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THE ADVOCA WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISIS NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME X. Jeanes and Slater Fund TRUSTEES WILL UNITE, OBJECTS BEING SAME, AND CON- TROL LARGE INCOME. Agents Selected Dr. Dillard, Chairman of Jeanes Board, Will be Assisted by W. T. B. Williams, for Many Years Connected With Slater Fund. Washington Prominent in Unification. Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington, D. C., Dec. 15—The Board of Trustees for the Anna T. Jeanes Fund of $1,000,000 for the relief of the rural Negro schools of the South, met at the White House Monday, and transacted much business of importance. With the trustees of the Jeanes fund there also met the trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, the mission of which is to extend the benefits of Negro education throughout the country. The meeting of the two boards brought to the capital quite a number of the nation's most eminent educators of both races, and the work accomplished will prove to be highly effective in promoting the intellectual and moral well-being of the Negro people everywhere. The topics discussed covered a wide range, and the report indicates that additional teachers have been authorized in many places sorely needed and that the disbursements ordered were larger than have been agreed to at any previous session. The executive committee of the Jeanes Fund Board met Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock, at the District Building, followed by a meeting of the full Board at 2:30 o'clock at the White House. Dr. James H. Dillard, of Louisiana, president of the Jeanes Board, opened the session at the White House, and President Taft was asked to preside over the formal deliberations. Major R. R. Moton, Commandant at Hampton Institute, acted as secretary. The trustees of the Joan F. Slater Fund met on Monday night at the residence of Mr. William A. Slater. Tuesday morning at a joint meeting of the executive committees of the two funds a plan was consummated by which the work of the bodies will now be united, as the objects sought are practically the same, and the expense of administration can thus be materially reduced. The union of the two Boards gives the trustees control of the income of practically 3,000,-000. The two boards agreed to select Dr. James H. Dillard as the general agent of the two funds. As assistants, Dr. Dickerman, of Connecticut; Mr. W. T. B. Williams, of Virginia; and Mr. Caldwell, of Louisiana, were chosen. The Board of Trustees of the Jeanes Fund consists of Andrew Carnegie, Robert C. Ogden, George McAneny, Walter H. Page, George Foster Peabody, of New York City; James H. Dillard, of New Orleans, president of the board; Bishop Abraham Grant, Kansas City, Mo.; David C. Barrow, Athens, Ga.; Belton Gilethra, Birmingham, Ala.; R. L. Smith, Paris, Texas; Major R. R. Moton, Hampton Institute, Va., secretary; Talcott Williams, Philadelphia; Hollis Burke Frissell, Hampton Institute, Va.; Samuel C. Mitchell, Columbia, S. C.; J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn.; together with president William H. Taff, of Washington, and Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., who is chairman of the executive committee. George Foster Peabody is treasurer of the Board and chairman of the financial committee. Dr. Washington has long been the champion of the needs of the Negro schools in the rural districts of the South, where often the school terms are as short as two months in the year and are poorly equipped for the work that should be done. At his suggestion, Miss Anna T. Jeanes, a wealthy Quaker leader of Philadelphia, set apart a fund of one million dollars to be used for the development of the rural Negro schools. Dr. Washington refused to permit any portion of this fund to be devoted to the work at Tuskegee. All day long Monday, Monday night and Tuesday, Dr. Washington was in demand, and held conferences with many persons on many missions. With Mrs. Washington, he was the guest of Prof. and Mrs. T. J. Calloway, 1335 T street, N. W., and later stopped with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sidney Pittman at Little White Tops, Fairmount Heights, Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Washington assisted in the dedicatory exercises of the new $90,000 Science Hall at Howard University. He was accompanied to the city by Mr. Nathan Hunt, his traveling secretary. ATTENTION TLACHERS! If there are any teachers who have a little spare time after school hours and would like to use it profitable they should write Mr. A. R. Stewart, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. 12-15-8t THE ADVOCATE. Pastor Accuses Negro Prisoner Reverend Gentleman Testifies That He Heard Haitian Negro Haruguing Mob Which Lynched Etherington, the "Dry" Detective, at Newark, Last Summer. Newark, Ohio, Dec. 9—Court adjourned this afternoon in the Montella Watha murder trial until Monday morning. Watha is the Haytian Negro charged with inciting the mob to rioting, which resulted in the lynching of Carl Etherington, a "dry" detective, here last July. A minister who witnessed the lynching was among today witnesses. Joseph Moser, a detective, testified to the head Watha urging the crowd to take the law into their own hands and avenge the death of William Howard, whom Etherington had shot. He visited Etherington in his cell and found him covered with blood. His nose was broken, one eye closed, and he was practically exhausted as the result of a beating by a mob. Moser witnessed the lynching and a man stabbed Etherington with a knife as he was hurried to his death. Two was being hurried to the pole and adjusted the rope over the step. He saw a man knocked down for exclamation "My God, don't hang that man, he said." Rev. Harry Holcomb, with a pastorate in West Newark, testified that he heard a Negro 'make a speech from the jail steps and also several white men. He hurried to the station to find out whether troops had arrived from Columbus and went back to the jail and remained there until Etherington was brought out by the mob. After Rev. Dr. Holcomb's testimony Court adjourned for the day, Judge Musselfield instructing the bailiff to let the jurors attend divine service Sunday, should they desire. Howard's Science Hall Dedicated Dr. Washington, Secretary Ballinger, Dr. Pritchett, President Thirkeld and Others Delivered Informing Addresses During Dedicating $90,-, 000, Building. Washington, D. C., Dec. 15—In the presence of an audience which packed Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel to the doors, the new and commodious Science Hall of Howard University was fittingly dedicated Tuesday afternoon. Dr. W. P. Thirk leid, president of the university, conducted the exercises and talked interestingly of the development of the school in the past four years and his enthusiasm and optimistic spirit met with a hearty response at the hands of the student-body and host of friends. The most notable address of the occasion was delivered by Dr. Booker T. Washington, who emphasized the value of skill in the arts and an expert knowledge of the sciences that have to do with the fundamental phase of the world's work. "Science knows no color-line," said the Doctor. "Here amid the forces of nature every man is on a plane of equality. Chemistry and physics, light, heat, steam electricity, and plant life never ask any questions as to the color of the hand that makes the productive and useful." Discipline, right living, reliability, and the necessity for having a definite purpose in view were shown as prime requisites in building up a successful career. The record that the students of Howard was making in every section of the land was proof positive of the effectiveness of the training that was being given at this institution. Other informing and helpful addresses were delivered by Dr. H. S. Pritchett, secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Dr. W. H. Welch, of John Hopkins University, Baltimore; and Hon. Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the Interior. The building was officially received from the contractors by Justice Job Barnard, president of Howard University's Board of Trustees. The new Science Hall was erected through an appropriation of $900,000, granted by Congress, and since the opening of the fall term this structure, amply equipped, has afforded instruction of the highest practical value in chemistry, physics and biology to more than 600 young men and women. The work in these branches has received a remarkable impetus by reason of this enlargement of the school's facilities. President Thirkield is proud of the increased interest evidenced by the people of the capital in the growth of the university, and is looking for ward to even greater triumphs. A new medical department building, a department of industrial arts, a $25,000 gymnasium, and a new chapel to serve as an adequate public auditorium are among a few of the good things he has in mind for the future. Music for the dedicatory exercises was furnished by a vested choir of fifty voices, under the direction of Miss Lulu Vere Childers, the University Orchestra and band. Morrison's Dept Store will be open at night until the holidays. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 15, 1910. Worthy Citizen S NAPIER AND SHOULD BE BAN- QUETTED BUT CIRCULAR LETTER CAUSES SPLIT. At Five Dollars The Plate and the Common Reepul Arrange to Have a Feed Mone in keeping With Their Ideas of Economy and Attenuated Purses. (Special to The Advocate.) Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 12—The following circular letter seems to have met with the popular disapproval of the majority of the public-spirited leaders in Nashville and may embarrass J. C. Napler before his final "send-off" from the capital city of Tennessee to assume his duties as Register of the United States Treasury to which he was recently appointed. The letter is as follows: Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 7, 1910. Dear friend: A few of us have decided it would be a splendid move on the part of the citizens of Nashville, as well as a just recognition of a worthy citizen to tender a banquet to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nabler of this city. The banquet proposal is to be given on the eve of Nabler's retirement to accept the position of Register of the United States Treasury to which he has been recently appointed. We give the following plans suggested at a meeting held a few nights ago; the banquet is to be held at the Odd Fellows' Auditorium, 447 Fourth Avenue, North. It is to be the most elaborate affair ever attempted by the Negroes of this city. It will not be local but national in its scope. The most prominent men in the United States will be invited and quite a number will attend. Every possession of note has been invited and asked to make mention of the banquet. All money collected will be used for eatables and decorations. If you think you can participate in such an affair, kindly drop us a line using the self-addressed enclosed envelope. We have agreed upon $5.00 taxation. Each party paying the $5.00 will be permitted to bring one person as their company. It is preferable that each gentleman bring a lady. Kindly let us know something definite this week, for we wish to estimate the number who will attend. Mr. Napier will probably be confirmed at this session of Congress. Many of the business, professional and well known citizens of Nashville have already consented to take part. The selection of Preston Taylor as Chairman, H. A. Boyd as Secretary, and C. N. Langton as Treasurer of the General Committee, was also made last week. Win in snowing the world how Nashville honors one of its citizens? You can save us much time by returning your check, making it payable to the treasurer of the committee. This will be the greatest social occasion as well as the greatest event in the history of the citizens of Nashville. The circular letter is pretty good evidence that somebody has strayed from the track of real public spirit. Then, it is also somewhat of a suggestion of a poor lesson in economy for the struggling Negroes in the Volunteer State. The men, no doubt meant well but there is certainly nothing heartening in such a plan as this for the people of any community—especially colored people. "Elaborate Affairs" and a $5.00 taxation for "Eatables and Decorations" can hardly be looked upon, even in this degenerate age, as the most intelligent and reasonable way to show a just recognition of a worthy citizen. The circular letter and the spirit behind it did not seem to be at all popular among many of the m ost influential of Nashville colored people. A news item in the Nashville Banner of Thursday Evening, December 8th, shows that the good sense and sympathies of the thoughtful Nashville people are at heresy with extravagance, vain show and pomp. It has been learned that only a very few of the men who received the circular letter signed by Henry A. Boyd were at all inclined to agree with the method and spirit of its origin. After receiving the letter, they held a meeting and arranged for a general mass meeting of all the citizens in order to have the details of the banquet thought out and worked out in the only proper way it could have been done. Affairs of this kind belong to the public and not to "A few" people in any community. The banquet will be a successful one, if properly arranged and conducted. The people of Nashville and the rest of the state have not always agreed with Napier, as a politician, but they have a high regard for him as a man and citizen of worth and character. They also respect very highly the position of Register of the United States Treasury to which he has been appointed. For these reasons those who have been for and against the man as a politician will join heartily in injury effort to show their regard for him and their respect for him as an officer of the government. Champion Prize Fighter Patentee of Lift and Seal and Will Engage in Their Manufacture, if Deal is Closed With Hallroads For Use of The Latter. Chicago, Dec. 11—Jack Johnson, inventor, plans to become the Johnson Manufacturing Company in the near future. The dusky boxer made a tour of the loop district tonight, exhibiting models of his two inventions, which are the basis of his factory on the South Side. One of the products of Johnson brain is a hydraulic lift, which he says will pull up anything from 20 pounds to 50 tons. The other is a seal for boxes or cars. In explaining his inventions Jack said: "I have watched men scrubbing buildings and men painting buildings pulling themselves up by hand, and have watched old-fashioned cranes and dogkeys carry heavy building material up several stories in construction work, and thought there ought to be a safer and more simple contrivance for doing the same work. In my spare moments I thinked around and worked out the lift which I have patented. The apparatus can be worked by hand, electrify or steam." The seal is introduced of Johnson's days as a preliminary fighter. When the champion was engaged in battles royal and cheap fights he was not a patron of the Twentieth Century trains. The big fighter went from town to town frequently by means of the "side-door palace car." He often noticed that the seats on the cars were broken and then slipped back into place in such manner that a caustic inspection would not reveal anything wrong. This observation was the father of the Johnson seal, which cannot be broken and slipped back into place. The champion has prospects of closing contracts with two or three railroads for making all their seals. He intends, he says to build a factory near his home on the South Side and manufacture both the hyde lime and the seals there. The shop will be at the beginning, a natrix, $60,000 aair, which will employ 30 or 40 men. But the concern prospects, Jack Johnson, the fighter, will be no more and John Arthur Johnson, capitalist, the head of the Hydraulic Lift Company will take his place. TUSKEGEE VISITORS; Mr. J. M. Hazlewood of Charleston, West Virginia, chairman of the finance committee of the Knights of Pythias organization, and Mr. Joseph L. Jones, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who has just been appointed to the vicesupreme chancellorship of the same organization, succeeding the late John W. Strauther of Greenville, Mississippi, visited Tuskegee Institute Saturday and Sunday last, en route to their hopes from New Orleans, where they had been in conference with the supreme chancellor of their organization, Mr. S. W. Green. While here Mr. Hazlewood, who is an old-time friend of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Washington, and Mr. Jones, were taken in charge by Mr. J. H. Washington, general superintendent of industries, and shown through all of the agricultural and mechanical divisions of the school. On Saurday evening last, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Washington entertained in their honor at their home. Most of the Institute families and a number of teachers were present at one of the most pleasant social affairs of the present school year—Tuskegee Student. FRICTION BETWEEN RACES: Is Only on the Surface, Says Brooker T., Who Appeals to Americans For Fair Play. New York, Dec. 11—Booker T. Washington told the congregation of the Fourth Presbyterian Church (white) here today that the friction between the white and black races is on the surface, and that at the bottom the Southern Negro has the sympathy of the Southern white in his efforts at self-beliefment. "When I see a successful Negro banker," he said, and ask him where he got his start he usually will point to some Southern white man and say: That white man loaned me the money and helped me with his advice. "That shows that the problem is on the way to solution, I know what race prejudice means, I know what poverty means; but there is a spirit of fair play in the American people that will reward success, whether of a white man or black man. FOR NEGRO POLICE CHIEF. Morristown, N. J., December 12.—A petition signed by about 20 per cent of the voters of this city will be presented to the Board of Aldermen this week demanding the appointment of a Negro chief of police. The petitioners' candidate is Oliver Shaw, a porter in a drug store, whose name stands high on the civil service eligible list. The people that go to Morrison's Department Store are always well pleased with their goods and prices, Natural Resources OF SOUTH MBAN AS MUCH TO BLACK AS TO WHITE MAN, SAYS SUTURAN, Not Wanted, This Desired Being for Trained Men Who Are Not Afraid To Work With Their Hands in Competition With Whites for Economic Supremacy. (Horace D. Slatter.) $ ^{*} $ Normal, Ala., Dec. 10.—President Walter S. Buchanan, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, located here, has just returned from an extended trip in the West, during which time he visited several of the State schools provided for the training of Negroes. The most notable institutions which he held are Prairie View Normal and Industrial College, Lake View Texas, Agricultural and Oklahoma University, Langston, Oklahoma, and Branch Normal College, Plhe Bluff, Arkansas. Primarily to study the conditions surrounding the institutions, their progress, and the extent of the work they are doing. President Bishanan has heard such information as will enable him to go before the forthcoming Alabama. Legislature next year and show by comparative state-mandated state States are doing for the education of our children. It is his aim, thereby, to indicate the legislature to give a more suitable appropriation for Normal, or at least to make some special appropriation to cover eminent necessities. Prof. Buchanan declared in several addresses that he made to representative audiences while west hat the Negroes in the South and Southwest must prepare themselves for the great commercial, professional and industrial opportunities that the section affords for black and white, and that they must be prepared to make the greatest use of the natural resources of the Southland or their places would be taken by other peoples. In his address, he gave some good advice with reference to race relations in the South, and declared, among other things: "The need of the Negro race is for educated men and women who are willing to work with their hands. There is no more opportunity in the South than anywhere else for an uneducated man, and that an educated individual maes a sad mistake if he feels that by reason of his education he is above working with the hands. "We are called upon to engage in economic competition with the white race for opportunities to live and grow in the struggle for existence. Indeed, we are living in a great and prosperous country—our natural home at the same time the natural home of the race which is more thrifty, deserving, industrious and efficient than we, if we would succeed in the end, we must measure up to the standard of our more fortunate brother. "The natural wealth of the South means just as much to us as it does to the white people. We have just marketed a big cotton crop. This crop alone is worth twice as much as the product of all the gold mines in the world for the same time—and the Negro had the largest share in producing it. If the race is not better of financially for it, there is something wrong with us. Here in the South we have the rare and splendid oppose getting in the line of progress and becoming a sure and integral part of the great and wealthy section in which we are to forever live as monial servants or as owners and citizens of the most desirable class." CUBAN CONGRESSMEN Fatally Shot Each Other in Crowded Havana Street Near the Palace. Hawana, Dec. 9—Severo Moleon and General Sanchez Figura, both members of the House of Representatives, and the latter a Negro, had an important duel with revolvers today in a crowded street in the rear of the palace. Senior Moleon was shot the neck and died shortly afterward in hospital, while General Figura was wounded in the stomach, probably fatally. Two passersby also were struck by bullets, but were not mortally injured. Senor Moleon had just loft the palace, where he was in conference with President Gomez, and meeting General Figuera immediately opened fire. Figuera vigorously replied. A long-standing political feud between the two Congressmen was the cause of the duel. Senor Moleon represented Pinar Del Rio and General Figuera Matanzas in the House. You are able to find what you want and buy it for less at O. J. Morrison Dept. Store Co. KEPT THE KING AT HOME. "For the past year we have kept the King of all laxatives—Dr. King's New Life Pills—in our home and they have proved a blessing to all our family," writes Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo, N. Y. Easy, but sure remedy for all Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles. Only 25c. at all Drugs. 12-1-5t. There is nothing that will pay you so well as to buy your goods at O. J. Morrison Department Store. President Gates, of Fisk University, Causes Excitement by Refusing to Deliver Lecture to Teachers' Association After They had Made Him Wait Two Hours. Nashville, Tenn., December 10—President Gates of Fisk sticks to principle in everything. He believes as thoroughly in standards of time as he does in every thing else worth while. He gave evidence of it in a sensational but helpful way at the regular monthly session of the Davidson County Teachers to whom he was to deliver a lecture last Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at the County Court House. The President of Fisk is a staunch advocate of doing things on time. The faculty and students of Fisk can testify to that fact. The meeting Saturday morning did not begin on time. The president of the county teachers had to "wait for the people to gather." When the people did gather, he made the blunder of entering upon a tedious and lengthy program, inclined to test the patience of most any good Christian. "Papers" upon one thing or another were called for", read and "discussed" while the presiding officer kept the Fisk President waiting, without any explanation as to why he was not called upon immediately to deliver the carefully prepared lecture he had been invited to deliver at ten o'clock in the morning. The meeting was scheduled to close at twelve o'clock. One minute past twelve, "the discussions" were concluded. Then the chairman of the meeting introduced Prof. William Rose who delivered a lengthy introduction of the Fisk President. Rose said in part: "We all honor, love and respect President Gates because he is a patriot, scholar, gentleman and man of high standards. He believes in sound principles, high learning and lofty ideals. He believes thoroughly in the future of this race of ours and that with proper training, we shall yet show to the world that we are deserving and capable." Finally he introduced President Gates, who arose and glanced at his watch and noted the time. Then he did the very unexpected thing of making to the chairman and the audience, in his firm and vigorous manner, the following statement: "I have been sitting here, in the midst of some embarrassment, waiting to deliver the address which you invited me to deliver at ten o'clock this morning. It is past twelve o'clock now and I cannot afford to take any of your time. It would not be proper for me to have anything further to say and I now ask to be excused." Then he left promptly, and without any ceremony. He had taught the people a lesson that the race everywhere needs to be taught and to learn more thoroughly. President Gates did it in a most unusual manner, but it was at the same time a most effective way. His action caused a great deal of comment but his course was thoroughly approved even by those whom it hurt most. Gets Damages from White Millionaire for Alienating His Afections. Atlantic City, N. J., December 12 A writ of inquiry has been issued by Supreme Court Justice Trenchard directing Sheriff Johnson to impanel a jury of 12 men to determine the amount of damages to be assessed for an interlocutory judgment of $100,000 obtained against Mrs. Catherine E. Carter, a prominent Philadelphia widow and heiress to $1,000,000, by Mrs. Jessie Curry, wife of her colored chauffeur, whose affections Mrs. Carter is alleged to have alienated. Mrs. Curry is represented by Attorney James M. Sheen, of this city, and the judgment is one of the largest on record in this city. Curry, who is said to be a remarkably good-looking young colored man, has been in the employ of Mrs. Carter for two years. During this period, Mrs. Curry alleges, her husband's affections for her waned and she blames Mrs. Carter for the estrangement. Suit for the allenation was served on Mrs. Carter while she was a guest at the Sheilbourne Hotel on November 11, and she was ordered to file a plea within 20 days or suffer judgment by default. This she has failed to do and judgment in the sum of $100,000 was taken. Morrison's Department Store has just what they advertise. It pays to see them. from a knife, gun, tin can, or of any other nature, demands prompt treatment with Bucklen's Arnica Salve to prevent blood poison or gangrene. It's the quickest, surrest healer for all such wounds as also for Burns, Boils, Sores, Skin Eruptions, Eczema, Chapped Hands, Corns or Piles, 25c. at all Druggists. 12-1-5t. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15th. The most interesting social-events of the year are happening in the Tennessean capital now. They are bringing together many men and women distinguished in the religious, educational, professional and business life of the race. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Lewis celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary on Tuesday evening. They were married in 1885 at Hormaneville, Miss., the home of the bride, and have lived and worked successfully in several states before the husband was advanced to his present position among the general officers of the A. M. E. Church. The couple received many valuable and costly presents and a considerable sum of money. Many of the most prominent and influential men of the connection were invited and present. Miss Elizabeth A. Ross, of Alabama, and Mr. George E. Haynes, of Arkansas, were married at Fish Memorial Chapel Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. The Rev. Dr. W. Morrow officiated. Mr. W., Hunton and Mrs. W. A. Hunton, of Brooklyn, N. Y., were gentleman and matron of honor. Rev. Clifford L. Miller, of Haverhill, Miss, was best man and Miss Eather J. Pinkard, of Nashville, was bridesmaid, Mr. and Mrs. Haynes are both graduates of Fisk University and were classmates. Mrs. Haynes has been a successful teacher and Y. M. C. A. worker more recently. She has held the position of National Secretary of the Y. W. C. A. with headquarters in New York City. Mr. Haynes is professor of sociology at Fisk University. Since his graduation at Fisk he has studied at Yale and Columbia. He was formerly one of the three international secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. The presents the couple received were many and very useful. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes will be at home January 1st. The wedding of another prominent couple will take place on the 26th of December. These are Prof. W. H. Fort and Miss Janie E. Benson. Mr. Fort has been a successful teacher in Tennessee for the past fifteen years and he has served as D. G. M. of the Tennessee Odd Fellows for the past five years. At present he is principal of the High School at Okmulgge, Okla. Miss Benson has been the leading principal of the primary department of the Nashville Public Schools for the past fifteen years. She is one of the strongest women in the entire state and a woman of rare qualities and exceptional ability. Prof. Fort and Miss Benson are among the most honored graduates of Fisk University and are members of two of the best families of the Volunteer State. After their marriage they will return to Oklahoma to reside. The wedding will be a home affair and only the most intimate friends of the principals will be in attendance. Those who are to assist them are Mrs. Preston R. Burrows, Miss Martha Grisham, Miss Elizabeth Moore, Mr. P. H. Benson, the brother of the bride, Prof. H. L. Keith and Mr. Geo, Fort, the brother of the groom. Prof. Fort and his bride will remain in Nashville until Thursday morning, after Xmas, when they go to Memphis as guests at a banquet given in their honor by the Odd Fellows and other prominent citizens of Memphis. They will leave behind a host of Tennessee friends to regret their departure for residence in Oklahoma. OPPOSITION TO NAMING NEGRO. Washington, Dec. 13.—President Taft's inclination to appoint William B. Lewis, a Negro lawyer in Boston, assistant attorney general is meeting considerable opposition. Booker T. Washington called upon Attorney General Wickersham today to urge it and Speaker Cannon called to oppose it. Cannon's opposition, however, is not one of color or race omnibus. It is now known that the place Taft had in mind for Lewis was that of assistant attorney general in charge of Indian depredation cases. BANOROFT. Roy, P. P. Holland filled his regular appointment, here Sunday morning, and at night the Lords supper was administered. Mrs. Wm. Mickens and Miss Stella Smith, of Alymouth, haye returned home after spending some time visiting at Fayetteville. John Cyrus and his little daughter, Norma are sick. Miller, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sawyers, of Betsey, is suffering from an attack of lagripe. Mrs. Homer Phillips, Mrs. H. A. Jones and Mrs. Edward Hicks were shown in Charleston, Monday. Mrs. Simon Woods, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McKinney, and Mrs. C. W. Harris, of Betsey visited friends in Bancroft Sunday. The Missionary Society met Sunday evening at six o'clock. Mrs. Geo. Brooks was shopping in Poca. Saturday. M. M. T. Sinclair and little son Terry, and Mrs. H. A. Jones, of Birmouth attended the Senior Play Institute, Friday night. While there they were guests of Mrs. Solemon Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Hale Dickerson visited relatives and friends in Raymond Tuesday and Friday. MARTINSBURG. Rev. S. W. Beane left Monday morning for Baltimore to attend a meeting which was called by the Bishop of the M. E. Conference. Dr. Samuel Gray, who has a patient in Freedmans Hospital, Washington, D. C., returned from that place Monday evening and reported his patient much better. The Enworth League held their weekly meeting Sunday at 4 o'clock. Instrumental Solo by Misses Janetty Bord and Retta Basey; Select reading by Rev. S. M. Beane. The topic was opened by Prof. Fred R. Ramer. The meeting was presided over by Prof. W. O. Turner. A concert will be given in Mt. Zion M. E. Church Friday evening by the Junior League. A large crowd is expected to be present. Miss Ollie, daughter of Mr. Geo. Carpenter, of W. Main St., died in the City Hospital Monday afternoon, after suffering for many days with typhoid fever. Miss Carpenter was but 15 years old, however, she would have finished the city school this term. Among her many charming qualities, none were more prominent than her lady like and pleasant way with all whom she came in contact. She was devoted to the church and for a long while sang Alto in the choir of Mt. Zion M. E. Church. GRAFTON. Rev. M. D. Willis left Saturday to preach at Bridgeport, Sunday. Miss Ada Stout, who underwent a successful operation at the City Hospital at Elkins, is improving. The operation was performed on her eyes. Rev. John Davis passed through the city Monday en route home to Arden from Rosemont. Rev. G. W. Muse has resigned the M. E. church here. B. P. Beasley will leave for home Friday on account of the illness of his son. Rev. Geo. Deyoung, of Buckhannon, preached at the M. E. church Sunday. D. C. Coleman suffered extremely painful injuries Saturday night through a fall on the ice sidewalk. Mr. Coleman was on his way to his cleansing shop on Latrobe street when the accident occurred. Mrs. Ross and son, John, left Friday to visit relatives and friends at Clarksburg and Shinnston. Miss Maude Tyler, of Buckhannon, has opened a hair shop here for two weeks at the residence of Mrs. Arthur Miles on St. Johns street. Mrs. Lacey Laney was called home Saturday, on account of the illness of her mother, Mrs. Thomas Mosby. STANNAFORD. James Cousin and Arthur Colston went to Loup Creek Sunday. Mrs. Mary Allen is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Davison. Ben Cary's family has whooping cough. Robert Leftrich has returned from a trip to Lynchburg, Virginia. Mrs. Ada Cousin was called to the bedside of her mother, who is very ill. Mrs. Minnie Winston is indisposed The people of Stannaford gave Mr. P. E. Eubanks a surprise party last week. Mr. Eubanks has not been able to work for some time from being hurt in the mines. MORGANTOWN. Mrs. Blanche Jones, who has been very ill for some time, is recovering. Joe Garnett, of Point Marion, Pa., was a visitor here Sunday. Miss Lillian Henshaw, who has been ill for some time, is able to be out again. Norman Shanklin of Lincolnia, Va., and Miss Evelyn Lewis, of Clarksburg, were united in marriage by Rev. A. J. Payne at his home in Sabraton. All Denson, of Cumberland, Md., is a business visitor here. Mrs. George Saunders, who has been visiting her son, George Jones, for the last week, returned to her home in Connellsville. Little Lewis Trueman, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ellis, died at their home on Beechurst Ave. Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have the deepest sympathy of their many friends. Mrs. L. Fisher and family have left the city to return to their old home in Cumberland, Md. Mr. Leroy Fisher will remain until Xmas Holiday Umbrellas CARBON. Rev. L. W. Mayo left for Dorothy Saturday, where he filled his regular appointment Sunday. Rev. H. M. C. Reed preached here Sunday evening. A Williams, H. M. C. Reed and Mrs. C. A. W. Robinson leave next week to purchase gifts for the Sunday School Xmas tree. W. Morehead and Mrs. Catherine Martin left Sunday for Hunsford to visit their brother and husband, George Martin. C. E. Reed and L. Jones returned from a visit to friends in Fayette county Wednesday. Miss M. L. Mayo and L. Young contemplate a glorious time for the young people Xmas and are making extensive preparations together with Mesdames G. H. Williams, C. A. W. Robinson, L. Alston and M. E. Reed. PRATT. D. E. V. Jordan, of Charleston, spent Saturday night and Sunday here, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Holmes. Mrs. T. W. Holmes is slowly improving. Mrs. George Washington is able to be out again. Miss Jennie Foster made a business trip to Montgomery and London Saturday. While at London she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Lee. Mrs. Chas. Rollins and Ed Lewis were shopping in Montgomery Saturday. Mrs. Frank Scott and daughter, Janie, George Vaughn, and T. E. Morris, of Mucklow, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Holmes. Mrs. Chas. Rollins and Miss Lucy Carter were Monday guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Washington. Wm. A. Powell, Fred Foreman, Oscar and Willie Holmes and Harry Washington attended church at Hansford Sunday. A very sad accident occurred at Hansford last Wednesday when the school house was destroyed by fire. It was the only place for church, Sunday school and public school. W. A. Britton, of Montgomery, was in town Tuesday on business. Lewis Greec, of Hansford, made a business trip here Monday. Chas. Rollins was calling on friends in Hansford Sunday. Mrs. D. W. Cyrus, of London, visited Mrs. Chas. Rollins last week. Mrs. Julia Lucky was shopping in Montgomery Thursday. MONTGOMERY. Rev. V. Harriday, has returned from Baltimore where he spent two weeks visiting relatives and friends. Ms. Quercia, of Michigan, is in town visiting his brother, Mr. A. Quarls. Miss Carrie, Fairfax, of Powellton, and Miss Ada M. Wright, of this place, were at Institute Friday. The Sunday school teachers met with P. W. Wright, Superintendent, Tuesday night. After routine business, light refreshments were served by Mrs. Wright, assisted by Mrs. Samuel Hedricks. Miss Cathrine Brown, teacher at Elkridge, spent Sunday at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brown. Mrs. Marie Woody, teacher at Boomer, was calling on friends in Montgomery, Saturday. Mrs. C. Crawford is sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Miller. Mr. H. B. Hundley, of Mt. Hope, and A. P. Straughther, of Hinton, were in town this week. Miss Aristis Johnson, of Charleston, was in town this week, on lodge SILVER CHATTELAIN BAGS Best Quality of Silver Mesh, removable Kid Lining; these are high grade Bags—and are sold from 1-3 to 1-2 more than Lasky's price. Xmas Sale Price, from $5.98 to $2.89 CHATTELAINE BAGS Splendid quality of mesh—each with long and medium chain. We place on sale two numbers at 93c. and 49c LEATHER BAGS Twenty different styles to select from; some are fitted with Puff Box, Mirror and small Purse, Xmas Sale Price, $1.48 and one number special at 96c 105-107 96c LASKY'S CHRISTMAS NEWS L. N. Brown, and E. Howard, spent Sunday at Institute. Mrs. Mamle Woods and Miss Carrie Buster, of Boomer, were in town Tuesday. Thomas Chiles, continues ill at his home. Mrs. Sarah Lemons is able to be out again after a weeks illness. LEWISBURG. The intelligence of death of Junlun Harris, which occurred at Charleston last week was received here with sincere regret by his relatives and many friends. He was a native of this county, though he had lived for several years in Charleston. He was a faithful member of the M. E. church of Lewisburg and was much esteemed by all of his associates. His family has the sympathy and prayers of his church and the good people here. The entertainment, Selt Maids, given Mrs. Hacket, of Covington, at Mt. Tabor Baptist last week, was a very successful affair, and afforded the young people much amusement and pleasure. Miss Louisa Gardner is still quite ill. Dr. S. F. Clay was a business visitor to Ronceverte last Wednesday. The Fourth Quarterly Conference of the John Wesley M. E. church will convene here Friday night Dec. 16th. Rev. Hughes, District Supt. will be present. ELKINS. Mrs. James and Clarence Samuels entertained a few friends Thursday at cards. Those present were Mrs. and Edward Butler, Mr. and Mrs. James Scott, Miss Maggie Robinson and Fred Martin. A delicious lunch was served. Rev. Alleyne spent several days at Charleston and Parkersburg last week. Invitations are out for Mr. William Thomas and Miss Gertrude Reynolds' wedding to be celebrated Dec. 16th. Miss Alice Brown has returned from an extended visit to New York and Chicago. Miss Maggie Robinson was ill a few days last week. The dance was well attended Friday night. DAVIS. Prof. Clarence Black teacher of Thomas school, Prof. E. B. Black and Mrs Virgie Lee attended the teachers' meeting held here Thursday. William Lee has purchased a fine dwelling house on Kent Avenue and moved into it. Austin Harris has moved into the dwelling vacated by William Lee on Black Water Ave. The social given at the home of Mrs. V. A. Lee, by Mesdames, Lee and Marks, Tuesday night, for the church was a success socially and financially. The school children are preparing to produce the play "The Old School Hick'ry Holier" on the 23rd under the management of their teacher, Prof. Black. ST. ALBANS. Alonzo, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Smith, died suddenly Friday evening with lock jaw. It was quiet a shock to the community. He was about 14 years of age. The bereaved family have the sympathy of their many friends. Golden Preston was shopping in Charleston Monday. Vance Bunkers moved his family to Raymond City where he will make his home. LASKY Umbrellas EMBROIDERED SWISS HANDKERCHIEFS 40 dozen of Ladies' Embroidered Swiss Handkerchiefs; these are a lot of slight factory imperfections, but hardly detectable, worth from 25c to 29c. Lasky's Xmas Sale Price. 19c LADIES' SPECIAL UM-BRELLA VALUES These Ladies Umbrellas have Gold and Pearl Mounts with cover of Taffeta finish and tape edge. This same quality costs you anywhere else $7.50. We offer them at a Special Price of $3.98 CAPITOL ST Useful Holiday Presents Miss Christy Trent, who has been ill with typhoid fever, is reported better. Albert Wilson, Maggie Price and Tallie Parrish, students of W. V. C. L., spent Sunday with their parents. Mrs. Clarke, of Handley is visiting her mother. Mrs. Ada Preston. R. H. Allen spent Sunday with his family. CHILLOTHE. OHIO. Last October one year ago Bishop W. B. Derrick transferred Rev. W. B. Walker, then pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church, Charleston, W. Va., to the Ohio conference and stationed him at Chillotho, O., with the instruction that he build a new church. In less than 14 months the work has been accomplished. And the congregation now has a beautiful press brick church with all mordern conveniences. Sunday Bishop Derrick and Rev. C. S. Gee, presiding elder at 10:30 a.m., were met at the door of the main auditorium by Rev. Walker, Dr. S. S. Jordan, Phillip Harris, H. G. Stewart and Fisher Sulton and presented the keys to the church The congregation, having gathered in the lecture room of the church, followed the Bishop and visiting ministers until every available space was filled. Bishop Derrick preached the dedicatory sermon, theme "The trials of St. Paul", "At 2:30 p. m., a platform meeting was held, Rev. Gee chairman, short addresses were made by the ministers of the city and the chairman of the board of trade. At 7:30 Mrs. Derrick addressed a large audience on the subject "Training the youth." The bishop at 8:00 preached an excellent sermon from the text "Entrust me not to leave thee." Monday night the K. of P. Lodge and uniform rank turned out in full and listened to an address by bishop Derrick. The ladies aid had charge of the supper in the lecture room. Tuesday night Rev. W. M. Himan, of the Presbyterian church, preached. Mrs. Ellen Williams and Mrs. Alice Jones were in charge of the supper. Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock the ladies aid, royal workers and the choir tendered Bishop Derrick and wife a reception in the main auditorium of the church. Misses Mae Medley and Christine Williams received the guests at the door of the auditorium. In the receiving line were Mrs. Jennie Donaldson, Miss Helen E. Marshall, Mrs. Sophia Bunch, Mrs. Hannah Davis, Mrs. A. J. Haynes, Mrs. Brown, Rev. Walker and Bishop Derrick. Mrs. A. J. Hays was hostess to the Bishop and wife, the preachers of the Southern school and Rev. Walker at supper in the lecture room served by Mrs. Eugene. Liggans, Mrs. Carrie Hogans and Mrs. Kalo Gray. 8 p. m., Wednesday Dr. Sheen preached. Thursday night Rev. J; W. Carter of the First Baptist Church preached a very impressive sermon upon the subject "The church of God". The stewardess board had charge of the supper. Friday night a social musical was given in the auditorium by the choir. Miss Jennie Burrel and Mrs. Johnson of Kingston had charge of the supper. Sunday Dec. 11th at 10:30 a. m. Rev. Walker preached his first sermon in the new church, subject "The House of God". Monday night the royal workers had charge of the supper. Tuesday night Bishop Derrick will lecture upon "The Two Flags". Wednesday night Rev. Gee held quarterly conference. The music rendered by the choir was excellently good, during the dedication. It is made up of some of the best tal- S CHRI Useful Holi UMBRELLAS Lycoming Wireless Umbrellas. The Weak Spot Made the Strong Spot. More simply constructed, stronger, wears longer, better shaped, costs no more than the old-fashioned make. Why? $1.50 values. Sale Price. 98c 98c BATTENBERG CENTER AND SCARFS Here we display numerous artistic designg, amongst which you will find some Imp. Hand Embroidered, values from 75c to $1.50; Lasky's Xmas Sale Price, 98c and: 47c T. LASI 47c 33 1-3 Per Cent Off On Ladies' Suits and Hats LADIES' SUITS MISSES' SUITS LADIES' FUR COATS LADIES' CLOTH COATS LADIES' SKIRTS LADIES' HATS LADIES' WAISTS LADIES' SWEATERS LADIES' FURS LADIES' SHOES MEN'S SUITS YOUTHS' SUITS MEN'S EXTRA TROUSERS MEN'S HATS MEN'S SHOES MEN'S TOP COATS MEN'S OVERCOATS WE ALSO SELL CLOTH- ING FOR THE LITTLE ONES We will let you have anything you need in clothing, simply on your promise to pay later. Our prices are lower than all other stores, Come & see JAMES H. FARLEY Open Evenings Until 9 o'Clock ent in the city; Miss Cora B. Medley, of the Southern school, chorister; Miss Mae Medley, organist; Miss Helen E. Marshall also of the Southern school, Miss Geneva Ross, a graduate of the high school last spring, is among the singers and Mrs. Jones Lucas, Misses Glenn and Goldie Ford, Messrs. E. R. Redmond, Griffin Lucas, Homer Grimes, Edw. Medley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James Lucas entertained Bishop Derrick and wife Rev. Walker, Tuesday at dinner. Rev. L. W. White, Rev. C. S. Williams, Rev. F. A. Day and Rev. Haithcock were visitors during the dedication. Bishop Derrick and wife were entertained during their stay in the city by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Redmond. STMAS day Presents DRESSER SCARFS and Pillow Tops, made of Simon Crash, Stamped Centres with worked edges, Floral Designs, Pillow Tops have backs ready for use—regular 69c. value, Lasky's Xmas Sale Price. 47c BLACK SILK HOSE Ladies' Black Silk Hose, splendid weight, double heel and toe, clastle garter top, values 75c to $1.50. Lusky's Xmas Sale Price 98c and 49c KY'S CH 49c Does Wonders at Jas H. Farley's, 226 Capitol Street nt Off On Ladies' S w, Pay Me Afte have anything yo on your promise wer than all other S H. FA 9 o'Clock tions sent during the dedication in Ladies' Suits and YOU MEN'S EXTRA T ME MEN'S MEN'S TOP MEN'S OVER WE ALSO SELL CL ING FOR THE LIT ON Dress Made Clothes Me After Xmas! anything you need in r promise to pay la n all other stores, Com I. FARLE HUNTINGTON The funeral of Mrs. Dabney, who died at Russell, Ky., was held at 16th street Baptist church Monday, Dec. 12th, Rev. A. D. Lewis preached a very impressive sermon. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. James Mangrum and had lived here during the pioneer days of Huntington, but in the last few years had resided in Russell. The last sad rites over the remains of Mrs. Tilitha Jiminson were held by Rev. I. V. Bryant Friday. The deceased was a member of Mt. Olivet Baptist church and an old citizen of Huntington but for the last four or five years had made her home in Columbus, at which place she died. Her oldest daughter Mrs. NEWS EWS Practical Gifts LADIES' KID GLOVES In Tan, Black, White and Gray; these are equal to any $1.25 Glove, no matter where you buy, a reasonable guarantee with every pair. Lasky's Xmas Sale Price. 89c PERSIAN COLLARS AND ABOTS Special Assortment of Fancy Persian Collars and Jabots, also Bows of all descriptions, all the newest things of the season. Xmas Sale Price 10c HARLESTON, ESTON, W. VA. 10c 226 CAPITOL STREET Alice Fulom Kearney, widow of the late Dr. Kearney, died last March. The revival closed at Young Chapel with only two accessions, but a great revival of faith. Elizabeth, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McNorton, has slightly improved from her serious illness of typhoid pneumonia. Rev. and Mrs. Thomas have returned after a brief visit to Cincinnati. Mrs. Angus Carter is visiting her daughter, Estella Vaughn, at Williamson. Get your Xmas Gifts at O. J. Morrison's Department Store Co., 216 Capitol street. It pays. It will pay you to look up the O. J. Morrison Dept. Store Co. Hundreds of other people have found out that it pays. CHRISTMAS NECKWEAR Fancy Jabots in Persian and Chiffon, Silk edged with Liberty Satin and Lace, value 39c. Lasky's Xmas Sale Price, each in Holly Box. NOVELTY BELTS A large assortment of Persian Rubber and Patent Leather Belts, latest style buckles with stone seating. Lasky's Xmas Sale Price 89c, 47c and RHINESTONE HAT PINS A splendid showing of the newest effects in Chester Rhinestone Pins, value 75c. Lasky's Xmas Sale Price 47c W. VA. 25c 23c "I had not been long engaged in the study of the race problem when I found myself face to face with a curious and seemingly absurd question: "What is a Negro?" "Abaud as the question apparently is, it is one of the most perplexing, and at times most embarrassing that has faced our legislators at judges. Negro. It would seem that racial demarcations would be sufficient, and in most instances, this is true. It is never difficult to distinguish the full-blood Negro or Indian or Mongolian from one an other or from the Caucasian. But the difficulty arises in the blurring of the color line by amalgamation. The amount of miscegenation between the Mongolian and other races represented in the United States is negligible. But the extent of intermixture between the Caucasian and the Negro, the Negro and the Indian, and the Caucasian and the Indian is appreciable, and problems arising from it are serious. It is absolutely impossible to ascertain the number of mulattoes,—that is, persons having both Caucasian and Negro blood in their veins,—in the United States. Mr Baker, says: "I saw plenty of men and women who were unquestionably Negroes, Negroes in every physical characteristic, black of countenance with thick lips and kinky hair, but I also met men and women as white as I am whose assertions that they were really Negroes I accepted in defiance of the evidence of my own senses. I have seen blue-eyed Negroes and golden-haired Negroes; one Negro girl I met had an abundance of soft straight red hair; I have seen Negroes I could not easily distinguish from the Jewish or French type; I once talked with a man I took at first to be a Chinaman but who told me he was a Negro, and I have met several people passing everywhere for white, who I knew had Negro blood." A separate enumeration of mulattoes has been made four times, in 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1890. The census authorities themselves said that the figures were of little value, and the whole project was abandoned in the census of 1900. If the person is apparently white, the census taker will feel a delicacy in asking him if he has Negro blood in his veins. If he does ask the question and if the other is honest in his answer, it is often that the latter does not know his ancestry. For instance, Booker T. Washington has said that he does not know who his father was. The martial relations among Negroes during slavery were so irregular, and there was so much illicit intercourses between the men of the master race and the women of the slave race that the line of ancestry of many mulattoes is hopelessly lost. But Mr. Baker makes the rough estimate which I have no reason to believe incorrect, that 3,000,000 of the 10,000,000 (about) Negroes are visibly mulattoes. This one third of the total Negro population represents every shade of race color and physical demarcations from the fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, thin lips, and sharp nose of the octooroon who betrays scarcely a trace of his Negro blood, to the coal black skin, and kinky hair, brown eyes, thick lips, flat nose of the man who has scarcely a trace of Caucasian blood. It is this gradual sloping off from one race to another which has made it necessary for the law to set artificial lines. The difficulty arising out of the intermixture of the races was realized while the Negro was still a slave. Throughout the statutes prior to 1860, one finds references to "persons of color" a generic phrase including all who were not wholly Caucasian or Indian. This nomenclature was taken over from the antebellum statutes, and it is surprising to find how seldom the word "Negro" is used in the statutes and court decisions relative to that race since the Negro has been a freeman, the phrase "persons of color" being used instead. Some of the states have set down arbitrary definitions of persons of color and Negroes and mulattoes. Others have enacted race distinctions, and have then added whom they include in each race. This is particularly true of the laws prohibiting intermarriage. The recent constitution of Oklahoma provides that separate schools for white and colored children shall be maintained "The term 'colored children,' as used in this section, shall be construed to mean children of African descent. The term 'white children' shall include all other children." Picking these definitions, many of them, out of the midst of other statutes, I find that Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee and Texas define one as a person of color who is descended from a Negro to the third generation inclusive though one ancestor in each generation may have been white. Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri and South Carolina declare that one is a person of color who has as much as one-eighth Negro blood; Nebraska and Oregon say that one must have as much as one-fourth Negro blood in order to be classed with that race. Virginia and Michigan apparently draw the line similarly. In Virginia, a marriage between a white man and a woman who is less than one-fourth Negro blood, though it be a drop less, is legal. A woman whose father was white and whose mother's father was white, and whose mother's father was white, whose great grandfather was of brown complexion, is not a Negro in the sense of the statute. In 1867, Michigan, which at the time limited the suffrage to "white male citizens," held that all persons should be considered white who had less than one-fourth of African blood. That State also gave the right to vote to male inhabitants of Indian descent, but it held that a person having one-eighth Indian blood, one-fourth or three-eighth African, and the rest white was not included in that class. Ohio limited the suffrage to white male citizens and made it the duty of the judges of election to challenge any one with a "distinct and visible admixture of African blood" but the latter requirement was held unconstitutional in 1867, the court saying that where the white blood predominated in a person he is to be considered white. This definition is interesting because it is the only instance that I have found of a court's saying that a person with more than half white blood and the rest Negro should be considered white. In contrast with this is this sweeping definition of Tennessee's: All Negroes, Malaittoes, Mestizoes, all their descendants having any African blood in their veins, shall be known in this State as 'Persons of Color.' Also Arkansas, in its statute separating the races in trains includes among persons of color all who have "a visible and distinct admixture of African blood. In everyday language, a mulatto is any person having both Caucasian and Negro blood. But several States have defined mulatto specifically. The Supreme Court of Alabama said, in 1850 that a mulatto is the offspring of a Negro and a white person, that the offspring of a white person and a mulatto is not a mulatto; but this was enlarged in 1867 to include any one descended from Negro ancestors to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor in each generation be white. Missouri has this definition: "Every person other than a Negro, any one of whose grandfathers or grandmothers is or shall have been a Negro, although his or her other progenitors, except those descending from a Negro, may have been white persons, shall be deemed a mulatto, and every such person who shall have one-fourth or more Negro blood shall in like manner be deemed a mulatto. In effect, the definitions of Alabama and Missouri are the same. Some States have allowed facts other than physical characteristics to be presumptive of race. If one was a slave in 1865, it is to be presumed that he was a Negro. The fact that one usually associates with Negroes in proper evidence to go to the jury as tending to show that the person is a Negro. If a woman's husband was a white man, that fact is admissible in evidence to show that she is a white woman. From the laws against miscegenation, one may ascertain how some of the states define the other races. Thus, Mississippi includes one having as much as one-eighth Mongolian blood in its prohibition of intermarriage between Caucasians and Monogolians. Oregon makes its III G.G.F. G.G.M. G.G.F. G.G.M. G.G.F. G.G.W. G.G.F. G.G.M. A B C D E F G H G. F. G. M. G. F. G. M. II I J K L F M I X It is desired to be proved whether to serve our purpose. laws applicable to those having one-fourth of more Chinese or Kanakan, or more than one-half Indian blood. Thus three-eighth Indian would not bar a man from intermarriage with a Caucasian, while one-fourth Negro or Chinese or Kanakan blood would so bar him. These are laws which serve to define the races. The interpretation of them is a different matter. A statute says that one is a person of color,—in effect, a Negro,—if he is descended from a Negro to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor in each generation may have been white; another statute says that a man is a person of color if he has as much as one-eighth Negro blood; another, if he has as much as one-fourth. A diagram will probably serve to clarify these definitions: It is desired to be proved whether the son X is a white person or a Negro. The first generation is that of his parents M and N. If either of them is white and the other a Negro, X has one-half Negro blood, and would be considered a Negro everywhere. The second generation is that of his grandparents. If any one of them is a Negro and the other three white, X has one fourth Negro blood and would be considered a Negro in practically every State except possibly Ohio. The third generation is that of the great-grandparents. If one of the eight great-grandfathers or great-grandmothers is a Negro, X has oneeighth Negro blood and would be considered a Negro in those States, which define one as a person of color if he has one-eighth Negro blood or in descended from a Negro to the third generation inclusive. Suppose the great grandfather was a Negro and all the rest Publicity Remedy for Corporation Evils Opinion of Auditor Publicity Remedy for Corporation Evils Opinion of Auditor Publicity is the remedy for corporation evils is the opinion of John S. Darst, state auditor and ex-officio insurance commissioner, and Mr. Darst is so convinced of the necessity of publicity of corporations, especially insurance companies, doing business in West Virginia, that he will endeavor to have passed at the next session of the state legislature a law bearing on this very important subject. In the December Bulletin, devoted to matters in his department, which will shortly appear, he will have the following to say: "The people of this State are entitled to protection from a class of smooth tongued stock salesmen, who have been peddling stock of different corporations over West Virginia, misrepresenting the true state of affairs of the get-rich-quick method, and by so doing they are misleading some of the citizens of West Virginia by selling their stock which in most cases we believe, rill prove unsatisfactory, to say the least, when they learn the true conditions existing relative to the concerns. "Especially has this been true as regards the sale of stock of new life insurance companies and kindred concerns. If a company is being seriously promoted on the square and only a reasonable expense allowed for organization, it will not object to furnishing facts to the proper officer, in order that the public may know all the facts regarding it. If the public were informed as to the cost of promotion, the commission paid stock salesmen and the amount retained by the promoters on the part of some of the institutions now attempting to separate a man from his money, there would be precious little stock sold. "The public should know the whole truth. I will endeavor to have a bill passed at the next legislature requiring all persons who offer stock for sale in any corporation being promoted, to secure a license and at the same time furnish the proper officer a sworn statement relative to the organization in detail; in order that the public may be full informed as to what they are purchasing. This is due the public and will not injure any honestly conducted corporation." B. S. HONECKER... Wheeling, W. Va. Not cheap goods but good goods cheap is what you find at the O. J. Morrison Department Store, 214 and 216 Capitol street. at-grandparents were grandfather I would be half-Negro the father M would be one-fourth Negro; and X would be one-eighth Negro. Thus of the fourteen progenitors of X, only three had Negro blood, yet X is considered a Negro. In the illustration, so far, only one of the progenitors has been a Negro and his blood has been the only Negro blood introduced. Suppose there is Negro blood in both branches of the family, suppose a mulatto marries a mulatto or a mulatto marries a Negro or a mullatto marries a white person. One with a mathematical turn of mind may take these three generations and work out the various combinations which would give the son X one-half or one-fourth or one-eighth or any amount of Negro blood. But this is enough M. G.G.F. G.G.W. G.G.F. G.G.M. E F G H G. F. G. M. K L M X r to serve our purpose. It is safe to say that in practice one is a Negro or is classed with that race if he has the least visible trace of Negro blood or if it was known that there was Negro blood in any one of his progenitors. Miscegenation has never been allowed to be a bridge upon which one might cross from a Negro race to the Caucasian, though it has been allowed as a thoroughfare from the Caucasian to the Negro. The judges and legislators have said that one drop of Negro blood makes a man a Negro; but to be a Caucasian one must be all Caucasian. This shows very clearly that they have not considered Negro blood on par with Caucasian. Else the race affiliation would be determined by the predominance of blood. If one had more Negro blood than white, he would be considered a Negro; if more white blood than Negro, a Caucasian. Condition of Ailor Shows an Improvement The condition of John Ailor, the bricklayer who was seriously hurt in the new Alderson-Stephenson building yesterday, is somewhat improved today and his entire recovery is expected within a short time, unless complications follow as the result of his injuries. Ailor is in the Barber sanitarium and was abe this morning to see a few friends who were concerned about the reported seriousness of his hurts. The patient is the man who was struck by a trowel thrown by contact with the elevator car and who sustained the loss of a considerable portion of his nose, the bones of which organ were badly mashed and cut. A WOMAN'S GREAT IDEA. is how to make herself attractive. But, without health, it is hard for her to be lovely in face, form or temper. A weak, sickly woman will be nervous and irritable. Constipation and Kidney poisons show in /pimples, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. 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Dr. van Dyke's Journeys in the Holy Land have enabled him to give picturesqueness and reality to the background of his tale. Ernest Thompson Seton, in the January Scribner's, estimates the total number of caribou in the barren The Charleston National Bank A savings account stands for thrift, industry and independence; for freedom from the cares of the present and uncertainties of the future. It represents economy and self-denial and, moreover, that the possessor has taken advantage of an opportunity. We offer you this same opportunity now if you will deposit $1.00 or more with this bank. We pay 3% interest, compounded semi-annually, on savings, and welcome small accounts as well as large. grounds at thirty millions. He finds that the number killed by Indians and Esquimaux is of no particular importance with reference to the natural increase of this great herd. Professor Henry Jones Ford, of Princeton, advances in the same number Scribner the theory that a great deal of the political corruption in the United States has come from our adherence to the antiquated theory of "cheeks and balances" in the government—a theory which has long ago been discarded by statesmen of other countries. Professional State Senator, Democrat, Visitor in the City With business intent, Hon. R. F. Kidd, state senator by profession and inclination, is paying Charleston a visit and he said a little while ago to a reporter for The Mail that it need not be anticipated that the Democrats would steal or attempt to steal anything not by rights their own, during the next session of the legislature. "I am here to see after some matters before the supreme court," said Senator Kidd. I am now on my way to the office of the clerk of the court and will take up a little of the time of the clerk, Hon. W. B. Matthews, in going over some matters in which I am interested. "No I do not care to discuss politics for I am here on legal business." Senator Kidd is the oldest man in point of service, in the West Virginia Senate. He knows the game of politics from beginning to end and is expected to be an important factor at the coming session. He is stopping at the Ruffner, having come from his home in Gilmer county. He was elected from the Tenth district at the last election for the fourth consecutive term. He is only 57 years of age at that and is recognized as one of the most important men in the Senate at this stage of the game. OPEN UNTIL TEN P. M. For the accommodation of the holiday shoppers, it has been decided by the majority of retail merchants of the city that they will keep their places of business open until 10 o'clock each week-day night (Saturday excepted, when the stores will be open until eleven o'clock or later) until after closing time the night of Saturday, December 25 ALL CAME BACK. All the national guard officers who were summoned to appear before a court martial of the U. S. A., as witnesses in the hearing of Lieut. Leo Dannemiller, U. S. A., retired, but assigned to duties with the West Virginia National Guard, returned home this morning. They were not given a chance to testify in the case because of the fact that the accused is ill in Washington and could not be present. The hearing will be had later, the date not having yet been learned. Mrs. Samuel Beach, who was taken ill Tuesday evening, is improving in condition. Her home is on Broad street. MARVELOUS DISCOVERIES mark the wonderful progress of the age. Air flights on heavy machines, telegrams without wires, terrible war inventions to kill men, and that wonder of wonders, Dr. King's New Discovery—to save life when threatened by coughs, colds, lagripe, asthma, croup, bronchitis, hemorrhages, hay fever and whooping cough or lung trouble. For all bronchial affections it has no equal. It relieves insantly. 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BROWN PROPRIETOR =A Popular Hotel For Colored Pepole= 35 ROOMS 50c., 75c. and $1.00 Per Day. Lodging 35c and 50c 500 CAPITOL STREET, CHARLESTON, W. VA. One Block From State House. New Phone 1098 SPECIAL RATES BY WEEK OR MONTH H. & TAILOR CLEANERS, PRESSERS AND MAKER Phone 1386X. CLEANERS, PRESSERS AND MAKERS OF MEN'S CLOTHING. Phone 1386X. Shop: 428 State Street. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY Dental Surgeon Office: Room I, K. of P. Bldg. HENRY T. MCDONALD, President STORER C Harper's Ferr ORER COLLE Harper's Ferry, W. V STORER COLLEGE Harger's Ferry, W. Va. —Founded in 1867— More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Elevation high. Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular faculty of sixteen highly educated, earnest teachers does not include assistants. More than 400 men and women have school in the state for Colored students tion high. Remarkably healthful. An BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR Larger faculty of sixteen highly educated assistants. Our Library catalogued according the largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES / BERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION in its faculty and student body. Its w living. Literary Societies, Christian Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Norm For illustrated catalogue and other HE CRYSTAL Owned and Controlled by the K America, South America, Europe men and women have graduated for Colored students. Magnificently healthful. Ample bulldered TO OUR PLANT Trees in highly educated, earnest catalogued according to the DATE. CERTIFICATES ARE GRADUATED CLASSES WHO WARD OF EDUCATION. Store student body. Its whole influence cleeties, Christian Organize cleeties. Academic, State Normal, Industrial catalogue and other printed The CRYSTAL BATTERY enrolled by the Knights of America, Europe, Asia Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one of the largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian living. Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Music. For illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to HE CRYSTAL BATH HOUSE Owned and Controlled by the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Austria A Attendants' Fees $3.00 p $1.50 p Call on or Address RYSTAL BATH HOUSE Fees $3.00 per course $1.50 per course J. HOUSE HOT Attendants' Fees $3.00 per course of 21 Baths $1.50 per course of 10 Baths Call on or Address - - - J. R. SMITH, Mgr. RYSTAL BATH HOUSE - HOT SPRI NGS. A R T. W. HALE. & H. CLORS MAKERS OF MEN'S CLOTHING. Shop: 428 State Street. HOURS: 8:30 TO 1:30 P.M. 2:00 TO 6:00 P.M. S B. Brown urgeon COLLEGE Ferry, W. Va. Ed in 1867— I have graduated here. The oldest students. Magnificent location. Elva- Ample buildings. THREE NEW UR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regu- ted, earnest teachers does not include ing to the Dewey System, is one of ES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM- SES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TION. Storer is interdenominational whole influence is toward Christian an Organizations, Musical Clubs. Normal, Industrial, Music. other printed matter write to The President BATH HOUSE The Knights of Pythias of North Europe, Asia, Africa and Austria The only bath house of its kind in the United States for Colored People, receiving its hot water direct from the United States Government. Equipped with all the latest improvements. Experienced attendants. Steam heat- ed throughout. PRICE OF BATHS: 25 certs per single bath. Knights or Pythias and members of the Court of Calanthe with certi- tificates of good standing in their respective lodges are entitled to half the above rates. 00 per course of 21 Baths 00 per course of 10 Baths - J. R. SMITH, Mgr. - HOT SPRI NGS, A R B. H. HANKINSON. Home Phone 429. N. C. BRACKETT, Treasurer. The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months ..... $0.50 Six months ..... 1.00 One year ..... 1.50 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1910. SOME RECENT APPOINTMENTS. Upon the broad platform of statesmanship one may not question the wisdom of the recent appointment of Democrats to places of honor and profit by a Republican executive, but from a standpoint of partisan politics, Mr. Taft would seem to have erred most grievously. It is very generally believed that the present occupant of the White House would like to succeed himself. If that be true, is he aiding his cause when he goes outside of his party to distribute the plums? His own party, demoralized from the rout of November Eighth, is sadly in need of encouragement. Even where it is strongest there are sores to be healed, differences to be patched up and factions to be harmonized. Where there is now discord, the titular leader of the party must bring harmony; where strife, peace; where separation, union; otherwise, he will again see his party defeated, defeated at a time when it and he can less afford it than last November. It may be that from his elevated viewpoint he thinks he can see how these ends may be attained by the course which he is pursuing. Then again, he may be one of the very few men whose sense of duty is so high, whose desire to be considered broad-minded is so great that party policy wanes into insignificance when an opportunity to exhibit these qualities appears. If the first hypothesis be correct, Mr. Taft has either a much clearer vision or a stronger imagination than The Creator saw fit to endow nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of his creatures with. It is most certain that the appointment of Democrats is not pleasing to the masses of the Republicans, and it is equally certain that few, if any, Democrats will be won over by such selections from among them. They are not built that way. If there is any defection from their ranks, it is brought about not so much by the strength of their political enemies as by the weakness of their political friends. They preferred McKinley to Bryan, not because McKinley showed a disposition to remove the ancient boundary marks between the parties, but because they saw in Bryan a foe to stable government. Their policy has been and is, "to the victors belong the spoils," and in their battles they neither ask, give nor expect quarter. But even if Democratic votes might be won by giving positions to men of that persuasion, it strikes The Advocate that the Republican giver shows himself lacking in gratitude to those to whom he owes his position. What incentive is there to the office-hungry Republican, if his Republican candidate when elected makes his appointments from among his political opponents? There might be some excuse if there were not a baker's dozen of Republican applicants, "just as good" in all respects as the appointee, for every place the President has at his disposal. But no Chief Executive has yet been able to find enough places to go around among those who supported him. Should he divide the little he has with those with whom he had to contend? THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE NEGRO. The news comes from Washington that strong opposition is being brought to bear against the appointment of William H. Lewis as an assistant attorney general. This was to have been expected from Democratic sources, but the writer is forced to express surprise that Republicans have joined the forces against him. Why? It can not be because Mr. Lewis is not fitted to fill the duties of the office to which the President is reported willing to appoint him? It can not be because Mr. Lewis has not always supported the Republican party. If he is not being opposed for these reasons, it must be because he is a Negro. If his color is the bar to his preferment in the opinion of such Republicans as are opposing him, the sooner such men take a back seat in the councils of their party, the better it will be for the party. Every day it becomes more difficult to hold the Negro in line. For- merly, one had but to wave the bloody shirt, to tell the Negro that the Republican party freed him, that the Democrat, once in power, would again put him in chains. That day is now past. True, in the Democratic States at the South the Negro is denied his franchise rights. He is compelled to ride in separate coaches and to suffer many indignities which the man of light complexion, often a Negro, knows not of. In despite of this, at the South, as well as at the North, there is appearing a spirit of political independence among Negroes which does not bode well for the Republicans and is not likely to lose strength when one of the race is opposed for office simply because of the accident of birth. The Advocate grants to no man nor set of men a greater affection for the Republican party, than it possesses. It has always, during the ten years of its existence, consistently supported all Republican candidates and Republican policies. It, therefore, exercises its right, won by years of fighting in the ranks, to warn the party against a continuance of the policy to which it is being committed by the "illy whites." The Negroes, to a large number of whom slavery and its horrors are matters of history, are asking to be in on the division of the loaves and fishes. If the Republicans do not grant their request, they will look to the opposition. To prevent this, there must be no more expressions of opposition based on color or race by leading Republicans to appointments of Negroes to positions for which they are fitted by experience and ability. Rather, there must be an exhibition of a desire to give recognition in the way of office as the race shall deserve it through support of party policies and preparedness for the positions sought. A CURIOUS DOCUMENT. The laurels of Booker Washington, says the New York Sun, seem to make much too loud a rustling in the ears of some other colored citizens. Such is the first thought after reading the address published yesterday to Great Britain and Europe, signed by a number of more or less conspicuous Negroes. If we may say so with no suspicion of impertinence, the tone of the document is that of the "exes," a class much given to crying "Ichabod," and mourning over the wickedness of the times. Among the signers are a "former chairman," a "former clerk of court," a "late United States Consul," a former Alderman, a man "for six years member of the Legislature of Ohio," an "ex-Consul," an "ex-Member of Congress." And there are two or three editors of colored papers and heads of colored organizations, naturally, if unconsciously, inclined to magnify the grievances of their clients. Irrespective of the propriety of looking to foreign sources for help which they cannot give, there is an ironic bitterness in appealing to Englishmen, whose color blindness is so notorious in Egypt and India, for instance. All this is mostly matter of taste. As to the substance of the grievances complained of—and there are real and great grievances—not all of them are peculiar to the colored race. Lynching is a national diversion. The kind entertainment of "scabs" is not confined to colored "scabs." This momentous race problem, economic, political, social, affecting the whites even more than the blacks, is not advanced toward a settlement by heated rhetoric; nor is public respect, now felt by all intelligent and thoughtful whites for all industrious and useful colored citizens of good will, to be increased by a peevish and fruitless walling on the part of any of them. By diligence, by orderliness, by thrift, they will rise, as they are rising. However intellectual, however accomplished these uninvited spokesmen may be, they are not helping their cause. By patience and perseverance and energy, not by impotent lamentations, is the work of toleration, of political equality, of education, of religious and moral elevation and of material prosperity to be carried on and accomplished. When the questions of license or no license for saloons were issues to be settled by the votes of the people, The Advocate espoused the "dry side, believing then, as it does now, that prohibition, strictly enforced, would greatly benefit its clientele. On election day the people expressed themselves on this question and it was shown that public sentiment favored the licensed satoon. The verdict having been rendered, the County Commissioners would be justified in granting licenses not only to applicants in this city but also to those from the rural districts where the liquor element was in the majority. They should be the more inclined to do so since illicit sellers, though prosecuted at great cost to the country, are said to be rapidly increasing in numbers. 250 Students registered at the West Virginia Colored Institute in the Fall term of 1910. Ten States and Africa were represented. WEST VIRGINIA COLORED INSTITUTE Is the largest and best equipped school in the state for the education of the Negro Youths. 14 courses offered. The school is in the most flourishing Negro community in the state. Healthful climate. No Saloons. Under the present system intoxicants are being sold and neither the city nor the state is getting any revenue. Saloons regulated by state laws, are preferable to the brand of prohibition which now obtains hereabouts. By all means grant licenses and let us have done with the farce. The demand that the Republican State Committee "get off the perch" and give an entirely new set of men a chance to show what they can do, is becoming so loud and widespread that it may be heeded by even those members who showed their dislike of certain Republican nominees by taking the field openly against them. Uncle Bill Sawyer, the Hinton sage, is out in a long editorial, reprinted by the local Democratic paper, denouncing his party for supporting disfranchisement and branding Negro denomination as a myth. Let us hope that Uncle Bill's advice will be followed by his party. Nashville Negroes are said to have snorted, reared on their hind legs and pawed the air at the suggestion that they pay five dollars the plate for a banquet to Napier. If the prices for edibles which obtain hereabouts prevail down there, they must think a dutch lunch sufficient to start a man upon the duties of Register of the Treasury. Speaker Joe Cannon is said to be opposing the appointment of Lewis, not on account of color, but for personal reasons. If every Negro man who believed Lewis had incurred Uncle Joe's enmity should stand on his head, there would not be many black legs in the air. The Negro who urged a mob to lynch a white man, evidently allowed his desire for revenge to overcome his judgment. A negro woman sues a white millionairress for alienating the affections of her husband and wins by default. Will wonders never cease. Morrison Department Store gives valuable premiums in exchange for their bills. WINIFREDE Mrs. B. B. Allen has been confined to her bed the past week. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Alexander, G. W. Perkins, F. Adams, Jake Nelson and Eugene Shelton went to Charleston last week to attend the funeral of Mrs. C. H. Turner. Mrs. L. A. Dayig, W. N. Shelton were business visitors Lewiston Saturday. Miss Emma L. Meudows has been confined to her bed since Tuesday, suffering with a severe case of Diphtheria. A. C. Chapman went to Charleston on business Saturday. R. F. Allen spent a few days in Charleston the later part of the week-seeking medical aid for his injured eye. Mrs. A. C. Chappman has been confined to her bed the past two weeks. H. E. Harris, of Handley, and W. A. Britton, of Montgomery, spent Sunday here with friends. Children's 1-piece toy glass sets only 10 cents at O. J. Morrison Department Store Co. Mrs. Maud Rubberford and Mrs. Fanny Hatcher are quite il at St. Mary's hospital. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones entertained Tuesday evening in honor of her sister, Mrs. Emma Winston, of Wheeling. A large number of friends enjoyed the many amusements and the delicious repast served Mrs. Nellie Scott entertained several friends in honor of Mrs. W. T. Kenny and guest. The evening was delightfully spent. A number of friends gathered at the home of Mrs. M.-W. Grayson to join with Miss Nellie Peyton in celebrating her birthday. The presiding elder of the W. Va. Conference held the regular quarterly services at Pride Chapel Sunday. Dr. Thomas preached two excellent sermons. Excellent services were held throughout the day. Attorney Thos. Higgens has returned from his home where he was called by the death of his father. Dr J. L. Thomas lectured Tuesday night at Trinity M. E. church. A large number attended. Special prices on Ladies' Fur Hats at the O. J. Morrison Dept Store Co. Fur Hats, $1.48. PT. PLEASANT. Miss Hazel Williams, of Jackson, who has been spending some time here, the guest of her Aunt, Mrs. Chas. Johnson, left for her home Friday. Ladies Aid of M. E. Church met with Mrs. Mary Settles, Monday evening. Mrs. Joseph Jordan, spent Sunday in Gallipolis, visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas. Harris. She was accompanied home by her two little nieces, J. G. Patterson and John Davis attended the Senior Play at Institute Friday evening. Mrs. Sue Stevens, of Spillman, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roberts a few days of last week. Rev. Christian, of Middleport, O., has been made Pastor of the First Baptist Church here. He is a wide awake Christian gentleman and the church hopes to progress in every way under his guidance. John Davis and Mosella Closton, has raised $27.00 with which they will carpet the M. E. Church. Nothing will please better for a Christmas gift than one of the Suits or Overcoats at O. J. Morrison's Department Store. LITERARY NOTES. Price Collier recently returned to New York after a long absence, having spent about a year in India and the Far East, and then made a journey to South America. Mr. Collier's book, "England and the English from an American Point of View," opened to him the doors of the ruling class in India, and he has written for Scribner's Magazine a striking series of articles beginning in January on "The West in the East," particularly England's rule in India, and with special reference to America's own problems as a power in Eastern affairs. Henry van Dyke's story in the January Scribner has for its hero the Prodigal Son. Dr. van Dyke's journeys in the Holy Land have enabled him to give picturesqueness and reality to the background of his tale. Ernest Thompson Seton, if the January number of Scribner's Magazine, estimates the total number of caribou in the barren grounds at thirty millions. He finds that the number killed by Indians and Esquimaux is of no particular importance with reference to the natural increase of this great herd. Professor Henry Jones Ford, of Princeton, advances in the January Scribner the theory that a great deal of the political corruption in the United States has come from our adherence to the antiquated theory of "checks and balances" in the government—a theory which has long ago been discarded by statesmen of other countries. Protraits of the eminent marine artist, the late Winslow Homer, are very rare, but in the January Scribner will appear two excellent likenesses. The article, by Christian Brinton, also contains reproductions of many of Homer's notable paintings. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical tableau in the January Scribner introduces Mohammed as the hero. The experiments which have been made by many German cities in the line of "Unemployment Insurance" will be described in the January Scribner by Elmer Roberts. The whole drama of life is enacted in a modern sky-scraper as it would be in a town of four or five thousand inhabitants; indeed, the population of many of these buildings is equal to a town of considerable importance on the map. George Hobbard has chosen one of them as the subject for a remarkable short story in the January Scribner. The manners and customs of life in Maryland in the fifties are protrayed by F. Hopkinson Smith with the skill of a man born among them, in his serial, "Kennedy Square," now running in Scribner. He particularly shows the social relations of duelling, hard drinking, and club life in those days. The men who keep going throughout the winter the great telephone and telegraph lines across the Rocky Mountains are the heroes of an article in Scribner's Magazine for January, entitled 'The Trouble Hunters.' The author, Allen Tupper True, is an artist who has made many first-hand sketches to illustrate the story. Solida Gold Rings for babies, 18c; Solid Gold Rings for ladies, 98; Bracelets for children, 98c, 48c; Bracelets for ladies, $2.00, $1.50, 98c, at O. J. Morrison Department Store Co. RIOTER DIES OF WOUNDS. Received When Attacking Jail To Lynch Negro Prisoner. Columbus, Ga., Dec. 11—Irvin Kent, aged 22, a cotton mill operative, alleged to have been a member of the mob which last night stormed the Muscogee County jail to get Henry Taylor, a Negro prisoner charged with having committed criminal assault on a young white woman one night last week died today from a wound received during the attack last night. Owing to the fact that more than a hundred shots were fired by those defending the jail and the mob, it is uncertain whether Kent was wounded by one of the attacking party or by a shot fired from the jail. Several men were arrested today charged with rioting. Jailor Phhells was seriously injured, but it is expected that he will recover. AN OPPORTUNITY. 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Shirts, Soft, Plaited and Stiff----New stripes and figures 50C TO $2 Also An Excellent Assortment of Collar Cases, Cuff Buttons, Stick Pins and Silk Suspenders. 222 Capitol Street Open Evenings Married As Atlantic City—Mrs. James Page has announced the marriage of her sister, Miss Minnie Burk to Mr. Octave Smith at Atlantic City, N. J., this week. Miss Burk has a wide circle of friends in this city, where she resided till about two years ago, who will be agreeably surprised to hear of her marriage. Musons To Banquet—On Wednesday the 28th inst. Washington Lodge No. 6, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons will have their annual installation of officers and banquet celebrating the birth of St. John, the Evangelist. This function is usually one of the most enjoyable of the Yuletide and its coming is looked forward to with anticipations of great pleasure. Holiday Ball Planned.—Arrangements were set on foot yesterday for a Christmas week dance complimentary to the local and visiting ladies. Mrs. W. O. Terry is expecting to have house guests from Cincinnati and Mrs. J. M. Hazlewood from Washington, during the week, and others will be heard from later. If the affair is pulled off according to the plans mapped out, it will be the most brilliant of the season. Junius Harris Buried.—The remains of Junius Harris, a young man about twenty-four years of age, who died at the home of his sister on North Rand S. p., Thursday, were laid to rest in Spring Hill cemetery Sunday afternoon, after appropriate services at the Simpson M. E. church. Mr. Harris was a native of Lewisburg, this State, where he was highly esteemed. Being a member of the Masonic fraternity, the funeral services and burial were conducted by Washington Lodge No. 6, A. F. and A. M. Baptist Church Directory.—Pastor B. R., Reed of the First Baptist church is soliciting advertisements for a directory of his church in which will be given much information of interest to its readers. An entertaining feature will be cuts and biographical sketches of many of the leading business and professional men of the city. The directory will appear probably at an early date. Simpson Xmas Bazaar.—The membership of Simpson M. E. church is now busy completing arrangements for the Christmas bazaar which begins Monday, the 19th. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, who appeared several weeks ago before large audience here, will be the leading attraction for the opening night. Wednesday night the operetta "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" will be staged. An entertainment entit- GET A NEGRO DOLL Why Not Make Your Children Happy on Christmas Morning? The National Negro Doll Company of Nashville, Tennessee, is offering this year to the Christmas shoppers beautiful, well-made, dolls that fully represent the refined Twentieth Century Negro. They have had these dolls made up in large quantities to be disposed of at popular prices. Doll as it appears when dressed. If any person desires to see an illustrated catalogue with complete prices, send us 5c, and we will send this booklet ```markdown ``` Express Charges Paid on All Dolls Over $1.00 Send 5 Cts. at once 'for a Catalogue Doll as it looks when purchased Catalogue National Negro Doll @ R. H. BOYD, Pres. H. A. BOYD, Mgr. 519 Second Avenue, North, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. THE COAT Christmas Gifts For Men ROBES, LOUNGING ROBES, MILITARY SETS, CANES, UMBRELLAS, MUFFLERS, NECK AND HOSIERY SETS TO MATCH IN PURE SILK. led "The Merry Company will be the of feature for Friday night. The Hotel of Waiters' Association will attend the church in a body Xmas night and Collist to a sermon appropriate to M the occasion by Rev. Carroll. Advancing Temperance.—Mrs. Eliza Peterson, W. C. T. U. organizer, spoke at the morning service at Simpson M. E. church, Sunday and at the Sunday school services at the First Baptist church in the afternoon. Monday evening she held a mass meeting at the last named church which was largely attended and is thought to have been productive of much good. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. The Ladies Art club will meet with Mrs. S. A. Colbert, Morris St., January 3rd. Mrs. Ida Howard has arrived in the city from Chicago to spend the Holidays with her mother, Mrs. D. Knox, Court St. W. O. Terry left Tuesday morning for Cincinnati where he will spend a few days on business. Send for a set of chanticleer cluster puffs to Mrs. Brown, 500 Capitol St. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson have returned from Detroit, Mich., to spend the holidays. Mrs. H. Anderson and daughter have recovered from a severe cases of lagrippe. The Court of Calanthe will give a matinee and evening dance, Monday, December 26th, at the K. of P. Hall. Miss Grace Harris, of Institute, is in the city. J. E. Brown is confined to his room on Lewis St. Mrs. B. P. Brownley leaves Monday for Washington, D. C., to assist in the preparations for the marriage of her sister Nell which takes place on the 24th. William Smith, Jr., a student at the West Virginia Colored Institute, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Mattie Smith. A business meeting of the Friday night Aid Society of Simpson M. E. church will be held tomorrow night. Revival services will begin at Simpson M. E. church December 31, with the "watchmeeting." Miss Lillian Wright entertained a number of friends Wednesday evening at her home on Pledmont St. J. W. Holley, of Carbon, was a business visitor to the city the first of the week. Mrs. Lizzie Tyson, of Ward, was the guest of Mrs. Sara Williams, Monday. Miss Hazel Lucas will be hostess to the Art Club this week. Mrs. Sara Johnson was ill at her home on Washington Court a few days this week. H. B. Rice is confined to his home with la grippe. Miss Lillie Shelton and brother, The reduction on these garments tells the whole story of why you should come here at the Banner for the biggest snap that was ever offered in women's clothing. Coats For Women and Misses GENUINE SALTS SEAL PLUSH COATS, EASILY WORTH $50.00. NOW $35.00. BUY YOUR PRACTICAL XMAS OFFER IS STOCKED WITH MANY BE ING APPAREL THAT WILL IN BUYER, WE SAY TO PRACTIC Banner Is the Selling On Crec LET'S TALK SUI The Time is Now Ripe For That Detail is the Popular Expression or Overcoat. Prices Somew $10, $12 1-2, $ BOYS SUITS AND Durable and Stylish From $1.98 BANNE PRACTICAL XMAS OFFERINGS FOR BUYERS OUR STORE IS STOCKED WITH MANY BEAUTIFUL ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL THAT WILL INTEREST THE CHRISTMAS GIFT BUYER, WE SAY TO PRACTICAL BUYERS. LET'S TALK SUIT OR OVERCOAT The Time is Now Ripe For That Suit or Overcoat, Correct in Every Detail is the Popular Expression of Every Wearer of a Banner Suit or Overcoat. BANNER 24 CAPITOL ST. HAVE IT CHARGED. HAVE IT CHARGED. of Quinnimont passed through the city Friday enroute to Institute. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Whitlock, of Columbus, O., were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. James the first of the week. Miss Hattie Peters spent Sunday in Montgomery visiting relatives. Mrs. Hughes Meadows continues ill at her home on Bradford St. Dr. G. N. Marshall, of Keystone, was a business visitor to the city the first of the week. Mrs. R. B. Jennison entertained the Tribe of Reuben at her home of Washington St., Monday evening. Miss M. B. Jefferies left Wednesday evening for Washington. Miss Amy Hutchinson will leave Saturday for Homestead, Pa., to spend the holidays. Misses Nina Clinton and Estella Greene will spend the holidays at their homes in Zanesville, O. The Improvement League will meet with Miss Blanche Jefferies, Lewis St. Jan. 6. Miss Rhoda Wilson will spend the Holidays with her parents in St. Albans. Clay Meadows, of Institute, was in the city Wednesday. Miss Hattie Peters will leave Sat. for her home at Sissonsville to spend the holidays. Buying goods for less than their value, selling them for less than their worth, is what Morrison's Department Store does. Had Served the Master Over Forty Years in The M. E. Church. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 14—The funeral of Aaron Mossell, who died several days ago at the residence of his son, Rev. Dr. C. W. Mossell, was held today at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. The deceased was 87 years of age. Besides Rev. Mossell, he is survived by three other children. They are Dr. Nathan F. Mossell, of the Frederick Douglass Hospital Philadelphia; A. A. Mossell, a mining engineer in Great Britain, and Mrs. Mary E. Denny. His wife, Mrs. Mary Ella Mossell, also survives. The funeral of Rev. W. H. Draper, who died Sunday night following a stroke of paralysis, was held this afternoon at the Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church. The deceased minister was a member of the Washington Conference of the M. E. Church for over 40 years. A platform meeting in the interest of Morgan College, this city, was held at the Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church Monday. The college is supported by the Washington and Delaware Conferences of the M. E. Church and the meeting here was attended by many of the ministers in the two conferences. Addresses --- CHILDREN'S FUR CARACAL COAT, REGULAR $ 0 TO $10 VALUE. NOW $4.95. FURS HERE RINGS FOR BUYERS OUR STORE BETTLEFUL ARTICLES OF WEAR- TEREST THE CHRISTMAS GIFT AL BUYERS. The Only Store dit At Cash Store Prices IT OR OVERCOAT Suit or Overcoat, Correct in Every of Every Wearer of a Banner Suit what Reduced 15, $18, $20, $25 OVERCOATS. to $10.00. 24 CAPITOL ST. urging that the ministers raise the necessary amounts to secure a gift of $50,000 from Andrew Carnegie were delivered by Bishop W. F. Anderson, President J. O. Spencer, Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes and others. The easiest place to find it is at the O. J. Morrison Department Store. They sell everything. ANOTHER SAVINGS BANK This one will be Operated by Mary- Land Negroes at Salisbury. Salisbury, Md., Dec. 14. A savings bank has been organized here and will open for business shortly. The bank will have a capital stock of $10,000, and will be known as the Houston Savings Bank, taking its name from Solomon T. Houston, one of the leading spirits in its formation and for years a leading resident of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Others prominently interested in the project include Melvin J. Chisum, of Hare Valley, Va.; Rev. R. C. Waters and Rev. Dr. P. O. Connell, both of this city. From the crowds at O. J. Morrison's Department Store it shows that the people appreciate low prices. WILL SUPPORT ORDER. Montgomery, Dec. 3—A special meeting of the officers of Montgomery division, Grand United order of True Reformers was held here today The meeting was called by the Grand Worthy Master, A. W. Holmes, for the purpose of placing before this division the condition of affairs as they now exist in the Grand Fountain, also for instructing the officers as to their duty in assisting the or- PATI Prize Offers from L Book on patents. "Hints to "Why some inventors fail" Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed." "Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge of the U. S. Patent Office. GREELEY & McINTIRE PATENT ATTORNEYS WASHINGTON, D. C. CTION Christmas Gifts For Women TOILET SETS, SCARFS, MUFFLERS, SILVER MESH AND VELVET HAND BAGS, LEATHER BAGS, CAPES, SWEATERS, e organization in its vast undertaking. An appeal was read from the Grand Fountain by State Deputy L. D. Hodge, Immediately after the reading the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, we have received an appeal from Grand Worthy. Master Holmes setting forth the necessity of each member, giving his moral and financial support to maintain the former standing of the institution. Therefore be it resolved that we the Montgomery division representing 500 loyal members do hereby pledge ourselves to stand by the organization and to put forth every effort within our power for the success of the order. Be it further resolved that every member of this division pay the $1. assessment at once and that the representatives here assembled do hereby pledge themselves to loan the Grand Fountain not less than $5.00 each and to urge the members of his respective fountain to do the same. Respectfully submitted. J. M. Ellis S. M. Marks J. V. Coleman Geo. N. Nichols R. Q. Hill S. H. Clay C. E. Mickens Geo. W. Winston See Meetings of a similar nature are being held all over the country and like resolutions are being adopted. The indications are that the troubles of this organization are fast approaching the end. The Board of Charities has asked for a $50,000 building for the accommodation of the colored feeble-minded children of the District. Prof. George William Cook, secretary of Howard University, is a member of this Board. A bill carrying this appropriation once passed the Senate, but was held up in the House. ENTS Leading Manufacturers no inventors." "Inventions needed." Send rough sketch or model for ds. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly nts, and as such had full charge of OPENING OF WEST VIRGINIA'S FINEST MARKET HOUSE COMPARATIVELY FEW CITIES IN THE COUNTRY CAN BOAST A MEAT MARKET WHICH REGULATES THE TEMPERATURE AS DESIRED IN EVERY PART BY PRECISELY THE SAME METHOD BY WHICH ICE IS MADE AT A FACTORY. BY THE OLD METHOD OF REDUCING THE TEMPERATURE, BY APPLYING A PIECE OF ICE, A MARKET COULD BE MADE COOL IN SPOTS ONLY, AS IN THE REFRIGERATOR ROOM. BY THE NEW METHOD OF REDUCING THE TEMPERATURE BY A COMPLETE REFRIGERATION SYSTEM. WE CAN REGULATE THE DEGREE OF HEAT OR COLD UP OR DOWN FROM FREEZING TEMPERATURE JUST AS WE PLEASE IN ANY PART OF THE MARKET THAT CAN BE REACHED BY A METAL PIPE. WHAT THAT MEANS TO YOU THAT MEANS THAT NOT ONLY THE PRODUCTS KEPT IN OUR COLD STORAGE ROOM WILL BE AT A SANITARY DEGREE OF COLD, BUT THAT THE PRODUCTS SHOWN IN OUR WINDOW, THE PRODUCTS IN OUR INSIDE DISPLAY CASE, AND EVEN THE PRODUCTS ON OUR COUNTER, ARE ALL KEPT, ALL THE TIME, AT SUCH A TEMPERATURE AS TO BE FREE FROM INFECTION. TOUCH THE PIPES SURGROUNDING OUR COUNTER AND YOU WILL REALIZE WHAT OUR REFRIGERATION PLANT MEANS TO YOU, OR, BETTER STILL, LET US SHOW YOU OVER THE PLANT AND EXPLAIN FULLY ITS WORKINGS. WE WILL TAKE PLEASURE IN DOING SO. HOLZ BROTHERS MEATS, FISH, OYSTERS AND GAME SUPPLIES 713 VIRGINIA STREET 10 RECYCLING STAMP FINEST COMPARATIVELY FEW CITIES LATES THE TEMPERATURE AS BY WHICH ICE IS MADE AT A BY THE OLD METHOD OF A MARKET COULD BE MADE ON BY THE NEW METHOD OF TION SYSTEM, WE CAN REGULATING TEMPERATURE JUST AS WED BY A METAL PIPE. WHAT THAT MEANS THAT NOT ONLY AT A SANITARY DEGREE OF CO PRODUCTS IN OUR INSIDE DISHE ALL KEPT, ALL THE TIME, AT TOUCH THE PIPES SURGFRIGERATION PLANT MEANS T AND EXPLAIN FULLY ITS WOR WE GIVE WE SELL WE MAKE OUR PRICES OURMETHODS WE WANT YOUR TRADE. HOLZ MEATS, FISH 713 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Nation's Capital DELAWARE CLUB BANQUETS NE GROES PROMINENT IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS. Tanner's Exhibit At Cocoran Art Gallery Expected to be Well Attended by Washington's Elite. Mrs. Washington Cheers Y. M. C. A. Census Office Employees Being Dropped. Washington, D. C., Dec. 15.—One of the most enjoyable banquets given at the capital in a long time was that tendered by the Delaware Club on Saturday night at Herbert's Odd Fellows' Hall Cafe in honor of Charles H. Colburn, of Wilmington, with W. H. O. Enuis, of Delaware City, and Thomas S. Anderson, of Wilmington, as co-guests of honor. Covers were laid for twenty-five and the menu was toothsome and abounded in everything calculated to tickle the palate of the lover of good things. Mr. Maurice Spencer was toastmaster and his effervescent wif added much zest to the occasion. Mr. Coburn is the acknowledged leader Sperry & Hutchinson Green Trading Stamps LIKE EVERY OTHER RETAILER, WE APPRECIATE CASH TRADE, AND WE KNOW NO BETTER WAY OF SHOWING OUR APPRECIATION THAN BY OFFERING THE GREEN STAMPS, THE VALUE OF WHICH IS SO WELL RECOGNIZED WHEREVER THEY ARE KNOWN. OF EVERY KIND, EVERY PIECE OF WHICH, BOTH ON FOOT AND AT THE ABBATOIR, HAS PASSED THE MOST RIGID INSPECTION AND HAS BEEN HANDLED IN THE MOST SANITARY MANNER. Fish and Game THAT HAS BEEN PROTECTED DURING SHIPMENT BY THE MOST PERFECT MODERN METHODS OF REFRIGERATION. Supplies, Including Vegetables, in Season, Butter, Eggs. AND MANY PICKLED, CANNED AND BOTTLED PRODUCTS WE WOULD KEEP A BETTER BRAND IF WE COULD, BUT THERE IS NO BETTER MADE. WE MIGHT KEEP SECOND OR THIRD RATE PRODUCTS, WHICH WE COULD OFFER AT A Few CENTS LESS PER POUND, BUT WE PREFER TO GIVE YOU THE BEST AT A REASONABLE PRICE. OUR LIST OF REGULAR PATRONS INCLUDES THE NAMES OF THE MOST CAREFUL BUYERS OF CHARLESTON AND THE KANAWHA VALLEY. WE ARE PROUD OF THE PATRONAGE OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO Know What They Buy and What They Pay For It WE FIND IT EASIEST TO SATISFY SUCH CUSTOMERS. THE LABORING MAN'S SILVER IS, COMPARATIVELY, JUST AS VALUABLE TO US AS THE RICH MAN'S GOLD. Uniform Price and Uniform Courtesy DEFINES OUR POLICY. A CHILD'S ORDER RECEIVES EVEN MORE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION THANTHAT OF A PERSON OF MATURE YEARS AND JUDGMENT. Specialty of Star Ham and Bacon WE WOULD KEEP A BETTER BRAND IS NO BETTER MADE. WE MIGHT KNOW PRODUCTS, WHICH WE COULD OFFER POUND, BUT WE PREFER TO GIVE YOU AABLE PRICE. OUR LIST OF REGULAR PATRONS INC. MOST CAREFUL BUYERS OF CHARLES VALLEY. WE ARE PROUD OF THE PATEN WHO Know What They Buy and What They WE FIND IT EASIEST TO SATISFY SU THE LABORING MAN'S SELVER IS, COUABLE TO US AS THE RICH MAN'S GAME. Uniform Price and Uniform Courtese DEFINES OUR POLICY. A CHILD'S OWNER CAREFUL CONSIDERATION THANTHA YEARS AND JUDGMENT. OUR ONLY METHOD OF SECURING IT GIVE US A TRIAL Z BROTH, FISH, OYSTERS AND GAMES VIRGINIA STRE of the colored Republicans of the "Blue Hen State," and has long been a member of the State Central Committee, enjoying the fullest confidence of Senator DuPont, Congressman Heald and all of the party managers of both races. He is a prominent business man at Wilmington and has a regular contract with the city government, which he satisfactorily carries out. Under Mr. Colburn's leadership the Negro vote in Delaware was kept intact at the November election, and thus saved to the Republicans a legislature that will return Senator Dupont and avert the danger of laws disfranchising and jimcrowning the colored citizens of the State. Mr. Colburn's speech at the dinner was a "thriller," and from it the wayfaring man had no difficulty in realizing why he is so loyally supported and followed so trustingly by such a large and intelligent concourse of citizens. The addresses of Mr. Ennis and Mr. Anderson were likewise productive of great enthusiasm, as was also the broad-gauged and illuminating speech of Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia. Others who responded to toasts were Samuel T. Henry, a leader in Delaware affairs; Lawyer Elwood G. Hubert, president of the Delaware Club; Archibald Runner, treasurer; Harvey A. Murray, assistant secretary; and James Dutton, of the Capitol. While here Messrs. Colburn, Ennis and Anderson were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Henry, of Le Droit Park The Delaware Club has been greatly strengthened and unified by the visit of this trio of leaders "from home." UNITED STATES OF AMERICA POSTAL CODE 10 ENTITY HUMANITIES 10 YEAR LIFETIME STAMP 10 YEAR LIFETIME STAMP MRS. WASHINGTON CHEERS THE Y. M. C. A. Mrs. Booker T. Washington gave a most cheering message on Sunday afternoon to the Young Women's Christian Association at its new home, 429 T street, N. W. The wife of the Tuskegee "Wizard," no less eloquently than is true of her lord, took the view that the salvation of the Negro depends primarily upon his ability to adapt himself to conditions about him and to seek elevation through the gradual processes that grow out of good citizenship, professional competency and industrial efficiency. She believed that the most enduring features of the race's present remarkable development have come about through a more general acceptance of the leadership of those who have preached less of politics and more of industry, character and common sense. The work that is being done for the advancement of women at Tuskegee Institute was dwelt upon at length and the ready employment for emphasizing this training there. An informal reception followed Mrs. Washington's practical talk. The Y. W. C. A. is growing and the ladies are anxious to have their gentlemen friends drop in and see what they are doing. NEWS NOTES. It is expected that the names of William H. Lewis and Charles A. Cottrill will go to the Senate during the coming week. The confirmation of Whitefield McKinley is among the early matters to be disposed of by the Senate. Hon. J. C. Napier is in the city, and old friends are extend- ing slucere congratulations. His Nashville admirers are to give him a rousing "send-off" on the eve of his departure, to become Reglster of the Treasury. A delegation of leading Kentucky Republicans is said to be headed this way. It is expected that the names of Albert S. White, Dr. E. E. Underwood and Editor W. H. Steward will be mentioned in the presence of an eminent Ohioan who presides over things at the White House. Prof. Kelly Miller will be the speaker at the Y. M. C. A.'s Sunday meeting for men, December 18. On Christmas Day special services will be held in the main auditorium of 'True Reformers' Hall, and a number of well-known divines will take part. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Girls at Lincoln Heights, is expected "home" for the Christmas holidays. She is getting things in line for the erection of that $50,000 building at her school. The school question shows no signs of awakening for the present, as far as the colored superintendency is concerned. The whites are much exercised over the report made to the President that the schools of Washington are more expensively administered than those of other cities of similar size in the country, but, if that is true, there are reasons which will appeal to the people who know the peculiar conditions which exist here, and the excitement is likely to be shortlived. It is admitted that the maintenance of a dual system of white and colored schools adds to the cost, but the color line is evidently here to stay, and if the citizens insist upon it, they will have to pay the price. The re-election of Superintendent A. T. Stuart practically assures the retention of Roscoe Conkling Bruce as the head of the colored schools. The Athletic League in the colored schools is "booming" under the energetic direction of E. B. Henderson, who has charge of the physical culture work of the boys. George W. Hamilton, until recently manager of Ford Dabney's Theatre, died at Freedmen's Hospital last Saturday, after a brief illness. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at J. H. Winslow's Chapel. The local members of the profession turned out in a body and presented a handsome floral offering. Mr. Hamilton was an exemplary young man and there is universal regret over his untimely taking off at the threshold of a brilliant career. He leaves a mother and sister and a host of friends. By order of the Navy Department, the cruiser Des Moines, now at Gibraltar, will proceed to Monrovia to investigate political conditions in the African Republic, preliminary to returning to the Boston Navy Yard. The Des Moines was in Liberian waters not long ago, and was sent to Gibraltar for a change of air. A report comes from Liberia that Lieut. B. O. Davis, the United States military attache, is making gratifying progress in the organization of a Liberian Constabulary, and that such a force will prove very helpful in preserving order within the republic and in repelling foreign invasions when necessary. J. Ellis Barker, of London, England, is in the city, and is making a close examination of educational, sociological, and industrial conditions, with a view of incorporating his findings in a comprehensive report for the instruction and guidance of the people of Great Britain and the world. He has been in several southern states and has given the race problem considerable study. Mr. Barker's address before the Mu-So-Lit Club last Friday evening indicates that he is anxious to secure a clear understanding of the relations existing between the whites and blacks, and admits that he has been agreeably surprised to discover that the Negroes of this country are not the half-savages that so many misinformed foreigners conceive them to be, from the fallacious stories printed in the bourbon newspapers of America. He possesses political WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT? Ten year Combinaion Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by he American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington. D.C., one of ahe mot liberal, srongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For further pariculars see D. E.V. JORDAN, GEN. AGENT FOR W. VA Office: Room 2, K. P. Building. CHARLESTON, W. VA. 9-8-4t. ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY? OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a trunk or hiding it some where about your house—You Are Working for Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent, interest — Your Money is Working For You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend or six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or 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 INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION L. O. WILSON, PRESIDENT WESTON, W. VA. influence across the water of no small proportions, and his report will no doubt be of great value in opening the eyes and generating a warmer friendship for the race in quarters where such interest may be valuable. Though identified with the economic and literary life of England, Mr. Barker is a native of Germany. The mother of Rev. John Hurst, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Church, is dead, having passed away at Port-au-Prince a few days ago. The deceased was the daughter of the late John Gordon, of Philadelphia, and was seventy-six years of age. Mrs. Hurst had recently returned to Haiti, after a visit of nearly a year to her son, between whom there had existed the deepest attachment. She was active in religious work and was beloved by all classes of Haitians. The sympathy of the entire country goes out to Hurst in his hour of sad bereavement. L. W. Easley, manager of the Hiawatha Theater, surprised his friends last week by dropping over to Baltimore and getting married to one of the society belles of the Monumental City. The happy couple are spending their honeymoon in Boston, and will be at home in a short time on 12th street, between S and T streets. Charles H. Stewart, of Indianapolis, Ind., has resigned his position as clerk in the Census Bureau, and will probably return to the Hoosier capital to resume his newspaper work. For a number of years Mr. Stewart was advertising manager on the Indianapolis Freeman, and has been active in the political affairs of his state and county. Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, has inaugurated a series of literary conversaciones at her beautiful home, 1944 9th street, northwest. At Mrs. Clifford's latest assembly, Prof. E. E. Just, of Howard University, led the conversation on "Robert Louis Stevenson," the popular English author. At the risk of trespassing upon the realm of the advertising manager, it is but fair to say that the display of holiday photographs now being made by Addison N. Scurlock, at 12th and T streets, and by Daniel Freeman, at 1833 14th street, are the finest specimens of the art that have been seen anywhere members of the race have invaded this splendid field. Both have been trained in the best schools of photography and have had ample experience. It is a pleasure to note that these favorite artists are being strongly supported by the best people of the capital and by the many visitors who come this way. Ford Dabney's very meritorious bill this week includes Susie Sutton and Leona Marshall, charming soubrettes, and Lewis A. Mitchell, the versatile impersonator and grotesque dancer. Erb Robinson is holding things down admirably on the managerial end. Mrs. H. O. Tanner has made all of the necessary arrangements for the exhibition in the Concoran Gallery of Art of a collection of fine Enoch Smith, President. Edward W. Brightwell, Cashier. TAL CITY CAPITAL CITY BANK Charleston, W. Va. CAPITAL STOCK, $250,000.00. We solicit the accounts of firms attention to out of town deposito on savings accounts and invite c view in regard to opening an acc Accounts with this bank can b der, Express Money Order or Re same careful attention as if atten GO I. E. N. FOR ICE CREAM THAT T Either Plain Special Pr 20 Capitol Street. the accounts of firms and individuals in the town depositors. We pay three accounts and invite correspondence or to opening an account. In this bank can be opened by Post Money Order or Registered Mail, and attention as if attended to in person GO TO E. NICHOL FOR THE FAM THAT TASTES I her Plain or in Br al Prices street. We solicit the accounts of firms and individuals and give special attention to out of town depositors. We pay three percent interest on savings accounts and invite correspondence or personal interview in regard to opening an account. Accounts with this bank can be opened by Post Office Money Order, Express Money Order or Registered Mail, and will have the same careful attention as if attended to in person. GO TO I. E. NICHOLS FOR THE ICE CREAM THAT TASTES LIKE MORE Either Plain or in Brick Special Prices To Churches and Dealers 20 Capitol Street. Both Phone paintings, the work of her distinguished and talented husband. Mr. Tanner is the son of Bishop B. T. Tanner, of the A. M. E. Church, and for many years has made his home in Paris, France. Several of his masterpieces have been honored with a place in the French Academy of Fine Arts and have attracted international attention. It is said that the Corcoran Gallery has secured this exhibition after years of effort. It is expected that the art-loving colored people of Washington will turn out en masse to view Mr. Tanner's work. Last week that illustrious son of Kentucky and the most beloved of jurists, Justice John Marshall Harlan, of the Supreme Court, celebrated the close of thirty-three years of service on that bench. Justice Harlan donned the ornine of the highest tribunal in the land December 10, 1877, at the age of 44 years. He is past seventy-seven now, but is hale and hearty, and seems good for several more years of active service. His decisions have always been on the human side of the great questions affecting the Negro, and his independence of the narrow view of the American people on the civic WORKING FOR MONEY WORK NG FOR MON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1910. CITY BANK and individuals and give special services. We pay three percent interest correspondence or personal inter- count. We opened by Post Office Money Or- gistered Mail, and will have the ended to in person. TO ICHOLS THE TASTES LIKE MORE or in Brick ices To Churches and Dealers equality of the race was strikingly shown in his ringing dissent from the majority of the Court when the Sumner Civil Rights Law was declared to be unconstitutional outside of federal territory, and hence not binding upon the States. General regret is expressed by the colored people throughout the country that President Taft could not see his way to elevate Justice Harlan, the senior member of the Court, to the post of Chief Justice. The axe is being used vigorously at the Census Office, and from now on there will be periodical dismissals, as the work along certain lines is being completed. Many of the clerks have come from a distance to accept these temporary places, but as it was understood that the tenure was to be brief, it is probable that they have been frugal with their earnings and will go home better off than they came. That is—we hope so. The race is fairly represented on the roster of the office, and the colored employees have taken rank with the most efficient in every division. R MONEY? { L. M. LaFollette J. C. Morrison Both Phone R. W. THOMPSON