The Advocate

THIS ADVOCATE WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME X. Visit of Governor TO PRESIDENT TAFT CREATES CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL COMMENT. "Friendly Interest" In Panhandle State of Occupant of The White House Concivues Wise-acres that Situation Here Was Discussed and Chief Executive Gave Advice. White Sulphur Springs, temporary headquarters of the executive branch of the state government, was the scene of some quiet political discussions this week when the bankers and lawyers of the state gathered at the Greenbrier resort to hold their annual meetings. Although there was no politics in the meetings of the financiers or the lawyers further than the discussion of the monetary system and the reelprocity pact with Canada, the meetings afforded some of the politicians of both parties an excellent opportunity to get together and talk over the impending contest. At the meetings the politicians of the two parties communed with one another in brotherly fashion. At the banquet of the barristers on Thursday night ex-Congressman Jos. H. Gaines presided as the toastmaster and Senator Wm. E. Chilton, with a modern Stradivarius played the modest little tune of "Turkey in the Straw," while our other friends and counsellors, Bill Byrne, Angus McDonald and John W. Davis added hugely to the entertainment. During the meetings Governor Wm. E. Glasscock went to Washington, where he was in conference with President Traff. The appointment had been made before the Governor moved to White Sulphur Springs for the summer, and while he was loathe to leave the resort he filled his appointment with the President at the national capital and returned to White Sulphur Springs before the final meetings. The visit of the West Virginia executive to the White House has excited considerable political comment, and in the absence of any definite statement from the Governor, it is largely a matter of conjecture, although the politicians are certain that the present status of the party and the coming meeting of the State Central Committee was under discussion. President Taft has always retained a "friendly interest" in the affairs of the party in West Virginia. He was called upon when a candidate for the Presidency in 1908 to help adjust the differences between Candidates Swisher and Scherr, and since that time he has been watching the efforts to restore harmony with a great deal of interest. It is known that many of the politicians among the Republicans have tried to enlist the aid of the president in the reorganization of the State Council, committee promised, it is claim, almost three years ago, and it is very probable that this secret was under discussion when the overrook and the President conferred. As yet no definite plans have been made public looking toward the reorganization of the committee or taking any steps toward the formulation of rules and methods by which future contests in the party may be governed, although it is understood that this is one of the essential purposes of the meeting. The Ogden resolution, adopted at the meeting of the committee more than two years ago providing that the Magisterial District should be made the unit in the selection of delegates to the state convention, has been liberally discussed, and, while the resolution is sufficient to prevent these practices, at which it is aimed, it is not receiving general approval so far as it applies to the selection of delegates. One of the main objections to the district unit in the selection of delegates to a state convention, as expressed by some of the more prominent politicians of the party, is that it would require candidates for office to make two campaigns, one before the selection of delegates and another after the delegates had been selected. It is known that a number of the leaders would be satisfied if the Ogden resolution were put in effect by the primary plan. In this manner the candidates could go before the people and allow the voters to express their choice and the candidates receiving the majority of the votes in a Magisterial District would be entitled to the delegates from that district in a state convention. The delegates also would be selected in the same manner by primary, and thus, it is argued, the delegates to the convention would be merely be carrying out the expressed wishes of the voters. If such a rule is adopted at the next meeting it is believed that it would give universal satisfaction, for it would embody the primary plan to which the party was committed by the Republican members of the Legislature and at the same time the holding of a convention would satisfy those who were opposed to direct primaries. ... The Canadian reciprocity bill was one of the subjects which was under discussion at the recent meeting at White Sulphur Springs. Hon. J. D. Moore, of New York, a prominent after-dinner speaker, made an address in opposition to the reciprocity pact, speaking on "Unpublished Phases of Reciprocity." Senator Theodore Burton, of Ohio, although he was not billed for a speech on the reciprocity treaty, made and address on the subject elaborately discussing the agreement and approving the course of the President. Another address, made at the meeting of the Bar Association, which has excited considerable comment was that of Dean Charles E. Hogg, of the law school at the State University. He was one of counsel for West Virginia in the Virginia debt case, and he addressed the gathering on that subject, detailing the suit from its inception to the recent opinion of the United States Supreme Court calling upon the states to confer and arrange an amicable settlement of the war-time debt. ```markdown ``` Just about the time that the Republican organization in Fayette County believed it had sown the seed for a harmony harvest and regulars and insurgents were being coaxed into line, Colonel Samuel Dixon, for years one of the dominant leaders of the organization, pulls a tomahawk and announces that he is on the warpath. Dixon ran anuck when he rode into Fayetteville and ascertained that the County Court was going to show no favors in the distribution of saloon licenses, and that the regulars and those who had joined the independent movement in that county last year would be treated alike. The Court believed this policy conducive to party harmony. Colonel Dixon wanted one license issued to one independent spirit, but when the Court became to generous the MacDonald coal operator stood up in meeting and announced that he had parted company with the County Court and would make the fight alone. Some warm words were passed, but the Court was firm. The retirement of Dixon from the regular organization may mean new alignments in the county. The independent forces may be re-enforced by Dixon, who may in time become a reformer, and then, again, the Court may court the favor of William McKell, and thus break the backbone of the coalition between the Democrats and Independent Republicans in Fayette County. ```markdown ``` Adam Brown Littlepage, autobiographer par excellence and member of congress from the Third West Virginia District was home during the present week, "exhibited noble qualities of mind and heart," incidentally told the boys how Speaker Clark had honored him by asking him to preside over the deliberations of the House of Representatives for several hours during the present special session of the Federal Congress and casually referred to the wise and conservative course he was pursuing at the National Capital. There's nothing to it. Congressman Adam gets away with that stuff on all occasions. Every newspaper in the country, from the New York Sun to the Boone County Booster, directed a few shafts of sarcasm and satire at that autobiography of Adam's, but the old fellow up the creek, who ekes out a living on three acres of yellow ground, read the roast, hunted up Adam's tariff talk with the various interpolations of applause and sputtered something about that New York Sun fellow being jealous of Adam Littlepage. Regarding Adam some pert paragrapher remarked during the week that he was being "panned" because he was a Democrat, whereupon George Collin McIntosh remarked that he had not noticed anyone poking fun at John W. Davis, of Clarksburg, the successor of Wm. P. Hubbard. George W. Bland. State Senator from the Twelfth District, has blossomed out into a real country editor — Senator Bland has purchased the West Union Record from Silas Smith, who was editor and owner for a quarter of a century. Senator Bland was the leader of the insurgent or progressive Democrats in the State Senate and his newspaper is bristling with insurgency. He has been quoting some of the old-line Democrats of his district on the political situation and more especially on the present leadership of the party. The insurgent elements in the two dominant parties will have to be reckoned with next year. It is just as pronounced in one party as it is in the other. There are probably a half-dozen Democratic journals which have not recovered from the shock of senatorial elections last winter and are continually clamoring for a change in the leadership. THE ADVOCATE. CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1911 The same situation is true within the Republican party, but the clamor in the latter party is directed principally at the State Committee. Support School work. Addresses were delivered by editor M. T. White of the McDowell Times, and A. Strugher, manager of the State Senator Wm. E. Chilton is keeping his fountain pen busy these sizing day answering the quips and queries of political opponents and editors of an opposite political faith. Recently when President Taft appointed Guy D. Goff of Wisconsin, a District Attorney in that state his name was sent to the United States Senate for confirmation Senator Chilton was one of those who opposed the confirmation, and a Clarksburg editor, living in the home of General Nathan Goff, the father of the Wisconsin politician, charged that the opposition to young Goff was based upon the dislike of Senator Chilton for General Goff. In a two-column letter Senator Chilton make denial of the story and says his opposition to the confirmation was the result of a conflict with a rule he had established of voting for such appointees as to receive the support of the Senators from those states in which the appointments are made. At the same time Senator Chilton to occasion to say that there was not a scintilla of truth in the charges that his nomination and election to the United States Senate was brought about by bribery. This statement brought on another controversy, the Clarksburg newspaper holding that it was not responsible for the charges that they were made by members of the same party to which Senator Chilton belongs, and that an investigation was suppressed in the State Legislature. Senator Chilton also became engaged in another newspaper controversy in Wyoming county, going to the defense of Herbert C. Saunders, the member of the legislature from that county. In this instance, also, the West Virginia Senator denied that he had received one vote for the nomination or election to the United States Senate thouhg the use of illegal or questionable methods. Senator Chilton is the owner of a newspaper, and before his election to the United States Senate delivered many a resounding whack on the short ribs of a political opponent. Now, he is on the receiving end, and on the first intimation that he is being stung will result in the dose being doubled. Big Convention of Methodists OPENS IN SHARP STREET MEMORIAL CHURCH WITH MANY PROMINENT NEGRO MEMBERS OF THE CONNECTION IN ATTENDANCE. Baltimore, Md., July 19.—The big convention of Methodists opened here this afternoon at Sharp Memorial M. E. Church, with prominent personages in the denomination present from all sections of the country. At the opening of the meeting, Rev, Dr. M. C. B. Mason, secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society, gave an outline of the purpose of the gatherings, similar ones of which will follow at Atlanta, St. Louis and New Orleans. Among the many who are on the program to speak interests centers in Bishop Isaiah B. Scott, who has charge of the work of the Methodist Church in Liberia; Dr. I. Garland Penn, of the Epworth League; Dr. R. E. Jones, of the Southwestern Christian Advocate; W. W. Lucas, of the Board of Foreign Missions; C. C. Jacobs, of the Sunday School Board; Dr. Ernest Lyon, former minister to Liberia; M. C. Mason, P. J. Maveety, the latter two of the Freedmen's Aid Society; Prof. J. W. E. Bowen, of Gammon Theological Seminary; Dr. M. W. Dogan, of Wiley University, Bishops Anderson and Moore. Bishop Isaiah B. Scott, who has returned to the city after a visit to Dr. Booker T. Washington, at the latter's summer home at Northpoint, L. L., speaks very hopefully of the work of the Methodists in Liberia. He has been in charge of the work for the past seven years, and is now spending a six-months furlough in this country. Bishop Scott preached at John Wesley Church Sunday. VACATION SCHOOL Has an Enrollment of Two Hundred and Fifty Scholars. Baltimore, July 19.—The vacation school, which opened for the first time here the other day, has over 250 pupils enrolled. The principal of the school is J. R. Paul Brock. His assistants are William Anderson, Misses Ella R. Browne and Mary Cooper. The Whitman Sisters closed a successful engagement at Daly's Theater Saturday night. They are now filling an engagement in Philadelphia, after which they will spend several weeks in Atlantic City. Rev. J. J. Plantevigne, one of the five colored priests in this country, will leave in a few days for a several weeks' vacation trip. He is assistant pastor of St. Francis Xavier Catholic church. BAPISTIST SCHOOL AT HILL TOP WILL GET NO MORE FUNDS FROM COUNTY. Is so Advised at Fifteenth Annual Session During Which Degree of Doctor of Divinity was Conferred on a Member by President Arter. Powhatan, July, 18.—The fifteenth annual session of the Flat Top Baptist Association was held here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week, with the Mercy Seat Baptist Church which, under the leadership of its congenial pastor, Rev. L. A. Watkins, did all that was necessary to make it pleasant for the large delegation from all points in the coal field and other parts of the state. At an early hour Wednesday morning the pews of the church were filled with men and women. At nine o'clock moderator Rev. G. W. Woody sounded the gavel and appointed Rev. C. A. Fultz, and J. W. Crocket to conduct the devotional services who opened the meeting with appropriate selections. The moderator made a few timely remarks as to decorum and appointed the usual working committees on finance, letter reading, new bodies and enrollment. After a short intermission the introductory sermon was preached by Rev. W. A. Pittard who brought before his hearers a message which caused them to rejoice. In the afternoon the moderator called Rev T. J. Broundon to the chair and delivered his annual address taking for his subject Christian Progress. Rev. Woody showed how the cause of Christ has prospered amid stern oppositions and showed that there is yet greater progress to be made. He pleaded for men of better intellectual and moral acquirements for the pulpit and insisted that the public school be placed in charge of teachers of similar at-Prophecy of Isaiah. Rev. C. C. Somerville of Portsmouth, good sermon Wednesday night on Prophecy of Isaiah. Rev. C. C. Somville of Portsmouth, Va., on receiving his introduction made a good address, encouraging the young people to do something that will be the means of lifting up the people. Rev. Somerville is doing much good, having written several booklets, edits a paper, and pastors a large city church. After the dispatch of some routine work Thursday morning Rev. S. R. Pullock preached an able sermon from the subject, "The Christian as a light of the world." In the afternoon session the educational report was read by Mrs. Maggie Anderson which advised that patrons give their children the full advantage of the public schools and that they be encouraged to acquire the best education possible. It was shown that steps had been taken by some of the citizens thoust Hill Top to influence the Board of Education to sever connection from the West Virginia Seminary and College. Since this action will lower the standard of the high school, it was denounced in the report. The district board has been paying the teachers for several years while the Seminary trustees have been given the privilege of appointing them. But in the future the Baptist will have to pay the full running expenses of the school which no doubt they will be glad to do. On the adoption of the report Prof. J. M. Arter delivered a stirring address which showed the need of educational requirements along all lines of work. Prof. Arter is an experienced educator and is determined to build up a creditable educational institution for his denomination and his race, and his zeal is bringing friends to the school every day. At the conclusion of his address, in keeping with the orders of the trustee board of the West Virginia Seminary and College the degree of D. D. was conferred upon Rev. G. W. Woody. A good sermon was preached by Rev. E. G. Holcomb at night. Friday was the busy day of the Association. After the reading of the foreign mission report Rev. A. S. Phillips delivered an address on the work pleading in behalf of those in heathen lands. On the passage of the report on state missions Rev. R. D. W. Meadows preached a mission sermon from the text "Ask and it Shall be Given." The speaker held out before his hearers the benificent hand of God filled with blessing that can be had only for the asking. The Temperance report was read in the afternoon and was discussed by L. R. Johnson, Rev. J. J. Turner and Mrs. M. E. Green. At the request of the Association, Rev. J. J. Turner, Superintendent of Missions for the State Sunday School Convention, delivered an address urging greater activity in the Sunday School work. Addresses were also delivered by editor M. T. Whittico, of the McDowell Times, and A. P. Strugher, manager of the Sentinel Publishing Company. The financial report was read by Rev. J. E. Prior which showed that $457.00 had been sent for all purposes. The statistical report which was read by Rev. W. C. Patterson showed that there were fifty churches representing in the Association with the aggregate membership of 3,512, there having been a net increase of 380 during the past associational year. The following officers were elected for Moderator, Rev. G. W. Woody of Mayberry; Vice Moderator, Rev T. J. Brandon, of Pagetown; recording Secretary, Rev. R. H. McKoy, of Bramwell; Treasurer Rev. W. W. Hicks, of Bluefield; Statistical Secretary Rev. W. C. Patterson, of Coalwood; Corresponding Secretary Rev W. H. Mitchell, of Eckman. Executive Board: Revs. L. A. Watkins, J. E. Pryor, L. Dabney, J. B. Evans, C. W. Cottrell, and W. C. Clements. Officers for the Woman's District Convention, which is an auxiliary to the Association: President Mrs. M. E. Green, First Vice-President Mrs. M. A. Brown, Second Vice-Pres-Mrs. M. A. Franklin, Treasurer Mrs. B. E. Taylor, Corresponding Secretary Mrs. N. A. Webster, Statistical Secretary Mrs. A. A. Pittard. Board Members: Mrs. Amanda Mitchell, N. V. Watkins and Alice Hoifston. These were installed by Prof. J. M. Arter who in a good speech described the duty of each. The meeting for next year will be held at Williamson. ESTATE OF $100,000. Alexandria Bay, Thousand Islands, July 15.—In the death this week of A. J. Berry, colored, a porter for 35 years at the pier here, a familiar figure in this region passed away, Berry was strong in voice and size, making himself easily heard above the score of other porters that throng the pier on the arrival of each steamer. Berry left an estate of about $100,000, which he had obtained by saving his tips and investing them. Pittsburg Y.M.G.A. Buys Valuable Lot Has Raised $40,000 of The $75,000 Necessary to Secure Third of Sum From Julius Rosenwald, The Chicago Jewish Philanthropist. Baltimore, Md., July 19.—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Morsell, who spent the last lap of their wedding journey with relatives in this city, are now at home at 619 Duff street, Pittsburg. Mrs. Morsell is a member of a prominent New Haven family and taught school in Indianapolis for the past five years. Mr. Morsell has been secretary of the Pittsburg Y. M. C. A. since last October. "Our Y. M. C. A.," he says, "is in a flourishing condition. A fund of $40,000 was raised to establish the work, and $12,000 of this was contributed by the race. We are now trying to raise $35,000 more in order to get the $25,000 offered by Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago. We have just purchased for $21,600 a splendid piece of property on Center avenue and there is every indication of a prosperous future for our work." Mr. Morsell is a native of this city. After graduating from the Colored High School, he taught school for several years. He was subsequently graduated from Oberlin College and the divinity school of Yale University. The Pennsylvania A. M. E. Zion Church is being remodled. Rev. R. D. W. Jones, a son of the late Bishop Jones, is pastor of the church. Rev. M. C. B. Mason, secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, preached at John Wesley M. E. Church Sunday morning. Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon is pastor of the church. HAITIEN SITUATION. Is Alarming and United States Sends Another Gunboat. Washington, July 18.—The situation in Haiti is causing grave anxiety to American Minister Furniss, who reported to the state department today that the revolution in spite of temporary government victories, appears to be growing. Heretofore the revolutionists had confined their operations to the interior and small towns on the northern coast, Mr. Furniss reports, but they have now seized several more important points among them the second city in the republic, Gonaives, where large quantities of supplies are stored belonging to an American railway construction company. A late telegram from the minister today suggested the advisability of sending another American warship to Haitian waters and the gunboat Des Moines, now at Boston, is under orders to proceed there at once. Every Phase of Educational Work WILL BE CONSIDERED AT ST. LOUIS BL THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS IN COLORED SCHOOLS. St. Louis, Mo., July 17.—Extensive preparations are being made for the eighth annual session of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, which is to convene here July 26-30. The program which has been made out by President W. T. B. Williams and his officers has for its scope a work comprising every phase of education in any way concerning the Negro people On Wednesday evening the welcome addresser and responses will be given, together with the address of President Williams. Thursday will be devoted largely to Elementary Education. On this day a number of prominent speakers will give addresses. Among those who are to speak are T. C. Walker, School Extension Agent, of Virginia; Mrs. Beulah W. Porter, of Indianapolis; J. S. Harris, of Kansas City; George L. Hayes, of Indianapolis; and W. H. Burnette, of Texas. In the afternoon round table meetings will be held on Elementary, Secondary and College work. The Elementary School round table will be conducted by A. H. Parker, of Alabama, and Mrs. L. W. Coleman, of Mississippi, while the Secondary School and College round tables will be conducted by J. S. Clark, of Louisiana, and M. W. Dogan, of Texas, respectively. Thursday evening the addresses will be given by Inman E. Page, of Oklahoma; G. C. Wilkinson and L. B. Moore, of Washington, D. C. On Friday, July 28th, the day will be given up to Secondary Educational addresses to be given by Mason A. Hawkins, of Maryland; FrankL. Williams, of St. Louis, B. F. Bowles, of Illinois; J. A. Henry, of Tenn.; G. W. Trenholm, of Alabama; G. S. Grisham, of Kansas City; Richard D. Stinson, of Georgia and C. H. Turner, of St. Louis. The evening addresses will be given by M. C. B. Mason, of Ohio; A. A. Graham, of Virginia; B. F. Allen, of Missouri and Joseph A. Booker, of Arkansas. Saturday July 29th will be Higher Schools and College Day. The speakers for this day will be I. M. Terrell and O. A. Fuller, of Texas; Charles G. Kelley, of Alabama; N. B. Young, of Florida; Z. T. Hubert, of Mississippi; O. L. Coleman, of Louisiana; E. L. Blackshear, of Texas; W. S. Buckhannan, of Alabama and L. J. Bowan, of Mississippi. Sunday July 30th, the last day will be Educational Day for the city of St. Louis. At 11:00 o'clock the various pulpits of the city will be filled by leading educators. At 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon at the great Coliseum on Washington Avenue, addresses will be given by Hon. William P. Evans, State Superintendent of Education and Dr. Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Institute. Gov. Hadley has also been invited to speak at this meeting. Since admission to the Coliseum will be free, it is expected that the entire seating capacity of 10,000 will be taken. Already St. Louis and the whole state of Missouri are at white heat in preparation for this great St. Louis meeting. Summer School to Close Next Week MUSICALES AND LECTURES BREAK MONOTONY OF REGULAR CLASS ROOM WORK FOR TEACHERS WHO ARE BEING TAUGHT. Institute, W. Va., July 19- Summer School now in session here is growing in interest and members. Last week, the school was addressed by Mr. J. Frank Marsh of the Department of Schools and Prof. Frank B. Strothers of the West Virginia University. State Superintend M. P. Sawkey spent a half day at the school visiting the classes and looking over the work. The local talent around Institute gave a musicale consisting of piano and vocal music and several numbers by the Institute orchestra. One of the most interesting and helpful features of the summer school is the roundtable held each Monday and Thursday afternoon. Arthur C. Monahan of the United States Bureau of Education gave several lectures this week on rural schools and agricultureal education. The school will close next week with a teachers' institute under the direction of N. W. Cavender, Superintendent for Kanawha County. Prof. E. D. Sanderson, dean of Agriculture of the West, Virginia University will lecture next Monday. Other lectures will be given by Supts. Geo. S. Leaidley, of Charleston, and C. R. Murry, of Williamson. WELLS-HYLAND BOUT Matt Wells vs. Dick Hyland, 10 rounds, at Albany, N. Y. THE ADVOCATE. ADVERTISEMENTS PLACED OUR COLUMNS BRING SULTS. TRY IT. NUMBER XXXVIII. DELINQUENT JUVENILES IN GEORGIA HAS BEEN CHANGED FOR THE BETTER. Creates Consternation Among the Colored Population of Atlanta and Unusual Activity in Prayer and Resolution Meetings Results. (Regular Correspondence of The Advocate.) Atlanta, Ga., July 17.—The Negroes of Georgia are a thrifty people. They are always on the hunt for property, education and every other good thing. They fight and love each other but seem to get there just the same. When the time for united action arrives, they are sure to get together in order to see that the right thing is done at the right time. They are always active in the summer time and particularly in the month of July. The grand lodges meet about that time and the political groups get together for good or evil. The political activities of the Negroes of Georgia are mainly centered in this lodge and church conferences. Last Thursday night the Pythians concluded their annual session at Macon, Ga. The entire ticket of the administration was elected, in the face of the opposition of "Ben Davies and his same old crowd of pirates." "The man from Dawson" went down to defeat, still fighting the ghost of the lamented Charlie Creswell and crying out in agony because of his continued failure to wreck the order in Georgia or get his hands on the treasury. The courts of Georgia have undertaken a new method of dealing with criminal Negro boys. Any Negro farmer who is well recommended may have a number of these lads on trial. He is to take them and work them and teach them at his own expense with the end in view of reforming the boys. He must report regularly regarding the progress and care of the lads or the privilege of keeping the boys will be taken grom the farmer. Rev. James Griswold, of Coweta county, was the first to avail himself of the privilege. He is a prosperous planter and minister and has about six of the boys on his plantation teaching what they will absorb of the practical phases of agricultural life. In connection with Mrs. Alice Dugged Cary of Morris Brown College, Mr. Griswold is making a greater effort just now than any one in Ga. for the establishment of reformatories for Negro boys. Prof. Hardy L. Keith of Nashville, Tenn. and Miss Emma L. Reid of Newnan, Ga., were married at high noon on Sunday, July 16th. The wedding was at the home of the bride in Newnan. No cards were issued and the members and most intimate friends of the families alone were present. Miss Reld is the youngest daughter of one of the best and most prosperous families of northern Georgia. She was educated at Barber Seminary and Clark University and is one of the most active and able of the young church and school women workers in her section. Mr. and Mrs. Keith will spend the most of the summer in Georgia with relatives and friends and go to Nashville the latter part of August. The Negroes of Atlanta have been in a state of excitement during the past few weeks over the killing of several of the women of the race. The criminal has not yet been caught but the colored people are manifesting unusual activity by conducting prayer and resolution meetings. Every church, denomination and creed seems to be getting in the lime light. It is hard to tell just where the thing will end since the Negroes have already decided along with the "white folks" that the one committing the deeds is a Negro, before the criminal has either been caught or seen or any evidence has been produced to prove that a Negro is to be held responsible for the killing of so many of the women of his race. They are chasing around signing petitions and resolutions like a lot of wild geese pursued by a hungry Jew. Dr. W. T. Vernon may have his nose and his toes pointed toward the presidency of Morris Brown College and he may not. The Negroes of this state are looking toward him in an eager manner. It would be a come down for him unless he intends keeping up his still hunt for the toga of a bishop in the great A. M. E. Church. In such an event, it would be easier for him as it is a better road from a college presidency to a bishop's seat than from a government job of any kind to the same position. If a Georgia man is chosen to fill the shoes of Dr. Lee, the honor will CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. CORRESPONDENCE PAGE TWO PT. PLEASANT. The First Baptist Church extended an invitation to Rev. P. H. Edwards, of Bluedield, to preach for them Sunday. He preached at 11:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. In the business meeting Monday night they called him as their Pastor. He was also appointed as a delegate to represent them in the Mount Olivet Association which convenes at Charleston Wednesday morning. Mrs. George Jordan and daughter Mrs. A. H. Williams, and two children spent Sunday in Parkersburg the guests of Mrs. Sophia Williams. Flem Bates, who has been ill for some time, is convalescing at this writing. Mrs. Green Walker and three children, of Beckley, are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Toles. Mrs. William Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa., was the week-end guest of her sister, Mrs. Arthur McFetters. Little Lucile Harris, of Gallipolis, is spending the week with her joint, Mrs. Joe Jordan. Mrs. Charles Thomas is the guest of Mrs. Mary Coleman at Gallipolis. The members of the M. E. Church are treating both their church and parsonage to a coat of paint. Mrs. Matilda Barnett and Mrs. William Bell were the Sunday guests of Mrs. Judah Williams. CLARKSBURG Miss Marthena Dixon, of Parkersburg, who is the guest of Miss Florence Jackson, her cousin, was pleasantly entertained by her hostess Thursday afternoon. Whist was the afternoon's diversion. Miss Anna Poindexter left Thursday for Atlantic City to spend her vacation. Before returning, Miss Poindexter will attend a School of Beauty in New York and will be better prepared on her return to use the latest methods in manicuring, massaging, etc. Miss Gaynelle Dyer, of Chicago, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Grace Big, low. Mrs. Mary Bowyer, who visited her daughter, Mrs. I. C. Cabell, in Charleston, has returned home. Mrs. Betty Brent who accompanied her stopped over with friends in Parkersburg. Mrs. Ed. Henry, of New York, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Thos. Cambric. Miss Willa Lee has returned from a short trip to Huntington and Parkersburg. She reports a pleasant time. Mrs. S. P. West left Staurday for Brownsville, Pa., to spend a while with her mother. Little Anna Ransell accompanied her nome. Mrs. S. P. West left Saturday for in Raleigh, N. C., on business. Mrs. Minerva Ashby entertained at Ginner Sunday in honor of her granddaughter, Miss Gaynelle Dyer. Covers were laid for six and a delicious dinner served. Miss Ingie Taylor, of Buckhannon, passed through Monday enroute to her home after visiting the Misses Mead in Bridgeport. A splendid program was rendered at Trinity M. E. Church Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. The address delivered by Rev. J. H. Jenkins was most timely. The recitations by the children of the L. T. L. and the duett by the Misses Kenney deserve special mention. Stiles D. Wilson is spending the summer at Mt. Lake Park. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Howard, a daughter. C. A. Steptee, Jas, Washington, Wm. Robison and a number of other persons spent Sunday in Cumberland, Md. Quite a number took advantage of the reduced rates and spent Sunday in Pittsburgh. The lawn fete given Monday night on the parsonage lawn was well atington, D. C., preached an able serington, D. C., pdeached an able sermon at the A. M. E. Church Sunday night. CHILLICOTHE. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lucas are visiting Mr. Lucas' parents on W. Mann street. Rev. C. S. Gee stopped over in the city Monday with Rev. W. E. Walker, returning from Portsmouth, O. Maurice Clifford, of Washington, D. C., is visiting Mrs. Ellen Williams, South Walnut street. Mrs. Hannah Davis, of Mechanic street, is ill with malaria. Mrs. Lizzie Rideout and Mrs. George Gatliff have opened an ice cream parlor on South Walnut street. Rev. W. E. Walker, pastor of Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church, visited the Ohio Sunday School Convention at Ironton, O., last week and Charleston, W. Va. Rev. C. S. Gee will hold the fourth and last quarterly conferences at Quinn chapel Sunday, July 23rd. Miss Mac Medley, Kate Preston and Christine Williams and Maurice Clifford and Fred Williams spent Friday afternoon at D. C. Crocke farm near the city. Mrs. S. S. Jordan and son Wilkes returned Friday afternoon from Pomeroy, Ohio, where they had been visiting Mrs. Jordan's mother. Dr. S. S. Jordan left Monday for Newark, Ohio, to attend the session of the Grand Lodge of the K. of P's. The following gentlemen went on an outing to the county Sunday: James L. Lucas, Clifford Lucas, Griffin Lucas, George Medley, Edward Medley, Jr., George S. Pepeco, Wm. Shears, George West, Alfred Pettiford and Stephen Pettiford. Miss Lena Marshall left for Columbus, O., to visit Miss Irene Gatliff. George Gatliff and family have moved back to Chillicothe, O., from Cincinnati, and are living in hfs old home on South Walnut street. W. H. Smith has opened an ice cream parlor at his residence on West Seventh street. Mrs. Celia Gray, of Columbia, O., is visiting Helen Carter on East Fourth street. Russell Bates has returned from Short Creek, W. Va., where he had been the guest of Miss Geneva Rose, for several days. RONCEVERTE. Mrs. S. A. Colbert, of Charleston, and nice, Miss Mary L. Johnson, of this city were the dinner guests of Miss Mary A. Brown Sunday. Miss Berthedia Johnson and Abner Campbell, of Union, were recent guests of Miss Florence Green. Rev. J. A. Reed, of M. E. Church, was engaged in a camp meeting Sunday at Seebert, his pulpit being filled by Rev. J. M. Roune, of White Sulphur Springs. John Eggleston was taken to the Clifton Forge hospital for treatment, Saturday. Invitations are out for the Tacky Party to be given at Hotel Green Tuesday night. A prize will be awarded for the most comically dressed person. Mrs. D. R. Hickman, who has been indisposed for the past three weeks, is able to be out again Mr. and Mrs. Owen Price, of Berwind, who have been on an extended visit to Roanoke, Va., are here visiting friends and relatives. Alex Brown and A. L. Slaughter visited the White Sulphur Springs last week. Mrs. Wm. R. Hill and little daughter, Ratie, of Cleveland, Ohio, who have been visiting relatives at Frankford and Ronceverte will leave Monday night for Pittsburg, Pa., to visit relatives before returning home. Prof. D. W. Calloway, of the Beckley schools, is at home on a vacation. Mrs. L. B. Dandridge and little son are visiting relatives at Selma, Ohio. Misses Bertha Gardner, Annite Hamilton, Rosie McVeigh, of Lewisburg, were guests of Miss Minnie V. Alen last week. W. D. Johnson and little son, Wilbur, of Beckley, are spending their vacation with Mrs. D. R. Hickman, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnson, at Frankford. Miss Lodovico L. Johnson, Clarence N. Johnson and Jacob C. Johnson accompanied Mrs. Wm. R. Hill to Ronceverte Monday. Mesdames Hill and Price, and Miss Lodovico Johnson were guests of Mrs. Edna Woods, Monday evening. BANCROFT. Mrs. Martha Martin and son, of Charleston, visited her sister, Mrs. Elijah Stevens, of Plymouth Sunday and Monday. Dr. M. T. Sinclair was a business caller in Winfield Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Ross, of Betsey, are the proud parents of a fine baby girl. H. H. Hil and son Eugene spent Sunday in Winfield attending the Basket meeting. Mrs. Edw. Hicks was a business visitor in Betsey Monday. Nick Terry, of Raymond, was here Thursday of last week. J. W. Cyrus made a business trip to Charleston Friday. The Ladies' Improvement League held their public meeting at the residence of Mrs. Simon Woods, of Betsey, Saturday evening. An excellent program was rendered by the following persons: Mrs. H. A. Jones, paper, "Womans Social Opportunities;" Mrs. Wm. Mickens, recitation, "My Mother's Bible;" Mrs. Simon Woods, instrumental solo; Mrs. E. Stevens, recitation; duet, Mrs. H. A. Jones and Mrs. J. W. Sawyers; recitation, "Lottie's Message;" Mrs. M. T. Sinclair, Miss Amelia J. McDaniel was present and gave an interesting and helpful address on the work of the Women's Clubs. Refreshments were severed by the hostess. Archie Moseby was hurt in the Plymouth mines last week by falling slate, but not seriously. Mrs. Elijah Stevens and Mrs. Edw. Stevens have gone to Bidwell, Ohio, to spend a few days visiting relatives. Miss Amelia J. McDaniel, of Institute, is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. M. T. Sinclair this week. Mr. and Mrs. Hale Dickson and son Edw., spent Sunday in Raymond, visiting relatives. Mrs. Chas. Harris, of Betsey, called on friends in Brancroft Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mollie Smith, of Plymouth, who has been visiting friends at London has returned to her home Mrs. Andrew Patterson of Hugheson, and Mrs. Davis, of Salisbury. N. C., visited the former daughter, Mrs. J. W. Cyrus, here last week. S. E. Edmonda got his hand badly mashed in the mines Monday. Jessie Venerable a miner at Ply- mouth, was painfully but not seriously hurt in the mine today. He was struck by the motor. Simon Woods who was hurt in the mines some time ago is better and able to resume work. RED STAR Dr. R. L. Jordan was calling on Miss Alma Fatterson Sunday. Rev. B. B. Martin preached two excellent sermons Sunday, that being his regular Sunday here. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes entertained Thursday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Malone. Mrs. Robt. Penn was away a few days visiting her brother Alfred on Laurel Creek. M r.Sherman just recently lost his wife. Mrs. Emma Jones went to McDonald Saturday accompanied by her little daughter Leanna. While there she was the guest of Mrs. Charles Williams. She returned Sunday evening and reports a pleasant trip. Mrs. Pearl Robinson and Mrs. Carter, of Scarboro, and Mrs. Joe Wright, of Harvey, worshipped at the M. E. church Sunday and were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Washington for dinner. Mrs. M. A. W. Thompson, who has been at Stuart for several days, returned yesterday. Mrs. Fannie Jones passed through Monday en route to Greenville. The Sunday School children of the Baptist S. S. held an entertainment at Prof. J. W. Arter's residence Friday evening for the benefit of buying an organ for the Hill Top Baptist Sunday School. The evening was pleasantly spent. Prof. J. M. Arter reports that the Flat Top Association held an excellent meeting at Powhatan. The West Virginia Seminary and College was remembered by them. Mrs. H. M. James and sister Mrs. M. E. Davis and little daughter, Alto, have gone to Christianburg, Va. While there Miss James and Mrs. Davis will attend the Virginia Normal. Misses Lillian Carrington and Annie Beale, of Stone Cliff, were guests of Miss Alma Patterson last week. The Woman's Improvement League met with Mrs. J. D. Price Thursday. Mrs. Lou Traightman took her sister Mollie Meadows to Paint Creek hospital for appendicitis. Saturday. Her brother Rufus has been there some time for the same trouble. Charleston Hotel Brown Arrivals.—There were registered at Hotel Brown this week: J. H. King, Boomer; Mrs. Burke, Montgomery; Rev. W. E. Walker, Chillicothe, O.; Ed. Mitchell, H. H. Burroughs, Ivory Reynolds, Covington, Va.; M. E. Carey, Winfrede; P. Eakley, Raleigh; H. H. Clay Ansted; Mrs. L. D. Hodge, Montgomery; Mrs. Rarrell, Carbondale; D. C. Deans, Montgomery; F. Irvin, Louisville, Ky.; Mr. and Mrs. Washington, Boomer; Miss B. M. Morgan, Mont.; C. Hurt, Shrewsbury, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Boomer; A. C. Turner, Cabin Creek; Mr. and Mrs. J. Reed, Cedar Grove; W. S. Haynes, E. R. Jackson, Mammoth; J. Randolph, Raymond City; Wm. Turner, Cincinnati, O.; and J. Sheffy, Elkridge. Baptist Church Notes.—A special meeting was held at the First Baptist church Tuesday evening to arrange for the Mt. Olivet Association, which convened Wednesday morning and is now in session. Refreshments were served Wednesday evening at the church by the Tribe of Judah. Thursday evening by the Ladies' Alc Society, and Friday evening by the Tribe of Joseph. Rev. Walker Visits Friends.—The Rev. W. E. Walker, a former pastor of St. Paul A. M. E. church, Court street, this city, and now located at Chillicothe, O., spent Thursday evening of last week here visiting friends. Rev. Walker states that he is very well pleased with his present charge, having found the people of the city unusually responsive to his appeals for assistance in building the new church edifice, on which over $5,000 have been collected. At Chillicothe is also located another former pastor of St. Paul church, the Rev. J. W. Carter, who is now pastoring a Baptist church. West Side Briefs.—H. McMorris, of the scythe department of the Kell. Ax Works, is visiting C. P. Lucas at Detroit, Mich.—Mrs. Mollie Hammond continues III.—Mrs. Marian Pope, of Jeffersonville, Ind., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Anna Jones. While operating one of the machines at the Ax Works, last week, Clarence Wilson met with a serious accident which will necessitate his remaining at home for some weeks. Mrs. Dona Purdy, of Jeffersonville, is visiting friends here.—Mrs. familiarly known as Grandma) States continues very well. Simpson M. E. Church—Rev. J. B. Cartoll, pastor of Simpson M. E. church, and G. H. Beane, a prominent layman, left Tuesday for Baltimore. Md., to attend the missionary convention of the M. E. denomination. In the absence of the pastor, Rev. E. A. Bolling, of Lewisburg, one of the instructors at the West Virginia Colored Institute Summer school, will preach Sunday morning, and at night one of the ministers attending the Mt. Olivet Baptist Association. Dr. Ernest Lyon, or Baltimore, will preach at both services Sunday, the 20th inst., and will lecture the Monday following. The Lifters will meet with Mrs. Nannie Merritt, this evening. The church enjoyed the rare treat of having Pres. McDonald, or Storer College, to preach last Sunday morning. He also addressed the Sunday school in the afternoon. PERSONALS AND LOCALS. Mrs. Mabelle Simpson, who was operated on at the General Hospital about two weeks ago, was removed to her home, Tuesday, and is rapidly improving. Mrs. Lucy Williams, who has been a guest of Mrs. H. O. Mitchell for two weeks, has returned to her home at Columbus, O. Miss Belle Hankins, after spending several weeks here visiting her sister, Mrs. Mary Jackson, Coat branch Heights, left Wednesday for her home at Pittsburgh, Pa. Henry Mitchell has returned from a trip to White Sulphur Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Forney and little son left Wednesday morning for Hickory, N. C., to spend a few weeks visiting Mr. Forney's parents. Noble Mitchell is visiting friends in Cincinnati, and Dayton, O. Mrs. Delilah Minters and little daughter spent a few days last week at Winfield. Misses Irene and Bessie Jackson gave a moonlight picnic at Coor Branch to a number of their friends, Tuesday evening. The Loyal Union was entertained Monday evening by Mrs. Jane Richmond, Piedmont street. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Scales had as their guests at dinner Wednesday of last week, Mr. and Mrs. William Cox, of Covington, Va. Albert Brown has returned home after a short visit to friends at Union. John Wells and family have returned to this city from Pittsburg, Pa., for permanent residence. Miss Lillian Byrd and Ms. Joseph Jackson spent last week at St. Albans with friends. L. C. Farrar returned to the summer school at Athens, O., Thursday to resume his studies. Mrs. P. F. Male and children have gone to Baltimore, Md.; to visit relatives for the summer. Miss Jeanette Carter, daughter of Mrs. Lucy Carter, died at her home on Bradford Street Thursday morning. A party of young ladies and gentlemen, chaperoned by Mrs. J. W. Viney enjoyed a hay ride to Institute Thursday night. Miss Hattie Peters, one of the Garnett School teachers, was here a few hours Wednesday from her home at Sissonville. She reports a marked improvement in the condition of her mother who has been ill a number of months. Mrs. Mary Bowyer and Mrs. Betie Brent, who have been visiting Mrs. I. C. Cabell, returned to their home at Clarksburg Monday of last week. Julius Wakefield, the 14-year-old son of Mrs. Kate Wakefield, who was recently operated on for stomach trouble at the Charleston General Hospital, has been released from that institution and for the first time is enjoying good health. Mr. and Mrs. Missouri Woods, at 1212 1-2 Washington court are the proud parents of a fine son Mrs. L. D. Hodge, state deputy of the True Reformers, was a business visitor to the city this week. Mrs. M. J. White, of Cincinnati, Ohio, passed through the city Tuesday for a visit to her sister, Mrs. B. H. Hunter, at Fayetteville. Mrs. B. P. Brownley left this morning for Pomeroy, O., where she will spend a few weeks visiting Mrs. Malinda Wells. Mrs. C. H. James is visiting her daughter, Mrs. B. A. Chirchlow, at Bluefield. Dr. W. H. Bruce, of Washington, D. C., and Edward Berry, of Cincinnati, O., spent last night here the guests of Dr. J. C. Ellis. C. H. James, the Summers street commission merchant is in Cincinnati, O., on business. ISLAND CAPITAL Is Ready to Fall Into The Hands of the Hatien Revolutionists and More Warships Sail. Washington, July 19.—The revolution in Haiti is spreading so rapidly that it is believed here to be doubtful if the capital of the island republic will much longer remain in possession of President Simon. The political situation steadily is growing worse, according to the commander of the gunboat Petrel, now in Haitien waters for the protection Americans. His report to the that all of the department north, except Cape Haitien and Fort Liberte, is controlled by the revolutionists. Realizing the importance of having some kind of a navel vessel on the north coast of Haiti to replace the petrel the Navy Department today cabled the commanding officer of the Peoria, station boat at San Juan, Porto Rico, to proceed immediately to Cape Haitian, where she probably will arrive to-morrow. The cruiser Des Moines, from Boston, will sail direct to Port au Prince. The cruiser Antonine Simon left to-day for St. Muro and Gonaives, both of which ports are occupied by the revolutionists. It is the intention of the cruiser to bombard these towns if the revolutionists refuse to withdraw. No word has been received from President Simon, and it is not known whether he has left Ft. Liberte. The Factory Workers' Union in Germany increased its membership from 141,024 to 167,097 in the year 1910. Method of Punishing most likely fall upon the shoulders of Dr. W. H. Fountain. There are many other possibilities here but he is undoubtedly the strongest candidate from the state of Georgia. Henry Lincoln Johnson for national committeeman, Henry S. Jackson for Chairman of the State Executive committee seems about the way thing political are moving in the Empire State. They represent both races and they are undoubtedly the two strongest men in the state at this time. The man in the White House will have the Georgia delegation solidly behind him at the next convention. In some mysterious manner Taft has made himself extremely popular with both the blacks and whites of this state. Sunday Schools to Meet at Raleigh WHERE THE SECOND DISTRICT UNION WILL BE ORGANIZED BY STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF MISSIONS REV. J. J. TURNER. The Sunday Schools of the Second Union District which includes all the schools from Hinton to Thurmond, including Piney and Laurell Creek Branches, will hold a meeting at Raleigh, August 5-6, for the purpose of organizing into a Sunday School Union. The first session will be called at seven o'clock Saturday evening. Schools located in the above limits will elect a delegate at once and forward their name to the Superintendent of Missions. J. J. TURNER, Box 4. Superintendent of Mt. Carbon, W. Va. Missions. VIRGINIA BAPTISTS Entertain the Potomac River Baptist Convention. Somerset Beach, Va., July 19—The Potomac River Baptist Convention began a three days' session here yesterday. The convention is composed of churches in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia. There is a good attendance and the program includes men and women who will speak on a number of Rev. R. B. Ward, of ronsides, Md., is president of the convention, and is president of the convention, and Rev. D. G. Mack, of this city, corresponding secretary. MINISTER NORTHCOTT. Mentioned as a Possible Candidate For Governor of West Virginia. Washington, July 15.—West Virginia politicians, Democats and Republican alike, were greatly interested today in a story in circulation at the Capitol to the effect that Elhott C. Northcott, of Charleston, W. Va. former District Attorney and now Minister to Guatemala, is considering making the race for Governor of West Virginia on the Republican ticket next year. Coupled with the story is the name of former Senator Scott, as a candidate for Senator Watson's seat, and former Senator Davis Elkins to succeed Senator Chilton. Mr. Northeott and Governor Glasscock of West Virginia, are declared to have had an interview with the President this week during which the Northheott-Scott-Elkins slate was fully discussed preparatory to springing it upon the Republican voters on the state. Governor Glasscock, it is reported, will be well cared for in the event of the re-election of the President. Judge Nathan Goff of Clarksburg is said to be reluctant to make the race for Governor in spite of the pressure being brought to bear upon him. His duties on the Fourth Judicial Circuit are congenial and he dislikes to give up a life position in order to make the race for Governor. WITHOUT A FIGHT. Haitien Troops Reoccupy the Town of Valliere. Port Au Prince, Haiti, July 15.—The Government troops under General Glemeau have reoccupied Valliere without a fight, the insurgents retiring before superior forces. Groups of rebels now are directing their attention to points where the Government troops have weakened. Two divisions have been sent against Hinche, a small town held by the insurgents. By order of the Cape Haitien authorities the light at Picolet Point has been extinguished. This has given rise to protests as a measure dangerous to navigation. JACK JOHNSON. Is Reported Not to be an Admirer of His Native Land and May Adopt King George's Country. New York, July 19.—Jack Johnson's reception in Great Britain has been so enthusiastic and satisfying that the Negro champion threatens to resign his citizenship in this country and transfer his allegiance to England. 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"England is treating me just dandy," begins the black pugilist in the interview. "No comparison at all to America. As for going back to the United States, not for mine. Not until they force me, and then I'm coming back as quickly as I can. England is sure a fine country." Johnson says that if ever the time comes when America needs men to fight for her he will not be at home when his country calls. He will never shoulder a musket for America, but he would willingly go to the front for England. "We had a fine dinner today in honor of the anniversary of the big fight," said Johnson. "We drank to England's success. I never celebrate for America. What has America done for me? Did it give me a square deal? Did jt shout when I won? Not on your life. I've done thinking about America." PRESENT INCUMBENT Asked to Remain and Phil Waters, Who Had Strongest Endorsements Must Wait. 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I feel that I owe my life to this great throat and lung cure." Its positively guaranteed for coughs, colds and all bronchial affections. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free at all druggists. 7-6-4t Paris, July 15.—The celebration commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of "The Cosmographiae Introductio," in which the name of America was first applied to the New World, began today in the little town of St. Die-des-Vosges, where the far-famed book was printed in 1507. The American ambassador and many of the prominent members of the American colony in Paris attended the exercises today, the chief feature of which was the placing of a memorial tablet on the building where the book was printed. LEO'S ANNIVERSARY MASS Rome, July 20.—The eighth anniversary of the death of Pope Leo XIII was observed today with a requiem mass, which was celebrated at the Sacred College in the presence of the high dignitaries of the church and a number of invited guests. THE ADVOCATE. NOTICE TO TAKE DEPOSITIONS. To ROBERT MARTIN: Take notice That on the 10th day of August, A. D., 1911, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., at the law office of Emery R. Carter, 604 1-2 Kanawha Street, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia, I will take the deposition of myself and others to be read in my behalf of a certain suit in Chancery now pending in the Circuit Court for the County of Kanawha and State of West Virginia, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant. If from any cause the taking of said depositions shall not be commenced or completed on the day aforesaid, the same shall be continued from day to day or from time to time, at the same place, and between the same hours, until the same shall be completed. FANNIE FRIEND MARTIN. Emery R. Carter, Sol. By Counsel. ORDER OF PUBLICATION. State of West Virginia, Kanawha County, ss: At rules held in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, on the first Monday in the month of July, 1911. Fannie Friend Martin, Plaintiff, vs. Robert Martin, Defendant. In Chancery No. 2793. (The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the bonds of matrimony.) This day came the Plaintiff by her Attorney; and on his motion, and it appearing by affidavit filed, that the Defendant is a non-resident of this State, it is ordered that he do appear within one month after the date of the first publication hereof, and do what is necessary to protect his interest in this suit. Teste: IRA MOTTESHEARD. E. R. Carter, Sol. EDITORS WILL MEET MONDAY Detroit, Mich., July 15.—Nearly a thousand editors and other visitors are expected to attend the sessions of the twenty-sixth annual convention of the National Editorial Association, which will begin in this city Monday and continue until Friday. An elaborate program of entertainment has been arranged by the commercial and advertising Interests of Detroit. Among those who will address the association are Governor Osborn of Michigan, Mayor Thompson of Detroit, Congressman Barnhart of Indiana, President Brooks of Baylor University, President Hubbell of Lincoln Memorial University, and George M. Whittaker of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. On Friday the editors and their families will start on a tour of Lake Erie and the St. Lawrence. THE ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY London, July 15.—The existing treaty of commerce and navigation between Great Britain and Japan will expire by limitation tomorrow and will be replaced on the following day by the treaty which was signed in London last April after long negotiations. The new treaty removes the opposition of British merchants to the recently adopted Japanese tariff, which heavily increased the duty on British manufactures, as under the new pact Japan grants reductions varying from 12 to 30 per cent upon a large number of British imports. Edinburgh, July 20.—The royal visit to Scotland ended today with the departure of the King and Queen the Prince of Wales and Princess Mary, for London. A great crowd assembled at the Caledonian railroad station and gave their Majesties an enthusiastic send-off. PRESIDENT TO SPEAK AT MANASSAS Washington, D. C., July 20. President Taft has arranged for a trip to Manassas, Va., tomorrow to take part in the big celebration of the Blue and the Gray, near the battle-field of Bull Run. A PEEK INTO HIS POCKET, would show the box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve that E. S. Loper, a carpenter, of Marilla, N. Y., always carries. "I have never had a cut, wound, bruise, or sore it would not soon heal," he writes. 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Fifty midgets are to be brought from Europe for A. H. Wood's production of "Little Nemo." Mme. Tetrazzini will fill an operatic engagement in this country and then will make a concert tour. William Hawtrey's farce, "Dear Old Billy," is by a writer whose name is Risque. But the farce isn't. Henry E. Dixey has just been engaged for the leading role in "Gypsy Love," in which Marguerite Sylva will star. Helen Ware is to begin her season in her new play, entitled "The Prince," in Boston early in September. George V. Hobart intends to extend his sketch "Everywife" into a play, which is to be called "Rhyme and Reason." Robert E. Graham will sing the role of Sir Joseph Porter in "Pinafore" in place of Henry E. Dixey. Mr. Graham sang the role years ago. "What the Doctor Ordered," the comedy by A. A. Thomas which is to follow "Seven Days" at the Astor Theatre, in New York, will then go to Boston. Kitty Gordon is to go starring next season in "The Enchantress," a new musical piece by Victor Herbert, Harry B. Smith and Mine. Fred de Gresac. Lucy Weston is booked to play the title role of "The Quaker Girl" when Henry B. Harris makes the American production of the musical play in October. The composer of "The Girl of the Golden West" dedicated his work to Queen Mother Alexander, who sent a letter of thanks and a jeweled present to Puccini. Three ticket speculators have been sent to jail in New York for violating the law. Hitherto they have been fined only. It is expected jail sentences will break up the violations of the law. Lily Elsi will come to this country next winter in "The Count of Luxembourg." This is the new opera by Franz Lehar, in which Miss Elsie and Bertram Wallis waltz up a circular staircase of twelve steps. The excessive heat caused the cancellation of the Sothern and Marlowe engagement in New York. 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Knights or Pythias and members of the Court of Calanthe with certi- cificates of good standing in their respective lodges are entitled to half the above rates. $3.00 per course of 21 Baths $1.50 per course of 10 Baths J. R. SMITH, Mgr. HOT SPRINGS, ARK MIL. THE LINCOLN. UNP Gear Home Phone 429. PAGE FOUR PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE ADVOCATE PUB. CO. The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. Three months ..... $0.50 Six months ..... 1.00 One year ..... 1.50 THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1911. A BIT OF ADVICE. Back of the decision of the Board of Education of Fayetteville District of Fayette County to withdraw the fund by which the West Virginia Seminary and College, in consideration of providing graded and high school instruction for the Negro youth of the district, selected and paid the salaries of four of its teachers, lies a story of sectarian warfare and individual envy which does not appear in the article and nouncing that decision. The West Virginia Seminary and College is a Baptist institution and, the information comes from a reliable source, representations were made by persons subscribing to other faiths that it was untainted to them as citizens and tax payers to use public monies for the support of a private and denominational school. Joined with them were several disgruntled applicants who had offered to accept, but were refused places on the payroll of the institution. It appears to The Advocate that both classes of objectors were wholly within their rights, but it can not refrain from expressing its regret that such action was taken. Nor was its regret lessened on receipt of the news that by some technicality the school is not likely to receive the appropriation of $1,000 per annum made by the last regular Legislature. With the loss of both county and State support, the outlook for the institution is far from being bright. In its palmiest days there was an up-hill struggle to make both ends meet. Now that an untailing source of revenue has been cut off, President Arter, to keep the doors of the school open, must perform the near-impossible—he must provide for payments on an indebtedness of about $10,000 and meet maintenance expenses. Can he do it? The answer to this question depends largely, rather, wholly upon the efforts put forth by the denomination backing him. It his dependence is long on promises, but short on performance, it will be a weak reed, and the school must eventually fail. This, however, would be as deplorable as it would be unnecessary — deplorable for the reason that it would confirm the prophecies of those who expressed doubt as to the wisdom of founding the institution; unnecessary because the denomination possesses more than enough strength to bear this additional burden. Just a few more sacrifices and a higher regard for the essentials will do the work. In this connection it might be well for the trustees to take a firm stand against the further conferring of degrees till the institution is something more than a high school in fact, till it has something more than corporate rights to back up weighty D. D's. It adds nothing to the ability or usefulness of the recipients or to the prestige of the West Virginia Seminary and College to continue this practice. On the contrary, if cheapens the highest prize in the theological profession and lowers the school in the estimation of those who have knowledge of such matters. PLACING THE RESPONSIBILITY. During the course of the debate on the primary election laws here, Senator W. C. Grimes, of Cameron, says an exchange, made a brief but effective speech, presenting the attitude and position of the Republican senators, who favored an adequate law. Among other things Senator Grimes said: "There is no Oregon plan, there is no Minnesota plan; there is no Wisconsin plan; there is no New Jersey plan; there are no such plans—there is but one plan, Mr. President, one fundamental principle that underlies all these laws, and that is the issue that confronts us today; and the question is, whether you favor that principle—that the people shall by a direct vote make all their nominations for public office—whether the people have the right to say or not who shall be their candidates. When you come to that fundamental principle, gentlemen, we will have no trouble in agreeing upon a primary election law. We do not want to stand for any technicalities; we do not want to stand for any particular bill. We have presented to you the best bill that we thought we could present. We were honest in the presentation of that bill. We have made amendments—and when has any bill of such importance been presented in this senate when amendments have not been made to it—and yet you have sat over there all these days and not a single amendment did you offer, not a single suggestion did you make: not once did you try to help us perfect the bill and make a better one, and not once did you attempt to come to an agreement with us as to the kind of a bill we ought to have, and all this after you have promised the people in your platform and we have promised the people in or platform to vote for a primary election law. Now you come here and ask for two years time." Read this paragraph and draw your own conclusions. Is it possible to entertain any doubt to which party, whether the Republican or the Democratic, was responsible for the failure of the extra session of the Legislature to enact a primary election law? If there is any doubt it will be dispelled when it is recalled that the Republicans were willing to accept any law favored by the Democrats would make the law effective from the time of its passage. But no primary election law of any nature whatsoever, framed either by themselves or the opposition, was acceptable to the Democrats unless its enforcement were deferred until after the election of the members of the Legislature of 1913 which will select Senator Watson's successor. There was "the nigger in the woodpile". Nothing must be done to lessen the chances of Senator Watson's return to Washington. The Democrats of the State must not be given an opportunity to show their displeasure with the method by which McGraw was defeated, and to propose him or some other man of their selection for the high honor. There is no concealing this fact. To attempt to do so is a reflection on the intelligence of the voter and an exhibition of the peanut brand of politics. EARNING HIS PAY The latest line up of the Republican party in West Virginia sent out from Washington by Summers, the correspondent for a number of Democratic papers, is certainly amusing even if it is not true. Speaking of the recent visit of Governor Glasscock to Washington, Mr. Summers writes that the Governor and President Taft met and formed a compact by which Scott and Elkins are to be returned to the Senate. Elliott Northcott is to receive the gubernatorial nomination, President Taft to get the West Virginia delegation to the next National convention, and the Governor will be rewarded with a diplomatic post of the first magnitude. There have been times when such dope would affect the reading public, but those times, fortunately, are past. In advance of the meeting of the Republican State Central Committee, to take place some time in September, it is not possible for any man to say who the Republican candidates for the State offices and the Senate will be; nor will it be possible for many months after, if the Committee does any of the things expected of it. There are very good grounds for the belief that the committee will adopt for the selection of the candidates the Ogden plan or some other better method. In any event the people will be allowed an opportunity to choose those for whom they will vote. Knowing this, how could Governor Glasscock be a party to any such scheme, even if he were not an uncompromising exponent of a primary election law? The fact that the extra session of the Legislature did not carry out his wishes has not convinced him that his recommendations were bad nor that they did not embody the desires of the majority of the members of both great parties. It is, therefore, inconceivable that he would be a participant in a slate-making caucus with President Taft or anybody else. But Summers has to earn his pay. So what matters the means? LET'S BE CONSISTENT LEFT BE CONSISTENT. The Advocate endorsed and supported with all its might the proposition to celebrate with an exposition, the semi-centennial of the promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation, but it can not see any valid reason for the movement to have a Jim Crow annex to the Panama Exposition at San Francisco. We understand this Exposition is designed to mark the opening of the great waterway across the Isthmus. It is to be a national affair in which all may participate without regard to race, creed or color. There is not to be any Irish department, no Italian department, no Scandinavian department, nor is any of the component races of the republic to be represented unless by exhibits from their mother country. Why do we want to be different from all the other citizens of the nation? Why should we want to draw off to ourselves with what exhibits may be offered by members of the race? It is a strong argument for such action that the visitors may get a better notion of what we can do it it is in one collection, and, in con- sequence, they will hold the race in higher esteem. All of which is true, but what about the fight we have been making since Hector was a pup against separation, segregation and other distinctions? There is an apparent lack of consistency in protesting against distinctions on the common carriers and in public places of amusement and entertainment, and in requesting the same distinction in every Exposition that it projected. Some jobs will be created by the adoption of such a course, but they will not justify the voluntary surrender of a principle. Having failed in the effort to have a little exposition all our own, let's take our exhibits out to San Francisco and place them in the sections to which they would be naturally assigned along side others of the same nature. A card reading "This Was Made By A Colored Man" with a photo of the maker attached should satisfy the most ardent advocate of a Jim Crow Section. WHEN ELEPHANTS ROOTS IN TREES A caller at this office, a few days ago, expressed himself as having an opinion at variance with that appearing in these columns, in a recent issue, on race leadership. He felt that there ought to be a universally recognized leader of the Negroes, a leader who would advise on all questions affecting the race at large, political questions, religious questions, educational questions and what not. May be so. There are also those who think there ought to be rivers of molasses and flapjacks growing on trees. Both are in the same class and the wisdom of each equally surpasses that of the other. When the day of the universally recognized race leader dawns the revelille will sound for the millenium and we shall all put on golden slippers and, having partaken of milk and honey, shall dance around the throne with harp in hand. And just about that time elephants will be roosting in trees. THOMPSON WAS A FACTOR ALSO While creatin Washingtonians are disputing as to who was primarily responsible for the transfer of R. W. Thompson to the Treasury Department, there is a strong suspicion in the Advocate office that Mr. Thompson himself was a prominent factor in working out his official salvation. He is one of those hustlers who believes that Heaven helps those who help themselves. When the delegates appointed by Governor Glasscock to the National Negro Congress at Denver, Colorado bear that snow balls were thrown at visitors during a parade of real estate men there, the prospects of there being representation from this State will grow brighter. Chamu Clarke is losing $1,000 a week which he could be making as a Chautauqua attraction did he not have to stay and knock splinters off the Speaker's desk with his gavel. Being speaker of a Congress that hasn't acquired the quitting habit, is no joyous task. The Advocate knows of at least one candidate for the Haitien mission—and there are perhaps others—who, in view of the present up rising on that revolution-ridden island, is not quite so sorry now that Furniss had a string on his resignation. "Some of the newspapers are carrying a story to the effect that the food supply will run short in about 7,000 years". In a good many households it has been running short for several years already. Hon. George Marcellus Bailey of the Houston Post confesses that he has eaten his sixteenth cantaloupe this season, which goes a long way to explain the reason other people are complaining of the scarcity. "Kissing the most beautiful girl may be dangerous", says a bacteriologist. Precisely. She may have a big brother or dad who wears hobnailled boots. W. T. Stead wants a statue of George Washington in Westminster Abbey, but George would hardly conform to the English idea of greatness as well as Jack Johnson or Buffalo Bill. Even if President Taft had wanted Lormier in the Senate, that would not have been a valid excuse for buying him a seat. "Díaz left $72,000,000 in the Mexican treasury." That settles it that Díaz was a back date as president of a republic down in that quarter. Be safe and sane and let who will be devilish. ONE OF THE HOTTEST FIGHTS IN GENERAL FUNSTON'S CAREER. In order that I might be able to exercise some influence on the firing line as a whole, and not get mixed up in a local fight where I could see only one or two companions, I remained about two hundred yards behind the line for the time being. THE ADVOCATE Here I was joined by the well-known correspondent, Mr. James Creelman. I had sent Sergeant-Major Warner and Trumpeter Barshfield away to carry orders, and was glad to have company. The noise was so overwhelming that it was difficult to think the whole brigade was fighting as hard as it could and the woods were filled with the roar. Creelman and I sat on our horses for awhile, and then unanimously dismounted, the idea seeming to strike both of us at the same time. Companies E and H had struck the worst of it, being opposite the most for-midable trench and Creelman and I were directly behind them. A natural tendency of the Filipino, and for that matter, most people, to shoot high made our position one of the warmest places I have ever been in. Only once, and that at Cascorea in far-away Cuba, had I seen bullets thicker. The two companies were right on the river bank, and as the stream was not more than forty feet wide, and the Filipino trenches were on the opposite bank, the two firing lines were not more than fifty feet apart. The river looked deep, but as yet our people had not overcome the enemy's fire sufficient to allow the matter to be tested. Captain Adna G. Clarke, now a captain in the regular army, was in command of Company H, and I could see him standing erect in order to better direct the fire of his men, who were lying down. In a short time I saw him crumple up and go down with a wound from which I believe he has not fully recovered to this day. Majors Metcalf and Whitman were close up to the river bank, their two battalions being most hotly engaged. From "up the Railroad to Malolos" by Brig-Gen. Frederick Funston, in the August Scribner—Fiction number. What the Sages Are Talking About What the Sages Are Talking About Don't "Slobber." It is an excellent thing to be able to support a man's work and to accord him due credit, without "soo-lbering" over him, to the disgust of the sensible public. No right-thinking man, no matter how anxious he is to be properly appreciated, wishes anybody to "slobber" over him. Florida Sentinel. Helping Out the Methodist Conferences. With Dr. J. S. Jackson assured of election as Bishop in the Zion General Conference, and John Hurst likewise "fixed" for the A. M. E. Bench; Ira T. Bryant headed at full tilt for the A. M. E. Book Concern, in addition to the Sunday School business at Nashville; Dr. C. V. Ryman given a title in fee simple to the mantle of Prof. Kealing, editor of the A. M. E. Church Review; Dr. A. L. Gaines for the sanctum of the Christian Recorder; and the great Southwest signed, sealed and ner in his triumphal race for the Bethel Bench, the duties of next year's general conference should be decidely light. The men of the press are usually good guessers, because they keep close to the popular pulse. —The Freeman. Your Turn at the Bat Will Coms. Booker T. Washington is moving on, helping the helpless and scattering sunshine throughout this Southland. Let his enemies rest awhile and look at the good which he is doing, and then go and do likewise. It is Booker's day today, but tomorrow it may be their day. Fill up the day with hard labor and when the band-wagon comes by, you can jump in and ride.—Fortune Teller Huntavili, Ala. Oklahomaans to Storm Little Rock. The business Negro of Oklahoma is making preparations to take the Negro Business League by storm. Little Rock will be required to do nothing but to extend welcome.—The American, Wagner, Oklahoma. Henry Lincoln Johnson a Leader. Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson is one colored leader who isn't afraid to go up to the White House or to any of the departments and ask for what he wants. He ought to be the new Georgia member of the National Committee. Eyean Monitor, Cun Committee, -Lyrician Monitor, Cincinnati, O. Yes, and On its Good Behavior. So the "Black Cabinet" is on deck again, and doing business at the old stand.—Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. Drs. Jackson and Corrothers for the Zion Beach. The A. M. E. Zion Conference, in session here last week, endorsed Dr. S. L. Corothers for the Bishopric The Conference will also fote for Dr. J. S. Jackson financial secretary of the connection, for episcopal honors. The two vacancies now existing will be filled, and it is probable that one additional Bishop will be elected by the General Conference at Charlotte, N. C., next May.—National Union, Washington, D. C. BISHOP THOMAS BOWMAN East Orange, N. J., July 15.—Receiving congratulations from distinguished friends throughout the country, Dr. Thomas Bowman, the oldest bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, today observed his ninety-fourth birthday anniversary, surrounded by the members of his family, giving up a part of the day also to a general public reception. THE WEST VIRGINIA COLORED INSTITUTE Offers Three Literary Courses-English, Academic, and Normal. ```markdown ``` Jottings Nothwithstanding the torridity of the weather, the Boston Guardian is still weilding the hammer with unabated vigor. Booker T. Washington is not on trial. His worth has been proven. He has been tried in every species of fire and the true metal has stood every test. There is an announcement from Paris that white hosiery will be worn with black slippers. Somebody will sit up and take notice. Dr. E. L. Gilliam is grand chancellor of the State of Ohio, succeeding Hon. Charles A. Cottrill, resigned to accept the Collectorship of Internal Revenue at Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Gilliam is one of the most popular Pythians in America. Supreme Vice-Chancellor Joseph L. Jones, of the Knights of Pythias, paid a visit recently to the Grand Lodge of the Rising Sons and Daughters, which met at Montgomery, Ala. It is rated by Gen. Jones as one of the most progressive organizations he has ever known. It was instituted four years ago by Mrs. C. A. Tuggle of Birmingham, Ala., and though but an infant, it had over three hundred delegates at the Montgomery meeting. An exchange noting that Jack Johnson was one of the few distinguished colored gentleman not mentioned for the Haitian mission, says a boom for the fistic magnate would have accomplished nothing as there isn't enough elbow room in Laaiti to give Brother Johnson a chance to do any speeding with his onipresent auto. Jack Johnson allowed Jim Jeffries to enjoy a "safe and sane fourth" this year. A facetious correspondent, writing of stage facts and fancies, works off something about "the lure of the lingerie." He has evidently been mingling with the "high kickers." An officer of the state who fails to promptly protect a prisoner from a mob of lynchers should be summarily "fired." That is the remedy for the cowards who string up or shoot to pieces men entrusted to the care of the guardians of the peace. Accusation is not conviction, and execution of the law's penalties is not a function for the populace. Bear these things in mind. The South, the future "garden spot of the world," cannot afford to ruin its reputation in the eyes of the world by tolerating the lynching evil. In England and other European countries, it is generally believed that Southern gentlemen lynch a Negro or so every morning before breakfast as an exercise calculated to sharpen their appetites. The Old Fellows of Arkansas do themselves proud if they will take advantage of their golden opportunity and elect that herculean worker, Louis Napoleon Porter, Endowment Secretary of the State. Of course you are going to Little Rock, to have a share in the hospitable reception that Messrs. Bush, Booker, Alexander, Porter, Morris, Jones and rest are going to give the National Negro Business League, the Press Convention, the Bankers and the Undertakers' Association, and all who come. tiring of fighting the battles of the race, have gone to fighting one another. Dr. Vernon is happy Sensible newspaper men go on in the even tenor of their way and do not burden their columns with replies to foolish charges of envious opponents. The Washington Bee is for President Taft—this week. Secretary Charles D. Hilles would make an admirable chairman of the Republican National Committee. The Negro papers of Washington, LET HIM BE RECALLED. (Boston Globe.) Despite the hysterical opposition aroused in the East by the proposed application of the recall to the judiciary in the constitutions of Arizona and California, and despite the nervousness that has been displayed in Washington, D. C., on the same subject, nearly every one will agree that there is at least one judge who ought to be subjected summarily and without any ceremony to the recall. His jurisdiction is somewhat indefinite, but it extends over various parts of the South. The sittings of his Court are held at all seasons of the year. During the past few days he has been exceedingly busy in Georgia. He tries persons for all manner of offences, from the henious crime of lotering or begging to that of simple murder. His sentences are always severe, and are never appealed. Within a year more than 100 cases have been brought before him. Of distinguished lineage—his first ancestor in this country having been born in Virginia in 1726—this judge is probably better known than any other members of the judiciary in the South. But his decisions no longer command the respect of the community. His usefulness is at an end. Let him be recalled at once! His name is Judge Lynch. STRAY FLASHES The twenty-sixth annual communition of the Texas Grand Lodge of Masons was held in the $75,000 hall of the craft at Fort Worth last week. J. W. McKinney was elected grand master and William M. McDonald grand secretary. The annual meeting of the National Colored Liquor Dealers' Association will be held in Washington the latter part of August. Walter S. Thomas, of Columbus, O., is president of the association, and James A. Ross, of Buffalo, secretary. Cornell University has recommended to Tuskegee Institute than Nathaniel Murray, an alumnus of the university, be appointed teacher of agriculture. Dr. Murray is a son of Daniel Murray, of the Congressional Library, Washington. He has taught at Princess Anne (Md.) Academy. The sixth annual meeting of the Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs was held at Austin, Tex., a fortnight ago. Among those who delivered address was Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Bob Motts, the wealthy Chicago sporting man and theatrical promoter, who died last week, was buried in his old home at Washington, In. Bob Cole, the comedian and song writer, who has been confined in the Manhattan Hospital since last fall, has recovered sufficiently to be taken to a sanitaryjum at Amityville, L. I. Bert Williams, the comedian, is making a big hit in the Follies of 1912. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1911. ED INSTITUTE s—English, al. Surroundings Good. MAN, President, itute, West Virginia TRUSTEES' SALE OF CITY PROPERTY. Under authority of a Deed of Trust made by J. M. Jones to the undersigned trustees, dated March 30, 1907, and recorded in the office of clerk of the County Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 30, page 67, to secure to Jackson County Building and Loan Association the payment of a certain loan therein described, default having been made in the payment thereof for more than three months: we, or the trustee present and acting on the day of sale, shall on Saturday, August 12, 1911, beginning at 10 o'clock A. M. at the front door of the Court House of Kanawha County, West Virginia, on Court Street, in the City of Charleston, proceed to sell the property conveyed by said deed of trust, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, that certain lot of land with the improvements and appurtenances, situate in the City of Charleston, West Virginia, on the north corner of Court and Donally Streets, which lots fronts on Donally Street 125 feet, and runs back with Court Street 125 feet, more or less, being the lot with the house formerly occupied by the said J. M. Jones, and on which Lewis Jones and Ellen Jones formerly lived, and being the same property conveyed to Lewis Jones by Levi J. Woodyard, Trustee of the Charleston Extension Company, by deed dated August 18, 1866, and recorded in the office of clerk of the County Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, in Deed Book "Z", page 280, and being the same property conveyed unto the said J. M. Jones by Lewis Jones by deed dated September 1, 1884, and recorded in the office of clerk of the County Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, in Deed Book 41, page 555. L. E. McWhorter, N. C. Prickett BISHOP BOWMAN NEAR 95TH MILLESTONE East Orange, N. J., July 14—Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Bowman, the senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will quietly observe his ninety-fourth birthday anniversary tomorrow at his home in this place. MANY YACHTS AT THE BAY Put-in-Bay, Ohio, July 15.—With a fleet of over two-score boats in the bay today, including sail and power yachts of all sizes, rigs and description, together with some of the feetest motor boats on the great lakes, it looks as if the annual regatta of the Inter-Lake Yachting Association would rival, if not eclipse, all of the similar events of the past. The regatta will open tomorrow with the reception of the visitors. The races will begin Monday and continue until Saturday. In addition to the races for sailing yachts the program this year provides for motor boat speed conests, and also swimming, diving, canoeing and other aquatic events. KILL MORE THAN WILD BEASTS. The number of people killed yearly by wild beasts don't approach the vast number killed by disease germs. No life is safe from their attacks. They're in air, water, dust, even food. But grand protection is afforded by Electric Blitters, which destroy and expell these deadly germs from the system. That's why chills, fever and ague, all malarial and many blood diseases yield promptly to this wonderful blood purifier. Try them, and enjoy, the glorious health and new strength they'll give you. Money back if not satisfied. Only 50c at an druggist. 7-6-4t I was just a in the game, but street and am the know. I do not bination whatever- My price list Can Y Blue Ribbon, Hoster-Colum Red, White a Red, White a Schleer Special Charleston B Rebate $1. 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TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS Chicago, July 20.--A number of the foremost tennis experts of the country are in Chicago in readiness to compete in the championship tournament of the Western Tennis Association. Play will commence Saturday on the courts of the Onwentsia Club, at Lake Forest, and will continue through the coming week. 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 at all durgglats. 3-2-5t Berlin, July 20.—The University of California Glee Club, which is making a tour of Europe, has arrived in Berlin and tomorrow night will give a concert under the auspices of the American Woman's Club. The concert will be held in the ballroom of the magnificent new Bruderverein Clubhouse in the Kurfuersten Strasse. ALL ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY. Call Denver, Colo., July 15.—The advance guard of delegates reached Denver today for the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges. It is expected that fully 1,000 prominent real estate men representing every large city of the country will be on hand when the convention begins its sessions next Tuesday. Monday will be given over to the reception of the visitors, in honor of whom an elaborate program of entertainment has been arranged. CONSECRATE BISHOP OF DALLAS Dallas, Texas, July 15. Elaborate ceremonies will attend the consecration here on Monday of Father Joseph P. Lynch as bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Dallas, in succession to the late Bishop Dunne, Archbishop Blenk of New Orleans will be the consecrator and his assistants will be Bishop Gallagher of Galveston and Bishop Morris of Little Rock. The sermon will be preached by the Very Rev. Michael S. Ryan, president of Kenrick Seminary at St. Louis. --- CONVENTION OF GIDEONS Milwaukee, Wis., July 20.—Delegates from many parts of the country arrived in Milwaukee today for the annual convention of Gideons, an organization of Christian traveling men which during the past year has been instrumental in placing over 80,000 Bibles in the hotels of the United States and Canada. The sessions of the convention will begin tomorrow and will conclude Sunday with special meetings to be held in forty Milwaukee churches. Charleston, W. Va. PLAN TO PAY FIREMEN. Montpelier, Vt., July 20.—Montpelier, which is believed to be the largest city in the United States still retaining the volunteer fire department, has called a special city meeting for tomorrow to decide upon a proposal to adopt the modern system of a paid department. The business interests are overwhelmingly in favor of the change, as the city's fire loss during the last nine months has been over $100,000. RAILROAD MERGER Chicago, Ill., July 20.—The merger of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad and the Evansville and Terre Haute became effective today in accordance with the recent action of the stockholders of the two companies. The Consolidated roads will be known as the Chicago and Eastern Illinois and will be operated as heretofore under the control of the St. Louis and San Francisco system. MEDICAL DIRECTOR RETIRED Washington, D. C., July 20.—After a long career of efficient service, Medical Director Samuel H. Dickson was placed on the navy retired list today on account of age. Has Millions of Friends. How would you like to number your friends by millions as Bucklen's Arnica Salve does? Its astounding cures in the past forty years made them. Its the best Salve in the world for sores, ulcers, eczema, burns, boils, scalds, cuts, corns, sore eyes, sprains, swellings bruises, cold sores. Has no equal for piles. 25c at all druggists. 3-2-5t. MISSOURI PYTHIANS Have Had a Successful Year and Expect to Make a Good Showing at The National Encampment. St. Louis, Mo., July 18—Grand Chancellor A. W. Lloyd of the Knights of Pythias of Missouri, will have an interesting report to deliver to that organization at its 27th annual meeting to be held at Cape Girardeau for four days next week, beginning on the 25th. There has been collected during the past year for beneficiary tax $23,000 and for burial tax more than $5,000. In the jurisdiction there is the oldest and most famous cadet company and a Pythian Cadet band of fifty pieces. The 48 subordinate lodges and 67 Courta of Calanhee, the woman's auxiliary, have bought and paid for a $40,000 Temple, and it is expected that the eight companies of the Uniform Rank will be in full force at Indianapolis for the national encampment. THE ADVOCATE INTERESTS ITSELF PICKING WIN NERS IN A. M. E. CHURCH CONTEST. Merited Tribute Is Paid to The Venerable Bishop Hood By Dr. Jackson. Mattie Lomax Gets a Respite. Lewis is to Speak in the West. Negro Department. Washington, D. C., July 19.—The speech of Dr. J. S. Jackson, financial secretary of the A. M. E. Zion connection, at the Hood-Offering Anniversary at New Rochelle, N. Y., a few days ago, is conceded by competent judges to have been the best and most practical talk that was delivered on that inspiring occasion. Dr. Jackson is an ardent admirer of the venerable patriarch of the Zion church, and on the occasion of Bishop Hood's 51st birthday he seized the opportunity to pay Zion's most unique character a richly-merited tribute. The topic assigned to Dr. Jackson was "Bishop Hood and His Relation to the Financial system of the A. M. E. Zion Church." He said among other things: "The occasion which brings us here this afternoon should be an inspiration to every minister and member of the A. M. E. Zion Church. We are gathered here to celebrate the 81st birthday of our beloved senior Bishop J. W. Hood; and I am glad of an opportunity to join you in speaking of an honoring this prelate, who is undeniably one of the greatest churchmen of the 19th and 20th centuries." Pointing out the necessity for a definite financial system, if an organization is to reap success in the world of business and to attain spiritual eminence, Dr. Johnson continued: "You will agree with me that no great organization can be successfully operated without a system. To formulate a plan that will rest on a solid foundation and yield satisfactory and permanent results—a first-class, reliable system—requires a master mind. The Hon. McKissack, of Mississippi, gave to the Odd Fellows and Masons of the United States the best financial system known among secret organizations. We point with pride to our own Dr. J. J. Smyer, whose constructive and business ability has through the Invincible Order of Cooperators of America, given to his race one of the financial systems on record today. In the banking world among our people, Dr. W. R. Pettiford, president of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank of Birmingham, Ala., and Hon. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury, and president of the One-Cent Savings Bank at Nashville. Tenn., stand out pre-eminent as pioneers of a system that has stood the test of years—veritable financial Gibraltars. "The Baptist Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn., under the management of Dr. R. H. Boyd, runs upon a system practically ideal. The financial system of the A. M. E. and the C. M. E. Churches is taking high ground, backed up by the great minds of their senior Bishops Turner and Holsey, and the alert secretaries Hurst and Bullock. "What these Napoleons of Finance are to their respective organizations; Bishop Hood is to the financial system of the A. M. E. Zion Church—and in many respects he outranks them all. Following out the policy inaugurated by him from the beginning of our larger business life, Zion church today is rated at Dun's and Bradstreet's at the head of the list of organizations carried on under the direction of Negroes in America." Reviewing the record of the venerable churchman in the formation of the financial system that made the Church Extension, the Missionary, the Educational and Financial Departments towers of strength in the work of the Master, Dr. Jackson spoke of the present Hood Thank-Offering as the latest evidence of the constructive genius of the eminent prelate. Instead of accepting the generous gifts of the church for himself, as it was desired by the rank and file that he should do so, Bishop Hood said the connection should have whatever the membership wished to grant him as a testimonial of its esteem and appreciation of his life's work. He suggested the "Hood Thank-Offering Rally," allowing his 80th and 81st birthdays to be thus marked, for the good of all. "As a result of this wise suggestion, said Dr. Jackson, "thousands of dollars are being realized for the cause of education and missions. Without presuming to be a prophet, I predict that fully $12,000 will be brought into the coffers of our great Zion Methodist Church." Concluding his eloquent address with facts and figures illustrative of the marvelous development of the church and the prospect of an unlimited expansion of its scope and influence, Dr. Jackson said: "We think of Bishop Hood as a model of unselfishness—a sacrifice Bishop, a Christian Bishop, a business man extraordinary, a part of and from the financial machinery of Zion.—His example is worthy of our emulation. As long as Zion shall live, her sons and daughters will re- ceive inspiration from the life of this heroic churchman. His foot-prints are indelibly stamped upon the financial and spiritual history of the Church of Virick." JACKSON AND CORRIOTHERS FOR BISHOPS. At the recent session of the New England Conference, the delegates elected are outspoken for the "making" of three Bishops at the General Conference next May. That conference stands for Dr. J. S. Jackson, first and for Dr. S. L. Corrothers, second. The third choice is divided among the "field," with Dr. G. C. Clement a strong favorite. The same is true of the Western New York Conference, and in the New York Conference, just adjourned, the sentiment for Jackson is unanimous, and a stand will be made for the three Bishops. The feeling for "expansion" in Zion cannot be repressed, not even upon the cry of "economy," for it is understood by the financiers of the church that the way to collect more money is to go out into the virgin soil and build up additional support for the connection. The productive region west of the Mississippi and on toward the Pacific is scarcely touched. More Bishops does not mean an expense; it means a profitable investment. The spirit of the "expansion" is upon Zion. Nothing can quench this raging fire. So say the sages of the Church of Zion. THE A. M. E. CHURCH This is the "stock taking" period in the A. M. E. Church. The delegates to the Kansas City General Conference are being chosen and the church at large is giving itself over to the work of "taking stock"—it is seeing what it has on hand and what it needs for the betterment of its condition. Rev. A. L. Gaines, of Baltimore, was the ranking candidate at Norfolk in 1908 for the editorship of the Christian Recorder. If the almost unbroken practice of the church is followed in 1812, that of choosing the next highest man for a place in the event of a vacancy, Dr. Gaines will be elected by the widest kind of a margin. The Baltimore Annual Conference, at its recent session, honored him by an election on the first ballot in an immense field of aggressive candidates. He has been endorsed for the editorship of the Christian Recorder by the Baltimore Conference, by the Virginia Conference, and the two North Carolina Conferences. This gives him the entire Second Episcopal District to start with. The Methodist Ministers' Union of Baltimore gave him its unanimous endorsement. Dr. Gaines has all of the equipment, mental and moral, to fill with distinction the chair so grandly occupied by the Lees, the Tanners and the Johnsons. Since the announcement that Dr. C. V. Roman, the Nashville scholar, the theologian and literateur, is to stand as a candidate for the editorship of the A. M. E. Church Review, a bushel of letters have been pouring into his office, tendering him the heartiest support for the place. His fitness is universally conceded. The men behind Dr. Roman represent the strongest forces in the church, and the fact that they are favorable to him, not only indicates his election, but that through their sympathetic support the success of his administration will be assured after he shall have been elected. As the matters stand, Dr. Roman leads for the Review. Prof. Kealing could not yield the reins to an abler successor. Ira T. Bryant is looming up stronger every day for the consolidated printing house plan. No good business man would turn down the proposition Mr. Bryant makes—of running the Book Concern and the Sunday School Union combined, without additional salary. With but a small bonus from the "Children's Day" collection for a single year, Mr. Bryant will pay off the heavy indebtedness of the Book Concern in one quadrennium. Had not the church lust of Mr. Bryant's ability to redeem promises, with his superb management of the Sunday School Union as an earnest of what he can do, the proposition he now makes would seem "too good to be true." Of course, the solid Southwest will go to Kansas City for Dr. J. M. Conner for the Bishopric. He barely missed election at Norfolk in 1908, and all who were for him then will be for him again—and more have been added to his following. His tour of the country has given the church a "line on him," and he bears well the inspection. The Presiding Elders' Council of the State of Arkansas has given Dr. Conner its unantimous endorsement, and it is understood throughout the Southwest, that no other name will be presented for honors at the hands of the Kansas City General Conference in 1912. SHALL THERE BE A NEGRO DEPARTMENT AT BRISCOCT This question is rapidly taking its place in the discussions of the day, and in answer is being seriously insisted upon. Those who know of the intrinsic value of an exposition of the achievements of a people, with all the world a witness, present some splendid arguments in favor of a Negro Department at Frisco in 1915, in connection with the Panama Canal Exposition. No one, so far, has set forth anything in rebuttal. The affirmative of the proposition is practically incontrovertible. The only problems that press for solution are How is an adequate exhibit to be gotten together; who are to finance it; and who are to run it. If a broad, unselfish spirit is manifested on the part of those experienced in exposition work, the country will rally to the support of such a project. The newspapers will mould a sentiment that will insure a liberal appropriation from the government. The masses will take hold and deposit at Frisco the concrete evidences of their progress in fifty years of freedom just as they planned to do in 1913, had the proposed Business League exposition been carried on. However, if a few self-seeking, anxious for "graft," jump in pell-mell and give the scheme the appearance of a "grab," the country will rise up as one individual, and put its foot down hard on the whole business. The question is before the Negro people of the country. Shall there be a Negro Department at Frisco in 1915, in connection with the celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal? Shall we take advantage of a rare opportunity to let the world know that the erstwhile despised Negro is alive to the vast possibilities that lie within his grasp—that he is capable of keeping step with the onward march of this 20th century civilization? MATTIE E. LOMAX DESPITED. Justice Wright has granted a stay of execution in the case of Mattie E Lomax, who was to have been hanged on the 31st of July for the alleged murder of her husband. The case will be heard in the fall by the Court of Appeals, and the fate of Mrs. Lomax will then be decided. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew has before President Taft a monster petition containing 100,000 signatures. THE NEWS IN BRIEF The pay envelope of Clerk James E. Slaughter and Carriers R. B. Peters and B. J. Cooke, of the City Post Office, show substantial increases this month. Garfield Harris, Alex. Middleton, John Green, and Reed Webb, of the Treasury Department, also secured handsome advances. Miss Rosa B. Childs, of the public schools, daughter of Dr. C. W. Childs, is making a tour of the South, studying educational and social problems in the "Black Belt." Her itinerary will include Atlanta, Ga., and Tuskegee Institute, Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma and Camden, Alabama. The members of the District National Guard are jubilant over the success of the New Yorkers, who have won their fight for a Negro regiment. Major Brooks' staff joined in a telegram of congratulation. The local delegation of Elks will be in the struggle for the rejuvenation of the Order at the Boston convention next month. Organic union will be brought about on a firm basis, it is thought, and an exalted ruler will be elected who will cement the factions in a compact body. Who this will be is a question with which the sages are wrestling over time. Among those considered for the honor are Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Georgia, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, Attorney L. Melandez King, of this city, and possibly one or two others. Mills, Atkins, Harrison, Howard, Nuttler, Anderson and all of the giants will be on hand. The Pythians are preparing to go to Indianapolis, Ind., for the great triennial conclave. The Hoosiers expect not less than 60,000 visitors from all parts of the country. The conclave bids fair to be the largest gathering of Afro-Americans ever assembled at one time on the Continent. Grand Chancellor Tidrington, Dr. J. H. Ward, Remus Moore and the general committees are leaving no stone unturned to make the event the most brilliant in the annals of the Order. The East will be there. Miss Eva Bloodsell, a former New Yorker, now connected with the federal service here, is to present the coming Negro regiment of the Empire State with a beautiful flag. The "River Queen," which was destroyed by fire a week or so ago, is to be replaced by another boat as soon as the Bensinger management can make the selection. The vessel, once worth $50,000 went to the wreckers at a valuation of $1,000. She was considered the fastest boat on the Potomac during the war. It is significant that it was aboard the "River Queen" that President Lincoln and a peace delegation made a trip to City Point on the James River to confer upon terms for bringing the war to a close. The Lyric Orchestra, under the direction of E. B. Robinson, graduate of class of 1911, college department, of Howard University, tendered a reception in honor of Bert Williams at Fitzgerald's Auditorium in Atlantic City, while the great comedial was playing there with "The Follies of 1911." St. Augustine's parish, the principal colored Catholic parish in the city, led by Father Paul Griffith, has raised $281 toward the building of the Cardinal Gibbons Memorial Hall at the Catholic University. Father Griffith subscribed $50 of this amount. In all nearly $125,000 has been raised throughout the United States for the erection of the building, as a tribute to the famous Cardinal. It is fitting that the colored people should do their full part in this work, for the race has no stronger friend in the land than this great Catholic priest. The Cardinal lives at Baltimore and is a frequent visitor to Washington. Rev. J. D. Pair, managing editor of the National Union, has been designated by President M. M. Leavers as the District of Columbia member of the executive committee of the National Negro Press Association. The National Union has just installed a brand-new printing outfit, with type, presses and all the necessary furniture for a first-class office. Mr. J. W. Mitchell, who has taken charge as foreman, is getting out a clean paper. The National Union is backed by some of the most substantial forces in the District, and it is destined to wield a powerful influence for the uplifting of the race in this community. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Turner, of this city, announce the marriage of their daughter, Esther Winfrede, to the Rev. Edmund Harrison Oxley, Tripidad, B. W. L. on June 17 1911, at the Church of the Crutifixion, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Oxley are "at home" to their friends after July 17 at 1702 Walnut street, Harrisburg, Pa. Register J. C. Napier now occupying a finely appointed office in the west wing of the Treasury Department, overlooking the eastern end of the White House and its spacious grounds. The rooms now being renovated for the use of Assistant Register Cyrus Field Adams and the clerks will soon be in readiness. The condition of Bishop W. H. Heard is said to be serious. He is at his home in Philadelphia—Greystone—and the local Methodist leaders are keeping in daily touch with him. Bishop Heard returned from Africa, by direction of his physician at Monrovia, and he is now under the treatment of a specialist in nervous and internal disorders. His friends hope to hear more favorable reports soon. Announcement is made that the next meeting of the National Independent Political League will be held in Boston, for three days, beginning on Monday, August 28. Editor J. R. Clifford, of the Pioneer-Press, of Martinsburg, W. Va., is president of the League and Rev. J. M. Milton Waldon, of this city, is national organizer. Assistant Attorney-General W. H. Lewis will make a number of speeches on educational topics in the middle West and South and will probably attend the session of the National Negro Business League at Little Rock next month. He will visit the Pythian Conclave at Indianapolis. Rev. L. G. Jordan announces the death of Rev. Louis G. Bouey in Africa. The deceased was one of the most efficient missionaries the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board has ever stationed in the Dark Continent, and his demise causes untold regret throughout the denomination on both sides of the Atlantic. Dr. Jordan takes occasion, with this misfortune as a sad reminder, that the Baptist churches of the country are not doing their full duty by the missionary work the Board is carrying on and urges that a stronger support be given from this time on. Debts hang over the work in Africa, and if the cause is to go forward, immediate help is necessary. Dr. Jordan appeals to the church at large to send in a contribution at once, and thus relieve a critical situation. A small donation from each organized Baptist congregation in the country will amount to a great deal in the aggregate. Winnipeg, Man., July 1.—An attractive program and a good list of entries combine to give promise of some high class performances in the Manitoba track and field championships which are to be held at the Winnipeg exhibition, beginning tomorrow and continuing over Wednesday. The meet will take place under the auspices of the Cenadian Amateur Athletic Union. ONE MILLION New York, July 17—Hundreds of Elks from all parts of the country who have been attending their national reunion at Atlantic City came to New York today especially to inspect the newly erected home of the New York Lodge No. 1, B. P. O. E. which is known throughout the United States as the Mother Lodge. The building is located in West Forty-third street, just off Broadway, and is a twelve-story structure, with a roof garden and two basements. The building with its equipment cost $1,250,000. OREGON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP Portland, Ore., July 17.—The Oregon State championship tennis tournament, which is to be played on the courts of the Multnomah A. A. C. here this week, promises to be a record breaker both in the point of attendance and in the matter of exciting contests. The tournament is held under the auspices of the North Pacific International Lawn Tennis Association. Wilmington, Del., July 17.—With more than 200 of the best known trap shooters—amateurs and professionals—in this country participating, the sixth annual Eastern Handicap tournament had its preliminary opening here today on the grounds of the DpPont Gun Club. Practically every eastern marksman of note is entered, while other additions have also sent their best shots --- GREAT GATHERING OF THE BLUE AND THE GRAY AT MANASSAS, VA. Manassas, Va., July 21. The Blue and the Gray marched across the fields of Manassas to meet each other again today. This incident, unique in history, the meeting of Federal and Confederate veterans on the field where they fought a mighty battle just fifty years ago, attracted as witnesses the President of the United States, the Governor of Virginia, the home of the Confederate capital, and visitors from many States. It was the crowning feature of the Manassas Peace Jubilee and Reunion which began last Sunday with a sermon on the court house lawn by Rev. H. N. Coudon, chaplain of the House of Representatives, who lost his sight while serving in the Union ranks. President Taft and Governor Mann long ago had accepted invitation to be the guests of honor of the day, to review the lines of gray haired veterans and make addresses in the afternoon. In the evening they will meet the old soldiers and other visitors at a public reception. The following program has been arranged for the day: 9 a. m.—Veterans in Blue and Gray assemble at Henry House, on battlefield. 10 a. m.—Addresses of Welcome by Col. Edmund Berkeley, Eighth Virginia, and United States Senator Thomas S. Martin, of Virginia. Responses by General John E. Gilman, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and General George W. Gordon, Grand Commander of the United Confederate Veterans. Presentation of souvenir badges by Col. Robert H. Thompson, of Washington. Noon—Veterans marshaled in review, and the men in the Blue and the Gray clasp hands. 1 p. m.—Luncheon and "love feast." 2 p. m.—Return to Manassas. 4 p. m.—Forty-eight young women, representing the States of the Union, clasp hands and, forming a circle, sing the Manassas National Jubilee Anthem. 4:30 p. m.—Addresses by the President of the United States and the Governor of Virginia. 6:30 p. m.—Luncheon tended-ered to President Taft and Governor Mann by Mrs. Robert A. Porter at Anna-burg. 7:30 p. m.—Public reception of the President and Governor at Annapurg. It was on July 21, 1861, just fifty years ago today, that Bull Run, or the first battle of Manassas, was fought. The Confederates under Johnson were accredited with a decisive victory over the Union forces under McBowell, the retreat of the Federals leaving practically a clear road to Washington for the Confederates, it is said, bad they chosen to continue their advance on the Capital. This was the first real battle of the war, and its result awakened the North for the first time to a realization of what the secession of the Southern States meant. It was here that "Stonewall" Jackson gained the name which will be associated with his memory for all time. In August, 1862, Manassas was again the scene of a bloody battle, Lee and Longstreet and Sykes, Reno and Reynolds being engaged, the battle lines being exactly the reverse of what they were the year before. The Jubilee Reunion was planned by committees of the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans. Interesting events have taken place each day this week, sessions of the national organization of "The Blue and the Gray and Their Sons" being held today. The Manassas National Anthem, adopted by the committee, was written by Mrs. Mary Speed Mercer, of Elm City, N. C. This is the chorus: "America, all hail to thee." Thanks be to God who made us free. Thanks be to God who made us free North, South, East, West, hand changed in hand clasped in hand. United we, thy children stand." Manassas, Va., July 21.—An army of peace took possession of Manassas today. Thousands of men wearing the Blue and the Gray filled the old town. On the battlefield of Bull Run near by was to be seen the panoply of war, but the implements of death and destruction were not there for the purpose that took them there fifty years ago. Nevertheless, they were reminders of those bitter days when thousands of the youth of the North and the South gave up their lives in the first great battle of the Civil war. Manaassas was beautifully and profusely decorated in honor of the veterans and of Prestgrent Tatt and other notables who came to participate in the semi-centennial celebration. Many of the visitors reached town yesterday, while the morning trains from Washington, Richmond and the West added thousands to the invading host. There was no regular program mapped out for the conference. It was "go as you please" with the visitors, and they took in the sights with a vigor that was remarkable, considering the age of the veterans and the fact that many had come PAGE SIX from a great distance. At daybreak almost the crowd began to move toward the historic battlefield. Motor cars and all varieties of vehicles were pressed into service. The battle memorials were inspected and every bit of rising ground was climbed to get a clear view of the field where the sons of the nation's best men went out for their country's cause, and where the Confederate troops fought valiantly for what they thought right. The great majority of the veterans had not visited the field since they fought in it. It was remarkable how long and well the soldiers remembered every spot, every move, every order, every incident of the great conflict. They gathered in groups and pointed out to the wives, daughters and sons who accompanied them the places where this or that commander held the enemy back so long. They talked of reserve corps and attacks on their right; or cavalry charges and defense by the left. As they wandered around they would see a monument or a marker on which the inscription would particularly attract their attention. Then they would figure out among themselves, throwing statics to the winds, how many men were left of each brigade, regiment or company when the battle was over. This afternoon the veterans and their friends returned to town for the formal exercises of the day. The exercises were of a simple but very impressive character. The speakers' stand was located at the junction of Lee avenue and Grant avenue. Here President Taft, Governor Mann of Virginia, Congressman Carlin and other speakers of the day addressed a large and attentive audience. The speakers' stand was decorated with the red, white and blue of the Star Spangled Banner, entwined with the Confederate battle flags, showing the peace and harmony existing between the two. Assembled about the stand were hundreds of men wearing blue coats and brass buttons who had fought for the Union; there were other hundreds in gray suits and gray caps who had fought for the Confederacy. President Taft and the other speakers were received with enthusiastic applause. The applause reached its height when various well known leaders of the Blue and the Gray were recognized in the assemblage and given seats of honor on the platform. In voices tremulous with emotions natural to the occasion the several speakers delivered orations that were listened to throughout with the deepest attention. Veterans of the Blue and the Gray view with one another in paying tribute to the other side. Deafening cheers greeted the names of Johnston, McDowell, Beauregard, Jackson, Lee, Pope and other commanders whose names will ever be associated with Manassas and Buli Kun. The addresses were followed by a pretty spectacle emblematic of the reunited nation. It consisted of 48 maidens, each representing a State in the order they were admitted to the Union, each clad in the red, white and blue, and bearing the name of the State across her breast. As the maidens sang the national airs there were few in the vast assemblage whose eyes did not fill with tears. As one old soldier remarked as he clasped hands with another veteran against whom he had fought, there was an inspiration in the occasion such as only comes to one a few times in a lifetime. POSTAL SAVINGS BANK UNEARTHS MOSS-COVERED SILVER DOLLAR OF 1899 SPECIAL TO THE MAIL: Washington, July 21—Postmaster General Hitchcock has received a letter from Postmaster Wm. F. Elgin, at Cornith, Miss., in which he inclosed a silver dollar of the vintage of 1889, a sample of several hundred he has received since the operation of the postal saving bank system was put into effect in his office about a week ago. This coin has a coating of green mould, seeming to indicate that it has been either buried or kept in some moist place for some years at least. Postmaster Elgin in his letter to the Postmaster General says: "I am inclosing, with my compliments, a silver dollar which was deposited together with several hundred others just like it which had apparently been buried for many years. I send this to show you the benefits which the enactment of the Postal Saving Ban law is bringing about. I believe it will be the means of putting a great deal of money into circulation which has been concealed heretofore and will in reality prove a benefit to the banks rather than an injury as some have predicted prior and subsequent to the enactment of the postal saving bank law." PLANNING TO WELCOME ADMIRAL COUNT TOGO AT NATIONAL CAPITAL Hero of the Great Sea Fight of May 27-28. Year 1904 Washington, July 21.For the past week the State and Navy departments have been busy making preparations for the coming of Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, chief of the naval staff of Japan and the hero of the great sea fight of May 27-28, 1904, when his fleet met the fleet of Russia in the Sea of Japan and brought about its entire annihilation in the course of the fight. In the last quarter of a century no such welcome has been extended to a foreign officer with the possible exception of the entertainment furnished to Prince Henry of Prussia, who came to the United States, not so much as a laurel-crowned hero of a well-won battle, but as the representative and relative of a friendly sovereign. Prince Henry of Prussia had never smelled powder except as a puff of saluting smoke may have assailed its nostrils. Prince Henry had never seen a shot fired in anger. Not so Admiral Heihachiro Togo, Samurai and Noble of the land of the Rising Sun According to tentative plans of the two departments Admiral Togo and his aide will arrive in New York August 4, where the hero of the Sea of Japan will be met by Captain Templin M. Potts, United States navy, who has been detailed by President Taft to represent the United States government during Admiral Togo's stay in this country, including his projected transcontinental journey, for the Admiral will sail for home from Vancouver. The itinerary as tentatively prepared by the State and Navy departments provides for a two days' visit in New York and its environs. He is expected to arrive in Washington on August 6 where he will spend three or four days. During his stay in the Capital he will be dined at the White House and by Secretary on State Knox and Secretary of the Navy Meyer. The Admiral will be taken to Mt. Vernon on the presidential yacht Mayflower where he will deposit wreath on the tomb of Washington and will also be shown over the Indian Head (Ml.) naval proving grounds. Annapolis will furnish a side trip and there the Admiral will be given a glimpse of the alma mater of many of his brothers in arms, for Annapolis furnished educations for more than a score of the higher officers of the Japanese navy. From Washington Admiral Togo will visit Philadelphia and Boston and from that city he will journey to Niagara Falls where he will cross into Canada and it is doubtful if he will again enter the United States as his present plan calls for his westward trip over the Canadian Pacific railway. Admiral Togo's rank is that of a full admiral. In this he parallels Admiral George Dewey. Therefore when he visits any of the military or naval posts of the United States he will be accorded the honors of the highest naval rank including the salute of seventeen guns. BULL WILL CASE AT AN END Biddeford, Mo., July 17.—The final hearing on the contest of the will of Mrs. Ole Bull, widow of the famous violinist, will be held here tomorrow, when the three wills, made by Mrs. Bull, will be disposed of by an agreement between counsel of both sides and ratified by the court. This will bring to an end a contest which has lasted two months and which has attracted wide attention. Mrs. Bull's legal residence was in this county, although she lived for a great part of her life in Cambridge, Mass. The will hearing brought out tales of strange practices of Raja Yoga, a Hindu philosophy, whose devotees believed themselves to be elevated to the plane of the gods. The exact terms of the agreement have not been made public, but it is known that Mrs. Ole Bull Vaughan, Mrs. Bull's daughter and the contestant of the will, is left as the sole legatee, and as administrator and trustee of her mother's estate. COMPETE ABROAD Montreal, July 8. Fifteen picked Montreal boy athletes sailed today en route for Nancy, France, where they are to compete in a great athletic tournament at the end of July. The tournament is to be held under the auspices of the French Gymnastic Federation of Sport and will bring together about 8,000 young athletes representing many of the countries of the world. THE ADVOCATE MT. OLIVET BAPTIST ASSOCIATION SCENE OF GREAT ACTIVITY The Mt. Olivet Baptist Association, colored, continues in session. Much interest continues to be manifest and the work of the association is evidenced by the elaborateness of the program: Thursday Afternoon Session. Devotional services were conducted by Revs. S. E. Williams and H. A. Scott. The Moderator turned to meeting over to the Women's District Missionary Society of which Mrs. Pearl Woods is President and Mrs. Mathilda Parker secretary. The President made some timely remarks setting forth the importance of the work which is being carried on by the Baptist women of the State. The following program was executed: Solo, Miss Eva Parker. Remarks by Mrs. Amanda Johnson. Remarks by Mrs. Mariah Alexander. Recitation, Miss Hattie Dehaven. Solo, Mrs. A. F. Davis. Address, Importance of Bible Studies in the Society, by Rev. J. J. Turner. Address, Mrs. M. A. W. Thompson, of Hill Top, President of the Women's Baptist State Convention. Solo and chorus led by Prof. A. P. Straughter. The President of the written history of the work and all to buy the book. Rev. Daniel Stratton lifted a collection of $6.60. The Association reconvened after the women had concluded their session of one hour. Rev. I. V. Bryant was elected Messenger to the Baptist Convention. The committee on resolutions made its report through Rev. W. W. Scott. The committee on Home Mission made its report. Rev. Boswell reported for the committee. The Moderator introduced Revs. J. A. Scott of Barbersville, and P. M. Tolliver, the boy preacher of Virginia. Thursday Night: Session. The Missionary sermon was preached by Rev. J. W. Robinson, of St. Albans, W. Va. Rev. Robinson selected for his text Mark 16:15. Subject: The Great Commission. The speaker divided the subject into four divisions, viz: The Command to go forward. 2 The Field. 3. The work to be accomplished. 4. The subjects, or people, to whom the gospel is to be preached. Rev. Robinson preached a very excellent sermon to a large and appreciative audience. The committee on education made its report. The report was very ably discussed by Revs. R. D. W. Meadows, general State and State S. S. Missionairies. A handsome collection was raised for missions. Last Day of Ordained Reverend M Last Day of Colored Baptist Meeting, Friday Morning Session. The Association reassembled at 9 a.m. Devotional service was con- ducted by Rev. P. N. Tolliver, and Rev. J. A. Scott. The assistant secretary, Rev. H. B. Rice, read the minutes of the second day's session. The minutes were approved. The committee on Sunday school's made its report through the Chairman, Rev. J. J. Turner, General Superintendent of Sunday school missions of West Virginia. Revs. S. E. Williams and D. Stratton, B. F. Wade, Brother A. P. Straughther, Press, of the Sunday School Baptist State Convention. Rev. R. D. W. Meadows, General Supt. of Missions of West Virginia, made very timely speeches in support of the report. Rev. H. B. Rice made a very strong speech in support of the report. The enrolling clerk read the letter of Bar-enrolling church represented by Pasor Rev. J. A. Scott and Rev. W. W. Scott. The Association took a recess until 11 a. m. The Ministerial and Deacon's Union went into session with Rev. D. D. Davis in the chair and Rev. W. W. Scott as Secretary. The roll of members was called and dues collected. The Secretary read the constitution. Rev. Daniel Stotton moved that the rule be suspended and that all the old officers be relected by acclamation. The motion prevailed. The president appointed Rev. R. M. Mayhew a judicial member of the Executive Board, Prof. A. P. Straughter spoke in the interest of the Baptist Sentinel. A motion prevailed that this Union take out 10 shares of stock in the Baptist Sentinel. Rev. W. W. Scott was elected delegate to the Baptist State Convention. The Union adjourned. The Association reassembled at 11:15 a.m. Rev. R. D. W. Meadows Introduced Rev. T. J. Johnson, D. D. Pastor of the Baptist Temple of this city. Rev. Johnson made some very timely and encouraging remarks. . . The committee on education made its report through the Chairman Prof. J. M. Arter, who made a very strong speech setting forth the needs of the West Virginia Baptist Seminary and College. The report was adopted. The report of the committees on speakers and subjects reported. The report was revised and adopted. Rev. R. D. W. Meadows offered a special resolution to donate Rev. D. Stratton, Moderator of the Association, A. Nove's Topical Bible, Revs. Mead 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 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. ows and Rice made some timely remarks complimenting the Moderator for the very excellent services which he rendered to the denomination. The report of the committee on Permanent organization made its report. Adjourned to meet at 2 p. m. NOTES FROM LAGOR WORLD In Italian factories and workshops more than three-fourths of the employees work ten to eleven hours a day. All the stationary firemen at Los Angeles are now at work under union conditions as to hours and wages. In the metal industries in Belgium nearly half the men work from nine to ten hours a day, and the majority of the rest ten to eleven. The latest move on the part of the Canadian Pacific railway management is the displacement of colored employees and the introduction of Japanese. The mass of French Canadians have been workers on the farm and in the forests and almost entirely out of touch with industrial life in shops, mills or factories. The International Root and Shoe Workers' Union at its recent convention re-elected all its officers, including President Tobin and decided to hold the next convention in Montreal in 1912. For the first time in the history of the American labor movement, a serious effort is under way to establish the minimum wage by law. A vigorous campaign will be conducted by the unions throughout the country. About 8,000 mechanics on the Southern railway have been granted a wage increase that will likely be extended to the Seaboard Air Line, the Atlantic Coast Line, the N. & W. and the C. & O., affecting 9,000 men. The members of the Boston Barbers' Union are willing to eliminate tipping, but under the condition that they receive an increase in wages. A meeting to that end will be held, asking for such an increase, to go into effect on August 1. About 99 per cent of the members of the International Paving Cutters' Union are employed on the piece work system, and most of the gains they strive for are in the nature of improved working conditions, which lead to better wages. President. T. W. Rowe of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union has sent out a circular letter to the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association, a rival organization, making overtures for a settlement of the long fight between the two organizations. The International Garment Workers of America will make an effort throughout the country to the end in the next Labor Day parades all who turn out, whether in uniform or otherwise, wear garments bearing the label of the garment workers' union. KALAMAZOO HAS THE HORSES THIS WEEK Kalamazoc, Mich., July 17.—The combined Grand Circuit and Great Western Circuit race meeting was inaugurated at Recreation Park today under conditions that give promise of some rare sport. There will be five days of racing, during which time twenty events with an aggregate purse value of $38,000, will be pulled off. The card for the opening day was as follows: 2:15 trot, $1,000; 2:07 pace, $2,000 (closed); 2:07 trot, $1,000; 2:15 pace, $2,000 (closed). FIRE INSURANCE AGENTS MEET Buffalo, N. Y., July 17.—The National Association of Fire Insurance Agents began its annual convention in Buffalo today with an attendance of several hundred prominent insurance men from all parts of the United States. The sessions will last until Thursday. Today's program included the address of President A. W. Neale of Cleveland and the reports of the several standing committees. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS Twenty-three Kansas cities are now governed by commissions. Republicans of Maryland will hold their State primary on August 29. The Socialist party in Mississippi has named a complete State ticket, headed by J. F. Lester of Jackson as a candidate for governor. For the Democratic presidential nomination the active or receptive candidates at this time are Governor Wilson of New Jersey, Governor Harmon of Ohio, Governor Marshall of Indiana, former Governor Folk of Missouri, and Champ Clark, Speaker of the House. Congressman Ollie F. James, the choice of the Kentucky Democrats to succeed Thomas H. Paynter in the United States Senate, is not yet forty years old. Before his election to congress eight years ago he had established a reputation as one of the leaders of the Kentucky bar. ILLINOIS TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS ILLINOIS TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS Chicago, Ill., July 8.—Many well known tennis experts assembled on the courts of the Aztec Club here today for the opening of the annual tournament to decide the Illinois State championships. The play will continue through the coming week and judging from the auspicious conditions attending the opening day the tournament will be one of the most successful affairs of its kind that has ever been held here. Office Phone 573 Bell JOHN C Phys CHARESTON, Office Hours 8 to 11, 1 to 4, 6 to 9 THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1911 OR MONEY? ING FOR YOU? ank where you get no interest, keep- ore Working for Money. safe way, where it will be working ast six per cent. Interest — Your er to give us an opportunity to put ve is a picture of our building on three story brick building on one or is occupied by the Huntington state, the second floor. is used for This building is sure to pay us ths our stockholders were paid a the installment plan. As your FOR YOU VESTMENT WESTON, W. VA. BIG REGATTA AT DULUTH Duluth, Minn., July 20.—The three days' carnival of water sports, for which Duluth has been preparing for several months, was ushered in today with a series of motor boat races. Tomorrow and Saturday will be the big days of the carnival, when the annual races of the Northwestern International Rowing Association will be held. RAILWAY FOREMEN TO MEET Chicago, July 20.—Preparations have been completed for the entertainment of the International Railway General Foremen's Association, which will meet in annual convention in this city during three days next week. The meeting will be attended by representatives of many of the leading railroads of the United States, Canada and Mexico. 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. 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