The Advocate

Baltimore, Md., April 16.—Noting the letter in the April edition of Pythian and Calanthe, it is to be regretted that the columns of our official organ should be taken up by an item that is so misleading as that presented by our dear brother of Charleston, S. C., As Grand Chancellor of Maryland, the banner jurisdiction of the Supreme Lodge, K. of P., E. and W. H., allow me space to define our position in this all important question of union and present some facts in the case. As a jurisdiction and as individuals, we believe that the fundamental principles of our grand old order should prompt us to use every honorable means to bring the two supreme bodies together in union, besides the advantages to be derived from such a union. Let us take a retrospective view, and note if you please the wonderful progress made by the order. In 1889 because of the state of affairs then existing, Maryland with several other jurisdictions withdrew from the Supreme Lodge of that time and another Supreme Lodge, K, of P., was instituted at Baltimore, to be the Supreme Lodge of E, P, E, and W, H. At that time this jurisdiction boasted of but three lodges, to wit: Eureka No. 1, Enterprise No. 2, and Morning Star No. 3, and as has been truly said, we have had a steady growth. Our brothers of the other Supreme Lodge, I presume, have also advanced and today and in every state in the Union and even the isles of the sea, Pythianism is known among our people, and when our efforts all tend toward the one purpose of the order will be realized, the happiness, elevation and betterment of mankind, and indeed not until then can the true principles of the order be fully appreciated. Pythaliism grew in Maryland, and as it grew in membership, sentiment, increased to unite; hence, Maryland might be stable the first in war, the first in peace, the first for the uniting again of the two branches of the grand oak order, that has made an unprecedented record as a fraternity organization. The sentiment grew so strong to unite, that in 1903, our Grand Lodge unanimously passed a resolution to use every honorable means to bring about consolidation, and that resolution was presented to our Supreme Lodge at the session held in Baltimore. During 1904 and 1905, practically nothing being done in the matter, our Supreme Representatives, Sira W. Asbelle Hawkins and Josiah Diggs were especially instructed to urge some action at the Supreme Lodge session held at Kansas City, Mo., in 1905. The outcome was the appointment of a committee from our Supreme Lodge to confer with a similar committee from the Supreme Lodge, A. A. E., E. A., and gold committees, formulate and submit plans or articles of union, and it is presumed the brains of both Supreme Lodges was selected for so important committee. The time and place was agreed upon by the two Supreme Chancellors, for the meeting of the two committees in joint session, articles of union agreeable to each body were presented and acted upon by sections, and the result was the adoption of the Articles of Union as presented in our official organ, and the same attested by the signatures of the entire joint committee. To my mind it does our committee an injustice to style their work, so-called Articles of Union, for they adopted each and every section, and affixed their signatures to those so-called Articles of Union, as my brother is pleased to style them, and it was thought the matter would rest until our supreme session for ratification, not to try to ignore the work of our brothers, and to try to impress the rank and file of the order that after two days the brain and intellect of the order did nothing. It is indeed a reflection on our good brethren of that committee. I am proud of the record made by this jurisdiction and especially under my administration. Note if you please the advance. In 1905, our roster numbered eighteen lodges, and through the unceasing efforts of my brother Knights and myself, Maryland today boasts of thirty-four good, healthy lodges, whose members are loyal and putting forth every effort to advance the interest of the order, whose soul and purpose is to carry out the fundamental principles as taught at our altar. It's not a question of might, it's a question of right and while it is true, we have been getting along fairly well in the past, to carry out the principles and better conditions we should unite if for no other reason, it will be the means of the present leadership of the party is strengthening our forces to meet the present oppression that is coming against us, and under our banner present a solid philanthax that will not only protect us, but demand respect from all men. Why should we stay divided to suit the whims of a few or cavel over matters of virtually no importance and THE ADVOCATE. ignore the men who are legal and are putting forth every effort to advance the interests of the order. It's not a question of might, it's a question of right, and while it is true, we have been getting along fairly well in the past, to carry out the principles and better conditions we should unite if for no other reason, it will be the means of strengthening our forces to meet the prejudice and oppression that is coming against us as a race, and under one banner present a solid philanax that no one will protect us, but demands respect from moralWhy should we stay divided to suit the whims of a few or cavel over matters of virtually no importance and deprive the rank and file, the very bone and sinew of the order, of the many advantages accruing from unity? It may be true and indeed I grant that there are some in our ranks who are carrying dull axes to be ground and are afraid should we unite, it will be a long time before they can get to the grind-stone. Regardless of the fellow in the ranks, they are pushing to have that axe ground. Like Diony sins they are forged for me, saxophoning their friends, their home, upon the altar of a boundless amphion for place and for power. I am glad, however, that many have concluded the time is full ripe to make a step toward progress, and forget the past, and use every effort to better conditions as they present themselves. It is absurd to say, there is nothing but hardships and trouble in uniting, for certainly if one hundred thousand can live and prosper, and pressure evidences of prosperity unite, because of our Supreme Lodge, surely, humiliating and five-thousand can do the same and as a united body present greater evidences of prosperity, and the world may know that Pythianism among the Negroes stands for the elevation, happiness and settlement of mankind. In conclusion, let us act in the interest of all concerned, and exemplify the cardinal principles. Fraternal in L.H. B. LEWIS, MILLIANS, Grand Chancellor, Md., and D. C. Atlanta, Ga., April 14—The opponents of President Roosevelt among the republicans of Georgia are moving to capture the party organization and to send an anti-Roosevelt delegation to the Republican National Convention next year. It is said that this movement is really in the interest of United States Senator Foraker. On the surface the anti-Roosevelt movement is sponsored by the Georgia Republican State League, which is largely made up of Negro Republicans. This league is organized in every Congressional district and is state, and represents the voting strength of the Republican party in Georgia. The league is using against Roosevelt the fact that he has appointed many Democrats to Federal offices in Georgia, and has ignored Republican applicants. The league alleges that many of the Roosevelt appointees who call themselves Republicans are really De mocrats. The league is sending circulars throughout the state attacking the Roosevelt appointees and calling on the faithful to take charge of the party. The circular is severe on the Stacks (one of the Republican party. By "straddlers" is the office holders of the party. If a man is a Democrat, says the league, let him be a Democrat, and if he is a Republican, let him not be a "straddler." It is aligned that these "straddlers" have given over the Republican party to the Democrats in Georgia. By the unfaithful are meant Colonel Walter H. Johnson, United States Marshal of the Federal Court of the Northern District of Georgia; Harry Stillwell Edwards, Postmaster at Macon: H. Ackley (colored). Revenue Collector of Atlanta: O. Devos (colored), of Savannah, and others, who compose the State Central Committee of the G. O. P. of Georgia. The State League seems to be in funds, and the leaders say they are certain to name their delegates to the next National Convention. "BIG STICK." Studded With Jewels, for Roosevelt From Brownsville, Tex., as an "Appreciation. Galveston, Tex., April 13.—In appreciation of his discharge of Negro soldiers there President Roosevelt is to be presented with a jeweled "big stick" by the citizens of Brownsville, Texas. The large walking cane is made of Mexican coffee wood, and exquisitely carved and mounted with Texas silver. An engraver has been working on the emblematic figures for over six months, and the cane is pronounced the finest piece of workmanship ever designed for a stick, which weighs over four pounds. It will be forwarded to the president in a few days, with a petition that he use it on the Senate Committee "In the name of justice and the honor of Brownsville citizenship." BY JAS. CUBERT CAMPBELLL. Washington, D. C., April 16.—If one should ask the political forecaster, "As he is sometime styled, the politician, weather man—and Washington has a full quota of such wise ones what he thought of condition he would gravely shake his head and say: "The political atmosphere is, without doubt, heavily charged and all Presidential aspirants would well to see that their lightning rods are carefully placed, because the elements certainly promise much lightning. There is a fierce storm raging in the Ohio Valley which may blow someone into the White House, the booms, except that of, Mr. Taft; and better not be left out over night, because there is a killing frost coming from the White House. The Brownville storm which did so much damage to the Roosevelt Sun Shine has temporarily subsided. With this, the wise old man, who has weathered many a hard political storm, would hasten away and leave you to sober reflection. But for the man, keeping up with national politics there is at present, plenty of excitement. With the National Conference, which should nominate a Republican candidate, fifteen months off, the country is wishing a struggle it has seldom. If ever, seen so far in advance of the time when the fighting usually begins. With every trick and cunning device known to the science the political game is being played—not for the fun of it, but to win. And up to this point there is that interesting uncertainty which makes it exceedingly exciting and entertaining. It is hard to predict, in fact it is quite impossible to say now who the Presidential nominee will be. Notwithstanding the statement Mr. Roosevelt issued on the night of his election, to the effect that he would positively not seek another nomination, there are apparently powerful forces to overcome that statement, and make his nomination again possible. And if the straws count for anything in the matter of telling which way the wind blows, it would seem that that election-night statement may yet be nullified and Mr. Roosevelt be made to be the standard bearer of his party in the next fight for the highest office in the gift of the people. It is said that the number that believes he will run again is almost as large as that number John saw. But just how he is to get away from that statement he gave the people, that he would not run again, is what puzzles so many. Some say that the struggle between the other states will cause a deadlock and after the fight on the floor of the convention some one will shout "Roosevelt"—a stampede and his nomination. And the will of the people being greater than that of one men, he will have to serve again. Again there are those who believe that Mr. Roosevelt of today is not the Roosevelt of yesterday. Roosevelt of today, they say, is Roosevelt shorn of much popularity and power, and and deadly sting. "His star," said a man high up in the counsel of the government, a devil on the decline, and that $5,000,000 trust conspiracy will catch Mr. Roosevelt yet if he doesn't watch out." But the President as has so often been proven, is not easily caught and his catchers are sometimes the ones who get caught. He is never politically asleep, and there are not many of the present day generation who seem to have the courage to attack him when his opportunity comes. Said a politician speaking of Mr. Roosevelt's giant, strength." "The Lilliputians conquered and subdued their great, and strong Gulliver, and there is not a man among us, entirely free from "brainstorm," who does not know there are today legions and legions of Lilliputians at large in this land of the free and home of the brave. They are a little timid, and afraid, 'tis true, but if this great modern political Gulliver ever bats his eye or drops that "big stick" even for a single second, these Lilliputians will be upon him. And then that mighty pen that has signed so many men into oblivion, drops forever, those mighty hands that thrown so many down, and those same hands that plined the badge of dishonor and disgrace upon a battalion of black soldiers. Not proven guilty will be bound down, powerless and that mighty tongue that said so many good things and called so many men liars will be forever silent. That's if the Lilliputians ever get him." Bpt the political event most talked of by colored people, since the Brownsville affair, is the appointment of Ralph W. Tylier, of Columbus, Ohio, to be Auditor for the Navy Department, a position of much importance and paying $4,000 a year. This place was once held by John-R. Lynch, a colored man now paymaster in the regular army, and of course, is no new appointment for colored man, and the future was. But the colored people, nevertheless, are loud in their praise and thanks to the President, and at the same time communicating. Mr. Tyler upon his good morning. Notwithstanding this, outward demonstration of virtue and approval the colored people are quietly asking among themselves what it all means. What means this sudden outburst of greedfulness? Why have the windows of our political heaven been thrown open so wide and such a shower of official blessing poured upon our mortals? Must we be aware of these Greeks bearing bountiful political gifts? A few evening ago, in a fashionable smoking parlor in the northwest section of the city, there large numbers of influenza patients from colony cities, a wealth of gentleman, in conversation with friends was expressing his opinion on the Tyler appointment, and I believe it is safe to say that this man's opinion is the composite opinion of the colored people in general. He said, in substance, that the Tyler appointment was nothing more than political bain intended by the President to heal that ugly - core place, the dishonestable discharge of the colored soldiers made upon the colored body politic. It was either for that purpose continued the President's efforts to bury the Senator Foraker, who took such a bold stand for the soldiers, and has proven a true and titled friend to the full colored vote in Ohio. This appointment might, as you can plainly see, be the one atom used to kill both the Brownsville and Ohio bird. But it is a mighty small stone to hurt at the base of the tree, and should not be surprised if his unlucky falls far short of the big game he intends it to kill. But one thing is certain, the colored people generally hope that this attends and row in the ranks of the party will not lead up to such breaches, as to give the party of opposition a chance to capture the election, and much prefers the Republican party, as the party of the Republican party, gets affords them to the hostile and bitter attitude of Democracy. These people love Senator Foraker for his constantly kind and friendly attitude towards them and will go to the last ditch with him nor will they soon forget or cease to be grateful to President Roosevelt for the manly and fearless attitude he has maintained throughout his administration, and if there are mistakes charged to him, these people, are not convinced yet, that they were only those of the head and not the heart. The standard of both Roosevelt and Foraker is the Republican standard and the black man has yet to forsaken the Republican standard. TWO CENT Full Test of the Law Reducing Railway Milage on Railways to Two Cents The two-cent fare law passed by the last legislature, which makes two cents per mile the maximum compensation for the transportation of passengers by the trunk lines and the lateral lines over city of West Virginia in length. State statute of May 22, binety days from the passage of the act. The law reads as follows: Be it enacted by the legislature of West Virginia: Sec. 1. That all railroad corporations organized or doing business in this state under the laws or authority thereof shall be limited in their charges for transportation of any person with ordinary baggage, not exceeding one hundred pounds in weight, to the sum of two cents per mile, or fractional part of a mile, but the fare shall always be made the multiple of five nearest reached by multiplying the rate by the distance, and if for any one passenger the rates herein provided shall be less than five cents, the sald sum of five cents may be charged as a minimum; children under twelve years of age shall be carried for one half the rate above prescribed; provided, that any passenger boarding a train at a station where tickets are sold, without having incurred a ticket, may be charged a additional fare of ten cents for which sum a rebate, redeemable in money, upon presentation to any ticket agent of the company shall be issued and delivered to such passenger; and provided further, that nothing in this act shall apply to any railroad in this state under fifty miles in length and not a part of, or under the control, management or operation of any other railroad, over fifty miles in length, operating wholly or in part in the state. Section 2. Any railroad company which shall charge, demand or receive any greater compensation from the transportation of any passenger than is authorized by this act, shall be fined for each offense not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; provided, that nothing contained in this act shall apply to electric lines and street railways owned or operated in this state. Sec. 3. All acts or parts of acts in consistent herewith are thereby repealed. TICKET STATION ROBBED Thieves Got Tickets, Mileage Books and M and Money to Amount of $1,100. Greentown, Ind. They waiting station of the Kokamo, Marion & Western Traction company, was robbed early today of tickets, mileage books and money to the value of $1,100. Havana, April 11.—The Palace has been somewhat disturbed for two or three days by reports from Guntes, a town of 25,000 people about thirty miles from Havana. The difficulty, it appears, was caused by one Jose Rafael Ayala, an ex-chief of police of the place, who was chased out last fall by the trumpet and revengeful liberal element. Ayala returned to Guinea from Mexico last Sunday. He was murdered Tuesday evening, and there is great excitement at Guines. Ayala's Moderate friends are making great political capital of the affair. It is doubtful if there will be any further disturbance in Gulnes, as there are a hundred American soldiers there. But it all goes to show that there is more or less unrest in the country. The Negroes, the life blood of solutions, are ending their winter's work on the sugar plantations and with markets full of money are preparing to 'buy' the case of comfort. Now and then there are reports of small bands of these Negroes, all of whom were in the Liberal army last year, going to the woods to make trouble. A story was cabled a few days ago of a band of seventeen near-Pales, in Chamague province. The rural guarafas chased the outfit and captured one man, who it is reported, confessed that the gang had gone forth at the instigation of Gen. Loynaz del Castillo, a leader in the last revolution, a man of fame in Cuba. The prisoner declared that Castillo had sent the men to the woods with instructions to the American soldiers. Castillo was the man who last fall threatened Secretary Taft while the later was visiting here. He told Mr. Taft that he would burn up the island. The sugar season ends during the latter part of May or early in June and it will not be surprising if there is a bit of trouble then. By that time the Negroes who composed the Liberal army of last year will all be out of work and ready for anything. There is no indications and no deniance part of the politicians for a general break, but these little bands of Negroes to go to the bush, steal a horse here and to or run a cane field. All of which will be cited to show that the islands is in a terrible condition. It is true that there are many here who would like to make trouble, but with the American army of pacification scattered over the island to do so would be an experiment hardly worth while. But just because during the revolution which preceded our war with Spain the Cuban patriots kept busy a Spanish army of 200,000 men—so the number is redefined because are many who believe it would be easy thing for a Cuban army to drive. We are not alone. During the talk of war between Japan and the United States recently one Cuban orator, soldier and statesman declared that he would secure the services of Japan and drive the Americans out of the island. There are plenty of Cubans, especially the soldiers, who declare that the United States robbed Cuba of the glory of defeating Spain. In reaching their conclusion that the Americans had against the Cubans, as shown by the fact that the Spanifards could not keep the Cuban revolt down, the methods of Spanish fighting have been forgotten. The Spanifard had his blockhouses scattered around at intervals, and when these were attacked by the Cubans a party was sent to the town where the soldiers would lost a few hundred yards down the road and the Spanish soldiers would go back home for another cigarette. Those who believe that the American soldiers could not successfully cope with the Cuban army, or what would be the army in the event of an outbreak, do not realize that the Americans would chase and chase the Cubans from exhaustion or land in the sea. The American army is scattered all over the island. The largest concentration is at Camp Columbia, four or five miles from Havana. All over the island the soldiers are busy. From every post the troops are sent out over the country, not so much for work as to learn the ground over which they will have to travel in the event of future trouble. Maps are being made of, practically every foot of the island, and when trouble comes the army will surely be efficient. Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Barry, commanding the American forces here, recently made an extended inspection trip through the eastern and central portions of the island. Army blended condition everywhere and there were no reports of disturbances. Just now the army of Cuban pacification is shrinking. By May 31 it will be short about 1,200 men, and Gen. Barry has asked the War Department to send him that number. The trouble is that recruits are very hard to get and the enlisted men refuse to reenlist when their terms of service expire. This is principally because of the hard work involved in belonging to the army these days. The great manoeuvre camps of last summer with the long practice marches and night and day work have been Some Pertinent Questions to be An Lynch, Once Auditor for Navy the "Riot Act" to the Republic Party Based Upon Equality of The City Hall Luncheon Room G tured by the Jamesown Exposa Coming Into Their Dwn—Bethel L After the Business League's Nation the cause of any number of men not only in Cuba but in the United States as well refusing to take another term of enlistment. Recruits, so it is reported from Washington, are very hard to get and it seems that the army here will have to suffer for some time to come. LYNCHERS FIRED ON EACH OTHER And Claim that Negro Did the Shooting in which Five Men were Seriously Injured New Orleans, La., April 15.—Five men were wounded during an unsuccessful attempt to lynch a Negro at Bunkle, La., last night. No lights of any sort were burning when the posse took the Negro from the jail and members of the posse disagree as to who did the shooting, some declaring a crowd of Negroes got it, while others claim the gunmen of their own party are sholly to blame. The injured are H. V. Crutcher, H. S. Dougherty, O. Quinn, J.D. Norman, C. H. Emory, the latter of Brandon, Miss. After the shooting the Negroes got away, they say, carrying the prisoner with them. The crime which led up to the shooting was an assault by a Negro on a Mrs. Johnsack, on Massville, a town near Bunkle. A Negro, whose name is not known in Bunkle, was armed and charged with the crime and carried to Bunkle for safe keeping. A posse is now in 'search for the Negroes. Later dispatches from Bunkie are to the effect that the story of the mob of whites being fired on by Negroes is scouted. It is now the general belief that when the Negro prisoner got away from the wound-be lynchers, after being taken from the jail, many shots were fired and members of the lynching party wounded each other. There is no evidence to bear out the story that the mob was fired on by Negroes. All excitement at Bunkie has subsided. NEGROES FIRED ON WHITE MEN Tis Said a Race war is on at Liberty Miss. Both Sides Being Armed Liberty, Miss., April 15.—A race riot occurred here yesterday afternoon, as a result of which four men were seriously wounded. W. H. Bates, Jr., son of Sheriff Bates, had some altercation with Will Harris, a Negro, and Bates was fired upon by a crowd of Negroes. The Negroes had armed themselves and were evidently waiting to kill Bates. The Negroes was so thick and fast that it sounded like a young battle. The Negroes made their escape and in a short time a rumor was affoat that they had congregated east of the town and had sent word to the white people to come ahead; they were ready. Before the sun went down every white man in town was armed and ready. Possesses have gone in every direction. Bloodhounds have been telephoned for. Bates was shot eight times, and in every critical condition. Louis Ratchit was shot in the arm. Monroe Anderson, a Negro was shot, and it is thought will die. Will Knox, a Negro, was shot in the head. The Negroes were armed with pistols and Winchester rifles. Sunday night the Negro, meeting hall was burned, and the succession of explosions which occurred convinced the whites that the Negroes had stored up a large quantity of ammunition and arms therein. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Delivered an Address at the Peace Conference This Afternoon. New York, April 17.—A general conference of the delegates to the Peace Congress was held at Carnegie Hall this morning for the purpose of submitting and considering resolutions this. This afternoon there was a regular session at which William Jennings Bryan spoke. Washington, D.C., April 10.—The appointment of Ralph W. Tyler, of Ohio, as Auditor of the Treasury for the Navy Department, is the talk of the hour. The suit of Mr. Tyler for an important federal case creates no particular surprise, for once his name has been so closely connected with the Collectorship at Cincinnati, narrowly missing that stellar assignment, it has been presumed that he would land, something fat, before many days. It was felt that the President owed him "something good," then political exigencies seemed to make him independent to locate Mr. Tyler where, originally planned to have him. The surprise comes in the fact that no place could be found for a first-class Negro in the liberal state of Ohio, and in the further fact that the President has gives him a berth that everybody thought was entirely lost to the Navy Auditor; as it the office of "Fourth Auditor," as it the called-up was filled by the Hon. John R. Byrne of Mississippi, during the Harrison administration, and Mr. Robert H. Terrell, now a magistrate in the District of Columbia, was chief deputy; but white men have occupied it continuously since that time, and it was considered so far out of the reach of colored aspirant that no man of the race was deemed to ask for it. The President, in minded, however, to find a suitable position for Mr. Tyler that he moved Auditor Brown over to the Department of Justice to make room for him. Mr. Tyler's history has been so well covered by the press that no further mention has been made of his long line. And his long line, journalism and public life make history for both sides, especially fit him for the satisfactory discharge of his duties in the Treasury Department, and his selection means the approval of the rank and file of the colored people the country over. The political phase of the appointment is attracting no small degree of attention, and a number of interesting questions are growing out of it. What will be the effect of Mr. Tyler's selection upon the pristine troubled waters in Ohio? Will it offset the discontent occasioned by the discharge of the soldiers for alleged participation in the Brownsville riot? Will it break into the battle-line so cleverly it stiffen up by Senator Foraker? Will it stiffen up by spinning column of the colored men disarmed in the Trey Taft for President? Will it dampen the ardor of the Forakerites, who think that following the Senator's White plume is not the short-cut to official preferment? In short, will the appointment of Mr. Tyler, revive the old enthusiasm for Roosevelt, and give renewed potency to those old time siblohebots the "square deal," the door of hope, and the "all man up, rather than some men down," as rallying cries? It is too soon now to attempt to answer questions so leaden to Buckeye groves, the Buckeye State are a indoors bout, a hog on ice, so speak, and the virus of political autonomy instilled by Peter H. Clark more than a quarter of a century ago, is still more or less in evidence, and likely to manifest itself at the moment least expected. It will take time to accurately "size up" the situation, especially in such political hot-beds as Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo and Springfield, where the leaders live and have their being. In any event, Mr. Tyler has his job, and is going on to Washington will aid one more to the galaxy of illustrious "top-notch," increasing the duo of political heavyweights—Register Vernon and Recorder Dancy—to the trio. Mr. Tyler is not a stranger in the nation's capital. There is no doubt that he will "make good." Editor T. Thomas Fortune, of the New York Age, is injecting some "ginger" into the equation of party politics these days. He is disgusted with the republican party, as at present constituted, and cannot stomach the democratic aggregation of Negrohaters and law-breakers. A fortnight ago, fondling his "snickerness," with a grace that would have done credit to Mikado's "Lord High Executioner," Mr. Fortune said: "At this stage of the game, Afro-Americans are off the firing line. They may not get into the fighting in dead earnest before the next national convention, when the platform has been adopted and the candidates nominated. As far as the Roosevelt administration could accomplish it, the Afro-American has been set aside entirely as a party factor. Such organization as he has had in the southern states has been taken away from him and the African-American democrats and republican lily-petitions a combination of political indochina. Continued on Page Four. Correspondence ALDERSON. Rev. D. C. Deans closed the revival meeting at the Stitho Baptist church Sunday night. Several conversions were made and five were added to the church roll. Rev. A. D. Lewis, who so ably assisted the pastor, left Thursday night for Richmond. Mrs. James Brown is visiting friends at Ronceverte. Odell, the little daughter of Mrs. Eliza Ward, died last Saturday night. She had been sick for several weeks. The funeral was conducted at the house Sunday afternoon by Rev. D. C. Deans. Fred Huskins, of Charleston, was the guest of his wife, Mrs. Nannie Campbell-Huskins last Sunday. Rev. A. Becks has been returned to the pastorate of the M. E. Church, and was hope for him much success in his entire charge. Miss Jennie Wilson entertained Rev. D. C. Deans and E. A. Bolling at dinner on Saturday afternoon. Lula M. Jackson, Baptist field missionary, was in our town last week. She gave an able and touching address, stating forth the deplorable condition of her people in Africa and requesting our assistance for our people gave her a good contribution. MONTGOMERY Miss Ethel Brown closed her school at London several weeks ago, and is now in Washington, D. C., visiting relatives, also to attend the wedding of a cousin. Mrs. L. D. Hodge is home again after having been away two weeks in the interest of her orter. Mrs. Ella Burke, the only colored milliner in town, is doing a rushing business. William R. Page is now manager of the Jackson Hotel. Beacon Lodge No. 2457, G. U. O. of O. F., are preparing to dedicate their new hall, Tuesday, April 30, at 7:30 p. m. Program Dedication services. Solo. Mrs. S. M. Davis Solo, Mrs. S. M. Davis. History of Lodge, S. B. Morgan. Greetings from Masonic Lodge, H. H. Rafter. Greeting from K. of P. Lodge, S. M. Davis. Greeting from Red Men's Lodge, Dr. B. F. White. Greeting from Fishermen, O. T. Wilkerson. Greeting from True Reformers, Mrs. L. D. Hodge. Closing address John S Noel Closing address, John S. Noel. Eagle and Montgomery Cornet bands will furnish music. The order cordially invites all lodges and friends to be present. Lady James, of Red Star, was a business visitor here Saturday. Mrs. Philip Cobbs, of Charleston, is here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Steeptep. Miss Rosa Winston, of Hill Top, was here shopping last week. Mrs. Charles Potts and Mrs. Fred Ellison, of Longacre, were here Monday shopping. A. P. Straughter, of Hinton, is a business visitor here this week. Mrs. Manuel Washington will entertain the Willing Worker Club Friday afternoon at her home on High street. Dr. B. F. White was called to Tomsburg on professional business. Dr. W. C. Lawrence was a professional visitor to London several days last week. Rev. Vachel Harriday, of Huntington, was sent here to take charge of the Methodist church. His people seem well pleased with him. GUYANDOTTE Mrs. Fannie Johnson, of Huntington, is spending a few days with Mrs. Millie Layne. Miss Emma Wroute was calling on Mrs. Mary Johnson at Midway. Alex. Twyman will leave this week for Caperton on business. Miss Violet Layne was shopping if Huntington Saturday. Mrs. Kitty Robinson and her son Herbert, are ill at this writing. Miss Caroline Robinson was called home because of her mother's illness. Rev. D. W. Perdew preached here Sunday. Mrs. Bessie Johnson, of Huntington, was here on business this week. Miss Lottie Twyman was calling on her sister, Mrs. Maud Layne, Sunday. Irving Fliggens, of Barboursville, was in town Sunday. Miss Ivory Hill, of Huntington, was in town Sunday. Qwens Pleasant spent Sunday in Burlington, Ohio, with his wife. William Smootz who was hurt while at work at the C. & O. shops, is able to work again. Nelson Layne left this week for Milton, and will be there several days plastering. Mrs. Dickerson, of Catlettsburg, was calling on her sister, Mrs. Mattie Davis, Sunday. Rev. I. V. Bryant was in town Mon day on business. UNION. The Women's Missionary Club meet at the home of Mrs. Mary Campbell on Diamond Hill Thursday evening, with Mrs. Mary Campbell presiding, and attended to much business. Several new members were added. Friday evening they gave an entertainment at the Odd Fellows' hall. Mrs. Rose Campbell and Miss Carolina Clair, committee. Prof. Norman Bell rendered many beautiful and charming selections on the organ. Miss Skipworth Campbell. Miss Jessie Wright. Miss Rosie Jamerson and Miss Eva Peterson were most prominent in delivering some very choice recitations. Chris Chambers is on the sick list. John Twist, of Salt Sulphur Springs, spent the day in town calling on friends. Miss Rosie Bailey, the worthy superintendent of the Sunday school of the 1st Baptist church, has gathered around her quite a number of school arts and the school is progressing wonderfully. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Twist, of Salt Sulphur have not been able to get to church for some time. Rev. C. L. Campbell preached Eastern services Sunday for Rev. Jackson and raised a heat little sum for the West Virginia Seminary at Hill Top. Mrs. Nellie White, of Salt Sulphur, is convalescing. Rev. Wm. Jackson preached at the 1st Baptist church of Union Sunday at 11 o'clock. He drove 8 miles and preached at Little Zion Baptist church, Sinks Grove, at 3 o'clock, and here again at 8:30. Mrs. Julia Jackson, of Sweet Springs, the wife of Rev. Wm. Jackson, continues quite ill. The Epworth League of the M. E. church has organized with the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Rev. J. W. Warren; 1st vice president, Charles Haynes; 2nd vice president, Samuel Rogers; 3rd vice president, Mrs. Jessie Wright; 4th vice president, Mrs. Alice Newsome; secretary, Mrs. Luck Black; treasurer, Mrs. Lavinia Roy; junior president, Miss Sallie Rogers. The children of the M. E. Sunday school rendered a pleasing program Easter Sunday at 3 o'clock. Owing to the inclement weather the attendance was not so large. The sum of $1.46 was realized for missionary purposes. William Smalls has returned home after being the guest of Mrs. Lucy Lewis, of Hinton, for the past ten days. Allen Whitlock, who has been away for the past two years, is the guest of his father, Chris Whitlock. KANAWHA. Mrs. J. W. Woods, who has been very ill for several days, is now able to be out again. T. R. Johnson, of Loop Creek, was here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Johnson was en route to Youngstown, O., where he will spend the summer. Miss C. B. Page closed here school here April 9. W. W. Lewis was at home Sunday and Monday from Winifrede. Miss Ivory Woods returned home Thursday of last week from Eagle, where she was the guest of her uncle, C. C. Woods, and Miss Bessie Dow. Mrs. R. B. Johnson was calling on friends Thursday of last week. Charles Page, student at the West Virginia Colored Institute, was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Page, Sunday. W. H. Jackson was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Johnson, Sunday evening. F. D. Page is able to be out again after a short illness. Mrs. S. R. Lewis is much improved at this writing. Miss Lillian Sellers returned to Charleston Tuesday of last week. M.T. CARBON. Rev. George R. Kenney, of Point Pleasant, filled our pulpit on the first Sunday of this month and preached two able sermons. Mrs. Maggie Thompson, president of the Women's Baptist State Convention, is the guest of Mrs. M. S. Reid. Rev. J. J. Turner was called to Ganley Bridge Sunday to unite in wedlock Mr. Lewis Carrington and Mrs. Rosa Dawson. J. N. Winbush, who was sick at the last writing, is much better. J. W. Johnson is confined to his bed with a severe illness. Rev. S. E. Williams filled his regular appointment at Eagle Sunday. Mrs. M. S. Reed and Mrs. S. E. Williams are preparing to give an entertainment for the Sunday school, Monday night. Thomas Carter has again resumed work after an illness of six weeks. After a sudden illness, Mrs. Mary Rolling is improving. WESTON Presiding Elder S. P. West, held his second quarterly meeting on last Sunday, and he attended conference on the following Monday night. The elder came to town early in the week for a rest from his labors. He preached several excellent sermons while here. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, of Buckhannon, spent Sunday here with Mr. Smith's mother, Mrs. Louisa Grant. Miss Lizzie Robinson, of Clarksburg, made a most favorable impression here a musician. She had charge of the musical part of the program of the Weston Colored Schools, which closed Friday night. The piano solo rendered by her was simply grand. We are very much indebted to her for the invaluable service rendered on said occasion. She left Saturday morning for her home. N. C. Gardner, of Mannington, was the guest of Wm. Jackson several days last week. He remained over to see the closing exercises of the colored schools. He left Saturday for Baltimore where he will remain for some time. Several visitors whose names we could not learn were in the city the greater part of last week. COVINGTON, VA. Archie Wright, of Wrightsville, lost one of his horses last week. Ad Davis, of Wrightsville, is sick. Miss Dora Wright is improving nicely. Mrs. Mary Beverly, of Eagle Rock, spent Sunday visiting her sister, Mrs. John Anderson. Mrs. Zezy Anderson spent Tuesday at Wilton. Mrs. Ellen Perrin spent two days last week with friends in Eagle Rock. Mrs. R. J. Wood, of Hot Springs, is the guest this week of Mrs. R. N. Smith. Mrs. Mason Mann, who was confined to her bed last week, is able to be out again. Rev. Hackett filled his pulpit Sunday. In the morning he spoke from Matthew 25-25. In the evening from Psalm 51-12-13. Mrs. Lola Jackson, of Louisville, missionary for National Convention, addressed the congregation Sunday evening after services. She greatly interested the people in speaking of her work. An after collection of $8.00 was given her. George Stelle, who was called home on account of illness, returned Monday night accompanied by his brother. Mrs. John Hunter spent much time last week in Iron Gate, healing the sick. She will return again soon. Dennis McDowell, who has been from home for several years, returned home Sunday morning for a two weeks visit. Frank Pollard spent, Sunday at home. Mrs. W. J. Hackett has been very much indisposed for several days, but is quite well again. William Newsome recently left the tannery and purchased himself a horse and dray and will do hauling and ploughing. Sunday morning, about 8 o'clock the fire alarm was turned in and to our surprise the First Baptist church had caught fire around the flue. Women and men with buckets worked heroically and by the firm the fire company arrived the fire was out. Not so much damage was done. The general service was conducted as usual Sunday. Miss Lillie Jordan, of Wrightsville, continues quite ill. Miss Mary Allen, of Dunlap, spent Sunday and Monday here. A white man living about two miles cast of Covington was drowned Saturday night. He and a friend were crossing the furnace bridge, and being drunk it is supposed he fell off and was drowned. Up to Tuesday his body was not recovered. HINTON Mrs. Lula Jackson, field missionary of the Women's Convention Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention gave an interesting talk at the Baptist Church Sunday evening, April 7th. Mr. Thurston filled the pulpit for Rev. A. D. Lewis Sunday evening, and those who were present enjoyed the discourse. A duet was sung by Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Strougher. The Progressive Sons and Daughters met last week at the home of Mrs. Deckerson on Bluff street. The Young People's Club will give a patriotic supper and drill Thursday evening the 18th in the basement of the Second Baptist Church. The missionary society met with Mrs. Emma Christian last week. The Progressive Sons and Daughters met this week at the home of Mrs. L. Strange. Miss Lelia Strange Steele, who spent the winter in Florida, returned home Sunday much elated over her trip. Mrs. Charles Lewis, of Richmond, was the guest of Mrs. L. Strange last week. Mr. Linsy Langhorn has returned from an extended trip to Richmond and other points East. Mrs. Green, who is a patient at the Holley Hospital, is getting along nicely. Mrs. Amanda Johnson, who has been suffering from a sprained knee, is able to get around with the aid of a crutch. Mr. E. S. Pack's marriage to Miss Mand Thomas, of Huntington, was quite a surprise to his many friends. We welcome them to our community, and may they have all of the joys this life can afford. BARBOURSVILLE. J. J. Johnson and Miss Wroute, of Guyandotte, were visiting friends here Saturday. In the recent revival conducted by Revs. Scott and Kinney, the holy spirit seemed to have come with all its quickening power, as only one who attended the meeting refused the invitation of salvation. Rev. Meadows and wife of Huntington, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hicks Sunday. Mrs. E. M. Fliggins, of Hot Springs Va., and sister, Miss Anna Johnson, were visiting relatives here last week, on their way to their former home. Mrs. Kigore was visiting in Huntington last week. Miss Bertie Johnson spent Sunday at her home at Midway, and was very glad to find a piano recently installed glad to find a piano recently installed. Rev. Scott preached a very masterly sermon Sunday morning, while Rev. Meadows filled the rostrum in the afternoon. Owing to the very unfavorable condition of the river, baptizing was postponed Sunday. Frank Chilton, of Huntington, was in town Sunday. Little Anna and Hortense Hill, who have been ill with measles, are able to be out again. Mrs. Luke Hicks is visiting relatives in Huntington. PT. PLEASANT George Wells, of Kerrs Run, was here Saturday and Sunday the guest of Miss Lida Bates. Miss Ida Alexander, who is teaching a spring term of school at Five Mile, spent Sunday here the guest of her parents. James Colston and Presley Alexander were in Gallipolis Monday. Wim F. Roberts, of Charleston, came down and spent Sunday with his family. He was accompanied back by his son Fred, who expects to remain with him. Pearl Johnson, Line Stribling and Alfred Bradley were in town a few hours Monday off the steamery Greenland. The Young Ladies Embroidery Club will meet with the Misses Lincoln Wednesday. Rev. I. Venture, the new pastor at this place and Huntington, preached a very able and interesting sermon here Thursday. We hope that Rev. Venture will be a God send to our little towns and when he leaves us we may be much improved both spiritually and mentally. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jordan after purchasing $25 worth of merchandise of E. B. Sisler became the possessors of a beautiful Victor graphophone. The P. P. Grays had their first meeting of the season at the club rooms April 4th. Russell Colston you have noticed, the only movement of the bowel open, is the movement of the bowel closed, and the shape of the bowel is dangerous. The smoothest, easiest, safest way of keeping the bowel closed is to take SANDY OATARTIC Cascarets THE DISTRICT VOLLEYBALL was appointed captain, Frank Belle, manager, Robert Johnson secretary, and Julus Settles treasurer. The Grays expect to have their opening games Friday, May 31st on the school diamond. Captain Polee, and W. Clendenin; of the satemer Flint, were in towns Monday. HARPER'S FERRY. Mrs. Etta Lovett Hill left Harper's Ferry, Wednesday, April 10th for the west. Mrs. Hill will spend ten days or two weeks in Cincinnati en route to the Indian Territory, where she will join her husband. Rev. Mr. Joakins visited Storrer one day last week, and gave one of his spicy chapel talks. Arbor day was observed Friday afternoon at Storrer. The senior class rendered a very interesting program on the campus at which time a lilac was planted. The lilac was received from the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage in New York. Work on the new Storrer catalogue has been started and it is hoped that the catalogue will be ready for distribution by commencement time. The spring reviews have been started. Several of the teachers, whose schools have closed have entered Storrer for these reviews. Others will be in later on. We regret very much to announce that Mr. Wood is to leave our town. He will take up a charge at Hyattsville, Md. The cantata "Esther" has been postponed until commencement time. Mr. Wood will be up several times for rehearsals between now and that time. Dr. Brackett was in Charles Town Sunday attending the Harper's Ferry quarterly meeting, which was held there Saturday and Sunday. Miss Lizzie Sims was called to Rippon, Friday last by the death of her cousin Mrs. Jared Arter. Miss Sims returned Sunday. CLARKSBURG. N. B. Gardner of Mannington, was calling on friends here Wednesday. The many friends of Miss Jesse Wilson were greatly surprised to learn of her pregnancy to Mr. James Hayes on Wednesday. All join in wishing them much happiness. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes will reside here. Rev. J. M. Beane arrived Saturday and is preparing for moving to his new home. Matilda, the wife of David Minnis, died at her home on the West Milford road near Steary addition Sunday evening at 6:15 o'clock after a long illness with lung trouble. Mrs. Minnis was 55 years of age and is survived by her husband and two children. Melvin, aged 6 and Lizzie, aged 15. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with services at the African Methodist Episcopal church and burial in Elk cemetery. Rev. Mr. Bazier led the services. Mrs. Charles Beckwith is quite ill at this writing. Mrs. James Madison, of Parkersburg, attended the funeral of her brother, Robert Rector. Mr. Martin and three daughters, of Fairmont, attended the funeral of Mr. Robert Rector, Friday. Mrs. Wheeler Jackson is able to be out again after several weeks' illness. Mrs. Robert Rector was called to her home in Fairmont, Sunday, by the serious illness of her brother, Hayes Martin. Death ended the mortal life of Robert Rector, at his home on First street Wednesday night at 9:10 after a lingerling illness with a complication of diseases. The funeral took place Friday afternoos at 2:30 o'clock with services at the late home and interment in Elk View cemetery. Besides his wife, and two children, Robert Rector is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Walter Sedwick and Mrs. Berth Madison, of Parkersburg. He was 44 years old. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Turner, of Wheeling, are the guests of Rev. and Mrs. E. R. Bazier. The sermon of the True Reformers was preached by Rev. J. W. Robinson, at Trinity M. E. Church. A large crowd was in attendance and all enjoyed a rare treat in listening to the excellent truths which he presented. Rev. S. E. West, of Wheeling, district will hold his second quarterly meeting here April 21st. Rev. G. W. W. Jenkins, of Trinity M. E. Church will preach in the afternoon, and the presiding elder will preach morning an evening. Miss Elizabeth Robinson attended the closing exercises of the Weston school. HUNTINGTON. Rev. I. V. Bryant delivered the installation sermon of Rev. O. P. Wright, at fronton, Ohio, Sunday afternoon. Music was furnished by the choir of the 16th Street Baptist Church of this city. 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Miss Carrie Manggrum is home again having closed a successful term of school at the Colored Orphans' Home near here. Douglas school closes May 24th, the commencement being on the same evening. Pror. J. R. L. Diggs, president of State University, at Louisville, Ky., will deliver the address to the graduating class. Miss Mary Dickerson one of the efficient teachers at the Orphans' Home, is at her home here school having closed Friday. Dr. Barnett is receiving congratulations upon his appointment by Governor Dawson, as delegate to the anti-tuberculosis league, which convenes at Atlantic City, June 15. Robert Woodson is erecting a nice business house on 8th avenue. L. O. Jackson left for Cincinnati, Monday. Edwin Dickerson is able to resume his work after an illness of several week's duration. Quite a number from here attended installation services at fronton, Ohio, Sunday afternoon. Russell Cross, of Portsmouth, is here assisting in the tonsorial parlor of J. W. Reed. Mrs. T. B. 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Give this route a trial the next time you travel and be convinced of the excellent service. Ask agents for particulars. CHAS. B. DAUM, C. T. A. tu-th-sa 804 Kanawah Street. CORRESPONDENCE Continued from Page Two. Quite a number of the members of the Winter Evening Review Club will attend a joint session of the Gallipolis and Huntington Literaries, at Gallipolis next Friday evening at which time the following program will be rendered: Instrumental solo. Comparison of Henry VIII and Wolsey, Prof. J. W. Scott. Comparison of Katherine and Anne Bullen, Mrs. L. B. Bouse Paper "Sillas Marner," Mrs. Daniel Lynch. Paper "Sias Marner," Miss There- sea Smith. Music. Paper Romeo and Juliet, Miss A. Williams. Paper some lessons on Romeo and Juliet, Prof. W. H. Fouse. Music. Paper "Souls of Black Folks," W. L. Lee. Debate: Resolved, That Tennyson's theory as to the proper sphere of woman in the Princess is correct," afirmative, Miss M. L. Whiting. Negative, Miss Mina Stewart. Music. John Wilson spent the latter part of the week at Montgomery. Miss G. E. Hayes has been confined to her bed the past week with malaria. Mrs. R. G. Green had her hand severely burned by hot grease while preparing a meal Thursday. Mrs. S. H. Watt has been dangerously ill for the past week. J. D. Wiseman was a business visitor to Lewiston Saturday. Walter Britton spent a few days in Montgomery. Jas. A. Scales was slightly injured while at work in the mines Thursday, by falling slate. C. E. Ramey was called to Cedar Grove by the death of his brother. T. M. Neeley, of Hugheston, was called here by the illness of his sister Mrs. S. H. Watts. Jas. I. Thomas has been chosen to represent the Sunday school at the State Sunday School convention at Huntington. Mrs. R. W. Brooks is spending a few weeks in Charleston with her parents. Alex. Luckey spent Saturday here with friends. Will Tunstill returned Saturday from Handford, where he has employment. Rev. T. H. Christian spent last week on Loup Creek. W. H. Brown and T. G. Agnew are the delegates that will represent our Sunday, school in the convention which convenes in Huntington, May 2d. G. W. Dillard, of Kayford, was at the lodge meeting last Tuesday night. Rev. C. N. Harris was with us Sunday and preached at 11 a. m. Rev. E. G. Tillman preached at 7:30 p. m. Both sermons were uplifting and interesting. Miss L. B. Rice closed her school here Tuesday and left for her home in Charleston Thursday. Joseph Mitchell, of Erskin, was a pleasant visitor in our midst Sunday. David Washington went to Atkinsville on business Saturday. Mrs. Mattie Mitchell visited her daughter at Stonewell, Saturday. Rev. and Mrs. Tillman visited friends at Wigela last Friday and returned home Monday. The S. Kearney Lodge, K. of P., will make some new members Monday night, April 22. Mrs. Lucy Hodge, the True Reformer deputy, is expected in our town Wednesday to pay the death claim of Mrs. A. E. Washington. Rev. P. A. Harris filled his pulpit here Sunday and was the guest of Mrs Holloway. Dr. White, of Montgomery, was here Thursday sight, and helped make the following men in the Red Men, James Atkinson, John Alston, Brack Johnson, Henry Payne and W. M. Handcook. James Scott's little girl has been dangerously ill the past week, but is considered better at this writing. Rev. D. Stratton is expected here Monday the 16th. number of families at Brunwell have. Claborn, Scott, has been indisposed Claborn Scott has been indisposed for the past week. The Red Men will give an entertainment on the 27th. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo White, Mrs. Banks, R. Miller, E. Jones and Bishop Henderson were business visitors to East Bank Tuesday. Miss Emma Meadows was calling on her friends at Greencastle Sunday. Mr. Sellas and William Smith were the guests of Mrs. Nannle Holloway Wednesday. MT. HOPE. Jackson Polindexter, aged 42 years, departed this life Friday morning, April 12, at 2 o'clock. Mr. Polindexter had been sick for more than a year with a complication of diseases and had suffered intensely. He had been a patient several times at the different hospitals in the state, but found no relief. Until Thursday he had been under the care of Dr. Holly, of Hinton, and seeing that the end was near he left the sanitarium that day for his home at Macdonald, to be with his family at the last. Shortly after midnight, in the arms of his wife, he passed to the great beyond. He was a faithful member of the First Baptist church, and a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, who had charge of the funeral arrangements, Rev. N. A. Smith preached his funeral Saturday. A large congregation witnessed the last sad rites of one who had been so beloved in the community. Interment in Macdonald cemetery. Deceased leaves a widow, an infant six months old, a mother, brother and three sisters and a host of friends. Miss Lizzie Street, of Philadelphia, slater of Jackson Polindexter, attend ed his funeral here last Saturday. H. A. Johnson is spending some time in Virginia. A. C. Caul, of Winona, was here on the 9th. Rose of Sharon Lodge No. 15, K. of P., had their annual sermon preached last Sunday by Rev. N. A. Smith. Frank Lewis has moved his family here from Virginia. Harry Jordan, of Lanark, recently accepted a position with the Stanley McNorton interests. Miss Jayne Roberts has closed a successful term of school at Fire Creek and has returned home. Prof. Thos. JoeFrson, of Seminary, was a business visitor here last week. Rev. D. C. Hunter preached at Kaley-the Sunday night. J. A. Crawford, Wm. Agee and others attended circuit court at Fayetteville Saturday. Misses Ida and Ella Booker have returned from an extended trip to Longacre. Vienna Lodge No. 52; K. of P., of Kilsythe, were out in full Sunday at the annual sermon of Rose of Sharon, No. 15. Dr. C. B. Anderson spent Sunday with his wife at Fayetteville. Dr. B. Mciver, of Oswold, spent Sunday with his family at Macdonald. Miss Ethel Thomas, of Ironton, O., is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Clara Williams. Rev. D. C. Stratton preached at Klisythe last Wednesday nltht. Mrs. R. L. James, who has been quite sick the past week, is convalescing. Solomon Carter, of Raleigh, was here several days last week. Archie Willis, of Clarksburg, attended the funeral off Jack Poindexter. April 9th, the 42d anniversary of Lee's surrender, was appropriately celebrated here. In the morning with the Citizens' Band in lead, 100 Red Men paraded to Macdonald with H. J. Jordan as marshal. On the return, a large crowd assembled in Bailey's hall to listen to the eloquent speeches of Attorneys Ellis and Sweeney, and others. Mrs. Jayne Callaway read the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered a neat little speech afterwards. Dr. P. H. Calloway was master of ceremonies. A ball was given by the Order of Red Men in Scott's new hall at night, which more than 200 attended. LEWISBURG. E. A. Bolling and Angris Hopkins, of Alderson, were up Sunday visiting friends and relatives. George Gardner left Thursday for Institute to play ball. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lewis, who spent the winter at Charleston, have returned home for the Summer. Charley Robinson and Connie Nightingale left Sunday for Charleston. Miss Mary Bush left Saturday for Pittsburg. Miss Sallie Freeland, who spent the winter in Richmond, returned home Tuesday. Mrs. Laura Walker, Junior Harris, and Thomas Freeman, of Ronceverte, were up Sunday. Rev. Moses Lake, who was appointed by the conference of the M. E. Church pastor at Lewisburg, is now here. He unquestionably has many of the gifts and graces of an eloquent pastor, and we hear that he is an energetic church worker. We hope that he may have great success in his new field of labor. Miss Willie Gardner has returned home from her school at Nickell's Mill. Mrs. J. B. Gibson left Monday for her home at Charlottesville, Va. Mrs. Kate Dangerfield spent Sunday at Ronceverte with her friends. Miss Josie Jackson has returned home from her school at Frankford. Mr. and Mrs. James, who have been in Maryland visiting their son, Henry James, returned home Thursday. RED STAR Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hickman passed through our town this week en route to Virginia. Mrs. Chance' Qualfs, of Sun, was the guest of Mrs. R. J. Perkins, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Prudence, were here shopping Saturday. Algie Munroo is on the sick list this week. Appamattox Day was appropriately celebrated here on the 6th in connce tion with a rally for the church. The occasion was crowned with success and notwithstanding the inclementy of the weather. There were three programs rendered. A. T. Calloway delivered an address on "Emancipation" which was received. Mrs. H. C. A. Washington read an excellent paper on "The Jewels of Our Race." Mrs. Ogilshy conducted a night program which was well rendered by a ser school children, but the speaker of the day was Pres. J. McHenry Jones, of the West Virginia Colored Institute. Words are inadequate to express the pleasure all felt in listening to the magic words of his alvery tongue. He was frequently interrupted by applause and we can only wish that every Negro of Loup Greek could have heard the speech. The collection for the day was $126.28, which goes to help pay off the indebtedness of the church. Many thanks are tendered those who came out that day and contributed their mite. Misses Fannie Smith and, Beulah Agee were in town Monday. Leon James, who has been absent for several days, is home again. Julius Davis was a business visitor to Charleston last week. A. L. Banks went to Thurmond last week on business. Rev. H. C. Gregory, wife, and two children are visiting friends in Beckley this week. Prof. Thos. Jererson and Geo. Banks attended services at Glen Jean Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Benton spent Sunday at Glen Jean. RAYMOND CITY. Rev. Moore preached two able sermons here Sunday, at 11 o'clock and 7:30 o'clock. Ollie Early is able to be out again after several weeks' illness. Mrs. Cornelia Coles made a business trip to St. Albans last week. Willie Wilson still remains ill at his home. Miss Mattie Woodson was visiting friends and relatives in Charleston last week. She returned to her home Friday. Mrs. Maggie Wilson is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Eva Walker was visiting friends and relatives in Charleston last week. Miss Nola Walker is able to resume her duties again, after a severe attack of fever. Abe Coleman is reported better at this writing. A lecture was given at the First Baptist church Monday night by Rev. Moore. Richard Price and little daughter Hattie made a flying trip to Charleston last week. Henry Nickerson, of Charleston, is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Edward Harvey, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Vanhook spent Saturday and Sunday at Penbrook the guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Jasper. Mrs. Fanny Cary was visiting her daughter at Fire Creek Monday. Miss Annie Reed, of Klondike spent Sunday and Monday with Miss W. A. Freeland. Mrs. Nell Vanhook is visiting her husband at Page. J. S. Noll, of Venetta, was the guest of his family last week. Jo Mayo and Ward Creacy were callers in Sewell Saturday. C. H. Saunders is on the sick list ST ALBANS. Miss Rhoda Wilson was a pleasant visitor here Sunday. Percy Friend was in town Sunday, the guest of friends. Mrs. Emma Jackson was called to this place by the death of her sister, Mrs. Blanche Davis. Miss Myrtle Watkins still remains quite ill at her home on Railroad avenue. The many friends of Mrs. Ella Williams will regret to learn of her death. Mrs. Williams had been ill for some months still her death Friday morsing was quite a shock to her many friends. She was a member of St. Matthew Tabernacle No. 103, by which order she was buried. The funeral was conducted by Rev. W. W. Scott and Rev. George Kenny. She leaves a husband, mother, one brother two sons and one daughter and a host of sorrowing friends. Misses M. L. Walker attended Mrs. Williams funeral Saturday. Mrs. Blanche Davis died at the home of her grand mother, Mrs. Mary Rucker, Saturday. Misses Virginia Wilson and Georgia E. Banks and Mrs. Hollaway were visitors to Charleston Monday. Clayton Gordon is suffering from a very bad hand. Mrs. M. A. Gordon spent a few days up on Coal River. Thomas Rollins is quite ill at his home on River street. Do you want up-to-date clothing? No doubt you do every good dresser does then it is your interest to go right to Henry Smith One Price clothier on Capitol and Kanawha streets where you can have choice of many noby styles both in mens and young men's clothes. BUCKHANNON. Mrs. Esther Martin, who has been quite sick with quinsy, is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith spent Sunday with their mother, Mrs. Louisa Grant, of Weston. Victoria High School gave an entertainment at the A. M. E. Church, April 12, which was highly commandable. Our school, under the efficient management of Mr. H. D. Hazlewool as principal, and Miss Frances Morton as primary teacher, has been doing excellent work this winter. The patrons of the school are well pleased to have such progressive teachers with them. Miss Beulah Wright is able to be out. Lella Powell and Reta Hunter are out of school on account of the mumps. Rev. Jas. T. Reed, pastor of Simpson M. E. Chapel, preached an excel- BEFORE THE RUSH of Spring Housecleaning sets in have your HOUSE PAPERED We are showing this year the finest line of Paper Hangings in the city. All new patterns. Our prices range from five cents a roll up. We make a specialty of panel work and our crown effects are far ahead of our celebrated line last year. Before making your selection call and examine our stock. KANAWHA BOOK STORE, T. WITHERS ADAMS WE FURN lent sermon to a large and appreciative audience Sunday night, April 7. Rev. R. M. Henderson and wife, Rev. S. P. West, Miss Frances Morton and H. D. Hazlewood, were the guests of Mrs. Wm. Mumford at dinner Sunday. Subscriptions due the Advocate will be received by H. D. Hazelwood. Mrs. Jas. A. Davis is much improved at this writing. Rev. R. M. Horndon and Presiding Elder West were pleasant callers at the Victoria school Friday morning. Messrs. George and Romney Brown of Bean's Mill, were the guests of Mrs. Jennie Taylor Sunday. Miss Ingle Taylor was in town on business Saturday. She returned Monday morning from Bean's Mill. The Victoria School will give an entertainment at the A. M. B. church on Friday night, April 12. The public is cordially invited to be present. Sabbath was indeed a day of spiritual feasting at Hall Chapel, A. M. E. church. The pastor, Rev. R. M. Henderson, spared no pains in arranging for a profitable Second Quarterly meeting session. Miss Taylor, school teacher at Bean's Mill, and Mrs. George and Romney Brown gave valuable service to choir. The presiding older of the Wheeling district, Rev. S. P. West, a scholarly and spiritual minister, preached three masterly sermons. At 11 o'clock a.m., the text was: "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me." Psalms 66-18, followed by the holy communion. Three o'clock service: The discourse was taken from St. Matthew 16-24, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." At the 8 p.m. service the text was selected from Romans, 8th chapter and 31st verse: "Nay, in all things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." Monday evening: The quarterly conference was held and reports were excellent and showed the society to be alive and in a prosperous condition, having surpassed previous records along all lines. At 8:30 Elder West delivered a lecture, subject: "Woman's Influence in Society and Home," to a large and appreciative audience. He handled the subject in a masterly manner, and his fatherly instruction left an impression on his hearers, not soon to be forgotten. Everything pointed to commendable progress among the colored brethren. God speed them in their noble work. LONDON. The people of London and Hughesston spent a joyful day in the service of the Lord/ Sunday. The sermon was preached by Rev. D. D. Davis. After which the contribution was lifted. Followed by the presentation of a magnificent Bible and lamp by the Worcester. LONDON. The thanks of this church are here alvon to the Women's Improvement League for their noble gift. The infant of Wm. Harrove, who had been fit for a very short time. died this morning. James Tate spent Sunday here with friends. KNOWS A GOOD THING. Buxton, Ia., April 10, 1907. Mr. S. W. Starks, Pres. Charleston, W. Va. Inclosed find a postoffice order for one hundred dollars for ten pald up shares of stock of the Pythian Mutual Investment Association. Please forward certificate of same to me. Hoping that your success in the future in this work will be as grand as it has been in the past, I am. Yours in F. C. & B. GEO. G. WILLIAMS, Box 333, Buxton, Monroe Co., Ia. PYTHIANS PAY CLAIMS. The Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge of the State of West Virginia paid out $1,360 to widows and families of deceased members this week. This amount was distributed as follows: Mrs. Chas. Jones, $100.00 claim of Chas. Jones of Big Mountain Lodge No. 61, Cedar Grove. Mrs. Nannie Wright, $300.00 claim of Otho Wright, Capital City Lodge No. 1, Charleston. Mrs. L. W. Warden, $100.00 claim of L. W. Warden of Living Beauty Lodge No. 66, Gary. Mrs. William Tyler, $200.00 claim of William Tyler of Morning Star Lodge No. 2, Wheeling. Mrs. Mary Anthony, $200.00 claim of William Anthony of Capital City Lodge No. 1, Charleston. Mrs. Fannie Walker, $150.00 claim of Jeff Walker of McKinley Memorial Lodge No. 33, Elkhorn. Mrs. Margaret Johnson, $200.00 claim of James L. Johnson, Capital City Lodge No. 1, Charleston. Mrs. Drucilla Elliott, $50.00 claim of Arthur Elliot of Light of the Valley Lodge No. 67, Goodwill. Annie Jones and J. J. Lawson, guardian, $50.00 claim of Sam'l Jones of St. Joseph Lodge No. 70, Holden, W. Va. NATIONAL Association of Negro Teachers to Meet at Hampton. The National Association of Negro teachers will hold its Fourth Annual Session at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., July 17, 18, 19. This will be the same week of the Hampton Conference. The present indications are that this will be the largest gathering of Negro teachers ever held in the United States. It is very evident that the Negro teachers of the country have fully decided and have succeeded in permanently organizing into a National Association. There is no doubt that great good will come of this Annual Conference of Negro teachers. The management will take advantage of the very low railroad rates prevailing at that time to the James-town Exposition. President J. R. E. Lee, of Tuske- Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Heating FRUITS, CANDIES, ICECREAM Families Furnished with Ice Cream. Orders for shipment solicited. We make prompt delivery of Cream and Ices for Sunday orders. I.E. Nichols For First Class Plumbing Fitting & Heating Call and See GEBHART PL COMPA 22 Capitol St. FRUITS, CANDIES Families Fur Ice Cream. Orde ment solicited. We make prompt delivery of day orders. I.E. Nic gee Institute, Ala., and the Corres- ponding Secretary, Jas. B. Dudley, of Greensboro, N. C., are anxious to cor- respond with teachers throughout the country concerning the Hampton meeting. NEGRO COMPOSERS, ATTENTION Since the music written and composed by colored people is to be given a prominent place among the exhibits at the Jamestown Exposition, it is desired that all compositions by colored composers be forwarded at once to the headquarters of the Executive Committee in charge of the Negro Exhibit, 194 Cumberland street, Norfolk, Va., addressed to Mr. Clarence Cameron White, director of the musical exhibit. Although printed music is greatly preferred, any well-written Mss. in ink will be accepted and placed on exhibition. Together with these com BEN R. ROLLER HANGERS ss ing, Gas y and ng and See PLUMBING PANY IES, ICE CREAM Furnished with orders for ship- ry of Cream and Ices for Sun- ichols positions, any musical instruments made by Negroos will be gladly received, cared for and returned to their owners after the Exposition is over. Any information relative to rare MSS. of music, etc., will be appreciated by the director of this exhibit. WHERE IS MUSE? Freeman, W. Va., April 14.—I write to see if I can get any information about C. F. Muse. Near three weeks ago he left his home on Simmons Creek, W. Va., and I have heard nothing from him since. He is brown skin, wore a little mustache, was about 35 years of age. He is about 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighing near 175 pounds. He is a coal miner and if alive is probably working in some mine. He is a preacher. Any information in regard to him will be gladly received by his wife, Lucy Muse, Freemans, W. Va. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1907. 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 Pittsburgh: 461 6th St., Braddock. Columbus: 266 St. Clair Ave. New Orleans: 226 So. Robertson St. Jacksonville: 556 W. Union St. Nashville: 706 Bass St. Indianapolis: 1605 Alvord St. Lexington: 567 N. Upper St. San Francisco: 866 Union St., Oakland. Detroit: 261 Elliot St. El Paso: 332 Llon St. GEORGIA FOLLOWS MISSISSIPPI. Following the lead of their brethren in Mississippi, the Negro republicans of Georgia are said to be lining up their forces to capture the next state convention for Foraker or the strongest anti-Rossevelt candidate for the chief magistracy before the public next summer. The causes of their defection are the same as give rise to the revolt in Mississippi; recognition of democrats in the distribution of offices and the exclusion of republicans—especially black republicans—in the division of the spoils. In both Mississippi and Georgia the republican party is composed almost entirely of Negroes. They have kept the organizations alive in these states; they compose the majority of delegates to the national convention, or did till the illy white faction came into existence, and were factors to be considered after elections. There was a time not so long ago when every state at the south had its full quota of Negro delegates in republican national conventions. They stood high in the councils of the party and managers of candidates, who hoped to be honored by their party, made overtures for their support. But with the passage of the first disfranchising law a change was noticeable. Those who formerly had been sought were merely tolerated, for with their inability to deliver the goods their usefulness passed. Conditions went from bad to worse till Hannah's accession to the chairmanship and the fulfillment of his promises made to secure the nomination of McKinley was the death blow. There is now upon the throne a king who knew not Jacob. He and his counsellors have forgotten or never knew the battles waged by the old guard who fought the fight, kept the faith and finished the course before President Roosevelt entered the kindergarten of politics. White men, who, despairing of promotion in the democratic, joined the republican party, or out and out democrats are now given the postoffices and collectorships and the black republican, who has never once wavered in his allegiance, is wholly ignored. The prospects of the Negro's reinstatement to the high place he once held in the party is far from bright. His former friends have stood by and with a feeble protest here and there have witnessed his political emasculation without lifting a hand. They have acquiesced in, if not encouraged, the formation of an element which seeks to eliminate him altogether from the equation of politics. His fight is for a good cause and even though he should be defeated, he will be consoled by the knowledge of having fought against great odds for his own THE WHITE PLAGUE THE WHITE PLAGUE. It has been found by actual figures that Negroes are more subject to consumption than any other class of people in America. Between the ages of 15 and 44, 584 Negroes out of every 100,000 die of the dread disease, while only 163 American born whites out of 100,000 die from the same cause. The unsanitary lives they lead is responsible for this terrible fatality among Negroes. The environments of a large number of them in cities is wretched beyond description. Crowded into the back streets and alleys --- living over stables and in cellars, it is remarkable that the number of deaths due to tuberculosis is not larger. A student of social conditions in one of our large cities discovered that at least 55 per cent. of the children from among the inhabitants of such localities die in infancy. Among those, who by natural selection, survived, it is fair to conjecture that they escaped the ordeal of unsanitary infancy tainted with disease germs, which needed only to be brought into proper conditions to develop into consumption. If more of our people could make their way back to the land, get out into the open, where pure air is to be had twenty-four hours every day, the change would work wonders. There are reasons why Negroes flock to cities. They are better protected and better opportunities are offered for the education of their children. They are brought closer to their kind than on farms surrounded for the most part by the other race. But in answering the cry of human nature for contact and sympathy the Negro has sacrificed his health; he has gotten too far from the environments of his father and his father's father. The change from outdoor to indoor life was too sudden and a high death rate is the result. The situation is grave, the peril is more imminent than the layman thinks, and because the fulfillment of the prediction made shortly after emancipation that the Negroes would soon gallop into their graves has not yet been realized, he should not be content with his present health statistics. We shall not die out, but we must see to it that we do not commit suicide by criminal disregard of the laws of sanitation. THE CONSERVATOR'S CONVERSION Last week the Chicago Conservator sat at the feet of the great teacher, was convinced by his doctrines, saw the error of its way and departed therefrom. After years of hostility to every utterance, every act of Booker Washington, reprinting the harsh and untruthful strictures from other papers which saw no good in the man. The Conservator gracefully acknowledged its error and, it is hoped by all who have the common good at heart, will henceforth "render unto Ceasar the things that are Ceasar's." This change on the part of The Conservator was not brought about by any addition to or substitution from the principles which Mr. Wash egton has always enunciated. In Chicago as Charleston and elsewhere he asked for his race the same opportunities that are unquestionably accorded others. He pointed out the suicidal policy of our newspapers in fighting one another, and men of the race instead of combining their forces against the common enemy and for the uplift of their clientele; he deplored the reputation which is being acquired by the Negro of parting with his votes for a money consideration and emphasized the vast strides being made by the race in acquiring wealth. There was nothing new in this. This same doctrine he has preaching year after year, laying stress first upon one and then the other. What then occasioned The Conservator's conversion? What we have held all along: failure to seize the opportunity to come into personal contact with the man or to read his writings at first hand. It had been influenced by what some one said that another part said that Washington said. This we believe to be true of another rabid hater of the Tuskegeean, but he is so closely wedded to his idols that to hope for his seeing the light is all but useless. JAPAN'S ATTITUDE IN THE North American Review, Baron Kaneko, a distinguished Japanese diplomat, makes the most reasonable and comprehensive answer to alarmist, who predict war between the United States and Japan. Just as England has become the best customer of the United States, the United States has become the best customer of Japan. Japan's exports of raw silk in 1906 were valued at $60,000,000. Ninety per cent came to the United States. Japan's exports of tea were worth $20,000,000. Over fifty per cent came to the United States. American money poured into Japan in 1906 at the rate of four dollars for every man, woman and child in the Flowery Kingdom. Nor has the trade been all on one side. The Baron says: In the ordinary upper or middle class families in Japan, we get up in the morning from a bed whose sheets are made of American cotton, put on the Japanese custume, which is made from American cotton, eat bread whose flour comes from Minnesota, and take a cup of tea with condensed milk from Chicago and sugar from the Philippines. Hawaii or the southern United States. After breakfast, we light a cigarette or take a puff at a pipe. In either the tobacco comes from Virginia, Tennessee or some other American state. We take up our morning newspapers, whose pages are of paper imported from Milwaukee or Western Connecticut. So great is the extent of Japanese dependence upon the United States. We cannot raise cotton. Of the raw cotton imported into Japan, 75 per cent comes from the United States. Condensed milk, tobacco leaf, flour and paper cannot either raise or make in our country at prices lower than the Americans charge. At night, all our streets, in every city, town and hamlet, from the extreme north of Kurile to the extreme south of Formosa, are lilt with petroleum which comes from West Virginia or Pennsylvania. So, then, the United States feeds us, clothes us and gives us light. The Japanese cannot live a single hour without American supplies. These are the substantial reasons why Japan and the United States will not fight each other. The ties of commerce are so strong between them that it will take more than the closing of the schools to Japanese children or the exclusion of coolies to disrupt our amicable relations. Commissioners from this country are in China and Russia investigating the condition of the people in the famine stricken districts and the reports they send picture such a harrowing state of affairs as to be almost unbeable. There are in Russia, according to these reports 20,000,000 destitute people and half that number in China, where 5,000 die daily of starvation, and many of the survivors have been reduced to cannibalism in their effort to prolong a miserable existence. In Russia the situation is but little better. These reports are reliable and a call has been issued for relief. It is estimated that every dollar contributed will save one life until the next harvest. In this land of "swollen fortunes," running over with milk and honey, and enjoying prosperity beyond the conception of the ordinary mind, it would seem that enough dollars would be contributed to save several hundreds of thousands. Influenced evidently by the old adage that the early birds catches the worm, candidates galore have announced their willingness to accept places upon the Republican State ticket and lead the party to victory in 1908. With the harvest a year off, it is a little early for the crop to put in its appearance and there is danger that the scorching sun of summer will have a blighting effect upon some of the weak plants. First Du Bois, now Dr. Mossell, of Philadelphia, rises in majestic wrath and proclaims to all the world that he will have no exhibit at Jamestown. This must be another case of "exagerated ego," for preparations for the opening of the exposition still go on apace. BOOKER WASHINGTON ENJOYED. From The Conservator. Dr. Booker T. Washington, the most remarkable man of the age in more senses than one, has just completed a visit to Chicago, during which he made several speeches to a large number of the most intellectual people of the city. Mr. Washington met and talked with people of all walks and avocations and while he made no enemies and caused no just criticism among the people heretofore indifferent to his views, Mr. Washington made hundreds of new admirers and checked the venom of lots of those who had regarded him as an instrument of hurt in the hands of the white South towards his own people. Let us be frank, honest and brave and discuss Mr. Washington and his methods as we see them today, and not as we saw them in other and more turbulent times. To begin with, Mr. Washington made no difference in the subject matter of his speeches while talking on the race question to crowds representing the different races. He said nothing which any fair-minded man could object to, whether that man was white or colored. His reference to the Negro press was about as any first-class newspaper man would make who desired to see the craft succeed in the work of real advancement of the people, and his complaint that too large a portion of it was working itself to death and doing more real harm than good was natural for a man who sees things as they are. His advice to his newspaper brethren to stop so much bad and ugly printing of conditions and turn their attention more to the people and glance at what was timely and acceptable to well-balanced people. Washington's visit and talks in Chicago were of great value to the people, and if by these he made any enemies he made enemies of the enemies of the people. We welcome him back. He asked the Negro press to cease its knocking and get together on great principles and strike as one for the race and so keep its eyes open as to be able to see and tell of the advancement of the race; and to do the most of its fighting for the race, where it was most needed, and to follow the example of the old game chicken hen not to cackle and make a fuss until something was accomplished—not to cackle until an ogg was laid. Mr. Washington advocated with an all-around manual training a higher education for the whole people and more than emphasized this big difference in audiences. Washington his people and getting together and we are proud of it and now are proud of him. Mr. Washington protested earnestly against any State making argy laws which discriminated against a person on account of color. In this he is with his people, and they are with him, we are glad to say. In a word, Mr. Washington took Chicago as by a storm and left the impression on every man, woman and child that he was one of the biggest, best and most race-loving Negroes now on the rostrum. ables and insults abhorrent to Afro-Americans, and if the misfits are allowed to control the southern migration to the next national convention of the party, when the party adopts its platform and selects its candidates, it will be time enough for the Afro-Americans in the northern and western states to decide what they want and to vote accordingly. This is a little short of "reading the riot act," and the managers, though apparently ignoring the Age and other organs of the dissatisfied type, are nevertheless beginning to sit up and take notice, for the fall primaries in Ohio are coming off, where a test of administrative strength is to pulled off, and within the fewest of administrations come the struggle for administration. It takes in every state in the Union, and in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kansas, will have a great deal to say on the subject. The sensible colored voters are not making threats—they are attending to their business and standing on their dignity. There are fewer colored men standing upon politics for a living now than time since emancipation. They are buying homes within the race, buying homes-sending their children to school, teaching them useful trades and fitting them for the professions, and it takes something more than glittering promises to sway them politically. They want rights and privileges more than they want office, and unless there is a strong sign of a return to the principal orders of the public party, that may have to fight its battle without its heretofore faithful ally—the Negroes of the North and West. There is no indication that they will go to the democracy in large numbers; they will simply get out of the political game and hustle for their "pork-chops" in the arena of business, the professions and the industries, and blide their time for the eventual out of which better conditions can be created. The person man is saying little, but sawing a tremendous amount of wood—and experience has shown that when the black man has nothing to say, that is the time when he is most dangerous. The veteran journalist, Chris, J. Perry throws himself manfully into the breach, and while omitting that much in the indictment brought forward by Mr. Fortune is true, as far as concerned, pleads for a continued support of the organization, as offering at least better results to the people than the democrats, suggesting that if the trouble is simply with the managers and their methods, that the Age and its sympathizers get to work to bring about a leadership and a system of administration more in keeping with the grand old principles which Phil Garrison, Sumner, Morton and Slovenian governors, Mr. Perry is a stalwart of statelessness, is steering the well seasoned Philadelphia Tribune away from the shoals of possible mugwumpery, which are apt to destroy what is, without replacing it, with an "is-to-be" that spells improvement. He clings to the republican party, not so much for what he hopes to get, as for that which he seeks to avoid. Mr. Fortune's latest rejoinder is unique and interesting, whether one is willing to follow his line of reasoning in practice or not. Hear him for his cause! Nothing short of a new party will do. "Mr. Fortune" was anything more selflessive in the politics of the Republic," says Mr. Fortune, "than that a new party is needed to take the places of those now in existence." After briefly reviewing the radical departure of both parties from their original and time-honored moorings, and pointing out their alleged incompetency to deal with the problems of the world, and effectively, Mr. Fortune fires this book into the uncharged atmosphere, to strike who ever is in the way: "We believe we voice the majority sentiment of the Afro-American republicans when we declare that they are heartily sick and disgusted with the republican policy toward them since 1876, and were never more so or had better cause than they are today. Give them a party with a plank declaring for equality under the law for all blacks, and we will support Planks meeting the disdain of other interests would, make a party that would cover the 'dissatisfied elements in all existing parties, and there are now more elements dissatisfied to make a new party out of than there were in 1836, when the republican party was formed to curb the insistence and aggressions of the democratic slave-holders' party. Let the dissatisfied of all existing parties get together and organize such a party as they and the country need! Somebody has been getting down his encyclopedia and found out where that place is to which Mr. James W. Johnson,' of Florida and New York, has been sent as United States Consul, by transfer from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. They say the nearest approach to Consul Johnson's new station would appear to be Goree, a small island belonging to France on the west coast of Africa, one and a quarter miles from the continent separated from the continent by the Strait of Dakar. This may be a very attractive habitat—for some people—but it is the opinion that are long the festive Johnson will reach the unanticipated conclusion that "it is joller to be a lamp-post on Broadway, New York, than to be king of an island that has no place on the map." A new management has taken hold of the lunch room in the City Hall. The judges and court officials got tired of having to go out of the building to get their daily consignment of pie and so somebody had to help them and re-open the concern. The color question, however, is up again, but in another form. The white man wants his pie and milk, but he doesn't want it in the same room with Negro patrons. The ancient game of having a room for the bar has been played out, the newest caper is to have a room set apart for the accommodation of members of the District Bar Association. As no Ne gro lawyer is or can become a member of this close corporation, it is presumed that the new subterfuge is designed to accomplish the purpose of separating the races quite as effectively as did the old trick. Of course, the Bar Association can be made so elastic that any white person will be allowed to enter their quarters and of introductions to guests, the formality of introductions of paying means of their guests, will be politely waived. Unfortunately for the slick artists who are manipulating this awfully clever deal, Nemosis is on their track in the shape of Lawyer B. M. Hewlett, who has driven two propriators out of the City/Hall for discriminating against color patrons. He and other courageous colored man have fled a protest with Marshal Palmer. The white Bar Association has no right to set a room apart for them, and embolden shrewd dodge by which they are expecting to fasten down the color lid more tightly than ever. Marshal Palmer is a clear-headed official, and is firmly committed to the policy of fair play, to all in the conduct of the City Hall restaurant. The person who runs the place must run it in conformity with the law, or get out. It is dollars, to doughnuts, that the "Bar Association" may be permit to use government property for color protenses as a means of drawing the color line. The case may reach the President. If the new move of the whites is approved by the local officials. Lawyer Hewlett and his "big stick" are warm propositions to deal with. The Jamestown Exposition people have invaded Massachusetts, and have captured the stronghold of the malcontents who have opposed the enterprise with all their might and main from its inception to the present day. It is being shown to the satisfaction of the audience that the State of Massachusetts is not forced from No. 3 Tremont Row, and that the masses do their own thinking and do not purpose to lose this golden opportunity to demonstrate to the world that the Negro has made marvelous progress in the arts of civilization. Besides the imposing replica of the Cripple Attacks Museum, the represented people of the Old Bay state will have a typical exhibit in the Negro building at Jamestown. Among the many features there will be paintings by Edwin Bannister, who won first prize at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876, William Robinson and several other colored artists of national representation books by the Union New writers, notably the works of William C. Neil, Archibald H. Grimke, William Wells Brown, James M. Trotter, Lewis Hayden, George W. Williams, William Stanley Braithwaite and others. New England will be happily represented at the Jamestown Exposition and neatly in line with the West and South in mind, the display a source of pride to the entire race. Time was when the calling of the colored architect was a most precarious one, and the demand for that profession was pitifully small and unpromising. The rapid growth of the home-owning instinct and the thrift and prosperity of the race have worked wonders in the past twenty years, and have so changed things that the Negro architect's genius is frequent, and his is one of the most lucrative in many cities, young colored man can engage. The massive $40,000 Negro building at the Jamestown Exposition, designed by W. Sldney Pilman for the eyes of all nations to gaze upon and marvel at, the success of William Cook in winning a place in the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury by sheer merit in a competitive examination, and the phenomenal operation of the firm of J. A. Lankford and Brother in many cities, gave special attention in the past few months to the untold possibilities bound up in the artistic branch of industry for the right kind of men. J. A. Lankford and Bro., of whom we hope to give an extended sketch soon, are today admitted the largest and best firm of architects and builders of the race in the country, and compare favor in the country, with the best known establishments of the whites of yokoke. These are some of the largest buildings this firm has designed in the last few months. The Good Hope building in Baltimore, to cost upwards of $200,000, to be the largest structure ever designed by Negroes. The building itself and fifty feet long, sixty feet wide and one hundred feet wide, is the largest quantity of this hustling firm three-story brick flats; a 24-room residence for Rev. W. L. Taylor, the president of the True Reformers, at Richmond, Va.; a residence for the famous lecturer and educator, D. Webster Davis; and the stately $25,000 Southern Aid Association building, also at Richmond; the parsonage of the St. John' A. M. E. church at Norfolk, and the imposing Queen Street Baptist church in the ame city, together with two other normal size and importance. Lankford and Brothers have their main office in a big office building in Washington, D. C., controlling the entire structure, and have branch offices in Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk, and Pensacola, Fla. It may be said, in all truth—the Negro architect is not coming—he is already here. The annual election of officers for the Bethel Literary and Historical Association has taken place, and Miss Marie A. D. Madre, the talented and accomplished president, whose administration has been a continuous triumph, has been re-elected without a dissenting vote. The judgment of the men and women who fought the terribly fought war has held the splendid organization true to the moorings made sacred by the formative hands of Bishop Daniel A. Payne and Frederick Douglass, has been soundly vindicated, and the Bethel Literary banner will be carried on safely for another year by the reliable leaders they have chosen. The "insurgents" discreetly remained the officers elected besides President Madre, and first and second vice-presidents, L. G. Gregory and Mrs. M. G. Lewis; secretary, H. J. Pinkett; corresponding secretary, T. A. Johnson; treasurer, Miss Mattie R. Bowen; lecturer, W. H. Richards; chaplain, Rev. O. J. W. Scott; sergeant-at-arms, R. K. Washington; librarton, Miss Chance A. Patterson; advisory Board, W. L. Houston, Thomas W. Walker, Amanda V. Gray, Joseph H. Stewart, S. E. Tyres, Joseph H. Stewart, H. E. Brooks, Rev. A. C. Garner, A. Jolner, Garnett Wilkinson, Ira T. Bryant, Mrs. Jennie Conner, M. F. Benn, A. S. Gray, Julia Hamilton, E. T. Hill, Mrs. Anna Waddleton, C. G. Howard, W. T. Vernon and James E. Bunday. The Washington Y. M. C. A. is to be given $25,000 by John D. Rockefeller, for a new building, if the organization will raise a like amount. A strenuous campaign has been entered upon to achieve this masterly feat. We have few days of the thirty-day canyons, has been subscribing aggregates aggregating nearly $7,000 constantly coming in in sums varying from $100 to $1. The teams are working day and night, and the big gong which records every $100 lot received, has been rung early and often as a result of their conscientious labors. H. B. F. McCoy and Register W. Q. Vernon, President W. Q. Vernon Prof. Kelly Miller, and Prof. L. B. Moore have been listened to by thousands of the capital's best citizens, and their words of encouragement and graphic stories of the crying necessity for such institution as a saving influence in this city of board houses rather than homes, have given the enterprise a tremendous impetus that points to a tremendous outcome of the effort to raise the required $25,000 to make Mr. Rockefeller's donation available. All denominations are helping the cause on ward. This is preeminently the "ora of the young man." Prof. William S. Peyton, professor of chemistry and Dean of the College Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, of which the widely known Prof. W. H. Council is president, has had a new honor thrust upon him. He was elected to represent the College at the Institute of Policies. Prof. Peyton held in Talladega, Ala., last week. He stopped over in Birmingham, Montgomery and other cities, and familiarized himself with the educational and economic needs of the people in those localities. He will stop in Nashville on his way North this summer. Prof. Peyton is one of the brightest young men sent out from the Blue Grass State services are already in demand in other areas. He is a vice president of marked ability and is heard on rare occasions much to the delight of the most critical hearers. He will pay a visit shortly to his home in Louisville, and then go to Chicago and the Northwest. Prof. Peyton comes of the finest Kentucky stock. His father, Dr. W. T. Peyton, being the Birmingham leading physician, and for more than a century the most influence in the educational life of the community as a teacher, principal and constructive worker for the cause of the people. The Cottage Home Infirmary, a well-equipped hospital for the treatment of colored patients, established some years ago at Decatur, Ala., by Dr. Willis E. Sterrs, a young surgeon of exceptional skill, will be represented in the comprehensive exhibit of the progress of the Negro in medicine, and hospital management, arranged connection with the Jamestown Exposition under the commission of a committee, headed by Dr. A. M. Curtis, former Surgeon-in-Chief of Freedman's Hospital at Washington, D. C., Dr. Booker T. Washington is to deliver an address in Baltimore, Md, May 6th, under the auspices of the Negro Business Men's League of that city, of which Mr. Harry T. Pratt is president. After the lecture, Dr. Washington will be tendered a banquet at which 200 persons are expected to be present. There is a strong movement to dance Baltimore the meeting place of the Nation's League in 1908. There is a proclamation that the Monumental City will win out for the next year's session, as it is the turn for the East and South to have the right of way, and Baltimore fills the bill in every particular. If Dr. G. C. Clement, the scholarly editor of the Star of Zion, will refrain from drawing conclusions as to personal opinions of this correspondent, not warranted by the facts, his knowledge of the affairs of the A. M. E. Zion chirurgical relation to the interviews and other information furnished us by members of the denomination will be far more illuminating, fair and altogether satisfactory. The learned spokesman of the Zion connection should discuss the issues, not the individuality of the writer. We are not an advocate; we assume only the modest role of a chronicler of events—a watchman on the wall. REV. C. G. WOODSON Athens, Greece, March 24, 1907. Hon. S. W. Starks, Charleston, W. Va., U. S. A., Dear Sir and Brother: I write this to inform you that I am no longer sleeping in the orient. After working my way through the Straits Settlements, India, Palestine and Egypt I have reached Europe. I am now in Greece. I need not say that it is a privilege to be permitted to see the ruins of a country which has had so much influence on the civilization of today. I have seen some of its battle fields, temples and theaters. The ruins show that it was once adorned with wonders wrought in stone and marble. While standing on Mars Hill, I sang "Gloria Patrie." I imagined that I could see and hear St. Paul delivering his great discourses to the men of Athens. On the Hill of Pryn, I stood on the very rostrum where Demosthenes and Pericles delivered those elaborate speeches which arn now treasured in the literature of modern nations. Every where I see something which reminds me of the distinguished men of Hellas. Mr. and Mrs. Proctor, of Bramwell, were in this city this week on business. THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1907. Wall Paper 1907 Spring Patterns just received at MOORE'S 18 CAPITOL STREET. Latest Styles, Choicest Designs, Right Prices. Reliable Hangers, Satisfactory Service. Samples mailed to any address. Special Bundle Sale! "ROOM LOTS" Enough Wall Border and Ceiling for a room---will be sold at 1-4 to 1-2 Price. Some Big Bargains..... S. SPENCER MOORE & CO. 118 CAPITOL ST. 118 A man working on a saw. The Regal Test The famous Regal Buzz Saw is now at Frankenberger & Co's. store and will be run from 2 to 3 from 8 to 9 p. m, on Saturday, April 20th, 1907. It costs the Regal factory over $600 per day extra to put the best Oak-Bark-tanned sole leather into every pair of Regals instead of the "Yankee Oak," "Union," and plain ordinary hernlock used in most other shoes sold at the same price. But the best Oak-tanned soles look exactly like any of the substitutes after the black finish has been applied. That is why the famous Regal Buzz-Saw was started going in our window opening up Regal Shoes to show how they are made; and that is why the "Window of the Sole" was devised—a little removable label attached to the bottom of every Regal shoe, which can be turned back before you pay your money, and which exposes the actual color of this clean, close-fibered Oak-Bark-tanned leather. The $600 per day is well spent, for a genuine Oak-Bark-tanned sole adds a dollar to the wear of every shoe. You get it in every pair of Regals at no extra cost to you. The usual substitute for genuine Oak leather is the common hemlock or "red" leather—which can be chemically treated and softened until it looks like genuine oak after the finish is put on. This "treated" hemlock leather is inferior even to ordinary hemlock. Ninety per cent. of all shoes sold at $3.50 and $4.00 have soles of this cheap hemlock, which the United States Government specifically debars from use in Army shoes. Using hemlock leather of any kind in shoe soles is like putting a mud foundation under a steel structure. The Regal is built on a foundation of solid, enduring live-oak sole leather—and every other part of the shoe, inside and out, is of corresponding quality. The Regal is the only "Shoe that proves!" REGAL THE SHOE THAT PROVES FOR MEN AND WOMEN FRANKENBERGER @ COM'Y, ONLY ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS. CHARLESTON Miss Rhoda A. Wilson spent Sunday at her home, in Amandaville, visiting her mother. Dr. H. F. Gamble has been appointed by Governor Dawson to represent this state in the American Anti-Tuberculosis Congress which meets at Atlantic City, in June. State Librarian S. W. Starks has been invited to deliver the address to the graduating class of the Water Street High School at Clarksburg. Attorney J. M. Eills was here Saturday on his way home from Huntington where his client was awarded damages in a suit brought against the C. & O. Railroad Company. W. T. Norton, who has been seriously ill for several weeks, is reported convalescing and the chances of his being able to return to work soon are growing brighter. Marshall Jones is erecting an eight-room dwellings on his Donnally street lot. When it is completed Mr. Jones will be the owner of two very desirable houses, the first having been erected last spring. Mrs. O. W. Holloway and Misses Georgia Banks and Virginia Wilson, St. Albans, were business visitors here Monday. The Woman's Loyal Union met with Mrs. Dora Moss Monday evening and arranged for their seventh anniversary at the First Baptist Church on the 26th instant. Invitations were extended to Prof. J. McFenny Jones and T. G. Nutter to deliver addresses an excellent program is assured. The next meeting, to which the public is invited, will be held with Mrs. Frances Mays. Andrew Parker is seriously ill at his home on Wall street. Barley Saunders, of Cannonsburg, Pa., is in the city on business. The Batchelors and Benedicts' banquet last week under the auspices of the Wachovia Club is pronounced a great success. Until 12:30 a.m. the guests and club, thirty-four in number, were entertained with cards and music after having been welcomed by the secretary of the club, Harry Hay, wood, at the hour named they re- paired to the dining room and were regaled with a spread such as the hospitable Wachovias know how to prepare. Robert L. Foy acted as toastmaster, and is receiving congratulations on all sides for the manner in which he filled that difficult position. Responses were made by each person, but it is not clear to those present who made the last speech. A flash-light photo was taken of the group, which will serve to remind them of a most enjoyable evening. John R. Garrett, of Wheeling was the guest of honor. William Coleman, of Dayton, is in the city. Little Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Brown, is very sick this week. Miss Nina Nicholas, after spending the winter with her grandmother, Mrs. Brown, of Young street, has returned to her home at Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr. Willard Banks and Miss Letha Frame were quietly married this week. Mrs. Mary Lewis, of Court street, is ill. Miss Sarah Williams is home from a two weeks visit to New York. Go to Mrs. Brown's 509 Capitol street for millinery, notions and hair goods. Miss Ophelia Bukey, of Columbus, Ohio, spent the week with Mrs. G. E. Wanzer. The Lifters Club of Simpson M. E. Church met with Mrs. Daniel McGee, Tuesday evening. The hostess served a dainty lunch to the large number of members present. The Improvement League meets this week with Mrs. Mary Clark. John Campbell is ill at his home on Sentz street. Rev. C. G. Cummings accompanied by his wife and little daughter left Thursday for Washington. Miss Inez Campbell has returned from a visit to friends in Huntington. Miss Hettie Carson, guest of Mrs. P. H. Waters, has been ill several days, but she is now much better. Mrs. Jones, of Montgomery, is in the city the guest of her sister, Mrs. Dawson on Bradford street. Mrs. Morris, of Richmond, Va., is Miss Lula Bowles has closed her school at Spring Hill. The Willing Workers Club, of the Simpson M. E. Church met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Woodford, of Jacob street. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parker had as their guests for dinner Wednesday, Rev. G. C. Cummings and wife and Rev. J. W. Waters. Miss Lula M. Bowles was hostess Friday afternoon to the Charleston Woman's Improvement League. After the business session the hostess served refreshments. The mothers meeting held Thursday evening at the Garnett school was in point of numbers and interest a splendid success. After singing the corination hymn, the principal, Mr. C. W. Boyd, introduced Miss M. B. Jeffries, principal of Washington school, who made a few remarks on the need of such a meeting after which she introduced Mrs. Mary R. McGuigan, of the Charleston high school. Mrs. McGuigan is a woman of education, refinement and with experience and her talk to the mothers' Tuesday afternoon was every word wholesome and inspiring. She spoke on the care and training of our girls in a way that appealed strongly to every mother's heart present. There was nothing strenuous or ill-balanced, but in her calm and forceful manner the speaker made all present feel that they were in the presence of a woman with essential power—something beautiful still and irresistibly strong. All went away with hearts lighter and encouraged and a stronger desire as mothers to give their daughters better training. Rev. J. V. Whittico, Grand Prelate of the Knights of Pythias, Grand Lodge of West Virginia, and principal of the district high school at Eckman, W. Va., passed through the city last Thursday en route home from Winfield where we had attended the West Virginia Presbytery of which he is the only colored member. He expressed himself as being gratified at the evidences of progress being made by the members of the pace in the Capitol city, and was especially blessed with the work of the Pythian Museum Investment Association, of which he is a stockholder, and one of its earnest and substantial supporters. Eureka Court No. 35, Order of Calanthe, save an entertainment at the K. of P. Hall on Monday night the 15th. It was well attended, and a neat sum was realized. The Knights of Pythias, Lodges and Courts of Calanthe of the city have started their committees to work arranging for the sessions of the Grand Lodge and the Grand Courts of West Virginia which will convene in this city the latter part of July. At a meeting of Carleton Company No. 1. Uniform Rank, K. of P., held at their armory on April 10th, Mr. Edward Jackson was elected captain. Under his command, the company will begin active preparation at once to enter the prize drill at Louisville during the Supreme Lodge session. One of the most novel advertisements ever displayed by any firm in this city, will be put in operation on next Saturday in the large corner window of Frankenberger & Co., One Price Clothing Emporium. They have secured the famous Regal Buzz Saw and will demonstrate to the public how, and of what kind of material these famous shoes are made. This firmels always on the alert for something better than you can get in any other store for the price, and you can rest assured it will be a good, cheap lesson to find out how these good reliable Regal Shoes are made. Keep an eye on their window and buy a pair of these shoes is our advice. WASHINGTON AND GOMPERS (From the University of Michigan Daily.) Within a week patrons of the Students' Lecture Association have listened to two men who stand before their fellows as leadisg exponents of social reform. Samuel Gompers told us of the aims of union labor, stressing the need for shorter hours as a necessity in lifting the morals and improving the minds of the workers. Last night 'Booker T. Washington, a black idealist who strives after his ideal with practical measures describes a man's work for his fellow men. Both men are in earnest; both had given their lives to a cause that promised few dollars and many battles. And yet there was a difference. Gompers had enthusiasm, but he lacked oratorical power; Washington had both. It is not our province to decide the Negro question off hand. That question is bigger than any one man, even Mr. Washington, broad as he is is not without detractors among the black race, who declare he has missed the way to racial Canaan. -We glory, however, in a strong man voicing nobly the fruits of his experience, whether he be black or white. We rejoice in the opportunity to listen to his tale of early privation of his toll after his ideal, of his growth into greatness despite color, of his optimism after trial, and his declaration that his life henceforth is dedicated to his follows. There are elements in such a life that appeal to all of us Mr. Washington's ability will appeal to the economist, his education to the sentimentalist, and his eloquence to the ameless critic who cares little for the spirit behind the words. But to each and every one of us he stood as a livin gexample of the truth of his own teaching. "The black man, educated aright, is bound to win." Human mature, when it has little information to hang an opinion on, clings to that opinion the more closely. Spencer pointed out that every British farmer feels himself capable of advising parliament. So each of us, likely enough, went to University Hall last night with minds pretty well made as to the right and wrong of the Negro question. Booken T. Washington jotted us out of our preconceived notions, and for that reason his visit was well worth while. -ynoaesro.fab L or Fmtech -vbg PYTHIAN NOTES. The Biennial Association K. of P. at Louisville, Kx., which has the arduous responsibility of arranging for what is intended to be the greatest and most interesting session of the Supreme Lodge and largest encampment of the Uniform Ranks, yet held is using every effort to make the occasion out strip all previous conventions especially so in the arrangements. The change of date from August 24 to September 2d was accepted after due and mature consideration, and being desirous of encouraging the movement towards unifying the Pythian order. Notwithstanding the change simply rent the association asunder all the original arrangements leaving the association as it were without rudder or 'compass. Now that the matter is definitely settled the association is standing abreast of odds that seem impossible to cover. Nevertheless the light is on, and they are determined to stand their grounds until the bugle signals "cease firing." The hospitable people of Louisville seem stumped over it. Namely because the association kept up a continual uproar for 19 months about August. Its amazing how the difference of one week effects the public. With it all, however, the public must know that hundreds of comfortable homes, in our city await to give every one who may come to our city, the convention week a hearty Kentucky welcome. Very shortly the association will begin to send out printed matter, we wish to say in advance, prepare to come to Louisville the week of September 1st, 1907, and have the time of your life. Let every Kentuckian now away, make this "a home coming week." Uniform men prepare to come to a real "camp" that will make you feel like you have "necamped" we will have the most beautiful convention of them all as yet. Can accommodate 5,000 remember Meat is the sweetest, "Hogs" are the cheapest. Women are the neatest in Kentucky. WHAT THE CLOCKS ARE FOR. Chicago Record Herald. There are 190 clocks in Pennsylvania's new $12,000,000 statehouse. purpose of enabling the grafters to avoid working overtime. From Their Negro Rather Than White Ancestors Opinion Held by This Writer Douglass an Example Mr. Samuel Stemmons in The Philadelphia Pilot. Is the full blooded Negro of necessity mentally inferior to the Negro of mixed blood? Popular opinion says yes. But in this, as in many other matters, analysis of facts may prove popular opinion to be utterly in error. Pure Negro blood is dis counted in favor of mixed blood because of the fact that the majority of superior Negroes are supposed to be of mixed blood. But allowing that the majority of highly intelligent Negroes are of mixed blood (and the writer is not prepared to admit that they are), do not the laws of nature, when taking into consideration the popular prejudice against miscegenation, proclaim that it is the best blood of the Negro that goes to the white race and not the best blood of the white race that comes to the Negro. Who can conceive for a moment of the highest type, or even a high type of white man consorting, under any circumstances with the lowest, or even a low type of Negro woman? The writer's observation has been that in unions between black and white, whether the black be man or woman, the black is usually of a higher mental type than is the white. In short, it may safely be set down as a rule that in persons of mixed blood the Negro blood is superior while the white blood is inferior. Even in the dark days of slavery when the process of bleaching the colored race was in full bloom, it is but reasonable to suppose that none but t colored women possessed of the greatest physical and mental attractions fell victim to the deprivacy of their masters Frederick Douglass, perhaps the most noted example of such an alliance that the world has ever known, spoke of his mother as having been a magnificent black woman, with a bearing so queenly and majestic as to be awe inspiring, and he always thought of her as having been an African princess. Neither his father or his father's ancestors, so far as is known, were much above the average in intellectual attainments. It is so reasonable as to scarcely merit being called charitable to ascribe the wonderful personality of Mr. Douglass to his queenly mother of royal descent, rather than to his father of commonplace extraction. The case of Mr. Douglass doubtless has thousands of less conspicuous counterparts in the myriads of mulattoes given to the country both during and since ante-bellum days. Superior Negroes of mixed-blood, instead of discounting Negroes of unmixed blood are merely evidences of the way in which Negroes of a high type have amalgamated with another race. Pure Negro blood in America has never produced a Frederick Douglass or a Booker T. Washington. But it has produced a J. C. Price, a man proclaimed by many competent to judge to have been the equal if not the superior to Mr. Douglass in all save the convenience of having been born at a time when his personality would attract widespread attention; it has produced a Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the greatest Negro poet of modern times; a Wm. Pickens, who a few years ago, walked away with the Ten Eyck oratorical prize at Yale University; a Kelly Miller, one of the most noted scholars in the country, and hosts of less conspicuous individuals who have given evidences of the highest type of mentality. There is a tendency on the part of the more intelligent class of Negroes to amalgamate with Negroes of mixed blood which appears to be entirely overlooked by those who seem to think that it is only Negroes of mixed blood who are capable of higher development. How long the tendency of intelligent full-blooded Negroes to marry Negroes possessed of white blood has been in vogue, the writer is unable to say; but this he knows, as does every close observer, that the vast majority of intelligent dark-complexioned Negroes, whether men or women, are sure to wed Negroes of lighter hue. The most conspicuous illustration of this fact is perhaps to be found in the colored clergy. It will be conceded that on the whole, clergymen represent, as does no other large class of individuals, the intellect and culture of the colored race. Many of the foremost Negro churchman are of unmixed blood. Yet, in all the writer's life, through years of extensive travel, he has never (with one noted exception) seen a black preacher, who could be rated as educated and intelligent, with a black wife. It is not unusual to see a light complexioned preacher with a black wife, but a black complexioned preacher with a black wife never! As it is with preachers, so it is with most Negroes who are above the average in intelligence. The widow of the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar is almost white in complexion; it is the same with the wife of Major Taylor, and so far as the writer knows, with every full blooded Negro who has, within recent decades galanced any considerable degree of distinction. With the children of such unions evinced marked traits of mentality, it is ascribed to the white blood in their veins, while, in point of fact, it is plainly due to their intelligent Negro parentage. The result of this amalgamation is that the first generation of the intelligent Negro is deeply mixed with white blood. It is perhaps useless for the writer to undertake to explain the cause of Negroes thus amalgamating. He at least sees in it no occasion for wonder. It seems to be a law of human nature for extremes to meet. Slitting hens are reported in all parts of the city this week. Sterrett Bros FLOOR COVERINGS FOR SPRING Our new line of Rugs, Carpets, Mattings, Linoleums are now ready for your inspection. We show this season a complete line of standard makes of floor coverings. Your wants be supplied in this department. We show the new patterns in Wilton, Axminster, Velvet and Brussels Carpets with borders to match, $1.00 yd. and up. 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The label of a leading young men's clothes authority is 'in the garment we offer you. We sell this particular make because it is the leading one and makes us an unquestioned authority to which the young men of this city can cone. HENRY SMITH, ONE PRICE CLOTHES Young Men's Single Double-Breasted Si CARPETS. In Carpet size Rugs we carry over three hundred in stock. You can make your selection from a complete line, not from a half dozen styles, as shown by other houses, but from all styles the mills produce. In several makes we show all private patterns that are shown by no other house in town. RUGS. Ingrain Brussels Rugs, Persian des- signs, 3x4 yds, at $8.50. (Special.) Brussels Rugs, (room size) 9x10% ft. at $12.00. Brussels Rugs, (room size), 9x12 ft. at $13.50. (Special.) Brussels Rugs, (room size), 9x12 ft. at $16.50. (Special.) Velvet Rugs, (room size), 9x12 ft. at $20.00. Special. Smith Axminster Rugs, room size, 9x12 ft. at $22.50. 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Chilpancingo with incomplete reports shows 12 persons dead and 30 wounded. Chilpanc reports 14 dead and 39 Terms fixed to suit your salary or means ture Comp'y street Huntington, W. Va. wounded. Owing to the remoteness of many small towns in the affected region it will be some days before complete reports can be received. City of Mexico, April 16.—Heavy earthquake shocks continued on the west coast until 4 o'clock this morning. Late news from the area of the greatest destruction in the recent earthquake shows that destruction was greater than at first supposed. Besides the destruction of the cities of Chilpancingo and Chilapa it is now reported that the city of Texla, between the two cities above named, and containing about the same population as Chilpancingo was also levelled to the ground, and messengers from the coast who have reached Chilpancingo say that the towns of Ayutla and Ometpec have been wiped off the map. Autla is about 50 miles south of Chilancingo in the state of Guerrero and some 20 miles west of the port of Acupulco. The report from Chilaningo says that the whole west coast from Acupulco south to Salina Cruz, the Pacific terminal of the Tehuantepec National railway, 'Mexico's new trans-continental railway which was opened with elaborate ceremonies last January by President Díaz has been badly damaged. Owing to the remoteness of these Famous Whitney Go Carts. Portsmouth, Ohio points and to the fact that wire and rail communication is very poor, news from the stricken district to this capitol comes very slowly. In the city of Texla it is reported that 12 dead bodies have been taken form the ruins and that twice that number of wounded are being cared for. Up to four o'clock this morning the shocks continued with more or less severity in the vicinity of Chillipancingo, completing the work of destruction and destroying many of the most important public buildings of the city. The new municipal palace which was erected in the place of its predecessor which was leveled by an earthquake four years ago was almost destroyed by these last shocks. Hospitals, schools and jails are in ruins. Up to this time the total number of deaths is 38 and wounded 93, but in view of the later reports which tend to greatly magnify the extent of the catastrophe, it is thought that these figures will fall far short of the real number of fatalities. It is said that Apuceloo is partly submerged from the great waves which dashed over the breakwaters. Although no breath of wind was stirring on the night of the first shook when the earth began to tremble the sea was lashed into a fury and as the shocks continued the harbor took on the appearance of a typhoon ocean. Go to M. BEAMER'S CAFE FOR FIRST CLASS ACCOMODATION. MEALS, LUNCHES AND LODGING. ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS OF ALL, KINDS. OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE, 417 KANAWHA STREET. ESLL PHONE-237. HOME PHONE 1934 X. Just how much of the port has been submerged is not known. Communication by rail to the port of Vera Cruz is entirely cut off. Teports from nearly all of the large cities in the southern part of the republic have now been received and although many of those places felt the shock severely no loss of life is reported and the property loss is insignificant. News is yet anxiously awaited from the Isthmus of Tehauntepeo, whee it is feared that the shock may have wrought much damage. Strikes So Hard That It Becomes Wedged Tight in Ship. New York, April 17.—A remarkable story of how a monster saw fish pierced the hull of a three-masted schooner and the unique method employed by the skipper to rid his ship of at least part of the huge selachian fish was told yesterday when the United Fruit Company's steamer Baker, Capt. Oertel, arrived in port from the West Indies. Any one who doubts the truth of the strange story may journey to Jamaica and see the schooner Annie O., of Provincetown, in drydock, where the fish's saw is being removed from the hull. On the Baker's last trip south from here, about a day's run from Port Antonio, the lookout sighted the Annie O. Her peculiar manoeuvres excited great curiosity. She acted as though she had escaped from the marine psychopathic ward. Within a few hundred yards of the schoner the Baker hove to and about the same time a small boat put off from the Annie O. with three men. When the quarter boat got alongside a short fat man climbed the sea ladder. "I'm Capt. Gaineschurt, of that schooner, the Annie O," he said, "and though I never look for trouble, I certainly found it today. A few hours back there was a sudden jar aft and the Annie O. Fiz-two foot out of the water aft. "The next minute there was a crash of timber and a long, flat thing, gray in color, jammed itself through the cabin roof. It had spikes half an inch long on the sides. At the same time there was a great disturbance in the water just beneath the rudder post. Without my turning a spoke of the wheel the Annie O. hove to. I tried her on both tacks, but she wouldn't answer. So I let her hang while I sent for Jim Benson, who is an expert swimmer and diver. "I told Jim to don his low-cut bathing suit and see what had become so attached to the schooner. Jim is hardly more than out of sight when he comes up and fairly leaps out of the water onto the deck. Now, Jim's an educated man, having lived next to a school when he was a lad, and when he gets his breath he says: "There's an elasmobranchate stuck fast in the hull aft on the port side and it looks like it had come to stay." "What is it?" says I, "'and is it serious?" "It's commonly called a saw-fish," says Jim. "The upshot was that Jim got his saw, went overboard and went to sawing on the sawfish. After working between breaths for half an hour he broke the saw off and that sawfish is not sawed off. Can you lend me a saw?" In a few minutes, a saw was brought up and a powerful Jamaica negro, one of the Baker's crew, who had been a diver off the Florida keys, went with the schooner's skipper over to the Annie O. Benson and the negro jumped overboard with the saw, which was about five feet long, and started to work. After a time the water astern was colored a dark crimeon. At the same time Benson and the negro rose to the surface. Stout lines were lowered. As Benson appeared a long silver-gray object shot under him. He cried out in pain and was pulled aboard the schooner. His right foot had been torn off at the ankle. The sword fish, minus his saw, which the men had finally succeeded in cutting away, was thrashing 'about in the water. In a little while he disappeared. SNOWS STOP EARLY SHOWS. Circuses Are Cancelling Early West Virginia Dated. Fairmont, W. Va., April 17. A one-ring circus is tied up at Belington on account of the cold weather and climatic conditions are seriously interfering with the billing of other shows which had planned to take the road shortly. The John H. Sparks Virginia Shows, which has struck bad luck in this state, has been on the road for several weeks and came into this state from Virginia. It has the reputation of giving an excellent performance. It was contracted to appear here April 25, but R. C. Hoon, general agent of the show, has sent this telegram to J. E. Powell, of the THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN UNION ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? 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 news paper 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 stock holders 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 plan Ask our agent in your locality about it or write to this office LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU Pythian Mutual Investment Association S. W. SARKS, President local bill posting company, which would make it appear that Mr. Sparks had abandoned his route and was turning South again: "Have just been instructed by Mr. Sparks to cancel all our time after April 13 on account of sudden change of weather as it will be impossible to show under canvass with all this snow on the ground. Please cancel our bill-board contract. We will probably make this territory later in the season." The second advance car for the Forepaugh-Sells' show, which exhibits at Mannington April 25 and at Grafton the 26th, ran into snow at both towns and the billers found eight inches of snow on one of the country routes out of Cumberland. J. W. Nedrewt, boss bill poster with the car, says it is even worse weather than he ran against last spring when the Hegenbeck show left Cincinnati early in April. NEGRO LYNCHED Eola, Louisiana, April 16.—The sequel of the shooting of five white men and two negroes at Bunkle, La. last Sunday, was the lynching of the negro Charlie Strauss near here today. A party of masked men took him away from the deputies who had him arrested. The negro was taken into the woods about one o'clock this morning and hanged to a tree after which many shots were fired into his body. He made no statement about the attempted rape with which he was charged. The coroner took charge of the body at daylight. This was the second attempt in two days to lynch Strauss, the first one on Sunday night having resulted in the serious wounding of five whitemen. Strauss had been taken during the almost total darkness while his captors were shooting at random. It was alleged that a negro had fired into the lynching party. DO NOT BUY A BIGCYCLE from anyone, or on any kind of terms, until you have reached our complete Free Catalogues illustrating and describing every kind of bicycle, old patterns and latest models, and learn of our exclusive KMW PRICES and wonderful new offers made possible by selling from factory direct to rider with no middlemen's profits. **DESCRIPTION** Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside and outside. It is easy to carry and which pleases up small petites without allowing the air to escape. We have burdened it with a thick leather cover that their tires have only been pumped upon twice in a whole season. 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THE BAUER MEAT & FISH COMPANY In our new department we now have the following line of fresh fish And the Sea Foods as follows:- Imp, Clams, Lobster, Smoked Crabs, Hard and Soft Shell Crabs, Tuna so all kinds of Fancy Cheese, Sauser Sausages, Bullions, Sauces, Olive Pickles, etc. Shrimp, Clams, Lobsters Deviled Crabs, Hard and Soft Shell Crabs, Turfiles. Also all kinds of Fancy Cheese, Summer Sausages, Bullions, Sauces, Olives Pickles, etc. we clean Fish ready for pan. Advertise in the Advocate The Jamestown Exposition is a comprehensive study in black and white; of the past three hundred years of American achievement. The musical exhibit, which will be quite an elaborate collection of the producers, vocal and instrumental, of the colored composers of the country, has been placed in charge of Mr. Clarence Cameron White, the eminent violinist, of Washington, D.C. Musical instruments made by Negroes will be displayed, and frequent recitals, using the composition of Negroes exclusively, will be given. Newport News is a pretty little city, and its people are hospitable to the last degree. It is in close proximity to the Exposition grounds, and many will doubtless make it the base of their operations during their sojourn in the Tidwater section. The ferry company has agreed to furnish clean and comfortable boats on which there will be no discrimination between colored and white passengers. The trip across Hampton Roads is a delightful one. The amusement concession has been, granted to Metmore & Jackson, and on a given number of evenings of each week, the "top notch" dramatic, lyric, and comedy specialist of the race will be presented under their direction. Mr. Metmore's extensive acquaintance with the "stars" of the theatrical firmament and acknowledged taste as a purveyor of entertainments that appeal to the enjoyable attractions in the magnificent auditorium of the Negro building. A prominent, orchestra and grand chorus, organized, and led by a skilled musician, will be among the artistic features of the exposition season. The Negro Exhibit is doing good in more than one direction—it is opening the door of opportunity to many phases of Negro endeavor by furnishing lucrative employment to a small army of the intelligent, skilled and industrious men and women of the race. Clerks, stenographers, carpenters, builders, architects, electricians, printers, etc., are drawing direct benefits at this time from its coffers, and the landlords, concessionaries, owners of vehicles, musicians, player folk, waiters, exhibitors, attendants and a myraid of helpers of every description, will get within reach of the golden stream within the near future. Both in moral effect and in tangible profit, this vast Negro enterprise will go a long way toward making "everybody happy. Mr. Isaac Hathaway, the noted Kentucky sculptor, will have on exhibition a life-sized duplicate of his valuable bronze bust of the late Dr. A. P. Ross, founder of the thriving Hayman Seminary at Harrodsburg, Ky. Mr. Hathaway is also the possessor of the only death mask taken of the celebrated poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and arrangements are being made to have this shown in the art division of the Negro Exhibit. President McKinley on Expositions. President William McKinley had the right idea about the value of expositions. At Buffalo, in 1901, but a short time before his tragid death, the president made some striking observations on the subject, and his glowing tribute to these masterly displays of the manifold resources of a nation or a people, will live for all time in the realm of helpful literature, of lofty thought and practical action. What he said of the Buffalo Exposition is equally applicable to the magnificent demonstration now being made ready at Jamestown, and what is true of the moral and material effect of both enterprises as a whole, is none the less true of the exhibit to be made at the latter place by the 10,000,000 colored people of the country. Here is what President McKinley said on expositions, and every sentence sparkles like unto a rare jewel: "Expositions are the time keepers of progress. They record the world's advancement. They stimulate the energy, enterprise and intellect of the people—they quicken the human genius. They go into the home. They broaden, brighten the daily life The late president spoke wisely and well. The advantages of expositions of all peoples—Negroes, as well as whites—could not have been put more tersely nor more convincingly. The constructive workers of the race have long ago reached the sensible conclusion so eloquently voiced by President McKinley. Those who have not yet been converted are losing the one great opportunity of a life-time. POET'S CORNER Concerning the Thaw Matter. New York World. What? Great Scott! Have we got? To stand it when the weather's hot? It was bad enough When we had it on ice, But in the summer-time— Well, it isn't nice. And we hereby enter a loud objection, Unless it is served with disinfection. By gosh! We don't want to slosh Around in that muck And be stuck In that moral slime All the time! Oh, say, Ain't there some other way To fix it? In a pinch, Couldn't we lynch The lawyers? If we could That might do some good. Or couldn't we rise? And paralyze Any judge who dare to sit And give us any more of it Or couldn't we reach out and hang That alienistic brainstorm gang? Or couldn't we, in righteous fury, Knock out the men who'd make a jury? Oh, say, Couldn't we do any old way And say 'twas done in self-defense. Or, in the light of past events, Call it an act of Irvidence? However, if it can't be done, And all that rot has got to run Through legal channels on the town? Why can't the papers call it down? Why can't they do What's right and fit By printing not a line of it? It isn't news; It's only slime Unfit to print in summer-time, Ain't it. —W. J. Lampton. A Kiss. "What is a kiss?" Heaven knows! Not I! And yet, with humble wit, Now that you've asked me I will try To give my view of it. A Kiss. A friendly grimace, pleasing, quite; A drooping of the eyes. The twirling of a moonlit night, Or better, starry skies. A rare Havana sacrificed— A breath upon the lips; The spirit of red wine enticed To sparkle in long sips. A contact either short or long; A dozen thoughts or less; The question, Is it right or wrong? And then—just foolishness. —Lurana W. Sheldon. The Hammers. By Ralph Hodgson. Noise of hammers once I heard, Other hammers, muffled hammers, Beating, shaping, night and day, Shaping, beating dust and clay To a palace; saw it reared; Saw the hammers laid, away And I listened, and I heard Hammers beating night and day, In the palace newly reared, Beating it to dust and clay, Other hammers, muxed hammers, Silent hammers of decay. —London Saturday Review. ACCUSED PASTOR Held To Grand-Jury, Two Women Being on His Bond. Danville, Ill., April, 16.—After hearing the most damaging evidence from the lips of Miss Florence Dunsworth and three little girl friends, all of 16 or under, Rev. Charles N. Keniston, pastor of the First Congregational Church, was held to the grand jury today in bonds of $32-300 on charges of paternity and criminal assault. Nine members of the congregation, including two women, went on his bail bond. Rev. Keniston was accompanied by his wife, two daughters, Rev. Hayes, former pastor and several officers of the church, who declined to abandon his cause. The prosecuting witness, a pretty little girl in a short dress, testified that last October the preacher took her to church study to perfect arrangements for a farewell party he was engineering before her family left for Trinadad, Colo., for the father's health. When they arrived in the study the minister committed a criminal assault, she said, Rhea Gregor, aged 16, testified that the minister attempted to fondle her, but she fought him off. Isabelle Hodge, aged 13, testified that he testified that he took unde liberties, and Olive Orlea, aged 16 testified that he took her on his lap and fondled her. MEASLY TRICK Bellefontaine, Ohio, April 16. All of the members of the senior class in the Lewiston High school have the measles and the commencement, which was set for April 26, has been postponed because the seniors will be breaking out about that time. Look Here !!! 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This is not a new field but one that has been in operation for twenty years There are thousands of colored men in these fields who came here years ago with their families and they have educated their children, saved their money, bought property and are now among the state's most respected citizens. The state of West Virginia welcomes respected colored people within her borders and gives them opportunities and advantages which can be obtained in no other Southern State. In West Virginia there is no discrimination in the public school laws. The colored schools have the same length of term that the white schools have and the colored teachers are paid the same salaries that white teachers are paid. At present there are only 50,000 colored people in the state, for these the state maintains three state schools. One in the center, one in the southern and one in the northern part of the state. At these schools, collegiate, academic, military and industrial education can be had. In addition to this, the state supports a colored orphans' home, reform school for girls and colored people are admitted to all the Humane institutions. ```markdown ``` In West Virginia there are no Jim Crow cars, disfranchisement laws and other discriminations so common in southern states. Every man can vote his sentiments and is guaranteed every right and protection given by the Constitution of the United States. At each works, good houses at reasonable rent, school houses and churches are provided by the Companies. In nearly every locality, Pythian, Masonic, Odd Fellows and other lodges will be found and the Companies furnish Halls for same. Men are wanted as miners, drivers, engineers, carpenters, skilled and common laborers. From $2.00 to $5.00 per day can be earned. It takes only a few weeks for a man to learn the trade of mining. All wages are paid in cash every two weeks. No one is compelled to deal at Company stores. as is usually the case on public works. Good men are wanted and we are willing to give these inducements. If you are interested, let me hear from you at once. J. M. HAZLEWOOD, Agent, 22 Capitol street, Charleston, W. Va. REFERENCES Hon. W. M. O. Dawson, Governor of West Virginia, Charleston, W. Va. S. W. Starks, Supreme Chancellor, Knights of Pythias, Charleston, W. Va. J. McHenry Jones, Ex.Grand Master, Grand United Order Odd Fellows, Institute, W. Va. Kanawha Banking & Trust Company, Charleston, W. Va.