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At His Own Expense to Get Evidence for Negro Soldiers, He Told Committee Washington, March 15 — That Senator Foraker is gathering evidence at his own expense in defense of former Negro soldiers who were discharged from the army for alleged complicity in the "shooting up" of Brownville was disclosed today in a sharp clash between members of the senate committee on military affairs, which is investigating the array, Senators Owens and Warner had pulled a number of witnesses with questions as to whom they had talked with before coming to Washington to testify. These witnesses confessed that they had been interviewed by a man named Ferguson as to what they knew concerning the Brownville army and the senators then displayed an interest in Ferguson's mission and as to whether he was a white man or a Negro. The witness seemed to be in doubt, none was willing to swear to his color and all of the witnesses disclaimed knowledge as to Ferguson's concession with the investigation. Again and again he was asked if Ferguson was white or black and this form of questioning was taken up when Corporal John I. Rhmme, a cook of Company M, Twenty-fifth Infantry, was recalled today for cross-examination. "At My Expense." During the Inquiry Senator Foraker sat silent until the question seemed to raise some doubt as to whether the witness was telling the truth and his acquaintance with Ferguson and the senator interrupted, saying: "Ferguson went down to Fort Sam Houston at my expense. I received an anonymous letter giving the names of several persons said to have information that might be of value in this inquiry. Those persons were said to be at Fort Sam Houston and I sent Ferguson down there to with them and find out what they knew. If any one suspects that the man conducting this examination and the handling of witnesses is not all it seems would like to have the stand and make an explanation." Benator's, Warner, Overman and Foster hastened to assure Senator Foraker that they had no criticism of the course he had pursued and explained what he had done since it had been indicated that the sittitional league had secured affavils from men which the 'same men denied upon being put on the bench' and that it was to determine whether Ferguson was a representative of that league. Assurance was given by Senator: Foraker that Ferguson had no connection with the constitutional league, and Senator Overman asked laudingly: "Well, is he a pigger or a white man?" Was Not Certain: "I don't know. I think he is a mulato, rtplied Senator Foraker, for He then withdrew the remark, for the reason, he said, that he was in doubt and did not want to give offence. The senator then explained that he had been assigned by the committee to direct the direct examination of the witness, that he had not sought the appointment: "I insisted that former Governor Black, of New York, who was engaged by the constitutional league to defend these Negro soldiers, should conduct the examination," added Mr. Foraker. "You did not want him, and that is the way I came to be designated. As to Ferguson, I want it understood that I employed him myself, and I did it at my own expense." The incident was passed over after an exchange of compliments between Senator Foraker and the several senators taking the opposite of the case. That of Frank Fisher, the testimony and that of Company M, was to the effect that the had frequently heard citizens of Brownsville, make remarks derogatory to the Negro soldiers, after the order was issued to send them to Ft. Brown. Senator Private William J. Rappe, of company M, Twenty-sixth infantry, gave amusing testimony concerning his experiences in Brownsville. He said he had gambled with the police and had been arrested by them after beating him at roulette. A companion of his, the witness said, beat a policeman at roulette and the policeman then beat him over the head with a sk-shooter and took a Rappe testified at length concerning the hearing of threats made by the citizen that the Negro soldiers would be run out of town and as to the alleged bad character of the city of Brownsville. An eyewitness, the militant witness, the incidents connected with the attack at Brownsville was put on the stand today by Senator Foraker. He was Maclae G. Tomato, a Mexican carpenter, of Brownsville. He was working between the barracks and the wall separating the town from the reservation when the shooting began, and the soldiers a position to have seen the town. The attack and enter the town if they had Claiming to be entirely disinterested and having no acquaintance with the Negro soldiers his evidence was the best defense of the Negroes yet given. The report from the Springfield area, where the War Department had made microscopic tests of the shells picked up in Brownsville streets and the bullets found in the walls of houses there, has been completed. The officer who made the examinations arrived in Washington today and conferred with Secretary Taft and General Crozier, Chief of Ordinance. Later he laid his report report before President Roosevelt. He may be called tomorrow by the committee. Pittsburgh, May 19 — Mayor Geo. W. Gathirle of the city received a letter from Harry K. Thaw, today in which was a check for $100 was enclosed to aid persons suffering from the flood of last week. The mayor replied, that no fund had been raised in Pittsburg but that one had been raised in Allegheny and asked what disposition should be made of the money. FOUR GUNS Were Used at Brownsville Must Have Been From Barracks Say Experts, After a Careful Examination Washington, D. C., Mar. 18.—Four riffles from Company B, Twenty-fifth Infantry, were used in the Brownsville affray if the Ordnance Department of the Army can substantiate reports sent to the Senate Committee to regain majors today concerning the microscope examinations of the 33 shells picked in the streets of the town on the morning following the shooting. All of the riffs in the possession of the battalion at Ft. Brown on the night of August 13 were sent to the Springfield Arsenal and two shots were fired from each. The shells were there compared with those pickets, the Brownhillville, and the officers, making the tests reported that it has been demonstrably disputed that four guns of Company B were used in discharging all of the 33 shells. The reports were made a part of the committee record, and Lieutenant Hawkins, of the Ordnance Department, and G. A. A. Spooner, expert inspector of gauges used in the manufacture of muskets used in the Springfield Arsenal, mustets at the Springfield Arsenal are ready to go on the stand to explain the reports and be cross-examined concerning them. Ordered Subpoenas. Two of Company B's rifles, said to have been used in the affray, were kept in the storehouse under lock, the key of which was in the possession of former Quartermaster Sergeant Curdry, and the other two rifles were also have been issued to privates J. L. Wilson and Taylor. Senator Foraker immediately had subpoenas issued for Taylor and Wilson and for the recall of McCurdy. He also asked that the War Department be instructed to send for Company B at the time of the affray. Secretary Taft, in a letter to the committee, pointed out that the men who did the shooting may have used any guns they could secure, and that the company cannot be held to guilty beaten showing by the tests at the arsenal. The alleged confession of "D. W. Gray," supposed to be a member of Company B, which was printed at Galveston, Texas, was formally denied today in a telegram from Major Blocksom, at San Antonio, to the War Department. Major Blocksom sent in his dispatch that he had received a telegram from the Chief of Police at Galveston, saying that the publication was a fake. Saying former had the alleged confession put in the record with the denial which had been furnished to Chairman Warron by the War Department. Neither Confessed. The Ohio Senator also had recorded the fact that there was not a man named "D. W. Gray" in the discharged battalion, but that there were two men named Gray, one G. W. and the other J. H. Gray, in Company C. Both of those men were heard from today, denying that they had made confessions. One is in West Virginia and the other in Pennsylvania. No members of the Twenty-fifth Infantry were examined today, and no testimony was given which had any direct hearing on the shooting, except that of Henry Watson, prince of the Twenty-sixth Infantry. He identified that he left behind as guard at the post when the Twenty-sixth Infantry moved out and that he saw loose shells of both the Krag and Springfield type lying about in the barracks. He said he also saw 38-caliber revolver ammunition lying around, and that the barracks were open so that citizens could secure their lives. On cross-examination he admitted that it is always easy for soldiers to secure extra ammunition if they desire it. The committee today took up the question of going to Brownsville in connection with the investigation. It would be necessary to abolish it, and be necessary to visit Brownsville, but no action was taken toward fixing a time for $7.6 trip. Spoke of Marvelous Progress Made by Race in Forty Years Under Difficulties Special to Advocate Boston, March 15.—Dr. Booker T. Washington spent two very busy days in Boston this week. On Monday evening, he spoke to nearly 3,000 students of Harvard university by the largest and most popular club conference with the university. The topic of his address was "The Influence of Education." He was introduced by President Charles W. Elliot, who published the students to read Dr. Washington's book, "Up From Slavery." It was remarked, after the meeting, that in his introductory address, President Eliot exhibited greater emotion and spoke with more fervor and feeling on the Negro question than he before on any occasion. President Eliot characterized the institution of slavery as a horrible mite, the most norrible condition to which man can be subjected; and then, taking a question to his audience, with the same voice he said: "Think of a condition when has no right to his own labor and the Negro woman is at the mercy of white masters! Is it remarkable that the family life of the Negro is not always sound and pure? If it be a grater wonder if these people have not been terrible mite pit were sound and pure. Education is the only thing that will lift the Negro to a point of self-efficiency and self-respect. The Negro is going to rise by acquiring education, skill and a high sense of humor. Education has the same good effect as Negro that it has upon the white race, but we shall have to be patient with the Negro of the south. Dr. Washington was greeted with enthusiastic applause. His address was forceful and inspiring. He indicated the marvelous advancement to the Negro race during the past forty years, portrayed vividly the many difficulties his race had overcome in their upward strivings. He said in part: "In the present stage of Negro development it is important that all of us stick to the fundamental civilization and of racial progress, which no race can get upon its feet and take its place in useful endeavors. Whenever I am at my home I seldom let a week pass without digging the soil, comping in direct contact with the fowl, the fowls, the plague—that is, I like to be sure I touch the real things of nature as often as I can. "There is one thing about the black race that perhaps is not true in so large a degree of any other race. That 45—the Negro wants education and wherever a school house is opened to him the Negro will fill it. Through the efforts of the hundreds of women and women who have gone out from such institutions as Tuskegee, Hampton, Snow Hill, Fisk and Talladega, the Negro has made wonderful progress. So rapid has been his progress along material lines that the hundreds of women in the United States an acreage of land have equit to the combined acreage of the kingdoms of Holland and Belgium. Not only this, but the Negro owns and operates 121 drug stores and thirty-one banks. Within forty years the Negro race, through the help of these women,outh, and his own efforts, has blotted out fifty-six per cent of his illiteracy. "Everywhere I urge the leaders of my race not to suffer themselves to grow bitter or discouraged. The embittered race, like the individual, loses a large proportion of its power to influence the world for good. The world shuns an embittered people as it does an individual. It is only by self control, hard work, patience, grace and the exhibition of generosity, of spirit are we able to in our battles, Ignorance and racial hatred never solve a single problem. So long as we are continuing to give the people more light and skill and a higher degree of a Christian spirit, we are travelling in the right direction." After Dr. Washington's address, the twenty-one colored students, now in Harvard university, held an informal reception in the two rooms of Walter S. Buchanan, of Alabama, and E. F. Tyson, of Washington, D.C. in Walter Hastings Hall. Dr. Washington in an address to them emphasized the importance of young Negro college men striving first to achieve individual success before race problems to solve the entire race problem. He told a story of individual success in a better contribution to the solution of the race problem than a hundred speeches delivered by men who had never achieved anything worth while in college. He told a story of an interview he had had with whom he had not seen for twenty years. This friend declared that he had not found time to buy any land or purchase a house or accumulate any tangible property of any sort. He was even then in tattered garb. He had been in trouble with these things, because he had devoted his talent and energy to an attempt to solve the race problem, and he MARCH 21, 1907 his effort. Dr. Washington was very, much pleased with the type of young men now at Harvard. They present the western and southern states. It was noticed that not a single one of these young men belonged in Boston. The following named young men made Dr. Washington the guest besides Dr. Washington, Jr., and Charles Alexander, editor of Alexander's Magazine. Law school students — M. W. Bulk Malden, Maldon, N. W. O. Tyler, Chicago, Chicago, New York Charleston, S. C. H. Bailer. New York City. Medicina—CJ Ridkinson, G, W Brown, R. Ridkinson, L. E. Walkar, Colfax, Iaxon, Iaxon Class of 1807—John Russell, (dontal), Virginia; Richard Bippe, Jr., Charleston, S. C.; A. H. Bowers, Lamott, Pa.; Walter S. Bughgan, Troy, Ala.; H. K. Craft, Charleston, S. C.; G. W. Harris, Topcake, Kansas; C. Richie, Virginia; and E. F. Tyson, of Washington, D. C. On Tuesday night, Dr. Washington spoke in the First Unitarian church, corner Mariborong and Berkeley streets, in the interest of the southern industrial institute for the youths at Camp Hill, Alabama. Rev. Katherine D. O'Neill, the principal address of the institute, however, was delivered by Rev. Quincy Ewling, of Napoleonville, Louisiana. After Mrs. Anne Dr. Washington met the Boston circle of Hampton Alumni association, Rev. Henry Cary, D. D. president, at N.C. College, where those present were Hon. William H. Lewis, Mr. Charles Alexander, Mr. W. Lewis, Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Walk, and Mrs. H. J. Calls, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Clark, Mrs. Mary C. Garrison, Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Isiah Elliott, Mr. H. J. Harris, Mr. H. S. White, Miss George J. Shriggle and Dr. S. E. Courtney. Washington, D. C. March 14. Expert testimony concerning ammunition and guns will be given before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs within a few days, perhaps tomorrow. This will include a report of the results of the microscopic examinations of bullets extracted from the walls of houses in Brownfield and the cartridge picked up in the streets there. From these reports it is accepted the committee will be able to opinion as to whether the bullets were fired from guns in the hands of Negro soldiers or whether citizens had obtained army ammunition and fired it from rifles of another make. This is regarded as by far the This is regarded as by far the most important evidence the committee now has in view. Several days ago the Senate Committee returned to the War Department, the exhibits of bullets and cartridges. Senate by the President in connection with the investigation made for the President by Assistant Attorney-General Purdy, of the Department of Justice. Yesterday the committee again called for these exhibits, which consist of 33 shells and six ball cartridges, and today two letters were received from Secretary Taft. The said that he had sent the exhibitions to the renal at Springfield for microscopy and that he that letter the secretary estimated that would require about a week to get the exhibits back with a report, but a second letter represents later advices that the examination of the shells was to be completed today and that the officer who conducts the examination had been directed to bring the shells and ball cartridges, together with a final report of his whole investigation. The witnesses testifying today were Nelson Huron, a sergeant; Ots C. West, a private, and John E. Rinnel, a cook, all of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, which preceded the Negro troops at Ft. Brown. Their statements dealt largely with the characters of the tibiotroposville and their hostility to soldiers and threats made against Negro soldiers when they should arrive at Ft. Brown. Of Prominent Organizations Confer At Washington. Washington, Mar. 29.—A conference between the representatives of the various railroad labor organizations, and the executive council of the American federation, of labor was held here today. The conference called at the recent Minneapolis congress to the federation, with a view of the discussion of various matters of interest, especially the situation growing out of the recent decision of judge Evans at Lonsville, Ky., which the federation considers as practically vitalizing the labor arbitration act of 1898. The conference hours and a number of matters were taken up but no conclusions were announced. The conference will be resumed tomorrow. LABOR LEADERS Toledo, Marc cash and March October $6.75. THREATS Made by the Citizens Of Brownsville That the Negro Soldiers Would Soon Be Run Out Says Witness Washington, March 21.—After showing the hostility of the people of Brownville to the Negro soldiers, Senator Foraker today gave an en- turn to the investigation of the attack on August 13th last. He examined Kilburne, of the Twenty-six Infantry, which preceded the Twenty-fifth Regiment at Ft. Brown, concerning the penetration of steel bullets, and said that the bullet of the caliber used in the attack on the rifle could be fired from a Mauser rifle, but that the penetration would be retarded. He thought that the Springfield bullet from a rifle that had been fired or 400 times would not show the impact of the grooves, but if fired from a Mauser the imprint would be shown. It is expected this testimony will have an important bearing on the investigation, as the committee has had before it the bullets taken from the houses 'shot up' during the affray, and said to be deeply grooved. They have been exhibited in open session of the committee, but when examined behind closed doors. Later they were returned to the War Department and understood, are now part of the exhibit in martial in progress at San Antonio. Not Fired by Troops. It seems to be the purpose of Senator Foraker to show by this testimony that the bullets taken from the walls of houses could not have been from the rifles in the hands of the terrorist troops, as these had been used in target practice for a long time. Captain Kilbourne testified that he was at Brownville when the order was promulgated, withdrawing the white soldiers and sending a battalion of Negro soldiers to Ft. Brown. The best people of, Brownsville, said the witness, expressed disapproval of the change, but the class that loafed around saloons and drug stores and lottered on the streets were loud in their threats that it "would not be long before the colored troops would be ran out of the fort." Captain Kilburn said that he was in Tillman's store, later changed to a saloon, in Brownsville, and that he heard Tillman say: "We'll run the Negroes out within three weeks," and the expression of lotters in the store coincided with this prediction said the witness. Continuing the witness told of hearing talks of plans to organize a posse to prevent the Negro troops from getting off the train on their arrival at Fort Brown and to raise money to send a delegation to Washington to protest against the sending of Negroes to Ft. Brown. "Was all this talk induced by hostility to Negroes?" asked Senator Foraker. "Undoubtedly it was," replied the witness. Many Carried Arms. Much of the population of Brownsville was Mexican of a low grade of intelligence, said Captain Kilburn. He said the soldiers legitimate prey and made trouble for them when they were caught in town in small numbers or shingly. It was a practice, he said for the Mexican citizens to carry side arms and riffles through the streets, and shooting at night was so common little attention was paid to it at fort. He mentioned the soldiers at the time he was there as consisting of ten men, nine of whom were Mexicans and could not speak, read or write English. Their method of making arrests, he said, was to beat the soldiers over the head with the butts of their revolvers and then take them into custody. Kilburn said this caused much ill feeling between the people and the authorities at the fort. Appointed On Wilberforce University Board. Columbus, Ohio, Mar. 19.—E. C. Berry, known throughout the Ohio commercial world as the colored proprietor of a first-class hotel at Athena was today named by Governor Harrius as a Troutog of the Wilberforce University at Xenia, to succeed the late Rev. James Poindetter, of this city. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS In North Carolina Adjust Difficulties. Greensboro, N. C., March 12, 1907—Pursuant to a call issued by Chancellor S. W. Starks, of the Knights of Pythias and Messrs. Justian G. Lattie and James S. Lanier, Commissioners appointed by Grand Chancellor S. Fitts, the Knights of Pythias and Messrs. Justian G. Lattie met in this city at 12 o'clock today. The meeting which was attended by Grand Lodge officers and representatives from nearly all of the subordinate lodges was called to adjust some differences between the Grand Lodge of North Carolina and the Supreme Lodge. The Grand Chancellor Starks made an explanation concerning the differences. His explanation was entirely satisfactory to the representatives ED. C. BERRY present and was unanimously accepted. As a result of this meeting harmony and confidence have been restored throughout the Grand Jurisdiction of North Carolina. A resolution was passed by unanimous vote amid great enthusiasm expressing gratification at the restoration of peace, harmony and of confidence in the Supreme Court and officers of the order. The motion of Representative Bradford, ofville, it was ordered that these resolutions be printed and a copy be sent to every subordinate lodge in the state. The Grand Lodge adjourn-to meet at Little Washington in July. AFFECTS FRUIT SHIPMENTS Honduran Labores, All. Are Being Drafted Into Army. Mobile, Ala., Mar. 19.—The steamer Mercator, arriving here today from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, four days out, reports that within the past two weeks the Honduras government has conscripted 500 men at that place in a result fruit ships are able to obtain the cargoes. When the Mercator left Puerto Cortez what men were left, added by some men, were throwing up enrichments to protect the place from a reported attack by the Nicaraguan army. NOTES Kentucky's Metropolis Semi-Annual Meeting of Endowment Board Shows State to be in Good Condition NOTES (By Gary B. Lowls.) Special to The Advocate Louisville, Ky., Mar. 18. — The slogan of the Nexxon of this section and all over the country is "Get Together." The Pythian Order seems for its mission to be that of peace, truth, charity and benevolence. With the relevance to these lofty ideas, the Order is giving in strength and character. The younger men are seeking the benefits of this fraternity, and are joining as never before. They see that the success, succor and relieve the parishing, danger, aid in council, practice, brightness and elevate moral character. And this gives them from the address delivered by Supreme Chancellor S. W. Starks at Indianapolis but year, that sanity is also taking on a business carried on by Pythian, who ever a hall is purchased, some kind of business carried on by Pythian, is an act of what organization can and will do. This wonderful progress made by the Order should be known in every state. The Supreme officers, state officers and Chancellor commanders of the meeting night should, on certain meeting nights, be involved in the fact of its members, that they develop a taste for Negro Journals and Negro literature. Put into the hands of their children good literature, among which, let it be the Ad-力. The Power of the Negro Press is given closer and closer together. Friendship, charity, benevolence and business is a special and glorious mission of our grand Order. The Elks Lodge, No. 44, held their first annual sermon in this city on last Sunday at Quirin Chapel A. M. E. church. Many of them are Pythians and the new lodge is progressing nicely. They hope to give the visiting Pythians a royal time this summer. The Eureka Lodge, No. 7, has taken the day in the way of giving entertainments. It was the first time a Pythian Lodge took on the New York style of giving a ball. It began at 9 p. m. and lasted until 4 a.m. While paying our respects to the affair, we agreeably treated and found nearly over a million in attendance, giving all the assistance he could possibly give. The crowd was unusually large, and had it not been for the tie up of the cars on account of the strike it would have been larger. It was given at the new Fontanac hall on West Walnut street. The town's orchestra played the music for occasion. The invited guests danced to their hearts content, and during intervals Mr. Bud Lively, king of rag time songsters, rendered several selections which proved to be a hit. The large crowd seemed to be very much nothing happened to mar the pleasure of the crowd, and is authentically reported that $200 was cleared on the ovens's entertainment. The semi-annual meeting of the board of endowment was held here last month and the following reports were given out. Grand Secretary and Treasurer shows a cash balance of $0,777.45; amount on Interest in hand, a grand balance on hand, $20,477.45. These accounts taken from the Kentucky Pythian. It is a Journal of news and opinion, unseifish and uncompromising. Such a state paper is a great help in every community. Brother B. F. Johnson is editor and manager and is receiving much encouragement. By an act of the Supreme Lodge every financial Knight must pay 20 cents per year to the Pythian Temple fund through his lodge to the G. K. of R. and S. The temple tis due April 1st, and not later than April Class Papers N eed And Infli teract Department of Archives History CHARLESTON, W. V. Press to Cause of Papers to Races "Give me a lever that is long enough and I will lift the world," said a wise man. This is doubtless true and yet as starling as this feel may at first seem, it is very likely that we will find, after a little thing, that the lever looms over the only capable means of lifting a moving, this big world. Another great force moving and lifting the world today is public sentiment. Give me favorable public sentiment and I will move the world. It would doublesh go without saying that the greatest parent of public sentiment is this all powerful world moving force in the public most potent institution having to do with the affairs of men. The people those who own the press, have the arms that rock the universe. And it is such cogent arms as these that the colored people in this country today, need and need badly. In subjugation of newspapers to create public sentiment in their favor and to fight back this destructive tidal wave of adverse sentiment which is submerging them beneath a relentless contempt and merciless caste hatred. They need newspapers, dignified, and influential papers, established and broadest and highest principles and measuring up to the most lofty standard known to journalistic science. Of course it may be said that it was easy for the mice to arrive at the house and could be belied. But if this happens within the race then the need is not a strong defending press, but strong race-respecting and enterprising mind and can not believe the scapegoat people for fear of a death under calibre of manhood. The absence of the class of papers I have attempted to characterize can no longer be excused upon the students, race colored people will not support race assert that this is not theory. They should not need to support many of us and perhaps I should try for calling these newspapers—sold to them by newspaper companies and paid for no service otherwise because these papers, many of them give no service, but paid only because the man running the hand bill' is a member of their race. With no intention to discourage or treat disrespectfully any newspaper paper, colored enterprise and counting fully only the difficulties they meet and commendable, I am obliged to regretfully admit that some of the publications put out by colored newspaper offices, are indeed nothing more than infectious parodies of even the most obvious paper. Perhaps I should not have said ludicrous parodies because the spoctacle many of them present is more pitiful than laughable. But to take colored people's or any other people's money for the service these people are are capable of giving a clear answer under false pretenses. It is truthfully a shame to take the money. We do not displace the day of small things nor would we say one word of it against the humble beginning of a colored news sheet. But with many of them a humble beginning is a humble continuation and finally a more humble and shamful ending—"progress" these papers have never they were when the They are what they were when the dwarfed, child of the press first came into the world, with never, an added department or new feature. It is surprising that these papers get the support they need. But is not the loyalty colored people display towards the very poor of these publications, convincing evidence that these same people may be depended upon to support first-class journalistic service? This argument, now about newspaper support in needless or good newspaper service seldom has a practical aid from any one race or class of people unless its policy and work is devoted absolutely to this class or race of people. But the chief and greatest, reasons why colored people should own and foster such high class influential news journals, such journals as would command the attention of anyone, as well as colored people, are to answer the indictments which are constantly charging them with every conceivable low, inhuman, mean and contemptible offense capable of mortals. They need them to counteract the avalanche of unfavorable public sentiment, being crystallized against them by the possession of their enemies, a public sentiment, rendering them more and more the objects of hatred and contempt, not only in the eyes of the people about him, but those everywhere. They need such papers, with their deplorable situation, which if not covered will certainly visit upon their dire calamities. I must add, here ever, that not all of the public news controlled by white people is to Roxforrespondence reeaicdfty ‘ wan (Gorrespondence -:-.3 FRO OO ome oe ocd PAC ae, | pied 1 Say y MOMBBURG. FN de ‘ LMleThomaa Roy, of Mt Carbon, (Was here Saturday, the guest of Mr. ‘Richard Holloway. “Wy Bradley, of Gauley, was here Baentayy. * BH. Scott was with his family Sat- ‘urday, and Sunday. be Giese “Davis atiended the olf end less: of th e school at Hugheston, Friaay, ‘ . jv. Leg preacMed an able sermon at Bhady:Grove Sunday morning and at Tomsburg Sunday night sRey. Stratton will be entertained DdysMrd) Mannie Coloman ‘Thursday. + Mrae'Alvorta Miller's little daugh- ter Baltie broke her arm last week while playiag on the porch. She is much better at this writing. A number of neople from Nuckles wasup to proaching Sunday. Mra, Henderson and family are vighting friends at Raymond City this’ week, Rev. Wendorson will preach at Shady Grove Sunday. Or. White, of Montgomery, was here Tuesday night and installed the officers of the Red Men. rQuite a number of the people of ‘Tomsburg were seen on Paint Creek Saturday fishing and the Dr. , was called to visit a number of them Sunday. KANAWHA, Airs, F. D, Page left for Pomorod, Ohio, last Thursday afternoon, where she will be the guest of her mother, Mrs. Ametta Watson. . R. Johnson returned home from Cabin Creek last Saturday. Several from our placo attended the exhibition ‘given by Miss Ida M. King, at South Ruffner last Wednes. day night W. W. Lewis, J. W. Woods and son Jolin, were at home Saturday and Sunday. Acquilla Page was called home last Friday on account of the illness of hig ite boy, William. . B, Russ made a business trip to Charieston last_ Monday. z Miss Russie Sellers was the guest of Miss Larclia Lewis Sunday. 3. W. Woods was in Charleston visiting his sister, Mrs. A. H. Hack- ley Sunday. Willie Jackson was in Charleston on business Saturday. ‘M.A. Page was in Charleston Sunday, W. I, Jackson called on Misses €. B. and Mary P. Page Sunday after noon. Mrs, J. W. Woods was visiting at ‘Stow Will Sunday. ‘Miss Annestine Johnson is some- what indisposed. LONDON. “ere, MA. W. ‘Thompson, of Pratt, -Ppe of th’) leading women of the State, ‘Aggs.in cr town and spoke very en- imearaginsty to the Sunday schoo Mrs. Nowlin is very much im: proved at this writing, “James Tates, of Thayer, is here on business a few’ days. J. H. Brown, of Montgomery, spent Sunday here the guest of J. M. Blaney. J. 1. Wiseman, of Winefrede, is “spending some tine with friends. ‘Mr. Dyan, of Bagle, spent Sunday hrere the guest of S. B. Graves. "The public schools closed here Fri day night with Miss "Ethel Brown, of Montgomery, teacher. A program ‘Was rendered which every one re- tired well pleased. Mrs. Addie L. James will entertain ‘thé Women's improvement League, ‘Thursday. Mrs. Graves and Mrs. Coats spent Monday in Montgomery. INSTITUTE. The W. V. C. 1. Athletic club en- tertatned “the students and friends very pleasantly last Friday evening with a minstrel performance. Mrs. J. M. Canty has returned home from Harpers Ferry, where she spent some time with her moth- er, Mrs. Lovett, who has been very il, Mrs. Canty reports her very much improved. ‘The six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles. Liggins was drowned accidentally last. Saturday evening. The child was _ playing near the back-water and fell In. ‘The funeral services were conducted Sunday afternon by Rey. Wm. A. Spriggs. Interment in the Chappell Bessie, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lovett, is very IH this ‘week, Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. EB. Jones March §, a baby girl. Mother and child are doing nicely Mrs. Zanphra Bradford is able to be out again after a fw weeks’ iM ness. 1 Mrs. Alice Montgomery, of Pitts- burg, is the guest of her mother, Mrs,” Sallie Willams. Miss Alpha Brooks left ‘Tuesday for Hinton where she has been en fae fag head nurse al The Holley Mariam, ST. ALBANS, ¥F. W. Waddy was a business vist- tor to Charleston. Rev, W. W. Scott was In Charles- fon. Wednesday. gee Friend, of Institute, was the Gveet fC. and D. Gordan, Sunday _« Miss Martha Washington spent Sat- ‘atday and Sunday at home. “"R. Parish was home Saturday. Mrs. J. R. Crawford, who was sick fas.able to go the home of her gon in leaton Saturday. £ Cara Harris, who has been her grandparents for some thme, for her home in Charleston, Sat- ay. fe ‘yd, A.y Shields returned Saturday ‘spending a.few days at Poin! nt_and other points. b Sara Williams fs slowly im B so Mts. | Allee Martin, of Charleston, Wai in town a fow Rent Monday. : ‘Was the giisst of his v s this week, COVINGTON, VA. The body, of Lewis Chetham wa: brought here Sunday afternoon. He was killed. in the Tennessee mines while working there. He was about 20 years old and brother of Edwar¢ Chetam, of this place. He leave: & mother and several brothers tc mourn. Miss Alene Irving, of Lowmare was the guest Friday of Mrs, Joseph Clark. Mrs. Mary Allen, of Dunlap, spent Sunday here attending services al the First Baptist church. Rev. J.C, Austin filled the pulpit Sunday at the Pine street church, The Mesdames Mary Braxton ‘and L. A. Denson. spent Wednesday at Lowmore, the guests of Mrs, W. H. Broady. Tribe of Levi gave a very spicy musicale at the First Baptist churet Thursday evening. Music was ren- dered by the band. After the must cile refreshments were served. Mes. James Hunter is captain of Levi ‘Tribe. Mrs. Melinda Watson, of Younge- town, has been spending some time here’ visiting. relutives and friends. Dr. V. 8. Smith, of Clifton, left Thursday night to’ take charge of a church in Earlington, Ky. Little Clara James and Charttc McDowell gave a delightful birth- day party Saturday afternoon. Quite @ number of their little friends were present and ejoyed themselves. Lee cream, cake, oranges, apples, bana- nas, candy ‘and nuts were served. ‘The little ones received many pretty presents, The ‘Pythian sermon will ‘be preached next Sunday by Rev. J. ©. Austin, T. 'T. Anthony has just received a very nice soda fountain and will soon be ready to serve the ladies and gentlemen with all kinds of refresh- ing drinks. He will have his frutt stand and fountain on the corner o1 Elk and Maple streets. Mr. an Mrs. James A. Payne have been very fl] with something: like la_grippe. Mr. and Mrs. tenry Wright re- cently adopted into their family Mas- ter William Freeman, of Washing: ton, age 4 years. Rev. Hackett filled his pulpit here Sunday in the morning he spoke from Matthews 21-28. In the afternoon he addressed the eongregation ‘at Dunlap. RED STAR. Rev. and’ Mrs. Booze, who moved here iast fall, have removed to Ral- eigh, to make their future home. We are ‘sory, indeed, to lose two such congenial people, and wish them much success and happiness in thet new home, Mr. and Mrs, Moseley went to Sun Saturday to visit friends--and re turned Sunday. : Mr. Davis went to Thurmond Sat- ‘Unay on business. Mrs. Miner and son, Master Brady, of Sun, were visiting Mrs Robert Penn Saturday. Dr. 8. A. Washington was called to Wire Creek moantain last week on professional business. ‘The 9th of April is celebration and rally day here. Remember we hope to see many visitors: Mrs. Molly Hutehingon and Mrs Anna Lewis were in town Friday. Mrs, Lou Munroe has been ill, bul is somewhat better at this writing. Mrs, Kate Mosely was hostess tc the Woman's Improvement League ‘Thursday. Mrs. Richardson, of Prudence, was in town Saturday. Mesdames Kesler and Hickman, of Sun, were down Thursday to at tend the Woman's Improvement League. Mr. Hicklin and son, Ellet, went to Dunloup Sunday. ‘The students of West Virginia: in- stitute and college allended preaeh. ing at Sun Sunday. J. L. Munroe went to Oak Hil Sunday. RAYMOND CITY. Mrs. Ida Williams is able to re. sume her duties again after several days’ sNness, Richard Dickerson made a flying trip to Charleston last week. Mr, and Mrs, W. 1. Wilson, o Charleston, are guests of their par: ents this week. LR. Prentias, H. Woods and Jul lus ‘Nash were ‘business visitors it Charleston last week. Mrs. ‘Frust, of Charleston, was the pleasant guest of her daughter Mrs. Maggie Citiids, last week. Born to” Mr. and) Mrs, ‘Thoma: Childs, a fine girt. Mrs. Ada Price and son, tlarrison were in Charleston last waek to «or her daughter, Mrs. Susie Wanzer who has been ‘sick for several weeks ‘The surprise party given on ©. A Williams March 15, was a pleasan| affair, and a great many people wer highly entertained. William Randolph is in Charles ton thls week and will remain. sov eral days, the guests of his sistor, Walter’ Alston” is able” to Be around again. Mrs. Rebecea Somerville made. i flying trip to Charleston Saturday Mrs. Charles James Ix on the slek ist this weet. Marshall Lewis left for his nome¢ in Chicaxo after several days’ viel with his wife, Mrs. Manche Lewis, George Alston made, a. busines trip to Charleston Jast_ week WINIPREDE. Mies lola Turner and C. F. Ramey spent several days in Charleston last week F. 8. Gibson had his foot badly mashed while at work In the minex Thuraday by falling alate, N. 8. Alexander and J. 0. Reed Wire bnainess visitors to Lewiston Saturday, W.N. Shelton was a business vis- itor to Charleston Friday and Satur- day. WH. Morris and on; ‘Archie. ‘Spent Sekergeyiamd Sunday at thelr Song ichogtaton. vr SA hs We J. WW Woods an en i anh tea Baas x newha af rand Tames. peta tertained 0.°L. Stéwart, "Nan plo MONADD, 0.8: Hays with ‘gambs and muster) Rev. BOB. omit A. Wi son and R. G. Gredr wore thelr guests Sunday. 2)" mes |, Queen Bsther ‘Gourt, No. 18, ang Sudilant Lodze, io, 17, will have thelr annual “Thanksgiving | sermon preached jojatly at the church Sun- day, March 34, by Rev. J. W. Car- ter, of Huntington. ~ Rev. F. B. Smith filled his regular sopatntment, Sunday at 11 o'clock. Subject: “Woman Saving Her Peo- ple.” In this he made it. very plain that we need mere good women for the church and race. He showed woman’s power over man for good or bad. He impressed on mothers the necessity of training their daughters for good. enero Ses ‘ghatetawicanonar Mrs. Peter Bill was hostess to the Benjamin Tribe Monday — evening After the foutine of business dell cate refreshments were served In a charming manner. Rev. I. V. Bryant delivered an ‘eloquent sermon at Ebonezer M. E chureh Sunday afternoon. Dantel Shields, of Richmond, Va. is the guest of relatives and friends in the city. . ‘Dr. Green, of Charleston, was the guest of C. C. Barnett last Saturday, While en route home from up on the N. & W. MrscMyrt Terry fs:illat her home ou ButMngton avenue. ‘Mrs, Green entertained,.at dlnnor Sunday Messrs Washington, Frank- Yin and Miss: Stewart. Mrs. Lyda-Lee has closed her store on Eighth aveune. Mrs. West, of Crockett’s Springs; Va., is making an extended visit to her daughter, Mrs. Merril on Ninth averiue. Rev. I. V. Bryant spent several days last week with his family at Bidwell Ohio, : Quite a large number of young people were present at the organiza: tion of a B. ¥. P. U. at the First Baptist church Sunday evening, and some interesting programmes will be rendered each Sundky evening. ‘The Winter Evening Reviow Club nyt last Sunday evening and adopted “Silas Marher” for study. Rey. Harrldy, of.the M. E. church, left for conference Monday. Herbert James was a visitor to Charleston: 4 few days last week Miss Carrie Simmons is convales: cent from her recent illness, Quite an ‘extensive program will be ‘rendered Easter by the Sundas school ofthe Mrst Baptist church "Mrs. A. D.-Mills was hostess las! week to a chureh social Tor the bene fit of the Sixteenth street Baptis church, a grand time was reportec by all "present. ‘Mrs. Amanda Miller Coleman re mains the same. Robert Woodson is able to be out again after his recent illness. * John Dickinson fs quite ill at Kess. ler’s higpital, HARPER'S FERRY. Prof. Elmer W. Hoenshel principal of Shenandoah .Cottegiate ~ Instititte and School of Mule, Dayton, Vi, fave a lecture in Anthony. Hall. His subject, was. “‘Where-the Shamrock Grows.” In this Jocture-the spea; ker told of an ocean yovage, of thé world-renowned "Shandon Bells,” of Blarney .Castle and. the. “Blarney Stone,” of the beautiful, Lakes of Killarney, and of that’ great geolo- gical curosity, the “Giants Cange- way.” He told of peat, bogs, castles and’ “round towers,” and of - the curious ways, ete., of the Irish ‘at home. For over an hour the hearers lis- tened to vivid deseriptions of places of exercises ineldent to the tour of the “land of the Shaintock,” now interested in a bit of history, then touched with a pathetic récltal of moved to bursts of laughter at some ridiculous situation in,or expert- ence. Byery one -who- attended the lecture was very much pleased. ‘This 1s the season when-the Var}- ous classes. are giving thelr “clask night” program. Friday night. the third year class rendered a very in- teresting program consisting of reci- tations, solos, duets, quartes and choruses by the class. "The class 1s'to be hixhly commended for the effort put forth to make this night a eue cess, One wek provions to this the fourth year class rendered a pro- gram equally a6 interesting. ‘The ball teams ‘are having: regular practice verlods now in order that they may be prepared for the publi games later. Prof. Joha H. Hill loft last week for the West, Mra. Hi will joht him later. She will’ remain awhil longer with her mother, Nrs. Lovett who is improving slowly. Mr. John Hamltton waa called tc Pittsburg last week by the death o his son George. ig Misses Mannie. Jefferson © and’ Ad ora Robinson Jeave roturned sinec th close of school to Storer for the spring review. Otheta will enter at the be ginning of the Spting term. ‘The ‘True Refortnera gave’an ontér taihment Saturday night at the Zdox Baptist Chureky Tt was both a socta and finandal success. Ore. C, B. L, Evang hal the entertainment fr ae ne ) ALDERSON, a A. P. Stranther, of - Huntington, was here Monday to attend: the St. ‘Luke's council. 9 a Mrs, Susie Hill patd a visit.to Tal- cott Monday. ‘Edward Willlante and Henry Cooley of Lewisburg, were here Sunday. Lee Wilson, Pullman porter onthe C. & O. is laid up at home with the rheumatism. m > Rev. and Mra, 3, W. Waters were recalled from Stainton to the tred- side of thelr daughter, Mrs. Janye Ailes who continues to be hopelessly 1. es J. M, Trice made & trig to. Hinton to consult Dr. Holly abont his dan- xhtertn-law, Mrs, J. A.-Tri¢o,’ Hemant Fir, Bly rétutwed on the night trai Tt wan hoped that his servites. would aA ‘attength to the excellent. atten- ~J28E ADVOCATE.” a e ton teecelving,, but he, could nok Font neRMy. care: sunaator ‘WH the ski of ec Mamily phygiclany + He tei pptinton on thenext tian. aah D. Bopaans flle€ his Ppt tne mM. i chro gaye a supReat (he town hall last PRE UR Thee had ed Ry Ded ent envert potery. well sarmongpiethe M. E. chureh Sua- day night. Sh: c.the eha amet at Mrs. Taylor ‘Crawford’s ‘fegidence on. the north pars tae the bad weather, 4 gded attend turned out and had an excell ing. Y _ Mrs. Mf @ ~Pentek returned from a visit, Thayer. Wit cannon, —— 35 After; bg the last issue of The Advocate lastaosk. giving ihe eames pf the new 'dflivers of the New Hope Baptist tay school. We are glad t6 see that Mx-Morris Hill; who has been supetintendent for the past ten years ts staking an active part in the school, We are sorry the school hours has b¥en chansed so as to compel hira %G.tentier his resignation as superintendent on’ acount of in- convenience. with his position. Still we-are gladto know he has 80 ar- ranged to be with us and take: the post as general instructor of teachers meetings. MONTGOMERY. \ Ernest Jackson, who returned home last week from Paint Creek Hospital, istsomewhat.avorse at his: home on High street, >) —Avery Jokinson continues ‘quite Hl at its home!in West’ Montgomery. Mrs. Hi B. Branham, who has been sick fo several weeks,” Is able to be out. he Mrs. James Graham, who jas been sick, Is much: batter. Benjamin Hall, of Son, and Miss Rta Hall, ‘student at Insitute, were here Tuesday? to attend. the- funeral bf their sleter, Miss Cora Hall, Mizs Bite Page, of Charleston, was here Saturday ‘and Sunday the guest of Mr. and Sirs. E. C. Page. Dr. BaB/White was caled to Cedar Grove on ‘professional business ‘Thurs- day-ot last week. Mra. ©. fx Watson, was hostess ‘tuesday -afkeroon to the Willieg Workers Oh, at her ‘beautiful home on Collegovatreet. They are arranging to appear in ’May with a high clas drama. Atter*business session, Mrs. Watson served delicious luncheon, , J. S. Page was the guest of his par ‘ents at Kanawha City Sunday. ‘The statuge Party to be glven April Ist by the Eadies of Sojourner Court promises to'-be the most. enjoyable affair of the soason The wWilung Workers Club will meet with Meg. 0. T. Wilkerson, Fri day afterndotis Miss J. ‘AisHolmes representing the foreign ‘imlgplons lectured. to a crow: ded house Sunday evening. Mrs. Willlam Brown, “Mrs. Anno Jackson, Mrsg., Charles ‘Oakley, Mys ‘Anna Lovingg,’Mrs. Sot, Duncan and Mrs. Ge, pikCoy, of —Donwood, were here slipping’ Monday. Hee Rh. DAW, Meadows, is_a bust ness -vigitor Here. - Rev. W.C."Biiffine 1s sick at his home-—Tye Fath, Ori@ of the ‘Most brilliant women of the West that willbe in attend: ance at the supreme gathering. 1s Mrs. MB Jononbureer, of Fort imith; “Ark. "Mrs, Joshenburger {s owe of the ‘mage active workers, i the Court of Calainthte-fn that section of the country, and her | visit 1g Louisville will bé Jooked torward t | with a. great dgal 6f interest by the Court of this cfte: NEGRO BXFIBITS AT _ JAMPS- : TOWN. See “Prof. W. B B2Dabols is to’ prepare an’ exhibit along educational and so- Giologieal Minos, He is in hearty sympathy with’ the exposition idea, ‘and fédlizes that-in 2 large measure te Negro is off trial to show cause why he should aot be convicted of in capacity to absorb the virus of cly- {ifzation. Prof. Bubols is of the opth- fon. that whatever. may be the pri- vato-notion of Sudividuals-as-to the policy .of separation, it is now the boundén duty of every Negro: to come forward as a witness for the defense. * Bibi Assurance has been given that sev- oft of the mast notable of the paint- ings of Henry O. Tanner which made him famous, willbe on exhibition in the ‘art department of the Negro ex- hibit at Jamestown. One, now in the” possession of the Wannamaker family, of Piiladephia, and for whieh “a round. sum was paid, hae been loaned to. the exposition ‘com: Mane for the 6sbaston: Mrs. A. M.‘Cartis, fiscal agent, |went (o Boston this week to confer with Governor Mirtis Guild, ar., and }Mayor Fitzgefatd and to conclude arrangements fo the ttanster of, thy }CHapus Attuck# monament on Bos toa common the _ exposition Brounde at Tamaétown,” ‘The ee: o the Historic stati of the famous revolutioniry patriot» was “granted largely upon the, recommendation of Senator Henry Cabot: Lodge, and {t Wil occupy a Conspicnous place tn front of the $49,000 Negro bulld- ring. | Armstrong mastial training schoo! the: finest exatiplo the race hax tn Amerlea, of the-elty idea of indus: Eflal, education, will have’ an impos- {ng exhibit, plated by Principal W. Bruce Evans, The’ devices and me- chanical inventidtis of Mr. Arthur C. Newtian are amiobg the many striic ing features, They are simply won- dertul ‘and musts be seon in opera- tion-to be propétly appreciated. ‘There Js now:enough materfal in sight to fill thé Nokré buflding trom cellar to garrot, Dut a8 quality, rather than quantity, ds, the desideratum, the character’ of exhibits must, of necessity, undergo the most. rigid gerutiny, to seg that they are up to the atandard, “Hxbibits ofthe Ne- Gro/s highest chpabilities will be wel- comed to the last,.and space will be cheerfully, accorded. all such arth cles. Ne ; The Negro exhibst will oceupy six acres of the oxbom@Hon grounds, and Will have several attuctures. for ‘the #6 of concoan@mslres, besides the $40,600 main i " Requests tor @Mieession’ até col: : me Sy Se a MRT Cae ate Re a RECON F ae aa ~~ UUEERELD: Gouden’ pustitote: a lueHeld (WY Val oi earn se Sa Be agi _.A College and Normal Institute fF dol- ored students,, focateg. a ~yBlueligd, . the . leading commercial toWn of the southern Part of West Virginia. ‘oh the Norfolk and. Western'ratiroad, 205 miles éast of Kenova: ei. pale Cea 3, awh) ee a wat NEM Splendid College Buildings, Beautiful Grounds, Dormitoriés*.. : seis Satna ome ten eral coa room oA mond neeong aan, ek ghe aeke rm tai roy ea pant er owed OSES a a eae eee 3 CS TR PSM S yen OP ee Bein hte at deb agcbes wages ne jaa eee eT, Wa Howes It zou havshr ga reunlay;boaeay moramontof the Boral shor aed bows Sora briasatngoee Fereebee slats nde rte RUF oY ewstag ‘the howdls cloar and cleanin to take” CAND’ (@ ovtinerie : rg i e Da}: rn Bee ee’ NSE ee Does Stace ae EAT EM LIKE CANDY great nine mule, Bate, Seek De ince Tadaitr encanle aeh KEEP YOUR BLOOD GLEAN Ce Tes ase wogt Frege Giatat nporey torn patentee medica rete ee "Scientific American, Adandéomoty Wurteated werkis. Tatreoat Mba Ebest £ Go,ssitessrn Now York Gi: Diecase £ePPissasrce (Ppp wires REVIVO . pes RESTORES VITALITY ete a r WD yy | Made a NCA’ eee 1 Well Man THE ee ee of Me.” eCnnaT { yy * vt fi oe ae Am Be reduces Aino remulta tn 0 anya te ie Ramer macasictn caraa scl otra fl Young man can feats wot aber ence ol gitta og gagrer helt poultal i Misa BREWING. "ie qutekay men a eae Be Tapree,Nereounigen ant Via ie Woaknons anne Laat Boer, paliny Mamet Westine Binnaen, at oftests of natf-abno.oe Geass id indisgrotion, whieh usta Ne ioe 5809" whlnens or marringe Tt Woe Oni cuts Cratactlng to dal of joa fen eas fervg toute and blood sage bripglon tani th ine glow co patachecks re storing tho fre of youdic Te sees SH Ge Proadhing alsonne, Tosi on havin HAS TN By figathons dean he oorriod in vows ponpens Eivy tron nation and eheon aria ees aS Sith gunrmatoe, circulars tree natieey ROYAL MEDICINE CO., Marine Bidg., Chicago, I C. A. Potterfield, Druggist, stantly coming in and contracts will be entered into at an carly date. | The press of ‘the country fs practt cally q unit for the oxhtbit,.and en- Hghtened public: sentiment justifies | the policy of placing our -exhibits’ in a separate building—mot to “jim crow” the race, as the Irreverent and: thoughttoss may --assert—-bnt sto make sure that the race gets the éredit, due it for its ‘skill and con. creditable it “ir: WITNESSES CAUBH DELAY In Case of Lane's Administrator vs : ©. #0. RB. R. ak: ‘Witnesses are delayin= ‘ho ease of Bynes Lane's administrator va the letaponke ' & Ohio * Rallrodd’ com- _ Ladies’ Oxfords and High Shoes in All‘the Néw:.., SPRING STYLES a . Evers ing. % Age, that the |de- . AS Gy Signers could | Cee > Being annie: Y age * AE SS vation is ex- “sl 254 |pressed some: ge where nthe. Mh ROPE Pte EBs |) ene em shown in our 4 eas hott Patent Leather _ .. Mid Leather — _ _» Tan Leather and every other leather that: is known toshoe-making is here ina gradethatis better. and at.a-price that 1s iowér than any..to:be found, else: | where; «Regardless, of: oe : heavy advances An gre cost” of leathér, our shod prices: Temainthe same, ‘BELL SHOE COMPANY. ‘eee ekenewna st pany and instead St the chse’ being Anished, as was ryan: Treddayy it will probably bé 'Thuraday’ before it fa given to the jury, ‘THe attorneys for the’platnttty and dofense hold congultation with Jndgo Burdett on Wednesday/'ty ‘ordet’ to come 10 an agtesiront 6n using the feeord of the Jolin Howery trial. Sey. oral Of the wWitndgdos-who testified Ii ‘THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1907. tho Howory trial. wore éxpectad to be put on thesatand — but, ae one o'clock: they had not, ariived th the city and it was then. that tho attors, neve abkeod that he récord iM the for mer trial be used. SORES ee sities p BUS, B: Anite Casa a” bibinegs: a ; Sasa bahia tear the OI Extremely low rates are an effect to all polls in the West. If you are contemplating a trip to carpool on the East Coast or in the North or South of West it will pay you to consult your nearest Ohio Central Lines agent regarding rates, noutes, all airlines promptly and cheerfully answered. In connection with the above trips you should tap the through sleeping car line to Chicago. The driving the new Cafe Dining Cars. The dining cars are a new innovation and are very popular with the traveling public. The Chicago sleeper leaves Charleston on No. 6 at 11:20 a.m. arriving Chicago 6:50 a.m. next day. Charge for double lower north Charleston to Chicago is $3.00 Give this route a trial the next time you travel and be convinced of the excellent service. Ask agents for purchasers. CHAS. B. DAUM, C. T. A., 804 Kanawha street. 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State of West Virginia, Kanawha County, At Rules held in 'the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, on the first Monday in the month of March, 1907, Virgine Lee Carter, Plaintiff, vs. In Chancery No. 1314. Chester A. Carter, Defendant. Chester A. Carter, Defendant. (The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony.) This day came the Plaintiff by her Attorney, and on his motion, and it appearing by afidavit filed, that the Defendant is a non-resident of this country within one month after the date of the first publication hereof, and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. Teste: D. M. SHIRKEY, Clerk. C. E. Klimbrough, Sol. NOTICE TO TAKE DEPOSITIONS. To Chester A. Carter: Take Notice: That on the 6th day of April, 1907, at the office of C. E. Klimbrough, K. of P. Building, at carrier of Washington and Dickinson streets, Charleston, West Virginia, I will take the deposition myself and others to be used in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery now pending in the Circuit Court of Kanawa county, West Virginia, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant. If for any cause the said depositions are not commenced or completed on the day mentioned, the same will be continued from day to day at the same place until completed. VIRGIE LEE CARTER. Plaintiff. Per C. E. Klimbrough, Solicitor. "THE CLANSMAN" Will Not. Be Produced In Detroit Says Mayor. Detroit, Mar. 20.—Mayor William P. Thompson tonight prohibited the production of "The Chamama" which was booked for the Detroit opera house for the last week in April. A number of white citizens joined with the delegation of colored residents in protesting that the presentation of the play would engender a bitter feeling, and possibly lead to a disturbance by the colored people of the city. Huntington Herald. The defeat of the republican party, in Charleston yesterday is a matter to be restretched. The manner in which it was accomplished puts a premium on the employment of methods of securing votes that should be an everlasting disgrace to every community. The low use of money, energy, or influence that could be employed legally of illegality, was put in force by the one she the prostitution of every man's birthright might be complete, and all for the success of principles possessing beautiful virtues. Washington. Mar. 19. -With Senator Scott, taking a deserved vacation in Florida, the newsmen outside of his state are saying much about him as a presidential possibility. When the senator returns, he will find a aplendid assortment of clippings from eastern journals, paying attention to his fitness for high office and admitting that his own state will be solid for him if he deserves the honor. The following is from the Wheeling correspondence of the Washington Star: Senator Scott is enjoying a presidential boost. West Virginia, and considerable speculation has been aroused as to whether the boom is part of a movement to send an anti-Rosepell delegation from this state to the capitolism national convention. Hosts of West Virginia republicans are cordial admirers of the junior senator, but it must be confessed that not all of them look seriously on his presidential boon. Senator Eldin lost no time in denying a report that he 'was for Roosevelt for another term, but did not say he was agitist him.' He explained, however, that he would be for Senator Scott in case the Jatter should enter the race. Outside of the urgency no evidences of a Scott booth through Private Dalezell of Ohio, who resided in Washington, has started an endless chain letter movement in Scott's behalf. Whether rightly or otherwise, Senator Scott is associated with the campaign of republicans who do not want Roosevelt for another form, or a presidential candidate of the Roosevelt type of radicalism or strenuosity. Those who figure him as aligned with Senator Forker on matters of policy affect to see in the Scott boom in Illinois the Forker boom in Ohio, the Fairbanks boom in dixion, and so on to the end that enough delegates be fired up for favorite sons so that the Roosevelt devotees will be powerless at the next national convention. The favorable state mention of Scott for the head of the ticket is also construed to be intended purely for state consumption. Senator Scott's prestige would certainly be strengthened by it, for his race to succeed himself for a third term. While his third term proposition will not be decided for over three years, he has to get his first position for the battle next year, when the holdovers in the state senate are to be selected. Activity along that line is due to begin soon. Desire to Succeed Himself. There is little doubt of Senator Scott's desire to succeed himself. It is clear from every indication that he wants to remain in the Senate, and, for that matter, he makes no secret of the inspiration. Naturally he must be pleased at the presiden- tion, but as between the two honors, it may be taken for granted that he will confirm himself in the selection of a favorable legislator rather than to the pickling of the national convention delegates, however much he may be interested in the head of the next republican ticket. Senator Scott's friends are anxious as to the probable rivalry of representative elect W. P. Hubbard. Another follow-townman, Albert Schenk, a millionaire bear packer, has already announced himself as a candidate to succeed Scott, but the alarm skips Schenk and lands in front of Hubbard's door. Hubbard is non-committal. When it is considered, however, that he has not yet taken his seat in the lower house, it can easily be understood that he is not in a position yet to talk about succession to the upper house. Personally Hubbard is not communicative, and, no announcement may be expected from him until he can with propriety make the required statement for publication that he can candidate for the senate. When such a candidate as, as is expected to come in the race, two of Robert Hazlett, the Wheeling member of the state senate, is likely to begin the race to achieve his ambition of going to congress as Hubbard's successor. Other Factors to Be Reckoned With. Gov. Dawson remains a factor to be considered for Scott's shoes, and Representative Joseph H. Gaines is another probability. Senator Scott may eliminate or greatly minimize the opposition by effecting a popular choice for governor next year. From a geographical viewpoint he is sure to get behind a man from the southern section, and a good plug along that line will do much to weaken the territorial claims of Gaines and Dawson. The governor's troubles with the legislature have been so many and perplexing nobody can believe that at present he is thinking of entering the stormy legislative arena for the necessary nerve-wracking senatorial contest. But there are those who pretend to fathom his interest in a state primary law as connected with his reputed senatorial dreams. The governor has two more chances to get that law passed before the senatorial battle. He is also said to be considering a special session of the legislature for the coming fall, which will be asked to take up the primary bill. The primary bill as projected calls for the nomination of candidates for the United States senate. Without that content the bill would have easier sloppyness. The governor wants everybody named by primary on one and the same day. If the bill goes through there will be no surprise manifested if Dawson's name is on the ballots, but if the bill meets the rate limit this winter there is not a strong amplitude of the governor's making the required convass of the legislators. Where Governor Comes In. Perhaps the governor will have a say in the choosing of the West Virginia delegation to his party's national convention. Having been active in his party's councils for a quarter of a century, the governor is not expected to let the delegation's selection/go by default, particularly an some of the republicans who have been opposing his state policies will be active in that regard. On this issue alone, conditions may swing to the point, where there will be a passage at arms between Senator Scott on the one, hand, and Gov. Dawson and Representative-elect Hubbard and Sturgiss on the other. The Dawson Hubbard-Sturge's big moment, which has been at the forefront in the new state tax policies, and which is virtually the administration's leadership, will likely look to Taft to obeyobev for a third term. Incidentally it will be noted that a boom is growing for Sturge that would have significance in determining the senatorial proposition. HORRORS OF HAITI VOODOO. Awrild Bites Practiced, in Which Mothers Eat Their Children. *Chicago Chronicle.* When two Negroes were garroted at Hanna's 6-year age for murder res- atting a voodoo doodoo practice, consider able shrimp was expressed that such a revival of savagery as voodooism attik estolated on this continent. In parts of Cuba, in Halif and other West Indian islands, however, the spell of the voodoo is potent today, just as it dominates the minds of certain Negro tribes on the coast of West Africa. To a lesser extent, and long since divorced from human sacrifices, vowes and prevail among the Negroes of Lombok and other sections of the Gulf coast. Veeodoo, or vaudaux, worship has long been deeply rooted in Haaliti. It is intimately associated with the politics of the republic, and those of the other heads of the government who have courage to defy public opposition and direct their influence against this cult have met with little success. Those who practice voodoo are greatly feared by the Haitians who are not votaries of the snake god. The "faithful" are distinguished by their curious method of knotting the hair and by the profusion of ornaments which they affect. An analogy may be traced easily between the rites of the African natives who worship Dahm-gbf and the ceremonies of the Haitians who belong to the voodoo sects. A priest in Haiti is known as papa or mastster or king. There is but one priestess, whom the priest has elevated to that rank. She is called mamma or magee or queen. The power of the king and magee beckons their rulers extend divine time. The thunderous rumble of the drum calls the people together. This sound is most impressive and can be heard for long distances. When the initiated arrive upon the sacred spot each faskin's a pair of sandals to the feet and decks the feet and decks the body with a number of red handkerchiefs, red being the favorite color of the voodoo. Upon the altar are seated the king and queen (or papaloi and mamalanoi, as the Hatians 'call them') arrayed in respendent costume, of which red is the predominant color, and white is placed a box with slats in front of which may be seen the object of their worship—a non-venomous serpent. The worshiper approaches the guitar, does obeisance and makes his protestations of eternal faithfulness and submission. Taking the hands of the king and queen he repeats his oaths. When all have acknowledged themselves as true servants of the god the king and queen descent to their followers upon the joys of the religion and what happiness is in store for those who faithfully obey the deity's mandates. Then the king expresses himself willing to give advice to those who need it. Each approaches, according to his or her seniority in the sect and asks the desired favor. As each question is asked the king appears wrapped in a bound of filigree and adornment. Suddenly the spirit of the god sets him, the places the box containing the scepter upon the ground and commands the queen to get upon it. This gate no sooner does she begin to tremble - violently and froth at the mouth and then utter the words which the god sees fit to insure. All kinds of advice is requested, of course, and all sorts is received. Many crimes are very likely hatched or encouraged through the queen's instructions. Her commands are always implicitly obeyed. After all have taken advice the king and queen announce, that the god will be pleased to accept through them day offering which may be presented. Thereupon each worshiper advances and deposits his gift in such a way that no other can see the nature of the donation. This collection is used to defray the personal expenses of the king and queen and for the promotion of "voodoo" interests throughout Haifa. When all questions have been satirically disposed of, the box containing the snake is again placed upon the altar, the entire band forms a circle, and, with hands joined, pledge, with the host horrible oaths imaginable, to maintain the strictest secrecy regarding anything connected with their worship. This pact is frequently sealed by each member drinking the blood of a white goat or cook. The initiation of any person who defies to become a member is now in order. A large circle is drawn upon the grounds, bits of horn, strands of hair and other trifles are placed in the candidate's lands and he is led to the center of the ring. Then to the accompaniment of a chant lastly roared out by the king and the builing of the sacred drums he commences a violent sort of dance. Should he be chance happen to go outside the circle it is regarded as a You Look Premature! very bad omen, and the queen turn their books to evil consequences of the a battle when the chamber hignour his steward himself us standy himself he continue until he arrives at state sten, whereupon the king (not very gently upon the a club, swear him, at the formally declares him a the sect. After this ceremony "voodoo" dance begins, approaches the bag con- sacred snake and smokes dately his body makes celvable kind of resuscite would seem that a di some portion of his ana- nausea. This motion is co to the queen and she in municates it to another until all are writhing and a weird sort of dance, characteristic of which feet are hardly hiked ground. One by one the ancients, foaming at the mouth and writhing horribly, fall to the ground and are quickly dragged to a dark shed or shelter of some kind nearby. Here the most disgusting organ takes place, which cease only from sheer weariness of the participants. These meetings are held at irregular intervals, more or less frequent, and are accompanied by very little excitement. The victims of the canibal "voodoo" are, for the most part, native children, particularly females. Indeed, a pupator sometimes employs a Mutian to kidnap children for his assuctions. Such a brute is known as a human agriptr, who is termed "the bear without horns" in contrast to the white-shinned by the other sect. Instances have been cited where warriors have been deceived to lonely spots and murdered, the bodies then being consumed by the canimbals much as one would eat any other kind of meat. Numerous have been the cases where mothers have sacrificed and enten their own children. Indeed, this practice has doubtless affected the increase of population in Haiti to some degree. We are meeting, the fourteenth annual session of the State Sunday School convention to be held at Huntington May 2, 3, A. 1907. The convention is a distinct body from other organizations in the state. It is the young people's organization its methods are different, although its aims are the same in that it is an agency for extending God's kingdom on earth and especially in West Virginia. Our Record. The power of such agencies always depends upon two things. First, the amount of funds given by the people, and, Second, The faithfulness and ability of those who are entrusted with these funds. The executive board does not fear the closest inspection of its doings. They rather welcome it, believing that their policy can stand the test both of efficiency of operation and economy of administration. A glance at the minutes of 1908 pp 16-19 will show that our mission work, our colporteur work, and our educational work, excelled that of any previous year. Besides we closed the year with enough money on hand to pay off all our obligations. Upon this record we appeal to you for larger contributions. Our Work Our seminary at Hill Top has struggled hard this year to keep her doors open. The teachers have all faithfully stood at their post of duty pay or no pay. Our educational work must be maintained. We cannot think of giving it up without proving false to our children, our denination, and our honored dead. The president, Prof. Jefferson, is a capable yet modest man, without noise or bluster, is giving commendable service. He needs our encouragement. Again from reports of our efficient Sunday School missionary there are places in certain coal districts of our state where our people have no Sunday school or no church. The continued influx of our people from other states bring to us opportunities and obligations for increased missionary effort. With two Sunday School missionaries on the field the convention could double its present good work in mission and colloquium. Our Means. All schools should lay plans at once. Suppers, novel entertainments, after collections, personal soliciting are all good. We would urge however, that superintendents and teachers each agree to secure five annual members to be added in with their letter. If all begin now to plan and work, no school need report at Huntington with less than ($10) Ten Dollars. For a whole year's work it seems almost any Sunday School no matter how small, might raise this minimum sum in our workers get busy. This year two hears will be awarded at the school with more bells that sends up the of money per capita school with less than enrolled that sends sum of money per than these rewards verdict: "Well done, wine." Let every true worker put hands to membering the ne w faultful banners follows: One to than fifty mem- bers the largest sum. One to the fifty members up the largest capita. Higher is the Master's which always Sunday School the work, re- ill make us by Read every line in this paper and then decide whether or not it contains more real, live race and general news than can be found in any other weekly paper. Our aim is to keep our readers informed on those things which concern them. You cannot afford to be without this paper. Now is the time to subscribe. Start right the first of the year and stay right by reading the Advocate. Send $1.50 and your name and Address to The Advocate Publishing Co., Charleston, W. Va., and the paper will be sent to you one year. HANGING TO THE WALL Paper that so blends all that is most beautiful to make your home cozy and comfortable is our most sincere effort. We carry an exclusive line of choice patterns in the latest effects in Wall Paper that lends so much to make your home comfortable.Do not delay till the bad weather sets in but have your papering done now while the weather is fine. what we could have done and didn't do. For First Class Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Heating Call and See GEBHART PLUMBING COMPANY 228 Capitol St. Charleston, W. Va. Yours in His name. The S. S. Executive Board, J. W. Scott, Sec. Huntington, W. Va. March 18, 1907. P. S. Any school or B. Y. P. U. new or old that has not received letter blanks should write the Secretary for same. The programmer will soon be ready. An instance of a child being sold for a shilling was brought to the Leeds Coroner last week and a written agreement as to this sale was produced in court. The coroner was inquiring into the cause of the death of Dora Silvers, aged 2 years, who had been adopted by a married woman named Ellen Guant. Mrs. Guant said the mother of the child was a widow, who had to go out to work. She met Mrs. Silvers in a public house in Leeds and gave her a shilling for the child. In proof of her statement the woman produced a dirty scrap of paper, on which was written: FRUITS, CANDIES, ICEGREA "I, Mrs. Gaunt, bought from Mrs. Emily Silvers her baby daughter Doris on the 14th day of November, 1905. Families Furnished wit Ice Cream. Orders for shipment solicited. "Witnessed by William Guant and Sarah Elizabeth Smart. "Bull and Butcher Inn, Water Lane, Leeds." A penny postage stamp had been affixed to the document. Replying to the coroner, Mrs. Guant said she did not know the whereabouts of the mother. The child had been insured for 3 pounds. We make prompt delivery of Cream and Ices for day orders. The medical evidence showed that the child had suffred from pneumonia and died during convulsions. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned. "You don't hear as much about buyin' gold bricks as you used to," said Mrs. Corntosel. "No," answered the farmer; "when one o' them slick fellers find an easy purchaser nowadays he aln't satisfied to sell him anything less than a whole mine." SPRING OPENING (Copyright, 1907, by L. ADLER BRIDGE & CO.) Good Clothes for Boys The boy has a right to wear out half a dozen times as many suits as his elders, and he works the privilege to the limit. Our line of excellent clothes for the boy's spring wear await your inspection. While we will not make the absurd statement that our Boys' Clothes will not wear out, we will say that we have done everything in our power to make the task of wearing them out as difficult for the young fellow as possible. Come in and look them over. We will expect you. OUTFITTERS FROM HEAD TO FOOT. OFFICES. New York: 738 7th Avenue. Washington: 1325 12th St. N. W. Louisville: 1112 W. Madison St. St. Louis: 3137 Pine St. Philadelphia: 702 So. 15th St. Baltimore: 502 W. Biddle St. Boston: 94 a Harvard St., Cambridge. Pittsburg: 461 6th St., Braddock. Columbus: 266 St. Clair Ave. New Orleans: 226 So. Robertson St. Jacksonville: 536 W. Union St. Nashville: 706 Bass St. Indianapolis: 1606 Alvord St. Lexington: 507 N. Upper St. San Francisco: 365 Union St., Oakland. Detroit: 261 Elliot St. El Paso: 332 Lion St. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION. On Monday we had a municipal election, or, as some facetiously term it, a ratification of the Democratic primary held some weeks before, and the city passed from the hands of the Republican party into the control of the unterified advocates of reform—the Democrats. The campaign, though of short duration, was the hottest seen in these parts for many a year and presented another confirmation of the wise saying that politics makes strange bed-fellows. Aligned with the Democrats, were the gentlemen who conduct games of chance such as poker, roulette and a few others by which the less expert or lucky are separat- Smart Dressers are Invited We extend a cordial invitation to the smart dressers of this city—men who know good clothes because they wear no other—to inspect our spring showing of SUITS, HATS and FURNISHINGS from the foremost ready-to-wear clothing makers in the United States. We think the originality of design and excellence of tailoring will appeal to them. The new models are absolutely correct in fashion and represent the very latest materials and patterns They are emphatically "Clothes for Gentlemen." FRANKENBERGER & CO., This conglomeration with a slush fund of such size as to enable them to pay from fifteen to thirty dollars for a single vote swept the city from Elk to Anawha and beyond, and the Republican party, under whose administration for the past eight years the city has experienced unprecedented prosperity, finds itself "on the outside looking in" or will after April first—All Fool's Day—when the victors claim the spoils. Just what part the Negro vote played in changing the complexion of Charleston's politics is hard to determine. Last November the city went Republican by about three hundred majority. Monday the Democratic majority was estimated at twelve hundred and twenty-five, a gain of fifteen hundred and twenty-five votes. There are about eight hundred colored voters in the city and even their worst defamers will not say that all deserted the Republican ranks, either because of grievance, fifteen dollars or both. There were others, hundreds of them. We do not feel discouraged by Monday's results, for eight years is a long time to retain control of a city's government. Rather, phoenix like, we have arisen from our ashes and will with the aid of those, who shall have become disgusted with their new love, come again into our own on the idees of next March. THE PYTHIAN ANNIVERSARY. Sunday the Knights of Pythias and their co-ordinate branch, the Order of Calanthe, will celebrate their anniversary and return thanks to the Giver of all good for another year of prosperity. Throughout the United States, their insular possessions and wherever the tri-colored flag of Pythianism floats the virtues of the order will be extolled and peas of praise sung. Important events have transpired in the history of the order since the last anniversary. At Chicago's deal was consummated last summer, by which there came into possession of the Pythian and sanitarium department of the order a building valued at fifty-eight thousand dollars. About a month ago there met in New York commissioners from the Eastern and Western Hemisphere Knights and the parent body and plans were perfected for the union of the two. In the supreme jurisdiction the growth which has characterized the past ten years of the order's existence has gone on unabated. Thousands of dollars have been invested in property by grand and subordinate lodges, large sums have been paid out in the settlement of endowment claims of deceased members and many hundreds have gone toward the care of the sick members and their destitute widows and orphans. Here in West Virginia, through the Pythian Mutual Investment association, composed of Knights and members of the various courts, another building has come into the possession of the order and another step taken toward the ultimate goal—to own a building in the business center of every large town in the state. Surely the Knights of Pythias have great cause to be thankful. As each year passes they are drifting further and further from the old notion that a secret organization must confine itself to caring for the sick and burying the dead. They are putting their extra dollars into a common fund and providing for the respectable housing of their lodges and courts and business conducted by men and women of color. In this state they own property valued at fifty thousand dollars, all secured in the past five years without a single member depriving himself of one necessity or luxury to which he has been accustomed. Their leadership has been wise and conservative and they have followed with a fidelity as commendable as it is unusual. Their future was never so bright and with glad hearts well may they sing their gloria in excelsis. The Democratic mayor-elect will now proceed to make a dozen bodies occupy the same space at the same time. If all reports are true, no less than ten of his colored supporters have been promised and expect to be appointed on the police force and as many hope to occupy the driver's seat on the patrol wagon. Unless all precedents are broken not more than two will be appointed and if the Sunday Scimitar and the great majority of the unterrified have their way, not one. The public waits to see how the ascendant party will extricate itself from a delicate situation. The Parkersburg and Wheeling papers, which have taken so much delight in recent years howling for the removal of the capitol from city because of a little extra which covered our lowlands so many months ago that the memory of man can scarcely recall, will do well now to advocate the building of walls similar to that at Galveston around their respective cities or the purchase of house boats by their inhabitants. How the Ohio river has humbled their pride twice during this year of grace has certainly been a caution. Two members of company B, whose guns it is now asserted were used in firing the shots at Brownsville, have only to claim emotional insanity and brain storms to be exonerated from all evil intentions, even if the charge is sustained. BETTER Continued from page one counted an enemy of the colored people. Thanks to the justice of some of the white people, they are indeed very fair. But every day an unfriendly press submits to an eager reading public, tons and tons of matter, criticising and giving the most unfavorable impression of colored people and not one word of this is ever contradicted. It must go, unchallenged because there are no weapons with which to fight; no competent press to give these statements the real plain name that fits them or show that a reverse condition really exists. And all the white people, sitting in judgment, take as true all accusations that are not denied. These people have absolutely nothing with which they might offer a defense. Like a man bound hand and foot, they are at the mercy of any man who would assault him. As an example some paid hirelrem, or prejudice blind, object of pity, will fill columns in some newspapers or magazines, attempting to prove that all colored people are by nature thieves, and the proof of this great fact is: one colored man was known to steal a loaf of bread. Is it not too plainly obvious if these people possessed a press of strength and influence, such libellous statements as these would go unchallenged? They would challenge it by asking whether the stealing a railroad or forty million dollars would characterize any other race of people, one whole race of thieves because of its members stealing—Yes, say the earth because when some of them get through it looks as though there is little of the earth left for any others to steal. There is hardly anything the American people fear so much as they do the press—I mean a press capable of giving wide publicity and doing honor. Even "Brainstorm" Tillman and all that tribe of color fanatics, fear press publicity of the unfavorable character. There are those who believe that with a press equal to the undertaking, much of the ravings of these race maligners might be cured and a great deal of the unfavorable public sentiment they are stirring up against colored Up-to-the-Minute Style. A Specifications Tag With Every Pair When you buy Regal Shoes you can be positively certain that the best-dressed people in New York aren't wearing newer or more correct shoes than you. That's because Regals are exact copies of the latest and best designs of custom boot makers. And not only that—you can be sure also that it is style that lasts—because the materials in those Regals you are trying on are the finest obtainable. The Regal Specifications tag PROVES that BEFORE you buy. REGAL The Shoe That Proves. $3.50 and $4.00 people could be off-set. There are, perhaps, not another class of people anywhere, situated as the colored people in this country at a most critical period and in contact with a racial relationship which must ultimately mean their rise or fall—who so much need the unuplifting and helping influence of a strong favorable public sentiment such as is created by the great public press of the land. To have this all powerful aid in their struggle forward the colored people should not depend entirely upon the press, too often in the hands of their enemies, but should reach out and gather to themselves this great world force by establishing a worthy and imposing press of their own. How will they get such a press? How do these people build great chukes, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars and install therein many ministers and pay them large salaries from year to year? How do they establish sick and death societies and yearly disburse many thousands of dollars? They erect and maintain these and similar enterprises by financing them. They come together with their means and make possible these institutions. In the same manner they could build up a great worthy and commanding press. Organizations looking to the establishment of large daily newspapers, with news in them, ought to be formed in most of the large cities or sectional centers, and by exercising some of the financial genius we know is in the race—no better evidence of it could be offered than the colored preacher who can finance and build a church, almost "while you wait," exhibiting as much genius as J. P. Morgan would in erecting a great trust company—with their genius, as I have mentioned, and a hustling spirit "leaders" give the colored people a great and powerful press which should aid in moulding that great public sentiment, capable of moving the world. Washington is the first place one of these papers should be established. 15th. Every Grand Chacellor should bear this in mind. Every lodge should make a full report. With a strong pull and a pull together who can estimate what the reports will show at Louisville. For the first time in the history of Louisville, the motormen have been on a strike. The city has been in a great turmoil on account of the union men who are employees of the city railway deciding to either make the company come to their agreement, or no cars be allowed to run. For several days the union men have been victorious. Everybody has had to walk. Business has been tied up, and the strike has caused quite a deal of trouble. The Negro is not in it. But a number of teamsters who are sympathizers have been in it just the same, and many of them are in jail. The Negro teamsters would drive their wagon or cart on the track where a car was approaching, stand still, while others in the crowd would pelt the car with rocks. The school teachers and clerks going to and from their work carry in the morning and evening fared poorly during the strike. Some of the colored teachers live several miles from the school they teach, and by the time they reach their school they were nearly dead. Many, however, have managed to ride in vehicles of all kinds. Where the Negro profited by the strike was those having large express wagons and furniture cars making contracts with firms to hand from certain points in the city, those employed by the firms. Every little express wagon was filled with seats, could get a load, and carry you info any part of the city for a certain sum. Its the same old story capital against labor. A REALITY Is The Visit of Senator Ben Tilman To Huntington. The colored people of Huntington were startled a few days ago to learn that the arrival of Senator Tilman of South Carolina, to our city in the near future is no longer a theory or a dream but a vivid reality. But the thing that is more startling is the fact that he has been invited by the faculty of the well known and time honored institution of learning known as Marshal College. No steps have been taken by the colored people to prevent his coming nor to interrupt the program after his arrival neither will any be taken. Yet I voice the sentiments of all of our better thinking people, when I say that in the face of stern facts they have presented themselves as the outcome of Mr. Tilman's inflammatory speeches, we are all a little chagrined and considerably surprised to say the least and put it in its mildest form. It seems passing strange that Mr. Tilman gains and enceases from men of such high place when their responsibility is compared with the doctrine that he loves to disseminate. It is customary for all schools and colleges to have connected with them a course of lectures. We can see in this course of action an intellectual and permanent advantage. This is also true of the churches as well. But we are at a loss to understand how Christian and educational institutions can afford to endorse even to the extent of entertaining a man who openly admits that he has no other subject says the one that stirs up strife and disorder wherever he goes. During the career of the late Robert G. Ingersol the noted infidel his doctrine was considered by the christian and educational institutions as dangerous to be heard, much less to be inculcated. While Ingersol denied the Fatherhood of God he admitted and contended for the brotherhood of man. That he was wrong in the first instance most all are willing to admit with pep haps few exceptions but that he was right in the second instance, all are willing to admit who are not ignorant, or the facts or prejudiced to the truth. We are then at a loss to understand just how a doctrine can be endorsed that seems to be at least inadmissible by the candid mind, yet fostered by highest institutions of the land. We are not in favor of making any hostile demonstrations against the coming of Mr. Tilman to our city nor to the doctrine that he may preach, yet we desire to put ourselves on record that we are sensitive to the extent that we know when we are treated right and when we are treated wrong. Many of our white friends seem to think that we should take Mr. Tilman's threats against the negro as a hugh joke and indulge in a broad grin when we are assaulted. We answer unanimously that we will not. We shall be found lifting up our voice and whetting our pens till sunset. We shall contend for citizenship under the constitution of the greatest country of the world. We shall contend for the perfection of that verdict that was written in blood from Bull Tu. to Appomattox, for a government of the people, for the people and by the people. We shall wait patiently the arrival of the senator. We shall listen attentively to his doctrine, accept that that is in our judgment wholesome, refusing to swallow that which is not and possibly have a word more anon. The report of Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals, Sir C. K. Robinson, has been widely read by this time. As a statistician he has few equals in this country. It embodies voluminous work of financial and statistical statements. He gives account of every dollar taken in and spent in the jurisdiction of Pythianism. His general comparative conditions of the amount of Endowment paid by various Grand and Supreme Lodges is an eye opener. It shows by figures what a remarkable stride Pythianism has made in the last few years. He gives the number of lodges in 1903 and their gain in 1905. The report gives the amount paid on funerals and sick, total paid claims, balance in treasury, total collection on Pythian Temple Tax property and real estate valuation. He also gives the name and a number of every lodge that has been issued a charter and the amount of supplies received during the term. The report on a whole is a credit to Bro. Robinson and the Pythians of N. A., S. A., E., A., A. and A. The Twentieth Anniversary of the Damon Lodge of this city will be held at Quinn Chapel A. M. E. church on Sunday, March 24th. The anniversary sermon will be preached by Rev. Morrow, and a program will be rendered by a number of the older members of the lodge. All the Pythians of this are expected to turn out on this occasion, and make a united front for Pythianism in this city. HAVE YOUR CLOTHES MADE TO YOUR MEASURE Any style you wish at Less than ready-made. We have the Largest selection of fine Woolens everseen in this section at lessthan one half the prices you have formerly paid. $20 Suits to order $12 $25 Suits to order $19 GOOD FIT GUARAN- TEED SCHNURMAN THE TAILOR 708 Virginia St. Near Arcade Cleaning and Pressing a Specialty now damaged by Harvey Lowery & Co., No. 417 Kra- wha SK., opposite Court House square, will after January 1st, 1907, be operat- ed and conducted by BOARDING AND LODGING by the day, week or month. A good meal served at all hours, day and night. Dont forget the place J. C. Green, of the Gam pharmacy, has returned from Keystone and other towns on the N. & W. railway, where he spent a week visiting friends. C. E. Mitchell passed through the city Tuesday night returning to Institute from Wilberforce university, where he went last week on busulness. Miss Maria Green spent Sunday at Institute visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary Dillard. Rev. T. H. Christian, of Carbon, was here Saturday and paid the Advocate office a pleasant visit. Among the Saturday business visitors to the city, was Dr. G. W. Holley, of Hinton. Dr. H. F. Gamble has been confirmed to his bed the past week with a severe attack of the grip. J. M. Hazelwood has been engaged by the operators of several mines in this and Payette counties to secure two t housed colored men to work in the mines. He expects to begin a campaign in the south in a few days. S. W. Starks' leaves for Louisville on business connected with the Knights of Pythias, of which he is supreme chancellor. The Woman's Loyal Union met with Mrs. Jane Johnson Monday evening at her residence on railroad avenue. Arrangements were perfected to have the eighth anniversary exercises of the organization, April 11th. Further notice will be given at a later date. Rev. A. Becks, former pastor, preached at Simpson M. E. church Tuesday night. This is the jubilee week of the church and programs being rendered each evening. Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock Capitol City lodge No. 1., West Virginia lodge No. 60, Knights of Pythias and Murke court No. 35 and Phyllis Whatley court No. 1, Order of Calanthe, will have their annual Thanksgiving services at the K. of P. Hall corner of Washington and Dickinson streets. Rev. W. E. Walker, pastor of St. Paul A. M. E church, will deliver the sermon. The condition of Miss Mary E. J. Jones is considerably improved. Miss Ida King leaves Saturday for Institute to resume her studies in the commercial department. Miss Mary Preston is reported ill at her home on Sentinz street. Drop in and see our millinery and puffs. Mrs. Brown, 500 Capitol St. Mrs. Nora Caul is indisposed. Allen Whitlock passed through the city Tuesday. The friends of Mrs. Janie Waters Tries of Alderson will regret to hear that her condition is considered hopeless and t that the end is momentarily expected. The seniors of Garnett school have bills out for a high class entertainment at Simpson M. E. church on Thursday evening of next week. Among the special features will be the Battle of Blenhiem, a pantomime by six girls, who will also appear in "The Holy City." The Charleston Women's Improvement League meets this week with Miss Rebecca Bullard. Mrs. Rilla Brown is ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Scott, on Bradford street. Wonon Ward, a student of Will- berford who spent part of his spring in the city left Friday. J. H. Robinson, who has been danger- ously ill the past two weeks, is slightly Improved, but is not yet able to leave his room. Rev. R. D. W. Meadows, the Baptist state missionary, was in the city this week. T. W. Randolph was at home Wednesday evening of last week to a number of his friends. Cards and music were the pastimes of the evening. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Gillard are proud of a little son who came to their home last week. The Education Women's Improvement League was the guest of Miss Nina H. Chilton at the home of Mrs. R. H. Thomas, on Bradford street. After the business session the hostess served an elaborate lunch. Mrs. R. L. Jones was the guest of the league. Prof. B. P. Pederman, teacher institute, has been invited to address the league at its next meeting. Mr. Anne Wulks-Davis and Mrs. George Bailey are preparing to have an Easter display in the windows of U. G. Pharmacy Friday. The Twentieth Century club will be entertained by Mrs. W. H. Walker at her home on Elizabeth street this week. Ed Difrancif, who has been ill with rheumatism for the past six months, the greatest portion of which time was spent at the city hospital, is so far recovered ax to be able to get about on winters. Cornellia Johnson, on her birthday. Friday evening, at the Viney hotel. Well Exemplified by Improvements at Frankenberger & Co.'s at Frankenberger & Co.'s. On every hand, Charleston's progr ress and prosperity is evident as a sure index of the city's growth. A visitor to this city is generally im presses at once or unfavorably by business houses in the city. Charleston, with its other good improvements, well kept, in aline in this direct and can show as up-to-date business houses and business firms as any city of its size. One of the most enterprising and progressive of our firms, is that of Frankenberger & Co., whose business career of 47 years has been one continued success. They have always kept abreast of the times and with their well-earned reputation for keeping the best class of goods for sale and their thorough belief in achieving this fact to let their customers know that they are doing, have succeeded, and many years to keep in the lead in particular line—that of clothing, hats, trunks and furnishing goods. This firm has made many improvements in their handsome double store by placing a well arranged balcony all around their store which is pleasing to the eye as you enter. They have now added a department of the celebrated "Regal Shoes" for men with their other goods. This firm is justly proud of their quarters, which are the handsomest and most artistic in the city. For the finest offerings of the season in their line, they request our readers to note carefully their large display advertisement in this issue. A call on them will be one of pleasure and interest as well as profitable business. Charleston, March 7, 1907. As heretofore announced, Friday, April 12th, will be observed in the schools of this State as Arbor and Bird Day for the spring of 1907. The second Friday of November will be the day for the fall observance. On account of the press of work at this Department in preparing the educational exhibit, Jamestown, no manual such as was taken out last spring, will be issued at a time, but a suggestive program will be found in the Institute Annual, and any progressive teacher can in a short time outline an order of exercises suited to the day. This should be an exercise appropriate to the occasion in every school. It is to be regretted that so many of our schools will have closed by April 12th, but this will not prevent enterprising citizens in each neighborhood from cleaning up the school grounds, putting out trees and shrub-flowers in the school yard. This will be a good time for the people of a community to come together and talk over their school interests, and especially to play together some new books for toe school library and to provide for keeping it open, at the summer, thus making it useful all the year. In addition to giving attention to school grounds, Arbor Day may be made the occasion for a good deal of "cleaning up" and ornamentation in towns and villages and home surroundings. Vacant lots, the streets, the roadside, and even the front yard can be greatly improved by a little effort. A tree or even a rose bush or shrub set out in the yard, a honey suckle at the porch, the gate repaired, the weeds cleared from the walk, the garden made free from filth—all this and much more will be done when our people are inbued with the true spirit of Arbor Day, the observance of which has done so much to beautify and gladden many homes in different parts of the country. Netter should our fettered friends be forbidden. Teachers should inspire their pupils with a love for the birds, and should organize Audubon Societies in their schools an in their community. Information as, to this organization may be obtained by writing to the Audubon City. I have been pleased to learn that during the past winter a number of pupils in schools have fed the birds around their homes and the school houses by putting out wheat bread crumbs, cracked corn, etc. Was not that a pretty sight, when a lady in Morgantown had nineteen red birds in her yard at one time, which had been attracted there by her kind ministrations? I am glad to know that in several towns and cities in our State Civic Improvement Clubs have organized and that ladies are not only joining hands with teachers in this good work, but that they are leading in the effort for better sanitary, ethical and cultural conditions in the community. In some places wires racks and baskets are placed at convenient points on the streets as receptacles for waste paper, orange rind, banana peeling, soap and the pupils in the schools and the people generally soon learn to use them and the streets kept clean and rendered less dangerous. Other means of civic improvement have also been introduced, and the Federation of Women's Clubs has become a very important agency in carrying on these much needed reforms. Let the schools aid all these movements. So on Arbor Day and before, let us clean up all around, plant trees, shrubbery, and flowers, not only about our schools and grounds, but midst our home surroundings as well, thus making our environment more inviting and attractive and therefore more cleanly and enjoyable. Of course every member of the School Improvement League will fulfill his obligation by giving a day's labor or by contributing a dollar to the furtherance of the work of the League. Very respectfully. HOTEL EASTMAN T. B. Bush, Mgr. 19 Summers St. Will Open May 1st. '07. Uniform Branimation system held this year. The first on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24. The second on Thursday and Friday July 18 and 19. The third on Friday and Saturday, September 6 and 7 The subject of General History will be divided as follows: May Examination: Egyptian, Hebronian and Persian History. July Examination: Greecian History. September Examination: Modern History, from the begin- ning of the Eighteenth Century to the present time, not including English History. The questions in each examination will conform strictly to the division indicated above. Rev. Hatter filled his regular appointment here Sunday. Miss Annie Rotan, of Fayetteville, closed a successful term of school Monday, the 11th. An excellent program was rendered. Misses Evelyn and Rose Rotan were over and took part in the exercise. We regret very much to see Miss Anna leave as she was a zealous worker in the Sunday school. Albert Quarties, who is working at Thurmond, is home visiting his parents. Mrs. E. M. Burton, of Montgomery, is visiting Mrs. Miller. Mrs. L. W. Taylor, Lieu Johnson and Mrs. Page were shopping in Ansted one day last week. Felix Miller is home visiting his family. Mrs. J. B: Daniel is much better at this writing. E. D. D. Taffer made a business trip to Montgomery Friday. Miss Dorey Clayborn, of Cotton Hill, is up visiting her sister, Mrs. Brooks, andington and Gertrude Quinles are preparing a program for Easter Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bogue, of Ansted were business visitors in town Monday. Mrs. F. R. Snyder was visiting Mrs. Taylor last week. Sunday school is progressing with J. B. Daniel as superintendent. The quantity of labels purchased by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association from the United States Printing Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, during the year 1906 reached the number 654,948,000. The paper necessary for this immense lot weighed 634,788 pounds, or over 367 tons. The ordinary observer little realizes, while drinking his bottle of beer and toying with the "Budweiser" label that if it aired the "Budweiser" labels used by The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, during 1906 were placed end to end, they would reach a distance of 22,912 72-100 miles. As a matter of fact if all the labels printed by The United States Printing Company for The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association during 1906 were placed end to end, they would go entirely around the globe, and then some, for they would cover a distance of 25,933 71-100 miles, or if they were laid down flat one on top of another and piled in one stack, they would make the New York and Chicago skyscrapers look like mike hills, for they would tower up a distance of 23-66-100 of a mile, and mind you, this does not cover the stock labels used by The Anheuser-Busch Branches or their authorized bottlers. These curious and interesting deductions illustrate the gigantic proportions of the labor supplies for this Brewery. The reader will best realize the magnitude of this volume of printing by stopping to figure out what it means to print such an immense lot of paper. As most of these labels are printed in natural colors (the "Brodweiser" label containing four separate printings), it is equal to a total of almost 18,000,000 large sized sheets of paper—enough to keep one large cylinder press running constantly 22,120 hours, or almost nine years, figuring on a working day of eight hours, 300 working days to the year. The printing of all these labels gives employment to about five hundred people in the printing trades alone, besides pressmen, electrotypes, compositors, paper makers, printers, designers, and other directions, such as ink and color manufacturers, machinists who make and repair the machinery for producing the paper, inks and presses; lumbermen who make the supply wood pulp which goes into the manufacture of paper—trainmen, draymen, etc., who assist in transporting the labels or material out of which they are made—from one place to another. It would be difficult and well nigh impossible to say exactly how many people are employed one way or another in manufacturing all these labels for The Auheuser-Busch Brewing Association. BEAUTY IN PUBLIC PLACES. Alms of the National Civic Association and Its Departments. Century. The American Park and Outdoor Art association and the American League for Clyde Improvement have been merged in what is known as the American Clyde association, of which J. Horace McFarland, of Harrisburg, Pa., is president; Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of Philadelphia, vice-president and acting secretary, and William B. Howland of New York, treasurer. This association it is which is fighting the people's battle for the preservation of Niagara. It has a number of "departments," and one of these is specially arrayed against the bill-board nuisance. It promises an active campaign during the coming year. Through the "department of nuisances" the association is seeking to arouse public sentiment against objectionable bill-board advertising, and is promulgating the idea that such advertising can be controlled and regulated either through the taxing or police power of the commonwealth, or by the application of the principle of the boycott. There is plenty of room for the activity of all the societies which touch upon any branch of the movement for esthetic betterment. In New York, the Municipal Art society is concerning itself with city plans. There are local art commissions in Baltimore, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles and New Orleans. There are more than 250 societies, with various special artistic ends, in the country, and the influence their members tends toward beauty in public places. In Washington the national society of fine arts, taking up the scheme of the National Art League, is promoting a bill providing for the organization of a national advisory board on civic art, which board would consider and "report its opinion concerning the artistic merit of plans proposed by legislative of administrative act for public structures, monuments and fountains, for placing of mural paintings in public pictures, or for the opening, modification, or embellishment of any public space belonging to the United States." The would also report on the artistic merits of plans for public structures, and of the opening, modification, embellishment of any public space within the District of Columbia; and, furthermore, make suggestions in annual reports to the president. This is a measure which would be economical in the highest sense, for it would put-value into the result of any artistic expenditure with which the board should deal. Its only fault is that it does not go far enough and includes coinage, stamps and all works of art whatever which are a matter of public cost. WORN TO THE BONE. Scientific gentleman in Washington recently returned from South America, bringing with him not as fruits of his labors, but merely for the purposes of science, a collection of Patagonian skulls. At New York the customs officials opened the chest containing the skulls, duly inspected them, and informed the scientist that the consignment must be classed as animal bones, and as dulable at so much per pound. Whereupon the scientific gentleman evinced great indignation. After numerous parley, relates Harper's Weekly, the customs people agreed to submit the matter to the treasury department, if the waybill were revised in a way they suggested. The result was that the waybill was altered to read as follows: "Chest of native skulls. Personal effects, already worn." Charleston News and Courter. 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The result of the election, of March 18 was forshadowed early yesterday, but neither republican nor democrat thought for even a moment that the majorities would be so large for the candidates on the democratic ticket. The returns came as a surprise to the whole city and even those who had predicted victory were overwhelmed at the size of the democratic victory. The result was the expression of the people and not one republican could be found, after learning that General Holley was elected, who even desired that the result could be anything different from what the returns show. No republican, with the interests of his home city at heart, wished the hands of General Holley to be tied as the hands of the republican administration has been during the past two years with a democratic council. The republicans are desirous of having General Holley have free rein during the next two years to carry into effect those principles which he has so ably advocated in the interests of reform. Just what the republicans think about these matters are of no consequence to the voters at the present time, but time, and time only, can tell what the democrats will do in the government of the best city in the state. Notwithstanding that the republicans are disappointed at the verdict rendered by the people, they have no other choice than to abide by the decision and await the results of the democratic victory. Never before has there been such a closely contested victory between the two old parties and today the democrats in control of the city government, or with their eyes raised to the time when they will be, April 1st, will have the support of all republicans, those who assisted them to the victory, and those who were aligned on the opposing side, to benefit Greater Charleston and make it the first city of the state, the position where it rightfully belongs. Eight years ago the republican forces of Charleston secured control of the city of Charleston and it is impossible to find a citizen in this city of 28,000, inhabitants, who today will tell you that the city has not prospered and enjoyed the distinction of becoming the first city in West Virginia as a result of that rule. But the people desired a change of government and they have received that change in complete form and nobody in the city will say that they do not wish to see the city prosper under the democratic administration. The change was a victory for better government and only time can say whether the people will approve of the verdict rendered by themselves at the polls. Early in the day the republicans realized, that they, would lose the town, but stalled at their posts until the polls closed and fought against overwhelming odds. The democratic campaign fund was the largest ever floated in the history of the city, the democratic party had two commissioners at every polling place in the city and their workers were more eager and anxious to win than ever before since Charleston became a city and they corralled sufficient republican votes to roll up handsome majorities for their ticket. Just as the polls opened yesterday morning, hundreds of democratic workers in the city rushed hundreds of voters to the polls and soiled them even before many of the republican workers were on the ground. Following up this big advantage with the most liberal use of money ever displayed in Charleston elections, they continued to load throughout the day. The cost of the big victory is estimated from $35,000 to $50,000 and the exact amount will never be known. Votes sold from $10 up to $35 at many of the precincts of the city. The big majorities of the democrats would have been materially reduced had the republicans been able to have voted all those who are affiliated with the republican party. At the Simpson stable precinct and again at the courthouse the democratic commissioners refused the certified affidavit of registration of many who were unable to be registered by the registrars appointed for that purpose by the city council. In the list of those who were refused the right of suffrage by the democratic commissioners were men who had lived in Charleston for many years. While the result of the election would hardly have been changed if these voters had been given their rights under the law, the majorities would have been reduced several hundred and it is probable that the republican would have elected a few councilmen out of the lot. Disturbances Around the polling places were very rare. The police were very cautious not to infringe upon the right of the voters, and also acted with discretion in keeping the crowds gathered at the polls, away from the 60 foot line. Each side seemed to fear trouble would break out and as a result both were cautious. One of the features of the voting was at the courthouse where the hickory club brigade stood around with large hickory clubs in their hands waiting for trouble. Several fist fights occurred over the city but none resulted seriously to the combatants. The old "triangle" as it was formerly, called under the old charter, was the scene of the hardest work by both parties during the day. Just as the polls opened, Mat Slaughter brought forth her braves, and this, the strongest republican precinct in the city, made so by the enormous colored vote residing in that region of the city, was carried by the democrats by a good sized majority. More money was spent at this point than at any other place in the city and the returns showed it was spent to good advantage. The stop of the Garnet school precinct to the democratic column, was also a distinctive surprise to the city. Here lives a large majority of the colored voters and although the republican workers worked hard and long, the power of money told above argument and old Garnet.went democratic all along the line. General Holley's majority as figured by the returns that came in last night amounts to 1,355. He received 3,319 votes in the city to 2,064 for Col. Rudecill. J. Shirley Ross, democratic candidate for recorder received 3,247 votes, and his opponent Captain J. E. Hood 2,122. J. Ferrez Bédell, the democratic candidate for treasurer ran behind his ticket, receiving 3,207 votes to 2,179 for M. M. Williamson. For the board of public affairs Albert J. Humphreys had a majority of 397 votes over R. M. Young in the first district across Elk river. John Baker White received a majority of 472 over W. D. Issacs in the second district and Chas. Loeb received a majority of 294 in the third district over John B. Floyd. The vote for councilmen stood as follows: First Ward. Wood, D., 334; Jeffries, D., 328. Matthes, R., 205; Cook, R., 206. Second Ward. Car Barn—Bonham, D., 256; Helzer, R., 137. Lincoln Schoolhouse—Bonham, D., 219; Helzer, R., 166. Third Ward. Elk Schoolhouse—Malone, D., 157; Wagner, R., 121. Bigley Avenue—Malone, D., 126; Wagner, R., 110. Fourth Ward. Courthouse—Bibby, D., 260; Young, R., 151. Roy's Corner—Bibby, D., 184; Young, R., 90. Fifth Ward. Ray's Barber Shop—Jarrett, D., 233; Botkin, D., 241; Aultz, R., 183; Menager, R., 182. City Hall—Jarrett, D., 192; Botkin, D., 192; Aultz, R., 142; Menager, R., 141. Sixth Ward. Simpson's Stable—Abney, D., 210; Barber, R., 145. High School—Norvell, D., 161; Wherle, D., 154; Scherr, R., 115; Vickers, R., 104. Mercer Schoolhouse—Norvell, D., 214; Wherle, D., 210; Scherr, R., 127; Vickerr, R. Eighth Wood. Garnett Schoolhouse; Gardner, D., 258; Cabell, R., 187. Tenth Ward. Fernbank — Crawford, D., 118; Carr, D., 114; Hanna, R., 56; Liversidge, R., 55. From the above figures it can be seen that the democrats will have complete control of the city for the next two years. Only two republicans officials will remain in office after the first of April. Councillmen Buster and Givens. The republicans are not dejected by the defeat. They all realize that it was done by members of their own party, and think that two years of democratic rule, will show them the mistake they have made. The people desired a change and they now have it in complete form. General Holley as mayor of Greater Charleston can proceed to make good his promises to the people without his hands being tied by republican officials. At the National hotel is a tall, dark haired gentleman, in quiet clothes, who is registered as S. K. Sequiche. He is a representative of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, of which he is a full-blooded member. He is a graduate of Carlisle, and talks, with great interest of his tribe, which he is representing before the Interior department. Speaking of his tribe he says: "We are the only Indian tribe that has succeeded in reducing our language to writing. Our alphabet has eighty-two letters, and since we have had it we have made great strides both in modern education and in keeping up with the history and the traditions of our race. Our nation is a nation of ideals and our trend of mind is toward romanticism. We know the significance of the green of the trees, of the dew upon the grass; the beauty of the flowers; the sheer glimmer of the moon; the mystery of the stars. We have always been idealists rather than materialists, but as we are assimilating modern civilization and coming closer to your standards, we are losing some of our poetical fervor and are paying more attention to the useful arts. We are a moral nation; we believe in monogamy, and we love our wives and children. We are hoping to make our nation a sterling factor, in the civilization of the United States, for after all we are true Americans in every sense." The Hon. Toppy Troupe's Distinction. Ohio Magazine. Thirty years of service as a delegate to the State and national conventions of one political party, without a break, is a most unusual record and one that denotes a remarkable degree of both political loyalty and activity. If we add to it service as an officer in each of these conventions, either of a convention or of a convention at large, we have a still more unusual record and one perhaps without precedent. Yet this is the distinction earned in long service in behalf of the republican party by the Hon. Toppy Troupe at Springfield, Ohio. Cost of Newspaper Production. Parkersburg Gentleman Incident to the operation of printing plants, and representing conditions prevailing now byer those of the past, which justify if they do not demand an increase in advertising and subscription rates, the latest price lists issued by the type trust and the paper combine are evidences in point. In the revised price list of the type trust we are advised of new prices, which are just twice as much as they were a few years ago. A given quantity of type, which a few years ago would have cost, say $75,000, costs now exactly $150,000. So, too, in the paper line. Paper of the kind on which newspapers are printed has increased relatively in price, and the rise has been prodigious. Paper which last October cost newspapers $40,000 a ton now costs $55,000 a ton. 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This price will be raised soon. Send name and address to L. A. Topson, CUTTING SCHOOL Only Colored School where cutting is taught exclusively, in the middle west. A full course of instructions covers the scientific and artistic production of patterns for all garments made by merchant tailors, includes all forms and sizes, taking measures, making layouts of all kinds of garments, marking out those laws with proper outlets, and other important work, which gives done the practical experience one should have if he wants to become a cutter, and ensures proficiency and success at the cutting board. Mead Brothers & Co. Annual March Blow-Out of Pretty Parlor Pieces and Library Furniture Our stock is heavier than ever before and prices that you cannot resist From March 15 to April 1st We will discount any parlor or library Furniture 15 per cent, This means just what it says. All Prices Are Marked in Plain Figures "OUR FURNITURE HAS A DISTINCTIVE STYLE NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE" All goods are new, bright and attractive---No "slightly damaged" goods in our store Don't fail to see Our Pieces before they are picked over Staff Correspondence Washington, March 19.—The alleged confession of one D. G. Gray, who claimed to be a discharged soldier of the 85th infantry, proved to be a fake of, the thirstiest character. Gay took a cock and bull story of the "shooting up" of Brewsterville on the night of the 18th of August, by plicating a number of his comrades (?), but it was no far-fetched and improbable that its falsity could be discerned without the formality of an investigation. Despite the Hamling headlines which the bourbon dalles exploited it, the fabrication did not have enough substance to keep it afloat twenty-four hours. Even the program from Major Blockston was not able to stamp the tale as a "frame up" designed to divide public sentiment, and to check the fids of sympathy she ascribed to the other in favor of the collapsed men. The fair-minded press of the country is insisting that the matter shall not drop with the discovery that ailly fraud has been perpetrated, but believe the incident should be sifted to the bottom, and the conspirators brought to books. Senator Foraker may inaugurate a search for the scoundrels responsibility for the fake if he feels that there is any likelihood of the report bringing damage to the soldiers, who are now having their day at court. Whoever conceived the idea of doing such a stump thing as raking up a man of straw to confuse the situation after the Gray fashion reckoned without his host. He did not take into consideration that the American people are not a spt of unspeakableools. You have to "show them," whether they hall from Missouri or any other seaport. The public school, problem, like the poor, we have with us always, in the District of Columbia. No sopner had the Cardozo case yielded the right of way in the popular mind than we are confronted with another of a similar type. Charges have been filed against Arthur U. Craig, a teacher in the Armstrong Training School. The allegations presented by Superintendent Chancellor at the instance of Principal W. Bruce Evans, are to the effect that Mr. Craig persistently attacks the character of his superior officer and of his colleagues and that he is incompetent and insubordinate. The charges, The Armstrong Manual Training, M Street, High School and Normal School, No. 2, will hold a joint commencement exercise at Convention Hall, Friday June 14th at 8 p.m. The order of the occasion has not been selected, but the name of Register W. T. Vernon is being very favorable considered, in that connection. In view of the fact that Normal School No. 2, is turning out more graduates than there are places for them as teachers, and substitutes in the schools, an effort will be made to leave it for the discretion of the faculty of the institution as to whether diplomas shall be issued to a teacher in excess of the needs of the school, or not. Mrs. A. M. Curtis had spoken in the interest of a school exhibit at Jamestown, favorable action was taken upon the request that such a display be made, if being ascertained that there was any apportionation available for that purpose, relieving the board of any cost. There are now no new developments in the Cardozo matter. The problem of the future W. T. still under advertisement by the ex-supervising principal and his attorneys. Alain Le Roy Locke is the name of the first colored boy to win a Rhodes scholarship. He is a senior in Harvard University and is twenty-one years of age. His home is in Philadelphia, where his father, Pliny I. Locke is a practicing attorney. His mother is a teacher in the public schools of Mount Vernon, N. Y. He won the honor that entitles him to study at Oxford at a competitive examination held at Boston, and was one of the seven aspirants, who passed. Th conditions under which the scholarship was given included a provision that neither race nor color should bar a candidate; that marital alone should count. All honor to the special Cochil Rhodes for inserting such special gagged clause as that for otherwise there is no telling when the door of his house have been opened to a lad of dark skin after passing the qualifying examination for the Rhodes scholarships each of the candidates had to appear before the selection committee, where scholarship having been proven, manliness and inherent qualities counted. When the qualifications of five candidates had been considered, the honor was given to Locke. He will join the colony of scholars at historic Oxford in a month or so. The Negro needs to be given an odds in Speaking on the consular service, reminds us that we went into the Hon. Richard Theodore Greener the other day. He was for several years the representative of the United States Government at Vladivostok, Russia, and made a splendid record up to the middle of the conflict between Russia and Japan, when an international complication area which made it important for him to be recalled by the State Department. There are certain facts behind the certain not known to the country at large, which we small at a later date make public, as far as the etiquette of diplomacy will permit. Whether Prof. Greener has had a square deal in the matter is an open question, and his side of the story, which has never been properly aided even in official circles, will prove a most interesting contribution to contemporaneous history. Notwithstanding his troubles, Prof. Greener retains his youthful countenance, and his buoyancy of spirits and native courtness of bearing refuse to take note of Father Time. Prof. Greener is one of the last of the line, of which Frederick Douglass, B. K. Bruce, John M. Langston and N. Wright Curney were conspicuous figures—though much older than he—and he is one of the most remarkable characters of his day and generation. Turning to the "Old Guard" for a moment, how many of us remember that just nine years ago last Sunday—St. Patrick's Day—there passed from earth to the world beyond the race's most successful political force and one of our most lovable men of affairs. Blanche K. Bruce. He died after a very brief illness on the 17th day of March, 1898. In the hoy-day of his prowess as a leader of his people. He had just gotten settled in his office as Register of the Treasury for the second time, when the summons came, and it seemed the veritable frony of fate that he should be thus cut off in his prime, when the future loomed up in such roseate colors for all concerned. B. K. Bruce was a greater man than the fragmentary chroniclers of events have credited him being. Unostentatiously he was the inspiring genius behind more and more movement for racial benefit, for which the more showy benefits with results, an agreed rule for the plaudits of the multitude. He was a statesman of the loftiest type and won his causes by reaching the hearts of men and binding them to him with hooks of personal magnetism. He was a loyal friend, a loving husband, a dutiful father, and to every trust he brought a fidelity that was as beautiful and steady as it was rare. He took pride in serving humanity, and sympathized especially with the aspirations of young men who seemed to be made of the right kind of material—and he was an infallible student of human nature. B. K. Bruce went away all too soon for the good of his race, but he left behind him a heritage for all in the upright and dignified life he led. It so hoped that ere long his careers would be adequately revelled by some one as close to him throughout his journey from the plantation to the United States State, as recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia and as the first Negro whost signature was necessary to legalize the paper money, bonds and other securities of this massive government of ours. It is possible that this work will eventually be taken up by his devoted private secretary, Mr. George C. Smith, who is familiar with every detail of the life of his distinguished patron and comrade. We hope Mr. Smith will see his duty and do it as only a bosom friend can perform it. Oklahoma is not to have any "jim crow" cars. If the new constitution is honestly enforced. The proposition to insert a provision for separate coaches for Negroes was supported by the democrats, who had a tremendous majority. But they were forced to abandon it when it became noticed around that President Roosevelt would reject the President Rosenvelt would reject the President in toto it the "jim crow" clause we in corporated, and statehood would be menaced, if not lost. By the advice of Senators Tillman and Pettus, the democrats agreed, to eliminate the objectionable provision—until the territory becomes a state. An effort will then be made to get the dirty clause in by amendment. The Oklahoma leaders are a foxy set, but the man in the White House is equal to them in cunning and determination. Editor G. C. Clement, of the Star o. Zion, discusses the Bishopric situation in a manner that is frank, open and candid, and in a vein that is snaive and pleasing. He litter the lid in the most approved fashion—the thong the church and country have been trying to get him to do for months. He is opposed to the election of six Bishops at the next general conference, but is willing to compromise on four. That much is given out with a defensiveness that is positive and convincing. Dr. Clement's is a conservative, but he handles his argument well. His reasoning is clean-cut and it is up to the advocates of a "Greater Zion" to take him in hand and meet his show of hands. It is by these outspoken discussions that we arrive at the truth and educate the popular mind to the real needs of the church. Your correspondent is not urging the election of six, however or any number of Bishops, however attractive the idea of expansion may be to us personally. The advice of Clement will take all the references to the number of Bishops Zion eight to elect, and the paragraph referring to the action of the Birmingham conference, in quotation marks. It was our ministerial informant who made the argument. We simply reported his words, without comment. We may have heard to one side until Dr. Clement came to the rescue. We are wiser, and shall be delighted to be made still wiser by hearing from the expansionists again. The discussion is now wide open. The plot thickens. The debate grows upon us. Let the men of Zion take up this question and thresh it out for all that it is worth. There is an abundance of meat in it to keep the Star in intellectual food for a season. It is the mission of the church organ to throw light on the subjects that come closest home to its thousands of readers and brethren. Mrs. Sarah I. Fleetwood, graduate Freedman's hospital, has been appointed by District Commissioner H. F. B. Macfarlane one of five graduate nurses to constitute a nurses examining board provision for which was made by an act of the recent congress, providing for the registration of the nurses within the District. Mrs. Fleetwood amphitheatre June 30, 1907, she having been selected for the short term. She will then be re-appointed for a full term of five years. The Topeka Industrial School, on which Mr. C. Clarke, philologist, has been granted a grant, has improved of the blast. Mr. Carter is a graduate of Trinity College, tute, and is doing excellent work among the Negro boys and girls of Kansas, where skill in the art, technical and industrial arts is at a premium, and where much counts, regardless of color in the practical pursuits of life. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the talented elocutionist, gave a high-grade recital to a crowded house on Monday evening at the Metropolitan Baptist church. Miss A. E. Brooks had nurse at Mercy hospital, is whining for first year and is slated to leave the city during the present week for her home in West Virginia. She came here to take charge of the Nurse Training Department of Mercy Hospital and although she has been very sick during her stay, has made an excellent record. Her training, which she received at the Freedman's hospital, fully prepares her for her work. Aside from being an excellent and attentive nurse, her manner is also most charming. She made a lasting impression upon her many friends who were rumored that already efforts are on foot to induce her to return next fall. Her impression of Nashville was favorable in every respect, yet she had little time to mingle in society. Whether she will return is a matter undecided at this time.—Nashville (Tenn.) Globe. STANDARD. The K. of P.? are on the booth. Sixteen or twenty applications have been received by the most recent and the candidates will be notified the first meeting night in April. Rev. J. F. Bain, assisted by Rev. T. H. Christian, has just closed a successful revival meeting in two weeks' duration. There were nine converts and eight reclamations. THE GREAT BANKRUPT SALE of the HUB CLOTHING COMPANY'S STOCK is now in Full Swing---Most Sensational Bargains in Clothing, Hats and Furnishing Goods for Men, Boys and Children Ever Offered the Public. LOOK FOR THE BLUE AND WHITE BANNERS West Virginia Colored Institute INSTITUTE, WEST VA. The only Industrial Institute for Colored Students in the State Regular Nrmal, Academic and Cmmercial Courses, also Regular Courses in Agriculture, Carpentery and House Building, Steam Fitting, Smithing, Cabinet Making, Painting and Glazing, Dressmaking, Laundrying, Printing. A complete course in Military Training to Cadets. Rooms. Books, Fuel and Lights Free to Normal Students; and in addition Uniforms for State Students. We have a faculty of Twenty-two Teachers Board only Eight Dollars per Month, For catalogue and other information address J. McHENRY JONES,A. M. President. Institute, West Virgilia. We have some quick figures for $emi Porcelain Combinetts $1.00 1.50 value for Slop Jars, this sale $1.00 Bowls and Pitchers 75c and 95c One lot Plates One lot Plates 3c each 5c each One lot WHITE LINED Kitchen Ware this sale HALF ALSO 2000 yards Wash Goods SPECIAL 200 yards India Linen SPECIAL Skirts, Waists at SPECIAL All for Friday and Saturday DANIELS. West Virginia Colored Institute, The only Industrial Institute Colored Students in the Regular NrmaI, Academic Commercial Courses, also Regular Agriculture, Carpentery and ing, Steam Fitting, Smithing, Painting and Glazing, Laundrying, Printing. A con in Military Training to Cars Books, Fuel and Lights From Students; and in addition to State Students. We have Twenty-two Teachers Boat Dollars per Month, For catalogue and other informa J. McHENRY JONES, A. M. Institute, West Virg CAPITOL STREET LOOK F Aud True Conditions Can Not Be Learned—Bad Slip at the Narrows Near Moundsville—Many Landslides on the Road. Yesterday the News received its first batch of Parkersburg papers since the flood last week completely marooned that town. In the batch were several from points in the northern part of the state, including one Wheeling newspaper. Speaking of conditions on the Ohio Rail-Road, the Parkersburg Dispatch-News of Monday says: On the O. R. Division conditions are such that nothing can be promised. There are no wires available at present to ascertain the track conditions at various points and this makes everything guess work. Enough may be surmised, however, to venture the prediction that the regular service cannot be reinstated before the latter part of the week, if then. Work of repair has been begun on that road also, on the North division. One work train was sent out of Moundsville, and two from new Martinsville, one each way. They are building-as they go, and are re-estab- lishing telegraph service and by today something definite may be learned concerning the situation. Supt. Bryan said last evening that he had a message from Moundsville telling of an extremely bad condition at Moundsville Narrows. There the company has to contend with a huge landslide. New Martinsville reports the condition less serious. While there are many slips none of them are regarded as bad. Of the condition of the road south nothing can be told. But meagre telegraph reports are available. It was learned yesterday that a full vestibule brain was caught at Wheeling and was almost completely submerged in the yards, the train having been marooned before the crew realized the situation. Superintendent Bryan received a message of fire loss sustained by the B. & O. last evening, incident to the destruction of the joint Glass plant at New Martinsville. The plant caught fire yesterday from lime which had been slacked by water, and owing to the difficulty in fighting the flames the fire got beyond control. The plant was totally destroyed. Six cars of the B. & O. railroad company, standing on the spur track, were destroyed in the blaze. The Marletta branch is as bad off as ever and it cannot be stated when train service between here and Marletta will be remailed. It will probably be a week before trains can be run on the O. & B. K. between this city and Zanesville. Street car service in the city will be resumed today. The conditions of the tracks between here and Marietta are such that it is impossible to count on cars between this city and Marietta today and it will perhaps not be restored before about Wednesday. It is generally conceded that the company did excellent work in maintaining down town service in Parkersburg as long as it did. If you should burn your diamond, you would not even have ashes, left as a memento. After combustion the diamond leaves absolutely nothing. Fishing Fever. Hartford Times. Oh, the spring is calling, mother, Calling me to fields and wood, To the sparkling little streamlet, Where the early fishing's good. Oh, the whippoorwill is calling, Mother; calling me to come. For it says in song ecstatic That the fish are biting—some. So call me early, mother; I'll be Johny-on-the-spot. For I'm bound to go a fishing Whether Thaw gets out or not! THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a trunk or hiding it somewhere about your house--You Are Working for Money If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent interest--Your Money is Working for You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend of six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plans Ask our agent in your locality about it or write to this office Charleston, W. Va.