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THE ADVOCA- WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME X. Opposition toWm.Lewis AND RECOGNITION OF DEMOCRATS BY REPUBLICANS ALARM NEGROES. Restlessness Grows Among Tennessee Negroes And The Effect May be Felt By The Grand Old Party in 1912. Unless Steps are Taken to Check The Disaffection. (Special to The Advocate.) Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 20—The colored voters of Tennessee are in a state of anxiety as a result of the report that there is opposition on the part of some leaders of the republican party to the appointment of W H. Lewis as assistant attorney general. Added to the recent appointments of Edward D. White of Louisiana to be Chief Justice and Buckner Lamar of Georgia to be an Associate Justice, the suggestion of opposition to Lewis has caused the Negroes to do some sober thinking about their relation to the Republican Party. Laboring under the supposition that politicians know what they want and usually buy, sell or trade to satisfy their desire and believing Mr. Taft to be pretty good sort of politician, the colored people who keep in touch with the political drift, are wondering what the President hopes to get out of the trades he is now making with the Southern people. Many are of the opinion that the future is not very hopeful one. They base their conclusion on the recent landslide in favor of Democracy and the seeming disposition of the Administration at Washington to turn the Judicial Branch of the Government over. to the Ex-Confederates of the Democratic Party. Everybody knows how long the South has been kept out of what she calls "her rights". For a long period of years, the South has had no voice in the Executive and Judicial branches of the Government. The battle-scarred warriors of the sixties have been training the new generation of the South to take these points of vantage and everything would go just right. They have succeeded pretty well thus far, and if they continue on their road of success, some people south of the Mason and Dixon line are going to be in pretty close quarters when delicate questions of law involving human liberty, have to be decided. According to the thought of Tennessee people, President Taft is playing a deep game of politics unlikely to bring the results he expects. His appointments may have all been made from patriotic motives and there is a slight disposition hereabouts to give him the benefit of the doubt, but the colored voters here are not yet quite satisfied that there is any patriotism in the Lily White plan of the administration. Taft cannot make good Republicans of Southern Democrats by giving them the choice plums of the administration and he cannot make better Republicans of those who are already in the party, by such a plan. The Southern man will never be a Republican as long as the party gives any consideration whatsoever to the colored people of the nation. That is certain for the sentiment of the white people of the South is as deep and as positive as death is sure. If the Republicans want the Southern Democrats in the Republican Party they must get rid of the black man. Is that the plan? That is the question confronting the colored people who have the right to vote. They have been gradually "dumping" our men at every opportunity and the Negro in the South is now holding on 'by the skin of his teeth. How long he will be able to hold on it seems depends upon the continuance of the present policy of the Republican Party. Some things are certain The colored people are unwilling to have the sphere of their opportunities limited to the few juicy plums located in Washington. Here in the South the policy of Mr. Taft to appoint colored men only where colored men are wanted does not find favor with the Negroes. Wherever a black man pays taxes and has the right of suffrage, he feels that he ought to have the privilege of holding federal office. If it is denied him for any such reason as has been given by friends of the administration then the affairs of the nation are not being administered fairly and in the interest of all men. The Negroes of this country cannot afford to compromise their liberty and right of participation in the affairs of the government in order to soothe the casly ruffled spirit of THE ADVOCATE. any class of people who make color their chief stock in trade in advancing their political welfare. Ballots rule the country, not color prejudice. Any plan which has for its object the satisfying of the unnatural harted of a man of one color for a people of another color should never receive the indorsement of the colored voters of the land. If the signs of the times are right, the Negro voters of the entire country should do what the colored people of Tennessee are preparing to do on a larger scale than in the last election. They had better vote their own convictions regardless of the past and throw party affiliations to the everlasting winds. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Of All Friends of the Negro Is Proposed By Washington. Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 19—Booker T. Washington, head of the industrial school for Negroes here, has just issued invitations for an international conference to be held at Tuskegee of all persons in America and Europe interested in the education and improvement of the Negro race. It is planned to hold the conference in January, 1912, and to bring together not only students of colonial and racial questions, but missionaries, teachers and Government officials, who are actually engaged in the work of aiding the Negro. The purpose of the conference will be to gain from those in attendance clear and definite ideas of the actual problems involved in the redemption of the Negro and to enable those engaged in similar work in Africa to see for themselves and profit by the methods employed at Tuskegee. It is stated that Prof. Washington is being aided in this movement by prominent educational leaders in this country, and that the proposed conference may result in a permanent organization of the "Friends of Africa." Harper Given Bulk of Estate MARY DICKERSON, WHO DIED IN NORTH CAROLINA, - SAID TO HAVE LEFT LARGE SUM TO ATTORNEY. Asheville, N. C., Dec. 17.—Mrs. Mary Dickerson of Keystone, W. Va. said to be the wealthiest colored woman in that state, died here to ay of asthma and other complications. Mrs. Dickerson was brought here by her physician, Dr. G. N. Marsh, and attorney, E. H. Harper, and seemed to be in no immediate danger, but the trip and change of climate brought on a relapse from which she did not rally. In compliance with the request of the decedent that she be buried neither in this, the state of her birth, nor in West Virginia, Mr. Harper took the remains to Tazewell, Va. his home, where they were interred in the family cemetery. Mrs. Dickerson is survived by a mother and two sisters, but it is understood that the bulk of her estate goes to Harper. Democrats Name Negro Candidates VIE WITH REPUBLICANS AND PRAY COURT TO COMPEL CITY COUNCIL TO GRANT THEM ELECTION COMMISSIONERS. R. R. Cheeks, of Kimball, was associate counsel for the respondents in the mandamus proceedings brought before the Supreme Court of Appeals by the Citiens' party of Kimball to compel the city council to grant them commissioners in the municipal election to be held January 5th. The fight for the political control of Kimball is a peculiar one in that on both the Republican and Citizens' (Negroes and Democrats) tickets are two Negro candidates for city council. The Citizens' nominees are Will Barnes and Emmett L. Pollard, J. E. Ross and L. C. Valentine were nominated by the Republicans. Since about two-thirds of the registered voters of Kimball are Negroes, the effort of the Democrats to form an alliance with them is regarded as a shrewd move and in keeping with the announcement of some of the leaders that the Democrats will make a bid for Negro votes. Chicago, Dec. 21. President Judson, of the University of Chicago, today made public a letter from John D. Rockefeller in which the latter made suggestions as to how his last donation of $10,000,000 to the university should be spent. Religious instruction is the chief of the university life phases the donor provides for. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 22. 1910 Racial Progress WELL ILLUSTRATED BY NEGRO EXHIBIT AT APPALACHIAN EXPOSITION Other Examples Reported by The National Negro Business League Show Remarkable Development Along Many Lines of Endeavor North as Well as South. Cambridge, Maryland, has thirty thrifty colored business men. J. H. Slocum, an extensive oyster packer is one of the most prominent. Mrs. Maggie Hart is a successful milliner of St. Paul, Minnesota. She has recently opened business there with a full line of millinery goods. Work on the hundred thousand dollar Y. M. C. A. building at Washington, D. C., has been resumed and the structure is to be pushed to completion. A recent report of the Adjutant General of the Army pays a high tribute to the reliability of the colored soldier. His report shows that from two and one-half to three times as many white soldiers desert as colored soldiers. The desertion rate of our colored troops compares favorably with the low rate of the British army. Claude Jackson and Adrian Cotton are successful photographers as St. Paul, Minnesota. They have recently bought out the photograph gallery of George Tise, on East Sixth Street in that city and have fitted up the studio so as to do all kinds of photographic work. They have the contract to do the photographing for the St. Paul Police Department. The People's Co-operation Building and Loan Association was recently established in Washington, D.C. with main offices at 609 F. Street N. W. The officers of the Association are, J. Lewis Taylor, president; George W. Felton, first vice-president; W. F. Foreman, second vice-president; J. A. Davis, secretary and treasurer. The main work of the Association is to aid the people in securing homes. Governor Hadey of Missouri has recently appointed an important Tuberculosis Commission. The object of the Commission is to find out just what the sanitary conditions are among the Negroes. The Commissioners are Dr. T. W. Coston, Jefferson City; Dr. J. E. Perry, Kansas City; Dr. W. S. Carrion, St. Joseph; C. P. Covington, Louisiana; Mrs. Nevada Kenner and Dr. George S. Jackson of St. Louis. They are raising some extraordinary hogs in North Carolina. A recent item from the town of Bahama in that state says that Frank Copeland, a worthy Negro of that place killed a hog which after it was dressed tipped the scales at six hundred and forty pounds and a small one that when dressed weighed one hundred and ninety-eight pounds. Mr. Copeland is not troubled about the high price of meat or whether or not the Chicago packers are going to quit business. Henry A. Loveless of Montgomery Alabama, is one of the most successful undertakers in the state. By his efficiency and reliability he has built up an enviable repuffation in Montgomery. He carries an up-to-date line of goods. His fine pair of gray Hearse horses won first prize at the recent State Fair in that state. The Wage Earners' Loan and Investment Company of Savannah, Georgia, the first Negro Savings Bank opened in Georgia is one of the successful banking institutions of that state. The officers of the bank are, L. E. Williams, president; W. R. Fields, vice-president, and Walter S. Scott, secretary and treasurer. The growth of the bank is well illustrated by the following statement of the assets at the end of each fiscal year since the institution was established: 1900 Commenced business $ 102.00 1901 1,144.00 1902 2,462.03 1903 11,637.37 1904 14,587.63 1905 20,897.28 1906 35,749.51 1907 67,966.90 1908 70,553.58 1909 78,085.54 1910 102,874.88 The remarkable progress of the race was well illustrated by the Negro Exhibit at the Applachian Exposition which was recently held at Knoxville, Tennessee. The Atlanta Constitution said, "If asked what was the best feature of the Applachian Exposition it was rather difficult to answer for there were many exhibits of excellent quality. If, however, the question was asked which exhibit most fully exploited the phase of progress in the Applachian Exposition it would be salute that no phase more fully illustrated this than the Negro Building and the exhibits therein. "The Applachian Exposition was an adequate expression of what the well-to-do Negro in the South is doing to establish the standards of the race. The first and primary standard, the building of the home." There was a series of photographs of Negro homes which covered a wall twenty feet across and seven feet high. The pictures showed not only the size and proportion of the home, but that there was comfort within. The Atlanta Constitution continuing its comment said, "In the front of these homes were flower gardens and to the side and to the rear were glimpses of vegetable gardens. The pavements without indicated that the houses were in a part of the city coming under civic consideration and there were groups of these Houses together which indicated that there were growing communities of such homes. These homes in nearly every case were owned by the people residing in them." A Negro photographer took the pictures, the houses were built by Negro architects, builders and labors and the walls of the homes were adorned with photographs of Negroes of note. These homes are an indication of what the progressive Negroes everywhere are doing for the upbuildings of the communities in which they live. Emancipation Celebration OF MONSTER PROPORTIONS TO BE A HOLIDAY EVENT IN BALTIMORE. TWO PROMINENT WOMEN DIE. Baltimore, Dec. 21—A monster celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the emancipation proclamation will be held at John Wesley M. E. Church the first Monday night in January. The arrangements for the celebration are in charge of Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon and a committee of prominent citizens. Miss Mary E. Waller and Mr. Harry O. Wilson were married at the home of the bride's parents last Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by the bride's fatner, Rev. Dr. G. R. Waller. The groom is president of the Mutual Benefit Society. Rev, Dr. I. L. Thomas, field secretary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is spending two weeks with his family. Rev, Dr. W. A. Credit, pastor of the Cherry Memorial Baptist church Philadelphia, was in the city Sunday to attend the funeral of a niece Miss Mary E. Creditt. FIGHT NIGHT-RIDER BAND. Two Men Killed and Five Wounded In a Battle on a Georgia Plantation Barnesville, Ga., Dec. 15—A reign of terror exists among the Negroes in the Milner district of Pike County, due to whippings of Negroes by masked night riders, which have been in progress for three weeks. At least 30 Negroes have been whipped, and the blacks have at last organized for defense. As a result, when night riders went to the home of Ed Atwater, a Negro, at 3 o'clock this morning, they were confronted by a number of armed Negroes. A battle ensued in which Atwater was killed, and also one of the night riders, whose identity is being concealed. Three Negroes and two night riders were also wounded. The situation is regarded as critical, and J. D. Woodall, one of the largest planters in Georgia, has appealed to the Governor for troops to keep the peace. Woodall employs many Negroes, and he says night riders have paid particular attention to his tenants. Feeling against Woodall is bitter among the whites, as they charge that Woodall encourages the Negroes to act badly. NEGRO ACADEMY TO MEET. Washington, D. C., Dec. 21—The fourteenth annual meeting of the American Negro Academy will be held Friday evening of next week at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church. The session this year will be devoted to exercises commemorative of the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Sumner. Among those on the program are Archibald H. Grimke, president of the academy; Prof. Kelly Miller and Justice Wendell Philip Stafford. To Test Legality Of Ordinance Negro Newspaper Will Move Into Prohibited District Segregation Law IS UPHELD BY CITY SOLICITOR WHO. IN LENGTH OPINION, ATTEMPTS TO SHOW THAT NECESSITY EXIST FOR CONFINING NEGROES TO CERTAIN SECTIONS. Measure Distasteful To Negroes And They Lay Plans to Tests Its Validity And Thwart the Prejudice of the Poor Whites Who Are Envious of The Nice Homes Owned by Colored People. (Franklin F. Johnson) Baltimore, Md., Dec. 21.—The West Ordinance, the design of which is to segregate the colored people to districts, almost wholly occupied by them, has become a law. The ordinance was passed by the city council two weeks ago, after Councilman Harry S. Cummings had made a passionate plea against its enactment. Only a few days ago John H. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American Ledger, John Rich, Edward Lansey, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes and others, called on Mayor Mahool and urged him to veto the measure. City Solfector Poe in an elaborate opinion Saturday declared the measure to be legal. The measure is decidedly distasteful to the colored people of this city and was bitterly fought by them before the City Council. The purchase of nice homes in fine residential neighborhoods stirred the prejudices of the poorer whites of this city and the measure was fathered by them. Already plans for testing the legality of the measure are being discussed and it may come up in the courts before the winter has passed. One of the first to violate its provisions will be the Afro-American Ledger, which will move its place of business into a white neighborhood shortly after the first of the year. The ordinance provides a penalty for any one who rents or is a party to the rental of a building of a colored tenant in a white neighborhood and vice versa. The salient points of the opinion follow: The police power is the broadest power possessed by the state. No attempt has ever been made to strictly define it. It is spoken of as the power of the state to pass laws and to prescribe regulations in order to promote health, peace, morals, education and good order of people. The power, however, is not an absolute one, and is subject to control by the courts. Almost every valid exercise of the police power interferes with and is a restriction upon individual and property rights. In determining upon the validity of a police regulation the questions that present themselves usually are: First—Does a serious situation actually exist that calls for relief? Second—Does the situation affect the health, morals, safety or good order of the community? Third—Is the proposed measure reasonably calculated to afford relief? If all these questions can be answered in the affirmative, the presumption is in favor of the validity of the measure, notwithstanding the fact that individual and property rights may be seriously affected thereby. "THE NEGRO PROBLEM." It cannot be denied at this late day that one of the greatest problems that confronts the Southern states is the Negro problem. This problem exists not because of mere race prejudice, but because experience and time have conclusively proved that the commingling of the white and colored races is an absolute impossibility and that any such attempt invariably leads to grave public disorder. This recognized fact has resulted in the passage of laws in various states enforcing separation of the two races in the schools, public conveyances, hotels, inns, theaters and other public places. Marriage between, the races is also prohibited under severe penalty. Legislation of the character just mentioned has been invariably upheld as a proper exercise of the police powers possessed by the states, notwithstanding the fact that in certain Northern states legislation prohibiting the separation of the races in schools, public conveyances and public places has been declared valid for the same reason. In other words, legislation of a diametrically opposite character, our enforcing the separation of the two races and the other prohibiting it, has sustained on the same wit, the police power. The question that nature gests itself, therefore, is some places it is held wrong arate the races and in other wrong to allow them to ming answer is very simple. It is b in certain communities the nuance of public order and the eral welfare does not require or order proper or reasonable the se tion, while in other communities a proper regard for public order and the general welfare does render such separation necessary. I will not attempt to go into the various reasons that have been assigned by the courts in upholding legislation requiring the separation of the races in schools, public conveyances and public places. All of these reasons when fairly and honestly analyzed, are based upon the assumption and belief that because of irrefutable facts, well-known conditions, inherent personal characteristics and ineradicable traits of character peculiar to the races close association on afooting of absolute equality is utterly impossible between them wherever Negroes exist in large numbers in a white community, and invariably leads to irritation, friction, disorder and strife. "SAFETY OF A COMMUNITY." The separation of the races enforced by law in public schools, on railroad trains, in the street cars and in public places is founded on and supported solely by the considerations which I have just mentioned. Why should the state put itself to the extra expense of providing separate schools for the colored race? Why should common carriers be put to the extra expense of providing separate accommodations for the colored race. Why should marriage between the races be prohibited, unless it be that because in the communities where such legislation prevails the people actually know and correctly believe that the real welfare and the absolute protection and safety of the community depend upon the enforcement of such legislation? The ordinance which is now before you undoubtedly goes further than any adjudicated case that I have been able to find, but at the same ttime I have been unable to discover any case where such legislation has been declared illegal In the Berea College case a statute of Kentucky prohibiting the education of white and colored children at the same school, whether private or public, was upheld by the highest court of that state, and although this case went to the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court had every opportunity, if it so desired, to strike down the legislation and declare it to be in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States it refused to do so. The court affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court of Kentucky on the ground that the state had a right to amend the charter of the college, notwithstanding the fact that Justice Harlan, in a dissenting opinion, took his colleagues to task for not meeting the issue squarely and determining once and for all whether legislation of the character in question was permissible under the Fourteenth Amendment. The inevitable result of the decision of the Supreme Court of Kentucky in the Berca College case, upholding, as it did, the validity of a statute prohibiting a private individual as well as a corporation from receiving in his school colored pupils in conjunction with white pupils is the establishment of the proposition that a state has the right under its police power to require the separation of the two races wherever the failure to so separate them injuriously affects the good order and welfare of the community. The conclusive test, therefor, of the validity of legislation looking to the separation of the races is to be found in the answer to the questions: First—Do conditions actually exist seriously threatening the good order and the welfare of the community and requiring the passage of some remedial legislation? Second—Does the legislation actually passed in response to such demand bear any reasonable relation to the exigency leading to its passage? The ordinance before you fully meets this test and is, in my opinion, therefore valid. AN APPEAL FOR THE ORPHANS Mr. Editor please find space in your paper for the appeal. Dear readers of the Advocate and members of the many clubs:—We hope that you will not forget the 74 friendless children at the orphans home, one a baby of 2 months. We know that you always remember the orphans home at this time of the year, but at this very busy season we write a line to remind you of this class of children, thanking you for your rememberance. LUCY H. WARE, Matron, CLARA L. STEWART, Teacher. NUMBER XVII WEST VIRGINIA COLLEGE STITUTE BROKEN IN TERM JUST CLOSED. Many of Them Holding Responsible Positions in Similar Institutions Accommodations Exhausted And Board Called Upon to Increase Them. Institute, W. Va., Dec. 20. The fall term of the West Virginia Colored Institute will close Wednesday December 21. This has been one of the most successful terms in the history of the institution. More students have been registered during this term than in any other year of the school. The entire registration has reached 253 from ten States of the Union and Africa. Of this number 22 are in the class training teachers. They are largely under the immediate instruction of Miss Fanny C. Cobb, who is regarded as one of the ablest training teachers in the country. She has studied at Oberlin, Ohio State University, Chicago University and attended the summer session at Columbia law term. Two new teachers were added to the faculty this year, Mrs. C. R. Mitchell and J. B. Bragg. Mrs. Mitchell finished the course in the New England Conservatory at Boston last June, and is one of the most accomplished music teachers in the State. Mr. Bragg comes to take charge of the blacksmith department, being a graduate of both Tuskegee Institute and Taladega College. The institution has had dramatic recitals by Edward Brigham, of New York, and Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, of Washington. The institution has had some other prominent visitors during the term, among them being J. C. Rankin, of the United States Department of Agriculture, and Mrs. Eliza Peterson, of Texarkana, Texas. The method of instruction in the West Virginia Colored Institute is regarded by many well informed people to be the best that can be devised. The class work is so arranged that each student, except those taking the commercial course or the normal training class, is required to spend one-half of each school day at his trade and the other half in the literary department. This enables the student to acquire a fair education and at the same time learn some useful occupation. The girls are required to take both cooking and sewing the first two or three years of their course and after that they may specialize in either cooking, sewing or mininery. The boys may take carpentry, blacksmith, bricklaying or plastering, printing, wheelwrighting or painting. A good evidence of the importance of these trades is seen in the erection of five new residence and one business house in this community this fall. These were erected wholly by persons who have been trained at this institution. Some of these buildings are beautiful two-story structures of excellent finish. When the school could not hire men from Charleston for 70 cents per hour to do bricklaying in repairing the boiler the superintendent of mechanics and the teacher in charge took the boys learning this trade and did the work. The wheelwrighting department has built a wagon to be used by a mission station in South Africa. This wagon was built at the special request of Rev. I. G. Jordan, D. D., of Louisville, Ky., and was paid for by the white Baptist of this State. The graduates of the school, are to be found laboring all over this State at the various occupations and in their professions. Among those laboring out of the State are Miss Katherine McRoberts, teacher of millinery in Wilberforce University, Ohio; C. C. Poindexter, Fish University, Nashville, Tenn.; Miss Nannie Cobbs, training teacher, Johnson City, Tenn.; A. C. Spurlock, superintendent of mechanics; Miss Ethal Jones, teacher of sewing, and Water James, teacher of agriculture; all in the Normal and Industrial Institute of Lawrenceville, Va.; F. C. Price, teacher of blacksmithing in the Maysville Institute, Maysville, S. C.; H. Preston, teacher in the public schools of Muskogee, Okla.; Roscoe Deans, bookkeeper in Norfolk, Va.; A. J. Booker, demonstration work under the United States government in Mississippi. The school will begin its winter term January 4th. The booking balls have all been crowded and it is necessary that greater accommodations be provided by the board. THE BAUER MEAT & FISH COMPATY 28 AND 30 CAPITOL ST. Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fresh Pork Sausage OUR OWN MAKE. Try our machine sliced Hams and Bacon OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY The best qualities in all the popular kinds of We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want more CORRESPONDENCE 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. LEWISBURG. Mrs. Jennie Honday, of Columbus Ohio, is spending the winter here with her sister, Mrs. Emma Cooley. Mrs. J. C. Lewis, of Arneltown, was with relatives here Saturday and Sunday. Miss Myrtle Cooley left Tuesday for Thurman where she will remain for the winter. Mrs. Charlotte Nightingale left for Charleston Monday where she will spend the Christmas. Oscar Coleman left Thursday for Charleston. Mrs. Lillian Lewis, of Ronceverte, was the guest of Miss Florence Bolling Thursday and Friday. David Creech is now in North Carolina, his former home to spend the Christmas with his parents. Rev. Jackson filled his palpit at Mt. Tabor Baptist Church last Sunday. Rev. S. E. Hughes, presiding elder of Staunton District, held his Fourth Quarterly Conference here Friday night and preached an able sermon Sunday morning at the M. E. church. RAYMOND CITY. Charlie Alexander, Wm. Walker and Adzonia Cary, spent Saturday night in Charleston and returned Sunday afternoon. They were accompanied by Miss Linnie Collins. Mesdames C. Dickerson, M. A. Peirson, J. W. Cogle and Mr. Richard Dickerson were shopping in Charleston Monday. Miss Eliza Dickerson is home to spend the holidays. Rev, Jermiah Menze, the African, in company with Rev. R. D. W. Meadows lectured at the Baptist ```markdown ``` church Sunday to a large and appreciative audience. Rev. J. A. Scott filled his appointments here Sunday. Miss Cornelia Spears was a business visitor to Logan Friday. The Sunday school will have a Christmas tree Saturday night at the school house. There will be a short program rendered by the school children. Henry Wooden, who has been in the hospital at Logan sometime, returned home Friday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Watkins an eleven pound boy on the 5th. Mrs. Virginia Newel had as her guest at dinner Sunday Rev. Meadows. Mrs. Fannie Smootz, of Madison, has returned home. INSTITUTE The Home Makers Club gave a surprise party at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Spriggs, Tuesday evening in honor of the birthday of Mrs. Spriggs. Miss Julia Dorsey and her friend Miss Crawford, of Delaware, O., are the guests of Mrs. E. A. Dorsey. Miss Amelia Wilcher spent several days at Institute visiting Miss Charlotte Campbell. Dr. J. B. Brown, of Charleston, came down Friday afternoon and gave some instructions to the girls basket-ball team. Mrs. Mammie Hurt spent Sunday with her parents. Miss Beulah Smith left for her home Thursday morning. By special request Miss Smith rendered a vocal solo at chapel exercises at the Gear The music class under the direction of Mrs. C. E. Mitchell rendered the following program in Hazlewood Assembly Hall Monday evening. Piano Duet—Lutspiel Overture, Keler Bela—Linda Scott, Lella Powell. Piano Duets—(a) Ednora Prillerman, (b) Lillian Guss, (c) Marcia Canty (d) Eva Bruce and Mrs. Mitchell, from studles. Piano—Valse Op. 1g. Charles Dennee, Laurence Prillerman. A Christmas Dance—Ethelbert Novin, the school chorus. Piano—(a) Allegro, Heller, (b) Scarf Dance, Cecil Chaminade, Euclie Jones. Bacuteous Night, O Night of Love, Jaques Offenbach—Ophelia Washington, Amelia Lowry, Lella Powell, Alma Peters. Piano Duet—Hungarian Dream, H. F. Faber—Myrtle Irving, Bertha Deans. Quartet—(a) The Night has a Thousand Eyes—Ethelbert Nevin. (b) Santa Lucia, Italian, Horace Smalls, Huling Lewis, Leon Kineaid, Thomas Taylor. Piano—Lose Blatter—C. Koelling, Ophelia Washington. Quartet—Lullaby, Lorin Webster Robert Sisusa, Boyer Lee, Charles V. Harris, O. A. Pierce. Piano duet—Allegro Vivace, Dlabella, Miss Ethel Spriggs, Mitchell. The Hill School—Surette—The School Chorus. The violin obbligatos are played by Mr. Don Jones. MONTGOMERY "Not a Man In The House," is to be presented at the Odd Fellows Hall Thursday evening, Dec. 29, by Miss Ada Wright. Mrs. J. M. Ellis, of Greenville was shopping here Saturday. Rev. I. V. Bryant, of Huntington was up Sunday to preach the funeral of Mrs. Luther Brown, who died at Eagle Friday. She was buried in the Montgomery Cemetery. Rev. E. C. Page, filled an engagement for Rev. I. V. Bryant at Huntington, Sunday. J. H. Brown is able to be out after a brief illness. S. H. Fields, of Charleston, visited relatives here Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. S. H. Clark, of Donwood, was the guest of relatives here last week. G. W. Gough met with an accident Saturday by running a nail through his foot. Isaac Rogers, who was hurt in the mines a few weeks ago by a fall of slate, is better. Mr. and Mrs. William Wicks, and daughter, Miss Shelva, and C. W. Robinson, of Donwood, attendee services at the First Baptist church, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scruggs, of Sewell, were business visitors here Friday. Misses Maggie Poe, and Anno Edmonds, and Elisha Poe, of Long-acre, were here Monday the guests of Madames Locke and Gough. Charles Eldredge, who has been sick some time, is reported better. Misses Ethel and Edith Bryant, were the Saturday guests of Miss Wysor Watson. Mrs. Lila Crawford, has returned from a visit to Cincinnati. Miss Beaulah Saunders is out again after being sick a few weeks. Mrs. Charles Lemons, who has been sick for some weeks, is about well again. HUNTINGTON. E. C. Richardson, who was stricken last Saturday with paralysis, remains seriously ill. Miss E. C. Peterson organier for the W. C. T. U., was in the city Friday and organied a juvenile department of that work. She will be back in the near future to organize a woman's department. The little folks met Monday night in their first session, and formed various committees essential to carrying on Miss Lillian Mills, Pres.; Bessie Phillips, Vice; Mr. Mickens, Secy.; Ruth Meadows, Treas.; Hughston Jackson, Officer of Mercy; J. L. Spencer, Officer of Purity; Rev. J. B. Hatchett, Rev. S. A. Thurston and Prof. J. W. Scott, Vouchers. Rev. I. V. Bryant was called to Eagle Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary Brown, wife of Luther Brown, and was absent from his church for both services Sunday. Rev. E. C. Page, of Montgomery, preached two very acceptable sermons in his stead. There will be song services at the 16th Baptist church Xmas night. All are welcome. The first Baptist Sunday school will have their Xmas tree Monday after Xmas. Mrs. Jacob Johnston was down from Bourbonsville Saturday on business. Announcement has been made of the approaching marriage of Mrs. Edmond to Mr. Jessup, to take place at the 16th St. Baptist church, Wednesday evening, Dec. 22. Mrs. Willie Reid, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. James, for the past three months, left Wednesday morning THE ADVOCATE Savannah, Georgia, to join her husband, who recently took charge of a large Baptist church. Many social favors were shown her while here; among them was a surprise given by many of her friends on the eve of her departure. The evening was lightly spent in music and conversation. Dainty refreshments were served. CHICAGO,ILL Chicago colored population is torn into factions over a slander suit which promises to be a long and bitter fight in the Courts against Mrs. Eudora Johnson, Sister of the once famous "Mushmouth.. Johnson, the colored gambler, who died a few years ago in this city. Miss Elizabeth Slaughter commenced a lawsuit a short time ago against Mrs. Johnson and secured a judgment in the Circuit Court of this city for $8000. Patrick L. McArdle, a white lawyer represented Mrs. Johnson, while Mr. E. H. Morris, colored, represented Mrs. Slaughter. The case will now be appealed to the Supreme Court of the State. It has now leaked out that "Mushmouth.. Johnson was worth, when he died, nearly a half million dollars. Bethel A. M. E. church, Corner of 30th and Dearborn streets, on last Sunday afternoon was largely attended. The occasion was the holding of a very interesting meeting by the Bethel Literary under the administration of B. W. Fitts, the President of the Club. The Bethel Literary Society is one of the best in Chicago. The success of it is due to the energy and the perserverance on the part of Mr. Pitts. Fred Steele, of Dowagiac, Michigan, brother of Mrs. P. W. Taylor was operated upon for appendicitis at Provident Hospital on Monday December 12th by Dr. W. H. Marshall. Edward D. Green, member-elect of the Legislature of Illinois from the First Senatorial District in Chicago, will leave for Springfield, Illinois, next week to take his seat. A number of colored railroad men met last week and organized the National Colored Men's Railroad Association of the United States. The names of the officers will be given in the next issue. Mrs. Sarah Hamilton went to Louisville last week. She was called there by the death of her sister-in-law. ELKINS. The young people had an excellent program at the literary society. The marriage of Mr. William Thomas and Miss Gertrude Reynolds was celebrated Thursday evening at 9:00 o'clock. The bride and her maids were dressed in white and each carried white carnations. After the reception at the home of Mrs. Dougherty, the happy couple left for Baltimore where they will spend their honeymoon. In the fire which destroyed the home of Mrs. Mary Amos, at midnight Wednesday, her little three-year old niece was cremated and the other inmates barely escaped with their lives. The house and its contents were totally destroyed Miss Ida Stout has returned to her home at Grafton much benefitted from the treatment for her eyes which she received here. The Sunday School children of the A. M. E. church are rehearsing daily to the pastor, Rev. Alleyne, for the exercises in connection with the Christmas tree. The Union Bible class will render a Christmas program, Sunday afternoon at 4:00, and Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the elocutionist will appear Monday night PRATT. D. E. V. Jordan, The General Agent for The American Workmen of Washington, D. C., was in our town this week for the purpose of adjusting the claim of Mrs. M. E. Holmes, who is a member of the organization. J. F. Morris has returned from a two weeks visit in Louisa, Va., and Washington, D. C., with his friends and relatives. He reports a pleasant stay. Mrs. Chas. Rollins, Mrs. Juita Lucky and Ed. Lewis were shopping in Montgomery Saturday. Mrs. Willow, of London, was the Wednesday guest of Mrs. T. W. Holmes. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Washington, of Hugheston, were Monday guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Washington. Wm. A. Powell made a business trip to Charleston and Cedar Grove Tuesday. Miss Jennie K. Foster was in East Bank Wednesday on business. Mrs. T. W. Holmes, who has been sick three or four weeks, is able to be out again. Thos. M. Holmes, of Handley spent a few days here with his uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Holmes. Mrs. C. O. Hill, of Handley, was visiting here Monday. Mrs. George Jackson and Mrs. Alex Shaver, of London, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Holmes. Oscar and T. W. Holmes, Fred Foreman, Elmer Lawrence and Miss Jemmia Ellis were in Montgomery Saturday night on business. James Jordan and Miss Arilla Hanston were very quietly married at the M. E. Parsonage Monday of last week. E. L. Morton and little daughter are guests of relatives here. Pres. Alexander, who has been quite ill for the past few months, died Tuesday afternoon. Miss Agatha Alexander, who is attending W. V. C. L., was called home Tuesday on account of the death of her brother. Mrs. Joseph Jordan served five o'clock dinner Monday in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Christain, of Middle- port. O. The other guests present were Mesdames A. H. Williams, Frenchie Brooks, Miss Mosella H. Colston, Messrs. J. G. Patterson and John H. Davis. Edward Lincoln, who has been ill since November, remains quite ill. Rev. and Mrs. ChrisGan, who have been in town since Friday, left for their home in Middleport, Tuesday. CEDAR GROVE. Rev. D. D. Davis, preached two most excellent sermons here Sunday. Rev. Richard Hughes, of Wake Forest, passed through here last week. Mrs. Pearl Woods, of Ward, was here Sunday. Mrs. Maria Richmond Crawford has moved to Marting. Mrs. Leona Jones and Mrs. Georgia Lewis, of Longacre, were here Sunday. Miss Mary Strudwick, of Mammoth was visiting relatives here Sunday. W. H. Lacy attended the entertainment at Ward Thursday for the Sunday school Christmas tree. Miss Lillie Bowles, of Charleston, was here Sunday the guest of her sister, Mrs. Lula Bruce. Miss Sadie Allen, of Montgomery, was here Sunday the guest of Mrs. Gray. Misses Rachel Topson, Esther Phillips and Sylvanias Jackson weren in Charleston last week. Isaac Barrett and Joe Johnson, of Hansford, were initiated in to the Mysteries of the G. U. O. of O. F. here Thursday night. Mrs. Anderson is improving slowly. Mrs. Booker, E. M. Bruce, Mrs. Lula Bruce and J. W. Richmond are sick. A few have done so. One woman patented a contrivance for trimming the bottoms of dress skirts so they would hang evenly—a great boon to the home dressmaker. Another suggested to her husband, who was mechanically inclined, that the thermometer on the outside of an oven really told nothing about the heat inside; what the oven needed was a heat valve — some arrangement whereby an aperture in the oven would automatically open when there was too much heat, thus maintaining the correct temperature for baking bread. He perfected the idea, patented it, and has profited largely through its sale. Another woman, after many unsuccessful efforts to find a corset that would adjust itself to her corpulent figure, discovered the lack that had not been provided for by corset makers and set about designing one to suit herself. She perfected her plan, found a great comfort, patented the idea, and is today at the head of a large factory where these special corsets are made. An invalidated husband had reduced her to sewing by the day for a living for both before she thought of her new corset. Another woman discovered by experiment a food mixture that made her hens lay; she gave it a name, patented it and put it on the market with the greatest success. Another compounded a disinfectant that killed insect life in her chicken house, and that also proved efficacious for use in hospitals and homes following infectious illnesses. This was patented and is now sold in large quantities.—The Delineator for January. MOTH CAUSES STRANGE DISEASE The mystery of the poisoning of many thousands of people by the caterpillars of the brown tail moth in Massachusetts and other parts of New England, has at last been solved by scientific investigation. No small importance attaches to the matter. inasmuch as the poisoning in numerous instances has been very serious. Men engaged in the work of fighting the insect in the field, and at the laboratory near Boston where parasites of the moth are reared, have been made so ill in scores of cases as to be obliged to give up the employment. One man died of severe internal poisoning incurred while turning the burlap girdles placed on trees for protective purposes. Large numbers of people in the part of the country are trouble every year with what is called "browntail rash," and there has been much complaint on this account. Exceptionally sovere cases of this rash have occurred when housewives have swept the caterpillars from their porches, or brush down the cecosons, which are inter- laced with caterpillar hairs. Such hairs, more or less broken, float about in the air when the webs or cocoons are disturbed, and if inhaled cause a great deal of internal irritation and actual poisoning.—From "Poison in the Browntail," in January Technical World Magazine. HOW TO REMAIN YOUNG The Day of Old Men was hurried to its close by the unnatural breaking of the Day of Young Men, and now that the day of young men cruelly forged is ended, now that most of our "Young Napoleons of Finance" have been shipped to their St. Helena, and most of our "Young Captains of Industry" are once more working for a living, there has dawned the day of the Middle-Aged. We shall protest against it. The census will show some of us declaring that we are no older than we were a decade ago; but we all know in our hearts that these last ten years have aged our bodies a full score. Is this fatality of middle age inevitable? I, for one, agree with the morning star of patent medicine advertising: "There is hope." The bones may harden and the muscles soften; the hair may whiten sooner; but the conditions that affect these mere habiliments need in no wise harm the spirit that those habiliments enfold. Better than in any time preceding, in this time of the railway and the telegraph of newspapers and magazines a legion, of libraries of Andrew Carnegie, may we keep the mind young. Emerson, declaring that "the surest poison is time," was a slave to the tradition that the worth-while pleasures of youth passed away when youth passed. In his better moments no man saw more clearly that what was worth while might be retained. But what may be retained is of the mind only. Few things are more grotesque or pititable than the man who clings 'oo desperately to the youth of his body. It is, then, the youth of the mind that we can retain with dignity and may temper with experience. Apollo is never old, and all men have in them enough of Apollo to be worth saving. It is in the art of that salvage that there lies the secret of remaining young. Reginald Wright Kauffman in January Smart Set. LOOKING FOR QUARTERS Considerable difficulty has been confronting the national guard officers here in the effort to get quarters for Co. C, one of the three military organizations required to move from the Summers street quarters at once to make room for the new state printery. Co. K has obtained quarters in the Saunders building on Lovell street, but up to this time the other company and the Second Regiment band have no place to go. 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, doll 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. A doll can be had for from $25c UP TO $8.50 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 X National Negro Doll C. R. H. BOYD, Pies. H. A. BOYD, Mgr. 549 Second Avenue, North. NASHVILLE, TE VNESSEE. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1914 PLEASING GIFT TALK Bath Robes $1 to $12. Fancy Vests $2 to $5. Mufflers 25c to $3. Neckwear 25c to $1. Suspenders 50c to $2. Collar Cases 75c ot $3. Handkerchiefs 10c to $1. Suit Cases Hand Bags Silk Hose 50c and $1. HENRY SMITH ONE-PRICE CLOTHIER 222 Capitol St. --- HIGH EXPLOSIVES The Inventor of Maximate Tells Their Uses. As the ax is to the woodman, so are high explosives to the engineer; more, they are the ax and the spade with which he cleaves the mountain range to let the iron horse pass, and like the Martain, cuts through the land a web-work of canals and waterways, uniting rivers and seas. With high explosives he smites the rugged ribs of the earth, and the yield of a day in mineral wealth would shame Solomon in his glory. Since the time when the great Hanibal with fire and vinegar cut through the White Alps and burst like an avalanche upon the fair fields of Italy, vast strides have been made in the science of overcoming obstacles to human progress, and in this work the blasting agent has played no minor part. Always in the van of civilization there is the churn of the rock drift and the echoing crash and roar of the dynamite blast. Modern smokeless gunpowder is a form of high explosive that has been chained and tamed by the chemist's cunning, so that it will burn without detonation and thus permit the utilization of its awful energy in the hurling or shot and shell from war's great guns. Thus it is that dynamite, in its varied forms, deserves its high place with steam and electricity as one of the great triumvirs that have been the architects of the modern world. —Hudson Maxim in Adventure for January. With the Boxers. Jack (Twin) Sullivan and Frank Mantell have been matched to meet in New York on December 28. George Green, of San Francisco, the original "Young Corbett," is now the manager of "One-Round" Hogan. Manager Joe Woodman will take Sam Langford and "Porky" Flynn to England, leaving about January 1. The French federation of boxing clubs has sent out invitations to the promoters of the world for a congress to be held in Paris March 10, 1911. Disappointed by the Failure of President Taft to Appoint Lewis Cottrill Nominated FOR POST AT HONOLULU DESPIE OPPOSITION OF HAWAIIANS WHO WANTED PLUM FOR HOME MAN BUT WILL NOT SERIOUSLY OBJECT TO CONFIRMATION. Washington, D. C., December 22. —On this first day of real winter the colored citizens of this cosmopolitan burg are busily engaged in discussing one "appointment" and cussing because of two "disappointments." The appointment of Charles A. Cottrill, a well-known and exceptionally popular Ohio leader, is regarded with favor. The President on last Saturday sent to the Senate the nomination of Mr. Cottrill as Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Hawaii, with headquarters at Honolulu. The place is said to be worth about $5,000 per annum, and is destined to grow in importance with the development of the commerce of the Hawaiian group. Mr. Cottrill has long wielded a masterly influence in the political life of the Buckeye State, and in Lucas county, of which Toledo is the county seat, he has held a number of responsible official posts and in all of them has "made good." He is likewise prominent in fraternity circles and has held the Grand Chancellorship of the Knights of Pythias at various times. For many months Mr. Cottrill's name was seriously considered in connection with the Recordership of Deeds for the District of Columbia. The designation of Mr. Cottrill is pleasing to his host of friends, but there is a tinge of regret that "something equally as good" could not have been found nearer home, where men of strength, courage and capacity for leadership are all too few. Although rumors have come that the Hawaiians are not elated over the prospect of such a desirable plum going to an outsider, no serious opposition to his confirmation is likely to be encountered. It is the recognized policy of the United States to send to its dependent possessions full-fledged Americans to administer the customs and internal revenue service, and the designation of Mr. Cottrill is in accord with a firmly established practice. He will go to his new post with the wish of every right-minded American that his career be crowned with success. THE LEWIS CASE A DISAPPOINTMENT. The primary "disappointment" over which the colored residents in Washington are fretting is the administration's change of mind with reference to the naming of William Lewis, of Boston, as Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. The assurance is said to have been given at that famous Beverly conference, and later ratified at Washington, that the place would be reserved for Mr. Lewis. Although no vacancy existed at that time in any of the offices of Assistant, it was understood that Mr. John G. Thompson, of Illinois, in charge of Indian depredation claims, would either resign or be transferred and that Mr. Lewis would be his successor. At first the matter was to remain strictly confidential, but, upon the urgency of the men who had engil—the wishes of the conferences and to secure whatever benefit that might accrue to the party through this splendid recognition, it is said that the administration yielded to the wishes of the conferences and authorized the publication of the proposed appointment of Mr. Lewis and added to it the promise of the nomination of Mr. Cottrill for the Honolulu post. Of course, the announcement was received with great glee by the press and by the masses of the Negro race everywhere, although it was claimed by many, and perhaps with some verity, that the good news came too late to be effective in turning back the flood of resentment that the Negro voters seemed to have treasured up against a number of the Republican managers. As this is a city of federal office-holders, there is not much loud talk indulged in; but behind closed doors, that which is being said about those responsible for the alleged "throw-down" of Mr. Lewis can best be described by the slang phrase, "a plenty." Attorney-General Wickersham is said to have been opposed to the appointment of Lewis, and it is known that the intercession of Speaker Cannon for his constituent, Thompson, had weight with the "powers" in determining that no vacancy would be created at this time. The future is clouded with uncertainty. The officials of the $4,000 class are silent. Mr. Lewis is having nothing to say. Dr. Booker T. Washington gave evidence of his loyalty to his Boston friend and of his ever-watchfulness for the welfare of the race by going in person to see both the President and the Attorney-General in behalf HOPING FOR THE BEST AT THE HANDS OF THE SUPREME COURT. The next "disappointment" came in the elevation of Associate Justice Edward Douglass White to the exalted post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The competency of Justice White as a lawyer is not questioned, and all are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as to his ability to pass upon, without prejudice, issues involving the civic status of the Negro race; but many confess that it makes cold chills run down their spine to see scores of high-grade jurists of the Republican party overlooked and a member of the opposition party selected for an honor that even the President of the United States would be glad to enjoy. After fighting desperately in 1908 to prevent the election of Mr. Bryan to the presidency, largely through a fear that he would pack the Supreme Court with exConfederates, who might so interpret the laws as to invalidate the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, there is no small degree of disappointment among the militant Republicans over the designation by a Republican president of three Justices who might reasonably be expected to agree with their section in fixing the political and civic status of the Negro, and who fought with arms against the adoption of the "War Amendments." There is a hope that this fear is unfounded but your correspondent would dodge a palpable truth if he failed to state that these appointments are grievous disappointments, as far as the Negro voters are concerned. There would have been joy in the camp had that grand old man, Justice Harlan, been named for Chief Justice, and the designation of Justice Hughes would have given satisfaction. As it is, the colored citizens hereabouts are keeping their mouths shut, as far as they are able, and praying to be spared from any wrath that may be embosomed in the unfathomable future. REGISTER-TO-BE NAPIER IN TOWN. Looking the picture of health and optimistic for the future of the race, North and South, Hon. J. C. Napier, the soon-to-be Register of the Treasury, was in town last week, attending the annual session of the Jeanes Fund Board of Trustees and taking care of some private business. Mr. Napier, while gratified over the confidence expressed in him by the President of the United States in placing in his hands a trust so responsible as the legalizing of the money and bonded securities of the government, he was not elated over the prospect of leaving his beautiful home in the South, and parting with friends among whom he had lived as man and boy for practically half a century. He believed as firmly as ever that the future of the progressive Negro lies in the Southland. There he is needed most keenly and there he is offered the best rewards for intelligent application to his work and conscientious service to his people. Through Mr. Napier, your correspondent had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Belton Gilreath, one of Birmingham's leading white citizens, and who represents most faithfully that high type of Southern white men who sympathize with the struggles of the race for a fair chance and who are ready to assist with their voice and with their means to improve the mental, moral and material condition of their less favored colored neighbors. It was made clear to our mind that it is to the Gilreaths of the whites and the Napiers of the blacks that the two races in the Southland are to maintain the friendliest relations and to reach their highest degree of usefulness. Mr. Gilreath, like Mr. Napier, is a member of the trustees in charge of the Jeanes fund for the relief of the Negro rural schools of the South. RESPONSIBILITY RESTING ON A RACE LEADER. Going back to Mr. Napier: He will come to Washington filled with a determination to render a satisfactory account of himself as an officer of the government, and to live up, as far as he is able, to the expectations of his friends, who regard a large commission at the nation's capital as an insignia of race leadership. He realizes that there is much that should be done here for the Negroes of the country, both in the matter of legislation and in the bestowal of patronage. He knows that there are injustices that need to be righted and that a Negro official, in a larger sense than a white one in similar standing, must go forward in behalf of his people, with courage and persistence, if any remedy is to be hoped for. Mr. Napier is modest as to his ability to live up to all that is expected of him, but he will come prepared to do his best. He will take his friends fully into his confidence at every turn and endeavor to be guided by the united wisdom of the men and women, in office and out, who have at heart the broadest welfare of the race. Mr. Napier is not new to Washington. He lived here years ago, and graduated in the '70s from the law department of Howard University. He is no stranger to the people here, and is a "mixer" who knows the value of a sympathetic alliance between the masses and the classes of the race. No reactionary influence here can spell him, nor lessen the flow of the milk of human kindness which has characterized his relations with his home folks down in Tennessee from the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Mr. Napier, as Register and as a man, will receive a warm welcome at the hands of the people of Washington. Mrs. Napier, who is well known here as the daughter of Former Congressman John M. Langston, will be a gracious addition to the cultured society of the capital. THE INDEPENDENT NEGRO POLITICAL LEAGUE AT WORK LITICAL LEAGUE AT WORK. The Independent Negro Political League is at work. Bishop Alexander Walters, of New York, is at the head of the National organization, and Rev. S. L. Corrothers, of this city, is in charge of the local wing. Rev. J. Milton Waldron is national organizer and publicity agent. Encouraged by the fact that all of the states in which the League was active elected Democratic governors, the leaders of the organization are using the argument that since the Negroes are showing a disposition to divide their vote, and to help the Democracy into power, the Democratic party should be willing to throw out a life-line for such Negroes as may have lost confidence in the ability or the willingness of the Republican party to grant justice to its erstwhile black allies. Bishop Walters and his associates have been taking the matter up with the Democratic managers in a systematic and earnest fashion. A few days ago a group of Democratic congressmen, numbering fifteen or twenty, gathered by request in the committee room of the Hon. Champ Clark, to hear what the Bishop had to say and to consider any proposition that he might make. Mr. Clark, who is to be the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, presided over the meeting, and after an impassioned presentation of his cause by Bishop Walters, followed by Dr. Waldron and Dr. Corrothers, each of the Democrats in the chamber expressed himself as agreeably surprised to find able colored men in such a receptive mood toward the Democratic party, and it was agreed that a careful study of the formal propositions submitted by the League would be made. A reply is expected shortly which will contain an assurance from representative Democrats that fair play will be granted to the colored men who wish to cast their fortunes with them. BISHOP WAITERS WELL-TEMP FRED PROPOSITIONS The following well-tempered propositions, in four parts, were presented at the Clark meeting, for the consideration of the Democratic party: 1st: That a pledge be made that the several constitutions of the southern states which relate to Negro suffrage be honestly and faithfully observed, and that every black man that is prepared to meet the qualifications be allowed to register and vote. 2d: That the Negro be allowed to vote in the primaries in the South, as they are allowed in the Nort. h 3d: That the federal positions held by the Negroes as heretofore under Republican rule, shall be continued under Democratic rule. 4th: That all inimical legislation that has for its object the degradation of the colored race be repealed and that no such legislation hereafter shall be enacted. WHITEFIELD McKINLAY CON- FIRMED. Last Thursday the Senate confirmed the nomination of Whitefield McKinlay as collector of customs for the port of Georgetown, D. C. without reference to committee. The name of Mr. McKinley came up in executive session, and when a motion was made in the open body that Mr. McKinlay be confirmed, the motion was agreed to without division. This is a great honor to one of Washington's most deserving business men—an honor to the race. The much-mooted "opposition" to Mr. McKinlay failed to materialize, indicating that the "rumpus," like many others of its kind in this vicinity, was all manufactured "hot air." Mr. McKinlay has been in office for several months and is administering its affairs in a most satisfactory manner. MINOR MENTION Former Recorder John C. Dancy spoke in York, Pa., Friday night. Mr. Dancy has been using his spare time lately to put the finishing touches on his long-promised book, "The Life an Times of Joseph C. Price," and it will soon be placed in the hands of a publishing company. Mr. Dancy has made arrangements to embark at an early date in the real estate business in this city. He has had ample experience in this line and is himself the owner of some very desirable District property. Register W. T. Vernon is to deliver an emancipation day address in Atlanta, January 1. The boom of Dr. J. S. Jackson for the Zion Bishopric is well received here, where the eminent divine and clever financier is a prime favorite. Mrs. Joe Gans and Lawyer Harry S. Cummings were over from Baltimore a few days ago to inspect the bust of Joe Gans, the famous ringmaster, now nearing completion at the studio of Isaac Hathaway, the sculptor. The unveiling will take place in Baltimore shortly. A socially number of Washingtonians will attend the banquet in Baltimore Monday night in honor of Editor J. H. Murphy, who reaches his 70th milestone on that day. Bert. Williams and Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1910," will be at the New National all next week. It is safe to say that the colored society of the capital will be out in force. Rumor has it that Ford T. Dabney may take over the New Howard Theater, with W. H. Kapley, proprietor of the New National, as his financial backer. Bishop G. W. Clinton, of the A. M. E. Zion church, was in the city last Friday. He was pleased to anpounce that upon the urgent invitation of Dr. Booker T. Washington, the next session of the Alabama Annual Conference would be held in the great Chapel at Tuskegee Institute. Monsieur H. Paul Sannon, Minister from Hayti, attended the dedicatory exercises of Howard University's Science Hall on the 13th and declared that he had never before listened to a more practical, sensible or timely address than that delivered on that occasion by Dr. Booker T. Washington. It is said that M. Sannon is desirous of having Dr. Washington pay a visit to Hayti at some convenient season. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is meeting with much encouragement in her vigorous campaign for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, which is to be held June 14th. Local organisations will observe the 100th birthday of Charles Sumner on the 6th of January. Ferdinand D. Lee, of Virginia, has been promoted to a $1,200 clerical grade in the Pension Office. Anthony Phillips, known as "Uncle Phil," a porter connected with the Southern Railway, gave his annual "possum dinner" in honor of the officials of the road last Sunday. These dinners are annual events and are attended by the president of the Southern, his aids and representatives of other railroads. Society is all agog over the third annual holiday reception of the Council of Upper Classmen, which is to be given next Tuesday evening at Odd Fellows' Hall. The Lyric Orchestra will be in attendance. The Upper Classmen's reception invariably draws a "swell crowd" from this city, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Richmond, and this year the out-of-town visitors bid fair to be more numerous than usual. Several debutantes from abroad are expected and—well, just come and see what is going to happen. W. Clarence Hueston, a prominent member of the bar of Kansas City, Mo., is spending a few days in the city on business of importance. "Particulars" in our next. Mr. Hueston is the acknowledged Republican leader in Western Missouri and enjoys the fullest confidence of the party managers all over that great Commonwealth. He is closely identified with the work of arranging for the entertainment of the A. M. E. General Conference, which assembles at Kansas City in May, 1912. IN THE MIMC WORLD IN THE MIMC WORLD. This is a lively week in the theatrical life of the capital. At the New Howard, Oliver & Willis' American Male and Female Minstrels are holding forth. Next week will follow a novel musical comedy by J. Leubrie Hill, entitled: "The Blackville Corporation." In the strong cast will be many of the stock company which recently presented "My Friend From Dixie." Following this production will come another meritorious creation from the brain of Mr. Hill, called "Uncle Rastus." It is expected that the stock company will prepare for a limited road season, with Herbert D. Myers, formerly treasurer of the New Howard, as business manager. The "Musical Seminoles" are making a pronounced hit at the Hiawatha. The work of the "kid"—only eight years old—is marvelous. Miss Juliet Gideon is good in her songs and dances. At Ford Dabney's, the well-balanced bill includes Susie Sutton, who has "caught on" in fine style; Dixon and Henson, razzle-dazzle comedians and musicians; and, by popular request, that magnetic "girl with the glad smile," Leona Marshall. Mr. Dabney is down from New York, coming on Monday to attend the funeral of his late manager, George W. Hamilton. Dangerfield and Washington are handing out some "hot stuff" at the Chelsca, and Minnie Brown, the charming prima donna, is in her sixteenth week of success at the Foraker. Erb Robinson, the counterfeit presentment of George Wilson, has gone to Philadelphia to open a new house but returns at the end of four weeks to resume the managerial reins at Dabney's. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the tragedy queen, is at home after a four weeks' tour of West Virginia, with a stop at Richmond. In response to insistent demand, Miss Davis returns to Charleston. W. Va., for the 26th and will appear in Parkersburg on the 27th. Judge Robert H. Terrell, of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at Tuskegee Institute in May. The Chareston 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. Dr. J. E. Shepard, the indefatigable president of the National Religious Training School at Durham, N. C., was in the city this week, completing arrangements for the tour of Judge J. C. Pritchard and Former Governor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina, who will deliver a number of addresses in behalf of the great school founded at Durham by Dr. Shepard. Washington, Dec. 21.—The senate today confirmed C. C. McChord, of Kentucky, and B. H. Meyer, of Wisconsin, to be members of the interstate commerce commission. FURS Black, Brown, Blue Gray and Ermine, a new assortment just received Pony Coats Plush Coats Scarfs Mufflers Hand Bags Silk Waists Sweaters All Goods Bought Now Charged to 1911 Account BANNER 24 CAPITOL ST. 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 insanity. Its the surest cure. James M. Black of Ashville, N. C., R. R. No. 4, writes it cured him of an obstinate cough after all other remedies failed. 50c. and $1.00. A trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all Druggists. 12-1-5t --- HOTEL BROWN F.C.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 CLEANERS, PRESSERS AND MAKERS OF MEN'S CLOTHING Phone 1380X. Shop: 428 State Street. STORER COLLEGE Harper's Ferry, W. Va More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Election 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. Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one 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 Owned and Controlled by the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Austria CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY Dr. James Dental S Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. HENRY T. M'DONALD, President STORER Harper's B —Founded More than 400 men and women school in the state for Colored stu- tion high. Remarkably healthful. BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO O lar faculty of sixteen highly educa- ssistants. Our Library catalogued accord the largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICAT BERS OF THE GRADUATING CLU TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUC in its faculty and student body. I living. Literary Societies, Christ Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State For illustrated catalogue and THE CRYSTAL Owned and Controlled by the America, South America, E Attendants' Fees $3.00 $1.00 Call on or Address RYSTAL BATH HOUSE ```markdown ``` N. C. BRACKETT, Treasurer. COLLEGE Jerry, W. Va. Ed in 1807— I have graduated here. The oldest students. Magnificent location. Eleva- ample buildings. THREE NEW PLANT THIS YEAR. The regu- red, earnest teachers does not include ting to the Dewey System, is one ES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM- SES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED. Storer is interdenominational whole influence is toward Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs Formal, 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 heated throughout. PRICE OF BATHS: 25 cents per single bath. Knights of Pythias and member of the Court of Calanthe with certificates of good standing in their respective lodges are entitled to half the above rates. J. R. SMITH, Mgm HOT SPRINGS, AR Advocate is entered in the at Charleston, W. Va., as class matter. HAT DOES IT MEAN? sealion between Negroes mocrats at Kimball to form party with two of the for- candidates, is something new Virginia politics and is with future possibilities would not have been of in the wildest flights of tion two years ago. does it portend? quires no effort of the mind part of the reader to recall enormous campaign of 1909 the Negroes, alarmed at the en attitude of the Demo-gainst them, voted as a unit Republican nominees. To dedict then that two years negroes and Democrats would d running on the same ticked have branded the prophet. But that is exactly what has d, and there is presented to the strangest bed-fellows that on a political pallet in this does it mean? ordered alone, the Kimball at night be dismissed as a mis-landing of local proportions weight in either county or politics; but, coming so soon in election in which many is supported the Democratic and the announcement of Democrats that the race is a dead issue, there is lon for the belief that the can party will not retain pieces of its allies since Emana without a struggle. gravity of the situation. The te thinks, justifies its rewarnings. It has said beed repeats that the leaders of arty, National and State, if they value Negro votes, higher regard for it by alim a larger participation in its victories. There should ex ante-election promises, or a fulfilment of a larger per of those made. There should attention paid to the prejuIf this on that individual andought given to satisfying the st demands of thousands of a supporters whose fidelity is tioned. A janitorship here, ship there, or a nomination section to an office, though minor one, elsewhere, will goward returning to the fold keep which have gone astray. Negro has asked but little, received less. From the Nagovernment he has in this a consulship. In the postal ment he has not over four carriers. There his connection Incle Sam ceases. Not a sinuity can show a Negro in a position: one has a deputy and two have justices of the True, this is more than was credit when the Democrats in control, but the investigaIll learn that nothing was ex from the Democrats. Having opposed them, every Negro ited intelligence knew that it isly to look to them for politi vancement. is said both with the idea of menting the Kimball situation andope of arousing Republican leaders to a true sense of theon. What has been written to facts as they appear to theand they are set forth thushe single purpose of callingto repentance before it is too HELPING THE ENEMY Richmond Planet is very perturbed over and takes ex- ento Dr. Washington's interms with President Taft for the treatment of William H. Lewis as ant attorney general. Advocate has long had, as it ow, a high opinion of the judg- of the editor of The Planet, confesses itself an apostate this point, for it does not con- tine reasons advanced by Thet against Dr. Washington's in- in Mr. Lewis' appointment. lytical activity is no new charge at the eminent Tuskegeean,ears that has been the stock in of those who, for one reason other, opposed him. But there been one point in commong them, so common as to charize them, and that is that none am interests himself along this so much as to get passing no. The Advocate has yet to see he have gone out of their way to seek for a Federal appointment for a member of the race. It costs nothing to sit in one's office and write an editorial criticising another's actions; but, for a change, just to show how the thing ought to be done, why not hustle out and do it yourself? Instead of waiting till Dr. Washington tries to make an opening somewhere for a Negro he thinks deserving, hump yourself along similar lines. It is a fact patient to a blind man that no Negro is going to get anything from this administration unless his friends "get busy" and stay busy till the President signs his commission. Then, since Dr. Washington is willing to assume this thankless task, why in the name of all the saints can not those who have nothing to gain or lose keep their mouths shut? Our experience has been that the appointing powers are only too glad to find a division among Negroes as an excuse for not making a desired appointment. They do not hesitate to say that their unwillingness to side with any faction was responsible for not naming the candidate proposed by any one of them. Still we yell like stuck pigs for recognition. Recognition indeed! How could any one less than a Solomon give recognition to any class which does not know what or whom it wants SOME CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS. If the Negro is a stumbling block, as he undoubtedly is, to the union of the Methodist Episcopals, North and South, the Rev. Enest Lyon, ate United States minister to Liberia, now pastor of a prominent Negro M. E. church in Baltimore, proposes that the Negro withdraw from the parent organization. The indications are that the class to which Rev. Lyon makes his proposition must soon accept it voluntarily or it will be forced to do so. The tendency these days is to segregate the Negro in all matters, not only secular but religious. This tendency is not confined to the south, but has gradually crept north ward till the strongest palladiums of liberty, equality and fraternity of al mankind have lowered their colors and opened their gates to doctrines in opposition to which thousands bled and died less than fifty years ago. The thought that mankind is repudiating the doctrine of the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man is not a pleasing one upon this anniversary of the birth of the Babe of Bethlehem. To see those who loudly proclaim allegiance to His teachings refusing fellowship to follow men simply because of the accident of color, makes neither for belief in their sincerity nor the cause which they espouse. If the sermon on the Mount furnishes the rule by which their feet are guided, how can they refuse to acknowledge equality with themselves of the humblest of His creatures before the Master. How do they square their precept of the Golden Rule with their example? These are reflections inappropriate for this season of "peace on earth, good will toward men." It were, perhaps, more in keeping with the occasion to ignore popular tendencies and to look forward hopefully and prayfully to the fulfillment of his promises, trusting that sometime, somewhere and somehow "Merry Christmas" may mean all it implies. ANYTHING TO BEAT ASBURY. The Atlanta Independent, "way down in Georgia", rears on its blind legs and paws the air at the thought that J. C. Asbury may get an appointment at the hands of the President. The Independent has nothing against Mr. Asbury except that he was a candidate for the Grand mastership of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows against Mr. Morris, the gentleman whom it supported. It does not show that Mr. Asbury is not qualified for the Federal position to which he aspired. It suffices that he fought the Odd Fellow ring and must, therefore, be crucified. The Independent has no other Negro candidate for the position. It would rather see a white man get the place. Anything to beat Asbury. And yet The Independent professes to be an advocate of racial advancement. If that's advocating racial advancement, The Advocate begs to be excused. AN OPPORTUNITY I can start any honest energetic boy or girl in a pleasant and profitable business if they are willing to do a little work after school hours. For information write Mr. A. R. Stewart, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. 12-15-57 250 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. Charleston Odd Fellows Elect. Officers.—At their Monday night meeting Kana-ha Light Lodge, No. 1637 elected the following officers Ed. Humbles, N. G.; John Hodnett, V. G.; H. B. Rice, N. F.; E. R. Carter, E. S., and Advocate; Henry Brown, P. N. G.; Alfred Humbles, J. S. G.; Jennings, Ferrell, chaplain; P. F. Male, P. F.; Allen DeHonney, Treas; J. C. Lewis, marshal; Walter Poor, J. P.; Caul and Isaiah Campbell, trustees. Officers of West Virginia No. 60—Tuesday night West Virginia Lodge No. 60, K. of P. elected officers for the ensuing term as follows: J. J. Robinson, C. C.; Thos. Jennings, V. C.; Julius Thomas, Pres.; G. L. Cuzzens, K. of R. & S.; E. R. Carter, M. of F.; J. C. Gilmer, M. of E.; Aaron Alexander, trustee. Capital City's Officers.—The officers elected by Capital City Lodge No. I. K. of P. at their meeting Thursday night of last week are: L. C. Farrar, C. C.; J. A. Langhorne, V. C.; Walter Davis, Prelate; W. H. Wright, P. C.; C. W. Boyd, K. of R. & S.; G. E. Waner, M. of F.; W. O. Lee, M. of E., and J. A. Campbell, trustee. Taylor Reelected.—For the twelfth consecutive time, J. H. Taylor was elected, Friday night, Master of Washington Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. The other officers are: H. P. Brownley, S. W.; W. H. Wright, J. W.; A. A. DeHoney, Secy.; G. P. Porter, Treas.; appointed, Treadway Wade, S. D.; Henry Anderson, Jr., J. D.; Grant Clark, Tiler; Dock Miller and Robert Hamlin, Stewards. Prominent Pythians in Town. Grand Chancellor, L. O. Wilson, of Weston. Grand Vice Chancellor, E. L. Morton, Fairmont; Grand Medical Registrar, Dr. G. N. Marshall Keystone and J. V. Coleman, Mt Carbon, are here this week in conference with Grand Master of exchequer J. M. Hazlewood, Grand Attorney, J. W. Chappelle and T. G. Nutter on the revision of the constitution and by-laws of the Pythian Grand Lodge and location of the Starks monument. Special Services at Simpson. Special services will be held all day Sunday at Simpson M. E. church. At 6:00 A. M. song and praise service will be held. The pastor will deliver a special Christmas sermon at 11:00. The Sunday School will meet at 3:00 class meeting at 3:30. Epworth league devotional meeting at 7:v0 and special sermon to waiters at 8:30 Throughout the week the Christmas fair entertainments will be continued with a change of program each night. Past Officers Council.—Past Officers Council No. 45 of the Independent Order of St. Luke was organized by Deputy A. P. Straughter, last week with the following officers: G. P. Porter, W. C.; Miss Fannie Thomas, V. C.; Mrs. Robert Hamlin, F. S.; Miss Nellie Merritt, C. S.; Miss Aristis Johnson, S. C.; Miss Minor Booker, J. C.; J. P. Caul, W. T.; A. J. Morris, W. C.; Mrs. Sorronia Spencer, W. M.; and Mrs. Bettle Hall, L. S. Excellent Program—The Dorcas society has prepared the following excellent program for rendition at the First Baptist church, Monday night; Address, C. W. Boyd; Solo, Mrs. Rosa Thompson; Piano Solo Miss Ethet Smith, Essay, Miss Lula Wade; Solo, Mrs. Annie Davis; Piano Solo, Mrs. Inez Cyrus; recitation Miss Amelia Wilcher; Solo, Frances Stephenson; Piano Solo Katherine Gamble; Reading, Miss Amanda Gamble; Solo, Miss Maude Robinson; Essay, Miss Farrar; Solo, Miss Esther Fulks. Provident Council No. 657.—Provident Council No. 657, Independent Order of St. Luke, will have as officers for the ensuing term, Geo. E. Wanzer, W. C.; Mrs. Lulu Johnson, V. C.; W., H. Parker, F. S.; Miss Esther Fullks, S. C.; Miss Nancy Merritt, J. C.; Mrs. Nancy Grant, W. M.; Grant Jones, W. P.; Miss Martha Harris, K. of W.; Frank Boyle, I. S.; Thos. Dunnivan, O. S. Card of Thanks.—Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Clark take this means of thanking their friends for the kindness shown during the illness and death of their sister, Miss Mary Hairston. Wedding Invitations Out.—Many of the friends here of Dr. Geo. W. Holley, of Hinton, have received invitations to his marriage to Miss Georgia Josephine Harris which will be solemnized at Montgomery, Ala., the twenty-eighth inst. Dr. and Mrs. Holley will be at home after December 30th, 214 James street Hinton. Bazaar At Baptist Church—The bazaar at the First Baptist church will begin Monday evening and continue through the week, each club having a night for the presentation of its program on which are the names of some of the best home talent. There will be prayer meeting early Sunday morning to which the public is invited. The regular services will be held at 11:00 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. The subject to be discussed in the evening is, "A Child Born". LOCALS AND PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bryant will spend the holidays with their parents in fronton. Miss Sue Kinney, of Clevland, O., will spend the holidays in the city. Beautiful transformations at Mrs. Brown's, 500 Capitol St. Miss Mary Yancy left Monday for her home at Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Lulu Gee, of Gallipolis, O., will arrive in the city Monday to be the holiday guest of Miss Maude Viney. Miss Mary E. Hariston, of Martinsville, Va., who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. E. Clark, died Thursday morning. The remains accompanied by her mother and brother, were shipped home. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Browder entertained at dinner. Tuesday. Rev. and Mrs. Reed and Miss Rebecca Butlard. Mr. Browder's father, of Lyndon. O., is his house guest for the holidays. Juo. Young, died Friday at 5 p.m., at his home on Craig St. Mr. Young had been ill for several months with tuberculosis. He is survived by a wife. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Simpson M. E. church under the auspices of the K. of P's, and Odd Fellows, of which he was a member. Grst of the week at Institute the guest of relatives. Miss Flora Webster left Saturday for Rochester, Pa., where she will spend the holidays. Miss L. O. Hopkins is visiting relatives in St. Albans. Mrs. Eliza James, of Columbus, O., is visiting her son, C. H. James, Summer St. Dr. N. C. Lawrence, of Montgomery, was a business visitor to the city Monday. Mrs. Emma Young is ill at her home on Craig St. Miss Charlotte Campbell was shopping in town Saturday. The Priscilla Art Club will meet with Mrs. Rebecca Preston, Sentz St., Thursday evening. A. P. Straughter, of Hinton, and E. R. Carter were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Porter, Thursday. Dr. G. N. Marshall and E. L. Morton are house guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hazlewood. W. O. Lee left yesterday for Washington to spend the holidaya with his wife. Miss Estella Kennedy, of Washington, D. C., will arrive in the city tomorrow to spend the yuletide with Mrs. J. M. Hazlewood. Miss Ethel Springgs and Chas. E. Mitchell, of Institute, and Dr. R. L. Jones, this city go to Washington, Friday. But little improvement is noted in the condition of Lorain Gibson, of Sewall, a West Virginia Colored Institute student suffering with typhoid at the general hospital. Prudie, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen DeHonney, continues ill at the home of her parents. Mrs. Frank Fitzgerald has returned from a pleasant trip to Ironton, Ohio. WEST CHARLESTON. Mrs. Lucy Brown, of Louisville, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Julia Patterson. James Davis had his finger very badly mashed at the ax factory, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Hammond will spend the holidays in Louisville. Ky., visiting relatives and friends. In operating one of the large broad ax machines, Friday at the ax plant, George Tillman had his arm badly burned by a piece of steel. The ax plant will close on the 23rd for inventory and general repairs. At the conclusion of the Boston Nationals annual meeting, C. James Connolly came from the inner circle and gazed mysteriously at the reporters. "Have you bought the club?" he was asked. "Yes," he answered slowly. "I'm just waiting around for the change." ATTENTION TEACHERS! 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. 12-15-34 A WORD WITH OUR FRIENDS. We have just opened a first-class ice cream parlor at the People's Grocery store in the K. of P. Building, where you will receive the very best of service. Our cream is the best in the land, guaranteed to please you. Hours for Sunday: 4 p. m. to 11 p. m. We will be open every night during the week. W. H. Parker, Manager. Reflexlier A THROWS of its life The best and ever placed I will place on ness house or these famous vince you of P. A. D The Light Store No. 4 Special Buggy of HIGHEST GRADES A Value Unequaled. Sold on $1.0 FROM FACTORY TO U.S. Write for prices and other styles. See C. R. 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R., and easy of access from all points of the Virginian Healthful location, the very best of school comfort, and excellent advantages in the way of Library, Laboratories, Student Societies and a strong, earnest Faculty. Regular Normal and Academic Courses, also courses in Music, Sewing, Cooking and Laundering. FREE BOOKS TO NORMAL STUDENTS BOARD, FUEL, LIGHT AND FURNISHED ROOMS $8.00 PER MONTH. A Model Graded School in which Normal Graduates are given the necessary experience in-teaching before beginning their regular work. For Further Information Address the Principal Fancy Vests Smoking Jackets Bath Robes Canes Umbrellas Mufflers Ties and Socks To Match Clothing For Boys All Goods Bought Now Charged to 1911 Account BANNER 24 CAPITOL ST. The new Union Association League will have teams in Butte and Great Falls, Montana; Salt Lake and Ogden, Utah, and Boise and Twin Falls, Idaho. Next year Eddie Collins of the Athletics will draw $6,000 for his season's work. When Eddie joined the present champions two years ago he received $100 a month. Charlie Carr, formerly of the Cleveland and Indianapolis clubs, has organized the Indiana State Baseball Association. The organization will be composed of semi-professional clubs. W. H. Russell, the new owner of the Boston Doves, says that fired Tenney is still able to play a big league ball. Boston fans don't have to start knocking right off the rod but they are from Missouri. Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 21.—One of the most sensational robberies known in the history of the Tri-state region was perpetrated Tuesday morning at Catlettsburg when Geo. Kerr, bookkeeper for Josselson Brothers, wholesale liquor dealers, walked out and away carrying with him two thousand dollars in cash, most of it being gold, the property of his employers. Word of the affair reached Huntington about ten o'clock Tuesday morning two hours after the flight of Kerr. The discovery of such a tremendous robbery had thrown the Boyd county seat into a condition of great excitement and practically everyone who could spare the time was engaged in the man hunt. The police were dispatched over the greatest possible area, the search being carried to Kenova, Ceredo, Ashhand and all other surrounding towns. The Huntington officers were asked to keep a sharp lookout here. The most remarkable part of the whole affair was the mystery of Kerr's disappearance. He had been in Catlettsburg only about six weeks and was not known to many people, still he must have passed in the daylight along one of the town's busest thoroughfares and several hours of inquiry failed to bring anyone who has seen a man answering his description. Kerr made his appearance in Catlettsburg about six weeks ago and was given the position of bookkeeper for the Josselsons. His work was good and his conduct apparently exemplary. No suspicion of wrong intentions was felt towards him. Tuesday morning he was at his desk at work when one of the firm members entered the office. Mr. Josselson remained until about eight o'clock when he went out for breakfast. Returning after a time he found Kerr gone. There were one or two people about the building and they said that Kerr had been gone about twenty minutes. After a few minutes Mr. Josselson examined the safe and discovered the loss of his money. He immediately gave warning to the police of the simultaneous disappearance of Kerr and the firm's money and asked that an attempt be made to apprehend him. Kerr is described as being about twenty-eight years old, of pleasing appearance, about five feet nine inches tall, light complexion, light mustache, glasses, a dark suit and a light overcoat. 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. 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Vigyazo, a strikingly handsome man of elegant appearance and polished manners, selected the business of a hairdresser for the sole reason that it would bring him into close connection with those circles in which he hoped to find victims. By degrees he became acquainted with the intimate secrets of his patronesses. Thus finding himself in possession of sufficient material, he forwarded various blackmailing letters, in one declaring that he had entire knowledge of a lady's meeting with her chauffeur, in another giving exact details of the lady's interviews with an officer of the hussars, while other letters of the same character contained scarcely veiled threats. The price which he demanded for his silence varied from 3,000 to 5,000 kronen, or even more. An energetic lady wife of a millionaire, to whom the blackmailer had written by mistake, informed the criminal authorities, who arrested the man. It soon became known that he had communicated to the police a number of compromising stories and threatened, in case of a trial, to divulge all the scandalous secrets in his possession. Shortly after his arrest the young adventurer, who came from an excellent and once wealthy family in Vienna, committed suicide In his cell, but even his tragic end has not allayed the fear of the indiscreet victims of the hairdresser. They fear that he has left compromising notes and papers and that their secrets may yet become public property in some way. Man Serving 19 Years A proclamation by the Governor issued today will give James A. Battle, serving a life sentence in the penitentiary, his freedom Christmas morning. Battle has served nearly twenty years. He was formerly a resident of McDowell county. More than twenty years ago a negro gambler from one of the southern States alienated the affections of Battle's wife and one day they stopped in sight of Battle and made remarks that induced him to pull his pistol and shoot at the other negro man. The shot missed its mark but killed Battle's wife. At the term of court held in October, 1891, he was found guilty of murder and sent up for the remainder of his natural life. 100 New Fire Plugs and Their Location as Mapped Out In connection with the article appearing in yesterday's issue of The Mail concerning the 100 new fire plugs recommended by Chief Rand, a list of the proposed location of the hydrants is flown below: Capitol and Kanawha; Capitol between Kanawha and Virginia; Capitol between Virginia and Quarrier; Capitol between Quarrier and Lee, Capitol between Lee and Washington; Capitol and Washington; Capitol and Smith; Kanawha and Truslow; Kanawha east of Ruffner, Kanawha and McFarland; Washington and Dickinson; Washington and Sentz; Washington and Jacob; Washington and Beauregard; Washington, 350 feet east of Ruffner, Washington and Oney; Washington and Veazy; Virginia and Goshorn; Virginia, between Summers and Capitol (Arcade building); Virginia, between Capitol and Hale (alley rear of Kanawha National Bank); Virginia and Bradford; Summers, between Kanawha and Virginia; Summers and Fife; Summers, between State and Donnally; Quarrier, between Hale and Capitol; Quarrier and Dunbar; Quarrier and in front of E. Howell's residence; Quarrier and in front of No. 1547; Quarrier and Oney; Lee and Brooks; Lee and Morris; Lee and Beauregard; Lee and Ruffner; Lee and Elizabeth; Hale, between Kanawha and Virginia; Hale and Lee; Kanawha, between Alderson and Summers; Lewis and Broad; Smith and Shrewsbury; Baines and Morris; Morris and Elmwood; Morris, at K. & M. railroad crossing; Brooks and Elmwood; Lewis and Jacob; Piedmont and Brooks; Piedmont and Ruffner, Thompson and Jackson; Margaree and Ross; Bullitt and Dryden; Court and Welch; North Rand and Elk; Lovell and Bibby; Reynolds and Whittaker; Brown and Truslow, Joseph and McCormick; Brown and Clendennin. West: Charleston—First Ward. Stockton street and Seventh avenue; Bream street and Seventh avenue; Florida street and Seventh avenue; Charleston street and Hunt avenue; Virginia and Park; Charleston and Hendrix; Charleston, 200 feet east of Patrick; Bream street and Third avenue! Third avenue, 200 feet west of Stockton; Fourth avenue and Stockton street; Third avenue and Stockton street; Fifth avenue and Florida street; Red Oak street and Park avenue; Garden street, 400 feet east of Hunt avenue; Frame and Maple; Frame street, 300 feet west of Beechwood avenue; Beechwood avenue and Stewart street. West End. Death Penalty for Long Delayed Case of Wife Murderer Oakland, Cal., Dec. 21.—One of the longest legal fights ever waged in California by a convicted murderer to escape paying the penalty for his crime has ended here with the re-sentencing of Mark A. Wilkins to be hanged in February next. Wilkins' crime was the murder of Vernie Carmin, a woman who lived with him as his wife, in November, 1907. The woman died from poison. The crime was committed in a little cottage in Elmhurst, near here, where the couple lived. After committing the murder Wilkins buried his victim in quick line in the yard back of the house. Wilkins was tried in the early part of 1908. He was quickly convicted and sentenced to be executed in November of that year. Then began a legal battle that has established a record for longevity in the criminal records of this State. Though reputed to be a burglar by profession and having a long prison record, Wilkins is well educated and is said to come of a well-to-do family. Every step known to the law was employed in the fight to save We Are the Leaders In Style, Quality and Price When any new store has the patronage that we command, there is a reason why. Our prices, quality of goods, low, plain figures, and easiest of all, easy credit terms, appeal to the man who needs credit. Not one cent is added to the legetimate price for any article you buy of us, and our guarantee stands like the rocks of Gibralter. All LADIES' SUITS 33 1-3 per cent OFF Former Price HATS 50 WE HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN CLOTHING FOR YOURSELF, YOUR WIFE OR ANY OF YOUR FAMILY. LET US CLOTHE YOUR FAMILY FOR $1.00 A WEEK. 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Gifford, assistant bacteriologist at the West Virginia experiment station, was removed from the Monongahela river at Morgantown Sunday morning. Mr. Gifford was skating alone on the river Saturday evening when he ran into an open space in the ice. The young man's cries for help were heard by several people who rushed to his assistance but were too late to render aid. Harry F. Smith was crossing the bridge at the time, 7:40, when he heard the man's cries for help. He rushed to the river and on reaching the shore met another man coming off the ice after an ineffectual effort to reach the drowning man. The name of the man who first went to the rescue could not be learned. He had thrown his coat off and after walking a short way on the ice tried to crawl to Mr. Gifford's assistance. One of the men who first reached the river stated that he saw a form run off the ice and up across the railroad. It is thought that the form was that of a boy who had been skating near Mr. Gifford when the accident occurred. Mr. Gifford was skating alone and although it was known that a man had been drowned, his identity was not known until the body was brought to the surface Sunday morning. A cap of the "Heideap" brand, size 7 3-8, was found in the water immediately after the drowning. During the evening several people rushed to the river and asked that they might see the cap, hoping that it was not their son who had met death. One man hurried to the Swisher theatre and asked to be allowed to go through in search of his son. He was unsuccessful and then went to the wharf where he was made sure of the safety of his boy after the examination of the cap. An anxious mother was also one of the frantic questioners about the piece of headwear. Not one cent is my article you buy of the rocks of Gibraltar -3 per cent OFF For " " " " LOTHING FOR YOURSELF, YOUR WEEK FOR $1.00 A WEEK. 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Cuzzens, for many years connected with the city schools, has been tendered a clerkship in the office of the County Assessor and will enter upon his duties the first of the year. There has long been a quiet, but none the less effective, movement among the Negroes to secure just such representation at the Court House as the Cuzzens appointment gives. Those of them who had been on the stump in recent years had often been embarrassed by the query, why Negroes could get nothing better than a janitorship at the Court House. The announcement of County Assessor Copenhaver's appointment of Mr. Cuzzens has made a good imminence upon them and they are unstinted in their praise of ALL READY? — Let Us Help. one cent is added to you buy of us, and of Gibralter. GET OFF Former Price YOURSELF, YOUR WIFE OR ANY OF A WEEK. COME EARLY AND YOU TODAY AND BALANCE WHILE Men's Overcoats, &c. Coats, Youths' Overcoats. S, Ladies' Shoes, Ladies' Waists, La- R COATS, VELVET COATS, PONY W AND PAY US AFTER XMAS. Farley EET o'Clock UR" Xmas And Acceptable ETS SETS $4.50, $5.00, $6.50, $9.50, $15.00. ifts suitable for old and young at RGE & BSHARAH adies' Furnishings AND 720 KANAWHA STREET. him and Prosecuting Attorney Avis, who was largely responsible for Mr. Copenhaver's action in the matter. MAY TOUR THE WORLD. Chicago. Dec. 17.—It is gossip in sporting circles that Jack Johnson and George Hackenschmidt are making arrangements to tour the world in an athletic show. According to the story Jack Curley who is at present managing the Russian wrestler, will handle the business end of the trip. The idea of the tour is similar to the one James Jeffries planned before the Reno bout, and should take up about two years. If the scheme goes through the champion pugilist and Hackenschmidt will probably travel through nearly every country in the world. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS W. T. Thayer and wife to Charles King and wife, lot in city; $1 et al. Roxalana Land Co. to M. W. Grossman, house and lot in city; $6,000. Charles Wirsteiner and wife to George K. Conner, parcel in Elk district; $400. Grant P. Hall and wife to Dora Berry, two lots in St. Albans; $351. - aN) WZ. ul Se ne a Rn a te ens Sieadiiehethd bhi ala) _ =! = ——— + oes OE ADVOCATE GRImManae wiwrwhenes “ak add Ly eemapraagay sme a So —————— ms 10 ‘at eri Rea! mi Ww Key Aw COMPARATIVELY FEW CITIES IN THE COUNTRY CAN BOAST A MEAT MARKET WHICH REGU- LATES THE TEMPERATURE AS DESIRED IN EVERY PART BY PRECISELY THE SAME METHOD BY WHICH ICE IS MADE AT A FACTORY. 5 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 REFRIGERA- TION SYSTEM, WE CAN REGULATE THE DEGREE OF HEAT OR COLD UP OR DOWN PROM PREEZ- ING TEMPERATURE JUST AS WE PLEASE IN ANY PART OF THE MARKET THAT CAN BE REACH- ED BY A METAL PIPE. 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, ‘THID PRODUCTS IN OUR UNSIDE DISPLAY CASK, AND EVEN THE PRODUCTS ON OUR COUNTER, ARE ALL KEPT, ALL THE TIME, AL SUCH A TEMPERATURE AS TO BE PREE FROM INFECTION. TOUCH THE PIPES SURRCUNDING OUR COUNTER AND YOU WILL REALIZE WHAT OUR RE- FRIGERATION PLANT MEANS TO YOU, OR, BETEER SPILL, LET US SHOW YOU OVER ‘THE PLANT AND EXPLAIN BULLY ITS WORKINGS. WE WILL TAK PLEASURE IN DOING SO. Sperry & Hutchinson Green Trading Stamps LIKE EVERY OTHER RETAILER, WE APPRECIATE CASH TRADE, AND WE KNOW NO BETTER WAY OF SHOWING OUR APPRECIA- 'TLON THAN BY OFFERING THE GREEN STAMPS, THE VALUE OF WHICH IS SO WELL RECOGNIZED WHEREVER THEY ARE KNOWN. Meat OF EVERY KIND, EVERY PIRCE 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 TPEREECT MODERN AEPHODS-OF REPRIGERAPION, ~ Supplies, Inclvding Vegetables, in Season, Butter, Eggs. AND MANY PICKLED, CANNED AND LOTTLED PRODUCTS, mopecialty of Star Ham and Bacon WE WOULD KEEP A BETTER BRAND FE 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 RRASON- ABLE 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 PAPKONAGE OF MEN AND WO- MEN WHO Know What They Buy and What They Pay For It Wh FIND IT EASIEST TO SATISPY SUCH CUSTOMERS, THE LABORING >> “eR Is, COMPARATIVELY, JUST AS VAL- UABLE TO US AS THE RICH MAN'S GOLD. Uniform Price and Uniform Courtesy PEPINES OUR POLICY. A CHILD'S ORDER RECEIVES EVEN MORE . CAREFUL CONSIDERATION THANTHAT OF A PERSON OF MATURE YEARS AND JUDGMENT. Capen rae ee . ia ae Holt, i PERSO gm ee eee Reh Bee 713 VIRGINIA STREET bas \ Biter aan ——_—_——— eee Chicago News Letter Chicago, Dec. 21-—" The people who believe in starvation bargains and sweatshop labor for women and girls will be with the employers.” Mrs, Raymond Robins has declared, of the Chicago garment workers strike, which has involved 190,000 men, Women and children, "On the other hand,” she continnod, “tie people who believe in civilized indus- try Unyough the trade agreement Will be with the strikers, ‘The great need of the moment is money mones for food and coal Every dollar received is acconnind for pub Hely and it buys a dollar's worth of provisions at wholesals yates, We need the help oF the peosle to save those women and girls from a kan ger bargain—2 bargain which mean the surrender of civilization ty the parbarie sweatshop in ons of the Brest (rades of our ells. inom: Opinion the present strike ef thy garment workers is the moc wide apread and remarkable exhibitior from a socialogieal viewpoint! of ans which ever ocenrred in any city, © nearly 100,000 persons involves thousinds are innocently — Wearin: the brunt of the suffering. ‘Whey ar the vast multitude of women an childron of the workers, ‘The famil jes are large. From eight to leve: children ts the rule in a fanil gather than the exception. von members to a family is a conserva tive estimate. For this reason | yannot be compared to the kitte trouble of the shirtwaist makers in New York recently.” The hot aly fufnaes, which newa- days in Chicago has its back asainst the wall, is Gishting the steady n- slavgits of steam and not water healing with a new weapon, Co.cc advice, ‘Twenty years aso the hot air farnace was 0 far in the lead that the efforts of steam — heating concerns were looked xpon with complacency, One — mansfecturins convern in Chieazo whien finaily has acenmulated a sitrplus of millions of dollars from steam and hot water heating eqnipment at that time had a ronsh road to sell any stock at any rice, Conditions have so changed in recent sears that even for domes- (ie heating plants hot air furnace ‘nen found themselves losing round They have not esen yet begun to ficht shontder to shoulder, but have tarted what promises to be a battte Hroval over the subject of fuel econ. roms. purity of air, eleantiness and the other factors that enter into the |heating problem. Most of the ills jehich are attributed to bad air the hot air furnace makers lav at (hy door of the steam coil, To back wtp this cliim they assert that whereas an increase in “had air diseases ts [revortea there is no other reason for it than Jess pure air cirenlating. The tendency foward tighter buildtne constrnetion has gone hand in hand with an improvement. in sanitary wumbing, while at the same time the old time Kerosene lamp has larsels been distarded for the incandescent electric light, which does not con. faminate the air at all. “Therefore -on the whole there seems to be lessening of the amount of concans- natives meterial thrown into the air Qi at home ina given time,” declares ome OF their authorities. “his be- ing the case, there must have been a lessening of the amount of fresh ‘air brought into the building to di- lute the contaminating materiatn, that is, an actual decrease in yenti- jation, Otherwise there would be » distinet improvement in the conar- tion of indoor air and a decrease, instead of an increase, in the num- bor of cases of bad air diseases.” As a direct resuli of “committees of safety.” the accidents in plants of one big industrial corporation were reduced one-half, in consequence of which snecoss a Chieago railway has adopted the safety committee plan, and is likely to be followed by other vailways and industrial corporations, According to the League for Public Safety, the plan shifts {0 the em ploves a part of the responsibility for arcidents and also enables them throuch their representatives on the committees to bring about needed langes and improvements to sate- snard life. ‘The enormous waste ot lives in railroad operation, renerally Jeplored by executives. has heen act- do tpon by RoC. Richards. generat claim axent of the Northwestern system, who has given a great jAmount of personal attention to the subject for years. He was the first 19 publicly protest against the an- nual increase of the death and fh jury list, an address ho made to em- bioves having been published ass hooklet, ‘Conservation of Men," which other roads and industrial companies have distributed by the thousand for the good it may do tn increasing the carefulness and pro- dence of the mea who man the trains and actually run the road. The Northwestern’s committees have heen appointed on most of the di- visions of the system, and cack will includy ten men, mady up from the engine men, trainmen, (rack men, roundhouse men, shop men and sup- crintendents, In addressing — em ployes, Mr. Richards said. “Daring the last. year in which the interstate conimerce commission made their re- port, there were killed, not injured. but killed on the railroats of this vountry 10,313 men, women and ichildren; that is one for every titty minutes of every 24 hours of every (Way in the 365 days of Mose twelve months, and of that number 3.470, hot 370, but 3.470, or ten a day, were young men: they were your jbrothers, your fathers, your sons and your next-door neighbors who were killed. In the same year there [were 105,234 people injured, ~ or lone for every five minutes of every ;hour of every 21 hours of every day jof the 865 days of the year. Of that number 83.367 were you people, you railroad men, Think of it, 80 per cent of all the pcople injured were employes, not passengers, not out- siders, but just us railroad — em- jployes. What do you think of that [fer a record in a business which ad- lvertises itself to be safe?" MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage Heenses were issued to- day to the following B. FP. Vanbibber 22, Clara I Edens 18, Kanawha county. Herbert: Rimmer 21, Feral Row: sey it, Kanawha county. GW. Raby 32, Cora L, Persinger 2d, Kanawha county fT. iL Newhouse 23, Nelle Hug hart 19, Kanawha county | W. L. Williamson 27, Nolda Brooks 27, ‘Kanawha county. | Samuel Curtis 25, Laura M, Slat Va, Kanawha county, Charles Newman 6S, Allie Spen cer GS, Kanawha county. eee Bo Walden—22—Minnie M Cozart 17, Kanawha county. ARCHBISHOP'S ANNIVERSARY. | St. Paul, Minn., Dee. 21,—Arch- bishop Ireland today quieily ob- served the forty-ninth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood and the thirty-fifth anniversary. of his consecration as a bishop. Only three members of the Roman Catho- lie hierarchy in the United States are older than the St. Paul prelate in point of service. They are Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Bishop Hogan of Kansas City and Archbishop Ryan ot Philadelphia, Preparations are already being made for an appro- priate celebration next year of Arch- bishop Ireland's sacredotal jubilee. Zach Wheat played in every game the Brooklyn Dodgers took part in last season, Otis Johnson is to get another trial with the New York Americans on the spring trip. Billy Evans is umpiring games in Havana and has made quite a hit with the Cuban fans. Pacific Coast League fans predict j@ great future for Pitcher Jack Lively who has been signed by De- troit. Manager Hugh Duffy of the White Sox is a golf fiend. Even a heayy snow storm does not stop Hugt Playing the Scotch game. Manager Patsy Donovan of — the Boston Red Sox is up against it try. ing to find a man to take Jake Stahl’s place at first base. | William Zimmerman, a brother of Heinie Zimmerman of the Chicagc Cubs, has recently signed with the Danville club of the Three-I League Clarence Rowland, former mana- ger of the Aberdecn_(Wash.), Win- nipeg and Jacksonville (II1.) teams, has purchased the Dubuque Threc- League Club, “The Athletics have too many old men in their line-up to win another pennant," says Scout Arthur Irwin of the Highlanders. Arthur must be spoofing a trifle. WHAT 1S IT? Ten year Combinaion r ibutio n Cerificate of Membership as devis- edby he American Work- men raternal Insurance Company, of Washingon . D.C., one of ahe mot lib- eral, srongest and reli- ble fraternal institus tions in the field. For further pariculars see DEY. JORDAN, GEN. AGENT FORW. VA. Office: Room 2, K, U. Butlding. OHARLESTON, . W. VA. OB -4t, % aie If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keep- ing ft 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 ono 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, ether 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 0. WILSON, PRESENT ——— Polities and Politicians Oakland, Cal, has adopted the commission plan of government, Patrick J. Boyle has just’ been elected for his fifteenth term as may- or of Newport, R, 1, Florida Democrats will hold a pri- mary next month for the clection of a United States senator. Chase S} Osborne, recently elected governor of Michigan, ts out with a no-second-term declaration, An even hundred cities, distribu- ted through twenty-threo states of the Union, have adopted the commis- sion form of government, Jerome Templeton of Knoxville, who is a candidate for the seat of Senator Frazier has long been prom- inent as a leader of the prohibition movement in Tennessee. - James L. Solvies, secretary-treas- urer of the Postal Progress League, has announced his candidacy for United States senator from New York to succeed Chauncey M, Depew. | According to the official reports, the campaign expenses of the two leading parties in the recent election in New York state aggreszated nearly one million dollars, enatorship in the Rhode Island leg- The Northwestern states that will elect United States senators this winter are Towa, Minnesota, Nebras- ka, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Mon- tana and Washington, A deadlock on the United States isiattite is predicted, as the strength of the three leading aspirants is re- garded as about even, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Arkan- sas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Mon- tana and Nevada have followed the |gxample of Oregon in adopting the initiative and referendum. The Michigan State Association of Farmers’ Clubs has resolved to dis- regard party affiliations and hereaf- ter vote only for candidates who stand for measures in the farmers’ l niatiera: Governor Wilson of New Jersey, Governor Harmon of Ohio, Governor Baldwin of Connecticut, William J. Bryan of Nebraska and a host of other prominent party leaders are expected to attend the great Demo- cratic conference in Washington next month. The Democratic fight in Ohio for the seat in the United States senate, now held by Charles Dick, has nar- rowed to a contest between Lieuten- pt Governor-elect Atlee Pomerene. of Corton, and Edward W. Hanley, a prominent lawyer of Dayton. ep cnr enero Enoch Smith, President. Sutaes L, M, LaFollette Edward W. Brightwell, Cashier, Yi°7PFest J. ©. Morrison Charleston, W. Va. ; CAPITAL STOCK, $250,000.00. - ———— lo 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 inter- view iit regard to opening an account. Accounts with this bank can be opened by Bost Office Money Or- der, 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 LIKEMORE | Either Plain or in Brick 2 2 To Churches pecia PICES ana dealers 20 Capitol Street. . Both Ph one “Though many reforms will ybe ing by President W. TT. Moores of Sa- urged in the legislatures of the west-] lem The principal speakers heard ern states this winter, it is not prob- during the day were Dr. Margaret able thatcmeasnres-aimed autrattwaysSchallenberger, of the State Normal and corporations will monopolize as} School at San Jose, Cal., and Dr. Da- at other sessions during the. bast few} vid. Snedden, commissioner of edu- Reports from al! sections of the country indicate that the state leg- islatures at their sessions about to begin will give more attention than ever before to the subjects of conser- vation, primary election reform, the initiative and referendum, good roads, drainage, the extension of ag- ricultural education and kindred mat- ters. County option and prohibi- tion will not be so widely discussed as heretofore. a OREGON TEACHERS MEET Portland, Ore., Dee, 21,—The western division of the Oregon State Teachers’ Association met in Port- land today and began what promised to be the most profitable convention in the history of the organization. Teachers frem all of the counties embraced. in the territory of the as- sociation were present when the gath- ering was called to order this morn- ing by President i. T. Moores of Sa- lem. The principal speakers heard during the day were Dr. Margaret “Schallenberger, of the State Normal School at San Jose, Cal., and Dr. Da- vid..Snedden, commissioner. of edu- cation of Massachusetts. ‘The con- vention will continue its — sessions over Thursday and Friday. ———_+-___. | WILL DANCE 'TO SAVE LIFE Chicago, Dec. 21.—The colored population of Chicago is on edge in anticipation of the “g#and ball” to be given tomorrow night, the pro- ceeds of which will be employed in an attempt to save Thomas Jennings, the “finger print” burglar, from the gallows. Jennings, a negro ex-con- vict. was recently convicted of the murder of Clarence Hiller, whose house he is alleged to have entered for the purpose of robbery. Finger prints left in the soft paint on a rear poreh railing were the principal evidence against the negro, The proceeds of the ball will be used to carry the case to the supreme court for a ruling of the admissibility of “finger print evidence" in a trial.