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THE ADVOCACY WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CHISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME IX. Railroads Responsible FOR THE CHANGE IN PLACE OF MEETING OF THE GRAND LODGE Hagerstown Dropped And Pythians Will Meet At Easton, Md.—Baltimore Will Have Two Negro Delegates In the Protestant Episcopal Convention. Baltimore, Md. April 27.—The Maryland Grand Lodge of Knights has changed the place of its next annual meeting from Hagerstown to Easton, Md. The change was necessitated by the fact that no rebates would be allowed by the railroads. The session will be held July, 25, 26 and 27, and a great time its expected. The Grand Lodge met there four years ago and were royally entertained. Genl. J. A. Watty is just completing his third year as Grand Chancellor. Charles Stewart, the well known travelling newspaper correspondent is spending a few days in the city. He delivered an appreciative lecture Monday night before a large audience at Whotcoat Epworth M. E. Church, and he also lectured at Sparrows Point, near this city. He is being entertained by Rev A. L. Gaines, pastor of Trinity A. M. E. Church and J. H. Murphy, managing editor of the Afro-American Ledger. Mr. Stewart expects to visit England and Scotland this summer. Bishop J. W. Smith, of Washington paid an Episcopal visit Sunday to the Pennsylvania Avvenus A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev J. A. P. Cole pastor. He preached at the church at visit Mr. Solomon Decoursey has been elected by the vestry of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church a delegate to the Diocesan Convention, which meets here next month. He and his pastor, Rev.Dr. George E. Bragg, Jr. will be the only Colored delegates in the convention. Heber E. Wharton, a prominent teacher in the local public schools, is ill at his home. 2135 Druid Hill Ave. Economic Conditions OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE OF NEW YORK IMPROVED BY NIGHT SCHOOL Industrial Classes And Children's Aid Society Are Fitting Hundreds of Men, Women and Children to Meet the Fierce Competition for Work. New York, April 26.—With the hundreds of Colored people who are continually coming here from the south are many who are ill prepared to cope with the fierce industrial and economic conditions of a great city. These people, despite their short comings in this regard are not strangers to hard work, and fine work in the mental lines. Though many of the schools offer courses in the trades and domestic science to which Colored people are welcomed, yet their enrollment includes but few Colored residents of New York. A few years ago, Dr. W. Bulkley, then principal of School No. 80, right in the belt where thousands of Colored people live got the consent of the Board of Education to open night classes. Industrial classes were started and hundreds of men, women, many of them gray-headed, took advantage of the academic and industrial courses offered. The Children's Aid Society is another agency which has been doing a creditable work here. Classes were opened in West Sixty-Third Street and courses tending to increase the efficiency of workers offered. No attempt was made to offer instruction along lines in which prejudice closed employment to the race. Instruction however was given in Millinery, Chain caning, Sewing Embroidery, Tailoring, Carpentry, Domestic Science and other branches for which there there is a demand for Colored labor. At the annual exhibition of the work a few days ago, a highly creditable showing was made by the work of these pupils, who are so diligently striving to increase their efficiency as workers. FUEL ECONOMY CONTEST Chicago, April 27.—The Chicago Motor Club has completed all arrangements for its fuel economy contest tomorrow. The contesting automobiles are to go over a course of about 200 miles, going through Lake Geneva by way of Half Day, coming to Chicago through Algonquin and Elkhorn. The event will be the first fuel economy held in Chicago since the one conducted three years ago to Valparalgo, Ind., and return. Churchman Dismissed Who Was Not Able to Sustain His Charges of Graft Against Bishop Wesley J. Gaines. Jersey City, N. J., April 25—Bishop Wesley J. Gaines, who was hailed before a magistrate in Camden, N. J. last Thursday for the alleged embezzling of $150 of the funds of the New Jersey Conference, appeared before the magistrate to answer the charge but his accuser, Rev. N. Morgan, did not put in his appearance and the charges against the prelate were therefore dismissed. The New Jersey Conference, which adjourned today, passed a vote of confidence in the Bishop's integrity and expelled Bishop Gaines' accuser. The charges against Bishop Gaines were discounted by his friends, and the failure of Rev. Mr. Morgan to appear at the preliminary hearing strengthened their belief in his honesty. The bishop is regarded as being the wealthiest churchman in the country. Chased Negroes FROM THE TOWN DID TEXAS MOB ON ACCOUNT OF FIGHT BETWEEN RACES Mayor Threatened The Mob and Pleaded for Observance of the Law but His Words Fell On Deaf Ears and He and Marsbal Were Brushed Aside. Coleman, Tex., April 25.—Twelve Negroes badly beaten, one white man seriously injured, and the entire Negro population of Coleman, of between 150 and 200 men, women and children, driven out of town, was the result of race riots which took place here this afternoon and waged until late tonight. That many persons were not killed or seriously wounded is due to the fact that the Negroes offered no resistance except in isolated cases, and the whites contented themselves with using clubs, sticks and stones instead of firearms. Until the Santa Fe railroad began using Negro laborers on construction work in this section, a black face was a rarity, and trouble has been brewing ever since Negroes in considerable numbers began coming into town. This feeling has been greatly intensified recently by alleged inflammatory utterances of some of the Negro laborers, who asserted that they were here and here to stay. With this feeling of hostility existing it needed but a spark to start trouble, and this spark was furnished this afternoon when two white youths became involved in a fight with a Negro. Quickly the word spread and in a short space of time a mob of more than a thousand men and boys were sweeping through the section of the town occupied by Negroes, clubbing and stoning every black head that appeared. Mayor Miller begged and pleaded and threatened the mob, but his words fell on deaf ears. Equally as impotent were the efforts of the marshal and his deputies to check the riot spirit. The officers were brushed aside and literally run over by the crowd. For nearly six hours the main mob maintained its strength of about a thousand or more men, and in that time every section of the city was raided for Negroes, the latter fleeing in every direction. The very bulk of the mob was a factor in favor of the Negroes, as pursuit was hampered by numbers, not more than a dozen of the fleeing blacks being overtaken. About 9 o'clock tonight, when not a Negro remained in town, the mob dispersed. An old Negro preacher who is alleged to have made himself particularly obnoxious, is being pursued in the hills by a small party of white men, after having escaped the mob by a narrow margin. The wounded white man, W. L. Trimble, received severe cuts and bruises about the head, but he is not believed to be seriously hurt. BIGGEST DOG SHOW Portland, Ore., April 27. — The artistists of the canine kingdom, several hundred of them in all, and representing all the important breeds, are in the hands of the judges at the Portland Kennel Club's annual bench show, which opened today. It is one of the most extensive exhibitions of dogs ever shown on the Pacific coast. There are dogs from all over the northwest and from Canada, many of them prize winners. The show will continue through the remainder of the week. THE ADVOCATE. OF BALTIMORE CONFERENCE OF A. M. E. CHURCH NOW BEING HELD AT CRISFIELD, MD. Crisfield, Md. April 27.—The ninety-third annual session of the Baltimore Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church opened here today at St. Paul A. M. E. Church Rev. T. R. Sinkfield, pastor, and will continue until next Monday. At the opening session, Bishop Levi J. Coppin; who is presiding, delivered an interesting address. The election of officers and the appointment of the various committees followed. Reports from churches were received this afternoon. Rev. J. C. McBady preached the annual Conference sermon tonight, after which formal welcoming services were held. Considerable interest is being manifested in the appointments for the ensuing year as the next annual conference will elect delegates to the A. M. E. General Conference, which holds its next grand revival session at Kansas City in May 1912. Among the prominent churchmen in attendance are Rev. John Hurst, financial secretary, of the A. M. E. Church; Rev. Dr. George F. Woodson, dean of Payne Theological Seminary, at Wilberforce, O.; S. R. R. Wright, Jr. manager of the A. M. E. Publishing House at Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett, secretary of missions. "Life Too, is An Art" WAS THE THEME ON WHICH MRS. CRANE ADDRESSES THE FISK STUDENTS Domestic Science Should Be Inaugurated in Every Public School, the Speaker Holds As Well in the Colleges and Universities. Nashville, Tenn., April 25. After a lecture before the teachers of the public schools at Pearl High School during the early week, Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, the noted civil worker of Kalamazoo, Michigan, addressed the students and faculty of Fisk University at Memorial Chapel, Saturday evening. The program, as stated by President Gates, was informal. The Mozart society and Jubilee Club rendered several songs of the race; in a few words, Dr. Gates introduced the speaker of the evening, a large woman in every sense of the word, a woman teeming with energy and force and magnetism. Mrs. Crane took as her theme words of the German poet Goethe, "Life, too, is an art." "If I had charge of the public school system of Nashville," she said. I would inaugurate domestic science in every grammar School, High School and would go even further and place it in every college and university in the state. The entire march of civilization has been for the upbuilding and maintenance of our homes." Mrs. Crane said that those who had the educational advantages of a splendid university like Fisk, should spread their knowledge far and wide, and in that way uplift those with whom they come in contact. She pointed out that the eyes of the world were centered upon the Colored youth who graduated from Fisk and that his field was broad. Throughout, her talk was filled with advice, helpful, optimistic and inspiring. Dr. C. V. Rowan, the eye, ear, nose and throat specialist of this city left Monday night for Spartanburg, S. C. where he goes as the guest of the South Carolina Medical Association. He will deliver the main address of the convention. Dr. Roman plans to be in Nashville, Saturday, April 30. Dr. F. G. Smith, principal of Pearl High School, has been confined to his home seriously ill with an attack of appendicitis. At the outset, the case was very grave, but Dr. Smith gained strength as the week passed. It is hoped that he will soon be able to resume his duties. PENN GRANT AT AUCTION London, April 25.—The original draft of the famous grant of the Province of Pennsylvania to William Penn, signed on March 4, 1681, was included in an interesting lot of American documents and letters offered for sale at Sotheby's today. The draft of the Penn grant is on 22 large folios, stitched together, and confers the title of Captain General on Penn and the right to levy war against an armed foe. In addition to the Penn grant the letters offered for sale included many dealing with affairs in Boston, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas. IS PHIL WATERS WHO IS HUNTING THE PLACE CYRUS ADAMS HOLDS Whole State for Him Has Endorsements From Leading Political Factors and Expects to Give the Present incumbent a Rup For His Money. If Phil Waters, of this city, is not appointed by President Taft, Assistant Register of the Treasury, it will not be because he and his friends are wanting in endeavor. Since and, in fact, long before the Washington dispatches announced that Congressman Jos. H. Gaines had laid his claims before Mr. Taft, the toboggan was being erected upon which is hoped Mr. Cyrus Field Adams will retire, to pri PHIL WATERS vate life after ten years in the service of his country. Mr. Waters was an applicant once before for this position and he enters the fight this time with an thorough knowledge of the requirements and a full determination to win. His endorsements, and there is a stack of them, are not confined to West Virginia, where nearly every political force, the two Senators, five Congressmen and many county leaders are with him to a man, for Phil is a mighty popular fellow—but he has strong letters from Senator Moore, Bailey and several congressmen from Ohio and elsewhere, who were his classmates at Ann Arbor. All in all, Mr. Adams, if he is retained, or any candidate who "puts it on" West Virginia's choice, is certainly going to know that there was a fight. If party service has any weight with the appointing power, it will be hard to find a man more deserving than Mr. Waters. At the early age of sixteen he canvassed the seventh Congressional District of Virginia for Harrison and Morton, in 1888, and performed similar service for Harrison and Reid in 1892, in Michigan. He was made librarian of the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1897, and upon the adjournment of the legislature became Corporation Clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, where he was five years. Clerk of the finance committee of the Charleston City Council and deputy U. S. Marshal was his employment in 1902. The two succeeding sessions of the legislature saw him clerk of the finance committee of the lower house. In 1907 he crossed over to the other wing of the Capitol, becoming clerk of the Senate's finance committee. Since 1902 Mr. Waters has been assistant clerk of the Supreme Court of Appeals, a position held by no other Negro in no other state in the union. He served as assistant sergeant at arms for the National Republican conventions of 1900, 1904 and 1908; was a delegate to the State Republican conventions of 1892, 1896, 1900, 1904 and 1908, at all of which he seconded the nomination of the gubernatorial nominee. He has been a member of the Congressional committee for twelve consecutive years and has been a delegate to every congressional convention in this district since 1898. Educated at Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., Howard University, Washington D. C. and the University of Michigan, in all of which he won prizes for proficiency in oratory. Mr. Waters is well fitted by experience and deserving on account of party service to receive the position to which he aspires. LOUISIANA LEGISLATION To Separate Races Does Not Apply to Mixed Blood. New Orleans. April 25.—That a large part of the legislation in Louisiana directed toward the separation of the races does not apply to octoroons or quadroons was the gist of a decision handed down today by the State Supreme Court. The court holds that where the text of the law merely says "Neogros" it cannot be applied to octoroons or other persons of mixed blood. At The Nation's Capital DR. R. C. RANSOM DECLARES THE NEGRO TO BE A VALUABLE BUSINESS ASSET TO THE NATION Big Meeting of Washington Commercial Council—Conference of A. M. E. Church Boards—Churchmen Call On President Taft—Reimbursement For Freedman's Bank Depositors—Negro Opus Enumerators Make Fine Showing—Y. M. C. A.'s $50,000 CAMPAIGN BOOMING Thompson's National News Bureau Washington, D. C., April 27—Dr. Reverdy C. Ramson, one of the most orated orators and economists of the A. M. E. Church pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, New York City, was greeted by a large audience Tuesday evening at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church and his address on "The Negro as a National Business Asset" was a well conceived effort. Echewing the flowery platitudes of laudation in a many instances, the speaker gave his bearers some plain talk on the short-comings of the race in business, and admonished them to utilize their golden opportunities to strengthen themselves in the arena of music, literature, art, theology and politics. While much creditable work has been done, we must not lull ourselves to sleep over the labors of the few pioneers who had lifted themselves by sturdy application above the race average, was the view the eloquent New Yorker took of our situation. The Tanner's and Edmonia Lewis' in art Clarence Whites Coleridge-Taylors and Joseph H. Douglas in music the Dunbars, Chestnutts and Phyllis Wheatleys in literature, and Paynes, Lees and Crummells in theology, and those who had achieved distinction in business and politics were too few for the race to sit down and attempt to live upon their hard-carned reputations. The interpolation of numerous flashes of wilt and discussion of the misconceptions of our people on a variety of everyday affairs were keenly enjoyed and the speaker was frequently interrupted by applause. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Washington Commercial Council, the principal business organization of the Negroes of the national capital, and was arranged in conjunction with the Bethel Liberary and Historical Association. Bethel Literary this year under the brilliant guidance of President L. C. Gregory, has been making a special of joining hands with the several helpful civic organizations and educational institutions of the community and bringing their work to the front in a luminous fashion. President Gregory called the meeting to order Tuesday evening, and after Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford had read the minutes of the previous session, he introduced Architect John A. Lankford, president of the Commercial Council, as the presiding officer of the occasion. Mr. R. W. Thompson corresponding secretary of the Council, then gave a statement of the work of the body up to the present, and the achievements chronicled gave ample evidence that the organization was living up to its opportunities in this productive field, and was exerting a stimulating influence upon the educational, commercial, industrial, and civic life of the 100-000 Negroes in the District of Columbia. Mr. Richard C. Bundy, the newly-appointed Secretary of Legation at Monrovia, Liberia, was introduced and his brief speech was happily received by the audience. He expected great things of the Liberian Republic and gave the assurance that he would do all that lay in his power to serve his race and country as their representative abroad. Mr. Bundy was made an honorary member of the Council. Among other significant things in the course of his address, Dr Ransom said: The white business man of this country fails to place a proper estimate upon the purchasing power of the 10,000,000 Negro consumers in this country. The Negro furnishes the backbone of the labor in the production of America's most profitable staples, and although threatened in the line of personal and domestic service, is still, the white man's closest ally in making him comfortable and healthy. We are a spending people. Unlike the foreigner, swarming to our shores, the Negro does not hoard his earnings and send them back to the 'Fatherland', but spends his millions of dollars right here among the people from whom he receives them. He boys good clothing, eats the best food and enjoys himself, even while purchasing homes, building schools and churches, and educating his children. He enriches the arteries of trade and commerce would miss him should he leave. "The Negro, therefore, 'continued Dr. Ransom,' is a marvelous business asset to the American nation. White merchants and manufactures are making a sad mistake in not nurturing this valuable factor in their prosperity. If the solid business men of the country would encourage the Negro by six- ing him employment in their immense plants and allowing him broader opportunities for earning money and offering him chances to go into business for himself, as urged by the National Negro Business League, the nation as a whole would realize handsomely upon the investment." A lively discussion was prepli-ptitated by Dr. Hanson's able address, and short but very informing talks were made by Bishop W. H, Heard, of West Africa; Dr. N. B. Sterrett, of South Carolonia; Dr. J. Lowe, of Arkansas; Dr. E. W. Lee, president of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. A. J. Carey, of Chicago, and others. Choice musical selections were rendered by the choir of the 19th Street Baptist Church, under the direction of Prof. J. T. Walker, and a delightful solo was given by Mrs. Lucy A. Blagburn. The attendance was representative of the best intelligence and character of the District, and in the audience a large number of the delegates called here to attend the sessions of the Church Extension and Financial Boards to the A. M. E. Church. In getting up so successful and profitable a meeting, the Washington Commercial Council "scored" heavily. The meeting of the Church Extension and Financial Boards of the A. M. E. Church brought together a fine aggregation of administrators of that splendid organization. The visitors were loud in their praise of the hospitality dispensed by Dr. John F. Hurst, financial secretary and Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of the Church Extension Board. The wisdom of the connection in purchasing the properties on 14th street for the accommodation of the church's offices, was amply demonstrated. The building at 1535 14th street cost $10,000, and the present apartment at the corner of 14th and C streets, was bought for $20,000. The rapid development of 14th street as a business, throughfare, however, has materially increased their value and now the two places would bring not less than $40,000 Bishop Abraham Grant, of Kansas City, Kan., one of the country's ablest prelates, presided over the deliberations of the Financial Board. He is serving his second term of four years in the chair. He is also a member of the Jeanes Rural School Fund, of which President Taft is a member and of which Dr. Booker T. Washington is chief promoter. The financial report showed that nearly $2,000,000 had been raised during the current year, coming in from what is known* as "dollar money". Eight percent of the money thus raised is used in the educational work of the denomination; 10 percent is turned over to the Board of Church Extension; 36 percent is retained by the various annual conferences for the support of superannuated ministers, widows, of ministers and orphans, etc., and the remainder, 46 percent, is used for the payment of the salaries of the Bishops, general officers and other denominational needs. The financial department was created at the General Conference which met in Nashville, Tenn., in 1872, and it is the central medium for the collection and disbursement of the fund of the church. For the first eight years it was located at Nashville, and was then moved to Wilberforce, Ohio, where it remained until its location in this city in 1888. The department has had nine secretaries, and nearly if not all of them up to this time have been chosen to the Bishopric at the close of their term of service. The present financial secretary, Dr. John F. Hurst, is a man of unusual ability, and will doubtless be elevated to the Episcopal Bench at the earliest opportunity. He is a native of Haiti, was once secretary of the Haitian Legation, and is a graduate of Wilberforce University. As a pulpit orator and writer on theological and economic problems, Dr. Hurst has few equals. Up to the time he took charge of the financial department $2,825,067.60 had passed through it. The receipts of the current year bring this total to the $3,000,000 mark. Wednesday last, fifty ministers, including the members of the two boards and others, called upon President Taft to pay their respects. The delegation was headed by Bishop Grant, Bishop Derrick and Register W. T. Vernon. The visitors were cordially received, and the famous "Taft smile" was in evidence throughout the very satisfactory interview. The sentiments of the two boards were expressed and in a document read by Dr. A. J. Carey. CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX. NO LONGER CONTROL HIS PARTY, SAYS CLARKSON, FOR YEARS A LEADER New York, April Republican party was sworn by sentiment," said G. Clarkson, Republican, norse and until yesterday Survey of the Roe of New York for the past eight votes. "For twelve years it has lived through commercialism. "It came into power as the champion of human liberty. The first right of a man is the right to earn his living, and in that right the party is not protecting the citizens of this country. Any debt the Negro owed the Republican party he has paid. It would be better for the Negro to divide his vote. The Republican party has betrayed him, and is betraying him now." General Clarkson has laid, down the reins as surveyor of the port when he made these remarks yesterday. Previously he had given out a statement in which he had told a few plain truths about the Republican party, and it was in supplementing those in a talk with an American reporter that he talked freely of the party of which he was a founder and which he served as chairman of its national committee in the Harrison campaigns. There was no bitterness in the General's tone. It was the kind of talk that came from the heart of the man who, when a boy, ran a station of the "underground railway," a task delegated to him by John Brown. "In days gone by in the Republican party we strived for a majority of the voters." General Clarkson continued. "We endeavored to convince them our policies were right, and we had the majority of them with us. Of late we have become a minority party and have not had a plurality times." "You spoke of the Republican party betraying the Negro," said the reporter. "Yes," replied the General. "We have permitted the South to establish a system of peonage. A man is worked, forced to buy goods from a store, run into debt and sold to pay the debt. "I am in favor of protecting the citizens of this nation. A few days ago there was an account of this government taking steps to protect a couple of Negro citizens in Venezuela. I am in favor of protecting them in this country. "Bookor Washington may be the brightest or most educated man of his race, but he is not the leader of his race. The leader of the Negro race is Professor DuBois, who demands that the Negro be allowed to work and earn his livin gand enjoy the benefits of citizenship guaranteed to him by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. I am not speaking of social equality. That is something that can be settled by every family in its own way. "But there are more Negroes in the world than whites. We deprive the Negro of his rights, and then, when the time comes, expect him to do his duty as citizen and soldier. There are 500,000,000 Chinese and Japanese. We have established a protectorate over South America, and Japan will seek to establish one over the Paoife. A clash of arms is inevitable. When that time comes war is largely a matter of numbers. The Negro will establish his claim, there and then and rehabilitate himself." In Republican politics the General has always been looked upon as the man to get the vote of the Negroes, because of their faith in him. He was a strong abolitionist. As an editor he was an enthusiastic advocate of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and as a Republican leader he fought for their observance. BERWIND Rev. J. J. Crider, of the A. M. E. church, preached at Susana Sunday. Rev. E. G. Holcomb, of the Baptist church, preached two sermons Sunday. Morning lesson was found in Rev. 12-18. Evening lesson was found in Mark 8-17. He seemed to have been at his best. Mrs. Ella Wicker had Miss Cornelia Spears as her guest at dinner Saturday night. Mrs. Ella Wicker, accompanied by her little daughter Beatrice left Saturday morning for Tip Top, Va., where she will visit her mother. Mrs. Joe Page is very indisposed at this writing. A number of young people got up a fishing party last Thursday and went to Rift. Mrs. Minnie Miller, accompanied by her little daughter Addie May left for her home in Gary Tuesday morning. CORRESPONDENCE CAPERTON Miss Maggie Ware and Floyd Bundant were guests of Miss Beatrice Clayton Sunday afternoon. Miss Stella Day, Mrs. Minnie Hale Artill Clayton aid Mrs. Manie Cabbell were in town Sunday. Rev. R. H. Yancy filled his regular appointment at Kaynapp Sunday. appointment at Raymoor Sunday. P. H. Green, Harry Smith, Richard Bundant and William Watkins were visiting Mrs. R. B. Ware Sunday. Mrs. Cosby, of Eagle, was up visiting her daughter, Mrs. Hattie Claytor, Saturday and Sunday. Rev. J. L. Green is spending a week with his mother. He preached Sunday at Mt. Olive Baptist church. MONTGOMERY Mrs. Marina Thomas is sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Brown. M. D. Buster was at Institute Saturday on business. P. W. Wright, S. E. Childs, and H. H. Ralley will attend the Sunday School convention at Hipton this week. John S. Page, was manager of an entertainment at the Odd Fellows Hall Monday night for the Sunday School. Dr. B. F. White was a business visitor to Charleston Saturday. Mrs. E. C. Page and children Taylor and Portia spent Sunday at Eagle, the guests of friends. C. W. Parks, of Boomer, was in town Sunday. A number of Fayette County prominent politicians was in town Friday, in attendance on the Republican committee meeting some of whom were. Hon. J. M. Ellis, Dr. R. H. Gordon, Att'y T. L. Sweeney, J. S. Noel, J. S. Caulis, Wm. Taylor, A. F. Potan, Charles Turner, J. D. Shelton, J. V. Coleman and others. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Railey entertained at dinner Friday. Hon. J. M. Ellis, Oak Hill, W. M. Taylor, Nuttell, and J. S. Caulis, Winona. Bernard Jackson is out again after a few days illness. The Woman's Improvement League met with Mrs. Wm. Brown last week. After the business was over the following program was rendered. Current news Mrs. John Noel. Paper Mrs. Belle Russ. Instrumental Solo Miss Etta Hall. The League will meet with Miss Gracle Belt this week. Rev. E. C. Page, filled an engagement at Sewell Sunday. The Bridge being constructed a cross Kanawha river at this place is nearing completion. Dr. B. F. White and Councilman M. D. Buster are the Colored stock holders. Mrs. Charles Lemons has returned from a visit to Hawk's Nest. Mrs. Floyd Rogers is the guest of relatives at Lawton this week. RAYMOND CITY The Ministerial and Deacons union was held at Mt. Hermon Baptist church last week. A large number was present. Those from a distance were Rev. R. D. W. Meadows, of Huntington, Rev. L. W. Mayho, of South Carbon, A. C. Chapman, of Winifrede, Rev. D. Stratton and D. D. Davis. Miss Missie Lee the traveling messenger of Mt. Clare New Jersey delivered an interesting message to a large congregation at Mt. Hermon Baptist Church, Friday night. J. W. Crosby filled the pulpit at Mt. Hermon Church Sunday and preached two interesting sermons. Mr. and Mrs. Hale Dickerson, of Bancroft attended the ministerial and Deacons meeting here last week Mrs. Ossie Sawyers and Mrs. Roberts, of Black Betsey, were also present. George Cousins, of Hughesston was visiting relatives here just now. was visiting relatives here last week. Arthur Massey left last week for Bidwell, Ohio, where he will make his feature home. Mrs. Olivia Walker, of Charleston, spent a few days here last week the guest of her sister, Mrs. Cornilia Coles. Mrs. Julia Wallace, of Charleston, was visiting relatives here Saturday and Sunday. Mesdames, Ella Kingsley, Luvinia Cogle, Hoppie James, Jennie Williams and Maggie Wilson were in Charleston and Montgomery last Orange Dickerson and C. W. Kingsley made a flying trip to Charleston last week. B. J. Alexander has arrived home after spending several days in Charleston and Montgomery last week. Mrs. Victoria Duckwiler is reported very ill at her home. Mrs. Harriett! Thomas, of Charleston, was called here last week by the serious illness of her daughter. Miss Ella Good, of Charleston, spent several days here at the bed side of her sister, Mrs. Victoria Duckwiller. H. Woods and Mrs. Emma Printiss are some what indisposed at this writling. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Williams were business visitors in Charleston Monday. SEWELL Morning Star Lodge No. 35. A F. and A. M. will hold a lodge of sorrow in memory of the late Fleet Porterfield, grand treasurer, at 12:30 o'clock Sunday. Rev. E. C. Page filled his regular appointment here Sunday and preached two excellent sermons. Rev. Winston, of Charleston, spent several hours here Saturday, enroute to McDonald. There will be an entertainment given at the First Baptist Church Monday night, to raise money to palat the church. Miss Birdie Turner spent Sunday here the guest of friends. R. A. Cary was a business visitor to Fayetteville Friday. Creed Canada, of Dunloop, spent Monday here with friends. L. C. Claytor, of Fayetteville, spent from Friday till Monday here. Madison Jones was an out of town visitor Saturday. UNION. Mrs. Martha Bailey and daughter have come home to spend the summer. Mrs. Ollie Smalls has turned after a two-weeks' visit in Hinton. Rev. Reed and wife arrived Friday. All wish them much success while here. Mrs. Lillie Bell Johnson, of Charleston is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lucy Black. Norman Bell, the teacher at Gappmills, was in town last week. Rev. Chas, Campbell and son are sick this week. Jerome Campbell and Allen Whitlock were in Hinton this week on business. The Ladies Aid Society meets this week at Mrs. D. Smalls. Miss Ollie Meadows and Allen Whitlock were married at the home of Rev. Chas, Campbell Sunday the 24th. Mrs. Mary Whitlock is spending this week in Hinton the guest of her daughter. Mrs Rosa Jamison, of Albemarle, North Carolina is visiting her mother. CHILLICOTHE, OHIO Edward Turner, of New York City, visited Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Gatliff last week, leaving Saturday for Marietta, O. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Noels, of Dayton, O., are in the city shopping with Mrs. Lomax on sixth street. They are here in the interest of the Hollie's Orphans home for Colored children in Dayton. Mrs. Johnson, on Mechanic St., died 'Sunday afternoon about 6 o'clock with tuberculosis. No arrangement have been made for the funeral. Rev. Joseph Leeper died Friday morning at his home in Mossville about five miles from the city. Rev. Leeper was born in Flemmount county Ky. 77 years ago. He leaves his wife, five children, and a host of friends' and grand children, Rev. W. G. Leeper, his son, pastor of the A. M. E. Church in Denton, Md., was unable to be present at the funeral of his father on the account of the illness of his wife. Rev. W. E. Walker pastor of Quinn chapel A. M. E. Church preached the funeral and conducted the burial services Sunday afternoon in the Massville church. The body was brought to the city and intered in the Green Lawn Cemetery. Friday was observed as health day by the public schools. Drs. S. S. Jordon and Peters addressed the pupils and teachers at the southern school building. Their addresses were "appropriate" and instructive. The first grade, taught by Miss Ellen Dowdy; second grade taught by Miss Helen E. Marshall; and third and fourth grades taught by Miss Cora B. Medley, sang four little pupil songs lead by the music teacher., Mr. E. M. Lippett, after which Miss G. B. Medley introduced Dr. Peters, who spoke on Cleanliness and how to take care of the truth. Song by the children. Dr. S. S. Jordan was introduced by Miss Medley and spoke on Hygiene. The 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, taught by Mr. Fred Williams and Mrs. A. J. Hayes, the principal, were assembled in the principal's room. Song by the pupils Dr. Peter's was introduced by Mrs. A. J. Hays, and spoke on Tuburocollis. Song— Paper by Dr. S. S. Jordon, subject "The Science of the Preservation of Health". James A. Lomax who has been in Dayton with his Vacuum Carpet Cleaner, returned Saturday. Rev. J. W. Carter has been in Mt. Sterting, O., attending ministers Institute. Rev. N. J. Thomas, of Columbus, O., filled the pulpit at the first Baptist church Sunday. Misses Florence Dennkins and Effie Stewart will leave Friday for Roxabell, O., to attend the Baptist Sunday School Convention. Mrs. Rebecca Robinson was called to Columbus on account of illness of her son. Miss Cora Harris, of Harris Station was in town shopping Saturday. Mrs. Andrew Powell has returned to Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Dyer have moved to State Mills, O. Mrs. Anna Stewart, of Dry Run, was moved to the hospital last Saturday for treatment. J. B. Moss is confined to his home on S. Walnut St., with granulated eyes. Mrs. A. J. Hays and Miss Helen E. Marshall were in Massiville Saturday. Rev. W. E. Walker, lectured on Tuberculosis Sunday night. He said, "I will give you a few simple rules for the preservation of health which though incomplete, will be of great benefit, if faithfully pursued. From experience, study and observation you will no doubt be able to add to them:— 1st. Make attention to health a matter of conscience, as a religious duty. 2nd. Maintain habitual cheerfulness and serenity of mind. 3rd. Be regular in all your habits. 4th. Spend at least two hours every day in active exercises in open air. 5th. Bathe frequently. 6th. Pay particular attention to the quality and quantity of food taken in to the stomach. 74th. Take no medicine unless at tacked by violent disease. Dr. C. S. Gee will preach at Quinn chapel Sunday, and hold the third quarterly conference Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams have removed from N. High St., to South High St., where they have a beautiful home. Edward Salton and Griffin Lucas spent Sunday morning in the country, oil business. The Bates Ice Cream parlor was opened Saturday night. Each visitor was presented with a Carnation. HARPER'S FERRY Storer breaks even again this week in her base-ball games, losing to the fast Purcellville, Va., team and winning from Charles Town by a clean shut out. The game between Purcellville & Storer played at Purcellville, Va., Friday Apr. 22, was a clean, fast battle between pitchers, the score standing 2 to 0 in our favor until the eighth inning when several errors by the Storer boys enabled the visitors to score their runs. The Storer boys received a cordial welcome on their trip in Va., and were loud in praise of their treatment. Purcellville Battery—Stewart Clark Storers Battery—Thomilinson, Biggs Score—Pruceville 4—Storer—2 The game between Charles Town St. Phillip's Stars and Storer was a complete shut out for the visitors, Scott, the new pitcher of Storer made a fine showing, holding the visitors to two hits and not a single round. Line up Storer Charles Town Morris 3rd base R. Talbot Harvey 1st Harris Scott P. J. Talbot Fisher L. F. Ruther Ford Diggs C. Perry Lewis 2 nd Balls Pomlinson S. S. Balls Arter C. F. R. Talbot Hill R. F. E. Talbot 3 base hits Arter. 2 base hits Harvey 3 Morris 2. The musical Cantata "Pauline" was given Friday evening in An- thony Hall by the Alumni of Storer under the direction of C. Summer Arter. Cast of Characters Pauline Western Alice Whittaker Clara Rivers M aldoma Brady George Ardent College Student C. S. Arter. Sir Charles Grandisville Chas. W. Warfield Capt. Western Prof. Saunders. The play was a decided hit and the acting of Miss Whittaker as Pauline Western and Prof. Saunders as Capt. Western was especially enjoyed by an appreciative audience. Hon. Elon G. Reynolds, of California formerly of Hillsdale College Mich., was the guest of Prof. and Mrs. McDonald on Wednesday last, and paid a visit at the college. Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Supt. was a business visitor at Storer last week, and addressed the student body in a pleasing and instructive talk. The annual sermon of the Y. M. C. A. was preached in Curtis Memorial Chapel Sunday April 24, by Rev. J. R. Logan, of Philadelphia. Pa. Rev. Logan is a forcible speaker and the young men were very fortunate in having him preach to preach their annual sermon. Among the visitors to the alumni play Friday were Miss Arabella Arter of Washington, D. C., Miss Elizabeth Carter of Kearneysville, Richmond, Taylor of Rippon, and Henry Hopewell of Kearneyville. The Senior cooking class entertained the senior boys Wednesday, April 20, at a class breakfast in Dewolf Industrial Bldg. Among the visitors present were Hon. E. G. Reynolds, of Michigan, Prof. McDonald, and H. H. Winters of the agriculture dept. The following menu was served. English Bacon Potato Cakes Biscuit Waffles Biscuit Coffee. The next base-ball game scheduled will be played on home grounds Friday April 29. between Front Royal and Storer. PRINCETON. W. M. Callander returned from Hot Springs, Arkansas, Monday, much improved in health. Mrs. Parthenia Underwood went to Bramwell, to attend her Lodge of St. Lukes. Henry Page is spending a few days in Pulaski, Co., visiting his parents. Leslie Hill, of Gardner, was the week-end guest of his brother Fred. Joe Jones, of Radford Co., is here visiting relatives. Henry Jones, an employee at the depot, has been quite sick, but is convexescent and was taken to the home of Albert Scott where he can get prompt attention. Prof. L. J. Hill and family moved Saturday to their new home on the suburbs of town on the Ingleside road. James E. Adams made a business trip to Roanoke Tuesday. Miss Lettle Johnson suffered a slight stroke of Paralysis Thursday and was moved to the residence of Hick Spiller, her uncle, to get careful nursing. Thomas Hunter, an employee at the Thurmond yards, came here Thursday looking around the town, and Virginia shops. The Second Baptist Church, of which Rev. R. W. Hill is pastor, is preparing for a Grand Rally the 3rd, Sunday in May. Mrs. Cowan Reid's sister Aunie is here on an extended visit to her home. Mrs. Ellen Muse, of New Hope, is the house guest of Mrs. Lovelett Meadows. Baby Charles Gardner is on the sick list. South Charleston FACTORIES EMPLOYING OVER 400 MEN Dunkirk Window Glass Co. Banner Window Glass Co. Kanawha Chemjcal Engine Mfg. Co. Bridge now Completed and soon the trollly cars. cars go in. Terms: 1-10 cash, balance in monthly payments to suit. Discount for all cash. Bell Phone 750; Home Phone 214 Charles Warrington, of Crane Creek, was on business here Friday. GRAFTON. Miss Lucy Ford, has returned from Mannington. Miss Edna Minor, of Fairmont, is the guest of her grand mother, Mrs. Rena Ross. Rev. Wm. Graham, of Elkins, spent a few hours in town Saturday enroute to Rock Brancon. Ashby Grayson, of Clarksburg, spent Saturday and Sunday here visiting friends. John McDonald, of Mannington, formerly of this city, is visiting his parents, Mr. and M/s. John McDonald, of East Main St. Scott Martin returned from a business visit to Clarksburg Saturday evening. Philmore Howell, entertained C. W. Florance at supper, Sunday evening. Mrs. Allie Sheppard, returned from Baltimore Saturday where she went to be with her mother, Mrs. L. A. Menifee, who was operated on last week. Mrs. Ella Dabney, will entertain The Ladies Aid Society of the Warren M. E. Church, Thursday evening. CLARKSBURG Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Williams and daughter of Bellevernon, Pa., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Lowry, Monticello Ave, last week. Mrs. Ed. Henry, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at St. Marys hospital, has returned home much improved in health. R. L. Lowry, of Charleston, and Mrs. Geo. Williams, of Bellevernon, Pa., son and sister of Mrs. P. H. Lowry have returned to their respective homes after spending several days with Mrs. Lowry, who is on a fair road to recovery after a severe attack of appendicitis. Mrs. J. L. Ruffin, was hostess to the Queen Esther society, Friday. W. B. Ruffin, accompanied by C. A. Armes, left Thursday for Parkersburg where he was quietly married to Miss Pearle Brown of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Ruffin returned the same evening and are now residing in their beautiful new home on Bridge St. They have the best wishes of their many friends for a long and happy wedded life. The Clarksburg district conference held in the A. M. G. Church from April 14th, to 17th, was well attended and ministers and lay delegates from ten different points brought in excellent reports of the work. The deep spiritual feeling prevailed throughout the meetings. The announcement of the removal of the Presiding Eider came as a great shock to the conference. Rev. J. Harris Accoo, the much-beloved elder of the district, is now stationed EOPLE IN SOUTH CHARLESTON NOW THERE APRIL 1,1907 ACTORIES EMPLOYE by Glass Co. Kanawha Chemjc steel Co. and other buil school House, Co construction, Na now Completed before the prices go cars g 1-10 cash, balance i Discount f awha from 501 Charleston N phone 214 MES EMPLOYING OVER Co. B wha Chemjcal Engine M other buildings in S House, Concrete Sir duction, Natural Gas completed and soon the prices go up. The cars go in. ash, balance in monthly p Discount for all cash. wha La Charleston National Bank Room 501 Charleston National Bank Building at Steubenville. Ohio. Resolutions concerning his impartial ruling and great interest in the work and regretting his departure were passed by this body. With all its other work, the conference found time to devote an afternoon to the missionary cause and the excellent papers read by Mrs. W. Mumford, of Buckhannon, and Miss Georgia Sutton, of Meriden, proved an inspiration to all. Points represented were: Morgantown, Buckhannon, Weston, Meriden, Rock Branch, Elkins, Sutton, Mill Creek, Keyser and Clarksburg, communications from other charges were received and all reports indicate a splendid year's work. Rev. Thomas, Presiding Elder of the Wheeling district, was also present The Mock Trial given by the Water Street Base Ball Club was a most laughable entertainment and was well attended. A farwell reception was tendered Rev. J. H. Accoo Monday, April 18th, by the members and friends at the A. M. E. Church. A pleasing program was rendered. Under the auspices of the ladies mission society a splendid program was presented, Friday night, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The social at the home of Mrs. A. L. Robinson, Tuesday evening, was well attended. A banquet will be given Friday night by Mt. Horeb Lodge G. U. O. O. F. at Hewes St. Hall. Memorial services for the late treasurer of the Grand Masonic order will be held at Pride Chapel. Sunday. Mrs. Ida Roberts is visiting relatives in Parkersburg. Mrs. Nellie Wilson, delightfully entertained a number of friends Tues day night at her home in honor of her daughter, Elizabeth's, fifteenth birthday anniversary. Music and games were the diversion of the evening, and at a seasonable hour a most delicious lunch, ices and fruit were served. Miss wilson was the recipient of many beautiful presents. Those present were Misses Florence Ruffin, Mary Miller, Besie and Jennie Walker, Lilly Robinson, Diez Tuck, Lucy West, Lola Banks, Beulah Green, Geraldine Lassiter, Florence Jackson, Harriet Childs, and Messers, Willis Roberts, Wilbur Myers, John Green, George Jackson, Vernet West, Arthur Jones, Lewis Lowry, Charles Meade, Albert Washington, Skies and Holloway Wilson A delightful evening was spent by all present. Mrs. Inez Tuck served the fruit punch. DO YOU want to learn to resilier 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. Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fresh Pork Sausage OUR OWN MAKE. Try our machine sliced Hams and Bacon OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY 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. Cheese THE MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN WESTERN WESTERN Are You Working for Money? Or is Your Money Working for You? ing it in a trunk or hiding it some where — your house — You Are Working For Money. If you are working and saving you If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent, interest—Your Money is working For You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story 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 third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend of six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment 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 KANAWHA CITY. Miss Amelia Johnson, of the W. V. C. L., visited her parents here Staurday and Sunday. F. D. Page made a business trip to Charleston Saturday. Miss Ivory Good spent several days in Charleston last week visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mary Hackley. Miss Lovelia Lewis, of the W. V. C. L., will spend week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lewis. Miss Annestine Johnson entertained Sunday in honor of her sister, Miss Amelia. Those who partook of Miss Johnson hospitality, were Misses Ivory Woods, Willay White, John Woods and John Lawson. Aquilla Page, of Harewood, visited his parents=Sunday. G. L. Jackson will visit friends on new river Wednesday. F. C. Page closed his school here on 11th, after a successful term. Mr. Page has done great work and deserves much credit. The school picnic was a pleasant affair to all who attended. Mrs. R. B. Johnson was a visitor at South Ruffner Wednesday. M. A. Page attended the entertainment given by Miss Ida M. King Sat. night. F. D. Page is preparing for an entertainment for the benefit of the library which will be given in a short while. Sherman Green returned to Cabin Creek Saturday after spending some days here visiting his mother. Miss Annestine Johnson is visiting in Charleston this week. Mrs. J. W. Woods has recovered from a recent illness. RONCEVERTE Rev. Robinson preached his farewell sermon at the Baptist Church Sunday night. A large congregation attended and his many friends regret his departure. Mrs. Lillie B. Johnson, of Charleston who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Etta Green, left last Sunday to visit friends and relatives at Union. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Price returned here Saturday after visiting Mrs. Thos. Johnson at Frankfort. Chas. Brinkley visited Clifton Forge last week. Andy Crawford, an old and respected citizen of Greenbrier Co., died Sunday at residence of his nephews at Brush Ridge. Rev. S. A. Lewis filled his usual appointment at Alderson Sunday. A. L. Brinkley returned home from Clifton Forge hospital much improved. Mrs. Mary A. Brown and Mrs. Mary J. Riddle visited White Sulphur Friday. Angrus Hopkins was a visitor here last week. Gus Cousins was up from Charleston visiting Sunday. Herbert Jackson, of Charleston, came up Saturday night to meet his little daughter Vera, who spent the winter with her grand parents at Frankfort. Wm. Eggleston was down from White Sulphur Sunday to spend the day with his parents. Rev. S. A. Lewis was called suddenly to Brush Ridge Sunday night on account of the death of his uncle, Andy Crawford. Mrs. Edna Woods, and Mrs Huston Skipper, visited Clifton Forge hospital to see Spencer Wood who was seriously hurt by a train Thursday. PRATT. Anthony Howell, who has been spending sometime with relatives at Plymouth, returned home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Washington, of Red Warrior, are guests of friends and relatives this week. Jacob Washington is visiting his family at Sissonville. Miss Jemima Ellis, who has been sick, is able to be out again. Mrs. Myrtle Johnson, of Standard, was a business visitor here Saturday. was a business visitor here Saturday. Miss Cornelia Murray, of Hugheson, spent from Saturday to Monday with her teacher, Mrs Thompson. Miss Eunice Holmes is confined to her room with mumps. Misses Carolyn and Vivian Buster and Mrs. Ruby Saunders, of Boomer were calling on Mrs. Mary McClure last week. The lady members of the Athletic Association of the West Virginia Colored Institute, will present a play entitled Mirandy's Minstrels Tuesday evening May 3rd, in Hazlewood Assembly Hall. Miss Charlotte Campbell took suddenly ill Saturday morning and has been confined to her room for several days. Matthew Buster, of Montgomery, made a business trip to Institute Sunday. Miss Amelia Wilcher spent Sunday at Institute. Mrs. R. H. Lowry is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. T. C. Friend. Mrs. Mayne White and Miss Ida Alexander were called to Point Pleasant Sunday, because of the death of their father. Miss Elizabeth Ross, International Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the West Virginia Colored Institute. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Curtis, and Mrs. Byrd Prillerman attended the funeral of Joseph Alexander at Pt. Pleasant. C. E. Mitchell, Business Manager of the West Virginia Colored Institute, is able to resume his duties, after several days illness. PAGE Rev. N. A. Smith filled his regular appointment here Sunday and preached two able sermons. Mr. Rawlin Scott and Miss Maggie Walker were quietly married at the home of the bride Sunday evening, Rev. N. A. Smith officiating. The Sunday School gave a concert Saturday night at the school house. A neat sum was realized. Pocahontas Lodge No. 7, will give an entertainment to night. Dan-Wilson, of Red Star, and Miss Bettie Calloway, of Thurmond, were guests of Miss Bettie Benton. TOMSBURG Mrs. Nannie Holway, of Beckwith, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Moore. Miss Gelna Davis is home from Charleston. Mrs. J. H. Adams, and Miss Matilda Scott, were shopping in Montgomery Monday. Little Eva Callander was calling on friends at Burnwell Monday. Rev. D. Stratton was in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Moore, Miss Nannie Coleman, and Gelna Davis, were shopping in Montgomery Wednesday. Little Garfield Scott, who has been sick with fever is convalescing. Mrs. Richard Miller, is visiting friends at Beckwith. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Scott were shopping in Charleston last week. THOMAS MrS. Fanny Burton, Mrs. Nettie Redman and Ambrose Spencer, patients at the Davis hospital, are reported to be improving rapidly. Motton Payne was a Davis visitor Sunday. D. A. Cox celebrated his fifty third birth-day Sunday the 24th, by having to dine with him several of his intimate friends, those present were: John Wade, Otho Parrish, Henry Botts, E. P. Boxdale, C. L. Ford, Clarence Black, A. L. Williams, Daniel Lee, Mrs. B. F. Willis, Frances Botts, Adella Jones, Kate Lee, and Elizabeth Thompson. THE ADVOCATE. The school closing exercises will be Thursday the 28th at the first Baptist Church. The True Reformer Lodge will have their annual sermon preached Sunday May 1st, by Rev. L. A. Menifee, of Grafton. James T. Bruce and C. R. Black were visitors in Albert Sunday. WEVACO Albert Woods, of South Carbon, has moved here. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Grahams entertained at dinner Sunday Prof. J. A. Shields. Herbert Mitchell, of Winifrede, was calling on friends here last week. Miss Nora Black and Eugene Otey were quietly married last Tuesday by Rev. L. W. Mayo. Rev. J. J. Turner, Supt. of Sunday School Mission, preached an interesting sermon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church Thursday night. Rev. Turner was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Tyree while here. Pauline Thomas and Mrs. Margurite Giles were calling on Mrs. Pattle Bonds. Sunday. Mrs. J. A. Tyree and Mrs. G. R Caveness went to see Mrs. John Brooks Sunday who has been very sick for some time and who will go to Sheltering Arms Hospital Monday morning. Mrs. Lucy Ray is very sick. Mrs. Hattle Hanner is sick. Miss Amanda Williams visited Miss Alice Shoats Sunday. Sherman Green, who received an injury in the mines several weeks ago, is improving slowly. Rev. L. W. Mayo was visiting in our town Sunday. Rev. H. M. C. Reed, of South Carbon, will preach for us next Sunday night. We hope that the Colored voters of Wevaco will get in line for the primary election which will be held soon. W. H. Harris, of Montgomery, was here Monday in the interest of the Continental Casualty Insurance Company of Chicago. He stopped at Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Graham's. Robert Howard returned from the hospital and is no better. Mt. Zion Baptist Church has no preacher yet. BUCKHANNON Mrs. Ada Clay, of Clarksburg, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Jackson. William Lyda and daughter entertained the Willing Workers, Thursday night. Mrs. J. W. Mumford, Misses Georgia Sutton and Maud Tyler attended the closing exercises of the Weston School Wednesday night. Rev. George DeYoung, of Simpson M. E. Church lectured on Tuberculosis, Sunday night. Messrs. Lacy, Perkins and Lee, of Weston, were here Sunday. Chas. Smith was at Weston Wednesday and attended the school entertainment Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dickerson entertained the Silver Leaf Club Friday night. Waldo Smith and Isom Taylor made a business trip to Clarksburg Thursday. Miss Nettie Madison was a Weston visitor Wednesday. Miss Georgie Sutton, who was the guest of Mrs. J. W. Mumford last week, returned to her home Saturday. The Ladies' Aid of Simpson M. E. Church gave a Campbell recital Tuesday evening. $15.00 was realized from the entertainment HUNTINGTON. A donation of $18.00 was given to the Orphan's Home by Mrs. Lomax, of Montgomery. Richard Rose has returned home from an extended visit to relatives in Cincinnati. The death of Nelson Randolph occurred at his home near Sixth Avenue and Tenth Street Saturday morning. The deceased was an old citizen and had been ill several weeks. Harry Alexander, of Gallipolis, is in our city. The annual Thanksgiving services of the K. of P. lodges were observed Sunday afternoon at the First Baptist Church. An immense crowd had assembled before the appointed hour. Soon the long procession of sturdy men came marching to the sweet strains of music by their band which preceded them. At the church the court of Calanthe joined them and when they had taken their seats, the church was filled to its utmost capacity. During the opening exercises two very beautiful solos charmed the audience, sung by Mrs. Fannie Perkins and Mrs. Carrie Monroe respectively T. R. Jenkins, the master of ceremonies presented Rev. L. V. Bryan the speaker of the evening in glowing terms. Rev. Bryant was at his best. The sermon was rich in thought and sentiment, practical, logical philosophical and will long live in the memory of all. Miss Lula Edwards, of Richmond Va. is in our city on business. Miss Bentie Stewart, of Gallipolis is in our city for an indefinite stay. The marriages during the past week are as follows: Miss Della Howard to Mr. Eugene Watson, and Miss Mabel Washington to Mr. Wheary Walden. The brides are well known and have the best wishes of all. Mrs. Ann Prater, who was stricken with paralysis last week, is a little improved, yet the condition is serious. The social given at the residence of Mrs. Mattie Jackson, Thursday evening, for the benefit of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was well attended and proved a success socially and financially. The third of the series of school entertainments was given at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Friday evening by the pupils of the First and Second Grades. The little folks acquitted themselves with credit to the delight of their audience. Much praise is due their teachers. Miss Wilkins and Barnett, for the excellent manner in which their pupils were trained. Miss Mattie and Sophie Dawson and Miss Clara Stewart were visitors at Douglass School Friday morning. Rev. I. V. Bryant attended the commencement exercises of the Bidwell High School, Friday evening. His daughter Edith being one of the graduates. Miss Edith is the first colored graduate from that school and in a class of nine young ladies she led taking all the honors. Mrs. Ella B. Thomas spent the week end with friends in Portsmouth. Miss Marcella Manggrum went to Russell, Sunday, to see her mother, whose illness has been mentioned in these columns. We are glad to learn that she has improved in health and intends to come home this week. BLUEFIELD. Prof. C. H. Moore, of Tuskegee, Ala., the national organizer of the National Negro Business League of which Dr. B. T. Washington is President, is in the city and will meet the business and professional men with the views of establishing a branch here. He expects to be in West Virginia, several weeks. Mrs. Robert Anderson, who has been ill for some time, died on the 21st, inst. The remains were taken to Tazewell for interment. Mrs. Nannie Fudge, wife of D. A. Fudge, died Thursday evening, April 20, after an operation in the city hospital. The funeral service was held at the Raleigh St. M. E. Church and was very largely attended. Rev. J. H. Pickett, Supt. of the Pullski District officiated. Interment was made in the family grave yard at Tazewell. Rev. P. H. Edwards, ex-pastor of Scott St., Baptist Church, is home looking after business interests. He is now located in Cass Co., Michigan, and he reports that he likes his place very much. The people there are delighted with him and his work. The following is the program to be rendered at Scott St., on Sunday, May 1, on the occasion of the installation of Rev. S. R. Bullock as pastor. Anthem, By Choir Scripture Reading Solo, By Mrs.. A. C. Callway Prayer, By J. W. Price Anthem, By Choir Installation Sermon, By Rev. J. D. Coleman Duet, By Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Benson. Welcome on behalf of the Legal Profession, by Lawyer W. J. Parker Offerings. Master of Ceremonies, N. M. Martin 2:30 P. M. Organ Voluntary. Anthem. By Choir Scripture Reading, Rev. W. M. Muss Solo. Mrs. Marie E. Woody Prayer. Rev. H. T. Armstead Solo. L. Johnsan Welcome to the Church, Deacon Joe Mervin Music Welcome on behalf of the Y. M. C. A., by N. M. Martin Music. Welcome on behalf of the State, Prof. R. P. Sims. Selection, N. M. Martin Welcome on behalf of the School, Prof. E. L. Rann. Selection, Mrs. V. B. Edwards Welcome on the behalf of the pro- fessional men, by Dr. E. W. Lomax. Selection, By Dr. E. W. Lomax. Welcome on behalf of Sunday School W. H. Allen Welcome on behalf of the citizens, R. W. Austin Anthem, Choir Welcome on behalf of the choir By Mrs. A. C. Callway Welcome on behalf of the B. Y. P. U. By W. M. Poindexter Selection, Mrs. W. H. Watkjns Remarks, Pastor Offerings. Master of Ceremonies—James Jones Committee on Program S. W. Allen, Luther Johnson G. W. Williams, Miss L. P. Payne DAVIS The ladies of the Mission Society have been quite busy in various ways in caring for the sick and those who may want assistance. They are ever willing and ready to lend a helping hand. Oscar Lee and family, of Luray, Va., have come to Davis to make their home. We are proud to welcome such worthy people. Mrs. L. D. Coleman, who met with a serious accident in cutting her hand, has so far recovered as to be able to be at her work again. Rev. Willis and E. B. Black were at Thomas Saturday looking after the interest of the church anniversary to be held May 21 and 22. The Literary Society, which was organized with Mrs. Jennie Lee as president and has not met for two months, will resume its work. The aim is to discuss current questions and to read and discuss good, whole-some literature. Our teacher, E. B. Black, was agreeably surprised on his natal day, when his friends called on him at his boarding house and presented him with some few tokens of respect. Our school is in a very prosperous condition. The president of the board of education and one of the members visited the school and spoke in the most complimentary terms of the teacher and his work. We will get a new school building. A delegation is going to Thomas Thursday evening to the school closing exercises. The teacher has done good work this term, some pupils passing the elementary examination and will soon be ready to take a more advanced course. Club No. 1 will have a Japanese social at the First Baptist church May 20. The baptizing will be held the second Sunday in May. Oscar Lee, of Rappahannock, Va., has moved his family here. He has employment at the tannery. Mrs. B. F. Willis* and Mrs. Adella Jones, of Thomas, were visitors to Davls Thursday. Club No. 3 will have a debate Saturday night. Subject: Resolved, that Moses was a greater leader than Joshua. Affirmative, Prof. E. B. Black and Mrs. V. A. Lee. Negative, Mr. Thomas Leo and Mrs. Jennie Harris. Refreshments will be served. Mr. Payne, of Thomas, was a visitor here Sunday. Tickets are out for the debate May 21 between Grafton and Davis. Mrs. Burden and Mrs. Redman, of Thomas, are in the hospital here. Both had operations performed. HOLDEN The Holden Baptist Sunday school had a rally Sunday and it was a success. Rev. A. J. Scott, or Roanoke, Va., preached here Sunday. Mr. Bruce, who has been critically ill for some time, has returned home from the hospital and is somewhat improved. Mrs. William Smith is quite ill with neuralgia. Mrs. I. J. Hawkins, of Madison, was over and spent a few days visiting her husband and friends. H. M. Newell made a business trip to Logan last week. William Smith made a business trip to Logan last week. The Holden Miners' band gave an entertainment at the hall Saturday evening. Thomas Lain made a trip to Huntington Saturday and returned Monday. The Odd Fellows gave an entertainment at the hall Monday evening and had a nice time. Don Wilson has returned from Kentucky and brought in some men. Rev. J. J. Turner, president of the Sunday school convention, was here the past week and preached an able sermon. G. W. Watkins has gone to Madison to visit his wife and daughter. DONWOOD Mrs. J. B. Guthrie is reported, better at this writing, after being ill for several days. Mrs. George Jones is very ill. Wm. Wicks and S. H. Clark worshipped at the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Wicks, Mrs. S. H. Clark and Mrs. William Brown were shopping in Montgomery, Monday. S. H. Clark made a business trip to Elkridge Monday. Miss Ruth Watson, of Montgomery, was the Friday guest of her sister, Mrs. S. H. Clark. R. L. Trent left Tuesday for Dillwyn, Va. to visit his family. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins White is able to be out after a serious attack of Pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Browder, of Montgomery, were up on business Thursday. A number of people of Montgomery attended services at the Zion Baptist Church Sunday. Rev. Warner Brown conducting the services. BANCROFT The Ladies' Improvement League held their public entertainment at the residence of Mrs. M. T. Sinclair Thursday evening. The program consisted of the following: Singing "Lord God We Worship Thee;" the Lord's Prayer, by the League, and Scripture reading. Singing, "Great Creator," Essay, "Success or Failure," Mrs. Lucy Mickens; song America; recitation, "God's Blessings," Mrs. Oscie Sawyers; paper, "Our Aim," Mrs. M. T. Sinclair; essay, "Woman's Social Opportunities," Mrs. Mae Jones. Roll was called and responded to by quotations, after which the new officers were installed by Dr. M. T. Sinclair, with a few remarks impressing the duties of their office upon them. Many visitors were present and spoke encouraging words to the members of the league, after which they were invited to the dining room where they were served. The visitors present were: Mrs. George Brook of Plymouth, Mrs. Leona Jones of Cedar Grove, Messrs. Jones, Edmonds, Mickens and Smith of Plymouth, Mr. and Mrs. Simons Woods, J. W. Sawyers of Black Betsey, and Hale Dickerson of Bancroft. Miss Missie Lee, of Mt. Clair, N. J., talked Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the Mt. Zion Baptist church to a large and interested audience, giving them her message. Mr. and Mrs. Hale Dickerson and son Edward attended the Deacon's Institute at Raymond Thursday. Mrs. Elijah Stevens, of Plymouth, spent a few days in Bidwell last week the guest of friends, returning Monday evening. Mrs. Zenia Williams and Mrs. Jackson Roberts were callers in Betsey Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. William Prince and daughter, of Cannelton, are spending Miss Gretta Roberts spent the last part of last week in Raymond. Mrs. H. A. Jones is visiting relatives in Gallipolis this week. Mrs. J. W. Sawyers and Mrs. Jackson Roberts attended the Deacons Institute at Raymond Friday. Mrs. Simon Woods and Mrs. J. W. Sawyers, of Betsey, were calling on friends here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Mickens, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jones, of Plymouth, and Mrs. Edward Hicks were callers here Sunday. Mrs. Ella Jenkins is reported on at this writing. Mrs. William Venable, who was taken to the hospital last week for treatment, is reported improving. Mrs. Charles Williams and daughter, of Ward, are the guests of Mrs. Zenia Williams this week. Horner Phillips, of Plymouth, who has been visiting friends in Ohio the past week, returned home Saturday morning. Mrs. Richard Smith and Mrs. Phillips Skanks were business callers here Friday. Anthony Powell, of Pratt, who has been spending some time with his daughter, Mrs. Richard Smith, of Plymouth, returned home last Saturday. Mrs. Phillips Skanks and Mrs. Sarah Smith, of Plymouth, called on the sick here Sunday. C. W. Harris, of Betsey, was a caller in Bancroft Sunday. Mrs. Charles Stevens, of Middleport, Ohio, stopped over a few hours last Saturday en route to her home. CEDAR GROVE Mrs. Lelia Jackson and Miss Lena Bibbs, of Montgomery, were here Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Anderson. Misses Hattie and Vivian Anderson, of Hugheston, were here Sunday the guests of Miss Bertha Newman. W. H. Lacy has returned from Gloucester, Ohio, after spending a week with his family. Alfred and Richard Johnson, of Harewood, witnessed the ball game here Sunday. Elmer Anderson, of Charleston, visited his father, J. W. Anderson here last week. Mrs. Martha Fortner and daughter, of Mammoth, were here Sunday. The nine months old child of Mr. and Mrs. William Lash, of Ward, died Saturday night of pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Walker, of Ward, were here Sunday the guests of Mrs. Maria Richmond. Rev. J. B. Smith, of Cabin Creek, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lovely. J. W. Richmond and Bartley Dingess were in Charleston Saturday on business. J. T. Willis, of the tailoring department of I. S. White, was visiting in Montgomery last week. The annual sermon of the G. U. O. of O. F. will be preached here on the second Sunday in May. All members are requested to be present and the community is most cordially invited to attend. William Beamer, of Mammoth, was here Saturday and Sunday looking after business interests. PARKERSBURG Miss Pearl Brown and Mr. William Ruffin were quietly married Thursday afternoon at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Brown, on Clay street. They left the same evening for Clarksburg, where they will reside. Mrs. William McClung continues to be quite ill at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Lucy McClung. Charles Wells has returned home after being employed in Huntington for some time. Miss Alberta McClung is much improved after being ill for a few days. Mrs. Edward Lee continues ill at her home on Clay street. The Sewing Circle of the Zion Baptist church will meet with Mrs. Amanda Franklin Thursday evening. Mrs. Eveline Devers, who has been ill in letters Algie Fitzgerald continues quite ill at his home on Fourteenth street. Mrs. Nannie Howard, of Clarksburg, is in the city working to organize an Eastern Star, a branch of the Masonic Lodge and while here she is the guest of Mrs. J. N. Robinson. Mrs. William Ferguson is instructing a number of young ladies for a play which they will give soon for the benefit of the Secton's Club of the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. W. M. Toney, pastor of Zion Baptist church, has moved from the parsonage of the church to his new home on Nineteenth street. Arthur Ormes, of Clarksburg, was in the city a few hours Thursday, to attend the marriage of Miss Brown and Mr. Ruffner. GIRL WAITERS The Chicago & Northwestern railroad is trying out the innovation of girl waitresses on through dining cars this spring owing to the scarcity of colored men for this work. The first woman railroad dinner waitress was the wife of J. Garnier, a colored employee running from Chicago to Omaha who refused to be separated from her husband by his work and was allowed to try her services. The innovation has so far been successful and others will be secured, according to Supt. R. R. Matters, of the dining car service of the railroad. The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. In the candidacy of Mr. Phil Waters for the position of Assistant Register of the Treasury, the appointing powers at Washington are given an excellent opportunity to show both whether Mr. Cyrus Field Adams has a life tenure on that job and also whether twelve thousand loyal Republican voters deserve recognition. This is not the first shot West Virginia has taken at the plum tree since Mr. Taft entered the White House. For the position of Recorder of Deeds we sent down the names of two very worthy gentlemen, one too many perhaps, but, too many or too few, we were not strong enough to buck against Mr. Henry Lincoln Johnson., who delivered Georgia's Negro delegates to Mr. Hitehecock at Chicago, Col Judson Lyons to the contrary notwithstanding. If the delivery of a dozen or so votes at a convention is worth the Recordership of Deeds for the District of Columbia, the optimists among us are arguing that twelve thousand votes at the polls deserve the position to which Mr. Waters aspires. Then too we contend that West Virginia is rightfully due something in the way of Federal patronage. In the state proper not a single Negro holds a Federal position—not job, mind you—outside the postoffice department, where there are now about eight carriers. Since the birth of the State there have been, we are reliably informed, only two Federal appointments among Negroes, one of which we yet hold—the consulship to St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. Within the same time, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, New York and New Jersey, among the doubtful states, and all the southern states, sure Democratic, have had not only their snouts but their feet in the trough. Now we "ask to know" what in the name of Sam Hill is the matter with West Virginia tucking its napkin under its chin at the pie counter (if "putting its snout in the trough" shocks the sensitive ear?) We have heard that the time, the place and the man must be in conjunction. The time is NOW; the place, the ASSISTANT REGISTER OF THE TREASURY; the man, PHIL WAITERS. We await with what patience we can command the action of the President. If he turns us down, we shall not be less loyal to the party than we have been in the past. If he appoints our man, we will enter with renewed strength into the coming conflict. WHEN A NEGRO IS NOT A NEGRO In holding that the laws directed toward the separation of the races do not apply to quadroons and ortoroons, the Louisiana Supreme Court hands down a decision far-reaching in its consequences, a decision which will doubtless nullify the old miscegenation laws of undisputed benefit to the Negro citizens of that State. The case came up from a circuit judge who had decided that the anti-concubinage law passed at the last session of the legislature was unconstitutional. He held that a person of mixed white and Negro blood was not a Negro. The facts in the case were that Octave Threadway, a white man, and Josephine Lightbill, an octooon, had lived together as man and wife, but were prohibited from marrying by law. The district attorney began proceedings against them, and they fled to New Orleans where they hoped to be lost sight of Family bitterness, however, pursued them, and they were brought to trial when their attorney pleaded that Josephine was not a Negro but an Octooon. The judge sustained the plea, deciding that a person in whom white blood predominated could not be called a Negro. In this he has been upheld by the Supreme Court. What consequences will follow this decision? It would seem that every statute providing for the separation or segregation of the races will be null and void or so difficult of enforcement as to amount to nullification. The Shattucks law, closing four-fifths of the saloons to Negroes will be operative only in so far as the saloonists see fit. The laws providing for the separation of the races in the street cars, theatres, railroad stations and hotels are, it appears, nullified, and hlaisons between white men and Negro women can no longer be punished. In two respects, at least, the decree of the Supreme Court will injuriously affect the Negroes, in that it will throw open to Negroes the low dives, the hotbeds of vice, from which they have been recently barred; and it removes all restrictions against miscegenation, which has done more harm to the Louisiana Negro than the saloons. The character of the opposition to the law when it was before the legislature would, lead to the very natural suspicion that justice to the admixture of white blood with black was not so much a question in the court's decision as the interests of certain influential families. AN ENEMY TO HIS STATE. Ordinarily the Nashville Globe is safe and sane in its comments on current events, but when it undertakes no champion the cause of Governor Patterson and to set him up as deserving a third term, really it seems to overstep the bounds of right thinking. "No better man has ever served the state, and why change?", asks the Globe. Hoot mon! Do you really mean what you say? If you do, get down on your knees and gratefully thank your Father which art in heaven, that He has not afflicted your state with a larger number of lynchings, murders and assassinations. "No better man has ever served the State". Surely the other governors of the State did not use their newer of pardon in such a questionable manner as has Governor Patterson? Do you in the face of his recent exhibition of clemency, conscientiously think Mr. Patterson should be re-elected? Does not his utter disregard for the law, as shown by his indecent haste in pardoning a political friend held guilty by the Supreme Court of being an accessary to the murder of one of Patterson's political enemies, give you pause? The weak cannot afford to uphold the strong in their lawlessness. The Negro can not applaud the white man who participates in or connives at the taking of human life. Our friends in Tennessee should remember the Shipp case. They should not so casilly forget how the Chattanooga sheriff closed his ears against the cries of the Negro Johnson and how his fellow townsmen met him with a brass band when he returned to his home after having served the all too lenient sentence imposed upon him by the Supreme Court of the United States. Governor Patterson is of the same class as Sheriff Shipp. The number of pardons he has issued to white murderers of white men shows that he holds the life of white men in low estimate. At what valuation then must he hold a Negro? The Globe has evidently not considered that phase' of the question. MR. HALL FOR STATE SENATE Elsewhere in this issue of The Advocate appears the announcement of the candidacy of Grant P. Hall for the State Senate. It is a matter of general knowledge that Mr. Hall conducted the last campaign in this county and it was due largely to his efforts that the ticket won out by such handsome majorities, but there are few who know that he was the first in the history of politics here to give the Negro voters an opportunity to show what they could do in the way of county-wide organization among themselves, free from dictation and supervision. It was at his suggestion and with his active co-operation that the Republican Campaign Committee of Kanhwa County was organized. The wisdom of the move was evidenced on election day when the Negro voters came to the polls so thick and fast that an arrangement had to be entered into by which they voted alternately with the whites at all precincts where they were in considerable numbers. It is not to be presumed from the above that Mr. Hall is simply a politician. He is just as shrewd in business and is a leading factor in every movement looking to the financial advancement of this section of the State. He is a Republican of the aggressive type who would be eminently useful to his constituents in the upper house of the Legislature. MR. DAWSON'S CANDIDACY. Disclaiming affiliation with or allegiance to any ring or faction, and declaring his intention to support the Republican ticket, whether his name appears on it or not, is the manly, straight-forward way in which Mr. J. W. Dawson announces his candidacy for the House of Delegates. There has never been a question as to Mr. Dawson's party regularity. nor is there a reasonable doubt as to his ability to fit creditably both to his party and himself the position to which he aspires. His connection with the business interests of the county is sufficient assurance that he would be party to no legislation harmful to capital nor yet would he be inimical to labor, which, in the years it has associated with him, has had no just cause for complaint. Mr. Dawson is excellent legislative material, of that quality the great county of Kanawha needs, and his nomination would be no mistake. MR. DAVID DICK. In asking for the support of the Republicans of the Eighth Senatorial district, Mr. David Dick makes no bones of his preference for United States Senator. He frankly states that he is for Nathan B. Scott. Mr. Dick will lose nothing by his frankness, a quality which all men admire. He is equally outspoken as to the course he will pursue as to legislation in general. In matters affecting parties only, he will stand with the party he represents; but in those things which have to do with the public in general his personal and political sentiments will be subordinated to the public weal. Mr. Dick, too, as was said of the other gentlemen whose announcements are commented upon in these columns, is a man of wide business interests and well versed in public affairs. In the event of his nomination he would most assuredly make a successful fight against his Democratic opponent. THE BEE ON BALLINGER The Washington Bee says Secretary Ballinger entered President Taft's cabinet with an unblemished character and reputation, and that the investigation thus far shows that the secretary is a victim of malice and a conspiracy of the most outrageous character. Back up, brother, back up! The secretary has entered a general denial but has failed thus far to produce proof in rebuttal of the charges made against him by Collier's as to certain shady transactions in the south and on the coast. He has talked about libel suits, but is a little slow about entering them. Until he does so and the case is decided, it would be the part of wisdom to reserve judgment. Both horns and wings might be reserved till one is sure which are needed. A CORRECTION AND AN APOLOGY In making the announcement of the result of our Teachers' Popularity contest, the name of Miss Amy Hutchinson, of this city, was unintentionally omitted, an oversight pure and simple, but one for which The Advocate owes an apology to Miss Hutchinson, who has doubtless been somewhat annoyed by the enquiries of those who were interested in her canvass. We regret the commission and offer our opologies to the young lady. Miss Hutchinson's vote was 4,980 DECLINED WITH THANKS DECLINED WIT-1 THANKS. The editor hereby acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from the Commissioners of the State of West Virginia to be present at the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statue of Francis Harrison Pierpoint at Washington, D. C., Saturday next, and expresses his regret that he can not be present upon that occasion. A Chicago minister declares that many Chicago women are better equipped to raise h—and get their pictures in the papers than to rear children and get on as home-makers. But wait until women get their rights and the suffragette pulpit turns loose on the man who won't go home till morning. The news that a Pennsylvania woman burned up her husband's wooden limb to keep him from going to a saloon, is another sign that pretty soon the drinking men may not have a leg to stand on. That performance of the governor of Tennessee ought to make that State a desirable place of residence for those who practice murder as a fine art. Rumors of shake-ups in the President's official family have narrowed down to the marriage of the White House cook and the police man. The fact that the suffragettes hissed President Taft shows that women ought to keep out of politics. CARDS OF THANKS Berwind, W. Va., April 25. To my friends who so loyally supported me in the past contest, I take this means of expressing my many thanks. CORNELIA 8PEARS Miss Amelia Wulcher takes this means to thank those who assisted her with their votes during The Advocate Scholarship contest. The Infirmar of Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, McCormick St., died Tuesday morning. Mrs. Julius Thomas is ill at her home on Donnally St. Mr. and Mrs. Meshack Waugh are visiting the latter's parents at Crown Hill. Call and see our line of hair goods Mrs. Brown, 500 Capitol St.-Ady. The Carnation club will meet next week with Miss Mary Toles, Hansford St. F. C. Brown leaves Tuesday for Cincinnati to arrange for the manufacture of the Brown Food Warmer. Miss Elma Lewis is ill at her home of her mother on Midway St. The needle Art club met with Mrs. Mary Lewis, Bullett St., this week. The club will be entertained by Mrs. Muse, Piedmont St. Tuesday of next week. Mrs. Olivia Walker and Julia Wallace spent a few days last week at Raymond City visiting relatives and friends. Mesdames Ella Kingsley, Launeria Cogle, Hopie James, Jennie Williams and Maggie Wilson, of Raymond City were shopping here Saturay. Mrs. Harriett Thomas was called to Raymond City last week by the serious illness of her daughter. Miss Julia Irving spent Sunday in Malden with her mother. Miss C. L. Hariston has been confined to her bed for several days with Malaria fever. Mrs. M. B. Watson will leave next week for Youngstown, Ohio to visit her husband. Mrs. Ella Hairston, of Lee Wood, spent several days here last week on business. Mrs. Lucy and Mary Nowling spent Sunday in Cedar Grove, calling on relatives and friends. Jno. Trust, of Chicago, Ill. is in the city the guest of his sister, Mrs. Harrison Lawson on Piedmont St. Little Edith Parker is ill at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Parker, on Elemwood Ave. A Pound Party was given Wednesday evening for the benefit of Mrs. Emma Young on Craig St. Quite a number of useful things were given her. Mrs. Mary Lewis entertained a number of friends Friday enening at her home on Bullitt St. Courteny Preston is ill at the home of his mother on Lewis St. The Married Ladies Whist Club was entertained Thursday by Mrs. W. O. Tery on Lewis St. Miss Rhoda Wilson spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Ruth Wilson, at St. Albans. A stag was tendered Dr. B. P. Brownley, Monday enening by several young men, at the Eureka Club. L. O. Wilson, of Weston, was in the city Wednesday on business. Miss Aristes Johnson was hostess to the Saturday Bridge Club Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Russell Forney will entertain the club on the seventh of May. Earl Cuzzens is able to be out after having had an attack of measles. The Charleston friends of Miss Ollie Meadows, of Institute, who is teaching at Union, will be surprised to hear of her marriage at Union. Sunday. The other principal was Mr. Allen Whitlock, who spent some time here about two years ago. C. H. Moore, National Organizer of the National Negro Business League, will arrive here Saturday with the hope of organizing a local league. He has been in correspondence with C. H. James, the produce commission merchant, who will assist in the work of organizing should Mr. Moore find conditions favorable here. Dr. B. P. Brownley, of the Gem Pharmacy, left Tuesday for Washington, where, tonight his marriage to Miss Agnes Merriweather will take place at the Fifteenth St. Presbyterian Church. Dr. and Mrs. Brownley will spend Friday visiting the former's parents at Princeton, N. J. and arrive in this city Saturday noon. They will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Tery till the completion of their own house on Bradford St. The attractions at the Majestic Theatre this week are exceptionally good. Marvelous Lashe, is a peer in his line, doing stunts which are hair-raising in their daring. Miss Bessie Brady makes a distinct hit on her every appearance. Her singing and dancing are of unusual excellence, the latter especially so. The motion pictures are of the usual high class and of themselves, are worth the price of admission. Mrs. J. W. Viney gave a surprise party Friday evening, to her daughter Miss Maud, the occasion being her twentieth birthday. She was the recipient of many beautiful and useful presents, tokens of the high esteem in which she is held by her friends. Whist was the divertissement of the evening, the players and others present being: Mesdames, Phil Waters, B. F. Clark, Robert Foy, R. L. Jones, J. M. Hazelwood, C. O. Lowry, William Robinson, Millard Ulen, C. M. Preston, Robert Hamond and Russel Forney, Misses Comelia Davis, Lillian Taylor, Bessie Taylor, Moss Clay, Virginia Gilmer, Esther Fulks, Hazel Lucas, Rebecca Bullard, Amelia Wilcher, Alpha Brooks and Aristis Johnson; and Messrs. T. G. Nutter, B. P. Browney, F. D. Cambric, J. F. J. Clark, C. M. Preston, T. W. Randolph, J. M. Hazelwood, C. H. Gray, Russel Forney, C. O. Lowry and J. A. Jackson. Pastor Rev. A, B. Carrol delighted large audiences morning and night at Simpson M. E. Church last Sunday. The pastor is asking the assistance of all lovers of an educational dance to assist in a special collection for Morgan College, Baltimore, to be taken next Sunday. Andrew Carnegie has pledged fifty thousand dollars on condition that the patronizing Conferences and friends of the institution raise a like sum. The white members of the trustee board are pledged to raise twenty-five thousand dollars leaving only the remaining twenty-five thousand to be raised by the two Colored Conferences, Washington and Deleware. These are the patrons of the institution. Rev. Carrol is a product of Morgan College. The conditional amount must be raised not later than May 15. Dr. R. L. Jones left last evening for Washington, D. C. to attend the Brownley-Merriweather nuptials. He is expected to return Friday. C. H. James requests the gentlemen named below to meet, Monday eveningat 8:00 o'clock in the dining room of the K. of P. hall: Prof. C. H. Moore, National Organizer of the National Negro Business League, who will discuss the aims and objects of that organization and endeavor to establish a local league in this city. The gentlemen whose presence is requested by Mr. James are: W.H.Parker, W. O. Terry, Drs. H. F. Gamble, R. L. Jones, J. S. Sessons and C. H. Gray; Attorneys C. E. Kimbrough, J. W. Chappelle, E. R. Carter, and T. G. Nutter; S. D. Cowser, F. C. Brown, Holmes & Pack, C. W. Boyd, Jas. A Campbell, T. B. Bush, Chas. Mayle, J. W. Viney, J. M. Hazelwood, Sillas Harden, Chas. Stephenson, Parker & Whittaker, C. A. Napper, M. J. Jones Thos, Hale, W. E. Preston, John Campbell and Noble I.Mtchell. Washington Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. will hold services in memory of the late Fleet Porterfield, Grand Treasurer, at the K. of P. Hall, Sunday afternoon. WEST CHARLESTON Driben Crozier, formerly Saw-Boy at the Axe Plant, is visiting relatives in Louisville. Frank Broyles has given up his position at the Axe Plant and is visiting in Kentucky. Mr. Canter, of 1437 5th. Ave, left last week to join his wife at Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Dora Tolliver and Mrs. Mollie Hammond dined with Mrs. Hatie Lucas last Sunday. Announcements For House or Delegates I hereby announce my candidacy for the House of Delegates from Kanawha County, subject to the Republican primary. In doing so, I disclaim affiliation with, or allegiance to, any so-called political ring or faction, except the regular Republican party as a whole, and I stand for carrying out of the Republican platform, State and National. I have perfect confidence in our entire county committee, and feel assured that every vote cast for me will be fairly counted and announced. If I should not be declared nominated I will know that my friends prefer some one else more suitable to represent them, and I will not cry fraud, and assist the democrats, but will do all I can to secure the election of those Republicans who should be nominated. J. W. DAWSON For the State Senate. I hereby formally and publicly announce my candidacy for the office of senator from the Eighth Senatorial District of West Virginia, subject to the Republican primary election of Kanawha county, and the Senatorial convention of said district... GRANT P. HALL. For State Senate, Eighth District. To the Republican Voters of the 8th Senatorial District: I hereby announce myself a candidate for the State Senate, subject to the decision of the Republican voters of the Eighth Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Boone, Kanawha and Logan. If nominated and elected, and matters come before that body in which the interest of the several political parties would be involved, it would be my purpose to cast my vote with the party which I represent, but where the matter is of interest to the public in general I hope to be large enough to be governed by the public's sentiment first above personal or political interest. As to United States Senator, my preference is for the re-election of Senator Nathan Bay Scott. I believe that Mr. Scott has been an earnest, faithful, devoted and effectual worker for the best interests of his state and of his constituents, and is eminently deserving of re-election. I will heartily appreciate the support of my fellow Republicans throughout the district. DAVID DICK. Charleston, W. Va., April 5, 1910. WINDFALL Comes to Penniless Negro Porter in Gold Country—Travels As Pullman Passenger. Los Angeles, Cal., April 25.—John Thompson, a Negro, who last Wed- nesday was penniless, today has $50,000 to his account in a bank, and left as a Pullman passenger for Louisville, Ky. He made a lucky strike at Blodgett's Tanks, in Riverside county. Thompson came to Southern Cali- fornia a Santa Fe Pullman porter. 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RESULT OF TEN DAYS VISIT TO FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Entire District Solid Practically for Scott Bluefield, W. Ya., April 27.—The windup of a ten days' visit in the counties of the Fifth congressional district, the same being the great coal, coke and timber counties traversed by the Norfolk and Western railroad and its interminable branches, disclosed the greatest opposition to the re-election of Senator Nathan Bay Scott I have encountered in these days of assiduous and careful inquiry that I have spent in this interesting country—this Gibraltar of Republican pluralities. Up to arriving here, no opposition of consequence was encountered, and no organized effort anywhere to stem the overwhelming sentiment for Scott in party organization and party ranks. It was a story of unending sameness and ten days hearing it, however gratifying it might be to the favored Ohio countian and his vallant host of supporters, grew rather monotonous to a copy-provider keen for the excitement and novelties that go with an evenly matched political conflict. But in the tier of great counties touched by the Nortfolk and Western system there is no evenness about the two political subjects, of paramount interest to the thousands of Republican dwellers in this perpendicular and mountainous region. They are for the return of Senator Scott over Hubbard, Dawson or any other man that the public figures in the fight, and they are for Hughes for the lower congressional house as against "the Lilly" of Raleigh, surnamed Abraham. One Small Exception. But in Mercer county, in whose proud and prosperous metropolis this is written, impartial reporting compels the to confess finding relief from the sameness complained of. Here at last, after ten days of traveling and prying, there was some opposition. It is hardly worth mentioning, but for the fact that it status out as the most extensive opposition anywhere escountered. That places it by comparison in the unique class, and that apologetically offers an excuse for pointing to it. In Mercer county, whose plurality is reverently and pliously given to the Republican party, there are forty-two men who express opposition to both Scott and Hughes. That is more than McDowell, Mingo and the others profess to be able to run out of the bushes up-to-date. Efforts to hold the mayor, the mayor, the mayor, Mercer county, indeed is entitled to conspicuous attention in the concluding article of the series dealing with the political situation in the Fifth district. About Forty in the Bunch This little coterie is headed by Judge John M. Sanders, S. M. Smith, Edward Cooper, et al. the et al. be it understood blanks the remaining forty, less pronounced and well known. Be it said in extinction of their attitude that local politics more responsible for their straying off into o lonesome corner by themselves than the tilt between Scott and Hubbard. And, further, be it recorded to their credit that they are less for Hubbard than folk at a distance might be led to believe. Also, let the further fact be set down, that they are by no means everlastingly lost sheep. It is not improbable that they will return to the fold in time to get the shelter of the sheep-shed. Party Leaders for Scott The party leaders here, secure in their belief that the county is entirely safe for Scott and Hughes, are careful to treat this little band with a consideration and fairness that amounts almost to tenderness. The reason for this is, as one distinguished and discerning leader said: "We are not unmindful that there is to be an election next November. We want to keep the party organization in shape so that Mercer will roll up a big plurality. We want to keep down any bitterness of feeling, so that no loyal partyman will find it difficult, after the primary is held, and the ticket set a-field, to enthusiastically support every party nominess." That struck me as being a good sentiment, with the ring of party patriotism strong in it, and worthy to be wlgwagged via this newspaperorial wire to the Republican editors of the state, and all men in authority in the party organization. Seventh Senatorial District. This is the Seventh senatorial district. It is composed of the counties of Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh and Summers, and in the last election slipped a cog and returned a Democrat, Joe Smith, of Raleigh, by a small margin, succeeding W. A. Ballard, of Monroe. The Republican representative is Senator E. S. Baker, of Bramwell, this county. He is a banker, and a prominent and successful business man, who lacks no experience in political activity and in administering governmental affairs. In 1904 he was elected to the house, delegates, and displayed such ability for there, and wielded such influence for good, that his constituents sent him to the house the two years later. He is a dedicated successor himself, standing squarely upon his record, which is a good one, and is already making a very active and thorough campaign. He is opposed by Dr. J. E. Martin, who has tried for the same goal before, but failed The Lilly Flash-Up. The Lilly congressional flash-up is classed as a Hubbard move, or, at least, an anti-Scott bue, and I repeat that the scattered remnants of an opposition for lonely in the minority, virtually leaderless and absolutely without organization, so-called Hubbard men, are in truth and reality prefering some other than Hubbard, and hoping devoutly for the soon appearance of that some other in the arena. In this classification, Lilly is better of it, being stronger than hisulative partner, who, striving for the ever honor might be supposed to dim the Raleighite. But inspection the situation from close vantage ground discloses otherwise. Lilly holds the stronger hand of the two. He has lived in this district long, is well known, and is letting his 'voice out without stint or ost-pedal in the forums of the Fifth. And yet, alas, to no good purpose for his own congressional profit. He may have other plans and other hopes, but Abraham Lincoln is too keen of mind to possess himself of an optimism at this stage of the game that would fan fires of hope in the absence where no such blaze has been burning for several weeks. Lilly's Perch! Lilly's Peculiar Admission. At the meeting of the Mercer county committee here two weeks ago, in addressing the committee favorably as to a primary, it is related, that came within eight votes of concession. Hughes' nomination, when he declared that the action of the congressional committee in refusing a primary, insured his ban not a single vote in McDowell, Mingo, Wayne and Cabell counties—of 156 votes, or eight less than the required number. As to the attitude of those counties, and their solidarity for the Hughes candidacy, Mr. Lilly is correct. He might have added Mason, Putnam and Logan, while he was at it. Hughes is absolutely a bakery to a bun bet. As it stands now, the prediction is that Hughes has the solid votes of Cabell, Mason, Mingo, McDowell, Putnam and Wayne, a total of 215 votes and 151 votes are more than enough to nominate him. The remaining counties are Doone, Lincoln, Mercer, Raleigh and Wyoming. It is pretty certain that he will not fall to get some votes out of them likely a majority. Lilly will carry Raleigh, and will get a scattering vote from the last five counties mentioned. Publishers to Discuss Newspaper Problems New York, April 27.—The annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association began in this city today, with headquarters at the Waldorf-Astoria. More than the usual number of important questions are scheduled for consideration at the convention this year. The free publicity 'influence,' the paper situation, second class postage, labor, adding circulation and mechanical improvement, getting out the modern daily newspaper, are among the matters to receive attention. The convention will be brought to a close Friday with the annual election of officers. DISAPPOINTING The terrifying comet. The selfsame one, they say That used to scare Mahomet, Is now upon its way. The ancients did abhor it; It was a dread affair. And I am looking for it To get a little scare. Is that the fabled terror; Yon pinhead in the sky? There surely is some error; That wouldn't scare a fly. I get no comfort from it. 'Tis just as I surmised. Like other things, the comet Was over-advertised. LAUNDRY CHARTERED The Empire Laundry Company, of Clarksburg, was chartered at the office of the secretary of state, Tuesday morning, to conduct a laundry business in the city of Clarksburg. The capital stock is $20,000, of which $500 has been subscribed and $50 paid. Incorporators: T. H. Williams, A. R. Timberlake, J. H. Stephenson, Howard Post and Geo. M. Hoffheimer, all of Clarksburg. Commissions as notaries public have been issued to H. J. Bloomberg, of Charleston, and Frank P. Cale, of Tunnelton. The Cincinnati TimesStar of Tuesday prints an excellent likeness of Rev. Ernest Thompson, of this city, with the following: "The Rev. Ernest Thompson, of Charleston, W. Va., who has been called to fill the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church on Walnut Hills, the largest church of htat denomination in the Cincinnati suburbs." To Entertain Roosevelt Burlington, April 27. — A program of entertainment has been prepared that is calculated to keep Colonel Roosevelt busy during almost every hour of his stay in the Belgian capital. The initial feature is to be a dinner given by Minister Bryan at the American legation tomorrow night. King Albert is to entertain the former President of the United States at a luncheon Friday, following which there will be a drive to theaken mall to view the art treasures collected by the King Leopold. Colonel Roosevelt will entertain at dinner by Foreign Minister Davignon and he will also have an interview with M. Renken, minister of the colonies, regarding the situation in the Belgian Congo. --- Anniversary of the Sultana Disaster Forty-Five Years Ago SPECIAL TO THE MAIL Knoxville, Tenn., April 27.—The society of the survivors, of the famous Sultan灾 disaster held its annual reunion today in the town of Prospect, a short distance from this city. The day was the 45th anniversary of the burning and sinking of the steamboat in the Mississippi and the handful of survivors who miraculously escaped death met to exchange reminiscences of the disaster, which was one of the most appealing in the nation's history. The ship in Chickensau in 1832 was built at Chickensau in 1832 and was a regular packet running to Orleans and St. Louis. During the civil war the boat did considerable business for the government of the United States in transporting troops along the Mississippi river. On the ill-fated trip that marked the end of her career the Sultana left New Orleans, April 21, 1865, and arrived at Vicksburg, April 24, remaining there 26 hours. At Vicksburg, 1,905 soldiers, or about two full regiments, and 35 federal officers, who had been paroled, having been in the confederate prisons at Andersonville, Macon and Cahaba and also two companies of infantry, who had been boarded, making more than 2,200 persons on the boat to the homes of the soldiers on the boat at Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas and West Virginia, the larger number being from Tennessee and Kentucky. Boiler Explodes. Every available foot of space was occupied by the soldiers and the regular passengers. In fact, the boat was greatly overcrowded. On the morning of April 26, the Sultana reached Memphis, where a large quantity of sugar was unloaded. Early on the morning of the next day the boat left Memphis. About four o'clock that afternoon occurred the terrific explosion, which destroyed the boat and sent hundreds of souls to death. The explosion occurred near Hen and Chicken Island, one of the four boilers of the boat bursting. The vessel caught fire, and it was at once evident that the vessel was doomed and with it the majority of those on board. Hundreds of passengers jumped from the burning boat to the water, only to be swallowed by the current. A few were saved by clinging to pieces of the wreckage. Others managed to swim for miles, only to perish from exhaustion. Seven boats were hurriedly sent from Memphis to pick up all the survivors who could be found. Some of these were taken to Memphis, others to St. Louis and Cairo. They were placed in military hospitals, where they remained until they had nearly all of their injuries. But nearly all of the 2,200 persons on board the ill-fated craft had perished. THE COLONIAL DAMES. Washington, April 27.—The National Society of Colonial Dames met in biennial council here today. About 150 delegates were present, principally from the thirteen colonial states. Mrs. William Ruffin Cox, of Virginia, the president of the society, presided. The reports of Mrs. Alexander J. Cassatt, the treasurer, and Mrs. Joseph Rucker Lamar, the secretary, were read. The sessions, which are private, will be continued during the next three days. According to statements made by some of the delegates, a lively discussion is likely to be precipitated by the introduction of a resolution to amend the constitution, so as to give the non-colonial states the same representation in the national conventions as the thirteen original states. According to the existing arrangement, the thirteen colonial states are entitled to five delegates each, while the twenty-two other states represented in the society's membership are entitled to but one delegate each. DON'T FOOL WITH THE GRIP The after results of the grip are apt to be exceedingly serious. It leaves in its wake weakness and a run down condition in general.* Prof. R. E. R. Hicks, of Maplewood, Ala., says that after grip Vinol restored his strength and curbed his pain, different physicians and cough syrup had helped and he considers Vinol one of the greatest blessings ever offered to the public. C. A. Potterfield, druggist, corner Capitol and Virginia streets. Teachers in the Sunday Schools are Requested to Meet The following notice has been issued to the Sunday school teachers of Charleston: For some time the teachers of the younger children in the Sunday schools in Charleston have felt a need of more training along the line of modern methods in their teaching. At the convention last Thursday, Mrs. H. M. Hamill explained how this need has been met in various cities throughout the country through formation of what is called a local government. After Mrs. Hamill's talk, an organization was effected and temporary officers elected. All teachers interested in this work are urged to meet in the First Presbyterian church parlor, Thursday, at 2 p.m. Tampa, Fla., April 27 — A good attendance marked the opening of the annual convention of the Florida Citrus Exchange at the Tampa Bay Casino today. The convention will spend two days in the discussion of various matters relating to the growing, packaging and marketing of citrus fruits. --- Salem Boasts the Possession of a Musical Prodigy Salem Boasts the Possession of a Musical Prodigy Salem, West Virginia, boasts a musical prodigy which for actual jane accomplishment puts to shame the years of effort and talent of older musicians. This wonderful little prodigy is Ruth Kemper of that thriving West Virginia town. Little Ruth is now seven years of age and a natureist of developing into a natureist of playing on the violin. She is a perfectly gifted child and likes her play, as any other juvenile her age. She has been known to a very few and heard by these few upon her going each week to Pittsburgh for study with Luigi Von Kunitz, who will soon leave for permanent residence in Vienna. The Life story of Ruth Kemper reads. Like a chapter from a fairy book, so full it is of well-night unbeve­ rable things, yet all the things that have assisted us vouched for not only by her parents but by every one in Salem. Her mother has seen recently and tells in vivid language the entertaining tale of her daughter's accomplishments. "When Ruth was three and a half years old," said Mrs. Kemper, "she was able to play a hymn correctly upon the piano. She played this hymn with both hands, not exactly as it was written, but with her own harmony. When she was four years old, she gave her piano lessons in Cincinnati. She studied ten weeks, but as the weather changed old for her to go out we suspended her lessons until the following spring. When the winter she became anxious for a small violin, having seen one member of the family play upon this instrument. We thought she was too small for it at that time, but she teased so much for it that we decided to get her one. We gave her lessons that March and continued them until May, when she was actually able to play a piece by John P. This piece was a Sonatina by John P. She also played with her piano teacher a duet from the opera 'Norma' and a little piece of Beethoven's. Just after she began taking piano lessons I found she had absolute pitch. This at the age of four years. She was also able to sing vocal music at sight before she was 5, combining this feat with that of absolute pitch. She now confined her practice to 15 or 20 minutes per day. When she was 5 we made arrangements to take Sol Marcsson, Cleveland, Ohio, to study with Sol Marcsson, the famous violinist. But illness forced the carrying out of our plans. During that summer, when she was six, a month or so at Chauquaitau, where she was brought to the attention of William Sherwood of Chicago. He pronounced her a 'normal child with wonderful talent.' She had ten violin lessons under Marcsson and two weeks' study with a teacher in Tennessee. While in the South she played in two recitals, one in the large orchard and one in a public music hall, where she gave compositions of Tschakowski, and Klassert. Now, during this time, she also memorize five pages of Disabell's Sonatines in a week with from 15 to 20 minutes daily practice. "Then last May we took her to Pittsburgh where she has been with Mr. Von Kunitz, who has taken a wonderful interest in her. He regrets that it is impossible for her to accompany him to Europe, but she is too young yet and it would not be possible for us to go with her. The European work will, of course, come later and in the meantime we are thinking of taking her to Boston the first of May. She is a natural child and loves her recreation. She is also very healthy." Mr. Von Kunitz said of Ruth Kemper: "Although still within the foundation work she has shown such unusual aptitude and special intuition in her work that I think it is safe to predict her to become a remarkable performer on the violin in a comparatively short time." Wedding Among Colored People to be Big Event The following invitation has been issued by Mrs. James H. Merriwether to the marriage of her daughter to Dr. B. P. Brownley: Mrs. James H. Merriwether requests your presence at the mar Dr. Benjamin P. Brownley on Thursday, April twenty-eighth nineteen hundred and ten six o'clock Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church Washington, D. C. At Hope after June first, 311 Bradford Street Charleston, West Virginia Dr. Brownley is receiving the congratulations of his many friends in the city. Miss Merrifield has been for several years a successful teacher. She is a young woman of rare personal charm and deep intellectual culture. She is a member of one of the oldest and most highly respected families in Washington. Dr. Brownley came to this city five years ago to accept the position as pharmacist in the Gem pharmacy. Dr. Brownley passed the highest examination of any of the applicants. Since that time he has rendered satisfactory service as a drug clerk and his conduct has been such as to conduct the highest respect and confidence in the community. Dr. Brownley has completed a pretty home in Bradford street and he and his bride will be given a cordial reception on their return. One of the strangest things in this world is how soon a casual caller can become a bore after you have smoked up his cigars. It has just about gotten so in this country that it costs almost as much to have appendicitis as it used to cost to raise a family. UR D ISPLAY OF Ladies' Misses' and Children's Ready-to-Wear garments, Millinery and Dress Fabrics Is the largest in the City and our Prices as usual the lowest that can be made up-to-date Merchandise. GIVE US The People's Store "That Popular" A CALL Trading Place. JOSEPH SCHAB, Prop. 602 Kangwha, cor. Alderson St., CHARLESTON, W. VA. We will offer 1200 yards of the finest Embroideries ever shown in Charleston at prices which do not cover the cost of material. The finest needle work on Batiste that human hands can produce, all Baby Irish effects, the daintest designs in Match Sets, Dissertions and two widths of Edgings to match some with 27 inch Flourings in Feather Edge Eyellette work. We secured these Embroideries at a low price and are willing to dispose of them equally as low and have set Monday, May 2nd, at 2:30 p. m. for this sale. The REAL values are $6.00, $1.50, $3.00, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50 per yard. Ladies can pick for $1.50, $1.19, $98c, 75c and 18c a yard. NO PHONE ORDERS SEE WINDOW DISPLAY NOTHING CHARGED B. ENGLE & CO. "THE DEPENDABLE STORE" A Jolly Lot of Jesters With Forepaugh & Sells Shows $435,000.00 is the amount of Capital and Surplus back of every deposit in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT not including stockholders' liability, which is as much more. If that sum were in Silver Dollars it would weigh 27,187 POUNDS Your savings are absolutely safe, and draw Compound Semi- Annual Interest when deposited with the Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. "The Bank That You Can Depend Upon." Capital $250,000 Charleston, W. Va. Surplus $185,000 With flaring headlines the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times of Monday tells of the heroic work of James W. Paul, former chief of the department of mines of this State, who with his assistant, J. R. Cavevoy, played the leading part in the maneuver the explosion of the Youghphoenix and Ohio Coal company mines in the little town of Amsterdam, Ohio, last Thursday night. Since the dead have been laid to rest this entire community is discussing the catastrophe that brought sadness to dozens of homes and on all sides James W. Paul, government mining engineer in charge, and those who assisted him are being praised. It was due to the hard and brave work of Mr. Paul and his assistants that three men were owed their lives. Twenty-six hours after the explosion when the three men were slowly dying from suffocation it was Mr. Paul who found them A Jolly Lot of Jes Forepa The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Big United shows present along with their comedy department this year numerous prominent jestors, commonly called clowns. Along with the principal jester and associated with him are 49 kings of the clowning world. These funny chaps, assist with comical anties, presenting a world of topical stunts. A Jolly Lot of Jesters. When intermingling with citizens on the street none of them would be suspected of wearing the loose robes of a fool, but when they are in the rink with their make-ups on, they laugh and the crowd laughs with them. A jolly lot, and they have certainly helped to unload at least temporarily the cares from the minds of thousands of people. Clowning is an art of itself, the best clowns are born not made. The fun making department of the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus is fully up to the high standard of its other departments, in fact, many a person will testify to the statement $435,0 and brought them to safety. The rescue of these men reads like a story in fiction. Their miraculous escape and the labors of Mr. Paul are expected to have a widespread effect for greater safety in coal mining. The explosion occurred at 9:30 o'clock Thursday night but owing to some irregularities the rescue station at Pittsburgh was not notified until six hours later and then Mr. Paul gathering more than 800 pounds of apparatus composing oxygen helmets and other things necessary rushed to the mine, getting there 17 hours after the explosion. Had he gotten there a few hours sooner it is probable that nearly all the 15 men that were killed would have been rescued, as they all died of sufficiency. Immediately after arriving the Pittsburgh men went into the mines and began the search for bodies. All were found to be dead from suffocation. sters With laugh & Sells Shows that the clowns with this show are worth the price of admission. Their work is appreciated, as the present strenuous life of most people causes them to relish a little pure nausea now and then. Everything Positively New: Everything in all departments of the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus this year is positively new, refreshing and up to date. Among the principal acts appearing in this country for the first time are: Captain Webb's double troupe of scals; the Karl Handley troupe; the Hineg-Kimball family, champion herobats from Europe; Alpine troupe; wards of the wire; Ricardo Perea Dane the celebrated Avalon company; famons Butterfly Ty-Bells; Ada Boll Edwards, the Australian Amazon, strongest woman ever known; Lafferty; Renyon family; Marie, Meen; Riding Rooneys and scores of others The big circus comes to Charleston next Saturday. The parade will outdo anything of a similar kind ever seen in Charleston. The Independent A STAUNCH FRIEND OF THE NEGRO THE INDEPENDENT was founded in 1848 as a Weekly Magazine to secure the freedom of American lives. In the sixty-two years that have followed, it has always been the friend and champion of the Negro Race. 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Enclosed find One Dollar for which please send me THE INDEPENDENT every week for Six Months. of Chicago, the President was assured that the colored people highly appreciated his recommendation to Congress for the payment of the remaining 38 percent of the deposits made by the colored citizens in the ill-fated Freedman's Bank and were also mindful of the President's recommendation to Congress touching the Negro's celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of his enunciation. Bishop Grant followed with a short address. He was pleased that there had been progress made by Congress in the matter of the Freedman's Bank and the exposition measurers and felt that something would ultimately be done for the relief of the Liberian Republic. In the party were Bishop W. H. Heard, who is deeply interested in the welfare of Liberia, and Editor J. H. Murphy, of the Afro-American Ledger of Baltimore, who is keeping a sharp eye on all legislation looking to the uplift of the Negro people throughout the land. Charles Stewart, the well-known newspaper correspondent spent the week in the city. The season was a profitable one for the nation's great churchmen. The Lincoln Emancipation League will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the nomination of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin May 16th. Decisive steps were taken Sunday against the "White Plague". Our churches of every denomination observed the specially-assigned "Tuberculosis Sunday", and sermons were preached showing the ravages of the dread disease and how its spread could be prevented. Dr. J. R. Wilder, president of the Colored Branch of the Washington Anti-Tuberculosis Society, spoke at every church he could reach and distributed literature bearing upon the subject. President Taft, commending the efforts being made to stamp out the plague through judicious agitation, said: "The amount of good that can be done in saving human life by a united effort in a community, and in respect to such a disease as tuberculosis, can hardly be exaggerated." Lawyer J. Alexander Chiles, of Lexington, Ky., presented an argument before the United States Supreme Court last week, asking a reversal of the decision of the Kentucky courts denying him redress for alleged "jim crowing" on the part of the C. and O. Railway Company. He based his argument on the protection supposed to be guaranteed under the immunity of interstate passengers from the operation of state laws discriminating against persons on account of color. The court will render its decision later. The case is a test of the "jim crow" system, and the outlook is being watched with interest by Negroes everywhere. R. C. Bundy has completed his preliminary course of instruction at the State Department, and sailed from New York this week for his post as Secretary of the American Legation at Monrovia, Liberia, relieving George W. Ellis, of Kansas. Mr. Bundy was accompanied by his wife. He will probably establish himself permanently in Liberia, having an abiding faith in the possibilities that lie in the path of enterpriseing Negroes who are willing to invest their money and talents in helping to develop the wonderin' natural resources of the new land. There is a field for the pioneer in the Liberian Republic, and those who wish reliable information should keep in touch with Mr. Bundy. The commencement season is approaching. The various departments of Howard University will finish The Ind A STAUNCH FRIEN THE INDEPENDENT was founded zine to secure the freedom of M years that have followed, it champion of the Negro Race. from prominent Negroes and b ties and successes. 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Bruce, is that the elaborate graduation gowns, magnificent bouquets, carriages and other expensive features that have made the annual commencements a burden upon parents of moderate means, be done away with. A plea is made for simplicity, and the school authorities are suggesting that inexpensive white gowns be worn by the girls, and that carriages be dispensed entirely. It is known that in a number of instances, girls who have earned diplomas have remained away from the commencement exercises because they could not afford the costly paraphernalia worn by their wealthier classmates. Many of the commencements are to be held in the afternoon to promote a daylight simplicity in the matter of dress and adornment. Dr. W. Bruce Evans and Prof. E. C. Williams, and Miss, Lucy E. Moten, principal of the schools involved, are in hearty accord with their superintendents and will do all they can to discourage elaborate toilette at Convention Hall on June 17th. The Senior Class of M Street High School has completed its roster of officers and those who will appear on "Class Night" are as follows: Giftatorian. Miss Vivian Lucile Thompson; Journalist, Miss Madge Wright; Historian, Miss Lydia Brown; Prophet, Mr. Mark Rivers; Poet, Mr. Otto Bonannon; Satirist; Miss Antoinette Brocks; Class Will Miss Eleanor Lee; Alphabet, Miss Marguerite Smith, Mr. Ellis Rivers is president of the class; Miss Lilian Burke is vice-president; Miss Edna Lucas is Secretary, Mr. Edward Miles is Treasurer, and Mr. Roscoe Pinkett is sergeant-at-arms. Class colors, pea green and white. Motto: "Age Quod Agis"—which translated means "Finish What You Begin." The valedictorian and salutatorian will be chosen by their standing in their class for the four years term. It is proposed to make the care of the teeth a part of our public school system. For the present, three schools will be selected for inspection with a view of determining upon the feasibility of such a plan. The suggestion to this effect was made by three dental societies of the District, and representatives of these organizations will be permitted to make the necessary examinations. Dr. H. C. Thompson, of the dental Society of the District of Columbia; Dr. Star Parsons, of the National Capital Dental Society, and Dr. C. C. Fry, of the Robert; T. Freeman Dental Society (colored) have been selected to carry on the work. The consent of the parents of the children will be secured before any examination will be made. Should the investigation justify it, it is believed that a regular system of dental inspection will be provided for all the schools. The care of the teeth is a matter of the highest importance and the idea should be put into practice at the opening of the new year. The Committee on Banking and Currency of the House gave a thorough hearing this week to representatives of the race who are pushing the passage of the bill providing for the rebursement of the depositors of the late Freeman's Savings and Trust Company. The principal address was made by Former Register ependent BEND OF THE NEGRO ed in 1848 as a Weekly Maga- american laves. In the sixty-two days always been the friend and We have printed frequent articles have closely followed their activi- ude has cost us many thousands courage of our own convictions magazine than every Negro should R SIX MONTHS character and policy of THE INDE- cept a six months subscription price is $3 a year. We believe that you will realize our fair per. THE INDEPENDENT is an Illus- that you will therefore receive each. Use this blank. Regular Subscription Price $3.00 a Year for which please send me THE Six Months. J. W. Lyons. The committee in charge of the bill is composed of Representatives F. B. Vreeland, New York; chairman; Henry McMorran, Mich.; G. D. McCreary Penn; E. A. Hayes, Cal.; J. W. Weeks, Mass.; James McKinney, Ill.; Philip R. R. Campbell, Kansas; F. F. Guernsey, Maine; C. S. Millington, New York; James Joyce, Ohio; W. O. Barnard, and H. A. Barnhart, Ind.; W. H. Heald, Del.; A. P. Pujo, La.; Carter Glass, Va.; Ollie M. James, Ky.; O. W. Gillespie, Texas; J. H. McMorran, Penn; and W. S. Hammond, Minn. 61,131 depositors are affected by this bill and the money to be appropriated—$1,291,700—will be distributed to Negroes living in nearly every state in the Union. Many of the original depositors formerly in the south have gone to the North and West, or their descendants have moved away from the old home. The Senate Committee has already recommended the bill for passage and it is understood that the House Committee will take similar action, democrats and republicans alike supporting it. A summary of the original deposits in the Freeman's Bank, showing the vast territory over which the depositors were scattered, will be interesting at this time. The amount of money credited to the various cities in the original stateposits in the Freedman's Bank, show follows: Washington, D. C. .. $381,789.6 Norfolk, Va. .. $126,337. Savannah, Ga. .. $153,425. Louisville, Ky. .. 137,091 Raleigh, N. C. .. 26,703. Montgomery, Ala. .. 29,743 Wilmington, N. C. .. 45,225 Lexington, Ky. .. 31,193. Richmond, Va. .. 156,000 Baltimore, Md. .. 303,947. New York .. 344,071 Newberne, N. C. .. 40,631 Mobile, Ala. .. 95,141 Philadelphia, Pa. .. 84,657 St. Louis, Mo. .. 58,397 Under the pending appropriation, these cities will be allotted 38 per cent of the above amounts. A still broader area will be benefited than is here indicated, for many of the depositors or their heirs have become scattered and reside in places not mentioned in this summary. The bill will be the best piece of legislation the Negro has gotten through Congress in a long time, and those who are pushing it deserves the thanks of the race everywhere. The Y. M. C. A's campaign for the $50,000 necessary to complete and finish its magnificent home on 12th street begins today. The Central Association has offered to contribute $35,000, contingent on the colored branch raising $15,000 between April 27, and May 17. It will be remembered that at the outset of the colored men's branch project, John D. Rockefeller promised to donate $25,000, provided the Association raised a like amount. This they did, making a fund of $50,000. An additional $50,000 is needed to make the building ready for occupancy—the whole investment representing $100,000. A systematic plan has been mapped out. Districts have been allotted and names placed in the hands of canvassers. One hundred men, bearing proper credentials, will start out today. Each evening at six o'clock each canvasser will meet at the headquarters and report the results of the day. A meeting will be held next Sunday afternoon at the Belasco Theatre to arouse popular interest in the movement. Former Commissioner U.B. F. McFarland will be the principal speaker, and Hau. W. T. Vernon. Register of the Treasury, will preside. Music will be furnished by the Howard University Glee Club under the direction of Prof. Alonzo Brown, and by the Lyric Orchestra directed by Prof. W. D. Giles. A big crowd and a big subscription are expected. Col. Henry Linecoln Johnson, of Georgia, takes charge of the office of Recorder of Deces May 2nd, next Monday. Robert W. Dutton, Chief Deputy Recorder, has been asked to remain. Nothing has been said as yet touching changes in the clerical force of the office. Upon his retirement, John C. Dancy will be presented with an appropriate testimonial by the employees of the office, all of whom part with him with sincereregret. Mr. Dancy will deliver a series of lectures and has other plans which he will announce in due season. He will take an active part in the congressional campaign this fall. Representative Gaines, of West Virginia, called at the White House Monday and presented the name of Phil Walters, a brilliant young orator of his state for the position of Assistant Register of the Treasury. Mr Waters is a man of marked ability and has done some efficient party service and merits generous recognition. A prominent Illinois leader however, discussing the situation says that Cyrus Field Adams, the present incumbent, will not be disturbed; that the latter has the endorsement of his solid state delegation in Congress, including Senators Cullem and Lorimer. Ohio Indiana and Kentucky are said to have candidates for the place, in case a change is ever made. In a recent bout in Boston Young Loughrey showed Honey Melody that it was about time for Honey to retire from the game. Jim Barry received $2,500 for his end of the Langford-Barry fight, which was $28 more than Samuel got. Jim worked on a guarantee while Sam fought for a percentage of the receipts. THE ADVOCATE. Kanawha County (State Gazette, Point Pleasant.) A primary election for the nomination of republican candidates for county and district officers has been called in Kanawha county for Saturday, May 21. Both Scott and Hubbard requested the committee to place their names on the ballots and allow the voters to indicate their preference for United States senator, but this request was refused, although the committee is supposed to be for Hubbard by six to four. Scott's friends requested the privilege of naming one-half of the precinct election officers, commissioners, clerks and challengers, but this request was also refused, and the matter of selecting these officers was left to a sub-committee of three, subject to right of review by the whole committee. There are grave fears on the part of some of Senator Scott's friends that the committee will not allow any representation at all to the Scott side and that the primary will be a mere sham and fraudulent affair. Others, however, believe the primary will be honestly and fairly conducted. Just what will be done cannot at present be known. If the Scott people obtain representation and a fair and honest result, they will have no cause to complain, for if they have not a majority of the votes, they should be beaten. If, on the contrary, they are not allowed representation, they will have just cause of complaint, no matter what the result, and no greater misfortune could befall the republican party than a steal in a county, by which the will of its voters is defeated. The party ought to be bigger in the estimation of its members than any man or set of men in it, and no man or set of men ought to be permitted to destroy or impair it by infidelity or fraudulent conduct in their own personal interests. It is not believed that the Kanawha county committee will repeat, this year, the folly that just the republican party of that county some good offices in 1994. A political committee above all others should be honest in its dealings with candidates and voters. It is in theory the representative of the party, its agent, or creature, not its owner, nor the mere heeler of particular candidates. Its members hold positions of political trust. They are under a heavier obligation to be fair and honest, than candidates and voters, who are acting for themselves and friends, and not for the party as a whole. They should deal fairly with candidates for nominations and, after nominations have been made, they are under a special obligation to support every man on the ticket. A man who cannot or will not do that has no right to be on a committee. LIONS ARE THE MOST DREADED BIG GAME IN AFRICA BIG GAME IN AFRICA A settler had come down to trade with the Masai during our absence. He ran into a large, party of lions, killed two, and wounded a lioness which escaped after mauling one of his gun bearers. The gun bearer rode into camp, and the doctor treated his wounds. Next day Mearns was summoned to a Masai kraal sixteen miles off to treat the wounds of two of the Masai; it appeared that a body of them had followed and killed the wounded lioness, but that two of their number had been much maltreated in the fight. One, especially, had been fearfully bitten, the lioness having pulled the fish loose from the bones with her fixed teeth. The doctor attended to all three cases. The gun bearer recovered; both the Masai died, although the doctor did all in his power for; the two gallant fellows. Their death did not hinder the Masai from sending to him all kinds of cases in which men or boys had met with accidents. He attended to them all, and gained a high reputation with the tribe; when the case was serious the patient's kinsfold would usually present him with a sheep or war-spear, or something else of value. He took a great fancy to the Masai, as indeed all of us did. They are a fine, many set of savages, bold and independent in their bearing. They never eat vegetables, subsisting exclusively on milk, blood, and flesh; and are remarkably hardy enduring. and enduring—From "African Game Trails," by Theodore Roosevelt, in the May Scribner. The Forest Products Laboratory is Ready Washington, April 26—An event of importance to the wood-using industries of the country and to engineers is the completion of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis. June 4th, has been set as the date for the formal opening. The laboratory has been established to aid, through experiments and demonstrations, the lessening of waste in the manufacture and use of wood. it is a cooperative undertaking between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Wisconsin. The State has erected for the purpose a new building at the university and will furnish also the light, heat, and power. The Department of Agriculture has supplied the equipment and apparatus and will maintain the force of thirty-five or forty persons required to carry on the work. Through this arrangement, the United States has secured perhaps the largest and best equipped wood testing laboratory in the world. A number of vacancies in engineering positions in connection with the work will be filled in May and June. Among these are positions of engineer in wood preservation, engineer in timber testing, and chemical engineering. 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Mrs. Faudree had been elected president at our last election in December and owing to ill health, only had the pleasure of performing the duties of her office twice. A committee was appointed to draft suitable resolutions expressing our appreciation of her work and our sympathy for the bereaved family: Resolved. That we mourn the calling away of our beloved president, but how in submission to the all wise Providence who rules over all, and through our trials recognize God's will: Resolved. That our sister's death makes two officers we have called on to mourn within the last thirteen months, we are reminded that time is short, that we dedicate ourselves anew to God's service and work while we may, so as to be ready when the summons comes to each of us; THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1910. INSTITUTE VIRGINIA M. R., and Virginian of school ages in the student So- culty. Courses, Cooking STUDENTS UNRISHED ch Normal ary exper- ning their Principal INSTITUTE VIRGINIA Students in the State Commercial Courses, carpentry and House net Making, Paint- inging, Printing. Training to Cadets Normal Students: Students. We have a word only Eight Dol- ATION ADDRESS Resolved, That we extend our sympathy and sincere condolence to the mother, husband and children upon whom this affliction falls the heaviest; Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and printed in the paper, also placed upon our record book. Committee: - MARY RILEY. - CLARA BORDER. - OSIE BECKWITH. HISTORIC ESTATE FOR SALE London, April 27.—The Strathallan and Tullibardine estates, belonging to the Earl of Perth, were offered for sale at public auction today. The estates are among the most historic in Scotland, dating back to the middle of the fourteenth century. They contain a number of ancient castles and other buildings of great interest, notably Tullibardine chapel, a fifteenth century edifice in which are the tombs of the Strathallan family. With the Figaters. Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Mike Schreck will clash in Cincinnati next month. Jack (Twin) Sullivan will box ten rounds with Al Benedict in Brooklyn on May 2. Matty Baldwin is willing to meet Plato if the latter makes the light-weight limit.