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THE ADVOCA'S WM. CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME X. Successor to Furniss WILL BE WATERS IF EFFORTS OF DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS AVAIL Two Local Papers Endorse Him and Congressional Delegation Call Upon The President to Urge His Appointment as Representative to Black Republic. PHIL. WATER It will be through no lack of unanimity on the part of the press of this city if Phil Waters is not made Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Haiti. Upon the announcement from Washington that an effort was being made to land Mr. Wuters by former Senators Elkins and Scott and Senators Chilton and Watson and the entire congressional delegation, the Charleston Mail (White Republican) ran a cut of West Virginia's candidate above the following complimentary notice: The whole congressional delegation has requested the President to appoint Phil Waters as minister to Haytil to succeed Dr. Henry Furnish, who has resigned... This is the highest salaried office held by a colored man, paying $10,000 per annum. Waters has a national reputation as an orator, having seconded the nomination of every Republican governor of this State since 1838. He was the first colored man in West Virginia to hold an office and has been employed at the State House since 1896. He was appointed by Speaker Hanen, Librarian of the House of Delegates in 1896, and was corporation clerk under Secretary of State Dawson for six years; United States deputy marshal, clerk of the finance committee of the city council, clerk of the finance committees of the Senate and House of Delegates and is now assistant clerk of the State Appellate Court. He has been a delegate to two national Republican conventions and a member of the Third congressional district committee for twelve years. Although a Republican and a colored man he has the unique distinction of having been the secretary of a Democratic senatorial caucus, possibly the first and only time in the history of American politics such an honor has been given any man of opposite political faith. Waters is a graduate of the University of Michigan and while a student there captured two first prizes in oratorical contests and was the first colored man to play on the college athletic team, being the star outfielder for three years. The President could not appoint a more competent, genial and deserving colored man than Phil Waters and we trust he may obtain the appointment. The following day, Wednesday, The Gazette, (white Democratic) editorially under the caption, "The next Minister to Haiti" said: "The news that comes from Washington that the democratic members of the West Virginia delegation and the two United States Senators from this state, have visited the president in behalf of Phil Waters of Charleston who is seeking the appointment as Minister to Haiti, will be a pleasant bit of news to the many friends of Phil Warers, and will be an earnest of the fact that, among people who are big enough, there is no race prejudice that will prevent West Virginians from standing for the advancement of West Virginia, irrespective of politics or of color." "The post of minister to Haiti is one which is recognized as an office which is to be held by a colored man. This is eminently fitting. The United States should be represented in the Black Republic by a man of the race of the people to whom he is sent. This is true for many reasons. The people will prefer to deal with a man of their own race, and the fact that these appointments are to be made permits of fitting recognition of the citizenship of the best of our colored population." "This post in the diplomatic service of the nation being filled by custom by a colored man, West Virginia puts forward Phil Waters as the peer of any man of his race in the country. He is splendidly educated, he has had great experience in politics, he is a student of governmental conditions, and in manner is certain to reflect credit upon the nation that sends him as its representative. The West Virginia delegation has made no mistake in recommending the appointment of Phil Waters, and President Taft will make no mistake should he heed the advice given by them." The publication of the above news item and editorial has caused to be showered upon Mr. Waters many expressions of well wishes from his numerous friends and acquaintances of both races that he may be successful in landing the position. Twelve Nurses Given Diplomas ONE WEST VIRGINIAAN AMONG THE NUMBER WHICH GRADUATED FRIDAY FROM THE NURSE TRAINING SCHOOL OF FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL. Washington, D. C., May 24—The annual commencement exercises of the school for trained nurses of Freedmen's Hospital were held here Friday night at Andrew Rankin Memorial Church, Howard University. The church was crowded with persons prominent in the business, professional and social life of this community. Following the invocation by Rev. D. E. Wiseman, pastor of the church of Our Redeemer, Rev. Dr. W. A. C. Baltimore, delivered an address to the graduates. Dr. William A. Warfield, surgeon-in-chief of the Freedmen's Hospital, presided. At the outset of his address Dr. Hughes spoke of the old-time nurse, who was not only expected to look after the needs of her patient but to the chores of the house, and contrasted her with her specially trained sister of the present. "This is an age of specialization," he said. "The world crowns the man who knows one thing supremely well, who can do something better than his fellow, even if it only be in the art of raising potatoes. The great men of the world have been those who have struck sledgehammer blows until their purposes were accomplished. In your particular calling good cheer is needed. The medicine of good cheer is to be compounded and administered by yourselves, and it will do as much for you and your patient as any medicine the doctor might leave." He advised the graduates, in concluding to cultivate the highest professional standard. President W. P. Thirkield, of Howard University, conferred diplomas upon the following graduates: Misses Clara E. Backman, West Virginia; Eva V. Clay, Pennsylvania; Edna M. Coates, Washington; Emily E. Green, Virginia; Sara E. Grisby, Washington; Florence M. Harris, New York; Jennie C. Hopkins, North Carolina; Ida J. Piper, Massachusetts; Mae Irene Price, Massachusetts; Nettie Bentley Stevens, Georgia; Lulu Thompson, Washington, and Martella M. York, Illinois. Booker Addresses Chicago Audiences Booker Addresses Chicago Audiences TUSKEGAN WAS HONOR GUEST AT LUNCHEON GIVEN BY PROM INENT MEN AND THEN DELIVERED TWO CHARACTERISTIC TALKS. Chicago. Ill., May 20—Chicago has again been visited this week by Booker T. Washington, who has brought hope and cheer to the Negro citizen of Chicago whose breasts he has caused to swell with pride because of the special attentions which have been lavished upon him by the most important people of this great city. Thursday, May 18th, at 12.30 o'clock, noon, at the Hotel Blackstone, Chicago's newest and finest hotel, he was the guest of of honor at a luncheon tendered him by Mr. Julius Rosenwald., president of Sears Roebuck and Company, one of the largest mail order houses in the world. Mr. Rosenwald came into prominence last January by his offer to give $25,000 to any city willing to raise $75,000 for a Negro Y. M. C. A. building. At the luncheon there were present in addition to Mr. Rosenwald, Victor L. Lowson, editor and proprietor of The Chicago News; H. H. Kohlsaat, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Record-Hearlid; Joseph Medill McCormick, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Tribune; James Patten, the "Wheat King", and half a dozen Chicago bankers beside 16 others—26 in all of the most prominent business and professional men of the Western metropolis. At night, Mr. Washington spoke at a banquet given by the managers of the Y. M. C. A. at the Auditorium Hotel, and on Friday evening, at the Child's welfare Exhibit meeting held in the immense Coliseum where the Republican National Convention was held three years ago. On each of the occasions, Dr Washington was accorded a most enthusiastic and flattering reception. THE ADVOCATE. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1911 Christian Association FOR YOUNG MEN MOVEMENT IS BEING PUSHED AT TENNESSEE'S CAPITAL Meharry Gets $10,000 From Andrew Carnegie on Condition That it Raises a Similar Amount, of Which One Third is Now on Hand. Ben Carr Shows Progress on School. Nashville, Tenn., May 22.—Roger Williams University closed its doors last Wednesday morning after one of the most successful and encouraging school years since the rebuilding of the institution. The Negro Baptists of Tennessee are enthusiastic over the results achieved during the administration of President Johnson and more determined than ever to press forward in shouldering the responsibility of the support of Roger Williams. The annual meeting of the trustees of Roger Williams was notable for the spirit of progress and harmony among the members of the trustee board. Among the number are some of the most prominent and substantial men of the faith in the State of Tennessee. They are men whose reputations are worthy assets in the reconstruction of the honored institution and they will no doubt stand faithfully by the president in the vigorous effort he is making to restore Roger Williams University to power and influence. The African Methodist Conference met at Murfreesboro on Wednesday the 17th, and elected Dr. C. V. Roman editor of the Medical Journal and M. C. Buford as delegates to the General Conference to be held at Kansas City. The election of Roman was something expected by his friends and those who are supporting him in his race for the position as editor of the A. M. E. Quarterly Review. If he had failed at Murfreesboro, he could hardly expect to be the choice of the 1912 Conference. Roman is a fluent writer and speaker and could no doubt prove to be a worthy successor of H. T. Kealing. The delegates to the conference at Murfreesboro were never in better spirits. This was apparent from the ready manner with which they transacted the business of the session. Bishop Parks has raised the tone of the conferences in his diocese to a considerable, degree. They very largely are a reflection of his spirit and method of doing things. Ira T. Bryant was present and shared the honors of the occasion as the leading layman of the A. M. E. Church. The delegates were all enthusiastic over Bryant and the excellent showing he has made at the Sunday School Union. Bryant bears his honors and success in a very modest and becoming manner. He is more interested in doing well with the Sunday School work than in receiving honors. This has added to his popularity. The Y. M. C. A. movement is getting a better hold on Nashville. The average layman has an increasing enthusiasm in the work and it is just now at the place where something can be made of it. State Secretary McGill has become interested in the colored branch of the work and has begun to make some efforts for its betterment. At the state meeting he spoke very vigorously concerning it and emphasized to a considerable degree both the bright and dark sides of the association work among colored men. He referred to the fact that the Nashville branch was very much in need of a building as the present dingy and gloomy quarters were not of a nature to encourage, the increase of its membership. He thought that Nashville was an ideal location for a building for the colored branch because of the many educational institutions located here. H. L. Keith spoke recently to the members of the association on "Progress." He told them in a very plain manner what he thought was in the way of the association's growth in Nashville. He referred to the influence of the saloon and gambling element of Nashville in systematically crowding down every institution and organization apparently designed to save the young men, and the need of united effort on the part of Christian men whose duty it was to fight and conquer the growing evil element. He told of the boldness of the saloon and club room keepers who are so constantly inviting the younger element of the race to visit their attractive dens of destruction. He seemed to think that many of the most active church people were not interested in the Y. M. C. A. movement in the city because they were too much interested in their creeds and the preservation of their denominational influence in Nashville. Then, he finally emphasized the necessity of the members pulling together in the opportunity the M. C. A. offered them to render the very highest form of Christian service and duty. He counseled the members to be a little less anxious for honors and more desirous of doing real constructive work in the development of the Y. M. C. A. work among the Nashville colored people. At the last election Rev. R. T. Weatherby, the pastor of the Clark Memorial M. E. Church, was elected president for the ensuing year. Mr. Weatherby was for a long time connected with the Atlanta Y. M. C. A. as secretary. It was during his connection with the Atlanta association that the foundation for the recent great achievement among the Atlanta people was laid. It was Rev. Weatherby who instituted and carried to a success the purchasing of the first Y. M. C. A. building in Atlanta. He resigned the position in Atlanta to resume his work as a minister. The Nashville association is especially favored in having a man of his experience to work with it and if any good results are to be ever attained, now in the time. Ben Carr has put through nearly all his plans for the establishment of the State Normal School for Colored in Tennessee. He has done it, too, in spite of obstacles for he was tremendously handicapped in the beginning. Many a man would have been, discouraged, but not so with him. Carr kept straight ahead whenever he met with difficulties and he has succeeded in removing every obstacle in the way of the establishment of this school. The act creating the Normal was passed during the administration of Governor Patterson, along with the acts creating three schools of the kind for the white people. It was Ben Carr who fought the battle for the colored people then and succeeded in securing a favorable consideration of their interests in the matter. He won. When the contest for the location of the Normal arose Ben Carr was the man most active in securing its location in Nashville and it would not have been placed in Nashville had he not made such determined efforts to get it placed here. He had little support financially and very poor encouragement from those who should have stood faithfully bekind him in the community. But he won in spite of it all and the State of Tennessee has purchased a most beautiful sight for the location of the school. Carr has not let up at all in his work for the race but spends his time digging away to get something for the colored people. He is succeeding admirably. In spite of disadvantages and discouragements in this particular instance, he has proven himself to be about the livest and most reliable colored citizen in Tennessee for bringing things to pass that are of real benefit to the people. All Nashville has been anious recently over the serious illness of the Pearl High School principal, Dr. Franklin Gatewood Smith. He was operated on two weeks ago by Dr. McGannon, one of the South's most enlisted surgeons. Dr. Smith has not been in very good health since last spring when he suffered from an attack of appendicitis. He refused to be operated on then, but the conditions recently became so alarming that his life was threatened and the only hope and remedy was in the operation that has proven so successful. He is now at Hubbard Hospital where the operation was performed and very happily is on the road to recovery. The operation and success attending it thus far are remarkable because of the very serious condition of Dr. Smith when called upon to go through the experience. As principal of Pearl High School Dr. Smith has become known as one of the foremost educators of the race in the South. He has been at his post steadily for twenty-five years and until last spring was never absent a day from his post of duty. He is a finished scholar and polished gentleman known for his loyalty to the race and his friends. Perhaps no man in Tennessee heretofore has done so much for the promotion of its public schools as Dr. Smith, who has kept hammering away all the years for increasing high standards of scholarship among the students and teachers. He took hold of Pearl High School in its very infancy and through his wise management, and co-operation with the board of education has made Pearl school one of the most thorough in the country. The graduates of Pearl make acceptable sophomores in such institutions as Atlanta, Fisk and Howard. They are able to do it, too, by critical examination and not by the certificate route. The many friends of Dr. Smith throughout the country will be glad Negro Race Felicitated BY PRESIDENT TAFT UPON CONSUMATION OF MOVEMENT FOR $100,000 HOME. Work of Y. M. C. A. And Generosity and Broad Philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald Arc Paid High Tribute by Chief Executive before large Audience Washington, May 21.—Speaking to more than a thousand Negroes here today, President Taft congratulated the race in Washington upon the consummation of the movement for the erection of a $100,000 home for a colored young men's christian association. The President paid a high tribute to the work of the Y. M. C. A. and praised the generosity and broad philanthropy of Jellus Rosenwald, of Chicago, who, though barred from any part in the management of the Association by the rule limiting the directorate to certain religious denominations recently agreed to give $25,000 to the Washington Negro branch's building fund. Mr. Taft mentioned that his own denomination is not on the list of those from whom directors are drawn. "It has fallen to my lot," said the President, "because of experience in many parts of the world to observe the wonderful usefulness of the Young Men's Christian Association in taking hold of the characters of young men at a time when they are in the formation period—at a time when they are likely to yield to temptations that will lead them down to destruction—and offering to them an inducement and an opportunity to make themselves men worthy and useful in the community. "It was peculiarly useful in such places as Manila and Hongkong, where young men from home—that is from America or England, without families—were exposed to the temptations of those far-off islands. "It has reduced to a science the taking of homeless young men and offering them an attractive Christian club, in which all the influences are good, in which there is nothing of the mollycoddle, but everything tending to vigorous manhood, and everything tending to restrain them from demoralizing vices and practices." "Now, it does not need any logic for us to say that you young colored men—and all the young colored men over this country—need that influence just as much as the young white men need it. There is a white Young Men's Christian Association and a colored Young Men's Christian Association. You are more comfortable to have your own club, limited to your own race, as perhaps the white young men are more comfortable in having it limited to their race, but they are both nevertheless under the broad roof of charitable and uplifting Christianity." to learn that he is entirely out of danger and on the road to rapid recovery. He will not be able to resume his duties before the close of the present school year but the attending physician thinks he will be able to take up his duties at the beginning of the year in September. Meharry Medical College of Walden University has received a donation from Andrew Carnegie. The amount is $10,000 conditional upon the raising of a similar amount by the school people; $3,000 is reported to have been raised already and the accustomed energy and thrift with which the Meharry people do things will no doubt turn up the remaining $7,000. If every successful physician who has graduated from Meharry would give $10 the amount could be raised in 24 hours and there would be a balance to spare. The Meharry graduates are able to do it. Flisk University and Meharry have both recently received conditional donations. It should not be at all difficult for the graduates of these schools to raise the required sums of money among their number. There are many graduates of both schools who ought to contribute handsome sums to the funds. They are reported to be wealthy men with incomes sufficiently large to permit them to make donations in four figures and more, if they choose, without any financial embarrassment whatever. They owe it to the schools from which they have graduated. Their success in life is very largely due to the training and inspiration received at Fisk and Meharry. Suspects Lynched FAKE TELEGRAM FLASHED ON BOY JAILER AND HE SURRENDERED PRISONER Riddled With Bullets By Mob of Flordnins Were Six Negroes Suspected of Complicity in The Murder of Prominent White Citizen and Wounding Two others. Lake City, Fla., May 21.—Six Negroes, suspected of complicity in the murder of prominent citizens, were taken from jail here early this morning, carried to the suburbs of the city, tied to trees and riddled with bullets. The Negroes were got out of jail by 10 men who claimed to be officers and presented to the seventeen-year-old son of th Sheriff a fake telegram, which ordered him to release the Negroes. The boy had been left in charge of the jail by his father, and thinking the telegram was straight, at once allowed the 10 men to take the six Negroes whose names were mentioned. The 10 men had autos, in which they placed the Negroes, and then speeded to the outskirts of the city, where other members of the mob were waiting. The Negroes were bound to trees, and at a given signal the members of the mob, some 20 in all, opened fire with rifles and pistols. Volley after volley was fired until the Negroes were literally cut to pieces. Little Left to Identify. When citizens went to the scene at 7 o'clock they found it almost impossible to identify the Negroes, as all semblance of humanity had been shot away. The victims of the mob were Man Morris, Jerry Holmes, Sam Phillips, Henry Jones, Zeke Chandler and Tom Billups. The Negroes had been brought here from Tallahassee to toll a mob which had threatened to lynch them. They were accused of killing Robert B. Smith, of Leon County, a wealthy lumberman, and of wounding two other white men. It it said that the men who lynched the Negroes came from Tallahassee, more than 100 miles away, and it is claimed that they made the trip Saturday night in autos to avoid creating suspicion. They evidently knew that the sheriff of this county was away and that only his seventeen-year-old son was in charge there. Fake Message Deceived. The message which the leader of the mob showed to the boy purported to be from the Sheriff of Leon county and ordered the delivery of the Negroes to the bearer. The boy just aroused from sleep, complied at once and delivered the Negroes to the men, who had traveled all night to kill them. The first the people of Lake City knew of trouble was when volley of shots was heard about sun-up. The firing continued for a long time, and when investigation was made the lynching was disclosed. The men who went to the jail were not disguised and the boy thinks he could identify some of them. GRANDFATHER CLAUSE Is Held to Be Invalid Because Contrary to Constitution. Oklahoma City, Okla., May 22. Holding the "grandfather clause" amendment to the state constitution invalid because it is in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution, Judge John H. Cotteral, of the United States District Court, today overruled the demerurre of defendants in the case on the United States vs. J. J. Beal and Frank Guinn, D. W. Jeffries and Willard Smith, election officers. The power to grant the right to vote, the Court held, was not given to the Federal government, but the Fifteenth Amendment says that the right to vote shall not be denied any person because of "race, color or previous condition of servitude." AGED NEGRO PREACHER Swainsboro, Ga., May 21.—Rev. Ben Smith, the aged leader of the Negro race in this section, was hanged to the limb of a tree and his body riddled with bullets by a mob of white men at an early hour this morning because he had wounded Deputy Marshal Canady, who went to the Smith home to arrest the preacher. Smith fled, but was pursued by a bosse with bloodhounds and was captured about daylight in a swamp near the town. While the mob was chasing Smith, unknown parties dynamited the Negro Odd Fellows' Hall, entirely destroying it. FOR THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IS EMPHASIZED BY GEORGIA MEDICS. Sends out Program Containing Very Attractive Literary and Musical Features for the Meeting so he Held at Athens next Month Athens, Ga., May 22.—The Georgia State Medical Association has just closed its most successful annual meeting here. It was attended by many physicians from out of the State and was enthusiastic from the beginning to the end. Prominent among those attending were Dr C. V. Roman and Df J. T. Wilson, of Nashville, Tenn., and Dr J. A. Mason, of Chattanooga. Wilson performed some operations at the clinic. Mason spoke to the association on the "Diffusion of Medical Knowledge." Among the Colored People." Roman spoke to the Association on "The Deaf and Dumb." Dr. Roman gave a good account of his stewardship as the leading eye, nose and throat specialist of the race. He is editor of the Medical Journal of the National Association and an active candidate for the editorial chair of the A. M. E. Review to be filled at the next General Conference of the A. M. E. church. Dr. John Mason is a Northwestern University Medical School graduate and one of the most finished and brainy young physicians of the South. He is a Georgian and received his college training at the Atlanta Baptist College now presided over by John Hope. A noticeable feature of the Association was the oneness of agreement on the part of its members in the conclusion that the Negro physician should seek higher standards in the practice of medicine, and that those now preparing should see to it that they are well trained for the work they expect to do. Several times during the meeting the need of more thorough prefession was emphasized with telling effect and it seemed proper. The field for good physicians in Georgia is not over-crowded, but there is no more room in the State for the type of physician who has simply studied medicine in order to make a living. The Negroes of the State of Georgia are not paying for color prejudice any more. They are paying for science alone and have utterly ceased to support the "quacks" and "parasites" who have sought the little "Dr." simply for the money and honor they think there is in it. The Negro men who come to practice medicine in this State must expect to rise or fall on what they really know and can do as physicians. The College trained physician is rapidly growing in power and influence here and these men are educating the people against the type of doctor who began the study of medicine before having the proper literary and scientific foundation. Increasingly high standards will be required of the graduates of medical schools in the South if they are to successful copetitors of the colored physicians graduating from the high grade medical schools of the North. What is true of medicine is also true of pharmacy and dentistry. Athens is the Georgia city of attraction for the Spring, and Summer seasons because of the notable gatherings of public and professional character to be here. The State Teachers Association will convene here on June 19th and will bring here some of the leading men and women educators of the race. The program is already scattered abroad. It contains some very attractive literary and musical parts. W. T. B. Williams of the Stater-Janes Board, will deliver an address. Among other educators of note who will attend are President Jno. Hope, of Atlanta Baptist College; Prof. W. B. Matthews, of the Atlanta City Schools; Miss Lucy Laney, of Haines Industrial School; President W. H. Crogman and Prof. C. P. Parks, of Clark University; H. L. Keith, one of the supervisors of the Nashville Schools has written Prof. Blacker that he hopes to visit the Georgia teachers during the session and there are a number of other visitors who have signified their intention of being present at the meeting at Athens in June. Athens will give all the visiting teachers a hearty welcome. The city is known for its hospitality to strangers within its gates. The teachers meeting is expected to be the brightest and best affair of the entire year. The schools of Athens and the same rounding cities are rapidly closing their doors and both teachers and CORRESPONDENCE PAGE TWO. FAIRMONT. Miss Florence Cobb, primary teacher, returned Saturday from Crafton, where she sang a solo at the closing exercises of the Grafton school. She was accompanied by Miss Pearl Washington. E. L. Moisten returned Wednesday from a business trip to Charleston. While gone he visited relatives in Pt. Pleasant, and Pomeroy, Ohio. The May Fair held at Mt. Zion Baptist church was a success socially and financially. Miss Lillian Clifford has returned to her home in Romney after an extended stay here. Miss Carrie Harris arrived home Monday evening from Harper's Ferry where she has been attending Souter College. Edward Holmes has been sick. George Bell is somewhat improved at this writing. Mrs. Robert Smith was sick last week. M. T. Obie, of Clarksburg, soelk Sunday here with his mother Mrs. Salto Obie. The Annual Thanksgiving sermon to Mt. City Lodge, No. 1345 and Household of Ruth 1642 was preacceded Sunday afternoon at the Court House by Rev S. P. West, of Clarksvs. A large congregation was in attendance and listened to an excellent sermon. The choir of Monroe Street M. E. Church furnished music. A solo was also rendered by Clarence Lee. Revs. C. C. Gill and Jas. Arnold were present and took part in the program. The patriarchs, Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth from Clarksvs were in attendance. The Monongah Band, assisted by home talent led the parade and a splendid showing was made. After the service the lodges, together with their visiting brethren and friends, marched to the lodge rooms where refreshments were served. The closing services of Dunbar School will be held Friday night at the school house, when an operetta entitled "Cinderella in Flowerland" will be played. On Monday, 29th the annual school picnic will be at Traction Park. Wm. Armstrong, Matthew Obie, Arthur Ormés and Dr. Mormon spent Sunday 14th in Pittsburg. Miss Cordie Lewis is still at Cook Hospital where she is slowly recovering from an operation performed five weeks ago. Rev. Vachel Harriday, of Morgantown, was a visitor to the city last Thursday, the guest of Rev. C. C. Gill. Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Gill entertained at dinner Sunday Dr. T. H. Nichols, Prof. W. O. Armstrong, Mr. Matthew Obie and Miss Florence Cobb Dr. T. H. Nichols has opened his office at No. 62 Cherry Avenue and has started out on what is believed to be a very successful career in the practice of his profession in this town. Already he has successfully treated a few cases, and is spoken of in the highest terms of praise. A couple from Clarksburg were united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage Monday afternoon. The knot was tied by Rev. C. C. Gill. PT. PLEASANT. Mrs. J. G. Patterson arrived Thursday to assist her husband in the closing exercises of his school here. District Superintendent G. R. Curry arrived Friday to hold quarterly conference here. He remained over Sunday and preached two excellent sermons to large congregations. Mrs. Maria Wiley, of Pomeroy, was the guest of Mrs. Joseph Alexander a few days last week. Mrs. Carter and daughter, Helen visited her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Henderson, Sunday. Mothers Day was observed by the young ladies and men of the M. E. church Sunday of last week at 2:30 p. m. A large number were present and a special effort had been made by those on programme. The papers read by Misses Ida Alexander, Moselia and Mithue Closton were particularly commendable. The solos by Miss Marie Lincoln and Rev. G. R. Curry and duet by Misses Grace Kelly and Jessie Lincoln were more than entertaining. The address by Rev. R. A. Bolden was very touching, and to the point. As a whole the program was the best rendered here for some time. Mrs. Lucinda Dives, of Corapolis, Pa., is in town the guest of relatives and friends. Arthur Clark and Stapleton Wright, of Columbus, and Frank Hewett, of Gallipolis, were guests of James Colston, Saturday and Sunday of last week. Gorden Steward, Theodore Palmer and Hayes Emerson were kuests of friends, Sunday of last week. Pearl Johnson, who has been ill for the past month is so nearly recovered as to be out again. Ams. A. H. Williams and daughter Helen attended the baptising at Gallipolis Sunday. Rev. D. Christian, who has been pastor of First Baptist Church for the past few months resigned Sunday of last week and accepted a position in Boston Langston High School closed Friday having finished a very successful term under J. G. Patterson and Miss Mossella H. Closton. Primary exercises were held at the building at 2:30. The high school played "The Up-to-Date School Room" at the opera house, Friday night. Mis_s Augusta Rison has been indisposed for the past few days. The First Baptist Church had their annual rally and baptising Sunday. A large congregation was in attendance all day. Two candidates were baptised and the total receipts for the day were $275.00, which is to be used for church repairs. Rev. Christian, the pastor, was assisted by Rev. McGee, of Huntington, and Rev. C. Dayis, of Gallipolls. Mrs. Joseph Jordan, spent Sunday in Gallipollis with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Harris. She was accompanied home by her two little nieces, Margarete and Lucile. Miss Mary Craig has been quite ill for the past two weeks with tonsilitis. Mrs. Frank Hunter and children, of Huntington, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Julia Alexander. PARKERSBURG The funeral of Mrs. Francis Custis was held at Bethel A. M. E. church Sunday evening at 2 o'clock, Rev. C. H. Sheen officiating. Interment in colored cemetery, north of city. The May Fair at Logan Memorial Church was a grand success. A neat sum was realized. Harry Moats arrived in the city Wednesday from Washington, D. C., where he has been attending Howard University called on the account of illness and death of Mrs. Francis Custis. Messrs Mason and Hawk, of Marietta, O., were in the city Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Custis. The commencement exercises of Sumner High School will be held in the Auditorium June 9. The address will be delivered by Prof. T. D. Scott, of Cincinnati, O. The graduates are: Beatrice Scipio, Almeda Brown, Edgar Carter and Charlie Carr. Mrs. Williams and Miss Eliza Colston left Sunday morning for Cincinnati, O., where Miss Colston will undergo an operation. BANCROFT. Rev. D. D. Davis, of Charleston preached at Mt. Zion Baptist church Sunday morning and evening. The Plymouth Band gave a supper in the Plymouth school house Saturday night. It was a financial success. Mrs. Richard Smith, of Plymouth, is spending some time in Charleston the guest of friends. Mrs. Hattie Hill, of Handley, was the pleasant guest of relatives here Thursday. Messrs Jackson, 'Turner and Alexander were guests of friends in Raymond Friday night. Mrs. Edward Stevens, Mrs. Ellijah Stevens, Madge Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Hale Dickerson and Master Edward Dickerson attended the baptizing at Raymond Sunday. Robert' Kenny, of Gauley, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cyrus this week. J. E. Jackson left Sunday for Ohio where he expects to visit relatives and friends in Athens, Glouster and other towns. J. E. Jackson and Master Emmons Cyrus were fishing at lock eight Friday. Geo. Brooks was a shopper in Charleston Friday. The Improvement league met with Mrs. Wm. Mickens, of Plymouth Thursday. After the general routine of business they were called to the dining room where they were served a delicious repast by the hostess. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Hale Dickerson, of Bancroft, Thursday, May 25th. Mrs. Florence Chapman, of Winfrede, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Hale Dickerson, Friday. Mrs. J. W. Sawyers spent Sunday in Raymond, with her sister, Mrs. Lee Printis. Mrs. Hale Dickerson was a shopper in Charleston Monday. Geo. Barrett, of Betsey, was slightly hurt in the mines Thursday but he is getting along nicely at this writing. CHILLICOTHE, O. Richard, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Harris, is very ill with the consumption of the brain. The doctors have pronounced his case as hopeless. The school board have re-appointed the following teacher for the Southern school building for another year: Mrs. A. J. Hayes, Principal; Misses Cora B. Medley, Ellen Dowdy, Helen E. Marshall and Fred Williams. Robert Ryan has secured a position in Fort Wayne, Ind. Lawrence Hock and Miss Edith Bank have passed the examination and will graduate from the Chillicothe High School on the 8th of June. The children from the Southern school building will sing in the city park on the occasion of Decoration on May 30. Mrs. Garnes, of Frankfort, Ohio, has been elected a delegate to the County Sunday School Convention which met in this city at Walnut St. M. E. Church, Thursday, June 1. Rev. W. E. Walker will baptize all who desire to be immersed, Sunday, June 4th, in the Scioto river. The rally at the Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church last Sunday was quite a success. Rev. W. E. Walker has secured homes for all the ministers who will attend the Ohio Annual Conference of the A. M. E. Church which will hold its Anauel Session of Quinn Chapel in the early part of September. The choir of Quinn Chapel will give a musicale and drill on June 7. Charlie Beard will have charge of the drill. Harvey Redmond has returned to the city and is stopping with his parents on West 4th street. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Gatliff spent Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, visiting her sister. Misses Lucy West and Esther Scott have been added to the choir of Quinn Chapel. Russell Bates and Samuel Gatliff visited at Washington C. H., Saturday. Miss Lena Marshall will graduate in June, from the Chillicothe Business College. Rev. Wm. Miller, of Winston-Salem, N. C., preached at Quinn Chapel el Sunday night. STORER COLLEGE. Miss Malcoma E. Brady has returned to her home from Buckhannon, W. Va., where she has been teaching school the past year. L. L. Taylor, a popular Storer graduate, recently called on college friends on his way back home, Smoketown, Md., from Philipi, W. Va., where he has been teaching A large company of Washington and Baltimore people took advantage of the Sunday excursion to visit the college Sunday. Rev. Joseph Shoemaker, Freeport, Ill., Secretary of the Foreign Missionary Society, together with a couple of gentlemen friends called at the college Monday. They were much interested in all they they saw, of The John Brown Fort being one local point. Almost every day automobile parties come to the college, attracted in many cases by the John Brown Fort erected on the campus last summer. Very fine concrete steps and a poarch have just been completed in front of the new Lincoln Hall. Last Saturday Storer added another base ball victory to her growing string. Armstrong Manual Training School of Washington, D.C., played the college on our grounds. While the game was fast at times, at others it was slow and listless. The college had the visitors shut out up to the fifth inning, when they became listless, thinking that the visitors would be able to do nothing with Tomlinson, who was pitching gilt edged ball. Then a short field fly and error and the scoring began. At the end of the game Armstrong had squeezed in five scores to the seven Storer had easily earned. Storer did not play with her usual dash, thinking that the game would be so easy. The batteries were for Storer, Tomlinson and Green; for Armstrong, Jones and Dandridge. Tomlinson outclassed his opponent in box work. Thus far Storer has won every game played on the home grounds and has lost only one game, that played against the Millwood Giants, Va. The victories have been scored against Virginia Giants, Millwood, Va.; M St. High School, of Washington, D. C.; Manhattan Giants, of Charlottsville, Va.; Armstrong Manual Training School, Wash. D. C.; Frederick Base Ball Club, Frederick, Md.; Charles Town Clippers, Charles Town, W. Va.—two games; Shepherdstown Team, Shepherdstown, W. Va. The college has one of the best first teams in her history and a second team that is away above the average. The college claims the Championship of West Virginia. Sunday Night Rev. Lewis of the John Wesley M. E. Church, Bolivar spoke to the W. C. T. U. of this place in Curtis Memorial Church. A large and very appreciative audience heard him. The seniors are sending out their fine invitations just received. The Class of 1911 are rejoicing in the fact that ExGovernor George H. Utter of Rhode Island, is to give the Commencement sermon—or address to them. EAGLE. Rev. I. V. Bryant, of Huntington, was in town last Monday. While here he was entertained at dinner by Mrs. Emma Teague. Rev. F. R. Robertson, of London, was calling on Mrs. Eva B. Russ Monday. Master Charles Page, of Montgomery was visiting his grandmother, Mrs. Dora Lemon, Sunday. John Wood, of Kanawha City was the Sunday guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Russ. James Russ was quite ill a few days last week, but is better at this writing. Mrs. T. W. Wade, who has been ill at her home for some time, has entered the Sheltering Arms Hospital for treatment. ST. ALBANS Rev. A. F. Boston, of the A. M. E. church, preached for Rev. L. W. Robinson, Sunday morning. Rev. Boston will lecture at the Baptist church Monday night. Subject: "Force of Habit." Mrs. George Early left a few days ago for Columbus, Ohio, where she will spend some time with her parents. Rev. J. W. Robinson was in Charleston a few hours Thursday. A number of young people attended the baptizing at Raymond City Sunday. William Morton was in Charleston several days last week. The St. Paul's Baptist church is going to send Rev. J. W. Robinson, pastor, to Philadelphia, next month to 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. 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JOHN C. ELLIS Physician CHARESTON, WEST VIRGINIA Office Hours 8 to 11,1 to 4,6 to 9 attend the international congress which convenes there. Mrs. Emma Harris, of Charleston spent Sunday with friends and relatives here. More Thoro (Continued from page one.) students are beginning to seek changes for rest, recreation and profit. Knox Institute & Jeruel Academy have had one of the most successful years in their history in point of enrollment and thoroughness in the work done. The leading public school, of which Mrs. Mary Wright Reid is the efficient principle, will close this week. Its growth and prosperity under her wise administration are unprecedented. Mrs. Reid before coming to Athens was a successful teacher in the Atlanta schools. It was there that she received the training and foundation that have made her such an efficient public servant in Athens The Manual Training and Domestic School founded by Miss Julia C Jackson, is also preparing to hold its commencement. The school has had an interesting beginning because it seemed to have been started purely out of the desire of Miss Jackson to do something of real service for the people around her. She has succeeded admirably and the school she has established is long past the experimental stage. The faculty and students of the Elberton, Ga., high school with Prof. Paul Blackwell as principal, has issued an attractive commencement program and invitation. The school will close this week. The annual sermon will be preached Sunday at the C. M. E. church by Rev. Mr. Tobias, Dean of the Theological Department of Paline College. There are six graduates. The Elberton High School is the creature of Mr. Blackwell's ambition and if he can keep it on the right track while he has the sympathy of the Elberton School Board, it may mean much in the long run to the people of Elberton and the county around. The principal is ably assisted and supported in his school work and policy by as capable and consecrated a group of lady teachers as there is to be found in Georgia. Random Thoughts THE PASSING OF THOS. WENT WORTH HIGGINSON. MR. VER NON AND HAITIAN ANNEXA TION KITTVELL'S CELEBRA TION. The death recently, of Thomas Wenthworth Higginson removes another of the all-too-few friends of the race. Born in Massachusetts 88 years ago, Mr. Higginson wa8 educated at Harvard University and entered the Unitarian ministry. He became one of the most pronounced advocates of the abolition of slavery and commanded the first colored THE INDEPENDENT 130 FULTON STREET NEW YORK (By Fernando.) Regular Subscription Price $3,00 a Year for which please send me THE Six Months. Residence Phone 1493 Home Office Room 5 K. of P. Building Cor. Washington & Dickinson Sts. Residence 413 Shrewsbury St. regiment during the Civil War. Coupled with his advocacy of the antislavery cause and the pleading for those rights for the race that all classes of Americans enjoy, was his outspoken stand for suffrage for women. A scholar and a writer, Colonel Higginson's humane side can be best judged from his autobiography, "cheerful Yesterday", in which he mentions the early efforts of the abolitionists in behalf of fugitive slaves and their activities for the extinction of slavery. Mr. Vernon and Haitian Annexations. The New York Age had a special last week from Quindaro, Kan., in which it is stated that the Kansas friends of William Tecumseh Vernon are rejoicing over his possible selection as United States Minister to Hayti, as he will use his every effort to place Haytt under the protectorate of his government. The Age also has an editorial which pleads against any suggestion of an attempt to annex that country. There seems to be a delusion some where or either Mr. Vernon is going to try to sow the wind and reap the whirwind. Haitians with all their history behind them, and with their knowledge of America in its treatment of the Negro and of its island dependencies would be the last to desire any form of authority over them; if the former register of the Treasury were sent there as United States minister, and started those tactics, 1,100 Haitian generals might make it considerably unpleasant for him. Those who know Mr. Vernon best, would not take him to be a man willing to do startling things in championing the cause of equal rights for the Negro before a Republican National Convention, much less going to Haytij and starting an insurrection. That a number of white Americans would like to exploit the boundless resources of the little republic goes without saying, but that the colored people of this country would stand for Haitian annexation is unthinkable. Nearly forty years, during Grant's administration, Frederick Douglass worked ardently for the annexation of San Domingo, but failed. At the expressed disposition not to desire any foreign territory and with Mr. Vernon's ultra conservatism in matters affecting the race, we hope and do really believe that the Kansas correspondent of the Age has been misled. Negro Philantropists A few days ago Charles H. Smiley, a Chicago caterer, left in his will $3,000 with which to establish a scholarship at the University of Chicago. The only restriction made in connection with the bequest was that colored youths were to be given the preference. The generosity of Mr. Smiley brings to mind that Thomy Lafton left a large sum to erect a public school in New Orleans. This school is named after him and stands as a monument to one of the early benefactors of the race. Louis Dode, a wealthy tailor of Baltimore, left $10,000 with which to establish beds for the race in St. Joseph's Hospital, that city, and eight years ago, Miss Nancy Addison, a spinster of the same city, left several thousand dol- THE BAUER MEAT & FISH CO. 28 AND 30 CAPITOL ST. Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Fresh Pork Sausage OUR OWN MAKE. Try our machine sliced Hams and Bacon OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY The best qualities in all the popular kinds of Cheese We want your pat complete stock in can get it when y GO I. E. N FOR ICE CREAM THAT T Either Plain Special Pr 602 Virginia St. Wholes We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want more. lars to the St. Francis Convent, Baltimore. John MeeK, a wealthy Philadelphiaian, left the bulk of his estate to charity some years ago and Miss Mary Shaw bequeathed $38,000 to Tuskegee Institute. The late John S. Trower, of Philadelphia, left over $150,000. He had been noted as giver to good causes. Coupled with all this may be mentioned the recent gift of a planter to Campbell College, the raising of large sums for education in Mississippi by Bishop Elias Cottrell and the late Bishop Edward W. Lampton. Kittrell's Silver Jubilee The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Kittrell College, the celebration of which has just ended, brings to mind the great work done by African Methodist for the education of the race. Wilberforce University was the first school now existing, to be run by the members of the race. The success of the work there is best told in the successful FREE FREE This Handsome Gainsborough BARRETTE --- 24 small puffs to a set, made from long natural hair, for $1.00 Many other fashionable styles. Booklet upon request. Send draft, money or express order. Cash and stamps at sender's risk. NATT & CO., Dept. 32 Union Square East, New York Many other fashionable styles. Booklet upon request. Send draft, money or express order. 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Jordan, its present head, is working with all his might to put the school in the forefront of similar one. WLL GIVE TROFTER Baltimore, Md., May 25—Arrangements are being made here to give a monster testimonial to W. Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston Guardian. The promoters of the testimonial say they believe that Mr. Trotter has been a consistent defender of the race and that his efforts in that direction should be substantially recognized. Similar testimonials will be given in Philadelphia, New York and the large New England cities. --- To Churches and Dealers Both Phones TESTIMONIAL BLUEFIELD COLORED INSTITUTE BLUEFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA On the main line of the N. & W. R. R., and easy of access from all points of the Virginian Healthful location, the very best of school comfort, and excellent advantages in the way of Library, Laboratories, Student Societies and a strong, earnest Faculty. Regular Normal and Academic Courses also courses in Music, Sewing, Cooking and Laundering. FREE BOOKS TO NORMAL STUDENTS BOARD, FUEL, LIGHT AND FURNISHED ROOMS $8.00 PER MONTH. A Model Graded School in which Normal Graduates are given the necessary experience in teaching before beginning their regular work. For Further Information Address the Principal Notable Event Was Conference Session BEST FINANCIAL STATEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH MADE AT WASHINGTON MEETING. --- Washington, D. C., May 23—With the announcement of the assignments this evening for the ensuing year, the eighty-fourth annual session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Zion church came to a brilliant close. It was the most notable gathering in the history of the church in this section of the country, and indicated that in the territory east of the Allephanies and about the Potomac the flag of Zion was flying at its highest mark. In point of attendance, quality of membership and spiritual effect, the gathering has never been equaled, nor have the material results been nearly so large and gratifying. The sessions were held in the Metropolitan Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church on D street southwest, the denomination's largest edifice in the District of Columbia, and aside from the conference enrollment, many distinguished visitors were present, including men of the cloth and those engaged in secular pursuits. Bishop Alexander Walters, of the Third Episcopal District, presided. Associated with him during the session were Bishops G. W. Clinton, J. S. Caldwell and G. L. Blackwell. Among the general officers present were Dr. J. S. Jackson, financial secretary, Dr. S. G. Atkins, secretary of education; John C. Dancy, editor of the Zion Quarterly; Mrs. Alexander Walters, representing the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society: Mrs. J. W. Smith, president of the Conference branch of the same society; Mrs. G. W. Clinton, head of the Buds of Promise; and others. The conference was cared for in admirable fashion by Rev. W. A. Ray, pastor of the Metropolitan Wesley Church, and his able corps of assistants. Financial Secretary J. S. Jackson, who has been attending all of the conferences this year, is jubilant ever the magnificent showing made by the Philadelphia and Baltimore conference. All previous records in this district are beaten by a wide margin. For the general fund and benevolences a total of $3,126.50 was collected, a big advance over last year. For missions, $630; for education, $620; for church extension, $631; for the Hood thank offering, $450; for the Varick Memorial Church at Philadelphia (bought by the connection), $200; for local missionary work (relief of widows and orphans, superannuated preachers and charities), over $900. The total receipts for all purposes collected by this conference will foot up to nearly $7,000, a most remarkable showing. This fund will be distributed by Dr. J. S. Jackson, conceded to be the most efficient financial secretary the Zion Church has ever had, and it is practically agreed that he will be elevated to the bench by acclamation at the General Conference next May. A collection of R. P. SIMMS $50.60 was presented to Mrs. Ida V. Smith, widow of the late Bishop Smith. The following have been elected delegates to the General Conference, which meets at Charlotte, N. C., in May, 1912: Ministerial, P. A. Wallace, W. H. Marshall, G. W. Gaines, G. H. Oliver, W. A. Ray, C. C. Alloyne; appointed by Bishop to represent work in Africa, J. A. S. Cole, W. H. Ferguson and E. H. Curry; lay delegates, James W. Poe and Marshall Ficklin; ex-officio delegates, John C. Dancy, S. L. Corrothers, W. H. Chamber, E. D. W. Jones and J. C. Temple. ALUMNI EXERCISES AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY To be held on Decoration Day and Will Be Unusually Interesting—Record Breaking Attendance Expected. Washington, D. C., May 23—On Tuesday, May 30, the General Alumni Association of Howard University will hold its annual reunion exercises under exceptionally favorable circumstances. The entire day will be devoted to the interests and entertainment of the Alumni and is termed Alumni Day. Because of the fact that the exercises occur on a holiday, an unusually large number of old graduates are expected to participate. The business session will be held at 10 a. m. Important matters will come up for discussion and settlement. The Annual Address $ ^{s} $ will be delivered by Dr. Herbert C. Scurlook, professor of Chemistry in Howard University. Professor Scurlock's gifts as a speaker assures a fine address. After this address $ ^{s} $ the Alumni will be the guests of the University at Luncheon. The afternoon will be spent in viewing the great athletic meet under the auspices of the Interscholastic Athletic Association, at which numerous track and field events will take place. At 8 p. m. the Annual Alumni Dinner will occur. A record breaking attendance is expected. The campus will be illuminated with electric lights. There will be band and orchestra music. Sub-scripts are already pouring in to Secretary E. P. Davis, '07, of the Association. Mr. Robert A. Pelham, '04, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, is prosecuting his tasks with vigor. Professor Kelly Miller, '86, is the Association's president. SHOT THROUGH THE HEART AND LIVES Nashville, Tenn., May 25—Robert Melver, who was shot in the left aovta of the heart is recovering after Dr. J. T. Wilson, who attended him sewed the wound up. Dr. Wilson is one of the best known colored physicians in the State, conducts a sanitarium and is one of the instructors at the Meharry Medical College. ANDERSON GETS IN ART CIRCLE Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of New York City, has been elected to membership in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This action was taken last week. The officers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are J. Pierpont Morgan, President; Joseph A. Choate, Vice-President, and Robert DeForest who manages the Sage Foundation. PRIVATE STEELE'S RIG BOUQUET The hospitable ladies of San Francisco were continually sending out to the various camps contributions of cakes, pies, and other articles of food not included in the ration. This was very commendable on their par, but I would have done almost anything to be able to put a stop to their benefactions without mortally offending them as one of the essential things connected with the training of troops is to get them used to the army ration and have them satisfied with it. This ration is, and was then, ample and nutritious, but men were not going to eat it if all of their storage capacity was taken up with sponge cake. One officer tried to remedy the matter so far as his own company was concerned by himself eating its quota, but gave up when there seemed no end to the supplies of this nature. Flowers were often sent to us, and these did no harm except on one occasion. I was going the rounds of the camp to see if the sentries were on the alert, when to my horror I espied one of them, Private John M. Steele, calmly walking his post with his blouse decorated by a bouquet that would not have shamed a debutante at her coming out ball. At the same time I saw General King coming from the opposite direction, and at such a distance that we would certainly meet opposite the flower-decked sentry. Regulating my voice so that the sentry would hear me and the general would not, I called out frantically, "Steele, take that damned thing off. Take it off, I say," repeating this command with appropriate trimmings several times. The rattled Steele jumped about, apparently uncertain whether I wanted him to take off his blouse or his trousers, and finally wound up by coming to "present arms" to General King and myself alternately. The general passed on with a look more of sorrow than of anger, and in a few moments the floral decoration were scattered on the sidewalk.—From "The Making of a Regiment," by Brig.-Gen. Frederick Funston, in the June Scribner. 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. THE ADVOCATE DR. C. H. GRAY SKIPS FROM THE CITY WITH BORROWED MONEY AND LEAVES BEHIND MANY UNPAID BILLS AND NOTES. Charleston has had in its time many and divers confidence men, but the creditors of Dr. Charles H. Gray, who until Saturday last practiced the profession of denistry here, reluctantly concede that he is the slickest proposition that ever struck the town. They are willing to enter him—blindfolded, carrying extra weight and distance handicapped—again all comers and back him to the limit to win in a walk. All the others are "dead ones" in their estimation. To come to the facts in the case, Dr. Gray located here about three and a half years ago. He immediately ingratiated himself into the good graces of the community, especially that part of it which seemed to have ready cash or would be accepted by the banks as an endorser. He paid his bills promptly for the first year or two, then began to get behind in his payment, though his practice appeared to grow steadily. First one friend then another was called upon for a loan or to endorse a note, each being promised that he would lose nothing in the transaction. About the same time complaints began to circulate about the character of his work, the delays in putting in bridges, fillings and plates paid for in advance, and his attempts to dodge creditors. These, however, did not seem to materially affect the growth of his practice nor his ability to borrow. But like the rich vein in all other gold mines, the one Dr. Gray struck in Charpston gave out, and the truth of Lincoln's famous saying about fooling all the people all the time was again demonstrated. Some of Dr. Gray's creditors grew tired of his excuses and invoked the aid of the law. Seeing that the game was up, he secretly took his departure for parts unknown, Saturday morning. When it became generally known that he had skipped, there was a long, loud, heart-rendering howl from all parts of the city. Tailors, haberdashers, launderers, barbers, druggists, hotel-keepers, landlords, patients and all manners of men who had given ear to the doctor's pitiful tales of woe, rose up, but they didn't bless him. The total amount for which they had "fallen" is not likely to be known, but investigation shows that it will be close to $800.00, rather more than less. It is understood that steps have been taken by some of Dr. Gray's victims to have him apprehended and returned to the city. The leaders in the movement want him punished for having bounced them so neatly, it having developed that he was far, very far from bein in such straits as he claimed. But there is no remedy for them. They will simply have to make the best of a bad bargain, for the law makes no provisions for such persons removed from the State. And Gray evidently knew this, because he left behind all his office furniture, fixtures and instruments, upon which he had borrowed to the limit—that is, he borrowed on all for which he paid in full, and that was very little. The supposition is that he went to his home at Cleveland, O., where his parents reside, but it is not thought likely that he will remain there very long. He will probably locate at some point far removed from here, but if he ever returns here it is very likely that some of his irate creditors will forget the legal method of making collections, and proceed to "rough house" tactics. Did Pastor Who Had Two Remarkable Escapes From Wrecked Steamers. Baltimore, May 24.—Rev. Alfred Young, pastor of the Whatcoat Epworth M. E. Church, celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his conversion last Wednesday night. The day following his conversion the steamer Isaac Smith blew up at the wharf here and Mr. Young escaped injury. He was steward of the vessel at the time. Two years before that another vessel on which he was a waiter was wrecked by the boiler exploding and he escaped with a slight injury to his left wrist. In the course of the fifty-first annual sermon to the order of Good Hope Sunday afternoon, Rev. Marion F. Sydes, of Waters A. M. E. Church, declared that good, clean homes in a moral atmosphere meant that the race could not be exterminated by those who would oppress us. Miss Sedonia Chaney, Revs. A. L. Gaines, J. W. Morris and M. F. Sydes are among the Baltimorians attending the silver anniversary of Kittrell College this week. Atlanta, Ga., May 25—Odd Fellows throughout Georgia are jubilant over the raising of larger portportion of the $50,000 voluntary offering of the members of the order towards the $100,000 necessary to erect a handsome six-story state headquarters of the order in this city. AT THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF CAMPBELL COLLEGE, AN INSTITUTION MAINTAINED BY THE DENOMINATION AT JACKSON. Jackson, Miss., May 25—With the sermon before the school of theology Sunday by Rev. L. James Johnson, of Memphis; the baccalaureate sermon by Dr. M. M. Penton, president, Tuesday, and the graduating exercises and the address by Bishop H. M. Turner, of Atlanta, Wednesday morning, the twenty-first annual commencement of Campbell College, the institution maintained by the African Methodist Church in Mississippi came to a close yesterday. Altogether seventeen young people received diplomas, of this number, four four, P. C. Cummings Reeddsale, Miss.; C. D. Hayden Yazoo City, Miss.; R. A. Scott, Raymond, Miss.; and A. W. Timmons graduated from the Theological department and Beatrice Hall, Jackson, Miss.; and James Milton Richardson, Martin, Miss., from the Normal department. Seven received diplomas from the industrial department and four from the commercial department. The sermon to the school of theology was preached to a large audience of prominent people from Jackson and members of the three Mississippi conferences. The far-reaching effect of a Christian education in all its branches, and the evolution of mankind which education in its progress has made possible was dwelt upon by Rev. Johnson in the beginning of his sermon. There has never been a time in the history of the world, said Dr. Johnson when men did not desire knowledge, or to advance from the state in which he found himself. His sermon was based on the theme, "The Power of Education." From the text, "The just shall live by his faith," Dr. Penton, president of the Campbell College, preached a strong sermon full of practical truths on "Faith, an Element in Righteous Living." In the practical application which Dr. Penton made, he gave some very good advice to the young people finding their work at Campbell College, and said among other things: "If you would survive the age in which you live and become a part of its onward movement, you must first, of all, have faith in yourself. Believe that you are not only able to accomplish your desires, but believe that you are worthy of all you desire, and should enjoy every thing for which you hope and aspire. "To a large extent, you must live by yourselves—alone, without the possibility of being understood by another. You have your own peculiar feelings, your own duties and your own destiny. These you must work out, unshared by another living being—all alone. "Be true to yourself; that is, at all times be yourself, whatever it costs, and whatever becomes of you afterwards. Be yourself, not an infiltrator, but have an individuality which you can recognize at all times as an ideal man or woman of your own personality." Bishop H. M. Turner, presiding bishop of the diocese, made a short address. The sacred Cantata, "Queen Esther" was rendered before an appreciative audience at the American Theatre. The Alumni Association met Tuesday afternoon. TO FIGHT DISFRANCHISEMENT. (Regular Correspondence to The Advocate.) Baltimore, Md., May, 24—The coloured voters of this city and State 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. Optician 208 Capital Street. 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The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months $0.50 Six months 1.00 One year 1.50 It may not be a new thing under the sun, but the sight of a congressional delegation, almost wholly Democratic, fighting shoulder to shoulder with prominent Republican politicians to secure the appointment of a Negro to a first class governmental position, is so rare as to call for more than passing notice. Such instances are indeed unusual and because of this feature, is no other reasons existed president Taft. The Advocate thinks, ought to appoint Phil Waters Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Haiti. This combination of opposing factors to bring about the political elevation of one not of their race alone shows that there are qualities in the object of their choice infrequently found in the genus homo, that here in Charleston is diplomatic material for which the national government claims to be in search of always. For does it not take diplomacy of the highest type, such diplomacy as must be ever on the job in turbulent, revolution-ridden Haiti, to interest the leaders of the State Democracy to the extent where they will urge upon a Republican President the appointment of a Negro Republican to a $10,000 job? Well, as they say on Summers St., "you'd a-thought it!" And does it not show some little skill in harmonizing discordant elements to have a Democratic newspaper editorially endorse your candidacy, and you a Negro and a Republican? Doesn't it? If in doubt ask any other Negro who has tried it. The Advocate heartily concurs in The Gazette's endorsement of Mr. Waters, and, without disparagement of any of the other candidates for the position, it goes further, fearless of contradiction, and says that not one who has hitherto been mentioned in connection with the post at Port Au Prince has better claims than West Virginia's choice. This paper has always felt and frequently stated that the Negroes of the State have not been justly dealt with in the distribution of Federal patronage. Election after election we have furnished the troops which hurled back the charges of the opposition. It was our reinforcement which wrested the State from Democratic control and preserved to the Republican party what strongholds remained to it after the disastrous defeat last fall. We have fought the fight and kept the faith, even when we saw the very crumbs denied us and given to those whose sole recommendation was that they had assisted in nominating a ticket in the election of which they could take no part. West Virginia Negroes have some little conception of what should govern in the distribution of political rewards and the infliction of political punishment. They have noted the award to Massachusetts of an assistant district aatorneyship and the promotion of the incumbent to the position of assistant attorney general. They saw Maryland and South Carolina get the ministership to Liberia; North Carolina and Georgia walk away with the Recordship of Deeds; Georgia, Kansas and Tennessee, each, get a whack at the Registership of the Treasury; the District of Columbia fall into the collector's office at Georgetown; Illinois get an unbreakable hold on the position of assistant register of the treasury, with an assistant district attorney for good measure; and Ohio send a Negro to Hawaii and land one as auditor for the gavr. With the hope that their turn would soon come, they read accounts of the selection of Anderson and Pinchback in New York, which also pulled down a consulship. There were so many Federal offices held by their brethren in the Southern States that they became confused in counting them. But during all these years West Virginia has gotten past the barrier with only one lone consulship and four letter carriers. Once more they are asking for recognition. They have the man and they want the place. If Mr. Taft wants to do the right thing, and The Advocate thinks he does, he will telegraph Phil Waters to report to the State Department at his very earliest convenience, and that would be as soon as the next train from Charleston arrived in Washington. NOT ALL FROM THE SAME MOLD. Because so many of the race are inclined, like the whites, to credit to all Negroes the shortcomings of the individual Negro. The Advocate feels constrained to caution its local readers against debiting all the Negro professional men of this community with the questionable practices of one of their number. It is the belief of the writer that Dr. Gray delliberately, premeditatedly and willfully defrauded his creditors and deceived and overcharged his patients. He might have been guilty of a more heinous crime, such even as murder or theft committed under extenuating circumstances, and The Advocate would have been silent, for this paper is not an agency for the dissemination of Negro criminality records. It is of the opinion that that field is covered too well by the newspapers published by the other race. But when a man, even though he be of the race whose weak points The Advocate would ignore, would be so ungrateful to those who sought his advancement as to bite the hand which fed him, we think that too much publicity can not be given to his rascality. For that reason and with the hope that others charitably inclined may not be buncoed by Dr. Chas. H. Gray as were the people of Charleston, notice is given to his conduct here. Let no man, woman or child think however, that because one of the factors for light and leading has proved recrent to the trust imposed in him, that all of that class are to be distrusted. All the angels were not rebels because Lucifer, whom pride and worse ambition threw down, warred in heaven against heaven's matchless king Before Dr. Gray knew that there was such a place as Charleston on the map there were Negro men here dealing honestly with those who secured their professional services, and giving service as good as the best. These men are still here and they, like the others who came later and still remain, are no whit less mindful of the ethics of their profession than if this unfortunate affair had not happened. If, then, your affairs or state demand the service of a lawyer, a doctor or a dentist, give the work to one of the race. They are all. The Advocate knows, competent, and it will believe them trustworthy till their actions prove the opposite. PLAYING DIRTY POLITICS A New York paper printed, last week, a special from Kansas to the effect that W. T. Vernon, former Register of the United States Treasury and now prominently mentioned in connection with the berth soon to be vacated by Dr. Furniss, has stated his intention, if appointed, to work for the annexation of Haiti by the United States. Knowing Dr. Vernon personally, being fully aware of his rejection by Haiti if he has made any such undiplomatic expressions, and having watched the attitude of this New York paper toward him while he held office at Washington, the writer with much reluctance expresses the opinion that that "special" sounds a little "fishy". To one who has peeped inside, it has every appearance of having been manufactured for reasons plain to a bat at midday. The Advocate has championed the cause of Dr. Vernon since it became convinced that he was not getting a square deal from those who have delegated to themselves the oversight of the Negro's political destiny. It has done this when the opposite course would have been more in harmony with the desires of those having the ear of the mighty, and, consequently, in better position to advance or retard some matters in which this paper had personal interest. Even now, when Mr. Vernon appears to be the greatest obstacle to West Virginia's getting the Haitian mission, we demand for him fair treatment. Let every man who has entered this fight make it on the square, and insist that his supporters do likewise. Let merit be the standard, and if Mr. Vernon and those forwarding his candidacy can convince the President that he should be appointed, the salary attached to the office is not sufficient to justify the injection of dirty politics to prevent his doing so. OPPOSING THE PRIMARY There is something queer in the attitude of the McDowell county delegates to the enactment of primary election and corrupt practice laws. With the exception of these gentlemen the Republican members of the Legislature are solidly arrayed with the State administration. All are agreed, except two gentlemen from McDowell and one from Mercer, that the Republican party should keep its platform pledges. Why are they consorting with the Democrats? Can it be that they see in such legislation an opportunity for their very dear Negro constituents to get a little of the representation to which their numbers entitle them? That is the way it looks on the surface, although such a conclusion is repugnant to the opinion formed after close contact with at least one of them: Perhaps; those who know them best can give a satisfactory explanation of their actions which certainly do not square with their words. Since attention has been called to it, there is a strangeness in the aloofness of the "Leading Negro Newspaper" toward the movement having for its object the enlistment of a Negro regiment in the New York National Guard. Roscoe surely ought to push it, because there would be an excellent opportunity for him to don a uniform in which he would be so "cute" and "simply irresistible:" then, too, he might get to be a colonel in fact. Since the crucifixion of a Pennsylvania boy by his youthful companions who had witnessed the motion pictures of The Passion Play, one does not hear quite so much about the crusade to elevate the tone of the pictures exhibited at the popular five-cent theatres. HELL HAVE TO GO SOM Little fourteen-year-old Lidj Jesu has been designated to succeed Menelik as Negus of Abyssinia. Poor little fellow! Think of the number of times he must be reported dead to equal the record of his dintinguished relative. If the present revolution in Haiti threatens to assume serious proportions, it might be well to send Jack Johnson down there as the successor of Furniss. He ought to be able to preserve peace. Charleston To Instruct Sunday School Workers.—Rev. W. W. Mayle, field superintendent of the International Sunday School Association, with headquarters at Washington, D. C., who is making a tour of the State colored Sunday schools, was a visitor at the Baptist. A. M. E. and Methodist churches Sunday and presented the work of Teacher Training to those engaged in that work in the churches here. A class has been formed in the A. M. E. church and the first meeting was held Tuesday evening. Rev. Mayle left yesterday to visit the other churches in the county. He will then return to Charleston and probably make it his headquarters for the State. A June Wedding.—The first invitations to a June wedding this season were distributed Wednesday, and read: Your presence at the marriage of her daughter Mr. Archibald Houston on the evening of Wednesday, June fourteenth, nineteen hundred Reception at the residence. Hotel Brown Arrivals.—There were registered at Hotel Brown this week the following guests: Jas. Thomas, Beckley: Mrs. S. H. Lavender, Greenfield, O.; A. E. Boone, Walten: Mrs. Ella Johnson, Marting; C. M. Gray, Romney: Mr. and Mrs. H. Lenox, Hansford; Miss Laura Turner, Roanoke, Va.; C. Simmons, Hansford; J. Randolph, Donwood; E. H. Rucker, Boomer; Chester Burrell, Roanoke, Va.; S. Jones, Raymond City; D. Gilmore, Greensboro, N. C.; H. T. Calloway, Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Dollie Turner, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Lee Jones, Boomer; H. Jones, Bedford City; P. Saunders, Winston-Salem; and William Lowery, Clifton Forge, Va. Gets Much-Needed Service. The First Baptist church will introduce an individual communion service at their next communion. Each member will be provided with a special glass, of which there are two hundred. With the set there is a silver tray, this and the glasses having been donated by Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Brown, proprietors of Hotel Brown. K. of P. Decoration Day.—Sunday afternoon the local K. of P. lodges, Capital City No. 1, and West Virginia No. 60, with Phyllis Wheatley Court of Calanthe will decorate the graves of their deceased members buried in Spring Hill cemetery. The lodges will leave their hall promptly at 2:00 o'clock. Upon arriving at the cemetery appropriate exercises will be held, memorial addresses being made by C. W. Boyd, J. W. Chappelle and H. H. Railey, G. K. of R. & S., of Montgomery, J. F. J. Clark will preside. The lodges from Montgomery and intermediate points are expected to arrive here by boat in time to participate. Former Pastor at Simpson.—The Rev. C. G. Cummings, of Baltimore, will arrive in the city Friday or Saturday and will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Carroll, Brooks St. As previously announced, Rev. Cummings will preach at Simpson M. E. church Sunday morning and evening and greet the numerous friends he made during his pastorate here. Baptist Church Notes—The amount realized from the rally Sunday was $983.25. All the Tribes met at the church Monday night. This evening the Tribe of Juda meets with Mrs. William Jefferson, Ross street and the Tribe of Reuben gives an entertainment at the church when Dr. J. C. Ellis will read a paper. The B. Y. P. U. will meet Friday evening at the church. Birthday Party.—Mrs. Harvey Mickens entertained a few friends at a birthday party Tuesday evening at her home on Bradford street. After a number of games of whist had been played a light collation was served by the hostess, assisted by Miss Lizzie Dunnavan and Mrs. Ruben Thomas. Mrs. Mickens received a number of useful presents. Two Charleston Graduates.—Invitations have been received in the city by friends of Mrs. Mattie V. Lee to her graduation from the medical department of Howard University, the 31st inst. Miss Alice P. Whittaker has also sent out invitations to her graduation from Storer college on the 9th of June. A Distressing Case.—A case of sickness and distitution has been called to the attention of The Advocate which demands and should receive immediate relief. J. M. Guerard, Court street whose wife is reported to have deserted him and four small children, is lying helpless with rheumatism at his home and one of the children has almost lost its sight. They are worthy objects of charity. Personals and Locals. The Art Embroidery club was entertained by Moses Hawkins, North Rand street, Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Ida Howard has returned to Cincinnati. The Girls' Culture club will spend Saturday afternoon across Kanawha. The operetta Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was greeted by a large audience at Simpson church, Monday night. Rev. Carroll and Downs will exchange pulpits at the morning service Sunday morning June 4th. Rev. Downs will preach the annual sermon to the St. Stephen Council of St. Luke at the A. M. E. Church, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Jessie Bruce, of Institute, is in the city visiting her brother, C. W. Boyd. Mrs. Blance Jeffries Tyler was called to Baltimore, last week by the serious illness of her mother whose condition is reported to be critical. Mrs. J. S. Carroll will entertain the Woman's Improvement League at the M. E. parsonage, Friday evening. Miss Jessie F. Embry, of Institute, was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Jones Sunday. Mrs. W. O. Terry was hostess to the Married Ladies Whist Club last week. Edward O. Fulks, a student at Howard University, Washington, D. C., will return to the city, Saturday, to spend his vacation. Dr. J. B. Brown, J. A. Jackson and George Stuart spent Saturday at Institute. Mrs. Malinda Wells, of Pomeroy, O., is here visiting her daughter, Mrs C. O. Lowry. The Kelley Axe Workers Aid and Benefit Association is preparing for its annual sermon in June. Mrs. Pope, of Jeffersonville, Ind., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Anna Jones, Second avenue, West Charleston. The King's Daughters of West Charleston are being complimented on their good work in the rally at the First Baptist church, Sunday. Little Edna Hammond, who has been sick for some weeks, is reported better. TRAINED TEACHERS FOR BIBLES There is a growing sentiment throughout the country in favor of raising the standard of efficiency among Sunday school teachers. Dr. Tarry the great evangelist says the greatest need of the world is Bible teachers. I have been a home missionary, a foreign missionary, a city missionary, a theological professor, and an evangelist, and I think I know pretty well what the church needs—teachers of the Bible and in order to be Bible teachers, training is necessary. The most pressing need today is teacher training. These words coming as they do from Dr. Tarry need no comment. When he speaks, the world listens. The International Sunday School Association, through the committee on education is supplying this great need by bringing so the Sunday schools a training course for teachers, superintendents and Christian workers. Rev. W. W. Mayle, of Washington, D. C., a field superintendent is in this state in the interest of the work. The course of study has been enthusiastically received at Elkins, Hmton, Montgomery, Charleston and Institute. Classes have been organized and are growing rapidly. When through in the Kanawha Valley, Rev. Mr. Mayle will visit other sections of the State. Churches desiring his services may address him. 1307 Washington St. Charleston, or Capital Sunday school Association, 1701, 11th St. N. W. Washington, D. C. TALLADEGA COLLEGE. Forty-Fourth Anniversary 1911. Commencement events are as follows. Thursday, June 1. 7:30 p. m.—Senior Preparatory Exhibition. Friday, June 2. 9 to 11:30 a. m.—Public examinations in the Cassedy School. 7:30 p. m.—Anniversary of Literary Societies. 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. For further information address BYRD PRILLERMAN, Pres. Institute, West Virginia Saturday, June 3—People's Day. 8:30 to 10 a.m.—Inspection of College Building. Academic and Industrial Class Work. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.—Conference in the DeForest Chapel on important topics. 2:30 p. m.—Prize Speaking. 7:00 p. m.—Examination of candidates for ordination to the gospel ministry. Sunday, June 4. 7:30 a. m.—Meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association. 9:15 to 10:15 a. m.—Sunday school. 10:30 a. m. 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Mr. Dickinson's relations with the administration have been entirely cordial and harmonious. He resigned because of business demands upon him in his home state Tennessee. He entered the cabinet, as subsequent events proved, at a considerable sacrifice, relinquishing a salary as an attorney for a railway company twice that of his federal office, and since he has been with the Taft administration he has had the misfortune to lose a large part of his fortune, which he will now endeavor to retrieve. Those who know the facts are assured that there is not the slightest political significance in the step he has taken. ```markdown ``` Henry L. Stimson, of New York, who succeeds Mr. Dickinson as Secretary of War, first came into national notice as Republican candidate last summer for Governor of New York who was nominated in the convention by former President Roosevelt. President Taft, as soon as Mr. Dickinson indicated his earnest desire to quit the cabinet, was, predisposed to Mr. Stimson, but consulted Senator Root who heartily approved the idea of the appointment. He has had no experience in military affairs, but as an active and leading member of the New York bar his practice has embraced considerable relation with governmental affairs. ***** Something unique and indeed aboriginal in the way of a petition has reached Congress. It has come to Speaker Champ Clark and bears 66 signatures in what looks like blood—every name in red. It is a protest from the Chippewa Indians of the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota against what they allege is an attempted legalization of fraudulent land sales of their reservation. The signatures are in the prints of thumbs dipped in poke-berry juice. The first name signed to the document is that of a chief, May-zhuche-bg-won-nobe. The first Congressional Directory for the Sixty-second Congress presents its usual interesting disclosures as to the personnel of the membership of the two Houses. Examination of the biographical sketches of members shows the notable fact that average age of members of both houses is younger than usual, and that this lowering of the average age has come largely through the Demo- ALL ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY. Call "ON TO RICHMOND," SLOGAN NOW OF THE WATERWAY MEN FROM BOSTON TO FLORIDA cratic gain made at the last election. The oldest Senator continues to be Isaac Stephenson, of Wisconsin, who is just four months older than Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois. The youngest Senator is Luke Lea, of Tennessee, who was thirty-two April 12, and who is with one exception the only senator under 40 years of age. The next youngest is Senator Nathan Phillemon Bryan, of Florida, who is seven years older than Mr. Lea. There are just forty members of the House who are under forty years of age, and 36 of these are Democrats. The youngest is William Francis Murray, of Massachusetts, who succeeded John A. Kelihier from one of the Democratic Districts of Boston. The next youngest is Byron P. Harrison, of one of the Gulf Coast Districts of Mississippi, who succeeded Eaton J. Bowers. Murray will be thirty years old September 7, while Harrison will reach thirty August 29th. General Isaac R. Sherwood, representing the Ninth (Toledo) District. Gen. Sherwood will be seventy-six August 13. The next oldest is former Speaker Cameron, who celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday on May 7, according to accounts of his reallization of the event by denying a jury. It is also interesting to observe that the chairman of many of the important committees are young men much younger than has been the average. Senator Penrose, chairman of the committee on Finance is fifty-Oscar W. Underwood, chairman of the committee on Ways and Means had his forty-ninth birthday just the day before Uncie Joe Cannon danced into his. John J. Fitzgerald, of New York chairman of the committee on Appropriation, is just thirty-nine, although he has served ten years in the House. The average age of the fourteen Democrats of the Ways and Means Committee is forty-five, while the average age of the seven Republicans is fifty-eight. Former Chairman Payne is sixty-eight. Dalzell and Hill, of Connecticut, are just two years younger. Members of the committee who are under forty-five are Harrison, of New York; Kitchin, of North Carolina; James, of Kentucky; Hughes, of New Jersey; Hull, of Tennessee; etPets, of Massachusetts; Palmer, of Pennsylvania; and Longworth of Ohio. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS George Feezell and wife to J. H. Williams and wife, a lot on Magazine, Charleston district; consideration, $110. J. A. Holley and wife and Samuel Stephenson and wife to Mrs. Sldney C. Hill, lets No. 37 and 38 of Block B, Oakland Addition, Charleston district; consideration, $224.55. Charleston, W. Va. Interested in the Great Inter-Coastal Route Washington, May 25—The first of the big organizations of the country, interested in the improvement of particular Waterway projects, to announce its annual convention, is the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association which will meet in the historic City of Richmond, Va., September 12, 13, 14 and 15 next. "On to Richmond" will be the cry of hundreds of delegates representing the States interested in the intercontinental route from Boston to Beaufort, N. C. and hence to the Keys of Florida; and Richmond, risen from the ashes of the Civil War, promises to show the "Yankees" from New England and the Middle States what real simon-pure hospitality the South is capable of, in these piping times of peace and good will between the sections. Richmond has caught the spirit of waterway improvement on a comprehensive plan, as preached by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, of which the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association is a subscribing member, and is determined to keep step with sister cities of the southeast and west by acquiring and owning its waterfront or so much thereof as will give it the right to be known as a city controlling its municipal piers and docks. Since the movement, for a definite comprehensive and fixed policy on the part of the Federal Government, looking to the improvement of the internal waterways of continental United States began, more than two decades ago, there has sprung up certain parts of the country, particularly in cities located on navigable streams, a determination to provide suitable water terminals to be used upon the completion of particular projects. And this sentiment which is comparatively new in this country, but old to the nations of Europe, is becoming so much of a problem in municipalities located on THE LACK OF ADEQUATE FIRE PROTECTION IN THE MINES Has Resulted in the Loss of Hundreds of Lives and the Destruction of Millions of Dollars Worth of Property in the Last Few Years New York, May 25.—Failure to appreciate the seriousness of mine fires and a lack of adequate fire protection have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives and the destruction of millions of dollars worth of property in the last few years, according to a statement made at the annual meeting of the National Fire Protection Association this morning by Herbert M. Wilson, chief engineer of the Federal Bureau of Mines. Mr. Wilson went further and declared that two of the most serious disasters in coal mines in the last two years, one at Cherry, Illinois, in which 262 lives were lost, and the other at the Pancoast mine, near Scranton, Pa., in which 74 lives were lost, originated from trivial causes and ought to have been quickly extinguished without the sacrifice of human life. "The contact of several bales of hay with a blazing torch or an open miner's lamp," said Mr. Wilson, "caused the Cherry mine disaster with its great loss of life and a total cost of $1,000,000, of which $50,000 a day was spent in direct fire fighting for several days. "The fire in the Pancoast mine killed 74 miners, left 47 widows and 137 dependent orphans. This fire is known to have started in an underground room presumably from some oil-soaked waste. The fire was not thought serious until it had been burning two hours. This delay was, in large measure, responsible for the great loss of life. "Besides the loss of life, fires have cost much in money. At Deadwood, S. D., $1,000,000 has been spent in fighting a fire in a metal mine. Today fires are raging in coal and metal mines in various parts of the country. Some of them have gotten beyond the control and have been burning for many years, devouring hundreds of thousands of tons of coal and miles of mine galleries. One mine fire near Carbondale, Pa., has burned out such a vast area of anthracite coal in the last ten years as to result in a subsidence of the surface and destruction of surface property. Near Summit Hill, Pa., a waterways, that campaigns are being made and parties are writing into their platforms planks favoring the municipal ownership of water fronts and piers. Richmond, although upwards of a hundred miles from Chesapeake bay and the ocean, realizing the potential effect the improvement of the James river will have upon the rate situation is actively and aggressively doing its part in acquiring a most favorably located water frontage and its city council has made a substantial appropriation for a public wharf adequate in size and which is now in process of construction for the revival and accommodation of its water-borne commerce. Contemporaneous with the growth of sentiment in this country for municipally-owned water terminals is the activity shown by the Council of London which proposes to spend $75,000,000 on the improvement of its piers along the Thames. This vast sum is deemed essential if London is to keep in the race for trade and commerce which has been gradually drifting away from England's capital in favor of Liverpool and Manchester. The canalization of the river Main from Frankfurt to Mainz has, in fifteen years increased the commerce of Germany enormously, new industries having sprung up and old ones vastly expanded and along this entire stretch of river, water frontage is owned by the government. The Royal German Commission in a recent report notes the decentralizing influence of the waterways. In the case of the Main, "the new industries and the wage earners that they attract have not settled around the city of Frankfurt, but along the river around less populated centers like Griesheim, Hoechst, etc." The findings of an official inquiry in Prussia likewise concluded that "in conjunction with the railways the navigable waterways exercise a special attraction on industries and more so than railroads alone have done. Therefore the waterways on account of the qualities peculiar to them appear to have a strong decentralizing influence." John Ganzef's Rochester boys must be the Tigers of the Eastern League. The star pitchers of the Athletics are not working so smooth as they did last season. "Scrappy Jack" Doyle, the former New York Giant, is making good umpiring in the National League. Cleveland would like to sign Pitcher "Wild Bill" Donovan of the Tigers as manager of the Naps. Frank Bancroft had a birthday fire which has been burning 51 years is estimated to have destroyed $25,000,000 worth of coal. Near Jobs, Ohio, a tract of coal valued at several million dollars has been burning since 1884. In some of the deeper metal mines at Butte, Mont, fires have been burning in the oid mine timbers since 1889. In the Comstock vein in Nevada, thousands of feet of tunnels which had been opened and timbored at great expense are being burned out. "The mining engineers of the Bureau of Mines have made a careful study of fires in mines, and have reached the conclusion that the introduction of comparatively inexpensive fire fighting appliances, the adoption of proper regulations and the institution of a reasonable system of fire drills may minimize fires and confine others to a brief period of time with little damage to life and property. The engineers of this bureau have had much success in combatting mine fires through the use of the oxygen helmet. This is an apparatus that entirely protects the head, and through which air is furnished artificially, thus enabling the wearer to explore the vicinity of a fire under conditions of smoke and gas that would render his approach otherwise impossible. By the use of such an apparatus a number of fires have been promptly extinguished which would doubtless have spread and perhaps extended beyond control. Chemistry, through the quick analysis of gases at frequent intervals in the neighborhood of the fire has proven a most useful adjunct in fighting fires. It seems almost unnecessary to call attention to the necessity of providing at each mine ample storage of water properly conveyed in protected pipes to possible danger points, the desirability of using larger amounts of fire proof material in place of wooden mine timbering or wooden doors, the proper disposal of waste, fire proof manways and air shafts and the use of fire proof material as far as possible in all surface structures within 50 to 100 feet of the main opening to the mine." recently and the Cincinnati Reds gave him a handsome silver service. The owners of the Boston Nationals are quarreling among themselves and the Rustlers continue to lose. Outfieldier Farrel of the Boston Americans has been disposed of to the Waterbury Club of the Connecticut League. At the present time the Waseda University baseball team of Japan is touring America, and the Missouri University team is touring Japan. Bob Spade, who was traded by the St. Louis Browns to Newark for Joe Crisp, has been released. Crisp has also been released by the Browns. Home runs are as plentiful this season as Democrats in Washington. The magnates plined it on the pitchers when they introduced the liveier ball. During the past eight years the New York and the Boston American League teams have played 179 games, Boston winning 90 and New York 89 games. Manager McAleer of the Washington team is up against it without the services of his star pitcher, Walter Johnson. The Saginaw team of the Southern Michigan League is making all kinds of records this season. Their latest stunt was the scoring of eight home runs in a nine-inning game. It has been a tough season so far on the manager players. Frank Chance of the Cubs, Hal Chase of the Highlanders, and Roger Bresnan of the Cardinals, have all been out of the game on account of sickness. WITH THE BOXERS Harry Forbes, the "come back champ," will box Eddie O'Keefe in Kansas City May 25. Jimmy Clabby and "Knockout" Brown of Chicago have signed for a tangle to take place in Hammond, Ind., May 30. Ad Wolgast is a 2 to 1 favorite in his coming bout with Frankle Burns. The bout will take place at Colma, Calif., May 27. Jim Flynn and JI mBarry will meet in California July 4. The two Jima are the best white heavyweights in the game right now and should put up a corking fight. WENT TO PUTNEY Deputy Sheriff S. C. Harless, of the county court, left today for Putney on a short business trip. 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 and you'll find they neither at the heels. They fit as the Come in and try on a p BELL S 708 Kanav RALSTON OXFORDS 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 THE SUMMER WORK IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS BEEN OUTLINED The following is given out by the City Superintendent of schools concerning the summer work that will be given in the schools for those in need of such: "It is the purpose of the schools and the desire of the Superintendent and teachers to give every child an opportunity of doing the work he is best fitted to do. With this in view we desire to promote all who are able to do work of a higher grade. If a child is not able to do this, it is a great injury to him to promote him. "As the schools grow it becomes more necessary to keep close watch on promotions in the fall. Children who are not promoted in June cannot go on in the fall unless they have made up work during the summer." "A pupil who has idled away his time during the regular term is not entitled to another trial in the fall. A special summer school will this year be established for those pupils, who, in the estimation of the teacher and the principal, should have help during the summer. "At each building a list of pupils will be prepared by the principal and the teacher. This list will contain the names of those whose effort during the regular term entitles them to go to the Summer School. Pupils whose names are on this list may attend the Summer School by paying the enrollment fee of one dollar for the first, to the third grades inclusive, and two dollars for the fourth to the seventh grades inclusive. "This school will be under control of the Board of Education, and examinations and promotions will be supervised by the Superintendent of Schools." ADVERTISE IN THE ADVOCATE OXFORDS er bulge at the sides nor slip ough made-to-your-measure. air. HOE CO. wha Street RESTORATION OF BISON TO BE TRIED IN TEXAS Houston, Texas, May 25.—Restoration of the American buffalo that once roamed the plains of Texas, is to be tried by A. Luthe, a farmer of Aldine, near Houston. Mr. Luthe has purchased four buffalo calves from a Denver naturalist which will become the nucleus of a great herd, which he plans later on to turn over to the State for the stocking of the State game preserves. The bison at first will be confined in an acre pasture but as the herd grows larger pasturage will be provided, which also will aid them in getting away from the domestic state confinement causes. Later the herd will be turned over to the State and the care and protection of the buffalo given into the hand of the State game warden. LET US ENLARGE THAT SMALL PHOTO 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, neckties or handkerchief and in fact on every thing desired. IF IT'S A PICTURE SEE US ORIENTAL ART CO. Room 9 K. of P. Bldg. AGENT WANTED. ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY? OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a trunk or hiding it some where about your house—You Are Working for Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you least six per cent, interest — Your Money is Working For You. The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor, is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend or six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION L. O. WILSON, PRESIDENT WESTON, W. VA. MODERN SEWERAGE PURIFICATION Remarkable Results Attained by Modern Filtration Methods---Report by United States Geological Survey Washington, May 25 - As the population of cities and towns becomes more and more congested, the public health requires that some methods be adopted that will change the chemical composition of the sewage so that it will not putrefy when discharged into water-courses. In some places it is even necessary to disinfect the sewage so that all disease germs will be destroyed. Disinfection is demanded because of the possible pollution of water supplies and of shellfish beds. The methods adopted for sewage disinfection are described at length in a publication issued by the United States Geological Survey as Water-Supply Paper 229, entitled "The Disinfection of Sewage and Sewage Filter Effluents," by Earle B. Phelps. Sewage purification as practiced today is but the artificial and intensive application of the processes used everywhere by nature to reduce putresible organic matter to inert inorganic matter such as garbage or a dead animal is left exposed upon the ground, it putrefies or rots for a considerable period, giving off nauseous odors in the meantime. After a while the rotting is complete, the odor disappears, and the material becomes mineral matter exclusively. The process is scientifically defined by saying that the organic matter has become oxidized that is, oxygen has united with the organic matter to produce the desired result. The process of sewage purification is precisely the same except that in the purification work conditions are provided under which nature is assisted in her work and the result is accomplished in a much shorter space of time. Great Capacity of Improved Filters The improvements made in methods of treating sewage have therefore not involved the discovery or application of new principles; those established since the world began are utilized. The constant aim of the experimenters has been to increase the rate at which sewage can be purified. From the old-time sewage irrigation field, with its maximum capacity of purifying possibly 10,000 gallons of sewage on an acre in 24 hours, to the present-day trickling filter capable of dealing with two or three million gallons a day on an acre of filter surface, the march of improvement has been steady and continuous. The later investigators have found that efficient purification can be accomplished without carrying the process to the point of complete oxidation. The liquid flowing from a modern trickling filter, according to Mr. Phelps, looks to the untrained eye like the original sewage; indeed, there is almost as much organic matter in the effluent as in the raw sewage, and sometimes more, but the organic matter has been suffi- ciently changed or oxidized to rob it of its foulness. In other words, its chemical composition has been so altered that it is no longer capable of undergoing rapid putrefactive decomposition. Although it may appear inconceivable that the chief object of sewage purification—prevention of the fouling of streams—can be attained by such invisible changes in the nature of the organic matter, nevertheless the discharge from efficient sewage disposal plants may be permitted to enter a stream without fear of causing a nuisance. The work of purification also proceeds in the stream itself, as it does in the soil and in the purification works, until the oxidation is complete. Oxygen for that purpose is sufficiently abundant in a reasonably clean stream, but if the stream is overloaded with putrescible sewage there will not be oxygen enough and the stream will be recomputrid. If all the putrescible organic matter should not be removed from the sewage by the purification works the remainder, if it is not too large in amount, will be purified in the stream. So the purification of sewage has come to mean primarily the removal of the tendency to putrefy and not the total oxidation and removal of its organic matter. The report gives detailed descriptions of different methods adopted for disinfecting sewage and states that of the disinfectants which have been sufficiently investigated, chlorine-chloride of lime—in the form of bleaching powder is the most economical and efficient The application of three parts per million of available chlorine in the form of bleaching powder to a trickling-filter effluent effects satisfactory disinfection. The removal of bacteria from the effluent averages over 9.5 per cent, and the cost of disinfection ranges from $1 to $1.50 per million gallons of sewage, depending chiefly on the size of the plant. Crude sewage may be disinfected by the application of five to ten parts per million of available chlorine, the amount depending on the character of the sewage, at a cost of $1.50 to $5.50 per million gallons. A copy of the report may be obtained on application to the Director of the Geological Survey, at Washington, D. C. KICKED BY A MAD HORSE KICKED BY A MAD HORSE. Samuel Birch, of Becton, Wis. had a most narrow escape from losing his leg, as no doctor could heal the frightful sore that developed, but at last Deebleen's Arnica Salve cured him. It's the greatest healer of ulcers, burns, boils, eczema scales, cuts, corns, cold-sores, bruises and piles on earth. Try it. 256 at all drummers. 4-7-41 Prominent Churchmen Attend Celebration OF TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF KITTRELL COLLEGE WHEN NEW HALL IS DEDICATED AND MONEY RAISED. Kittrell, N. C., May 25.—A notable celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Kittrell college, an educational institution of the A. M. E. Church, came to an end here today. The celebration was attended by prominent churchmen, as well as the leading educators, professional and business people of this section of the country. The new Duke Hall was dedicated and a considerable sum raised toward the $25,000 which the college authorities need for the extension of the work. Among those who delivered addresses during the celebration were Bishop Levi J. Coppin, Prof John R. Hawkins, secretary of education for the A. M. E. church; Prof D. J. Jordan, president of the college; Rev. R. H. W. Leak, ef Raighle, N. C.; Rev. John Hurst, financial Secretary of the A. M. E. church, and Rev. A. L. Gaines, of Baltimore, who delivered the address to the graduating class yesterday. In his address, Dr. Gaines declared that the part that the race was to play was in showing other races that the real test of superiority was not the ability to oppress others, but the teaching of others that ideal conditions can only be brought about by each race contributing its rightful share of that which makes for the uplift of humanity. "To bring about ideal conditions: race is needed." he said, "that makes no particular claim as did the Hebrews, of being God's peculiar people and whose training is unlike that of Japheth—materialistic and lovers of conquest. A race is needed that believes that ideal conditions must be brought about not by ostracising and humiliating other races, but that conditions must be changed by races acting in complementary functions; or to put it in other words, a race must come to the front to teach other races that each race must contribute its share to the general unlift of humanity. "I do not know but that the very oppression heaped upon the Negro in this country is, in a certain sense designed to prepare the Negro for his world-wide mission." NICK BARTH OUT For months Nick Barth has been very ill at his home on the West Side, but today he had sufficiently recovered to come over to this side of the river. His recovery is expected now and his friends have been warmly congratulating him on his improvement of condition. Kills a Murderer A merciless murderer is Appendicitis with many victims, but Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, curing Constipation, Headache, Billiousness, Chills. 25c of all diseases. $208,156.62 TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE COUNTIES SHORTLY The County Kanawha Will Get $10,408.69; Fayette, $6,051; Raleigh, $3,914.58 Putnam $1,345.81; Clay, $1.113.39 HOUSE DEMOGRATS HOPE BY PROPOSING THE OREGON PLAN TO FOOL THE UNSUSPECTING And Kill a Primary Measure at this Legislature---Opposed to Any Plan that Will "Let the People" Say. They'll Try Every Crooked Device to Down the People's Desires $208,156.62 TO I AMONG THE CO The County Kanawha Fayette, $6,051; Ralei $1,345.81; Cl Because the last regular session of the Legislature abolished the State Road Tax law, laying a state tax of one cent on the $100.00 valuation of all real and personal property, for state-aid road purposes, $208,156.62 will soon be distributed among the counties of the state. The abolition of the law became effective May 22, and already State Auditor Darst has compiled the apportionment of the fund, ready for distribution. This law was one of the several road bills offered by Senator Sutherland of Randolph county in 1909. The bill was passed on February 26, 1909, and become effective in 90 days without the governor's signature. In all it was in force little less than two years. The first state tax was collected for the year 1909. It was again collected in 1910 but no tax was collected in 1911. The law provided that the Road Fund should consist of the one cent tax on all real and personal property, the surplus from the operation of the penitentiary, license money for automobiles, and fines for violations of the automobile laws. When the Legislature of last winter abolished the Department of Roads it followed it with abolishing the state road tax, knocking out the foundation laid by the legislature through the Sutherland bills in 1909 to begin a movement to give state aid to the construction of roads in the several counties of the state. Every county in the state will get more money than it paid through the one cent tax, because the excess revenues of the penitentiary has been turned into the fund, as has also the fines and money the state received from license on automobiles. In some of these counties the amount will be considerably augmented. The counties to receive the most are Ohio with $14,798.26; Harrison, $12,920.78; Marion, $11,-273.67; Kanawha, $10,408.69; Wood, $9,432.27; Monongalia, $9,-273.02. The amount to be sent to each HOUSE DEMOCRAT PROPOSING THE TO FOOL THE And Kill a Primary lature---Opposed to "Let the People" Sa Crooked Device to Do Foiled in an attempt to block any legislation by the Senate killing the Gilkeson resolution, the Democrats have decided upon another course which they hope will give the same result, and in fact, if it is carried out it will have the same effect as if the Gilkeson resolution had been adopted. At a hurried conference held yesterday afternoon and last night the Democrats decided to put their shoulder behind the Oregon plan—the bill offered in the Senate after Senator Coffman presented the Republican measure, and by Delegate Kenny of Taylor in the House last week, but which the Democrats sent to the slaughtering committee of twenty-one, because it was too radical and undemocratic. Upon investigation, however, it is found that even if the bill was voted into a law it would first have to be ratified by the people at a general election, and that ratification and general election could not be had until 1912, and therefore could not apply to the selection of a United States senator at the legislature in 1913. This is the very condition the Watson-Chilton forces have been working for, over which they doubtless have lost many hours of sleep, and if the odds were as great to overcome as they were at the regular session of the legislature it has also been very expensive. But the idea of the octupus being in favor of the Oregon law to show that it is in favor of a primary election law at this session is as prepositional as it is inconceivable for a Democrat who is following the gold trail to believe the trail mark is wrong. Some of the Democratic legislators may be led into the belief that if they vote for the Oregon plan they will have fulfilled their party pledge in voting for a primary. But there is a wide difference between voting for a primary election law to go into effect at once, or before the next general election is held, and voting for a measure that submits a lot of stuff to the people for consideration, and if they approve of them, they can become effective after the octupus has accomplished the defeat of ITS HOPE BY THE OREGON PLAN THE UNSUSPECTING Measure at this Legis- Any Plan that Will y, They'll Try Every own the People's Desires the enactment of a primary and the octupus' leader is returned to the United States Senate, providing, of course, the voters of the State will be deceived into the belief that the Democratic legislators were honest in voting for a primary, and not a subterfuge presented for the purpose of preventing that which both political parties have declared in their platforms and preached from the rostrum, store boxes, lumber piles and what not. The Republican senators have declared they will do all they can to pass a primary election law, as evidence of this they got together and drafted a measure that cannot help but be as fair to one party as another; one that safeguards both political parties, and guarantees to each elector, regardless of his political affiliations or disability free and full choice in voting, and at the same time protects party organization and perpetuates party autonomy. After receiving two primary bills, one from Dr. Dr. Epling of McDowell, the same bill as was introduced in the senate by Coffman, and one by Dice, of Greenbrier, the same as French introduced in the senate, being the Oregon law, and listening to a tirade of abuse of public officials by Delegate Strothers, who had moved that the Governor's message, which has never been read in the house, be sent to the committee of twenty-one, th house adjourned. The Senate was slow convening both parties caucusing on their primary bill. At 11 o'clock the senate went into committee of the whole, taking the Marcum resolution. IT STARTED THE WORLD IT STARTED THE 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 best salve on earth for Burns, Bolia, Scals, Sores, Cuts, Bruises, Sprains, Swellings, Eczema, Chapped hands, Fever Sores and Piles. Only 25c at all druggists. 5-4-4t. Fred Gardner vs. Gates Coal and Coke Company; $1,000 damages. In chancery Ella Whitte Millsaps vs. James G. Millsaps. GARRETT AND HAZLEWOOD 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. We carry a large stock of goods. Prompt ambulance service. Open day and night. Bell Phone 330. 609 Summer Street. Home Phone 328. Charleston, W. Va. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED BY THE K. & M. RAILROAD Sleeping and Buffet Cars Are Put on Line ALSO TIME IS CHANGED On Sunday, May 28th, the new schedule of the Kanawha & Michigan Railway will take effect. Many radical changes in the train service will be made, all of which are for the betterment of the service and the convenience of the traveling public. The most important change and one which will be most appreciated by the travelling public, will be the installation of a buffet sleeper running through from Charleston to Columbus, Ohio, daily, leaving Charleston at 5:30 p. m. Central Time (6:30 p. m. City Time) and reaching Columbus at 9:20 a. m., being handled on train No. 1 north of Middleport. This sleeper will lay at Middleport part of the night thus giving passengers a quiet night's rest and be attached to train leaving Middleport at 4:35 a. m. for Columbus. There will also be buffet sleeper service between Columbus and Charleston on train No. 6 leaving Columbus at 5:40 p. m. Central Time (6:40 p. m. Charleston Time) and laying over at Middleport, being handled to Charleston on train No. 32 arriving here at 8:35 a. m. Meals served on route on these sleeping cars on the a la carte plan. Train No. 5, now leaving here at 12:25 noon, City Time, will be known as the "Capital City Limited" and will leave at 12:55 noon (City Time). This train will make only a few stops, a large number having been eliminated and will be a through, fast train to Columbus and Toledo. This will be a solid vestibulated train carrying cafe dining car and Pullman sleeper through to Chicago without change, arriving Columbus at 6:45 p. m., Toledo at 10:50 p. m. and Chicago at 7:30 a. m. next day. Train No. 2, now arriving at 5:15 p. m. (City Time) will be known as the "Mountain State Limited" and will arrive at Charleston at 3:35 p. m. (City Time), one hour and forty minutes earlier than at present. This will be a first class, through, fast train from Toledo, Columbus and northern points, daily, to Charleston and the equipment will be of the best. Train will carry cafe dining car and Pullman sleeper from Toledo, Columbus, Athens, etc., to Charleston. The change of time on this train will greatly benefit passengers from the north as the time has been shortened by the elimination of about thirty stops. Train No. 4 now arriving at 8:35 p. m. (City Time) will arrive ten minutes later, or at 8:45 p. m. (City Time). This train will make connections at Pt. Pleasant with the P. & O. railroad from Pittsburg, Parkersburg, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Grafton and points East. Train No. 3 will leave here the same time as at present, 7:10 a. m. (City Time). Both trains No. 3 and No. 5, "Capital City Limited," will connect with the B. & O. railroad at Pt. Pleasant for Parkersburg, Wheeling, Pittsburg, Clarksburg, Grafton and all points East. Trains Nos. 31, 32, 35 and 36 will run daily between Charleston and Gauley Bridge instead of daily except Sunday as at present. These in addition to Sunday only trains Nos. 37 and 38 which will remain the same. The splendid service as outlined above will become effective next Sunday and should be the means of securing quite a good deal of additional business for Charleston which it does not now enjoy on account of the extremely inconvenient connections which are now made from points to the north of this city. The K. & M. Railway is to be congratulated upon the inauguration of the sleeping car line between this city and Columbus, which is being THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1911. D HAZLEWOOD STAKERS LICENSED EMBALMER we can furnish you with the same less money. We carry a large service. Open day and night. 609 Summer Street. Charleston, W. Va. put on at a large expense at the earnest solicitation of the travelling fraternity. This service between the capitals of the two States will fill a long felt want as business men can go to Columbus and transact a day's business and return to Charleston, having been away only one day. As it now is, it is impossible for a passenger to spend a day in Columbus and return without losing at least two days from business. With this remarkably complete service and excellent equipment it is to be hoped that such a large patronage will be secured, that there will be no doubt of its being left in effect and thus be of benefit to both the city and the railroad company. With the convenient trains and good connections and in view of the fact that the general offices and terminals of the company, with about 125 employees, are now located here, there should be no doubt of the hearty co-operation on the part of the Charleston people. SAVED HIS MOTHER'S LIFE "Four doctors had given me up," writes Mrs. Laura Galnes, of Avoca, La., "and my children and all my friends were looking for me to die, when my son insisted that I use Electric Bitters. I did so, and they have done me a world of good. I will always praise them." Electric Bitters is a priceless blessing to women troubled with fainting and dizzy spells, backache, headache, weakness debility, constipation or kidney disorders. Use them and gain new health, strength and vigor. They're guaranteed to satisfy or money refunded. Only 50c at all druggists. WILL KNOW WEIGHT OF EVERY PIECE OF MAIL At the end of this month Postmaster Frank Hudson will be in position to report to the postmaster general the exact weight of all the mail that has been sent from the Charleston postoffice as well as that which has been received. Every piece of mail that is received is being counted and a decided increase in business in the office is expected to be shown. Every clerk in the office is required to keep tab on the pieces handled in the office. Had it not been for the fact that the department ordered the count made the postoffice would have changed quarters this month to permit of carrying out the contract for erecting the new building which is proposed and which, when completed, will afford sufficient accommodations for all the Federal departments here. NEW SUITS The following new auits were recorded in the circuit clerk's office today: SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS The kind that most men wear. Notice the cord back and the front ends. They slide in frictionless tubes and move as you move. You will quickly see why Shirley President Suspenders are comfortable and economical for the working man or business man. Light, Medium or Extra Heavy Weights — Extra Lengths for Tall Men. Price 50 Cents from your local dealer or by mail from the factory. Signed Guarantee on every pair THE C. A. EDGARTON MFG. CO. 333 MAIN*STREET, SHIRLEY, MASS.