vanderpool gave the $30 which took forty tired, lonesome, friendless seafarers for a jolly three hours' trip through Riverside drive, Central park and other places of interest and gave the time of their lives if the way they whooped and sang chanties was any indication of their feelings. Such rivalry was there among the 500 men in the building for the chance to go on the first trip that the Rev. Carl Podin, who managed it, had them "draw" for the privilege. The hope was held out that there will be at least two such trips a week for a time, else there is no telling what might have happened to the forty who drew the lucky numbers. The rubberneck car left 25 South street at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, sounding like a tower of Babel as it went. For there were all nationalities aboard except Germans. There were Russians with the funny red cockades atop their caps; there were lubberly Swedish stokers in overalls; there were lean, grave dressed British seamen; there were Dutch, Norwegians, Italians—oh, all kinds. Scarcely a nation that has a ship in the harbor but had a representative. Youngest of all were three little Dutch babies boys, under fifteen, who made rock way to New York from California, where they were stranded, and will be sent back to Holland at the first opportunity. Some of the lads aboard that rubber-neck don't own a thing in the world except the clothes on their backs. They are the ones who have been saved from some torpedoed ship-saved without a rag of luggage. Will they go back to the sea? Sure. It is the only life they know and to their minds the safest. "Would I work on land? No, it's too dangerous," one big Briton said in reply to a question. "If I was to be a carpenter now a beam might hit me. If I was a motorman a car might run into me. The sea for mine." There was one woman aboard, Mrs. Jeannette Roper, who is housemother at the institute. It was hard work to keep her from giving up her seat to some of the disappointed seamen who crowded around, but it was the sense of the committee that the boys needed a chaperon, so she was it. DOG LIVED UNDER ICEBOX. Pet Poodle Sought a Cool Place and Found It. Philadelphia--Betsy is a little poodle dog who was spending her first summer in Philadelphia. The dog was born on a ship bound to this country from Norway, and she could not become accustomed to heat. As soon as the mercury climbed above 80 Betsy became uncomfortable and then ill. She refused to eat and spend the day and night looking for a cool spot. A short time ago the poodle crawled beneath the refrigerator in the home of her mistress, and in a twinkling she had solved her difficulty. Since then Betsy spends about twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four under the ice box, and even her meals are served there. The dog drinks the ice water from the pan under the refrigerator. Choked Cougar to Death. Chucked Cougar to Death. Portland, Ore.—In a desperate fight with a mad cougar, with his bare hands as his only weapons, J. Donoyan of Bend, Ore., was the victor, according to his story as he was undergoing the Pasteur treatment at a doctor's office here. Donoyan says as he was working in a stony field on his ranch the beast sprang upon him from behind a rock where it had lurked. With its 100 pounds weight it bore Donoyan to the ground. He managed to get a firm grip on the animal's throat, and although scratched and bitten, he slowly choked the breath from the beast. Cat Hunts Rabbits. Alexandria. Ind.-J. F. Merker, fire chief of Alexandria, is the owner of a rabbit hunting cat. In two nights Tommie brought to the rear door of the Merker home two big rabbits. Friends of the Merker family have asked for the use of the hunting cat when the hunting season opens. There's not a piece of Furniture of "shoddy" quality in our store. We carry many lines that are as moderately priced as can be found in Washington, but the most inexpensive are of a quality that we can guarantee for long wear and satisfactory service. Credit enables you to buy the values you believe will really prove economical, and we are glad to make the helpful suggestions that are prompted by our long experience. Come in and look for what you'd like to have. Tell us what you need and what you can afford, just as you'd talk the matter over in your own home. Peter Grogan & Sons Co., 817 to 823 Seventh Street 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 misunderstood," 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 dwelling houses. They probably rent from white landlords as many as 20,000 additional houses. In all the houses they own and 5,000 bath tubs. A great many more 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 diletanism. 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. 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. Tidiness 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 Young Coeland wrote to the president as follows: "I know I am asking you a great favor, but if you will but read it over and think out what I am trying to let you know I think you will treat me all right. There are three boys of us—Curtis, twenty-five years old, married and living in Pittsburgh; Rea, twenty-three years old, lives at home and makes good wages; I, twenty years old, at home and learning the plumbers' trade at $0 a week. "My grandmother is seventy-two years old; my father died when I was seven months old, and my mother died last September. When you called for the new army Rea was drafted, and I am asking you if you can fix it so I can take Rea's place. I am in good health, good ears and good eyesight and don't touch any kind of intoxicating drink. I will lay down my life for the dear old flag. "Now, Mr. Wilson, you can see for yourself that I am doing right, for you know I could not support my grandmother on $& a week. I am writing to you without saying anything to Rea about it. If you can, please let me know at once." Many From Oklahoma and Nebraska Attended an Iowa Dance. Marshalltown, Ia.—When Longfellow wrote of Hiwatha and his long journeys afoot into the land of other tribesmen the poet never dreamed that some day, and not so many years thence, his Indian brothers would be traveling by automobile. The big powwow celebrating the harvest, or corn dance, of the Meskwakis, hear Tama, is over, and in attendance at the celebration were several automobile loads of Nebraska and Oklahoma Indians, who many years ago were a pair of the Iowa Sao and Fox tribe, from which the Meskwakis sprang. The Indians drove good cars and left over the Ia. Crosse, Tama and Kansas City trail. Or La Crosse, where they will visit lands among the Wisconsin tribes. of dress conformable to their special types of beauty. They have regard to the "color scheme," as the artists call it; to styles of form, and to utility. The whole may be summed up as harmony. It would be indulgent for the Siberian to adopt the dress of the Somegambian, and vice versa. It is just as absurd for our American colored 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 none of the fundamental canons of art. It is also true that very many permanent fashions have not much more foundation in reason. I agree with that school of philosophers who hold that the true foundation of art is utility; that is, that art should conform (a) to 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. Alm 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 at any cost; (b) postpone the non-essentials as an unwise extravagance. If you must rent a house to live in, try to get one that has running water and a 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 I sometimes think our people are deficient in these—architecture, gardening and housepainting. With these should be included 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 enthused with a love of art. To them I would parlphrase the familiar words of the philosopher: Look downward, not upward; look inward, not outward; and lend a hand. Anarchist Accused of Plotting Fatal Bomb Explosion. San Francisco.-Alexander Berkman, anarchist, was indicted by the grand jury here for murder in connection with the bomb explosion here last July, in which ten lives were lost. He is accused of taking part in the conspiracy, which, the state charges, culminated in the explosion. Mrs. Rena Mooney was put on trial here for one of the bomb murders, and her husband, Thomas, and Warren K. Billings are under sentence of death and life imprisonment respectively for murder, growing out of the explosion. Berkman, now serving two years in the federal 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 anarchist paper called the Blast about the time of the explosion. District Attorney Fickert said efforts will be made to bring Berkman here for trial before the expiration of his sentence. —is the power that enables you to afford Furniture of the best quality. We'll arrange for small weekly or monthly payments. OLD FRIENDS RETURN TO BRAVE DOG'S GRAVE Canine Gained Fame Among the Powder Workers a Score of Years Ago. San Francisco.—After an absence of nearly sixteen years, during which he lived adventures in all parts of the earth, Jack Nearing, an old time resident, returned and visited the grave of Bob Evans, a dog that gained fame among the powder workers of Pinole a score of years ago. Nearing was at that time a powder worker at Pinole. Bob Evans was a Scotch colle, which the powder works of that time declared was the bravest dog in the world. He was born in Pinole on the day that Dewey made his famous entrance into Manila harbor. Bob proved himself to be a fighter and was named in honor of a great naval hero of that time. He was a victim of six powder explosions, but never received a worse injury than a singed coat. One day he was run over by a train, and the workers at the powder mills gathered a collection of $100 for his funeral. Ever since then, when one of the boys of those byone days comes to this city, he visits the grave of Bob Evans and decorates it with tokens of sympathy for the brave and faithful playful who met his death sixteen years ago. Nearing has not been in this city for eight years until he made his pilgrimage to the shrine of his memories. He left here in 1001 for the Boer war and after peace was declared went to Los Angeles, where he is a railroad man. President Receives Patriotic Letter From Indiana—Cannot Be Accepted Under Draft Terms. Terre Haute, Ind.-Robert C. Copeland, refused permission by a local selective draft board to take the place of his brother, who had been drafted, wrote direct to President Wilson. Leutenant Colonel Hugh S. Johnson, judge advocate to Provost Marshal General-Crowder, to whom the letter was referred, sent the letter to Adjunct General Smith of Indiana, with this comment: "The case of Robert C. Copeland is most interesting, and he is to be highly commended for his fine spirit, but under the selective service act substitution of one person for another is absolutely prohibited. I will thank you to notify Mr. Copeland that his patricotic offer cannot be accepted for this reason." INDIANS IN AUTOS. BICYCLE AIDS IN ELOPING COUPLE aberland, Pa. — Miss her of this city was assistant in the elope this place of Mrs. kendall, a pretty young d George Oswalk. Mrs. 's parents opposed the or father, Samuel Nuss. e young pal had start- train. He ran for his it couldn't find it, and he had made his way ion afoot the train had Miss Merle had hid- ate parent's "bike." North Mabel Cupid's ment Lydia widow Kirkert match learned ed for bicycle by the to the pulled den the Warmly Welcomes Our Soldiers and Sailors, Who Teach "Craps" to British Chums. London—London is constantly filled with American soldiers and sailors. All the downtown streets, especially in the Piccadilly district, are often thronged with them. Everywhere the Americans mix with the Australians, Canadians and Scotchmen in kilts, and all agree that London is fine. In some places the Britons were initiated into the game of "craps" and, as usual, the beginners won. Craps seems to have captivated London. The Americans, who had not been at liberty since their departure from the United States, were lionized. At some corners women stood handing flowers to the strangers, who pinned them on their hats. The especially warm personal welcome extended the men is notable. Furloughed Belgians, Frenchmen or other soldiers of the allies travel through the city in groups, by themselves. Every American group is piloted by at least one and sometimes half a dozen Britons. Those in London having just been paid, had pockets full of money, which they are anxious to spend. They dine at the best hotels, some of them occupying tables adjoining those at which British officers are seated. Washington—An official statement showing what the national army recruits may expect when they arrive in their training camps was given out here. The first thing the recruits will do is to take a thorough bath. From that time on, officials stated, scrupulous cleanliness will be expected of all recruits when possible. Arrangements have been made temporarily to assign all recruits to a section of the camp where they will be in touch with men called from their own neighborhoods. This arrangement will be broken up later when the men are fitted to the various branches of service according to their physical qualifications. These assignments will be made according to lists showing their previous occupations, and they will go to infantry, cavalry, artillery, machine gun and other units, according to their fitness. Men from the same localities will remain in the same regiments as far as such disposition of them is possible. The first two weeks the recruit will spend largely under the doctor's care or at least under his watchful eye, according to the statement, which says: "He will be given a physical examination and vaccinated for typhoid, paratyphoid and smallpox. Recommendations will then be made to the company commander for special forms of exercise to remedy any slight physical defects. The first two weeks of training will be occupied almost entirely with these special exercises, light exercises in setting up drills and schooling of the soldier. "During the second ten weeks regular training will begin, but the work will be increased gradually and the division surgeon and his assistants will keep a watchful eye on the general physical condition of the men. Through instruction in personal hygiene, sanitation and first aid will be given during their first two weeks." LASSOS 1,000 POUND BEAR. Animal That Killed Many Cattle Is Trailed to Its End. Santa Fe, N. M.—A thousand pound female grizzly bear was lassoed in the Santa Fe national forest by J. F. McMullen, trapper, of the United States biological survey. The animal was trailed down as she raced through the woods with a forty-five pound trap and a six foot drag hanging to its feet. McMullen tied the bear and sent a man to the Mountain View ranch to bring an audience of ranchers and tourists to see and photograph the brute before it was given the death shot. The bear had killed many cattle recently. HIS FACE WAS "FAMILIAR." Did Not Recognize Brother Till Explanation Was Made. Hopkinsville, Ky.-Vego El. Barnes is back from Buffalo, where he went to see a certain man and met him on the street. "How are you, Orville?" said Mr. Barnes, extending his hand. The Buffalo man, with the natural suspicion of an eastern meeting a stranger, hesitated. "Your face is familiar," he said. "I'm sure I've seen it before. But who are you?" "Merely your brother," Vego explained. It was the first time they had met in twelve years. Adopts Soldiers' Families. Canton, O.-Mrs. J. H. Himes, a wealthy Canton woman, who was recently formally commissioned as honorary captain of Company C, Eighth Ohio, has adopted as war wards the members of the families of the soldiers whose honorary commander she is. Mrs. Himes has procured the names and addresses of every family and the number of children, and she will see that they are needed for during the soldiers' absence. TO BANISH EGG SHAMPOOS. Barbere Say Plan Would Save 250,000,000 a Year. South Bend, Ind.-J. D. Kimerer, a barber of this city, has a scheme to save 250,000,000 eggs a year for the consumption of the people. He has put his plan before National Food Director Hoover and received from him assurance of its consideration. Kimerer would do away with the egg shampoo during the war. He says that on an average, which is considered low, each barber in the United States gives three egg shampoos a week, using two eggs. Recent statistics show that there are 800,000 barbers. Thus if the government placed a ban on egg shampoos for men it would mean the saving of 83,600,000 eggs each year, provided each barber averaged but three shampoos. But other barbers in the city say the average of three is too low and that it would be nearer six or eight. Figured at that rate, more than 200,000,000 eggs could be saved. It is a hard matter to get at the number of eggs used by women for shampooing, inasmuch as many do their own work. However, a hairdresser estimates that 50,000,000 eggs are used each year. UNUSUAL RELICS FOUND. New Light Cast on Pueblo Civilization by Discovery. Santa Fe, N. M.-An extraordinary find of historic pottery and realics has been made by Earl Morris, excavating Pueblo ruins at Aztec, San Juan county, with a force of twenty-five men for the American Museum of Natural History. The discovery includes sixty pieces of rare pottery, over 20,000 carved red and black stone heads, baskets, matting, knives, battleaxes and other stone implements. The turquoise beads, mosaics and shell ornaments are classed as among the finest ever excavated in the southwest. Grains of corn with cobs, tassels and husks were found intact, as were also beans and bean pods, pumpkin seeds, pine cones, cotton fiber, yucca leaves, rushes, cotton yarn and cloth, sandals, snowshoes, beaver teeth and bones of animals and human beings. One skeleton in a sitting position indicated the man had been decapitated. The find was made in an underground communal dwelling buried for centuries. BEES MAKE HOME IN HOUSE. Store Honey. Unmolested For Three Years In Doctor's Residence. St. Louis. A swarm of bees has lived and made honey for three years in the brick wall at the home of Dr. Allen Wilson, Wagoner place. Dr. Wilson has never interfered with the bees, and they have never harmed him, nor has he ever eaten any of the honey. The bees' improvised hive is a cavity in the wall about halfway to the top of the two story house on the kitchen side. The entrance is a small hole apparently left by the bricklayer when placing the bricks around the anchor of an iron wall brace. Dr. Wilson said he had investigated and found that the cavity now extends into the wall about a foot, apparently having been hollowed out by the bees themselves. The swarm is not a very large one, and Dr. Wilson thinks it has not produced more honey than it needed. He does not expect to try to remove the bees. TRANSPLANTING BONE. That of Stockman's Leg Now In His Arm. Ringling, Okla.—Ten inches of bone that supported his leg between the knee and ankle now is filling that amount of space in the forearm of Jim Herring, stockman, of Grady, having been transplanted there by a surgeon as the only remedy that would save the arm. The leg, now bearing a silver plate, has healed, and the arm promises to be as good as new before long. Ten months ago Herring sprained his arm. Not having ready access to a surgeon and, thinking the injury slight, he set the member himself. At length a bone trouble developed and continued to grow more and more malignant for eight months. Taking out the impaired bone was the surgical cure decided upon, and the space was filled with bone from his leg. COMES FROM A BIG FAMILY. Recruit is Six Foot Four and a Half. Brother, Taller, Taller, also to Enlist. Springfield, Mo—John F. Haley, a twenty-three-year-old farmer near Ozark, Christian county, holds the record for the tallest man accepted at the United States army recruiting station here since the declaration of war. He is six feet four and one-half inches in his bare feet. He had to stoop when he entered the door of the recruiting station to enlist. "You fellows may think I'm big," he told the recruiting force, "but just wait till you see my brother. He's two inches taller than I. He'll be here in two or three days to enlist too. He hasn't quite finished helping dad with the planting." Wife Beater Ducked. Kansas City, Mo.-A new form of punishment has been devised by Judge Harrod of the city court for wife beaters. After sentencing George Martin to a hundred days on the rock pile Judge Harrod ordered the patrolman who escorted him to the "farm" to stop on their way past the Missouri river and duck their prisoner three times. Martin beat his wife because and not make the baby stop cry. Government Call Upon Manufacturers Is Thought Likely. Detroit—Owners of automobiles, particularly those who have been accustomed to discard their cars solely because newer models have been placed upon the market, will do well to give the highest degree of care to the cars they now own. Brigadier General George O. Squier went to Detroit, and it is understood that the purpose of his visit was to confer with the manufacturers of automobiles in regard to obtaining their co-operation in the manufacture of aeroplanes. There are few factories in the United States that manufacture aeroplanes, and each of these factories makes a different type of craft. The aggregate capacity of these factories is wholly inadequate to meet the demands of the program of the aircraft production board, and it is therefore inevitable that the manufacturers of machinery which can be used as now made or whose plants can be adapted most readily to making parts for aeroplanes will be requested to give precedence to the manufacture of parts suitable for aircraft. IS GIVING HIS ALL TO CAUSE OF ALLIES Porter and Shoe Shiner Reserves Only Enough Daily to Keep Himself. Sandusky, O.—Andrew Francis Pat- rick Mahon, sixty-seven years old, hotel porter and shoe shiner for more than half a century, is "broke" from doing his "bit." "But I never was happier," says Mahon, "and until this war ends I am going to keep right on shoving across all the money I can scrape together. I am going to place it where it will do the most good." Throughout the Red Cross campaign Mahon turned over daily his receipts for the day, less what it cost him for meals. What he ate-cost him from 60 to 75 cents a day. Several times he paid to the Red Cross committee sums exceeding $10. "Now I'm going to start to save so I can buy some more liberty bonds when Uncle Sam finds it necessary to float another issue," said Mahon. "By practicing the strictest economy I ought to be able to subscribe for several of the $100 denomination." He was the first to subscribe. He took $1,000 worth in the name of a stenson. "Uncle Sam has got to win" he said. "I am too old to fight in the trenches but I'm not too old to help sustain three or four youngsters who can fight Every penny I can scrape together over and above what it costs me to keep, myself in working trim Uncle Sam and the allies are going to get." FLAGWOMEN AT CROSSINGS: Pennsylvania Lines, Short of Men, Now Hiring Girls. Newfield, N. J.-Thousands of excursionists on the electric lines of the West Jersey and Seashore railroad between Camden and the seashore stared in astonishment at a young woman wearing a trim, dark blue straw hat and large, orange colored goggles, who stood guard over the main grade crossing in the town. This flagman is Miss Daisy Ward the first girl to take up the job at fagging trains on the Pennsylvania's liner in this part of the country. Miss Ward may soon have many women companions on other parts of the division, as the railroad officials have sent out notices to their station agents and foremen to employ women for these places wherever possible in order to free mer for the section gangs, in which the railroad is shorthanded. FRUIT FOR SOLDIERS. Colorado Woman Gives Whole Crop to the Troops. Denver.—Mrs. John McDonough has given to the Woman's State auxiliary of the national guard a ten acre tract of land on which are growing plums, cherries, peaches, and apples, in order that the boys of the militia may have their fill of fruit as fast as it ripens. Details will be sent to pick the fruit. Whatever fruit is left will be canned, and preserved for distribution among the soldiers later. Mrs. McDonough has opened a large kitchen to a committee, where all fruit not consumed from the trees will be canned. NOW FEED THEIR HOGS ON ICE CREAM CONES Chicago.—A new food for hogs has been found in the use of ice cream cones. Recently Edward and Nelson Morris, packers, purchased several tons of broken cones from manufacturers at $26 a ton and fed them to hogs as an experiment. Corn costs from $1.50 to $1.70 a bushel, and the ice cream cone diet not only proved a saving of money, but it produced a superior class of hogs, according to the Morrises.