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MISSISSippi PUBLISH MISSISSippi SKINS FROM THE BROTHERS. VOLUME X. President of Liberia IS AGREED UPON BY DOMINANT PARTY AND ELECTION IS URGED. Treasury Watchdog The Roosevelt of The Black Republic Will Succeed Barclay, Who Refuses to Serve a Third Term. Republic's Stamps Uplique. While the common people and the politicians of these United States are going to puzzle their brains for months as to who will lead the cohorts of the two big parties in the next Presidential contest, and are going to worry themselves near sick as to whether Mr. Taft will succeed himself, or if Theodore Roosevelt will overcome his aversion to a third term, or if Charles E. Hughes will be his party's nominee, or if William Jennings Bryan will bear the standard of Democracy again, or if Woodrow Wilson will ever have a chance to eat a Thanksgiving dinner in the White House, the black people of the African republic, Liberia, in a most business-like manner have gone ahead and settled their little presidential problem. The formality of an election and inauguration is practically all that remains to consummate the deed. Daniel E. Howard will be the next president of the Libertians. True it is that nominations have not been made, but the indorsement of a candidate by the National Whig party caucus is as certain a guarantee of success in Liberia as the election of a Democratic candidate for Governor in the Georgia primaries. Howard to Succeed Barclay. The National Whig leaders at a conference just held, decided that Howard should be the party's nominee, and when the delegates to the nominating convention meet at Monrovia in January, about all that will be necessary will be to call the roll and have a few speeches and a little hurrah. Then will come the faint semblance of a campaign, ending with the presidential election in May, when the National Whigs, through overpowering odds as against all other political factions in the land, will sweep Howard to a grand and glorious victory. He will be duly inaugurated and take the reins of government the first Tuesday in January, 1912. All authorities agree that President Barclay could have had the caucus indorsement, the nomination and the presidency again if he had but said the word. But following the precedent set by the illustrious Washington and other distinguished American executives, the black president gently but firmly declined a third term. His admirers, particularly those among the office-holders, were clamorous for his re-election, but with Spran-tan like devotion to American precedent, he waved away the flirtatious nomination. "The Roosevelt of Liberia." So Howard was decided upon, He is a member of the Barclay Cabinet—the Secretary of the Treasury and a sort of ebony-hued watch dog—whom the people have agreed has well and truly performed his duties. He is 49 years old, and has had a place in the political life of the Republic practically since he attained his majority. His father before him was chairman of the Whig party, and he himself now occupies that enviable position in the political whirl of Liberia. One of the enthusiastic editors of his proud land has dubbed him "the Roosevelt of Africa." So it may be assumed that, unless the scribe was carried away by overzealous advocacy of his favorite, the election of Daniel E. Howard to the Presidency of Liberia may be followed by widely spread documentary evidence of vallant encounters with the ferocious bob-cat and the early establishment of an African Ananias ranch. A Republic's Campaign of Publicity. Although the people of this country are responsible for the existence of Liberia, comparatively little is known here of the progress made by the citizens of that land in their struggle with the governmental problems of a Republic. Some students of the subject are not altogether satisfied that the republic has been a success. Others are pleased with what appears to have been a steady, if slow, forward movement and development of the resources of the land. One thing is certain; the Liberians have done what they could with the resources at their command to let themselves be known away from home. They have devoted a great deal of attention, for instance, to their postage stamps, using little stickers in a sort of publicity campaign to attract the attention of the outside world to their country. teresting study. Most of them have some claim to the artistic, are rich in color and the variety of subjects they present and are generally attractive. Stamps of Liberia. The country was issuing stamps in 1860 when it was practically in swaddling clothes and when the stamp industry itself was not two decades old. Up to 1892, however, it had not essayed any ambitious designs. In that year it issued a series of very interesting and attractive designs and has kept up this policy ever since. The twentieth century stamps show some admirable scenes and figures. A female head and face shown on some of these stamps, it is curious to note, possesses more nearly the characteristics of a Caucasian than an African beauty. It represents liberty. The god Mercury is also pictured on one of the stamps, and it is as creditable a Mercury as ever the stamps of Greece presented. Animals have formed a favorite subject of illustration for Liberian stamps. The elephant, the bulky hippopotamus, the chimpanzee, the beautiful plantain eater, the agama lizard, the great egret, and other creatures native to the jungle-like interior of the land are all shown on stamps of different denominations. The Mandigoes, a type of native people who are being trained in the intricacies of republic government and politics are shown on a stamp of 1906. Register William Tecumseh Vernon THE DISTINGUISHED LEADER AND ORATOR BOOKED TO ADDRESS GREAT AUDIENCE IN ATLANTA AUDITORIUM IN JANUARY 2. Down here in Georgia the people believe in Vernon because of their high confidence in his manhood and faith in his politics. If the Negroes of the entire country are as enthusiastic over the man as the colored people of Georgia, he is destined to to be a greater power after his retirement than before. He is too large a man to be held down by public office. There is no better way to measure the influence of a man than doing it when he is out of office and serving the people without being bound by party creeds and alliances. Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, is another type of the strong man whose powers and influence are always hampered by political office. He is a free thinker and a fine democratic type of man whom the plain people respect and love to honor. Johnson began to grow in influence when Pledger died. But he had to fight his way to the front. DeVaux, Judson Lyons and Henry Rucker, the remaining three of the "Georgia Big Four" certainly fought hard to keep Lincoln Johnson from stepping into the shoes of Bill Pledger, who wished Johnson to be his successor. They failed to reckon well. Johnson stood out as the leader of the younger men. By fighting him, they lost entirely the political sympathy and cooperation in politics of the men of the late generation who now form the most influential part of Georgia's citizens. But no set of men can rule always and the passing of Lyons, Deveaux and Rucker was the natural result of a change going on in the make-up of the citizen body in this State. All of the older men were successful men and politicians in their time. They conducted themselves like gentlemen and were all and are all to this day held in high esteem by the best and most thoughtful citizens of Georgia. The people of his character and intelligence in Georgia care nothing about the opinions of any editors regarding either of the men in question. Rucker and the rest of "The Old Guard" are too well known as men of honor, intelligence and high character by the people of this commonwealth. The mud thrown at them in the past has always fallen finally on the throwers. It could never stick on these men. Character dignifies a man in office or out of office. It also dignifies his politics and inaures his reputation as a public officer against the attacks of any man or editor who is not above suspicion himself. It is interesting to mingle with the people of this State and learn personally of the very high regard they have for Rucker and other men of ability and honor who have been made the objects of newspaper attack on particular occasions. THE ADVOCATE. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, DEC. 29. 1910. Britisher's Impression FROM A STUDY OF THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS HERE. Negro's Case Stated And Mr. Barker, Whose Eyes Have Been Opened to True Conditions, Plans, Salvation for Those he Thought Little Better Than Savages. Thompson's National News Bureau, Washington, D. C., December 27. —J. Ellis Barker, who is making his headquarters temporarily in this city, has come from his home in London, England, to study some of the political, social and economic problems of the United States. He is taking an especial interest in the race problem, and has made it a point to meet all of our representative citizens and to visit the schools of various types, the churches, the hospitals, social settlements and homes of every class of colored people, so numerously found in the cosmopolitan capital of the nation. Mr. Barker is finding the race question a highly fascinating one, besides offering a field for much serious missionary work, and will make a tour covering the entire United States in search of stories and experiences of an intensely human character that will throw light upon a dark subject, and may embody his observations in a publication of some kind. Mr. Baker is a gentleman of the highest culture, easy of approach, an earnest seaker after the whole truth, and possesses a wonderful magnetic personality. He is one of England's most prominent political and economic writers, and is the author of "Great and Greater Britain," Modern Germany," The Rise and Decline of the Netherlands," "British Socialism" and other works which are considered standard books and which have been published both in England and America. Several of these have been translated into Japanese. His booklet on "Free Trade and Protection" has been sold in England in more than a quarter of a million copies and has been reprinted in this country by the United States Senate as an official authority on this great subject. Our representative saw Mr. Barker and asked him for a message to the colored people of America, and Mr. Barker readily acceded to his request. He said, in part:— "We people in Europe do not understand the race problem, and we do not know the colored people, for the simple reason that there are not any 'colored' people in Europe. "In London, where I live, there are only a few hundred colored students whom one does not meet. Before I came to the United States, my prejudice against the colored people was as great as that of any southern planter. My prejudice against your race, as I believe the prejudice of most white people, was due rather to ignorance than to ill will. I had been told in the books and papers published in Europe that the colored people were a race of barbarians and savages. I had been told that the colored people were a worthless set of people, dressed in rags, working a day or two during the week, and loafing during the rest of the time. I was told that the colored people were idle, diseased and vicious. So I imagined that all of them lived in slums and alleys and that the aristocracy of the race consisted of waiters and railway porters. "I had been told that the colored people only played at science; that their doctors and lawyers were charlatans. I had been told that the people of mixed race were even worse than pure Negroes; that the mulattoes had lost the primitive virtues of the Negroes and had acquired all the vices of the whites. MR. BAKER'S EYES ARE OPENED. "A chance encounter with a cultured man of color induced me to look into the race problem," continued Mr. Barker, "and I was perfectly amazed when I discovered how greatly the colored people have been libeled and traduced. I have spent a considerable amount of time with colored people and have met many who are highly cultivated, have found that among your race you have excellent lawyers and some of the foremost physicians and surgeons. "I have been over a large number of your elementary and higher grade schools and colleges and over Howard University, and I have admired the earnestness and resolute determination with which your children try to improve their minds and to raise themselves. In your night schools I have found old men and women, former slaves, who are anxious to learn 'writing and reading. I have been to the homes of many colored people and I have found them cosy, comfortable, elegant, and people by happy and harmonious families. I have been struck by the enormous progress which the colored race has made. But a few years ago the colored race was living in the stone age; today it has begun to live in the age of electricity. I made the acquaintance of some colored boys who have a wireless installation made by themselves on the roof of their parents' houses and who talk to one another by marconograms. Wherever I have looked, I have found evidences of culture, learning and prosperity. THE NEGRO'S CASE STATED AND "Having been over many of your institutions and through many of your homes and having talked to many of your most prominent people and to a host of others, I have come to the conclusion that there ought to be a bright future for the colored race. I have come to the conclusion that the colored race is oppressed and persecuted, very largely because it is not known. I have come to the conclusion that the enemies of the colored race would change their views and their attitude if they could see what I have seen. "Therefore, I wish to take them over the road which I have traveled. If the colored people of the country are ready to help me, I am willing to put their case, honestly and fearlessly, before the public, both in Europe and in America. I do not intend to write a book in the ordinary way on the race problem. Too many books have already been written and their value is small, because each book gives only the views of one single individual. I would like to take the civilized world to the homes and institutions of the colored people and, so to say, personally introduce the civilized world to the best among them. "But I cannot do this single handed," said M. Barker. "If the colored people wish me to help them, they must enable me to help them. They must supply me with the information I require. Let every man and woman who reads these lines write to me in care of Prof. Kelly Miller, Howard University, Washington, D. C. I wish your people to give me their views and experiences. I wish them to tell me of their successes and of their sufferings. I want of know of their opportunities lost and gained, and to learn the methods by which they have achieved their wonderful results. HUMAN DOCUMENTS MUST TELL THE NEGRO'S LIFE STORY. "I require human documents," declared Mr. Barker. "I do not wish to write merely of the sufferings and successes of the colored race in general terms, but to supply human documents. I wish to illustrate the progress of the race by individual cases. I want to be able to show that one man who, maybe, was born a slave, raised himself, up to opulence by hard work and thrift; that another who was born in poverty and ignorance arrived at scientific eminence by his own unaided efforts. I wish to tell the world of the sufferings and complaints of the colored people in their own words, as regards their business, law, lynchings and general treatment. "I require not only facts, but pictures. Let your readers send me any photographs which they would like the public to see. I would like the civilized world to see the best types of the colored people and give pictures of their homes, their schools, their churches and other uplifting institutions. I should like to show the colored people at play, at church, and in their gatherings: If your readers will supply me with that information, I think something may be done to help your people. If they do not, I shall not publish anything on the race problem. It is for your readers to say whether they wish me to put their case before the European public or not. I shall be glad to have the ministers and teachers everywhere, as well as the newspaper men of the race to call general attention to this movement, urge their constituents to send in responses at once along the line indicated." COOKER T. WASHINGTON, "THE WORLD'S GREATEST ORA- "Have you met Dr. Booker T. Washington?" our representative asked Mr. Barker. "Yes." responded Mr. Barker. "I have met him and spent several very profitable hours in his company. I have found him one of the altest and the most intelligent men I have ever met. He is as sharp as a needle. He has a vast fund of practical common sense and eminently statesmanlike views. I have had the pleasure of hearing him speak at the dedication of the Science Hall of Howard University. His speech was, by far, the best speech I have ever heard on a similar occasion. I think that he is, perhaps, the greatest orator living. At any rate, he is the greatest orator I have ever heard. Booker T. Washington is truly a great man and he has the modesty of a great man. He is a credit to your race, and his life and work should be an inspiration to every man, woman and child of color. Praise of the most extravagant nature has not been able to spoil him, because he is genuine all the way through. Criticism, often unjust and uncalled for, has not turned him from the upward and onward course his genius has marked out as correct. While others are indulging in complaints and reciting epigrams, Booker T. Washington is building a race on solid ground. The future will prove the wisdom of this epoch-making man and bring him the full measure of the appreciation he so richly merits. I have met others, too, who possess remarkable mental and moral force. My impression of the colored people on the whole has been eminently favorable. If your readers will supply me with the necessary material, I shall be in a position to put their case prominently before the world. I am eager to get on to Hampton, the place that gave Booker Washington his basic training, and Tuskegee, the achievement that has brought him international fame." Restrictive Clause Void SAYS JUDGE GOFF IN CASES AF FECTING NEGRO'S RIGHT TO BUY PROPERTY. Many Vital Points At Issue But Judge Gave no Reason for His Ruling Other than Provisions in Deed Against Public Policy of Government. A decision of far-reaching importance to property owners who would prevent their property from passing into the hands of certain classes of citizens by inserting a clause in the deed preventing such transfer was handed down in the United States Circuit Court for Eastern Virginia last Saturday, when Judge Nathan Goff handed down a decision declaring such restrictive clauses as being illegal. Judge Goff gave no reason for his decision confining himself simply to a ruling that the provisions in the deeds are against the public policy or the United States. The case was that of the People's Pleasure Park Company., Inc., against John Worsham, of Philadelphia. Worsham is alleged to have contracted to buy certain property from the plaintiffs, but later refused to do so unless the clause forbidding subsequent sale to Negroes was removed. This was not done, and resulted in the suit. George J. Hoeper and William L. Royall brought the suit, the purpose of which was to prove the clause illegal and void, for the Pleasure Park Company. A. O. Boschen was engaged by the defense. He said that the matter will be taken to the highest court, but whether this will bring it before the United States Supreme Court has not yet been decided. Jurisdiction will have to be first determined. In argument several months ago counsel for the plaintiff declared that the clause in question was repugnant to the public policy of the United States; that it was settled that the United States had a public policy; that all of its citizens, white and black, stand under that public policy on the same footing; that it is an attempt to make a discrimination against the Negro citizens, and that no United States court will ever sanction this discrimination. The history of the subject was gone into from the end of the Civil War down to the present time, and it was attempted to show, from debates in Congress, that when the Fourteenth Amendment was before that body all sides agreed that it was proposed to incorporate the civil rights bill into that amendment, one of the provisions of that civil rights bill was that Negroes should not be denied the right to hold real estate On Monday, City Solicitor Poe of Baltimore, signed the segregation ordinance and the police department of that city will hereafter be expected to see that the law is enforced. Hereafter, it is said that Negroes will not be permitted to move into a neighborhood where the majority of the residents are white, and the same rule will apply to whites. City Solicitor Poe sent his report on the ordinance to the Mayor, saying that he believes the measure to be constitutional. In this regard he points out that Negroes are not allowed to marry whites and are segregated on trains and in schools. In the last year Negroes have invaded the best section of McCulloh street and have threatened to invade exclusive white sections of Eutaw street and Madison avenue. Purely Characteristic POPULAR SONGS THAT SOME STATESMEN MIGHT FIT-TINGLY SING. (From the Florida Sentinel.) J. C. Napier—"Anchored." W. T. Vernon—"If he comes in, I'm going out." Ralph W. Tyler—"I've got a little list." John C. Dancy—"There'll come a time, some day." William H. Lewis—"O, Promise Me!" P. B. S. Pinchback—"This is the way I long have sought." Charles A. Cottrill—"That Honolulu Rag." George L. Knox—"Play that Barber-Shop chord." "Phil" Waters—"No place for a minister's son." Dr. Ernest Lyon—"Back, back, back to Baltimore." Albert S. White—"My old Kentucky home." Roscoe Conkling Simmons—"At peace with the world." Cary B. Lewis—"The idea of my dreams." J. C. Asbury—"I'll come back." Henry Lincoln Johnson—"At a Georgia Camp Meeting." Major R. R. Moton—"I'll sing all the way." Roscoe Conkling Bruce—"They're after me." James A. Cobb—"Any little girl that's a nice little girl." Charles W. Anderson—"I've got rings on my fingers." Dr. A. M. Curtis—"That medicine man." Dr. W. L. Taylor—"The Vacant chair." Dr. W. D. Grum—"In consolation lane." George W. Elkins—"Let it alone." Judge M. W. Gibbs—"I'm living easy." Booker T. Washington—"Home, Sweet home." Whitefield McKinlay—"I want to be ready when the great day comes." Emmett J. Scott—"Sowing the seed." Nelson Crews—"Down on the farm." W. D. Johnson—"Just ask of the man in the moon." Bishop Alexander Walters—"Keep on smiling." Dr. J. E. Shepard—"School days." W. L. Houston—"There never was a king like me." Judge Robert H. Terrell—"Is every body happy?" President M. M. Lewey—"Follow on." T. Thomas Fortune—"There'll be a hot time in old town tonight." Clarence Cameron White—"A wandering minstrel L." Fred R. Moore—"Believe me." J. C. Glimer—"Just Some one." Dr. John R. Scott, "Florida's Cluck and Honesty." Warring Factions of the Elks Consolidate PROCLAMATION ISSUED SETTINGS FORTH THE TERMS OF SETTLE MENT AND NAMING THE NEW OFFICERS WHO ARE AGREED UPON IN CONFERENCE. Washington, D. C., Dec. 28.—The "Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World" is the new title by which all the Elks will be known hereafter. The consolidation was approved and effected on the fifth day of December, 1910, by commissioners Glies B. Jackson, John W. Patterson, and Oscar D. Morris, appointed by the Court. A proclamation was issued to all the members of the different lodges from chief headquarters at Washington, D. C. Grand exalted rulers Benjamin F. Howard, James E. Mills and J. Frank Wheaton have settled all and all manner of differences and have combined the several Lodges. Executive officers are as follows: Benj. F. Howard, Covington, Ky.; Grand Pres. Board of Trustees, Jame E. Mills, Norfolk, Va.; Grand Organizer J. Frank Wheaton, New York City; Grand Exalted Ruler, Harry H. Pace, Memphis, Tenn.; Grand Secretary, Oscar D. Morris, Washington, D. C. Grand Asst. Sec. Sandy Dougherty, Portsmouth, Va. Grand Treasurer and E. Burton Ceruti National Receiver. Dr. Mills will make an official visit to each and every lodge as speedily as necessary arrangements can be made. THAT BORDER LINE Between Two Mighty Nations Causes Fresh Fears of Bloody Battling. San Domingo, December 26.—The Dominican government is moving troops to the frontier. This action is explained chiefly as due to the fact that Haiti has placed soldiers on the border line between Santo Domingo and Haiti. Diplomatic negotiations however, continue between the republics. This government is confident that a reference of the boundary dispute to friendly arbitration is necessary. Will Watch Officials Of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias And Other Secret Organizations Who Handle Funds, Lest They Astray as Did Jackson. (Special To The Advocate.) Augustz, Ga., Dec. 27 — The accusations of dishonor, double-dealing and stealing by the officials of secret orders in this State have been voiced so often in the editorial columns of some newspapers that a reaction has set in. The people over the entire State of Georgia are beginning to believe that the men and editors who cry "Dishonor, double-dealer and thief" the loudest, are some of the biggest thieves and worst scoundrels to be found anywhere. The citizens are watching them all and a sentiment is growing that will mean the ultimate culp of men who are caught stealing or misusing the money of the Odd Fellows, Pythians or any of the other fraternal orders of Georgia. They kept after N. D. Jackson until they found him to be a thief. Then they dethroned and expelled him from the order. It is reported that a movement is on foot to institute criminal proceedings against Jackson who has proven himself to be a thoroughly unreliable and untrustworthy man in the opinion of the Board of Curators. The downfall of Jackson has been expected for the last four years, during the entire time of which he has been suspected of misappropriating and misusing the funds of the order. Mrs. Fannie Jenkins, the Grand High Preceptress of the order during the year 1906, resigned from the office and gave as a reason her lack of confidence in the integrity of Jackson's administration. She is one of the most thoroughly respected women in Georgia, an organizer of undoubted ability, and so capable and honorable a woman that her resignation had a strong effect upon the best thinking members of the order. A feeling of distrust began to gather strength and many of the members severed their relations with the society—they seemed to believe like Mrs. Jenkins that since they had no confidence in the administration of Chief Grand Mentor Jackson, it was the most proper thing to quietly withdraw without making any effort to correct the evils of the administration. Their action and attitude made a deep moral impression upon the remaining leading members of the order. They determined to correct affairs and have kept constantly at their task, led by Chief Grand Treasurer Dr. E. J. Turner of Columbus, Ga.; Vice Grand Mentor L. L. Lee, of Atlanta, Ga.; Vice Grand Priestess Priscilla Ellis and Chief Recorder Johnnie B. Delacy. These officers form the Board of Curators who recently published the misdeeds of Jackson and removed him from the office of Chief Grand Mentor. There are men in Georgia who hold responsible positions in the Old Fellows and Knights of Pythias who do not have the confidence of the members. The citizens who are acquainted with these men and their reputations in all matters where honor and square dealing are prime considerations, do not believe in them. They are called "Grafters" and they are not trusted as men ought to be who hold responsible positions. The members of these societies in general are a united body in the belief that the organizations are in the grip now of political machines manipulated for the purpose of "greed and graft." They are simply holding themselves in readiness and watching for the fatal "slip-up" of the man or men most guilty. Low politicians and rascals always fall out finally and give each other away or they do something to disclose their rascality. When this happens it will not be a surprise to see some men pretty well known get into the penitentiary. In Augusta, Macon, Savannah, Rome, Atlanta, Americus, Columbus, and, in fact, in all the communities where the Odd Fellows are residing it is not an unusual occurrence to meet with men who are just waiting for a good open chance to get evidence of the crookedness of a certain official in the G. U. O. O. F. Then they mean to do a job that they honestly believe should have been done long ago. The opinion and determination of these men will not be in the least affected by newspaper editorials in the papers of Georgia. They are sensible and know the characters of the Negro editors in Georgia. They understand their politics and policies. They are building a sentiment by personal contact and straight conversation with the people of Georgia. The derelictions of the future may be watched with interest. 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 We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want more CORRESPONDENCE PATENTS 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. MONTGOMERY. Grand Chancellor L. O. Wilson, of Weston, was a business visitor to the Grand Keeper of Record and Seals' office, Saturday. Mrs. J. M. Trice, of Alderson, was the guest of her brother, Rev. E. C. Fage, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rogers are the proud parents of twin girls. Miss Mamie Hopkins, teacher at Wake Forest, was the Sunday guest of Mrs. H. H. Railey. James Lewis is spending the Holidays the guest of relatives in Christainburg, Va. Miss Wysor Watson went to Fayetteville on Tuesday to play for a drama to be presented at the church tonight. Mrs. Issie Lewis entertained at dinner Sunday, Mrs. C. W. Watson of this town. M. and Mrs. Wesley Parks, of Boomer, and Mr. Charles Lockett, of Harewood. J. C. Taylor, of Ward, was a business visitor here Monday. Mrs. E. C. Page is spending a few days in Charleston this week. Mrs. H. H. Railey is sick. L. N. Brown and Nelus and Elvin Howard are spending the week at Institute, with relatives. BERWIND. The Christmas tree at the Baptist church Saturday night was well filled. An excellent program was rendered, also a supper was well served. At the door was a large box filled with provision by his many friends for the pastor, Rev. E. G. Holcomb. Rev. J. W. Crider preached a good sermon at the Baptist church Sunday night. Subject, "Where is He that is born king of the Jews." The funeral of Thomas Hosten, better known as "Uncle Tom," who died Nov. 29th, was preached Sunday morning at the Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. E. G. Holcomb. Rev. E. G. Holcomb has moved his family here from Elkhorn. Mrs. Sarah Tatum continues to suffer with eye complaint. The Band boys gave a Banquet Monday night which was largely attended. A prize cake was given to the lady who solicited the most money in one hour. Miss Amanda Jones, assistant teacher, won the cake. $73.05 was raised. Prof. Rucker has gone to Alabama to spend Christmas. Mrs. Mary Pugh has gone to North Carolina to spend a month with her mother. Robert Staple, of Red Star, was here visiting friends last week. The M. E. church had a Christmas tree Tuesday night, which was laden with useful and handsome presents. Mrs. Ella Russel, of Susanna, spent Christmas with Mrs. Thomas Hosten. C. D. Hartwill has gone to Pittsburg to spend the Holidays. The Odd Fellows had a public installation of officers at the Baptist church. Tuesday night, which was very interesting to many who never saw it before. INSTITUTE Miss Ardelle M. Smith, of Hill Top, was the guest of Mrs. E. A. Dorsey, Sunday. Miss Jessie F. Embry is spending her vacation at her home in Columbus. Cuzzens Wilcher, James Carper Gear and Charles Payne mid Institute a visit Sunday. Mrs. Z. T. Brown is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Lottie Taylor, at Piedmont. C. E. Mitchell left for Washington D. C., to spend the Xmas vacation. Miss Charlotte Campbell was the guest of Miss Amelia Wilcher Friday and Saturday. Wm. O. Armstrong, of Fairmont, is spending a few days visiting old acquaintances at Charleston and Institute. Miss Ida King is the guest of Prof. and Mrs. Byrd P.illerman. Lafayette Campbell attended the funeral of Miss Lorain Gibson at Sewell on behalf of the school. A. G. Brown returned from his home at Malden Tuesday. GRAFTON. Mrs. Annie Scott, of Clarksburg, and her guest, Mrs. Helen Campbell, of Stubenville, O., were guests on Misses Nannie and Ada Stout Thursday. Miss Sadle E. Mays spent the holidays at her home in Ohio. Wesley Beamer left for Pittsburg, Pa., to visit several days, Tuesday. Rev. M. V. Turner was called to Lillian Sunday to officiate at the marriage of Mr. Wm. Ross and Miss Esteline Croston. The xmas tree program was rendered at the M. E. church Monday night. Howard Craig and Millard Howell who are attending school at Harpers Ferry arrived in the city Thursday and will remain until after the holidays. C. W. Florence spent the holidays at his home in Pa. Miss Gettrude Minor of Charleston, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Minor, of the South Side. A very nice Xmas tree was conducted by superintendent Cole at the Baptist church Xmas eve. Miss Mable Mint, of Fairmont, was the guest of Miss Grace Minor, Sunday. Mrs. Cornelius Campbell was the guest of Miss Grace Minor Tuesday. WAKE FOREST Mr. and Mrs. Jones and John Hughes went to Charleston on business, Monday. George Allen and wife left a few days ago for the latters home in Buckingham Co., Va. Warren Seruggs, of Wilmington, Del., is here visiting his brother Harry. John Sterling, who was mashed in the mines sometime ago, is able to go about on crutches now. John Hughes and family spent Xmas at Brown with their aunt. The Sunday School had its Nmas tree Saturday night: A splendid program was rendered under the supervisions of the public school teacher, Miss Mamie Hopkins. Miss Hopkins deserves great credit for her rapid and successful training of her pupils who have been under her charge a short time. Rev Jones preached two able sermons Sunday. The services were continued on Monday and two able sermons were preached by Rev. Hughes. PRINCETON Miss C. B. Mitchell, who is attending the Bluefield Institute, taking the Post Graduate Course, came home Thursday to spend the holidays, also Miss Eugenia Burke of the same school and little Charles Herndon, of the Bluefield City schoo, Mrs. Lizzie Cooko entertained at dinner Sunday, Misses C. B. Mitchell Mary Williamson, Eugenia Burke, Mrs. Alice Bowe, and Mr. George Carter, complimentary to her daught er, Miss Agnes. Miss Mary Sueed, teacher of the primary grade,'left for her home to spend the Yultide, Sunday morning. Miss Agnes Dillard, of Richmond, Va., arrived Saturday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Beau. Cooke. Christmas fittingly observed at both churches Saturday evening with Xmas trees and programs. Every thing was quiet and a jolly time was had. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bane gave a Xmas dinner Sunday. Those enjoying their hospitality were: Rev. R. W. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Callender. James R. Bell left Monday to spend the holidays at points in Virginia. Alex Conner went to Pearlsburg, Thursday to visit his family and relatives. Miss Berlin Ward, teacher at East Princeton, is spending her Xmas vacation with relatives at Bramwell. Mrs. J. E. Meadows is able to be out again after countinued illness of the entire winter. 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." Miss Ardella Smith, of Hill Top, is the guest of Mrs. I. M. Carper, Bradford St. Jas, Carper, Chas, Payne, Cuzzens Wilcher spent Sunday at Institute. FORWARD MOVEMENTS INDICATING MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RACE. Business League Through Its Organizer Reports Many Instances of The Negro's Attempt To Better His Condition Along all Lines. The subscriptions for the entertainment of the National Negro Business League at Little Rock, Ark., have passed the $2,000 mark. William A. Roberson, an enterprising colored man, is inspector of ranges at the Jeffersonville Depot of the Quartermaster's Department at Jeffersonville, Ind. Besides being an expert in all iron and steel construction, Mr. Roberson is the patentee of a number of useful inventions that have had a large sale among householders and manufacturers. The colored fraternal organizations of Cleveland, Ohio, are planning the erection of a $50,000 building. The $100,00 home of the Y. M. C. A. at Washington is nearing completion. President Taft will probably assist at its dedication. J. H. Grant, a Negro, the owner of a shoe store in Memphis, Tenn., valued at $20,000, is said to be trying to establish a chain of stores in various southern states. A fine building for the colored Y. M. C. A. is projected for Jacksonville, Florida. Meroney's Theater at Salibury, N.C., which was used for the first time for a meeting under the aspices of Negroes on the occasion of the recent visit of the Booker T. Washington party, employs a colored orchestra throughout the regular season. J. T. Sanders, a wealthy young Negro of Charlotte, N. C., owns a drug store, a newspaper, a barber shop, a hotel, sells real estate and practices law, and has time besides to take an active part in the religious, educational fraternal and civic activities of his community. Mem. for the young ladies:—Mr. Sanders is unmarried. The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, according to Grand Master W. L. Houston, now number over a half a million, and is the largest fraternal organization of Negroes in the world. In connection with "taking care of the sick and burying the dead," the Odd Fellows purpose to establish co-operative stores in the South and to erect halls wherever the strength of the local lodges make it possible. Through the energy and public spirit of Dr. H. Kennebrow, the "Home Sanitarium" has been established at Jacksonville, Illinois. In the seventeen months the institution has been at work, eighty-three operations have been performed, with a loss of only three patients. A Colorado colored man has given 480 acres of land as a site for a tuberculosis sanitarium. This is practical charity. The editor of the Baltimore Times has inaugurated a "Getting Together Hour" and has set apart an hour each week when people may come into the office and voice their complaints, pay their compliments—and subscription and tell of the good things the paper ought to do. The North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association with head offices at Durham, N. C., is conceded to be the strongest insurance corporation in the world carried on by colored men. It owns a number of valuable buildings and has thousands of patrons on its books. The Association is eleven years old, and its volume of business has steadily increased year by year. Its total business in 1899 was reported to be $840. In 1910, to date, the total has reached the astonishing amount of $220,100. The principal officers are John Merrick, founder and president; C. C. Spaulding, vice-president and manager; Dr. A. M. Moore, secretary and treasurer. Columns could be written about this remarkable corporation without exhausting the subject. "The School News," the organ of the National Association of Colored Teachers, is a breezy little sheet, issued from Tuskegee by President J. R. E. Lee, of the Teachers' Association, assisted by Edwin H. Lee. It should have a career of usefulness. Jesse C. Binga, of Chicago, banker and promoter, has just leased a valuable piece of property, 4712-4752 State street and the rentals derived from it will amount to $16,000 per annum. The terms of his lease are $240,000, payable in installments of $6,000 for the first year, $6,500 for the second year, $7,000 for the next two years, $8,000 per year for the next fifteen years, and DIVIDENDS DECLARED DAILY Each purchaser becomes a stockholder, and is paid a substantial dividend with each purchase, by getting greater values for their money than can be had at any other place in the city. Our complete "Kanawha" upright Gaslight burner, mantle and globe 25c Our complete "Kanawha" inverted Gaslight burner, mantle and globe 45c Never before offered at such a price "Kanawha" gas burners, globes and mantles, 10c each or three for 25c STANDARD "WELSBACH" ARC LOOP Upright and inverted mantles, 15c each, two for 25c. Best in the city for the money. We Do Heating, Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Sheet Metal Work of Every Description, Roof Repairing and Roof Painting. We Can Furnish Repair Parts and Repair Any Gas Range in the City :: :: :: Our Motto: Merit every purchaser's patronage by selling him more for his money than he can get elsewhere. STANDARD HEATING & PLUMBING COMPANY 228 Capitol Street, Charleston, W, Va. Bell Phone 752, Home Phone 886 $3,100 for the next three years, three years in all. Mr. Binga pays the taxes also for the period. The property, known as the Bates Flats, has a frontage of 504 feet, a depth of 100 feet, and embraces 21 stores and 54 flats. The Knights of Pythias of Indianapolis, Ind., have laid the cornerstone of a $30,000 lodge and business building. Andrew M. Moore, of Savannah, Ga., has the distinction of being the only colored clerk in a white bank in the South. He is thus employed by the Southern National Bank of Savannah and there is no race friction over his service there. "Marching Onward" is the appropriate title of a sprightly song, composed by Mrs. A. L. E. Weeks, in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington, and sung by Mrs. Weeks and a selected chorus of students from the Newbern Collegiate Industrial Institute at Newbern, N. C., on the occasion of the doctor's visit to that city'. Dr. R. F. Boyd, one of the South's most public-spirited physicians, is founder and superintendent of the Mercy Hospital at Nashville, Tenn. He is president of the People's Savings Bank and Trust Company and is first vice-president of the National Negro Bankers' Association. Dr. Boyd is also actively identified with the National Medical Association, being the chief force on the executive committee. Dr. Boyd is "well-fixed" in this world's goods. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, has been invited to become a member of the Author's Club, an exclusive London organization. The Universal Race Congress is to meet in London next July, to consider a number of important questions touching the relations of the white, black and yellow races of the world. There will be colored delegates from America, some of whom have already been selected. The Amsterdam News, published by J. H. Anderson at New York, is just one year old and a precocious youngster it is, too. Already it has a circulation of 5,000 and carries a lot of good-looking advertising matter. On its editorial staff we find such veterans as T. Thomas Fortune, Geo, W. Harris and E. A. Warren helping Mr. Anderson to think things. There is ample room in New York for healthy sentiment moulders. We wish The Amsterdam News long life and continued prosperity. Prof. H. T. Kealing, the newly elected president of the Western University, will continue to serve as editor of the A. M. E. Church Reed until the general conference in 1912, without salary. This will mean a saving to the church of $2,025. It can not be said again that a newspaper man has no soul. The Negro Masons of Oklahoma have arranged to build a $40,000 office and lodge building at Boley, a thriving Negro town. Rosemary is the name of a Negro town in Mississippi. The race is not lacking in esthetic taste when it comes to nomenclature. Maybe the Negro of America is not "the man farthest down." Statistics show that less than one-fifth of the people of Portugal can read or write. They are practically all white. The Farmers' Improvenent Society, of which R. L. Smith is president, is to open a new bank at Waco, Texas. Rapidly the thrifty Negroes of Washington, D. C., are taking possession of the heart of the most desirable residential section of the nation's capital. On Thanksgiving Day at Charlotte, N. C., the Afro-American Mutual Insurance Company laid the foundation of its new office building. It is to be three stories in height, built of red brick, with gray press brick front, plate glass and stone trimmings. The location is near the business center. Thad L. Tate is president of the Company and J. W. Crockett is manager. This is Progress, with a capital P. D. S. Brandon, regarded as the wealthiest and most successful contractor in Huntsville, Ala., has a beautiful colonial home said to be worth more than $10,000. Mr. Brandon has built some of the most expensive dwellings in the State of Alabama. His daughter, Miss Ollie, is studying pharmacy at Fisk University. Meagre News of Haitian Trouble NOTHING BUT RUMORS RECEIVED OF A CLASH BETWEEN HAUTIAN AND DOMINICAN FORCES IN A DISPUTE OVER BOUNDARY LINE. Washington, Dec. 27.—The State department was in receipt of advices regarding the clash between the Haitians and the Dominicans, but they were vague and confined, in part, to the repetition of rumors that were afloat in the Dominican capital last night. American Min- THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1010 re-ence will 52, that ma-000 y, a gro- not it is sta- of istor Russell stated that while news of the conflict had reached Santa Domingo, it was promptly denied, though the Haitian government is admitted to have sent out armed forces to compel the Dominicans to stop work on the road between Pedernales and Lake Fondo. The Dominican government, which is building the road, insists that it does not cross Haitian territory, and that even if it did so, the question was one that should be settled by diplomatic representations. The action of Haiti in sending the armed force against peaceful road builders is therefore regarded as a clearly hostile act. TROUBLE BREAKS OUT IN HAITI. IS REPORT. Washington, Dec. 27.—A clash between Haitian soldiers and the customs guards which may have serious results, is reported to the bureau of insular affairs of the war department from the American customs officers detailed in San Domingo to collect the revenue. The trouble broke out Saturday night. The results of the collision are not known. Dominican troops have been ordered to the border. The trouble is due to a quarrel over the boundary lines between the two republics. MR. THOMPSON AS "AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY" R. W. Thompson, the national correspondent, accompanied Dr. Booker T. Washington upon the "Wizard's recent educational pilgrimage through North Carolina, and was immensely pleased with the many evidences of progress shown by the colored people of that State. He was particularly impressed with the strong spirit of co-operation manifested by the white and colored races, and with the generous attitude of the leading white newspapers at every point visited. It fell to the lot of Mr. Thompson to be the "ambassador extraordinary" in the matter of bringing together for an interview at Salisbury, Vice-President Sherman and Dr. Washington. Mr. Thompson's luminous reports of the North Carolina tour have been highly commended by the "Wizard." Bishop Clinton and all of the gentlemen who made up that disinguished party.—The Columbian, Louisville, Ky. 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. 12-15-8t. y Soh , oh eee on SRO ete aa ms aes aS ~ BLUEFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE : . ; —SITUATED AT— ‘BLUEFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA On the main line, of the N. & W.R.R., and , ‘ easy of access fromvall points of the Virginian Healthful location, the very best-of school - comfort, and excellent advantages in the. way of Library, Laboratories, Student So- cieties and a strong, earnest Faculty. ‘ Regular Normal and Academic Courses, also courses in Music, Sewing, Gooking : 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 exper- ““ferice in teaching before beginning their ‘ regular work. * : “ . For. Further Information Address the Principal ‘ R. P. SIMMS ee 4 we Ladies’ and Misses’ ° Pry, | SUS spenrien Cea vphicennn a \ must move then Here i hs are ee of cuts in 4) : a) Al 8m SS @19 Ep NV, lie OUR $20.00, owty DIC. i om Vga) aaa $2000 Wl] | other suits sacrificed | ’ | proportionately. ~ PAE) |FNEFURS MUSTO a i ; My MI; FOX, SQUIRREL, FC. | ii Single Pieces SAT lj $150 0 sion ws pe Sets ~ $3.0 10 40 SAHLEY, @EORGE AND BSHARAH DRY GOONS AND LADIES’ FURNISHINGS 11 Capitol Stfeet and 720 Kanawha Street. / ~~ Capital — PREVADED BY THE spiny OF PEACE. AND GOOD WILL . TO ALL, ~ Friends Still “Hope That he May Land in a Ggod Berth. Cottrill Coming to ‘Town, Auditorships to be Abolished, ¢ Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington, D. C., December 28 “This week the beautiful spirit of “Peace on earth good will toward men” hag pervaded the atmosphere oi_the_nation's capital Hostilities of all kinds have been suspended. Political and journalistic asperities have felt the softening” mnuence ot the Christmast cheer and the acerbi- ties that are wont to surround the omnipresent school problem ~ are sweetened eg the sublime sentiment echoed dowf the corridors of time since the Wise Men saw the Star in the Wast. ‘Tis “ye merrie Christ- mas tide,” leading up to the hour of the proverbial New year resolution, and evetyone is alive to the promise that 1911 may bring with right liv- ing and high thinking, The town has beon sll of oliday,..cvests, .. Socin) events of every type are being “pull- ed of.”\ Gifts have been’ exchanged, from thé diamond tiara to the sim- ple, but significant post-card. There have been marrying and giving in marriage galore. Good things to eat and otherwise absorb have been on tup, and for the nonce the cost ot living has been forgotten. We bid good-bye to 19}0, asking that our sins of omission and of commission @_Wiped away. We are all resolv- ing to do better next year. Perhaps we will, At any rate, we'll try, and ‘with the help of a_Merceful Provi- dence and an indulgent public, wo have an even chance for success. It has been the aim of youn correspond- ent to give everybody a-square deal. For the many who have stood by us, we extend the “glad hand" of grati- tude. For the few that have cast our name out as evil and dealt in uncharitablertas, we grant a full and free pardon. “No harm done.” We write 1911 with courage and cheer- fulness, May the New Year be to my readers all they Hope for. We are sure they merit the richest bless- ings of Him who is Mighty and Al- mighty. LAWYER HURSTON LEADS | A CHARMING WASHINGTONIAN 1h Tee ATA. William Clarence Hueston, one of Kansas City’s ablest and most in- fluential barristers, surprised ¢very- body at the capital by leading to the hymenial alter Jast Wednesday eve- ning Miss Jennie Robinson, one of Washington's faivest and most popu- lar young ladies. ‘The coremony was performed by Rey, John Hurst, fin- ancial secretary of the A. M. E, church in the parlors of the Financial Headquarters, 1541 14tn street N. W. ‘hose present were: Mrs. Rob- inson, mother of the bride; Miss Effie Simmons; Mrs, John Hurst, Prof. W, H, Richards, of Howara University Law School, and Isaac Hathway, the sculptor, who acted as witnesses; and Benoni P. Hurst. ‘The happy Couple are both well- known throughout the country and they start out in life with the best wishes of a host of friends. Mr, and Mrs. Hueston left immediately after the ceremony for their home in Kan- sas City, Mo. MR. LEWIS MAY YET “LAND IN SOG Kiaeroees ‘The friends of United states Dis- trict Attorney William H. Lewis, not satisfied with tho indisposition of the Department of Justice to make a place for him as Assistant Attorney General, have been busy this week in his behalf, ‘The White House and the offices of Attorney-General Wick- gisham have been invaded by a de- termined delegation, and it was made very plain to the “powers” that if Mr. Lewis were not given the promised appointment, or —some- thing equally good, the stones of Boston would rise up in indignation and the echoes would be heard in every voting precinct in the country, where the colored brother ablded in large numbers. Massachusetts rail- lied to Mr, Lewis in a manner that must have made the eloquent coun- sollor feel as proud as a boy with his first pair of long trousers, and back of the Bay State in solid phalanx, where the Negno press and the loyal colored republicans who helped to place the administration at the head of the patronage table in 1908. 1 is given out that while there may be no vacancy in the office of the Attorney-General at this time, there may be one created soon, by virtue of the closing out of a certain class of cases now on thelr final consider- ation on the docket. If the man on the job does not resign, a transfer may be effected, or another piaco, of SYOOAT ES oqual- dtgnityand- satary;-mey~ he )} | found-for-Mn. “Lewis, -Phere-ts—no doubt in the minds of the thinkin MMlcolored people that President Taft {Bj} meant what ne waid when he agreed {fijto name Mr. Lewis. He ts too; big a man to indulge in campaign y §[buucombe. “He probably did not J count on the development of oppo- sition in the quarters that it was fin- ally discovered, Ie is expected that the customary “Taft diplomacy” will ultimately bridge over all difficulties and that Mr, Lewis will ghortly be given a satisfactory assignment. ARE THE TREASURY AUDITOR- SHIPS TO BE ABOLISHED? If the announced plans of the “Ke- onomy Inquiry,” are carried out, there is.a likelihood that. the And torship of the Treasury will be ab- olished. There are now six Auditors. drawing a salary of $4,000 each. One of them ts Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, who audits the accounts of tlie Navy Department, and the office was for- merly known as the “Fourth Aud- itor.” Mr. M. O. Chance, Auditor for the Pos{@flice Department, usually called the “8txth Auditor,” noted for ‘his success as an aseountnad and rigid ecotiomist, has been made sec- retary of the Inquiry Commission, and will work at tif White House in connection with Secretary of the President Norton, until the body Is weady to make its report as to where the economies can be made most ef- fective. It is said that when the of- fices of the several Auditors are dis- pensed with, thé auditinggof the gov- ernment will egme penn establishment. It is hopedhere will be an adjustm&nt ny which ke! pres- ent Anditors wifl,be retained in the service as deputies. MOVEMENTS OF THE STAGE- PEOPLE. ® At the New Howard this week, J. Leibeie Hill and the reorganizea Howard Theater Stock Company is giving a vary creditable performance of “The Bfackyille Corporation,” a musical comedy in three acts. ‘The book Is by Mr. Hill and the music is by Prof. Will H. Vodery, the lead- er Of thg orchestra. ‘The principal payts are taken by J. Leubrie Hill, Libis A. Mitchell, William Brown, Richard W. Shelton, Coleman Minor, Bennie Hutchinson, Leona Marshall, Evonne Robinson, Mayme Butler and Hattie Ackerg, supported by a Well-drilled chorus of thivty-five. The company goes to Norfolk next week, and a tour of the South wilf follow. ‘The size of the houses at this theater is steadily increasing, and it is not doubed that a regular, well-paying clientele will be develop- ed in time. Former Manager William H. Smith of the Howard Theatex, scored a triumph last week over the Rogené thal and Benedict syndicate in his claim for the salary that would have been due him on his year’s contract as manager. When a change was decided upon Mr, Smith offered no objection to retiring, but as he had declined other offers to come here, and as (he failure of the house to draw could not bo laid at his door, he gontended that the salary prom- ised him for the year, should be paid. He carried his case to court and last Friday a judgment for one week's salary—$41.74—was awarded him. Judgments must come week by week according to legal procedure, and it Is expected that this first recora will stand as a precedent fot sub- sequent judgments. Mr, Smith 13 hopeful of receiving the entire bal- ance due him on his year's contract. He may go to Chicago at the conclu- sion of his work here. Miss Minnie Brown, the New york prima donna, is filling an engage- ment in Baltimore. By special re- quest, she will sing tomorrow at the monster New Year's meeting of the Y. M,C. A. at the New Howard. A concert tour for Miss Brown is talk- cd of upon the completion of her cello studies in this city, John Rucker, the Alabama Blos- som, and the “Down in Dixie Min- strels,, are booked for all next week at the Howard, opening at the New Year’s matinee Monday. ‘Tho com- pany is sald to embrace fifty people and has been strengthened for its northern tour of metropolitan cities, “Black Patti's ‘Trowbadours” are scheduled for the week of March 6, at this house, The Hiawatha is presenting the Musical Seminoles, T, Spencer Fin- ley and a number of new motion pic- lure reels for the Xmas season. Susie Sulton, Dison and Henson and a fine bil are “turning ‘em away nightly” at Ford Dabney's. NEGRO DAILY ‘TO BE LAUNCHED IN BALTIMORE, A movement to establish a Negro daily is taking shape In Baltimore. The prime mover in the new venture is Hugh B®, Macbeth, the energetic and optimistic editor of the Baltt- more Times, which {s said’ to be en- Joying great prosperity. A capitar of $100,000 will be raised to float the paper and plant. and {t Js stated that already a large portion of the money Is in sight, to be taken up at the psychological moment, The daily 's to be a strictly bualness proposi- ion and will have a staff commens surate with the most rigid demands of fhe times. The paper Is to cover Baltimore, Washington and Philadels phia, and will be published in the afternoon. Mr. Machoth expreseea himself as confident thet the movéa ment will be a success, - ‘ 7 enfit So eee Capital, Surplus, Undivided Profits - = SLO: ‘Resources © - Tes - ne N ti | : SS ey What It Means ‘A savings account stands for thrift, industry and independence; for freedom from the vares 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-annuelly, on savings, and welcome small accounts as well” aaj large. . ‘ e THE OLDEST NATIONAL BANK IN CHARLESTON L. PRICHARD, President. ra CAPT, J. R. SEAL, : Vice-President. H. L. PRICHARD, Cashier. : J.D. FOSTER, ‘Asst. Cashier. THE NEWS IN RRIF I HOTEL BROWN £,6,208% iq PROPRIETOR =A Popular Hotel For Colored Pepole= 0c., 75c. and $1.0 ° 35 ROOMS "% 25c,an4 120 Pa, Der 500 CAPITOL STREET, CHARLESTON, W. VA. One Block From State House. New Phone 1098 | SPECIAL BATES BY WEEK OR MONTH Ff Joseph H. Douglass, the eminent violinist, is spending Xmas at home, after a successful tour oY the South. He was well received in Texas and other states, ‘The testimonial banquet in honor of Editor J. H. Murphy, of the Ralti- more Afro-American Ledger, is set for January 30 in Baltimore. Five hundred invitations have been issued and the function is to be the “big- gest ever." A train load of Wash- ingtonians will be in attendance. Editor H, EB, Macbeth is in change of the arrangements. He was in town Monday in the interest of the Project and met with much encour- reir etree _ SB NAB 5 H. & i. ' TAILORS OLEANERS, PRESSERS AND MAKERS OF MEN'S OLOTHING. Phone 1886X, Shop: 428 State Street. The movement for the establish- Ment Or the sovtety known as“ The Friends of Africa” is strongly. en- dorsed by the leaders at the capital. ‘The meeting of those interested in the redemption of the Dark Conten- ent will be held in Tuskegee about the middle of Januayy. H. J. Capehart has succeedea Ralph W, White as secretary to Con- gressman Hughes, of West Virginia. Mr. White has gone to his native state, West Virginia, to practite law. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK HOURS: 8:30 TO 1:30 BM. A SPECIALTY 2:00 TO 6:00 P. M. Dr. James B. Brown Dental Surgeon ‘ : Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. ' & > Home Phone 429: _ The senior class of Howard Uni- versity College of Pharmacy has.elec- ted the following officers: Raymond HH. Murray, president; Virginia R. Washington, vice-president; Eva V. Mundein, secretary; Leonard Barn- hill assistant secretary; Harry Clark, treasurer; Houston 8, Schweick, ser Seant-at-arms, ‘The Hotel Hudnell has been plac- ed in the hands of a receiver. M Street High School, the Abby Simmons school and the Frederick Douglass school, all located on ad- Joining lots, are to have ,a central heating plant. HENRY T. M’DONALD, N. O. BRACKETT, Bo President e ‘Treasurer. ONE Harper’s Ferry, W. Va 6 —Founded in 1867— More than 400 men-and women bave graduated here. The oldeat— Bschool in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Bleva- tion high. Remarkably healthful, Ample _ buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OU R PLANT THIS YEAR. The regu- lar faculty of sixteen highly educat ed, earnest teachers does not include assistants, Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one of thp largest in the state. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATE S ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM=' BERS 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 js toward Christian’ living. Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. % COURSES: Academle, Stato Normal, Industrial, Musto, 9 For illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to 2 The President * Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Re; corder of Deeds, was in the city this week and paid his jrespects to the President. The mother of Col. John- Son fs reported to be still very lon at the Allanta homestead. Col, J6hn- son has the sympathy of his many friends in his hour of trouble. . Thomas Nelsqgn Page, in a recent address, endorsed the Y. M..C. A. method of treating the problem of moral uplift among colored young men. J. Ellis Barker, of London, Eng: land, who is making extensive in- vestigations on the race problem in America, is to visit Hampton and Tuskegee, as typical schools for the Study of the economic aspects of the ‘uestion, and expects to look in at the National Religious ‘Training School, carried on by Dr. J. 8. Shep- ard, at Durham, N. C., where he will take note of an institution where the spiritual side is emphasized In connection with industrial features, fs Owned and Controlled by the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Austria : ‘Tho only bath house of its kind im the United States for Colored People, recelving its hot water direct from the ~~ ="_ United States Government. Equippea r Th] with all the latest improvements. ’ ig 4% Ps yf] Experienced attendants. 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Air flights on heavy machines, telegrams without wires, terrible war inventions to kill men, and that won- der of wonders, Dr. King’s New Dia- covery—to save life when threaten- ed by coughs, colds, lagrippe, asth- ma, croup, bronchitis, hemorrhages, hay fever and whooping cough or lung trouble. For all bronchial af- fections it hag no equal. It relieves Insantly. 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, 12-4-5t The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months ..... $0.50 Six months ..... 1.00 七 year ..... 1.50 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910 OUR ONLY HOPE. Except for the purpose of pointing a moral, The Advocate invariably refrains from giving publicity to the misdeeds of the Negro people. It has always been, and is now, of the opinion that the white newspapers may be depended upon to cover that field in a manner to suit the most exacting lover of sensationalism. It remains for the Negro newspaper, oftimes a lone voice crying in the wilderness, to portray the good that is in us and warn against the bad. It is, then, with a full knowledge of these self-imposed limitations that attention is called to the diabolical crime at Weston of which a Negro is accused and for the alleged commission of which he escaped lynching; only through the stict adherence to their sworn duty on the part of the county officials and the prompt action of Governor Glassecock in calling out companies of the National Guard. This is the fourth time in the less than two years of his administration that Governor Glasscock has preserved the fair name of the State by rushing the National Guard to scenes of threatened lynching. He too, but did his duty; but the performance of duty is not always pleasant. The personal direction which the Chief Executive has given each of these affairs has entailed the loss of many hours of rest, and he is far from being a robust man. It may, however, lessen the weight of whatever affliction of mind and body the Weston affair brought upon him, to know that he won by the first three instances and secured to himself by this last the eternal gratitude of every right-thinking, law-abiding Negro in the commonwealth. The Negro, in most cases, hails with greater satisfaction the prevention of a lynching than does the white man. The latter generally regrets, because of the smut upon the fair name of the State, the taking of life without due process of law. If the accused was a black man, his untimely taking off is dismissed with," he got what he deserved, but it was a great disgrace to the State". It means more than that to the black citizenry. Every crime committed by one of their number which stirs up public sentiment to the lynching point is personally abhorrent to them and is viewed with the greatest alarm, for they are of that race or which all are judged by one. They know from sad experience that vengeance may be wreaked upon innocent heads in one county for a crime committed in another. They have noticed the tightening of the color line in the wake of these disturbances and know that mob law, once allowed to rule will make its demands oftener and with assurance greater because of its previous success. The race has long prayed for deliverance from the brutes who commit the nameless crime. It has wished that the heads of all rapists grew upon one neck so that the fall of one hangman's trap would end the crime forever. But since that is to much to expect ere the millennial dawn, let us hope that the men in authority may ever exhibit the firmness of purpose and respect for their oaths which characterized the authorities of Lewis county and the Governor of the State. HE HASN'T SAID A THING. A few weeks ago, The Advocate said: "Nashville Negroes are said to have shorted, reared on their hind legs and pawed the air at the suggestion that they pay five dollars the plate for a banquet to Napier. If the prices for edibles which obtain hereabouts prevail down there, they must think a Dutch lunch sufficient to start a man upon the duties or Register of the Treasury". The Nashville Globe comes back with the following: "The difference with the Negroes of the capitol of Tennessee and the Negroes of the capitol of West Virginia is we have something to make a fuss over and they have not, though strenuous effort has been put forth to land a man in this very job." Ignoring entirely errors of orthography and grammar, The Advocate is constrained to "call the hand" of its Tennessee contemporary on fact and logic. As to the first, West Virginia has had no candidate for the Registorship of the Treasury since Mr. Vernon's appointment. True, we did try to get the place now held by Mr. Adams, Assistant Register, but to no effect. But it's the logic of the Globe that causes us to laugh. What, pray, has West Virginia's attempt to land a place given to Tennessee to do with Tennessee's reported "holler" when called upon to pay five dollars the plate for a banquet to the successful applicant? If you are accused of being a chicken theft, the court will not hear rebuttal arguments to the effect that the accuser once stole a horse. ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE, SOMETIMES. The Sentinel, the organ of the West Virginia Baptists, published in its last time issue the text of a bill, asking for $10,000 for the W. Va. Seminary and College, which, is says, will be introduced in the next Legislature. If there is anything in the reports from Democratic sources that economy will be their watchword, there is grave danger lest an "introduction" will be all that bill will get. There is a consensus of opinion among those reasonably inclined that West Virginia is unusually liberal to its Negro citizens in supporting wholly two institutions of learning and partially supporting two others. The Advocate believes greater good would be accomplished not by increasing the number of state-supported institutions but in strengthening those for which the state has already assumed the responsibility. This belief will not be approved by many of our readers, and its expression may be resented, yet it is published because it seems to embody the ideas of the greatest good for the many. TELL IT NOT IN GATH The report comes from Washington that Wm. H. Lewis can not be an Assistant Attorney General, but he will get something equally as good. May he be will and may be he will not, but, in any event, it is up to somebody in authority to give a more satisfactory excuse for his "turn down" than any which has yet been published. To say now that there are no vacancies on the Attorney General's staff will hardly suffice. The detractors of the President think he should have known than before the announcement came from Beverly naming the place Lewis was to have. Having rid themselves of this thought, they smile with a leer and throw out dark hints about bait and suckers. HE WILL BE REVERSED. Students of questions affecting human rights will look forward with much interest, as well as impatience, to the outcome of the tests of the legality of the Baltimore segregation ordinance, now that Judge Nathan B. Goff, of the United States Circuit court, has decided that leases containing clauses restricting the ownership of property to whites illegal and contrary to public policy. If the proposed tests ever reach the Supreme Court—but why concern one's self with disagreeable things? MAY BE IT WAS POWHATAN. "Ohio can spare him", is the headline over the cut of Charley Cottrill in the Cleveland Gazette, which but confirms suspicious entertained in certain quarters, that the President's most recent Negro appointee was a thorn in the flesh of a gentleman whose patronymic sounds very much like that of a historical character whose life was saved by an Indian maiden. ALWAYS SOMETHING DOING Government attorneys are now roasting the beef trust, cleaning out the bath tub trust, dissolving the sugar trust, piping the oil trust, smoking out the tobacco trust, and shocking the electric companies. Always something doing. OR GET MORE CARTRIDGES A New York man shot himself five times in an attempt to commit suicide, which is a striking commentary on Gen. Wood's contention that every man should learn to be a good marks man. O BEULAH LAND. Scientists have now decided that there are no canals on Ma s. In that case, they have never had to bother about where the exposition should be held, when one is finished. A MODERN SOLOMON "A Philadelphia judge has decided that a husband has no redress when his wife goes through his pockets and takes money from them. A Daniel come to judgment. 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. "I believe", remarks a juvenile court judge in Washington, "that a girl who can not cook bread has not yet attained her education." Opinion concurred in; judgment affirmed. Perhaps when Dr. Cook needs a little more money he will be able to remember for some enterprising magazines that he really did get to the pole after all. How can Canada nope to raise $10,000,000 for a navy when the people of Toronto will not even pay street car fare without a riot riot? "Woman ruled man for centuries," says Prof. Clark, of the University of Chicago and wants to rule him some more. Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, "These are the days of cracklin' bread." Hetty Green's son says that Wall Street is needed. Of course, the magazines must have something to roast. Senator Aldrich is on hand in Washington. But, thank goodness, it is the last time, as Senator. To be really optimistic at this time of the year, just forget that there are such things as January bills. Do your New Year resoluting early. Here's wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Charleston Charleston CHARLESTON. Masons Banquet.—Tuesday night Washington Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M. held its annual banquet and installation ceremonies at the K. of P. Hall at which time the following program was rendered: "Bless be the tie that binds"; invocation, Rev. R. M. Mayhew; address, Rev. R. R. Downs. The office is installed were: J. H. Taylor, W. M.; B. P. Brownley, S. W.; Wm. H. Wright, J. W.; Allen A. DeHonney, Secy.; G. P. Porter, Treas.: F. T. Wade, S. D.; H. G. Anderson, J. D.; Robert Hamlin and D. Miller, chief stewards; J. F. Clark, G. H. Beane and Jos. Kent, assistants, and Grant Clark, Tiler, J. W. Chappelle acted as master of ceremonies. The menu to which about 200 members and friends of the organization were served consisted of: New York Counts Mixed Pickles Celery Olives Roast Turkey Oyster Dresssing Cranberry Sauce Sifted Peas Snow Flake Patties Cold Sugar Cured Ham Prof. Arter to Marry.—Mrs. Alice Houston, sister of the bride announces the marriage of Miss Maggie M. Wall to Prof. J. M. Arter this evening at seven o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Husking. Sum- mers and Virginia Sts. The bride-elect is a teacher in the Industrial School for women conducted nea. Washington by Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. Prof. Arter is principal of the West Virginia Seminary and College, a Baptist school at Red Star. He is prominent in religious and educational circles of the state. A Unique Invitation.—The following unique invitation to a whist party, tonight, has been issued: Greeting: "Lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold."—Hamlet "Sir (and lady), you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy."— Merchant of Venice "Say, what abridgement. —Midsummer Night's Dream Whist will be the pastime—passing excellent."—Taming of the Shrew. "If your love do not persuade you to come, Let not my letter."—Merchant of Venice. Mrs. J. M. Hazlewood December twenty-ninth, at eight o'clock. St. Luke Officers. — Charleston Council No. 635 has elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Mrs. Mattie Moss, W. C.; Mrs. Fredda Pannell, V. C.; Mrs. M. A. Viney, F. C.; Mrs. Julia Thompson, W. P.; Mrs. Emma Cooper, S. C.; Mrs. Mary Black, J. C.; Mrs. Lettie Johnson, W. M.; Miss Jessie Turner, L. S.; Miss Annabelle Johnson, O. S. St. Paul A. M. E. Church—Mrs. Turner, Craig St., gave the Ladies Aid society a generous entertainment Friday night. The attendance, in spite of the incessant rain, was good. Before the close of the meeting, Mrs. Sophia Spencer, on behalf of the stewardesses and friends, presented the pastor's family with a fine dressed turkey and a chicken for Christmas. Mrs. Down's, at the same time, was presented a small purse of money. Saturday evening a basket filled with apples and oranges came to the parsonage from a big-hearted lady friend of the church. Sunday evening the scholars of the Sunday school were the recipients of many presents; W. O. Lee by a donation helped out the Christmas fund. Tonight, the Ladies Aid will entertain with "A Festum Musical" to aid the trustee board in liquidating the indebledness of the church. Next Friday night they will be entertained at the residence of Mrs. Neal, 707 Young St. PERSONALS AND LOCALS Mrs. W. O. Terry entertained at whist, last night, complimentary to Miss Estella Kennedy. Miss Georgia Taylor, of Institute, is spending the holidays with Miss Hattie Taylor, Court St. Tuesday, complimentary to her guests, Miss Williams, of Westfield, Mass., and Miss Rosa Bridgeport, of Keystone. Miss Gertrude Brown, of Weston, was a guest of Miss Frances Mays, Railroad avenue, last week. Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson, of Buffalo Creek, accompanied by their two sons, spent the holidays with Mrs. Neal, Young St. Hollis Eggleton, who has been employed in the H. & H. tailor establishment for several months, left Wednesday for his home in Roanoke, Virginia. T. M. Hale, accompanied by his to spend a few days with relatives in Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Rebecca Preston entertained at dinner, Sunday, at her home on Sentz St., for Mrs. Matilda Mitchell, Mrs. Mary Eweston and her mother, Mrs. Carr. Mrs. Edna White gave a dinner party Monday at her home on Young Street. Mr and Mrs. Jas Browder had as their guests during the holidays Eldridge Browder, their father, of Linden, O., and Robert Browder, their uncle from Springfield, O. Their guests returned home Tuesday. F. C. Brown spent a few days in Huntington this week on business. Miss Bertha Coleman gave a surprise party to a number of friends Monday in honor of Miss Callie Beamer. A most delightful time was spent. Mrs. Harvinger, accompanied by her two daughters, Mable and Frances, of Burlington, Iowa, is visiting her brother, Ed. Tuck, Sentz St. Mr. and Mrs. James Ford, of Ashland, Ky., are visiting their mother, Mrs. Amanda Campbell, Sentz St. Mrs. E. O'Connor, of Red Sulphur Springs, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Napoleon Gardner, Elizabeth St. Mr. and Mrs. Enos Brown, of Gary, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Humbles, North Rand St. Miss Della Brown, teacher at B-cwish, is in the city visiting, relatives. Mrs. J. W. Viney will entertain Friday afternoon complimentary to Miss Estella Kennedy, Washington D. C. The Priscilla Art Club will meet Friday, January 6th with Miss Mary Preston or Sentz St. Miss Blanche Clark and brother, Oscar, of Bidwell, O., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. James, Summers St., the first of the week. Mr and Mrs. S. M. Davis entertained Mrs. Eliza James Mrs. G. P. Porter and Mr C H. James at dinner, Monday. W. O. Armstrong, of Fairmont, is visiting friends in the city this week. Summer Wills and Robert Lee, of Institute, were in the city the first of the week. Jas, Carper student at the Granville High School, Granville, O., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Carper, Bradford St. Miss Julia Dorsey and Miss Crawford, of Wesleyan College, Delaware, O., were visitors in the city Monday. Miss Geneva Taylor, of Pittsburg Pa., is the guest of relatives in the city. Miss F. C. Cobb left Monday for Dayton and Wilberforce, O., to spend the holidays. 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Our beautiful NEW STORE is more commodious than our former room, enabling us to serve you better; we have a new and INCREASED STOCK, offering you better selection, but the same old REASONABLE PRICES, DEPENDABLE GUARANTEE and COURTEOUS TREATMENT will be found at the new location as prevailed at the former place. NEW STORE is more co- ming us to serve you better OCK, offering you better BLE PRICES, DEPEND TREATMENT will be found former place. new dues are cordially ST The Job Manufactu 208 CAPITOL STREET Old friends and new ones are cordially invited to call. THE NATIONAL CITY BANK of Charleston With Resources of a Million Dollars WANTS YOUR ACCOUNT Skyscraper Building Kanawha and Capitol Streets THREE PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS 500 Candle Power Light at cost of one cent per day 00 PER CENT light downward. "cheapest" light on the market. trial in any busi esidence one of lights and con. its great value. onovan ly $65.00 Profit Margin. R for Catalogue. SONS, NCERN IN THE UNITED STATES. The Jeweer and Manufacturing Optician is more commodious than our we you better; we have a new g you better selection, but the S, DEPENDABLE GUARANTEE will be found at the new location re cordially invited to call. The Jeweler and manufacturing Optician Arcade Sa eee RN SER USS COMMUTES ae Neate meet tae A ltl NM RP Ri oe fi IS Sgt ro nae eae re Tg . < ar oe nt Se eet % SES ea eee EET ae ee es De 3 : ote oe ene See = epee ——— een re pce AEE a os Re a ER 30, 1910 - r r EARS TSS ee ‘ SPR Cae Mee TENT eT ET ADVOCATE. se | SSN aa ae 4 Of xeal. estate sold in the Coun of Kenawtiegtn e month: of December, 1910, f . eae of iting thetoor: fot the year TOR aiconetes 4 idan, ty i att ifort nor ies \ Firs £ Date of end of sale, December 12, 1910. ate of end of sale, December 12, 1910. Verson Charged With ‘Taxes. Quantity of Land Charged. Quantity of Land Sold.) | Purchaser, Amount Paid. : : of Charleston. Wh, C. 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(Continued on page six.) , eet First ME EeChhurch Sunday School’s First Christmas in New Home Interesting 1 Exercises' Negro Chicken Thief Are Held at the | Gets 30 Days in New Jiurch Jail tor Thef Veurch) celebrated their first Christ- mas in the new church, at the cor- ner of Morris and Quarrier streets, by giving a special entertainment Monday night, which was largely at- tended by the members and friends of the school. The program rendered was enjoy- fed by all and was under the direc- tion of Mrs. P. W, Hunsicker, who was assisted in the training of the children by Misses Hazel Nutter ana Ruth Hust. ‘The church choir, led by Prot. Mason, rendered several se- leetions of great merit and beauty. ‘The offering of the school consisted of seventeen dollars in money and about twice that amount in provis- ions and clothing which was divided between the children of the Day Nur- sery and the Davis Shelter. The en- tire school together with all the vis- itors, received a souvenir of the church filled with choice candy, pre- pared under the direetion of the scc- retary of the school, Mr. Ravid Dick. ‘The evergreen decorations were taste- fully arranged by Mr. John GC. Spurr, Among the classes making a fea- ture of their offering was the class of young girls taught by Mrs, Swi- gert, all of whom were prettily dress- ed_in Japanese. Costumes and bore rice and tea. The young “ladies” or Mrs. Jerome Wildman’s class were very attractive in Freneh cook's at- tire,-and-they-made-theit-offering-of buckets of lard. Judge H.C. MeWhorter's class, besides making a cash offering for the school, presented their teacher with a handsome umbrella. The judge, who has been connected with this Sunday School for forty-eight years, responded in a happy speech. The L, B. L. C. class, whose motto is “Let Brotherly Love Continue,” besides sending flowers te = sick member, Mr, D. F. Hostetler, in Washington, D, C., sent two barrels of the best flour to the Day Nur- sery. A beautiful mission oak Teather- sented rocking chair testifies that they did not forget their teacher. , On next Sunday they will. as usual on the Sunday after Christmas, put into the Birthday Box of the Sunday School a penny for each year since Christ was born; this year the amount being nineteen dollars and fourteen cents, ‘The birthday offer- ings throughout the year are applied to the support of missions. ‘The class received Christmas cards from the orphan boys they are supporting at Barado Camp, India. The teacher of this large class of young men, Mrs. Mary R. MeGwigan, read an original poem entitled “Sup- pose,” which made a fitting prelude to the giving by the classes for the benefit of the unfortunate: “Suppose.” Suppose, on the day before Christmas A stranger had entered your door, A stranger with, aspect more kindly ‘Than you ever had seen before, And looking about on the presents’ You had’ purchased with Hberal hand, Your gifts for those who are givers, To be scattered abroad through _. the land, wernt wey He had said, in a voice so gentle, “TL was born that Christmas might be = You have gifts prepared for many, Pray, what have you there for me?” 7 cam “Will some heart that Is heavy be lighter? Will some sick one have Christ- mas cheer? | Will some who are lonely find com- fort Because of your gifts this year.” “1 suffered a life of privation; I died on the Cross for thee! Does love guide your creed and your conduct? _ Have you given your heart to me?” Would you have been able to answer, “Yes, Master; and I did not forget That you love’ the homeless and erring ‘And the poor whom we have with us yet.” tt oo "So some one will be less lonely, Have more faith in human. kind. Some heart be drawn close to the Healer Of the sick and the lame*and the blind.” What a smile would He then have given you! What a glow in your heart would be, Because of the love of your Savior Who was born that Christmas might be! Negro Chicken Thief Gets 30 Days in Jail tor Theft Walter McDowell, negro chicken thief, was sentenced to serve, 30 days in jail by Judge MacCorkip this morning in police court for the thett oF three geese and one gander from a Mr. Nearman. He was also found guilty of breaking a lock on the chicken house of Mr, Frank ‘Tyree, 422 Broad street,‘ night before last and stealing therefrom one turkey and five chickens. After the testi- mony of Mr. ‘Tyree and a negro boy in his employ, who discovered the theft, McDowell was bound over to the grand jury under $509 bond. m default of payment, he was sent to jail. + im addition to Mr. Nearman and Mr. Tyree; there were several other chicken owners present who had lost fowls lately and several people who had purchased chickens, geese and turkeys from McDowell, From the evidence offered _ this morning, McDowell was in the chick- en stealing business on a wholesale scale. He has been plying his trade for some time and usually sold the stolen goods on Charleston — street. Officer Fisher has been watching him very closcly lately and yesterday morning about 7 a, m. caught him as he was trying to dispose of the birds stolen from Mr. Tyree. “When questioned as to where he had pro- cured the chickens and turkey, Me- Dowell replied that he was selling them for his mother who lived on Ranawha—Two-Mile-—An—investiga- tion proved that his statement was linéorrect and he was. locked ui. Meet to-Discuss -- Proposed Labor Laws St. Louls, Dec. 28.—With “Con- servation of Human Resources’ as the main topic of discussion, — the American Association for Labor Leg: islation met in St. Louis today for its fourth annual meeting. ‘The opening session was held jointly with the. American, Sociological So: ciety and the American Statistical Association, * The proceedings began with an address by Prof. Henry W. Marman, of Yale, on “Practical Methods in Labor Legislation.” Prof, Franklin M. Giddings, of Columbia University, followed with a paper on “The Re- lation of Social Theory to Public Policy,” and Froderick L. Hoffman, of the Prudential Insurance Com- pany, concluded the session with a paper on “Fifty Years of Life Insur- ance Progress.” Industrial hygiene, the limitation of the working hours of women, and the progress of workinmen’s com- vonsation legislation in America are other subjects to receive attention at the meeting. Mrs. Florence (Kelley, of New York; Prof. Charles P, Hen- dorson, of the University of Chicago, Charles P. Neill, United States labor commissioner, and a number of other noted men and women are taking part in the mesting. COMMISSIONERS’ NOTICK RANA ee a ee vs. =) In Giuancery. Kanawha and Davis Creek Coal Com pany, et als, Parties to this cause will take no tice that pursuant to a decree entered therein by tho Circuit Court of Ka: nawhe County, West Virginia, on the 2th day of December, 1910, the un- dersigned will, at his office in the Cit- izens Bank Building, in Char leston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, on Tuesday, January 2, 1911, at 10 A, M.,, Proceed to take and state an account showing: eer First; All the real estate or pine Property owned by the Kanawha & Davis Creek Coal Company, where sit: uated,” its description and quantity thereof. Second: Liens upon real estate and the debts against the Kanawha & Da- vis Creek Coal Company, by whom held, their respective amounts, and pri- oritfes. Third: Whether said real estate will in five years rent for a sufficient sum fo pay off atid discharge sald liens and th costs of this suit Fourth: And such other matters as any party in interest may require the same being as eaid commissioner himself may deem pertinent,’ whether £0 required or not. The proceedings will be adjourned from day fo day, at the same time and Dlace until completed. Given under my hand this 12th day of December, 1910 D.C. GALLAHER, Master Commissioner Kanawha County Cirewit Court 12-12-4Mon, NOTICE To Kanawha & Davis Creek Coal Company, 9 Cxnoeation. Ralph ¢ Busser, Harvey M. Roberts, George F, Holmes, W. Ray Young, Henry B, Lat- of the Eagan i Davi Ofte tek iby, had the unknoyas Reeth oe the Dpnds of the Kanajvhe Sa Sievis Cregk. Gompany: 21s) Tiger ‘Take ‘notice’ that on the ue ay | ak January, 1911, at. the. office “ef Stem Spalding, Nevis Nore Amertcait Building, in the City of Eulleeelotlts Stato of Peunsylvania, between: holirs of 9 ATM ad ‘6 P.M, I shail proceed to io the depositions’ of myself and ofhéts, to, be read iu evs. dence ‘in iny behalf, to a certain sult in equity pending tn the Cireutt Coty of Kanawha County, and State of } Virginia, in which I am plaimtitt and you are defendants; and, {f trom any cause the taking’ of the sald depost~ tiéns be not ‘commenced on that day, or if commenced, if they be not com- pleted on that day, the taking of the said depositions wil be adjourned from day to. day, at the same place, and between the same hours, until they are completed. vi FRANK H. CAVEN, Recelver. 12-12-4 Mon, iW a 7 NOTICE “fe undersigned, in pursuance to the law passéd by the Legislature of! Wesc Virginia, at the session of, 1909, requiring application to be made to the circuit court for license to carry a revolver, will, on Wede nesday, the 26th day of January, 1911, apply to the Circuit Court af Kanawha County for license, as pro- vided in said law. FW. GRAMM and ROBERT C. THOMPSON, » Paymaster and ‘Treasurer respective: ly, of Kelly Axe Manufacturing: Company. 12-26-4mons.; +. . NOTION. jotlce Ig hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on the 31st day of December, 1910, at 10 o'clock a. m., at the Bast front door of, the Court House of, Kanawha County, West Virginia, offer for sale at pub- lic auction the following described real estate, to-wit: All that certain tract of land sit- uate in Kanawha County, West Vir- ginia, containing about 30 1-4 acres, and Known as lot No. 22 of the Glen Ek Hill Land, and being the same land which was conveyed by C. G. Bergman to Charleston Heights Realty -€o,,-a -corporatton, by deat dated July '5, 191u, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County Court of Kanawha County, West Vir- ginia, in deed book No, 122 at page 72, to which deed and the deeds therein mentioned reference is here mado for a more particular descrip- tion of said property. Said sale to be made by the said trustee by virtue of authority vested in him by that certain deed of trust executed by the said Charleston Heights Realty Co., a corporation, to the said trustee, dated the 30th day of August, 1910, and recorded in the said Clerk’s office in trust deed book No. 37 at page——., in trust to se- cure the payment of a certain note bearing even date with sald trust deed, executed by the said Charles- ton Heights Realty Co. to the sata C. G. Bergman, due in three months from its date, for the sum of $1,000 with interest’ from its date, and’ de- fault having been made in’ the pay- ment. thereof. TERMS OF SALE: Cash In hand on the day of sale, D. W. TAYLOR, 12-7-4wedg* Trustee. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that at a special meeting of the stockholders of the Dunbar Land Company, a cor- poration, created and organized un- der the laws of West Virginia, witk: its principal office at Charleston, West Virginia, to be held on the 4th day of January, 1911, it is my inten- ton and as a stockholder of sata, company, to present for considera~ ton, a resolution or motion, author- izing the Dunbar Land Company to sell Its authorized capital stock be- low par, to-wit: at thirty dollars per share, par value on hundred dollars ver share, FRED PAUL GROSSCUP. * President Dunbar Land Co. 12-27-Bttes ———__+--»___. ' Special Conumissioner'’s Sale. By virtue of a decree of sale en- tered in the-chancery-cause-of Min- nic S, McWhorter against. W. A. Mitchell in. the Cireult Court _ of, Kanawha County, West Virginia, "on September 23, 1910, in chancery order Book 33, page 139, I shall on Saturday, January 14. 1911, at the east front door of the Court House of Kanawha County, West Virginia, on Court street, in‘the eity of Ghar- leston, beginning at 10 a. m., pro- ceed to sell the property described, in the bill and proceedings in said cause, being two parcels of land ad= Joining, one containing four actes, one rod and eight poles; the other containing two acres. and. fifteen poles, situate on the south sido of Kanawha river, opposite and about one mile from the city of Charleston, in Loudon district of sald ‘cdunty, being the same land conveyed to said W. A. Mitchell by Minnle 8. Mo- Whorter by deed dated July, 94, 1906, and recorded in deed boos 104, page 438, in the County Clerk’ office of said ‘county. i ‘Terms: Enough cash on day of. salo to pay the sum of $1,420.60; with legal interest from September. 23, 1910, to date of sale, and costs of suit and sale, and the residue Jn two eqnal payments in one and two wears from day of sale, the pif chaser to give his notes therefor, the, same to draw interest from day of, sale, L. BE. MWHORTHR,..- Special Constnisstoner. Bond and security, as provided by. law, given by above mame@ special corhimisstoner, Teste: IRA H. MOTTESHRARD, Clerk Kanawha Cireuit Court, W. eNO ee, BELA OPENING OF WEST VIRGINIA'S FINEST MARKET HOUSE COMPARATIVELY Few CITIES IN THE COUNTRY CAN BOAST A MEAT MARKET WHICH REGULATES THE TEMPERATURE AS DESIRED IN EVERY PART BY PRECISELY THE SAME METHOD BY WHICH ICE IS MADE AT A FACTORY. BY THE OLD METHOD OF REDUCING THE TEMPERATURE, BY APPLYING A PIECE OF ICE, A MARKET COULD BE MADE COOL IN SPOTS ONLY, AS IN THE REFRIGERATOR ROOM. BY THE NEW METHOD OF REDUCING THE TEMPERATURE BY A COMPLETE REFRIGERATION SYSTEM, WE CAN REGULATE THE DEGREE OF HEAT OR COLD UP OR DOWN FROM FREEZING TEMPERATURE JUST AS WE PLEASE IN ANY PART OF THE MARKET THAT CAN BE REACHED BY A METAL PIPE. WHAT THAT MEANS TO YOU THAT MEANS THAT NOT ONLY THE PRODUCTS KEPT IN OUR COLD STORAGE ROOM WILL BE AT A SANITARY DEGREE OF COLD. BUT THAT THE PRODUCTS SHOWN IN OUR WINDOW, THE PRODUCTS IN OUR INSIDE DISPLAY CASE, AND EVEN THE PRODUCTS ON OUR COUNTER, ARE ALL KEPT, ALL THE TIME, AT SUCH A TEMPERATURE AS TO BE FREE FROM INFECTION. TOUCH THE PIPES SURGrounding OUR COUNTER AND YOU WILL REALIZE WHAT OUR REFRIGERATION PLANT MEANS TO YOU, OR, BETTER STILL, LET US SHOW YOU OVER THE PLANT AND EXPLAIN FULLY ITS WORKINGS. WE WILL TAKE PLEASURE IN DOING SO. WE WANT YOUR TRADE. OUR ONLY METHOD OF SECURING IT IS TO BE WORTHY OF IT 713 VIRGINIA STREET The owner of any real estate above described and sold, his heirs, or assigns, or any person having a right to charge such real estate for a debt, may redeem the same by paying to the purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, within one year from the sale thereof, the amount specified in the last column of the above table, and such additional taxes thereon as may have been paid by the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with interest on said purchase money and taxes at the rate of twelve percentum per annum, from the time the same may have been so paid. Gifon under my lind this 22nd day of December, 1910. NEW YORK 100 DOLLARS FINEST COMPARATIVELY FEW CITIES LATES THE TEMPERATURE ABOVE BY WHICH ICE IS MADE AT A BY THE OLD METHOD OF A MARKET COULD BE MADE OF BY THE NEW METHOD OF TION SYSTEM, WE CAN REGULIING TEMPERATURE JUST AS TED BY A METAL PIPE. WHAT THAT MEANS THAT NOT ON AT A SANITARY DEGREE OF O PRODUCTS IN OUR INSIDE DIS ALL KEPT, ALL THE TIME, AT TOUCH THE PIPES SURGFRIGERATION PLANT MEANS TO AND EXPLAIN FULLY ITS WORK. WE GIVE WE SELL WE MAKE OUR PRICES OURMETHODS WE WANT YOUR TRADE. HOLZ MEATS, FIS 713 INDIA INDIA INDIA to Test Validity OF ORDINANCE SEGREGATING NEGRO PEOPLE IN CERTAIN SECTIONS WILL BE ATTEMPTED BY THOSE WHO FEEL THEMSELVES AGGREVED. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 28—The ordianace segregating the colored people of this city to streets in which they are in the majority, and which was signed by Mayor Mahool a few days ago, is still one of the leading topics of conversation here. Already plans for testing its provisions are Person Charged With Taxes. Bailey, C. H. Bailey, S. B. Britton, J. M. Casdorph, Mary E. Edens, John A. Holmes, Burrell B. Warmack, Jerry Cobb, Sam Prazier, James P., heirs Miller, B. F. and Janet Same Wilson, J. N. Sperry & Hutchinson Green Trading Stamps LIKE EVERY OTHER RETAILER, WE APPRECIATE CASH TRADE, AND WE KNOW NO BETTER WAY OF SHOWING OUR APPRECIATION THAN BY OFFERING THE GREEN STAMPS, THE VALUE OF WHICH IS SO WELL RECOGNIZED WHEREVER THEY ARE KNOWN. OF EVERY KIND, EVERY PIECE OF WHICH, BOTH ON FOOT AND AT THE ABBATOIR, HAS PASSED THE MOST RIGID INSPECTION AND HAS BEEN HANDLED IN THE MOST SANITARY MANNER. Fish and Game THAT HAS BEEN PROTECTED DURING SHIPMENT BY THE MOST PERFECT MODERN METHODS OF REFRIGERATION. Supplies, Including Vegetables, in Season, Butter, Eggs. AND MANY PICKLED, CANNED AND BOTTLED PRODUCTS WE WOULD KEEP A BETTER BRAND IF WE COULD, BUT THERE IS NO BETTER MADE. WE MIGHT KEEP SECOND OR THIRD RATE PRODUCTS, WHICH WE COULD OFFER AT A FEW CENTS LESS PER POUND, BUT WE PREFER TO GIVE YOU THE BEST AT A REASONABLE PRICE. OUR LIST OF REGULAR FATRONS INCLUDES THE NAMES OF THE MOST CAREFUL BUYERS OF CHARLESTON AND THE KANAWHA VALLEY. WE ARE PROUD OF THE PATRONAGE OF MEN AND WO-MEN WHO Know What They Buy and What They Pay For It WE FIND IT EASIEST TO SATISFY SUCH CUSTOMERS. THE LABORING MAN'S SILVER IS, COMPARATIVELY, JUST AS VALUABLE TO US AS THE RICH MAN'S GOLD. Uniform Price and Uniform Courtesy DEFINES OUR POLICY. A CHILD'S ORDER RECEIVES EVEN MORE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION THANTHAT OF A PERSON OF MATURE YEARS AND JUDGMENT. List of Real Estate Sold in the Couuty Kanawha Specialty of Star Ham and Bacon WE WOULD KEEP A BETTER BRAND, IS NO BETTER MADE. WE MIGHT KEEP PRODUCTS, WHICH WE COULD OFFER POUND, BUT WE PREFER TO GIVE YOU ABLE PRICE. OUR LIST OF REGULAR PATRONS INC MOST CAREFUL BUYERS OF CHARLES VALLEY. WE ARE PROUD OF THE PA MEN WHO Know What They Buy and What The WE FIND IT EASIEST TO SATISFY SU THE LABORING MAN'S SILVER IS, CON TABLE TO US AS THE RICH MAN'S GO Uniform Price and Uniform Courtesy DEFINES YOUR POLICY. A CHILD'S OR CAREFUL CONSIDERATION THANTHA YEARS AND JUDGMENT. OUR ONLY METHOD OF SECURING IT GIVE US A TRIAL Z BROTH SH, OYSTERS AND GAME VIRGINIA STRE being discussed, for if it is allowed to stand a series of similar and other proscriptive measures will follow in parts of the country, as has happened since the beginning of race disfranchisement laws of the South have been enacted. One scheme to test the law is to have some owner of property in a neighborhood lease his property to some one whose race does not compose the majority of residents in a block. The one who leases the property, as well as the other parties to the lease, will, of course be arrested then and bailed in court in order to be fined $1000. The one who leases the property will then bring a friendly suit against the owner for leas- List of Real Estate Sold in (Continued from Quantity of Land Charged. Q Union District. ...1 2-10 acres, Rocky Fork ... W ...101 acres, waters Poca River ... ½ ...10 acres, waters Two Mile ... W POSTAL OFFICE BIRMINGHAM MAILING A MEAT MARKET WHICH REGU- PRECISELY THE SAME METHOD BY APPLYING A PIECE OF ICE, REFRIGERATOR ROOM. BY A COMPLETE REFRIGERA- COLD UP OR DOWN FROM FREEZ- MARKET THAT CAN BE REACH- TO YOU OLD STORAGE ROOM WILL BE KNOWN IN OUR WINDOW, THE DUCTS ON OUR COUNTER, ARE FREE FROM INFECTION. WILL REALIZE WHAT OUR RE- SHOW YOU OVER THE PLANT IN DOING SO. Open Trading Stamps BE APPRECIATE CASH TRADE, OF SHOWING OUR APPRECIA- CEEN STAMPS, THE VALUE OF WHEREVER THEY ARE KNOWN. WHICH, BOTH ON FOOT AND THE MOST RIGID INSPECTION MOST SANITARY MANNER. SHIPMENT BY THE MOST REFRIGERATION. Season, Butter, Eggs. AND BOTTLED PRODUCTS. AND IF WE COULD, BUT THERE KEEP SECOND OR THIRD RATE PER AT A FEW CENTS LESS PER YOU THE BEST AT A REASON- INCLUDES THE NAMES OF THE LESTON AND THE KANAWHA PATRONAGE OF MEN AND WO- they Pay For It SUCH CUSTOMERS. COMPARATIVELY, JUST AS VAL- GOLD. RESY ORDER RECEIVES EVEN MORE THAT OF A PERSON OF MATURE IT IS TO BE WORTHY OF IT HERS NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY TIMING STATION NEW YORK CITY ing property to one who is prohibited by law from occupying the same thus giving an opportunity to test the validity of the law. Another plan is for some colored man who owns property in a white neighborhood to move in and then make a test case of his right to occupy his own property. The foregoing and similar plans are among those mentioned for testing Baltimore's reactionary and freak law. 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 THE ADVOCATE of service. Our cream is the best in the land, guaranteed to please you. Hours for Sunday: 4 p. m. to 4 p. m. We will be open every night during the week W. H. Parker, Manager The Influence of Bishop Phillips FADING IN THE A. M. E. CHURCH IN TEXAS AND POWER IS BEING EQUALIZED SINCE HIS TRANSFER FROM CONFERENCE (Special To The Advocate.) Dallas, Texas, Dec. 25.—The change of Bishop Phillips from the Conference of the Lone Star State has given the people time to think. They are now planning to undo some things Bishop Phillips seemed to have done when he presided over the Texas Conference. The Texas Methodists have now a growing dislike of the name "Phillips University." They do not seem to think such a monument should be reared to a man in so short a time and in such a manner during his lifetime. Many of them feel that inasmuch as the people of the church gave money to found this school and are supporting it still with their means, it cannot very properly be called "Phillips University" as the good Bishop has not done enough financially and personally to insure the perpetuity of the institution. They do not blame him for wishing to build a family name but they are opposed to furnishing the means for him to do so with. Further, many of the best educated people of the Church think "University" is too large a title for it now. "College" at least sounds better and is more in keeping with the age, size and educational status of the school. The defeat of Bishop Phillips' propositions in the last General Conference of the C. M. E. Church was a pretty fair testament that his influence and popularity are on the wane. Somehow he has impressed the people of the Church that he thinks he is the logical ruler. It has made him unpopular and he has increased this unpopularity by references to the actions of the Conference during his annual Conferences in his new diocese. There was a time when he was the most influential and popular bishop in the C. M. E. Church, but his "I am better than thou" policy has hurt him and the people are coming to make him feel in the strongest possible way that the "Ego" creed will not hold good in the future even if they must turn down every proposition presented to the Church by Bishop Phillips. Murphy Celebrates Seventieth Birthday VETERAN EDITOR, SURROUNDED BY WIFE AND NINE CHILDREN RECEIVED CONGRATULATIONS OF NUMBERS OF FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES. Baltimore, M. D., Dec. 28—Sur bounded by his wife and nine chil WHAT IS IT? 1 year Combinaion ibu ion Certificate of Membership as devisedby he American WorkmenFraternal Insurance Company,of Washington, D.C., one of ahe mot liberal, srongest and reliable fraternal instituts in the field. For further pariculars see Office: Room 2, K. P. Building. CHARLESTON, W. VA. 9-8-4t. ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY? OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a trunk or hiding it some where about your house—You Are Working for Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent. interest—Your Money is Working For You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend or six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. Sunday at his home, 1320 Drudid Hill avenue. During the day a large number of persons called to wish the veteran quilldiver long life and continued prosperity. A native of this city and educated in private schools here, Mr. Murphy has long been prominent in racial affairs, and is today as vigorous mentally and physically as a man half his age. His success in running the Afro-American Ledger for the past 14 years has made him an optimist or optimists in regard to the future of Negro journalism and he will shortly move his plant into larger quarters at 628 N. Butaw street, corner of Drudid Hill avenue, in order to introduce a number of long-contemplated improvements to the Afro-American Ledger. Poor Children Are Remembered Xmas COLORED EMPTY STOCKING AND FRESH AIR CIRCLE GLADDEN THE HEARTS OF OVER 1,500 CHILDREN OF THE POOR CLASS. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 28—Over 1500 poor children had their hearts gladdened last Saturday morning, when the annual Christmas treat of the Colored Empty Stocking and Fresh Air Circle was given at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church. Addresses were delivered by Councilman Harry S. Cummings, Rev. J. A. Holmes and others. The little ones were given clothing, toys, stockings filled with candy and other things to delight them. Miss Ida R. Cummings is president of the circle. The deal has been finally ratified by which the payee Memorial A. M. E. Church secures the handsome property of a white Methodist congregation for $41,700. Rev. P. W. Wortham is pastor of the church. WHAT CURES ECZEMA? We have had so many inquiries lately regarding Eczema and other skin diseases, that we are glad to make our answer public. After careful investigation we have found that a simple wash of Oil of Wintergreen, as compounded in D. D. D., can be relieved upon. We would not make this statement to our patrons, friends and neighbors, unless we were sure of it—and although there are many so-called Eczema remedies sold, we ourselves unhesitatingly recommend D. D. D. Prescription. Because—We know that it gives instant relief to that torturing itch. Because—D. D. D. starts the cure at the foundation of the trouble. Because—it cleanses, soothes and heals the skin. Because—It enables Nature to repair the ravages of disease. Because—The records of ten years of complete cures of thousands of the most serious cases show that Resident. Rightwell, Cashier. Vice-Prests., CAPITAL CITY BANK Charleston, W. Va. CAPITAL STOCK We solicit the accounts of firms attention to out of town deposito on savings accounts and invite c view in regard to opening an acc Accounts with this bank can b der, Express Money Order or Re same careful attention as if atten GO I. E. N FOR ICE CREAM THAT T Either Plain Special Pr 20 Capitol Street. CAPITAL STOCK, $250,000.00. the accounts of firms and individuals in of town depositors. We pay three accounts and invite correspondence or to opening an account. In this bank can be opened by Post, Money Order or Registered Mall, and attention as if attended to in person. GO TO E. NICHOL FOR THE FIRM THAT TASTES LI ner Plain or in Br al Prices T street. We solicit the accounts of firms and individuals and give special attention to out of town depositors. We pay three percent interest on savings accounts and invite correspondence or personal interview in regard to opening an account. Accounts with this bank can be opened by Post Office Money Order, Express Money Order or Registered Mail, and will have the same careful attention as if attended to in person. GO TO I. E. NICHOLS FOR THE ICE CREAM THAT TASTES LIKE MORE Either Plain or in Brick Special Prices To Churches and Dealers 20 Capitol Street. Both Phone D. D. D. is today recognized as the absolutely reliable Eczema Cure. Drop into our store today, just to talk over your case with us. C. A. Potterfield, druggist, corner Capitol and Virginia streets. A clean liquid preparation for external use. Krieg and Price, Druggists, are so confident that ZEMO will rid the skin and scalp of infant or grown person of pimples, blackheads, dandruff, eczema, prickly heat, rashes, hives, ivy poison or any other form of skin or scalp eruption, that they will give your money back if you are not entirely satisfied with the results obtained from the use of ZEMO. The first application will give prompt relief and show an improvement and in every instance where used persistently, will destroy the germ life, leaving the skin in a clean, healthy condition. Let us show you proof of some remarkable cures made by ZEMO and give you a 32 page booklet how to WORKING FOR NG FOR MON WORKING FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910 Vice-Prests., L. M. LaFollette J. C. Morrison CITY BANK and individuals and give special ers. We pay three percent interest correspondence or personal inter- count. be opened by Post Office Money Or- registered Mall, and will have the ended to in person. TO NICHOLS THE TASTES LIKE MORE or in Brick ices To Churches and Dealers preserve the skin. Krieg & Price, 2 Leading Drug Stores, 10 and 108 Capitol street. SKIN AFFECTIONS Whether on Infant or Grown Person Cured by Zemo and Zemo Soap. AN UNUSUAL OFFER. The Krieg & Price drug store says to every person, be it man, woman or child, who has an irritated, tender or itching skin to come to our store and procure a bottle of ZEMO and a cake of ZEMO soap and if you are not entirely satisfied with results come back and get your money. So confident are we of the efficacy of this clean, simple treatment, that we make you this unusual offer. ZEMO is a clear liquid for external use that has cured so many cases of eczema, pimples, dandruff and other forms of skin eruption. ZEMO and ZEMO soap are the most economical as well as the cleanest and most effective treatment for affections of the skin or scalp, whether on infant or grown person. Both Phone