The Advocate

STARVATION AND PESTILENCE STALK IN WAKE OF THE EARTHQUAKE Where Once Proud Buildings Stood; No News of the Fate of Innumerable Small Villages and Towns in the Interior. ROME, DEC. 31.—TO THE TERRIFYING SPECTACLE OF DEATH, CAUSED BY MONDAY'S EARTHQUAKE, THERE HAS NOW BEEN ADDED THE TERROR OF STARVATION AND FEAR OF SPREAD OF PESTILENCE. IN THE RIHS OF MESSINA, REGGIO AND VARIOUS TOWNS IN SICILY AND CALABRIA, LIE BODIES OF THE DEAD, WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EXTRICATE, WHILE EVERYWHERE THOUSANDS OF HOMELESS HUNGRY PERSONS THRONG THE LITTERED THOROUGHFARES. TROOPS ARE, DISRIBUTING RATIONS TO THE STARVING PEOPLE TO THE UTMOST LIMIT OF THEIR RESOURCES. AS YET IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN ANY NEWS OF THE FATE OF LITTLE VILLAGES ALONG THE COAST. MANY OF WHICH, IT IS BELIEVED, HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY WIPED OUT. THE KING AND THE QUEEN OF ITALY VISITED BOTH MESSINA AND REGGIO. THEIR COMING AROUSED WIDESPREAD ENTHUSIASM. OF MESSINA, NOTHING REMAINS BUT A HANDFUL OF RUINS SWEPT BY FIRE AND A HANDFUL OF SURVIVORS. OF REGGIO, FOUR-FIFTHS OF THE INHABITANTS ARE ESTIMATED TO HAVE BEEN LOST. THE WATERS OF THE STRAITS OF MESSINA ARE COVERED WITH FLOATING BODIES OF MEN AND ANIMALS, AND WITH ALL KINDS OF WRECKAGE. THE SHORES OF THE STRAITS AVE BEEN COMPLETELY TRAN SFORMED. THE OFFICIAL LIST OF THE DEAD IS PLACED AT 115,000 Some Notable Earthquakes In Years Past A. D. 157—Portius and Macedonia, Asia, 150 cities and thousands of lives destroyed. 742—Syria, Palestine and Asia, 500 towns destroyed; loss of life incalculable. 986—Constantinople overturned; all Greece shaken. 1157—Catania, Sicily; destroyed; 15,000 killed. 1268—Cilicia, Asia Minor, 60,000 killed. 1456—Dec. 5—Naples, 40,000 killed. 1531, Feb. 26—Lisbon, 30,000 killed. 1626, July 30—Naples, 70,000 killed. 1667—Schamaki, 80,000 killed. 1693, Sept. Sicily, 100,000 killed. 1703, Feb. 2—Tokyo, Japan, 200,000 killed. 1726, Sept. 1—Palermo, Italy, 6,000 killed. 1731, Nov. 30—Peking, Chilai, 100,000 killed. 1749, Oct. 28—Lima and Callao, Peru, 18,000 killed. 1753—Grand Cairo, Egypt, 40,000 killed. 1755, Nov. 1—Lisbon, 50,000 killed. 1783, Feb. 5—Messina and other large towns, thousands killed. 1797, Feb. 4—Country between Santa Fe and Panama, 40,000 killed. 1812, March 26—Caracas, Venezuela, 12,000 killed. 1822, Aug. 10—Aleppo, Spain, 20,000 killed. 1852, Aug. 14—Melifi, Italy, 14,000 killed. 1855—Tokyo nearly destroyed. 1857, Dec. 16—Calabria, Italy, 10,000 killed. 1868, Aug. 15—Peru and Ecuador, 25,000 killed. 1875, May 18—Colombia, South America, 14,000 killed. 1881, April 8—Solo, Italy, 4,000 killed. 1883, Oct. 16—Anatolia, Asia Minor, and other towns destroyed. 1885, July 8—Cashmere, 70,000 homes demolished. 1886, Aug. 31—Charleston, S. C., 98 killed. 1891—Multitudes killed in Japan. 1902—Martinique, 32,500 killed. 1906—San Francisco earthquake, 500 killed. 1907—Kingston, 800 killed. 1908—Earthquake and tidal wave in Italy. Rome, Dec. 31.—Slowly the measure of the great disaster that depopulated the province of Calabria and southern Sicily is being taken, and as the reports accumulate, it is seen that the first estimates did not exaggerate the extent and the horror of the situation. The official estimate places the number of the dead at 115,000, but there is no reason to believe that this number will be greatly exceeded when fuller returns have been received. Help of All Nations Needed. / Today the pitiful blight of the Some Notable Quakes In A. D. 157—Portius and Macco ands of lives destroyed. 742—Syria, Palestine and A. life incalculable. 986—Constantinople overturns 1137—Catania, Sicily; destroys 1268—Clicicia, Asia Minor, 60 1456—Dec. 5—Naples, 40,000 1531—Feb. 26—Lisbon, 30,00 1626—July 30—Naples, 70,00 1667—Schamaki, 80,000 killed 1693—Sept.—Sicily, 100,000 1703—Feb. 2—Tokyo, Japan 1729—Sept. 1—Palermo, Italy 1731—Nov. 30—Peking, China 1746—Oct. 28—Lima and Cala- 1753—Grand Calao, Egypt, 4 1755—Nov. 1—Lisbon, 50,000 1783—Feb. 5—Messina and de- ed. 1797—Feb. 4—Country between killed. 1812—March 20—Caracas, V 1822—Aug. 10—Aloppo, Spain 1852—Aug. 14—Melifi, Italy 1855—Tokyo nearly destroys 1857—Dec. 10—Calabria, Italy 1868—Aug. 15—Peru and E 1875—May 18—Colombia, Sao 1861—April 3—Sicio, Italy, 1883—Oct. 16—Anatolia, Asso- ced. 1885—July 8—Cashmere, 700 1886—Aug. 31—Charleston, 1891—Multitudes killed in a 1902—Martinique, 32,500 k 1906—San Francisco earthqu 1907—Kingston, 800 killed. 1908—Earthquake and tidal JACKIE CLARKE Of Australia Won Bike Race From Major Taylor. Boston, Dec. 29.—In the bicycle races at the Park Square Coliseum tonight, Jackie Clarke, of Australia, was awarded the victory in a special match sprint against Major Taylor, the colored ridar, of Worcester, after Taylor had won two of the three heats. In the third heat Clarke alleged Taylor was guilty of rough riding and the referee awarded the sprint to Clarke after Taylor had refused to ride the heat over again. Rev. J. W. Waters, pastor of Simpson M. E. Church, is able to be out after having been confined to his bed for several days. Mrs. Lenora Cowser has been seriously indisposed the past week. Her condition is reported as improved at the last report. survivors claims the universal attention. The relief of the suffering calls for the concentrated efforts of all the nations. Survivors Need Everything. Countless thousands of the survivors, half demented, naked and starving, some wounded, some uninjured, are crying pitiful for food, water, clothing, shelter and medical attention. No news has yet been received of any of the Americans who are thought to have been in the devastated district. It is estimated that 100,000 persons have fled from the Table Earth-Years Past India, Asia, 150 cities and thousands, 500 towns destroyed; loss of men; all Greece shaken. Oyed; 15,000 killed. 10,000 killed. 10 killed. 100 killed. 100 killed. 100 killed. 200,000 killed. 7,600 killed. 100,000 killed. Miao, Peru, 18,000 killed. 10,000 killed. 10 killed. Other large towns, thousands killed. Green Santa Fe and Panama, 40,000 Ecuador, 12,000 killed. Can, 20,000 killed. 14,000 killed. Indy, 10,000 killed. Ecuador, 25,000 killed. South America, 14,000 killed. A Minor, and other towns destroy- 1000 homes demolished. S. C., 98 killed. Japan. Killed. Snake, 500 killed. wave in Italy. OVER 1,000 CITY PRISONERS GO ON STREETS The records of the police department as computed by City Recorder J. Shirley Ross, show that from April 1, 1907, to January 1, 1909, Police Judge MacCorkle has turned over to Street, Commissioner Kain 1,005 prisoners. Not all of the prisoners given to the custody of the street commissioner, however, have been put to work, as many paid their fines before going to work or before their sentences expired. desolated territory in fear of further convulsions: 25,000 Needed in Rescue Work. It is declared also that an army of 25,000 men will be needed to rescue the living, who are still entrapped in the ruins and to bury the dead. Burning Dead at Reggio. At Reggio the bodies of those killed in the disaster are being burned, and strong disinfectants are being strewn among the ruins of the city as a precautionary measure against an outbreak of a pestleance. The troops are baking bread in the streets to supply the wants of the hungry. MASONS ODSERVE ST. JOHN'S DAY WITH BANQUET. Officers Are Installed With Imposing Ceremonies and Members and Friends Enjoy A Sump- No affair given during the holiday season was more enjoyable than the banquet following the installation of the officers of Washington Lodge No. 6, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Monday night, at the K. of P. Hall. At John's Day, as December 27th is known in the Masonic calendar, coming on Sunday this year, the annual installation of officers and banquet was postponed to Mohd, when the members, their relatives and friends were present in large number to witness the interesting ceremony. Attorney J. W. Chappelle, Grand Representative in West Virginia, for Alabama, acted as installing officer and inducted into office: Worthy Master, Joel H. Taylor; Senior Warden, T. G. Nutter; Junior Warden, J. L. Gillard; Secretary, Allen A. De Honney; treasurer Fleet Porterfield; S. D. Levi E. Campbell; J. D. Grant Clarke; Stewards, W. H. Wright and W. H. Walker; Chaplain, W. H. Parker; and Tiller, John Wallace. At the conclusion of the instillation ceremonies, the following menu was served in the dining room: Olivus Small Pickles Celery Lettuce Sea Bay Trout, Endive Dressing Potato Chips Roast Pig with Apple Sauce. Sugar Cured Ham with Champagne Sauce Braised Turkey with Cranberry Sauce Escalloped Oysters Sifted Peas Cold Slaw Potato Salad Burgundy Punch Vanilla Ice Cream with Cretons Marble Cake Lady Fingers Layer Cake Cocoanut Filling Salted Almonds Mixed Nuts Oranges Bananas Grapes Demi Tasse W. Scott Brown, practical farmer at the West Virginia Colored Institute, was here the first of the week doing jury duty in the Intermediate court. Miss Moss Clay, of Institute, is spending the week here visiting Miss Maude Viney. FORAKER OUT TOO Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1861, Senator Foraker at upon today issued a statement in which he formally withdrew from the senatorial race to succeed himself. The withdrawal of both Taft and Foraker leaves a clear field for Steedore Burton. BURTON NEXT SENATOR Congressman Burton was decided upon today as the next United States Senator from Ohio. Charles T. Taft Burton's most formidable opponent, withdrew from the race in the rotundon. Later Senator Foraker issued a statement admitting for the first time since the attacks made upon him during the recent national campaign that his defeat for the election was certain. All the minor candidates have either withdrawn already or will get out of the race during the afternoon, so that the naming of Burton in the party caucus will be but a formality. The end of the stirring campaign came suddenly. The beginning of the end was formulated with the return from August, Ga., yesterday of Wade Ellis, who had been sent by the supporters on Editor Taft, as an emissary to the president-elect. Following a conference with Ellis, in which the President-elect's wishes were outlined, Taft sought a conference with Burton and it was both last night. An agreement was reached whereby Taft would withdraw and the strength of the Hamilton county delegation, which was the backbone of the Taft support, would be delivered to Burton. By the terms of the settlement it is said Taft will remain in virtual control of the State Republican organization and have the united support of the party for the senatorship in 1911 if he desires to become a candidate at that time. The Federal and State patronage will be divided. The election of Burton, it is said, will eliminate both Senator Dick and Myron T. Herrick from the 1911 senatorial situation. Foraker may again oppose Taft in 1911 but some political leaders here are inclined to interpret Foraker's statement issued today as in the nature of a valedictory. PACING BULL SAID TO HAVE ENVIABLE RECORD Morgantown, W. Va., Dec. 31. There is one pacing bull in the United States and his name is "Dan Patch." The owner of Dan Patch lives in Waynesburg and he is a veterinary surgeon and horse fancier, and his name is Dr. J. G. Cheney. Dr. Cheney passed through Morgantown last night on his way to Mineral county, where he expects to purchase an additional strong team for his racing string. "Dan Patch" is the only racing bull in the United States and Dr. Cheney did all the training and is proud of his achievement. Dan Patch" has a record of 2:20 and is the fastest bull in harness in the world and his owner is willing to back him against any pacing bull in the world, for that matter, with the average pacing horse. "Dan Patch" will be entered in the first race to be held in the new race track in Morgantown and the owner is ready and willing to put money up on his famous bull. Pennsylvania is noted for curious things such as capitol scandal, Pittsburg councilmen, bank wreckers, and unlimited would-be politicians, but the greatest story which has come from that commonwealth is the story of "Dan Patch." Dr. Choney is willing to accept all offers, and he said that he had all kinds of confidence in "Dan Patch." Here is a chance, fellows, to win or lose. Where are you? 27 Boston Already Removed And 25 More are Threatened in He Entrusted in McDowell County In inspectors on the firemen The death list at the Lick Branch mine of the Pocantan Consolidated Collieries Company in McDowell county is expected to exceed fifty. While no official word has been received at the Department of Mines, Thursday morning, dispatches over the associated Press wire say that fully fifty men have perished in this last explosion. Getting Out Bodies. Last night 27 bodies had been recovered from the mine by the several rescuing parties which have been at work since it was possible to enter the mine, and it was estimated that about 25 more were inside of the mine. Chief Mine Inspector John Ling was in Pennsylvania at the time of the explosion. He had gone to York, Pennsylvania, to remove his family to Charleston, and was at that place when he heard the news of the explosion at the Lick Branch mine. Four Deputies at Mine. There are four deputies at the mine representing the State Department, Messrs. Henry, Warren, Grady and Phillips, the explosion occurring in the latter's district. Some of these inspectors are reputed to be the best on the force and they will make a thorough investigation to ascertain the cause of the explosion in the mine which Inspector Phillips had reported last August to be in safe condition with no gas and no coal dust. Eminent Authorities. Eminent mining authorities contend that there can be no explosion where there is neither gas or coal dust, and the reports of the deputy inspectors are anxiously awaited to throw new light on the subject of explosions. Deputy Warner's Warning. Deputy Inspector William Warner, who is now located at Charleston, was formerly the inspector in the McDowell district and in his report to the Chief of the Department in the last report issued from the Department, he severely criticized some of the operators in the N. & W, field, for their failures to observe the law and the lack of competent management. One of the reasons advanced by Deputy Warner for the lack of competent management was as follows: "The prosperity among those who have operated mines in this field, has been such that capital has been attracted which is controlled by individuals who are most ambitious to succeed as capitalists, but who have little or no knowledge of mining, or its dangers, and who know little about the mining laws and seem to care less." FLOOD OF ORANGES FILLS THE MARKET IN NEW YORK New York, Dec. 31.—New York City will end the year with more oranges in the markets than ever before at any one time. As large as the supply is the demand is keeping abreast with it, and there has been no marked decline in prices. Dealers are seeking the best fruit and consumers are anxious for it. New York City is the largest orange market in the world and the golden stream is at flood tide. Most of the Florida crop, which is a large one, has been coming here, both by rail and water. About one-half of the Florida crop has been moved, and that means about 2,450,000 boxes. The orange auctions have been large, as many as 16,000 boxes being sold in one day. The desirable Florida oranges are selling at from $1.25 to $3.10 a box in the general market. Fine oranges are coming from northern California. They are good in color and well matured, and are selling from $3.15 to $4.35. Arizona is sending some fine navels that are selling readily at from $4.70 to $4.95 a box. Stock from Puerto Rico is snowing good keeping qualities, and dealers are paying from $1.20 to $1.60 a box for this variety. In the retail shops prices will vary with size and quality from 30 to 80 cents a dozen, but most of the offerings of good fruit will be at 50 cents. W. N. Bowles, teacher at Fayetteville, is home for the holidays. executed by Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington, Dec. 80.—The Hon. John C. Danner, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, has come to be regarded as a fixture in the official life of the nation's capital. He is personally popular, is an exceptionally capable administrator of the people's business, and is a factor in a score of activities looking toward the morals social and political uplift of his race. If the spirit of Mr. Danner's predecessors in the Recordership of Deeds—Frederick Dodson, H. K. Bruce, C. H. J. Taylor, James C. Matthews, James Monroe Thetes and Henry P. Cheakham—could come back to the scene of their former labor on the ground-floor of the District Court House, they would not know the place. Everything has been changed. The ancient furnishings in the front office have given away to a modern steel lattice-partition; steel file-cases made the place of the wooden ones and dislodged records in long-hand, have been copied on book-typewriters and treated to new bindings. The office looks, for all the world, like up-to-date bank, and the methods of conducting business have been reformed to keep pace with new furniture. Deputy Recorder Dutton is on hand to take care of the routine work, and an efficient corps of clerks perform their responsible duties with a promptness, politeness and silence that suggest a master-organisable hand at the helm. The volume of business has steadily increased since Mr. Dutton assumed the reins seven years ago. At that time the surplus receipts turned into the United States Treasury, over and above o...ce expenses, was only $500. For the current year, the amount turned over to Uncle Sam's coffers is $10,000. The number of copyists now employer on "piece work" is within the legitimate needs of the service, thus insuring a living compensation for each and guaranteeing the ability of the establishment to retain on its rolls a class of men and women of undoubted competence. Mr. Dancy's public career is interesting and unique. He was twice appointed Collector of Customs at the port of Wilmington, N. C., thrice elected editor of the Star of Zion, the official organ of the 600,000 communicants of the A. M. E. Zion church and since 1902 has broken all records in point of efficiency and length of service as Recorder of Deeds, holding at the same time the editorship of the Zion Quarterly, to which he was triumphantly re-elected at the General Conference of his church last May at Philadelphia. For fully three decades Mr. Dancy has been actively identified with the development of the church of James Varke, and has been one of the primary instrumentalities that have brought that body up to its present high estate. His constructive leadership has been potent in expanding it from a sectional organization, forming scarcely more than a fringe along the Atlantic seaboard, into a truly national body, extending from ocean to ocean, from the great lakes to the Gulf of Africa and the islands of the sea. It is worthy of note that when Mr. Dancy's present term as editor of the Zion Quarterly expires, he will have rounded out twenty-five years of service as an editor of the publications of his church. There is a well-founded rumor affloat that Mr. Dancy, in his desire to be known as a "twenty-five objection to man," would have no serious objections to making his career symmetrical by rounding out a term of twenty-five years as Recorder of Deeds. And this may be no joke, for the chairman of the Speakers' Bureau admit freely that Mr. Dancy led the Negro orators on the stump and was asked for more frequently than any other "spellbinder" by the race throughout the country. He spoke upon every conceivable occasion, travelling thousands of miles, making long and short jumps through all of the pivotal, states, and was personally complimented by both President Roosevelt and President-elect Taft upon the valuable character of his work from the pre-convention campaign to the day of the November election. Mr. Dancy's much-abused state of North Carolina elected three Republican members of Congress, beating out Indiana in this respect, the Roosevelt state sending in but two. Mr. Dancy is much stronger in his position than recketing ear, and the most important offering themselves as individuals likely to find but are likely to be parking up the wrong President Roosevelt is particularly well pleased with the whimsy of Dancy has made an official supporter of the administration, and there is no concern the elquent North Carolina has handsomely at the hands of the successor, who is a stoker for the full measure of credit. The credit is rightfully due. The announcement of the President's purpose to re-appoint Dr. D. Grum, Collector of Customs in Charleston, S. C., is meeting with the approval of the party leadership in both races and the press of the country is saying some nice things about Mr. Roosevelt for his promotion in the matter. It is agreed that the retention of Dr. Grum was asked by Dr. Booth T. W.ington, and in view of the collusion flawless record, the President told that he was due another term in formal objection has come from Charleston, and it is not thought that the old fight will be maintained when the mandate is called about to confirm his nomination. The thirteenth census is being upon us, and some goodonial baggages are in sight in connection there with. Special agents, clerks, messengers, laborers, numerators, and will have to be appointed, and by the thousands of helpless needy in Negro want an adequate share in the race of fairness with the census, but, was not nearly so well cared for as it should have been, few were retained in the permanent purse and are there yet. Appointees are to be designated by the members of Congress, as before, but, the clerks, it is understood, will be compelled to stand a special examination before being put to work. Each Senator and Representative will have a specified quota allotted to him for his state or district, based upon population—and maybe, the strength of his "pull" will out some ice in the equation. The employment, though temporary, is fairly remunerative, and will relieve the pressure for patronage to a moderate extent. The "spoils system" is not hurtful to our people, if they got the right men behind them. It behooves the anxious ones to get their "influence" together and start early, so as to get a snug point of vantage on the ground floor. There is some agitation as to who will head the colored division of the inaugural parade. At the last, two inaugurations that distinguished honor fell to Col. Judson W. Lyons, who was then Register of the Treasury. There are those who think the precedent of having the Register as leader should again be followed, which would point to the selection of Dr. W. T. Vernon. Others reason that Col. Lyons was not chosen because he was Register of the Treasury, but because he was the only colored member of the national committee, and was recognized on that account. Another not less insistent group declare that inasmuch as the President-elect is an Ohio man, it would be the graceful thing to place a prominent colored Ohio leader at the head of this division. Then, again, the claim is made that the function being local, the honor should go to a District man. The problem is still in the air, and Major General J. Franklin Bell, grand marshal of the entire pageant, is giving no indication as to what action he will take when the selection is formally put up to him. The Negro is pretty fairly represented on the general committee in charge of the Taft Inauguration. On the executive committee there are Judge Robert H. Torrell and R. R. Horner. Mr. Torrell, as everybody knows, is a judge in the municipal court of the District, a graduate of Harvard's college and law departments and served most acceptably some years ago as principal of the St. Louis High School. He is prominent in the Masonic, Odd Follows and other fraternal orders, besides being an active member of the Lincoln Temple Congregational Church. Mr. Horner is a well-known practitioner at the District bar, a member of the Board of Education, was a delegate to the Republican National convention at Chicago last June and et! * SANS op ok ae ep nae gee Oe ONG Ree OR ARO SORTER CTA Ae ORO TORR Pe acc PaE Se Fe Re Meet Nn i Ree \ Sg EE Sas ee eRe Y ie AER ee ee RONEN TO Rt oe Sey a area Lge Rae CEES IRR SS SES RRM RR SRC ie oan ME ae aes SR Res Be : Oo ae Raa is ec eee A SEER BB SS cE: or eo: ce OES we _ TRA i A pyantth chet 0 o Ck a ee a e uR N G a cr pine Bree agen geean uate rar ——~aERENUEEINED rainraamatanetmmremmemmmtetiin tot emir CORR —— NDENCE HINTON. W\Wrlday morning in the Second Baptist: Ohuren v “Sunrise!” prayer “mPEE Was hold, and very largely RUbHaGa. Bivery one Tet footing _vety’ much Denofittéd. At eloven: OX Jock #. m. Christmas ‘WeFvices were field. | Rev. A.D. ely preacke? a very touching ser- GChrintmas *~e in the Second Bapy- Mat church the Sunday school hal ie annual Civistmas tree, — The [fre as very tastafully decorated ‘py Meadames Clara Wells and Artie ‘Jones, Misses Alfreda Smithers and Dorthula Pack and Mr. Nathan Trent, the Supt, Many beautitui presents were presented, after which Tefreshnients were served in the Dagement of the chureh. Christmas night the Progressive Sons and Daughters gave a “Novel- ty Supper.” The principal feature of the evening was a “Dollar Hunt.” Mra. Jennie Jones was the success- fal one in finding the dollar. ‘Thé following young ladies are home from Institute to spend the holidays: Misses Blanche Christian, Willa-and Gussie Wells, Willa Bar- ret and Anita Johnson. “Mrs, Mildren Brown, of Alderson, spent Christmas day with her daugh- ter, Mrs. I. B. Smithers, She re- turned home Saturday and was ue- companiéd by Mrs, Smithers und Gaby, Mildren Louise. —“Meisrs. Pack, of Red Sulphur, Syent Christmas day Jn Hinton. “Mr. Swope, of Barger’s Springs, is \spending a few days in Hinton, ‘Walter Goodwin, of Arbuckle, is visiting his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Lewis, ‘Mrs. Beulah Patterson is home after a visit to relatives in Ar- duelde. B. G. Pack met with a very pain- ful accident while demonstrating his. fireworks at the Co-operative Mercantile Store. One finger was blown off and he sustained other in- Juries. He is under the care of Dr. Holley. Messrs. Murray and Haskins are in the Holley Sanitarium for treat- ment. Both are doing .nicely. Miss Emma Smithers after a ser- fous illness of three months, is out again, and will resume her dutles at the Holley Sanitarium the first of the year. One of the most enjoyable fea- tures of the holidays was a theatre party given by Seba Pack. ‘The par- ty consisted of the Missea Smithers _and Pack. ‘The play was “Buster “Brown.” : J» G. W. Holley spent Saturday in Ronceverte with friends, Misses Alfreda Smithers, Dorthula Pack and Sallie Haynes, and Mr. Seba Park were royally entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Elam Sun- aay afternoon, Mr. Curtis Thurston and Miss Ale- tha Nelson were quietly married Wednesday evening at the residence ot Mra, Lizzie Muse. ‘They left for ka extended trip in the East, A “Wizard Social” will be given in the basement of the Second Bap- tist*Church on ‘Tuesday evening. AM are anticipating an enjoyable time. John orte, of Ansted, spent a few aays with his wife In Hinton CLARKSBURG. On Saturday, Dec. 19th, Principal ‘and Mrs. J. W. Robinson ‘de‘ighuful- ly entertained all the members of the high school and the teachers of the Water Street school at their hosnitabl home on Britge street. ‘The afternoon from 2 lo 4 was Pleasantly spent in games and music. Rey. Pryor with his witty sayings added much to the guests’ enjoy- ment. Born to Mr and) Mrs, James Booker, a son. Rev. S. P. West has returned from, Scranton, Pa. where he went to-ship his household goods to this point. While away Rev. West's pulpit was very ably filled by Dr Acooe, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Jamea Davis, of Buckhannon. and two children are visiting Mrs. Byra Tattleton, on Second street. Mrs. Hd. Henry spent Christmas here with her mother, Mrs. ‘Thos Cambric. Mra. Henry left Sunday night for Philadelphia, her home. Miss M. Blanche Jeffries, of Charieston, was the pleasant guest of Mies Estella Cambric last week Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Walker are spending tho holdays here with rela- tives. Born to Mr. and Mra, Froeman Lowry, a daughter ‘Miaa Katherine Covington, a etn. Aerit at the West Virginia Institute. fk spending the holidays with jer thother on Monticello avenue. ~ Miss Addelle Wilkinson, who ha: Deen in Baltimore for some time, is spending the Christmas vacation with her parents. Roy, the eldent son of Mr. ani Mrs. Lark Green, died Sunday after noon, after a’ short illness wit! pneumonia fever. ‘The grief stricken family have the sympath; of all. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Greon, 0 Wheeling, were called home by th doath of hla brother Roy. ,.+ D. Cambrice, of Charloaton, i ‘spending the holidays here with hi ‘mother. B.D. Cambrie, of Charleston i igibr ‘were calling on friends in Lum aaturday. “CRED, Cambric and Guy Ruth ; calling on Falrmont friend | The death of Allen Nelson which was caused by his being crushed In tho street elevator in front of the ‘Trader's Hofel a few weeks ago, has resnited. in the institution of a dam- nae snit against the city to the amount of $10,000, Miss LM Allen’ is spending her Christmas vacation with her par- ents at Fairehance, Pa. | Gordon Gambric, of Lumberport, ‘was ealling on friends here Sunday. Wm. Jackson, of Weston, passed | wo" the elty Saturday enroute to ‘Pomeroy to visit relatives. ~ | The different Synday schoots ob- served Christmas ‘ane all the ehtl- “tren were remembered. "rhe onblie Installation of officers ©. Rontah Tedge of Masons was held at Trinity M. B, church and fot lowed by & banquet Monday evening. A large crowd’ was in attendance and « very pleasant evening spent. Miss Mattie. Prouty and brother, of Brownsville, Pa,, were business visitors here last week. Mrs. Richard Allen is very ill at her home on Ferry street. Miss Mary Bowman, who teaches at Shinnston, spent several days vhere with friends. Sho returned to her werk Monday. ee Robt. and Frank McDaniel have gone to thelr home #: Charlottsviit to spend the hotigav: Floyd Adams and Fred Foreman left for Greensboro, N. C., whore they have employment. H. Barber has gone to Gauley River where he has employment. Mrs, Minnie Holt returned Saturday to spend the holidays here. Henry MePhail, J. D. Wiseman, ‘T. B, Giles and Ea. ‘Tate were usinoss visitors to: Charleston, ‘Thursday. Miss Sarah Smoor is spendixy the holidays here with her parents T. R. Johnson and W. W. Lewis toft for thelr home at Kanassha City to spend the holidays ‘with their samiltes. : Rern to Mr, and Mrs. Joo Smoot, a fine girl. Mrs. M.A. W. ‘Thompson lett ‘Thursday for Pratt, where she «- pects to spend the holidays with relatives. “A. Wilson and R. H. Allen left the first of the week to sper) thy holl- ‘days with thelr families “Mrs. Joe, Hubbard contiones to improve. | | Mrs. A. Manson, of Boomer. fa spending the week here the guest of Mrs. L.A. Davis W. E, Carey returned from Harper's [Ferry. Monday, where he has neen attending school. + Mra. J.P. Smoot “was suddenly taken iM Sunday. Messrs, Anastine and Armeadia Johnaon, of Kanawha City, are spending the week here the guests of relatives. Jas, R. Randolph has been ti! the past week. Jubilant Lodge No. 17, K. of | P. elected all of the old officers with- out opposition. Lee Johnson. ©. C.: W. N. Shelton, V. G.i GR, Cousins, P.;_G. W. Perkins, M. of B.; Jas. J. ‘Thomas, M. of Fs N. D. Aesander. K. of R. and ‘Si Loe Johnson, ‘Trustee; R. G. Green, P. ©. "Mis. A. Thomas spent a few days in Charleston last week. N.S. Alexander, John. Mose- by and Miva, L.A, Davis were bual- nese vititors to Lewlaton Friday. Hi. P. Day spent a few hours in Charteston ‘Thursday, | The following officers were elect: Jed by Joy of Life Fountain No. 1643 for it ensuing term: | WM. T. B. Giles. = Mrs. 8. J. Thomas, Chap... Edward Tyson, Sec., CA. Thomas A. 8, W. N. Shelton. S.T.. Matilda Green: LMT), CA. Thomas. G., Herbert Mitehel. A. G., Emma Smoot. | Sen... D. Wiseman. P.-G.. Sherman Green RS), Maggie Perking 1. §, Bila Shelton. P.M. J.T, Thomas. b., GR, Cavencas. MT. HOPE. Miss Henriette James was here during holidays, the guest of Mis M. E. Calloway. a A. B. Rotan left a few days ago lo spend the holidays with his fam- ily al Boomer, ‘The entertainment given in Catlo- way hall Friday might by Mrs. J. W. Williams wan quite a success. A short program was rendered which was very interesting, after which re- freshments were served, "Miss Rlizabeth “Evang, a_ student atthe W. VC. 1. is here to spend the holidays with her parents. An entertainment was given in honor of her which was quite a treat to those pregent | Miss Carrie Jones, of the W. Vv. C. Lis here with her mother during Xmas. Mr. Thurston and Mr. Luther Pat. [teraon, of the Institute, are hore vie iting friends, J. M. Williams and his two little boys. Lawrence and George, are spending the holidays with relatives in Virginia < ‘Thomas Neck, of Lanark, was here a few days ago. 8. B. Graves, of Lowlston, wat feen on our strests a tow days ago. Mra, A. B. Calloway, and tittle daughtor, Lydia, spent Xmas al home. ’ Tho: olectidin. “Weld” ih the « Gaatte Hall-of Roe ot “Gharom Lodge No. 16, Ki of Py! reaulted Ja reglocting the samie‘Giicete-forithe next alx months. ‘Tie lodge. in a prosper- ous conditiéa notwithstanding thi panic that-has been Among us. ‘The officets of! Bagle “Mountain Lodge No. 6447) G. U. O. of F, for the next term WEN bY as ‘followe: Robert Oarfana Nga, ‘Mer- ritte, V. Gt; salah Payne, P. NOP: pe Grear, P. N@G.; Abram Fiem- ing, P. 8.; Dr. C. B. Anderson, F. 8.; Dr. P. H. Callqway, 'W. T.; Douglass Morris, D...W. A number of’ visitors ‘wore nerg during the holidays, but everything was very quiet tid orderly. Rev. Warren, of the M. E. chureh, ‘was hore this weck the” guest of Rev. J. B, Dotson. : ‘The Annual Banguet.of the Me- sons, held in Scott's hall Dec. 28th, yas well attended and ‘every one seemed to enjoy themselves, ‘The officora for the next year were in- stalled by Grand Master RD. Rob- Inson. MONTGOMERY. Miss Grace Belt is visiting friends In Charleston this -weok. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gough enter- tained at dinner ‘Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Gayde Lowry, of Boomer, Wesley Cox, of Wrights, G. W. Jack- son, E.G. Woods, Nelson Locke and ©. B. Tucker. Mrs, Nora Watson fs very ill. Mrs, Huffine entertained at dinner Xmas in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Law- rence Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gough were guests of Mrs. H. B. Branham Sun- day and Monday. ea PARKERSBURG. Miss M. Virginia Brown, of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, is visiting Miss Mary Peyton, on 13th street. Chester antels, the little grand- json of Rev. Simon’ Huskins, who has been down with: typhold fever! for several weeks, is better at this writ. ing. Henry Simpson, who has been con- fined to his home on 14th street for several weeks with rheumatism, {s now ‘much Improved. ‘Mrs. Mathews, of sittsburg, Pa., is visiting her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Simon Huskins, on 7th street. Herman’ Brown, who Is employed in the s'reasury Department in Wash- ington,"D. C., is home spending the holidays. * Miss Stella James, of Charleston, is visiting Mrs. Thos. Fletcher, of |Merietta, 0. ‘They were in the ‘ity Saturday. mrs. Waldo Jones, of Jersey City, who has been visiting her par- ents, Mrs. Joseph Peters, on 20th street, returned home Wednesday. H. D."Haglewood left Friday over the B. & O. R. R,, for Buckhannon, to spend the -holiaays. The Christmas exercises at a. ot the churches were well attended and brought Christmas cheer to rue litde folks of the different. denominations. Miss Butler and Miss Colston are spending their hondays at home, Gol- umbus, Uuio, and Zanesville, O., re- spectively, Mrs, Fu. Lacy, Mrs. Fred Wil- son and Miss Eva Taylor, of belpre; Ohio, were in the city Saturday. Rey. W. F. Jones is spending bis Christmas vacation with his parents in Ohio. Miss Minnte Justice, of Marlette, Ohio, was in the clty the gues. of Miss Martha Brown, ‘The most elaborate affair of the Christmas season was the luncheon given on Saturday by Miss Peyton, for her house guest, Miss M. Virginia Brown, of the Industrial Department, Storer College, Harper Ferry. The luncheon was served in courses and was very elaborate, ‘The appéint- ments were perfect. Miss Peyton has long been considered one of Pay- Kersburg’s most gtactous hostesses, and, witn the assistance of Mise Brown, who is quite charming, and Miss Mary Peyton, also of Storer, their friénds felt there was nothing more to be desired. Covers wete lald for the following ladies: *Mipa M. Virginia Brown, Mrs. ‘Thomas Fletcher, of Marietta, Ohio, and her house guest, Miss James of Charles- ton, Mrs, F. 0. Lacy, Mrs. Fred D. Wilson, Miss Eva Taylor, Belpre, Ohio, Mrs. J. R. Jefferson, Mrs, Wm. McClung. Mrs, Wm. Ferguyon, Mra. J. M. Carter, Mrs, . V. Seams, Mrs Carrie Jones, Mrs. J. W. dhelleraft Misses Grace Wells, Alberta Me- Clung. Mary Peyton and Blanch Hol- linger. ALAERSON. * Capt. Leonard Brown, Lieut. Ciar- ence Wilson and Angris Hopkins are home from Institute to spend thelr vacation. } The Christmas exercises of the Baptist church, Thursday evening, were excellent and was highly. en- joyed. @ Rey. Howard White of Ronceverte, preached two stirring sermons at the ME. church, Sunday. ae James HIN and Austin Crawford came home from Storer College to spend the holidays. Miss Ella Bolling, of Lewisburg, was the guest of Miss Alice Banks several days last week. , The M. E. church gave their Christ- nfas entertainment on Friday night. Arthur ‘Trice bas gone for 9 ,twr weeks’ irip through the Carolinas. Miss Cornelia Page was home to spend Christmas with her parent. " Jeseph Freeman {# on the sick int Sam Carter, who has been in Char- Jeston several months, retatned home last week Aiex Brown spent Christmas day with bis parents here. Ernest Banks was In our town sev: oral days last week, \ Jee Rertihied a few ‘Sea ftklied <a’ for friends SOR Prides: OUy SHAE Bharienton, was vis- ithng Ue, Salts, Smalls, Wm. Rwehee eye: Gebrac /Spdlery sense MeMMhtington ladt week, re. Bee Own was the Kuget of- has fan MMA Mro. Hinme ‘smith crs, at HbMtabe pricey. ne BOWE Y Pe viatttig his par- fonts: tn AR ° SARA Oa. Mrs. Albersiughter, left, Satin day, for a9 trip ty. Charleston anc Oincinnath: “hy. " The Indteguge ‘the M. B. churet had. an Jententatiiment xt tho tows halle TRigdage Mime, tho, Y9th. ‘Miss Resa Move, from the W. V CG. hy te Sig,the Christmas holi days’ with: Rargaprents. bere. Mra J ni.of Rarkeaville, at ter a wes Spoor Man Ww. Waters. med her home jest week." SHE inde, any warm friends by ,hewMerdeable. manner: while here. ase “ Mrs. M.-F, Stewart served toa tu honior’ of-Mrs, Jetferson, Wednesday Miss Jie ngs spending ~a ter ark ot ‘Christmas? holidays with Mrs, Allég Banks, of Alderson. Mrs. Charity, obingon. wad. in. Ron- coverte lest <veaky'to attetid the mar riage of Misg.tuaWipia Liggons to Mr. guises Joe She skys the wed- ding wads Og Gelightful aftatr. | Mrs. af Se is'Very Mm. Henty"Je (18 still quite’ sfok, and a nd! np vement. ey ‘Miss Mallt#/ Baynes, of Brushy Ridge, is Shak oa visit’ te “Mrs. Amanda sagheas. ' iy D. Beamsgitiho has een teach- ing. in Raleighcounty, is home with his family. ° 2" mE EN Miss Frances! Woodson, of our gra- ded schoo}, iawisjting Mrs. A. K. Danarliige, iaceverte. Richard °t who is teaching at Julls, is'dpen@ing the Christiias at home with ‘fa’ parents. « Miss Julla-Birks is 1M with con- sungtlofis sd : Rey.” Wateré!tongrogation . . pre- sented him-withi®20 for a Christmas present ‘Taat"’ lay. This 1s a no- ble tribute to @ worthy pastor.. His people désetve ;grpat ‘credit for thelr generous offering. Peyton Tawi: pre of our ‘old and most relfable oltizens, Is ‘quite 111. CARBON. Rev. P. P.-WoMand filled bis reku- Jar appolatment,at, Bancroft and was presented wit“ 'yery. fine overcdat by the inis#ionaty soclety and friends of the Mt, Hoon japtist: Church’ of that, place: ae J, L. Gréonigtt ‘Wednestay eve- ning to spend ‘tg, hbitdays with ‘felt tives aud frieiide lt’ Caperton. Robert aanesiyy FW. wililams, Mise 1. Ht Ashital ie ©. H- Garter, were shopping’ Bn; Charleston “Wee: hesday, th 284% iar Mts, AL SW. ABRESH: Ghote sc badly burned ‘is stBWly Improving. YH. 1.’ Roten ‘left Mhnréday evening Serena the holidays -wiph hie .par- ite at Fayetteville.” ‘The -Chrisjmas trée last “Thuraday was a. guegess. Byeryone recelved anice present. 1... wy Services’ were held .Uhathe, audi- torlum .of the new. pullding, Dec. 27; Preaching by “ReyePs(Rc Holland. ‘The Sunday Scligok has elected officers for the. enguipg. year... G. Agnew retéined higyal@ position. as Superintendent. . FAIRMONT. F. H,.,Jacksop spent Sunday In oxganjown, the, gles of Wis broth- er, who iaccapvaleaeia wy. ‘Mesgrs.. Ramin + an EGriseon, ot Claskabubadinare the, Sunday’ guests of Misses Dawson gpd, Martin: "Mrs, Sophia yilllams, of . Mor- ‘gantown, Is the guest.of Prof. B. 1. PArton 4nd wiles nigh ssi. (Mra. A. H. Williapie 9nd. children spent a short time dh oyr clty the guests of her sister, Mri, BL. Mor- ton, en route to Polat "Pleasant to spend the Yuletide with her parents. The Christmas: program rendered Christmas night “bythe Sunday schogg children of the.M, B. Chureh was a success and & very enjoyable affair. Bye a “iy, B. Martin, J,’ is Smproving slowly, #e é Mont. Harris wat ‘ageioly Jnjured in’ an explosion’ atyhis,,home at Shinnaton, and watt, Foindved to the City Hospital. "yy. poate Oe “Mrs. Alice Wasliiiitony” pt Mt. Lake, Is the guest, of hor danghter, ‘Mrs, Normal Jackso,) 20°, ° "Wri. Mays and wife, have’ roturnéd home after several ns ini Waoh- ington, Pa., where they had employ- ment. care gs ———- soc aOR. Mise, Lotta: sine ‘Tharsday ight tor Ibikine, (wh6fe ‘she. will be ‘the guest of, Mr. an®iire. Dat Hal). . Prof. H.~D. iplwoot, of Park- crabiirg, Is vieltinifatt, the home . of Mre and Mra. Jam He Davis. Daniel Hall andwateale top) Pew jeft. Tharsday (oe. pant sconter, Pa. wihere they will ayendy the. holtdaye with Mr Hels ae 7, A. Browns , how. fe at Gfearite, reuyrnaeg a7 “to tpend the holidays, with rel ee ‘Phe Ladies’ Ald’ held 4 ‘bnajnege mecting Saturday ovéring’ at the ‘Home of Mr. and Mts, 39s, Al Devise A play entitled “Laneolh’s ‘Procia- ruatfon” will be glxen’at the'A. M, i. church Tiestay evening, Jan: 7. The Ladign’ Ald aU # musicale Moriday ‘eveningéat tho Hote or Mr and. Mrs. Jas, Ay Davis, oF Henry Wilson, of Bégria MIiNIg, i the spleadant gacet: A, Brown ‘and atetar, °° haan p Mra, “Thornton! jj who as bean sick for a ldagntitde; so vory “aby teh te oe Aten tea Wel wl a! Saeki chee eee el at Sie Derg, where they will ba.thehaliaay mge’s of. her mother, M3 tle- Hattio maetin “la viettie © dn ee te ee < “ Pere ir wt ea fe ae Onn Ce | a soto at ane en ” WEVACO. Be Rey. W. W. ‘Scott, of Sharan, Wil de at his post here. ine parond Suh day both morning and plat aud usual large ‘ationitince ie AS to greet hith wit the ow. year. Mie. BG, Melxor whe’ satieuay to spend the’ hdlidaxa with! her sle- Lter, Mra."Annle, C. Hicks? ii Stone Cliff, and. her beice, Mrs. Bessie Nel- oom. Sticrpaeyiiie. satin eet fre. R. BD.‘ Alston ‘and “watiy sLe- aks re pany with, Maen BM. Dickeregn, wil return tomarkew at- ter spending ‘the holidays witn rela- tives near.Huntinton. ‘ HB. Roab, of Red Stax, was here , Wednesday the guest. of Miss B. M. | Dickerson an@ J. W. Howar’, Mr. and Mrs..J. A.. Tyree. are, the proud, ‘parents of a’ fine baby boy. , TT. Alston, of South Carbon, ‘was among the out of town people who ‘withesaed the rendering of the rogram at our, Christmas treo ina werondey chouing, ME,“ Alslan. wit the other visitors and parents were loud: in their words of praise, admit- ting that old Santa Claus bad dis anpointed South Carbon and other places.on the creek and had. made ‘Wevaco his headquarters. H. M. C. Reed was down from No. 4 Saturday on business, ‘ eS ‘THOMAS. ‘ .The Christmas. exerciaes-_ were highly interesting and O. R. Black, our teacher, and W. H. Botts, our Sunday school syperintendent, . de- serve much credit for the. manner. in which. the children recited . thelr pieces. 5 fe Among those who. devoured the Chrigtmas, turkey of. Mr. aid Mrs. James. Se Biles, were, Mg. abd Mrs. ‘A. Boyd, Mr. dnd, Mra. Win, F, ‘Tidmoson,.C.” R.\Black and. W.' J. ‘Thompson. " 2h ‘CO. B- ‘Malone and’ Oscar, Porter, ot Davis, avd James Washington, ot Pliny, wore: {n, town last. Sunday, Jas. Gillis. visiting bis mother {nl Manchestat..Ve- 5 = Milan’ Teabella Daugherty ts apetid- ing the holidays. with ‘relatives at Frostburg; Mad. Rey. J. H. Hampton, of Kentucky, who is spending tho winter with hi fon¢in-law, Dy., Miller. preached at the “Baptist, “ghurch’ last — Sundiy night,‘ gnd. jidetng from the many \indly sentiments expressed, he car be ‘justly glasied among those of ow white isrienee. who, are: deeply Ipter ghted ‘In the progress. of our people His sermon’ fas sBlenty, ‘Apprectatac and, it -te‘the’ hove of “all Rha Rev Hampton will Visit siegain. * e * WESTON. 7 eee ae ss Miss Mays, of “Grafton, ,apert: the grenter part of the, hglidayg. here with Rev. and Mrs. J.B Gratin, Norman and. Clark Ray and. Sifo- ‘son Grigaby, of Sutton, were, pleas- ay visitor. here, several. day’. Jest foo. Met Slee a t. dnd Mrp. Sain. Perkink Bntey- ijgea te dingey. of Gheistdiga ahs the colgred teacher of Ale, elly schools. “The. dinngy. wae 0 loving Sie fad beattOY enirég by the taimily aid guest. 0 ‘rhe entertajiinerit at’ the ‘church on Christmas night was well atthnid- ed ‘and heartily onloysd’ by alt: ‘The prinaipal: teityre of: the: evening wag the Chtlatmas.tree. which was .ajeely trhmimed: and: which’ contained many beatin cots preaeng Ail Sooty deted as Santa, Clade, ang ine sttlking resemblance. petwgen the mythical charagter. and: Cocll's mpke-up yas .very apparent... ‘The Iiterary: ngxt,.of the evening's ‘pro- gram also déseryes special, mention. gen aussber wae Wolk rendeyed, and enthusjastically applauded. Rov. and Mrs. J. 1, Griffith, ev. and Mrs. Jackson Lack and fivihge: Mat Mrs. R. M. White ‘were. énter- tained at sager Christmas day by Mra, Luther Brown. arl and Herbert Coston, of Clarkoburg, are. the. guests of ‘rela: tiver and friends, Toe | KANAWHA cry. J.-W.; Woods and son returned home Sunday. ‘Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Jopnson enter tained at dinner Xmas day, Mrg Slater, Mr. and Mra. W. H. Jackaon, of Charleston; J. W.eWoods, G. L Fackpon ‘apa Hine Ivory Was, Mr. ‘and. Mra. J. W. Page had a tliefr, guests during the ‘holidays’ Mrs Taylor. (Mr. and. Mrs. James Pago Mee. M. Martin, Mibs ©. B. Page, of Jderuon, C. A.’ Rage, of Mounds ville, Miss Ella Page, John, Eugene and’ Wille Page. “Ww. W. Lain returned home” laa! weok from. Winona. ‘i [T.R.'Nohhsot wad in Charleston fast MEO ae ee “Mts, Watadn, ‘ot Pomeroy, wad the dient St her daughter, Mra. F. 'D. Pago, last weok. OOD A Wes } ae A : PS iy Mh es Cok a 26 Ni, 36 caPITAL ST] ar SR cts Pandas I Beef, Meal;: Matfon,,..Pork, . Fresh Pork’ Sausage ° } : 2 © 00R “Own ‘mae: * Se a | Try, our onion ced | ‘Hams. and_ Bacon} Shirin OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY The ‘best. qualitiés in ‘all the popular c Kinds of. 0 _— ee cWe want your patronage for we have: “complete ‘stock: in our Jines arid. you: ooh get ite when yeu swantstanosts 3 S1 gp tae ex IL LEGE 5 : Sipe gah ; Harper's Ferry, * : “rs West'Va. ag Courses ey vycter Academic, Stato Normal, Biblical, Vocal | and." instrumental’ Music, Carpentry, Blacksmithing, ~-Practical Gardening ‘a0 Husbaiury, Cookery, Serving and Dressmaking. <n : : Equipment | .. Bat lem + -Ample-“Butidings, Béautitul Campus, 1'sboratéry, ‘To1ssgépe; Lt /braries of: dver 6900 volums, Comm ‘lone Born; Fisery, Hennery, Dalry, several acros ‘ot of gs dene, Cold Wremes aia Hot Beds, + Nee Fe ae * ie Sta MD es te te pees . Ir é Expenses cee ‘Books, Hoom Ront’and Tultion trée to West’ Mirgisians, Neo eutary’ Exponso not, over $0.50 per month (0 Biale studenta ‘ Soe . Seapeot er wc tyre, ees Iige . . ) Special Features + ~, Bight valuable sholarships did “sfx prixes . awarded annually. - Athletics, Band, Literary Socleties,: frequent Lécturés aid Ba ) tertajaments, Musital Olubs, Yo MCA. z Storer fs a Non-Sectartan, Chrigtiap’ Inatitutjan. 4.6. i! For Mlustrated Catalogue send to . ee a “HENY T. ‘McDONALD; Pies: ‘ oe * + ry sities dt ine sen ists sybsssetteatt. clad Peet “ ! * @p¥. GlasgcooK , GB. Robinéon; of ‘Dwerlin, 6} —— M. D. Houstoimn,: of Savannah, ¢ And Party Spend A Day Visidng. The | and Miss Bedéle;Landruin, “of Al , (Bluefield Colored Institute. ta. Ga. Pye . | Bigefield, Dec. 28.xThe school was Bleapantly suxprited on the morning ot i 2nd inst. by a visk trom, the Govinor elect. Hon. W.. EB, Glass- ck, Congressman Jas. A. Hughes, Dbldgate W, P. Hawley, Judge ‘thant Masard and Postmaster Hugh 1 si oft ‘After visiting the buildings and elhad: rooms, they expressed thom: selves as being very mitch pleased S4-woll>as-agroeably surprised with Lap eynditions they found, ‘and promitod thls hearty qupport. for ie" fiituire tmalitenance and wiipport Of theysehool. 4. cyolaerity 1 ‘the Napvernor-efect ‘and’ Congress min, Wi 108 agldresged the student Ampfessing, upon them the {mport: ance of mastering whatever they at- tempted and profittig by the ad- vantages over students of yoars ago. School ' tldsed Wednesday, the 284d, for the holidays, and with: the excoption, of about a dozen, , all, the gacects left in the afternoon -, to ena thir yacation at their respec- tive homes, or the homo of friends. The young ladies of the dormitory appeared in thelr streot uniform sults last -woek for.the first time and every one seomed pleasad with the appgarance they made. ‘The unt form considis.of a navy blue serge olon jacket sult with Tam O'Shanter cap to match... Thedjachoor walform fs of ght blue chambray mado. into [abirt waty .aults. ‘The latter thoy ‘\dve, worn. during the fall term, and ada a reat Ago the apogsrancy of the student body. ‘Among’ the tenchers who remained here during the vacation are Miss G. B.. Robinéon;' of Dverlin, 6.5 Mins M. D. Houstoiin, of «Savannah, Ga.; ‘and Miss Bedsle,Landruim, ‘of Atlag- ta, Ga. Cae fore | Mis D. '8.: Ohadwiek - is, enjoying a visit. Jn Viréinia, for the holidays, Prof. J. Dy Goleman. ts, spending the vacation * with, -nis family in Hunikington. We iden ag Prof. 8. L. Wade ‘spent ‘Tuesday at.Maybeury. e Mjsis M.S, Brady went to Kimball Tuesday for, a, few, days’ -viait with Mise Helen Johnson. Mra. 8. J..Sima expects to apond a few. days of, this week in Huntington visiting friends... pealilan aia IPRMS FROMTHE ORPHAN'S -. HOME. The ¥.M, C» A>here is making rapid progress. _« ‘i Miss Lucy’ H. Ware,. our matron, mado a bustnesy. trip: to Huntington tes GOK. eae’, gai 4 . lobert Poindexter “lott “for his nome fi vel i ii : Migs “tda., Alea Dr os thg’ Bahan ‘Hom Hal, ang Mine Clara Stewart,, ite Toft tor Pt, Pleasant and Say js to apend the heidaybglast Thitiiay. Y | Tandy" Brown has fetuined to hile ‘hore In, Parkersbyte. -. Qiiite a _nainder of valuable’things came Into make our children fpol that Xmas was here. Our. Méerary Hoslety Is. making great strides Intellccvally aud spir- {tually, We render a program ev. very Friday evening: ... Ming Minpje Sewis dled Saturday aiorathe st hee none ait Went fide, ‘The funeral sertices wore held Mon- tay aftornoon‘at the ‘house. Canadian Game Back Gamely But He Never Had A Chance and Johnson Was Declared The First Negro Heavy-Weight Champion Boxer, of the World. After the Police Interfered in the 14th Round, to Save Bums From Further Punishment, Wild, Clears Great the Black Man is He Carrled to His Quarters on the Shoulders of His Seconds. BLUEFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE A College and Normal Institute for colored students, located at Bluefield, the leading commercial town of the southern part of West Virginia on the Norfolk and Western railroad,205 miles east of Kenova BLUFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE plendid College Buildings, Beautiful Play Grounds, Dormitories for male and female students; furnished rooms, a reading room supplied with the best current literature; a good library, and a physical and chemical laboratory. Healthful location and wholesome surroundings. Board $8.00 per month. Tuition free to state students, rates very low to non-resident students. The Bluefield School offers an unequaled opportunity for young men to secure an education, for they can always find profitable employment when at school, during vacation, holidays and on Saturdays. For catalogue and other information, write the Principal. Sydney, N. S. W., Dec. 26. Jack Johnson, the colored, heavyweight, today gained the title to the world's championship by beating Tommy Burns in 14 furious rounds. The champion was outclassed from the start. The challenger carried such a spirited fusillade to his opponent's body and head that he soon had Burns in a sorry plight. The Canadian stood up under the most vicious kind of punishment for 13 rounds. He came out for the 14th game as ever, but the police, realizing that he was a beaten man, mercifully ordered the referee to stop the contest. Hugh D. McIntosh, who promoted the battle, unwillingly obeyed the mandate of the law and awarded the decision to Johnson. While Burns was not knocked out, Johnson will be technically credited with such a victory. Burns could not have possiblyasted 20 scheduled rounds. Perhaps never before in the history of pugilism was such an ovation tendered a new born champion as that afforded the giant Negro when the monster crowd realized that he had been declared the victor. The countless thousands packed around the ring and circus seated stadium realized fully that they had witnessed the most novel, if not the greatest feat in the history of the roped arena. They had seen a colored man win the championship of the world, a feat never before accomplished. They had seen the trick turned in such fashion as left no room for doubt that the better man won. And they were just as lavish in their applause for the swartty champion as they had been loyal to the former title Hotel Brown American and European. A Popular Hotel for Colored People, 35 Rooms, 50c, 75c, and $1 per day. Lodging, 35c and 50c. Special Rates by Week or Month. We cater to Weddings, Supplies and Society Functions. One Block, from State Capitol, New Phone 1098 500 Capitol St F. C. BROWN, Prop. BLUEFIEL holder of whiter . . . skin. Cheer, after cheer rent the pavilion as Johnson was borne triumphantly on the shoulders of his seconds to the dressing room. Thousands crowded around to try to grasp the big black hand of the new ring hero. And all the while Tommy Burns, the beaten idol of the Antipodes, sobbed in his corner like a disappointed child. He had not yet fully realized that his renown had vanished before the prowess of the black demon who had worn him down and beaten him into submission. Even the lion's share of the purse, of which he made much before attempting conclusions with the husky black, was scant balm for the wounds of an opponent's triumph. A Bitter Struggle It was one of the bitterest struggles that has ever been seen in Australia—perhaps, indeed, the world. Such bitterness had been engendered in the hearts of the antagonists toward each other prior to their meeting in the ring, that each was out to win in the most decisive and speedy fashion. Johnson was favorably looked upon by many because of his exceptional cleverness and g reader weight, but Burns was the public choice and, Australians backed him eagerly at odds of 5 to 4. The feeling toward Johnson was expressed most keenly by the visitors. Sydney was enamored of Burns. Outsiders made the speculations lively and forced the odds almost to even when the men clambered through the ropes. Both men appeared in the pink-ef condition. Johuson had many pounds the advantage in weight, it was apparent, but if so he had not lioned on the champion in the matter of condition. Each appeared almost perfect specimens of physical strength. Burns seemed a trifle pale in comparison to his swarthy skinned rival, but he was self confidence personified. Each gave out just before, pulling on the gloves that he felt fit and would have no excuses to offer in case of defeat. Burns Never Had A Chance.* Johnson won the battle from the opening gun. In the very first round he almost put Burns away. Burns had planned to carry the fight to the Negro from the drop of the hat and rushed at him with the fury of a madman as the goog clanged. But he had calculated wrong. Johnson was on the alert for just such a rush, and calmly sidestepping the clawhunt, he shot a wicked right uppercat that landed flush on the jaw. The champion dropped backward full length on the canvas. The referee began to count, but Burns was still far from the finish. He came back slowly after the count of eight, not BLUFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE Bluefield, W. Va. and Normal Inst tions, located at mercial town of Virginia on the road, 205 miles e BLUFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE Gege Buildings, Mitories students; furnished rooms, a readi- current literature; a good library, an- ory. and wholesome surroundings. Boo- to state students, rates very low to school offers an unequalled opportuni- cation, for they can always find profi- during vacation, holidays and on Sat- and other information, write the Print R. P. SIM Bluelield W. Va. apparently much the worse for wear again he crushed and again shot first with the crushing right, which landed on his head. The champion reeled and staggered backward, but before Johnson could press the advantage Burns had again collected his jolted wits. He rushed the third time and landed on the giant Negro for the first time. It was a hard right to the chin that shook Johnson to the ground. They boxed a while and the champion showed some very clever blocking, though Johnson shot in a left at the bell. Everybody who had backed Burns' chances tried to hedge after the first round had ended. Johnson had all the better of that opening session and Burns even this early seemed boaten. The ease with which Johnson had smothered Burns's 'rushes and with which the big Negro connected with vital spots on the anatomy of his antagonist dispelled the charms of the Canadian. Johnson had a wicked leer on his face all the while and taunted his rival to "come right along." But if Burns was roughly handled in the opening session it but foretold the rough usage yet to come. In the second period Johnson kept up his aggressive policy. Never once did he give ground before the rushes of his thickest adversary. Left and rights he planted to Burns's face and body and when the Canadian staggered to his corner he was bleeding freely from the mouth. His left eye was fast swelling. He had gone down for the second time before a heavy right early in the second round. It was partly a slip, however though he seemed in no hurry to get up. The Canadian never once stopped, however. He kept tearing away at Johnson's shift, black body and the giant Negro's skill alone preserved him from some deadly welts offered at his person. Johnson Always Leading. Johnson Always Leading... The early rounds were much of the same order. Johnson led at all times. If he is not possessed of a stout heart he covered his fear well. He was confident from the very first time he saw his rival stretched or the canvas. Probably it was this circumstance that lent such cleverness and agility to his attack and defense. On the other hand, the early pummeling seemed to have taken much of the energy out of the champion. He did not lack in heart or courage, but Burns never fully recovered that first damaging blow. The rest was easy for the big colored bruiser. His own strength was unshaken. He was able to guard himself well from the repeated attacks of Burns and at the same time administer additional grueling punishment to the champion. The gunge had been decided on the first cast. Half the battle had been won in the first punch. It was a question of keeping out of danger while he wore down his adversary. Burns in his desperate rushes sapped his own strength as did the blows of his adversary. Often he would come to close quarters with Johnson, but only to receive additional punishment. The Negro covered and protected himself well at close quarters, all the while hammering away at Burns's kidney in a manner that boded ill. Champ Made A Game Fight. Few believed that Burns could long survive the first round. But he came back after the third and all most held his own till the seventh INSTITUTE Va. institute for col- Bluefield, the the southern Norfolk and east of Kenova Beautiful Play ing room sup- and a physical ward $8.00 per o non-resident ly for young table employ- urdays. pecial. --- Johnson appeared to be resting, up of the truth, and let his adversary waste himself on wild rushes and swings as wild. Each fighter now seemed to be calling all his ring generalship into account. There was a great deal of "kidding" "indulged in. Johnson's appeared more from the source of confidence, that of Burns from sheer desperation, in the sixth round Jack Johnson assumed a bantering tone. When ever Burns would land the big Negro would turn to his corner and wink. Several times the laughed outright in the face of his adversary and advised him to "get a hammer." Burns in these brief sounds was landing almost as often as was Johnson. But every blow of the Negro was clean-cut and made the champion wince. Burns seemed to have little steam behind his punches. He landed many times on vital shots, but it only served to make the black man shake his head in mirth. In the first six rounds Johnson had been apparently satisfied to take things, as they came. He had let Burns set the pace, as it were, though the Texan never once qualified nor gave an inch of ground. But on the whole his attitude seemed one more of defense than offense. Burns of course, had been forced to carry a bold attack to his ebony rival in the hope of evening the first fatal advantage. But after six rounds had found, Burns puffed at every angle the black came out of his shell. Apparently satisfied that he had robbed Tommy of his sting. Johnson began to carry the battle to the ene ny's territory. In the seventh round Johnson dropped Burns for the third time with a crushing right to the body. The Negro from the beginning of this session seemed to have let himself out a kink. He hit Burns almost it will, and had both eyes almost swollen shut. The champion's lips were swollen, and against these sore spots Johnson directed a fullside of blows. In courage only was Burns a match for the new champion. He now saw the title slipping from his groop but only bored in the harder in the faint hope of turning the tide of victory. Negro Tainted Opponent. After this round, in which he had all the advantage, Johnson once more assumed an indifferent attitude He seemed to be wreaking double vengeance upon the man whom he had followed across the world to meet. The hubiliation to which Johnson had to submit in the matter of division of the purse was forgotten in the light of sure victory. Johnson stopped fighting to torment his man. Every blow of Burns was met with a leer. The black urged the white to stand up and refused to return his leads. He deliberately took some of Burns's best meant blows just to show the public that Tommy had shot his holt. And Burns perhaps, for the first time realized that he was in for defeat. From the eighth to the eleventh round there was very little fighting. The gladiators continued to hurl unpleasant epiphites at each other. In the twelfth round Johnson shook out a few wraps and went after Burns once more with grim determination. He landed almost at will and had his man very much upset generally when the twelfth round ended. Burns was almost out again in the thirteenth round. Johnson went after him unmercifully and simply peppered his swoller eyes and bleeding mouth with lefts and rights. Then he stood back, measured his man and waded in with a crushing right over the heart. Burns toppled but the gong saved him. At this stage of the proceedings the police got busy. They held a consultation about the unequal affair Referee McIntosh interviewed Burns during the wait, but the champion declared he was still strong and eager. He implored the police not to interfere. In the fourteenth round, however, the police mercifully came to the assistance of the battered champion and saved him the humiliation of a knockout. Burns, was now absolutely powerless. He was almost blinded and his left ankle injured in the round had completely gone back on him. Johnson gloating in the prospect of a knockout, rushed on his hated rival with the fury of a demon. He smashed Burns once more with the cruel right, a blow that could be heard in the most remote corner of the pavilion. It put Tommy down for the last time though he gamely got to his feet at the count of eight. Here the police called upon the referee to halt further proceedings. Men in the Ring. At 10:42 Johnson entered the arena, accompanied by his seconds Sam Fitzpatrick, Mullins, Unholz, Lang and Bryant. Wild cheers greeted him and the big black man turned and bowed to all four sides of the ring. Just as Johnson took his seat Burns appeared. He was smiling and the plaudits of the spectators were even more enthusiastic than those accorded Johnson. Burns took up his position in the western corner of the ring, surrounded by his seconds, Keating, O'Keefe, O'Donnell, Burke and Russell. When the cheering had died down somewhat Johnson crossed over and shook Burns by the hand. The Canadian glanced at the big naufeys and noticed that both were covered with bandages. Fearful that they might not be of the soft surgical kind, he scrutinized them closely, but finding them to his satisfaction he made no objection. The announcement was made that if during the contest the police should interfere and stop it the referee would immediately give the decision on points. When Burns stripped it was noticed that he wore elastic bandages about his elbows. Johnson shouted across the ring half angrily; "You must take them off." Then the men met in the center of the ring and for a few minutes argued the question. Then they returned again to their corners, but Burns did not remove the bandages. From Johnson's seconds came the announcement that their man, refused to fight unless Burns took off the wraps around his elbows, and it looked as though there was a possibility of the fight not taking place, for Burns was stubborn and Johnson insistent. The referee, however, here took a hand in the controversy and said that the wearing of bandages was not against the rules. Johnson still demurred, nevertheless, and Burns, with a show of impatience, had his seconds unwind the tape. His action brought a tremendous round of applause. At 11:15 o'clock Johnson and Burns posed for a moving picture machine, and having received final instructions from Referee Meltnosh retired to their corners. Then the battle began. James H. Jackson, president of the Get Wise Club, entertained the following guests at Jackson Hotel, Saturday: Benjamin and David Deans, James Wade, Dephor Wilson, Novel Wiggins, John H. Hardy, Vassar Nelson, Robert Lee, Floyd Waddy, and Arthur Neel. Dinner was served at a late hour and music and games were the main features of the evening. The Banquet given by Beacon Lodge Friday evening was well attended. On Monday night, Dec. 21st, the Wining, Workers' club celebrated their pastor's birthday anniversary at his home on College street with a surprise party. The party led by the president of the club entered the home of Rev. and Mrs. Brown at 8:30 o'clock and after an hour of pleasant chat, the object of the gathering was stated and Mrs. V. M. Willis, in behalf of the club, presented Rev. Brown a handsome brusse carjet, a ham and a pair of shoes. Since Rev. Brown's stay in this place the Willing o'Wrers' club has faithfully done what it could in the way of encouraging him. Those present on the night of the surprise were! Mrs. Robert Watson, Mrs. Silas Marks, Mrs. O. T. Wikerson, Mrs. Ruth Henderson, Mrs. Sallie Scott, Mrs. Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Jane Brown, Mrs. Lagra Brown, Mrs. P. Washington, Mrs. 'Cornelia' Washington, Mrs. Josephine Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Willis, Mrs. Lousa Johnson, Mrs. Josephine Johnson, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Branham, Mr., Thomas, Johnson, W. H. Koester, general manager of the Ellis Dry Goods Store, also contributed the sum of $2.50. After the presentation and the response by Rev. Brown, the guests were served to fruit, ice cream and cake. BARBOURSVILLE. Mr. and Mrs. George Brillis, of Ashland, Ky., are the guests of Mrs. Frances Peyton this week. Miss Louise Smootz, of Guyandotte, spent Saturday and Sunday at Barboursville as the guest of Misses Allie and Hattie Hicks. Mrs. H. Johnson and sister, Mrs. Sarah Massy, are visiting their mother, Mrs. Frances Peyton. Luke Hicks was in San Francisco. Luke Hicks was in town Saturday. Scott Hill and Richard Kilgore were in the city last week. John Scott, of Kanawaha Falls, is spending the holidays with friends here. Bianche Beckley and brother, Calvin, of Holden, are visiting friends here this week. The pulpit committee of the First Bptist church gave a supper Saturday, night, and quite a neat sum was realized. A Great Triumvrate,—Roosevelt, Root, Tate. We see Mr. Root helping President Roosevelt settle the anthracite coal strike, one of Mr. Roosevelt's greatest unofficial achievements. We see him virtually managing the State Department during the absence of Mr. Hay, and this at the time when the Boxer War in China was hourly producing the most delicate and difficult of diplomatic and military questions. We see him, a little later,—yielding to the persuasion of his old friend, Mr. Roosevelt,—leaving his law once in New York, sacrificing a princely income, and returning to the Government grind as Secretary of State. For years he has been the guide, the philosopher, the mentor of the energetic young president. Mr. Rosevelt has done almost nothing of importance without first consulting Root; if not Root, then Taft, and preferably both together it is not unfair to say that these three men have run the Government. Never were three men better adapted to team work found working hand in hand.—Roosevelt, the patriotic, progressive, energetic reformer and statesman, the popular hero, the leader of public opinion; Root, the analyst, with his long look ahead, his comprehensive grasp, his almost infinite knowledge of Government affairs; Taft, with his great wholesome common sense, his sympathy with the people, his trained perceptions, his knowledge of actual administration work. Root and Taft have been by Mr. Rosevelt's side in all his progress sive measures, they counselled him almost "ROOM" in his campaign for corporate control and the enactment of the Railway Rate Bill. It was long ago written in the book of fate, wherein there are chapters devoted to appreciation, to friendship, and to gratitude, that when he left the Franklinental chair Mr. Roosevelt would try to put one or the other of his friends in his place. It did not matter much from his viewpoint, or the public's, which of them was chosen—From "Elite Root: World Statesman," by Walter Wellman, in the American Review of Reviews for January. RONCEVERTE. Rev. Beck's has gone to Lexington, Va., to spend the holidays with his family. Miss Lena Hopkins made a flying trip to Alderson last week. Gus Cuzzens, of Charleston was here for the holidays. Lynn Brown, of Institute, was visiting his brother Brown this week. Rev. Robinson preached two sermons at the Baptist Church last Sunday. Mrs. Nora Slaughter, who has been sick for sometime is improving. Miss Frances, Woodson, of Lewisburg, was here Monday, the guest of Mrs. America Dandridge. Rev. White was called to Alderson to preach last Sunday. D. W. Callaway, of Thayer is spending the holidays with his family. Prof. Edmonds is visiting friends and relatives in Virginia. Chas. Perkine, who was called to Virginia on account of the illness of his mother is home, again. Mrs. Julia Jackson is indisposed. Nathan Wilson, of Hillsboro, visited Mrs. Mary Brown, last Sunday. ed Mrs. Mary Brown, last Sunday. Jno. Eggleton, was a guest of Miss Salle Cuzzens, of Ronceverte Sunday. Chas. Turner is spending this week here with his family. Miss Eveline Slaughter spent Xmas at Lewisburg, the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Martha Slaughter. The Primary Plan. (From Wheeling Intelligencer.) Discussion of the proposed state primary law ranges all the way from open opposition to any primary measure voiced by the Bluefield Telegraph to ardent advocacy of a thorough going state-wide primary, by such papers as the Morgantown Chronicle and Fairmont West Virginian. In all the discussion so far, the Intelligencer has yet to see a satisfactory argument in favor of a more extended primary system than it has heretofore suggested, namely, magisterial district primaries for the selection of all delegates to all conventions. The object of a primary is to ascertain the will of the votes, under the most favorable conditions. The state wide primary would be the ideal method of deciding an issue between two candidates who were evenly matched and had equal power and opportunity to develop local organizations. In the very nature of things, however, this cannot be when we have many candidates for many different offices, and few of them have the means or the time to visit each county and perfect an organization therein. The Intelligence has not so far lost its confidence in the fairness and honesty of individual men, that it fears that any great harm will come to the party or the state from conventions made up of delegates who have been honestly and fairly chosen by their friends and neighbors in their own magisterial districts. The abuses of which we have had cause to complain in West Virginia have not arisen from delegates chosen in this way. They have arisen from packed mass conventions, from the delegation or assumption of power by individuals and from high-handed outrages perpetrated by the state and local committees. The primary law should require all primaries to be held on or about the same day; and the primary should have all the sanctity and protection that pertain to an election. Primaries so conducted will insure harmonious party action, insure a high grade of candidates for office, and will be free from some very objectionable features that are certain to attend state wide primaries. For Eozena, Tetter and Salt Rheum. The 'Intense itching characteristic or these ailments is almost instantly allied by Chamberlain's Salve. Many cases have been cured by it. For sale have a Aotterfield, corner Capitol and Virginia streets, and Ideal Pharmacy, No. 224 Charleston street. Christmas & New Year For the Holidays, Excursion Tickets will be sold at One and One-Half Fare on the round trip between ALL STATIONS on the OHIA CENTRAL LINES, and to stations on connecting lines within the territory of the Central Passenger Association. Tickets will be on sale December 24, good returning until December 28, be sold December 21 and January 1, good returning until January 4. No excursion rate 10, than 25 cents. THE NEWS STATE HIGHWAY IN BRIEF Hon. L. J. Williams, of Greenwich county, who tomorrow will become judge of the West Virginia supreme court of appeals, stopped in Greenleston, Thursday, to see his bride, State Highway Inspector Howard Williams, on his way home to Lexington, from the meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association held in Huntington. Judge Williams, will manage the Charleston for the beginning of the January term of court on January 5th. He will succeed Judge H. McWhorter on the bench at time. Some Inheritance Taxes. The State Tax Commissioner's office had a splendid day's work. Wednesday, when inheritance taxes to the amount of $2,747.96 were received from two estates. One of the estates from the city of Parkersburg contributed $2,044.44 of the amount. The Charters Granted. Three charters have been issued at the office of the Secretary of State as follows: The Grand Lodge of Ancient Order of United Workmen of West Virginia, was granted a charter. The principal office will be at Wheeling. The charter was taken out by H. C. Owen, Past Grand Master Workman, of Parkersburg; C. F. E. A. Fisher, Grand Master Workman, of Huntington; L. S. Wigal, Grand Recorder, of Wheeling; W. H. Higgins, Grand Receiver, of Wheeling; and C. P. Brandfass, chairman of the committee on finance, also of Wheeling. The Tropical Products Company of Washington, was granted a charter to cultivate and produce vegetable products. The capital stock is $200,000, of which $1,000 has been subscribed and $100 paid. The incorporators are H. C. Finkelstelb, B. B. Wilson, H. B. Byrd, Jr., Karl P. McElroy and Alfred M. Hughton, all of Washington. The Sallineville Fuel Company, of Pittsburg, with chief works in several states, was chartered to prospect and drill for oil and gas, with a capital stock of $25,000 of which $50 has been subscribed and $50 paid. The incorporators are Hugh L. Connelly, George P. Luther, Richard McCormick and Wm. McLuckle, all of Pittsburg. H. C. Dunean, an attorney of Hunt- ington, of the drm of Holt & Dune- can., was a caller at the attorney general's office, Thursday, on busi- ness. THE WEST VIRGINIA PLUM TREE HAS GOOD FRUIT The Fairmont West Virginian has made up a list of the appointments that are made by the governor of West Virginia. The list is a more imposing one than might be suspected. It follows: Nine members of the State Board of Health. Nine Directors of the Hospital for the Insane at Weston. Nine directors for the second Hospital for the Insane at Spencer. State Librarian. Fish and Game Warden. State Historian and Archivist. Chief of Department of Mines. State Inspector of Highways. Five Directors of the State Pentitlary. ALABAMA JOINS LENGTHENING DRY COLUMN TONIGHT Mobile, Ala., Dec. 31.—At twelve o'clock tonight the saloons of Alabama will be placed under the ban, as after that hour, following the success of the prohibition wave in the state, it will be against the law to sell spiritous liquors within the confines of the commonwealth. Ex-Congressman J. H. Huling has returned home from Philadelphia, where he spent several days, on a business mission. ee sa ea roe rir PH RDAY Pps ee ie > nghllaat OAT ‘PUBLISHINGCO.. oe sian Building, Cnarleston, Bg Ws We, . “a Pipne 923. ig ie if entered to, te Batcutloe ot charleston, W. Ve. as Hesoud tinak! matter, ie > BUBRORIPTION RATES: _ MMDBUNE seseeeee sees $0.50 yr DIOBEAS yee eceeeess LO Whe Vet ieecccecee cece ENO 7). »hOMMBER 81, 1008. A PRAYER ROR THE NEW i YEAR. {i Almighty God, the’ unfailing wooutce of Ight and mercy, who hast brought. us to the begin- ining of this year, gnd art spar- “4ng us to love Thee and to keep “Phy commandments, prepare we, we beseech Thee, for the coming. days. Let Thy grace enlighten our darkness and atrengthen our weakness. Help us to forget the sins and sor- yows of the past, cherishing ‘only the wisdom and the hu- imility they may Nave taught us. Inspire us with new pur poses and new hopes. Deepen within our hearts the love of truth and goodness. Renew in us the life of that which Alone makes life worth living. Enable ,us to discern the sol- emn meaning of these earthly dass, and the high and sacred purpese for which they are Kiv- én. Suffer us not to be —un- faitnfiil to ‘Thee, Thou hast richly blest us hitherto; still “yead wa by ‘Thy hand; still ad- monish and guide us by Thy spirit and leave us not to our- selves. ‘Thou Good Shepherd “of the sheep, let not the sor- “row and weariness of life rob us-of our faith in Thee, What- ever Hight may shine or shadow fall, keep us in the fellowshlp vand in the service of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. THE SALOON MUST GO. ‘In order to forestall any. drastic legislation by the Legislature, the ‘Model License League of West Vir winin makes certain suggestions, which If enacted into law, would greatly improve conditons in those feountics where whiskey is yet sold ‘and, probably, postpone state-wide prohibition which is ominously ap- _Rroaching. TTt is not to be understood, how- ever, that the Model Ijieense League ig actuated solely by a desire to im- prove conditions, in any community, but rather, that it is attempting to jsave the sinking ship. With over "sixty counties In Ohio dry, only five in Kentucky wholly wet, more than vhalf of our fifty-four under the lid, jand both parties pledged to reform the Hquor business, the outlook is far from favorable to its long con- *tinuance in this state. {There is no question of the abol- Henment of the saloon fYom the en- tire state, if constitutional amend- ment is submitted. A locai option Naw would bring about the same re- fult, Both these the liquor forces fear, and one or the other the people will have or know the reason why. }Hence, the activity of the License ‘league's desire “to further regulate the sale of spiritous, vinous and malt liquors.” 4. NO extended discussion of the ar- uments advanced by either the pro- hibitionists or the liquor interests Jenould he necessary to convince the “Negro that his duty is to support ithe former. The saloon, our great: feet obstacle to progress, must go that’ pur excessively high rate of “erime may be lowered. ‘The saloon ‘must Ko that there may be fewer {places for the congregation of the {Notoriously idle, vicious element EMhich makes it its headquarters [Phe saloon must go that the money 4 ROW passing over its bar may go to {ward the acquirement of property {he purchase of home comforts any | the raising of our religions and edit ] cational standards, * THE PRIMARY LAW. ‘The demand is becoming ko wile: pred and 0 insistent that iv ts Muara to see how the lemislature ean avald passing a primary law Tt will be recalled that a measure Of this nature was np for consider ation at the Inst cegular* session Fond falled of pasnage only after its opponents had dragged forth “Ne AFo domination” ax a bugaboo te filghten the more timid of its wt herents. The Advocate, at the tims deplored the death of the bill. snd predicted tho coming of the — fmy “when there would be gencral regre that our lawmakers wore not bron enough to pass the law simply be Noause it, tended to curtail the abuse: “oF a tow country bosses ‘The law provided that the nomi “pation of all candidates for offic gaHould be madd by. primary election Meld throughout the state on th SRR ene ‘deme "te GUNMA Uttrerent’ ballot boxes, Li ffeet! every voter woul nae aal ts Sanur say Who the stondard Learére, af bis party should be at each, gngral clection, The plactugiof,euch powers in. the hands of theseommon voters was vot at all té'the Wing of some of th bosses froin the-lower end of the state, ‘They shad waxed fat through (heir abllity to” pack conventions, ame candidates. and. railroad reso- lutigns and pretended to fear the Negroes of their counties would usurp all the, powers of government, if « primaxytaw were passed. We have not yet had time to forget what happened because of their self- ishness, and we would be foolish, if We did not profit by that experience. ‘The trend of the times Is toward the overthrow of the boss and the rule of the people. The members of the legislature, being .the represen- tatives of the people, will doubtless enact a law making the people's sovereignty Something more than the faree it now is. PAYING THR FinpLrn. Mae We eympatnize with Mr. Gompers. Mr. Mitehell and Mr. Mor. rlson, who were recently sentenced to one year, mine months and onc month, respectively, for contempt of court, it is not clear that any other course was open: to Justice Wright Whose duty is to uphold the law. ‘The court had issued an injund- tion restrainipg these labor leaders from the action which they after-- ward took. There was no question Of righteness or wrongness of the court, for appeal could have been made to a higher court; neither was there ignorance on thelr part of the ceurt’s injunction for they had pre- ‘ously threatened to follow, their own bent, regardless of what the court's decision might be. Here tt was that these gentlemen made’ the mistake. The stability of all gov- ernments depends upon, the observ- ance of law by the rich and the poor, capital and labor. — Redress can not be had by, disobedience be- cause one thinks the Jaw bad, and a general disregard of or contempt for Jaw would eventually lead to an- archy, It is not for a citizen, be his station what it may, be he a mem- ber of a trade union or a trust, to take the law into his own hands, and to. say | whether a decl- sion of a court is right or wrong, ‘These gentlemen deliberately took a chance and lost." They set, thetx judgment up against conatitutéd authority and are only paying thé penalty of their rashness. If they were not so prominent very much less would have been said about the sentence, but their very prominence showld have “agted “as a deterrent and the same fustice should be met- ed to them as-to others who set the Jaw at defance. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY. ‘The bloodless deposition of Castro in Venezuela, the ready acceptance of @ change of administration in Haiti, and the quietness which has prevailed for gome months in other sections of the revolutignary hot bed give rixe to the hope that the Latin- Americans may Yet be brought to a realization of the advantages to be derived from fewer polittenl upheav- als, and consent to conduct their governments in the manner of their less volatile neighbors, ‘The outcome Of Haiti‘s revolution is especially pleasing to their breth- ren in America, who heard with alarm the threat of the Washington government to assume a protecto- rate over the Black Republic to safeguard its own interests. ‘The sucevss of Simon, followed by the fight of Alexis, gaye to the Negro race another opportunity to demon- strate its fitness for self-government, and we shall wateh his future course with no less solleitude for his government's sucess than the anti- Cipation expressed by its enemies for its failures. * JOHNSON. THR CHAMPION. While Jack Johnson may not he engaged in the vocation, profession, calling. or whatever is the proper term to apply to one who knows when and how to and the solar plexus or the upper eut, that one would recommend to the youngster who aspires to write his name in en- during brass, it is none the less gratifying to know that Johnson is the best in his elas. When one considers his. tenacity of purpose, his weceptance of the mos! fnmniliating terms, and patience under very trying cireum- stanres, hie Christmas day. trinmph is ail the more magnificent. He pknew what he wanted, and no obsta- ee was to high, no opposition too strong to bar him from fis. heart's desire. “Trne, hig ambition was not that of the mollyeoddie nor ean it be termed anything other than bfltal, jbat if one must be brutal why not | sie beat ‘brute tn: the: bunch? em HAND OF BOOKER T. WASH- INGTON. Maybe yony unele Booker — T. Washington didn't amile on the morning after the election. He e60iNe (obo. dueper’ “ta 4G! IEA oe NO Ae Ses ty eRe) WR: AR Bris) CCR m : ee emcees Sees BRB arcs, Pe OE Ae emia Vet cera eo PEA Gat a aed) ENR RNC (or Seen eben nenesoere rei EMRE eR Ti Riad es Ato RII ee Ne as ? La hit Sales ORBEROR AS iach ote piecing ~ home Alearage evlored Dich” TNS’ SOVERYMOTE ROPY Ie, Rnd we hope Wit! continue the, good work under the few administration. Odd Fellow's. Journal.’ ote Johnsons the new champion heavy wekeht will hold the title but a very aM wy, Having won tt from a cOUMMeRetG: RigviIn not: lest Tong.—Charléaton, Mall. ut Ah, well! OPA lntter to “Raye won and Idat than. never to have won at all, for a neverwaa Is not eeu high toa hai-beeke4 7" ARENT Ke Te } An exchange wants to know Hea man can» marry on an income ot} $6.00, a week, Surg; but he may ex: herlence some diftteulty in> keeping his wife. . | masters acid To ww without ‘single champion in the realm of uth: etics, Dut thanks to Jack Jobnson, we are agai jn the ring, ‘The Advocate wishes its readers » very prosperous and bappy New. Year. . This is the time a dollar looks as big as a merry widow hat. | NOTES OF RACIAL PROGRESS, : —— ‘i Aw Reported By The National Negro Basiness League. A now colored’ drug store was overed In Chicago, November 1st, with Messrs. Miler and Jenkins as proprietors, | It ts stated that the Négro:people have 30,000.teachers, 16,000 preach- Jers, 1,700 physicians, 1,000 lawyera and 400 journalists and Mterary men. | ‘The state of Tennessee has grant- od 9 charter to the Pythiam-bénk- end Trust ‘Company, of Shelby County, The capital stock is $25,000 and the Headquarters will be in Memphis. What is said to be the finest Negro offtée building in the United States| {s located in the heart of Philadel- phia, end is dwnea by the Grand Vnkted Order of Odd Fellows. It was built and furnished at a cost of $135,000. Miss Eva Ross’ of Washington, D. ., has“opened a drug store in that city; is thoroughly complete and up- to-date.in every apyoifitment.’ Miss Ross was formerly a kindergarten teacher, but gave up the work to| enter this business, Wichita, Kansas, has a large, col- orett population, which is prosperous and well satisfied. Many are engag- ed in atfferent kinds of business pur- sults, while most of them own their homés, which in ntany. Instances, are quite beautiful, Hard times is seemingly an um known quantity to the average Ne- sro farmer of Texas; for according to the ‘Texas Freeman, a large num- ber of them came into Hughestofl lagt week with many bales of cotton and large quantities of country pro- duce, such as dressed hogs, wees potatoes, butter, chickens, eggs, @fé: Allensworth, California, is a new Negro town already surveyed. It is how: being populated and built up by a Negro company in honor of whose president, Col. Allensworth, the town is named. The site of the new town is on the main line of the Sante Fe Railrcad and seven ‘niles west of the Southern Pacific at a point half-way hotween Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco, and in-ono of the most. tertile | parts of the San Joaquin. Valley. WIRELESS STATION FOR CHARLESTON T0 BE BUILT Charleston is to haye ‘a wireless telegraph station, The eastern Opera- ting department of the United Wire: less ‘Telegraph Company announeés the placing of an order with the com- pany's manufacturing slepartimont for 250 complete acts of wireless instru- ments nd these Instruments will be installed as early as possible in the year 1909 in cities east of the Mis- alsatppi river. Four of these stations ate to be in West Virginia, one of them at Wheeling, one at Charleston, one at Varkersburg and one at Huntington. ‘There will also be wireless stations in several cities near Huntington, In neighhoring States, including Potts- mouth, Chillicothe and Marletta, 0., and Ashland, Ky. An extended account of the plans of tne wirelens telegraph promoters will appear In the January number of the “Aerogram, a publication n- lerented ih the transmiasion of wire- lose meswages and the perfecting of the Marconie system es Misses Amelia Lowry ‘and. Mary Gordon, of Institute, were guests of Mins Hazel Dillard thin week Miss Aloha Brooks is visiting béf jRother, Mrs, Mary Krookg, of thea xeon 3 kM Ge Ne peaertas te Bs vomesdivtde ap oma Wek Current. oulos-by. ee RE RRR i,” f cite an Otis Meeweniopia, ° Go op, aid UBte SGU outs xud eves Shadi ctARGgatinuous rise: Pye asentinoons From barda | fFeni thy rootjshail see oe Ana ‘ieotaly' fae fete tyres to sing Of Btbtowte'a glaey j patience Dunbar. _ Charles A, Ru; one of Ohio's most brilliant “yeyhe ‘leaders. gave Mrs. Martin Dalpbat ¢aluablo .assist- ance in ‘the ‘Drenabatipn of the: Mo- grauhy and. ea works of her ented son, Paul-Laurence Dunbar, It Is to the credlt.of the city: of Day ton that.a tablet now commemorates the xentus of; it’nometime foremont gitizon.. sae ‘The colored Republitans, of West Virginia wilh,ngt)endorse Yim-crow car law in maski, a8 proposed by, certain,,, sycophange!. urid thne-sery- fers,. who seom'guxtous to rake ome shestauts out of.}the fire for their lawfully sly employers. Never! | ;,, Senator Knox “fir Secretary of tate in the Taft cabinet fs a fine selection,., ang National Chairman Frank |H.” Hitepbosk tor Postiaster- General could not be more thorough- ty In accord. with the eternal fitness f things. Now. MeMr. Tatt will jadt eunbunge ‘the ‘apygintment of Secre- tary William Loeb, Jr., as’ thes next head of the Navy or Department of ‘Commerce and Labor, tho people of the country can afford to allow him 10 name the rest. of his advisers with- gut further molestation. ‘The Philadelphia ‘Tribune is twen- ty-five years of age, and the Star, of Newport News, Va. has entored its seventh year. Both are healthy and prosperous-looking.and seem good for a “green of@'age.” ‘The Negro press is a necessity, not « luxury, and it will be a soFFy day for tho race when it fails to recognize this potent fact. We congratulate both Editor Chris J.' Perry and Editor Matt. N. Lowa: | Brother 'T. P; .Manammitt must have had his “think-thing” in the re- palr shop when he interpreted Presl- dent Rosenvelta BFt. praise of the ‘constrnetive abllyrof the negroes of ‘Mound Bayou, ‘Mlss,,.as an advocacy ‘of “colonization” or “segregation as the speediest solution of the race sroblems, in‘‘this eounty. Nothing was further from,.,the Prestdent’s |meaning, and nobody save Brother Mahammitt seems to have under- stood him that way. . Prof, DuBois, after playiag a one- night stand for one ‘night only, has retired from polities. No encore! Former Register, Judson W. Lyons fs_entitied to honorable recognition fat the hands of th¢,aiiministration, “He fought the gdodafight” for Taft and Sherman and dded to: his al- reddy-high reputation as a loyal par- ty man. sturdy campaigner and an able logician on national questions. Elbert Williams, chief musician of the regimefttal band, of the 25th: In- fantry, United State Army, ia” the composer of the welttknown ¥. M. C. ‘A. hymn entitled “Let “Not” Your Heart be Troubled.” Mr. Williams | was formerly head of the note mil- Itary band ‘at ‘Tuskesbe Institute. | It may sound a trifle old-fashioned to say so, but, nevertheless and not- withstanding, the Republfean party continnes to be “‘the- eck” and ‘all else the sea,” just'as {t was, when Frederick Dongiass enunciated. his famous epigram. |, , * W. H. Huff, of Athens, Ga., has placed on the market a “taking” Piece of music entitled “Cheer Up Booker Washington,” and It is being Played and sung In ‘any homes in the Sonthland. | Wé, cannot get too much of melodies and senttmente that help us to cheetdp the meh who are leading in the work of racial up- Mit hy ‘Tho “throw-dowh" “whfeh’' the: col- ored votets gave the whiskey ‘can‘i- date for mayor ‘of Atlanta, — Ga. shows that the ballot ean be.as:safely entrusted to the black min as to the white. ‘The Negro may not’ know all there fs fn hooks, but tie knows how to be decent and sland for the forces that represent law and ‘order—know- ing that protection to'his. life, Mberty and property must Inevitably depend fapon the supremacy of the law. Grand Master W. J¢;Houston’s. di- plomacy is assuredly of the _ gilt- edgad variety. BatdreB: J. Davis carried the handaonte, features of Mr. Houston on the first page of the At- lanta Independent Jast , week and placed him alongaide Roosevelt and Grant in the gallery of famous char- actérfe sho had won. eminence early in life tae ° eel Harry S. Cummings, Baltimore's reedimized leader, ts, to; have. general charge of the arrangements fdr the entertainment of the B. M. C,, which Jmicets ‘there in 1919, With the promptness and energy “charactertst- fe of Che Monumental City, the con- Milteo Is atrendy actively at work. Funerals xce said tp, be cheaper In Paltimore. Such a doleful adver- tixement te really antiecessary. to in- duce people to mova to Balthnore. FERILS THER AEE NS MH The business thrift of the’ Nogroer of Richmon4, Va., 16 an “6yd-opener” 10, thone who look dismally upon the future of the race, The Mechanics’ SSeS aiaecmso aaa Diet eho tape hunting to $48),248.¢5--and this 14 tut one. of; the Zour thelving Denke An the lty: condueted by Negroes. . Ss fa 'D: Webster Davis, the Virginia legs turer, preaghet and) humorist, & scholar of renown and Hterateur o! quality, is preparing to write pa tory of the Industrial progress of the Negro rece, with the hope of Intro dueling it in the schools of th South, He will mrgue~and correatly, too tO the educational authorities of Dix- | leland that the best way to encour-_ Jage tho Negro shild. to sapire to Us a useful aud law-abiding-cltigen ii to, Rbia up.to him os examples the bese /mjen and women of hia own tage and tg teach them that the highest ‘achievoments of record, are open ito them though character, definite pur- vose and intelligent service. ’ pale ee Col: Giles B. Jackson hag not yet had. time to cart thé Negro building of the Jamestqwn, Exposition off to Richmond. Just give the , Colonel time. | : Jack Johnson showed what a grit ty Negro can'do, even if he gets only the short end of the stick to work, on. ! | Now. will Big Jim Jeffries dd the square thing and give Jack Johnson ashow at a real fighter? The git! who toothsomely gooks can get a good hsuband on a mini- mum of looks. Get wise, girls! Andrew Carnegie handed out a Jgreat truth the other day when he sald: “If you want to do harm with money, give it away to those people ‘who ‘will not struggle for them- selves.” When he gives, It will be rpmembered tho resiplent must cover each of his dollars with one of their awn, thereby placing a premium on industry and resourcefulness, bal- ancing greed against human interest. ‘The world ts, willing to help those who help thémselves, but balits at carrying the shittless and improvi- dent. Governor Hughes for Senator from New York, to succeed Chauncey M. Depew two years ,hence, “looks food" sto the friends of genuine ré- form and sound governmental polt- ‘dios. Give the Nogro stalwarts of New York something commensurate ‘yith their merits, now, Governor, ‘while you haye the chance, and the race will howl for you for anything you want, or ouwht to have, Hearing with enthusiasm of the’ rapid progress of the Negrocs of Washington in acquiring a $100,000 home, the enterprising colored men of Cleveland are determined tq have 4 structure worthy ef the Importance and uplifting antingee pt ‘the; kudt ding organizatiod th thelr town. AB Gommissioner MacFarlynd wel! said: ‘The effofts of the colored men im Washington do not top with the. capital: they serve as a stimulus to- ward similar aghievemonts in overy section of the land" —an¢ they cer- tainly do. Let the good work go on! ‘The Baptist Vanguard, until re- cently published at Little Rock, Ark., with a constituency of 70,000° Bap- tists front? which it has a right to ox- peck support, has suspended. Some- Body has failed to do his plain duty. It is to be hoped that Dr. Booker will give his people another trial. Xmas generosity is a good thing, bat it comes dear when the “cheer- {ul givers" are obliged to dodge their éreditora from now until May on ac- fount of Bt Tis better to be iust nan generous," when shy of cash, ‘phe girl isn’t worth having who measures your love by the value of (the Scmas‘olfesiae you wend her, J. B. Bush, Register of the Land Office at Little Rock, Ark., is of the opinion that President "Roosevelt earns every cent of the $50,000 the government pays him. Truly, the President ix “on the job" all the tine. - He {s not “feazed” by the fefghi hour law, so precious to the ‘heart of the labor union folk. E It is expected that the President's order covering 15.000 fourth-class postmasters Into the civil service re- servation will materially increase ‘the number of colored men in/ that branch of the government. ‘The Ne} kro is alwaye in trim to “get. his'n,” if the law is enforced without. dis. erhmination. ‘There are hundreds of communities in the Soutlt and-West |where the best educated man in tho ‘community is of the Negro race, cee nneyy ree Teg Sep fe Te OND John C. Asbury, the “capable and ucholarly editor of the Odd Bellows’ Journal, of Philadelphia, has been chosen as the next ‘commencement orator at Tuskegee , Institute. ‘The welection commends . itself to the ifavor of those who know of hit strength and influence aa a — public (Speaker and logical thinker. Mr. Aw- |bury is one’ of the pioneers in, the | gatine of Anertes ine nes learly saw the vast possibilities tha lay In the natural correlation of th | eaueation of the hand along with |the head. He recognized the trend /of universal thought toward “doing [‘things” ne well av/""knowing things,” |Ald apecdily chimed in with “he prac tlcal Ideal put forward with such [compelling emphasis by Rooker ‘Washington. Mr. Asbury stand high with the Republican party o | Pennsylvania, and it would surpris {no one If he should be called upor oN e as | ‘ : JANUARY. 1, 1909. +” “ . WHERBAS | know that the'Savings Habit give pleasure and brings manly independence; , y RESOLVED: that J wit save a: certain sur im eacl envel an leposit, it regularly in the Savinés DEPARTMENT of the ” yan * Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. ‘ of Charleston, W. Va. “The Ban That You Can Depend Upon has $250,000 Capital ane $160,000 Surplus. V ; Be siletyVPerQ ry Savary i atians AU BUTU Ue Carre ON SAMAR TB a % U Us l ey BY REE >. Morgantown, W.Va, Deo. 31-11 the. story ,told by Mrs. Samue Grovex of Clinton dlatrict to” th }Prosecuting attorney ts (rue, ther her husband, Samuel, ts one. of! tit Breatest fonds whd’ has * yothated! Mohongalia since it became a coun: ty. fe Mrs. Groves is the second Wité-0f Samuel, who has already passed: the 70th milestone on life's journey, “Shit hav a daughter who Is clever ee of-age, by her first husband, «hd the oldest child born to this &éédhd mir- Tage Is only nine yexks of age, °° Last woek Samuel sont tier, lite Preston county to rént another farm ‘and Informed her that he would take eare of the children during her sib sence. Sho went to Preston county, Hetle suspecting tho atrocioits crime that her husband expected to pe=pe trate and upon her return she foune that both the chilfron were In ded with him, . It was after dark and she went tm to the kitchen to prepare something to eat and her 11-year-old daughter came in and told her of the indignt: Ules to which she had been compelled to submit by Samuel Groves. Her story was corroborated by Samuol's own daughter. ‘ ‘The story, as told. by Mrs, Groves was hattowing In every detail, ant if it ts a true story the prosecuting attorney sald that Moundeville. was too good a home for. the man wh committea the deed. . Jie .furthe stated that he had noe -=--98 sens a crime 80 flendi::. ci.cebo wn of to office. This story contains all the ele ments of the one great uumention able crime, and the man who woulk do such a thing can not bp made te ‘suffer enough. es COVINGTON, WA. James Harris, of Youngstown, Is hero visiting friends.-daripg | the fholidays.” Set A Miss Francis Cooleyi':teachr at Fincastle, spont a.iweek here the guest of Mrs. W. W. Johnson. James Smith, whovhad: been I for quite a while, died last Wednesday morning at 4 o'clook. Mr. Smith moved here more: than two years uugo from North Carolina, He. was a member of the Red Men. He leaves a wife and six children, |The boily was carried away Saturday morning to North Carolina for’ inter- ment. A. B, Brown was sent. by thg/Red Men to look after the body. fd She Wanget given dy'the Ruth on /Cttristmas night was quite a pleas- ant affair. ‘The program managed by. Miss M./C. Mickens was spicy and good. © ‘ James A. Payne spent Saturday and Sunday the guest of his par- ents at Buffalo Gap. — Master Eu: gene and Master Columbia, whe have been spending some time with their grandparents, accompanied him home. Misses Daisy Hutcherson ant Maggio Dobson spent the holidays in Cineinnatt. . Miss M. L. Williams is the guest ‘for ten days of her mother, Mrs Frank Brown, of Montgomery, W Va. Mrs, Bette Randolph is visiting her parents in’ Richmond, Miss Bessie Davis, a student a Harper's Ferry school, ts the gues of her sister, Mrs. ©. R, Beale, E, C. Jones ts visiting his aunt in Lynchburg. The furnace at this place Is ex pected to be put in blast this week Already a good force of men Js a work. ; " James A. Payne purchased a few days ago halt the store former: owned, by AWB. Brown, “It wil hereafter be known as Payne an: Brown's grocery. * Miss Mattie “Minor, of Charlottes in the near fattite-to don the judi: cial ermine—xtnder the federal gov- ernment a. 98k fol which het es- pecially fitted and in which he would be sure to render excellent service, is se: 4 yn a se ico teen RRR Fen Sete Ese aS ieee acingaehae L® cathartio a. eae ik ae cars tir 4 Reveeevtere Re eer 8 RSs EO Ff Qa er ea Me WAR sande ane a eee Adak naesne atts Seicsh tae, ciaaye JFRER: YOUR: BLOOD DLEA Ih GeYoRt GfMra Toba Walker, fama stees en Shanes 1’ Mrs. Emma McDowell. spent twa Aes lost week. in ‘Charleston < visits: Ing her sona Wilbur: and -Rramety’ ” Chafles, Willie and Jobimy Pletey spent Christmas with thet parents, at Lick Run, eat Misa Medista Johnaon, who spent some time m Roaoke, ‘returned. this week. Her sister, "Mro. Harry Clark acgompanted her. § Willlam Denson, of Red Stay, ‘ise ited Mr. and Mrs. James R. Fulnter, ji few days during the holidayn, ‘The entertainment given by ‘Mrs.’ W. W. Johnson was. most oxcellént. ‘The’ songs’ and -recttations were ‘como pbsed by-her. ‘The chitreh “was Veautitally decorated tor the ocda’ sion and very one on tHe program’ played thelr part well. ‘The follow: hig 13 the program: eR Solo, We {Welcome You, Julle Mitohell. 3 Recitation, Christmas ‘Times, “Jem: slo Pollard. " Si Reettatien, © ‘Sister Johnson's rspecch, Mrs, A. FP. Lomans. Se Se Sete Pollard, Dion, De Whitah” Stylea, Ave, IN.” Smith, . Recitation, WhY Shoutd the” Am- epican be Proud, Hattle Adams. Solo, How 1 Love to Play: with Dolly, Ruth Smith, ; Recitation, When Daddy Goines From Work, Belle Chureh. 5 Soto, Love's. Saddest Songs, Flor ence Mitchell. . ees Recitation, What's de use ob’ Wukin’ Insde Summer Time, Joshug Winston. Solo, How I Love that Little Girl, Powhatan Wheeter. f Recltation, ‘The Negro has | a sustenance tg son. Tabourine , Motion Song—Jeagle Pollard, Ruth Smith, Julla Mitchell, Fannie Hunter. i Quartette, the Jolly Foiur—Misses Annie and Mattle Pollard, Julla Mitchell, Flossie Reynolds. Recitation, Christmas Diab, ‘Thomas Mills. ‘ Recitation, De Leap "Year Party, Mrs. Chas. Ploree. .,, z INSTITUTE. G. W. Eldrjdge. spent the Christ- mas holidays at Institute. Miss Hazel Dillard spent Sunday and Monday at Institute. While, here she Was the guest of Miss Amelia Lowry. Mr. and Mra. W. H. Lowry enter- tained Mrs. Kate Smith, Miss Bou- jah Smith and Mr. and ‘Mrs. James Wilke at dinner Christmas. Mrs. R. H. Lowry returned to her home in Clarksburg, Sunday, Mr. and Mys. Perey Friend were the guests of thelr mother, Mrs, T. ©. Friend this week. : The supposition is that J. M. Can" ty J8 (he only -person in tho state ‘who served’ watermelon Christmas day. During the watermelon sea- son Mr. Conty managed to get an entra supply on hand and laid one away: for a time whon his friends would not be #0 close at hand. No more thought was given the melon wntil a few day’ before Christmas when he ‘accidentally found the melon In good condition, and served it to his friends Ohristmas day. Thesprogram rendered at tho Bap- list church Christmas eve was a grand success. ‘The voeal duet by [illian, Guss and. Ednora_ Priller- many ‘accompngléd © bys. Latinenoe Prillerman on the organ, deservea epecial mentioning.” oMEB!) |Brown and Mrs. C. Badbnep arcing congratulated on the effart, they put forth to make the pregtam a gygt ‘cons. GEM PHARMACY Call and see our full line of Perfumes, Soaps, Rubber Goods and Drug Sundries. We make a specialty of pres- criptions using only the purest drugs : : : : : : We send medicine to any part of the state upon order ountain service and ice cream pre- pared to take home at all times. We Welcome You. New Phone 1072. Old Phone 897 GEM PHARMACY Corner Washington & Dickinson Streets. CHARLESTON W. VA Sarah Clifford Ferandis (Exclusive Service Onarities and The Commons Press Burenu) (Mrs. Ferandis, colored woman herself, is one of the best qualified workers among negroes of the class in this country. She writes from experience both, North and south. She is now doing settlement work among the colored population of a New England milf town. Pre- viously, she was head worker in a sett- ement located in the Negro slum district of Washington.) Perhaps the mistake of those agitators who have indulged in hysterical exploitations of the Negro question has been a failure to consider, it in relation to one of the basic questions of the country—industrialism. In the history of industrialism, the Negro represents the country's lowest foreign laborer. His peculiar relation under the institution of slavery in that far off period, marks conditions affecting him in the industrial world of today. In some future readjustment these handicaps may disappear. One pauses reverently before the altruism of the days of the abolitionist's activity for the cause of the enslaved Negro. The impress of prejudice upon the Negroes industrial history is strong in the period of reconstruction. In this period also the European contingent of foreign labor makes its appearance in increasing numbers. It is in the very nature of things that, beginning his struggle for a foothold in a new country, the newly arrived foreign laborer should absorb the prevailing prejudice and use it to bar the Negro from possible competition in certain lines of industry. The almost entire absence of Negro labor from the mill industries of the country bear testimony to this. The tragedy of this lies in the fact that the development of many of these industries, notably the manufacture of cotton is co-invented with the increased production of the raw material by slave labor. By this general survey we reach Pete and his class. Tony Petrowski and Pete Johnson sit side by side in the school room of a small New England village. They both live in little shanties in the village slum. Tony's father works in the mill, his mother who worked in a sweatshop before marriage piles her machine in one corner of her crowded home and adds materially to the family income. From their combined earnings there is a, weekly airplus which is added to a growing nest egg. The goal of the family ambition is a corner grocery. Pete's father finds intermittent employment at odd jobs, which average less than half the working days of the year. The rest of his time is spent with boon companions loading about the neighborhood saloon, where a foreign saloon keeper prosper on their penny patronage. Pete's mother goes out scrubbing and washing for the more prosperous white laboring class, and loses all opportunity of caring for home or the training for her children. Existence is further eaked out by fishing and hunting. A nest egg is unheard of and there is no goal of ambition ahead. So the time goes on until the period of compulsory school attendance has expired. Tony and a sister near him in age enter the mills and become additional wage earners in the family. A few years more and this additional income has brought the family finances up to the desired point: They move into a pretentious corner store and live in a cleaner neighborhood. The store is stocked with groceries and the mother with her more ambitious dress-making parulors becomes the purveyor of fashion for the aristocracy of the mill contingent. Gradually they adopt the living standards of the progressive native stock, and the further history of the family reads something like this: The younger sisters complete the public schools and after pursuing business courses find employment as bookkeepers and stenographers; a younger brother trains for a musician. By the time Baby Petrowski begins his school work, a college education is the standard. What of Fete? After the release from school attendance which his 14 years give him having acquired the little learning which is proverbially dangerous, he comes like his father's inheritance of industrial opportunity (or lack of it). He accounts his father's loading habit to a degree, and becomes, to name him frankly, an idle, lazy fellow. As you stumble upon him some fine morning stretched comfortably in a shady nook where cool breezes fan, you are filled with a disgust for him and his kind which is partly mitigated by the good-natured grin with which he greets you. If in this rush of good feeling you are moved to offer him a job, you will find added disgust in the unstable, inefficient service he will give you, and in all likelihood you will at last give him up as altogether impossible. less negro. The boy who sits beside him in school and who begins upon the same level with him, holds the advantages of a keen industrial sense and industrial efficiency which count for more than his advantage in industrial opportunity, and Pete descends to the state of industrial degeneracy, conversely, as Tony rises in the scale. A most remarkable history of human progress is given in the address delivered by Andrew Carnegie before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh in 1907 on the American Negro. Such actualities as potato and cotton kings who won their distinction by unusual industry, and the accumulation by the race of a property valuation of $300,000,000 under unprecedented difficulties disperse all doubt of the industrial possibilities of the Negro. If Pete by emphasis here is made to forget a potato king, As is with no intention of pestismism. In modern social analysis all sides are equally considered in the case of the individual or the more complex group which calls for remedial ministration, and for this the class under discussion calls loudly. He is becoming a more and more appreciable quantity and is materially affecting the industrial history of the race. In domestic service alone a wage increment lost by the steady deterioration of this class would materially affect its financial status. A far more disastrous and deplorable reaction upon his thrifty brother is the filmsy excuse he affords for the mob violence which is becoming common in current history. How his worth is regarded by a class of politicians, may be judged by the politicians activity in the Negroes district at election times. But we are dealing specifically with his industrial aspect. The review of romodial agencies, which follows by no means covers the ground, but serves mainly the purpose of suggestion. Industrial education as represented by Tuskegee and Hampton institutes is the bright, particular star in the Negro's industrial horizon. Its introduction by General S. C. Arm- strong in the crucial period of reconstruction, makes him for all time a sociological genius. But attendance upon these schools presupposes a standard which does not exist in the environment of Pete. Intelligent review of the situation in Negro conferences and like gatherings of the race are important helps. The work of a Negro Industrial Committee in New York, which has locally investigated conditions affecting Negro craftsmans, suggests helpful possibilities. Clearly the need for the class under discussion is assistance which will reach within, and awaken a dormant industrial consciousness, through the training towards industrial efficiency. This calls for a vocational element in public school education, planned broadly to reach all typical cases, and is consistent with the paternalism which imposes compulsory school attendance. It is of social interest that philanthropy has anticipated this possible assistance. A wealthy young Philadelphia has had erected and equipped a building where industrial classes are supported at his private expense in a neighborhood where conditions are typical. A social settlement in a New England village is working specifically for the upbuilding of a needy colored group. This is a pioneer effort to reach conditions where in the midst of the thrift and industry for which this section is not be laid upon the fact that in this worthy, the colored group presents a discouraging minimum of industrial progress. It will be of social interest to note the growth of settlement work as an upbuilding force for the needy Negro. Their operation separately for him in northern cities is recent in comparison with the general settlement movement in this country. The one of industrial activity which is more or less apparent in most of them suggests the possibility of school extension work in this wanted element of education for the class they are dealing with mainly. Concluding emphasis may again study there as no note of discouragement. Modern philanthropy is keenly alive to social needs. Its activity suggests the old time fervor of abolition days reanimated and applied in resourceful social service. The new appeal is from needs rather than race and in the broad philanthropic response possible there is the opportunity of making the well-worn phrase, "Social equality for the Negro," mean best and most helpful relations to the social structure of which he is a part. MAY SEND OUR BATTLESHIPSTO ITALIAN WATERS Washington, Dec. 31. The matter of dispatching the 16 battleships now making their way through the Red Sea to Messina and other Italian ports on a mission of mercy is under consideration by the American government. The warships should arrive at Port Said by Sunday. By that time it is expected a decision in favor of such employment may be reached. GOVERNMENT HIS CLIENT. Senator Knox and Mr. Taft in Harmony on General Policy. (Washington Letter to the Chicago Tribune.) Senator Knox is a great lawyer, and as such possesses the confidence of the President-elect to a peculiar degree. He is forceful and full of initiative. His diplomacy probably will be much like that of Root's—straightforward and on lines strictly following the best international law, Mr. Knox is conservative so far as modern American problems are concerned, and he and Mr. Taft differ a good deal as to the constitutional points involved in the passage of the tate law. Their differences, however, are those of acute lawyers, and their personal relations continue to boast the most friendly character. the Knox was a corporation lawyer in Pittsburgh before he became attorney general under McKinley, but that did not prevent his delivering the most effective blow yet given to railroad combinations in the United States. He took the government for his client the minute he entered its service, just as Elijah Root did. In the same way in the next administration the secretary of state will be in complete harmony with the President on all matters of general policy, and with two such lawyers as Taft and Knox sitting side by side in the council meetings the country will be in pretty good hands. It must be remembered also, that the secretary of state is first in the line of succession to the presidency, so far as the cabinet officers go, so that if Taft and Sifman should both die he would immediately succeed to the presidency. He was a candidate for the office against Taft, but there was not the slightest ill feeling on this account. Licensed to Wed: Marriage licenses were issued at the office of the Kanawha county clerk. Thursday, as follows: Teter L. Price, 34, and Anne Cantorbury, 22. Charleston A number of Charleston club women, representatives from the Improvement League and Women's Loyal Union, leave tomorrow morning for Hugheston to attend the Federation of Women's Clubs. Mrs. Foreman, of Handley, is visiting Mrs. Isaiah, Campbell at her home on Lewis street. Mrs. Josephine, Burton and son, Burneet, of Belpore, O., are guests of Mrs. Amanda Taylor. Miss Rebecca, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Carr, was married last evening at her parents' residence on Bradford street, to Mr. Charles Preston, only the immediate families and a few intimate friends being present. The contracting parties are both very popular and they begin married life with the best wishes of a host of friends. Little Inez Tuck, of Clarksburg, is spending the holidays with her father in this city. Mrs. Sophia Hall, of St. Albans, accompanied by her brother, John Haines, of this city, spent last week visiting friends at Buchanan, W. Va. Mrs. Stokes, of Huntington, was the holiday guest of Mrs. Epperson Bradford street. Miss Ethel Smith, of Lewis street, has her guest Miss Grace Bell of Huntigton. G. W. Robinson, of Princeton, was a guest of his daughter, Miss Maggle during Christmas week. Miss Robinson had as her guests also her cousin, William Haynes, of Talcot. Edward Howard, of Cinchannall, who was here the first of the week visiting his grandmother, leaves today to enter Howard University, Washington, D. C. About thirty couples attended the Kanawha club dance Tuesday night and spent a very pleasant evening. The Sabbath school pupils of the various churches had their usual Christmas tree entertainments and presents last week, and highly entertainments are being held this week at the First Baptist church. Mrs. W. O. Terry is at Cincinnati this week visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Lowry, of Boomer, spent Friday night of last week here with relatives. Van Randolph, who has been in Indiana the past year, is home for the holidays. Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, of Chicago, will be in the city early in February, to speak to the Woolman clubs of this city. Mrs. Williams is known throughout the country as an author, lecturer and A prominent club women. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Page, accompanied by their little daughter, Catherine, spent Monday with relatives at Kanawha City. Miss Emma, Meadows, of Institute, was in the city. Sunday, returning to her school at Cedar Grove. Miss Blanche Jeffries has returned from a visit to the Industrial School for Girls at Salem. Miss Jeffries is very much pleased with the condition at Salem and speaks in very complimentary terms of Miss Dungan and the kind treatment accorded the colored girls. Miss Lena Rice, teacher at Rush Run, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Rice, on Brooks street. Miss Ida M. King has just completed a handsome eight-room residence on Upper Washington street. Local friends of F. D. Cambric, a teacher in Garnett school, are in receipt of cards announcing his marriage to Miss Eva Brown, of Morgantown. The news of the marriage came as a surprise to his most intimate friends, who had no inking of Mr. Cambric's intention to become a benedict. He is expected to arrive in the city Sunday evening with his bride. Mrs. Maggle Davis left Thursday for Columbus, O., to visit relatives. Chas Alexander, of Raymond, spent a few days in the city last week. Mrs. Thos Hale is ill at her home on South Side. Clarence Hardy, of Washington, D. C., is spending the holidays with his sister. Miss Estella James was the guest of Mrs. Minnie Fletcher in Marletta, Ohio. Miss Garnett Harris is spoiling the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Mary Damson, on Bradford street. Mrs. Eliza James and Mrs. Dan' Dobery are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. James, on Summers street. Real Estate Transfers Real estate transfers were recorded at the office of the Kanawha county clerk, Thursday, as follows: Henry W. Laughorn to Ellen N. Laughorn, a lot on Balnes street, in Charleston, Conderation, $5. L. P. Profoff to aSrah J. Wilson, a lot on Clendenin street. Consideration, $5. Ida M. aBiley to James M. Eppering, a lot in town of St. Albans. Consideration, $5. J. H. Jones to Lottie Long, two lots on Fourth avenue. Consideration, $1,500. John Hobbs, 19, and Janie Thomas, 19. Charley R. Covert, and Bruit, 20. Thos. W. Moore, 25, and Elizaeth M. Kramer, 23. THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN Are You Working for Money? Or is Your Money Working for You? 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MUNN & Co. 301 Broadway, New York SUPERSEDAES AND WHITS OF ERROR ARE ALLOWED Appels were allowed by Judge McWhorier, of the supreme court, as follows, today: Ryan vs. Blue Jay Lumber Company, from Raleigh. Writ of error and supersedeas. Halliel vs. Piney Coal and Coke Company, from Raleigh county. Writ of error and supersedeas. Morgan vs. Logan Grocery and Supply Company. Writ of error and supersedeas. A writ of error was awarded yesterday in the case of State vs. Geary, from Harrison county. Judge Robinson, wife and daughter reached the city today, and Judge Robinson's family will spend several days in the city. Among the visitors to the supreme court department today were J. H. Hataker, of Beckley and W. R. Thompson, of Huntington. DRUGGED WIFE OF EMPLOYER AND ASSAULTED HER Weston, Dec. 31. A case which has affirmed up the people of this vicinity as nothing in years, is that of FRENCH FOOD STUFFS UNDER INVESTIGATION Washington, Dec. 30. — Whether the people of this country are going to be compelled to accept for food purposes the French peas and other vegetables greened with copper salts, which are prepared in France, has become an issue of no small importance between this government and that of France. The United States government has been seeking to shut out such goods and has been applying the pure food and drugs act rigidly. But the French, who have a large industry in the canning of vegetables and who have a habit of using sulphate of copper and other salts to give the product a bright, fresh, attractive coloring, are protesting voicerously. Ambassador Jusserand, on behalf of his government, has been active in trying to get the chievement of the law made less rigid. Secretary Wilson has all along been disposed to shut out vegetables of this sort. A British commission passed on the question of whether such vegetables ought to be permitted in Great Britain and by an almost unanimous vote decided against them. Belgium has shut them out. Here, the market for the French canned vegetables is a good one and if it is lost it will seriously affect the Frenchman's pocketbook. Hence the vigorous outcry from the other side of the water. Lately, Secretaries Cortelyou, Wilson, and Straus held a conference on this question. They were not all in the criminal assault committed by William Ables upon Emma, wife of Milton Lester, who resides at dendale, a suburb of this city, about two miles up the river. The crime was committed last Friday morning, while Mr. Lester was in this city delivering some turkeys, which had been previously engaged from his place by people living here for their Christmas dinner, and during his absence, according to the testimony of Mrs. Lester. Ables, who was boarding at the Lester home, drugged some coffee and also some water, a part of which she later drank, and it was while under the influence of the drug that the helminous crime was committed. Accompanied by her husband, Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Lester appeared before Justice of the Peace Davis and swore out a warrant for his arrest upon the charge of criminal assault, and was arrested by Constable Keister, at the home of his father. favor of rigid exclusion without further inquiry and it was decided to turn the question over to the special referee board which was constituted by the President several months ago to take up certain of the more important questions arising under the pure food drugs act. This board was really formed because the regular pure food and drug board, of which Dr. Wiley is a member, has been disposed to construe the questions coming before it strictly and to enforce the law rigidly, with the result that various interested manufacturers and others wanted to find some way to escape. The board is composed of scientists of unusually high standing and was meant to be a sort of court of appeal from the other body. The referee board will look into the question of what are the effects on the human system of eating vegetables greened with copper salts. If it is found, as the department of agriculture officials insist, that the effect is deleterious, then it may be expected that France will have to keep her colored goods at home, and that if one eats French peas after that, he will find them lacking in that bright, green luster that makes them so attractive to the eye. An order has been issued that until further notice such vegetables which do not contain an excessive amount of copper will be allowed entry into the United States, providing the label bears the statement that sulphate of copper or other copper salts have been used. several miles farther up the river from Bendale: William Ables is 19 years old, and makes his home with his father, but was clearing a piece of land near the home of the Lesters and boarded there while engaged in this work. When confronted by the constable with the warrant he made no resistance whatever, but weekly obeyed the commands of the officer, and was brought to this city and placed in the county jail to appear before Squire Davis at the preliminary hearing, which was held, Monday morning. After hearing the testimony of both Mr. and Mrs. Lester, and several other witnesses, who had been summoned, the justice held him under $600 bond to await the next session of the grand jury. Mrs. Lester said she was 20 years old and the mother of one child, a boy, three years old. She is rather nice looking little woman, and appeared in court, woll and tastily dressed. be connected with St. Luke's P. E. Church. Both appointments give satisfaction to the citizens of Washington, and all agree that they are representative of the best thought and character of the race in the District. Mr. Thomas P. Morgan, chairman of the committees on civic organizations, has named the following colored members to assist him: Messrs. Ralph W. Tyler, W. T. Vernon, John C. Dancy, Whitfield McKinley, James A. Cobb, Dr. E. D. Widman, J. W. Lyons, T. M. Dent, Ellish Brown and Dr. J. A. McDuffie, Mr. Daniel Murray, who has given excellent service in three previous inaugurations as the head of the sub-committee on public comfort, acting with the full committee on general matters, will again be placed in charge of the work of looking after the especial comfort of colored visitors. A competent colored newspaper man will have a berth on the press committee and several Negroes will be given places on the committee on public order. Contributions are being made by public-spirited citizens. So far Judge Terrell is the only colored contributor, his name standing opposite $25 in the coin of the raalm. In 1904, contributions were made by Messrs. John C. Dancy, J. W. Lyons, John F. Cook, L. C. Bailley, Isaac H. Smith, and one of two others. The social features are still in process of incubation. Mr. Alexander H. Brooks, of this city, has been appointed to a clerkship in the Department of Agriculture by Secretary James Wilson, and has been assigned to duty in the Secretary's office as clerk in charge of the executive mail. This is the first appointment of the kind ever given to a colored man in the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Brooks went into this Department about twenty years ago as a messenger, and his present advancement is the result of a clerk-promotion examination 'which he passed last April. Senator Foraker's bill calling on the Secretary of War to furnish certain facts in connection with the employment of detectives to investigate the Brownville riot, will be called up as soon as possible after the reopening of Congress January 4th. At this time, the Ohio senator will make a lengthy speech on the subject, and other Senators are expected to submit pertinent remarks. It is hoped that the issue will be adjusted amicably before the retirement of President Roosevelt. According to army advises, the three colored regiments now in the Philippines are to come home within a few months. The 10th Cavalry will sail May 1, and will be stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont; the 9th Cavalry will sail May 15th and to be stationed at Fort D. A. Russell; the 25th Infantry is to sail Sept. 15th and to take station at Fort Logan, Col., and Whipple Barracks, Arizona. First Regimental Sergeant George A. Holland, of the 24th. Infantry, now at Madison Barracks, N.Y., is in the city on business of a highly personal nature, states that the 24th will be creditably represented in the inaugural pageant March 4th. Prof. J. Gerald Tyler, formerly connected with the M. Street High School of this city, but now director of music in the High School at Kansas City, Mo., is in the city, spending the holiday season with his brother, Auditor Ralph W. Tyler. He spoke entertainingly and played several classic selections at M. Street one day last week and was given a warm reception by his quondam associates and pupils. He is making a success in his new work in the West and has practically revolutionized musical standards in the territory covered by his influence. He is a baritone of remarkable range and sweetness and has filled many engagements in various sections of Missouri and Kansas and Nebraska since leaving Washington. Mr. Tyler is a graduate of Oberlin College, being the first colored man to receive a diploma from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. It is reported that he contemplates a trip abroad in the near future, to take a course in advanced vocal and instrumental music. George Albert Hawkins, for many years the body servant of General Grant while he was in the field and after he became President, and for twenty years a driver for Presidents of the United States, is dead, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a native of Anne Arundel county, Maryland. Edward Thornton Burrell, who has long been the confidential secretary to Adiantant General F. C. Ainsworth, of the War Department, is a versatile genius. In addition to being an expert stenographer, a poet of no mean attainments, a writer and a factor in the social life of Washington, it may surprise his intimate friends to know that he is a fine cook. He can broil, roast, fry and bake in a manner that would make the chef at the new Willard turn green with envy, and those who have had a taste of his Boston baked beans say they are a "dream." The so-called higher education and the ability to work with the hands find an admirable meeting-place in the soul of Mr. Burrell. Mr. Thomas J. Calloway, to whose administrative talent the main credit for the success of the Negro Department of the Jamestown Exposition belongs, is making a name for him. self as a barrister in the courts of the District. Voluntarily retiring from a clerk's desk in the War Department less than a year ago, he has built up a civil practice that has made the landmarks of the town "sit up and take notice." Beside this, he is operating largely in real estate of a very desirable type. Mr. Calloway has recently become the actuary of a big development company, the object of which is to plat and sell to colored home-seekers a tract of land in the thriving suburb of Lincoln, northeast of the city on the Washington, Annapolis and Baltimore electric line. From the definite investments in hand and the many inquiries from people of means, the outlook for Mr. Calloway's project seems very good. Major Charles W. Fillmore, of Ohio, expects to sever his connection with the Treasury Department at an early date, and is perfecting his plans to embark in a financial enterprise with the Broadway firm of A. T. Prerson & Company, of New York, handling stocks and bonds and other gilt-edge securities on a large scale. Major Fillmore is of the opinion that the surplus funds of our lodges, churches and savings institutions could be more advantageously invested than is true of the present, and it is his purpose to make a specialty of seeking out all such organizations and affording them an opportunity to place their money where it will yield the very best returns. Rumor has it that Pror. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of the Washington public schools, is willing to enter the diplomatic service of the United States. He is said to have his eye on the Haitien mission. Mr. Bruce refuses to discuss the subject, but should he determine to leave his present work, in which he has scored brilliantly under the most exasperating circumstances, there is no doubt that he would make a success no less pronounced in the field of diplomacy, for which he is exceptionally fitted by temperament, natural ability and intellectual training. Register W. T. Vernon is to be the orator of the day at the second annual Lincoln-Douglass banquet of the Crispus' Attucks Republican Club at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 12th of February. This will be in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and the birthday of Frederick Douglass. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, will also be a "star" attraction of the occasion. The affair will be national in scope and invitations will be sent broadcast over the country. Bishop J. W. Smith, of the A. M. E. Zion church, returned to the city Monday last, after an absence of several weeks attending conferences in the South. Accompanied by Mrs. Smith, he left almost immediately for Philadelphia, to attend a banquet given in his honor by Rev. P. A. Wallace and the congregation of the A. M. E. Zion church in that city. Bishop Smith has one of the finest homes owned by colored men in Washington, located in a fashionable neighborhood. It is estimated to be worth $10,000 and is the headquarters of the prelates and ministers of the church who journey through the capital to and from the town. Miss A. M. Barnes, a trained nurse of Baltimore, has entered Freedmen's Hospital to specialize for one year. She was quite successful during her two years of work at her profession in the Monumental City. Dr. A. M. Curtis has been to Richmond, Va. where he performed a successful operation on William P. Burrell, secretary of the United Order of True Reformers. Dr. Curtis is the principal member of the staff of consulting surgeons of Richmond Hospital, and is frequently called there for work of this kind. This week Dr. Curtis was called suddenly, to Freedmen's Hospital for an operation for appendicitis, and pulled his patient through in excellent shape. By invitation of the Council of Upper Classmen of Howard University a good-sized audience listened to an able presentation of an interesting case at law, in which six speakers appeared for the litigants. The affair was under the direct auspices of the Blackstone Club, of which C. Sanford is president, and L. A. Hilton is secretary. A satisfactory decision was rendered by Prof. Francis Williams, the presiding justice. Arrangements are being made for a Methodist Christian Congress under the auspices of the Washington Zion Methodist Preachers' Association, to be held at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church February 13th, 14th and 15th. Ministerial and lay delegates representing the churches and missions in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, included in the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference territory, and fraternal delegates from other denominations will be in attendance. Bishop J. W. Smith and Presiding Elder M. L. Blalock will deliver addresses. The local committee on arrangements is headed by Rev. S. L. Corrothers. Prof. W. A. Hunton, international secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was the speaker at the men's big meeting last Sunday at True Reformers' Hall. Mr. Hunton was secretary of the association at Norfolk, the first established for colored men, before taking up the international work. He was also a delegate to the World's Student Christian Conference at Tokio, Japan, last year. He is one of the most useful workers the Y. M. C. A. has ever had in the field.. Mrs. Hunton, his talented wife, has gone on a tour of Europe. Dr. Booker T. Washington was in the city Monday and met the President and trustees of Howard University. His time was too limited to visit all of the departments of the institution, but managed to take a peep into the class-room of Dr. A. M. Curtis, where the eminent surgeon was "quizzling" his students on some fine points in surgical methods. Supervising Principal John C. Nalle, of the public schools, has been indefinitely suspended and will later be demoted for alleged neglect of duty. He signed a payroll carrying the name of a teacher who had died several days before and when given his teachers checks, he handed that of the dearest Miss Smith in Ligons, who had authority to resolve the same prior to the death of the principal, Miss A. C. Waller. Miss Ligons cashed the check in the dead woman's name. Upon discovery of the facts, no criminal intent could be established, but it was deemed expedient to punish. Mr. Nalle as above stated. Miss Ligons was suspended for thirty days as a penalty for her part of the transaction. Much regret is felt for Mr. Nalle. His capability is not rated as anything more serious than a hasty oversight. Architect W. Sidney Pittman has been paid $2,000 as his fee for drawing the plans for the handson $55,000 public building at Garfield. The structure is to contain twelve rooms and is to be one of the finest in the District of Columbia. The award is quite a feather in the cap of Mr. Pittman, who won out in a solid field of Caucasian draughtsmen. When Prof. W. S. Scarborough was here a few days ago he paid a pleasant visit to President Roosevelt, in company with Register W. T. Vernon and Dr. John F. Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church. The President evinced a deep and sympathetic interest in the future of Wilberforce University and felt that the plans outlined for its betterment by the new chief executive, were practical and would work out successfully. Talk is again heard or a national testimonial to Dr. Booker T. Washington. The occasion is designed to afford interested friends of Tuskegee Institute to confer a number of scholarships on worthy young colored men, while honoring its distinguished principal. The Washington Bee suggests Auditor Ralph W. Tyler as a suitable man to take the lead in such a movement, in which suggestion we heartily concur. Dr. Washington has a host of friends here and everywhere, and they will rally to any project Mr. Tyler may have in mind for the enlargement of the far-reaching work at Tuskegee. At the recent dinner at Gray's in honor of the colored members of the Board of Trustees of the Jeanes Fund, Judge Robert H. Terrell presided as toastmaster, and Recorder John C. Dancy delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the hosts. There is no truth in the oft-repeated report that Justice John M. Harlan is to retire from the Supreme Bench. Nor is there a grain of truth in the rumor sent to Boston by an anonymous correspondent to the effect that Assistant Superintendent Roscoe Conkling Bruce is trying to undermine the higher educational system in our public schools. The Ananias Club is working overtime these days. MEN WANTED. In every locality to take orders for made-to-measure garments. 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He not attempt to force belief upon you, he simply illustrates the devotion, sacrifice and other moral attributes taught by the Savior. Particularly is he happy in the portrayal of the mysterious feeling of night. In Paris, Taner was one in a thousand of the painters who believe in the miracles taught in the Bible. The great majority of the artists, unbelievers, attempted to shake his belief with heretical conceals. They were never successful. In the pictures, as in those of the old masters, one sees unswerving and positive faith in the stories of the Bible. He never symbolical. He depicts the outh Charleston PEOPLE IN SOUTH CHARLESTON NOW. Factories Employing Over 400 Men. Dunkirk Window Glass Co. Banner Window Glass Co. Kanawha Chemical Engine Mfg Co. customs or times, the styles in dress, the manners. He illustrates a chapter of Christian history as it was written, word for word, incident for incident, conscientiously. In this he is much like Edwin A. Abbey, though in a sense, he is much greater painter. The most important of the canvases is entitled, "Behold, the Bridegroom Coneth." An enormous canvass, it is broad in treatment and finely decorative in design. A tall, bearded Jew announces the arrival of the bridegroom to the five foolish and the five wise virgins. They are different in nationality. The models were secured at Paris' great model market in the Rue de la Grande Chaumiere. Most unusual in brilliancy of illumination is the picture entitled, "The two Disciples at the Tomb," which has been loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago. "Christ and Nicodemus," loaned by the Pennsylvania Academy of Design shows the two on a roof overlooking the white roofs of the town; light from below is reflected on the face of Christ. The distance is blue. CEDAR GROVE. Mrs. T. W. Martin is confined to her bed with la gripe. Miss Amelia McDaniels, of Ward, passed through en route for Institute, to spend Christmas holidays with Mrs. M. E. Brillerman. Rev, Newsome prescienced two able mothers here Christmas day R. Q. Hill, of Charleston, was the pleasant guest of friends here Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn, of Ward, was here last week the guest of Mrs. F. W. Martin. Mrs. Viola Hardy, of Montgomery, was here Friday the guest of her cousin, Miss Hattie Peters. John Dingess was visiting friends in Montgomery Sunday. Mrs. John Anderson and family spent Christmas with her mother at Kanawha City. B. B. Waynesboro, of Eskdale, was visiting J. H. Dingess last week. Stanford Buster was here Thursday the guest of his brother. Miss Hattie Peters spent some of the Christmas holidays in Montgomery with relatives. The Xmas trees given by the Sunday schools were quite a success and were largely attended. Miss Esther Phillips is visiting relatives at Paint Creek, this week. Lawrence Booker and John Wilson, of Ward, were in town last Friday. Mary Strudwick, of Charleston, is here the guest, of her mother, Mrs. Bettie Smith. THERE APRIL 1, 1907. SAY-A CONVICT GETS PART OF PITTSBURG GRAFT MONEY Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 31.—That a former "boddying" Councilman, William A. Martin, who is doing three years in Riverside penitentiary for taking $70,000 graft in the Tube City-Railroad case, yet retains a high seat among grafting Pittsburg councilmen and that his "share" of every "graft" is, deposited to his credit here in a bank, is a feature of evidence held by the Voters' league. Martin recently was given a long conference outside the prison with William Brand, President of Councils, the only one of the seven under arrest whose bail is held at $20,000. Martin was brought from the penitentiary ostensibly for the purpose of having him as a witness in a certain case, but he was not called. Instead he was made the hero of a reception by his former political associates, and William Brand had the longest conversation with him. In his conversation with Detective Wilson, at the Fort Pitt Hotel, every word of which has been entered as evidence, Councilman John Klein is quoted as having boasted that Martin had refused $10,000 to "squeal," and that his wife and family in Cincinnati were being taken care of and that he would be out of prison next March. This led to further investigations of conditions by the Voters' League, and it is asserted now that there is proof at hand that Martin agreed not to tell on the whole band only until he was taken care of financially and assured that he should still be considered a member of the active grafting "combine" and get his share of everything the same as when he was outside prison walls. The connection of President Roosevelt with the Pittsburgh graft clean up is admitted by Rabbi J. Leonard Levy. Mr. Loyy is one of the vice president of the Voters' League, and a personal friend of the President. He and Willis McCook, a Pittsburgh attorney, were among those who went to Washington and asked assistance. On the same train returning with them to Pittsburgh were six special bank examiners, sent to investigate the conditions which the rabbi and Mr. McCook had assured President Roosevelt existed. All the testimony which was brought out here some days ago was submitted to President Roosevelt before the hearings. Proceedings will be begun to forge the six banks having the city.depot OUR DISPLY OF Ladies' Misses' and Wear garments, M Is the largest in the City and our P can be made up-to-date Merchandise GIVE US A CALL The People's JO EPH SCHW 602 Kanawha, cor. Alderson St. Its, and which Mayor Guthrie and the Voters' League declare were obtained by fraud, to relinquish them to twelve other depositories, which shall be named hereafter. The rather startling condition is found that while $5,000,000 of city funds are on deposit there are bonds amounting to only $2,500,000 to cover it. 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