Nashville Globe
Friday, December 17, 1909
Nashville, Tennessee
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THE NASHVILLE GLOBE.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
VOL. IV.
Lilium
LITTLE FOLKS SWOOP DOWN ON SANTA GLAUS
LITTLE FOLKS SWOOP DOWN ON SANTA GLAUS
Dear Santa Claus—I am a very bad little boy, but I want you to bring me some of everything that is good. Please don't forget mama. Your friend, LOUIS K. THOMAS, Jr.
Dear Mr. Santa Claus—I want you to bring me some of the same things you bring brother. Please remember papa. Yours truly,
REBA YSOBELLE THOMAS.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl three years old and have been very good. Please bring me a doll trunk and some dishes. Bring sister a Negro doll and buggy and bring baby sister a fooler and bring us all the good things to eat.
HAZEL EMMA BAKER.
1514 Twelfth avenue, North.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 1, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl nine years old. I am in the third grade and my teacher says I am getting along nicely. I have been trying to be good for a long, long time, so you would want to remember me and bring me some toys and things like you do all the other good girls. It's hard to be good all the time, but as you love to make little children happy, I hope you will put me on your list anyhow. Dear Santa Claus, grandma has been good so please bring her a pair of shoes. I want a Negro doll, a little water set, a little safe, a dress and a pair of shoes. Grandpa is sick, but please bring him something. Bring my dear mamma a pair of black gloves and please don't forget my two uncles, Uncle James Bumpus and Uncle Orvle Bumpus, they are so good to me. Yours lovingly.
LOLA ORVELLA McGAVOCK
Hermitage, Tenn., Dec. 5, 1999.
My Dear Santa Claus—I have been very good little girl and I want you of stockings. I will not ask you to bring me a speech book and a pair bring me very much, and I want you to bring me some candy, apples, bananas and oranges. Please bring my papa and mamma something too. I want you to bring papa a pair of socks, bring mama a pair of stockings and a pair of earrings. Please bring me a pretty vase to set upon the mantlepiece. I am ten years old and I am in the fifth grade. I will have a little Christmas tree in the house. I have kept the things very nice that you brought me last Christmas. I think my ring is very nice. Bring my teacher something. I will close.
MEXIE EVANS.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little stranger in your city. My name is Willie Lee. My home is in Fayetteville. Tenn., and I would like very much for you to bring me a Negro doll and a dress and a hat and some candy and all kinds of nice fruit. And please don't forget my little sisters. Jimmie and Annie in Fayetteville, and my dear mother and father, and don't forget my sister Ella. Good-bye. Come early, because I go to bed early at 7 o'clock. From little WILLIE LEE COMMANS.
1805 1-2 State street.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little boy ten years of age, and would like very much for you to bring me a muffler, a baseball glove and a bat, and ball, an air-gun, a sled and a small bicycle, and bring me a plenty of fruit, candy and nuts, and most anything that you would like for me to have. Please remember my mother in Chicago, and my only little sister. Louise, in Huntsville and my father, who is here, and Mammy Haywood, also my teacher. Good bye. Come early because I go to bed at seven o'clock.
WILLIAM HENRY McCAULEY.
Dear Santa—I am a little girl eleven years old and go to school every day and get my lessons well and would like for you to bring me a dress, pair of shoes, stockings, candles, nuts, oranges, fireworks and please don't forget mother, grand-
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
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mother and my two aunties. Don't forget my little dog, he loves candies. EUOLIS ANN THOMPSON.
1025 Fourteenth avenue, North, Nashville, Tenn.
Dear Santa—I am a little girl six years old. Dear Santa, I want you to bring me a doll stove, a pretty sleeping doll and a set of dishes, and a little table to put them on. Don't forget mamma and my grandma. From your little girl
FANNIE MAI SANDERS.
843 Overton street.
Don't forget me, Dear Santa Claus. Nashville, Tenn.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa—I have been a very good girl this year, and I want you to bring me a Teddy bear, doll buggy and Negro doll, some candy, nuts, oranges
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and plenty of fireworks. Don't forget my friend Mary Peaks and her lover, Leroy Barnes. Please bring her a Negro doll, and him a Billy Possum. I live at 62 Green street.
705 Winter street, East Nashville,
Tenn., Dec. 14, 1909. Dear Santa—
I am a big girl now and I want
no toys. I want you to bring me a
hat and suit, pair of shoes and over-
shoes and lots of nice books to read.
Bring some candy, nuts, oranges, raisins and please don't forget my dear
Aunt Lucy and Uncle Nathan with
whom I live. Bring them something to, and my father and sister. Bring
me also. Santa, some nice music.
103 Green street, Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 14, 1909. Dear Santa-I have been a good girl and I know you will not forget me. Please bring me a
Negro doll that can oper, and shut her eyes, a brown teddy bear, set of dishes, iron bed, stove, and plenty of candies, oranges, nuts raisins and anything else for a good little girl. Now, Santa, please don't forget my little friend Cora. Bring her a jumping jack, and also don't forget my sweetheart, Abe L. Moore. If you think it would be nice you can bring him a fire engine. I will go to bed early. From your little girl
JIMMIETTA E. McEWEN.
P. S. Don't forget mama, papa and my brother.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl six years old, and I have been very good this year helping mama, so I want to bring me a rocking chair, doll buggy and a girl top and a doll cooking stove, and that is all in
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the toy line. Now Santa, I want you to bring me some candy, nuts, oranges, apples, bananas, raisins, and all kinds of good things to eat, and don't forget mama, papa and aunt Kittle. Good by Santa, your little friend,
JESSIE D. TRIMBLE.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1909.
Dear Old Santa—I am a tiny little girl, and I am very good. Please bring me a little white poodle dog, just like my cousin Alma's, a Negro doll that will open and shut her eyes, some fireworks, candles, nuts oranges, and lots of good things.
Please don't forget my little sweetheart, Master William Woodfolk.
Bring him a little choo, choo engine, and bring Cynthia something nice too, and above all don't forget my dear mother, father, grandmother, sisters,
and my little brother wants a new suit of clothes. I am yours as ever. ALLEE BROWN. 915 Ament street, Nashville, Tenn.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1909. Dear Old Santa—I have been very good every since last Xmas. I am a very little girl and just fourteen years old. I know you won't forget me. Please bring me a Negro doll, candies, nuts and plenty of fire works and any other thing that you think is would be nice for a little girl like me. Dear Santa, don't forget my cousin, Allie, she want a rubber doll, so she can chew on it. Whatever you do, don't forget my sweetheart, Mr. Albert J. Scrugg. Bring him anything that would be nice for a little girl's sweetheart. Don't forget my dear mother, father, sister and brother.
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I still remain your little girl,
ALMA S. DILLAHUNTY.
1306 Edgehill street, South Nashville,
Tennessee.
East Nashville, Tenn., 619 Lonely
street. Dear Old Santa Claus—I am
a little girl ten years old. My mama
says I am a smart little girl and I am
in the third A grade and I attend
Melgs School and Miss L. A. Banks
is my teacher and she is very kind
and I want you to remember her.
Now I will tell you what I want: a
new dress, a colored doll and pair of
gold ear rings, candy, oranges, rais-
ens and nuts. I guess this is all.
Please remember my good old grand-
ma who live at 724 Bienville street.
Yours,
LOTTIE C. HOCKETT.
P. S. I will look for you soon.
Dear Santy—I have been a very
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No.50
Lilium
SEVENTEEN YEARS OF CON- STANT SERVICE
SEVENTEEN YEARS OF CON- STANT SERVICE
A fitting recognition of the yeoman's service that has been given to the Mt. Olive Baptist Church by Rev. Chas. Henry Clark, D. D., as its pastor was the anniversary celebration held last Sunday and Monday at the church. The affair was planned by the members of the church, under the leadership of such untiring workers as Deacons Porch Gibbs, Tate, Martin and Body, Mesdames Douglass, Rucker, Pride, Drake and others too numerous to mention.
The celebration began Sunday morning in Sunday-school, when a lecture was given by Dr. Winrow, who spoke on the prominence that had been given the church by its present leader.
At the eleven o'clock hour Dr. Clark preached. At the afternoon service Rev. G. B. Taylor, a member of Mt. Olive, who is pastoring the Second Baptist Church, delivered the anniversary sermon, in the presence of a magnificent audience. At night Rev. A. E. Edwards, D. D., of Richmond, Va., a life-long friend of Dr. Clark, filled the rubbit.
Notwithstanding the inclement weather Sunday and Sunday night all of the services were largely attended. The climax to the celebration was reached Monday night, when a banquet was tendered the pastor in the Sunday-school auditorium. The room was tastefully decorated for the occasion. An arch, suspended from the ceiling, bearing this inscription "Triumphant arch of the seventeen years of the pastorate of Charles Henry Clark 1892-1909." A life-sized picture of Dr. Clark as he appeared in 1892 was under one end of the arch, and another one as he appears 1909 graced the other end. A table accommodating fifty guests, constructed in the shape of the letter "C," was spread on the platform. At this table the ministers of the city, the professional men, their families and prominent visitors were served, while the congregation was served seated in opera chairs in the auditorium proper. Rev. A. W. Porter, of the North Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church, was master of ceremonies. Rev. Porter announced supper was ready. After Dr. Clark and the guests had marched out of the office around the table and were seated at the table, Grace was said by Rev. T. Spencer Jackson, pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. An elaborate mehu was served.
The following responded to toasts: Rev. R. H. Boyd, "Dr. Clark's pastorate of Mt. Olive from national point of view;" Dr. R. F. Boyd, M. D., "Dr. Clark's friendship to charity as a pastor;" Rev. W. S. Ellington, A. M., D. D., "Dr. Clark as an associate pastor in Nashville;" R. L. Mayfield, Attorney-at-Law, "Dr. Clark as a public-spirited man;" Rev. T. J. Townsend, D. D., "Dr. Clark's service to the denomination in Tennessee;" Prof. J. D. Crenshaw, "Dr. Clark as a thinker and leader;" Rev. A. E. Edwards, D. D., Richmond, Va., "Dr. Clark as a lifelong friend;" J. Thomas Turner, Attorney-at-Law, a poem, "A Master Mind," dedicated to Dr. C. H. Clark in honor of his seventeenth anniversary. Mrs. Elnora Towsen read a paper on behalf of the ladies in which she portrayed many beautiful traits and characteristics of the honoree. Mrs. Pearl Merry read a short paper, after which she presented a bath-robe from the Progressive Club of the church. Mrs. Amanda Drake read a paper on the occasion, presenting the pastor with a broad-cloth Prince Albert suit. Rev. John Ridley read a paper on "Dr. Clark as a Sunday-school organizer." At the conclusion of these presentations and toasts, the pastor was found lacking in words with which to respond. He made extended remarks describing his early pastorate, making particular mention of Deacon Tate as a diplomat. Rev. I. J. Jordan, of Franklin, Tenn., pronounced the benediction.
An interesting bit of history is connected with the services of Nashville's (Continued on Page 7.)
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Dear Santa—I am a good little girl and will you please don't forget me. Will you please bring me a gold necklace and candies, fruits and nuts and please bring me a stocking cap and some black. ribbon. Your little friend,
LYDIA DELILLAH EWING.
Columbia avenue.
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
The marriage of Mr. L. C. Lawrence to Miss Jennie Porterfield comes as quite a surprise to their many friends. On last Sunday evening, December 1, at 7 o'clock, they were quietly married at the home of Rev. Spencer Jackson. Only a few friends witnessed the ceremony.
Mr. Walter Starks and Miss Emma Stevenson were quietly married in the parlor of the Copeland Hotel Tuesday evening, December 7. Those present were Mrs. Jas. Parks and Mrs. Ernest Robertson. Mrs. A. A.
J. BLAINE
[Portrait of a young man in formal attire, facing slightly to the right].
J. BLAINE BOYD.
Among the young men of the South who are making a record as a skilled mechanic there is none who shines with more brilliancy or who has made a greater record in the same period of times than has J. Blaine Boyd, Foreman of the Pressroom at the National Baptist Publishing House. Recently the head of the institution with which he is connected decided to install in his pressroom an All-Size Scott Rotary Book Press. Negroes had never owned or handled such a machine before. The question naturally arose, Who will operate the press? No white man had ever been employed as the foreman of the National Baptist Publishing House, and seldom have any been employed to do anything—in fact, there is not a single white man working, in that place now. But as no Negro had ever operated a Rotary Book press, there was some anxiety from many quarters as to just what would be done
Mitchel, Mrs. L. J. Wells, Mr. T. Manning and Mrs. F. E. Former, Mr. E. L. Baker, Miss A. Allen, Mr. Lesley Hicks and Mr. Joseph Peyton. An elaborate supper was served.
A marriage that will surprise Nashville friends is that of Miss Minnie E. White and Mr. Elliott Chamblain, which took place Sunday, November 28, at the residence of Mrs. Henry Turner, of 3528 Dearborn street, Chicago, Rev. Cato, of Trinity Baptist Church, officiating. Miss White was one of Nashville's society young women and quite popular, but has made her home in Chicago for the past year. The groom is one of Chicago's young business men and well thought of. The wedding was a very quiet affair, only intimate friends being present. The bride was beautiful in white silk. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner, Mr. L. Ford, Miss Hardy, Mrs. Humley, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. M. Ford, Miss Lula Grant and Mr. Richard Mason, of Nashville, Teen. At 11:30 a beautiful wedding supper was served.
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LITTLE FOLKS SWOOP DOWN ON
SANTA CLAUS.
Lewisburg, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little girl. I live four miles from one town and two miles from the other town. I live in Marshall County. I wish you would bring me everything that is nice to eat. Please bring some candy, oranges, and mixed nuts and raisins. Please bring me a dress. Don't fornice things to eat. Please don't forget my little girl friends and bring them something nice. And don't forget my aunt Zana and mama and grandmother and grandpapa and remember them all and bring them something nice. Good bye, from your little friend
E BOYD.
in this instance. But when the time arrived for the press to be erected and the erector came from the factory to install the machine, young Boyd was told to appoint some one in his department to look after matters, don his overalls, and set in to assist the erector in putting up the press. He obeyed that order willingly. When the press was ready for operation, very much to the surprise of all, the man who had built the machine said to the manager, Dr. Boyd, that Blaine was competent to handle the machine. So this young man, aside from conducting the affairs of his department, operates this All-Size Press that has a capacity of over 6,000 impressions per hous. The erector only operated the machine one half day, and young Boyd has just finished a run of all the quarteriles for the National Baptist Publishing House for the first quarter, 1910. The work was done without a hitch, which speaks volumes for this young man.
Hello, Mr. Santa Claus—How are you? I am happy as can be because you are coming. I am old enough to enjoy Xmas. Please bring me a cloak, dress, cap, set of dishes, Negro doll, trunk, A B C blocks, also nuts, candy, and oranges. Don't forget my cousin also mama and papa. Wishing you a Merry Xmas, Santa. Good bye,
ANNA MATILDA BARNES.
East Hill street.
Dear Santa—I am a sweet girl only four years old, but I can read through my first reader nearly, and can spell lots of things. I would like for you to bring me a Negro doll, set of dishes, trunk, tab'e, safe, tub, washboard, cloak, shoes, dress and plenty of nuts, candy and oranges. Please don't forget my sister also my uncle and aunts, and cousin. I may be in my new house by Xmas eve, 14 South Hill street, but I am now at 38. Don't miss me Santa, please.
MARY K. BATTLE.
38 South Hill street.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I want you to bring me some shoes. I want a pin and a suit of clothes, candy, oranges,
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Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little boy nine years old, I wish you would bring me a suit of clothes, a billy goat, and everything that is good to eat. Please don't forget grandpa and grandma Campbell also grandma Stringer. I shall look for you to bring us all something nice. Your little friend,
NOBLE CAMPBELL STRINGER.
December 12, 1909.—Dear Santa Claus—I thought I would write you a letter and tell you what I would like for you to bring me. I am a little girl nine years old. I would like for you to bring me anything you think that is nice. I am your little girl.
MARY STARNES.
Franklin, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl four years old, and I try to be good and help my mother all I can. I would like for you to bring me a Negro doll and doll buggy, a little stove, some dishes, candies, fruits and nuts. My little brother wants a train, a hobby horse, fruits, candies and lots of good things. Now please don't forget the little baby sister. Lovingly, your little friend.
ELLEN ETHLYN REDICK.
Dear Santa—I am a little boy eight years old. I go to school every day and try to be good. Please bring me a wagon, a gun, candy, nuts, oranges, fireworks and anything nice. Don't
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One has only to talk with a few citizens of the Current river country to learn how the people appreciate an honest effort to bring the latent and unknown resources of this State to public notice. The people of Missouri have slept long enough. They are waking up. They realize now that there's more prosperity and satisfaction in politics that will develop the State than in politics intended merely to create a Democratic majority.—The Central Afro-American.
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GLEANINGS FROM THE NEW STATE—OKLAHOMA.
The native Negro of this state has a wealth of opportunity before him, if he properly comprehend it. His attainments consist of some of the finest farm land as can be found anywhere, or as rich timber-land as that which belts the mountains of Maine, and coal-land for which many are offered as high as $5,000 a year, and oil-land that yields them a comfortable sum. Some are developing their natural resources, others are selling theirs for a small sum, still others are mortgaging theirs and are never able to redeem it, and some are letting theirs go unattended. Races from the state who have long since become citizens by adoption or choice, too, have had their chances and many have accepted and made a fortune.
This state is very generous to her sons and daughters. The best law that can be couched in a constitution is that which looks to individual development of its offspring into useful and upright citizenship. The constitution of this state provides for compulsory attendance upon the school taking the high ground that it will cost the state less to educate its citizens than to keep court and build and maintain prisons. $500,000 is not a small sum for her permanent school fund, aside from varied other sources she receives money for the support of her schools. The natives respond to instruction readily. Lessons in sobriety, truth and morality must largely be by example. Atoka, the city of my present labor. This is one of the largest and most business-like cities
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1909.
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Never in the history of the grocery business has there been such an extraordinary cut in prices, which demonstrated in most decisive and convincing way THE POSITIVELY GREAT SAVING at which the best food supplies can be bought at HILL'S STORES. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPING EARLY and avoid the Christmas rush. The choicest pure food products are here in wonderful and endless variety. All grocery staples and specialties are selected with great care and bear the mark of purity and quality. Every item priced with our lowest wholesale figures. All goods guaranteed or money refunded.
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Thanksgiving day is a signal for the out-pouring of the patrons in the spacious auditorium to get a mental draught of the eloquence that was in readiness for the occasion. Mrs. I. B. McCutcheon, one of the assistants, had music befitting the occasion. We were honored with talks from Professors J. H. Davle, of Wagoner; E. W. Day, formerly of Paul Quinn College, Texas; Rev., C. M. McCullough, of C. M. E. Connection. Rev. E. F. T. Moin, of Texas, to the delight of all, took for his subject "Praise the Lord." He showed exclusively what Thanksgiving meant to a nation, to a race and to an individual. He closed by urging his auditors to perfect strong character. He pointed to the fact that great kingdoms, great rulers in all ages that have crumbled and fallen had done so by loose character.
Mrs. Mary Smalling gave a birthday party in honor of the fifth anniversary of her little daughter, Emma, at the residence of Mrs. J. W. McLemore, 1530 Mary street. Frappe was served in the reception hall by little Bertha Ellis and Kittle B. Porter. After playing various games the little ones were called into the dining-room. The table was decorated with malden hair ferns and chrysanthemums and in the center of the table stood the birthday cake with five lighted candles. A color-scheme of pink and yellow was carried out in the icees. As souvenirs the little ones were given baskets of candy. Those present were Bettie Morton, Sallie McGavock, Bertha Ellis, Kittle B. Porter, S. Q. and Lona Dod-
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in the state. It is fringed by beautiful mountains which overlook the city. One goes to the mountains for repose, for beautiful scenery and pleasant breezes; the huntsman and the trapper wend their way to the forest for sport or game; the fisherman goes to Boggy River for fish, from which he returns victor with from one to a hundred or more pounds of fish. The suburban people go straight to the city with produce for sale and return home laden with the choice goods from Atoka's merchants.
The relation existing between the whites and blacks is quite pleasant. Progress is shown in the development of the city. Recently a large area of territory was incorporated by the city. It has in the way of development what others of our first-class cities have—electric plant, water works, paved streets, concrete sidewalks, etc. The city Board of Education has recently had erected and furnished with modern desks and appliances a beautiful school building at a cost of $5,000. The writer has the honor of being its first principal. Since Atoka is the capital of the county, the monthly Teachers' Reading Circle meets in this building, the writer is chairman or conductor. The school has the confidence and support of the best element of the city. County Superintendent I. L. Cook visited the school a few days ago and addressed the student body upon the subject, "Ideal Citizenship." Councilman J. W. Johnson made an inspection of the school; Messrs. Long, Fraudree and City Superintendent Mac Arthur, members of the School Board, have graced our chapel and visited us at work.
Lemon and Vanilla Wafers ..... 20c
Fresh Baked Jelly Roll, per cut ..... 5c
Fresh Baked Grandma's Rolls, per doz ..... 5c
Fresh Baked Ginger Snaps, lb ..... 7c
We Have Tons of Nuts and Candies
THINGS FOR FRUIT CAKE
Just In
A new shipment of that slightly broken RICE, that has pleased so many—sale price, 7 pounds
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son, Lottie May Williams James and Mary Louvinia Northington, Callie Mattie Matthews, Laura May Dederick, Willie H. Betic, Joe Battle and Ruth Petway. The little honoree received many valuable presents.
REV. J. E. CALDWELL AT HOME.
After an absence of nearly a month, during which time he visited most of the leading cities and towns of Mississippi, Rev, J. C. Caldwell, General Secretary, of the Allen C. E. League of the A. M. E. Church, with headquarters in this city, is home, where he will spend the Christmas with his family. He reports having had a successful trip, meeting a number of conferences.
SANTA CLAUS' GUESTS.
There will be a concert at Mount Olive Baptist Church Monday night, December 27, 1909, given by the Sunday-school. The name of the play is "Santa Claus' Guests." A large crowd is expected and the children will have lots of fun. The following is the program:
1. Song ..... "Joy to the World"
2. Invocation ..... J. B. Ridley
3. Remarks ......
4. Cantata ..... "Santa Claus' Guests"
Character.
MISS BELL—Tennie Kemper.
JOHN—James Griffin.
MAX—John Smith.
FRANK.
JEAN—Rosco Roberson.
AGNES—Lilia Patterson.
WAH LEE—G. W. Gore.
Porter.
MRS. SANTA CLAUS—M. C. Bates
MISS. SANTA CRISTINA IN OVENES
COFFEES
HILL'S
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Just received two cars WASHINGTON BOX APPLES direct from the growers. All ripe, sound and luscious fruit. Worth more elsewhere.
Rome Beauties, 4½ tiers per box.....$2.75
Ben Davis, very nice, per box.....$1.75
Gano, 4 tier, per box.....$2.00
Fancy Greenings (fine cookers), per peck.....25c
Here is a treat—this is fine, thin peel,
ripe, luscious fruit. Actually worth more.
Sale Price, 12c, 15c, 20c and 25.
PER BOX, $2.10 and $2 25.
Finnest the market affords—per dozen, 15c and...
James and
on, Callie
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and Ruth
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SINGING HARRIET—Sadie Watking.
LOIS—Ola Wilson.
GRETCHEN—George Gray.
RITA—Janetta Clark.
ABE COHN BODY—Allen Orr.
META—Geneva Gray.
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SANTA'S DAUGHTER—Sadie Watkins.
Class of Japanese Girls—Connie King, etc.
Class of Indian Boys—John Smith, etc.
Class of Shadowland People—Florence Davis.
Teacher of Infant Class—Mrs. Ellen Patterson.
Christmas Tree.
T. J. Lewis, Assistant Superintendent; Mary Walker, Organist; Josephine Brown, Chairman.
DEATH OF MR. COHN.
After an illness of only ten days, Mr. Fillmore Cohn died December 13 at his residence, 720 Smiley street. He was a charter member of Excelsior Lodge, No. 22, K. of P., and a member of Payne Chapel A. M. E. Church for 28 years. He was a loving husband and father and leaves a wife, six children, a brother and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss.
MR. EPPS DIES SUDDENLY.
Mr. James Epps, who recently came to this city from Birmingham, dropped dead in an alley in the rear of 116 Fourth avenue, North. His death is said to have been caused by a hemorrhage of the brain. Mr. Epps only a few hours prior to his death, had just secured employment.
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PUBLIC SPIRITED.
The time is near at hand when people throughout the world celebrate the Christmas festival. It is an annual occasion that brings joy to the hearts of many. Scores, however, are to be found in every community who have not thought to prepare for the "rainy days" that come to all during a life time, and these are generally classed as the unfortunates. The meaning of the word Christmas is giving to those who need most to be given to, and right on this point is where so many of us make the greatest mistake. We give to our friends fine gifts, but in most cases they are not in need of gifts, and often do not appreciate what we give, therefore, it would be more sensible, and more in keeping with the lesson intended to be taught, to give to those unfortunate creatures in the community.
The American Negroes, especially those in the Southern states, are not as public-spirited toward the needy of their race as they should be on this annual occasion. We have among us a great army of boys and girls whose hearts we could make glad on Christmas morning if we would deny ourselves to an extent and contribute to a public fund to be used for the purpose of making others happy. There are lodges and societies that meet in their halls during the holidays and spread great feasts to the members of the Order and their friends, but forget those who probably did not have a good square meal on Christmas morning, and the hundreds of children that are in need of clothing to keep them warm. A charitable people make a strong race; public-spirited citizens serve as the connecting links; the Negroes of this country would do well to awaken to these facts, and there is no better time than Christmas to impress the people that every man is his brother's keeper.
THE EARLINGTON IDEA.
With to-day's issue of The Globe we are able to present an account of the Earlington Idea, from the pen of the veteran writer, Phil. H. Brown. The Earlington Idea encircles around Mr. John P. Atkinson, president of the St. Bernard Mining Company at Earlington, Ky., and an unselfish philanthropist and constant friend of the colored people. Mr. Atkinson's Company, the St. Bernard, employs thousands of col-
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909
ored men in the mines and applies the merit system to the positions they occupy. He has wiped out the colorline in the industrial structure of his company. The door of opportunity for the colored people in Earlington is not only wide open, but completely off its hinges. The company is not only digging coal, but digging character. It is helping every man to help himself. Into the hopes and aspirations of the Negro workman, as well as its white, the company has interwoven itself and spares neither pain nor expense in bringing about the progress of the people.
The plan is unique, extremely successful and highly important to the colored people all of whom may read of this happy Earlington Idea with surpassing interest.
IMPEDIMENTS.
There are some things that the Negroes of this city will have to do before they can hope to be looked upon as brave and courageous men. One among the many that so constantly confronts them and that they should remedy without delay is this, they allow individuals to make themselves conspicuous in public meetings who are not worthy to even be admitted to the building. When the citizens are called together to discuss matters pertaining to the welfare of the people, it is generally conceded to the most substantial men and women of the community to take the lead in everything to be said or done, and when those who have not conducted themselves properly, but on the other hand have been known to live corrupt lives, are allowed to come in such meetings and vie with those whom the people look upon as men and women of moral standing, the intent and purposes for which the assembly met is often destroyed, and I in every such instance the confidence of the people is weakened.
The Negro men of Nashville owe it to the women of the race and to their posterity to see to it that these objectionable characters are not permitted to thrust themselves on the people. The man or the woman who is living a life that is questionable is not a wholesome subject to put before the people, and is apt to weild a bad influence on some young mind every time they are allowed to do so.
During the last presidential campaign there were those of the Negro race living in the North who feared that if Bryan were elected he would appoint a man on the Supreme Court bench from the South should a vacancy occur. Bryan was defeated, but Judge H. H. Lurton, a Kentuckian by birth and a Tennessee by adoption, has been appointed. The Negroes of the South have never entertained any more fear from the men appointed to the Supreme bench from the South than those from other sections of our country. We believe Judge Lurton to be a man of too good breeding to stoop to anything other than fair dealing toward all men.
And Mr. Carnegie has been made to say that Peary was the only man to reach the pole. The steel magnate's declaration, if he has been quoted correctly, disqualifies Dr. Cook absolutely. Undoubetedly, the learned doctor has heard of others saying similar things about him, and must be immune to pain by this time.
Our night school is not being attended as largely as it might be. Every seat in the building would be filled if one-tenth of those who can and need to attend should apply for admission. Interest yourselves about the welfare of your neighbor, it will pay in the end.
If the price of Turkeys continues to increase, some wise one will be called upon to invent a converter. Then roosters and ten-year-old hens will have to look out.
Next Friday will be cleaning day at the county workhouse. All of those who need a short sentence to tame them had better get in now.
It is more blessed to give to the reedy than to those who do not need your gifts.
COMMUNICATION.
Christmas and the Children.
To the Nashville Globe:
Christmas is the season in which
the joy of universal childhood reigns
supreme, because it is the season
wheren their young and tender minds
are taught to know as the gift season,
and that they are to be the objects
of especial attention and kindness, the
recipients of a generous share of good
things suitable to filling full their cup
of childish joy.
Even to grown-ups it is a keen and satisfying pleasure to go back in their memories to the heyday period of early years and live over again the innocent joys and pleasures with which it was rife. It is this period of life, whatever may be its vicissitudes, that looms up so distinctly, so affectionately against the background of the past and ever ravishes with its memories the hearts of those who have passed on up life's highway until it has become a serious affair, an actuality filled with stern and unbending realities. Though this is true, the grown-up children persist in imaginatively returning to the "fountain of youth"—that childhood period which cannot, will not die—and rejuvenating themselves in its deathless, ever-living memories. Who is he or she that objects to this envious, jealous clinging to the beautiful dreams that filled up the halcyon Christmas days of youth? He or she who does has had a life that was a Sahara in which there was no oasis.
Make the children happy and in so doing you can make yourself happy. You can live over in their joys your own gladsome days of yore. Let old Santa Claus in at the chimney. See to it that no obstruction prevents his descent to deposit a generous share into each little stocking. If you do not, Christmas morning they will miss their keenest joy and you will miss yours and will stand convicted of the gravest crime unpunishable by law. Break not the beautiful, entrancing mith to their childish fancy, that will come soon enough, and am too soon!
UNION PUBLISHING COMMITTEE MEETING.
The meeting of the National Baptist Union Publishing Committee, which has charge of the publishing of the Union, the official organ of the National Baptist Convention, was held at the office of the B. Y. P. U. Board, 409 Gay street, Tuesday afternoon. The meeting was presided over by Rev. A. J. Stokes, D. D., of Montgomery, Ala. The members present were mostly those of the city. This committee, so it is learned, met to complete arrangements for the continuance of the publishing of the denomination's organ as provided by the last session of that body in Columbus, O. Mr. J. Thomas Turner, the Secretary, and Mr. T. G. Ewing, the Treasurer, are the two Nashville attorneys who are connected with the committee. It was not learned what transpired at this meeting.
BAPTIST PUBLISHING BOARD MEETS.
On Tuesday the regular monthly meeting of the National Baptist Publishing Board was held at the office of the Secretary, 523 Second avenue, North. This was the last regular meeting of the Board for 1909. The meeting was well attended, although none of the out-of-town members were present. It was expected that Dr. Morris, President of the National Convention, would be here, as well as Revs. C. A. Bell, of Chattanooga, and T. J. Goodall, of Clarksville. Chairman Clark and Secretary Boyd reported a splendid outlook for the Board during the winter. No information was given out as to the proceedings.
When the Negores quit fighting each other, when they quit pledging themselves to build up other races, regardless of themselves then, and not until then, will there be a change for the better. Better citizens, better results and recognition.
The conditions are not the same now as they once were and are not to be considered in a slight manner. There is no great opposition to that class of men and women who are aiming at higher ideals in life from racial standpoint. The leaders are criticised severely by members of the race for doing that which they think best for all. What are we to do? Some must lead and some follow, those who are among the last named should be contented and help push those who are in a position to do.—The Reporter.
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THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
JNO. B. ATKINSON, Pres. GEO. C. ATKINSON, Sec. and Treas. EARLINGTON, KY. EARLINGTON, KY.
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Miss Fannie Reid left this week to spend the Christmas holidays in Texas and Oklahoma with relatives and friends.
Miss Janie Lightfoot spent a few days at Jasper recently the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Shackley.
Mrs. S. E. Oliver spent last Sunday at Whiteside's visiting her mother and sister.
has a host of Shelbyville. Rev. Mr. C has the pass Baptist Church our midst. Rev. Mrs. Dr. J of Turner Noville last week The latest
Little Miss Emma Leigh, who caught fire from the grate, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. Bart Leigh, was severely burned a few days ago. Mr. Luther Cummings reached her in time to extinguish the blaze, otherwise, she would doubtless have been burned fatally.
Mrs. Lucy J. Taylor was called to Chattanooga on account of the death of her brother, Mr. Caleb Hale.
Mrs. Janie Stables is a regular reader of the Globe. Why not more of our people buy single copies or subscribe?
The body of Mr. Caleb Hale, who died on the 7th inst., was brought to this place on the 8th accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Lane, his two sisters, Mrs. Taylor, of this place, and Mrs. Mary Sheffield, of Chattanooga. His funeral was attended at the A. M. E. Church by the pastor, Rev. Body, Interment at the City Cemetery. Those who are sick are Mrs. Ellen Smith, Miss Emma Leigh and Mr. Josephus Johnson. The recent deaths are Mr. Walter James, Mrs. Lizzie Sargeant and Mr. Caleb Hale. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harris have returned to Birmingham, Ala., after a five days' visit to his wife's mother and sisters here.
Miss Bertha Clarke is staying in the office of Mr. A. H. Eldridge during the absence of Mr. Eldridge, who is spending a short while at their pretty home in Winchester.
Mrs. J. M. Hawkins is at home again since the close of her school at Jasper. Mr. Wm. Thornton, Misses Maggie Hyatt and Lydia Hawkins, all students of Morristown College, write very encouraging letters of their progress, etc. Miss Vinnie, the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Smith, has closed her school at Dunlap and will remain at home until after the Christmas holidays, then re-enter Knoxville College.
Mra. Dr. Stephens. of Columbia, was visiting in the city last week. This was her former home, and she was quite she The remal brought and
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COLUMBIA NOTES.
Prof. R. G. Johnson visited Iron City on the 10th to attend the closing exercises of the school taught there by his daughter, Miss Eddie Johnson. He speaks in highest praise of the hospitality of the people of Iron City. Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church is now being heated by steam and is very comfortable for the worshipers there.
The entertainment "The Runaway Bear" given for the benefit of the industrial department of the public school under the management of Miss Mary Bradshaw and Mrs. A. Pearl Crews was quite a success.
There will be a musical entertainment at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church on the 20th by Miss A. J. Dew.
Mrs. Dee Brown Ford and children, of Mississippi, are here to spend the holidays with relatives and friends, this being her old home.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nicholson will go back to Nashville after the holidays to live. Mrs. Nicholson will be very much missed for she is quite active in social circles among the younger married set.
Miss Bessie Wheatly, of St. Louis, is here. She came to attend the funeral of her brother-in-law, Mr. Blan Deen.
Rev. Collier, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, has returned from Kentucky with his mother and they will make this their home.
Mrs. Amanda Neely was in Nashville recently in the interest of the millinery establishment of which she and Mrs. James Terry are so successfully managing.
SOUTH PITTSBURG NOTES.
Rev. Wm. Hyatt, the principal of the city school is the new pastor of the M. E. Church at this point.
Prof. P. Patton was called to Alabama to the bedside of his sick mother.
The District schools have all closed.
Those who are reported as having appropriate exercises are Mrs. S. E. Oliver, Miss Janie Lightfoot. Mrs. J. M. Hawkins and Prof. H. B Douglass.
The people were loud in their praises concerning the above named teachers.
The reward cards and the prizes were all given for meritorious work of the pupils and to those who excelled in scholarship.
Mrs. Speaker Lane was called to Chattanooga to the bed-side of her only son, Mr. Caleb Hale.
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
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has a host of friends in and around Shelbyville.
Rev. Mr. Craft, of Nashville, now has the pastoral care of the First Baptist Church. Thrice welcome into our midst, Reverend.
Mrs. Dr. J. A. Jones, preceptress of Turner Normal, took a trip to Nashville last week on business.
The latest arrival at Turner Normal was Miss Leoda Morris, of Petersburg, who came in last Friday. She is looking well.
Charley Saunders, of Nashville, returned home a few days ago from Turner Normal, on account of sickness. We wish him a speedy recovery. His little sister, "Midget," left with him, but will return after the holidays.
The students of Turner Normal are preparing to render the cantata, "The Prince of Israel" on the 23rd. This will close the term. Some other exercises will also take place on the same evening, among which will be the popular spectacular drill, "The Vestal Virgins."
The Turner Normal Nightingale Quartette has been reorganized and are now making great preparation for a tour during the holidays. They will take in Chattanooga this season. Miss Willie H. Cooper, of Nashville, has been engaged to accompany them as pianist and soloist.
The Quartette has engagements at Winchester, South Pittsburg and at several churches in Chattanooga.
Miss Sarah Flagg and Miss Mabel McKay, teachers in Turner Normal, will spend the holidays in Nashville with family and friends.
Miss Laura Dwiggins has been on the sick list for a week or more.
Mr. Anthony King, of Turner Normal, took a flying trip home last week on business, but returned in a few days, saying there is no place like Turner.
There was a "hog killing time" out at Turner Normal during the cold snap, at which time about 1,400 pounds of meat was cut up. Fresh pork, back bone, spare ribs and chillings have been the T. N. C. menu ever since.
The Nightingale Quartette will give their "farewell" concert at the A. M. E. Church on the 25th, before starting out on their trip.
The death of Mrs. R. E. Johnson was quite shocking to the community. The remains of Mr. Saul May were brought and entered Sunday.
$1.00. PREPAID
SHELBYVILLE NOTES.
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An attractive box, representing a church with dormer windows, decorated with holly. Lithographed in colors. Hall-pound size only, ¥2,00, per hundred; 30c, per dozen; 5c, each.
Very stylish and popular. Decorations very attractive with holly and berries. Half-pound sizes $2.50 per hundred; 35c. per dozen; 5c. each.
Holly candy box beautifully decorated with Holly
and Berries. Half-pound size only. $2.00 per
hundred; 30c. per dozen; 5c. each.
SAN
Litho
loaded
chimne
hundre
Print
only. $5c.
MOVING PICTURE JUVENILE BOX.
Printed in colors. Attractive and Illustrative. They please the little ones. "Old King Cole" series. Half-pound sizes only. $2.00 per hundred; 30c. per dozen; each. 5c.
On receipt of 30c. postage we will send one each of our candy boxes as sample.
Nashville,
THE BRICK CANDY BOXES.
THE BRICK CANDY BOXES.
Three sides printed solid with narrow white lines, the other side represents a room scene on Christmas morning. It contains a decorated fire place found by opening the front which will change by the turning of the wheel on the inside.
round sizes only.....$2.50 per hundred;
35c. per dozen, or 5c. each.
SANTA'S REINDEER CANDY BOX.
Lithographed in colors showing Santa in his stele
loaded with toys, also Santa slowly descending the chimney.
Hall-pound sizes only. $2,50 per
hundred; 35c, per dozen; 5c, each.
HEXAGON GANDY BASKET.
Printed in colors. New design. Half-pound sizes only. $2.50 per hundred; 35c. per dozen; 5c. each.
NATIONAL BAPTIST PUBLISHING BOARD.
523 SECOND AENUE, NORTH. Tennessee.
Mr. Louis Buchanan was very badly hurt by a horse which backed a dump-cart against him. The family of Mr. Louis Hunt is suffering with diptheria. Mr. R. E. Hunt, superintendent of the Baptist Sunday-School, and Mr. Bell, superintendent of Brook's Chapel M. E. Church, are doing nice work in their schools.
Mr. and Mrs. John Estelle gave a party for a few young people on last Friday night. Games were the features of the evening. At a late hour a three-course menu was served. Those who enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Estelle were Misses Alma Jones, Annie P. Davis, Beatrice Dangerfield, Etta Warner, Myrtle Williams, Anale B. Dencimore, Messrs. Claude Mayse, Clifford Wilson, John Hart, Robert Williams, Roy Harderson, J. C. Ewing, John Smiley and Eural Kercheval.
Mrs. Stephens was here last Saturday en route to her home, Columbia. Rev. H. L. P. Jones, presiding elder of the Shelbyville District, preached at Allen Bethel Sunday night. His sermon was inspiring to all.
The public school will give a concert the 22rd inst.
Miss Mary Elliott has returned from a visit to her sister-in-law at Tullahoma, Tenn.
Prof. N. C. Davis arrived at Lebanon from Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday, December 1, 1909, and was highly honored and welcomed by a large number of people. At the reception hall of the Lebanon Reed and Brass Band he delivered an address; subject, "The need of a Reed and Brass Band to any city or town," and was delightfully responded to by Hon. E. L. Allen, of Lebanon.
Rev. A. Monrow, presiding elder of the A. M. E. Zion Church, is holding his first quarterly since conference; also Dr. Cox, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church, is holding quarterly meeting in our city.
Mrs. McNabb, of Hill City, died Friday, December 10th. Funeral Sunday at the Zion Church.
Mr. Alford Anderson, of College Hill, is able to be out again after a two-weeks' illness with rheumatism.
Miss Lena McDonald, who has been in Risen Fawn, Ga., has returned home very ill with tuberculosis.
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NEW CHURCH.
GORNUGOPIA GANDY BOX
LEWISBURG NOTES.
LEBANON NOTES.
DAYTON NOTES
THE LADY OF THE CITY
Mrs. Mimia Foster, of Morgan Town, was shopping in Dayton last week.
Mrs. Lizzie Martin, of South Dayton, was visiting Mrs. Phebe Organ in Morgan Town last week.
Mrs. Amanda Mosley took her leave for Columbus, O., Tuesday, December 7th, to join her husband, Mr. Tom Mosley.
Rev. J. P. Johnson, pastor of the Baptist Church, spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lee.
Mrs. L. M. Morris and children were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stephens Monday.
Mrs. Katie Bird has gone to Knoxville to attend the bedside of her sick sister.
Mrs. Mabel Franklin and Miss Janie Jackson are preparing an excellent program for the Christmas exercises.
Mr. G. F. Holman, our colored grocer, has a fine lot of Christmas goods. He is the hustling colored groceryman of our town.
Mrs. Milie McClain, who has been quite sick, is able to be out again.
Miss Hattie Hawkins was in Morgan Town Saturday dressmaking.
Mrs. L. E. Stephens was visiting in Dayton Tuesday.
WOODLAWN NOTES.
Within the last week Woodlawn has been called upon to mourn the loss of two of its oldest, best and most highly esteemed inhabitants in the deaths of Mesdames Peggie Garrett and Mary Allen.
Mrs. D. A. Ransom, Sr., is quite sick at this writing.
Mr. W. S. Johnson is the victim of a painful accident, which resulted in the fracture of a temporal bone. He is doing well under the care of Dr. Burt, of Clarksville.
H. E. Rucker, practicing physician and pastor of the C. M. E. Church of this place, is slightly indisposed.
Mr. W. A. Garrett and daughter, Miss Cyntria, of Cypress, Ind., who were called to the bedside of Mrs. Peggie Garrett, have returned home.
Mrs. Birdie Metcalf, one of the county teachers, has been indisposed the past week. They do say that here the Yule-tide will resound with joyous wedding bells. Prof. T. R. Ledford has treated himself to a pre-Christmas present in the form of a beautiful new buggy.
Special attention given to boxing and moving pi-
anes, Packing furniture, pictures, glass and
shina ware, etc., for shipment.
WE MOVE, PACK, STORE AND SHIP.
I am Daily Found on
Deaderick St., Between Fourth and Fifth Aves.
Issure Wagons for Hcl.
TELEPHONE, MAIN 2181
Louisville & Nashville R. R.
New Union Station. City Ticket Office, 224 Fourth ave. North. Telephone Main 768
Louisville & Cincinnati. *2:47am
Louisville & Cincinnati. *2:75am
Louisville & Cincinnati. 8:00pm
Louisville Acom'oda. a*12:29pm
Evansville & Chicago. *3:37am
Evansville & Chicago. 7:40pm
Evansville & St. Louis. 8:37am
Evansville & St. Louis. a*7:30am
Evansville & St. Louis. *7:40pm
Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans.
Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans.
Mashville & Scottsville Accommodation. 3:10pm
Mashville & Hartsville Accommodation. 5:10pm
Hopkinsville Acom'oda. a*45pm
Mashville & Clarksville Accommodation. 4:15pm
Mashville & Decatur Accommodation. 8:50pm
Columbia & Mt. Pleasant. 8:50pm
Columbia, Florence, Sheffield, & Tuscumbia. *7:40am
*Daily, †Daily except Sunday.
a Stops at North College-street station.
Train arriving at 4:56 p. m. runs from Mt. Pleasant only.
Train arriving at 7:45 p. m brings connections from Tuscumbia and Florence.
R. C. WALLIS. W. HAL. MUSTAINE,
District Pass. Agent. City Ticket Agent.
N., C. & St. L.Ry.
TICKET OFFICES
UNION STATION, BROADWAY
CITY OFFICE
In Maxwell House, Corner Church
Street and 4th Ave., North.
PHONE MAIN 377
(Corrected January 12,1908.)
Leaves — West and Northwest — Arrives
*7:00am — Memphis, Hickman, Pa. *6:36pm
ducah, St. Louis, con-
nectors for Centreville (!)
*2:15 pm — Paducah, Hickman, *1:32pm
Jackson
15:30pm — Waverly Accommodation, 8:00am
8:00pm — "Dixie Flyer" solid train *6:00am
to St. Louis.
*11:30pm — Memphis and Hickman *6:00am
SOUTH AND EAST.
2:24am — Chicago and Florida *3:13am
Limited.
*9:30am — St. Louis-Jacksonville *6:55pm
"Dixie Flyer." Con-
nectors (!)
*2:17pm — Chicago Jacksonville *3:20pm
"Dixie Flyer." Seed
Dining cars.
*6:30 pm — Chattanooga and *6:55am
East. Connections (!)
Shelbyville, Sparta, Fayet-
ville, Huntaville, Tracy
City, South Pittsburgh.
*8:00 pm — Tullahoma Accommoda-
tion. Connects for Shelby-
ville.
*9:30 pm — Chattanooga, Atlanta *6:50am
Augusta and points be-
vend.
LEBANON TRAINS.
17:00am - Lebanon Mixed ..... 12:10pm
18:25am - Lebanon Express ..... 12:10pm
14:00pm - Lebanon Accommodation ..... 16:40pm
16:00pm - Lebanon Accommodation . . . 18:30am
"Daily. Daily except Sunday.
W. M. HUNT, C. T. A., Maxwell House.
POWELL PHILLIPS. P. A., Maxwell House.
W. L. DANLEY, G. P. A., Union Station.
TENN. CENTRAL R. R
287 FOURTH AVE., N. 'PHONE, MAIN 208 Station, foot of Broad street. Effective March 14, 1908.
Depart. Arrive.
*Nashville to Hopkinsville 8:05 a. m. 7:05 p. m.
*Nashville to Hopkinsville 5:00 p. m. 9:30 a. m.
*Ilebon Accommodation 10:45 a. m. 2:10 p. m.
*Knoxville Day Express 8:30 a. m. 6:45 p. m.
*Knoxville Night Express 9:30 p. m. 6:15 a. m.
*Monterey Shopping Train 4:00 p. m. 10:00 a. m.
*Ilebon Accommodation 6:10 p. m. 7:50 a. m.
Daily Daily except Sunday.
Train leaving Nashville at 8:30 a. m. carries day
coach through to Knoxville (via Southern Railway
from Harriman), connecting at Knoxville with
through sleeping cars to points East.
Train leaving Nashville at 9:30 p. m. carries
sleeping car to Knoxville (via Southern Railway
from Harriman), connecting at Knoxville with
through sleeping cars to points East and South-
east.
M. W. TYSON, C. T. A.
ERIC TATOM, P. A.
TMEO. A. ROUSSEAU, Q. A. P.
WILLIAM TISDALE
Colored Agent for
DAVID J. KUHN,
DRUGGIST.
Will call to your home with a complete line of Toilet Articles, etc., etc. Call him, PHONES M 1718 or 4035 when you wish to see him. He will take pleasure in showing you his line of goods.
Subject for Sunday is "Parable of the Ten Virgins, an Opportunity Lesson." Matt. 25:1-13. Discussion opened by Mr. Andrew Allison. The special Men's Bible Class will meet every Wednesday evening from 6:30 to 7:30. The service of Dr. W. S. Ellington has been secured as
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
teacher and with this able and noted Bible scholar at the head of the class much can be learned. All men welcome.
MR. CARNEY TO LEAVE
It will cause a feeling of much regret and sorrow to the many friends and patrons of Mr. E. R. Carney, who for the past five years has conducted a tailoring business at 418 Cedar street, to learn that he has accepted a position as cutter and designer in New York City, to take effect Jan. 1. Mr. Carney first had his attention directed to Chicago, but since the terms of the contract have been met satisfactorily to all concerned, he will go to the East. He will leave Nashville December 28th, stopping over a few days in Washington visiting relatives and friends. His family will join him later. His many friends are extending him many congratulations and wishing him much success in his new field of labor.
AZALIA ART CLUB.
Few entertainments of the winter have equalled, in beauty of plan and elaborateness of decorations, the reception given Monday, December 6th, by Mrs. Watson Boyd at her residence on Sylvan street when she entertained the Azala Art Club. The beautiful Boyd home is admirably adapted to entertaining, and on this occasion, with lavish decorations of ferns and evergreen it presented a most attractive appearance. At three o'clock the guests began to arrive and were all seated in the reception room. Mrs. Henry Ransom, President, presided over the meeting. Miss Susie Bender, the Chaplain, sang and repeated the Lord's prayer. At roll-call each answered with a quotation. An excellent program was rendered by Mrs. W. Epperson, Miss Bender and M. E. Snowden. The queries were read by Miss Bender. Some time was spent in needlework. The progress of this club has been very successful under the direction of Mrs. H. Ransom, who has been president for ten months. Mrs. D. Pitts, of South Nashville, was introduced and made a nice talk encouraging the club. Mrs. S. E. Griggs, of East Nashville, was also guest of the club and spoke of the Woman's Sentiment Moulding Club, in which she is interested. After her address the club unanimously voted to assist in this work. After the routine of business the hostess invited her guests to the dining room, where the color scheme of red, white and green was further emphasized. Long streamers extended from each corner of the room to the table, where seven candles were lighted. Those to enjoy Mrs. Boyd's hospitality were Mesdames H. Ransom, Thos. Ridley, W. Epperson, Alex Kirk, Thos. Wilson, Thos. Morgan Cynthia Boyd, D. Pitts, S. E. Griggs Misses Susie Bender, Josie Woods, Ella B. Driver, Donnie Smith and M. E. Snowden. Grace was offered by the president. The place-cards had Christ mas greeting upon them. A two course menu was served. The club adjourned to meet December 27th with Mrs. W. Epperson.
COLLEGE CLASS ENTERTAINED.
The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Richardson, of 1017 Sixteenth avenue, North, was ablaze with light on Friday evening, December 10th, the occasion being the entertainment of the college class and faculty of Fisk University, Scovel Richardson, their son, being a member of the former. "1910" was emblazoned in one of the front windows. The decorations were in the class colors and were emphasized both in the flowers and the elaborate menu. Cards with little pencils attached were passed around and the class was asked to write a Christmas rhyme. Judges were selected, consisting of Miss Scribner, Dr. Morrow and Prof. Talley. Much fun and laughter was caused on the reading of the efforts of the young poets. Mr. Dawson was the happy winner, the prize being a box of candy. Several of the more frolicsome took off Booker T. Washington, the Mayor and others, to the intense delight of all. Mrs. Richardson was assisted in receiving by the two charming girls, Misses De-Graphenried and Blanch Atwood.
WANTS TO FIND AN OLD SOLDIER.
A letter reached the Nashville office this week, but upon opening it we find that it is from a lady in search of Mr. Peter H. Hill. To Mr. Hill the lady in question writes the following: "Dear Sir: I wish you to inform me as to whether you know any old soldiers of Company I, 47th United States Infantry, of the Civil War. If you know of any please write me their full names and addresses. Not knowing your address, I send your letter care of the editor of The Nashville Globe. Please answer. Harriet Morgan, Tiptonville, Tennessee."
The Nashville Globe is always trying to help out those who are in need of help. We request that if any of our readers can give this good lady the information she is in search of, that they please do so.
CITY ITEMS
FOR SALE: A first-class closed carriage to be sold cheap. Apply to J. W. Maney, 219 Eighth avenue, North.
Mrs. Ben Shelby, of East Nashville, who recently underwent a serious operation under Drs. Holmes and Holmes and Cummings, is doing nicely, and will soon be able to be out.
The city schools will continue their work until Friday, December 24, which is Christmas eve, when they will have a vacation until Monday, January 2nd, 1910.
Mr. E. W. D. Isaac, Jr., was in the city this week en route from the North.
News comes that the Fisk Quartette is doing fine work in the East, where they are travelling in the interest of the University.
Miss Maggie Mayberry spent last Sunday at Columbia, Tenn., visiting relatives.
The H. T. G. M. Club, a ladies' organization of this city, is planning to present the Mercy Hospital with a useful Christmas present.
A number of the city churches are planning to have their Christmas exercises on Monday night, December 27, as Saturday will be Christmas.
Have you paid your subscription for 1909?
The family of Rev. N. H. Pius is expected to reach the city this week from Springfield, O. They will make this their future home.
Mr. John Clemons is sick at his home on Lafayette street, South Nashville.
Why not give the Home Baking Co. an order to bake your Christmas cakes? Fruit cakes 25 to 40 cents per pound. Pound cakes, 20 cents per pound; layer, chocolate, cocoanut, caramel cakes, 25 to 40 cents per pound. White cake, Ribbon cake, 25 cents per pound. Individual cakes cheap. Tel. Main 1277.
Rev, A. J. Stokes, D. D., of Montgomery, Ala., the Treasurer of the National Batist Convention and Business Manager of the National Baptist Union, was in the city this week.
Mrs. Laura Sims left the city for Columbia, where she will spend the winter. Miss Sims is in the hairdressing business at Columbia.
Invitations are out announcing the engagement and approaching wedding of Miss Teunetta Louise McLaughlin to Mr. David A. Washington Wednesday, December 22, at the home of the bride, 446 Houston street.
The Union Quarterly meeting of St. John, Bethel, Payne Chapel and other churches will be held with St. Paul Sunday afternoon. Rev. Dr. Gains, of Payne Chapel, will preach at 3 p. m. All are invited.
If you furnish the ingredients, the Home Baking Co. will mix and bake your fruit cakes for 25 cents. Tel. Main 1277.
Mr. Shedrick Joiner, who was called home on account of the death of his grandmother, has returned to Chicago to take up his work.
Mr. John Galbreath was in the city Saturday en route to Atlanta, Ga. While in this city he was the guest of his sister, Miss Fowler.
The Kirker Bender Patent fire escapes have been recently put on the building at the Central Insane Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Lawrence wish their many friends to know they are stopping at 1226 Third avenue, North.
Camp meeting was held last Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Sadie Vaughn, 1810 Albion street. After the meeting refreshments were served.
Christmas is only a few days off. Let the Home Baking Co. bake your cakes. Prices reasonable. Material the best. Tel. 1277 Main.
The Home Baking Co. furnished bread for the Booker Washington banquet, also the bread and rolls for the celebration of Rev. C. H. Clark's 17th anniversary.
Mrs. C. A. Lewis, wife of Rev. Lewis, has returned to the city after an absence of two months or more attending the different conferences.
Miss Elizabeth Becton, of Battle Creek, Mich., arrived last Sunday to spend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Wm. Jenkins, of Stevens street.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE
FOR EDUCATION.
On the return of Bishop Charles Henry Phillips, M. D., D. D., from Texas, where he has been holding his
Maybe that Headache is caused by defective eyesight or badly adjusted
Better See
C. V. ROMAN, Ph. D., M.,
Ocullet and Aurist
Nashville Tennessee.
C. V. ROMAN, Ph. D., M. Ocullet and Aurist Nashville Tennessee.
BANK DIRECTORY.
There are thirty-seven Negro banks and institutions doing a banking business in the United States. They are owned and operated exclusively by Negroes and are scattered throughout the several states, principally in the South. The names, locations, and other information concerning some of them are given below.
ONE-CENT SAVINGS BANK.
Incorporated Under the Laws of Tennessee.
CAPITAL STOCK. $25,000.00.
R. H. BOYD, President.
J. W. BOSTICK, Vice-President.
J. C. NAPIER, Cashier.
C. N. LANGSTON, Teller.
411 Fourth Avenue, North,
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
THE PEOPLE'S INVESTMENT AND BANKING COMPANY. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Capital Stock, $10,000.00.
Doing a regular banking business. Collections solicited. Depository for the Great Southern Industrial Home Insurance Company.
W. L. LAUDERDALE, President.
DR. R. D. MACKLIN, Vice President.
A. D. JORDAN, Cashier.
THOS. A. HARRIS, Teller and acting Cashier.
Union Savings Bank. VICKSBURG, MISS.
Capital Stock, $10,000.00.
Collections and Out-of-town Busi-
ness Solicited.
R. E. CONNER, M. D., President.
J. G. H. BOWN, First Vice President.
THOS. DILTON, Second Vice President.
T. G. EWING, JR., Cashier.
G. M. McINTYRE, Assistant
Cashier.
BANK OF MOUND BAYOU.
MOUND BAYOU, MISS.
CAPITAL STOCK, $10,000.00.
JOHN W. FRANCIS, President.
W. T. MONTGOMERY, Vice President.
CHAS. BANKS, Cashier.
R. M. McCARTY.
CHAS. BANKS.
J. W. FRANCIS.
H. A. GODBOLD.
S. M. MORGAN.
W. T. MONTGOMERY.
C. R. STRINGER.
E. W. LAMPTON.
R. H. CRESWELL.
ALABAMA PENNY SAVINGS BANK
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
CAPITAL STOCK, $25,000.00.
W. R. Perrison, President.
R. M. Musson, Cashier.
J. O. Broway, Vice President.
P. F. CLARK, Assistant Cashier.
217 North Eighteenth Street.
People's Bank and Trust Co.
Capital $25,000
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA.
4 Per Cent Interest
On Time Deposits
Deposits Guaranteed.
T. Escor, President. J. E. Johnson, Cashier.
conferences it is reported that success has again perched upon his banner. For the past three years he has been conducting an educational campaign and rally in the interest of the university located at Tyler, Texas, which bears his name. He has been surprisingly successful, not that any unusual good luck has attended the good bishop, but that his well-laid plans have carried amazingly well. On this trip a little more than $10,000 were raised, all of which was for the indebtedness of the school. It will be remembered that in June the new dormitory costing something over $30,000, was dedicated, and these campaigns were inaugrated for the purpose of clearing out this indebtedness. The C. M. E. connection has been putting some of its strongest efforts recently in education which has resulted in the general educational shake-up so that quite a number of their schools are reorting success, larger enrollments, and a brighter outlook than heretofore. Among the schools taking high rank is Phillips University, it having gained much prominence in the last three or four years, located as it is in one of the most progressive states in the Union.
DAVIDSON COUNTY TEACHERS.
The Davidson County Colored Teachers' Institute held their regular monthly meeting December 11, 1909,
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St. Luke Penny Savings Bank
New York and Foreign Drafts issued.
Bankers' Money Orders payable in any part of the U. S. for sale. Collections receive prompt attention.
3 Per Cent. Paid on Time Deposits.
MAGGIE L. WALKER. EMMETT C. BURKE
President. Cashier.
The People's Dime Saving Bank and Trust Association. Staunton, Va.
CAPITAL STOCK, $10.000.00.
SHARES $5.00 EACH.
Collections and out-of-town business solicited. Interest paid on time deposit.
SAM'L LINDSAY, President.
C. F. POINTS, Vice President.
Jackson, Cashier.
Ir. Asst.' Cashier.
Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain.
SCHOOL VIEW OF THE BOOKMARKS.
Capital and Surplus ..... $ 185,000.00
Deposits ..... 308,902.00
Loans and Discounts ..... 444,732.00
Total business to data ..... 18,028,800.00
Interest paid on deposits. "The
Systematic Saving halit is an anchor
of safety to every man." Deposits solicited.
W. L. TAYLOR, President.
THE PENNY SAVINGS BANK
COLUMBUS, MISS.
CAPITAL STOCK, $10,000.00.
Strict Attention Paid to Business. Collections Solicited.
W. I. MITCHELL, President.
H. E. ROBERTS, Vice President.
J. M. COLEMAN, Cashier.
G. A. LITTLEJOHN, Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS—Dr. T. V. Jones, J. M. Shumpar,
R. S. Evans, O. H. Campbell, E. S. Jones, W. W. Cox.
W. A. ATZAWY, M. D. Pres. W. W. COX, Cashier.
W. H. DUATS, Vice Fier. M. B. BURNETT, Asst Cashier.
Delta Penny savings Bank
CAPITAL $ 800,00
RESOURCES OVER. $100,00
Does a General Banking Business. Makes
on Approved Security. Pays Interest on Deposits.
Collects Rent. Pays Taxes. Handles Real State.
Etc. Correspond with us. Your Business, however
small, is solicited. We Pay Four per cent Interest
on Tire Deposits.
INDIANOLA. : MISSISSIPPI.
Lincoln Savings Bank
First moneyed institution managed
colored men in Mississippi.
Constantly growing, constantly dot
good.
Does a general banking business.
Stock for Sale. $5.00 per Shar-
w. E. MOLISON, President.
B. F. LACEY, Vice-President.
M. A. MOLISON, President.
President W. C. Card presiding. The minutes of the previous meeting were then read and adopted. Dr. Watson, of the city schools, addressed the school. He spoke impressively of the teacher making his work a part of his or her life. Professors Burton, Green and Randals made timely remarks upon the subject of teaching. The State Normal for colored teachers was discussed and the teachers manifested a desire to have the school placed at Nashville, Tenn. Prof. R. H. Brown was on hand with the books for the teachers' reading course. He has labored very hard to get these books here in time, and the teachers should commend him for his work. Dr. John Foster, of Dinigin, Texas, and Dr. James Foster, of Lynchburg, Va., were welcome visitors.
NOTICE.
The Nashville Globe is constantly receiving lengthy obituaries from its many readers. We would like to publish all of them, because we know that the people expect to see them in the Globe, so in order to give each of them space, we have made a special price of 25 cents per inch for all these, in order that we might run them all without incurring their displeasure by having to leave out some. If it becomes paid matter, it is always given precedence over ordinary news items.
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SPORT.
The Fighting Chauffeur.
Earl Gordon, formerly of this city, will leave Chicago for Nashville on his way to Memphis, where he expects to take on some of the best 165-pound boys in the South. Mr. Gordon did not do very much touring in 1909. He drove his Thomas car to Cincinnati, O., Madison, Wis., and Indianapolis, Ind. But he trained hard all the summer with Johnny Harper, better known as Klondike, the only man that ever knocked out Jack Johnson.
Mr. Gordon will arrive in Nashville February 8, 1910, and would like to take on any of the boys before leaving for Memphis, and would like to bet a liberal side bet. The side bet can be placed with the sporting editor of the Globe. He is known in the sporting world as Joe Gordon, the Fighting Chauffeur, of Chicago, Ill.
Tennessee All Prep. Team.
(By J. Wymon Brady.)
The prep. teams all over the state played a better article of football this season than ever was played before by teams of this class.
As I want to do justice to all the boys, I will say they have done well to a boy. As we all know, there are some that have done better than the rest. I will try to pick the best in the state in this class.
Pearl has the call on all the rest for first honors. There is one remarkable thing about each team, and that is this: you can't say any one of them was a one man team, for every boy played his place well. However, there are two or three boys in the state in this class that could make good on most of the big college teams of the South. The season has been a record season in every way from a football standpoint. Pearl has won every game from teams in her class. Bradley falls in line with all of her games won. Pearl and Bradley failed to meet this season on account of disagreement about dates, that was one of the seasons big disappointments to the lovers of Prep. football.
Line-up:
Thompson, left end .....Bradley
Allison, Left tackle .....Pearl
Dixon, left guard .....Bradley
Anderson, center .....Pearl
Caldwell, right guard .....Pearl
Whittaker, right tackle .....Pearl
Hockett, right end .....Pearl
Lytil, quarter .....Bradley
Woods, right half .....Bradley
Hurt, left half .....Pearl
Davis (capt.), fullback .....Pearl
CULLEOKA NOTES.
Mr. Thos. Hunt, at the risk of his own life. Saturday morning saved Mrs. Hattie Harris' baby from the flames of a burning fire.
Mrs. Ella Holt, of Earlington, Ky., was here this week visiting relatives and friends.
Mr. James Hughs, of Earlington, Ky., was here Friday to visit his children; he returned Saturday accompanied by his little son and daughter, Girard and Jennie Hughs.
Mr. Anderson Hughs spent Friday in Columbia.
Dr. J. Q. Johnson held a fairly good quarterly conference at the A. M. E. Church Saturday and Sunday night.
Rev. C. W. Norman passed through here en route to Bivens, where he will preach Sunday.
Mrs. Augusta White was here last Friday visiting her father, Mr. M. D. Dean.
Little Cleopatra Wilerford is visiting her father, Mr. Bud Wilerford, of Styversville.
We ask each reader of the Globe in the community to call and see the reporter and renew their subscription to the Globe for another year.
The people of Culleoka are all preparing for a grand time during the Christmas holidays.
The quarterly conference was held at Deons Chapel on the 4th and 5th.
Dr. J. Q. Johnson preached an able sermon Sunday night. Dr. Johnson and Rev. Norman took dinner with
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Mrs. Hattie Rivers. A delightful evening was spent.
Mr. Louis Martin, of Fountain Creek,
was here Saturday.
The Odd Fellows are going to make four men Tuesday. The Odd Fellows are doing fine in this little town.
Mr. Martin Dean was called to Columbia last Wednesday morning on a very sad occasion-the death of his son.
Mr. Blanton Dean.
Mr. James Hughes, of Earlington, Ky., was called to Columbia to the death of his brother. He made a flying trip to our little town and took with him two of his children, Jimmie Mai and Cira.
Miss Mattie B. Huggins gave a concert at the Missionary Baptist Church on December 15th. The piece which was rendered by Charlie Duncan set the audience to a storm. The papers read by Misses Willie B. Wallace, Hattie Huggins and Elsie M. Orr should be remembered by all who heard them, but the New Cork Cake Walk by little girls drove the audience wild and had to be repeated.
Miss Rosa Wallace, of Fountain Creek, visited Miss Minnie Ford recently.
Mr. Anderson Hughes went to Columbia Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Haywood, of Columbia, have moved to our town in the southern part so called New Town. We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Haywood to our community and also in our social circle.
Mrs. Lillian Abernathy has moved to another farm.
Mrs. Lula Mai Anderson is on the sick list, but is reported better.
Mrs. Tera Hughes is also on the sick list.
Miss Willie Mai, the writer for the Globe, has been on the sick list for the last two weeks, but is up and able to be at her post of duty.
All of the rural schools of Maury County will be out Friday.
Uncle Andrew McKibor, an aged man of this town, went to Nashville Tuesday evening, where he usually spends his Christmas holidays.
FRANKLIN NOTES.
Mrs. Rosa Reynolds, who has been teaching at Providence, Tenn., closed her school Friday.
Miss Sadie Foster, who has been teaching at Allisona, Tenn., closed her school last Friday.
Mr. T. A. Williams was in Nashville Tuesday on business.
Mrs. Addie W. Alston has returned home from Paris, Tenn., after having buried her husband, Dr. John D. Alston, who died there on the 6th inst.
Mrs. T. A. Williams was in Nashville last Friday.
Messrs Ostranda Williams, William Farmer and Fred Williams were at Brentwood, Tenn., Sunday.
Mr. Bolden Reddick, who has been very sick for three weeks, is reported better.
Mrs. Manda Ewing was buried last
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Mrs. Tom Baugh was in Nashville Sunday.
Mr. W. B. Redmond was in Nashville last week.
Fred D. Williams was in Nashville last week on business.
Messrs. Tom Mitchell and Arthur Grandberry were in Nashville Sunday.
Miss. Ferrie Joe Waldridge is sick
Miss Raffie Joe Woldridge is sick.
Mrs. G. W. Randolph is visiting friends in Nashville this week.
Rev. T. D. McGhee was in Nashville last Wednesday.
Mrs. Mary Donnegan, who has been sick, is able to be out again.
CENTERVILLE NOTES
Mrs. Lula Hill, the popular milliner of Dickson, who has been in business here this season, went home last week. She has done very good business here this season.
The community of Shipp's Bend was on Monday afternoon shocked by the killing of Dave Wheat by Sam Thompson. Sam Thompson shot his victim, who was running from him, three times with a single-barrell shot gun and then walked to jail and gave himself up. Mr. Wheat leaves a wife and three small children to mourn his death. He was a member of Richard Allen Lodge No. 74 K. of I., and was buried with knightly honors on Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. W. S. Ellington, A. E., of Nashville, Tenn., has been secured by the Masonic Lodge of this place to preach their Thanksgiving sermon at 11 o'clock a.m., Tuesday, December 28, 1909. On Tuesday night, December 28, 1909, Rev. Ellington will lecture to the general public. The Reverend is a favorite here and will, no doubt, get a very large crowd at both of these services.
Rev. J. Q Johnson, of Mt. Pleasant, has been secured by Centerville Preparatory School to be the orator of the day on Emancipation Day. This is always a very grand occasion for the students and general public.
Dr. Posey has moved into his new office and installed a telephone.
Every one in school is as busy as a bee preparing for the regular quarterly examination, which will begin Monday, December 20th. Mrs. Eliza Smith is slowly sinking.
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some gloves, fireworks and a plenty ma, aunt T, aunt Irene and Mrs. An-|do that in his own way; but we,!
of nuts, camiles, oranges, apples and|nie Spence,, my little cousins, J. W.| being finite, cannot see why this de-| SUBSCRIBE!
anything else you have to spare.|and R. A. Williams. erepit old libertine should have a) RS AND CORRE-
Don’t forget Val and Cliff. From JAMES JOHNSON. | longer lease of life to encumber the
SWOOP DOWN VIRGIL DOUGLASS KELLEY, 511 Lischey avenue. earth with more murders. Humane|{ SPONDENTS TAKE NOTICE,
2018 Jefferson street. Columbia, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1909. | sentiment everywhere would doubt-
A; ise gia Sette ee on a your jens breathe a sigh of relief were tae ; is
little girls. We live in Columbia now,}the intelligence flashed forth that re are several communities
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little a
ON SANTA GLAUS girlie four years old. Want you| #4 we hope you won't forget to come} the world had good riddance of this| {in the State in which there te
Dear Santa Claus—I am only 2
years old, I want a pretty doll and
I would like for it to be from the Ne-
gro Doll Company and a stove and
some goodies and don't forget mam-
ma.
ELSIN B. RIVERS. .
Culleoka, Tenn, Church street.
Dear Santa Claus—I want you |
bring me a big doll and a doll piano,
and a stove, a set of parlor things
and that israll, but don’t forget my,
little brother and mother. I am only;
eight years old, Your little girl
JESSIE B, DUNCAN. |
Culleoka, Tenn,
Dear Santa Claus—Please _ bring
me a little doll piano a stove and ves-
sels some dishes and a dining table
‘and lots of good things to eat, as I
am only three years old. But. don't
forget brother Tommie and Johnie
and their girls. Your little friend, |
SARA FRANCES ABERNATHY,
Fayetteville, Tenn., Dec. 24, 1909.’
Culleoka, Tenn.
R, F. D, No. 5, Box 78. Dear os
Claus—T am a little girl 11 years old.|
Please bring me a Negro doll that can
go too sleep that is twenty inches
high, a set of dishes and a dress, a
stove, all kinds of nicknacks and |
don’t forget mother and sister and
papa and brother. I will go to bed.
Good night from
MARY BELLA WORD.
Nashvelle, Tenn, Dec, 12, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little girl nine
years old, and have been very sick,
but I am better now. I write to tell
you what I want. I only want a
large doll buggy, a pair of school
gloves, fruit, candies, and nuts. From
your Little Friend,
- TOMMIEB Y. MORGAN. 3
613 Sylvan street. :
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» Fayetteville, Tenn. Dec. 24, 1909,
R. F. D. No. 5, Box 78. Dear Santa
Claus—I am a little boy seven years
old. Please bring me a fire wagon a
little wagon, a automobile, a shirt, all
kinds of nicknacks. Don't forget
mother and papa, sister and brother.
I will go to be. Good night, from
SHERMAN BE. WORD.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a lit-
tle boy nine years old. I want you
to bring me a shot gun and some
Roman candles and a steam engine
and some nuts and candy and some
oranges, apples and raisins, nuts.
Good-bye, from your friend.
JOHN BRAMLETTE.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a lit
tle girl five years old. I hope you
will put me on your list Xmas and I
want you to please bring me a large
Negro doll that can open and shut
her eyes, a set of doll dishes, a little
sewing machine, a doll table and some
nuts, fruit, candy and fireworks.
Please don’t forget my mama and
papa, bring them something nice.
Bye bye. Your little friend,
CLAUDINE BRAMUETTE.
913 Twelfth Avenue, North.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 11, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little
boy fourteen months old and I want
you to bring me a hobby horse, a
high chair, some little mitetns, a new
cap and a little sweater and a bag of
oranges and candy and anything else
you think would be nice for a good
little boy like me, Good bye ,
WILLIAM MOORE SMITHSON, JR.
I live at No. 1012 Fourteenth ave-
nue, North, !
Sey
1022 Fourteenth Avenue, North,
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 11, 1908
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl
nine years old and I want you to
bring me a pair of shoes and 1 want
you to bring me a sweater coat a 12
inch Negro doll, a dozen of oranges,
P»S—A bag o fsalted peanuts, by by.
Sets worth of apples and a’ school
tablet that will be all for this .time.
P. S—A bag of salt peanuts by, by.
Qunmn tha ahe thet lavas wan: |
Dear Kris Kyingle—l am a little
boy seven years old. I go to Knowles
School. Iam in the 1 A grade.
Please bring me a wagon, A cap,
some gloves, fireworks and a plenty:
of nuts, caniies, oranges, apples and
anything else you have to spare.
Don’t forget Val and Cliff. From
‘VIRGIL DOUGLASS KELLBY.
2018 Jefferson street.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little
girlie four years old. Want you
Kindly bring me a doll that can talk,
‘a little stove, set of dishes, doll bug-
Sy, a Negro doll, teddy bear family
and a lot of good things to eat? Don't
forget papa, mamma, Aunt Angie and
hy Drother: Prem
LOTTIE LEB FORD KELLY.
2018 Jefferson street.
Dear Santa—I am nine years old,
please bring me a coat some rubbers,
a slate, a doll, some shoes and mit-
tens to wear to school, hair ribbon.
I want a Bible story book, please
don’t forget my two grown sisters.
One don’t know just what she wants
‘so bring her anything. The other
wants a watch. Santa, please bring
it, my grandma was sick last Xmas,
but is well now. Bring her some-
thing. Aunt Julia and papa and
mama. Bring lots of nice things to
ase
DAISY M. FREEMAN.
Lavergne, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl
nine years old. I am in the first A
grade. My school does not go on
regular, But when it goes on, I go
every day. Now I will tel you what
I want you to bring me. I want a
cooking stove and a set of dishes.
And please bring me a little wash-
stand and a washstand set. I have
been a good little girl all the year.
Please bring me some candy, apples,
oranges, nuts, raisins, figs, dates, and
please bring me some Roman can-
nons, fire crackers and some star
sparkles. Bring me a horn and don't
forget my grandmother and aunt Sal-
lie. My sister is going to write you a
letter to tell you what she wants you
to bring her. So good bye, From
your little girl
JESSIE J. GOODMAN.
Lavergne, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl
eleven years old and I am in the
fourth-A grade. My school does not
go on often, but when it goes on I
go every day. I have been a good lit-
tle girl. Santa, Xmas is near here
now I want you to come to see me
this Xmas again. Please bring me a
little talking machine, a set of dish-
es and a little table to put my dish-
es on, please bring me a little lamp
and a little organ and a school bas-
ket. Please bring me some oranges,
candy, apples, nuts raisins, dates,
figs, fire crackers, Roman candles,
star sparkles, and don’t forget my
grandmother and aunt Sallie and
bring me a little cooking — stove.
Your little girl,
A TKR TEN 14. eae
| Nashville, Tenn. Dear Santa—I
‘want you to come to see me in Nash-
ville this Xmas, I want a plenty of
good things to eat, and by all means
bring me a Negro doll. I am nine
years old and live with Mr. and Mrs.
J. A, Kelly, of 653 Bass street. Don’t
forget my mama in Little Rock.
‘Your little girl,
ETHEL MANOS.
Dear Santa—I a am a little girl
seven years old, I am at my Aunty’s
home in Columbia. I want you to
bring me a Negro doll just like Tes-
‘sie's. Bring me a breast pin and all
‘kinds of nuts and fruits.
ANNIE MAL ABERNATHY.
Nashville, Tennessee, Dec. 11, 1909.
ee Santa Claus—I thought I would
‘let you know that I want you to come
to see me Christmas and bring me a
‘new suit, a sled and also a little wag-
en as T have been a good little boy all
the year, I am only ten years of age.
My name is Allen Terrell, and my
number is 1000 Third avenue, North.
Please don’t forget me. To Santa
Claus, Christmas.
Columbia, Tenn:, Dec. 1909. Dear-
est Old-Santa Claus—Iama little girl
eleven years: old, I am in the fifth
grade and want you to’ bring“the a
Negro doll and a doll set of dishes,
and all kinds of fruit-and nuts. I re-
main lovingly,
LETTLE MISS TESSIN.
12 East End .street,, Columbia, Tenn.
Dear Old St, Nick—I am alittle
boy seven years old, f am in the first
A grade. I do not. want much this
Xmas, T have kept my toys very nice
that you brought. me last Xmas.
Please bring me a wheelbarrow, a
hort, stit of clothes anda air of kid
gloves,and a lot of good. things to
eat. Don’t forget_my mama, grand-
ma, aunt T, aunt Irene and Mrs. An-
nie Spence, my little cousins, J. W.
and R, A. Williams.
JAMES JOHNSON.
611 Lischey avenue.
Columbia, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1909.
Dear Old Santa—We are still your
little girls. We live in Columbia now,
and we hope you won’t forget to come
up .here to see us. Please bring us
story books, dolls, needles, thimbles
and thread. We want to help mama
sew, Then bring us lots of everything
good to eat. Dear Santa, please stop
in St. Louis and leave something nice
for our three little cousins, Son, J. 0.,
and Baby Mayberry. Good by dear
Santa. From
LOUTRELLE and ODELL TAY-
LOR.
Nashvil‘e, Tenn., Dec, 15, 1909,
Dear Santa—I am a little boy ten
years old and go to school every day.
1 am in the third grade and am very
smart. I want you to brig me en
air gun and all sorts of fireworks,
candies, nuts and fruits. I want a
nice cap. So good by.
From your little boy,
DENNIS CARTWRIGHT,
Nashviile, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909,
Dear Old Kriss—I am thirteen years
old and in the fifth grade. I want you
to bring me a blue hat, a Negro ‘doll,
a pair of gloves and a set of furs. I
want all sorts of fireworks, nuts, fruits
and candies. Don’t forget my largest
sister and father, Good by. From
ALBERTA CARTWRIGHT.
Nashville, Tenn., Dee, 12, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little
girl nine years old and as it is nearly
time for you to come again, I thought
I would let you know what I want.
I want a dress, a nice school satchel,
gome rubbers and a story book of
Uncle Remus, Don’t forget my Ne-
gro doll. Bring her a sweater and
a cap. Bring me a pair of gloves, a
doll trunk, a doll buggy and plenty of
fruits and fireworks. Don’t forget
papa, mama, grandma and grand-
pa and sister and brother, as they
are too large to write. And my
teacher, Miss Coleman. Your little
girl, JENEVIEVIA JOHNSON.
1000 Twenty-first avenue, South.
‘P. S.—Bring me a set of dishes.
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f Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear old Santa Claus—I am a lit-
tle girl five years old. I have been
good and sweet all the year. I live
in Free Silver Plan and I want you to
bring me a doll and a stove, dishes
and !ots of candy and nuts and lots
of good things. Don’t forget father
and mother. From
HATTIE OTRY.
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TYRANT LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM.
Leopold, king of Belgium, who re-
cently underwent an operation and
is still very ill, is making a desper-
ate fight for life—a life so full, of
his evil doings that it is a disgrace
to the entire world. He is afraid of
death, that which he has ‘sanctioned
and allowed his henchmen to in-
flict upon the poor, helpless natives
in his African possessions, who were
‘unable to perform their impossible
tasks In gathering rubber. The pros-
pect of dying affrights this old lib-
ertine and wholesale murderer. He
does not want to die, and shudders
Mike the craven he is at the possibil-
ity of soon being required to answer
at the bar of God for the outrageous
deeds of his woree than worthless
life. Standing in the shadow of
death, this Inhuman wretch cowers
before his crimes; for minimize
them how he may by whatever pre-
tense or excuse of justification, they
loom up. ghostlike and hideous to
haunt his bewildered and erime-
stained ‘soul, No excuse, consid-
ered as human, can do what this man
has done and then face death and its
subsequent and fnevitable account-
ability calmly.
| ‘The world has had its Nero and {ts
Caligula, products of a remote and
heathen civilization, but their inhu-
manities pale when compared with
the monstrosities and atroctous eru-
elties of this unjustifiable protense
for a man, Leopold, king of Belgium.
While there is no justification for
the deeds of the Roman tyrants, even
in those distant. times, yet there -is
much less exeuse for the unspeaka-
ble meanness and barbarities of this
monstrous old erfminal, living in the
opening years. of the twentieth cen-
tury with all of its refining influences
of Christian otvilization,
The thought is drunk or ill-con-
ceived that links the name of Leopold
with anything save that of the most
bloody: and most inhuman savagery,
He is a blot, a stain on the world,
#n exasperation and an aggrayation.
Vengeance {s. mine, saith the Lord,
I will repay, and it is certain he will
Sn eee czdlbaelinben me ablenemuiiiess
do that in his own way; but we,
being finite, cannot see why this de-
erepit old libertine should have a
longer lease of life to encumber the
earth with more murders. Humane
sentiment everywhere would doubt-
less breathe a sigh of -relief were
the intelligence flashed forth that
the world had good riddance of this
bloody old tyrant, King Leopold of
Belgium.—The Review.
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GREATEST UMPS IN THE BUSI-
NESS,
This Official Worked in Negro League
In Texas.
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Baseball scribes of late have been.
busying themselves with accounts of
the greatest plays they ever saw,|
but Tip Wright in the Detroit Times.
varies the monotony by telling of
the greatest umpire. This official
happened to be off color, viewed
from the usual supposed require-
ments, but that his work was stellar
is witnessed by the following nar-
rative:
“A couple of years ago Texas
boasted of or stood for, T don’t know
which, a baseball league composed
of Negroes—players and officials all
being Ethiopians. The organization
may still be in existence for aught I
know, or it may have gone where the
woodbine twineth, which would be a
shame, for it as about the only thing
that could keep Texans in good hu-
mor when the boll weevil was work-
ing.
“Tf the league depended upon the
patronage of its own people for sup-
port it would have died of inanition,
but with a sense of humor the white
folks coughed up their two-bit pieces
to watch the comedy, and: never
failed to get more than their money's
worth,
“The organization had one *charac-
ter, an umpire, who Invariably wore
a long, light-colored linen duster,
when rendering decisions. This gar-
ment, buttoned tight around the neck
and split fall length up the back,
was an object of much ridicule and
a target for shafts of near-wit, as its
wearer tore around the diamond, try-
ing to keep track of the plays.
“Tl say one thing for that umpire,
‘he was as full of good intentions as
a tax return, and what he lacked in
dignity he made up in willingness.
“Tt was a sight for tired eyes to
see this umps work. His method,
to say the least, was original and ef-
fective. With a runner on base and
the ball hit, he'd decide quick as a
flash upon which man the play would
be made, arfd would light out for the
base on the third speed, the tails of
his duster stretching out behind like
the wash on a windy day.
“He always finished the last few
yards on his wishbone, throwing him-
self flat and sliding into the bag with
the runner, to get a better view of
he play and render nis decision ac-
cording to facts. Not much more dig-
nified, perhaps, than a pair of spoons
picked up by a searchlight, but for
effect it had supreme court decision
beaten to a whisper.”
Mrs, B. F. Wilson, the M. W. P. of
the Grand Lodge of Kansas City, Mo.,
is visiting Mrs. Green Alston, of St.
Louis, Mo. She will take her leave
Friday, December 10, for Louisville,
Ky., then Nashville to visit, her
mother, Mrs. Green Alston, 2608 Mor-
gan street.
craig
CHRISTMAS IN THE COUNTRY.
By LU) Charibers:
Some years ago more than twen:
‘ty thousand people gathered™in the
‘old Castle Garden, New York, to hear
Jenny Lind sing some of the noted
compositions of Beethoven, Handel,
and other music composers. As they
went into raptures over these at
length the Sweedish — nightingale
thought of her home, paused and
seemed to fold her wings for a high:
er flight, As she did this, she be
gan with deep emotion to pour forth
“Home, Sweet Home.” The audi.
ence could not stand this song, An
uproar of “applause stopped the mu
sic, Tears gushed forth from the
eyes’ of the thousands. that listened
to it as rain from a nimbus cloud.
Beethoven, Handel and all others
were forgotten, and John Howard
Payne ‘triumphed over the great
masters of song, as’ Home, Sweet
Home” came again, seemingly from
heayen, almost angelic. *
What was the ‘charm that lay con:
cealed jn that song? The answer is
this: Next to religion, the deepest
sentiment in the human. souf is that
of the ‘home affection, and every
heart, vibrates to this theme. | No
earthly being. can forget his home.
The thoughts of home cling to the
villain in’ his disgraced humanity;
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the prisoner will make his cell a ga-
cred receptacle for tears shed over
its memories, and to the college stu-
dent and business man of the city
it is the world. .
‘There is no time when the thoughts
of home haunt one more than the
Christmastide, and especially ane
whose home is in the country, Bh
one thinks of mother's loye ins
ther's influence. The poor man is
reminded of that circle of loving sis-
ters and brothers, and the man of
Wealth longs to be away from the
Ruste and glare of the city, worries
and perplexities of a busy life, to en-
Joy the fresh air and be as free as
‘the birds that sing about his door.
Home in the country—where one en-
joys sunny sports, log fires—pleas-
‘ures quiet and simple,
_ Mother and father look with hearts
as glad for their boys and girls who
‘are away as they enjoyed. their
Presence when a few years or more
ago they hung their stockings berofe
the old fire place, and those who
are out in life, in citles where “some-
thing is doing all the time,” though
they have reached the dignity of
Knowing that the “king of the sleigh
and the reindeer” is only a ow
These boyg-and girls, men and wom-
en, in turn look forward to Christmas
with a longing that shall be fulfilled
only by going home. And as. this
happy anticipation is realized, {t
swells out in a chorus of mighty con-
summation.
When the country boy and girl
awake on Christmas morning and
find their stockings filled with can-
dies and nuts, their joy is just as in-
tense as the boy and girl of the city
who awake and find dishes, automo-
biles, dolls and otner concetvable
‘toys. More so, for such toys usually
come from a severely taxed pocket.
The city man that spends Christ-
mas in the country with mother on-
joys for his dinner a corn-fed “mis-
tress of the barnyard” much moro
than that of her “cold storage chil-
dren.” The stndent of college, the
“sunny side up," fresh every. morn-
Ing, much mare than the “historic
omelet” made from frult that. havo
ain déubtless for many days forgot-
ten and in disuse,
Well, then, men and women, boys
and girls, whatever vocation in life
God has been pleased to call ye, “hie
ye away”’to. that country home, that
Sacred spet which shall always be
home, “‘be it ever so humble," to the
Place which in the course of tinte
shall be rent asunder, and those who
now inhabit It shall have passed
‘away, but whose kind words, ‘kind
looks and loving hearts ‘shall live in
your. memories forever.
THE EARLINGTON IDEA
THE HOME OF THE HOME OF THE HOME
ROW OF HOUSES OWNED BY COLORED MIN..RS
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Earlington, Ky., Dec. 12, 1909.
"Hello, Jim," said the cashier of one of the banks in this city, when a stalwart, begrimed colored mine worker entered the door, while the official made immediate provisions to do business. "How's work?"
"Fair," responded the colored man, as he produced his envelope and bank book to make a deposit. "But you know that times are never really bad here. A man who wants to work can always find enough to do and save a little."
That's the Earlington Idea: Work, Live and Save. Of course, that is not invariably the case with all of the thousands of employees, but all rules depend upon exceptions. Nevertheless, it is the prevailing idea. Every workman is a part of this great industrial community. He is proud of the company and the company is proud of him. When he speaks of the St. Bernard, it is always with an air of pride and possession, and when the St. Bernard deals with him it doesn't mind going out of its way to give him a shade the better of it. Its industrial shades are always a little biased toward him. It is a rare comraderie to exist between employee and employer.
The depositor's name was James Dunlap, a worthy second edition of a worthy sire, Simon Dunlap, an intelligent and thrifty miner, who, for more than a quarter of a century, has been employed by the St. Bernard Company. Mr. Dunlap, the second, was to the manner born, and entered into the utter simplicity of the Earlington Idea as a matter of course. He owns the handsome residence in which he lives and has still another to rent, and under the benign influence of excellent schools and social conditions is raising an interesting family to furnish material for a third edition of Dunlaps. He is a good example of the sort of man who may be found working in the non-union mines of Hopkins and Webster Counties. Yet, there are those who do not understand, or, understanding, seek to cavil and falsify the true condi-
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
BY PHIL H. BROWN
The first question propounded upon initiation to the Earlington Idea is not "To what do you belong?" but "What can you do?" The next is not "Is your skin white or black?" but "Is your character white or black?" The third is not "How long do you work?" but "How well can you work?" Every man carries a card in Earlington, but it is countersigned by Merit and Thrift, two hard but generous organizers, and this card shows up in good spendable money when pay-day rolls round.
The United Mine Workers have employed every means common to their class to displace the contented colored labor in this district. They sought to foment discord, strikes and lawlessness; but they have only had their trouble for their pains, running each time up against an obstruction of adamant, and that was the Earlington Idea. All of the discord has been among themselves in grabbing after the unearned usufruct that they squeezed out of their less fortunate working brothers; the strikes were myths, and all of the murder, arson and other lawless deeds were of their
THE COLORED SCHOOL
Modern in every convenience, built by colored of teachers.
COLORED SCHOOL AT EARLINGTON
t by colored bricklayers, and under
own doing.
THE SCHOOL
in the unfaltering confidence between employer and employee, wherein each gets his dues, each sacrifices to the common interest in building an industrial structure, which will endure, and from which mutual profits accrue.
own doing.
For years and years the union has striven to dethrone the Earlington Idea, and seize the jobs of the prosperous Negro miners as the spoils of conquest, but without avail. It has applied the balm of fawning and cajolery; it has flourished fire and the sword, but still the status of free labor and contentment reigns supreme and undisturbed.
each having three establishments owned and conducted by colored men chants. Since each of these store is doing a good business, it makes this hair-brained assertion false upon its very face, because if it were otherwise, how could these numerous business establishments survive an thrive? So much for this infamy, sufficet that if the condition of the union miners ever gets on a level with "th
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And now, alas, the union's pristine activities have drifted into the sour-grapes zone. Falling to lure the colored miners to their industrial destruction, the organization has thrown off its mask, unveiled its troubled feelings and defames the entire race at every point of the zodiac. Witness this miserable canard issued in the City of Henderson against the respectable colored labor of the Earlington belt. Last week a circular was issued in Henderson, presumably by a coal company, that seems to have nothing to offer to the people for their money but unionism. Evidently being unable to get into the market with a decent product, and unable to sell or give away what they have, they have changed their line and are now offering miserable race prejudice and unionism. Herewith is the argument that they set forth why the public should buy their coal:
"Then why do you continue to buy the non-union coal of Hopkins and Webster counties, when 95 per cent of those miners are Negroes of the very lowest type? About 60 per cent. of the 95 per cent. are ex-convicts. They are forced to work for long hours at low wages and trade in the com-
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tions here in petty larceny attempts to discredit the healthy status of progress that prevails among the free colored miners of this section. Earlington, Madisonville, Providence, Morton's Gap and Crabtree are singularly situated in the industrial topography of the mining district of Western Kentucky. There is the union to the right of them, union to the left and now yawns in front, at Henderson, one small mine, which is unfortunately capitalized with nothing more serious than the exploitation of union labor.
Help and Self-Help.
But the Earlington Idea of a fair deal to white and black, with its door of hope ajar to Negro labor, with its augmented school facilities and bank accounts grows apace and in favor. The union is "an episode and the Earlington Idea is an institution"—an institution founded upon a solid rock of principle and justice, around which the waters of contention jealousy, anarchy and race prejudice may wash and drift, but never undermine. Verily the Earlington Idea of industrial relations has the strength of Gibraltar, and its tenure is beyond the ken of human prophecy. Its strength is
in the unfaltering confidence between employer and employee, wherein each gets his dues, each sacrifices to the common interest in building an industrial structure, which will endure, and from which mutual profits accrue.
The Union Envious
Resorts to Lies.
pany store, and live on company property. This is not the case with the miners in the People's mines. The men get the union scale of wages. Do you want to pull the union miners of Henderson down to the humble condition of the Hopkins County miners?" It is needless to say that all of this is absolutely false, generally and in detail. The colored miners in the Earlington belt belong to the most intelligent, most aspiring, better paid, better living element of laborers in the United States, and they will not suffer by comparison with those of anywhere. They are law-abiding and do not organize to loot, murder and destroy as the union does, and seems to consider that it has a right to do. The miner in the Earlington belt buys wheresoever he desires, and, fortunately for him, he has the money to buy with. In Earlington, where the only industry, aside from railroading, is coal mining, there are no less than twenty stores, meeting with fine success, and are carrying the same goods as the company store. This is true in different numbers in every town in the belt, Madisonville and Providence.
N. the direction of a qualified corps
each having three establishments owned and conducted by colored merchants. Since each of these stores is doing a good business, it makes this hair-brained assertion false upon its very face, because if it were otherwise, how could these numerous business establishments survive and thrive? So much for this infamy, suffice that if the condition of the union miners ever gets on a level with "the humble condition of the Hopkins county miners," they must be elevated. Any amount of pulling down will encounter chaos. But I set out to tell the readers of the Globe about this 95 per cent. of the miners in Hopkins and Webster counties who "are Negroes of the lowest type."
Not a New Idea.
Thirty-seven years ago Mr. John Bond Atkinson came into the presidency and personal management of the St. Bernard Coal Co. (Incorporated), and from that moment the Negro in Hopkins County and Hopkins County itself have advanced upon the scale of progress by leaps and bounds and from that time the Negro in this section has had a staunch, capable and self-sacrificing friend, whose loyalty never wavered, and whose powerful arm has supported every deserving black man who said, "I will."
Dating here, structural highways supplanted sheep paths and cities sprang up where sassafras bushes and thistles prevailed. The great mineral wealth, hitherto undeveloped, found its way to waiting markets, and a fine prosperity obtained that has never since deserted this section.
Mr. Atkinson himself sprang from
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MISS RUBY J. THOMPSON,
Trained Nurse at St. Bernard Hospital,
Earlington.
sturdy. Quaker Abolitionist stock, and came forth from a cradle of liberty. By rearing his friendship for the Negro was inherent, and was fostered by association with Whittier and Walt Whitman. In his young manhood he worked upon the defenses of Philadelphia, and it was during this time that he met Frederick Douglass in his father's house, and began a friendship that lasted until the famous publicist's death. Almost his first act upon coming into the management of the St. Bernard was to install Negro labor in the mines. He was the first to do it, and this feat was accomplished with exceeding difficulty, because the sentiment of the white people was greatly opposed to the innovation. Undeterred by powerful influences, he persevered in his purpose until now more than three thousand colored men find employment in the St. Bernard mines, and kindred establishments in Western Kentucky.
Model Mining City.
Earlington is the model coal mining town in the entire South, insofar as the colored people are concerned. There is nothing that the white element of this community has that is denied the Negro. There is a magnificent school building, erected at a cost of $12,000, and erected by colored bricklayers, capacious and stately churches of brick, lodge buildings, library and amusement hall and these adorn the city and belong to the colored people.
The school advantages are particularly alluring because of their excellent facilities and the erudite competence of the teachers. The St. Bernard Company, acting in an advisory capacity to the regular school authorities, secured the services as principal of Prof. J. W. Bell, a product of Roger Williams University, a gentleman of highest culture and attainments. Under the State law provision is made for only a six months' school, but the St. Bernard supplements the regular allotment with sufficient funds to extend the term to 9 months. Aside from this a high school is in vogue which is of such commendable character that it attracts students from
LUTE DAVIS.
Who Built a Mining Town in Western Kentucky.
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many different points in his section. In order to increase the efficiency of this institution extra teachers (not "nominated in the bond") are supplied, leaving the school unexcelled in the Stae of Kentucky, outside of Louisville. With this excellent equipment and thorough ability, you may use your judgment as to whether or not Prof. Bell is turning out "Negroes of the lowest type." grievance committe the way to his pr know how to get net that attracts o and he stands be everybody, even I
Beyond peradventure, the churches in Earlington and Madisonville are the most beautiful in this part of the State. In order that the colored people might have full scope for their abilities, colored bricklayers erected the new school building and the Baptist church and be it said to their credit that the work was skillfully and satisfactorily done.
Modern Hospital.
There is maintained a first-class hospital, equipped with every modern contrivance known to the medical profession, to which these falsely-designated "lowest type of Negroes" are taken when beset with illness or injuries, and there officiates in this hospital alongside a white nurse, a duly-graduated colored trained nurse, who waits upon white and black alike.
As an illustration of the quality of good feeling that exists in Earlington, there are never any suits for damages when an employee is enjured. Why is this? It is simple enough. The company settles and does the right thing every time. No ambulance chasers can live and have their being around Earlington. This is positively no field for shysters, who are wont to fatten upon the company and the men, or their families. The injured man or his family goes straight to the loss himself. There is no stone wall around him. His is the genuine open-door policy, and he is always willing to be seen by his men, and insists that every man be his own
grievance committee. The men know the way to his private office and they know how to get in. He is the magnet that attracts everybody's troubles, and he stands between his men and everybody, even himself, and offener
THE CHURCH OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN
than not he gives himself the worst of it. The employees know that he has never varied the slightest particle from the absolute just thing. In their work affairs he is their court of appeal, and in case of accident or injury, they know no lawyer but the president, and he invariably adjudicates the case fairly. They know that they will fare better with him than in a civil court, and he never falls them. This is where confidence, mutual confidence rides triumphant in the saddle. And it not only prevails with the president, but you can observe it all along the line of officials of the company. Every man seems to be inculcated with the Earlington spirit of a fair deal to every man.
Mr. Atkinson has given generously to the educational and religious institutions, notably a constant support to Atkinson College at Madisonville, where Prof. Martin is busily engaged, as is Prof. Bell, in fitting young men and young women for the battle of life. It is not to be supposed that the union wiseacres at Henderson would pass these by as " the lowest type of Negroes."
Built a Town.
When the Rosecreek Coal Company began its operations near Nebo in Hopkins County, the man who had charge of all of the construction, sinking of shafts, erection of buildings was a capable colored man by the name of Lute Davis. Mr. Davis was also bank boss in the mines after they got into action and everything that he has done in this district he
THE CHURCH
A. M. E: ZION CHURCH AT EARLINGTON.
Built by Colored Contractors and Colored Labor.
has done well. He is reliable and painstaking, and was sent by the Leiter Co., Ziegler, Ill., to fill an important position in the mines. After some time spent out in Illinois, he has returned to Hop where he will be include "lowest type of Negroes One could go on ad diving proofs of the
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has returned to Hopkins County, where he will be included among the "lowest type of Negroes."
One could go on ad infinitum producing proofs of the falsity of this base union statement. I might tell you of W. R. Teague, who began working with the St. Bernard in 1876, is still on the job and is one of the wealthiest colored men in this part of the State; of Thomas Spencer, Andrew Jackson, Champ Ashby and hundreds of others who are doing things for themselves and for their race that they are not permitted to do in union mines, where brotherly love is not colorly love. I could tell you of the employment of a colored electrician at lucrative pay as an existent proof of the vast benefits of the Earlington Idea. There is a perfect myriad of facts, but to anyone whose viewpoint is not discolored by a jaundiced eye these will suffice.
Upon a basis of mutual cooperation the St. Bernard stands forth as a friend to the Negro. The company does not deny that the uplifting and development of the Negro miner is part of its mission. The company spends thousands upon thousands of dollars annually in working toward this end. It is foremost in everything that is designed to help the Negro, not only in its immediate district, but all over the country. The Earlington Idea has for its motto "All men up." It means to accomplish something for the Negro and make the Negro-accomplish something for himself. It means to stand between him and his worst enemy, the union; it proposes to keep on employing the Negro upon a merit basis and encourage him to build more schools and libraries; it proposes to have Earlington set forth as an example to other towns in the encouragement of interracial feeling and understanding, "and if this be treason," let the union on whatnot "make the most of it."
BOLEY, OKLA., ITS 6,000 POPULATION AND ITS NEGRO MAYOR. With Industrial Education Foundation. Boley is located in Boley township 12, range 8 east, Okfuskee County, in the new state of Oklahoma, and is the largest and most progressive exclusive Negro town in the United States. It is located on the Ft. Smith & Western Railway, two miles north of the North Canadian River. It is 72 miles east of Guthrie, the state capital, and is in close touch with Ft. Smith. Ark.; Oklahoma City, Muskogee and Shawnee, the principle commercial centers of the state.
Boley is owned by Negroes and governed by them. Boley is an incorporated town, incorporated under the laws of the state of Oklahoma. The affairs of the town are in charge of five members of the town council, one from each ward. The president of this council is T. M. Haynes, who is known as the founder of the town. Aside from these officers, Boley has a town assessor, marshal, treasurer and clerk. All of the township officers of Boley township are Negroes. Boley has three colleges, one brick high school, six churches, two banks, two cotton gins, one bottling works, one newspaper, seven brick buildings, four hotels, one telephone system, one telegraph office, three blacksmith shops, seventy-five business houses, one canning factory, two lumber yards, one brick yard, one architect, seven physicians, two drugstores, three lawyers, two jewelers and about 6,000 of the most thrifty Negroes in America, with a successful board of trade.—Exchange.
The song "Glory to God" was written by the late Prof. William Rosborough, of Texas, who was Musical Director for some of the biggest meetings held in this country. This song is found in Celestial Showers No.1 and No.2, published by the National Baptist Publishing Board, R. H. Boyd, Secretary, Nashville, Tenn.
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Glory to God!
Duer. Alto.
Words and Music by Wm. Roseborough
1. 'Twas on a clear and peace-ful night, And shepherds
2. 'Twas in a man-ger He was found, The wise men
3. In Beth- le- hem this Prince of Peace Then to the Tenor.
watched their flock by night, That an-gels came and came with joy pro-found, The morning star shone cap- tives gave re- lease, A mighty prince en-
sang the song, "For un- to you a Sav- ior's born."
bright- ly there, O'er heav- en's Babe, the fair- est fair.
thron'd a- bove, Rules na- tions with His won- drous love.
Chorus.
Glo- ry to God! glo- ry to God! Glo- ry to
The song "Glory to God" the biggest meetings held in the Baptist Publishing Board, R.
The Meharry Y. M. C. A. was represented at the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the colored men's department of the Y. M. C. A. of North America by Mr. William Russell, of the Junior Dental class. Mr. Russell has returned filled with new zeal and inspiration. The events of this conference have passed into history, making another brilliant page in the annals of the world's progress.
On Friday evening of this week the Y. M. C. A. will render a musical at Meharry Auditorium.
On next Sunday at 3:30 p. m., the Reverend E. W. D. Isaac, D. D., editor of the National Baptist Union, will address the Y. M. C. A. All are invited to attend.
The Senior and Junior Medical Classes will have their first examination in Practice of Medicine on Wednesday morning next week at 8 o'clock. Passing grade of all the medical classes has been raised from 75 to 80 per cent by the action of the Board of Trustees of the University. This has been found necessary on account of advanced requirements of the State Medical Examining Boards. While some may find it necessary to spend an additional year in pursuing their medical course, those who receive diplomas will be better prepared, not only for State Board Examinations, but for their actual work in the practice of medicine.
Daily clinics are being held at the amphitheatre in the dental building as follows:
Monday at 1 p. m., medical clinic,
by Drs. S. Holman and Elliott.
Tuesday at 3 p. m., surgical clinic,
by Dr. J. T. Wilson.
Wednesday at 1 p. m., diseases of
eye, ear, nose and throat, by Dr. C.
V. Roman.
Thursday at 1 p. m., several and skin
diseases, by Dr. S. S. Caruthers.
Friday at 1:30 p. m., diseases of eye,
ear nose and throat, by Dr. C. V.
Roman.
Saturday at 10 a. m., surgical clinics
by Dr. J. T. Wilson.
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Saturday at 1:30 p. m., geni to urinary diseases, by Dr. McMillan. All of these clinics are free medical and surgical treatment furnished without cost to the patient. Dental clinics are held from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. in the dental operatory. The only charges made is for cost of material used.
Prof. E. W. Newsome, of the Colored Y. M. C. A. Business College of St. Louis, visited the school during the past week. Prof. Newsome was the guest of Mr. Hamilton Traveis, of the Junior Medical Class.
Mr. A. J. Love, who was called away on account of death at home, has returned.
The Senior Class-Day Exercise will be held on the evening of January 15, 1910. The following are the representatives from the various departments; E. W. Bates, Senior Medical, class orator; Miss Mary Irene Brown, Senior Medical, historian; E. R. Bailey, Senior Medical, class prophet; J. J. Creigh, Senior Dental, class orator; M. M. Grant, Senior Pharmacist, class orator.
MOORESVILLE NOTES
The cold spell has come and many hogs have ceased their squealing. We are feasting on spare ribs and sausages. Christmas is almost in sight, then we will care "Turkey."
Mrs. Lizzie Davis is now on the sick list.
Mrs. Jane Baxter was the guest of Mrs. Mary Record one day last week.
Misses Susie Dysart, Ella Duncan and Master Ross Dryden, of Farmington, were welcome visitors at Prof. J. B. Jones' school recently. This trio of young people were former pupils of Prof. Jones, therefore they were highly entertained by his school here.
Our school is in a flourishing condition. Eighty pupils have been enrolled during the term. Prof. Jones is an excellent teacher.
Rev. I. Miller, who will pastor the M. E. Church, preached his first sermon on the first Sunday.
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
SMYRNA NOTES
song, Ho-san-nal to us a Sav-ior is born.
D.C.-Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon it, Mount of Thy re-deeming love.
D.C.-He, to res-cue me from dan-ger, In-ter-posed His precious blood.
D.C.-Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts a-bovel
Mrs. B. M. Frierson spent Monday in Nashville.
A glee club composed of the following has been organized: Misses J. I. Wade, Will Ransom Robert Hendron, Will Hawkins, Dr. J. H. Hamilton and A. L. Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. N. Matthews spent last week in Memphis visiting her son.
Messrs. J. H. Watson and Will Hawkins have subscribed for the Globe.
TWO ORDERS ORGANIZED.
* Wesyingtong, Tenn., Dec. 9.—Mrs. T. L. McClanahan, of Nashville, organized two Benevolent Orders Sunday, Dec. 9, 1909, which are B. O. 169 and 170, with the assistance of Rev. W. A. Jordan, Mr. Jordan Sneed, Mrs. Harriet Carter, Mrs. Rhoda Daily, of B. O. 138, was also present. Officers installed were Mr. John Phillips, President; Austin Terry, Vice President; Mrs. Annie Phillips, Secretary; Mary Washington, Assistant Secretary; Gabe Washington, Will Terry, Annie Smith, Robert Davis, Louise Phillips, Mary Washington, Jim Davis, Lucy Johnson, John Green, Mrs. Emma Carter.
MARRIAGES.
Charlie Patterson and Lula Hunter.
William Webb and Fannie Thomas.
John Whitaker and Mary Lue Walker.
Walter Starks and Emma Bryant.
Thomas Kittrell and Carrie Ann Mullin.
Mamie Cecil Perkins and Mamie Rives.
Luther Hyde and Eliza Orndoff.
Joss Boyd and Ella Horns.
Will Perkins and Minnie Holt.
Harden Warren and Tennie House.
Robert Overton and Minnie Roach.
Charlie Nolen and Susie Copeland.
Green Whitfield and Addie Chris-
man.
Glory to God.—Concluded.
in the high - est! An - gel and men no
Hos - san - na! to us a Sav - ior
Come, Thou fount.
saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove."—Jo - binson.
Thou Fount of ev'ry blessing, Tune my heart to as of mer - cy, never ceas - ing, Call for songs to I'll raise my Eb - en - e - zer, Hith - er by Thy I hope, by Thy good pleasure, Safe - ly to ar to grace how great a debt - or Dai - ly I'm cons thy goodness, as a fet - ter, Bind my wand'rine
me the mount, I'm fixed upon it, Mount of Thy re - to res - cue me from dan - ger, In-ter-posed, Hes my heart, oh, take and seal it, Seal it for Thy
me some me - lo-dious son - net, Sung by flam- ing, is sought me when a stran - ger, Wand'ring from tho wan - der, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the
of Texas, who was Musical Director ofowers No. 1 and No. 2, published by
Frank Meace and Kittie Williams.
Abe Sykes and Sarah McGavock.
James Roberts and Mattie C. Battle.
Will Hays and Rosa Perkins.
L. C. Lawrence and Jennie Porterfield.
Ewing Keel and Lillie Cornelius.
A. J. Alison and Ora H. Fuqua.
Ernest Williams and Lucile Thomas.
Geo. Williams and Martha Webb.
Charlie Patterson and Lula Hunter.
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DEATHS.
Mary Reynolas, 40 years, City Hospital.
Mamie Well, 27 years, 37 Wharf avenue.
Kittie Smith, 76 years, Franklin, Tenn.
Amanda Frierson, 48 years, Rock City Sanitarium.
John Bryant, 39 years, 70 Crutcher street.
Nelson Thomas, 46 years, 165 Lafayette street.
Louise Anderson, 60 years, 627 Wood street.
Elizabeth Douglass, 75 years, 216 Hardeet street.
James Epps, 30 years, 116 Fourth avenue, North.
Susan J. Davis, 55 years, 2009 Broadway.
Peter Elam, 57 years, 17 Cowan street.
Carrie Lowery, 5 months, 118 Fairfield street.
Lula Wilson, 26 years, 1609 Jackson street.
Hannah Larkins, 45 years, City Hospital.
Frank Scruggs, 49 years, 914 Jo Johnston avenue.
Sol May, 49 years, Rear of South street.
Hattie Grigsby, 1031 Olympic street.
Daisy Grigsby, 24 years, 1001 Eighteenth avenue, North.
Mattie Rollins, 35 years, 811 Fourth avenue, South.
Henry Standfield, 18 years, County Asylum.
Virgil Cooper, 16 years, 619 Bass street.
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William F. Lewis, 55 years, 11 Garden street. Anna Johnson, Brentwood Tenn.
Mary Homan, 23 years, 607 Williams street.
Edna Washington, 6 months, 607
Overton street.
Annie Vaughn, 16 years, Mercy Hospital.
Fanny Morris, 90 years, 1723 Scovel street.
Myers Bell, 36 years, Louisville, Ky.
Minnie Johnson, 32 years, Chicago, Ill.
Nannie Lee, 38 years, Wilson's Infirmary.
Richard Filmore Cohn, 49 years, 720 Smiley street.
George Ford, 3 months, 936 Ament street.
Robt. Stafford, 57 years, 1610 Hamilton street.
Infant of Alberta Fay, 524 Sycamore street.
Ed White, 29 years, Chicago, Ill.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl twelve years old. I thought I would write you and tell you what I want you to bring me for Christmas. Please bring me a pair of gloves and a pair of leggins and some nicethings, to eat. Don't forget my little nephew in Berlin. So I will close. From your little girl, MAGGIE LEE DAVIS.
Dear Old Santa-I am a little girl nine years old, and would like for you to bring me a Negro doll, a go-cart, a cooking stove and some candy, nuts, oranges, raisins, apples and anything else nice you have to eat. And Santa Claus, please don't forget mama, papa, sister and brother, to bring something nice. So please be on time and don't forget anything. am your little girl,
FRANCES ALBERTINE BROOKS
R. F. D. 11 Harding Road
I ask you for a doll, set of doll dishes, a wagon, candy, nuts, apples, oranges. Don't forget mama and papa. I will close. I live at 804 Williams street. BABY WILSON.
Dear Santa—I am a good girl. I go to school every day. Please bring me a shawl, a pair of overshoes and anything else you would like to bring. Don't forget my sisters and brother, and also my classmate, Mary Page and Edna Duncan, and my friend, Annie Louise Belcher. Bring her something. Please bring my cousin, Samella, something. Your friend, ALICE PERKINS.
P. S.—Santa, bring me a large Negro doll and some candies, nuts and oranges.
1816 1-2 Albion street.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little boy four years and nine months old. I have been a good little fellow. I want you to bring me a little train, wagon, gun and a lot of good things to eat. Please don't forget mother and grandmother. From your little boy,
L. B. WILLIAMS.
P. S.—Santa, bring my little cousin Lensley something.
Nashville, Tenn.
Dear Santa—I have not been as good as I could have been, still if you bring me what I ask for I will try to be better after Christmas. All I want you to bring me is a little red wagon and some good things to eat. As this is my second time to look for you, I will not ask for any more. Don't forget mama and papa. I live 653 Bass street, Good bye, Santa.
CHAS. WINFREY KELLY.
Dear Old Santa—I am a little girl five years old and have been good all this year. I want you to bring me a large Negro doll, broom, fireworks, candy, nuts and oranges, also please bring brother Albert a train with two coaches, a horse and some candy. Baby brother Chas. H. wants a horn and wheelbarrow. Bring my cousins something. Remember my mamma with some story books, so she can read to us.
IRENE GREEN.
Corner Randal Cole avenue and Murfreesboro plke.
Santa Claus—I am papa's bully boy two years old. Please bring me a hobby horse, choo-choo train, automobile, pistol, drum, bouncing ball. No, I don't want no football in the play! Bring Bishop Burrel, my baby brother, a rubber doll and a ring and rattler. D. A. HART, Jr.
Dear Sant Claus—As it is nearing Christmas eve, I write to let you know what I want. Santa, please bring me a Negro doll and a little buggy to roll her in. Don't forget my friend, Margret Carter, she wants something to chew on, and Agent McClendon wants some kind of a music box to amuse Margaret with. I will be good and wait until you come. From your little girl.
LOUISE JOHNSON.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl five years old, and have been very good. I want you to bring me a Negro doll ready dressed, doll dresser and a washstand doll buggy, stockings and shoes and a broom, so that I can keep my doll house clean. Bring me a package of needles and many spools of thread as you can spare, for I want to learn to sew, bring me some candy, nuts and oranges. I live at 630 Williams street.
EUNICE NANNIE WOODS.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
My Dear Old-Santa—I am a little girl twelve years old and in the 5th A grade. I have been good all the year and I want you to bring me a little pony, a hat and dress, a pair of shoes and I want a dining-room set for my doll and a set of dishes, a stove, some nuts, candy, apples, oranges and don't forget my teacher and my great-grandma, papa, mama and all the rest of my folks. Take Marie something to Atlanta, Ga. Oh, Santa, I want another Negro doll for my other dolls are so lonesome by themselves. Well, I guess that's all: Remember all the poor children. Yours truly, KATIE BOYD.
1603 Harding street.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I have been a very good little boy and I want you to bring me some firecrackers, jumping jack and a choo-choo train. I will close. GEORGE THOMPSON.
411 Fifteenth avenue, North.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am now 11 years old and attend school every day. I am in the fifth grade. I don't want much, so I will tell you what I want. Please leave me a new dress, a hat, some hair ribbon, handkerchiefs, school pencils, a doll trunk, another Negro doll and a new dress for her. I want some fruits, nuts and
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
fireworks. So good by, dear Santa.
Don't forget mama, my sisters, brothers
and Ella. I live at 1608 Scovel
street.
CONNIE MAI KING.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little girl nine
years old. I want you to bring me
some fur leggins, a box of paint and
a story book. Now, Santa, I have
been a good little girl, don't forget
mother and sister, bring them some
thing nice. Your little friend,
TOMMY C. MOORE.
1502 Cedar street.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little girl nine years old, and I want you to bring me a doll buggy to roll my Negro doll in. I want a tricycle, a set of dishes and a table. Now, Santa, I have been a good little girl, so please do not forget me. I live at 504 Fourteenth avenue, North, and my name is EDNA BROOKS.
916 Seventeenth avenue. North.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—Please bring me a rocking chair, teddy bear coat, Negro doll, candy, nuts and oranges.
Do not forget grandma Pointer and mamma and papa. I am, dear Santa, your little friend,
THELMA AUGUSTA POINTER.
Lynnville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am ten years old. I have been a good little girl all the year and have studied my books nice and have been kind to my mother and father. Santa Claus, will you please bring me a big Negro doll, a little watch, apples, oranges, nuts. Santa, please don't forget my auntle. Yours truly.
LIZZIE MAY McCLURE.
Una, Tenn., Dec. 1, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little boy eleven years old. I have been a very good boy and go to school every day and have my lessons. I make from 80 to 100 in my studies and I want you to bring me a pair of shoes, cartridges for my rifle, 22, oranges, candies, nuts, fireworks, and everything you think I need.
From DLLIE A. McGHEE.
Una, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—am a little boy eight years old. I have been a good boy, too, and I want you to bring me what you bring brother, and I will be pleased. Will you, Santa, say yes? I know you will. From GEORGE GRAFTON McGHEE.
P. S.— Please bring grandmamma something, too.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am six years of age my mother died when I was five days old. Santa has come to see me every year. I didn't know he was a black man until I saw his picture in the Globe. I told my godmother that I didn't want him to bring me anything. She told me that it was he who has brought me Santa Claus presents for six years. Well, sir! Then I told my godmother to tell him to bring me some more nice things. Mr. Editor, I thank you because you told me Santa Claus was a black man. I'll put a two-cent stamp in the letter, so the black Santa Claus can bring me something nice. My godmother says I'll have to pay him to come to see me. Bye, bye.
MARGUERITE SWANSON.
1032 Jefferson street.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little boy two years old and the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson. My name is Edward and I have been very good and sweet to my mother and father. I want you to bring me a rocking horse, a chair to sit in, a drum, a doll and buggy to ride the doll in and some A, B, C blocks and a horn, nuts, oranges, candy and lots of other good things to eat, so good bye. From your friend,
Dear Old Santa Claus—I want you to bring me two new dresses and a box of handkerchiefs. I go to school every day. I am in the third grade. I am eight years old. I want a doll buggy and a doll stocking cap and a doll sweater. I want lots of candles, oranges and nuts and a box of dates. Mamma says I'm a good little girl. I go to Sunday-school every Sunday. Don't forget mamma and papa. I live at 20 Lafayette street.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl twelve years old. I want you to bring me some shoes and a muff and fur, some nuts, apples, candy and fireworks, ink and pen, oranges and that's all. I live on Main street. My name is MARY H. JAMISON.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little boy nine years old. I want you to bring me an air-gun and some apples, oranges, banannas, candy, nuts and fireworks, cap and a ball and bat, and I don't
want nothing else. Good bye, Santa.
from HERBERT JAMISON.
Springfield, Tenn.
Dear Santa Claus, I have a little
sister. She is eleven months old. I
wan yyout to bring her a rubber
Negro doll. Her name is Rosa Belle
Jamison.
Springfield, Tenn.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl five years old. I want you to bring me a Negro doll, a washstand, dresser and piano and a toy pig and sideboard and a set of dishes and stove and a little sewing machine and a table, fireworks, nuts, apples, oranges, banannas, candy. Good bye, Santa, and that's all. from
LAURINE JAMISON.
Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1999.
Dear Santa Claus—Please don't forget to come to our house to see me. Little Dorothy Luster Dudley. Please bring me some of all the Christmas things that you have, bring me some oranges and apples and candy and nuts of all kinds and don't forget to bring me a nice big Negro doll. Uncle Neal said he was going to make you bring me a pair of new shoes. Please don't forget them. Oh, yes, dear Santa, please don't forget to bring me some firecrackers, roman candles, and don't fall to come to see me at Mama Sanders' house and bring me some nice things there. Now I believe I have thought of everything. Don't fail to fill my Christmas tree with everything nice, so good bye.
P. S.—Oh, yes, dear Santa, I forgot; please bring me a pair of smoothing irons and don't fail to come to see me in Uncle Will's and sister's room of our house. You come down the last chimney. So good bye. I am your friend.
DOROTHY L. DUDLEY.
Dear Santa Claus—I want you to bring me a Negro doll, a set of dishes, a cot, a stove, a safe, candy, nuts and oranges, raisins and dates and anything else you think is nice. I am nine years of age. I go to school. Bye, bye. Your little friend,
EVA POWELL.
Briersville, Tenn.
Dear Santa Claus—I will write a letter to tell you what I want you to bring me. Please bring me a piano and a new Negro doll and some candy and some apples and a stove and some dishes and a bed, and that's all. I live in the country.
WILLIE GOODRICH.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am going to write you a little letter and tell you what I want for Christmas. First, I want a large teddy bear and a new dress and a box of handkerchiefs and some roman candles and lots of oranges, candy and nuts. Don't forget papa and mama. I live 20 Lafayette street. MAGGIE S. JACKSON.
P. S.—Please bring Mrs. Gray and Everlina something.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 11.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl three years old and have been trying to be good all the year. I want a drum, shovel, chair, wheelbarrow, pair of stockings and some oranges, apples, nuts, candies. I live at 1613 State street. So good by. From your little boy,
J. E. HURT.
Do not forget my mother and my friends.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl ten months old and I want you to bring me a chair so that I can sit up to the table and eat with my mother, a cap and a jacket, stockings and lots of good things to eat. Your little girl,
ANNIE B. CARUTHERS.
1026 Eleventh avenue, North.
" Nashville Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little boy seven years old. Please bring me a drum, horn, set of tools and some candy. I have a little brother two years old, bring him a horse and a Negro doll. I also have three sisters, bring them a tub, washboard and some candy. I live at 1026 Eleevnth avenue, North. JOHN PORTER.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl one year old and I want you to bring me a Negro doll, a set of dishes, a plano and a chair and lots of nice things to eat. From your little girl, MARGARET HARDING.
1730 Jefferson street.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little boy ten years old. I thought I would write you a letter to let you know what I want. I want a bicycle, a necktie and some apples, oranges, nuts, figs and some candy. Your little friend,
S .P. HARRIS, Jr.
1730 Jefferson street
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little boy three years old. I am getting my brother to write my letter for me. I want you to bring me a fire engine, a horse and a wagon, an auto, a train, a horn, a drum, a jump-
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Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl ten years old. I bring me a Negro doll, some doll dishes and a little table and bring me anything else you like, and thank you. I live with Mrs. F. N. Greene, 1613 Twelfth avenue, North.
Please don't forget where to come. I wil try to be as good as I can.
Karen little friend
OLIVE BRYANT.
Dear Santa Claus-I am a little girl five years old and have just entered a nice sewing class and would like to have a work-box, a Negro doll and buggy and something nice to eat. I have all you brought me last Christmas yet. I am as ever your little girl. HAPPY HOOOTTING STONE
Columbia, Tenn.
Dear Santa—Here I am again looking for you and would like for you to bring me a Negro doll and set of tin dishes and gloves and something nice to eat. I am six years old. Your little girl.
Columbia, Tenn.
Dear Old Kris—I am a little boy eight years old and would like to have some fireworks and a story book and pair of gloves and nice things to eat. Your little boy.
HUGH B. STONE.
808 East Eighth street.
Don't forget mamma and papa.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl nine years old. I am very smart in school and I help my mamma work at home. I want you to bring me a dress, shoes, cloak and a Negro doll, and some candy, cake, nuts. Please remember mamma.
MYRTLE D. PHILLIPS.
2105 Twenty-third avenue, North.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little boy two
years old, and I want you to bring me
a rocking horse, a Negro doll, candy,
nuts, oranges, cake and fireworks.
I live at my grandfather's this Christmas, 523 Second avenue, North.
R. H. BOYD, II.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little boy
two years old. Please bring me a
rocking horse, cloak, shoes, candy
and everything nice.
FRANK SANDERS.
417 Fifteenth avenue, North.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little girl six
years old and live at 442 Ninth avenue,
North. Please bring me a rocking
chair, set of dishes, doll trunk,
candies, oranges nuts and everything
nice. Remember my little sister,
Jennie V.
LITTLE ANNIE MAI DUNSON.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 11, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I want a dress,
muff, shoes, hat and nuts, oranges,
apples and banannas. So good night.
IANTHIA_BODDIE
I live at 1613 State street.
P. S.—Please don't forget my little
friends.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec 12, 1909.—
Dear Santa Claus—We live at 805
Seventeenth avenue, South, and we
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want you to be sure to pay us a visit.
We have tried to be good this year.
My little sister wants a colored doll,
a little stove and dishes. My little
brother, John Wesley, Jr., wants a
horn, top, automobile and a humpty
dumpty circus. I want a colored doll,
a doll buggy and a doll toilet set.
LABERTA C. BOSTICK,
MATTIE LOUISE BOSTICK,
J. W. Bostick, Jr.
West Nashville, Tenn.
1729 Scovel street, Dec 13., 1910
Dear Old Santa—I am a little boy
eleven years old. I am in the
first B grade. I go to school every
day. Dear Santa, I will not ask for
very much. I have tried to be a good boy. My Uncle John and Aunt Mary
Hill say I have been very good.
Please bring me a wagon and some
nuts and candies, and please don't
forget Uncle John and Aunt Mary.
From your little boy.
OLIVER TALLIE.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little girl nine years old. I go to school and in the third B grade. My teacher is name Mrs. Honesty. I am taking music also and am learning fast. My teacher is named Mr. H. Clemons. I want you to bring me a chain to wear with my locket and anything else you wish to. Don't forget mamma and papa 909 Seventh avenue, South.
1729 Scovel street, North Nashville,
Tenn. Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a little boy eleven
years old. I am in the third B
grade and I go to school every day.
Dear Santa, I will not ask for very
much. I have tried to be a good boy.
My papa and mama say I have been
very good. Please bring me a wagon
and nuts, candies and fireworks
and please don't forget my papa and
mama and don't forget grandma
Tucky. Your dear little boy,
BARTHEL T. HILL
Nashville, Tenn.
Dear Santa Claus-I want to tell you what I want you to bring me. I want you to bring me a doll, a hat, a pair of shoes, a pair of gloves and a trunk and a black buggy. I will close From your friend.
NELLIE DEMOSS.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1909.
Dear Santa—I have been a good boy ever since last Christmas. Mother said I have. Dear Santa, will you please come to see me again? I wish you would bring me a big wagon and an air-gun and a plenty of BB, shot and please, sir, bring me a Sunday suit of clothes, some oranges, apples, raisins and candies and a plenty of fireworks. Dear Santa, I don't want to ask for too much. Please remember father and mother and my teacher. From your little boy,
CHAS. WILLIAM JAMES, Jr.
193 Fillmore street, Nashville.
1729 Scovel street, Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a girl thirteen years old. Please bring me a Negro doll that can open her eyes and two yards of blue ribbon. Bring me some oranges, candies, nuts and fireworks. Don't forget auntie and uncle and Grandma Dicy Ann Tucky. Please don't forget the doll that can shut and open her eyes. Your little girl,
OPHELIA TALLEY.
Nashville, Tenn
44 Robertson street, Nashville,
Tenn., Dec. 13 ,1909.
Dear Old Santa C!aus—t! thought I
would write you and tell you what I
want. Please bring me a pair of
gloves, a pai rof rubbers, apair of
skates, an umbrella and I want a Ne-
gro doll that can go to sleep. I want
some candy, nuts, oranges, raisins,
apples and lots of fireworks. Don't
forget my two sisters, mama and
papa, Your little girl,
ARGATHA PEAKES.
Cemetery ,Tenn., Dee. 12, 1909
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little
boy three years old and I have a
brother two years old, and pease
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MR. LOUIS KEEBLE THOMAS.
Among the young men of Nashville
who have proven to the world that
they are men of strong and courage
ous qualities is Louis Keeble Thomas.
This young man presented himself a
few years ago to the foreman of the
composing room of the National Bap-
tist Publishing Board as an applicant
for work. The foreman looked him
over scrutinizingly, and though his
appearance indicated his age was be-
yond the limit, there was a frankness
in the young man’s manners that ‘m-
pressed the foreman, and after apply-
ing the usual test necessary to en-
trance as an apprentice in a printing
office, he put the ~ neweomer to work.
The “old heads” in the office decided
please bring me a wagon and a drum
and bananas, whole lots of good
things to eat. Bring 1 ittle brother
some candy and any thing you select,
also a litle brother two months old,
please bring him a cap and a so, dear
Santa, please remember my little cou-
sin, William Wade. Bring him some-
thing nice. So I will close. Now I
lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord
my soul to keep. I remain ag ever
your little boys, |
BUGENE THOMAS.
WHITWORTH HAYNES.
1533 Fourteenth avenue, North,
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—You say you
will bring me nice things if I ask you.
T am a little boy not quite two years
old. Please bring me a little wagon,
a picture book, some bananas, and
anything else you ,think a little boy
ought to have. Do not forget the be-
nanas, because they are my favorite
fruit,” I will be good and love my
mother. Your little boy,
WILLIAM REEVES, Jr.
Dear Santa ‘Clang—T'am a littleb ay
eight years old. 1 will write a letter
and tel you what I want yp uto bring
me. I want a velocipede, some fire-
works, some oranges, some apples,
some candy, some raisins and some
sparklers, I remain ‘your little
friend, yTHEODORE A..FITE.
209 North Seventh street..
Dear Santa—I am a little boy three
years old and I’m worth my welght in
gold; I'm the ver¥ best of Ifttle boys,
and I want you to bring me lots of
toys. I want @ little train that goes
choo, a torn for me to blow; a little
hook and ladder too, and a pony that
will go. I want'a little dog so cute,
and a little sult that’s very neat;
some firecrackers to shoot, and a
great big drum. to beat. “Don’t forget
my little sister, Alice May, as she
just begun with me to play. So bring
her a doll buggy and candy and a
plano that will go in handy, as Christ-
mas is so very nigh, I thought to-re-
mind ‘you. to be sure and not pass me
‘by. Don’t forget my two grandmas
and my two grandpas, mother and
father. That's all. From your little
boy,)) » SAMUEL FOSTER, Jr.
‘1026 South street.
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Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little
hoy seven years old going to school
school every day and am trying to be
good so" you could come to see me
this Christmas.I want a drum, horn,
tricycle, some oranges, apples, nuts
candy. I live at 1613 State street,
so good bye. From your little boy,
JAMES BODDIF.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1909.
My Dear Santa Claus—I thought I
would write you a few lines to tell
what I want for Christmas. I want
some gloves and stocking cap and a
rreat big stove and a set of doll dish-
doll. Mister wants a doll and some
at once that it would be only a few
| days before the shop would be without
2, devil. That was December 2, 1902,
| just a little over seven years ago, and
| some of these “old heads” have drifted
to parts unknown, but a sufficient num-
| ber remain to testify to the fact that
Louis Keeble Thomas is still on to
| his job and is to-day assistant foreman
in the printing department at the Na-
tional Baptist Publishing House. He
is an example worthy of emulation by
the young men of the race, and has
| proved to one and all that success will
‘come to those who apply to one thing
‘in a persistant manner, He contem-
plates going in the commission busi-
ness this spring.
es. Please bring me a 20-inch Negro
dishes, a buggy. Don’t forget some
little poor children that live near me.
Please remember to bring every one
in family something nice. Your lit-
ue friend, Aas
AMELIA BRANSFORD.
1249 Third avenue, South.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a lit-
te girl six years old. I go to school
in the First Grade. I am very smart
in school, so 1 know you won’t mind
co m ignotesJ.sthel.. flan———hatHR
coming to see me, J wish you would
bring mea nice large doll buggy, ,a
beaver hat, a little wind up automo-
bile, some rubbers, a Ittle umbrella,
some stockings and a Negro doll, a
slate. Remember thy two grandma’s,
my four aunties, and also remember
my aunt's little girl, esecially the
baby, my uncles. ‘From your little
playmate,
MAMIE V UlRaURS
Nashville, Tenn., Dee, 12, 4909.
‘Dea rSanta—I a a little boy. seven
years’ old: Santa, pleases bring me “a
suit of clothes, shoes, wheelbarrow,
litle Negro doll, oranges, candy, nuts
and raisins. Santa, please don’t , for-
et father and. mother. Your. little
friend, ,, , J, B. FLEMMING,
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Dear Santa. Claus—I am’ a little
girl four years old and am very good.
I thought I would ask you to please
bring me’a new Negro doll anda
buggy, so my doll can ride, a set of
dishes, blackboard, because I go to
Kindergarten sehool, a doll bed and a
‘trunk, anything elsb you have that
would be’ nice for a little girl like me.
Don't forget mama, papa, grandma
and grandpa. Good bye. From your
title girl,
SADIE ARMSTRONG. »
404 Quarry street,
P. §.-I will put the fire out so you
won't gét burnt,
Nashville, Tenn., Dee, 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a Iittle girl
eight years old, have been very good
since last Christmas. I want you to
ring ‘me a Negro’ doll, a tin set of
doll dishes large enough to cook in,
since T have learned to cook so
nicely, also, Santa, if I am not asking
too much, a set-of furniture, candies,
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THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
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A toy that is going to make glad hearts in the homes
of the people this Christmas will be — ~
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The chil.ren ure now clamoring for dotls that will resemble themsclves. ‘Lhey are vo longer will-
ing to accept scare-crows ant disgraceful figures ‘They have heard that there are Negro dolls for
Negro childr u, avd lets of them are going to get tham, tis surprising to see just how eager they are
for dolis of this special make Your children ought to have one, It would be one of the fine St testi-
monials of your faith, your confilence and your value of the race to let your child know thst you
are not ashamed for it to carry a’Negro Doll in its arnis We are offering in this issue cf the Globe a
full price-list of Negro dolls which are being oli in four different classes, Read the p ice-list over
carefully, and, in ordering, please state the size, number and class of the doll wanted, and by all means
give the size and price Send in your order early and avoid the rush
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SPEGIAL PRIG: S ©N NEGRO DOLLS,
Cass A, Size. Prick. 904 ££.40 3, T6358 $2.00
No. M80 ff 12 in, $1.25 | OMe BS. 1) *$ 4.5
M-39 tf 15 : 1.75 CLass'C: Size Price.
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M45 1 8 2.75 “" guu £30.83 12. 1.00
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“M66 ff 26 6 5.25 sine i ne
“MATS fF 30% 625 Crass D. Size. Price,
“M84 ff dots 8.00 No, 95-17-83 sin $0.50
¥. M-92 ff $65." 8.50 = 95-24-38 Ay: 74 06"
Chass B. Size. Priceest i) U82G-4 ites ye
No. 900 £368 14 in, $1.50 “95 33.3 tai 1.00
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No order will be sent C. O, D..uniess a part ‘of the price accompanies the order, as iotten. people order ©. 0. ».
and donot take them from ‘the express oflice.. The company hia om deponle wt" the One Cont ee Ninna swig gs
Nasiivilte, Tenn,, suflicient tands to guarantee the return of all montes where ofters cannot Be Hlied
RESPECTFULLY
National Negro Doll Company,
R. H. BOYD, President. H. A. BOYD, Secretary.
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nuts and oranges. Good bye, Santa.
Your dear little friend,
CLARINDA DE YEARGIN.
2020 Jefferson street.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909.
Dear Santa—I am a ilttle boy four
years old. I have not been very good
but [ hope you will not forget me.
I want a suit of clothes, an overcoat,
a train and track,*wagon, gun and a
wheelbarrow, also candies, oranges,
and nuts. 1 will wait up for you and
let you in. Bye bye. Your friend,
HENRY YDARGAN,
2020 Jefferson street.
Dear Santa Claus—I am a little
girl five years. old. My baby sister
is just one year old. Please bring
me a reé coat, a belt, some mittens,
a piano with twenty-four keys and a
doll, bring my baby sister a dol! and
some hard bottom shoes. Please
bring papa some sox. He lost his
when you came one Christmas. San-
ta-don’t forget mama, my two grand-
mas, my aunties and other sisters.
MARTHA FRDEMAN.
P. S. Santa, [ know you will please
bring a lot of goodies to eat;
Centerville, Tenn, Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—{ will write you a
letter to tell you what I want you to
bring. me. I am a little girl twelve
years old, I want you to bring me a
Negro doll, a nice book, some apples,
oranges, candy and nuts of all kinds,
and anything else you think would be
nice for a little girl like me, 1-go, to
school every day. I have sucti-a good
teacher his name is Prof, T. J. Clinis-
son, Please don’t forget to bring him
something nice. Now this is all.
From
MARY, L. RHOLSTON,
South Pittsburg, Tenn., Dec. 11,
1909, Dear Santa Claus—I am a lit-
tle boy six years old. 1 have been a
good boy all the year and am expect-
ing some nice presents for. Christmas
and ‘especially a horn. IT have a lit-
tle_sister. three years old, her name
is Eula -Albertha. She has been a
very good girl. ‘The biggést fault I
find of her she wants.all my play toys.
Please’ bring her a Negro. doll and
some Cagdy. Please .remember my
two older brothers, Buford and Mary-
land also my papa and mama. Good
by Santa. Your friend as ever,
MASTER JULIAN MARTIN.
P, Box No, 95, Pittsburg.
Rural Route No. 11, Box No. 6,
Lewisburg, ‘Tenn. Dec. 13, 1909,
Dear Old Santa Claus—In imagination
I hear the tinkling of your sleigh
bells and see your wagon well filled
with good things for your many an-
xious friends. 1 don’t want to appear
selfish, so I want to call your atten-
tion to some of my little friends.
Please fill the stockings of Ida B.
Anderson and Mattie Dysart full of
good things; bring Mr. R. J. Smiley
what he wants. I know what it is
‘but I'm afraid to tell. And, Santa
please bring me a colored doll, dish-
es, trunk, doll bed and organ. Bring
me a story book and all nice things to
eat, Bring mother and father some-
thing, and bring my sister a diction-
ary, Be sure Santa, to impress: ev-
erybody with the thought. that it is
more blessed to give than to receive
and that I am receiving this Christ-
mas, I promise to be a good little
girl all next year. i
PAULINE DUNCAN,
P. S—Don't forget Vertes Duncai.
Dear Santa—I-ama little girl two
and one-lialf years old. Please: bring
me a little red wrap, rubber doll, can-
dy, oranges and apples. “Leave them
at my aunty’s house, Bmma Jackson,
921 Pearl street.
| LITTLE JENNIE WINSETT.
Dear Santa—i am a little girl four
years old. I want you to bring me a
dress, candy, nuts, apples and or-
anges. Santa, I have every «thing
else. Bring them to Judge's house
where I stay, 921 Pearl street. Bye
bye, Santa, Little i
| MAY BULA SWEENEY:
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I go to rchoo!
every, day and I am in the third A
grade, I have been a good girl all
the year, I. want you to bring me
something nice.” I live at 1912 More:
na street,
HERR SSR
Dear Santa ‘Claus—I am ‘a ‘little
boy seven years. old and T go to
school. Please bring me a wagon, an
air gun, a pair of shoes, an overcoat
and a lot of good .things to eat. Don’t
forget my teacher, bring her some-
thing nice, and don’t forget my little
School mates and my little cousin,
Roosevelt, who lives in New Town.
Your friend
EUGENE FUGETT.
713 Bighteenth avenue, North,
Nashville, Tenn. Dear Santa
Claus—I am a little girl nine years
old, I am in the third grade. I have
tried to be a good litte girl. Santa,
I wish you to bring me anything that
is nice for a little girl. Remember
bring us all something nice.
JESSE MAI BRANSFORD.
1249 Third avenue, South.
Pulaski, Tenn., December 12, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am 4 little
girl nine years o'd. I go to school
each day. Please don’t forget to
bring me something Christmas.
Please bring me a long red cloak, a
Teddy bear, some dishes, a patent
leather hat, some fireworks, some
chocolate candy, raisins, oranges and
applese Please don’t forget my little
cousin, John; he lives with me. .
Your little friend, et
Nashville, Tenn., December 12, 1909,
Dear Santa’ Claus—I am a boy twelye
years old. I go to school every day.
Tam in the fourth B grade, I try to
do right. I want you to bring me
something nice.
CHARLES PERKINS.
I live at 1912 Morena street,
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1909,
Dear Old Santa Claus— have been @
very good girl. I thought I would
write to you to let you know what 1
want you to bring me. J want a Ne
gro doll that can open and shut her
eyes, with dark hair, a bow! and pitch:
er for my doll. I want some candy
and apples,” oranges, nuts, fire crack+
ers, torpedos and some Roman can-
nons. I-have been going to school ey-
ety day, atid in the fourth grade, [
am ten years old, and dear ld Santa
Please remember ty aunt Jessie and
Hattie. Yours truly,
WILLIE FRAZIBR RUCKER.
Dear Old Santa Claus—Please bring
me some nice things“for Christmas, I
am a good little girl seven years old:
and I go to school:and love my ‘teach-
er, I wanti.a, ring, ay braclet, a red,
coat, @ pair, of tan shoes, some. furs
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, RH. BOYD, President. H. A, BOYD, Manager.
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PUBLICATION three wise men in search of the of the people toward them.
; jchild, Jesus, Just above this in clear eae
i type is the word, Peace. It contains! ne December edition of the Teach
REVIEWS: a sacred cantata known as “The) or, one of the periodicals published
Prophecy and Advent of Christ,” and)» the National Baptist Publishing
The December or Christmas number
of Hope appears this week in a bright
green cover. Hope is edited by Miss
Joanna P. Moore, at 513 Mulberry
street, Nashville, This issue is No. 4
of the twenty-fifth volume of this pub-
lication, Few periodicals devoted en-
tirely to the religious side of life are
as well known to the reading public
as Hope and its editor, an attractive
feature of which is its Bible Band
Lessons, Thousands of Christian peo:
ple find their daily home readings and
prayer topies in this periodical. It
-also contains a Sunshine Corner, con-
ducted by Miss Florence Purnett, for
fathers and mothers to read with their
children, and no doubt, for the month
of Becember quite a number of chil-
dren will be entertained from this cor-
ner,
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The twenty-sixth volume, Number 2,
‘of the A.M. B. Church Review is out
‘The Review has been issued with such
constancy -and precision that it ap
pears now as one of the oldest and
best known periodicals of this coun
try. It 18 édited by Rev. H. T. Keal
ing, A. M,, being & quarterly publica
tion of the African Methodist Bpisco
pal Church, The Review always
abounds in well-written, - important
contributed articles. One of the tm
‘portant contributions to the Octobe
number was an article’ on “Race Seg
regation” by Bishoy Holsey, Sento:
Bishdp of the Colored Methodist Epis
copal Church, written. at the reques
of the Review, and giving the Bishop’
views with strength and clearness
Another important article appears un
der the caption of “Self-Help in th
Public Schools.” This is the secon
paper on this subject that has ap
peared and takes up to a large extent
the financial management and run
ning of many schools in the variow
states. %
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“Christmas Greetings . prepared _b;
Mrs. Lula’ Boyd-Landers for’ ‘the Na
“tional, Baptist Publishing Board ‘{
out in a new dress, being printed 1
three colors» ‘The frontispiece, whic!
- {s very striking, shows the bright sta
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
Macteate& leat Mestetetetedertertetetetedeaterts ny one address |
of Bethlehem, and under its rays the
three wise men in search of the
child, Jesus. Just above this in clear
type is the word, Peace, It contains
a sacred cantata known as “The
Prophecy and Advent of Christ,” and
abounds with music suitable for
Christmas exercises. The music is
from the selections of J, H. Carter
and the late Wm, Rosborough.
ses
‘The Ulinois Chronicle, a weekly sec-
ular publication, is an addition to Chi-
cago’s newspaper world. It appears
to be brimfal of interesting happen-
ings in-and about that great city. It
gives full accounts of the church news
and religious happenings, and is edited
by A. N. Fields.
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The American Baptist, one of the
oldest religious publicagions among
the Negro Baptists, edited by. Pro.
Wm. Steward, Louisville, Ky., contin-
‘ues to come out as it_has been doing
for the past quartor of a century. At
_ono time the American Baptist was re:
‘garded as the official organ of the
National Baptist Convention, but of
‘recent years it has been confined al-
most strictly to the state-of Kentuchy,
pt is read nearly all over the United
States, especially by the Kentuckians,
| who are seattered in different sections
of the United States,
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Among the many publications of a
rligious nature that are appearing
| Weekly, there seems to be none mor
| worthy than the Southwestern Chris
| tian Recorder published by the AM
1. Church, with headquarters at Co
‘Iumbus, Ga., edited by Rey. Georg:
W. Allen, D. D. This: publication
covers a large portion of the Southert
States and is sald‘to ‘be more gen
[erally sought after than ‘the mothe
paper, the Christian Recorder whiect
is published from Philadelphia
‘These two publications ta thew cou
| bined civeulation make up, what thel
chureh holds to be an enviable recor
and a splandid array of Journalisti
force,
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| The magazines of which .the raci
can boast as appearing regularly ar
Jabout three, viz.; McGirt's Magazine
of Philadelphia; Alexander's Maga
|aine, of Boston, and the Colore
| American, ‘These three publication:
| can be relied upon to furnish interest
| ing “reading matter to thousands 0
| eager readurs, ‘They have been able t
'| continue their publications in spite d
apparent apathy on the part of some
of the people toward them.
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The Degember edition of the Teach-
er, one of the periodicals published
by the National Baptist Publishing
Board, is out in three bright colors. The
magazine is used exclusively for Sun-
day-school folks and those interested in
Sunday-school work. This month it
contains sixty-four pages and has the
usual amount of important informa-
tion upon Sunday-school work. ‘The
‘Truths Gleaned from the Lesson, With
the Primary Teacher, and the Oriental
Lights, and Hditorial Reflections, har
monize beautifully with all the De-
cember lessons, This publication has
‘an enormous circulation, The con-
‘tributors for the Teacher are made up
of notable writers, authors and library
men from the various parts of the
United , States. Noticeable among
them ‘are Rey. C. H. Parrish, D. D.
President of Eckstein-Norton Univers:
itv, Cane Springs, Ky,; Rev. J. T
Brown, A. M.S. T. B, Texas; Rev
H, C. Bailey; D. D.; Rev. W. F. Gra
ham, D, D., of Richmond, Va.; and
| Rey. J. B, Beckham, of Denver, Colo
| Other writers are contributing month
ly to this periodical.
‘The Louisiana Baptist, published at
Alexander, La,, and long ago regarded
as the official organ of the Negro
Baptists of the state of Louisiana, is
in its twelfth volume. This paper
keeps stp with and chronicles. the do-
ings of the denomination in that great
state. It has-as one of its mottos,
“Ye are one in Christ” from Gal 8:38,
It is strong in its advocaty of the
work of the National Baptist Conven-
tion.
Publications and Book Notes.
The National Baptist Sunday-school
Commentary on the international les-
sons for-1J10 will be ready for mail-
ing about December 15. Bach edition
of this book has shown improvement
over the others, so 1910 comes in with
its share of improvements in contents
as well as being the largest edition
on the first run of this book eve
published, 8,000 copies. It. 1s ' pleas-
‘ing for us to note how fast it is find-
ing its way into the Baptist Sunday-
sphools. No'up-to-date pastor, Sunday-
school superintendent, or teacher can
well ‘afford to be without it.” The
price’ of single ‘copies is. 75 cents.
When ‘sold ‘in lots of five or more to
[OO CRE UO ee ae eee re a:
lots of five or more to any address by
express, not pala 8 Kid per copy.
| Christmas holidays are fast ap-)
proaching. We are prepared to han- ’
dle the business, so let your order
come.
see
One of the latest things in the way
of Christmas exercises in the Proph-
ecy and Advent of Christ, a Biblical
cantata in two acts, by Mrs. Lula J.
Landers. We are mailing orders as
fast as they are received. The price
is 35 cents per dozen or $3.00 per
hundred,
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One of the most helpful little books
that we have ever been able to pre-
sent to the ministers is now ready,
the title of which is Preacher's Text|
and Topic Book, together with one|
hundred ordination questions, by Rev. |
"H. M, Williams. The price is 26 cents |
. per copy.* |
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Our line of juvenile books —this|
year is the best we have ever carried |
, in stock. Parents are oftentimes the
cause of children not possessing the
’ love for higher literature. The little
» mind must be supplied. It is better
for you to do the selecting than the
> child. See to it that such books are
, given them that will inspire them to
a higher and nobler life, We will
> present a part of our list as follows:
> Bible Lesson Stories, illustrated, 15e;
, All Sorts of Animals, illustrated, six-
ten pages, 20e; Child's Bible Alpha-
* bet, illustrated, sixteen pages, 20¢;
» Bible Stories, illustrated, Old Testa-
. ment series, 10c each, $1.00 per dozen;
> Uncle Tom, illustrated, large clear
> print, 50¢; Life of Christ, Daniel,
, Joseph or Queen Esther, illustrated,
” the; Holy War, by Bunyan, 50c;
% Pilgrim’s Progress, illustrated, 75 ¢.;
» Little Brother James, Hc; Prince of
; House David, 50e; Jimmie Moore, of
” Bucktown, 7e; Kept for the Master's
% Use, Tbe; Mother Goose and Fairy:
> land, $1.00; What a Young Boy Ought
” to Know, $1.00; What a Young Girl
> Ought to Know, $1.00; Major's Do
% ings, 7he; Kitty Boy's Christmas, 50¢;
y Pussy Meow, 50c; Worth His While
. 50c; Shaggy Coat, 50c; as well as 4
’ compete line of Paul Laurence Dun
S bar's works, varying In price from
* $1.00 to $1.50 per volume. We have
few copies of “The Uncatled,” price
$1.50, This book is out of print
s, Any one desiring a complete series
x” and not this edition, we would advisi
“> that they order at once, as the num
"ber is less then a half dozen.
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“| “Out of the Darkness, or Diabolisn
1@ and Destiny,” by J. W. Grant, A. M.
| LL. B., is the latest race book fron
‘the press. Its steady sale is a goo
n. sign that its author has given some
ny thing worth while reading in in
terest of the Negro race. Send order
gto the Publishing Board. The ptic
© is $1.10 per copy.*
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Tel the, revised edition of “How | t
ng) Preach with Power” is out. Order
can be filled. The price is $1.50.
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I | Sourgeon’'s Select Sermons 0
at| Notes, that we have, been selling a
wr| the reduced price of $3.25. per sel
Je, | four volumes, will no longer be sol
at this price. ‘The price from now 0
5) Will be $4.00 per set, express charge
| extra. eee
Ty , Orders for J.P. & B. Commentarts
ha| from now on, we will ot be able t
ng | fill, as the book is out of print.*
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|Our line of Christmas eards an
"| post-eards is the Inrgest variety th
ey,| can be found anywhere. We hay
ray) Christmes cards ranging in price fro
nd) 1¢ t0 25¢3 post cards from Je each |
To, | 15¢ each. cata
th.| We can supply you with anythi
wm") you desire for your Christmas deco
‘ations, Ses adds In quarterlies. .
you do not find what is . wante
at| Write us for cireulars or state what
jed| wanted, and we will quote prices.*
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“fs| ‘The Bareca’ and Philathea cla
perg.system is fast finding its way into tl
do- gunday-schools, Schools that ba
eat) aopied it report daily of the inerea
1os,| of attendants among the adults.
98.| carry a full line of these goods as wi
the|as circulars, If you are interest
en-| in’ this movement, write us for inf
» | mation.*
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MR. HILL WINS DEBATE.
ool| Ann Arbor, Mich,, Dec, 19, 1909.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec, 19, 1909.—
Richard Hill, Jr, a second year law
student at the University of Micht-
gan, Ann Arbor, is making quite a
record at that institution. In a de-
bate recently held there his team
won first honors, In voting for the
best debater for the evening the
judges unanimously voted for Mr.
Hill fn ‘both logic and delivery, and
Prof. Hollister one of the instructors
declared that it, was due to Mr. Hill's
efforts that the negative team ‘won.
Mr, Hill is a Nashville boy arid is the
son of Mr. Richard Hill, who is one
of the leading-“business men of that
city. a #
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Richard Hit, Jr's. success is the
more significant when :t is taken im
account that the University of Micke
igan has a law department that ranks
with any in this country.
THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS
OR OUR DUTY TO GOD.
By Ben P. Fowlkes.
To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
If you like t write and tell me 903
(It matters not just who)
You can help me to accomplish
Other works 1 aim to do,
You can never help a struggler,
if the tokens you all save
And try to demonstrate 10
By the flowers on his grave.
We are glad to met our friends again
On this Thanksgiving Day,
To pay our Father tribute
In a many a different way,
We owe Him for the sunshine
And we owe Him for the rain,
We owe hima for our losses
And we owe Him for our gain.
We owe Him for each passing breeze,
Whether ferce or calm
Because He hides us ‘neath His wing,
Securely from all harm,
We owe Him for the blessed spring
And for the golden fall;
We owe him for atoning blood
| “Indeed we owe Him all!”
| We owe Him for that precious bloed,
Which flowed on calvary
| "That from the cruel jaws of death,
| We rebels might be free.
We owe Him for the plans of gracs
And all so freely given
That when we end our mission bere
We enter home (in heaven).
Therefore we meet this afternoon,
On this Thanksgiving Day;
‘To lay our trophies at His feet,
“And bow our heads and pray.
He's kept us safe another year,
Securely from all harm
| Though great has been the conflict,
And sévere has been the storm.
Tho gteat have been the sorrows
And the burdens we have borne,
Yet not one singlé moment,
Has He ever left us’ ‘lone.
| In the deepest hour of miduight,
| When we're lost in dark dispair,
| When foes oppress us all around,
| We've always found Him there.
‘| $o let us, men and brethren
‘| Give Him thanks just as we should;
> Let us praise him and adore Him,
"| All because the Lord is good.
| 4 136 Psalms,
1 Let us praise Him for His goodness
:| That with every moment rolls;
1 And because He is our captain,
L And the guardian of our souls,
“| pon't you hear Him pleading
3! From His blessed home above,
°/“T have paid the debt, Oh don’t
1 forget, +
|My allatoning love.”
»/Oh, do not be forgetful
8) How He guides you with His care
| But bow and give Him rey’rence
| In the deepest.sense of prayer.
a ‘
t) Then thank Him for His justice,
| For his wond’rous love ond truth
d| ‘Thank him for your silv'ry locks,
n And thank “him for your youth;
S Thank him ‘cause he's with you
| Both in sorrow snd distress
3, And lulls your troubled spirit _
i To him home forever West. -
|0 give thanks unto the Lord,
d| And sing hjs praises ever
tt Because his mercy doth endure
i Forever and forever.
m| Let every tribe and nations all,
19) His hlessedness proclaim
| With all their mind and soul and
S|» might,
rt Sing praise to-his name,
| ;
1,| Praise his name, in sorrow
‘| And in sickness, and dfctress,
|.And praise him in. adversities:
| If you would. enter into. rest.
ss If you would meet your friends gone
he forth
ve| To sin and sigh ho more,
se: You'll surely: have to tune your harp
a In this dark vale below. “+ ,
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ed _ ATTENTION, MAMA!
| De Ghrismus times ane: iB,
Er time fer noniroea
[ant yer buy der alleyer-@hiituns
Pr lot ob worthless “toys.
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ATENTION, CHILDREN.
Ax Mama dis question:
“Mamma dear, if T be good,
An’ ‘bring in coal and kindling wood;
And-comb my hair ‘and wash my. face,
And keep new life about the: place;
And do my house work by the rule,
Before I leave and go to school;
And: be as nice-as E can be;
Mama, will you buy: for me
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JACK JOHNSON'S EARLY CAREER
By the end of March, 1905, John Arthur Johnson had skimmed all the cream off his pugilistic milk, and it wasn't such rich milk to begin with. Coming down to cases, Jack Johnson was never a big money getter. The men who might have drawn bis money men who might ave drawn big money with him would not fight the Negro, and the men who were willing to battle with hams like Sandy Ferguson, who would fight a grizzly bear for $10, split 50 and 50.
With the fight clubs of the Pacific Coast scaled up against him, poor old Johnson saw that he had to fight for a living. He went back to fighting for a meal ticket, and Philadelphia, the meal-ticket town, was the point of his attack.
"Awful rotten fight town," said John Arthur meditatively. "First night I was there I went to a fight. Stood near the box office. Along came a hot sport. Laid down 25 cents in pennies. Sald to the man, 'Give me a good seat.' An' I be doggoned if he don't give it to him! That was certainly awfully funny to me, comin' from a place where a man couldn't git his nose in the door for less'n a silvah dollar!"
But this was the sort of a game that Jack Johnson was up against and he played it off the boards. Instead of getting $1,000 for his end he got a small wad of Kansas City currency when the show was over. It was cents, where it used to be dollars.
Very well, thought Mr. Johnson, there's one way to beat this game and that is to fight often enough. So he got very busy.
On April 25 Johnson fought a large lump of Rocquefort, who called himself Jim Jeffords, and probably got a little cheap notoriety in the bush circuit because his name sounded like "Jim Jeffries." The resemblance ended with the name, however. Johnson followed his usual custom; he fought a good fight first, for he was anxious to make himself a drawing card in Philadelphia. He rocked Mr. Jeffords to sleep in four rounds, and should have done the trick in one.
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Eight days afterward, when the money had given out, Johnson had another battle, this time with Black Bill, who was all that and then some. Black Bill did not last the limit, and again Johnson's stock went kiting. He was beginning to be known in Philadelphia.
Because he had whipped two men inside the Philadelphia limit he was regarded as a bear and had to meet two men the next time out, and this time he split the performance. He knocked out the first man in three rounds, but the second one happened to be a large coon named Joe Jeanette, whom Johnson was fated to know better later on, and Joe stayed. Joe was due to become John Arthur's meal (ticket and John Arthur was destined to become Joe's meal ticket. Whenever Johnson could not find a man who was willing to fight him he picked up Joe Jeanette and fought Joe a limited round contest.
Johnson was very economical. He didn't waste Joe. A thoughtless walloper would have torn Joe's head off some night in a fit of temporary forgetfulness, but Johnson kept his wits about him. Jeanette was just like so many pork chops to Johnson. Once Johnson fouled Joe and thus lost a decision, but in the main he handled the big mulatto with much consideration. If you punch a meal ticket full of holes the time comes when it will buy you nothing. This double bill came off six days after the Black Bill massacre.
Then Johnson rested and ate pork chops and asked managers how about it?
In July he had another clance at a double bill, and this time he drew in against as smoky a brace of blackbirds as might well be imagined. One of them was Morris Harris, who is still pesticating around the East, and the other was his old pal, Black Bill, back for some more of the medicine.
Pursuing the usual system, Johnson "tore off" Morris Harris, who was first up, laying him down to sleep in three rounds. Then he saved Black Bill, thinking he might be able to use him again. He was able.
Along came Jack Monroe, fresh from the great distinction of having made the rottenest fight against Jeffries ever seen in any part of the country. Now, Johnson should have been able to tear off Mr. Monroe with about two healthy wallops, but he tooyed with him instead and men were on their feet at the end of six rounds. Johnson then did a little of quick travelling, going over to Chelsea, where he hooked up with another gentleman who he had laid away for future reference, no other than that grand old warrior, Sam Ferguson. This time Jack, in a new town and anxious to
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1909
make a showing, larruped Mr. Sandy unmercifully, and Sandy, not relishing the lacing, prodded Johnson outside the limit and was disqualified. Thus ended the fifth lesson. Have patience, for Johnson comes into Tommy Burn's own in the sixth.
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Young Pierce, the Philadelphia colored batam weight, is very likely to meet Digger Stanley—Jimmy Walsh's arch enemy—in a twenty-round bout for a $1,000 side bet and a purse offered by the National Sporting Club. Pierce arrived here only recently in company with Alfred Dunn, his manager, and at once showed that he was here for business by posting a fifty-pound forfeit for a match with Stanley. Pierce, by the way, was in England two years ago, and at that time had a bout with Owen Moran in Liverpool, but it was not until the seventeenth round that Moran was able to end the contest.
Both men feel that such a match would put them in line for higher honors and, in agreeing to terms, will doubtless have as much thought of the future as to the outcome of the bout itself. Pierce's manager claims that a win over Stanley would put his percentage in line to demand a fight with Jimmy Walsh and some of the other bantam-weight claimants upon his return to America. He asserts that he has had a deposit up with a Philadelphia paper for several months to bind a match with Jimmy Walsh or any of the others in young Pierce's class, but that all have drawn the color line. Stanley, on the other hand, feels that to defeat Pierce would give him a reasonable excuse for traveling to the States and possibly meeting Jimmy Walsh in Boston. Piedce claims to have twice won over Jimmy Walsh and once from Al Delmont, both of whom have been seen in action upon this side.
It is really surprising that Digger Stanley has not joined the number of English fighters to emigrate to the States. Stanley, a capital fellow personally, underestimates his own drawing power in the United States. That he could get a match with Jimmy Walsh immediately he landed on American soil is certain, and the Armory Athletic Club, of Boston, would surely be a bidder for that mill, Walsh himself hailing from Boston. The fact that Stanley and Walsh have thrice fought before the National Sporting Club—the last time being on the night of the Langford-Hague bout last spring—and that they are about as evenly matched as it is possible for two boxers to be, would insure the best sort of a contest from the very upset.
CRISPUS ATTUCKS.
By John Boyle O'Reilly.
Not so! not so! Till the world is done,
the shadow of wrong is dread;
The crowd that bends to a lord to-day, to-morrow shall strike him dead.
There is only one thing changeless:
the earth steals from under our feet,
The times and manners are passing moods, and the laws are incomplete;
There is only one thing changes not,
one word that still survives—
The slave is the wretch who wields the lash, and not the man in gyves!
There is only test of contract: is it willing, is it good?
There is never a mind unchained and true that class or race allows;
There is never a law to be obeyed that reason disavows,
There is never a legal sin but grows to the law's disaster,
The master shall drop the whip, and the slave shall enslave the master!
O, Plant of seed and thought and deed has the year of right revolved.
And brought the Negro patriot's cause with its problem to be solved?
His blood streamed first for the building, and through all the century's years.
Our growth of story and fame of glory are mixed with his blood and tears.
He lived with men like a soul condemned—derided, defamed, and mute;
Debased to the brutal level, and instructed to be a brute.
His virtue was shorn of benefit, his industry of reward;
His love!—O men, it were mercy to have cut affection's cord;
Through the night of his woe, no pity save that of his fellow-slave;
For the wage of his priceless labor, the scourging block and the grave!
And now, is the tree to blosom? Is the bowl of agony filled?
Shall the price be paid, and the honor said, and the word of outrage stilled?
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul?
That the health of the nation is peri- lled if one man be oppressed?
Has he learned—the slave from the rice-swamps, whose children were sold—has he,
With broken chains on his limbs, and the cry in his blood, "I am free!"
Has he learned through affliction's teaching what our Crispus Attucks knew—
When Right is stricken, the white and black are counted as one, not two?
Has he learned that his century of grief was worth a thousand years
In blending his life and blood with ours and that all his toils and tears
Were heaped and poured on him, sud-
denly, to give him a right to
stand
From the gloom of African forests,
in the blaze of the freest land?
That his hundred years have earned
for him a place in the human
van.
Which others have fought for and
thought for since the world of
wrong began?
For this, shall he set his woeful past afloat, on the stream of night;
For this, he forgets as we all forget when darkness turns to light;
For this, he forgives as we all forgive when wrong has changed to right.
God made mankind to be one in blood, as one in spirit and thought;
And so great a boon, by a brave man's death, is never dearly bought!
PHYLLIIS WHEATLEY PREPAR
ING BASKETS FOR THE POOR.
The Phyllis Wheatley Club is busy getting ready to send out baskets of food and clothes to the poor, sick and aged. We hope to be able to carry sunshine, help and Christmas cheer into a number of homes. On account of the great rush and bustle the first of the Christmas the club will do its work at the regular meeting, Thursday, December 30th. All members of the club will meet at St. Paul A. M. E. Church, Thursday, December 30th, at 3 o'clock. All the baskets will be filled and sent out from there to the different homes in the different parts of the city bearing Christmas greeting from Phyllis Wheatley Club. All friends from all the churches and clubs are asked to help in this work. Anything that is donated will be judiciously and properly distributed. The Phyllis Wheatley Club stands a friend to the poor, sick and aged. The club is undenominational, being composed of some of the very best women of the different churches and distributes its charity wherever it is needed most.
MRS. G. L. JACKSON, President.
MRS. L. H. HALE, Secretary.
MRS. J. H. HALL, Secretary
MRS. FANNY THOMPSON, Chairman Executive Board.
HOW WOMAN CAN BEST HELP MAN.
By N. E. King.
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth multiplying and replenishing it with every creeping thing, fowls of the air, trees and everything green and rested on the seventh day, he saw that there was not a man to till the earth, so he created Adam and placed him in the garden of Eden, where there was everything necessary for his existence. When this was completed the Lord looked at Adam in pity and said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him." In his infinite wisdom he caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam, while asleep he took one of his ribs out of which he made his masterpiece—woman—a help meet for Adam, a companion. Since that time men and women have constituted the characters in the drama of life.
The realm of man is that of power, while that of woman is love, that is, man has strength, while woman is love; he is power and thought, she is love and thought. In strength of intellectual efforts they are equals for each other. In thought, correct observation and close analysis they compare as peerless, kings and queens of earth. Though equal in some respects, yet they are different. Woman is quicker, more sagacious and intuitive, and this difference adapts them to each other;
when united they make each other stronger and more useful.
Men are as mere clay in the potter's hand and women may well be called the potters. A woman is full of brightness and her life is radiant with smiles. A woman's smiles are always inspiration to men. They are to him a mountain rill that has just left its bubbling source, laughing and dancing amid the beauty and freshness of the scenery, kissing the flowers that dip their fragrant lips in its lucid waters and smiling in glad sunshine, before it reaches the great ocean of life. This freshness and gladness so inherent in woman are imparted to the man and charm and add to his life. The outgoing gladsomeness, subdued by experience into a refined and happy tenderness, is like flowers and fruit dallying amid the foliage of the same bough. Like the single star which appears at early twilight in the clear blue sky the women are pursuing their silent but unvarying course. unknown and unnoticed by the world.
Inspiration, one of the greatest powers in the world, is the highest and most excellent lever on earth and as the mere presense of women lends inspiration to any cause then let them continue to inspire. This, though little, may seem insignificant; some thoughtful bard has expressed the value of little service in the following:
"I heard it on the meadow path!
I heard it on the mountain stain
The best things any mortal hath
Are those which every man may share."
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Howard University Law School.
Howard University Law School.
It is an open secret that the Law School of Howard University is a part of the University in name only. The President does not think much of the Negro lawyer. There is an element of independence in the lawyer that seemeth very ungodly to the Rev. Dr. Thirkield, hence he has but little if any sympathy with Howard Law School and the faculty thereof. Recently it has been insistently circulated that there would be one or two vacancies in the law faculty and the President has his candidates already selected to fill the vacancy or vacancies.
Of course this is the President's high prerogative, and doubtless he will use it should the occasion arise; but in the name of fairness and justice, if President Thirkield names men who are already employed by the Government and throttles the voice of the law alumni, he will raise a storm of protest around his devoted head that will make a Washington storm seem something like the mild zephers from an electric fan.
With an alumni covering the country; with men of ability and fame; with men who have given their lives to the actual practice of the law; with men who have clients who have and are trying and winning cases; with men of brains, activity and thought here in Washington and elsewhere, there is no need for Dr. Thirkield selecting as teachers of law men who are already in office, and men who have shown an ability in the field of law. It will pay the President of Howard University to make haste slowly, very slowly, in this matter—Washington Bee.
MYRTLE LEAF CLUB.
The Myrtle Leaf Art Club met at the home of Mrs. H. T. Carter 1406 1-2 Jackson street. The Club is progressing nicely. The Instructor, Mrs. J. C. Brow, was absent, but each and every member did all that was in her power to help the other. After the business of the meeting, the members were ushered in to
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Rocks are doing for me, and will do with the proper care and treatment the same for your Either will fill the bill, so let your selection be only a matter of color and the bird. Lagger shipped to all parts of the country, they hatch just the same, distance not considered. Eggs for sale at all times. Let me book your order for an early shipment, earlier the hatch better the results. Write for prices and catalogue, also information as to stock for sale if wanted.
THE LANDERS POULTRY PEN,
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supper by the hostess. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. G. W. Perry, 929 Pearl street, Wednesday, December 15, 1909.
ABRAHAM STORMING CIRCLE
The Abraham Storming Circle met at the residence of Mrs. Emma Bell, 629 Wood street. A talk for the good of the Circle was made by Rev. W. J. Bangus. Song and prayer by Bro. T. W. Ray. A collection of $14.65 was taken in the Circle. The Circle will meet with Mrs. Annie Holt, of 613 Bass street. Refreshments were served.
YOUNGER SET ENTERTAIN.
The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Watkins, at 1810 Jefferson street, was opened to the younger set Friday night, December 3. The house was beautifully decorated with red and white, while in the dining-room were cut flowers and ferns. The table decorations were a beautiful lunch cover of French battenburg and two cut glass flower vases filled with red and white carnations set in brass jardinieres. The menu set in was a tempting one was enjoyed by all. Salmon salad, ham sandwiches, pickles, orange, cherry frappe and cream. Dancing and card playing were the leading features of the evening. Those to enjoy the occasion were Messrs. William Woodfolk, Joe Johnson, Charles Lowe, John Anderson, Leroy Barnes, Howard Watkins, Fred Lipscomb, Andrew Johnson, John B. Stockell, Tommie Stockell, Eugene Evans, Allen Carter, Ed Watkins, Bruce Reynolds, D. R. Murray, Alri L. Moore, Edward D. Harris, Misses Alma Dillhunter, Cora Campbell, Jimmetta McEwen, Allie Brown, Lille Moore, Bennetta Fosten, Mary Merrill, Louise Johnson, Alberta Watkins, Leona Watkins, Mr. Isaac Watkins, Mesdames Hayes and Yorke.
SUBSCRIBERS AND CORRESPONDENTS TAKE NOTICE.
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We want the news from every community each week, but we will not need it unless there are people in that community who are de irous of reading the news that tells what they are doing. We know that when people have news put in the paper about themselves they want to read it after it is put in the paper, and they would rather pay their money to the reporter than any one else, because they know he is the one who will look after the news about them.
We must have an agent in every city, town and community in this State. To accomplish this we have decided that every correspondent must be an agent. So hereafter each one sending news must also send subscribers for the Globe. We have the names of a number of persons whose subscriptions will soon expire. Any one desiring to become an agent and correspondent, write us at once and we will send you a list to work by. All delinquent subscribers are being dropped from our list, which makes it a very opportune time to begin.
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LADIES’ EDUCATIONAL CLUB. |SEVENTEEN YEARS OF CON,| Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 15, 1909.|
Mrs, Emma Walton was hostess of STANT SERVICE. Dear Santa Claus—I have been a very
a charming meeting of the Ladies’ good little girl this year and I want .
Educational Club Monday afternoon cesetiqnot. from Fase 1.) you to bring me a rubber dollle and '
at her home, 607 Ramsey street, Hast | Oldest pastor, showing that from a) some little shoes for her and please ris mas u es
Nashville. A large number of the | basement, unfinished, he has built the don't forget my little playmate, Ode-
members responded to the roll call.| magnificent edifice at a cost of more lia Adams, io bring her something and oOo
After busines was transacted the | than $30,000 unincumbered, and from; John B. Stockell, he wants you to
guests were invited to the dining-| scattering three hundred members,| bring him a rocking horse and nis| on
room, where a salad and ice course | he has added something like thirteen brother Fulton, a wagon to bring in What would b
Was served. Mrs. Laura Crutchfield | hundred. While the Sunday-school stove wood. Your friend, ‘Oe
{will entertain the club on December | has come up from sixty-five to an en-| WILLIE B .KINZER. On useful and more ;
20th, rollment of five hundred. Numerous| 190$ Heffernan street. nd foe a de
z aa auxiliaries, working untiringly and, oe O» ated for a bet
Subecri effectively, have been organized to fur-| Dear Old Santa—Please bring me a ‘Oo Ser than @ DA
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and gloves and a little pocket book
and a lot of geod things to eat, So I
will close your friend, 5
CLARA ALUEN, -
713 1-2 Bighteen avenue, North.
P. S—Don’t forget my little cousin
Walter Miller at Murfreesboro,
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a lit-
tle girl three years old. 1 want you
to bring me a Negro doll, doll buggy
carriage, A, B, C blocks, stove and
everything good to eat. Now old Santa
WoL “joRI0f },u 9p osveyd ‘snvg
your little friend,
NATSY RETIN NnNonsow.
Pulaski, Tenn Dec. 12, — 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—I am a little
boy ten months old. As this is. my
first Christmas 1 wont ask for much.
Please bring me a rocking horse,
‘some blocks, a nice little cap, some
oranges and candy and don’t forget
my little cousin Toreda, she igs look-
ing for you too, Your little new
friend, *
JOHN OLIVER McDONALD,
Dear Old Santa (laus—I ,am here
again this winter and please remem
ber me. I ama little girkone year
old. Please bring mea Negro doll, cap,
dress and anything else that would
suit a little girl like me. From your
little friend,
KATHRRINE SOPHRONIA DODSON,
1734 Jefferson street.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1909,
Dear Santa Claus—As_ time -is ap-
proaching near for you to visit your
good friends I don’t want to be left
out as I haye been very good all of
the year. As the “panic” {s on I
don’t want very much, only a set of
tin dishes, a piano, a stove and a
large Negro doll. Be sure and bring
along something niee to eat, Yours
LOTTIE BALL.
want many toys, for mama has bought
me some, and [ have some left from
last Xmas. This is my second Xmas.
Now Santa, don’t forget. my sweet-
heart, Chas Winfrey Kelly. We live
at 653 Bass street, and my brother
Richard Porter in Columbia. ¥
lg ARNETT BROWN.
Cornersville, Tenn,, Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Old Santa Claus—Since I have
grown to be a large boy you have
quit coming to see me. What on
earth is the matter with you, Santa
Claus? Well, F don't want much;
some apples, oranges, bananas, raisins,
fancy candy, English walnuts, pecans,
figs.. I am fool about fireworks.
Please supply my wants and don’t
fail, please. Good-bye, Santa Claus,
D. L, ALEXANDER,
Lewisburg, Tenn., Route 1, Box 10.
LADIES’ EDUCATIONAL CLUB,
Mrs, Emma Walton was hostess of
a charming meeting of the Ladies’
Educational Club Monday afternoon
at her home, 607 Ramsey street, East
Nashville. A large number of the
members responded to the roll call.
After busines was transacted the
guests were invited to the dining-
room, where a salad and ice course
‘Was served. Mrs. Laura Crutchfield
will entertain the club on December
20th.
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Dear Santa Claus—I have been a very
good little girl this year and I want
you to bring me a rubber dollie and
some little shoes for her and please
don’t forget my little playmate, Ode-
lia Adams, to bring her something and
John B. Stockell, he wants you to
bring him a rocking horse and his
brother Fulton, a wagon to bring in
stove wood. Your friend,
WILLIE B .KINZER.
1908 Heffernan street,
Dear Old Santa—Please bring me a
plenty of nice things to eat. I don’t
Cornersville, Tenn., Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—Don't forget me
this Xmas, for I am looking for you
down the. chimney Christmas and
don’t want you to fail to come down
either. Please ‘bring me some eandy
of all Kind, oranges, apples, bananas
raisins, I can’t think of all I haye to
tell you at this writing but remem-
ber my large size brother-and bring
him something nice too. I am going
to have a big time this Christmas if
you supply me with fireworks, Good
bye,
Dea Taras ee RA)
December 12, 1909, Nashville, Tenn,
No, 1310 Twelfth avenue, South.
Dear Santa Claus—We are twin
boys, six yeats old, We have been
good boys. ~Please if you can bring
us a hgon and some fire ‘crackers
and caps and torpedoes*and crayon
and No. 1 school book. Please re-
member Mama and Papa,
ALFRONSO W. W. PHELPS, AL-
LONZO J. PHELPS,
Franklin, Tenn,,. Dec. 13, 1909.
Dear Santa Claus—I-am six years
old and I go to’ Clabon Institute and
au in the second grade and a good
little girl, and 1-don’t want you to
forget me. Dear Santa Claus, will you
please bring me a Negro doli with long
black curls and a little sewing ma-
chine and all kinds of fruits and can-
dies and nuts and a little iron cooking
stove and any thing nice you have for
a little girl, T live on Columbia ave-
nue,
NORA JAMES EWING.
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FARMINGTON NOTES.
Rey. R. A. Dowell, of Simpson M.
E,Chureh, preached his first sermon
for the conference year the first Sun-
dey. The church has compieted its
neat four room parsonage and Rev.
Dowell is in ft, :
The menibers of the C, P, Charch
have neatly pa‘nted their house of
Worship.
Mr. E, Sweeney and Mrs, Kinnard
were married recently and they are
happy. t
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the holidays.
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‘The M, B. Church will have sunrise
prayer meeting and preaching at 11
o'clock the 28 and the C. P. Church
will render a Christmas program in
the afternoon.
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CENTERVILLE NOTES.
| The funeral of Mr. Andy Avent
was attended by Rey. N. C. Crutcher.
‘The obituary was ‘read by Miss Kittie
C, Howse.
Mr. Jim Bullis. and daughter, of
Murfreesboro, attended the funeral of
Mr, Andy Avent, which was one. ot
the ‘saddest funerals that was ever
held in Centerville,
‘The members of Stone River Chapel
gladly welcomed their new_ pastor,
Rey. 'T. Miller, one of the home
boys.
Mrs. Nicy Rucker and Miss Kittie
BE. Howse have. opened up a sewing
establishment on the Nashville pike
Miss Ada J. Bedford will spend the
week-end with her grandma, Mrs.. J.
W, Howse.
Miss Kitie C. Howse has returned
from Nashville, where she has been
visiting. her sister, Mrs, Chas.
Wright, and Mrs, Jim Bedford.
Rey. Frank Smith spent a few days
with his friends and relatives.
Miss Billa Mason has decided to
become a subscriber of the Nashville
Globe.
Mr. Sidney Shannon has bought a
yery nice little place and now ig build-
ing a very nice little cottage on i
Miss Hila Mason was ihe guest of
Miss Abigail Hugle.
Miss Sallie Washington was the
guest of Carrie Clark.
CLIFTON NOTES,
Rev. A. Phillips, of Nashville, has
charge of St. James M. FE. Church
for the next conference year,
The students of the Clifton 'Train-
ing School, under the. auspices of
Prof. M. C. Jones and Miss D, G.
Perry, will render a Christmas ex-
ercise on Tuesday night during the
Christmas holidays.
Miss Beatrice Spears was on the
sick list last week. .
Rey. D. W, Binford, pastor of A.
M. E. Church, has been out of town
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for the last week, preparing to
move his family.
Little Misses Flora and Ora Jones,
daughters of Prof. M, C, Jones, from
Cumberland City, are now in Clifton
School. *
On last Tuesday night a great crowd
assembled at the school building to
hear some of Clifton’s orators de-
bate on the following subject: _“Re-
solved, That it is proper for the Ne-
sro to leave and go to Oklahoma,”
The following were participants in
the debate: Messrs Arch Brown, H.
©. Davis, affirmative; Messrs, ‘Lee
Yorgor, George Johnson, negative,
who were the successful ones, j
Miss D. G. Perry contemplates
spending the latter part of her
Christmas holidays with her sister
and brother-intaw, Dr, and Mrs, L,
H. Johnston, of Somerville, Tenn.
‘Mrs. Ora Hubard returned Tuesday:
from Shelbyville, where she attended
the M. BE. Conference.
Mr. Edward MeAfee attended con-
ference at Shelbyville.
Mrs, C. EB. Baker entertained last
Wednesday in honor of Mrs. C. .
Cooper, who leaves for Haywood,
where her husband has work for an-
other conference year.
Mr, H. C. Davis and family have
moved to Clifton.
WOMAN’S EXTENSION SOCIBTY.
The Woman's Extension Society of
St. John’s Church. was entertained
Friday, November 26, at the residence
of Miss Bashie Williams, 719 Fairmount
street. We had the genera! routine of
business, after which the pastor, Rey.
A. Brooks, gave a very » interesting
taik on the church work. Ho urged
the members to continue to work and
in the fina} end success. would be ours,
A two-course menu was served. Miss
Williams was tendered a vote of
thanks by all present for her hospl-
tality. Wo then adjourned. “God be
with you” was sung. Benediction by
the pastor,
i MRS. HATTID HIGHTOWER, Pres-
ident,
MISS LIZZIE DICKERSON, Secre-
tary. Y
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THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER=TRAINING SERVICE
As Adapted by the National Baptist Convention. What it Offers to the Sunday-school Workers, Regardless of Age. Read and Consider.
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"KNOCKDOWN"
Not of Prize Ring, Was Engineered at Race by Fighter Johnson, and Made Chalmers and Lipton Good Friends.
New York, November 26.—Hugh Chalmers, who until not so long ago was one of the highest salaried officers of the Dayton Cash Register Company, drawing from its treasury in salary and commissions more than $70,000 annually, which he gave up and left the Gem City to become a resident of Detroit, was at the Waldorf-Astoria a few days ago.
Mr. Chalmers is now one of the great automobile manufacturers of the country. The making of automobiles, enormous though it is, he thinks is but in its infancy. A year from now he looks to see the best car cost not more than $3,000. His company will clean up more than $1,000-000 in profits, and could have made more had they the working room. The company could not take any more orders. What is true of this Detroit company, Mr. Chalmers says, is equally true of most all other manfacturers of automobiles.
Mr. Chalmers was in New York at the recent Vanderbilt cup race. On the great Vanderbilt course on Long Island he was introduced to Sir Thomas Lipton under peculiar circumstances and with rather a laughable experience. A car carrying Mr. Chalmers and his party occupied a vantage point at the side of the course. Mr. Chalmers was out of the car stretching his limbs when up stepped Jack Johnson, the Negro prize fighter. Johnson had driven out to the races in his touring car. He had met Mr. Chalmers in Detroit, when seeking to buy a car. Their meeting on that occasion was of short duration. Brief though it was, Johnson remembered Mr. Chalmers well and came forward to greet him. Mr. Chalmers, of course, knew who Johnson was and shook the hand of the burly prize fighter when it was extended. They had chatted but a moment or so when along came Sir Thomas Lipton and his party.
Johnson had met Sir Thomas, who is a genuine sport, at the time that Sam Fitzpatrick, then manager of the Negro prize fighter, took him to England to polish off the fighter Tommy Burns in the "squared circle." Manager Fitzpatrick and Sir Thomas had long known each other, and Sam saw to it that a meeting between the yatch builder and chaser after the America's Cup and his black ring protege was brought about. Sir Thomas knew the prize fighter as soon as he set eyes upon him at the Vanderbilt course. Johnson also readily recognized the nobleman. They advanced and shook hands. The warmth of Sir Thomas's greeting surprised some of those about this group. Then the black prize fighter turned about to Mr. Chalmers.
my friend, Mr. Chalmers, or Decele-
The introduction was acknowl-
edged, as becomes gentlemen, and all
went on their way. The following
night, while dining with an English
friend at Delmonico's, Sir Thomas
came along as one of a party from
the New York Yatch Club. He
paused to shake hands with the
Englishman at Mr. Chalmer's side. Mr.
Chalmers was introduced. Sir Thomas
looked at him closely and then
said:
"Mr. Chalmers, I believe you and I
have met before."
"Yes, Sir Thomas," said Mr. Chalmers, with a broad smile, "at the auto race yesterday."
The introduction at the Vanderbilt course was explained to the others in the party. It was noticed that Sir Thomas had no explanation to make. "Well, Mr. Chalmers," said Sir Thomas, finally, "I am certainly willing to stand for that introduction if you are. I am always glad to acknowledge the acquaintanceship of any man who gets ahead in this world. And I don't care much what business or line ambition to achieve success has led him to battle in. It takes the same thing (grey matter) to get to the top, accompanied by close application and some luck, I will admit. That is the reason I welcome the acquaintanceship of this fighting man. Johnson. He is the champion of the world in his chosen field, even thought he is a black man. It took on his part to be successful not brains alone, but also great brawn and fine muscle and superior tact. Then one must stop to think that on account of his color Johnson was handicapped at the very start. Now, Mr. Chalmers that is the way I view things in this battle of life."—Cincinnati Inquirer.
SPRUCE STREET CHURCH. The B. Y. P. U., after such an excellent work for 1909, both spiritually and financially, is bringing to a close the year's work with an annual concert, the night of Monday, December 13, 1909. Among the
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909.
THE TEACHER-TRAINING SERVICE OF THE
NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION,
Adapted to the demands of workers in all the departments of the Sunday-school.
TEACHER-TRAINING DEPARTMENT,
Conducted by the
National
Baptist Publishing
Board.
TEACHER-TRAINING
HOLY BIBLE
National Baptist Convention
Under the direction of
REV. N. H. PUS, D. D.,
Superintendent Training Service,
523 Secd. Ave., N.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
Classes Formed.—Classes may be formed as follows:—First. By a united class of two or more Sunday-schools in the same city, town, village or community. Second. By the forming of a class of teachers, officers, and such other persons as may desire to take the course in an individual Sunday-school. Third. By the united effort of any two or more teachers or other persons forming themselves into a class. Fourth. By any individual who desires to study individually.
Courses of Study.—The service will comprise four courses, viz.: Primary, Intermediate, Advanced and Normal. Each student shall select whichever course he desires, but we advise that the pastor or superintendent be consulted in this matter.
How to Proceed.—Write for application blanks and enroll with the Superintendent of Teacher-Training Service; purchase the books for the course you wish to study; form your class for weekly study, and select your instructor, the pastor being consulted in making selection. Individuals study under direction of General Superintendent.
Membership.—Any person, male or female, who has attained the age of 16 years and is a member in regular standing in any regular Baptist church, may become a student in either course, whether he or she is an active Sunday-school teacher or not. The same diligent attention will be given students as to regular Sunday-school teachers.
NATIONAL BAPTIST PUBLISHING BOARD,
R. H. BOYD, Secretary,
523 Second Avenue, North,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
THE TEACHER-TRAINING SERVICE
OF THE
NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION.
Conducted by the National Baptist Publishing Board,
Nashville, Tenn.
I. PRIMARY.—Reading Course.
"Bible Thoughts and Answers"—first seven chap-
ters—(Wm. Hicks, B. D.).....25c.
"What Baptists Believe and Practice" (R. H. Boyd,
D. D.).....10c.
"Teachers' Meetings and Their Methods".....30c.
"Ancient and Modern Sunday-School Methods"
(R. H. Boyd, D. D.).....25c.
"Short Talks on Music" (D. E. Dorteh).....25c.
Twenty brief lectures on the above subjects by the
pastor or any suitable person the class may select with
his approval.
"Bible Thoughts and Answers"—first seven chap-
ters—(Wm. Hleks, B. D.)......
"What Baptists Believe and Practice" (R. H. Boyd,
D. D.)......
"Teachers' Meeting and Their Methods"......
"Ancient and Modern Sunday-School Methods"
(R. H. Boyd, D. D.)......
"Short Talks on Music" (D. E. Dortch)......
"Practical Outline—Study of the Four Gospels and
Acts" (H. M. Hamill, D. D.)......
"How to Master the English Bible" (James Gray)
Cost of books for this course, $1.85.
FOR FURTHER IN
NATIONAL BAPTIS
R. H. BO
523 Second Avenue, No
many interesting things on program is a debate, "Resolved. That a man should have a higher education than that of a woman." Messrs. Ector, Patterson, Holsey and Anderson are the debaters. There will be other numbers on the program equally as interesting as the debate. Decide to strend one more profitable night in 150 at Spruce Street Church.
RACIAL PROGRESS NOTES.
As Reported by the National Negro Business League.
During the week of the Colored State Fair, held at Batesburg, S. C., a temporary organization of a prospective State Negro Business League was effected, by electing Hon. E. J. Sawyer, of Bennettsville, president; Mr. Joseph H. Garner, Columbia, secretary; Dr. John H. Goodwin, Weston treasurer. Mr. Sawyer is not only a successful business man, but also one of the largest land owners and most prosperous farmers in the state.
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Progress is the watchword from now on with the Local Business Development League of Montgomery, Ala. Having recently fitted up nice, comfortable quarters for the winter over Dr. Dean's drug store, the members meet monthly to discuss questions vital to the we'fare of the business community. Luncheon is occasionally served at these meetings. The officers of the Local League are Hon. N. H. Alexander, president; Mr. J. H. Fagain, vice-president; Dr. U. S. Dean, secretary; Mr. V. H. Tulane, chairman, Executive Committee.
A few of the men here, who have done well in the commercial world are: Mr. H. A. Loveless, who owns the leading funeral establishment in the city for colored people, in connection with which he runs a livery business. He also owns a gravel pit outside the corporate limits, from which a half-dozen teams are kept busy hauling travel to different parts of the town. Mr. Loveless has the name of being a bustler in business and gives employment to more persons than any other colored man in the place. He is probably worth between $20,000 and $25,000. Mr. G. E. Newstell is not only a prosperous merchant, but a successful dealer in real estate. His holdings in the latter business would likely amount to $30,000.
Mr. Victor H. Tulane, who owns a handsome two-story pressed brick building, corner of South and Ripley street, where he runs a model grocery, is estimated to be worth conservatively about $80,000. He does a business amounting to something over $20,000 a year. Messrs. John Brown and William Hill conduct a profitable business as truck farmers, separately. They supply not only the home market, but outside, the year round, with their garden products. They are also fortunate possessors of valuable realty. Each one of them is rated to be worth about $25,000.
Mr. Elijah Cooke is a retired business man. He has the reputation of being a pioneer in the undertaking business in the state of Alabama. For nearly twenty-five years he managed his business so wisely and assiduously that when he recently retired he had accumulated a fortune that amounts to nearly $30,000. There is a score of other individuals in Montgomery whose business transactions will average anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 annually.
Mr. John L. Thomas, of Union Springs, Ala., who several years ago ran a hotel through which enterprises he says he has done as high as $40,000 worth of business a year, is now making profitable investments in real estate. Within the corporate limits of his home town he owns 376 lots in one tract of 94 acres, which he sells to parties wishing to build, or he will build a house for them and give the purchaser time to pay for his home. At Midway, between Montgomery and Eufaula, he owns 72 building lots in the town; also several business lots in Dothan, and a few small farms for sale.
He, together with his wife and unmarried children, lives in a handsome residence, worth not less than $5,000. Mr. Thomas is president of the Homestead Land Company and has accumulated somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000.
With Booker T. Washington the greatest and foremost exponent of industrial education in the world, France organizing an army of 200,000 Negro soldiers, Matt. Henson standing on the North Pole and Jack Johnson the acknowledged champion of the world, it would appear that the "man and brother" was coming into his own. Well, it has been a long, black night, and let us hope the day may be bright.—Dallas Express.
TEACHER-TRAINING
HOLY BIBLE
National Baptist Convention
SERVICE
Under the direction of
REV. N. H. PUS. D. D.,
Superintendent Training
Service.
523 Sec. d Ave., N.
NASHVILLE, TENN.
THE TRAINING-SERVICE PLAN.
The four courses offered are as follows:
II. INTERMEDIATE.—Reading Course.
No examinations are required for the Primary and Intermediate Courses. Persons finishing either of them and certifying to the Superintendent of Training Service that they have conscientiously read the course, together with the pastor's or superintendent's written endorsement of the fact, will be granted a Reading Course Certificate. Twenty-five (25) cents will be charged to cover the cost of certificate and postage.
III. ADVANCED COURSE.
1. "Our Sixty-six Sacred Books" (Edwin W. Rice, D. D.) ..... 60c.
2. "Theological Kernels" (J. T. Brown, S. T. B.) ..... $1.00
3. "The Organized Sunday-School" (J. W. Ax-tell) ..... 50c.
Section II.
4. "The Teaching Problem" (J. W. Axtell) ..... 50c.
5. "Outline of Baptist Church History" (N. H. Plus, D. D.) ..... 50c.
6. "Bible Study by Periods" (Sell) ..... 60c.
7. Short Talks on Music, Supplementary, (D. E. Dortch) ..... 25c.
Cost of books in this course, $3.95.
NORMAL COURSE.
1. "Our Sixty-six Sacred Books" (Edwin W. Rice, D. D.)..... 60c.
2. "The Organized Sunday-School" (J. W. Ax-tell)..... 50c.
3. "Outline History of the Baptists" (N. H. Plus, D. D.)..... 50c.
Section II.
4. "Bible Study by Periods" (Sell)..... 60c.
5. "The Teacher, The Child, and The Book" (A. F. Schauffler)..... 1.00.
6. The Church" (H. Harvey, D. D.)..... 1.00.
Cost of books in this course, $4.10.
We advise that the full list of books of course be purchased when beginning the study, or by sections.
Examinations.—Two written examinations will be required in each of the last two courses—an examination when each section is completed. No memory work is required, the books may be used in finding answers to the questions which are to be given briefly in the students own language. Examinations will be held under the supervision of the pastor, superintendent, or instructor, approved by them, and papers forwarded to the Superintendent of Training Service. Upon recommendation of pastor or superintendent, students making a general average of 70 per cent will be granted a diploma, 50 cents being charged for cost of diploma and postage. Examination questions will be sent on request. These examination rules do not apply to classes in Baptist Academies, Seminaries and Colleges. Such examinations shall be under the direction of the school faculty, and upon a written certificate by the president or principal of such school that the students have made a general average of 70 per cent, diplomas will be granted as above designated.
The National Baptist Teacher-Training Service meets the requirements and has the endorsement of the INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. When an examination grade of 71 or more per cent. is made in our "Advanced and Normal Courses," Diplomas will be given with the Seals of both the National Baptist Publishing Board and of the International Sunday-School Association. Thus our Service and Diplomas have the highest denomination and international recognition.
Note.—Students will be enrolled by the SUPERINTENDENT OF TRAINING SERVICE on receipt of application blanks, accompanied by order for books. Blank will be found in this folder; others will be sent on request.
RMATION ADDRESS
PUBLISHING BOARD,
D, Secretary.
Lily
n. Nashville, Tenn.
VOL. IV.
NEXT GENSUS
GIVING GOVERNMENT MUCH CONCERN — NEGROES NOT PLEASED WITH METHODS— FEELING OF RESENTMENT IMMINENT—OFFICE OF GENERAL PACIFIER CREATED.
Since the visit of Thomas Jesse Jones to the city of Nashville there has been a great deal of discussion as to the true object of his touring the South. Mr. Jones, it will be known, is connected with the department of Commerce and Labor detailed to the Bureau of Census, possibly a special agent. He was in Nashville two weeks ago and visited such institutions as Fisk University, Walden University, the National Baptist Publishing Board, and talked with quite a number of the leaders. He also made stops in the leading cities of the state of Tennessee, thereby his visit becomes generally known. The significance of this tour, lecturing upon the necessity of giving accurate information and correct data to the census enumerators or supervisors, has been regarded with some apprehension by those who have made a close study of the conditions now existing and those of 1900, as affecting the appointing of Negroes as census enumerators and special agents, are admitting that there is a slight bit of snubbing and almost open antagonism to appoint any Negroes, and thus the repeated dispatches and correspondence purporting to be emanating from the Director General supposed to reflect the views of the administration, is thought to have caused the Negroes to act somewhat reticently about giving out any information concerning themselves, their institutions, their factories, their farms, their births, deaths, or anything else that would be helpful in swelling the general showing, even though it would be detratory to the best interest of the race. Hence, a strong argument is being made that the real mission and the true office of Mr. Jones is to bridge the chasm so vividly apparent between the administration and the entire Negro population. His function is in the nature of a pacifier. They lay claim to the fact that he was taken from Hampton Institute, where he stood high, the school itself being a powerful factor in the affairs effecting the race, together with his close connection with the educational interest of the entire country is to a certain extent substantiating these suspicions. While the Director General is said to be emphatically deny that any agreement has been reached whereby Negroes would not be appointed, the recent dispatch sent out from the Director General's office in the nature of a newspaper item directly advising supervisors to appoint certain nationalities to gather data for the department of Commerce and Labor in quarters where nationality is in large numbers, is evident that some sort of agreement, whether embryotic or otherwise, had been formed. The bulk of the Negroes, according to the Eighth United States Bulletin, is to be found south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi Rivers, hence the argument that is being made in many sections concerning the real mission of Dr. Jones is not necessarily erroneous as it is known that nine-tenths of his time is really being spent in this particular section of the United States. But of all the rumors and many assertions and counter assertions touching upon this, those who are supposed to know will not allow their names to be used. They are simply saying watch and seee. In 1900 there were scores of Negro census enumerators and dozens of special agents in every portion of the South with hundreds of clerks working directly under many supervisors. No one has ever been able to point, however, to a single instance where the Negroes have declared they would not give their data to white enumerators, still appears that the department fears something of this sort. If this fear which is now entertained becomes more apparent, it may prove a long chain of evidence against the policy of the Director General.
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Mrs. William Waller, of North Sixth street, East Nashville, is visiting her mother in Evansville, Ind. Mr. Daniel Barry is suffering with mumps.
THE NASHVILLE GLOBE.
NASHVILLI ENN. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1909.
INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS;
Delivered by Prof. W. D. Kelly, of Columbia, Tenn., Introducing Dr. Washington.
Mr. President, I am not insensible to the fact that you are here to-night to listen to an address by Dr. Washington, and indeed any extended remarks from me would be highly improper since your patience has been taxed already to the utmost, and as it is now quite late I forebear. Let me simply say, Mr. President, that at the Battle of Salamis, fought at the last quarter of the fifth century, before the Christian era, when the Persian fleet came down upon the coast of Greece and sought to blot out the growing civilization of that famous country and thus retard civilization and Christianity, perhaps a thousand years, a leader was demanded to guide the destiny of Greece. At that supreme hour the noble Theomistocles came forth, and by strategy induced the Persian commander to enter a narrow strait just off the coast of Attica where, because of the unwieldiness of their vessels, the commanders were unable to manouver to advantage and the Greecian fleet falling upon them, completely annihilated the Persian fleet and drove back the forces of Xerxes into their own country. After the victory of the Grecian commanders held a conference to determine as to whom the credit of the victory was due. Each commander desired to award first place to himself and all were willing to award second place to the noble Theomistocles. So, too, Mr. President, I opine if the leading educators of my race were called upon to determine who was the greatest among them, each would claim pre-eminence for himself, but all would willingly accord the second place to our distinguished guest of the evening.
Mr. President, if the genius of our government can take the rail-splitter from the wilds of Illinois and make him the librator of four million slaves and give him the crown of martrydom, that his name and fame may go sounding down the ages till moons shall wax and wane no more; if such be the spirit of our institutions that the boy from the tow-path driving mules upon the canal can become the pacifier of the discordant elements of his countrymen, and then, too, his memory be hallowed as a martyr of his country; if it be possible under one form of government for a common Taylor. "way down in Tennessee" to become the peer of the greatest potentate of all Europe, then these same influences have operated to make the son of a slave of less than a half a century ago the instrument in God's hands to lift ten millions of his fellow-men to a higher place of manhood, and his fame to become the theme of praise of millions of people in the Old World.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen allow me to present to you The Wizard of Education, The Sage of Tuskegee, Dr. Booker T. Washington.
EAST SIDE AFFAIR.
Miss Maggie E. Howard, Ph. C. of Brick Church pike, East Nashville, entertained Saturday evening recently a number of friends from 7 to 11 o'clock in honor of Miss Bruetta Metcalfe, of Clarksville, Tenn., and the Meridian Dents, Drs. E. W. Carr, Jesse Foster, Geo. W. Washington and —— Grisby. The table was beautifully decorated with honeysuckle vines and the colors of Meharry and Flsk. In the center was placed a large pumpkin filled and surrounded with fruit. At each plate was placed an ear of corn dressed in skirts of crimson crape paper tied with black ribbon, with quotations attached. Games and phonograph music were the features of the evening. Those who enjoyed the hospitality of Miss Howard were Misses Bruetta Metcalfe, Lady Emma Louise, Lucy and Lottie Phillips, Lucy B. White, Jimmie B. Linston, Mrs. C. W. Brown, Mrs. Annie L Steele, Mrs. C. H. Phillips, Drs. E. W. Carr, Jesse Foster, S. D. Cottrell, J. L. Shirley, —— Gurles, W. R. Morton and Mr. Fate Hoekett.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
For your Holiday Photos, Post
Cards, Locket and Watch Pictures,
call at Hargrave's Studio, 430 Cedar
street. They are guaranteed to be
the best in the city. All photos
bearing my stamp are of the highest
quality. Call to-day and avoid the
rush. Photos made Xmas Eve can
be delivered Xmas Day. You will
find my prices no higher than others
but my word stands for itself. Don't
forget the place, 420 Cedar street.
MIGO SYSTEM
OF EMBALMING INTRODUCED TO NEGRO UNDERTAKERS OF NASHVILLE — DEMONSTRATIONS HELD AT A. N. JOHNSON'S — VISITING UNDERTAKERS FROM OTHER STATES.
As usual, the A. N. Johnson establishment comes in for its full share of credit as a funeral directorate of the highest class, and merit again showed itself when Mr. Johnson's place was selected for demonstrative purposes by Prof. Albert Worsham, Instructor and Demonstrator for the famous Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming, of Chicago and New York, one of the 'argest of its kind in the world.
The "Mico System," of which the Barnes Colleges are the originators, was given a thorough test in all the different phases of preparing bodies for interment, and with wonderful success. A large number of undertakers, both white and colored, attended the school, which lasted thirty days, coming from all over the State and portions of other States adjoining, and were greatly benefited by the instruction given by Mr. Worsham, which was the first class ever held in Tennessee on the "Mico System" and the first of any kind held within the State for a period of 30 days.
One of the bodies prepared by Prof. Worsham by his new process was kept for ten days before shipment and gave the students who were in attendance a splendid opportunity to judge the difference between the old and the new process of preparing bodies for burial and in this as well as in other stubborn cases had, signal victories were secured by Prof. Worsha and his school. Among those attending the School while in session here from out of the State was Mr. B. Lincoln Teague, who is a promising young colored business man, owning and operating one of the most up-to-date funeral establishments in Western Kentucky, at Madisonville. Mr. Teague was the guest of Mr. A. N. Johnson while in the city.
MUSICAL AT ST. ANDREW'S.
There will be a musical entertainment at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Manse on the evening of the 23rd when some of Nashville's best talent will appear. Admission, 10 cents.
The Sunday-school will celebrate Christmas on the afternoon of Friday the 24th at 4 p. m. in the basement of the new church. All of the friends of the church are invited to be present. The new church is nearly completed and it a beauty.
THE BLACK PILGRIM IN THE
HOLY LAND.
At St. Paul A. M. E. Church on Monday night, December the 20th, Dr. W. Sampson Brooks will deliver his famous lecture, "The Holy City of Jerusalem and Environs." This is without doubt one of the most interesting and instructive lectures ever presented, and is is the first time the Negroes of Nashville have had such an opportunity to study conditions in the Old World at first hand. To read of Jerusalem in magazines and books, is a thing that draws upon the imagination, but Jerusalem in Jerusalem makes it a reality. Dr. Brooks has traveled extensively in the Old World, having visited Madeira, Algiers, Valetta, Malta, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna, Beyrout, Caifa, Jerusalem, Gibralta, Naples, and Rome. While in those countries he collected a great number of views that he has converted into dissolving pictures. The learned doctor in his lectures makes such clear and convincing explanation of the pictures that one is made to feel that he is in the presence of the philosophers of Athens, that Jerusalem's streets are being traversed, and Rome is before the view with its many wonders. Nashville should feel highly complimented to have so distinguished a citizen, and on Monday night every one should take advantage of the opportunity afforded to be enlightened on the conditions in the Old World.
Dr. Brooks is a member of several of the leading lecture bureaus in the West and ranks among the foremost men in that profession, but his lecture Monday night is to be given to the people of Nashville for the small admittance fee of 15 cents.*
PLANS BEING FORMULATED.
For the Semi-Centennial Celebration of Emancipation Proclamation.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14.—Last August at Louisville, Ky., the National Negro Business League passed a resolution empowering its President, Dr. Booker T. Washington, to proceed to formulate plans for holding in 1913 a Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Last month Dr. Washington laid the matter before president Taft and the latter immediately gave his approval of the plan, and in his annual message transmitted to Congress, Monday, December 6, not only indorsed the proposition, but requested permission of Congress, to appoint a commission to consider plans, etc., for holding such an exposition. To carry out the President's suggestion, and at the request and suggestion of leading officers of the National Negro Business League, and other interested bodies, Congressman E. L. Taylor, Jr., of Ohio, member of the House Committee on Appropriations, and Congressman William A. Rodenberg, chairman of the House Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, have together offered the following joint resolution, which was introduced in Congress Tuesday of this week:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled.
That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint a commission consisting of seven persons to consider carefully whether or not it is advisable to hold an exposition in the United States in the year nineteen hundred and thirteen to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation granting freedom to the Negroes; and that the said commission report to Congress on the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and ten.
Sec. 2. That to enable said commission to carry out the purposes of this Act, the sum of five thousand dollars, cr so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be expended. The members of said commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be paid their necessary expenses, and disbursements made under this Act shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury on vouchers approved by the Chairman of said commission.
J. C. NAPIER IN WASHINGTON
For more than ten days the Hon. J. C. Napier has been sojourning in the Nation's Capital. His direct purpose was to attend the Board meeting of the Anna T. Jean Fund, he being the Tennessee representative on the board. This board is composed of a number of well-known men, whose reputations are national. The meeting of the board, according to press dispatches, was held at the White House yesterday. It is supposed that since President Taft is a member of the Jean Fund Board, that this meeting was called at the White House to suit his convenience. At the last meeting that Mr. Napier attended he was instrumental in having several thousand dollars distributed among the rural schools of this state, and hope is entertained that this meeting will accomplish similar results. There are many rumors afloat as to the significance of Mr. Napier's prolonged stay in Washington, the fact that such political leaders as Evans, Saunders Hale and others were in Washington at the same time, creates the impression that some agreement will be reached effecting the distribution of a lot of choice "Federal pie." Diligent inquiry, however, among Mr. Napier's closest friends, disclosed nothing to warrant this suspicion, and yet, the close relation that he has had with the Evans-Saunders-Hale combination makes his friends feel assured that something unusually good is in store for him. More than once his name has been mentioned as the probable nominee for a lucrative office at Washington or some port. The recent recognition and appointments of adherents of this faction of the republican party in Tennessee are the foundation for much of this speculation. It would occasion no surprise if Mr. Napier were appointed as Register of the Treasury, the position now held by Dr. W. T. Vernon, of Kansas. While the attitude of the President has been severely criticised with regard to appointing Negroes to offices, he has made from time to time, appointments
PART TWO.
No. 50.
NEGRO BANK
INCREASING WITH ASTOUNDING RAPIDITY — TENNESSEANS PLANNING TO LAUNCH SEVENAL THE FIRST OF THE YEAR —OTHER STATES FALLING IN LINE.
A statement as to the condition of the various Negro banks in the United States is with much care. In the course of preparation of the annual Negro banking article and forecast the financial man of the Nashville Globe vouchsafes the following statement: "An approximate of the Negro banks and chartered concerns doing a banking business for January, 1910, is causing the upsetting of much calculation that had been made early in the fall. A general shifting around caused by agitation of organizations of banks in the Volunteer State looks encouraging so far as the banking interest is concerned in the state of Tennessee. Without attempting to give any name and set any dates, but after gathering information that is reliable and generally authentic, 1910 will witness the launching and establishing of Negro banks in this state as fol'ows: Franklin, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Bristol, Jackson, Columbia, Clarksville and Murfreesboro. To these Memphis is supposed to come in with another. This is guaranteed because of her 52 per cent. Negro population in Shelby County—nine in all—a hard number to beat, together with the three already in operation and the one chartered to be located at Memphis, would, of course, call for the unlucky number of thirteen, but this is not counting money, or unlucky when adding institutions that have money. So we can look with a deal more pride on the business activity in Tennessee and the sound basis upon which many of these institutions are being organized and operated." This statement coming from the Globe's financial forecaster and bank directory man, will cause any number of people to watch the list of Negro banks that he purposes to publish early in January. It will give the name, location, capital stock, with the president and cashier, of every Negro bank in operation in the United States which has never been done before by any newspaper. Hence, the January number of the Nashville Globe will no doubt be eagerly sought and looked for. Tenessee will make a splendid showing, all things considered.
in keeping with the precedent set by other presidents
Such positions as Recorder of Deeds and Register of Treasury have generally been given to prominent Negro aspirants. There is no doubt but that Mr. Napier has the backing of both factions of the party in this state, which are said to be working in unison on certain appointments. The appointment of Attorney Tillman for another term and the slating of United States Marshal Overall are construed to mean that Middle Tennessee will be surrendered and left to the Evans-Saunders-Hale combination. Mr. Napier is expected to reach the city tomorrow, or Monday, but if he gives out anything as to what transpired, it will be unlike him; still in spite of his denials, his eligibility, from fitness and point of service to the party, will stand out as his most powerful endorsement. The Negroes of the entire state are asking recognition of their political leader, the one man who has, without fear or favor, stood up boldly at crucial moments using his time and means for the success of the grand old party in the "Volunteer State."
Mr. Taft has been with us. He didn't say much, and we are glad he didn't. We have been loath to have him say anything about us every since his inaugural address—The Fisherman's Net.
"The die is cast." The semi-centennial exposition of the progress is to be held in 1913. President Taft has endorsed it. Congress is sure to extend substantial aid. The States will follow suit. Booker T. Washington and the National Negro Business League will do the heavy work and the celebration will be an international success. Let's all pull off our coats and push the enterprise along.—The Freeman.