The Advocate

At the Nation's Capitol FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF NEGRO'S FREEDOM WILL BE DULY CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. No Central Exposition to be Held, Each State or County Will Observe "Fiftieth Anniversary Week" in its own way. President Thirkield in the South. Howard University alive.—Commencements . aglore. . a Haitian Mission not to go a Begging. WE CHECKUALLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME X. Bureau of The Advocate, 1004 S Street, N. W. Washington, D.C., May 17.—The failure of Congress to take the expected action with reference to the Commission to inquire into the feasibility of holding a central exposition in 1913, commemorative of the Negro's freedom will render it impossible to carry out the original suggestion of the National Negro Business League looking to the development of the big exposition plan. The idea set forth at the Louisville convention in August, 1909, comprehended a great national display at some convenient point, showing in detail the progress the Negro has made in the arts and sciences during his half century of freedom. The bills asking the appointment of a commission to take up the question in systematic fashion were not acted upon by Congress at the last session; and, although appropriation measures looking to this end are still pending, the officers of the League, at its semiannual meeting, expressed the opinion that it is now too late, even if Congress extends aid, to prepare an exhibit of national proportions that will reflect the proper credit upon the race. Hence, the National Negro Business League, to insure a celebration, that will be at once moderate in cost and which will fittingly observe the sacred occasion, makes the following suggestions: That the third week in October, 1913, be set set apart for the celebration, and be known as "Fiftieth Anniversary Week." That instead of a Central Exposition the schools, churches and various societies in each community unite in a local celebration, to take the form of an exposition of the progress of the race in commercial, professional moral, intellectual, religious and industrial direction, or a public meeting of some kind presenting facts bearing upon the Negro's rise since emancipation, bringing forward the strongest and best speakers. That wherever feasible the celebration hold in conjunction with some existing fair or general gathering of the race, making the county or state the unit of co-operation. That in case money is obtained from Congress, the same be apportioned among the States, to be expended under the control of the Governor or some other state authority the division to be based upon the number of colored people residing in the different States. That the colored people be urged from now on to prepare local celebrations in accord with these suggestions and that the matter be kept constantly before the people through notice read in the churches, the schools, societies and other organizations of the race, to the end that the Fifthieth Anniversary Week shall be generally observed everywhere. The League is of the opinion that this plan offers better results than would a central exposition at this late day, as the larger portion of the expense of gathering exhibits is avoided and no cost of traveling long distances is involved. A mammoth celebration is planned for Washington, to be held in September, 1913, under the direction of the Interdenominational Bible College, of which Prof. Jesse Lawson is president. It is expected that President Taft will take part in the program, and there will be an exhibit of an attractive character. The Washington celebration will be a model for the guidance of many other communities, to be worked out on such a scale as local conditions will permit. The suggestions of the Business League has the hearty approval of Dr. Booke T. Washington and he will exert himself to see that the celebration every where is in accord with the spirit of national development and racial up lift. MU-SO-LIT CLUB HONORS MEMORY OF DUNBAR. The famous Mu-So-Lit Club, made up of Washington's most representative men of affairs, closed its season with a memorial function in honor of the race's poet-laureate, Paul Lawrence Dunbar. The exercises were held Tuesday evening May 9, at True Reformers' Hall. The spacious auditorium was filled with beautifully gowned women and manly men and the fair sex enjoyed to the limit their only opportunity of the year to participate in the session of this unique organization. The formal program was as follows: Welcome address, Dr. Arthur S. Gray, president of the Club; music piano solo, Miss Mary L. Europe; "Some Accompaniments of Poetic Genius," Prof. E. C. Williams, principal of M Street High School; recitation, "The Party," Thomas W. Heathman; (Introduced by Dr. W. Bruce Evans, principal Armstrong Manual Training School); "What Dunbar Meant to the Race," Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell; recitation, in character, "In the Morning," and "LlGial," Master Merrill Curtis; solo, "Negro Love," Miss Charlotte M. Wallace; "An Appreciation of Dunbar," Prof. Kelly Miller. All of the recitations were from Dunbar's works, and the music of the solos by Miss Wallace was written by Dunbar's collaborator, Will Marion Cook. Refreshments were served by Caterer W. W. Martin, and the Wilber forian Musical Association furnished the music by which the company tripped the "light fantastic" until a late hour. The executive committee which had charge of the successful affair was made up of Neval H. Thomas, chairman; Robert A. Pelham, Dr. A. E. Gaskins, W. Sidney Pittman, Prof. E. C. Williams, Judge R. H. Terrell, and G. Luther Sadgwar. President Taft, who has evinced the deepest interest in the wafare of the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A., and who was primarily instrumental in securing the gift of $25,000 from Mr. Julius Rosewald, the Chicago merchant-philanthropist, has consented to address the Association at an early date. It is understood that the dedication of the new $100,000 building will take place on Thanksgiving Day, and that President Taft will deliver the dedicatory address on that occasion. LIVELY TIMES AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. All is life at historic Howard University. The commencement season approaches. In fact, it is here. On Sunday last, Dr. W. P. Thirkeld introduced an innovation in the shape of a baccalaureate service for the University Nurse Training School. The principal address, or baccalaureate sermon, was delivered by Miss Jane A. Delano, prominently identified with the Red Cross Trained Nurse work in the United States. Miss Delano's advice and her graphic portraits for the duties, responsibilities and opportunities of the trained nurse were listened to with the closest attention and the warmest appreciation was manifested. The vested choir, under the direction of Miss Lulu Vere Childers, rendered special music, and Dr. Thirkeld made felicitous remarks On Friday evening the graduating exercises are scheduled. May 30 will be the big meeting of the Howard University Alumni, and former students of Howard from all over the country will be in attendance. The $25,000 gymnasium movement will be given another tremendous "shove" forward. If Prof. Kelly Miller declines to serve another term as president of the Alumni Association, the friends of Prof. Dwight O. Holmes, of Baltimore, may claim to that honor. On May 31 will come the stellar event of the commencement season. On this occasion the address to the graduates will be delivered by that stalwart friend of the Negro, Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The graduates this year will outstrip in number and quality the classes of any previous year. Fully two hundred will receive diplomas, and one hundred and fifty will earn degrees. President Thirkeld is delighted with the work of the year, and is deeply touched by the sturdy loyalty shown his administration by both the faculty and the student body and is gratified to note the increasing strength of the "college spirit." The name of "Howard" is heard every where with veneration, and North South, East and West, the "Howard spirit" is working wonders for the uplift of the race. THAT NEGRO "DEMOCRATIC" CONVENTION A "FROST." This letter meets the eye of the gentle reader, the alleged "Negro Democratic Convention." called by somebody or other, assembly at Indianapolis, May 17, will be a thing of the past. At this distance, the meeting has all the ear-marks of a monumental "frost." Word has been received by prominent men of affairs here to the effect that the Hon. Thos. Taggart, the patron saint of the Negro Democrats of Indiana and the Middle West, that he knows nothing of the alleged convention. Mr. Alex E. Manning, the acknowledged leader of the United Colored Democracy of the State, gives it out like wise he has not been consulted by the callers of the meeting, and is in the dark concerning it. The Hon. Stokes Jackson is in Washington, and will not be around to make note of the coming of the bronzed section of the "unturnified." The consensus of opinion among the Mannings and Hill colored Democrats is that there is no need for a convention of Negro Democrats at this time. The visitors, it (Continued on page six.) THE ADVOCATE. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1911 Supported By Miners WHO PAY MONTHLY TAX CORONA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Supporters Lauded By Corporalot Manager for Their Faithfulness and Encouraged to Continue in work of Selfhelp and Racial Progress. Corona, Ala., May 13.—Sympathy in their struggles to educate their children and to provide a better home life for them and encouragement for the future were the dominant notes in a stirring address last night by Beiton Gileath, of Birmingham, philanthropist and publicist, at the closing exercises of the Corona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes, which institution is supported mainly by the Negro miners by the payment of a monthly tax. A large number of prominent white people of this community heard Mr. Gileath, among them being Dr. D. B. Chilton, H. F. Gibson, superintendent Corona mines; J. W. Harkins, superintendent Patton mines; Rev. J. H. Kilgore, president white school board; J. T. Savage, of the Corona mines; A. Carpell, W. F. Files and R. C. Lollar, merchants of Patton, and others. Mr. Gilreath was introduced by L. B. Musgrave, president and general manager of the Corona Corporation, who paid a high tribute to the faithfulness of the Negroes of this section in maintaining the institution for the education of their children. "You have been faithful in many things," he said. "This corporation could not have been the success it has without your help. I have never had to call upon you for help of any kind without a ready response, and in my heart, I appreciate it." In the beginning of his address Mr. Gilbreath commented on the infrequency of erime in this district as compared with that of other mining districts and declared it to be due in a large measure to the influence of the institution. The work of William H. Councill, who laid the corner stone of the first building here, and whose graduates for the most part have carried on the work was given high praise, and the usefulness of the dead educator to the State of Alabama and the South was dwelt upon at length. In the course of his remarks Mr. Gilbreath said: "The Negroes in this section of Alabama have a great opportunity. Two-thirds of the ore mining is done by them, whereas, when I first came to Alabama it was done entirely by white miners. Negroes are learning how to do things. Mr. Musgrove in his work here is a great agent for the people. He pays you a high compliment when he admits that you are co-laborers with him. God put you here for a purpose. He had a motive for it, for he is behind all race movements. If the white people are ahead of you in any way, remember they have great responsibilities by reason of that fact that you do not have. "You have with them, however, the same chance to read the Bible; the same chance for development; the same chance to build character, and after all, it is character that counts. Your race is doing far more than you, perhaps think; and yet there is a great work for you to do. The white people have the same trouble raising money for their institutions that you have, and you have no need to be discouraged at all. "The same God that laid down the Principle that out of the sweat of the brow shall men be fed, also laid down the principle that all men were created out of one blood. It is not a question of color. It is a question of what man is doing. You have great race leaders. Take their advice, emulate their example, and you will have no need to be discouraged. You must learn that to succeed in any work means to become an artist. A good cook is an artist; so is the good miner; the good farmer. To develop this school here as you have begun, I want you to work in harmony with your trustees, with your principal, and above all, for yourselves, save your money and buy property." In closing Mr. Gilreath paid a high tribute to the efficiency of the work of Principal M. H. Griffin. Superintendent J. W. Harkins declared that in all his work he heard no complaint from the miners of the tax they paid for the support of the school, and that in the work of the men, he could see the good influence of the school. OF NATIONAL RELIGOUS TRAINING SCHOOL WILL FEA-TURE MANY ABLE MAN. Eminent Specialists To Compose Faculty, of Summer School Where training in Many Branches Helpful to Those Engaged in Teaching. (Special to The Advocate.) Durham, N. C., May 15—Although the youngest institution of learning, that is of national import, The National Religious Training School, this city, is doing such effective work that it is the eyesure of the people throughout the country that are interested in the education of the Negro. Among the many improvements being made at this school are the erection of a commodious ten room home for lady teachers and settlement workers; the construction of beautiful driveways over the grounds the walks over the grounds being terraced; lawns being made which will add greatly to the already picturesque site; a large water tank has been erected, and gives a stately effect to the other beautiful structures on the ground The closing of the first year's work of this institution, which has been highly successful and beneficial to the community, will feature in the commencement exercises some of the country's ablest men in their respective spheres, which is an attestation of the standard and scope of the school. The program for the commencement week is as follows: Friday May 19, annual musical. Sunday, May 21, 3:30 p.m., annual sermon by Rev. Augustus P. Record, D. D., pastor church of the Unity, Springfield, Mass.; 7:30 address to undergraduates by President Jas. E. Shephard. Monday, May 22, oratorical contest. Tuesday, May 23, address before literary society by Dr. W. P. Few, Durham, N. C., president Trinity college. Wednesday, May 24, class day excerpts. Tuesday, May 25, commencement annual address delivered by Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, Supreme Court District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. The second summer school will be begin Wednesday, July 5th and continue six weeks. In the work of the National Religious Training School and Chauquetta for its first year, Dr. Shepard has been able to convince the country of the soundness of his educational theory, and this year, the chauquetta will be more far reaching in its work and results. 'A faculty of 39 persons, most of them specialists and all men and women of experience in their particular work has been engaged for the summer, and this season training will be given in primary methods, normal methods, mathematics, history, geography, philosophy, ethics, botany, wood work, agriculture, domestic science, basketry, dress making and millinery bookkeeping and typewriting, music, chemistry and sanitation and hygiene for teachers. The trend of the general lectures and the daily conferences divides the summer school work into sections of importance to particular groups of two weeks each, although the entire six weeks will be interesting. Lectures will be especially interesting to ministers and evangelists, teachers and school principals, women missionary workers, Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. workers, deaconeses, Sunday school workers and people of thought and progress. Ministers and lecturers of note the country over have been secured for the season, and the schedule has been admirably arranged for work, lectures, study and recreation, so that the vacation for teachers ministers, and other professional people can be pleasantly as well as profitably spent. A partial list of the lecturers gives the following individuals; Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Huriburt, New Jersey; Prof. Kelly Miller, Washington; D. Webster Davls, Richmond, Va.; S. N. Vas, Raleigh, N. C.; Rev. M. W. Gilbert, Knoxville, Tenn.; Miss J. A. Pratt, Salem, Masa; N. C. Wilhelm, New Jersey; Rev. W. N. J. Berry, Springfield, Mass.; Prof. Jesse Johnson, Wilberforce University; Rev. E. H. Hunter, Virginia; Bishop George W. Clinton, North Carolina; Prof. J. A. Cotton, North Carolina; Rev. H. A. Kelsey, Ohio; Maj. R. R. Moton, Hampton Institute; Rev. J. C. Massey, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Miss Josephine Pinyon, Washington, D. C.; Arch Deacon George W. Avant, N. Carolina; Rev. W. Y. Chapman, New Jersey; Hon. N. B. Broughton, N. Carolina; John C. Dancy, Washington, D. C.; Rev. George H. Miller Stubenville, Ohio; Hon. J. Y. Joyner, Superintendent Public Institution, North Carolina; M. C. S. Noble University of North Carolina; Prof. W. D. Carmichael, superintendent Durham City Schools and others. BY TUSKEEGE BAND, ORCHESS- TRA AND GLEE CLUB BIG EVENT AT-NASHVILLE Needs of Workers Placed Before Immense Audience By Rev. Gaines Who Advocates an Institutional Church Where Recreation May Be Had By Negroes. Nashville, Tenn., May 16.—Things are happening rapidly in Tennessee row. Nashville has uncovered a real live minister—a man with broad public ideas and the talent of a promoter. The Tennessee Assembly has adjourned without getting together again after the break that carried some of the fusions into Alabama to prevent legislation on the whiskey question and the election laws. The A. M. E. Conference will be called to order next week at Murfreesboro to pass on the character and success of the ministers and to line up things for the General Conference of 1912. The schools and colleges are all closing their doors in rapid succession and everything generally is in a flurry of excitement. Nashville has had some big talings pulled off in the past but nothing before has equalled the musical concert given last Friday night at the Ryman Auditorium by the Tuskegee Band, Orchestra and Glee Club under the direction of Captain N. C. Smith. Mayor House said that he believed the Captain was the harvest working man he ever saw and was not surprised that the Captain got so much music out of "Booker's Boys." The concert was given under the auspices of the Nashville Colored Musical Festival Association of which Dr. L. A. Fisher is the president and Rev. W. Gaines is the manager. Various other citizens of good character and reputation are associated with the manager and president who have succeeded in the best public enterprise ever thought of and carried out in Nashville. Rev. W. Gaines is the man referred to in the introductory. He is enterprising and public spirited. He is large in body and notions. He has grit and pluck in plenty. He believes in himself and the people. He thinks that a good thing will always succeed and has the right of way over anything else. He is the kind of man who fights his hardest when things look darkest and most discouraging. These traits of character were the assets brought into play in the magnificent undertaking with which he announced his intention to build an institutional church in Nashville that shall have all the conveniences and advantages of a modern institutional church. In his address to the audience of 6,000 or more of both races the minister talked most of the needs of the working people. He thought they needed a reading room, convenient bathing places, a library, a suitable eating place and that working girls who came from the country should have a good place to go immediately and secure a room and that there should be a lecture and entertainment hall where the working people might find suitable recreation at times. He meant to supply them, for as he said: "The white people will get along better with the colored people if these things are supplied and the colored people will do the work they plan and are employed to do in a more efficient manner. His talk was cheered to the true of the audience with this was true of both white and black people. Dr. C. V. Roman made a short talk in harmony with the occasion and then Mayor House was introduced. He is everybody's mayor and to use the language of Minister Galines, "If you want to have a fight with the colored people, proceed to criticise the Mayor House and you will get what you are looking for in quick time." Mayor House, in truth, is a mighty fine fellow and one of the purest types of a Democrat running loose in the south. He is not a southern democrat but an American democrat. He believes in fairness and the rule of the people—not the bosses. He is the peoples mayor and no man in Nashville has the goodwill of all the Negroes more securely buttoned in his inside pocket than this game Mayor. He is the "Napoleon" of all the Nashville politicians and also has a few things to say about state legislation. Ask Governor Ben Hooper. He may tell you how the House influence has pushed things through the Assembly over the Governor's veto. Mayor House made a patriotic address. He threw some flowers at (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Baltimore's Oldest Chiropodist Dies GRADUATION EXCERCISES OF NURSES TRAINING SCHOOL OF PROVIDENT HOSPITAL AN EVENT OF THE WEEK. Baltimore. Md., May 17.—The funeral of Dr. Charles H. Weerns, the oldest chiropodist in the city, was held at the Sharp Street Memorial Church Sunday. The services were conducted by Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, pastor of the church. Dr. Weems was born in Snow Hill, Md., sixty-eight years ago. Hon. James C. Napier, register of the treasury, will deliver the commencement address at the twenty-third annual commencement exercises of the Colored High School on June 23. The annual commencement of the Nurses' Training School of the Provident Hospital was held here last Friday night. The address to the graduates was delivered by City Councilman Harry S. Cummings. The diplomas were conferred by Mr. George N. Numisen and the prizes were distributed by Mr. John Rich. The graduates were Misses Emma C. Brown, Clara A. M. Dorsey, Cornelia F. Moore and Lillian R. Patterson. The newly-elected municipal officials were sworn in yesterday. City Councilman Harry S. Cummings was again inducted into office, surrounded by a host of friends from the Seventh and other wards. Mrs. W. A. C. Hughes, wife of Rev. Dr. Hughes, has returned from a visit to relatives in Plainfield, N. J. Rev, Dr. A. L. Garnes left today to attend the session of the New York Conference. Conference School Has Final Exercises DEDICATION OF NEW HALL AND RAISING OF FUND OF $25,000 CHIEF FEATURES OF KITTRELL'S ANNIVERSARY. Kittrell, N. C., May 18.—The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Kittrell College will begin here tomorrow and continue until next Thursday. Chief among the incidents to take place during the celebration are the dedication of the new Duke Hall, the raising of a fund of $25,000 for extending the work of the school and the address to the graduating class by Rev. A. L. Galanes, of Baltimore. The North Carolina and Western North Carolina A. M. M. E. conferences will also meet in joint session during the week. Kittrell College is supported by the conferences in the Second Episcopal District of the A. M. E. Church. This district is presided over by Bishop Levi J. Coppin, president of the board of trustees of the college. The growth of the college is largely due to the efforts of Prof. John H Hawkins, commissioner of education for the A. M. E. Church. Prof. Hawkins has served as president of the college and is now the treasurer of the same. Prof. D. J. Jordan, the present head of the college, is a graduate of Allen University, Columbia, S. C. He has spent twenty-five years in the teaching profession and for a number of years was vice president of Morris Brown College. School Facilities to Be Investigated CONGESTION IN BUILDINGS AND SMALL NUMBER OF TEACHERS MADE SUBJECT OF INQUIRY BY MINISTERS ALLIANCE. Baltimore, Md., May 17.—The Ministerial Alliance, at its monthly meeting Monday, appointed a committee to make an investigation of the school facilities allowed the colored children of this city, and to report the result of their findings to the school board. The High School, for example, has over 500 pupils and 28 teachers, and yet is housed in a building, though comparatively modern, much too small. The same condition exists in the twenty elementary schools maintained by the city. The members of the committee are Revs. George F. Bragg, A. L. Galines, James G. Martin, L. Z. Johnson and A. B. Callis. Bishop Alexander Wallers delivered a lecture on "Africa" at the A. M. E. Zion Church last night. Following the lecture a reception was tendered the prelate and the pastor of the church, Rev. J. Harvey Anderson. The annual Thanksgiving exercises of the local lodges of Odd Fellows was observed at Bethel A. M. E. Church last Sunday, Rev. Dr. D. G. Hill preaching the sermon. The new segregation law is al- IN RURAL DISTRICTS OF GEORGIA INADEQUATE AND CHILDREN SUFFER In Which the State Excel. Doing Which to Wipe out Ignorance, but are Hampered by Denominational Prejudice of Preachers. (Regular Correspondence.) Atlanta, Ga., May 15—Georgia seems to be having an educational revival. The people of the state are thinking more than ever before. They are wanting better things in all particulars. Better schools and better teachers because the schools have better paid teachers and the school houses are improving seems to be the way they are looking at things now. No state in the South has any more private schools than Georgia. They are not any better anywhere and they have been responsible very largely for the new spirit taking hold of the people now. Out of the schools of higher learning has developed the academy life that is gradually creeping over the state and supplanting the inferior schools and teachers provided for the people of the smaller cities and districts. At Waycross, Waynesboro, Barnesville, Forsythe, Rome, Fort Valley, Americla, West Point, LaGrange and Newnan there are small academies with good teachers who are supplying the one great need of these communities and the counties around. These academies are under the control of the various church bodies, they represent but in spite of the dominational taint, they are doing a good work in behalf of all the people. It would be very hard to find any public school of real worth and merit outside of the larger cities of Georgia. That is why these academies are needed. The public schools are usually equipped with the very poorest teachers imaginable and a large part of them ought to be in school themselves. These are some of them who do not know the judgments of their language and yet the people of the communities are forced by the school boards to accept these teachers to train their children. They are hedged about and must take what is thrust upon them. To live in a small city or country, district of the State and bring up children there means to condemn them to life-time slavery for their poor minds are sure to be enternally imprisoned as a result of the poor instruction they receive. The people are seeing the light now, however in the development of the christian academies. At Barnesville, Mrs. Helena Cobb has established the Helena Cobb Institute under the auspices of the C. M. E. Church. The school is in a thriving condition and rapidly becoming a factor in the educational life of the state. At Athens, Miss Judia C. Jackson has established an excellent work that is making rapid strides in changing the life of the people in the surrounding counties. The school established by Miss Jackson is located some distance out from Atasue. The General Educational Board has made one contribution to it. At Wavercross and at LaRange, the A. M. E. Church has two Academies located. They are doing a good work and are a bright offspring of inferior school accommodations provided for; the people of that county. The McClelland Academy located at Nownan, Georgia is one of the brightest and best attempts to provide proper educational facilities for the colored people of a the city section. It is conducted under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church and has had an eventful career. The Rev. Dr. Clennon was the founder of the academy. Before his death eight years ago he had the school past the experimental stage as a school. It was then a permanent factor in the educational life of the people of the four counties surrounding it but still hampers somewhat by the denominational prejudices of the ignorant Negroes of the several communities who in order to stand by their creed would rather see the children grow up in ignorance than have them secure a good start toward an education under Presbyterian auspices. The older people were not so much to blame, however as the good-for-nothing preachers who were between them and the light. But the prejudice is finally melting away and McClelland Academy is standing out like a beacon (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ready worrying its sponsors, in that they want to know if a Chinaman comes under any of its provisions. The issue was raised, by a Chinaman buying a house in a white block and some of the white neighbors raising an objection to his occupancy of the CLARKSBURG C. W. Florence, of Grafton, was a business visitor here Saturday. On Friday night the Dunbar Reading Circle met at Mt. Zion Baptist church. Rev. S. P. West was the speaker of the evening, and delivered a masterful address on "The Negro in American Wars." E. W. Jones and Miss Malcoma Brady, teachers of the Buckhannon school, passed through Wednesday en route to Parkersburg aftereer closing a successful term of work. Mrs. Ed. Morton and daughter, Doris, and Mrs. Frank Jackson, of Fairmont, were the guests of Miss Willa Lee. Sunday. Ed. Morton passed through Sunday en route to Charleston on business. Hiram Sorrel, of Baltimore, was a business visitor here last week. the annual Thanksgiving sermon to the Mt. Horeb G. U. O. O. F. and Household of Ruth was preached Sunday afternoon at Water Street School hall. An immense congregation was in attendance and listened with rapt attention to the many excellent thoughts presented by Rev. N. B. Patterson, of Pittsburg. The Patriarch Lodge and Household from Fairmont was in attendance and a splendid showing was made by the order. Mrs. Martha Lipscomb entertained Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dangerfield. After the evening had been pleasantly spent in various amusements and a delicious repast served the bride was showered with many beautiful pieces of linen. Wm. Weatheris is out again after a serious attack of acute indigestion. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Davis and daughter left Friday for Mountain Lake Park. Md., where they will spend the summer. Their many friends hated to see them go. Amid a great crowd of spectators quite a company were baptized Sunday morning and later received into full membership in Mt. Zion Baptist church. A Mothers' Day program was rendered at Trinity M. E. church Sunday night. Excellent addresses were made by Mrs. Lutie Tuck and Prin. L. R. Jordan. Special music was furnished by the choir. At Pride A. M. E. Church Sunday evening the eleventh anniversary of the Allen C. E. League was celebrated. The principal addresses were made by Dl H. Kyle and Rev. S. P. West. A duet by the Misses Green and piano solo "Nearer, My God, to Thee," by Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson, deserve special mention. Rev. Patterson, of Pittsburg, lectured at Mt. Zion Baptist church Saturday night on "What's the Matter with Sambo," and again on Monday night on "Travels in Scotland, England and France." Both lectures were greatly enjoyed by a large audience. The ball given by the Elks was well attended. The Elite Social Club entertained elaborately last week at the Acamedy of Music. Rev. S. P. West will preach to the graduating class. Sunday. On Monday will be Patron's Inspection Day at Water Street School. The closing exercises will begin Thursday evening when a cantata, "Red Riding Hood's Rescue," will be given by children of first, second, third and fourth grades. Friday evening a play entitled "A Noble Outcast," will be presented by the Grammar Department. Monday night the regular commencement exercises will take place and the address will be delivered to the class by. Principal J. W. Hughes, of Wheeling. The members of the class are Jennie Walker, Marie Miles, Anna Washington, Bird Rone, Eva Green and Mitchell Wilkinson. Mrs. Namile Howard, who has been very energetic in getting up an Eastern Star Court, was well rewarded for her efforts, when Mr. Tapsico, of Washington, D. C., a high officer in the order, conducted eighteen persons into the mysteries of the order and proceeded to set up a court here. Mrs. Howard leaves soon for Charles Town & wheeling to work up interest in the same order. Rev. Patterson preached to a large congregation at the Baptist church Sunday night. HUNTINGTON Rev. I. V. Byrant will preach the sermon to the graduates of the Douglas school Sunday evening, the 28th Inst. Dr. M. C. B. Mason, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will deliver the address to the graduates, May 26th, at the Huntington theater. Rev. I. V. Bryant preached at Cedar Grove Sunday morning and evening. Rev. A. Carpenter of Gallipolis, O. filled the pulpit for Rev. Bryant Sunday morning and evening. Rev. Carpenter preached two excellent sermons. Rev. Bryant was in the city the first of the week, after making his usual pastoral visits, he returned to his home. The members of the First Baptist church are looking forward to the Grand Rally. Herman, son of Rev. and Mrs. I. V. Bryant, of Bidwell, who cut his foot last week, is doing as well as could be expected. Mrs. Bettie Barnett is still sick The Orion club will give an ice cream and strawberry social Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Mattie Robinson's on 8th Ave. BUCKHANNON Rev. S. P. West, of Clarksburg, was a visitor here Wednesday. Miss Beulah Wright visited friends at Weston Monday. Miss Margaret West has returned to her home in Clarksburg after a visit with Miss Mary Lydin. Rev. A. J. Smoot left Monday for a visit with friends and relatives in Charleston. E. W. Jones and Miss Malcoma Bradley, teachers of Victoria Street school, left for their homes Wednesday in Parkersburg and Harpers Ferry. Charles Davis filled a musical engagement at Weston Thursday night. Granville Lewis, of Sutton, is working at the tannery here. Preston Dabney, who has been in Cincinnati for some time, is visiting home folks. The Victoria Street school commencement took place in the City Opera House. The declamatory contest was held Thursday evening, May 4th, the prize, a gold medal, being awarded Miss Ruth Mumsford. The graduation exercises were held Friday evening, May 5th. Mrs. Florence Ball, who has been in Clarksburg for some time, is visiting relatives here. LEWISBURG Miss Jennie Jackson, one of the assistant teachers of the Lewisburg school, left for her home at Romney last Monday. She will go to Cleveland, Ohio, to visit an uncle before reaching home. Miss Jackson taught two terms in the school here, did good work and made many friends while here. She will not teach the coming term as she expects to attend a school to develop her musical talents. George Carter was married to Miss Anna E. Callaway, of Richmond, a few weeks ago. Rev. J. C. Love, the new minister of the M. E. Church, is meeting with great success in his church work and will no doubt prove one of the best preachers the church ever had. Frank Pryor, who has been sick for some weeks, is much improved. His sister, Miss Sallie Pryor, of Washington, will leave for her home tonight. Mrs. Christina Thomas, of Charleston, who was called here on account of the illness of her father, Henry Jefferson, will return home this week for her father is somewhat INSTITUTE The ladies of the Homemakers' Club gave an entertainment in Charleston May 11th for the benefit of the Anti-Tuberculosis League. Miss Blanch Arnold was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Guss Sunday. I. M. Carper, of Charleston, visited here Sunday. Mothers' Day was observed at the West Virginia Colored Institute Sunday. A very unique program was rendered in Hazlewood - Assembly Hall Sunday evening. Miss $jessie F. Embery spent Satur day and Sunday in Charleston. R. H. Lowry and S. H. Guss made a business trip to Charleston Tuesday. Misses Amelia Wilcher and Esther Fulks spent Sunday here. O. T. Wilkerson went to Pt. Pleasants Saturday and returned Sunday. The Teachers' Reading Circle of the West Virginia Colored Institute closed the year's work Monday evening by rendering a program complimentary to the Homemakers' Club. At the close of the program a light collation was served. ST. ALBANS. Mrs. Lula Brown was in Montgomery last week on business. Rev. R. D. W. Meadows passed thru Saturday enroute to Raymond City where he will preach the annual sermon for the Odd Fellows. Rev. J. W. Robinson preached the Thanksgiving sermon for the Odd Fellows. It was very largely attended. Albert Wilson, Maggie Price and Ollie Taylor, students at the W. V. C. L. spent Sunday with their parents. William Taylor, from New River, spent Sunday with his children. Myrtle Williams was visiting her friends at Raymond City Sunday. Rev. P. P. Holland was here a few hours Monday on business. J. W. Price was in Charleston Thursday on business. The Rising Sun Club will give the first entertainment of the season Friday night. BANCROFT The Missionary Society held their regular business meeting Saturday afternoon. They expect to have a rally in the near future. Among those who attended the Odd Fellows sermon at Raymond Sunday were Mrs. Homer Phillips, Mrs. Edward Stevens, Mr. George Brooks, H. A. Jones and Mrs. Dall Dickerson. Mrs. Wm. Mickeus and Miss Stella Smith were shoppers in Charleston Monday. Mrs. Richard Smith spent a few days in Charleston last week. Hav. R. D. W. Moadows, of Ham- metton, Breachwellers Monday night to a large audience. Every one en- joyed the sermon. Miss Martha Martin and son, of Charleston, spent Sunday at Plymouth with her sister, Mrs. Ellijah Stevens. Mrs. Edward Stevens and Mrs. Homer Phillips, of Plymouth, were guests of Mrs. J. W. Sawyers, of Bet- sey, Monday. T. W. Hale, of Charleston, was a business visitor her, Saturday. Mrs. Charlotte Gibba is seriously ill at this writing Geo. Hare, of Wroffeld, was a caller in Plymouth Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Archlo Mosley's little daughters, Alice and Lillie are somewhat indisposed. EAGLE. John Page and son, Charles, of Montgomery, visited relatives and friends here Sunday. J. W. Wade was a Sunday guest of Mrs. Emma Teague. Mrs. Ella Haden and daughter, Miss Leona, are at home again after spending a week at Huntington. Jesse and Samuel Lemons and Sandy Saunders were calling on friends in Montgomery, Sunday. Mrs. Lucy Dow, Mrs. Hattle Clayton, Mrs. Willie Whiting, Mrs. Lizzie Gardner and Mrs. Faunie Marshall were shopping in Montgomery last week. Norvel Lemons made a business trip to Montgomery last Saturday. Rev. E. C. Page will be absent about three months, for the purpose of attending school in Chicago. Rev. I. V. Bryant has been given the oversight of the church during the pastor's absence. Mrs. Emma B. Russ entertained a few friends last Tuesday. RED STAR. Prof. Thos. Jefferson went to Reanoke, Va., Saturday, to assist Rev. C. D. Henderson in his anniversary exercises. The May Party given by the LaJies Aid Society was a very enjoyable affair. Miss Margaret Smith entertained the following guests at dinner Sunday: Mrs. M. A. Thompson and daughter, Miss Edith, and Miss Janie Sheerd. Misses Lillian Carrington, Gertrude Dabney and Wilmo Johnson, of Stone Cliff, and L. J. Jackson, of Carlisle, attended the May Party. While here they were guests of Mrs. Banks and Davis. Prof. J. M. Arter, preached two able sermons Sunday for the pastor Rev. D C. Hunter who is away on a vacation. Mrs. Hendricks and Richardson worshipped here and were guests of Mrs. Emma Jones at dinner. Mrs. L. O. Melver entertained Mrs. Mead, of Dairy Hale. Miss H. M. Jones and Mrs. A. M. Banks attended the Thanksgiving sermon of the Odd Fellowa and Household of Ruth at Stone Cliff, Sunday. James Austin preached at Prudence Tuesday night. KANAWHA CITY. Miss R. B. Johnson and Miss Ivory Woods visited friends in Charleston Monday. Aquilla Page visited his parents here Sunday. W. W. Lewis visited his family here Sunday. The erroneous announcement was made last week that Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Lewis entertained Mrs. Miles Webb. Mr. Webb has not yet taken unto himself a wife. EDUCATON. A colored girl has been chosen to represent the Glen Cove High School at the Nassau-Suffolk Association's oratorical contest. Ten students took part in the preliminary contest and Miss Proctor won over them all. She recited "Kentucky Bell." The Paris correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says, at the distribution of prizes at the Sorbonne, among the colleges belonging to the university, one of the three principal, that of Latin composition, was awarded to a mulatto youth, a native of Hayti; and the first of Greek composition to another Haytan, quite black. A poor white boy who is working his way through college at Benton Harbor, Mich., won a State oratorical contest with an oration on the American Negro. The re-election of Henry Allen, a Negro, to the board of school directors has caused more trouble at Enterprise, a mining settlement north of Des Moines, Iowa. A year ago Mr. Allen succeeded in electing Miss Nellie Leftridge, a Negro girl of Des Moines, as teacher of the Enterprise school. The white patrons of the school made objections, but Mrs. Jennie Steel Huegle, county superintendent, sustained the election because of the character and scholarship of Miss Leftridge. This Year Mr. Allen announces that he will place Negro teachers in the Douglass township schools, and, because of the majority of the Negro population in the township, can carry out his statement. A delegation of white citizens appealed to A. M. Deyoe, State Superintendent of Instruction, to bring action restraining Mr. Allen from carrying out his purpose. The colored people of Esterwood, La., have raised funds for a local high school. A movement has been started among the colored people of Nash- The Independent A STAUNCH FRIEND OF THE NEGRO THE INDEPENDENT was founded in 1848 as a Weekly Magazine to secure the freedom of American slaves. In the sixty-two years that have followed, it has always been the friend and champion of the Negro Race! We have printed frequent articles from prominent Negroes and have closely followed their activities and successes. This attitude has cost us many thousand subscribers, but we have the courage of our own convictions. We feel we are publishing a Magazine that every Negro should read. SEND $1.00 FOR SIX MONTHS To acquaint you with the character and policy of THE INDEPENDENT, we shall be glad to accept a six months subscription for one dollar. Our regular price is $3 a year. We believe that by reading THE INDEPENDENT you will realize our fair attitude and position. 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Curtis, who died recently in Massachusetts, has left $5,000 each to Tuskegee, Hampton and Atlanta Universities. The Commission of which Dr. D W. Clark, of Boston, is chairman, and among whose members are William Dean Howells, James, Whitecomb Riley, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have established a $2,000 scholarship in memory of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, at Wilberforce University. Paul Lawrence Dunbar Taylor, a relative of the poet, is the first incumbent. A gift of, $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie has increased the endowment fund of Fisk University to over $100,000. $300,000 must be raised in order to secure the $60,000 gift of the General Educational Board. The Board of Trustees of the State Negro college of South Carolina elected R. S. Wilkinson to succeed T. E. Miller. Wilkinson is an electrical engineer and will receive a salary of $1,800. On Easter Sunday the cornerstore of four new buildings at Kowaliga, Ala., were laid. The school and community are unusually successful. Of the eighteen colored students of the University of Illinois all are fully or in part self-supporting. From the May Crisis. WHY THEY MET SO OFTEN Agreeably with its promises of week before last to give space to answers to its query as to the necessity of the frequent meeting of the several Baptist organizations in this State. The Advocate is pleased to reprint an editorial appearing in The Sentinel, the official organ of the West Virginia Baptists. The reader will see from the general tone of the Sentinel's expressions that it did not, in this instance at least, differentiate between constructive and destructive criticism. The editor thought he saw in our remarks an attempt to hinder, rather than forward, the work of his organization, an attempt to tear down, rather than to build up, his cause. He also took occasion to indulge in some thinly clad personalities. We pass over these last as being extraneous to the matter under consideration, and will content ourselves, before quoting Mr. Malone in Regular Subscription Price $3.00 a Year coats $4.98 each—Misses $3.98 each. brs tan and gray. Skirt grade black volle skirts worth at each. Others at $1.98 and $2.98. eorge and marah FISHINGS. PITOL ST. & 720 KANAWHA ST. full, with the simple statement that the church, as we see it, is basically right, that there is no worthier cause than that for which it struggles, yet its methods, being conducted by men and not angels, may be open to criticism for that reason, if no other. But listen to The Sentinel: "Dissipating their savings', is the heading of an editorial which appeared in The Advocate last week. After stating that the Sunday School convention was in session at Huntington and saying the Mt. Olive, Mt Zion, Flat Top, and New River Valley Associations, the State and Woman's Conventions are to follow, the editor desires to know the use of the annual gatherings among the Baptists; and further states that the railroads are the greatest gainers by the bodies meeting so often." "We may not be able to give an adequate answer to the question or make plain the reason for the annual meetings, but we venture the trial." "In the onset, it must be said that there are scarcely enough organizations among the church people of West Virginia. There is not enough religious enthusiasm manifested among the masses, and thus infidels, we might say, devils pervade our borders. But to the question." "The Baptist of West Virginia have high aspirations and they have in other days hoped for great things so far as the organization was concerned, and organization has been the best method found to gain any tangible results. For, after the close of the war up to a few years ago, the Baptists did not know their strength nor was there any enthusiasm for greater gain along religious lines, but from the organization of bodies, both State and district, many who would have not otherwise known of Him who rules the destiny of nations, have been instruments for good in the cause of truth. Man is buoyed by inspiration and inspiration often comes from contact with those who are aspiring to great things. Thus, these annual meetings serve as a means of inspiration to the masses. Who can estimate the worth of one inspired soul a soul that is fired with zeal for the salvation of mankind? The worth of traveling will pale into insignificance when compared with the real good accomplished for the good we --- & FISH CO. 28 AND 30 Beef, Veal, Fresh Por OUR OW Try our ma Hams an OYSTERS, FIS The best qualities kind Che We want your pat complete stock it can get it when I. E. N. 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The thought of going makes a united effort for good and much is accomplished; and while in many cases one is given the opportunity to go for once in a life time, he feels interested in the cause from the very fact that he has been once and has been inspired.' "There should be no thought of the gratis entertainment during the few days of these bodies, from the very fact that the sable sons of Ham are naturally big eaters and the feeding of one or two in connection with a family adds very little cost to the people of any community, and, too, we take great pleasure in en-entertaining our friends." "It might be that when some folks are converted, they might be able to strengthen the brethren." SUPPORT OF DEMOCRATS. Promised By Negroes, Who Desire to Vote in Primary Elections, Indianapolis, May 16—Prominent Negroes who have broken away from the Republican party are arriving here for the National Convention of Negro Democrats, beginning tomorrow. More than 200 delegates have arrived. 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A Model Graded School in which Normal Graduates are given the necessary experience in teaching before beginning their regular work. For Further Information Address the Principal Musical Concert (Continued from page one.) Booker T. He passed some high compliments upon the Tuskegee man's musiclans and expressed his general good-will for all men and his desire to see the very best thing done for all. He said "I am always ready to contribute to any effort for the uplifting of the colored people and that is true as well of all the best and most intelligent white people of Nashville". Hon. J. C. Napier was then introduced. He made a very happy and forceful speech and possibly never appeared to better advantage before a Nashville audience. He spoke in a hopeful tone of the progress of peace and industry in the South. Mr. Napier referred to the mingling of the races in the Confederate Gallery of the Auditorium as a fine sign of the times and remarked as to its meaning in contrast with the history of the past. The utterance was well received by both colored and white. The commencement, exercises of Roger Williams began last Friday night in the chapel. The graduation exercises of the Academic department were first. On Sunday Rev. C. H. Clark delivered the Baccalaureate sermon at 3 p.m. Monday evening at eight o'clock the exercises of the Normal Department were held and today the Alumni Business Meeting will be held. At night the Alumni address will be delivered in the University chapel, Mrs. Anna Brown Frilerson, of Decatur, Ala., will deliver Normal address and. Prof. Peter A. Wardlow, of Jackson, Miss., will deliver the College Alumni address. Wednesday morning will be the dedication of Phillips Hall, recently completed. It is a three story building constructed for use as a dormitory, administration and school building. It was designed and built by Moses McKissack a Negro architect and builder. The annual address at the Roger Williams Commencement will be delivered by Rev. J. Y. Aitchison, D. D., of Chicago, and many will doubtless attend to hear the gifted divine. For situation, scenery and healthfulness the new Roger Williams is unsurpassed by any school in the South today. The president and trustees undoubtedly deserve a very large measure of commendation for the admirable way in which they have handled the affairs of the institution thus far on the resume of its educational journey. Dr. C. V. Roman the eye, ear and nose specialist and editor of The Journal of the National Medical Association, is making a strong bid for the position formerly held by H. T. Kealing as editor of the A. M. E. Review. He is a strong man and undoubtedly the best fitted candidate for the position. The signs now are that he will win it. The Methodist Conference at Murfreeboro this week will undoubtedly choose Roman for the place. This will be a long stride toward success and the getting of the plum Politics are "Way below the boiling point just now" in Tennessee. The people are all in love with each other and there is "no bickering, no knocking and no knifing". Perhaps they are getting things ready for the campaign soon to begin. "Gittin' up steam", as the moon-shiner said to the waiter who stumbled upon the "still" all unawares while tramping through, over and around the Cumberland mountains. One has to get up steam in a case of that kind for steam and rifle balls are necessary assets sometimes in the political campaigns of Kentucky and Tennessee. Governor Hooper is quoted as saying that Ben Carr is the best politician in the State of Tennessee—bar none. The Governor seems to be "coming back." He has been too far away from the colored voters. If he could get Ben Carr, P. F. Hill, William Crosthwait and a few others hereabouts to join hands with James C. Napler and "come back" the G. P. would have twice better chances in the next campaign, but he can never get their united support by tying to that old "White Horse" the republicans have trotted out to make the race and win in recent years. Negro votes in Tennessee certainly do mean something and the Negroes of the state will always be found lining up with the regular Democrats until the Republicans get sober again. LITERARY NOTES The June Woman's Home Companion The June Woman's Home Companion is interesting and useful in a great variety of ways. One of its splendid features, particularly entertaining and valuable at the present time, is a description of a large number of "safe and sane" celebrations of the Fourth of July which actually took place last year. These reports are full of ideas and suggestions which, as fast as they are put into effect, will save legs, arms and lives. And the great point is that the children who enjoyed these celebrations had a better time than they ever had in the old way. The new forms of entertainment that have been devised, and that are reported in this month's Companion, are really enrazing in extent and ingenuity. There are six other special articles in the number. One of these is on "The Etiquette of Weddings." Another is on Infant Mortality. All of the articles are full of practical suggestions. One very interesting article is called "My Happiest Vacation." The fiction in this month's Companion is notable. There is a splendid story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, the last piece of work written by this famous author shortly before her death a few months ago. Other stories are contributed by Martion Hill, C. N. and A. M. Williamson, Zona Gale, Fannie Heaslip Lea and others. The special departments in the magazine, now numbering eleven, added, to the great fashion and household sections, which particularly distinguish the Woman's Home Companion, complete the number for Jump. All of the famous regular contributors to these household and fashion departments—Grace M. Gonald, Margaret E. Sangster, Fannie Merritt Farmer, Evelyn Parsons and Kate V. Saint-Maur—are represented. ADMIRAL HUBBARD RETIRES Washington, May 19.—Owing to the fact that he has reached the age limit of 62 years, Rear Admiral John Hubbard, until recently commander in chief of the Astair fleet, was placed on the retired list of the navy today. Admiral Hubbard comes from Maine and was graduated from the Annapolis academy in 1870. He attained the rank of captain in 1905 and that of rear admiral in 1909. He was in command of the Nashville and the naval force in the Isthmus of Panama during the revolution of 1905 which resulted in the independence of the State of Panama. In the memorable around-the-world cruise of the Atlantic battleship fleet Captain Hubbard was in command of the Minnesota. Prior to taking command of the Asiatic fleet he served for some time as a member of the General Board in Washington. WISCONSIN MEN START FOR VICKSBURG Milwaukee, Wis., May 19.—Governor McGovern, accompanied by several State officials and a number of prominent civil war veterans of Wisconsin, left in a special train today for Vicksburg, where they are to take part in the ceremonies incident to the unveiling of the monument and markers placed in the Vicksburg National Military Park in memory of the Wisconsin soldiers who fell in the siege of Vicksburg. The unveiling is to take place next Monday. COTTON MEN END MEETING Richmond, Va., May 19.—The concluding sessions today of the annual meeting of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association were devoted chiefly to the consideration of committee reports and the transaction of the unfinished business of the convention. Howard Ayres, secretary of the Cotton Goods Export Association of New York, delivered an address on the importance and possibilities of a cotton goods export association and J. E. Cheesman, also of New York, reviewed the present status of the cotton ginning industry in all parts of the world. ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAYS "do not worry, eat three meals a day, say your prayers and be of good courage." Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy. You will do yourself justice to have your clothes tailored to order at T. W. Hale Tailoring Co. All work made by New York Tailors. Pants $2.75 a leg, seats free. 428 State St. (Continued from page one.) light to the people of Coweta and the other counties around. It is a far better school than the public schools of the county and with a few changes and additions could do in a better way the work that they all are doing. In the first place, McClelland is good teachers, the best in the community. There is an air of intelligence around the institution not to be found in any other school around and its influence is entirely wholesome. The best people of Newnan and the surrounding counties send their children there now to receive the finishing touches for further training in the Atlanta schools. In a few words, the school has become an intellectual stimulus for the community and the largest part of the mind of the community is centered around its progress and growth. In that particular all these academies serve the interests of higher education. They are good feeders of the universities at Atlanta and are useful in picking out and developing the very best minds to be found in localities of which they are part. This was commencement week at McClelland Academy. It has been interesting in every way. In the first place, the program was of a kind to give inspiration to the people of the community as well as supply wholesome entertainment. The music was of a very high order and the exercises were carried out promptly and with dignity by the academy principal, Rev. Lawrence Miller. There were some selections from Shakespeare and other prominent authors were rendered and very much enjoyed by the audience attending, the larger part of whom had never learned to appreciate anything more than a circus, a cheap minsirel show or some other money-grabbing enterprise of the kind usually playing to small cities and villages in the towns of the South. Dr. W. S. Alexander of Morris Brown College delivered the commencement address. He brought some new thought to the people and left them in a vastly better condition than he found them. He has served his Church well at Morris Brown. The connection has no stronger man. None more lettered and better equipped for high station. He has a fine record in Georgia and the people of the state are very proud of him. The State Teachers Association will meet during the month of June at Athens, Ga. The president, Prof. Bloeker of Augusta, Ga., with his assistants has arranged an excellent program for the meeting and an able array of experts will be heard each day. This is to be the twenty-ninth session of the Georgia State Teachers Association and will likely prove to be the banner session of its history. Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Americus and Augusta teachers are planning to attend in large numbers and the entire state will doubtless receive a new inspiration along educational lines among the colored people. Visitors are expected from the adjoining states. They will doubtless bring new messages of encouragement and hope, for among those who have signified a desire to attend are men and women of varied experience and responsibility. From Tennessee Prof. H. L. Keith, one of the supervisors in the Nashville City schools, has expressed a willingness to join the Georgia teachers in the coming session. Filling the place he does in Nashville, there is every reason to suppose that he can talk from experience as an administrative officer as well as a teacher in public school work. Among other possibilities are Prof. A. H. Brown, of Washington, D. C., who is expected to visit relatives in Atlanta this summer. He is of Howard University. The State Medical Association meets this week at Athens, Ga. Many out of Georgia physicians are expected to be in attendance. Georgia has as fine a bunch of brainy physicians as can be found in the South. There is no question about their training and ability to handle cases requiring the largest possible degree of medical skill. Prominent among the speakers will be Dr. C. V. Roman of Nashville, Tenn; the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. Dr. Roman will speak at the association on "The Cause and Remedies of Deafness." RAILROAD INCREASES STOCK New York, May 19.—At a meeting here today the Stockholders of the Lake Erie and Pittsburg railroad voted to increase the company's stock from $1,000,000 to $6,000,000, and also authorized a large issue of bonds. The issue of stock and bonds is regarded as largely a bookkeeping transaction to take care of advances that have been made to the Lake Erie and Pittsburg, all the stock of which is owned by the Pennsylvania and Lake Shore roads. JUDGE MATHEWS BETTER Judge D. E. Matthews, formerly assistant attorney general, who resigned some months ago because of ill health, is rapidly regaining his former strength and is succeeding in the practice of law in Huntington. He expects to come back here occasionally for he practices before all the courts. He is now looking after the improvement of some property he owns in Huntington which is of considerable value. Editor H. E. Maebeth of the Baltimore Times, continues his vigorous agitation for a Negro daily. He says the weekly paper is too slow for strenuous tires. The Christian Recorder will reach its sixteenth birthday in July, and Editor R. R. Wright will duly celebrate the event. Rev. G. L. P. Taliaferro is again the editor-in-chief of the Christian Banner, a Baptist organ published at Philadelphia. Prof. N. W. Curtwright and former Register J. W. Lyons of Augusta, Ga., have started a testimonial subscription for Rov. W. J. Wright in recognition of the latter's valued services, covering more than 20 years, as editor of the Georgia Baptist. Publisher Charles Alexander of Boston, accompanied by Dr. J. E. Shepard and Judge J. C. Pritchard, made a campaign trip through Ohio, where they made a whirlwind tour in the interest of the great National Religious Training School located at Durham, N. C. The McRidley family is "at the bellum" of the Cadiz Ky.) Intermer. Rev. W. H. McRidley is editor; Mrs. A. M. McRidley is office editor, also business manager; and several young McRidleys run the "stype" end and mail the papers. James E. Crawley, an experienced newspaper man, has succeeded—the late J. Monroe Steele as city editor of the Star of Zion, Charlotte, N. C. Rev. J. D. Palr has become acting editor and business manager of The National Union at Washington, D.C., succeeding F. H. M. Murray, well known as the Washington correspondent of the Boston Guardian. The Union is one of the best race journals published at the nation's capital and Dr. Palr will make it the higher voice of the cultured people there. R. W. Thompson, corresponding secretary of the National Negro Press Association, is compiling, a much needed directory of Negro newspapers. He has valuable data from many publications, but there are many from which he has heard nothing. Some on the old list are dead and new ones have been born, of which the world has not yet heard. Send name of paper, name of editor, circulation, value of plant, if any, number of persons regularly employed and average amount of wages paid weekly. Mr. Thompson's address is 1004 S street, N. W., Washington, D. G. President M. M. Lewey of the N. N. P. A., is preparing a program to be presented by the National Negro Press Association in the open session of the National Negro Business League at Little Rock, Ark., ner. August. J. Thomas Harrison is making a success of The Advocate at Cambridge, Mass., generally regarded as a newspaper graveyard. When he took hold of the business last July the circulation was less than 300, now it is over 1,200. Then the advertising receipts were less than $15.00 per month; now he takes in steadily an average of $180.00 per month. Editor H. P. Slaughter of the Odd Fellows' Journal, is opposed to the colored Y. M. C. A. movement, believing it to be a tacit endorsement of the segregation policy imposed by the whites at every possible point or DIAMONDS combine three important qualities, all of which no other one thing possesses: 1 Beauty 2 Durability 3 Investment Value You can use them without decreasing their value. They have charm of beauty which no other gem possesses. As evidence of success in life they give prestige. They steadily increase in market value. We are offering attractive prices on choice diamonds. ERNST The Jeweler & Mfg. 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Try it and be convinced. Assistant Secretary of State Wilson thinks the dollar is a mighty conqueror than the bullet. It is pleasanter also to be conquered in that way. George W. Perkins, Wall street's official uplifter, wants a court of last resort composed of business men to settle business troubles. Our Supreme Court, he says, is now composed of lawyers who know the law, but who would lose their eye teeth in a business deal. The idea might be extended. Even the gentlemanly porch climbers feel that a court composed wholly of lawyers is out of sympathy with them. Count your change and see if you have the $34.55 that belongs to you by the Government's figures of per capita averages. It seems that there was enough in mexico to make some of our graft experts look like amateurs. For instance, one half the teachers on the pay roll of the department of education could not be found, but somebody had called regularly for their salaries. CAN THEY AFFORD IT? The Advocate does not claim nor does it deserve any credit for the activity of the Starks' Monument committee so soon after an inquiry in these columns as to the reasons for delaying the erection of the memorial. To hold the meeting on Monday, as was done, required the issuance of the call for the committee prior to the appearance of the editorial, but the committee's action is none the less gratifying. It remains now only for the Odd Fellows to make their intentions known about the monument to J. McHenry Jones. Some of them have expressed the opinion that it is none of The Advocate's business when they take action on this matter or whether they take any or not. We have no quarrel with those who entertain or express this opinion, but we respectfully submit for their decision whether they can afford to allow the family of the deceased to do what they publicly announced as a duty devolving upon them, a duty which they would perform. WHO ARE THEY? Failing to get the information from the source from which it was natural to expect it, though two attempts were made. The Advocate is forced to ask some of its readers who is James W. Poe, of Washington, D. C., who are his Washington associates in the Administration Republican Clubs of the United States, and what are the objects of the organization. These are strange questions coming from an appointee on the executive committee, from one supposed to be conversant with the matter, but rather than be in darkness longer, the writer acknowledges his ignorance and adopts this, the only method he knows to get light. Viewed from Charleston-on-Kana-wha, West Virginia, the Administration Republican Clubs of the United States is another of those sporadic attempts originating at the nation's capital for the purpose of bringing to the center of the political stage persons who, otherwise, would be far back with the chorus. Somebody is getting into line early for any jobs or money that may be dispensed to the faithful. At least that's how it looks. PUTTING ASIDE SHAMS. It is extremely gratifying to see a falling off in the use of the term "baccalaureate" to designate the sermon preached to the graduates of schools other than those conferring bachelor degrees. Not long ago every little high, normal, agricultural or mechanical school had its "baccalaureate" sermon, just as it was the vogue for wearers of the cloth to append D. D. to their names. The "baccalaureate", like the "D. D." and "Prof." was adopted so indiscriminately, with so little regard to its real meaning, that, along with these it was frequently cited as an example of Negro exaggeration and desire to seem rather than to be. This striving after big words and lofty titles was of a piece with the tendency along educational lines the training of the head and utmost contempt for the hand. Happily, these follies are becoming apparent. "Annual sermon" or "sermon to the graduates" is taking the place of "baccalaureate" sermon, the teacher of a primary or graded school is coming to see that the title "professor" is a misnomer as applied to him, and "Doctor of Divinity" is being shunned by those who know the difference between a Greek root and a sweet potato. FUSKEGEE INSTITUTE BAND Birmingham, Ala., May 11.—The Tuskegee Institute Band, which is making a tour of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, gave a concert at the Orpheum theatre last night to a house crowded with the members of both races. The program drew forth frequent and hearty applause. During the morning the band honored Mr. Belton Gilreath, a life-long friend and trustee of Tuskegee, by giving a concert on the lawn of the Gilreath home. Mr. Gilreath presented the band with $50 in gold. During the serenade the small daughter of Mr. John A. Kaul, a wealthy citizen and near neighbor of Mr. Gilreath, smilingly presented Bandmaster Smith with fifty cents, stating that she wished the boys to buy postcards to send to their friends. The boys gave her a rousing cheer. The band left for Decatur this morning. --- MENT OF THE WEST VIRGINIA C. I. Sunday, June 4th, 2:00 p. m.—Commencement Sermon.—Rev. A. Clayton, D. D., New York City, 7:30 p. m.—Union Meeting of the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. Rev. C. N. Harris, Fayetteville, West Virginia. Monday, June 5th, 7:30 p. m.—Jone₅ Literary Society Annual. Tuesday, June 6th, 7:30 p. m.—Dunbar Literary Society Annual. Wednesday, June 7th, 3:30 p. m.—Annual Musical. 8:30 p. m.—Annual Prayer and Praise Service. Thursday, June 8th, 7:30 p. m.—Junior Oratorical Contest. Friday, June 9th, 7:30 p. m.—Alumni Reunion. 8:30 p. m.—President's Reception of Graduates Saturday, June 10th, 10:00 a. m.—Commencement Exercises. Address to the graduates by Hon Wm. E. Chilton, United State-Senator. Presentation of Diplomas by Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Schools Charleston To Erect Starks Monument.—The committee appointed at the Parkersburg session of the Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, last summer composed of Grand Chancellor L. O. Wilson, Grand Vice Chancellor E. L. Morton, Grand Master of Exchequer J. M. Hazlewood and T. G. Nutter, met here Monday and decided to proceed immediately with the erection of the memorial to the late S. W. Starks. For Sweet Charity.—The Home Makers club, an organization of the faculty and other ladies of Institute, presented the comedy, Aunt Matilda's Birthday Party" and the Statue Scene from Shakespeare's Tales" at the Garnett school hall, Thursday night of last week. Extended criticisms having appeared a few weeks ago in The Advocate following the club's first appearance on the stage at institute it remains only to be paid now that their second performance was as good, if not better and that the proceeds will go to the local ant tuberculosis league, of which Mrs Annie F. Davis is president. Hotel Brown Arrivals.—Registered at Hotel Brown this week were: Harrison Dooley, Cincinnati; John Thomas, Knoxville; Robert Melton, Lynchburg; Frand Crockett, Hinton; J. H. Armstrong and J. Clark, Aeme; Franklin, Huntington; Mr. and Mrs. W. Williams, Zanesville; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jones, Greenville; Mrs. M. Hurt, Shrewbury; J. H. Robinson, Winston-Safem; Mr. and Mrs. Webster, Bedford City; J. Y Powell Pittsburg; C. T. McNeil and family Raleigh; Miss Jennie E. Jackson Romney; R. L. Webster, Hot Springs John Bruce, Roanoke; Mrs. Eller Witchen, Maybury; and Samue Grant, Glouster. Ehenezer Baptist Church. The Baptist church of West Charleston, of which Rev. J. W. Coleman is pastor has solicitors out for its grand rally to be held June 18th. An effort is being made to build a churn office of which the congregation, which is a small one, stands greatly in need. The hours of services at the church every Sunday are 12 a.m. and 8 p.m., prayer meetings being held at 7:30 Wednesday evenings. United in Death.—The intelligence was received here Friday last of the death of Will Houston which occurred at his brother's home at Danville, Ill. Mr. Houston, who was a citizen of Charleston was taken to Danville about a year ago when it became evident that his condition was serious. He grew slowly worse and the end came to his suffering Thursday about six weeks after the death of his wife in this city. Painfully Injured.—While about her household duties Monday, Mrs. M. O. Mitchell fell from the back poarch of her home on Sentz street and fractured her left arm near the wrist. Mrs. Mitchell was the third of the elderly ladies to be thus injured within the past two months, Mrs. H. B. Rice and Mrs. Amanda Campbell having met with similar accidents. Mother's Day Observed.—Mother's Day was appropriately observed at Simpson M. E. Church, Sunday. The sermon by the pastor and music by ADVOCATE—15. The choir were impressive and many were moved to tears as they listened to the earnest appeals for higher appreciation of motherhood. Many carnations were in evidence in the congregation. Operetta At Simpson.—Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs will be played at Simpson M. E. church, Monday evening, the 22nd inst. This operetta was rendered last December and is being reproduced at the earnest solicitati on of many who witnessed the first production. Succumbed After Short Illness.—The funeral services over the remains of Mrs. John Wallace, who died Saturday morning of paralysis of the brain, was held Monday afternoon at the First Baptist church, of which she was a member. Mrs. Wallace was striken Friday afternoon while performing some household duties and never regained consciousness. She was originally from N. Carolina, but had been a resident of this city for several years. She leaves a husband and nine children ranging in age from two months to nineteen years. Personals and Locals. Mrs. George Bailey has purchased the hair shop formerly owned by Mrs. Dilliar on Court St. Miss Eva Rhodes has returned to the city from Washington, D. C. Miss Prudential Campbell and Mr. J. W. Brown were married at Cincinnati, O., Saturday. They are making their home on Alderson St., this city. Mrs. H. T. Moore, of Ronceverie, was the guest of Mrs. Daniel Butler, Sentz, St., last week. Mrs. L. Davis, of St. Albans, spent a few days last week with Mrs. M. O. Mitchell. The Girls' Culture club met last week with Miss Goff and listened to a short talk by Miss Green, of Cabin Creek. Mrs. F. W. Bryant has returned from a two weeks' stay in Huntington. Mrs. Sophia Spencer entertained a few friends at her home on Washington St., last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Davis have moved in to the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Mary Lewis, Bullitt Street. The May Fair which closed at Simpson M. E. church Friday night of last week was a financial success. Mrs. Ruth Robinson and little daughter, of Parkersburg, are in the city visiting relatives. Miss Blanche Arnold is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sherman Guss at Institute. Miss Mary Dillard, of Washington, D. C., was in the city the latter part of last week on business. Walter Seams, of Chicago, Ill., is Miss Hattle Peters spent the week end in Sissonsville. Miss Lillian Lewis will leave Saturday for Baltimore, Md., to witness the graduation of her cousin, Miss Florence Williams, from Morgan College. Miss Ora Campbell entertained the Married Ladies Whist club Thursday day of last week at her home on Court street. Mrs. Sara Williams is seriously ill at her home on Morris St. Mrs. Dora Curtis visited relatives in town Thursday of last week. The News In Brief. During his visit to the eastern conferences, in connection with his attendance upon the meeting of the financial board of the A. M. E. Church in Washington recently, Dr. J. M. Conner, presiding elder of the Little Rock District, made a profound impression upon all with whom he came into contact. He possesses a pleasing personality, is a powerful gospel preacher, and is a happy mixture of dignity and human kindness. Coming to Kansas City with the solid Southwest behind him, Dr. Conner will be one of the tail figures for the Bishopric. From assistance that reach him daily, his elevation to the Bench is practically certain. Congressman Martin B. Madden, of the Chicago District, is one of those whole-souldled friends of the race who believes that concrete action counts for more than honeyed Directions. Me is fond of Nov. A. J. Larsson, author of the Institution. M. E. Church in Chicago, and Dr. Carey thinks, there is nobody on earth like Dr. Madden. Not long ago, as a testimonial to the worth of the work that Dr. Carey is doing at the Institutional Church, Mr. Madden turned over his personal check for a handsome sum, the amount of which we are not at liberty to divulge; but it went into three figures, and the initial figure was higher than one. Public men like Mr. Madden are indeed "the salt of the earth." Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce has purchased the three-story, eleven room house at 1607 15th street northwest for investment purposes. The purphe was $5,000. The lost is 20x75 feet. Senator Newland, of Nevada, went down to Hampton the other day and showed her behind the times she was by advocating "segregation" as the proper solution of the Negro problem. A movement is on foot to have a statue of John Brown placed in the Hall of Fame at the United States Capitol. John C. Dancy is to lecture Monday evening, May 25 at the wealthy, and fashionable St. Luke's M. E. church in Philadelphia. His subject will be "Fifty Years of Racial Achievement." Former Register W. T. Vernon is being urged by Senator Curtis and the entire Kansas delegation in Congress for the Haitian mission, about to be made vacant by the resignation of Minister H. W. Furniss. A strong fight is being made in behalf of Attorney Albert S. White, of Louisville, Ky., whose claims have been before the President for some time. Mr. White is being pressed by Senator W. O. Bradley and the republican members of the Kentucky congressional delegation. A boom of considerable proportions has developed here in favor of Assistant Superintendent of schools, Roscoe Conkling Bruce. Charles W. Anderson, Ralph W. Tyler, and Emmett J. Scott contine to be mentioned for the post. It is understood that the President will not fill the place in a hurry, which means that every aspirant will be given due consideration before the selection is finally made. There is no dearth of material to choose from. Sunday was Thanksgiving Day among the Odd Fellows. Deputy Grand Master went to Macon, Ga., to speak, and Associate Justice W. L. Houston, appeared at Cooper Union in New York. At Metropolitan A. M. E. Church here, H. P. Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal, was master of ceremonies. Register and Mrs. J. C. Napier have returned from a pleasant visit to Nashville and other points in Tennessee. The devotion of Congressman Frederick C. Stevens, of Minnesota, to his faithful colored secretary, Frederick D. McCracken, was shown in unmistakable fashion recently. Mr McCracken was stricken with appendicitis and an operation became necessary. He was taken to Freedmen's Hospital, where Dr. Ballard officiated with marked success. Mr. McCracken was nevertheless confined to his bed for three weeks, and every day of that period and sometimes twice a day either Congressman Stevens or his wife would call at the Hospital to see Mr. McCracken and bring him a choice bouquet of flowers. Mr. McCracken has returned to his duties at the Capitol, and the closest relatives could not be happier over his recovery than are Mr. and Mrs. Stevens. It is asserted with confidence that Gen. A. S. Burt, U. S. A., for many years commander of the 25th Infantry, will be a delegate to the next republican national convention. In recognition of the continuous service of fifty years in one family, Mrs. William E. Clark, of 2118 Wyoming Avenue northwest, a wealthy-white lady, held a jubilee in honor of her coachman, Edward Brown, last Friday evening. Mr. Brown, an active and intelligent colored man, entertained the employ of Mrs. Clark in 1861. Mr. Brown was the recipient of a purse of money from Mrs. Clark and members of her family and many other presents came from interested friends. People from out of town sent letters and remembrances. The affair was the most notable of its kind that the capital has witnessed, in a long time. The North State Improvement and Realty Company is doing well. It has been incorporated for nearly two years and the managers are mostly North Carolinians. Shares are $5. Two houses are built each year for members or investors, and the business is carried on along safe and conservative lines. John C. Dancy is president of the company, and the other directors are E. H. Lipsecomb, John T. Howe, and J. F. Holland. The proposition to elect Ira T. Bryant business manager of the A.M. E. Book Concern at Philadelphia and give him a free hand meets with approval throughout the church. His unselfish offer to serve in this exacting office, in connection with his work at Nashville, without additional salary, appeals to the Christian spirit of the brethern, even while it squares with their practical business sense. 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. LITERARY NOTES General Frederick Funston recently, before leaving for the Philippines, sent to Scribner's Magazine the bulk of his forthcoming articles on his "Philippine Experiences." They begin in the June number with "The Making of a Regiment," the famous Twentieth Kansas, and its sailing from San Francisco and early fighting. William Morton Fullerton, an American and a Harvard man, has been for two decades abroad as correspondent of the London Times, mostly in Paris. Recently he spent some time in this country, and has written for the June Scribner his impression on "America Revisited—The Sensations of an Exile." He was astounded not only at the physical changes but at the change in the mental attitude of the people. He writes enthusiastically of the new America which he revisited. Henry Van Dyke during his recent year in France met many of the modern French authors and read many of their books. There was called to his attention a poet hardly known outside of France named Auguste Angellier, a professor at the University of Lille. Dr. Van Dyke has written an appreciation of Angellier for the June Scribner, with a poetic rendering in English of some of his best poems. The Daughter of Bazin, the novelist, contributes also a short appreciation of him from the French point of view. 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We also handle a number of other different brands bottled in bond, full quarts at $1.00 per quart. J. P. CLARK 24-26 Summers Street CORRUPT PRACTICES INTRODUCED IN S First Serious Attempt Ma on the Lines for Which Was Called---The House the Forenoon---The Gilke pected to Come up this A Give Us a Call TICES ACT BILL IN SENATE TODAY pt Made to Do Anything Which the Special Session House Not in Session in the Gilkeson Resolution Ex-this Afternoon First Serious Attempt Made to Do Anything on the Lines for Which the Special Session Was Called---The House Not in Session in the Forenoon---The Gilkeson Resolution Expected to Come up this Afternoon HOME PHONE 134 AND 266. At a conference of the Democrats of the two houses of the legislature, hein yesterday afternoon, a majority opined they had reached a conclusion to their present troubles and had evolved a "panacea" for all the ills of "the body legislative" by the introduction of a resolution, by Delegate Gilkeson, providing for the appointment of a Commission, consisting of five members, theher to be named by the House and two by the Senate, whose duty is shall be to examine into the primary election inva of other states, draw up a bill that will be applicable to conditions in West Virginia and report the result of their findings at the next regular session of the legislature. So far as can be learned today, this program, while it may go through the House, will not prove acceptable at all to the Senate. The fifteen Republican senators, and some five or six of the Democratic senators, are here in compliance with the call of the Governor for the purpose of passing a primary election law and for amending the corrupt practices act, and they are going to do it if it is at all possible to do it. While it is stated that a majority of the House members will vote in favor of the Gilkeson resolution at the meeting of the House members this afternoon, there are a number who believe that a majority will not favor the resolution. To those members of the House who want a primary election law passed, the Gilkeson resolution is but another method of whipping the devil around the stump in the interest of the interests that are dead set against the enaction of a primary election law. At yesterday's conference of Democrats, Col. Jno. T. McGraw delivered an address in favor of a primary election law and a corrupt practices act at this session. While no report of the speech has been given to the public, it is said that the address was one of the finest ever heard at a conference of Democrats in the history of that party. The Colonel talked very smoothly and to considerable length, telling the De- ALL ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY. mocracy why it was necessary that the party's pledges be kept at this time and predicting dire disaster to the party unless it should aid in giving the state a general and direct primary law without further loss of time. A letter from Senator Chilton, who had also been invited to address the conference, begged the indulgence of the Democrats and that he be excused from active participation in that council of his party. Said the Senator in his letter: "I would not for the world take any chances in jioneting differences in the Democratic party. This party is united as it has not been since 1892. * * * You have been called together upon practically a political question. I have been requested by many members of the legislature to state my views upon this question. I have given those views to them frankly and fully. I fear that if I should appear before you this afternoon, the debate might take a controversial turn. This I don't intend shall occur on any occasion. I decline to fight any Democrat in West Virginia, with each of them I will sit down when requested and give my advice from the standpoint of party good and that of the best interest of the Democratic party, but I don't think it is best to engage* in any kind of debate with another Democrat. &c, etcetera. The first action relative to a compliance with the request of the Governor in convoking the legislature in special session was taken this morning when a corrupt practices act bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Smith of Cabell county, and a primary bill by Senator England of Logan county. Both measures came from the Republican side and each were sent to the judiciary committee, which is composed of five Republicans and five Democrats. The primary bill is the Campbell Charleston, W. Va. gates at the regular session in Febbill, passed by the House of Deleuary with but five dissenting votes. The corrupt practices act is a measure constructed along the lines of the Ohio law and containing some of the features of the Pennsylvania and New York laws. It provides penalties for every known kind of violations, carrying fines, imprisonment from three to six months in a county jail, and forfeiture of office. Maximum expenditures fixed beyond which a candidate cannot go. If he does he is subject to even the forfeiture of his office. The House was not in session this morning, having adjourned yesterday until 2 o'clock this afternoon. At the time it was not expected that the conference which began yesterday morning would not end until noon today. The Senate was in session but a few minutes, just long enough to read a few lines of the journal and receive the two bills and refer them to the proper committee. In the House this afternoon the Gilkeson resolution will be taken up. This is the matter that caused all the hot-airing yesterday and is for the purpose of blocking any legislation at this session. Whatever the action of the House may be will not be final for the Senate will not agree to anything less than a fulfillment of the proclamation convening the legislature. The Gilkeson resolution provides that the Speaker of the House shall appoint three members of the House and the President two members of the Senate as a commission to draft an election and primary bill to be presented at the next regular session of the legislature. It was on this matter that the Democratic conference spent the greater portion of yesterday and finally carried in the conference by a vote of 45 to 18. Of the 45 voting in favor of the resolution eight of them were senators, leaving 37 delegates. With a membership of 85, Delegate Davis not being in attendance, it will be necessary to have 43 votes to adopt the resolution. Advocates of the measure claim they will secure enough votes while the opponents also claim they will muster enough with the Republican votes to defeat it. THE POLICE COURT Three cases constituted the police court docket this morning. Kenna Westfall was assigned to the street commissioner until he had worked the equivalent of $15 on the street. He was covicted of assault. George Spillman was also given a street sentence of seven and one-half days for getting on a drunk. A woman lay dying in a New York hospital last Sunday. Over her leaned a uniformed nurse catching the wishpered story of a fearful tragedy. The words came with difficulty from painwhitened lips. Death interrupted the narrative. But before breath had entirely gone the stricken woman, as delirium set in, repeated over and over a question: "Why am I here? she gasped,—each one of us. For we are to blame for the death of this woman—of her and her 150 fellow-workers in the ill-fated New York factory. What had she done? She had labored for her bread and the bread of those who depended upon her. She was a working woman. She was one of those who have given meaning to the phrase we now hear so often—"the women's invasion of industry." She was helping to make the clothes we wear. "What have I done?" "What have I done? Why am I here?" Answer that, friends, for it demands an answer. It is asked of us Why was she there? Why was she living in that hospital surrounded by sufferer like herself and receiving the last ministrations of heavy-eyed attendants? Because we in this nation have been lax. Because we have permitted Industry to herd the workers—women and children as well as men—into death traps; there to make for us the things we need. Because—in blazing resentment, perhaps, at some needless holocaust—we have forced men to enact laws that provided fire escapes, proper storing of highly inflammable materials, etc., and then have gone about our business while the administration of those laws was shaped by dollars. Society is responsible. It is not as if this New York horror were the only one of its kind. There have been others—a most appalling list. Should you need assurance on this point read in the April McClure's the story of "The Newark Factory Fire," by Mary Alden Hopkins. That story is terrible enough, yet is not to be compared with the newspaper stories of the Washington Square fire. Wherever we have factories we have had these burnings of human beings. We have been forewarned. And it matters not if officials were lacking in vigilance or law-makers in foresight. It does matter that we citizens have not long ago risen in our collective might and forced those who run our industries to provided for the safety of those who work.—La Follette's. Paying the Capitalists Written for The Columbia Socialist. "The first bugbear that meets the man who considers the Socialist philosophy is: "How shall we pay the capitalist?" This is a very natural question. He has been paying the capitalist during his entire lifetime, and can not be expected to stop at once! But seriously, we will settle with the capitalist class $a_{g}$ may be most expedient at the time. We would be mere Utopian dreamers to be planning now, a settlement with capitalist owners. As a class the workers are notoriously generous. Even the capitalist ought not to tremble. Some capitalist properties are illegally held, and should be taken at once. Some may be most easily bought and paid for by the new state. Some may be seized under "eminent domain," and damages paid to the capitalist owners. If any capitalists resist the state, their properties may be legally confiscated. But there many factories and mines now in use which the workers will certainly abandon when they come into power. The owners may then do with their old properties as they wish. The workers will provide themselves with more safe and comfortable places. There is always a way when the time comes. No need now to borrow trouble about how we will treat the former rulers when we have the power. How foolish to mistrust ourselves! What will the capitalist do when we collectively conduct industry? He will have a suitable and pleasant job along side ourselves, and be paid big entire social share! His needless "anxiety" will be over! FREDERICK GUY SUTHERLAND Protest of Millions Washington, D. C.—The protest of millions has been heard in Washington. Robert L. Henry, chairman of the House Committee on Rules has notified Representative Berger, the Socialist member of Congress, that the committee will at its next meeting consider the Berger resolution providing for a Congressional investigation of the kidnapping of the McNamara brothers. Since the introduction of this resolution, hundreds of letters and resolutions from all over the country have been received by Henry and other members of Congress, urging an investigation of the Indianapolis outrage. On May 11, Berger wrote the fol- lowing letter to Chiefman Henry: "As you probably know, the arrest and extradition of John J. McNamara has aroused great indignation throughout the country. I may say that I have now on file formal resolutions protesting against this action and demanding an investigation, signed by the representatives of probably one million men. The urgent importance of this matter prompts me to ask you if the Committee on Rules has considered it, and if there is any likelihood that the Committee will arrange a hearing, wherein the circumstances of the episode may be fully investigated." To this letter, Henry replied on May 13, as follows: "Permit me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 11th instant relating to the resolution introduced by you for an investigation of the McNamara affair. At the next meeting of the Committee I shall lay this matter before the members for such action as may be deemed advisable. There will probably be a meeting of the Committee at some early date next week." It is advisable to continue sending indorsements of the Berger resolution until the Committee has formally decided to report out this measure. Let the protest cease only when favorable action is taken by the House. These letters and resolutions should be sent to Chairman Henry of the House Rules Committee and to your respective members of Congress. Berger Exposes Graft Charging that the administration of the District of Columbia is grafting millions of dollars annually from the people of the United States, Berger has issued a public statement denouncing the conditions existing in the National Capital. This statement is a scathing arraignment of the "graft partnership with the United States Government" which benefits only a real estate ring and "shoddy aristocrats." Both old parties are responsible for the conditions pointed out in Berger's terrific indictment of misrule and mismanagement. Here are some extracts from Berger's statement: "In no other city in the country —maybe in no other city in the world—is real estate speculation so rampant as it is in Washington. "The form of government of the District of Columbia is absolutely un-American and undemocratic. "The payment of half of the expenses of the District government by the United States is at the foundation of all the evils of the District government. "Sooner or later the people of the United States will wake up to the fact that they are being buncoed out of six or seven million dollars every year. "There are miles of streets and sidewalks for the benefit of real estate speculators. On a country road flanked by lamp$_{s}$ I have met no one excepting a policeman on horseback, and the nearest approach to a live Washingtonian was a scare-crow which I saw in the distance in the field. "The dark side of the rousing proposition is found in the alleys—some 300 of them—were the death rate is terrific and the sanitary conditions a meanace to the entire community. "All the benefits of the Government support a small crowd of real estate dealers and land owners, while the great masses have only so much more to pay. "I believe that the Government should spend a few million dollars every year in erecting model dwellings for its employees and for working people." "As may be expected, Berger's statement shocked the "Shoddy aristocrats" of the National Capital out of their senses. A prominent newspaper here, said to be in the grafting elique and one of the Commissioners have come to the rescue of "Respectable - Washington." They say that Berger "has been misled, etc." But Berger knows the situation from personal investigation. And being a member of the House District Committee, he has been able to get the necessary information at first hand. The graft Berger is exposing is a matter of national interest as the money comes from the pockets of all the people throughout the United States. At the end of the present year the British Government will take over the telephone system and incorporate it with the Postoffice and telegraph organization. Over here we will be lucky if, before the year is out, the Telephone and Telegraph Trust doesn't grab the Postoffice and annex it to its other privately owned public utilities. A promise to pay the balance with a reasonable time has all the weight, at this store, of a certified check. In thus dignifying and elevating THE CREDIT SYSTEM the Library Company is daily attracting the attention of hundreds of persons who formerly smiled dexterously, whenever the subject of installation stores was mentioned. These persons are fast learning the advantage of buying all their Ladios' and Genis' Clothing and Mitinery on credit. They welcome the opportunity to congratulate themselves, because the Liberty Co.'s Credit System entails absolutely no additional charge over Cash prizes. AT THE WEST VIRGINIA COLORED INSTITUTE 10 o'Clock Saturday Morning JUNE THE TENTH, 1911 The Kanawha & Michigan Railway will run a special train through from Gauley Bridge in time for the Commencement Exercises. One fare for the round trip from all points between Gauley Bridge and Dana, West Virginia. Returning, the train will leave Institute, at 2:30 p. m., eastern time. SLIDE your feet into a pair of RALSTON OXFO and you'll find they neither bulge at t at the heels. They fit as though made- Come in and try on a pair. BELL SHOE 708 Kanawha Str OXFORDS er bulge at the sides nor slimough made-to-your-measure. air. HOE CO. vha Street and you'll find they neither bulge at the sides nor slip at the heels. They fit as though made-to-your-measure. Come in and try on a pair. BELL SHOE CO. 708 Kanawha Street morial Chapel—8 p. m. Department of Music—7 p. m. Department of Music—7 p. m. Friday, May Twenty-Sixth. Commercial College, Class Day ercises—8 p. m. Sunday, May Twenty-Eighth. Baccalureate Sermon, President bur F. Thirkield—4 p. m. Monday, May Twentieth-ninth. Graduation Exercises. The Normal Training Classes, Academy, and The Commercial lege—8 p. m. Tuesday, May Thirtieth. Alumni Day. Business Session and Annual Address, Professor H. C. Scurlock— 9 a. m. Luncheon to University Alumni. Main Hall—1 p. m. I. S. A. Track and Field Events on Campus—2 p. m. Alumni Banquet, Miner Hall—8 p. m. Wednesday, May Thirty-first. Commencement, Conferring of Degrees—8 p. m. Address by Mr. Wendell Fidle. Address by Mr. Justice Wendell Phil lips Stafford. LET US ENLARGE THAT SMALL PHOTO We are making big reductions in all the latest style frames and our work must be seen to be appreciated. Photos on plates, pillow tops, neck ties or handkerchief and in fact on every thing desired. IF ITS A PICTURE SEE US ORIENTAL ART CO. Annual Alumni Conference----11:30 p. m. Alumni Reunion and Luncheon----1: p. m., 2:30 p. m. Graduation Exercises, Rankin Me- Wants Government Unionized That Uncle Sam should be among the first to recognize labor organization, is the opinion of Berger. He has taken a deep interest in the caring on the Lloyd bill now taking place before the House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service, in a few days Berger will make an argument before the Committee in favor of this bill, giving government clerks the right of free speech and right to organize. For several weeks, Berger has been receiving letters from postal employees throughout the country asking him to take up their cause. He intends to do all in his power to get relief for these oppressed workers, whose destinies are directly in the hands of Congress. President Nelson of the Federation of Postoffice Clerks, concluded his address. He made a fine impression, and gave the committee such information as only a person formerly in the service could give. In the course of his remarks Nelson told of the dismissal of eight postal clerks in Indianapolis for "political reasons." "What do you mean by political reasons?" asked Berger. "These men did not vote for Representative Overstreet, the favorite of the Republican machine. One of the dismissed men was a Socialist," replied Nelson. "Well, that's a good reason," smilingly suggested Representative Gillette, of Massachusetts. Everybody laughed. But only a few realized that these dismissals meant the robbing of a livelihood of workers who had given their best to the Government. COMMENCEMENT AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. Wednesday, May Twenty-Fourth. The Academy, Class Day Exercises— 8 p. m. Thursday, May Twenty-fourth. School of Theology Room 9 K. of P. 4Hdg. AGENT WANTED. tf you are working and saving your money and putting {t in a bank where you got no interest, keep- fag it tn a trunk or hiding It some where about your house—You Are Working for Morey, If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will b> working day and night whether you are working or not, and makivg you » 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 tho money wo could save together aud then put it to work. The above is a pleture of our bullding on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of tho main business streets In the city of Huntington, The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest dally newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floo. ts used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building ts sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been oceuvied only eight months our stockholdere ysre pald a dividend or six per cent, Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, etther paid np or or on the Installment plan, As*® your agent In your locality about it or write to this office, - | LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU— PYTMIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT 0. WILSON _ROUTION WESTON, W. VA WYSONG EMPHATIC FOR PRIMARY The People Demand It Irrespective of Party and Will Punish the Party that Refuses Their Request--It Make No Difference to Liin Who Calls Session to Pass Prinary Law * The speech made by Delegate Wy Song, Democrat, at the opening ses- sica of the legislature, has attracted a great. dea} of attention, especially in view of the extreme efforts of United States Sonators Watson and Chilton are making to dietate to the Democrats of the legislature on the direct pri- mary measure. So creat has been the interest shown by the people gen- brally in Mr. Wysong's utterances that the Mail has eaaeavored to at swer the demand for the full text of his remarks by publishing the follow ing stenographic report of the same. ADD WYSONG tie It seems to me that this amend- Ment to the amendment, or rather the original amendment, is for the purpose of killing the action of the Howse upon this question. Why should we do so? It seems to me, Fir, that noither the amendment, nor the amendment to the amendment, ought to be adopted for the reason that we ought to get consummate action in regard to the matter at is- wue. Tam sure the gentleman from Cabcil county will agree with me dhat the ullimate object of the Gov- ernor that has brought us together, is for the purpose of letting us pass upon the issue as quickly as we may. Now, why should these amynd- ments be made? Why should this committee be appointed? I cannot Bet over the proposition that occurs to my mind that the original com. Wittees that were appointed and stand original committees cf the reg War session of this House ought noi Yo be the original committees anc the regular committees of the pres ent session of the legislature tT Mot, why not? Now, the fact of th matter is that the original commit es are committees of a majorit) Tepresentation and a minority repre fentation. That will pe agreed upo by all of us. Now, if the fact of th fatter remains, and the origina tommittees should remain and d yemain as they are, and as they hav een, why should not this dill go t those original committees? ‘That | the point I make, and that is th point I stand upon, Aren't thos ériginal committees the committee that all the bills that may be tn eluded in the call of the Governo should be submitted to? 1 submi My. Speaker and Gentlemen, thi the original comiittecs of the Hour @to capable of taking care of an; u % that may be mentioned in th cial call of the Governor, an when this bill may be presented, an Tyam anticipating the presentatio omit, If the bill may be presente off ee tt 1 Apygphoulds,bo. th PR Diem aime estes seem me ane ‘Gro ue Se ae ‘PAGE six, duty of the Speaker under the law end under the adjudication of the committees which were appointed at the regular session, to refer the bill to the proper committee urder the direction of the Speaker. The question being from the adop tion of the amendment offered by Mr. Strother, Mr. Wysony spoke as foliows: I demand the ayes and noes on that question because it means the life of the Democratic party and is what the Democratic party has stood for TV knew fam reat when I make tut proposition, aml +» intend fo sturl oo my fect and fight ageinst the defeat of that InlLor any bil! that May be intreduced. Thar is fair and proper, berause it weine the ive of che party, it means the life of the \common pyorle of this State. | Mr. Wysons. in explaining his vole spoke as follows: Permit me, in explaining my vote, to say that T‘eferd © oypose, ¢ the extent of my abilily in this House, any effort to defeat a general and a fair primary — bil, 1 think, — Me. Speaker and Gentlemen, that this amendment to the amendment is made for the very purpose of delay- ing and defeating the primary bill that we as a party, are met and pledged Lo pass. ‘Therefore, 1 intend, Mr. Speaker, io vole aye, in order ito permit the original question to be brought veture the Houge. 1 presume we all are in favor of the enactment of a just and equit- able primary bill, Now, 1 want to make my position clear and fair be- tore the gentiowen of che House. | Want to say to the Speaker and the ‘|senticmen of the House that we want to impede ant obstruct and defeat any measure that will go to the ultt mate vesul. of defeating a just and eamtable primary biii 1 think the }kenteman wh just took his. eat yw elagres wit me wien LE make itrat |proporition. J want to state to. the yjsentieman further, that it makes ne ‘|differencs to me Whether the wail of [the logisiature may be given by 4 TKepublican Gevernes or a Vere sJeratic Governor, 1 simply wane te “jstate that fa leerblican Governes rytatupens to he right, £ intend——xe [lar as my smell influence may. bs Lyeeneorned—to sand) with him any Pe} 1 would do it, geatlemen, if it were f -| Democratic Governor, a Republica e| Governor, a Sov istliat Governor, ay Anarchist Governor or any othe’ A}sort of « governor that may be by nithe suffrages of this State electer ,|lo preside over the destinies of th a[Btate. Lat me itform you, gentle Zags VEE TORS Ae - i E BERL ONE ae) EN al men, that you ought to proceed fatr- ly and squarely in regard to this matter. Let me tell you not to, so fav se you may be concerned, and so far as the votes in this House may be concerned, don’t you make any misstep, because I tell you and I say to you as an honest man, speaking to honest men, don't you take into your heads the idea that the people of the State of West Virginia do not want a-primary bill. I tell you, speaking {rom observation, speakime from experience, speaking trom what 1 know about thie people of this State, I tell you that without regard to party, that the people of. this State stand for and want a just and equit- able primary bill. . Now, why are we called together? We are called together for the very express purpose of enacting that sort of a law, and it is our duty to do go, it is our duty, my friends, to say to the people of this State, that we want a just and equitable chance for the common people of this State to say where they want to vote, and for whom they shall vote. We do not care whether it inay inure to the benefit of the Republican party or to the benefit of the Democratic party. 1 do not vare to what party our ac- tion may inure, tut I say to you that when an honest proposition is made to the people of this State, and by the people of this State to the legis- lature of this State, of whom we are constituted, it is cur duty to respond to the wishes of the people of the State and vote as they wish, or else we are not just and equitable repre- sentatives of the people of the State | Im conclusion, let me say that the people of this State, without regard to party, demand that they shall say who shall_go to the Senale of the United States; they demand that they shall say who shal! be your overnor and your congressmen, and 1 say to you, gentlemen, give them a chance! If you defeat, by your action in the House of Delegates, the wishes of the people, you will be repudiated at the polls, and you ought to be. If you defeat their wishes, you cught to be turned down, and whether it be by the intative ana referendum and recall, or by any jother proposition. MIDNIGHT IN THE OZARKS and yet sleepless Hiram Seranton, of Clay City, UL, coughed and coughed, He was in the mountaing on the ad- vice of five doctors, who gald he had consumption, but found no help in the climate, and started home, Hear- ing of Dr. King's Now Discovery, he began to use It. "I believe it saved my life," he writes “ for it made a vew man of me, so that [ can now do good work again.” For all lung diseases, coughs, colds, la Brippe, asthma, croup, whooping cough, hay fever, hemorrhages, hoarseness or quinsy, its the best known remedy. Price 50¢ and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. 4-TAL —_-+-___. ADVERTS bade THE. ADVOGATE su? Se envocats si ‘Nation’s Capital ene eR, ee ee RRO: any there dre to be, scem to be com- ing without: an Invitation from the lo- cal Joffersonians, and it they are en; tortaimed “they will probably ba ‘obliged. to play the host themselves. When & Nogro. democratic convention Is needed, tn’ atl probability, Mr, Man- ning and. his “regulars” will call one. eae ODD FEXLOWS' HALL ASSO. CIATION. | ‘The Odd Fellows’ Hull Association ‘Is corporation that deserves com- mendation. Tt» docs business on strictly business principles. It has entirely liquidated the indebtedness on its magnificent $75,000 property on M etreet, located in the heart of progressive Wastfington, just off of fasionaile 16th street. “The Avenue of the Presidents," almost within a stone's throw of the White House. Recently the assembly hall was re- frescoed and redecorated throughout. ‘The electric lighttmg fixtures were doubled and the gallery was, so changed as to give a better perspec- tive for main floor. A new gas rangy was placed In the kitchen and the supper-room’ was re-arranged and en- larged. Everything about the im- mense five-story structure was re- touched andthe effect is most grati- fying to the eye and conventent for all: uses, Notwithstanding the ex- traordinary expense attached to these repairs, the Asoctation has declared a dividend of 5 per cent.. distributing among the stockholders the sum of $2,500 and had left In the treasury a reserve fund of $1,600. The mas. ter mind chiefly responsible for this satisfactory condition of things is Thomas -H. “Wright, who has been president of the Association for twen- ty-one years. ‘The officers of the Hall Association, who have given him loyal supportare: Lawreace Clark, vice president; Samuel (W. Watson, secre- tary; Alex F. Hicks, assistant sec- retary; Joseph Manning, treasurer. ‘The Roard of directors includ: Messrs. Thomas H. Wright, Isaac W. Scott, Henry P. Slaughter, S. W. Watson, Joseph Manning, James Langhorne and W. 0. Davis. PRESIDENT 'THIRKIELD IN ‘THE SOUTH. President W. P. Thirkield, of Howard University, recently paid a highly ;profitable visit to the South- jJand. He is chairman of a commit- tee appointed by the leading repre- sentatives of soejetics for the educa- tion of the Negro, that has in hand the standardizing end co-ordinating of th work of higher education in thy of the work of higher education ni stitutions are located in a single com- munity. In his’ inspiring talk to the students in Andrew Rankin Chapel a few days ago, Dr. Thirkield told of his visits to leading seats of leaning in the South at Atlanta, Montgomery, Jacksonville, Birming- ham and many other places. He was particularly proud of the record of Howard grailuates, eferring among others to the record made by Thomas S..Lowrie, of the School of Medicin»: who stood highset in the recent State Medical examinations in Florida, and to the good work done at Jackson ville by Rev. Henry Baxter and Miss Blanche Thomas. President 'Thir- anniversary of the founding of Spel man Seminary in Atlanta, the mevt- ing the General Board of Education at Jacksonville, at the anniversary of the Florida Baptist College, and de- livered an address before the Alabama State Teachers’ Association at Hunts- ville, Alabama. Upon his return to Howard University, he was given am enthuslastic reception by the student- body, who made the campus resound with cheers and college yells. | NEGRO SOGDIERS AT KING GEORGE'S CORONATION. ‘The Negro soldiers of the United States Army will be represented at the cnranatinn of King George V in| ‘The Negro soldiers of the United States Army will be represented at the coronation of King George Vin London, England. Nine picked men from the Army War College Detach- ment, a portion of which is on duty at Fort Myer, will take part in the great parade. ‘They will be at- tached to the command of Majes F. S. Foltz, of the 15th Cavalry. The par- ty sally from New York on the 18tb. ‘The colored men detatied-for-duty_is this connection are Sergeant F. Scott, Corporal W. Frierson; Privates Wil. liam Bailey, W. A. Chaney, 8. Wright, Elder Green, J. Rutledge, H. Jeftries and B. D. Price. All are expert marksmen and wear medals wou tn contests of skill, ‘The celebration covers the period from June 12 to the 24th, and Sergeant Scott says it fs estimated that not less than 120,- 000 Americans will be In London to witness cornoation exercises. Rey. James H. Lee's Silver Jubilee ‘The “silver jubilee” in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Rev James H. Lee's pastorate of — the ‘Mhird Baptist Church, was celebrat- ed in imposing style from May 1 to the 9th Inclusive. An interesting program ‘was ipresented each evening and ministers and friends at home and abroad assisted, in making the eeasor a brilliant one, from begin: uing to end. The executive commit. tec, to whose painstaking efforts the xuccess of the silver Jubilee Is In th: lergest measure due, was composed of Jamea H. Coleman, chairman; laa C. Plummer, first-vice-president; Joshua Johnson, second vice-prest- Gent; assistants, Mra. Harriet Lee, Misses Lillian Brent, Retta Parker, Bessie Hombry, Bertie Milburn, and Marion Brown, Perrl Frisby and $. D, Milton were capable secretaries: On the closing evening there were represented the following fraternal organizations: ‘The G, U. 0, of 0 Bx Good Sameamtanpait: of Pj An. olent Order of Knights of Jerusalem, the Mystic Shrine, True Reformers, Order of St. Luke, Housghold of Ruth and others. Prof. George W. Carver, expert tn plant life at Tuskegee Institute, was in the city last week and held an Important conference with Hon, Jas, Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Wilson and Prof. Carver are both from Lowa, and the -Socretary has a high. opinion of the scientific attainments of his erstwhile fellow- sfatesmah, and has expresvod, the yame in public addresses and in magazine articles on agricultural subjects. It ts stated here that Dr. Henry W. Furniss, who retires from the Haltian mission In July, 18 to locate In Bahla, Brasil, wmere. ho will en- Rage In the practice of his profession, Dr. Furniss, has always thought well of Bahia and ha often extolled it as*a land where the colored man of character and enterprise would have 4n equal opportunity with all other peoples In the battle of life. SAVED HIS MOTHER'S LIFE “Four doctors had given me up,” writes Mrs. Laura Gaines, of Avoca, La., “and my ebildren and all my {rlends were Jooking for me to die when my son insisted that I use Hlec- tric Bitters. I did so, and they have done me a world of good. 1 will al- ways praise them." Electric Bitters is a priceless blessing to women troubled with fainting and dizzy spells, ‘backache, headache, weaknese debility, constipation or kidney dis- orders. Use them and gain new health, strength and vigor. ‘They're guaranteed to satisfy or money re- funded. Only 60c at all druggists. 4-7-4. GOOD ADVICE. The Carlisle (Ark.) Independent gives the fololwing good advice to young men: “My son, follow not in the foot- steps of the loafer, and make nc example of him who ts born tired; for, verily I say unto you, his busi- ness is overstocked. The seats on the corner are all taken, and the whittling places are all occupied. It is better to aaw wood at two bits a cord than whittle at a whittling match and abuse the government. My son, whilst thou hast in thy skull the sense of a jaybird, break away from the cigarette habit, for, lo thy breath smelleth ike a glue fac- tory, and thy mind is less intelli- gent than a store dummy! Yea, thou art a cipher with the rim knocked off, —_—— Kills a Murderer, A merciless murderer 1s Appendt eitis with many victims, but Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by pre- vention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, prevent- ing that clogging that invites ap- pendicitis, curipg Constipation, Headache, Billlousness, Chills, 26¢ at all durggiste. 3-2-6 DELEGATES ASKED TO REPORT. ‘Tt the last: sesion of the West Vir- sinia Baptist Sunday School Con- vention the superintendent of mis- sion distributted several annual mis- sionary pledge cards among the del- egates and members with the under- standing that the delegates on re- turning to their schools would have ‘them to pledge a lberal amount to ‘ve collected monthly and forwarded to the superintendent of missions ac- cording to the instruction on the cards. “All delegates are hereby uted to ‘put thiy matter before their schools at once and roturn the duplicate to the office of superintendent of Mis- sions so that the board in its next meeting will know what to expect. Yours for the cause, J. J. TURNER, Supt, of Missions, Box 4, Mt. Carbon, | West Virginia. stearate KICKED BY A MAD HORSE, | Samuel Bireh, of Beetown, Wis., had a most narrow escape from los- ing his leg, as no doctor could heal the frightful sore that developed, but at last Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured it completely. Its the greatest heal- er of ulcers, burns, bolls, eczema, scales, euts, corns, cold-sores, bruls- e and piles on earth, Try it, 25¢. at all druggists. 4-T-4t. MARTINSBURG, Mrs, Phyllis Carter, of W. Brooke street Is being visited by her daught- er, Mrs, Chas. N, Johnson, of Wash- ington, D. C. Harry Clyde, spent @ few hours in Baltimore last week. James Freeland visited friends in Baltimore Sunday. Dennis Mosby visited hix brother in Washington, D. C., Sunday. Mrs, Emma Turner spent Sunday in Washington, D, ©." Mt. State Lodge No. 4450 G. U. O. O. F. held their annual sermon’ Sun- day at Mbnezer Baptist church. Rev. H. Carter preached the sermon which was able and highly satisfactory. te the great number of Odd Fellows and Ruth's who heard tt. The pro- cession which marched west on Brooke Street was Joined by — the Household of Ruth at-the home of Mrs, Anna B, Romer. Prof, Fred R. Rumer was master of cermontes and the full uniform address was deliver: ‘ed by Geo. 8, Moxly, N. G. Mother's Day was observed in al the churches Sunday throughout the city. A special program was carried out at; Dudley Fy Bi @hureh. A paper UNDERTAKERS ARTHUR L. GARRETT, LICENSED EMBALMER Why pay large prices when’ we can furnish you with ‘the same quality of service and goods for less, Money. .nWe carry a. large stock of goods, Prompt aubulance‘service,” Open day and night, Bell Phone 836, ri *s oo Summer Street, Home Phone 328. 4 Charleston, W. Va. was read by Prof. Carsey. A select reading by Miss Adena Roberts; re- marks were made by Rev. Loulstol; while Rev. Richard fhompson eang several solos. Rev. S, M. Beane, Dr. 8, W. Gray, Prof, Fred R. Ramer and H. N. Hope: well, camped one night along the Potomac and succeeded in gathering @ great number of msh. Dr. Samuel Gray was called _ to Harper's Ferry Monday on profes- sional business. ‘the first ball game of the season indulged in by the West Virginia Wonder's was played in Charles town Monday and resulted in a victory for Martinsburg 14 to 2. A number of the Masonle Frater- ity attended a banquet in Winchester Virginia Wednesday night. A pleas- ant time was enjoyed iby all present, rene MT. CARBON. Rey. F. C. Patterson, of Elkhorn, preached a good sérmon at the New Hope Baptist church Wednesday eve- ning, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Simpson, grand lecturer for the Court of Calanthe lectured to the members of Rebeces Court No. 9, Thursday evening. While here she was the guest of Mrs M. S. Reld. S. B, Williams filed his regular appointment at the New Hope Bap- tist church Sunday morning and eve- ning. Miss Jennie E. Jackson, one of the teachers of the Lewisburg School, was In town last week visiting Mrs. J. J, Turner, She left Monday for Cleveland and other points west. » Rev. J: J. Turner preached at Page, Sunday. Mrs. Emma Wiliams is spending some time in Charleston. STP SAniuD Thi WORLD when the astounding claims were first. made for Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, but forty years of wonderful cures have proved them: true, and everywhere it is now known as the Hest salve ou arth tor Burns, Bolls, Scales, Sores, Guts, Bruises, Sprains, Swellings, Eczema, Chapped hands. Fover Sores and Piles. Only 26¢ at all drugegists._ b-4-4t. RONCEVERTE. Miss Emma Brinkly, who has been attending school for the ‘past. term at Greensobor, N. C., returned home last week. The Odd Fellows ‘Thankagiving services were held Sunday evening at the Baptist schurch. Rev. Terrell delivered the address. 1. W. Hester and R. F, Watking spoke on Odd Fet- lowship. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown read an excellent paper on Household of Ruth, Special _muste was rendered. | Mrs. H. T, Moore returned home Saturday after a ‘pleasant visit at Huntington and Charteston. ‘The improvement club met Fri- day night at the residence of Mrs. Lewis Brinkley. A very important business meeting was held and re- freshments served. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Win, Green a girl last Saturday. Miss Loda Johnson and brother, Clarenve were visitors here Sunday. Jas. Johnson and Wm. Tibbs at- tended the Odd Fellows services here Sunday. Miss Brunette Brown 1s visiting Lewisburg, Mrs, Wm. Barlow spent Sunday at Lewisburg. Samuel Johnson spent Sunday here with his family. R. F. Watkins spent the week end here visiting friends, Born to Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Cous- ing, a boy. Misg Viola Douglass has returned from Greensboro, N. ., where she attended school. Wheeling, W. Va., May 19.—Gover- nors of thirty states of the Union fav- or the creation of Public Utilities Com- missions according to letters received here by Attorney B. 6. Lonecker who has written the executives of all the states for their views of this all im- portant subject. ‘The consensus of opinion of the governors, and they all come out flatly for regulation. by commission, is that unless we have regulation and control of this kind we will eventually have government own- the opposition of variour corjyorations Governor Robert Bass, of New Hainp: shire, who was elected in the face of the opopsition of various corporations who did mot believe as he did, says that, “if regulation proves ineffective or in case it breaks down government ownership seeme inevitable.” Further, he says, “I most emphati- cally.do :belicye inthe. creapion. .of . THURSDAY, MAY: i>, i911. > SL ny TAKERS _ LICENSED EMBALMER can furnish you with ‘the same loss, money, "We carry a. large co‘service, Open day ‘and night, * a aio Summer Street, . Charleston, W. Va. ’ Sennen ‘public service commissions in the var- lous ‘states of tho union to regulate our public service companies, ‘These commissions would protect the public from the abuse of power on the part of such corporationa due to the com- plete and comparative monopoly = in thelr respective. fields of activity. believe that, as a result of present day consolidation of our pubile service corporations, .we must have eltective regulation jolutly by the state and Federal governments, Tn case such yegulation proves Ineffective or tn case ** breaks down, government ownership seoms incvitable. Coatrol of such cor- porations ‘would extend over rates service and capitaligation. , ‘The ad- vantage of government Yegulation over government ownership, and the dangers attaining the latter are too numerous for me to enumerate." ——— A charter was issued this morning by the Secretary of State to the Follansbee Publishing Company of Follansbee, W, Va. Tho purpose of the concern is to establish a news- paper and conduct a job printing oifice. The authorized capital is $5,- 000 andthe incorporators are Harry Edwards, Ed Hopkins, Jolin Lake and S. Bamford, of Follansbee, and L. W. Ruffner, of Wellsburg. A certificate of incorporation was also granted to the Stockholters’ Art and Grocery Company of Hunting- ton, with an authorized capital stock of $60,000. ‘The ‘incorporators are G. P, Warrell, J. W. Valentine, George Iback, I. A. Rosenheim and Lester Kelner, all of Huntington. EE 9 “THE MAKING OF A MAN," ; q BY SECRETARY REED Hon. Stuart F, Reed lectured at the court house Tuesday night, under the auspices of th Methodist church amd for the’ benefit of the new edifice they ‘are erecting here, on the appropriate subject “The Mating of a Man.” says the Mountain Messenger, of Prince- ton, His address was weighty with ‘thought and logic, and instructive and entertaining from first to last. lvery sontence and every phyase of his elab- orate discourse scintillated with ori- sinality and was artistically finshed with rhetorical polish. He ts Indeed well woithy his distinguished repu- tation of being one of the most fin {shed and fascinating orators of West Virginia. It may well bo said that an Intellectual and appreciative au- dience will retata indefinitely the grand principles and truths he Wrought from his enchanting sub- ject and cherish @ pleasant remem- brance for the Secretary of State-~ Stuart F. Reed. > SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS Le Pe \ey ae eee OND: A IE f b 4 Ld Mh ‘The kind that most men wear. 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