The Advocate

President Tait Tells Congress How to Save the Black Republic EXHIBIT UNFAVORABLE ATTITUDE, COMMISSION SHOWS, AND MENACE THE HELPLESS GOVERNMENT. PUGH'S APPOINTMENT As Judge of the District Police Course Gives Emount Satisfaction—Howards New Science Hull Nears Completion — Marshall Refuses to Plead for Soldiers. Washington, D. C., April 6.—Liberia has occupied a large place in the public eye within the past fortnight. The current disputes have told of the outbreak of the natives near Cape Palmas against the general government, and of the hurried departure of the cruiser Birmingham to the scene, to assist the administration of President Barclay to preserve order and prevent foreign encroachment upon Liberian territory under the cover of apparent civil war. The seriousness of the situation, as reported from the African Republic, seems to have warranted the sending of another gunboat to the Liberian coast, and a second vessel is being placed in commission at Hampton Roads for a relief expedition. As is well-known, the United States is intervening in this matter by virtue of a treaty dismutiting such aid, entered into 1862. The report of the Liberian Commission, named by President Taft, to make a thorough investigation of the political, industrial and social conditions existing in the country across the sea, has been the subject of general discussion during the past week, both in Congress and out. The recommendations of the Commission, transmitted to Congress by President Taft with a special message of approval, were, in substance, as follows: 1. That the United States extend aid to Liberia in the settlement of pending boundary disputes. 2. That the United States enable Liberia to refund its debt by assuming as a guarantee for the payment of obligations under such an arrangement the control and collection of the Liberian customs. 3. That the United States lend its assistance in the reform of internal finance. 4. That the United States lend its aid in organizing and drilling an adequate constabulary or frontier police force. 5. That the United States establish a research station in Liberia. 6. That the United States reopen the question of establishing a naval coaling station in Liberia. Describing unfavorable attitude of the foreign powers toward Liberia, and showing how Liberia's resources and financial interest, as well as the integrity of her domain, were menaced by covetous European governments, the Commission concludes its report with this summary of the case: "The logic of the situation in the minds of the Liberians points therefore to the United States as the only country which can give them effective aid. Of all Liberia's friends, she alone is open to no suspicion of ulterior design upon Liberia, and she alone can give assurances to Great Britain, Germany and France that the legitimate interests of those countries in Liberia, whatever they may be, will not be placed in jeopardy by her actions." The popular judgment of the diplomats and laymen in Washington, as well of Congress, is that the situation is hopeless for the little nation, unless the United States steps in and solves her problems for her—and this is pretty sure to be done. United States Minister Ernest Lyon sailed on the Birmingham for Monrovia, with sealed instructions for which he had long been waiting, and last week our Military Attache, Lieut. Benjamin O. Davis, of the 10th United States Cavalry, followed him. Lieut. Davis was accompanied to the Liberian capital by his wife and child, and is prepared to make as long a stay there as the circumstances demand. Miss Mary V. Dickerson, sister of Mrs. Davis, went as far as New York to see the party off. Lieut. Davis will be called upon to lend a hand in the organization of the Liberian constabulary, and his military experience will give him an especial fitness for this arduous task. Help will probably be extended him from the regular army of the United States; or by retired soldiers who are physically able to undertake the work. Prominently mentioned in this connection is Sergeant Jesse J. James, now in the War Department at Washington, who won distinction in the Philippines as an officer of the 48th THE ADVOCATE. Regiment of Volunteers, detached and allied with the Philipine Scouts during the hottest part of the insurrection against the American arms. Sergeant James is highly recommended by officers who observed his soldierly bearing in the Philippines, and his claims will no doubt receive careful consideration at the proper time. Mr. Lyon, who was deeply impressed with the thoroughness of the industrial training offered at Tuskegee Institute, and Bishop I. B. Scott, of the M. E. Church of Liberia, who has been an ardent believer in the efficiency of manual skill in building up pioneer countries, will put their shoulders to the wheel and establish at Monrovia a school similar to Tuskegee and see to it that the natives of the progressive type are given a full course in the trades and mechanical arts. It may be that Dr. Booker T. Washington may be induced to take a trip over there later on and give the movement its initial "boost." He is being persuaded to do so by the American Legation, all of the religious denominations represented at Monrovia, and by the officers of the general government. It will also be of interest to note that a new cable line, an extension of that owned by the German government, has been opened between Teneriffe and Monrovia. Eventually this cable is to be extended to South America. At this distance, the future of the Africa-American Republic, seems to be unusually bright. By and by, the organization of the customs service will call for competent accountants, collectors, etc., and it is the general belief they will, for the most part, be chosen from the colored citizenry of this country. Richard C. Bundy's name has been sent to the Senate as the choice of the President for Secretary of Legation at Monrovia, adn it is understood that he much-examined young Ohioan will accept the place. The salary is said to be $2,500—a larger amount than he could hope for at this time as an en-raft into the consular service, to which he at first aspired. The movement of Attorney N. B. Marshall in refusing to plead in the case of the soldiers alleged to have been implicated in the Brownsville "shoot-up," created something of a sensation, but is pretty generally approved by the experienced lawyers of the District, who say that, under the circumstances, there was little else he could do. Col. A. S. Daggett, for the accused men, delivered a strong argument, basing his demand for acquittal on the old-fashioned contention that any man is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty, and that it is better that 100 guilty men escape than that one be made to suffer unjustly. The decision is now in the hands of the court and a final report is expected at an early date. Attorney Marshall, who has given much of his time to the case for the past three years, is silent as to what action he will take in the event of his clients' conviction. "The Georgians" were first in the field to tender a social function in honor of the newly-appointed Recorder of Deeds, Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson—and it was in accord with the fitness of things that this should be so. The affair was an informal "stag", and took place at the home of Mr. Thomas M. Dent and former Postmaster I. H. Loftin, 1311 T street northwest. After a delightful "conversazione", a toothsome buffet luncheon was served and some speechmaking in a happy vein was indulged in. Mr. Dent acted as toastmaster, and after stating the object which brought so many enthusiastic Georgians together at the festal board—to celebrate the appointment of a distinguished fellow-statesman to a position of dignity and responsibility—he introduced in turn Messrs. L. M. Hershaw, A. H. Matthews, Dr. J. A. McDuffie, T. Spencer Finley, T. A. Johnson, Prof. J. W. Gilbert, all of Georgia, and Mr. H. P. Shaughter, of Kentucky, who delivered short and felicitous addresses, extolling the virtues of the guest of honor and wishing him God-speed in the mission he was about to undertake. Mr. Johnson's speech was the first he has made since his appointment, his utterances were, therefore, regarded as especially significant. Mr. Johnson stated, among other things, that the position of Recorder of Deeds had come to him absolutely without solicitation on his part, that he had filed no endorsements for any office and sought not a single influence to advance his prospects. He said he should enter upon his duties without any feeling of elation, but with the firm determination to render the most efficient service of which he was capable. He made no personal references, gave not the slightest indication that he would take any notice of factionalism, and every note was pitched on a plane of high regard for every useful member of the community in which he must work for the next four years—at least. For the conception and success of the entertainment, Mr. T. A. Johnson was largely responsible. Besides those mentioned there were present Drs. S. A. Ward, and J. P. Turner, Frank Morrison, Patrick M. Mitchell, W. H. McLendon, Bonaparte Brown, Erastus Molen, Jacob Combs, J. G. Hutchins, S. W. Harris, S. W. Fuller, Mr. Perrin, Dr. F. P. Lancy, Buck Thomas, Prof. W. J. Decatur, Prof. Dameron, Captain Edwards, Mike CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1910 Pythian Officers DELIVER CONGRATULATORY ADDRESSES TO MEMBERS OF THEIR BAND Club Organized Of the Parents of Scholars of High School and an Increase is Noted in the Number of those who Bathe. Baltimore, Md., April 6. The Knights of Pythias Band, one of few organizations of its kind in the east, gave a reception last Thursday night which was largely attended. Addresses of a congratulatory nature were delivered by Grand Chancellor George H. Watty, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal Josiah L. Diggs, Rev. Joseph L. Butler, former deputy Grand Chancellor Samuel Williams. Miss Lillie G. Jones, Grand Medical Examiner, Charles H. Fowler, Dr. Harry F. Brown, Mr. John Maxfield, ender of the band and others. A collation was served at the conclusion of the program. Sermon to Order of Moses. The Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion church was filled to overflow Sunday night, when Rev Dr. L. A. L. Cole, pastor of the church, preached the annual thanks giving sermon to the order of Moses. Solomon Bond is grand master of the order. Pastor's Salary is Increased. The first quarterly conference of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church was held last Friday night. Reports submitted to the district superintendent, Rev. M. J. Naylor, show that the church is in a flourishing condition. The salary of the pastor, Rev. J. A. Holmes, was increased to $1,300 a year. At the conclusion of the conference a pastoral reception was held, and Rev. Mr. Holmes congratulated on his return for the fourteenth year, the longest consecutive term any pastor in the Washington conference has served. Bouquet for Dr. Hughes. Bouquet for Dr. Hughes. Rev. Dr. W. A. C. Hughes, who has just been returned to the Washington conference for the sixth year was presented a bouquet by the chair of Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church just before he began preaching last Sunday morning. The Pastor accepted the token of esteem in a feeling and graceful address. A reception has been planned for him. Dr. Hughes holds the record for length of pastorate at the church. The average length of service of any pastor during the 100 years of the church's existence being a little over two years. Parents' Club Organized Parents Club Organized. Following an illustrated lecture on "Public Baths in America and Europe." by Dr. Joseph C. Gichner before the patrons of the colored high school Friday night, the Colored high school parents' club was organized with following officers: Mrs. M. P. Holl, president; Mrs. Addie Fowler, vice president; Miss Roberta Sheridan, secretary, and Mr. Joseph Frisby, treasurer. 2406 Patronize Baths. The Walters Public Baths had 2,406 patrons during March, an increase of 695 over the corresponding month last year. The public bath commission expressed themselves as being highly gratified at the large increase City Miscellany City Councilman, Harry S. Cummings, who has been ill for the past three months, is able again to attend to his councilmanic duties and law practice. Rev. Dr. John Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. church, was in the city Monday. Dr. H. J. Brown delivered a lecture on "mind and body" before the students of Clayton-Williams University this afternoon. DRAMATIC CRITICISM Once upon a time a barnstorming company arrived in a small town in England and announced its intention of giving a performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." It kept the promise. The next Friday the town's weekly newspaper contained the following criticism of the event: "Last Tuesday all the fashionables and elite of our town gathered to witness a performance of 'Hamlet' at the town hall. There has been considerable discussion in the press as to whether this play was written by Shakespeare or Bacon. All doubt can now be set at rest. Let both their graves be opened; the one who turned over last Tuesday is the author." A SERIOUS OPERATION "Where's your mother?" the father asked the 6-year-old when he arrived home. "Oh, something" awful's happened," said the child. "She's been killed. I guess." "Killed! Why. Nellie, what do you mean? Where is she?" "I don't know 'zactly where she is." Nellie replied, "but I'm sure it's a terrible place 'cause she said to tell you when you came home that 'as going to have her waist cut out.'" OF THE BOARD OF CHURCH EXTENSION OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH Will Hold Eighteenth Annual Meeting at Washington. Has Large Real Estate Holdings. Washington, April 6. The Board of Church Extension of the African Methodist Episcopal Church will hold its eighteenth annual meeting here April 20th. This board is one of the most important in the denomination, and has assets of $319,661.85; $119,700 of which is in real estate. Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson, who for the past ten years has been secretary of the board, is one of the best equipped of the older ministers in the A. M. E. church. The members of the board ore Bishop William B. Derrick, of Flushing, N. Y.; chairman; Rev. R. C. Ransom, New York; Rev. R. H. W. Lock, Raleigh, N. C.; Rev. D. S. Bentley, Pittsburg; Rev. D. P. Robers, Chicago, IL.; Rev. J. C. Owens, Denver, Col.; Rev. M. Smith Savannah, Ga.; Rev. Bruce Williams Charleson, S. C.; Rev. S. B. Felder Greenville, Miss.; Rev. J. J. Lowe Pine Bluff, Ark.; Rev. T. T. Robinson Washington, Houston, Texas; Rev. R. B. Brecks, Jacksonville Fla.; and Rev. E. W. Williams, Birmingham, Ala. Decision Unanimous FOR FISK UNIVERSITY IS GIVEN BY JUDGES OF DEBATE AGAINST ATLANTA. By the National Government Furnished Subject for Discussion Between two Leading Negro School of the South, Nasirville, Tenn., April 6. Special. In the first intercollegiate debate given by the Triangular Debating League held here at Memorial Chapel, Fisk University between Atlanta University, the latter, as affirmative, was victorious. The question was: "Resolved, That the United States should have an income tax." On the same night, Friday, April 1, the same subject was debated also in Washington, between Fisk and Howard and in Atlanta between Howard and Atlanta. The Fisk debaters showed fine form and a knowledge of the question that gave them a mastery that knew no defeat. The discussion was unanimous. The Fisk team that debated at Howard lost their side as negative and up to the present time no word has come from Atlanta. The Fisk team that went to Washington are J. E. Ellison; 10; J. E. Stamps; 11; C. H. Payne; 11; and R. N. Arthurton; 11. Those of the home Fisk team are W. Loyd Ines; 10; Julian Dawson; 10; Charles F. Roman; 10, and C. H. Wesley; 11. Important Enterprise WILL BE STARTED BY VIRGINIA CAPITALISTS IS THE REPORT Will Start A Cotton Mill to Make Cotton Cloth from Cotton Purchased from Negroes. Norfolk, Va., April 6.—Leading colored men of the Tidewater section are planning to form a company with $250,000 capital to start a cotton mill. The company will make cotton cloth from cotton purchased, as far as possible, from Negroes, and will employ exclusively Negro labor. A few days ago Dr. J. J. France, of this city, presided at a meeting and introduced Mr. George Matthew King, as the promoter of the project. Mr. King was born in Halifax in 1874. He was educated at Norfolk Mission College, Virginia Union University and wilt in the next few months receive the degree of master of commercial science' from the graduate school of Dartmouth College. He received his technical training in a mill at Fall River, Mass, and the Durfee Bradford Textile school of the same city. An Absolute Fact. "My goods speak for themselves." "What are you selling?" "Graphophones." THE "WHY" OF IT. He: Women are so unreasonable She: Yes, that's the reason they love men. --- Celebrate Decennial BY DISTENING TO AN ABLE ADDRESS BY DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Dunbar Drawn on To furnish an Illustration of Taking Advantage of our Disadvantages by the Exponent of Industrial Education. Nashville, Tenn., April 5. Special: Before the Dunbar Club of Pisk University, Wednesday evening March 30, Dr. booker T. Washington delivered an address on "Taking advantages of our disadvantages." The occasion was the tenth anniversary of the club which was begun in 1900 and has since easily maintained first place among the clubs of the college. Dr. Washington is an honorary member of the organization as is also Dr. C. V. Roman. The club sat in a body where its colors—maroon and silver gray—were much in evidence in the form ofoses and ribbon. In part he spoke as follows: Paul Laurence Dunbar, after whom your society was named, was a striking and useful example of the individual who was wise enough to turn his disadvantages into real and permanent advantages. Every member of what the world calls a disadvantaged race has the rare privilege of turning what the world considers disadvantages into real, genuine and permanent advantages. There is one of two courses which any number of our race can pursue at the present time. Dunbar succeeded in making himself the greatest poet our race has produced. I question, as brilliant as Dunbar was, whether he would have attained to the same degree of prominence in the world of letters, if he had been a white man. One who belongs to the disadvantaged race, one that is likely to be imposed upon, likely to have injustice inflicted upon it, has also the advantage of being permitted to grow in the largest and most generous direction. Such a race has the opportunity of cultivating the virtues of self-control and self-esteem, and growing in in a way that no other race has. While in the city Dr. and Mrs. Washington were the guests of Hon. and Mrs. J. C. Napier. CHARLES BANKS ON BUSINESS Hustling Cashier of Mound Bayou's Bank Fires the Hearts of the Arkansas State Negro Business League. Thompson's National News Buraeu. Little Rock, Ark.. April 2. Charles Banks, the energetic cashier of the Bank of Mound Bayou and master-mind of the town that Isiah T. Montgomery founded in Mississippi's richest delta region, delivered the principal address before the annual convention of the Arwansas Negro Business League, which assembled here last Thursday and Friday. Mr. Banks is president of the Mississippi State Negro Business League and first vice president of the National Negro Business League--right-hand man to President Booker T. Washington. The Arkansas League could not have made a happier selection, if the heeary reception accorded Mr. Banks is any criterion upon which judgement can be based. No man is more closely identified with the industrial, commercial, social and political life of the Negro than Charles Banks and for more than an hour he held his audience in amazement and enthusiasm over the wonderful story he told of the development of his own town of Mound Bayon, its wonderful cotton seed oil mill, now about to open for business, and how the Negroes run everything in the government of the place, from mayor down to constable, postmaster and ticket and freight agent at the depot. He touched thoughtfully upon every phase of racial uplift, and his rare faculty of making an audience feel with him all that he feels for his people, gave the citizens of Little Rock a keener impulse to bestify themselves in a business way than anything that has been heard here in many a day. The Arkansas League considers itself fortunate in being able to secure the presence of such an inspiring genius as Mr. Banks proved himself to be. His address on "Business" was at once thrilling and informing, carrying conviction to every receptive mind, Mrs. Banks accompanied her husband to Little Rock, and both were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bush during their stay in the city. Announcement was made that Mr. Banks has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address for the Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in May. "Sad, sad, to see humanity ever engaged in a mad rush for wealth." "Forget it. They fellers is on their way to the ball park." ADVOCATE COUPON 10 TEN VOTES 10 Name..... Address..... District..... Most Popular Woman Teacher, Institute Summer School Scholarship Contest. Not Good after April 12th. "BLACK PATTI, TROUBADOURS" IN WASHINGTON. Give Enjoyable Performances at True Reformers' Hall—The Famous Diva at Her Best—Mr. Thompson Entertains Prominent Members of Company. Washington, D. C., April 2.—The "Black Patti Troubadors" appeared here this week at the True Reformers' Hall, coming over from Baltimore, instead of going on to Philadelphia, which they decided to "scratch" on account of the strike on the local traction roads. The skit produced was "A Trin to Africa", which showed off the entire company of sixty people to marked advantage, with the charming Mine, Sissiretta Jones and "Jolly" John Larkins as the bright and particular luminaries. The fair diva is one of those perennial springs that go on year after year, without losing in purity of tone or vivacity of manner—one of those creations of the Almighty "whom time cannot wither, nor custom stale." She was at her best and sang several new songs, besides taking her part in the famous sextette from "Lucia Di Lammermoor" and giving in matchless style "Way Down Upon the Swanee River." John Larkins, Will A. Cook, H. Augustus Hall, Sarah Green Byrd, Charles Bougia, H. Morgan Prince all sustained their roles with credit and distinction. Despite the smallness of the stage the performance will compare favorably with any production now on the road. On Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, of 1918 11th street, N. W., gave a complimentary dinner in honor of H. Augustus Hall and William A. Cook, who were classmates of Mr. Thompson at the Indianapolis High School so far back that "the memory of man runeth not to the contrary." Besides the family, there were present Miss Iuby Taylor, H. Morgan Prince, Jolly Jim Larkins and Miss Jeanette Murphy, of the Patti company, and T. Spenced Finley, premier comedian of the Hiawatha Theatre, of this city. A toothsome menu, prepared by Mrs. Thompson, happy speeches and reminiscences made the evening pass off delightfully. A GREAT VICTORY PROMISED FOR MISSIONS To the Baptists of West Virginia: To the baptists or West Virginia: At no time in the fourteenth years of my secretaryship have so many of our pastors, chancies and Sunday school needed to the call of our over-worked missionaires and their Foreign Mission Board, as in this Easter rally. Reports are coming in by every mail. Let every pastor who received our special appeal, and every superintendent, who received the programs, do the manly and Christian thing. I. e.—do by the missionaries as he would have them do by him, were he in Africa. South American or the isles of the sea. Should this be done, we could send every worker help from the rally. Loving obedience to our Lord who saved us by his blood—who bade us go into all the world with the message of salvation should prompt every believer to respond to the work and workers in so needy an hour as this. We have received from a two-cent stamp to fifty dollars and fifty cents ($50.50) from Sunday Schools. One little school away in the hills of Virginia reports $10. The superintendent tells how it was done as follows: "We spent a week in prayer as the board requested us, and had a grand time on Sunday." From your state, churches and schools have reported $78.80 in five days ending Friday, April 1st. This will seem very small but added to the other states it tells for God and missions. Pastors, superintendents and friends, do not rest until a collection has been sent to your board for this work The Mission Herald will be issued about April 20th and will contain a full report of all the churches, schools and societies that helped. The state papers will be kept informed also. Rally Baptists, rally all along the line and let us hear from you. He Meant It. "You are different, from the majority of girls I know." "Ah, you don't really mean that, duke." "But I do. You have $1,000,000." OF VISITING EDUCATORS ADD MUCH TO DIGNITY AND IMPRESSIVENESS OF THE OCCASION. President Gates Speaks Points Out the Obligations of the Present and Lays Down the Dictum That No Civilization Can Read On Any Other Than Universally Applied Justice. Nashville, Tenu., April 4.—Special—Perhaps the most brilliant epoch in the history of Fisk University had Its beginning March 1 when the newly elected president, Dr. George Augustus Gates, a well known educator was inaugurated. The day was beautiful and everyone was in gala attire, the presence of several great educators, and their appearance in the elaborate academic dress added much to the dignity and impressiveness of the occasion. At 9 o'clock the exercises of the day began in Livingston hall chapel, following the usual order of the morning devotions, with the exception of the singing of two jubilee songs and the college song. At 9:30 the inaugural procession formed before the chapel. It was a great sight, that long line, stretching across the campus, the girls of the institution all dressed in white and the senior in their caps and gowns. The under graduates led the line of march, followed by the alumni, faculty, the board of trade and citizens, the representatives of educational institutions and the trustees and special guests; the procession moved in double file past Chase Hall, just Carnegie library, past Inublee Hall, until it reached the doors of Memorial Chapel and here the ladies and formed an open aisle through which passed the buds following the students and their appearances was the cause of many words of aplause. The undergraduates led by the seniors inverted the line and centered the chapel. Invocation was offered by Dr. J. S. G. Merrill, ex-president of the university and the program began with the introduction by Chass. A. Hull, president of the Board of Trustees. In a few words eulogistic of Dr. Gates induced the president-elect into the presidency, delivering to him in a formal way the keys of the institution, symbolizing the faith and hope of a people in the preparation for a larger future. The Jubilee Club then sang "I know the Lord has laid His hands on me." Former President Merrill. Dr. James Griswold Merrill, Trustee and ex-president of the university spoke in brief of the hardships and self-sacrifices made by the founders of the institution, of the efforts of a people but recently unfettered from the bonds of slavery struggling to become acceptable citizens of the Republic. In closing his remarks he turned to Dr. Gates and said "This is the greatest position you could possibly hold." In accepting the keys of Fisk Dr. Gates appeared to be seriously impressed with the responsibility falling upon him. "This solemn trust," he said, "accepted reverently in spirit, and in faith will be wrought out in fidelity unto the greatest of human blessings—confidence. I take these keys and all they symbolize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." Just here, and deserving of special mention, Mrs. Agnew Hayes Work, wife of one of the University Instructors, sang "But the Lord is Mindful of His Own" in a most beautiful clear and distinct contrasto voice. It was by far the musical feature of the inauguration. A letter was read by E. M. Cravath fr., son of the first president of Pisk, from his brother Paul, ex- CORRESPONDENCE The stork visited the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Moseley, of Plymouth uth Wednesday and left them an eleven pound baby girl. Anthony Powell, of Pratt, is spending some time with his daughter. Mrs. Richard Smith, of Plymouth. Mrs. William Venerable, of Plymouth is quite sick. Mrs. Geo. McKinney, of Betsey, who has been spending some time at Raymond, visiting friends, has returned home. Mrs. J. W. Sawyers, of Betsey was calling on friends in Bancroft Sunday. Mrs. Sarah Washington, of Winfield was called to Plymouth on account of the illness of her sister. Mrs. Wm. Venerable. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sawyers and Mr. and Mrs. Simon Woods, of Betsey attended the funeral of Willie Wilson at Raymond, Friday. Mrs. Gretta Roberts spent Sunday at Raymond returning home Monday morning. Edward Hicks made a business trip to Institute Saturday. John Cyrus, who has been sick for some time is able to return to his work. The Plymouth Colored Cornet Band were invited to play at Manila Friday in honor of the eight hour day celebration. They rendered excellent music and also received a cordial welcome. Mrs. Chas, Surgeins called on friends at Betsey Saturday. Mrs. Hale Dickerson and Mrs. Hicks were callers on frineds at Plymouth Sunday. Willie Mae, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hicks, is spending time with Mrs. P. P. Holland, of Spring Hill Mrs. Zenia Williams, of Plymouth is spending some time in Glouster, Ohio visiting friends. SYLVIA Mrs. Wm. Carrington, of South Caperton, is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Hargrove. She will leave in a few days for her home accompanied by her daughter and little grandson. Mrs. James Toney entertained a few friends at tea Monday night in honor of Mrs. Wm. Carrington. Mrs. H. C. Hargrove entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of her mother. Mrs. A. M. Duval, of Raleigh, has moved to our town. Among those added to our sick list last week are Mrs. Jack Martin and Mrs. Johnie Braxton. The weather was bad Sunday, but nevertheless Rev. D. C. Hunter preached two able sermons to large audiences Sunday morning and Sunday night. The day was set apart for rally, which netted them $19.25 Dr. H. C. Hargrove was called to East Beckley Thursday on professional business. Rev. P. A. Harris left for Prince Saturday to preach the K. of P. annual sermon. The delightful weather Easter Sunday had the effect of bringing a large number of visitors from the adjoining towns to Beckley and Sylvia to attend services at the various churches, and this with the usual attendance of our home people filled all of the edifices to their capacity. It is somewhat a question as to whether the services were more successful from a religious standpoint or as a display of the latest agonies in millinery, mere man being at a decided discount in the exhibit, being practically invisible in the forest of waving plumes and kindred view constructors. However the ladies looked attractive in their spring tops. The Easter rally at the first Baptist church was a success, the collection being $143.34. They expect to start on their new church in a few days. Rev. D. C. Hunter preached the annual sermon to the K. of P. lodge here, taking as his subject "Unity." PRINCETON. Henry Page has returned after an absence of several months. Elizabeth Hogan continues quite ill. John Hairston left Monday for his home in Charleston, much improved. Several families came here last week from Pocahontas, Va., for permanent residence. Scott Burke made a business trip to Gardner Wednesday. Rev. R. W. Hill went to Dry Fork Saturday to hold services Sunday. H. G. Bailey and Willis Smith, of Hilton, are here looking for employment at the Virginian shops. Mrs. Ellen Hardtun went to Green County, Va., to visit her sister, also hoping the change would bring about marked improvement in her health. Mrs. Bertie Prunty returned to her home at Pocahontas, Va., the first of the week. J. E. Meadowd was a business visitor to Keystone Thursday. The grand rally at the Methodist church Sunday of which Rev. W. R. Berger is pastor, met with great success and was well attended. Rev. C. R. Hunt was called away to hold services last Sunday at Moray. Easter Monday night the "egg breaking" entertainment was largely attended at the Red Men's hall. Mts. Hattie V. Burke was sick last week. J. E. Adams was a business visitor to Bluefield Friday. Mrs. Mary Summers has returned to her home at Pearisburg, Va. While here she was the guest of her husband at N. H. Hill's boarding house. Anderson Madison, of Radford, Va. has been recently employed at Bolen's Barber Shop. Austin Dabney, of Bluefield, was here on business a few days last week. CHILICOTHE. O. Mrs. A. H. Mayes spent Sunday in Kingston visiting friends. Mrs. C. B. Medley visited Frankford this week. Robert Ryans came from Columbus, O., Friday and spent Saturday with his mother and father on S. Walnut street. Miss Nettie Wilson is on the road to good health once more to the delight of her many friends. John H. Gatliffe, Jr., will move here from Dayton and make his home with his aged mother, since she is all alone after the death of her husband. Miss Helen Marshall spent the week-end in Columbus visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Marshal have purchased a beautiful home on Sixth street. The members of Quin Chapel A. M. E. church purchased the pews for their church last Wednesday night for $800. The contract for remodeling the church will be let this week to the lowest responsible bidder. Mrs James Lucas spent Sunday afternoon in Kingston, O., with friends. Dr. S. S. Jordan and wife, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Gatliffe and Mr. and Mrs. William Cunningham, spent Sunday at the farm of Ed. Loggans, ten miles from the city. Mrs. W. W. Curtis, of Harveysburg O., is the guest of Mrs. Ellen Dowdy of West Main street. Rev. J. W. Carter, pastor of the First Baptist church, left Monday for Columbus to assist Rev. Burr in a revival meeting this week. Miss Edith Jones, of Columbus, O., is the week-end guest of Miss Anna Cox, on West Fourth street. The city schools opened Monday morning after a week of vacation. Rev. W. E. Walker, of Quinn Chapel A. M. E. church was taken ill last Monday and has been indoors but is convalescing at this writing. The rally at the First Baptist church Sunday netted in cash, $273 with more clubs to report. The Ladies' Aid of Quinn Chapel are preparing for a grand April shower on the 14th. A lemonade partly was given Friday night at the residence of Mrs. Carrie Marshall on West Main street in honor of Miss Esther Walker, by Misses Mabel Marshall, Lena Marshall and Helen Carter. Lemonade bananas, ice cream and cake were served. FAIRMONT Mrs. Harrison Jones is slowly recovering from la gripe at Cook's hospital. Bert Fortune, of Morgantown, is visiting his wife and relatives here. Mrs. Hattie Clendenin, of Pt. Pleasant, spent a few days here last week the guest of her cousins, Mesdames Hamilton and Morton Matthew Obie spent Sunday in Clarksburg with friends. Rev. W. E. Blue and James Taylor attended the Masonic banquet at Morgantown, Thursday night. A number of young people attended the dance at Clarksburg last Monday night. Chas. Williams was a visitor to Clarksburg, last week. Ed. Allen returned to Washington Tuesday after spending a few days here with his wife and babies. Chas. Florence, teacher at Grafton spent a few hours here Saturday en route to Grafton after attending the closing exercises of Monongah school. Rev. C. C. Gill returned last week from conference and preached his first german Sunday morning on his second conference year. Mrs. F. H. Jackson was hostess to the 4 o'clock Needle Club Friday afternoon. After an hours work a delicious lunch was served. The Ladies' Aid Society No. 1 met at Mrs. F. H. Jackson's Friday night. No. 2 met with Mrs. Florence Cooper. GUYANDOTTE Mrs. Ed. Holland returned home Sunday from Keystone, after spending two weeks with her daughter Mrs. Joe Parsons. Mrs. Fannie Wahning, of Huntington, spent Sunday afternoon in town calling on Mrs. Mildred Layne. Mr. and Mrs. Isiah Gordon and son, Herman, of Burlington, spent Sunday in town with their daughter, Mrs. Owens Pleasant. Robert Johns, of Huntington, was calling on Nelson Layne Sunday. Sanford Mullins, of Huntington, was calling on friends here Sunday evening. Mrs. Rosa Reynolds, of Burlington visited Mrs. Owens Pleasant Sunday evening. Master Joe Parsons, Jr., came home with his grand mother, Mrs. E.J. Holland, to stay a while. The rally that was conducted by members of the first Baptist church closed Sunday night. Money raised, $152.14. The church was divided into two sections, Deacon O. T. Wilkerson was captain of the men and Mrs. I. S. White was chosen for the women. They were each presented with a cross and crown by H. H. Railey and Mrs. Warner Brown on behalf of the church. Mrs. H. H. Railey closed her fifth term of school at Donwood Friday night. A crowd from here attended. We are all glad to have Rev. V. Harriday back with us for another year. Mrs. Mayne Jackson, widow of the late S. J. Jackson, is back from Orange, Va. Mrs. B. F. White closed a successful school at Hansford Friday. Mrs. E. C. Page, Mrs. H. H. Railey and Miss Ruth Watson were guests of Mrs. S. H. Clark, at Donwood, Friday. Mrs. H. B. Branham is able to be up. The annual Thanksgiving sermon of the K. of P.s. preached by Rev. I. V. Bryant, was well attended Sunday by out of town orders. Wm. Brown was master of ceremonies and the address on Pythianism was made by Rev. C. W. Taylor, of Boomer. Rev. E. C. Page, and son, Taylor, were at Institute Sunday. Rev. Warner Brown wishes to thank the good people of Carbon for $3.00 given him on the rally. Mrs. Geo. Jackson was a business visitor to Lawton Thursday. Mrs. George Brown and daughter, Miss Ethel, are reported sick. Mrs. Archie McKinney, who has been sick for several months, is improving. Mrs. Byrd Prillerman was here a few hours last week to see Mrs. McKinney. Rev. Wallace Page, of Kanawha City, was up Sunday the guest of his sons. RAYMOND CITY Willie Wilson, whose critical illness was mentioned in the Advocate last week, died at the home of his father Wednesday about 2:45, following an illness of about two weeks. His mother was ever at his bedside with the last hope of aiding him, but the best treatment did little to stay the ravages of the malady that had attacked his vigorous constitution. Mr. Wilson's name was a household word in the Negro homes for many miles around. His common sense and well balanced judgment made him a leader of the people. He was a member of the Mt. Hermon Baptist church and also a member of the K. of P.'s. Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth. The deceased leaves behind a father, mother, two sisters, one brother and a host of friends. The funeral services were conducted Friday by Rev. P. P. Holland. Mrs. Florence Chapman and daughter, Miss Willie, of Winifrede, are visiting relatives here. J. A. Shorers and Cornelius Coles attended the true reformers' meeting in Montgomery Saturday. Rev. Holland filled his pulpit here Sunday and preached two able sermons. Miss Gretta Roberts, of Bancroft, spent Sunday here. Mrs. Mayme Exum, of Institute, spent a few days with Mrs. C. Good. Mrs. Bertie Parker, of Charleston, attended the funeral of W. H. Wilson Friday. GRAFTON Wm. Jackson, of Clarksburg, was calling on Miss Grace Craig Monday. Wilber Myers, of Clarksburg, was Miss Grace Trimble's guest Monday. Rev. G. W. Muse, the new postor of the M. E. church, filled his pulpit Sunday. Rev. Wilson, the former pastor of the church, left Friday for Stoveville, Va. The new appointments were made at the conference which just closed at Pittsburg. The Grafton colored school baseball team crossed bats with the famous Giants on March 29th, and the Giants met their waterloo. The game was well played and closely contested throughout. Craig was on the rubber for the scholastics and pitched a steady game. He struck out ten opposing batsmen and had them well in hand at all times. Stout at short and Millard Howard at second played a brilliant game, pulling off several plays of the sensational order. Walter Howard pitched for the Giants but retired in favor of Loyd in the fifth inning. Score—G. C. S., 13: Giants 11. Batteries—School, Craig and P. Dabney; Giants, W. Howell, Loyd and Chauney, Umpire, Beamer. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Green, of Clarksburg, Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor, Misses Florence Willis and Maggie Petty, of Fairmont, were guests of Mrs. Hattie Beamer the first of the week. A crowd of people attended the Easter ball from Clarksburg and Fairmont. Scott Martin, Albert and Frank Sheppard returned Thursday from Washington, D. C. Rev. M. V. Turner filled his pulpit Sunday at Phillipi, the first time since his illness. Claus, Smith, the janitor at Hanaway's store, fell from the step ladder and was seriously injured. Henry Jones was visiting Miss Elizabeth Lewis, of Morgantown Tuesday and Wednesday. Edward Newman was visiting friends in Clarksburg Sunday. South Charleston PEOPLE IN SOUTH CHARLESTON NOW ACTORIES EMPLOYE y Glass Co. Kanawha Chemj steel Co. es and other buil school House, Co construction, Na now Completed ore the prices go cars g 1-10 cash, balance i Discount f awha from 501 Charleston L hone 214 FACTORIES EMPLOYING OVER 400 MEN Dunkirk Window Glass Co. Banner Window Glass Co. Kanawha Chemjcal Engine Mfg. Co. cars go in. Terms: 1-10 cash, balance in monthly payments to suit. Discount for all cash. Kanawha Land Co. Room 501 Charleston National Bank Building Bell Phone 750; Home Phone 214 Baptist church Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. C. Davis, of Gallipolis. Rev. Moses Opher, pastor in charge of M. E. Church, arrived here Thursday. Gus Bell, of Middleport, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Settles. Mrs. H. C. Clendenin came home the past week after a pleasant visit to her sisters, Mrs. Joe Campbell, of Moundsville, and Miss Alice Jordan, of Weston, and relatives in Fairmont and Fairchance. Pearl Johnson, who has been ill for the past few days, is improving. Howard Jackson, of Mason, was in town Saturday the guest of friends. The Willing Workers' Club of the First Baptist church met with Miss Ida Craig Monday evening. Richard Anderson, who has been employed here during the winter left for Columbus today. Fred Roberts, Sr., who has been quite ill for the past few days, is improving. Dana Paul, Douglass Mitchell and Steward Goins spent Sunday in town guests of Misses Anna Green and Luella Roberts. Rev. Hoff, of Gallipolls, spent a few hours in town Wednesday. While here he was the guest of Rev. J. W. Robinson. Rev. W. E. Jefferson, who has been pastor of the Mt. Zion M. E. church for the past year has been appointed to the Central M. E. church at Washington, D. C. We regret to lose him but wish him success in his new field. Mrs. Rosa Williams and Mrs. Chas. Perkins visited White Sulphur last week. Mrs. Jennie B. Rose was the guest of Miss Effie Calloway at Lewisburg for the past week. Misses Josephine and Callie Jackson, of Lewisburg, were visitors here Saturday. Sam Spots and Ed. Hamilton were visitors here Sunday. Wm. Eggleston came up to visit friends and relatives last week. Clarence Johnson was a visitor here Sunday. A. L. Brinkley, who has been sick for the past week, is much improved. Miss Minnie Allen has returned home after a pleasant visit at Frankfort. Rev. W. A. Lewis, the new pastor of the M. E. church, preached two fine sermons Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Price are guests of Mrs. D. R. Hickman. Ruffner Poindexter visited Covington last week. Wm. Rone, of Clarksburg is visiting Miss Nannie Stouts. Chas. Green, of Clarksburg, was the guest of Miss Ada Stout Monday and Tuesday. Joe Coleman, of Clarksburg, was calling on Miss Ollie Turner Monday. ST. ALBANS. The program given under the direction of Mrs. Hopkins was a success and enjoyed by all who heard it, as follows: Opening song; prayer; song—"Keep together children."—Chorus; recitation—Sedolia Jones; trio—"Why Don't You Try." Misses Grace Wilson, Inez Spurlock and Sedolia Jones; quartett—"Old Black Joe."—Miss Lilian Bunkers and others; recitation—"The new church organ"—Hazel Holeman; quintett—"Lonesome."—Misses Grace Wilson, Maggie Price, Cassie Allen, Margret Chandler and Lilian Bunkers; recitation—Maggie Price; instrumenta solo—Dana Gordon; recitation—Miss Lilian Bunkers; solo—"Will you marry me?"—Miss Golden Preston; instrumental solo—Miss Ruffner Overall; recitation—Miss Margaret Chandler; solo—Harry Erskins; cornet solo—Edward Norris; pantomime—"Nearer my God to Thee."—song by Mildred Spurlock and Pantomime by Misses Maggie Price; Lilian Bunkers, Margaret Chandler; Cassie Allen and Grace Wilson; recitation—Miss Margaret Chandler; recitation—Miss Sarah Carr; closing song—"Swing Low Sweet Charat"—chorus. Miss Georgia Banks is visiting in Charleston. Miss Mary Shields is reported to be improving at this writing. J. A. Shields came home Saturday after finishing his school at Cedar Grove. William Parish is visiting his parents after two years absence in Pennsylvania, where he is compled. Missie Lee lectured at the St. Paul Baptist church Sunday at 2:30 PT. PLEASANT Misses Jessie Hale, Nona Morris, Cassie Bess, Megars, Fred Payne, of Middleport, and Wm. Johnson, of Pomeroy, formed a jolly bunch that spent a few hours here Sunday, the guests, of Miss Mosella H. Colston, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Henderson have returned from Athens where they were guests of Mr. Berry. John and Thomas Davis entertained the Reading Club Thursday. A very dainty lunch was served after the usual period of reading. Rev. G. W. Muse passed through here Saturday en route for Graffon, his charge for the ensuing year. James Thomas, who was reported no better last week, died Thursday. Funeral services took place at First 25 THERE APRIL 1,1907 MES EMPLOYING OVER Co. E wha Chemjcal Engine M other buildings in S House, Concrete Si duction, Natural Gas Completed and soon the prices go up. Th cars go in. ash, balance in monthly p Discount for all cash. wha La Charleston National Bank RONCEVERTE. --- 28 AND 30 CAPITOL ST. Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork Fresh Pork Sausage OUR OWN MAKE. Try our machine sliced Hams and Bacon The best qualities in all the popular kinds of We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want it most. 5 & Cheese 111 Are You Working for Money? Or is Your Money Working for You? ing it in a trunk or hiding it somewhere where you see you Are Working For Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent. interest—Your Money is working For You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid thr on story block building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the htird floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend of six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. Let Your Money Work For You Pythian Mutual Invesmtent Association. L. O. WILSON, President, Weston, W. Va. ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE DAVIS. Rev. George Fountain, of Clifton Porge, Va., was a business visitor here Saturday and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Coleman. Prof. E. B. Black was visiting his brother, Prof. Clarence Black, of Thomas Saturday and Sunday. Frank Jeffries, who has been spending the winter with his parents at Blainesville, Va., has returned: Tickets are out for the supper to be given at the Baptist church Thursday night. Frank Jeffries and Samuel Smith, of Luray, Va., are here to join us as residents of our town. Mr. Jeffries is a brother of Mrs. Virgie Lee. Chas. Malon is one of the disputants in a debate: Resolved. That a colored man has a right to be a Democrat. MORGANTOWN Mt. Morish Lodge No. 20, A. F. and A. M. held their 16th annual banquet at the White building, March 31. The lodge in a body marcheed from their temple to where the elaborate banquet was served. Several out of town guests were present Wm. A. Holland, Worshipful Master acted as toast master. Several good speeches were made by the members of the lodge and also the ladies. The ladies wore handsome and elaborate gowns and flowers. The guests were; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Grant; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Thomas; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Johnson; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Garner; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Powell and slater; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Payne; Mr. and Mrs. James A. Edwards; Mr. and Mrs. John A. Jones; Mrs. Reda Harris; Miss Bertha Dixon; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Brokn; Messrs H. S. Hosby, Wm. Dixon, Robert Ruttles, Norman Shanklin, John W Dixon, James Taylor, of Fairmont; Miss Ada Johnson; Messrs Thomas Blue; Robert Jackson, of Mt. Morris, Pa.; Adam Hedrick; Mrs. Chas W. Alexander; Misses Susan Will Ham; Eva Lewis; Messrs James A Hunt, J. N. Hunt, Amerson Blue, of Fairmont; Miss Letisha Johnson; Mr. Clark Jackson, of Charleston; Miss Ardella Richardson; Mrs. Richardson; Miss Pearl Wheeler; Mr. J. H. Lewis; Misses Ethel Gordon; Hanshaw; Mr. John McCallister, of Sabratron; Miss Laura Wheeler; Mr. L. J. Holland; Miss Pauline Blue; Messrs. Urvell Crawford, Archie Brown, Floyd Foulk; Miss Mabe Washington; Messrs. Wm. Richardson; J. H. Hunt, Wm. Holland; Wm. Avler. The annual sermon of the K. of Pian C. of C. lodges was held April 3rd in the Beechurst Ave. A. M. E. church. The sermon was preached by Rev. Grant Boyer, of Fairmont, assisted by Rev. S. Christian and Rev. Taylor and Rev. Digges, pastor of M. E. church. Miss Annie Harris and mother, who have been making their home at Clarksburg, are in the city for a few days. A. H. Brown and Ralph Gardner have moved their barber shop on Chestnut street to A. W. Wright's old stand and are known now as the Brown, Garner and Crawford. A. W. Wright, who has been in the restaurant business on Chestnut street is out of business and is now first cook at the White Hotel. James Taylor, of Fairmont, was in our city for the annual banquet which was given by the Masons. Miss Elizabeth Lewis, Devil Crawford and Archie Brown, went to Connellsville to attend the Easter ball. Henry Jones, of Grafton, was in our city Wednesday evening and was the guest of Miss Elizabeth Lewis. Emerson Blue, of Fairmont, attended the annual banquet of the masons. Miss V. Robinson, of Fairmont, was here a few days. Johnnie Shorts, of Point Marion Pa., was the guest of Miss Louisa Jenkins Sunday. Miss Beula Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Grant attended the M. E. annual conference which was held in Pittsburg, Pa., a few days ago. Rev. Nathan Miller, the local deacon of the West Virginia Conference, is sick. QUINNIMONT Five Peake Lodge No. 22 had their annual sermon preached Sunday by Rev. A. P. Harris, of Sylvia. Mrs. E. M. Dandridge entertained for dinner Sunday Rev. A. P. Harris, E. T. Wade and Miss Ida Thompson. J. H. Hill, who has been at C. and O. Hospital, came back Saturday much improved. Miss Ida Thompson is spending sometime with Mrs. E. M. Dandridge and Mrs. R. R. Brown. Edlow Waddy, of Harvey, is here visiting his sister this week. Mrs. L. Grandison made a business trip to Stone Cliff last week. Misses M. J. Bradley and Virginia Goldston are spending sometime with their parents before returning to Institute. Miss E. V. Shelton spent Sunday with her parents. E. T. Wade, J. Dickerson and J. Jones attended services here Sunday. Misses Mattie Bradley and Eula Booker were at Thurmond last week on business. Miss Willie Washington visited her sister last week at Sun. W. M. Steven and Henry Eual, of Royal, attended services here Sunday. Mrs. Carrie Perkins, of Handley, is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Hattie Perkins. Rev. A. P. Harris preached for us again Sunday. The sermon was a very instructive one. Mr. Jesse Waddy was the guest of Miss Bradley Sunday. CLARKSBURG. Mrs. Rachel Allen continues quite ill. A pleasant session of the executive board of the W. M. M. S. of W. Va. was held Wednesday afternoon at Pride Chapel. In the evening a short program of welcome addresses and responses was carried out after which the women were addressed by Mr. Robert E. Clay, of Bristol, Tenn., and Mrs. Eifort, of Aslamb, Ky. On Tuesday night Mr. Clay addressed a large mass unceiting at Mt. Zion Baptist church. Mrs. Perkins, of Weston was the guest of Mrs. Lillian Weathers a few days last week. Rev. and Mrs. Wellman and Mrs. Hattie Tayler spent a few days last week in Fairmont. Mr. and Mrs. Kemper have gone to Virginia to spend some time with relatives, after which they will return to their home in Pittsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Kemper were guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Lassiter while here. Mrs. Norvel Jackson leaves this week for Mt. Lake Park, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Weathers entertained Drs. Jones and Youngue at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Henry Strohman has returned from Youngstown, O. J. K. Johnson will give a recital at Pride M. E. church Thursday evening. A welcome reception will be tendered Rev. J. N. Colbert at Trinity M. E. church Friday night. C. W. Florence was in the city Sunday. Mr. Florence was enroute home from Morgantown where he attended the closing exercises of the school. arrived Saturday and spent the day in making up his records. Many in-surance men were here also summing up the logs, as recently every day. L. R. Jordan and D. H. Kyle, principal and assistant of Water street school; Misses Eulah Patton, Geraldine Lagister, Mabel and Byrd Stone, students, spent Friday and Saturday in Buckhannon. The first two students were the victors in a debate between the two schools. Rev. S. P. West preached the anniversary sermon to Star Lodge, K. of P. and the Court of Calanthe at the A. M. F. church Sunday afternoon. The order made a fine appearance. Robert E. Clay, the noted orator of Bristol, Tenn., has attracted large audiences to all of his meetings. His addresses made at the court house on Monday and Thursday evenings were conceded to be the best heard here in years. The local press has been loud in its praise of Mr. Clay's wonderful ability. Mr. Clay was heard at all the churches Sunday. John Burkett died Sunday morning at St. Mary's Hospital of blood poisoning. Interment took place Wednesday afternoon. Miss Lillie Allen spent Sunday in Fairlane, Pa., with her parents. HOLDEN. Mrs. Fannie Smith, Miss Mayme Lee Palmer, Miss Alberta Johnson, Miss Bettie Corey and Miss Marion Bass gave a box party for the benefit of the Sunday School which was a success. The Holden band furnished the music. Skeleton Ray was visiting friends at Holden last week. Lawrence Booker has returned to Holden. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fortner last week a girl. Mrs. Mattie Williams, of Huntington, was visiting Mrs. Newell last week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. C. Smith, a boy last week. Thomas Page has been ill for the past week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Thom as, a boy. Paul Gill was slightly hurt in the mines Saturday. BUCKHANNON Miss Lottie Smith was the weekend guest of Clarksburg friends. Mrs. Eliza Mumford entertained the Ladies' Aid Society Friday afternoon. Mrs. Thornton Jackson was taken suddenly ill Sunday. H. D. Hazlewood, of Parkersburg was the week-end guest of Miss Maud Davis. Mrs. Amanda Brown has returned from Sutton, where she attended the funeral of her mother. Mrs. Jas, Wade was hostess to the Willing Workers, Thursday night. Mrs. J. W. Mumford entertained the Silver Leaf Club Friday night at her home on Sedgewick street. Rev. George DeYounge has returned from conference. His many friends warmly welcomed him back as Pastor of Simpson M. E. church. The entertainment given at the A. M. E. church Friday night by Victoria street school, assisted by Prof. Kyle, Misses Patton and Lassiter, of Clarksburg, was all that had been promised and well attended. Prof. Jenkins, Mr. Patton and Mable Roane, of Clarksville, attended the entertainment given here Friday night. ONWOOD. Mrs. John Morris left Tuesday morning for her home in Lynchburg on account of illness. Mrs. J. B. Guthrie is vory ill at her home. G. W. Robinson was called to Charleston Thursday on business. Miss Ethel Bryant, teacher of the Kimberly school, was visiting Mrs. J. B. Guthrie last week. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Clark, entertained at dinner Friday Mrs. H. H. Railey, Mrs. E. C. Page and Miss Ruth Waison, of Montgomery. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hollman is quite ill at this writing. S. H. Clark made a business trip to Charleston Tuesday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Saunders Friday, twins. The Donwood public school closed Friday with program at the church. The house was crowded with friends from Montgomery and home people. The children played well their parts and the flag drill deserves special mention. Thos. Johnson and H. H Railey, William Wicks and William Boone made short talks. The patrons of the school served a banquet after the program. This closes Mrs. Railey's fifth year at this place. MT. HOPE The town which was destroyed by fire recently has been doing business since the second day of the fire under tents and improvised structures. The Bank of Mt. Hope has built a temporary structure around its vault, as the latter withstood the flames and is doing business in the same way. It was interrupted from business but one day. Many who were in business are leaving for other towns as it will be some time before permanent store buildings will be erected. Nearly all the fortunate residents have moved to the nearby towns as the state guards left for Charleston Tuesday with the tents, which were supplied by the state. The best of order has been maintained all the while and not once was the militia called upon. The fire marshall of this district M. B. Brockman, who lost his residence and tailor shop will rebuild immediately; also H. A. Scott is contemplating the erection of a handsome brick and stone structure on his property. Rev. L. J. Thornton preached the Thanksgiving sermon of Rose of Sharon Lodge No. 6, at McDonald Sunday. He is now conducting a revival at his church at Kilsayh, assisted by Revs. Wilson, Howard, Gordon and Daniels. L. W. Thompson has moved his family to their future home at White Sulphur. PARKERSBURG. Miss Maybelle Williams, who has been the guest of Mrs. William Ferguson for sometime, returned to her home at McDonald, Pa., Sunday morning. Miss Eliza Colston, of Zanesville, sister of Miss Esther Colston, teacher in Sumner School, is in the city. They will reside permanently on Latrobe street. Mr. William Ruffner, of Clarksburg, was a visitor in the city Sunday. Mrs. Marie Taylor and Mrs. Robert Shaw, of Chicago, Ill., after spending a delightful visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Madison, on Seventh street, returned to their homes Friday morning. The teachers of Sumner High School will have Arbor and Bird Day exercises Friday afternoon. An interesting program has been arranged McClung Orchestra gave a dance in Belpre, O., at the Belpre Academy Friday evening. A large crowd was in attendance. Mrs. Henry Simpson, of 14th street is able to be out after being ill for three weeks. The Literary Society of Sumner High School will have a specially arranged program for Friday evening at the Zion Baptist church at which time W. I. Boreman, president of the Board of Education, will talk on the subject, "Single Tax." James Edmonson entertained at six o'clock dinner Monday evening: Prof. Horace Talbot, secretary of Wilberforce University, and Rev. F. H. Alleyne, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church. The K. of P. lodge chartered cars and went to Marietta, O., in a body Sunday afternoon to the annual Thanksgiving sermon of the K. of P. lodge of that city which was held in the Methodist Episcopal church at 2:30 o'clock. Prof. J. R. Jefferson made an excellent address after which Prof. Horace Talbot, Secretary of Wilberforce University, delivered the annual Thanksgiving sermon. BLUEFIELD. Jas. Hairston, of Bland street, is reported sick. Mrs. J. Robert Jones, of Keystone, was shopping in Bluefield last week. Prof. Wm. Pickens, professor of modern languages at Talladega College, gave a lecture on Abraham Lincoln at the Bluefield Colored Institute on March 31. While in the city he was the guest of Dr. N. L. Edwards. Miss Mary E. Viney spent last week in the coal fields. John Richardson is making an extended trip through North Carolina. Dr. Frank E. Bryant, of Cobbs pharmacy, made a business trip to Keystone last week. The Cobb's Coca Cola base ball club will give a ball and banquet at the Imperial Hotel Monday evening, April 4. Covers will be laid for about 200. W. W. Green has completed a very successful term of school at Glen Side and will spend a few weeks in this city before taking up his summer's work. Sherman Finney, of McDowell, passed through the city en route to Henry county, Virginia. He expects to be there several weeks, looking after his farm and spring crops. The friends of Julius Hairston will be grieved to learn of the death which occurred at his home, Walnut Cove, N. C., April 3. He was a charter member of G. W. Hayes No. 80, K. of P., and prior to his illness was employed on the N. & W. as a brakeman. Mrs. Harriet Campbell, who has been ill for a long time is now convalescing. The public schools did not open on the 4th as was expected. At a joint meeting of the Board of Education and the Board of Health, it was thought best for the health of the city that they remain closed a while longer. They will probably open April 11. HUNTINGTON. Mrs. A. B. Hughes returned Saturday from Christiansburg, Va., where she was called a few weeks ago by the illness of her parents. She left them much improved. Lewis Young, of Williamson, was a business caller in our city last week. Miss Bertie Steward, of Lancaster, O., was the guest of her sister, Miss Stella Stewart, of 1201 Seventh avenue. Miss Eva Tyler was the charming hostess to the Orion Club Friday evening. Mrs. Hannah Lightfoot, who spent several days as the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Hannah Lewis, returned to her home at Boswell, Va., Wednesday. Miss Lonnie Barnes was the guest Is the largest in the City and our Prices as usual the lowest that can be made up-to-date Merchandise. Let the practice of the virtue of self-denial for 48 days teach you how many things you can do without, then during the remainder of the year change self-denial to economy and deposit the resulting savings in the of Miss Rosa Carter last week. Miss Ethel Lewis, who spent Easter at home with her parents on Artisan avenue, has returned to her school at Kaymore. Miss Sadie E. Jones, of Bluefield, is ill at the residence of Mrs. Jane Burkes, of Artisan Ave. Launcelot Housen, the little grandson of Mrs. Sarah Burkes, is sick this week. Mrs. Rejella Carter returned home Friday after a very delightful week spent with her daughter, Miss Estella Vaughan, of Williamson. A. M. Baker went to Clifton Forgo Saturday on Business. The sad and impressive funeral services of Mrs. Alice Fullum, who departed this life Wednesday morning were conducted at the First Baptist church by Rev. I. V. Bryant Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Fullum had been ill for several months but grew decidedly worse about two weeks ago, during which time her mother was at her bedside. The deceased was for several years the widow of Dr. W. S. Kearney and was left with four children to care for; Castlebury, Arnett, Truedell and Estavon. With a resolution that was remarkable she set herself to the task of rearing and educating them and it may be said to her honor that no children were kept in school more regularly than were hers. Meanwhile she kept up the taxes on her property and finished paying for the same. She was always u' quiet neighbor and had that strength of character to maintain her self-respect at all times. Four years ago she was married to J. D. Fullum. He has been thoroughly devoted to his wife's interests and sympathized with her in all her plans. She leaves behind her husband, four children, father and mother, a sister and brother and numerous friends. Our deepest sympathy is extended to the bereaved family. The annual sermon of the Order of St. Luke was preached in a very able and impressive manner by Rev S. A. Thurston at the Sixteenth street Baptist church Sunday afternoon. This lodge consists mostly of women and presented a pleasing appearance in their white uniforms. A large audience was in attendance at this service and all enjoyed the many good things told of the progress of this order. The Y. M. C. A. met at the First Baptist church Sunday afternoon at the usual hour. Rev, W. O. Carver was the speaker of the afternoon and addressed them on the subject "What Christ expects of me." The subject was eloquent, logical and practical, showing the master mind of the speaker. Much credit is due Mrs. Annie Arrington who, assisted by the Rising Sons and Daughters, members and friends of the First Baptist church, presented Rev. Bryant with a suit of clothes as a token of esteem for him and his excellent success in his world here. PRATT. Mack McClure spent Saturday and Sunday with his family. Mrs. Helon Kimball is quite sick at this writing. Mrs. Thomas W. Holmes is also sick. Jacob Washington, of Hughteston, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Washington. Mrs. Mary E. White has gone to reside in Montgomery. Misses Julla Francis and Jemima Ellis were shopping in Montgomery Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Green, of Hansford, were guests of their daughter, Mrs. Lou Hancock, last Sunday. Mrs. Mack McClure was making calls in Hanford Saturday. Thomas M. Holmes, of Hanford, spent Sunday with his aunt, W. Holmes. We welcomed the rain of the week as it put out the monsoon, fires that have been raging around our town for a week. C. H. Calloway, of Princeton, is visiting our town. The people of Page are shocked over the most horrible crime ever committed in that community—the murder of Albert Quarrels, the young barber, by two white men John and George Banks, brothers, who made their escape. His throat was cut in several places, his head being almost served from his body. Homer Johnson and ohn Wesley, of Harewood, are visiting in our town this week. CEDAR GROVE The public school closed here Friday with an excellent program arranged and conducted by the teachers, J. A. Shields, of St. Albans, and Miss Hattie E. Peters of Sissonsville. Miss Williams and Sherman Adams, of Ward, attended the closing exercises. Edward Phillips, of Charleston, was visiting his mother, Mrs. Janie Beamer, Sunday. Robert Slater, Ethel Smith, Mrs. Minnie Mimmis and Mr. Chandler, of Lock 6, were visitors here on Sunday. Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Shaffer and Mrs. Anderson, of London were down to the closing exercises Friday night. Joe Walker met with a serious accident at the mines at Mammoth by having one of his legs broken. He was taken to the hospital at Hansford for treatment. Elliott Dingess is reported to Elliott Dingess is reported improving. John Dingess made a trip to Montgomery Saturday. John Reed and Mrs. Leona Jones are visitors at Plymouth as guests of their brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Reed. Little Marion Martin left for Huntington Sunday to enter school. Claude Hurt, and Thomas Buster, were initiated into the G. U. O. of O. F. Monday night. TEXAS AS A REPUBLIC New York, April 6.—There was placed on sale at auction in this city today a highly interesting collection of important original documents and diplomatic correspondence illustrative of the fiscal and political history of Texas during the period of her independence as a republic. The collection formed a part of the Library of Albert T. Durnley, who was commissioner of the republic from 1837 to 1843. One of the interesting items is the original manuscript contract for the purchase of the steamer Charleston, afterward the Zavalla, which was for a time the only vessel in the Texan navy. A BIG CONTRACT Winston Churchill, the novelist, described at a dinner in New York the difference between romanticism and realism in fiction: "To make my meaning clearer," he ended, "I will take the case of a young man and girl—sweethearts. The young man, a romanticist, will passionately to the girl: "Darling, it shall be my life's one purpose to surround you with every comfort, and to anticipate and grant your every wish." "The girl, a realist, smiled family as she answered: "Oh, Jack, how good of you; and all on nine dollars a week, too." — From "Success Magazine." of the PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE ADVOCATE PUB. CO. The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. MUZZLING THE OX The attention of our Baptist readers in particular and all our readers in general is called to the appeal of Rev. Jordan for funds for mission work in Africa, South America and elsewhere. Rev. Jordan's cause is worthy and we bespeak for him the active co-operation of Christian people of whatever denomination and wherever located In this connection, The Advocate can not refrain from calling attention to what has become almost as abuse. From time to time, this paper, as well as many others, is in receipt of these appeals from the headquarters of the missionary de Convention of the National Baptist Convention with the request that they be printed. But nothing is ever said about payment. We are asked to do the work "for the cause of the Kingdom of God" or "in His name." It is rather difficult to turn down a request "for the cause of the Kingdom of God," or "in His name," but they come so often we have begun to wonder if Rev. Jordan secures the paper, on which these requests are written, in the same way. Does the typewriter who writes them get her pay in the same coin? There is no question but that Uncle Sam is paid for the stamps to bring these appeals, and Rev. Jordan receives, on he dught to, for he is worth it and more, at least $1,200 a year. In fact everybody who has to do with the Macedonian cries of the National Baptist convention gets "hisn" but the Negro newspaper man, who is expected to give publicity to them "for the cause of the Kingdom of God." Somewhere in the Holy Writ there is said something about muzzling the ox which grinds out the corn. If all the other open on the same job were muzzled. The Advocate would not feel called upon to express a word of protest, but are they? Those interested will please answer. CRISIS IN LIBERIA The Washington administration is none too soon in formulating plans for the preservation of Liberia, it reports coming from Monrovia are to be relied upon. Under the caption above, The Independent says: In 1867 when the American Colonization Society celebrated its fifteenth anniversary, it was looking forward to an unprecedented increase in Negro immigration to Liberia. The Colony was founded for the benefit of freedmen. So when all the slaves were free it was expected that they would, many of them, want to go back to Africa. As President Warner, of the Liberian Republic, expressed it in his grandilquent address, Lincoln had said unto Pharaoh, 'Let my people go!' Pharaoh had let them go after divers planes, and now Johnson had made the order more specific by adding "Go to Liberia!" President Warner, himself had no doubt but that the second injunction was as much the voice of God as the first, but evidently the Negroes did not take it so, for they did not obey it. Emigration practically ceased after the war, and neither black nor white Americans took any further interest in Liberia. In this refusing to go back to Africa the colored people showed good judgment. They have prospered and progressed amazingly in this country since they were freed. They have as much right to American soil as the white folks: even a prior right by arrival over the Mayflower Descendants. If they had gone to Liberia then the majority of them would shortly have perished from disease. It was looked upon as natural and inevitable that all new comers, black and white, should be taken down within a few days after landing by the "acclimatizing fever," due to inhaling the "musquito" from the tropical swamps. We now know that this mysterious mosquito has wings and that by getting rid of the mosquito, the tsetse fly and other parasites of the blood, the tropics can be made habitable by either man. The tropics not only have become more habitable; they have become more valuable. London just now is crazy to invest in rubber plantations for automobiles consume rubber, as lamps consume oil. The king of one of the smallest countries in Europe becomes the richest of monarchs, because the poweps were rash enough to entrust him with the guardianship of Kongo. Germany is spending millions for the defense of a bit of African coast Hne, once not thought worth hoisting a flag over. Italy, Spain and Portugal, hard unfinan- cially, are neyertheless willing to send men and money to their African colonies. The dark continent, in fact, looks now like a western mining camp in a boom, with more or less conflicting claims staked out all over it. So it happens that little Liberia finds her neighbors crowding her too closely. France on the one side and Great Britain on the other have been showing their boundaries nearer together and have been very officious in the proffering of loans and administrative assistance. Liberia, well realizing the meaning of their sudden interest in her interests, has appealed for aid to the United States, her founder and proector. Our commission has visited the country and reported in favor of assisting Liberia in settling her boundary disputes and financial difficulties, of organizing a constabulary force and of establishing research and coaling stations. The recommendations of the commission have been approved by the President and transmitted to Congress. We believe it is the duty of that body to set upon it favorably and promptly, for we need Liberia as well as Liberia needs us. This is no time to sacrifice whatever claim we have on African soil. It has cost too much and it is worth too much for us to let it go. At the end of the first half century of its labors the American Colonization Society reported that it had collected and expended over $2,000,000 and the State societies half a million more Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania had made appropriations for carrying on the work, and the United States government had officially promoted it in many ways. Yale originated the project in 1776, and Princeton educated the first Negroes to be sent to the promised land. These universities might well take an interest in the country that owes its existence to their early enterprise. Liberia is not now needed as a refuge for freedmen and as a depository for slaves captured from the traders. It is not needed as a means of wiping out slavery. But it may be useful to the colored race in other ways. It may afford an opportunity for political and industrial activity which is limited in this country. Negroes of ability and wealth may desire a free field for their enterprise. Those who feel themselves wronged by being deprived of their right to vote under one pretext or another may want to go to a country where the white man has no vote, the only part of the African continent where the native race is not under foreign rule. Those who feel humiliated at the indignities thrust upon them may be glad to know that there is one country where they are welcomed. The mere existence of a self-governing, prosperous and civilized community wherein Negroes could work out their own destiny in their own way would raise the status of the race the world over. In short, a Zionist movement among the colored people might not be a bad thing. To be sure, the Negroes have no such traditional and religious attachment to Africa as the Hebrews have for Palestine, but the economic and ethnological arguments which are put forward in favor of a Jewish state apply with greater force to the colored race, which is more restricted and condemned in America than the Jews are anywhere. But the Negroes must decide for themselves whether they want to do a little colonization on their own account. Philantropic assistance is not needed now as it was formerly. All we as a nation need to do is to see to it that they do not lose the chance then our neglect, and that the suffering and self-sacrifice of the American pioneers in Liberia has not been in vain. In 1822, when Elijah Johnson and his little band of settlers were in danger of being wiped out of existence by a rising of the natives, the commander of a British man-of-war offered to land a force of marines for their protection on condition that they would code a few square feet of ground on which to erect a British flag. But Johnson sent back word: "We want no foreign flag put up here. It would cost more to get it down again than it will to whip the natives." So 35 colonists withstood the attack of 800 natives, and when they returned with double the number they were a second time repulsed. Now the British flag is again ready to be raised over Liberian territory and the same reply is in order. BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS Scarcely a week passes now without an announcement of Negro superiority in scholarship or oratory in some institution where it was to have been least expected. First, Negro boys lead high school classes in New Jersey; then one takes the oratorical first honors in Iowa; and now Columbia University, of New York City, awards the highly prized Curtis modal for oratory to George W. Scott, a Southern Negro, whose subject was; "Is the Negro Fitted for Full Citizenship." In the eyes of Maryland Democrats he is not, but, fortunately, Scott did not make his argument before Maryland judges. In consequence and because of the superiority of his argument and delivery, he receives the most highly prized scholarship honor from Columbia. Scott is but another example of what the Negro can and will do if he is but given half a chance. He is no prodigy. Others have done equal- ly as well. All the black man ask is a chance for his white alley. He will do the rest. WASHINGTON AT FISK There are numbers of men able to speak in more florid language, to express their thoughts in periods more rounded than his, but when it comes down to the discussion of questions which affect the common people in their daily relations with the problems of life, few, if any, are peers to Booker Washington. And it is this common sense view of every day questions that makes him the unquestionable leader of his people. His is not: the calling to preach the existence beyond the grave. He does not deal in the absturse questions which perplex the minds of scientists, nor march barefoot to the shrine of some long-dead benefactor of the race, but he concerns himself with the living present, with those things which concern the welfare of the quick, rather than the debatable question of the abode of those who have "shuffled off this mortal coll." He strives to prepare his followers for present conditions, rather than for those which the millennium only can hope to see. In other words, he is a materialist, not an idealist, one who takes life as he finds it and strives to better existing conditions. He would have the race with which he is connected to take advantage of its disadvantages, to overcome the obstacles thrown round about it by the accident of birth and color, believing, and rightly, too, that greater honor is due the Negra who succeeds in his chosen field than the white man who is successful along the same lines. At Nashville, as on other occasions, he preached the gospel of optimism, the gospel of self-helpfulness, the doctrine which must be instilled in the minds of the masses, if we are to rise to the heights of the now superior race. BLAZING THE WAY In this issue is presented to our readers a short sketch of the work which has been and is being done at Harper's Ferry by Storer College for the education of the Negroes of West Virginia. Next week we tell what the State is doing at Bluefield for its Negro citizens. The week following, the leading institution for the education of Negro youth, located at Institute, will be fully described. We have been at some expense and much trouble to secure these articles...but we will be fully repaid for both, if we succeed in the smallest measure in interesting our clientele to the extent of their taking a more serious view of the opportunities afforded them for "getting ahead." Then, too, as the leading Negro newspaper of the State, we would call attention to its educational facilities, blazing the way, as it were, with the hope that our contemporaries will be led to impress upon their readers the duty they owe the State and themselves to show their appreciation by crowding these institutions beyond their present capacities. The St. Stephens' Semi-Centennial New York, April 6. —Old Trinity Church was the scene this afternoon of a notable gathering of educators, churchmen and others who assembled to celebrate the semi-centennial of St. Stephen's College at Annandale-on-Hudson. The college was chartered in 1860, though it had been started some years previously as a small training class in the registry of the Church of the Holy Innocents at Annandale. It is said that about one-twentieth of all the communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States are under the pastoral care of alumni and former students of St. Stephen's. National Capitol CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. Mitchell, Jack M. Ryan, Prof. Brown and W. K. Sykes. It can be asserted without fear of successful contradiction that between Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson and Dr. Booker T. Washington there exists an indissoluble friendship. Colonel Johnson did not visit Tuskegee to solicit the endorsement of the "Wizard," and no one initiated that he did. He went to Tuskegee Institute to see the place adn pay his respects to a distinguished educator and personal friend—just as hundreds of others, in politics and out—do every year. Had Col. Johnson needed or wished the influence of Dr. Washington for any honor that the influence of the Tuskegee could have aided him in securing such endorsement would have been promptly forthcoming. Of this there is not the slightest doubt. There is no suggestion of rivalry between these two strong forces for the "leadership" of the race, and if there are those who think there is profit for anybody in an effort to promote strife where none should and does not exist, the propaganda ought to be dropped at once. Col. Johnson and Dr. Washington will each do his work and the world will be the gainers by their cordial interchange of courtesies and combined THE ADVOCATE energies wherever their lines of action converge. The apointment of James L. Pugh as judge of the Police Court of the District of Columbia, gives eminent satisfaction to the bar of this community, colored and white joining in the acclaim which greeted the new jurist as he assumed the robes of office on Monday morning. The bench was literally covered with flowers from one end to the other, presented by attorneys, members of the police court staff and personal friends. Judge Pugh was presented to the massive audience by the senior member of the bench, Judge A. R. Mullowney, who in introducing him paid him a high triumph, both as a lawyer and a friend. Judge Pugh's advent was the signal for prolonged applause, and his address evoked hearty cheers and huzzas. Attorney Thomas, L. Jones, a leader at the District bar, was among the speakers called upon. He said it was "I have knows Judge Pugh for seventeen of the nineteen years he has been connected with the police court of the District. A stronger or better equipped man could not have been chosen for the peculiar and often delicate duties that fall to the lot of an occupant of this bench in a variegated population like ours. Judge Pugh is a humilitarian; he knows how to temper justice with money; he understands that mankind has its weaknesses and frailties, which need due consideration when the unfortunate ones are haled before the bar. Especially does the poor and oftimes friendless Negro need a friend at court in the hour of trouble. If there be worth in the apparently vicious Negro, Judge Pugh will give credit for the spark, and by sympathy try to redeem him from the life of a confirmed criminal. He believes that punishment should be reformatory, and will not blind his eyes to truth in order to etxort fines for the benefit of the public treasury, nor does he believe it right to fill the work-house with Negroes because they cannot help themselves. He comes from the best blood of the South—the old land-owners who are always the black man's best friends, and we, along with the other citizens of the District are fortunate in having such a broad-guaged judge upon the bench of our police court." Addresses in similar vein were made by other colored attorneys, among them being Professor W. H. H. Hart, of the faculty of the Howard University Law School, who recalled the fact that he and Judge Pugh were boys together down at the old home in Eufaula, Alabama, and that his father and the Judge's father were also boys together in the long ago in southeastern Alabama. He knew the Pugh family of old and was glad a son of that noble blood was now on the bench of the court where the luckiest Negro was offenest found. Attorneys A. W. Scott, M. T. Clinkscales and John A. Moss also spoke. The graduates of Shaw University, residing in Washington, have organized a "Shaw University Club." with Rev. M. W. D. Norman, pastor of the Metropolitan Church, as president. J. A. Lankford, M. M. S., is first vice-president; Rev. J. D. Pair is corresponding secretary; and A. W. Scott, LL.B., is treasurer. There is quite a number of Shaw graduates in the city and all are invited to become members. The funeral of Benjamin Alexander Chase took place Wednesday last from the Metropolitan A. M. E Church. He was a member of John F. Cook Lodge, No. 1185, G. U. O. of O F., under the auspices of which the obsequies were held, with H. J. McEntree, N. G., and James W. Richardson, P. S., in charge. Mr. Chase was well-known and was regarded as one of our most valuable citizens. President Taft has been invited to attend the laying of the corner-stone of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, the magnificent institution which is being established at Durham, N. C., by Dr. James E. Shepard, for the moral and industrial elevation of the Negro people. The ceremonies are to take place the last of May or early in June, to suit the convenience of the President. Gen. Julian S. Carr, president of the First National Bank at Durham, and Hon. E. C. Duncan, Republican National Committeeman for Carolina, and Rabbi Simon, of the Hebrew Temple, of this city, trustees of the institution, were introduced to the President by Senator Overman, of North Carolina. The President will try to adjust his engagements so as to accept the invitation. It is because Dr. Shepard's magnetic personality has been able to draw about him the class of influential men that he is on the high road toward success with his stupendous undertaking. Work is being pushed on the main auditorium and all will be in readiness for the opening of the summer Chautauqua and institute on July 5. The new $90,000 Science Hall for Howard University is rapidly approaching completion and the contractors have promised to turn the building over to the school authorities about May 15, six weeks ahead of the allotted time. The building is a handsome and imposing structure. It is 125 feet long and has a width of 65 feet. It is fireproof throughout. The basement, together with three stories, and attic, will form a structure in keeping with the other buildings of the University, now and to come. The floors, columns, beams, girders, and the floor and ceiling of the front porch, are of reinforced concrete. All walls are of brick. The floors will have a cement finish, and the interior walls Warm Weather Clothes Summer came early this year and found many unprepared. 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Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, Assistant Superintendent of the Washington public schools, definitely announces that he not a candidate for the Haitien Mission. It is given out upon what is regarded as good authority that the name of James C. Napier, of Nashville, Tenn., will go to the Senate within the next few weeks for an important federal berth. A close friend of Mr. Napier, however, also states that any mention of the name of the polished Tennessee in connection with any position now held by a colored man is without his authority and, is not in accord with good taste at this time. No one seems to know just what place has been selected for Mr. Napier, but that he will land something big is said to be on the cards, as sure as fate. The race has not a more deserving man than Mr. Napier adn his success would be the signal for general rejoicing. He is pre-eminently a man of the people—a leader who knows how to lead. A party, consisting of Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Curtis, Mrs. E. D. Williston and others, are on a visit to Tuskegee Institute, and studying social and industrial problems at close range in the South. Dr. Curtis, together with the remainder of the party, attended the sessions of the Alabama State Medical Association at Birmingham, and delivered a scholarly address on "The Treatment of Appendicitis," attracting widespread attention at the hands of the local physicians of both races and securing liberal notice in the white dailies of Birmingham. The delineation of the story of "Sampson and Delilah" by Lawyer James H. Hayes, of Richmond, Va. last Friday night at Metropolitan A.M. E. church, was a fine dramatic and musical triumph. He was assisted by the well-trained choir of the church, under the direction of Prof. John T. Layton. The success of the unique entertainment reflected great credit on the managerial skill of Miss Marie A.D. Madre, a popular teacher in our public schools. Howard University carried off the honors last Friday night in the annual debate with Fisk University upon the question of whether or not the United States should have an income tax. The Howard debaters discussed the affirmative side of the question and succeeded in putting forth such a substantial argument that the result was almost a foregone conclusion before the result was announced. The audience taxed the capacity of Andrew Rankin Memorial chapel. C. D. Washington J. H. Morris and William A. Love represented Howard University, and J. E. Allison, James E. Stamps and Chas, Payne were the members of the Fisk team. A similar debate was being held the same night at Atlanta University, and a telegram arrived at a late hour conveying the news that Howard's other team had "won out" on the same subject, sustaining the negative side, however, against the Atlanta University oratorical gladiators. Speaking of the post of special agent of the General Land Office, to which Editor W. D. 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BISHOP JOHNSON, D. D., Secy. Box 2384 Station G. Office at Second Baptist Church, Third Street, between H and I Sts., N. W. HENRY T. M'DONALD, President STORER COLLEGE Harper's Ferry, W. Va —Founded in 1867— More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Elevation high. Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular faculty of sixteen highly educated, earnest teachers does not include assistants. More than 400 men and women have school in the state for Colored students. tion high. Remarkably healthful. Ampli BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PL lar faculty of sixteen highly educated, ca assistants. Our Library catalogued according to the largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE S AR BERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION in its faculty and student body. Its who living. Literary Societies, Christian G Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Normal For illustrated catalogue and other THE CRYSTAL B Owned and Controlled by the K America, South America, Europe, men and women have graduated from Colored students. Magnific- ly healthful. Ample buildi- DED TO OUR PLANT THE highly educated, earnest teach- logued according to the Dew- te. CERTIFICATE S ARE GRANT- SUATING CLASSSES WHO A- WORD OF EDUCATION. Storer ident body. Its whole influen- ties, Christian Organizati- tics. Economic, State Normal, Industri- catalogue and other printed m The CRYSTAL BATH Enrolled by the Knights of America, Europe, Asia, Af women have graduated here. The oldest students. Magnificent location. Eleva- ful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regu- educated, earnest teachers does not include according to the Dewey System, is one of MERCATE S ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM- G CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational ly. Its whole influence is toward Christian Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, State Normal, Industrial, Music. and other printed matter write to Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one of the largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE S ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE ROAD OF EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian living. Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Music. For illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to TAL BATH HOUSE by the Knights of Pythias of North Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. THE CRYSTAL BATH HOUSE Owned and Controlled by the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Attendants' Fees $3.00 per $1.50 per Call on or Address CRYSTAL BATH HOUSE Fees $3.00 per course of 21 Baths $1.50 per course of 10 Baths J. R. SMITH, I HOUSE HOT SPRINGS. J. R. SMITH, Mgr. HOT SPRINGS. ARK. Call on or Address J. R. SMITH, Mgr. CRYSTAL BATH HOUSE HOT SPRINGS, ARK THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1910 and Robert A. Pelham, of Michigan. The annual banquet of the Class of 1912, of Howard Law School, was a gala occasion. Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the Law school faculty, was the guest of honor. Twelve of the students responded to toasts, with W. H. Burrell as toastmaster. Judge R. H. Terrell, Dr. W.-V. Tunnell, and W. H. H. Hart, for the visitors, delivered taking addresses. The affair was held at Martin's, and the committee in charge was made up of E. H. Lawson. C. Granady, Arthur J. Turner, Benjamin T. Montgomery and Horace G. Anderson. Colored clerks are multiplying at the Census Office and over twelve hundred Negro enumerators will have work in the field. ThePresident The only bath house of its kind in the United States for Colored People, receiving its hot water direct from the United States Government. Equipped with all the latest improvements. Experienced attendants. Steam heated throughout. PRIE OF BATHS: $4.00 per course of 21 baths. $2.00 per half course of 10 baths. 25 cons per single bath. Knights of Pythias and members of the Court of Calanthe with certificates of good standing in their respective lodges are entitled to half the above rates. N. C. BRACKETT, Treasurer. THURSDAY, APRIL 74, 1919 CON T ALL LETTERS MAILED TO OUR OFFICE BEFORE THE Succ IN SOME OF THE DISTRICT THE FRIENDS OF MA NOT LET THEIR INTEREST LA WILL BE MADE UNTIL THE S THE FOLLOWING WEL ING THE PRIZES: REV. R. R. SUM AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF HERE IS THE STANDI ONTER TUESDAY ERS MAILED BEAIRING POSTMAIL BEFORE THAT TIME WILL BE success OF THE DISTRICTS WILL DEPENDS OF MANY OF THE CONTENTS OF THE CONTENTS LAG ON THE HOME UNTIL THE SAME APPEARS IN BOWING WELL KNOWN CITIZEN REV. R. R. DOWN, MR. W. O. JUMM JUNE VINTAGE OF THIS GREAT OPPO THE STANDING OF THE CONTENT CONTEST CLOSES ALL LETTERS MAILED BEARING POSTMARK BEFORE MIDNIGHT OF THAT DAY AND ALL VOTES DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO OUR OFFICE BEFORE THAT TIME WILL BE COUNTED. Success or Failure IN SOME OF THE DISTRICTS WILL DEPEND UPON THE WORK DONE DURING THE LAST FEW HOURS OF THE CONTEST. THE FRIENDS OF MANY OF THE CONTESTANTS HAVE DONE SPLENDID WORK FOR THEIR FAVORITES; THEY SHOULD NOT LEAVE THEIR INTEREST LAG ON THE HOME STRETCH. NO ANNOUNCEMENT WHATEVER OF THE RESULTS OF THE CONTEST WILL BE MADE UNTIL THE SAME APPEARS IN THE ISSUE OF THE ADVOCATE OF APRIL 24. THE FOLLOWING WELL KNOWN CITIZENS HAVE CONSENTED TO ACT AS JUDGES IN COUNTING THE VOTES AND AWARDING THE PRIZES: REV. R. R. DOWN, MR. W. O. TERRY AND MR. W. H. PARKER. SUMMER SCHOOL AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHETHER YOU WIN A PRIZE OR NOT HERE IS THE STANDING OF THE CONTENTANTS UP TO THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS. NAMES AND VOTES Each copy of The Advocate published during the contest will confi a coupon good for ten votes. Cut these coupons from the paper, fill them out and mail or bring them to the Contest Manager, The Advocate, Charleston, W. Va. All subscription money collected and turned in to The Advocate during the contest. whether for back dues or for renewal of subscri pions shall count for votes as follows: Three months, $0.50 Six months, $1.00 One year, $1.50 Two years, $3.00 Three years, $4.50 Five years, $7.50 Absolutely no change will be made from 1000 votes Absolutely no change will be made from the above schedule during the contest. No votes will be issued until cash for the subscriptions has been delivered to The Advocate. All subscriptions should be turned in immediately upon securing the same, but the votes which will be issued upon the subscriptions may be cast at any time during the contest. Every reasonable assistance will be rendered the friends of the contestants by The Advocate and any information which is given for one contestant will, upon request, be given for all. The standing of the leading contestants from week to week will be announced in the columns of The Advocate, and three reliable and impartial Judges will be selected to count and announce the vote at the close. Address All Communications To The CONTEST MANAGER THE ADVOCATE, Charleston, W. Va. CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. pressing his regrets at not being able to attend, being detained in New York on important business matters. Chancellor Kirkland. Dr. James Hampton Kirkland, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University prose to speak amid thunderous applause. He paid high tribute to the fitness and ability of Dr. Gates, expressing great esteem for and complete confidence in the new president. "Fisk University," said he, "is not represented by the half score of buildings but by the traditions and forces which play within their walls. I congratulate Dr. Gates that he is coming into fields so new, so fresh and so great. Education is the debt the present generation owes to the generation following. Ignorance is not a solution of any question, of any race, of any nation." Gen. H. B. Armstrong, though not on the program, was called on to make a short address, which he did, congratulating Dr. Gates and Fisk Brilliant Chancellor Kirkland TUESDAY, APRIL 12 IMER JUNE 27 THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHEN NG OF THE CONTESTANTS UP TO JUNE 27---AUG. 5 University for their mutual good fortune in each securing the co-operation of the other in the great work tion of the other in the great work. Booker T. Washington presented in the name of Gilbreath, a white citizen of Birmingham, Ala., $1,000 in United States bonds, with the terse statement. "This is the answer of Alabama to the call of Fisk." Prof. Washington's address in part is as follows: Booker Washington's Address. "I bring to Fisk University the greetings of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. I bring to you with these greetings the confidence, the respect and faith of our trustees faculty and students. "Fisk University has been most fortunate in the past. For many years it had as its president Dr. E. M. Grayath, one of the gentleest, widest and broadest men that any institution ever had at its head. He was succeeded by Dr. L. G. Merrill, who continued successfully to carry out the policies of Dr. Grayath. And now we come to another step in the development of Fisk University when we are today engaged in placing at the head of this institution Dr. George A. Gates, a man of wide and ripe experience in the field of REMEMBER THE DATE OF THE ER SCH E 27---AUG. 5 ORTUNITY WHETHER YOU WIN A PRIZE OR NOT. STANTS UP TO THE TIME OF GOING TO PRESS: FACULTY OF THE SUMMER June 27th-August 54th.) ( M. P. SHAWKEY, A. M., Administration, State Superintendent of W. Va. LEWIS B. MOORE, Ph. D., Dean of Teachers' College, Howard University,—History of Education, and Supervision. W. T. B. WILLIAMS, A. B., Trustee of Slater Fund, Field Agent of Hampton Institute,—Educational Extension Work. D. WEBSTER DAVIS, A. M., D. D., Assistant Principal Baker St. School, Richmond, Virginia, —Penagogy. BYRD PRILLERMAN, A. M., President of W. Va. Colored Institute. C. W. BOYD, Principal of Garnett High School, Charleston, West Virginia—Geometry. CHARLES E. MITCHELL, M. A., Inc. Acct., Business Manager of W. Va. Colored Institute, Bookkeeping. E. A. DOLLING, A. B., Lewisburg, West Virginia, — State History and Civics. G. H. BARNETT, A. B., Columbus, Ohio. A. W. CURTIS, M. Agri., Institute, West Virginia, — Agriculture. E. L. RANN, Principal Bluefield Graded School, West Virginia, — Mathematics. J. R. JEFFERSON, Principal Summer High School, Parkersburg, Virginia, — Physiology. FRED R. RAMER, Martinsburg, West Virginia, — Grammar and Orthography. H. H. RAILEY, Prin. Simmons Graded School, Montgomery, West Virginia, — History and Geography. MRS. R. P. JOHNSON. Kimball Graded School, — Primary Work. MRS. MARGARET M. LOWRY, Milliner W. Va. Colored Institute, — Millinery. June 28th—M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent. July 1st—Thos. E. Hodges, Member of State Board of Control. July 5th—Virgil A. Lewis, State Archivist and Historian. July 8th—F. M. Longanecker, Supervisor of Examinations. July 12th— July 15th—George S. Laidley, Superintendent of Charleston City Schools, and member of the State Board of Regents. To The CONTE Charlesto education. education "Fisk University is great in its past, great in its present. It may be made greater in its future. This institution should be generously endowed. It should have a larger permanent income. Its physical plant should be overhauled and reconstructed. The trustees could spend wisely at the present time at least $100,000 in overhauling and strengthening the physical plant, to say nothing of the need of additional endowment. I believe that this money will be forthcoming. The people of this nation should remember that the Negro is not a boggar so far as his personal needs are concerned. He supports himself in clothes and in shelter and has dono for forty-five years. The only call that he has made upon the public has been for aid in the direction of education moral and religious training; that call I believe we have the right to make through Fisk University and such a call will be answered." Representing the faculty. Herbert Wright, A. M., Dean, spoke of the encouraging outlook before the university and paid high tribute to its work in the past. He extended SCHOOL LECTURERS THE ADVOCATE OSES 12 VOTES DELIVERED DIRECTLY lure NEW HOURS OF THE CONTEST. EIR FAVORITES; THEY SHOULD THE RESULTS OF THE CONTEST TING THE VOTES AND AWARD- IOOL July 19th----J. Frank Marsh, Supervisor of Institutes. July 22nd----R. P. Sims, Principal Bluefield Colored Institute. July 26th----D. R. Purinton, President West Virginia University. July 29th...... August 2nd----J. W. Hughes, Principal Lincoln School, Wheeling. The blank dates will be filled with as able speakers as those named above. Special effort is being made to secure the service of Dr. Booker T. Washington for one lecture. CASH COMMISSIONS FOR THE LOOSERS To every contestant who does not win a scholarship, out, who receives a total of two thousand or more votes, we will allow a cash commission of twenty-five per cent on all money turned in in behalf of that contestant. For example if $60 were turned in in behalf of a contestant who did not win a scholarship that contestant would receive in cash, 25 per cent of the $60, or the $15. The feature of paying cash for all work done in behalf of a favorite is unique in all voting contests and ought to make this the most popular contest ever held in the state. We hope that every dollar paid out in cash commissions will be used by the teachers receiving the same for part of her expenses in attendance of the Institute Summer School. Our prime motive in holding this contest is to encourage the attendance at the Summer School and thus show that the colored teachers of the state really appreciate this great educational opportunity which for the first time is being offered us by the state authorities. The school will begin Monday, June 27, and will continue for six weeks. A regular teachers' institute will immediately follow the closing of the school and this will be presided over by lecturers of more than local repute. For further information write to Supt. M. P. Shawkey, Charleson, W. Va.; Prin. R. P. Sims, Bluefield Colored Institute, Bluefield, W. Va., or President Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va. EST MANAGER on, W. Va. cordial greetings to the new president and visitors present, and referred with pleasure to the fact that Fiske is now on the plane where it can look for greater things. His talk was generously applauded. Fisk's Record Henry Hugh Proctor, pastor of the First Congregational church Atlanta, Ga., representing the alumni, spoke at length on the work already accomplished by the University. He said: "Seven hundred and sixty-five graduates have gone out from Fisk. Of these only twenty-five are dead. 383 have gone out from the college department, 3.4 from the normal and 16 from the theological department. One-fourth of these graduates are still in the state of Tennessee working benefactions upon their people, the balance scattered over 33 states in the Union. Fisk men are in England, the Philippines and even in far away Africa. Out of these graduates there is no a single loofer and not one has been in prison." President Gates Speaks. In the evening at eight o'clock the inaugural address of Dr. Gates was heard. It was a paper of great meaning, roll of food for thought "My first word today must rightfully be a reverent recognition of workers for Fisk University in the past. It is only honorably fitting that we pause to pay the tribute of our honor to those men and women who have buried small or large part of their working lives into the foundations of this institution. Near a half century of devoted work has been done here. The old hospital barracks in which the institution was born was almost humble enough to give it the honor of being born in a manger. The motive of its beginning was worthy. If this world knows any such think as high and generous and worthy motive Fisk University was born of such motive. The need of help, so desperate as to be, almost tragic, was one of its parents; the other was a high and holy purpose to give one's self in humble service for the lowliest, and that, too, under conditions of difficulty, such as the history of mankind has not often paralleled. "Time glides and sanctifies; but alas for our American people, if, while still in our youth, we fail to cultivate the cherishing of noble memories. We may not here not all, but it is proner that in this place mention e made of the great work of the first president of Fisk University, Rev. Dr. Erastus N. Cravath. Whoever may be his successors in office, his will always be the honor of being first and greatest president, so. The memory of his work for his successors are glad to have in this institution would be dishonored by attempt to adorn it with multiplicity of words. National Unity. "The poet has said, 'The cast is cast and the west is west, and never the twain shall meet.' Some have attempted to apply that to the problem of national unity in America. The north is north and the south is south, and never the twain shall meet. But if our times demands one voice more than another on this topic it is one which shall rise from end to end of this country denying that and proclaiming ultimate unity of north and south. There is no more than one such voice. We are either going to have a nation here or not. It has long been settled by declaration that we shall be one people; ours the solemn duty of working it out. "And it is working out. The north and south are coming together. Northern capital and industry are pouring into the south with the rapidity hardly conceivable. Mutual appreciation is growing, slowly, like all great growths. A national unity like the American, born of poverty and hard struggle with wilderness conditions all up and down the Atlantic coast; baptized in blood; purified by fires, of fieren debate; matured in the patient spiritual struggle of slowly yielding prejudices—has fairer promise of ultimate national greatness and perpetuity. "The freezing of the slaves threw upon this American people a sociological problem of a quality and size which this world has never known before. The judgment of other nations, looking upon the American nation from the outside, is clear and virtually unanimous that there is one problem in America overshadowing all others, namely, the race problem. Whether that be right or wrong, that is what other nations think of us. It is a problem so large and so many gided that any man of sanity must recognize that no mind has yet appeared able to point out, with any certainty, even to himself, the ultimate solution to that problem. The refrain of one of our jubilee songs is, 'I will go, I shall go, to see what the end will be.' Such a problem is a challenge to the imagination. I is a call to devotion, for it must be solved. We cannot escape it, it is upon this people, whether we will or not. Obligation of the Present. "Now, that we do not know the end does not absolve us from obligation. The fact that the ultimate solution lies far beyond the present generation does not free this generation from doing its work in its day. To neglect that work is not only to complicate the problem, but is to imperil all the people and every interest concerned. "So that our task is perfectly clear, namely, to find out, if possible, what contribution this generation can make towards the ultimate solution and then, with tremendous courage, in whole-hearted devotion, apply ourselves to it. Great and generous sacrifices of self on the part of all simply must be. That and that only is the beginning and end of our obligation. Coming generations will have battles enough to fight. It is the high and holy privilege of our generation to contribute something even though it be a modest little, toward making the work of our children a little less arduous, their dangers somewhat less threatening, their opportunities wider and their hope brighter. We can if we will lay firm and true blocks in the foundations of that structure which is to be Ultimate America." "Come we now to discuss matters of immediate concern here. The reason for this assembly in this place is—education for the Negro people. Let us frankly admit that there are still wide differences of opinion among us to what is best. The details of universal popular education were never under discussion more than now. Let us again seek broad common ground on which we may stand together. "May we not agree on that succinctly expressed truth. Ignorance is a cure for nothing? Can anyone be found scruciously to take the negro Mrs. Clinton R. Fiske, widow of five dollars a day. Sample and par- gent Fiske, who was Federal Gen- tulars free. THE GROWN CO. ergal in charge in Nashville at the 1482 S. St., Washington, D.C. close of the war, and who was large. 1-37-7-2 tive of that proposition for a debate No; many in this late day. A Universal Justice. "Let me lay down a second plank in the platform on which we may all stand. No civilization can ultimately rest on any other foundation than universally applied justice. Justice alone is at last tolerable in human society. Can any one be found who will seriously take the negative of that proposition for a debate? "Apply that to our immediate situation. There can be no solution of the race problem in America but a just solution—a solution just to every person concerned. We must all patiently work at and work out that problem. The only way anyone can stay up or rise higher is by helping his neighbor up. The interests of the city of Nashville and of Fisk University are in no respects divergent, but rather coincident. The fact that so many of the citizens of Nashville those who are helping to make it a city of power and influence, are here present, would seem to indicate that we could work together. Hitherto nearly all of our support has come from the north where there is larger wealth than exists in the south; but that condition ought: gradually to be changed. This institution is not for the north anywhere nearly as much as it is for the south. It should become more and more a Tennessee Institution. Ther is abundant evidence that the people of the city of Nashville are very proud of this great college here. What Flsk is Debug What Fisk is doing. "As one hint of what Fisk has doing there are our graduates teaching in the schools of Nashville, thirty-eight, and in the southern states more than two hundred. Yet more explicitly of our work on this campus. "First, Fisk University has stood, and still stands and proposes to stand for the higher education of such members of the Negro race as may seek such education. This is distinctively Fisk's mission, along with a very few closely similar institutions. "After all our discussion and as the end of all our ambitions, can we not agree to stand together on this for a final plank in a common platform? Looked at in the largest way, with all the command of vision possible at this time in the history of the American people, this great problem seems likely to work itself out in the direction of the Negro's cultivating an ambition to build for himself a civilization, a social life, an industrial life, and educational life of his own in the midst of and as an organic part of the civilization of our land. The details no man living is now prepared to fill out. The more this great body of Negro people living here in the southland and continue to live here can believe in themselves and in their ability to build for themselves their own life and institutions, the better it will be not only for themselves, but for all. Just as long as any people will content themselves to lean upon and be supported by another civilization than their own, so long will they be in a parasite position with all the weakness that parasitism exemplifies. The reason why Fisk University was planted, has been cultivated and is here doing its work is to help the Negro people to sterling self-respect. The institution is here to fight no battles, to cherish no prejudices of its own, to avoid so far as possible crossing prejudices, but in the modern and christian spirit to try to obey that ancient, and reverent commandment to 'help our neighbor,' and to help in the best and highest way." Other speakers who brought a word of greeting were: Dr. Carl Kelsey, University of Pennsylvania; William Adams Brown, Union Theological Seminary; Rev. H. H. Tweedy; Yale; James M. Whitton, New York; Prof. Wm. S. Scarborough, Wilberforce University, and Dr. H. Paul Douglass. Distinguished Visitors. A special pullman car was run from New York to bring prominent educators and others here for the ceremonies. Those composing this party were: Dr. Carl Kelsey, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, ad Mrs. Kelsey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rev. Henry Hallam Twecdy, professor of practical theology at Yale, New Haven, Conn. Rev. Dr. William Adams Brown, representing the Union Theological Seminary, New York City. Charles A. Hull, A. B., of Brooklyn, N. Y., president of the board of trustees of Fisk University, also chairman of the executive committee of the American Missionary Association. Charles H. Rutan, of the well known firm of architects, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, Boston, Mass. Mr. Rutan is also a member of the board of trustees of Fisk University. Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal and also vice-Principal George P. Phenix of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va. Rev. Dr. J. G. Merrill, for ten years president of Fisk, University, and Mrs. Merrill, Somerset, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. McWilliams, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Prof. and Mrs. Herbert A. Miller, of Olivet, Mich. Mrs. Miller is the daughter of former President Crayath. And the better the job, the better is your chance of improving your condition and getting ahead. The International Liberty Union of the World THE I LU will help you get a job if you haven't one, and will help you to a better job if you have one. whether you want what the I-L-U members are working for and getting Big Cash Benefits Family Protection Self Education Co-operative Buying Co-operative Selling Mutual Uplift This opportunity is open to every one without regard to sex, color or nationality, between the ages of fifteen and sixty years. Send ten cents for three months' subscription to our official magazine, THE UNION JOURNAL and circulars and full particulars of our offer will be sent you. Write Us Today I-L-U GRAND LODGE. 105 I-L-U Bld'g. Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. ly influential in the founding of Fisk University. Rev. Dr. James M. Whiton of the editorial staff of The Outlook. CHICAGO, ILL. L. W. Washington, president of the Bethel Literary Society, made a great mistake when he invited such ignorant colored men as A. L. Williams to deliver an address before the club. This is one of the causes and reasons that the various literary societies among the colored people in Chicago have been a complete failure, and especially the Bethel Literary Society, which is so often poorly attended on account of them having such incompetent speakers. Mr. Williams continued his harangue much to the disgust of everybody present for over an hour until the whole audience was tired and worn out hearing his broken and bad English, and his egotism in talking about himself is to be hoped in the future that President Washington will not make another blunder like that soon. C. C. Chatman, of New York, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New York, and a prominent member of Queen Anne Court of Daughters of Sphinx of New York, was in Chicago last Monday and was royally entertained by the colored Masons of this city and by the members of Morning Light Court of Daughters of the Sphinx The National Federation of Fratern and Benevolent Societies of the United States elected last week the following grand officers: Rev. J. H. Magge, president, Montgomery, Ala. H. C. Scott, first vice president, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Nannie Howard, second vice president, Clarksburg, W. Va.; S. B. Beatty, third vice president, Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Fannie Fraction, fourth vice president, Fairmont, W. Va.; C. S. Flood, fifth vice president, Sacramento, California; Mrs. Maggie R. Moore, sixth vice president, Jacksonville, Florida; Mrs. Fannie Johnson, grand auditor, Fairmont, W. Va.; Mrs. J. H. Johnson, grand treasurer, Chicago; C. C. Chatman, grand secretary, New York City. The Ebenezer Baptist Church, under the pastorship of Rev. J. H. Thomas, corner 35th and Dearborn streets, is having a great revival. This church is in a splendid financial condition and they are contemplating building a new church. There is some talk among the members of the various literary societies here of calling a national convention and organizing a National Literary Association for the United States. LIKE HIS FATHER Mother: The baby very much resembles his father. Visitor: "I don't see it. Mother: Probably you have never seen Jim go after the bottle. DO YOU want to learn to resilver old mirrors and make new ones? Pleasant easy work. Profit five dollars a day. Sample and particulars free. THE CROWN CO. 1432 S St., Washington, D. C. 1-27-3 m. What Dr. Brackett and Storer College Have Done For the Education of the Negro Mrs. N. C. Brackett, Instructor in Painting and Drawing. A movement is on foot to secure a pardon for Jack Blackburn who is serving fifteen years for man-slaughter at Moyamensing (Pa.) prison. MAJESTIC THEATRE 14 SUMMERS STREET Week Commencing Monday, April 11th A. BROOKS AND BROWN IN Refined Singing, Eccentric Dancing and Talking Act Yielding to the demand of their pairrons the management has decided to hold these popular performers for another week. The bill will be enfricely new and better than that which is now drawing large crowds every night. MARIA MAYORA VAUDEVILLE MATINEE Saturday Afternoon At 2:00 o'Clock and MOVING PICTURES EVERY NIGHT. ADMISSION - 10c --- Of the northen men who gladly identified themselves at the close of the war with the cause of Negro education, but few remain actively connected with the institutions they helped to create at that now distant time. Of that small band of men no one has served longer than Prof N. C. Brackett, of Storer College. The last year of the Civil war found him engaged in Christian commission work with Sheridan's army, ministering to the wounded, writing letters for some, caring for friends of others and leading all to a better conception of a life devoted to the fulfilment of a christian ideal. At times, thousands of dollars, the pay of soldiers, was entrusted to him to be sent home to the dear ones of the Boys in Blue, and almost never was he asked to give voucher of any sort to these for whom he did this work. Absolute confidence was reposed in him at that time and the years before and since justify such unqualified trust. After the Union army had driven the Confederate forces from the valley and the war had ended, Mr. Brackett was chosen to settle the business of the Christian Commission in parts of Virginia and the Carolinas, after which he was commissioned by the Freedmen's Bureau to establish schools for the recently liberated slaves and their children. It was while engaged in this work that northern friends were moved to found Storer College. In writing of the early struggles through which the school passed, one is tempted to rename the misunderstandings, the persecutions, the bitterness, and all the host of manifestations of human perversity, but happily time has dulled the tooth of such things and they had best go unmentioned. Sufficie to say that among those persecuted for righteous sake, the first teachers at Mrs. N. B. Lightner, Instructor in Higher Mathematics. Storer are prominent examples. But now how changed. Among the citizens of this community, none are more esteemed than Prof. and Mrs. Brackett. After the creation of Storer College, it was for many years the only institution of the sort in West Virginia and the adjacent states. It was called upon to furnish leaders for those who were so earnestly struggling up toward the light. That it has done this, is well attested by the men and women who, from time to time, have been at the head of or faculty members of the following institutions for the higher development of the Negro: Howard University, Princess Ann Academy, Maryland Agricultural School, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute Lynchburg Seminary, Morgan College Annex, Lynchburg, Va.; Tuskegee Institute, West Virginia Colored Institute, West Virginia College and Seminary, Manning Bible School, Quindato University, Bluefield Institute and Storer College, not to mention the larger number who have done efficient educational work in the public schools of a large number of states. In law, Storer has a number of well known sons, among whom should be mentioned James M. Morris, Staunton, Va.; D. M. Webster, New York City, whose practice is entirely before U. S. Courts and who numbers among his clients several millionaires; Frank J. Wheaton, New York City, prominent as a criminal lawyer, ex-member of the Minnesota legislature and a much sought after campaign speaker. In medicine, the names of Phillip L. Barber, M. D. Norfolk, Va., first secretary of a colored Y. M. C. A. in the world and prominent in all good works: Solomon H. Thompson, M. D. Kansas City, Kan., a well known surgeon of that city and Dr. Geo. Holly, Hinton, W. Va., should be mentioned. In theology what Methodist—one might almost Christian—of this section has not heard the name of Rev. John A. Holmes, Baltimore, Md. His church is one of the very few churches which takes no public offerings. To Rev. Holmes every possible honor in Methodism comes except: the election to the Bishopric, that would be his were colored M. E. bishops in America as seems likely sometimes to be the case. The Rev. J. M. Arter, theologian, organizer, teacher, of the W. Va. College and Seminary; Rev. Powhatan Bognall, Boston Mass., city missionary worker for the Unitarian body; Rev. J. Frank Peck, ex-President Quindaro University, Kan., and now pastor of a very large church in Kansas City, Kan. Among missionaries, Rev. Lewis D. Clinton of Liberia, should be especially mentioned, though he is not the only Storer man who has braved the tropical climate that men be-nighted might know the Truth. A THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN Prof. Nathan Cook Brackett, Ph. D. good number of Storer's sons and daughters have become successful business men and women. There is room to mention but few. Among these Mr. Thomas S. Lovett, proprietor of the Hill Top House, Harpers' Ferry, W. Va.; T. J. Trinkle, owner and manager of the opera house at Harpers' Ferry, Wm. P. Crump, Pheonix, Arizona, a large dealer in produce, Abbev Boyer, freight agent at Monessen, Pa.; William F. Sims superintendent of schools, Southboro, Maas.; Mrs. Coralie F. Cook, Washington, D. C., elocutionist and lecturer; John C. Gilmer, Charleston W.-Va., editor. The Advocate and librarian of the state of West Virginia, and when one thinks of the hundreds here unnamed those omitted seem almost more worthy of mention, than these who have been chosen. The growth of Storer College has not been of the mushroom variety. It has increased its material equipment gradually, making careful and wise use of the talents entrusted to it. Choosing rather to build upon the enduring foundation of honest worth and good repute than upon any persistent self praise. Its alumni body is composed of men, everywhere known for their thrift, business capacity and sterling worth. The plant of the institution has grown till now there are more buildings used for school purposes. During the past year there has been the greatest building activity in our history. A new president's house has been erected, a magnificently located new boy's ball is being built. 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President Institute, West Virginia --- ```markdown ``` THIS WEEK, AN EXHIBITION AND SELLING OF MERCHANDISE NOT TO BE EQUALLED IN CHARLESTON New arrivals of Ladies' Long Coats made of Silk Pongee and Cloths for street, church and traveling. They are fresh, bright and handsome, cut in the smartest new Spring Styles and the prices are particularly low for such high-grade Coats, ranging up from $10.50 Wash Goods Scotch linen Suites, every piece fast Pink, Lavender, B grade, choice for Zephyr Just received 28 fine Zephyr Gingh quality, 32 inches will be sold this w Scotch linen Suitings for Tub Dr every piece fast color in Rose, Gri k, Lavender, Blue, our 25c side, choice for this week 19 Zephyr Ginghams must received 28 pieces of Ander zephyr Ginghams. The 25c y quality, 32 inches wide, they will be sold this week at, yd 15 Scotch linen Suitings for Tub Dresses, every piece fast color in Rose, Green, Pink, Lavender, Blue, our 25c grade, choice for this week 19c Zephyr Ginghams Just received 28 pieces of Anderson fine Zephyr Ginghams. The 25c yard quality, 32 inches wide, they will be sold this week at, yd 15c French Linens Yard wide Fren newest shades and dresses and skirts, 65c quality, this Spe 45c inch fine sh white, our 35c grad pieces to offer thi hard wide French Linens, in all vest shades and are fast colors.isses and skirts, they are our quality, this week at, yd 50 Yard wide French Linens, in all the newest shades and are fast colors. For dresses and skirts, they are our 50c 65c quality, this week at, yd Special 55c inch fine sheer Persian Lawn rate, our 35c grade. We have 20 sees to offer this week at, yd 18 45c inch fine sheer Persian Lawns in white, our 35c grade. We have 20 pieces to offer this week at, yd 18c Simpson's Best Calicos Black grounds and dots. Also the calicos made in strii figures. These cal especially for this Soft Butc Just the right t Waists. never shri a very fine even th washes beautifulv Spe In Cottage Cur Serviceable Curtain and borders, suita ing room and Bed and $1.50 kinds pe black grounds with small figure dots. Also the best red and lime calicos made in stripes, plaids and sures. These calicos are priced specially for this week at, yard 4 Soft Butcher Linen just the right thing for Skirts and Stets. never shrinks. 36 inches wide fine even thread andhes beautifully at. yard 25 Black grounds with small figures and dots. Also the best red and light calicos made in stripes, plaids and small figures. These calicos are priced especially for this week at. yard 4c Soft Butcher Linen Just the right thing for Skirts and Waists, never shrinks, 36 inches wide. a very fine even thread and washes beautifully at. yard 25c Special Cottage Curtains. 20 pairs. Viceable Curtains with cross stitched borders, suitable for Library, Bedroom and Bed Room. $1.75 98 $1.50 kinds per pair..... In Cottage Curtains. 20 pairs of Serviceable Curtains with cross stripes and borders, suitable for Library, Dining room and Bed Room. $1.75 98c and $1.50 kinds per pair. Says Sand Flies Cause Pellagra Washington, April 6.—Medical men of the South are seriously interested in the coming investigation by a committee of European medical and scientific experts into the case of pellagra. It was originally assumed that one of its prime causes was to be found in the consumption of corn, especially when the grain was in a damaged condition. Under the direction of this committee Dr. L. W. Sambon, who now contends that the disease is communicated to man probably by sand flies, just as the tsetse fly, and his assistants will proceed to a pellagreous area in order to carefully and extensively investigate every phase of the dread disease and seek to find its cure. For a considerable time, it is stated, bollagen has prevailed extensively in Lombardy and other parts of northern Italy, in the Austrias, in Gasgony, Roumania and Certa. It is common in lower Egypt, where in certain villages Dr. --- B. ENGLE AND COMPANY settings for Tub Dress- color in Rose, Green, ue, our 25c this week 19c Ginghams 3 pieces of Anderson hams. The 25c yard wide, they seek at, yd 15c ch Linens, in all the are fast colors. For they are our week at, yd 50 c eer Persian Lawns in le. We have 20 18c s week at, yd with small figures the best red and lightapes, plaids and smallfaces are priced week at, yard 4c her Linen fishing for Skirts and nks. 36 inches wide. read and at. yard 25c 20 pairs of as with cross stripes ble for Library, Din- Room. $1.75 98c r pair..... Sandwith found as many as 36 per cent. of the inhabitants to be affected. Dr. Lavinder found it still more common in upper Egypt. Drs. Cuthbert Brown and G. C. Low have recognized it in Barbados, and several other authors have mentioned its occurrence among the Zulus and Basutos of South Africa, while Dr. U. Ray observed several cases during a brief stay in North Behar, in India. All exchange of views by those men who form the investigation committee tended to the conclusion that the malady is essentially of a chronic character and chiefly affects cultivators of the soil. A large number of pellagrous peaons and their days in lunatic asylums, while many more drag out a miserable existence in their native villages. The changes discovered after death have been of such a character as to indicate a general tissue degeneration, more especially of the brain and nervous system. The tendency to melancholy, imbecility, or malaise, and the curious unmanified state of the body are quite peculiar to the disease, and point to some special cause for the group of symptoms with which they are associated. 4=Special Prices For All This Week=4 in Ladie's Suits and Dresses. The showing is extremely interesting. The materials are novel and serviceable, Diagonals, Sharkskin, Wale, Vigoreaux, Mixtures, Black and Navy, Tans, Grays. Better choosing for less money has never been equaled in Charleston. Our Millinery We never sacrafice quality. The Straw frame or a trimmed hat. All must cost say we have on SALE a beautiful coat size at three very low prices. Straw would cost one third more elsewhere. CHILDREN The largest and most complete line shown. A beautiful line of Straw Be SIL Our Millinery Department is the Best We never sacraficce quality. The Standard must be of the best, whether in a rosebud, wire frame or a trimmed hat. All must come up to the standard of this department. Needless to say we have on SALE a beautiful collection of Trimmed Millinery. This week we specialize at three very low prices. Stunning Hats that $4.98, $6.00, $7.50 would cost one third more elsewhere at. CHILDREN'S HEADWEAR The largest and most complete line of Children's Caps, Bonnets and Hats we have ever shown. A beautiful line of Straw Bonnets and Lace Caps from.....49c to $3.00 SILK CANTON SERGE 27 inches wide, they are of the wide vale green, blue, lavender, pink, maise, black, white grey and sells regularly at 50c. The wear is per evening gowns, waists, and dresses every sha beauty. This week per yard 19c 27 inches wide, they are of the wide vale effect in green, blue, lavender, pink, maise, black, white, cream, grey and sells regularly at 50c. The wear is perfect, for evening gowns, waists, and dresses every shade is a beauty. This week per yard a dozen all silk fast black Fetticoats, our $4.00 values, made of extra heavy quality of Taff very wide, in all sizes. Special at, each $2.98 dozen all silk fast black Fetticats, our regular $4.00 values, made of extra heavy quality of Taffeta Silk very wide, in all sizes. Special at, each --- A woman in a long dress with a wide-brimmed hat and a fan. 19c EXTRA SPECIAL $2.98 For many years it was assumed that this cause was to be found in the extensive use of maize, often of damaged maize, as a staple article of diet among the populations chiefly affected, and this view derived plausibility from the conditions existing in Lombardy, where the food of the peasantry has consisted of this grain of their own growing, the product of poorly cultivated ground, sown late, harvested before maturity, stored carelessly in its wet state, and either made into a sort of porridge or into leaves which were baked hastily on the surface and left wet within, large enough for a week's consumption, and apt to turn sour and moldy before the week had expired. Local Doctors Meet and Discuss Disease About twenty-five doctors attended the meeting of the Kanawha Medical Society held last night in the assembly room of the Hotel Kanawha, called on account of the presence in the city of Dr. W. S. Gardner, of 20 pieces stripes and checks. In all silk mossalines, 24 and 27 inches wide, every shade in the most beautiful late designs and the best quality suitable for street and church dresses. Prices are $1.25 and $1.50. Special for this week, yard 5 1/2 inches wide heavy Taffeta Ribbon for Hair bows, etc. All colors. 30c grade, per yard. TRP ADVOCATE AND DEPENDABLE EXHIBITION TO BE EQV angee and Cloths for the new Spring Styles are Prices For All T esses. The showing is exte serviceable, Diagonals, S and Navy, Tans, Grays, equaled in Charleston. These Sharp Redu $22.50 AND $20.00 SUITS $11.75 $27.50 AND $25.00 SUITS $14.75 $7.50, $35.00 AND $30.00 SUITS $19.75 $9.00, $45.00 AND $40.00 SUITS $29.50 ALTERATIONS FREE NO our liberal methods, we will not Alterations. Ginery Department The Standard must be of the best must come up to the standard of fruitful collection of Trimmed Mill . Stunning Hats that newhere at..... $4.9 CHILDREN'S HEADW lete line of Children's Caps, B draw Bonnets and Lace Caps fr SILK SPECIALS ERGE side vale effect in black, white, cream, wear is perfect for every shade is a EXT 20 pieces strip 24 and 27 inches late designs and and church dress Special for this AL hats, our regular city of Taffeta Silk a AL 5 1-2 inches wide etc. All colors. Baltimore, who is a business visitor here. After the meeting, which was one of the best held for some time, the physicians enjoyed a banquet in the dining room of the hotel. The meeting was called on short notice and for that reason a larger number were not present, but those that were there were treated to an able discourse by Dr. Gardner, who is an eminent physician and a good talker. Dr. J. L. Rader, of Huntington, was also present at the meeting. Merry Del Val Gives Reasons of the Pope Cincinnati, April 6.—In a cable-gram to the Cincinnati Times-Star from Rome, Cardinal Merry del Val says that the Roosevelt incident was caused by the Vatican's expression of the wish "that we would avoid being dragged into jeopardyable position of appearing to publicly support an offensive campaign against the Pope in his own residence." The statement concludes that the whole affair was merely a question THE LADY'S COAT ent is the Best the best, whether in a rosebud, wire ward of this departmhnt. Needless to Millinery. This week we special- $4.98, $6.00, $7.50 DWEAR aps, Bonnets and Hats we have ever aps from.....49c to $3.00 LS EXTRA SPECIAL SILK s stripes, and checks, in all silk mossalinos, inches wide, every shade in the most beautiful and the best quality suitable for street h dresses. Prices are $1.25 and $1.50. for this week, yard 59c 59c ALL SILK RIBBONS es wide heavy Taffeta Ribbon for Hair bows. colors. 30c grade, per yard. 18c 18c of common courtesy which is "not incompatible with the rights of American citizens." Every family and especially those who reside in the country should be provided at all times with a bottle of Chamberlain's Limiment. There is no telling when it may be wanted in case of an accident or emergency. It is most excellent in all cases of rheumatism, sprains and bruises. Sold by C. A. Potterfield, corner Capitol and Virginia streets, and Ideal Pharmacy, 224 Charleston street. NOTICE Treasury Department, Office of the Supervising Architect, Washington. D.C., March 22, 1919.----SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this office until 3 o'clock p.m. on the 4th day of May, 1919, and then opened for the construction (including plumbing, gas plumbing, heating apparatus, electric conduits and wiring and standard clock system) of an extension, remodeling, etc., to the United States Postoffice and Court Torchon Laces And Inserting, 2,000 Torchon Laces and ins 3 inches wide, our 10c ity for, all this wee and Inserting, 2,000 yards, all Lines onchon Laces and insertings from reaches wide, our 10c yard qual- for, all this week at, yard And Inserting, 2,000 yards, all Linon Torchon Laces and insertings from 1 to 3 inches wide, our 10c yard quality for, all this week at, yard 5c Table Linen 72 inches wide, bea en, extra heavy and beautiful satin finish sells for 69c yard, very mercerized, for this we 12 inches wide, beautiful Table extra heavy and new design beautiful satin finish, the kind is for 69c yard, very highly accented, for this week, yard 50 72 inches wide, beautiful Table Linen, extra heavy and new designs, a beautiful satin finish, the kind that sells for 69c yard, very highly mercerized, for this week, yard 50c Special Ladies' Uni Low,check,no sleeve umbrella bottom, lace for only mit 2 suits to Buster Brown Buster Brown Hose school wear, black, in 7, only the regular 25 while they last at, pai Ladies' Union Suits bow neck, no sleeves, knee len brown bottom, lace trimmed. only mit 2 suits to customer. Buster Brown Hose Buster Brown Hose for boys and g ool wear, black, in sizes 6, 6 1-2 only the regular 25c kind, ile they last at, pair..... Low neck, no sleeves, knee length. umbrella bottom. lace trimmed. for only 25c Buster Brown Hose Buster Brown Hose for boys and girls school wear, black, in sizes 6, 6 1-2 and 7, only the regular 25c kind while they last at, pair..... 10c Special in Ladies' Hose Absolutely fast black size, all black with wl regular 38c quality, Gauze Lis absolutely fast black fine Gauze all black with white sole, regular 38c quality, pair for 2 Gauze Lisle Hose Absolutely fast black fine Gauze outsize, all black with white sole regular 38c quality, pair for 25c Gauze Lisle Hose Ladies' fine Gauze Lisle Hose in black, 4 inch double top double heel toe and sole, with 4 inch garter top, absolutely fast. The best ever sold at 50c. All this week or while they last at House at Charleston, West Virginia, in accordance with drawings and specifications, copies of which may be obtained from the Custodian, or at this office at the discretion of the Supervising Architect. JAMES KNOX TAYLOR, Supervising Architect. 3-31-4-4-7-11-14-18-61. NOTICE. State of West Virginia. Teste: IRA. H. MOTH. H. B. BUSTER, Sol. Notice to Take De To George W. Richard Take Notice: That day of May, A. D., the hours of 9 o'clock clock P. M., at the la H. Huster, room 12 in Banking & Trust Co. AT RULES held in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, on the first Monday in the month of April, 1910: Leighubia E. Richardson, Plaintiff, vs. In Chancery No. 2303. George W. Richardson, Defendant. (The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony.) This day came the plaintiff by her attorney, and on his motion, and it appearing by affidavit filed, that the defendant, George W. Richardson, is a non-resident of this State. It is ordered that he do appear within one month after the date of the first publication hereto, and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. --- NOTICE 000 yards, all Linen insertings from 1 to 10c yard qual- week at, yard 5c beautiful Table Lin- and new designs, a ish, the kind that very highly week, yard 50c special union Suits leeves, knee length, ce trimmed. 25c to customer. brown Hose pose for boys and girls in sizes 6, 6 1-2 and 25c kind. pair..... 10c black fine Gauze out- white sole, v, pair for 25c isle Hose ze ble th ab- est All ile Teste: IRA. H. MOTEESHEARD. H. E. BUSTER, Clerk. Sol. Notice to Take Depositions. To George W. Richardson: Take Notice: That on the 10th day of May, A. D., 1910, between the hours of 9 o'clock A. M. and 9 o'clock P. M., at the law office of H. H. Tuster, room 12 in the Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. building, situate corner of Capitol and Quarter streets in the City of Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. I will take the deposition of myself and others, to be read in my behalf in a certain suit in chancery now pending in the Circuit Court for the County of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, in which Leighunda E. Richardson is the plaintiff and George W. Richardson is the defendant. If from any cause the taking of said deposition shall not be commenced or completed on the day aforesaid, the same shall be continued from day to day, or from time to time, at the same place, and between the same hours, until the same shall be completed. LEIGHUNIA E. KICHARDSON. 11-12ponds. By Counsel SPECIAL SALE OF PORCH FURNITURE WE have just received our first car of the famous Fall Creek line of porch furniture, consisting of Swings, Rockers, Arm Chairs, Settees and Rocker Settees, also in complete sets, which we place on sale Monday morning. These goods are positively the most desirable porch pieces that the market affords, made of all select Oak, best of construction. mission design and extra good finish in Green or Early English. These pieces can also be used to an advantage in the Hall, Library or Bedroom, thus enabling you to make use of them at all times. We Have Not Marked Down One Item Only, But the Whole Shipment Now The Big Store WOODRUM HOME OUTFITTING CO. Out of the High Rent District KANAWHA & COURT STREETS 94 95 SEE WINDOW DISPLAY J. Cabert Campbell, of the census office, Washington, D. C., arrived in the city Tuesday to look after some personal affairs. He returns to Washington this evening. Miss Julia Irving has returned to the city after spending several days in Malden with her mother, who is ill. W. M. Watson, of Youngsown, O., who has been visiting his family here has returned home. Misses M. B. Watson and Amie Rogers spent Sunday on the West Side the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chag. Lewis. Complimentary to Miss Anna Clayton, of Lynchburg, Va., Mrs. Mubie Simpson served innehne Thursday evening at Hotel brown. Beidces the guests of honor there were present: Mrs. Carrie Critchlow, of Keystone, Mrs. Stella Foy of Detroit, and Mrs. Cassie Mitchell. Five courses were served. Miss Hattie Taylor was painfully injured last week by a fall. Mrs. Willard Banks left Monday for a month's visit to friends at Louisville, Ky. Engene Cash was called to Flem- WHY? Should we do your Optical Work? 1. Because we have special facilities for eye examination. 2. Because we grind our own lenses and get them just right. 3. Because of skill and experience we offer you more than ordinary results. EYE EXAMINATION FREE. Ernst Jeweler & Mfg. Optician. Cor. Virginia St. and Arcade. Charleston, W. Va. SPEC inglesburg, Ky., Saturday, by the serious illness of his wife. Miss Nancy Brown was hostess to the Caration Social Club this week. Miss May Ray, formerly of this city, was united in marriage to Mrs. G. Penick at North Carbon a few weeks ago. Mrs. V. O. Terry, who has been indisposed for several weeks, is im-proving rapidly. William Colo has returned from Palm Beach, Fla. The Laches' Art Club met with Miss Julia Brown, Railroad Ave., last week. The next meeting will be held with Mrs. R. B. Colbert, Morris street. Mrs. Julia Jones, of Paducah Ky., is visiting her sister Mrs. Mary Sharples, Shrewsbury street. Mrs. Aggie Lewis, of Sentin St., is very ill. Rev. J. W. Waters returned, Tuesday, from Cumberland Mid., where he is now stationed. Accent panned by Mrs. Waters he will return to his charge Friday morning. The condition of Edward Huffman is but little if any, improved, he is suffering from tuberculosis. J. A. Jackson, assistant State Liaison, returned, yesterday, from Washington where he spent a few days visiting friends. Registered at Brown Hotel last week were: Luther James, Bluefield; Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Stone Ciff; John Hall, Munt; City, O.; II. Jackson, Hansford; H. Young, Beckley; D. M. Everett, Buckhamon, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. S. Smith, Staunton, Va.; Ray Keech, Richwood, E. Jones, Quinnimont; C. Kotter, and F. Friend, Institute. L. Williams, Kimberly; W. J. Campbell, Montgomery; Mr. and Mrs. S. Dugg, Page; Miss Daisy Woods, Waynesboro, Va.; L. M. Taylor, Hawk's Nest; Rev. L. J. Turner, Mr. Carbon; W. H. Clark, Donwood; Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Jones, Roanoke, Virginia. Rev. J. J. Turner, superintendent of missions of the Baptist Sunday School, Convention, was in the city yesterday on business. Rev. R. R. Downs has removed to 717 Morris St. Mrs. Charles Preston delightfully entertained the Saturday Bridge Club Saturday afternoon. The next meeting will be with Miss Maude Viney. Miss Lewellyn Springs, of institute, visited friends in town Thursday. Mark Holmes and Robert Pack have taken charge of the Virginia Hotel. They had their opening Sunday. Miss Maria Soyer is able to be out after several weeks' illness. Mrs. R. A. James will be hostess to the Married Ladies White Club Thursday afternoon at her home on Sundner street. Mrs. Mildred Banks, of Handley, was in the city Monday. Mr. Wilson, of Montgomery, was in the city the first of the week. Class No. 3 of the First Baptist Sunday School gave an entertainment in the church Tuesday night. The Rev. J. S. Carroll, the new pastor of Simpson M. E. church, was greeted by large congregations both morning and evening. His son at each service was received with great satisfaction. He attended the Sunday School and class meeting in the afternoon, evidencing a desire to become thoroughly acquainted at once with each department of the church work. He met the official board Monday night and there laid some plans before his official brethren by which he hopes to achieve success this year. While every department will receive his closest attention, he feels the great responsibility of saving men and women to God the object for which the church was instituted and set apart Rev. Carroll is truly one of the strong young men of the conference and we bespeak for him a year of prosperity along all lines of church work. He left Monday morning for Wheeling from whence he returns Saturday with his family. Sunday afternoon the Providence order of St. Lakes will have their special sermon orcheated at Simpson church by the pastor. The officers and members are preparing a reception for Pastor Carroll and family. The community is especially invited to come and enjoy a social hour, listen to timely speeches, and be served with a splendid menn. Rev. J. W. Waters returned from Cumberland Menday for his family. They will leave Friday for their new field of labor. They leave many friends, here who hope they may make for themselves many more in their new home city. While in the city Rev. J. S. Carroll was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Cabell on Bradford St. John Young continues to grow weaker. Mrs. Young, who has also been sick for some time shows a marked improvement. TEXAS GOLF TOURNAMENT Austin, Texas, April 6. A Classy field representing practically every leading golf club of the State thronged the links of the Austin Country Club today at the opening of the fifth annual championship tournament of the Texas Golf Association. The play will continue through the remainder of the week. COLORED CHASSEQUA AT' DUR- HAM, N. C. From all parts of the United States Negroes will go next summer, from July 5th to August 16th, to Durham, N. C., to the great Colored Chataquan. Talent has been selected with the greatest care. Men of national reputation will be heard there. The classes in Bible study for preachers and religious workers of all kinds will begin at 8 o'clock in the morning and continue until noon. In the middle of the forenoon, afternoon and evening there will be great popular lectures, or some elevating and refined entertainment. The president, Dr. James E. Shepard has the printed program about ready for the press. This will be sent out free to all inquirers. The Southeastern Passenger Association covering territory south of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi river offers low priced transportation by the certificate plan. Going tickets may be purchased on July 5th, July 18th to 19th and July 25th to 26th. Reduced rates return tickets to be sold on any date within period of 15 days from date of sale, and an extension may be obtained to Sept. 1st, if desired by deposit of certificate when going ticket is purchased. SUMMER SCHOOL AT DURHAM NORTH CAROLINA The summer school and assembly of the National Religious Training School will open in Durham, N. C. July 5th to August 14th. This assembly is especially to ministers. Rev. Jesse L. Hurlbut, D. D., will deliver two lectures daily from July 7th to 14th. Dr. Hurlbut is regarded as one of the really great authorities on the Bible and it is well worth going many miles to hear. Pastor's conference, conducted by Dr. John E. Ford, Archdeacon W. George Avant, Rev. E. H. Hunter and Dr. D. Webster Davis. All these lectures will be rare treats. A special rate has been arranged for ministers. For application blanks and rates write the President, James E. Shepard, Durham, N. C. Miss Grace Hemingway, one of the foremost child, story tellers, will conduct a Children's Hour from July 12th to 17th. Miss Laura Faucette, of Pittsburg, Pa., will have charge of the Domestic Science Department, assisted by Miss Katie Daxis of Tuskegee. If you want to learn dressmaking, how to make baskets, mats, etc., attend the Summer School at Durham, in July. If you want to tent out for a few weeks and at the same time be ben- OF PO at car of the fam in Chairs, Settees and goods are positively of construction. mission advantage in the Hall One Item 68 $3.5 This Swing is a grand value at on design. Very comfortable shape urnished with a set of non-rustable sling hooks. 66 This Swing is a grand value at $3.50. Made of all select oak mission design. Very comfortable shaped seat finished in Early English. Furnished with a set of non-rustable chains 10 feet long and extra heavy ceiling hooks. NO CHARGE FOR HANGING. HOME OUTFITTING AWHA & COURT STREETS oftitted in body and mind, write the National Religious Training School. Durham, N. C., and tell them what you want. Their training school opens in July, and such things will be provided. GREEN-ROGERS WEDDING New York, April 6.—A notable wedding day was that of Miss Elizabeth S. Rogers, daughter of William A. Rogers, the artist, and Mrs. Rogers, and Lieutenant Henry Sheldon Green. The wedding took place at St. James' Episcopal church and was followed by a reception at the Hotel Majestic. A. CHAUTAUQUA FOR NEGROES. Negroes are to have a Chautauqua at Durham next summer. President James E. Shepard is now engaged in booking talent for the occasion. Several persons of eminent qualifications or national reputation have been tentatively secured. As soon as contracts have been signed, they will be announced. The main fact now is that the colored public may have a national center to which they may go in the summer to study, to hear great lectures, to listen to great music, and to enjoy a sensible vacation. This is an opportunity which, if Durham were not a good size city, might tax the greatest provisions to take care of the people. THE GENTLE SIDE OF BASEBALL Baseball deserves to be our national game. It is not gentle, and we are not a gentle nation. Its best exemplification is by specialists, and as a nation, the specialists are doing our best work in all lines. There is nothing we like so well, says Ellis Parker Butler, in "Success Magazine," as to sit around and watch our specialists do their work, and then to get off somewhere and tell each other how much better they might do it, if they would only take our advice. We are hero-worshipers, and professional baseball creates just about the right number of heroes to go around. It is not necessary for each man to have the same hero, which soon becomes tiresome. The comic element is introduced by the umpires, who have become a national joke and rank with the mother-in-law witticisms. Baseball is a grand game. As for myself, I would rather go out and see a baseball game than be a baseball player and stand up and let one of those modern pitchers, who throws a ball with the speed of a four-inch gun, cast a wiggling ball at my person, and take a chance on the ball dodging around me before it bored a hole through me. I have been hit by a baseball thrown by a gentle hand, and I know how hard a baseball is. Nor would I care to take to pitching as a serious occupation. To one unacquainted with the game it may seem a safe job to stand up and throw hard balls at the other fellow, but once in a while ORCH ous Fall Creek Bed Rocker Settees, also the most desirable poon design and extra greal, Library or Bedroom Only, But t 50 3.50. 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HENRY SMITH One Price Clothier a-batter hits the ball, and hits it hard, and it makes a bee-line for the pitcher. The pitcher is usually an agile man, but he is seldom agile enough to lie down in time to let the ball pass safely above him, and if he did, his captain would possibly be angry. The ethics of the game require the pitcher to stand right there and let that mile-a-minute ball bore itself into his hands. I did that once, and the palms of my hands still palpitate with fear when I think of it. It was soon after that hot liner that I refried from baseball permanently. Some persons of weak character would never have wishes to see another game of ball after such a harrowing experience, but I still love to see the national game, if I can have a seat in the grand-stand, with a stout wire netting between me and the scene of slaughter. INDIANA PROHIBITIONISTS Indianapolis, — April 6. — Every county of Indiana, including seventy, from which the saloon has been abolished, was represented among the 1,500 delegates and visitors that filled Tomlinson hall today at the formal opening of the Prohibition State convention. A. B. Kirkpatrick of Kokomor presided at the initia FURNITURE line of porch furl so in complete sets, w porch pieces that the m good finish in Green m, thus enabling you the Whole RNITUF porch furniture, plete sets, which we es that the market af- sh in Green or Early nabling you to make Whole Shipm NITURE h furniture, sets, which we t the market af- Green or Early ng you to make ole Shipment 94 tion andove Arm Chair is of same construc- The ab finish as the Swing. Have also same pattern in the Rocker, Settee, and Rocker Settee. G CO. Out of th D. Out of the High Rent out of the High Rent District session, which was given over to the appointment of committees and the transaction of other routine business. Tomorrow the convention will name candidates for State officers and adopt a platform for the coming campaign. The party intends to work for the election of a sufficient number of members of the next legislature to bring about the adoption of a joint resolution looking to the submission of a prohibition amendment in 1913. BIG SHIP READY FOR NAVY Feston, April 6. The American super-dreadnought North Dakota, one of the first all-biz-gun battleships constructed for the United States navy, was brought up to the Charlestown navy yard today from the yards of her builders, the Fort River company at Quinney, preparatory to being formally placed in commission. The first commander of the ship will be Captain Richard T. Mulligan, recently assistant chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Sharpe and Flynn are having a fine race to see who will play first base for the Pittsburgh club. They are about equal in elding, but Flynn has a shade the best of it in hitting.