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THE ADVOCAY WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME XI. Colored Councilman WAS ELECTED IN NASHVILLE WHEN HOWSE ORGANIZATION WON OUT Reformers Worsted Alliance of Bourbon Democrats, Lilly White Republicans and Prohibitionists Lose in Contest for Control of City Government. --- Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 16—The Howse organization triumphed in Nashville, Tennessee politics on Thursday O.ct. 12th. The reform element was beaten to "a frazelle." The Negroes elected S. P. Harris as councilman from the third ward and had a lot to do with the re-election of the Howse ticket. The Bourbon-Democrats, the "illy white" Republicans, the Prohibitionists and the minority element of Negro voters are all bowed down in sack-cloth and ashes. They are on the losing side. The "liberal" Democrats, "the weis" and the majority element of Negro voters have all been telling how it happened and prophesying the defeat of Governor Hooper and the repeal of the State-wide prohibition law. So they mean to go on from victory to victory in readjusting Tennessee government to the will of the majority. The recent election was significant in that it showed conclusively the unpopularity of the existing whiskey laws, and that Republican control of Tennessee will meet the fiercest kind of opposition in the next election. The Negro also made another step forward in the city government. Cotrishman S. P. Harris is said to be a man of unquestioned integrity and honor. He is fit to enjoy all the privileges of American citizenship "The white folks say so" and the colored people of Nashville know that Harris is fully qualified to fill any position in the Nashville city government. In spite of his fitness to every way, Harris was openly opposed by some members of its own race. He won in spite of their opposition. Those who fought him hardest were individuals who were "feeding from the fodder rack" of the white men's organization. It was pitiful to note how securely the political pad lock had been fastened on some who from pride of race, if nothing else, should have felt duty oound to Harris in the contest. The "meat and bread" Negro ward-heeler did his best to earn his pay by contributing to the defeat of the Negro contestant. Harris and his supporters triumphed over all the opposing forces and the third ward of Nashville had some sick Negroes Friday morning. They had failed to earn their pay. Dr. E. W. D. Isaac, Chairman Samuel Johnson, Lawyer John Rhines and other Negro leaders fought hard to behalf of Harris. They were largely responsible for his triumph. The Nashville Clarion was the only Negro paper supporting Harris and the election of the colored candidate may be very properly looked upon as a Nashville Clarion victory. There is no good reason why the colored people of Nashville should not elect three or four councilmen to represent them. They have the votes and majorities in as many wards of the city. The truth is, they have been sleeping over their opportunities. Perhaps there will be a general awakening of the Nashville Negroes now that they have succeeded in the election of Councilman S. P. Harris. Now that the city contest is over "the factions" have fastened their attention on Governor Benjamin Hooper. The fusion crowd that elected him shows a decided disposition to break to pieces as the next state and national elections approach. The national administration has vain hopes of placing Tennessee in the Republican column but will be doomed to disappointment unless a political earthquake happens. The administration of Taft has the political ostracism of the Negroes of Tennessee charged to it. The white party organization may re-nominate Taft but the Negroes will later on do some voting. If the Negroes of Tennessee could do so, they would bury Taft politically for the prevailing opinion here is that the present Chief Executive is one of the biggest mistakes that ever sat in the chair of the President of the United States. Miss Estella James entertained Misses Maude Viney, Esther Fulks, Mary Preston, Aristes Johnson, and Mrs. Alleen Bibb at six o'clock dinner in honor of Miss Aristes Johnson. Miss Esther Fulks gave a buffet lunch Saturday. In honor of Miss Aristes Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Preston entertained informally, a friday evening, in honor of Miss Ariste, Johnson THE Negro Presbyterians Hold Annual Council Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 18.—I am eighteen th annual session of the Afro-American Presbyterian Council will begin at Bercan Presbyterian Church, Thursday of next week and continue until the following Sunday. The council is composed of ministers, laymen and enquirers in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Dr. Matthew W. Amerson, pastor of Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. Joseph W. Cochran, secretary of education in the Presbyterian Church, will deliver addresses at the opening session. The response will be made by the retiring president, Rev. Charles S. Freeman, of Jersey City. The annual sermon will be preached by Rev. H. G. Miller, of New York, at night. The morning and afternoon session of the second day will be taken up with addresses on various topics by Revs. J. T. Colbert, Chambersburg, Pa.; Charles S. Freeman, Jersey City; Charles H. Trusty, Pittsburgh; W. E. Griffin, Englewood, N. J.; G. F. Hawkins, Reading, Pa.; L. Z. Johnson, Baltimore, Md.; R. H. Armstrong, Germantown, Pa.; James Carlisle, Troy, N. Y.; T. C. Imes, Philadelphia, Pa.; S. W. Johnson, Oxford, Pa.; C. Brown, of Goshen, N. Y., who will read a paper on as the Christian Church in the United States Been the Chief Factor in the Progress of the Afro-American," and Francis J. Grimke, of Washington, who will lead the discussion on "The True Standard by Which to Estimate Individuals and Races." Others who speak during the session include kev. George S. Stark, Princeton, N. J.; Rev. Thomas H. Anos, Paterson, N. J.; E. F. Eggleston Newark, N. J.; B. M. Ward, York, Pa.; Perry w. Seward, Washingtonville, N. Y.; E. A. Johnson, Pleasantville, N. J.; B. F. Glasco, tantic City; W. A. Byrd, Rochester, N. Y., who will read a paper on "A Vigorous Propagation of the Work of the Presbyterian Church Among Negroes," and Rev. w. Edward Williams, Baltimore, who will read a paper on "The Jim Crow Car Laws and the Federal Constitution." The Women's Auxiliary will meet Friday night. The convention will end Sunday night with a platform meeting HILLES, WHO IS LIKELY TO BE ELECTED NATIONAL CHAIR MAN, EXPECTED TO GIVE COL ORED MEN A SHOW. Washington, D. C., Oct. 25.—The Negro citizens are getting ready to take an active part in the approaching campaign. They are eager for the meeting of the Republican National Committee, so that the work can be organized and the line of battle marked out. Committees from clubs and individuals of prominence, as well as men of the press, will have much to say concerning the National Committee, touching the direction of the campaign among the colored voters in the pivotal states. It is expected that a regularly-constituted representative will be selected to keep the rank and file of the race in touch with the National Committee, and a press bureau will be given its cue what to do in the way of making sentiment that will hold the black voters in line of the Republican ticket. Although there will be a commendable degree of anxiety to work for the party, it is not believed there will be any serious clash over the problem of leadership. At a conference, this phase of the situation will be gone over in a spirit of harmony, and when the delegation goes to see the Hon. Charles D. Hiles, who is likely to be elected chairman, a solid front will be presented. There is enough work to keep every willing hand busy, and there will be ample glory for all. It is generally recognized that the fight will be an interesting one—a battle of giants—and there is no time to lose. By the middle of December, according to one of the militant Republican leaders "the fur will begin to fly." WITNESS DISAPPEARS New York, Oct. 17. Stating that his most important witness, Police Lieutenant Quinn, who, it is said, was an observer of the affair, had disappeared and that two other witnesses were out for town, James L. Moore, counsel for the defendant in the trial of H. E. Urich on the charge of assaulting Booker T. Washington, Negro professor or Tuskegee University, succeeded today in having the case adjourned until November 6. MINISTERS, ELDERS MEN OF MIDDLE STATES TO MEET TEENTH YEARLD ENCE NEXT WEEK Signify CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, Oct. 26, 1911 Washington Prosecutes MAN WHO BRUTALLY ASSAULTED HIM IN NEW YORK CITY LAST SUMMER Pleads For Delay Urich Claims Inability to Produce Material Witness and Asks for a Continuance, Case Being Set For November Sixth. New York City, Oct. 17.—Harry A. Ulrich, the drunken thug, who so brutally attacked Dr. Booker T. Washington, the Tuskegee educator, on a public street in this city last March, was "brought to book" in the Court of Special Sessions, Part V. today, Judges Zeiler, Mayo and Ryan presiding. Dr. Washington was in court to prosecute Ulrich; present also were his secretary, Emmett J. Scott; Chas. W. Andersson, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of New York; Fred R. Moore, editor and publisher of The New York Age; Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the Navy Department, Washington, D. C.; George W. Harris, of the Amsterdam News, and other of Dr. Washington's friends. The people of the State of New York were represented by Assistant District Attorney James E. Smith, Dr. Washington's personal attorney, Wilford H. Smith, was present as consulting attorney. Ulrich has continued to have this case delayed each time it has been called for trial, hoping that Dr. Washington would drop the prosecution; today, through his counsel, he again pleaded for delay, claiming that he had not been able to get his witnesses into court—this despite the fact that he has been seven months to do so. District Attorney Smith opposed the motion, claiming that Ulrich had no witnesses, and that his plea for delay was simply an effort to avoid the consequences of his brutal and uncalled-for assault. The judges decided they would give him one more chance, and have set the case down for trial Monday, November 6. Dr. Washington has notified the District Attorney's office that he will cancel the series of engagements he has for Wisconsin and the West, made long since, so as to be in court and prosecute Ulrich. The assault occurred several months ago, and Ulrich at that time told contradictory stories of what led to it. To the police he said that he had taken Dr. Washington for a burglar, but to the reporters he said that Dr. Washington had insulted Mrs. Ulrich, his wife. Ulrich, however, was never married to the woman he claimed was his wife, and the real wife of Ulrich, who lives at New Jersey, and was deserted by him, several years ago, confronted him in court when he was today arraigned for trial. Rejoice Over 13th Amendment COLORED CITIZENS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO CELEBRATE 140th ANNIVERSARY OF ITS ADOPTION. Washington, D. C., Oct. 25.—The colored citizens of the District are to fitfully mark the 46th anniversary of the adoption of the 12th amendment to the Constitution of the District of Columbia. The celebration, which is to be on an elaborate scale, will be held December 18 at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, under the general direction of its energetic pastor, Rev. Simon P. W. Drew. The 13th amendment abolishes slavery in the United States. This is the first time the anniversary of this event has ever been observed here, and the occasion is attracting widespread attention. The principal address will be delivered by ex-Senator John B. Henderson, of Missouri, the author of the 13th amendment. Among those invited to be present are President W. H. Tatt, Vice-President J. S. Sherman, Speaker Champ Clark, William Jennings Bryan, Booker T. Washington, John C. Dancy, Henry Lincoln Joanson, Recorder of Deeds, Assistant Attorney-General W. H. Lewis, Auditor Ralph W. Tyler Register J. C. Napier, Former Speaker J. G. Cannon, Congressman Caleb Powers, Collector Whitefield McKinley, Judge Robert H. Terrell, all of the local ministers, and many others of like prominence. Contributions are be sent from numerous sources, to help defray the expense of the meeting. Persons desiring to assist can send contribution to Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, 2014 5th street northwest, Washington, D. C. --- --- ADVOCATE. Colored Voters Will Organize FIFTY THOUSAND OF THEM WILL GET TOGETHER IN MARYLAND UNDER LEADERSHIP OF LXON TO FIGHT FOR WHOLE REPUBLICAN TICKET. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 18.—Dr. Ernest L. Lyon, former United States minister to Liberia, has been invited to organize the 50,000 colored voters of the State in behalf of Phillips Lee Goldsborough and the remainder of the State ticket. He will associate with himself prominent colored men of the city, who will ast as an auxiliary of the State Central Committee. The Ministerial Alliance, at its monthly meeting at Grace Presbyterian Church, yesterday, passed a resolution endorsing Dr. Lyon as the man best suited for the work to aid the Republican party, and urged that special efforts be made to encompass the defeat of the Diggs disfranchising bills. Dr. Lyon has had considerable experience in political work among the race, and was a member of the auxiliary advisory committee to Republican National Committee in the presidential campaigns of 1900 and 1904. DR. DAVIDSON OF WASHINGTON DR. CITY SCHOOLS CONTAINS EDUCATIONAL METHODS OF TODAY WITH PAST. Washington, D. C., Oct. 25.—Dr. W. M. Davidson, superintendent of the Washington public schools, was greeted by a large and representative audience last Friday evening at Sunner Building. He spoke to the parents of the colored students primarily, under the auspices of the Home and School Association of Normal School No. 2, which organization thus opened its fall season. The Superintendent's address was eloquent and abounded in practical suggestions. He contrasted the educational methods and opportunities of today with those of fifty years ago, and declared that there is no excuse in this day for a boy or girl in good health not to have an education. He justified the use of the rod in extreme cases, but advised that punishment be tempered with love and discretion. Power and discipline were exalted as prime requisites to any scheme of training. His happy references to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Willard, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown and Booker T. Washington were heartily applauded. He argues for an education that fitted an individual for the work that he is best fitted to do, and believed that the life's vocation should be determined at the earliest possible stage of a child's career. He made no references to the "color line," and his live, liberal and whole-souled western ways made a pleasing impression upon his hearers. All bespeak for him a successful administration of the public schools here. The musical part of the program was a delightful feature. Mr. Joseph H. Douglass, now professor of orchestral music and the violin at Howard University, gave two violin solos, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Fannie Howard Douglass; a trio was rendered by H. Leonard Jeter, 'cello, H. S. Fortune, violin and Miss Ruth Grimshaw piano; Miss Ruth Weatherless and Celestine Lott contributed piano solos. The officers of the Home and School Home Association of Normal School No. 2, one of the oldest in this now increasing group of parent-teacher-pupil organizations, are as follows: President, Dr. C. W. Childs; vice-president, L. M. Hershaw; corresponding secretary, R. W. Thompson; recording secretary, Charles M. Thomas; treasurer, George D. Jenner; chairman of the Advisory Council, Dr. Lucy E. Moten, principal of Normal School No. 2. The next meeting, November 17, will be addressed by Judge W. H. De Lacy, of the Juvenile Court of the District. The musical numbers are furnished by Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshall, principal of the Washington Conservatory of Music. SCOTTISH LETE MASONS Baltimore, Md., Oct. 17.-Scottish Rite Masons of the southern jurisdiction held their annual session yesterday at Galilean Fishermen Hall, 109-11 W. Biddle street. Reports were received from subordinate bodies in various sections of the country, as well as from the various officers. William F. Powell, former American minister to Haiti, represented the northern jurisdiction as a traternal delegate, and delivered a brief address. The Lieutenant Souvereign Grand Commander, R. L. Pendleton, of Washington, presided in the place of Joseph L. Smith, of this city, who has been ill for sometime. Own Nearly All Couutry IN WHICH MARSHALL, TEXAS IS SITUATED DO HARDWORKING NEGROES Racial Progress In Evidence in Many Other Communities of the South, One Colored Man Having Over Sixteen Hundred Acres Under Cultivation is Report of Business League. In Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas are thousands of Negroes who own farms which are well stocked and on which they live in comfort and contentment, just as do their white neighbors. The opportunities for the black man in farming are more and better in the South than anywhere else in, or outside of this country. For instance: Negro farmers own nearly all the county in which Marshall, Texas, is the county seat. Moreover this county has the reputation of being one of the most fertile in the State. The Galveston News (white) recently had this to say through its correspondent at Brenham, Texas: "Miles Motley, a colored farmer who owns a large Brazos River farm near Chapel Hill, was Brenham Thursday, and when asked how many acres he had in cultivation, modestly replied, about six or seven hundred in corn and one thousand in cotton. Miles is a frugal, hardworking' colored man, and has made his success in life by hard work and strict' attention to business." Mr. Motley besides owning several thousand acres of land, controls a steam gin, store, etc., and otherwise is making good. At Mansfield, La., DeSoto Parish, lives J. T. Henderson, who not only runs a large woodyard and is a manufacturer of soft drinks, but also, is a farmer on an extensive scale, owning over 900 acres of fertile land and is reputed to be worth $175,000. Other colored farmers in the same neighborhood are Philip Wiggins, who raises an abundance of corn, potatoes, cane and cotton on 300 acres and the Rev. Jack Fuller who is the fortunate possessor of over 1,000 acres of rich, bottom land bordering the Red River. Charles Duplantier, who resides at Bunville, La., is also a very large planter. He owns about 3,700 acres, on which he raises cane by the ton, cotton by the hundred bales, corn potatoes and peas by the thousands of bushels. He has seventy-five heads of stock, a hundred of hogs. Last year he furnished the State farm with meat at $400 per month. His home place is worth $35,000 while his possessions elsewhere will aggregate $70,000, or more. Dr. B. R. Bluitt, of Dallas, Texas, owns one of the finest and most complete sanitariums that any member of the race has in the country. It cost over $12,000 and was established in June, 1905. Over four hundred patients have received medical treatment therein. Some of the most skillful operations known to the surgical world have been performed in this institution by Negro physicians. It is the proud boast of the management that ninety-eight per cent of all the operative cases treated there have recovered. Dr. Bluitt has associated with him some of the very best surgical Negro talent in the South. The appointment of John M. Wright to the position of city treasurer of Topeka, Kansas, is highly gratifying to those who know him. There is not a better qualified man for the position in Shawnee county, having served twenty years as deputy treasurer, Furthermore, Mr. Wright is congenial and approachable and enjoys the distinction of having as many good and substantial friends of both races as any other man in the state of Kansas. Perhaps there is no other man contributing more towards racial development and opportunity along industrial lines than R. S. Holloway, the general contractor and builder, 582 Harrison street, Kan- as City, Mo. Mr. Holloway has been a contractor and a very successful one for many years. As monuments to his ability and skill, he can point to the handsome new Graham flats at 1724 Highland avenue, the splendid flats he built for one, Frank Johnson, at Tenth and Woodland, the Wheeler Rota, Sixth and Cherry streets, the buildings at 585 and 582 Harrison, the large store room at Sixth and Bales avenue, an elegant residence on 5825 Main and many other smaller buildings elsewhere in the city. Mr. Holloway employs a force of about twenty men, consisting of brick, layers, stone masons, carpenters, wood carriers and common laborers, make ing his weekly pay roll average about $350. Wichita, Kansas, has a large colored population, who are seemingly in a well-to-do condition. Many are engaged in the different kinds of business pursuits and a very large number own their own homes, which in many instances are quite beautiful. Some of the prosperous members of the race here are Thomas Glover, Seventh and Market streets, who is estimated to be worth about $8,000. Besides his home place, he owns three other valuable residences and a $1,500 automobile. His son is head bookkeeper in the National Bank; the Rev, J. H. Vanburen, who not only has some valuable city property, but also owns two or three farms worth about $30,000; L. France who is said to own some of the finest farmland in Sedgewick county, about 600 acres valued at $150,00 per acre. Then there is W. H. Jones whose holdings in city reality amount to at least $12,000, while Capt. N. Clark Smith owns a business block and residence combined, located on the corner of Main and Eleventh streets, nearly opposite the county courthouse, easily worth over $10,000. Captain Smith is the efficient band master of the celebrated Tuskegee Institute Band. Disfranchment National Question AND NOT CONFINED SOLELY TO THE NEGRO IS THE CONTENTION OF J. C. MANNING SPEAKING BEFORE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE AT BALMORE. --- Baltimore, Md., Oct. 17.—That disfranchisement in the South was a question for the nation and that it was not a Negro question was the contention made by Joseph C. Manning, of Birmingham, Ala., in an address yesterday before the Colored Ministerial Alliance at Grace Presbyterian Church, Dolphin and Etting streets. Mr. Manning was formerly postmaster at Alexander City, Ala., and has recently delivered a number of addresses in the North, in which he declared that the non-officeholder white man of the South was the greatest sufferer because of disfranchising laws. Answering that the amendment to the constitution ofAlabama disfranchising voters was defeated by big majorities in the white counties or that State, while the black counties were reported as giving majorities for it, he declared that one day the North would wake up to the fact that the whole country was the sufferer thereby. There were, he said 6,000,000 men of voting age in the South. Of these, 2,500,000 were colored, and of the total there were only 1,500,000 with the right to vote. He said that there were 300,000 white males of voting age in Alabama and 200,000 colored men, and that the Democrats in the last election elected their ticket in a total vote of less than 75,000. Declaring that the white school children of Alabama only got an average of six months' schooling in a year, while the colored schools got three months, he maintained that such conditions would be wiped out with an untrammeled ballot, which he regarded as the bulwark of the nation. "Our friends South," he continued, "have with so much success plead to let the South alone that now a man whose prestige has been gained through the disfranchisement of thousands of Alabama is said to be an aspirant for the presidency. Lynchings and other discriminations will pass away with an aroused public sentiment, and we must see that their virus does not inoculate the whole country. Abraham Lincoln said that this republic could not exist half slave and half free, and we must see that the conditions that make one white man in the South count for six men in the North are eliminated." Tuskegee Entertains RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN AND WIFE, WHO COME TO "SMEET ONE ON THE GREATEST EDUCATORS IN AMERICA." Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 11.—Count Basil d'Egert, Councilor of State, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Countess d'Egert have been spending several days at Tuskegee Institute this week. Count d'Egert came to Tuskegee, as he states it, "to meet one of the greatest educators in America," and "to see something of the work of that man has done for his race." Count d'Egert and Countess d'Egert expressed themselves as being greatly pleased with all that they have seen and heard here, at the school. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Carter received the congratulations of their many friends at a reception Friday, at their home on Washington street. Many out-of-town guests were present. THE ADVOCATE ADVERTISEMENTS PLACED IN OUR COLUMNS BRING RE- SULTS. TRY IT. NUMBER VIII Cordial Reception WAS THAT TENDERED WASHINGTON PARTY BY THRIVING LITTLE TOWN. Large Influence Wielded by best Element of Negroes Over White People and Relations Between the Races are Cordial in Corsicana Where First Colored School Was Erected. Corsicana, Texas, Oct. 17. Although it was Sunday when Dr. Booker T. Washington, on his recent tour through the state of Texas, visited the little city of Corsicana, the whole party met a reception, that for wholesomeness and genuine cordiality could not be excelled in a larger town. According to the last census, Corsicana has a population of about nine thousand, but enthusiastic residents place it at about fourteen thousand. It is the centre of the great cotton market of Central Texas, and its glory and prosperity is shared alike by black and white. Here in Corsicana, are a multiplicity of examples, such as Dr. Washington calls the kind worth while, indicating that kind of progress that he often insists upon as being of the character most worth while. Scores of instances can be pointed out right here where Negroes from very humble beginnings have succeeded in an admirable way in commercial enterprises. To be sure, none of them are captains of finance, but in their humble way, they have solved the bread and butter question, have bank accounts, own their own homes, are good citizens and a number of them are very large tax payers. The colored people generally live off cotton raising and by working in the manufacture of its by-products, and a large number of them own their homes. As in all towns, there are a few leading colored citizens who have a large influence with the best element of white people, and who are regarded as of the best element of their own people by the whites. To a corresponding degree, they are looked upon by colored people as the real leaders of the people. In his address at Corsicana, Dr. Washington pointed out, as at some other places, that in certain callings in the South black people were in a large measure being replaced by the whites. This remark, upon investigation was not found to have particular bearing upon the situation at Corsicana, and especially as it relates to the barber business. In Corsicana, it is true that the Negro barbers hold their own, and here in this small town, one will find the best paying shops, the most cleanly and neat in appearance run by Negroes. Of this class there are three, one by Robert H. Durham, the other by Johnson and McKinney and the third by W. W. McKinney. R. H. Durham, perhaps stands in the lead. He has been in the business for nearly thirty years, and came to Corsicana broken down in health and with the stupendous capital of eleven dollars. He has a clean, up-to-date business, is regarded by the whites as a sober-minded, clear-headed man and by the blacks as a leader. Mr. Durham has a goodly amount of real estate, a comfortable home and is educating his children. He was one of the leaders in the reception accorded Dr. Washington and his party. His success, as well as that of a number of colored men in this town show conclusively the folly of despising the day of small things. In going the rounds of the city Mr. Durham calls the attentioq to a large number of men who had begun on 'nothing.' Such, for example, is the case of S. J. Chestnut, one of the largest retail grocers in the city, who does a business that approaches ten thousand dollars per year. Mr. Chestnut started in business on $150 which he borrowed from his children. In a novel way he has laid aside five cents per day for each of his three children, and when the amount reached $150, this sum was borrowed from them to go into business. Another man borrowed thirty-five dollars from Air Durham with which to open a small eating house. This man, Henry Smith, now owns and operates a general merchandise store, a first class restaurant and a moving picture show, and as money goes among colored people, is rated in pretty good circumstances. A young man and a cripple, Wooodd Hall, started as a vender of popcorn and peanuts. He now runs a grocery store with a good line of trade, and has not yet given up his popcorn. After three years in business in a populous Negro district, Norton Brothers, two unlettered and unscbooled men, buttuned with a lot of hard, (Continued on page Three.) CORRESPONDENCE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1911. CLARKSBURG. Mra. Nellie Wilson is sick. Mrs. N. N. Wilson is so Rev. S. P. West returned Saturday day from Brownville, Pa., where he visited his family. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Farmer left Monday for Pittsburg to visit friends. Two annual Thanksgiving sermons were preached Sunday to the Daughters of Sphinx. In the afternoon Rev. J. H. Jenkins preached to Omega Court at Trinity M. E. church, and at night Rev. S. P. West preached to Rose of Sharon Court at Pride A. M. E. church. Both of these gatherings were largely attended and able sermons were preached. The Missionary Society met at Mt. Zion Baptist church Friday night. On Friday night a Parents Club was formed at Trinity M. E. church with the following officers: Mrs. Floyd Robinson, Pres.; Mrs. John Lee, Vice-President; Mrs. Darle Dean secretary; Miss Celeste Johnson, Assistant secretary; Mrs. Lee Ruffin, treasurer. The object of this organization is to improve the environs of the youth of Clarksburg. The social held at the home of Mrs. Sarah Lottier was well attended. Proceeds for benefit of Trinity M. E. church. Strenuous efforts are being put forth at Pride A. M. E. church to close the year's work creditably. On Tuesday night an oyster supper was given by the Stewards and Stewardesses and was well attended. WINIFREDE. Rev. R. H. Allen and A. Wilson spent Saturday and Sunday at their home in St. Albans. Wm. Tucker spent Friday and Saturday in Charleston on business. R. S. Ross spent a few days here last week visiting his family. Thomas McNeal, an old resident is spending a few days here. Jas. K. Randolph and son, Oscar, went to Charleston Saturday, where the latter's eyes are being treated. W. N. Shelton spent Sunday at Cedar Grove. John Wilson, of St. Albans, is spending a few days here with his friends. Miss Virginia Smith, who has been suffering with sore throat, is able to be out again. G. W. Perkins and J. D. Wiseman spent a few days out of town last week. Rev. T. E. Smith filled his regular appointment here and preached two very good sermons. MONTGOMERY. Rev. Warner Brown, assisted by Rev. Brewer of Va., is holding revival services at the First Baptist church. The Odd Fellows Hall was almost destroyed by fire Friday afternoon. It was insured for $6,000.00 which partly covers the loss. W. J. Browder, the tailor, lost everything, shop and household effects. The grocery store occupied by Railey and Shepherd was damaged about $200.00 with small insurance. Mrs. J. V. Wilkerson and Mrs. Annie Peck, left last week for Bluefield to enter the Bluefield Institute. Mrs. C. W. Watson fell and sustained painful injuries to her arm, while visiting Mrs. M. J. Banks at Hanover, last week. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Lawrence are the proud parents of an adopted son. They have named him Paul Dunbar Lawrence. Mrs. S. E. Marks, is out again after a few week's illness. S. E. Childs has returned from a business trip to Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. William James, of Glenn White, have moved here for permanent residence. EAGLE. E. B. Saunders, of Paint Creek, was visiting his mother, Mrs. Emma Teague, Saturday. Sandy and Fry Saunders were calling in Montgomery Sunday. Mrs. Amanda Johnson of Malden, was visiting her sister, Mrs. Eva B. Russ last week. Miss Frances Goodwine was shopping in Montgomery last week. Miss Beulah Saunders and Miss B. Holmes of Montgomery, were the Sunday guests of Mrs. Emma Teague, Mrs. Eva B. Russ attended the Montgomery Improvement League last Thursday. HARPEK'S FERRY Matt Henson lectured Tuesday night to the students, Mr. Hensca is one of the two men who saw the North Pole. He was Perry's right hand man, Mr. Hensca's lecture was an illustrated one. It was very interesting and educational. The students showed their interest by giving their best attention. Friday night the Young Men's Society, the Lincoln Debaong Society, gave an excellent program, Prof. Saunders sang a solo. Sunday the quarterly meeting was held at Johnson Town. Storers sons and daughters were well represented on the program. President Melonald, Mr. Winters, Miss Smith, Mr. Robinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Hered attended. The Trustees have concluded the arrangements for the Keward System of water supply. In a few days now they expect to have the plumbing started. Sunday school has been organized for this school year. Mr. Saunders was re-elected president, Mr. Lloyd Fisher, secretary, Miss Smith is still treasurer, Miss Gladys McAfee was elected organist, Miss Lydia Madden assistant organist, Miss Anna Bell Jones, choriester. MrBridford of Keystone, an '08 graduate made a visit to the school Thursday and Friday of last week. HINTON. Fred Wells, who had the misfortune of getting one of his ribs broke, is able to be out again. Mrs. Ed Lewis entertained the Progressive Daughters and Sons this week. Miss A. E. Simpson, who has been a successful teacher in the school here, has resigned, and accepted a position in the Garnett School, of Charleston, where she gets a longer term and larger salary. Miss Simpson has a host of friends who regret to see her go. The community will suffer a loss as well as the school. Miss Simpson's friends wish her much success in her new work. Ben Dailey, who has lived here for a number of years, is moving his family to Virginia, where they expect to make their future home. Mrs. Ida James and daughter, Mrs. R. Wicks, have returned from Charleston where they have been visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Neel Allen have moved from Cedar Grove. Rev. F. E. Smith is carrying on a protracted meeting at Cannelton and is having success. Miss Gertrude Jones, of Charleston, and Mrs. Isabella Coats, of London, were entertained at dinner in the house of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Daulton, Thursday. J. W. Bronston, of Denwood, O., was the Saturday guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Daulton. Calvin Smith, of Kimberley, was visiting his brother, Watt Smith, here Sunday. Miss Gertrude Smith, of Eagle, was the Sunday guest of Miss Maggie Saunders. Columbus Day was fittingly observed by the Smithers School with the following program: Song, America, Recitations, Katherine Jones, Saline Reynolds, Albert Lewis, Helen Grant, Song, W. Va. Hills, Recitations, Lucy Dillard, Daisy James, Troy Reynolds, Mary Smith, Song, Red, White and Blue, Recitations, Lillie Mosby, McKinley Bratcher, Mathilda James, Paper, "Columbus," Walter Clarkson. FAIRMONT. Mrs. Chas Hamilton and daughter, Ellen, left Saturday for a visit to her aunt Mrs. W. H. Roberts, in Chicago. She was joined in Moundsville by her mother, Mrs. G. H. Jordan, of Pt Pleasant, who will also visit her sister, Mrs. Roberts. Mrs. Archie Meade was removed to Cook's Hospital, Friday night very low with appendicitis and is still there. Master William Jennings is improving from an attack of diptheria. Mrs. Hattie Fortune and Mrs. E. L. Morton were indisposed last week. Mrs. Fanny Fraction spent Saturday and Sunday at Berryburg visiting her husband. She was accompanied by Wm. O. Arm-strong and Miss Florence Cobb. M. F. Obie is improving from his recent attack of rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wilson entertained a number of friends Monday, October 9th in honor of Mrs. Wilson's mother, Mrs. Fanny Williams. A very pleasant time was spent. Miss Carrie Harris left last week to resume her studies at Storer College. Mrs. Edward Hoskens and children have gone to Philadelphia, Pa., to spend some time with her daughter. until preaching and Sunday School until the Church is completed. The pastor, Rev. C. C. Gill is planning to have the dedicatory services some time in November. Rev. Toney, pastor in charge at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, preached two excellent sermons, Sunday. Ladies Aid No. 1 will hold a banquet Friday night in the basement of the new church. A chicken and waffle supper will be held at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Thursday, October 19. THOMAS The banquet given by Fidelity Lodge 22, A. F. & A. M., on Thursday, October 17th, was wel attended. Supper was served in the new banquet room. Mr. L. H. Doreas, of Hendricks, spent Tuesday in Thomas. Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Willis entertained in honor of Dr. Sheen. Dr. Sheen of the A. M. E. Church preached two able sermons on Sunday. Charleston To Install Officers.—Provident Council No. 657. Order of St. Luke will have a public instillation of officers, followed by a literary program and reception at their hall on the evening of the 2nd inst. An invitation is ex- tended to all sister fraternities and the public to be present. Attending Synod.—The Rev, R. R. Johnson, pastor of the_Presbyterian Church at Kimball is in the city in attendance upon the synod of his denomination, this week. The church of which Rev. Johnson has charge is the only one of that denomination among colored in the State and is reported to be in a flourishing condition. Hotel Brown Guests.—The guests registered at the hotel Brown this week are: Robt, Eldridge, Rev. R. D Austin, Snow Hill; J. E. Meadows, Keystone; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Grimes, Beckley; John Matthews, Carbondale; B. Jones, St. Albeas; Mr. and Mrs Edward Anderson, St. Louis; Nelson Harmon, Huntington; J. C. Sawyer, Black Betsey; W. A. Brown, Hansford; Mrs. B. Chambers, Lewlscarg; Mr. and Mrs. William Bowles, Minden; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Christian, Thorpe; E. E. Owens, Cincinnati; J. E. Washington, Hinton; Martha Foster, Mammoth. Returns to Washington, J. C. Campbell, who has just completed a course in embalming and undertaking at Cincinnati, O., spent a few days here this week with his parents. He will leave this evening for Washington, D. C. being joined here by Mrs. Campbell who prolonged her stay in Cincinnati a few days. Succumbs to Leag Illness.—After a long illness Mrs. Mollie, wife of Coleman Hammond, died Monday morning at her residence on the West Side of Bright's disease. The decedent was a native of Henry county, Ky., where she was born in 1856 and had been a resident of this city several years. She was a member of the Household of Ruth and St. Stephens Council, Order of St. Luke. The funeral services will be held this afternoon at the First Baptist Church, of which she was a membe$, and the remains will be escorted to Spring Hill cemetery by the societies with which she was affiliated. Will Seud Delegate.—The Tribe of Joseph met with Mrs. Alice Jackson, on Goshorn street, Friday evening. Among the business tragetacted was a solid vote of the Tribe to represent with a delegate directly at the W. Va. Baptist State Convention at Wheeling next August. This organization is said to be the largest local auxiliary in the city and its efforts to become a member of the annual body direct, will doubtless impress similar organizations to do likewise. At the conclusion of the session Mrs. Alice Jackson served dainty lunches Officers Elected.—Section I of the Missionary Society met with Mrs. Sallie Mickey, Broad street, Friday evening and was delightfully entertained by Miss Rayford, the newly elected Captain of the Section. The other officers chosen at this meeting were Mrs. M. A. Parker, Assistant Captain; Miss Allice Tuning, Secretary; J. C. Lewis, Treasurer; Sam Raglapp, Chaplain. The Section will meet the third Monday evening of each month and the patronage of the public is earnestly solicited. Debate Feature of Meeting.—The Tribe of Judah met with Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Brown (props, of Hotel Brown) on Capitol street last Thursday evening One of the interesting features of the evening was a spirited debate between the members. The speakers were: Mrs. Lyda Hawkins, R. C. Melver J. C. Lewis, and Mrs. Louisa Tombs; the judges were: Miss Fannie Thomas; Me-dames Ella Huffin, N. B. Penn Rev, B. R. Reed and G. H. Edmunds. The meeting was held in the public reception rooms of the Hotel and the speakers limited to ten minutes each. The judges decided in favor of the affirmative. After a collection of $3.25 for the Missionary Society and two very encouraging addresses from Mrs. Viola Wright, and G. H. Edmunds, the Tribe members and visitors were invited to the dining room where covers were laid for 47 and the following menu served: slaw, chicker sandwiches, coffee, angel food cake, vanilla ice cream, one Tribe meets this week with Mrs. Annie Hart on Bradford street. Miss Annie Simpson, of Hinton, arrived in the city Sunday, to assume her duties as primary teacher in the Garnett School. Miss Simpson fills the vacancy created by the marriage of Miss Artistes Johnson. Frances Walden and Miss Lula Preston were quietly married, Friday evening, of this week. Mrs. Edward Brown entertained the Married Ladies' Club, Thursday afternoon, at her home on Lewis street. A very enjoyable linen shower was given Wednesday evening by the Priscilla Art Club at the home of Miss Maude Viney ha honor of the bridge elect. Miss Aristis Johnson. Two following ladies participated in the affair: 'Mesdames C. O. Lowry, W. O. Terry, F. C. Dehonny, Joel Taylor, Frank Johnson, Sara Johnson, J. M. Hazlewood, J. W. Viney, Henry Burke, Aliceen Bibbs, Chas, Preston; Misses Amy Hutchinson, Gertrude Campbell, Lucinda Williams, Mary Preston, Estelia James, Moss Clay, Maggie Lewis, Hazel Lucas, Cornelia Davis, Beatrice Calhoun, Annie Simpson, Helen Truxon, Rhoda Wilson, Ether Falker, Nina Clinton, Flora Webster and Amelia Wilcher. Mrs. Mayne Jones was ill a few days this week at her home on Hansford street. Mrs. Lucy Stuart and family have moved to Norfolk, Va. Born to Dr. and Mrs. B. P. Bromley a two-pound baby boy, Saturday, of last week. THE ADVOCATE. Little Francis Flagg was ill a few days last week at the home of his parents on Truslow street. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hale entertained Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hale and Miss Sallie Hale at dinner, Sunday. Miss Cornelia Davis was hostess so the Priscilla Art Club, Thursday evening of last week. The marriage of Miss Aristes Johnson, formerly one of the city teachers, and Mr. Jasper Thomas, of Columbus, O., occurred Sunday at 11:00 A. M., at the home of Mrs. Sara Johnson, Washington Court, after which the couple left for Columbus, where they will reside. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hale gave a Dutch Lunch Tuesday evening, at their home on Senzz street, in honor of the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Whittaker, Sentz street. The following guests were present: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Whittaker, Misses Alice Whittaker, Hazel Lucas, Lucinda Williams, Mary Preston, and Gertrude Campbell and Mr. Edward James. Mrs. W. W. Williams, of Red Sulphur Springs, is visiting friends in the city. Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Sinclair, of Bancroft spent the week-end in the city. Mrs. Roscoe Bibb left Saturday for her home in Clifton Forge, Va., after a pleasant visit to relatives in the city. Personals and Locals Mr. James Grimes and Miss Margaret Beebe, of Beckley, were married, Thursday of last week at Hotel Brown. James Marshal, of Quincy, Ill., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Drucilla Kuox, Court street. Mrs. Bert Williams, of Red Star is the guest of Mrs. Mitilda Mitchell. Mrs. Johnson, of Cambridge, O., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Williams. Miss Minnie Harris entertained Rev. B. R. Reed and the choir of the First Baptist church at the home of Mrs. Chas. Stephenson, Thursday evening with a luncheon. Mrs. D. W. Butler returned Saturday, from a visit to friends in Columbus, O. Charles Dawson, of Columbus, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Sarah Dawson, Morris street. Mrs. J. E. Brown was hostess to the Married Ladies Whist Club, Thursday afternoon, at her home on Lewis street. Mrs E. B. Delaney and Mrs. S. M. Davis were entertained at dinner at Hotel Brown, Wednesday. Miss Elizabeth Dunnavan left, Thursday, for Richmond, Va., where she will spend a few weeks before going to Washington, D. C., for the winter. Mrs. tarvey Mickens has returned from a visit to friends at Hinton. lyn hing RECORD AS SET FORTH IN THE OCTOBER CRISIS. The authorities at present seem to be sincere about pressing the charge of murder against the Coatesville murderers. Eighteen are under arrest as we go to press. Norman Price, 20 years old, of Thorndale, Pa., and Chester Bostick, 19 years old, whose home is in Marietta, Pa., have turned State's evidence. The men they named as having been among those who burned Walker alive are Oscar Lamping, a local preacher, fireman and policeman of Coatesville; William Gilbert, of Coatesville; Albert Berry, an itinerant aercuart who recently came to Coatesville; Joseph Schwartz, of Coatesville; George Stahl, 16 years old a native of Marietta, who has been a temporary resident of Coatesville; Joseph Schofield, of Parkersburg, and themselves, Lamping, they said, was the organizer of the mob. Schwartz assisted him. Capt. Berry and Gilbert were sent to the hospital to get an idea of the place and to point out to the mob exactly who Walker lay. Schofield got the wood for the fire. Price and Bostick participated in the lynching, they said, although they had nothing to do with the actual burning. It is said that from 1,000 to 2,000 persons followed the mob. Other arrests may come later. Everything goes to show that a very slight effort on the part of the authorities would have prevented the lynching. Officers in an automobile arrived at the hospital after Walker was taken out but did not try to overtake the crowd. Long-distance messages were sent saying that there would be a lynching that night. In an Indian Springs, Ga., hotel trouble arose between a white clerk and a colored bellboy. Lane, the white man, "struck the boy over the head with a pistol and in doing so the gun went off," says the news dispatch lucidly. The bellboy threatened to kill the clerk and this threat "threw fear into the whole hotel." The proprietor of the hotel, at the representation of the beltboys, discharged Lane, but "the county officers were notified," continues the dispatch, and they "came to arrest the Negroes." A riot ensued. Two white men were killed during an exchange of shots. Four Negroes were captured and were "about to be lynched," but were hurried to Athleta. Two of them have turned out to have had nothing to do with the fight. Colored people were attacked and beaten all through the countryside. In Pineville, La., a race war began Gold Filled Roman Gold Finish 1 Inch 1 Amethyst Doublet Free to Girls This fine Ring or Sterling Silver Closed Lock and Key Bracelet for sell-only One Dozezi Childs Red Cross Salve (at 25c per box). Send no money. We trust you until goods are sold. Your name on a postal will do, and goods will be promptly sent. Write today as you may not see this ad again. CHILDS & CO. CRANFORD. - NEW JERSEY. Department A. September 12, over the shooting of a white man by an unknown Negro. Six colored men were shot and two killed. The Negroes were notified to leave the town and several hundred of them did so. Others, however, are preparing to resist rather than leave their homes, and it is from such resistance that the rioting resulted. --- At Jackson, Ga., "three buggy loads of citizens" whipped a colored man, because of his failure to give them as much of the road as they wished, or for some other reason, fancied or real: they stopped the mule and lashed the Negro with a buggy whip till his clothes were bloody. At Kansas City fifteen Mexicans and two colored men were sitting in a Missouri-Pacific bunk car listening to a phonograph. Suddenly at one side door appeared two policemen and one at an opposite door. One officer shouted, "Hands up!" and immediately the officers began shooting through the roof to the right and to the left as the men in a panic scattered through every outlet. The testimony was to the effect that none of the surprised laborers had any weapons, and never had had any in the car. One Mexican was killed. The Waynesboro Pennsylvania Gerald publishes the following society note: Adam Forney, South Potomac Avenue, returned Sunday from a trip to Coatesville, Pa., and brought with him several of the small bones of the body of the Negro who was lynched there last week. Mr. Forney dug the charred bones from the derbis on the scene where the Negro was burned to death. In the last twenty years there have been the following lynchings in the North: New York, 1, 1897; Iowa, 1, 1907; Pennsylvania, 2, 1894, 1911; Delaware, 1, 1903; Illinois, 3, 1903, and race wars in 1906-1908; Ohio, 4, 1910, 1891, 1892, 1904, and race war in Urbana; Indiana, 5, 1897; 2, 1900; 1, 1903. Most of those lynched were colored, but not all. At Purcell, Okla., a crowd of 3,000 men, women and children watched coal oil poured over a half-naked body of a colored man who was afterwards roasted to death. The man was recused of attacking a woman. The colored people, who are often said to conceal their criminals, tried to show their devotion to law and order by delivering the accused man with the above result. At Caddo, Okla., as a result of clashes between whites and Negroes 1,500 left in one day, sacrificing their property. In South Georgia a Negro killed a town marshal. Thereupon the white people burned three lodge buildings, two churches and a school house, and lynched three men. various industries which employed Negro labor have been compelled to shut down. Other lynchings are as follows: Miles Taylor, at Shreveport, La., who had shot four white men: C. Jones at Farmersville, Texas, who was accused of insulting a woman over the telephone; A. Dean, at Augusta, Ark., who had killed a white woman. At Granville, S. C., a colored boy who was accused of "insulting" a white girl, was mutilated on the public square. At Louisville, Miss., the execution of a murderer was made public. Lemonade and peanuts were on sale. The murderer walked to his death calmly and with a steady step. He probably felt superior to his audience. David Settle, of Guilford, N. C., has been arrested for killing a colored man a thing which has occasioned some surprise in that section. Governor Blease' of South Carolina has again distinguished himself by striking a colored servant in Cleveland who was attempting to pass through a crowd. Nearly three months have passed since a colored woman at Okemeah, Okla., was raped by white men, and she and her fourteen-year-old son lynched. No effort has been made to punish the lynchers. Your druggist will refund money if PAVO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or, Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days, 50c. Mon, Wed. & Fri. THE BAUER MEAT & FISH CO. 28 AND 30 CAPITOL ST. Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork Fresh Pork Sausage OUR OWN MAKE. 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To Ella Bohannon: Take Notice: That on the 11th day of November, A. D., 1911, between the hours of 8 o'clock A. M. and 6 P. M., at the law office of E. R. Carter, at No. 604 1-2 Kanawha street, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia I will take the deposition of myself and others to be read in evidence 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 the Plaintiff and you are the Defendant. If from any cause the taking of said depositions shall not be commenced on WHAT IS IT? Ten and twenty year combination distribution certificate of membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D.C., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For further particulars see. D. E. V. JORDAN General Agent for West Va. Office: Room 2, K. of P. Bldg. Charleston, W. Va. 100 AGENTS WANTED. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911. 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Williams is the principal owner Mr. Durham and Dr. Gordon Phipps own together some valuable real estate, improved and unimproved, and a large number of people of the Negro race own their very and good and comfortable homes. The town supports handsomely two physicians of color and a dentist. Dr. Phipps and Dr. W. W. Humphrey being the physicians and Dr. Roderick Johnson the dentist. Dr Humparey, also owns a large grocery store, which is practically managed by his estimable wife. A wide awake, hustling Negro Business League, that would stimulate cooperative effort among these merchants, awaken the population to a greater responsibility in supporting the enterprises would be a welcome innovation in this community. One writer who came South on one of the recent trips of Dr. Washington's expressed surprise at the large number of Negro undertakers and at the large amount of profit they seemed to realize out of their business. There is greater wonder here that there is nor a dry goods store nor a shoe store In all these efforts the public school has had a lasting and salient influence. It was in Corsicana that the first public school for colored people was erected in Texas; it was in Corsicana that the first piano was placed in a colored school, and in Corsicana where only the industrial work was placed in the public schools by the efforts of the colored people themselves. Prof. G. W Jackson, principal of the public schools, believing in the principles of industrial education as advocated by Dr. Washington made a thorough canvass of the homes and churches in Corsicana and secured contributions amounting to about $300 with which to begin that work. With this evidence of self help, he went to prominent white people and secured donations sufficient to make the amount about $900. With this, small industrial work for girls was begun. Many of these people continued their contributions for two years until a re-action set in, because of the belief that industrial education for girls ought to reform labor conditions in the community in two years. With difficulty, Prof. Jackson, with the aid of the city superintendent, convinced the donors that the time was not sufficient, and now, that more aid has come to the work, about fifty girls in the last vacation period who had been trained in the domestic science work at the High School found work in the homes of the people of Corsicana and performed that work in a far more satisfactory manner than it had been performed by untrained girls. The city board took cognizance of the work in an official manner, and with the annual donations and the subscriptions of colored citizens, as well as the small tuition fee, the departments are easily becoming the feature of the school work. This work is carried on under Prof. Jackson's supervision, for the boys by a Tuskocgee graduate and by a graduate of Wilberforce for the girls. Throughout the surrounding country, here and there a thrifty set of colored farmers can be found. There are several districts where for miles the and is all owned by Negro farm- THE Nuform is a popular priced corset, modeled on lines that perfect your figure. It defines graceful bust, waist and hip lines and fits at the back. The range of shapes is so varied, every figure can be fitted with charming result. All Nuform Corsets are made of serviceable fabrics—both heavy and light weight—daintily trimmed and well tailored. Your dealer will supply you with the model best suited to your figure. Nuform, Style 478. (As pictured). For average figures. Medium low bust, extra skirt length over abdomen and hips. Made of durable coutil and light weight batiste. Hose supporters. Sizes 18 to 30. Price, $1.00. Nuform, Style 485. 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HARLAN Settlement Work To Receive Attention is Plan of Workers Who Will Inaugurate Campaign.—School Facilities to be Increased.—Clarke Talks on Stevens. The Death of Justice Harlan. Thompson's National News Bureau Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington, D. C., Oct. 18.—The death of Justice John Marshall Harlan came as a distinct shock to the people of this community. His illness was brief, and, although in his seventy-ninth year, his constitution seemed so robust that many more years of life seemed to lie before him. The Negro race, in particular, mourns his demise. He was the friend of the common people. His voice as a statesman and as a jurist was always lifted up in behalf of the down-trodden. A unionist, he fought valiantly for the integrity of the Republic. A Christian, he violently opposed slavery. A defender of the Constitution, he upheld the doctrine that "all men are created free and equal," and he knew no american citizen by the color of his skin. Justice Harlan was a courageous "dissenter." His opinions were frequently at variance with those of the majority of his Associates on the Supreme Bench. He interpreted the laws by their spirit, as well as by their letter, and held to a strict line of justice, whether that be in accord with the prevailing sentiment of the times or not. He will be longest and most tenderly remembered by the colored people of the nation for his remarkable dissent from the opinion of Justice Bradley and the majority of the Supreme Court that the civil rights law was unconstitutional. He considered the Summer law, "good law," squaring with the Constitution, and all of his opinions held to the view that statutes should be so construed that the intent of the founders of the Republic should be preserved. If the colored people could have had their way, Justice Harlan would long ago have been President of the United States. It will always be a source of regret on their part that he was not made chief Justice of the Supreme Court when the death of Chief Justice Fuller made such a recognition possible. The passing of Justice Harlan is more generally mourned by the Negroes of this land than has been true of any man in public life since the death of Lincoln and Sumner. The Lynching Evil To Be Denounced The saturnalia of lynching which seems to have taken a new hold upon the people of every section of the land is causing true American patriots no little concern. This general disregard for law and order injures not only the Negro, who is usually the victim of mob violence, but it strikes at the root of government, and the ravages that now bear most heavily upon the black man will eventually reach out and strike the white man. Unpunished lynchers sow the seed of anarchy. The republican leaders may find it necessary to make an especial effort to crush out the evil, and it is expected that the state and national platforms of the party during the next few months will contain planks of denunciation of lynching and all forms of mob violence. The colored press throughout the land is aroused as it has never been aroused before, and the race leaders believe now is the time to get results through the weight of the influence of their favorite party. They are asking the managers to make an anti-lynching campaign, as one of the best means of securing justice, and at the same time establishing an issue that will rally the Negro solidly around the republican banner. It is regarded as certain that President Taft will speak out in vigorous terms on the subject in his message to Congress in December. Delegations have called on him, urging that he give attention to the matter, and it is likely that other delegations will come within the near future. He is bitterly opposed to lynching and will not hesitate to place in the scale of law and order the full weight of the presidential influence. He will doubtless recommend legislation on the part of each state, calculated to punish members of the mob and thus wipe out the evil by the most practical method. It is believed by the republicans of the stalwart type that there is a big vicory in sight for the republican party if it is willing to wage another campaign on the old issues of human rights, such as stirred the hearts of the patriots in the palmy days when the spirit of Lincoln, Grant, Conkling, Stevens, Morton and Wade prevailed the air. The Negro does not wish to become a party issue, but the lynching evil must be stamped out by some means. Republican managers are giving the subject serious thought, so it said, and they are being warned not to allow the democrats to step in slyly and steal their thunder by adopting anti-lynching planks themselves. Public Facilities To Be Increased. Public school facilities for the colored pupils are to be largely increased. The Cardozo Manual Training School will be ready for occupancy within the next three weeks. This will be at the corner of First and I streets, southwest, in the heart of a section in which a large number of colored people have their homes. In the building will be provision for every branch of industrial work, shops for the boys, and cooking, dressmaking millinery, etc., for the girls. Municipal Architect Ashford has announced that the plans for the new Normal School No. 2, to be located at Georgia avenue and Howard Place, have been completed, and will go to the Fine Arts Commission for approval. This structure will be a model of its kind, Dr. Lucy Moten, the principal, has examined the plans of the best normal schools of the United States and Europe, and has embodied in this institution the most meritorious features that could be found anywhere. When completed the building will have cost $200,000 and will accommodate 175 pupils. A school for colored pupils is to be erected at Brightwood, and another at Burrvi.e, each to cost $30,000. The work on all of these schools is to be rushed, to relieve the present crowded condition of the buildings now in use. The Phelps School, heretofore for whites, will be turned over to the colored people, and will house the Colored Business High School. Activity in Social Settlement Work. The directors of the Social Settlement work in the District are anxious to place the institution on a sound financial basis, and are inaugurating a campaign for a fund that will enable them to operate without being compelled to depend upon voluntary contributions. A big meeting was held last Friday evening at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, and a goodly sum was realized. President Thirkield, of Howard University, gave $10 and pledged $25 for the University. Register Napier, Drs. Childs and Cabanis, Auditor Tyler, and Dr. Lucy E. Moten, Assistant Superintendent R. C. Bruce and others subscribed $10, and many gave smaller amounts. The address of the evening was delivered by Dr. D. Webster Davis, of Richmond, Va., and it was an excellent one in every respect, abounding in wit, humor and philosophy. Dr. W. M. Davidson, superintendent of the public schools, also spoke in an intensely practical vein. A Citizens' Charity Reception, for the benefit of the Social Settlement House, has been arranged, to take place at Convention Hall, Friday evening, December 8, under the general direction of Mrg. L. B. Moore. A large committee of citizens will assist, and hundreds of patrons will pay the $1 fee suggested. The officers of the Social Settlement Association are: Dr John R, Francis, president; H. E. Williams, of the Weather Bureau, treasurer; Miss Ella Hawes, Acting Head Worker; Mrs. A. G. Dillard, Associate Worker; Mr. F. D. Lee is doing a splendid work as general publicity agent. The necessity for this settlement movement is emphasized by a statement made by the Association to the effect that the current death rate of the colored people, living in the alley neighborhoods is but 17 per thousand. Mu-So-Lit Club Hears About Thaddeus Stevens. Lieut. Thomas H. R. Clarke, one of Washington's most erudite scholars and student of history, gave a luminous account of the life, aims and public services of Thaddeus Stevens at the opening meeting of the Mu-So-Litt Club last Friday evening at Martin's. The story of the career of the great apostle of human liberty was ably worked out, and many new facts connected with his patriotic services were brought to light. It was shown that Stevens established the free school system in Pennsylvania in the face of tremendous odds, and was more largely than has been supposed, instrumental in having the emancipation proclamation issued and for the successful prosecution of the civil war. He was an uncompromising opponent of slavery, and when failing to save a fugitive slave by the forms of law, would often go down into his pocket and buy the slave outright and give him his freedom. It is understood that Lieut. Clarke is to incorporate his Stevens monograph into a series of literary productions, which he will publish by-and-by in book form. Lieut Clarke saw service in the Spanish-American War, and at Fort Thomas Ky., acted as judge-advocate for the troops stationed there. A feature of the program Friday evening was the appearance of M.E. Smyth Jones, a poet of ability, who recited his "Ode to Ethiopia," illustrated by stereooptics views and portraits of prominent characters mentioned in the poem. Short addresses were made by Mr. J. H. Washington) superintendent of industries at Tuskegee Institute; John Q. Adams, editor of St. Paul, Minn., Appeal; Nev. A. L. G. Jordan, secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board; and Rev. W. A. Creditt, pastor of Cherry street Baptist Church, Philadelphia. Dr Arthur S. Gray is president of the Muso-Lit Club, and its membership embraces seventy-five of the representative literary, professional, musical and social lights of the capital. The News In Brief Garnet C. Wilkinson, of the M Street High School, is the champion tennis player of the District, having wrested the title from Dr. H. W. Freeman recently in a hard-fought battle. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the talented elocutionist, will eat her Christmas dinner in Bermuda. She is to play a return engagement in all of the principal points of the Island, under the direction of Miss Alberta L. Burgess. She is being urged to present ed. Garlar Easton's new emotional drama, "Christophe," which has been highly praised by the theatrical critics East and West. Miss Davis is to appear in a star recital Friday evening, November 3, at Metropolitan A. M. E., church, supported by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Douglass and local artists. Dr. James E. Shepard, president and founder of the National Religious Training School, Durham, N. C., has accepted an Invitation to deliver an address early in the new year before the Bethel Literary and Historical Association, the nation's banner organization for literary and scientific research. He will draw a crowd, as he always has a message that the world is eager to hear. Prof. J. Henry Lewis, musical director of the Amphion Glee Club, is preparing to produce a standard opera in the spring. Among those suggested are "Ine Mikado," "The Bohemian Girl," "Pinafore," "Robin Hood," and others. The Amphions presented "The Pirates of Penzance" last June at the New Howard, and scored a success Dr. Earnest Lyon, formerly Minister to Liberia, now pastor of the John Wesley M. E. Church, Baltimore, has given to the Washington Conference of the M. E. Church three acres of land at Laurel, Md., upon which to erect a home for the aged ministers of the Conferences and their wives. The donor also offers to raise the first $250 toward the erection of a suitable building, provided the ministers of the Conference raise the remainder. Dr. Lyon is also the representative of the Liberian government in this country. T. Thomas Fortune is not to edit a paper in Washington. He has been given a permanent position as editor of The New York Age, the paper he made famous. The Age did well to secure the services of this valuable writer and fearless exponent of the higher thought of the race. The Age is not The Age of yore without the brainy Fortune. Local physicians regard with favor the candidacy of Dr. Arthur M. Brown, of Birmingham, Ala., for the next presidency of the National Medical Association. The 1912 meeting will be held in August at Tuskegee Institute. The ministers of Washington are to hold a meeting soon to take up in a definite way the matter of attending the "Shepard Ministerial Conference" next July at the National Religious Training School, at Durham, N. C. Speakers will be instructed to prepare themselves to discuss along scientific lines the various topics suggested in the call just issued by Dr. Shepard. The attendance from here will be large and representative. It must not be overlooked that the visitors are to be the guests of the school for one week, absolutely without expense of any kind. Dr. Shepard is immensely popular with the ministers of all denominations in this city. Prof. E. C. Williams, principal of the M Street High School, was the speaker at this week's meeting of the Bethel Literary and Historical Association. His theme, "From the Ox-Cart to the Aeroplane," was a delightful survey of the progress of the race since emancipation. The stock of Dr. S. L. Corrother-for the Zlon Bishopric is steadily rising. It is regarded as pretty certain that he will be one of the three to be chosen at Charlotte, N. C., next May. Dr. James H. Dillard, president of the Jeanes Fund Board, was in the city last week on business, and held a lengthy conference with Register J. C. Napier at the Treasury Department. Mme. Anita Patti Brown is booked for a star concert here in January. She is a favorite in the musical circles of the nation's capital. The New Howard opens Monday evening next as the 'some of polite vaudeville and motion pictures. Manager A. J. Thomas is leaving no stone unturned to secure the best acts in the country and please the taste of the mos fastidious. The house, seats 1,800 people. Two shows will be given nightly, with a students' matinee on Saturday, when pictures of an educational character will be presented. Mr. Thomas has undertaken a big proposition, but he will win out, if properly supported by the 100,000 Negroes of the District of Columbia. It will be a relief to friends everywhere that the "Thomas L. Jones," whose death was announced last week is not the well-known attorney of that name; and the "John R. Lynch," who committed suicide was a white lieutenant in the army, and not the veteran paymaster who recently got married and retired from the service. It is a pity that each individual cannot have a name that is h.s. exclusive property, and thus avoid confusion that identical cognomens so frequently cause. The symposium, "Woman in the Professions," held last Sunday evening at Asbury M. E. Church, under the management of Mrs. M. W. Clair, was largely attended. The speakers were Dr. Julia H. P. Coleman, president of the Hair-vim Chemical Company; Mrs. R. L. Pendleton, of the Woman's Federation; Mrs. Julia Mascen Layton, of the Woman's Relief Corps, G. A. R.; Mrs John R. Francis, of the Young Women's Christian Association; and Mrs. A. J. Cooper, instructor in Latin at M Street High School. Mrs. L. R. Clarke's Industrial Training School for girls opened last week for the fall term, with an increased enrollment over last year. Assistant Register Cyrus Field Adams is in poor health. His brother, John Quincy Adams, of St. Paul, Minn. is here to assist in caring for him. A long cessation from official duties may be necessary to bring Mr. Adams back to normal condition. A pretty romance of "love at first sight" culminated in the marriage, last Tuesday morning, of Mr. John P. Quander and Miss Maud Baker. Miss Baker is a recent graduate of the Armstrong Manual Training School, and is popular in society circles. Mr. Quander is a stenographer in the civil government at Mauila, Philippine Islands, and is a native of Washington. Mr. ADVOCATE SIX E and Mrs. Quander will make a honeymoon tour of the West, after which they will make their home in the Philippines. Capt. Walter 1. Loving, leader of the Philippines Constabulary Band, has purchased an automobile, and will make a tour of Europe in his car, visiting England, France, Italy and Spain proceeding by this route to his post at Manila, in the Philippine Islands. Capt. Loving has received much social attention while visiting his friends in this, his "home town." Cards received by friends here announce the birth of a son, William Ernst, to the American Minister and Mrs. Henry W. Furniss, September 24, at the American Legation, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Congratulations have been forwarded by wire and by letter. The annual report of the Tuskegee Institute has been received here and is being read with unusual interest. Its striking features are being extensively reviewed by the race papers of the capital and elsewhere. Joseph E. Johnson, formerly right-hand man to Speaker Cannon at the capital, and recently stenographer to the United States Postal Commission, is said to be slated for an important position in connection with the Republican National Committee. Mr. Johnson is experienced in all matters political and would be a valuable man to work with the national committee. He is in touch with all the white and colored leaders and thoroughly understands the relations of the party and the race. GIVES AID TO STRIKERS. Sometimes liver, kidneys and bowels seem to go on a strike and refuse to work right. Then you need those pleasant little strike-breakers—Dr. King's New Life Pills—to give them natural aid and gently compel proper action. Excellent health soon follows. Try them. 25c at all druggists. 10-5-4t. 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CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. C PAGE THREE N. C. BRACKETT. Treasurer. The President SEE THE LUNCH 7 G HOURS: 8:30 TO 1:30 P.M. 2:00 TO 6:00 P.M. Home Phone 429. J. R. SMITH. Mgr. HOT;SPRINGS. ARN. PAGE FOUR TIE ADVOCATE FU DISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE ADVOCATE PUB. CO. The Advocate is entered in the Post-office at Charleston, W. Va., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months ..... $0.50 Six months ..... 1.00 One year ..... 1.50 LET'S STAY AT A WHILE. A correspondent up in Lawrence Mass. has written asking The Advocate to call a conference of Negro editor in March, 1912, "to consider the best steps to settle the future troubles of the race. Sorry, brother, but The Advocate cannot accommodate you. Our reasons or refusing the request are few but, we think, potent. They would seem to have been enough conferences held in the past year to set any question which can be settled by this method. There have been an International Races Congress, National Negro Business League, National Teachers Association, National Editor's Congress, National Medical Association, National Baptist Convention National Negro Press Association, similar organizations of Bankers, Underkers, Pharmacists, Dentists. Dr. Sheard has called the preachers of the nation in conference next year. For 1913 Dr. Washington asks a congress of the forces working for the upift of the Negro people. Why in the name of heaven call and her conference? Is the list given above not sufficient to satisfy any reasona man? There might be some excuse for the suggestion of our friend "do east" if these congresses and conferences did not meet annually as most of them do, or if the list here give were complete, but this is not half of them. The A. M. E.'s and A. M. Z.'s will hold their quadrennial conferences next year at which time they may be expected to have something to say about the race problem. Among the Baptists there will be in the neighborhood of three hundred and eighteen associations and convention to "whereas" and "therefore-be-it-resolved" on the much discussed question. A. a Roland for his Oliver, the Advocate suggests to its correspondent that a stay-at-home movement be started. We have had years of congresses and conventions from which the is a pretty well grounded suspicion, the railroads were the largest beniaries. Suppose we try the silent treatment awhile THE HARMONY MEETING. Whether, as is alleged by some, the demand for a State-wide Primary emitted from a selfish few who had abandoned hope of ever getting into power by any other means, or was a call from the ranks for a new method of choosing candidates for elective office. The Advocate does not know nor does it care, now that it has been decided that a primary shall be held. Neller is it inlined at this time to question the efficacy of a primary as a pamela for the ills about which there has been so much complaint. It suffice that there were complaints, loud and long, and that the great majority of the party thinks the primary the remedy. A primary was demanded and a primary will be given. As a separate, distinct element, as it is wont to consider itself and is so classified by the other constituent part of the organization, the clientele of the Advocate needed to lose no sleep or nights worrying about how the notices for the various State offices are to be chosen. Of one thing they are sure—the honor will fall upon non of them. So why worry? Let that burden rest upon those whom it benefits. There was one feature of the meeting, however, which concerns the Negro such—the new method of selecting members of the State Committee and the additional member allotted the race. Here is where we are directly affected. This furnishes us an opportunity to exercise our political wits in our own interest. That it will be done there is already abundant evidence. No formal announcements have yet been made, but tentative candidates have begun to beat the brushes. McDowell, that rock-ribbed Gibrauser of Republicanism, will probably produce three candidates for the honor of aiding the party with their counsel. From Fayette will likely con John S. Noel, the present incumbent, and one other, Kanawha, which bears the reputation among its sister counties of trying to gobble up everything in sight, has not yet shown its and, and the up-State counties may be expected to get in the running. There are only two places to be filled, but from the abundance of material in sight there is no reason whygo selection should not be made. At this stage of the race, The Advocate will make no predictions as to the winners, but it hopes that the candidate will enter the fight each with the determination to stand on his merits and not to besmirch the reputation of its opponents. Even when high salaried offices are at stake, such methods are questionable. They certainly would not be justifiable to secure the empty honor of being a member of the Republican State Com Down in Durant, Oklahoma, a few weeks ago, an unknown Negro, accused of crime, was shot to death by a white mob and his body burned. A coroner's jury, sitting in the case, rendered the verdict. "Death at the hands of parties unknown." There is now in circulation in that section of the country a post card showing the dead Negro lashed to a board and surrounded by a large number of white men and boys, the features of all of whom are clearly distinguishable. The photograph was taken shortly before the fagots were heaped about the corpse around which the drunken mob danced in ghoulish glee. And yet, "he came to his death at the hands of parties unknown." Yea, verily, Justice is blind, and it may be that; she is also dead. ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HARLAN. In the passing, Saturday morning, of John Marshall Harlan, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the Negro people lost the best friend they ever had in that august tribunal. One is almost tempted to say, recalling recent decisions of that body, that he was their only friend. Justice Flatton never overlooked an opportunity to go on record as a staunch advocate of manhood rights, through the claimant was of the despised. There does not occur to the writer a single instance of his failure to apply the rule of reason where the civil or political status of the Negro was an issue. Frequently his was the only dissenting opinion, one among nine, but he ever remained steadfast to the belief that a mere technicality should not invalidate a plea for justice, that the enactment of a State law in words not conflicting with the letter of the Constitution does not square it with the laws of God. Judging from the tread of the times, it would not be far amiss to say that we shall not soon see his like again on the Supreme bench. Men are not so much these days concerned with human as with property rights. They can not take up time now with liberty when capital knocks at the door, Combinations of wealth and restraint of trade take precedence over life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness. The granting of mining rights in Alaska is of greater moment than the refusal of the right to vote to a million citizens. The right of a railroad to charge its passengers three cents for each mile of transportation overshadows the injustice of giving some of these passengers accommodations far superior to those given the others for the same fare. The taking of the lives of one hundred citizens without due process of law does not demand the consideration of the lynching of one alien. Yes, we shall miss Justice Harlan more and more as the years roll around. Memorial meetings in honor of the late Justice Harlan should be held by our people everywhere. He was the best friend we ever had on the Supreme Bench. It is apt to be a long time before we have such another friend in that court of last resort. Let us show appreciation of those who have stood by us, if we would encourage others to go forward in our behalf. Maybe Roscoe Conkling Simmons was the office boy or the devil on the staff of the New York Age. At the meeting of the National Negre Press Association in Washington in December it is thought that some changes may be made in the New York representation. The men who stand by the organization should be accorded such honors as it has to be stow. The place for kickers and malcontants is the rear. President Lewis has the courage of his convictions on this subject, and will act as wi-dom and good administration will dictate. Are you buying that home, planning to put a little bird in it? If you are not, begin at once! A cold winter is coming. West Virginia is deeply interested in the state of Cyrus Adams' health. Some folks are getting married, notwithstanding the excessive cost of living. Carnegie still has a few more hero metals on hand for these brave spirits. Urich is in sight of his "finish." A friend in Washington writes that he is compelled to read The Advocate to learn the news of the national capital. Our Washington letter records faithfully the striking events that happen at the great history-making center, but passes over the bickering and strife that seem to occupy the attention of the local papers, to the exclusion of matters of real importance. The Advocate carries more genuine Washington news than any two of the journals published at the nation's capital. Washingtonians are finding it necessary to go away from home, as it were, to know what is happening "in their midst." It is meet and proper that the newspaper men at Washington should benquet President M. M. Lewey when the conference of the National Negro Press Association gathers there in December. We hope to be on hand, and join in honoring the craft's chosen leader. Our Mr. R. W. Thompson is the District of Columbia member of the executive committee of the Press Asso- ciation, and will take the initiative in welcoming the brethren of the "fourth estate." Dr. Washington pleased his friends and hurled confusion into the camp of his enemies by courageously facing the music at the recent hearing in New York City. The thug who assaulted him is shown to be a wifedeserter, an adulterer, a liar and a coward. He is a man absolutely unworthy of belief. Dr. Washington has never needed a vindication. Nobody of any sense has ever believed him guilty of any impropriety in connection with this unfortunate episode. The only thing at stake now is to find a satisfactory punishment for his assault. The critics will now find themselves in the fix of one "Othelio"—their occupatica will be gone. Taskegee Institute's annual report makes interesting reading. It is written on new and original lines and the facts and figures are handled in such a manner as to hold the attention of every class of people in search of useful information along educational lines. Pay your church dues cheerfully and promptly. A preacher must pay his bills, and he cannot meet them unless you provide him with the means. A good pastor is worth a good salary. Failure to pay prevents the preacher from being as good as he ought to be. Think on these things! West Virginia ministers must bear in mind that they are to attend the Shepard Ministerial Conference at Durham, N. C., next year. Let them begin to get ready now. The Conference will mark a distinct era in the thought and morals of the Southland. It will inaugurate a model campaign for race pride, social health and civic righteousness. Our ministers will go and bring back to us the inspiration they are sure to gain at Durham. The banquet at Washington in honor of Assistant Attorney-General Lewis is overdue. The fellows at the capital rarely lose an opportunity to get in on a "big feed." Let's see. Who is doing the "leading" now among the "big Negroes" at Washington? In the matter of recognizing the worth of trained colored men, Secretary MacVeagh seems to have the "edge" on his associates in the Cabinet, the Treasury Department is the veritable Mecca of Negro opportunity. There are more high-salaried colored men under MacVeagh than under any other branch of the federal service. Mr. MacVeagh is the kind of a man who believes in giving merit its due, whether it is surrounded by a black skin or a white one. He is an ideal American statesman. It is the shortsighted merchant who fails to advertise in his home race paper. The Advocate reaches a distinct clientele, who read every line in its columns. It pays to reach these thrifty people. They will spend their money with those who make a bid for their patronage through the proper channel—the Negro newspaper. Emmett J. Scott is forging to the front—not by hot-house methods, but by sheer merit, by useful work, ably performed. There is no telling where a man of his splendid talents will wind up. Roscoe Bruce has beaten his foes to a frazzle. An so there are to be Negro "Progressives!" The white folks will not be permitted to monopolize anything, whether it be good or evil. It is not good sense to minimize the force of the opposition. The way to get ready for a victory is to oil up our guns and see that the ammunition is handy and plentiful. If the Negro democrats are getting busy, it is a hint that we had better be doing likewise, if we would not be caught napping. The white republicans and the colored ones, as well Lshould be putting on their armor, for the campaign is upon us. The battle is not to be a "pink tea," let it be understood. Much depends upon getting in some body blows early in the game. Will the erstwhile Negro Democrats find the Progressive Republican camp a refuge for the exercise of their "independence?" Some first-class Negro appointments in the South would be an effective argument why the Negro should remain "regular." We told you Fortune could "come back." Feed, clothe and encourage a genius and he will get into the finest of working trim. The newspaper friends of Mr. Fortune for more than two years have been trying to show Fred Moore the value of having the veteran scribe on his staff. Even the obtuse Moore can be made to see things straight, if one has patience and can keep on the job long enough. Mr. L. M. Hershaw has been promoted to a $1,600 clerkship at Washington. From now on it is believed that the genial Georgian will be willing to believe that this administration isn't half bad. Recognition gives a roscate tinge to the bluest kind of spectacles. THE ADVOCATE. Editor M. T. Whittico of the McDowell Times has the sympathy of the Advocate in his hour of trial. Mrs. Whittico was recently taken to Freedmen's Hospital at Washington, D. C., for an operation for cancer. This was the final resort and it is feared that if any relief comes to her it will be but for a short time. Her condition is regarded as hopeless. Italy will not find it a very Thanksgiving turkey. Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin is the ring organization's idea of an ideal candidate—spends his money for a renomination free as water and can't remember for the one of him where it goes. "How to get rid of old clothes" is a problem with some folks always. With us much more serious one is "now to get new ones." The boss of an organization is always ready to go in for a reform so long as it does not reform him out of power. Mr. LaFollette shows that even the position of presidential possibility can keep a man busy if he takes it seriously enough. Money making may be a desease but it is not an epidemic. The New York woman who left all to her lawyer in order to spite her relatives who tried to influence her, went to needless precautions. He would have doubtless gotten it anyway. Taft has won the West in jig-time. The Shepard Ministerial Conference will be a brilliant success. It may not be necessary to refer the Washington school controversy to The Hague for settlement. What is "Teddy" going to do? CIVIL RIGHTS LAW INOPERATIVE Optimistic as we wish to be, the two decisions in Ohio and Illinois, indicating a drift of judicial interpretation against the purpose of the civil rights laws, are discouraging. At Columbus, Ohio, a decision was rendered to the effect that a soda fountain is not "a place of public accommodation," and thus a drugstore proprietor is not liable under the civil rights act for refusing to serve a Negro customer a glass of soda water. In Chicago, an automobile livery company, which declined to rent a machine to a Negro, escaped punishment by making the same defense. The civil rights law were designed to protect Negroes, primarily, since they are the only class against which discriminations are practiced. It looks now as if the laws are to be nullified by local judicial interpretation, and it is doubtful if there is any redress to be had. A law is as strong as the public sentiment of a locality, and no stronger. The whites are determined to segregate the Negro in the matter of homes, and drive him out of the places of public accommodation that once were considered open to all. Now and then, in rare instances, a proprietor is fined for violation of the civil rights laws, but in the main the courts are upholding the notion that business places that cater to the inner man or offer enjoyment and social intercourse, are private institutions, open alone to those who may be desirable to the element the owner wishes to please. Tre civil rights laws are growing more and more to be inoperative and useless. Dr. Booker T. Washington offers as a solution of capitalizing race prejudice by providing places of amusement, refreshment and public accommodation of our own, where the color line cannot be drawn. The race can thus profit by the white man's meanness. A Negro restaurant or theatre can now thrive where ten years ago they would have been ignominious failures, because the white man had an "open door," which has since been closed. We are being driven together by the aversion of the other race, and are becoming real factors in business life of all the communities where we live in large numbers. Who knows buet that, after all, the hand of God is working for our ultimate good in this mysterious manner? AN EXPLANATION Illness of the writer and several other causes have contributed to put The Advocate behind its scheduled. For these reasons the issue of the 19th inst. was delayed so long as to make it advisable to merge it into this number. In the future we hope to be able to "get out" promptly, as every precaution will be taken to avoid these delays which are extremely annoying to the management, and we believe, to our clientele. WASHINGTON, D. C. Wilbur P. Thirkield, L. L. D., Press. Located in Capital of the Nation. 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W., W. C. McNeil, M. D., Secretary, 901 R Street, N. W. The School of Law.—Faculty of eight. Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite court house. Benjamin F. Leighton, L. L. B., Dean, 420 5th St. N. W. 8-3-128 Election Officials MUST SERVE ONE YEAR IN PRISON AND PAY A FINE OF $160. FOR DENYING NEGRO RIGHT TO VOTE, IS OKLAHOMA DECISION. Enid, Okla., Oct 17.—One year each in prison and $100 fine each were the penalties imposed by United States District Judge Cotterall today on J. J. Beall and Frank Guinn, election inspectors, convicted yesterday of conspiracy to deprive Negroes of the right of voting in the congressional election in 1910. They were released on $2,000 bonds pending ga appeal to the United States circuit court. The case involved the so-called "Grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma statutes.—Phoenix. The above shows that right and justice will no permit such outrage as the "Grandfather Clause" to be imposed upon citizens of Oklahoma. It is wrong and the courts of the land can not uphold it and do justice to the citizens at whom it is aimed. This means that the colored voters of Oklahoma will not be deprived of their franchise. Cherokee Freedmen CASE WILL SOON BE SETTLED AND CLAIMANTS ARE EXPECTED AND CLAIMANTS ARE EXPECTING TO DIVIDE AMONG THEMSELVES SEVERAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Muskogee, Okla., Oct. 16.—In accordance with previous arrangements, Solicitor Lehman, on behalf of the Cherokee Nation, and the United States, Appellants, on last Monday, motioned in the Supreme Court to advance the Moses Whitmire case versus the Cherokee Nation, and the United States, covering the citizenship and allotments of 2,000 Cherokee Freedmen, whose names appeared on the Kern-Clifton Freedmen roil. It is expected now that this legal controversy will be entirely settled in favor of the Cherokee Freedmen, not later than the first of next January. The Court of Claims rendered a leisica last spring, in favor of these Freedmen. There are several million dollars involved in this suit. Haitian Minister Gen. Monos Arrives REPRESENTATIVE OF BLACK REPUBLIC HAS FILLED MANY POSITIONS OF IMPORTANCE IN OWN COUNTRY. Washington, D. C., Oct. 25—general Solomon Menos, the newly-appointed Haitian Minister has arrived in Washington. He succeeds Monsieur H. Pauleus Sannon in that capacity. The absence of President Tatt will make it necessary for him to delay the presentation of his credentials. Secretary Knox has agreed, however, to recognize him as authorized to do business with the State Department. It is understood that the negotiations between Haitian and Dominican legations here for a settlement of the boundary dispute will be resumed. Gen Menos has filled many positions of importance in his own country, having been secretary of state, secretary of commerce and minister of justice. He has also been president of the Legislative Society of Port-au-Prince, and is a brother-in-law of the present Minister of Foreign Affairs, J. N. Leger, who was formerly minister at Washington. Gen. Menos is at the Haitian Legation at 1429 Rhode Island avenue, where he is the head of an interesting family. He is a gentleman of pleasing personality, and Mme. Menos is said to be quite fond of society. Mr. Price is secretary of legation and receives cafters affably. Estate Said to Be Worth $20,000 LATE BISHOP HANDY'S WILL EXPECTED TO SHOW THAT WIDOW IS WELL PROVIDED FOR—MANY COLORED CATHOLICS IN GIBEONS JUBILEE PARADE Baltimore, Md., Oct. 18.—The will of the late Bishop James A. Handy will THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911. FORED INSTITUTE Courses---English, ormal. INSTITUTE JANUER 20, 1911 ful, Surroundings Goo d ERMAN, President, Institute, West Virginia DIAMONDS combine three important qual- ities, all of which no other one thing possesses: 1 Beauty 2 Durability 3 Investment Value You can use them without decreasing their value. They have charm of beauty which no other gem possesses. As evidence of success in life they give prestige. They steadily increase in market value. We are offering attractive prices on choice diamonds. ERNST The Jeweler & Mfg. Org. Store 208 Capitol Street. not be probated until December, when the executor, Bishop J. Albert Johnson, will arrive in this country from South Africa. The estate is said to be worth $20,000 and the bulk of it will probably be left to the bishop's widow, Mrs. Mary F. Handy. Colored Catholics were represented to the number of 1,500 in the parade which was held here Monday in honor of the jubilee for Cardinal Gibbons. Revs. C. Randolph Uncles and J. J. Plantevine were the only colored priests in line. Rev. Dr. William A. Creditt, of Philadelphia, delivered an address at Grace Presbyterian Church Monday night, Matt Henson, Dr. William A Sinclair, of Philadelphia, and Rev. W. A. C. Hughes are among the others to deliver lectures here this week. A. C. Faulkher and Winfred Carpenter have taken over the Crescent Theater, which they will run as a vaudeville house. Happy Howe, formerly of the Rabbit's Foot Company, was on the bill at Daly's Theater, Baltimore, last week. A stock company is on the boards this week. AVERTS AWFUL TRAGEDY Timely advice given Mrs. C. Willoughby, of Marengo, Wis., (R. No. 1) prevented a dreadful tragedy and saved two lives. Doctors had said her frightful cough was a "consumption" cough and could do little to help her. After many remedies failed, her aunt urged her to take Dr. King's New Discovery. "I have been using it for some time," she wrote "and the awful cough has almost gone. It also saved my little boy when taken with a severe bronchial trouble." This matchless medicine has no equal for throat and lung troubles. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. 10-5-4t. “DEATH AT A FROLIC” Leckurs by! Dr. Wharton at the Y. M.C. A. Charleston, W.. Va. ‘ ‘THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911, you t feel at once as If my work, my pleasant task, was well begun. He has called up some very sweet recollections indeed of those early days, and 1 thank God for the priv- Slese of grasping his hand and hear- ing of his good work, as we go along down tho valley with our faces toward the setting: of the sun. Long may he live, I saw, the other gay, where it wits stated that a man was at his best at sixty-five. Well, Dr. Roller and | have a long way to go yet be- fore we get there. “Dr, Osler, of Baltimore a few years ago stated that when a man was sixty he ought to be chloroform- ed. He Js now past sixty, and has changed his mind and says a man ouxnt to live to be a hundred and twenty. One of my grandmothers hved to te one hundred and two, and 1 can say what a very few men can say and that is | have heard my grandmocher tell of the Revolution- ary War. She died at one hundred and two, when I was about eight or ten, and many a time nave I sat at her feet and heard her tell of the soldiers in red coats. My grand- fatuer fought in the Revointionary War. 1 is a great pleasure indeed to gpeet you here this beautiful atter- oom, and 1 assure you geutlemen, if 1 may be of any service or help- fulness to you 1 shall feel that God has blessed me and as T trust made fle a blessing to you. ‘The subject [ have chosen for the afternoon is: Death At a Frolic, According to history, both secular and sacred, perhaps the greatest city in the world was the City. of Babylon. We may get some idea of its wonderful proportions when we recall that in the description of it is stated that a wall surrounded the city fifteen miles each way,—fifteen miles on each of the four sides—that this wall was three hundred and fifty feet high and eighty — fee thick. ‘That the people could go up on the inside on an incline road to the top of this wall, and that chariots might be driven abreast on the top of that wall. The River Euptrates flowed under one wall, passed through the city and flowed out untler snother wall * Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans made his headquarters in this won- ferful city of Babylon, He had every luxtiry that the ingenuity of man had invented, and there was nu dynamite, no machiac, no gun in those times that ould’ batter down a wat! like that. They wera mest wonderful build- ors the worid ever bas known. In the ruins of the Tempie of the Sin rt Pattie I have seen walls not less when twenty feet from the ground in these walls hewn stone larger ana loacer than any palace Pullman ear aivne your railroad. ! helped to measire some cighty-five feet long, Stteen fect one way and fourteen enoite:. No machinery in existence how could put them there. No ma- chivery now In existence could take then away from there. It simply shows what wonderful builders these Peope were. And the thought is ungested to me here that, you have been Duilding in this city more wonderfui than (he walls of Babylon or the Temple of the Sun at Balbec, rot in caere stone and mortar, ana great, immease buildings, but build- ing for that which is better—build- tng for men. I have examined the| beautiful butiding of the Youn Men's Christian “Association, ana more than any other building on earth, perhaps, these buildings are designed for the whole man. We, pastors of churches, are trying to Jook after the spiritual, and mucu of the temporal welfare of our flocgs, but the Young Men's Christian Asso ciation looks after the — spiritum, mental and physical—the whole man, and it seeks to build and round ont the whole man, And x0 it is a great compliment indeed to the eltizehs of Charleston, and of Charleston herself, that you have spent the money you have to- day to have put up the building that you have, which ts a monument to the good sense and religions and generosity of the citizens of this city. Relshazaar, when he was in this wonderful city of Babylon, defied the world. It is true that the Syrtan army was hesiesing the city. ‘They had been soutstde for months and months, but what did he care ‘There was no power could beat down those walls. He laughed in the Face of the besieging army Qnodav he dataeminad incdken & had made a raid on Jerusalem, hav destroyed the Temple and had taken out of the Temple the golden Kou lets, the silver bowls and other veu- sels that the Mebrew people had svont their millions for, and carried them to Babylon. Ho said, ‘ring (hem in to my lords and ladies that they may drink trom these bowls and goblets which were uged in tne worship of the king of Heaven; they shall drink to the king of Babylon. ‘They commence. to drink, and con Unued to drink until they — were rank, A fair bejeweled woman would take one of the — gold- cn goblets, look at it and pass it ‘on to some other lady or lord, until ey drank the wine from the ves sels which had been stolen from Jerusalem, Belshazzar arose ana drank to the entire crowd. Just ‘then the fingers of a man's hand ap- peared writing siowly on the wal. Me couldn't make it out, he couldn't read it. And yet, if you will read the account of it in the Sth Chapter ot the book of Daniel, you wih notice that Belshazzar was badly seared.” Ho became pale in the face, weak in the back, and his knees smote together, one against the other, That is the way it attacks a man, ‘ J was born in Culpeper County, Virginia—it was the scene of one or two of the hardest fought battles of the civil War, it was the camping Pince of the great armies, 1 was attending school at Salem, Virginia, at the age of tivteen years. The pldest boy there was not over sixteen. We formed a company of cighty students. 1 was sergeant ot the compeny, which was made up ef boys not one of us over sixteen years\of age. We mareied up ana down the campus, and around about with @ suns, and said that if the Yankees ever showed up at Salen:, we would clean them up. By and ty they did approach Salem. Our little company was called out. 1 Was pul on picket on the road upon which General Avertil was expected along at thé head of ten thousaind men, I could not only not keep my knees from shaking, but 1 couldn't keep my teeth from chat- tering. Every stick that broke, every leaf that ristled 1 imagined was one of the yankees —crawl- ing up to take my head off. 1 was pale in the face, weak in the back and my kiees smote together. I don't think a man deserves any credit whatever for standing his round if he is not seared. It is the fellow who is afraid—badly scared —and yet holds hs ground. At Waterloo Napoleon noticed one of his gtnerals knees shaking, and he said to him, what are your! knees shaking about. ‘The man said if they knew where I was going to take them they would be shaking more than that, It is the man who is frightened and still holds his sround that is courageous, No dount many of you have heard that wonderful address of my old commander Gen. John B. Gordon, ot Georgia, entitled “The Last. Days of the Confederacy”. If you have over heard it you will never forget it. In that Iecture he tells of a man who was running in a battle. ‘The man broke ranks and ran. ‘The genera: saw him and said, ‘Stop there, ston thgre, what are you running about? He said, ‘General 1 am running be. canse 1 can’t fly,’ I was out in Rockford, Ilinois not long ago holding meetings, ana somehow I stated that 1 was in the Confederate Army—I was at- Ap- Pomattox with General Lec. General Lawton the commander of the G. A. R, was there, He sent an invitation to me to come to his camp fire. He says we will be dolighted to have you come, if you will let us know when you will come. 1 ap- pointed a night and went around, and there was a great hall fillea with nen. Gen. Lawton said, in In- troducing me: ‘Comrades, we have @ curiosity here tonight. He Is the only Ex-Confederate soldier who has ever been in this hall, and wane to introduce him to you. [ looked around that hall and saw the im- plements of war stacked up,—guns, womb-shelis, muskets, bayonets, and T said ‘well, 1 surrender, there is pothing else to do.” And during iny Speech I related what I have sate to you about this man who was run- ning. General Lawton sald, ‘1 have a companion story which f will tell vou if you like, Tsaid ‘1 will be glad lo have it, indeed. Te said, ‘You supose our fellows could run too, DEATH AT A FROLIC three during the war. 1 sald ‘yes, 1 have SSS i i “never siopped at all. He was scared. | That is what was the matter with Belshazzar. He was sacred. When he saw the fingers trace on the wall, when he got pale In the face weak in the back and his kuees smote to gether he was seared. Me couldn't read it, and everything was going his way, he was in the midst of a thousand ot his lords and ladies. What seared him? Why didn’t he say, ‘Look my lords and ladies, there is godd coming to Belshazna’s ingaom What scired him? Iis conscience. He carried that little piece of mechanism that stands up and points its finger at us and says ‘stop, there is something — wrong.’ Wihat did he do? He did what other men would have Gone. He sent out after the scientists,—Darwin, Tus ley, Spencer. He said "You wise men read. that writing, and 1 will give you gifts, and make you rulers in my kingdom. ‘They took a look jae ft and shook thelr heads and Rave it up. ‘The scientists cannot read God Herbert Spencer was asked what about science and God. — He says ‘science in its last analysis shows that we stand in the presence ot some unknown power, but what that is sceace has not discovered.’ Do You believe in God? Science has never discovered God. You can't ed God with your head, you will have to find him with your heart ‘The man who looks after God with his head will get the big head, but if you look after him with your heart you will get a big heart and a gov heart. You can't pin your fai to science. Many of the us have lived long enough’ in this world to find ont that science today goes back on what it taught yesterday. When T was a boy, science said, if a boy has measles give him hot sage tea, Nov it says give him cold water. , In my boyhood if a man had typhoid fever, the first thing was to keep him hot Now it says keep him cold. Are you going to pin your faith to angthins like that when eternal interests ar= at stake? Can science find out God? He is higher than heaven, deeper than hell, what ean thou do? These men failed. Belshazzer was ata loss.to know what to do. Aud then his old mother came upon the stage, She said, ‘Son, they tell’ us you are troubled. What is the mat- ter? He said, ‘Look at the writing, I cannot read it. ‘The wisest mon cannot read it. Oh, mother, 1 don't know what it means.’ She said, ‘Son, there is one here in Babylon who can read that writing. Ho is one who has communion with God, he is named Daniel. He will read that writing for you.’ He seqt for Daniel, and when Daniel came, 1 imagine Lean see himxwith quiet and conscious step he walks down through the drunken crowd, ani stands in the presence of Relshazzer Belshazzer makes him great offers, he will translate the writing, le said “I will read it, 1 recosniv« the handwriting, it is in my} avents Father's handwriting. | Bus botore I read it 1 must tell you why it is there. God never does anything without a reason, You who ar: lawyers here this evening, pick up the fith chapter of the Book of Dan- iel and read that indictment. There are about five counts in the indict: ment. ‘1 will tell you why the writing is there, and then 1 will read It to vou First count: Your father was a bad man. tle Was wicked; he brought a great deal of sorrow on his people and him- self; you knew it and you have not mended your ways. Gentlemen, I have always though! and so have you, that if a man has a ood faith he is expected to be a good man. If a man is a preaci- er his son is expected to have ehil dren who are good. ‘Phat fs why preachers’ children are expected to be better than other children, We all think that if a man has a good father he is expected to be a good man. Ifa man has a bad and wick- ed father he Is expected to take warn- ing and himself be a better man. I was closing a mecting up north not long ago, and as 1 walked out from the chreh one night 1 heare auick footsteps and presently a man came up and said, ‘Can fwalk with you?’ I sald ‘Yes.’ He slipped his hand into mine and sald, ‘My father is dead in the slums of the city to: night. He has died the death of a drunken onteast. — Mother will not allow his body to be brought home, she wants the children to know him as they wed to know him, not as he is now. She is going to pay tie funeral expenses; he is now at the eet lee OW Ae On THE ADVOCATE. temple at Jerusalem, Perhaps you and 1 might say, we have never done that. We have done worse. — Haven't we desecrated God's holy day? Isn't it a fact that today the Sabbath day is in danger of desecration? ‘Today the Sabbata day 1s being rapidly undermined. We are doing more than anything else to pull down the churches, by des- troying the religious influence that our great organization of the Chris- tians, have done towards the shed- ‘ding abroad of the gospel in ever community, — Oh, in God's name, lez us protect the Sabbath day. ‘Re- member the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” Great crowds of people are pouring in from other countries. ‘They are,coming from countries who do not regard the Sabbath day, and unless we who are Americans stand by the Sabbath day we shall utterly destroy it, And how many of us have dese- erated God's name. Men curse and swear, as If God never issued any orders on the subject. May I quote: “Take not the name of Got in'vain—and yet men swear without the slightest thought about it. ‘The biggest fool in the world is the man who swears, ‘The Devil says that if a man drinks ‘I have to get him the drink; if a man gambles T have to farni-h him the materials; but the man who swears I catch him on a naked hook.’ Stop! Stop! Don’t befoul the air about you with oaths: don't acknowledge that your vocab: lary is so meagre that you can't ox jnress your thoughts without swear- ing. Pe man who swears in the pres- ence of his children is not worthy to deiner ay children (applause), ‘Ye min who swears in the pres- ence of woman is not a gentleman, (applause. The man who swears anywhore is disrespecttul (9 Gol. ond disrespect ful to his name. Stat Say to- day. ‘Whatever cles yoa may say, God helping me, 1 will stop it 1 yas in Kansas City where shee Were'a great many cattle mea. had been among them and bear) such swearing as 1 never heard h fore. Some of them had heard 1:9 say what T thought about it. ‘There Was a Scotchman there who went to the cattle men and told them about it. Three or four days after that [ wis holding meetings at another pait of the city. A Mn Lorimer was there,—he is not the Lorimer in the United states Senate. Mrs, Lorimer said to me, ‘Mr. Wharton, my hue band is converted.’ ] said, ‘Has he told you so? She said ‘No, but { think you SI find out today. i said, “He She said, ‘He drove Up wit! yours tery horse and tied the se ont in front of the hease, are ckere came aiong a man with a "of cht rags and old gery fron sd ovher junk, and that fery young kovee reared back on the strap and hvoke it. I Just looked and saw the Sorse run away, 1 just knew my shan would curse when 1 told him, but 1 had to tell him. — He had |nereed to go to church with me, but | just knew he would curse when he learned about the horse. 1 went in end thought I would tell him and let him get over it before we went to church, 1 said "Phat colt has broke away and gone down the street. He only said, “1 hope he won't hurt any- body. Let's get ready and go to chureh (applause). Another thing: they were all drinking. A great many people drink, and that is one of the most destructive things in the world. Last hight when I came into your town | saw a poor fellow in the door of one of your saloons, and he didn’t know what had happened to him. 1 want to say to you gentlemen, and you know it as well as 1 do: it seems we have to make this fight individ- ually for ourselves, If you banish whisky, it comes back, But the hext time you do shut it out of Char- lestom, may God help you to ship. it out forever. (applause) While we, in Baltimore, get about a million dollars from the liquor tratfle for revenue, it costs about five million dollars to collect it, Some time ago a fellow went fish- ing with some men. A few days Ufter that fe was standing in front of 4 saloon, and leaning up against the front door of the saloon, and he {oll all in a pile right in front of the saloon. A litte news-boy — found fim there and went in and said, ‘Mr, your sign has fell down out here. this old man was around about the saloon and these fellows said, “Jobn, come in and let us have a drink, Me said, I have anit. Oh, you quit, in- deed? He said, T have. ‘they said ‘Come on and have one drink with us, we will pay for it, do come and J have one with us. He said, “If yon wil Acti Gnab ae GU Or cee your wives’ tears. ‘Their hearts are breaking. Do you suppose God is Roing to let you of when you are doing that? 1 don't wonder at the man in Vir- ginia the othereday, who had been drinking and drinking, and his fath- er went up to his room and said, “Get up and dress yourself, and take this gun. He said, “What is that for? ‘The father said, 1 want you to xo down stairs and kill your mother. Aim well, aim well! ~ He said “Father, what are you talking about? ‘The father said, ‘You ara Killing her, day by diy, hour by hour. 1 can’t stand it any longer. Go and KiN her and let me bury her out of your sight. ie said, Mather i never saw tt that way before. His father said, Go aud Kill her, or stop Grinking, I am not going to stand It that way any longer, Fourth count: He said ‘You are worshipping gods of stone. | suppose if it had deen in this day, it would have been oil and gas ayd fron and steel, and fino residences and fine buildings, and the many other things we worship. We have been led away from our mothers’ prayers, but God is going to answer those nfothers’ prayers and God is not going to let you forget him, if he has to break your neck, Fifth count: God, in whose hand thy breath is, thou hast not glorified. What is it to glorify God? Jesus Christ said to believe in him and bring forth works worthy of a Ife, Every man who believes on God has a Saviour, and is trying to serve him —every man who helieves on the Lord Josus Christ, that man in his life is glorifying God, and any other life is dishonoring God. “The God in whose hands thy breath is, and whose all thou hast is, thou hast not slorified." Now, he said, ‘Relshazzer, 1 havo told you why it is and 1 will read it to you Belshazzar, you have been weighed in God’s balance and found wanting. You will not do. God has held yo: iy the hands of justice, and you will not do. In this world men often vet by Inatice, Il is not so above: tere is no shuffling, and the indict- mer stance. Justice is before us and we are conipelled to give in evi- dence, — Relshazzar, you have been weighed an. won't do. Belshazzar, your time 1s up. ‘Tho clock has struck. You dic tonight, Belshazzar, The Jong waiting and batience of God waits no more. ‘The time is up tonight, earth is ended. There is something sad about that thought, that there comes a time to you and to me, the last day, the last hour. The time is coming when I will walk off the platform for the last time-ieliver my message for the last lime. Tho day will come when you will leave your shop, when you will leave your ollie, for the last time. ‘The time will come when by brothren here Will deliver their message. for the iast time. We will pass through our door the last time. Relshazzar, the time is up, you will die tonight. God has divided your kingdom. Six months ago the Syrians began to build a canal above here and today they have turned the Wuphrates into that channet. they are coming in throush the bed of the Euphrates river, and just then they could hear the soldiers coming, and amid thac drunken throng the Syrian soldiers rushea in and buried their darts in the hearts of Belshazzar and the thous- ind lords, ‘The time was up,— weighed in the balances and found wanting, and he had to go. My friend, this is where Jesus Christ comes on tho scene. ‘This is where the savior ot men steps to front. He says, ‘Believe in me und when you are weighed 1 will be woighed tor you. Accept. meas sour sa¥ior and no charge shall be axaiust you, have atoned for your every sin, And (hat is just like him 19 do that. i Au old colored woman in my coun try was saved. Then came home rejoicing that night. One of the Warkics stid to ner, ‘Aunt Salle, Hon't von thizk it is good im the hor to forgive your sins? — She sud, No, it is.iust like him’, Christ says (‘Helieve on me, ac cept me as your savior, and there hall be no sin charged against you. | will be weighed in your — place, You pass from under the iaw. Jesus Christ passed under the law or you end for me, and we pass under Christ because of him. ‘That is gos- vel, and that is salvation,—the lorions doctrine of a substitute. (Dr, Wharten here told the story | We have seen a view of heaven, and {n God's way. There is not ‘one of us who do not need Jesus Christ. We have accepted Him. We are tasing our cternal welfare on on his promise, and there is no hope except througk Jesus Christ. ‘There are some who have not accepted hiin here today, ‘Take him today. (br. Wharten here told a story of a little girl out west who would kiss her hand to the trainman every May as he went by. He would blow the whistle to let her know he was coming and (hen she would gee him and kiss her hand to him. One day he blew (ie whistle but did not see her: ho blew {t again, and again, &nd then noticed the little girl sit: ing oa the track — playing—sho knew (the engincer was her triena and would not run over her. He |saw the danger, put on the air emergency brakes, am just had time to lean over (he pilot of the engine and grab her out of the way, —then the train came to a stand: SUIL). He said, "1 have saved her (without a serateh’, | The great engine of God's justice jW#s bearing down upon you and me. We were at play on the track with our backs to it. Jesus Christ lifted us out, and holds us in his lan ard my brother, some sweet day che will present us to the pres- fence of the Vather witaout a serateh, |. Men, you and I are but grown up ‘children in the past. Get back, men, to your mother’s religion, to the [old time faith, to him who can save alone,. ‘Then ware we saved and jeaved for ever. | “1 suppose the most of these men jure christians. Let your tears flow Ireely, men, 1 like to see men ery. It is all right. And 1 pray to God that we may ery more over each others’ sins, Prayer. Oh, God our Father, we thant {hee for this great gathering of men. We thank thee for the earnest ef- forts put forth by the religious con- aregations of this city under God for the good of men. We thank thee for the church, with all its fulluence and efforts; for the Sab- bath day, for our services in the pulpit and out of it among the peo- ple. We thank thee for the Young Men's Christian Associa tion; for the consecrated amen who are engaged in that work. We thank thee that the hearts of the men of this city have been turned to that work, And now they are launching out into bigger fields of Iubor. We pray God's blessings on them, and we pray for these men who have stood to say ‘My hope is in Christ’, We pray that they wlio are not in the chureh may find a place in the church and that they may §nd work to do. We know that We must all soon lay down im- plements of our toil and turn toward our homes of rest. God bless, we pray thee, the Young Men's Christian Association today iu all its undertakings, and especial- ly remember these ‘fathers who have stood here and said ‘Pray for my boys’, “1D Igra Jesus Christ go after any sin-Warned children, and bring the lost home. And when all is done, and we have left this world, may we, who shall never meet on earth again, be brought safely home to thyself in heaven. We ask for Jesus’ suks. Amen! While we sing, 1 want the name and address of every man who arose and stood, and by that said he was Uclieving in Christ but was not conneeted with any church, and all those who arose for prayer. We hope to have the names of every cre, Please g6t these names and addresses. ‘They will be turned ever to Mr. Hamlet, the Secretary of the Y. M.C.A., and by him used to your best advantage, you may be sure of that,” Closed by singing: “Shall we gather at tho River Where bright angels’ fect trod? With its crystal tde forever, Mowing by the throne of God Chorus: Yes, we'll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful river, Gather with the saints at, the river, ‘That flows by the throne of God, On the margin of the river, Washing up tho silver spray, We will walk and worship ever, ken Seous fica creo sachin se aes Benediction. TUS EQUAL DONT Exist, No one has ever made a salve, oint- ment or balm to compare with Buck- Ien’s Avaica Salve, It’s the one. per- fect healer of Cuts, Corns, Burns, Bruises, Sores, Scalds, Boils, Ulcers, Rezema, Salt Rheum, For Sore Byes, Cold Sores, Chapped Hands or Sprains it's supreme. Unrivaled for Pites. Try it. Only 2c at all druggists. 10-5-4t. NEARLY $5,000 RECEIPTS: A We oe te 2 ae From the ofnee ut the secretary of state the report of businese dono there during the month of Septem> ber has been made. It shows they total receipts of the department of state for the one month amounted, to $4,985.30. The resident COPD, ration fees were the greatest of any, $1,000. The largest fee from such a souree came from the Mecca Collier: les Company, Charleston, which was! capitalized at $250,000, ‘The noit® resident corporations chartered num= beved ten and the biggest feo was re?" ceived from the Acme Co-Operative Weick and THe Co., of Webster City, jowa, This concern was capitlized | ta half million. ‘Twelve corpora! tions increased their capital, while three others decreased theirs and Hour foreign corporations were aw thorized ot do business in this state Tho items included in the report tee een Corporations were aut thorized ot do business in this state ‘The items included in the report! are as follows: i Inerease in capital ......% 665.00: Foreign corporations. .... 400.00 Resident corporations... 1,245.00 Non-Resident Corporations. "432.50 Tax on Great Seale...... 196.00 Sale of books ...7...... 670.00" BOOS eee cece ceca ees 1226.80 Attorney fees to auditor.. 150.00! $4,985.30 Four charters were issued’ from the office yesterday afternoon, two of trem being resident corporations and two to non-resident. With Bt Principel offices in Uuntington, ani its chict works in Wyoming county, the Big Hupp Coal Company was chartered, ‘The authorized capital is $400,000, of which $50 has been vaid. ‘The incorporators are ‘Thos, W. Harvey, Thos. H. Harvey and Ho HL. Harvey, all of Huntington, and’ J. B. Wilkinson, of Logan and James” D, Long, of Catlettsburg, Ky. : The other certificates of incorpo» ration were isstted as follows: Calvert, a corporation to deal in merchandise, ete. Chief works to be located in Chicago. Capital. stoic, $100,000, of which $100 has Leen paid. — Incorporatoars: B. P, Goltsmith, Arthur H. Spriegel, Sid rey M. Spriegel, Modie J. Spriegel, and I.E. Landes, all of Chicago. 3; Venora Oil and Gas Company, of, ifantington. Capital stock, $25.- 600, of which $250 has been paids Incorporators: J. 1. Caldwell, J. B. York, F. D. Caldwell and A. L. Me- Cinnis, of Huntington, and Chris., Iowrenee, of Louisa, Ky. Metropolitan Contracting — Com- reay, of Texas City, ‘Texas, to ope- hate in Galveston county, ‘Texas,’ and? cleowhere, Incorporators: John Jacobson, C.D. Gustavus and L. Bo) Ihiing, of Texas City, and BL J Cunningham and flyman $. Slack, of* Galveston. Among the West Virginians who Went to Minneapolis to attend the ceremonies ingident to the maugura, tion of Dr. George W. Vincent as bresident ef the University off Minnesota, was State Superinten- Gent of Pree Schools M. P. Shawkey,., A large number of state superinten- dents were present, and some of, thent took an active part in the pro- ceedings. The event was one of, importance in the — educational, world and was so attractive that a’ lure number of presidents and oth- er othcials of the bigger colleges, were in attendanye. Immediately. after his return to this state, Prof. , Shawkey will so to Preston county “here, togetherewith Prof. 1. da, Uanifan, he will conduct an educa. ‘ional campaign of a week's: dura lion. ‘These educators will _ visit’ the most important points in the county and expect to further ad- vance the school work there. It is expected that it will not be long uné HL a dish school of the county class” wil! be established in Preston, °° A mevement is on foot for the ronsoldation of the High school at Keyser, Mineral county, and — they ‘erser Preparatory school. Por the burpose of learning the sentiment, of the citizens of the county—with, teference to the movement, Prot: Ju ", Marsh has gone to Mineral coun- ty end will spend some time there. It will be shown wherein the cons solidation can be of great benefit, in every particular, and that by ith, more money can be expended in, Furthering the agricultural and hore, ticultural as well ay other departs, ments, So far but little has beem, said with reference to the consoti= dation but it has been assured by, those who have taken the matter Into consideration there will be but iitUle opposition when the plans are placed before the people for their sanction. An effort will be made to Jaise (he standard of education in, Mineral county and everything poset ble will be done by the department, of schools to bring about that end. To lock after some matters of historic interest in connection with his department, Prof Virgil Aut Lewis has gone to Point Pleasant Where he will obtain some data for use in the department of archives hnd history. Io will return. early next week. His department Ja rapidly growing in Interesting features and is one of “the many places of interest to which many vistors (o Charleston are. directed every day a The St, Louls Browns certainly, “came back” when they defeated the, Cardinals in the post peason arte In the spring series the Cardinalf Won seven stright gamos from the Browns. HON. WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS WRITES LETTER OF PROTEST Against Desecration of the Name of the Burning Spring Hon. William Seymour Edwards writes a letter to the Chamber of Commerce protecting against the change of the name of the famous Earning Springbs by the K. & M. to Hackett. In his letter of protest which follows, Mr. Edwards gives the interesting history of the famous local curiosity and of the association which cluster around it: Referring to the subject of Washington's Famous Burning Spring, situate near the K. & M. Railroad a few miles above Charleston, of which I spoke to you the other day, I beg to say: Even so early as 1750, when a few bold white hunters had crossed the Alleganies and traversed the valley of the Great Kanawha, it become known that, somewhere in the Kanawha Valley, there was a mysterious spring where the water propetally burned. Here, it was, that the passing Indian made his camp and pitched his wigwam, and here it was that the white man bovenacked for the night, for the spring water was good and the mysterious gases issuing with the water were eternally afame and, if thru a sudden down fall of rain, the dames had been greentht, the striking of a flint and the lighting of a spark set them ablaze again. From year to year, as time went on, more white men—hunters mostly—camped by the spring and cooked their food over the mysterious fire. And later, when white settlers began, here and there, to invade the beautiful wilderness of the Kanawha Valley, with its abundance of game, the travelers always sought to make their camp at the burning spring. Thus, it was, that George Washington in one of his western forays when he came up against the Indians about the year 1751, had occasion to camp at this strange spring in the Kanawha Valley. A few years later he came out to Kanawha a second time; on this occasion with a surveying party, and he made his survey along the rich bottoms of the Kanawha, including that portion where the spring was Along thru these years, George Washington, the state surveyor of Virginia, was acquiring a great deal of land along the valleys of the Great Kanawha and up the Ohio and thru Monongabela. He was to all intents and purposes capture of the border and, constantly being sent out by the State of Virginia to drive back the threatening Indians. It was his wont to gather up his neighbors for these forays, to himself recruit the companies that were properly paid for the services rendered to the State. The State of Virginia had little money in those days, but she was liberal with her lands and it was her practice to pay her militia in what is known as "land-script". They were paid at the rate of fifty cents a day and in land-script, which entitled them to survey and take up for themselves, wild lands of the State, at the rate of half cent an acre. Thus, the militia union their return to Virginia, would be entitled to receive from the Literary Fund, as the Virginia Land Office was called, of the State land script to whatever amount of land was certified by their Commanding Officer. Here, George Washington's commercial instinct availed him and he made a practice of buying up this land script from the soldiers at a discount. Office Phone 573 Bell JOHN C Phys CHARESTON, WEST VIRGINIA Office Hours 8 to 11, 1 to 4, 6 to 9 GARRETT AND UNDER ARTHUR L. GARRETT Why pay large prices when w quality of service and goods for stock of goods. Prompt ambul GARRETT AND HAZLEWOOD UNDERTAKERS ARTHUR L. GARRETT, LICENSED EMBALMER Why pay large prices when we can furnish you with the same quality of service and goods for less money. We carry a large stock of goods. Prompt ambulance service. Open day and night. --- PAGE SIX --- Bell Phone 336. Home Phone 328. Then, at a later time, when Washington had accumulated sufficient land script to warrant a survey, he would himself, as a State surveyor, go out lay these lands in the most fertile valleys of the western watershed of Virginia, and when his surveys were completed and his maps prepared, he would file them, in the offices of the Governor of Virginia and receive from him patents giving him title to these lands. Thus it came about that Washington become the greatest landowner in Virginia and the greatest owner of wild land of probably any man in all the Colonies. So it was, that traveling frequently across the Greenbrier Country and descending into the Kanaa wha Valley, he cammed more than once at the burning spring Washington evidently pondered upon the nature of this strange natural phenomenon and, while he was not able to determine just what it was, he yet realized that to posterity it might possibly be of great value. So, it came to pass that he set apart and dedicated to the public forever the acre of land surrounding the spring with the burning flame. There is today in possession of one of the leading citizens of Charleston, C. C. Lewis, Sr., a neatly written deed. The handwriting is full and clear and evidently done with a well sharpened quill pen. This deed was prepared for Washington by a young attorney who did much of that work for him during his early life. The young man was named Thomas Jefferson. Now this deed of Washington's written for him by his attorney, Thomas Jefferson, goes on to state that while the donor does not understand or fully comprehend the nature of the natural phenomenon witnessed at the Burning Spring, nevertheless, he appreciates that it may be brought with unestimable value for posterity, and, accordingly, he sets the land surrounding the spring apart and dedicates it to the public forever. The deed, as then the law required, was acknowledged by Washington before two Justices of the Peace. One of these, Justices was able to put his signature to the acknowledgement, but the other was killed by the Indians before he set his name to the paper. Thus, the paper, imperfectly acknowledged was filed away and probably forgotten. After Washington's death, when the executors found it expedient to examine his western estates they discovered that the public did not have perfect title to this acre, nor were there immediate relatives of Washington's sufficiently interested in the matter to give it especial attention, and so the land was sold, together with what other land Washington then owned by this section of Virginia, and has passed on from vendee to vendee until, today, the land is owned by Mr. Lewis, who proudly preserves this deed among the chains of title to his property. Now, the matter I have up with the K & M. Ry. people is, that this historical incident should have been so far forgotten that the famous Washington's Burning Spring and the little valley where the spring once oubbed and which has for more than a century been known as Washington's Burning Spring Hollow, should have suddenly been, christened by the term of Heskett by the officials of the K. & M. Railroad, who have there a flag station. The man, Heskett, seems to have been an unsuccessful Ohioian who appeared in this country a few years ago, laid a trainway track up, the Burning Spring run, and attempted to open a coal mine, where Office Room 5 K. of P. Building Cor. Washington & Dickinson Sts. Residence 413 Shrewsbury St. he did not find sufficient coal to sustain his enterprise. The enterprise died, the rail, was taken up and Haskett disappeared, but the name still remains as a monument to his misfortune and a damning light to the industrial record of the railroad. I now put it up to the Charleslton Chamber of Commerce and the authorities of the K. & M. Railroad that they shall abolish the name of Haskett at this station and shall rechristen it what for nearly two hundred years it has been known to be, Washington's Burning Spring. The city solicitor today issued a circular letter to the physicians of Charleston calling attention to the ordinance requiring prompt reporting of contagious and pestilential diseases, with the announcement that prosecution will follow any remission in conforming the ordinance. The letter follows: "It has been reported to the Board of Affairs that physicians, in many instances, have failed to make report of contagious, infectious and pestilential diseases mentioned in Section 40 of Article VII of the Health Ordinance which is as follows: "It shall be the duty of each and every practicing physician of the City of Charleston to immediately report to the Health Commissioner (at present Dr. O. L. Aultz) and the Superintendent of the Public Schools (at present Prof George S. Laidley) each case of Small Pox, typhus fever, croup, cerebro-spinal fever, diptheria, erysipelas, measles, purpural fever, scaletina, typhoid fever, yellow fever, whooping-cough, cholera and chicken pox, or any other contagious or infectious disease which he may see or be called upon to attend within the Police Jurisdiction of the City." "His Honor, Mayor James A. Holley, has instructed the undersigned to call the attention of all the physicians practicing in this city to the above and foregoing section and I take this means of doing so." "I would further call your attention to Section 44 of said Article VII which will hereafter be strictly enforced: "Any physician violating any of the provisions of this Article or failing to perform the duties required of him by this Article, upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than Fifty nor more than Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, with costs, to each offense." Very respectfully, CITY SOLICITOR. Hunting Man Lowest Down 15 THE THEME OF BOOKER T WASHINGTON'S BOOK FOR THE COMING SPRING Random Extracts Cive Reasons for Attempting the Work and Show Results of Educator's Observations Among the Lowest Strata of Europe's Civilization. On the 20th of August, 1910, I sailed from New York City for London, England. I had been given a leave of absence of two months from my work at Tuskegee, on condition that I would spend that time in some way that would give me recreation and rest. At one time it occurred to me that I should like to spend my vacation in the West Indies, looking into the condition of the portion of my race in that part of the world. After considering the matter, however, I finally came to the conclusion that I could, perhaps, learn more in Europe than anywhere else about the problems in which I am particularly interested. I concluded that in Europe I would be able to get an outside view, so to speak, of my own country and by making comparison with what I was able to see there, with what I knew of conditions at home. I should be able to get a clearer and more comprehensive view of the situation of my own people in America than I could in any other way. Having settled upon Europe as the place to take my vacation, I determined to carry out a plan I had long had in mind of making myself acquainted with the condition of the poorer and working classes in Europe, particularly in those regions from which an ever increasing number of immigrants are coming to our country each year. The best way to get acquainted with an individual, or with a people according to my experience, is to visit them at their work and in their homes, and in this way find out what is back of them. So it was that I determined to make use of my stay in Europe to visit the people in their homes, to talk with them at their work and to find out everything I could. I was curious, for one thing, to learn why it was that so many of these European people were leaving the countries in which they were born and reared, in order to seek their fortunes in a new country and among strangers in a distant part of the world. THE ADVOCATE The majority of the people who reach this country as immigrants from Europe, are as one might expect, from the farming regions. They are farm laborers or tenant farmers. Furthermore, there exists, as I discovered, a very definite relation between the condition of agriculture and the agricultural peoples in Europe and the extent of emigration to this country. In other words, wherever in any part of Europe I found the condition of agriculture and the situation of the farm laborers at their worst, there I almost invariably found emigration at the highest. On the other hand, wherever I visited a part of the country where emigration had, in recent years decreased, there I quite as invariably found that the situation of the man on the soil had improved. What interested me still more was the fact that this improvement had been, to a very large extent, brought about through the influence of schools, Agricultural education has stimulated an intensive culture of the soil; this in turn has helped to multiply the number of small landowners and stimulate the organization of agriculture; the resulting prosperity has made itself felt not only in the country but also in the cities. Another matter in regard to which I hope to get some nstr-hand information during my stay abroad was what I may call the European, as distinguished from the American, race problem. I knew that in the South of Europe, a number of races of wildly different origin and characteristics had been thrown together in close contact and in large numbers. I suspected that in this whirlpool of contending races and classes - should find problems—race problems and educational problems—different to be sure, but quite ac complicated, difficult and interesting as in our own country. There was another thing that made the trip I had outlined peculiarly attractive to me, I believed that I would find in some parts of Europe, peoples who in respect to education, opportunity and civilization generally, were much nearer the level of the masses of the Negro people in the South than I was likely to find anywhere in America. I believed, also, that if I went far enough and deep enough, I should find even in Europe great numbers of people, who, in their homes, in their labor and in their manner of living, were little, if any, in advance of the Negroes in the Southern States. I wanted to study at first-hand, as far as I was able, the methods which European nations were using to uplift the masses of the people who are at the bottom in the scale of civilization. One of the first things I learned in Europe was the difficulty of meeting the ordinary man and seeing and getting acquainted with the matters of every day life. I soon discovered that the most difficult things to see are not the sights that everyone goes to look at, but the common place things that no one sees. In order to carry out the plan I had in mind it was necessary for me to leave the ordinary beaten track of European travel and to plunge into regions which have not been charted and mapped, and where ordinary guides and guide-books are of little or no avail. I set out from America, as I have said, to find the man farthest down. In a period of about six weeks I visited parts of England, Scotland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Sicily, Poland and Denmark. I spent some time among the poorer classes of London and in several cities in Austria and Italy. I investigated, to a certain extent, the condition of the agricultural populations in Sicily, in Bohemia Poland and Denmark. I saw much that was sad and depressing; but I saw much, alo- that was hopeful and inspiring. Bad as conditions are. in some places, I do not think I visited any place where things are not better than they were some years ago. I found also that the connection between Europe and America is much closer and more intimate than I had imagined. I am sure that very few persons in this country realize the extent to which America has touched and influenced the masses of the people of Europe. I think it is safe to say that no single influence which is today tending to change and raise the condition of the working people in the agricultural regions of Southern Europe is greater than the constant stream of emigration which is pouring out of Europe into America and back again into Europe. It should be remembered that not only do large numbers of these people emigrate to America, but many of these emigrants return and take with them not only money to buy lands, but new ideas higher ambitions and a wider outlook on the world. ZEMO CURES ECZEMA, PIMPLES, DANDRUFF, PRICKLY HEAT, SUNBURN. and affords you skin comfort during the hot weather. We give you three reasons why we recommend ZEMO for skin trouble. 1st. ZEMO is a clean, scientific, liquid preparation,—pleasant and agreeable to use. 2nd. ZEMO stops itching at once and allays the irritation and promptly soothes and heals the skin. 3rd. 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The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor, is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend or six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION L. O. WILSON, PRESIDENT WESTON, W. VA. Parade of Industries A SIGNIFICANT FEATURE OF AP PALACHIAN EXPOSITION SAYS NAPIER. "Negro Day" Orator Thinks Display Made by Race at Knoxville Fair Eclipse any Affairs of Kind ever Held in this Country. Thompson's National News Bureau. Washington, D. C., Oct. 25.—J. C. Napier, the popular and efficient Register of the Treasury, is at his desk again, after a delightful visit to points in Tennessee. Mr. Napier was orator of the day on "Negro Day" at the Appalachian Exposition at Knoxville, Tenn., and delivered an address that has been highly praised by the press of the entire state, and which pleased whites and blacks alike because of the sound position taken by the speaker with reference to the duty of the races in the development of the Southland, the common home of each. Mr. Napier dwell with particular emphasis upon what the colored people are doing for the economic uplift of the South, and gave figures to show the Intrinsic value of the Negro citizenship to the country. "It is marvelous," said Mr. Napier, when we note in serious vein the extent to which the Negro is helping to make this nation great and strong. He is cultivating the soil, and supplying our markets with the products that feed and clothe the people—not only the people of this country, mind you—but he is helping to a surprising extent in the task of supplying necessities for the people of the world. The Negro is the pillar upon which rests the cotton industry of the Souh, and upon cotton the wealth and happiness of the South is most largely dependent. The black man is the South's only reliable industrial factor, as far as agriculture and hard labor are concerned. In the skilled industries he is destined to increase in importance, as institutions like Tuskegee and Hampton are turning out, year by year, hundreds of, oright young men and women of skill and intelligence who are to take leading places in the great workshops of the land." Mr. Napier expressed satisfaction with the many evidences that the white and the colored people of Tennessee are beginning to understand one another. He was pleased to note the extent that a friendly feeling is being cultivated, and mutual bonds of sympathy are being forged between the races. This disposition he observed at every point visited during his itinerary, and he thought it augured well for the future of both black and white citizens at the South, MONSTER INDUSTRIAL PARADE "Perhaps the most significant thing that I saw at the Applachian Exposition was the monster industrial parade on Negro Day, continued Mr. Napier. "I have no hesitation in saying that it was the finest display I have ever seen my race make anywhere at any time. It eclipsed any demonstration of the kind I have ever witnessed. The procession embraced fully forty automobiles and as many carriages, buggies and surreys, occupied by thrifty, good-looking colored people, who were engaged in various callings, professional, agricultural, and commercial. A large number of "floats" were drawn on wagons, highly ornamented and loaded with agricultural products. Sheep, swine, cattle, etc., were advantageously exhibited, among them being two wagon loads of swine that had won the first and second prizes in the white department of the Applachain Exposition. "An especial attractive feature of the procession was a group of thirty horsemen, mounted on as fine a lot of horses as Knoxville could afford—and it is a center for fine steeds. Each rider was dressed in uniform, with leggings, and all accouterments for men and horse apparently new, and the effect was most striking. All along the line of march they were cheered to the echo by the admiring populace, made up of both races. White and black admirers vied with one another in the length and vigor of their applause. "As a concrete illustration of the friendliness of the white people of Knoxville for their colored neighbors, almost every white citizen who owned an automobile telephoned to Dr. II M. Green early in the period when arrangements were being made, and tendered the use of their machines and chauffeurs for the entire day in which the parade was scheduled to move. In short, Negro Day at the Applachian Exposition was a revelation to me, and I would not have missed being there for anything." MR. NAPIER AT OTHER NOTA- BLE FAIR. Mr. Napier also spoke on "Nashville Day" at the Rutherford County fair, at Murfreesboro. Accepting the cordial invitation of Rev. G. B. Taylor, Mr. C. N. Langston, bank of Nashville, and Dr. J. A. Napier, the register speeded to Murfreesboro in a big touring car—a distance of thirty miles, which they covered in an hour and a half. At Nashville, Mr. Napier attended the Field Day exercises of the students of Meharry College at Greenwood Park, and delivered an address which was warmly received. At Memphis, in company with Governor B. W. Hooper, he visited the Tri-State Fair at Driving Park, going also to the Three-State Fair at Montgomery Park, both speaking at each place. At all of the tairs visited, Mr. Napier says there were many creditable specimens of the skill and industry of the colored people exhibited. The genial Register made no effort to conceal the satisfaction he felt over the triumphant election of Lawyer S. P. Harris to the City Council of Nashville, by the voters of the Third Ward. This is the first time a colored man THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911 R MONEY? BING FOR YOU? ink where you get no interest, keep- are Working for Money. safe way, where it will be working ast six per cent. Interest -- Your er to give us an opportunity to put he is a picture of our building on three story brick building on one er is occupied by the Huntington ate, the second floor, is used for This building is sure to pay us with our stockholders were paid a the installment plan. Ask your FOR YOU INVESTMENT WESTON, W. VA. has achieved this distinction since Mr. Napier served as such for eight years. In recent years, it seems, local jealousies and divisions of various kinds have kept colored men from being elected to municipal legislatures, although there are clear Negro majorities in the Third, Fourth, Twelfth and Fourteenth Wards of the City. "I am pleased beyond expression with the election of Mr. Harris," declared Mr. Napier. "He is a man of marked ability and will certainly serve the interests of his constituents. It would bring about a new era in the political life of the Negroes of Nashville, if they would only 'get together', in this way every time the polls are opened and stand up for the right thing." Mr. Napier is looking after the government end of the exhibits that are to be a part of the fair that Major R. R. Wright is to conduct at Macon, Georgia, November 10 and 20, and will deliver the principal address on that occasion. FOUR YOUNG BROTHERS STROLLING ENTERTAINERS Four Young Brothers, and they are young both by name and in years, arrived in the city last night on a trip over the country which will likely take them far into the south before they decided to return to their home in Bordland, Ohio, to take a short rest before starting out again. The boys are all small fellows and they do street entertainments for which they take up a collection at every stop. This morning on Virginia street they did not get rich but they were given enough coin of the realm to insure them several meals in a first class boarding house. They form a drum and fife corps and the music rendered is almost sufficient to arouse the martial feeling in everyone who hears the enditions. The boys are hard workers, and wear a blue uniform, while flag of the nation is one of the items of their stock in trade. MR. CAPLES TAKES PLACE OF MR. DOYLE DECEASED Richmond, Va., Oct. 25.—In 'an official circular issued' by President Stevens, M. J. Caples has been appointed fourth vice president, who jurisdiction over the operating and construction departments of the Chesapeake & Ohio, with headquarters in Richmond. In another circular issued by President Stevens, Mr. Caples is appointed to a like position with the Hocking Valley, with offices in Columbus. This appointment becomes effective November 1, and is to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Doyle about a year ago. Pitcher "Rube" Waddell is visiting Manager Joe Cantillon, of the Minneapolis leaf, at Reeffoot lake, Kentucky. Joe has a handsome winter home at the lake.